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Fwd: Re: FIFA JIHAD
Released on 2012-10-19 08:00 GMT
|2010-05-17 16:44:32
actually this has mark's response in it
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: FIFA JIHAD
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 02:08:04 +0000
From: Mark Schroeder <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reply-To: email@example.com
To: Mike Marchio <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Ben West
CC: Mike Mccullar <email@example.com>, Mark Schroeder
On the first item, its like this. AQ and their like probably have a wish
list of targets. At the top are close-to-home targets that are attainable
and meet their objectives. At the bottom of the list are possibly desirous
but long-shots in terms of what assets would be needed to do it, beyond
whether it advances their objectives.
In terms of the World Cup, none of the AQ groups have a presence in South
Africa and none have a beef with SA. They would be operating far from home
in a hostile environment for the duration of the World Cup. They would
have to mobilize many assets for an attack far from home that doesn't meet
primary objectives for the most part (no caliphate will come out of this,
and at best is a black eye to a victim as well as a reminder that the
attacker is still a threat. At the end of the day its a calculation
whether the low benefit is worth the big risk. Just think, is a soccer
team a valuable target, more so than a gov't target closer to home.
On the second point, can define what hooliganism is. SA has no tradition
of rough and tumble drunkards that can turn a stadium environment into a
deadly riot. That's the tradition of some Europeans that the South
Africans want to ban so that their riots are not brought to SA and inflame
issues there.
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From: Mike Marchio <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 20:32:36 -0500 (CDT)
To: Ben West<firstname.lastname@example.com>
Cc: Mike Mccullar<email@example.com>; Mark
Subject: FIFA JIHAD
Below is the post-copyedit version of the world cup security report. I had
a couple questions/suggestions that we may want to incorporate before this
sucker runs on Tuesday. Here they are:
Despite thinly veiled threats from regional jihadist groups, none of the
major groups (either global or regional) possess the capability or the
strategic intent to carry out a spectacular attack against a World Cup
venue. The core al Qaeda group - Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and
their closest confidants - has not demonstrated an ability to strike
outside of South Asia for years. While the jihadist desire remains strong
to strike at a high-profile event like the World Cup, conducting a
successful attack requires months of planning, training and coordination,
along with substantial resources.
I think we're saying they would like to stage an attack at something like
the World Cup, but they don't have the strategic intent to attack this
event in particular. I'm not sure on that though, and readers might not be
either. Maybe we could clarify this a bit more, because it seems sort of
Finally, "hooliganism," a security threat endemic to large soccer matches
and tournaments anywhere passions run high, will be present in South
Africa. However, South Africans themselves are not known for hooliganism,
which tends to be more of a European phenomenon.
We never actually explain what hooliganism is in the piece. Some readers
may know already what it entails, but I think one sentence explaining it
would be helpful here.
I also added a link to the militant attacks on hotels report we did
several months back in a part about security preparations at hotels, I
think that's worth including but let me know if you have an objection to
Security and Africa's First World Cup
Security and Africa's First World Cup
Security is always a concern for organizers of the World Cup, and this
year's upcoming tournament in South Africa - the first World Cup on the
continent - is no exception. Envisioning a range of threats from terrorism
to petty crime, tournament organizers are trying to beef up security in
nine cities that will serve as venues for the games. Less than a month
before the tournament begins, STRATFOR thought it time to look at how real
those threats are and how security preparations are shaping up.
In June and July, South Africa will host the first World Cup tournament
ever held in Africa. The first game of the tournament will be on June 11
in Johannesburg, where the finals are scheduled to be held July 11. The
World Cup draw hordes of spectators, sponsors and dignitaries, including
this year, perhaps, U.S. President Barack Obama, who has expressed an
interest in attending should the U.S. team proceed to the finals.
Security is always a concern for World Cup organizers, and this year's
- the largest sporting event ever hosted on African soil - raises concerns
about South Africa's ability to provide a secure environment for the
month-long event. While terrorism is high on the list of organizers'
concerns, the security issue that will affect the most people will likely
be violent crime, which has grown endemic in South Africa over the past
two decades.
The South Africa World Cup Organizing Committee has designated nine cities
to host the soccer matches: Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein
(Mangaung in the local language), Pretoria (Tshwane), Rustenburg, Port
Elizabeth, Polokwane and Nelspruit. Semi-final matches will be played in
Cape Town and Durban, the third place match will be played in Port
Elizabeth and the finals will be played in Johannesburg.
In the run-up to the event, STRATFOR thought it appropriate to take a look
at the security environment in South Africa, evaluate specific threats and
offer guidance on how to avoid danger during the tournament.
Unlike terrorism, which tends to be driven by ideology, criminal activity
is driven by opportunity and the desire for quick cash, and both of those
factors will be in abundance during the World Cup. To mitigate against any
conceivable security threat, an estimated 44,000 members of the South
African Police Service (SAPS), the South African National Defense Force
(SANDF) and private security personnel will be deployed at tournament
venues, hotels where the teams will be staying and anywhere considered a
possible launching point for criminal or terrorist acts (more on these
deployments below in the section titled "Security Preparations"). Many
national teams will also have their own security details. The U.S. team,
for example, will be guarded by personnel from the State Department's
Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).
Foreign governments also have been heavily involved in assisting South
African security officials with logistics and communications in
preparation for the tournament and will remain involved until it ends. The
DSS has extensive experience conducting security for large, high-profile
events, and there has been extensive coordination with the German
authorities to learn from their experiences hosting the last World Cup,
which was held in 2006. These measures will certainly go a long way toward
securing the stadiums, hotels and other World Cup venues, most of which
are located in city centers. But efforts to secure World Cup activities
could displace criminal attacks to more accessible targets outside this
ring of security, to urban and rural areas where the police presence will
be weaker.
Property crime is widespread in South Africa and found in every city
throughout the country. The country's criminal elements tend to be
organized and efficient, with gangs often conducting practice runs and
extensive preoperational surveillance before hitting hardened targets such
as armored cash transporters and ATMs (sometimes using explosives and
automatic weapons). Organized-crime leaders are even known to specify
high-demand products for theft, including certain models of cars and cell
phones and other electronics. In the pursuit of cash or valuables,
criminals are known to use extreme violence against anyone attempting to
stop them. While such extreme measures would not likely be employed
against unarmed civilians during the World Cup, firearms, knives and other
weapons are plentiful in South Africa and are frequently used if a victim
Most crime in South Africa takes place in underdeveloped and poorly
policed townships outside of the main city centers. However, criminals
certainly do not limit themselves to townships, and in order to pursue
wealthier targets they are known to attack in upscale neighborhoods and on
downtown streets. In 2007, the wife of prominent businessman and senior
African National Congress (ANC) politician Tokyo Sexwale was targeted in a
carjacking in an upscale, well-policed Johannesburg neighborhood. Three
hijackers in a vehicle cut off Judy Sexwale's BMW in a parking lot, forced
her from the car and sped off in it, all in about 10 seconds. The incident
occurred at 11 a.m., with numerous bystanders looking on. Carjackers do
not discriminate between white, black, foreigner or local; the trigger is
the appearance of wealth - mainly clothes, accoutrements and cars.
Carjacking has become so rampant in South Africa that many South Africans
do not stop at stop signs if they perceive any potential risk as they
approach an intersection.
Suggesting an even greater threat than that posed by local street gangs
and criminals, STRATFOR sources say that criminals from Nigeria are
planning to travel to South Africa and take advantage of the throngs of
tourists attending World Cup events during the month-long tournament.
Along with Chinese and Russians, Nigerians are leading organized-crime
figures in South Africa, focusing on fraud and black-market activities.
Driven by economic desperation, Zimbabweans also present a significant,
though less sophisticated, criminal threat in South Africa. It is likely
that migratory criminals from other African countries will also prey upon
World Cup visitors, contributing to the prevailing threat. This criminal
element will include everything from the relatively harmless hawkers of
African curios who will be found outside every tournament venue and major
hotel to organized gangs that will surveil unsuspecting tourists and rob
them when the opportunities arise.
Not all criminal activity involves in South Africa involves property
crime. Among all the world's countries, South Africa has the highest
incidence of reported rapes per capita. While rapists do not specifically
target foreigners, gangs often use the same level of speed and precision
to identify and attack rape victims as they do in conducting carjackings.
Rape is also employed to instill fear in victims, particularly white
victims, during home invasions. Because of the high level of police
protection in the city centers during the month-long World Cup, tourists
should be relatively secure in these areas, but the risk of being targeted
by opportunistic rapists and other criminals will increase in outlying
areas. Finally, rape carries the associated risk of contracting HIV/AIDS,
since South Africa has a high incidence of the disease (in 2008,
approximately 11 percent of South Africans had been diagnosed with
When visiting South Africa during the World Cup, foreign travelers are
advised to be mindful of their surroundings and maintain situational
awareness at all times in public areas. Visitors should never expose
valuables, including wallets, jewelry, cell phones and cash, any longer
than necessary. And they should avoid traveling at night, especially into
townships and areas of South African cities that are outside of the more
secure and centralized soccer venues. Outlying areas will have scant
police protection, since most of the country's security apparatus will be
focused on the World Cup. No matter where they are, foreign visitors are
encouraged to travel in large groups (three or more people), since in
South Africa, as elsewhere, there is generally more safety in numbers.
The Jihadist Threat
Despite thinly veiled threats from regional jihadist groups, none of the
major groups (either global or regional) possess the capability or the
strategic intent to carry out a spectacular attack against a World Cup
venue. The core al Qaeda group - Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and
their closest confidants - has not demonstrated an ability to strike
outside of South Asia for years. While the jihadist desire remains strong
to strike at a high-profile event like the World Cup, conducting a
successful attack requires months of planning, training and coordination,
along with substantial resources. The devolution of al Qaeda through
military and covert operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan has severely
hampered if not disabled al Qaeda prime, which is not likely capable of
assembling and projecting sufficient force to South Africa this summer to
affect the World Cup.
Meanwhile, al Qaeda's more capable and active regional nodes such as al
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM) (to which a specific threat against the World Cup was attributed in
April that ultimately proved hollow) and the Somalia-based jihadist group
al Shabaab are focused on their own objectives back home. Of these groups,
AQAP is the only one that has demonstrated the ability to strike outside
of its region, since it was behind the Christmas Day attempt to bring down
Northwest Airlines Flight 253. While the attempt was unsuccessful, its
masterminds are believed to be still at large in Yemen. Still, the attempt
did alert U.S. counterterrorism authorities to the threat posed by AQAP.
The United States has deployed assets to Yemen to disrupt the group's
capability to carry out further attacks, making it more difficult for AQAP
to operate without U.S. authorities (who are working closely with South
African officials in providing security for the World Cup) knowing about
The other two primary al Qaeda franchise groups, AQIM and al Shabaab, have
demonstrated no ability to strike outside of their regions. AQIM's current
struggle is primarily against the Algerian government, and group's target
set is limited, for the most part, to Algerian military and police forces.
AQIM also has claimed responsibility for minor attacks and abductions in
Mauritania, Mali and Niger. But South Africa is more than 8,000 kilometers
(5,000 miles) away from northern Africa, putting a substantial distance
between AQIM and the World Cup.
Similarly, al Shabaab is consumed with a three-front war against the
Western-backed transitional federal government (TFG) of Somalia, African
Union forces and various Somali militias. The militant group is currently
focused on toppling the TFG, not waging transnational jihad by attacking
the World Cup. The primary advantage of attacking the tournament would be
the publicity it would bring, but this is something al Shabaab does not
necessarily want right now. The group is challenged enough as it is by
forces on the ground supporting the TFG and does not need to provide
another reason for regional and global security forces to intervene on the
TFG's behalf.
Lone Wolves and Grassroots Jihadists
Threats from grassroots jihadists and lone wolves are much less
predictable than threats from the al Qaeda core or its franchises. Whereas
jihadist groups are bright blips on the radar of intelligence agencies
around the world, lone wolves operate under the radar, often unbeknownst
to any security or intelligence agency. They maintain anonymity by
operating without the help of others and even without telling others,
which means they are far more difficult to detect. They are also not
limited to any geographical region. Grassroots terrorists, on the other
hand, may work in groups, but these groups are small cells unaffiliated
with known and monitored jihadist entities and are virtually invisible. In
both cases, however, the lack of support networks typically limits their
capability, and thus the damage they can cause. The low profile of lone
wolves and grassroots jihadists generally means they lack experienced
bombmakers, operatives and strategists, and their attacks typically come
across as amateurish. Nevertheless, given the global attention to South
Africa during the World Cup, it would not take a large attack to attract
worldwide media coverage.
Other Terrorist Threats
While the actions of lone wolves and grassroots jihadists are difficult to
predict and cannot be ruled out, there are no major political conflicts in
South Africa at the moment that might induce a terrorist act. Nor is there
any recent history of terrorism in South Africa. That, along with the
general trend in grassroots attacks, suggests that any ideologically
motivated terrorist attack in South Africa during the World Cup would
likely - if successful at all - be small and unsophisticated.
Of course, jihadists by no means have a monopoly on the tactic of
terrorism. Any individual or group can attempt to affect political change
through violence against the public. And the World Cup certainly offers an
extremely public forum for a group or individual to air their grievances
against the South African government, or any of the other 31 countries
represented by the qualifying teams. Reasons for terror attacks can be as
provocative as ethnic disputes, as mundane as personal financial problems
or as unpredictable as mental illness.
Although terrorism is not common in modern-day South Africa, there has
been a trace of such activity in its recent history. During apartheid, the
ANC - the current ruling party - was considered a terrorist group by the
South African government because it was opposed to white rule and
expressed its opposition through violence. On the far right, the white
supremacist group Afrikaner Weerstandsbewging (AWB) committed violent acts
against black South Africans and staged protests against the government
during the final days of apartheid. The AWB has not carried out violent
attacks in decades, but its leader, Eugene Terre Blanche, was murdered by
two black farmhands April 3. AWB leaders continue to leave violence as an
option, at least rhetorically, but in more than 20 years they have shown
no appetite for violent retaliation. While it is highly unlikely that the
AWB would sanction an attack, underlying racial sentiments could still
provoke a grassroots or lone-wolf attack (the consequences of which we
have outlined above). As far as the AWB is concerned, the group is a known
entity and would have a difficult time launching an attack without the
authorities finding out about it during the planning process.
There are other right-wing extremists in South Africa not affiliated with
the AWB, and in April South African police arrested suspects and seized
explosives from a residence in south Johannesburg linked to right-wing
activities. The arrests served a positive purpose for the government in
showing that blacks are not the only ones who commit violent acts in South
Africa, and government officials were quick to say that Pretoria does not
foresee a significant threat from right-wing groups during the World Cup.
South Africa did spawn one militant Islamist group, People Against
Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), which detonated almost 200 improvised
explosive devices between 1996 and 2000, largely targeting government
buildings (such as police stations), gay night clubs and synagogues in the
Cape Flats area west of Cape Town. Their largest attack occurred in 1998
against a Planet Hollywood restaurant (one person was killed and the
restaurant was closed). PAGAD was not technically a jihadist group, since
it did not want to overthrow the South African government. Its intent was
to attack targets that it believed oppressed Muslim customs in the
country. PAGAD's leader and several members were sentenced to prison terms
in 2002, and there has been very little activity by the group since. While
PAGAD still has a small number of supporters in the Cape Flats area of
Cape Town and still condones violence, there are no indications that it,
or any other grassroots jihadist group in South Africa, is planning to
carry out an attack during the World Cup.
A recent incident in Angola during that country's hosting of the African
Cup of Nations soccer tournament raised questions about the possibility of
a similar domestic terrorist threat in South Africa. In January, the Togo
soccer team participating in the tournament in Angola's Cabinda province
was attacked by members of the Cabinda rebel group Front for the
Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC). Armed with AK-47s, a small
number of FLEC fighters, who are opposed to the Angolan government's
presence in the oil-rich province, shot at the bus carrying the Togo
soccer team as it was traveling to a game, injuring several team members
and killing two. Angola's security environment is much less stable than
that of South Africa, where no rebel groups on the order of FLEC operate.
South Africa also does not have nearly the same level of volatility in its
political conflicts as Angola, where disagreements can quickly become
Security Preparations
For the duration of the World Cup tournament, the South African Police
Service and the South African National Defense Force will deploy forces to
the streets, air and sea to protect against threats to tournament venues.
Most of the measures (such as naval patrols off the coast and overflights
of fighter jets) are in light of the jihadist threat, which, while
unlikely to materialize in an attack, is still seen as a looming
worst-case scenario. Private security firms have been contracted by the
tournament organizing committee to provide security around and inside the
soccer stadiums.
Participating teams and attending dignitaries (including visiting heads of
state) will likely have security escorts that will include protective
motorcades so as not to require closing off streets. Teams will have both
primary and alternate travel routes, along with designated safe areas in
the event of an incident and stationary protective teams at their hotels.
Uniformed and plainclothes security officers will likely be stationed
along travel routes between team accommodation sites and the playing
venues. As a result of these precautions taken by the participating teams,
along with the overall security umbrella provided by the South African
government, the "window of opportunity" to attack a World Cup team will be
very small. As a byproduct of these measures, potential attacks will
likely be diverted to more accessible soft targets, which could be
unsuspecting tourists or bystanders, especially in areas from which police
have been pulled to beef up security at tournament venues.
South African security agencies do have recent experience safeguarding
large sporting events like the World Cup. In June 2009, South Africa
hosted the Confederation Cup, an international soccer tournament that
gathered eight teams in four different stadiums around the country for two
weeks without incident. This time around, South African officials are
making even more extensive preparations to secure tournament venues, and
remaining concerns largely involve the execution of the security plan in
the event of an incident.
The federal police and military units to be deployed and the outline of
this year's World Cup security umbrella include the following:
* South African air force (SAAF) Gripen fighter jets (currently South
Africa has about six operational out of 12 delivered from an order of
26), which will enforce no-fly zones above World Cup venues. The
aircraft will rotate to different air force bases depending on threat
levels determined for each game.
* Other SAAF and army aircraft such as smaller Hawk fighter jets,
transport planes and helicopters will be mobilized for other duties,
including logistics.
* South African navy ships will be deployed, including patrol corvettes
that will be stationed as command platforms in the harbors at Cape
Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth to provide additional radar and
anti-aircraft coverage.
* Naval submarines, minesweepers and other vessels will be deployed to
provide supplemental coverage.
* Military and police explosive ordinance disposal teams, including
sniffer dogs, will be present at all stadiums.
* The SAPS Special Task Force, the police force's specialized
counterterrorism team, will be on standby for rapid response to any
crisis situation in the country from its national base in Pretoria.
* Special weapons and tactics ("SWAT") teams will be mobilized from
city-based police force detachments.
* A national-level joint operations "fusion center" will be maintained
in Pretoria, while each province hosting a World Cup venue will have a
provincial-level command post.
* There are no designated demonstration areas for protesters, and no
protests will be permitted at World Cup venues or fan parks adjacent
to the venues.
* For access to VIP sections at the stadiums, there will likely be
credential controls in place, including portable fingerprint scanners.
* Game attendees will be inspected by metal detectors and hand wands,
and all vehicles arriving at the stadiums will be searched.
* While there are no "official" hotels for the visiting teams, there has
been communication between World Cup security officials and management
at the high-end hotels likely to accommodate teams and dignitaries.
* Uniformed and plainclothed police officers will loiter at high-profile
and popular venues such as Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg, the
Victoria and Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town and the Gateway in
Durban, all of which are likely to receive large numbers of World Cup
Political Instability
The ANC is entrenched as the ruling party of the South African government.
In the short term, the ANC does not face any threat to its political
hegemony from a rival political party. Whatever instability the government
does face stems from within its ruling alliance, which, along with the
ANC, consists of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and
the South African Communist Party. COSATU's approximately 2 million
members are capable of mobilizing strikes and protests on a city and
national basis, and are usually motivated by pay and cost-of-living
concerns. Protests are not usually violent, but if any do occur during the
World Cup, foreign visitors are advised to steer clear of them. Some
COSATU members, notably the National Union of Metalworkers of South
Africa, have threatened to strike during the tournament, but the ANC
government is almost certain to put intense pressure on all labor groups
to help ensure a strike- and protest-free World Cup.
Miscellaneous Threats
Privately operated medical facilities in South Africa are well equipped
for all levels of medical care, and foreign visitors should choose private
over public (government-operated) health-care facilities in South Africa.
Private medical services can also stabilize a patient and facilitate a
medical evacuation to another country (such as the United Kingdom or the
United States) should the need or preference arise.
Should a catastrophic event occur in a South African city during the World
Cup, both private and public medical services would be heavily taxed if
not overloaded. Although provisions will be in place for such a
contingency, a mass-casualty event would degrade the availability and
quality of care on the scene, and conventional means of medical evacuation
may not be immediately available. Indeed, South African health officials
have publicly expressed their concerns about the medical system's state of
readiness for the enormous influx of World Cup attendees (organizers
estimate as many as 300,000), some of whom will need medical attention at
some point during their stay.
Even without a catastrophic event, South Africa's transportation
infrastructure will likely be stressed to capacity. There is a robust
domestic private-airline sector, private nationwide bus network and many
private car-rental companies, and these providers may be stretched to meet
the needs of 300,000 foreign visitors.
Hotels in South Africa that host World Cup teams will have extra security
personnel assigned to them, though mainly to protect the teams. Hotels in
South Africa are otherwise on their own as far as implementing security
precautions, and travelers should not assume that hotels in which they
find themselves have extensive security plans in place.
South Africa's airline industry maintains a level of security sufficient
for direct flights operating to and from the country to be certified by
the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, and airport security will
certainly be heightened during the tournament. The South African
government also purchased body scanners following the attempted bombing by
a Nigerian national of a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to
Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009. Despite these safeguards, however, South
Africa has not implemented airport security standards as stringent as
those used in the United States. That is not to say there is any
intentional negligence, but there are weaknesses to be exploited in the
system, should an attacker desire to do so.
Finally, "hooliganism," a security threat endemic to large soccer matches
and tournaments anywhere passions run high, will be present in South
Africa. However, South Africans themselves are not known for hooliganism,
which tends to be more of a European phenomenon. The fact that this year's
World Cup will be so far removed from Europe will likely reduce the risk
of hooliganism considerably, and the large security force on hand will
likely prevent any violent activity from getting very far out of hand.
South African authorities are also working with European governments to
blacklist identified hooligans and ban them from traveling to South Africa
for the tournament.
While crime will likely have the most visible affect on the World Cup
games, South African authorities are preparing for the worst. Hosting an
event like the World Cup is an extraordinary challenge for any country,
especially one without a wealth of experience at it. In such cases, it is
the unexpected and unintended that usually cause the most disruption.
However, South Africa is not alone in preparing for the event. The
International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), along with
Germany, the United States and other countries, has provided financial and
professional assistance. For the most part, events like the World Cup and
the Olympics - despite daunting challenges - typically transpire rather
smoothly, and South Africa is certainly hoping that it does not buck the
Mike Marchio


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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - A Galaxy Divided (UK - DVD R2)
Chris Gould takes a look at the release of the first volume of the animated show
Hot on the heels of the feature-length 'movie' and ahead of this winter's complete series release, Warner Home Video has chosen to release a teaser of the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series entitled A Galaxy Divided. The disc includes four episodes from the series (the first four, coincidentally enough), which focus more on the larger conflict and space battles than the personal trials and political struggles found in some of the later episodes. The first episode is a standalone tale that focuses mostly on Yoda's efforts to recruit a planet to the Republic's cause, but the remaining three are part of a larger story involving multiple characters and a Confederacy 'super weapon'.
Ambush: Jedi Master Yoda and three clone troopers have travelled to a remote moon in order to meet with the King of Toydaria, hoping to secure permission to build a Republic base in his system. Upon their arrival they are ambushed by the CIS and must face off against a massive army of droids led by none other than Count Dooku's Sith assassin, Asajj Ventress.
Rising Malevolence: After an attack by a devastating new Confederate weapon, Jedi Master Plo Koon and his clone troopers are left stranded in a remote sector of space. There, they must survive the CIS raiding parties long enough for Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano to rescue them.
Shadow of Malevolence: With the assistance of his Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Jedi Master Plo Koon, Anakin Skywalker leads an attack on General Grievous' new warship, the Malevolence, in a new class of long-range bomber: the Y-wing. Can they succeed before the ship's deadly weaponry annihilates the Republic fleet?
Destroy Malevolence: Senator Padmé Amidala and her droid C-3PO are captured by General Grievous and held hostage aboard the Malevolence. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi mount a daring attempt to save the Senator and destroy the warship once and for all.
I've read a number of reviews that have blasted the quality of the show's animation, unfavourably comparing it to films from Pixar and DreamWorks. To put it bluntly, I find these comparisons utterly brainless. You simply cannot compare a feature film with a multi-million dollar budget and a mass-produced television series and expect the latter to compete. Personally I really like the animation and character design. I also rate the voice acting, with certain characters sounding better here than they do in the film (*cough* Anakin Skywalker *cough*).
Of course there are still more than a few 'roger roger' moments in a series filled with battle droids, but one has to remember that this is a show aimed at the younger generation of Star Wars fan, not middle-aged fanboys just waiting to bash George Lucas' next project with accusations of rape. I'm the first to admit that the guy has his faults as a film-maker, but he really doesn't deserve some of the flack he's getting for this series, which is generally pleasing if you take it for what it is: children's entertainment.
Okay, I'll admit it, I've been spoiled by high-definition. The Blu-ray edition of the feature-length Clone Wars 'movie' looked sensational, so I wasn't really expecting to be blown away by the quality of this disc. With that said, I watched the series in standard definition, so as long as the quality was at least comparable to that I figured I'd be happy. Well, the quality is easily a match for the broadcast version, so consider me satisfied.
Episodes are presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and generally look excellent. There seems to be some debate over the OAR of the episodes, as some stations broadcast them in 1.78:1, while others went with 2.40:1. Unfortunately I've no idea if the episodes were cropped or simply opened up for this release, so I can't comment on which is correct. I'm a little out of practice with my DVD reviews, what with converting to high-definition some time ago, but I'd have to say that the quality of the episodes is such that they rank among the better animated standard-definition transfers I've seen. Colours are bright and accurate, black levels are surprisingly good and detail is impressive for DVD. It's not going to fool anyone familiar with HD, but I was pleasantly surprised by how good the episodes looked when scaled to 1080p and it should please fans of the show.
The disc includes Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks (384Kbps) in both English and German (along with optional subtitles). Dialogue is nice and clear and the familiar Star Wars effects are reproduced with clarity, but the surround channels just aren't utilised to their full potential. For the majority of the runtime the only thing you'll hear in the rears is the score, which is nice enough, but I would have liked more of the effects to make their way back there for a more 'enveloping' experience. Bass is a little anaemic given the many explosions found throughout the episodes, but at least the lightsabers sound cool. I think the best way to describe this track is competent, but it's unlikely to impress in the way that the live-action films do.
Unfortunately a side effect of buying only Blu-ray titles for the past year or so (and before that having a predominantly NTSC DVD collection) is that I really (and I mean really) notice the effects of PAL speed-up. Music, voices and sound effects just don't sound 'right', which was evident in everything from the narrator's squeaky introduction in the first episode through to the unnaturally up-tempo end credits of the last episode. Now this isn't a fault per se, but it is annoying, so it's something to bear in mind if you are also susceptible to the effects of PAL speed-up.
Nothing to see here I'm afraid. Move along. Move along.
As much as I'm a huge Star Wars fan who enjoyed the series when it aired on television, it's pretty hard for me to recommend this disc knowing that a full series release will arrive at some point this year. It might be worth picking it up if you missed the series on TV and are after a sampler, but to be perfectly honest it kind of smacks of Warner trying to squeeze a few extra pounds out of the Star Wars franchise. The audio-visual elements are good (by DVD standards), but the complete lack of extras only serves to reinforce my belief that this is a quick cash-in. It is available for under eight pounds from a number of retailers, but the question you have to ask your self is whether you'd be better off saving that money to put towards the full series in November.
Review by Chris Gould
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 13th April 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 German
Subtitles: English, German
Extras: N/A
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Corey Burton, Catherine Taber, Ian Abercrombie, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Anthony Daniels, Dee Bradley Baker, Matthew Wood, Tom Kane
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi and War
Length: 87 minutes
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"The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience - and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system." Like I said: something is happening here. No, not all problems will be solved overnight - but something is happening here, and you have to start somewhere. The fact that several gaming companies and NVIDIA are working together on this is a very clear sign that commitments have been made.


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Experience the circle of life as Disney's beloved film comes to eye-popping life onstage.
While many families spent a warm summer night out at the ballgame, on July 10, one local baseball legend and his family took a break from the ballpark and headed to the Minskoff Theatre for an evening of Disney magic at The Lion King. Superstar pitcher Johan Santana of the New York Mets and his family traded Shea Stadium for the African Pride Lands, enjoying the rhythms of the Savannah and the onstage spectacle of the popular Broadway hit. Santana, who came to the Mets from the Minnesota Twins this season, enjoyed the perks of his new hometown, bringing wife Yasmile and their two young daughters backstage after the show to meet King stars Dashaun Young and Kissy Simmons (who were as excited to meet the pro-ball star as he was to meet them). So were Santana and company saying "Hakuna Matata" by the end of the night? Click here to see for yourself!
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"Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you, if you're young at heart," Frank Sinatra once sang. "… For as rich as you are, it's much better by far, to be young at heart."
As rich as I aren't — Grammar Police, pipe down, this is art — it's a good thing I'm as young at heart as I was the first time I heard that song. That's why I still love the Allentown Fair.


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As Thailand's capital, Bangkok is the country's centre for art, culture, finance, and politics. It became a top tourist destination for its architecture, art, food, and warm hospitality. You can't help being charmed by the city's mix of old world traditions and modern trends.
Start your trip with Bangkok's popular destinations. Ride the Skytrain to the historic Grand Palace. Its sophisticated design alone will make your jaw drop. Here, you'll also find Thailand's most important Buddhist temple – the Wat Phra Kaew and its Emerald Buddha.
Wat Pho is another temple nearby where you'll see the massive Reclining Buddha. When you're done taking pictures, get a foot massage at the temple's pavilion before your next stop.
Along with temples, Bangkok is also a treat for shoppers. You'll even find it easy because most locals speak English in tourist areas. Just make sure you have plenty of Baht in your wallet.
Want a break from malls? Try Bangkok's floating markets like Damnoen Saduak and Amphawa. Or if you're good at haggling (respectfully of course), test your skills at Chatuchak Weekend Market.
For modern shopping centres, Bangkok won't disappoint. Experience what the locals call a "lifestyle mall" at Terminal 21 to shop in world-famous cities. Wander around Tokyo stores, bag discounts from Istanbul zouks, or grab a bite in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, all in one mall.
Are you a night owl? Ride a boat to Asiatique and browse boutiques, eat great food, and enjoy entertainment from 5PM-12MN. But whether you're out all day or night, Bangkok is foodie heaven with most restaurants open 24/7, and friendly to all budgets. Start your Thai food tour right here.
For more tips on where to go, read this insider's guide to Bangkok.
What you should know
Bangkok's tropical climates means sunny weather most of the time. But if you visit in April, bring your sunnies and hats because it's the hottest month. Come September, your umbrella is your best friend. Check Bangkok's weekly weather forecast to be prepared on your trip.
Tourist high season here is November to April, and lowest from May to August. For the cheapest time to fly, visit Bangkok in September.
Singaporeans don't need a visa to visit Bangkok for up to 30 days. Just make sure your passport is valid for at least six months beyond your length of stay.
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You'll fly to Bangkok via Suvarnabhumi Airport. Though modern, it's a bit far from Bangkok so it's best you ride the Airport Link to reach the city in minutes.
Bangkok traffic can be terrible, but you have plenty of options for easy traveling. Save time via Skytrain or the MRT, which connect you to the city's key areas. Feeling adventurous? Hail a motorbike taxi and ride around Bangkok like an action star while avoiding traffic. For touring historic sites, choose river taxis and boats. Study this guide and wander Bangkok like a pro.
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The Glass House Mountains are a group of eleven hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain in Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland.
The mountains were named by Captain James Cook in 1770 as the peaks reminded him of the glass furnaces in his home county of Yorkshire. The range was originally formed as molten lava cooled in the cores of volcanoes around 26 million years ago.
Each of the peaks is protected within the Glass House Mountains National Park. The names of the mountains in the range are Mount Beerburrum, Mount Beerwah, Mount Coochin, Mount Coonowrin (Crookneck), Mount Elimbah (The Saddleback), Mount Ngungun, Mount Tibberoowuccum, Mount Tibrogargan, Mount Tunbubudla (The Twins), Wild Horse Mountain (Round Mountain) and Mount Miketeebumulgrai.
These rugged volcanic peaks that tower above the surrounding landscape are listed on the Queensland and National Heritage Register as a landscape of national significance.
The peaks are also culturally significant to the traditional owners, the Gubbi Gubbi people. In Aboriginal legend the mountains are members of a family with the father being Mount Tibrogargan and the mother Mount Beerwah. All of the other mountains are sons and daughters with the eldest being Mount Coonowrin. The highest mountain is Mount Beerwah. The Glass House Mountains area was a special meeting place where many Aboriginal people gathered for ceremonies and trading. Many ceremonial sites are still present today.
The Glasshouse Mountains have been used for bushwalking and climbing for more than a century. Tibrogargan and Ngungun are the only mountains open to the public for bushwalking and climbing. Walking tracks, ranging from easy to very challenging, lead through open forests to lookouts offering panoramic views.
The easy Glass House Mountains Lookout Track offers sweeping views to Caloundra, Maroochydore, Brisbane and Moreton Island. The mountains offer perfect conditions for rock climbing and abseiling. You can also go horse-riding on a dedicated network of trails.
Open eucalypt woodland and heath vegetation, which once covered the coastal plains, provide a home for a variety of native animals and plants. There are also additional short walks with spectacular views over the Glass House Mountains National Park in nearby in Beerburrum State Forest.
Make your first stop the Glass House Mountains Interpretive Centre where you can learn about the local history and attractions.
Located in nearby Beerwah is the world famous Australia Zoo where you can meet Australian native wildlife. Once you're done visiting the sights you may enjoy a visit to the historic towns and charming villages of the area such as such as Mapleton, Montville and Maleny, which offer rainforest walks, fresh local produce and fine arts and crafts. The Blackall Range drive is one of the most scenic in Australia, and provides views over the Glasshouse Mountains to the coast.
The Glass House Mountains National Park is approximately 70 kilometres or a one hour drive north of Brisbane. The Glasshouse Mountains also offer easy access to many of the Sunshine Coast's major attractions such as World Heritage-listed Fraser Island, Caloundra, Noosa and Hervey Bay.


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The Moab Arts and Recreation Center, 111 East 100 North, is the host venue for Plein Air Moab. Hundreds of original paintings created during the week-long event will be on display and for sale. At 5 p.m., the winners of the painting competitions will be announced and the reasons behind those choices will be discussed at the 7 p.m. "Judges Talk."
Art Walk venues will also feature a wide variety of media, from painting and photography to jewelry and textiles.
Acrylic paintings by Randy Child Artwork will be featured at the gallery space at Moonflower Market, 39 East 100 North. This collection of Child's work features landscapes, battleships and lighthouses.
The Edge Gallery at 137 N. Main features fine art landscape photography by Bret Edge. Each photograph is presented as a canvas wrap or archival plaque mount.
At Savage Spirit! 87 N. Main, the final works of the late Moab jewelry artist James Haas will be featured. Haas was a self-taught silversmith who had a passion for the stones that he cut and polished himself.
At Back of Beyond Books, 83 N. Main, Peg Dougherty will be showing works in graphite and watercolor.
Mixed water media artist, R. Lillian Seifer brings a new body of work to The Framed Image, 59 E. Center. Seifer draws on the themes of water, sky and stone.
Through Oct. 13, The Overlook Gallery, 83 E. Center, will exhibit landscapes in oils and pastels by nationally known artist, Lorenzo Chavez, who is in Moab to help judge the Plein Air Moab competition.
At The Museum of Moab, 118 E. Center, the exhibit features elaborate fabric and fiber pieces created by Elinore Inskip to represent a hidden aspect of the wearer.


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Feb. 27, 2006
Junior pitcher Ginger Gutierrez was named the Macy's/ucsbgauchos.com Student-Athlete of the Week today after pitching 14.1 innings last week at the Palm Springs Invitational. Gutierrez allowed just six runs in the five games she appeared in while striking out ten. The Gauchos ended up 2-3 overall in the three-day tournament and will return to the diamond next weekend at Cal State Fullerton to participate in the Worth Invitational.


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You may think this is good news, but you should be deeply troubled. The Church of England has officially decided that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.
The Bishop of Leicester, who leads the bishops in the House of Lords, said they would now concentrate their efforts on "improving" rather than halting an historic redefinition of marriage.
It represents a dramatic change of tack in the year since the Church insisted that gay marriage posed one of the biggest threats of disestablishment of the Church of England since the reign of Henry VIII.
"Troubled?" you ask, "This is exactly what Myers has favored for years!" But, you see, I didn't factor in the theological implications. When the source of all objective morality (as we've been told God and his priesthood are, many times) undergoes a major revision, we ought to think about what it means. Let us consider the possibilities.
There is a god who cares very much what you do with your genitals, and sometimes he changes his mind. You should find this terrifying. Here's this all-powerful deity who can send you to paradise or to hell, and the rules for admission can change at any time. Your absolute objective morality is suddenly in flux! You could be cruising along, living the rules of your religion meticulously, and there could be a revision at any time — what if god, on a whim, decided that all marriage was an abomination, and you were supposed to practice free love? Are you prepared to obey?
Related concern: is this retroactive? So if a pair of randy, lonely medieval goatherds were getting it on in a beautiful French meadow and were condemned to hell for it, do they get released now? What's the PTSD like after a thousand years writhing in unthinkably intense agony?
I'd assumed getting into heaven is like getting tenure — you're set for the afterlife. But apparently it's more like working for a psychopathic boss and the rules can change on the fly. This doesn't sound like a particularly pleasant, stress-free existence.
There is a god who cares very much what you do with your genitals, but the priesthood has been consistently misinterpreting him. This should shake your trust in organized religion — they can get God's will totally wrong. What if God gave you your genitals for a reason, and you're supposed to be using them joyfully in all sorts of ways, and the communication between heaven and earth is just totally garbled? He's up there raging at the phone line like Bill O'Reilly muffing his lines, while the priests are straining to understand what he's saying in all the bellowing and crackling static. "What's that you say? Something about penises? Cut off what?" We could be committing all kinds of crimes of omission and emission without even knowing about it!
What if god said, "I gave you men a prostate for a reason, you should be using it", and all those straight males in a committed relationship who haven't been getting pegged regularly by their wife are damned to hell? That would be a shocker at the pearly gates.
We don't know that the priests are getting it right even now. Maybe god really is a bronze-age patriarchal chieftain with bizarrely restrictive rules about sexual behavior, and those untrustworthy priests are translating those rules with more and more errors. You really can't believe anything they say, whether you like their conclusions or not.
There is a god who really doesn't care much about what you do with your genitals — he has greater concerns that matter more. Maybe he only has two commandments, "Be excellent to one another" and "Party on!" and all this fussing over specific sexual practices is a gigantic distraction — you're not going to get grilled about where your penis has been or what has gone into your vagina when you get to heaven at all. All this angst about sexual behavior is simply a reflection of the psychological hangups in the heads of the kinds of people who appoint themselves morality monitors.
I have a suspicion that chopping off young women's heads for losing their virginity won't be compatible with "Be excellent to one another". Neither is beating up people you meet at a gay bar.
We really don't know what the rules are any more. Maybe we should stop trying to imagine what a cosmic overlord in the sky wants us to do, and look to our fellow human beings for guidelines, instead.
There is no god, no afterlife, no eternal punishment or reward. The priests have been making it all up, using this invisible boogeyman as a goad to get you to serve their earthly whims. You've been had, people, rise up and throw off your chains, cast down the church!
I kinda like #4 best.
I have to admit, though, that the most conservative religious people actually have one thing right: if you go around changing any of the rules, if you exhibit any flexibility in interpreting the faith, it means you have cause to question the whole elaborate edifice of religion — every wobble has the potential to cause the whole structure to come crashing down. The church is extremely rickety, which is why reason is such a threat to them.
But I also think that demolition would be a good thing.


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Seasonal Camping Grows for Jellystone Parks
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Diana Mendez and her husband, Miguel, live in Queens, N.Y. But every weekend they escape to the Jellystone Park Camp-Resort in Woodridge, N.Y., where they have rented a seasonal campsite for the past 23 summers.
Unlike typical campsites, which are rented by the night, families who rent seasonal campsites rent them for the whole season, usually at a discounted rate. And because the campsite is theirs, they can leave their RV on site and don't have to worry about packing and unpacking every time they want to camp, according to a news release.
"It's like a sanctuary for me," said Diana Mendez, who works with children with disabilities. "We work hard during the week and we all look forward to coming here on weekends. It's always a wonderful experience."
"Across the country, growing numbers of families are renting campsites at Jellystone Parks for the entire camping season," said Michele Wisher, a spokesperson for Milford, Ohio-based Leisure Systems Inc., which franchises Jellystone Parks across the country.
Seasonal campsites also provide an important revenue stream, accounting for 11% of Jellystone Park income in 2012, while making up about 16% of its campsites.
In addition to offering seasonal campsites, swimming pools and other amenities, Jellystone Parks are famous for providing fun family activities that include everything from crafts and games to "hey rides," birthday parties with the bears and daily appearances by Yogi Bear.
Diana Mendez said there are many other benefits to seasonal camping at Jellystone Parks. She said her family has developed close relationships with other seasonal campers. She added that there's nothing better than camping when it comes to strengthening family relationships.
The Mendezes raised both of their children camping at Jellystone Park. The kids are now 19 and 17, but they still enjoy camping. "I think that it brings you closer together as a family," she said. "You're in an RV, so you're forced to always be together. And at nighttime, you can make campfires with your family and friends and it becomes very intimate."


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An undisputed master of Falstaff, Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi's opera for the first time at the Met since 2005. Robert Carsen's production—the first new Met Falstaff since 1964—is set in the English countryside in the mid-20th century. Ambrogio Maestri (last season's Dulcamara in the Opening Night production of L'Elisir d'Amore) sings the title role of the brilliant and blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvelous ensemble that includes Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Lisette Oropesa, and Franco Vassallo.
Falstaff is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Teatro alla Scala, Milan; the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto; and De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam.
Dates: 6. Dec. 2013, 9. Dec. 2013, 14. Dec. 2013, 18. Dec. 2013, 21. Dec. 2013, 27. Dec. 2013, 30. Dec. 2013, 3. Jan. 2014, 6. Jan. 2014, 11. Jan. 2014!
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Charges dismissed against accused shooter in fatal house party
Charges have been dismissed against a 21-year-old man authorities arrested Monday in connection with a fatal Cypress-area house party shooting that left two dead.
Willie John-Peters Young apparently was not connected to the shooting that killed two teens and wounded 16 other victims on Saturday night.
"The dismissal was filed at the request of the homicide detectives at the Harris County Sheriff's Office," said prosecutor Catherine McDaniel. McDaniel did not have any further comment.
In a prepared statement, the sheriff's office said three people who knew Young by name and appearance before Saturday told investigators after the shootings that Young had fired a gun at the party.
"But after a charge of deadly conduct was filed against him, and while investigators carried out their responsibility to fully explore all evidence, other witnesses came forward and provided information that cleared Young," according to the statement. "Investigators are continuing to develop information that could lead to additional suspects."
The reversal came a day after Young's family and community activist Quanell X held a press conference protesting the arrest.
"This is the second time this agency has arrested the wrong man in a high profile shooting," Quanell X said. "They have lazy investigators."
In January, sheriff's deputies arrested a 22-year-old for opening fire at Lone Star College, accused of shooting two people and wounding himself in the leg. It would take six days for him to be cleared of the charges.
Monday, Yolanda Young told reporters that she sent her son to retrieve her daughter late Saturday when she learned the 17-year-old was at a raucous house party. Little did she know that her daughter, Brayiannia Young, would be among more than a dozen shot and wounded at the party and her son arrested as one of the suspects.
"All I know is, my son is innocent. I want an apology from the police for what they put my family through," Yolanda Young said outside Ben Taub General Hospital Monday night where her daughter was treated and released for a gunshot wound to the foot.
Brayiannia Young said she didn't know what sparked the shooting. The gunfire seemed to have first erupted near the front door. It was immediately returned from the back door area, she said.
"Everybody was trying to get under the table and I was getting under the table," she said. "I got shot in the foot. I don't know who shot me."
Brayiannia said she "knew for a fact" that her brother didn't bring a gun to the party.
She said Willie Young helped shuttle shooting victims - including herself - to the hospital.
McDaniel said Tuesday that police are seeking other people they believe were also shooting at the party.
The prosecutor has described the scene at the massive house party as a "melee" that spilled in to the street and left Qu'eric Danarius Bernard Richardson, 17, and Arielle Shepherd, both students at Morton Ranch High School in the Katy Independent School District dead.
Young and 18-year-old Randy Stewart were arrested Monday. Stewart remains in the Harris County jail in lieu of $250,000 bail, accused of aggravated assault.
Anyone with information about the shootings should call the Sheriff's Homicide Division at 713-967-5810 or call Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS or download and use the Sheriff's Office's iWatch Harris County free smart phone app to provide e-mails, text message, photos or video to investigators.
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PHILADELPHIA (Oct.12, 2011) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Dominion Boulevard Partners LLC has settled alleged violations of Clean Water Act regulations designed to protect waterways from polluted stormwater.
Dominion will pay a $51,000 penalty for allegedly allowing storm water runoff from Equestrian Estates North in Chesapeake Va., to run off into a tributary of the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River.
After an inspection by EPA on June 14, 2010, and another inspection by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation on December 14, 2010, EPA cited Dominion for failing to:
· Stabilize a large stockpile of sand on the site as required in the permit;
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Uncontrolled storm water runoff from construction sites often contains chemicals, nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, trash and other pollutants. The Clean Water Act requires owners of construction operations to obtain a permit before discharging stormwater runoff into waterways. These permits include elements such as stormwater pollution prevention plans, stormwater control measures, and inspections to verify the conditions of those measures.
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Many months ago, this book, Be Beautiful: Ever Girl's Guide to Hair, Skin and Make Up by Alice Hart-Davis and Molly Hindhaugh landed on my desk for my potential review.
Alice is a beauty journalist and Molly is her daughter and this book is a result of their conversations about hair, make up, skincare etc.
As you know I love beauty books of every single shape and form. This book though, is slightly different as its aimed towards the teenage market (aged 11+)
When I was aged 11 I was an avid library user and used to take out some cheesy make up application book by Usborne – it was all crusty blue eyeshadow and giant scrunchies back then. I didn't have anything quite as cool looking as this book.
Well I'm not a teenager, so no point asking me. So today we have Miss Candy, aged 15 who read and reviewed this book for me. She's had the book for months and months and dodged me until finally getting it together for me! I suggest a career in the civil service one day, my dear.
Name: Faye
Age: 15
What magazines do you read? Elle, Look, Grazia and You. [I used to read Garfield and the Beano at 15 – Ed]
What music/artists do you like? You Me At Six, Florence and The Machine, Dizzee Rascal, Rihanna, Ke$ha, 3Oh!3, 30 Seconds To Mars, The Killers.
What do you think of the way the book looks?
I think the front cover could have included more pictures to give a more inviting look. Although inside, there are a lot more which may balance the whole book out a lot more.
What did you think of the photos?
These pictures are clear, especially when it comes to, for example the eyeliner ideas. On the other hand, most of these ideas are too exaggerated and not suitable for everyday make-up.
Was everything easy to understand?
Yes, it explained everything I didn't understand previously from various types of spots to blackheads to how to deal with them.
Did anything confuse you?
Everything was fairly easy to understand. There are bits here and there but no specific area that's hard to confusing.
What were your favourite bits and why?
The 'make-up' section was a joy read and was a section with great images. Another section I enjoyed was the 'face care' area of the book, as I found it contained most vital information to keep skin clear.
Least favourite bits? Why?
My least favourite part of the book would have to be the 'hands and feet' section as it was a small part and contained more or less the same information throughout. Secondly, I disliked the 'bodies' area of 'Be Beautiful', possibly because the whole book is about the well-being of your body anyway. I felt most of the 'bodies' area could have been separated into the other sections of the book.
Anything else you'd like included?
Basically everything that's relevant is already there, though I suppose they could to improve, at the end of the book have a week-planned routine. It would include everything in the book to give you the best to 'Being Beautiful'.
Do you think this book is ok for your age group?
I think it's best suited to my age group, because as a teenager our bodies are hormonal which may cause changes this book can help us understand. Such as greasiness, dryness of hair, greasy/dry skin, spots and the best way to keep healthy while our bodies are still growing.
What are your favourite tips?
I liked best the tips from the 'spots' and 'teeth' section as maybe these interest me or apply to me the most compared to the other sections.
Would you recommend this to a friend?
Definitely, I think it's a good read and is lovely detailed.
Marks out of 10. 7/10
Thanks to Faye for a not too shabby book review!
You can buy the book for (as of today) about £6 from Amazon here.


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- UPDATE: Trudeau Released From Jail
An exasperated Judge Robert Gettleman ordered veteran pitchman Kevin Trudeau jailed Wednesday after a court-appointed receiver said the infomercial king was being elusive in disclosing his assets.
"I regret now not granting the order to incarcerate him earlier," Judge Robert Gettleman told the assembled lawyers, making clear that his patience had run out.
Attorneys for the Federal Trade Commission noted the report of a court-appointed receiver, who said Trudeau had failed to disclose thousands of dollars in an Australian bank account which he continued to draw down for lavish purchases of food, alcohol, cigars, even haircuts. The judge made clear that he was not amused.
"Mr. Trudeau, this is not an infomercial," Gettleman said. "You can't talk your way out of this one."
Not that he didn't try. Dressed in an electric blue sportcoat and pink shirt with an open collar, Trudeau strode from the counsel table to the lectern and personally pleaded for his freedom.
"I thought I was following this order," the accused flimflam man insisted. "I had no cash. I needed money for food."
"I want to comply one hundred percent," Trudeau told the judge. "There are not millions hidden in bank accounts, and I really want to help."
But the government lawyers countered that spending more than $500 for cigars and $900 on liquor, when Trudeau had been ordered not to make such purchases, hardly qualified as reasonable household expenses. The judge agreed.
"After my order prohibiting those types of expenses!" he thundered. "He continued to violate those orders!"
The judge ordered Trudeau to meet in the federal lockup with receiver Kenton Johnson in an effort to untangle his complicated global finances. He scheduled another hearing for Thursday.
For decades the celebrated pitchman offered fans everything from memory courses to get-rich-quick schemes to calcium tablets. His products offered for cures for maladies that ranged from cancer to multiple sclerosis.
Filings from the receiver on Tuesday indicated the veteran pitchman had hidden thousands in the Australian bank account and had actually spent much more than lawyers alluded to in court. The filing said Trudeau had shelled out nearly $900 on one trip to a Westmont liquor store, more than $920 at a west suburban cigar store, $1057 in meats from an online butcher, and $359 on haircuts at a Vidal Sassoon salon.
Cited with contempt, Trudeau faces a judgment of over $37 million.


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Audrey Hepburn Skirt and Cropped Jacket
Added Feb 20, 2012
by Rebekah Fox
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Sister wanted a tapered pencil skirt. . . A wardrobe staple that I didn't have a pattern for! Or did I? After glancing at Vogue 9668, a dress pattern, I spotted a nicely tapered skirt. Perfect! So after much pattern alterations I managed to form the skirt I am calling the Audrey Hepburn Skirt. The story behind the name is a little longer than you would expect. Back in the spring of last year, my sister thought up five different skirt designs and sketched them out for me. To keep things both interesting and organized, I gave each a Hollywood actress name and the pencil skirt was deemed Audrey Hepburn. Namely because of the simplicity of the skirt; no "buttons and bows," like the song. I am very happy with how it turned out!
I also sewed up the accompanying cropped jacket using McCall 5006. It is fully underlined which makes for easy-peasy finishing!
Read more about this sewing project by visiting my blog post: Vogue Dress Turned Skirt
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stretch gabardine in ivory, rayon/polyester lining
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Feb 25, 2012, 03.13 PMby laurii
the jacket is lovely:) and the kitten is too adorable! x
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Feb 25, 2012, 04.50 PMby Rebekah Fox
Isn't he? We're thinking of calling him Dimples because he always seems to be so happy.
Feb 26, 2012, 08.29 PMby laurii
oh that's so cute! x
Feb 20, 2012, 03.36 AMby laikadoll
Good job! I hope your sister is happy :) also that kitten is adorable!!
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Feb 20, 2012, 11.58 PMby Rebekah Fox
Thanks so much laikadoll! Yes, sis is happy with how the skirt came out and cannot wait for me to make another one. :)
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For the second year in a row the Leavenworth girls' powerlifting squad brought home the runner-up trophy from the Bobcat Power Invitational on Feb. 9.
For the second year in a row the Leavenworth girls' powerlifting squad brought home the runner-up trophy from the Bobcat Power Invitational on Feb. 9.
In other team standings, Leavenworth claimed third in the freshman/sophomore boys' division, beating host Basehor-Linwood. The junior/senior men's division saw the Pioneers take eight out of 23 teams, the best they've ever done in the three years they have attended the event.
The squad now also owns 10 meet records from the Bobcat Power Invitational, including four new records in 2013.
For the girls, 105-pound Maggie Lee earned first with a best clean of 155 pounds, a meet record. Lee's total amount lifted, 450 pounds, was another meet record. She took home the women's overall best lifter trophy, her second in 2013.
Additionally for Lee, she won the women's lightweight award for vertical jump 28.5 inch leap.
In the 114-pound class, Alexus Scott earned her first gold medal of her young powerlifting career by recording a 215-pound squat for the best squat medal. In addition, the lift was a meet record.
At 123, Leavenworth's Hannah Overbey took gold, Rebekah Covington placed silver with a best bench medal and junior Laura Payne won bronze. Hallie Lucas, 140-pound class, attended her first meet ever and was awarded with a bronze medal for her personal records in all three lifts on the day.
Lacie Thornton was second at 148 and as was Nicole Tennant at 165. Jasmine Swannagan captured a silver medal in the 180-pound class and won a best squat medal.
For the Pioneer boys, Kris Imhof earned second at 132-pounds behind a best squat medal. Jarod Weber also took home a silver medal at 165 and Landry Hodges was 3rd in the 181-pound class.
Will Walker was Leavenworth's lone gold medalist in this division, dominating the 220 weight class by sweeping best lift medals with a 350-pound squat, 230-pound bench press and a 225-pound clean.
During the men's division, Matt Vail and Mike Stratton won silver at 123 and a bronze at 242, respectively.


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In 1987, Fuji introduced the QuickSnap 35mm single-use camera in the U.S. market. Kodak, which did not have a comparable product of its own, was caught unprepared in a market that was destined to grow by more than 50 percent per year for the next eight years, from 3 million units in 1988 to 43 million in 1994. By the time Kodak introduced its first model almost a year later, Fuji had already developed a second model, the QuickSnap Flash. Yet Kodak won market share back from Fuji; by 1994, Kodak had captured more than 70 percent of the U.S. market.
The success of Kodak's response resulted in part from its strategy of developing many distinctively different models from a common platform. Between April 1989 and July 1990, Kodak redesigned its base model and introduced three additional models, all having common components and common production process steps.1 Because Kodak designed its four products to share components and process steps, it was able to develop its products faster and more cheaply. The different models appealed to different customer segments and gave Kodak twice as many products as Fuji, allowing it to capture precious retail space and garner substantial market share.
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In this article, we define what we mean by a platform, describing the benefits and challenges of platform planning. We articulate three ideas underlying the platform approach to product development and present a method for planning a new platform of products. Finally, we provide recommendations for managing the platform-planning process.
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Ma Nishtana?
March 12, 2013
By: Julie Lookatch - Gan Ami Communications & Outreach Coordinator
Welcome to the Hebrew month of Nisan! Very soon, at seder tables in Milwaukee and all around the world, young children will be center stage as the adults turn to hear them chant or recite, "Ma nishtana ha-laila ha-zeh mikol ha-laylot?" This translates to "How is this night different from all other nights?" which is the introduction to the Four Questions - – why we eat matzah instead of bread, why we eat marror (bitter herbs) instead of other vegetables, why we dip the karpas (green vegetables) in saltwater and the marror in charoses (fruit & nut mixture), and why we lean instead of sitting up. These questions are asked each year by the youngest child at the Seder and are answered by the adults during the next part of the Seder.
This is such an important moment for parents and grandparents who may be eagerly anticipating a moment of pride as this tradition is passed on to a new generation. After all, the main purpose of the Passover Seder is to teach the children the story of the Exodus from Egypt and ensure that it is passed down from generation to generation. But how can you be sure that your child is ready for this big moment?
The first thing you have to ask yourself is, what are my (my family's) expectations for this part of the Seder? Will there be a lot of pressure for my child to perform up to the expectations of older relatives? While a two or three year old may not be able to chant the Four Questions in fluent Hebrew in front of a large crowd as well as a child who already has a couple of years of Hebrew school under their belt, there are ways that even the youngest children can participate in this important tradition.
As soon as your child can speak in sentences and learn simple songs, you can begin to introduce them to the tune and the words. This can be done informally in the weeks leading up to Passover. You can sing with them during bath time, in the car or while preparing the house for the holiday. Preschool age children love to learn through song and may pick up a lot from you even if you aren't necessarily asking them to repeat after you.
Here is a link to an audio file of the Four Questions that you can download and use as a resource.
If there are older children at your Seder who will be reciting the questions, a preschooler can be included by interjecting the "Ma Nishtana" when someone points to them. Or even if they just want to stand next to an older child and hum along, they can feel like they were involved. Kindergarteners can sometimes manage to shyly sing "Ma nishtana ha-laila ha-zeh mikol ha-laylot?" and then older children can come to the rescue, chanting about the four ways in which this night does indeed differ from all other nights of the year.
But what about the child that doesn't want to be the center of attention? If you know your child isn't ready to be in the spotlight, this doesn't mean they can't learn the Four Questions during the weeks leading up to the Seder. Even though they may enjoy hearing someone else do it while they listen from their place at the table, they can feel connected to the Questions because the words will be familiar.
Finally, keep in mind that young children may have questions of their own about the Passover story. Don't let yourself be so focused on the recitation of four set questions that you miss a moment to encourage your child's natural curiosity. They may even surprise you by coming up with their own answers as well. The ultimate goal of the Passover Seder is to open up a dialogue between the generations in which our oral and written history can be passed down to our children and their children to follow. Chag Sameach!