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Michael G. Wetter, PsyD, is the associate director of Psychology at the Cedars-Sinai Weight Loss Center. He has extensive experience in issues pertaining to emotional dysfunction, diagnostic consultation and program management. He is experienced in providing cognitive-behavioral therapy, supportive psychotherapy, clinical assessment and pre-surgical evaluation and treatment.
Prior to joining the Weight Loss Center, Wetter served as the chief of Adult Psychiatry Services at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Hayward, in Northern California. He has been published in the field of clinical psychology on topics such as anxiety and emotion regulation. Wetter has lectured nationally to a variety of professional and patient organizations and has served as an expert consultant to numerous publications and media outlets. Wetter is a diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association and a member of the American Academy of Psychologists, National Alliance of Psychology Providers and the American Psychological Association.
Wetter earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Riverside. He earned his master's degree in counseling psychology from Northwestern University in Chicago and his doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.


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Cinema owners have long complained about the length of movie trailers.
Now they're clamping down.
New guidelines issued Monday by the National Assn. of Theatre Owners call for limiting the length of movie trailers to two minutes.
The guidelines, which the trade group said were designed to "maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the industry's marketing efforts," also call for restricting marketing time for trailers to 150 days prior to the release date of the film, and 120 days for all other in-theater marketing materials. Two exemptions per distributor per year would be allowed for both trailer length and marketing lead time.
"These guidelines will evolve in response to technological innovations, marketing and advertising trends, competition in the marketplace, and consumer demands," the theater owners association said. "The guidelines are completely voluntary and will be implemented through individual exhibition company policies, which may vary."
In April 2013, the association's executive board voted to create industrywide guidelines to encompass marketing lead-time for in-theater marketing materials, and trailer length and placement.
After discussions with executives of the seven largest distributors, the guidelines were revised to take into account their concerns, the association said. The voluntary guidelines will go into effect for any film released domestically on or after Oct. 1.

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People are using smartphones to buy things.
Lot of things.
$25 billion worth of things in Europe and the US.
By 2015, it'll be $65 billion worth of things.
Here's a chart from Business Insider Intelligence showing what that opportunity looks like:
Retailers have to pay attention to this space.
Not only is the market rapidly growing in size, tablet shoppers already tend to spend more per session than traditional PC users:
So what can retailers do to take advantage of the trend?
The first, and most obvious step, is to make great iPhone and iPad apps. We're being brand specific there for a reason. The CEOs of ecommerce companies Fab and Rue La La both say that iPhone and iPad users shop and spend a lot more than Android users.
This make sense, because iOS users both spend and make more money than Android users:
For some apps to model yours after, check out these e-commerce apps, which consumers love to spend time with:
For retailers with an offline presence, the next step is building an app that takes advantage of Apple's passbook and Google Wallet, which allow users to pay for things with their phones.
According to BI Intelligence analyst Marcelo Ballvé, "mobile payments are not so much about the act of effecting a 'wallet-less' payment via a mobile device, but about the extra value such an app can create as a direct link between brands and consumers."
Think about coupons, loyalty rewards, and ticketing.
After building a great app, the final thought for retailers should be marketing it.
Spend to do it!
In a 2012 IAB survey, 22 percent of mobile shoppers said an ad inspired their commerce.
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From the new Expanded Election Edition of Greg Palast's
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Plume)
Available In Stores Monday April 26, 2004
I avoid The New York Times but lately, it's become a compulsion, though only for the new daily column titled, 'Names of the Dead.' Today's listing: 'DERVISHI, Ervin, 21, Pfc, Army. Fort Worth.'
I'm not one of those cynical people who thought Bush sent us into to Iraq for the oil. To me, Saddam Hussein was always a Kurd-killing cockroach with a Hitlerian mustache. I never liked the guy -- not even when he worked for George Bush Sr.
It's worth going over the work the Butcher of Baghdad did for his Texas patrons when he was their butcher:
1979: Seizes power with US approval; moves allegiance from Soviets to USA in Cold War.
1980: Invades Iran, then the 'Unicycle of Evil,' with US encouragement and arms. (In fairness, credit here goes to Nobel Peace Laureate, James Carter.)
1982: Bush-Reagan regime removes Saddam's regime from official US list of state sponsors of terrorism.
1983: Saddam hosts Donald Rumsfeld in Baghdad. Agrees to 'go steady' with US corporate suppliers.
1984: US Commerce Department issues license for export of aflatoxin to Iraq useable in biological weapons.
1988: Kurds in Halabja, Iraq, gassed. 1987-88: US warships destroy Iranian oil platforms in Gulf and break Iranian blockade of Iraq shipping lanes, tipping war advantage back to Saddam.
1990: Invades Kuwait with US permission.
US permission? On July 25, 1990, the dashing dictator met in Baghdad with US Ambassador April Glaspie. When Saddam asked Glaspie if the US would object to an attack on Kuwait over the small emirate's theft of Iraqi oil, America's Ambassador told him, 'We have no opinion.... Secretary [of State James] Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait is not associated with America.' Saddam taped her.
Glaspie, in 1991 Congressional testimony, did not deny the authenticity of the recording which diplomats worldwide took as a Bush Sr's OK to an Iraqi invasion.
So where is Secretary Baker today? On the lam, hiding in deserved shame? Doing penance by nursing the victims of Gulf War Syndrome? No, Mr. Baker is a successful lawyer, founder of Baker Botts of Houston, Riyadh, Kazakhstan. Among his glinting client roster, Exxon-Mobil oil and the defense minister of Saudi Arabia. Baker's firm is protecting the Saudi royal from a lawsuit by the families of the victims of September 11 over evidence suggesting that Saudi money ended up in the pockets of the terrorists.
And Baker has just opened a new office ... at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This is a White House first: the first time a lobbyist for the oil industry will have a desk right next to the President's. Baker's job, to 'restructure' Iraq's debt. How lucky for his clients in Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom claims $30.7 billion due from Iraq. Apparently this includes their $7 billion send to Saddam to fund his bomb [see Chapter 2].
If you remember, Henry Kissinger ran away from appointment to the September 11 Commission with his consulting firm tucked between his legs after the US Senate demanded he reveal his client list. In the case of Jim Baker, our elected Congress had no chance to ask him who is paying his firm nor even require him to get off conflicting payrolls.
To get around the wee issue of conflicts galore, the White House crafted a neat little subterfuge. The official press release says the President has not appointed Mr. Baker. Rather Mr. Bush is 'responding to a request from the Iraqi Governing Council.' That is, Bush is acting on the authority of the puppet government he imposed on Iraqis at gunpoint.
Why is our President so concerned with the wishes of Mr. Baker's clientele? What does Bush owe Baker?
It was Baker, as consiglieri to the Bush family, who came up with the strategy of maneuvering the 2000 Florida vote count into a Supreme Court packed with politicos.
Over the years, Jim Baker has taken responsibility for putting bread on the Bush family table. As Senior Counsel to Carlyle, the arms-dealing investment group, Baker arranged for the firm to hire both President Bush 41 after he was booted from the White House and President Bush 43 while his daddy was still in office.
We know why Jim Baker is in the White House. But what was Private Dervishi doing in harm's way in Iraq? Saddam was already in the slammer and Iraq 'liberated' nearly a year.
The answer came to me in a confidential document that oozed out of Foggy Bottom, one hundred pages from the State Department's secret 'Iraq Strategy.' It's all about the 'post-conflict' economy of Iraq written well before America was told we would have a conflict there.
There's nothing in the 'Iraq Strategy' about democracy or voting. But there's plenty of detail about creating a free-market Disneyland in Mesopotamia, with 'all' state assets -- and that's just about everything in that nation -- to be sold off to corporate powers. The Bush team secret program ordered ...
'... asset sales, concessions, leases and management contracts, especially those in the oil and supporting industries.'
The 'Strategy' lays out a detailed 270-day schedule for the asset grab. And that's why PFC Dervishi was kept there: to prevent or forestall elections. Because no democratically elected government of Iraq could ever sell off its oil. Democracy would have to wait, at the point of a gun, for the 'assets sales, concessions, leases' to Bush's corporate buck-buddies.
There you have it. The secret 'Strategy' tells us that, if Bush didn't go into Iraq for the oil, he sure as hell ain't leaving without it.


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Ten Year Anniversary in the NFPW
by Sherry Stocking Kline
February 12, 2010
They say time flies when you're having fun, and I didn't realize just how much fun I'd had or how much time had flown past until I received the following Congratulatory e-mail from National Federation of Press Women on Friday.
It was my Ten Year Anniversary! What a nice reminder:
Fri, February 12, 2010 1:57:27 PM
February 12, 2010
Dear Sherry,
As a member of the National Federation of Press Women, you have reached the 10-year Milestone in your membership.
Your name will be in the 2010 NFPW Chicago Conference Program recognizing your 10 years of membership
Our thanks from the entire membership for your support of this wonderful organization through your dedicated membership.
Information about the conference in Chicago is forthcoming, and I hope you will be attending the entire event. As anyone knows who has attended a conference, they quickly become addictive. Not only for the information gained, but the priceless friendship and memories as well.
Again, my congratulations to you. I hope you will join us for the informative workshops, the inspiration gained, and the never-ending fellowship and fun that fills every conference.
Barb Micek, NFPW Historian
And it's by such little choices that lives are changed…
Just a little over ten years ago, shortly after I graduated from Kansas State University's distance learning program with a bachelor's degree in Arts & Sciences, (emphasis on home economics taken in the late 1960's) and history (taken in the 1990's), I took a writing class at Wichita State University.
Seeing a flyer on the bulletin board for a writing group, I went to the meeting. Would we like a mentor?
Well, yes, of course!
And it's by such little choices that lives are changed. I was assigned Beth Bower, editor of a newspaper that I'm ashamed to say I can't recall the name of right now. I went to meet Beth, we hit it off, and she asked me to write an article about my genealogy hobby.
So I did.
One thing led to another…
Shortly after that, Beth called and told me that she was leaving that newspaper to go to the Wichita Eagle, Special Publications Division, and before I could get sad about not doing any more writing for her, she said "Give me a little time, (to get settled into her new job) and I think I can get you some work."
Beth encouraged me to join the local and state chapters of Press Women, now Wichita Professional Communicators and Kansas Professional Communicators. It was excellent advice.
One thing led to another and genealogy continued to grow in popularity, and that's how my column "The Family Tree" that ran in "Active Life" and now in "Healthy Living" came to be. And now I've been writing about genealogy in the Wichita Eagle for ten years also.
Thanks to Beth's encouragement, advice, (and excellent editing) I've won state awards and national honorable mentions. Woo Hoo!
Thank you, Beth!
Time does fly when you are having fun!
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Standing Room Only at RICAP 6 Open House
It was standing room only at the RICAP 6 Open House on Feb. 11, 2014, as the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability Code Development Team presented information and fielded questions and comments on the Regulatory Improvement Code Amendment Package (RICAP) proposals. While the RICAP 6 Discussion Draft comprises 45 issues ranging from minor clarifications to fence regulations to more substantive changes to wireless facility requirements, the overwhelming interest was focused on the short term rental regulations.
Staff opened the meeting with a short presentation about the RICAP 6 process and timeline, and opportunities to get involved moving forward. The presentation then shifted to short term rentals: what they are, the current regulations that apply to them, and the proposal to address one- and two-bedroom operations in residential zones.
Staff from the Revenue Bureau and Bureau of Development Services were also on hand to help explain the existing transient lodging tax requirements and code compliance process.
Attendees included people interested in starting their own short term rental operation, those who are or had been operating a short term rental, and neighbors concerned about potential impacts from these operations. Staff heard questions about impacts to affordable housing and requirements for neighbor notification and hosting, as well as concerns about safety and security for both visiting guests and other residents in the neighborhood. Some also expressed concern about existing limits on allowed social gatherings for properties that are running a short term rental. Some attendees felt that the proposal did not go far enough in addressing absentee whole-house short term vacation rentals (which are prohibited), while others felt that the proposal was going too far by placing restrictions on the one- and two-bedroom operations.
Comments on this and the other 44 issues in the RICAP 6 Discussion Draft can be submitted until Feb. 21, 2014. Staff will then review, analyze, and incorporate feedback into a Proposed Draft to be released in March. The Planning and Sustainability Commission will hold a public hearing and take testimony on April 22, 2014. After that they will make their recommendation to City Council, who will hold an additional public hearing in late spring.
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The Demon softball team played to very fast moving games last night hosting Fort Madison, in fact they didn't even have to turn on the lights. In the first game Washington scored a run in the first and 1-0 was the score the bulk of the game. The Demons added two more in the fifth and one in the sixth to win 4-0. Maddie Bohr got the win.
In the second game which was heard on KCII, the Bloodhounds scored two runs in the top of the first. The Demons Lauren Vittetoe led off the fourth with a hit and she'd come around and score to get Washington on the board. Then in the fifth with two outs Maddie Bohr and Sammy Ellingson got on with hits and a Lauren Vittetoe double scored them to put Washington up 3-2. The Bloodhounds tied it at 3-3 in the top of the sixth but the Demons scored two in the bottom of the inning to go up 5-3 as Joni Irwin got a hit and scored a run and Blair Farris drew a walk and scored. Fort Madison loaded the bases in the seventh and managed a run but with two outs Kortney Estrada hit a fly ball that was caught in left field foul territory by Stephanie Fishback on the run to give Washington the 5-4 win. The two wins means the Demons get the season sweep on Fort Madison and improve to 6-2 in the conference.
After the game Washington Head Coach Angie Shrader praised the two girls in the circle Maddie Bohr and Ashley Raush. She says both are dealing with some soreness. The Demons host Mount Pleasant tonight for a conference doubleheader, you'll be able to hear the second game right here on the one to count on KCII. We'll be on the air at around 7:30.


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"When I was proudly growing up on Chicago's Southside and not Evergreen Park which is what it is now, or was when I was a kid but isn't anymore because it has either been changed to Evergreen Park or from Evergreen Park into or out of the City of Chicago we had a big garage door which needed two openers, not openers in the sense of the first game of a season, although come to think of it every team has two openers - one at home and one on the road - although if your first game is a home opener I'm not sure you have a road opener especially if the home team for your road opener has already had a home opener which wouldn't be your home opener because that home team would have been the visiting team at your home opener if your home opener was their road opener for their opener unless of course they were at some other team's home opener but not their own.
Anyway, with all the noise we used to make in Evergreen Chicago Park, which is what they call it now, back then it was just Evergreen Park or Chicago, could be either but not both, I'm surprised the neighbors to the north and south of us didn't call the police everday......I wonder why that was DJ."
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Freshman runner Rob Manning (Lawrenceville, Ga.) of the Georgia College & State University men's cross country team was named GCSU Athlete of the Week, the sports information office announced today (Oct. 28). The award honors the top performance by a Bobcat during the week ending Oct. 26. This is the first such honor for Manning and the Bobcat men's cross country team this season.
Pacing the Bobcats and finishing two slots from All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) status was Manning. He led the Bobcat harriers at the PBC Championships, finishing 12th overall in 28:48. The Bobcats took third, the second-best finish in program history. Manning has been on a roll as of late, leading the Bobcats in the last three meets, and four overall this season.
Manning and the rest of the Bobcats are back in action Saturday, Nov. 8 at Wingate University for the NCAA Southeast Region Championship.
The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Follow the Bobcats and their positive impact on the Milledgeville community at www.gcsu.edu/bobcats.


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Justin Bieber GQ Profile Reveals He's Tried Beer, Likes Metallica + Is 'Flaky'
If you want an intimate and manly look at Justin Bieber in the new GQ, well, you'll be disappointed. Through no fault of the tireless and journalistically inclined writer, the profile reveals absolutely nothing super surprising about The Biebs, simply because the 'Boyfriend' singer is surrounded by adults at all times and access to him, even when you are in the same building, is incredibly limited. Access to the The Biebs is not easy to get on any level.
The feature is basically a diary of the writer's efforts to get time with the teen, only to be blown off, canceled on, and ignored. It's also the writer's assessment of 'Being Justin Bieber.'
The concept and the plan was to do something manly with the newly 18-year-old star. But nothing came to pass. Well, he can't drink legally and he doesn't want to send a bad message to his largely young and female fans by going to a strip joint, so options were limited. The Biebs did admit to tasting a beer before but that he is in control. Trying a frosty beverage is something any kid his age has done…so it's not a big reveal.
It's essentially an essay on what a journalist has to go through when dealing with a pop star surrounded by handlers and a professional entourage. If you are interested in the inner workings of feature-style journalism, as opposed to what it's actually like to tag along with The Biebs, then this is a case study you MUST read.
One of the funniest assertions of his article is as follows:
"The PR lady, Melissa, warns me that Bieber boxes regularly and that his father, Jeremy, is a former MMA fighter. Now I'm starting to get a little worried. I've been waiting two and a half days, and I was looking forward to teaching this kid a lesson about punctuality. But for the first time, it's dawning on me that Justin Bieber might be able to kick my a–. What if his Horny Teenager Strength can easily overpower my Dad Strength? What if he knocks me out? What if he puts me in the hospital? What if he kills me? Do I still get paid for this?"
The Biebs may bro down with boxers like Floyd Mayweather and he may dress up like one in Complex, but he's not going to beat anyone to a bloody pulp… If only because he never within arm's length of the writer for more than a few moments.
One piece of info that Beliebers might find useful or at least interesting or worth defending is his bordering-on-ADD attention span. The writer says, "I've been warned by several people, including some people in his own camp, that Bieber has a very short attention span. This is correct. He is amazingly distractible. He also bursts into song a lot, at random intervals, no matter who's around. (…Money on my mind and you on my mind, too much on my mind…) If it were anyone else, this would be annoying, but this is Justin Bieber."
The Biebs played pool solo, yet never ignored the writer to check his phone. Politeness, thy name is Biebs. The singer also said he loves pre — 'Black Album' Metallica — 'One,' 'Fade to Black.' "Those are my jams," he said.
The writer also disputes that Da Biebs is 5'9″, saying he looks closer to 5'4″.
In his outtakes for the piece, the writer — likely Public Enemy No. 1 in the eyes of the Bieber nation for his honest critiques of his experience — also revealed that The Biebs is surrounded by adults who treat him as such.
"The adults around him treat him like a peer, or often a superior. They wait around for him. They try and get an audience with him. As it stands now, Bieber is a perfectly nice guy. Sure, he's flaky, and brash, and a touch vacant. Still, I don't think most people would fault an 18-year-old for acting like an 18-year-old. But I don't know if he has the right system around him to move PAST that. He's not gonna go to college (would you?). He's not gonna have to get an entry-level job and eat s— for a few years. And he lives in a celebrity culture that amounts to a nonstop circle jerk. This happens to a lot of young stars, be it musicians, actors, or sports figures (hi, LeBron!). They become so successful so young that they skip the stage where you become a fully functional adult. And I don't know if you can recover from that."
We think it's safe to say that GQ won't be sitting down with The Biebs again anytime soon. It's an entertaining bird's eye view but it's also one viewpoint. And we all know there are two sides to every story.
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President Barack Obama's
second inauguration was an anticlimax -- inevitably so after the lofty promises of change and transformation made from the U.S. Capitol steps four years ago.
Then, a happy, even joyous crowd approaching 2 million -- the largest in Washington history -- gathered to hear the inspirational new president with the funny name and the distinction of being America's first black president.
On Monday, a cheerful but much smaller crowd -- officials even revised downward their estimates of attendance to around 500,000 to 700,000 -- gathered on the Mall to witness a public swearing-in that was in itself an anticlimax. Because the constitutionally mandated swearing-in date of Jan. 20 fell on a Sunday, the oath was first administered at the White House with only Obama's immediate family in attendance and Chief Justice John Roberts presiding.
The 2013 Obama is now a battle-scarred chief executive, hardened by the political realities of governance that he was unable to change. If Obama believed then that the logic of his arguments, the depth of his conviction and fervor of his supporters would carry the day, he was quickly and brutally disabused of that notion when congressional Republicans announced that their No. 1 goal was to see that he would not survive politically to see his second inauguration.
Perhaps their impossibly high expectations and his cool, detached manner kept Obama from getting his due, even from his own supporters. As the smoke of political battle clears, his first term emerges as one of significant accomplishment, including: universal health care; a bailout plan that, however imperfect, saved the U.S. auto industry and managed a recession; a sweeping overhaul of financial regulation; extracting us from one war and beginning to extract us from another.
Perhaps the most glaring bit of unfinished business is that of balancing America's books, reconciling generous social promises -- such as care of the sick and aged, and the education of our young -- with our ability to pay for them. The problem is not insoluble, but it will require a generation of political heroes that has yet to emerge.
Inaugurations are not empty ceremonies. They mark over two centuries of a peaceful change of power. If first inaugurations represent soaring, and generally unfulfilled, hopes, second inaugurations mark a momentary cessation of political hostilities.
The Obamas have a day to enjoy their triumph. Then it is back to the messy, gritty business of politics and a politically difficult agenda of action on immigration reform, climate change, gun violence, gay rights, equal pay for women and, in the broadest terms, making the Declaration of Independence's "most evident of truths" -- that we are created equal -- true for all.
Second terms have their own peculiar dynamics. Four years from now, it would be no small feat if Obama could live up to his 11-year-old daughter Malia's verdict on his swearing-in: "You didn't mess up."


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The Daily Word 7.22.10: Mel Gibson is an Innocent Victim and Yetis are Interdimensional Beings
Not to be outdone, China has an oil spill.
Six are dead in a deadly bus smash.
They arrested the guy who threatened the "South Park" guys.
Perhaps Mel Gibson is an innocent victim of extortion.
Anyone care what's going on with Katie Couric? No?
A tax on gold transactions hitched a ride on the health care legislation.
The ultimate crime: pretending to be a bartender.
Lindsay Lohan's mom and sister visited her in jail yesterday. So, it was a pretty special day for her.
You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd.
Beckham and Tommy Nader love Legos.
Brangelina pwned a newspaper.
Is the yeti an interdimensional being? Well, at least look at the picture.
The Iglesias firing was inappropriate but not criminal.
The Albuquerque gay community is outraged by downtown violence.
I think DCF blogger Rudolfo Carrillo is on a spaceship or something.
It would be fun to have a dump-hole in the living room. I think, anyway.
Happy birthday, Rufus Wainright.


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On August 3rd, Iran's notorious former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially left office, paving the way for Hassan Rouhani, considered by many as a ray of hope for the West, Israel included.
The 64-year old new leader – who obtained some 50.7% of the 36 million votes in June's elections – has already called for loosening control of the Internet, vowed to pursue liberal reforms, give greater individual rights, make Iranian politics more transparent, lessen restrictions on speech and security on college campuses.
Changes are also expected in Iran's foreign policy. During his first press conference, President Rouhani announced his intention to take steps to normalize relations with neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states.
But his main challenges remain in the spheres of the country's flagging economy and sour relations with the West. In his presidential campaign and after, Rouhani stressed that he was deeply concerned about Iran's fiscal wounds and was determined to tone down the tactics of his predecessor. He also stressed that the US and Iran had to heal some "very old wounds to find solutions to past issues" and expressed his eagerness to appoint a new cabinet composed of Iranians holding Western degrees.
This means that there might be some hope to deal more seriously with the everlasting Iranian nuclear saga. The resumption of talks is expected in the autumn, and the Obama Administration has indicated its willingness to engage in fruitful dialogue.
Yet, while there seems to be some potential for change for the better – in domestic policy as well as in relations with the outside world – actual results are not yet assured. Prof. David Menashri, the founding director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University and the President of College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan, said Rouhani was elected first and foremost to save the Islamic Revolution.
"Rouhani is the golden child of the revolution and has always been a part of its apparatus. It's a mistake to think that he is either a moderate or reformist," Menashri explained to Israel Today. "In Iranian politics he may be considered a centrist. He has been on the side of the regime, filling multiple governmental posts. He served as the head of the National Security Council (NSC) for 16 years and is currently the representative of the Supreme Leader at the NSC."
Furthermore, when the Islamic revolution broke out in 1979, Rouhani was about to pursue his Master's degree. Instead, he flew to Paris to join the then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
Dr. Rajab Safarov, director of the Russian Center for Modern Iranian Research (a pro-Iranian think-tank based in Moscow) and one of the leading experts in the field, agreed:
"Rouhani is characterized as a reliable and trustworthy person, who wants to repair Iran's economy, change the world's attitude to his country and establish healthy relations with the West. He is shrewd, boasts a sharp intellect and rich life experience and doesn't waste words. He is knowledgeable and understands the problems of the society as well as burning regional and global issues. But he is not a liberal in the Western sense of the word and will not support pro-American policies. He is part and parcel of the Islamic clergy and will remain loyal to the principles of the Iranian revolution."
If that's the case, how likely is it that the West (Israel included) can reach any agreement with Tehran? Safarov said much depended on the international leaders.
"Rouhani wants to have ties with the West and dreams of turning Iran into a normal member of the global society," claimed the well-connected Iranian expert. "He is the man of dialogue, who has certain sympathy for the West and who can definitely make concessions."
According to Safarov, the West was unable to accept Ahmadinejad's harsh tone, prickly comments against the US and Israel, as well as his unwillingness to cooperate with the West on the issue of Iran's nuclear program. That's why it was virtually impossible for the international leaders to reach any agreement with the former president.
Iran's new leader gives Washington the ladder it needs to descend from the high tree it has climbed, Safarov charged. "The US got tired from confronting Iran. Many of its European allies came to realize that they could not sustain their economies without Iranian energy supplies. This made them go against Washington's ban to trade with the Islamic Republic or buy the country's oil."
But Menashri said Iran was nailed to the wall by international sanctions, and Rouhani's election was the only solution to the country's crisis. "Rouhani was not elected because of his charisma or his powerful personality, rather because of the country's reaction to the escalating circumstances," said the Israeli. "Unemployment is skyrocketing, whereas inflation has already reached 40 percent (and counting). To improve the economic situation, the [new] president will have to improve ties with the West."
The expert also stressed that the new situation provided Iran with a ladder to descend from its own tree. "In this sense, the election of Rouhani carries the potential for change. What's needed right now is hard work that would enable to bridge the existing gaps."
The main question is whether Rouhani will have enough time or power to pull it through, especially given the fact that any Iranian president has to answer to the Supreme Leader. Nevertheless, the experts remain optimistic.
Safarov argued the Ayatollah was actually supporting the renewal of ties with the West, but stressed that Iran would not accept any humiliation. "Iran perceives itself as a regional superpower and will not tolerate insults from the West regardless the damage," he explained. "However, the president and the Supreme Leader will be ready to negotiate with the US directly if certain conditions are met."
Menashri voiced his stance: "Rouhani is supported by leading Iranian politicians and maintains close ties with the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, so he might be able to influence them. Besides, people behave differently before assuming power and after. Now that Rouhani is going to govern 75 million people, he might feel the urge to change things on the ground, which means whispering in Ayatollah's ear that more meaningful reforms are crucial for the salvation of the revolution."
Hawks in Washington have already warned about the perils of getting too cozy too quickly with Rouhani. In his article "Talk to Iran's New President. Warily," Denis Ross, a former assistant to President Obama for the Middle East, depicted Rouhani as a clever diplomatic tactician, who (together with the Ayatollah) was just staging a show.
Having little or no intention of changing the tone of Iranian politics or making any concessions on the burning atomic issue, the leader might trick the US and its allies into believing that change was just around the corner. While international leaders would loosen their biting sanctions, Tehran would win time to develop a bomb.
But Menashri believed Ross' approach was the right one: "Rouhani is a smiley face. He spares his words when it comes to Israel and the US, something that can fool world leaders into making them drop their hard tactics. But the truth is that the election of Rouhani is the direct result of Western pressure. So the only way to force Iran to make a U-turn in its atomic ambitions is through continuous pressure combined with dialogue."
Safarov was convinced that reaching an agreement with Iran was ultimately in the West's interests, given the worsening stability in the region.
"Washington's closest allies are now facing multiple problems. The Arab Spring is still raging in Egypt and is threatening to hit Turkey. Qatar and Saudi Arabia are losing their leading positions; whereas Israel is more concerned with its security challenges," he asserted. "To maintain its positions in the region, the US needs a strong partner and this could be Iran. The country has huge potential, it is independent and boasts powerful partners like Russia and China."
Safarov believes that the re-establishment of US-Iran ties would have a positive effect on world politics and would improve global security. It would help to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Shiite-Sunni confrontation between Iran and other Muslim states led by Saudi Arabia.
What are the chances that the two countries would scrap their past resentments and opt for a fresh new start? Menashri said they were higher than before: "Rouhani is likely to bring a change because his politics are going to differ from those of Ahmadinejad's. Iranians realized that 35 years of screaming 'death to America' didn't bring any tangible results. Iranians are fighting for bread and political freedom, and the new leader has the power and the will to change the situation."
But Safarov insisted true cooperation and reconciliation would only be possible if America and the West came to terms with certain realities. The US "has to give up on its desire to change the Iranian governmental system," he concluded, stating that furthermore, "Before any cooperation between the two takes place, Washington has to acknowledge the Iranian right to nuclear energy. If the West continues to back its stubborn policy of force and threats, the situation will deteriorate further. Washington has to seize the moment because Iran is almost ripe for direct talks."
Is it worth it? Will the situation really get better, or is this just another ruse? Time will tell.
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Manchuria, also called the Northeast, Chinese (Pinyin) Dongbei or (Wade-Giles romanization) Tung-pei, formerly Guandong or Guanwei, historical region of northeastern China. Strictly speaking, it consists of the modern provinces (sheng) of Liaoning (south), Jilin (central), and Heilongjiang (north). Often, however, the northeastern portion of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region also is included. Manchuria is bounded by Russia (northwest, north, and east), North Korea (south), and the province of Hebei (southwest). The Chinese call Manchuria the Northeast or the Northeast Provinces. Before the 1860s the Manchuria area also included those territories north of the Amur River (Heilong Jiang) that China's Qing government ceded to Russia by the Sino-Russian Treaty of Aigun (Aihui) in 1858 and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing in 1860.
Manchuria to about 1900
Prior to the 17th century, the history of Manchuria was shaped by three converging ethnic groups: the Chinese, the people collectively known as the Tungus, and the Mongols and Proto-Mongols. The Tungus (from which several groups emerged) were forest and plain dwellers who had a mixed economy of agriculture, fishing, hunting, and livestock breeding. Those in Manchuria were known in various historical periods by such names as Sushen, Yilou, Fuyu, Mohe, Juchen (Nüzhen), and, finally, Manchu (Manzhou, or Manzu). The Mongols and Proto-Mongols were nomadic pastoralists who occupied the grasslands of the eastern rim of the Mongolian Plateau and the eastern slope of the Da Hinggan (Greater Khingan) Range. They were known by such names as Xianbei, Wuhuan, Shiwei, Khitan (Qidan), and Mongol. The agricultural Chinese migrated from the north of China to cultivate the soil of the rich Liao Plain in southern Manchuria. The successive hegemonies and kingdoms in Manchuria resulted from violent clashes among these ethnic groups.
Prehistoric Manchuria was the eastern terminus of a natural highway for nomadic peoples who moved across the great Eurasian plain from the Volga River to the Korean peninsula. As early as 1000 bce, certain Manchurian tribes are mentioned in Chinese sources. The earliest settlement of Chinese colonies in southern Manchuria began about the 3rd century bce. Chinese immigration into southern Manchuria accelerated during the following centuries: in the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce) some Manchurian lands were overrun by the Han, who organized those conquered territories into military commanderies. During the chaotic period following the collapse of the Han empire, China was able to maintain only a loose hegemony over Manchuria.
Under the Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) dynasties, China was able to reassert some control over south Manchuria. In the late 7th century Manchuria's pastoral Tungus peoples asserted their independence, founding in 698 the Zhen kingdom, which became the Bohai kingdom in 713. Centred in the modern province of Jilin, Bohai at its height covered nearly the whole of Manchuria and northern Korea. With the collapse of the Tang dynasty in 907, the Mongol subgroup known as the Khitan gradually gained ascendancy in Manchuria and began expanding south against China and west against the Turkic nations. In 926 the Khitan forces overthrew Bohai. At the height of its power, the Khitan empire under its reigning Liao dynasty occupied practically the whole of Manchuria, part of northern Korea, part of North China, and the greater part of the Mongolian Plateau.
In the late 11th century there ensued a marked decline in the administrative efficiency and military prowess of the Khitan empire. The non-Khitan subjects staged frequent rebellions against their overlord. Of particular importance among these rebels were the Juchen tribes, a group of Tungus peoples who lived beyond the Liao frontier but were in a tributary relationship to the Liao court.
In 1115 Aguda, the paramount chief of the Juchen, signalized the drastic decline of Khitan power by proclaiming the establishment of the Jin kingdom. An alliance between the Juchen Jin kingdom and the Chinese Song dynasty succeeded in destroying the Liao empire in 1125. After the destruction of their common enemy, the Jin turned against the Song. In 1127 the Juchen sacked the Song capital, and the Song court retreated to the south, where it existed as the Nan (Southern) Song dynasty. The Juchen decided to incorporate the occupied Song territory into their own domain, and in 1152 their capital was moved from Manchuria to Yanjing (modern Beijing). By then, however, the formidable Jin military machine had become moribund and was an easy prey to the Mongols, who rose to power in the Mongolian Plateau in the 12th century.
In 1211 the Mongols invaded Jin under the leadership of the great Genghis Khan, and by 1234 Jin had succumbed to the combined pressure of the Mongols and the Song Chinese. Occupying the whole of Manchuria, the Mongols made it one province, the Liaoyang. In 1280 the Mongols completed the conquest of China, having already established the Yuan dynasty. Eventually, however, the Mongols' harsh rule precipitated a series of rebellions among the Chinese, who overthrew the dynasty in 1368. The victorious Chinese established a native dynasty (the Ming), pursued the Mongols into the steppes, and reinstituted Chinese rule over the Liaodong Peninsula.
During the 15th and 16th centuries the Mongols regained their strength and began pressing upon the Chinese frontier. As a result, the Ming position in Manchuria gradually deteriorated, and by the 17th century the Juchen were strong enough to challenge the Ming rule. It was the Jianzhou tribes under the leadership of Nurhachi (1559–1626) who succeeded in forging a new and greater Juchen empire. Beginning in 1583, Nurhachi led a series of campaigns that ultimately brought all the Juchen tribes under his control. In 1616 he was proclaimed han ("emperor") by his subjects and allies. Nurhachi named his dynasty Jin, sometimes called the Hou (Later) Jin, in an attempt to rekindle the desire for imperial greatness among the Juchen people. After Nurhachi's death, his son and successor, Abahai, continued the task of territorial expansion. When Abahai died in 1643, Manchu arms had been carried east into Korea, north into the Amur and Ussuri (Wusuli) river valleys, west to Inner Mongolia, and south to the Great Wall. Abahai adopted the name Manchu for his people and changed the dynastic designation from Jin to Qing. In 1644 the Manchu, with the help of dissident Chinese, established themselves as the new rulers of China. Qing dynastic rule of China lasted until 1911/12.
Although the Chinese had colonized the Liao Plain more than a thousand years before and had made it a centre of Chinese cultural influence, they had never been able to secure a foothold in central and north Manchuria, which remained predominantly a preserve of tribal groups. Paradoxically, it was during the period of Manchu ascendancy that the Chinese succeeded in penetrating the Sungari and Amur valleys. Until 1688 the Qing government encouraged Chinese immigration to Liaodong in order to revive its economy. After 1688 Chinese immigration was restricted. But the Manchu soon had to modify their exclusion policy when they were forced to strengthen the thinly spread Manchu garrisons in the Amur River valley with Chinese recruits to counter the eastward march of Russian power in the area. Manchuria's natural resources attracted an unending stream of land-hungry peasants and other voluntary Chinese immigrants to Manchuria, despite the official ban. The flow of immigration became a flood tide in the 19th and 20th centuries as the Qing government actively sponsored planned colonization of virgin lands in Jilin and Heilongjiang. The growing Chinese presence helped the Manchurian economy develop from primitive self-sufficiency to an important centre of international trade. The great Manchuria frontier was thus inexorably Sinicized by Chinese colonists: the non-Manchu Tungus tribesmen of the Ussuri and Amur valleys declined in number year after year, and the Manchu soon merged imperceptibly into the Chinese population.
Manchuria since c. 1900
In the closing decades of the 19th century, foreign powers, particularly Russia and Japan, began to eye Manchuria as a fruitful field for imperialist expansion. The conflict between Russia and Japan for the control of Manchuria first raged over the possession of the Liaodong Peninsula. As the prize of its victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95, Japan demanded from China the cession of the Liaodong Peninsula. But Russia, backed by France and Germany, compelled Japan to abandon this claim. By means of intrigue and intimidation, Russia then (in 1898) acquired from China a 25-year lease of the Liaodong Peninsula and the right to build a connecting railway from the ports of Dairen (Dalian) and Port Arthur (Lüshun) to the Chinese Eastern Railway. The clash of Russian and Japanese interests in Manchuria and Korea led to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. After its defeat, Russia ceded to Japan all its interests in southern Manchuria.
After the Chinese Revolution of 1911, Manchuria came under the nominal control of the local warlord Zhang Zuolin, who was forced to grant the Japanese vast concessions in the region in return for their tacit military support. The notorious Twenty-one Demands that Japan presented to China in 1915 compelled the Chinese to extend Japan's lease on the territory of Kwantung (Pinyin: Guandong; at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula) for 99 years and to grant the Japanese far-reaching civil and commercial privileges in Manchuria. During the Chinese civil war Japan exercised a controlling influence in south Manchuria with the support of its Kwantung Army.
The overambitious Zhang Zuolin ran afoul of the Japanese and was assassinated in 1928. His more patriotic son and successor, Zhang Xueliang, ignored Japanese warnings and decided to cast his lot with the Nationalist government in Nanjing. On Sept. 18, 1931, Japanese military forces attacked the Chinese barracks in the city of Shenyang, and by the next day the Japanese had occupied the city. The Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang) government in Nanjing chose not to resist the Japanese, as they were ill equipped to mount a full-scale war against Japan and their support base was weak. This response enabled the Japanese to occupy all of Manchuria within five months.
On March 9, 1932, the Japanese created the puppet state of Manchukuo (Pinyin: Manzhouguo) out of the three historical Manchurian provinces. The last Qing (Manchu) emperor, Puyi, was brought to Manchuria from his retirement in Tianjin and made "chief executive," and later emperor, of the new state. The Manchukuo government, though nominally in Chinese hands, was in fact rigidly controlled and supervised by the Japanese, who proceeded to transform Manchuria into an industrial and military base for Japan's expansion into Asia. The Japanese took over the direction, financing, and development of all the important Manchurian industries, with the fortunate result that by the end of World War II Manchuria was the most industrialized region in China. Manchuria was a land under Japanese colonial rule from 1932 to 1945. After the fall of Manchuria, many former Manchurian soldiers, aided by armed civilians, cooperated with the Chinese communist underground in organizing a vast anti-Japanese guerrilla movement.
At the Yalta Conference of February 1945, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin demanded the restoration of all former Russian rights and privileges in Manchuria as a price for Soviet entry into the Pacific war, an offer readily accepted by his fellow Allied heads of state. In May 1945, Soviet troops began to move from Europe to Asia. On August 8 the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria early on August 9. By August 15 the war was over, however. The next day the Manchukuo emperor Puyi was captured by the Russians. Having struck a good bargain for joining the war, the Soviets now plundered Manchuria as a conquered territory, systematically confiscating food, gold bullion, industrial machinery, and other stockpiles.
To the Nationalist government the political damage of the Soviet occupation of Manchuria was even greater than the economic ravages. Under the protection of the Soviet army, the underground Chinese communist guerrillas there united with communist forces from North China to form the United Democratic Army. Equipped with Japanese arms turned over to them by the Russians, the communist force occupied much of Manchuria. Nationalist progress in taking over the major Manchurian cities was slow. The United States, the major supplier of arms and equipment to the Nationalists, at first had discouraged the Nationalists from military intervention in Manchuria, opting instead to sponsor negotiations aimed at peacefully resolving the differences between the Nationalists and communists. These talks failed. By June 1946 the Nationalists had occupied Changchun, but by then the communists were well established in the countryside. Nearly 500,000 of the elite Nationalist troops found themselves surrounded by communists in Changchun, Shenyang, Jinzhou, and Yingkou. By the end of 1948 most Nationalist forces in Manchuria had been defeated—a prelude to the Nationalists' loss of the entire Chinese mainland to the communists in 1949.
The communist rehabilitation of the Manchurian economy began with land reform in 1946, and by the end of 1949 all the lands had been redistributed among the peasants. The power of the landlords was eliminated. Industrially, the initial task of the communists was to reconstruct industrial plants so that Manchuria could serve as a major base for the further industrialization of China. During the First Five-Year Plan of 1953–57, what is now called Northeast China received the bulk of Chinese industrial investment. Today it is still one of the industrial heartlands of China.
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Mary Chase, who is dressed like The Grinch, give a high-five to her daughter Maggie, 5, before the start of the Relay for Life walk Saturday at The Ranch. (Photo by Gabriel Christus)
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Brisco, a Belgian Malinois and K9 dog for Loveland Police, grabs hold of officer Stephen Marchio's safety clothing during a demonstration by K9 handler Greg Harris and Brisco with Marchio acting as the agitator or decoy. The demonstration aimed to show the abilities of the K9 dog and handler as well as the ability to respond to change response level based on the changing attitude of the agitator.
Cody Lloyd, 8, poses in his SWAT uniform with his handcuffs Thursday afternoon at the Loveland Police exhibit opening celebration held at the Loveland Museum Gallery Thursday afternoon.
Ivan Whitley, 7, tries on a swat tactical vest and helmet at the Loveland Police exhibit opening celebration held Thursday at the Loveland Museum Gallery. The celebration included K9 demonstrations, swat presentations, mounted police and vehicle tours.
Stan Matsunaka, left, presents Max Moree, 15, with the Eagle Scout of the Year Award on Wednesday at Sylvan Dale Ranch during a fundraising event for the Boy Scouts.
Former Colorado governor Bill Ritter, back, speaks during a fundraising event for the Boy Scouts on Wednesday afternoon at Sylvan Dale Ranch west of Loveland.
Author Becky Due poses for a photo with her sidekick Shorty Friday at her Loveland home.
Firefighters from Loveland Fire and Rescue and Berthoud Fire Protection District work the scene of a fire Tuesday evening south of Loveland at 255 S.W. 42nd St.
Water flows over the Big Thompson Diversion Dam on Tuesday afternoon in the Big Thompson Canyon west of Loveland.
Loveland resident Gary Batha photographs the Big Thompson River as it rushes past a fishing ramp along the river east of Estes Park on Tuesday afternoon. Batha said he had recently photographed at the same spot and that the water level was noticeably higher than the last time he was there.
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A crew member from the Necessity, captained by Marty Wong, reaches out as the boat heels over during the Carter Lake Sailing Club Open Regatta held Sunday at Carter Lake.
The Santana 20 class boat, PJ, sails with the wind during the Carter Lake Sailing Club Open Regatta Held Sunday at Carter Lake.
A crew member from the Mongoose, a Ultimate 20 class boat, lounges on the side during the races postponement for lack of wind Sunday at Carter Lake for the Carter Lake Sailing Club Open Regatta.
Competitors in the Carter Lake Sailing Club Open Regatta sail towards the finish line during the race held Sunday afternoon at Carter Lake. The Carter Lake Sailing Club was founded in 1954 and holds regular events for its members including biweekly member races that started in April.
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Tom Ruwitch, a race committee member, radios chase boats while the race is postponed in Carter Lake for the Carter Lake Sailing Club Open Regatta held Sunday. The Regatta is an event held by the club to allow all sailors, including non club members, the opportunity to participate in the race.
Juan Gomez, left, and Francisco Cazares paint the railing of a third floor balcony Thursday at Lincoln Place in downtown Loveland.
Nine-year-old Dawsyn Winchell, bottom, and his dad, Steve, cheer on the Colorado Ice football team during their game against the Allen Wranglers on Saturday evening at the Budweiser Events Center. The Winchells are from Cheyenne, Wyo. and Steve said their whole family enjoys attending the games together.


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Average auto insurance premium and expenditure rates rose by less than 1 percent in 2010 from the previous two years, with Louisiana and Washington D.C. holding the top spots for the most expensive states to insure a car, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' latest figures.
The NAIC released its 254 page "Auto Insurance Data Base Report 2009/2010" this week, its latest report on the auto insurance market, which shows average premiums and expenditures rose close to $6 nationally to $907.38.
Insurance Information Institute President and Chief Economist Robert Hartwig says that the figures underscore a general pattern in auto-insurance pricing.
Hartwig says that, heading into 2013, premium and expenditures will likely continue to increase for a number of reasons, such as insured losses from severe weather damage throughout the country, and consumers replacing older cars they held onto during the economic downturn.
"We don't expect to see radical changes in the numbers, but we do expect to see a general upward drift in the numbers," says Hartwig.


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Katie Rollins, from Charlotte, N.C., has signed to play basketball for the Lipscomb University Lady Bisons.
Rollins, a 6-foot-2 power forward, has played on four Class 3-A private school state championship teams over the past five seasons at Charlotte Christian School. She will be the eighth player from Charlotte Christian to play college basketball with one player at a Big Ten school and three at Atlantic Coast Conference schools.
As a junior she averaged 10.3 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. She also played for Team North Carolina which finished fourth in the AAU Junior Olympics.
"Katie has played with, and against, outstanding players at Charlotte Christian and on Team North Carolina in AAU," said Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett. "Katie can score with either hand around the basket, and has expanded her game to be a 3-point shooter.
"This experience will help her adapt to the college game. She has played on talented and balanced teams in the past, but she will have to step up and carry more of the load for her high school team this season."
Rollins was invited to attend the Adidas All-American Camp last summer. She also is rated as the 58th best power forward in the class of 2005 by Mike White of the All-Star Girls Report.
"Katie gives us good size and mobility," Bennett said. "She is a very hard worker. She is a great person, and will be a natural fit for our program."
Rollins plans to major in Bible, with plans to work in youth ministry or the mission field.


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Lewis State Forest
Size: 1,287 acres/521 ha. This area was purchased from the Chancery Court of Lewis County for delinquent taxes in 1933 and became a State Forest in 1936. It is on the Western Highland Rim in central-southwestern Tennessee, in Lewis County. There are no known cultural sites on the forest. There is a demonstration forest road, exemplifying the use of BMPs and appropriate engineering specifications. Other areas of the forest have served for past research studies. A small wetland occurs in the southwestern corner of the forest. Most of the land (97%) is in forest cover and the remainder is open land. This Forest is somewhat unique in the Tennessee State Forest system in that about 15% of the forested area is in the southern yellow pine type. Primary recreational use of the Forest is for hunting. All timber harvests include objectives for improving habitat for wildlife.
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Sheikh Yusuf Estes take shahadah from Gabriel Who Reverted To Islam (Very Emotional).
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Birst Enables Roll-Your-Own Business Intelligence
Birst, the business intelligence start-up that I first wrote about last fall, is back today with an interesting new capability that combines data that resides in the cloud or on-premise into a single customized view.
We've all seen how attention to the business intelligence sector is quickening. There are scads of new companies arguing that the information you need to give your business a new edge already exists, if only you have the tools to properly harness it. There may be patterns you're missing, or territories where you're selling better than you think you are, or customer segments that need more attention. And big established software and IT companies like Oracle and SAP and IBM are reemphasizing their own capabilities in the area, as well.
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