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ملخص المجريات الميدانية في اللاذقية جمعة "سلحونا بمضادات الطائرات" بتاريخ 10/08/2012
Daily report from Latakia on Friday 10 August 2012
Today and after some heavy security presence in areas and around mosques as well as inside squares, demos managed to take place after Friday prayers from Joud Mosque in Maisaloon Street, inside Houriyeh Mosque in Slaybeh, Beirqdar Mosque in Mashrou' al-Slaybeh, Muhajireen Mosque in al-Raml, and Mansoori Mosque in Jableh. A demo took place at night in al-Raml and another in Slaybeh.
A surveillance plane was seen flying over Brodan dam towards Ghnemiyeh, Mraij, and Salma early morning. Before that there were gunfire and rockets aimed at Kert, Saqiet al-Kert, and Mraij villages from Qasab area. Also gunfire was heard coming from Rasyoon villafe at Dfail and Bkas.
Shelling was renewed on the mountains after clashes that took place last night in Beit Ewan and al-Hilweh in Turkman Mountains as well as Ghnemiyeh in Kurds Mountains. That caused many fires to break in vast area in nearby mountains. And during the day other fires broke in Qantara Mountains and Beit-Malaq and Fronloq due to missile and more than 10 rockets falling on al-Khadra, al-Qantara, al-Soda, and Fronloq areas.
Later on shelling began with three rockets from Qasab base onto Salma area and then at night as well; many fell injured. Rabiah and Dorishan were also targeted by the shelling.
In Haffeh shelling hit Jengheel coming from bases in Zubar and Sharifa; most rockets fell into farms. All roads leading to Babanna and Jengheel were closed except for Khofalla road where a barrier was extracted disallowing anything from going inside the area including bread and food supplies.
According to the Media Center of Jabal al-Turkman brigade and after security and Shabbiha tried breaking into Beit Ewan the brigade resisted them, and Colonel Hatem Zraiq from Shabatlieh village got killed; he was the commander of Beit Ewan base that continuously shelled villages in Turkman Mountains for a month.
Maraij was targeted with sheling again tonight and its mosque was hit. Babanna and Jengheel were also shelled heavily and many houses were hit with rockets.
Rockets launched from Iramo last night fell near Shellef village injuring a defected policeman who was moved into Turkey for treatment. Light bombs were used in skies of Salma and Dourine while the area was fired at from Qasab and Iramo. Also, 4 rockets fell around Ikko village with no injuries reported.
Two were killed today when their car was targeted with a rocket in Salma; they both were not identifies as yet since their bodies are in a very bad shape.
Assad forces on Kfarieh barrier arrested Fayez Kamal Yaseen and Ramez Adeeb abdul-Wahab from Shirqaq village of Haffeh on Wednesday 8/8/2012. Last night security raided Tabousheh Café in Slaybeh arresting tow of its employees.
A new security barrier was placed Hutteen Club and another inside the Port near the mosque.
A big explosion was heard tonight in al-Izzi area in Jableh.
Below are videos of the day.
دفن شهداء مجزرة المريج 8-8-2012كتيبة المصطفى - سيارات الجيش الحر
احد شهداء مجزرة المريج 8-8-2012
اللاذقية جبل الاكراد لحظة سقوط الصاروخ مباشر على احد المنازل في سلمى
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جبل التركمان القاء القبض على عصام منلا موسى
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Nov. 13, 2009
Box Score | Photo Gallery | Quotes | Tournament Central
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The No. 11 Santa Clara women's soccer team needed an overtime goal in a lopsided match against Michigan State to advance in the NCAA Tournament this evening, but after nearly 30 shots the Broncos finally finished and booked their appearance in Sunday's second round with a 1-0 win.
The performance was dominating by Santa Clara, but the Bronco offense couldn't find the netting until the 92nd minute.
Santa Clara spent a majority of the first half on the attack. Kiki Bosio got off seven shots, four of which were on goal, and was the most threatening player on the field.
Michigan State got a chance early on when the Spartan midfield sprung Lauren Hill with a through-ball. Hill used her speed to push the ball past sophomore goalkeeper Bianca Henninger, but her angle to the goal diminished as her long touch rolled towards the sideline, allowing the Bronco defense to recover in time to gather her attempt back towards the middle of the field near the 18 yard mark.
Bosio had a flurry of five shots from the 10:41 mark to 23:01. Two of her shots were blocked and three were saved, including one team defensive save off the line.
It looked like Santa Clara took the lead in the 25th minute when junior Anessa Patton redirected junior Kendra Perry's shot with her head, but Patton was ruled offside and the goal was called back.
Henninger was not credited with a save in the half, but made several sliding stops on through balls to keep the ball out of danger and punched away one of Michigan State's corner kicks. The Broncos finished the half with an 11-0 advantage in shots.
Santa Clara kept the pressure on the Spartans in the second half, firing off 17 more shots. The Broncos nearly scored in the first minute of the half, but MSU goalie Jill Flietstra made a save on Katherine Reynolds shot and also saved the rebound that freshman Lauren Matheson fired back at her. Another rebound came back out and Kendra Perry put it back, hitting the post. The fourth rebound came to Jenny LaPonte, but LaPonte put it wide.
Santa Clara hardly let the ball into their own defensive end in the second 45, save for a few sequences, and the Spartans were able to get three shots off including one on a free kick. Henninger, like the first half, did not have to make a save, and at the regulation it was still scoreless.
It didn't take the Broncos long in overtime to end their frustrations though, as Patton sent Santa Clara into the second round after taking a through-ball from sophomore Jenny LaPonte and gracefully finishing it into the lower far-post corner for her sixth goal of the year. The goal marked the fifth overtime victory for the Broncos this season.
Santa Clara completed the game with 11 of their 29 shots on goal, while Michigan State finished with only three, none of which found the frame. Henninger earned her sixth shutout of the season as Santa Clara moves on to face Oklahoma State on Sunday at 4 p.m. at Buck Shaw Stadium. The Cowgirls upset No. 21 Southern California, winning a shootout duel 5-4 after the game went 0-0 after 110 minutes.


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2005 Women's Cross-Country Season Summary
Nov 11, 2005
The women's cross-country team was made up of all freshmen this year. They were led at the Skyline Championships by Karla Joseph with a 13th place finish, a 15th place finish from Shannon Tulloch, 19th from Ivory Elder and 30th from Rachael Osbourne. The team had their highest finish in 5th place at the Highlander Invitational.


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The point-of-sale payments market is begging for disruption. The more smartphones invade our pockets, the more we're all in pursuit of seamless transactions. Merchants and buyers both stand to gain, and perhaps the only looming issue is an abundance of competition.
It's a big, roomy space right now, and plenty of platforms are ready to give it a go – including Paydragon. Paydragon (available for iOS and Android) allows you to order from local food carts, pay via a card saved to the app, and then skip the line to pick up your food. Merchants are pinged when you place your order and use the Paydragon interface on their end to see how long customers have been waiting. You'll also receive a notification when your order is ready.
Paydragon was spun out of Paperlinks, the Y Combinator backed QR code startup that's been focused on advertising. But the desire to make sales happen is what drove CEO of both companies Hamilton Chan to create Paydragon. "Really, in the end it's about the transaction," Chan tells me.
"We switched from B2B to the B2C arena to focus on the transaction and give value to the customer," he says.
The payment app launched today but was introduced to a handful of merchants at SXSW – land of the food carts. "The number one feedback we got was that it was simple," says Chan. "We debated internally over whether it was too simple, but merchants loved the lack of complexity."
Paydragon is indeed minimalist – to say the least. Chan describes the app as "uber-streamlined," and with its limited tapping experience and visual aesthetic, he's right. Merchants can choose a total of six menu items to list. You tap to reveal big, bright photos, and hit pay. It's not only customers that benefit from this UI; in a demo Chan showed me the merchant-end of the software, which is also incredibly simple to use and understand.
While Paydragon is a fantastic, clean app and is at least initially targeting the increasingly tech-savvy food cart niche, I had to ask Chan about the competition. Square, Isis, Google Wallet, and PayPal are just a few of the systems out there making a play for merchant business and buyer loyalty – it's an industry facing some serious fragmentation.
"I think there will be consolidation in the market," he says. "It's still a wide open field, which is really exciting for startups to get into and apply their solution to. But there are advantages for consumers in having one solution." Chan says that users will start to commit eventually, based on the value for them in a platform's community – something Paydragon knows and is working on. "We don't want it [the social and game side] to be gimmicky. We want it to have real value." As it currently stands, you get Paydragon points when you use the app that translate into rewards.
This isn't the only feature in the pipes. Chan says Paydragon (currently available in LA and Austin, and launching next week in New York) will move beyond food. Through Paperlinks, Paydragon has connections with a number of big name product companies, like Neutrogena and Nestle, who are "dying to try out some kind of cool consumer solution."
One thing you shouldn't plan on seeing is order customization. Right now you get what you see: no "dressing on the side" or "hold the ketchup" caveats allowed. "I'm going to resist it for as long as I can," Chan says. He wants to keep the service an expressway for ordering and keep it clutter-free.
It's a good – albeit busy – time to get into mobile payments, and this simple stab at it seems to resonate with retailers and buyers well. "The difference between us and other alternatives is that with those you pay and then wait and line. With us, you skip it," says Chan. "We're disrupting the line."


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Last night against Michigan, Tennessee came all the way back from a 15-point deficit with 10 minutes left to be in a position to get jobbed in the final seconds. With 10 seconds left in the game, Tennessee trailed Michigan by only one, 72-71. That's when the Volunteers put the ball in Jarnell Stokes's hands for the possible game-winner and Michigan flopped into the Elite Eight.
It's hard to reduce a 40-minute game to one play or one call by the referees, but when it happens like this—at the end of a comeback, in the final seconds of the game, and obviously, um, "embellished"—it's fair to say that this play cost Tennessee an honest shot at winning the game. Stokes still has to make the basket, but at least he's got that chance, instead of effectively ending the game with the change of possession.
The worst part is, this was a great game. A Spike Albrecht layup gave the Wolverines a 15-point lead at 60-45 with 10:57 to go. Four minutes later, Tennessee had cut it down to 62-56 and then it was the Jordan McRae show. He scored 11 of his 24 points in the final six minutes and, combined with some costly Michigan turnovers, made the final seconds of this game truly exciting. As deflating as the last 10 seconds were, the preceding ten seconds were nuts. Michigan almost gave the whole game away.
Off a sloppy Michigan inbound, Glenn Robinson III's pass bounced off players and rolled halfway across the court before Stokes came up with the steal. He pushed the ball up the court for an eventual McRae layup that pulled Tennessee within one, with 13 seconds left. On the ensuing inbound, Michigan again turned it over when Caris LeVert stepped on the baseline. The Volunteers now had the ball with 10 seconds left and, after climbing back from down 15, found themselves in position to take the game-winner, maybe even a buzzer-beater.
Tennessee got the ball to the player and spot they wanted, and Stokes lowered his shoulder and drove to the basket. As soon as Jordan Morgan felt the contact, he let himself go and that was it. All that rising tension and the rug gets pulled out from under you.
It's just a lousy way to end a game. Tennessee fans are pissed because they feel they were robbed, Michigan fans can't bask in the win because everyone is talking about it as if it were a foregone conclusion that Tennessee wins but for the call, and the rest of us were deprived of the potential for another quintessentially insane Tournament finish. No one wins (except Michigan).


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Courts Losing Patience With Clearly Bogus Trademark Claims; Dismissing Them Early
from the good-for-them dept
In a case like this -- which we've seen all too often -- Devere Group got upset about what people were saying about them on PissedCustomer, and tried to pretend that was a trademark violation. Similar cases tend to get thrown out eventually, but what struck Goldman as interesting about this is that it got tossed out early over a lack of consumer confusion at the "motion to dismiss" stage. At that point, the court is supposed to assume that everything the plaintiff is saying is true (later stages of the case can explore if that's true). So, to throw out the case at this stage is really early. As Goldman notes:
Running through a truncated likelihood of consumer confusion mutli-factor analysis, the court says PissedConsumer isn't deVere's competitor, there's no chance PissedConsumer will "bridge the gap" to become a competitor, deVere didn't allege bad faith and deVere didn't allege actual consumer confusion. The court bypasses the remaining factors, something an appeals court probably won't do. Instead, the court says that judicial precedent has held that gripe sites don't create consumer confusion.Goldman notes that even if this is a good result (having a court dump an obviously bogus lawsuit at the earliest possible point), he expects an appeals court to overturn this for happening too early. However, in an update, he also highlights a few more cases pointed out by Rebecca Tushnet of courts doing something similar:
Rebecca sent some other recent examples of trademark claims failing on a motion to dismiss, including The Hangover II case, Forest River v. Heartland RV and Architectural Mailboxes v. Epoch.While it may be slightly procedurally questionable, I'm wondering if this shows that courts are very, very aware that companies are seeking to abuse trademark law these days and they're having none of it. Combined with some similar early dismissals in copyright trolling cases, and it seems like judges are showing little patience for companies trying to abuse IP laws to silence others.


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Capital WC needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 13 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Capital Weld Cleaners
We are a fabrication company and manufacture a product that is used by industrial fabricaiton companies that work with stainless steel. When stainless steel is welded the heat discolors the material and in order to return the stainless to its original nice finish that color has to be removed. Instead of the typical way of doing this by using abrasives and wire brushes our machine uses a cleaning solution and the machine instantly removes the color. This is an incredible time saver for fabrication shops and we get great feedback from our customers for the efficiency of the machine and cost savings.
We have had different marketing materials done for us in the past, but our graphic designer that we originally found from 99designs is no longer available. This contest is for a new brochure, but would also like to find someone that can do consistant work for us.
We sell our product to:
Custom metal fabrication shops.
Companies that manufacture components out of stainless.
Industries include:
food service
food processing
material handling
We are looking for a Bi-fold brochure that has basically the similar content as a postcard we have. Along with including the company logo, product picture and before-after pictures. I am including a recent magazine ad and would like the look to follow that with a red backround. The brochure size will be 4" wide and 8 1/2" tall. So the overall page blank will be 8" wide x 8 1/2" tall. On the inside fold would like the before and after pictures large and emphasized. Also want to emphasize the website.
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This is a game that I am making for fun. I want to at least get it to the prototype stage before I move. The game will feature the players home solar system being thrust by a unknown force through the galaxy. Your goal, protect your precious solar system at all costs, all the while being pulled towards some unknown force... This game will borrow gameplay mechanics from asteroids, tower defense, and space shoot em up arcade games. Use a arsenal of weapons(prototype game will only have a few), and your tractor beam to destroy/tractor asteroids, planets, suns, space phenomena and maybe even other life forms. Also use materials from destroyed planets and space junk to research shields and orbiting defense satellites for the planet. The prototype will feature most of these. As my goal is to have the prototype released in a couple months. Please leave positive constructive feedback only, I need the motivation to keep working on the game.
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|2012-11-10, 03:52
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I mean that thing is on the Moch 15 scale. It's really hard. If you use it then it's not going to regenerate because it's 'dead'. But that thing might turn out to be the best material they got in abundance for a mono molecular blade.
Just how pissed off would Leon be from that guy forfeiting the match just when he could have taken him out ? I mean would he like grab the pilot and demand an answer out of him when they got back to base ?
|2012-11-10, 04:17
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Yes,there is a lot of mohs 15 scale hardness stuff from the BETA.But to make a blade out of it,you have to DESTROY the structure of the material first,which is what making the stuff have a hardness of mohs 15 scale.
Also,for something that is meant to be very thin,you should make the blade that has a balance between hardness and flexibility.Too hard and it would snap ridiculously easily(especially a blade that is 15 meters long...)
A mono-molecular blade is just too expensive even for America,as well as being impractical because while the usual TSF melee halberds cannot cut Destroyer-class's armor or Grappler-class's...grapplers.it still can get the job done and that is to kill BETA,and your usual melee halberd is A LOT MORE EASIER for mass production
|2012-11-11, 11:54
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Well this is.....interesting.
From Muv Luv Alternative Chronicles
|2012-11-11, 12:41
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 32
*facepalms at list*
It's just me, but in a setting like this, any shout outs I made would involve verses with closer similarity and connection to OTL/Alt TL. Things like maybe the Aslam Foreign Legion, or Ace Combat squadrons.
Also the designations are a bit too all over the place.
Then again I'm a more down to earth guy; my squadron is No. 18 Skuadron, TUDM, callsign Lipan.
|2012-11-12, 01:46
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Today's specials are can of whoopass and you're doing it wrong.
Someone should start blaring "Boom Boom" by the Animals over the loudspeaker. I think Silva is going to start blowing shit up again.
|2012-11-12, 03:09
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The actual Japanese used is 帝国の軍属中等学校 i.e. a civilian middle school run by the Imperial army.
The schools are more militarized what with the big overhaul of the Fundamental Law of Education to focus on raising kids to someday be better soldiers (Marimo also mentions how military-related stuff has been integrated into the school curriculum), the Army runs schools, but they do go to school as civilians before actually joining the military as trainees.
All she's saying is that she was in a middle school run by the Imperial Army, and after that instead of joining the Imperial Army she went off to join the United Nations because the Army's attitude wasn't for her. That's quite different from actually having been a trainee in the Imperial Army itself, which is the subject matter we discussed.
And with that said, next time just take a moment first and think for a bit before uncorking the champagne.
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|2012-11-12, 04:40
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No no, let him continue, DR. I'm finding observing Hagoshod's state of mind - which is a brick wall, from what I see - to be mildly interesting.
In the way that watching someone driving into oncoming traffic is mildly interesting.
Actually, note that he's doing any aspiring writers in this thread a favor: showing them how not to do things.
Irony of ironies? If he'd just used Bioware's artistic integrity argument, I doubt he'd be mocked so much. Just stating, "I acknowledge that this is not how things are as per canon; nevertheless this is my vision and I'm sticking to it," would have engendered more respect that these insulting little tantrums. (Btw, Hagoshod, resorting to insults weakens your position. Just FYI.)
Also, to repeat an analogy that I quite like (having created it myself XP): At the begining of Total Eclipse, Yui and her friends are like a glass that's half full of water. As they progress in their training, sake is added to that water. The glass is perhaps not completly filled, but it is now sake-infused water, and there is no way you can get the sake out and revert that glass back to the original state.
Yuuko wants half full glasses of water to which she may add Fortified Orange Juice. 207 are all those half full glasses of water, and A-01's serving pilots are all full glasses of water mixed with Fortified Orange Juice. Izumi is an almost full glass of watered sake.
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|2012-11-12, 17:49
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I don't think there's any point in trying to continue this old argument further, honestly. You're not saying anything you haven't already said a long time ago, and moving on the offensive is just unnecessarily dragging things out.
I say just sit back and let things be what they are. It's not like that would really affect you or me in any concrete way. Let's just discuss fanfics.
|2012-11-14, 08:59
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Ok one off fanfic take place at the training grounds where Marimo is consoling a certain bratty savior ... Just a about soldier class was going chomp .... Que in bgm
Spoiler for Time Alter:
This gun wielding magician ride a Harely , shoot crap load of bullets at Soldier Beta
Takeru & Marimo"What the hell ? "
Emiya Kiritsugu " Just nobody passing by ...." Looks at the bratty savior " You're one of those summoned "Heroes" form another world ...Stand up ... Gather your courage and resolve ... find your strength
BTW I forgot mention brought along a certain magical girl hat has unlimited gun works and Blue hair Abnormal that pilots a Vertical one man tank for offense & maneuver
Spoiler for Broke thought the 4th wall:
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|2012-11-14, 17:41
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oh its from votoms. It somehow remind me of a zaku. I only watched 2 ova of votoms and not entirely familiar with it.
I haven't watched Getter Robo Go. From my childhood the robots I watched are kinda like raijin oh and the other one who the title escapes me but has 3 child hero pilots on it or voltron . Those type of shows. I never liked the likes of voltez v but mazinger is badass.
|2012-11-16, 10:41
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Takao Tsundere Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Classified
Who knows? Maybe there will be a Yuuya x Leon doujin in the future. The tension between those two just screams to be release......
Anyway, I added Muv Luv Comet at the Muv Luv fanfic recommendation page and will be making it's own TVTropes page soon.
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Democrat Patrick Breaux defeated Republican Justin Kershaw by garnering 83% of the vote (64 votes) to 13% of the vote (13 votes).
Turkey Creek Police Chief Proposition
The people of Turkey Creek voted down the proposition that would have allowed the Mayor of Turkey Creek, with the approval of the Turkey Creek Village Council, to bed authorized to appoint a marshal who is the Chief of Police for the Turkey Creek. It was rejected by a 73% No vote (64 votes). Only 24 votes were casted in favor of the proposal.
School Board, District 4
Democrat Thomas Jolivet defeated Democrat Zebulon "Zeb" Simon by garnering 63% of the votes (253 votes) to 37% of the vote (149 votes).
Sales Tax District No. 1 Proposition (Sales Tax) AND Iberia Parish Levee, Hurricane and Conservation District Proposition (5-Millage Property Tax)
The people voted down two tax proposals that would have helped to fund a 26-mile levee to hold back storm surges in the parish. The taxes, if approved, were expected to generate around $7 million dollars each year for the levee project. The total cost of the project was expected to be around $420 million.
The Sales Tax District No. 1 Proposition (Sales Tax) was defeated 53% (1,961 No votes) to 47% (1,754 Yes votes).
The Iberia Parish Levee, Hurricane and Conservation District Proposition (5-Millage Property Tax) was rejected by an incredibly narrow margin, only 8 votes. 1,868 people voted against the proposal, while 1,856 people voted for it.
Jennings Mayor
Democrat Terry Duhon defeated Democrat Marcus Peterson by garnering 56% of the vote (1,014 votes) to 44% of the vote (800 votes).
Grand Coteau Mayor
Democrat Virginia Pierre defeated Democrat Shaterral "Terra" Johnson by garnering 72% of the vote (260 votes) to 28% of the vote (103 votes).
Gueydan Board of Alderman, At-large
No Party candidate Marilyn Campbell defeated Republican Angela "Angie" Touchet by garnering 55% of the vote (111 votes) to 45% of the vote (91 votes).


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This Middle Atlantic WRK Series 19" Gangable Enclosure WRK-44-27-LRD is a fully welded steel rack with 44U capacity with a generous overall width of 24-1/4" for easy passage of cables. Its steel frame and 1/8" thick laser-cut structural-steel internal braces provide a weight capacity of up to 2,500 lb. This enclosure is also seismic certified to protect up to 1,000 lb. of essential equipment when used in conjunction with WRK-Z4 brackets.
This rack comes standard with (2) extra-wide pairs of 11-gauge threaded 10-32 rackrails with EIA spacing, labeled rackspace increments, and cable pass-through openings in the face. The top and the bottom of the rack feature 14-gauge steel, while the sides are made of 16-gauge seamless steel. Electrical knockouts on rear plates (both top and bottom) can easily be removed to pass cables (includes 1/2", 3/4", 1" and 1-1/2" openings). The configurable open top also includes a UHF/VHF knockout, as well as an opening for a wireless antenna.
This enclosure is gangable, allowing you to expand your system at will by adding additional cabinets. Customization is a snap with practical accessories to meet your exact needs, such as a vented Plexiglas front door. Please note, this model does not include the key-locked solid rear door that comes standard with other versions of this rack. This rack is UL Listed in the U.S. and Canada.
|Welded steel frame and 1/8" thick structural-steel internal braces
|Black powder-coat finish
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Useable Depth 25-3/4"
Capacity 77-1/8" (44U)
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2500 lb
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8:30 am
Katie Brown Workshop "Who Needs A Wedding Planner?" Katie's ideas for invitations and one-flower arrangements and recipes for quiche cups with shrimp, chicken pinwheels and polenta sandwiches will help keep a wedding day simple. D
9:00 am
Christina "Eating Well for Life" If you think it's a diet, you'll fail. But if you think of eating well for life, it becomes a part of how you live and who you are. Eating well is required for your body to function at its best. D
9:30 am
The Jazzy Vegetarian "Pasta with Pizazz!" Host Laura Theodore prepares pasta favorites starting with easy "Peanut Noodles." Next, "Penne with Garbanzo Beans and Broccoli Rabe" prepares quickly, but is packed with zingy flavor. A surprise choice for noodles is showcased in "Pea and White Bean Puttanesca," followed by "Arugula, Artichoke, and Tomato Pasta" which features a no-cook sauce, making it a breeze to prepare for a summertime meal. D
10:00 am
Christina "Italian Light" Think you can't lose weight and enjoy an Italian feast? Sophia Loren famously said she owed her great looks to pasta and olive oil. The natural deliciousness of Italian cuisine can help you achieve the body of your dreams with its great balance of carbs, protein and fat. And with delicious dishes like Penne fra Diavolo, dieting has never been so yummy. D
10:30 am
The Jazzy Vegetarian "Lunch Bunch" Host Laura Theodore prepares lunch, starting with simple "Four-Ingredient Leek Soup." A trio of main dish salads include: tantalizing "Avocado and Black Bean Confetti Salad," tasty "Fancy Chickpea Salad" and satisfying "Quinoa Tabbouleh," served with crusty bread on the side. We'll finish our lunch with a refreshing and elegant "Banana Raspberry Sorbet. D
11:00 am
In Search of the Novel "Who Owns The Novel?" This workshop probes the living nature of the novel by illustrating how each reader makes a novel his or her own. It shows how the interpretation of a novel can change, depending on the reader's culture, class, generation, gender, and personality. D
12:00 pm
Primary Sources: Workshops In American History "Disease and History: Typhoid Mary and the Search For Perfect Control" This workshop looks at the history of infectious disease in America, particularly typhoid, diphtheria, and polio, and their "conquest" by medical research and public health regulation. With the aid of contemporary medical journal articles and New York City health records, the onscreen participants investigate the medical and civil liberties issues exemplified by the case of "Typhoid Mary" Mallon. Facing off as either Board of Health officials or friends of Mary Mallon, workshop participants debate the typhoid carrier's fate.G
1:00 pm
Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives "Session 13. Genetically Modified Organisms" While genetic modification of organisms has occurred for millennia, we now have the tools to insert specific genes from one organism into cells of unrelated species. This session illustrates the processes used and how such genetically transformed organisms are increasingly common in agriculture, industry, and medicine, and introduces the ethical considerations of GMO research. D
1:30 pm
Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives "Session 1. Genomics" Having determined the complete DNA nucleotide sequence of humans and several other organisms, today. D
2:00 pm
Critical Issues In School Reform "Reflecting On Teaching Practice: Student Work, Teacher Work, and Standards, Part 1 Math" A tenth-grade math teacher from San Bruno, California, presents a sample of student work from her classroom to a group of teachers, administrators, and a facilitator. The group uses a "tuning protocol" to examine this work, give the teacher feedback, and discuss its implications for her teaching practice. D
3:00 pm
Critical Issues In School Reform "Reflecting On Teaching Practice: Student Work and Teacher Work, Part II Science" A fourth-grade teacher from Worcester, Massachusetts, shares a sample of work from her science classroom with a group of teachers and administrators in a facilitated "consultancy" that focuses on a question posed by the teacher about the student work and her teaching practice.G
3:30 pm
Critical Issues In School Reform "Stories of Public Engagement: Patrick O'hearn School" A Boston elementary school has enhanced student success through close cooperation with families. D
4:00 pm
Hands On Crafts for Kids "My Workspace" This episode features crafts to fix up your workspace -whether it's the kitchen table or a desk in your room - make the supplies you use every day. We begin with a recycled portfolio with monster clips. Next, there's no excuse for having a mess on your desk with a great organizer made from old CD's. D
4:30 pm
Hey Kids, Let's Cook "Breakfast for Mom" Whether it's Mother's Day, your mom's birthday, or just simply just because she's special, you should set your alarm, ask your dad to meet you in the kitchen at 6:00 A.m., and go for it! Make your mom that special breakfast and take it to her before she gets up! And today we're going to learn how to make scones, a delicious bread brought to us from the English and Scottish. And we'll serve it up with an omelet, and fresh fruit. D
5:00 pm
Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way "Smooth Food" Daughter Claudine joins Jacques in the kitchen. He uses local blue cheese for mini savory cheesecakes on arugula, and makes tapioca banana coconut pudding.G
5:30 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Cool and Creamy Desserts" Host Christopher Kimball visits Toscanini's to learn the secrets behind professional ice-cream making. Next, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Chris how to make the Best Homemade Ice Cream. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his pick for the top ice-cream makers, and tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of vanilla beans. D
6:00 pm
Cuisine Culture "Arnaud Lallement, Reims, France" Reims is the capital of Champagne, and it's also where the culinary adventure begins in chef Arnaud Lallement's Two-Star Michelin restaurant, L'Assiette Champenoise. Lallement demonstrates how to grill langoustines, braise lamb and make an explosive dessert, a Raspberry Vacheron. Sweets await in one of the world's oldest cookie-making factories. D
6:30 pm
Pati's Mexican Table "Lip-Smacking Mexican Meal" By adding a few key Mexican ingredients to what you'd normally find in an all-American pantry and fridge, you get these to-die-for, lip-smacking dishes. Chicken a la Trash; Everyday Green Salad; Impossible Chocoflan. D
7:00 pm
Ask This Old House "Restoring Terrazzo Floors/Repairing a Cracked Floor Joist" Host Kevin O'Connor heads to Del Ray Beach, Florida, to restore terrazzo floors. Then, Kevin, along with landscape contractor Roger Cook, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and general contractor Tom Silva, asks, "What Is It?" Afterward, Tom helps a homeowner repair a cracked floor joist. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Vienna and the Danube" Rick takes in the city's wealth of elegant gardens, great art and fine music. He travels along the Danube River and hikes through the Baroque Melk Abbey.G
8:00 pm
Equitrekking "Spain" Equitrekking host Darley Newman rides at Cortijo El Esparragal, an estate and working farm outside of Seville that dates back to the Bronze Age. On prize-winning Andalusians, Darley learns the purpose and history of the Spanish Vaquera style of riding. Next, she enjoys a sunset ride outside of Segovia and visits the castles and Roman aqueducts in this central region. D
8:30 pm
Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way "Smooth Food" Daughter Claudine joins Jacques in the kitchen. He uses local blue cheese for mini savory cheesecakes on arugula, and makes tapioca banana coconut pudding.G
9:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Cool and Creamy Desserts" Host Christopher Kimball visits Toscanini's to learn the secrets behind professional ice-cream making. Next, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Chris how to make the Best Homemade Ice Cream. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his pick for the top ice-cream makers, and tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of vanilla beans. D
9:30 pm
Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "From Lobster to Chocolate Clams: A Delicious Feast in Magdalena Bay" Rick and local guide Luis Garduno of REDTours venture out on a skiff to learn about sustainable fishing on Magdalena Bay. They catch up with local lobster fishermen and learn about sizing lobsters. Then they watch as clam divers haul up the local chocolate clams from the bottom of the bay. D
10:00 pm
Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "Decadent Organic Dairy" On a visit to an Oregon organic dairy, Caprial and John come across products that lend amazing flavor and aroma to their creations: mushroom dip with truffle oil, basil sour cream dressing and grilled lamb chops with cumin yogurt sauce.G
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Vienna and the Danube" Rick takes in the city's wealth of elegant gardens, great art and fine music. He travels along the Danube River and hikes through the Baroque Melk Abbey.G
11:00 pm
Theater Talk "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" The Mystery of Edwin Drood's lyricist/librettist Rupert Holmes and star player Will Chase discuss the current and highly successful revival of Holmes' 1985 musical mystery on Broadway. In this show, based on Charles Dickens' last, unfinished novel, the audience is assigned the task of picking the murderer, because although Dickens laid out the case in the novel, he died before revealing the killer's identity. D
11:30 pm
Closer to Truth "Asking Ultimate Questions" I like pushing boundaries, trying to discern existence, searching the foundations of reality, knowing all that can be known. Overly ambitious? Sophomoric? I don't care. I do it anyway. D


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I attended an interesting workshop about digital ethics, given by Katie Davis, a youth and digital media scholar based at Harvard Project Zero. I am always searching for digital citizenship resources that acknowledge the positives of student use of social media and don't try to scare the pants off of kids. Katie presented a very interesting perspective and posed some great questions for discussion with students. Her work is part of the Good Work Project, where you can find an extensive unit for use with High School students. I'm hoping to work some of this into my curriculum next year.
I struggle with fitting this kind of instruction into our school day. We don't have a computer class built into our schedule. How are you teaching digital ethics? Do you have any good resources to share?


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Saturday, 28 May 2011
Puccini - Il Tabarro & Gianni Schicchi
Giacomo Puccini - Il Tabarro & Gianni Schicchi
English Touring Opera
Michael Rosewell, James Conway. Liam Steel, Simon Thorpe, Julie Unwin, Charne Rochford, Richard Mosley-Evans, Paula Sides, Clarissa Meek, Ashley Catling, Andrew Glover, Jacqueline Varsey
Grand Opera House, Belfast - May 26, 2011
Right up to the end of his career, Puccini never allowed himself to be constrained by the limitations of traditional opera subjects or indeed the limitations of the verismo school - even though he often used literature for a source, Puccini would also draw from popular theatre and tackle contemporary subjects. Latter Puccini, for example, takes in the clash of tradition and modernity in Madama Butterfly, while La Fanciulla del West, set in the American Wild West, also sees the composer acknowledging the influence of Wagner and a new approach to musical composition for drama. His last completed work (Turandot was finished and produced posthumously), Il Trittico (1918), being composed of three short one-act operas – Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi – is in many ways a summary and consolidation of his work and themes across a range of subjects, as well as a further extension of what is possible within the operatic medium.
While there are benefits in seeing all three parts of Il Trittico performed one after another for the rich thematic and musical journey that they cover as a complementary set, each of the one-act operas stands alone, and each have very different themes and musical treatments and they are more commonly performed either a duo or singly in conjunction with another one-act opera by a different composer. All of these are valid ways of performing the operas, and it's often in such double-bills that certain different qualities are highlighted. The English Touring Opera's Spring 2011 programme pairs two of the operas from Il Trittico – Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi – that present an interesting contrast in styles, but which together demonstrate the range and ability of Puccini at the end of his career.
Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is based on a play by Didier Gold, 'La houpperlande', that Puccini saw in Paris in 1913. Set in the docklands on the banks of the Seine at the outskirts of Paris, there are certain similarities with Puccini's other wonderful Parisian opera La Bohème in the opening scenes, where the crew of Michele and Giorgetta's barge celebrate the unloading of their cargo with a drink and some dancing, disguising the fact temporarily that the times are hard and that tough decisions need to be made about how to continue. Set against the poverty of their situation, Frugola the wife of one of the crew Talpa who is to be laid off, still has dreams of owning a cottage in the country, while Giorgetta would love to just settle down in Paris. It's a dream that is shared by another of the crew Luigi, who has been having a secret affair with Giorgetta. The loss of their young baby, the sense of a family that Michele would wrap within his cloak, has created a distance between the husband and wife, but also stirred dark passions.
Il Tabarro has all the elements for a romantic melodrama that is to end in violence and tragedy, but what is remarkable about the piece is that, even compressing its story into under an hour, it never manipulates the emotions quite in the same way as La Bohème, nor does it overstate through sweeping strings and overwrought arias. The Wagner influence is there in that the drama is allowed to flow without stopping for interludes, conventional arias or extraneous detail, but it's still pure Puccini in terms of melody. While still adhering to the dramatic plot, Puccini is still able to capture the colour and flavour of Paris in the musical character, which does recall La Bohème, not least in a cheeky reference to Mimi. Even that however – the coming of spring, the hope of a new beginning – is pertinent to the drama. The touches are smaller, more subtle – a lighted candle, a lover's encounter above – but masterfully arranged and orchestrated so that they have all the impact of a full-scale opera without the overstatement.
The English Touring Opera's set design and direction by James Conway was similarly subtle but fully effective, evoking mood, using two levels to show the world on the docks and hints of the world above that reflects and contrasts the situation of the barge owner and his crew. It kept the focus fixed on the relationship between the characters within this intense and highly concentrated drama with gripping performances from the main cast, Simon Thorpe a dark imposing Michele, Julie Unwin a beautifully toned Giorgetta and Charne Rocheford a passionate Luigi, although his voice was occasionally overwhelmed by the orchestra.
Gianni Schicchi was inspired by a figure who appears in Dante's Inferno, whose sin was to "dress himself up as Buoso Donati" to "draw up and sign his will". Here, Puccini depicts him as a lawyer that the odious Donati family, faking their tears at the deathbed of the recently deceased old man Buoso Donati and angry that he has left all his wealth and property to the monastery at Signa, have engaged to find a loophole that will "correct" the mistake and give them what they believe is their due. Since no-one else is yet aware that the old man has died, Schicchi disguises himself as Buoso Donati and dictates a new will that does indeed reallocate the wealth to the family, but also bequests himself the choicest properties.
Even though there are few even lighthearted moments to be found in any of Puccini's work – I can't think of anything outside of a few moments in Act 1 and Act 2 of La Bohème – the composer takes to Gianni Schicchi with a terrific sense of its comic potential and evident black humour. Right from the start of the piece, Puccini puts the sobs of the Donati family to music in a manner that indicates that they are fake and, well, to be laughed at, and his compositions are just as inventive and sprightly elsewhere. Again, Puccini takes full advantage of the format – one would imagine that a comic piece of this type would soon tire very quickly in full-length opera. Certainly, the bel canto composers show that farce can be done at greater length – Don Pasquale, The Barber of Seville and Le Comte D'Ory come to mind as comedies that remain fizzingly entertaining throughout, but Puccini does so within his own musical idiom, while continuing to be ever inventive at propelling the action and the comedy forward.
The staging of the opera by the ETO was simply dazzling in its hilarity, playing-up the full comic potential of the short opera with additional slapstick elements that were perfectly in keeping with the musical and comic timing of the piece. All of characters were grotesque caricatures with pansticked white faces and crooked eyebrows, every gesture was measured and pronounced, but all of it serving to heighten the comedy. As a rather large ensemble piece working within the relatively confined space of a bedroom, everything was nonetheless choreographed to perfection under Liam Steel's direction. At any given time there would be something funny going on in every corner – although the upper level, to where Schicchi's innocent daughter Lauretta was banished during all the devious scheming, didn't feel quite as appropriate here as when it was used for Il Tabarro. It's Lauretta who gets the most notable aria in Gianni Schicchi ("O mio babbino caro"), admirably delivered by Paula Sides, and although it's also worth noting Richard Mosley-Evans' fine performance as the lawyer Schicchi himself, every one of the cast acquitted themselves marvellously.
The performances of Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi at the Grand Opera House in Belfast were the final shows of the English Touring Opera Spring tour. The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden however will be staging performances of all three operas in a new production of Puccini's Il Trittico from September 2011.


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If you have ever arrived home looking for affection and found a partner hunched over a laptop, or if you've been tracked down after hours by a boss who controls your smartphone and your life, then you might find the premise of "Maple and Vine" very enticing. In this new play by Jordan Harrison — a hit at the Humana Festival in Louisville earlier this year and now in a Chicago-area premiere at the Next Theatre of Evanston — a pair of stressed-out urban professionals decide to pack it all in and go back to the 1950s.
Thankfully, this does not involve time travel. Rather, the burned-out New Yorkers Katha (who is in publishing) and Ryu (a plastic surgeon) merely take advantage of an invitation to join a voluntary community in some unspecified Midwest locale where all of the residents act like it's always 1955. There's a lot of smoking and drinking — although the vodka must be Smirnoff rather than Grey Goose. The women tend house and volunteer. The men come home at 5 p.m. to a cooked meal on the table. There are neither computers nor synthetic fabrics. Conversation is prized, as are party games. People both judge and take care of each other.
Harrison's premise doesn't cover all the bases. For example, it's never quite clear how this community, which apparently has its own factories and infrastructure, interacts economically with the outside world and still keeps its own rule. But his notions hold together well enough to sustain a couple of mostly humorous hours in the theater. It's not that far-fetched, really. If you've been to actual neo-urban communities like Seaside, Fla., you'll have seen the same nostalgic impulse for narrower streets, broader sidewalks and a more enveloping sense of community, albeit with convenient wi-fi. It's just that the characters in Harrison's world take period authenticity a good deal further. Since Ryu (played by Peter Sipla) is of Asian descent, the other residents force themselves to stare at him in the supermarket, or maybe offer a few unsolicited comments about the quality of his English or drop a few lines about how much they, too, like Chinese food. Just like it would have been in 1955.
The play is as its best when it makes you really think about whether everything in the modern world represents progress. Is the bleed of work into personal time really a good thing? Don't you wish you could call up a corporation and have a conversation with a real person? Wouldn't you like to better know your neighbors? Your kids? When "Maple and Vine" hits those sensitive areas, it achieves real resonance. When it's poking fun at the 1950s lifestyles and prejudices — a very familiar motif — it feels slighter.
Much the same could be said of Damon Kiely's mostly successful production. Molly Glynn, who plays Katha (or, in the less pretentious 1950s, Kathy), forges a character whom you genuinely feel needs to get out of the modern Manhattan rat race. You buy why she goes — although not so much why her husband goes with her. The ambassadors from the 1950s, played by Larry Grimm and Jenny Avery, are not, in the early scenes, quite as persuasive, or as credible, or as counter-intuitive as they should be. It's very easy for this show to get cute — and there are times at Next when the 1950s reality crosses into mere archetype, which works against the truth of the premise. When it feels like real people are trying to flailing around looking for happiness in either era — plus ca change, you might say — the piece really has some potency.
For the most part, "Maple and Vine," which is a very clever and entertaining piece of new writing, bops along very intriguingly and will surely spark post-show conversation and, maybe, even a few useful adjustments. The production does not come with sufficient visual coherence — some of the boundaries of this imaginary world are confusing, and an intrusive set of moving screens sometimes threatens to swallow the whole affair. But the acting is often very good. The consistently excellent Glynn rings true throughout. And as his character approaches a personal crisis, Grimm strikes a very clever balance between role playing and devastation. Avery has her late-in the-play moments, too, as does Paul D'Addario, who plays a resident of the 1955 whose personal desires keeps him outside in the park, rather than with his own place at a more enlightened table.
As Harrison clearly intends us to realize, striving for simplicity and community is a lot more complicated than just going back in time.
When: Through Dec. 4
Where: Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., Evanston
Running time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Tickets: $25-$40 at 847-475-1875 or nexttheatre.org


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The Tribeca Film Festival has opened in a spirit of brotherly love - both on the screen and in thoughts for the people of Boston.
Actor, writer and producer Richard Belzer began by dedicating this year's festival, the 12th annual, to Boston following Monday's deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon.
Tribeca is no stranger to such horror - it was founded by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal after the September 11 terror attacks as a way to revitalise downtown Manhattan.
"Tonight, we're all Bostonians," said Belzer at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
Belzer, De Niro and Rosenthal together introduced the festival's opening night attraction, the documentary Mistaken for Strangers. It was made by Tom Berninger, brother of the lead singer of the Brooklyn indie rock band The National, Matt Berninger.
Though an amateur filmmaker, Tom Berninger filmed his experience as a roadie on tour with his older brother's band. He described his work as "a small, little, lo-fi thing" in his brief remarks before the film played.
But the humble Mistaken for Strangers delighted the star-studded Tribeca crowd in its comic, warm portrait of a brotherhood divided by fame.
The younger, somewhat slovenly and unorganised Berninger cuts a very different figure to his older, intense and brooding brother. More of a "metal head", he joins The National on tour in Europe looking to party like a rock star, only to find his brother's band is more, as he says, "coffee house" than all-night bar.
The film chronicles the siblings' relationship, particularly showing Tom Berninger as the uncertain, lesser-accomplished underdog between the two.
It's less of a behind-the-scenes documentary than a quirky, oddly moving film about the making of a film. In the opening scene, Matt Berninger chastises his brother's silly, Chris Farley-like interview questions: "Do you have any organisation and plan for this film?"
Following the screening, The National performed at an after-party at New York nightclub The Highland Ballroom.
It's not the first time Tribeca has begun with a concert and documentary pairing. In 2011, the festival opened with Elton John performing after Cameron Crowe's music documentary The Union.
Tribeca runs until April 28.


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In view of the recent events Russia has strengthened control in sphere of foreign trade with Turkey.
Below you will find an overview of effective measures as well as possible sanctions to be introduced.
1. Customs control
According to confidential information, the Federal Customs Service has distributed among Russian customs authorities risk profiles in respect of goods delivered from Turkey and goods originating from Turkey. Practically, 100% of such goods are to be controlled by the customs authorities.
The following additional control measures are applied:
- customs examination of 100% of the goods;
- visual inspection/weighing/customs control with a mobile inspection complex;
- sample collection;
- expert review of goods;
- confirmation of the declared customs value.
In addition, the customs authorities require original certificates of origin and will carry out an expert review of these documents.
As the customs control of the declared customs value and classification code is being exercised, the goods are released subject to security of payment of customs duties and taxes.
2. Other control measures
The Federal Service on Surveillance for Consumer Rights Protection and Welfare ("Rospotrebnadzor") has classified clothes (including baby clothes) and household chemicals originating from Turkey as "high risk" products. The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance ("Rosselkhoznadzor") has strengthened control over food products originating from Turkey.
The claims of Rospotrebnadzor and Rosselkhoznadzor are based on the non-compliance of goods with the Russian safety and quality regulations.
3. Possible economic sanctions
Federal Law No. 281-FZ dated 30 December 2006 " On Special Economic Measures" allows the imposition of special economic measures in response to an internationally wrongful act or un-friendly actions of a foreign state or its agencies and officials.
On 28 November 2015 Vladimir Putin signed the Decree " On the Measures to Ensure Homeland Security of the Russian Federation and Protection of Russian Citizens Against Abusive and Other Illegal Actions and on Applying Special Economic Measures Against the Republic of Turkey".
The measures provided by the Decree include:
- Banning cross-border transactions involving those products originating from Turkey that are specified in the list (the list is to be approved by the Government).
- Banning operations of some Turkish organisations (the list is to be approved by the Government).
- Banning employment of Turkish employees from 1 January 2016 (save for the employers from the list approved by the Government).
- Suspending visa-free entry from 1 January 2016.
- Recommending tourist agencies to avoid sending tourists to Turkey.
- Banning charters.
Some additional steps can be taken at the subordinate legislation level. Thus, these matters should be carefully monitored.
If there are any questions related to shipments to the Russian Federation through Turkey, it is necessary to analyze restructuring logistics channels, including using the opportunities provided by the Customs Union, however the risks should be carefully considered as the matter is not unambiguous.


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Embassy Suites Hotel - Fort Lauderdale
This Fort Lauderdale hotel is located on the 17th Street Causeway and is "within walking distance" of over 40 restaurants, bars, cafe'sand shops, just a short walk to the Intracoastal Waterway, 5 blocks from a Water Taxi stop, less than a mile from the Port Everglades cruise-ship terminal, and 2.1 miles from the Ft. Lauderdale Airport. The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention Center is 0.6 mile from the hotel. Its proximity to these local attractions makes the Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale the perfect location for both business and leisure travelers. Embassy Suites - Ft. Lauderdale on the17th Street Causeway features our famous complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast and a daily Manager's Reception with beverages and snacks. This all-suite hotel features the E Spot Restaurant "serving comfortable food at comfortable prices" in a chic, fun atmosphere for lunch and dinner. Wireless Internet access is available (surcharge) or guests can check e-mail at a complimentary Internet kiosk in the lobby or in our complimentary Business Center located just off the hotel lobby. A large outdoor pool with waterfall and an adjacent spa tub are on site. A fitness center offers weights, cardiovascular equipment, and city views. Apartment-style accommodations provide separate living and sleeping areas. Balconies offer views of the city or the Intracoastal Waterway. Living rooms have queen sofa beds, easy chairs, and dining sets. Kitchenettes are equipped with sinks, microwaves, refrigerators, and coffee/tea makers. All suites have 2 TVs with HBO, pay movies, and video games (surcharge). Complimentary weekday newspapers are also provided and are available at the Front Desk.


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After spending almost 12 years as a mom, I have come to the conclusion that nearly all parenting struggles boil down to one core problem: Kids have minds of their own. Who knew?! Thinking thoughts for themselves, exercising free will all over the place. Wanting things we don't want for them, doing the opposite of what we need them to do. The nerve of these ungrateful creatures!
Just kidding -- mostly. Obviously we gave birth to babies, not robots. We didn't have kids just to order them around. But the fact of the matter is, sometimes we really do need them to listen/behave/do as they're told, etc. Particularly in scenarios involving oncoming traffic ("I told you not to play near the street!"), possible infectious disease transfer ("Wash your hands!"), dental hygiene ("Brush! Now!"), education ("Time for homework!"), and so on and so forth.
But because they lack our perspective on such matters, kids often see no reason to comply, and because parents are desperate, we often resort to bribery. But guess what? Even if you think those dangling carrots are getting the job done, they're not. Study after study has shown that bribes simply don't work in the long-term -- take the reward away, and the desired behavior will go with it! Whaddya mean, no stickers?! What's in it for me?
So what are we supposed to do instead? Get down on our knees and beg them to clean their rooms? Stoop to using threats and punishment? Only if you want your kid to become either a spineless doormat or a rebel without a cause:
"Human beings have only two reactions to control," said Daniel Pink, best-selling author of Drive, a review of over 40 years in research on what motivates human behavior. "They comply or they defy. I don't think most parents want compliant children, and I don't think they want defiant children. They want children who are active, engaged and motivated by deeper things."
And who brush their teeth willingly, I might add. (At this rate I feel like I'll be calling my kids at college every night nagging them to brush and floss.) I don't know if such human beings can actually be raised up from the natural born dictators most children seem to be, but here are a few expert tips on how to get good behavior without bribing, begging, or bullying:
1. Avoid using words like "should," "must," or "have to" -- these make kids feel like they're being pushed around.
2. Offer praise instead of rewards.
3. If you do give rewards, make them spontaneous and after the fact -- don't promise them ahead of time, wait until you "catch your kid being good."
4. Try to make things fun. Put dance music on when it's time for your kid to clean his room. Make a funny "thinking cap" to wear while doing homework. Whatever it takes.
Do you bribe your kids?
Image via Lars Plougmann/Flickr


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The Bisons will celebrate their 10th season in NCAA Division I with some of the highest expectations in the history of the program.
Conference coaches selected the Bisons to tie with Jacksonville for first place in the Atlantic Sun regular season. They also chose the Bisons to win the conference championship, which would give the Bisons their first ever NCAA berth.
"Back in 2006-2007 we were picked to win the league and the prediction was correct," said Sanderson. "That's a great thing. "I've said many times that polls are just the opinions of other people. But other teams look at you differently. Other teams prepare a little bit differently for you knowing that you have a chance to be one of the better teams in the league. "
Sanderson told his team that he is certain of one thing at this stage of preseason. There are 10 other teams working as hard as they can to win the conference championship.
"They are all in their offices and on their floors in practice trying to decide how to pull the pieces they have together to give them the best chance to win it all at the end of four or five months," said Sanderson. "I don't care whether a team is picked first or last. Right now, everybody likes the pieces they have on their team.
"You can't sit there and be concerned with the pieces you have. You have to figure out how to play together and have the best chance to compete night-in and night-out to win a championship."
One of the main areas of concern for the Bisons is the point guard position. Johnny Lee, a transfer from George Washington University; freshman Zach Brown and red-shirt freshman Jacob Arnett are all candidates to fill the role.
"We have to have a solid point guard," said Sanderson. "With the team we have coming back and the things we can do on both ends of the floor the point guard doesn't have to be great. The point guard has to be a low-mistake guy who can take care of the basketball. He has to be able to distribute the basketball to the guys in positions to where they can score and be the most successful.
"He doesn't have to score 20 points a game. He just has to take care of the ball and be solid for us defensively. With our team the point guard has to get the ball down deep in the paint to Adnan Hodzic. He has to get the ball to Michael Teller or Jordan Burgason on a penetrating pitch where they can shoot open threes. He has to give the other players on the team the chance to be successful by the decisions he makes coming down the floor."
All three players have plusses and minuses when their styles of play are evaluated.
"Johnny Lee is an older kid who has been around for awhile," said Sanderson. "He has a little more experience but it is his first year in our program.
"Zach Brown is a true freshman. He is very, very smart. He has a very good understanding of the game. He picks things up extremely quick. He shoots the ball extremely well. He is a good decision maker. But he has never played a college game."
Sanderson compares Arnett to guard Michael Lusk, who finished his eligibility with the team last season.
"Jacob Arnett will play the wing, but he is like Lusk. He is a different type of point guard. He is stronger and more physical than the other two. He is a pretty good defender, probably a little better than the other two.
"But can he think the position? I don't know."
The point guard this season will be running an offense that plans to pick up its tempo from last season.
"We have so many guys who can shoot the ball and Adnan down in the low post," said Sanderson. "I would like to see a few more possessions in the game. I think that would play into our hands.
"I'm not talking about playing wild. But if we can get up and down the floor and hit more cheap baskets I really feel like we can more the needle in a hurry. We have some drivers. We have some shooters. We have some low post guys."
At the No. 2 guard position junior Josh Slater has the inside track. He averaged 11 points, 3.2 assists and 4.7 rebounds last season.
"What separates Josh from a lot of guys is his will to win," said Sanderson. "That's a great thing, but sometimes it gets in his way.
"If he gets even with you he can take you to the rack and finish the play. He can pull up and shoot the mid-range jumper. He has continued to work on shooting the three."
Sophomore guard Jordan Burgason had 11 3-point field goals in the last four games of the year, but has to improve on defense.
"Jordan can really shoot the basketball," said Sanderson. "There is no substitute for guys who can shoot it deep and knows how to get open.
"He will also chase down three or four rebounds a game. He has many assets."
Freshman guard Brandon Barnes is a new addition to the team who is still in the process of learning the system.
"He will, in time, be a very good one-on-one defender," said Sanderson. "He can also really drive the ball to the basket and finish."
Perimeter mix is solid
Michael Teller, Brandon Brown, Brian Wright and Justin Glenn will provide help as scorers, rebounders and defenders with each possessing different skill sets.
"Brandon is a great slasher and rebounder," said Sanderson. "He has improved his shooting. He has a great feel for rebounding the ball off of the back board.
"He will chase loose balls down and chase long rebounds down. He has a knack of rebounding the ball."
Glenn, a redshirt sophomore, should provide solid depth after transferring from Centenary.
"Justin is 6-foot-9 and can play alongside Adnan. He can block shots. He is an excellent passer."
On the perimeter Wright, sophomore forward, provides a perfect offensive complement to Hodzic.
"Brian is a typical No. 4-man for me," said Sanderson. "He can guard several positions. He can really shoot the basketball. He made the All-Freshman team last season. If he becomes a better rebounder he has the chance to be an all-league performer for us.
"He benefits a lot by Adnan being in the low post. The other team is going to have to help defend Adnan, and if that happens, Brian is going to shoot the three. If Brian gets the ball he is going to jam it inside to Adnan. "
Teller, junior forward, is known for his shooting ability, but there is more to his game.
"Michael does not make a lot of mistakes," said Sanderson. "He does not turn the ball over very much. He knows how to get open for a shot.
"He can get you five or six rebounds a game. He is not a great one-on-one defender, but he is a very good team defender. If he is not guarding the ball he knows where to be defensively."
Matt Shaw, a redshirt freshman, still has a learning curve.
"Matt is still learning our system," said Sanderson. "He still needs to know where to be in the right spot defensively. He is an unknown as to what he can and can't do."
Hodzic is the center of the attack
Sanderson is expecting his team to provide a balanced offensive attack, but there is no denying the centerpiece of the team is going to be Hodzic.
Hodzic was selected a preseason Atlantic Sun All-Conference team member. In the first few days of practice he is already making his presence known to his teammates.
"Whatever team he is on in practice has the tendency to play a little bit better," said Sanderson. "He is always a guy you can dump the ball down to on a play."
Hodzic was fifth overall In the Atlantic Sun Conference last season in scoring with 17.1 points per game. He was fourth in scoring in A-Sun games only with 18.5 points per game. He was second overall in field goal percentage with a 58.7 success rate from the field. He was third in A-Sun games only hitting 60.4 percent from t he field.
Sanderson expects even more offensive production from Hodzic this season.
"He is learning angles in the low post," said Sanderson. "He is playing with his back to the basket. He shot 74.4 from the free throw line and he is going to the line a lot.
"As the season went on and we started winning so many games in a row he cut down his turnovers. We benefited from that. The last half of the season we averaged 10 more points a game than we did the first half because we cut down on our turnovers and got a few more quality shots."
The biggest asset for Hodzic might be is willingness to work hard and his ability to not only listen to what the coaches have to say, but to perform what they ask him to try.
"Adnan is very passionate about trying to get better," said Sanderson. "He had a very good offseason. "He wants to win. He wants to learn. He is zoned in on what you are saying. When you have a guy like that with his ability then you have someone with a chance to be very special for us."
The Bisons led the conference overall with a 47.2 field goal percentage and a 3-point shot percentage of 36.3.
Sanderson is also expecting the Bisons to once again be one of the top rebounding teams in the conference. They led the Atlantic Sun overall with a 6.6 rebounding margin.
"We hope we will be an excellent rebounding team again," said Sanderson. "We have several players who can give you five –to-eight rebounds a game on any given night."
Hodzic led the team with 7.1 rebounds per game followed by Brandon Brown with 5.8 and Teller with 5.0 per game.
Despite his average per game, Sanderson points to rebounding as the primary way Hodzic is going to take his game to a higher level this season.
"He will play 28-to-30 minutes a game," said Sanderson. "He has to get on rebound at least every three-or-four minutes. If he does that he is going to get eight, nine or 10 rebounds instead of six or seven. That's a big difference.
"He has to have a nose for the ball, but at the same time he has to understand his value to our team. We can't afford to him to get silly fouls during the game because he is tired. He has to be very, very smart and to be smart he has to be in great condition."
Backing up Hodzic in the low post will be freshman Milos Kleut.
"Milos is learning," said Sanderson. "He is getting better. He is another guy who is totally zoned in to what we are talking about.
"He is eager to learn. Most people who are eager to learn and passionate to learn are going to be successful."


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Dollar General (NYSE:DG) revealed a stronger-than-expected 21% leap in third-quarter profits on Tuesday but the discount retailer's full-year guidance trailed Wall Street's expectations.
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Shares of Dollar General dropped about 2% as traders focused more on the company's narrowed outlook than its slight earnings beat.
Dollar General said it earned $208 million, or 62 cents a share, last quarter, compared with a profit of $171 million, or 50 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding one-time items, it earned 63 cents a share, topping consensus calls from analysts by 3 cents.
Revenue jumped 10% to $3.96 billion, matching the Street's view. Same-store sales increased 4%, but gross margins dipped to 30.9% from 31%.
"Dollar General delivered another solid quarter, and we expect to continue building on our strong track record of success," CEO Rick Dreiling said in a statement.
With the fiscal cliff looming and consumer sentiment slumping, Dollar General narrowed its 2012 non-GAAP EPS view to $2.82 to $2.85, which is below estimates from analysts for $2.86. Previously management saw non-GAAP EPS of $2.77 to $2.85.
Total sales are seen rising 8% to 8.5%, but same-store sales growth is expected to range between 4.5% and 5%.
"Although our performance over the Thanksgiving weekend and start of the holiday season has been encouraging, we continue to be cautious for the remainder of the year," Dreiling said.
Specifically, Dreiling pointed to tough year-earlier comparisons, "growing near-term pressures impacting our consumers' confidence and spending, and a challenging competitive environment."
Wall Street punished Dollar General for the cautious outlook, driving its shares down 2.19% to $45.55 in premarket trading. The stock has gained about 13% so far this year.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said its Japanese suitor SoftBank Corp granted it a waiver allowing it to consider a $25.5 billion rival bid by Dish Network Corp, as pressure mounts on SoftBank to sweeten its offer for the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier.
Sprint said its recommendation in favor of the SoftBank agreement had not changed, although some major Sprint shareholders including Paulson & Co and Omega Advisors have publicly said the Dish offer looks better than SoftBank's deal.
SoftBank, which agreed last October to pay $20.1 billion for a 70 percent stake in Sprint, said it was confident its bid would prevail. It also announced in a separate filing on Tuesday that it would issue 400 billion yen ($3.9 billion) in bonds in June, the largest issuance ever by a non-financial Japanese company, to help pay for the Sprint deal.
Softbank President Masayoshi Son and Dish's billionaire founder Charlie Ergen are fighting a public battle for control of Sprint after Dish offered to trump the Japanese firm's bid last month.
Son traveled to the United States this month to sell his offer to Sprint shareholders.
The waiver from SoftBank on various provisions of their merger agreement, filed in New York on Monday, permits Sprint and its representatives to furnish Dish with non-public information and to engage in negotiations on Dish's offer.
On April 30, SoftBank waived some terms of its Sprint agreement so Sprint could seek more info from Dish but said at the time that the waiver did not allow Sprint to disclose non-public information or to negotiate with Dish.
SoftBank had come under pressure to grant the waivers and to consider improving its bid with some major Sprint shareholders continuing to show support for Dish's offer.
Sprint said on Monday it "has not determined that the Dish proposal in fact constitutes a superior offer under the existing merger agreement (with SoftBank)." It added that there could be no assurance the Dish proposal would ultimately lead to a superior offer. Sprint has set a shareholder meeting for June 12 to vote on the SoftBank proposal.
Dish said it welcomed the waiver, which will allow full due diligence with Sprint. "We remain confident that this process will confirm the superiority of our proposal," Dish's Ergen said in a statement.
Dish is working with Barclays Plc, Macquarie Group, Jefferies and the Royal Bank of Canada to help finance around $9 billion in debt needed for its offer.
SoftBank's Son has said Dish would cripple Sprint with debt and is ill-prepared to run a wireless service. Son ruled out raising its bid for Sprint earlier this month.
The Japanese company raised $3.3 billion last month in a dual-tranche bond issued in dollars and euros to help fund the planned Sprint acquisition. It also issued 300 billion yen in bonds to retail investors in March.
SoftBank said on Monday it remained committed to completing its transaction on the terms previously disclosed and expected the deal to close on July 1 or as soon as possible thereafter.
SoftBank shares fell 3.3 percent to 5,880 yen in Tuesday afternoon trade, compared with a 0.1 percent fall in Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei. Its shares have more than doubled since news emerged of its bid for Sprint, compared with the Nikkei's 80 percent rise.
($1 = 102.4650 Japanese yen)
Additional reporting by Chris Peters and Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore, Ben Berkowitz in New York and Naoyuki Katayama in Tokyo; Editing by Stephen Coates and Edmund Klamann


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South Georgia Island [1] is a sub-Antarctic island administered by the United Kingdom as part of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It is located 1390 km southeast of the Falkland Islands and 2150 km from South America. It is the home of vast numbers of birds and marine life, but its remote location and lack of access makes it a rare destination for tourists.
Get in
There are no airstrips on the island, so aside from an occasional overflight from a military aircraft, which do not land, the only access to the island is by boat. Most tourists arrive on icebreakers and other large vessels as a part of a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula, although a handful of smaller boats also brave the rough passage to the island. Whether on a small or large boat, even the crustiest old seaman should expect to become seasick during the crossing and should bring appropriate medications.
Companies that can help to arrange travel to the islands include:
This island is a paradise for wildlife lovers, with literally millions and millions of animals going about their lives with little concern for the handful of humans that occasionally appear. The destinations below are listed geographically from northwest to southeast.
Willis Island
Located at the extreme northwest tip of the island, Willis Island is accessible only by a difficult and mildly dangerous landing onto a rocky cliff, followed by a steep ascent over rock and through tussocks. The island is home to massive numbers of black-browed, grey-headed and light-mantled sooty albatross, as well as macaroni penguins.
Bird Island
Bird Island is currently closed to all tourism and operates as a research area for the British Antarctic Survey. Birds on the island include wandering albatross, giant petrels, and numerous other species.
Elsehul is a small harbor which is nearly impossible to land in during December and January due to the vast numbers of grumpy fur seals that overrun the beaches. During other times of the year it is home to elephant seals, gentoo penguins, king penguins, sheathbills, and grey-headed albatross.
Right Whale Bay
Right Whale Bay lies on the northwestern portion of the island and is often a first stop for cruise ships. Elephant seals and a small colony of king penguins monopolize the area from September through November, after which thousands of fur seals take over the beach through February.
Salisbury Plain
Another enormous king penguin rookery, Salisbury Plain is also home to vast numbers of penguins and seals.
Albatross Island
Albatross Island is home to limited numbers of wandering albatross, which is among the largest and most threatened birds in the world. As of 2005 the island has been closed to tourists.
Prion Island
Prion Island is another home to the wandering albatross. Half of the island remains open to tourism, although several restrictions have been put in place to protect the birds. A boardwalk is being built on the island to make access easier and also to protect the fragile vegetation on the island.
A former whaling station, Grytviken is now the center of what limited government exists on the island. Most ships are met by a government representative who explains any rules and collects a per-passenger fee. There is a museum that explains island history, and the British Antarctic Survery maintains across from the station at King Edward Point. Grytviken is also the burial place of Ernest Shackleton, the famous Antarctic explorer.
St. Andrew's Bay
Some people believe that St. Andrew's Bay holds more density of wildlife than any other place on earth, and a first view of the massive king penguin colony and seal rookery makes this claim hard to doubt. St. Andrew's Bay is a sight that causes disbelief with hundreds of thousands of king penguins filling every available inch of space, and thousands of elephant seals and fur seals occupying the sands along the water. The sights, sounds, and smells of this bay will not soon be forgotten.
Cooper Bay
Visitors to Cooper Bay arrive to see one of the islands most accessible macaroni penguin colonies.
Drygalski Fjord
Drygalski is a steep-walled fjord that surprisingly contains a small rookery of Weddell seals, animals normally only found in Antarctica. Numerous glaciers and spectacular scenery make this a common destination for island visitors.
Unless permitted as an expedition, no food is allowed to be taken ashore due to strict biosecurity protocols. Fishing and hunting on the island is prohibited.
Any overnight stay on the island requires a permit costing £1000, so nearly all visitors to the island sleep on their boat.
Mail can be sent from Grytviken, and is picked up approximately every two weeks. The only other means of communicating with the outside world is via satellite phone, which most boats make available for between $2 and $5 per minute. There is no publicly available internet access.