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Written by Beverly Nation, President of Hollywood Branding & Entertainment Nation
After a decade of focus on national movie theater advertising and promotions we expanded our services to include product placement in movies. Our goal is to provide a full service script-to-screen marketing plan.
We manage these elements for our brand clients:
- High value product placement/integration during the production of a movie
- Branded movie theater premiere when the film opens
- Cinema spots and experiential lobby activations on-site at the movie theaters
- Branded VIP events at the theater before or after the film screening
When our agency began researching product placement we found it like the "wild wild West". The industry had no standards, consistency, or template to follow. Placement fees were all over the board. Some studios even admitted they had no idea how to price placement in their film.
So we created a proprietary system to determine ROI based on the history of the studio, film franchise, producer, director, actors, distribution channel, and more. Based on empirical data we can project the anticipated value of product placement/brand integration in a new film, music video, or other entertainment content. In 2013 our focus is exclusively on productions that will deliver at least a 1000% (one thousand) ROI.
Beyond films we also source television shows and new music videos for brands. We have had the pleasure of working with Royal Purple Synthetic Oil for several years on different entertainment projects and national movie theater promotions.
For this case study we analyzed Royal Purple's integration in the Sean Paul music video "She Doesn't Mind."
After the music video launched we began tracking audience numbers and plugging them into our formula. The ROI results were amazing. After only 21 days, the ROI was 1047.50%.
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Bob Blake receives OPA Life Member Award for outstanding contributions to pharmacy
The Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA) announced that C. Robert Blake, R.Ph. of West Union, Ohio is recipient of a Life Member Award for distinguished and long term service to pharmacy and to OPA. This award, which was presented at the OPA 140th Annual Conference April 20-22 in Columbus.
Bob Blake led the Ohio Pharmacists Association as President 1986-1987, and went on to serve as president of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).
A graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, Bob purchased Blake Pharmacy in West Union in 1961. His pharmacy is recognized for its excellent care for patients, as well as its historical soda fountain, which is still operational. He has mentored many pharmacists in his years as an independent owner.
Bob also has been very politically active, both on a local and national scale. He as attended nearly every NCPA Legislative Conference in Washington, leading pharmacists as they approached Ohio legislators on Capitol Hill. He is still a recognized pharmacist among political leaders.
"It is an easy task to recognize the outstanding contributions to pharmacy of Bob Blake. His dedication to the profession is evident through his many years of involvement with OPA, NCPA, and the University of Cincinnati, as well as his advocacy for the profession of pharmacy," said Ernest Boyd, OPA Executive Director.
OPA, established in 1879, represents more than 4,000 pharmacists, pharmacy educators, and pharmacy students throughout the state. It is OPA's mission to unite the profession of pharmacy and encourage interprofessional relations, while promoting public health through education, discussion, and legislation.

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The rise of cloud accounting for the past few years has been evident especially amongst Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in the country. The advantage of being able to save time and money because your data is stored "in the cloud", which means you don't need to buy, upgrade or maintain a physical server, can be considered as one of the reasons why business owners prefer this service.
Cloud accounting is the way of the future and the technology utilized by some of the big brands like QuickBooks, Xero, and MYOB will continue to evolve. If you are thinking of making the switch, here are the 3 reasons why you need cloud-based accounting software:
1. Real-time Information with Multiple Employee Access
Online accounting lets you stay connected to your data anytime, anywhere and from any device as long as you are wired to the internet. This also enables accountants to keep in touch with financial information because the software offers multiple user access with the discretion of the business owner. This avoids convoluted procedures at the end of the year and both of you can work on the company's finances at the same time.
2. It's Safer
One of the biggest concerns raised regarding cloud accounting is data security. A lot of business owners are skeptical about storing their data offsite. However, this digital ecosystem provides its users a highly secure facility that uses standard bank encryption which is unreadable to hackers and is automatically backed up on your behalf. This is a lot safer than manually syncing your files server-to-server in case an incident happens to your building overnight.
3. You Can Work Smarter
The flexibility of cloud accounting is it allows you to run your business on the go. You have an up-to-date picture of how your company is doing. This lets you make wiser decisions to develop a competitive edge in the market. You also don't need to worry about installing the latest version of the software because updates are developed faster so new features are automatically delivered to you.


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Are you ready for the fastest-growing tech conference in North America? Now in its fifth year, Collision Conference has become a crossroads for the world's largest buyers and sellers of technology. This year, the event will welcome over 25,000 attendees on May 20-23 at Enercare Center, Toronto.
Collision brings tech professionals from around the world under one roof. From startups to established global brands, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from leaders and innovators from a variety of organizations in the digital space and beyond. Collision's workshops are a great way to run in conjunction with our partners, learning skills from experts working at the largest companies in the world. More than that,you can make your voice heard with a more intimate discussion at one of our curated roundtables. Led by top speakers, investors and industry leaders, roundtables are the ideal setting for a deep dive into a specific topic.
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Being the brand-name for Isoxsuprine, Vasodilan is a vasodilator that helps to relax and dilate certain blood vessels so they can accommodate more blood and facilitate flow of the blood to the different parts of the body they are attached to. Vasodilan also contains other inactive components apart from isoxsuprine.
Medical Uses
Vasodilan is used to increase blood flow to certain areas of the body that are affected by insufficient blood flow. The inadequate flow of blood happens due to certain blood vessel diseases called as Buerger's disease, cerebral vascular insufficiency, raynaud disease and arteriosclerosis obliterans. So, by widening the blood vessels and maintaining a safe Blood Pressure, Vasodilan helps to treat these conditions.
As a secondary effect, Vasodilan can also decrease numbness, cold or tingling sensation. The medication is also available in two different formulations which are brand and generic versions.
Dosage and Administration
Vasodilan is taken orally. It is available for use as compresses tablets in the dosage strengths of 10 mg and 20 mg. Depending on the severity of the condition being treated three or four doses may be required in a day. Follow the dosage instructions provided by the medical practitioner.
Vasodilan must be taken with or without food and can be consumed with water. Check the information leaflet to know the exact usage of the medicine.
If you forget to take Vasodilan you can take it as soon as you remember.
Do not take Vasodilan if it is time for your next dose. This will lead to an overdose. The medicine comes in two different dosage strengths which are 10 to 20 mg. It can be taken three to four times a day.
Vasodilan must be used regularly to gain substantial benefit from it. But the medicine must not be used by people who suffer from bleeding of arteries and women who are in labor or women who have just given birth.
Side Effects
Like all prescription medications, Vasodilan also has some side effects and hence it needs to be used with care. Since the medicine is used in small quantities no common side effects have been reported so far. But it does have some severe side effects that only occur on a rare basis. The severe side effects of Vasodilan are allergic reactions, pain in the chest, heartbeat that is irregular and severe dizziness. Since the medicine has a potential for causing dizziness heavy machinery must not be operated.
Interactions with other drugs
There are no known interactions of this medicine. However, before you start your course on Vasodilan, it is better to check with a health care facilitator and inform him about all the medications that you are currently consuming. This averts all the health risks. A doctor usually analyzes your body condition, age and medications you take and only then prescribe a suitable medicine for you.


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What's New At Lexington Women's Care
Lexington Women's Care has provided comprehensive women's health services – from routine care to specialized treatment and surgery – for more than 40 years. And now the practice has even more to offer its patients.
On September 18, Lexington Women's Care West Columbia moved into its new office in Lexington Medical Park 3 on the hospital's main campus. The practice, located in Suite 300, features four labs, four ultrasound rooms, education and Centering™ rooms, and two procedure rooms. Suite 300 occupies the entire third floor of Lexington Medical Park 3.
Lexington Women's Care is also growing to meet the needs of patients throughout the Midlands. Sandhills Women's Care joined the physicians, nurse practitioners and midwives at Lexington Women's Care as Lexington Women's Care Sandhills on September 18. Douglas M. Addy, MD, FACOG; Jully A.F. Aguirre, MD; Thomas C. Austin, MD, FACOG; Crystal Y. Johnson, MD, FACOG; and Jennifer B. Linfert, MD, FACOG, will continue to care for their patients at the practice's Northeast Columbia office and will relocate their West Columbia office to Lexington Women's Care West Columbia.
"The quality and personalized care Lexington Women's Care has provided for more than 40 years is now more accessible throughout our community," said James E. Estes, MD, an OB/GYN at Lexington Women's Care West Columbia.
Lexington Women's Care also welcomed two physicians. Andrea Garrick, MD, joined the practice in August. She will care for patients at Lexington Women's Care West Columbia and Lexington Women's Care Lexington. The practice welcomed Bert Hutchinson III, MD, to Lexington Women's Care West Columbia on September 18. He has provided comprehensive obstetric and gynecologic care to women in the Midlands for more than 30 years. He previously practiced at River Bluff GYN.
"Our doctors share the same philosophy on the best ways to deliver quality, consistent care that is tailored to each patient's needs," said Dr. Estes.
With Lexington Women's Care West Columbia moving to its new location in Lexington Medical Park 3 and the additions of Lexington Women's Care Sandhills, Dr. Garrick and Dr. Hutchinson, the practice can continue to provide customized care for women throughout the Midlands for years to come.
For more information about Lexington Women's Care services or to find a location, visit LexingtonWomensCare.com.
Lexington Women's Care West Columbia
Lexington Medical Park 3
155 North Hospital Drive, Suite 300
West Columbia, SC 29169
Lexington Women's Care Irmo
1 Wellness Blvd., Suite 203
Irmo, SC 29063
Lexington Women's Care Lexington
Lexington Medical Center Lexington
811 West Main Street, Suite 209
Lexington, SC 29072
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Michael Johnson and Justin Gaethje will fight in Las Vegas in a week to close up this season of The Ultimate Fighter. The two exchanged barbs at the UFC's summer press conference, and Gaethje revealed himself to be perhaps not the best shit-talker. Thursday, Johnson went at Gaethje and called him the product of incest.
"Did your mom have sex with her brother to have you, or was it her cousin or something?" Johnson asked.
"When I break you, we'll see," is a strange retort, but okay.


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With the deadline for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime roll-out less than six months away, the government has decided to utilise the services of professional training institutes for imparting training to trade bodies and other stakeholders, it was announced on Friday.
"As GST is proposed to be rolled out by April 1, 2017, it is important to plan training on GST for trade and other stakeholders. Considering the scale of the task, it has been decided to involve professional training institutes of repute in this process," the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) said in a statement here.
The National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN), the apex indirect tax training institute of the government, has invited expression of interest (EOI) from professional institutes to be classified as approved training partners (ATPs) for imparting training on GST to the industry.
The institutes should have experience in fiscal and indirect tax training, CBDT said.
The last date for receipt of EOIs is October 20.
The government has said it will also be training 60,000 indirect tax officials of the Centre and states before the deadline for GST implementation.
President Pranab Mukherjee on September 8 accorded assent to the Constitution Amendment Bill on GST.


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Ordered in 1967, laid down in 1968, launched in 1972 and commissioned in 1975, USS Nimitz is the lead ship of a class of 10 aircraft carriers in the United States Navy. They form the backbone of American naval power in the world.
The ships in the class will be replaced by the Gerald R Ford class. Current plans call for the navy to retire the Nimitz between 2025 and 2027.
The video documents part of the recent repair and refurbishment of the Nimitz at the naval shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. It highlights refurbishment of the rudder, catapult, and anchors and chain as well as the fabrication and installation of new sponsons on the hull.


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Research Article - Journal of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Research (2017) Volume 2, Issue 1
Domestic violence in multiple sclerosis: Barrier to neurorehabilitation.
According to the World Health Organization violence is one of the main factors that contribute to death, disease and disability. The Mexican National Survey on Violence reported that up to 33% of health care users experience abuse from their current partner. In 2012, the American Academy of Neurology underscored that patients with neurologic disabilities are more vulnerable to abuse or neglect Multiple sclerosis (MS), is a chronic disabling disease with an unpredictable course that affects young adults, frequently disrupting their social, occupational and family areas of functioning. The type of disabilities that persons with MS (PwMS) exhibit make them more susceptible for physical, psychological and sexual abuse from diverse perpetuators: family members and partners to society in general. Comprehensive neurorehabilitation programs need to be implemented.Author(s): Sanchez-Guzman Maria Alejandra, Paz-RodrĂguez Francisco, Trujillo De Los Santos Zoila, Espinola-Nadurille Mariana


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"Hi, my name is Solarious, and I am addicted to cheese."
Why does cheese have to taste so good? And why is it in every processed food on the planet? Even the "healthy" foods are dusted with sharp, yummy cheeses to bring out their gourmet flavors. Of all the things I'm attempting to give up after reading that book, cheese manages to creep back in with scary regularity. Sometimes, it's a slice here or a sprinkle there, but as often as not, I'm not even particularly aware of it until I've already eaten. Ever try to find an economic frozen dinner without meat? Even brands like Healthy Choices and Lean Cuisine basically only offer meat dishes. Add cheese to the list, and you've just blackballed yourself from the freezer section. And though I'm sure that awesome cheese alternatives exist (someone keeps telling me great things about some walnut "cheese"), I haven't yet discovered them.
So it's time to rethink the paradigm. Sure, processed cheeses are bad, but like any other food, the homemade variety should be more healthy and fulfilling, right? While I attempt to figure out what yummy types of "cheeze" alternatives exist out there (please, share!), I found this great tutorial on making hard cheeses to try out. He's got a PhD in chemistry – so I figure he's got the cheese making thing down, too. Of course, he recommends starting with the beginning cheese making tutorial, and indeed, there's a lot of great information and recipe/tutorials to get you started. There's even a link to a DIY cheese press for all you super handy types. Here's another great site, sorted by type of cheese, with lots of recipes.
Cheese and yogurt making are great projects to try with kids, too. There are a lot of projects that can be completed in a day. It teaches them about long-term care and food making all at once, while teaching proper food handling safety. And of course, getting to eat the spoils of your devotion is always a great motivator!


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Why doesn't Britain make things any more? Aditya Chakrabortty has written an article for the Guardian on what he calls the "de-industrial revolution." The article can be read here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/16/why-britain-doesnt-make-things-manufacturing.
De-industrialisation is an issue which most of the mainstream media has decided it is impolite to discuss, so I was interested to read what he had to say. I was particularly interested since I live in south-west Wales, a region which has been repeatedly visited by the de-industrial wrecking ball. My hometown of Llanelli was involved in iron production since the late eighteenth century, then tinplate and steel, and the surrounding area was the edge of the anthracite coalfield, with coal being dug from the seventeenth century onwards. That is, until 1989 when the last local pit, Cynheidre, closed. Shipping had already gone, as had metal production, with the closure of the last steelworks in 1981. The steelworkers were the first to feel the impact of Thatcherism: they lost a 13-week strike in 1980 and paid the price with thousands of jobs.
Llanelli, like Swansea to the east, displays all the symptoms of de-industrialisation: high unemployment, collapse of infrastructure, visible evidence of homelessness, widespread social problems with alcohol and hard drugs (the council is currently applying for an order to make street drinking illegal), low-level crime, a general air of decay and collapse exacerbated by the relocation of the big chain stores to a nearby retail park away from an increasingly crumbling, boarded-up town centre. Yet, surprisingly for a town which used to have both a strong work ethic and a powerful Nonconformist presence, public discourse about the impact of deindustrialisation has been non-existent.
The town has seemed to all intents and purposes to be in denial about what happened to it. Like an abused child, it has internalised the trauma, blaming itself. When last year a series of TV fly-on-the wall documentaries, although flawed, at least attempted to describe in public the town's serious heroin problem, there was an outcry in the local paper the Llanelli Star and elsewhere. "Did these people want to drive away investors or something?" was the cry. So all serious attempts to describe the ripple effects of deindustrialisation and to identify the problems are themselves closed off before they even get started.
Carmarthenshire county council talk as if the tokenism of building a Travel Lodge and a multiplex in the town centre are major steps towards correcting the decline. Previously regeneration was to be effected through the 'Marina development' down the old North Dock – still empty years after finish. Yet while there will be some welcome construction work, and while shops will provide a tiny number of jobs, what it will mainly do is provide profits for the multinationals that run the wretched places. A Travel Lodge and a Multiplex? Has this been costed and thought through? People have to have some spare cash to go to the cinema, especially with what they charge for popcorn these days, and increasing numbers of young people watch films on the internet. And who the hell is going to come to stay in a hotel in boarded-up downtown Llanelli when Swansea and the Gower are a few miles away? Since when did 'build some shops' become 'regeneration'?
But to be honest, this doesn't demonstrate any great originality by Carmarthenshire county council. It is of a piece with the 'dominant narrative' across the board politically and culturally. As councils and local authorities lost more and more of their powers, and as their ability to raise revenues directly declined, so their rhetoric about 'regeneration' became, paradoxically, ever more fulsome. In reality, as local councils lost whatever ability they once had to respond to local needs, so councillors were more and more relegated to the level of functionaries doing the bidding of central government, entirely tied to its purse-strings and faithfully reflecting its priorities and its protection of corporate interests. This feeling of powerlessness led to a decline in involvement with local politics, part of the 'democratic deficit' which is now feeding the Occupy movement.
The great con-trick which Tory and then Labour governments perpetrated was the illusion of decentralisation and 'giving power back to the people.' The reality of this was increased concentration of the important powers, tax, revenue, police etc and the selling-off of the rest. 'Decentralisation' was really a front for privatisation. Why should you have local councils looking after the interests of commercial enterprises when you can just cut out the middleman? Why have properly funded services, whether in health or education, when you can let market forces do it all?
Of course, these were the same market forces that were supposed to fill the gap caused by the closing down of mining, steel and manufacturing industry. This was at best a pious hope and at worst a callous lie. Thatcherism unleashed what Owen Jones, author of 'Chavs' called a "tsunami of de-industrialisation" which decimated communities and caused manufacturing to collapse. When Thatcher came to power in 1979 over 7 million UK workers earned a living in manufacturing: 30 years later this had fallen to 2.83 million. Jones traces the cultural and political demonisation of the working class, and the media campaign to portray working-class people as chavs and scroungers, in tandem with the return of endemic high levels of unemployment from the 1980s onwards. Blame the victim: after all, as Jones says, "...to admit that some people are poorer than others because of the social injustice inherent in our society would require government action."
The lived day-to-day reality for people living in the economically devastated areas of the UK which were previously the industrial centres is a permanent reminder of the social destruction wrought by Thatcher in the 1980s. It is, by the way, why many of us older trade unionists feel such rage at so-called 'Thatcher chic' which is now laughably being promulgated with the Meryl Streep movie, and which shows how highly-paid media hacks have become totally detached from the lives of ordinary people (another theme of Owen's). Any notion that this wife of a millionaire (I mean Thatcher, not Streep) represented any sort of progress for women, when the effects of her attacks on the lives, livelihoods and culture of working class women and men still scar our lives, is in extremely poor taste.
Those of us who stood on miners' and printers' picket lines to be charged by horses and battered by riot police were in no doubt about the Tories' desire to extract vengeance for the successful miners' strikes of 1972 and 1974, the second of which brought down the Heath government. Workers got revenge, of sorts: the mass campaign against the poll tax, culminating in the 1990 poll tax riot 'day of rage,' was what toppled Thatcher at the last. But the changes her governments forced through had profound consequences, extended and confirmed by subsequent Labour administrations, which by then had completely ideologically de-camped to free market economics.
It is this sense of class warfare that is the central omission in Chakrabortty's article. He talks about the various narratives which have been spun to justify deindustrialisation, and how Labour, under Blair and Brown, were guilty of what he calls 'techno-utopianism,' apparently believing that
"Once the British had sold cars and ships to the rest of the world; now they could flog culture and tourism and Laura Croft." He quite correctly exposes the fallacies and downright lies peddled in this process, and shows how the free market and the 'smaller state' (big society?) have contributed to the disintegration of the UK economy. But the dominant tone of his article is a sort of sense of puzzlement at how such economic self-harm could have been wrought.
And to be honest it is rather puzzling if you just leave it at that. Why, after all, should our rulers have deliberately introduced weaknesses into the economy that would become deadly faultlines, making the crash, when it came, so catastrophic? How can a serious strategy have been devised to destroy the UK's industrial base, and then to replace it with finance, which produces nothing, and debt? Was it just wishful thinking? Were they just stupid? Well no, not all of them. For some of them there was another overriding concern, nay, obsession, which made the future wealth of the society an irrelevant consideration.
Chakrabortty talks about the onset of a Tory 'austerity programme' as if it were a change in the weather. He ignores the most important prerequisite of deindustrialisation – destroy the effectiveness of workers' organisations to resist. We forget what a fright the workers' struggles of the 1970s gave the British ruling classes. They were determined to crush the unions forever.
There is no mention in the article of the set piece battles that Thatcher fought in her assaults on the trade unions, especially the miners. This is the clue to understanding a political and economic trajectory which otherwise makes no sense. The crucial factor in the equation was that the changes, it was hoped, would deal fundamental damage to the trade union movement. That overrode all other considerations. For that Thatcher was prepared to risk destroying the economic foundations of the society and, ultimately, weakening its competitive edge on world markets.
There is always a sense in which our rulers cannot see what is in front of their noses because, unlike Marxists, they do not see the creative act of labour as being central to the creation of value. It is always the 'animal dynamism' of entrepreneurs or some such self-justifying bollocks that animates things for them. So, in the logic of capitalism, why not create a fantasy land where you let the markets rip, relying on debt to power your economy? If you see value as lying in the power of money, then why not break the laws of gravity of your own economics? Why not build castles in the air from derivatives, collateralised debt obligations and credit exchange swaps? Who not destroy the ability of the British economy to manufacture goods?
Entering the fantasy-land of the free market, of globalised neoliberal capitalism, has consequences. The workers of Pinochet's Chile, where the free market experiment was first tested out in 1973, know that. We did not have to suffer what our Chilean comrades did, but what was done to British workers was no small thing. As Jones puts it: "There has been no greater assault on working-class Britain than Thatcher's two-pronged attack on industry and trade unions. It was not just that the systematic trashing of the country's manufacturing industries devastated communities – though it certainly did, leaving them ravaged by unemployment, poverty and all the crippling social problems that accompany them, for which they would later be blamed. Working –class identity itself was under fire. The old industries were the beating hearts of the communities they sustained...the unions, whatever their faults and limitations, had given the workers in these communities strength, solidarity and a sense of power. All of this had sustained a feeling of belonging, of pride in a shared working-class experience...the aim (of the Tory offensive) was to rub out the working class as a political and economic force in society, replacing it with a collection of individuals, or entrepreneurs, competing with each other for their own interests."
Thatcher aimed to get rid of trade unions which had a strong rank-and-file, and radical traditions of direct, unofficial action, replacing them with shrunken, over-bureaucratised shells, over-controlled from the top down, more interested in selling their members credit cards and car insurance than in organising for a fight. Actually, it is resistance, not credit cards, that builds unions, it is exercising the power which workers have which gives them confidence in their ability to collectively fight back. We are still in the process of rebuilding this from the bottom up. New, young people, unscarred by the defeats of the past, come in, and new waves of resistance begin, triggered now by the accelerating breakdown of capitalism.
What Thatcher and the others did not understand is that all this is done because we have no other choice. Things like trade unions are basic defensive organisations. We resist through trade unions when we can. If not we resist in other ways. In class society it is the struggle between the classes that drives history forward. If that sounds 'grand narrative' that's because it's meant to, and as I look around the world, at the street battles in Athens, the general strike in Oakland, California, the revolutionary struggles in Tahrir Square, I make absolutely no apologies for that.
As we prepare for the strikes on November 30, we should remember that the pauperisation of some places – Llanelli, Merthyr, Moss Side - ran in parallel with the obscene enrichment of other places - the City of London, the Stock Exchange. This is why the OccupyLSX movement and the N30 strikes are an integral part of each other.
We are entering a period of uprisings and revolutions.
The Nov 30 strikes herald a new phase of the struggle.
Comrades come rally...


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Deer feeding banned in Ripley December 13, 2011 West Virginia, Jackson County Newspapers, By Jim Bush
... City Council passed an ordinance last Tuesday evening that outlaws the feeding of the animals and establishes fairly substantial fines ... Red Casto of Third Avenue said that the deer destroy flowers and shrubs in his neighborhood... Jeff Merritt questioned the basis for the ordinance asking Council is any sort of survey of public opinion had been conducted or any petition received regarding the issue
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Pizzeria Piccola opens at Mitchell Airport
Attention, travelers. The Bartolotta group's Pizzeria Piccola opened today in Concourse C of General Mitchell Airport.
It's in plenty time for spring break, though initially the restaurant was expected to open late last year.
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- Firewise Barbecue food truck getting ready to roll
- McCormick & Schmick's closes Mayfair Mall restaurant after lease expires
- The building and the neighborhood draw Hamburger Mary's to the La Perla site
- East side Red Dot closes, but there's interest in opening a new bar there
- Philly Way closes in Walker's Point
- Phoenix affiliate buys La Perla building
- Dandan restaurant to open July 29 in the Third Ward
- Kasana will pop up at Great Lakes Distillery on the weekends for grilling and brunch
- New pub planned at shuttered Taylor & Dunn's; changes for Sake Tumi, Kabana Grill
- Pastry chef drops plans for west side bakery, joins Black Shoe Hospitality instead
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One perfect leaf desrves a universe of it's own. I used to meditate on this before I chose an Angel Card each day.
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I apologize for the gaps between some of the pictures in this part, and if it seems like everyone's growing up too fast and everything is a bit disjointed. I was distracted through most of summer by trying to work out how to keep all the sims happy! I think I've got into a kind of routine though now, so maybe future parts will be more interesting. Oh, and as usual, expect gameplay snapshots rather than a properly crafted story.
Finally, if you haven't yet read Meet the Foresters, which introduces the sims and world, then you want to take a moment to do that now. Anyway, here we go…
In the summer time, the weather is relatively mild but the work is hard and necessary.
The Fishers usually stay at the lake until late, grilling their own dinner when they return, so as not to disturb the Cooks' sleep.
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William and Helena Farmer had found some stability in their relationship. Every morning, William would breath into a potato sack to calm his nerves, and Helena take out her pent up aggression by arguing with the chickens.
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William looked rather taken aback by his wife's labour, but Rhoda was there to give her all the encouragement she needed.
Edith's son – James Gardener – rolled brave and grumpy, while Helena's daughter – Dorothy Farmer – rolled easily impressed and loves the outdoors.
Jacob did not take to fatherhood any more than he'd anticipated, particularly not when his son woke him up in the middle of the night.
Edith shared her grieves with Helena and Elizabeth in the village square.
Steven's parents threw him a birthday party. He rolled the loves the outdoors trait.
Martha entertained everyone with her fiddle.
Sadly, Steven was all alone with no other children to play with. That said, he did seem to enjoy helping to look after James and Dorothy, and a couple of times Richard and Martha took him fishing with them.
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Dorothy's parents finished teaching her to walk and talk just in time for her birthday.
Jacob was in a bad mood about dragged to yet another child's party.
Dorothy rolled the light sleeper trait. I guess her parents are going to have to be a bit more quiet in future.
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|In the Kaimai Ranges
My first longer hike was Around the Mountain, Ruapehu. It was amazing, but painful. Day one was long and tough, day two was tough, day three was ok, but I was getting worn down, and day four was an easy walk, but still a painful shuffle. I found two things in particular that were difficult, the weight of my pack on my shoulders, and the stress on my feet and calves. Now my pack was on the heavy end (21kg) but not crazy and I'm generally in good shape. I just wasn't prepared for 6-10 hours per day walking with a heavy pack.
I've not yet seen any wonder program of special exercises to prepare one for multi day hiking, and I really doubt one exists, sure some general strength work (squat and deadlift) and maybe some unilateral work (step ups, Bulgarian squats) will help but when it comes down to it I think the training that will make the most difference is time on your feet and time under a heavy pack.
|Mt Ruapehu
I've said before with regard to running that you need time on your feet and hiking is no different. Hiking is a long time with a heavy pack, plugging away on your feet, and the only way to replicate this stress is to put a heavy weight on your back (and therefore your feet) and clock up some distance. Again with the weight of the pack on your shoulders, once you have some meat on your upper back from weight training the only other thing that will help is to build up some resilience but having the weight on your back for a long time. Now I know this isn't the most accessible training in terms of time, but I'll address this later.
In the lead up to my hike across the Kaimai Ranges my plan was to get out each weekend for two months prior and get in 6-8 hours, 20 odd kilometres with a 20kg pack on. The plan was to weight my pack up to 20kg, as that would be the max weight to start the hike with. The plan was then to head out early on either a Saturday or Sunday to cover 10-20km, either on the road around home, or sections of bush within close driving distance. This didn't quite work out as I was very busy in the lead up to the end of the year, but I was able to get some time between Christmas and New Years to get out hiking under my pack.
I started easy with 1-2 hours, then 2-3 hours just to ease into it, get the back and feet used to hiking again, as I hadn't been out for a while. After this short warm up I ramped up the time on my feet, and the distance covered to better replicate the distance I would be covering on the North South track. I was also able to get out with some friends to the Crosbie's hut, and used this as training as well. In total I got only 5 days of training in, but it was 5 days on my feet, under a 20kg pack, preparing my feet and back for the challenge ahead.
|Mt William
|On the way up Mt William
|Table Mountain from Crosbies hut
I can say that even this little bit of training made a noticeable difference, I didn't get any soreness in my shoulders until the fourth day, and even the fifth day wasn't that bad. My feet held up really well also, they were a little worn out by the end, but never that sore.
I was only able to get this level of training in as I was on holiday, however it is still possible to simulate during the work week or weekend. One option is to have a weighted pack ready to go either after work (or before) or after dinner to get an hour in walking around the block. Even better would be 1-3 hours or more during the weekend. Either getting out before lunch, or if possible pack a lunch and go for the whole day. Ideally spend 6-8 hours hiking, but any amount you can get in will help. I did all of my training on trails, however this isn't necessary, footpaths and road will work just fine as its really just about building up time on your feet. I do think that adding as many hills as you can will do you good though. It really boils down to weight a pack, and walk around for as long as you are able, as many times as possible before your big adventure. Just don't go overboard and get hurt.


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The Perth Wildcats are not about to become the "world's greatest team" – yet
A little article appeared at the Western Australian recently claiming that the Perth Wildcats are about to break a "world record" for most consecutive seasons making the post-season playoffs or finals. It claims that this record is currently 29 seasons, held by ice hockey's Boston Bruins, and that the Wildcats are about to pass this mark.
True enough that they're about to make their 30th consecutive finals series, but HPN couldn't such an expansive claim go unchallenged. We've taken a look around at available records around the world that could verify this claim, so strap yourselves in.
It turns out that Perth aren't there yet, but if you define the question a certain way, they might be close.
The majority of world sport probably lacks any form of post-season
Although it theoretically covers all top-level sport, the claim is a relatively narrow one – that the Wildcats are the "greatest team" in one narrow sense, that of having the longest consecutive streak of making the post-season stage of professional sporting competitions.
At a stroke, the focus on post-season qualification eliminates virtually all soccer teams, excluding the biggest sport in the world from consideration. Most soccer leagues don't have post-seasons, and those leagues that do such as the American MLS and the A-League aren't old enough to support a 30 year playoff streak. This eliminates the dominant sport in Europe, Africa and South America and significant chunks of Asia, whose leagues are all run on a no-playoffs basis.
This is convenient for the claim, because relegation-promotion soccer leagues tend to lend themselves to oligopoly and make the top soccer teams far more dominant than the Wildcats could ever dream. An illustrative example: the last time FC Barcelona finished low enough in La Liga that they wouldn't have made a potential playoff series was probably 1964 when they finished 6th of 16. 1941 was the last time Barcelona finished in the bottom half of their league.
To be as fair as possible to the Wildcats, we should probably therefore stick to comparing them to closed competitions without promotion and relegation. Such closed competitions usually operate on the logic that every team should have a chance to win, and they are more likely to have measures like salary caps aimed at making it harder to continually dominate.
Some sports have had extremely limited post-seasons
What about the world's second most popular sport, cricket? The qualification of "professional" would also seem to eliminate a significant chunk of the domestic competitive history of the sport, but we'd suggest that's an unfair reading and that "top level competition" is the more substantial version of the claim regarding the Wildcats here.
As far as we can see, India's most dominant regional side, Mumbai, has a best playoff streak in the Ranji Trophy of around 17-seasons. They won 20 titles in 22 years at one point, but for much of the trophy's history only the winners of four large pools made it to a semi-final then final. Any slight slip from the absolute top broke the streak, and this occasionally occurred. Mumbai, incidentally, also have the improbable record of 40 wins from 44 finals appearances – that's a 90% conversion rate from a lot of finals.
Elsewhere in the cricket world, play-offs have been traditionally constrained or non-existent in most of cricket's long-form first class history. The Sheffield Shield, for instance, only added a final in 1982-83 summer.
There does not appear to have been any consistent three-decade finals runs in one day cricket in any country we looked at and of course T20 with its nearly random-walk level competitiveness and auction system is unlikely to ever produce sustained dominance.
Europe is full of pyramids
We can also look at basketball in other countries. In Europe, FC Barcelona Bàsquet have never missed playoffs as far back as playoffs have existed (back to 1982-83, which is 32 years and counting). Panathinaikos in Greece and ASVEL in France would be the best chances in those countries of owning long playoff streaks, but the records are difficult to find.
Lithuania's Žalgiris basketball side have not missed a championship game since the 1993 season after Lithuania became an independent country. They also won several titles in the USSR in the 1980s before leaving the USSR league in 1990. Between 1983 and 1989 they won or lost every final in the Soviet League against CSKA Moscow. Between 1990 and 1993 it isn't clear that they had a domestic competition to compete in. The streak from 1983 to present for Žalgiris would be 28 seasons. Close, but still surpassed by the Wildcats who of course didn't have to deal with the disintegration of the country they played in.
We noted above that soccer's promotion-relegation system probably helps reduce competitive parity and keep a few teams at the top in contrast to a closed league with no underlying "pyramid". The same could therefore be the case in European basketball where all the above mentioned examples also have relegation systems and where dominant teams such as FC Barcelona have huge resource advantages. We could potentially dismiss the achievements of Barcelona Bàsquet, or Žalgiris, as being helped by that promotion-relegation system's impact on competitive parity, if we wanted to.
European domestic Ice Hockey follows a similar pattern – there are potentially very long streaks in certain countries, but there's also promotion and relegation that supports sustained dominance by a few. The internationalised Kontinental Ice Hockey League based in Russia appears to be a franchise-based exception to this pattern but is only a few years old.
In French rugby, Tolouse in France have not missed qualifying for various forms of national playoff since at least 1982-83, an active streak of 32 years. The French system also uses a form of promotion and relegation between two levels of professional league, as is the European norm. Leagues in Britain and Ireland do not appear to have a strong tradition of playing finals.
…and a look elsewhere
In South African rugby's Currie Cup, Northern Transvaal (now the Blue Bulls) missed a few semi-finals across their long period of historical dominance up until the 1980s. New Zealand has only had provincial semi finals since 1992. Australian domestic rugby doesn't count – it never counts.
No streak in the NSWRL/ARL/NRL comes close with St George's 23 seasons (1951-1973) unlikely to be bested. Including pre-Super League competition, the best playoff qualification streak we can find in English rugby league is the Wigan Warriors' 21 seasons from 1984-85 to 2005.
The AFL/VFL record is 13 by Hawthorn from 1982 to 1994 (who also have the longest finals drought (32 years from their 1925 inception until 1956). Port Adelaide in the SANFL, despite their historical dominance, made a habit of periodically missing a single season of finals every 15 or 20 years throughout the 20th century. We didn't check the WAFL but that competition has had strong historical parity that makes such an extensive finals streak unlikely.
In baseball, the MLB record is 14 seasons by the Atlanta Braves. Dominant teams in major leagues in Cuba (Industriales) and Mexico (Diablos Rojos del México) have not managed to get active playoff streaks anywhere close to 30 seasons, while Japan only recently added playoffs beyond just pitting their two division winners against each other.
Gaelic Football and Hurling in Ireland is an unusual case where the prestige competition is a knockout rather than a league. For a comparison we would need to draw a line at a stage of the tournament. If we drew it at, say, the All-Ireland Series "quarter final" stage (a repêchage process from the qualifiers means that means there are 6 teams remaining) there's a good chance that the utterly dominant hurling counties of Kilkenny, Cork or Tipperary would have streaks several decades long. But we haven't checked those records.
Not quite yet, Perth
There is, however, the Canadian Football League.
CFL is the premier league of a slightly different gridiron sport played in Canada by teams like the Blue Bombers and Rough Riders. The Edmonton Eskimos played every playoff between 1972 and 2005, a total of 34 seasons. It's a franchise league, clearly professional, and by itself enough to disqualify the Perth Wildcats from any form of world record.
So where do the Wildcats sit?
We'll say this, then:
The Edmonton Eskimos made 34 playoffs in a row and clearly sit ahead of allcomers in North American professional sport, and are also still ahead of the Wildcats who will play their 30th consecutive playoff series this year. Perth are 5 years away from passing that mark.
In terms of active streaks, there's at least two teams in strong elite sporting competitions in Europe with 32-season active playoff streaks. Barcelona basketball and Tolouse in French rugby, have both been dominant enough in leagues with accessible records to put them ahead. There are likely to be others in pyramidal European leagues in basketball, rugby, ice hockey or sports played in Europe. Simply: unless FC Barcelona Bàsquet somehow miss a year of playoffs, and they probably never will, Perth will never get the record.
Also notable is that Žalgiris in Lithuania are riding an active streak of 28 playoff seasons which started several years before Perth's, in the Soviet league in 1983. It is a streak older than the Wildcats' but consists of less completed seasons.
However, those are promotion/relegation leagues with the above mentioned issues of competitive parity. If Perth want to claim a record, they can narrow down their claim to exclude the open competitions with promotion and relegation between multiple levels of a pyramid that characterise much of world sport. This essentially leaves them comparing with only North American and Australian sport.
Among the closed franchise-based competitions that are most predominant in Australia and North America, formats which should have greater competitive parity, the Wildcats are still a few seasons away from claiming a record.
So as a final word, if the Perth Wildcats want to define "greatest team in the world" as "the longest streak of post-season play in a closed/non-relegation professional sporting league", the mark to beat appears to be Edmonton's 34 seasons.
Five seasons to go, Perth


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So many small businesses monitor by hours in the day, living by the clock. If you have a full day of work 5 days a week you're doing great and your bank account will reward you for your labors. Then suddenly your business requires more hours than you have to give in a day. And you start wondering – when do I know when I need to hire a new person? How many leads do I actually have to generate to afford my new person? Is my marketing working? What's my return on investment? And that's when things get tricky.
With all the data available now it's hard to know what numbers mean what. What to pay attention to and what to ignore. Ultimately you can gather all the numbers you want but if you don't review them they are actually less valuable than living entirely by the clock.
The numbers can be overwhelming at first so get started by defining a goal for what you want your marketing to do. Then determine what metrics will help you determine if it's working. To keep it simple think of your measurement metrics in three buckets.
These activities are a mix of sales and marketing actions taken to generate leads for the company. Number of phone calls made, ads run, blogs published, videos produced, social media posts, networking events attended, emails sent. Measure the actual activities completed each month.
Marketing statistics can help you plan activity and potential outcomes from investing in each activity. When planning Services for Independent Living social media posts, Heather Stewart, Director of Marketing & Strategic Initiatives, uses demographic data to phrase messaging to best reach her audience, "I look at the gender and age of the people that follow us on FB and Twitter. Both platforms have very different demographics," explained Heather.
Activities are planned to engage with others on one level or another, track the engagement from each.
Measurement data for activities may include number of conversations, website page visits, email list growth, social media likes and shares, or for a networking event business cards distributed.
Jule King, Festival Director of Roots N Blues N BBQ, said they track about everything in their marketing mix, "It's pretty easy track all of the online things, which helps. We do retargeting ads, eBlasts, Facebook ads… all of which we obsessively track!"
Julie monitors Facebook activity closely to measure results for individual posts and ads. "Lately, at least for us, it seems to be all about Facebook post/ad reach and clicks through to our website. It's a good way to target groups very specifically. But Facebook's ad guidelines and reach have been changing, so we need to make sure we're checking and adjusting and making the right kinds of posts all the time."
Todd M. Moritz, Director of New Business Development, for Argus Radiology uses email marketing to generate leads. "In our industry, there are more potential clients that I can possibly have direct communications. Email marketing has been an effective tool to expand our reach. I pay particular attention to 'open-rates' and 'click-through rates' to ensure the piece is effective within the standards and limitations email marketing,"said Todd.
Determine how to measure the results of your engagement. Three must measure items are: leads generated, sales meetings held and closed business. Ultimately you want to know, did you make money on the activities you completed and engagement you generated?
Kari Hopkins, Development Director for Coyote Hill Christian Children's Home watches email open rates, and click-throughs, testing with alternate subject lines to improve results. "For example when we built the Atherton Home the first email subject was "Stock the Atherton Home." Not a ton of success with that, in fact almost none," explained Kari. "But when the same email was resent with the subject "Coyote Hill Needs Items For Its New Home" the response skyrocketed! We got key churches and individuals involved who ultimately ended purchasing everything we needed."
After tracking your bucket numbers for a period of time the game of marketing becomes a bit less overwhelming. Eventually you'll know which activities yield the most closed business and calculate the return on your investment or ROI.
Here are commonly used metrics to consider when measuring the success of your sales and marketing activities. For definitions and examples of how to use these metrics visit:
Online activities are easily trackable. For the reason if you're engaging in less trackable marketing activities like print advertisements, networking events, direct mail, radio or television campaigns you may consider using unique URL's called subdomains like blog.mayecreate.com or a creating a specific landing page like https://mayecreate.com/blog/ to track activity engagement from non-online sources. You can also narrow down online data to windows of time in an effort to correlate with publication and event dates to see if they boosted engagement online.
Traffic sources are the ways people find your site. They may find you by typing in your website domain (direct visitors), searching for your services (search visitors), via social media (social) or clicking on another website linking to yours (referral visitors).
Bounce rate is determined by the number of visitors who enter your site and immediately leave without taking action. A lower bounce rate is better, though the rate can be impacted by many factors in your marketing actions, so if yours is higher than you'd like take a look at the big picture before freaking out.
Sessions and % New Sessions indicate how many times your site was visited and how many of those visitors are new.
Landing Pages, Page Views and Exit Pages help you understand how people enter your site, the most viewed content and where they choose to leave your site from. Popular pages with low session durations and high exit rates are key areas for improvement.
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Having been a staunch opponent of racism since I was a young child, I want to make it clear that I do not believe Pat Buchanan is a racist. I have personally visited with him and know this to be true. Although I hate racism, I have learned how deeply reverse racism runs and it is dangerous to the stability of our nation. I have shared selections from an article below that I hope you will read and think about. Hopefully, this kind of crisis and courage from Pat Buchanan will give us more courage to refuse to be silenced in the national debate.
The New Blacklist
My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end.
After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous.
The calls for my firing began almost immediately with the Oct. 18 publication of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?"…
Let error be tolerated, said Thomas Jefferson, "so long as reason is left free to combat it." What Foxman and ADL are about in demanding that my voice be silenced is, in the Jeffersonian sense, intrinsically un-American.
Consider what it is these people are saying.
They are saying that a respected publisher, St. Martin's, colluded with me to produce a racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic book, and CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, Fox Business News and the 150 radio shows on which I appeared failed to detect its evil and helped to promote a moral atrocity…
In a 2009 cover story in the Atlantic, "The End of White America?" from which my chapter title was taken, professor Hua Hsu revels in the passing of America's white majority.
At Portland State, President Clinton got a huge ovation when he told students that white Americans will be a minority in 2050.
Is this writer alone forbidden to broach the subject?
That homosexual acts are unnatural and immoral has been doctrine in the Catholic Church for 2,000 years.
Is it now hate speech to restate traditional Catholic beliefs?
Documented in the 488 pages and 1,500 footnotes of "Suicide of a Superpower" is my thesis that America is Balkanizing, breaking down along the lines of religion, race, ethnicity, culture and ideology, and that Western peoples are facing demographic death by century's end.
Are such subjects taboo? Are they unfit for national debate?
So it would seem. MSNBC President Phil Griffin told reporters, "I don't think the ideas that (Buchanan) put forth (in his book) are appropriate for the national dialogue, much less on MSNBC."…
Buchanan explains that specific groups like "Color of Change" have attacked him and tried to silence his voice:
The modus operandi of these thought police at Color of Change and ADL is to brand as racists and anti-Semites any writer who dares to venture outside the narrow corral in which they seek to confine debate.
All the while prattling about their love of dissent and devotion to the First Amendment, they seek systematically to silence and censor dissent.
Without a hearing, they smear and stigmatize as racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic any who contradict what George Orwell once called their "smelly little orthodoxies." They then demand that the heretic recant, grovel, apologize, and pledge to go forth and sin no more.
Defy them, and they will go after the network where you work, the newspapers that carry your column, the conventions that invite you to speak. If all else fails, they go after the advertisers.
I know these blacklisters. They operate behind closed doors, with phone calls, mailed threats and off-the-record meetings. They work in the dark because, as Al Smith said, nothing un-American can live in the sunlight.
So many of the sentiments we have written about here on "In God We Trust" were eloquently shared by Pat Buchanan in this article. We wish him luck and success with his writing and in continuing to find a voice to try and help save our great country.


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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's railways in Europe have turned into death trains and a weapon to sow terror and fear for al-Qaeda, British newspapers and US and British experts have warned, saying the group has benefited from the Saudi war in Yemen and has been able to target the West.
This came after Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen devoted the last issue of its English-language magazine Inspire to inciting its elements to launch attacks on trains and railways in Europe and America.
The organization devoted 18 pages to the magazine to explain how to attack the train directly or to target bars to get it out of its tracks or attack stations.
"It is almost impossible to secure hundreds of miles of railways in Britain," al-Qaeda said in its magazine Anspare. The attacks "will cause huge losses and destruction."
The US authorities quickly expressed their awareness of the organization's magazine. The US Transportation Safety Administration said it was in contact with passenger services on how to protect its terrorist systems, but the US Department of Homeland Security said there was no imminent threat.
US experts say al-Qaeda in Yemen has benefited from the intervention of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen more than two years ago to re-emerge strongly after gaining strength and control over vast areas of land in the southern provinces of Yemen. Experts warned that the organization poses a serious threat to US and British security.
"The main beneficiary of the Saudi war on Yemen is al Qaeda," said Michael Horton, chief analyst for Arab affairs at Jamestown, the US intelligence agency.
Asked about the participation of al-Qaeda and publicly speaking among the forces loyal to the Saudi alliance, Horton said: "I think policymakers in the United States are increasingly aware that al-Qaeda and Ta'ad are benefiting from the war in Yemen and are fully aware that they are already fighting alongside the anti-Houthi forces and their allies.
British parliamentarian Keith Faz warned that if the war in Yemen continues, al-Qaeda will further entrench itself with the population. AQAP has shown the ability and willingness to attack targets abroad. The organization adopted the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in 2015. He warned that what is happening inside Yemen can easily spread to our streets.
For more than two years, the war in Yemen has destroyed the country and civilian infrastructure, killed thousands, displaced millions of Yemenis, and unregulated areas of Yemen have become a safe haven for terrorist groups to embrace, plan and grow, the British MP said in an article published in The Huffington Post. .
The Al-Telegraph newspaper said al-Qaeda is calling on its supporters in Britain and Europe to sabotage the railways and derail the trains to cause great loss of life and "instill terror and fear" among passengers and passengers.
The newspaper said that securing hundreds of miles of railways in Britain is almost impossible, and that the attacks will cause huge losses and destruction.
An analysis by the International Crisis Group recently said the war in Yemen had enabled extremists to build a strong base in the heart of the Middle East.
The Telegraph said any attacks would force governments to impose security measures on train passengers, such as those applied to airports, noting that the intelligence services in Britain and the United States are taking it seriously, and that the security and intelligence services of the two countries closely cooperate to address a possible attack on the rail Ferrous.
British government sources said the government was increasingly concerned that trains could face terrorist attacks. A government source told the newspaper that the armed forces were ready to support the police and the ambulance if an attack on the railway.
The sources said that the organization is looking at ways to "turn trains into a weapon as happened with the aircraft," in reference to the attacks on New York using aircraft in 2011.
One of the main causes of concern in London and Washington is that while the influence of the Islamic state organization in the Middle East is diminishing, al Qaeda will become more dangerous.
Railways in the United States represent one-third of the world's railways. How can they protect 240 thousand kilometers? It is impossible. The same applies to Britain, which has 18500 km of railways, and France has 29473 kilometers of railways. The task of protecting all these distances is impossible, making it a very easy target. "