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So, life has gotten the best of my for the past couples of months. I am sorry about that. I am slowly getting a hold on things so you will *hopefully* see more of me around.
I am working on getting this blog back up and going! But I know that wouldn't happen overnight. So my goal is get this back up and going by the first of January.
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The School of Geography Map Room comprises a collection of approximately 200,000 sheet maps, 600 atlases, a local history reference collection, and a collection of map memoirs, travel guides and gazetteers.
Archives and collections associated with the Map Room include the Conzen Collection, the Thorpe and Nicklin archives, and a complete collection of dissertations and theses written by Birmingham geographers since the establishment of the department in 1924.
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Members of the university may borrow the following categories of material: folded editions of 1:250,000, 1:50,000, and 1:25,000 scale Ordnance Survey maps; road atlases, street plans and directories, domestic and foreign travel guides, and most folded editions of foreign tourist-style maps.
Limited photocopying facilities are available to users of the library.
The Map Room is located in room G33, School of Geography building (R.26 on the Campus Plan), West Campus.

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The Blue-State Meltdown and the Collapse of the Chicago Model
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On the surface this should be the moment the Blue Man basks in glory. The most urbane president since John Kennedy sits in the White House. A San Francisco liberal runs the House of Representatives while the key committees are controlled by representatives of Boston, Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Bay Area—bastions of the gentry.
Despite his famous no-blue-states-no-red-states-just-the-United-States statement, more than 90 percent of the top 300 administration officials come from states carried last year by President Obama. The inner cabinet—the key officials—hail almost entirely from a handful of cities, starting with Chicago but also including New York, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco area.
This administration shares all the basic prejudices of the Blue Man including his instinctive distaste for "sprawl," cars, and factories. In contrast, policy is tilting to favor all the basic blue-state economic food groups—public employees, university researchers, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Wall Street, and the major urban land interests.
Yet despite all this, the blue states appear to be continuing their decades-long meltdown. "Hope" may still sell among media pundits and café society, but the bad economy, increasingly now Obama's, is causing serious pain to millions of ordinary people who happen to live in the left-leaning part of America.
For example, while state and local budget crises have extended to some red states, the most severe fiscal and economic basket cases largely are concentrated in places such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Oregon, and, perhaps most vividly of all, California. The last three have among the highest unemployment rates in the country; all the aforementioned are deeply in debt and have been forced to impose employee cutbacks and higher taxes almost certain to blunt a strong recovery.
The East Coast–dominated media, of course, wants to claim that we have reached "the twilight" of Sunbelt growth. This observation seems a bit premature. Instead, traditional red-state strongholds such as the Dakotas, Idaho, Texas, Utah, and North Carolina, dominated the list of fastest-growing regions recently compiled for Forbes by my colleagues at www.newgeography.com.
When the recovery comes, job growth also is most likely to resurge first in the red states, while the blue states continue to lag behind. For reasons as diverse as regulatory policy, aging infrastructure, and high levels of taxation, blue states continue to be more susceptible to recessions than their red counterparts.
This assumption is borne out by an analysis of economic cycles by the website JobBait.com, which has found that since 1990 the states most vulnerable to economic downturns include the Great Lakes states of Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and New York as well as Connecticut and California. Those most resistant have been generally red bastions such as the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Texas, and resource-rich states such as Alaska, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
This suggests that even the hardest-hit red states, notably Florida and Arizona, are likely better positioned in the long term for a recovery. A generation of out-migration may be slowing down temporarily due to the recession, but many people moved to places such as Arizona, Florida, Texas, and Georgia over the first seven years of the decade; in contrast, the high-tax blue states, including New York, New Jersey, and California, lost 1,100 people every day between 1998 and 2007. Most of them headed to the red states.
"When the economy comes back," notes veteran California-based economist and forecaster Bill Watkins, "there will be a pent-up demand. People will compare and move to the places that are affordable and don't have the fundamental tough tax and regulatory structures."
Devolution in Blue
These demographic and economic trends will have a long-term political impact. The net in-migration states—almost all of them red—will gain new representatives in Congress after the next census while New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and perhaps even California could see their delegations shrink.
In fact, amidst the Blue Man's current political ascendency, the devolutionary process is likely to continue. Its roots are very deep, and will prove more difficult to reverse than media and policy claques suggest. In historic terms, blue states' relative decline represents one of the greatest shifts of political and economic power since the Civil War.
In the modern period that starts with the end of the Second World War, the states that are now blue were also, to a large extent, the best. They included the undisputed centers of finance, industry, culture, and education. Blue-state politicians also dominated both parties, either directly or behind the scenes.
In contrast, the Red Man was disdained. As late as the 1940s, Los Angeles—still then very much in its red period—as well as Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, and Phoenix, were all not listed on the Social Register, the ultimate list of the socialite elite. You might visit Texas or invest in its oil, buy Los Angeles real estate, or winter in Scottsdale, but these were not places of consequence. These cities were not for civilized, serious people.
Yet demographic forces changed this balance of power forever. In sharp contrast to Europe, often the preferred model for the Blue Man, the United States' population exploded in the postwar era. This expansion could not be comfortably accommodated in the old cities.
New demographics and timing shaped America's urban patterns in largely unforeseen ways. Urban theorist Ali Modarres notes that America's population over the second half of the 20th century grew by 130 million, essentially doubling, while the populations of France, Germany, and Britain together increased by 40 million, or 25 percent.
In Europe slower population growth meant that planners could accommodate expansion through gradual expansion of existing cities. In contrast, America's huge growth could only be accommodated by creating new places and vastly expanding others. This led to the growth of suburbs everywhere, but the bulk of expansion took place in vast emerging metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, and later Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, and Las Vegas.
This trend held up through much of the past decade. Nevada's s population grew at four times the national increase of 8 percent while Arizona expanded three times as much and Florida twice the average. In contrast, growth in the blue states of the Northeast and Midwest generally stood well behind the national average.
More important still, the new regions experienced a broad entrepreneurial explosion that reshaped the whole economy. In many cases, this growth came directly at the expense of the blue states. When major companies relocated they tended to leave places like New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Chicago for the burgeoning red cities.
In 1950 Atlanta did not rank among America's most important economic centers; 50 years later it stood among the most popular cities for large corporations and their subsidiaries. The same could be said for places like Houston, Dallas, and Charlotte. It was the quintessential American story, evidence, as Marxist scholar William Domhoff observed, that America's "open class system is almost the opposite of a caste system."
Blue Man Economics
Today two principles now drive the political economy of the blue states—and so shape the Obama administration today. The first one is the relentless expansion of public sector employment and political power. Although traditional progressives such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Fiorello La Guardia, and Pat Brown built up government employment, they never contemplated the growth of public employee unions that have emerged so powerfully since the 1960s.
Public sector employees initially played a positive role, assuring that the basic infrastructure—schools, roads, subways, sewers, water, and other basic sinews of society and the economy—functioned properly. But as much of the private economy moved out of places such as New York, Illinois, and, more recently, California, public sector employment began to grow as an end to itself.
Some blue-state theorists, columnist Harold Meyerson among them, have identified this new, highly unionized public sector workforce not so much an adjunct to the middle class but its essence. This has become very much the reality in many core blue regions—particularly big cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit—as the private-sector middle class has drifted to the suburbs or out to the red states.
Even before the recession these public-sector unions and their lavish benefits had become a major burden for blue states and cities. In California alone state pensions are now $200 billion underfunded. San Francisco has more than 700 retirees or their survivors earning pensions in excess of $100,000 per year. In New York, despite Mayor Michael Bloomberg's occasional utterances about the city's expanding pension system being "out of control," city contributions to the pension system have grown fivefold under his watch. They now consume roughly one in ten dollars in the city budget.
The only way to pay for these expenditures rests on the second key blue economic principle—the notion of an ever expanding high-end "creative economy." This conceit is based on the notion that tangible things matter little and that, as former Wired magazine editor Kevin Kelly put it, "communication is the economy."
New York pioneered the idea that the economy could depend totally on the efforts of the talented few, mostly those on Wall Street but also those in the media and other "creative" industries. This formula has been widely accepted since New York Mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch allowed New York City's public sector to expand, often with borrowed money.
Sadly this focus has tended to leave little room for a diverse economy that might employ an expanding, upwardly mobile middle class. Instead, companies and employees in these high-value industries tend to dominate almost all the attention of blue-state policy makers.
Since this class had less need than traditional industries for basic infrastructure, a confluence of interest has emerged between the post-industrial elites and the public employees. Money raised from the monied post-industrial elite would essentially buy social peace by funneling largesse not into improving the roads, subways, or ports but into the pockets of the public employees.
The Great Delusion and Its Blue-State Victims
This elite strategy has served to bifurcate most blue states into an affluent core and a rapidly declining periphery. For example, California, a state whose shift from red to blue has given some heft to "progressives" everywhere, has experienced an increasing gap between a small sliver of wealthy metropolitan residents along the coast and an increasingly marginalized interior populated largely by middle- and working-class Hispanics.
And then there is the imposition of increasingly stringent environmental regulation. This has hit hardest the essential sectors of the non-"creative class" economy such as manufacturing, warehousing, and agriculture. Basic industries depend more than finance or "creative" ones on reasonably priced energy and land, access to raw materials, and a sane regulatory regime. "In California," notes economist Watkins, "everything has priority over the economy."
You can see the effects clearly in California. Climate change regulations work to constrain new construction of homes, particularly suburban single-family homes. Manufacturing industries, even relatively "clean" ones, make easy targets for carbon-hunting regulators. A recent Milken Institute report found that between 2000 and 2007 California lost nearly 400,000 manufacturing jobs, all this while industrial employment was growing in major competitive rivals such as Texas and Arizona.
Trucking firms, saddled with harsh new deadlines to shift to cleaner vehicles, also are going out of business. Like manufacturers, many of these have historically been sources of upward mobility for largely Latino entrepreneurs and workers.
Perhaps the most searing disaster is unfolding in the rich Central Valley. Large areas are about to be returned to desert—due less to a mild drought than to regulations designed to save obscure fish species in the state's delta. Over 450,000 acres have been allowed to go fallow. Nearly 30,000 agriculture jobs—mostly held by Latinos—were lost just in May. Unemployment, 17 percent across the Central Valley, reaches to more than 40 percent in some towns such as Mendota.
"We are getting the sense some people want us to die," notes native son Tim Stearns, a professor of entrepreneurship at California State University at Fresno. "It's kind of like they like the status quo and what happens in the Central Valley doesn't matter. These are just a bunch of crummy towns to them."
A similar process of secular decline can also be seen in the peripheries of other blue states such as upstate New York, which has ranked near the bottom of job growth nationwide over the past 40 years. But nowhere has this occurred more completely than in Michigan.
Under the leadership of Governor Jennifer Granholm, Michigan has sought to reinvent itself from an industrial powerhouse to a center of the "creative economy." For much of her first term, Granholm focused on such inanities as promoting a "cool cities" program, following the notion that creating places for the terminally hip would help turn around her state's economy.
Yet in the end, Michigan stands at the worst end of almost every calculator, with the highest unemployment and rates of out-migration, and the worst cities for business. Its per capita income, which was 16th in the nation shortly before Granholm ascended as governor, has now dropped to 33rd, the lowest since the federal government has been keeping records.
Detroit now suffers a 22 percent unemployment rate, the highest of any major city. Nearly one in three residents is on food stamps. But the pain goes well beyond Motor City. Altogether Michigan communities account for a remarkable six of the nation's ten worst job markets, according to the most recent Forbes–New Geography survey.
Waiting for Obama
Many in the true blue states greeted Barack Obama's election like the coming of a Messiah who would redress these serious problems. After all, it is widely believed in blue states that the red-state barbarians had looted the Treasury for their clients in the energy, industrial, home-building, pharmaceutical, and defense industries. Now the blue states, and their industries, would get payback. A vast expansion of public infrastructure, more emphasis on basic industry, and incentives for new entrepreneurial ventures could now help rapidly declining areas in the blue states.
Yet hopes that Obama would emphasize such basic infrastructure now have been dashed. Instead, the stimulus has been largely steered to social service providers, "green" industries, and academic research. One reason, as we now know, is that feminists saw such an approach as too favorable to "burly men" who might not have been among the president's core fan base.
Sadly, many of those "burly men," particularly the unemployed, still reside in the blue states. They might not be in the places inhabited by the post-industrial elites but they do live in the hardscrabble neighborhoods, industrial suburbs, and small towns from Michigan and upstate New York to California's vast interior.
Another group that may be unexpectedly hurt by the Obama policies will be the middle and upper middle classes in blue states. Already burdened by high rates of taxation locally and higher costs for everything from housing to education, these hardy souls—making more than $125,000 to $250,000 a year—now are about to find themselves heaped in with the "rich." Higher federal tax rates, as proposed by the administration, could prove disastrous for many blue-state middle-income families.
The Chicago Model: Obama's 'Closed Circle'
This skewed allocation of resources reflects the administration's roots in contemporary Chicago. It derives from a pattern of rewarding core constituencies as opposed to lifting up the whole economy.
The financial bailout reflects one part of this. Money lavished on bankers and lawyers, most of them in New York and Chicago, represents relief to what is now a core Obama constituency. Indeed the whole Troubled Asset Relief Program mechanism is being run by what Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, has described as a "wonderfully closed circle."
This approach, notes University of Illinois political scientist Dick Simpson, comes naturally for an administration dominated by veterans of the Chicago machine. Politicians in the Windy City do not worry much about opposition—49 out of 50 aldermen are Democrats—and follow policies adopted by the small central cadre.
Once the message is set upon, notes Simpson, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley operatives such as David Axelrod set about spinning things. This system is ideal for cultivating both media skill and political discipline during election season—something so evident in Obama's brilliant campaigns against first Hillary Clinton and then John McCain, Simpson observes.
But machine politics do not necessarily work out so well for the rest of the population. "The principle problem is that the machine is not subject to democracy," notes Simpson, who remains hopeful for the Obama presidency. "There's massive patronage, a high level of corruption . . . There's a significant downside to authoritarian rule. The city could do much better."
To be sure, there has been considerable gentrification in Chicago, as in many cities. Chicago's "revival" also has been a classic case of blue-state economics, driven largely by a now fading real estate boom, the financial industry, a growing college and university population, and tourism. But overall, from the point of view of most middle and working class residents, Chicago's political system has proved inefficient and costly. This can be seen in demographic trends that show Chicago as the only one of few large U.S. cities to lose population. At the same time, the middle class, particularly those with children, continue to flee to the suburbs. Roughly half of all white families (as of 2005) leave when their children reach school age.
Is There Hope for Blue America?
Ultimately, waiting for Obama will not revive the blue states. Instead the best prospect lies in blue states healing themselves. Fortunately, there are some tentative signs of unrest. The same regime failure that stuck to Republicans in the wake of the Bush presidency soon may be felt by Democrats burdened with the failed legacy of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, or New York Governor David Paterson. Even Illinois, the president's home state, could go Republican, suggests political scientist Simpson, if the Republicans put up a viable, middle-of-the-road candidate.
Powerful signs of mounting resistance have emerged in the most important state of all, California. The massive rejection of the budget agreement last spring was a blow to not only its architects, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrats in the legislature, but the general conventional wisdom that holds increased taxes as the key to addressing the state's budget problem.
Even in deep blue Los Angeles, the public sector machine built around onetime union organizer and current Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has lost some recent battles, including an attempt to create a public sector union monopoly over the city's solar industry. There is now greater appreciation of soaring public sector pension obligations as groups like the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility expose lists of public employees enjoying mega-pensions.
Similar efforts have started in other states, and with private-sector pensions being cut around the country, anger over the emerging privileged class of public workers may well gain traction. Ultimately, more people in blue states will begin to realize that their states need to learn again how to compete against both their red counterparts and the rest of the world.
There is no intrinsic reason blue states should continue to decline. They have created much of the industrial enterprise, technological innovation, and cultural vitality that made the United States the world's preeminent country. The prospects for these places can certainly be brighter than they are today.
This article originally appeared at the American.
Joel Kotkin is executive editor of NewGeography.com and is a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University. He is author of The City: A Global History . His next book, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, will be published by Penguin early next year.
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We live in a country that enjoys liberties allowing us the freedom to realize dreams. The people of Cuba do not enjoy such freedoms and have been suppressed for over half a century by a strict communist regime. The Human Rights Watch believes Cubans are denied many basic rights including free speech, privacy and due process of law among several others.
This seems like such a farfetched reality to students living in a sheltered bubble at a private Christian university like UMHB. But the fact is, a student stands among the student body who has overcome the adversity of the world he was born into.
Silvio Diaz, EXSS major and defensive tackle for the Cru, is thriving and realizing the American dream in an age when it has been thought to be a myth.
Diaz was born to Osmany Diaz and Leydy Borges in Santa Clara, Cuba, a large city in northern Cuba. Growing up, Silvio showed he was a natural born athlete.
Defensive tackle (right) Silvio Diaz digs in prior to the snap against Texas Lutheran Bulldogs in the Oct. 6 game. Photo by Christian Hernandez/The Bells.
He played soccer for a few years before taking up one of the country's most celebrated sports, boxing. Silvio boxed for several years and quickly surpassed his peers, seizing two national titles.
"I boxed for five years, and I was the champion of Cuba in my weight class in the 11-12 year-old category," he said.
After winning his second title at the age of 12, Silvio, his parents and his little brother Osmany Javier, would receive news that would change the course of his life.
Diaz and his family had applied for a special visa program. In 2004 they were approved and immigrated to the U.S.
They arrived first in Buffalo, N.Y., where Silvio seamlessly continued to train on his boxing. Six months in, work pulled them farther south to Leander, Texas.
There, Silvio had nowhere to train for boxing and turned to soccer to satisfy his thirst for sports in middle school.
Silvio Diaz (center) with mother Leydy Borges and father Osmany Diaz after a Crusader football game. The family immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba in 2004. Courtesy photo.
Upon arriving in high school, two years after entering the country, his teammates on the soccer team told him he had the build for football. Though Silvio's father wished him to continue to box, he would make his way to the gridiron.
After a record-setting career at Leander High School, Diaz went from being a foreigner to the sport to knowing the ins and outs of a defensive lineman. Silvio interested several collegiate programs including Abilene Christian University, Virginia Tech, Air Force Academy and the University of Texas. However, due to the location and the school's winning record, he would eventually commit to UMHB.
The Cuban native has made quite a bit of noise in the Crusader football program these past three seasons.
Silvio started 9 of 13 games as a freshman and accounted for one third of the team's sacks as he tied the single-season sack record.
Two weeks ago against Texas Lutheran, Diaz broke the UMHB career sack record, set at 19.0 by 2004 graduate Keith Zunker. Against the Bulldogs, number 98 recorded two sacks, pushing him over the previous record of 19 and set him at 20, only halfway through his junior season.
"(Breaking the record) makes me feel proud of my teammates and coaches," Silvio said. "…because without them, I couldn't have achieved that."
Averaging a little more than a sack per game, Silvio is on track to beat the single season sack record as well.
"The thing that makes Silvio such a great player is that he works at it," Head Coach Pete Fredenburg said, "I mean he comes to practice, and he's always at a high energy level and he always … puts a lot of pressure on himself to perform well."
Silvio's family members have been huge supporters of his career in the sport he has come to love.
Since joining the Cru three seasons ago, the Diaz family has yet to miss a single home game and have attended most local away games.
His father especially has taken much pride in what Silvio has accomplished as an athlete and believes that he sets a great example for Hispanics everywhere.


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Read the descriptions of the rules that have been posted. This is a set of rules for people to use with their existing fantasy miniatures or any range they want to use. It's not intended to be supported with a game-specific miniature range for all of the factions. I doubt Warlord Games is going to start their own fantasy ranges for these factions, they're just taking advantage of the fact that they already own orc and skeleton kits (and maybe amazons?) from buying out the old Wargames Factory ranges.
Yeah, I like it. I'm glad it is based on the Gates of Antares engine, like Hail Caesar and Pike and Shotte are evolved from Black Powder or Konflict 47 from Bolt Action. A family of games with similar mechanics but some differences that allow you to play different eras is a better approach I think than doing sort of "one off" things like Test of Honor or the zombie apocalypse game they did.
Though it does show some of the artwork from the book. Also, it looks like they may have altered the Wargames Factory skeleton sprue, as they show a skeleton with little horns, and one with a helmet. But maybe those are just conversions.
Warlord threw a couple of metal minis in with the samurai sprues when they released them. Maybe the special skeletons are metal minis capable of the heavy lifting needed to raise prices drastically on plastic minis.
Yes, it is probably that. The army bundles say they include plastic and metal miniatures, so they probably made a couple metal skeleton unit leaders or something. Though the bodies, just from the quick look in the video, do look very just like the plastic skeletons. Maybe just metal heads? Don't know. And I don't have any of the Wargames Factory orcs, so I'm not familiar enough with them to have spotted any differences.
I don't think WGF skellies could support metal heads!
Good point. They certainly couldn't support metal shields.
The game really looks slapped together, that being said I am looking forward to playing some Bolt Action in spa.... I mean Antares with Orcs and Skellies. I just hope 12 Orders dice are enough to get started with.
Also, it looks like they may have altered the Wargames Factory skeleton sprue, as they show a skeleton with little horns, and one with a helmet. But maybe those are just conversions.
Pretty sure the helmeted and horned skull came with the standard WGF box . I bought about 5 boxes years ago strictly for conversion fodder.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
Horns for sure, I used some for KoW.
Interesting. I don't think the original release included those heads. But I remember Wargames Factory at one point re-cutting the sprue in order to make them less fragile. Perhaps the new heads were added when they did that. Or maybe I just didn't use any of those heads and am not remembering them.
I've got mine preordered. Fantasy will always be my main and Antares is a solid system.
Sounds really interesting. Next to Vanguard and fantasy version of SAGA that could be a good "third" option.
Some of our group have gotten the book. We are all thrilled right now.
Would love to hear your impressions. Real close to ordering a copy.
There is so little info on this game it's amazing, like Warlord Games are trying to sneak it out to a select few. Warlords of Ycerces.
Been searching for reviews but yeah doesn't seem like any advance copies went out for review.
Still the Antares system is really solid so I remain optimistic.
You are one of the select few, those who have experience of existing Warlord Games. Fair enough to target your existing customers, makes sense, but there are thousands, tens of thousands? of fantasy gamers out there in a limbo, looking for a successor to WHFB. How about informing them what the game is all about and how they can use their old collections? A company as big as Warlord can surely put together a few instructional videos as advertising. All I have seen so far is some pretty dodgy facebook stuff and a youtube battle report by two random gamers. There's a battle report on the Warlord website, but let's just say it's a little brief.
Absolutely bizarre that there is not more info out for this and the mailer was about halflings in the moot?!
I'm waiting for a solid review before I make a decision on this one, myself. Things are oddly quiet on that front, as everyone mentioned. If someone spots a review, could you please post it here?
Play video off of YouTube.
Other videos on YouTube, mostly French ones that I saw.
The trickle of info continues, not from Warlord but this intro video by Wargames Illustrated is quite useful.
When asked what I think of Warlords of Erehwon, I wanted to put a good list of things that I consider when picking games to play and how I think that this one pans out.
I did a review on the five commercial fantasy warband games out right now (AOS, Middle Earth SBG, Dragon Rampant, Warmachine, and Warlords) that I am familiar with and gave a side by side comparison.
This post will be more about the system overall and how it operates as well as some things that I personally like about it and where I can see things possibly being a downside for players.
The game is warband scale. Its default point cost is 1,000 points, and for 1,000 points you get about what you'd get in Age of Sigmar for 1,000 points.
The undead army that I posted came out to be 33 models.
The game can be extended up to 2000 points per the book.
Armies have no real restrictions in terms of having to pay a core tax or anything like that. You are typically going to have one warlord (of which you must have one, and typically only one) which is the most powerful hero, and then anywhere around 1-2 extra heroes depending on the army list. The undead army as an example can only have one extra hero.
This prevents the game of hero hammer from happening largely as you will only have 1-3 heroes and the rest of your force will be composed of everything else.
It can be possible to get some overbearing lists put in place. Some of the more powerful monsters have a cap of one in the warband max, but other entries can be spammed. For example, the undead could take nothing but carrion beasts or artillery as there are no caps on those.
The balance overall remains to be seen as the game is brand new and minmax exploits have not yet hit the internet to be copied.
The game has no official model line and openly embraces any model line that you may have. Bases also do not matter, so bring your squares or your rounds or anything in between.
Scenarios typically last six turns OR when your army is deemed broken. A broken warband is when you have reached a point in the game where you have half of your starting units remaining on the table. At that point, unless you are in the sixth turn of the game and the game is over, you will roll a D6 to determine if you go to the next turn or not.
The game eschews the traditional IGOUGO mechanics of classic games and many modern games. Instead, for every hero or unit that you possess you will drop a colored dice or token into a dice bag, as will your opponent.
During a turn, you will draw a token from the bag. If it is one of your tokens, you will activate a unit that has not yet activated. If it is one of your oppoenents, they will do the same. There are some exceptions where you can keep orders activated on a unit and not put the dice in the bag, but ultimately the game will be bouncing back and forth between players activating different units as opposed to standing there for an entire turn (or two if you are playing AOS and fall prey to their double turn mechanic) taking it on the chin with no way to respond.
The orders you can give correspond to a facing on a D6. Warlord games sells special order dice for Bolt Action and Antares, which uses the same system.
You can choose to Advance with a unit, where they can move and shoot any missile weapons. You can choose to fire with a unit where they shoot without moving (some larger weapons or artillery can only receive this order to fire for example). You can choose to run which lets you move double or even triple your movement (unless you are wearing heavy armor which slows you down).
You can issue a Down order which makes your unit hit the ground and make it harder to be hit.
Last you can issue an Ambush order which lets you put a unit's action in wait. They can then later activate in response to an enemy unit activating, as an Interrupt, provided they pass an initiative test.
This lets you weave more complex tactics and strategies into the game where units can lie in wait for an opposing action and then activate to spoil that action. Or perhaps just simply dive into cover with a Down command if they are being targeted by a nasty missile unit.
The game uses D10s as its primary random number generator though also uses D6 and D4s sparingly as well.
To charge into combat, units must be issued a run command and they can run (double movement) or sprint (triple movement) into an enemy unit. There are no random charges, though terrain can spoil your charging as it has an impact in the game and can slow you down.
Shooting and combat both function off of the same mechanics. You roll a D10 for each model to hit based on either an accuracy score or their strength score, and all hits are allocated to the enemy unit. Hits must be spread out across the unit. There is none of the tanking shennanigans that other games employ where an indestructible front model soaks up all damage.
Once hits are assigned, the player taking the damage rolls a resistance dice (a d10) for each hit. Armor raises a resistance score, though some strikes ignore armor. Strikes also have a strike value which can lower resistance, and you will find an assortment of weapons that have various strength or sv boosts.
Models that fail to save are removed as casualties. Everything in the game has a single wound, except for heroes which can buy extra wounds.
Units can run away and if they flee must be rallied or can run off the table.
There are a variety of modifiers to both shooting and combat. These are covered in the quick reference sheet in the back of the book and is worth copying and printing out for your games.
Magic is pretty straight forward. You can give magic levels to the heroes that can have magic. The higher your magic level, the more potent the spells can be. However you only cast one spell a turn with that hero so the power level of magic is nothing like in other games where it can easily tip the game over.
Spells can also be dispelled by enemy wizards. Its more of a utility than a primary tactic.
There is a small selection of extra magic weapons you can give your characters. It is not really a big list but gives you some extra options should you wish to take them.
There could definitely be an expansion that gave more magic armor, standards, potions, etc, but currently its just limited to a small handful of weapons.
There are bound monsters in the game the same as existed way back in the day of 5th edition whfb. The monsters section is listed as player optional and requiring player permission to include, but gives you access to the classic beastiary of yester-decade with things like dragons, ogres, giant spiders and scorpions, etc, plus things like ghouls and swarms.
Monsters have their own reaction chart to damage, just like they did in 5th edition whfb, so you can have a monster hurt enough to be enraged and tear through everyone's forces, or it simply walks off the table.
Another key unit type are chariots, which many warbands have access to. Chariots have their own damage chart as well that they roll on and heroes in chariots can continue to fight on foot if their chariot is destroyed.
Terrain matters in this game. Obstacles can stop you in your tracks, terrain can slow you down, and hills block line of sight. The game functions in an intuitive manner. If you have models in cover, they gain a bonus to their resistance as you'd expect.
Warlords of Erehwon obviously takes a lot of things from classic Warhammer of the 90s and early 2000s. The army lists remind me greatly of Ravening Hordes, which was seen as the golden age of Warhammer in terms of balance back when 6th edition came out in the fall of 2000.
Some of the paragraphs in the book seem lifted from my 5th edition WHFB rulebook, which is not surprising since Rick Priestly was part of that design team.
Intuitive gameplay that centers around maneuvering and playing the game over wombo-combo building and listbuilding skills. Your excel powers will not be as useful here as they are in 40k or AOS.
There are really no combos to exploit in terms of taking Unit A gives Unit B and C a boost. There are no free abilities to exploit like having more than 20 models in a unit gives you a free +1 to hit. There are no ways to really raise up double your points values with unbalanced summoning mechanics.
The initiative system alternating from player to player instead of the much outdated IGOUGO system means you aren't standing there for 30-45 minutes watching your opponent move while you just take guys off the table. It definitely means you don't have to suffer two turns in a row and up to 60 minutes of watching your opponent attack you while you take models off the table like in AOS.
At 1000 points and roughly 30-50 models a side, the game also should play out really fast.
The ambush system where you can set up interrupts is also a huge positive for me as it creates layers of interaction that can weave a powerfully tactical tapestry where you can set up traps and responses (and which can fail!) as opposed to knowing your turn will always go off without any interruption at all.
The fact that you can use any models you want is also positive, and the fact that bases are listed as not relevant means that someone wanting everyone on the same base or getting angry has no leg to stand on. Rebasing entire armies to try and keep up with the latest base size is quite frankly annoying, especially if you put any work into your models appearance and don't want to destroy a finished base to put a bigger circle on it to appease someone that gets upset because 7mm extra is to them a huge advantage.
Thats personal taste I realize.
The game has no fluff or narrative. For some thats also a huge PRO and that may even be for you. For me, the lack of story means that every game is set somewhere different. I like persistant stories and settings, so thats just a niggling issue for me.
For pick up gamers though that don't care about such things, the gameplay alone is more than enough to stand on in my opinion.
Additionally, there are some key armies missing here. The skaven, lizarden, and chaos warriors especially will find it hard to proxy their models in for one of the existing warbands.
Also, much like the cons levied against Ravening Hordes in 2000 by the warhammer community back then, you pay for the balance with lack of flavor. It would be nice to see a supplement really flesh out these army lists with their own spells and some magic items of their own. Games Workshop really does a good job at giving each faction its own place in the world, and I think that would go a long long way with Warlords of Erehwon.
Now the book states in the beginning that things that may be missing can easily be added as you wish. Rick encourages you to be creative. I know that come summer if we are still missing some skaven or demons or chaos warriors that I'll likely put my own in the game for campaign sake. He even has posted in their facebook explaining the design principals that he used to help you design your own units, but hopefully those formulas make it to a publication to help us tinker with the game more in a better and more knowledgeable way.
For a lot of players also the lack of the wombo-combo list building is a huge CON. Fans of popping synergies off and combo chaining with units that feed off of each others' abilities may be turned off by that lack of ability here.
Additionally players that enjoy alpha striking and dictating how a game is played by virtue of bringing an alpha strike list that gets stuck in on turn 1 will also likely be turned off by having to employ maneuver to get where they want.
For me this is one of my favorite systems at the moment. Its rules are solid, and what weaknesses it has can be remedied by the community should Warlord Games not pursue the game much past the initial rulebook.
I look forward to writing some material in this game universe and getting some campaign time in with Mr. Priestly's work.
Cheers for posting that up. Looking forward to my copy arriving!
Ta da, Mr P himself talking about his new game. He gives an overview and briefly explains how the game plays. If you have played Bolt Action or Antares, skip this, but if you are a Warlord virgin then well worth a watch.
Thanks for the review, auticus. Sounds interesting.
I always enjoy Rick Priestly's games, so I will probably pick this up.


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Q: hadoop 1.x ports list - 4 more unknown ports I configured and installed hadoop 1.2.1 single node. I configured the namenode and jobtracker address with ports as "hdfs://localhost:9000" and "localhost:9001" respectively.
After starting the cluster (start-all.sh). I ran netstat -nltp after this, which listed the hadoop ports.
50030 - jobtracker Web UI
50060 - tasktracker Web UI
50070 - namenode Web UI
50075 - datanode Web UI
(http://localhost:50075/browseDirectory.jsp?dir=%2F)
50090 - secondary namenode Web UI

54310 - namenode (as configured in XML)
54311 - jobtracker (as configured in XML)
50010 - datanode (for data transfer)
50020 - datanode (for block metadata operations & recovery)
33447 - tasktracker ( not configured. Any unused local port is chosen by hadoop itself)

But, a couple of other ports also were occupied and it shows it is java process (I stopped hadoop and confirmed that these belonged to that hadoop cluster only).
48212 - ???
41888 - ???
47448 - ???
52544 - ???

These are not fixed ports. They are chosen dynamically. Because, when i restarted the cluster (stop-all.sh and start-all.sh), the other ports were same as first time, except these ports changed
48945 - tasktracker (This is fine, as explained before)

What about the other ports? What are these ports used for?
44117 - ???
59446 - ???
52965 - ???
56583 - ???

A: On a linux system, known services are typically listed in the /etc/services file. This is where network utilities (eg. netstat) get's the friendly names for port numbers (ie. 80/http).
Certain packages may update /etc/services. If the hadoop ports in question have a dynamic range that changes then there would be no reason to perform this update.
References
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/find-out-which-service-listening-specific-port/
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-appl.services.html
Hope this helps.

A: Thank you for posting this interesting question, Vivek.
It intrigued me a lot and I dig up a bit of code for Apache Hadoop 1.2.1 - startup section for each of the master and slave;
But there were no additional port bindings except for the standard documented one.
I did a couple of experiments on ways we can start a namenode and observed the ports using netstat -nltpa
1) hadoop --config ../conf namenode -regular
2) Directly invoking the Namenode main class
3) Add the default core-default.xml and than start up the namenode
My observation was for #2 and #3 only standard ports showed up, so I looked up the java options and that was the bingo.
Comment all of below in hadoop-env.sh and then start hadoop, you will see only standard port, so the additional ports you see are all JMX bin ports
export HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS"
export HADOOP_SECONDARYNAMENODE_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_SECONDARYNAMENODE_OPTS"
export HADOOP_DATANODE_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_DATANODE_OPTS"
export HADOOP_BALANCER_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_BALANCER_OPTS"
export HADOOP_JOBTRACKER_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_JOBTRACKER_OPTS"

Hope this helps.

A: netstat -nltp

This shows all the active TCP, UDP, RAW, or Unix socket connections.
  Hadoop HDFS, Hbase, Zookeeper creates lot of sockets
  intermediately and uses for read/write or messaging.
Number of RPC Reader threads gets created in org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient
  and to read/write data
  from the connections. hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.ClientProtocol
  will provide details on how to create socket/factory.

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Autonomous driving took center stage at the Auto.AI Europe conference in Berlin, as experts within the automation landscape spoke on the technology's potential as a game-changer in the future of mobility. Stephen Janouch, senior manager of business development at Green Hills Software, delineated the importance of security in automotive systems as vehicles become increasingly self-reliant.
"Automotive security is like the dirty laundry you have in your basement. You hope someone else is taking care of it, but at the end of the day, you may need to take a look at it yourself," said Janouch. "And it is important to know the difference between safety and security. Safety on one side is making sure that the system is behaving according to what you want it to do. Security is about making sure that no human can harm the machine and make it do something you didn't tell the machine to do."
Janouch pointed out that if an autonomous vehicle is not secure, it cannot be 100% safe. Security is a complicated issue, as the processes to make a vehicle secure are never-ending, and require companies to stay ahead of hackers by constantly updating their security policies and testing their vehicle software for chinks in their armor that may not be apparent.
Prevention, Janouch contended, is about companies approaching security from an "inside-out" perspective. "We propose that you start from the lowest level of a system – the hardware and operating system – and then work your way upwards and apply security measures on each level," Janouch.
The complexities around connected vehicles that are in service today make it an uphill task for companies to make them hack-proof, with Janouch pointing out the futility in trying to build firewalls around them. "Where could you actually build your firewall around the system? What does a system mean, is it just the vehicle?" he asked.
To reduce security threats and vulnerabilities around a vehicle, it is critical to cut down the complexities behind software systems running the vehicle. The problem mushrooms out from the way the code is written. Janouch spoke of a situation he had encountered, in which a client building a vehicle camera system approached his company with issues revolving around a staggeringly long software code.
"He gave us a video driver with 250,000 lines of code. The supplier probably brought it down to 50,000 lines of code, hoping that could be sufficient. In the end, we rewrote the driver to nearly 100% of the functionality with everything vital for the operation of the system, and brought the length down to 900 lines of code," said Janouch.
Reducing the absolute length of code is essential, as the longer it gets, the higher the probability of security concerns creeping in. "Typically, every 1,000 lines of code could end up with two defects. Though that doesn't sound like a whole lot, a high-end car will have about 100 million lines of code, and that would mean around 200,000 defects in the software. Hopefully, none of it is really affecting safety, but it still is a lot," said Janouch.
To make systems more hacker-proof, it will be prudent to identify critical parts of system code, separate them from untrusted code and auxiliary system code, and apply strict access control to the critical systems. This is akin to getting access to an office building. Though nearly all would have access to the building's main entry door, only certain people would have access to separate floors within the building.
"Communication needs to be separated as well. You want to make sure that information transferred from a signal that directly affects the system's vital behavior is not affected when someone does a download," said Janouch. "The key thing here is the operating system, which is the lowest level of software and practically the last line of defense against anyone trying to hack the software."
Ultimately, security is a never-ending process and automobile software developers will have to comprehensively plan for security firewalls right from the vehicle's inception and not wait until the vehicle functionalities are fully developed – as it is somewhere between "very difficult and impossible" to add security at the later stages of the development process.
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As the start of the season draws ever closer Terry is putting the finishing touches to the 2019 squad and like most squads it is a combination of youth and experience and his latest signing, Ronan Manning, has both as he is only 18 and has already played at senior level for the last two seasons.
Ronan who played his early football at at Cregmore FC and Mervue United, before moving to Galway United at the start of 2017, has been selected by the Republic of Ireland at U15, U16, U17 and U19 level as well as having played for the U18 Irish Schools Team.
Centre midfield is his regular position and he made his debut for Galway against Cork in July 2017 and was a regular in the squad for the 2018 season. During that season he scored two goals, both of which were against us as it happens. Welcome to the club Ronan.
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Danes. Murder. Executed.
Danes committed murder to be executed. They ment it was a safe way to Heaven.
In the 1700s, it was thought that suicide led to hell. Depressed people therefore killed innocent children to be executed and avoid the flames of hell.
The soldier Michel Blödorn was stuck on the scaffold one June afternoon in 1739. He would be executed for murder. From his mouth a hymn sounded so loudly that the tones could easily reach the ears of the many people gathered at Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen to see the execution.
The executioner smashed one shin so the bones were broken. Then the turn came to his second shin, to the thighs and to the upper and lower arms. But Michel Blödorn kept singing.
Nor when the executioner stab Michel on the wagon wheel, which was placed on a high stage at the gallows outside Østerport, he took notice .
The hours went by. In turn, priests crawled up to the disturbed man by a long ladder. They prayed with him. And they held a hymn book for him so that he could sing with a clear voice together with the total crowd. But no matter what, the hard-injured man could not die.
When it came to night, there was a command from the king: The murderer Michel Blödorn would suffocate in silence.
The German soldier Michel Blödorn had committed the worst crime that could be committed in the 1700s Denmark. He had murdered another human being – to be executed himself.
Its was suicide killings. The phenomenon was very common in the 1700s
People who were bored of life – suicide candidates – failed to kill themselves. Instead, they typically murdered a child or a random person. The purpose was to receive a death penalty and subsequently executed.
In 1536 a "reformation" of the church was carried out in Denmark. Then the country went from being a Catholic-Christian country to being an evangelical-Lutheran country.
The new view of Christianity had a major influence on daily life in Denmark. Among other things, because the laws of the country were changed so that they matched Luther's thoughts. The changes in the law meantthat the reason for suicide killings was founded
In the 1700s, citizens in Denmark were generally much more religious than they are today. And according to the church you came to hell if you committed suicide.
On the other hand, people received a direct ticket to Heaven if they regretted their terrible acts just before execution. This perception originated from Church Reformator Martin Luther's (1483-1546) view of Christianity.
Luther believed that you was saved by acknowledging your own sin, by in heart repenting your sins and believing in God.
The last moment of life was the most important time to regret its sins and believe in God, because you could no longer be sinful. So if a death sentenced really repented, it was believed that the soul would have to be saved.
Luther became the reason of suicide killings
The wave of suicide blamed over all the Evangelical-Lutheran countries in northern Europe.
Unlike the Catholic Church, the Lutherans took the laws of the Bible's Mosaic Law very literally – and the laws required the death penalty for murder.
When God demanded the death penalty, there was not much to wrap around for the god-feared Danish authorities. It posed Denmark – and the other Evangelical-Lutheran countries – in a very special situation:
On the one hand, killers should be executed
On the other hand, murderers could escape the torment of hell.
It made it attractive for suicide candidates to become murderers.
The state therefore introduces the hardest sentences in history
When the suicide killings had been ravaging for several years, it came up to the Danish judiciary that something was completely wrong.
Officials realized that the country's penalties did not work, but on the contrary, the reason was that random innocent people were killed by suicide killers.
The state was deeply concerned. So they reacted by legislating that suicide killers should have the hardest known death penalty in Denmark's history,
Suicide killers should be whipped, knuckled and smashed
The soldier Michel Blödorn received one of the sharpened sentences in 1739. When he was a soldier, the punishment became particularly tough.
In the military court – as convicted soldiers – the sentence of suicide kill: whip once a week for 9 weeks until execution. Then the soldier had to be wrecked and still alive on the wheel to die of his injuries.
In civil law – like convicted ordinary citizens – the suicide killers had to be partly burned five times on the road from the arrest to the scaffold. Then their hand should be chopped off after which the head was cutted of. In the end, the dead body should be exhibited on a big wheel to mock, scare and alert – wheel and steep.
People believed that execution was a safe way to salvation. Although the punishments for suicide became insane hard they just helped the person . In the population, That execution was seen as the safest way to the salvation of souls. Songs were written and preformed, telling how the murderers were excited to be executed. They looked forward to coming up to heaven and in white clothes sitting in front of God's throne. The view was that the more painful you experienced in connection with execution, the more sure you were in a place in heaven.
In the 1700s, suicide killers killed on average every year : • 1.5 people per 100,000 inhabitants in Copenhagen.
The perception was poison for the state's efforts to find a punishment so severe that it could stop suicide killers.
As the hard sentences did not help, one of the 1700s most respected lawyers, Henrik Stampe, suggested that the great problem solved by abolishing the death penalty for suicide killings.
However, it was contrary to the divine death penalty imposed by the Lutheran countries for over 200 years. Therefore, the proposal was initially rejected by both theologians, lawyers and government. "However, the number of suicides continued to grow, and ten years later in 1767, Stampe's proposal became law. Now the murderers were whipped once a year and put to the toughest and most profane work. It finally slowed down the suicide killings.
In that way Denmark became a pioneer country when it was abolishing the death penalty. But it was not something they were proud of. The decision was a violent violation of the religious understanding of the criminal system. Eventually, other countries followed – including Preussen,
Maybe you believe suicide killings are something that belonged to the 1700s. But today too, the terrible murders are committed in countries that have the death penalty. Infact, they are known too as suicide killings . Researchers have found several killers who committed their killing alone with the goal of being executed. The suicide killings in the United States are not nearly as frequent as those in the 1700s. But it shows that the suicide is a condition of having a death penalty. There will always be someone who feels attracted to being excecuted
. The book of Krogh, Tyge: A Lutheran Plague – Murder to Die in the Eighteenth CenturyArticle of Suicide In Today's United States: Van Wormer, Katherine et al, The Psychology of Suicide-Murder and the Death Penalty, 1999. Journal of Criminal Justice, 27 (4), 361-370
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You have stolen 30 years of an innocent persons life in the guise of stopping him rising to greatness and prosperity. He couls have prevented Genocide and Mass murder doone in the name of yourselves,


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Furniture Importer Settles False Claims Act Antidumping Duties Case for $15 Million
Apr 28, 2016 | Written by alanbaty
California-based Z Gallerie LLC has agreed to pay $15 million to settle allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by engaging in a scheme to evade antidumping duties on imports of wooden bedroom furniture from the People's Republic of China (PRC). Specifically, the suit alleged that from 2007 to 2014, Z Gallerie evaded antidumping duties by misclassifying, or conspiring with others to misclassify, the imported bedroom furniture as non-bedroom pieces. For instance, Z Gallerie allegedly sold certain Basset Mirror Company products, including a six-drawer and three-drawer chest as part of a bedroom collection. Although this furniture was mislabeled as "grand chests" and "hall chests," on the import documents submitted to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Under the antidumping order on wooden bedroom furniture from the PRC, which has been in effect since 2005, antidumping duties can be as much as 216.01% of the value of the subject merchandise.
The case was handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia. "Savannah is home to one of the fastest growing ports in the country, handling almost 10 percent of all the containerized cargo volume in the United States," said U.S. Attorney Edward J. Tarver for the Southern District of Georgia. "This U.S. Attorney's Office will work hard to make sure those using the Port of Savannah play by the rules, and to hold those who try to cheat their way out of paying customs duties accountable."
The allegations resolved by the settlement were originally brought by whistleblower Kelly Wells, an e-commerce furniture retailer from Huntsville Alabama, under the qui tam provision of the False Claims Act. The qui tam provision allows private parties, who have knowledge of fraud against the government, to sue on behalf of the United States those who falsely claim federal funds or, in the case of antidumping fraud those who avoid paying funds owed to the government. Under the False Claims Act, a whistleblower is entitled to receive a share of any funds recovered. Ms. Wells will receive $2.4 Million as her share of the $15 million settlement.
"Under the new Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, CBP will likely see an increase in these types of settlements as the streamlined processes take effect concerning allegations of duty evasion," said CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske. "The Act reinforces CBP's existing authorities and tools to collect and investigate public allegations of duty evasion improving the overall effectiveness and enforcement of CBP law enforcement actions concerning illicit trade activity, specifically in the area of antidumping and countervailing duty evasion schemes."
The use of the False Claims Act to enforce customs fraud, particularly schemes to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties, is a viable unfair trade remedy available to both individuals and businesses injured by unfair trade. Another example of False Claims Act enforcement of antidumping duties fraud is the recent case settled by Frohsin & Barger client Graphite Electrode Sales, Inc.
Read the full Department of Justice Press Release here.
To report fraud, please contact Frohsin & Barger.
Kelly Wells says:
May 20, 2017 at 3:56pm
I encourage anyone with knowledge of Customs Fraud to contact an experienced Whistleblower law firm such as this who has former Federal Prosecutors om staff that are experienced with Federal Cases and understand how the Justice Department operates. While they didn't represent me in this case, I wouldn't have been successful without a Federal Attorney that knew what they were doing.


Not bad, the second short kinda sucked, the one with the badniks.
It was pretty good, the best part was the dancing.
You should upload the Christmas day episode.
I love pixel games, and having layers was a pretty cool idea as well.
Its awesome, isn't there anything flash can't do.
I even remember some cheats from years ago. "IDKFA", "IDDQD". Good times.
It wasn't that bad, also easy to cheat.
The music was kind of annoying but it had some cool little special features like the map editor.
My only real complaint would be the level you couldn't see anything. But I did managed to beat it some how.
So maybe for next time you could add some details to the maps and get some good music, then it would be better.
Glad that it paid off.
After a few months, and I'm still listening to it.
I need to use this for a flash sometime.


I recently started a 50 day logo challenge, with a new simple prompt every day. You can track my progress by following me on instagram @filipj_design – or check up weekly here, on my website!
I was forced to end this challenge early, due to more pressing commitements and increased workload at university. I learned a lot through this, and it helped me develop a better, more cohesive process for designing logos quickly.


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Facebook might soon let you earn money from your posts
By Game Of Drones • 6 years 9 months ago
Facebook has grown into a mammoth company and whether you like it or not, is a major part of all our lives. One of the most valued companies in the world, it has always tried to add newer revenue streams to its business model.
If the latest indications are true, then us, the users, may have reasons to cheer as our posts could end up making money.
With the launch of Instant Articles for publishers to deliver content and ads more quickly on mobile, Facebook had made it clear it was serious about monetising content.
A new user survey from the company hints at the possibility of Facebook allowing users to accept donations in posts — either to earn money or aid charitable causes.
The survey also indicated that the social network is considering other ways of generating revenue, including branded content and sharing earnings from ads on posts with Facebook.
It'll be interesting to see if the company goes down any of these roads. The most straightforward path of allowing users to add a tip jar to their posts might see Facebook go up against blogging platform, which recently enabled publishers to monetise their work through sponsored content and monthly subscriptions.
Medium, which has already clocked more then two million posts from users, has seen heavy hitters like Femsplain and The Awl, as well as blogs from Time and Fortune sign on to its networked service to take advantage of the new payment features.
Of course, it may be too early to predict a winner, seeing as how all Facebook has done is conduct a survey. But it could be a compelling choice for publishers because that's where a lot of their readers spend their time anyway.
Given that Facebook is now an advertising powerhouse comparable in scale to Google, it can experiment with several different ways to generate revenue from valuable content.
Typing fingers crossed!
Courtesy: thenextweb.com
By mcrobertg• 5 years 11 months ago.
Why not? Youtube works within this scheme perfectly paying for a number of views as well as many similar networks. At http://www.buythesisonline.org is stated that any intellectual property in a writing form or any other should be compensated.
By Wild Turkey• 6 years 9 months ago.
Let's wait for QL to do the same.
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