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Dead Space 3 To Feature Drop-In, Drop-Out Co-Op?Dead Space 3 To Feature Drop-In, Drop-Out Co-Op?
On Monday, EA confirmed what many of us suspected–Dead Space 3, the third entry in its successful horror franchise, is in the works, and will be coming out at some point in the company’s third quarter of their 2012 fiscal year.
That Dead Space 3 is coming out at some point is all the company had to say, but today a report from IGN shed a little more light on what’s new with Dead Space 3.
According to the rumor, Dead Space 3 will be getting drop-in, drop-out co-op, with the second player taking on the role of an unnamed second survivor. There apparently won’t be much, if any, of a difference in the story when playing with or without a pal, so the co-op seems to be strictly optional.
IGN’s sources also claim that Dead Space 3 will feature a number of gameplay changes and additions, including the ability to crouch for cover, and protagonist Isaac Clarke will now be able to dodge away from enemy attacks by rolling.
The report goes on to discuss several other gameplay changes, including weapons. A weapon’s alternate fire mode will reportedly be more powerful than before, for example. The workbench has also seen a few new additions, possibly including the ability to mix and match parts to form a new weapon entirely.
For the full lowdown, you can head over to IGN’s report at this link.
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March is an act of faith and optimism, a rebirth in the narrow townhouse where once Brive thrilled and, before that, Bobby and Karen Pritsker played out scenes from a marriage at their brilliant Dodin-Bouffant. In the end, Brive faded. But March is crowded, playing to a full house. That proves that genius isn't enough. In fact, that proves that genius may not even be necessary.
Having left the security of La Colombe d'Or to make it on their own at a shaky moment for upscale dining, chef Wayne Nish and his partner, Joseph Scalice, seem to have found an audience for their $45 prix fixe. The whimsy is gone, along with Pritskers’ eclectic antiques, but the handsome Gropius tapestry banquettes remain. There is a fire crackling in the fireplace, and a pleasant welcome. Snow furs the garden in ermine. The room is brighter and lighter now and seems to have grown, tiny tables in almost claustrophobic intimacy, but it still feels as if one were dining in someone's home. Handsome "Biedermeier" chairs, Art Deco chandeliers, and odd bits of pretty china intensify that fantasy.
There's not a murmur of pretension. Indeed, the service can be almost too casual (although I'll grant our server may have been unnerved by the angst of pleasing me).
Tonight I'm happy here, cheered by two wonderful half-bottles of wine my guest and I are sharing in March's lovely crystal, a Phelps Chardonnay and a Cabernet from Clos du Val ($33 together). There is an Oriental rug on the floor and one in needlepoint on the wall, somewhat quieting the din, and we have chosen well. After Nish's signature giveaway-- his exquisite raviolo of spaghetti squash and pear in a wonton skin afloat in an acid pool of tomato water -- come savory rabbit sausage with bread pudding (it could be moister) and a perfection of lobster, with barley risotto and the provocative tingle of shiso leaf. Thick, crusty red snapper sits in a puddle of broth with diced celery root. The chicken is boned, under crispy skin, salty and good, substantial with its bouquet of fabulous greens and a squiggle of aioli. Grapefruit sorbet and grapefruit slices splashed with gin make a perfect finale.
Nish is earnest and serious. He came to his true love late, from the printing business. He was already in his thirties and on his honeymoon when he walked into Fredy Girardet's restaurant outside Lausanne (carrying an ode to Girardet in this magazine). What he tasted that day made him decide to make his hobby a profession.
Barry Wine gave him his first job, at the Quilted Giraffe. At Colombe d'Or, he worked with a Provençal palette. Here, his obsession has him smoking his own salmon and cooking fish with an ingenious technique that combines sautéing and steaming for the ultimate delicacy of texture. In the morning on his way to work, he shops Chinatown for leafy mustard greens, bok choy, snow-pea fronds, baby spinach, and vegetables whose names he doesn't know. But not all of his inventions really work. A spectacular cider sauce graces acorn squash but does nothing for shrimp that are supposedly the star of the dish. Seared salmon with tomato salad seems equally uninspired. The liver is fine, but itsy bits of carrot in butter taste like baby food.
Angus sirloin, aged in the house, too cooked (a misunderstanding), comes with sublime garlic-potato purée. And the salmon under its fabulous crunch of skin should be rarer, too (we didn't specify, no one asked).
There are wizards and there are hopefuls. At the moment, Nish may not be a candidate for the Gastronomic Hall of Fame, but he certainly seems to be pleasing the crowd at March. | http://www.insatiable-critic.com/Article.aspx?ID=344&keyword=March:%20Brio,%20Faith%20and%20Optimism | 2013-05-18T10:53:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By Tony Hicks
Contra Costa Times
Hundreds of fan letters addressed to Taylor Swift were found, unopened, in a Tennessee dumpster last weekend.
Can anyone ascertain the whereabouts of Harry Styles last weekend? Or Conor Kennedy? or Jake Gyllenhaal? Or John Mayer? Or that one Jonas brother? Or ...
Sorry.
The discovery was made by Kylee Francescan when she was tossing out her garbage at a dumpster in Nashville, according to ABC Nashville station,'" she, like, said. "It did bother me (because) I know how much her fans mean to her."
Like, OMG, frownie face.
The Swift fan mail, "covered with pictures, hearts and sparkles," was addressed to a P.O. Box at a strip mall. The owner of the venue says a member of Swift's team comes to get the letters every so often.
The 23-year-old's spokeswoman, Paula Erickson, told WKRN that what could have happened was "a small batch of mail that was supposed to be delivered to Taylor was accidentally put with letters headed for the recycling center."
Swift has a reputation for being good to her fans. She visited 10-year-old cancer patient Saturday in Omaha.
KELLY OSBOURNE RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL: Kelly Osbourne is out of the hospital, five days after
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BRANDI GLANVILLE WASN'T LYING: Turns.
AMANDA BYNES' AMAZING JOURNEY CONTINUES:.
IRAN THREATENS HOLLYWOOD OVER 'ARGO': Iran will sue Hollywood over Oscar-winning film "Argo" because of the movie's alleged "unrealistic portrayal" of the country, Iranian media reported Tuesday.
How do you sue all of Hollywood? Do you get, say, the Capitol Records building, the Viper Room, the Hollywood sign, and a couple of strip clubs to be thrown in later?
Several Iranian news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran, talking with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. According to Entertainment Weekly, she is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal.
This sounds like job for Jason Bourne.
Following the 1979 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days. Six other embassy staffers were sheltered by the Canadian ambassador. Their escape, using a fake movie as a cover story, is recounted in "Argo."
Iranian officials dismissed "Argo" as pro-CIA, anti-Iran propaganda.
Well ... yeah.
According to Entertainment Weekly, though the movie isn't showing in Iranian theaters, many Iranians have seen bootleg DVDs and have started a debate exposing a generational divide. Obviously, people who took part in the 1979 Islamic Revolution don't like the portrayals of Tehran at the time. Younger people are reportedly eager for a different view on what had happened.
The decision to sue came after a group of Iranian cultural officials and movie critics screened the film in a closed audience in a Tehran theater late Monday.
I'm guessing they didn't applaud at the end.
Members of the gathering, titled "The Hoax of Hollywood" (at least they went into it with an open mind) discussed legal aspects of filing a lawsuit, according to media reports. It remains unclear what specific charges Iran could raise and what court Tehran could turn to if the action goes ahead. A statement issued after the gathering said that "awarding an anti-Iran movie is a propaganda attack against our nation and entire humanity."
Speaking of drama ... .
The statement didn't specify how the film was unrealistic. Officials have accused "Argo" of depicting Iranians as "too violent." They said the movie didn't get into background events that led to the crisis.
This isn't the first time Iran has given the U.S. a collective thumbs-down to one of its films.
In 2009, Iran demanded an apology from visiting Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including Annette Bening, claiming films such as "300" and "The Wrestler" were "insulting" to Iranians.
The 1991 film "Not Without My Daughter" -- based on the true story of an American women fleeing Iran with her young daughter -- angered Iranians who said it cast Iranians as dirty, boorish and cruel, obsessed with Islam and misogynist attitudes toward women.
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MARCH 13 IN HISTORY
Wednesday is March 13, the 72nd day of 2013. There are 293 days left in the year..
1901: The 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis at age 67.
1925: The Tennessee General Assembly approved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.) 1933: Banks in the U.S. began to reopen after a "holiday" declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1938: Famed attorney Clarence S. Darrow died in Chicago.
1964: Bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, N.Y. home; the case generated controversy over the supposed failure of Genovese's neighbors to respond to her cries for help.
1969: The Apollo 9 astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module.
1980: Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II announced he was stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company not guilty of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.
1988: Yielding to student protests, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired, chose I. King Jordan to become the school's first deaf president.
1996: A gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.
2003:.
2012:.
BIRTHDAYS
Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka (74), actor William H. Macy (63), actress Glenne Headly (58), actress Dana Delany (57), rock musician Adam Clayton (U2) (53), rapper-actor Common (41), actor Danny Masterson (37), actor Noel Fisher (29), actor Emile Hirsch (28), singers Natalie and Nicole Albino (Nina Sky) (27).
Associated Press | http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/ci_22775743/hicks-taylor-swift-fan-letters-dumped-garbage | 2013-05-18T10:33:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
In the Bay Area's most comprehensive effort to provide the public with information on how much local government spends on public employee salaries and benefits, details on more than $17 billion spent by 271 local governments in the greater Bay Area in 2011 are now available online.
The data shows the cost of salaries, medical insurance and retirement benefits and other costs of employing more than 185,000 workers at counties, cities, special districts and school systems that released the information under the state public records act to the Bay Area News Group.
To view the database and search for salaries by agency, department or individual, go to
Since 2009, the Bay Area News Group has published details on nearly $136 billion spent on employee public sector workers across the state in the first database of its kind in California and one of the largest repositories of government pay information in the nation.
Data will include employee names, job titles, base salary, overtime and other cash compensation plus the government's cost of medical insurances, pension contributions, deferred compensation plans and other employment costs, such as disability and workers' compensation insurances.
The California Supreme Court ruled in a landmark 2007 decision that detailed employment costs,
In all, this newspaper filed public records requests with 573 government entities in the Bay Area. In addition to the 271 data sets now available, information was received from 63 other agencies that will be released later once it is formatted for publication. Another 238 requests remain pending in the region.
Not all agencies would release compensation in an electronic format, such as San Ramon in Contra Costa County. Other entities, including Walnut Creek and the Washington Health Care District in Fremont refused to provide data on individual employee medical insurance costs. At a few agencies, such as San Francisco, officials claimed that antiquated payroll systems could not produce data showing the complete cost of employment.
The database will be updated with more government information throughout the year.
Officials in Oakland have said they will release data by Friday. BART secretary Kenneth Duran said the transit agency will also release 2011 data by Friday.
Check the database for updates June 18.
Contact Thomas Peele at tpeele@bayareanewsgroup.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/thomas_peele. Follow tweets about the compensation data at Twitter.com/publicsalaries. | http://www.insidebayarea.com/data/ci_20841920 | 2013-05-18T10:42:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Sar's expected to return to New York on Wednesday to finalize arrangements.
Turkish authorities concluded that 33-year-old Sarai Sierra was killed with a blow to the head. She had been in regular contact with her family on Staten Island. | http://www.insidebayarea.com/nation-world/ci_22533959/body-nyc-woman-killed-turkey-return-us | 2013-05-18T10:12:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The union representing some 3,100 clerical, technical and health care workers went on strike Wednesday morning after negotiations with the University of Minnesota broke down at 11 p.m. the night before, eight hours into a last-ditch effort to salvage a persistent wage dispute.
Despite what Eliot Seide, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 5, called "a powerful start," as well as significant support from faculty, some students and the independent university media, Minnesota officials said the job action had a "minimal" initial impact and continued rearranging employees and prioritizing services to avoid potential disruptions on campus. Still, a significant number of professors who supported the strike intended to hold classes off campus, in violation of university policy.
From preliminary reports, the university estimated that about two-thirds of AFSCME employees had come to work on Wednesday, the second day of classes this fall. Seide said on Wednesday morning that at least 500 people had picked up picket signs, with "literally thousands" out on strike.
"We didn’t want to strike. Our people like to serve the students of the University of Minnesota," said Seide. "The university would not come up with a proposal that allowed our members to even keep pace with inflation."
The basic disagreement between the parties comes down to wages. While the union maintains that the proposed pay increase does not keep pace with inflation, the university says what makes up an "increase" is a matter of semantics. The university's offer, still on the table, would apply to the 94 percent of employees who haven't reached the top of their pay range and provide at least a 4.25-percent wage increase each year for the next two years.
The problem, as the union sees it, is that the university doesn't distinguish between "step" and other increases. Step increases (about 2 to 2.4 percent) are intended to award employees for longevity as they progress from their initial hiring rate to the final job rate. Separately, the union seeks pay boosts on top of the step increases to help employees match the costs of inflation. The university views both types as "real money" and as a result doesn't distinguish between them.
For the 6 percent of remaining workers not eligible for step increases because they are at the top of their range, the university offered lump-sum payments, which AFSCME found unacceptable. The dispute between the university and the union has not focused on health insurance or other benefits, which include tuition benefits and coverage of 85 percent of medical plan costs for active employees.
AFSCME has also complained that the university is not making use of additional funds appropriated by the state Legislature intended for wage increases. Daniel Wolter, a university spokesman, disputed that allegation. The university received $155 million out of a $189 million budget request, in which the regents sought a 3.25-percent increase in wages for all employee groups. The university's offer of 4.25 percent for AFSCME employees exceeds that, Wolter said.
Clerical workers struck at the university in a 2003 standoff that lasted for 11 days, an experience whose lessons officials are applying this time around. "We're certainly prepared to minimize any impact for a longer-term strike," Wolter said.
The university’s biggest concern was Boynton Health Services, the on-campus clinic, but by Wednesday afternoon no appointments had been canceled. Seven of the campus’s 911 dispatchers are AFSCME employees, but officials rerouted the service to the Minneapolis emergency routing center in anticipation of any disruptions. Still, veterinary service was reduced to emergency care and the bursar's office had to shift resources to continue operating.
Classes were set to continue, but some professors were ready to move their lessons off campus for the duration of the strike. According to Steff Yorek at the AFSCME Local 3800 clerical workers union, strike organizers have accommodated at least 140 classes, representing about 4,000 students, at off-campus locations such as theaters, church meeting rooms and the back rooms of restaurants. There are at least 100 more requests pending.
"Being on campus is crossing the picket line, in my mind," said Katherine Fennelly, a professor of public affairs who chairs the University Senate's Social Concerns Committee. Holding classes off campus "says to students that I respect the rights of workers to strike," she said.
"This strike hits all faculty hard. The people striking are people we know and work with every day. We care about them and their families, and we want the best for them," said Geoffrey Sirc, a professor of English who chairs the Faculty Affairs Committee.
"So even a basic decision like that has faculty feeling very uneasy, torn between duties as faculty regarding students, and allegiances, as good citizens, for unionized workers," Sirc said. "Overlaying all that, of course, is a respect for the administration. I think it's safe to say every faculty member wants this strike settled as quickly and as justly as possible."
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The inaugural Process Serving Standards Summit, held last week in Denver, was a historic endeavor: an industry recognizing that it, rather than external regulators, was in the best position to develop standards that not only protect players from lawsuits, but also guarantee compliance and improve transparency.
Process servers are a vital link in the workflow chain of debt collection. They serve court documents to consumers who are being sued for non-payment of a debt. As things currently stand, there is not an industry-wide set of standards used when handling process serving papers — and this is increasingly becoming an area of focus for consumer attorneys looking to sue collection law firms for violations.
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Last week participants from across the process serving industry — from process servers themselves, to creditors and collection attorneys — debated an initial draft of recommended process serving standards. Within a day the group had developed a document for wider dissemination to the process serving and collection industries as a whole.
There will be a 30-day comment period through 15 August, and then the Summit Advisory Board will review all comments received in order to revise and finalize the recommended standards.
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Lazeric Jones insists he was just trying to show some love to his family.
He maintains that the kiss he blew the Galen Center crowd after his second consecutive basket late in the first half of the Bruins’ 66-47 win over USC on Sunday night was all love. No hate.
The glint his eyes said something different. The sneaky smile that crept on his face confirmed it.
“I feel like I’m part of the rivalry now,” said Jones, who finished with 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting. “Every time we scored I got really excited. … That’s how it’s going to be. That’s how it’s always going to be. I was watching games a week ago, previous games (in the rivalry), and they were chippy then. Who am I to break the rivalry?”
If Jones provided the flash in the Bruins’ blowout win, the Wear twins provided the dirty.
Sophomore forward Travis Wear had 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting and brother David Wear added 13 points and seven rebounds in 19 minutes as he battled foul trouble.
Even with UCLA center Joshua Smith limited to just six points and five rebounds in 14 minutes, the Bruins had 30 points in the paint and 12 second-chance points and made up for 14 turnovers.
“It’s our execution,” UCLA head coach Ben Howland said. “We’re getting better at getting the reads and the second and third options off of our sets. We’re still not executing as well as we’d like, but we’re moving definitely in the right direction. That’s huge for us.”
So was Anthony Stover.
The Bruins backup center had three blocks and three rebounds but altered several shots and was an active presence in man-to-man defense, which the team has relied heavily upon during its three-game winning streak, which followed back-to-back losses to Stanford and Cal to open Pac-12 play.
“Stover’s minutes in the first half, where he was changing shots, blocking shots – defensively was a huge boost,” Howland said. “Stover has really played well for us. He played very well for us against Arizona and had key minutes for us against ASU.”
A year after USC’s interior duo of Nikola Vucevic and Alex Stephenson dominated the UCLA post with a combined 33 points and 20 rebounds in a 63-52 victory, their absence was striking, as the Bruins outrebounded the Trojans, 44-19. Last season’s game ended with Smith making an obscene gesture to the crowd and criticizing the referees in his post-game interview, actions that led to a reprimand from the Pac-10.
This year ended a bit differently.
“It felt great,” Smith said. “Zeek and (senior guard Jerime Anderson) reminded the team before we went out about what happened last year. We have a lot of new guys on the team – the twins weren’t playing with us last year, Norman Powell wasn’t with us yet – and we came out and said, ‘It’s us against the world out here; they embarrassed us last year, now let’s go put it on them.”
Added USC guard Alexis Moore: “We embarrassed ourselves. We did a disservice in our effort. Give UCLA credit; they played a great game, we didn’t match their effort.”
It took a while to begin, but the Bruins built their momentum.
The teams sputtered to a horrendous start, managing just a 9-9 tie with less than 10 minutes left in the first half. UCLA took off from there, however, with a 14-1 run over the next six minutes. By the time Jones puckered up for the crowd, the Bruins were up 35-16 and well on their way to their biggest win at USC since 1999.
“I was just giving my family a little love!” Jones said. “My parents have been on me about showing love to them when I’m on TV, so that’s all I was doing. It was all love!”
There’s that smile again. | http://www.insidesocal.com/ucla/2012/01/15/ucla-kisses-usc-goodbye-in-big/ | 2013-05-18T10:55:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Sleeping Beside Pets
If you struggle with insomnia you may well envy your pets, for whom sleep tends to come really easily. For some troubled sleepers, sleeping close to pets can be a surprisingly effective solution to insomnia. For others who already habitually sleep this way, it may be part of the problem. How can you work out which applies to you?
Pets and WarmthIn cold weather, it's natural for animals to huddle together for warmth. Sleeping beside warm blooded pets is a far more effective way to stay cosy than simply using more blankets. Most pets have slightly higher body temperatures than humans, meaning that their natural warmth will compensate for the way your body temperature falls during sleep.
The problem with this, of course, is that you can find yourself getting too warm in the summer months, when pets may still expect to sleep close to you to show affection. Simply throwing them out will confuse and upset them, so instead try to make it clear through your body language what the problem is.
Therapy AnimalsIncreasingly, trained animals are used in therapy for a wide range of diseases. Their primary purpose is to help with relaxation and they can be especially helpful to people who are having difficult getting to sleep because of stress or emotional issues related to illness.
Other therapy animals have special training to enable them to watch over people with complex health problems. If you have a young, intelligent pet, you may be able to find a specialist who can teach it how to do this. This type of assistance can include things like warning you if you are about to have an epileptic fit or asthma attack, making it easier for you to set aside worries that may interfere with sleep. Therapy animals can also help by waking you if you have a nightmare
Pets and AllergiesUnfortunately, for some people, there is a major downside to sleeping beside pets. This is caused by pet allergies. Not all allergies manifest in dramatic ways and it's often the subtler ones that cause the most trouble, because you may not notice they're there. If you suspect you have symptoms, your doctor can run a test to see if allergies are the problem.
Pet allergies can cause problems with breathing, sweating and clamminess, itchy skin or eyes and a general feeling of mild physical discomfort. It is possible to develop an allergy to your pet even after being fine with it for years. Though they may not interfere too much with your activities together during the way, problems like this can seriously disrupt sleep.
Pet HierarchiesMost of the animals we keep as pets have very strict social hierarchies with just one dominant animal. It's important to them to know their places within these hierarchies as this helps them to avoid fights and makes them feel secure. Sleeping close to their owner, however, is an important status symbol and may lead to competition over what they consider the best position.
If you have several pets, the best way to avoid being woken up at night by scuffles between them is to position them yourself when you go to bed, always favouring the dominant animal. This clear signal will help to preserve order. Don't try to do meek pets a favour by giving them more attention as this can easily lead to chaos.
Sleep CyclesAlthough most cats are happy to doze for long periods and older dogs like to sleep for several hours at a time, not all pets have natural sleep cycles that fit in with those of humans. For this reason you may have problems if a pet who has helped you to get to sleep wakes up during the night and wants to be active.
Leaving the bedroom door ajar so that your pet can quietly leave can help to stop you from being disturbed. Alternatively, place toys that your pet can play with quietly close to the bed. Some pets take guarding you whilst you sleep very seriously and will not feel comfortable leaving the room until you are ready to get up and start your day. | http://www.insomniacs.co.uk/sleeping-beside-pets.html | 2013-05-18T10:41:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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we're so excited to announce the first public beta release of our 'highly anticipated' InstantStorm 2.0. Please download the zipped version and test it as much as you can, use the largest Flash files possible, if you have multiple monitors, do a couple of tests with different settings, don't forget to check out the new screensaver settings dialog designer. To cut a long story short, don't go easy on IS 2.0 beta. Thanks in advance, all bug reports are welcome so that we can deploy the most advanced and stable InstantStorm... yet.
Oh... one more thing. Please do not redistribute any screensavers compiled using this beta, a final release is coming really soon, this time we mean it.
Here are some major improvements over 1.5.3 that are definitely worth checking out:
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Please use this forum thread to post all your comments, bug reports, and questions concerning this beta release! And have fun with the program
Edit (Vavi 07-08-09):
Beta 2 released, read more here
Edit (Vavi 08-08-09):
Release candidate released, read more here
Here's the download link (Beta 2):
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O.P.P. Crack Down
6,554 charges were laid by the O.P.P. over the long weekend. The charges included:
Speeding:4,165
Hazardous Moving Violations: 462
Seatbelt: 398
Other Highway Traffic Act Charges: 667
Liquor Licence Act Charges: 406
Insurance Act Charges: 161
Impaired Drivers Arrested: 66
Drug Offences: 11
Unsafe Vehicles: 211
Fatal Collisions: 7
FYI: “Emergency vehicles” were parked randomly on the highway to trap drivers speeding past them. It’s the law that you must slow down and move over into another lane if it’s safe to do so. Drivers who didn’t were fined $490 for a first offence. Repeat offences can go as high as $4,000.
Tickets Go High-Tech
The Ontario Provincial Police are now “test driving” new computer software that will eliminate human error and help prevent traffic tickets from being thrown out of court.
Sgt. Cam Woolley of the OPP predicts that by the end of 2006, 330 police cruisers and 220 Ministry of Transportation vehicles will be using the new “e-ticketing” system.
How It Works
When a driver is pulled over, the police officer will simply scan the person’s licence and enter the offence, and the system will automatically fill out the “electronic ticket” in the same way Pizza Pizza knows all about you when you order.
Cam Woolley says that a lot of drivers really get angry about being pulled over and delayed by having to wait for the officer to write out a ticket. He says the new “e-tickets” are so quick you’ll be back on the road in no time, to be caught speeding again.
Pitfalls Of The Old System
Up until now, the “manual” system that police have used to issue tickets has left open the possibility that a good defence lawyer can get the ticket thrown out of court, on a technicality. For example, an officer might write down the wrong date or fine amount, or his writing may be illegible.
Plus, there’s a chance that the ticket gets sent to the wrong court. Court clerks have to copy everything, sometimes making mistakes. The ticket goes through so many hands before it gets in front of a judge; there are several opportunities for things to go wrong.
The new “e-ticket” system reduces the opportunity for error at every level, and automatically sends the offence data to the right court.
Your Insurance Rates
Drivers are shocked when they learn that being ticketed for not having their driver’s licence or insurance card with them carries as much weight as a speeding ticket when it comes to their insurance rate. So do seatbelt offences, driving in the “High Occupancy Vehicle” lanes (HOV), and so forth. To view the other types of tickets affecting your insurance rate, click here.
A single ticket can increase your insurance rate by up to $500. Two tickets can increase your rate by up to $1,500. Three tickets can cause your insurance company to cancel your policy. A combination of one accident and a couple of tickets causes the most severe increase in rates and cancellations. Here’s a rate comparison put out by the Ontario government, showing the lowest to highest rates for 4 driver profiles, with rate differences of over $15,000.
Most at-fault accidents automatically come with a ticket, meaning that if you had a minor traffic violation to begin with, suddenly you’ll have one accident and two tickets on your record. This can send you into the high-risk market.
To check out the price of a new or used car before you check the best insurance rate, click here.
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Don’t be paying for other drivers’ bad records and accidents. Make sure you’re with the right insurance company. Fortunately, InsuranceHotline.com can do a quick rate comparison for all driving profiles and find you the lowest rate, by clicking here.
This new development in traffic ticketing technology means that bad drivers will have less wiggle room when trying to get out of their ticket, perhaps making them more cautious drivers. This is good news for drivers whose insurance rates have been going up as a result of the accidents that speeders can cause.
Most drivers are fearful that insurance companies check your drivers abstract every year on renewal. They don’t. It would cost them considerable resources to do that. They will only check it if your file has been flagged for some reason, like moving, having an accident, or adding a new driver to your policy. To order your own driver’s abstract, click here.
Fight
None of this means that you still shouldn’t fight every driving ticket in court. Police are not the judge and jury. Regardless of demerit points, a ticket is a ticket. Even if you go to court and there’s no fine associated with the ticket, you need to make sure that the judge drops the ticket entirely off your record. Otherwise the ticket will remain on your driving record and your rates will go up.
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This e-ticketing system provides the police with instant, real-time data on drivers about the location and type of collisions and offences. For example, if a certain kind of accident is happening regularly at a particular intersection, then the police will know about it instantly. | http://www.insurancehotline.com/romanov43/ | 2013-05-18T10:11:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd announced the appointment of Kevin O’Donnell to the position of President & Global Chief Underwriting Officer.
CEO Neill A. Currie commented: “I’m pleased to announce the promotion of Kevin to the position of President of RenRe Holdings in recognition of his increasingly strategic contributions and achievements over an extended period.
Currie noted tyhat O’Donnell “has done an outstanding job at expanding our underwriting footprint, developing our talented team and instilling the disciplines and collaborative practices which will ensure that the highest standards of risk assessment and selection are maintained well into the future.”
O’Donnell previously served as Executive Vice President & Global Chief Underwriting Officer and has been with the firm in positions of increasing leadership within the underwriting organization since 1996.
He was appointed President of Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd. in 2005, and has since managed all of the Company’s reinsurance operations, including property catastrophe, ceded and retrocessional, and specialty reinsurance. In 2010, he assumed responsibility for RenRe’s direct insurance operations, including at Lloyd’s, and in 2011, for all assumed risk across the enterprise, including the company’s Ventures unit.
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Typical Democrats, let’s just push this through without understanding all the ramifications. Reminds me of how we ended up with Obamacare.
Since some of the pork in this barrel included Alaska and Mississippi, well known red states, who really had a hand in crafting it in the first place? Just Democrats? Hardly likely.
Just saying…
Are you implying there are no Democrats in Alaska –
or Mississipi –
WRONG. Do your homework before making such silly statements.
Are you making the assumption that there are no Democrats in Alaska -
or Mississippi –
Do your homework before making such bone-headed statements.
CB, If there is anything our Congress and Administration is good at, it is spending our tax dollars unwisely and wastefully. Every bill they pass has numerous amendments in it for pork. They never learn they have a spending problem. Throw money at everything and hope it works. Reid is a huge hypocrite. He was criticizing Bush for acting to slow on Katrina and now he is trumpeting and bragging how quickly the aid got there. It is kind of like his running mate Pelosi voting to tax the rich starting at $1million and now it is not a good idea. They can’t make up their minds, what is left of them. Republicans are to be commended for cutting this way back and getting the pork out.
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This sounds like a much more reasoned approach. Again with over $16 trillion in debt and annual deficits of $1.2 trillion as far as the eye can see, our country is broke. We need to watch every penny. Spending must be cut. If we are not careful, we turn into Greece.
THERE IS MUCH PORK IN THIS BILL READ IT
MONIES FOR ALASKA FISHERIES ETC
PASS THE ORIGINAL BILL TO GET THINGS MOVING WITH NO PORK AND ADD LATER ON AN AS NEED BASIS–BE RESPOSIBLE TO THE VICTIMS AND TAX PAYERS
here we go again, another “us vs. them” article…wonder how many responses this one will get?
And the comments are chock full of facts too!
Gee. The Katrina and Ike aid went without a hitch. Why the reduction on the Northeast?
We now have $16 trillion in accumulated debt and are adding $1.2 trillion to it every year. We are now broke. It’s like when you have a debit card and make irresponsible charges to it. You can do it so long, but when the money runs out, you have to stop. That’s where we are today.[citation needed], including the version passed in 1996, is limited to partial vetoes of spending bills, for the purpose of reducing the deficit by eliminating unnecessary provisions from spending bills.[3]
Good points CalDude, unfortunately a line item veto would be wasted on the current President as he sees nothing wrong with deficit spending and believes we are not spending enough. Being from Chicago, he is Mr. Pork despite his Muslim upbringings.
Since Congress cannot help themselves by passing legislation to deal with one problem and must try to tack on numerous pork amendments, I am in favor of vetoing all amendments that do not pertain to the subject being voted on. The reason we have such a debt problem is that it is not their money being spent and they think there is an unending supply of funds to dip into. In the case of our current President, he wants unilateral power to raise the debt ceiling on spending. Is that like the Fox guarding the hen house or what?
When did millions start not being enough? Now billions are thrown around like it’s monopoly money.
Baxtor, the late great Senator Everitt Dirksen once said – A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you are talking about serious money. That was back in the 70′s when he said that. Now, we have graduated into throwing around trillions instead of billions since our dollar’s value has declined so much. Insurance carriers total will also be in the billions. What is wrong with this picture?
Neither branch of Congress objected to the Pentagon spending $400 for every gallon of jet fuel or diesel oil they purchase for Afganistan. Why then should they object for money spent to benefit AMERICANS who are in real need?
Yep one mistake deserves yet another and justifies it. Let me repeat for the hard of hearing, we are $16 trillion in debt and adding to that to the tune of $1.2 trillion each year as far as the eye can see. We simply can’t afford this anymore. I really love those who try to justify a current wrong by pointing out a past wrong. I’d love to see your house where you learned nothing from the mistakes you made to it in the past and then just kept on making them.
Dave, apparently some on this blog are legally deaf. I do commend you for shouting from the roof top that we can’t afford this nonsense anymore. Why not give the Insurance Industry a chance to pay claims since they have billions at risk as well? It is not as if thousands of claims won’t be paid if FEMA isn’t there with the $60 Bil. Cuomo told carriers to forget the deductibles even.
Interesting coincidence that Rep Governor of NJ shows non-partisanship in time of disaster and he and democrat NY are denied needed aid package by Republicans on the hill. Don’t tell me that is not a political punishment. Come to NJ and NY and see what happened here (to taxpayers’ properties) and then see if you can fix it with the funds now offered. If not repaired, we will just end up with no tourism industry, and more homeless and jobless to care for. Fix it right and we will prosper and pay taxes in the future.
The last time I checked, the Democrats led by the now infamous Harry Reid controlled the Senate. They can pass anything they want over the Republican objections. It sounds to me like this was more bi-partisan than you think and even some of the Dems in the Senate saw all the pork in it and chose to not go along. By the way, there is a substantial insurance loss in this storm and numerous carriers are involved and have very substantial reserves to pay damages. If it is inadequate, I am sure another package will be passed in the spring. | http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/12/20/274813.htm/?comments | 2013-05-18T10:32:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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NZIER consensus forecasts show growth to be lower, OCR on hold til end of 2013, unemployment to stay high next year, NZ$ to keep rising
By Alex Tarrant
Economic growth over the next three years will be lower than previously thought, meaning unemployment stays higher for longer, inflation stays subdued, and the Official Cash Rate (OCR) will be on hold until late 2013, according to the latest set of consensus forecasts.
Exporters are being warned to expect the New Zealand dollar will be higher for longer, with the Trade Weighted Index (TWI) expected to rise each year until 2015. Lower export receipts would contribute to lower tax revenue for the government, meaning it would not hit a fiscal surplus in the 2014/15 year as planned.
The Consensus Forecasts are an average of New Zealand economic forecasts compiled by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) from a survey of financial and economic agencies.
The New Zealand economy was recovering gradually, with economic growth to average 2.5% over the next three years, NZIER said.
"The Canterbury rebuild will be a key driver, though it will be more protracted than previously thought," it said.
The job market was softening. Forecasts expected slow job growth and unemployment to remain higher for longer, while real wage growth was expected to be subdued.
"The grinding recovery means inflation will remain subdued. Forecasters expect interest rates to be lower for longer, with gradual rate increases expected from late 2013," NZIER said.
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"A slow economy will also reduce tax revenue. Despite borrowing costs remaining low, the consensus does not expect a return to fiscal surplus by 2015."
See NZIER's comments on the forecasts below:
Slow and low
The economic recovery remains gradual. Growth will be steady but unspectacular, thanks to a weak global economy, ongoing deleveraging at home and uncertainty about the Canterbury rebuild.
Economic growth will be a little lower in 2013 (2.3% from 2.4%) and 2014 (2.8% from 2.9%), relative to our last survey.
Economic growth is expected to be 0.2% in the September 2012 quarter.
Canterbury rebuild more protracted
The Canterbury rebuild will lift investment.
Forecasters expect the bulk of the reconstruction to occur in 2013-2014. But they also expect the rebuild to take longer. Residential investment growth will still be +11% in 2015, up 1.5% from the September survey.
Uncertainty about the timing and size of the rebuild means there is considerable divergence amongst forecasters.
Export growth will slow
The export outlook has softened. Global demand has slowed and the NZD is expected to be higher for longer. Exports will be affected, though forecasters differ on the extent.
Forecasters agree that growth will be slower. Over the next three years, export growth is forecast to average 1.7%, down from 2.1% in the September survey.
Exchange rate to weigh on exporters
The NZD will remain elevated for some time.
Forecasters have revised their expectations upwards. On a trade weighted basis, the dollar is expected to be higher every year through to 2015.
Exporters should plan for weak demand and a high exchange rate for some time. A high exchange rate will favour imports.
Inflation subdued
A slow recovery means inflation is low. Consumer price inflation will remain within the RBNZ’s 1-3% target band over the next three years.
Forecasters now expect inflation to average 2% (down from 2.3% in the previous survey) over the next three years. Inflation is expected to be 1.4% in 2013 before picking up to 2.4% by 2015.
Interest rate increases delayed
The 90 day bank bill rate is forecast to increase from an average of 2.7% in 2013 to 3.0% in 2014 and 3.7% in 2014.
Forecasters expect interest rate increases to begin in late 2013, with smaller increases than previously thought. This is due to the sluggish recovery and weaker inflation.
Labour market trending sideways
There is considerable divergence amongst forecasters about the labour market. But the consensus expects job growth to be steady.
Unemployment remains high so competition for jobs is intense, moderating real wage growth.
Fiscal deficit to remain in 2015
The government operating deficit will narrow over the next three years, but consensus does not expect a return to surplus by 2015.
Forecasters expect government borrowing costs to remain low, despite being in fiscal deficit.
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Residential investment growth
Residential investment growth will still be +11% in 2015, up 1.5% from the September survey.
The NZD will remain elevated for some time.
Such emphatic forecasts belong in the dustbin alongside Ross Asset Managment's prior portfolio return statements.
Wait and See, Wait and See,
Wait and See, Wait and See, kick the can a little more down the road.
NZ dollar rising, exporters and manufacturers going to the wall.
More New Zealanders leaving for Australia so they have a shot at home ownership.
Builders leaving in droves to build houses in Australia for incoming Kiwis.
Finance companies have robbed the Nation, probably doing 3 months home detention.
Yep if you read between the lines of the RBNZ it's all there. Easy to see.
New Zealand based Australian Banks doing extremely well, Phew.
The Mission has indicated this will be the busiest year in a decade for Food and Shelter.
Uncertainty about the timing
Uncertainty about the timing and size of the rebuild means there is considerable divergence amongst forecasters.
So forex traders are now forecasting rebuild projections....i'll take that as a don't know.
Exporters should plan for weak demand and a high exchange rate for some time. A high exchange rate will favour imports.
A recipie for a debt fueled econonomy.....plan for a high exchange rate..?, let's know a good plan and we'll look at it.
A little suprised not more attention is being paid to the incoming Japanese Prime Minister, an agressive approach to weaken the yen and force inflation will be an understatement, it will be downright hostile.
Given the tenure of Japanese P.M.'s he figures on going for broke , no more softly softly, and will be encouraging, dare I say bullying the B.O.J. to behave compliantly.
This will set the cat among the pigeons in the New Year.
of course that is assuming the Myans have it wrong, or just ran out of Caleander space....note to self...pack a little something for the afterlife, j.i.c.
once again you guys fail to
once again you guys fail to see the clever plan behind destroying our export sector by been the only country in the world to still pay interest. just remind me again what is the plan
The Plan..vavau.to, was to
The Plan..vavau.to, was to borrow as much money as we possibly could while global lending rates were attractive as possible for extraodinary lengths of time...using this money wisely to service the unemployed peons who ,by the way are registered voters, having gained their confidence push ahead with asset sales ( the agenda), while selling off as much land as possible to foreign capital interests in a token attempt to balance some borrowings until asset sales are completed..
Now if any of the copius ammounts of Foreign capital injection have created employment for New Zealanders who, were already unemployed, not immigrant New zealanders just sworn in ,job ready...I am not aware of it.
Easy, some investors in the
Easy, some investors in the USA pay JK a backhander (say 100millionUS) to keep the rate up so they make a packet off our backs.
Or maybe you could suggest something that isnt completly un-believably loopy?
Really we have to ask JK and BE why they continue with this.....trouble is determining what the real, honest answer is because I dont think a) they know, or b) want to say.
Ive never seen an honest equal to equal answer, I'd love one.
regards
Good Plan!!!! I wonder where
Good Plan!!!!
I wonder where the US $ 45 billion at 0% interest is going to parkup over the holidays, some backwards pacific nation still paying interest maybe.
We're officially stuck
We're officially stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Decrease the OCR and the dollar will drop, borrowing will get cheaper and the exporters will be happy. This will of course further fuel the Auckland housing boom and we'll all feel sorry for those first home buyers. Of course if you increase the OCR to calm the housing market you will officially kill our export industry. I think an increase in house prices is the lesser of 2 evils, National should lower the OCR and control housing using supply side solutions.
The exchange rate's influence
The exchange rate's influence on how well the export companies do is greatly exaggerated, often by the very exporters trying to find an excuse for their incompetences.
Similarly, the OCR’s influence on Auckland property prices is greatly exaggerated too; the insufficient supply has a much greater influence.
The OCR will stay put for a while, until inflationary pressures push it up.
"Worse for longer"...now who
"Worse for longer"...now who would have thought that would be the case!
How much worse....enuff to warrant another gst hike...yes
Enuff to bring an end to the bloated civil service salaries for bosses...no
Enuff to end the MP salary and perk pigfest....no
Enuff to snuff out the splurge on 'consultants'...no
Vavau - lets stop paying
Vavau - lets stop paying interest forever right ? Enjoy your retirement on fixed (non) interest - smart idea
this can not be !.....I have
this can not be !.....I have "reliable" sources that Auckland house prices will rise 14% next year 2013
!!! help Wolly what shall I do ?! ....I have never known a small economy to have so many differing opinions on the future ....but I an more inclined to go with NZIER ...but as Wolly and I know the "porking" in ALL its forms will continue ...... What happens when all the "pork" runs out .....??
I'm sure the problems of our
I'm sure the problems of our export sector have nothing to do with massive overcapsity in freezing works due to sheep numbers halving and carcass weights doubling in about twenty years, failure to impliment a meat & wool Fonterra type monoploy to corner and control those export markets as Fonterra has done to the GDT, failiure to impliment consumer driven reform for end product, eg mini roasts, marketing of wool as a luxury product, etc, or the tendancy to export our forest products as raw primary commodities, chips and logs, rather than the bulk of it being highly manufactured product.
Okay I know some PI operators are bucking up, ditching the dark ages, realising there will never be another Korean War wool boom, for example, and that wool is only 5% of all fibres traded therefore it is a luxury and renewable, hense green, consumer product, or that the Chinese will happily pay more for flaps than legs of lamb which they see as dull eating or creating high density plywood that can be used to build builds of 15 stories with massive earthquake resistance - massive rebuild opportunity in Japan with all those newly printed Yen anyone?- but we still have a long way to go.
I believe it was the good godfather of all economists, Adam Smith, that pointed out the only way to add value, hence more wealth, more jobs, more potential new capital is by manufacturing - not by mearly harvesting.
You wouldn't pay $12 for a handfull of mouldy wheat but that is in essense what the artisian crafted swiss loaf is without manufacturing.
It also doesn't help that we have largely opened our market to free competion globally while our trading partners refuse to do the same
But what has terrified me for more than a year is it is according to those that are paid to tell the rest of us these things it is only a massive natural disaster which is keeping the New Zealand economy (GDP) growing at all.
Without the Christchurch rebuild we would be in recession or worse.
This means the underlying real non disaster relief economy is in recession and it is only a massive Government and insurance spend - therefore less available 'savings' as local capitail and an increased need for taxation -thatis keeping NZ INC from sinking like a stone.
If you made it this far,
Cheers.
I went to Costco yesterday
I went to Costco yesterday and a huge chiller of fresh Aussie lamb for sale at knock down prices, still too expensive at $20 for a leg but thats not enough for farmers in NZ. Is Aussie lamb production being discounted going to be our downfall?
Countdown in Palmerston North
Countdown in Palmerston North has Aussie steaks for sale.....that does not make sense to me.
We buy beef from a local farmer....same price as 8 yrs ago. He is happy.
Cheers
Think AJ.....! It's cheap for
Think AJ.....! It's cheap for a reason. Younger is tasty, melting and yummy........then you have the older larger almost a Hogget 'Lamb'.....feed the tribe on one leg....just remember to bash the leg on a rock for an hour before cooking slow and long...very slow and long.
It's all about the nuts,
It's all about the nuts, Wally. By the time spring hits lasts years lambs are getting good at using them, its does give certain flavour to ones roast that some object to, including me.
Nuts....side dish
Nuts....side dish AJ....grilled and always on hand to offer to visitors as finger food. Dipped in Chocolate.
Tax thieving to get
Tax thieving to get worse..petrol and RUC both going up....how you like that xmas kick in the face...
No worries Tweak...I cut back once and can cut even more...drive slow as and save heaps on diesel....
Watch as the overall tax theft keeps going down and the loss of employment speeds up.
Tweak and Fiddle will claim the country needs to pay for the roading infrastructure....in reality it's no more than socialism dressed up as Lamb.
Actually, they're taxing real
Actually, they're taxing real activity, taxing something that is a mile away from being costed properly (both it's finite nature and it's pollutive effects) , what's wrong with that? | http://www.interest.co.nz/news/62523/nzier-consensus-forecasts-show-growth-be-lower-ocr-hold-til-end-2013-unemployment-stay-hi | 2013-05-18T10:41:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The mobilization of the film comes at an especially nostalgic time in Hollywood, as producers ruminate on the creature comforts of childhood in the 20th century: along with Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (March 2012), two Snow White productions have recently racked in millions in the last few months, and Wreck-it Ralph, which celebrates and rewrites the script for our favorite villainous video game bosses, is set to premiere this November. J.Lo has certainly caught onto the trend in signing on Jack the Giant Killer (March 2013) screenwriter Darren Lemke to pen the adaptation.
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Baghdad, Dec. 25 (AKnews) - The Iraqi parliament has adopted a new set of mandatory actions to blige its members to attend meetings fully.
Despite parliament's decision to cut 500,000 Iraqi Dinars (about US$400) from the salaries of the MPs per session not attending, they continue to do be absent.
"some members attend the meeting at the beginning and leave later to the cafeteria" says Abbas al-Bayati, a member of the National Coalition (NC) bloc led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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Luzipo said the country had lost more than 1 million jobs, which impacted negatively on the federation’s membership.
The national Cosatu membership stood at 2 million against the total of more than 10 million employed people in SA.
In his address, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said Cosatu’s membership only represented 29 percent of unionised workers with 71 percent of workers remaining outside unions.
Presenting her report to the conference, KZN Cosatu treasurer Cynthia Joyce said more had to be done to organise members.
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I've been up to some really interesting things with my PHP5 framework. I've got a pretty sweet active records system going on in it. I will dedicate a one or more articles to that later. In the meantime, I was fooling around with PHP's Reflection API to rebuild classes.
One of the main reasons I wanted to do this is because my PHP Manual dashboard widget does have any SPL classes so every time I go up north or don't have access to the internet, I have no way of knowing how to use some of the classes.
What I did was make a very simple function to rebuild as much of the classes as possible. Unfortunately, Reflection doesn't seem to supply the inner code of class methods. The furthest you seem to be able to get is if you have static variables within the function. Although, if anyone knows how to get the contents, that would be great! I was thinking if anything, because line numbers and file names are supplies (but seemingly not for spl classes) that it could just be extracted from the file.
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What is a dislocated lens?
Dislocation of a lens is when the lens falls out of its proper position, typically into the vitreous (for a diagram of the lens and its relationship to the vitreous, click
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. Normally, the lens is located immediately behind the iris (the colored part of the eye). Patients who have undergone cataract surgery have a lens implant instead of the "native" lens. Either kind of lens -- the native lens or a lens implant -- can become dislocated into the vitreous.
Why does dislocation of the lens occur?
The native lens becomes dislocated most commonly during cataract surgery, when the contents of the lens inadvertently fall into the vitreous (this is an uncommon but well-known complication of cataract surgery). Rarely, the lens spontaneously falls into the vitreous, unrelated to cataract surgery.
Lens implants are typically placed within the lens "capsule", which is the outer lining of the native lens; the cloudy contents of the lens are removed but the capsule is left in place to hold the lens implant. The capsule is held in place by "zonules" -- very fine, string-like structures that connect the capsule to the wall of the eye. Sometimes, the capsule and/or the zonules become weakened, and the lens implant can no longer be held in place, resulting in its dislocation into the vitreous.
How does lens dislocation affect the eye?
The lens -- either the native lens or a lens implant -- is necessary for focusing light on the retina, which allows the eye to see clearly. When the lens becomes dislocated, it can no longer do the focusing, and the vision becomes quite blurry as a result.
If lens material becomes dislocated into the vitreous during cataract surgery, other problems can arise in addition to blurred vision. The eye can become inflamed (inflammation --overactivity of the immune system within the eye -- can cause pain, redness and damage to critical structures within the eye) and the eye pressure can become elevated (high eye pressure is known as glaucoma).
What is the treatment for a dislocated lens?
Vitrectomy
surgery is used to treat a dislocated lens. In the case of dislocated native lens material, as in complicated cataract surgery, the retina specialist performs a "lensectomy" as part of the vitrectomy procedure. A specialized instrument known as a "fragmatome" can break up the lens material into tiny pieces and remove it from the back portion of the eye. In the case of a dislocated lens implant, a vitrectomy is combined with removal of the dislocated implant through an incision in the front portion of the eye.
Once the dislocated lens is removed, a new lens implant is often placed. A variety of techniques can be used to insert the new implant. If there is sufficient lens capsule to support a new implant, it can be placed behind the iris, in front of the residual "shelf" of lens capsule. Often, there is insufficient lens capsule to support a new lens implant. In that case, the implant can be placed in front of the iris (this is known as an "anterior chamber lens") or it can be sutured in place, behind the iris. The technique for placement of a new lens implant is determined by several factors, including how much lens capsule remains, whether the patient has glaucoma, and the condition of the cornea.
If a new lens implant is thought to be too risky, or if the patient simply prefers not to have a new implant inserted, a contact lens can be worn, instead.
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The aims of the MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law lie in fundamental research of current, future-oriented questions surrounding the protection of intellectual property, such as inventions or creations as well as the regulation of competition mechanisms and behaviour. The point of departure in defining the Institute’s research topics are primarily phenomenological questions from which specific, long-term examined Fields of Research are formed. Within these areas of research, the Institute determines mid-term variable main areas of research within which various types of partially interdisciplinary-oriented research projects are located.
One of the Institute’s special tasks is the support of young academics following the completion of their university studies. Its scholarship programme attracts over 100 young academics annually, primarily doctoral candidates but also a significant number of researchers who are preparing for a university career. In addition to these, a large number of visiting scholars are served (Welcome Center) who are able to conduct research and carry out research projects in the Institute’s library, the world’s leading facility in this field.
The Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) supplies an important contribution to research and teaching. Beginning in 2003 – at first under the direction of Joseph Straus and since 2009 under the direction of Josef Drexl – the MIPLC has offered an LL.M. study programme with an emphasis on IP law, in connection with international partner universities and is staffed by internationally recognized university professors. Instruction is entirely in English.
The International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation – Legal and Economic Determinants (IMPRS-CI) under the direction of Reto M. Hilty supports in particular ways young academics. This cooperation of the Institute with three faculties (Law, Economics, Business Studies) of the University of Munich focuses on a structured, interdisciplinary, three-year doctoral programme. The programme takes on eight new candidates annually, half jurists and half economists, who are primarily introduced to the other’s discipline. The doctoral candidates conduct research on the points of interface between law and economics concerning the effects of protection law and competition law regulations, in particular on innovation processes.
With the 2013 newly established department Munich Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research (MCIER), the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law faces new challenges in the field of interdisciplinary research and extends the research towards economics. At the MCIER researchers mainly focus on the key subjects innovation and entrepreneurship, which are of high relevance to the legal research at the MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law. MCIER engages in research to explore and analyze the courses, determinants, outcomes and implications of innovation and entrepreneurship processes.
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1966
Founding of the MPI for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law.
2002
Expansion into the MPI for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. On 1 July 2002, the unit “Accounting and Taxes” was added to the newly structured unit “Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law”.
2009
Enlargement of the Institute with the Department of “Finance”.
2011
The existing Institute was split into two independent Institutes, the MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law under the direction of Reto M. Hilty and Josef Drexl, and the MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance, under the direction of Kai A. Konrad and Wolfgang Schön.
Founding of the Munich Max Planck Campus for Legal and Economic Research which, along with both Institutes, is integrated with the MPI for Social Law and Social Policy under the direction of Ulrich Becker and Axel Börsch-Supan.
2013
Enlargement of the Institute with a new department, the Munich Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research (MCIER), under the direction of Dietmar Harhoff.
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To a large extent the election of Tanzania’s nine representatives in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) on Tuesday lived up to what had been hinted by this column last Sunday.
In a piece headed ‘EALA is a job market for friends,’ the column spoke of whispers to the effect that the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) had in the past used the regional institution as a job market for friends who had failed in national elections.
And going by the profile of those who have already been elected to serve in EALA, it is a fact that at least three had failed in past general elections.
This ties in with allegations that the ruling party has been using EALA not in the interest of the nation but rather as a conduit for providing jobs for friends.
It is unfortunate that despite being warned by a former EALA legislator, Deputy Minister for Works Dr Harrison Mwakyembe, on the dire need to get the right crop of representatives in the regional legislative body, the majority of CCM MPs still went ahead and picked some of their cronies who had failed in past elections.
Dr Mwakyembe accused some former Tanzanian representatives in EALA of hiding under the table during debate on account of poor communication skills in English.
He appealed to his colleagues to be very careful this time around and elect those who were not only well versed both in regional and international issues, but had good communication skills in English as well.
However, there is a need to make special mention of three elected candidates, Abdallah Mwinyi from Zanzibar, Makongoro Nyerere (both from CCM) and Ms Nderakindo Kessy Pepetua from the opposition NCCR-Mageuzi. The performance of the three would-be EALA members during their interviews was excellent.
For some of the victors, it was clear that they had crammed what they spewed out at the podium, and evidence of that came thick and fast when they were subjected to questions. They failed miserably to answer simple, routine questions on account of being disoriented.
Before the election, rumours swept Dodoma about how some of the candidates spent millions on corrupt activities, but as is usual in Bongoland, there were no arrests.
According to the whispers, some people were alleged to have shelled out as much as Sh1m in a bid to facilitate their election to EALA.
However, the fact that no arrests were ever made, either by the police or the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB), the whispers remain what they are - just rumours.
The five-minute duration, three for personal introduction and two for answering questions, allotted to each candidate once again exposed Tanzanians’ lack of communication skills in English. Most of the candidates literally struggled in an effort to make sense of what had motivated them to seek candidature to EALA in the first place. Perhaps what was more unfortunate was the fact that most candidates, including some of the MPs who asked the questions, exhibited very little knowledge about the regional body.
For instance, not a single candidate, including members of the Union parliament, could articulate, even briefly, what had led to the collapse of the original East African Community.
While both the parties raised the monetary union issue, touching fleetingly on problems currently afflicting the European Union, most of them forgot that at some stage the original EAC had a common currency. It is incredible that while both parties spoke of the need to keep and maintain institutional memory, they were all oblivious of the erstwhile existence of the common currency in the region and appeared equally ignorant of what had led to the collapse of the EAC common currency.
In short, they did not need to look at the monetary problem presently bedeviling the EU, but rather in their own backyard where once upon a time one currency held sway in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
Many candidates used the stage in the august House to parade their academic qualifications (which has become vogue in this country). Unfortunately, however, the academic certificates they claimed to possess were not reflected in their communication skills.
While most of the candidates were arguably highly qualified academically, their weakness in English communication skills could be attributed to a lack of a reading culture in this country.
At the end of the day, Tanzanians, through the Union parliament, elected some candidates who have in the past held very high profile posts in which they had failed to deliver.
The question is: if such people failed to deliver in the past in more challenging posts, what drove the MPs to elect such people? Can they succeed at EALA where more intricate issues and challenges abound?
What is very interesting about EALA, and by extension the EAC, is that while outwardly the Tanzanian government projects the image of being serious about the regional body, it does not view the rights of Tanzanians who had worked in the collapsed regional body in the same vein.
To date it has failed to pay their rightful terminal benefits after bungling their first payment over ten years ago when the Ministry of Finance ended up paying people who had not legally served in the regional body.
What is so unfortunate about the terminal benefits of the former EAC employees is that during their working tenure, they were deducted from their salaries as part of their pension scheme and the money was kept in trust by Britain’s Crown Agency.
Whispers have it that when Uganda’s dictator General Idi Amin captured the Kagera Salient in October 1978, the government used the money from Crown Agency in its war effort.
There was nothing wrong with using the money for the war cause. But having used it, it is only fair and right that the government of the day should have paid the former EAC employees their rightful terminal benefits.
However, when the government finally decided to pay them, the third phase government of President Benjamin Mkapa first decided to flout all the rules. While the number entitled for payment stood at 15,000, Mkapa’s administration came up with 31,000 employees.
Initially the government promised to pay Sh450bn, but eventually ended up paying only Sh117bn without explaining what had become of the Sh333bn balance. Although the 16,000 extra employees paid by the government had worked for the EAC, they were however not under permanent and pensionable terms. Therefore, they were not entitled to such payment.
Meanwhile, according to the whispers, the government has been using every trick in the book to derail the case lodged in court by the former employees of the defunct regional body. Indeed, how does one explain a court ruling passed by a panel of five judges being thrown out by a single judge?
According to the latest rumours, many Tanzanian lawyers are alleged to be agitating for the establishment of a strong East African Court of Appeal. The lawyers argue that the establishment of such a court will greatly help in curtailing the Tanzanian government’s machinations in cases ranged against it, which abound.
Since the majority of judges in the court will come from the other four countries of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, it will not be easy for the Tanzanian government to bring its pressure to bear on the court. | http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php/=INSuRT3/is/tabin/75d/eefault.INSuRT3/css/function.fopen?l=40794 | 2013-05-18T11:03:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A spectre is haunting the nation. This spectre is nothing else but the birth pangs of a new constitution. Since the birth of new constitutions anywhere is, in most cases, not a child’s play or a tea party, we are likely to witness a number of happenings in the coming days and years until the baby is born - hopefully alive, although a stillbirth cannot be ruled out even by proven masters of the art of positive thinking.
Yes, not only talk about a new constitution is in the air everywhere and proving to be a key national agenda in the land, but there has been real drama taking place in one of the important pillars of the state, that is Parliament.
Civic sector players are also not doing badly in the unfolding constitution making game, whose rules are as contentious as the concept itself. Reporting on what transpired in the August house this week, one of the serious daily tabloids came up with an eye-catching headline of ”rough road ahead as the constitutional bill is tabled”.
Definitely the report referred to the rocky take off of the bill to put in place a mechanism of writing a new constitution, which was characterized by confrontational verbal debate, leading to the walkout of MPs of the major opposition party and few others from a small player in the opposition politics league.
But it is what went on when the remaining MPs reconvened in the absence of their protesting colleagues which raises concern about the direction of the constitution writing process.
We witnessed more hot air than hot ideas, a tip that only few focus on one noble goal –that is to debate, argue, counter-argue but eventually come up with the best possible new constitution to guide the nation in the challenging future.
As we attempt to figure out what is really happening and the motives behind these developments, it is important to underscore a few things.
First, we are not the only ones involved in the new constitution establishment initiative. There are many countries, especially in the developing world, which are busy with the same exercise, while several others have accomplished the mission in recent years - Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa etc.
Why this unprecedented demand for new constitutions? The answer is straightforward - there is awakening and realization by progressive citizens and, to some extent, members of the public that a country’s constitution is a vital compass that is an important prerequisite for good governance. Since good governance is wanting in many countries, the tendency to go back to the basics, revisit and formulate the countries’ mother legal roadmaps is inevitable. In fact those in power are under pressure to do it.
But you have sections of the elite in many societies, ours inclusive, who are not eager to see constitutional reforms, for a simple reason that they are beneficiaries of the status quo, characterized by bad governance - which allow them to misappropriate public resources with impunity.
As far as these social pests are concerned, any drastic changes in the way of managing state affairs is likely to put them at a disadvantage by plugging the administrative loopholes which give them leeway to steal. A situation may also arise whereby some suspected looters may be investigated and required to account for their past actions. Who says this is not a scaring scenario for all those living in glass houses?
Elitist groups determined to rock the constitutional boat, and where possible give us old wine in a new bottle, are easily identifiable. You have senior public officers in the bureaucracy, with powers to make vital decisions on the allocation of national resources who use their power for personal gain.
There are politicians who have bought their way to power, and are busy amassing wealth, left, right and centre. We don’t have to forget some corrupt businesspeople out there, who collude with the fore-mentioned to bleed the nation dry.
In short, constitutional reforms in Tanzania have many pretenders plotting to either dilute or derail them. One of the ways to achieve this is to ensure the legal mechanism to establish a proper launching pad of the process is undermined. The only solace here is that they are delaying the inevitable for, as one philosopher put it, we can stop all other things but change. In the end truth and justice will prevail.
Henry Muhanika is a Media Consultant. hmuhanika@yahoo.com | http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php/=INSuRT3/is/tabin/75d/eefault.INSuRT3/ex.pntenp/ion=/?l=35584 | 2013-05-18T11:04:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
For the last two weeks there has been a fierce debate on allowances given to Members of Parliament, chiefly fuelled by recent revelations by two leading daily newspapers.
The revelations were first denied by the Clerk of the National Assembly but later, in a swift move, confirmed by the Speaker.
Members of Parliament herein referred as MPs are entitled to various allowances in conducting their affairs. According to the National Assembly administration act these are subsistence allowance, travel allowances, constituency allowance and for those holding parliamentary portfolios a responsibility allowance.
Sitting allowance is paid to MPs everyday he or she attends a committee meeting or parliamentary debate. However this allowance is not mentioned in the law. Currently, an MP receives TZS 70,000 ($40) a day as sitting allowance.
Members of Parliament in Tanzania receive a monthly salary as remuneration for the legislative, representative and oversight role they do. Additionally, they are paid for sitting! Sounds ridiculous for sure.
During the 5th session of Parliament which ended in November 2011, MPs lobbied for an increase in allowances claiming that costs of living have skyrocketed. MPs are paid per diem to cover costs of living, but in an interesting move the Parliamentary service commission passed a resolution to increase a sitting allowance to TZS 200,000 ($130) a day.
Sitting allowance doesn’t address the challenge of cost of living. It is subsistence allowance that is pegged to costs of living. I asked one of my colleagues who serves in the Parliamentary Service Commission about this and she said that per diem applies to all civil servants so an increment to it would mean an increment to all civil servants and it must therefore be avoided.
And indeed they did avoid it and went ahead and directed The Clerk to effect new rates. The Clerk was not impressed as the law requires that the President of the United Republic approve the new increment in writing – and hence the divided stand between the Clerk and the Speaker.
When the news reached investigative and news hungry editors, the difference between them was all out and the public outcry was huge.
The President hasn’t approved the new rise so far, with some credible sources saying the Speaker didn’t even attempt to send the requests to the President. The Parliamentary Service Commission met at the weekend and revoked their proposal.
The media have played their role, and the public has won. A senior parliamentary staff told me the other day that the whole matter was a hoax – that MPs pressured the Speaker to increase their allowances and even threatened her that she would be removed from her post.
It is said that the Speaker in turn pressured the Clerk to pay new rates, contrary to existing laws and regulations. The public, through the media, pressured both of them and the President against increasing the sitting allowances rate. So far the public has won.
Is it a temporary victory? Definitely, yes. The highest prize is scrapping the sitting allowances regime altogether. Paying an MP for sitting isn’t justified. The public, NGOs/civil society organisations and the media should campaign towards this to the very end.
The allowances culture is killing our nation as it diverts public funds from public investments to current spending. It is killing our working culture as public office holders keep attending meeting after meeting merely to get sitting allowances instead of working.
Our country is faced with mountains of challenges. It is demanding that we work hard and create an enabling environment for economic activities that create jobs, add value to our produce, increase our exports, produce more food and generate more electricity. Otherwise, no one will call us a nation.
The writer is opposition Chadema MP for Kigoma North. He is also, among other things, Chairman of the parliamentary Parastatal Organisations Accounts Committee, Deputy Leader of the Official Opposition in the House, and shadow Finance minister. | http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php/httptok.japantimes.co.j.co.jp/post/en/1488/www378amosanews.com/marpector.com/?l=36430 | 2013-05-18T11:04:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Most African countries have come to recognize the critical role that the private sector can play to help the continent attain economic and social growth, the 2011 African Development Report launched by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Arusha yesterday has said.
Focused on private sector as the engine of Africa’s economic growth, the report examines the challenges facing the sector’s development and highlights ways to address them, taking country differences into account.
“After being hamstrung for decades by difficult political and economic conditions and burdensome government policies, it is now poised to become the main engine of growth for the continent,” AfDB president, Donald Kaberuka (pictured) said in the report.
The report ends with a discussion of the AfDB’s role in support of private sector development in Africa.
“The African Development Bank is committed to addressing the constraints on private sector development. We believe that private sector development is fundamental for creating inclusive growth through employment creation,” he said.
The private sector, he said, is also a provider of essential goods and services to the public, and a key source of the revenues that African countries need to meet their development challenges.
Having promoted development of the sector for more than 40 years, the AfDB has made private sector development one of the four priorities of its Medium Term Strategy (MTS) for 2008-12, along with infrastructure, governance and higher education.
In order to generate a greater developmental impact, the AfDB is integrating private sector development across all its operations with threefold objectives, he said.
According to the report, they are: supporting regional member countries to improve the business enabling environment and strengthening its international business competitiveness, broadening participation and inclusion in the private sector and supporting local enterprise development to spur robust employment creation and improve the social well-being and encouraging the embedment of social and environmental responsibility, sustainability, and good corporate citizenship in private sector development.
Though the private sector helps reduce poverty, reliable statistics on its activities in African countries are scarce, he said, adding that most of the activities are informal, carried out by micro, small and medium enterprises.
The report also says that laws and regulations critical for private sector development and corporate governance were undermined by poor monitoring and enforcement.
Although the private sector in African countries faces common challenges, the impact of these constraints varies according to the stage of economic development, he said.
Fundamentally, the constraints include insufficient transport networks and lack of access to power and finance, he said.
Challenges also differ by type of firm, with large companies being more concerned about corruption, skill shortages and labour regulations, while export-oriented businesses place tax administration at the top of their list, he said. | http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php/let238s@boulderweely.com/frontend/functions/send_email.php?l=42103 | 2013-05-18T10:53:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
More than half of orphanages in the country are operating without being registered because they have not met terms and conditions, deputy Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Seif Rashidi told the NationalAssembly here yesterday.
The deputy was responding to a supplementary question posed by Magdarena Sekaya (special seat-CUF) who had wished to know a number of registered orphanages and how they perform their duties.
Dr Rashid said about 99 orphanages out of 292 had fully registration after they were examined by the government and found to have needed standards.
“The majority of children home centres which have not met terms and condition and that they operate without having meet the needed standard. The government thereby instructs all none licensed orphanages to ensure they meet standard or else close operation,” he marked.
In adding, the deputy said about 3958 children camped in 98 orphanages were provided with needed services as recognised by the government.
Dr Rashidi said the government in connection with other institutions and ministries, stakeholders and private institutions have been undertaking, monitoring and evaluating all over the country to establish exactly number of centres if they are or not registered.
He said in all the registered and licensed centres, children are provided with care, education, food and security as instructed by the government terms and conditions. | http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php/ol=23/al=24900ilkwoodmanor.co.za/73/?l=44103 | 2013-05-18T10:54:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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WordWorld Episodes
Runaway O/Happy Birthday, Dog! (#101)
When Sheep & Bear open Cat's box of Os, one rolls away, sending them on a madcap chase to catch it. [28 minutes]
- Fri, May 24, 11:00 AM on IPTV
There's An Ant In Every Giant/Chef Sheep (#102)
Ant grows tired of being the smallest WordFriend. Sheep takes over Pig's cooking show. [28 minutes]
- Mon, May 27, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Rocket to the Moon/The Birds (#103)
When Frog rescues the Little Piggies from the moon, he learns to appreciate lowercase letters. [28 minutes]
- Tue, May 28, 11:00 AM on IPTV
The Mystery of the Disappearing Pie/Duck's Family Reunion (#104)
When Pig's pie goes missing, Detective Sheep follows the letter clues to solve the mystery. [28 minutes]
- Wed, May 29, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Sh-Sh-Shark!/Dog Wants to Play Ball (#105)
Everyone is afraid of Shark and won't even give him a chance to prove he's friendly. [28 minutes]
- Thu, May 30, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Pies, Pies, Pies!/Waterlogged (#106)
When Pig promises to make a pie for everyone he learns a hard lesson about keeping promises. [28 minutes]
- Fri, May 31, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Dog's Camping Adventure/V Is for Vacation (#107)
Dog overcomes his fear on his first camping trip. Duck doesn't know how to go on his vacation. [28 minutes]
- Mon, June 3, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Snug As A Bug/Nightlight (#108)
Frog helps insomniac Bug figure out the end of the rhyme so that Bug can sleep. [28 minutes]
- Tue, June 4, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Duck's First Sleepover/One Hat Fits All (#109)
Duck is nervous about not sleeping in his nest for the first time. Sheep loses her magician's hat. [28 minutes]
- Wed, June 5, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Dancing Dog/Pig's Big Moonlight Feast (#110)
Dog is excited on the day of the Word World Concert, but he can't play an instrument. [28 minutes]
- Thu, June 6, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Boppin' with the Bug Band/Shuffleword (#111)
When Pig is too sick to cook, his friends step in to help. Pig and Ant argue while playing a game. [28 minutes]
- Fri, June 7, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Princess Sheep/W Drought (#112)
Bear and Sheep want to play princess, but they only have one crown. All of the letter Ws disappear! [28 minutes]
- Mon, June 10, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Robots to the Rescue!/Radio Read-A-Thon (#113)
Frog makes more of everything by adding the letter S to the end of everything. His robot cleans up. [28 minutes]
- Tue, June 11, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Pl-Pl-Plane/Mail Mix Up (#114)
Frog searches for the letters "PL" in the jungle. Duck delivers the wrong letters to everyone. [28 minutes]
- Wed, June 12, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Pig's Present/Tick Tock Space Clock (#115)
Pig wants to peek at his secret birthday present. Duck helps a robot track down an important clock. [28 minutes]
- Thu, June 13, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Castles in the Sea/Get Your Coat (#116)
While playing on the beach, Duck and Shark discover the perfect home for Shark, a sand castle! [28 minutes]
- Fri, June 14, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Superhero Sheep/Pirate Ship (#117)
Sheep gets stuck on top of a barn and it's up to Duck to save her. A message in a bottle is found. [28 minutes]
- Mon, June 17, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Playing Spies/Wee Little Whale (#118)
Sheep and Duck try to figure out Dog's secret. Sheep rescues a stuck whale and brings her back home. [28 minutes]
- Tue, June 18, 11:00 AM on IPTV
The Race to Mystery Island/A Star Is Born (#119)
Pig and Frog learn that they have to work together to succeed. Duck gets stage fright while singing. [28 minutes]
- Wed, June 19, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Back On Track/The Rainbow Birthday Cake (#120)
Frog notices that Kangaroo's mail train is headed straight for a broken track. It's Frog's birthday! [28 minutes]
- Thu, June 20, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Bit By Bit/Ride 'em Cowbear (#121)
Frog asks Duck and Bug to take a banana to Monkey's birthday party. Bear practices rope tricks. [28 minutes]
- Fri, June 21, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Play Ball/M Is for Map (#122)
Robot practices playing baseball and turns into a slugger! Sheep and Bear get lost in the jungle. [28 minutes]
- Sat, May 18, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
- Mon, June 24, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Flying Ant/The Dancing Duck Bonanza (#123)
Ant tries to be a hit at the Insect Air Show! Shark can dance underwater, but on land he just flops. [28 minutes]
- Sun, May 19, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
- Tue, June 25, 11:00 AM on IPTV
The Lost Letter L/Catch That C! (#124)
Duck learns that everyone makes mistakes when he breaks the L off Frog's lamp and tries to fix it. [28 minutes]
- Sat, May 25, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
- Wed, June 26, 11:00 AM on IPTV
The Christmas Star/A Christmas Present for Dog (#125)
Duck tries to lasso a star out of the sky for Frog. Dog's present is missing letters. [28 minutes]
A Kooky Spooky Halloween/Sheep's Halloween Costume (#126)
Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he's a ghost! Sheep's friends need pieces of her special costume. [28 minutes]
My Fuzzy Valentine/Love, Bug (#201)
With a little practice, Bug learns to write his name on a valentine for his favorite WordFriend. [28 minutes]
- Sun, May 26, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Duck Saves Spider's Web/Caterpillar Gets A Home (#202)
Ducks learns that if you can sound out a word, you can figure out what letters you need to build it. [28 minutes]
- Sat, June 1, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
- Thu, June 27, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Bugs to the Rescue/Sheep's First Bike Ride (#203)
Ant builds Bear a hot-air balloon for her birthday, but Dog accidentally floats away in it! [28 minutes]
- Sun, June 2, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
- Fri, June 28, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Duck's Hiccups/A.... A.... Choo! (#204)
Duck gets the hiccups for the first time and his friends try every trick in the book to help him. [28 minutes]
- Sat, June 8, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Get Well Soon Soup/Mmm-Mmm-Milk! (#205)
When Ant gets sick, Pig makes him a special soup that has all the letters in the alphabet in it. [28 minutes]
- Sun, June 9, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Get Set for "Et"/Duck Plays The Piano (#206)
While sky-writing in his jet, Duck accidentally makes a cloud that he thinks is a real dragon. [28 minutes]
- Sat, June 15, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Shark's First Day of School/Shark's First Loose Tooth (#207)
Duck helps Shark when he is afraid to go to school. Shark can't fall asleep after losing his tooth. [28 minutes]
- Sun, June 16, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Duck at Bat/You Can Never Have Too Many Oo's (#208)
Duck loses the letter B to his baseball bat and tries to build other words to hit the ball. [28 minutes]
- Sat, June 22, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
The Best Nest/Duck's Family Reunion (#209)
Duck mistakes Truck for a relative! Duck brings his nest to school and it breaks apart into letters. [28 minutes]
- Sun, June 23, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Bed Bugs/Snug As A Bug (#210)
When the bugs accidentally break Frog's brand new bed, they scramble to put it back together. [28 minutes]
- Sat, June 29, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Totally Terrific Duck/A Star Is Born (#211)
Duck is getting his portrait painted and Frog and Sheep help him build a tie, top hat and tutu. [28 minutes]
- Sun, June 30, 11:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Dog's Having A Party/Dog Wants to Play Ball (#212)
Dog and Duck learn they can use the letter H to make hotdogs, hats, hula-hoops and a great party. [28 minutes]
Welcome Home, Duck/The Lost Letter L (#213)
Frog makes a "Welcome Home" banner to hang over Duck's nest. Duck breaks the L off Frog's lamp. [28 minutes]
Bear's Bed Sled/Sh-Sh-Shark! (#214)
When Bear hurts her toe, her friends come up with a solution to help her go sledding in the snow. [28 minutes]
A String's The Thing/J-J-Jelly (#301)
The WordFriends must stop Frog's cake frosting machine from covering WordWorld in tasty frosting. [28 minutes]
Kite Flight/Hide and Seek (#302)
When Frog sails away on a big kite he built, it's up to Duck and Shark to save him. [28 minutes]
- Mon, May 20, 11:00 AM on IPTV
The Really Red Ruby/Firefighters to the Rescue (#303)
When Frog helps Sheep find the Really Red Ruby he discovers that playing pretend is fun! [28 minutes]
- Tue, May 21, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Think in the Rink/X Marks The Spot (#304)
Duck and Dog practice for an ice skating show and get carried away and break the ice skating rink. [28 minutes]
- Wed, May 22, 11:00 AM on IPTV
Race to the Spaceship/Sandbox Surprise (#305)
Frog helps Robot get to the top of a mountain to build a spaceship in time to play spaceship tag. [28 minutes]
- Thu, May 23, 11:00 AM on IPTV | http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/19034/wordworld/ep:125/episodes | 2013-05-18T10:23:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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There are IRC clients for every platform and every OS – wait, really every platform, every OS?
Lets see:
Windows? More than you can handle..
OS X? Sure
Linux/UNIX? Of course
…and more – i’ll spare you listing every platform there’s an IRC client for.
But.. what about DOS you say? Yes, yes – there is one: IRCjr.
It’s not only a proof-of-concept but is a fully-featured client. It supports CTCP messages such as /me and /version, has timestamps, logging to disk, a user-configurable scrollback buffer and supports every display from MDA/monochrome up to VGA resolutions and colors.
As you can see from the screenshot it sports a split-screen layout and according to its website it’ll run even on “the oldest 8088 based systems” from DOS 2.1 and newer.
Being in multiple channels and private messages at the same time is no problem – IRCjr is even compatible with multiple monitors, although it can only use one at a time.
Since DOS is pretty much obsolete these days and being asked about the reason why he wrote a program for a dead platform the programmer, Michael Brutman, said that he had rediscovered the fun in retro computing and since all TCP/IP stacks for DOS sucked, he wrote his own and the first application he developed for it was IRCjr.
One of the main concerns while programming was stability and according to Michael Brutman it’s really stable and can be left running even in very busy channels such as #ubuntu on freenode without problems.
On the feature-side he said that he’s looking to bring multi-server support and maybe mIRC color codes into the client but sadly Unicode support is pretty much ruled out as most of the old hardware can’t load fonts.
So if you’re a retro computing enthusiast and addicted to IRC – give it a go and let us know what you think about it in the comments!
More details about the setup, configuration and capabilities of IRCjr can be found on the IRCjr website. | http://www.irc-junkie.org/tag/client/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Donations, childcare and housekeeper tax credits
Independent earner tax credit (IETC)
Payroll giving for individuals
Tax credit for income under $9,880
Tax credit for children
If you request a personal tax summary (PTS) and it results in a bill for any reason, you will need to pay that amount.
and you will get the IETC through the PAYE system.
See "Note" below.
If you become eligible after 1 April 2009, give the IR330 to your employer once you are eligible.
Date published: 04 Mar 2009Back to top
View all Individual income tax forms and guides ›
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2010 Edition
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IREM, 2010
Research Report, Softcover
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IREM Key Report - From Good to Great to Best-in-Class: A Real Estate Leader's Guide to Optimal Performance
Christopher Lee
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The report concludes with 50 predictions on events that are likely to occur over the next decade and could significantly impact the real estate management industry; also, a "Worth Reading" list of recommended texts.
IREM, 2008
Softcover, 163 pages
ISBN: 978-1-57203-133-3 | http://www.irem.org/acb/stores/1/Great_Package_Deal_Buy_four_n_P17463.cfm?UserID=39990986 | 2013-05-18T10:35:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
IREM Key Report - A Practical Guide to Energy Management
John Klein, Sharon Levin, and Deborah Cloutier
This new publication outlines practical steps real estate managers can take to reduce energy consumption and save on energy costs. Important considerations are:-096-8
IREM Key Report: Risk Management in the Post 9/11 World
Doug Dickson
This key report reviews the current practice of risk management within the property management business. Due to recent events and trends such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and increasing awareness about mold, insurance rates have risen significantly. The report covers methods of identifying the extent of risk liability for your property, determining the probability that your property may suffer damage, and calculating the financial impact of your risk management decisions, either by mitigating, transferring, or avoiding the risk altogether.
IREM, 2004
Softcover, 20 pages
ISBN: 1-57203-095-X
IREM Key Report - Mold: What Every Professional Real Estate Manager Needs to Know
Lee Wasserman
This key report serves as a timely overview of mold issues that property managers should and must be aware of to better protect themselves and their properties. The report provides key information that will help property managers understand exactly what mold is - how to detect it, prevent it, and eradicate it, including when and how to hire an outside professional.
Softcover, 52 pages
ISBN: 1-57203-109-3
IREM Key Report - Commercial Tenant Retention: Strategies for Today’s Market
Doug Dickson
Finding a new tenant can rapidly deplete your firm’s marketing funds; it can cost six times more to find that new tenant than to keep an existing one. Still, tenant retention programs never seem to move to the top of the priority list until the tenants start walking. Keep your existing tenants on the rent roll. Successful tenant retention programs provide the services that not only distinguish your property within the market but are also valued by your tenants. This IREM® Key Report, Commercial Tenant Retention: Strategies for Today’s Market, provides seven steps that are needed to develop a long-term tenant retention program within your firm. Specific topics address: identifying which tenants are worth saving; uncovering tenant retention strategies that provide value to your tenants; maximizing your unique knowledge of local markets to provide assistance to tenants; reaping the benefits of long-term tenant relationships, and more.
IREM, 2004
Softcover, 28 pages
ISBN: 1-57203-112-3 | http://www.irem.org/acb/stores/1/Great_Package_Deal_Buy_these__P15376.cfm?UserID=38147000 | 2013-05-18T10:32:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Marketing Residential Properties: The Science and the MagicLaurence C. Harmon, CPM®, CRE and Kathleen M. Harmon, CPM®, ARM®
Why use antiquated marketing techniques in today’s marketplace? Revolutionize your marketing strategy and increase your property’s bottom line. Marketing Residential Properties: The Science and The Magic brings an innovative and fresh approach to your residential marketing program. Renting or selling residential properties? This book is a practical and relevant “how-to” guide—the first of its kind—to cover both realms of residential marketing. Ideal for the residential real estate novice or veteran, for leasing agents and sales agents, supervisors and sales trainers—Marketing Residential Properties provides useful and easy-to-follow steps to bolster your marketing practices.
Learn to better understand the market and how to use advertising strategies in order to create your marketing master-plan. Get current on administrative issues like fair housing, staffing, training, as well as your record keeping and paperwork management. Stop focusing on old methods of “showing” and get inside buyers’ heads to discover how to become a consultative leasing or selling agent.
These techniques, written by the pioneers and practitioners of residential marketing, have proven to be successful in dramatically increasing the number of units leased and sold. Don’t fall behind the times or behind your competition— with a little science and a little magic, you can transform your residential marketing strategy and your staff into a dream team of success!
Practical Apartment Management, Sixth Edition
Edward N. Kelley:
Practical Apartment Management is a time-tested, comprehensive guide to apartment management written by a recognized expert in the field. This edition is a must-read for everyone who manages apartments.
IREM, 2005
Softcover, 64 pages
ISBN: 1-57203-112-3 | http://www.irem.org/acb/stores/1/Package_Deal_-_Marketing_Resid_P17464C2.cfm?UserID=40011845 | 2013-05-18T10:41:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Turn Data Into Dollars: Dominate the competition with data breakdowns you can’t find anywhere else.
An essential tool for association management, this annual research report is the only one of its kind. Designed to assist condominium boards, managers, and developers, this report tracks utilities, maintenance, insurance, taxes, and amenities. Metropolitan, regional and national statistics are grouped according to association type (condominiums, cooperatives, and planned unit developments) and building type (high-rise, low-rise, or townhouse). This report provides managers, boards and developers with insights into each major area of project operation and enables them to make well-informed decisions about necessary replacement reserves, appropriate assessment levels, project budget and escalating expenses. This research study, 328 pages
ISBN: 978-1-57203-188-3 | http://www.irem.org/acb/stores/1/_font_color_FF0000_NEW_fo_P23765C1.cfm?UserID=40184619 | 2013-05-18T10:13:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
What leadership competencies does a property manager need for success? Did you know that there’s a difference between a leader and a manager?
This IREM White Paper identifies sixteen leadership competencies a real estate manager needs to survive in the new economy. Derived from the IREM Job analysis, the leadership skills are based on a survey of more than 800 top real estate management professionals.
Today’s economy is forcing real estate companies to shift their focus from being performance-driven to relationship-driven. This White Paper focuses on how leadership development can help real estate managers move up the career ladder. The higher real estate managers move up that ladder, the more they will have to manage people and relationships, rather than systems and tasks. For real estate professionals this means less time will be spent actually managing properties—instead, their time will be leading the people who manage properties.
This White Paper also emphasizes the four basic components to help real estate managers assess their level of emotional intelligence (EQ), helpful tips on what it takes to be a good leader, and how to get started on the leadership development journey.
In the words of Christopher Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer of CEL & Associates, Inc., the real estate industry discovered that “leaders and leadership, not the number or size of buildings owned or managed, would become the discerning hallmark of those who prospered and those who failed ...A real estate firm without effective leaders might as well pack up and try something else. Leadership is the key to sustainability, productivity, profitability, and growth.”
Format: PDF; 11 pages | http://www.irem.org/acb/stores/1/_font_color_FF0000_NEW_fon_P23782C1.cfm?UserID=39986519 | 2013-05-18T11:04:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Updated Edition
Social media is rapidly becoming a necessary part of any business marketing and communications strategy. If your customers, tenants, residents, and clients are on social media sites (and they are), you need to be too. IREMs newly updated Social Media for Real Estate Managers is designed for real estate managers who want to use social media to make connections, build a brand, and grow their business.
Covering topics from basic Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn account setup to advanced metrics to measure your social media success, this is the definitive guide to using social media in the real estate industry.
This updated edition features all new content on LinkedIn, helping real estate managers further both their career and their business by connecting with millions of real estate professionals online. Also featured are recent changes to Facebook and Twitter, including a glimpse at the fantastic opportunities Facebooks Timeline for Pages brings to a real estate management company. | http://www.irem.org/acb/stores/1/_font_color_FF0000_New_fon_P23754C1.cfm?UserID=38239307 | 2013-05-18T10:55:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Off The Recordby Mike Farragher.
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Speculation abounds about who will fill the last seat on the judge’s bench ever since Simon Cowell announced his retirement from American Idol earlier this year.
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It's good to know we can rely on Ross
FICTION:The Shelbourne Ultimatum, By Ross O’Carroll-Kelly Penguin, 414pp. £13.99
AT A TIME when most Irish institutions have fallen into disrepute, there’s something comforting about the yearly emergence of a new Ross O’Carroll-Kelly book. A bit of an institution now in his own right, O’Carroll-Kelly is one of a pantheon of anthropomorphic Irelands (others include Cuchulain, Kathleen Ní Houlihan, Dev and Marty Whelan). It’s hard to imagine the place without him, and I believe that, in years to come, heavily footnoted editions of Paul Howard’s long-running series will be the textbooks on early 21st-century Ireland.
In fact, I assume it will be annotated sooner rather than later. Howard does not steer clear of celebrities of the moment, brand names, street names or passing news stories. (Indeed, filtered through the affluenza-tinted eyes of Ross such minutiae often seem kind of exotic.) It won’t be long before readers will be wondering who Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise were, so I suspect the books will soon come with more footnotes than TS Eliot’s The Waste Land.
The Shelbourne Ultimatum is a lot funnier than The Waste Land, even though at the outset of this book, the 11th in the series, Ross moves through a bit of a wasteland himself. In a coma (he was shot in the stomach at the end of the last book) he dreams of moving through the streets of a Dublin blighted by phone shops and cash-for-gold outlets.
Before long, our clueless anti-hero is awake and bemoaning the state of his injured six-pack. He tries to sabotage the wedding of his best friend, Fionn, and his half-sister; he blackmails the woman who shot him; and he watches in horror as his estranged wife gets a job in a Euro Saver store. He also crosses the Liffey to go to a GAA match with his northsider son (they meet a lot of “cadickters”), watches his condemned boomtime apartment being demolished, and ends up being mistaken for a plumber by a cuckolded husband who then refers plumbing work to him throughout the book. Furthermore, his Lamborghini is repeatedly graffitied with obscenities, his six-year-old daughter is becoming a brattish child star and he bonds with his sociopathic, hither-to-now presumed-dead grandmother.
That’s an awful lot of plot, but there’s no better man than Ross to guide us through it, gormlessly riding the narrative tension from set piece to set piece. Luckily, being shot hasn’t triggered any earth-shattering self-reflection, and while Ross might be an unreliable person, he’s too blissfully self-confident to be an unreliable narrator. He recounts life warts and all, never thinking for once that it might reflect badly on him. His asides, casual thoughts and turns of phrase are still absurdly hilarious. (Are the jokes really that good? “Does Brent Pope shit in the woods?”, to quote Ross.)
Ross has not, as one character puts it, let failure go to his head and he is still unaccountably happy with himself and content to bask in his former rugby glory. “Ross O’Carroll-Kelly?” asks a voice over the telephone at one juncture. “The one and only accept no substitutes,” answers Ross, before proudly informing the readers: “Which is a thing I sometimes say.” | http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/it-s-good-to-know-we-can-rely-on-ross-1.552053?page=1 | 2013-05-18T10:42:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Hot off the forecourt - the new fleet for 2013
Carmakers are putting out a slew of exciting new models to buck the downturn. Here’s a selection of 20 models that will drive the new car market in the New Year
AUDI S3
What is it?Hot 296bhp version of Audi’s sharp-suited new hatch.
When’s it coming?Spring 2013.
Excited? With that power output? You betcha.
BMW 4 SERIES
What is it?Two-door coupe version of BMW’s 3 Series.
When’s it coming?Summer 2013.
Excited?With that shark-like styling, you’d be hard pressed not to be.
CITROEN C4 PICASSO
What is it?The all-new version of Citroen’s popular people carrier.
When’s it coming?May 2013
Excited?Not so much, but those with growing families will see the appeal.
DACIA SANDERO
What is it?We’ve already seen the super-cheap Duster SUV, but now here’s the Sandero hatchback.
When’s it coming?You can order a Sandero in time for the January sales.
Excited?Dacia’s pricing structure will make these two very tempting, but poor EuroNCAP safety ratings are a worry.
FORD MONDEO
What is it?The all-new version of everyone’s favourite big Ford.
When’s it coming?Late 2013.
Excited?Yes, but Ford’s European sales meltdown may delay it even further.
JAGUAR F-TYPE
What is it?Jaguar’s first all-new compact sports car since... ever.
When’s it coming?Spring 2013
Excited?Oh, yes.
KIA PRO-CEED
What is it?Three-door “coupe” version of sensible five-door hatch.
When’s it coming?April 2013.
Excited?Yes, especially about the 200bhp GT version.
LAND ROVER RANGE
ROVER
What is it?The imperious-looking replacement for the current Rangie.
When’s it coming?Any day now.
Excited?Most certainly, but that excitement is tempered by the heart-stopping prices.
LEXUS IS
What is it?Slinky-looking new Lexus sports saloon to take on the BMW 3 Series.
When’s it coming?Autumn 2013
Excited?Yes, if it looks as good as the concept version.
MAZDA6
What is it?The all-new, all-light replacement for Mazda’s popular family saloon.
When’s it coming?February 2013.
Excited?Yes – it’s a handsome, capable, frugal family car.
MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS
What is it?The new king of the hill, now with a fully intelligent crash-detecting system.
When’s it coming?Late 2013.
Excited?Yes, as this model has repeatedly been the technology template for what we’ll see in affordable cars in the near future.
MINI 5-DOOR
What is it?The first new Mini since 2000 – with five doors.
When’s it coming?December 2013.
Excited?Intrigued to see how the new five-door will look, but it’s hardly going to be a radical shift in styling.
MITSUBISHI COLT
What is it?Mitsubishi’s new small car, designed to be as frugal and light as possible.
When’s it coming?Early 2013.
Excited?Not an exciting car, but ultra-low emissions and consumption look good to us.
OPEL ADAM
What is it?Opel’s stab at the lucrative premium hatchback market.
When’s it coming?Spring 2013.
Excited?Fascinated to see if Opel can seriously challenge Mini on its own turf. Very unlikely, but fascinating nonetheless.
PEUGEOT 208 GTI
What is it?Peugeot’s chance to reclaim its hot hatch crown.
When’s it coming?Summer 2013.
Excited?Couldn’t be more so.
RENAULT ZOE
What is it?Gorgeous compact hatch that just happens to be electric.
When’s it coming?March 2013.
Excited? If the 200km touring range is genuine, then yes, we’re excited.
SEAT LEON
What is it?Seat’s five-door hatch (and now estate and three-door too).
When’s it coming?January 2013.
Excited?Not exciting enough, sadly, but there will be keen deals to be had.
SUBARU FORESTER
What is it?An all-new version of Subaru’s evergreen (excuse the pun) compact SUV.
When’s it coming?May 2013
Excited?The rather dowdy styling has dampened our spirits a little, but the Forester’s legendary longevity and ruggedness should keep us engaged.
TOYOTA RAV4
What is it?The fourth generation of the car that kicked off the compact SUV sales boom.
When’s it coming?Summer 2013.
Excited?Yes, but only if it can recapture the spark of the early 1990s original.
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI
What is it?The seventh coming of the almighty, if you will.
When’s it coming?Spring 2013.
Excited?Yes – it’s going to be a red-letter year for hot hatches. | http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/motors/hot-off-the-forecourt-the-new-fleet-for-2013-1.3988 | 2013-05-18T10:43:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Anelka leaves China for Juventus
Soccer.
Anelka underwent a series of medicals in Turin last week but the deal was not ratified until this morning. The Frenchman issued a brief statement on Juve’s website, which read: “Juve are bigger than everybody else.”
A statement on juventus.com read: “Anelka is a Juventus player. His contract, which runs until June 30, has been submitted to the league.
“The agreement includes the option to renew the deal until June 30, 2014.”
Juve becomes the 10th club of a career which has seen Anelka rack up estimated transfer fees of over €100 million,. | http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/anelka-leaves-china-for-juventus-1.1081438 | 2013-05-18T10:22:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The Most Wanted Gun in America
Steve Ruark for The New York Times
At the Pasadena Pawn and Gun Shop in Maryland, customers can join a waiting list to buy an AR-15-style rifle. It's kind of fashionable, Frank Loane Sr., the shop's proprietor, said of the gun.
By Natasha Singer
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Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times
Tammy Hadley of Waterford, Me., a quality manager at Windham Weaponry, checked parts during the manufacturing of an AR-15-style rifle., says Obama wants to reduce the supply. He has asked Congress for tougher controls, including a ban on what are commonly called military-style assault weapons; the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on gun violence last Wednesday.. Semiautomatic semiautomatic,, Mr. James wrote in an e-mail. Web site. semiautomatic,? says Mr. Diaz, the author of The Last Gun, a forthcoming book on the industry. Owning an assault weapon is a passport to that..
Last edited by Bowden; 02-03-2013 at 12:54 have a brand new AK-47 VEPR rifle I just listed for sale on a few gun auction sites. It's crazy how much they're going for. I think at this point, anyone will get their hands on whatever they can. | http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/open-chat/176163-most-wanted-gun-america.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Diego Garcia is a British colony in the Indian Ocean,from which American bombers patrol the middle east.Their are few places as important to the American military planners as this refuelling base between two continents.
This Island should of been granted independance from Britain in 1965.However,at the insistence of the
US, Harold Wilson told the Mauritains they could have their freedoom only if they gave up the island.Ignoring a United nations resolution that called on the British 'to take no action which would dismember the territory of Mauritius and violate its territorial integrity', the British government did just that,and formed a new colony,called 'the British indain overseas territories'.
In high secrecy British leased the island to Washington for 50 years,the British prefer to deny this now,refurring to a 'joint defence arrangement'.
With the militarisation of their island they were given the status rather like that of the Aborigines
in the nineteen century:they were deemed not to exist.between1965-73 they were removed from their homes,loaded onto ships and planes and dumped in Mauritius.
This terror violated Articles 9 and 13 of the United Nations Declaration of Human rights.
This western foreign policy is formulated almost exclusively through self-righteous,oneway moral/legal screen with positve images of western values and innocence potrayed as threatened,validating a campaign of unrestricted political violence against who ever.....
This true story has been consigned to Oblivion,routinely,by the reporters and historians of power
and is hardly surprising as much of maintream western scholarship has taken hummanity out of the study of nations,congealing it with jargon.
Also in serious journalism,'self-righteous,oneway moral screen' is such a time-honoured tradition
especially with American news programmes such as brand leader Fox news that the most important terrorists are rarely seen.
Also:
Can this action ever be justifyed?
Discuss | http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/open-chat/68853-terrorists.html | 2013-05-18T10:43:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
- 4.48.5.1 Introduction
- 4.48.5.2 Development Guidelines
- 4.48.5.3 Resolution Guidelines
- 4.48.5.4 Reporting.
For purposes of this document, intangible property includes but is not limited to any commercially transferable interest in any items included in the following six categories:
Computer software
Patents, inventions, formulae, processes, designs, patterns, trade secrets, or know-how
Trademarks, trade names, or brand names
Franchises, licenses, or contracts
Methods, programs, systems, procedures, campaigns, surveys, studies, forecasts, estimates, customer lists, or technical data
Other similar items
An item is considered similar if it derives its value not from physical attributes, but from its intellectual content or other intangible properties.
The guidelines provided here regarding identifying, documenting, and analyzing the property are applicable to all types of intangible property. The information does not provide specific details for every type of intangible property. the value
Assumptions
Limiting Conditions
Scope limitations
Restrictions, agreements and other factors that may influence value
Sources of information
The interest to be valued may include:
Form of ownership, contractual/exploitation rights, etc.
Fractional, geographic, exclusive/non-exclusive interest
In developing a valuation conclusion, valuators should obtain the relevant information necessary to accomplish the assignment.
Valuators should begin with a general definition and analysis of what constitutes the intangible property because it can assume many forms. To have economic value, intangible property should:
Be subject to specific identification and recognizable description
Be subject to legal existence and protection, which may be incorporated within a larger entity
Be subject to private ownership and be legally transferable
Generate some measurable amount of economic benefit
Potentially enhance the value of other assets with which it is associated
The description of the property should clearly identify the particular intangible property being valued. The description should be unambiguous and provide a complete identification of relevant transactions, and geographic scope of the property, where applicable. It may also specify physical, functional, technical, or economic parameters to identify the particular intangible property.
There may be a need to define what is meant by "intangible asset" from the point of view of the Internal Revenue Code and the Treasury Regulations, specifically, IRC 936 (h)(3)(B) and Treasury Regulation section 1.482-4(b).
The valuator should be aware that certain kinds of intangible property are also referred to as intellectual property. Intellectual property is often registered under federal and state statutes for protection. This may create legal and economic attributes that relate to value.
Information relevant to the specific property being valued includes:
The cost, date, and manner of acquisition
The date on which the property is being appraised
Any additional appraisals and the date (or dates) on which the property was appraised
Information on agreements or understandings entered into (or expected to be) that relate to the use, sale or other disposition of the property, including sales of the property since the valuation date
The economic outlook of the market in general and the outlook of the specific property in particular
Such other factors which, in the opinion of the valuator, are appropriate for consideration
If the intangibles subject to valuation have been transferred between or developed by controlled taxpayers within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.482-1(i)(5), section 482 and the regulations under that section may require consideration of additional issues, including, for example, which controlled taxpayer is the owner of the intangible under Treasury Regulation Section 1.482-4(f)(3)(ii). In such cases, prior to conducting the valuation, the valuator should coordinate with the referrer to ensure that all relevant issues have been identified.
In developing a valuation conclusion, valuators should analyze the relevant information necessary to accomplish the assignment.
All factors that affect the value should be considered including:
An in-depth analysis of all rights and risks of ownership
The market conditions near the valuation date
The near-term and long-term market demand for the subject property
Effects of relevant contractual or legal restrictions
Whether the property needs additional development
If the property needs additional development, the length of time required to get the property to market
Analyze any relevant transactions including:
All material facts
Information concerning contracts and transactions, including agreements, instruments, and schedules
Legal, accounting, financial, economic opinions, and memoranda
All participants and their roles
The form of consideration paid and received
Analysis of a transaction may reveal other property or services related to the primary transaction such that a bundle of property rights or services are or should be involved.
Different types of risk assumed by the owner or acquire could impose requirements on allocation of risk. Risks that may need to be accounted for include:
R&D risks with success or failure of research activities
Manufacturability risks producing in a cost effective and consistent manner
Marketing risks from fluctuating costs, demand, and pricing; competitive risks with competitors’ responses, or introduction of new products
Risks associated with government regulation
Other legal risks such as legal activities required to secure the exclusivity of a product or process
The specific valuation approach, such as market, cost, or income should be appropriate. Judgment should be used to select the approach(es) ultimately used and the method(s) within such approaches that best indicate the value of the property. The relationship between these approaches and fair market value must be demonstrated.
Some fundamental methods utilized to value intangible property include:
Market based methods rely on identification of similar intangible property sold under similar conditions. This method requires the existence of an active market involving comparable property, e.g., royalty rates in arms-length transactions.
Cost-based methods estimate the cost to reproduce/replace or to pay to purchase the subject intangible (the "make or buy" decision), using historical costs, or reproduction costs. The cost approach for estimating fair market value may be difficult to apply due to quantification problems related to economic obsolescence or future income potential.
Income-based methods focus on the income-producing capacity of intangible property. The present value of the net economic benefit to be received over the life of the asset (cash receipts less cash outlays) can estimate the value. The income method relies on estimates, future earnings, the duration of income streams, and risks associated with the realization of the forecasted income. The income approach usually computes the net present value (NPV) of the intangible by use of the discounted cash flow (DCF) method.
Monte Carlo (or probabilistic) methods are similar to discounted cash flow methods except that they rely on probability analysis of estimated ranges to produce a statistical prediction of the expected value.
Option valuation methods apply to longer term and higher risk intangibles when early expenses are significant, and projected returns are in the distant future.
Only those approaches and methods deemed appropriate for dealing with the valuation issue in question should be analyzed in detail, and reasons should be given for using them. Also, it should be documented why other methods were rejected.
The valuator should check the sensitivity of the methods applied to various assumptions made and parameters used including sensitivity of projections, discount rates, and useful lives.
Depending on the valuation methods applied, there may be need to consider the property’s related functions in research and development; product design and engineering; manufacturing, production and process engineering; extraction; assembly; purchasing and materials management; marketing and distribution; accounting, finance, legal and management. Data pertaining to the costs related to performing the functions in question should be provided to support, if possible, the description of the functions performed and resources employed.
The valuator should identify potential comparable properties. As available and appropriate, this should include an explicit, itemized list of selection criteria employed for selecting the comparable intangible assets. In addition to general standards of comparability, namely functions, contractual terms, risks, economic conditions, and property or service, certain refinements may be applied specifically to intangible assets. The comparable intangible should:
Be used in similar products and processes within the same industry or market
Have similar profit potential (as measured by the net present value of benefits to be realized, including a consideration of capital investment and start-up expenses required and the risks to be assumed)
Have similar terms, including exploitation rights, exclusivity, geographic limitations, duration, grant-back rights, and functions or services to be performed
Be in the same stage of development and possess a similar degree of uniqueness
The market approach should consider the identification and justification of:
The existence of an active market involving comparable intangibles
Past transactions of comparable intangibles
Price information for comparable transactions
Arm's length transactions between independent parties
The cost approach begins with an estimate of the cost to reproduce the intangible. One method is using historical cost. Adjustments should be made for obsolescence.
The income approach considers:
The income generation capacity of the subject intangible and forecasts the future stream of earnings or cash flow
The expected remaining useful life of the intangible, how long the economic benefit is expected to continue, which may depend on product life cycle: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline
The risk associated with receiving anticipated benefits, as may be measured by the discount rate reflecting the opportunity cost of capital, inflation, liquidity, real interest, and risk premium
The final opinion of value should reflect the appropriateness of each method, and the veracity and reliability of the data supporting each method, leading the reader logically to the final opinion of intangible value. It should ensure applied methods' results yield similar levels of value, reconcile the results, and set forth all assumptions and limiting conditions affecting the analyses, opinions, and conclusions.
Workpapers should document the steps taken, techniques used, and provide time spent as commensurate with work performed.
In reviewing an intangible property valuation and reporting the results of that review, a valuator should form an opinion as to the adequacy and appropriateness of the report being reviewed and clearly disclose the nature of the review process undertaken.
In reviewing an intangible property valuation, a valuator should:
Identify the taxpayer and intended use of the valuator’s opinions and conclusions, and the purpose of the review assignment
Identify the report under review, the property interest being valued, the effective date of the valuation, and the date of the review
Identify the scope of the review process conducted
Determine the completeness of the report under review within the scope of work applicable in the review assignment
Determine the adequacy and relevance of the data and the propriety of any adjustments to the data
Determine the appropriateness of the comparable and specific conclusion of value.
Valuators may not have all of the information they would like to have to definitively resolve an issue. Valuators, therefore, should decide when substantially enough information is available report should effectively communicate the methodology and reasoning, as well as identify the supporting documentation.
Subject to the type of report being written, valuation reports generally should contain sufficient information relating to the items in Identifying, Documenting, and Analyzing above, to ensure consistency and quality.
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And "du", I did.
Normally, I prefer to eat my intestines but no, instead, I played with my food.
No, I didn't even do that, I made a boa out of it.
The creators of horror webisode series "Damaged Goods", Jacob Voelzke and Chris Buch, were so kind to have let me play with their buckets of...well, damaged goods. I met these guys while doing my first live-streaming gig for a show called "Kick In" where we'll be bringing in artists to talk about their projects and getting audiences to help kick-start some funding for them.
There's only been one show.
It's ironic because I want to do a kick-in for "Kick In" since we, ourselves, could use some funding for our production, lol. Some lavalier microphones would be great because you can't hear my commentary in between the interviews while the microphone is on the interviewee and my hand gets tired from holding up the mic to the other person's mouth. And right now, our studio lighting is a lamp and the lampshade that's on it.
BUT. I have to say, it was a really cool experience because it was LIVE and there are no re-takes and take backs. When I messed up (which I did a few times), I had to play it off. Story of my life, much?
If you're curious to see how I did, come HERE afterwards.
Now, I've done SOME hosting back in Asia. I assembled a reel but I'll be honest, it's not a public link because I'm not satisfied with it. I am my own biggest critic. I'll rewatch this footage until I'm literally sick of my own face because I will have nitpicked right down to the eyelash glue and ponder deliriously why I didn't move just 3 degrees more over so people wouldn't have to wonder why they're staring my ear and the earwax inside it the whole time rather than my face.
It's amazing what you learn about yourself when you watch yourself on camera. It's never what you think when you're doing the actual shooting - and I mean that in both still and video shoots. I try to stay conscious of my bad habits. As they say, practice makes perfect.
It's funny how I got my start with hosting. It's wasn't because people thought:
"Oh hey, you're a chatterbox, let's put that to some good use!"
No, children. It was simply because:
"Hey, you're a decent looking gal and you speak perfect American accented English - you should host!"
Oh, cool.
Same, same, but different. As long as I'm getting paid to talk, I won't delve further into the real reasons as to why I was hired.
Furthermore, they just threw me into the gigs without auditions and I dove right in without any training and with little to no direction. I would have to call myself out. For example, when I hosted FashionTV Vietnam, because the crew didn't understand English, they wouldn't know when I messed up or what I said didn't make sense. They judged solely on my body language, the intonations and inflections of my voice. I could have said "McDonald's rocks my world and these are the reasons why!" with pageant poise and they would've never known.
Damn. I should've.
For me hosting > acting. But I'm working on both. I prefer hosting because I get to be a sponge and soak up information. Whether it's via research on the guests and topics of discussion the night before or from the guests themselves during interviews. I get to meet all kinds of characters and interact with them one-to-one.
I'm starting alllllll over - from ground zero as up as I'm trying to slowly back away from modeling. I moved to LA impulsively about two weeks ago because I wasn't happy in Vietnam and I want to push myself further - with my personal goals, my career aspirations and simply, life. Something I've noticed? The responses I get in regards to my decision to move back. I used to feed pretty concrete answers.
SCRIPT A
THEM: Why did you decide to move to LA so suddenly?
ME: Because I want to push myself further with hosting and acting.
THEM: But it's easier to "make it" in Asia and it's so competitive and hard in LA.
While they're at it, they might as well remind me that the sky is blue, 1 + 1 = 2, the bird and the bees aren't really about the birds and the bees, beef is made from cows, practically everything they're wearing right now is probably made in China and that hamsters are the cutest animals in the world.
Chances are, I know.
I get told that everyday. And at a pretty high frequency per day too. From family, friends, acquaintances, strangers, and oh yeah, MYSELF.
Along with other comments such as you're too short, you're too skinny, you're not skinny enough, you're prettier in person, you're prettier in pictures, you have bad skin, you're too dark, your Vietnamese is god awful, your English is too Californian, you're Asian, you're old, you're too young looking, you're too commercial, you're not commercial enough, blah blah blah blah blah.
I nod, smile and pretend it's the first time I've heard it all, that I've been delusional this whole entire time and that no one has had the heart to break the bad news to me and more importantly, I need a major reality check.
Listen. I might not be the next Maggie Q. Heck. Things might not work out and I'll have to resort to some office job I have been purposely avoiding since college graduation. And that's TOTALLY fine by with me. At least I had a go for it while I was still (relatively) healthy, young and free; have a few modeling photos and footage to show my grandkids that yes, their grandmama isn't just a bag of wrinkles and crazy talk; and at least I'm doing what I want to do. I would need a bigger reality check if I tried to do all of this when I'm 45 with 2 kids, a mortgage to pay off and a teetering divorce.
I have a set of experiences I have to give credit to for my inspirations and growth as a person. No matter how far fetched my choices might seem or out of reach, I pursue the things that I do because they make me happy. And I'm not even referring to just showbiz. If you're not happy, do something about it. Rather than feeding concrete, I throw up abstract as the real root of it all. Opting for script B instead as my explanation, people never challenge me.
SCRIPT B
THEM: Why did you decide to move to LA so suddenly?
ME: I just wasn't happy anymore.
THEM: Welcome home.
That's 'cause no one could ever deny happiness.
Bisous,
Isabodyparts Du
"I might not be the next Maggie Q"
Honey...are you kidding me? You're going to be bigger than her and I know it.
So as long as you are happy and you know you're giving your all and not half-assing it then I know you will go far.
Were you able to keep some of the body parts? Cause it would make an awesome halloween prank!
Thanks giiiiiiirl :) She's an inspiration for me! And sadly, no, I did not get to keep all the body parts. One could go grave digging for some real authenticity I suppose. Or...maybe not. And so funny you should mention Halloween because I just decided yesterday what I'm going to be this year - A TRIBBLE FROM STAR TREK!
(^_^) Like this?:
HAHAHHAHAH she looks like a giant white dandelion pom pom hahaha. I will look something like that but my face will also be very very furry.
LOL thanks, Isabodyparts. For the record, i'm sure you can borrow the body parts anytime you need them... which i hope isn't often, because that would be creepy. You were a stellar hostess and a lot of fun to work with. Take care!
Jake! I had too much fun with the body parts. Thank you SO much. And you know, I'm a creepy person but like...in a very cute way bahahahah. Thanks so much for the kind words and hope to see you guys soon! Best of luck with everything! | http://www.isabelledu.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-happens-to-male-specimen-that.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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CCH - Congress Center Hamburg
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Thomas Sterling, Indiana University
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Now approaching a decade long tradition at ISC, a close examination will be presented of the recent year’s accomplishments and advances in the field of HPC.. Even as supercomputers are continuing to extend their reach across the Petaflops performance regime, the increasingly significant modality of Cloud computing will be considered in light of major thrusts by industry in this arena over the last year and the challenges still ahead for clouds in achieving their ultimate goal of ubiquitous access to high end capability by industry, commerce, academia, and possibly even government agencies. Of particular interest this year will be a discussion of the needs and possibilities in the key area of programming models as the challenge of coordinating a million-cores for a single user problem becomes a reality. Combined with this will be a briefing on the emergence of new runtime systems to enable dynamic adaptive methods employing increasingly sophisticated introspection for increasing efficiency and scalability while dramatically decreasing energy usage. Like every year, this Keynote Address will offer the latest “Canonical HPC System”, a hypothetical machine in hardware and software that best exemplifies the mean of the form, function, and capabilities of HPC over the last 12 months. Finally, major strides have been undertaken internationally towards the frontiers of Exascale computing and these aggressive path-finding advances will be investigated as ISC looks forward across the future of this evolving decade in HPC.
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- Thirteenth Night (1987)
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- Forum: Nosy Readers (1987)
- Arts: Captains of Video (1988)
- Lee County's Lizard Man and Other unsolved Mysteries (1988) with Dennis Stacy
- Forum: Masters of Invention (1989)
- Explorations: Desert Son (1989)
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Feature - JobGrid connects Chinese graduates with employers Schematic of JobGrid workflow.Image courtesy of Feng Zhou, HUST. Graduates from over 75 universities in China and their potential employers have a new tool to help them find each other: JobGrid.Developed by researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Beihang University (BUAA) on a grant from the Ministry of Education of China, JobGrid is the first data grid to provide an authentic, secure, user-friendly communication and decision support platform linking universities, graduates, companies and the government in China. It runs on the China Education and Research Network (CERNET).JobGrid integrates students’ records and relevant personal information from participating Chinese colleges and universities. It converts the dissimilar data to a uniform format, creating a comprehensive, authoritative database with privacy controls. The database supports data storage, extraction and export. Centralized transaction processing handled by a distribute
Image of the week - ATLAS (Click on this link or the photo above to get the rotating, 360-degree, panoramic view, with natural sound.)ATLAS In a continuing series, Peter McCready has been creating panoramic views of all the large experiments of the LHC. ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) was shot using a Nikon professional digital, single lens reflex camera, attached to a tripod that allows for a 360-degree, rotating view. For each image, 102 separate, individual photos were shot, then stitched together into one seamless 40MP spherical image. Each image takes as much as four weeks to complete in the his digital darkroom. When coupled with ambient sound that he recorded at the site, the user gets what McCready calls a “Virtual Reality” experience. Image courtesy of Peter McCready
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Feature - BNL takes a cue from nuclear physics Deep in the bowels of Brookhaven's RACF. Image courtesy of BNL Even though real data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has yet to touch the Grid, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s ATLAS Tier-1 center already have their hands dirty. Working on a daily basis with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) – a massive particle accelerator that smashes together beams of gold atoms to explore the complex world of nuclear physics – the almost 40 staff members at Brookhaven’s RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility (RACF) are no strangers to storing and distributing large amounts of data. “The benefit of an integrated facility like this is the ability to move around highly skilled and experienced IT experts from one project to the other, depending on what’s needed at the moment,” said RACF Director Michael Ernst. “There are many different flavors of physics computing, but the requirements for these two facilities are very sim
Feature - People behind the LHC grid: Jamie Shiers Some of the different projects involved, from across the globe. Image courtesy of Jamie Shiers Jamie Shiers is part of grid support for the Large Hadron Collider, and has been working on the LHC for 16 of his 25 years at CERN. Dressed in sneakers and jeans, and looking tan after a recent grid conference in Brazil, he talked with iSGTW at CERN’s Restaurant 1. iSGTW: What first got you interested in physics? JS: It could be something in the genes, I suppose. I and two of my three brothers became physicists—and we’ve all passed through CERN. For me, what helped to get me hooked was a book about physics, called “Mister Tompkins in Wonderland,” that I read at age 14 or 15, by George Gamow—a Russian physicist who worked with Niels Bohr. He wrote about a world in which light was slowed down enough that you could see the effects of relativity. It was a great book that turned me on to physics . . . that, and the old c
Link of the Week - LHC at home Image courtesy of LHC@home Analyzing the 15 million gigabytes of data from the Large Hadron Collider is not just for the big guys. The public can participate too, by using a screen-saver program that uses your computer's idle time to work on a piece of the project. By downloading LHC@ home, you are simulating a particle traveling round-and-round the 27-kilometer ring. It’s done using a program called SixTrack, which not only simulates the particle’s travel but studies the stability of its orbits—thus producing information essential to verifying the long-term stability of the high energy particles in the LHC. SixTrack was developed by Frank Schmidt of the CERN Accelerators and Beams Department. Lyn Evans, head of the LHC project, says that the results “are really making a difference, providing us with new insights into how the LHC will perform.”Typically SixTrack simulates 60 particles at a time as they travel around the ring, and runs the simulation for as man
Feature - (Almost) starting up the LHC: a view from the front lines A welder works on the interconnection between two of the LHC's superconducting magnet systems, in the LHC tunnel, earlier this year. Image courtesy of CERN On Thursday, 8 August, CERN announced that it would make the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on 10 September, with the first test scheduled for the weekend of 9 August.To find out what it is like from the point of view of those actually building the LHC and installing the equipment, iSGTW caught up with Mike Lamont of LHC Machine Operations for a few minutes, just before workers were about to start the initial steps of a preliminary, low-energy, “pre-startup.” iSGTW: What are your feelings, after all this time and effort?Lamont: “At the moment, my general feeling is an overwhelming one of relief, actually. We’ve pulled all the bits together; we’ve got the ring more or less cooled now; we’re underway.”“We’re up t
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We all know that eye protection can’t help you if you don’t wear it. And employees won’t wear protection if they don’t like the way it looks or feels. With this is mind, expect to see many changes in the development of eye protection over the next few years, as manufacturers continue to develop products to improve wearer comfort, durability and style.
New designs promise to be lighter and more comfortable, offering better performance in a wider variety of applications. Combined with sharp new styling, these innovations will be designed to lift the next generation of eyewear to higher levels of acceptance.
What’s appropriate?The Z87.1-2003 standard in eye protection offers categories to help end-users choose the appropriate pair of safety eyewear. This standard is broken into two levels: basic impact and high impact. The high-impact eyewear is marked with the manufacturers’ symbol or logo and a plus sign. As far as the level of impact is concerned, the end-user simply has to look for products that meet the level of the standard which addresses the existing workplace hazards. However, higher priced products may have additional features, such as adjustable temples and foam padding for added comfort. Another factor that may add to the cost of the product is a lens coating. Hard coatings and anti-fog treatments are more expensive to produce, but may be necessary in your workplace.
If you are unsure as to what type of eyewear is necessary in your workplace or for a certain impact hazard, purchasing a high-impact product is recommended. Of course, it is essential to have the right type of eye protection for the type of hazards present at the workplace. When choosing the correct eyewear for the job, you should understand the extent of the hazard, type of risk, level of risk and the potential for injury.
Greater emphasisGetting workers to wear eye protection continues to be one of the greatest challenges for safety managers. Many accidents have occurred because of hazards that have existed in workplaces where eye and face protection should have been used, but was not. In these circumstances, users felt that eye protection was not necessary and chose not to wear it because of comfort, fit and weight. Companies should place a greater emphasis on eyewear safety, including training on proper use of eye protection. This will increase the awareness for the need for eye protection for employees.
Comfort is being addressed, effectively, by manufacturers with new features. There are a variety of lenses, different shapes for various coverage needs and effective temple adjustment and lighter weight materials for comfort that meet Z87.1-2003. Safety eyewear continues to be updated to add current styling, while continuing to offer full coverage protection.
Because every user is different, having a variety of protective eyewear and using them properly is a key component to reducing eye injury. There are different face sizes, so one type of eyewear may be comfortable for one person, but not another. Many people have the tendency to use eye protection improperly, so fitting the user properly means the difference in getting good protection and limited protection.
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May 18 2013 Latest news:
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
7:44 AM
Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker believes that the Gunners must be consistent when they face Manchester City and Chelsea.
The Gunners are currently sitting in sixth place, four points behind the Blues in fourth.
“After 83 minutes we came back into the game and took the lead, and we were quite happy,” he said. “It was a difficult match in the first half but in the second half we took the initiative - that was really good.
“At this stage of the season, you have to be consistent.’s the most important thing for us, not what’s going to happen in May.
“We have a few targets in our team that are possible this year. We won’t talk about it, we’ll just see what happens in the next few important weeks on the pitch.”. | http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/arsenal/arsenal/arsenal_defender_we_must_be_focused_on_manchester_city_and_chelsea_1_1785261 | 2013-05-18T10:41:12 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Information on "Defense"
March 2012
- The Virtual Military
As the global military technology industry surges forward, both traditional and emerging powers are seeking new innovations in virtual training for the modern battlefield. More on «The Virtual Military»
- NATO’s Libyan Lessons
NATO’s accomplishment in Libya risks obscuring persistent weaknesses in Europe’s military capabilities. More on «NATO’s Libyan Lessons»
May 2011
- Turkey's Booming Defense Industry
In recent years, Turkey's defense industry has dramatically increased its exports, supported by a proactive foreign policy. The country is also planning to increase reliance on local industries for internal needs – putting the country well on its way to to becoming a globally established actor in military procurement. More on «Turkey's Booming Defense Industry»
May 2008
- Drug Trade in Colombia
Information on the illicit drug business in Colombia and its impact on society, environment, politics and economy. More on «Drug Trade in Colombia» | http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Find-Information/Regions/Keyword-Object/?fecvnodeid=128309&dom=1&groupot593=fce62fe0-528d-4884-9cdf-283c282cf0b2&fecvid=21&size544=10&ots591=fce62fe0-528d-4884-9cdf-283c282cf0b2&lng=en&size591=10&v21=127200&click571=127200 | 2013-05-18T10:42:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Although resides in Miami Beach, Florida, and plays in occasional exhibitions and in doubles for the St. Louis Aces of World Team Tennis. She currently is the new trainer, replacing Jillian Michaels, on the television show The Biggest Loser.
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President Barack Obama of the United States made an unscheduled appearance, Thursday afternoon, at a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz and American National Security Advisor Tom Donilon. Mofaz's office says the two spoke for half an hour in an atmosphere described at "excellent".
The former defense minister and chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces will meet with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta before his visit to the U.S. comes to a close. | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/243055 | 2013-05-18T10:32:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
President Shimon Peres met this Wednesday evening with representatives of the Likud-Beiteinu faction who gained the greatest number of votes in the recent elections. Following the meeting he met with representatives of the second largest party, Yesh Atid. On Thursday the president is expected to officially task Netanyahu with the forming the government.
President Peres will meet Thursday with the rest of the 12 parties who were elected to represent the citizens of Israel in the Knesset. | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/261037 | 2013-05-18T10:54:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
U.S. President Barack Obama will give his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday and sources in Washington say the main topics that the President will touch on are sure to be the economy, immigration reform and gun control.
A source in Washington also said that the President will announce a plan to withdraw 34,000 troops from the Afghanistan by early 2014. | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/261983 | 2013-05-18T11:02:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Annexing Area C: An open letter to Naftali Bennett by Martin Sherman
From our past exchanges, it is clear that we have broadly similar opinions on – or at least, a broadly similar approach to – several major issues on the national agenda, particularly those relating to security and foreign policy.
It is in the spirit of over-arching like-mindedness that I would urge you to rethink the position you have taken on the Palestinian issue – and in particular, your proposal to annex Area C.
Shared point of departure
Let me say from the outset that I fully concur with your explicit negation of the notion of Palestinian statehood, both in terms of its feasibility and its desirability.
Likewise, I agree with your caveat that the government, by formally embracing, or at least formally acceding to, the establishment of Palestinian state, while being compelled to undertake measures on the ground that, prime facie, appear inconsistent with such a goal, is sending out mixed – indeed, self-contradictory – messages to the world.
Thus, it is undermining its credibility, playing into the hands of those less charitable souls who seek to depict it as a duplicitous double-dealer, whose professions of peaceful intent should be dismissed as no more than the disingenuous declarations of a forked-tongued swindler.
It thus seems that we are in complete agreement as to what should not be done. However, when it comes to what should be done, we appear to differ – and differ sharply.
For regrettably I find the approach you have chosen to adopt, i.e. the partial annexation of Judea-Samaria and confining the extension of Israeli sovereignty to Area C, an ill-considered initiative which is not only likely to prove largely unproductive, but to a great degree counter-productive.
I strongly urge you to reconsider persisting in its promotion.
Demonstrably detrimental
True, you have admitted you are not proposing your partial annexation plan as comprehensive, utopian solution, but even as a temporary, intermediate measure, it is demonstrably detrimental.
So while I have little argument regarding the factual accuracy of the empirical material you present as the basis for your proposal, I do take issue with its political pertinence and the validity of the policy-related inferences that you draw from it.
As I will show, it is a fatally flawed formula in that – even if it were fully implemented – would alleviate virtually none of the grave problems confronting Israel today on the Palestinians front, whether in the diplomatic, security or administrative spheres. It would, however, almost inevitably exacerbate many of them.
But before elaborating on the reservations I have regarding your proposal, allow me to offer my readers a brutally condensed synopsis of it – at least as I have come to understand it from a perusal of the material recently put out by you and on your behalf.
In a nutshell…
Your proposal rests on the current division of Judea-Samaria into three areas, A, B and C, which while distinct functionally, are interspersed and intermingled geographically.
Area A is under full civil and security control of the Palestinian Authority, and comprises about 18 percent of the territory. Approximately 55% of the Palestinian population resides in Area A which includes all the major Palestinian cities and their immediate environs, but no Jewish settlements.
Area B is under Palestinian civil control and joint Israeli-Palestinian security control, and comprises about 21% of the territory.
Approximately 41% of the Palestinian population resides in Area B which includes numerous smaller Palestinian towns and villages, but no Israeli settlements.
Area C, which you designate for annexation, comprises about 61% of Judea-Samaria and includes all the Jewish settlements and 3 to 4% of the Palestinian population.
The numerical estimates of the Palestinian population in Area C vary from around 50,000 (your estimate) to about 150,000 (the UN’s).
But even without engaging the difficulties of arriving at a reliable estimate of the Area C population – which includes a significant nomadic component – it can, in general terms, be conceded that your major contention that the Palestinian presence in this area is relatively small is correct.
Drawing on this data, the partial-annexation proposal prescribes unilaterally extending Israeli sovereignty over Area C in which all the 300,000-400,000 Jewish settlers reside and – to counter any charges of apartheid – offering full citizenship to the far smaller Arab population which, whatever its precise size, would have minor impact on Israel’s demographic balance.
In the remaining Areas A and B, comprising less than 40% of the area but including around 97% of the Arab population, you propose some form of autonomous Palestinian self-rule, which you designate “full PA autonomy,” but to the best of my knowledge, do not specify which activities will be included (and excluded) from the authority of this envisioned autonomous body.
Partial annexation: The perils
This is one of the crucial omissions of the proposal. For as will soon become clear, once an attempt is made to designate what autonomous powers should (or should not) be conferred on a Palestinian self-governing body, it quickly becomes apparent that the entire scheme is unworkable.
But before we engage the impediments to autonomy, let’s focus on those of geography.
A cursory glance at any map of the region will reveal how impractical such partial annexation would be for Israel, implying borders for the country’s sovereign territory that are impossibly torturous and lengthy. For just like Areas A and B, Area C is a crazy quilted patchwork of enclaves, corridors and access roads, with an outer contour well in excess of 1,000 km.
Is this meant to designate Israel’s final sovereign frontiers? If so, how are they to be secured, and at what cost – operationally, financially and diplomatically? If not, what are these final frontiers to be and how are they to be determined? This is no trivial matter – for any country that deems certain territory to be under its sovereignty must demarcate the frontiers of that territory and be ready to secure them against infiltration and attack.
Indeed, if Israel does not demarcate and secure the boundaries of its sovereign territory, how would it prevent the influx of residents from Areas A and B into it – with all the attendant security and demographic ramifications? Given the massive outlay required for the existing 400- to 450-km.-long security barrier, imagine the monetary and manpower resources needed to construct a similar one, well over 1,000-km.-long, to demarcate and secure the contours of Area C.
Perils (cont.)
But apart from what I see as the insurmountable problem of demarcating and securing Israel’s sovereign territory, there remains the status of the remaining Areas A and B in which over 95% of the Palestinian population would reside, on less than 40% of the territory, spread over a myriad of disconnected enclaves, scattered from Hebron in the south to Jenin in the north; and from Jericho in the east to Kalkilya in the west.
Even given your yet-to-be-realized vision of a bewildering array of yetto- be-constructed (at what cost?) highways interchanges that would provide what you designate as “transportational continuity,” allowing any Arab-Palestinian to travel from anywhere to anywhere in Area A and B “without encountering a single IDF checkpoint,” this collection of helter-skelter mini-territorial patches is clearly incapable of being forged into any sustainable collective entity.
If by annexing Area C, you permanently forgo sovereignty in Areas B and C, what is the rationale for the long-term presence of the Israeli military there? What would be the envisioned rationale for withdrawing it? If you do not forgo such sovereignty, what is to be the status of the inhabitants? It is unthinkable that the current PA leadership, or any conceivable alternative, would accept responsibility for the administration of such an emasculated entity.
What then would be the alternative administration? If none could be found, what would this mean and how would it be presented to the world? What is the envisioned long-term future for the residents of these areas? How are accusations regarding the creation of ethnically delineated discriminatory – and defenseless – Bantustans (or rather Arabstans) to be countered?\
Autonomy: Conundrums and contradictions
This brings us to the nature of the autonomy to be granted the Palestinians.
In principle there in nothing essentially flawed in the idea of autonomy – provided that the autonomous entity (which by definition has its authority limited by some sovereign entity) recognizes.
So when you state that you propose.
Conundrums and contradictions (cont.)
For example, would Israel allow the Palestinian autonomous entity to determine the location of charcoal production, which emits carcinogenic smoke, induces respiratory diseases and (according to Haaretz) has in some areas reduced life expectancy to 40?
Would Israel intervene to deal with sewage pollution emanating fr of the intended “full autonomy.”
In for a penny...
From the foregoing analysis it should be clear that as long as the perceived need to maintain an autonomous – and inherently adversarial – Arab collective entity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea remains the cornerstone of the Israeli approach to the Palestinian question, we will continue to be drawn into futile and wasteful attempts to resolve it.
This is why I have repeatedly advocated focusing efforts on the Palestinian individual, rather the Palestinian collective, on the humanitarian rather than the political aspects of the problem; on dissolving the problem rather than resolving it.
Partial annexation would not only solve little and exacerbate much on the ground, the diplomatic outrage it would precipitate would be no less than if Israel were to annex the entire “West Bank” – as I have suggested on numerous occasions in previous columns.
But as opposed to your proposal, which would encase virtually the entire Arab-Palestinian population in an indefinite and directionless state of political limbo, my alternative suggestion would offer individual Palestinian breadwinners tangible hope for a better future for themselves and their families.
Naftali, I am sure that we both agree that between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, there can – and eventually will – prevail either exclusive Jewish sovereignty, or exclusive Arab sovereignty.
Given the recognition of this political truth, why adhere to a partial non-solution rather than adopt a comprehensive paradigm for permanent dissipation of the predicament – particularly if the political pain entailed in the latter is unlikely to greater than that involved in the former.
Making omelettes…
In conclusion, Naftali, the polls have been kind to you and predict an impressive achievement for your Bayit Yehudi Party in the coming elections. Accordingly, you are likely to have a chance to significantly impact the policy of the next government.
I would urge you to press home to your future colleagues that any policy based on perpetuating the presence of a large Arab population in Judea-Samaria is incompatible with the long-term survival of the Israel as the sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people.
This calls for you to rethink your partial-annexation initiative and to throw your weight behind the more far-reaching policy option I have proposed in the Humanitarian Alternative, which entails extending Israeli sovereignty over all of Judea-Samaria while helping individual Arab-Palestinians currently resident there prosper elsewhere.
After all, you can’t make omelettes without cracking eggs.
Martin Sherman () is the founder and executive director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Martin Sherman is correct.
If given a choice a bi-national state run by the Jews is far preferable to an Islamic dictatorship run by Hamas.
There is no third option. In the long run, the Arab demographic problem can be solved. Its far easier to address the threat if Israel is in control on the ground.
An Arab state on the other hand cannot be undone and would pose an on-going threat to Israel. We don’t want an Arab state to arise in Judea and Samaria.
And that means facing the future honestly – without illusions.
@ NormanF:
I disagree with a binational state. I want Judea and Samaria annexed and the Arabs moved out.
A welcome voice of reason here. But there needs to be some investigation into the REAL motives behind this partial annexation proposal. I stick to my hypothesis that it is to psychologically condition Israelis to give up the land. Parts A and B first, then everything except the major settlements.
My 48-word (1 and a half lines) comment censored for moderation!
It is amusing to see how Rabbi Kahane was so prescient about Arab behaviour. He was maligned by the times’ conventional wisdom but he described the consequences of not affirming Jewish rights each and every day, would bring disaster for Israel. And it almost has come. But I am sure this movement to the “right” in Israel (unfortunately offset by the movement to the LEFT by US Jews), signals healthy awareness that the Arabs will NEVER be peacve ´partners and it will be preferable to annex the entire “west bank of antisemites”, Shomron for Jews. And pay the Pals to leave. These ppl are impossible:
Laura Said:
We don’t really disagree about the long term! But in the short term its better to have Jews ruling the Arabs than the Arabs getting a base to destroy Israel. He who doesn’t want that will get Hamas. As I observed, no third option exists.
@ Laura:
You want he Arabs moved out. Much, Much easier said than done. Many would agree with you but One simple question must be answered. How? How? How? How?
terence, pay the Pals to leave.
terence Said:
buses, cars,bicycles, horse carts, walk…
just get the hell out…
the phoenix said: “
hahahahaha!!!!! very funny!!!! practical. I am tired of these ppls’ evil stupidity:
Let’s get real here, no Israeli government is going to ever annex any more of Judea and Samaria than the Gush Etzion and Greater Jerusalem areas without an agreement with the Palestinians, so all this talk about partial or full annexation of Areas A, B, or C is just rhetoric, empty words which for all their sound and fury mean absolutely nothing!
@ Ken Besig:
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January 29, 2013
By Staff.
Eastside Fire & Rescue firefighters retire
Eastside Fire & Rescue Board of Directors honored retiring officers Lt. Maureen Dunn and Lt. Kerry Canady Jan. 10, who have combined experience of 50 years of service.
Dunn began her career July 1, 1987, working for the Issaquah Fire Department.
Ten years to the day, she was promoted to lieutenant.
She worked in Issaquah several years and ended up assigned to Station 81, in Sammamish.
As the only female officer for EFR, she was involved in the organization Women in the Fire Service, and felt it was important to help young women by volunteering with 16- to 18-year-olds at Camp Blaze, a nonprofit organization committed to maximizing women’s involvement in the fire service through education and networking.
Canady and his siblings became volunteer firefighters in 1981 in Carnation. He became full time on Oct. 1, 1987.
Since then, he’s served as the PTSA emergency preparedness coordinator and has worked with the senior center and other groups in his community over the years.
Canady has primarily served in Carnation, but has been assigned elsewhere, including Fire Station 81, in Sammamish.
Eastside Fire & Rescue serves Issaquah, North Bend, Sammamish, and fire districts 10 and 38.
Local firefighter is promoted to lieutenant
Eastside Fire & Rescue firefighter Ryan Anderson was promoted to lieutenant at a ceremony Jan. 8.
Anderson began his career with EFR on April 26, 2004, predominately working in the Issaquah and Sammamish areas.
Ryan was involved in Think Again, a program reaching young drivers, and is one of two lead instructors who talk to high school students about the choices and consequences of drinking and driving, not wearing seatbelts and reckless driving.
He has also worked with the Public Education Division promoting fire safety and injury. | http://www.issaquahpress.com/2013/01/29/whos-news-50/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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(By Balaseshan) IT and business process services firm CGI Group Inc. (NYSE: GIB) said its unit was selected for a multiple-award contract to deliver software and systems engineering to the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command.
CGI Federal Inc. has been awarded a prime position on the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ), multiple-award contract for the Software and Systems Engineering Services Next Generation (SSES NexGen) contract.
The five-year ID/IQ has a total vehicle ceiling of $7 billion. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Life Cycle Management Command (CECOM LCMC) Software Engineering Center (SEC).
Under the vehicle, CGI will deliver life cycle systems, software engineering, and business and information technology support services to the SEC, which supports the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) mission in the Army and across the Department of Defense.
"With more than 30 years of partnership with CECOM, our professionals understand the mission and how technology can help enhance operations and improve the Army''s ability to support the C4ISR community," said Barb Fast, CGI Vice-President for Army & Defense Intelligence Programs.
CGI Group provides information technology (IT) consulting, systems integration, IT outsourcing and business solutions. The company's delivery model provides for work to be carried out onsite at client premises, or through its centers located globally.
GIB is trading up 1.82% at $23.49 on Tuesday. The stock has been trading between $17.40 and $27.71 for the past 52 weeks. | http://www.istockanalyst.com/finance/story/6225987/cgi-group-gib-selected-to-deliver-software-and-systems-engineering-to-u-s-army | 2013-05-18T11:03:03 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Destination: Mindoro, Philippines hiking, snorkeling"Follow the footsteps of 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda, the ultimate Japanese World War 2 straggler. Walk his jungle trails, visit caves that he sheltered in and trek along the river that sustained him for 30 years. Enjoy Lubang Islandâ.€.™.s white sandy beaches, dramatic rock cliffs, waterfalls, mangrove and marine sanctuary.5 days, USD$480 per personOverview. For 30 years he harassed villagers and soldiers with his guerilla activities, surviving through his wits and the islandâ.€.™.s abundant resources. Only in 1974 when his original commanding officer flew to Lubang Island and ordered him to lay down his arms did Hiroo Onoda finally surrender. The Lubang Island of today is surprisingly unchanged from the time of 2nd Lt. Onoda. Partly due to his destabilization operations that slowed down development, much of the island remains wild and mysterious. On this adventure we take to the jungles, caves, rivers and beaches where Onoda waged his 30 year war. As we surrender to the rugged beauty of Lubang Island, we may understand why for Hiroo, giving it up was not an option. Activities and Trip Highlights:â.€.¢. Hike jungle trails and enter caves that Hiroo Onoda used â.€.¢. See the abundance of life in Lubang Island and learn some of Onodaâ.€.™.s survival techniques â.€.¢. Ply the islandâ.€.™.s coastline on boat and come ashore to explore its many distinct beaches. â.€.¢. Skin dive in one of the biggest marine sanctuaries in the countryâ.€.¢. Explore Lubang Islandâ.€.™.s amazing features such as mangroves, waterfalls and seaside rock formations "Contact Info.:Pasig, PhilippinesPhone: 6326215399 | http://www.it8it.com/tour_package.asp?packID=11459&CID=7875 | 2013-05-18T10:20:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
2012 USTA/ITA National Collegiate Wheelchair Championships Produce Three Champions
Alabama and Arizona take home national titles
MOBILE, AL – After three days of competition, the 2012 USTA/ITA National Collegiate Wheelchair Championships has come to a close at the Copeland-Cox Tennis Center in Mobile, AL. The 2012 event took place Oct. 12-14, featuring several of the nation's top collegiate varsity wheelchair players. The draw format included Tier I singles, Tier II singles and Tier I doubles.
Mackenzie Soldan of the University of Alabama took home the Tier I singles title. The Tier I singles draw consisted of four players competing in a round robin format. The level of play was very competitive throughout the round robin as three of the four competitors won two matches apiece. However, after several calculations, it was Soldan who would be crowned the champion by virtue of winning the most sets.
Soldan went 2-1 in three matches with her only loss coming in the form of a walkover. Her first win of the tournament came in straight sets over Grand Valley State’s Scott Cole. Then, in her final match of the singles tournament, Soldan pulled out a tight three setter against Arizona’s Pedro Rocha, 4-6, 7-5, 10-4 which clinched the title for Soldan.
The Tier II singles championship went to the University of Arizona’s Kate Stuteville, who refused to relinquish a single set in four matches en route to the title. Stuteville defeated Alabama’s Karolina Lingyte in the championship final with a 6-4, 6-4 showing.
Stuteville then teamed up with Tier I singles runner-up Pedro Rocha to claim the doubles title. The duo from Arizona powered their way to the championship, winning 36 of 44 games played. Stuteville and Rocha topped Grand Valley State’s Chris Melton and Scott Cole in the championship match to claim the doubles crown.
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Lidskoe Beer Cup
LIDA, BELARUS: Tennis Club Lida Drive was the fine setting for the third time to host the ITF Seniors Tournament Lidskoe Beer (Pivo). Sponsorship was provided by the famous factory Lidskoe Beer (PIVO). This was an opportunity to see some of the best senior’s players from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania and Belarus to participate.
The tournament welcomed more than 100 players to its event including 6 players from the top 100 ITF world ranked players and more than 10 players from the ITF top 200.
This year many titles were awarded to players from above mentioned countries.
In the men’s 35s, Evgeny Terekhin (RUS) beat Maxim Dubrovenski (BLR) after fighting back from losing the first set 46 to take the next two 76 64.
The biggest surprise was witnessed in the men’s 40s as Tarashi Kikaleishvili took the title although before this tournament had no ITF world ranking points.
Russian, Oleg Vasiliev was to take the men’s 45s title after beating Vladimir Beliank of Belarus 63 64.
Current world number 114 Valery Olkov was to cause another tournament upset by beating favourite Tadas Tarasevicius (LTU) in the men’s 50s 63 64
Sergey Khokhrin (UKR) took the next title on offer (men’s 55s) after beating Aleksandr Gegchkori (GEO) 63 64
Top seed Valdimir Nazarenko was to take the title in the men’s 60s
Algirdas Gailius from Lithuania won title in the men’s 65s after beating Joans Leskevicius 63 75
Yuriy Pavlov (RUS) from Moscow won the title in men's 70s after beating fellow countryman Aleksei Siaemov.
In the women’s events Tatiana Stukova from Lithuania took the title in the women's 40s after winning a hard fought battle against Ekaterina Sudnik from Belarus62 57 75
In the women’s 50s Irina Klimova took the title after defeating Irina Deyneko 64 63
Despite the problems caused by many rain delays, all events including the doubles and mixed doubles were completed on time which was as a result of the excellent team of organisers.
The Official dinner was a great success with the Lida’s Folk group demonstrating at a very high level the national Belarus Song and dance.
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A municipality in Upper Carniola, the town of Bled is situated in northwestern Slovenia, towered by the majestic Julian Alps a most sought after tourist destination. The town’s first settlement dates back to the Mesolithic Age while the first mention of the Bled Castle was in 1004 when it was bestowed upon Bishop Albuin I [...] | http://www.itinerarist.com/category/slovenia/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:26 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the Woking Woking region.
Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa. | http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/woking/mcts.do | 2013-05-18T10:45:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
At the Pwn2Own competition held in Canada, some French hackers were able to crack open Google's chrome sphere, quicker than any other browser - in under five minutes.
The hackers in question were no underground anons, or roller skating, Wipeout playing teens that happen to a look a lot like Angelina Jolie or Matthew Lillard, but a French security firm that has a questionable reputation, due to its selling of software vulnerabilities to government organisations.
"Last year, we saw a lot of headlines that no one could hack Chrome. We wanted to make sure it was the first to fall this year," said the company's head, Chaouki Bekrar in an interview with Zdnet. Last year, the browser was the only one to stand triumphantly unhacked by the end of the competition, so his willingness is understandable - even from just the perspective of professional pride.
Apparently, it took the firm around six weeks to find the vulnerabilities that it would ultimately use to bring the browser crashing down in the competition. It wasn't the only one hacked by Mr Bekrar and his fellow security pros; the group came prepared with hacks for each of the main browsers. It was just keen to get Chrome out of the way, to show that it was far from unhackable.
He did however praise Google for its well-circled digital wagons, saying that the Chrome sandbox is the most secure out there at the moment and that ultimately this helps make it one of the most secure browsers available. | http://www.itproportal.com/2012/03/09/google-chrome-hacked-first-pwn2own-competition/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Following a large victory over rival Samsung in regards to six patent violations found across 26 different Samsung smartphones and tablets, Apple has gone back to the legal drawing board and amended a separate complaint against 17 further devices, including some of Samsung's latest smartphones.
The original complaint, filed in February, alleged that Samsung violated four utility patents across 17 different devices. Apple has since upped the number of patents to eight and the number of devices to 21, tossing Samsung's Galaxy S3 favour. That case, which Apple refers to as the "Earlier Case" in its filing, began with a complaint filed in April 2011.
"Since then, Samsung has continued to release new infringing products, including its current flagship device, the Galaxy S3. While Samsung's new products infringe many of the same design patents, utility patents, trademarks, and trade dress rights that are at issue in the Earlier Case, Samsung's new products also infringe additional utility patents, some of which [were] issued after Apple filed the Earlier Case," reads Apple's complaint.
Separately, Apple is also attempting to ban sales of eight more Samsung smartphones - though not all feature in UK and European markets – including the Galaxy S2, Galaxy S 4G, and Galaxy Prevail. A hearing for Apple's request has been scheduled for 6 December.
Apple previously attempted to ban sales of Samsung's Galaxy S3 back in June, but US District Court Judge Lucy Koh couldn't fit Apple's complaint into a previously scheduled June hearing.
"I cannot be an Apple vs.
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By Paul Thackeray, VP EMEA, Barracuda Networks on April 11th, 2007
Of all the information security threats facing today’s businesses it is spam that is the most visible and has taken over from viruses as public enemy number one. According to the latest industry research from the DTI spam can spread malicious programs that take over infected computers. These “bots” can bombard web-sites with traffic, denying service. Separate research indicates bots have infected many UK household PCs; this indirectly puts UK businesses at risk
There is a wide variety of anti-spam measures available and companies need to understand which one is right for them. Given the e-mail’s crucial role in the ongoing health of their business, managers can not afford to compromise. Software applications are of limited effectiveness Spammers change their techniques several times a day. The workload created by these anti-spam programs inevitably lead to deterioration in the machine’s overall effectiveness. Software solutions do nothing to counter ‘Denial of Service’ attacks – floods of spam e-mails choking the machine’s ability to operate, eventually causing failure.
At the low end, there is cheap, or sometimes free, software that can be installed on PCs or mail servers. The machines on which the software is installed continue their intended functions, but in addition, operate the anti-spam application. To be effective, the software solution must include an up-to-date database of threats. This database needs to be updated regularly. Before long it will grow to be very large. Checking all e-mails against the database and various pre-defined rules requires the calculation of a multitude of complex algorithms. Apart from the loss of operational efficiency, the extra workload creates additional support and maintenance issues surrounding the anti-spam solution itself. Finally, and in an environment where half-measures are untenable; they are no real solution to the problem.
Businesses may side-step the need to maintain an anti-spam system and free their technology infrastructure from extra workload by opting for an outsourced service. Here there is a price to pay. By handing-over responsibility for determining what constitutes unwanted e-mail to a third party there is an increased risk that genuine e-mails may be blocked. It also means entrusting company confidential information to a third party, and asking them to abide by your corporate policies. Although it works well for some organizations, outsourced management of the spam threat is a compromise for the majority because you no longer have control over your e-mail.
The latest category of anti-spam solution to emerge is the Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance. UTM combines all aspects of Internet threat protection on a single box. This frees up corporate systems from having to maintain and manage multiple Internet threat applications. However, most corporates recognize that you cannot fight every Internet threat effectively if all the applications are resident in the same box. Several applications fighting different threats from one generic appliance will lead to compromise somewhere along the line. For example, when support issues arise, they are more complex to diagnose and manage and can take longer to resolve. In some cases applications installed on UTM appliances originate from different third party sources. To solve your issue the UTM vendor will require assistance the third party and there is no guarantee that their priorities will be the same as yours. In the meantime your business, with only one appliance and therefore a single point of failure, either stops operating or is wide open to all threats.
Spam is the one Internet threat above all others where you cannot afford to make compromises. Dedicated appliances have a single purpose; to protect an organization from spam and keep the life blood that is e-mail flowing. The anti-spam application resides on a powerful appliance while the software is specifically optimized for the purpose. With a dedicated appliance, if the unit requires repair or maintenance at least your e-mail can keep running. Moreover, the hardware element makes up just 10 percent of the unit’s cost. Since hardware is not a significant factor on cost what advantage is there to placing all your threat protection on one appliance?
Organizations acquiring a spam solution today are either replacing home-grown software applications, looking to save money after having an outsourced environment or realizing that e-mail is too important to entrust to UTM. An entry-level dedicated spam appliance cost about the same as entry-level UTM firewall. When effective e-mail security is this simple why compromise?
Barracuda Networks is exhibiting at Infosecurity Europe 2007, Europe’s number one dedicated Information security event. Now in its 12th year, the show continues to provide an unrivaled education program, new products & services, over 300 exhibitors and 11,600 visitors from every segment of the industry. Held on the 24th – 26th April 2007 in the Grand Hall, Olympia, this is a must attend event for all professionals involved in Information Security. | http://www.itsecurity.com/features/barracuda-thackeray-spam-threat-041107/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Yaz contraceptive for acne treatment
November 18, 2009 by admin
Filed under Women's Health
If you are trying to find out, how to get rid of acne then try using birth control pills better known as oral contraceptives. Yaz acne can make you look older and it will be bothersome when you are meeting someone new or with friends.
Using birth control pills are not always approved by doctors when trying acne cure. They are used when other acne treatment fails to show results. For best acme remedies these pills can be used alongside benzyl per oxide and tropical reinoids. Contraceptives of Yaz can be used for curing acne. Yaz will help women suffering from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome alongside helping you hide acne .
There are some side effects to be considered when curing acne using yaz contraceptive. Like, contraceptives have steroids that will make you fat, they also cause nausea, breast tenderness and mood swings. There are also some very dangerous, they include, heart stroke, blood clots, excessive blood pressure and depressions. Yaz acne will be used as contraceptives and this will also help in reducing acne. Do go through a regime of taking pills on the same time for some days. You will definitely get a desirable result, for a better looking you forever. | http://www.itsfitlife.com/tag/acne-remedies/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
James Bond stars to carry golden case on a UK tour
Some of the biggest stars from the James Bond films are to take part in a golden anniversary celebration of the series.
Popular Bond Sir Roger Moore, Richard "Jaws" Kiel and Britt Eck.
The silver sportscar was one of the originals featured in the last film, Quantum Of Solace.
The case will tour memorable filming locations in the UK from Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.. | http://www.itv.com/news/2012-09-16/james-bond-stars-to-carry-golden-case-on-a-uk-tour/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Do people celebrate St. Andrew's Day?
ITV Border sent a reporter out to ask if the people of Dumfries were aware that it's St. Andrew's Day:
Scots all over the world are celebrating St. Andrew's Day.
ITV Border sent a reporter out to ask if the people of Dumfries were aware that it's St. Andrew's Day:
As the countdown to the independence referendum in 2014 continues, First Minister Alex Salmond and the Prime Minister David Cameron both sent special messages, in celebration of St. Andrew's Day.
Mr Salmond visited a primary school to focus on free education.
– First Minister Alex Salmond– First Minister Alex Salmond
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– Prime Minister David Cameron– Prime Minister David Cameron
"For centuries, Scotland's greatest asset and greatest export has been its people."
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Scottish people all over the world are celebrating St. Andrew's Day today. | http://www.itv.com/news/border/story/2012-11-30/st-andrews-day/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Reaction to job losses at Thomas Cook in Bradford
Speaking to Calendar within the last few minutes, Yorkshire travel writer David Hoyle has been reacting to the news of job losses at Thomas Cook in Bradford.
– David Hoyle - travel expert– David Hoyle - travel expert
This is a sad day for West Yorkshire and the travel industry but sadly a sign of the times, I'd say all the people working there should keep their heads up- quality people will survive and hopefully they'll find redeployment within the firm. There are opportunities out there and the travel industry is not shrinking - just changing." | http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2012-06-13/reaction-to-job-losses-at-thomas-cook-in-bradford/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Unite ask Govt 'to stop contaminating the environment'
I have just spoken to a source at Unite who tells me the union has again written to the Government to ask them to 'stop contaminating the environment'.
I am told they have been discussing the issue of health and safety with ministers for two years. They believe the Government's been politicising what is actually an industrial issue. They hope the letter will calm things down. They also stressed they do not want a strike. | http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-03-29/unite-ask-government-to-stop-contaminating-the-environment/ | 2013-05-18T11:06:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Seven injured as wild monkeys attack Indonesian village
A mob of wild monkeys went on a rampage in a village in eastern Indonesia, entering houses and attacking residents.
According to Ambo Ella, a spokesman for the Sidendeng Rappang District, around ten monkeys were involved in the attack in Toddang Pulu village.
He added that a 16-year-old boy is currently being treated in hospital, after being badly bitten in the attack. It is unclear why the monkeys attacked, authorities have launched an investigation. | http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-01-31/seven-injured-as-wild-monkeys-attack-indonesian-village/ | 2013-05-18T10:55:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
July 07, 2012, 7:19 AM — Ditch your Nintendo 3DS and leave your Sony PlayStation Vita at home. With these apps, your smartphone can become the only game machine you need. It doesn’t matter if you'd rather blast zombies or slam pigs--these games are sure to suit everyone’s tastes.
Angry Birds Space (free) Android | ($1) iOSJust when we were getting tired of flinging birds at swine, developer Rovio decided to change the rules of the game. Angry Birds Space takes everything you knew about Angry Birds and throws it out the window. You’re still catapulting flightless fowl at green pigs, but now you have to contend with complicating factors such as gravity fields and other space-themed obstacles. The levels aren’t the only thing that’s new: The game also adds a handful of new birds, each with its own special power. So get your slingshot ready, and start smashing some pigs (in space).
[ Free download: How to craft a mobile-application strategy ]
SpellTower ($2) iOSIn SpellTower, you use letters to spell out words for points. Like Triple Town (see below), this game is easy to pick up but difficult to master. Each of the four different modes has its own set of rules, but one rule remains the same throughout: You can use each word only once. Although that restriction isn’t much of a problem in the Tower and Puzzle modes, where you aren’t timed, it makes Rush Mode--where letters are constantly filling the screen, and you have to prevent them from reaching the top--a mad dash to stay alive. The game also has a local multiplayer mode, where you can challenge other people on iPhones or iPads to determine who can acquire the most points in a short amount of time. Better keep those dictionaries handy--you’re going to need them.
EDITOR'S PICKMinecraft: Pocket Edition ($7) Android | iOSIf you can dream it, you can build it in Minecraft: Pocket Edition. The game features two modes: a survival mode similar to the desktop version of the game, and a creative mode where you can build as you please without fear of attack. The survival mode drops you in the middle of a map filled with random animals and enemies looking to hurt you or mess up your buildings. The creative mode is much less stressful, and gives you an infinite supply of resources to build pretty much anything you want. A multiplayer mode is available too, so you and a friend can join forces to create something truly amazing.
Canabalt ($3) Android | iOSTiming is everything in Canabalt. Your only goal is to run as fast and as far as you can, without plummeting to your death or crashing into obstacles. The faster your well-dressed character goes, the more difficult it is for you to avoid missing a jump and running headfirst into a wall (resulting in your instant demise). It’s fun to challenge yourself to go farther and beat your friends’ high scores; you’ll definitely want to keep playing, no matter how many times you expire.. | http://www.itworld.com/282596/best-apps-2012-great-games-android-and-iphone | 2013-05-18T11:07:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
FCC begins trial of Google white spaces database
The 45-day test run will check on the accuracy and functionality of the spectrum database
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun a test run of a Google database of unused spectrum in the television bands that's available for wireless broadband.
The FCC on Monday kicked off a 45-day trial of Google's so-called white spaces spectrum database. The database is designed to track what unused, or white spaces, spectrum is available for new Wi-Fi-like uses.
Google is one of 10 companies asking the FCC to certify them as database administrators for the TV white spaces. The FCC approved Spectrum Bridge as the first white spaces database provider in December 2011.
Participants in the Google trial are encouraged to test the database's channel availability calculator, the wireless microphone registration utility and other functionality, the FCC said in a public notice last week. Participants should report any inaccuracies in the database to Google, the FCC said.
After the trial, Google will issue a report to the FCC, and the FCC will allow a public comment period before the agency acts on Google's application for certification, the agency said.
The white spaces can help ease a coming shortage of spectrum, Alan Norman, Google's principal for access, wrote in a blog post.
"There is available spectrum out there -- but it can be hard to find if you don't know where to look," Norman wrote. "One way we're trying to help researchers and other stakeholders identify available spectrum is through dynamic spectrum sharing. Spectrum sharing allows devices to use spectrum when it is not in use by someone else simply by checking a database."
The trial will "bring us all one step closer to freeing up more spectrum, which in turn will help the industry bring new wireless technologies to market and enable people to get wireless Internet access when and where they need it," he added.
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. Grant's e-mail address is grant_gross@idg.com. | http://www.itworld.com/print/346432 | 2013-05-18T10:57:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The International Legal Regime of the High Seas, CBD Technical Series No 19
03 November 2005 | Downloads - publication
The International Legal Regime of the High Seas -CBD Technical Series No 19
As part of their commitment to the issue of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in marine areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, the Parties to the CBD have agreed to address options for cooperation for the establishment of marine protected areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
This topic was on the agenda of the first meeting of the Convention’s Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Protected Areas in July 2005, and will also be discussed at the second meeting of this Working Group. The present document, prepared by the IUCN’s Global Marine Programme and the Task Force on High Seas Marine Protected Areas of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected (WCPA), provided background material for the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group.
In particular, it presented a unique and valuable analysis of the International Legal Regime of the High Seas and the Seabed Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction, as well as options for cooperation for the establishment of marine protected areas in these areas. | http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_capacity2/gpap_pub/gpap_lawpub/?2126/The-International-Legal-Regime-of-the-High-Seas-CBD-Technical-Series-No-19 | 2013-05-18T11:03:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Apple Admits Problems with “Do Not Disturb”, Says it Will Work Properly After Jan. 7
Yesterday we told you that many users were experiencing issues with Do Not Disturb, well today Apple has admitted that they are aware of the problem and working on fixing it. In a detailed in a support article on its website Apple notes that the Do Not Disturb functionality found within iOS 6 is currently acting out, however it will return to normal functionality after Jan. 7, 2013.
Until Apple’s fix goes in place, the company advised you to manually turn the feature on or off.
To turn off the scheduling feature, tap Settings > Notifications > Do Not Disturb and switch Scheduled to Off.
Readers might remember that the iPhone has a history of New Year’s bugs, in 2011 there was a bug that prevented non-repeating alarms from ringing. When the bug became known, Apple suggested that users set recurring alarms until Jan. 3 of that year, when the alarms automatically began working again properly.
No words yet as to why they will start working again on Jan 7th, what do you think?
Source: | http://www.iusethisapp.com/apple-admits-problems-do-disturb-work-properly-jan-7-15006/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Google Starts Promoting their iOS Dev Team
Since Apple decided to ditch preloaded Google apps from iOS, Google has been working hard on their own iOS Apps. When viewing the latest ads that have popped up all over the net it becomes apparent that Google has decided to turn their attention to building better apps for iOS.
It’s interesting that Google is spending so much energy on advertising when you consider that they are currently dominating the App Store top charts, in their new ad campaign they focus on what its iOS apps have to offer including: Google Search, YouTube, Chrome, and Gmail.
The message of the advertisement is that developers working for Google have the chance to “Do cool things that matter” almost as if Apple’s set of apps doesn’t bring any benefit to iOS users.
Finally the ad links to a page with a full breakdown of what the Google iOS mobile apps team has to offer and a chance for prospective employees to apply for a job.
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Croatia
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Our regatta
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Our regatta
We have always done our regatta in the late spring at our local boy scout camp or a local park. The extra boys can just run around then. Since you are inside, maybe you could have stations where they learn about "things that go" like boats or trains or planes? Maybe you could have a lego station where they have to build a "boat" and then vote on who's is the best at the end. Maybe you could do a station as a belt loop- one of the writing ones where they have to write a thank you letter or something- that would keep some quiet.
Let us know what you do! | http://www.ivillage.com/forums/pregnancy-parenting/family-fun/scouting-guiding-4-h/boy-scouts/our-regatta | 2013-05-18T10:24:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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