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A close race for house district 55 ended Wednesday morning as incumbent Bernie Buescher announced his concession.
At a press conference Wednesday morning Buescher said, "About an hour ago I called Laura Bradford congratulating her... I will go forward and do anything I can to make Laura Bradford successful as the next state representative from House District 55."
While the mood at the court house was subdued, across town at Bradford headquarters it was a different story as supporters cheered and toasted Bradford's win. Bradford says she is humbled by her win but that it was her policies that put her ahead in the polls.
"People are not in a frame of mind of taxing themselves and I think that says true for me because I ran on a low and no tax platform and I'm going to stick to that." Bradford told her supporters she will go to Denver and fight for tax relief for small business while enhancing local oil and gas opportunities. Bradford said, "That's where our jobs are here and that's what's keeping people in there homes, that's what's making them spend money at the grocery store and being able to put gas in the cars."
Buescher says of his time in office he is proud of his work on Senate Bill 218; the allocation of federal mineral lease revenues and House Bill 1391; providing support to children of child abuse. But for Buescher some things are left unfinished.
Buescher says, "I hope that someone goes forward with the bill on DNA. I hope someone goes forward with a bill on assault on pregnant women."
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A lively mix of entertainment, human interest and lifestyle features with Miriam O'Callaghan.
Miriam's first guests are three teenagers who have had an extraordinarily busy year. Not only did they win the BT Young Scientists Award last January, they have also completed their Junior Certs, & tomorrow are heading off to Prague to represent Ireland in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists.
The students from the Kinsale Community School, Emer Hickey, Ciara Judge & Sophie Healy-Thow are joining us from our Cork studio.
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The night before going to Urasawa, the famed Beverly Hills establishment that has been called everything from the best in the city to the best in the universe for sushi, I started having my doubts. What if I've built it up too much in my mind? Maybe all those starry-eyed food bloggers were wrong somehow? Maybe their palates just don't know the difference between great and mind-boggling sushi? What if we are all disappointed?
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I got Desktop Dungeons on steam. Today I tried playing through the website, on a different pc, for the first time. It loaded my kingdom fine, and I beat Complicated Tasks part 6.
However when returning to the kingdom screen, I got an error message "There was an error saving to the cloud". Retrying did not work. I tried quickly entering and exiting a dungeon to force a different save, but had the same problem.
Later on today, I got on through steam, saw that I had lost that progress (I suspected as much) and once again beat Complicated Tasks part 6. Going to Kingdom screen it said my local save was different from my online save. The local save had CT part 6 done so I selected it. But now the "There was an error saving to the cloud" error comes up after every save. Cloud saving appears to be totally wrecked. At least my local save works...
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AUSTIN (AP) -- Schools and programs to protect children and the elderly are in such dire shape in Texas that Gov. Rick Perry has declared them emergencies for the Legislature.
Those issues will have to wait, though, until after lawmakers travel to Washington, D.C., and get their grooves on with ZZ Top and Ted Nugent during this week's inaugural festivities for President Bush.
Legislators got the 140-day session off to a rip-roaring start last week with the unveiling of a Senate school finance plan, a proposal to overhaul the workers' compensation system and approval of new rules on recorded votes.
But then they adjourned until Jan. 24 so that many lawmakers could head north to the presidential party.
"Only in Texas do we declare three things an emergency and then take off 10 days," Rep. Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, joked shortly before the House adjourned for the week. It's not every day a Texan is inaugurated as president, Eiland pointed out, referring to the Elvis-like adoration Bush enjoys from some of his fellow Texas politicians.
Perry will be the guest of honor at a cocktail party Tuesday featuring rockers ZZ Top and Ted Nugent. On Wednesday, it's the Black Tie and Boots Ball, before Bush's swearing-in ceremony on Thursday.
Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, House Speaker Tom Craddick and dozens of legislators from both sides of the aisle plan to go to Washington for the festivities.
That puts on hold the pressing concerns of school funding and overhauling the state's troubled child and adult protective services, despite Perry's emergency declaration.
"The governor is confident that the priorities of the leadership and of the people of Texas will be addressed this session," Perry spokesman Robert Black said. "Protecting our most vulnerable, reforming CPS and APS, fixing our school finance structure, cutting property taxes, those issues will be addressed, and of that, the governor has no doubt."
Declaring the issues emergencies means that legislators can take action on them as soon as necessary.
"We're excited, I wish we were starting next week, but I guess we have to wait," said Mike Lavigne, Texas Democratic Party spokesman. "They're spending a lot of money out there, while we still have needs here."
Not all legislators are packing their bags.
Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, says he'll be in Austin most of the week, analyzing the impact of the state's preliminary budget, which was released Friday.
"Just because we're not on the House floor doesn't mean that there's not work to be done to represent our constituents and do good for the people of Texas," Coleman said.
This week's schedule, he suggests, reflects a lack of dedication from the state's leadership to the emergency issues.
The top issue for the Legislature this session will be overhauling the state's $30 billion school funding system. Both rich and poor school districts agree it needs repair, and a judge last fall ruled the system unconstitutional and ordered the state to pump more money into public schools.
Another leading issue will be reforming Child Protective Services, which has come under scrutiny after a number of high-profile child abuse deaths. Adult Protective Services, which is charged with looking after the poor elderly, also is being reviewed.
In declaring the issues as emergencies, Perry said "there is no greater priority than protecting those who cannot help themselves, those who are in the dawn of their lives or the twilight of their years who are at risk of abuse, neglect and manipulation."


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Welcome to Inside the Park Baseball, a innovative baseball role-playing game that lets YOU become a professional baseball player. Create your character from scratch, get drafted and then fight your way out of the minor leagues to "The Show". In your role as a big league ballplayer, you'll negotiate your contracts, spend your hard-earned money on some of the over 300 baseball items in the game, and manage your life.
Welcome to Inside the Park Baseball, a innovative baseball role-playing game that lets YOU become a professional baseball player. Create your character from scratch, get drafted and then fight your way out of the minor leagues to "The Show". In your role as a big league ballplayer, you'll negotiate your contracts, spend your hard-earned money on some of the over 300 baseball items in the game, and manage aspects of your life both on and off the field. On the field, you can play every single game of your career,as a pitcher or hitter, with complete in-game controll. Off the field, you can enjoy some rest and relaxation, study your craft to improve your abilities, or show off your trophy case!
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My name is Ben, and I'm looking for 4 or 5 people who would like to play through the Pathfinder Society scenario, "A Vision of Betrayal" (First Steps, Part 3). It was written by Larry Wilhelm. The description of the scenario is as follows:
Dispatched on an envoy mission overland from Absalom to port city Escadar, you must weather the harsh wilderness of the Isle of Kortos before you can hope to meet with the representative of the elusive gillmen, and only then come face to face with the greatest threat to the Pathfinder Society.
This will be run as a legal Pathfinder Society game, so all the characters will earn PFS Chronicles for their efforts.
This scenario is meant to be ran as the 3rd part of the First Steps series. One does not need to have played the first 2 parts to play in this one. The character must be 1st level and on the normal XP track . If you don't have a Society character, that's fine. You're welcome to build a new PC according to the free Guide to the Pathfinder Society. (If I were to oversimplify, I would say: it's a 20-point buy, 150 starting gold. There are a handful of campaign-specific rules.) It is OK if your character doesn't have a faction or hasn't picked one yet for this scenario.
* I only want people who are able to post at least once a day, throughout the week. More frequently is welcomed. I move fast as a DM. If the party is in a battle and the PC doesn't act within 48 hours after the monsters act, I reserve the right to bot the PC or have the character go full-defensive.
* I use group initiative. What I do is average my creatures initiative modifier then add it to a d20 roll. Then average the PC's initiative modifier and add it to a d20 roll. The characters can go in any other when it is there turn to go. The side that has the highest roll goes first, then flip-flops from there. This speeds things up on the boards since you don't have to wait for the dwarf fighter to go so that you can act.
* I will roll saving throws, AoO's and some skills depending on the situation. If there is an error with the roll, feel free to let me know.
* No meta-gaming, faerie whispering or telling people what they should do during a battle or conversations. Only short phrases should be used on your turn during combat.
I will select a group and get the ball rolling this Tuesday evening. I will use Google Docs for a grid map and Dropbox for player handouts.
So please provide a completed character with its PFS number. Let me know if you've played Part 1 and/or Part 2 with this PC. Also inform me if you've played this scenario before with another PC. If you wish, provide an introduction along with any other information that "sells" your PC.
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Haraldir: It looks like you forgot to add in your extra HP or skill point for your favorite class. I would hate for you to short change yourself at first level. Keep in mind that for Craft (bows) you'll have a -2 penalty for not having artisan tools for that skill. Does this character plan on carrying everything he has listed under his gear? If so, he will be Encumbered thus his AC and all Str/Dex skills will be negatively effected.
Badger: I have no problem summoners. But Master Summoner archetype is not allowed under Pathfinder Society play, neither is the trait "Without a Past." This character will need to be modified if he is to be considered for this game. And I would like his inventory listed on the character sheet. I have no desire to register to another website to view your items.
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Haraldir: It looks like you forgot to add in your extra HP or skill point for your favorite class. I would hate for you to short change yourself at first level. Keep in mind that for Craft (bows) you'll have a -2 penalty for not having artisan tools for that skill. Does this character plan on carrying everything he has listed under his gear? If so, he will be Encumbered thus his AC and all Str/Dex skills will be negatively effected.
It seems you were right in regards to HP/SP for Favoured Class. Fixed it by adding one more HP.
In regards to Craft (Bows) - that is OK. To be honest I made this character such a long time ago that I honestly forgot what was the motivation for taking that particular skill. But I do not have any big plans in using it any time soon, while it seems to fit his background, so I'll leave it as it is. Who knows, I might even earn enough money to buy some artisan tools along the way :-)
As for the Encumbrance - you are right, he is Moderately encumbered. If we are "adventuring" inside some urban environment, then please consider that Haraldir has only his weapons/armour and just 1 "set" of caltrops, putting me at "Light encumbrance" - unless I specifically state that I am going to retrieve some or all of my "other equipment".
If we are travelling/adventuring "outside" (wilderness, dungeon, etc...), then please consider that Haraldir is carrying all this equipment with himself. In that case, typically one of my first actions in combat is to drop backpack (to the ground). All I need from you is the ruling - is it a Free action (listed in PHB as "Drop an item") or a Move action (like "Ready or drop a shield"), or something completely third?
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Haraldir: Sounds good to me. You can still use a Craft check at the end of the mod for a Day Job Roll. I'll give you a heads up that this scenario will be an "outside" game. To drop your backpack will be a Move action. Good thinking though.
Badger: You character is still not PFS legal. You cannot use the Master Summoner archetype. Also Magical Knack is not a legal trait for PFS. To see what is allowed in PFS please visit Addition Resources.
Marconi: Please review the Guide to Pathfinder Society Play to answer your questions.
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Badger: You can't have 2 traits under the same Subclass (Combat, Magic, Relgion, Social, Equpiment). You'll have to pick another one =v). Also you shorted yourself an HP since you have a 12 Con. You also didn't pick either an HP or a skill point for your favorite class. And you don't have your spells selected either. You get 4 0 level spells and 2 1st level spells.
No worries, I'm chuckling to myself over here.
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Hi GM Neb
I would like to submit Luisila, an elven cleric of Calistria for your consideration. She and I are brand new to PbP and Pathfinder Society.
I plan for her to be a fairly vanilla, archer-support cleric, while I get more experience with the game.
Please let me know if you spot any mistakes in my stats.
Do you have any formatting standards for posting?
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FYI - I found this post to be helpful for when I was starting on PbP a few months back...
Fixed it had an extra CRLF in the link tag.
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Luisila: Welcome to PbP for PFS! I'm confused with her stats. Is she to have a Dex 16 and a Con 14 or a Dex 18 and a Con 12? Also be aware that you are Encumbered and will affect your AC & skills accordingly. If you keep your rope in your backpack and drop when needed, like Haraldir, that is fine. Just remember it'll be a move action to do so.
As for formatting standards, it is common to bold when speaking. When you roll, go a head and include the damage roll as well.
Luisila shoots goblin 1: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 191d8 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9.
This way if I know if you hit, I can go ahead and have the bad guy react accordingly.
Does that answer your question or is there more with regards to formatting?
Badger: Looks great. Still have an HP or SP to choose, unless I'm missing something =v).
Omrax: Thank you for the Guide link. D'oh I think link is broken.
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Howdy. Pitching Astyannax
He surived First Steps I (granted, lying in the street, bleeding and unconscious, but hey, a win is a a win...). Only scenario played.
OK, it looks like we got our party.
* Haraldir 19310-1
* Omrax 9884-1
* Badger 68288-2
* Luisila 69095-1
* Ezrek 65114-6
* Astyannax 23089-1
Again, I ask that you be able to post daily if you join this game. I also ask that if I put a spoiler tag on something with somebody's name on it, only the person who's name that is should read it. Other info I'll put on the discussion board when I think about out. Otherwise, Let's Get it On!


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From NBC's Chuck Todd
If you needed any more evidence that Republicans are starting to collectively believe Chris Dodd is the single most vulnerable Democratic senator seeking re-election, here's yet another leaked poll. This survey, conducted by the GOP firm Wilson Research Strategies, was conducted last week on behalf of potential Republican candidate Peter Schiff, a financial commentator who was credited with predicting the current economic downturn.
Here are the bare bones of the survey among 400 likely voters:
-- Dodd leads Schiff 42-38.
-- Former Rep. Rob Simmons (who is already announced and raising money and is the NRSC's preferred candidate) leads Dodd 47-38.
Taking the poll at face value, here's what I see: There is a strong anti-Dodd sentiment out there if a guy with very little name I.D. came end up in a statistical tie with Dodd. It conforms with other public surveys we've seen where Dodd is struggling. Simmons, with a tad more name I.D., not surprisingly, has a bigger lead.
Of course, Democrats are ecstatic that Simmons could end up in a primary with Schiff. But let's stay on the big picture. These numbers are just not good for Dodd. Even if you want to believe this Republican poll has a pinky on the scale in its weighting on behalf of the Republicans, the results are still not comforting to Dodd. He's been on TV already trying to improve his personal ratings and he still trails any generic Republican in a state that is now considered VERY blue.
The White House has been doing plenty of little things to help Dodd, allowing him to be out front on a number of agenda items, including financial regulatory reform and health care. It's amazing how many times I've heard Pres. Obama name drop Dodd at public events.
My educated guess on where this race goes from here: Dodd and his folks will take a serious look at his political standing in the state in November and if progress has been made, it will embolden the incumbent that if he works hard enough, he can win.
But if this early advertising doesn't improve his numbers and voters still have a cynical view of Dodd and whether he was too out of touch on the economic crisis, don't be surprised if the holidays become a time of political soul-searching for Sen. Dodd. It's a complicated personal issue for Dodd as he doesn't want to be chased out of office like his father, Thomas Dodd, was. And that personal complication is something no political consultant or pollster can understand. BTW, expect the president to be very helpful for Dodd, whether it's campaign help, or offering a job (Peace Corps Director?) in order to provide him a soft landing.


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CLEVELAND, Tenn. - Former Lee University All-American Brooke McKinnon-Evans, currently a member of the Tennessee Tech women's basketball staff, had her jersey (No. 30) officially retired by her alma mater during its Feb. 14 doubleheader against Southern Polytechnic State University.
A four-year starter for coach Marty Rowe, she helped the Lady Flames win 118 games against only 22 defeats. In 140 games she scored 2,216 points and is currently No. 2 on the Lee all-time scoring list.
McKinnon-Evans was a three-time NAIA All-American and four-time All-SSAC. She was named the conference Freshman of the Year in 2008-09 and was the SSAC Player of the Year in 2010-11.
A high school star at Tellico Plains (Tenn.), she helped the Lady Flames reach the NAIA National Championships four consecutive years. In 2008-09 Lee reached the Elite Eight of the 32-team field and in 2009-10 the Lady Flames advanced to the Final Four before being eliminated by Azusa Pacific.
"Brooke is one of the best people you will ever meet and was so important to building our program on the national level," noted Rowe. "She's a great role model for our current players because she did things the right way, on and off the court. Brooke and her family deserve this recognition and I couldn't be happier for all of them. She was a great player but more importantly; she was a great representative of our basketball program!"
McKinnon-Evans is currently the Director of Women's Basketball Operations at Tennessee Tech University.


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text: ARTICLES Pack the Tools You Need for Successful Business Travel Dec 20, 2011 SHARE Business travel can be stressful. Take the pressure of a big meeting and multiply it by the hassle of travel, and it's easy to lose your cool. But if you take the time to prepare, and arm yourself with the right tools, you'll come off looking like a pro. Make a great business impression by following these simple tips. Your Most Important Bag: Your Briefcase• Bring plenty of business cards—more than you think you'll need. If the meeting goes well, you may end up with introductions to higher-ups you weren't even expecting to meet.• Consider an Optical Disk Drive so you can burn discs on the fly. That way you can update your proposal based on meeting feedback and give clients a revised budget spreadsheet, all before you leave the building. You can also give clients a copy of your presentation to remind them of your key points. Many of today's super-light notebook computers don't have a built-in DVD writer, so a sleek peripheral is the way to go. Compatible with both Mac and PCs and available in seven colours, Samsung ODDs integrate seamlessly with your work laptop.• Bring a new pack of blank DVD-Rs—again, more than you think you'll need. Once they see how quick and easy it is for you to burn discs, meeting attendees may request additional copies to circulate among colleagues.Pack Smart to Make a Great First Impression• Stock your toiletries bag with a complete miniature set of your must-have products, including a designated travel toothbrush. Not only will you get through airport security with less hassle, you won't have to unpack them when you get home. If your favourite hair product doesn't come in a trial size, grab a set of inexpensive plastic containers at a drugstore.• Since your new toiletries set complies with carryon requirements for liquids, you can keep it with you on the plane. Just prior to landing, head to the lavatory to splash some water on your face, use eye drops, and give your teeth a quick brushing.• Though travelling in sweatpants is best left to the leisure travel set, you still may still want to bring a fresh set of clothes for your arrival. Even if it's just a neatly folded shirt or blouse to change into in the airport bathroom, you'll arrive at your meeting looking fresh and wrinkle-free.• Planning to rent a car? If you have a portable GPS unit or GPS-enabled phone, pre-program your hotel and meeting locations so you'll arrive stress-free at your destinations.• Focus on packing light. For instance, two meetings in two cities in two days only require one suit. If you can limit yourself to a single carryon bag, you'll save time, avoid baggage-check fees, and produce a smaller carbon footprint.Prepare Yourself for the Main Event• Spend some time on the plane reviewing the list of potential meeting attendees. They'll be impressed when you're able to effortlessly bring their titles and affiliations into the conversation.• If your travel schedule allows, try to arrive 15 minutes early. Taking a little time to sit quietly after a long morning of travel can do wonders for frayed nerves.• Just outside the door, remind yourself to stand up straight, take a deep breath, and focus on your goals for the meeting. Then go for it.


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Sir Alex Ferguson has no issues with Wayne Rooney being selected for England's friendly in Sweden next month.
With the game falling in a midweek between two Champions League fixtures, and other big Premier League games to come as well, Ferguson could be forgiven for hoping Rooney is excused international duty.
However, the United boss feels Rooney could actually benefit from the experience, and said: "That is not a problem for him. Wayne needs to play all the time. Sometimes we might put him on the bench but in the main he likes to play. If he has shown that keenness I don't see why he shouldn't."
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Superior – Abundant exultant merriment was to be found for word enthusiasts in the diminutive burgh of Superior this Feb. 5, as 19 scholars in grades fourth through sixth engaged in competition to out spell one another in the annually held John F. Kennedy Elementary School Spelling Bee.
After nine rounds, 4th grader Aubreanna Nunez took first place spelling the words "intrinsic" and
"immense" to win. Fourth grader McKenna Duarte came in second and sixth grader Jared Moreno came in third.
All the students that participated in the Spelling Bee practiced very hard and did a great job, it was a
very close and exciting bee. Good luck to Aubreanna, McKenna, and Jared, as they move on to the Pinal County Spelling Bee, to be held on Feb. 15.
The exact origin and meaning of the word "bee" as is used in the context above is lost to time. We can still, however, use it in a sentence.
For example: "Aunt Martha enjoys spending time with her friends during the quilting bee." By this example, and other similar usages of the word "bee," we can see that the word refers to persons meeting together in a group to perform a specific action or function.
A "bee" is about community involvement, whether in large or small groups, and is intended to be an occasion of joy. The word that it is most often associated with is bēn, an old word of English origin which means "prayer."
This, funnily enough, makes the word "bee" slang in this context, which is often discouraged in spelling bees.
According to Wikipedia, the earliest printed evidence of the phrase "spelling bee" dates back to 1825, and the key impetus for spelling bees getting their start in the United States was Noah Webster's "The Blue-backed Speller" spelling book, which was an essential part of the curriculum for all elementary school children for five generations starting in 1786.
A newspaper, the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky started the United States National Spelling Bee in 1925, which in 1941 became sponsored by and named for Scripps Howard, until later being shortened simply to "Scripps National Spelling Bee." Competitors come from all over the world, but especially the United States of America, where this most famous spelling bee began.
Annual spelling bees are held at the local level, as is exampled by the aforementioned local elementary spelling bee, and contestants move up in level until the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which is now sponsored by educational foundations and newspapers, where the winner is awarded a cash prize.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Dow Chemical (DOW)said Friday it has a deal in place to sell its global polypropylene licensing and catalyst unit to W.R. Grace (GRA)in a deal valued at $500 million.
The unit to be sold, known as Unipol, helps third parties produce and customize the popular plastic polymer used in numerous applications, including carpets and containers. Grace, of Columbia, Md., is already a supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and said the purchase would "significantly" enhance its product portfolio.
"The agreement reflects Grace's continuing commitment to invest in our catalyst businesses, particularly in technology," Grace chairman and CEO Fred Festa said in a statement. "This acquisition strengthens our ability to provide polypropylene catalyst solutions to our customers around the world."
Assets in the deal include Dow's polypropylene catalysts manufacturing facility at Norco, La., licenses, intellectual property, inventory and customer contracts. About 90 workers are expected to transition to W.R. Grace as part of the deal, with the buyer also pledging to honor the unit's customer, licensing and supplier contracts.
The sale is part of a broader campaign by Midland, Mich.-based Dow to prune its portfolio and streamline its focus. The company in March announced plans to shed about $1.5 billion worth of assets by late 2014, and listed this polypropylene licensing and catalyst unit along with a plastics additives business as sale candidates.
Dow chairman and CEO Andrew N. Liveris called the sale "another clear demonstration of Dow's rigorous focus on selectively shifting our portfolio away from assets that are no longer a strategic fit and optimizing their value."
Liveris has presided over an ambitious campaign to use M&A to move Dow away from low-margin commodity businesses and towards higher-margin specialty products, including the company's $18.8 billion purchase of Rohm and Haas Co. in 2008 and subsequent divestiture of Morton Salt, Styron Corp. and other assets.
"Our accelerated strategy is focused on narrowing our market participation and preferentially funding our select growth businesses with strong competitive positions in attractive markets such as electronics, water, packaging and agricultural sciences," Liveris said.
Blackstone Advisory Partners LP advised Grace, as did Steven Epstein of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.--Lou Whiteman in Atlanta.


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Professor explores impact of stadiums and Olympics in two new books
Two recently published books co-edited by Mark Dyreson, associate professor of kinesiology, explore the role of sport in shaping cultures." The Rise of Stadiums in the Modern United States: Cathedrals of Sport" examines the history of and perceptions surrounding several stadiums built (or planned to be built) in the United States, and "Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended" explores how the Olympics have changed cities across the world -- and how those cities have changed the Olympics. Both books are part of Routledge's Sport in the Global Society series.


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Managing Complexity: Keeping a Large Java Project on Track
Pages: 1, 2
Recent CVS Activity
Showing recent CVS history proved a bit tricky. In order to display commits
by branch, we had to use
cvs-exp.pl, an open source Perl script
that wraps the output of the CVS
log command. We further wrapped
that in a homegrown Ruby CGI script that allows the recent commit history to
be rendered to HTML.
CVS Charts and Graphs
Since we use CVS for revision tracking, there are numerous open source tools available to create reports. We use the StatCVS tool to generate charts and graphs of CVS history. Again, we use a small Ruby script to drive the report generation. Here's the line of code that runs StatCVS itself:
$ java -jar statcvs.jar -output-dir path/to/html/dir/
project_name project_module/cvslog project_module
Since StatCVS comes in one .jar file, there are no dependencies to track. We run this report nightly, since it takes about 20 minutes to run on all our repositories.
Coding Guidelines
PMD is a Java static analysis tool that checks for unused code, empty catch
blocks, and so forth. We run a subset of the standard PMD rules, and we've
also written a couple of custom rules to check for
Socket creation, and various other coding practices
that are not appropriate for this project. The documentation for the PMD Ant
task is straightforward, but one thing we found helpful was to always delete
the report file from the previous hour before generating a new one. That way,
if the code being checked goes from five errors to zero errors and no new file
is generated, the previous file won't linger around.
The Dashboard Ruby script then parses the PMD HTML report and determines the number of errors by simply counting the number of rows, as illustrated in this snippet:
File.new("pmd_report.html").each("<td ") {|x| count += 1}
ruleViolations=(count/4) unless count==0
This result is then displayed on the front page and hyperlinked to the full report.
Duplicate Code
CPD is a Java duplicated-code checker that comes bundled with PMD. We run CPD to check for sequences of more than one hundred duplicate tokens — quite a few, considering that CPD discards whitespace, comments, and various uninteresting sequences like import and package statements. Since CPD has an Ant task, integrating it into the build was similar to integrating PMD.
Note that OnJava.com has published several articles on both PMD and CPD, so there's a lot of information out there on both tools.
JUnit Test Results
JUnit is a popular Java unit testing tool. Some of the developers have
begun to write JUnit tests for their code. To encourage this, we run those
tests and post the results on the Dashboard. In order to standardize a bit,
all tests are to be named by appending
Test to the class name
FooTest), and placed in a separate, parallel directory tree.
This lets the Ant task easily find the tests, and it keeps test code separate
from the production code. After the tests are run and the results sent to an
XML file via the JUnit Ant task's
<formatter type="xml"/>
element, the Ruby script parses out the number of tests passed/failed:
def parseJunitFile(filename, result)
"build/target/task/message[@priority='info']") do |info|
if (info.text =~ "Tests run: ") != nil
tmp = info.text.split
result.testsTotal=result.testsTotal.to_i + tmp[2].to_i
result.testsFailed=result.testsFailed.to_i + tmp[4].to_i + tmp[6].to_i
This allows the totals to be displayed neatly on the Dashboard.
Generating Javadocs is also a straightforward operation with Ant. It's a fairly time-consuming task, though, so we only run it every four hours. Note that Javadocs can consume a considerable amount of disk space; all of the Javadocs on the Dashboard together take up around 500 MB.
Hourly .jar Files of Source and Classfiles
We've found it handy to build an hourly drop of the class files and source
files in case someone wants to browse or run the latest code without checking
it out and compiling it. Since the code has to be compiled anyway, creating
these .jars is a simple matter of using the Ant
zip task:
<target name="srczip" if="tic.build.usesSrcZip">
<delete file="${tic.build.srcZip}"/>
<zip destfile="${tic.build.srcZip}" basedir="${tic.build.srcDirForZipFile}"
<target name="jar" depends="compile">
<jar jarfile="${tic.build.jarFile}" baseDir="${buildDir}"/>
<signjar jar="${tic.build.jarFile}" keystore="/var/build/signingCA_keystore"
alias="privileged" storepass="keystore"/>
Note the dependency in the
jar task; there's no need to attempt
jar things up if the compilation step fails.
Future Plans
What else could be added to the hourly build page? In some projects, a test coverage report (a report on the percentage of the code that the unit tests actually cover) has been found useful. Several tools exist to provide such a report — Clover comes to mind. Of course, such a report isn't very useful unless a decent number of unit tests have been written.
Folks who are familiar with the Jakarta open source build tool Maven may notice some similarities. It might be possible to use Maven to do some of the things the Dashboard does, but Maven was not very far along when we first began putting the Dashboard together. It might be worth revisiting Maven to see if that's possible now.
We've discussed some things can make a large Java project hard to manage. We've looked at one large Java project — UltraLog — and how an hourly build status page helped keep things under control. We've also done a quick overview of some open source tools that you may find to be a useful part of your hourly build page. Give them a try!
Thanks to all of the folks who have donated their time and energy towards the various open source tools mentioned in this article.
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- Ikko templating engine
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Though financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, it is widely rumored that Microsoft spent between $800 million and $1 billion to acquire Tellme. So what is Microsoft getting for that kind of money? Well, for starters, the company has been around since 1999, and it is already profitable. The Mountain View, Ca.-based operation boasts 320 employees — including CEO Mike McCue, who, interestingly enough, used to work for Microsoft rival Netscape. Tellme has raised more than $230 million through several rounds of venture capital. The last of these rounds came in late 2000; Tellme is currently rumored to be making more than $100 million a year.
It's the automated directory assistance and call center services that are bringing in the money for Tellme. Clients of these services include Fedex, Cingular/AT&T, American Airlines, American Express and other large companies. Indeed, Tellme answers millions of calls every day. Customers use them to find information about local businesses, driving directions, sports scores, stock quotes, weather, news, movie show times, and more. Most of the time, people who use Tellme's services don't even realize that Tellme was the one providing the service.
When you think about it, then, Tellme is providing its users with search; it's just not Internet search in the form that most of us are used to. It's mobile search and local search, enabled by the telephone's voice interface. As the software giant explained in the press release announcing the acquisition, "Microsoft and Tellme share a vision around the potential of speech as a way to enable access to information, locate other people and enhance business processes, any time and from any device." In short, Microsoft believes that the next arena for the battle to win the hearts and minds of searchers is going to be mobile and local search, and that Tellme has what it needs to win.
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"Speech is universal, simple and holds incredible promise as a key interface for computing," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer noted. Naturally, Microsoft has a lot at stake when it comes to making computers easier to use. The company has spent the last decade developing speech, handwriting and touch as methods of input; even so, the most common input method for the PC is still the keyboard. That may be good for now, but it's apparently not good enough for the future.
"We've made great strides in speech technologies, but have only scratched the surface of what is possible," observed Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division. So if Microsoft really sees voice as the interface of the future, it makes sense that it would seek to purchase a firm that has developed and refined the interface to the level that Tellme clearly has.
The two companies do indeed share that vision. "Tellme was founded with the idea that anyone should be able to simply say what they want and get it from any device, starting with the phone," explained Tellme CEO Mike McCue. What does that mean in the context of the acquisition? Well, in the area of mobile and local search, that means combining Microsoft's local and mobile search offerings with Tellme's speech expertise, of course; Microsoft thinks that will allow it to take those offerings to the next level.
But it also means software plus services. Microsoft has long-term plans to use Tellme's technology to enhance its voice-enabled applications, including the Windows Vista operating system, the Microsoft Office system, and mobile applications such as Windows Mobile and Windows Automotive. The point, according to Microsoft, is to allow users to interact with the applications in the way that seems most natural.
Tellme's experience with speech could make it easier for mobile phone users to perform a Live search. This kind of thing is sorely needed; speech interfaces have been getting better, but they still have a ways to go. While they can work well for relatively limited interactions, many people still experience frustration and despair when interacting with a large company's robotic call center agent. The last thing Microsoft needs, if it hopes to eventually win the search war, is for its search users to get so aggravated they give up on using the service.
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Mobile search means mobile devices such as cell phones. Tellme has been doing significant work in that area. ZDNet reported that it has been testing an application for cell phones that delivers the appropriate data to the phone when users tell it out loud what information they need. Another service Tellme has been testing lets users send a text message with a search query, and receive the result via text message.
Users won't always want to type in their queries, especially in a mobile context. Imagine that you are driving your car, so you don't have your hands free to type or use text messages on your phone — and you really shouldn't be trying to dial a phone number. You're hungry, and you want to locate the nearest pizza place. You are going to want to be able to just ask your phone — or your car, for that matter, since this could be tied into Windows Automotive — where it is, and get directions.
That's just the kind of scenario that McCue envisioned in the discussion of Microsoft's acquisition of Tellme during a conference call. "We think that one of the critical things with search, particularly on the phone or especially in you car is that you should be able to use voice as an interface to be able to find things easily. People who have a phone are on the go typically, they don't want to have to type things all the time to get what they want. So we really like the idea of allowing consumers to just say what they want and get it…It's almost kind of like the mouse was to graphical computing, we think speech is to mobile computing." Given how important the mouse has become to computing since its invention, this is a pretty big deal.
Another exciting idea going forward relates to the ability to use the speech interface in a cross platform way. McCue thinks that "with cars, and with the PC, with your television, why do you need to navigate through all these menus on TV when really you should just be able to say, show me The Daily Show, and now you're watching what you want to watch on TV just by speaking to it." Think about that for a second. You would give your TV a command, and it would perform a search operation to do your bidding. You would not have to set anything, check listings for the time, or even find the right channel — and you're not even conscious of the fact that you've just performed a search operation. Now that's seamless!
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One of the points mentioned in the conference call was that the Tellme platform learns from the speech processing it does. As one ZDNet blogger put it, "the more speech the Tellme platform processes the smarter it gets. If you embed Tellme with all of Microsoft's products you could have one smart voice system."
But Microsoft could still face some challenges in getting its search on cell phones. As things stand now, anyone attempting to do that needs to forge a relationship with the wireless carriers. As Googlewatch pointed out, trying to get a deal to have your stuff planted directly "on the carrier deck" is tough, "and often involves signing over one's soul." Microsoft isn't the kind of company that would take kindly to being pushed around like that; it is far more likely to try to find a different path that accomplishes the same thing.
For that matter, so is Google. Rumor has it that the search engine giant is working on its own mobile phone. Signs that have been held up over the past few weeks as pointing in this direction include patents filed by Google on predictive mobile location-based search technology, and a comment in a venture capitalist's blog. Some have said it's probably not a phone, but more likely to be a BlackBerry-like device, or even a full-fledged PDA with Google software.
Of course, a Google phone could give the company a leg up in mobile search that rivals Microsoft's competitive advantage in purchasing Tellme. There's no need to worry about getting on the carrier deck if you own the phone! Google, of course, is not commenting on the rumors, though it has signed a number of deals related to mobile search and is known to be working on mobile advertising.
Or perhaps we're looking at it too narrowly. The next battleground for search isn't mobile and local — or at least, it isn't just mobile and local. Given the possible applications for Tellme's speech interface, and the various technology areas that Google is known or suspected to be involved in, the next battleground for search is going to be — everywhere. It's nothing short of making search seamless and ubiquitous across all of your devices and environments: at home, at work, in your car, everywhere. And you thought the current competition over search was cutthroat!


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Celebrate #GivingTuesday with a gift to FCI! (December 2015) On December 1st, support our work, in some of the world's poorest communities, to save women's lives, improve their health, expand their choices, and secure a healthy future for their babies. ►More info
MamaMiso: A simple medicine provides hope to Uganda mothers
(January 2015) New research from Uganda shows that having community health workers distribute misoprostol to women planning to give birth at home is a safe and effective way to prevent post-partum hemmorhage, the leading cause of maternal death.►The FCI Blog
Breaking the silence on gender-based violence in Mali
(December 2014) Adama Sanogo of FCI-Mali writes that FCI's work with refugees from Mali's civil conflict is helping to bring victims of gender-based violence out of the shadows and providing them with access to life-restoring social and medical services.►The FCI Blog
Maternal health supplies ARE reproductive health supplies
(December 2014) At a Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition meeting in Mexico City, FCI engaged in discussion of the ways that efforts to strengthen supply chains for maternal health medicines can benefit from lessons learned in distribution of contraceptives.►The FCI Blog
Kenya health workers brave community health care alone
(November 2014) Many Kenyan health facilities have only one nurse to provide all patient care, putting a heavy strain on the health worker and making essential services unavailable for hours every day. Melissa Wanda of FCI-Kenya writes that FCI and partners are holding county governments accountable for addressing this dramatic and damaging health worker shortage.►The FCI Blog
UNGA week shows maternal, newborn health central to development
(October 2014) The unprecedented level of attention to women's and children's health at this year's UN General Assembly is a welcome sign of the centrality of the health of mothers and newborns to a range of development challenges, including climate change, humanitarian crises, and the Ebola epidemic, says FCI interim president Amy Boldosser-Boesch.►The FCI Blog
Women's Lives Matter
(October 2014) New research from FCI and partners shows that the impact of a woman's death in pregnancy or childbirth goes far beyond the loss of a woman in her prime, and can mean death for her newborn and lasting damage to her surviving children.►The FCI Blog here, here, and here
Midwives and misoprostol: Saving lives from PPH
(August 2014) FCI's Shafia Rashid shows that putting misoprostol in the hands of midwives and other non‐physician providers can help ensure that every woman has access to the uterotonic medicines that can protect her from the suffering and potential death that can be caused by postpartum hemorrhage.►The FCI Blog
FCI and partners show SRHR key to post-2015 agenda
(August 2014) On behalf of the Universal Access Project, FCI has produced briefing cards on Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda, explaining the links connecting SRHR with other key development issues including environmental sustainability, gender equality, economic growth, educational attainment, and broader health goals.►News story and publication
Amy Boldosser-Boesch named interim president; Ann Starrs joins FCI board
(July 14, 2014) FCI's board announced today that Amy Boldosser-Boesch, VP of Global Advocacy, is FCI's interim president, and that former president and co-founder Ann Starrs has joined the Board of Directors. ►Full story
Mapping maternal health advocacy in African countries
(July 2014) With support from Merck for Mothers, FCI published comprehensive mappings of the maternal health advocacy environment in two countries, Uganda and Zambia.►Uganda publication, Zambia publication, and The FCI Blog
Countdown to 2015 publishes new data on 75 priority countries
(July 2014) Countdown to 2015, for which FCI serves as lead advocacy partner, launched its 2014 report at the PMNCH Partners' Forum, with updated evidence on 75 countries accounting for over 95% of maternal and chid deaths.►Countdown website
ICEC study shows low awareness of EC
(June 2014) A new study published by the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception—ICEC (for which FCI serves as host organization) and researchers from Stony Brook University shows that, despite its unique potential for helping women avoid unintended pregnancies, the majority of women in almost every developing country have never heard of or used emergency contraceptive (EC) pills. The study's findings support ICEC's and FCI's focus on broadly disseminating information on EC, particularly among low-income women.►Article
FCI builds midwives skills in evidence-based advocacy
(June 2014) At the congress of the International Confederation of Midwives, FCI launched a toolkit to help national midwives' associations advocate for government investment and commitment to midwifery.►Publication and The FCI Blog
African advocates trained in budget advocacy
(June 2014) Catherine Lalonde, senior program officer for Francophone Africa, reports on a regional workshop to train civil society, parliamentarians, and the media from 5 West African countries on budget analysis and advocacy for maternal and child health.►The FCI Blog
Advocacy success story: Burkina Faso broadens misoprostol access
(April 2014) After focused advocacy led by FCI, the government of Burkina Faso revised its national Essential Medicines List to include misoprostol for the prevention and treatment of postpartum hemmorhage, the leading cause of maternal death. FCI's country director, Dr. Brahima Bassane, reported the details. ►The FCI Blog
FCI Kenya study reveals impact of maternal death on children, families, communities
(March 2014) An FCI research study sheds new light on the devastating impact of maternal death on families, bringing hard data and heart-breaking stories to a message that maternal health advocates have known for years: when women die, children suffer and families fall apart. ►Full story
Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng joins FCI Board of Directors
(December 2013) Global health leader Mphu Keneiloe Ramatlapeng, currently Executive Vice President of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis programs for the Clinton Health Access Initiative and previously Lesotho's Minister of Health and Social Welfare, has joined the Board of Directors of Family Care International. ►Full story
Nairobi budget-tracking workshop sharpens accountability efforts
(August 2013) More than 60 representatives of national parliaments, civil society, ministries of health, media, and development agencies from Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda joined FCI staff from Kenya and the U.S. at an FCI-sponsored workshop to build their capacity to advocate for increased national budgets devoted to improving women's and children's health. ►Full story
Engaging Communities in Programs for Postpartum Hemorrhage Prevention
(July 2013) FCI president Ann Starrs describes the commentary she recently co-authored in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, highlighting new global recommendations that support the role of community and lay health workers in distributing the drug misoprostol to prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Case studies from Nigeria and Nepal illustrate the essential role of community involvement in developing successful PPH strategies. ►The FCI Blog
From Obstetric Fistula Survivor to Empowered Citizen
(July 2013) In a blog cross-posted with the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, Alain Kaboré of FCI-Burkina Faso wrote of the critical role of frontline health workers in bringing fistula survivors out of the shadows and getting them treatment so that they can reclaim their lives. ►The FCI Blog
Webinar on misoprostol for PPH: Advocacy, Approval, Access
(May 8, 2013) In a global webinar hosted by FCI in partnership with Gynuity Health Projects, PSI, and PATH, experts from Tanzania, Uganda and Somaliland shared advocacy success stories on expanding access to misoprostol for treatment and prevention of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), the leading cause of maternal death. Misoprostol is safe, effective, and practical for use both at health facilities and in home births, but is not widely available or accessible in many countries. Read full story (with links to audio recording and presentation slides)...
New articles on 'interconnected continuum' of mother & newborn
(May 2013) In a special issue, the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine published a study conducted by a research team from Aga Khan University in Pakistan, in collaboration with FCI, that reviewed research on the linked impact of maternal and newborn health interventions, together with an editorial, by FCI president Ann Starrs and Gary Damstadt and France Donnay of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, highlighting "the profound interconnections between the survival, health and well-being of a woman and her newborn baby." Read full story...
What about an ounce of cure…? Treating PPH with misoprostol in low-resource settings
(April 22, 2013) The response to post-partum hemorrhage (PPH) — the single leading cause of maternal mortality — has been vigorous, but incomplete, write FCI president Ann Starrs and Beverly Winikoff, president of Gynuity Health Projects. While support for the use of misoprostol to prevent PPH has been growing steadily, governments, donors, and implementing agencies have not given equal emphasis to treating PPH when it does occur. Read more at The FCI Blog...
"It's possible to to protect against child marriage; it's possible end child marriage..."
(March 8, 2013) FCI president Ann Starrs blogged about Too Young to Wed, a side event to the 2013 annual meeting of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women, which shed light on an issue that affects tens of millions of young women but is too seldom discussed. Read more at The FCI Blog...
FCI receives MacArthur Foundation award
(February 28, 2013) Family Care International is one of only 13 extraordinary nonprofit organizations around the world selected to receive the 2013 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, announced on February 28th. This $1 million one-time capacity-building award represents MacArthur's recognition of FCI's achievements and their investment in a strong foundation for FCI's future work. Read full story...
Lunch with African heads of state
(February 4. 2013) Edwinah Arwah Orowe, Advocacy Program Officer with FCI-Kenya, was one of three young people invited to represent African youth at a high-level 'working lunch' with nearly 30 African heads of state, as part of the 20th African Union Summit. Edwinah blogged about these high-level discussions on the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal, Newborn and Child Mortality in Africa (CARMMA). Read more at The FCI Blog...
Placing women at the center: Ann Starrs on 'rethinking the RMNCH continuum of care'
(January 2013) After moderating a spirited debate at the Global Maternal Health Conference in Tanzania, FCI president Ann Starrs blogged about how maternal health has fared as an element of the RMNCH continuum of care, and where we go from here. Read more at The FCI Blog...
Cristian Baeza joins FCI's Board
(January 2013) Noted global health leader Cristian Baeza, until recently Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank and now a partner at McKinsey & Co., has joined the FCI Board of Directors. "His experience, his insight, and his creative thinking are unmatched in the field, and we couldn't be more excited to have him as a member of the FCI family," said FCI president Ann Starrs. Read full story...
EC Jamboree honors champions
(November 2012) The International Consortium for Emergency Contraception (ICEC), which is hosted by FCI, and the American Society for Emergency Contraception (ASEC) held the annual EC Jamboree in New York City. The EC Jamboree brought together more than 100 advocates, researchers, pharmaceutical representatives, and other leaders in the field to discuss expanding efforts to ensure access to emergency contraception (EC) nationally and globally. Read more at The FCI Blog...
FCI at FIGO 2012
(October 2012) FCI was at the 20th World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics, convened in Rome, Italy, by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). Read about it at The FCI Blog here and here...
Halting the spread of HIV in Ecuador's indigenous communities
(October 2012) In partnership with the Spanish NGO Interarts, FCI organized a national advocacy event in Quito, Ecuador — Our Life, Our Rights: HIV Prevention for the Good Life — to strengthen political commitment and support for implementation of specific HIV prevention and treatment strategies for indigenous peoples and communities. Access to accurate information is critically important for preventing the spread of HIV among indigenous populations, and especially among young people in indigenous communities. This information must be provided in way that is culturally appropriate and relevant, so that young people have the knowledge they need to embark on safe and healthy adult lives. Read more at The FCI Blog...
UN event: Private providers important to maternal health care
(September 2012) FCI was proud to co-host a provocative discussion on The Role of Private Providers in Expanding Access to Affordable, Quality Maternal Healthcare. At this side event to the 2012 UN General Assembly, a distinguished panel of speakers that included the Nigerian Minister of Finance highlighted the crucial role that private providers play in ensuring access to quality maternal health care. "There is a consensus in most parts of the world that it is the responsibility of governments to ensure that all people have access to basic preventative and curative health care," said FCI president Ann Starrs in the event's concluding remarks. "But that doesn't mean that governments have to provide those services themselves. Partnership is the key." Read more at The FCI Blog...
Countdown to 2015 launches new report: Fewer maternal/child deaths; too many still dying
(June 2012) Countdown to 2015 launched Building a Future for Women and Children: The 2012 Report, which highlights country progress—and obstacles to progress—towards achieving MDGs 4 and 5 to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. FCI is a key partner in the Countdown to 2015 initiative, co-heading (with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health) Countdown's communications and advocacy efforts and sitting on Countdown's leadeship committee. Read full story...
Mexico City conference builds regional momentum on maternal health
(June 2012) The Regional Task Force on Maternal Mortality Reduction (Grupo de Trabajo Regional para la Reducción de la Mortalidad Materna, or GTR), for which FCI serves as Secretariat, collaborated with Women Deliver and other global health partners to hold a regional consultation in Mexico City. This conference, "Maternal Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Unfinished Agenda," brought together more than 200 policy makers, health professionals, academics, representatives from regional civil society organizations, donors, international organizations, private businesses, and other global and regional stakeholders to discuss strategies for improving maternal health and reproductive health throughout the region. Read full story...
New lives for obstetric fistula survivors: success stories from Burkina Faso
(April 2012) Working with grassroots organizations in the remote Sahel region of Burkina Faso, on the edge of the Sahara Desert, an FCI program seeks to prevent obstetric fistula by improving women's access to emergency obstetric care, and to provide surgical treatment for women living with fistula and support their reintegration into their communities. In two blog posts, FCI-Burkina Faso's Alain Kaboré tells the stories of women whose lives have been changed by this remarkable program. Read more at The FCI Blog here and here...
New publications focus on mother-newborn connections
(April 2012) Recent research conducted by scholars at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan confirms what we already know — that the health of a woman and her newborn baby are intimately connected — and goes one step further: it identifies which maternal and newborn health interventions benefit both mother and newborn. To promote investment in and implementation of health interventions that can save the lives of both women and their newborn babies, FCI developed two publications summarizing the findings from this research and its impact on advocacy, policy, research, and programming. Read more at The FCI Blog...
Ann Starrs speaks at the UN about accountability
(February 2012) FCI president Ann Starrs spoke at the United Nations Association of the USA's Members' Day, at the UN on February 10, 2012. "In this time of limited and constrained resources," she said, "we must bring about greater efficiency and effectiveness in the ways that aid is allocated and programs are implemented. We must focus our resources and efforts on key countries, where the burden is highest, and on key, proven interventions. We must ensure that all stakeholders are held to account for fulfillment of their commitments: the Global Strategy only becomes truly meaningful when its promises are kept, and advocates (including my organization) are working hard to make sure that they are." Read Ann's full speech at The FCI Blog...
Follow the money: exploring the realities of health financing in Kenya
(January 2012) This year, with support a from the Transparency and Accountability Program of the Results for Development Institute, FCI-Kenya is evaluating communities' knowledge and understanding of the 'direct facility funding' system — by which funds flow directly from the national government to cover the core costs of health facilities to provide high-quality services that are responsive to communities' needs — and their level of satisfaction with health facilities' quality of service and accountability. Read more at The FCI Blog...
FCI engages Clinton on women, reproductive health, HIV
(January 2012) Responding to a major November 2011 speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on U.S. HIV/AIDS policy, FCI president Ann Starrs joined leaders of nearly two dozen advocacy organizations from across the reproductive health community in urging Secretary Clinton to focus more on the links between HIV/AIDS and reproductive and maternal health. In a letter coordinated by FCI, CEOs expressed concern that her speech on creating an AIDS-free generation "included not a single mention of family planning, contraception, reproductive health, or maternal health." In her reply, Clinton commended Starrs and other leaders "on your passion and your contributions for advancing women's health and rights," and reiterated the Obama Administration's commitment to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. Read full story...
Advocacy for access to misoprostol
(January 2012) In "Misoprostol for postpartum hemorrhage: Moving from evidence to practice," a commentary in the January 2012 issue of the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics (IJGO), FCI president Ann Starrs and Beverly Winikoff, president of Gynuity Health Projects, note the "growing consensus that misoprostol is a safe and effective option for preventing and treating PPH, particularly in settings where oxytocin — the gold standard drug — is not available or where its administration is not feasible." Read more on The FCI Blog...
Maternal Health in Crisis: Health Workers on the Frontline
(September 2011) While world leaders met across the street in the United Nations General Assembly, leaders from the field of maternal health came together in New York City for the standing room-only event, Maternal Health in Crisis: Health Workers on the Frontline. Co-sponsored by FCI with Every Mother Counts, the International Confederation of Midwives, Jhpiego, The Lancet, Merck, and Save the Children, the event drew attention to the critical role of frontline health workers in achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, to improve maternal health. Read more at The FCI Blog...
FCI organizes meeting on misoprostol for post-partum hemorrhage
(July 2011) "The New York meeting aimed to translate the scientific evidence on misoprostol's safety and efficacy into effective strategies for expanding women's access to misoprostol at the country level." Read more at The FCI Blog...
Kenyan parliamentarians commit to maternal health advocacy
(July 2011) "Last Friday in Nairobi, members of Kenya's Parliament came together with maternal health advocates to commit themselves to reversing these deplorable [maternal health] statistics. The meeting, organized by the advocacy coalition Women Alive, aimed to enlist parliamentarians, including members of the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA), as advocates for increased national investment in programs that save women's lives." Read more at The FCI Blog...
Mapping misoprostol for postpartum hemorrhage
(June 2011) Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the largest cause of maternal mortality, accounting for nearly one-quarter of maternal deaths. Preventing and treating PPH is especially difficult in places where most births occur in homes or in local clinics and where access to emergency obstetric care is limited. Evidence shows that misoprostol —a medicine that can be delivered in pill form and stored without refrigeration — can play an important role in preventing and treating PPH. FCI, working with Gynuity Health Projects, commissioned a mapping to identify activities and approaches being taken by organizations working on misoprostol for PPH. Read more at The FCI Blog...
FCI co-sponsors UN event on girls, women, AIDS
(June 2011) The International Peace Institute, in collaboration with FCI, the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations, and Women Deliver, hosted a policy forum entitled Prevention and Protection Save Lives: Girls, Women, and HIV on the sidelines of the 2011 UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS. Read about it at The FCI Blog...
What happened to the G8′s commitment to maternal, newborn & child health?
(June 2011) Advocates from FCI were at the 2011 G8 Summit in Deauville, France. Read FCI's take on the proceedings at The FCI Blog...
FCI helps launch Ecuador's first Sexual and Reproductive Rights Observatory
(June 2011) FCI provided technical support to Ecuador's National Health Council (CONASA) for the launch of Ecuador's first National Sexual and Reproductive Rights Observatory for monitoring and reporting on the rate of compliance with health and reproductive rights, especially in relation to ethnic groups, diversity, gender, and generational issues. Read more, in English and Spanish, at The FCI Blog here and here...
FCI at the World Health Assembly
(May 2011) The 2011 World Health Assembly convened in Geneva, and FCI was there. Read more at The FCI Blog here, here, and here...
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Facts and Map
Area: 505956km2
Spain is, above all, a mosaic of cultures.Madrid,
Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao, Cordoba, and Granada are examples
of the harmonious coexistence of tradition and modernity in each and
every Spanish city.
than 50 million tourists visit Spain each year, making it the second
most visited country in the world, So ask us about Spain! Anything at
all. A trip to Spain is a celebration of diversity, an opportunity to
enjoy our excellent climate, excellent cuisine, and joie de vivre. But
also, it is a chance to discover our exceptional monumental heritage. History has left its traces in a country with a unique legacy: Prehistoric caves, Roman remains, Jewish and Arabic architecture.
Spain is one of the richest countries in the world with regard to
monumental heritage; not surprisingly Spain has the highest number of
UNESCO World Heritage sites and it is also home to the Camino de Santiago, Europe's most important cultural itinerary.
There are artistic styles in Spain that cannot be seen anywhere else in the world, such as the Mudéjar. Monuments like the Segovia Aqueduct, the Alhambra in Granada and the Great Mosque
of Cordoba, considered to be the most important Islamic monument ever
built in the West, tell us of the Roman and Moorish presence on the
peninsula. There are excellent examples of architecture of other
styles, such as Renaissance, Baroque and Modernist, the last of which
is summed up in the work of Gaudí. In present day Spanish architecture is universally avant-garde with artist s such as Calatrava or Moneo.
You will also find the great masters of painting in Spain. The Prado Museum is one of the world's best art galleries amongst others. As far as contemporary art is concerned, the Guggenheim in Bilbao is not to be missed. Although, on the subject of art, there is one you will want to sample for sure: the art of Spanish cuisine. Chefs like Ferrán Adriá, Juan María Arzak have put Spanish gastronomy at the pinnacle of the international scene.
Another option is to explore stunning natural landscapes. Here, within reach, you have more than 400 protected
natural spaces that also make up the largest and best conserved nature
reserve in southern Europe. But that's not all. You'll also have the
privilege of seeing the European sanctuary of many endangered species.
Don't miss the chance to take part in local Spanish traditions
and fiestas: from streets carpeted in flowers to fire works-by-the-sea,
from the running of the bulls to concerts and ballet in the gardens of
the caliphs.
Experience our unique, dazzling natural environment, become
acquainted with the customs of our people, and share with them their
holiday celebrations and popular traditions.


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The start of apple season is marked by the beckoning aroma of apples saturating the market air causing my mind to conjure up images of pie. Where some see a tasty piece of juicy fruit to eat out of hand I imagine all the possible desserts that can be baked. I do it to every single piece of fruit to enter my house. Without fail. It's a sickness.
Although any time is a good time for pie it's quite possible fall was invented simply as an excuse to celebrate them. I'm even brave enough to claim fall is pie. Let's rename it. Spring, Summer, Pie, Winter. It works for me.
The highlight of this apple pie is the crumbly brown sugar topping. The crumbs steal the show on top of this bubbly-sweet apple filling dotted with chewy, dried cranberries over a flaky, buttery crust. It's a hug. A big, fat pie-hug.
If you like your pie apples quite soft but not mushy than this is the pie for you. If you like them more on the firm side, shorten the bake time and add the crumbs right from the start.
The crumbly brown sugar topping steals the show on top of this bubbly-sweet apple filling dotted with chewy, dried cranberries over a flaky, buttery crust.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a medium bowl make the crumb topping by combining 1 cup flour, butter, brown sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt with a pastry blender or your fingers until large clumps form. Place in freezer.
- Roll pie dough into a 14-inch circle on a lightly floured piece of wax or parchment paper. Transfer to a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate, you will have an overhang, leave parchment attached and refrigerate.
- Meanwhile add the lemon juice to a large bowl. Peel, core, and slice apples 1/8 inch thick and add to the bowl tossing with the lemon juice as you work. Add sugar, cranberries, cinnamon, remaining 1/4 cup flour, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt; toss to combine.
- Add apples to pie crust, arranging them in layers so they fit well. Trim the excess pie crust completely off or fold dough over filling, pleating as you work your way around the pie. Press pie dough down onto filling.
- Bake 45 minutes, remove from oven and sprinkle crumb topping evenly over top. Bake until golden and bubbly, 30 to 45 minutes more. Cool at least 6 hours before serving.
- In a food processor, pulse flour, salt, and sugar several times to combine. Add butter. Pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal, with just a few pea-size pieces remaining.
- Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons ice water. Pulse until dough is crumbly but holds together when squeezed with fingers, add additional ice water a tablespoon at a time if needed. Be careful not to over process.
- Turn dough out onto a work surface and form into a 3/4-inch-thick disk. Wrap tightly in plastic and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Adapted from Martja Stewart


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If you're looking for free digitized books related to genealogy you've got to check out this site! It posted on the Illinois Genealogy Research facebook page originating from Fran Ellsworth.
This is a great resource!
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