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Rooms are generally available from 4pm on the day of arrival and check out is no later than noon (midday), on the day of departure.
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All the ages of the guests that are referred to in the reservation are valid for the check-in dates or the beginning of a service.
Policy regarding children
Children who are 1 year and 11 months old at the time of the start of the service are not charged in hotels. Cots must be requested directly from the hotel, and carry an extra charge. In some hotels, there are no cots available, and infants must share a bed with parents/guardians.
Prices for children will be confirmed during the online reservation process.
Normally, child discounts apply for those children aged between 2 and 11 years' old, and only when they share the room with two adults.
The majority of the rooms do not have space for an additional bed for children, and therefore, the maximum capacity is one adult and one child.
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Egypt: The Women's Parliamentary Quota
A husband can prevent his wife from participating in the political life under Egypt's personal status Laws. This was the concern expressed by one of the contributors to a workshop held by the Land Centre of Human Rights in Cairo entitled "woman and the parliamentary election" attended by more than fifty members from civil organization, local assemblies, lawyers, and journalists. The workshop proceedings started with the first session titled "Reasons and results of women's quota" headed by the coordinator of program of woman in the centre, Ms. Dahlia Omara.
Dahlia affirmed that in spite of woman's success in all life aspects she went through, in a way that proves woman's capacity and efficiency to contribute in developing our country, she couldn't, until now, acquire the trust of society to represent it and achieve voters' interests. We view how the society trusts men much more than women, where parliamentary elections of 2005 were a clear example of this trust. In 2005, women won only 8 seats in the parliament out of 454 seats, 5 of them were granted by appointment; which means that voters gave only 3 seats for women. Therefore, women's quota, that might guarantee equality and safety for women in our society, is a good way to enhance the participation of women, besides, taking many political, economical, and cultural measurements that shall support women's right.
After that, Ms. Nehad Abo- Komsan, manager of Egyptian centre of women's rights, spoke about the issue of women's quota, clarifying that women's representation in parliament is as much important as any other issue of human rights, priority is the only difference, she said. Ms. Nehad added, also, that the time of the workshop is very suitable, if not little bit late, because there is no much time remaining before the elections. We must have enough awareness that helps us in promoting thriving samples of women to enter the parliament as representatives, even if those parliamentary seats are the suspicious seats of the National Democratic Party of Egypt (NDP). We hope that, at least, 13 women, who can be good samples of Egyptian women, can be elected in the next parliamentary elections.
Ms. Nehad then asked, Why the women's quota? She illustrated that since more than 50 years ago, the idea of women's participation in parliament didn't grow; in 1957, two women were elected, where in 2005, only three women were elected, excluding the time between 1951 till 1986 that witnessed the specialization of 30 seats to women.
Ms. Nehad mentioned that Egypt is ranked as state no. 174 among 176 states that apply democracy. She asserted the single member district system is the best system that can help in applying the women's quote, as it guarantees the existence of various classes from all sectors of the society, which promotes the participation of women.
She spoke then about quotas law, and asserted that dividing the state into 32 electoral districts increases burden on women; pecuniary and morally. In this quote system, each governorate is considered as one electoral district, and in case the governorate is large, it is divided into two electoral districts. This division causes huge burden, and requires extra-ordinary efforts much higher than the effort needed by candidates without applying quote system.
Ms. Nahed, also, affirmed that political parties are responsible for nominating women and supporting them. The future of the experiment of women's quota is on the stake, in year 2010, Ms. Nahed stressed. She praised the Moroccan experiment, describing it as a thriving example that typically applied the women's quote system.
Afterwards, second session proceedings, headed by Ms. Fatima Ramadan, started, under title "Woman's condition in the market". Ms. Fatima pointed that government ruins woman's life by changing laws. We can find the early retirement of woman starts with the age of 45, in addition to the attitude of private sector to reject women's work. After that, Ms. Mona Ezzat presented a paper that illustrated the women's situation in market. She explained that women's issues are citizens' issues, because when we speak about women, we speak about a category of the citizens. Ms. Ezzat added, if we want to highlight on the situation of working women in Egypt, we will find that government dealt with it by, either, legislative decoration or balance and harmonization. She mentioned that since 1970, Egypt witnesses political shifts, like; the economic openness, enhancing the role of private sector, and the privatization of public sector. All these transformations were annexed by legislative transformations too, which led to the deterioration of the financial situations of the wage earned workers. Business men played a great role on this transformation. Ms. Ezzat added also there is a mount in the percentage of women contribution in market, but it is a slow mount though. We can find that the big motive which derives women to go out is the economical one. It referred also that those statistics represent the formal sector, not the informal sector, which represents wide range, especially in countryside. In spite of all the aforementioned, we can still find that rate of unemployment among women could reach 26% till 2005. She spoke also about labor legislations related to women and the amendments of those legislations. She assured that those amendments make women in front of one of two bitter choices; the first is to look after her family, while the second is the continuity of her work. This contradiction rises because of child care law; this law has limited the permission of child care leave for only the first two children, instead of the first three children, as a mean of birth control. Ms. Ezzat referred, also, to the sexual harassment phenomenon, especially in the field of work, where she stated that on the market, labor women rights are neither guaranteed nor known my males and females workers.
Third session, headed by Dr. Youssry Mustafa, the coordinator of woman program in GTZ foundation and a human rights expert, then started, under title "The effect of cultural and social rights situation in Egypt on the woman's rights of Equality".
Mustafa started the session with clarifying the concept of culture; it starts with the way of wearing our clothes, eating, drinking, and the daily behavior. He added also that people commit mistakes in Egypt, nowadays, as if it is something normal, to an extent that we turned to have the behaviors of ugliness and immaturity without noticing. He asserted that women's issues are part of societal issues as a whole.
Dr. Mustafa referred also to the role of the culture in selecting the quality of life. Culture is what makes us accept the idea of legal guardians on women, and force woman to marry the brother of her dead husband to protect children from being raised by a stranger, who can take the inheritance of the deceased husband. It is the same culture that prohibits women from being granted their inheritance, so that inherited lands don't go to strangers. He affirmed that society teaches woman the culture of waiver.
After that, Ms. Azza Suleiman, the manager of the centre of Egyptian woman's issue, spoke. She said that woman suffers internal and external subjugation, making her unable to participate and take proper decisions in her public and private life.
Ms. Suleiman asked a question about the way they can change the law to a mechanism that empowers women to be granted their rights. The Islamic law is clear, Ms. Suleiman added. However, society excludes woman from acquiring her inheritance, so that land doesn't be possessed by strangers. She added also that, traditions, customs, restricting liberties, and the inability to manage crises allow the society to violate women's rights.
Ms. Suleiman mentioned that international agreements are considered as a part of the Egyptian legislative pyramid; it has the same priority of the law. The country shall aware citizens of those laws, and takes the suitable measurements that eliminate negative discrimination against women.
Session four, headed by Ms. Hala Abdul Kader, the manager of the Egyptian institution for developing the society, was entitled "Programs needed for woman in the next parliamentary elections to guarantee her rights". This session showed that achieving and ensuring women's right on the same level with men is more important than women's quote or the number of women to be granted seats in People's assembly. Ms. Fareda El-Nakkash, chairperson of woman department forum, spoke for the audience. She affirmed that we can't analyze the case of women's participation in politics and the scope of that participation, unless we get briefed with their economic and social situations. We can find that poverty increases, and women form the majority of the poor class. She referred to some statistics that illustrate low wages, deteriorating health care, and the illiteracy outbreaks among women in particular. She asserted also that the Egyptian economic system is designed to assure the dominance of the governing party, not to guarantee the humanitarian rights and the advance of our societies.
Ms. Nakkash added that Egyptian society is witnessing intellectual and cultural decline, a long with the growth of reactionary thoughts, where there are a lot of foreclosures that hinder women from being appointed in decision making positions. She added also that society still imposes male guardianship on women; the husband who doesn't participate in political life can prevent his wife from participating in political affairs as stated by law of personal status.
Ms. Nakkash added, also, that our society has wrong thoughts about women, and what women suffered from, took place in a long time, and need a longer time to be eliminated.
Then, proceedings of last session, number five, started taking place. The session was headed by Ms. Mozen Hassan, chairperson of the board of director of Nazra "view" foundation for the women studies. The session was entitled "the role of non-governmental organizations in promoting and supporting the rights of women in next election. This session stressed on the importance of the role of organizations to aware women of their rights, to organize campaigns, and to offer support for women in order to enable them to participate in the next parliamentary sessions. After that, it was the speech of Ms. Jihan Farouk, director of the office of care department in Qena. Ms. Farouk said we seek change for better, by increasing the number of women seats in parliament. She added the role of civil society is to be the bridge between the citizen and the government; civil society is entitled to transfer the ideas and policies discussed by the government to the citizen, to make him aware of different policies, that's from one side. From other side, civil society organizations transfer the visions and ideas of citizen to the governmental institutions, so government puts those ideas on its consideration, while amending legislations and policies.
She mentioned also that the main role of the civil society is to monitor successes. In addition, she pointed to the efficient role of the mosque and the church as civil society organs; they play a big role in enhancing the position of woman. Civil society has to, beside awareness of citizens, help and support citizens to enable them to improve their situations.
Discussions, took place in the workshop, concluded that it is important for the centre to establish a document that guarantees women rights; including their rights of work, personal status, and equality. It also urged organizations, that were members in the workshop, to hold another meeting to crystallize the ideas of the document, in order to aware candidates and voters in next elections, so we can stop political abuse of discrimination against women, and guarantee women's right of equality in parliamentary elections 2010 – 2015.
Also, participants stressed that document shall include mechanisms, laws, and clear and obligatory procedures that could enable woman, on economic, social, political, and cultural levels, to confront discrimination against their rights in governmental, and other, institutions, especially in the field of work, heritage, marriage. These mechanisms shall also help on passing legislations that prevent violence against woman, and, also, help in revising legislations and statutes, in order to make it active in eliminating all sorts of discrimination against women's rights, which hinders woman from reaching institutions of decision making.
Participants added that, women, especially villagers, need an economic, cultural, and social quote, which enables them to have a safe and decent life, by facilitating granting loans to women from the Bank of development and agricultural credit, and ensure their rights of land, housing, and water.
Participants agreed also to put work plan that includes the way of implementing those activities and procedures. They agreed also that Land centre shall coordinate a prospective meeting for the participants, and to send preliminary copies of the women's rights documents and the joint work plan of the participants' foundations. So, we can ensure the women's right of better life, more decent living, equality, and insuring safer future for our country.
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For those entrepreneurs itching to start their own business, purchasing a franchise can be a good alternative.
Franchising can be less risky than starting a business from scratch. The franchisor has done a lot of the work for you. The business plan is ready made; there's already strong brand name recognition, and the franchisor is often responsible for the marketing and advertising.
However, any new business is risky, even a franchise. You may get an established name and business plan, but your success is ultimately up to you.
If you are considering taking the leap to become a franchisee this year, here are five tips:
Do Your Research
Whether you identify a potential franchise opportunity from a franchise broker or franchise exposition, you alone are solely responsible for the due diligence before you invest. Start by reading the Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) to find out important details about the franchise company, litigation and bankruptcy history, as well as your initial fees, investment, and obligations.
According to franchise expert and consultant Joel Libava, potential franchisees should:
"Make sure they find out exactly what their role will be as the Owner. Don't base it on what you see in a beautiful franchise brochure. Ask the existing franchisees what their day is like…what they do as the owner."
For Libava, it's critical to speak with other franchisees before signing on the dotted line. Ask existing franchisees about the total investment:
- Was their investment in line with what was stated in the FDD?
- Ask how they went about getting a loan for their franchise. Was it pretty easy, or was it challenging?
Maybe they can introduce you to their lender and you can get a similar small business loan from them. Lastly, Libava says:
"Ask every franchisee this question: Would they do it again?"
Think About Your Location
Successful restaurant and store owners will tell you it all comes down to location, location, location. One of the toughest, and most important, decisions a franchisee will make is choosing a location for their new business. Many franchisors will work closely with you to pick the perfect site, sharing insights about what particular site characteristics lead to success with their organization.
However, at the end of the day, the decision is ultimately yours. You'll need to understand your target demographic and what drives customers to this particular franchise. Then evaluate each location accordingly. Consider details like traffic patterns, parking, nearby stores, and check with the franchisor if you'll be guaranteed protected territory (i.e. no other franchise can open within a certain radius).
Focus on Service
Buying a franchise gives you a proven model and a clear-cut marketing plan to bring in new customers. However, it's up to you to define the customer experience. Employee-customer interactions can make or break any business.
Hire customer-centric staff who will go the extra mile to leave an extraordinary impression on your customers. In addition, you need to be realistic about your management experience. If you have never managed a team before, you'll need training on how to manage people effectively.
Consult a Specialist
The tax rules and contracts surrounding franchises can get quite complex. You should consult an attorney, preferably one who specializes in franchise law, to review your franchise agreement documents and identify any potential red flags.
In addition, an accountant can help you understand the full costs of purchasing and operating the business, as well as evaluate tax considerations. Given the size of the investment you'll be making, it's prudent to pay a little upfront for a professional consult.
Don't Forget About a Formal Business Structure
For franchisees, a formal business structure (like a corporation or LLC) is critical to separate your personal assets from the business. While the exact business structure you choose will ultimately depend on the specifics of your situation, many franchisees choose to become an LLC or S Corporation for more favorable tax treatment. These two entities give you the option to choose pass-through tax treatment. In this case, your business doesn't file its own taxes; any profits or losses of the business are passed through to your personal taxes.
Many franchisors prefer to sign contracts with established companies (LLC or corporation) rather than sole proprietors, so you may want to incorporate or form an LLC before you sign the franchise agreement. In most cases, you'll want to incorporate or form an LLC in the state where your business will be located (and not the state where the franchise is headquartered). While you may want an attorney to review your franchise contract and paperwork, you don't necessarily need an attorney to incorporate.
Other Resources
If you're interested in exploring a franchise opportunity, there are plenty of resources to help you get started:
Bureau of Consumer Protection: "Buying a Franchise: A Consumer Guide"
Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
International Franchise Association
Browse for opportunities and do your homework. Maybe this will be the year you take the reigns and become a business owner.
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Samsung Electronics announced the industry's first 2Gb DDR2 SDRAM utilizing 80nm process technology. The high density DDR2 solution will enhance server and workstation performance and enable faster deployment of memory intensive applications like real time video conference, remote medical service, two-way communications, and 3-D graphics. "Samsung developed the DDR2 SDRAM using an advanced 80nm process technology, overcoming the industry expectations that 2Gb DRAM manufacture would require sub 65nm circuitry," Samsung said in the statement.
The new DRAM technology breakthroughs include a 3D transistor technology, recess channel array transistor (RCAT), and a new concept architecture process. First introduced 2003, RCAT is a technology unique to Samsung that reduces transistor area space by implementing a 3-D structural design, increasing the integration level for higher density on a given area. To address the high performance features of the DDR2 specification, Samsung adopted a double poly gate technology, 20-angstrom level ultra thin oxide film process, and a triple-layer metal circuitry. The high speed process technology coupled with the feasible 80nm technology also advances the time-to-market availability of the new DDR2 device.


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Elected officials, law enforcement officers and others proclaim there's a heroin "epidemic" sweeping the country, and it's taking hold in rural and suburban communities once considered unlikely places to find illicit drugs.
But nobody knows how many have died.
Nobody knows how many have overdosed and survived.
Nobody even knows for certain where the problem is most severe.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 3,036 people died in 2010 from heroin overdoses, but due to problems with how death investigations are conducted and how those deaths are documented, the CDC estimates that its tally is at least 25 percent short, possibly more.
"I'm very scared for our nation in how fast this has grown and spread," said John Roberts, a retired Chicago police officer who created The HERO Foundation after his son died of a heroin overdose in 2010. "This is an epidemic. But it's not getting the attention that it needs because we don't know how bad it is."
Public health researchers, called epidemiologists, say longstanding flaws in data about fatal and nonfatal overdoses compound the already difficult task of monitoring an illicit activity.
Having an accurate and timely picture of heroin abuse, and its effects, is crucial, researchers said, because heroin has much higher risks of overdose and infectious disease than other drugs, particularly compared to the prescription painkillers that many of today's heroin users started with.
"We need to know what they're dying from, because our ability to measure drug use is very poor," said Caleb Banta-Green, a research scientist in Seattle and former adviser to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. "Death is what you want to prevent, and that data can tell you something about how we keep people alive."
To make matters worse, it has taken three years for the CDC to make the 2011 death data available to the public and researchers — a full year longer than usual — at a time when local reports from throughout the country indicate alarming increases in heroin use and overdoses.
The 2011 data is expected to be released later this week, and researchers expect it will show a dramatic spike in the number of heroin-related deaths.
"The rapidly changing picture of substance abuse in the country now demands in the 21st century a more timely reporting of indicators," said Jim Hall, an epidemiologist with the Center for Applied Research on Substance Abuse and Health Disparities in Miami.
Hall and others said more complete, detailed and timely data would be helpful for informing the policy makers who decide how to fight drug abuse, and heroin in particular.
"Policy should rest upon good data. The better your data, the better policies you make in the first place and the better evaluations of the policies are," said Len Paulozzi, an epidemiologist with the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. "If you have to wait four years to get data, you're well behind in terms of trying to arrive at an effective policy."
Deaths probed differently
The CDC can say with confidence that more than 200,000 people died from drug overdoses between 2005 and 2010.
During that same time, its data shows that about 15,000 of those deaths involved heroin and about 86,000 involved other opioids, such as prescription painkillers.
But those numbers — especially for heroin — are most certainly an undercount.
The CDC thinks these figures are short because of a study by Margaret Warner, an epidemiologist at the CDC, and other researchers that found one-quarter of the death certificates for overdose victims between 2008 and 2010 did not specify the drug or drugs involved.
The study also found that the accounting varies by state. In Louisiana, 65 percent of the investigations of overdose deaths didn't specify what drug was involved; less than 1 percent failed to mention the drug in overdose deaths in Vermont, New Hampshire and West Virginia.
It's this discrepancy that makes it impossible for researchers to say there are more heroin overdose deaths in one part of the country than another.
The differences stem from two things: an inconsistent death investigation system and the fact that it's difficult to detect heroin on toxicology tests.
Some medical examiner or coroner offices might not have the budget to run and interpret toxicology tests on every autopsy.
If the tests are not done or they are inconclusive, the death certificate might simply say the person died from a "narcotic" overdose, or, least definitive of all, "undetermined."
Even with a toxicology test, it's possible an investigator may not feel confident enough to say the person died from a heroin overdose. Heroin metabolizes in the body very quickly, and toxicology tests typically show evidence of morphine, a different opiate.
Falling behind
The bigger problem is that much of the data is slow to get to researchers, policymakers and others interested in assessing the problem at a national level. This has been exacerbated in recent years due to computer problems at the CDC and the shutdown of a surveillance system that measured non-fatal overdoses.
"(Timeliness) is a challenge, because we won't know for a couple years whether the efforts we're engaged in right now to fight prescription opioids are having an effect on overdoses," said Rafael Lemaitre, spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The death certificate data was delayed by more than a year due to problems with a new computer system at the CDC. Normally, these numbers are released two years after deaths occur, but the 2011 data isn't getting to researchers and the public until this month.
The CDC launched a new computer system and found flaws early last year, according to Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch. The new computer system, Anderson said, will give his agency more ability to monitor health trends in near real-time.
"Within the next five years, things will be a lot different," Anderson said. "We'll be doing a lot more surveillance work using the mortality data … We'll be able to say things about the previous year early in the new year."
Roberts, who lost his son to heroin, would especially like to see better accounting of non-fatal overdoses, and he's been asking Illinois lawmakers to require hospitals to report those numbers to the state.
With increasing use by paramedics and police officers of naloxone, an antidote to an opiate overdose, Roberts expects the number of non-fatal overdoses treated in emergency rooms would likely be "staggering."
"People are starting to embrace the idea that it's a health crisis," Roberts said. "How do we turn anecdotal evidence into real evidence? Let's do real-time reporting from a reliable source — our hospitals.
"Let's just find out how bad it is," Roberts added. "And then try to solve it."


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(b) The commission, council or governing board, as appropriate, shall report biannually to the Legislative Auditor all sales of commodities made during the preceding biennium. The report shall include a description of the commodities sold, the name of the buyer to whom each commodity was sold, the price paid by the buyer.
(c) The proceeds of sales or transfers shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit on a pro rata basis of the fund or funds from which the purchase of the particular commodities or expendable commodities was made. The commission, council or governing board, as appropriate, may charge and assess fees reasonably related to the costs of care and handling with respect to the transfer, warehousing, sale and distribution of state property that is disposed of or sold pursuant to the provisions of this section.
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Hundreds of donations make music possible for Donegal Elementary
Donations pour in to Mount Pleasant School District
Students at Donegal Elementary can finally jam together after hundreds of instruments were donated to the school's band.
WTAE first told viewers about the students last year when many of them were left playing pencils as instruments because money was tight with the district and the kids' families.
But hundreds of donations have poured in to the Mount Pleasant School District since then, and the band was finally able to play Wednesday night with everyone having an instrument.
Fifth-grader Angel Ritenour was once one of those students who had to play a pencil while trying to keep up with the clarinets.
"I really appreciate it because there were 450 to 500 instruments donated to the school," said Ritenour.
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Rabbi Shkop was born in Toretz, Minsk. At age 12, he studied in the yeshiva in Mir for two years. He then traveled to Volozhin and studied with the Netziv zt"l. He was part of an extraordinary group of students with whom Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik zt"l interacted.
In 1884, he became a ram at the yeshiva in Telshe, where he taught Torah for 18 years and became well-known for hi s style and distinctive chiddushim. In 1903, he was appointed rabbi of Meltch, replacing the gaon Rabbi Zalman Sander zt"l (who became rabbi in Krinki). In 1907, he became the rabbi of Breinsk, where he founded a yeshiva known as Yeshivat Rav Shimon Breinsker.
During World War I he remained in Breinsk, which was captured by the Germans, and helped assiduously to look after his townspeople. Since his yeshiva was forced to close during the war, he used his spare time to arrange his chiddushim and shiurim in a sefer. This is the popular Sharei Yosher, which was published in 1928.
In 1920, Rabbi Shkop was urged by the leading rabbis of the time, led by Rabbi Chaim Ozer zt"l of Vilna, to accept the position of rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Sharei Torah in Grodna. Rabbi Shkop was successful in turning the yeshiva into one of the largest and most popular in Europe.
In 1928, he traveled to America in order to alleviate the difficult financial situation of his yeshiva and was received there with the highest honor. After the passing of the Meitscheter Illui, Rabbi Shlomo Polachek zt"l, he became a rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he taught for one year.
Although he wanted to remain, the leading rabbis of Europe, led by the Chofetz Chaim zt"l and Rabbi Chaim Ozer zt"l, felt it imperative for him to return to Grodna and to his yeshiva there. Rabbi Shkop answered their call, albeit with some misgivings. When World War II broke out, he moved with his yeshiva to Vilna, where he died shortly thereafter.


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On 27 May, Frank De Winne was launched to the International Space Station with the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft. He arrived at the ISS on 29 May. He will spend six months living and working on the ISS for his OasISS mission, together with five other cosmonauts and astronauts. When he has time in his busy schedule, he will send diary entries about his life on the Station.


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Have you seen those single input games? One where you just have to press space to jump? One where you have to press space to gain height for your air plane? Where you change the orientation of your phone to see the beer glass being depleted?
What about face input? You can either blink or move your head. You can even ask your girlfriend for a split screen game.
The future input events:
- this.onkeypress
- this.onclick
- this.ontouch
- this.onvoice
- this.onface
- this.oncameratilt
- this.onacceleration
- this.onorientation
- this.onhoverhands
- this.oneye
- this.oneyesclosed
- this.onmusic
- this.onmind
- this.ondevicesensor
- this.ongps
- this.onmagnet
- this.onnfc
- this.ongaze
- this.ontoeclick
- this.onnearby
- this.onfaraway
- this.onheadnodyes
- this.onheadshakeno
See: http://mrdoob.com/lab/actionscript/webcam/face_driven_3d/ (see also the article)
How many web cameras does your multitouch multiscreen application consume?
Update: See Face Tracking Tetris with Kinect
See also: Emergency and Disaster Service mentioned by Nathan
The Technium referenced some thin interesting named Readers of The Screen:
See also:
- An earlier discovery
- Do-It yourself eye tracker by Michal
- Real-time hand tracking by Andrej
- About Face-TLD: Tracking-Learning-Detection Applied to Faces by Z. Kalal
- Activity zones for touchscreen tablets and phones by Dan
- Real Time Head Pose Tracking from Multiple Cameras with a Generic Model
- Eye tracking laptop by Martin
- Eyetrax by Martin
- faceAPI
- How Shazam Works by Bryan
- Creating Shazam in Java by Roy
- Robust Landmark-Based Audio Fingerprinting by Dan
- Playing with Shazam fingerprints by Paul
- Facial Recognition for Android
- Robot arm with voice control
- Nonverbal Communication by Jeanne
- ActionScript face detection by Devaraj
- Building a future friendly web by Brad
- Object tracking in Java by Ganesh
- Semantic Revolution by Yuriy
- Control them before they control us
- Which face do you trust? by Alexander
- JavaScript face detection explained by liuliu
- Using microphone peak as input by Mathieu
- What Shazam doesn't want you to know by Roy van Rijn
- Speech controlled character in Flash by Mark
- Detect features on images such as faces or mouths in JavaScript
- Viola-Jones object detection by Eugene
- Flash EyeToy by Brandel
- SoundWave
- EyeControl for Mobile Devices by Martin
- SuperSync sports
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Saturday I was enjoying a bit of peace and quiet when I noticed that things were too quiet. I did a mental checklist.
Husband? Check. At the YMCA.
Baby daughter? Check. Snoozing in bed.
Seven-year-old son? Che….
I could hear him. He was in the next room. He was in the next room sitting at the communal desk clacking away at the family computer. He was being quiet. But so quiet.
I got up and walked behind his chair. He was wearing earphones and did not hear me approach. I looked over his shoulder. I could see the screen. Oh, look. He's playing a new game on the computer, I thought. I wonder if he got it off that new site he'd said the kids were jazzed about: mostfungames.com.
I bent forward, looking more closely at the screen. Odd. One character — what looked to be small child with a skeleton for a head — was shaking another character, an adult male in a business suit.
I cocked my head. It looked as if their bodies were melded together and trembling. My mouth opened. This was thrusting. What the flip! Is this…is it…time for Pedobear?
"Wha…wha…what is going on here?" I asked, leaning still more forward, trying to comprehend this gyrating congress between skull-boy and suited man.
My cherubic seven-year-old son — the one who it seemed just days ago was peacefully playing with Thomas the Train and Dora the Explorer — pulled back on the mouse and turned to gaze sweetly up at me.
His movement of the mouse retracted the child-with-skull character away from the adult-in-suit character.
As skull-boy moved back, a great bloody chainsaw retracted from the suit-man's abdomen. Blood spouted uncontrollably out of the adult's body and the psychotic skull-child bounced up and down in anticipation, bloody chainsaw at the ready for more ghastly carnage.
"Noooooooooooo! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" was all I could manage. "Noooooooo! The Buddha! The Buddha would NOT like this!" I tried again, my voice rising an octave.
My son's face contorted and crumbled. Tears began streaming down his cheeks. "I…I…I didn't," he began, but he couldn't finish his sentence. "I…I…I didn't know!" he finally blurted, wide-eyed and self-aware enough to begin the damage control.
"We do NOT play those kind of games in this house," I said my voice quivering. "NOT okay. NO violence. NO bleeding. NO hurting people. EVER!" I then shook a wire hanger at him and rolled my eyes back in my head.
Just kidding.
"Where did you get this game?" I continued.
"My friends told me about it. I didn't know it was bad!" the kid said, crying harder. I pulled him to me and hugged him.
"It's okay. I am not mad at you. I'm just shocked. I didn't expect to see blood. I didn't expect to see guys killing each other."
You do know why this is wrong, right?" I pulled him away from me so I could look him in the eyes.
He nodded. "Because we don't hurt people."
"No. Because we're Buddhists and Buddhists try not to hurt people. The very first rule, the most important rule that the Buddha gave us, is 'Do no harm.' Do you know what 'harm' means?"
"Hurting people," he wailed, hugged me harder, the tears flowing. I hugged him harder.
"I promise I'm not mad at you. But I need you to know why I'm telling you not to do this. I want you to understand that it's not because I'm mean."
I felt his little head nodding up and down on my stomach.
"Do you think it's okay for a game to teach little kids to chainsaw people, to saw them in half and make them bleed? Does that sound right to you?"
"No! I don't know why they would teach me that!" He cast a wide-eyed look at the evil Apple, a desktop killing machine. He was most eager to pounce, to deflect all blame away from himself.
"I need you to promise that you won't play any games with killing or blood, okay?"
"Okay. I will never play a game with blood or killing in it. I will not kill people any more!"
"Thank you," I said, hugging him tighter.
Good lord Buddha, did I learn a lesson.
He's only seven and I need to watch what he's doing on the computer like a mother hawk. Watching every 15 minutes is wholly insufficient. I need to be up in his business while he's on that thing, checking constantly.
I mean, seriously.
Who made this game? Who would want to train our young to gleefully chainsaw the grown-ups in half?
Clearly, the terrorists have won.


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FPGA is an emerging technology for automotive control applications to implement peripheral and algorithmic components requiring fast turn-around time. In this session, learn techniques to model HDL components that can be implemented on an FPGA. A motor control example is used to demonstrate common tasks such as:
The components used in this example were modeled in Simulink, tested with simulation, and verified on real-time hardware.


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How fast is the economy growing? How much output is produced by labor and capital supplied by the United States? What income is generated by production? BEA produces several different measures for tracking production and economic growth in the United States. Gross domestic product (GDP) is one of the most widely used metrics, but there are several others that also provide important information on the condition of the United States. Although these measures have long been available in several national income and product account (NIPA) tables, BEA has now grouped these measures together for the first time in a new family of tables. An added bonus: the new tables are part of BEA's award-winning interactive database that allows users to generate custom tables and charts directly on our Web site.
BEA developed the new tables to help our customers access the different statistics from one location. For those less familiar with these economic gauges, the new tables organize and label them in a way that clarifies their similarities and differences, making it easier to figure out their most appropriate analytical uses. The tables provide measures of total production and income generated within the geographical boundaries of the United States as well as that which is generated by U.S. residents regardless of geographical location. It also includes estimates of final expenditures by U.S. residents, the purchasing power of income, and disposable, or after-tax, personal income.
Grouping these data together addresses a key fact of economic analysis that many of our users already know: no single aggregate is useful for all types of analysis. While one measure may be appropriate in some cases, others may be more useful in other cases. And in still other cases, several aggregates must be examined together. Let's take a closer look at these measures:
- BEA's featured measure of production is GDP. It measures spending by consumers, businesses, government, and overseas buyers on domestically produced final goods and services. GDP is BEA's featured measure because the sources of data used to make the GDP estimates are generally more accurate and timely. GDP's income-side counterpart—gross domestic income, or GDI— is equal to GDP in theory, but not in practice, because it is based on different source data with differences in timing and coverage. Some research suggests that income measures may be more useful for analyzing the turning points of business cycles. By presenting them side by side, the new tables reveal how closely they move together over time, while highlighting their differences in certain quarters.
- GDP is a gross measure of production—it includes the value of depreciation (or, in NIPA terminology, consumption of fixed capital) and thus reflects the value of production without regard for the amount of fixed assets used up in that production. Net domestic product, or NDP, excludes the consumption of fixed capital and consequently reflects the output that is left available for consumption or for adding to the nation's wealth after maintaining the existing stock of assets. NDP is often more useful for analyses of sustainable growth in production.
- While GDP measures domestic production, final sales to domestic purchasers focuses on the demand for goods and services by consumers, businesses, and the government within the United States. It excludes changes in business inventories and exports, but it includes imports. This metric is particularly useful when analyzing trends in U.S. demand relative to U.S. production and the role that imports play in meeting that demand.
- Purchasing power measures—command-basis GDP and command-basis GNP—provide alternative measures of inflation-adjusted economic growth that reflect gains or losses in real purchasing power resulting from changes in U.S. terms of trade— that is, by the relative prices of its imports and exports. The command-basis measures provide a picture of economic growth that values domestic production in terms of what it allows the United States to purchase. For instance, in the third quarter of 2009, real GDP grew 1.4 percent, but command-basis GNP only grew 0.2 percent. Purchasing power of the U.S. economy grew less rapidly than its real output because increases in oil prices caused the prices paid by U.S. residents to increase more rapidly than the prices they received for their production. As a result, gross domestic purchases prices rose 1.7 percent in the third quarter, while GDP prices—which exclude the price of imported oil—increased 0.7 percent.
The new family of tables—table 1.17.1 for percent changes, table 1.17.5 for current dollars, and table 1.17.6 for chained dollars—are available in the national section of the BEA Web site at www.bea.gov; select "Interactive Tables" and "Section 1" for domestic product and income tables or click here.


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Why is medication information so important?
Medication information is critical for patients, caregivers, and health care providers to understand prescription drug dosage, administration, side effects, adverse reactions, and interactions with other drugs. This confidence helps ensure patient health and safety and achieve higher compliance.
Why medication information on paper?
The 1938 United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires that written, printed, or graphic matter bearing directions for use and warnings be upon the immediate container of any article. In addition, research shows that patients prefer and better comprehend medication information on paper.
What about information in electronic form?
We support the availability of medication information in electronic form as a complement to information on paper. However, we strongly oppose efforts to make electronic media the ONLY source of medication information . Not everyone has access to electronic information, and the information itself may not be available for any number of reasons, not the least of which are power outages from natural or man-made causes. As well, several recent studies, including those by the U.S. Department of Commerce, indicate that up to 33% of Americans do not utilize electronic media under any circumstances. 33%!


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Microsoft Office Tutorials
Microsoft Office Tutorials = Electric Teacher
Electric Teacher is your one stop shop for Microsoft Office Tutorials. It's nearly three years since Office 2007 was released and Microsoft tell us that Office 2010 is just around the corner. Rumour has it that we should see it released mid way through 2010.
The Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview was released to the masses in August 2009 and the Beta version soon followed. There are even noticeable differences between the Technical Preview and the Beta version, so who knows what the "real" version will look like when it appears.
One thing is for sure - the ribbon is here to stay. Love it or hate it, you'd better get used to it!
Whisper: as you may have noticed, there's not much here at the moment.. But this is only Day One. You just wait til around lunchtime on day 23 - boy will there be something to shout about then!
Buy Microsoft Office 2010
In June 2010, Microsoft released the new version of their essential productivity software - Office 2010. Users who are familiar with the ribbon interface introduced in Office 2007 will find the interface very familiar in Office 2010. The ribbon is constant but Office 2010 also sees the introduction of many new and impressive features .
Office Web Apps
Complementing the desktop versions of Microsoft Office 2010 are the Office Web Apps. For consumer customers, these are free web based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. As they are hosted on the web, no software needs to be installed on your computer. All your documents are stored in a free storage location called Windows SkyDrive that gives you a generous 25GB worth of memory to play with.
Working Your Way Around The Office Tutorials
I will endeavour to display links to "hot" tutorials on this page, while other less popular Office tutorials will appear in the appropriate categories (also linked to from here). This just in: we've just found a new site that is publishing Word Videos. We say "new" site because at the moment there are only three video tutorials on display, but they are good quality tutorials. Hopefully there'll be more Microsoft Word video tutorials on the way!


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Bury St Edmunds/ Haverhill: Young entrepreneurs wanted to man west Suffolk youth markets
PUBLISHED: 12:33 07 March 2014 | UPDATED: 14:35 07 March 2014
Young entrepreneurs in west Suffolk have been given another boost with the announcement of a unique market day dedicated to aspiring stallholders.
Youth markets will take over Saturday's typical market day in both Bury St Edmunds and Haverhill during May's "Love Your Local Market" fortnight, where anyone aged 16-24 can apply to run their own stall.
It comes in the same week that Bury was announced as one of seven towns across the country involved in the Carnegie UK Trust's TestTown initiative, where young entrepreneurs will be given vacant shops to try out their prospective business.
The youth market plans were revealed by Sharon Fairweather, the new market development officer for St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath, at this week's meeting of the Bury Working Party.
She said: "This could suit art and design students, craft students, fashion students - any students that have got a product or service that they'd like to promote.
"The demographic for a market is an older person. We've really got to look at how markets are going to survive, and that would mean putting new products into the market, new life and new vibrancy.
"This has been proved in many other markets, and I don't know that Bury is quite ready for some of those things yet, but it's certainly something we're going to be working on in the next few months."
Mrs Fairweather said she is working with West Suffolk College in the lead-up to the event, and there will be a prize for the best stallholder in both towns.
She added: "Markets now are very, very important in the social and economic make-up of a town. Retail is changing quite dramatically, there's a lot more internet-based shopping and people need a reason to go into town.
"This is why St Edmundsbury is looking at our market towns and how they survive."
Anyone aged 16-30 is eligible to apply for the TestTown initiative. For more information visit www.testtown.org.uk. To apply to be part of the youth market contact Sharon Fairweather at firstname.lastname@example.com or 01284 757093.


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Update: Afghanistan elections
Although preliminary results for Afghanistan's presidential election will not be publicized until Saturday (and full results may not come until September 3), both President Hamid Karzai and second favorite Abdullah Abdullah are claiming victory. If neither candidate receives 50% of the vote, a run-off vote will occur. Voter participation was estimated at 40-50%, far lower […]Continue reading


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Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Late last month Wade Roush of Xconomy took a long look at how Google is changing the way people interact with their public transportation systems. The search engine empire now publishes the operating schedules of more than 475 transit agencies around the world through its Google Maps and Google Transit platforms. And though it only displays live updates for four U.S. cities (plus two more in Europe), Google is pushing for more real-time status updates, Roush reports:
Google's activism in public transit is having widespread ripple effects. Most importantly, the company's services are making it easier for public-transit users to plan their bus or train trips to minimize waits and missed connections. In theory, better experiences for riders translate into higher ridership, greater revenues for transit agencies, and less congestion on streets and highways.
Roush is right to use the word "theory" here. The current research literature doesn't address the question of whether real-time data increases ridership in any definitive way. Some recent studies do suggest that ridership has increased on routes with live status updates, but that work has failed to account for other factors that influence ridership, from gas prices to employment levels. A 2003 survey of systems with real-time information, conducted by the Transportation Research Board [PDF], concluded as much:
Most agencies reported that there may have been an increase in ridership, but that they were not certain that it was a direct result of the system. At a minimum, real-time bus arrival information systems assist in the maintenance of ridership.
Regular riders of public transportation certainly love real-time updates — wondering when the next bus or train will actually arrive is, after all, the biggest headache of traveling by transit — but it's easy to think of them as a pleasant tool for existing users, as TRB suggests. Something that keeps riders riding, in other words. If the updates turned out to be effective points of attraction to new riders, that seems just like icing on the cake.
Well you can break out the Betty Crocker, at least in Chicago. New research set for publication in the June issue of Transportation Research Part C concludes that the Chicago Transit Authority's Bus Tracker has attracted a significant (if modest) amount of new riders to the city's bus system. The results suggest that real-time transit tools might serve not only to satisfy existing transit riders but also to entice new ones:
This finding suggests that marketing strategies for real-time information should be targeted not only to transit users but also to transit non-users in order to bring about larger increase in transit ridership. Furthermore, since one major purpose of providing real-time transit information is to increase transit mode share and attract transit non-users, greater effort is needed to promote this system among those transit non-users.
The CTA, which governs transit in Chicago and 40 surrounding suburbs, introduced its Bus Tracker system in August 2006 then rolled it out on certain routes between April 2008 and May 2009. The Bus Tracker uses GPS to locate city buses and present their current location and expected arrival time on various platforms. At first it was accessible only through its website, but over time riders gained the ability to subscribe to email or text message updates for preferred bus stops, and now third-party vendors have created a variety of Bus Tracker apps for smartphones and other mobile devices.
The authors of the new study compared changes in ridership on a particular CTA bus route before and after Bus Tracker was implemented, and also compared ridership levels to other routes in the CTA system that had yet to receive the technology. More importantly, they controlled for other influential ridership factors like unemployment levels, gas prices, weather, transit service attributes, socioeconomic characteristics, and typical monthly fluctuations.
All other factors considered, the Bus Tracker still increased bus ridership significantly, the researchers concluded. Chicago bus routes available through the CTA Bus Tracker had an average of 126 more weekday riders a month than those without the information. Since average weekday ridership before the service ranged from 5,761 to 6,876, Bus Tracker was responsible for an increase of 1.8 to 2.2 percent, depending on the particular route, the researchers report:
That's certainly a "modest" increase, as the researchers call it, but they also noticed a trend that suggests this attraction rate will rise with time. While they failed to find any obvious connections between the success of Bus Tracker and the geographical location of bus routes throughout the city, they did notice a clear link with the date of implementation. The routes with greater percentage gains in ridership received Bus Tracker technology more recently than those included in early phases of the roll-out program.
What this suggests is that the reach of Bus Tracker grew as the tool gained attention through news, blogs, and social media in the early phases of the roll-out. It's also likely that its success rose as the technology became accessible to a wider range of people through additional platforms like text message and smartphone apps. If that's the case, one can expect the impact of real-time transit updates to increase as both familiarity with the program and mobile technology itself becomes more pervasive. Either way, Google's on it.
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Former HUD secretary and presidential candidate Julián Castro has ideas for state and federal leaders on protecting vulnerable renters from a housing disaster.
Some renters and homeowners are getting financial assistance during the economic disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. What about landlords?
We must prepare for a protracted battle with coronavirus. But there are changes we can make now to prepare locked-down cities for what's next.
The latest U.S. coronavirus aid package promises a partial and uneven economic recovery that leaves behind the African American community.
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.


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BT Enterprises necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 166 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
We are a start up online furniture company who specializes in manufacturer/importer direct modern and contemporary home furniture straight to your door.
We want a logo thats professional and makes a statement but isnt too serious. We prefer to avoid curly and whimsical font styles. The more creative the better but the logo should definitely convey that we sell furniture.
So about those extra prizes... while the cash prize is not as high as some contests, we wanted to peak interest in a way that benefits everyone. In addition to the prize reward we will be giving $50 gift certificates for the top 5 logo choices when the contest ends. We will be evaluating this offer and possibly raising the certificate amounts or quantities as the contest moves along. Oh and YES you can win more than one gift certificate, so multiple entries are welcome. In addition everyone who submits an entry will get a 10% coupon code.
We are hoping to do an official launch of the site by Dec 1st and are in the process of adding an additional 800 pieces of furniture, so we should be around 16+ hours a day to provide feedback.
Young adults to middle aged familes who are looking for affordable home furnishings and decor that make a statement.
Logo should match the style of the site
Winning designer should include most reproducible image formats including psd so that we can change the color as the site evolves.
Possible additional private work for banners, flyers and business cards.
We need all copyrights to the logo and the ability to reproduce it without royalties.
All designers are welcome to provide feedback on the site so that we can make changes if required to help the style of the logo. (i.e. the logo area size can be changed, the background color can possibly be changed, etc)
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Puzzle With Me truly understands what it means to give back with their products.
They are dedicated to helping caregivers and aids alike of those living with Alzheimer's or dementia find and use solutions that help improve quality of life worldwide. "Let's Solve It, Together!" One of those solutions is Puzzle with Me™, a US-based organization with an international reach and a dual purpose. First, Puzzle with Me™ was created by founder Jane Snyder to provide a solution for caregivers to connect and communicate – supporting therapeutic care-giving. Jane developed and tested the products with her mother, who had suffered Alzheimer's Disease. Second, Puzzle with Me™ supports the greater cause of worldwide Alzheimer's Associations. Ten-percent of their revenue goes directly back into Alzheimer's Disease International. Purchasing a Puzzle with Me™ product provides a benefit not only directly to the Alzheimer's patient and their caregiver, but also helps in furthering the leading global organization providing research and support to those affected by Alzheimer's and dementia.
Puzzle With Me is a therapeutic solution for caregivers, family and friends of those living with Alzheimer's disease and Dementia.The images were chosen specifically to spark a memory or previous interest and start a conversation. Suggest the activity, present the puzzle, and let the idea run. Puzzle with Me is developed to be worked together. As you work with your loved one to put the pieces of the puzzle together, offer assistance. Helping to place the pieces begins the crucial engagement.
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Anti-Colonial Political Thought
"Anti-Colonial Political Thought" will be a two-day conference focusing on arguments against 20th century European empires deployed across Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia. The conference will take place on 18-19 Sept. 2020 at King's College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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Looks like the fare hikes are going to happen. Dust off those bicycles.
Check out this article from Streetsblog.org's own Ben Fried…
If state legislators don't act to undo the outcome of today's MTA Board meeting, it would mark the second straight year that fares have gone up, which is already a departure from the norm. And it's going to get worse, say Gene Russianoff and the Straphangers Campaign:
–Without new financial help from Albany soon, the MTA says its current bad finances may mean another fare hike in 2010.
— That would make it three years in a row for fare increases — March 2008, June 2009 and early 2010 — the worst record in the MTA's 40-plus year history.
— It demonstrates a trend of shifting the costs of operating transit from some beneficiaries of the subways and buses — such as motorists and businesses — onto riders. For example, the riders' share of operating costs for the subways will go from 69% to an astonishing 84%, according to the MTA, if the just-approved fare increases are implemented.
–Under the plan proposed by former MTA chairman Richard Ravitch, no new fare hike would occur before 2011.
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text: Worldwide oil and gas drilling contractor GlobalSantaFe Corporation reported that the company's worldwide SCORE, or Summary of Current Offshore Rig Economics, for May 2006 was up 1.2 percent from the previous month's SCORE. GlobalSantaFe's SCORE compares the profitability of current mobile offshore drilling rig dayrates to the profitability of dayrates at the 1980- 1981 peak of the offshore drilling cycle. In the 1980-1981 period, when SCORE averaged 100 percent, new contract dayrates equaled the sum of daily cash operating costs plus approximately $700 per day per million dollars invested. In addition to a worldwide SCORE covering key types of competitive offshore drilling rigs in key drilling markets, a separate SCORE is calculated for certain types of rigs and certain regions to indicate the relative condition of rig markets. The release, which is made available for publication on the third Monday of each month, includes separate SCORE calculations for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, West Africa and Southeast Asia.


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Class Action Lawsuit UpdateFriday, August 6th, 2010
MyTwoCensus.com has been tracking the following lawsuit for quite some time. At first, we supported this suit, because it shows that the Census Bureau discriminated against people in the hiring process. However, when caucasian Census Bureau applicants who were rejected because of supposed criminal records tried to join the lawsuit, they were told that because they were not minorities, they were ineligible to join. If the Census Bureau's hiring procedures discriminated against people with criminal records/arrests, then it did so against ALL people, not only minorities. Here's today's update from the AP:
NEW YORK — A lawsuit in New York City claims the U.S. Census Bureau discriminated in its hiring of more than a million temporary workers to conduct the 2010 census.
The lawsuit was filed by civil rights groups in federal court in Manhattan several months ago and was updated Thursday.
It says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warned the Census Bureau last year its hiring practices might be discriminatory. The lawsuit says the EEOC told the bureau its criminal background check policy might "run afoul" of the Civil Rights Act.
The lawsuit accuses the bureau of illegally screening out applicants with often decades-old arrest records for minor offenses or those who were arrested but never convicted.


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THE BIG FIGHT IRONFIRE vs ROCKY
This is the Big Fight Between Ironfire & Rocky. Watch Ironfire as she prepares for the fight at the boxing gym and as she talks about how she is going to pulverize Rocky. she flexes her big pecs and biceps while talking trash and looking so hot doing so...
Ironfire is working out when an annoying blond with huge tits start glaring at her muscle. They go back and forth about who has the hotter body and then start trash talking each other. Then all of a sudden, Ironfire decides to handle things her way and make this little bitch learn to respect her hard work. Watch to see how it all goes down...
Gorgeous display of feminine muscle. Erotic dancing, posing and flexing of it all. Ass Twirkin and shakin in your Face. Glutes, Pecs, Biceps and Huge muscluar back poses...all for you!
Gorgeous muscle beauty flexes it all. This hot clip shows Ironfire dancing and shaking her ass while flexing her huge bicep peaks. Watch her on the bed caressing her round hard muscles.Tons of pec bouncing too. Unbelievable muscle and femininety in one hot package! (Topless)
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