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By Eileen O'Grady
HOUSTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Entergy Corp will soon resubmit a plan to transfer its electric transmission assets to ITC Holdings to Texas regulators for a second look, company officials said Friday.
Last month, the $1.78 billion proposal faced certain rejection by the Texas Public Utility Commission and was withdrawn by Entergy Texas and ITC officials.
Since then, other state regulators that also must approve the plan moved to delay consideration, fueling speculation that the deal might not be completed.
"We will soon re-file our application in Texas for the ITC transaction, and we'll request expedited treatment," Entergy spokesman Mike Burns said in a statement.
The transaction is a spin-off and merger of Entergy's 15,400-mile transmission network serving parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. It has been approved by federal regulators and ITC shareholders.
But state regulators, who would give up authority to set ITC transmission rates after the transfer, questioned whether ITC ownership would provide sufficient benefits to consumers to outweigh the cost.
Entergy and ITC have responded by offering a total of $453 million to lower consumer rates over five years to Entergy customers to offset ITC's higher rate of return.
"After re-filing in Texas, we'll get procedures restarted in Arkansas, Louisiana and New Orleans. In Mississippi, we'll respond to proposed conditions later this month," Burns said.
In a note to clients on Thursday, Morgan Stanley analysts cited "mounting regulatory headwinds" and said several conditions set out by Ken Anderson, one of three commissioners of Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC), made the completion of the deal "unlikely."
"We believe the transaction will not close due to several key conditions of Commissioner Anderson's that are in our view likely to be non-starters for (Entergy) and ITC," the note said.
Those conditions included a requirement that ITC seek PUC approval before upgrading or replacing Entergy Texas facilities for which it wanted to recover its costs. Other conditions were that ITC not seek higher rates for existing Texas transmission assets for five years and not seek higher "incentive" rates for new facilities in Texas without PUC approval for 10 years.
David Cruthirds, a Houston-based attorney who tracks utility regulation, said Anderson's conditions may require Entergy and ITC to rethink the transaction.
"My guess has been that they are working to address those issues, but to do that I think they (Entergy and ITC) are going to have to redo the whole transaction and the timing," said Cruthirds. "That's a significant amount of work. And there's no guarantee they will be successful."
As a prerequisite to the ITC deal, Entergy has joined the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, an independent regional transmission organization, or RTO, where ITC operates.
"We remain convinced that independent transmission-and ITC ownership-produces the greatest benefit for our customers, our employees and our communities," Entergy's Burns said.
The Department of Justice which launched a broad civil investigation of Entergy's competitive practices in 2010 is also watching the Entergy-ITC transaction.
RTO membership and divestiture of Entergy's grid network are necessary to resolve the investigation, according to the agency.

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Layne Zimmers, a teacher at Lincoln Magnet School, has been named the Horace Mann Educator of the Year. Also, Kari Borders, site administrator at Douglas/PREP, was named Horace Mann Administrator of the Year. Both recipients were recognized at a May 10 luncheon sponsored by Springfield Public Schools and Horace Mann Educators Corporation (NYSE: HMN).
Zimmers teaches 6th grade world history at Lincoln Magnet School and has been there since 2010. Prior to that she taught at Grant Middle School. She is applauded for her creative hands-on, experiential approach to teaching and bringing history to life for her students.
Springfield Public Schools Superintendent Jennifer Gill and Horace Mann President and CEO Marita Zuraitis presented Zimmers with a crystal owl and $1,000 cash prize.
Kari Borders has served as site administrator at Douglas/Preparatory Alternative School for the past five years. She has worked for District 186 since 1994, starting out at Jefferson Middle School first as a special education teacher and eventually becoming an assistant principal. She is being recognized for creating a supportive and nurturing environment for students and being an exemplary and committed leader to her staff.
Borders was presented with $500 and a plaque.
"It is a pleasure for me to see our teachers and administrators honored for their passion for teaching and dedication to students," said Gill. "We're lucky to call Horace Mann a committed partner and privileged to be a part of a tradition that spotlights our amazing educators of District 186."
Educator of the Year finalists were Jenni Baldin (Feitshans Elementary), Nicolette Harris (Fairview Elementary), Martha Havey (Marsh Elementary) and Lou Anne Lowder (Lee School). Each finalist received a crystal apple award and $250.
Administrator of the Year finalists were Kenyatta Revelle, principal of Iles School, and Karen Stroemer, assistant principal of Franklin Middle School. They each received $250.
The Rising Star award was given to three promising teachers who have been with the District four years are less. The 2016 Rising Stars recipients are: Samantha Cuzzort (Grant Middle School), Dan Hartman (Dubois Elementary) and Erica Quandahl (Fairview Elementary). They each received $250 and a plaque.
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Bears embarrass host Titans 51-20
Cutler, Marshall connect for 3 TDs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bears 51, Titans 20: Brian Urlacher led a dominating defensive effort with an interception return for a touchdown and a fumble recovery as visiting Chicago jumped out early and cruised against Tennessee.
Jay Cutler completed 19 of 26 passes for 229 yards and three touchdowns and Brandon Marshall made nine receptions for 122 yards and three scores for the Bears (7-1), who forced four turnovers in the first quarter and five in the contest en route to their sixth straight victory.
Chicago put the game away in the first period thanks to the defense and special teams. Corey Wootton began the onslaught with a 5-yard touchdown return of a blocked punt and the defense forced three turnovers that became points, including Urlacher's 46-yard interception return.
Devin Hester's 44-yard punt return set up an 8-yard touchdown run for Matt Forte, and Chicago turned Charles Tillman's second forced fumble of the first quarter into a touchdown when Cutler hit Marshall with a 13-yard pass three plays later.
Chris Johnson rushed for 141 yards, including an 80-yard touchdown burst in the fourth quarter, but fumbled twice for the Titans (3-6), who have dropped back-to-back games.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Forte carried it 12 times for 103 yards and made two catches for 45 yards. … Chicago's 28 first-quarter points set a franchise record. … Tennessee scored on a safety in the first quarter, when Bears LT J'Marcus Webb was called for an illegal use of hands penalty in the end zone.


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I have a MySQL 5.5.23 DB that performs about 3k qps, 5% of which are writes. Lately, I've been having a big problem with random write freezes. Everything is going great, and then all of a sudden any write that comes in stops in the "update" or "Updating" state. They stay in this state for about a minute or two and then finally finish. The problem is that with such high amount of connections, when they freeze randomly like this, the connection stays open and then I inevitably get too many connection errors.
It's happening on all tables during both INSERT and UPDATE queries.
Has anyone seen this before? Is there anything that can be done about it?
I'm using Amazon RDS with the biggest instance they offer. I'd be more than happy to provide any information you guys need, just let me know what that is.
UPDATE: The main table I'm inserting into is:
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So i've been asking myself, what's the best way to support not so big known artists? I mean, I bought the album of course and didn't download it. But now i'm streaming on spotify as well instead of listening the bought album on itunes. Is this more helpful? Sometimes I just aks myself how much an artist makes from spotify, cause i always think it's not that much...
I prefer the album or EP on CD, but sometimes the EPs are not available on CD but only as Download on iTunes, amazon etc..
Last times I use spotify as well, because some playlists are very interesting for me, like the ones of Moby or Dillon, where they share their favorite artists on their playlist.
Maybe this link tells you something about streaming: it is about Geoff Barrow criticising streaming services. but it seems not clear, if Geoff Barrow is right...
Yeah I think he could be right. I've heard some artists that don't want their music on streaming sites like spotify, because they think they don't get paid enough for it. Which I can understand. But then again, I still think: money is money :p But when you're a star like beyonce or justin bieber, i can understand if you decide to not upload it on spotify because of a kind of demonstration. They have enough money already
I think, these streaming services are okay, if I only want discover new Artists or if I want to know about playlists from Artists, in which they show their favorite music. But when I like a shown artist there very much, I will buy their CD or Download. But you are right, that some artists don´t like to share their music on these streaming services because of a kind of demonstration.
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Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and his wife Amy Robertson are separating, according to a statement from the mayor's office on Saturday.
"As people close to our family are aware, we recently agreed to separate," the Robertsons said in a joint statement.
"This is a personal and private matter for our family, and contrary to false rumours being spread online, it is a mutual decision that we made amicably and together. We appreciate understanding and privacy, especially for our kids."
The mayor's office said Robertson would not discuss the "false rumours," nor was he available for an interview. His office confirmed that has moved out of his Kitsilano house and into an apartment building downtown.
Meantime, the mayor's party Vision Vancouver also issued a statement Saturday, calling on the leader of the NPA to explain why he spread "false rumours and personal attacks" on the mayor and his family.
NPA vice-president Rob Macdonald sent an email to the mayor last month, saying he couldn't go to a forum on Kinder Morgan because he was "meeting" to discuss rumours about the mayor "philandering" and being thrown out of the house by his wife. The June 16 email from Macdonald was included in Vision's statement to the media on Saturday.
Marcella Munro, campaign communications director for Vision called on Macdonald to explain the email and the "personal attacks" on the mayor and his family.
Munro said that even if Macdonald's email was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek response to the mayor's invite, she didn't find it funny and said it was highly inappropriate.
She said the rumours have been spreading on social media, although she could not say when they started, nor would she discuss the nature of those accusations.
"It's clear that Rob Macdonald, and the single biggest donor to the NPA, show that the NPA doesn't have a problem with pushing these rumours and this is a negative personal attack. He needs to explain the content of this email," she said.
"I don't think you can just write off an email from the vice-president of a political party as a flippant joke."
She also called on journalist Kirk LaPointe, former managing editor of The Vancouver Sun and potential mayoral candidate for the NPA, to address the issue.
LaPointe gave a brief response Sunday, noting he is not a declared municipal candidate.
"One reason I am attracted to run for office is the ability to bring forward and discuss the positive ideas our city needs. Nothing positive comes from the discussion of personal issues. Respect for public life includes a respect for private lives," he said.
"As a journalist, I have had many opportunities to report on the private lives of public figures. I long ago concluded that, unless there is an impact on duties, those matters are irrelevant."
Macdonald on Saturday denied that the NPA was spreading rumours about the mayor.
"The NPA is not engaged in any personal attacks against Gregor Robertson nor am I," he said, in an email. "Certainly there are rumours floating around about Gregor's conduct in office, but we have no comment on these rumours."
He did not disclose the reason for writing the email, but added that he was grateful for help he received from Amy Robertson with his son and wished her well during "this difficult time."
The Robertsons have been married since the late 1980s. Before they wed, when Gregor Robertson was in his mid-20s, they sailed to New Zealand together for 18 months. After that, they returned to Vancouver and started an organic farm near Fort Langley. Growing fruits and vegetables, the couple started Happy Planet, an organic juice company.
They recently sold their $1.95 million home. The six-bedroom home near Douglas Park sold last summer for the asking price. At the time, the mayor said they were looking to downsize now that their children had graduated from high school.


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Kinda strange that the authorities here have outsourced to FIFA and its commercial agent S'pore's competition law when it comes to the media . How come the StarHub and SingTel joint bid was allowed by the competition authority? Or is it the anti-competition authority?
Although SingTel and StarHub were planning for a joint bid, Fifa eventually awarded them individual non-exclusive broadcast rights instead, the telcos revealed.
Joint bids are frowned upon as it could set a precedence for other broadcasters to follow suit and thin the coffers from media licensing.
(Part of BT report)
Was told by two eminent persons, one lawyer and another an economist, that many sectors or industries are exempted from the competition laws. They have unprintable views on these exemptions.
Media is exempted from the act, and comes under the purview of Media Development Authority. A third person, not so eminent, in fact downright obscure and usually unreliable, tells me that MDA does not do anti-competition. Witness its refusal to step in when StarHub had EPL exclusively. Only the row over the price SingTel paid, got it thinking how to have proper competition policies.


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A 23-year-old City Councilman from Riverbank, California was charged with a litany of offenses after crashing his Corvette into a parked car, while drunk, with his four-year-old kid strapped into the car. Councilman Jesse James White then proceeded to leave his bleeding son in the car as he ran away, only to be "tackled and held by bystanders" until the police arrived.
After spending nearly $69,000 to remove White from office, the City Council of Riverbank gave up because it was too expensive oust him.
It's a victory for small government.
White's accident happened back in February, but the story has continued as the young Councilman — who was elected when he was 19 — has fought to keep his seat and clear his name. Or, well, clear his name from the current set of charges.
In 2009, a grand jury concluded he wasn't a registered voter in Riverbank when he ran for office initially. He was also arrested in 2010 on drug charges. But leaving your bleeding kid in a car you crashed while three-times above the legal limit is a bridge too far even for Riverbank's non-discerning voters.
"What are you gonna do, you know, if people keep electing these idiots?" asked resident Elsa Bayly in in interview with the Sacramento CBS affiliate.
White pleaded not guilty to the charges and said he was going into rehab. His attorney then blamed the media for their coverage when they asked if he actually was going to rehab, saying "That's not your business."
The City Council is hoping voters will take care of White when his term is up in November, but White is apparently still running claiming people shouldn't "believe the hype."
My campaign will continue; I will not be deterred from initiating a petition to cut the huge executive pay raises in Riverbank rather than a sewer rate increase. This is at the core of recent events, liberal progressives who want to raise taxes.
None of the recent events alters that I am the only candidate who has been, and continues to work for you before asking for your vote. I have kept my promises as a Riverbank city councilman. I shall continue my crusade."
You hear that liberal progressives? He will continue, even if he has to abandoned 100 bleeding, crying offspring in 100 wrecked Corvettes.
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Kapiolani Community College STEM summer bridge program to host underwater robotics exhibitionKapiʻolani Community College
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Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park will be the scene of a spectacular underwater robotics exhibition by the high school student participants of Kapiʻolani Community College's four-week Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Summer Bridge program. The exhibition, set for Friday, July 7, from 9 to 11 a.m., will be a showcase of the Sea Perch, an underwater robot built during the program by high school juniors and recent senior graduates.
"The Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park has been gracious in allowing us to test our Sea Perch Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in a large pool setting," said Project Coordinator John Rand. "This allows the students to come together in a group setting and compete in underwater missions."
The STEM Summer Bridge program ran for a month and featured 23 participants from 16 high schools across Oʻahu. It is designed to increase the math skills of incoming college students and give them an introduction to college. The backbone of the program is the ALEKS math training, an online instruction program designed to improve their math skills and prepare them for STEM college courses.
In building the underwater robot, the students learned how to build a propulsion system, how to develop a controller, and how to investigate weight and buoyancy.
"The Summer Bridge program allows the students the opportunity to revisit their math skills while having fun and doing exciting projects, such as building the Sea Perch and building a computer from scratch" said Rand.
With support and funding from the Pacific Alliance, a partnership between the University of Hawaiʻi and the University of Alaska, students were able to build top of the line computers from scratch. While building the computers, students received lessons in how the different components of a computer work. The students also learned how to use the AutoCAD engineering software, and met with community members to learn about the many different occupations available in the STEM field.
After building the computers, students moved on to the grand finale of the program—building the Sea Perch ROV. The Sea Perch project is done in conjunction with the UH Mānoa Sea Grant college program. For more information about the Sea Perch project or the Sea Grant program, contact Darren Okimoto at 956-3012 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit the website at http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/seagrant.
The STEM Summer Bridge program is funded by a NSF/TCUP grant awarded to Kapiʻolani Community College in August 2005. The program is an important part of the grant and seeks to improve students' math skills, provide group working skills, introduce students to college and show them the fun they can have with science.
For more information, visit the KCC STEM website at www.hawaii.edu/kccstem or contact STEM Outreach Coordinator Keolani Noa at 734-9236 or email@example.com.
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So the other day Luke and I were discussing random stuff, as we do, and somehow ended up talking about childbirth. So I begged and whined until he agreed to write a guest post on childbirth: the male perspective. While I am female, and should probably have very different perspectives, I must admit to agreeing to a lot of his points.
Anyway here it is:
The Crappiest Miracle Ever
I am forever grateful for the fact that I have testes. Apart from the obvious bonuses of being able to stand and pee, and never having to consider the pluses of buying sanitary pads with or without wings, there is the glaringly obvious forte of never having to give birth to a child.
I have given the idea a great deal of thought over the years and have come to the conclusion that I doubt that I will ever have children of my own. I love kids, they're great! However, I can't get over that little voice of social conscience in my head that reminds me just how many children there are in this world already and how many, particularly in South Africa given our current AIDS pandemic and the related orphan crisis, desperately need homes and families. So, in light of my internal Jiminy Cricket, I think it is safe to say that, should I someday decide to have kids, I will adopt.
But adoption is not the point of this post. This post is about carrying a baby for 9 months. It's the male's perspective on how grateful we are that we won't ever have to do it. It's about how much I admire women for baring the brunt of the continuation of our species.
While I am most definitely not against the procedures leading up to pregnancy, I'd be lying if I didn't admit that the whole idea scares me! The thought of having a small creature growing inside of you is a little too close to something out of 'Alien'. Interestingly enough, the developing embryo does behave like a parasite in many ways; sapping the mothers bodily resources for example. So while the 'little miracle' drains the mother's life blood (almost literally…) she has the joy of lower back pain, a bladder that functionally mirrors that of a small rodent and the hormonal imbalances and associated mood swings of a psychotic.
Naturally, never having experienced this all, I'm giving a very one-sided view. But, on the plus side, women's boobs get huge, which, I think we can all agree, is appreciated by all parties…
Then comes the exciting and delightful right of passage: the birth itself.
I never cease to be perplexed by the range of types of birth that one can select from. I remember seeing a documentary about several births that occurred simultaneously in several countries around the world. It was fascinating to watch but, aside from the stark social contrasts between the individuals shown in the different countries the range of ways it could be pulled off was fascinating! From the classic scenario of the gynaecologist taking a look and shrieking something like, 'Oh sh*t! We're gonna need help…like, NOW!' to the water birth, the possibilities seem endless. The latter is a great cause for concern in my mind. The idea of spending a few hours in a large vat of warmed water, swirling with your own blood and faeces, doesn't exactly leave me feeling like I need to bring a life into this world…
There are several aspects to the birthing process which I cannot fathom. Firstly, the need to dilate a hole, normally the size of a golf-ball to approximate a watermelon. That in itself must be agony, but, as if God hadn't put females through enough, this often doesn't happen and there are one of two possibilities; tearing of the tissues to make the hole big enough (voluntarily or otherwise) or a caesarean section.
You are not likely to find many individuals as squeamish as myself, and so naturally, the idea of tearing tissues freaks me out completely! Not only that but tearing tissues in your nether regions of all places! I take my hat off to any mother who has endured a natural birth!
I have heard from many people that the C-section is by far the best and easiest means of extracting the child from your innards. I was recently told by a friend that the stress of the birth process, an aspect that is lacking from the procedure of the C-section, is vital for the normal psychological development of the child as it grows later in life. This aside, I've always wondered about how good it is for a child to spend the first moments in it's new world with all manner of pain medication coursing through the veins that it shares with it's mother.
Bearing all this in mind, there are still people on this planet. That means that either we are so genetically hard-wired to procreate that we cannot stop ourselves, or that perhaps there is something to the bond formed between mother and child in jointly enduring the horrors of birth. I know, from discussions with my own family, that apparently, once you see your child, belting forth and covered in afterbirth, you cannot help but instantly fall in love with it. I'd also be lying if I didn't admit that there is always a part of me that goes all 'Awww…' whenever I see a baby too so I can't point any fingers.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The crappiest miracle ever: a guest post
So the other day Luke and I were discussing random stuff, as we do, and somehow ended up talking about childbirth. So I begged and whined until he agreed to write a guest post on childbirth: the male perspective. While I am female, and should probably have very different perspectives, I must admit to agreeing to a lot of his points.
Posted by Helen at 2:12 pm
Labels: friends, guest post, nothing in particular
2 comments:
- SuvvyGirl said...
Well having gone through this myself I will say I would do it all over again. Being in labor and actually giving birth scared the crap out of me during our birthing classes. But once it came time to actually do it, it really wasn't that bad. But I also had the aid of an epidural. I lived with the contractions and all that good stuff until I was dialated to 4 then they made me get an epidural to help relax me and move the process along a little longer. But I will say it would still scare the crap out of me to give complete natural birth. Little woozy just thinkin about it. :P
- 10:32 pm
- Luke said...
I commend you on your being sensible and accepting the drugs! Smart girl! ;)
Plus, your daughter is SUPER-cute, so it makes all that effort worthwhile...
- 2:48 pm


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Roundabouts are endorsed by the Nevada Strategic Highway Safety Plan because of their ability to safely and efficiently move traffic. Here are some benefits of roundabouts.
Safer than Signalized Intersections
Intersection safety is a serious traffic problem in the United States. The Federal Highway Administration reports that, in just one recent year, approximately one death occurred every hour nationwide relating to intersections. Over nine thousand people lost their lives in traffic intersections in that recent year, equaling nearly one quarter of all traffic fatalities and amounting to a financial loss of over $96 billion.
With different crossing and entering movements by drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians, an intersection is one of the most complex traffic situations that drivers can encounter. In a traditional four-way traffic intersection, there are 32 points of conflict in which two vehicles may collide. Modern roundabouts have only eight conflict areas, greatly reducing the potential for crashes. On the other hand, the circulating movement of modern roundabouts nearly eliminates the potential for high-speed, right angle and left turn/head-on collisions. Rear-end collisions are also often reduced in roundabouts.
Reduces Frequency and Severity of Crashes
As speeds in modern roundabouts are often much slower than in intersections, any potential roundabout crashes are usually at lower speeds, and at less-dangerous angles (such as sideswipe). This translates into less severe injuries and property damage, if any. A study printed in the Transportation Research Record reported that converting 23 test intersections throughout the U.S. from traffic signals to roundabouts reduced injury crashes by 80 percent, and reduced all crashes by 40 percent, in those areas. Results were much the same for similar studies throughout the U.S. and Europe.<
Reduces Traffic Delays/Increases Traffic Capacity
Traditional traffic signals usually stop two or more directions of traffic at one time. In roundabouts, all directions of traffic are often kept open and safely flowing. Several Insurance Institute for Highway Safety studies report significantly-improved traffic flow when traditional intersections are converted to roundabouts. A study of three such intersections in Nevada, Kansas and Maryland found that traffic delays were reduced 13-23 percent using roundabouts. Similar studies have shown a reduction of up to 89 percent in vehicle delays in roundabouts.
Can Slow Excessive Traffic Speeds While Still Improving Traffic Flow
Roundabouts can effectively and safely slow traffic and improve traffic flow.
Reduced Long-term Operational Costs
With limited or no electrical costs and lower maintenance costs, operational savings from roundabouts have been estimated at an average of $5,000 per year. In addition, the service life of a roundabout is approximately 25 years, versus approximately 10-20 years of service life for traffic signals.
More Environmentally-Friendly than Traditional Intersections due to Less Vehicle Emissions, Fuel Use and Noise
Many vehicles must wait for the light to turn green in a signalized intersection. While stopped, the vehicle's exhaust emits more undesirable pollutants and gases into the atmosphere. Because roundabouts often eliminate such stops and improve traffic flow, they also reduce vehicle emissions and fuel consumption. In one study, replacing traffic signals and signs with roundabouts reduced carbon monoxide emissions by 32 percent, nitrous oxide emissions by 34 percent, carbon dioxide emissions by 37 percent and hydrocarbon emissions by 42 percent. Gasoline use is also reduced as traffic moves more efficiently through roundabouts, without the start and stop found at traditional intersections. Studies have shown that fuel savings can be up to 30 percent in roundabouts. At 10 intersections studied in Virginia, this savings amounted to more than 200,000 gallons of fuel per year. Without the stop and start of traditional traffic intersections, roundabouts can also reduce vehicle noise pollution.
More Aesthetically-Pleasing than Traditional Traffic Intersections
Paris' famous Arc De Triomphe monument stands in the middle of what is perhaps the world's most famous traffic circle. While modern roundabouts are smaller and often easier to navigate than this Paris example, the center circle of many U.S. roundabouts still provide opportunities for unique community gateways and landscaping/aesthetics. As opposed to traffic lights, roundabouts provide an opportunity for landscape and aesthetic improvements that can enhance and define corridors, cities, and tourism.


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Girl Rising is a film and a global movement to educate girls as a means of breaking cycles of global poverty. The movie was released in March 2013, and Wartburg Seminary recently held a screening, sponsored by the Global Advocacy Committee. Girl Rising, directed by Richard E. Robins, and Academy Award nominated, is a global action campaign for girls' education as well as a moving and inspiring film to raise awareness about the importance of girls' education to global prosperity and peace. After the film, the audience engaged in meaningful discussion, lessons, and were encouraged to think about important political, cultural, historical, economic, and geographic issues tied to educating girls — and about their responsibilities to their own communities and their role as global citizens.
The documentary, created in partnership of girls and writers follows the stories of nine girls from Peru, Haiti, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, and Cambodia. It highlights the lives of nine young girls striving beyond circumstance and overcoming nearly insurmountable odds to achieve their dreams: Sukha the Phoenix, Ruksana the Dreamer, Suma the Emancipated, Yasmin the Superhero, Senna the Warrior, Azmera the Courageous, Amina the Hopeful, Wadley the Undaunted, and Mariama the Catalyst. The film shows challenges they have faced in their daily lives that bar the way to education, safety, and integrity. Some stories end in hope, but not all.
Educating girls is crucial because this results in safety, health, and independence. The entire world is positively affected: their own children are more likely to be educated and communities thrive. Education helps provide a way to stay out of forced marriage, domestic slavery, human trafficking, and childbirth, which is the number one cause of death for girls ages 15-19.
Access to education is a basic right, however, around the world, 66 million girls are out of school. What are they doing instead? Many do not have a choice. They are working and earning money for their families. Often sons get priority to attend school rather than daughters. The girls may be married very young, already have children to care for, or they have been sold into domestic slavery. Thirteen girls under the age of 18 have been married in the last 30 seconds. In the time it took to read this paragraph, another thirteen girls around the world were married rather than being in school.
Educating girls raises national GDP which will continue to increase because educated people are more likely to send their own children to school, creating a cycle of prosperity and innovation. But the benefits of educating girls are not just in the future: some benefits happen right away. When girls and boys are educated together, studies show that conflict in those countries is reduced.
The film features voice over from Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchet, Selena Gomez, Liam Neeson, Priyanka Chopra, Chloe Moretz, Freida Pinto, Salma Hayek, Meryl Streep, Alicia Keyes and Kerry Washington. The film could be used for Sunday school, confirmation class, and other groups to introduce students to the issues surrounding girls' education in the developing world, and it's transformational power.
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To cause an intense feeling of excitement, exhilaration, nervousness, or fear in someone. The way that sonata swells always sends shivers up my spine. It sent shivers up my spine when Dorothy gave me such an amorous look. Can we get out of here? This creepy old house is sending shivers up my spine!


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Police Raid Apartment, Seize Electronics Related To A Long-Suspended Twitter Account Parodying Town's Mayor
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It doesn't matter how you look at this situation. This is an abuse of power. No matter how much benefit of a doubt you give the protagonists -- even if you cut the Peoria, IL police so much slack you're both falling over backwards (to borrow a Sparks lyric) -- this situation looks like the end result of an overly-close relationship between city politicians and local law enforcement. How else would you explain the following?
Illinois police seized computers and mobile phones while raiding a house whose owner was suspected of parodying the town mayor on Twitter.The Twitter account, which had all of 50 followers, and had been already shut down by Twitter "weeks ago," became the flash point for a police raid that involved seven plainclothes officers and the detainment of five people - two of whom were cuffed at their place of employment.
In all, five people following the Tuesday evening raid were taken to the Peoria Police Department station for questioning, local media report.
If the mayor felt there was something wrong with this "impersonation," he had plenty of other options available that wouldn't have resulted in this egregious show of force. For one, he could have contacted Twitter and asked for the account to be suspended. (And, for all we know, he did. [UPDATE: see below.] The account hadn't been active for "weeks" by the time the raid took place.) Second, he could have pursued this through civil action (if he felt the account was defamatory, etc.). There was no reason to involve the police in this -- unless, of course, this was the sort of thing the Peoria Police enjoy doing.
Justin Glawe at Vice has a followup on this story which highlights the Peoria Police Department's shady misconduct record.
Peoria is a town of 116,000 people. It has some problems with crime and also some problems with the police, which you can get a sense of if you follow my work or the work of Matt Buedel, the Journal Star crime reporter who broke a several stories last year detailing misconduct within the police department, including an attempt to catch a city councilman in a prostitution sting. The Illinois Attorney General's Office ruled that an internal report regarding some of those acts of alleged misconduct should be released, but the city and the police department refused. (That report was apparently "lost" by Settingsgaard, and somehow ended up in the hands of a panhandler who, coincidentally, I used to work at a gas station with and know to be a pretty serious drug addict.)The prostitution sting involved 12 task force officers staking out a Red Roof Inn overnight in hopes of catching Dan Irving, a city council candidate, with a prostitute. This sting ran the day after a close primary election. (Irving went on to lose the general election.) The overnight stakeout was ultimately fruitless as Irving never arrived at the motel with or without a prostitute.
Evidence exists that the Peoria Police Department is willing to be politically motivated. These officers trashed rooms and grabbed every device with an internet connection (including some Xboxes), proclaiming they were linked to an "internet crime." Although no one's been charged yet (other than an unrelated marijuana possession charge -- hooray for the fortuitous results of a bogus police search), the chief of the Peoria Police has dug deep enough into Illinois law to find something to use against the person running the long-suspended, inside joke of an account.
Peoria Police Chief Steve Settingsgaard said the department was investigating misdemeanor charges of impersonating a public official, which carries a maximum one-year jail term and $2,500 fine. The chief, according to the Southern Illinoisan, said it "appears that someone went to great lengths to make it appear it was actually from the mayor."Really? "Great lengths?" How many Twitter users would have believed the following was issued by the Mayor or his office?
Beyond that, the account bio was changed on March 10th to indicate the account was a parody. A couple of weeks later, it was suspended. Three weeks after that, Peoria police corral five people and their electronics in order to stop something that was already dead and never popular.
Now, news of this has spread nationwide, and as Justin Glawes points out, it has led to the generation of several more fake Peoria Mayor accounts. The colossally stupid effort has done little more than given the nation a reason to dig into the misdeeds of the Peoria Police and an indication of just how thin Mayor Ardis' skin is.
UPDATE: Confirmed: Mayor Ardis was behind the raid. The search warrant obtained by Peoria's Journal Star notes that Ardis approached the police department and told officials there he wanted to find out who was behind the Twitter account. He also told the PD he wished to pursue criminal charges. Warrants were also served to Comcast and Twitter in order to obtain additional information. [h/t to Jim Romenesko]
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Forget last week's storms. Scientists at Caltech have come up with the monster of all Pacific storms.
As rain, lightning, hail and even tornadoes arrived in the Southland last week, scientists got together at Caltech to dream up a frightening scenario called the "Frankenstorm."
The hypothetical but plausible storm would be similar to the 1861-1862 extreme floods that temporarily moved the state capital from Sacramento to San Francisco and forced the then-governor to attend his inauguration by rowboat. The scenario "is much larger than anything in living memory," said project manager Dale Cox with the U.S. Geological Survey.
The point of the storm summit -- in a twist of irony, some meetings were actually canceled because of last week's storms -- was to determine the impact of the megastorm. Scientists tried to determine the fictional storm's impact to dams, sewage treatment plants, transportation and the electrical grid.
The "Frankenstorm" would result when a system develops in the Pacific and crashes into the West Coast with hurricane-force winds. After a week of that in Southern California, the system stalls, then another storm builds offshore and wallops Northern California.
We would end up with about 8 feet of rain over three weeks in some areas, according to researchers.
The next step is to estimate economic damages as well as the risk of landslides and coastal erosion and impact to infrastructure and the environment.
The Great Flood of 1861-1862 was believed to be the most powerful and longest series of storms in state history, lasting a month and causing severe flooding. The Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys were water-logged and spontaneous lakes popped up in the Mojave Desert and Los Angeles basin. Nearly a third of the young state's taxable land was destroyed.
Because there are few meteorological records available on the 1861-1862 events, scientists stitched together data from two recent storms to create "Frankenstorm."
Scientists Concoct "Frankenstorm" Scenario
Forget last week's storms. Scientists at Caltech have come up with the monster of all Pacific storms.


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Hey, this is cool! Hasbro Toys will be introducing a new Transformer robot Windblade, who is female. Windblade is the result of a poll where fans got to pick the majority of her characteristics (except the kabuki-esque appearance, that was done by the design team according to the Transformers Wiki).
She will transform into a VTOL jet. (Thanks General_Tekno for finding the image!)
For those who don't know, this is cool since there have been very few female robots, the most popular being Arcee. Even cooler is that it was a fan choice, which is great because I have several female friends who are part of the Transformers fan community and I'm sure they'd like to see more kickass lady robots.
Windblade will get a toy as well as her own comics miniseries as part of her launch. Her comic will be written by Mairghread Scott, who has written several Transformers comics, and drawn by Sarah Stone, who is a new comer to the franchise. This is also the first time that a Transfomers book will have an all-female creative team!
Of course, there are those that are grumbling because "Transformers have always been supposed to be genderless", despite the fact that they are always played by male voice actors and assigned male pronouns, but, as David Willis of Shortpacked! pointed out, those people are idiots.


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Fidelity Select Consumer Finance rides to the top of the charts in a recovering sector.
When the stock market crumbled in 2008, financials led the way down. The sector plunged 55% that year, compared with a 37% loss for Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Fidelity Select Home Finance was loaded with companies at the epicenter of the financial crisis, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and plummeted 59%. But the fund, now called Fidelity Select Consumer Finance> (symbol FSVLX), switched gears after the Great Recession ended in 2009; it revamped its holdings and climbed to the top of the one-year performance leaders among financial sector funds (along with two other Fidelity funds).
Manager Shilpa Mehra, who took the helm in 2012, says that an emphasis on credit card companies, which facilitate the "electronification" of global payments, boosted performance. Indeed, Visa and MasterCard were the fund's biggest holdings at last report. Also aiding results were stocks of companies that benefit from low interest rates, such as Ocwen Financial and Altisource Portfolio Solutions, which provide services to the real estate industry. The fund has one-third of its assets in commercial bank stocks.
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Rise of the Guardians is releasing to DVD/BluRay on Tuesday, 3/12/13.
Some stores will have the special Easter packs which sells not only the DVD/BluRay but also comes with a set of hopping Easter eggs. Here are some of the links:
~Rise Of The Guardians (DVD + Hopping Eggs) (Widescreen) for $17.98. Free Shipping.
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This might be something to consider for including in an Easter basket. I like to put some things like a movie, book, gift card, etc in ours and fill it with a little less candy.
We started doing a "First Day of Spring" gift for the kids instead of giving them a large gift for Easter to keep the holiday gifts toned-down and put more emphasis on the reason for the holiday instead of it being about gifts. They just get a small basket and hidden Easter eggs now.
If you are looking for book ideas. Here are a few of the latest releases:
Emeraldalicious for $10.74. This one just came out in January.
Pinkalicious: Flower Girl for $2.34. This one just released on 3/5/13.
Pinkalicious: Fairy House (I Can Read Book 1) for $3.99. This one released in January.
Doc McStuffins: Bubble Trouble: Includes Stickers! for $4.49. There were a few Doc McStuffins books that released in January.
Puppy Mudge Finds a Friend for $3.52. This isn't a new one but a series that I highly recommend if you have a little one learning to read.
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On January 11, 2003, my daughters and I traveled to Webster, NY, to cheer Bethany on as she participated in the Gold Junior Olympics for USA Swim. I recall entering the Webster Aquatic Center and taking Bethany to the locker room, only to discover that I had left her deck chair in the car. I retrieved it and we went to sit in the stands while the morning session finished. I was supposed to be a lane timer for the afternoon session. I vaguely recall speaking to some friends. I was in no pain and had no idea of what was about to transpire. The next 24 hours remain a complete blank.
Sometime in late February, I received a letter from one of the coaches who was there on that fateful day. The following is an excerpt from his letter. "When word got down to the deck that something was wrong, some coaches and a handful of lifeguards were coming up the stairs thinking we were responding to someone falling. When we got there people had already begun CPR on you. We sent one of the lifeguards downstairs after the AED. In the meantime, we were fighting to get you on a backboard so you wouldn't be conducting across the metal benches. When the guard came back with the unit we rigged it to you, it ran its self-diagnosis, and advised us to shock. I shocked you once, at which time you began to show signs of respiration. The machine kept advising us to shock you again, but you were showing a sign of breathing... it's basically the situation that doesn't happen, so we felt it was best to wait until the cardiac unit got there or until you crashed again to deliver another shock.
"ALS showed up right as you crashed the second time and shocked you several more times. They put an airway in your mouth and began ventilating you with oxygen through a bag-valve mask before transporting you down the back steps and out to the ambulance, at which time you were showing signs of consciousness."
I awoke the next afternoon in the emergency room of Rochester General Hospital. After ensuring there was no blockage, heart disease, or stroke an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) was implanted in my chest. I was able to go home five days after the SCA event.
New York State had mandated December 1, 2002, for AED compliance in all public schools. The lifeguards at the Aquatic Center had been trained on the devices only two weeks prior. I am incredibly fortunate to have been surrounded by so many guardian angels on that day back in January. Without each of them, and the AED, I would not be here today.
The same letter included the following comment, which best summarizes my response to doubters of the cost-effectiveness of AED's. "After a near-drowning a few years back, I had been making a push to get AED units at my beach on Long Island and have been met with some flack ever since their purchase last year as to their necessity. For a while I started to believe that maybe I had been a little over-cautious in demanding them. After what happened at Webster though, it's wiped any doubt from my mind, and reinforced the fact that you just never know when."
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The plot is in an exceptional location on a widened piece of land at the end of De Borcht. This section of road only serves local traffic going to the small number of detached houses situated along this road. On the eastern side – between the plot and the Amstel – lies the Amstelpark. From the plot, the Riekermolen windmill on the Amstel can clearly be seen in its abundantly green setting.
The house is situated on the outermost edge of a quiet residential area, more or less parallel to the Europaboulevard. The district has been built on the basis of a predominantly orthogonal system. The small number of residential houses on the outermost eastern side which includes De Borcht 3 follow the orthogonal system in terms of the orientation of the building volumes but at the same time also follow the form of the nearby waterways in terms of their positioning. Consequently, the façades and building volumes of the residential houses themselves are not in line with each other. The volumes of the houses are staggered in relation to each other. This reinforces the autonomous character of these houses and emphasises the looser layout of this part of the district.
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Onstage and Backstage podcast from Hal Leonard is available on iTunes and Libsyn. Each episode authors and their guests have a chat about the topics of their books. Today, Eric Davidson, author of We Never Learn, joins the editor of the book, Mike Edison, and Gories band member Mick Collins. This is an episode of The Mike and Judy Show (The Heritage Radio Network) reposted on Onstage and Backstage with permission of Mike Edison.
Eric Davidson had his share of sleazy good times and success as the singer of the Columbus, Ohio punk band New Bomb Turks, who have played hundreds of gigs in dozens of countries on three continents and countless labels. He now fronts the band Livids.
Mike Edison is the senior editor at Backbeat Books and the author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Goand Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! He co-hosts The Mike and Judy Show every Sunday with Judy McGuire on the Heritage Radio Network.
Mick Collins is a Detroit musician known for being in bands such as the Gories and the Dirtbombs. His new song from the Dirtbombs "Crazy for You" can be heard in this podcast episode.
Nirvana, the White Stripes, Hole, the Hives – all sprang from an underground music scene where similarly raw bands, enjoying various degrees of success and hard luck, played for throngs of fans in venues ranging from dive bars to massive festivals, but were mostly ignored by a music industry focused on mega-bands and shiny pop stars. We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 tracks the inspiration and beautiful destruction of this largely undocumented movement. What they took, they fought for, every night. They reveled in '50s rock 'n' roll and '60s garage rock while creating their own wave of gut-busting riffs and rhythm.


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Changes in biodiversity, including those due directly and indirectly to outbreaks of indigenous species, invasions by alien species and changes in distribution, can have major implications for the functioning of marine ecosystems. Changes in ecosystem functioning can, in turn, impact strongly on services and direct economic benefits to society, such as productive fisheries, aquaculture and tourism. For example, invasive gelatinous zooplankters such as Mnemiopsis may be changing foodwebs, reducing survival of larval fish and damaging fisheries. Likewise, introduced seaweeds can alter the structure and functioning of benthic assemblages.
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Tragedy struck the Denver, Colorado suburb of Aurora late last night as a lone gunman opened fire in a midnight showing of the latest Batman film, "The Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 people and injuring about 50 people, the youngest being a 6 year old boy, at the Century 16 Movie Theater. Reports say that the gunman knocked in an emergency exit at the front of the theater about thirty minutes into the movie during one of the action scenes and set of smoke bombs and tear gas before opening fire on the packed auditorium.
"We were maybe 20 or 30 minutes into the movie and all you hear, first you smell smoke, everybody thought it was fireworks or something like that, and then you just see people dropping and the gunshots are constant," witness Christ Jones told ABC's Denver affiliate KMGH. "I heard at least 20 to 30 rounds within that minute or two."
After receiving dozens of 911 calls around 12:39 a.m. MT, police arrived at the theater and arrested the gunman, 24 year old James Holmes, in the parking lot of the theater dressed in a bullet proof vest and a riot helmet without a fight. Police say he has carrying a gas mask, a rifle and a handgun and believe he left another weapon in the theater, and after searching thru his car found ammunition for the weapons.
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And it doesn't end there. When he was arrested, Holmes told police that he had explosives in his North Aurora apartment, which police rushed to check out, shutting down the whole apartment complex to search for the explosives, which were found in his apartment although it is uncertain if the explosives were set to go off or were just a part of a stockpile. Police also found a bomb in the theater were the gunman attacked but it is not sure if it was already planted there or if it was tossed into the crowd.
In a recently released statement President Obama said, "Michelle and I are shocked and saddened by the horrific and tragic shooting in Colorado. Federal and local law enforcement are still responding, and my administration will do everything that we can to support the people of Aurora in this extraordinarily difficult time. We are committed to bringing whoever was responsible to justice, ensuring the safety of our people, and caring for those who have been wounded."
Police believe the man acted alone and searched all of the cars in the theater of the parking lot but found nothing and they do not believe he was acting on behalf of a terrorism organization.
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Simples…. Cautions to be scrapped. At last.
So it was announced by Chris Grayling that simple cautions for serious offences are to be scrapped. Hallelujah! Didn't it occur to anyone that a simple caution for serious offences was damn right ludicrous ? Who on earth in their right mind figured that a 'slap on the wrist' for someone who had committed serious … Continue reading
It isn't even about Political Correctness…. it's just wrong.
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GPS for dementia patients…. Right or wrong?
Sussex Police have purchased six GPS devices to assist with helping track missing persons with dementia. This has mixed reviews. The National Pensioners Convention described the introduction of the devices as "barbaric" and suggested people could be stigmatised and made to feel like criminals. Dot Gibson, the pensioners convention general secretary, said: "I think they … Continue reading
Crime prevention IS the answer – no catching criminals now…..
The primary role of the police is to prevent crime, not catch criminals, Tom Winsor, the chief inspector of constabulary for England and Wales has said. Tom Winsor said focusing on would-be offenders, likely victims and potential crime hotspots would save taxpayers' money and keep more people safe. But "primitive" technology is limiting officers' ability … Continue reading
Review of the third quarter October – December 2012
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-Pull in some ROM information for backup name generation
-Merge all recent patches from AOSP bringing TWRP up to date with Android 4.3
-Add 1200x1920 theme (thanks to Tassadar)
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CHANGELOG for 188.8.131.52:
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-Fixed a permissions bug on files created during backup
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Snow showers rolling through this morning into the afternoon with just a dusting in store. Highs recover to the low 30s for today, but gusty southwest winds will make it feel colder.
Our weather pattern remains fairly fast and active through Sunday with daytime highs falling back to the 20s for Thursday and then a rebound to upper 30s by Friday! The warmer air will be enough to trigger some light snow for the predawn hours Friday and early Friday morning.
There is some chance for minor accumulations with this quick hit snow. It won't stay around long with Friday highs reaching the upper 30s. We'll keep the dry look through Saturday night with early weekend highs holding in the 30s.
An Alberta Clipper type system heads in Saturday night. It will bring a chance for light snow Saturday night/early Sunday. This system provides the first gateway for the arctic air to spill into Wisconsin. Sunday highs will be in the upper teens.
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I expect the Microsoft Kinect to be partnered up with tonnes of digital billboards and installations this year, and here is just one example to help kick it all off. Autism Speaks has created a Kinect powered digital billboard featuring a life size girl who avoids eye contact no matter how hard you try.
The Kinect in this instance is used to track the head movements of the people looking into the digital billboard and continually position the child's head and movements to avoid eye contact. Here the billboard is used at some kind of controlled event, but with a little extra crafting, it would be perfect to be installed just about anywhere. BTW the ad is getting some heat on YouTube!


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Dear ACFSers: The photos below show a photograph by Cuban photographer Brayan Collazo. His work is the first prize for our annual ACFS Perth raffle for 2011. The raffle will be drawn on Saturday 23rd July 2011 at the Santiago de Cuba Carnival to be held at Kulcha in Fremantle. A celebration has been organised with local band Latin Fusion at KULCHA from 8pm. For more information visit: http://www.kulcha.com.au/ or send us an email to: email@example.com Raffle tickets are $5 each, get as many as you can to increase your chances of owning this fantastic prize. Get your raffle tickets early to avoid disappoitment. All proceeds to go to support the oncology unit of Las Tunas provincial hospital in Cuba.
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These photos are from the successful presentation by Cuban Educator Ezequiel in Perth on April 9, 2011. Ezequiel spoke about the "reordering" of the Cuban economy being discussed in the lead up to the forthcoming Cuban Communist Party congress.
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