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Yemen slipped closer to a full-blown civil war today as opposition tribesmen attacked the compound of President Ali Abdullah Saleh for the first time. While the president appears to have narrowly escaped serious injury, the escalating fighting represents an unprecedented challenge to his 32-year rule.
Mr. Saleh has long faced down opposition to his rule from disparate groups, spending vast amounts of blood and treasure to placate tribal leaders, northern rebels, and southern secessionists. But now Saleh's diverse rivals have coalesced around the nonviolent youth protest movement inspired by Egypt, presenting a more unified challenge to his grip on power.
"We are all one in demanding that Saleh leave power," says Nuha Jamal, a youth activist in the southern port city of Aden. "All of Yemen is united in this cause."
How Saleh courted tribal leaders
Saleh's fragile hold over the country first began breaking down when hundreds of student protesters took to the streets minutes after the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "After Mubarak, it's Ali," they chanted, until riot police stormed the relatively small crowd and broke up the march.
Since that day, Saleh's hold over Yemen has been crumbling. Now, his forces are fighting one of Yemen's most prestigious tribal confederations in a gang-style street war in the capital, which has been shaken by artillery barrages and pitched battles for more than 10 days.
Saleh, learning from centuries of Ottoman failures, knew from the outset of his reign that any attempt to subjugate the tribes would end in disaster. After all, it was Yemen's most beloved and powerful tribal figure, the late Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar, who led the parliamentary vote that made Saleh president of the Yemen Arab Republic in 1978.
From that day, he made allies of northern Yemen's two most powerful tribal confederations, the Hashid confederation of which his own Sanhan tribe is a part, and the Bakil confederation.
Saleh has not held onto power solely through brute force and terror but through the patronage of tribal leaders – giving them money and political positions in exchange for loyalty.
But Saleh's hold over the tribes has completely disintegrated since the youth uprising began. Sheikh Hamid-al-Ahmar – an opposition politician, millionaire businessman, and son of Abdullah al-Ahmar – immediately expressed his support for the revolution and joined those calling for an end to Saleh's rule.
In March, his eldest brother – Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, the titular head of the Hashid confederation – voiced his support for the youth revolution as well. Two other brothers also defected that month: Hussein bin Abdullah al-Ahmar, who was a member of Saleh's ruling party, and Himywar al-Ahmar, deputy speaker of parliament.
Now the Ahmar family is leading battles against government military units, resulting in the worst fighting seen in the capital since the 1960s.
Saleh's disparate opponents
Saleh's rule over the unified Republic of Yemen has been troubled since 1994, when a civil war broke out just four years after he unified North Yemen with the socialist south. While Saleh's forces prevailed in that war, the southern secessionist movement gained strength over the following decade.
Saleh has quelled the movement, with some success, through brutal crackdowns on protests.
Similarly, Saleh has used the full force of his military against Houthi rebels in the north of the country, who feel marginalized by the Saleh regime and who subscribe to a strain of Shiite Islam that they see as threatened by Yemen's alliance with Sunni Saudi Arabia. Since fighting first broke out in June 2004, Saleh's forces have fought an on-again, off-again war with Houthi rebels. The rebels were led by former member of parliament Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, who was killed in a suspected Al Qaeda attack in November 2010.
However, Yemen's protest movement, spearheaded by students, seems to be uniting these disparate groups.
"We don't need to secede from the north once Saleh is gone. Our problems in the south stem from a corrupt government," says Ms. Jamal, the youth activist in Aden, which was the former capital of South Yemen. "People are leaving the Southern Movement."
Similarly, members of the Houthi rebellion have taken up residence at Change Square, Sanaa's protest camp in front of Sanaa University.
"Our vision is clear and we share this vision with all of Yemen. We call for a civil state and equal citizenship for all Yemenis. We demand true democracy," says Houthi leader Ali al-Emad from his tent in Change Square.
In post-Saleh era, a federal system of government?
Yemen now appears to be quickly slipping into a full-blown civil war, presenting an impending humanitarian disaster for its citizens and a major challenge for US foreign policy. Saleh has been a willing if wily ally of US counterterrorism efforts in Yemen, which is home to an Al Qaeda branch now seen by some in Washington as more threatening that the remnants of Osama bin Laden's organization in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
As Yemen moves forward, bringing its disparate groups into a government with proper representation will be a daunting task..
Some have suggested a system of asymmetric federalism, similar to the Indian model, with different states granted different powers under a single constitution. In such a system, regions would be granted a level autonomy that is seen fit for the population.
However, the top priority for Yemen now is to transition into a post-Saleh era, says Gregory Johnsen, a Yemen specialist based at Princeton University in New Jersey.
"[A federal system] may be the best path eventually but Yemen is a long way from that," says Mr. Johnsen, reached by e-mail in Cairo. "The first step is moving away from President Saleh's rule and to do that Yemen will eventually need to set up some sort of representative transitional council."


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Alan Phillips
Alan has been a publisher and reseller of a wide range of historical and genealogical resources since 1976, trading now as Gould Genealogy & History, with an 11,000 product catalogue.
Gould Genealogy brought leading publishers from the UK and US to Australia in 2003 for a national roadshow to 6 cities around the country. One result was the establishment of Archive Digital Books Australia, part of an international network of Archive CD Books publishers in 6 countries working with societies, libraries and other institutions and individuals to bring a wide range of historical resources to researchers, societies and libraries.
Archive Digital Books Australasia has (at Jan 2010) over 1600 Australian and NZ products and is publishing now at a rate of about 500 new products each year. In addition, more than 2000 products from overseas Archive CD Books partners in Britain Ireland, Canada and the US are locally produced and distributed. Government and Police Gazettes have become the flagship projects of Archive Digital Books Australasia. Alan has spoken widely around Australia on the value and use of gazettes.
Some recent ventures include
- making digital content widely available. Initially this is through a partnership with World Vital Records Australasia, but other partners are under consideration.
- establishing Unlock the Past to promote history and genealogy in Australia and New Zealand
- establishing Family Photo Book an easy, fun way to present your photos and research
Alan has been an active local and family historian since 1971, and was founder of the Torrens Valley and District Historical Society and Gumeracha Local History Centre in the Adelaide Hills. He has co-authored and published 6 books and booklets and established family associations and newsletters on the Randell, Hannaford and Kelly families who all came to South Australia in the period 1837-1840

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Phil Mickelson isn't the only one who wants Tiger Woods back in Torrey Pines.
In a clever marketing move at Tiger Woods' expense, an airplane flew over the Farmers Insurance Open Thursday with a banner that read "WE MISS YOU TIGER! DEJA VU SHOWGIRLS."
Joanne Arellano also saw the banner flying high near her work at the Salk Institute.
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The talk on tour also continues to revolve around Tiger Woods, from the shocking revelations of his infidelity to the mystery of his whereabouts to speculation on when he might return.
Now that Mickelson is back inside the ropes, some people hope he can help fill the void created by Woods' indefinite break -- but Mickelson would rather see Tiger back.
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A separate framework
Though the initial discussions were towards using a Nepomuk::Service for this, the current discussions side more with creating this as a separate framework.
We plan to take this approach because there are some parts of the context which probably are not suitable to Nepomuk. an example of this is the current location of the system/user; we'd probably use geoclue for this, and will change orthogonally to the user's current activity (or project). e.g. just because i am on a train from France to Germany, it doesn't mean what i'm working on magically changes when i cross the border ;)
things can certainly be "geotagged" using Nepomuk, of course, but i want to give easy access to what the current location is separate from that since that is hardly the only use for it (the clock, for instance, may want to change timezones automatically) and things should not need to speak directly to geoclue for that information IMHO.
> if location is going to end up being broadcast by nepomuk, that implies
> making nepomuk a "front end" to things like geoclue, does it not?
I don't think the location should be broadcasted by Nepomuk. I think that is a different source which should be kept separate. We could map the current location into Nepomuk though, to make things simpler for queries.
Hide Nepomuk backend from Dikku's APIs
The Context framework would provide the access to what the current context is (by name), a list of all currently known contexts (again, by names), etc, thus hiding any Nepomuk details from its APIs.
this will be critical for usage in plasma widgets which tend towards using simplistic APIs. Nepomuk is awesome, but we need to hide it a bit in this case i think to make the idea of Context as approachable as possible so it gets widely used.
Keeping number of context types low
Aaron Seigo says:
i begin to grow concerned that we'll end up with N different active contexts and it will become rapidly unwieldly for the user and/or application developer. i really think that keeping it as simple as possible is critical to getting wide adoption and usage.
we can come up with something that models the Real World perfectly, and then probably nobody will actually use it because it will be too complex.
i'm looking for some simple abstractions that map to real world use scenarios here. those include things like:
- "I am currently working on my book, but will be working on my programming project in a few hours."
- "I'd like to get widgets relevant to the train station I'm lost in."
these are things that users find useful (some of them are already exposed in Plasma today and being used successfully!).
Times in contexts
Sebastian Trüg says:
> we should put start times on all
> Contexts (the creation time is an implied start time) and make end times
> optional, that way we can timeline all of them.
all resources have a creation time. But I think the start time of a task or project can differ from that. So I would still vote for start and end times assigned to a subclass of Context.
> yeah, the more i think about the time aspect of things, the more i think we
> shouldn't make it optional.
Conceptionally a context does not have an end time so it does not make much sense IMHO.
> personally i'd like at least a start time with ActivityContext as well so
> they can be put onto a timeline.
all resources have a creation time. So that's covered I think. But as I mentioned earlier, projects can have an additional different starting time.
Sven Schwarz says:
A "start time" is fine, but an "end time" will be seldomly used and if it is used then what does it tell us? What I do myself, and what I suggest to do here, too, is to have a set of ACTIVATION INTERVALS. I know, that this will yield scalability problems, but these could and should be overcome. Don't we want to see and search(!) really ALL the activations of a context (on a timeline for instance)? I do think so!
Hari krishna says:
It is always nice to have the computer remember things like the project was last deactivated on 1/1/1900, but wouldn't it be better if the user can explicitly say the project has been closed so that it can be archived. I think both activation intervals and endTime would be needed. Remember to always give control to the user when he wants it, else he is likely to get angry ;)
Reuse PIMO when applicable
Leo Sauermann says:
in NEPOMUK-java we decided not to include things in context that are modelled in the user's personal information model (PIMO) anyway. For example, if you are during a meeting, and the meeting has several attendees, then the attendees may not be explicitly mentioned in context, because they are part of the PIMO anyway.
It would be very good to model geographic location and other relations, such as "persons in the same room", but I would rather reuse PIMO ontology here PIMO defines a class for "location", and for "event" and "meeting", and for "room".
Define borders of Context
Leo Sauermann says:
This is important: context has no borders. If we don't define them, everybody new to the discussion will say "oh, but clicking on a mail is context, so the mail is context, so the person sending the mail is context, so the other mails sent by the same person are context, so european policits in 1890 are context..."
Hence, "work" context (notice the prefix work! it helped us a lot in previous discussions) only models
- which of the many resources is in the attention of the user now,
- but not what resources there exist (we got NIE/strigi/xesam for that) or how they relate (this is PIMO ontology)
We experienced this as a good tradeoff: you have all metadata about the world of the user stored in Soprano anyway, you don't have to represent them again for context - just reference them via URI.
We could, and this would be helpful, add classes and/or properties to the UserWorkContext that we can capture current Event, current Location.
An event then has attendees, and a location, and we can assume that the attendees are together with us in the same location, etc.
The current location/event could be modelled as property of the UserContext object or the ShortTermContext. (see the UserWorkContext ontology)
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Buffett: Berkshire's 2012 Return Was 'Subpar'
In his highly anticipated annual shareholder letter, published Friday, Warren Buffett called Berkshire Hathaway's 2012 returns "subpar" despite a $24 billion increase in its net worth. MarketWatch's Laura Mandaro took a look at the letter. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Inducing Labour
My beloved cousin Cat is pregnant. Over pregnant. Cat is little, and her baby is big. And he's taking his sweet time and she's uncomfortable.
Cat also loves Rafa. She's at home, and she checks a few times a day, so I thought maybe the sight of him, his abs all sweaty, and so sweet in pink at a presser at the Conde de Godo might help the baby along. Rafa is fresh off winning at Monte Carlo and is looking to defend this title for the 3rd time.
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Open position D and its movable form and variations.
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Open Position Chord
Movable Form Chord
One Root
Un-like the chords in the previous Open Position Chords series of lessons. This chord contains only one root and is on string three.
Movable Chord Forms
Movable chord forms are chords containing no open strings. These chords are transposable to different keys by moving the chord form the same number of frets up and down the neck.
Each movable form is based on a common open position chord. These movable forms allow you to play chords not found in the open position.
Movable form chords allow you to play in any key and transpose chords, progressions and songs to any key. From basic movable form chords more advanced chords can be created.
The functional range of a movable form chord up the fingerboard of your ukulele depends on the ukulele's size (soprano, concert or tenor), the number of frets to the body (10, 12, 14, etc) and whether you have a cut-away for access to higher frets. Not all chords can be transposed a complete octave (12 frets).
Movable form chords can be used along with open position chords. As you learn more movable form chords you'll have a variety of alternate voicings for any given chord.
Movable form chords can be transposed up and down the fingerboard using the root of the chord and a transposition chart.
Transposing Movable Form Chords
These lessons use the root of a chord to transpose to different keys.
Determine what string the root is on or would be on if not present in the chord's voicing.
Chord Transposition Chart
This transposition chart can be used for any chord where the root, or letter name of the chord is on string C.
The root is on string 3, the C string.
Use the Root or implied root of the chord to transpose to different keys.
A larger sized transposition chart is available in my book Ukulele Chords. This is the book these chord lessons are based on.
Chord Tones - D F# A
The chord tones of a D major chord are the 1st, 3rd and 5th scale degrees of the D Major Scale ( D E F# G A B C D' ) or D F# A
- 1 - the Root or letter name of D is D
- 3 - the third of D is F#
- 5 - the fifth of D is A
Chord Fingering
Chord fingering is dependent on several factors. The chord your on, the previous chord, the next chord, your hand and fingers. All chord fingerings shown are recommended fingerings and not mandatory. Most chords have alternate fingerings dependent on the context. The same chord might even be fingered one way in one part of a song or progression and an alternate fingering in another part.
Derived Chords
sus or suspended Chords
A sus chord implies the *suspension* of the third of a major, minor or seventh chord. The most common and historical use of this suspension involves raising the third of a major or seventh chord to the fourth for a sus4, or 7sus4. In some contemporary music, the suspension can also be accomplished by lowering the third of a major or minor chord to a second for a sus2 chord.
add2/add9 Chords
Technically the add 2 and add 9 are different chords. Both the 2 and the 9 are the same letters but in different octaves. For all practical purposes, you can treat both the add2 and add9 chords as the same. Depending on whether you are using a low "G" or high "G", C tuning the added ninth might be a second. Whether you call it an add9 or add2 depends on whether the added note is in the same octave as the root of the chord.
Power Five Chords
A Power 5 chord contains the root and fifth of a major scale with an optional octave of the root added for a three note power 5 chord. A power 5 chord is technically not a chord in the traditional sense but a dyad or interval. It's more of an implied chord sometimes major and sometimes minor.
9th Chords
A 9th chord is a 5-part chord.
For a 5-part 9th chord, the root is implied and displaced for the ninth. Optionally the 3rd of a 7th chord can be lowered two frets (a whole step) for 1 9 5 b7. This really works if you have already played the chord with the third present and establishing the color of the chord.
To create a ninth chord raise the root of a 4-part chord two frets. This applies to a 7th, maj7, m7, 6, m6, m7b5, etc... Most all 4-part chords can be turned into ninth chords. For a 7th chord this would be a **9 3 5 b7**.
This same process can be applied to a triad by raising the root two frets. For these chords they are typically called add2 or add9 chords.
Chords are pretty flexible and can be implied by containing the notes of the chord that make it different then another chord types with the same root. Take C and Cm, C is C **E** G and Cm is C **Eb** G. The third of the chord the E or Eb is a color tone and is responsible for making a major chord different sounding then a minor chord with the same root.
Chord Progressions
12 Bar Blues in Key of "G" Major
12 Bar Blues in Key of "D" Major
If you ukulele does not allow access to the higher frets for a particular chord, then substitute another movable form chord lower down the neck or an open position chord.
PRACTICE NOTE: To gain the most from these chord lessons and the practice progressions, memorize the location of each chord and the name of the chord.
I've pulled this trick question on a few of my private students after they have played a chord in a lesson. Typically this happens at the beginning of a lesson before we actually get into the lesson. I'll ask them to play a chord that I just saw them play. I'll say; "Play a D chord." Some will say they don't know a chord so and so and yet it's a chord they just played it. Don't let a chord get lost in a particular song or progression. Know its name and it belongs to you for using elsewhere.
Related Lessons
Related Lessons for D - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time.
Movable `Ukulele Chords
A series of weekly ukulele lessons originally presented throughout 2007 on movable ukulele chords as the ** Ukulele Chord of The Week** Series. Based on my Ukulele Chords book it takes the open position chords and shows the movable form and the variations.
Fingering an Open Postion D Major `Ukulele Chord
There are several ways to finger an open position D major chord. Depending on the context of how it's being used, one fingering might be better than another.
Related Lesson Files, Resources and Assets
Related Assets for D - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time.
Basic Ukulele Chord Chart
A chart of the most common ukulele chords in the most common keys of C, G, D, A, and E.
Related Lesson Books
Related Books for D - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time.
Related Lesson Series
Related Lessons Series for D - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time.
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Recommendation: The current position of Director of Central Intelligence should be replaced by a National Intelligence Director with two main areas of responsibility: (1) to oversee national intelligence centers on specific subjects of interest across the U.S. government and (2) to manage the national intelligence program and oversee the agencies that contribute to it.
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If you haven't heard of Aviary yet, you will soon. That's because the New York-based startup, backed by millions of dollars from Jeff Bezos's personal investment vehicle, Bezos Expeditions, is helping both Twitter and Flickr catch up with Instagram.
Twitter, in an attempt to get its users to post photos directly with its app rather than use Instagram, added photo filters powered by Aviary's software.
Flickr, Yahoo's photo service, has also updated its app with photo filters from Aviary. It started using Aviary's photo-editing software on its desktop website earlier this year, after Google acquired Picnik, Flickr's previous provider of such tools.
Aviary makes money by charging partners like Twitter, Flickr, and Walgreen's for using its tools in their websites and apps.
By the way, while Instagram's filters are an interesting feature, we think they have almost nothing to do with why people start using and keep using the app.
Despite what CollegeHumor suggests in its otherwise spot-on music video about self-obsessed Instagram users, filters are less about artistic pretension and more about letting users compensate for bad lighting and other flaws inherent in taking photos with smartphones, without having to know a lot of technical photography terms.
Instagram's speed and simplicity for sharing—it's faster to share a photo to Facebook on Instagram than it is with Facebook's own app—and its incredibly addictive feed of new photos from friends are what matters.
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Downgraded to a post-tropical storm early Saturday, Arthur's hit Canada's Maritime provinces with near-hurricane strength winds and torrential rains, knocking down trees and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.
A day earlier it swiped at North Carolina's Outer Banks at hurricane strength, without causing major damage.
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Canadian Hurricane Centre spokesman Chris Fogarty said that winds were easing, but more rainfall is predicted for already drenched southwestern New Brunswick.
In Fredericton, New Brunswick, Mike Gange said the buffeting winds tore down a maple tree in his front yard, damaging roof tiles and a rain gutter as it fell. He said that as he drove around the New Brunswick provincial capital he saw about 25 homes with big trees knocked down.
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Nova Scotia Power said about 135,000 of its customers were without power at mid-afternoon Saturday. New Brunswick's main electrical utility reported more than 115,000 outages by mid-afternoon. It warned some residents they could be without power for up to 48 hours because of widespread damage caused by the storm.
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The Canadian Hurricane Center said the storm would end in the Maritimes overnight and then track northeast through the Gulf of St. Lawrence toward Newfoundland on Sunday.
Arthur reached landfall on North Carolina's Outer Banks last Thursday with winds of 100 mph, earning it a Category 2 status on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. Later downgraded to a Category 1 as it moved northeast into colder Atlantic water, it interrupted holiday plans at the start of the Independence Day weekend. North Carolina reported some homes and businesses flooded and trees toppled. Various Fourth of July fireworks celebrations were postponed. About 20 feet of the road connecting Hatteras Island to the mainland buckled, but was being reopened Saturday in stages. Ocracoke Island, a popular tourist spot, was without power, but a generator was providing electricity on a rotating basis and power is likely to be restored by Sunday.
As in North Carolina, the New England states largely dodged the worst of the storm, with some power outages and downed trees in Maine and Vermont reported amid heavy rains and potent winds. Flooding was reported in Massachusetts, and the Nova Star Ferry suspended service Friday and Saturday due to dangerous seas. No injuries or deaths were reported.
The storm lashed the resort island of Nantucket with much wind and rain Friday night. Rain disrupted some New York-area fireworks celebrations but cleared in time for the nation's largest fireworks display in the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn. In Boston, the famed Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular, which was already moved up a day because of weather, was cut short Thursday due to heavy rain and weather-created fireworks in the form of lightning.
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Flags were lowered to half-staff and people in black townships, in upscale mostly white suburbs and in South Africa's vast rural grasslands commemorated Nelson Mandela with song, tears and prayers on Friday while pledging to adhere to the values of unity and democracy that he embodied.
The anti-apartheid leader will be buried on Sunday, Dec. 15 at his rural home in Qunu, and a memorial service in a Johannesburg stadium will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 10, President Jacob Zuma announced. Mandela's body will lie in state at government buildings in Pretoria from Wednesday, Dec. 11, until the burial, and this coming Sunday, Dec. 8, will be a national day of prayer and reflection.
South African Airways said it will provide chartered air transport for invited mourners to Mandela's funeral in his rural hometown in Eastern Cape province.
Mandela tributes have poured in from across the world with many countires lowering flags to half-staff on Friday. In the U.S., President Barack Obama cited the late leader's "fierce dignity," NBC News reported.
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Headlines leading newspapers after Mandela's death included "Icon of Icons" in Ireland, "Colossus" in Britain and "Tata" or "father" in South Africa, NBC News reported.
Hours after his death Thursday night, a black SUV-type vehicle containing Mandela's coffin, draped in South Africa's flag, pulled away from Mandela's home after midnight, escorted by military motorcycle outriders, to take the body to a military morgue in Pretoria, the capital.
Many South Africans heard the news, which was announced on state TV by President Jacob Zuma wearing mourning black just before midnight, upon waking Friday, and they flocked to his home in Johannesburg's leafy Houghton neighborhood. One woman hugged her two sons over a floral tribute.
A dozen doves were released into the skies. A man walked around with a tall-stemmed sunflower. People sang tribal songs, the national anthem, God Bless Africa — the anthem of the anti-apartheid struggle — and Christian hymns. Many wore traditional garb of Zulu, Xhosa and South Africa's other ethnic groups. One carried a sign saying: "He will rule the universe with God." Jewish and Muslim leaders were also present.
Preparing for larger crowds in the coming days, portable toilets were delivered. Also expecting an influx of mourners, a man sold flags and paraphernalia of Mandela's political party, the African National Congress, or ANC.
One of the mourners, Ariel Sobel, said he was born in 1993, a year before Mandela was elected president.
"What I liked most about Mandela was his forgiveness, his passion, his diversity, the pact of what he did," Sobel said. "I am not worried about what will happen next. We will continue as a nation. We knew this was coming. We are prepared."
In a church service in Cape Town, retired archbishop Desmond Tutu and fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate said Mandela would want South Africans themselves to be his "memorial" by adhering to the values of unity and democracy that he embodied.
"All of us here in many ways amazed the world, a world that was expecting us to be devastated by a racial conflagration," Tutu said, recalling how Mandela helped unite South Africa as it dismantled apartheid, the cruel system of white minority rule, and prepared for all-race elections in 1994. In those elections, Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison, became South Africa's first black president.
"God, thank you for the gift of Madiba," said Tutu in his closing his prayer, using Mandela's clan name.
In Mandela's hometown of Qunu in the wide-open spaces of the Eastern Cape province, relatives consoled each other as they mourned the death of South Africa's most famous citizen.
Mandela was a "very human person" with a sense of humor who took interest in people around him, said F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president. The two men negotiated the end of apartheid, finding common cause in often tense circumstances, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
Summarizing Mandela's legacy, de Klerk paraphrased Mandela's own words on eNCA television: "Never and never again should there be in South Africa the suppression of anyone by another."
Mourners also gathered outside Mandela's former home on Vilakazi Street in the city's black township of Soweto. Many were singing and dancing as they celebrated Mandela's life.
The liberation struggle icon's grandson, Mandla Mandela, said he is strengthened by the knowledge that his grandfather is finally at rest.
"All that I can do is thank God that I had a grandfather who loved and guided all of us in the family," Mandla Mandela said in a statement. "The best lesson that he taught all of us was the need for us to be prepared to be of service to our people."
"We in the family recognize that Madiba belongs not only to us but to the entire world. The messages we have received since last night have heartened and overwhelmed us," the grandson said.
Zelda la Grange, Mandela's personal assistant for almost two decades, said the elder statesman inspired people to forgive, reconcile, care, be selfless, tolerant, and to maintain dignity no matter what the circumstances.
"His legacy will not only live on in everything that has been named after him, the books, the images, the movies. It will live on in how we feel when we hear his name, the respect and love, the unity he inspired in us as a country, but particularly how we relate to one another," she said in a statement.
Helen Zille, leader of South Africa's official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, and premier of the Western Cape, the only province not controlled by the ANC, commented: "We all belong to the South African family — and we owe that sense of belonging to Madiba. That is his legacy. It is why there is an unparalleled outpouring of national grief at his passing. It is commensurate with the contribution he made to our country."
The ANC has postponed its national executive committee, scheduled for this weekend, following Mandela's death. Banks will close on the day of Mandela's funeral, said South Africa's banking association.


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ROCHESTER — If you had to choose a nursing home for someone you love, would you choose a facility where 85% of the nursing staff had received flu shots– or a place where only 50% were immunized?
"That's a key question for patients and families today," says Mary Flynn, executive director at Rochester Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center in Rochester. Flynn, whose center recently received a deficiency-free rating from the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, credits her center's flu prevention policies for its strong showing in the survey.
"We have a number of systems in place here to prevent the spread of the flu virus among our staff and residents," says Flynn, "and we are diligent about following daily anti-flu procedures."
Caryn Quaker, RN, who heads up Rochester Manor's flu vaccine program, agrees. Quaker, a clinical reimbursement coordinator at Rochester Manor Health and Rehabilitation Center, has been working to increase immunization rates at the center for several years.
"Hospitals and nursing homes are often 'ground zero' for viruses and bacteria," says Quaker. "But over 40% of all health care workers in America today have not had a flu shot."
Flynn, Quaker and the care team at Rochester Manor were determined to do everything possible -- short of mandating flu shots -- to keep influenza out of their center. "I know that many states and facilities require employees to get flu shots, and of course we'd love a 100% participation rate, but making shots mandatory was not compatible with our management philosophy, or with New Hampshire law. So we had to come up with an effective way to incentivize employees."
Over the years, the center had "tried everything," Quaker reports. They sent out notices explaining the benefits of immunization. They offered the flu shots at no cost. They held drawings for cash rewards.
They tried free chocolate and Dunkin Donuts gift cards. "Everything worked...a little bit," says Quaker. "We'd get three or four new people every time we offered an incentive. But it was a slow and painful process. I didn't want to make flu shots mandatory. It just felt too confrontational to me."
So how did Quaker finally achieve an 85% compliance rate? (or 88% if you count those staff that have allergies and have declined the shot for medical reasons)? "It was actually very simple," she says. "I found the answer in a one-page company policy document."
Signing this document, called "Informed Refusal of influenza Immunization" was standard procedure at Rochester Manor. The problem was, nobody seemed to be paying attention to what the document actually said – or its implications for employee salaries.
"Basically, our informed refusal document explains how important immunization is for our center – how it protects our vulnerable population of seniors. But it also warns employees that in the event our center does have an influenza outbreak, employees who chose not to be vaccinated may be shut out and prevented from working during the period of the outbreak by order of the center's medical officer of health.
"In that case, any missed workdays would not be counted as sick leave, and the employee would not be eligible for pay."
The policy also notes that unvaccinated employees will be required to pay for their own treatment costs, should they come down with the flu, and will be required to "take precautionary measures, for a prescribed time" before returning to work. "This policy exists for one reason: to protect our residents," says Quaker.
She noted that once she had the policy in hand, and had reviewed it with immunization holdouts at the center, compliance increased dramatically. "People know now that we're serious about protecting our patients and employees from influenza.
"And they know that if we have an outbreak here, unvaccinated staff members will not be allowed to work. Knowing that a flu outbreak could mean no paycheck has really driven the message home."
The policy is working, Quaker reported – for everyone. "In the last 10 years, every single nursing home in our community has been closed due to a flu outbreak – except for us. We've been able to keep our doors open, keep our patients and families safe, and keep our staff working."
Quaker does have a few immunization holdouts. "We do have some staffers with allergies, and some who have philosophical objections. We don't force these employees to get flu shots, and of course we hope they don't get sick. But the bottom line is that our patients come first."
-- About Rochester Manor--
Rochester Manor, a member of Revera Health Systems, offers both short and long-term rehabilitation and skilled nursing care as well as respite care and hospice care. The center recently unrelieved its new STAR (Specialized Therapy and Rehabilitation) unit for short-stay patients.
For information, please visit reverarochester.com or call 603-332-7711.
Rochester Manor Nursing Center: Increasing flu immunization compliance among nursing home workers
ROCHESTER — If you had to choose a nursing home for someone you love, would you choose a facility where 85% of the nursing staff had received flu shots– or a place where only 50% were immunized?


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Creek Financial Services is an independent broker of merchant bank accounts. We specialize in helping small to medium-size businesses reduce the fees they must pay for accepting credit card transactions. We represent some of the largest and most stable banks in the country, but we remain a small business. We are proud of the fact that our clients know us by our first names.
We used to represent only one bank. When we were only associated with that bank, it wasn't important to have our own logo. But now that we represent other banks, we need to establish our own identity. We are beginning to use the Internet to attract and communicate with clients, so we need a logo that is simple, yet attractive, and displays well online.
Owners and decision makers in all types of businesses, large or small. Depending on the type of business, we may speak to a bookkeeper, office manager, or a V.P. of Finance. Our clients process from $1,000 to $1 million every month. The people who talk to us are usually very busy, so they don't want to waste time dealing with inexperienced start-ups. Even though we are a small company, the logo must not make us look small.
Our website is http://www.CreekFinancial.com. When I answer the phone, I say "Creek Financial." You may use the word "Services" or leave it out, whichever works best for your design.
In case you're not in the U.S., here's what the word Creek means: "U.S., Canada, and Australia- a stream smaller than a river." We are located in South Georgia, USA, near the Kinchafoonee Creek. I chose that name because creeks run slow and steady. They are reliable, but not overpowering. But the sound of a creek can lull a person to sleep. If you include any water imagery, make sure the logo does not put my clients to sleep!
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This is the last in a series of posts drawing from a little book by George Mason titled Preparing the Pastors We Need: Reclaiming the Congregation's Role in Training Clergy (Alban, 2012). The book could be described as practical guidance for congregations and clergy interested in supporting excellent "in context" learning for clergy in training. This applies to many contexts, not just the particular sort of pastoral residency Mason has led at Wilshire Baptist, the church he leads in Dallas. This is so because Mason has his finger on the pulse of the heart of the matter with regards to, as his title puts it, preparing the pastors we need.
What IS the heart of the matter? According to Mason, the heart of the matter is getting into the rhythm and flow of ministry. Here, he means literally getting into it, as in jumping into the stream and getting wet. By rhythm, he means figuring out and following regular weekly patterns. This will not be obvious to many seminarians who have not yet had to cope with such a high level of self-management. Dock Hollingsworth, a Baptist theologian who teaches ministry at McAfee School of Theology, calls this the "syllabus problem." Students who are used to structuring their days and weeks by the instructions laid out in course syllabi now find themselves without that structure, wondering what exactly the assignments are and how to fulfill them well. Offering clear expectations and helpful guidelines as to the rhythms of day to day ministry can reduce anxiety in this regard. Connected with rhythm, Mason comments on flow as a way to describe the arc of learning across time. During the first days and weeks everything seems new and one's leadership is halting, requiring carefully thinking about next steps. This is markedly different from months later when students take on the bearing of pastors in that place, seemingly making intuitive decisions about how to lead and act in this or that ministry situation.
What lies in between the halting efforts of a newbie intern and the intuitive leadership of a mature intern? Mason says many things help, but one is essential: reflective practice. It does little good to try something out with no feedback on how it went. Three levels of reflection practice are important, Mason argues. "Observe and reflect" lets the student--as a pastor in training--be an "authorized" observer, going with the supervisor to the hospital room, family home, or a pre-marital meeting. Being present together then provides the basis of a conversation about the "whats" and "whys" involved in the situation. Supervisors need to be able to articulate their theological rationale and practical strategy for engaging the situation the way they did. Interns need to be curious, asking the so-called "naive" question which may be erroneous or may just focus in on a crucial point.
Yet many if not most interns will come with much experience in observation mode. Quickly, a second level emerges. The intern will not only observe but "participate and reflect." The supervisor can agree in advance on what role the intern can play in the hospital visit or the pre-marital session. Then, again, conscious reflection on the dynamics of the situation and the roles played by each opens up the experience to deeper levels of integration of learning by heart, head, and hands.
Lastly, of course, and as a goal for each intern, a third level appears. This third level is "lead and reflect." While this may seem obvious, there are pitfalls to avoid. The supervisor should not simply send the intern off to engage in ministry, checking things of the list of 'to-dos' the pastor now doesn't have to cover. While of course some independence is helpful, the supervisor needs to be in proximity on a regular basis, observing the intern leading so adequate reflection can ensue afterwards. If, for instance, the intern only preaches when the supervisor is out of town, the level of feedback is greatly reduced. It is important for the intern to have a regular go at core tasks of ministry, growing into a leading role, and in the heart of the congregation's life.
In the end, growth happens through the reflective loop of learning--planning, acting, and reflecting. The goal is for this to happen with increasing risk and responsibility for leadership, alongside and with the support of an attentive and thoughtful supervisor whose aim is not to judge but to discern current strengths and next steps for growth. Remember, we do our part, but be confident in this: God who began a good work in you will bring it to completion in Christ Jesus (Philippians 1:6).
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Its on the superpass site.. I havent posted any relevant flashback times. they messed with the program an ou can only selt flashback in 5 minute intervals instead of right to the minute an the timing is off.
Whats the deal with Janelle and Brit "knowing" they are coming into the game at some point. Are they really going to position themselves to win without knowing if they are even coming into the game. They could be screwing themselves out of a chance for one of their people to win and thus giving up 100kB TW sick of seeing old players. Can we just get a season with new players and thats it.
Having the coaches enter the game will be very stupid. I don't see how this is going to go well. If the coaches enter their players will realize that that coaches screwed them this whole time and turn on them. Also since they have no alliances with other coaches players there will be no way to keep them in the house unless the HGs are as dumb as last years newbs.
what are fish/fishies?!?! it keeps coming up in the live feed posts im a BB newbie
Wow! I didn't know that Danielle was so unliked in the house. Her own teammate hates her. Also Janelle and Brit were talking about her before they fell asleep. Apparently she asks to many questions and doesn't pick up on social ques. Kara said she is catty and immature and she never shuts up. I think we have a new Kalia this season.
Hey ugot good to see ya!! LOL thanks for your response--remind me, have the last few seasons "first week" been this whacko? Looking forward to weeks ahead--I see loads of explosions coming. Funny watching/reading about them talk game almost 24/7.BBLite coming anytime soon? SP sucks!
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Earlier this year, game web site IGN opened its doors to a batch of small, independent developers, giving them an opportunity of a lifetime: to appear on a reality show and potentially embarrass themselves on camera with quickly conceptualized and cringe-worthy game concepts.
Originally, IGN's Indie Open House project was of a smaller scale, offering complimentary office space, internet access, consulting services and plenty of fine perks that were much more attractive than working out of one's garage or basement. It sounded great.
Somehow, that mutated into The Next Game Boss, a reality program in which we watch hard-codin' and hard-drinkin' indie game developers compete for... well, we're not quite sure. It seems they're just competing for competition's sake.
The debut episode of The Next Game Boss focused on creating a unique a memorable boss monster, with five teams competing. Tipster Allan was helpful enough to collect some of the most unwatchable moments from this contest into a 4 minute digest/remix.
The clear winner in terms of possible embarrassment is Team Runt with its evil creation, Mistress Emasculate, an angry menopausal woman leading a feminist army in control of the European Union. Here's the description of their game, Feminist Apocalypse.
"Once nearly all of the men are subdued in labor camps, the world is out of control. Without the help of men, women can't handle nature and nature begins to over power them. Their biological clocks are ticking, afterall," the game concept reads. "Women launch nuclear weapons to destroy nature."
"They do what they're good at: they overreact," explains Team Runt, going on to say that the childless, man-hating dominatrix can only be defeated by convincing her to love men again. It's a most impressively awkward presentation, captured for your viewing displeasure.
Feel like watching some reality show trainwreckery starring burgeoning video game developers? Ready your facepalming hand. This is the video for you.


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Meet Jeanne Quinn: A Well-Rounded Social Media Luminary
Jeanne leads the Cisco Global Partner Marketing and Small Business teams with an optimal social plan to help the teams deliver business results and increase their work effectiveness.
Leading and managing the social media strategy for Global Partner Marketing and Small Business is Jeanne's specialty. Throughout the years, she has been pivotal on educating the Partner Marketing and Sales teams about everything related to social media including the benefits of using it, implementation methods, best practices and alignment of resources for ongoing support.
Beyond that, Jeanne is the cornerstone for developing a social strategy for partners, working collaboratively with communication teams to ensure there is a cohesive message to partners, and what we hear from partners via social listening is fed back into the business. Her team is piloting innovations using the Social Hub to improve how we respond what we hear from social listening, and tying partner social profile data from Social Login with our Channel Marketing Database. She also talks to partners about effective listening and how it can help their overall marketing strategy.
Jeanne's Social Achievements for Cisco Small Business
During her spare time, this SME continues to oversee social media for Small Business as it transitions to Lief Koepsel's Small Business Marketing team. She is always working to discover and implement innovative social initiatives. For instance, she led the first pilot to have Facebook Like buttons placed on all Small Business Series web pages (US and UK) on November 11, 2011. In another project, she worked closely with the social media listening team to implement the first ever Listening Center with a Small Business breakout.
Since Jeanne started incorporating social media into the Small Business group's marketing efforts targeted at resellers and customers, there's been a significant return on investment. For instance, the team has seen an approximately 200% increase in community growth across all their external social channels!
Four Steps to Reaching Social Media Excellence
During her time in Small Business Marketing, Jeanne led the team through four crucial steps to achieve social excellence, and has been working to infuse the same strategy into Global Partner Marketing over the past year:
1) Listening: Leveraging various social media listening tools, the group was able to identify their audience segment on Twitter and Facebook. In addition, they were able to assess the audience's user behavior and information needs in these social networks.
2) Content Development: Based on the audience profiles and user behavior, they developed content for the Small Business blog and YouTube channel that met the needs of their audience including how-to tips, product reviews and basic technology explanations. This content helped customers understand how to use technology to improve their business, and gave partners selling to small business content they could use in their own marketing and social media efforts.
3) Amplification: The content was then amplified across their Twitter and Facebook channels.
4) Listening and Engagement: Through their social channels, the team responded to feedback from their community and also participated in existing conversations from third party blogs and social networks. Jeanne ensures the inclusion of social media practices across all marketing efforts.
With the help of Jeanne's efforts, Cisco's Small Business Marketing Group was recognized by AMI Partners with the "Excellence Award in Demand Generation." One of Jeanne's colleagues Kate Spring says about Jeanne, "She's truly an innovator and leader in social media." I couldn't agree more.
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The Article 29 Working Group, which advises the EU on data protection issues, has been looking into search engine privacy practices for some time. The group appears to have a special fixation on Google, which is the dominant player in most European countries apart from the Czech Republic. Now, an official from the group has just revealed that the inquiry into data retention practices will drag on into next year.
"We have written to Google to say that we are continuing our work, that it is not limited to Google, and that we will adopt an opinion at the beginning of 2008," an unnamed official told Reuters after the most recent working group meeting. "We want to adopt a comprehensive opinion, saying how long they can keep data, and which ones."
Google has its own ideas about this. It would love to keep data forever, only anonymizing it after two years or so. Europe thinks two years might be too long, and the inquiry has already prompted Google to voluntarily anonymize data after only 18 months instead.
Google is also under examination by a different part of the European Commission after it announced plans to merge with DoubleClick. That move is being evaluated by the Commission, which looks set to pursue an in-depth inquiry into the deal. The Article 29 report could well be released just as the Commission finishes up looking at the deal. Though the reports are technically unrelated, both will deal with the issue of Google's massive data retention and so could provide fodder for critics of the company.


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Apple currently sells its highest-end iPads, also known as iPad 4, in three models.
There's one with 16 gigabytes of storage, one with 32 gigabytes, and one with 64 gigabytes.
Over on 9to5Mac, the always reliable Mark Gurman is reporting that Apple is about to come out with one more model for the high-end iPad line-up.
Gurman thinks that this new model will be an iPad with a whopping 128 gigabytes of storage.
His best evidence is that Apple's latest update to iOS hints at the existence of 128 gigabyte iOS device.