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So, as the autumn draws in (terrifyingly quickly), the hours are ticking before my residency starts on Monday. As it is (for me) the best weekend of the year in Llandudno, with the free Llawn Arts Festival in full swing, I thought I'd go and test the water to see what people might think of the project, and to test out a few aspects of it. I hope this quick blog of some of the results might give you a flavour....
With a box full of lovely fliers for the project (many thanks to CALL for making these), I started off by wandering up to y Tabernacl, as I'm going to be based in y Festri there. It had been transformed into a beautiful and surreal haven! Perfect! We'll be hosting the 'Finding the Centre' here at 2pm on Saturday 23rd July, when you can come and get your blue plaque and set off in search of naming and tagging your personal Centre of Llandudno.
Two highlights of the Friday evening were engaging with the Mostyn Portffolio group of young artists, and meeting a gaggle (their chosen collective noun!) of town councillors and the deputy Mayor at the opening of Llawn. Their enthusiasm for the project was a fantastic way to begin! Topics ranged from summer and winter dog walking routes, public toilets known as Bog Island and laylines of the universe running through the Great Orme (good job i've got some divining rods to use in the 'Finding the Centre' event on Saturday 23rd September).
On Saturday, I started off by going to Look Out. A fantastic project created by Andy Field and pupils from Ysgol Morfa Rhianedd, with the pupils talking to you personally about their experience of Llandudno, and their visions for the future (utopian and distopian). As we sat gazing out over Llandudno (the picture above is of the view), I was guided by Ella: here is a little clip of what she said:
You can listen to the results at aplacetolookout.co.uk, alongside similar projects across the world. I really hope we can add this extraordinary work to the People's Map.
On the way back down I meet locals Rebecca (moved here when she was 5) and Steve (born and bred here) on the Zig Zag walk down towards the Grand Hotel.
We walked and talked of hanging gardens or an icerink as an alternative to the proposed flat development next to the Grand (you can see the site above, between the hotel on the left and the arcade on the right), which is very much opposed by residents who are "trying to organise against it", the hospitality and anti-racist nature of Welsh people, wind, floods, and why they alway return to Llandudno.
As I made it to the sea front, I started recording a soundscape on the Esplanade, when I came across Benjamin Buck and Charles Gershom, Host Operator, making their definitive Audio Chronology Survey of various places across Llandudno.
I'd love these sound recordings to go on the map!
Then lunch with Wanda Zyborska. We talked monuments, monumentalising and naming. I'll be walking with Wanda to find out more, and hope she'll give a talk at some point about her fascinating, long term work with monuments, which has taken a topic turn with recent world Monument - toppling. We even tried out some delicious mini-monuments....
Then, after a quick chat with Mr & Mrs Clarke about psychogeography and 'deep mapping', I returned home, excited and exhausted by all the ideas and connections... I can't wait to start on Monday!


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Backbone Radio, Helen Krieble, December 9, 2012
Station: KNUS, 710AM
Show: Backbone Radio with Krista Kafer and Matt Dunn
Guests: Krieble
Link: http://www.710knus.com/PodcastBackboneRadio.aspx
Date: December 9, 2012
Topics: Red Card Solution, Amnesty, Immigration, Work Permit, Visa, Employment Agencies, Outsourcing, Security Check, Background Check, Fingerprints, Border Security, Border Agents, Bureaucracy
HOST KRISTA KAFER: [Responding to Krieble's assertion that the Red Card Solution is an advantage to the American Worker, because employers won't want to pay the fees to employment agencies to find foreign workers, if they can hire someone from their community.] Yeah, that makes sense. So, what I can imagine is, say, out on the eastern plains we've got quite a bit of agriculture. I could imagine that there are employers – family farms, small farmers, who need a group of people to do work at harvest time. They've advertised in the local paper. They've put it out there on Craigslist. They've tried desperately to get a few Americans to come help pick those crops, and they haven't gotten a single taker. Now they're faced with the prospect – let their entire investment, their farm, their products, their fruits and vegetables rot in the fields, or, they can hire someone illegal. Meanwhile there's an illegal worker here who needs to feed their family, who's faced with another no-win situation. They can go to work illegeally, or, they can try to make their way back to their country of origin empty handed. This is a way of saying, "You know what? We can find a way to make the necessary hiring of employees for these places legal, and we can make it at no cost to the American citizen. So in this particular situation, you've got the farmer and the worker – what would the worker who's here now, have to do in order to be legally hired by that farm?
HELEN KRIEBLE: Well, when we did a poll, which is now about 4 years ago, Americans – 75 percent said that it was "amnesty" if people who had entered the country illegally could get right with our laws inside the country. So, our recommendation was [to]have these employment agencies outside our borders. So, they don't have to go home to their home countries. But they must go, by appointment, outside the borders, run through the security check, prove they have a job, or take a job, so they're self-supporting, and return to the United States according to the rule of law. Which, could all be done in 48 hours. Because remember, you don't have bureaucrats who have no incentives to do a hundred people a day versus two people a day. But a private business has every incentive in the world to do it and do it well and quickly. So, that would be our recommendation. They would go through that process properly. And it would work! For all people in this country illegally, who have not committed a crime, and have a job, and that should be the only criteria, which again, is against this Let's-Do-A-Special-Deal-For-This-Group-Or-A-Special-Deal-For-That-Group-And-Let-Everybody-Else-Suffer. This solves the problem for everybody in the country now who is undocumented and anybody who wants to come into the country. And there will be no wait list. If you are a PhD, and there's a job posted on that website, and you want to take it, then apply for it. You get it, you go through the simple process, and you're here in 48 hours with a legitimate work permit. So, it's good for people outside of the country. It's good for the undocumented inside the country. It's good for employers. And it's outstanding for border security, because the only way you'll have border security is if people looking for work enter a gate. And that leaves just the bad guys on the border for a border agent to capture. And it will be a whole lot easier, because it might be 50,000 a year, instead of 400,000-500,000 a year.
KAFER: Well, what I can see, is that the illegal immigrants that are here in this country, that the vast majority who are not criminals, will just, you know, take that bus ticket—probably provided by their employer, go get that legal card, come back to work, and the remainder of the people who don't want to get legal probably have a reason for not wanting to get legal, in that they're probably criminals.
KRIEBLE: Exactly. Well, and exactly. And I think, you know, when you have a chance to get legal, to prove yourself and you don't take it, or if you're an employer and you have a chance to get legal workers and you don't take that opportunity, then you deserve to be criminalized. And our laws should go into full effect against those people. But the people who really want to obey the law, but just can't find a way to do it, would have this mechanism. And on the other side, the citizenship side, which is SO important. We can't devalue our citizenship. We can't give it away to people who don't know what it is to be an American, who don't understand that America is an idea, and that we are, "We the People" with a responsibility to preserve freedom and opportunity. As individuals, the government reports to us. If they don't understand that, then they are not in a position to be offered citizenship. They're not Americans. Being American has nothing to do with where you come from, or your culture, your language, your color, your religion. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the belief in founding principles. And, um, just passing it out to tens of thousands of people, millions of people, who don't know those things, and don't have allegiance to the United States–that would be a terrible thing. So, fixing citizenship and what we demand of people who want to be citizens, of putting the right process in, is something that's going to take a little longer. But just because you're in the Work Permit Group doesn't mean that you can't join the Citizenship Group at some point. […]

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Hummingbirds in Hayastan
By Ali Hamlin, AEN volunteer
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, was a champion of environmental activism in Kenya and founder of the Green Belt Movement, an organization that works to empower communities through tree planting. In discussing the seemingly insurmountable task of healing our natural environment, Maathai inspired others with her story of the hummingbird. In this tale, a forest is threatened by a huge fire. The animals of the forest look on with the feeling that there is nothing they can do to stop the destruction of their home. But a lone hummingbird takes action, spraying water on the fire with its tiny beak. All the other animals say to the hummingbird, "There's nothing you can do. You're too small. You can't put out the fire." The hummingbird turns to them and says, "I am doing the best I can." No matter how small, insignificant, or hopeless you may feel, Maathai's message to the world was to "Be a hummingbird. Do the best you can."
A few weeks ago I had a hummingbird moment here in Armenia. Two friends and I climbed Mt. Hatis, which is about an hour's drive from Yerevan. It was a clear, warm day. The obsidian fields on Hatis sparkled in the sunlight, while Ararat watched over us from the horizon. But while the natural beauty of the place wowed us, it was hard to ignore the scattered trash. Lower portions of the mountain were especially littered with plastic bags and bottles. In my two months so far here in Armenia, I've found this phenomenon is all too common. My friends and I chose to pass by the trash on our ascent, but we knew we'd collect what we could on the way down.
At the summit, we met a couple from Yerevan who shared the hike down with us. During our descent, my friends and I started to collect any trash we passed. Initially when we stopped to bend down and pick up an old, flattened, plastic bottle, it seemed like our new friends from Yerevan thought we had lost our minds. They looked on at us hummingbirds as we did what we could to clean up the mountain, but they didn't offer a hand. Of course we wouldn't be able to collect everything, but we were doing our best. At some point, something must have changed in our new friends, and they started to pitch in. We never told them they should help us. But I think they realized they could be hummingbirds too.
Cleaning up Armenia is a daunting task and it's easy to become pessimistic. But leading by example is a powerful tool. Sometimes it seems hard to say, "No, I don't want that plastic bag to hold the two apples I just bought," especially when the person bagged them up already and now they're looking at you like you have four heads. I'm certainly guilty of walking out with the bag on many occasions. But maybe one day when you say you don't want a plastic bag, the person in line behind you will hear you and realize they don't need a bag either. And slowly but surely it catches on. And maybe one day Armenia will be full of hummingbirds; hummingbirds who do their best despite the odds.


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The God Dependency
I have a God dependency. It appears when I am going through trying times, a turbulent flight for instance. It mostly leads me to happiness, on rare occassions it leads me to sadness, and sometimes to guilt. For some, it can be obsessive in nature, to the point of making them slave to it, making them want to depend on the will of God for everything.
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When the Worthington Kilbourne High School girls basketball team begins its season Tuesday at Licking Heights, fourth-year coach Steve Palmer doesn't want to see any letdowns.
When the Worthington Kilbourne High School girls basketball team begins its season Tuesday at Licking Heights, fourth-year coach Steve Palmer doesn't want to see any letdowns.
"The thing I remember most about last year was the lapses we had," said Palmer, whose team finished 3-18 overall last season. "We'd play three solid quarters and then we'd let down.
"Those 3- to 6-minute lapses ended up costing us. We can't have letdowns like that. If we can avoid those lapses, I like our chances (of improving)."
Those lapses contributed to Kilbourne's 59-20 loss to Gahanna in the first round of the Division I tournament last year. The Wolves trailed 6-5 early in the first quarter before the Lions went on a 22-4 run to take a 28-9 lead into halftime.
The OCC-Central Division also proved to be unforgiving to teams that didn't play complete games. The Wolves finished 2-12 in the league to place seventh, behind Upper Arlington (13-1), Dublin Coffman (10-4), Hilliard Davidson (10-4), Hilliard Darby (8-6), Thomas Worthington (8-6) and Central Crossing (5-9) and ahead of Westland (0-14). UA was ranked eighth in the final Division I state poll.
"With teams like UA, Coffman, Thomas and the Hilliards, it's always going to be a difficult division," 5-foot-7 senior guard Olivia Zimmerman said. "Right now, we just need to focus on our game and not worry about anyone else's."
Kilbourne graduated four players from a year ago, including Laken Harris, who averaged 2.2 points and 1.4 rebounds last season and made honorable mention all-league. Zimmerman, who served as a captain last year, and seniors Sarah Bechtel (5-7, guard) and Darby McMullen (5-11, post player) will serve as captains this season. The trio lead the team along with junior Marissa Elliott (5-7, guard), who averaged 5.4 points and 2.1 rebounds last season.
The Wolves will be looking to improve offensively this season. Last year, after defeating Licking Heights 66-33 in the season opener, Kilbourne did not top the 60-point mark again. The team's two other victories were a 57-34 win over Westland and a 43-34 win over the Cougars.
Zimmerman believes improved team speed will help the Wolves this season.
"This year we're going to be a lot faster and push the ball up the court more," she said. "We were decently fast last year, but we have some post players who are a little quicker on their feet this year."
Palmer also is expecting big contributions from 6-0 junior post player Mary Frances Gardner, who dressed for varsity last season but didn't get much playing time. Juniors BreOnna Brown (5-9, post player/forward) and Brie Roberts (5-6, guard) and sophomores Maria Calvert (5-10, post player) and Lauren Barnhart (5-6, guard) and freshman Kayla Pack (5-6, guard) are new to varsity.
"What's going to make the difference in how we do this year is how much younger players can contribute," Palmer said. "They have to learn how to make quick passes and decisions and their moves need to be more polished. They can't play scared for the first 12 to 15 games. We need to have them contribute early on."


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My all time favorite movie is Fiddler on the Roof. I love Tevye's discussions with himself as he weighs the options of his daughter's choices in life partners with "on the other hand." I feel the sadness both for him and Chava as he reaches the conclusion that "There is no other hand." Truth to tell, issues large and small nearly always have an "other hand."
Moving to self-employment as a writer has brought its own set of "other hands." I addressed the need for true re-creation in Monday's "Working on Recovery" blog. The work itself brings another set of challenges. I learned pretty quickly that staying busy, which I am good at, was not the same as being productive.
• My story "Rags and Riches" in September 2011 issue of Cricket Magazine required confirmation that Milk and Wine Lilies (properly called crinums) live for generations on end. I grabbed my Passalong Plants book, knowing Steve Bender and Felder Rushing were authorities. Confirmation was quick, but one garden story led to another. By the time I reached the trumpet vine, I knew I had wandered far off task.
• A twenty minute break for yard work extends into an hour as the Goldilocks Syndrome kicks in with just one more bush to prune or one more set of weeds to pull.
• Then there's probably the biggest distraction as a simple search on the Internet for immigrations patterns for the Katz family in early 1900s becomes a morning chasing one set of interesting immigration pictures and personal stories after another.
I figured out my problem quickly. On the one hand, I was very busy. On the other hand, I was not making progress. I needed a visual solution that showed accomplishment or lack thereof. I began using my Smithsonian calendar to record writing activities each day. This includes research, critiquing for friends, attendance at events like the Children's Book Festival coming in April, and actual writing. Books I've read that week go at the top of the page since reading is part of my work. Blank spaces have reasons noted if they are real – like this week's gum surgery. Otherwise, the very blankness rebukes me by its emptiness.
Have I cured myself? Not likely. I still chase a few rabbits all the way through the briar patch. But I have fewer "before" pages (2004) and more "after" pages (2011). On the one hand, in self-employment, I sometimes have the worst boss I've ever had. On the other hand, I sometimes have the worst employee.


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text: Existing home sales rebounded in July, while mortgage rates continued to decline, the National Association of Realtors reported Monday. Sales rose 4.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.33 million units in July, up from an upwardly revised pace of 5.10 million units in June. July sales were 0.6 percent above the 5.30 million unit pace seen in July 2001. "Mortgage interest rates were historically low in July. They're the lowest since Freddie Mac started tracking them in 1971, and looking at other sources, we have to go back to 1967 to see interest rates as low as they are today," said NAR chief economist David Lereah. He said low interest rates and other market fundamentals should keep the housing market on track for another record year.


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House of Cards: The Final Season
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Earlier this week, Apple took to the stage to announce pricing, availability and generally show off the Apple Watch. Regardless of how you feel about Apple and their devices, it's hard to deny that the Apple Watch has a lot of excellent features. The fitness side of things looks particularly comprehensive and there are some interesting features where interacting with others is concerned. However, it seems a lot like a lot of good features cobbled together, rather than a coherent experience. Say what you will about the Cards Interface used in Android Wear, but at least the vast majority of apps and notifications look and act the same. The Apple Watch is also expensive. very expensive, and no matter how nice their bands look, the watch face itself still remains the same, even that $10,000 Edition…edition.
Google and their partners should be worried about the Apple Watch, not because it's a necessarily superior product, but because Apple know how to market something, and boy do they have one hell of a brand cachet. Google and the likes of Motorola and LG need to step up and really highlight Android Wear's strengths, of which they're are many. There are two strengths I think Google really needs to push in new marketing; pricing and choice. Not only is the Apple Watch pricey, but aside from the bands – which you can change on the G Watch R, the ZenWatch, the Sony SmartWatch 3 and most other Android Wear watch to whatever you like – the watch face remains the same. There's little choice with the Apple Watch and everyone is going to know exactly which model you have (at least for the next 12 months or so). With Android Wear however, there's a good selection of styles and types of watches available, and this is only set to expand. Google's "Be Together, Not The Same" motto is perfect for Android Wear and a slew of TV spots and ads all over YouTube would do wonders to make people think twice about that pricey iWatch, sorry, Apple Watch.
Choice is an important thing when it comes to watches, they're something we're going to put on every morning and wear all day, all week. I still wear an original G Watch, and while I've scuffed it a few times, I love how simple it is. Sure, it's a little chunky on my wrist and I'd agree with people that say there's not much to it, but I love it. Why? Because it's modern, minimal and simple. Others love the Moto 360, because it looks like a traditional watch and that charger is pretty cool as well. Older users might want a Watch Urbane from LG and sportier folk can go for a SmartWatch 3. Now, if I were an iPhone user, I'd have one Apple Watch to choose from, just different bands and casings. The point is that there's more choice with Android Wear than there ever will be on the Apple Watch side of things and Google needs to push that fact through fresh advertizing.
Then there's the whole pricing argument. In the interest of fairness, we'll compare the 42mm sizes here, with the Apple Watch Sport starting at $399. You could compare that edition to the Sony SmartWatch 3 which runs about $230 or so, or the basic G Watch which is pretty darn cheap right about now. Meanwhile, the steel case Apple Watch starts at $599 and depending on which strap combination you have it can touch $1,000. I can get a steel Moto 360 for $300, so I could basically get two for the price of the starting Apple Watch in a steel casing.
Okay, so these watches aren't all the same, but there's a big gulf in pricing between any Apple Watch and any Android Wear watch. If I were Motorola, I'd be shouting from the rooftops that my device is cheaper. Well, not cheaper, but better value. I understand why Apple prices their devices so highly, it's not just to make money, but to also put a value on the iPhone, the MacBooks and so on that's more than just a price tag. There's a reason people turn and look when a Ferrari drives past; it's because their expensive. Advertizing that your product is much cheaper might not help its reputation in the market, but the more users it gets on Android Wear, the more developers will come, and the stronger the whole platform will become.
Who knows how well the Apple Watch will perform at launch, but one things's for sure, the competition in the smartwatch space is about to get super fierce, and unless Google want another uphill battle to reach the top as they had with Android, they need to step up their game when it comes to marketing.


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By 2017, an estimated 36.9 million (31.1million - 43.9 million) people globally were living with HIV. The HIV epidemic remains uncontrolled with 1.8 million people reported to have been newly infected in the same year, and 940,000(670,000-1.300,000) dying from AIDS-related illnesses globally. The therapeutic and preventive benefits of ART highlight the importance and urgency to identify all people living with HIV (PLWH), link them to care, initiate them on ART, attain and maintain viral suppression among them. The progress towards achieving this has been evaluated using the care cascade, which unfortunately demonstrates massive drop-offs along the cascade in almost all care settings. To achieve the goals of the WHO test and treat strategy, each step of the cascade must be optimized. The losses from the cascade in the test-and-treat era need therefore to be quantified, the steps suffering the largest dropouts identified, the reasons for these dropouts analysed, and novel interventions designed.
The thesis explores the barriers to care engagement along the HIV care cascade and evaluates the effectiveness of a streamlined patient-centered care model in addressing the barriers along the cascade within the context of an ongoing test and treat trial called SEARCH (Sustainable East African Research for Community Health) conducted in rural Uganda and Kenya. A qualitative analysis conducted among the study communities identified multiple barriers along the cascade with stigma in its different manifestations (anticipated, internalized and enacted) appearing as a major barrier across multiple steps of care engagement. Other barriers identified were behavioral (treatment fatigue, forgetting to take medications), structural (distance to clinics, poverty), health system (poor health provider attitudes, patient-unfriendly clinic set-up), social (work interference, lack of social support), and drug related (drug side effects, pill burden). A combination intervention strategy with multiple interventions targeting different barriers and different phases on the cascade simultaneously to improve outcomes among PLWH was identified as the optimal approach to improve the care cascade. We thus designed and applied a streamlined patient-centered multi-component strategy to improve patient outcomes along the care cascade. The strategy achieved 73% linkage among individuals not engaged in care, 96% retention among all patients in care at 12 months and 80% population-wide viral suppression at year two.
The streamlined patient-centered care model improved outcomes along all components of the HIV care cascade. However, the cascade still has leakages. Innovative, targeted interventions to seal the leaks need to be developed to help end the HIV epidemic.


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About Pamella
Before we start working on designing a healthy lifestyle that balances your unique wants and needs, let me share a bit about myself so you can get to know me better.
I am a certified Meditation Instructor, Spring Forest QiGong Teacher, Reiki Practitioner, Certified Health Coach with the Health Coach Institute, and an Essential Oil Advocate and Educator. I also dabble in astrology and am deeply connected with my intuition.
Combined with the technical training I've received, my background as a communications and PR professional has given me a diverse set of tools to make me a better coach.
I've had my share of health challenges throughout my life. But by opening myself up to new methods of coping and healing, I found a combination of natural practices that have helped me manage my pain and find relief. I've understood the impact that mindfulness, breathing, and meditation can have on my physical health.
One of the most important lessons I've learned is that health and happiness are not a destination. They are a journey and the path continues to change as we progress through different phases of life. They also require trust, practice, dedication and help, and you don't need to navigate alone.
I'm constantly receiving guidance from the people around me who I trust, including my own health coach. As I continue to teach and coach I learn, and as I continue to learn I am in service to share with others.
Peace out!
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Museum currently exhibits 3053 unique bags.
OK, Bag Monster is a moronic name, but Monster has become a catch-all phrase for "Hey, this will help you do something" This section will help you find the bags you're looking for (like you're really looking for them). Leaving everything blank will retrieve a list of all bags, however that may cause the page to load slowly.
This is the CD22 bag.
This is the V1 Bag.
The cool thing about this bag is not shown on my site, unfortunately, because a FAQ on how to take pictures is printed in the gusset.
This is the V3 bag.
This is the V4 bag. I don't know where David Shomper finds all these Virgin Blue variations.
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The Official Complimentary One Book, One VancouverVogon Poetry Slam Barf BagI listened to Vogon Poetry at the Library and all I got was this lousy barf bag.


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The Grange hosts dances featuring local musical talent, including an annual Valentine's Day Dance and Holiday Potluck Dinner. Grange membership also provides educational and agricultural workshops for community improvement, including everything from earthquake preparedness to bee keeping to canning. We also host weekly exercise classes, a weekly line dancing class, a monthly Ladies' Tea focusing on a variety of topics, and an annual Farmer's Potluck.
If you're interested in organizing a Grange sponsored event, please complete the Event Request Form to get started and refer to Event Protocol Form for details on managing an event, the Event Checklist to track your progress, and the Event Follow-up Form to document the results.


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GENEVA — Alarmed by starvation in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, aid agencies sent a mobile medical clinic there on Friday and planned to increase medical support.
The aid workers returned late Thursday from a second relief mission to the town this week, and were horrified after witnessing the death of a 16-year-old boy at a makeshift health clinic, presumably from hunger.
"They were in the town for seven hours," said Christophe Boulierac, a Geneva-based spokesman for the United Nations' children's agency, Unicef. "He died in front of them."
Among 10 older children the team examined, it also saw a 17-year-old boy whose condition was life-threatening and who needed medical evacuation.
A local relief committee that interacts with aid agencies reported that 32 people had died from hunger in the past month, Bettina Luescher, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, told reporters in Geneva. She noted that it was not possible to independently confirm that figure.
Health workers examined 25 children under age 5 and found 22 of them suffering from moderate to severe malnutrition, Mr. Boulierac said. World Health Organization nutritionists and experts examined an additional 387 people, but the results of their assessment were not immediately available.
Elizabeth Hoff, the World Health Organization's representative in Syria, said by telephone that the clearance for the mobile health clinic was "a great step forward." The two teams reaching Madaya this week found that the 40,000 inhabitants were getting health care from two doctors and two medical workers with limited training and almost no resources. The single health center in Madaya operates out of a basement room with no beds and almost no medicines; patients lay or sat on the floor.
"The people we met in Madaya were exhausted and extremely frail," Unicef's representative in Damascus, Hanaa Singer, said in a statement. "Doctors were emotionally distressed and mentally drained, working around the clock with very limited resources.
"It is simply unacceptable that this is happening in the 21st century."
Aid agencies were preparing to begin a program to vaccinate children, Ms. Hoff said, and United Nations officials said another convoy of trucks with additional food, medicine and other supplies was expected to leave in the coming days.
The emaciated and weakened state of many children and residents of Madaya, under siege for most of the past six months, has only deepened concern over the plight of about 400,000 people the United Nations believes are trapped in 14 other besieged areas in Syria. Many have been cut off from any help for much longer periods than Madaya has been, sometimes for years.
"The access granted for limited deliveries of humanitarian supplies is not enough," Unicef and the W.H.O. said in a joint statement, calling for the immediate lifting of all sieges, delivery of medical and nutritional therapeutic care, and evacuation of the wounded and sick.


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Published at Wednesday, August 28th 2019, 11:26:04 AM by Aubrette Favreau. Living Room
Most living rooms are constructed with a traditional sectional couch, love seat and reclining chair. Many traditional spaces also feature hardwood floors and area rugs in the middle of the room. The room is capped off with attractive frames and nice accents on the mantle. A nice entertainment center also adds a nice touch and houses not only the television, but also music equipment and accessories. Country living designs give living rooms a nice rustic, down-to-earth feel when people spend time in this living space. In addition to soft, comfortable couches and cozy chairs, people also add nice country accents, such as wreaths, framed, cross-stitched pictures and beautiful quilts to bring out the country look in the room. Big, soft couches and chairs, oblong-shaped coffee tables with soft colored walls make the room feel welcoming and comfortable.
Living rooms of houses are very important areas since the family members tend to spend quite a lot of time over there. This is an area where family members meet for recreation, watching TV, entertaining guests, etc and so it is very important that the living area should be a bright and cheery place which will bring about happiness in the minds of all concerned.
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How to use Autel MaxiScan MS309
Find your car's OBD port, turn on the ignition and plug the MS309 in. Press enter on the tool and the unit will then scan for the protocol that your car uses, the unit will then link into your car and display the engine fault codes it has found. You then select the 'Erase' option from the menu and then the engine warning light will go off when you restart the car. Of course you will need to fix the fault to avoid the engine waring light appearing again.
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Stunt driving tickets are given out in response to a law that was created in 2008 to combat speeding at high rates of speed.
A stunt driving ticket can be given to any driver caught exceeding the speed limit by more that 50km/h. The offence is a traffic ticket issued under the Highway Traffic Act which is a provincial law.
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Open Sessions
Friday, January 4, 1000-1300
Narratives in ICTD Research: A Workshop on Theory and Praxis of the Most Significant Change Technique
(Room: CR2)
Impact evaluation forms one of the perennial and core areas of research within the ICTD community which entails the use of a diverse range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies—separately or as mixed methods. In this open session, we propose to stress on the importance of narratives within the ICTD research and in so doing, familiarize the session participants with the theory and praxis of the Most Significant Change Technique.
Aparna Moitra (University of Delhi)
Pooja Ichplani (Johns Hopkins University)
Archna Kumar (University of Delhi)
Beyond IVR: Voice-User Interfaces for Emerging Smartphone Users (Room: SR2)
With the steady growth of smartphone users and increasing number of mobile Internet users, new types of voice user interfaces—such as voice-based search and voice assistants—are becoming an integral part for smartphone users' everyday lives. Following the long-term interest of the ICTD community in user interfaces for users in developing contexts, we aim to host an unconference to bring together like-minded individuals to develop a research agenda for these interfaces among underserved communities.
Apoorva Bhalla (IIIT Bangalore)
Bidisha Chaudhuri (IIIT Bangalore)
Linus Kendall (Sheffield Hallam University and IIIT Bangalore)
Design Workshop: Google's Next Billion Product Design Framework (Room: SR1)
Hundreds of millions of people are coming online in countries like India, Brazil, and Indonesia. The technical contexts, social settings, and cultural nuances of the countries are critical to consider in the act of designing new technologies. At Google, we've taken the insights from our field research and developed a framework for designing and building technology aimed at emerging markets. The framework offers three main pillars of experience: Usable, Useful and Engaging, each with three essential sub-themes. We find these nine essential points are crucial when creating apps, services, and devices tailored to the lives and local infrastructure of the next billion users. In this workshop, we aim to share this framework, methodology of implementation, and facilitate discussion between attendees about how the framework applies to technology in their own work and lives. This workshop is aimed at researchers, designers, product thinkers who are thinking deeply about building new products for the next billion users, and/or intend to extend their product offering to these users.
Muzayun Mukhtar (Google)
Garen Checkley (Google)
Prachi Nagpal (Google)
Aysha Siddique (Google)
Divy Thakkar (Google)
Mrinal Sharma (Google)
The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for Fairer Platform Work (Room: SR9)
This open session will address the rise of platform work. It will introduce the Fairwork Foundation—a project designed to use academic research to find ways to support platforms workers and improve conditions. The aim of the session is to explore and understand what "fair work"—mediated on online platforms—means in an Indian context. Participants will discuss the challenges and opportunities, reflecting on how these can be met in practice.
Mark Graham (University of Oxford)
Jamie Woodcock (University of Oxford)
Richard Heeks (University of Manchester)
Jean-Paul VanBelle (University of Cape Town)
Re-Imagining Primary Healthcare in the Age of AI (Room: CR12)
The Government of India envisions upgrading existing primary healthcare facilities to Health & Wellness Centres that will double the scope of services and care areas without the presence of any medical doctors. In this scenario, how can AI and related technologies empower mid-level health workers to deliver high-quality primary healthcare services to rural, last-mile populations in India? In this interactive workshop, attendees will work with public health experts, decision makers, and AI researchers to brainstorm and design an AI-enabled Health & Wellness Centre, and hence, the primary healthcare model of the future.
Amrita Mahale (Wadhwani AI)
Nikhil Jagtiani (Wadhwani AI)
Rahul Panicker (Wadhwani AI)
Raghu Dharmaraju (Wadhwani AI)
Decision-makers and practitioners from the WISH Foundation
Friday, January 4, 1500-1630
Designing Culturally Aware and Resource Appropriate Digital Mental Health Interventions (Room: SR1)
In the Global South, the burden of mental health disorders is unique, with increased stigma, fewer resources, and 80 percent of those with a mental health disorder living in the Global South. Considering the impact of identity-based attributes on mental illness and technology usage, we convene a diverse group of mental health professionals, ICTD researchers, and HCI researchers to discuss best practices and research priorities when doing digital mental health research in the Global South.
Sachin Pendse (MSR India)
Mamta Sood (AIIMS Delhi)
Seema Mehrotra (NIMHANS Bengaluru)
Amit Sharma (MSR India)
Sustainable Business Models for Last-Mile Connectivity (Room: SR2)
The open session on Sustainable Business Models for Last Mile Connectivity will look into innovative business models that enable both connectivity as well as sustains the connectivity after it has been enabled to the unconnected. Grassroots Internet access initiatives are exploring ways of driving down the costs of deploying and operating network infrastructure through the use of innovative technologies and business models. These deployments have adopted different ways of financing and raising revenue - some of these initiatives provide Internet access at community anchor institutions, and offer a range of complementary products in addition to Internet connectivity. Are these initiatives sustainable financially and otherwise? What are their drivers of sustainability? How do community-centered principles of governance interact with business principles of profitability?
Sarbani Banerjee Belur (Gram Marg, IIT Bombay)
Sharada Srinivasan (University of Pennsylvania)
Ritu Srivastava (Digital Empowerment Foundation)
Listening from the Archives (Room: SR9)
This session explores the use of historical and participatory art methods in ICTD research. Seasoned practitioners, please join us to share your experiences and primary documents. We also welcome researchers new to these methods who hope to learn from the experiences and archival selections of other researchers. As a starting point, we will listen to archival selections from the National Radio Cambodia, including music from 1960s and a lakon ajai (spoken comedy, with translation) from 1984. Before and after the listening portions, we will explore through discussion the ways that contemporary ICT use builds off of older forms of culturally-specific media practices, particularly in postcolonial and post-conflict settings. We hope that the listening portion (which includes rare Khmer traditional music samples) will be an enjoyable and relaxing way to spend conference time. This program was originally developed in collaboration with Lyno Vuth and the Sa Sa Art Project team in Phnom Penh.
Margaret Jack (Cornell University)
Saturday, January 5, 1200-1330
ICTD and Personal Informatics (Room: SR1)
The Personal Informatics (PI) community has explored using smartphones and wearables to better understand various facets of an individual, such as their health and well-being. ICTD has conducted PI-type research (e.g., maternal health tracking), but it has a different philosophical approach towards it. Even though smartphone adoption is increasing in the developing regions, not much work has examined the adoption of such platforms or their requirements. In this panel, we seek to explore how why this is the case, and potential opportunities and challenges in bringing the two communities together towards a shared goal.
Ravi Karkar (University of Washington)
Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech)
Pushpendra Singh (IIIT Delhi)
Shreya Bhatt (Medic Mobile)
Machine Learning for India-Specific Problems (Room: SR2)
Machine Learning (ML) is a branch of AI that provides systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed. In recent years, there has been a widespread interest in ML. ML has been applied across diverse domains like agriculture, automotive, customer service, travel, healthcare, banking and financial services, education etc. This session will focus on India-specific problems that can be addressed by ML. It will be conducted in a workshop style and will have talks and a panel discussion.
Ashish Tendulkar (Google Inc.)
Divy Thakkar (Google Inc.)
Pankaj Gupta (Google Inc.)
Varun Gulshan (Google Inc.)
Social Media, Politics, and the Process of Engagement in the Indian Context (Room: SR7)
Increasingly, political movements in the Global South have been taking place online, and fundamentally understanding this process is essential to the study of democracy. In this session, we will map the intersection of political and social engagement with technology in the Indian context, focusing on the influence of social media. We will be approaching this space from different angles, including qualitative research with campaign organizers, as well as quantitative analysis of political social media.
Divya Siddarth (MSR India)
Anmol Panda (MSR)
Ram Chandrasekharan (MSR)
Drupa Charles (MSR)
Shubi Agarwal (MSR)
Azhagu Meena (Tata Trusts)
Srujana Kamath (MSR)
Do Digital Identity Systems Have a Theory of Inclusion? (Room: SR9)
Designing a national scale unitary digital ID system in democratic regimes can be better understood as a wicked problem which are well served by adopting systems-thinking approaches that explicitly engage with the inherent complexity rather than rationalizing them away. In this session, we engage with diverse perspectives on complexity drawn from the disciplines of computer science, law, and public policy to engage with questions concerning inclusion in digital ID designs and infrastructure.
Bidisha Chaudhuri (IIIT Bangalore)
Is This Time Different? The Novelty of ICT in ICTD (Room: CR12)
The past few decades have born unprecedented technological progress, ushering in an age where new technologies emerge and are adopted at a dizzying pace. In the midst of this, ICTD hopes to understand or capture the potential of these technologies for social, political, and economic change. At times it feels as though we have witnessed a complete transformation into a future that would have been hardly recognizable 5 or 10 years prior. But sometimes it seems that the world stubbornly refuses to change, despite our best efforts. We end up relearning old lessons and repeating the same mistakes. While we have new tools at our disposal, many of the problems we want to tackle remain the same. So which is it? Is this truly a revolutionary period, or is it just hyped up window dressing? And in particular, within our ICTD community, do we find ourselves to be too techno-optimist, or too techno-skeptic? The answer lies between the two extremes, but how do we find the right path ahead, to harness effectively the potential that does exist?
Brandon Liu (Everwell Health Solutions)
Kentaro Toyama (University of Michigan)
Balaji Parthasarathy (IIIT Bangalore)
Shiju Varughese (Central University of Gujarat)
Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech)
Saturday, January 5, 1630-1800
Creating Your Own Path in ICTD (Room: SR1)
As a young researcher, finding productive, reliable mentorship and role models in both personal and professional contexts can be influential, yet challenging. This session offers opportunities for younger researchers to get career guidance and mentorship from a diverse set of experienced members of the ICTD community. The focus of the session will be to expose young researchers to potential career paths and ways of exhibiting leadership in their local community, as well as to support students in making decisions about their futures.
Aaditeshwar Seth (IIT Delhi)
Amy Chen (Everwell Health Solutions, Microsoft Research)
Isabelle Vonèche Cardia (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Kuang Chen (Captricity)
Kurtis Heimerl (University of Washington)
Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Tech)
Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech)
Rahul Panicker (Wadhwani AI)
Sharada Srinivasan (University of Pennsylvania)
Naveena Karusala (University of Washington)
Esther Jang (University of Washington)
Child Trafficking in India: How can Technology Help? (Room: SR2)
The session will present an overview of child trafficking in India through an organisation that is actively working in this domain. After peeking into the ground scenario, the participants will engage in a hands-on activity to identify new avenues for technological interventions. Following this activity, we will present an existing AI-based technology that is being used to provide better support to children rescued from trafficking and the scope of expanding this technology for evaluating mental health. The session will conclude with an open discussion that will foster partnership between industry and other organisations by discussing how existing technologies in this domain can be utilized for different use cases.
Shubham Atreja (IBM Research India)
Anupama Ray (IBM Research India)
Prerna Agarwal (IBM Research India)
Darcy Pierce (EmancipAction)
Priyanka Halli (EmancipAction)
Open Government Data and Accountability: Hype, Reality or a Possibility? (Room: SR7)
Open Government Data (OGD) refers to making government data publicly available through online portals to enhance transparency of the State towards citizens. Many national and regional governments are adopting OGD world over. Yet, we don't fully understand how the availability of such datasets influences the existing mechanisms of citizen-State engagement. Does it make the citizens negotiate more effectively with the State? Does it make the State more accountable to citizens? Or does it only "empower the empowered" while leaving out the more disempowered? In this session, we seek to understand the practitioners' perspective on the impact of OGD.
Rajesh Hanbal (IIIT Bangalore)
Sham Kashyap (Azim Premji University)
ICTD Ethics Clinic (Room: SR9)
The aim of the session is to create a supportive peer-to-peer learning environment where researchers can get guidance on how to translate the newly announced minimum ethical standards for ICTD/ICT4D research into their professional practice. These standards were developed in a participatory, interdisciplinary, multi-year process with members of the ICTD conference community and others (see https://ictdethics.wordpress.com/). Peer mentors will be offering short confidential conversations to discuss particular ethical challenges. The session will allow the standards to embed as a continuous, participatory learning process.
Dorothea Kleine (University of Sheffield)
Andy Dearden (Sheffield Hallam University)
Leveraging Data to Enhance Social Good (Room: CR12)
As data becomes such an important part of our daily lives, our economy, our health sector and how we learn; we are curious to explore the role data plays for social good. We ask: Who will do this? Why is it important? How do we prioritize problems and reach more communities? To potentially answer a few of these questions, we will bring together technology experts, academic institutions and non-profits to discuss data for social good and examples and lessons learned of how they have been driving it. As an outcome of the session, we hope to share a better understanding of the problems and areas we need to focus on.
Rohit Singh (Facebook)
Sunday, January 6, 1200-1330
Gary Marsden Memorial Session: Whither ICTD (Room: SR1)
Is it time for ICTD 3.0? What is working, and what needs change in our disciplines, conferences, and departments? In other words: Whither ICTD? This open session will dive into some of the major points of change and challenge within ICTD, will weigh alternatives, and will try to chart some directions forward. It will be organized as a highly interactive panel dealing with three primary areas of change and opportunity: geography, disciplines, and themes.
François Bar (University of Southern California)
Michael Best (Georgia Tech)
Chris Coward (University of Washington)
Nicki Dell (Cornell Tech)
Richard Heeks (University of Manchester)
Dorothea Kleine (University of Sheffield)
Kentaro Toyama (University of Michigan)
Gender Equality in the Indian IT Workplace (Room: SR2)
We want this panel discussion to start a dialogue amongst practitioners and policy makers about the experiences of being a woman in the Indian IT workplace. We are hoping this will bring out the hidden nuances of these experiences and give these women a suitable platform to share and even discuss them.
Oindrila Matilal (IIIT Bangalore)
Mounika Neerukonda (IIIT Bangalore)
Intersectional Computing for Technology and Development (Room: SR7)
In this open session, we'll split our agenda in two, with the first half entailing a storytelling open mic format, asking people to share their encounters with intersectionality in their ICTD practice (or life, really). The second half will focus on collectively putting together a list of resources that offer diverse takes on intersectionality, as they are relevant for ICTD theory and praxis, discussing challenges and opportunities for extending this scholarship within ICTD. Throughout, we'll consider the role that theory plays, and might play, in ICTD.
Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech)
Naveena Karusala (University of Washington)
Marisol Wong-Villacres (Georgia Tech)
Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Tech)
Josiah Mangiameli (Georgia Tech)
Karthik Bhat (Georgia Tech)
Anupriya Tuli (IIIT Delhi)


text: Hold up everyone! Grab your headphones and prepare yourselves for an overwhelming urge to shake your booty, because our next premiere is fire! We've talked quite a bit about these two legends in the past, and Canadian producer Muneshine even played our SXSW party earlier this year! So when I was handed this premiere of "Sunshine ft. Grimm" remixed by German producer and Beautiful Buzzz usual suspect L C A W, I did my own little happy dance! This is some serious deep house dance vibes, and the smooth soulful vocals provided by by Grimm intertwine perfectly with the feet stomping dance floor beats. Brilliant! Muneshine's Sunshine EP drops OCT 30 via Haven Sounds! Listen and love!


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Help Make Temple Beth-El a 100% Voting Congregation!
Advocacy has always been central to both Reform Judaism and Temple Beth-El. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism states that "our democracy is strongest when everyone has the opportunity to participate", and it's important for Temple Beth-El members to partake in local, state, and federal elections. Regardless of political belief, voting is central, and a non-partisan issue that our congregation can get behind.
What's at Stake?
UPDATE: We are in a runoff election!
Early Voting begins May 28th until June 4th
Election day is June 8th
The San Antonio mayoral election allows for voters to elect a mayoral candidate!
Click here to find out who's running and to learn more about them.
Step One: Get Registered!
- Are you registered to vote?
- Click here to check your status.
- Register to vote! Click here.
- Talk to Ross Halfant, ordained Voter Deputy, and he can register you.
Step Two: Where Do I Vote?
- Find your nearest early voting polling site - here!
Pledge your vote - Temple Beth-El's last civic engagement endeavor was a success and we want to keep up the momentum. Remember, it is important to get involved in local elections too! If you haven't already, pledge here.
Step Three: Get Out and Vote!
- Important Tip – Don't forget an ID!
- The State of Texas requires all voters to present a valid photo ID before casting their vote. Click here for a list of acceptable photo IDs.
- If you need a ride to a polling location, know of someone who would need a ride, or want to volunteer to drive, please let Ross Halfant know at [email protected] or 210-733-9135 (ext. 110). We will be offering rides starting April 22nd.
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- Call – 1-844-338-8743
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Important Dates to Remember
- Last day to register to vote – April 4th
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Deadline November 27th: Aperture Portfolio Prize 2014
Call for Entries: Portfolio Prize 2014
Deadline: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at 12:00 pm EST
Fee: $75 for 15 images
"The purpose of the Aperture Portfolio Prize is to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition. When choosing the first-prize winner and runners-up, Aperture's editorial and curatorial staff look for innovative bodies of work that haven't been widely seen in major publications or exhibition venues. Previous winners and runners-up include Michal Chelbin, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Alexander Gronsky, Sarah Palmer, Bryan Schutmaat, and Jordan Tate, among others.
First prize is $3,000 and an exhibition at Aperture Gallery. The first-prize winner and up to five runners-up will be featured on Aperture's website, where their images will be accompanied by a brief statement written by Aperture staff. All winners are announced in the foundation's e-newsletter, which reaches forty thousand subscribers across the globe, including curators, critics, and members of the photography community. Winners will also have the opportunity to offer their prints via the Aperture Foundation limited-edition print program."
Submission Guidelines
$75 entry fee includes one annual individual membership in Aperture's new membership program and covers entrance into the 2014 Portfolio Prize competition and the new, annual Summer Open exhibition. If you are already a member, there is no additional fee to enter. To receive a discount code that will waive the entry fee, contact email@example.com.
To enter, go to callforentry.org; once you are registered (free), you will be asked to provide the following:
- Four-digit Aperture membership ID number
- Statement of up to 250 words about your work
- Résumé/CV
- 15 images with title/caption information
If you are already a member, to receive your membership ID number, along with a discount code that will waive the entry fee, contact email@example.com. New members, please enter '0000′ when asked for your membership ID number.
Artists may submit up to two separate portfolios of 15 images each. A separate CAFÉ profile and application, filed under the same name and contact information, is required for each entry. A $25 fee must be paid for each additional entry. To receive a discount code adjusting the entry fee for second portfolios, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
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When examining competition entries, Aperture's editors and curatorial staff will consider the following criteria:
- Is the work new, e.g., created in the last five years?
- Is a theme or topic carried throughout the portfolio in a consistent manner?
- Are the individual images strong compositionally and in their use of color or tone?
- What technical and presentation choices has the photographer made, and are they appropriate for the work? For example, is there a clear reason for using sepia-toned black and white versus a digitally enhanced palette?
- Does the body of work take an innovative or unique approach to the subject matter?"
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Sunday, September 15, 2013
The Indian rider - Nigel Bradford.
The Native Americans. The proud, brave, original peoples of the Americas, containing varied individual tribes. Their land was bought for a handful of beads or taken with useless pieces of paper containing worthless treaties. The original American tragedy.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Stocks held the flatline in Friday's after-hours session, unable to recoup another bushel of losses sparked by weakness in blue-chip issues.
The tech-laden Nasdaq-100 After Hours Indicator, which tracks the evening action of the index's leading stocks, moved fractionally lower.
Earlier, the Nasdaq succumbed to the sellers, closing down 23 at 1,199 while the Dow finished near the depths of the day, off 296 at 7,701. See Market Snapshot.
Techs stall
Palm PALM, -8.70% and Cisco CSCO, +0.89% jousted for most-active honors in a relatively quiet extended session. The handheld device maker hovered around the breakeven point, while Cisco gave up a couple pennies.
Oracle ORCL, +2.52% inched lower after ending the day as one of the few bright spots, up 11 cents at $8.40.
Microsoft MSFT, +0.42%, closing down 95 cents at $45.25, surrendered a couple cents late as well.
FTC OK's Shell-Pennzoil deal
Late Friday, the Federal Trade Commission approved Shell Oil's $1.8 billion merger with Pennzoil-Quaker State PZL. The deal is expected to be finalized by the end of the year. The FTC said, however, that Pennzoil would have to sell its stake in Excel Paralubes in order to maintain competition. The companies agreed to the terms.
Shares of Pennzoil-Quaker State lost 1 penny to close at $21.86 and stayed flat into the evening.
Third market action
Philip Morris MO, -0.95% stagnated in the third market after falling $4.87, or 11.4 percent, to close at $37.86. The company sliced its 2002 profit targets due to sagging sales, a weak economy and higher promotional spending. See full story.
Another Dow component was dipped in red ink at the close as Lehman Bros. downgraded General Electric shares GE, +4.14%, and trimmed fourth-quarter and 2003 earnings estimates, sending shares down $1.92 to $24.47. The stock was little changed late.
Similar evening action took SBC Communications SBC a tad higher on very light volume. The telecom firm announced late Thursday that it would eliminate 11,000 jobs because of the sluggish economy and heated competition.
Topping NYSE most actives early, Lucent LU beat out Philip Morris and General Electric with a 15 percent decline on nearly 100 million shares traded, before rebounding 2 percent after the bell.
Finally, AT&T T, +0.43% said Jon C. Madonna will join the telecom giant's board of directors. Madonna retired in 1996 after serving as CEO and chairman at consulting and accounting firm KPMG. With Madonna's election, AT&T's board now has 16 members. Shares of AT&T hardly budged in late trade.


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DATE: November 14, 2018 • TIME: 8:05 a.m.
LOCATION: Conference Room, Noble County Office Complex – South
A. Call to Order
B. Roll Call
C. Determination of Quorum
D. Unfinished business
E. New Business
Subdivision #673 Mary L McClain – In accordance with the Noble County Unified Development Ordinance (Article 6.01) requests a 3 lot Minor Subdivision, lot 1 as 12.50+/- ac, lot 2 as 8.81+/- ac and lot 3 as 8.81+/- ac to be known as McClain's Subdivision. Real estate is located in Section 30 of Sparta Township, quadrant 100, parcel 001, common location known as vacant ground south of 11132 W 200 N Cromwell, IN.
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Winged Submarines
By Deane Barker on March 6, 2009
Winged luxury submarines 'fly' underwater: I'd love to play in one of these.
"There are no valves, there are no gauges," Hawkes said. "You just power up the thrusters, start your take-off run, put the joystick forward, then the nose goes down. The wings literally pull it down."
That's very different from conventional submarines, which basically dive by changing the ballast of the ship to make it sink.
"It's not just that they look like airplanes, they actually are," Hawkes said. "The machines we build underwater should look like airplanes, not submarines. Airplanes don't look like balloons."
So, to go down, you essentially have to have power. Hopefully they're buoyant, so they'd float up to the top without power.


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Serious Problems With Perforomist
Perforomist Side Effects to ReportThere are a number of possible side effects with Perforomist that you should report immediately to your healthcare provider, including, but not limited to:
- Breathing problems that are becoming worse
- An irregular heart rhythm (arrhythmia)
- A very fast heart rate (tachycardia)
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Anxiety
- Signs of an allergic reaction, including an unexplained rash, hives, itching, unexplained swelling, wheezing, or difficulty breathing or swallowing.
Perforomist Side Effects: Final ThoughtsIt is possible that you may experience some or none of these Perforomist side effects explained above. Unfortunately, there is no way for your healthcare provider to know beforehand if you will have side effects from a medicine that you have never tried. Therefore, make sure to let your healthcare provider know if you develop any side effects while taking Perforomist, or if something "just does not seem right." While it may not be a side effect of Perforomist, your healthcare provider will be able to diagnose and treat the problem.
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You've changed your light bulbs, and you've added an extra recycling bin to your trash lineup. But are you being as creative as possible with your recycling? Remember, recycling items not only saves the planet but it also saves your budget. One particularly useful household item normally finds itself in the garbage can, but it can be put to better use elsewhere. Before they find their ways into the garbage or recycling bin, catch those egg cartons and put them to one more better uses.
Paper egg cartons are already environmentally friendly. They are made from recycled materials, and they're processed minimally to have an even better impact on the planet (thus their grainy gray appearance.) But before you recycle them once again after the eggs are gone, try some other uses.
Use your egg cartons for crafts. Those who enjoy bead crafts know that multiple products are sold for bead organization during stringing. Instead of these products that cost $10 and upwards, try an egg carton. Sort the beads in order in each compartment of the egg container and close the lid. The cartons can be stacked with multiple projects easier than the bead trays that are sold in stores, and these are free. Kids can even paint the containers to make them look prettier or coat them with glue and roll them over seed beads to create a glitzy craft storage container.
Small pets like hamsters, mice, hermit crabs, and land turtles all require small food bowls. It's nice to have two bowls to offer a variety of foods. Yet, these pet bowls sell for several dollars each at pet stores. By cutting the individual egg holders from the cartons, you can create a small food container that can safely be chewed and quickly replaced. For pet hamsters, you can also try to offer the individual "cups" as beds, filling them with shredded paper or straw. The little guys will enjoy nesting in the space.
Why purchase peat cups to start seeds when egg cartons work the same way. Remove the lid and fill the egg holders with potting soil. Then, as the seedlings mature, you can easily separate the cups and plant them directly into the ground. They will compost themselves just as the peat cups do, and you've saved money on your plantings. You can also stretch Saran Wrap across the top to keep the seeds extra moist and to generate additional heat until they sprout.
Instead of purchasing expensive packing peanuts and bubble wrap, try placing egg cartons around your items as you box them. Whether you're sending items across the country or packing them for long term storage, egg cartons were made for this. Very few items in your attic are more delicate than an egg.
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Great ideas. I hate throwing those cartons away.
I use egg cartons to collect lint from the dryer. I just put the lint into each space and when it's full I use them in my fireplace.
If you have small glass ornaments, a paper egg carton is a good place to store them safely.
I use a couple of the styrofoam cartons to keep my earrings and other jewelry organized. This is great for clip earrings or any you cannot put on earrings hanging organizers.
Paper ones can be recycled, esp' if they are recycled paper to begin with. All the ideas were great. I esp' love the seed starter ones. Just pop them in the ground when they sprout and you don't have to worry about them.
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text: Valentine's Day is tricky enough these days with all of the single people who are proud to be single until they are offended by their non-single friends. So it is not easy to navigate the holiday dedicated to love. Not easy, unless you are Steve Whitman. Steve is a 5-point Calvinist. He counts himself as more reformed than John Knox. And he loves Valentine's Day.


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At a press conference earlier today in Taipei (2pm local time on 6/3/2013), the Foxconn Technology Group announced their support for Firefox OS, MozillaРђЎs open Web mobile operating system. The partnership includes collaboration on the use of the Firefox OS on Foxconn devices to create new, integrated offerings. For complete press release, see Mozilla's press center for more details.
At the same conference, we showed the first FFOS-enabled tablet alongside a few of the (now well-known) FFOS enabled smartphones.
Foxconn stated that they intend to have FFOS running on all categories of the "8 screen" devices, from smartphone to tablets to laptops to TVs and outdoor signage. All very exciting!


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Sevenoaks Rugby 1st XV 24 - 24 Chobham RFC 1st XV
Sevenoaks Rugby 1st XV and Chobham RFC 1st XV enjoyed a tussle at Knole Paddock on Saturday. Following 80 minutes of determined rugby nothing separated the two sides and the match ended in a 24-24 draw.
Oaks enjoyed the early ascendancy. The home team made several incursions into the visitors' 22 yard line during the opening five minutes. In fact it was only due to a calculated off-side and a deliberate knock-on by their opponents that Oaks failed to cross the line during these opening phases. At that point in the match, the Oaks faithful would have been forgiven for feeling the win was in grasp. Chobham, however, had other ideas, including the temerity to notch up the first points of the day with a pen.
The first half ended with the visitors 19-12 in front following two tries from Oaks either side of a well executed drop goal from the Chobham 10, before an excellent burst from the Chobham left wing, who jinked his way inside and then outside the covering defenders to score in the corner, closed the opening stanza.
In the second half Oaks were into the fray from the get go and a try from Pettet was converted by Floyd to level proceedings at 19 a piece. The game then descended into a yellow card fest as Pettet for Oaks and two of the visitors got the wrong side of the ruck and the wrong side of the referee to find themselves contemplating 10-minutes of down time on the touchline.
Oaks once again had the lion's share of territory and again were impeded by well-timed foul play. To compound the injustice, Chobham romped home for a try from the half-way line, having turned the ball over midfield. A bullocking drive from the Chobham Number 8, an imposing figure all day, began a move that was completed by the left winger.
At 19-24 there was time for a final rally and Oaks took it to Chobham to put Short over in the corner, who made the most of a confusing melee on the 22 to find space and dot the ball down out wide. Unfortunately the conversion lived up to the try-scorer's name and the teams clapped each other off the pitch, neither completely happy with their lot.
As they retreated to the sanctity of the Clubhouse, the Oaks players' attentions turned to the ensuing Annual Quiz Night, and the topics of Deputy Dawg, dingbats, the construction date of the Sydney Opera House, and the capital city that begins with Z...
Photo: Try-scorer Jonny Short in full flow. Photo credit: Dave Purday


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200 million barrels of oil are currently \u201cfloating\u201d in world\u2019s seas, stored in\u00a0about 125 supertankers<\/a><\/strong> waiting in line outside ports. Low oil prices led to a supply glut. So, the amount of crude oil to be shipped is so huge\u00a0that barrels\u00a0can\u2019t be offloaded even in the largest ports.<\/p>\n
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Reuters reveals yet another crazy consequence of oil global market. The huge vessels \u2013 they would form a 40-kilometre line if they queue up \u2013 are shipping oil worth around 7.5 billion dollars at current market prices. One captain told, requesting anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press, his tanker had been anchored off Qingdao in north-eastern China since late March. \u201cFortunately, we have a piano, drums, crew who play guitar, and more than 1,000 DVDs\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Currently, offloading vessels in international ports takes three weeks<\/a><\/strong> on average. In December, delays worsen and three oil tankers<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the Vendome Street, the Atlantic Star and the Atlantic Titan \u2013 preferred to go back. They were crossing the Gulf of Mexico headed to Europe.<\/p>\n
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Edge of Tomorrow (formerly All You Need is Kill)
I'm currently working on a new Tom Cruise sci-fi apocalyptic movie called Edge of Tomorrow (formerly All You Need is Kill), due in theaters June 2014.The main rigs I'm tackling are the "digital doubles" of the characters, which consists of standard body rigs and the exo-suits that the soldiers wear that gives them strength and agility. Here is are production photos of Cruise and Emily Blunt in practical suits. The suits are quite tricky to rig, since they have very defined and limited points of rotation that don't follow the character's joints in the same way. Still, they need a large range of motion for action sequences.


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PRESIDENT: Patrick Hislop
"I value Newman because it puts me in contact with people who are intentionally trying to understand the world, rather than merely living day-to-day. "
VICE PRESIDENT: Francesca Corna
"My favorite part of Newman is being surrounded by people who will constantly challenge me to grow as a Catholic because they love me as a person."
TREASURER: Vincenzo Dragone
"The Drexel Newman Catholic Community embraces values I find to be most important: Veritas, Unitas, and Caritas (Truth, Unity, and Love). Through all its good works, the Newman community provides students with the tools to understand the TRUTH found in the gospels and Catholic traditions, an atmosphere of fellowship and UNITY within the university, other schools, and parishioners of St. Agatha-St. James, and an opportunity through service to grow an unimaginable relationship of LOVE with God and His people. I am truly grateful to be a part of such a caring, loving, and faith-filled community at Drexel University."
EVENTS COORDINATOR: Thomas Bianco
"I love meeting new people, making new friends, and growing in my faith. The Newman community lets me do all three at once! It's super cool!!"
SERVICE CHAIR: Joe Meissler
"My favorite part of Newman is being with people who share my beliefs and who help me grow closer to Christ."
SOCIAL CHAIR: Josie Schultz
"My favorite part of Newman is Newman Night."
OUTREACH CHAIR: Bill Reil
"I love the openness and community of Newman. We welcome people in and we show them the love and joy of devout Catholicism. In everything we do, we bring meaning to the phrase 'the Catholic family.'"


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Greek Baked Catfish $13.99
A baked catfish filet crusted with basil pesto then topped with tomatoes, spinach and Feta cheese. This dish is served with your choice of two sides.
Shrimp Carbonara $13.99
Tiger shrimp sauteed with fresh garlic and bacon crumbles then tossed in a creamy Carbonara sauce with penne pasta. This dish is topped with a poached egg and served with your choice of one side.
Herb Butter Tenderloin $21.99
A grilled to order 8oz beef tenderloin topped with garlic herb butter. This dish is served with your choice of one side.
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DoubleClick found that email usage is growing as 82% of consumers have made a purchase in the past year as a result of clicking on a permission-based email, compared to 61% in the 2000 study. Also, consumers spent an average of $1,023 over the course of the year, up from $750 last year. More importantly, 37% of shoppers clicked through an email and purchased immediately, up from 20% last year, and 86% have purchased from the same merchant more than once, consistent with the previous year's data at 83%
"The study clearly demonstrates that direct marketers and online merchants should embrace permission-based email as an integral component of their overall marketing plan to effectively drive sales," said Court Cunningham, VP and General Manager of DARTmail Technology Solutions at DoubleClick. "The data also reveals that email is critical to increasing repeat purchases and therefore lifetime customer value. Email is more effective at stimulating repeat purchases than the quality of goods or even customer service."
The study also shows that consumers would like to receive emails on a weekly basis on a wide variety of topics depending on their interests:
Online merchants' special offers:
The top preference is special offers from online merchants for 77% of respondents
Local retailers/restaurants' special offers:
65% of consumers currently receive or are interested in receiving special offers from local retailers and restaurants
Household tips:
57% of consumers currently receive or are interested in receiving emails on household tips/recipes/crafts
55% of respondents currently receive or are interested in receiving travel information
49% of consumers currently receive or are interested in receiving emails concerning entertainment
"Clearly, marketers should make note of consumer's diverse interests and frequency requests for email when reaching out to their customers this coming holiday period," Cunningham explained.
According to the study, Internet users currently receive twice as much permission-based email on a weekly basis compared to what they were receiving in 2000, averaging 36 per week this year compared to 18 last year. The data demonstrates that 40% of respondents credit email communications as a primary reason for loyalty to online merchants, compared with 30% from the 2000 study. Furthermore, email is now the most popular means of learning about new products, services and promotions, with 64% of respondents using email in this way, compared to 58% last year.
However, marketers should take note that the main concern for providing personal information online, for 88% of respondents, is the misuse of personal information concerning SPAM and credit card usage.
The study was conducted by NFO WorldGroup and fielded by NFO InDepth Interactive between August 24 and August 27, 2001 and is based upon 1,015 respondents. Respondents use the Internet at least once a week, average approximately 45 years in age and are equally segmented between men and women. Beyond Interactive, DoubleClick's digital marketing agency, directed survey design and data analysis.


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