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MLB Network to air 14 hours of All-Star coverage
This press release comes from MLB. It's going to be quite an extravaganza.
Secaucus, NJ, July 2, 2012 – MLB Network is set to cover the 83rd MLB All-Star Game in Kansas City with over 14 hours of coverage starting Monday, July 9. MLB Network's:
- Greg Amsinger
- Sean Casey
- Peter Gammons
- Brian Kenny
- Al Leiter
- Kevin Millar
- Dan Plesac
- Harold Reynolds
- Alanna Rizzo and
- Chris Rose
will bring viewers behind the scenes and on the field with access to batting practice, player and manager interviews, media day and the MLB All-Star Red Carpet Show presented by Chevrolet.
Coverage begins on Monday, July 9 at 1:30 p.m. ET at the All-Star player and manager media day, followed by a special 90-minute Intentional Talk: All-Star Edition with Rose and Millar on the field at Kauffman Stadium at 4:30 p.m. ET, MLB Tonight: All-Star Edition live from batting practice at 6:00 p.m. ET, and a highlight-filled MLB Tonight: All-Star Edition after the State Farm Home Run Derby.
On Tuesday, July 10, MLB Network will exclusively telecast the MLB All-Star Red Carpet Show presented by Chevrolet, hosted by Greg Amsinger, Harold Reynolds and Alanna Rizzo, at 4:00 p.m. ET, featuring all of the 2012 All-Stars, MLB All-Star Ambassador and 13-time MLB All-Star George Brett, and NL and AL All-Star team managers Tony La Russa and Ron Washington as they make their way to Kauffman Stadium for the All-Star Game. Following the parade, MLB Tonight: All-Star Edition will air live on the field at 5:00 p.m. ET, including a special interview by Harold Reynolds with George Brett, leading up to and immediately following FOX's coverage of the 83rd All-Star Game starting at 7:30 p.m. ET. MLB Tonight: All-Star Edition in Kansas City will be presented by Firestone.
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MLB Network's 2012 All-Star Week Programming:
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1:30 p.m.: All-Star Media Day 4:30 p.m.: Intentional Talk: All-Star Edition at Batting Practice 6:00 p.m.: MLB Tonight: All-Star Edition at Batting Practice Post-Derby: MLB Tonight: All-Star Edition Tuesday, July 10:
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Below are some of the biggest time wasting activities for me and some other bloggers I know.
Surfing: Nothing is more fun than surfing for new post ideas and it's easy to go overboard. When it comes to surfing or researching blog topics set strict limits in order to stay on task and on time.
Skype: I LOVE Skype. I love that I can use it to chat with friends and co-workers. I love the break it provides. I love that I can hop on at anytime and find someone to hear me out when I have good news or bad. The downside is that Skype is a little too much fun for some of us. I'll stay on too long if I let myself and never get a smack of work done. That said during the work day I used to leave Skype off. This is a little bit of a problem though since some of my clients actually use Skype for business – i.e. they really need me for actual work-related issues.
Now I leave it on Do Not Disturb but check my alerts. I still have to be disciplined because sometimes I'll see that someone cool Skyped for a general chat and the urge to hit them back is strong but most of the time this works better for me than leaving my Skype on available and trying to ignore it. If you do this let actual clients know when you're on Skype. For example, I tell my clients, "I'm on Do Not Disturb so I can work but if I see an alert from you I'll answer." Then said clients know I'm not trying to ignore them. Another helpful thing you can do is turn off sound alerts.
Logging in and out… and in… and out: If you write for many clients or social network for clients you spend a lot of time logging in and out. In and out of dashboards, Twitter accounts, Facebook accounts, forums and more. While logging in and out of one place may take seconds it can really add up when you're doing it all day long. To save time you can save passwords (just change them frequently), use services like twhirl to manage multiple social networking accounts, feed posts automatically to Twitter or Facebook
Forums: I rarely if ever visit AND comments at personal forums (like for blogging advice) or group chats anymore. I like both and they can be a good source of support but they simply waste more time than I have. I have a rule for forums now called the you can read but not respond rule. In my experience I can gain ideas and support from forums and group chats without being totally immersed in them. You start debating, chatting and you know… it just gets out of control. I set aside a little me time each week to catch up on my reading at places like this, but I very rarely get involved. Also, while I used to visit many forums and chats now I only visit ones that stay mostly on topic.
Images: Good lord. I've wasted more time on finding images for posts than I care to admit. I have two time-wasting image issues.
I think I need the best image ever for each post – I don't. You don't. A good image is nice; but perfect is pushing it. Give yourself a time limit on image searches and stick to it.
I really want to post about something and there's no image – I write for one blog that only accepts posts with images BUT they want a really obscure image size (long in width and short in height). That doesn't always work. Especially since this client also wants a bunch of images per post. So, I'll find the coolest product ever and there will be no images suitable for it – or images that no amount of editing will fix. I used to scurry around all over trying to find an image that will work. Now I don't. It's not worth my time. If I find a product with a bunk image I either email the company and try to get an image or ditch the idea.
Time wasters that aren't really time wasters and how to minimize their impact…
- Reading blogs
- Reading news
- Chatting with PR people
- Social networking
- Coffee breaks, walk breaks, what have you
I see the above noted as blogger time wasters often but while they can be time wasters I don't agree that you should ditch these tasks. You do need to read news and blogs in your niche. You do need to make friends with PR people because they can provide you with valuable post ideas. Social networking; well, that's a given and little breaks keep your head in the clear. In order to minimize the time you waste with these activities you should include all of these tiny tasks on your blog schedule.
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Most can agree that regulating the safety and effectiveness of drugs and medical devices is for the protection of public health. The FDA is appointed this responsibility, but is it failing? The time-consuming and costly approval process could be preventing life-changing treatments from reaching the market; however, more lives could be at risk if safety were sacrificed for speed. The topic of the most recent Intelligence Squared U.S. debate, "The FDA's Caution is Hazardous to Our Health," had panelists vehemently arguing for or against this motion.
On the team defending the motion was Scott Gottlieb, M.D., currently a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and formerly FDA deputy commissioner, with his partner Peter Huber, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. The pair debating against the motion was Jerry Avorn, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and his teammate David R. Challoner, M.D., vp of Emeritus for Health Affairs of the University of Florida.
Dr. Gottlieb began the discussion by saying FDA trials are becoming more stringent, requiring greater statistical certainty. He emphasized that the biggest problem with FDA today is a focus on math over medicine. "We can't have an FDA ruled by statistics," stated Dr. Gottlieb. "People will die waiting for drugs."
Dr. Gottlieb and Huber made it clear they are not against the FDA, but they have a problem with the development time of its trials and the limited use of accelerated approval. They noted the success of drugs that were fast tracked during the AIDS crisis in the late '80s and early '90s.
The notion that "targeted drugs are a rarity is disconnected from reality," said Huber. "We've seen targeted drugs succeed using fast track." He later added that drug disasters can be avoided by validating biomarkers and almost all major diseases we face cannot be beaten with one-size-fits-all drugs.
Drs. Avorn and Challoner disputed that the benefits of FDA trial requirements outweigh risks of delayed drugs. They cited that drugs and devices that have been cleared and gone to market have still killed people. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," Dr. Avorn said, noting that more rigorous testing is needed and can be done quickly.
The audience cast their votes before and after the debate and whichever side changed the most minds won. Pre-debate 24% were for the motion, 32% against, and 44% undecided. Results post-debate showed that 53% were now for the motion, agreeing that the FDA is too cuatious. Thirty-eight percent were against, and 9% undecided.
What are your thoughts on the issue? Do you think the FDA is too cautious or does it need to be more rigorous? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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TurnKey Core 12.0 RC optimized builds
Last month we announced the release candidate for TurnKey Core 12.0 - the common base for all appliances, based on the rock solid Debian Squeeze (6.0.4).
It took a little longer than expected, but we've finally released all the optimized builds for TurnKey Core 12.0RC: ISO, VMDK, OVF, Amazon EC2, OpenStack, OpenVZ and Xen.
The optimized builds can be downloaded from the core appliance page, directly via the TurnKey channel in ProxmoxVE (OpenVZ), deployed in the Amazon EC2 cloud via the TurnKey Hub, or via one of the official TurnKey partners (soon).
Build specific release notes
Common (ISO)
- See the announcement.
Amazon EC2
- Deployment: The TurnKey Hub has been updated to support Core 12.0 deployment and management (Launch new server -> 12.0). Once the full library has been updated to TKL 12.0 it will become the default, and the current release will be moved to Legacy.
VM optimized (VMDK, OVF)
- Open-VM-Tools: Previous VM optimized builds included the proprietry VMWare-Tools, but since VMWare have released a large portion of the code under the GPL, we've moved to open-vm-tools.
- Swap warning: VMware products might display a warning that no swap space was detected. This is a false positive, as swap is configured in LVM.
- Ramdisk required: TurnKey 12.0 requires the initrd to be registered for successful boot (exemplary import and registration code).
- Naming convention: We've updating the naming convention for openvz builds to support vanilla OpenVZ out of the box, and eliminate duplication for the Turnkey PVE channel. Thanks Jeremy!
- Removed NTP daemon: The NTP daemon has been removed as the clock is managed by the host. Thanks Martin!
- No more upstart hacks: Removed Ubuntu upstart hacks as they are not relevant in Debian.
- Xen optimized kernel: Moved to the Xen optimized kernel provided by Debian (linux-image-xen-686).
As always, we need your help in testing the builds. If you come across any issues or have ideas how they can be improved, please post a comment.
It will depend
If the TKL devs end up having to tweak custom code that is not handled by package management I don't think that there will be anyway to upgrade (other than to replicate the code). Hopefully though that shouldn't be an issue and the TKL guys will provide info on what changes (obviously the Debian base will remain the same).
I'd suggest that even if there isn't a 100% upgrade path unless you experience issues, then it wouldn't matter. The underlaying Debian OS will be the same regardless.
The other thing to consider is, that even in worst case scenario, you can migrate your data from 12.0RC to any future 12.x release with TKLBAM. Obviously it may require some tweaking if you go from this Debian based TKL to the as yet released v12.x Ubuntu based system, but if you stick to Debian is should be flawless.
AFAIK they plan to release both
AFAIK the vision is to cater to the 2 different markets/perspectives with 2 different appliance versions. One based on Debian, one on Ubuntu.
Debian release will be for rock solid stability and tried and tested security (as all repo packages are maintained by Debian and have security bugfixes backported). Even though it is TKL v12, the Debian release is based on Squeeze which was released over a year ago now and had package versions frozen ~6-8 mths before that so there is nothing new about them besides the bits TKL adds.
Ubuntu will be more middle ground aimed at people who prefer newer packages with more cutting edge stuff (although it will still date over time). The TKL v12 Ubuntu builds will be based on Ubuntu 12.04/Precise which is still in beta currently but will be released end of the month IIRC. So it will have much newer packages (until next Debian release anyway...) I'm not sure when we will see TKL Ubuntu based 12.x builds...
The devs have said that they plan to support x64
So I would imagine that 64 bit appliances will be released. In fact it is possible that they will become the default. Most hardware should support it these days and some software (such as Apache) reportedly works much better in 64 bit.
64 bit builds still on the todo list
By my understanding you are correct re Zimbra and the guys are definately still planning to do 64 bit builds. I think the plan is to get the 32 bit Debian builds out the door (updates of the current appliances) and a number of new ones. Then it'll be on to Ubuntu builds. I have encouraging them to bring out Ubuntu builds as 64 bit off the bat (so Zimbra can be included) but they haven't mad3 a decision on that yet AFAIK.
Critical (IMHO) that 11.3 be a "Long Term" Legacy Product
The current 11.3 Lucid builds are very functional and I encourage TKL to maintain these as Legacy builds well into the future (also tell folks who depend on them to make their own Archives).
Likely the same holds for the final Hardy Release though the passage of time, we all know, blurs some in memory. No need, IMHO, to maintain much more than that, but perhaps I am missing some caveats.
Looking forward to the new releases. Wish I had a bit more time to make some patches and do some testing. Let us know though, if testing is sought.
It'd be nice.
But i don't know how we'll go with that. IIRC the reason why the Hardy builds got removed from SF was on request of SF due to the volume of space they took up on the SF servers. So we'll have to wait & ee what happens.
Final version?
Since it's now been 2 months, I am wondering whether this RC will be declared final. Or are there any issues preventing that? I'd like to reinstall my TurnKey based VMs using the new version, but I don't feel like doing it twice.
Firstly it's only Core
So unless you are using Core as the basis for your appliance then you won't be able to move to the new appliance yet anyway.
Secondly AFAIK the v12.x series will eventually be available in both Debian and Ubuntu based appliances. The current v12.0RC is Debian based and while it contains updated TKL components (hence the v12.x version number) the packages themselves (ie from Debian 6.0/Squeeze repo) are actually pretty close to the current Ubuntu 10.04/Lucid (basis of TKL v11.x) package versions (Squeeze was frozen not long after Ubuntu 10.04 was released and Ubuntu is drawn from Debian). So whilst there may be stability improvements and bugfixes (generally Debian does this better than Ubuntu because of the much longer testing phase of development) there won't be significantly newer versions of software available in the TKL v12.x Debian based appliances (aside from software installed from upstream).
New v12.x Ubuntu appliances will come AFAIK but they will probably be quite a few months away.
So I would suggest that you decide whether you want to switch to Debian based appliances, or stick with Ubuntu based ones. If you are happy to switch then hopefully they will be released soon, although I would assume that the TKL guys will release the other appliances as RC too. OTOH if you wish to stick with Ubuntu based appliances then I'd hold tight and be patient because it'll probably be a while away.
[edit] If this Ubuntu/Debian thing is confusing and/or you're not really sure what the differences are have a look at this blog post by Alon and probably this post by me (and the following comments).
I'm using Core
As well as derivatives, and you're right, for those, I'd have to wait anyway. Or cook my own.
I hadn't thought about the Debian / Ubuntu differences much. I already knew that because of the desired "stability" property of Debian, it's a bit behind when it comes to being "cutting edge". I just recently installed a Debian system on my laptop, and although it's probably true that packages have undergone more testing than with (e.g.) Ubuntu, I'm a bit disappointed about the resulting lack of "cutting edge". Without too much hassle, that is, like the dependency hell that can apparently be the result of wanting to use 1 "cutting edge" package more recent than, say, 6 months old.
Maybe it's just my ignorance (there's a good chance there), but it looks like Ubuntu would be a "better" solution for me if I base my weighting scheme on the "cutting edgeness". So yes: I may want to wait for an updated TurnKey Ubuntu-based release.
If it's just Core, that's ok. One application I'm using TurnKey Linux for is kind of a "build bot" for mingw-cross-env (mxe.cc), which just needs TurnKey Core and GCC (and a few other easy to install dependencies). I thought about pulling a request for such a build bot, or sharing the resulting VM, but since it's really straightforward to just use Core (a few apt-get commands is all that is needed), I haven't bothered.
If you are happy to use DDebian as base go for it
As I imagine that any changes between the RC and Final will be minimal ( and hopefully should be available via apt anyway).
I like Debian for servers because of the testing and the fact that all packages are maintained(not just a subset as with Ubuntu) but even still none of my work is 'mission critical' so I'm happy enough with Ubuntu.
But for a desktop/laptop I agree that it is a bit too old for my liking. You may be better off using Debian testing (or a distro that does like Linux Mint Debian Ed - which does last time I checked). My favourite distro for sometime has been Bodhi Linux which for me is the best of all worlds. It is based on Ubuntu LTS but has backported (cutting edge) packages for popular apps (& the kernel). The current release is still based on 10.04 but the next release will be 12.04 based. And it uses E17 as default desktop... my favourite! :-)
No ETA...
I'd just make a start now. The first batch of releases may be just around the corner, but the guys are still working on the alpha release AFAIK and they don't do ETAs (release when done production cycle). I find it frustrating at times too, but the devs don't like breaking promises, so don't make them.
Besides migration to the new appliances should be relatively straight forward using TKLBAM.
That's no good...
Sounds like your experience hasn't been great. and that definitely wouldn't be very reassuring for you as a potential customer.
Not to try to make excuses for the guys but they have been extremely busy of late with the release of v12.1, closely followed by the migration of all source to GitHub, the release of TKLDev, migration and backend update for the Hub (possibly the source of your issues) and the start of work on v13.0...
So other than email(s); what other support mechanism(s) have you tried? Hub Feedback? Posting here on the forums? (I apologise if I missed it) Lodging an Issue on the TKL Dev tracker (on GitHub)? I do vaguely recall someone posting about a similar issue some time recently but I'm sure they got sorted out...
Also IIRC support@turnkey is only for users with support contracts (would explain why your email went unanswered) - a post in the support forum is generally your best intial point of contact. I try to answer all posts within a day or 2 (although don't always make it...) and can get the ear of the devs if your issue goes unresolved for more than a few days after that...
Also note that the Business plan (for "real business") includes phone support as well... (Although obviously unreasonable cost for a trial of TKL).


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As Scotland gets ready to wind down for Christmas, the Salvation Army is mobilising officers, staff and volunteers to help thousands of vulnerable people.
Through its present appeal, emergency food provisions, Christmas Day lunches, residential support for older people and those experiencing homelessness and music and carolling events, the organisation aims to spread festive cheer to those in need.
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Fresh food hampers, put together from donations and the proceeds of carolling, will also be distributed to families and people referred by local social workers and agencies.
And staff at its centres for people experiencing homelessness will be working on Christmas Day to ensure they too enjoy the festive season. Many Salvation Army community churches and centres are hosting Christmas Day lunches for people who would otherwise spend it alone.
Gifts for the present appeal, for children from birth up to 16 years of age, can be dropped off at any Salvation Army church, shop or centre.
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With more than 90,000 people living with dementia in Scotland, most families have felt its impact.
Alzheimer Scotland provides a diverse range of dementia-specific activities, support and care for people across Scotland but it relies on fundraising to continue its work.
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The SSPCA has an online shop with a variety of gifts, from mugs to tote bags.
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We live in exciting times, on an extra-ordinary continent and have a colourful collection of people with rich heritages and unique healthcare needs. It takes an intrinsic understanding of the southern African environment to meet their healthcare requirements in a comprehensive manner.
Biotech Laboratories (Pty) Ltd. is a South African pharmaceutical company founded in 1990, that markets, sells and distributes, generic and branded pharmaceuticals to both the private and public sectors in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho.
An important aspect of the South African pharmaceutical environment is the empowerment of previously disadvantaged individuals and Biotech Laboratories embraces this philosophy at all stakeholder levels. The shareholding of Mr. Shad Mapetla as Non-Executive Chairman (formerly CEO), is testimony to our continued Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) commitment.
The company's major shareholder, JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd, is one of India's leading global pharmaceutical companies. JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has R&D capabilities and a number of manufacturing facilities complying to international regulated market standards. It markets a wide range of pharmaceutical formulations, herbal remedies, bulk drugs, intermediates and radio-diagnostics.
It is Biotech Laboratories mission to supply products that respond to the strategic health needs of developing nations. The company markets medicines from numerous therapeutic categories including anti-infectives, tuberculostatics, anti-inflammatories and products that treat the diseases of the cardiovascular, central nervous and respiratory systems as well as the urinary and gastro-intestinal tract.
Biotech Laboratories launched a large and companion animal health division in 2011 and has partnered with a leading global veterinary research and development company based in the United Kingdom, Norbrook Laboratories. This division services the entire southern Africa with quality products that cover all major therapeutic categories.


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Keith Urban Blames Paps for Motorcycle Crash
Singer Keith Urban was involved in a minor motorcycle accident Monday morning in Sydney, Australia -- and he's hopping mad at paparazzi who he says caused the smash-up!
Witnesses told the Daily Telegraph they saw Urban riding his bike near his home, when he lost control and fell off. The witnesses claim they saw a photographer following Urban on another bike.
When asked about the crash, Urban, through his rep, issued the following statement to TMZ:
"Today's incident was the result of one person's desire to do his job and my desire to maintain my privacy. Some have already attempted to inflate the facts, but the reality is this; while out riding to an AA meeting, a time when my privacy is especially important to me, I felt myself being pursued. I sped up, and in an effort to elude an oncoming car, which was making an illegal U-turn, saw no choice but to drop my bike. In actual fact, my pursuer came to my assistance, without taking photos, and helped me from the road. I returned home, got my car, and continued on my way."


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The word describes the setting "at one" of those who have been estranged and denotes the reconciliation of man to God. Sin is the cause of the estrangement, and therefore the purpose of atonement is to correct or overcome the consequences of sin. From the time of Adam to the death of Jesus Christ, true believers were instructed to offer animal sacrifices to the Lord. These sacrifices were symbolic of the forthcoming death of Jesus Christ and were done by faith in Him (Moses 5:5–8).
Jesus Christ, as the Only Begotten Son of God and the only sinless person to live on this earth, was the only one capable of making an atonement for mankind. By His selection and foreordination in the Grand Council before the world was formed, His divine Sonship, His sinless life, the shedding of His blood in the garden of Gethsemane, His death on the cross and subsequent bodily resurrection from the grave, He made a perfect atonement for all mankind. All are covered unconditionally as pertaining to the Fall of Adam. Hence, all shall rise from the dead with immortal bodies because of Jesus' Atonement. "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" (1 Cor. 15:22), and all little children are innocent at birth. The Atonement is conditional, however, so far as each person's individual sins are concerned, and touches every one to the degree that he has faith in Jesus Christ, repents of his sins, and obeys the gospel. The services of the Day of Atonement foreshadowed the atoning work of Christ (Lev. 4; 23:26–32; Heb. 9). The scriptures point out that no law, ordinance, or sacrifice would be satisfactory if it were not for the Atonement of Jesus Christ (Heb. 10:1–9; 2 Ne. 9:5–24; Mosiah 13:27–32).
Sin is lawlessness (1 Jn. 3:4); it is a refusal on men's part to submit to the law of God (Rom. 8:7). By transgression man loses control over his own will and becomes the slave of sin (Rom. 7:14) and so incurs the penalty of spiritual death, which is alienation from God (Rom. 6:23). The Atonement of Jesus Christ redeems all mankind from the Fall of Adam and causes all to be answerable for their own manner of life. This means of atonement is provided by the Father (John 3:16–17) and is offered in the life and person of His Son, Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:19). See also Fasts; Sacrifices.


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The AllFinancialAdvisors.com directory listing of financial advisors can help you with your search to find the best financial advisors in the Newark, Delaware area that would suit your needs. Newark, Delaware has up to 2 firms and 21 advisors to choose from.
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A financial advisor assesses your financial situation and offers advice and financial services based on your requirements. These advisors have amassed years of training, education, and experience in several areas of finance, and can assist you in managing your money and building wealth for the long-term. Financial services offered by advisors include investment management, wealth management, Retirement planning, budget creation, tax planning, estate planning, and more.
Read more about who a financial advisor is and what they do.
The cost of a financial advisor varies depending on the particular financial services required, the size of the assets to be invested, and the compensation method used to charge for the services. For example, in case of investment management, financial advisors that use an assets under management (AUM) fee model may charge a fee between 1-2% of the assets they manage for their client. This percentage is lower for robo-advisors, who charge between 0.25% to 0.50% annually for the services.
Advisors that charge an hourly fee for financial planning etc. can cost you anywhere between $100 to $400 per hour, depending on their experience and expertise. Some advisors also charge as per the financial plan they provide. For example, a comprehensive plan can cost you around $1,000 to $3,000.
To learn more about the different fee structures and compensation methods used by financial advisors, read this article.
No matter when you start, the first step to retirement planning is to think about what your retirement goals are, and how many years you have left to achieve these goals. This will give you an estimate of how much you need to save. Note that it can take several years of planning to ensure you have saved enough money for a comfortable and secure retirement. Hence, it is beneficial to start the process early.
Next, assess the types of retirement accounts you can invest and grow your savings in, such as a 401k or a Roth IRA account. Lastly, consider hiring a financial advisor who specializes in retirement and can help suggest effective retirement planning strategies based on your unique financial requirements. A professional retirement advisor can help suggest ways to better manage your income and investments, while also avoiding unnecessary tax charges along the way.
You should hire a financial advisor to gain professional advice and expertise to invest and grow your money. While there is a lot of information out there on how to manage your finances online, in books, and in the media, learning and applying what you read requires time and expertise. Handling your finances on your own would require you to research the latest financial trends, stay up to date with the latest financial news, and continuously monitor and evaluate your portfolio at regular intervals.
Hiring a financial advisor can ease this process and give you peace of mind that your finances and assets are being managed and taken care of by a professional. The advisor can provide ongoing investment and financial management advice and services, taking your particular financial situation and goals into consideration.
If you wish to engage the services of a financial professional, use the free advisor match service to get matched to 2-3 vetted financial advisors who are suited to meet your financial needs.
A fiduciary financial advisor offers financial advice and services based on their client's financial needs. However, unlike an advisor who is not a fiduciary, fiduciaires are are legally bound to offer financial advice and product recommendations that are in their clients' best interest and are required to be transparent and disclose any potential conflicts of interest to their clients, such as profiting at their client's expense.
Fiduciaries must provide comprehensive, and well-researched financial advice to their clients, and avoid using the client's assets for personal use or advantage. They may face negative consequences if their fiduciary duty of acting in their client's best interest is breached, for which their clients can file a civil claim to recoup the damages.
To learn more about fiduciary financial advisors and what they do, read this article.
Managing and planning your finances is important as it helps ensure you are making the best use of your money. A basic financial plan helps you assess your assets and liabilities, outlines your goals, and contains the steps and methods you can use to achieve those goals. By keeping track of your finances, you can take the required steps towards creating a comfortable financial future, preparing for unforeseen emergencies, creating a retirement plan, and meeting other financial requirements.
A financial plan, however, requires taking a lot of factors into consideration, and can be a complex process to handle by yourself. It may be helpful to consider hiring a professional financial advisor to assist you assessing your current financial situation and in devising a plan to achieve your financial goals.
If you're looking to hire a financial advisor, it is very important to learn extensively about the advisor, the advisory firm, and the financial services that they provide. This will help ensure that you're hiring someone who has the suitable expertise and qualifications to help with your specific financial situation and effectively handle your finances.
Here are some questions you should ask the professional:
1. What are your qualifications?
2. What is your investment philosophy?
3. How do you charge for your financial services?
4. What financial services do you provide to your clients?
5. Are you a fiduciary?
Read more to learn about the other questions you can ask a financial advisor to assess if they're a good fit for your financial requirements.
Asset management, as the name suggests, involves the management of all your assets. These assets primarily include your investments, ETFs, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other financial holdings that you have invested in to build your wealth.
Wealth management, on the other hand, is the management and protection of a family's overall wealth. While asset management is primarily limited to the handling of your investments, wealth management takes a holistic approach to how one can maximize the wealth of a family, and protect their wealth over the years. Wealth management services are extended to a range of financial services, including retirement planning, tax planning, estate planning, legacy planning, and more.
Read more to learn the key differences between asset and wealth management.
Before you meet with a financial advisor, research the advisor and the firm. The next thing you need to do is to have all your current financial records at hand and think about what you want to gain by hiring that financial advisor.
Make a list of your income and expenses, assets and liabilities, your current budget, and your financial needs. This will provide the advisor with clarity on what is most important to you. Based on this information, the financial advisor will then also be able to format the right financial plan, investment strategy and give you the right advice and guidance.
Read more to know what to prepare for your financial advisor meeting.
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text: The beauty and allure of pearls have across centuries and cultures long been associated with wealth, royalty and glamour and define this collection as an heirloom that will be treasured by generations to come. Over time, pearls have become symbols of purity and innocence and these, when combined with our distinctive Tree of Life filigree create classic and highly desirable pieces of jewellery. The sublime silver and rose gold pearl stud earrings are adorned in the iconic filigree and contain rare Welsh gold.


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Richard Laviolette – Folk Roots Radio Interview
Richard Laviolette is a songwriter who really puts his life and personal passions into his music. His new country roots album, "Taking The Long Way Home" (2017, You've Changed Records) is all about remaining resilient in the face of life's challenges whether they relate to personal issues, family, health – whatever – basically everything we all deal with on a daily basis. It's also an album that emphasizes how much it helps to take the daily ups and downs with as much of a sense of humour as you can manage. With some lovely warm production from Andy Magoffin from the House of Miracles studio in Cambridge Ontario, and some really talented roots players who know how to play with a light touch – it's a joy to listen to. Joining Richard on the album are Lisa Bozikovic on piano, Matt Reeves on lead guitar, Jessy Bell Smith (Skydiggers) on vocal harmonies, Julia Narveson (Ever Lovin' Jug Band) on fiddle and double bass, Aaron Goldstein on pedal steel, Heather Kirby (Ohbijou) on electric bass, and Aaron Curtis on drums. We caught up with Richard Laviolette at home in Guelph to chat about the new album. Music: Richard Laviolette, "Grey Rain", "Someone Tell My Story When I'm Gone", "You've Really Got Me On The Run" and "Taking The Long Way Home" from "Taking The Long Way Home" (2017, You've Changed Records)


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Summary of the XWiki 10.x Cycle
- Top 10 Features
- Top User Features
- Notifications fully replace the Watchlist
- Improved performances
- Inline Macro Content Editing
- New default Color Theme
- New Notifications Macro
- Page fields now support auto-suggestion
- Link Autocomplete in WYSIWYG Editor
- New CAPTCHA API and CAPTCHA implementations
- Auto-suggest for pages
- Activity Stream is not bundled anymore
- Top Admin Features
- Top Developer Features
- Detailed Release Notes
This is a summary of the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering and XWiki Platform, for the whole 10.x cycle (i.e. the whole year 2018). They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
10.x cycle is defined by having an improved usability for on-boarding new users and administrators: from protection against refactoring operations, to editing inline macro content, to more auto-suggests, to a faster user interface.
Here are some stats of what happened during the 10.x cycle, more than:
- 750 issues were closed (see the full issue list)
- 415 bugs closed, 160 improvements, 31 new features and more:
- And the top participants (those contributing to more than 1% of the total issue number):
Congrats to all who participated!
Top 10 Features
We've handled various areas of XWiki in order to achieve that and here are the top 10 features that we wish to mention (arbitrarily hand-picked; it's hard to pick only 10):
- Look & Feel
- Administrate navigation
- Refactoring operations protection
- Editor Improvements
- Auto-suggest for pages
- Improved user sections
- Notifications
- Under the hood
- New community extensions
- XWiki Store
Look & Feel
In the 10.x cycle the look & feel didn't changed drastically, but we've worked mostly on consistency and polishing of the visual elements we already have. In this section we can mention from improved PDF export, to consistent modals and icons, to adding new extension points; but our top 3 changes are:
New colors
In the beginning of the cycle we've refreshed our color theme while keeping our professional and clean look & feel. Our community voted for blue as our main color, replacing the black color we had in the past.
Visible Save
We made sure the save buttons are always visible when editing the content of the page. We've also simplified the available options and naming so that the editing process becomes more natural.
Faster UI
We've added a new asynchronous rendering framework that assures that panels, menus, wiki UI extensions and wiki macros are cached and thus load much faster. This allows to have the page content rendered much faster than before giving a nice feeling of increased performance and snappiness.
Administrate navigation
The Navigation Panel is now configurable and we've removed the XWiki specific pages in order to provide an uncluttered view. You can now drag pages from the navigation tree to exclude or include them, while making sure the navigation is focused on users content pages.
Also the Menus are now integrated inside the Administration.
Refactoring operations protection
In order to prevent accidental modifications of extensions pages and classes, pages that belong to installed extensions are now protected for the majority of refactoring operations: edit, rename, move, delete. Users are forbidden or warned that their actions will have consequences. This assures to have fewer unnecessary errors and to inform users about the nature of existing pages.
Editor Improvements
We've added several improvements to our CKEditor integration. Here are our top 3:
Inline Macro Content Editing
We support inline editing of the content for some macros (like box, info, warning, error and figure macros). The user can edit directly in the context of the editor, instead of going to the dedicated macro modal.
Link Autocomplete
You can now create links to existing wiki pages and attachments directly from the editing area using the link auto-complete feature. Just type [ (open square bracket) followed by at least 2 characters and you will get link suggestions based on the typed text.
Macro Content Prefill
When inserting a macro, the macro content text area is prefilled with the text selected within the editing area.
Auto-suggest for pages
Several inputs related to selecting pages references now support auto-suggestion, making it much simpler to use and less error prone (such as not having to know if the reference should end with WebHome). You can find these inputs in Administration, when using the standard classes or you can use it when creating your own applications.
Improved user sections
We've revamped several places to use the new compact users displayer. We display the user / group avatar followed by the user / group name, while suggestions are retrieved from both the current wiki and the main wiki.
We've improved the Groups section in Administration to display the user type and scope. Also we are finally displaying the user membership in the profile.
We've continued the work on Nofications, by providing loads and loads of improvements and bugfixes. Notifications were the highlight on our 9.x cycle, but they made a come back also this year. We've improved our filtering mechanism and default values, added new macros, added auto notifications on changes, etc.
The Notifications Application is now the central feature in XWiki for notifications, finally replacing the Watchlist and the Activity Stream features.
Under the hood
It' much easier to mention visual features, since we have screenshots to show, but under the hood features usually do all the heavy duties. Usually these features are mostly targeted towards administrators, but since they are so nice, we thought we could mention a couple:
Improved Multi-Term Search Relevancy
This is commonly referred to as sloppy phrase matching and allows for more "Googleish" query strings. The allows for partial multi-term matching so that searching for long phrases won't "hide" documents with a subset of shorter multi-term matches.
Filesystem store improvements
Filesystem store is now the default location for attachments and deleted documents.
Also we've added support for case insensitive filesystems.
On top of that, we support larger attachments by default. Until now the default limit for attachments was set at 32MB. It's now been increased to 100GB.
New community extensions
2018 was a good year for extensions, with over 40 new extensions released and plenty of releases for the existing extensions. We want to thank to all our contributors that spread the love for open source and invest in new ways of using and extending XWiki.
CAPTCHA implementations
Currently CAPTCHAs are used by default in the Registration and Comments areas. A new CAPTCHA application was been implemented and now you can extend and change the implementation you use across the wiki from the Administration. You can install the popular Google reCAPTCHA or use the default JCaptcha that provides image, sound and text CAPTCHA formats.
You can now use LaTeX syntax to write content inside XWiki. You can use LaTeX to add formulas, table of content, containers, footnotes, etc.
Also if the existing PDF export is not good enough for your needs, consider using the LaTeX exporter.
New macros
Lots of new macros available, but we've going to mention just the most popular:
- Figure Macro adds a caption to tagged content or illustrations
- Numbered Reference Macro provides numbered headings, figures and tables and references to them
- Kanban Macro displays a Kanban view of AppWithinMinutes data
- Organizational Chart Macro displays an organisational chart from list, JSON or XWiki data
- Insta Feed Macro display a feed of you own Instagram's account
XWiki Store
XWiki's ecosystem continues to grow and this year we've also seen an increase in the the number of professional extensions that come with included support. XWiki Store currently contains over 15 extensions.
XWiki's Extension Manager is connected to the XWiki Store and these extensions easily be installed from your instances. You can read more about paying extensions and our project governance.
Top User Features
For our users, here are the top features that we wish to highlight:
- Notifications fully replace the Watchlist
- Improved performances
- Inline Macro Content Editing
- New default Color Theme
- New Notifications Macro
- Page fields now support auto-suggestion
- Link Autocomplete in WYSIWYG Editor
- New CAPTCHA API and CAPTCHA implementations
- Auto-suggest for pages
- Activity Stream is not bundled anymore
Notifications fully replace the Watchlist
It's finally done! In this version, we have decided to disable the Watchlist in XWiki, by default. Instead, the Notifications Application is now the central feature in XWiki for notifications.
Note: you can rollback this change by disabling the Notifications Application and enabling the Watchlist again.
Improved performances
We have enabled asynchronous rendering of several UI elements: side Panels, Menu entries and more. This allows to have the page content rendered much faster than before giving a nice feeling of increased performance and snappiness.
Inline Macro Content Editing
The macro content can now be edited inline with the WYSIWYG editor, if the macro is used on a separate line (stand-alone, not inside a paragraph of text) and the macro descriptor declares that its content is rendered without being transformed. There are a few macros that do this at the moment (box, info, warning, error and figure macros) but we're planing to add support for more macros in the next versions.
See the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.
New default Color Theme
We wanted to refresh the default color theme (Charcoal) for the XWiki Standard 10.x cycle and the community voted for the Iceberg theme, which is our new default theme. We kept a professional / clean look and feel and opted for blue as our main color. The purpose of the default color theme is to cover as many use cases as possible, so if you want to spice up your instance try one of our community contributed color themes.
New Notifications Macro
It is now possible to list the notifications for the wiki by using the Notifications Macro. You can use it in any page or any dashboard. The goal is to be able to replace the Activity Stream which is going to be deprecated (too slow and missing some features).
Page fields now support auto-suggestion
You can now use the auto-suggestion feature on Page fields by typing the page title or the page reference.
Link Autocomplete in WYSIWYG Editor
You can now create links to existing wiki pages and attachments directly from the editing area using the link auto-complete feature. Just type [ (open square bracket) followed by at least 2 characters and you will get link suggestions based on the typed text. Checkout the CKEditor Integration documentation for more information.
New CAPTCHA API and CAPTCHA implementations
A new CAPTCHA Application and API have been implemented, replacing the old Captcha Module, thus making it even easier to use and validate a CAPTCHA in a form. Also, it's now very easy to change the CAPTCHA implementation that you want to use in your wiki, directly from Administration, without having to touch a line of code.
Also, a new and much more extensive JCaptcha implementation has been provided for the new API, that works offline and features image, sound and text CAPTCHAS. It is bundled by default with XWiki Standard.
As a popular alternative, a Google reCAPTCHA implementation is also available, installable as an extension using the Extension Manager.
The locations in XWiki where CAPTCHA is being used by default (e.g. Registration and Comments) will use the CAPTCHA implementation that you have enabled and configured in the "Administration >> CAPTCHA" section.
Auto-suggest for pages
Several inputs related to selecting pages references now support auto-suggestion, making it much simpler to use and less error prone (such as not having to know if the reference should end with WebHome or not!). See the screenshots for some examples.
Activity Stream is not bundled anymore
The good old Activity Stream Application is not bundled anymore with XWiki. This decision has been made because the Notifications Application can now handle the same features with better performances.
As a consequence, we have also modified every applications that was using Activity Stream to use the new Notifications features.
For backward compatibility, we also provide a Legacy Notification Activity Macro that would help you not to break the pages you have created with the use of the {{activity/}} macro..
Top Admin Features
For our admins, here are the top features that we wish to highlight:
XAR entry types improvements
Starting XWiki 10.4 we started to introduce the concept of page "Types".
Several ways to protect extension pages are now provided and can be configured in xwiki.properties:
#-# The possible choices are:
#-# * none: no protection at all
#-# * warning (the default): everyone get a warning when trying to edit a protected document
#-# * deny = EDIT/DELETE right is denied for everyone except for admins who just get a warning
#-# * forcedDeny = EDIT/DELETE right is denied for everyone, admins can't force edit/delete
#-# * denySimple = EDIT/DELETE right is denied for simple users except for simple admins who just get a warning
#-# * forcedDenySimple = EDIT/DELETE right is denied for all simple users, simple admins can't force edit/delete
# extension.xar.protection=warning- Main.WebHome page entry type is now demo since the wiki home page is configurable so there is no reason to prevent its deletion
- XWiki.XWikiAdminGroup page entry type is now configuration, was forgotten in previous version
- the type home has been removed since it was designed for wiki home page use case which does not make much sense anymore
Filesystem store by default
Filesystem store is now the default location for attachments and deleted documents. See attachment storage documentation for more details.
Top Developer Features
For our developers, here are the top features that we wish to highlight:
- New asynchronous rendering framework
- New document type in XAR extensions
- New Page API
- No more unset xobject property
- Page picker velocity macro
New asynchronous rendering framework
It's now possible to easily enable asynchronous execution and caching for panels, wiki UI extensions and wiki macros.
The following fields have been added:
- Asynchronous rendering (async_enabled): a boolean indicating if the element should be executed asynchronously. Disabled by default.
- Cached (async_cached): a boolean indicating if the result of the execution of the element should be cached. Disabled by default.
- Context elements (async_context): the context information required for the execution of the element (current user, current document, etc.). It's also used to generate the cache key.
A org.xwiki.rendering.async.AsyncContext Java class and corresponding $services.async script service have been introduced to control:
- if the asynchronous execution should be enabled/disabled in the current context (in which case any following execution of panels will be synchronous no matter how it was configured in the first place for example).
- a set of methods to help register a set of entities and components which should lead to cache invalidation if they are modified, for the current asynchronous execution.
- a way to register some custom resources to remember. Their cached results will be reinjected later (for example it's used to remember the skin extensions required by a cached element). One can then implement org.xwiki.rendering.asyncAsyncContextHandler to restore them when using the cached content.
New document type in XAR extensions
It's now possible to indicate a type for each entry in a XAR extension. The type indicates what actions are allowed for a document once it's installed (edit, delete) and how it should be handled during upgrade (merge, skip, overwrite, etc.). See XAR package format for more details about this new property.
New Page API
10.6 brings the Page concept which was introduced in 7.4 to the API and the macros.
PAGE EntityType and Page*Reference classes
First thing first we now have a few new types in EntityType and the corresponding typed Page*Reference helpers. One for each of the element you can have in a page:
Corresponding resolvers/serializer/providers
Each of the already existing DOCUMENT oriented resolvers and serializers have their PAGE oriented implementation.
Conversion from DOCUMENT to PAGE world
The entity resolvers automatically convert from/to DOCUMENT from/to PAGE world references. So yes, using a resolver is the official way to do that conversion.
New syntax
Pages reference have a very different syntax.
To summarize it's a filesystem path syntax with support for parameters.
Here is are a few examples:
- separator: "/" between all elements except WIKI which is still ":"
- escaping: still "\"
- current, parent support: like in a file system you can refer to the current page or parent page/wiki using "." and ".."
- parameters: we now have syntax to express the parameters of an EntityReference. Each parameter is separated by a ";" at the end of the entity name
- default parameter: the syntax have the concept of default parameter which mean a parameter for which you don't need to indicate the name. For example PAGE reference default parameter is "locale"
New resource reference
A new resource reference of type PAGE has been added and can be used in links for example:
- the $services.model API also got his own new helpers to manipulate pages
- support for page references have been added to various oldcore (XWiki/XWikiDocument/Document) and bridge (DocumentAccessBridge) APIs
- support for page references have been added to the security module
No more unset xobject property
Missing properties in an xobject (compared to the xclass) are now automatically added (with a null value most of the time) during save or when adding a new field in a class. Among other things it means you can now use fields in a database query without wondering if the field exist or not, no more missing result because the property is not set in some object yet.
Page picker velocity macro
You can now use a #pagePicker($parameters) velocity macro (works like #userPicker) to display an input auto-suggesting pages. Pages are searched by full name (e.g. Sandbox.Page) and title (depending on the locale of the user).
Detailed Release Notes
If you wish to see the full details of all features and improvements you can check each release note.
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH :13 March 2014
The Yemeni government needs to investigate why people were killed and wounded at an apparently peaceful protest. Given the failure to investigate similar past incidents, it's crucial for the government to make its findings public and to hold accountable any security officers who used excessive force.
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director
(Sanaa) – Yemeni security forces apparently used excessive lethal force against peaceful demonstrators in Aden on February 20 and 21, 2014. The government should promptly, impartially, and thoroughly investigate the incident, which left one protester dead and five wounded, and hold all those responsible for abuses to account.
State security and military forces unnecessarily used teargas and live ammunition against supporters of the Southern Movement (Hirak), an umbrella group seeking independence or greater autonomy for southern Yemen, witnesses told Human Rights Watch. Reports of excessive use of force by security forces against southern protesters have declined since the change of government in February 2012, but the government's record of investigating incidents remains poor, Human Rights Watch said.
"The Yemeni government needs to investigate why people were killed and wounded at an apparently peaceful protest," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director. "Given the failure to investigate similar past incidents, it's crucial for the government to make its findings public and to hold accountable any security officers who used excessive force."
A media officer for the protesters, Salah Mothana Abdullah, 37, told Human Rights Watch thatat least 5000 Hirak supporters gathered in the central al-`Orod Square in the Khur Maksar neighborhood of Aden on February 20, 2014, for two days of demonstrations. He said they were protesting the proposal by the recently concluded National Dialogue to create a federal system made up of six states in Yemen. Three protesters and a bystander told Human Rights Watch that the protesters appeared unarmed and did not resort to any violence until after the government crackdown the following afternoon. The government has not issued a statement on the incident.
Abdullah and another witness said that on the first day, state security and military forces increased their presence both on foot and in armored military and security vehicles in the streets of Khur Maksar. Abdullah said:
I was in a shop in the square on Thursday afternoon and saw three military vehicles, two [military] Special Security Force vehicles and one General Security vehicle, parked in the square.… At around 5 p.m., I noticed four snipers on the rooftop of the former Ethiopian Embassy, facing the square. Their faces were masked.The first demonstration was planned for that evening.
People started to approach the square, and got to around 15 meters from the Special Security Forces. I counted at least 60 [soldiers/personnel], most of them not visibly carrying guns, but carrying batons, teargas canisters, and canister launchers. I saw around 12 of them who were carrying guns shooting live rounds into the air, and three or four took aim directly at the protesters.
Abd al-Khaliq Mothana, 40, a local freelance journalist, told Human Rights Watch that at about 6 p.m. "at least 100 protesters were carrying out the evening prayer in the street, when soldiers suddenly started throwing teargas canisters at them." He said that at about 10:30 p.m. he saw soldiers fire live ammunition toward a crowd of protesters gathered next to Ahl al-Bait Mosque, near the square. Visibility was difficult because it was dark, he said, and the security forces continued to fire teargas into the crowd. Two protesters standing about 7 meters from him were wounded by gunfire, one in the abdomen and the other in the right hand.
Despite the crackdown, protesters continued to gather in the square throughout the night, only dispersing at 3 a.m. Some gathered in a neighboring square but were not pursued by security forces.
On February 21, security and military forces increased their presence in the area and tried to prevent the protesters from returning to al-`Orod square. According to Mothana, the journalist, some protesters had travelled from Hadhramout, Abyan, Shabwa, Lahj, and other towns in southern Yemen. As protester numbers increased, security forces blocked the roads leading to the square with military vehicles and water cannons.
Zain al-Mahbashi, 47, a local businessman, told Human Rights Watch:
As we were finishing our midday prayer at Ahl al-Bait Mosque, about 20 meters from the square, we saw that riot police had surrounded the mosque and were firing teargas canisters at the main gate of the mosque courtyard. We took this as a sign that the security forces did not want us to gather in large groups, so we left the mosque one by one. As I was leaving the mosque, I saw at least 100 of the military's Special Security Forces personnel and riot police, and four military armored vehicles, surrounding us.
Mothana said that he saw at least 12 wounded protesters "but because of the teargas I was not able to see how they got hurt." Abdullah, the media officer, said that Abd al-`Alim Hussein Ahmed, 21, a protester from Abyan, was shot and killed.
An employee at the al-Naqib hospital, where the injured were brought, told Human Rights Watch that he knew of three protesters with gunshot wounds – to the head, right hand, and back – and eight with respiratory problems from the teargas.
Four witnesses to the events on February 21 said the protesters remained peaceful until about 1:30 p.m., when security forces assaulted them as they attempted to enter the square. The witnesses all said that the protesters set about seven car tires on fire and threw stones at the security forces.
Yemeni authorities should abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, which provide that all security forces shall, as far as possible, apply nonviolent means before resorting to force. Whenever the lawful use of force is unavoidable, the authorities must use restraint and act in proportion to the seriousness of the offense. Law enforcement officials should not use firearms against people "except in self-defense or defense of others against the imminent threat of death or serious injury."
Human Rights Watch documented multiple incidents in Aden prior to the 2011 uprising in which security and military forces routinely used lethal force that was excessive in relation to any danger the protesters presented. In all of the cases, security forces used teargas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition from assault rifles and machine guns. Since the change in government, southern activists had expressed fewer complaints about security forces using excessive force during demonstrations.
More generally, in the past three years Human Rights Watch has documented many incidents in which armed forces used apparent excessive force and the president or government announced investigations. But no results of those investigations have been made public.
"Yemeni security forces have a well-documented history of using excessive force against demonstrators, particularly in the south," Stork said. "This incident unfortunately harkens back to the brutal tactics of the previous government."


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Darwin Yang: Solo at the Top |
By WIM Dr. Alexey Root | |
March 1, 2012 | |
"This hotel makes me nostalgic," said IM
Darwin Yang. "Seven years ago the Texas Scholastic Chess Championships were also here and I had lots of friends with me. My team, Skaggs Elementary (Plano, TX), finished second in the primary section. There were lots of kids I knew in the skittles room. Now most of them have quit chess and I'm here alone." Not quite alone, as Darwin's mom, Kewei Wu, accompanied him on his return trip to the Sheraton Dallas for the 2012 Texas Scholastic Chess Championships. Darwin went 7-0 in the Texas Scholastic's high school championship section, securing a UT Dallas "Chess II" scholarship for finishing alone at the top. Darwin is still at an age (15) where either his mom or his dad, Dujiu Yang, comes along to his tournaments. Next on his schedule is a norm tournament in Chicago over Spring Break, organized by Sevan Muradian. Darwin will also play in the 2012 National High School (K-12) Championship in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I want to try to get the high school national title now, in ninth grade, so I don't have to worry about it later on." At the National High School (K-12) Championship, Darwin will play with a team from his current school, St. Mark's School of Texas. Second highest rated on the St. Mark's team will be Jason Altschuler (2214). The other two players will be middle school student Akshay Malhotra (2054) and "a fourth grader who is 1850," Tianming Xie. This spring, Darwin may also play in the Chicago Open and the Philadelphia Open. He has to be careful, however, not to miss too many school days as St. Mark's is academically demanding. Balancing chess and academics is "a little bit tough. Sometimes I have too much schoolwork and can't look at chess for several days. Normally, though, I spend 2-3 hours on chess a day on weekdays and 5-6 hours a day on weekends." For aspiring young masters to keep such a chess schedule, Darwin advised, "you can't lose motivation. Even I've had motivation problems before, after a bad result. Losses used to be an incredible low for me. But you have to keep working so you don't give up what you have already worked for. Inner motivation is important. Think about the other benefits of chess such as meeting new people and mental training." And, Darwin added, "I like winning." Videos of Darwin Yang From December 2010: This interview of Darwin Yang was conducted at the UT Dallas GM Invitational in December 2010. Darwin, then age 14, was trying for his third IM norm. He later got that norm in April 2011 at the Texas Tech SPICE Cup. Photos of him from his beginnings in tournament chess at age 7 through 2010 are shown. From November 2009: US Chess Scoop from Chess Life Online interviewed Darwin when he was about 10 days short of age 13, at a tournament 11-29-09. Dr. Alexey Root, WIM, is the author of five books on chess in education https://www.amazon.com/author/alexeyroot Her sixth book, Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14, will be published by Mongoose Press http://www.mongoosepress.com/ Find out more about the National High School Championships and other upcoming Nationals. |


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Garage doors are a system of many components and garage door springs plays a major role in its functionality. It is quite obvious that the springs are those parts, which require replacements often. It is important to maintain these springs, as these are the parts that take up the excessive weight of the door on a daily basis. Garage door springs are sensitive, as they need to hold and close the door slowly and effectively. It is important to hire the right kind of professionals, since springs must be installed and handed with extreme care.
We have a dedicated team of experts, who deal with springs exclusively. A failure of a spring can lead to a major injury to people and property. A combination of skill, knowledge and experience is required to handle spring-related issues in garage doors, as the process of aligning the spring in the system is very complicated. Community Garage Door Service has been assisting and advising customers in Chester, PA with respect to spring services and its advantages.
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Such springs are widely used in the residential and commercial sector, but the type, size and number of springs used varies according to the specifications. A multiple spring technology is used for industrial and commercial garage doors, since they undergo heavy duty usage. For the right choice of springs, consult an expert from Community Garage Door Service. We can get a torsion spring system installed at your location at an affordable price.
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It doesn't matter what type of business you look at, there will always be someone trying to exploit it in some way. Even with roofing repairs, there is never a lack of "experts" who are just out to steal your money.
But how do you prepare for something you are not familiar with? Not everyone has a DIY mindset and know what needs to be done with the roof, meaning you can be left completely vulnerable at the mercy of the scammer. But quick-talking and slick individuals can be spotted miles away if you just pay attention.
And to help you avoid some of the most common roofing scams, this is what you need to know.
1. The Sub-Par Repair
The first scam is a harsh one, seeing as you only spot it too late. You also seem to have difficulty contacting the professional who handled the repair, after you noticed the initial hole is back – and it got bigger.
Essentially, you've been scammed.
The reason why this scam exists in the first place is based on the desperation to get the repairs done for as cheaply as possible. And it's understandable to hire the cheapest local roofing expert, regardless of whether you've checked out their reputation.
But what you'll be getting is a mere cover-up to the real problem, which will cost you more money to fix – again. And taking into account that the problem probably got worse over time, there is no telling how much damage has been done.
2. The Overachiever
A lack of roofing knowledge gives the "overachieving" roofing scam so much power. And where the first scam is all about doing as little as possible, this one is all about doing way too much.
Not every roof repair is an emergency or requires extensive work. But there are some roofers who will like to argue otherwise. According to them, you'll have to fix everything short of replacing the roof altogether.
This is why you always get several quotes and opinions before making a final decision.
3. Less Is More
The last scam on the list will be the easiest to spot. This is because you are dealing with an "expert" who is going to charge you according to the little they have to do. Basically, the less they have to do, the more they charge for non-sensical things to make up the difference.
Some people strike it very unlucky when they get a mixture of the above-mentioned scams, which is definitely possible.
How To Avoid Roofing Scams
If you don't want to be a victim of a roofing scam, follow these tips:
- Always check out the reputation of the company you are using and how long they have been in business
- Ask friends and family if they can refer you to a company
- Get 3 different quotes at the very least
- Do some research about the problem online and become informed
- Never pay a deposit for the work beforehand (although deposits might be required by some companies)
While it's important to save money, you won't be saving anything if you get caught up in one of the above-mentioned roofing scams.