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It's getting easier for home buyers to get approved for an FHA-backed home loan.
Major lenders are approving FHA mortgage applications for borrowers with credit scores of 580 or better, a 60-point buffer as compared to last year, when FHA lenders required credit scores of at least 640.
The news comes at a time when FHA loans are in demand. Its 3.5% downpayment requirement is among the most lenient for today's home buyers nationwide.
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FHA loans are an important component of the U.S. housing and mortgage market. FHA loans are loans which are insured by the Federal Housing Administration and made available to U.S. buyers and existing homeowners.
The FHA was formed in 1934 and it exists to provide affordable housing to Americans. Today, it's the largest insurer of mortgage loans worldwide.
The Federal Housing Administration doesn't actually make loans. Rather, it insures loans made by the nation's banks, providing protection against default and loss. In order to gain the FHA's protection, lenders must only make sure that the loan in question meets the lending standards as set forth by the FHA.
The FHA's rule book is known as "the FHA guidelines" and FHA guidelines describe all allowable loan traits, as well as the going terms of an Federal Housing Administration-backed loan.
For example, FHA guidelines state that home buyers must make a minimum downpayment of 3.5 percent against a home's purchase price; and that buyers can be cleared to buy a home 12 months after a bankruptcy, short sale, or foreclosure.
Guidelines also place limits on the size of an FHA-backed loan, which varies by county. FHA loan limits range from $271,200 for a single-family home to $1,202,925 for a 4-unit home.
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FHA mortgage guidelines define which loans the Federal Housing Administration will, and will not, insure.
However, U.S. lenders don't underwrite loans to the FHA guidelines as they're written, to the letter. They impose additional restrictions known as investor overlays which make it harder for an applicant to qualified for an FHA-backed loan.
One such overlay is linked to the FHA Streamline Refinance.
According to the official Federal Housing Administration guidelines, with an FHA Streamline Refinance, lenders are not required to verify income, employment or credit scores. Yet, many lenders choose to verify regardless. This is because the FHA penalizes banks for making too many "bad loans" and verifications can cut down on defaults.
Another important overlay is linked to your credit score.
The FHA rules state that it will insure home loans for which the borrower has a credit score of 500 or higher. Banks, however, are reluctant to make such loans.
Buyers with credit scores of 500 are highly likely to default in the next 6 months, which would negatively affect a bank's FHA default rate, leading to fines, penalties, and perhaps, termination from the FHA insurance program.
Beginning in late-2011, most banks enforced a minimum credit score for FHA loans of 640. Effective immediately, that minimum score is lowered.
U.S. home buyers can now get an FHA loan with credit scores of just 580. And, as the domestic economy continues to improve; and, as U.S. housing regains lost value, it's likely that the minimum FHA FICO score will drop again.
For today's U.S. home buyers, the Federal Housing Administration mortgage is among the most lenient and forgiving mortgage programs available. The program requires a downpayment of just 3.5 percent and mortgage rates are among the lowest available.
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Employers 'see the benefits of giving staff mobiles'
26 March 2009 — 2:00 PM
Employers are increasingly happy for their staff to conduct business on the move with the latest mobile phones, a new report suggests.
The Future Mobile Enterprise: Forecasts, Markets & Devices 2009-2014 report, put together by Juniper Research, shows more wireless activity is taking place across companies than ever before.
It was estimated this tendency to engage in "unwired enterprise" is due to the cost-effectiveness and productivity that allowing employees access to the latest contracts provide.
Report author Andrew Kitson commented as long as companies are sure the devices they provide staff are secure, mobile phones and internet facilities may prove beneficial.
"Enterprises need to be assured of total control over the devices their employees use," he said "There are upfront cost issues involved, but the greater cost lies in compromising on security features."
The news could inspire firms to consider recycling mobile phones that have been issued to staff in favour of newer, more business-focussed contracts.
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The RICOH & Java™ Developer Challenge is a major contest in which entrants use RICOH products and compete to submit the best ideas and techniques for development of business applications* that run on the Java platform. For the sixth contest, being held in 2013, we have further expanded the range of RICOH products that can be used, with the result being a major upgrade to the stage on which entrants demonstrate their creative powers. We look forward to seeing how you all respond to this challenge.
* Practical business applications for office use (excludes designs for games, websites, etc.).
Safe, efficient, and offering superior versatility and portability, Java™ technology is well suited to network computing. Supported by open source environments, it is used in a wide range of devices, including PCs, cellphones, game devices, smartphones and HDD recorders. Always striving to achieve sophisticated functionality with limited resources and capacity, the RICOH product line is no exception. RICOH has been quick to pay attention to the many possibilities for network function support, complex user interfaces, and development cycle compression that can be realized with the Java™ platform.
In the 2011 contest, the Grand Prix was won by a system that links the Kinect game device and a multifunction copier to perform document storage operations with motion, voice and face recognition. In 2012, the Grand Prix was awarded to a system that achieves low-cost interactive digital signage using a projector, a device newly added in the 2012 contest. Year after year we have received a continuous stream of entries filled with freewheeling ideas. This year we again strongly look forward to seeing what kinds of ideas will excite the judges.
* Kinect is a trademark or registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation of the U.S. and its affiliated companies.
Since students spend most of their time studying and writing papers on their own, they almost never do program development as part of a team. From that perspective, this contest offers them a rare experience. The development kit is provided, and teams making it past the first round get to do programming using a RICOH product. They are able to polish their ideas in a rich environment while being stimulated by professional developers as well as other
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In addition, all members of participating teams are presented with a prize for participation.
* Prizes for this year's contest will be announced on this site as soon as they are decided.
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Participants can be individuals or teams of multiple members.
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The system to be developed must incorporate one or more RICOH products/services* 1 and use the designated API, and all or part of the code must run on the Java platform* 2.
* 1 Multifunction copier, projector, Clickable Paper™ Service, RICOH Unified Communication System
* 2 Participant are free to also use Android, but Android alone will not be deemed to satisfy the requirement of using the Java platform.
* Since a contract needs to be concluded, a faculty advisor must be on the team.
This is an open contest.
Application deadline is May 31, 2013(Friday)
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Development kit (Device SDK Type-J, etc.)(no charge)
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Contact point for specialized technical support
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In principle, the rights to student-created programs revert to the students, but in some cases it may be necessary to obtain the advance approval of RICOH. For details, please check the content of the"Contract for Contest Participation"that will be sent after the contest application is submitted.
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Ken Sakamura, Professor (Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo
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Mitsuru Sasanuma, Senior Sales Consultant (Oracle Corporation Japan)
Hideko Kunii, Executive Board Chair (Ricoh IT Solutions Co., Ltd.)
Shogo Hyakutake, General Manager (Technology Value Marketing Center, Global Marketing Group)
Hideaki Kitagawa, General Manager (Business Development Center, Global Marketing Group)
Katsumi Kanasaki, Chief Engineer (Research and Development Group)
Atsushi Hanai, General Manager (PJ & UCS Business Center, Network Appliance Business Group)
Yutaka Kaneko, General Manager (Corporate Communication Center, Corporate Planning Division)
Wataru Ohtani, General Manager (New Business Development Center, Corporate Planning Division)
Tetsuya Morita (Ricoh IT Solutions Co., Ltd.)
Fumiyo Kojima, Advisor (Corporate Design Center, Corporate Planning Division)
Yoshiki Shibata, Assistant Center Manager (Development Strategy Center, Controller Development Division; also translator of "Effective Java")
For the first-round selections, judges will review reports, video and the development program that uses an emulator, etc.
For the final selections, the judging will be done based on source code, documents, video and a demonstration/presentation on the equipment.
The awards will be decided by judging the entries from a variety of perspectives.
Date: Mid-January 2014
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With the intensity of a gold rush, multinational corporations race to stake their claim on the consumer group formerly known as children. The unprecedented convergence of unfettered commercialism and ubiquitous, miniaturized screen media allows marketers to bypass parents and target children directly. Precocious sexuality, eating disorders, youth violence, childhood obesity,rampant consumerism, family stress, and the erosion of children's creative play—the foundation of learning—have all been linked to child-targeted marketing. Dr. Susan Linn will talk about the magnitude of this global problem and what we can do about it.


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Venison America more than 'meats' the eyeNestled in a building set back off the road is the thriving business Venison America, and the only clue that it's there is the colorful sign on the side of the building.
By: Margaret Ontl, Hudson Star-Observer
Nestled in a building set back off the road is the thriving business Venison America, and the only clue that it's there is the colorful sign on the side of the building.
Founded in Galena, Ill., in the 1990s, the company is now headquartered in Hudson. Originally it processed and distributed fallow deer meat to restaurants. Today, the business offers meat from A (alligator) to Z (zebra), along with gourmet items such as white truffle oil and juniper berries.
Steve Loppnow, who owns the business with Kent Phillips, started with the company in 1996. Phillips, a Hudson resident, bought the company in 2000 and moved it to Hudson, operating it out of his house originally.
Today, 80 to 85 percent of their business comes from mid to upscale restaurants in the Twin Cities; the remainder from online and walk-in sales.
Venison America works both ends of the process – from the farm to the market.
"I work with farmers to develop specifications for them to get the best yield," said Loppnow.
A short list of the exotic meats and game available include alligator, antelope, bison, black bear, caribou in season, chicken, guinea hens, venison – both red (United States) and fallow (New Zealand), elk, wild boar, turtle, ostrich, pheasant, yak, lion and zebra. All of them come from USDA-approved sources.
On Valentine's Day and other holidays home gourmet cooks often look for something special to prepare, and kangaroo is one of the favorites. Less exotic favorites include the full line of Niman Ranch products, all natural pork and beef. Venison America also features Naturewell black angus, Canadian free-range veal, and a selection of sausage, including an apple gouda variety.
To complement the specialty meats and game is a selection of uncommon gourmet foods, from Palestinian olive oil to Hawaiian black sea salt.
Another new area will be deer processing, whole and boneless.
"A lot of people don't know we are here," said Loppnow. "We have a great selection, and most of the domestic meats are fresh."
Walk-in customers will find a modest retail operation, but the company's motto is, "Can't find it? Call Us. It's What we do best." Any of their products available to restaurants are available to retail customers too.
Venison America is open for retail sales from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday at 494-B County A, just past Durobag. For more information, call (800) 310-2360 or visit www.venisonamerica.com.
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Alex Rodriguez might not be playing much in 2013, but some rumors about him aren't ready to be put out to pasture just yet. The Yankees third baseman hosted an art show at his Miami home during the city's Art Basel celebration, and some visitors noticed that a couple of fabled paintings weren't on display. We're referring, of course, to the rumored artwork of A-Rod as a centaur that former girlfriend Torrie Wilson claimed he hung over his bed. When asked about the paintings by the New York Daily News, however, A-Rod tried to put the rumor to rest. "No, I do not have a painting of my upper body on a Minotaur," he said. "I don't know where they get that stuff." The supposed art, showing Rodriguez as a mythical creature, has been floating around the rumor mill since 2009, and former girlfriend Madonna neither confirmed nor denied the existence of any paintings when asked about it herself. In any case, Rodriguez will be out for four to six months due to some upcoming hoof hip surgery.
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Penguin Books Covers
May 10th
We came across this colourful image of a very neatly stacked selection of Penguin book spines, it totally brightened up our day and thought we'd share the love and hopefully brighten yours too!
This got us thinking about all those other great penguin book covers, past and present. We got to searching and came across an array of stunning designs. Some of which we were familiar with, and others that we were not, but that's the beauty with Penguin covers, every time we re-visit this area, we find others to add to our favourites list.
Needless to say there is a whole host of images available online, and many like-minded Penguin-loving geeks are out there posting their albums (thank you!). Have a little look at Mr Bizzle's great set on flickr for more!
There's something particularly special about Jillian Tamale's Penguin commissions, successfully sealing not one but two commissions for the loveable publishers, including a set of cloth coloured editions and now a Penguin Threads series.
Jillian's second commission was to design hand-sewn covers for three classics for the Penguin Threads series: Jane Austen's Emma, Frances Hodges Burnett's The Secret Garden, and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. Although the final covers are reproductions of the original artwork (would have been a bit crazy to embroider each individual cover!), they maintain some of the tactile contours of the original threads. Check out her blog for more info.
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Borussia Dortmund full-back Lukasz Piszczek has agreed a contract extension which ties him to the Bundesliga champions until June 2016.
The Poland international appeared in all but one of Dortmund's 34 games last season as they swept to the title, and sporting director Michael Zorc is delighted the 26-year-old has opted to lengthen his stay at the Westfalenstadion.
Zorc told Kicker: "We are very pleased to extend Lukasz's contract long-term because he is among the best players in his position in the Bundesliga."
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Erik Inglis, 42, who is also known as Simon Pascall, has been sleeping rough and was last seen last seen at around midday at Datchet Road, Home Park, Windsor. He also has links to Ascot, Slough and Oxford.
PC Tom Hughes-Parry, the officer dealing with the case, said: "We would urge Erik to get in touch. We would ask that anyone who thinks they recognise Erik to get in touch with the police as soon as possible."
Mr Inglis is of medium build, 5ft 7ins, with brown shoulder-length hair and he was last seen wearing a long, thick, grey trench coat, jeans, boots, and a grey, round hat, possibly with feathers. He had a safety pin in his right eyebrow and a bar through his left eyebrow.
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Beating Tito
This will be a long, slow day trip. Starts now and ends in March.
I'v never competed in a motorcycle event before. But Friday I signed up to try and beat Tito.
I counted six entry forms on the clipboard. It was closing time and I would be the last. Well, if two drop out before March 15, and Tito gets the flue... I might have a chance. I think I ride a lot. Tito racks up 50 miles a workday commute. Hard to beat.
Tito may be motivated by employment, but being retired, my ace in the hole is the honey-do. The Treasure Valley of western Idaho runs elevations under 2500 ft. and does not hold snow floor for long. By Sunday I figured Tito was up on me by 100 miles. Then my lovely wife says, "Babe, I forgot to pick up water at Costco."
From my front drive I see the northern end of the Valley.
and the eastern edge, where one finds Boise.
Costco is SE. I head west to Oregon.
Tito has to ride the same route every day. I ride down to the Snake River and cross to Adrian. I pic up some corn on the west edge of the valley then head south along the Snake.
The Snake swings east and I cross back over in Marsing and wander off to Costco.
A few hours after arriving home with water my Babe finds she is out of Milk Thistle extract. I ride North toward Ontario OR in the fading light.
Home after dark. Two honey-dos... 130 miles.
Yesterday, two trips to the post office only netted 25 m. But once more my lovely bride exercises her wifely duty.
"Babe? Did you call the VA to schedule a butt-scope like I asked you?"
>No, Love.
"Snore test, new boots, eyeglasses, adjust that new leg brace?"
>No. I'll make those calls today.
This is where an old duff can rack up the miles against a young pup. Peeling the VA's bureaucratic onions and attending clinics scheduled on separate weekdays will run a dozen trips... about 1200 miles, and the travel-pay should offset $300 of the $400 in fuel it will take to beat Tito.
I like to ride; like the feel of leaning a turn on two wheels. I like to go. A wife, fulfilling her need to nurture and nest, will soon civilize her spouse and teach him to grasp the way of happiness: do what she likes. Babe likes things to work, including her man, so I look about, searching a compromise.
"Got'a run to town, Babe, the lawn tractor has a flat."
Sand Hollow Creek
Our tire guy is in Nyssa, OR. When rail came down the Snake River, the New York Sheep Shearing Association put in a siding, stock pins, and a N.Y.S.S.A. sign. The hotel went up in 1904. The town boomed in the mid-thirties with the new Sugar Factory. The rail station, long closed, is where my dad left the farm to join the marines in 1937.
My mom came out with her family, fleeing west from the dust bowel. Her brother found work at a buck an hour, so they built a tar-paper shack and stayed. This rusted old light and sign-pole still stands where my step-granddad built a gas-station/store along the highway. Later he built the Arrow Head hotel.
I think you'll beat him for sure. :lurk
you've got a good sense of humor, I hope you beat him!
Go Papa go!
Turkey day. Cooled down a bit last night, 29 this morning and I'm off to pick up our turkey. Cross the Snake and scare the mud hens.
The bird's a snug fit in a 5 gal bucket.
About 100 years ago Ridgeview was established on the east side of the Snake River. There was a cable ferry and sheep and pigs would be driven east through Roswell to the rail-head in Parma. Ridgevew didn't grow any bigger than the old mercantile / post office because the new railroad came down the west side of the river. The post office was moved across to the new Ridgeview, soon renamed Adrian.
I hear my Babe, who was baking pies and cheesecake most of yesterday, calling from the kitchen, "Hon, will you run to town and pick up a couple bags of spuds?"
"Yes, Dear."
I wish you all a good turkey day and heartburn free night. .
"Youth and speed are no match for old age and treachery."
Ah, Tito is still bringing out the competitive spirit! I once rode with him to Cape Breton. All I remember about that trip is two gas stops. I had $4000 worth of digital camera and lenses with me, and got about four photos from the entire trip.
Good luck beating him. He is known to ride 800 miles for a Big Mac.
Ok, I'll follow along in your quest to beat Tito. Glad you're adding a little history from the local area of things I always wondered about, including the mercantile building everytime I drive by it. Ridgeview=Adrian, interesting.
Yeah, beat Tito! :thumb Enjoying the local color! :clap
When I run to town, like I did yesterday to pick up 8 gal of distilled water for coffee, I'm riding on the route of the Oregon Trail. The trail drops down a shallow canyon wall to ford the Boise River just north of Caldwell. A memorial stone was set near there 90 years ago with the construction of a new bridge.
The bridge was built on ST "O" in '22 before the US highway system. Idaho's earliest highway designations were the Sampson Trails, marked with a bold black letter on an orange paint background, named after Charles Sampson, a Boise businessman and Good Roads booster.
A set of 90 year old mile posts survive and I fantasize about stealing them to set at my drive. There is a diversion here that sends river water along a main canal that snakes down the valley and flood irrigates my lawn in Roswell. The sandy and shaded river shore makes it a popular swimming hole. They recently banned jumping from the old span.
Freezing fog on the trees and shrubs in the lower valley today. Rode along the southern edge of the Boise River's flood-plane; scared up blue herons, ring-necks, mallards, snow geese, and a golden eagle ripping apart a muskrat on a fence post. For no apparent reason, the right lens of my eyeglasses popped out, clattered against the inside of my face shield, then dropped through the small gap that was keeping the shield from fogging. Crap.
Mileage check day at Birds of Prey. With 333 I'm beating Tito. But some Yahoo who commutes from the last town down stream in the Treasure Valley, Weiser, has racked up over 900. "What's he ride?" I asked.
"Yamaha Maxim 650."
"Cool. It will break down before spring and be getting ice in it's carbs." I announce hopefully.
The style is dry, the way I like it. I'll be following this story for sure.
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THE twin bombings of US embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi in 1998 may have just suggested the word terrorism in the minds of citizens of Tanzania and Kenya.
But by recent bombing of churches in Tanzanian northern region of Arusha and the Kenyan Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi has engraved the word indelibly in the vocabulary of the two cities which happen to be tourist hubs in their respective nations.
The recent terrorists' attacks of the Westgate a few kilometres away from Nairobi is likely to increase fear even in the Lake Zone regions bordering Kenya and Uganda, if East Africa won't have in place security measures strong enough. The 1998 bombings followed by the latest bombings in the two East African countries where tourism is a chief forex earner have made terrorism a common word in their vocabulary.
The Arusha bomb blast in a church occurred in May and another one in June, this year. The Westgate one did happen in September 21. Delegates from partner states observed one-minute silence to mourn Kenyan brothers and sisters who died in the Westgate Mall blast, one of East Africa's worst terrorist attack at a time a meeting of sectoral council of East Africa ministers for Lake Victoria Basin Commission was taking place in Mwanza, Tanzania.
"The Kenyan tragedy is our tragedy. We don't know where they will attack next," said Burundian envoy, Leontine Nzeyimana, expressing her fear that her country could be the next to be attacked because her country had soldiers in a UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
According to security analysts, terrorism is moving fast across Africa, from northern Nigeria where Boko Haram Islamists are killing minority Christians, down to the Horn of Africa where Somali Al- Shaabab terrorists are bombing and attacking innocent people in Kenya.
The Islamic terrorist group Al- Shabaab based in Somalia poses a threat across the East Africa region. Somali pirates, security analysts say, are working hand in hand with the global terror network to hijack ships crossing the east coast of the Indian Ocean.
Porous borders between East African nations of Kenya and Tanzania have been cited as one among key factors leading to smooth passage of terrorists, said Philemon Kamuntu from Uganda, who was a chairman of sectoral council of East Africa ministers for Lake Victoria basin commission.
Judi Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry for water, environment and natural resources said that lack of properly trained anti-terrorism security personnel and bribery at points of entry were other reasons which raised eyebrows as to whether Kenya and Tanzania and other East African nations could manage the fight against international terrorism.
Security in East Africa remains a paradox with people living under fear of a possible blast at public places. Ms Wakhungu said that terrorism has also sneaked into Tanzania where a group of attackers rose to kill Christian minorities in the semiautonomous island of Zanzibar.
"In recent years, there have been attacks against Christians on the island of Zanzibar and in some parts of the Tanzania mainland by people believed to be radical attackers who promised, in leaflets in January this year, that they would make more attacks particularly targeting Christian," she added.
A Catholic priest, Father Evarist Mushi, was killed on his way to conduct a Sunday mass. Following his murder on the island of Zanzibar in February, this year, Tanzanian Bishops issued a statement through the Christian leaders to take action against anti- Christian propaganda spread by a faction of believers.
These incidents led to a statement by the Christian forum, issued to coincide with Easter this year. The statement said: "A few assailants in Zanzibar disseminated an ideology asserting that the muggers should not tolerate any other religions. Prof Jumanne Maghembe, Minister for Water said that from Zanzibar, terrorism had spread to the mainland Tanzania and hit the northern tourist capital of Arusha, known as the Geneva of Africa.
Presiding Bishop and Head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT), Dr Alex Malasusa, was quoted as saying, "Intimida ion using bombs, violent acts against the clerics and torching of church buildings may maltreat the church, but such acts should not discourage people from praying."
More Christian leaders have raised their voice against terrorism against the church. The Apostolic Nuncio to Tanzania, Archbishop Francisco Padilla, who escaped a bomb blast in Arusha on May 5 of this year said, "I pray that peace will for eternity prevail, that violence would not be the way to remove tensions."
The state of insecurity is likely to threaten many, including the Head of the Catholic Church in Tanzania, Polycarp Cardinal Pengo, who called on religious leaders and the government to work together to ensure peaceful coexistence among the community in the country.
Terrorism in Tanzania has so far been a threat to the tourism sector in the country as it has in Kenya. The state of insecurity in Zanzibar remains a big concern for tourism, the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sports, Mr Said Ali Mbarouk, has admitted. "We need to maintain peace and stability to promote tourism.
It is very unfortunate that Zanzibar recorded fewer tourists last year compared to 2011," he said. The Zanzibar's tourism minister had attributed the low number of tourists to violence that gripped Zanzibar. He said the number of tourists who entered Zanzibar from January to November 2011 was 153,747, but the number dropped to 150,026 after the unrests, which scared away tourists.
"We hope to minimise future unrests by involving community and religious leaders. We are planning to launch tourism committees in wards," he said. On 21 September, this year, unidentified gunmen attacked the upscale Westgate shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
The attack, which lasted until 24th September, resulting in at least 72 deaths, including 61 civilians, 6 Kenyan soldiers, and 5 attackers. The attackers held hostages and later engaged in gun battles with Kenyan security forces. Over 200 people were reportedly wounded in the mass shooting.
The Al-Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the incident, which it characterised as retribution for the Kenyan Military's deployment in Somalia. Many media outlets also suspected the insurgent group's involvement in the attack based on earlier reprisal warnings it had issued in the wake of Operation Linda Nchi from 2011 to 2012.
The incident followed threats from Al-Shabaab in late 2011 of attacks in Kenya in retaliation for Linda Nchi, a coordinated military operation in southern Somalia that was launched against the group by the Somali military and Kenyan military.
One week before the incident and a month after the United Nations warnings of possible attacks, Kenyan police claimed to have disrupted a major attack in its final stages of planning after arresting two people with suicide vests packed with ball bearings, grenades and AK-47 assault rifles.
The two suspects were from a Nairobi neighbourhood where Somali immigrants live. A manhunt was also launched for eight more suspects. The Sunday Telegraph claimed that it had seen United Nations documents that warned last month that the threat of an 'attempted large-scale attack' in Kenya was 'elevated.'
After the incident, Nairobi senator Mike Sonko claimed that he had warned the security services of a possible attack three months before. The country was celebrating the International Day of Peace when the incident took place.


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The European political class seems to have interrupted their bout of indignation at NSA eavesdropping to express indignation over a phone call between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt in which Nuland is heard saying: "[It] would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it, and you know f*** the EU!"
And how is it that we have come to listen to Nuland's private phone call on YouTube? No one is exactly sure but all the signs point to the Russian intelligence service, the FSB, since the audio was first highlighted in public by a Russian official and posted with Russian subtitles. As Nuland herself noted, "It was pretty impressive tradecraft. [The] audio quality was very good."
The supposition of Russian responsibility was heightened by the fact that another telephone call has also surfaced on YouTube, this one featuring an EU foreign-policy official named Helga Schmid complaining about the U.S. to the EU ambassador to Kiev, Jan Tombinski. As Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty notes: "The recording appears to show Schmid expressing annoyance at the United States for criticizing the EU for being 'too soft' to impose sanctions and other pressure tactics against Ukraine. 'It's very annoying,' she adds."
This is the kind of harmless expression of frustration which is common in private conversations–and which is very different from the way anyone, much less a diplomat, speaks in public. Which is why there is widespread speculation the FSB leaked the calls so as to embarrass both Americans and Europeans and to drive a wedge between them, making it more difficult for them to counter the Russian power play in Ukraine.
Yet somehow much of the European outrage over the Nuland call has focused on the content of her conversation rather than the violation of her privacy. Europeans seem to be ignoring the obvious lesson here that the NSA is hardly alone in intercepting communications–and indeed other countries use such capabilities far more obnoxiously than the NSA does. But then it's so much more fun to beat up on the big bad Americans rather than on the Russian, Chinese, or European intelligence services, all of which are very much in the eavesdropping business too. Don't expect to hear a peep, of course, from that noted privacy champion Edward Snowden who happens to be living in Russia thanks to the hospitality of the Putin regime.


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Tunis — Tunisian activist Azyz Amami's trial on Friday (May 23rd) is sparking a national debate on the issue of criminal penalties for cannabis possession.
Amami and a friend were arrested May 12th in La Goulette for alleged possession of a narcotic substance.
The 31-year-old from Sidi Bouzid gained fame as an opponent of the Ben Ali regime. He was one of the first bloggers to write about the Tunisian revolution. He has also spoken out against police actions targeting young people.
Amami, who denies the charges, has received broad support. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounced his arrest as an example of "the persistent prosecution of youth and activists of the revolution". Tunis youths this week protested outside the interior ministry headquarters to demand his release.
According to attorney Ghazi Mrabet, Amami's arrest aims to quell free speech and eliminate what is left of the spirit of the revolution.
"He is a target because of his support for the youth revolution and his continuous criticism of police abuse," his father Khaled Amami told Magharebia. "These are trumped-up charges."
Activist Mounira Yaakoub argues that the case has nothing to do with the consumption of drugs.
"Azyz Amami is a prisoner of conscience who upset many in the government and in the opposition with his clear opinions and his voice in matters relating to the constitution and the system as a whole," Yaakoub said.
Amami's arrest is also raising questions about mandatory sentencing for cannabis cases.
Under the controversial 1992 law, drug consumptions is punished by jail time and a fine of one thousand dinars.
The law also prevents judges from considering mitigating circumstances, Tunisian Magistrates Union (SMT) official Walid Louguini explained.
"In other words, the judge is forced to sentence any defendant in the case of consumption of zatlah to one year in prison and a fine," he said.
The court "does not differentiate between a high school student, a university student and a delinquent", the magistrate added.
Hafidha Khidhr went through this experience with her son. He spent six months in prison before receiving a presidential pardon.
"My son was devoted to his studies at the Engineering Institute and was preparing for his graduation last year with honours. However, he consumed zatlah with some friends one evening and police raided the house," she told Magharebia.
Hafidha's son is not alone. According to figures released last year by the Tunisia's Centre for Judicial Studies, approximately 30 percent of the population under age 35 consume zatlah.
But some citizens worry that a more lenient policy would increase usage.
"This is a danger to the Tunisian people as a whole," civil servant Nadira Ben Youssef said.
Lawyer Majid Haj Ali raises another concern about amending the drug laws.
"Tunisia's border with Libya is not safe," he told Magharebia. "Drug dealers are operating heavily on the border and the fear is that Tunisia could become a transit area toward Europe and the world."
He suggested that punishment "be mitigated for first time users but enforced in case of recidivism".
"The law must be revised in that direction," the attorney added. "And why not propose community service, which does not exist now in Tunisian law?"


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Great little roadshow
Great little roadshow
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Updated: Saturday January 9th 2010, 6:12PMMore about: Denmark | Sea trout | Shows |
by Martin Joergensen
I attended a nice little fishing show yesterday
Sometimes a shop, club or other outfit sets up a venue, which deserves some applaud. This was the case with the roadshow I attended yesterday night here in Copenhagen. A cooperation between the Danish tackle shop Go Fishing, the Fyn Sea Trout Project, video-producer Niels Vestergaard and various other forces had announced the show. Their people had taken an evening out of the calendar and set up a very nice exhibition school nearby where we were having our traditional Tuesday night coffee anyway. It was obvious that we had to attend.
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German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, right, and his Algerian counterpart Mourad Medelci answer questions of journalists at the German Ministry of Foreign Affaires in Berlin, Thursday March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa,Wolfgang Kumm)
BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will travel to Tunisia Monday to underline Berlin's backing for political reforms in talks with the country's new government, a spokesman said.
Deputy ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said Westerwelle will meet Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, Foreign Minister Othmane Jarandi and other members of the government and opposition in Tunis on Tuesday.
"We want to establish contact with the new government just days after it took office," Schaefer told a regular government briefing.
"The foreign minister would like to give a show of German support for Tunisia's reform process."
Westerwelle, representing Europe's top economy, is the first Western minister to hold talks with the moderate Islamist Larayedh since he took office on Thursday.
Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, has faced intense political turmoil since the February murder of leftist opposition leader Chokri Belaid, a critic of the ruling Islamists.
Belaid's assassination plunged the country further into political crisis two years after Tunisia toppled dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a popular uprising that touched off revolutions throughout the region.
Larayedh, who leads an uneasy coalition of the Islamists and two secular parties, has pledged to end the upheaval this year by adopting a new constitution, organising elections, creating conditions for a revival of the economy and restoring security.
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Ocean's 13 – George Clooney
A bit of a messy post, with a lot of groovy "boys" in it.
Ocean's 13 – George Clooney
A bit of a messy post, with a lot of groovy "boys" in it.
Oh, the agony of saying goodbye …
I wish I could write about adventurous stuff I have done today but I haven't done any! I spent the whole day finishing off my applications. I am going to apply for 2 different schools (betting on 2 horses seems clever). It's amazing how much paperwork it actually is, apart from all the other stuff you have to deliver (film review, film script, story outline for the film you want to write etc.) I have reread everything several times now, have done a triple spell check and I am going to post it tomorrow. I will personally deliver the one that needs to be in latest on Tuesday, as I don't want to have my future depending on Royal Mail not delivering on time.
Those days off are taking more energy than a normal day at the office!
So all I can come up with for today is two films with trains in it.
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When I woke up this morning I felt very weird. Weird that I didn't need to go to work, weird wondering what I have done – quitting it, and well, my head is just still a bit confused about what is happening in my life at the moment. It will get better soon I'm sure.
A way to get me out of that kind of state of mind is the cinema, the cinema is my second home. Yes, you probably knew that already.
Detail of the Excell records building, Notting Hill
Change of plans.
And it has everything to do with screen writing.
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The garbage man joked around and made me smile as one of the first things this day. One of my neighbours was talking to another one without his teeth in, and although I know he is English I couldn't understand a word he said. I walked my last morning walk to Victoria Station. I decide to take the slow train to East Croydon. I wave goodbye to Anti Beauty, Clapham Junction, Wandworth Common, Balham, Streatham Common, the guy at Thornthon Heath and 100 years of Passion and Pride at Selhurst. I am close to East Croydon, and I will miss my daily train journey enormously.
The BBC has a 3 minute film of Bill Nighy who travelled with Oxfam to Tanzania to see the difference that international aid can make. BBC news has also featured a short clip with Bill, as has the morning Breakfast show on BBC 1.
Heya kids, here's a very important message from your uncle Bill:
Bill Nighy in Tanzania with Oxfam.
And here is more information, should you want to know more. And you really should.
The G8 wait
And – I love his hat.
The BBC Radio 4 has a very interesting interview with Bill Nighy about his trip to Tanzania with Oxfam where he tells about his experience and his thoughts about how aid really helps. At the other side of the table, so to speak, sits Paul Collier former Director of the World Bank.
Listen to the program here. (it's the first 10 minutes in the beginning, and available for a week only)
Jonathan at sea
So you feel absolutely knackered with a headache and a soar throat but you don't want to call in sick in your last week at your current job. You drag yourself to work, and after an hour the fire alarm goes. While enjoying the view from the 18th is great, walking down the stairs from the 18th with jelly legs really is not.
So it's good there is something to get me going. They could have called it voicilicious.com but they chose silksoundbooks.com in stead. If you like your British classics, and better, if you like British actors with voicilicious voices reading them to you then Silksoundbooks.com is for you.
Edgar Allan Poe – here we go. My iPod is trembling with pleasure.
(If you want to help decide what Bill Nighy is going to read next for Silksoundbooks, read on here)
Up the hill in Edinburgh
Sunday morning it was raining.
I have nothing much to say just yet. But the week has passed, and that means that he's back.
I feel like a little girl around Christmas time, overly exited and not grown-up at all. I don't care what the critics say, I know there will be scenes where I will be glued to the screen indulging every word he says in that voiciliciously Scottish accent.
The question is:
Arrrrrrrre you prepared for what's next?
Good morning from my morning train …
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It might start to sound a bit pathetic now, my "I don't like musicals" attitude and maybe I should alter it a little bit and say "I don't like standard 13 in a dozen like musicals".
I found an email in my inbox last week from a PR man connected to this musical and he made me an offer:
I give you 2 tickets for The Drowsy Chaperone – you write about it on your blog.
Didn't take me long to decide.
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Staring at the blank screen before me, there are a couple of cheap tricks to get around that and post something anyway:
1. post a postcard – yeah but there have been quite a few of them here lately
2. post a pathethic poem – let's not shall we
3. post a funky song – well …
This one is from 1982, I was 16.
First of all – I am incredibly pissed off about the fact that Bill Nighy isn't even nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in The Vertical Hour. Extremely pissed off. I have no words for it really, if that wasn't award worthy acting then I don't understand a thing. Kevin Spacey (Moon for the misbegotten) wasn't nominated either.
But despite all that misery, I had a ticket for a play tonight.
Sand art in Zandvoort (The Netherlands)
I apologize.
For not being able to grow up.
Or on second thought –
I don't.
In the film in my head I had thought of a couple of ways to hand in my resignation and a couple of reasons to give them why I leave.
It's not a big Thing for you. But it is the Thing for me.
So just to lower your expectations:
I am not getting married
I am not pregnant
I am not leaving the country
I am not moving
And it has nothing whatsoever to do with him
Sorry to disappoint you.
The Thing is …
Oh God not him again, I hear you think. Well as I recently have been hanging out on websites realizing that I am not the only one having issues I might as well just openly come out with it. As I felt the need to throw some Bill in between all those Alan's I hacked together this funky avatar. The picture makes me laugh. A lot. And I like to be pathetically not-grown-up sometimes. It keeps you young.
Apart from that, this post is supposed to be about The Girl on tour too, so he is not completely out of context here. And it's also about joining a writers group. And about how M&S toffee mousse tastes.
New York, 12 March 2007
She had a couple of hours left before heading to boring JFK airport. She walked around with her soul under her arms as they say. She had a few dollars left as well and when she walked passed it, accidentally, unplanned, she thought that she might as well end this holiday with something slightly awkward. Because she had questions she so desperately wanted answers to. She opened the door and stepped inside.
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| Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- World progressives significantly celebrated the 65th anniversary of the DPRK with great joy.
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages from the heads of state of various countries including the presidents of the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Brazil, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Namibia on the occasion of the anniversary which fell on September 9.
The president of the Council of State of Cuba, the king of Cambodia, the foreign minister of Bangladesh, the minister of State for Foreign Affairs of India, the international secretary of the Communist Party in Sweden and other dignitaries of various circles including those of political parties and ministries of governments sent floral baskets and bouquets to the DPRK embassies in their countries and paid congratulatory visits to its missions.
Foreign political parties and organizations and figures of various circles in their statements lauded President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il for their exploits performed in the nation-building, convinced of the immensely rosy future of the DPRK led by supreme leader Kim Jong Un.
They included the Peruvian National Independent Movement for Free Voting's Union, the Switzerland-Korea Committee, the British Staffordshire Branch of the Korean Friendship Association, the Austrian Solidarity Committee of Trade Union Members for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the New Communist Party of Britain and the secretary general of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea.
A Kimjongilia exhibition was held in Dalian, China, a national seminar took place in India and a national meeting in Peru on the occasion of the anniversary. Colorful events took place in over 100 countries including Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Germany, Britain, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Korean book, photo and handicraft exhibitions introducing the true picture of Songun Korea took place in various countries including Thailand, Malaysia, Italy and Tunisia, drawing keen interest of visitors.
A Nepalese paper, the Indonesian paper International Media, Mega Miru, internet website of Irkutsk, Russia and other foreign media gave wide publicity to the invincible might of the DPRK.
The Syrian Central TV, Guinean Domestic, International and 7 National Languages Broadcasting Services and the State Radio Broadcasting Service of Equatorial Guinea in their programs praised the path of victory and glory covered by the DPRK, a country centered on the popular masses and a symbol of sovereignty and dignity.
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• President Obama made an unannounced trip to Kabul yesterday, his first since taking office, to press Afghan president Hamid Karzai on corruption and give American troops support. [Washington Post]
• 3-D continues to rock the box office, with DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon raking in an estimated $43.3 million in the top slot. [Variety]
• There should be no bipartisan bickering about whether or not insurance companies have a heart: they don't. Not even a week after Obama's legislation passed, they're arguing that they don't have to provide care for certain children with pre-existing conditions. [NY Times]
• Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in two separate attacks on subway cars in Moscow today, killing at least 37 people. [LA Times]
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They finally opened a restaurant for atheists in Boston!
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You can be skeptical and friendly at the same time.
They finally opened a restaurant for atheists in Boston!
We've seen what it looks like when children speak in tongues. They just go along with what everyone else is doing, probably under peer pressure.
I dare someone to tell me this baby isn't under the same influence:
Okay, I was wrong. Babies can be atheists:
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I hope this is true. Just for my amusement.
A few weeks ago, the mayor of La Vista, Nebraska, Doug Kindig, made earned his fifteen minutes of infamy with secular folks when he had this to say about the Omaha Atheists' concerns over a "Faith & Freedom Day":
Take me to fucking court because I don't care. … Minorities are not going to run my city.
Apparently, things are beginning to smooth over, but it opened an opportunity for the community to learn more about its atheist neighbors, and that's where a really nice piece by Adam Klinker at the Bellvue Leader comes in. It's a fairly lengthy profile of some of Omaha Atheists' members, and it serves as a wonderful contrast between the stereotype of the litigious atheist gadfly and the reality, which is that these folks are really just good, smart, politically-conscious people in the community. [Read more...]
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Gloria Dei Sunday School is about growing in relationship with God through reading and studying the Word with one another.
Adult and Youth Classes meet year around.
Pre-school- 6th grade meet from September until June.
We welcome people to drop in and try any of the classes. Everyone is welcome to join a class at any time.!
Pre-school –Kindergarten Classes meet in the Early Learning Center. They learn they are God's beloved children through story telling, felt board activities, exploration and crafts.
Not only do we study the Word at Gloria Dei but we live it also. Part of our Sunday School program revolves around Service. We do service projects for Family, Church, local community and our world community.
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WE HAVE moved a step closer to finding cosmic monopoles - magnetic poles without their opposite. Two experiments using strange stuff called spin ice have provided the best evidence yet that monopoles really are out there.
Nearly 80 years ago, physicist Paul Dirac said it must be possible for magnetic north and south poles to exist separately. But despite decades of searching, not one has been found. Last year, researchers demonstrated that certain states of the crystalline material spin ice would create monopoles that rove about the crystal (New Scientist, 9 May, p 28). They would be seen as disturbances moving through the spins of atoms within the crystal.
Now two separate groups claim to have spotted just that. Tom Fennell and his colleagues at the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble, France, recorded the disturbances when they fired a beam of neutrons at a spin ice crystal to see ...
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's tennis team heads to Memphis, Tenn., this weekend for the USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regionals. The Lady Mocs already have three individuals in the main draw, with four more looking to qualify on Friday at the Racquet Club of Memphis.
Action begins on Friday, Oct. 18 and runs through Tuesday, Oct. 22. A total of 88 singles players and 44 doubles teams will vie for the chance to advance to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, Nov. 7-10, at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
The qualifying draws for singles and doubles will take place Friday beginning at 9:00 a.m. (E.D.T.) while the main draws will start Saturday. Semifinal matches in singles begin at 4:00 p.m. Monday while the final is slated for Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.
In doubles, semifinal action takes place Monday at 7:30 p.m. with the championship match set for Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. Back draws for doubles are set to begin Saturday at 6:30 p.m. while singles start Sunday at Noon.
Fans can follow the action on the Tournament Central link at the top of the page. A live blog will run throughout the event and Twitter updates can be found @UofMTennis.
Below is a full list of Chattanooga participants and their first matchups. Complete brackets are available on the Tournament Central page.
This will a homecoming of sorts for a pair of Lady Mocs. Senior Alexa Flynn and sophomore Kayla Jones are both Memphis natives. Jones was a four-time MIAA Most Outstanding player at White Station High School, while Flynn was a standout at Houston High School.
Be sure to check back to GoMocs.com for complete results and updates following each day of action.
Friday Qualifying Doubles
Kelsey Coots/Alexa Flynn (UTC) vs. Lorena Djunkic/Melissa Kromer (Lipscomb) – 9:00 a.m.
Jovana Pecovski/Claire Mulyadi (UTC) vs. Stephanie Fox/Kirsten Lewis (Kentucky) – 9:00 a.m.
Alison Storie/Katie Polk (UTC) vs. Courtney Earnest/Toni Ormond (Ball State) – 9:00 a.m.
Friday Qualifying Singles
Kelsey Coots (UTC) vs. Andrea Wolf (Xavier) – 10:15 a.m.
Jovana Pecovski (UTC) vs. Marcela Jimenez (EKU) – 11:15 a.m.
Alison Storie (UTC) vs. Ashlyn Rang (Ball State) – 11:30 a.m.
Katie Polk (UTC) vs. Stefanie Mikesz (Memphis) – 11:30 a.m.
Saturday – Main Draw Doubles
Kaylene Chadwell/Kayla Jones (UTC) vs. Tiffany William/Jesse Grace (MTSU) – 9:00 a.m.
Saturday – Main Draw Singles
Kaylene Chadwell (UTC) vs. Courtney Earnest (Ball State) – 2:00 p.m.
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Got a very good car charger from singapore, but it has pin which fits our skate but it does not charge
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I advise you not to touch anything around the socket for charging. the wire in the wrong place could burn electronics-control voltage, and possibly further.
skate need car charger 5V/1000mAh. any charger these values below these values will not charge the battery.
Why the mAh figure? How long the charger lasts means nothing, it's only the voltage that counts.
Current Phone:
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Nokia 5530 XpressMusic (Nokia C6-00 CFW)
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Not the best history of phones
counted and V and mAh. that it is very important for car chargers exp: i have car charger for nokia n97 wich is 5V/750mAh and it can not charge our skate becouse battery electronics does not get initiated due to lack mAh... for skate by user manual and factory specs is 5V/1000mAh ( My happiness is that I got a phone with a car charger ...chargers for home is another story ...
Why the mAh figure? How long the charger lasts means nothing, it's only the voltage that counts.
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Why the mAh figure? How long the charger lasts means nothing, it's only the voltage that counts.
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sory but lol , the mA are very important, not only because same charging controllers don't start with less than x mA as the correct mA help to get your battery life, to much mA it will charge faster and the battery will not be full charged , but the system will tel you its at 100%, less mA its good for the battery but more time to charge but 100% charged for shore and long life.
1000mA = 1A
the correct charge current (mA) for skate original battery is 700mA , a good fastest charger is 1A , more than this its to much.
750mA must work, cod be a pinout problem same samsung chargers are not standard because they are build to use only with samsung equipment. the usb are universal be careful with that.
same charger have a control pin that get voltage from the battery to activate the charger, if your samsung charger its ok and it dont work with skate i think you do not use it with skate
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Melrose Place Star Convicted of Vehicular Manslaughter, Faces Up To 15 Years in Prison
Former Melrose Place star Amy Locane-Bovenizer has been convicted of vehicular manslaughter.
The incident took place in New Jersey in 2010. Amy hit another car with her SUV, killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring the woman's husband. Amy was driving with a blood-alcohol level of nearly three times the legal limit.
Amy was convicted on November 27, 2012. She faces five to ten years in prison, along with an additional three to five years in prison for the injuries sustained by the surviving passenger. Sentencing will be held in March 2013.
Amy played Sandy on Melrose Place in the early '90s, and she starred opposite Johnny Depp in the cult 1990 film Cry-Baby.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Even if Mississippi's open-carry gun law takes effect, people still won't be allowed to take firearms into many government buildings.
State agencies have the power to write administrative rules for the properties they oversee.
Weapons are forbidden in the state Capitol, except for law enforcement officers.
The Department of Finance and Administration is banning openly carried firearms in state offices, including the justice building and the secretary of state's office in Jackson and the Department of Marine Resources headquarters in Biloxi.
The Department of Public Safety says only law-enforcement officers can carry firearms in driver's license offices or Highway Patrol stations.
The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks bans the open carry of firearms in state parks, but allows people to carry concealed weapons if they have a state-issued permit.
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Taos, New Mexico (PRWEB) May 20, 2014
Summer in Taos, New Mexico is one of the most magical seasons of the year to explore this enchanted town. This summer, the members of the Museum Association of Taos will offer a broad range of artistic, historic, and cultural exhibits, events, lectures, and classes as well as special programming for children. See you at the Museums for these wonderful exhibitions:
The Museum Association of Taos (MAT)
The Museum Association of Taos (MAT) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit association of five separate museums whose unique historic buildings and exceptional collections present the art, history, and culture of Taos and northern New Mexico. Our member museums include the Taos Art Museum at Fechin House, the Millicent Rogers Museum, the Harwood Museum of Art, and the Taos Historic Museums, comprising the E.L. Blumenschein Home and La Hacienda de los Martinez. Find us on Twitter and Pinterest.
MAT Super Ticket: Five Museums. One Ticket. All Taos.
Through our MAT Super Ticket, we offer the best value in Taos. For just $25, the discounted combination pass is good for one visit to each of our five Taos museums. The MAT Super Ticket will be honored for one full year from the date of purchase, and it's transferable. The MAT Super Ticket may be passed on to another person if the original owner doesn't have time to visit all of our museums. http://www.taosmuseums.org


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Inocente directors tweet RG3 after Oscar win
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Sean Fine and his wife, Andrea Nix-Fine, won the Oscar for best documentary for their film Inocente.
On the red carpet, he sent a tweet to The Redskins' RGIII. Sean is a third-generation Washingtonian and a huge Redskins fan.
Sean Fine is the grandson of legendary skins photographer Nate Fine and his parents also worked at ABC7 for several years.
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Women & Children's Services
Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital offers a family-focused childbirth environment for you and your entire family, featuring one room for labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum (often called LDRPs). We encourage partners, siblings and even grandparents to be part of the excitement.
Visiting hours for maternity are noon to 2 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. However; partners, spouses, grandparents and siblings may visit at any time.
The New Life Center offers free prenatal classes for expectant parents who are planning to deliver at our hospital. Parents learn about prenatal care, labor, delivery and newborn care. Childbirth classes are offered the first and second Tuesdays of each month from 6 to 9 p.m. at no charge. Sibling classes, to help adjustment to the new baby, are offered the third Tuesday of every month from 7 – 8 p.m.
Meet Our Childbirth Educator: Shannon Salmon
Shannon is a life long resident of Orleans. After high school she attended Anderson University where she majored in Sports Medicine and Education. She graduated Magna cum Laude with Honors in Physical Education. Following college she taught PE and Health and served as an athletic trainer for 3 years. She then returned to nursing school. Since earning her nursing license, she has been employed at IU Health Paoli. She is a certified childbirth educator and works as an OB nurse.
What to Expect
Rooming In: At IU Health Paoli all newborns are encouraged to "room-in" with their mothers. This promotes mother to newborn bonding. Rooming-in means the baby remains in your room, and you provide care for the newborn, including; feedings, diaper changes, a daily bath. You are responsible for informing the nursing staff when the baby eats and the number of wet/dirty diapers you change. Of course, our excellent nursing staff will be available to assist with care and to answer any questions you may have.
Your baby may be taken to the nursery after delivery for an initial check by your physician and the nursing staff. The baby will be returned to your room as soon as possible. Your baby will also be taken to the nursery for any procedures that need to be done such as circumcision or blood draws. When necessary, the nursing staff may request the newborn be returned to the nursery for evaluation and observation. The nursing staff will discuss this with you if this becomes necessary. If you require a Cesarean delivery, the baby will be watched in the nursery until you are ready to take over care of your baby. While in the nursery, the baby will be brought to your room for frequent visits and feedings.
If you need a cesarean section: IU Health Paoli is more than prepared to assist you should you need to give birth through cesarean section. Sometimes you will know in advance that this will be necessary and we can schedule your delivery. Other times, your physician may help you decide that you need a cesarean during your labor process. In either case, we are prepared and report successful outcomes for this procedure. For your safety and convenience, a surgical suit is located just steps away from our labor and delivery area.
Visiting Hours: Visiting hours are still in place while your baby is rooming-in. However, father, siblings (brothers and sisters), and grandparents may visit at any time while the baby is in your room. You may have other visitors during open visit hours of noon to 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Family members who hold the baby must first wash their hands.
Infant Security: IU Health Paoli is proud to report that the latest technology is in place to ensure the safety of your newborn. The HUGS and KISSES system allows an electronic connection between mother and baby through wrist and/or ankle bands. If a newborn is removed from the secure area, multiple alarms will sound. The system also ensures that mother and baby are correctly reunited if separated for any length of time.
Length of Stay: Although there are exceptions, the length of stay for routine vaginal deliveries at at IU Health Paoli averages between 24 to 48 hours following delivery. Cesarean patients are typically with us a little longer following delivery.
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Difficult Dialogues Fall Public Forum, "Surveillance, Space, and the Public"
A panel discussion on issues of privacy and public safety
Posted: October 31, 2012
Interested in stop and frisk policies? Right to privacy? Public safety? Come participate in a discussion on Monday November 5 with scholars, artists, and activists working on these issues.
Invited panelists include:
Dr. Simone Browne, UT Sociology Dept
Micha Cárdenas, Los Angeles based artist, scholar, and activist
Ernesto Yerena, artist and activist.
The panel will be followed by small group discussion breakouts.
Monday | November, 5th | 7:00 - 9:30 pm
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Real Housewives of Atlanta
Update: Asheley Jewell Released From the Hospital
As we previously reported, Kandi Burruss' ex-fiance's daughter, Asheley Jewell, was recently hospitalized after being the victim of a random shooting. We are happy to say that 15-year-old Asheley has been released from the hospital this week, after recovering from being struck in the head by a stray bullet.
"She is at home and progressing daily," her cousin, Ebony Phillips, told the AJC. Her family is offering a $2,000 reward for anyone who comes forward with information leading to a suspect. The shooter evidently acted out of road rage, and then drove away after firing at Asheley and her friends who were driving along Old National Highway in South Fulton County.
Kandi was with the family at the hospital in the first few days after the shooting supporting Asheley's sisters, and has continued to show support for the family publicly and privately.
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BET Awards 2013 live stream - Watch the red carpet here
The 2013 BET Awards are hours away from starting, but the action is beginning early on the award show's red carpet. A live stream showing the event will allow fans a sneak peek into the awards show before it actually kicks off.
Expect to see the likes of Drake, Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake walk the red carpet. Drake leads the BET Awards pack with 12 nominations, and often is vying against himself in many categories. Trailing behind him are 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar, both of whom have eight nominations. Meanwhile Carey, Timberlake, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder and Robin Thicke are all slated to perform.
Hosted by Chris Tucker, the BET Awards are kicking off at 8 p.m. ET on BET. The red carpet officially starts at 6 p.m. ET. Who do you want to see win?


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Tipler to be sentenced for murder plotJames Harvey Tipler, convicted last month of attempting to have Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar murdered, faces 60 years in prison when he is sentenced today by Okaloosa County Judge T. Patterson Maney.
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Tipler guilty of solicitation for murderDisbarred attorney James Harvey Tipler has been found guilty on two of three counts of soliciting fellow Okaloosa County Jail inmates to murder Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar.
Published May 7, 2013
Jury hears tapes in Tipler trialThe jury hearing the trial of disbarred attorney James "Harvey" Tipler for solicitation for murder got a chance Friday to get to know the man.
Published May 3, 2013
Former attorney testifies against TiplerAttorney R. Scott Whitehead, the third and most important of Harvey Tipler's cellmates who say they plotted with him to kill Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar, testified Thursday for the prosecution.
Published May 2, 2013
Maney to preside over Tipler trials
A judge has been selected and dates have been set for the racketeering, theft, practicing law without a license and attempted murder trials of disbarred Okaloosa County attorney James "Harvey" Tipler.
Tipler is to be tried on two counts of racket...
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Second former cellmate testifies in Tipler trialAn Okaloosa County Jail inmate testified Wednesday that disbarred attorney James Harvey Tipler had plotted with him to kill Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar.
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Jury selected in Tipler's trial for attempted murderA jury was selected Monday to try disbarred local attorney James "Harvey" Tipler on charges of attempting to hire someone to kill Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar.
Published April 29, 2013
Tipler sentenced to 30 years, pleas to racketeering chargeDisbarred attorney James Harvey Tipler was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday morning for his efforts to have Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar killed.
Published June 3, 2013
Tipler trial to drag on one more dayThe good news was that the lost witness who prevented the solicitation for murder trial of James Harvey Tipler from being concluded Saturday was located over the weekend.
Published May 6, 2013
Witness doesn't show in Tipler trialA rare weekend day in court, convened to finish the solicitation for murder trial of former attorney James Harvey Tipler, came to a screeching halt Saturday when Albaugh, a key defense witness, didn't show up to testify.
Published May 4, 2013