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If you've ever wondered about the finances of people receiving federally funded Medicare benefits – are they wealthy, poor or somewhere in between? – a new chart provides some clues.
This interactive infographic, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, takes into account assets, income, age and more as it delivers a financial picture of the estimated 52.4 million people on Medicare. The graphic also includes projected data for 2030, so you can see how current recipients measure up against future beneficiaries.
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The income disparities among today's Medicare recipients are considerable. According to the tool, 4 percent of recipients in 2013 reported income over $100,000, 53 percent had less than $25,000, and 42 percent had less than $20,000. Looking at savings, 59 percent had less than $100,000. (The figures are on a per-person basis, rather than a household basis.)
"The infographic tells an important story that … reflects what we see every day. A lot of seniors are struggling to make ends meet," says Kevin Prindiville, executive director at the National Senior Citizen Law Center.
Debra Whitman, AARP executive vice president for policy, strategy and international affairs, also points out that older adults spend a disproportionate amount on health care compared with other age groups, putting even more pressure on their bottom line.
"Most people don't realize how few resources most older Americans live on or have in the bank," she says. "When policymakers talk about having Medicare beneficiaries pay more for their benefits, they often don't understand how low most beneficiaries' income is and how much they are already paying for health care costs that Medicare doesn't cover."
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As bleak as the financial situation appears to be for many of today's older adults, the outlook isn't much better for retirees in 2030. At that time, Medicare may cover 80.9 million people. Of those, 7 percent are expected to have (inflation-adjusted) income above $100,000 and 45 percent will have income of less than $25,000.
What about home equity, which often is a critical component of a retiree's nest egg? Adjust the tool for that particular measure and it'll tell you that 68 percent of recipients in 2013 had less than $125,000.
Boomers may be feeling even more strapped than today's retirees because fewer of them will have employer-sponsored retiree health benefits. Consequently, they'll likely be shelling out more for out-of-pocket costs. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report in September, the share of employers that offered retiree health benefits fell to 25 percent in 2012 from 66 percent in 1988.
What's more, many aren't on track to save enough for retirement, due in part to years of stagnant wages and a recession that knocked people out of the workforce.
"The savings rate for people ages 50 to 64 is very low," Prindiville says. "Looking into the future, beneficiaries will continue to be people who don't have high incomes and high assets."
Chart: Kaiser Family Foundation
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Hodgson: Let's ride Olympics wave
Roy Hodgson has urged England's footballers to continue the feelgood factor of the nation brought upon by the Olympic Games.
England return to Wembley for the first time since Euro 2012 when they tackle Ukraine in Tuesday evening's World Cup qualifier. Fifteen of the Team GB medallists at this summer's games will be presented to the crowd at half-time.
Hodgson said: "They have been such a success for the nation. It is terrific they can come and be paraded at the game tomorrow. It is nice for us to see the British people are still prepared to get behind their athletes. We as a sporting nation have profited enormously from the Olympic Games."
He continued: "It is important now that, in our individual sports, we try to keep some of that spirit going and try to tap in to what is a great interest in the English public in top level sport."
Hodgson is looking for England to put on a memorable show in front of a large crowd. He said: "We will have 70,000 there tomorrow on a Tuesday night after a summer where people have spent a lot to watch the Olympics.
"It adds to the pressure, the fact we know so many people want us to do well, and it does tighten people up a bit. At times that can be a good thing as well because it means there is no question about not having the bright focus and the right attitude towards the game. That is important as a coach, knowing the players want it very badly and are focused on their task."
Hodgson has confirmed he will make only one enforced change from the side which overcame Moldova on Friday with either Gary Cahill or Phil Jagielka replacing the injured John Terry.
He said: "I'm not trying to be coy about the team. It was excellent defensively and offensively against Moldova. I see no reason for making any particular changes in the team other than the one forced upon us.
"We will be playing the same players as long as nothing untoward happens between now and kick off time. Cahill and Jagielka are both good players so it is a tight decision and whichever player I chose, I would be happy the team was well covered and that John's absence is well covered.
"It is a nice position to be in when have two good players, you trust them both, and it is up to me to choose the one I think will be the better player for this particular match."


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Disk /dev/sdc: 106 MB, 106954752 bytes
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SQL> create tablespace Dat01 datafile '/dev/sdc1';
create tablespace Dat01 datafile '/dev/sdc1'
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01119: error in creating database file '/dev/sdc1'
ORA-27044: unable to write the header block of file
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This weekend I made contact with a "new" cousin who descends from Polly B. Monroe and Francis Marion Collins. Suzanne descends from their daughter Charles Elmore "Elma" Collins who married Edward Johnson Monroe. Isn't it interesting Polly named one of her daughters for her brother Charles Elmore Monroe? This daughter is listed as Elmore C. on the 1880 census with her parents. I haven't yet done the census work to learn more about her family after marriage. She dies in 1927 and I have a copy of her death certificate which will be later available through the Johnson_Monroe Yahoo website. I emailed introduced Suzanne to Debbie and Ethel today. Hopefully some cousin sharing will happen.
Speaking of the Polly B. and FM Collins line - my shirt-tail cousin Tonya (she's related to descendants of Anna Collins m. Arthur Carney) went to Logan Co., KY last week and dug up some great Collins info I don't think any of us have seen before. Thank you Tonya!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
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Thank heavens you explained that looking at the census I would have assumed a census taker error, which I know from experience happened! Welcome new Cousin!
- June 4, 2008 at 6:20 AM
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Generating Jobs in Developing Countries: A Big Role for Small Firms
These days, job creation is a top priority for policymakers. What role do small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play in employment generation and economic recovery? Multi-billion dollar aid portfolios across countries are directed at fostering the growth of SMEs. However, there is little systematic research or data informing the various policies in support of SMEs, especially in developing countries. Moreover, the empirical evidence on the firm-size growth relationship has been mixed. Recent work of Haltiwanger, Jarmin, and Miranda (2010) in the U.S., suggests that (1) Startups and surviving young businesses are critical for job creation and contribute disproportionately to net growth and (2) There is no systematic relationship between firm size and growth after controlling for firm age. It is not clear whether these findings apply in developing countries where there are greater barriers to entrepreneurship, and where venture capital markets that finance young firms are not as well developed as in the US.
In a recent paper Meghana Ayyagari, Vojislav Maksimovic and I put together a database that presents consistent and comparable information on the contribution of SMEs and young firms to total employment, job creation, and growth across 99 developing economies. Our sample consists of 47,745 firms surveyed in the period 2006-2010. We then examine the relationship between firm size, age, employment, and productivity growth and how this varies with country income and find the following:


text: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 Physical Therapists Screen Special Olympics Athletes in Athens At this year's Special Olympics Summer World Games in Athens, Greece, physical therapists and students screened 1,580 athletes using FUNfitness, the fitness event developed in collaboration with APTA for Special Olympics (SO) Healthy Athletes®. More than 6,500 SO athletes from 185 countries participated in 21 events June 25-July 4. Of the 1,580 athletes who were screened, more than 69% required education for flexibility, while 45% were educated to improve balance and 28% to increase strength. FUNfitness global advisors also trained FUNfitness clinical directors from Cote D'Ivoire, France, Germany, Republic of Korea, Reunion, South Africa, and Tanzania. A special highlight at the screenings was a visit by APTA President R. Scott Ward, PT, PhD. Ward observed athletes being screened and talked with physical therapists about the value of fitness for people with disabilities. He honored the FUNfitness team and trainees with his presence at the Opening Ceremonies held at Panathenaic Stadium, the site of the first Olympic Games of the modern era. "It was a privilege to experience the meaning of these games with the athletes and the international community," said Ward. "I'm extremely proud of our physical therapy colleagues who dedicated so much time and effort to the FUNfitness component of participant care during the games and continue to work so hard on behalf of these incredible athletes." From left are Jim Gleason, PT, MS, FUNfitness research and education coordinator, Donna Bainbridge, PT, EdD, ATC, global clinical advisor for FUNfitness and Fitness Programming, APTA President Scott Ward, PT, PhD, and Vicki Tilley, PT, GCS, FUNfitness coordinator of Clinical Services-North America. Comments IM NEEDED INFO ON HOW TO BECOME A THERAPY..PLEASE E MAIL BACK AS SOON AS YOU GET THIS Posted by ZARILAH on 9/7/2011 1:16 PM I'm a DPT student right now. Hopefully I can be a part of something like that one day. FUNFitness sounds really interesting. Posted by NIck Rainey on 9/13/2011 3:38 PM Hello I am a physical therapist interested in becoming more involved with FUNFitness. I will be at CSM tomorrow. Posted by Charlotte Izatt -> BHT`>H on 1/20/2013 6:19 PM


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Tonight Could Be Last Lynx Home Game
In a Friday afternoon press conference, Augusta Lynx co-owners announced that if an investor or partner isn't found "in a matter of days", the team will fold.
Saturday night's home game against the Charlotte Checkers will be just the 7th home game of the season, and 3rd weekend home game for the team. The Lynx aren't scheduled to play another home game until December 16th.
"I think we're going to have to have an investor,†co-owner Dan Troutman said. "Quite frankly, we've got one more home game and then we're gone for three weeks... The long story short is we've got to have some money quicker than we can do it with just attendance."
If the Lynx fold, Lighting prospects Kevin Quick, Chris Lawrence, and Riku Helenius could be recalled to Norfolk of the AHL since there are no roster limit maximums in the AHL, but presumably that would be a temporary solution.
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I will warn you that there are NO pictures from my visit to The Dogwood restaurant in Hampden. However, if there were photos, you would see mostly senior citizens in the background.
Jeremy and I realized that we have the same eating schedules as most grandparents. We're hungry early and we want to eat, dammit.
So for our 3-year anniversary, we wanted to try something new. Since we're both vegetarians now (I can't express how thrilled I am that Jeremy converted) – we wanted to go somewhere that offered more than 1 vegetarian entree… because sharing your meal is a part of the fun. Hello?
The Dogwood was also appealing to me because of their "mission" (taken directly from their website):
With a respect for classical technique and a love of straightforward food, The Dogwood lets the ingredients sing with its Sustainable American Cuisine.
We cook with the seasons and feature the finest local and natural ingredients, sourcing from sustainable, artisanal, and organic producers whenever possible.
The Dogwood is community gourmet. We develop relationships and opportunity by preparing, learning about, and sharing outstanding food and wine (and our knowledge about them).
I also learned, after the fact, their "social mission" is to "transform lives one plate at a time by providing training opportunity and paid employment to individuals who are transitioning from addiction, incarceration, homelessness, and/or underemployment." Someone said the idea of that might have freaked them out – but I didn't even realize. Every staff member that approached our table was fabulous and friendly.
So what did we eat?
- Grilled Olive Tapenade & Hummus – flatbread and crudites $5.25
- Trio of Tuscarora Organic Beets – red beet 'tartare', herb creme fraiche, cider pickled golden beets, Chiogga candy striped beets, frisee lettuce and Rogue's Smokey Blue cheese crostini $11
It was all very good. Jeremy was starving because he apparently skipped lunch so he devoured everything. I had a few bits as well. They also brought out Irish Soda Bread. I'd never had that before either and it was awesome.
- Forbidden Rice 'Risotto' with Roasted Squash Curry – zucchini and yellow squash, organic black rice, mild curried coconut sauce with Vann's spices, currants, toasted almonds and today's vegetable $18
- Spring Pea Risoto & Tuscarora Oyster Mushrooms
garlic sauteed mushrooms, parmigiano reggianito, fresh spring peas, organic pea shoots $18
I ate the "forbidden" rice risotto and it was frickin' awesome. I believe it was vegan as well. Fresh vegetables, delicious and light… oh, so good.
Jeremy also really enjoyed his Spring Pea dish. I liked it but it was A LOT of cheese. As a person who doesn't eat a lot of cheese, I appreciate it in small doses. Don't get me wrong – it was still marvelous.
I also ordered a glass of wine. They had a special going on for 20% off bottles of Pinot Noir and normally I would have jumped all over it but we had a bottle of wine to drink at home (that super special bottle). So… I just got a glass. I picked this wine from their menu because it was under the section "Different (Which We Love)":
Steele Vineyards Shooting Star 2008 Blue Franc (Lemberger, Blaufrankisch) (Yakima Valley, Washington State) 8/31
It was fruity. And good.
However, they had a few drinks on their drink menu that caught my eye (and are enticing enough for me to want to go back JUST to try these drinks):
- The Dogwood, Springtime
our signature cocktail: citrus-infused Prairie vodka, couintreau, splash of Campari, agave nectar, pomegranate juice and a splash of fresh lemon juice, topped with Prosecco, garnished with a cucumber round and a lemon twist, served over ice, sangria-style in a wine glass, 10
- Death in the Afternoon
the perfect amuse bouche: sparkling Cava with 21st century absinthe, in honor of Ernest Hemingway and the Pamplona running of the bulls he made famous. (Viva la celebracion!), 9
- The Phoenix
prosecco, splash of vodka, splash of St-Germaine Ederflower liqueur, garnished with a sprig of organic thyme (To second chances and to rising from the ashes), 9
Overall – I would highly recommend this place to anyone. And if you go for dinner around 6:30pm (like we did) – you'll be dining amongst senior citizens. And I'm cool with that.


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South African Journal of Science
versão On-line ISSN 1996-7489
versão impressa ISSN 0038-2353
S. Afr. j. sci. vol.110 no.7-8 Pretoria Ago. 2014
What's so bad about sound opinions?
John Butler-Adams
The release of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Information Technology Report 2014: Rewards and Risks of Big Data in June has received varied responses in South Africa. The Report's central focus is, as it states, global information technology - and the readiness of countries to avoid the risks, and benefit from the very considerable rewards, associated with 'big data'. As part of the analysis presented in the Report, the general quality of education systems, and of maths and science education in particular, are scored - a small part of the overall assessment, but (of course) telling in themselves. The Report placed the general status of South Africa's education system at 146 out of 148 countries, and the maths and science education at 148 out of 148. By comparison, Swaziland was placed at 81 and 91, respectively, and Zambia at 38 and 76.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, is quoted as saying that the Report's findings were 'based mainly on perceptions, rather than testing of the learners'1, while the Department of Basic Education (DBE) issued a media release stating2:
The Report is not a credible or accurate reflection of the state of education in South Africa. This Report falsely insinuates [sic] that South Africa's maths and science education is ranked as the worst in the world. The DBE rejects this finding as it is based purely on the opinions or perceptions of selected executives.
Adrian Schofield, a Fellow and Professional Member of the Institute of Information and Technology Professionals of South Africa, has offered a more nuanced view3:
The DBE is right about the Report being based on the opinions of selected executives, and only a handful of them. Without some rigorous investigation of how they are selected and what sort of sample cross-section they represent, it is impossible to gauge how much reliance to place on their responses. Even if we are satisfied with the sample, they still only represent business interests, and it would be better to include other stakeholders in the sample, together with a data-based analysis of pass marks and pass rates.
Schofield does not argue, however, that the findings are 'grossly inaccurate'. He suggests that many people agree that the average quality of education in South Africa is abysmal. 'If we can achieve the halfway point in the Network Readiness Index, we should be able to achieve at least that in education.'3
The original source of the education data used in the Report - the WEF's Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 (October 2013) - shows, however, that the methods used by the Executive Opinion Survey (which provides the information to the WEF) are spelled out with care, as are the techniques (such as Mahalonobis distance and univariate outlier tests) used to determine data outliers. Of course, it remains true that the survey reflects the views of just one sector of society - that of business leaders - but, as Schofield points out, this does not necessarily mean that the results of the survey are entirely ('grossly' in his words) incorrect.
To be fair, however, it makes sense that we should consider the 'testing of learners' mentioned by Minister Pandor. Unfortunately, South Africa is not one of the adjunct countries covered by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's wide-ranging Programme for International Student Appraisal, but has been included in the Trends in International Maths and Science Study (TIMSS). The test, based on each country's own curriculum, was conducted for Grade 8 learners in 42 countries, and for Grade 9 learners in 3 countries - including South Africa. South Africa would have ranked 41 out of the 42 countries for both maths and science, despite having the advantage of being one grade up. The next TIMSS
Nor is this the entire story: there are other indicative measures of the state of maths and science education in South Africa. Between 2009 and 2013, the number of students writing the maths and science exams dropped by 17% for both subjects, and of the 43% who wrote the maths exams in 2013, only 26% scored results over 50%. In addition, the 2013 Annual National Assessment results revealed that only 39% of Grade 6 learners and 2% of Grade 9 learners in South African schools were able to score more than 50% in maths tests. So while the overall National Senior Certificate results are 'improving' each year, the critical disciplines, when it comes to tertiary education and employment, are actually growing worse each year - for although the percentage pass rates in maths and science are creeping up, the number of students writing the exams is declining.
There can be little doubt that this situation is a major contributing factor to youth unemployment. There are, of course, demand-side challenges to be taken into account - but low levels of skills, numeracy and literacy have a critical role to play. In 2007, 2.7 million young people between the ages of 18 and 24 were 'not in employment, education or training' -the NEETs. By 2010, the number had grown to 3.2 million; both figures include young people who did not even make it as far as Grade 12. This year, STATS SA reported that close to two-thirds of young people were unemployed for a year or longer, while young people account for 90% of those who are unemployed and have never worked before. In his address on Youth Day this year, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa informed his audience that
the youth are particularly vulnerable to unemployment, poverty, inequality and low skills levels. More than a third of young South Africans in the labour force are unemployed. Youth unemployment is probably the single most critical challenge facing South Africa today.4
As far as higher education goes, the implications are equally dire. The pool of Grade 12 graduates who qualify for major disciplines in the natural, applied natural, and social sciences is diminishing at the very time that the country needs more and more graduates from these areas.
Why, then, the fuss about the data published in the Global Information Technology Report 2014? There are measures, indicators, and social and economic circumstances that bear out the 'mere opinions' and their implications. Surely the appropriate responses, especially from government, would have been - we are probably not that bad, but bad enough, and we need to address the problem seriously. Perhaps the opinions of a limited number of well-informed people are not that far off the mark after all, and we need to act rather than rail against bad news.
1. Ngubeni T. Pandor outlines key DST plans. c2014 [cited 2014 Jun 20]. Available from: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=135099:Pandor-outlines-key-DST-plans&catid=86 [ Links ]
2. Department of Basic Education. Education department rejects WEF global report on Information Technology, 02 June 2014. c2014 [cited 2014 Jun 20]. [ Links ]
Available from: http://www.education.gov.za/Newsroom/MediaReleases/tabid/347/ctl/Details/mid/2929/ItemID/3948/Default.aspx [ Links ]
3. Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa. The Global Information Technology Report 2014: Should South Africans be worried? c2014 [cited 2014 Jun 20]. Available from: http://www.iitpsa.org.za/index.php/global-information-technology-report-2014-south-africans-worried/ [ Links ]
4. Keynote address by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. c2014 [cited 2014 Jun 20]. Available from: http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/e8cd78004463b6a290dff4744a7933f3/Keynote-Address-by-Deputy-President-Cyril-Ramaphosa-20141606 [ Links ]


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Green Chemistry Suggestion vs alisha | added on Jun 18, 2012 Green chemistry, also known as sustainable chemistry, is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. Green chemistry applies across the life cycle of a chemical product, including its design, manufacture, and use.
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A solution for plastics Collaboration Yedhu Krishnan | added on Nov 10, 2011 All the problems and health hazards caused by plastics should be taken to the minds of people ,especially to the youngster in a manner that they could get inspire to solve this burning issue and save our earth.they should be aware of its dangers so that they can invent a solution...
Chemistry club in every school Collaboration Mohamed wessim Mahouachi | added on Nov 04, 2011 Every child in this earth has the right to know that chemistry is very imporatnt in our daily life and it's very useful
SEMINAR Discussion Kartik Bar | added on Oct 31, 2011 AS I AM A TEACHER OF CHEMISTRY ,I WANT TO PRESENT A SHORT SEMINAR ON SEPARATION OF MIXTURE (SOLID -LIQUID,LIQUID-LIQUID...).AS STUDENTS ARE NOT VERY FIMILER ABOUT THE PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE ,THIS WILL HELP THEM TO STUDY CHEMISTRY MORE EASY AND ATTRACTIVE.....
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London: Brazil left it late to come from behind and earn a 1-1 draw against a resilient Russia at Stamford Bridge.
Fabio Capello`s men had the better start to proceedings but neither side truly tested the other in a tame first half. The Selecao saw a lot more of the ball after the break but were unable to unlock a stubborn Russian defence, until Fred`s late equaliser cancelled out Viktor Fayzulin`s 73rd-minute opener for the draw.
Although their World Cup qualifier with Northern Ireland was postponed twice at the weekend, Russia began positively and called Julio Cesar into action after just three minutes. A thunderous free kick from Sergei Ignashevich was just kept out of the bottom corner by the sprawling Canarinho keeper.
Momentum stayed with the European side, and not long after Aleksandr Kerzhakov threatened the Brazil goal but his rifled shot soared wide of the target.
Just three minutes later it took some last-ditch defending to keep Russia off the scoresheet. Roman Shirokov failed to connect with a cross from the right and it took a fantastic block from Thiago Silva to stop Kerzhakov from slotting home at the back post.
Luiz Felipe Scolari`s men eventually settled into the game but Neymar was unable to get a convincing effort on goal despite two chances falling his way before the half-hour mark.
The tempo of the game soon dropped off as an intensely contested midfield battle limited the room within which either side could feed their attackers.
Moments before the break an incisive move initiated by Fayzulin looked exceptionally dangerous, but after sprinting 60 yards for the return pass from Kerzhakov he saw Julio Cesar tip his effort around the post.
The Selecao enjoyed a far better start to the second half but for all their improved retention of possession they were unable to test Vladimir Gabulov before the hour mark.
Contributing to this was the compact and organised nature of the defence of Capello`s side. Red shirts swarmed upon the Brazilian players whenever they came close to entering the final third.
The Russian resilience finally paid off as they took the lead against the run of play in the 73rd minute. A quick break down the left resulted in a goal-mouth scramble and, with the Selecao defenders back protecting the line, Fayzulin was left unmarked to slot home after Shirokov had seen his effort blocked on the line by Fernando.
It looked as though Brazil boss Felepao was going to taste defeat for the second time in three games since returning to the helm as coach of Brazil, but a brilliant reverse pass from Hulk played Marcelo in behind the defence on the left side of the area and his low pass across the face of goal was tapped home by Fred.
Despite the Fluminense striker`s heroics, Scolari remains without a win in his second stint in the Brazil hotseat. Capello, meanwhile, will be pleased to have extended his unbeaten run as trainer to eight games.


text: On 19 Apr 2007, at 3:20 pm, Toon Knapen wrote: > Tim Cutts wrote: >> Optimising for throughput, at least with an embarrassingly >> parallel workload of serial jobs like we have here, is trivial; a >> single first-come-first-served queue is optimal, as long as the >> code is well written, and doesn't block too much on shared >> resources like file servers or databases. > > > but what if you have a bi-cpu bi-core machine to which you assign 4 > slots. Now one slot is being used by a process which performs heavy > IO. Suppose another process is launched that performs heavy IO. In > that case the latter process should wait until the first one is > done to avoid slowing down the efficiency of the system. Generally > however, clusters take only time and memory requirements into account. I think that varies. LSF records the current I/O of a node as one of its load indices, so you can request a node which is doing less than a certain amount of I/O. I imagine the same is true of SGE, but I wouldn't know. > Additionally, in the case above, for optimising the efficiency of > the node, I might prefer to launch just 1 process which uses 4 > threads to perform multi-threaded (BLAS) calculations. That could certainly be requested with LSF: bsub -n 4 -R"select[io < 10] span[hosts=1]" my_four_thread_job selects a host currently performing less than 10 KB per second, and requests four job slots on a single node. Tim


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QUESTION My Windows 7 desktop PC has four USB ports, all of which are in use. However, no peripherals are automatically visible in Explorer.
I've used the troubleshooter to fix the drivers. I get a message stating that there was a driver problem with the Intel10H10 Family USB Universal Host Controllers 3A34, 3A35, 3A36, 3A38, 3A39, 3A3A, 3A3C, as well as the USB Mass Storage Device. It all works eventually, but why do I have to do this every time I start up? Ian M Charteris
HELPROOM ANSWER It may be that your motherboard needs a Bios update. Look on the manufacturer's support site for a newer version. The problem could also be caused by outdated motherboard drivers; as with the Bios, newer versions should be available from the manufacturer's support site.
If you're still getting the same problem, it may be that the USB ports have power-saving options enabled. Go to Start, right-click Computer and choose Manage, Device Manager.
Expand the Universal Serial Bus controllers list and double-click the first USB Root Hub listed. Choose the Properties box and click the Power Management tab. Ensure that the option to 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' is not selected. Repeat the process for each USB root hub, then reboot.
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Wren releases SD6 series
The SD6 series from Wren provides durable 6-inch housings for fixed cameras and leading PTZs. Two mounting versions include recessed for hard-ceilings and drop-ceiling applications, as well as pendant for open ceiling and suspended-beam applications.
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Newpark requests special exception
The Newpark Owners Association is requesting a special exception from the Summit County Council to be able to reactive and extend their development agreement through October 2016.
The development agreement for the Newpark Town Center expired in October 2011. Newpark Town Center is an 800,000 square-foot residential, commercial, office, hotel and recreation development in Kimball Junction.
"Usually, once the development agreement is expired, anything you have constructed or plotted is vested (or guaranteed as a legal right) going forward," County Planner Kimber Gabryszak said. "But anything you have not taken steps to construct, entitle or record, goes away."
Newpark still has between 150,000 and 200,000 square feet of development that has not yet been platted or constructed.
"They do have some unique circumstances, which differentiate them from other similar development agreements that are expired, so they've requested from the council to extend their development to 2016," Gabryszak said.
The main extenuating circumstance is that a phasing plan was approved for Newpark by the County Council, but the phasing plan extended beyond the expiration.
The phasing plan is a step-by-step plan for when the different Newpark developments would be platted
"The applicants are claiming that because the phasing plan extended beyond the expiration date, it automatically extended the development agreement," she said. "That's different, because in most cases we don't have any document that goes beyond the expiration date."
The county also moved forward with an application to expand the Snyderville Basin Fieldhouse, located in Newpark Town Center, after the expiration date.
"The county thought the Fieldhouse was vested for future density, but that turned out not to be the case," she said.
The County Council will hold a public hearing to discuss and possibly decide on the special exception on Wednesday, March 20 at 6 p.m. in the upstairs auditorium of the Sheldon Richins Building, located at 1885 West Ute Blvd.
30 pad locks cut at Basin storage facility
The pad locks to 30 different storage units and trailers at a facility in the Snyderville Basin were cut sometime between April 13 and 15.


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Is there anything more exciting than new life. Dove is new as the morning dew and she's not my dog, but a very welcome recurring guest star dog.
She's got that soft puppy fur that lays flat against her pink chicken-like body and needle sharp teeth she will sink right into the fleshy part of your palm. When puppies bite it never really hurts but it's not a good practice for them to get into.
She rolls over and over and over and over and it never gets old because to her its never happened before. She's never happened before and she's loving it.
Dove's ears are shell pink inside and they flop all over as she bounces up onto the couch.
Sometimes she will work herself up into such a frenzy that she will just collapse midplay. She turns off like her battery pack has been removed or her plug has just come out of the wall.
She falls asleep on her back like a human child, lying like a toy soldier on her mother's lap. Her limbs are completely straight, chest up, dog legs at her sides and below, seemingly at attention but actually loudly snoring.


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MosierData needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 85 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
I hate to borrow from others, but I saw a summary for a previous contest that really makes the point:
The #1 objective of this cover is to SELL the book off bookstore shelves!
Attract attention, stop them in their tracks as they walk down the bookstore aisle, jump off the shelf at potential buyers, grab their attention, and make them think "I MUST HAVE this book!"
Infinity From Zero
"How to transform your ideas into successful businesses in a Web 2.0 world."
James S. Mosier
Desired Color Scheme:
No prerequisites. Artist has total creative control.
Physical Size:
The book will be a 6 x 9 book. Your front and back covers should match this exact dimension plus a 1/8" bleed on all sides except the spine. The book will be between 1/2 and 1 inch thick, so you can be somewhat flexible with the spine, as it will almost certainly need adjustment at time of publishing.
Text Guidelines:
Book title "Infinity From Zero" should be sized so it is easily readable from 6-10 feet.
The Tagline "How to transform your ideas into successful businesses in a Web 2.0 world." Should be sized to be easily readable from three feet.
The copyright for the winning book cover design once paid for will be wholly owned and all rights reserved by the author, whose company is sponsoring this contest.
-- Potential Buyers of the book ---
Book is written for, and targets people thinking about starting a business on, or expanding their business to the Internet.
Book is NOT currently for sale, estimated release date: Winter 2008.
- A style that grabs attention with simple clarity.
- Deliverables to be in Photoshop or Illustrator formats that can be manipulated later. Full layered files (not flattened) are expected.
- Complicated or busy designs
- Bright or "loud" colors
- Images of business people or light bulbs


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Climate change forum asks 'what if' a storm like Sandy hit Boston
There could be enough water in Boston for boats to float through parts of the Back Bay and fish to swim across the Public Garden if a super storm were to hit Boston years from now. That was a worst-case prediction displayed on color-coded maps in Faneuil Hall today as part of a forum on the potential impact of climate change.
The maps detailing potential flooding, on stage as part of a "What If Sandy Happened Here?'' forum, factored in rising sea levels and suggested that by 2050 a severe 100-year storm could also send floodwaters lapping into Central Square and Harvard Square in Cambridge.
"Sandy was a warning,'' US Representative Edward Markey, a Malden Democrat long active in climate change legislation, said as about 150 people filled the Great Hall, where he led a town hall-style meeting on the costs Greater Boston could face if a super storm hits.
Cast as a gathering to contemplate the havoc climate change could cause, the meeting drew together speakers who focus on the issue and an audience that included many area activists.
"This reaffirms the need to put greater energy and greater effort into convincing others that this issue is significant,'' James Kaufman, president and CEO of The Laboratory Safety Institute, a health, safety, and environmental affairs nonprofit in Natick, said after the hour-long meeting.
Maria Cooper, president of the environmental group Green Decade Newton, said the forum was "all the more inspiring because we can see that people are getting it. This is urgent stuff that we need to address in our everyday lives.''
The audience was mostly middle-aged and older, which prompted Yuan Tian of Beijing, a 22-year-old doctoral student in economics at Boston University, to say during the public comment period that she wished more people born in the 1990s and beyond had attended because climate change is most important "for our generation.''
A contentious issue between Republicans and Democrats during much of this year's political campaigns, climate change took on a heightened role when Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey little more than a week before Election Day. A few days later, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Obama's re-election bid, saying he was the better candidate to take on climate change, which Bloomberg believed might have contributed to the destructive storm.
In Faneuil Hall today, speakers acknowledged the setting's many reminders of Boston's historic past, and spoke of what they hoped would be a revolution to come in environmental awareness and legislative changes.
"We have to put in place measures that will protect us,'' said Markey, who coauthored a 1,200-page bill, approved by the US House in June 2009, which would have overhauled the nation's environmental policies. The bill did not make it through the US Senate.
George Bachrach, president of the Environmental League of Massachusetts, introduced the speakers today, and said that if those who resist believing in climate change do not grasp the potential dangers to public health and the environment, they will still have to face the economic impact.
Markey noted that in 2011, "Americans endured 14 extreme weather disasters that each cost $1 billion or more.''
Paul Kirshen, a University of New Hampshire research professor who is a visiting scientist at Tufts University, referred to the flooding predicted on the color-coded maps prepared on behalf of the nonprofit Boston Harbor Association and said the result would be lost wages and lost tourism, in addition to the flooded subways and streets.
"Climate change is real,'' Kirshen, whose research examines ways to adapt to the anticipated changes ahead, said at the end of the meeting. "It's extremely serious.''
Just as challenging are the political hurdles faced by those who want to change governmental policy, the speakers said.
Markey recounted his own difficulties getting legislation approved in the US House, and pointed out that "Republicans turned climate change into a punch line at their national convention'' in Tampa in August.
Still, Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, insisted that "the human spirit is a fighting spirit. We don't ever give up.''
All of the speakers emphasized the growing costs of severe weather during the past few years.
Given the effect on industries ranging from insurance to tourism, Mindy Lubber, a former regional administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, argued that the time is approaching when discussion of climate change must move away from the political arena.
"We've got to change the debate,'' said Lubber, who now leads Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmental advocates.
With a nod toward the uniformity of support among those gathered in the audience, she added that "we can't keep just talking to our friends who agree with us.''


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ASB Sports Centre Website
The brand new state-of-the-art indoor sports centre in Kilbirnie is to open this Saturday 27 August. Recently named the "ASB Sports Centre", the complex is a welcome addition to the local facilities for netball, basketball, volleyball and other indoor sports.
The ASB Sports Centre is at 72 Kemp Street, Kilbirnie.
Phone: (04) 830 0500
Email: email@example.com
Venue & Equipment Hire
Programmes & Activities
Sports Centre Facilities
- 12 sprung-floor courts available for hire, suitable for most indoor sports and recreation activities
- Spectator seating for up to 2,200 people
- Three meeting rooms
- Changing rooms
- Café with seating for up to 100 people that can also cater for functions in the centre
- 317 free onsite car parks
- Outdoor half court
Rongotai Apartments, located on Rongotai Road, is a short walk from the ASB Sports Centre.
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Check out the WCC website for more information about the facilities and venue hire.


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If you're an animal lover, find out how you can start your own pet sitting business to translate your passion into a profitable career!
In this course, you'll master the essentials of running a cat and dog sitting business. You'll begin with pet care, including nutrition, exercise, first aid, and identification of common diseases. You'll learn the basics of first aid and find out how to administer pills, liquid medications, and injections to an uncooperative cat or dog.
Next, you'll discover how to handle home visits and impress your potential clients. You'll also explore sticky situations that can arise, such as lost pets, pets that die unexpectedly, and pets that need immediate veterinary care.
In addition, you'll delve into finances and explore start-up costs, accounting, fee-setting, business plans, and low-cost marketing. You'll find out how to obtain required insurance, hire employees as your business expands, and entice financial institutions to loan you money.
To complete the picture, you'll identify many opportunities for expanding your pet sitting services. Is a dog-walking service right for you? Can you train puppies? Do you want to look after other animals, including horses?
By the end of this course, you'll have all the knowledge you need to become a professional pet sitter. In addition, you'll see how your pet sitting business can grow to continually challenge and satisfy you.
Jeff Grognet has been a companion animal veterinarian for 25 years. He was a pioneer in the field of veterinary assistant teaching, developing his first course almost 20 years ago. The overwhelming success of his veterinary receptionist/assistant college courses led him to expand his teaching into other areas in high demand, including pet first aid and alternative medical therapies for companion animals. He practices with his wife at a Veterinary Hospital in BC, Canada. Jeff has published a large and diverse number of articles and is a regular contributing author to several magazines.
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There have been several posts in this blog about compile speed. However most have been about theory. This time it's all about measurements.
I took the source code of Scribus, which is a largeish C++ application and looked at how much faster I could make it compile. There are three different configurations to test. The first one is building with default settings out of the box. The second one is about changes that can be done without changing any source code, meaning building with the Ninja backend instead of Make and using Gold instead of ld. The third configuration adds precompiled headers to the second configuration.
The measurements turned out to have lots of variance, which I could not really nail down. However it seemed to affect all configurations in the same way at the same time so the results should be comparable. All tests were run on a 4 core laptop with 4 GB of ram. Make was run with '-j 6' as that is the default value of Ninja.
Default: 11-12 minutes Ninja+Gold: ~9 minutes PCH: 7 minutes
We can see that a bit of work the compile time can be cut almost in half. Enabling PCH does not require changing any existing source files (though you'll get slightly better performance if you do). All in all it takes less than 100 lines of CMake code to enable precompiled headers, and half of that is duplicating some functionality that CMake should be exposing already. For further info, see this bug.
Is it upstream? Can I try it? Will it work on my project?
The patch is not upstreamed, because it is not yet clean enough. However you can check out most of it in this merge request to Unity. In Unity's case the speedup was roughly 40%, though only one library build time was measured. The total build time impact is probably less.
Note that if you can't just grab the code and expect magic speedups. You have to select which headers to precompile and so on.
Finally, for a well tuned code base, precompiled headers should only give around 10-20% speed boost. If you get more, it probably means that you have an #include maze in your header files. You should probably get that fixed sooner rather than later.


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David Halligan needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 36 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Accuress is an international financial consulting firm targeting renewable energy companies (http://www.accuress.com).
Our target audience is clean energy and clean technology companies.
We need an high resolution logo that is based on the attached file. The design can be an exact replica or very similar as the attached file. We are not looking to depart greatly from the example.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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SOURCE: Mobile Media Summit
November 05, 2012 12:00 ET
Company Expands Conference Slate for 2013
Company Expands Conference Slate for 2013
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 5, 2012) - Paran Johar, former Chief Marketing Officer at Jumptap, the leader in targeted mobile advertising, recently announced his resignation from the company to assume the full time CEO role at Mobile Media Summit, http://www.mobilemediasummit.com, which owns and produces the successful Mobile Media Summit and Mobile Media Upfront conferences and consults in the mobile marketing space.
Johar formed Mobile Media Summit and began producing Mobile Media and Advertising conferences in 2008 with the objective of bringing advertisers and mobile media technology companies together. That same year, Johar also was named Chief Marketing Officer at Jumptap, which was and continues to be a sponsor of the conferences.
"Since joining Jumptap nearly five years ago, I've been lucky enough to help it grow into one of the leading mobile brands worldwide and am grateful to the company, which has been both a great employer and also a partner, acting as a key sponsor of the Mobile Media Summits and Mobile Media Upfront events," Johar said. "In the last two years, the Mobile Media Summits have grown rapidly to four conferences annually attended by over 3,000 executives from Fortune 500 brands, agencies and media companies. Clearly, the business has reached a pivotal point and requires my full time attention as we continue to drive the Mobile industry forward."
"As a result of my full time focus, in 2013, we will now be able to produce five events, including New York, during the Upfronts and Advertising Week. These two Summits will be complemented by our other Summits in Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco as well as executive roundtable dinners during the CES in Las Vegas, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the International Festival of Creativity in Cannes."
Jumptap Chief Operating Officer Frank Weishaupt said, "These conferences have proven valuable to our reputation and sales efforts and will be a mainstay of our event marketing to advertisers and agencies in 2013. We look forward to working with Paran on the Mobile Media Summits next year."
About Mobile Media Summit
The Mobile Media Summits and Mobile Media Upfront are the quintessential thought leadership forums for brand, agency and mobile leaders to learn and network on the newest mobile technology and media. Founded in 2008 by Paran Johar, the Mobile Media Summit and Mobile Media Upfront are the largest event series in mobile advertising, where an average of 70% of the audience are advertisers, more than any other event. Since our founding, the event series has hosted over 750 speakers and well over 5,000 attendees. Click on http://www.mobilemediasummit.com for more information.
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Google funding for discovery of ancient texts online
An ECS researcher is part of a team which has just secured funding from Google to make the classics and other ancient texts easy to discover and access online.
Leif Isaksen, of the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), is also part of the Archaeological Computing Research Group in the School of Humanities. He is working together with Dr Elton Barker at The Open University and Dr Eric Kansa of the University of California, Berkeley on the Google Ancient Places (GAP): Discovering historic geographical entities in the Google Books corpus project, which is one of 12 projects worldwide to receive funding as part of a new Digital Humanities Research Programme funded by Google.
The GAP researchers will enable scholars and enthusiasts worldwide to search the Google Books corpus to find books related to a geographic location and within a particular time period. The results can then be visualised on GoogleMaps or in GoogleEarth. The project will run until September next year.
"We are very excited about the potential of this project," said Leif Isaksen. "Up to now many ancient texts have been accessible only at elite institutions or have been very hard to find; now a much wider range of people will be able to discover them. This work will really help open up the field and lead to many further projects."
ECS will work on a Web Service and Web Widget for the project. This will make it possible for Webmasters to add links to the ancient texts within their websites, enabling the public and researchers to search for them easily. The Widget will also be embedded in the Hestia (Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) and Open Context projects.
Leif Isaksen is completing a PhD at Southampton with Dr Kirk Martinez (ECS) and Dr Graeme Earl (Archaeology) on integrating archaeological data using Semantic Web technologies. "Google's recent acquisition of Freebase, the Semantic Web encyclopaedia, means there is a range of exciting possibilities for convergence in the future," he said.
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Leif Isaksen is a member of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia research group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. If you are interested in doing PhD research in this group you can find out more on our Postgraduate Admissions Pages.
For further information about this news story contact Joyce Lewis; tel.+44(0)23 8059 5453.
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Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference honors have been announced in fall sports.
Three members of the Hope men's soccer team have been named to the all-conference teams of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). Juniors Grant Neil of Holland (West Ottawa HS) and Jason Muller of Petoskey (Petoskey HS) have been named to the All-MIAA first team. Senior Luke Dishnow of Saline (Saline HS) was named to the All-MIAA second team and honored as the co-recipient with Dane Macdonell of Kalamazoo of the league's Dr. Marv Zuidema award. The award honors a senior athlete for contribution to team play, leadership qualities, demonstration of ethical virtues and excellence in athletics and academics.
All-MIAA honors were presented to eight cross country athletes. Recognition was determined by athletes' combined finishes in the conference jamboree and season-ending championship meet.
Achieving first team honors are junior Camille Borst of Allendale (Allendale HS), senior Sharon Hecker of Grandville (Grandville HS), junior Sam Pederson of Mt. Prospect (Mt. Prospect HS), and senior Blake Rottschafer of Spring Lake (Spring Lake HS). Hecker is being honored for a second time.
All-MIAA second team honorees include junior Meredith Busman of Coopersville (Coopersville HS), senior Taylor Mattarella of Traverse City (Traverse City Central HS), junior Sheri McCormack of Holland (West Ottawa HS) and freshman Julia Stock of Spring Lake (Grand Haven HS).
Sophomore Collin Breit (Muskegon/West Michigan Christian HS) achieved All-MIAA first team recognition by finishing fifth in the seasonal standings behind a 76.0 strokes per round average.
For the second straight year, senior Charlotte Park of Grosse Pointe (Grosse Pointe South HS) and sophomore Brittany Haight of Otsego (Otseog HS) achieved All-MIAA first honors as they finished fourth and fifth respectively in the seasonal standings. Park was also presented the league's sportsmanship award.
Four Hope volleyball players have received coaches' all-conference honors in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). Named to the All-MIAA team first team were senior Greer Bratschie (Grand Rapids/East Grand Rapids HS), sophomore Jenna Grasmeyer (Hudsonville/Unity Christian HS), and junior Mari Schoolmaster (Portage/Portage Central HS). Bratschie is being honored for a third time while Grasmeyer is being recognized for the second year. Senior Jessica Maier (Grandville/Jenison HS) was named the Defensive Player of the Year and received All-MIAA second team honors.
Four members of the Hope women's soccer team have been named to the Michiogan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference teams. Named to the All-MIAA first team were sophomore forward Lindsey Bieri of Holland (Holland Christian HS) and sophomore forward Courtney Schmidt of Lowell (Lowell HS). Named to the All-MIAA second team were sophomore Erin Jipping of Holland (West Ottawa HS) and senior Lindsay Jipping of Jenison (Hudsonville Unity Christian HS). Erin Jipping was being honored on the second team for a second year.
The 2012 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference football teams include 10 Hope players, five on the first team and five on the second. Junior linebacker Tim Klaus (Saugatuck/Saugatuck HS) has been named to the first defensive team for a second year. First-time honorees on the first team include junior tight end Connor Parcell (Cadillac/Cadillac HS), sophomore offensive tackle Joe Droppers (Kalamazoo/Portage Northern HS), junior defensive back Santino DiCesare (Dorr/Wayland HS), and freshman punter Dean DeVries (Grand Rapids/Grandville HS). Second team honorees include junior quarterback Michael Atwell (Geneseo, Ill./Geneseo HS), junior tailback Shawn Jackson (Comstock Park/Comstock Park HS), sophomore wide receiver Taylor Brynaert (Washington/Romeo HS), junior placekicker Evan Finch (Ann Arbor/Pioneer HS); and junior return specialist Reggie Duncan (Williamston/Williamston HS).


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At a Dec. 30 press conference, Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman said her agency will institute a national animal identification program, and will ban meat from cows that can't walk to stand on their own.
"For more than a decade, the United States has had in place an aggressive surveillance, detection and response program for BSE," says Veneman. "While we are confident that the United States has safeguards and firewalls needed to protect public health, these additional actions will further strengthen our protection systems."
USDA reported Dec. 23, 2003 that a cow in Washington State had tested positive for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, also known as BSE or mad cow disease. However, it is now believed that animal originated from Canada.
The new safeguards designed to bolster the U.S. protection systems against BSE, have been under consideration for many months, Veneman says. "The policies will further strengthen protections against BSE by removing certain animals and specified risk material and tissues from the human food chain," she says.
While many cattle in the United States can be identified through a variety of systems, the Secretary also announced that USDA will begin immediate implementation of a verifiable system of national animal identification. The development of such a system has been underway for more than a year and a half to achieve uniformity, consistency and efficiency across this national system.
Additionally, USDA will now be more specific as to what can be labeled as meat when advanced meat recovery technology is used to remove muscle tissue from the bone of beef carcasses under high pressure. A hold will be put on all meat from cattle that have been tested for BSE until the test has confirmed negative, and USDA is will now prohibit the air-injection stunning of cattle to insure that portions of the brain do not end up in meat intended for human consumption.
USDA has also declared that risk materials including skull, brain, eyes, and the spinal cord of cattle over 30 months of age and the small intestine of cattle of all ages, will no longer be allowed in the U.S. food supply.
"These are initial steps that USDA will take to enhance our protection system," Veneman says. "I am appointing an international panel of scientific experts to provide an objective review of our response actions and identify areas for potential additional enhancements."
For more than a decade, Veneman says, the United States has had in place an aggressive surveillance, detection and response program for BSE.
According to USDA, The United States has tested over 20,000 head of cattle for BSE in each of the past two years, 47 times the recommended international standard. Since 1989, USDA has banned imports of live ruminants and most ruminant products from the United Kingdom and other countries having BSE. And beginning in 1997, the FDA prohibited the use of most mammalian protein in the manufacture of animal feed intended for cattle and other ruminants.
An independent analysis by Harvard in 2001 and again in 2003 shows that the risk of BSE spreading in the United States is low and any possible spread would have been reversed by the controls we have already put in place, Veneman says.


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m_grindy necessitava di un nuovo design di pagina web e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 24 design presentati da 11 designer.
Data Cleansing Services
We are a long established data cleansing company and get the majority of our new clients through word of mouth and contacts. We are now trying to take things forward, re-design our new site to make it look more current and use online marketing to drive new clients.
This is our existing site: http://www.data-cleansing-services.co.uk/
This isn't particularly relevant to our industry. Anyone interested in Data Cleansing would be our audience. Primarily the UK.
We only require a homepage re-design, but quite a significant one. The current look and feel of the site is very dated and simple. We can shift around the content on our current homepage to make it look as good as possible.
The main elements that would need changing would be:
- Logo (Data Cleansing Services)
- Tel. Number text
- Links Menu down left
- Borders
We will keep the scrolling ticker of clients, but this can be used anywhere on the site.


text: When 64-year-old Linda Szczepanski was arrested for drunk driving last week, she had some advice for the officer involved. She told him he "should not be messing with little old ladies and senior citizens," and that instead, the police should "start arresting some pedophiles" and "get rid of the Mexicans." Her blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit, but, you know, in vino veritas, right? Anyway, The Smoking Gun has filed this one under "Things Not To Say (Or Admit) To A Law Enforcement Agent." Noted.


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While enjoying the slopes you can take a break from skiing and discover the area with a privately guided excursion. Here are a few tour add-ons you might consider...
* Bran Castle and the peasant fortress in Rasnov
* Tour of Brasov, including the Black Church and the First Romanian School and some free time in the city. If available and upon interest, you can enjoy an Organ Concert in the Black Church in the evening.
* Sinaia: Peles Castle and Sinaia Monastery. Sparkling wine tasting in Azuga.
* Church fortresses in Transylvania: Harman and Prejmer.
see the day by day itinerary for more details...
This tour package is customizable and maybe adjusted to fit your needs.
4 Night Ski Packages
- Accommodation in Hotel House of Dracula in standard double rooms
- Bucharest Airport Private Transfers In and Out
- 2 Days worth of ski lift passes
- 1 half day private tour of Bran Castle
- Local taxes


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SWT/Multitouch support
There is growing interest in supporting touch events and gestures in the SWT, and we want to consider adding it to the SWT for 3.7. The bugzilla bug requesting this feature is 279884.
This page will be used as a collecting point for platform API references, other work to draw from, and, eventually, API.
Platform support for touch and gestures
MSDN guide to Windows Touch API
O'Reilly article on gesture handling for Windows 7
Mac OS X trackpad event handling
Blog posts on Gnome/GTK+ multi-touch (haven't seen links to API yet)
Flash 10.1/AIR 2.0 support for touch events and gestures
Qt 4.6 has touch and gesture events that are implemented to be cross-platform
Currently there are only a few tablets and laptops that have multitouch support built in. I found this cheap USB touchpad on Amazon for $20 that should allow development on a Mac Book Pro with Boot Camp.
Java touch event projects
Project Kenai Mac multi-touch support - Apache licensed
Eclipse plugin based on Kenai work - EPL licensed
These are interesting because they will work on 10.5 and 10.6, but the implementation relies on a private framework. The only official AppKit support for touch events exists in 10.6.
- A collection of new Event subclasses and SWTEventListener subclasses will be defined
- TouchEvent, GestureEvent, ....
- TouchEventListener, GestureEventListener, ....
- A TouchEvent has a collection of TouchState objects that correspond to the set of touch points that made up the TouchEvent. A TouchState represents one component of the TouchEvent. TouchStates have:
- a phase that represents what the particular touch point is doing -- e.g., Touch_Start, Touch_End, Touch_Move, Touch_Resting
- an identifier that is unique for a given sequence of touches.
- a device ID that corresponds to the touchpad or trackpad that generated the event
- device height and width in pixels
- the location of the touch, represented as the fraction of the distance up or right from the edge of the device
- a flag indicating a 'resting' or ignored touch.
- A TouchEvent is sent when there is some change in state of the fingers on the touch pad. The type of the event reflects what changed for that event.
- Control adds new methods to add and remove TouchListeners.
- GestureEvents are higher-level constructs that represent an interpretation of touch events.
- A GestureEvent will have additional gesture-specific information associated with it. For example, a RotateGesture will have a number of degrees that the user rotated their fingers, a ZoomGesture will have a scale factor associated with the pinch/stretch, a SwipeGesture will have a direction, and a TapGesture will have the number of taps. The names are strictly for discussion. The SWT pattern would lean towards subclasses of GestureEvent with named fields as opposed to a more general dictionary of properties. That seems to be the case for all of the platform APIs.
- A Control can get TouchEvents or
- GestureEvent has 3 notifications
- GESTURE_BEGIN -- gesture is about to happen
- GESTURE_PERFORM -- gesture is happening
- GESTURE_END -- gesture finished
- Mac and Windows have specific gesture callbacks for pinch/zoom, rotate, and panning/swiping. Windows 7 has a distinct gesture for two-finger tap or tap and hold; Mac does not.
- Touches always go to the deepest Control in the visual hierarchy.


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With over 4,000 guests from over 60 countries worldwide, this homestay already has a respected name amongst world travelers. Credit for this achievement goes to Col. Lamba's uncompromising manner of functioning. An affable and enterprising man Col. Lamba goes out of his way to ensure the convenience and safety of his guests. He has a strong network of trustworthy people who pick up guests for sightseeing and shopping from the home itself and who are discouraged from extending unsolicited advice. His soft spoken wife Pushpinder supervises the kitchen and the housekeeping staff. The Lambas serve an extensive array of truly delectable vegetarian dishes that have charmed guests to consider becoming vegetarian.
Since most tourist destinations in Agra close by 5 P.M, Col. Lamba has gone the extra mile to provide entertainment for his guests. There are televisions in all four guest rooms as well as in the communal areas and a wide selection of reading material. The two-level terrace offers a view of the Taj and a 360 degree view of the city and it is a perfect place to spend a quiet evening. All the rooms have personal bathrooms that are spacious and well maintained, though not all are ensuite.
The home is a thirty minute drive from the Agra Cantonment railway Station and a little over 3 kilometers from the magnificent Taj Mahal. As the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Baby Taj are relatively close by one can cover them easily in two days. He can also guide you to places where the famous Slumdog Millionaire was shot and give you insights about lesser known attractions of the city like the Mughal Heritage Walk. With such a wealth of information, experience and enthusiasm there's little wonder that this homestay has received the Top Rated Hostel Award two years in a row.
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Hey fellow Seinfeld freaks: Did you know there's more--like way more--embarrassing fashion in my all-time favorite TV series than there is in the pages of US Weekly? Check out the 14 most memorable fashion disasters (starting with, yes, the puffy shirt!) after the jump...
1. The Puffy Shirt Thanks to a "low talker," Jerry unknowingly agrees to wear this pirate disaster on The Today Show; Byrant Gumbel and the rest of America get a good laugh.
2. The Urban Sombrero J. Peterman's nervous breakdown sends him to Burma and leaves Elaine in charge of the catalog. She puts this baby on the cover. Oops.
3. The dress that never changes Jerry is so excited by a woman's black and white dress--he thinks it makes her look "like a superhero"--that he asks her out on a date based on that alone. She shows up wearing the same thing at every subsequent meeting, and when he finds a photo of her from 1992 in the dress, he rummages through her closet to see if she owns any other clothes. She finds him--and dumps him.
4. The Yankees' cotton uniforms George convinces the Yankees to switch to cotton uniforms because he thinks they'll be more comfortable; they shrink and Don Mattingly splits his pants.
5. Elaine's accidental nip slip Kramer photographs Elaine for her Christmas card and both fail to realize that her nipple is exposed.
6. The bra top What Elaine meant as a subtle hint to her friend Sue Ellen--put on a bra, for goodness sake!--backfires when the well-endowed heiress decides to wear it as a top...and causes Kramer to get in a car accident.
7. The Manssiere Whether it should be called the Manssiere or the Bro is still up for debate, but when Kramer noticed that Mr. Costanza had "real hooters" and needed some support, a work of genius was born.
8. The Executive (AKA Beltless Trench) Another of Kramer's ill-fated business attempts, this time in cahoots with Jerry's dad, Mort. "I tripped over one of Jerry's toys. So I took out my belt just to threaten him, and I got a glimpse of myself in the mirror…So that night I cut off the loops and the Executive was born." He unearths 50 of them from storage and gives Kramer a 25% cut to get rid of them.
10. Kramer's immovable jeans Kramer decides to start wearing jeans again and picks a pair that are so tight he can't get them off.
11. Elaine's Cinco de Mayo wardrobe After being subjected to bad customer service at an ethnic-themed store called Putamayo, Elaine attempts to put them out of business by power-shopping at what she thinks is a rival store called Cinco de Mayo--only to learn the same woman owns both.
12. The Friar's Club blazer Jerry eats dinner at the Friar's Club, where he is loaned an in-house blazer because he doesn't meet the dress code. He wears it to the Flying Sandos magic show, where it becomes part of a gag and he accuses one of the brothers of making off with it. Turns out he gave it back to Jerry's girlfriend.
13. The Gore-Tex coat George bundles up in a supposedly state-of-the-art Gore-Tex jacket to protect himself from the cold, but when he finds himself in a liquor store buying wine for a party, the balloon-ish shape works against him. He knocks over many bottles of wine and has to give up the jacket to pay for them.
14. The Barneys mirrors Elaine buys a dress at Barneys because she looks amazing in it, but gets it home and discovers that they're using "skinny mirrors" and it's not actually so flattering. She returns it and tries on another dress, but leaves the store wearing it in search of a more honest reflection. This is also the episode where Jerry suspects his dry cleaner is wearing his clothes when he drops them off...


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Former Beatle and long-time BUAV supporter Sir Paul McCartney has applauded the animal organization's successful campaign to secure an animal testing ban for cosmetics in the European Union, and is now backing Cruelty Free International's work for a global ban on cosmetics tests on animals.
Sir Paul McCartney said: "I have supported Cruelty Free International's founding organization, the BUAV, over the years with its campaign to end cosmetics testing on animals. I am so proud to be part of this historic event and congratulate Cruelty Free International for succeeding in taking the cruelty out of beauty across the European Union. Together we have made a huge difference, yet animals continue to suffer because over 80% of the world still allows cosmetics testing on animals. I am now supporting Cruelty Free International with its campaign to seek a global ban to ensure that animals do not suffer for the sake of beauty anywhere in the world."
Sir Paul McCartney joins Cruelty Free International celebrity supporters Joss Stone, and Global Ambassadors Peter Dinklage and Ricky Gervais.
In March 2013, the final phase of the European Cosmetics Directive came into force, banning all animal testing from taking place anywhere in the world for cosmetics products to be sold in the EU. A ban on cosmetics animal testing has already been in place in the EU for a number of years. This significant historical milestone was achieved after over twenty years of campaigning by Cruelty Free International's founding organization, the BUAV.
Despite progress in some areas, over 80% of countries around the world still allow animal tests for cosmetics, including the U.S., Australia, Korea, Japan and India. Some countries, including China, actually require animal tests before products can be sold there. Sir Paul McCartney and Cruelty Free International are joining forces to work for a global ban.
Cruelty Free International Chief Executive, Michelle Thew, stated: "We have been grateful for the support of Sir Paul over the years for our campaign to end cosmetics testing in the EU. We are delighted that he will now join us on our global mission to end the use of animals to test cosmetics worldwide."
Cruelty Free International works with governments, regulators, companies and partner organizations worldwide and has placed the issue of animal testing on the agenda of many governments for the very first time as part of a global strategy to tackle product testing on animals. With offices in London, Boston and Singapore, Cruelty Free International is applying its determination and vision on a global stage to repeat its success in Europe worldwide.
Find out how to get involved here.


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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Keep the faith, urges AVB
Andre Villas-Boas has called on Tottenham fans to be patient after his wait for a first win in charge continued with a 1-1 draw against Norwich.
Tottenham lacked confidence and looked tense throughout a disappointing first hour which could have seen the home side go 3-0 down had it not been for some excellent goalkeeping from Brad Friedel. Mousa Dembele opened the scoring on his debut but Spurs were booed off after Robert Snodgrass netted a late equaliser.
"You have to accept their disappointment. It has not been the ideal start to the season, but it doesn't mean that we haven't been working hard to get the wins that our fans want," Villas-Boas said.
"They have to understand that we are doing everything in our power to get that win. Obviously this is not the start we wanted and the start we deserve. We had two good games, Newcastle and West Brom, that we didn't win. Everybody wants to build more confidence but getting those first three points.
"Today it was disappointing for us to suffer again in the dying moments of the game and we have to work on our sharpness and concentration to make sure it doesn't happen again."
Villas-Boas expressed his delight at both the performance of second-half substitute Dembele and the deadline-day capture of Clint Dempsey. The Portuguese revealed a deal was also desperately close to conclusion for Porto playmaker Joao Moutinho on Friday.
"We agreed player terms late but there were situations regarding the contract that were not right so we didn't complete the transfer," Villas-Boas said. "We have enough cover without him. Moutinho's transfer not happening should not overshadow the fact we have pulled off one of the biggest coups of the transfer market with Clint Dempsey."
Villas-Boas' opposite number Chris Hughton has seen his team bounce back from their opening-day drubbing at Fulham with two consecutive draws. The former Tottenham coach praised the performance of Snodgrass, who fired through a crowded penalty area five minutes from time to seal the draw.
"Arguably we deserved to win," Hughton said.
"This is a tough place to come but we created a lot of chances. The thing I was most pleased with was the response. We are playing quite well at the moment, but to go one behind here, not let our heads drop, force the equaliser and then have a chance to win at the end, speaks volumes for the team."


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"Research in Motion once dominated the smartphone market with its Blackberry offering. However, with the advent of the Android platform and the iPhone, it has quickly lost ground in the profitable sector. Now, RIM looks to take on Apple in the tablet market, announcing it will release its PlayBook tablet on April 19 in the U.S.
This is one of the most important launches in the Canadian company's history, according to analysts. While Blackberry was once the dominant player in the smartphone market, it is hemorrhaging its market share: In the fourth quarter of 2010, for example, Android became the most popular operating system on smartphones, climbing 7.7 percent in the last three months of the year, while Blackberry's share dropped by 5.4 percent to only 30.4 percent of the total market.
The iPhone has also eaten into Blackberry sales, with the Apple smartphone offering claiming 24.7 percent of market share among all smartphones; Apple's success in the market is especially impressive considering it only offers one smartphone, while there are many devices that use Google's Android and RIM has multiple Blackberry models.
Nonetheless, RIM is hoping its PlayBook tablet can compete with the likes of Apple; the company is looking toward businesses as a primary buyer of the tablet as it features a tight interface and protections that businesses find appealing. RIM will sell the PlayBook through retailers like Best Buy and is hoping to quickly make an imprint amongst tablet buyers.
The PlayBook will vary in pricing: According to RIM, a 16-gigabyte model will retail for $499, with a 32-gigabyte model selling for $599 and a 64-gigabyte model going for $699. RIM has a lot of catch up work to do if it hopes to outsell the iPad, which Apple sold 15 million units of in 2010. Apple recently released its second-generation iPad 2 a few weeks ago and demand has been robust.
RIM's bread and butter has been its relationship with businesses, but according to Bloomberg, over 65 percent of Fortune 100 companies are either testing or deploying the iPad, including Lowe's and Hyatt Hotels. In an interview last week, RIM's senior vice president of software and business services, Jim Tobin, said RIM has shown the PlayBook to a portion of Fortune 100 companies, which he asserts have shown "very high" interest in the device.
The PlayBook goes on sale in 20,000 stores next month – more than double the amount of stores that carry the iPad." -Young Money
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