text:
This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website
Partnership for the accession of Estonia
Partnership for the accession of Estonia
Partnership for the accession of Estonia
Go to the summaries' table of contents
This summary has been archived and will not be updated, because the summarised document is no longer in force or does not reflect the current situation
Partnership for the accession of Estonia
The aim of the Accession Partnership is to assist the authorities in the candidate country in their efforts to comply with the accession criteria. It covers in detail the priorities for accession preparations, in particular implementing the acquis, and forms the basis for programming pre-accession assistance from Community funds such as the Phare programme. Following the signing of the Accession Treaty on 16 April 2003 and the official integration of the country into the European Union on 1 May 2004, the accession partnership has come to an end.
In its communication " Agenda 2000 ", the European Commission has set out a range of proposals for strengthening the pre-accession strategy for all the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The general objective of this strategy is to offer a coherent programme for preparing these countries for membership of the European Union, and more particularly:
The objective of the partnership for accession (adopted in March 1998 and amended in December 1999 and in January 2002) is to enshrine in law the priorities for work set out in the Commission's Opinion on Estonia's application for membership, the financial resources available to help Estonia implement these priorities and the conditions attached to this aid. The partnership underpins a range of policy instruments to support candidate countries as they prepare for membership.
These include a national programme for the adoption of the acquis (NPAA) (revised in May 2002), the joint assessment of medium-term economic policy priorities, the pact against organised crime as well as the National Development Plan and other sectoral programmes necessary for the participation in the Structural Funds after membership and for the implementation of ISPA and SAPARD before accession. In 2002, the partnership for accession served as the starting point for preparing an action plan to reinforce the administrative and judicial capacity of Estonia.
These instruments will not be an integral part of the partnership, but their priorities must be compatible with it.
The implementation of the partnership for accession will be monitored under the Europe Agreement between the European Union and Estonia.
These have been divided into two groups: short- and-medium term. The priorities in the first group are those that Estonia was likely to achieve or make progress on or get under way during 2000. Those in the second group must be settled by the end of 2003.
Estonia has partly achieved the economic and political criteria priorities. Most of the priorities relating to the ability to assume the obligations arising from accession have been partly achieved. The financial control priorities have been fully achieved.
The priorities of the accession partnership were reviewed in December 1999 (see page 3 of the Annex to Decision 1999/855/EC). A final revision was published in February 2002 (Decision 2002/86/EC). This provides the basis for the 2002 Commission report.
The priority areas are:
(for up-to-date information on this subject, please refer to the Adoption of the Community acquis section)
Estonia's total Phare allocation for 2000 was EUR 24 million. A further EUR 3 million was allocated for investment in infrastructure, water quality improvement and a support mechanism for microprojects in the Baltic Sea region. Phare 2001 granted EUR 26.3 million to Estonia. An additional EUR 3 million was designated to cross-border cooperation programmes. The 2002 Phare programme for Estonia made provision for EUR 21 million, plus EUR 9.4 million under the additional facility specified by the programme to strengthen the country's institutions. For the cross-border cooperation programme with the Baltic countries, a sum of EUR 3 million was also allocated to Estonia.
The authorities of the partner country assume responsibility for aid contracts and payments. However, the Financial Regulation of the European Communities requires the Commission to oversee contract-award procedures and to approve any Phare-financed contract concluded by the partner country before it takes effect.
Pre-accession aid
Financial aid for agriculture and rural development (SAPARD) and a structural instrument (ISPA) which puts priority on transport and environment measures were introduced in 2000. The Regulation coordinating Phare, SAPARD and ISPA aid, which was adopted in June 1999, enables the Commission to carry out ex-post monitoring of contracts when it considers that the partner country's financial controls are inadequate.
The annual financial aid for Estonia available for 2000-02 totalled EUR 30 million for the Phare programme, EUR 12.1 million for SAPARD and approximately EUR 35 million for the ISPA programme.
In 2002, the indicative envelope for implementing SAPARD was EUR 12.7 million and that for ISPA for the same period was between EUR 21.2 and 37.1 million.
Decision 98/264/EC of 30 March 1998Official Journal L 121 of 23.04.1998
Decision 1999/855/EC of 6 December 1999Official Journal L 335 of 28.12.1999
Commission Opinion COM(97) 2006 finalNot published in the Official Journal
Commission Report COM(98) 705 finalNot published in the Official Journal
Commission Report COM(1999) 504 finalNot published in the Official Journal
Commission Report COM(2000) 704 finalNot published in the Official Journal
Commission Report COM(2001) 700 final - SEC(2001) 1747Not published in the Official Journal
Decision 2002/86/EC of 28 January 2002Official Journal L 44 of 14.02.2002
Commission Report COM(2002) 700 final - SEC(2002) 1403Not published in the Official Journal
Treaty of Accession to the European Union [Official Journal L 236, 23.09.2003]
Last updated: 19.11.2004


text:
We appreciate your interest in Hands-On Labs. One of our solution consultants will contact you shortly.
Hands-On Labs (HOL) is the world leader in distance learning. HOL is changing the way education is conceived, delivered and consumed around the world, regardless of location, time zone, or device. Hands-On Labs produces online science lab kits that include modern pedagogy, cloud-based learning platforms, and hands-on lab experiments that mirror the classroom laboratory.
March 5, 2019
January 14, 2019
HANDS-ON LABS | 866.206.0773 | firstname.lastname@example.com | Site Map

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Product DescriptionFinish: Shiny
Case Shape: Round
Gender: Unisex
Case Diameter: 36MM
Case Thickness: 11MM
Case Material: Stainless Steel
Crystal: Mineral
Band Width (measured between case lugs): 18MM
Band Material: Stainless Steel
Band Color: Silver-Tone
Clasp: Deployment
Dial Color: Black
Movement: Quartz
Calendar: Date at 3 o'clock
Water Resistance: 50M
This website is strictly for wholesale customers that already have an account with us.
If you are a consumer trying to order a watch please click on this link www.ewatchstore.com to place your order on our retail website. If you are a retail store, please contact us @ firstname.lastname@example.com for your wholesale coupon code. Thanks.


text: > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:50:30 -0400 > From: Mike Davis <jmdavis1 at vcu.edu> > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed? > To: Kyle Spaans <3lucid at gmail.com> > Cc: Beowulf List <beowulf at beowulf.org> > Message-ID: <47F54316.5090508 at vcu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Kyle Spaans wrote: > >> What if your data is sensitive or has HIPPA requirements? Do you want a > >> part-timer having admin control of that data (regardless if it is Linux, > >> Windows, or MacOSX)? > >> > > > > Isn't that what NDAs are for? > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > > > NDA= lawsuit > > HIPPA combined with Sarb-Ox= massive fines or jail time. > > > One does not want a high school student managing a cluster (or db > machine or even laptop) that falls under HIPPA guidelines. > > > My last 2 hires were internal. I began with more than 100 applicants in > each case, narrowed to a shortlist of 5-7 for interviews. Discovered > that at least 4 of that 7 who claimed linux or unix admin experience > didn't even know how to create a new user. Their supposed batch > experience (specified as SGE, PBS, Torque, LSF) was running jobs in the > background from the command line. They had little experience with RAID > and had not even bothered to do any research before showing up for the > interview. In other words, they were unqualified. > > Mike Davis > For Mike and the rest of you: If one of these unqualified applicants had accurately mapped out their deficiencies and let you know that they would need a little training, would said applicant have been considered at all or would their resume have been filed in the "circular file" (slang for the trash bin)? Does someone who has maintained a personal cluster for their graduate research have any reasonable chance of landing some sort of admin position? Given that state of the economy, I've been kind of hoping that I could look into admin positions as a backup plan if a position in my field is not readily available once I finish my doctoral studies - it would be helpful to know whether this is a realistic possibility. Thanks, Mark Kosmowski


text:
The secret recipe
• A little history •
Worth sharing
• The origins of Jarlsberg® •
So why does Jarlsberg® taste so good? How do we make it so nutty and delicious? And crucially, how do we get the holes inside? Well, every legend has its mysteries, and this one is of Norway's most closely guarded secrets. So when you gather with family or friends to enjoy the fine taste of Jarlsberg®, you can invent a few legends of your own.
• About Tine •
TINE SA is Norway's largest producer, distributor and exporter of dairy products. We aim to provide consumers with a healthy and positive food experience.
TINE is a cooperative - it is owned by more than 15,000 Norwegian dairy farmers, and each farmer is a shareholder in the cooperative. The milk that they deliver is processed into more than 200 different products that are sold around the world under the TINE trademark.
In 2011 the TINE dairy cooperative celebrated its 130th anniversary.


text:
Advanced Search
Learning Tools | News
Adapt Courseware, a provider of adaptive learning content and resources, has broadened its content repository with new interactive tools, video lectures, practice exercises and assessments in 10 academic disciplines. The company now offers both complete online course content and pieces of adaptive multimedia for Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; Introduction to Marketing; Financial Accounting; Statistics; Introduction to Psychology; Introduction to Sociology; Organizational Behavior; Foundations of Reading and Writing; and Intermediate Algebra.
According to CEO Mark Brodsky, the company's content is developed through a rigorous process of research, production and testing for each discipline. "Numerous instructional designers, course developers, film producers and educational subject-matter experts collaborate on our adaptive multimedia offerings, which are designed to accommodate a variety of teaching and learning styles," said Brodsky in a prepared statement.
The content repository includes faculty tool sets, customizable modules and analytics. A flexible authoring environment allows faculty, course authors and instructional designers to put together as many of Adapt Courseware's resources as they wish, in any order, and combine them with third-party or faculty-developed content.
For more information, visit the Adapt Courseware site.
About the Author
About the author: Rhea Kelly is executive editor for Campus Technology. She can be reached at email@example.com.
View More Webcasts
View More Whitepapers
Sign up for our newsletter.
I agree to this site's Privacy Policy.


text:
kologer0s wrote:Gratz on reviving the worst possible topic
Hehe, i think that deserves the title <Topic necromancer> XD
Gombol wrote:Kalsh wrote:Gombol wrote:kologer0s wrote:Here's a question to your daughter...Who the hell is she?
and why in gods green earth is she good enough for a damn Q&A?
You know i used to think you were pretty friendly...
(Jumps behind a rock)
i was freindly?
Kungen wrote:[Maths Homework]
square route of 79.8?
Alandse wrote:Let this damn topic die already.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest


text:
Como medida de seguridad de la cuenta, tendrá que permitir el acceso a este navegador introduciendo el código especial. Usted encontrará en su buzón de correo electrónico a
10.000 The Elder Scrolls Online Gold US
10.000 The Elder Scrolls Online Gold US
|Release Date:
Product Description
Product has been restricted to United States.
Requires The Elder Scrolls Online in order to use.
In The Elder Scrolls Online, Gold is once more needed to equip your character with the very good armor, weapons, potions and much more. You will need ESO Gold to travel and explore the fantastic continent Tamriel. No matter if materials or tools are missing to craft your own equipment, craftmasters want to be paid to reveal their secrets or you want to purchase herbs for healing potions – you won't get far without ESO Gold.
It is a time of strife and unrest. Armies of revenants and dark spirits manifest in every corner of Tamriel. Winters grow colder and crops fail. Mystics are plagued by nightmares and portents of doom.
In the midst of this chaos, three alliances vie for control of the Imperial City and the White-Gold Tower. High Rock, Sentinel, and Orsinium stand as one, united under the rule of the High King in Wayrest. Valenwood and Elsweyr have forged an alliance of their own with Summerset, while Black Marsh, Morrowind, and Skyrim have formed a third, uneasy pact.
The Daggerfall Covenant. The Aldmeri Dominion. The Ebonheart Pact.
Three armies will take up arms against the Empire, and against each other, to wrest control of the Imperial City and White-Gold Tower from the dark forces of Oblivion itself.
Where do your loyalties lie?
System Requirements
- CPU: 2.4 GHz dual-core processor
- RAM: 1 GB system memory
- Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible card with 512 MB RAM, Nvidia 8000-series or Radeon 3000-series or better.
- OS: Windows Vista
- DirectX audio card
- 20 GB hard disk space
The gold is delivered via ingame mail.
Our selected supplier sends the product as an attachment to your character.
Afterwards you can take the product out of the mail from any desired mailbox.


text:
Return To www.bpclips.com Front Page!
Remember, any credit you buy can be used on all bpclips.com and www.bpclips.com studios!
******** Club presents: ******* in Pyjamas Part 2
All models are consenting adults who have agreed to be filmed. All ******* and ******** is real, and performed by professionals. Do not try this at home.
For more information or to inquire about commissions, please contact us at asphyxiaclub**********


text:
Father Gets Arrested For Giving Advice For His Son To Brawl In California! (Footage Of The Fight)
CBS reports "One of the teen's father's is in trouble for egging the fight on"
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
Delhi, city and national capital territory, north-central India. The city of Delhi actually consists of two components: Old Delhi, in the north, the historic city; and New Delhi, in the south, since 1947 the capital of India, built in the first part of the 20th century as the capital of British India.
One of the country's largest urban agglomerations, Delhi sits astride (but primarily on the west bank of) the Yamuna River, a tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Himalayas. The national capital territory embraces Old and New Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan region, as well as adjacent rural areas. To the east the territory is bounded by the state of Uttar Pradesh, and to the north, west, and south it is bounded by the state of Haryana.
Delhi is of great historical significance as an important commercial, transport, and cultural hub, as well as the political centre of India. According to legend, the city was named for Raja Dhilu, a king who reigned in the region in the 1st century bce. The names by which the city has been known—including Delhi, Dehli, Dilli, and Dhilli, among others—likely are corruptions of his name. Area Old Delhi, 360 square miles (932 square km); national capital territory, 573 square miles (1,483 square km). Pop. Old Delhi, (2001) 12,260,000; national capital territory, (2001) 13,850,507; Old Delhi, (2011) 11,007,835; national capital territory, (2011) 16,753,235.
City site
Delhi has been the centre of a succession of mighty empires and powerful kingdoms. Numerous ruins scattered throughout the territory offer a constant reminder of the area's history. Popular lore holds that the city changed its locality a total of seven times between 3000 bce and the 17th century ce, although some authorities, who take smaller towns and strongholds into account, claim it changed its site as many as 15 times. All the earlier locations of Delhi fall within a triangular area of about 70 square miles (180 square km), commonly called the Delhi Triangle. Two sides of the triangle are articulated by the rocky hills of the Aravalli Range—one to the south of the city, the other on its western edge, where it is known as the Delhi Ridge. The third side of the triangle is formed by the shifting channel of the Yamuna River. Between the river and the hills lie broad alluvial plains; the elevation of the territory ranges from about 700 to 1,000 feet (200 to 300 metres).
The ridges and hillsides of the national capital territory abound in thorny trees, such as acacias, as well as seasonal herbaceous species. The sissoo (shisham; Dalbergia sissoo) tree, which yields a dark brown and durable timber, is commonly found in the plains. Riverine vegetation, consisting of weeds and grass, occurs on the banks of the Yamuna. New Delhi is known for its flowering shade trees, such as the neem (Azadirachta indica; a drought-resistant tree with a pale yellow fruit), jaman (Syzygium cumini; a tree with an edible grapelike fruit), mango, pipal (Ficus religiosa; a fig tree), and sissoo. It also is known for its flowering plants, which include a large number of multicoloured seasonals: chrysanthemums, phlox, violas, and verbenas.
The animal life of the national capital territory, like its plant life, is quite diverse. Among carnivorous animals are leopards, hyenas, foxes, wolves, and jackals, which inhabit the ravine lands and hilly ridges. Wild boars are sometimes spotted along the banks of the Yamuna. Monkeys are found in the city, especially around some of the temples and historical ruins. Birdlife is profuse; year-round species include pigeons, sparrows, kites, parrots, partridges, bush quail, and, on the ridges, peafowl. The lakes around the city attract seasonal species. Fish are plentiful in the Yamuna, and an occasional crocodile also may be found there.
The climate of Delhi is characterized by extreme dryness, with intensely hot summers. It is associated with a general prevalence of continental air, which moves in from the west or northwest, except during the season of the monsoon, when an easterly to southeasterly influx of oceanic air brings rain and increased humidity. The summer season lasts from mid-March to the end of June, with maximum temperatures typically reaching about 100 °F (about 37 °C) and minimum temperatures falling into the high 70s F (about 25 °C); it is characterized by frequent thunderstorms and squalls, especially in April and May. The monsoon season normally begins in July and continues until the end of September. It is during these months that Delhi receives the bulk of its rainfall—roughly 23 inches (600 mm), or nearly three-fourths of the annual average. October and November constitute a transition period from monsoon to winter conditions. The dry winter season extends from late November to mid-March. The coldest month is January, with high temperatures in the low 70s F (about 21 °C) and low temperatures in the mid-40s F (about 7 °C).
City layout
The city plan of Delhi is a mixture of old and new road patterns. The street network of Old Delhi reflects the defense needs of an earlier era, with a few transverse streets leading from one major gate to another. Occasionally a street from a subsidiary gate leads directly to the main axes, but most Old Delhi streets tend to be irregular in direction, length, and width. Narrow and winding paths, culs-de-sac, alleys, and byways form an intricate matrix that renders much of Old Delhi accessible only to pedestrian traffic. Conversely, the Civil Lines (residential areas originally built by the British for senior officers) in the north and New Delhi in the south embody an element of relative openness, characterized by green grass, trees, and a sense of order.
When the decision was made in 1911 to transfer the capital of British India from Calcutta (now Kolkata) to Delhi, a planning committee was formed, and a site 3 miles (5 km) south of the existing city of Delhi, around Raisina Hill, was chosen for the new administrative centre. A well-drained, healthy area between the Delhi Ridge and the Yamuna River, it provided ample room for expansion. Raisina Hill, commanding a view of the entire area, stood about 50 feet (15 metres) above the plain, but the top 20 feet (6 metres) were blasted off to make a level plateau for the major government buildings and to fill in depressions. With this low acropolis as the focus, the plan for New Delhi was laid out.
The New Delhi plan was characterized by wide straight avenues, with trees in double rows on either side, that connected various points of interest and provided vistas of the surrounding area. The most prominent feature of the plan, aside from its diagonal road pattern, was the Rajpath, a broad central avenue that in present-day New Delhi stretches westward from the National Stadium, through the All India War Memorial arch (popularly called the India Gate), to the Central Secretariat buildings and the Presidential House (Rashtrapati Bhavan). This is the main east-west axis; it divides New Delhi into two parts, with a large shopping and business district, Connaught Place, in the north and extensive residential areas in the south.
Land use
The pattern of land use in Delhi was influenced considerably by the implementation (albeit partial) of the Delhi Development Authority's 20-year (1962–81) master plan. Broadly, public and semipublic land use was concentrated in the Central Secretariat area of New Delhi and in the Old Secretariat area in the Civil Lines, with subsidiary centres developing in the Indraprastha Estate (an office complex) in the east and in Ramakrishnapuram (an office-cum-residence complex) in the south. A large number of small manufacturing establishments have entrenched themselves in almost every part of Old Delhi, but the main industrial areas have gravitated toward Najafgarh Road in the west and the large planned Okhla Industrial Estate in the south. Land for commercial use is found mainly in the Chandni Chowk and Khari Baoli areas, both in the north; in the Sadar Bazar of Old Delhi; in the Ajmal Khan Road area of Karol Bagh in western Delhi; around Connaught Place in New Delhi; and in the areas of Lajpat Nagar and Srojini Nagar in the south. A number of district and local shopping centres have developed in other localities.
Traditional regions
There is a clear distinction in Delhi between areas where local influences are foremost and areas where colonial and cosmopolitan aesthetics predominate. In Old Delhi, gates or doorways open onto one-, two-, or three-story residences and courtyards or onto katra (one-room tenements facing a courtyard or other enclosure that has access to the street only by a single opening or gate). The prevalence of courtyards has helped to cultivate a strong sense of mohalla ("neighbourhood") in the area. Also typical of Old Delhi are urban village enclaves, such as Kotla Mubarakpur, where houses and streets retain their rural character. The Civil Lines area is characterized by old one-story bungalows inhabited by those in the upper-income bracket. In New Delhi, the government housing areas are grouped by income. Significant parts of the city are densely packed with substandard, often dilapidated housing, inhabited mostly by construction workers, sweepers, factory labourers, and other low-income groups.
In the demographic history of Delhi, a turning point was the year 1947, when thousands of Hindu and Sikh refugees from predominantly Muslim Pakistan entered the city in the wake of India's independence. Since that time the population has grown steadily, with an ongoing heavy flow of immigrants, most arriving from other Indian states or from adjacent countries.
Immigrant (or other foreign) communities often are found in the newer housing developments. Chanakyapuri (more commonly known as the Diplomatic Enclave), for instance, is the site of many foreign embassies. Concentrations of specific ethnic communities have formed in such areas as Chittaranjan Park and Karol Bagh; the former is a predominantly Bengali subdivision and the latter largely a Punjabi one. Such areas have been diversifying since the late 20th century, however.
The religious composition of Delhi's population is also varied. The great majority of the residents are Hindu. Adherents of Islam constitute the largest minority, followed by smaller numbers of Sikhs, Jains, Christians, and Buddhists.
The service sector is the most important part of Delhi's economy, and it is the city's largest employer. Manufacturing has remained significant, after a surge in the 1980s. Agriculture once contributed significantly to the economy of the national capital territory, but now it is of little importance.
The bulk of Delhi's working population is engaged in trade, finance, public administration, professional services, and various community, personal, and social services. Indeed, for many centuries Old Delhi has been a dominant trading and commercial centre in northern India. Since the 1990s New Delhi has emerged as an important node in the international corporate and financial network.
Mechanized industry arrived in Delhi early in the 20th century and focused on cotton ginning, spinning, and weaving; flour grinding and packaging; and sugarcane and oil pressing. More recently, electronics and engineering goods, automobile parts, precision instruments, machinery, and electrical appliances have moved to the centre of the city's manufacturing activities, although the production of apparel, sports-related products, and leather goods is also important.
Delhi long has been renowned for its handmade artistic works, such as ivory carvings and paintings, engravings, sculpture of various sorts, miniature paintings, jewelry, gold and silver brocades and embroidery, and metalwork. Such items remain a small but significant segment of Delhi's manufacturing sector.
Finance and other services
Delhi's position as the national capital and as a major industrial city has supported its function as a banking, wholesale-trade, and distribution centre. The city is the headquarters of the Reserve Bank of India and of the regional offices of the State Bank of India and other banking institutions. Many foreign banks offering both retail and corporate services also have branches in the city. Delhi is a divisional headquarters for the insurance business and is the home of the Delhi Stock Exchange. The city has long acted as a major distribution centre for much of northern India, with a large proportion of the trade conducted from within the Old Delhi area, where most of the markets are concentrated. In addition to its financial and trade services, Delhi hosts a thriving tourism industry, which has grown rapidly since the late 20th century.
The geographic position of Delhi on the great plain of India, where the Deccan plateau and the Thar Desert approach the Himalayas to produce a narrow corridor, ensures that all land routes from northwestern India to the eastern plain must pass through it, thus making it a pivotal centre in the subcontinent's transportation network. A number of national highways converge on Delhi, and several railway lines also meet there, linking the city with all parts of the country. Delhi is an important air terminus in northern India for both international and domestic services. Indira Gandhi International Airport, located in the southwestern part of the city, handles international flights. One of its terminals, which was once known as the Palam Airport, lies about 2 miles (3 km) from the international facility and is a hub of the domestic airway system.
The traffic-circulation pattern of Delhi was originally designed for a smaller population, and, with Delhi's explosive growth, the system quickly became overburdened. Improvements to the road system—such as adding overpasses and underpasses and widening major thoroughfares—have alleviated the worst traffic congestion, but the sheer volume of traffic—which includes slow-moving vehicles such as bullock carts, pedicabs, and bicycles—makes road travel in Delhi difficult. Although they are improving, mass-transportation facilities remain inadequate, with the principal means of public transport consisting of an ever-increasing fleet of buses. Long-distance commuting within the city is facilitated by chartered buses during rush hours, as well as by a rapid transit system, the first phase of which was completed in November 2006. Several bridges built in the late 20th and early 21st centuries have helped to ease the flow of traffic over the Yamuna River.
Administration and society
Delhi was a British province headed by a chief commissioner until 1947, when India attained its independence. It became a centrally administered state in 1952, but in 1956 its status was changed to that of a union territory under the central government. A unified corporation for both urban and rural areas was established in 1958, and Delhi was designated the national capital territory in 1991. A lieutenant governor, appointed by the president of India, is the chief administrator of the national capital territory; he is assisted by a chief minister, who also is appointed.
Nested in different layers of administrative and planning regions, Delhi consists of both the urban agglomeration and more than 200 villages distributed mostly across the Delhi and Mehrauli tehsils (subdistricts) of the territory. At the macro level, Delhi is part of the National Capital Region (NCR), a planning region carved out in 1971 by the Town and Country Planning Organisation to guide future growth around Delhi. The NCR comprises not only Delhi but also the bordering tehsils in the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan.
At the micro level is the national capital territory itself, which consists of three administrative bodies known locally as statutory towns—the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), and the Cantonment Board—that are in some ways distinguished by function and in other ways by the geographic area over which they have authority. The MCD, which is an elected body, performs municipal and discretionary welfare functions, a foremost focus of which has been the elimination of substandard housing (either through destruction or improvement). The NDMC, which is an appointed body, is essentially responsible for New Delhi and its adjoining areas. The Cantonment Board consists of both elected members and appointed ex officio members; among its principal responsibilities are water and public-utilities management, public health and sanitation, birth and death registration, and elementary education.
Municipal services
Delhi's water and electricity are provided by various public and private companies. The Delhi Jal Board distributes treated drinkable water. Electricity is supplied largely by local coal-burning thermal stations, although several gas-fired plants, built in the national capital territory in the early 21st century, also generate a significant amount of power. A portion of Delhi's energy is tapped from sources outside the national capital territory.
The jurisdiction of the Delhi Fire Service extends over both the urban and rural areas of the national capital territory. The Delhi Police force is headed by a commissioner who oversees the operation of several districts, each of which is administered by a superintendent of police. Scattered across these districts are well over 100 police stations, which are responsible for regular patrol in their respective areas.
Overall health standards in Delhi exceed the national average, but the accessibility of health care facilities varies widely. Much of the city's health care is provided by a large number of allopathic and homeopathic clinics, as well as by dispensaries of various indigenous medical treatments (most of which are based on herbs and minerals). Hospitals in Delhi are numerous; many of the larger facilities are administered by the national government or by the national capital territory.
The growth of the school system in the national capital territory generally has kept pace with the expansion of the city's population. Primary-level education is nearly universal, and a large proportion of students also attend secondary school. The national boards for secondary education are located in Delhi.
There are many institutions of higher education in the national capital territory, the most prominent of which include the Jamia Millia Islamia (1920); the University of Delhi (1922), which has many affiliated colleges and research institutions; and Jawaharlal Nehru University (1969). Among the major colleges for professional and other studies are the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (1956), the National School of Drama (1959), the Indian Institute of Technology (1959), and the Indian Institute of Mass Communications (1965). One of the largest distance-learning universities in India, Indira Gandhi National Open University (1985), is also located in Delhi. In addition to these major institutions, an array of vocational schools offer a wide variety of courses.
Cultural life
Delhi's cultural life exhibits a unique blend of the traditional and cosmopolitan styles. The city is dotted with numerous museums, historic forts and monuments, libraries, auditoriums, botanical gardens, and places of worship. Complementing such traditional institutions are the ever-changing urban commercial and leisure centres, with their privately held contemporary art galleries, cinema multiplexes, bowling alleys and other sports venues, and restaurants serving a variety of Indian and international cuisines.
Also reflecting Delhi's cultural and stylistic diversity are its numerous fairs and festivals. These include an annual film festival as well as many sorts of trade and book fairs. The various religious groups in Delhi contribute to an ongoing succession of religious festivals and celebrations.
A varied history has left behind a rich architectural heritage in Delhi. The oldest buildings in the city belong to the early Muslim period; they are not homogenous in construction or in ornamentation, however. The influence of Hindu Rajput craftsmen is visible in the naturalistic motifs, the serpentine tendrils, and even the curves of the alphabets of Qurʾānic inscriptions. Some artists, poets, and architects from Central Asia brought with them the Seljuq (Turkish) tradition of architecture, characterized by a lotus-bud fringe on the underside of arches, ornamental reliefs, and bricks laid endwise and lengthwise in alternating courses in the masonry face.
By the time of the Khaljīs (1290–1320), a specific method and idiom, called the Pashtun style, had been established in Islamic architecture. Among the typical features of this style are red sandstone surfaces with white marble inlays, arches in the shape of a pointed horseshoe, windows fitted with perforated screens, and intricate and abundant decoration with arabesques and inspirational texts. Examples of early Pashtun architecture in Delhi include the Quwat-ul-Islam mosque; the Qutb Minar, which, with its surrounding monuments, has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site; the tomb of Iltutmish; and the Alaʾi Gate. Later Pashtun styles are represented by the tombs of the Sayyid (1414–51) and Lodī kings (1451–1526); these tombs exhibit either a low octagonal shape or a higher square edifice, the facade of which is broken by a horizontal decorative band and a series of panels that suggest a much larger structure.
The first important piece of Mughal architecture in Delhi was Humāyūn's tomb, which was the precursor of the Taj Mahal (in Agra). It introduced high arches and double domes to Indian architecture. Some of the finest representatives of later Mughal architecture are found within the Red Fort (Lal Qila). The fort's massive red sandstone walls, which stand 75 feet (23 metres) high, enclose a complex of palaces and entertainment halls, projecting balconies, baths and indoor canals, and geometrical gardens, as well as an ornate mosque. Among the most famous structures of the complex are the Hall of Public Audience (Diwan-i-Am), which has 60 red sandstone pillars supporting a flat roof, and the smaller Hall of Private Audience (Diwan-i-Khas), with a pavilion of white marble. The Jama Masjid is a fine example of a true Mughal mosque, in part because it has minarets, where its precursors did not. Both Humāyūn's tomb and the Red Fort complex are UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Stepwells (vans, or baolis) also showcase Delhi's rich architectural heritage. The subterranean edifices—common throughout India as water sources for drinking, washing, bathing, and irrigation and as cool sanctuaries for caravans, pilgrims and travelers—were commissioned by royal, wealthy, or powerful patrons. The structures were complex engineering feats and distinctive examples of both Hindu and Islamic architectural styles. They were excavated several stories underground in order to access fluctuating water tables. Although each stepwell varies stylistically, all of them incorporated flights of stairs leading from the surface to the water. Many also functioned as inverted temples, featuring column-supported shade pavilions and elaborate stone carvings. Two stepwell examples in Delhi are Agrasen ki Baoli and Gandhak ki Baoli.
The architectural styles of the British period combined British colonial and Mughal elements. Structures ranged from the grand—as represented by the Presidential House (Rashtrapati Bhavan) and the Parliament and Secretariat buildings—to the utilitarian, as seen in the bungalows and institutional buildings. Since independence India has aimed to develop its own architectural language in a synthesis between Western and local styles. In Delhi examples of such architecture can be seen in the Supreme Court building, the Vigyan Bhavan (a conference centre), the Crafts Museum, offices of the various ministries, and the institutional buildings near Connaught Place. Since the late 20th century, a number of Indian and foreign architects have added buildings to the city's landscape that may be considered postmodern (mixing many elements of diverse origin) in style. Notable among these are the National Institute of Immunology, the headquarters of the Life Insurance Corporation of India, the building of the Embassy of Belgium, and the Indian Bahāʾī Temple.
Cultural institutions
Delhi is home to a number of important museums and busy cultural centres. The National Museum of India, the National Gallery of Modern Arts, and the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts are all dedicated to the preservation, documentation, and dissemination of the country's artistic heritage. The Crafts Museum showcases Indian carving, metalwork, painting, and other crafts; the institution regularly hosts events at which local craftspeople demonstrate their art and sell their wares. The Siri Fort Auditorium is an important centre for major cultural events. The Pragati Maidan, a world-class trade and cultural centre, is another prominent landmark where events and exhibitions of international scale are held throughout the year. Dilli Haat is a popular bazaar that offers a diverse range of handicrafts and cuisines from the various states.
Aside from its museums, auditoriums, and other cultural centres, Delhi is a city of gardens and fountains, among the most notable of which are the Roshan Ara Gardens and the meticulously planned Mughal Gardens. Many park and garden areas have grown up around historical monuments, such as the Lodī Gardens (around the Lodī Tombs) and the Firoz Shah Kotla Grounds (around Ashoka's Pillar). Along the Yamuna riverfront, memorials set in flowering gardens have been built for various 20th-century national leaders. Among these are Raj Ghat (honouring Mahatma Gandhi), Shanti Vana (honouring Jawaharlal Nehru), and Vijay Ghat (honouring Lal Bahadur Shastri).
Sports and recreation
The national capital territory has well-developed sporting facilities, including a number of stadiums that were built when Delhi hosted the Asian Games in 1982. Several sports complexes are located within the city, while world-class golf courses are situated on its periphery. Among the major outdoor natural recreation areas are the Delhi Ridge and the Yamuna riverfront.
Media and publishing
Delhi is an important centre for publishing, the press, and other mass communications. Doordarshan, the country's national television network, and All India Radio are both headquartered there. Major daily newspapers issued from Delhi include The Times of India and the Hindustan Times.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
India: Emergency rule…out the entire region of Delhi in which the press was published and appointed Sanjay as her trusted personal censor of all future news leaders and editorials. Her minister of information and broadcasting, Inder K. Gujral, immediately resigned rather than accept orders from Sanjay, who held no elective office at…
India…empowered union territories; and the Delhi national capital territory, which includes New Delhi, India's capital. With roughly one-sixth of the world's total population, India is the second most-populous country, after China.…
India: Indo-European languages…the national capital territory of Delhi.…
India: Population densityKolkata (Calcutta), and Delhi—and those and other large Indian cities have some of the world's highest population densities.…
India: Successor states…the city of Dhillika (modern Delhi) in 736. The political pattern of this time reveals a rebirth of regionalism and of new political and economic structures.…
More About Delhi15 references found in Britannica articles
Assorted References
- architecture
- censorship by Gandhi
- importance to India
- reign of Iltutmish
- In Iltutmish
- role of Lutyens
- urban growth in Asia
- urban planning and colonialism
role in
- India


text:
ResearchMoz.us include new market research report "Electroactive Polymers and Devices 2013-2018: Forecasts, Technologies, Players" to its huge collection of research reports.
Electroactive polymers are one of the most promising technologies. Compared to inorganic materials the versatile polymers have various attractive properties, such as being lightweight, inexpensive and easy to manufacture. Tremendous amount of research and development has led to Electroactive Polymers (EAP) that can also change size or shape when stimulated by the right external electrical activation mechanism, meaning they can convert electrical energy into mechanical energy.
View Full Report With TOC: http://www.researchmoz.us/electroactive-polymers-and-devices-2013-2018-forecasts-technologies-players-report.html
Especially in the actuators segment vast R&D activity can be seen for specialized applications such as medical devices and biomimetic-robotics. Here the features of electroactive polymers are used to enable movement and generate force as well as electrically control surface properties. Haptics for consumer portable touch screen devices and peripherals is going to be the next big application and potentially the first large-scale implementation of EAP actuators in general with an expected penetration of 60% for haptic feedback in mobile phones for 2018.
Today, EAPs are available that produce large strains and show great potential for applications. In comparision to only small response in the early development years electroactive polymers show significant deformation in the range of two to three orders of magnitude.
Until now, despite several decades of R&D and first applications, the EAP field is far from mature and several subjects, such as perfomance and long-term stability, still need further development to tailor the properties of these polymers to the requirements of each application.
Find More Reports Related to Materials: http://www.researchmoz.us/materials-market-reports-101.html
Contact Us:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
website: http://www.researchmoz.us/


text:
"Sally Cunneen
By Miri Rubin
Yale Univ. Press. 560p $35
As a 13th-century French poet once said, Mary is "the sea that no one exhausts." Yet the remarkable cultural history that the medieval historian Miri Rubin has assembled from worldwide resources seems to challenge that claim. In some 500 pages she unrolls the diversity as well as the continuity of meanings that different ethnic, national and religious groups have continued to find in the Jewish mother of Jesus.
The question that interests the author is how a poor, Jewish, little-known woman became a global icon. To answer it, she draws on extensive global research of recent years. A professor at Queen Mary's College, London University, whom Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams considers "one of the most interesting and original of British medieval historians," Rubin approaches her task with zest and formidable credentials both as scholar and writer. Written for a wide audience, Mother of God is rich and readable, with clear explanations, poems and prayers, and is illustrated with many lesser-known images of Mary, particularly from the British Isles. It is astonishing how many still exist despite the wholesale sacking of such images during the Reformation.
Rubin divides her search into six sections. The first covers the period from the earliest mention of Mary in the Gospels and Apo-crypha to her designation as Theotokos or God-Bearer (Mother of God in the West) at the Council of Ephesus in 431. She guides us through the many contradictory and hotly contested elements of devotion to the mother of Jesus, when the Eastern Church in all its variety held much deeper reverence for her than did the Latin-speaking Roman Church.
As the royalty in Constantinople began to identify themselves with Mary, she took on imperial clothing and queenly stature. Under constant attack from farther east, the ordinary citizens of Constantinople saw in her a protector to replace the pagan goddesses Christianity was fast stripping away. The Theotokos soon became a protective mother venerated on icons just as Mary slowly absorbed the attributes and form of the nurturing, healing goddess Isis in later art. In these early centuries, the poetry and homilies of Ephrem of Syria expressed the most beautiful and influential theology in the East, raising all the mysterious paradoxes that marked Mary as poor woman and Queen of Heaven, virgin and mother, both daughter and mother of her divine father.
Educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before earning her doctorate at Cambridge, Rubin also shows us that arguments with the Jews were central to the emergence of Christianity. The Magnificat, which Luke ascribes to Mary, reveals her as a true daughter of Abraham, echoing the power and compassion of God revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures. By the late second century, however, Jews were not only questioning the virgin birth but sometimes insulting Mary as an adulteress, one who had turned on her own people. In return, when the Empire was predominantly Christian by the 5th century, various legends arose concerning Mary's Dormition and funeral procession. According to one, Jews attacked the procession and were immediately miraculously punished. They begged Mary for help, and many converted.
Rubin's next five sections follow the figure of Mary chronologically as devotion to her grew across the Mediterranean and Europe, later in Latin America and Asia, and finally back to a Europe deeply divided by the Reformation, which included disputes over how Mary should be depicted.
Rubin is strongest in her lengthy treatment of the European Middle Ages. Paying careful attention to the theology and liturgy of this period, when monasteries dominated the Christian world, she nevertheless concentrates on the human aspects of the widespread devotion to Mary that seemed to unite medieval Europe. To help the reader grasp how important the Virgin Mother was to the faith of Christians and even to their psychic health, the author provides many examples of emotional prose and poetry in praise of Mary by little-known monks and clerics, as well as by Anselm, Fulbert of Chartres and Bernard of Clairvaux (the latter two were believed to have tasted Mary's milk). We learn too of the somewhat different reactions of women religious to Mary, many eager to imitate her in their desire for the virtual experience of conceiving and birthing her son. This central medieval section abounds with revelations of the rich imagery, poetry, prayer, drama and miracle stories surrounding the woman who seemed to link heaven and earth.
Along with the stories of compassion and healing attributed to Mary in the many miracle accounts of the period, the author also includes deeply troubling anti-Jewish stories and the actions to which they gave rise. Mary had from the beginning become the focus of Jewish-Christian antagonism. As early as the sixth century, the story was told of a Jewish boy thrown into the furnace by his father for eating leftover communion bread at the request of the sacristan. Mary saved him, and his mother and brother were converted to Christianity, while the unrepentant father was burned.
By the 12th and 13th centuries, similar stories abounded. Chaucer has his genteel Prioress share one on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, a sign of how acceptable anti-Jewish attitudes were among pious Christians. Meanwhile Jewish versions of the life of Christ inverted every claim of the Gospels, sometimes insulting both Jesus and Mary. The 13th and 14th centuries were punctuated by expulsions and massacres of Jewish communities as the stories, especially in Italy, became more centered on the Jews as the cause of the suffering of Jesus and his mother.
As the ages unfolded, there were changes in the images of Mary in art. Rubin shares the fondness most people have for art that depicts Mary's maternal strength and compassion. She prefers expressive Gothic madonnas to the "frontal, trunk-like, static, majestic" images of Mary as Throne of Wisdom, in which the Christ child's features duplicate the mother's and the statues become visual embodiments of the Incarnation. Commenting on Piero della Francesca's fresco of the pregnant Madonna, Rubin notes obvious details but does not mention that the rows of goatskin pelts within the tent where Mary stands recall the curtains of goat hair that God recommended to Moses for his temple. The serious young woman is announcing her pregnancy to us as she unbuttons her dress, while both angels and tent declare her to be the new ark of the Covenant, the tabernacle of the living God. In Pietàs Rubin sees only the suffering mother, but Mary's appearance in such statues in public places during and after the years of the Black Death was in great part to encourage the many women nursing the sick and dying to feel that they too were serving the Lord as she did.
As this book makes abundantly clear, Mary is an inexhaustible sea—from which, the 13th-century poet concludes, "The more he draws…the more he finds."
is the author of In Search of Mary: The Woman and the Symbol (Ballantine).


text:
Home > Medical Supplies > A&E Equipment > First Aid Response
First Aid Response
Sign up for our completely free newsletter and we'll keep you informed of all the latest news and products added to our range. Just enter your email address and hit 'sign up'.
Popular Searches Surgical Equipment Hospital Furniture Surgical Instruments Medical Scissors Arm Slings Respiratory Equipment
Customer Services Contact Us About Us Delivery Information Help & FAQs Terms & Conditions Purchase Orders
Need some help? Get in touch! (+44) 020 7501 0593
9.00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday
Welcome to Medical Supplies New Account Sign In
|Medical Supplies
A&E EquipmentArm SlingsAuditory EquipmentBlood Pressure MonitorsDefibrillatorsDental Hygiene Equipment
Gynaecology EquipmentMedical BagsMedical FridgesMedical LightingMinor Operation EquipmentOpthamology Equipment
Otoscopes and OpthalmoscopesOxygen TherapyPatient CarePressure ReliefPulse OximetersRespiratory Equipment
Medical EducationAuscultationBandaging and SuturingBlood PressureBirthing SimulatorsCatheterisationCentral VenousCharts


text:
Details about this Driver
|Download driver for: ASUS KFN5-Q/SAS
|Server Products
|Supported System
|Windows 10 (64bit), Windows 10 (32bit), Win 8 (32bit), Windows 8 (64bit), Windows 8.1 (32bit), Win 8.1 (32bit), Win 7 (64bit), Windows 7 (32bit), Win Vista (64bit), Windows XP (64bit), Win Vista (32bit), Windows Server 2003 (32bit), Windows XP (32bit)
|File Size
|5613 kb
|BIOS for ASUS KFN5-Q/SAS
Please use AMI BIOS flash utility v3.12 to update the BIOS
* Updated AGESA 22.214.171.124 for AMD Barcelona CPU.
What You Should Know About Driver Updating
Way to Update Drivers with Device Manager
- Driver updates for Windows 10 and many devices (such as monitors, printers, and video cards) are automatically downloaded and installed through Windows Update.
- While it's likely you already have the most recent driver, if you're having trouble with a device, you can try fixing it by updating the driver or reinstalling it. Here's how:
- Select the Start button, type Device Manager, and select it from the list of results.
- Expand one of the categories to find the name of your device, then right-click (or tap and hold) it, and select Update Driver Software.
- Select Search automatically for updated driver software.
- If Windows doesn't find a new driver, you can try looking for one on the device manufacturer's website and follow their instructions.
- If these steps don't work, try reinstalling the driver: Open Device Manager, right-click (or tap and hold) the name of the device, and select Uninstall. Restart your PC and Windows will attempt to reinstall the driver.
To set Windows to install recommended updates
To automatically get available driver updates for your hardware, set Windows to install recommended updates. You can set Windows to automatically install important and recommended updates or important updates only. Optional updates aren't downloaded or installed automatically. To get all available updates for your devices, periodically check Windows Update for optional updates.
- Open Windows Update by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Update, and then, in the list of results, click Windows Update.
- In the left pane, click Change settings.
- Under Important updates, click an item in the list. You can decide which updates to automatically download and install.
- Under Recommended updates, select the Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates check box, and then click OK. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. You can also allow anyone using your computer to install updates by selecting the Allow all users to install updates on this computer check box.
Still can't fix ASUS KFN5-Q/SAS driver problem? You can try DriverTuner
1. Download Driver Updater and install it
2. Scan your PC for out-of-date drivers. Select the ones(here you should select ASUS KFN5-Q/SAS) which need to be updated and click download. Or you can just check SELECT ALL.
3. After the download process is finished, you should click SETUP to install them. That's it! Your driver for ASUS KFN5-Q/SAS has been updated. Sometimes a reboot is required to put the changes into use.
Click here to download and run a free Drivers Scan >>
|Fix Driver Problems
|Driver Update Tool
Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP


text:
|Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
holliby holli (Monsignor)
|on Mar 09, 2003 at 19:11 UTC ( #241598=user: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??

I am a perl programmer since 1998.
I started writing CGI-scripts for Brillantnet France, sarl. until the company went down the drain due to incompetent management.
Then I worked for the "Kassenärztliche Vereinigung" (that is something like a union for doctors that take part in the german public health system) until April '07.
Can you imagine? Before i came there they didn´t even know perl, and at the end we did 50% of inhouse-development using perl and his commercial brothers from ActiveState (PerlDevKit).
After the job got said I did some part time projects and am now working for a pure perl shop as a full time developer. Yay!
In the picture above you can see me and a bowl of potatoe salad.
Please note: Due to recent changes on Perlmonks policy, you need to enable risky HTML to get all out of this homenode, especially if you need sex.

XP-Chart temporarily (?) out of order

Monk Links - Copy Perlmonks-links to the clipboard in on-site-format
(must read for Firefox users)
A guide to installing modules for Win32
strftime reference for Win32
call a modules INIT-section
Evaled::INIT - allow init blocks to execute inside eval block
Re: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story
merging pdf-files: pdf-merger.pl
Re^2: Add watermark to a pdf

Tutorials read them, grok them or tye will hit you ;-)
The Perl Monks Guide to the Monastery
What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?
Writeup Formatting Tips
Perl Monks Approved HTML tags
Perl White Magic - Special Variables and Command Line Switches
Guidance for a beginner with a bad reputation
Frustrations with newbie questions
Perverse Unreadable Code
Everyone Hates Me
Perl cheat sheet
Why it´s stupid to use symbolic references (off-site)
one hour Chatterbox history (off-site)
pmplanet - where are all the monks? (off-site)

Funniest Variable/Subroutine names
Frivolous function names
Useless/Interesting Error Messages
(Humor) A New Name for Perl 6
(humor) The first rule of The XP club is...
NodeReaper out of control
Off topic: lightbulb joke...
Where is the boss?
The Humor Thief
Blinking a row
Perl Humor
(OT) Obfuscated Perl/Geek Humor
I want my Perl humor...
99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl (off-site)
Get Out of a Dull Meeting
Life at the Monastery. Chapter 1 (a must read)
Life at the Monastery Chapter 2 (a must read)
Life at the Monastery. Chapter 2 and a half
The Personalities of Perl Monks - Part I
Potty humour...
PerlMonks Humor
There's a level in Hell reserved for ________
The Daily Travels of a PerlMonk
(Humour) Absolutely no way
How do you wanna die() ?
Call for Compiler Error Conundrums
Ask the Dark Gods
Re^4: Email form
Perl Monks say the Darndest Things
Programmers are weird

holli rids g0n of this turbulent project manager
<holli> there you are :-)
<RazorbladeBidet> ... Holli's Pizzeria and Project Manager Disposal does it again! In 30 seconds or less!
<schodckwm> RBB: lol, I think?
g0n thanks Holli and carries on rolling cigarettes.
herveus wonders when g0n will have to do public penance now...
<Camel_thirst> Holli's fast garbage collection u mean?
holli also hands g0n some spicefor his cigarettes
<herveus> .oO(how closely does g0n resemble Peter O'Toole?)
<holli> yeah. works as long as that Project Manager isn't a circular reference.
<atcroft> atcroft decides it is better not to eat at that pizzeria, and wonders at a theory that would explain both the Soylent Green pizza topping and the disposal process.....
<herveus> .oO(...and does his project manager resemble Richard Burton?)
<diotalevi> Huh. Foo->() is merely alternative syntax for Foo(). I never knew that.
<jZed> a man walks into a Bar->(), bartender says, did you know that arrow is redundant?
<g0n> Intrepid ask holli, he's a dab hand at cat catching.
<Nevtlathiel> I could get my co-worker to lure cats to you with cat-food soup and multiple tins of slamon and tuna
<Intrepid> Yes! And then I could scopp them up, break their necks, skin them in front of everyone, and start putting the half-cooked cat meat into sterilized glass jars. I bet I make a million bucks.
Intrepid realizes how upsetting that last send will be to some readers ;-)
<Intrepid> I would, btw, never hurt a cat, ever. I am extremely fond of them and take fanatically good care of them.
Detonite summons a dire cat, and sends it towards Intrepid.
<Nevtlathiel> but would you hurt a cat
<Detonite> Nev++ :)
<Intrepid> When I was dating my gorgeous Alicia, one of them first things I did at her house was to establish a twice-weekly duty of cleaning her litter box for her cats ;-)
DigitalKitty suddenly appears after being summoned and immediately walks in Intrepid's direction.
Detonite double-checks his spellbook
DigitalKitty casually mentions that she might just be an old lisp program designed to demonstrate machine learning and nobody from that academic year remembered to cancel her job. $ps -aux | grep katie...
<Zaxo> I hadn't notithed the Lithp
<theorbtwo> BTW, Intrepid, have you met planetscape yet?
<planetscape> speak of the devil, and she shall appear ;-)
<castaway> iek!
<planetscape> muwahahahahaha!
<bart> Germans are weird.
<holli> declare yourself.
<theorbtwo> I have nothing to declare except my brilliance.
<andye> aFOO!
andye is a geek with a cold.
<rhesa> bless \$you

and many others I might not have recognized at YAPC::EU 2007

visit me @ perlmonk.org

At April 1st 2005, 00:01 GMT

Hero Zzyzzx


text:
Eclipse DemoCamps Juno 2012/Walldorf
- 1 Date
- 2 Location
- 3 Parking
- 4 Organizers
- 5 Presenters
- 6 The event language will be German!
- 7 There will be a Happy Hour after the event. It will take place in or around the same building. No registration is required. Just stay for food, drinks and fun.
- 8 Who Is Attending
- 9 For Bloggers and Users of Twitter, Flickr, etc.
June 20, 2012, 17:00 - 20:30 (+ Happy Hour)
Building WDF05, Room S3
Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 20
69190 Walldorf
How to find Walldorf and building WDF05
Note: Building WDF05 is also known as ISZ (Internationales Schulungszentrum).
All parking garages will be available this day for external attendees. The gates open automatically.
If you would like to present a demo at this event
- please add your name and the title of your demo below
- send an e-mail to the organizer (Karsten Schmidt, Jutta Bindewald
- keep in mind that demos should not be longer than 15 minutes.
The event language will be German!
There will be a Happy Hour after the event. It will take place in or around the same building. No registration is required. Just stay for food, drinks and fun.
Who Is Attending
For non SAP employees: Please use democampwalldorf2012.eventbrite.com to register and view the list of registered participants.
Registration is free. Drinks and snacks during the event are sponsored by SAP AG.
For SAP employees: Please do not enroll via this URL. Please use this internal subscription list. This is a local event for Walldorf. There will be no remote access from other locations.
For Bloggers and Users of Twitter, Flickr, etc.
In case you plan to blog or tweet about the Eclipse DemoCamp in Walldorf, please use the tag "#democampwalldorf" in order to make it easier to find all the comments and pictures via sites like @eventtrack. Thanks a lot for telling the world about the event!


text:
charris1980 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 79 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
Need a logo made for a upcoming web development/applications company called Fire Vanilla.
Need a logo made for an upcoming web development/applications company called Fire Vanilla. Needs to have a web 2.0 look. The fire on http://www.campfirenow.com is good, but don't want a clone. Need creativity to combine the fire and vanilla name.
I know it won't be easy, but need some good creativity here, which is why I am at this site.
- web 2.0 look and feel
- web 2.0 color palette
- clean
- innovative
- cloned logo
- bright
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


text: All those attending SC2000 are welcome to attend the second annual "Beowulf Bash" to be held on Monday November 6th after the Gala Opening and Reception. The party will last from 8:30 to 11:30 PM. We are still working out the location. We have a bunch of vendors this year who have committed to help fund the event. (more beer) I will post the details as the develop. I just wanted to let everyone know that last years seminal event has now become a tradition. Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------- Paralogic, Inc. | PEAK | Voice:+610.814.2800 130 Webster Street | PARALLEL | Fax:+610.814.5844 Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA | PERFORMANCE | http://www.plogic.com -------------------------------------------------------------------


text:
|Area News | Home | Marketplace | Community
|Paynesville Press - February 8, 2006
I Love To Read!
For February - I Love To Read Month - the Press asked sixth grade students -
and their mother or father - to share what they like to read and their reading habits.
Why do you like to read?
What type of books are best?
What books do you remember someone reading aloud to you?
What is the first book you read completely on your own?
What is your favorite book?
Who are your favorite authors?
Please give a summary of the
last book you have read.
Besides books, what else do yuou like to read?
Where is your favorite place to read?
What is your favorite snack while reading?
Why is reading important?
What are your other interests
and hobbies?
Contact the author at email@example.com Return to News Menu
Home | Marketplace | Community


text:
Review: 'The Railroad'
Adirondack Trilogy continues with 'The Railroad' October 24, 2012 By CHRISTIAN WOODARD - Special to the Adirondack Daily Enterpris
With this year's release of "The Railroad," Tony Holtzman offers a confident second installment in the Adirondack Trilogy.
Book two follows the Carter family, innkeeper William Corey, and their friends and neighbors in the central Adirondacks - slightly older versions of characters readers will recognize from "Axton Landing." Holtzman is more comfortable with the cast the second time around, and smoothly integrates his historic ideas with an imaginative narrative.
As an historical novel, "The Railroad" gives a human voice to textbook issues. Labor rights, women's suffrage, and environmental protection all personally and poignantly visit the Carter family. Holtzman tells a well-paced story that keeps the historical information where it belongs -- in the background.
Article Photo
What comes to the foreground is the brutality of frontier life in the Adirondacks. Debilitating sickness, injury, and accidental death are as commonplace as discrimination, flippant disregard for the environment, and the abuse of power. The Adirondacks would have been a tough place to live in 1870, and Holtzman doesn't let his readers forget it.
The novel's title industry, in the form of the Durant railroad, serves up most of the novel's heartache. Cigar-smoking rail barons are the demons of this novel, on whom we tangentially blame every injustice. Holtzman occasionally credits the railroad with creating jobs, but it's clear that there is safer and more ethical employment to be had. The novel's cover photo is telling -a smoldering locomotive racing toward the camera, it's smoke half-obscuring a pile of cut timber.
Despite the unrelenting circumstances, "The Railroad" is a hopeful novel. The Adirondack wilderness offers redemption for faithless downstate lawmakers, healing for city doctors, and the occasional fated romance. In other words, it's a world composed of entirely normal events shown in forced perspective.
Holtzman's success with these characters bodes well for the final installment, which would do well to stick with some of the themes introduced in "The Railroad," like land use and tourism. In the final book we'll hope to see the Adirondacks designated "forever wild," the various offspring of this book's lovers grow to fraught adulthood, and a whole new collage of historical themes brought into focus.
This review reflects the individual view of the reviewer, not the views of the Adirondack Center for Writing or the Enterprise.


text:
We live blogged the U.S. stock market\'s action on Thursday. You can read a wrap of pre-market actions here and a rundown of the stock market in Market Snapshot.
- Sort by:
- Oldest
- Newest
- 9:39 am
- Mostly lower
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Good morning.
Stocks are mostly lower in the earlygoing.
Dow -0.1%
Dow roughly flat
Nasdaq -0.2%
- 9:41 am
- Bed Bath, Ally falling
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Notable movers include Bed Bath & Beyond and Ally Financial.
Bed Bath /quotes/zigman/68991/delayed /quotes/nls/bbby BBBY is down about 5% for the worst gain among S&P 500 stocks in the wake of its disappointing quarterly release late Wednesday.
Ally /quotes/zigman/19341113/delayed /quotes/nls/ally ALLY has started trading on the NYSE after pricing at $25 a share — the lower end of its expected range late Wednesday. The bailed-out auto lender was last down to $24.25.
- 9:45 am
- Today's drivers
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Initial weekly jobless claims were better than expected, while Chinese trade data came in much worse than anticipated.
But the weak Chinese report was viewed as offset by China's plan for wider market access, and there also was talk about some distortions in that trade data.
Read more on the Chinese headlines here… Michael Kitchen's entertaining Asian markets blog.
- 9:56 am
- Choppy, now all lower
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
It's choppy in the early going, but overall a negative trend.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq have touched fresh session lows in the last few minutes.
The S&P 500 briefly turned positive, but then headed south again.
While the Dow had been positive, it's now negative.
Dow -0.1%
Nasdaq -0.8%
- 10:08 am
- Strong claims report ignored
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
New applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in almost seven years, perhaps a sign the U.S. labor market is experiencing a spring revival.
But this encouraging news isn't enough to put the S&P 500 in the green at this point.
In any case, read more about the claims data over at Jeff Bartash's story, which features the adjacent chart.
- 10:31 am
- EM can survive taper
- by Victor reklaitis
- Add a Comment
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said he's cautiously optimistic that emerging markets can survive the Fed's tapering.
There have been "blips" of volatility but these haven't lasted.
That's one takeaway from a press conference today involving Kim and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
Read more here from MarketWatch's Greg Robb.
Photo credit: Getty Images
- 10:41 am
- Lobbing grenades at financial sector
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
"Most mutual fund companies spew more toxic waste into the investment environment than a third-world refinery."
"The new investor is usually disoriented and confused by market turbulence and the economic crises that often cause it; this is because he or she does not realize that there's nothing really new under the investment sun."
Those are just a few of the zingers from a new book on investing and saving by William Bernstein titled "If You Can: How Millenials Can Get Rich Slowly."
Read a brief summary here about the book, which reiterates Bernstein's prior advice to go with a low-cost, lazy portfolio consisting of basic index funds.
- 11:04 am
- Adding to losses
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Stocks are slumping to fresh session lows in the last few minutes.
Biotech and Internet plays that gained yesterday — recovering from their recent losses — have now resumed their losing ways.
The iShares Nasdaq Biotech ETF /quotes/zigman/85342/delayed /quotes/nls/ibb IBB was last down 3.5%, while the First Trust Dow Jones Internet ETF /quotes/zigman/1497276/delayed /quotes/nls/fdn FDN was last down 2.5%.
Nasdaq -1.5%
Dow -0.4%
- 11:06 am
- EBay down after reaching pact with Icahn
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
Shares of EBay Inc. /quotes/zigman/76117/delayed /quotes/nls/ebay EBAY fell 1.7% after it reached an agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn.
EBay agreed to nominate a candidate for the board put forth by Icahn in exchange for the billionaire to drop his campaign to proposal to separate PayPal. But Icahn has indicated that he has not completely given up on the idea.
"I continue to believe that eBay would benefit from the separation of PayPal at some point in the near future and intend to continue to press my case through confidential discussions with the company," he said.
- 11:28 am
- H-P gets a lift from Deutsche
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
Hewlett-Packard is among the strongest S&P 500 performers after analysts at Deutsche Bank initiated coverage of the stock with a buy rating and a price target of $40.
"Given its strong product portfolio, we believe shares should trade more in line with historical averages and in line with peer IBM who has similar growth rates," said Sherri Scribner at Deutsche.
H-P shares rose 2.1% to $33.42 while IBM /quotes/zigman/230066/delayed /quotes/nls/ibm IBM shares are up 1.7% to $198.78.
- 11:37 am
- Thursday's Movers
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
The S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX , the Dow /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA , and the Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP are all down as of midday with Bed Bath & Beyond /quotes/zigman/68991/delayed /quotes/nls/bbby BBBY one of the biggest losers after forecasting a weak outlook.
Check out MarketWatch's Movers & Shakers for a list of stocks making notable moves.
- 11:45 am
- Defensive sectors gaining on broader stock slump
- by Wallace Witkowski
- Add a Comment
Stocks are back on the defense again.
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA , the S&P 500 Index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX , and the Nasdaq Composite Index /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP all down on the day, here's a quick look at the S&P 500 sectors making gains:
Telecom: up 0.8%
Consumer Staples: up 0.4%
Utilities: up 0.3%
While healthcare is generally regarded as a more defensive sector, it's being dragged down by its more volatile biotech component. The healthcare sector is down 1.3%, with the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF /quotes/zigman/85342/delayed /quotes/nls/ibb IBB off 3.4%.
Meanwhile, cyclicals were down:
Tech: down 1.1%
Financials: down 1.1%
Consumer Discretionary: down 1%
- 12:29 pm
- Financial sector earnings expected to underperform S&P 500
- by Wallace Witkowski
- Add a Comment
It's less than a day away from bank earnings from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. /quotes/zigman/272085/delayed /quotes/nls/jpm JPM and Wells Fargo & Co. /quotes/zigman/239557/delayed /quotes/nls/wfc WFC with low expectations from the financial sector in the first quarter.
Over at Thomson Reuters, analysts are looking for financial sector earnings to decline by 2.8% and revenue to fall by 1%.
For the S&P 500 Index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX as a whole, Thomson Reuters sees a weird symmetry and is anticipating a rise in first-quarter earnings of 1% with a 2.8% gain in revenue.
- 12:38 pm
- Ugly for the S&P 500, uglier for the Nasdaq
- by Wallace Witkowski
- Add a Comment
The S&P 500 Index has a tenuous hold on its gains for the year and was up barely 0.1% year to date at last check, but the Nasdaq Composite Index is doing even worse, down more than 2% on the year.
Much of the Nasdaq's /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP woes for the year were summed up in Thursday's performance. The index was down 2.2% in recent activity.
The S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX on the other hand was down 1.2%.
- 1:01 pm
- Stephen Colbert retiring "Colbert" on The Colbert Report
- by Wallace Witkowski
- Add a Comment
Lovers of fake conservative punditry are in mourning Thursday as CBS Corp. /quotes/zigman/393390/delayed /quotes/nls/cbs CBS announced Stephen Colbert will be succeeding David Letterman as the host of The Late Show.
Colbert has satirized conservative pundits on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report since October 2005 as "Stephen Colbert." Comedy Central is owned by Viacom Inc. /quotes/zigman/7563825/delayed /quotes/nls/viab VIAB
Curiously, a Twitter campaign to get The Colbert Report cancelled, #CancelColbert, preceded the announcement by a few weeks, after an allegedly racist joke, which was satirizing Dan Snyder, the owner of the Washington Redskins, and his newly formed Native American outreach organization.
CBS said that Colbert will retire his character from The Colbert Report and be himself on The Late Show.
- 1:20 pm
- Moody's triple-A club just got more exclusive
- by Wallace Witkowski
- Add a Comment
On Thursday, Moody's Investors Service downgraded Automatic Data Processing Inc. /quotes/zigman/68751/delayed /quotes/nls/adp ADP to "Aa1" from "Aaa," leaving the rarified list of triple-A rated companies that much lonelier.
Following the downgrade, the only Aaa companies left on Moody's list are Microsoft Corp. /quotes/zigman/20493/delayed /quotes/nls/msft MSFT , Exxon Mobil Corp. /quotes/zigman/203975/delayed /quotes/nls/xom XOM , and Johnson & Johnson Inc. /quotes/zigman/230812/delayed /quotes/nls/jnj JNJ
Moody's downgraded ADP because of the company's plan to spin off its dealer services business.
- 1:31 pm
- Dow falls 200 points, Nasdaq more than 100
- by Wallace Witkowski
- Add a Comment
Stocks losses deepened Thursday as the Dow Jones industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA broke the 200 point drop barrier, and the Nasdaq Composite Index /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP hit its third triple-digit loss for the year.
At last check, the Dow industrials was down 202 points, or 1.2%, at 16,235.
The Nasdaq was down 115 points, or 2.7%, at 4,069. In 2014, the Nasdaq has only had two other triple-digit loss days: April 4 and February 3.
The S&P 500 Index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX fell 30 points, or 1.6%, to 1,842.
- 1:43 pm
- Worst Nasdaq day in 22 months?
- by Wallace Witkowski
- Add a Comment
For the day, the Nasdaq Composite is on a downward trajectory not seen since in 22 months.
If Nasdaq's 2.7% drop holds through close, it will be its worst day since June 2012 $COMP @factset pic.twitter.com/QrF2qQX8Q2
— Laura Mandaro (@lauramandaro) April 10, 2014
- 2:11 pm
- CH Robinson a rare gainer
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
Of the 100 components in Nasdaq 100, only CH Robinson is trading up. Most S&P 500 laggards are big Nasdaq names. http://t.co/Ic0v0jn9lW $HPQ
— Sue Chang (@SueChangMW) April 10, 2014
- 2:11 pm
- Biotech backers bruised and bloodied
- by Wallace Witkowski
- Add a Comment
Biotech stocks are having their worst day in more than two and a half years Thursday.
Some stocks were down 5% but others were fell as much as 10% without much more explanation that the sector has been riding high for quite a while and is succumbing to gravity.
The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF /quotes/zigman/85342/delayed /quotes/nls/ibb IBB was down 5.2% in recent activity, shaping up for its worst day since August 8, 2011, when the ETF fell 6.2%.
- 2:22 pm
- Tech stocks struggling
- by Kaitlyn Wells
- Add a Comment
The S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX , the Dow /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA , and the Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP are all still down sharply at last check, though they've lifted up slightly from their session lows.
Some tech stocks are really struggling:
Pandora /quotes/zigman/5419837/delayed /quotes/nls/p P shares fall 10% to $26.72
GrubHub /quotes/zigman/30071449/delayed /quotes/nls/grub GRUB drops 9% to $32.26
Yahoo /quotes/zigman/59898/delayed /quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO down more than 4% at $33.42
- 2:30 pm
- Movers & Shakers
- by Kaitlyn Wells
- Add a Comment
On the Nasdaq 100 index, only one company is in the green: C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. /quotes/zigman/98519/delayed /quotes/nls/chrw CHRW at 1.80% at $53.91.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. /quotes/zigman/59581/delayed /quotes/nls/alxn ALXN shares fell 8.6% after a three-day winning streak. While Gilead Sciences Inc. /quotes/zigman/72849/delayed /quotes/nls/gild GILD was down 6.3%. See how others are faring here.
- 2:43 pm
- Bitcoin tumbles below $400
- by Saumya Vaishampayan
- Add a Comment
Bitcoin prices have tumbled below $400 on major exchanges, reflecting concerns about regulation of the virtual currency in China. Prices have been under pressure since China's central bank last month reportedly banned domestic banks from working with exchanges. At least three Chinese bitcoin exchanges received notices from their banks on Thursday, according to CoinDesk.
Greg Schvey, a partner at the bitcoin research firm TradeBlock, commented on the price decline in an email:
"Most likely the Chinese banks halting deposits to bitcoin exchanges. Plenty of rumors / speculation around this recently, but looks like it's now becoming a reality."
- 3:02 pm
- Krosby: Markets are adjusting to life without Fed
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial says markets are adjusting to having to think for themselves as the Fed continues the taper process.
Earnings guidance is crucial for investors as we work our way through the earnings season. The market is trying to find the appropriate equilibrium between valuations, revenue growth and guidance.
- 3:06 pm
- Nasdaq skids
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
Nasdaq Composite is down 3% to 4,050 now.
- 3:11 pm
- S&P 500 to 1600?
- by Kaitlyn Wells
- Add a Comment
Tech stocks took a dive Thursday, and some bearish market watchers say they'll continue to fall. Uri Landesman, president of hedge fund Platinum Partners, told MarketWatch today's slump is only the beginning:
Techs and biotechs really haven't cracked yet. I think it'll happen and people will be surprised how much they can really go down. So if they crack, it could get a lot worse. It wouldn't shock me if July Fourth weekend we wake up to a 1600 S&P.
- 3:17 pm
- Is this what happens after a dead cat bounce?
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
WSJ MoneyBeat's Paul Vigna is reminding us that on Wednesday, the blog's writers were wondering whether the rally-that-came-from-nowhere was the proverbial "dead-cat bounce."
From MoneyBeat: "Much of [Wednesday's] bounce reeked of short-covering with oversold rallies occurring in many of the sectors that had been hard-hit," Mark Newtown, the chief technical analyst at Greywolf Execution Partners, wrote late Wednesday. "Traders should expect that upside might prove limited and pullbacks get back to 1849-50." A move below 1844 (roughly the index's 50-day moving average) would lead to a test of the 1830 level, he said.
That all is making wonderful sense in hindsight, except that the S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX tasted 1,849 and then smashed right through it. The index is down 2.1% at 1,833 with just 45 minutes of trades left.
- 3:33 pm
- VIX Up
- by Kaitlyn Wells
- Add a Comment
Just 30 minutes before the market's close, VIX /quotes/zigman/2766221/realtime VIX — often called the market's fear gauge — is up 17.51% at 16.24.
- 3:35 pm
- Tech still down
- by Kaitlyn Wells
- Add a Comment
Big tech stocks are still down:
Apple Inc. AAPL /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL is still in the red at 1.30%
Google Inc. /quotes/zigman/30194416/delayed /quotes/nls/goog GOOG down 4.25%
- 3:36 pm
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
Craziest part about today's sell off is that the VIX is only at 16….
— Cullen Roche (@cullenroche) April 10, 2014
- 3:41 pm
- Payday lenders are up
- by Kaitlyn Wells
- Add a Comment
Payday lenders, cash advance stores, and pawn shops are looking green:
Cash America International Inc. /quotes/zigman/221568/delayed /quotes/nls/csh CSH up 11.91%
Ezcorp Inc. /quotes/zigman/71753/delayed /quotes/nls/ezpw EZPW rose 4.84%
First Cash Financial Services Inc. /quotes/zigman/64868/delayed /quotes/nls/fcfs FCFS up 1.57%
News of potential Cash America spinoff for an online business seems to be providing the boost.
- 3:57 pm
- Nasdaq's body blow
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
Four minutes to go.. Nasdaq down 2.9%, still its worst since the fall of 2011.
- 3:58 pm
- Surprise - social ETF rammed
- Add a Comment
The Global X Social Media Index ETF /quotes/zigman/7289836/delayed /quotes/nls/socl SOCL is down nearly 4%, falling further below its 200-day moving average.
- 4:01 pm
- Ring-a-ding in the red
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes off 268 points, or 1.6%, at 16,169.
S&P 500 off 39 points, or 2.1%, at 1,833
Nasdaq Composite off 130 points, or 3.1%, at 4,054
- 4:12 pm
- S&P 500 undercuts 50-day, close to 100-day
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
And it's getting close to the 100-day moving average of 1,828. That's a bad sign for trend watchers.
- 4:28 pm
- Russell 2000
- Add a Comment
Russell 2000 ended the day down 2.8% at 1,128, also undercutting its 50-day-moving average — and its 100 day. Some folks on Twitter are talking about it undercutting 1,150.
And more..
$IWC $IJR & $RUT have printed new correction lows.
— Sheldon McIntyre (@hertcapital) April 10, 2014
- 4:51 pm
- So now what?
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
That's a wrap for today.
You can read a summary of the day's action in Anora's Market Snapshot. It all looked so hopeful at 9 a.m. this morning, after that rosy jobless claims report.
Time to panic? MarketWatch's Jon Burton reminds us that anyone can make money in a bull market, but now investors may have to figure out how to outsmart the average bear. Read the full column here.
- 4:51 pm
- Add a Comment


text:
The secret lies in getting the scale right and in grouping furniture. Rather than have large, oversized furniture in the living area to fill up the huge space, this homeowner of a mansion decided to use medium-sized furniture and arrange it in formal and casual groups. In doing this she created cosy, inviting and arresting seating groups.
Accessories - paintings and antiques - have been carefully co-ordinated with each of the furniture groupings and help give a distinct identity to each group. For example, the core grouping in the living area is distinctively oriental in flavour. Elsewhere, African tribal artifacts form a coffee-table grouping adjacent to a tribal wall-hanging. In another group it is a shell collection which forms the focal point.
All trademarks mentioned belong to their owners, third party brands, product names, trade names, corporate names and company names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners or registered trademarks of other companies and are used for purposes of explanation and to the owner's benefit, without implying a violation of copyright law.
Copyright © 2005 - 2019 Sddvy. All sponsored products, company names, brand names, trademarks and logos arethe property of their respective owners.
I try to design rooms around their architecture or to create - architecture where none exists. Eleanor McMillen Brown


text: Good point about swap. I often try an make the distinction that diskless booting (provisioning) does not require diskless nodes. That is, it is perfectly reasonable to use a centralized provisioning method and yet have HDD's on compute nodes -- if you need them. In the case where swap and local scratch space are needed this makes sense. (As long as the disks don't start collecting any cluster state on them) -- Doug > Hi, > > Am 29.09.2008 um 12:27 schrieb Alan Ward: > >> Ram disks, definately. ;-) >> >> Afraid I'm still going with diskless nodes. You save >> >> 1. some money on the disks themselves >> 2. more money on solving disk failures >> > this highly depends on the used applications. Quantum chemistry code > like Gaussian03 or Molcas would run much slower, when all scratch > files would be written to NFS instead of a local disk. We even use > two or three stripped disks in the nodes. > > As the disk is in the node because of our applications anyway, I also > put the OS there. > > -- Reuti > >> >> 3. yet more money on cooling >> >> This may be specially important in a high-density rack situation, >> where if you get the disks out of the way each box can get more >> ventilators up front as well as in the rear. >> >> On the other hand, Windows Vista has had its uses(!), such as >> driving RAM prices down as demand expands ... >> >> Cheers, >> -Alan >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of Jon Forrest >> Sent: Mon 9/29/2008 6:44 AM >> To: Beowulf Mailing List >> Subject: [Beowulf] Compute Node OS on Local Disk vs. Ram Disk >> >> There are two philosophies on where a compute node's >> OS and basic utilities should be located: >> >> 1) On a local harddrive >> >> 2) On a RAM disk >> >> I'd like to start a discussion on the positives >> and negatives of each approach. I'll throw out >> a few. >> >> Both approaches require that a compute node "distribution" >> be maintained on the frontend machine. In both cases >> it's important to remember to make any changes to this >> distribution rather than just using "pdsh" or "tentakel" >> to dynamically modify a compute node. This is so that the >> next time the compute node boots, it gets the uptodate >> distribution. Although the mechanism for maintaining >> the distribution varies in either approach, I consider >> this a push since one mechanism isn't inherently better >> than the other. >> >> Assuming the actual OS image is the same in both cases, >> #2 clearly requires more memory than #1. There are actually >> two approaches to #2 - a) where only the OS and other stuff >> necessary to boot the system are kept in memory and everything >> else is in an NFS-mounted file system, and b) where the whole OS >> installation is kept in memory. Depending on which approach >> is taken, the RAM-based installations can take hundreds of MB >> more than a local harddrive installation. However, on a modern >> multicore compute node this might just be a few percent of the >> total RAM on the node. >> >> Long ago not installing a local harddrive saved a considerable >> about of money but this isn't true anymore. Systems that need >> to page (or swap) will require a harddrive anyway since paging >> over the network isn't fast enough so very few compute nodes >> will be running diskless. >> >> Approach #2 requires much less time when a node is installed, >> and a little less time when a node is booted. >> >> What are some of your favorite issues, positive or negative, with >> each approach? >> >> Cordially, >> -- >> Jon Forrest >> Research Computing Support >> College of Chemistry >> 173 Tan Hall >> University of California Berkeley >> Berkeley, CA >> 94720-1460 >> 510-643-1032 >> jlforrest at berkeley.edu >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Doug


text:
31243, Hymns, In Hymns of Praise, no. 75
1. In hymns of praise your voices raise
To him who reigns on high,
Whose counsels keep the mighty deep,
Who ruleth earth and sky.
Exalt his name in loud acclaim;
His mighty pow'r adore!
And humbly bow before him now,
Our King forevermore.
2. Beneath his hand, at his command,
The shining planets move;
To all below they daily show
His wisdom and his love.
3. The little flow'r that lasts an hour,
The sparrow in its fall,
They, too, shall share his tender care;
He made and loves them all.
4. Then sing again in lofty strain
To him who dwells on high;
To prayers you raise, and songs of praise,
He sweetly will reply.
Text: Ada Blenkhorn
Music: Alfred Beirly
1 Chronicles 16:29
Matthew 10:29-31