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A proposal to test a radical change in the U.S. student loan industry by putting it on the auction block is set to pit Democratic lawmakers against the Bush administration and the banking industry.
As Congress returns this week from its summer recess and gets back to work cleaning up the troubled $85-billion business, one proposal would set up a test requiring lenders to bid competitively for the right to issue loans.
That would dramatically change the current system and some in the industry are attacking the proposal as "unworkable."
"The auction proposals ... create unacceptable levels of uncertainty for lenders and schools alike," said four industry lobbying groups, including the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, in a letter last month to lawmakers.
Another industry coalition said earlier in August that legislation "would impose unworkable, untried auction systems on parent borrowers and schools."
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have passed bills recommending auction pilot programs, as well as other reforms for an industry embarrassed this year by scandals involving kickback schemes and conflicts of interest.
Congressional negotiators are preparing to hammer out a final version of the bill to send to President George W. Bush.
A House bill passed on July 11 calls for a federal study of different auction options, a recommendation on the best option and then a real-world test of it.
A Senate bill passed just days later would mandate the prompt launching of a pilot program to auction off rights to issue federal PLUS loans to students' parents.
The White House said in July it was concerned that the Senate's auction proposal "would reduce choices for students and parents and involve enormous implementation issues that threaten to disrupt services and limit loan availability."
The administration has threatened to veto the House bill, mainly because the White House wants more funding for student grants and less emphasis on lowering student-loan interest rates.
PLUS loans are available through the federally guaranteed student loan program that provides most U.S. students with loans to help meet the soaring cost of a college education.
Under the Senate bill, the U.S. Department of Education would run auctions for a portion of PLUS loans, holding one for each of the 50 states every two years. In each state, two winners would be picked as the lenders willing to do business at the lowest subsidy rate.
At present, lenders taking part in the 42-year-old federally guaranteed student loan program -- such as Sallie Mae (SLM.N), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM.N), Citigroup (C.N), Bank of America (BAC.N) and others -- get government subsidies.
Subsidy levels are set every few years by Congress in a ritualized political fight that critics say hinges on guesswork and lobbying clout and largely ignores market forces.
"Lenders should compete against each other to participate in the federal student loan program," said Sen. Edward Kennedy earlier this summer on the Senate bill.
The bill creates a pilot program in which an auction will be used to see "what subsidies are truly necessary to keep loans available to students. The money we save through this pilot program will be sent back where it is needed most -- to increase financial aid for students," said Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat and Senate education panel chairman.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings in an early August letter to House-Senate negotiators said: "While the (Bush) administration supports taking advantage of market mechanisms, I strongly believe that we must proceed with great caution on entering the student loan auction arena."
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Buffalo rookie Thomas Vanek had something special for his shootout attempt against one of the top goalies in the world.
Utilizing what his coach Lindy Ruff said was an ``around the world'' move, Vanek beat goalie Dominik Hasek to give the Sabres a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Senators in a matchup of the two top teams in the Northeast Division on Saturday night.
Approaching the slot, Vanek moved his stick around the puck while faking a shot, then re-loaded and deposited a wrister into the top right corner.
``He's such a good goalie that you have to do something different to beat him,'' said Vanek, who also beat Hasek in a shootout in preseason. ``There was a little bit of luck, but it still felt good.''
``I don't know if he surprised me,'' Hasek said. ``I went to make a butterfly stop and went down. He shot it top shelf and my glove wasn't there. It was a goal scorer's move.''
Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller then stopped Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson's attempt in the final round to get the win, which pulled the Sabres within four points of the division-leading Senators.
``I tried to get the glove forward on him and not give him any angle,'' said Miller, who has won seven of his last eight starts. ``It's not really a save, it's more taking space away.''
Mike Fisher and Dany Heatley also failed in their shootout bids to beat Miller.
Ottawa had owned Buffalo in its previous three meetings before Saturday, beating them in all three games by a combined score of 21-5. The high-flying game that many expected for their latest matchup didn't materialize, but the intensity level didn't disappoint.
``It was a playoff atmosphere tonight,'' Vanek said. ``Ottawa is a Top 3 team in the NHL. It's a big win for us.
``It was a high-paced game, especially in the first period. Both teams knew the importance of it.''
Ales Kotalik scored in regulation for Buffalo, which won its fifth straight. Miller made 28 saves and extended his personal winning streak to five games.
``He gave our club a lot of confidence,'' Ruff said of Miller.
Bryan Smolinski scored for the Senators, who have lost three of their last four games. Hasek finished with 26 saves, and has dropped two of his last three starts.
Hasek was making his second start in Buffalo after spending nine seasons with the Sabres beginning in 1992. In his first start while playing for Detroit in March 2002, he was pulled after allowing four goals in two periods.
Ottawa is now 8-7-1 since the beginning of the calendar year.
``We've been struggling since Christmas,'' Hasek said. ``We played a good game, but unfortunately it wasn't enough for us to win it.''
Kotalik opened the scoring with his team-leading 21st goal at 12:11 of the first period while the teams were playing 4-on-4. Setting up at the top of the left circle, Kotalik one-timed Jochen Hecht's cross-ice pass to beat Hasek.
Smolinski tied it at 1 with just over 15 minutes left in the second. Peter Schaefer outmuscled two Buffalo defenders behind the net, while Miller started moving to the left post. Schaefer was able to slid the puck to the opposite side, where Smolinski stuffed it into the open net.
Ottawa is now 2-1-1 when tied after two periods of play, while Buffalo improved to 8-2-1.
``It was a tight game,'' said Heatley. ``It's just tough to lose in a shootout.''
Notes: The two teams will play four more times over a 22-day span starting on March 18 when they meet in Ottawa. ... Senators D Brian Pothier returned to the lineup after missing the last two games with food poisoning. ... Kotalik tied his career high of 21 goals originally set in 2002-03. ... Ottawa was playing its fourth game in the last six days. ... Senators enforcer Brian McGrattan immediately left the ice and didn't return following a first period fight with Buffalo forward Andrew Peters. Senators officials said McGrattan's right eye had swelled up.

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Council encouraging community to help reduce litter
Community life - 17 April 2018
Kempsey Shire Council has been working with the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) on a number of waste education programs to reduce the amount of litter across the Macleay Valley.
One of Council's latest programs focused on targeting litter on roadsides and verges, particularly in the areas of south and west Kempsey where litter levels were particularly high.
Council used an EPA grant to install signage, public bins and conduct community clean-up events to engage locals on the problems caused by littering. Professional litter clean-ups were also undertaken.
The Kempsey Family Community Centre was engaged to assist with promotion of the events and community engagement while NSW Health's Regional Aboriginal Environmental Health Project Officer assisted with audits.
The results were impressive with an 82 per cent reduction in litter volume and a 67 per cent reduction in littered items in hotspot areas. There was also a 127 per cent increase in community registrations to the Report to EPA system and a 47 per cent increase in litter reportings. Council also doubled the number of partner organisations collaborating on litter prevention during the campaign.
Council's Waste Education Officer, Gavin Hughes, said while the results were positive, there is still more work to do.
"The results show that the community can really get on board with reducing litter, so we are calling on all locals who care to register to report littering from vehicles to reduce littering everywhere," Mr Hughes said.
"By having more residents report 'Tossers' it sends a strong message that littering is no longer tolerated in our community and if you litter you will get caught."
Since February 2015, more than 28,000 people across NSW registered with 'Report to EPA' to report Tossers littering from vehicles. Over 38,000 reports of littering from vehicles were made, demonstrating that many members of the community care about keeping our environment clean and safe for everyone to enjoy.
To find out more, visit: www.epa.nsw.gov.au/dontbeatosser
To help locals collect litter, Midwaste's free Picitup kits are still available at Council's customer service centre.


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It is Pet Professional Guild's (PPG) view that electric shock in the guise of training constitutes a form of abuse towards pets, and, given that there are highly effective, positive training alternatives, should no longer be a part of the current pet industry culture of accepted practices, tools or philosophies. In this position statement, PPG will combine decades of research with the opinions of certified animal behaviorists, and highlight the question of ethics to explain why using electric shock in the name of training and care is both ineffective and harmful.
An Open Letter to Pet Industry Representatives Regarding the Use of Shock in Animal Training
Shocking pet dogs remains a common, if controversial, training practice worldwide. In this open letter, Pet Professional Guild (PPG) combines decades of research, the opinions of certified animal behaviorists, and the question of ethics to explain why using electric shock in the name of training and care is both ineffective and harmful. PPG concludes that shocking constitutes a form of abuse towards pets, and, given that there are highly effective, positive training alternatives, should no longer be a part of the current pet industry culture of accepted practices, tools or philosophies.
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SPEEDY Solihull kart racer Craig Johnson wrapped up the Rissington Kart Club Junior TKM Championships at the last meeting of the year.
After a hectic season, it went down to the wire with two other drivers within 30 points for the last meeting.
Craig, aged 16, said: "I knew it would be tight, I just had to get my head down and go for it and let the other drivers sort themselves out and I did it by six points.
"I have had a fantastic year starting off with winning the Nigel Mansell award and having experienced racing in the Super One Series competing against some of the best drivers in the country.
"In December, I raced in the Dan Wheldon memorial kart race at Daytona Karting in Milton Keynes, racing with the likes of Jenson Button, Dario Franchitti and other superstar drivers.
"Dan, who died in an Indy car crash in America, was the reason I started kart racing so to be in that race was an honour as he was my racing hero."
Proud dad Rob Johnson said: "He has really enjoyed his karting. We always said to him, 'do well in school and you can go karting', and he did."
In fact Craig has done so well he's started a motorsport engineering course at Solihull College.
"I hope to carry on racing next year," he said.
"Thanks to Tal-Ko, BRT, and Mom and Dad for all their help."
The trophy that Craig is seen here collecting was once won by local touring car ace Mat Jackson in 1995 the year Craig was born.
For more on Craig, visit www.crracing.co.uk


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Band to perform at Polish festival in July
Kasabian have been announced as the first headliners for Open'er Festival 2015.
The festival, now in its 12th year, takes place between July 1-4, at Gdynia's Babie Doly Military Airport. In the past, it has seen performances from Pearl Jam, Faith No More, Jack White, Blur, and Arctic Monkeys, among others.
The festival applauded Kasabian's achievement of "hugely successful album after hugely successful album" and called them "one of the biggest rock bands in the UK".
St Vincent, Alt-J, and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood were also announced as part of the Open'er Festival 2015 line-up last week. This Summer, Black Keys said Open'er had "ten times the energy" of Glastonbury after headlining the Polish event, a sentiment echoed by Alana Haim, who told the Open'er crowd: "We've been on tour for two years and this is the craziest crowd I've ever seen."
Early Bird Tickets are available from the Open'er Festival website until January 15, with a four-day ticket with camping costing £99.
Earlier this month, Kasabian revealed that the next step for the band is to play Wembley and Murrayfield. Speaking to NME, Kasabian guitarist Serge Pizzorno said the band weren't interested in stadium gigs because "In a stadium, half the people aren't really in the mix because they're sitting down. He later added: "I was talking shit earlier – we are ready for Wembley. In fact, that's the next step: Wembley and Murrayfield, and then beyond. It's stadium time. It has to be."
Kasabian are nominated in eight categories at the NME Awards 2015 with Austin, Texas, including Best Band, Best Live Band and Best Album. Visit our awards page to cast your vote on who you want to win. You can also buy tickets for the awards ceremony which takes place at London's O2 Academy Brixton on 18 February.


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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A Blustery Day
I was watching the weather and decided to ignore the advice on "stay in side wind gusts will be between 70 -100 mph" I thought that it would be fun to go to the mall instead. I loaded up all four kids and headed to the mall for story time at the library. I promptly at 11:30 only to find out that story time was at 11! So we checked out books and did some shopping. When it was time to leave I packed up the kids only to find that Natalie had exploded all over her clothes and therefore got a new outfit at Old Navy. Once again got the kids ready to go, opened the door to the outside and experienced several gusts of wind. The first took Natalies blanket and landed it in a muddy puddle. The next took the clothes that I had in the back of the car that I am donating to good will. I chased them down and also recovered a helmet that had escaped. I quickly loaded the kids in the car and then chased down my new double stroller that had run away. I then spent the next five minutes trying to figure out how to fold the stroller up but the wind was so strong and my hands so frozen I just couldn't do it. And this is why I drove all the way home with my double stroller jammed in the back of my car unfolded. Next time I think I will stay in.
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- Lexi said...
This is a totally funny story. i am sure your patience were tried, but I thought it was really funny, and so like something I would do lol
- January 20, 2009 at 8:18 AM
- Cami said...
hey, how long are you in alaska for?
p.s. say hi to ashley for me
- January 20, 2009 at 6:28 PM
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Saturday, 3. June. A nice saturday
It has been a good day. We began to prepare for the exchange of staff next week. We put up another tent since the camp will host 10 people from next week on. Sverrir, Steffen and Lars will stay for the whole period. The drilling and analysis went fine today. We appreciate our cooling system for the drill tent. Cold air is blown into the tent through a channel in the snow, and the temperature and the tent can be kept at -6C.
We had a nice Saturday evening with Lars cooking mushroom soup, lamb, spinach with feta and stewed blackberries.
In the afternoon the Kansas people had an accident which got a lot of attention in camp. While driving with the radar they hit one of the poles that Lars had put up 2 weeks ago. Lars has put up 8 poles on 36 km2, which is 1 pole pr 4.5 mill. m2, so the chance of hitting a pole should be extremely small (although they are measuring on a network based on Lars' poles).
During the first 20 days on Flade Isblink we have had 11.5 days with nice weather and 8.5 days with blizzard. Quite changeable!
On nice days like today everybody opens the tents doors in order to dry everything. The sun is shining and it is beautiful. Everybody is working outdoors and enjoying it. Hard to imagine the blizzards when it is hard to see what is up and down, although we know for certain theiy exist.


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It is impossible to imagine a more purely beautiful voice than that of Victoria de los Ángeles at the height of her career in the 1950s and early 1960s.Elizabeth Forbes
Born in Barcelona, coloratura lyric soprano Victoria de los Ángeles López García (1923-2005) was the daughter of the conservatory caretaker, and surrounded by music from her earliest days. Exceptionally talented, she graduated from the Barcelona Conservatory in three years instead of the usual six. She loved French, German Lieder and especially Spanish and Catalan art songs as much the opera repertoire.
In 1944, she made her public début in a song recital at the Palau de la Música Catalana; three years later, she won first prize at an international singing competition in Geneva, and was immediately invited to audition at La Scala in Milan: only she declined, saying her parents expected her back at home. But in the single season of 1950-1951 she would do something no other singer had done, making her débuts at Covent Garden as Mimi, at La Scala in the title-role of Ariadne auf Naxos, and at New York's Metropolitan Opera, New York, as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust.
'There are different kinds of lustre to a voice, and hers was not so much a bright shaft of light as an encompassing radiance,' wrote John Steane in Gramophone. Unlike her fellow Barcelonan, Montserrat Caballé, the high notes were never De los Ángeles's forte; instead her voice, while it had a wide range (on one notably evening she sang both the roles of Nedda in I Pagliacci and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, had a rich, dark sweetness, warmth and convincing tenderness that suited opera's romantic roles such as Madame Butterfly and Mimi in La Bohème
To many of her fans' surprise, she retired from opera relatively early to concentrate on recitals, where she played herself. She had a gift, however, for breaking down all the formality of the concert hall, and introduced many audiences to Spanish and Catalan songs, which some critics say she sang best of all.
One of her last public performances was at the closing ceremony of the 1992 summer Olympics, at age 68, when she sand the Catalan song popularized by cellist Pau Casals, El cant dels ocells as the Olympic torch slowly went out.
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mohammed-- peace be upon him. there was also somebody who wanted to burn the koran and this is something we do not accept at all. so the demonstrations were an expression of a high level of anger and a rejection of what is happening and the u.s. embassy represents the symbol of america as a people and government so people, the demonstrators, had a loud voice and as a government, it's our responsibility as the government of egypt we protected the embassy. we do not condone any attack against any embassies or any guests. this is a part of our principles and culture and what our religion orders us to do. >> rose: so the united states government and egyptian government are friends, not
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enemies? >> ( translated ): we are not enemies, of course. >> rose: you're our friends? >> ( translated ): for sure we are friends. >> rose: allies? >> the u.s. president said otherwise. >> rose: i know he did. but i'm asking the egyptian president. do you consider the united states an ally? >> ( translated ): this is depending on the definition of an ally. we have a real partnership in the interest and we want to achieve the interest of the world and to participate in many issues-- diplomatic, political, economical-- exchange of expertise in several areas. so the understanding of an ally as a part of a military alliance
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>> tonight a special edition of charlie rose. >> rose: mohamed morsi won an historic election this june to become the fifth president of egypt. he is the first civilian to hold this title. two years ago it would have been difficult to imagine a member of the muslim brotherhood leading the country. the history of the party has been defined by suppression but the arab spring transformed the
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political scene as protesters drove lmes out of power. the president inherits a tough breathe. morsi has had to deal with a military guard. he must gain the trust of minorities and work to overcome sectarianism and has also come to power in a time of increasing regional instability. in syria, the conflict between the government and free syrian army is settling into a long and bloody war. the middle east peace process in which egypt played a leading role has stalled as rhetoric heats up over iran's nuclear program, israel is increasingly isolated and most recently anti-american protests have sprung up in cairo and across the arab world, perhaps making a new arab cool relations with the west. mohamed morsi's days as a political prisoner of the mubarak regime are over but many challenges lie ahead. i spoke with him at his hotel during his visit to the united nations general assembly. here's that conversation. mr. president, thank you very much for taking time out of a very busy schedule, having just arrived in new york and welcome
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back to america. >> ( translated ): thank you very much. >> rose: what do you hope to accomplish here? >> ( translated ): first of all, i'd like to salute the viewers through this program in order to thank you for this interview and this opportunity and i'm not new or a stranger to the united states and the united states society. i lived when i was a young student between 1978 and '85 in the united states. these were student days and these were good days and my family was with me. i want the relationship between the two peoples of the united states and egypt to reach the highest levels of communication and love and respect. respect, mutual respect.
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this is a message that i want to be clear, very clear, for the egyptian people and they know that and they love this and for the american people. i hope that this visit is the beginning of a relationship of mutual respect and the relationship of not intervening in the affairs of the other party as well. >> rose: when you were a student at southern cal-- (laughs) -- did you ever imagine in a moment that you might become president of egypt? >> i was busy, very busy at the time studying ad i was very much interested in political affairs and the situation in egypt and i always thought about the egyptian people and how i
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could benefit my nation and my country and i wanted to go back to my country as quickly as possible. the political work is an essential part of my life since i was young. i was-- i do not think at that time that i was going to be president of egypt. >> rose: what did you think you would be? >> i mean, my main job was the education in your city and research, scientific research. scientific expertise and worrying about the nation of egypt and the people of egypt and the education of the people of egypt and the changes i wanted to see that i wanted to see happen and a real, real development. that's what i was working for sr. through the brotherhood or outside the brotherhood. and also the political work. >> rose: it's a good time to ha you help us understand what
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egypt has experienced. what you want us to know first about the arab spring and second about the muslim brotherhood and your governments. let me start with the arab spring. >> ( translated ): in reality the egyptian people are good people and reasonable people and very aware and they have an old and ancient history and i represented them with this march of democracy to achieve the general and the public freedom and the arab spring aims at reaching that goal so that people become free and the peoples are free and there are very real democratic process and there are-- there is a relationship with the rest of the world on the basis of peace and stability and the mutual
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benefits and the mutual respect between other peoples and the countri and the governments that represent these people. the arab spring expresses a real soul in the arabic nations, starting from tunisia, libya, egypt and now syria. and syria will reach a stability very soon with the will of the syrian people, god willing. >> rose: let me talk about syria then i'll come back to egypt. what's necessary to stop the killing in syria? >> ( translated ): the international community needs to cooperate in order to achieve this goal and in order to achieve a real goal by the people of the free will to support the people of syria in their march towards freedom because the killing and the bloodshed, these are crimes that are being committed right now and the world is watching it and we see this and this is
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something that keeps us away from sleep. we need cooperation between us. we have a quartet between egypt and iran, saudi arabia and turkey and with the help of the united nations and the countries of the free world i believe that we are getting close to a solution very soon. god willing. >> rose: what would that quartet do? egypt, iran, saudi arabia, turkey. >> ( translated ): well, you're talking about the countries that have influenced on the conflict right now in syria. the countries that i mentioned, egypt doesn't have any interest except for the interest of the people of syria to reach democracy and freedom. iran, however, is an influencing factor in syria and turkey as
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well and these countries. this country has different and separate roles and i tried through the egyptian initiative through the influential actors together based on the fact that saudi arabia represents the people-- the countries of the globe and they have a direct relationship with the-- so that it can become a nek lees you to an iternational and arab work in order to achieve a solution to this problem. >> rose: president assad has to go? >> ( translated ): i reiterate what i said before. there's no room for president assad to do anything but leave. there's nothing-- no room for what they call a political
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reform-- that change is what they need. what the people of syria wanted. and the-- the people of-- the will of the people of syria need to be respected. >> rose: if you cannot achieve that by negotiation, is force necessary to support the rebellion against the assad government? >> ( translated ): i'm against the foreign intervention by force in what happens in syria. i do not condone this and i think that it's a big mistake if it happens and i don't want to see this happen and i do not agree to this. egypt does not agree to this. however suppose what's most likely to happen is that this quartet with the cooperation of the international community and the great powers of the world
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they will solve the problem. >> rose: but most people believe that the other members of the quartet-- the turks and the saudis-- are supporting the free syrian army and the iranians are supporting the assad government. they're already sending weapons in. trate trait this is the reason why i chose these countries, because we cannot solve the problems away from those who intervene and the problem. those who intervene and who-- the stakeholders who are the ones who are willing to sit down together to solve the problem. >> rose: how would the process go? what would be the first step and second step to have an effective quartet achieve the results you would like to see? >> if we agree on the main principle which is to empower the people of syria become free to choose their leadership and
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have a democracy, if we agree on the principle, the working mechanisms will not be difficult but that will be possible. >> rose: the saudis have agreed? the iranians have agreed? and turkey has agreed? >> ( translated ): they agreed to meet. >> rose: when will the meeting take place? >> two meetings took place right now between the ministers of foreign affairs and their deputy ministers and we are seeking to hold a conference at the level of the head of state in the future. >> rose: will you demand a cease-fire? >> ( translated ): i would like to achieve and realize the will of the syrian people and to stop the bloodshed. the bloodshed leads to the killing of syrians from both
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sides. but who is the root cause of this problem? that's the dictatorship and the lack of democracy and the lack of public freedom. that's the main-- the directed cause for the revolution, the regime should have thought-- should have realized that the military solution would not stop the revolution, the bloodshed that took place and is taking this right now and tens of thousands of people are being killed right now and the number may be even higher until we stop this bloodshed. so the main goal right now is to stop this bloodshed. >> rose: and do those people who are supporting president assad, do they have a role? should they be included in the process? his own base of support? >> ( translated ): this is something that i would like to postpone to-- until after the bloodshed is stopped and then we
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talk about the change as a principle when the wise people in the world-- be it the quartet or the stakeholders in the area-- they have to realize that their relationship with syria in the future is going to be based on the syrian pele in the first place. this is the meaning of freedom. >> rose: many people who want to see president assad go leave the country, worry about what comes next. do you worry about what comes next? because many forces have come into syria after the conflict started. >> rose: what happens after that is not easy but it's not impossible. we would like to provide the environment for the people of syria so their representative cans sit down together and we can help them to bring back
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their souls and their lives, normal lives, real lives and how the people can become able to choose the leadership and this is going to take some effort and some time. if we have good will and good intentions and we agree on the principles and the regime agrees to the will of the international community. when they meet this is not going to be impossible after that. >> rose: back to egypt many people have wondered what it would be like when you see a government in which the muslim brotherhood had won politically. what it would be like to have islamist governments in power in egypt. what should they expect? >> people in egypt made their choice, chose their way: freedom real democratic change, the
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stable political construction of the-- a country. the independence of the executive and legal branch and administrative branch. we are now working together on the constitution that will be presented to the people in the reference dumb if the people approve the constitution, the parliamentary elections will be held and the economic martial will be going to n parallel to this based on stability and a will of the people to build themselves, the people have decided and they are the ones who are going to be choosing their representatives as they chose the first parliament and they chose the egyptian president on the basis of awareness and will. after this great revolution in which all the egyptians took place, there is no household in
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egypt that did not have one of the members of the household at least who participated in the revolution. so the will of the egyptian people is clear and the path to stability is something that we all can see and we are adamant and keen on achieving stability for the people of egypt. >> rose: some say that the revolution was not started by the muslim brotherhood it was started, in fact, by an outpouring of people who were not almost political and their expression was for dignity and justice and respect. >> ( translated ): that's not true because the muslim brotherhood participated in the revolution in a very effective way. they were not the only ones but they were there since the
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beginning different levels. on the 25th of-- on the 28th, friday the 28th at the greater level and before that they have presented a lot of political worth and the regime has inflicted injustice on them for tens of years and this movement is going to be the natural movement and the real movement so that people can feel is there is injustice and there were possibility of elections in 2010 and before that. and the qualification we can see that only if there's an opposition to the regime, those who participated in the elections in 2010 were the muslim brotherhood the muslim brotherhood cannot say we did this alone. and they cannot say they were in the revolution since the beginning and right now i keep
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saying that as egyptians i am the president for all egyptians with all factions and with all kinds of parties and... >> rose: and all religions. >> ( translated ): they all have different-- and all religions. >> rose: because, as as you know, there's been conflict with respect to coptic christians. does that concern you? >> i don't see that there's a conflict between the egyptians based on faith, egyptians, muslims and non-muslims and specifically christians lived for thousands of years, hundreds of years together without any problems. there are differences between people in the society between muslims and other muslims and sometimes also between christians and other christians and sometimes christians and muslims and there are incidents
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over several tens of years. it's not something that points to a real conflict between muslims and christians in egypt. there are some incidents that were prepared or aimed at disrupting the country because the regime wants it to separate the people geographically in upper egypt in the north, in the south, in the west between christians and muslims, men and women. there is no main difference or conflict between the muslims and christians in egypt. all egyptians are equal in front of the law. and this is the-- what is happening right now or what i believe a personal responsibility for me as the president of egypt. >> rose: now, the prime minister of turkey came to cairo and made a speech and he talked about the
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significance of having a non-sectarian government. would you agree with him? >> ( translated ): we're talking about in egypt as the egyptian state, the national state democratic and constitutional and legal government. the principle or the understanding of the islamic nation is civil government it's not a theocratic government and it's not a secular government which means that the religion
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but people get confused, the principle of the middle age government or the understanding of the-- the islamic state. the islamic state is the civil state or government, people are confused in the principles but what we agreed to before the elections and after that all of the political parties agreed that this is a civil democratic and national constitutional modern government. the independence of the powers, the passing of authoritys is guaranteed, freedoms are guaranteed, the mechanisms to guarantee the democratic choices we all agreed on this and this is what we applied in the parliamentary elections and the last elections. >> rose: where does sharia law fit into all this?
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>> ( translated ): since 1923 the constitution of egypt which was made by egyptians, muslims and christians in the parliament the constitution committee in 1923, some of them were christians and they stated that the sharia is one of the principle sources of legal issues in egypt and even in the temporary constitution this is an article, this is-- this item is still there and the church approved this and everybody approved it because it possess
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it had necessary guarantees based on universal principles that are a part of the islamic sharia. and the details are in the laws. >> rose: there's a new constitution coming, though. >> of course. >> rose: you have said in an interview with the "new york times" in your other appearance with the media that the united states needed to change its approach to the arab world, showing greater respect for the values of the arab world and also show more interest in building a palestinian state. on the first, showing more respect for the values of the arab world means what? >> ( translated ): different peoe have different cultures. and the right to believe and the freedom of faith that have is
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something that needs to be respected for all human beings so the culture and the language and the belief are basic components over people who are living under one country when countries are built on these principles with these two-- all these countries, everybody must respect the specificities of the others. i stress-- i look at the american people and i say that there are some actions that took place in the past where there was a bias against the arabs and the muslims. it happened several times in the united nations by u.s.-- past u.s. administrations. now i see that there is a direction to-- by u.s.
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administrations to support the egyptian revolution and the revolution of the arab spring. there's an opportunity for the american people and egyptian people and other people to reflect on their-- how they see each other and they respect one another and they respect each other's religion and faith with multirespect. that's what i'm stressing. >> rose: you said that it's up to the united states to repair the relations with the arab world and revitalize the alliance with your words, i think, egypt, which is a cornerstone of the region. how do they repair the relations and what's the responsibility of the united states? >> ( translated ): it happened in the past decades, about four
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decades there's some kind of misunderstanding of several positions and, as i said, egyptians, egyptian p.m.c. the-- the blood of the palestinians being shed and they see that the u.s. administrations were biased against the interest of the palestinians so sort of hate and sort of worry arise out of that in egyptian-- and the area and-- however, as i said, this is an opportunity with the new directions of the u.s. administration, this is the opportunity to take these worries or this hate out of the way and to build a new relationship based on respect, communication and mutual respect. this is an opportunity so that egyptians can really see that
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there is a real support for their revolution, for their principles and for their choice by the american people and by the u.s. admistration. this is areat opportunity for all of us to live together on the bases of international justice and international democracy, not just local democracy and freedom and local freedom. we want freedom for everybody. we sent a message of peace to everyone, but it has to be just as well. >> rose: we have seen in terms of the u.s./egyptian relationship protests at american embassies around the arab world and in cairo. some americans felt that you were slow to respond. were you slow to respond? >> not at all. what happened in cairo was not
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something that was directed, aimed at the u.s. embassy as an attack, however the u.s. embassy represents a symbol for the egyptians to express their-- they did not accept what happened from some of the citizens of the united states who offended the pro photomohammed-- peace be upon him. it was also somebody who wanted to burn the koran and this is something we do not accept at all. the demonstrations were of a high level of anger and egyptian of what is happening. and the u.s. embassy represents the symbol of america of peop and government. so people, the demonstrators had a loud voice and as a government
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it's a responsibility as the government of egyptian we protected the embassy. we do not condone any attack against any embassies or any guest. this is a part of our principles in our culture and what our religion orders us to do. it keeps the safety of the guests for-- and the property-- same kind of property of egyptians and not egyptians. this is true and this is what's taking place and what took place. >> rose: so american embassies will be secure during protests-- not fro from protests but from violence. >> ( translated ): that is true, yes. from things that are taking place. egypt is a greatountry and a
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big country and has a great capability and is capable of safeguarding their guests and the organizations and establishments that come to egypt. egypt as a government and as an institution, as a group of institutions are capable of protecting those. >> rose: it's said that there was a heated, heated phone conversation between the president of egypt and the president of the united states. was there? >> ( translated ): it was warm, it was not hot. >> rose: okay. (laughs) what's the difference between warm and hot? >> it's the same difference between a friendship and being an enemy. >> rose: so the united states government and the egyptian government are friends, not enemies?
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>> rose: we are not enemies, of course. >> rose: but you're our friends. >> for sure. we're friends. >> rose: allies? >> ( translated ): the u.s. president said otherwise. >> rose: i know he did. but i'm asking the egyptian president. do you consider the united states an ally? >> this is dependent on the definition of an ally. we have a real partnership in interest and we want to achieve the interest of the world who participate in many issues, diplomatic, political, economical exchange of expertise and several areas the understanding of an ally as a part of the a military alliance
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that is not existing right now. but if you mean by ally, partner and special relationship and cooperation, we are that ally. >> rose: because egypt has a unique role--. >> ( translated ): i do not say that we are allies. >> rose: you said friends. >> ( translated ): i said friends and there are special a special diplomatic relationship and communication and political and commercial and scientific areas and an exchange of interests. we are-- there is strategic partnership between the two countries. >> rose: was american aid an
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issue in those conversations? >> ( translated ): no, that was not such at all. this thing was not mentioned. >> rose: so there was no cut off of american aid. >> there was no threat of any kind. >> rose: one of the things you have done is to change the army and its place and role in terms of two of the principal military figures in egypt who were there and central to a very difficult time in which the army did not oppose the events that were taking place. did you always intend to do that from the day that you were present? >> ( translated ): the egyptian armed forces are part of the egyptian people. the egyptian people love the armed forces and the armed
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forces had a great deal role to protect and guard the egyptian revolution and did not shed the blood of egyptians, they protected the egyptians,. if the entire world saw this and the armed forces did that and carried the elections free and transparent elections. the egyptian people love the armed forces and the armed forces-- and they stated during the transitional period that after it will civilian president is elected they will come back with all their force and they will go back to their bases to achieve their main role and concentrate on their role is which is to guard the supporters of the country. this is what the armed forces
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said several times what i is application, implementation of the will of the people of egypt and a decision of the leaders of as the armed forces during the transitional period the of more than 18 months. the armed forces promise that the transition period ends on 30 june, 2012 after the presidential election so it was normal that the decisions that were issued on the 12th of august were issued so that we can move into these t stable state and civil state and the armed forces are part of the civil state. >> rose: mubarak, president of tunisia, is qaddafi in libya, there are other monarchs in the
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arab world: saudi arabia, jordan royal family controls saudi arabia, there's a constitutional monarchy in jordan. are they going to be changed by the arab spring? will they lose their power as other authoritarian regimes have lost their power? >> ( translated ): the people that revolted against their leaders, against dictatorship were looking for freedom. the egyptians declared-- one of the children of egypt declared will will not intervene in the matters of other countries. we do not expert the revolution and will not intervene in other countries affairs. we support the people who want to achieve and reach their freedom as we are doing right now with the people of syria. however we do not intervene at
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all within the internal affairs of anyone and we do not want anyone to intervene. we want to keep our freedoms and we want the others to safeguard their own freedoms. >> rose: but would the natural expression of the arab spring by definition bring reform and change in bahrain? in saudi arabia? there n jordan? -- in jordan? >> ( translated ): i'd like to stress upon this fact once again this is something that is a matter of those people and those countries when i talk about the arab spring i'm talking about what happened, not what we can expect to happen in the future. the syrian people are fighting right now and in tunisia and libya it happens as well and it happens in yemen as well. so what i'm talking about, strongly, is what happened in
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egypt with the will of egyptians and what i love for other countries is that they achieve freedom and that they move towards the achievement of their own interests. so whoever accepts their leaders that's something that's a matter that comes back to them and if they don't want them, that's their preference. >> rose: there's a treaty between egypt and israel. what will happen to it? >> ( translated ): the treaty is there and stage. it's a founding state, a founding member of the united nations and we will continue even if we disagree with the rulers of egypt we respect- we always said it would respect the international agreements and including the peace agreement.
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>> rose: the relationship with iran, do you believe iran has an intent to have nuclear weapons? >> ( translated ): the entire world is watching this. i'm not the only one. i cannot judge people by their intentions. >> rose: so what should the world do? hat shouldhe world do? >> ( translated ): not many countries in the world have a nuclear weapon and there are treaties, many treaties that prevent the owning-- owning w.m.d. and owning nuclear weapons, spreading nuclear weapons and there are treaties special to the middle east and everybody signed it and respect it in the middle east except for israel. >> rose: israel is not a
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signatory to the non-proliferation treaty. if iran had a nuclear capacity, the argument goes that a number of other countries in the region-- saudi arabia and others-- would immediately want to acquire nuclear weapons. do you believe this kind of proliferation would be a consequence? f iran gets nuclear weapons? >> ( translated ): i'm with the rights of people to use nuclear power for peaceful matters and i will do my best strongly so that egypt can have the capability to use nuclear power for peaceful means. however, nuclear weapons-- everybody knows, the world knows who has the nuclear power, the nuclear weapons and who used it
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before and who respects the treaties and who does not respect the treaties. i do not want a question to be posed or to pose a hypothetical question. >> rose: i don't understand whether or not you think iran wants nuclear weapons? do you believe they want the capacity to make nuclear weapons >> ( translated ): i don't have enough information about that. >> rose: do you support what the i.a.e.a. is doing? >> ( translated ): we have been doing that for years. >> rose: and you're supportive of that. when you look to egypt's role in the world, a new government of an old and great country fresh
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with the energy of a new time what role does it play in the region, in the world because many have always said because of the size of the army, the value of the culture, egypt has always been central. so what do you want to do with egypt's role? historic role? >> rose: what you said right now are all factors that suppress upon the fact that egypt the going to grow very fast to develop very fast and to-- it will become a country capable top compete with honor in the world and i look forward to a more stable future and a more
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effective future with international relationship with-- a special relationship with all the people, with all of the countries of the world. >> rose: what is it you exactly believe about the attack on american on september 11, 2001? >> ( translated ): i'm against this attack and i'm against the killing of innocent civilians and at that time i was a member of the muslim brotherhood we were the first institution in the world that issued a statement on the 12, the morning of the 12, september condemning this attack and the killing of innocent people. in the koran we're a verse that says if somebody kills an innocent life it is as if they killed the entire people of the world. we are against there and we do not cept this at all. the investigation-- this is the responsibility of the u.s.
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government and the u.s. officials. >> rose: so you believe it was carried out by those people were on a mission for al qaeda without any help anywhere else? >> ( translated ): in my life since then until now i condemn this act and i'm standing on the side of families and their children of those people who were killed in this tragic incident and i'm standing against those who committed these acts however i do not see any tribunal that was held in a clear way to decide for sure who did this and who helped who. i think that the u.s. government and its stable embrace and
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stable administration and government has a great capability. it can define somebody-- the responsibility lies with somebody that or the other-- to specify-- we saw after a few days-- after a few attacks. the decision was made to carry out a war against another country. and there was no tribunal that would help at that point and there was no clarification as to who did that in the mind of the world. i am not with those who did this. i'm against those who did this and i'm with the victims and i'm against the bloodshed of the innocent civilians this is clear since the beginning and i
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reiterate this. >> rose: but do you believe as osama bin laden took credit for that it was an operation carried out by al qaeda? >> ( translated ): we all heard in this in the media. this is something that become known to everybody that these groups climbed responsibility for these attacks and we condemned this and condemned what they did a and we condemned their declaration and this is something that cannot be accepted by anybody that anybody civilians are killed. we are against this. >> rose: okay, i hear your concern. >> rose: however i would like to clarify to you that what happened-- the aggressions that took place in iraq for those--
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was not a justification in a clear way-- there was no justification by the u.s. government at that time. and this is what created confusion as far as this position. however the attacks themselves we continue to condemn them. >> rose: as well you should-- as well as you have. i'm aware of that. do you believe the united states-- the principle concern in the arab world about the united states comes from the absence of a palestinian/israeli peace, the afghanistan and the iraqi war and what else? what else is it that the united states has done that you believe must be rectified or put behind the united states in order to
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have the growing productive intelligent relationship with an arab world that's changing. >> ( translated ): and as an egyptian there no animosity between us and the people of america this understanding does not exist. however the sensitivity and the worry that the egyptian people the middle east is because of some positions on past u.s. governments in matters that you mentioned with regard to the palestinians with what happened in iraq and in afghanistan. these matter in addition to that the bias of the u.s. administration against the will of the people in so many
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positions by supporting and looking the other way with regard to what these regimes are doing again they're supporting corruption, forging elections. people have seen that and they became insensitive to the point where it reached hatred hatred and the people do not distinguish between governments and people. this is where i reiterate that the position of the u.s. administration represents the will of the-- of the american people. this is a position that supports the arab spring so this this relationship can become warm and not hot. >> rose: is there a conflict between islam between sunni and
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shi'a that-- that's rell stroont this conversation? >> ( translated ): pleuralty of schools of thoughts and islam is something that always existed in history and is the contradictions or differences are not really differences in beliefs, but differences in understanding and implementation so these mattersan be resolved and they do not lead to wars. >> rose: mr. president, thank you so much. it's a pleasure to have you and to see you again in the united states and look forward to the speech that you make to the united nations and look forward to visiting egypt again. thank you. >> ( translated ): and i thank you very much and i would like
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to take this opportunity to salute all of those who are listening to me in the united states or in the rest of the world, the entire world, and the people of egypt. my family as i am right now in the united nations to present the egyptian point of view as to what's happening in the world and i hope for peace and stability for the entire world. >> rose: thank you very much. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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FRANKFURT, May 16 (Reuters) - The German state has offloaded most of its stake in Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, 10 years after the bailout of the property lender's former parent Hypo Real Estate (HRE).
HRE placed around 22 million shares in Pfandbriefbank (PBB) with institutional investors for 12.95 euros apiece in an accelerated bookbuilding late on Tuesday, according to bookrunners.
HRE said the sale raised around 287 million euros ($339.7 million) and slashed its stake in PBB to 3.5 percent from 20 percent.
It said a long-term institutional German investor, whom it did not name, snapped up 4.5 percent of PBB's stock in the placement.
Germany bailed out HRE in 2008 and nationalised it in 2009 after the bank was forced to make massive writedowns on its holdings of mortgage-backed securities, which slumped in value after the failure of U.S. investment bank Lehman Bros.
HRE was required to sell PBB as a condition of European Commission approval of the bailout and nationalisation. It floated it on the stock exchange in 2015 but retained a 20 percent stake.
HRE has committed to holding on to its remaining 3.5 percent holding in PBB until at least Nov. 14, it said late on Tuesday.
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TDD in C Part I
A few days ago one of my friends told me: "do you think we can do TDD in C?" at first I thought this is kind of stupid cause TDD makes sense for Object Oriented programming and design so for a non-OO language like C it doesn't make any sense. (which is NOT the case at all BTW :D)
One day after that my friend told me again: "I Googled about it a little and found something. Apparently we can do TDD in C". You know that I'm a TDD geek so it was really interesting topic for me. When I got home I started to search about that issue and found some useful things on the Internet.
We can do TDD in C with "CppUnitLite". Actually CppUnitLite is written for C++ as you can figure it out from its name. But you all know that we can call C code from C++ with a little trick which we'll see later in this post series.
Although the first step for doing TDD in C is integrating CppUnitLite with your IDE. I'm using Dev-C++ as an IDE for writing C and C++ codes, so I tried to do this with Dev-C++. After a lot of searching I didn't find a very useful and simple guide for doing this, so I tried and struggled so much with little things that I found in Internet(sporadic things here and there) and finally did it.
Then I decided to write about it here in the first part of this series, so if there will be someone like me interested in the topic can find useful things for doing this integration in one place in a simple manner.
You can download CppUnitLite here. After you did this for integrating it with your Dev-C++ IDE you can do the following steps:
After you extracted the Zip file you downloaded, there are some folders and some files(.h and .cpp files which are for the CppUnitLite test modules that is written in C++).
Launch your Dev-C++ IDE and then create a new project from File->New->Project path.
Choose static library as the type of your project and name it CppUnitLite:
- Then add to your project files of CppUnitLite like the below pictures:
- And finally Compile this project.
Ok first step was completed. You build a library for CppUnitLite on your system. If you go to the path which you saved this project, there's a file there with name CppUnitLite.a, this is your CppUnitLite library that you can use in other projects for writing tests.
Now we want to write our first C project with TDD approach. Before I start that I should mention that when you download CppUnitLite from ObjectMentor website and extract that Zip file, there's a sample Stack project which is written in C++ and in OO way that you can use for learning TDD in C++. So I'm gonna write Stack in C and non-OO way(I know it's weird but it's just a SAMPLE for showing you guys how we can do TDD in a non-OO language like C).
Ok, launch your Dev-C++ IDE again and create a new project and this time choose Empty Project as your project type and call it Stack. Now we should make this project depends on the library we just created. For doing this right click on your project name(top-left of the IDE, called Stack in the project tab) and choose Project Options, then add your library(CppUnitLite.a) to this project like the following picture:
Ok now that this project depends on the CppUnitLite library we can use this library's modules in our project. So we add to our project the first file and save it as StackMain.cpp. Then type the followings in that file:
Ok, now after you compile and run this project you should get the following result:
Of course there were no test failures cause we didn't write any test yet but we integrated CppUnitLite to our project and it works like a charm now. It's completely ready for us to write our tests and code for the Stack project.
Until the next post in this series …


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By contract the claimants agreed to buy some 'new Singer cars' from the defendant. The contract contained a term which excluded 'all conditions, warranties and liabilities implied by statute, common law or otherwise'. One of the cars delivered was not new but had been used on the road. The claimant sought to reject the car but the defendant argued that the clause was effective to prevent him being able to do so. Since the term implied by s.13 Sale of Goods Act requiring goods to be as described was excluded.
Held: The clause was not effective since it did not cover the loss in question. The requirement of the cars being new was an express term not an implied term. Whilst the Sale of Goods Act implies a term that goods must be as described any ambiguity in the effect of the clause would be interpreted against the party seeking to rely upon it under the contra proferentum rule.
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Before we dive into the new event, let's finish up the storyline of the last event, Space Bee Weekend.
Busy as a Bee Pt. 1
Bee Bender: How am I supposed to defend myself in this bee outfit? I can't even reach the Uzi in my chest compartment.
Fry: Wasn't the Professor going to put a mechanical stinger on the back and fill it with venom?
Bee Bender: Pfft. There wasn't even enough venom in that thing to hospitalize Zoidberg! Fortunately, it injured him pretty badly when I broke it off in him.
Bender voices his displeasure. Have Bender do the bee dance. (1hr)
Fry: I don't think that costume looks bad.
Bee Bender: I didn't say it didn't look good. Everything looks good on me 'cause I've got natural robot style. I mean I could put on YOUR outfit and make it look good.
Fry: Wow!
Goal complete: Busy as a Bee Pt. 1 (Nixonbucks 100, XP 75)
Busy as a Bee Pt. 2
Bee Bender: I figured out a use for this stupid bee costume. I'm gonna sell my own honey!
Amy: But you're not actually a bee. How are you going to make honey?
Bee Bender: The traditional way. Mix mustard and glue, then cut it to street quality with lots of cheap store-bought honey. Stuff it in bear-shaped bottles, hawk it to rubes on Fifth Avenue, and I am one rich beevestite.
Bender sells some honey. Have Bender sell honey. (4hr) Have Amy attend social event. (8hr)
Amy: How's the honey business going?
Bee Bender: Pretty good. Did you know honey could be fatal to infants?
Goal complete: Busy as a Bee Pt. 2 (Nixonbucks 100, XP 75)
Busy as a Bee Pt. 3[edit]
URL: Bender, you look like a damn fool.
Bee Bender: You take that back.
URL: Okay. You ARE a damn fool, but you look great.
Bee Bender: Apology accepted.
Bender is ridiculed. Have Bender hang out at the hive. (6hr) Have Fry buy retro junk. (4hr)
Bee Bender: You'll regret the day you made fun of me.
URL: I doubt it man, I don't regret makin' fun of anybody, including my mama.
Bee Bender: I didn't say you'd regret making fun of me, I said you'd regret the DAY you made fun of me. Probably for some other reason. Also, I hear your mama is fat.
Goal complete: Busy as a Bee Pt. 3 (Nixonbucks 100, XP 75)
Busy as a Bee Pt. 4
Bee Bender: Bee suit or not, I have to remind you losers how great I am.
Fry: Why do you care what other people think?
Bee Bender: Because I'm a very caring robot. That's what makes me so beloved by you losers.
Bender tries to be cultured. Have Bee Bender admire the work of Pablo Bee-caso (1d) Have Bender take off head and spin it.
Bee Bender: Attention please! I, Bender, have visited a museum, and am, therefore, more cultured than everybody here.
Fry: Sounds like you enjoyed the artwork.
Bee Bender: Not only did I enjoy it, I also stole it. This is why public funding for the arts is so important.
Goal complete: Busy as a Bee Pt. 4 (Nixonbucks 100, XP 75)


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Dining room chandeliers – Chandeliers need not be made from glass or crystal, and therefore does not need to be taken down for extensive cleaning when the glass gets dusty. Instead, design and make a distinctive chandelier using recycled materials, a holding real candles instead of having to be connected to the mains. Scale tire from the bicycle wheel and remove the inner tube; recycle them. Clean and polish the wheel and spokes, remove the rust stains with a pot scourer and protect the metal with a touch of penetrating oil. Use bolt cutter to cut three lengths 18 inches each, of 2.5 galvanized chain to hang the chandelier.
Registration the second ends of the chain lengths to a central dining room. Measure the distance between the ceiling and the point where you will hang the dining room chandeliers, and dual measurement. Cutting the length of the chain and to double. Attach both ends of the chain to the central dining room. Make sure the cans are clean and you have remove the labels and tops. Steel cans are the brightest, but aluminum will do the job just as well. Fill each jar to the brim with water and freeze to give you a solid work surface. Then use an awl and hammer to beat pattern in the sides to let the light through.
Remove the ice and dry the cans. Pierce four holes in the lower edge of each can with a can piercer of the compass points. Cut a 24-inch length crafting wire. Place one end of the wire through a hole in the can, and bring it out on the next together. Hook the wire down and around a spoke or the rim of the wheel and bring it back again through the hole. Advance to the next hole and repeat for dining room chandeliers. At the fourth hole, turn the two cable ends and slide into the can through the hole. Repeat for each can, spacing them equidistant around the top of the wheel.
Use homemade scented candles and melt down on each to help it stick to the bottom of each jar. Attach roof bolt and the hook above the dining room and attaching the upper loop of the chain. To raise and lower the chandelier to change the mood. Remove one end of the upper length of chain from the central dining room clip and attach it to an extra dining room. Light candles and place dining table directly under the dining room chandeliers in a way that provides the best lighting effects.


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Regional Business Unit
Toyota Tsusho has established separate locally domiciled entities in several countries in Asia Pacific such as Thailand, Indonesia, and so on. However, with economic development and the rapid environmental change, the linkage between these countries has increasingly been becoming stronger. This has made this region one large market and supply base and as such, it has become more necessary to build up a management infrastructure and formulate strategies so that company can make efficient decisions. Under these circumstances, Regional Business Unit has been established in 2012 as regional headquarter in Asia Pacific region of Toyota Tsusho Corporation.
We are now strengthening our regional function to manage this region as One Asia Pacific. This enables our company to respond more appropriately to specific multi-country needs in such Asia Pacific sub-regions as ASEAN and Mekong territories, and develop new business opportunities that go beyond a single country strategy.
- Finance/Accounting : Set KPI to evaluate business performance and implement this to
AS subsidiaries in Asia Pacific Region
- HR : To extend basic education (ex. TTC way) to subsidiaries
- ERM/Legal/Safety & Kaizen : Boost up Management Level in each subsidiaries
- Internal Control : Standardize the Management Level through Internal Control Project
- IT Technology : IT Governance/Compliance, AO Region Infrastructure Standardization and A Grade Company Support


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Monday, August 18, 2008
Charge Your Gadgets with Your Tie
You're at the annual conference about some new underwear invention. You're bored. You're dying to finish the last mission on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on your PSP. While the conference is going on. You realise that your battery is almost dead and there are no socket outlets under your seat. What do you do? Here's what you do.
Excuse yourself for a moment by saying you want to go to the toilet. Why toilet, you ask? You're not going there! Instead, take a stroll outside the building sporting your Solar Powered Neck Tie and embrace the heat in full glory to recharge your PSP. Apparently, a team of researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a neck tie with solar panels on it. One problem, though - they're hard to tie in knots, with all that photovoltaic panels on it. Maybe a clip-on would do.
I wonder how are they gonna wash it?
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Soups are one of the best meals one can have. When you're down with cold, all you need is a big bowl of soup. If it's cold outside, a big bowl of steaming hot soup will make your cold go away. We have come across many soups, manchow, sweet corn, tomato and also spinach. But the list doesn't even start here.
Here are some very uncommon but delicious soups which will keep you refreshed throughout the summer. Beat your hunger pangs with soup!
1. Chilled Cucumber Soup
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2. Cold Avocado Soup
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3. Strawberry Coconut Soup
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4. Chilled Cream of Basil Soup
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5. Pea and Mint Soup
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Erica Pierce
Erica Pierce always wanted to model and act as a child but was always told that she was too short standing at only 5'2. She did not let that stop her and got her first taste of the career in the 7th grade when a local Fashion Bug store allowed her to participate in an in store catwalk. The only thing that fit her were a pair of pajamas but she was complimented on being the best model there that day and knew she wanted more of this amazing experience.
It wasn't until years later that Erica would get her first audition for the independent film, Integrity. She was too old for the character that she auditioned for but the director, writer, and producer like her so much that they wrote in a small role specially to have her in their film. After that Erica went on more auditions and began looking for an agent. Two years later she found Terri Bercelli in Pittsburgh and got her second role in a film called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven. Through this audition she was invited to her first film convention in Hudson Ohio where she met Ben Kyle of OBLIVEA and her life really changed.
From there she became the manager of the band and with all the people she met opportunities began to arise and she took all she could including a shoot with Thunder Roads Magazine. Then she got not one agent but two and landed a role on the new John Travolta movie Criminal Activities and a movie called 40 Days of Hunger games. There are more movies in the works right now as well. Erica is very driven and dedicated. She is a must watch star on the rise.


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After quite an emotional week reminiscing about the IM, its good to move on. The Lake Gardens car park was lovely this morning, so many of our IM buddies were there, dripping after our respective morning runs. There was Simon Cross (going to IM China), Sam (going to IM China to watch), Carmen (going to IM China to take part probably), Richard Tang (going to IMWA), Ben, TSB, , chirpy Halley Holly, the running crowd etc.
I enjoyed my double hill (that will do) run. Ben wished everyone all the best for a Hawaii spot at China. For me, he just wished "hope you finish"...... Simon advised we should not let our bodies go into recovery mode i.e. always train.


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Because it is home to Draper, Big and Little Redfish lakes, Blue Mountain Beach FL is known for its unspoiled beauty, and understated elegance. Blue Mountain Beach was originally named by sailors who saw the high dunes, in fact the very highest point on the gulf coast, covered with the local blue lupine flower and dubbed the beach Blue Mountain. With miles of white sandy beaches and a rich history, Blue Mountain Beach rental guests enjoy a classic Florida beach community with diverse restaurants and a very popular ice cream store (be prepared to wait). This is a great place for pristine beach walks in the morning or mountain biking through the State Forest during the day. The locals call the beach access at Blue Mountain Beach "surfers" beach so if the waves are good, that's the place to be. The whole area is a favorite spot for people who enjoy the great outdoors.
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While there have been some big retail closures announced in the UK, consumers are still shopping from physical stores as frequently, and according to a report by Deloitte, brick-and-mortar is predicted to grow by USD 36 billion by 2022. Contrary to popular belief, the retail high street is alive and kicking.
According to Forbes, online retail isn't stealing sales from physical stores; at no point has eCommerce's share of retail grown substantially enough to negatively affect in-store sales. The same Deloitte report suggests that brick-and-mortar stores are, in fact, witnessing a revival, with new opportunities opening up for businesses across the sector. So, what is driving this sea change?
Complementary channels
Brick-and-mortar retail is seeing a revival thanks to an omnichannel shopping culture. While online is convenient for some, consumers still appreciate seeing and touching a product, even if they've researched online first, or vice versa. Each channel complements the other, and boosts holistic growth.
While a number of physical retailers have closed their doors in the last six months, this is more indicative of a lack of ability to adapt to multiple channels or higher consumer expectations, than the death of in-store shopping; it's survival of the fittest retailer.
Currently, retailers maintain on average 39 separate and disjointed systems and manual processes. These include point-of-sale, pricing, stock levels email marketing, and social. While this is impractical, it also becomes impossible to be truly agile, or to achieve a single customer view.
Integration and automation, meanwhile, allows retailers to review processes and catalog the mundane, repeatable paths that can be done faster by a machine. By identifying these business pain points, retailers can establish the value of improving them. Automation can make daily accurate decisions that reduce costs, and support both top line and bottom line growth by giving the workforce more time to perform high-value jobs that generate profit.
According to Deloitte's report, "data is the currency for the next generation of retail experience initiatives."
The most successful in-store retailers, therefore, are leveraging consumer data, as well as key circumstantial information, to create 360 degree, personalized and targeted experiences, based on the preferences of their consumers. The result? More in-store footfall and greater profit.
"My advice to retailers? Start using your data today. Don't throw it away; there's incredible value in data. Next, we want to go up the supply chain, to optimize the production process. Then bring purchasing and pricing policies together to give retailers fully algorithmic merchandising."
Prof. Dr. Michael Feindt, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Blue Yonder
Artificial intelligence
On average, just over one-third of retailers have adopted AI technology, and most popular applications of AI in retail are in pricing and promotions, according to Deloitte. AI allows retailers to make AI-based decisions, so that all in-store items are entirely optimized for the buyer.
"Originally, science-based algorithms were simplistic, they weren't enhanced by machine learning. AI uses data to really make accurate predictions, give exact recipes, and to identify what action should be taken. All aligned with the specific goals of that retailer."
Prof. Dr. Michael Feindt, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Blue Yonder
Retailers that dedicate resources to either an in-house or third party AI specialist will discover the secret behind customers predictability and enhanced user experiences; the cornerstones to successful modern retailing.