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Farmers in India to benefit from Japanese organic cotton business partnershipAug 28, 2012
New York/Tokyo/ New Delhi — Nearly 30,000 low-income cotton farmers in India will gain improved health and increased incomes by switching to organic cotton production, following a commitment made by two Japanese companies to the Business Call to Action (BCtA) today.
BCtA is a global initiative that encourages companies to develop innovative business models that combine commercial success and sustainable development. It is supported by several international organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Japan-based general trading company ITOCHU Corporation and kurkku – a firm that promotes environmentally conscious lifestyle through sales of sustainably sourced food and apparel – have pledged to improve the income of Indian farmers, their health, and the environment, by scaling up production of organically produced cotton, which is free of synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers and has an approximately 30 percent higher market price.
The two companies pledged to scale up their Pre Organic Cotton (POC) Programme, which encourages farmers in India to switch from conventional to organic cotton production by guaranteeing to buy the cotton that is organically produced at a price higher than that of conventional cotton. Such a commitment is critical to the initiative's success since it typically takes three years for farmers to obtain an organic certification; in the meantime, they are growing organic cotton, which costs more to produce, but are forced to sell it at cheaper, conventional cotton prices.
During the three-year waiting period, the participating farmers will see a 20 to 30 percent increase in their income, with a projected additional 12 percent increase once their farms gain official international organic certification.
"Companies such as ITOCHU and kurkku demonstrate the potential of innovative business partnerships to generate value for companies as well as communities," said Susan Chaffin, Programme Manager of the Business Call to Action. "This new commitment to the BCtA, the first in recent years by a company from Japan, supports environmentally sustainable agriculture while at the same time increasing income for farmers in India."
Cotton occupies a mere five percent of all farmland in India, yet it accounts for more than half of the country's pesticide use, adding a financial burden to farmers and causing serious health concerns including skin and respiratory diseases.
The conversion process to organic cotton remains financially unfeasible for most farmers, despite the financial and health benefits. Certification takes three years during which time farmers experience a 20 to 30 percent decrease in crop yields. Moreover, they are unable to sell the organically produced crops at organic prices due to the lack of certification. In addition to lost revenue, the certification process entails additional fees which are prohibitive for many farmers, especially in developing countries.
Through its commitment to BCtA, ITOCHU — which has114 offices in 65 countries — will work with Indian companies to identify farmers who are interested in switching to organic cotton farming. ITOCHU will then supply farmers with the necessary training and certified organic cotton seeds. The company also provides a guarantee to purchase the pre-organic cotton at a higher price than what farmers would have received for uncertified cotton. ITOCHU further assists farmers by funding their certification fees and aiding them with administrative support during the conversion process.
"Through implementation of the POC Programme, ITOCHU is able to integrate ecologically sustainable business practices in the supply chain, thereby maintaining corporate social responsibility," said Hitoshi Okamoto, Director and Managing Executive Officer at ITOCHU Corporation.
The BCtA commitment scales up the companies' existing four-year partnership with Indian farmers, enabling an additional 6,000 families to transition to organic cotton production by 2015. The initiative will also rid 30,000 acres of land from harmful agricultural chemicals while improving the farmers' health.
Since this initiative's initial phase started in 2008, ITOCHU's annual sales of pre-organic cotton have more than tripled. As a result of the programme, kurkku's sales increased by 30 percent since 2007. ITOCHU and kurkku currently sell organic cotton to 60 Japanese apparel brands. This number is expected to grow to 250 brands by 2015, with 5,000 tonnes of pre-organic cotton produced by farmers waiting for certification.
"In the past four years, the POC Programme has demonstrated clear benefits for people in need, and we have been able to build trust between the different programme partners," said Takeshi Kobayashi, President of kurkku. "I hope that our membership in the BCtA will encourage more people to support this important initiative, which helps to improve living standards for farmers in India."
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ITOCHU: Masaaki Yamashita, email@example.com
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Docksteader brothers build on Flames' foundation of success
December 19, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Adam, Brad, Chad, and Devon Docksteader, mild-mannered, left-handed forwards for Liberty University's ACHA Division I, II, and III men's hockey teams, grew up bonding as brothers and crafting their skills as players through pickup games in their home in Ottawa, Ontario.
"We played a lot of hockey in our unfinished basement," said Chad Docksteader, a junior industrial engineering major and member of the Flames' DIII team. "We set up two nets and played two-on-two all the time, using a tennis ball. It wasn't that physical, but it was definitely competitive. You always wanted to win and to try to one-up your brother."
|Adam Docksteader started the family tradition at Liberty in 2007, graduating in 2011 with 52 goals, 48 assists, and only 28 penalty minutes in four seasons on the Flames' DI team.
Since Adam graduated off the DI team with a total of 52 goals, 48 assists, and only 28 penalty minutes (including 18G, 19A, 16PM as a senior in 2011), the three younger brothers have been busy building on his legacy at Liberty. They have strived to raise the level of their own games, pick up their teammates, and one-up their DII and DIII opponents, all while juggling demanding academic loads.
"With all my brothers coming in, we get to encourage each other in hockey and in life," said Brad, who was joined by Devon, a freshman, on the DII team. "So it's good."
"It's the first time I've ever played with any of my brothers," added Devon, who is two years younger than Chad, four years younger than Brad, and seven years younger than Adam. "He's just helped me out, made me a better player, and made it easier to get along with the guys because they're all good friends with him."
Had all three brothers still at Liberty wound up on the same DII team this season, they might have formed a triply difficult offensive line for opponents to defend. But there would be no mistaking them for the trio of Hanson brothers made famous by their comical and often violent antics in the 1977 movie "Slapshot."
"They're totally different from that," said Flames DIII coach Tristan Chambers, who has coached Chad for the past three seasons. "They're more of a quiet group of guys, at least Chad is. He's not going to do something stupid. He's in control of his emotions and he's never taking bad penalties."
Chambers said the Docksteaders are positive role models for their teammates, showcasing excellent sportsmanship that reflects their Christian faith.
"It's a great hockey family," he said, noting Chad is the DIII team's third-leading scorer behind seniors Brandon Cockburn and Kyle Burman with 9 goals, 10 assists and only 6 penalty minutes going into Christmas break. "All four guys are talented. They're definitely the type of players you want to see come to Liberty and make an impact on and off the ice. I'm thankful to have them in the program."
Liberty DI Head Coach Kirk Handy, who coached Adam for four years, said the Docksteaders' parents, Randy and Lori, have raised a family that he and his wife, Jannie, would want to emulate.
"You couldn't probably find a better family than the Docksteaders," he said. "All the guys are respected by their teammates and coaches on each of their teams. They're all solid student athletes — solid in the classroom and solid on the ice."
Handy envisions his four sons, all ages 5 and younger, following the Docksteaders' lead in about 15 years. The oldest two, Parker and Preston, are already playing in a Lynchburg youth hockey league while the third, Pryce, has expressed interest in the sport. The youngest, Porter, will celebrate his first birthday on Jan. 17.
The Handy boys will have some pretty big skates to fill, however.
Brad, a first-year graduate student pursuing his M.B.A., played with Adam on the DI team for one semester his sophomore year, and is now returning for his fifth season with the DII team. He ranks as one of Liberty's all-time-leading scorers at any level with 105 goals and 112 assists through four and a half seasons.
He has posted remarkably consistent numbers over his career — ranking second on the team in scoring as a freshman with 14 goals and 18 assists and only 14 penalty minutes, third in scoring as a sophomore (27G, 18A, 18PM), and fourth as a junior (13G, 17A, 10PM). As a senior last year, he led Liberty in scoring (41G, 33A, 14PM) and is again the frontrunner going into the second half of this season (20G, 26A, 6PM).
Brad and Devon (21G, 16A, 10 PM) are almost inseparable on the ice, starting on the first line along with freshman Jordan Barstead, who ranks third behind the sibling duo in scoring with 17 goals and 18 assists and no penalty minutes.
"We've had them playing together for a lot of the year and they know how to find each other," Flames DII Head Coach Chris Lowes said. "They both have a similar sense of where they're going with the puck and where they want it to go."
Lowes said it's obvious the four Docksteaders are brothers, based on their playing styles, positions on the wing, and personalities.
"They all share a similar build and frame and skating style on the ice that's fairly recognizable," he said. "They all have a good offensive ability and goal-scoring touch. They're great team guys in the locker room to go with their talent on the ice."
None of the brothers is overly emotional or physical, as evidenced by their infrequent trips to the penalty box.
"They're all fairly laid back, fairly easy going," Lowes said. "The physical side of the game is not their focus. They really have a nose and ability to find the net and do good things in the offensive zone. They're just very aware. They see the ice very well and are tough to defend one-on-one."
Or four-on-four, for that matter.
Even the youngest brother seems to have his priorities in order, focusing more on his walk off the ice than his slapshot on it.
"Hockey is a big part of our lives but it's just for fun," Devon said. "Faith is what matters, and glorifying God."

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Small room carpet bigger than room because of room shape got strips to edge down already got door strip down bought underlay new with carpet. Would like it a nice professional job doing please ASAP. Thank you
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Carpet Fitting job 239 miles from Tandragee in Worcester
to supply underlay and fit carpet in bedroom landing and poss stairs
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What a lovely young man. He was polite & put up with two very large dogs wandering in & out x then to top it all when all done I gave him £150 that was what he quoted on the phone & he gave me back £20 as room the was smaller than he thought. I absolutely recommend Dave that's his name to anyone. I am so happy.
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I am moving my tv to opposite side of room. There is no socket there so I want to run an extension cable and sky cable round the edge of the room by skirting board by lifting carpet and then securing it back.
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Carpet Fitting job 344 miles from Tandragee in Sidcup
I need to fit carpet on the stairs and in a small hall. I don't have a carpet.
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Carpet Fitting job 257 miles from Tandragee in Rugby
Fit carpet 3.6 meters X 6.5 meters. Underlay and grippers already down.
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On time and very polite, made a cracking job of fitting our carpet,very quick and efficient. Will use again. Cheers
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Carpet Fitting job 227 miles from Tandragee in Swanwick
Small landing, stairs 8 steps straight, 6 are corner. Landing is 1x2m. Carpet and underlay to be fitted.
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Krb Carpet & Flooring Contractors
Karl and his partner did a fantastic job of our stairs and landing. We would highly recommend them. We will definitely be using them again. They were clean and tidy and respected my home. Very professional job. 5 *****
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Carpet Fitting job 188 miles from Tandragee in Cheadle
Have the floor covering already but needs cutting and fitting
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Krb Carpet & Flooring Contractors
Excellent service , came the next day and did a very good job fitting some kitchen flooring . Would highly recommend this company
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Carpet Fitting job 139 miles from Tandragee in Coatbridge
Dark Tartan, about 6ft x 8ft on top landing, 8 x stairs down to 5 on the turn. 16ft x 13ft
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Neil Clark Flooring Services Ltd
Collected carpet from store, fitted it expertly. Carpet looking great. Would recommend Neil to anyone. Came from Five to Coatbridge to do fitting A+++++++++
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We have a 4 bedroom house that has carpets on the first floor. Please could you give me a quote on that?
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Mr Carpets And Flooring
Very happy with the work done. Reasonably priced but the best thing was the quick response. Got the 4 bed room re-carpeted in 5 hours Also very polite and friendly and did the furnitures moving too. Would highly recommend.
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Neil Clark Flooring Services Ltd
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Neil Clark Flooring Services Ltd
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Mr Carpets And Flooring
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Neil Clark Flooring Services Ltd
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A1fs Ltd
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Fraberts Turns Five!
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Samples and demos from some of our favourite suppliers as well as our own tasty products!
To celebrate this significant milestone in the retail business, we are holding a draw…
Why do you shop at Fraberts?
Tell us why you and your family shop at Fraberts Fresh Food – we will compile the entries and come up with "The Top 5 Reasons to Shop at Fraberts", to celebrate 5 years of fantastic food in downtown Fergus. Every entry will get you a ballot to win $50 in Fraberts bucks for free groceries! Yes that's right, you can enter more than once (we know there are tonnes of great reasons, but we must limit you to 5…).
Why do you shop at Fraberts? Post it on our Facebook page, email it to me at firstname.lastname@example.com, or write it down and bring it to the store.
And spring has finally arrived…
…which means asparagus, spinach, fiddleheads and BBQ season. Haven't tried our own store made sausage yet? They are delicious on your barbecue – as are our well -aged steaks from Harriston Packers, fresh chicken from Abate Packers in Arthur, yummy hot dogs from Schinkel's Legacy….
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The Vendor offers products for sale on www.isabelmarant.com and its e-commerce business services are available exclusively to its adult end users, i.e. "consumers".
"Consumer" means any individual who is acting for purposes outside of his or her trade, business or profession. If you are not a "consumer", please do not buy any products on www.isabelmarant.com.
The Vendor reserves the right not to process orders received from users who are not "consumers", and any other order that does not comply with its business policy, such as orders for which there are reports or suspicion of fraudulent or illegal activity. In such cases, the order will be considered null and void, and the Vendor will inform the user that the contract of sale will not be executed.
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The General Terms and Conditions of Sale do not apply to the provision of services or the sale of products by third parties that are present on www.isabelmarant.com via links, banners or other hypertext connections. Before sending orders and purchasing products and services from third parties, we recommend that you verify their terms and conditions. Under no circumstances shall the Vendor be deemed liable for the supply of third party services or for the execution of e-commerce transactions between users of www.isabelmarant.com and third parties.
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Prices are subject to change. Please check the final price before sending your order form. In the event of a recognizable error in the indication - by YNAP - of the product price or calculation of the amount requested at payment, YNAP will reject the order and contact the user to offer them the opportunity to purchase the product(s) at the correct price.
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Without prejudice to the application of the mandatory consumer protection provisions, all products sold by the Vendor are covered by a twenty-four (24) month guarantee for lack of conformity. You shall inform the Vendor of the existence of any such lack of conformity within a period of two (2) months from the day when you detected the lack of conformity. Please contact our Customer Care.
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In instances b) and c), your declaration must be addressed to Customer Care at the registered office of YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP S.p.A., via Morimondo, 17 – Milano 20143. In such instances, you will be responsible for proving that you exercised your right to withdraw from the sale contract correctly and within the specified time frame.
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- The right to withdraw has been correctly exercised within fifteen (15) days of receiving the products
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- The identification tag with the disposable seal is still attached to the products as it constitutes an integral part of the product
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By Dennis E. Noll
Your community foundation has moved to a brand new building in the mixed-use development at Pearl.
Yes, the Pearl is a trendy area booming with retail, housing and office developments near the new extension of the River Walk. But we weren't trying to be trendy with the move into our new offices at 303 East Pearl Parkway. This was a move with a purpose. Of the 18,000 square feet at our new location, almost half of the space was designed to be used by nonprofits for meetings, trainings and capacity building.
Our new home has been named the Wells Center, in honor of the late Robert and Carolyn Beckmann Wells. Mr. and Mrs. Wells believed in giving back to their communities and included a $5 million bequest to the San Antonio Area Foundation in their estate plans. Their generous gift made it possible for us to create a state-of-the-art, accessible facility with room to bring people and ideas together. Our goal is to create an environment that fosters collaboration, drives innovation and inspires philanthropy throughout our region.
San Antonio, in my opinion, already is "Philanthropy City USA," with the nation's most vibrant, innovative philanthropy community, thanks to so many people who are generous with their money and time. So it's thrilling to be at San Antonio's new home for philanthropy, where we are committed to launching initiatives and bringing people together to make this city and region an even better place to live, work and play.
Dennis E. Noll is President and Chief Executive Officer of the San Antonio Area Foundation.


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UC online courses attract few outside students
4 more non-UC students signed up Monday
The University of California has spent more than $4 million marketing its new online courses, but so far it's attracting few students outside the UC system.
About 1,700 students have taken the 14 UC Online courses the university began offering for college credit a year ago, but only one of them was not a registered student, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Four more non-UC students signed up Monday.
UC Online's interim director, Keith Williams, told the Chronicle that its $4.3 million marketing effort is "taking longer than we'd hoped."
University officials said Tuesday that the main goal of the UC Online initiative is not to recruit non-UC students, but to help registered students get the classes they need and graduate on time.
UC Online borrowed $6.9 million from the university and planned to pay back the loan by enrolling 7,000 non-UC students who would pay $1,400 to $2,400 per class, according to the newspaper.
But the online project was launched just as elite universities such as Stanford and Harvard began offering its courses for free. So-called massive open online courses, or MOOCS, have enrolled hundreds of thousands of students over the past year.
Gov. Jerry Brown has been pressuring university leaders to embrace online education to help reduce costs. During a rare appearance at a board of regents meeting in November, he compared UC with the U.S. Postal Service, "a venerable institution being upended by digital change."
The board has scheduled a two-hour presentation about the university's online education programs at its Jan. 16 meeting in San Francisco.
Apart from the 14 UC Online courses, the 10-campus system offers more than 250 online courses for credit at the undergraduate and graduate level. More UC Online courses are planned.


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FUJIFILM has today announced a new addition to its J-Series ultra-compact family of digital cameras in India with the launch of Fujifilm FinePix JX200 Ultra-compact Digital Camera that continues J-Series Momentum by merging style with the latest technologies and the ability to shoot and enjoy images in High Definition and movies in HD 720p resolution.
The Fujifilm FinePix JX200 digital camera is clad in a upgraded high-quality metal body and its soft, curved edges give it a sophisticated look. Available in Black or Silver as standard or blue, red and pink as exclusives, the elegant and stylish Fujifilm FinePix JX200 digital camera produce high quality images.
The Fujifilm FinePix JX200 compact digital camera offers consumers latest features, and provides them with the perfect fit for their pockets as well as their wallets.
Weighing 109 gms, the Fujifilm FinePix JX200 compact digital camera features a 12-Megapixel CCD, a 2.7-inches High-Resolution LCD and a Fujinon 5x wide angle with 28mm wide-angle optical zoom lens.
The new Fujifilm FinePix JX200 compact digital camera clad a high-grade metal body and is not only well protected from bumps and scrapes, but gives a simple, yet elegant design appearance and it comes in black and is a slim 18.5mm, easily fitting into any pocket or small purse.
Fujifilm FinePix JX200 has 24-MB internal memory and includes SD memory card slot supporting 8GB and SDHC memory card support of upto 2-TB memory capacity. It also includes USB 2.0 port and comes with NP-45A Li-ION battery.
Kenichi Tanaka, Managing Director, Fujifilm India said, "High-definition JX series cameras are dedicated to photography enthusiasts. HD feature is our domain. With an overwhelming consumer response to the J-Series cameras we introduced earlier this year, we wanted to give our customers an even greater range of options when it comes to price point and feature set."
HD Capability
The Fujifilm FinePix JX200 compact digital camera also offers stunning HD movies in 720p with sound and high quality stills at 1920 x 1080 pixels. With the new HD Player (optional extra), which comes equipped with a remote control, users can gather around their home HDTV to enjoy amazingly detailed stills and high resolution movie playback.
NEW Targeting AF
Previously featured on the S1500 camera, the JX200 series feature Targeting AF which is perfect for when you need to take a picture of a moving subject and can't keep your subject in the frame. Just switch Targeting AF on and it will track your subject and ensure that you achieve a crisp picture with your subject in the centre of the frame in perfect focus.
Tracking Auto Focus
The new Fujifilm FinePix JX200 compact digital camera features Tracking Auto Focus which is perfect for when you need to take a picture of a moving subject and can't keep your subject in the frame. Just switch Tracking Auto Focus on and it will track your subject and ensure that you achieve a crisp picture with you subject in the center of the frame in perfect focus.
Motion Panorama Mode with Auto Stitch
Users can simply select Panorama mode and start shooting custom Panorama Shot. Then, align the "+" symbol into the circle and the shutter will automatically release to seamlessly stitch the shots together in-camera. Perfect for landscape, large buildings or even party shots.
Smile / Blink Detection
Photos are all too often spoiled by people blinking or grimacing. Fujifilm FinePix JX200 compact digital camera features Smile Detection that works with Fujifilm's highly-acclaimed Face Detection technology to detect smiles subjects' faces (upto 10) and will ensure that it will not take a picture until it detects a smile, giving users guaranteed perfect shots, all the time.
Another new feature supported by FinePix JX200 digital camera is Blink Detection which warns you if you have captured an image with people blinking, so you can re-shoot if necessary.
Key features:
- Ultra stylish metal body – only 18.5mm thick
- 5X Fujinon optical zoom lens
- 12 Megapixel digital sensor
- 2.7-inch LCD screen
- 720p HD image and video capture
- NEW Targeting AF
- Scene Recognition Auto (SR AUTO)
- Panoramic Shooting Mode
- Face Detection technology
- NEW Blink Detection
- NEW Smile & Shoot mode
- ISO sensitivity to 1600 at full resolution and ISO 3200 with 3MP.
- Li-ion rechargeable battery
The Fujifilm FinePix JX200 offers these additional features:
- Scene Recognition Auto (SR AUTO): This mode intelligently detects the scene type you are shooting and optimizes the camera's focus, exposure and white balance, so whether one is photographing flowers or a holiday landscape, a flawless photos at the press of a button is almost guaranteed.
- Digital Image Stabilization: Digital Image Stabilization reduces image blur automatically and offers creative adaptability and excellent picture quality.
- Face Detection and Automatic Red-eye Removal: To provide perfectly exposed and focused portrait shots, this digital camera comes equipped with Fujifilm's latest Face Detection technology which is able to track up to 10 faces simultaneously, at almost any angle to the camera. The system instantly corrects red-eye and then saves both the original and the corrected image file automatically.
- Photobook Assist: Photobook Assist software bundled with digital camera lets users select and organize images in their compact digital camera to create a digital photobook. Users can download the photobooks to their computer using MyFinePix Studio software that is included with the model.
Price and Availability
The 12-Megapixel Fujifilm FinePix JX200 compact digital camera will be available end of August 2010 at a retail price of about Rs.7,950 with warranty.


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It was touch and go there for awhile. Will I go? Will I not go? Calgary is quite far and with the tension sky high at work, I didn't dare ask to adjust the schedule. But I did have Sunday and Monday off. Turned out the boy had those days off too. I asked him if he wanted to come to the Expo with me. He said sure. And thus we found ourselves arriving in Calgary early Sunday morning, tired from the long drive but excited to get our geek on. (It's times like that I wish I lived within reasonable distance of an airport. My life would be 100% more time efficient if I could just fly places.)
Calgary Expo-what?
What a time was had! The guest lineup was intense. The entire main cast of Star Trek TNG reunited. Stan Lee. Billy West. Adam West. James Marsters. Dave Prowse (also known as Darth Vader). Adam Baldwin.
Commander Sheppard Mark Meer. And those were just some of the super famous people present. Yet, for some reason, convention organizers were surprised when more than 50 000 fans from all over the world showed up.
On Saturday, convention goers discovered why most other major conventions have limited tickets. The inside of the convention centre was packed like a Tokyo subway car at rush hour (considering that a lot of geeks get nervous in crowds, I can only imagine how much panicking must have occurred that day) and the outside grounds, crawling with those who'd been locked out, were overrun. Going on Sunday ended up being the best idea ever.
We got there early in the morning and I had pre-bought and printed tickets for the two of us, like the wise convention goer that I am. We had a last minute addition to our party who didn't have a ticket but, fortunately for her, I was at a pub crawl in Winnipeg about this time last year.
That's right. While getting drunk in Winnipeg last year I befriended a fellow backpacker. A backpacker from Calgary. Who happened to text me on the way to the Expo, asking if I needed an extra ticket. After I pulled some sophisticated lineup strategy maneuvers, my Calgarian friend found us just as we were reaching the front of the line. We yanked him in, I paid for the ticket and, yep, all 4 of us got our passes. The moral of this story? Never turn down a pub crawl.
The WoW Crowd
The WoW community meetups are often the best part of these big conventions. Vidyala and Vosskah hosted a potluck on Friday night (I couldn't go, unfortunately, since, well, I was at work 7 hours away) which I heard great things about. I did, however, make it to the supper on Sunday. The early planning went kind of like this:
Vid: Oh you're coming! We should go for supper!
Me: We should! Can I invite people?
Vid: Um, ok.
A few days later, Vid, Voss, Darthregis, Chawajen, Kalesti, Rades, the Fannon family and the Bossy Pally party found ourselves seated at the downtown Milestones sharing Expo stories, WoW stories and housecleaning stories. Also drowned a donkey and a mermaid in Peach Bellinis. The night was too short, too short, too short. I could spend an entire week with these guys and still want to be around them.
I say I start planning my own conventions, just to draw out awesome WoW friends.
Unlike the rest of my party, I planned ahead. I printed out the panel schedule, studied it, rated the panels based on my interest in them and came up with a plan. One panel title was "How to just barely survive as a Hollywood writer". It caught my eye. I've no ambitions to become any sort of pro writer (if I got offered a paid writing position, I'd turn it down). But while my personal goals aren't in the field, I love reading or hearing about writers. Oddly, I kind of relate to writers.
So I read the description. Andy Rheingold, Josh A Cagan and Pete Williams. Pete Williams sounded vaguely familiar…
I got to the next line: Undergrads.
OMG Undergrads!!
How many hours did my friend Val and I spend in high school expressing our appreciation for Gimpy? How many times did my brothers and I make each other laugh with Cal imitations? How many family nights did I spend with my siblings, watching Undergrads reruns on Teletoon? How many friends did I
force to watch introduce to the show? How many flashbacks have I gotten of Rocko reading Cosmo and saying "I think we're all feeling a bit… *flips pages* premenstrual"?
I sat up-straight throughout the whole panel, drinking in every word. I squealed when Pete Williams did a Cal line (he sounded way better than my brothers and I ever did due to, you know, being Cal's actual voice actor). I really, really, really wanted to run up to them after the panel and give them a hug.
Undergrads was one of the rare shows that played a huge part in my young adult life and I never in a millions years expected to meet the writers. Especially not in Calgary, 10 years after the show was cancelled (after 13 episodes). And if the experience was surreal to me, it seemed to be surreal to them too. They made my day when they said (I think it was Josh who said it, but I'm not sure) "It's like we're in Sliders, in a parallel universe where people have actually heard of our show."
Of course, they were bombarded with questions about the eventuality of a season 2. It sounded like they were absolutely ready for season 2 but the usual red tape (show rights and financing) was holding them back. But the attachment they showed toward their show, even 10 years after being forced to move on, made me very happy. It was wonderful to be sitting in that room with about 30-40 other fans (another upside to Sunday! Saturday's panel apparently packed 250 people in the room and turned 100 away. Much less intimate.) and the 3 main writers, sharing our love of Undergrads.
If only I hadn't been too shy to go to their booth afterward and talk to them…
Video Game Voice Acting with Mark Meer and Quinton Flynn
Do you know who else is awesome, besides writers? Voice actors. They're the stars you never get to see, who you don't often think of. In fact, if the better job they do, the less you recognize them. They don't get the screaming fans and the big bucks. But when you do meet them in person, you're quickly smitten, so much their passion and talent is captivating.
Mark Meer, I was familiar with. I'm playing a lot of Mass Effect these days. I didn't, however, realize he lives and works really close to me and that I could go see him act all the time. Which I totally plan to. He's hilarious. You know else who is awesome, besides writers and voice actors? Improv actors.
I didn't know the name of Quinton Flynn, but the second he started talking and doing impersonations…oh yeah! As my friend Skip puts it, Flynn is "one of those 12 voice actors who are in everything". It was just incredible to listen to him. From his normal speaking voice, you wouldn't guess that he was a voice actor, but the second he slips into a character…wow! Suddenly you're sitting in front of Timon (I totally watched Timon & Pumbaa as a kid!) or Raiden or Axel or Johnny Quest.
In was interesting having them give the panel side by side since they both have very different careers. Meer does a lot of impov and theatre acting, as well as consultation work on designing voices, while Flynn has been voice acting for cartoons and video games since I was a kid, and has a lifetime of experience. They had different elements to bring to the table and it made for a very enriching panel. But like all panels, it was way too short.
And again, I wish I had had the guts to go up to their booths after and ask for an autograph and a hug.
Moments of Awesome
Vid called me while I was hanging out by some booths. "Can you pick up Volumes 1&2 of Questionable Content for me? I didn't think to get extras for my brother."
"Sure!" I said.
I was familiar with the name. But not being a fan of webcomics, I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. A few moments later, I'm standing in front of Jeph Jacques (I totally interrupted his lunch too), knowing that I'm in the presence of someone amazing, but not knowing exactly the extent. He was super nice to me, autographed the books while I felt like a total poser.
I flipped through the books a bit before I turned them over to Vid. Definitely looked like something I'd enjoy. I was half tempted to keep them…
I'm now hooked. Questionable Content has a new fan. And that's what conventions are all about.
Asked Vid and Rades if From Draenor with Love was going to have a booth next year. Conventions are about that too.
As the day was drawing to a close, a girl, maybe a few years younger than me, walked by, excitedly yelling on her cell phone: "I got hugged by the voice of Axel! You know! The voice of Axel! He gave me a hug!"
Conventions are definitely all about that.
Not necessarily about getting hugs (since I was too shy to ask for any), but about getting excited with other people, notably strangers and celebrities, about things you're not usually allowed to be excited about in public. I can't wait until next time!


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Corn/beans/wheat all settled higher after a slow trade today. Corn/soybeans were lower for most of the day before turning higher near the close. December corn finished up ¾ of a cent at 447 ½ which is still slightly below the 2010 high of 4.49 ¾. November beans found support at $10 again before finishing up 3 ½ at $10.09. December wheat was the upside leader finishing 5 cents higher at $7.13 ¾.
Today was a fairly quiet trade for most of the session. Exports this morning were solid for corn/wheat and on the low end of expectations for soybeans. Wheat was supported after Vladimir Putin announced the Russian wheat ban would be extended until the end of next year's Russian wheat harvest.
Tomorrow we will likely remain choppy as some traders even up before the long weekend. There is an unemployment report coming out tomorrow morning at 7:30. Monday the grain markets are closed for Labor Day.
If you are looking to get extra protection ahead of next Friday's report, there are some cheap ways to get short-term put protection to carry us through the report (please call your broker to discuss your options.) We mentioned this report might not reflect a drop in corn yield/production even though many in the marketplace are expecting it to.
We have been getting yield reports out of the fields and they have been relatively 2 sided. Some are so-so and some are excellent. The fact is the US corn crop is maturing very rapidly, and we should see a record amount of corn harvested in the next 30-45 days. We believe this could put some strong downside pressure on the market during this timeframe. Even though we are overall bullish corn, we don't think now is the time to be outright long (should have adequate downside protection.) With the marketplace holding near-record long positions and with a rapid harvest pace likely, we could easily trigger a larger sell-off than expected. We like our current hedge positions at this time.
In our opinion we have a very solid bean crop. The yields that we have been hearing have come back better than expected. Coupling a strong bean crop in the United States and poor crush margins in China the bean market may continue to see pressure. We still feel very strongly that bean sales up at these levels are a good idea going into harvest. If you need to catch up on our current recommendations or would like to add additional protection as we progress into harvest, please get in touch with your broker.
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Visustin is the ideal diagramming tool for software developers and document writers. Save your documentation efforts by automatic charting! Visustin reverse engineers your source code and visualizes it. No manual drawing is required. Your existing code is all you need. If you see a real complex case, print it out as a big mosaic and hang it on your wall.
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Were you trying to capture a critter in a live trap that you purchased from the local hardware store in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and inadvertently captured a skunk? Now, you must figure out how to release the skunk without getting sprayed. How can you accomplish this mission successfully?
If you are wondering how professional wildlife control operators in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania capture and release skunks, then you might just want to call one! Often, they will come to your home (for a fee) and swap the skunk into one of their traps and take it away for you. This is the easiest way to get your problem solved, without the risk of getting sprayed by the skunk.
These members are ready to help solve your skunk situation:
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We realize that some people in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania insist on a do-it-yourself approach, but we would certainly recommend that you contact a professional whenever dealing with a wild animal, such as a skunk. In some areas, skunks can be carriers of rabies. Nonetheless, someone is going to give it a try and release their own skunk.
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Attending a rock event beats clubbing any day. CLUBBING SUCKS.
I never head banged so much that my neck hurts badly now. I can't even look down ffs. lol
Before I went down infront of the stage I was standing on my seat. Yes ON MY CHAIR. LOL. The others are like wtf but who the hell cares. I DIDN'T PAY MY RM15 TO SIT DOWN QUIETLY I PAID SO I COULD ENJOY MY MUSIC!
The bands are all amazing. Seriously.
The 6 finalists, there are a few that caught my attention. But there is one that didn't impress me. =/ My fav was The Racoons! XD But then again the rock opera by Pull The Plug was brilliant. BRILLIANT I TELL YOU. HE SANG BOTH THE GUY AND GIRL PART OF PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
The guest performers...
All of them were awesome. Beat The System made me stand on my chair roaring like mad, Rosevelt's vocalist makes me go XD, and holy crap that drummer from NAO won't get tired from drumming for like more than 15 minutes non stop. SIAO.
Oh did I mention I haven't take my dinner? lol
Oh and I love my sis so damn much! If she isn't here, who will be spending this awesome day with me? WHO would even wanna go with me? NO ONE.
P/P/S: There's a bruise at right below my knee. Got it when I was standing on the chairs and I leaned my legs to the table to keep myself balanced. lol
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Unplugged - Aftermath
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- sweister said...
Woi what is this la. How come I've never heard of Unplugged one. I would have wanted to go too! It's not very widely promoted, was it?
- December 13, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- kurokei said...
It's an event from my college. <3 It's freakin' awesome yo. I'm definately going next year. <3 <3 <3
- December 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM
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Emotional Intelligence And Decisions Article
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The Different Aspects Of Teaching Emotional Intelligencefrom: Jim Holden - Staff Writer
Many people will agree that it is ridiculous to teach people how they should react to specific conditions, simply to be able to control their emotions.
At first this really does sound rather queer, because after all emotions are a very subjective medium to study. Each one of us has their own manner of dealing with things, or reacting to specific situations, and that is even the case when the test is controlled. Emotions are as diverse as the personalities of human beings themselves, in the main because our characters are largely determined by the combinations of emotions that we are associated with.
During our pre-natal development, our bodies develop in specific ways as determined by our genetical make up. The color of our eyes, certain reactions to various chemicals, and the mixture of hormones which we have in our bodies, are all directed by the information encoded in our genes, and along with these comes our intellect.
Therefore our intelligence is stable and cannot be changed. We can only strive to maximize or minimize our skilss and our knowledge, but our IQ level would still remain constant. The situation with regards to emotional intelligence is different however.
Emotions are developed only as we are exposed to specific situations triggered in the environment which we are surrounded by. These are not in built parts of our bodies that only surface when and as needed, but rather our emotions are our reactions to things during our development. This is why babies during their birth have no concept of both positive and negative emotions, and this is particularly evident with children who are just starting to walk.
No one actually told them that they must walk, yet something inside them instructs them that it must be learned. Due to the absence of fear of falling or tripping themselves up, or not being able to stand up properly, they do eventually teach themselves to walk. If there had been any inherent fears, it would have been impossible for them to have taken his very first steps.
The point being made that is emotions are part of our development, and so the emotional intelligence that we presntly have, is the result of things that we have encountered in the past. Incidentally, anyone can redirect their unwanted emotions into more useful ones, in the same way as anyone can be taught the proper ways in which to use their emotional intelligence.
Therefore, it is crucial that emotional intelligence is taught if at all possible, at a very early age in a person's development.
Teaching emotional intelligence would entail these five yardsticks as developed by psychologist and author Daniel Goleman.
The first thing that must be taught is the ability to determine and identify one's emotional states. Along with this must be the understanding of links between one's actions thoughts and emotions.
The second one is the development of the proper management of emotions. In this way one will be able to control their emotions, and also be able to redirect undesirable emotions to a more reasonable use.
Third is the training to take on the positive attitude of success and achievement, while undergoing emotional states. Central to this is the positive state of thinking which in itself is very crucial in the development of one's well being.
The ability to sense the line of one's emotions must also be taught. In the process the person will know how to be sensitive to another person's emotions.
The fifth yardstick is a person's capacity to enter and sustain a harmonious relationship with people he interacts with.
Once the person understands this, it will be much easier to teach emotional intelligence to them.


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It's starting to sprinkle outside as I type this now, and the weather channel is calling for 70% chance of rain tonight, so I'm not sure yet if we'll try to brave the rainy weather for trick or treating or try to find alternative Halloween fun.
Here's some indoor Halloween activities today and tonight just in case you are not up for a rainy Halloween with little ones.
Toddler Halloween Party at the Strong National Museum of Play
: 10am to 2pm: Halloween activities and goodies for toddlers. Meet favorite storybook characters, dance to Halloween music, and play games. Included with general museum admission fees. Adults: $13, Children (2-15): $11, Children under 2: Free
Halloween Night at Horizon Fun F/X in Greece
: 5pm-8pm: Trick-or-Treating throughout the building, a costume contest, Haunted Laser Tag, and more. Price: $7.99 (skate rental $4 extra)
3rd Annual Prestige Haunted House at Community For Change
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Unemployment rate at 7.7 percent
The economy is starting to look up and now leaders are trying to figure out how to keep up the growth.
They held an Economic Summit Thursday to discuss ways to recruit new businesses and jobs to the area.
"I'm really excited to see the new jobs numbers," said Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs.
According to the latest figures, the unemployment rate has dropped from 9.8 percent in 2012 to 7.7 percent.
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"We might take a disproportionate hit. If in fact budget cuts in Washington hit defense we will feel that locally for sure," said economist Sean Snaith.
The backbone of the area is still tourism.
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least six diameters of the moon, though the eye has traced it farther. This corona is still one of the wonders of astronomy, and leads to many questions. What is its consistency, if it extends many million miles from the sun's surface? How is it that it opposed no resistance to the motion of comets which have almost grazed the sun's surface? Is this the origin of the zodiacal light? The character of the corona in photographic records has been shown to depend upon the phase of the sun-spot period. During the sun-spot maximum the corona seems most developed over the spot-zones — i.e., neither at the equator nor the poles. The four great sheaves of light give it a square appearance, and are made up of rays or plumes, delicate like the petals of a flower. During a minimum the nebulous ring seems to be made of tufts of fine hairs with aigrettes or radiations from both poles, and streamers from the equator. On September 19th, 1868, eclipse spectroscopy began with the Indian eclipse, in which all observers found that the red prominences showed a bright line spectrum, indicating the presence of hydrogen and other gases. So bright was it that Jansen exclaimed: "Je verrai ces lignes-lä en dehors des éclipses." And the next day he observed the lines at the edge of the uneclipsed sun. Huggins had suggested this observation in February, 1868, his idea being to
use prisms of such great dispersive power that the continuous spectrum reflected by our atmosphere should be greatly weakened, while a bright line would suffer no diminution by the high dispersion. On October 20th Lockyer," having news of the eclipse, but not of Jansen's observations the day after, was able to see these lines. This was a splendid performance, for it enabled the prominences to be observed, not only during eclipses, but every day. Moreover, the next year Huggins was able, by using a wide slit, to see the whole of a prominence and note its shape. Prominences are classified, according to their form, into "flame" and "cloud" prominences, the spectrum of the latter showing calcium, hydrogen, and helium; that of the former including a number of metals. The D line of sodium is a double line, and in the same eclipse (1868) an orange line was noticed which was afterwards found to lie close to the two components of the D line. It did not correspond with any known terrestrial element, and the unknown element was called "helium." It was not until 1895 that Sir William Ramsay found this element as a gas in the mineral cleavite. The spectrum of the corona is partly continuous, indicating light reflected from the sun's body. But it also shows a green line correspond
ing with no known terrestrial element, and the name "coronium" has been given to the substance causing it. A vast number of facts have been added to our knowledge about the sun by photography and the spectroscope. Speculations and hypotheses in plenty have been offered, but it may be long before we have a complete theory evolved to explain all the phenomena of the storm-swept metallic atmosphere of the sun. The proceedings of scientific societies teem with such facts and "working hypotheses," and the best of them have been collected by Miss Clerke in her History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. As to established facts, we learn from the spectroscopic researches (1) that the continuous spectrum is derived from the photosphere or solar gaseous material compressed almost to liquid consistency; (2) that the reversing layer surrounds it and gives rise to black lines in the spectrum; that the chromosphere surrounds this, is composed mainly of hydrogen, and is the cause of the red prominences in eclipses; and that the gaseous corona surrounds all of these, and extends to vast distances outside the sun's visible surface.
13. THE Moon AND PLANETs.
The Moon. — Telescopic discoveries about the moon commence with Galileo's discovery that
her surface has mountains and valleys, like the earth. He also found that, while she always turns the same face to us, there is periodically a slight twist to let us see a little round the eastern or western edge. This was called libration, and the explanation was clear when it was understood that in showing always the same face to us she makes one revolution a month on her axis wniformly, and that her revolution round the earth is not uniform. Galileo said that the mountains on the moon showed greater differences of level than those on the earth. Shröter supported this opinion. W. Herschel opposed it. But Beer and Mädler measured the heights of lunar mountains by their shadows, and found four of them over 20, ooo feet above the surrounding plains. Langrenus' was the first to do serious work on selenography, and named the lunar features after eminent men. Riccioli also made lunar charts. In 1692 Cassini made a chart of the full moon. Since then we have the charts of Schröter, Beer and Mädler (1837), and of Schmidt, of Athens (1878); and, above all, the photographic atlas by Loewy and Puiseux. The details of the moon's surface require for their discussion a whole book, like that of Neison
* Langrenus (van Langren), F. Selenographia sive lumina austriae philippica; Bruxelles, 1645.


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MIAMI – A cutting edge anticancer medication used for humans is helping sea turtles get a second chance at sight.
Shell-covered patients fill the pools at the turtle hospital in Marathon -- all in need of life-saving care.
"When an animal is an endangered species, each one is so precious," said Rich Moretti, the man who started the nonprofit center nearly 30 years ago. "We look at each turtle. That turtle might make a difference whether your grandchildren ever get to see turtles. It's pretty amazing that we're able to find new things all the time with these turtles."
The new thing they just found? An anti-cancer medication that's used in chemotherapy for humans, made in in eye drops for the turtles.
"This isn't going to be painful, this might save you," Moretti said as he gave a dose of the eye drops to the turtle.
The drops are used to shrink eye tumors in endangered green sea turtles.
"We take pictures of the progress," Moretti said.
Fifty percent of the endangered green sea turtles are affected by the fibropapiloma virus, which attacks the soft tissue.
"Whatever they're getting is breaking down their immunity, so they're not resistant to this virus," said Moretti. "So possibly pollution? Possibly."
Moretti said every turtle receives the eye drops every day, but one turtle in particular, Hook, has been the pioneer of the new medication, starting the drops six weeks ago, and his tumors are shrinking.
The turtle rehab specialists joined forces with a vet ophthalmologist to design the eye prescription.
Moretti said he is amazed by what the eye drops are doing to help the turtles.
"They really have nothing to lose and everything to gain, so were very hopeful," Moretti said.


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In a recent article, Bruce Schneier suggested that he prefers classic discrete log crypto over ECC because "I no longer trust the constants. I believe the NSA has manipulated them through their relationships with industry."
Can someone elaborate on a case study what the above phrase would mean in the real world? Could a backdoored ECC allow the passive sniffing of HTTPS traffic that uses ECC for the ephemeral key? Can someone explain the logic behind this fear?