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* Any Pakistani Taliban ceasefire must be complete, says defence minister
* Says cannot believe argument that splinter groups launched attacks
* Calls army's input on any talks "very valuable"
By Mehreen Zahra-Malik
ISLAMABAD, March 7 (Reuters) - Pakistan could launch a full-scale military operation against Pakistani Taliban insurgents in the tribal areas near the Afghan border as early as this month, the defence minister said, warning insurgents against violating a ceasefire.
Dashing chances of a peace deal with the Pakistani Taliban, gunmen burst into a courtroom in Islamabad on Monday, killing 11 people in a broad daylight attack in the heart of the heavily guarded capital.
The Pakistani Taliban denied any role in the assault and a splinter group accepted responsibility.
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told Reuters in an interview that the government would not hesitate to bomb militant hideouts or send forces into the tribal areas if the Taliban did not abide by the ceasefire announced last weekend.
"It will not take months now. We'll have to march in the month of March," Asif said, describing the government's response if insurgent attacks continued.
"If there is a ceasefire, it has to be complete. Without that, we just can't afford to have talks with the Taliban."
Asif, long considered a pro-talks politician, is now one of a growing number of members of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's cabinet who believe it is time for tougher military action against Pakistani Taliban strongholds.
Sharif has been under pressure from the United States and hawks within the Pakistani army to send troops into North Waziristan, a tribal region along the Afghan border that is home to a complex web of al Qaeda-linked militant groups.
Since 2007, the military has mounted a number of offensives against militant strongholds in the northwest, largely clearing several areas, including their bastion of South Waziristan.
But North Waziristan has not been tackled, even though Pakistani Taliban members have taken refuge with allied Afghan factions based there that are not fighting the Pakistani state.
In February, Pakistan launched talks with the Taliban to find a negotiated settlement. But hopes of a peace deal have been crushed by a series of attacks and counter-attacks by both sides.
"We won't just take this lying down," the defence minister said. "If we are attacked, the state is attacked, civilians are attacked, military personal are attacked, we will retaliate. We will retaliate in kind."
For a government long considered soft for pursuing peace talks, Asif said there were now very few takers for the argument that the Taliban are truly committed to dialogue.
"The Taliban have not even condemned this so-called splinter group four days after the attack. They are saying, 'We have not violated a ceasefire, these are peripheral groups, they are not under our control,'" Asif said.
"But we cannot believe this."
When asked about reports that talks may be re-launched, this time with Pakistan's powerful military in the driving seat, he said: "The army's input is very valuable. They are the people on the frontlines. They have to execute our decisions."
The Sharif government's insistence on pushing for talks with the Pakistani Taliban is driven to a large extent by the fear that the end of the U.S. combat mission in 2014 could energise a resilient insurgency straddling the shared frontier.
"If in the post-withdrawal period, the Afghan Taliban become stronger and carve out an area of influence in the south and east of Afghanistan, which is next to our border - that's a scenario we should even avoid thinking of," Asif said.
"Because then the Pakistani Taliban will have a powerhouse behind them, to support them. This option is there and everyone should try to avoid it."
For sceptics, there is another scenario Pakistan wants to avoid at all costs: an unfriendly Afghanistan backed by India. Pakistan and India, nuclear-armed neighbours, have long suspected each other's motives in Afghanistan.
As NATO's presence fades, President Hamid Karzai has turned to India. The countries have signed a wide-ranging strategic partnership and India has pledged billions in development aid.
Pakistan has for years been suspicious of the help, going as far as to say Indian consulates are surveillance posts.
But Asif said Pakistan, and particularly its army which has for decades jealously guarded the right to dictate policy on Afghanistan, had evolved.
"We have evidence that India is meddling in Afghanistan, no doubt," Asif said. "But I'm a believer that if the conditions in the four walls of your own house are stable, nobody from outside will try to enter. We give India the opportunity." (Editing by Maria Golovnina and Ron Popeski)


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It's hard to believe that Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David's awesomely un-PC HBO comedy, launched eleven years ago. For those unfamiliar with the Seinfeld co-creator's show, Curb feels a bit like Seinfeld but without any boundaries. In lieu of white 'fros and man-hands, viewers are more likely to encounter horny Hasidics, amicable sex offenders, racist animals, and girls gone wild (figurative and literal) frequenting David's world on premium TV, making even the ball-busting Soup Nazi seem tame by comparison.
While the star's mesmerizing awkwardness and lack of filter make tuning in on Sunday nights a no-brainer, it's the show's limitless one-liners that keep the Cali crew on our minds (and in our intoxicated reenactments) long after seasons have wrapped.
In honor of the already hilarious new (and eighth) season, we present our official Curb Your Enthusiasm Soundboard. Simply click on the portraits to hear your favorite quotables from the gang.
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GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — About a thousand people welcomed Olympic long-jump champion Brittney Reese back to south Mississippi, and she gave them credit.
After she won, she said support she got from people on the Gulf Coast helped her do it. On Saturday, Reese held up the gold medal and told the crowd Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport, "I would like to just present this to y'all and show y'all what y'all have done."
The crowd filled the airport's first and second floors, waving flags, cheering and chanting "Way to go Brittney, way to go!" as she walked in, holding a huge bouquet of red roses and flanked by police, Mayor George Schloegel and her family.
The 25-year-old graduate of Gulfport High and Ole Miss jumped 23 feet, 4 ½ inches to become the first American woman to win the Olympic long jump since Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988.


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Daylight football
It was great shooting a football game during daylight hours a couple weeks ago as the Rams played a Spokane team for the WFL championship in East Wenatchee. I didn't have to worry about the lighting changes from one end of the field to the other, typical of shooting sports under stadium lights, nor using high ISO settings to get fast enough shutter speeds. And facial expressions could be clearly seen, adding to the emotional impact of the photograph. A photograph like this one near the end zone wouldn't have turned out nearly as nice during an evening game.
Or a photograph of the celebration in the end zone would have had pretty dark faces in the least lit part of the field.
But the same obstacles did show up, the same ones that seem to be problems in any sports photography, either a player or referee walking in my line of sight and blocking the subject of the action.


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CALENDRIER du 21 au 27 janvier 2013
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Activités des Institutions
Déplacements et visites
Lundi 21 janvier
Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO receives Mr Roberto de Azevedo, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO
Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO receives Mr Milo ĐUKANOVIĆ, Prime Minister of Montenegro
Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA receives Mr Vítor GASPAR, Minister of Finance of Portugal
Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA receives Mr Ivan VRDOLJAK, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Croatia
Mr Siim KALLAS delivers keynote speech at the public hearing on Single European Sky II +, European Economic and Social Committee (Brussels)
Ms Neelie KROES delivers a speech at the "Internet, the frontline of freedom" event at Humboldt University (Berlin)
Mr Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ delivers a speech at the conference "20 Years of Slovak Diplomacy" (Bratislava)
Mr Olli REHN delivers a speech at the Asia Economic Forum (Brussels)
Mr Janez POTOČNIK and Ms Connie HEDEGAARD receive a delegation of DNR (Deutsche Naturschutzring - German League for Nature and Environment)
Ms Maria DAMANAKI in Tromsø, Norway: meeting with Ms Lisbeth BERG-HANSEN, Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs and Mr Espen BARTH EIDE, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs; keynote speech at the Arctic Frontiers Conference; visit to the Norwegian Seafood Council; meeting at the Norwegian Fishermen's Sales Organization; signing Ceremony Agreement between the Arctic Council Secretariat and the Government of Norway
Ms Connie HEDEGAARD receives a delegation from "ACT NOW"
Ms Connie HEDEGAARD receives a delegation from the "Alliance to Save Energy"
Ms Connie HEDEGAARD participates and delivers a keynote speech at the 7th Annual Technology Evening of EPPSA (European Power Plant Suppliers Association) (Albert Hall complex, Brussels)
Mr László ANDOR receives Mr Rosario CROCETTA, President of the Sicily Region
Mr László ANDOR attends the conference "The role of pension funds in active ageing and solidarity between generations" (Brussels)
Mardi 22 janvier
Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN)
Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO in Brazil (22-25/01). On 24/01: attends the VI EU-Brazil Summit (Brasília)
Ms Catherine ASHTON in Peru
Mr Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ attends the Holocaust Remembrance Day meeting in the European Parliament
Ms Androulla VASSILIOU participate in the event organised by UNESCO on EU High Level Report on Literacy with H.R.H. Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (European Parliament, Brussels)
Ms Androulla VASSILIOU delivers a keynote speech at the "Fuelling the economy through Youth" event and meets Mr Brad SMITH, General Counsel and Executive Vice-President of Legal and Corporate Affairs (Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Avenue Nerviens 85, Brussels)
Mr Tonio BORG receives Ms Margaret HAMBURG, US Commissioner for Food and Drug Administration
Mr Tonio BORG receives Mr Vincenzo COSTIGLIOLA, President of the European Medical Association
Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN receives Mr Peter PIOT, Chair of the European Research & Innovation Area Board (ERIAB), Mr Luc SOETE, Chair of I4G, and Ms Lena TSIPOURI, Chair of the European Forum on Forward Looking Activities (EFFLA)
Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN receives Mr Jean-Paul HERTEMANN, CEO of Safran
Mr Günther H. OETTINGER delivers a speech at the Handelsblatt Jahrestagung Energiewirtschaft event (Berlin)
Ms Connie HEDEGAARD receives Mr Rainer HINRICHS-RAHLWES, President of EREC (European Renewable Energies Federation)
Ms Connie HEDEGAARD receives Mayors from the Region of Zealand
Ms Connie HEDEGAARD participates in a panel conference organized by European Voice and entitled "Building a bridge to a new climate deal: the EU and the carbon market challenge" (Residence Palace, Brussels)
Mr Štefan FÜLE receives the Foreign Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mr Nikola POPOSKI
Mr Štefan FÜLE meets the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Mr Ahmet DAVUTOGLU (Brussels)
Mr László ANDOR opens the Seminar of Tuscany Region on youth policies and the European Social Fund (Brussels)
Mr László ANDOR and Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM receive Ms Eva NORDMARK, President of TCO, Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees
Mr László ANDOR receives Mr Stefan GRUTTNER, Social Minister of Hessen
Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM delivers a speech at the presentation of the EDPS Strategy 2013-2014 (European Data Protection Supervisor)
Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM delivers a speech at the inauguration of the Raoul Wallenberg room at the European Parliament
Mercredi 23 janvier
Ms Catherine ASHTON in Chile (23-26/01): co-chairs the EU-LAC ministerial meeting; participates in the CELAC-EU summit (Santiago)
Ms Viviane REDING (23-25/01), Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA (23-25/01), Ms Neelie KROES (23-26/01), Mr Olli REHN (23-26/01), Mr Michel BARNIER (23-26/01), Mr Günther H. OETTINGER (23-25/01), Ms Connie HEDEGAARD (24-26/01) and Mr László ANDOR (24/01) attend the World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland)
Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA receives Mr Kostas HATZIDAKIS, Minister of Development, Competitiveness, Infrastucture, Transport & Networks of Greece
Mr Antonio TAJANI in Peru (23-24/01). On 23/01: meets the President of the Republic Mr Ollanta HUMALA TASSO, the President of the Council of Ministers Mr Juan Federico JIMENEZ MAYOR, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Rafael RONCAGLIOLO ORBEGOZO, the Minister of Production Ms Gladys TRIVEÑO CHAN JAN, the Vice-Minister of Mining Mr Guillermo SHINNO HUAMANI, the Vice-Minister of Finances Mr Carlos OLIVA, the Vice-Minister of Trade Mr Carlos POSADA and President of the Central Bank Mr Julio VELARDE FLORES (Lima). On 24/01: working breakfast and opening event PROMO UE with Vice-Minister of Trade Mr Carlos POSADA (Chiclayo); visit of "Comunidad en diálogo" (Reque) and visit of Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo
Mr Janez POTOČNIK and Ms Connie HEDEGAARD receive Mr Valentinas MAZURONIS, Lithuanian Minister for Environment
Mr Michel BARNIER receives Mr Ruairi QUINN TD, Irish Minister for Education and Skills
Mr Karel DE GUCHT receives the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mr Yurii BOYKO, the Minister for Economic Development and Trade, Mr Ihor PRASOLOV, and the Governmental Representative for European Integration, Mr Valeriy PYATNITSKIY
Mr Tonio BORG receives Mr Vytenis Povilas ANDRIUKAITIS, Lithuanian Minister of Health
Ms Maria DAMANAKI delivers a speech at the Luncheon-Debate of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce for Belgium and Luxembourg on Blue Growth strategy, to boost sustainable growth in the European marine and maritime economy
Mr Johannes HAHN receives Mr Konstantinos HATZIDAKIS, Greek Minister for Development
Mr Johannes HAHN receives Mr Rimantas SADZIUS, Lithuanian Minister of Finance
Mr Štefan FÜLE receives the Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr Fahrudin RADONČIĆ
Mr László ANDOR receives the European Federation of building and woodworkers
Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM receive Mr Eugène CASELLI, Conseiller MODEM
Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM receive Mr Fahrudin RADONČIĆ, Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jeudi 24 janvier
Mr Siim KALLAS delivers keynote speech at the seminar "Maritime piracy: strengthening the EU response", European Economic and Social Committee (Brussels)
Ms Androulla VASSILIOU in Cyprus (24-28/01). On 24/01: visits a primary school and a pilot project in ICT in Engomi-Nicosia. On 25/01 attends a Conference on ICT organised at the Ministry of Finance (Nicosia); meets the Minister of Transports, Mr Efthymios FLOURENTZOS and visits the Pascal English School on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary. On 28/01: visits the Latsia School
Mr Tonio BORG receives Mr Peter VICARY-SMITH, new President of BEUC
Mr Tonio BORG receives Ms Catherine GESLAIN-LANÉELLE, Executive Director of EFSA
Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN receives Mr Jean-Paul KRESS, President of Sanofi Pasteur MSD
Ms Maria DAMANAKI receives Mr Luis PLANAS PUCHADES, Andalucian Regional Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment
Ms Maria DAMANAKI delivers a speech at the conference "Maritime piracy: strengthening the EU response" (EESC)
Mr Štefan FÜLE in Strasbourg: addresses the Council of Europe; meets Mr Jean-Claude MIGNON, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg; meets Mr Thorbjørn JAGLAND, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Vendredi 25 janvier
Mr Antonio TAJANI in Chile (25-26/01): participates in the IV CELAC-EU Summit opening ceremony with President of Chile, Mr Sebastián PIÑERA; meets the Minister for Economy, Trade and Tourism Mr Pablo LONGUEIRA MONTES (Santiago)
Mr Siim KALLAS receives Mr Adalbert WANDT and Mr Karlheinz SCHMIDT, President and Secretary General of Bundesverband Güterkraftverkehr Logistik und Entsorgung (BGL) e.V
Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN delivers keynote address at the Femmes d'Europe Projects Ceremony (Brussels)
Samedi 26 janvier
Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO (26-27/01), Ms Catherine ASHTON (26-27/01), Mr Antonio TAJANI (25-26/01) and Mr Karel DE GUCHT (26-27/01) participate in the Summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-CELAC Summit) (Santiago, Chile)
Mr Antonio TAJANI meets with Foreign Affairs Minister Mr Alfredo MORENO CHARME (Santiago, Chile)
Dimanche 27 janvier
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31/01 Foreign Affairs Council (FAC)
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Written on: 07/09/2009 by JeffMcC75 (1 review written)
I bought the Dulux Paint Pod for painting my entire apartment. I got it for £42 on a special deal in HomeBase, so a bit of a bargain compared to the £65 RRP. So far I have used it to paint two massive ceilings. There is a knack to using the paint pod as its quite different to using a standard roller and tray.
Firstly the paint is pumped onto the roller in a small trickle, so you really have to hold the button down whilst moving the roller until you have plenty of paint all over the roller, not just the middle. Use different sweeping directions to ensure the roller gets well coated. Then keep the button pressed whilst you roll out onto new areas, it wont drip if you keep the roller moving. Also make sure you have rolled the paint off the roller before making any sudden movements when swinging it away from the wall/ceiling. If you have loaded the roller with lots of paint and you swing it, it will drip! it cant defy laws of physics. Doing my first ceiling i did manage to drip paint on the carpet, but when i realised how this was happening remembered to always keep roller pointing upwards when moving it away from surfaces and it hasn't dripped on me since.
Secondly it is very good at self cleaning. Though you do need to run the cleaning system twice with 2 x 5 ltrs of hot water (not boiling!). You will need to detach the roller from its handle and give it a finish off rinse and wring out in the sink, but it takes 30 seconds as apposed to 10 mins in a sink splattering watery paint everywhere. Then let the roller dry by standing it on end. DON'T reattach it to the handle and put it back in the paint pod as it will never dry in there!
The system isn't perfect, but for £42 is saves a lot of messy paint pouring, back bending roller loading, dripping paint on carpet/furniture accidently standing in paint tray incidents! Follow my advice above and you will find it not a completely fool proof, but definitely a more convenient way of painting.
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I found this review very helpful because...I have just purchased the paint pod and this review has given me some very useful tips that will set me off with some prior knowledge gained from practical experience, thankyou.
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Does anyone know how the US sizing for the 337 last shoes corresponds to UK sizing? Do these shoes at size 9D US correspond to 8.5E UK or 8E UK?
These will fit a 9D normally, though they do run a little big; so a 9.5D may fit them as well. I own these and wear my true US size.


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Carmike Rialto Westfield
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good theater saw alot of movies there i wish someone had a picture when they had only 3 theaters before having 6 in 1998
I've just uploaded the gala opening ad from the 08-30-1922 edition of the Westfield Leader.
Since AMC just purchased Carmike (this is currently a Carmike Theatre) I can see this place closing once AMC assumes control.
I can remember seeing Jaws and Rollercoaster(in Sensurround) here
Here is the article regarding renovation.
wow $13 ticket price – I guess the patrons have to finance this!
The theatre is currently undergoing a complete renovation. All new seats, new carpets, new concession area, and 2 digital projectors. The 2 theatres in the old balcony have been given new floor plan so there are less seats, but more leg room. Scheduled to re-open on Friday March 27.
The Rialto marquee is currently seen in a commercial for Cablevision's Optimum Triple Play service.
Does anybody know who the architect was who did the renovation of the Rialto?
Was a Fabian theater in 1967:
Courtesy of Bill Huelbig's post on #4309
A Marr & Colton organ was installed in this theater in 1922. It is also listed as the Putnam theatre at that time.
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The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), Feb 28, 1997 p018
Theater goes the neighborhood; As movie multiplexes become megaplexes, it's nice to know the Bijou is just around the corner. (TICKET)
United Artists Rialto Theater 250 E. Broad St. Westfield (908) 232-1288
By Jenifer Braun
Westfield, although very close to several of New Jersey's major metropolises, is a town that maintains more than a little of its Rockwell-esque charm. It has an active downtown where people can be seen strolling about even after dark, and a "50s-style neon sign still lights up the Westfield Drug Store.
There's a little park and a white-spired church, and despite rumors to the contrary, Westfield still boasts a small movie theater, the Rialto.
The Rialto was almost closed down this winter, when United Artists attempted to sell the three-screen theater as retail space. Thanks in part to the outrage of Westfield residents, who formed a "Save the Rialto" committee and threatened to boycott any store that took the theater's place, the movie house is now just going to change hands rather than close.
It will be renovated, but for right now the theater is open as its old self.
The Rialto has stood in this spot since 1922, although it has been renovated since then. The most notable reminder of its former, one-screen glory is the upstairs screening room, which used to be the balcony. Between the seats and the screen there's a long, shallow depression, the "ceiling" of the two theaters below that connects the balcony seats to the back wall. It's painted black, and with the lights out the effect is something like peering at a movie screen over the edge of a bottomless pit.
Aside from that incongruity, the Rialto reeks of neighborhoodliness. If you find a trip to the regional multiplex as traumatizing as a whirl through JFK Airport, the Rialto should be balm to your soul. It is never loud and crowded with troupes of teens, nor does it boast the sophistication and cappuccino counters of an art- house theater. Just Junior Mints, and young couples snuggling throughout "The English Patient," thank you very much.
The actual screening rooms have the feel of a basement rec room, the rubbery smell of industrial-strength carpet mingling with the popcorn. The seats are just seats – none of those rocking-chair, attached-cup-holder models.
All of this is likely to change with the renovations slated for this spring, but at least the theater will remain. Westfield will keep its idyllic little downtown intact, and we can all go there and visit whenever we get attacks of future shock.
The theatre is seen in the opening credits of NBC's "Ed", now airing on TBS.
thanks for the link.
This link details the award that Westfield received. Two pictures (before & after) of the Rialto are at the bottom: View link
This article talks about the 1997 renovations:
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James Nesbitt told the crowd that Manchester United were losing before revealing the nominees for Best British Female Artist. Star of the forthcoming NME Awards USA tour, Kate Nash came out on top of a
category that also included Bat For Lashes, PJ Harvey, Leona Lewis,
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A guy walks into a hardware store and says to the clerk, "I need a drill."
Clerk says, "Well, not really. You want to make a hole."
If you're in retail and your customer comes in and says, "I need a drill," or "I want a drill," or "Where are the drills?" you, the salesperson, begin some response dialog.
REALITY: He didn't come for a drill. He needs a hole.
Now you may have heard some version of "drill-hole" in your career, but you have never heard what the situation is, how to address the buying motive, how to take control of the sale, how to gain trust, and how to create a vision of "outcome" in the mind of the buyer.
If you ask, "What kind of drill are you looking for?" you're asking an annoying, self-serving, time-wasting, price-based question. Zero value to the customer. Wrong direction to close a value sale.
It's likely the customer has NO IDEA what kind of drill he wants – and you, in your sales brilliance, are gonna point out the "drill aisle" and be done with it. You smile and say, "They're in the hand-tool area over by the wall" or "Here's what's on sale."
No. This is your opportunity to become an adviser rather than a traffic director. So far you don't know WHAT KIND OF HOLE THE CUSTOMER NEEDS.
• How big (what diameter) of a hole are you drilling?
• What kind of material are you drilling into?
• How deep is the hole?
• Are you drilling inside or outside?
If you're trying to show the customer the three-eigths-inch drill "on sale" and the customer needs a half-inch hole, you're gonna have an unhappy customer. If you know it's a half-inch hole through a wooden post, you can recommend the right drill, and also tell them they need a "starter hole" with a smaller drill bit to ensure a perfect outcome.
OK, you get it! Drill – hole – want – need – outcome.
But how does this apply to you and your sales?
Well, it applies to every sale that everyone makes – including yours:
• I need a filling in my tooth. No, you want to be healthy and pain free.
• I need copies. No, you want to send a proposal in color that reflects your image and wins the sale.
• I need a new roof. No, you want to have no leaks, and enjoy quality of life.
• I need a credit card. No, you don't have cash, or you don't want to spend your cash.
• I need tickets to a concert. No, your favorite group of all time is playing and you have never seen them before. It's on your bucket list!
• I need to find a restaurant. No, you need to eat.
• I need new tires. No, how do you use your car now? How many miles are on your present tires? City or highway driving?
• I need a flight to New York City. No, why are you going? What will you do after you arrive? Where are you staying?
Just because you don't have what the customer needs, does not mean they no longer need it.
If I call a hotel to book a room and they say, "Sorry, we're full," I respond, "Oh, I guess I don't need a room after all."
Think past "sale" to "genuine need and desired outcome."
What does the customer need or want to do AFTER the sale is made? And how can you show him or prove to them that you have the answers, and you are the best choice to create the best outcome? A happy ending, if you will.
That's what the customer is really buying: outcome.
It's not what it is (a perceived need) – a drill.
It's not just what it does – makes a hole.
It's the desired outcome – the result of drilling the hole.
As a salesperson, if you're looking to successfully sell at your price, build a relationship, and earn a referral, you better stop selling the features and benefits of your product, and look to what happens after the sale – after the customer takes ownership.
GOOD NEWS: If you are able to find (by uncovering and asking for) the desired outcome, and agree that your answer, your solution, or your idea will be the best one – the customer will buy.
Want insight on buying motives – to help yourself answer the question What makes me want to buy? Go to www.gitomer.com, register if you're a first-time visitor, and enter the word EMOTION in the GitBit box. •
Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of "The Sales Bible" and "The Little Red Book of Selling." President of Charlotte-based Buy Gitomer, he gives seminars, runs annual sales meetings, and conducts Internet training programs on selling and customer service at www.trainone.com. He can be reached at (704) 333-1112 or email to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Favourite Track:
Rock And Roll Music (BFS)
Tell us why:
Better than Chuck Berry's unenthusiastic version.
Favourite Album:
Beatles For Sale
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It was one of the first albums I heard when I was young. My favourite early album and it came out in the year I was born.


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Release date | 23 February 2015 (Update) |
Race | Werewolf |
Members only | Yes |
Quest NPC | Dishonour among Thieves |
Location | Handelmort Mansion, Daemonheim, Sliske's lair |
Sells items | No |
Gender | Male |
Examine | A horribly scarred werewolf rogue |
Release date | 23 February 2015 (Update) |
Race | Werewolf |
Members only | Yes |
Quest NPC | Dishonour among Thieves |
Location | Handelmort Mansion, Daemonheim, Sliske's lair |
Sells items | No |
Gender | Male |
Examine | A horribly scarred werewolf rogue |
Jerrod is a cruel werewolf from Canifis who played a critical role in the War of 164. He is a central character and one of two primary antagonists in the first RuneScape novel, Betrayal at Falador. Jerrod, for much of the book, disguised himself as a human traveller, preying on numerous individuals (including the residents of a Gypsy Caravan) in the snow-laden forests of northern Asgarnia. In reality, Jerrod was a werewolf, sent by a dark master (originally believed to be Lord Drakan) to bring his werewolf nephew, Gar'rth, back to Morytania.
Jerrod eventually allied himself with Lord Sulla, a Kinshra lord attempting to overthrow the white knights and the Asgarnian government. After failing to capture Gar'rth during the War of 164, Jerrod fled to the Wilderness with the crippled Sulla, later accompanying him to Varrock directly before and during the war between the Black Prince and Misthalin. After the war, he and Sulla attempted to flee to Kandarin, but were betrayed by the Phoenix Gang. Jerrod was sold to a Lord Handelmort in Kandarin, and was kept captive under his control until the events of Dishonour among Thieves.
Early lifeEdit
Born sometime between 1 and 69 of the Fifth Age in Canifis, Jerrod spent a childhood with an unnamed sister. When he came of age, he was blooded and became a fully fledged werewolf. Soon, his sister was taken to Darkmeyer and returned, where she had a child, Gar'rth. Gar'rth hated being a werewolf and the taunting of his fellow werewolves. Following his sister's death, Jerrod raised Gar'rth and taught him how to hunt. Gar'rth used the routes his uncle showed him to flee Morytania, forcing Tenebra to send Jerrod after him.
Betrayal at FaladorEdit
Jerrod was hunting for his nephew, Gar'rth in the Kingdom of Asgarnia, slaughtering a farm girl, a Gypsy Caravan and a group of H.A.M. cultists for food, causing the citizens of Asgarnia to panic. Shortly thereafter, he detected Gar'rth's scent on Squire Theodore, whom he tracked back to Falador. He attempted to infiltrate the White Knight's Castle, but is prevented as he is a creature of Zamorak, and the castle is blessed by Saradomin. He found shelter in the home of a beggar lady, using gems originally stolen from Doric to pay for his lodgings. When his host tried to kill him for his wealth, he turned the tables on her, shoving one of Doric's stolen opals down her throat and causing her to choke to death.
Subsequently, he passed a message onto Squire Theodore, posing as a concerned citizen, and thus lured the squire into the house he has taken from the now deceased beggar. There he tried to coerce Theodore into revealing Gar'rth's location. He was stopped by Doric and Kara-Meir, the latter of which severely injured him with her adamant sword, forcing him to flee.
After recovering, he tracked Gar'rth and Kara-Meir to the Edgeville Monastery, where he met and formed an alliance with Lord Sulla. He successfully captured Gar'rth, and attempted to turn him to Zamorak by having him eat Kara-Meir but failed when Sir Theodore, Castimere and Ebenezer successfully broke out of imprisonment and attacked the Kinshra. Castimere and Ebenezer managed to bind Jerrod and plant a bomb at his feet but Sulla knocked him out of the way in time. He proceeded to assist Sulla in the Falador campaign, until Sulla's defeat. He later rescued Sulla from vengeful Kinshra on orders of his master, and led him into the Wilderness.
Return to CanifisEdit
Jerrod acted as Sulla's protector, tracker and carer. It is also revealed that he is receiving messages from his master, allowing him and Sulla to survive in the Wilderness and avoid Kara-Meir, who along with Gar'rth and Arisha were tracking them. After Sulla recruited some criminals and retrieved certain encoded Kinshra documents, they travelled to Varrock, intending to blackmail nobles into providing material support to them. Upon arriving, Jerrod noticed that they are being watched by a young girl, who Sulla realised is a spy working for Straven. As a reward for Jerrod, and a warning to Straven, Sulla allowed Jerrod to tortuously devour the girl, leaving only her heart as a message to Straven. They also captured a thief who had tried to scam Straven by pretending to be Kara-Meir. She attempted to escape, but Jerrod caught her, but was disorientated and wounded by a wolfsbane dagger. She was recaptured by the men and Jerrod, Sulla and Barbec left to go blackmail some nobles.
Whilst in Varrock, Jerrod was contacted by Vanescula Drakan who reveals the location of the Wyrd. Jerrod passed this information onto Sulla and helps him kill the Wyrd, unknowingly betraying his former master in the process, and making him unable to return to Morytania. While the death of the Wyrd granted Sulla political asylum in Varrock, Jerrod was forced to conceal himself in Varrock, allowing Sulla to use him as a bargaining chip with King Roald.
Legacy of BloodEdit
Jerrod remains hidden through most of the novel, with Sulla using him as a bargainning chip with King Roald. When Garth fails to return, Jerrod's value increases, causing the Society of Owls to demand his capture. Sulla leads the capturing party into a trap, allowing him and Jerod to escape, and killing Simon in the process.
After escaping King Roald's men. Jerrod and Sulla hide out in a house Jerrod has rented until Straven informs them he has a ship that will take them to Kandarin. Jerrod and Sulla travel to Port Sarim, where Jerrod is captured and Sulla is killed. As Sulla is being killed Straven reveals that someone in Kandarin has paid him handsomely to deliver Jerrod.
Following his capture at Port Sarim, he eventually found his way as a captive in a cell of Lord Handelmort and forced to fight constantly at the Fight Arena, which in his own words, kept winning at and was running out of challenges.
In Zamorak's serviceEdit
Hazeel sends the adventurer to go and liberate Jerrod from Lord Handelmort's dungeon. After being recruited, he aids Zamorak in stealing the Stone of Jas by first helping the adventurer bypass several wights and alarms, and then finding more wights so Moia can interrogate their memories. In the final confrontation, he with the other Zamorakians, fight off shadow apparitions of themselves and elite wights created by Sliske. His whereabouts afterwards are unknown.
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BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts schools will no longer be sending letters to parents about the weight of their children, citing concerns about bullying and privacy.
The Public Health Council voted 10-1 to eliminate the practice Wednesday.
Health officials said there was evidence that informing parents of their child's weight status had no effect on pediatric obesity.
The council also said that there had been reports of incidences where the confidentiality about the height and weight measurements was not safeguarded, leading to "alarm, confusion or embarrassment."
Schools will still be required to collect height and weight and calculate body mass index measurements for students at 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th grades. That information will be provided in an aggregate form to the Department of Public Health.
Parents would still be allowed to request the information about their children.
Mass. to stop sending letters on student weight
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They've got muck; we've got rakes. TPM Muckraker
Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality
The news outlet that obtained the emails, WNYmedia.net, a western New York media company, says it confirmed that at least some of the emails were authentic by contacting several people who had received them.
Paladino, a wealthy western New York real-estate developer, has become a darling of the Tea Party movement over the last year, and launched his campaign for governor last week after being urged to do so by Tea Party leaders. Paladino is staunchly opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage, and has said he considers himself "the only Republican in the race who agrees 100 percent with conservative values."
But the slew of emails, obtained by WNYmedia.net, a western New York media company, depict a different side of the candidate. Here are descriptions some of the most eyebrow-raising:
⢠An October 2009 email with a photograph showing President Obama and the First Lady dressed in 70s-era blaxploitation pimp and prostitute costumes while attending a formal event at the White House. Here's the photo, courtesy of WNYmedia.net:
⢠A December 2008 email showing a video of African tribesmen performing a traditional dance. The video is entitled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal."
⢠A September 2009 email entitled, "Easy Steady Big Fella....XXXX," with a photograph that graphically depicts a horse having sex with a woman.
⢠A January 2010 email, containing a hardcore pornographic video entitled "Miss France 2008 F[***]ing."
⢠A July 2009 email showing a photograph of an airplane landing directly behind a group of black men. The caption reads: "Holy Sh*t. run ni**ers, run!"
When one recipient complained about the "Obama inauguration" email, calling Paladino a racist, Paladino responded by apologizing "if that is offensive." He added: "I'm not a racist and have never related Obama's color to my political distaste for him....I'm not sensitive to ethnic humor."
Other emails from Paladino are here. All the emails were either originally sent, or forwarded, by Paladino, WNYmedia confirms. The emails went to a long list of Paladino associates, in local and state government, politics, and business.
In a statement to TPMmuckraker, Caputo, the campaign manager, said:
Carl Paladino has forwarded close friends hundreds of email messages he received. Many of these emails he received were off color, some were politically incorrect, few represented his own opinion, and almost none of them were worth remembering.We're not surprised the political establishment feels threatened by Carl's drive the take Albany back for taxpayers. Our campaign won't be wading through the details of what is just another liberal Democrat blog smear. It figures that members of the Party who brought us record taxes, record spending and record debt would want to change the topic from reform to having sex with horses and S&M parlors.
The S&M parlor is a reference to one of Paladino's rivals for the GOP nomination, Steve Levy, who, it was reported today, once lived with an ex-con who had pleaded guilty in a mortgage fraud scheme involving an S&M club.
Paladino lacks the institutional support enjoyed by the front-runners for the GOP nomination, former congressman Rick Lazio and Levy, a county executive. But Paladino has said he's willing to spend $10 million of his own fortune on the race, meaning he could be a factor nonetheless.
This is hardly the first time that the outspoken Paladino, 63, has courted controversy. He recently said that health-care reform "will kill more Americans through deteriorating health care than were lost on 9/11." After Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) criticized the comment, Paladino declared in a letter in response: "I am not impressed that you kissed enough asses to chair a committee of politicians in the Congress."
In 2008, he said at a public forum in Buffalo that the only reason Public Schools Superintendent James Williams had been hired was because he is black.
And we recently learned that the long-married, conservative Paladino fathered a child during an extramarital affair in the 90s.
Late Update: Paladino has responded to the email brouhaha at a press conference, declaring he's not a racist, and adding:
To any of the ladies I've offended, I apologize. I say this to the men out there who have never opened a graphic image on the Internet: Don't vote for me. For those who have, I welcome your vote.
Separately, his spokesman, Caputo, accused Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the front-runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, of being behind the leak.


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Interview: Daniel Radcliffe
As the Harry Potter saga comes to an end on Friday 15, the young actor leaves wizardry behind for Brooklyn Bridge date nights and a summer of show tunes.
Mon Jul 11 2011
What's your perfect NYC weekend?
I'm a very bad person to ask because I don't do much. My one ambition in New York that I haven't been able to fulfill yet is to see a fight at Madison Square Garden. If my girlfriend was here, we'd probably both go lie down on the grass at the piers on the West Side Highway in the West Village, and sort of sunbathe together and chill out there, although I never take any clothes off; I'm not one of those people. Part of the perfect weekend would also include seeing The Book of Mormon. I would quite happily see it again once a week for the rest of my life if I could. It's one of the funniest, cleverest, most heartfelt things I've ever watched.
It doesn't sound like you get much downtime.
Not at the moment. After the next three weeks, I'm kind of in the clear, which is going to be awesome. Just getting the show going was hard work enough. There was a little dip when I didn't have to do quite as much, but then we started doing all the press for the show, and then the award season on Broadway is a very, very busy time. But it's a nice test of stamina. And now I've got the Potter publicity and all of that stuff starting up again, but after that is over, I can just relax and enjoy the summer.
And you can go hang out on the piers.
And my girlfriend gets here, so that will be awesome.
Mind if I give you some date advice? Walking over the Brooklyn Bridge, if you can swing that, is really fun. And there are less people at night, which is probably good for you.
That'll be me going at night, then, yes. We want to do that, and we want to do the High Line as well, but that is another one that gets very busy with people.
You've been done with filming on Potter for about a year; is it weird revisiting that world now that you're doing press for the final movie?
I thought it was going to be weird, but actually I'm so delighted with the film. I did not think I would be as proud and as happy as I am, which is lovely. So actually it's a real pleasure to be able to come back to it. I think [Deathly Hallows: Part 2] is just light years ahead of any of the others, in terms of filmmaking, in terms of acting. I find it really amazing that it was made more or less at the same time as part one because I think we're different actors in it, and I don't know how that happened.
The subject matter in this film is a lot heavier than in previous ones.
I said to someone the other day, 'It's like the emotional range of Shakespeare with the action and blood of Tarantino.' The body count in this film is massive.
Did you get to keep any souvenirs?
I've got two pairs of glasses, one without lenses and one with. [One is] a pair from the first film, which is kind of cool because my head was tiny then. I didn't want anything else.
The character of Harry is pretty different from the character of J. Pierrepont Finch; one is good and brave, and the other is unscrupulous and amoral. Has one been more fun to play?
Finch has certainly got balls, which Harry does. There's a certain amount of fearlessness in Finch because he has nothing to lose; that inspires a certain level of bravery in him. I can't really compare them because they're in different mediums, but if I had to choose, I'd probably say [Finch]. He doesn't have necessarily the big emotional arc that Harry had, but in terms of fun and getting laughs and doing comedy, Finch is probably more fun.
What will you miss most about playing Harry Potter?
It's very rare in your career that you get to play an action hero. I'm not the natural frame and stature of an action hero, so I may not get to play one again. Things like bursting out of the water in film six, surrounded by a ring of fire....I won't get to do that again. I miss that stuff. I miss the crew, but I will be seeing them quite a lot and hopefully working with them again. I will miss playing Harry, but I've played him for ten years. That's more time than any actor gets with a character normally.
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Lunch break, day two! Omnomnom!
Lunch break! Whee! #onlocation There's barely any reception out here, but pretty.
Listening to my SKINspiration playlist and walking at the park. It's no Lake Balboa, but it'll do. :D
Someone lost this hearing aid at the Chalk Fest today. A patron asked me to make an announcement about it. O_o
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I was a booth babe today. :D
Got this message upon inserting disc two of Rage and was kicked out to my dash. At least I saved first.
It's 80° and pretty. Who wants to go play frisbee in the park? Or fly kites? Anyone?
Is it just me or does Helga Hufflepuff remind anyone else of Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life?
Bit rainy today. I'm gonna go to mum's house, kill Philip, go to Hogwarts, & wait for this whole thing to blow over.
Except for the light rain, this is a great park day, in my opinion. The sun isn't blazing, but it's bright. :D
This is what I got once I'd accrued enough tickets...they were out of Gizmo. :D
If Universal were to ever remake Jaws 3D, they should just set it in their own park.
My Good Morning Day After Birthday butterbeer. Making Food Porn sites jealous since...this morning, I guess.
My mom ordered a birthday cake for me! I'll tell the back story later. :D
I'm tippin' in your honour, @opiatepix!
I should wear my Ten of Us sweater all the time! ;D #bemarie
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Budget Sub-Committees Are On At The State Capitol
Friday, February 4, 2011
California Budget sub-committees are running at full throttle at the state Capitol. A process that usually takes months has been trimmed to a few weeks. Republican Jim Nielsen is the Assembly Budget Committee Vice Chairman. He likes the sense of urgency and says important issues are being aired, but there's much more to be done.
"I still don't see the pathway to a resolution at this point," said Nielsen, "but everything is moving along with greater focus and dispatch than has been in the past."
Issues that must be resolved include transferring some state programs to local control and proposed program cuts. Democrats want to have budget plans on the Senate and Assembly floors by the first part of March. They want to go to the ballot in June so voters can decide whether to extend temporary tax increases. Republicans are resisting a June vote.
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text: Fukushima Plant Now Leaking Highest Radiation Levels Since TsunamiSam Biddle8/01/11 9:20pmFiled to: FukushimaRadiationJapan QuaketepcoGettypic53EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink In case you forgot, one of the worst disasters since the advent of nuclear energy is still underway. And although the initial shock has worn off, the radiation levels sure haven't: TEPCO measured 10,000 millisieverts/hour—that's fatal. Advertisement This figure's 3,900 times higher than the naturally-occurring cosmic radiation we soak up every year—only it's leaking from the paralyzed plant every hour. These levels disperse dramatically with distance—so, say, Tokyo isn't in any danger—but the news should be startling, and proof that the plant is still an enormous hazard to the people of Japan, who are still grappling with contaminated beef, poisoned by the hemorrhaging reactor. [NHK via @Joi]Photo: Getty/Athit Perawongmetha You can keep up with Sam Biddle, the author of this post, on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+.Reply53 repliesLeave a reply


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If you're a Facebook user, you've probably seen its "Look Back" feature, which was launched for the social network's tenth anniversary.
Look Back is essentially a customized video for each user that shows his or her most important Facebook moments. The video proved to be quite popular with Facebook users, and it seems like everyone is sharing it. However, it lacks one important feature: editing.
Oddly enough, the help page for Look Back does mention an edit function. "Click Edit Your Movie below the video player. Use the checkmarks on your photos and other stories to adjust whether they appear in your movie," it says. The only problem: There is no "Edit Your Movie" button yet.
According to TechCrunch, however, the button is coming "soon."
"We will be launching an Edit feature soon that will allow people to change moments in their movies or update the ones they shared. I don't have exact timing at the moment, but this will enable people to remove a post from the movie that was pre-selected and change it to a different one," a Facebook representative told TechCrunch.
So if you're aching to create your own Look Back video, you won't have to wait much longer. It'll be interesting to see where Facebook takes Look Back from here; judging from the company's level of commitment to the seemingly one-off feature, it might turn into a fully fledged new service.
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Green offering breakfast for all students
The Green Local Schools Board of Education heard a presentation on the district's new breakfast program during the Aug. 25 meeting.
According to Director of Operations Wendall Jackson, breakfast is important for children and impacts learning by improving behavior and attention, participation, grades and concentration. He also cited a 2013 study conducted by Ohio Action for Healthy Kids that found 34 percent of youth do not eat a morning meal before leaving home for the day.
He said the district's breakfast program includes the following:
√ The breakfast program will be offered in all of the district's buildings. Green High School, Green Middle School and Green Intermediate School currently offer the program. Green Primary School and Greenwood Early Learning Center will offer it Sept. 2.
√ All students are eligible to participate in the breakfast program.
√ Breakfast includes a grab-and-go bag with a variety of items. The bags offer a different selection each day of the week.
√ Bags can be purchased for $1.75. The payment will be the same as the lunch program. Students can choose which days they would like to participate.
√ If students are eligible to receive a free lunch, they are eligible for a free breakfast. Also, if students are eligible for reduced-price lunches, they are eligible to purchase breakfast bags for 30 cents. Students will receive these reductions discreetly, according to district officials.
√ Parents may choose to opt out of the breakfast option entirely by either completing the handouts that were sent to parents (these also are available on the district's website at www.greenlocalschools.org) or by contacting Food Service Supervisor Amie Payne at payne firstname.lastname@example.com or 330-896-7733.
Also during the meeting, Kimberly Brueck, director of technology and secondary curriculum, updated the board on the status of the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) state report cards.
She said the ODE district and school report card has changed and results have been delayed and will be released around mid-September.
Brueck said schools and districts will receive letter grades.
There also will be an additional report on factors including: Prepared for Success (assessing students' readiness for college and/or career) and other district information, including items such as fine arts, teachers' salaries and extracurricular activities. This section will not receive a letter grade at this time, but will include information to help schools understand how the information is reported.
According to Brueck, the overall district and building grades from the ODE are delayed until 2015 or 2016. Once the new report cards are complete, they will be available on the ODE website.
Superintendent Jeffrey Miller said numbers have been good in the past and this is representative of the staff, community, students and board. He stated what goes on in the classroom goes above and beyond what is included on report cards.
In other business, the board approved:
- the financial report and payment of bills as presented by the treasurer;
- a change order with DBS Inc. for the Green Middle School roof project, retroactive to July 29, for $12,531. According to Miller, this is to cover the additional fixes underneath the roof discovered once the original roof repair began;
- a payroll purchased service contract with NEONET, effective July 1 through June 30, 2015, for $33,104. According to Treasurer Eydie Snowberger, this contract is shared with Barberton and the cost has been reduced from last year;
- a contract for $400 with the Ohio Schools Council for the 2014-15 school year for participation in the cooperative purchasing program. Miller stated this allows for volume purchases, such as electricity and paper, and presents significant savings;
- the employment of Julie Pickering as a vocal teacher at Green High School, and a high school drama and vocal music director supplemental contract for the 2014-15 school year;
- the employment of Ashley Burress and Megan Bianchi as fifth-grade teachers; and
- supplemental contracts for various positions for the 2014-15 school year.
Also during the meeting, the board and the audience watched a brief video of the board completing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
At the end of the meeting, the board also welcomed everyone back to school and adjourned for an executive session to discuss personnel, with no action taken.
The next board meeting will be Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m. in Council Chambers of the Green Central Administration Building, 1755 Town Park Blvd.
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T. cruzi has been divided into two main lineages: T. cruzi I (TcI) and T. cruzi II (TcII). TcI is predominant in Mexico and Central America, while TcII is predominant in most of South America, including Argentina. In recent studies from Argentina, the risk of congenital transmission has been estimated to vary between 2.6 percent and 7.9 percent. By contrast, we know very little about the congenital transmission of TcI. It has been suggested that congenital transmission of T. cruzi is strain related, and there is an urgent need to know if TcI transmits differently than TcII. Our primary hypothesis is that congenital transmission rates are different for TcI versus TcII. Our secondary hypothesis is that the characteristics of T. cruzi infected mothers (e.g., age, parity, transmission in previous pregnancies) and their exposure to vectors are different in regions where TcI is predominant versus regions where TcII is predominant. To test these hypotheses, we propose to conduct a prospective study to enroll at delivery 10,000 women in Mexico, 5,000 women in Honduras, and 5,000 women in Argentina. We will measure transmitted maternal T. cruzi antibodies in cord blood, and, if the results are positive, we will identify infants who are congenitally infected by performing parasitological examinations on cord blood and at 4-8 weeks, and serological follow-up at 10 months. We will also perform standard PCR, real-time quantitative PCR, and T. cruzi genotyping on maternal blood, standard PCR and T. cruzi genotyping on the cord blood of congenitally infected newborns, and serological examinations on siblings. We will estimate the exposure to vectors in the household. In addition, we will measure prenatal outcomes among infected and uninfected infants with seropositive mothers, and the birth weight of their siblings.
The specific aims of this study are: 1) To determine the rate of congenital transmission of TcI compared to TcII;2) To compare the T. cruzi infected mothers'characteristics and exposure to vectors in regions where TcI is predominant and regions where TcII is predominant;and 3) To describe the birth outcomes of infected and uninfected infants born to TcI and TcII seropositive women.
A better understanding of the epidemiology of TcI congenital infection is a crucial step toward the potential development of screening and early treatment programs in Mexico and Central America, as well as in the United States, where large immigrant populations come from countries where TcI predominates. Thus, the proposed research project is highly relevant to public health.
Howard, E J; Xiong, X; Carlier, Y et al. (2014) Frequency of the congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BJOG 121:22-33 |
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Acer P3250
Acer's compact, 2.7-pound P3250 is attractively priced in the ultraportable projectors market. Luckily, you also get excellent image quality.
The P3250's other economic advantage is the cost of its 3000-hour replacement lamp, which is $240. Replacement lamps for other projectors are often priced well over $300. However, since the P3250's native resolution is 1024 by 768 (XGA) pixels, you'll need to set your laptop at the same resolution to obtain the best image sharpness and clarity for presentations.
The P3250's most praiseworthy feature is the excellent quality of its images. It delivered crisp, legible fonts in all of our text-rendering tests, and its color images were very strong and vivid, with fine details in both the light and dark areas of our test pictures. The projector earned some of its best scores for its color authenticity in displaying the varied hues of all four seasons in an outdoor-photo series. In DVD-movie playback, the P3250 did exceptionally well in capturing the bright reds, yellows, and blues in Speed Racer, as well as in accurately rendering the earthy browns, tans, and greens in Quantum of Solace. And the projector handled our motion and video tests well.
One of the likely reasons the P3250 projects superior color is that its proprietary ColorBoost display technology uses an additional color (cyan) in its six-segment color wheel, which can help render better results in some images when compared with the five-segment color wheels (red, green, blue, white, yellow) that other traditional projectors use.
The P3250's high brightness rating of 2000 lumens makes it suitable for use in a large conference room with a fair amount of ambient light. In our tests, the P3250 effectively displayed an 8.5-foot-diagonal image at 15 feet from the screen, in a room with moderate ambient daylight.
However, the projector's 1.0-watt mono speaker proved too weak to provide insufficient sound to accompany presentations or videos.
The P3250 is simple to set up, using its three tilt-adjustment feet and its smooth lens zoom and focus controls. Video inputs include VGA, composite video, S-Video, and HDMI. If you have a laptop with DVI or Mini DisplayPort, you'll need a DVI-to-VGA or Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter, which are not included with the P3250.
The control panel on top of the projector is somewhat small and compact, but most of the buttons are big enough to help prevent you from pushing the wrong one. The remote is larger and easier to use than the smaller card-size versions, and it includes a handy laser pointer, but it lacks a hot-button for instant access to its six preset picture modes (Bright, Standard, Video, and others). The well-designed on-screen display is simple to navigate, and it offers an array of image adjustment controls.
One hitch, however, is that Acer's one-year limited warranty (90 days for the lamp) is skimpy compared with the two- and three-year warranties that competing projector-makers provide.
Macworld's buying advice
Acer's P3250 is a good choice if you want an ultraportable projector that combines all the essential features with great image quality. Although it lacks the anamorphic advantages of a native, wide-aspect-ratio projector, it costs considerably less, and it delivers business presentations with plenty of visual punch.
[Richard Jantz is a freelance contributor.]
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Fight or Light?
Controversy and Irony at SeaTac Airport
One thing I've come to realize is that many of us have an innate, enduring loyalty to our preconceptions. We'll stick with them through thick and thin, no matter what reality sends our way.
I first realized this some twenty years ago when a friend and I, as two young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students, spent our summers canvassing the state of Montana looking for Jews. We'd drive from town to town--some of which only had one or two Jewish families--and try to do our bit to encourage Jewish identity and observance.
We were quite a curiosity, and were often featured in the local newspaper. The publicity proved useful in both drawing local Jews out of the woodwork and gaining us a welcome response when we called on people.
One thing irked me though about these newspaper stories. After spending an hour lecturing the reporter on Jewish identity and explaining about Shabbat, kosher, tefillin and mezuzah--what did s/he write about? About the "Two Hasidic Men Wearing Traditional Hasidic Black Hat and Long Black Coat" who've rolled into town.
The black hat part was true. Below the neck, however, we wore ordinary business suits. In all fairness to the reporters, these do tend toward the darker end of the color spectrum. Still, we weren't in town to promote traditional hasidic garb, and we'd have much preferred that the article focus on the more substantive parts of our message.
So one day we left our hats in the car. My partner wore a light grey suit to the interview, and I put on the most light-colored garment I owned--a light-tan plaid sports jacket.
Sure enough, the next day's paper ran a full-sized photograph of two hatless, light-jacketed young men posed in front of the newspaper building. One held a pair of tefillin, and the other a Shabbat candlestick. The caption under the photograph read: "Tauber, 21, and Begun, 22, two hasidic rabbis sporting the traditional black hat and long black coat, visit Montana on mission."
I was reminded again of how attached people can be to their preconceptions
when seeing the news reports on the menorah controversy at Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport.
The irony is that Rabbi Bogomilsky and his colleagues are squarely on the very opposite side of the debate... First the facts: Seattle Port Authority consultant Mitchell Stein, along with Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, a Seattle-based Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, wanted to erect a Chanukah menorah at SeaTac Airport. The airport already had 14 large Christmas trees set up in various places throughout their terminals.
SeaTac is a major international gateway; why not share the menorah's message with the tens of thousands who pass through it? There's a public menorah in Red Square. At the Eiffel Tower. Inside the Brandenburg Gate. And in thousands of places throughout the United States and across the globe. Washington State's own governor is proudly hosting a menorah lighting ceremony in the capitol during Chanukah.
But the folks in charge at SeaTac didn't want a menorah. After weeks of stonewalling, bureaucratic double-speak and suddenly canceled meetings by Port brass, Rabbi Bogomilsky's lawyer warned of possible legal action. The airport's now infamous response was to.... remove the Christmas trees, claiming that they wouldn't be able to handle the onslaught of religiously diverse requests.
"Rabbi Forces Removal of Christmas Trees" screamed the headlines. For the first 24 hours after the story broke, the news outlets, reflecting statements being made by airport officials, actually reported that the rabbi was "offended" by the trees and had threatened to sue to have them removed. Eventually the stories themselves became more factually correct, but the original slant remained, and most viewers and readers were left with the impression that all this was part of what's lately being called the "War Against Christmas," spawning reams of hate mail to Jewish organizations and websites across the country.
Some of the news stories had an almost surreal quality to them: the rabbi would be quoted insisting that he has nothing against the trees, that he never in any way implied that he would sue to have the trees be removed, and that he is simply fighting for the right to put up a menorah; yet as he speaks, we see the news banner on the screen behind him: "Rabbi Threatens Lawsuit; Christmas Trees Removed." The reporter interviews the rabbi, asking his prepared question and then delivering his prepared sign-off, as if completely oblivious to what his interviewee has actually said.
It seems that there isn't much you can do to separate a person from his beloved preconceptions: apparently, some reporters and news editors already "knew" that the rabbi is against the trees, and once they knew that, nothing--not even their own reportage--was going to change the way they present the story.
Even now, when the trees are back up, the rabbi promised not to sue (at least not this year), and the airport has (sort of) intimated that they may respond positively to his request.... next year (maybe), the media continues to spin the "War Against Christmas" story and the hate mail continues to pour in.
The irony is that, for the last 25 years, there has been an ongoing debate within the Jewish community on the very issue of religious displays in public
places during the winter holiday season--with Rabbi Bogomilsky and his colleagues squarely on the very opposite side of the debate than the side that's
being attributed to him.
The sight of one menorah burning proudly through the night will do more for Jewish continuity than the removal of 1000 Christmas trees... There are 300 million people living in America, a large majority of whom are proud Christians; among them live about 5 million Jews. Come December, trees and other holiday paraphernalia blossom forth throughout the length and breadth of the land. Many Jews feel challenged by this phenomenon. "How can I raise my child to feel secure in and proud of his Jewishness," they wonder, "when he's confronted by these displays in every store window, hotel lobby and village square? How can I myself avoid feeling resentful, left out, discriminated against?"
Not long ago, the answer for many was: We'll fight the trees! We'll take them to court, we'll cite the Establishment Clause, and get all religious symbols removed from the public domain.
Chabad-Lubavitch took a different tack. Don't fight to remove the trees--put up menorahs! Don't direct your efforts to make America "less Christian"--work to celebrate America's freedom to encourage Jews in their Jewishness. Would not a single positive message be so much more effective than a thousand un-messages? Would not the sight of a single menorah burning proudly through the night do more for Jewish pride and Jewish continuity than the removal of a thousand trees?
Today, most of the Jewish community has been won over to this view. But it wasn't so long ago that Chabad-Lubavitch encountered vehement opposition for spearheading the "shower them with light" approach. I remember one particular year in the mid 1980's when I was involved in helping organize the activities surrounding the public menorah lightings during Chanukah in Seattle (yes, the very same Seattle). A national Jewish organization took the city to court to try and force them to revoke their permission for Chabad-Lubavitch to put up the menorah. They were actually quite apologetic to us: "Please understand, we have nothing against your menorah, but we're suing the city to make them take down the Christmas trees and crèches, so in all fairness, we need to fight the menorah too..."
So, irony of ironies, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi trying to put up a menorah is portrayed in hundreds of newspapers and television broadcasts from coast to coast as... the man who made SeaTac Airport remove the trees.
Shamefully, the airport is still obfuscating about why it is one of the only
places in the United States to deny a menorah request. Hopefully in the short
time left between now and Chanukah they will "see the light."
But if there's a lesson here for the rest of us, it may simply be: don't presume. Don't think that you already know what your fellow human being is all about, what he or she stands for, what s/he wants to achieve. If we'd listen to each other more, we might actually like what we hear.
Happy Chanukah!
Please be sure to visit www.chanukah.org to learn all about the meaning and practice of the Chanukah holiday, as well as to find local Chanukah celebrations.
Spokane, WA
"So says the Lord: of the way of the nations you shall not learn, ..."
Lighting the menorah in the mall the way that Christians light their tree, side by side with their tree and their decorations reminds me of the prophet's words above.
In my opinion, the answer to the issue posted in this article has already been answered by the prophet Yirmiyahu.
Hville, USA
Las Vegas, NV
My husband and I will boycott all stores, if we can, that displays anything that has to do with any Christian holiday.
To all the Jews on this list that intermarry or who thinks Hanukkah is a less important holiday than Christmas stop being Jewish. Hanukkah is a beautiful holiday for those of us Jews that take pride in being Jewish.
Des Plaines, Illinois
I do have less affection for the Jewish people today than I did a few years ago.
I realized with this Seattle airport conflict and learning that you had sued to remove Christian symbols from towns across America that given the chance the Jewish people will attack my faith and bring it down. You are not to be completely trusted and it is your own fault.
Channahon, Illinois
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Juneau, Alaska
wife questions me why SeaTac would do that and I could only say I don't know. Maybe the Rabbi shouldn't have bothered? Hopefully the next time I bring Devyn Maii, Jaydens, little Madison Joy, and our newborn Sean Preston through SeaTac, my kids can proudly point out their Chanukah Menorah. Hopefully!
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Posted By Dan Rakusan On Jan 30 2009 @ 5:24 pm In New York Rangers | No Comments
Well, it was a numbers game and a matter of time, but the Rangers finally found a roster spot for Dan Fritsche. Of course, it was with another team…
The Rangers, desperately in need of defensive depth, moved the infrequently-used forward to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for defensive "prospect" Erik Reitz.
Reitz, a former 6th round pick, has decent size, skating ability and what appears to be a knack for defensive play. He's not a point-producer, and never has been.
As far as Fritsche is concerned, the throw-in on the Nikolai Zherdev deal was never able to establish himself as a full-time player with the Rangers. He had one goal and 3 assists in the 16 games he drew in on, and was simply a victim of forward depth on the Rangers. He will likely see more playing time with the Wild, and be able to show the skills that made him a very good player for the USA at the World Juniors a few years back. He has offensive talent, but hasn't managed to transfer that skill to the NHL level yet. Perhaps this is his opportunity.
Erik Reitz, the 170th pick in 2000, seems like a poor man's version of Chris Phillips. Sure, that doesn't sound like much right now, but what it effectively means is that he is a solid positional player who brings a no-frills skillset to the table. He'll prove valuable in both the minor leagues, and in emergency call-up situations. There is nothing notable or fancy about his game. He's simply a decent pickup to fill gaps.
Before people start opining about this being the start of a major move (let's not forget the Rangers are attached to every big-ticket trade chip out there), I think it's important to consider the fact that the cap situation doesn't improve much with this deal. Realistically, it would appear this is simply an organizational move that might have been made to improve the AHL affiliate's defence corps. It's a move that comes with no cap implications for the Rangers, but also doesn't really add much to the current lineup.
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Joshua Tree set for a break
Trainer favours eastern adventure over Breeders' Cup
Last Updated: 15/10/12 11:05am
Joshua Tree: Could head to Japan for his next race
Joshua Tree is unlikely to use his entry into the Breeders' Cup which came courtesy of his second victory in the Canadian International on Sunday evening.
The Grade One at Woodbine forms part of the "Win And You're In" series for the American jamboree next month but trainer Marco Botti would rather give his globe-trotting star a bit of a break.
Joshua Tree won the Canadian International two years ago when trained by Aidan O'Brien and finished second 12 months ago to Sarah Lynx for Botti, who is now eyeing a trip to the Far East.
"It's unlikely that he'll go to the Breeders' Cup but I'll speak to the owners," said Botti.
"We'll get him home before we make a definite decision but that has been his target for a while.
Longer Break
"The Japan Cup is more likely, that is something we need to discuss. That would give him a little bit of a longer break as he's been on the go all year since Meydan.
"The course at Woodbine just seems to suit him perfectly, he loves it there. He was entitled to win, I thought, as he had been in such good form, winning in Deauville and then running well behind Orfevre.
"We decided on a slight change of tactics and there are not many better jockeys than Frankie Dettori from the front. When he kicked clear, I knew he'd hold on because he's so tough.
"It was so nearly a dream weekend with Moohaajim just getting beaten in the Middle Park, but there'll be bigger days next year for him."
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