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Cannot save files. Please help
I've tried reinstalling Windows several times, however this hasnt' fixed it...
As I'm running a Home Premium, there's no way for me to access the built in administrator account thingy...
Running the sfc/scannow function did not locate/ identify any problems.
When running as administrator, I'm still unable to save any type of files.
Also, I believe this issue only occured after installing Bitdefender 2011 as I was able to successfully download the installation files for both bitdefender and firefox.
Would be really grateful if anyone could help!
Edit: When i try saving a file, the "save as" dialogue box comes up, however when I hit the save button I get the message "The file name is not valid"
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Looks like it is a permission issue. Reinstalling windows won't fix the problem even if you give the account the same name because a different identifier is associate with the new account. If the identifier was the same you would have permission to change files. One option is to add a take ownership shortcut to the context menu (Add "Take Ownership" to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Win 7 or Vista - How-To Geek) or you can right click the offending files/folders and click properties and look for the security tab. From there you can see who has permission to add/view/modify files and can change it. Moving to this computer (ie a "new" computer) could have cause the problem because the permissions were copied for the old user account. You can get around this by formating a drive with a fat32 file system (you will LOSE ALL DATA by formating) and copying the files to that, because fat32 does not support permissions.
Hope this helps,
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Hi Trcx,
I actually did a clean install by reformatting the the drive... :/ like booting from disk, formatting C:/ then installing windows. Also, i've no idea which file/folders might be causing the offence. Do you mean I've got to right click each folder I come across?
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So are you moving to a different machine? If so format the device that you are moving your files with the fat32 filesystem. When you formated the computer that you just clean installed windows on it formats with NTFS which supports permissions. NTFS allows you to specific which users have read/write access to which files and folders. Buy copying your files to a drive formated with fat32 you remove all the permission information from the files/folders then you can delete the original files and then copy the files back to the computer. By doing this you remove the permission information. If there was one specific folder that you couldn't save to you could the the context menu "Take Ownership link to giver yourself permission to read write that specific files.
Edit: I just now saw your edit could you be more specific about you problem. What program are you using? Could you provide a screen shot?
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|08 Feb 2011
Am unable to save stuff using both internet explorer and firefox. Am also unable to save notepad files. Get the same "flie name is not valid" error msg regardless of program used
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|08 Feb 2011
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
where do you try to save to? try saving to desktop that should work.
Chances are it's Firefox stopping you from saving. Check here before you format or reinstall another time
Unable to download or save files | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help
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What are you entering for a files name? Are you able to save to some folders like the desktop. Can you save files to an external flash drive?
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|08 Feb 2011
Where did you get Win7? How is it activated?
Try wiping the HD before reinstalling as you may have infected code: SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
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|09 Feb 2011
Hi guys, thanks heaps for the advice so far.
It kinda struck me just as headed off to bed, this problem only starts after I install Bitdefender. ie. before installing, I'm able to download and save stuff off the net. However once Bd's up and running, it all (excuse my language) turns to shit in a handbasket.
Does anyone know of compatability issues between Win7 and Bd Internet Security 2011?
@SledgeDG: It's not a firefox problem, i don't think. I'm unsble to save using both firefox and explorer. Notepad doesn't save too...
@Trcx: It's the desktop I've been trying to save to. Tried the documents folder too... Haven't tried the USB yet... will give it a shot
@gregrocker: Got win 7 thru a free upgrade when I got my notebook. Think it's an automatic windows activation, although I did go to system, and click on the "activate now" link. As for the reinstalling attempts done so far, I've done it from the auto run in vista and also from booting up from the cd, then picking the format drive option.
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Use free MS Security Essentials or Avast 5 with Windows Firewall for best performance.
MS required the Upgrade kits to include a clean-copy bootable Win7 Installation DVD which should also have its own Product Key. If so, then wipe the HD and clean reinstall to get the cleanest possible install.
Here are some tips for getting a purrfect clean reinstall - use the ones which apply to you: re-install windows 7
If Product Key is rejected during install, leave it blank and do the quick registry workaround given here to clean install an Upgrade version: Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
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It's been only five weeks since Aviation Technical Services announced plans for a major aircraft maintenance operation in Kansas City, and the firm already has 600 applicants for the 540 jobs expected to be created over the next couple of years.
"We don't hire by the tens, we hire by the hundreds," said Matt Yerbic, president and chief executive officer of ATS. "These are real people doing real work for a fair wage for what they do."
An event Thursday at Kansas City International Airport officially welcomed the company to town. Gov. Jay Nixon and Mayor Sly James reminded the audience that the operation is a continuation of Kansas City's long aviation history going back to the 1920s.
"The aviation industry has been important to this city for decades, going back to (Charles) Lindbergh convincing TWA this would be a good place for their headquarters," James said.
Nixon added, "Aerospace has always been a proud part of Missouri history, and it's still critical to the future of our state."
This is the first expansion outside Washington state for ATS, which is described as North America's largest aviation maintenance and overhaul firm.
The company expects to hire 540 workers and employ 40 contract employees within five years at an average salary of $60,000. Up to 1,000 people eventually may be employed.
"This is an important move for ATS," Yerbic said. "This is our first major foray away from our home state. We are ready to grow."
ATS has signed a seven-year lease for 325,000 square feet at the Super Hangar at KCI valued at $7 million to the city, and expects to ultimately occupy 607,000 square feet. The company plans to invest $7 million in equipping the facility.
It primarily works on Boeing 737 and 757 airframe maintenance, and Southwest Airlines, which flies 737s, is one of its biggest customers. Southwest also provides the most service at KCI.
The new firm will share the 2 million square foot building with several other companies including Jet Midwest, an aircraft painting and maintenance firm that has grown from 17 to 200 employees since 2010. All told, about 400 people now work at the maintenance complex.
Mark VanLoh, director of the city's Aviation Department, said his agency had strived to attract new business to the maintenance hangar originally built for TWA. When American Airlines bought TWA, there were 2,600 jobs there, but that number dwindled to 500 by the time American closed the facility in 2010.
Yerbic said five states competed to land the new ATS maintenance operation.
"This was a hard-fought battle," he said. "You should be proud of your state and community."
Over the next few weeks, ATS will be hauling three dozen semi-truck loads of equipment to the hangar. The first aircraft should be rolled in for maintenance this April. When fully operational, the new operation should be handling more than 150 aircraft annually.
Metropolitan Community College is working with ATS to recruit and train employees. Interested applicants can get information at aviationtech.mcckc.edu.
Nancy Russell, dean and executive director at the college, said more than 900 people have visited the website, and 600 completed the application process since it was posted Dec. 21.


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Medicaid provides the phone numbers and addresses of approved physicians on Medicare.gov, a federal website managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Website users can search by location, the physician's last name or medical specialty.Continue Reading
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Portable speakers come in many inexpensive varieties these days, but to get quality sound, you have to pay extra for stereo. Even then, the internal speakers are usually only a few inches apart, limiting the quality.
HMDX Audio has a less expensive option that allows two speakers paired together to offer true stereo sound. The new speakers, Jam Plus, are part of a collection that expands on the popular Jam speaker that came out last year.
The Jam Plus speakers cost $60 each and are offered in many bright colors, including blue, pink, purple and yellow. (For the serious-minded person, a sober gray is also available.) They have a minimal, compact design, and come in packaging that looks like a jar of jam.
The speakers have a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that offers four hours of wireless play, which frankly is not much. But they also come with a USB cable to connect to wired devices. HMDX says the Jam Plus speakers have a range of up to 30 feet, like most wireless speakers.
Setup via Bluetooth was a snap. A switch on the bottom of each speaker allows for mono or stereo playback. With a quick flip, you can be listening to stereo music from left and right speakers. The sound is decent, although not very heavy on the bass.
For longer playback and good performance, HMDX offers the $120 Jam Party boombox, which lasts up to eight hours on a full charge. Two internal speakers provide a more booming bass, and a retractable handle enhances portability. But those extras come with a steeper price, and you don't get true stereo sound.Continue reading the main story
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In-depth training on the clinical management of HIV for clinicians via a flexible and resource-saving online platform.
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Please join our mailing list at email@example.com in order to receive the latest news and updates regarding the online course and its relaunch in November.
The scale of the HIV/AIDS challenge in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is significant. That is why the EACS is working in collaboration with WHO Europe to deliver a much-needed e-learning course on the clinical management of HIV. The innovative capacity-building platform for health care professionals was launched in 2016.
The Clinical Management of HIV Online Course, led by Prof Jens D. Lundgren and Prof Manuel Battegay, is an online, flexible, open access course. It is available to anyone who wishes to participate, free of charge, but is especially aimed at clinicians in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Available in both Russian and English, the course will provide an in-depth understanding of the scope and manifestations of HIV-related diseases, their prevention, management, and care. Special emphasis will be placed on co-infections and co-morbidities as well as state-of-the-art treatment of HIV according to international guidelines from EACS and WHO.
The course consists of six modules, each containing various subtopics and developed by experts in the field of HIV. Participants will be asked to answer a couple of short questions at the end of each topic. The online learning activities will comprise a mix of discussions, multiple-choice tests, video lectures, case studies or another activating element.
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How do you feel about the word "Queer" vs. LGBT?
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I used to feel that the word Queer was bad and a negative term until recently. I'm of the age of when coming out we tried to be all inclusive and use all the acronyms. When I had a friend that was a lesbian, then transitioned to being male, he explained that he didn't see himself as straight, but Queer. I then understood what the word queer really meant.
I actually really like the term queer. To me it just means anyone who isn't "straight". I like the inclusiveness of the term.
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I had expected men in overalls, but my day with the McLaren Formula 1 team was more Men in Black.
McLaren had invited me to see how its factory workers are gearing up for the British Grand Prix on Sunday.
Arriving at the Norman Foster-designed, glass-fronted headquarters in Surrey was like approaching the set of a sci-fi film. A huge lake spans the front of the stark building and is part of the plant's cooling system.
A handful of past and present Formula 1 cars – including the car that Lewis Hamilton drove to the 2008 world championship – are strewn across the spotlessly clean lobby.
It strikes me that the 1,000-strong workforce probably don't suffer from Monday-morning blues. But Jonathan Neale, McLaren Racing's managing director, tells me that motivating all the staff to "perform at their best" is an ongoing challenge. With my gym kit tucked under my arm, I sense he is talking about physical, as well as mental, ability.
We headed to the on-site gym and pool, which McLaren says is key to preparing staff for the "ups and downs" of Formula 1 racing.
Five years ago the company began offering workers – from racing drivers and pit crew members to marketing and design teams – a new fitness plan to improve their mental and physical wellbeing. Now a third of the workforce uses the gym.
Neale says: "When people are on the team it doesn't matter if you're making the car parts or tidying the garage, we're big on high-performance. The energy levels of the organisation and its resilience, the ability to cope with the highs and lows of racing, are important."
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Racing drivers Jenson Button and Hamilton regularly drop in on the gym, I'm told. Staff actually "bump into" them. Sure enough, I see Button walking around; not a bad way to motivate people into exercise, Neale laughs. Bringing my training kit suddenly seemed more appealing.
I was invited to "test out" the gym, which employs its own personal trainers and offers cutting-edge machines made by Technogym, to go through some exercises as if I was a racing driver. One involved me sitting with my head strapped into a hard-core weights machine, complete with a weighted Formula 1 steering wheel, to show me the sheer strength needed to drive a 180mph car.
After taking a few pretend bends – and I could only manage a few – I was glad to try the less gruelling routine that the office workers face. But even that involved lifting actual car tyres or "steering" weights as pretend wheels.
McLaren is currently building a factory at the Woking site capable of turning out a "supercar" every 45 minutes – the original plant makes just two or three a day. Neale encourages even those factory workers not involved in racing to get fit.
"The Grand Prix is a public test in front of 175m people. Our top challenge is to make sure you, the organisation, have high levels of innovation and skill and that the execution is consistent," he says.
Little gestures like getting factory and racing staff to eat in the same café helps people to feel part of the McLaren "family", he adds.
Working out in the same gym as celebrity drivers also has to be a perk: never has lifting weights been so much fun.


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Poster: What Healthy Diets Have in Common
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Dear Amy: My husband's secretary sends text messages to him. Initially it was an occasional text relating to business. Over the past year or so these text messages have become more frequent and more personal. Though seemingly harmless, these messages irk me.
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Greens running against Democrats, and maybe giving Republicans the edge? Anyone who thinks we'll have to wait till the Bush-Gore rematch in 2004 to get into that can of worms had better look at Minnesota this year. Here's Senator Paul Wellstone bidding for a third term, with the tiny Democratic majority in the Senate as the stake. Writing in The Nation, John Nichols sets the bar even higher. "His race," Nichols wrote tremulously this spring, "is being read as a measure of the potency of progressive politics in America."
Wellstone's opponent is Norm Coleman, former mayor of St. Paul and enjoying all the endorsements and swag the RNC can throw in his direction. The odds are against Wellstone. Coleman is a lot tougher than the senile Rudy Boschwitz, whom Wellstone beat in 1996, and many Minnesotans aren't enchanted about his breach of a pledge that year to hold himself to two terms.
But ignoring Wellstone's dubious future, liberals are now screaming about "the spoiler," who takes the form of Ed McGaa, a Sioux born on the Pine Ridge Reservation, a Marine Corps vet of the wars in both Korea and Vietnam, an attorney and author of numerous books on Native American religion. The Minnesota Green Party picked him as its candidate on May 18 at a convention of some 600, a lively affair in which real politics actually took place in the form of debates, resolutions, nomination fights and the kindred impedimenta of democracy.
Aghast progressives are claiming that even a handful of votes for McGaa could cost Wellstone the race. Remember, in 2000 Ralph Nader got 127,000 in Minnesota, more than 5 percent. Some national Greens, like Winona LaDuke, Nader's vice-presidential running mate, didn't want a Green to run. Some timid Greens in Minnesota are already having second thoughts, backstabbing McGaa.
For his part, McGaa confronts the "you're just helping the Republicans" charge forthrightly: "Let's just let the cards fall where they're at," he recently told Ruth Conniff of The Progressive. "It will be a shame if the Republicans get in. On that I have to agree with you. I'm not enamored by George Bush's policies." But McGaa says he'll probably get a slice of Jesse Ventura's Independent Party vote too: "So you Wellstone people can just calm down."
McGaa's own amiable stance contrasts markedly with liberal Democratic hysteria. Wellstone is now being pitched as the last bulwark against fascism, whose defeat would lead swiftly to back-alley abortions, with the entire government in the permanent grip of the Bush Republicans.
A sense of perspective, please. Start with Wellstone. This was the guy, remember, who promised back in 1991 that he'd go to Washington with his chief role as Senator being to work "with a lot of people around the country–progressive grassroots people, social-action activists–to extend the limits of what's considered politically realistic."


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Greg Woodard was born in Prescott, Arizona in 1958. He loved being outside and some of his most prized possessions as a child were the bird books that he received for Christmas. Woodard became interested in carving when he was on a family vacation to Jackson, Wyoming and he saw the bird carvings in galleries and gift shops and wondered if the people who carved could make a living and at once knew that that would be a good job for him.
After high school Woodard worked with this father in a cabinet shop but carved decoys on the side. His first decoys were not very good and were inaccurate but he grew and believes today that proper referencing and a thorough knowledge of the subject through skin studies, measurements and observations of birds is required to make a good carving. It was also important to understand the habitat, behaviors and characteristics of the bird. In 1985 he entered his first festival in Sacramento, California , under the guidance of champion carver Lance Turner, and took home the best in show in the novice class as well as a new relationship with San Francisco Gallery Owner, Art Bond.
Since then he has been competing in the open class category and has taken home many awards including five Best In Show ribbons from the Ward Competition. In 1992 he also was awarded the Ward World "Best in the World" for an interpretive carving.
Woodard is mostly self –taught. He is a master falconer and raptor breeder and recently he has started working in bronze sculpture and painting it for effect.


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Melissa McCarthy has been chosen as CinemaCon's Female Star of the Year.
The kudo will be presented April 18 at CinemaCon's awards ceremonies at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
McCarthy will star in Fox's police comedy "The Heat" opposite Sandra Bullock with a June 28 release date.
She can be seen in "Identity Thief" and CBS' "Mike & Molly." Feature film credits include "Bridesmaids," "This Is 40," "The Back-Up Plan," "Life as We Know It" and "Pretty Ugly People."
McCarthy is the lead actress and producer of the upcoming New Line film "Tammy," which she co-wrote with husband Ben Falcone, who will direct.


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At 6,400 kilometres in length, the non-militarized border shared by Canada and the United States is the longest in the world. Until Sept. 11, 2001, moving across it in some places was as simple as crossing the street. In the adjacent towns of Derby Line, Vt., and Stanstead, Que., for instance, you could pass back and forth within the confines of the local library, which was deliberately built on the border itself.
This all changed nine years ago. Border agents properly became more vigilant about potential security threats: Suddenly, contraband cigarette runners and outlet shopaholics were no longer their primary interest. In this post-9/11 world, mandatory passports, NEXUS terminals and FAST cards all became part of the ad hoc security apparatus cobbled together in the campaign to fight terror without hampering legitimate business and tourist travellers.
Now, there is a movement to create a more comprehensive bilateral-security framework. Indeed, the subject is expected to dominate today's meeting between Barack Obama and Stephen Harper.
Since 9/11, America has gone through several cycles of overheated fretting in regard to the security threat from the north. This week brought a typical instance: U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, commented on a report indicating that U.S. security forces provide an "adequate level of security" on only 1% of the Canada-U.S. border. Mr. Lieberman said security challenges were complicated by the fact that "most Canadians do not need a visa to enter the United States." While not directly advocating visas, Mr. Lieberman added: "I think it is something that we should be talking about with our Canadian neighbours."
In response, the Obama administration quickly quashed speculation on the issue, while the Canadian federal government flatly rejected any calls even for a discussion about a visa requirement — which of course would cripple Canada's export-dependent economy overnight. As Immigration Minister Jason Kenney pointed out, "It would be massively problematic from an economic perspective."
Apart from flying in the face of free trade, a visa requirement also would undercut the close relationship between our two countries. Requiring a visa is an unfortunate necessity in some bilateral contexts — but it is not conducive to international trust and goodwill. Witness the hostility generated by the United Arab Emirates' recent requirement that Canadian visitors to that country purchase an expensive visa before their travels, or the negative reaction when Canada recently imposed visa requirements on visitors from Mexico and the Czech Republic, as a means to block bogus refugee claimants.
Senator Lieberman was correct, however, when he said that Canada has "more lenient asylum laws and immigration laws than we do here [in the United States]. And that potentially has an effect on us." Numerous experts, such as former Canadian Immigration Service head James Bissett, have argued on these pages that our bleeding-heart policies in this area constitute a major security threat not only to the United States, but also to our own country.
Thus, instead of making it more difficult for law-abiding Canadian citizens to cross the border into the United States, Canada should make it more difficult for foreign security threats from ending up in our country in the first place. And the best way of doing so is through a co-ordinated security perimeter that protects both countries on the basis of agreed-to standards regarding the entry of personnel and cargo.
This is an issue that extends beyond terrorism. A related complaint heard on Capitol Hill concerns the prevalence of cross-border drug smuggling, particularly of methamphetamines, in part because of more lenient Canadian laws governing the chemicals used in manufacturing the drug. The issue could be addressed by reviewing Canadian laws in this area, and by cracking down on the criminal elements who produce and distribute these substances.
Stephen Harper and Barack Obama will meet today to discuss these issues. And the scuttlebutt is that they will sign an agreement, and strike a committee of bureaucrats, with the aim of putting in place some form of perimeter. This is a good time to be embarking on such a project. Due to recent events, Canada is entering these negotiations from a position of strength: With the crisis in Egypt threatening the security of the world's oil supply, Americans will be looking north for a secure supply of oil and natural gas.
Detractors claim that a security perimeter would represent a step toward abrogation of our sovereignty. But critics made the same claims about free trade, which enriched us without making us any less sovereign.
A North American security perimeter would be beneficial to the law-abiding citizens of both countries — and bad news for those who would threaten our common safety.


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A long time farmer and implement agent from the small rural community of Bruno Sask. He served as Mayor of the Town of Bruno from 1966-1983 and as a MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) for the Watrous constituency in the Provincial Legislature from 1967-71.
For 40 years, Percy Schmeiser has grown canola on his farm near Bruno, Sask., about 80 km east of Saskatoon, usually sowing each crop of the oil-rich plants with seeds saved from the previous harvest. And he has never, says Schmeiser, purchased seed from the St. Louis, Mo.-based agricultural and biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. Even so, he says that more than 320 hectares of his land is now "contaminated" by Monsanto's herbicide-resistant Roundup Ready canola, a man made variety produced by a controversial process known as genetic engineering.
And, like hundreds of other North American farmer, Schmeiser has felt the sting of Monsanto's long legal arm: last August the company took the 68-year-old farmer to court, claiming he illegally planted the firm's canola without paying a $37-per-hectare fee for the privilege. Unlike scores of similarly accused North American farmers who have reached out-of-court settlements with Monsanto, Schmeiser fought back. He claims Monsanto investigators trespassed on his land -- and that company seed could easily have blown on to his soil from passing canola-laden trucks. "I never put those plants on my land," says Schmeiser. "The question is, where do Monsanto's rights end and mine begin?"


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Fortune said Apple "remains a financial juggernaut, posting $13 billion in net income last quarter, making it the most profitable company in the world during that period. The company has its fanatical customer base, and it still refuses to compete on price."
Apple, which first appeared in the top 50 in 2006, scored 8.24 on Fortune's rating system, ahead of Google with 8.01 and Amazon on 7.28. Those companies have made up the top three for the last four years.
A recent survey by Harris Interactive said Amazon had overtaken Apple to become 'America's most respected' firm, with Disney third and Google fourth.
The Fortune survey for 2013 featured a strong showing by technology firms. IBM was sixth, Microsoft was 17th and Samsung was at 35.
Lower down the list were Intel (42), eBay (47), Facebook (48) and Cisco (49).
Fortune's most admired company ratings are based on research by Hays consultants, who ask directors and analysts in 30 countries to rank the companies on nine criteria, including innovation, quality of management and financial soundness.
After the three technology companies at the top of the list, Coca Cola was in fourth place, followed by Stabucks in fifth.
Just eight of the companies on the list were based outside the US, including BMW (14), Toyota (29) and Nestle (32).


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Music plays a vital role in our worship services. During praise and worship, our minds are refocused and our hearts are softened so that we are ready to receive the Word of God. Our musicians and singers invest time preparing each week so that they are ready to take on the task of helping us collectively connect with God in cooperate worship.
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A hearing scheduled for Wednesday to determine whether a Kansas City area teen will remain in a Chicago foster home or be reunited with his mother has been rescheduled.
Michelle Rider of Kansas City, North, expected to take the stand at 1:30 p.m. in Cook County family court. She had hoped for a decision after the hearing.
A clerk with the court said Wednesday afternoon that the hearing had been rescheduled for next Tuesday. No reason was given.
Rider took her only child, Isaiah, to Chicago earlier this year for treatment of neurofibromatosis, a genetic condition in which tumors develop on nerves throughout the body.
In mid-April, she discussed transferring her son — who has a chronic medical history — from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital to a hospital in another state. That's when the hospital reported her for medical child abuse, she says, and her son was placed in temporary protective custody.
The allegation, which family and friends reject, is that Rider has subjected Isaiah to unnecessary medical care, causing him to suffer.
Ever since, including a 24-day period when she couldn't see Isaiah, she has been fighting to bring him home.
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~ Kim Kiyosaki ~
No one and no thing is more important than you. Not ~you children, your spouse or partner, you religion or your mission in life.
What is your reaction to that statement?
"Heresy!" Some of you might say. "How selfish is that?" "How arrogant!"
Not really. When you make some one or some thing more important than you – your religion, your children, your spouse, or even your life's purpose, then you allow that person or that thing to have control over "you." You give that person or thing power over you. You lose a piece of you to whatever you concede the power to. Granted, all these things may be extremely important to you but they are not more important than you, the being.
When I made this statement recently to a group of women, one woman commented, "I would sacrifice my own life for my children's!" I am sure she would, as I bet most mothers would. However, that does not mean that you – your spiritual self – are less important than your children. I used to say, "My mission of financial education is first and foremost!" Yes, the mission is tremendously important to me BUT it is not MORE important than me.
Men don't seem to struggle with this concept as much as women do. The word I hear used most often by women regarding this statement is "selfish."
Why is this such an issue for so many women?
In my opinion, we are so used to putting everyone first – our children, our husbands or partners, our parents, our job or business – that many of us have become accustomed to taking a back seat. Some actually brag and are proud of how exhausted they are. They're exhausted because catering to those you love, without catering to yourself, drains you of energy instead of giving you energy. And that is not empowering, inspiring or healthy.
It's easy to lose track of who you really are when day in and day out your living your life according to everyone's else's dreams, visions, wants and needs.
The bottom line is that in order to best serve others, you have to first serve yourself.
Think of a time when you were really happy. You felt free and full of life.
What were you doing?
How were you feeling?
Were you more productive?
More fun to be around?
Willing to help others?
Did things seem to happen effortlessly?
This is you being all of you and making you most important.
So what does all this mean to you?
Of course I'm going to link this to your own financial education and, more importantly, your financial transformation. Are you taking the time you need every day – for you, the most important person – to move towards your financial dreams? Are you putting yourself first… some of the time? It's common knowledge that the healthier you are in mind, body and spirit, the more effective and productive you are… in all the roles that you choose to play. I'm sure you've heard the announcement on board an airplane, "Please be sure to put on your oxygen mask first before assisting others." You take care of you, so that you can better take care of others.


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Beyonce and Jay-Z received licences from the government for their controversial trip to Cuba last week (03Apr13), according to a new report.
The high-profile pair came under fire for opting to take a four-day vacation to Havana, where American tourists are banned, and two outraged Republicans sent a letter to the Treasury Department demanding information about the couple's trip.
Officials at the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which grants licences for travel to Cuba, do not comment on individual cases, but a source tells Reuters the Crazy In Love hitmakers obtained the proper authorisation before taking off.
The insider adds that Beyonce and Jay-Z's trek was a "people-to-people" cultural visit.
Beyonce and Jay-Z, who celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary on Thursday (04Apr13), caused chaos amongst excited locals as they toured the capital, but the source insists the stars' walk around the Old City was led by top architect Miguel Coyula.


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WASHINGTON, DC: On the first day of the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC sex workers and their allies issued a call for change in U.S. policy on sex work and HIV. The panel included Dr. Aziza Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Law, Northeastern University; Dr. Kate Shannon, Director of Gender and Sexual Health Initiative of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia; Darby Hickey, Policy Analyst for Best Practices Policy Project in Washington, DC; and Kyomya MacKlean, Executive Director of WONETHA, an organization that fights for sex workers' human rights in Uganda.
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A little sneak peek of the new Urban Decay Naked Skin Foundation caught my eye on Daily Cookie today.
I have no deets about the launch sadly but it's something I imagine we can look forward to for Fall 2012. Urban Decay excels at creating fairly good base products so count me curious about Naked Skin. I find it exciting that foundations becoming more and more lightweight and use technology that really does mimic a second skin.
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Make a Great First Impression with Your Photography Site
Whether it's on your website or in a directory listing, sharing information online about your photography business is crucial when it comes to putting your best foot forward. Follow the tips below to make sure you're wowing your prospective clients and making a great first impression.
Prospective clients won't get to see your range of skills if they're only looking at pictures of the same subject against the same background with the same lighting. Having a wide variety of images lets a client know that their photo shoot isn't going to be an exact replica of someone else's and will assure them that the results of their shoot will be unique, personalized, and special. Sharing shots from multiple jobs also conveys that you've had more than one client. Show off your experience!
You might be adept at shooting in seven different categories, but someone looking through seven vastly different portfolios might get overwhelmed. If you specialize in boudoir sessions and high school senior portraits, prospective clients might get confused when looking at all of those images together. You can also consider dividing each genre into separate sections or pages so that clients can choose to only look at the ones they're most interested in.
If you shoot in photojournalistic, black and white, with natural light, and more, clients will benefit from seeing examples of every style. For people who aren't aware of the differences, viewing different photography styles can help them realize their preferences and better communicate what they are looking for when it's time for a consultation.
If someone is ready to call you and set up an appointment, they don't want to spend more than a few minutes looking for your phone number so make sure your contact information is easy to locate.
Your bio section is great place to show a bit of personality, but clients are going to get a better feel for who you are as an individual when they meet you. By limiting your text, you're also making sure that your work stays front and center.
Some photographers are adamant about including watermarks on their photos. If you're one of them, just make sure the watermark is used in a way that doesn't prevent people from actually seeing the work you put into creating that image.
Starting prices can be helpful, especially to give people an idea of whether you realistically fall within their price range, but you might also be able to do custom packages that can only be priced after you better understand a specific client's needs.
That first impression could make or break your next client's decision to contact you and, ultimately, book you as their photographer. So invest some time into making sure all of your online marketing channels are in tip-top shape. To boost your online presence, create a profile on Photographer Central—the directory specifically built to showcase photography businesses of every genre—and apply all of these tips to creating the ultimate listing. For more information, visit www.photographercentral.com.
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In a selfless act of love, this grandmother raised an abandoned baby for 15 years
A woman in Shanghai found an abandoned baby 15 years ago and raised the baby herself. The baby had a serious skin rash and it took a while to get him well. This woman was not very educated and she couldn't figure out why the baby's skin was so dark and couldn't be washed 'clean,' but It didn't matter to her.
It turned out that the baby was of mixed heritage and the color of his skin made him stand out among Chinese people. It might have been the reason why the baby was abandoned.
She named the baby Zhu Jun-Lon, and raised him along with her own grandson. However, because she didn't understand the law, it's only recently that she registered the boy in her household, a legal requirement that every Chinese resident has to comply.
Granny looked at her old photo album and recalled that the baby she found from the field was covered with skin rash and she had to get medication for him three times a day. It took a week before the rash went down. But then she was baffled by the baby's skin color. No matter how she tried, it stayed dark. She said, "I washed him everyday and powdered him, but it was still dark. I never went to school, so I had never heard of mixed race or bi-racial children."
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When Zhu Jun-Lon was asked if he misses his biological parents, the 15-year old boy said that he used to miss them but doesn't anymore. Granny worked hard to raise him and will now formally adopt him, and he simply wants to treasure their fated connection. He seems mature for his age and is used to being questioned by strangers.
He continued, "Granny saved me, raised me, and is registering me as her own family. I am very grateful. When I grow up, I want to repay her kindness."


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The Cartoon Museum was founded by a dedicated and passionate group of cartoonists, collectors and lovers of the art form who believed that cartoons are of interest as art, as satire, as historical documents and often, but not always, for their humour.
The Museum is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, promoting and preserving the best of Britsh cartoon art, and in this section you can explore our collection, find out what is hidden in our library, learn more about the history of cartooning and find some links and resources that might be of some use.
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Podiceps auritus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Cramp, S. and Simmons, K.E.L. (eds). 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
|Identification information:
|31-38 cm grebe. Nominate race in breeding plumage has blackish cap, hindneck and upperparts; lores warm brown; broad golden band over and behind eye; blackish lower face; chestnut to maroon-chestnut foreneck and sides of neck, breast-sides and flanks; white abdomen; iris red; bill black (Llimona et al. 2014). Non-breeding adult has greyish-black cap to just below eye; lores diffusely pale; grey or brown-grey sides of neck, sometimes extending across upper foreneck; upperparts dark slate-grey; lower face, chin, throat and sides of upper neck white; bill dark grey. Race cornutus very similar to nominate but tends to have paler tuft on sides of head and in non-breeding plumage is greyer above and grey fringes to dorsal feathers are broader. Similar spp. Differs in non-breeding plumage from similar Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis in having almost all-white ear-coverts, heavier and straighter bill, flat crown, usually some white on forewing, and white on rear wing not extending to inner primaries (Llimona et al. 2014). Voice Most common call a hoarse rattling "hee-arrr" on descending scale (Llimona et al. 2014). In display it makes a loud pulsating trill of whinnying and fast giggle-like notes ending in a drawn-out note. Generally silent outside breeding season.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A2abce+3bce+4abce ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|BirdLife International
|Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
|Ellermaa, M., Mischenko, A.L. & Raudonikis, L.
|Ashpole, J, Burfield, I., Butchart, S., Calvert, R., Ekstrom, J., Ieronymidou, C., Malpas, L., Moreno, R., Pople, R., Wheatley, H., Wright, L
This species is thought to be undergoing rapid declines based on counts in its North American and European range, owing to the effects of human disturbance, forestry operations around breeding lakes, fluctuating water levels, and the stocking of lakes with rainbow trout. It has therefore been uplisted to Vulnerable.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is found in the Palearctic and Nearctic. It breeds from Iceland and the Baltic to Kamchatka, Russia, wintering from the North Sea to the Caspian Sea and off Japan to China (Llimona et al. 2014). Birds breeding from central Alaska (U.S.A.) to central Canada and north-west/north-central U.S.A. with isolated populations in Magdalen Islands, Quebec (Canada) winter from the Aleutian Islands south to California and from Nova Scotia south to Texas. No more than 25 adults have been recorded during the breeding season on the Magdalen Islands since 1993 (COSEWIC 2009).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Albania; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bulgaria; Canada; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Greenland; Hungary; Iceland; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Kazakhstan; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Mexico; Moldova; Mongolia; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation (Central Asian Russia, Eastern Asian Russia, European Russia); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Taiwan, Province of China; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United States; Uzbekistan
Vagrant:Algeria; Armenia; Bermuda; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Cyprus; Gibraltar; Hong Kong; India; Israel; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libya; Luxembourg; Montenegro; Morocco; Pakistan; Portugal; Serbia; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia
Present - origin uncertain:Afghanistan
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|The global population is estimated to number c. 239,000-583,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2012). The European population is estimated at 6,400-9,200 pairs, which equates to 12,900-18,500 mature individuals (BirdLife International 2015). Europe holds <10% of the global population with a similar proportion in Asia.
Trend Justification: This species has undergone a large and statistically significant decrease over the last 40 years in North America (-75.9% decline over 40 years, equating to a -29.9% decline per decade; data from Breeding Bird Survey and/or Christmas Bird Count: Butcher and Niven 2007). Overall it is highly likely that the population has declined by >30% over the last three generations (COSEWIC 2009). The relatively small European population is estimated to be decreasing at a rate approaching 30% in 21.3 years (three generations) (BirdLife International 2015).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The species breeds on small, shallow fresh (del Hoyo et al. 1992), brackish or slightly alkaline (Fjeldså 2004) waters between 0.5 and 2 m deep and between 1 and 20 ha in area (Snow and Perrins 1998) with rich floating (Konter 2001), submergent and emergent vegetation (Fjeldså 2004). Habitats include small pools, marshes with patches of open water and secluded sections of larger lakes and rivers (del Hoyo et al. 1992). The nest is a platform of aquatic vegetation either floating and anchored to emergent vegetation, built from the lake bottom (where water is shallow) or built on rocks at water level (del Hoyo et al. 1992). In its wintering range the species frequents coastal inshore waters (del Hoyo et al. 1992) up to 10-20 m in depth (Fjeldså 2004) including sheltered bays (del Hoyo et al. 1992), lagoons and estuaries (Ogilvie and Rose 2003). It may also occur on large lake and river systems south of its breeding range (del Hoyo et al. 1992, Fjeldså 2004).
Its diet consists predominantly of fish and invertebrates such as adult and larval insects (e.g. beetles, dragonflies, mayflies, water bugs, damselflies and caddisflies), crustaceans (del Hoyo et al. 1992) (e.g. brine shrimp, cladocerans, amphipods, decapods (del Hoyo et al. 1992), crayfish (Fjeldså 2004) and crabs (Konter 2001)), molluscs and worms (del Hoyo et al. 1992). Fish and crustaceans are more important components of the diet during the winter when the species is at sea (del Hoyo et al. 1992). This species is fully migratory (del Hoyo et al. 1992) and travels over land in stages on a broad front, some populations only moving short distances to the nearest ice-free coast (Fjeldså 2004).
|Terrestrial; Freshwater; Marine
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Movement patterns:
|Full Migrant
|Congregatory (and dispersive)
|Major Threat(s):
|The main threats to the species are human disturbance, forestry operations around breeding lakes (e.g. afforestation leading to hydrological changes and resulting in reduced numbers of invertebrate prey), fluctuating water levels, and the stocking of lakes with rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (which competes with the species for aquatic insects) (del Hoyo et al. 1992), shallowing, overgrowth of water plants and drying of wetlands, especially in the south part of range owing to the climate change (Mischenko unpublished). Outbreaks of Type E Botulism in the Great Lakes may be an important cause of mortality (COSEWIC 2009). Historical range contractions have also occurred due to acidification and increased humus content of lakes, and the species is vulnerable to hypertrophication (Fjeldså 2004). It is commonly caught and accidentally drowned in fishing nets (del Hoyo et al. 1992) and is particularly vulnerable to oil spills in the marine environment during the winter (del Hoyo et al. 1992, Ogilvie and Rose 2003, Fjeldså 2004, COSEWIC 2009). On the prairies of Canada the spread of predators (Common Raven Corvus corax, Black-billed Magpie Pica pica and Raccoon Procyon lotor) poses a threat to the western population as does competition with other waterbirds such as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena and Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps (COSEWIC 2009).
|Conservation Actions:
Conservation and Research Actions Underway
CMS Appendix II (western Palearctic populations). EU Birds Directive Annex I. Bern Convention Appendix II. In Canada the western population (British Columbia to Ontario) is considered of Special Concern and the breeding population on the Magdalen Islands, Quebec is considered Endangered (COSEWIC 2009). An action plan for the population breeding on the Magdalen Islands, Canada has been developed (Environment Canada 2014). At a breeding lake in Scotland (Loch Ruthven) sedge beds are being extended to provide more nesting habitat for the species (Ogilvie and Rose 2003).
Conservation and Research Actions Proposed
Identify sites of international importance for the species and implement site protection. Populations should be closely monitored to determine whether numbers are stable or whether local declines are symptomatic of more widespread problems. Conduct survey work to accurately ascertain the current population sizes of both subspecies. Marginal populations in north-western Europe which have shown strong historical fluctuations should also be monitored (O'Donnel and Fjeldså 1997). Stricter legislation on oil drilling and transport should be enforced and mitigation measures against bycatch in fisheries implemented.
For the population breeding on the Magdalen Islands, Canada a series of approaches to conserving the species have been proposed (Environment Canada 2014) including: protect critical habitat; increase awareness of the species among the general public; work with land managers to protect important habitats and sites for the species; limit human disturbance; implement research into population dynamics and ecology including migration patterns; develop methods to reduce interspecific competition; work with partners in the U.S.A. where birds from the Magdalen Islands are likely to winter.
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Justin Timberlake is convinced Frank Ocean would have won the Album of the Year Grammy if his project Blonde had been submitted for consideration.
The SexyBack hitmaker made his feelings clear in a Twitter post late on Wednesday (08Mar17), after heaping praise on Slide, Frank's new collaboration with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris and rap trio Migos.
"That Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos tho (sic)........," he tweeted along with multiple fire emojis.
He then followed it up with a post which appeared to refer to last month's (Feb17) Grammy Awards, when Adele beat Beyonce to land the Album of the Year honor for 25.
"While I'm at it...Frank Ocean had the REAL Album Of The Year with BLONDE," he wrote, adding the hashtag, "#NotFakeNews".
Frank has yet to respond to the comment, but Blonde was not even nominated in the category because the R&B star declined to submit his two latest albums, Blonde and Endless, to the Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammys.
"The infrastructure of the awarding system and the nomination system and screening system is dated," he explained of his decision late last year (16).
Justin's remarks emerge after Adele dedicated her Album of the Year Grammy to Beyonce at the Los Angeles ceremony, insisting Lemonade was "just so monumental".
Backstage at the prizegiving, the Brit went on to insist her pop idol should have won the prestigious award after also being overshadowed in 2014, when Beyonce's self-titled release lost out to Beck's Morning Phase.
"I was completely rooting for her - I voted for her," Adele told reporters. "I thought it was her year. What... does she have to do to win Album of the Year?".


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MALDEN - Governor Deval Patrick and state education officials recently announced that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has been selected to receive $15 million over the next five years through the federal High School Graduation Initiative (HSGI) to support statewide and local efforts for high school dropout prevention, intervention, and recovery.
Massachusetts was one of just two states picked for the award from the U.S. Department of Education and one of 29 projects total nationwide selected for funding out of 184 applicants. The Massachusetts grant will focus on the 133 high schools throughout the Commonwealth that exceeded the statewide annual dropout rate of 2.9 percent in the 2008-09 school year.
"Massachusetts students lead the nation in achievement but we will keep pushing until all our children are succeeding," said Governor Patrick. "These funds will help us continue to develop the strategies that engage and reach all of our students."
"Reducing the dropout rate is a top priority for this administration," said Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray. "This grant will help support our continued work to identify best practices for high school dropout prevention, intervention, and recovery and help apply those methods to more schools in the Commonwealth."
As part of his strategic vision to improve public education across the state, Governor Patrick's Education Action Agenda included the appointment of a Graduation and Dropout Prevention and Recovery Commission. The commission presented a report that included a number of recommendations on how the state could dramatically reduce the dropout rate through setting aggressive goals and intensifying supports.
The Department announced earlier this year that the state's high school dropout rate dropped to under 3 percent for the first time in the last decade, marking the third straight year of improvement but recognizing that there is still work to do.
The planning and implementation of the HSGI project will be led by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The goal is to increase support for district-level initiatives through funding and technical assistance as well as bolstering the state-level infrastructure to maximize local activities to substantially increase the number of students who earn a high school diploma. This will be accomplished through a range of activities that promote mutual sharing of needs and promising practices at and across the state and local levels.
"Every student that drops out is a story of tragedy both for that individual student's future prospects and for the Commonwealth," said Education Secretary Paul Reville. "We owe it to our students and to our economic future to ensure every student received the teaching and learning and support they need to graduate from high school ready for future challenges."
"We have a moral and a fiscal imperative to reduce the dropout rate and increase the high school graduation rate," said Elementary and Secondary Education Mitchell Chester. "Today's students are facing increased expectations in higher education and the workforce and dropping out of school will not get them there."
The HSGI grant will engage the 133 targeted high schools in the process of conducting a careful analysis to identify their at-risk students and advise them on effective and appropriate programs and policies to strengthen dropout prevention, intervention, and recovery approaches within each district. Massachusetts will collaborate with schools to assist them in implementing the highest quality interventions through technical assistance, training, and the exchange of promising practices.
Through the HSGI grant project the ESE will implement four key activities, which combine local and state-level actions:
The HGSI award caps nearly six months of good news in public education, and is the fifth major competitive grant the state has received since May.
The Commonwealth earned the top score in the national Race to the Top competition and secured $250 million in funding to help implement the next generation of education reform in Massachusetts. The funding will be utilized to build a statewide data system to better track student performance, inform instructional practices and provide a new measure of teacher and principal effectiveness as well as to build a more professional teacher development and support system. Race to the Top includes a focus on incorporating health and human services into the school day.
Massachusetts also received $13 million to build a statewide longitudinal data system to tie teachers to student performance, $59 million in School Improvement Grants to implement redesign plans in the state's Level 3 and 4 schools; $27 million through the Teacher Incentive Fund to attract and retain great teachers and leaders in 22 high-need schools in Boston and Springfield.
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Social movement coalitions between Indigenous and environmental activists promote can unity but also exist in the shadow of ongoing Settler-colonialism and Indigenous self-determination movements. With an understanding of the intersectional nature of social oppression, coalitions of diverse stakeholders have the potential to build power and momentum towards radical political change. Coalitions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors have the capacity to not only achieve specific political objectives, but also restructure power dynamics among coalition members and transform social relationships. In order to experience these transformations, alliances must demand more than symbolic gestures of solidarity; hegemonic power structures cannot be dismantled within colonial frameworks. Therefore, coalitions with a strong commitment to social transformation must engage in the process of decolonizing their organizing. Only when an understanding of the complex social relations these coalitions embody transforms into unsettled alliances that actively support Indigenous resurgence and self-determination will these collaborations achieve their truly transformative potential.
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Jewish World Review April 4, 2001 / 11 Nissan, 5761
Debra J. Saunders
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- IT is easy to figure why President George W. Bush can be so gracious about being the brunt of jokes for his syntax-challenged speech. Or as he quipped to the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner last week, "Now, ladies and gentlemen, you have to admit, in my sentences I go where no man has gone before."
Bush understands that when you're a Republican politician, you get typecast into one of two molds: stupid or evil. Dan Quayle or Richard Nixon. That's it.
At the California Democratic convention last weekend, Mayor Willie Brown joined the Bush-belittling club when he quipped that the country "elected the symbol of ebonics to the presidency of the nation." And: "It raises serious questions about whether he's really white."
It didn't seem to occur to Brown that, having dubbed himself "Da Mayor," his ebonics line made for a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
And let us take a moment of silence to consider what choice names Brown would have hurled at Bush if Bush had made a similar tasteless ethnic dig.
I can't go a whole week without hearing cackling about what a lame-brain Bush is. Yes, he's so stupid, he got elected president. Or for those who don't believe he was elected: He's so stupid, he won in the courts and the Electoral College. That's because, they say, he picks good advisers who keep him from looking stupid.
He's so stupid, he's their president.
It's true. Bush has said some real whoppers. "Is our children learning?" is probably his most famous gaffe. For good reason. It's hard to appear as if you care about education if you can't manage simple subject-verb agreement.
(At least it beats, "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is.")
Bush bashers don't think of how they'd come across if their every word were plastered on the front page. Witness talk-radio callers who barely can spit out a clean sentence as they bash Bush's speaking style.
After examining his academic history, Vanity Fair writer Gail Sheehy came to the conclusion that Bush suffers from dyslexia. While Bush and his team deny it, Sheehy laid out a persuasive case. If the president isn't officially dyslexic, his brain does seem to be wired in a way that he often says things he doesn't mean. (When he said, "the federal government ought to have maximum flexibility," he meant states ought to have flexibility with federal funds.)
But if Bushisms are not the result of speaking fatigue, and Sheehy's right, then the Special City has developed a new pastime based on ridiculing a man for a congenital problem. How special. How tolerant.
Ah, but it's so transparent. These Democrats bash Bush's brains because they have this deep-seated need to ridicule people who think differently from the way they do. They're like junior high school students eyeing a classmate wearing the wrong clothes.
Besides, what's the point of being a Democrat if you can't feel superior? Being a Dem is supposed to prove you are intellectual and caring. Ergo ipso facto, people with different viewpoints must be unintellectual and brutal.
The big joke is that this posture puts Dems in the awkward position of feeling superior because they got beat by a dumb guy.
As Forrest Gump's mama told him, stupid is as stupid
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Apple's most notable hobby got a very quiet update today, bringing features that were previously requested and, frankly, overdue. Among the updates is the ability to (finally) rearrange apps on the homescreen and the ability to switch between two Apple accounts on one Apple TV. The release notes are below:
Shared Photo Streams – Accept invitations for Shared Photo Streams, browse photos and comments, and receive notifications of new content.
AirPlay – Send audio content from Apple TV to AirPlay-enabled speakers and devices (including AirPort Express and other Apple TVs). Also includes the ability to require an onscreen code to use AirPlay with your Apple TV.
iTunes account switching – Save multiple iTunes accounts and switch quickly between them.
Trailers – Search movie trailers. In the United States, see show times for local theaters.
Screen savers – New Cascade, Shrinking Tiles, and Sliding Panels screen savers.
Main menu – Reorder icons on the second page by holding down the select button on the remote.
Subtitles – SDH support for the deaf and hard-of-hearing as well as improvements to viewing and selecting subtitles.
Network configuration – Support for setting up advanced network options using configuration profiles. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5437 for more information.
Stability and performance – Includes general performance and stability improvements.
The new Apple TV software supports both the second and third generation Apple TV hardware. There are some nice feature bumps included, although many of these additions should have been standard since the Apple TV came out–especially multiple accounts. The most interesting change is the ability to rearrange the home screen. Until this point, all Apple TV homescreens have been identical: they've had the same content options in the same order as every other Apple TV. Therefore, the ability to switch around the icons (hold down the Select button on the remote à la iOS) potentially signals a game-changer for the little black box that could. If Apple were to introduce apps, users would need the ability to rearrangetheirsoftware shortcuts, and now the Apple TV has it.
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