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BEIJING (AP) — The World Bank and China are setting up a knowledge hub to share information about Beijing's success with poverty alleviation. The project aims to come up with new strategies to solve problems of rapid development, such as urban transportation.
The hub will help experts around the globe communicate and learn from each other to find the best outcomes, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said at a signing ceremony Tuesday.
Kim said that as China tackles these challenges, it is producing a "body of knowledge that can benefit many other countries."
China has worked closely with the World Bank and claims to have raised 600 million people out of poverty over the past three decades. It now faces the challenge of managing an urban population that is expected to grow by 350 million over the next 20 years.


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Petra Stone Products was established in South Arkansas in 1984 as a manufactured stone franchise. Since then, we have produced and sold stone within a one hundred mile radius of El Dorado, Arkansas. Due to growing popularity and demand we expanded our production and warehouse facility to over 22,000-sq. ft. We have expanded our marketing region and now sell our stone nationwide. We are the manufacturer and wholesaler, making our prices and quality hard to beat.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Immediately after blocking Chuck Hagel's nomination to be secretary of defense, top Republicans took to the Senate floor Thursday to claim that, no, they were not filibustering. They just needed more time.
A filibuster occurs when a minority of the Senate declines to vote to invoke what's called "cloture," which sets a deadline to complete debate on a nomination or bill and forces an up or down vote. It takes 60 votes in the 100-member Senate to obtain cloture.
But to Democrats, the vote to deny cloture on Hagel's nomination was a historic, first-ever successful filibuster of a Cabinet nominee and the first time the party in the Senate's minority had ever even tried the move against a defense secretary nominee.
"If this is not a filibuster, I'd like to see what a filibuster was," an angry Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said.
But Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., shot back that it was Reid who provoked Republicans into the vote by scheduling it too soon. After all, the Armed Services Committee had just approved the nomination two days before and Republicans were still seeking information from Hagel.
"This is a vote by Republicans to say, 'We want more than two days after this nomination comes to the floor to carefully consider it because we have questions,'" Alexander said.
It's in the eye of the beholder as to whether what's going on with the Hagel nomination is a filibuster. It seems likely the former senator from Nebraska will be confirmed when the Senate returns to Washington the week of Feb. 25. And several Republicans took to the floor to deny that Thursday's vote was a filibuster and to predict that Hagel ultimately will be confirmed.
In the Senate, it can take just one senator to force a cloture vote, even if there's clear sentiment for an up-or-down vote. That's part of the reason why Republicans say that just because there's a cloture vote it doesn't mean there's been a filibuster.
On the other hand, several Republicans, like Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, say they want to require Hagel to cross the 60-vote threshold. That's an argument for calling it a filibuster.
Either way, it's a rare set of circumstances. According to the Senate's historian, Donald Ritchie, just 5 percent of Cabinet nominees have been killed by the Senate or withdrawn when confirmation appeared impossible. And only twice has a Cabinet-level nominee been subject to a cloture vote. It's far more common to filibuster judicial nominees.
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Well, kind of.
Yesterday, LeSean McCoy took a shot at Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora, tweeting:
Overrated n soft 3rd best d-line on his team honestly
Today, the New York media caught up with Umenyiora and (surprise, surprise) got his reaction to McCoy's Tweet.
Umenyiora didn't hold back.
"That little Chihuahua or poodle in the backfield; he doesn't have to block me," Umenyiora told Mark Viera of The New York Times. "If you have something to say, say it man to man; you can't be a Twitter gangster. That's easy to do, trying to be a tough guy. Say it to my face, and we'll see what happens."
Umenyiora added that he and the Giants' defense refer to McCoy as Lady Gaga.
He echoed similar sentiments in an interview with Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News.
"Oh man, that little girl?" Umenyiora said. "Why? Why would he do that? There's no reason for that. Me and him had no personal beef on the football field, and he's taking it off the football field. All those things he decided to say in Twitter world, him being a Twitter gangster, he could've said that to me face-to-face on the football field.
"But it's out there. It's something he can't take back. He'll get what he deserves, that's for sure."
Umenyiora confirmed the Lady Gaga tidbit to Vacchiano as well.
"Oh, I'm I definitely calling him Lady Gaga," Umenyiora said. "He's a woman."
And finally, Umenyiora explained to Mike Garafolo of The Newark Star Ledger that he and McCoy have had battles on the field.
"Yeah, me and him, we had words on the field – both times we played. I hate him, he hates me, period," Umenyiora said. "He chose to take that off the field and make it public when it's something that's between me and him. It's something we can address on the football field. He let the whole world know about it, so I'm going to respond.
"Oh, he said all kinds of stuff. He called me an 'African (blank).' It was bad," Umenyiora said. "It was pretty intense between me and him. I said a couple of things to him. I don't remember exactly what I said, but it was rough."
Umenyiora added that there is a hatred between the current group of Eagles and Giants.
"This year was the worst in my eight-year career as far as animosity toward that team," he said. There's a real hatred toward Phlly and there's a real hatred for them toward us. So it was rough out there. But I feel things like that stay on the football field. Off the field, we respect each other because at the end of the day we're all brothers. But he decided to take it so far that there's no going back from it now."
As I mentioned yesterday, we don't know if Umenyiora will even be with the Giants next season. And there's also that whole lockout matter, meaning as of now, we don't even know if the two teams will square off at all.
But if they do, we might as well go ahead and circle the dates September 25 and November 20. The first date is a Week 3 matchup at the Linc. And the second is a Sunday night matchup at the Meadowlands in Week 11.
And while I'm not defending McCoy's initial comment, it's worth noting that Lady Gaga did average 7.29 yards per carry against the Giants in two games last season.
Earlier Friday, I posted on Trent Cole's Tom Brady/Kevin Kolb comparison and the latest Reggie Bush nugget.
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Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia (US - DVD R1 | BD RA)
Lionsgate has a release date and cover art for this oddly titled horror sequel...
Starring: Abigail Spencer
Released: 16th April 2013
Further Details:
I'm not exactly sure how Georgian ghosts are haunting Connecticut, but the sequel to Peter Cornwell's 2009 creepfest is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on April 16th. The Blu-ray will feature 2.40:1, 1080p video and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sound. The DVD will feature 2.40:1 anamorphic video and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.
The extras set to appear on both the DVD and Blu-ray release should include:
- Audio Commentary with Director Tom Elkins, Writer David Coggeshall and Co-Producer Brad Kessell
- Seeing Ghosts: The True Story of the Wyricks" featurette
- Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary with Director Tom Elkins
- Blooper Reel
Quote: A young family is tormented by the horrors of the past in
The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia, the chilling new film based on a true story, arriving on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and Digital Download April 16 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgiafeatures Abigail Spencer ( Cowboys and Aliens, TV's Mad Men), Chad Michael Murray ( House of Wax, TV's One Tree Hill), Katee Sackhoff (TV's Battlestar Galactica), Emily Alyn Lind (TV's Revenge) and Cicely Tyson ( The Help, Alex Cross).
Building on the terror of The Haunting in Connecticut, this horrifying tale traces a young family's nightmarish descent into a centuries-old Southern hell. When Andy Wyrick (Murray) moves his wife Lisa (Spencer) and daughter Heidi (Lind) to a historic home in Georgia, they quickly discover they are not the house's only inhabitants. Joined by Lisa's free-spirited sister, Joyce (Sackhoff) the family soon comes face-to-face with a bone-chilling mystery born of a deranged desire...a haunting secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.
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I like the cover art, but I will still skip on this movie (haven't seen the first one either).
The first one was so horrendously directed and haphazardly written that a sequel can't possibly match its inferiority. I'll rent just because for its low budget, I heard it was actually decently made.
This better have Mr. Gordy in it.
It was going to be called The Haunting Of Georgia but the studio gave up on the film and decided dump it and slap a familiar name to make a quick buck.
I read tat at a recent screening, the director went on a comical rant about the title.
I read tat at a recent screening, the director went on a comical rant about the title.
what a weird title.... considering that the first movie was based on the "A Haunting in (insert town/state name)" tv show, you'd think the sequel would follow that pattern and be A Haunting in Georgia.
though considering this is apparently a seperate horror movie that had nothing to do with the franchise and they just slapped that title on....it might not matter.
though considering this is apparently a seperate horror movie that had nothing to do with the franchise and they just slapped that title on....it might not matter.
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State Sen. Mark Grisanti was successful in his fight to increase CHIPS funding for the 60th Senate District. On Wednesday, the New York State Senate concluded its passage of the 2013-14 state budget, which delivers an on-time budget with Consolidated Highway Improvement Projectsincreases throughout Grisanti's district. The increase is more than $1.162 million from the previous year.
"I am proud to announce that every city, town and village in my district received an increase in CHIPS funding. Since day one it has been about bringing jobs and resources back to Western New York. I will never stop fighting for Western New York," Grisanti said.
breakdown below is the increase in funding from 2012 for the 60th
Senate District.
Town of Brant - $5,500
Town of Evans - $32,080
Town of Grand Island - $ 25,563
Town of Hamburg - $ 58,785
Town of Orchard Park - $32,490
Town of Tonawanda - $ 86,079
Total: $ 240,497
Angola - $11,819
Farnham - $1,942
Hamburg - $30,330
Kenmore - $33,548
Orchard Park - $13,449
Total: $91,088
City of Tonawanda - $65,557
City of Buffalo - $765,306
Total: $830,863
Totals combined: $1.162 million
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Desired Situation:
Personal data automatically secured to location that would more likely survive
if device gets destroyed.
Posted on 2009-10-15 18:54 UTC by Janne Pänkälä. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Utilities.
Desired Situation:
Personal data automatically secured to location that would more likely survive
if device gets destroyed.
Posted on 2009-10-16 13:52 UTC by Janne Pänkälä.
This is how I would like the backup application to work.
1) Start backup application.
2) First start up -> key generation (private & public)
(passphrase for privatekey optional)
3) Ask local backup destination (only location on SD card should be allowed)
4) Ask backup interval (1/week, 1/day)
5) Ask which content is to be back-upped
6) Ask if backups are to be auto synced to online location over
- WLAN connection
- Phone data connection
7) Finish.
After this device would automagically do (incremental?) encrypted backups to
the SD card on given interval.
Incremental backups could be done with unencrypted index that has filename ->
hash so we would know if some file has changed and need to be on next backup.
If we wish to be more secure even filename would not be needed in index. hash
of it or inode information would be enough to match.
I know there is online Ovi backups, but I think something like this would be
beneficial for the users. Especially if they are not able to sync for few days.
Lot improvements there
- like where and how to store the private key. 3 security levels there.
1) leave it on device
2) leave it on device if it has passphrase
3) store it elsewhere and delete it from device altogether.
- How to make sure that we do not take too much space from SD card
(allow only backups over 1 week?, allow only backups to take x% or xMB from
- notify user as backups have been completed.
Posted on 2009-10-20 04:37 UTC by Timo P.
Simple program for creating backup tasks and scheduling them. Possibly only UI for rsync?
Nothing fancy, plain KISS.
and encryption could be done with extra option in settings.
Posted on 2010-01-17 01:13 UTC by Kasper Souren.
Based on wireless network. It should be possible to set up automatic backups to a fileserver. When in reach of the wirelss networks with access to the fileserver backups should be made at regular intervals.
Posted on 2010-01-17 23:50 UTC by Quim Gil.
A port of Duplicity exists: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/duplicity/ - although I haven't tried it.
"Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup. Because duplicity uses GnuPG to encrypt and/or sign these archives, they will be safe from spying and/or modification by the server.
The duplicity package also includes the rdiffdir utility. Rdiffdir is an extension of librsync's rdiff to directories---it can be used to produce signatures and deltas of directories as well as regular files. These signatures and deltas are in GNU tar format."


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Couldn't make it to VIBE's first V-Mix concert? No worries, we got you covered.
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Brooke Burke 1 of 50Brooke is a big believer in staying fit during her pregnancy, and it shows. The former model, TV personality, and Dancing with the Stars contestant has four kids but may not be done yet. She said in an interview with OK magazine, "I've had great pregnancies and healthy, beautiful children. It would almost feel greedy to keep going, but I never say never."
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Alessandra Ambrosia 2 of 50Some fashion models might be a little put off by early weight gain during pregnancy, but Alessandra seemed to be loving it, which only made her look that much more beautiful.
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Amanda Peet 3 of 50Amanda always manages to look so stylish with just a touch of girly sweetness, even when pregnant. After having her first daughter in 2006, she told Cookie magazine: "I thought it would be an extended, blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature to life. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to try not to be perfect myself."
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Demi Moore 4 of 50Demi's 1991 Vanity Fair cover caused quite a stir when she bared it all at 7-months pregnant. Is it creepy that her now-husband Ashton Kutcher was the ripe age of 13 when this was released? Eh, maybe, but it's still a beautiful shot.
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Cindy Crawford 5 of 50Fashion model Cindy Crawford followed Demi's lead in 1999 when she posed nude while pregnant for the cover of W magazine.
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Claudia Schiffer 6 of 50Claudia opted for a little more modesty when this photo was taken but looked amazing nonetheless. Who knew turtlenecks could be so sexy!
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Gisele Bundchen 7 of 50Another fashion model who remained beautiful (or even more so) through the pregnancy weight gain, Gisele seemed to breeze through pregnancy and birth with as much grace as any mother can. She told Us Weekly about her natural home birth, saying, "It was the most amazing experience of my life, feeling him come through my body. And once he was born, I never felt so empowered as looking at him and thinking, 'Oh my God, we did it together!'"
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Julia Roberts 8 of 50Julia Roberts certainly is a pretty woman … and maybe even prettier while pregnant with twins, Hazel and Phineas.
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Kate Hudson 9 of 50From bikinis to evening gowns, Kate sure likes to bare her baby bump! Is she trying to air it out or does she just like the warmth of the spotlight on it? Either way, she never fails to look simply adorable.
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Miranda Kerr 10 of 50Another fashion model to embrace motherhood full-force, Miranda has become such a strong advocate for breastfeeding since having her baby earlier this year (though we're also a little jealous of how amazing she looks while doing it!).
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Naomi Watts 11 of 50Naomi couldn't believe how strong she felt during her pregnancy. She told People, "You know, I hear a lot of women say that it was difficult for them, and I know everyone experiences it in a different way, but I'm surprised by my energy."
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Nicole Richie 12 of 50Pregnancy did wonders for Nicole's skeletal frame — we wonder if bringing new life into the world may have saved her own life. She certainly seems a lot happier these days with her daughter, Harlow, and her son, Sparrow.
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Rebecca Gayheart 13 of 50Rebecca's happiness is contagious in this photo as she shows love for husband, Eric Dane, while they were expecting their first daughter, Billie Beatrice.
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Alyssa Milano 14 of 50Currently in the second trimester with her first child, Alyssa is loving dressing for events while pregnant. "I'm not as body-conscious or concerned with the way I look," she told People. "It's more about what's going to be comfortable versus what looks flattering."
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Amy Adams 15 of 50Color-coordinated with the heels to boot, Amy told InStyle magazine that she never felt more beautiful than when she was pregnant. We have to agree!
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Angelina Jolie 16 of 50This mom of six exudes glamour at all times, even (or maybe especially) while pregnant. And to think, Angelina never even thought she'd have her own kids. She told OK magazine: "I was dead set on always adopting … I had no maternal desire to have children. But that changes when you meet someone you love."
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Audrey Hepburn 17 of 50Known for her waif-like beauty, this fashion and film icon was still a stunner while pregnant. After two miscarriages, Audrey gave birth to her son Sean in 1960. Audrey was the 44th most popular baby name in 2008»
Brooke Shields 18 of 50Brooke made headlines when she shared her struggle with severe postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Rowan. Instead of fearing another bout of PPD with her second child, however, Brooke embraced her next pregnancy, saying she felt confident and informed this time around.
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Grace Kelly 19 of 50Ever a woman of style and class, Grace Kelly didn't need plunging necklines to look absolutely beautiful while expecting.
Grace was the 17th most popular baby name in 2009»
Gwyneth Paltrow 20 of 50Gwyneth is one of the best-dressed moms in Hollywood, and "pregnancy brain" certainly didn't affect her fashion choices. We love this sweet, delicate dress, which has just the right amount of ruffles.
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Isla Fisher 21 of 50Another redhead we love, Isla Fisher looked gorgeous and happy as a soon-to-be mom. Though her baby daddy is Borat funny man, Sasha Cohen, Isla joked, "I'm doing DNA tests with the casts of Hot Rod and also Wedding Crashers, so hopefully I'll find out for sure." That kid has a lot of laughs in her future …
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Kelly Preston 22 of 50At 47, Kelly looked simply amazing while expecting her third child with husband, John Travolta. Maybe it's because she told the press she had NO morning sickness or pregnancy problems. Lucky!
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Laila Ali 23 of 50Who knew a former world-class boxer and American Gladiator contestant could look so lovely while pregnant? Both she and her dad, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, were ecstatic about adding to the family. "My dad is an excellent grandfather," Laila told People. "He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death."
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Mariah Carey 24 of 50Mariah recently gave birth to her twins, a boy and a girl, on April 30. The twins' father, Nick Cannon, told Life & Style he had never been more attracted to her than while she was pregnant. "I thought I couldn't love Mariah more," he said. "But I have a whole new appreciation and admiration for her."
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Nicole Kidman 25 of 50Pregnant, forty, and fabulous. Nicole struggled with infertility while trying to start a family with Keith Urban but finally had what she called her "miracle pregnancy" and gave birth in 2008.
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Princess Diana 26 of 50How sweet and charming did Princess Diana look while pregnant with Prince William? We'd probably get some funny looks if we tried to walk down the street in this ensemble, but Princess Di can pull it off without a hitch.
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Tina Fey 27 of 50Master of self-deprecating humor, including when it comes to her looks, Tina is actually one of the most beautiful pregnant women we've seen — especially in this little black maternity dress she's sporting at 5-months pregnant.
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Cate Blanchett 28 of 50"You know all the people walking around with enormous smiles and you think, 'That's the smile of someone who's just had great sex?'" Cate once told InStyle. "Well, it's also the pregnancy smile."
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Catherine Zeta-Jones 29 of 50Well hello, low-cut dress. Catherine Zeta-Jones certainly wasn't embarrassed by her swelling baby belly, choosing instead to accentuate it in this billowy black gown at the 2003 Oscars.
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Christina Aguilera 30 of 50Though Christina originally didn't want to be outspoken about her pregnancy, once Paris Hilton spilled the beans, she rocked her baby belly with the style and class fitting of the pop superstar that she is.
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Ellen Pompeo 31 of 50After years of playing Dr. Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy, Ellen got a real-life hospital experience as she delivered daughter Stella in March of 2010.
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Halle Berry 32 of 50We didn't think Halle could up the standard for beauty any more than she already had, and then she got pregnant …
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Salma Hayek 33 of 50Salma told Glamour, "The best thing that's ever happened to me is this thing that has happened to so many women, which is having a baby. Every second is magical, every smile."
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Heidi Klum 34 of 50Model and fashionista Heidi has embraced pregnancy and motherhood so much that she created two new maternity wear lines: Loved and Lavish.
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Jennifer Connelly 35 of 50You'd think Jennifer would be looking a little tired since she's currently pregnant with her third child, but she was all smiles in an elegant grey gown at the red-carpet premiere of her movie, The Dilemma.
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Jessica Alba 36 of 50A pregnant Jessica Alba didn't just glow at the 2006 Oscars, she radiated. Seriously, this girl could have landed planes.
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Leelee Sobieski 37 of 50"I was really shocked," Leelee told Us Weekly when she found out she was going to be a mom. "Then I was really happy and so in love."
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Maya Rudolph 38 of 50Comedienne Maya Rudolph has admitted she really doesn't like having to get dressed up for events while pregnant. But even if she doesn't like it, we think she looks pretty fantastic anyway!
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Natalie Portman 39 of 50Cutest pregnant woman ever? Quite possibly. We loved Natalie's stunning pregnancy dress at the Oscars, her glowing smile, her sweet and tearful Oscar speech — all of it.
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Penelope Cruz 40 of 50Even when her baby bump was at its tiniest, Penelope's hand instinctively moved toward her belly — a natural mama basking in the glow of early pregnancy.
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Alicia Keys 41 of 50Alicia gave fans a scare when she fell on stage while pregnant, but thankfully, her baby-to-be was fine, and Alicia gave birth to son Egypt in October of 2010.
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Gwen Stefani 42 of 50Pregnancy was just what hard-edged Gwen Stefani needed to soften up a bit. It takes quite the glamorous woman to pull off a moo-moo-esque maternity dress like this one.
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Jaime Pressly 43 of 50Jaime made Maxim's list of hottest pregnant women, and it's not difficult to see why. The actress looks both classy and sexy in this slightly revealing maternity dress.
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The Parent Notice: Ensuring Effectiveness
Under No Child Left Behind, districts are required to notify parents of eligible students at least annually of their public school choice and SES options. No Child Left Behind specifies the basic information that must be contained in parent notices. While the notice to parents must include all the required elements, a letter written with only compliance in mind may not inform parents effectively of their options. Below are some ideas based on the spirit, in addition to the letter, of the law that may help ensure that notifications reach parents.
For additional information on parent notices, including required elements, see: Public School Choice Non-Regulatory Guidance, D-1,2; Creating Strong District School Choice Programs, pp. 7-16; BuildingChoice.org; Supplemental Educational Services Non-Regulatory Guidance, E-2; and Creating Strong Supplemental Educational Services Programs, pp. 23-30. The links to these resources are provided in Additional Resources at the end of this handbook.


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IBM cuts up HP's cool blade claims
Your air flow is, like, so unflowy
With no one else to beat up in the blade server market, HP and IBM have decided to make a sport of bashing each other.
Last week, HP highlighted a report from Sine Nomine Associates – your guess is as good as ours – that gave HP's blade servers a major power consumption edge over IBM's gear with larger configurations. It has taken IBM just a few days to fire back a retort, claiming that the HP study uses an unusual configuration and that in real world tests – you guessed it – IBM beats the snot out of HP. The vendors' aggression here underscores their two-sided domination of the blade market and intense desire to keep gaining customers in a higher-margin, largely proprietary space.
The central beef at hand comes from this paragraph in the HP report.
For a small server configuration, with non-hotplug disk drives (i.e., no hot-swappable RAID mirror) and with modest RAM requirements, there is very little difference in power consumption between the IBM BladeCenter-H and the HP BladeSystem c7000. As the server configuration increases, however, the HP blade outshines the IBM for power utilization by either 16 per cent or 27 per cent, depending on the need or lack of need for hot-swap disk drives. Clearly, IBM's decision to rely on expansion boards for system needing more memory or I/O capability hurts the BladeCenter-H's power consumption figures.
Exactly!, says IBM.
IBM reckons that the system used in the test shows "how far HP is willing to go to bend the truth."
While IBM offers Memory and I/O and Storage Expansion blades, the vendor finds that only about 10 per cent of customers pick up the expansion products. So, HP's testers have crafted "an unrealistic comparison at best," since very few customers would choose to run both of the expansion blades at the same time.
"IBM testing shows the (IBM) HS21 with the Memory and I/O Expansion Blade and Storage and Expansion Blade as using 40-50 per cent more power than a base HS21," IBM said. "If HP's results are only showing them as having a 27 per cent advantage on this configuration, that validates IBM testing stating IBM is up to 24 per cent more energy efficient than HP."
The IBM report goes on to attack HP's air flow and cooling claims – the typical stuff at the top of customers' minds.
Stats aside, the jabs from the vendors really arise from a recent report that showed HP had grabbed the blade server revenue and shipments lead away from IBM. Last year, HP popped out an overhauled blade chassis – the c-Class system – and this product has been well received. IBM, thus far, has proved less willing to do a radical redesign of its blade chassis.
IBM's contention that you can prove just about anything by looking at isolated cases is, of course, right. The vendor's blade track record, however, doesn't exactly help it out in power consumption debates. IBM used to offer up a warning that customers not fully fill a server rack with its blades out of heat concerns and has shipped ever-larger power supplies for its blade systems on a regular basis.
The decision of whether to go with HP or IBM hinges on the quality of your data center and the software you're running, but you knew that without the help of some hired consultant. Well-cooled data centers can handle blade systems of all sizes, while less flash data centers will struggle with a rack full of systems from HP, IBM, Dell, Sun Microsystems or your name it.
The verbal sparring between HP and IBM avoids this obvious state of affairs and keeps the vendors' names in the press, which is exactly what they want. Sun and Dell seem rather hapless in the blade market, and HP and IBM would like to pick up as many sales as possible until the rivals get their acts together. (Incidentally, we hear of a Dell chassis redesign scheduled for later this year. What do you hear?)
These systems may run on so-called industry standard parts, but once you're locked into a chassis from a certain vendor, you're probably sticking with them over the long haul.


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Coleman leaves open legal options
ST. PAUL -- Norm Coleman is confident he will return to the U.S. Senate, but will not rule out further lawsuits if a state election trial does not send him there.
"I'm not ruling in or out any action," Coleman said. "I have confidence in the system."
The trial will begin Monday after a three-judge panel rejected Al Franken's request to dismiss Coleman's case. Coleman said the trial should clear up concerns his campaign raised about double-counted votes, rejected absentee ballots and other vote issues.
Coleman spoke to a group of Minnesota reporters Thursday for the first time since he announced his lawsuit challenging the election results that gave him 225 fewer votes than Democrat Franken.
"Let's not worry about hypotheticals," Coleman said of future legal challenges. "I am committed to moving through this process."
That process included a request by Coleman attorneys Thursday that ballot inspectors fan out to 86 precincts around Minnesota where the campaign believes there are inaccurate vote totals. Those precincts are in places as widespread as Dakota, Lake of the Woods, St. Louis, Wadena, Clay and Washington counties.
Inspections - by two partisans and a "neutral" local election official -- could be completed before Monday and would speed up trial proceedings, Coleman attorney Tony Trimble told three judges hearing the case.
Franken's campaign said the request should have come earlier and that Coleman wants to expand what state law says can be part of an inspection. The campaign said there is not enough time to complete inspections before Monday.
"If, in fact, that is something they need to prepare for trial, then I suggest today is too late," Franken attorney Marc Elias told the judges in a Thursday hearing.
As Coleman fights for a second Senate term, he landed another job. He was named a "consultant and strategic adviser" to the Republican Jewish Coalition.
"I'm not part of the millionaires' club," Coleman said, adding he must pay for a home mortgage, his children's college tuition and food. "I will have to do some work and earn a living during ... this proceeding."
The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party noted that Senate disclosure records show the coalition funded seven trips for Coleman during his Senate term, which ended earlier this month.
Also Thursday, Senate Democrats backed away from earlier comments that they plan to try to seat Franken, who does not have an election certificate because of the pending Coleman lawsuit. A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said there will be no immediate effort to seat Franken, but did not rule out trying to give Franken the seat before the lawsuit is resolved.
Coleman took his election fight to the Internet, releasing a short video in which he tells Minnesotans that Franken's "artificial lead" will disappear when the court corrects ballot problems.
The campaigns' preparation for the trial has included interviews with some local election officials, including in Clay County. Chief Assistant County Attorney Michelle Winkis told WDAY Radio that campaign attorneys questioned Clay County Auditor Lori Johnson for a couple of hours about conducting elections and about vote totals in Moorhead and Oakport Township precincts.
The election recount results did not match election night totals in those precincts.
"If there's some discrepancies there, there's going to be questions, and there should be," Winkis said.


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By Peter Becker
Managing Editor
The Upper Delaware Council (UDC), March 7, approved and endorsement of a plan to predict water temperature in the main stem of the Upper Delaware River. Such information is meant to assist those who control the reservoir dams to release water more efficiently and beneficially for aquatic life and fishing.
Termed the "Lordville Thermal Stress Relief Protocol," the plan has received support from river users and stakeholders, and the Delaware River Conservation Coalition which includes Friends of the Upper Delaware River, Trout Unlimited and other groups.
Consequent to UDCÆs endorsement, the Council now urges the protocol to be adopted by the Decree Parties to the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Delaware River. Furthermore, the UDC asks that a copy of this resolution be submitted to the Regulated Flows Advisory Committee. This includes a request that a pilot program implementing this protocol be adopted as part of next yearÆs flow management regime, and that the flow management regime be adopted for one year only.
The committee is part of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC).
The protocol includes predictions of water temperatures on the upper Main Stem based on weather service forecasts of local air temperatures, and on river flows and temperatures on previous days. The plan is designed to allow the managers of the dams at Cannonsville and Pepacton to release waters with maximum efficiency to mitigate stress on the fisheries, without interfering with the water supply to other Delaware River stakeholders.
The Cannonsville, on the West Branch of the Delaware above Hancock, NY, and the Pepacton, on the East Branch, are part of the City of New YorkÆs water supply system. Delicately balancing the CityÆs needs for the water and the impact of releases into the Delaware have been an ongoing discussion of the UDC and other concerned parties for many years.
Part of the Congressional mandate given to the 25-year old UDC in its oversight of the River Management Plan is advocating flow releases adequate to protect or improve water quality and aquatic ecosystems. The guiding mission of the UDC is to conserve and enhance the values that qualified the Upper Delaware as a "Scenic and Recreational River."
Like many agencies across the country relying on federal dollars, the UDC is braced to feel the effects of automatic budget cuts from sequestration, which took affect March 1st.
The UDC, which has dealt with an annual budget frozen at $300,000 a year since its inception in 1988, despite rising costs and demands, received word that they well get 5 percent less.
This year, FY 2013, they received $255,000, due to an advance payment arranged last year of $45,000. The impending 5 percent cut therefore totals $12,750. Belt-tightening at the UDC is expected to include eliminating a $10,000 line item for capital expenditures and cutting the remaining $2,750 from discretionary overhead items from office supplies to membership fees.
" It's very difficult for a non-profit organization like ours to be assessed an arbitrary budget cut in the middle of our fiscal year which runs from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1," said Laurie Ramie, Executive Director. "Our goal is to minimize negative impacts to the UDC's existing programs and services."
The five percent cut is expected to be "permanent," affecting future budget years. Like other federally-funded agencies, the UDC now waits to see if the Congress passes a Continuing Resolution by March 27 to avoid a federal shut down and potentially stopping all federal payments. "It's a scary time," Ramie said.
Other items
Among other items discussed at the March 7th UDC meeting:
Ģ Approved a quote by Kittatinny Canoes for the UDC 25th Annual Raft Trip that will take place on Sunday, Aug. 4 (Ten Mile River to Barryville). The cost will be $24 adults, $14 kids up to age 12.
Ģ Reviewed and accepted proposals for the purchase of UDC t-shirts (UDC will announce when they are available for sale).
Ģ An anniversary item was approved that will be a giveaway souvenir at the April 28 awards banquet.
Ģ They discussed hosting a 5K Run/Walk "Strides Across the Delaware" on Sept. 28 in the Equinunk-Lordville area but they need more information before deciding whether to move forward with making plans.
[Information for this story was obtained from Director Ramie the day after the meeting.]
The UDC meets on the first Thursday at 7 p.m., at their offices at 211 Bridge St., Narrowsburg. They may be reached at (845)252-3022.


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Windows cannot verify that the driver is compatible: Touch or click Yes to continue installing it if you're sure this driver is the right one. Choose No if you think you might have the driver for the wrong model or something like that, in which case you should look for other INF files or maybe an entirely different driver download.
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Upon entering the digital age, in which real and virtual space will equally determine the social, cultural and scientific development of mankind, the Free Software Foundation Europe has the long-term goal to raise and work on the questions this will necessarily raise.
In this regard the direct function is the unselfish promotion of Free Software as well as creating and propagating the awareness of the related philosophical and social questions.
As its acknowledged sister organization, the FSFE will join forces with the Free Software Foundation founded by Richard M. Stallman in the United States of America. The latter, recognized tax-exempt charitable organization in the USA, has been dedicating itself since 1985 to the promotion and distribution of Free software and in particular the GNU-System, a Unix-like operating system. This system is mostly known by one of its variants, GNU/Linux, which since 1993 has been used successfully on many computers.
The term Free Software in the sense of the FSFE does not refer to the price, but rather to the following four freedoms:
- freedom: the freedom to use a program for any purpose
- freedom: the freedom to study the program and adapt it to your own needs.
- freedom: the freedom to make copies for others.
- freedom: the freedom to improve a program and make these improvements available to others, so that the whole community benefits.
This definition of Free Software goes back to the idea of freely exchanging knowledge and ideas that can traditionally be found in scientific fields. Like thoughts, software is non-tangible and duplicable without loss. Passing feeds an evolutionary process, advancing thoughts and software.
Only Free Software preserves the possibility to comprehend and build upon scientific results. For scientists, it is the only kind of software which corresponds to the ideals of a free science. Accordingly, the promotion of free software is also a promotion of science.
The distribution of information and the forming of an opinion are done increasingly by digital media, and the trend is to foster the use of those means for a direct citizen participation to democracy. Therefore, a central task of the FSFE is to train proficient citizens in these media, thereby promoting democracy.
Digital space (``Cyberspace''), with software as its medium and its language has an enormous potential for the promotion of all mental and cultural aspects of mankind. By making it commonly available and opening up the medium, Free Software grants equal chances and protection of privacy.
Coining the awareness for the problems related to the digital age in all parts of society is long-term goal and a core aspect of the work of the FSFE.
Therefore the FSFE will seek to increase the use of Free Software in schools and universities in order to parallelize the education in real space matters with the creation of understanding and awareness of problems in virtual space.
Free Software guarantees traceable results and decision-making processes in science and public life as well as the individual rights to free development of personality and liberty of opinion. It is the job of the FSFE to carry Free Software into all areas that touch public life or ``informational human rights'' of citizens.
Name, seat, financial year
(1) The association bears the name ``Free Software Foundation Europe.'' It is to be registered into the register of associations; after the registration it leads the additive ``e.V..''
(2) The association has its seat in Hamburg.
(3) The financial year is the calendar year.
Purpose, tasks, non-profit character
(1) Purpose of the FSFE is the furthering and distribution of Free Software in order to support the free exchange of information and equal chances in accessing software as well as national education according to the principles stated in the preamble.
(2) The goals of the FSFE are namely to be achieved by:
- the idealistic support of governmental and private organisations in all aspects of the Free Software,
- the cooperation and coordination of the national associations which pursue the same goals
- the support of programmers, realizing the charitable goals of the FSFE by developing Free Software, through scholarships,
- the distribution of the philosophical ideals of Free Software
- the information and training of the public about the possibilities and educational potential of Free Software,
- the development and providing of Free Software for the public.
(3) The FSFE pursues exclusively and directly publicly-spirited purposes in the sense of the section ``tax-privileged purposes'' of the tax code. The FSFE is working selflessly and does not pursue self-economic goals.
(4) Means of the FSFE may be used for the statutory purposes only. No person may be favored by expenses alien to the goals of the FSFE or disproportionally high. This applies in particular to full-time members, that can receive an appropriate remuneration for the performed work.
Acquisition of membership
(1) Any national or foreign natural or legal person may become member of the FSFE. Natural persons must be 16 years old. Persons under age do not have eligibility for election.
(2) Condition for the acquisition of the membership is a written application for membership to the President.
(3) The General Assembly of the members decides on the application for membership with three quarter majority of the delivered valid votes; abstentions are therefore not counted. The President can grant the application for membership passing; the application for membership must then be confirmed by the next members assembly. In case of refusal of the request no obligation exists to communicate the reasons to the applicant.
(4) Fellows elected according to become members of the FSFE. Their membership terminates automatically at the end of their term.
End of membership
(1) Membership ends
- with the death of the member with natural persons and/or its liquidation in the case of legal persons;
- by withdrawal from the association;
- by exclusion from the association.
(2) The withdrawal is made via written declaration vis-a-vis the President. The declaration withdrawal must be signed by the competent legal representative. The withdrawal can be declared at any time.
(3) For important reasons or if the bond of trust between the members is broken, a member can be excluded by decision of the President from the association. Before deciding on the matter, the President must give the member opportunity to state its position in writing. The decision of the President is to be justified in writing and sent to the member. The member can appeal the decision at the General Assembly of the members. The appeal must be lodged within two weeks after communication of the decision at the President. The President has to call in a general assembly within three months of punctual insertion of the appointment, which can support the decision of the President with a majority of three quarters of the remaining members. Until the final decision about the exclusion, the member remains suspended of all obligations and all rights.
Membership Fees, Remuneration
(1) The association may collect annual financial dues from its members. Members may pay their dues either in the form of a financial contribution, or through voluntary work. The amount of such dues as well as their due dates and collection and establishment procedures are decided upon by the General Assembly.
(2) The president, the vice president, the financial officer, as well as other organs of the association, which have been assigned certain duties through the constitution of the association or through a decision of the General Assembly, may receive adequate remuneration and expense reimbursements for their services performed for the association. The appropriateness of such remuneration is determined by the overall financial situation of the association and by the specific tasks that need to be performed through the respective organ. Remuneration may not exceed the usual remuneration paid for freelance engagements for similar services rendered to comparable, non tax-exempt organisations, businesses, or governmental offices (for example in the IT industry). The amounts for remuneration for such organs are decided upon by the General Assembly.
(3) Members and non-members can receive remuneration for activities performed in order to further constitutional purposes of the association (for example project work) if such activities are in line with the constitutional goals and the remuneration is appropriate. Appropriateness of such remuneration is defined as amounts not exceeding usual remuneration for comparable freelance work performed for other non tax-exempt organisations, businesses, or governmental offices (for example in the IT industry). The exact terms for remuneration for members and non-members, the actual amounts as well as all other conditions will be decided upon through the General Assembly or its defined representative.
Fellowship seats
Two seats in the General Assembly are up for election among Fellows of the FSFE, with a Fellow being defined in [ref] (2.[ref]).
(1) Fellowship seats in the General Assembly must be held by natural persons, cannot be inherited and enjoy all rights and responsibilities of regular members of the General Assembly.
(2) Fellowships seats differ from regular seats in the following ways:
- Each seat is subject to general election among all orderly Fellows of the FSFE;
- Elections for seats shall be held yearly in rotation;
- The term for each seat is two years;
An orderly Fellow is a natural person who
- is registered to the Fellowship programme with correct information;
- made their annual Fellowship contribution;
- maintains a current email address in the Fellowship forwarding.
- All orderly Fellows who have been subscribed to the Fellowship programme for more than one year are elegible for election.
- The term begins with confirmation of the election results by the Fellowship coordinator.
- Membership in the General Assembly terminates
- automatically upon conclusion of their two-year term;
- when a Fellow fails to meet the elegibility criteria defined above;
- according to the provisions defined in [ref].
(3) The following procedure applies for all elections of the Fellowship and is done in accordance with the Schulze method for voting:
- The election is called and run by the Fellowship coordinator, who is appointed by the General Assembly;
- Elections are called by signed email to the Fellows three months before the election date;
- All orderly Fellows are entitled to vote. The Fellowship coordinator defines the point in time at which the list of orderly Fellows is determined.
- Candidates are all Fellows elegible for election who have informed the Fellowship coordinator of their intention to stand for office at least two months before the election date;
- Each Fellow participating in the election shall submit a ballot ranking all Candidates.
- Not all Candidates need to be ranked. Ranked Candidates are considered preferred to all unranked Candidates. Voters may rank Candiates equally. Unranked Candidates are considered to be ranked equally with one another.
- From the list of Candiates, a list of pairwise defeats are generated:
- Given two Candidates A and B, V(A,B) is the number of voters who prefer Candidate A over Candidate B.
- Candidate A defeats Candidate B, if V(A,B) is strictly greater than V(B,A).
- From the list of pairwise defeats, a set of transitive defeats
are generated:
- Candidate A transitively defeats Candidate C if A defeats C or if there is some other Candidate B where A defeats B AND B transitively defeats C.
- A Schwartz set is constructed from the set of transitive defeats:
- Candidate A is in the Schwartz set if for all Candiates B, either A transitively defeats B, or B does not transitively defeat A.
- If there are defeats between Candidates in the Schwartz set, we
drop the weakest such defeats from the list of pairwise defeats, and
return to step 6.
- A defeat (A,X) is weaker than a defeat (B,Y) if V(A,X) is less than V(B,Y). Also, (A,X) is weaker than (B,Y) if V(A,X) is equal to V(B,Y) and V(X,A) is greater than V(Y,B).
- A weakest defeat is a defeat that has no other defeat weaker than it. There may be more than one such defeat.
- If there are no defeats within the Schwartz set, then the winner is chosen from the Candiates in the Schwartz set. If there is only one such Candidate, (s)he is the winner. If there are multiple Candidates, the winner is randomly chosen by lot.
Structure of the association
(1) The Free Software Foundation Europe forms a European federation structure and is divided into national associations. Those are associations with own juridical personality after the law on societies of the European State for its area the association are active. All members of the national associations must also be members of the FSFE.
(2) In order to preserve the uniformity, the national associations have to fulfill minimum requirements determined by the General Assembly, which are written down in a constitution-template for national associations. This applies with the exception of requirements that are inadmissible according to the laws of the state in which the national association is to be created. In this case the constitution is to be modified so it reflects the intentions of the constitution-template most closely. The constitution requires the acceptance by the Executive Council before the national association becomes part of the FSFE.
(3) The finances of the national associations are determined by the budgeting in accordance with [ref] of this statute.
(4) The national associations can conclude contracts in their own name for the fulfillment of local tasks, if the means are present for the fulfilment of these contracts. They can in no case enter obligations for the FSFE.
(5) The national associations can only enter into negotiations for issues that are focussed around their region and only with public authorities and organisations responsible for their respective areas.
(6) The national associations are entitled and obliged to bear their own name trough which the affiliation with the Free Software Foundation Europe is expressed. This has to be done by adding the denomination ``Chapter'' with the name of the state in English to ``Free Software Foundation Europe'' (``FSFE''). Additionally they can bear the name in the national language.
(7) The Executive Council is entitled to revoke the right for the national association to use the name ''FSFE'' if the national association violates this constitution or its own constitution. The national association can appeal the decision at the General Assembly of the members. The appeal must be lodged within two weeks after communication of the decision at the Executive Council. The Executive Council has to call in a General Assembly within three months of punctual insertion of the appointment, which can remedy or overrule the decision of the Executive Council with a majority of three quarters of the remaining members.
Bodies of the association
The Free Software Foundation Europe forms a European federation. Organs of the FSFE are:
- the General Assembly.
- the President;
- the Vice-President;
- the Financial Officer;
- the Executive Director;
- the Executive Council;
The General Assembly
(1) In the General Assembly, each member that is a natural person, has a voice. For the practice of the right to vote another member can be authorized by written message to the President. The authorisation is to be given for each General Assembly separately. A member cannot practise the right to vote for more than one third of all members.
(2) The General Assembly has exclusive jurisdiction for the following affairs:
- Budgeting;
- Defining the discretionary limit for executive financial decisions by the Executive Director;
- Agenda-setting and determination of priorities for the President, Vice-President and Executive Director;
- Review the annual report of the President, Vice-President, Executive Director, and Financial Officer;
- Exoneration of the organs;
- Choice and recall of the President, the Vice-President, the Financial Officer, and the Executive Director.
(3) Members of the General Assembly are liable to protect the confidential and sensitive information of the FSFE. This obligation survives the termination of membership.
(4) Members of the General Assembly are not liable vis-a-vis the association for unintentional oversight.
The convening of the General Assembly
(1) The orderly General Assembly is to take place at least once per calendar year. It is called up in writing by the President under adherence to one period of six weeks under indication of the agenda. The period begins with the day following the sending of the invitation letter. The invitation letter is to be considered delivered to the member, if it is addressed to the last address or e-mail address given by the member in writing. With written agreement of three quarters of the members, the invitation period can be shortened to three weeks.
(2) The agenda is determined by the President. Each member can request a supplement of the agenda in writing to the President until at the latest one week before a General Assembly. The President has to announce the supplement at the beginning of the General Assembly. About applications for supplement of the agenda, which are made at the General Assembly, are decided by the General Assembly.
The extraordinary General Assembly
The President can call up an extraordinary General Assembly at any time. It must be called up, if at least a quarter of all members require it in writing under indication of the purpose and reasons to the President. To the extraordinary meeting of the members the [ref], [ref] and [ref] apply accordingly.
Adoption of resolutions of the General Assembly
(1) The General Assembly is led by the President, at his indespensability by the Vice-President and at the indispensability of the latter by the Financial Officer.
(2) The type of election is determined by the assembly director. The election must be carried out in writing, if a third of the members present in person with the election requests this.
(3) The General Assembly is not public.
(4) The General Assembly is resolutionable, if it was duly called up and at least one third of all members is present or represented by members present. In the case of decision inability, the President is obliged to call up a second General Assembly with the same agenda within four weeks; this General Assembly will resolutionable without consideration of the members present. This is to be referred to in the invitation.
(5) Unless stated otherwise in the statute, the General Assembly passes decisions with simple majority of the delivered valid voices; abstentions are therefore left out of the consideration. Changes of the statute require a majority of three quarters of the delivered valid voices; abstentions are not counted. Dissolution of the FSFE requires four fifths of the voices of all members of the association. Changing the purpose of the FSFE can only be decided with unanimous agreement of all members. Members not present at the General Assembly can submit their agreement in writing to the president within one month.
(6) In the case of elections it is elected who received more than half of the delivered valid voices. If nobody received more than half of the delivered valid voices, a ballot takes place between the candidates who received most voices. The person who receives the most votes in this ballot is elected. In the case of equal number of votes once a new choice is necessary; if the mood equality continues to exist, the lot decides.
(7) Over decisions of the General Assembly, a protocol is to be led, that is to be signed by the recording clerk and the assembly director. It is to contain the following ascertainments: Place and time of the assembly, the person of the assembly director and the recording clerk, the number of members present, the agenda, the individual election results and the type of the election. For amendments of the statute the exact wording is to be given.
The President
(1) The President is elected by the General Assembly of the members for the duration of two years, from the election on. Beyond these two years the President continues to be in office up to the election of a new President.
(2) Electable are only members of the FSFE. With the end of membership in the association, the office of the President also ends.
(3) If the President resigns prematurely or otherwise becomes permanently indispensable, the Vice-President automatically succeeds as the new President up to the election of a new President within the regular term.
(4) The President is responsible for all affairs the FSFE, as far as they are not transferred to another organ of the FSFE by statute. The President has in particular the following tasks:
- Coordination of the substantial and political decision finding of the General Assembly;
- Convening and preparation of the General Assembly of the members as well as list the agenda;
- Creation of the annual report;
- Adoption of resolutions over the admission and the exclusion of members;
- Support and control of the national associations;
- External representation of the organisation;
- Legally responsible representative of the association according to § 26 Par. 2 S. 1 BGB.
- The cooperation with the Vice-President.
- The supervision of the Executive Director in his executive implementation of the priorities and strategies defined by the General Assembly.
(5) The President is not liable vis-a-vis the association for unintentional oversight.
The Vice-President
(1) The Vice-President supports and advises the President in all tasks.
(2) The Vice-President represents the President in the following cases:
- Departure of the President;
- Passing indispensability of the President;
- Written delegation of tasks by the President.
(3) The President is indispensable if he communicates this in written form to the Vice-President. The Vice-President takes care of all matters as long and to the extent they were transferred to him in writing by the President. The President is considered indispensable if he is not attainable or cannot exercise his office more than seven days because of illness.
(4) The Vice-President is elected by the General Assembly for the duration of two years, from the election on. Beyond these two years the Vice-President continues to be in office up to the election of a new Vice-President.
(5) Only members of the FSFE can be elected for Vice-President. With the end of membership in the association, the office of the Vice-President also ends.
(6) If the Vice-President resigns prematurely or otherwise becomes permanently indispensable, the President can appoint a successor for the remaining term of office.
(7) The Vice-President is not liable vis-a-vis the association for unintentional oversight.
The Financial Officer
(1) The Financial Officer acts as the financial supervisor on behalf of FSFE's General Assembly. He monitors the financial management and decisions by the Executive Director and reports to the General Assembly.
(2) The Financial Officer is responsible to advise the Executive Council in the event of changes to the budget between convenings of the General Assembly.
(3) The Financial Officer in particular must pay attention that
- possible profits are used only for the statutory purposes and that the FSFE is working selflessly.
- no member may get shares of the profits or other allowances from the means of the FSFE or its local associations. This also applies to separating members.
- funds of the FSFE can only partially be used for other tax-exempt charitable organizations and only if these organizations use them for constitutional goals.
- administrative costs, which are alien to the purpose of the FSFE may not be granted. Same applies to disproportionately high payments.
(4) The Financial Officer is elected by the General Assembly for the duration of two years, from election on. Beyond those two years he remains in office up to the election of the new Financial Officer.
(5) Only members of the FSFE can be selected for Financial Officer. With the end of membership in the association, the office of the Financial Officer also ends.
(6) If the Financial Officer resigns prematurely or otherwise becomes permanently indispensable, the President can select a successor for the remaining term of office.
(7) The Financial Officer is not liable vis-a-vis the association for unintentional oversight.
The Executive Director
(1) The Executive Director coordinates the day-to-day activities of the association according to the budgets and priortities set by the General Assembly and in coordination with the President and Vice-President of the association.
(2) The Executive Director will be appointed by the General Assembly on the basis of a written contract which is to be signed by the President on behalf of the association.
(3) The Executive Director remains in office until the contract ends or is terminated by the General Assembly or the President acting on its behalf.
(4) The Executive Director should not be a member of the association, but joining or leaving the association has no effect on the position of Executive Director.
(5) If the Executive Director quits prematurely or otherwise becomes permanently indispensable, the President can select a successor.
(6) The Executive Director is responsible for administrative management of the organisation, including
- coordination and supervision of the employees;
- representation of the organisation on contractual matters;
- representation of the organisation towards financial institutions;
- representation of the organisation on matters of taxation;
- coordination of the FSFE administrative office;
- coordination of the Executive Council of FSFE;
- coordination of the Executive Team of FSFE, consisting of employees and volunteers;
- creating the annual executive report for the annual General Assembly.
(7) The Executive Director leads the finances according to the budget and priorities determined by the General Assembly. The budgeting and priorities must give that
- possible profits are used only for the statutory purposes and that the FSFE is working selflessly.
- no member may get shares of the profits or other allowances from the means of the FSFE or its local associations. This also applies to separating members.
- funds of the FSFE can only partially be used for other tax-exempt charitable organizations and only if these organizations use them for constitutional goals.
- administrative costs, which are alien to the purpose of the FSFE may not be granted. Same applies to disproportionately high payments.
(8) Changes to the budgeting by the Executive Director between convenings of the General Assembly require approval by the Executive Council.
(9) Expenses for which the total expense exceeds the discretionary limit defined by the General Assembly in its budgeting cannot be authorised by the Executive Director and require approval of the Executive Council.
(10) The Executive Director is not liable vis-a-vis the association for unintentional oversight.
(11) For important reasons or if the bond of trust with the Executive Director is broken, the Executive Director can be suspended of all rights and obligations by decision of the President. The decision of the President is to be justified in writing and sent to the Executive Director. The Executive Director can appeal the decision at the General Assembly of the members. The appeal must be lodged within two weeks after communication of the decision at the President. The President has to call in a General Assembly within three months of punctual insertion of the appeal, which can support the decision of the President with a single majority. Until the final decision the Executive Director remains suspended of all obligations and all rights.
The Executive Council
The Executive Council of the FSFE consists of the Executive Director, the President and Vice-President.
(1) The Executive Council is coordinated by the Executive Director.
(2) The Executive Council is resolutionable, if at least two members are present in person, among them the President. Decisions are passed by single majority of votes.
(3) The Executive Council is responsible for
- approval of expenses for which the total expense exceeds the discretionary limit for the Executive Director, as defined by the General Assembly in its budgeting;
- advising the Executive Director on the implementation of the priorities and strategic guidelines established by the General Assembly;
- approval of changes to the budgeting between convenings of the General Assembly after consultation with the Financial Officer.
- approval of the constitutions of the national associations and revokation of the right for the national associations to use the name ''FSFE''.
(4) Members of the Executive Council are not liable vis-a-vis the association for unintentional oversight.
Dissolution of the association
(1) The dissolution of the FSFE can only be decided in a General Assembly by the majority in accordance to [ref].
(2) If the General Assembly decides nothing else, the President is the liquidator entitled to act as substitute.
(3) After liquidation or loss of the tax-privileged purposes, available funds go to a legal entity of the public right or another tax-privileged association, which has to use it directly and exclusively for charitable purposes in the sense of this constitution. Resolutions over the future use of the funds may be executed only after consent of the responsible tax office.
(4) The preceding regulations apply accordingly, if the FSFE is dissolved for another reason or loses its legal capacity.
Written form
Writing form is fulfilled if one of the following conditions is met:
- handwritten signed paper document;
- E-mail signed with a key that is sufficiently state of the art. The association decides what is to be regarded as state of the art and the key must be certified by the association.
Place of jurisdiction
Place of jurisdiction for all rights and duties resulting from this statute is Hamburg, Germany


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Directing the Sky | A look inside the tower navigating the Las Vegas approach
The skies above Las Vegas are among the most crowded anywhere in the world.
McCarran International Airport handles more than a half million departures and landings in a single year, with each aircraft carefully tracked inside the traffic control tower.
"It's a big sky but it's congested here in Las Vegas," said air traffic controller Anthony Borgert. "It's a constantly moving jigsaw puzzle."
As you make your way through the bustling airport with passengers praying for an on-time flight, air traffic controllers are making sure your plane takes off and lands safely.
It's a high-pressure profession from the runway to the skyway – all from a room towering some 350 feet off the ground.
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"Air traffic control is the ultimate team sport where an aircraft leaving Las Vegas before it gets off the ground it's probably talked to six different air traffic controllers," said Haltom.
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"We're monitoring the aircraft visually, we're using radio communication, we're using radar communication. We do these things in concert with one another we have eyes on every airplane," said Haltom.
Each controller is trained to keep their cool, especially when faced with emergencies – like when a British Airways jet caught fire at McCarran in 2015.
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However, in the Las Vegas Valley, it's the extreme weather that usually proves problematic: from high and damaging winds to triple-digit heat.
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McCarran currently uses radar navigation but the FAA wants to upgrade the system to satellite-based technology over the next few years. It's a move that could mean shorter flight times and improved safety.


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With the new edition of Big Brother currently airing, a lot of the show's fans have been wondering what is going on with last season's favorite Jeff Schroeder.
Jeff, who came close to making the BB final 2 last year, has since appeared on the Amazing Race this year with girlfriend & fellow BB alum Jordan Lloyd. While the couple came way short of winning the show, it seems Jeff is now ready for a new adventure.
In a new interview with PEOPLE, Jeff discusses being the host of Around the World for Free, a web series for CBS.com that will take him across the world for 100 days with no money and with viewers determining where he goes, how he gets there and where he stays. Jeff also confirms that he and Jordan are still together, and discusses how they make their long-distance relationship work.
Excerpts from Jeff's interview below –
You have said that doing a travel show was your ultimate dream and now it's been realized. How does it feel?
Not to be too philosophical, but I've learned that anything can happen if you really believe in it and want it enough. I've been saying it for a long time and I know that BB and The Amazing Race were springboards for me to get this show. But it's an amazing feeling to realize a dream.
So many things can go wrong in 100 days. Are you nervous?
If you look for problems or if you go out looking for the bad, then you're going to find it. I have to focus on the positive and keep telling myself that there are good people out there and that everything is going to be good. My attitude is that I know things are going to go well but I'm hopping things go even better!
Are you catching up on your world cultures or are you going into this fully blind?
Obviously I'm no world traveler but I kind of want to go in blind. I want to learn as the audience learns. I think I'm an average, everyday guy and I want everyone else to be on my page. I want to go into this with an open heart and open eyes.
How are you and Jordan doing?
We've had our bumps but no break-ups and everything is going great. We only get to see each other every two weeks or so. We have to travel back and forth but we vacation together and do a lot of fun things together. Lately I've been busy with the show and she's been busy with school, but having to work with a long-distance relationship really worked out for us because when we finally get a break from what we're doing we're so excited to see each other. So far, so good.
You can check out the show here on CBS.


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The Davidson County Republican Party condemned a decision by its own members that helped elect a 30-year-old trust analyst from Thomasville a state House representative.
The Davidson County Republican Party condemned a decision by its own members that helped elect a 30-year-old trust analyst from Thomasville a state House representative.
Roger Younts, treasurer of the Davidson County Republican Party, cast one of the votes on Thursday that helped him defeat Davidson County Commissioner Sam Watford in the race to fill former Rep. Jerry Dockham's House District 80 seat. Dockham, who served District 80 for more than two decades, was recently confirmed for a position with the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
Younts was appointed by a 3-2 vote and was one of six members eligible to vote on Dockham's successor. Younts was also one of six candidates vying for the House seat.
Only six of the county's 15-member executive committee who live in House District 80 were permitted to vote, pursuant to state election law.
While Younts' decision to vote for himself was not taken well by some of his fellow party members, it was not the most controversial decision of the night.
One eligible voting member, Dwight Story, was absent from the deliberation at Yarborough's Restaurant Thursday and was scheduled to vote via telephone. Younts, along with party members Michael Byrd and Gary Craver, also voted to not allow Story to vote over the phone.
Byrd and Craver also cast the other affirmative votes that helped appoint Younts.
Party members Kenny Meredith and Alan Truluck were on the other end of the votes, casting ballots to let Story vote via telephone and appoint Sam Watford to the House position.
After learning of the vote to exclude Story from the process, many party members were upset and some even screamed, "This is an outrage."
Current elected officials and community leaders, who were gathered in a main meeting room outside where the select voters were assembled, even approved a motion opposing the actions of its executive committee members to deny Story his right to vote.
Some frustrated members stood up and walked out and others argued about the decision.
"It's probably one of the most unethical things I've ever witnessed," Republican Party Chairman Lance Barrett told party members. "I just witnessed three people vote to not let an eligible member vote."
Moments later, Younts appeared from the adjacent room to near silence. Few people congratulated him, and he hugged several of his friends who were in attendance.
Younts said he voted against Story's ability to vote because telephone votes aren't generally allowed, pursuant to Robert's Rules of Order and the Republican Party's plan of organization.
Michael McKnight, general counsel to the North Carolina Republican Party, said the issue of Story voting via telephone was taken to a vote because it's not specifically addressed in statute.
Just before leaving, Younts smiled in Yarborough's upstairs hallway.
"I'm very honored to represent the people of House District 80, and I'm very honored to follow someone like Jerry Dockham," Younts said.
Younts is a graduate of Central Davidson High School and Wake Forest University. He formerly worked for Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th. He is employed as a trust analyst for BB&T.
Watford, a former Senate District 33 candidate, said after the vote that he feels like he was a good candidate.
"I feel like I am familiar with the issues and I could be an asset at the state level for the county and the citizens," Watford said. "Hopefully, I still will be some day."
The governor must approve the party's selection.
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