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Anastasia was born in 1979, at the age of ten.She's been around ever since, and she's only thirteen now. I never get tired of writing about her and her family. Katherine Krupnik, her mother, reminds me of myself.
Sam was born when Anastasia was ten, and for a long time he existed only in the books about her. But kids liked him. Maybe he reminded them of their own little brothers. So at the request of young readers, I gave Sam his own series.
Caroline and J.P. Tate are so much like real kids in real families: a bickering sister-and-brother pair, with a long-suffering single mom. They live in New York City, but in one book they spend a summer with their dad in Iowa. In truth, the Tates could exist anywhere.
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade has one student who is, shall we say, somewhat unusual. New to the school in October, by Thanksgiving she has completely entranced the entire class. And there's a whole school year yet to come
Each of these is an all-by-itself book, not part of a series. They take you from Denmark to West Virginia to Boston, - and many other places - and three of them come from my own life. (See if you can figure out which three!)
Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.
In Boston's famous Public Garden, fourteen-year-old Enid and her four-year-old pal, Tom Terrific, learn lots about life from new friendships with a bag lady and a saxophone player.
Oh, it is so boring to be royalty! And unnerving, too, because in just a few days Princess Patircia Priscilla will turn sixteen, the age at which she must choose her husband-to-be! And all of the contenders are soooo disgusting!
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
When their mother starts to date the mystery man on the fifth floor, who has been instructed by his agent to "eliminate the children" by the first of May, eleven-year-old Caroline and her older brother figure they're targeted to be the victims of a savage crime.
A sensitive and moving story of a wide-eyed young girl growing up at the beginning of the twentieth century and the influence of the farm community around her.
Tim, Jane, and the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, are four rather ordinary children. They just happen to have extraordinarily horrible parents. And that requires some extraordinary scheming.
Eleven-year-old Louise Cunningham watches with wonder as a visit from her unusual uncle gives her ordinary small town a glow of something mysterious and magical.


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Communal conflict
Research at the Department related to the topic of communal conflict.
Durable Resolution of Communal Conflicts
Project leader: Emma Elfversson | Project Page
Project Period: 2010 – ongoing
How is sustainable peace achieved in situations of local communal conflict? This project explores the role of the state and non-state actors in addressing such conflicts, focusing on cases in Africa. It investigates the dynamics between local conflict resolution processes and central government strategies, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. Case studies focus on communal conflicts in Kenya.

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Sep 16, 2013
It is common knowledge that free to play collectable card games or monster battle games are a huge hit in Japan. Games like Puzzle and Dragons are so popular in the eastern markets that they've been perceived as a threat to the thriving arcade business over there, with at least one arcade banning the playing of that game on its premises. A quick search through the Google Play store will find you a myriad of collectable card type games ranging from Pokemon knockoffs to CCG apps with their own twist. Recently, a new app has appeared in the Google Play store that might be the most unique of the CCG adaptations one has ever seen called Quiz RPG: World of Mystic Wiz.
As evidence by the title, Quiz RPG: World of Mystic Wiz mashes the worlds of card wizardry or CCGs with essentially a quiz game. Just like players would see in most any CCG from Magic the Gathering to Digimon, the game requires one to collect different cards with differing elements that are strong or weak against other cards, based on those same elements. As one can do in games like Monster Rancher, players in Quiz RPG can combine their cards or monsters to make them more powerful.
But where this title stands out is how battles are conducted. Randomly, an option of 4 different questions, hidden behind their category, are presented to the player to choose from. Anything and everything you can think of is on the board for the quiz portion of this game too; Lifestyle, Pop Culture, Sports, Geography, you name it, could be a category of question thrown at a player. But its not strategic to just pick categories haphazardly however, as each of the 4 questions will also have an element assigned to it, which will allow whatever cards you have in your hand to attack the enemies one faces.
The questions themselves range in difficulty, anything from the number of NBA titles LeBron James has to the dates and names of ancient greek battles, Quiz RPG exceeds a game like Trivial Pursuit in terms of the broad array of questions it throws at a player, as well as how entertaining it is. Quiz RPG is a bar trivia game meets Digimon in a free to play setting without any paywalls or pay to win elements.
Players will also be shocked with the amount of attention put into the artwork. Done all in an anime style, the game contains an opening video that appears to have had some time put into it. Everything in the game, from the vibrant colors to the stills of the various wizards to even the maps and backgrounds are all beautiful and amazing to look at. It's clear there was some heart put into Quiz RPG.
Quiz RPG: World of Mystic Wiz has so much going for it and contains so many wonderful things. From the gameplay to the graphics, almost any player can enjoy this game, quiz show fans and eastern card base RPG junkies alike.


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Top Five Reasons Why Amazon Should Buy webOS
Amazon released the Kindle Fire last week and has taken pre-orders for thousands already. The Wi-Fi enabled device uses the Android operating system, but it's a customized form just for Kindle Fire. Android is a fine system, but if Amazon really wants to take off as the tablet maker all others want to be like, it should buy webOS, the Hewlett-Packard-owned operating system.
HP announced in August they were discontinuing webOS and have been rumored to be looking for a buyer. Furthermore, Amazon now has a board member who used to work at HP and helped market webOS when it was first acquired in the Palm merger in 2010. Here are the top five reasons why Amazon should buy webOS:
#1 Multitasking is very intuitive in webOS. The apps become like cards in a deck that can be shuffled around and, of course, run simultaneously. Simply flick a card off the screen and the app closes. It's actually kind of fun and super easy to learn to use. Being able to run multiple apps at the same time is equally huge because it gives users the type of interactivity they love. Who doesn't like to listen to Pandora while surfing the Web, right?
#2 Kindle Fire's Android OS is customized beyond recognition, but having their own system in place would really make them standout. Amazon would have total control over the OS instead of waiting on Google's updates and working on their timeline.
#3 Amazon could do whatever they wanted if they purchased webOS outright. This is critical because with further customization of their own OS, Amazon would really be staking their claim to being the main competitor to Apple's iPad. Whatever future tablets Amazon decides to launch would also be in total sync with the OS.
#4 It can be had cheap. HP paid over a billion dollars for Palm in 2010, and given the slumping TouchPad sales, HP could be convinced to hand over webOS for probably less than half of that. With Kindle Fire sales expected to be high, Amazon could certainly afford it.
#5 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the type of risk taker to pull if off. Being the first to do things like launch a sub $200 tablet are proof that Bezos can stand the scrutiny such a move always brings. Many people have certainly written off webOS, and an Amazon purchase would bring a chorus of what if's.
Must Read: Tablet War: Amazon Kindle Fire Vs. Barnes & Noble Nook Color


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This is a view of a truck loaded with equipment driving across a bridge spanning the Colorado River at Hoover Dam site. Construction workers and equipment are shown on the bank of the river. At the right is an abandoned temporary truck bridge.]]>
Shows construction of Hoover Dam from the downstream side. Concrete pouring forms are shown as the face of the dam takes shape. One of the intake towers is under construction. A temporary suspension bridge is visible and cables span the canyon high above.]]>
Shows Black Canyon and the Colorado River at the site of the construction of Hoover Dam. Some roads and railroad tracks are visible as well as buildings. Shown also are railroad cars and a temporary suspension bridge.]]>
Shows a panoramic view of the Hoover Dam site in Black Canyon. There are trucks and buildings visible on the floor of the canyon. One of the portals to the diversion tunnels is visible. The concrete pouring forms can be seen on the face of the dam. Two of the partially completeed intake towers can be seen also. Cables span the canyon on high and a temporary bridge is also visible.]]>
Shows Hoover Dam during construction. Cables are visible spanning the dam. Concrete pouring forms can be seen on the power houses. A temporary bridge is suspended across the canyon and there are buildings on the floor of the canyon.]]>
View of the mouths of diversion tunnels no. 1 and no. 2. A steel bridge crosses the Colorado River over Black Canyon.]]>
View of the Hoover Dam construction site within Black Canyon from the downstream side of the Colorado River. The dam wall is nearly complete and the mouths of the diversion tunnels can be seen. Building plants and construction equipment are seen in the foreground. Construction on the power house is seen at the base of the dam wall. Cables are suspended over the canyon, and a steel bridge crosses the Colorado River near the foreground.]]>
View from a partially washed-out truck bridge, looking across the flooded Colorado River during construction of Hoover Dam. The mouths of two diversion tunnels are seen in the cliff wall in the background.]]>
A man sitting on a rock ledge views the Colorado River running downstream through Black Canyon prior to the construction of Hoover Dam. Bridges and catwalks are suspened over the river and dirt roads can been seen on both sides of the river banks. Buildings are also seen on the river banks.]]>
An aerial view of the Colorado River and Black Canyon during the early stages of Hoover Dam construction. The photo was taken from near the top of the dam site, on the Nevada site. It shows a building, roads, and temporary bridges spanning the river.]]>
Discusses possible uses of the Colorado River for water supply, irrigation, and power. Also discusses flood control on the Colorado. Recommends a comprehensive plan for development. Reprinted from Transactions, American Society of Civil Engineers, v. 88. "Presented at the Annual Convention of the Society, Pasadena, Calif., June 19, 1924." "Paper no. 1558."]]>
Photo shows the Arizona diversion tunnels during the construction of Hoover Dam. Two men, railroad trucks, a temporary bridge, some temporary structures and a cable over the canyon are also shown.]]>
View of Black Canyon and the Colorado River; smoke and dust clouds fill the canyon at the site of rock blasting for the Arizona intake towers. A steel suspension bridge is seen crossing the river upstream.]]>
A locomotive pulls freight cars loaded with gravel across a trestle bridge on the Colorado River toward the screening plant. A round trip took slightly over two hours.]]>
A man stands on the trestle bridge near the gravel pit and points at the cables attached to the upstream face of the bridge used to anchor the bridge in case of high water. Three-inch cables [were] anchored to concrete "dead-men" and horizontal stays [were] attached to bents on the bridge. The Colorado River runs beneath the bridge and Black Canyon can be seen in the background.]]>
High scalers work on the canyon wall on the Nevada side of Black Canyon, excavating for construction of an intake tower. Bridges can be seen in the distance crossing the Colorado River.]]>
Close-up of high scalers working on the Nevada side of Black Canyon, 700 feet above the Colorado River. Two bridges are seen crossing the river below.]]>
Dump trucks dump materials into the Colorado River to from a temporary bridge in order to divert the river into the diversion tunnels. Several construction workers carry out and supervise the operation and a large group watches from the river bank, standing in front of a temporary building.]]>
View of the temporary dike created to divert the Colorado River into the diversion tunnels. Dump trucks and construction workers are seen on the temporary pile bridge and the portals of diversion tunnels no. 3 and 4 are seen in the canyon wall in the background.]]>
The Colorado River flows out of the diversion tunnels in the Hoover Dam construction site in Black Canyon. Bridges are seen crossing the river and the canyon.]]>
View of construction on the Arizona intake towers, looking upstream on the Colorado River in Black Canyon. A derrick anchored in the intake tower base is seen above the canyon. A temporary bridge is also seen spanning the canyon.]]>
A bridge stretches from one side of Black (not Boulder) Canyon to the other side, with the Colorado River flowing beneath. The background shows scaffolding against the mountainside. A building sits against the mountain at the far end of the bridge. On the bridge there are 2 construction workers walking and several vehicles moving from one end of the bridge to the other.]]>
View of construction of the Arizona intake towers from the Nevada side of Black Canyon. Part of the dam is visible in the lower right corner. High scaling equipment, temporary bridges, hoisting equipment and cables can be seen.]]>
Shows the construction of the Nevada intake towers, taken from the Arizona side of the canyon. Trestles, cables, hosting equipment and temprary bridges are visible. Below the towers there is a temporary railroad.]]>
Aerial view of the Hoover Dam construction site, looking downstream on the Colorado River in Black Canyon. Construction on the intake towers on both sides of the dam face is shown. The top of the dam face is covered with concrete pouring forms. Buckets of concrete can be seen on the railroard bench on the canyon wall in the lower right. Temporary stairs attached to the canyon wall in the background lead up to a concrete mixing plant in the mountains. A temporary bridge crosses the river in the foreground.]]>
This view, taken from the Nevada side of the canyon, shows the lower cofferdam being excavated. Trucks, buildings, , and construction roads are visible. The Colorado River can be seen below the site. There is a temporary bridge acorss the canyon, and numerous trucks at the site. High scalers are visible on the wall of the canyon.]]>
View of Hoover Dam construction from the Arizona side of the canyon. The upstream face of the dam is visible. The intake towers are nearing completion. Temporary bridges, scaffolding, a train trestle, and trams traveling across the canyon on a cableway can be seen.]]>
View of the top of Hoover Dam during construction with intake towers and a spillway in the background. A temporary bridge and cableway with trams span the canyon. Construction workers are on top of the dam, working with the concrete.]]>
View of the Nevada intake towers during construction. The photo was taken from the Arizona side of the canyon and shows suspended temporary bridges, a railroad track and cars on the side of the canyon, a trestle, and various types of construction equipment including hoisting equipment.]]>


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Some options for retail jobs during the holidays include working at stores such as Build-A-Bear, Toys "R" Us and The Container Store, all of which regularly hire seasonal help. Electronics stores such as Best Buy and stores that also ship a lot of items such as Amazon.com also frequently hire during the holiday season.Continue Reading
The Build-A-Bear Workshop store gets very busy around the holiday season. The store helps children create custom-made stuffed animals, including changing their size, overall appearance, clothing and even adding music or a voice recording inside each bear. Employees during the holidays help with choosing the right bear, work in the gift shop or work in the food area of the store. The Container Store only hires a small percentage of people that apply, but it frequently hires more people during the holidays in full-time positions.
Toys "R" Us naturally gets a lot more business during the holidays, and throughout all the stores and distribution centers in the United States, it hires about 45,000 temporary employees. The store continues hiring people until Christmas. Seasonal employees are told the amount of hours they can expect to work and how long the position is to last for. The average amount of hours for seasonal work is 16 to 20 hours a week.Learn more about Job Search


text: This charger was possibly commissioned as a token of love and may have been associated with a marriage. The subject and treatment of the figures and flowers is very similar to those both on a dish formerly in the Scott-Taggart Collection (Christie's London, 14 April 1980, lot 10) illustrated by Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, 'Alcuni inediti per il III volume del Corpus della maiolica italiana datata di Gaetano Ballardini', Faenza, 2003, no. 1-6, pl. III, fig. a. and on a shallow footed bowl in the Wallace Collection, London, illustrated by A.V.B. Norman, Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Ceramics 1, Pottery, Maiolica, Faience, Stoneware, London, 1976, pp. 91-92, no. C37. The Wallace Collection bowl bears a large letter S on the reverse, a mark which is also found on the reverse of a plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London, 1940, II, pl. 119, no. 755.


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'Organizations with serious data needs must align their internal data management philosophy with the idea that data is a unique entity, supported by infrastructure, delivered by a wide range of applications, and consumed by end users,' said Perlstein.
Broomfield, Colo. (PRWEB) October 09, 2013
Datavail CEO Mark Perlstein and guest speaker Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., will present their thoughts on the future structure of IT organizations. The webinar, "Data & Databases: The Third Pillar," will explore the concept of separating data and database services from application and infrastructure and establishing a third pillar within IT organizations. The webinar, moderated by Howard M. Cohen of QuinStreet, will be held on Oct. 15 at 12:30 p.m. EDT.
To date, most IT organizations spread database teams across both the application and infrastructure groups. But due to its explosive growth, greater attention is being paid to data as a strategic asset. During this webinar, Perlstein and Yuhanna will present their vision for the imminent IT organizational evolution. Their vision calls for a standalone data team that, while smaller, carries significant value equal to the application and infrastructure divisions. The third pillar, the data organization, will aggregate all professionals who work with data – from operations and analytics to security and governance.
"Organizations with serious data needs must align their internal data management philosophy with the idea that data is a unique entity, supported by infrastructure, delivered by a wide range of applications, and consumed by end users," said Perlstein. "A team accountable to internal consumers as well as an organizational vision for data management should manage the correct infrastructure and support model for organizational data."
During this webinar, Perlstein and Yuhanna will suggest ways organizations can start thinking about data and database services separately from application and infrastructure. To register for this webinar, visit: http://bit.ly/17jIWFl.
About the Speakers
Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Noel Yuhanna serves Application Development & Program Delivery Professionals. He primarily covers database management systems (DBMSes), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), data replication and integration, data security, data management tools and related online transaction processing issues. His current primary research focus is on customer usage experiences and broad industry trends of DBMS, IaaS, data security, enterprise data grids, outsourcing, information lifecycle management, open source databases and other emerging database technologies.
Mark Perlstein, CEO, Datavail
Mark Perlstein is President & CEO of Datavail, a national leader in database support and professional services. For more than two decades, Mark has been a leader in the IT services market and brings a wealth of growth-oriented and operating experience in the services business to Datavail. Prior to his CEO role at Datavail, Mark was President of CIBER's IT Outsourcing division. While there, Mark led CIBER's entry into the IT infrastructure outsourcing market and helped lead that division to a tripling of its revenues and becoming a major force in the ITO sector.
About Datavail Corporation
With more than 350 database administrators (DBAs), Datavail is the largest pure-play database services company in North America. We offer 24x7 database administration services via a flexible business model. In just two years, Datavail has tripled in size and now serves more than 250 clients ranging from mid-market firms to the Fortune 100. Specialized in Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, DB2 and MongoDB, Datavail provides flexible onsite/offsite, onshore/offshore service delivery options to meet each customer's unique business needs. Founded in 2007, Datavail is based in Broomfield, Colorado and supports enterprise clients located worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.datavail.com.


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Brady is forty and has yet to get a tattoo, but he did get some henna tattoos in Bali. He also bought fresh pineapple on a stick at the beach that had been carved into a corkscrewed work of art and sold for 10 cents. They rode motorbikes down dirt roads on an island that had no streets and whose main mode of transport was anything on four legs that could tow. Their taxis were horse drawn carriages. The women there are all dark and mysterious but some of them are svelte and others are teen mothers; one picture shows a girl carrying a baby slung in a blanket around her shoulders while another shows two couples sitting in the sand drinking beer, the rusty tans peeking out from soft, hooded sweatshirts and from the legs of cut off shorts. The teeth of all the people there are white white white (when they have them), and the men's faces are cut from aged leather, their hands sinewy with bleached nails cut short.
As he walked from suitcase to suitcase in the place he was staying during his visit to me, he showed me several articles were bought in Bali, including a thin silver cuff bracelet that stayed on his wrist even when he had taken off his watch to shower. Its design was a simple repetition of waves pressed in black. This bookmark, he'd say, was made in Bali. This ring, Bali. The more he said the word, it became this beautifully commonplace thing that had attached to it a fondness I have not known for myself. I may never travel the way my brother Brady has traveled, but he knows that we both understand movement, we both have short and shallow roots that have been bred in us from our upbringing, from the always present knowledge that there is a whole other world out there. We were each going to get to see it in our own ways, in our own time. For me, right now, my way is to leaf through his pictures and remember the place Bali.
Brady was 15 when I was born, and a few years later he left home for his own dreams, joined the Army seven years later and moved to Germany sometime after that, where he still lives and has a family. So our sibling attachment began as adults, our love for one another has always been an adult love, the love of two grown children who never lost contact, even after miles and years went by. It's odd, by the norm, but it has worked for us. This morning I was keeping him company while he packed, sitting outside to smoke a cigarette. He came out, handed me the bracelet from Bali and asked if I would like it. He formed the silver around my wrist since it is smaller than his and told me it likely needed to be polished soon. Then he went back inside.
This was how we said "I love you," this was how we understood each other, in these small and neverending gestures that span the remainder of our lives.
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CHAMBERLAIN'S LBJs
The definitive guide to Southern Africa's Little Brown Jobs
Southern Africa is blessed, or cursed (depending on your viewpoint) with a wealth of Little Brown Jobs. If you feel like tackling the LBJ challenge, and perhaps learning to love these amazing little birds along the journey, this book is essential for you. The first print run of the book sold out within a few months, but after much deliberation (and greatly appreciated input from the book's sponsor, Chamberlain) we have decided to print another batch, which is now available for purchase (as of January 2016). Don't delay – get your book now by following the steps below! Pdf eBooks will continue to remain available from this site.
NOTE: Up until the end of January 2017 I'm running a special: 1x LBJs book PLUS 1x WADERS book for R840, including delivery. Check it out here.
STEP 1: Fill in the contact form on this page so I have your details (there's no commitment, and I won't spam you!). The most important field is the reference. Note that nothing is supposed to happen upon completion of the form – we will await payment from you before we send the book.
STEP 2: Decide on a delivery method (see details below) for South Africa. If you're outside South Africa, books can be obtained from NHBS in the UK.
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philips has released a new piece of software that aims to improve compressed audio played through a pc. the software, called sound agent 2, works by taking into consideration the two main components that are used when listening to sound: the sound file and the method of playback, e.g., headphones or speakers.
sound agent 2 can handle audio in compressed sound files, such as mp3, wma, wav dvd, or any software that plays music and sound effects, such as a game. the software then combines data about the specific compression format and playback method to form what philips call the "listening sweet spot."
the technology behind sound agent 2 is an architecture known as intelligent media processing (imp). this architecture is not limited to a pc implementation, however; philips has designed it so it can be incorporated into a host of consumer products in the future, offering additional sound quality without the need for extra hardware. any sound that is played back through this system is constantly monitored and altered to suit the product it is running on.
currently the imp technology can only be sampled via sound agent 2, which comes bundled with philips' dynamic edge 4.1 and sonic edge 5.1 sound cards.
read more at pcpro (free registration required) or philips' pc sound site.
matthew's opinion
creating a software technology to increase audio quality for any product is a bonus in my view as long as it does not inhibit the playback in any way. by this i mean short delays before sound commences, or jerks in the quality due to the software having trouble coping. on a pc this may be due to the power of the pc using it, but in consumer products this would not be acceptable. i doubt philips would release something in a tv or hifi system, for example, if it didn't perform.
a number of consumer devices have started appearing that support playback of mp3 and wma files. in a way this technology is supporting that move and should enhance playback on anything that does. what i would like to know is how well the software looks at a system before defining the sweet spot. does it just look to see if you have headphones or speakers? or does it actually look at and/or test the quality of the speakers somehow? this also begs the question as to how it will judge this if incorporated into a device without its own speaker, e.g., a dvd player.
i don't expect to see consumer devices displaying the imp logo for some time to come, but would certainly like to see some comparisons for playback between philips and creative sound cards. if it can beat eax and the like for sheer quality then philips is onto a winner.
user comments 6 comment(s)
|what, no ogg vorbis support? (11:39am est tue dec 17 2002)
[note, shameless attempt to coop lamer first posters is in progress] – by urgeek
|what, no mp4 aac+ support? (8:56am est wed dec 18 2002)
but then again, mp4 aac+ (audio) won't need anything to make it sound better!
so there!
|support for any compression method (12:18pm est wed jan 01 2003)
sound agent 2 incorporates new technology (imp)that analyzes all incoming digital audio and restores fidelity to any content less than 1150kbps (cd audio bit rate, uncompressed) i.e. ogg vorbis, ape, wma, aac, etc – adaptively. – by dwj
|getting this error msg (7:07am est mon nov 01 2004)
ols failed
anyone knows how to troubleshoot this? – by gino
|re: getting this error msg (1:29am est wed nov 24 2004)
what sound card are you using and what kind of motherboard do you have? does your motherboard have built in audio? – by tom
|no sound (11:30pm est fri may 26 2006)
when i installed sound agent i lost all sound on my laptop when it is not plugged into my phillips stereo. i changed the sound settings through volume controls and still nothing.any help? – by steve


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For 21st Century Educators a The New Rules Of Student Engagement Todayas classroom demands teacher innovation and rejection of outdated practices, especially when someone tells you itas aalways been donea a certain way. In this book, Josh Stumpenhorst details his methods for improving student outcomes with unorthodox thinking. Content includes: Building relationships built on trust and respect, not fear and punishment Why you need to rethink homework and letter grades, whichain their current formsaare harming learning How to leverage technology by not treating it as a ashiny toya, but rather fully understanding their power as tools for massive progressOne way for a child to demonstrate understanding of the theme is to choose to write an essay. ... If you ask most junior high or high school students to demonstrate learning, they will default to the essay or a piece of writing because thata#39;s what theya#39;ve always been told to do. Another ... Death by PowerPoint becomes a very serious reality in my room and I take every effort to defend against such diseases.
|The New Teacher Revolution
|Josh Stumpenhorst
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Garner Hall Ivey Jr.
Posted On November 15th, 2012 - Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Nov. 9, 2012
Garner Hall Ivey Jr., 84, of Kihei, Maui, a retired A&B Properties civil engineer, died in Maui Memorial Medical Center. He was born in Warwick, Ga. He is survived by sons Thomas L. and John W., daughters Elizabeth Ivey and Janice Hinely, seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Visitation: 6 p.m. today at Ballard Family Mortuary. Services: 7 p.m. Online condolences: ballardfamilymortuaries. com.
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Leila's Salonen violin sells for £156,000
October 29, 2013 by Norman Lebrecht
The violin with which Leila Josefowicz premiered Esa-Pekka Salonen's concerto sold today in London for close to $300,000. Full details below:
Sale Results:Musical Instruments
Auction by Ingles & Hayday at Sotheby's:
29 October 2013
No.87 £336,000 £300,000-500,000 US Private Collector
David Tecchler, (b Salzburg, 1666; d Rome, 1747), A Cello, Rome, 1705.
No.63 £276,000 £100,000-150,000 US Private Collector
Lorenzo Storioni, (Cremona, b 1744; d 1816), A Viola, Cremona, 1787.
No.138 £264,000 £180,000-250,000 Anonymous
Circle Of Carlo Bergonzi, (Cremona, b 1683; d 1747), A Violin, Cremona, Circa 1730.
No.139 £192,000 £150,000-200,000 US musician
Francesco Rugeri, (Cremona, b 1620; d c1695), A Violin,Cremona, Circa 1690.
No.32 £156,000 £100,000-150,000 Private Collector
Probably By Michele Angelo Bergonzi, (Cremona, b 1721; d 1758), A Violin, Cremona, Circa 1750.
Formerly the concert instrument of Leila Josefowicz.
No.126 £84,000 £60,000-80,000 International Trade
Andrea Guarneri, (Cremona, b c1626; d 1698), A Violin, Cremona, Circa 1675.
No.24 £60,000 £50,000-80,000 Private Collector
Giuseppe & Antonio Gagliano, (fl Naples, c1780-1800), A Violin, Naples, Circa 1790.
No.54 £42,000 £15,000-20,000 Asian Private Collector
Eugène Sartory, (b Mirecourt, 1871; d Paris, 1946), A Gold And Tortoiseshell-mounted Exhibition Violin
Bow After F.x. Tourte, Paris, 1900.
No.86 £36,000 £25,000-35,000 UK musician
Vincenzo Panormo, (b Monreale, nr. Palermo, 1734; d London, 1813), A Cello, London, Circa 1800.
No.20 £33,600 £12,000-18,000 Private Collector
Vincenzo Postiglione, (Naples, b 1831; d 1916), A Violin, Naples, 1910.
Following the sale, Auctioneer and Expert-in-charge, Tim Ingles, commented: "This was a very exciting sale
with furious competition for most of the top lots. We are particularly pleased with the results for the Viola
by Lorenzo Storioni (£276,000) and the Exhibition Violin Bow by Sartory (£42,000), both of which were
rare pieces in stunning condition. The strength and breadth of the market is very impressive, with bidding
from five continents and lots of new buyers. Bidders included collectors, foundations, musicians,
orchestras and dealers. We look forward to our next sale, which will be held on 13th May 2014."
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I guess they're all getting out of dollars (following the euros which has been tanking for a while).
A good war or not so good war will do it. Four years ago, the market for instruments was weaker and impoverished musicians had to sell the cab for pennies on the dollar. Now the sales prices have improved while the impoverishment part has gotten worse.
As for the product, am waiting for 3-D printing to produce composite bows that really work, and at an affordable price- and, like Bayer's cello maybe even glow in the dark. Imagine those blinding streaks of light in a Verklaerte Nacht show.
Is this the same violin that malfunctioned in Los Angeles?


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B.A.P Releases Special Video and Photo Shoot for First Look Magazine
The up-and-coming six-member boy group B.A.P. has released its special photo shoot and video for First Look Magazine. In the photo spread released earlier this week, B.A.P. shed its fierce image shown in their "Warrior" music video, and instead went with a softer side of them.
Their bleached hair and milky-white skin, matched with the trendy outfits, give off a sweet, boy-next-door vibe, which hasn't been seen too often in B.A.P.'s previous photo shoots. During the interview, the six boys were asked to name the Best, Absolute, and Perfect (B.A.P. stands for Best, Absolute, Perfect) sides of the group. Without giving any specific answer, they just sang and danced like they're at a party. Their explanation? B.A.P. lets their performance do the talk.
You can see more photos and read the full interview of B.A.P. here and here. Enjoy the video!


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Movie bosses at Universal are reportedly keeping Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson away from each other for fear their 2016 feud will wreck promotion for the new Fast & Furious movie.
Executives will present footage from The Fate of the Furious at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Wednesday (29Mar17), and Johnson will most noticeably be absent.
Diesel, Charlize Theron and the rest of the cast will be at the launch.
The two stars, who become rivals in the new film, famously fell out last year (16), shortly after filming wrapped, with Johnson taking aim at Vin for his alleged bad behavior and timekeeping on set.
In August (16), Universal bosses insisted that the actors had put the past behind them, but it appears there's still some bad blood two weeks before the film hits cinemas.
"They're keeping them separated as much as possible," an insider tells The Hollywood Reporter.
And it's not as if Johnson's schedule is preventing him from CinemaCon - he was at the theater owners convention on Tuesday (28Mar17) promoting his other new movie, Baywatch, for Paramount, and on Monday night (27Mar17), he introduced Sony's Jumanji remake there.
The feud between the action men dates back to the end of filming, when Johnson took to Facebook to cryptically attack his castmate for his alleged unprofessional conduct.
"My female co-stars are always amazing, and I love 'em," the former wrestler wrote. "My male co-stars however are a different story."
He went on to add some are "chicken s**t" and "candy a**es". The Facebook attack reportedly led to a showdown between Diesel and Johnson on set, and Vin, who is one of the new film's producers, was singled out as the source of Johnson's social media outburst.
The two superstars won't meet at CinemaCon on Wednesday, but both are contracted to hit the red carpet at the Fate of the Furious premiere in New York on 8 April (17).


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The Veterans Administration cemetery in Houston was the only government cemetery constructed in the United States during the 1960s. It was the largest of its kind at the time of construction and is the current Houston National Cemetery. The VA staff designed the cemetery for the burial of the remains of military veterans and service members at no cost to the surviving families.Continue Reading
The Houston VA cemetery is one of the largest in the United States, sitting on a 419-acre piece of land. Established in December 1965, the cemetery became a national burial place in 1973 after the passage of the National Cemetery Act. The cemetery's focal point is the horseshoe-shaped building at its center known as the Hemicycle. The Hemicycle contains a chapel, a bell tower and a courtyard that can accommodate up to 5,000 people and serves as a venue for memorial services.
The cemetery had more than 85,000 graves as of 2014. The most renowned veteran buried in the cemetery is Albert Thomas, who was a U.S. Congressman from Texas. Albert served as a lieutenant in the army during World War I and served almost 30 years in the United States House of Representatives. All U.S. veterans, together with their families, are eligible for burial in the cemetery.Learn more about Military


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A variety of inventory is added on a regular schedule at this company to ensure that modern builds and harder to find motors can be located in the company inventory.
Sacramento, California (PRWEB) February 23, 2013
F150 pickup trucks have received more than 30 years of production by Ford Motor Company. Companies that perform engine installations for truck owners searching for replacement motors can now purchase Ford engines at a discount price online. Ford F150 crate engines are now discounted at the http://crateenginesforsale.com website. The sizes that are available include V6 and V8 editions and these motors are shipped the same day orders are placed.
Ford has produced the Essex, Vulcan, Triton and now Raptor series for F series pickups. Drivers have responded to the power and torque offered with these complete motors. Although the North American truck market has a variety of competitors, the development that Ford has put forth with its engineering has proved successful for this company.
The new discounts that are available for sales made online at the Crate Engines Co. website are expected to help lower replacement truck engine costs for all buyers. These efforts represent a portion of the strategies now used at this company.
Both Ford and General Motors offer performance engines that are typically used by car builders and restoration companies. The options for average vehicle owners to replace a worn out motor can be limited for a buyer without the right resources. Options like used or rebuilt are most often selected by buyers although condition can be a factor with these selections.
The CrateEnginesforSale.com company offers all customers that choose this company more value in inventory due in part to intensive testing procedures to verify all builds and OEM quality.
The tests now performed by this company are an extra way that customer assurance levels are maintained with every engine order. The application of extended coverage for protection against breakdown and other factors is helping this company provide an alternative to traditional secondary market sellers. A variety of inventory is added on a regular schedule at this company to ensure that modern builds and harder to find motors can be located in the company inventory.
About Crate Engines for Sale
The Crate Engines for Sale company builds domestic and foreign engines that are bought for replacement into SUVs, cars and trucks. This company supplies its inventory to North American buyers and to Canada. Through low pricing measures and other incentives, this company has been able to maintain a steady network of buyers depending on new builds compared with preowned motor replacements. The Crate Engines for Sale company now attaches warranty protection coverage to all engines that are sold through the toll-free company number or through the new online system.


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Welsh churches unite over faith school transport threat
Anglican and Catholic churches in Wales say faith schools should receive the same level of financial protection as Welsh-medium schools.
It follows concerns over plans to withdraw free buses to faith schools by some local authorities.
Councils must provide free transport if secondary school pupils live three or more miles away.
But transport to a faith school is discretionary if a mainstream school is closer.
However, Welsh language schools have greater legal protection when it comes to free transport.
"I acknowledge that local authorities have to contend with quite drastic cutbacks to their budgets but to remove free transport for faith schools is a short-sighted decision," said senior Catholic priest, Monsignor Bob Reardon, of the Archdiocese of Cardiff.
"I can see it's pragmatic but the viability and sustainability of faith schools will be affected.
"Transport is essential to the sustaining of education in those schools."
He said parents from more disadvantaged backgrounds could be deprived of a choice in how their children are educated.
"If the costs are prohibitive to families sending their children to faith schools then they will have to opt for the nearest local authority schools," he added.
Under threat
There are about 250 faith schools across Wales, with those most affected by council cutbacks likely to be Catholic secondaries, because of the proportion of pupils that travel by bus.
So far one council, Neath Port Talbot, has already decided to withdraw free transport for secondary school pupils who go to a faith school.
Two others, Bridgend and Conwy, are also considering the measure.
A public consultation is due to begin in Bridgend next month about proposals that could save the authority more than £500,000 a year.
In Flintshire, the council has also decided to withdraw the funding unless pupils can prove their beliefs with a baptism certificate.
Wrexham council has already withdrawn funding for free transport for all schools that are not the closest to where they live.
"What the churches want is parity with provision for Welsh-medium schools," argued Monsignor Reardon.
"They have to make enormous cuts, not of their choice, but I would urge councils not to be short-sighted in the decisions they make now because if they do remove free transport to faith schools, if they affect the viability of those schools in the future, the diversity of education provision will no longer exist."
The proposals will also affect Church in Wales schools.
Edwin Counsell, an education adviser to the Church in Wales, which has 162 schools, has described the cutbacks as "disrespectful".
Financial pressure
A spokesperson for the Welsh Local Government Association, which represents councils across Wales, said: "Local government in Wales has entered the most difficult economic climate in its history, and every council will have to balance its reduced financial resources against a rising demand for public services.
"Local councils are doing everything possible to protect existing services but many non-statutory service areas, like the provision of out-of-catchment school transport services for faith schools, will be placed under severe financial pressure in the future.
"When considering changes to local school transport provision, councils have a clear legislative duty to actively promote access to education and training through the medium of the Welsh language, but no such statutory duty is in place for local transport arrangements for learners attending faith schools."


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Commander Edward Stanley, who has died aged 89, was a submarine ace awarded a DSO and DSC as a member of the "Fighting Tenth" squadron in the Mediterranean during the Second World War.
On his first war patrol in command of the submarine P37, Stanley sank several small ships, and had only four torpedoes left when he was cued by signals intelligence on to an important Italian convoy in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
At noon on October 19 1942, he found himself right ahead of the convoy when it altered course, placing him between four supply ships and seven destroyers, with aircraft above them. Stanley fired his remaining torpedoes at the troopship Beppe and the large destroyer Da Verazzano, then dived deep, though he classified only two of the depth charges that followed as "close".
On his next patrol a month later, he stalked the 10,000-ton troopship Viminale, but could not close the range before she entered harbour; he tried again in December when he reconnoitred Palermo for another attack using chariots; finally, on January 23, Stanley found her under tow.
He fired three torpedoes at 2,000 yards, hitting with two. Over the next two hours he counted 56 depth charges which shook P37 so badly that he had to return to Malta for repairs to the submarines' batteries, although it had spent only a week on patrol.
Three weeks later, Stanley sank the 855-ton cargo ship Carlo Margotti as she took refuge in a sheltered bay in the Adriatic. While following underwater he saw through the periscope the splash of small-arms fire from the shore. His crew in the control room were amused to see him instinctively ducking the fall of shot on the surface above them. Carlo Margotti was sunk at her moorings.
After landing reconnaissance teams on the beaches of Sicily, who were all tragically lost, Stanley did not relish more special operations when he was ordered to take a team of commandos to blow up a railway tunnel in Calabria. The operation was interrupted by a heavily-guarded convoy passing down the coast: the commandos watched with pleasure while Stanley fired four torpedoes and sank two steamers, but then had to try to make their escape overland. While returning to Malta, he picked up a survivor from an American Baltimore bomber which had been shot down.
In June 1943 Stanley was rested after nine patrols, in which he had sunk 15,673 tons of shipping and had damaged or possibly sunk another 10,000 tons during special operations and gun actions. He was awarded the DSO.
Edward Talbot Stanley was born at Rochester on July 11 1915 when his father was captain of the destroyer Staunch in the Mediterranean. His father was later a victim of the Geddes axe, but young Stanley still joined Dartmouth in 1929.
His midshipman's time was spent in the battleship Malaya, and from 1933 to 1935 he served in the cruisers Hawkins and Emerald, based at Ceylon. The men worked "tropical routine" from 0530 to 1300 daily, leaving the afternoons and evenings free for golf, swimming, sailing, visiting the young plantation managers and going to dances.
This idyllic life was punctuated by occasional parades and police work in ports around the Indian Ocean. Stanley volunteered for submarine service in 1937, to spend two weeks in an old L-class submarine commanded by "Crap" Miers, VC, who, he noted, was "a rather flamboyant type rare in submarines".
His first appointment "in the trade" was to the new mine-laying submarine Rorqual, which was at Colombo, en route to the Far East; When he revealed that he "did not eat curry", despite having spent several years on the station, his shocked captain made him try it. After the outbreak of war, Stanley felt ill at ease living a life of peace, plenty and blossoming romance, and he was disappointed to be made first lieutenant of the submarine Regent in refit at Hong Kong. When Regent was eventually sent to the eastern Mediterranean, he missed its first war patrol because of illness, but was able to marry his fiancee during his convalescence.
On September 30 1940, however, he narrowly escaped sinking when, south of Taranto, Regent broke surface in rough seas while attacking the Italian fleet. In the counter-attack the boat managed to level off only just above her safe diving depth, crushing some internal bulkheads. In his memoirs, Stanley candidly blamed himself for the loss of trim and poor state of training on board.
In April 1941 Stanley was on the casing of Regent supervising the flying of a white flag as it entered the Yugoslav port of Kotor, in an attempt to rescue the British ambassador Sir Ronald Campbell, when two German aircraft dive-bombed: some shrapnel lodged under his ribs, where it remained throughout his life. Stanley was awarded the DSC.
From Malta he flew home in a Sunderland flying boat, managing a brief reunion with his new wife onboard the troopship Monarch of Bermuda at Gibraltar before setting off for his submarine commanding officer's course.
Stanley's first command was the elderly training submarine H50, which had once been commanded by his uncle and was used to exercise escort vessels in the technique of rapid boarding. He also spent one patrol on the blockade of Brest, before being sent to P37. On returning from the Mediterranean he spent a short time training officers at the stone frigate HMS Royal Arthur, before commanding for short periods the submarines Tireless, Wolfe, and Trusty.
He was then sent to the Pacific in command of Taciturn. At the end of the war, his squadron commander Captain Ben Bryant wanted to recommend him for a Bar to his DSC, but Stanley persuaded him to suggest five DSMs for his petty officers: he was mentioned in dispatches instead.
After some successful post-war staff appointments and a happy commission as second-in- command of the cruiser Bermuda, Stanley was disappointed not to be promoted captain, and retired at his own request. He worked as a middle manager for Fison's, the fertiliser company, for 23 years.
Edward Stanley, who died on December 3, married Kay Trickett, the nurse he had courted in Hong Kong before the war. She died in 1991, and he is survived by a son and two daughters.


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CBS summer stalwart "Big Brother" continued its strong season last week, placing all three installments among the top 10 programs in key demos.
The voyeuristic competition show is beating the ratings odds by posting year-to-year gains with its 12th edition, and is almost singlehandedly responsible for keeping the Eye competitive among young adults with a lineup that is otherwise mostly repeats. CBS is also in its customary position of winning in total viewers, finishing on top now for nine straight seshes.
The return of football was also a big part of last week in primetime, with preseason NFL contests winning Monday on ESPN, Thursday and Friday on Fox and Sunday on NBC. And cable series had another big week, including HBO's "True Blood," MTV's "Jersey Shore," E!'s "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and History's "Swamp People."
Overall for the Aug. 16-22 frame, Fox prevailed in adults 18-49 with a 1.7 rating/6 share, followed by NBC (1.6/5), ABC and Univision (1.5/5), CBS (1.4/5) and top cabler USA (1.0/3).
In total viewers, the Eye had it, with an average aud of 6.1 million to 5.7 million for runner-up NBC.
For CBS, the consistent "Big Brother" led its hour on Wednesday (2.6/9 in 18-49, 7.61m) and Thursday (2.5/9, 7.55m) and placed second to football on Sunday (2.6/8, 7.73m). The skein is tracking ahead of last summer at this time by 4% in adults 18-49 (2.6/9 vs. 2.5/8), 10% in adults 18-34 (2.2/8 vs. 2.0/7) and 6% in total viewers (7.49 million vs. 7.05 million).
Also for CBS, Monday comedies "Two and a Half Men" (2.5/7, 8.48m) and "The Big Bang Theory" (2.5/7, 8.03m) continue to perform well in repeats.
Fox was led by animated repeat laffer "Family Guy" (2.4/6, 5.17m), but also got a nice boost from NFL preseason action Thursday (2.1/7, 5.79m for New England-Atlanta) and Friday (1.9/7, 5.34m for Philadelphia-Cincinnati). And reality newcomer "MasterChef" had a solid two-hour bow on its new night, Wednesday (2.1/7, 5.03m).
NBC claimed the week's No. 1 show, with Sunday's NFL preseason game between the Minnesota Vikings (and the summer debut of quarterback Brett Favre) and the San Francisco 49ers (3.6/10 in 18-49, 10.82m). Together with its Aug. 8 Dallas-Cincinnati matchup (11.44 million), NBC has now aired the two most-watched preseason games on any network in six years.
The net was also repped in the week's top 5 by Tuesday's two-hour "America's Got Talent" (2.9/8, 10.19m).
ABC, meanwhile, can still count on Tuesday's "Wipeout" (3.1/10, 8.98m), the only series to post a double-digit demo share for the week. Also doing OK on the unscripted front were "Bachelor Pad" (1.9/6, 5.46m) and "Shaq Vs." (1.9/6, 4.82m). And a NASCAR race lapped the competition on Saturday (1.7/7, 5.84m).
In cable, USA stayed comfortably on top behind such hits as "Covert Affairs" (1.8/5 in 18-49, 5.36m), "WWE Raw" (1.8/5, 4.92m), "Burn Notice" (1.5/5, 5.50m), "Royal Pains" (1.5/5, 5.27m) and "White Collar" (1.5/4, 4.48m).
Elsewhere, MTV's "Jersey Shore" hit more highs (2.9/9 in 18-49, 5.50m), ranking No. 3 for the week in 18-49 and a clear No. 1 among persons 12-34 (4.6/18). And the net's "Teen Mom" also continues to impress (1.9/6, 3.50m).
History's "Swamp People" (1.7/5 in 18-49, 4.23m) opened well on Sunday, building on its lead-in from "Ice Road Truckers" (1.3/4, 3.50m) to become the highest-rated original series launch to date for the network. Add in "Pawn Stars" (2.4/6, 6.24m) and "American Pickers" (1.7/5, 5.20m) on Monday, and History moved up to second or third for the week in cable among adults 18-49 and 25-54 as well as total viewers.
A&E's "The Glades" (1.0/3 in 18-49, 3.32m) hit season highs in key demos on Sunday; ABC Family's premiere of "Melissa and Joey" on Tuesday set a network record for a premiere in 18-49 (1.0/3, 2.51m); TNT's "Hawthorne" hit a season high (1.1/3, 3.80m) and the net's "Rizzoli and Isles" (6.82 million) and "The Closer" (6.49m) topped cable for the week in total viewers; and TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" ended its first season on a high note, drawing its largest overall aud (3.40 million) since June.


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DDR Announces $1.2 Billion Refinancing of Unsecured Revolving Credit and Secured Term Loan Facilities
Jan 17, 2013, 04:01 EST
BEACHWOOD, Ohio, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DDR Corp. (NYSE: DDR) announced today that it has closed the refinancing of its two senior unsecured revolving credit facilities scheduled to mature in February 2016 and its senior secured term loan scheduled to mature in September 2014.
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The new $750 million unsecured revolving credit facility, arranged by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, has an initial maturity of April 2017, a borrower option to extend an additional year, and contains an accordion feature that provides for $1.25 billion of potential total capacity. DDR also refinanced its $65 million unsecured revolving credit facility, provided solely by PNC Bank, National Association, to match the terms of the $750 million unsecured revolving credit facility.
Pricing on both refinanced revolving credit facilities was reduced and is currently set at LIBOR plus 140 bp, a decrease of 25 bp from the previous rate, and is determined based upon DDR's credit ratings from Moody's and S&P. Further, the annual facility fee for both revolving credit facilities has been reduced from 35 bp to 30 bp.
Simultaneously with refinancing its unsecured revolving credit facilities, DDR refinanced its $400 million senior secured term loan scheduled to mature in September 2014. The new secured term loan, arranged by KeyBanc Capital Markets and RBC Capital Markets, has an initial maturity of April 2017 with a borrower option to extend an additional year. Pricing on the new secured term loan is currently set at LIBOR plus 155 bp, a decrease of 15 bp from the previous rate, and is determined based upon DDR's credit ratings from Moody's and S&P. During the fourth quarter of 2012, the secured term loan was reduced to $400 million from $500 million, using proceeds from DDR's re-opening of its 2022 Senior Unsecured Notes.
David J. Oakes, DDR's president and chief financial officer, commented, "These refinancings are consistent with our stated objectives to extend duration and lower our cost of capital as we continue to reduce our corporate risk profile."
About DDR
DDR is an owner and manager of 459 value-oriented shopping centers representing 116 million square feet in 39 states, Puerto Rico and Brazil. The company's assets are concentrated in high barrier-to-entry markets with stable populations and high growth potential and its portfolio is actively managed to create long-term shareholder value. DDR is a self-administered and self-managed REIT operating as a fully integrated real estate company, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DDR. Additional information about the company is available at www.ddr.com.
Safe Harbor
DDR considers portions of the information in this press release to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended, with respect to the Company's expectation for future periods. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause our results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including, among other factors, local conditions such as oversupply of space or a reduction in demand for real estate in the area; competition from other available space; dependence on rental income from real property; the loss of, significant downsizing of or bankruptcy of a major tenant; constructing properties or expansions that produce a desired yield on investment; our ability to buy or sell assets on commercially reasonable terms; our ability to complete acquisitions or dispositions of assets under contract; our ability to secure equity or debt financing on commercially acceptable terms or at all; our ability to enter into definitive agreements with regard to our financing and joint venture arrangements or our failure to satisfy conditions to the completion of these arrangements; and the success of our capital recycling strategy. For additional factors that could cause the results of the Company to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, as amended. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof.
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Aaron Bannert wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:29:47AM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Sander Striker wrote: > > > > > Why are we so desperate in opting out the child-pool creation? > > > I don't really have problems with a child pool for each thread. Actually, > > > it will make the dynamic locking a lot easier to implement if it stays. > > > > all threads MUST have their own private pool root. > > > > otherwise you're just throwing scalability away in locks. (which is > > proved by the claim i saw that ian got better performance by defining > > ALLOC_USE_MALLOC on an 8-way.) > > I totally agree, but only as a solution in httpd. > > > I also believe that we should provide this [application-specific requirement] > outside of the basic thread support in APR. > > Please allow me to use pseudocode: > > void * worker_function(void * opaque_application_data) { > > apr_pool_t *thread_pool; > > create_child_pool(&thread_pool, global_root_pool); > > do_thread_stuff(); > > cleanup_child_pool(thread_pool); > > if (apr_thread_exit_makes_sense_to_call_from_inside_worker_function) { > int rv = APR_SUCCESS; > apr_thread_exit(&rv); > } > > return NULL; > } > > What I mean by this gibberish is that the pool-handling code can exist > completely outside of our thread_creation-type functions in APR. Is there > any reason for APR threads to do more than this (that is, just simple thread > creation)? We have hit an impass in my mind. Dean and I are saying that having each thread have it's own pool is a requirement. Not just for httpd, but for anything using pools. Dean, if I am mis-interpreting you, then I am sorry, and please correct me. Aaron, you disagree. you want each app to make that decision on their own. I see no way to implement that in a thread-safe manner. So, I would suggest that we approach this problem in another way. My ONLY goal for APR is to make a library that is useful for cross-platform development and eases the pain of cross-platform development for developers. That was the goal when I created APR, and my original test case was the Apache web server. I believe that the problem is that the threaded code is creating the pool, and not advertising it to the thread itself. This is an easy thing to fix. I do not agree that every APR app that uses threads should have to create their own thread pools. That is wasted effort by every APR app. I would like to see a conclusion to this thread quickly. So, could people please post their desires quickly, and what they want to see from this. Ryan _____________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom firstname.lastname@example.com Covalent Technologies email@example.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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