text: As a Japanese who is learning English, I have confronted many situations where my English didn't make sense at all to native speakers. That's because there are many English words in Japanese language, written in Katakana alphabet. Those English words don't usually have the same meaning in Japanese. We call them, Wasei Eigo (which means Japanese English). When you come to Japan, you should be aware of the difference in the meaning of certain Japanese English words. Even if [Continue Reading…]


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It takes more brains to write an article than read one.
So, witey writes – for those too old to rebel. For rare is the literate witey under 40.
It was told once, youth listened to elders' admonishments, grudgingly accepting them as a warning how to improve their lot. Today, even slight differences compel youth to tell their elders to suck a cock – then screeching demands to kick their ass. They are ridiculously ignorant, silly and mindless. It's why they suck.
But, most elders were potheads fucking hairy hippy whores at Woodstock or selling out to Reaganite corporations. Now, they repent by ….

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The Dayton office consists of a multifaceted team, expertly equipped to meet the needs of local business in the Ohio cities of Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus, as well as national accounts. From high projection screens to easy-to-use remote systems that give you control at a single touch, AVI-SPL provides high-quality, customized technology to enhance your communication capabilities.
The Dayton team is well-trained in AV systems design and video conferencing; one of the major installation projects included the New York Sprint Executive Briefing Center. This integrated system included: video conferencing equipment, digital signage features, and establishing live streaming video from Sprint's Kansas to New York locations, along with control system monitoring.


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-- Download How Millennials Can Improve Everyone's Job Satisfaction as PDF --
It's 9am, do you know where your millennial employees are? No? No worries. It's all good. They're not factory chickens.
People who study characteristics of different generations have some incredibly important things to say about how different groups work. Organizations, however, are typically run by older people with their own generation-influenced work norms. Those that adapt to include younger generations more effectively will be more successful. And, no surprise, it seems that co-ops are structures that fit the work styles of millennials. Let's explore the future of work, for organizations that figure it out in time!
EA's Rajat Taneja has written about how he sees organizations needing to adapt to this exciting new generation.
Just in the USA alone, the Millennial generation (those born between 1981 and 2000) is estimated to be 75 million which is nearly the same size as the baby boomer generation and 1.6 times the size of my own Generation X.
While they aren't a massive component of today's workforce, they are the future. Adapting organizations to match many of their features will, believe it or not, actually please many older workers now.
So, how do millennials like to communicate?
The new graduates in my workforce don't want to be talked at from the top – they want honest, transparent real-time communication, they thrive on flexibility, and they like informal, many-to-many discussions. And as a leader, I want a workforce that is more collaborative and engaged; more participative and knowledgeable about their work and the big picture….There is a lot more insight in a conversation around a kitchen table then with someone on a stage.
This all sounds really enlightened. Corporations compete against each other, which has its own socially toxic problems and capitalist lust for competition has extended that competitiveness mode to internal organizational operation. How odd. NGOs don't always interact the same way, and when they do it's unfortunate. Millennials are forming their own NGOs that don't interact the same way.
What do their organizational structures look like?
The base of the organization should be the largest in size and reflect an overall shape that is more commensurate with an acute angle triangle – very few layers, large spans of management control and high velocity for movement upwards for this growing segment.
This sounds pretty decentralized, something older managers/leaders are often loath to embrace. And when young people leave old-style organizations, they're deemed petty and entitled instead of under-utilized. However totalitarian old-style, top-down organizations are, the young people are not necessarily interested in racing up that ladder so they can order around thousands of factory chickens. Are you starting to notice how co-ops are fitting nicely with young people?
What about worker job satisfaction?
Everyone in every generation likes transparency and to know how they are performing. The Millennials in particular grew up in a world of online connectivity where every aspect of their life is based on sharing. The default in my organization is to be open and transparent – from the way we communicate the rationale behind every promotion decision, to the participative and open process to recognize our employees, to the way we green light technical decisions. This group also craves constant feedback, so engaging them in proactive and regular career planning and goal creation is critical for job fulfillment.
Contrast this with top-down mandated deference to authority and you can see why millennials sometimes join organizations, learn skills and modes of operation, then find themselves clucking like a KFC chicken and take off, often to the surprise of colleagues who see these young workers take pay cuts in order to enjoy their lives and work.
What about the whole person of workers?
This generation may spend less time at the workplace, but they're also constantly working. Being always connected to the job means having a fun, casual environment and one that maps to their personal goals and beliefs is important. Lucky for me, working in videogames is inherently fun. In addition, we are also piloting flexible "action time" that will allow employees to spend time working on meaningful personal projects or new creative ideas for our business.
And just because you may not be running a video game company doesn't mean you can't ensure you pay attention to the whole person. Millennials, and older workers, have lives, hobbies and volunteer passions. Accommodating these may be a hassle on the logistical level, but it translates into people recognizing that their organization values the whole person. And let's end with an obvious metric of generational engagement.
Who really engages to contribute best to an organization?
The questions I get from new graduates are harder to answer than the ones I get from senior managers.
We can attribute this perhaps to senior staff being more aware of everything so note "needing" to ask, and young workers not so much. But that's a bad explanation. Senior staff may know a great deal, but that knowledge should inspire even far more challenging questions. So I'd go back to deference to authority and totalitarian complacency to explain this dynamic.
Ultimately, organizations that adapt to effectively include younger workers will be more resilient in this century and have the added bonus of turning many non-complacent older workers into more vibrant, satisfied contributors. Organizations that continue top-down, totalitarian models will end up like the Soviet Union. While older workers have become resigned to their lives as factory chickens, you'd be surprised what can happen when you liberate them from their cage/pod.
Learn more about millennials here and here.
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Malaysia Airlines will codeshare on Emirates's four times daily service to Dubai from Kuala Lumpur from February 15th, 2016 as part of the partnership between Malaysia Airlines and Emirates which was signed early December 2015.
The flights offered by Malaysia Airlines from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai will therefore increase from one to four daily, although all flights will be operated on Emirates aircraft. The new codeshare will enable customers seamless and convenient connections to Emirates' more than 90 global destinations. This includes 38 destinations in Europe on a daily and even double daily basis for key European cities such as Paris, Rome, Munich, Frankfurt, Madrid, and Barcelona; as well as Canada and Latin America.
The partnership will also see the Malaysia Airlines and Emirates frequent flyer programmes aligned, giving customers expanded opportunities to earn and redeem points. The details of the benefits will be shared progressively over the next quarter. The service to Dubai will be operated three times a day on the Boeing 777 and once a day on the Airbus 380.
The partnership focuses on building seamlessness for our passengers to enable strong connectivity to Malaysia Airlines' network to Malaysia / South East Asia and the Emirates network to Europe, Middle East, Canada, Latin Americas and Africa.
Malaysia Airlines will be suspending its Kuala Lumpur-Dubai route by 15 February and will re-accommodate passengers on its codeshare flights with Emirates.
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Yes, my boobs. Summer has been weaned for about 2 weeks now. At the time it was pretty sad for me. I mean, for the past year+ I've spent exclusive one-on-one time with her doing something nobody else could for her. I really enjoyed it. What made it even harder for me was that first night when I just read her a story and rocked her for a minute and then put her down in her crib and she fell right asleep. No crying, no fussing, nada. I always knew it would be easy for her. Nursing was kind of a "take it or leave it" thing for her. But geez, I thought I'd at least be missed a little! Nope.
Well, it only took me one night to realize how awesome it is. It's like I have a newfound freedom. Now Derrick can put her to bed! I don't even have to be home! I'll admit, that first week I kind of took advantage of the situation. I went out, I watched TV, I let Derrick "practice" putting her to bed. It was glorious. It's not that bad though. She's super snuggly and it's really one of the best parts of the day.
I'm thinking my evenings are going to get a lot more social from now on. Especially since Derrick was just accepted into the MBA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, through Kohl's. He'll be studying and doing lots of homework every night, so shoot, I might as well go out and do something fun! He can put her down and then hit the books! Mostly I'm trying to convince myself that the next two years of school for him won't be complete hell for ME, especially with a new babe. I guess I have until August to live up my freedom before I'm behind
bars a nursing cover again.
Anyway, if you'd like to go out and do something with myself and my new free boobs, you just let me know!


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This is a Khmer Unicode knowledge base file that you can import into Adapt It and or Lexique Pro based on translation done from English to Khmer by members of the Society for Better Books in Cambodia.
Download "SBBIC Adapt It Knowledge Base" SBBIC-knowledgebase.04.zip – Downloaded 556 times – 77 KB
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I need Translation software from Khmer-English and English-Khmer for article.
Hi Sal, there are a few options. You can download Adapt IT from SIL (http://carla.sil.org/adaptit.htm – which is what this database is for), use the Google Translator Toolkit (http://translate.google.com/toolkit?hl=en), or try out OmegaT (http://sourceforge.net/projects/omegat/ – still has some difficulty with Khmer, but it works pretty well). Let us know how it goes – and if you can, share your translation memory files with us so others can benefit.
Hi, SBBIC. I would like to download this Dictionary.
Hello Soem Sovanna, Thanks – you should be able to download it now – let us know if you have any troubles.


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Cthulhu (THOO-loo, or hchTHOO-loo, or k,THOO-loo or possibly Worcestershire) A monster imagined by H.P. Lovecraft. Evil from beyond the stars.
If you should happen to press Ctrl+Alt+F8…F12 (Such as, oh, say, when you're customizing desktop shortcuts) your friendly, safe, beautiful, human, Ubuntu desktop vanishes and without warning you are plunged into the abyss—just you, pitch darkness, and a blinking cursor. Maddeningly, the music you were playing in the realm of light can still be heard, but you fancy it sounds faint and far away. Louder is the sound of breathing, vast and slow. A fetid chill makes you shiver. You have fallen into the Lair of Cthulhu.
Don't get me wrong. I love Ubuntu. I rave to my friends that Linux isn't just for geeks, any more, and have been heard to implore of heaven why anyone uses Windows. I knock on doors and ask strangers if they have accepted Linux as their personal operating system.
I am a database programmer. That may qualify as a species of geek, I suppose, but to me real geeks create (in order of Olympianess) editors, IDEs, database servers, programming languages, operating systems, natural language parsers and—this is the summit—games. If you don't know what some of those terms mean, trust me, it's all very geeky. Above all, real geeks are stick figures, and I am certainly not that.
I built this computer for Vista, with the usual list of ultra geeky hardware to make it run fast. I even added flame decals to the gun metal black case. Vista sniffed at it, and consented to run. Six months later, I upgraded to XP.
I had always looked wistfully toward Linux, so when the Hearty Heron release of Ubuntu came out, I ran it from the CD for an hour, then took the plunge. As I recall, the installation took about forty minutes, at the end of which I had a dual boot system for Linux and XP, dozens of first-rate applications, and all of the updates fully installed. By contrast, "upgrading" to XP, because I had to reinstall all of my expensive commercial software one application at a time, took many hours.
When Ubuntu came up for the first time and saw the hardware resources available, it burst into tears and started kissing my feet. I had to make it stop. It was embarrassing.
The flame decals have since burned off.
I am still a Linux newcomer. Ubuntu did not become my primary OS until Lucid Lynx. I simply didn't have the time to play with it. Each morning, I would turn on the computer, sigh at Grub (the Linux boot manager), and boot into XP. Linux wasn't paying my bills. But then, after a time, neither was Windows.
This blog is for newcomers like me—especially refugees from Windows—for anyone thinking about giving Linux a try, and for old hands who may enjoy watching me thrash about. This isn't your go-to place for short, snappy how-tos. I tend to explore all of the ideas surrounding a topic. It is a record of what I learn about Linux and how I learn it, told in narratives that I hope will be amusing enough to help the reader learn painlessly the things I sometimes learn by being the kind of fool who presses a hot key combination to see if it is taken.
The System>Preferences>Keyboard Shortcuts applet is how you assign desktop shortcut keys in Ubuntu. It is what I was doing when I discovered the Lair of Cthulhu.
To be honest, that isn't quite what I was doing. I called myself a fool, just now, and with good reason, but it doesn't take a fool to fall into this trap. Let me just say right now that, even so, I prefer the way Ubuntu lets you assign desktop keys to the way Windows does it, because in the end, the way Ubuntu does it actually works. One of the things it does beautifully is pop up a friendly dialog if you try to assign a shortcut combination that already exists. It tells you what it is assigned to and lets you reassign it to the new command or cancel.
The trouble is that not every shortcut key is assigned here, just the ones Gnome (the Ubuntu desktop environment) knows about. There are older, darker parts of Linux where things lie in wait for keystrokes, and grab them, and activate vast gears and clanking chains that can gape a trap door beneath your feet and swallow you into darkness before your desktop ever sees them. No warning, no friendly message, because the Keyboard Shortcuts applet never gets that keystroke.
Before the Days of Linux, there was UNIX. It was a time so long ago that graphical user interfaces did not exist. You did everything from a terminal (also known as a "console") that could only display alpha-numeric characters, typically 24 lines by 80 columns—as much as will fit in a single small window on a modern computer screen. I can fit six such windows, including scrollbars, titlebars, decorative borders, and menus on my HD monitor with room to spare.
Yet, even in those ancient days, UNIX was a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system. It always has been.
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How do you manage multitasking when you don't have windows and many programs need the whole screen to interact with you?
In a terminal, you can move a "job" to the background—hide it's output—with Ctrl+z. Then you can start another job. Or twelve. To return to a job, use the command fg (foreground) and the job number that jobs displays. If there are lots of jobs, you can grep (search) for the name of the process with jobs | grep emacs for instance, to find the emacs editor's job number.
(Why Ctrl+Z? Well the screen has an x and a y axis. When you move a program behind others, you are moving it on an imaginary z axis, perpendicular to the screen. This can be very handy when you're forty pages into the emacs help system and you realize that you haven't yet seen the command for exiting. That's when kill also comes in handy)
Ctrl+Z also suspends the job. If you want the job to resume and finish in the background, use bg and the job number. This is useful if you start a job, then realize it's going to take forever (more than two minutes). If you are thinking ahead, though, you can launch a job and let it run to completion in the background by appending an "&" to the end of the command line. For instance tree -a / > bigtree.txt & dumps your entire file system tree to bigtree.txt & lets you go on with life; gedit bigtree.txt will launch gedit and suspend the terminal, but gedit bigtree.txt & firefox http://unbuntuthulu.blogspot.com & launches gedit, launches Firefox (to browse an excellent blog) & resumes the terminal.
Of course, you could just open more terminals, but that wouldn't be nearly as cool.
Normal people resume below.
Back to the problem at hand. In a busy computer room, it could make sense for several people to share the same console(s). I think this is why virtual consoles were invented, since each has it's own log-in.
The shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+F1—F6 are assigned to different full screen text consoles. Pressing one of those will immediately put you at a log-in prompt. Ctrl+Alt+F7 is where your desktop lives (think F7 is heaven) and that is how you can return to your desktop from any of the other consoles, including the undefined consoles reserved for extra graphical desktops: Ctrl+Alt+F8 through F12, aka the Lair(s) of Cthulhu.
An immediate practical use for virtual terminals is to restart the desktop without having to reboot your computer. Even if your desktop completely stops working (something I have never seen), you should be able recover by opening one of the text consoles, say Ctrl+Alt+F1. Log in with your user name and password, then enter the command:
service gdm restart
If your desktop is only a bit tipsy, which I have seen, save your work and close all open applications, first. Don't use a terminal window to restart. Open one of the consoles. Restarting from a terminal window may work, but it moves your desktop to the virtual terminal on F8, and—in my case—some panel applets don't like that.
This ability blows my mind. In Windows, you can sometimes restart Explorer, but I have never observed it to do any lasting good, though it may give you a chance to save your work. (Why is a file manager conflated with the desktop, anyway?) Logging out and back in works a little better, but isn't reliable enough to be worth the bother, and of course you can do it only if your desktop isn't frozen. Recovering stability in Windows seems to require a "full reboot from cold iron." In my experience, restarting the Gnome Desktop Manager really works—thus far, every time.
It is only because the Ctrl+Alt+Fx keys are trapped before they get to the desktop that you could restart Gnome even if your desktop became totally unresponsive. (In theory. Again, my desktop hasn't locked up, so I can't be sure) This is why the Keyboard Shortcuts applet can't put up a dialog to warn you that you are about to change consoles and perhaps ask your permission before introducing you to Cthulhu.
All of which is no excuse. Lulling the novice into a false sense of security and then plunging him into darkness without warning qualifies as evil from beyond the stars.
This dialog comes up in the Keyboard Shortcuts applet when you press a key combination that is already assigned. It is excellent, thoughtful programming. But to the novice it says, "I've got your back." No, it doesn't. Not quite. What is missing, I think, is just a line or two of text, not here, but on the main applet window: "Note Ctrl+Alt+F1—F12 are Linux system keys for changing terminals. Ctrl+Alt+F7 is your Gnome Desktop." ("Well, what if we decide to change those?" OK. Read the effing configuration files)
On The Other Tentacle
So, why did I call myself a fool? Because I wasn't using the Keyboard Shortcuts applet when—having something in mind for Ctrl+Alt+F8—I decided to just quickly find out if it was taken. "Oooh. I wonder what this button does?" Click
If you have a drop of geek blood in your veins, you may have perked up when I mentioned that Ctrl+Alt+F8 through F12, instead of just plunking you down in front of a blank screen, can be used for extra graphical desktops. If you're brand new to Linux, this is going to make your head explode: with Linux you can use different desktop environments, each with its own core philosophy. The big three are Gnome (the default desktop for Ubuntu), KDE (Kubuntu), and xfce (Xubuntu). Then there is Lubuntu, an unofficial flavor of Ubuntu that uses the lightweight, fast LXDE desktop. Linux is a smörgåsbord.
If you want (only if you want!) you can have different desktops on the same installation, and switch between them by logging out and logging back in, or by associating a desktop with one of the unassigned terminals and switching that way, instantaneously, though I don't know how to do that yet. It will be the subject of a future investigation.
If that's too much choice, just ignore it and stick to Gnome. Even though you're at a smörgåsbord, you can still have the Swedish Meatballs—and try the Pickled Octopus another day.
The service gdm restart command is worthy of a sticky-note. A handier way to restart an unstable, but still functioning, desktop is to close all open applications, then hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. You may need to enable this: Go to System>Preferences>Keyboard Preferences (not short cuts), select the Layouts tab, click the Options button, click "Key sequence to kill the X server" and check the box. Please note that Ctrl+Alt+Backspace works instantly. You don't get a chance to save your work. If you think you might hit it by accident, then use the above to make sure it is disabled and just stick to using service gdm restart in a text console. (Come to think of it, I'll take my own advice. It's not that much handier. Why do I want an unexploded mine on my keyboard? Never mind)
On The Other Other Tentacle
I understand that virtual terminals can be useful, but twelve of them? Given that each one can multitask? The six graphical desktop terminals could each have multiple terminal windows, each with multiple tabs, each tab running multiple programs. I get that there are things you can do with a text console that you can't do with a graphics console, such as restart the desktop with service goddamn restart—in case you have feelings about it—but six? Why not six thousand? If one isn't enough, how can we be sure of six?
The average user spends very little time restarting the desktop. The Gnome Desktop Manager is very stable. I've only had to restart it a handful of times, and then it wasn't frozen, just shaky. I load it down with all the eye candy possible, too. For screen shots. And stress testing. And the interviews.
The point is, I would like to have Ctrl+Alt+F2—F12 available for, oh, I don't know, doing things on my desktop. In fact, as far as ordinary users are concerned (and a database programmer is pretty close to that) by default thirteen different hot keys are devoted either to redundant functions to doing something we don't need.
I know. This is Linux. I can have my druthers. I just have to rtfm. But the Olympian stick figures who really need six different text consoles and six different graphics consoles instantly available can have their druthers a lot sooner than the rest of us can have our druthers. For them, it would be the work of minutes to map every key on the keyboard to a different terminal. I suppose one hot key would have to be reserved for toggling modes so they could actually type something without invoking a terminal. Or perhaps not. The ways of the stick gods are mysterious.
The Nth Tentacle
If I wrote only about Ubuntu's Cthulhu moments, I wouldn't have much to say. Ubuntu is a wonderful operating system. Most of the time it is easy to use—a pure joy, in fact. Most of the misunderstandings I've had with it come from expecting Linux to be as obtuse and disempowering as Windows. It's been a long time since I've had the feeling my computer really was my computer, XP's possessive pronouns not withstanding. It takes some getting used to.


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I came up with this to combine one of my favorites - corn tamales - with an abundance of home-grown jalapeno peppers and fresh sweet corn. They make a great appetizer for a Mexican themed get together.
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- 32 appetizers
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups fresh sweet corn kernels
- 1 tablespoons minced, sweet red bell pepper
- 1 clove minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons minced red onion
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 3 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
- 3 oz cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 1 tsp chili powder
- 16 3" fresh, raw jalapeno peppers, halved and seeded
- 1/4 cup shredded medium sharp Cheddar Cheese
- 1/4 cup diced, seeded tomato
- 1 tsp minced cilantro
- 1 tablespoon minced red onion
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- sour cream for topping
- Melt butter in medium saucepan. Add corn kernels, bell pepper, garlic, onion, and honey, heating to simmer. Stir in corn meal and continue to stir until thickened. Add cream cheese and sour cream. Stir until melted and creamy. Stir in chili powder. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Fill the halved peppers and place in 9 X 13 baking pan which has been lightly sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 20 minutes. While hot, top each with a little shredded Cheddar cheese. Combine tomato, cilantro, red onion and lime juice. Spoon a bit on top of each. Place on serving platter with a small bowl of sour cream for topping. *Surround the plate with fresh cilantro sprigs for color if desired.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories41
- Carbohydrates4 g(1%)
- Fat2 g(3%)
- Protein1 g(2%)
- Saturated Fat1 g(6%)
- Sodium19 mg(1%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber1 g(2%)
- Monounsaturated Fat1 g
- Cholesterol6 mg(2%)


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Even Wars Have Limits Film Festival 2013 March 16 (Ottawa)
I wanted to spread the word that the University of Ottawa Red Cross group is hosting a film festival "Even Wars Have Limits". They will show "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo" and "Rebelle".
Date & Time: Saturday March 16, Protected content to 9:00pm
Location: University of Ottawa Campus, Colonel By Auditorium C03
Cost: Donation (see below for details)
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Please help to spread the word to others.
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The University of Ottawa Red Cross Club is honored to be hosting the "Even Wars Have Limits: Protected content Festival"! This event will be taking place on the University of Ottawa campus, in the Colonel By auditorium C03.
We will be showcasing one documentary and one film in order to demonstrate and raise awareness about International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and issues surrounding armed conflicts. Specific issues of focus within the showcased films include women and conflict and child soldiers.
- 2:00 PM: "The Greatest Silence": This is a Protected content Film Festival award winning documentary elaborating on the use of rape as a weapon of war in the armed conflict ongoing in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- 6:00 PM: "Rebelle": This film, showcased at the Toronto International Film Festival, presents Komona, a 14 year old girl, who narrates her story to her unborn child. Her story begins when she is taken by rebel force at the age of 12 in Sub-Saharan Africa to become a child soldier.
**This film will be shown in French with English subtitles.
The event is FREE however we are asking for donations. All proceeds raised from this event will go toward the Child Advocacy and Rehabilitation (CAR) Fund as well as the University of Ottawa Red Cross Club. CAR is a program developed by the Liberian National Red Cross Society which supports children from the ages of Protected content old who have experienced, witnessed or participated in violence as a result of the ongoing war in Liberia and now may be traumatized. These children have limited access to education and are vulnerable; either marginalized, forgotten, or outcasted by society. CAR provides education, training, and counselling to these children.
Your support is much appreciated!


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12 Days of Christmas @ Crazy Connection
First of all some of you might ask… what is this Crazy Connection? The Crazy Connection is a dream of 3 friends to have a place to live their vision of style and creativity.
Christmas is over and many of us might be lazy and exhausted from all the good food, cookies and sweets, laying on the couch and not really sure what to do… … Continue Reading


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The public square is still filled with those who argue that women are at a disadvantage when it comes to employment; even more believe women face a glass ceiling when it comes to promotion. New facts, though, indicate that the playing field at work is quite level; indeed, in some instances women have a distinct advantage both in hiring and in promotion. Studies also show that highly-qualified women can jump off the fast track and then catch up when they are ready to jump back on. It's called "off-ramping;" increasingly, talented women who want to balance career and family are taking that route.
Thirty years ago, women earned far less than 10 percent of the medical, law and M.B.A. degrees awarded in the U.S., now they earn at least 40 percent of those advanced degrees. The big accounting firm, Ernst & Young claims that at least half of their new hires are women. Among workers under age 30, according to the Census Bureau, slightly over 25 percent of men hold bachelor's degrees as compared with slightly over 32 percent of women. These credentials prove an open door for women to have lucrative careers, many with a distinct advantage over their male competitors.
A partner at Ernst & Young, Carolyn Buck Luce, said that the current job situation boils down to a "war for talent." Many corporations are willing to adjust to a talented, well-trained woman's needs in order to keep her on the roster. At Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), 10 percent of the firm's female partners are on a part-time schedule. Officials at the firm insist that stepping off the fast track does not mean career suicide. Toni Riccardi told
The attitudes of corporations like Ernst & Young and PWC have empowered Generation Xers, those men and women who were born mid-sixties to mid-seventies. Time magazine reported on a Catalyst survey from 2001 that found Gen Xers are unwilling "to make the kind of trade-off" that previous generations made. Further, Catalyst found that "both women and men [Gen Xers] rated personal and family goals higher than career goals." These findings indicate a profound shift of attitude in the workforce.Leslie Stahl reported on 60 Minutes (CBS, October 2004), that over the past decade the number of stay-at-home moms increased by 15 percent. Even so, nearly three-fourths of mothers with children under 18 are in the work force. Well-educated mothers with infants, though, are dropping out (59 percent in 1997 compared to 53 percent in 2000). The Beverly LaHaye Institute first reported this trend in its Data Digest. Nearly a quarter of these stay-at-home moms have graduate or professional degrees. This trend is "huge" says Howard Hayghe, an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
According to a 2005 Harvard Business Review (HBR) study, family responsibilities are identified as the motivating force behind young careerists who choose to "off-ramp." Gen X parents say they spend more time on child-rearing (51 percent of the women are stay-at-home moms) and household tasks than the Boomer parents (33 percent of the women were full-time mothers) did; further, they express the desire to spend more time –– especially those in the higher income brackets. The Los Angeles Times reported that fathers today are helping around the house much more than a decade ago (34 percent compared to 24 percent).
HBR estimates that women lose about 18 percent of their earning power when they off-ramp. Many young professionals view this as an acceptable loss for being able to parent their children.
A study of senior-level executives in Fortune 1000 companies –– by Harris Interactive for Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management –– revealed that fewer than half of senior-level executives are concerned about off-ramping because nearly 40 percent think that within two to four years a woman will make up the losses in salary and position. Another 12 percent, though, think catching up will take more than four years and 13 percent think it unlikely that women who off-ramp will ever fully catch up.
These economic factors, though, apparently have little to do with a woman's happiness. The Heritage Foundation's Family Fact 8219 reveals that a husband's beliefs about family, the value of marriage, desire for children and respect for traditional gender roles are key in determining whether a wife reports happiness with the love and affection of her husband.
CWA's Brenda Zurita and Sarah Rode compiled the research for this article.


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Cotto vs Trout: Experienced Former Champ vs Undefeated Champion Cotto Favored
Miguel Cotto is about a 2-1 favorite in boxing odds for this fight against Trout. Cotto is the bigger name, has the better resume and he has the "hometown" advantage fighting at MSG. Cotto comes into the fight with a record of 37-3 with 30 knockouts. He is a future Hall of Famer but whether he still has the skill to dispatch of a talented fighter like Trout is somewhat in question. What is not in question is that Cotto is going to have a huge edge in terms of crowd support. And Cotto is also very confident in his ability and not worrying about Trout. "I don't think about Trout. I'm thinking about myself," Cotto said, "I just put myself in the training camp, in the training sessions, and I'm ready. I'm ready for whatever he tries on Saturday night."
Trout Unbeaten But Untested
How does a fighter go 27-0 and win a WBA title without being tested? The answer to that question is the state of boxing as there are simply not that many talented fighters. Trout did beat Rigoberto Alvarez to win the title so he gets some credit for that but taking on Cotto is a big step up. Trout is really known for his speed, his defense and his counterpunching. That style can work well at times but in this fight there is no question that Trout is going to have to do more to overcome what is a definite disadvantage in terms of crowd support. And yes, judges oftentimes do listen to the fans. Trout has said he is not worried about the judging. "Well I really can't spend too much energy to be worried about the judging or the officiating. All I have to worry about is what I have to execute inside that ring." Trout said, "If we execute what I do in the ring and let it be up to God's hands, as long as I've done my best that's what I'm happy about it. If they "steal" it from me well that's between them and God. All is can focus on is what I can do and what I can take care of, and then that's my actions in the ring."
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NBC Europe will continue as a broadcaster able to reach 20 million cable and satellite homes in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic, though actual viewership is tiny. Industry observers estimate the channel pulls in less than 1% of German viewers.
DFA is mainly known for providing news footage to TV stations.
"The partnership with DFA continues our strategy of strengthening our European presence through strong partners who contribute programming, ad sales relationships and financial resources," said Tom Rogers, NBC exec VP in New York.
The deal will keep the U.S. TV network's programs and the NBC Europe brand on the air in Germany, Europe's largest TV market, said Larry Rutkowski, New York-based chief financial officer-international and business development for NBC.
The long-term goal is to get NBC Europe on any digital TV platform launched in Germany, which NBC is free to negotiate independent of DFA, he said.
DFA will provide the "lion's share" of investment in the partnership, Mr. Rutkowski said, while NBC will primarily supply programming.
However, DFA will add local entertainment programs to NBC Europe fare such as "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" and "Today."
The new service will predominantly be English-language, and any German-language programs will have English subtitles.
NBC Europe, under the direction of London-based Director of Sales Marga McNally, will continue to control ads sales around NBC programs.
Several German media buyers are skeptical about the new partnership.
"We do not expect that the partnership between NBC Europe and DFA will increase viewership," said a spokeswoman for Carat, Europe's biggest media buying company.
Jorg Bursee, manager of MediaCom, Germany's second-largest media buyer, said: "NBC Europe's problem is a language problem."
"We don't think so," countered Mr. Rutkowski. "In Germany, a large percentage of the population is fluent in English and German."
NBC tried for several years to establish both CNBC and NBC Europe, a news and entertainment channel, as separate brands in Europe and Asia but failed to attract enough ad support.
NBC's new strategy this year is to seek partnerships. In January, CNBC was merged with Dow Jones & Co.'s news channels in Europe and Asia, and in April, NBC entered into a deal with the National Geographic Channel to transform part of the NBC Europe operation into the National Geographic Channel in 11 countries, starting July 1.
The National Geographic deal excluded German-speaking Europe, where National Geographic programming had already been sold separately to other networks. The National Geographic Channel deal angered Nokia, NBC Europe's biggest advertiser with a multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal on "The Tonight Show." Nokia terminated the contract upon realizing that the show would no longer be broadcast across Europe.
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NYCC: Marvel Television Presents
Sunday at New York Comic Con was Kid's Day, so it was very appropriate that Marvel Television held a panel to showcase two of its animated programs: "The Super Hero Squad Show" and "Iron Man: Armored Adventures." At the start of the panel, Marvel Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada emerged from the audience and took the podium to introduce Jeph Loeb, Marvel's Head of Television and panel moderator.
Loeb opened the panel by expressing Marvel's goal to make these animated programs a kid's first introduction to the Marvel Universe. He paused to recognize Matt Wayne, Story Editor of "The Super Hero Squad Show" who was in attendance but seated in the crowd.
The panel was filled with children sitting on the laps of their parents or standing on chairs looking for a better view of the stage. Some were even in costume as Wolverine, War War Machine, a Thor or two and even a Buzz Lightyear. Unfortunately, when Loeb asked all the children if they had received their Super Hero Squad Squad two-pack of toys upon entering the room, he heard a surprising "no" in response. Apparently, the toys didn't make it to the panel, but Loeb promised if they came by Marvel's booth later on, they would have something sorted out.
The panel also hit a bit of a snag when Loeb's slide presentation was delayed when there was glitch of some kind with the projector before even starting.
"Can the kids tell me who some of their favorite characters are?" Loeb asked while the event crew came to the stage to sort the projector troubles.
"Falcon!" shouted one child. "Ms. Marvel!" shouted another. "Silver Surfer!" by yet another.
"Part of the fun of these cartoons is getting particular actors to voice some of these characters," Loeb expressed, as the projector finally started to show the slides. He then ran down some of the voice casting for the upcoming second season of "The Super Hero Squad Show." Among those named were Jim Parsons as Nightmare, Jane Lynch as Nebula, Adam West as Nighthawk, Ty Burrell as Captain Marvel, and Katee Sackhoff as She-Hulk.
After the slides, Loeb said that one of the reasons why he wanted to do this particular panel was the opportunity to ask the kids, "Do you wanna watch some cartoons?"
The children answered with a resounding, "Yes!" Loeb told the children in the audience he couldn't hear them and asked again. After a more satisfying reply, he introduced a screening of the first episode of the new season of "The Super Hero Squad Show" which is set to premiere on October 23rd on Cartoon Network.
Following the episode, he showed half of the premiere episode from the upcoming new season of "Iron Man: Armored Adventures," which premieres in the spring of 2011 on Nicktoons. Following the "Iron Man" episode, slides of character designs for Titanium Man, Iron Monger, Black Widow, and Dr. Doom were shown.
At the conclusion of the panel, Loeb gave a special thanks to several of his co-workers at Marvel Animation: Vice President Cort Layne, Megan Thomas Bradner, one of the producers on "Iron Man: Armored Adventures," and Kalia Cheng.
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BUCHAREST — Moving towards greater national ownership and financing of family planning programmes and strengthening the focus on demand generation are essential elements for ensuring contraceptive choice in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region, participants said at a regional consultation meeting organized by UNFPA and the Eastern European Institute for Reproductive Health (EEIRH) in Bucharest on 16-17 November 2016.
Some 60 representatives of national authorities, civil society and UNFPA country offices attended the multisectoral consultation, which served to discuss priorities in achieving universal access to modern contraception in the region in light of the new Agenda 2030.
'While progress has been made, major, more comprehensive, multisectoral efforts are needed in our region,' UNFPA Deputy Regional Director Ian McFarlane said at the meeting, recalling that 17 million women in the region have an unmet need for modern contraceptives, and that 443,000 teenagers give birth and 190,000 people get infected with HIV every year. He also said the intimate partner violence experienced by one in four women in the region is unacceptable.
'Modern contraception is a major force for good in all of our societies,' McFarlane said.
Addressing country priorities in ensuring universal access to modern contraception, UNFPA developed a Regional Contraceptive Security Strategic Framework for the years 2017 to 2021, in close cooperation with the EEIRH and the countries of the region.
Focusing on the framework's 5C structure – commitment, capital, coordination, capacity and client focus – participants discussed new ways to lift the region's stubbornly low modern contraceptive usage rates.
These include governments moving away from donor dependence to full national ownership of family planning programmes, building institutional capacities for strengthened supply chains and human resources, and initiatives to generate demand among populations traditionally distrustful of modern methods.
Experiences with including modern contraceptives in health insurance plans and engaging a broader range of actors, including those in the private sector, were also shared at the event.
The important role of professional associations was highlighted by Prof. Berna Dilbaz, of Adıyaman University in Turkey: 'If the service providers are not committed – it is not just about training, it is about the attitude, it is about recognizing reproductive health rights, and having an important role in developing the system – then it will not work. Commitment has to come from two sides: the government and the health workers.'
With contraceptive prevalence rates in Eastern Europe and Central Asia below the world average, and in some cases even below the average of the world's least developed countries, the Agenda 2030 is seen as a new impetus in the region to make progress towards achieving universal access to contraceptive choice.
One of the strategies discussed at the meeting is strengthening the capacity of primary health care providers to deliver quality family planning services as part of a health promotion approach. 'As in many other countries in Europe, we have some rural zones where we don't have enough specialized doctors, so what we are doing to address this challenge is to provide capacity building to family doctors so that family planning is included in the primary health care package,' said Mirela Cela, Director of Albania's National Centre for Quality, Safety and Accreditation of Health Institutions.
UNFPA's new contraceptive security strategy has been designed to assist countries in implementing the Agenda 2030, as well as the European Action Plan on Sexual and Reproductive Health recently adopted by WHO Member States and other international commitments.
The resources available in the region to support implementation of these frameworks were presented by Tahir Mahmood, President of the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, as well as by representatives of key partners such as the World Health Organization and the IPPF European Network.
'There is an extraordinary knowledge in this region,' UNFPA's McFarlane stressed, saying that he sees UNFPA's role as one of bringing this knowledge together and making it available to member states and their people.
'UNFPA is a source of trusted advice to enable national authorities to take leadership across all relevant spheres.'
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". . . the authors provide a detailed description of the remains, state of preservation, anatomy, body proportions, and pathologies. . . provides a balanced coverage of both who was Tianyuan (definitely a modern human), but also a little bit of how he or she lived. . . meticulous descriptions and analyses."--Brigitte M. Holt, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Massachusetts
"The human remains found in Tianyuan Cave near Zhoukoudian, Beijing include more than thirty pieces of mandible, teeth, postcranial bones. The direct AMS dating on the human bone gives an age about 40 ka making the Tianyuan Cave among the groups of early modern humans in East Asia. The authors give detailed morphological and metric descriptions for the Tianyuan human remains in this manuscript. In addition, several issues of late Pleistocene human evolution are addressed."--Liu Wu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China
"Not only does this detailed monograph on Tianyuan stand as an excellent example of high-quality description and analysis of important human fossils, it also provides, for the first time, reliably dated evidence on the initial appearance of early modern people on the East Asian mainland. Thus, this work will have a significant impact on our understanding of later human evolution in Asia for many years to come, regardless of individual views on evidence for continuity between early modern and archaic Asians."--Fred Smith, professor of anthropology and Biological Sciences Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University
"...a much needed and welcome addition to what is a relatively scanty record...nicely done...superd quality...wide diversity...one of the first comprehensive metric analyses of a modern human skeleton from eastern Asia that derives from solid context and age...a very nice addition to the literature...will definitely be of interest to any senior researcher or graduate student working on questions related to the evolution of modern human morphology."--Christopher J. Bae, Anthropos
"The high standard of description and analysis can't be faulted, and the conclusions are presented with care and caution."--Don Brothwell, Antiquity


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Taking on (some of) Boko Haram;
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Turkey's border wall
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August 4, 2017
Abubakar Shekau, the public face Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, is now the target of a 40-day dead-or-alive manhunt by the Nigerian military. Shekau, who leads a rival faction of the group not recognized by the Islamic State, is a highly controversial - and important - figure. According to Nnamdi Obasi, a Nigeria analyst with the International Crisis Group, Shekau plays a "deep role in his faction's strategy, tactics, and targets, while also demanding total loyalty." Nevertheless, even if the manhunt is successful, Boko Haram should be expected to endure. The "insurgency's driving force is an ideology, not an individual," Obasi notes.
Shekau's rival, meanwhile, is capitalizing on the moment. Abu Musab al-Barnawi, who heads the rival faction known as ISWAP, is spearheading a resurgence of his group - one exemplified most recently by the group's kidnapping of a Nigerian oil prospecting team in the Lake Chad Basin, which ended in the death of 37 people. Al-Barnawi's faction, analysts say, is "better organized" than Shekau's unit, and possesses the capability to carry out large-scale attacks both in Nigeria and surrounding countries. Moreover, Al-Barnawi's affiliation with the Islamic State means that his fighters have access to weapons from Libya, where the Islamic State has established a significant foothold. (Newsweek, July 29, 2017; Reuters, August 2, 2017)
As the tide of battle turns against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the group is increasingly retrenching to North Africa. Fighters fleeing from the Middle East are reportedly establishing a new ISIS stronghold in Libya, taking advantage of the country's "chaotic" security and political situation. Fighters affiliated with the Islamic State are said to have been recruiting members from Libya's rural Southern regions and the Western town of Sabratha, which lies just 60 miles from the Tunisian border.
The shift has Western analysts worried. The new location means the Islamic State "can jeopardize Western interests through guerrilla warfare sabotaging Libya's oil facilities and ports and through calculated use of terror to unleash a mass migration of people to destabilize neighboring countries and Europe," notes Joseph Fallon of the UK Defence Forum. (London Daily Mail, July 31, 2017)
At least one entity is benefiting from the Yemeni civil war. According to a new study from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has earned tens of millions of dollars so far as a result of the Iranian-Saudi proxy war raging in the southern Persian Gulf. The study states that AQAP has "pilfered" $60 million from Yemen's central bank and earned about $2 million per day through the imposition of taxes in Mukalla. These gains, together with the fruits of robberies, ransoms, and fuel taxes, has set the organization on a path of resurgence. "[T]he income earned in the past few years [by AQAP] is likely enough to sustain the group for some time," note the authors of the report, Yaya J. Fanusie and Alex Entz. (CNBC, July 31, 2017)
The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey appears to be taking a page out of President Trump's playbook. Turkey has announced plans to erect a 560-mile long border wall on its common border with Syria as part of new and enhanced counterterrorism measures. Dubbed the "Integrated Border Security System," the barrier represents an effort to crack down on terrorist activity, smuggling, and illegal immigration at a time when ISIS militants are fleeing the conflict in Syria across mostly-porous borders. Eventually, Turkey expects the wall to border both Iran and Iraq as well, and to be outfitted with fiber optic sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, observation balloons, and cameras. (Al Monitor, July 14, 2017)
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Dibrugarh, Aug. 20: Chabua Coaching Centre came back from a goal down to overpower Dibrugarh Railway by 3-1 goals in the second Umesh Gogoi memorial football competition at Lahoal rural stadium here today.
The first half of the match saw both teams toil hard but none could break the deadlock. The match was interestingly poised, though, with the teams going on the offensive at regular intervals.
The scoreline remained 0-0 at half time.
Spectators at the stadium had to wait till the 57th minute of the second half for striker Khirod Borgohain of Dibrugarh Railway to strike first blood with a spectacular shot.
Chabua, however, took just four minutes to bring up the equaliser through medio Chandra Gogoi. The gates opened further for Chabua in the 66th minute when striker Hardeep Das executed one to perfection to give his team a 2-1 lead.
A minute later, it was right back Guddhial Gosain's turn to strike as he found the net without much effort to seal the match for Chabua. Two players from either team were shown yellow cards.
Tamulbari will take on Duliajan Academy on Friday.
The tournament is being organised by Lahoal Sports Association under the aegis of Assam Football Association. Altogether twelve teams are vying for top honours in the tournament.
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The Guwahati Sports Association will organise a three-day open trial-cum-selection camp at Latasil playground from August 23 for under-15 boys to select the Guwahati district team for the under-15 All Assam inter-district cricket tournament.


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Amazon announced their brand spanking new Fire Phone today during a private press event in Seattle. Amazon's first stint in the smartphone market, the phone boasts a 4.7 inch Gorilla Glass display, a quad-core 2.2ghz processor, Adreno 330 GPU, 2GB of RAM, and a rubberized frame with aluminum buttons.
For all of you professional instagrammers, you may be pleased to hear that the phone has a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera and multiple front-facing cameras that work in sync to create "dynamic perspective," the ability for the phone to adjust its display based on the angle the user views it from. To sweeten the pot, Fire Phone also comes with unlimited cloud storage for photos, so you'll never lose any of those precious selfies you love to take.
As you can imagine, the Fire Phone bears a strong emphasis on e-commerce, making shopping a huge focal point for the device. Using the phone's "Firefly" feature, it will access its camera to identify DVDs, books, QR codes, CDs, URLs, phone numbers, games, barcodes and more. After detection, users can purchase these items by quickly tapping a button, which will send them straight to an Amazon buy page. How nifty.
Now I know what you're thinking: the folks responsible for Amazon's branding must seriously be pyromaniacs. You're probably also thinking that this Amazon phone looks like an interesting and viable competitor, if you're anything like me. Either way, the phone will be hitting AT&T first on July 25, with the 32 GB model going for $199 and the 64 GB model going for $299, bearing you sign a 2 year contract. Otherwise, the 32GB and 64GB models of Fire Phone will cost you $649 and $749 respectively on Amazon.
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Tunis, aside from being the capital of Tunisia, is truly one of the great cities of North Africa. You can easily visit Tunis via Tunis–Carthage International Airport, which has regular flight connections with most major European cities. Though Tunis is located near the coast, the temperatures in summer can still reach uncomfortable highs so it's best to make your Tunis travel plans for the spring or fall months.
One of the many reasons why Tunis tourism is so popular is that it offers such an incomparably wide variety of sights and activities. Let's start with the city itself: holidays to Tunis offer a wonderful opportunity to explore the winding streets and exotic ambiance of the Medina, an ancient area that's home to the city's most famous souks as well as landmarks like the Zitouna Mosque and Bey's Palace.
Tunis' unique geography will also play an undeniably role in your Tunis holidays. Nestled between the Mediterranean and the Sahara, Tunis offers visitors a bit of everything! If you're looking for rest and relaxation during your holidays in Tunis, the sleepy seaside town of Sidi Bou Said is an excellent choice only minutes from the city center. If you travel to Tunis in search of adventure, desert treks and dune buggies are also only a short drive away.
Finally, a Tunis vacation also puts you in proximity to one of the greatest cities of the ancient world: Carthage. The sight of these wonderfully-preserved ruins against the blue Mediterranean will undoubtedly be one of the most memorable moments of your Tunis trip. As you can see, Tunis vacations offers something for everyone, so let's get started planning your trip today!


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Drought conditions have reduced water levels on the Mississippi River to the extent that barges are hitting sandbars, stalling river traffic.
The disruptions result in increased costs for the shipping industry and subsequently to farmers.
Since the beginning of July, nine barges have run aground, some of which were caused by excess sediment deposits resulting from the flooding that occurred last year. The increased sediment exacerbates the problems caused by lower water levels this year.
Barges must reduce cargo loads to cope with low water levels.
Lower water levels also reduce the area of the river open to traffic. Every one-inch loss of water decreases the carrying capacity of a barge by 17 tons of cargo, according to the American Waterways Operators.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has five dredges operating around the clock on the river.
The Corps of Engineers had a budget of $21 million for operations on the upper Mississippi and thus far $17 million has been obligated for shallow-water dredging. It is possible that supplemental funding could be necessary if the drought causes further reductions in the water level.


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There's nothing like a day at the races for excitement, thrills and quality entertainment. Please remember to book ahead if you want to dine in one of our restaurants.
First time coming racing? Visit Racing Explained for an introductory guide. There is also an app for Android and iPhone which can help you get the most from your day.
The start of the first race will vary from meeting to meeting and the main entrances all open 2 hours prior to the first race. The closer to the start that you arrive, the busier the traffic will be, so aim to arrive at least an hour and a half beforehand. This will give you time to understand the racecourse layout and check out facilities. For more information for those coming by public transport please see our 'Finding Us' Page.
For what to wear visit our Dress Code page for all your raceday fashion tips!
The paddock is the overall name for the area containing the Parade Ring and Weighing room. The raceday takes place in a number of half hour cycles. This begins in the parade ring about 20 minutes before the first race, when the runners will be taken into the parade ring to warm up. It's worth watching this to get a first impression of the horses before they proceed out onto the course. Entry into the parade ring is limited to sponsors, owners, trainers and jockeys but you will find ample vantage points all around.
About five minutes before the race, the horses leave the parade ring to canter down to the start. If it is a flat race, they will take a few minutes to be loaded into their starting stalls. Canny racegoers will have already left the paddock to place their bets (either in the Bookies Betting Ring situated in our Tattersalls Enclosure or with Betfred or the tote) and secure a good view on the track. Allow 5 to 10 minutes to do both; don't leave it too late as bets cannot be taken once the race starts. Check with several bookmakers as some may offer better odds for your horse.
Between races you may wish to buy a drink or snack, but so will everyone else, so please be patient. All enclosures have refreshment areas and TV screens so no-one will miss the action!
The race result is not official until you have heard the announcement 'Weighed In". Until then, you cannot collect any winning bets. There is no need to worry; winning tickets can be redeemed anytime during that day.
The first four placed horses return to the Winner's Enclosure within the Parade Ring and are unsaddled. A brief prize giving takes place between the race sponsors and the winning connections, which is well worth watching, not only may you spot some famous faces, but as a courtesy to the race sponsor. Meanwhile, runners for the next race start to arrive in the Parade Ring and the whole cycle starts again.
Inevitably, with everyone trying to go home at once, queuing in car parks will occur. Please be patient whilst the traffic filters off site. Exits to the course are from the main driveway and from the opposite end of the course (The Golborne Gates). No traffic will be allowed down the main driveway from the last race for one hour and the top of the driveway is policed during this time, so if you have ordered taxi's please be aware of this.
We hope that this has helped you in planning your perfect visit to Haydock Park Racecourse and we look forward to welcoming you.
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It's Oct. 27 and the stock market is bucking down more than 500 points in a headlong, teeth-clattering rout. Computerized trading and investor panic are shredding billions of dollars in paper profits.
But amid the din of Wall Street's mini-cataclysm, a handful of mutual funds are going up.
These "bear market" funds are peculiar portfolios geared to rise in value when the markets fall. They're the pessimists' pick, ideal either as a hedge against stock holdings, reducing portfolio volatility, or as a way to profit broad market losses.
During the seven-year bull market, the best return bear-market funds have mustered is a minus 12 percent.
But during the week encompassing the recent swoon (Oct. 23-30), the two leading bear-market funds gained handsomely. While the average equity fund lost 4.82 percent, the Prudent Bear Fund jumped 8.52 percent and the Rydex Ursa Fund rose 4.75 percent, according to Lipper Analytical Services in New York.
The gains are a badly needed bounce. Ursa ("bear" in Latin) in the past three years has logged an average annual loss of more than 16 percent.
During 1996, Prudent Bear's first full year in operation, the fund lost 13.69 percent.
Not surprisingly, fund managers believe some of Wall Street's gloomiest - or "best" - days are to come.
"We believe the bear market has started," says David Tice, president and founder of Dallas-based Prudent Bear. "We believe it will require a substantial decline of more than 50 percent in order to wash out the excesses" and cleanse the Dow Jones Industrial Average to about 3500, he says.
The funds pursue two very different ways to profit from ruin. Ursa (800-820-0888), based in Bethesda, Md., buys futures tied to the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
Prudent Bear (888-778-2327) follows a more complex formula. When the S&P dividend yield is less than 3 percent, it shorts the majority of equities in its portfolio.
When the dividend yield exceeds 6 percent, it will heavily weigh the fund toward traditional "long" shares. The dividend yield is the most reliable signal of an overvalued security or market, Mr. Tice believes, because executives cut dividends when they anticipate a slowdown in cyclical earnings.
"During the past 38 years, a dividend yield below 3 percent has almost always signaled an overvalued market," Tice says.
Now, with the dividend yield below 3 percent, 70 percent of the stocks in the Prudent Bear portfolio are sold "short." (Tice shorts what he calls "outrageously valued or troubled common stocks.") The remainder of the fund is invested in "long" investments or cash.
Both Ursa and Prudent Bear managers must heavily churn the portfolios, in part to meet heavy redemptions from quick-in-quick-out investors timing the market.
Total assets in both funds have fluctuated wildly this year.
Since the spring, Prudent Bear has ballooned, shrunk, and ballooned again from $10 million to a current $60 million in assets.
Ursa began October with assets of $260 million and now holds $514 million, says portfolio manager Mike Bryum.
"It's always nice to see investors doing well in down markets," says Mr. Bryum.


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OTEC Coming to India?
This article of 12/4/03 reports that the one MW ocean thermal power project designed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) with technical inputs from Saga University of Japan, at Tuticorin is likely to be commissioned early next year. The project envisages generation of power from the difference in seawater temperature at a depth of 1000 meters and on the surface. The project at Tuticorin is only a demonstration project. The technology can be commercialised by setting up all weather power generation units. But it may take years to reach that stage. NIOT has already set up a small demonstration project (55 kw) to generate power from wave energy in the Kerala coast. The project was initiated by ITT, Madras and then taken over by NIOT.


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The automotive exchange Covisint L.L.C. last month disclosed that it had selected the 4i eBusiness software platform from Documentum Inc. to create, deliver, publish and personalize any form of communication over its network.
In so doing, the trading exchange made it clear that the ability to control the flow of documents, authorize and verify recipients and track changes is an integral part of b-to-b commerce. Covisint is an independent e-business exchange developed by DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Nissan Motor Corp., Renault, Commerce One Inc. and Oracle Corp.
Sales of software for content management total about $500 million annually, but the market is expected to reach $4.5 billion over the next five years, according to Goldman, Sachs & Co. The Wall Street firm said companies choosing open, extendible content management platforms should enjoy a competitive advantage because it will be easier for them to send and receive e-commerce documents from multiple exchanges.
Trading exchanges could prove ground zero for the projected content management boom. B-to-b e-marketplaces update pricing, availability and part numbers on average four times a year, at a cost of $2.50 to $4.00 per item, according to The Yankee Group.
Documentum will provide Covisint with the architecture for submitting and updating pricing and manage the flow of negotiations from initial talks through the contract. Covisint will purchase the software on behalf of trading companies, which in turn will use 4i eBusiness software to create their own branded environments on the exchange.
"The Covisint deal is the largest opportunity and most visible deal that we could have gotten as we try for traction in the b-to-b space," said Whitney Tidmarsh, VP-product marketing at Documentum. "They aren't our first b-to-b win and won't be our last. But they are our biggest and most visible."
Tidmarsh said her company would leverage the Covisint deal in its marketing. She did not disclose specific marketing plans.
David Troung, research director with the e-business tech rankings group of Forrester Research Inc., praised Covisint for making a definitive move early in the document management area. It came just three months after Covisint handled its first transaction and before content on the site became too large and unwieldy to manage, he said.
"A lot of exchanges like Covisint have a reputation for launching first and providing the technology later, but you want to have your content management ducks in a row before launching trading," Troung said.
Make-or-break moment
Mark Baughman, construct team member at Covisint, said contentmanagement could make or break the exchange. "We envision hundreds and perhaps thousands of people having access to each piece of content that goes into our site," he said.
"You need not only a consistent tool to publish, but also a workflow piece. Every buyer, engineer or product-development specialist has to get some piece of content, and each will have to have set rules over what they can control and access. This is not a trivial thing to build."
Covisint, Documentum and database vendor Oracle Corp. created a system that funnels all documents through Documentum for publication by Oracle Web servers. PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. provided systems integration expertise to the system, which was brought live in about two months, Baughman said.
Nick Wilkoff, associate analyst in Forrester's e-business tech rankings group, said Documentum should prove a solid choice.
In a recent report on content-management companies, Forrester ranked Documentum second, behind Open Market Inc. "Documentum has experience in the core areas of content management, including workflow, version control and administration, but they've also partnered with Web companies to provide Web authoring, design tools and support for application servers," Wilkoff said.
Gordon Kent, director of product marketing for content management company eBusiness Technologies, said exchanges are beginning to heat up as solid buyers. Development of extensible markup language templates should allow companies using content-management software to upload press releases, catalogs, requisitions, purchase orders, product fulfillment notices and audit trails to exchanges without much extra work, Kent said.


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(NBC) - The sound of sleep disturbed is a common symptom of sleep apnea.
The disorder linked to excessive daytime sleepiness, heart disease, even strokes, now being diagnosed in a growing number of military veterans.
The veterans administration says about 20 percent of all vets suffer from sleep apnea and according to statistics released to The USA Today Newspaper, the number of vets receiving benefits to treat the disorder jumped 61 percent between 2008 and this year.
The number one risk factor is weight.
"Not only do they get the fat in the beer belly, they get it in the inside of the throat. And it narrows the passageway for breathing and this is a risk for snoring which is a partial obstruction at night and for stopping breathing at night," said Sleep Disorder Expert Dr. Jonathan Kass.
But experts are also concerned that exposure to dust and smoke during repeat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are also contributing to the number of service members suffering from sleep apnea.
The most common treatment is a breathing device called ACPAP.
The VA covers the cost of the equipment and testing.
How to access those benefits is one of the most popular discussion topics on a sleep apnea support group website.
The VA is spending about 500 million dollars a year to treat veterans with the disorder.
That cost is expected to increase as more baby boomers seek care and as more Iraq and Afghanistan veterans retire.


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The end of the year is a time of retrospect and looking forward and blah, blah, blah.
Let's face it. No one really wants to think about their mistakes, errors, failures, and "on-purposes". We like to believe, and maybe some of think, that we are good people.
Ask most people and they will say something like – "I'm a good person even though I…"
I think that comes from our inherent desire to be balanced. Experts always talk about how good it is to be balanced – in our investments, in our work-home time, in our rest-activity. It is a logical step to put that in our moral life and to start to look at this as a scale.
OK – I watched a little porn but then I shoveled the neighbors driveway. I lied to my wife about why I was late (it wasn't a train or traffic or an accident, I was just thoughtless) but I played with the kids. I stole some pads from work but I put a dollar in the Salvation Army pot at Walmart.
We have a local case here in Saginaw where a woman who was convicted of drug-dealing and escaped from prison, was captured a number of years later out on the coast where she was now a middle-class wife/mother and doing no harm. She might have even been doing some good like being active in the PTA . The watercooler discussion is "should she go back to prision"?
My daughter has moved out of her Hannah Montana phase, but there was a song she played that had this recurring line "Everyone makes mistakes". That is true, but it does not exonerate or excuse. My mom used to say "if everyone were jumping off a cliff, would you jump too?"
I never told her this but at times I have jumped off that cliff, and on the way down I yelled "but everyone else…"
So, I am trying not to yell "but everyone else" because doing what we are supposed to do does not make up for doing what we failed to do. Recognizing that we did wrong and what flaw in our character allowed for that, and then resolving to address that character flaw, will help.
So here's my list of what "mistakes" I made in '08
- I did not trust God enough
- I did not repent enough
- I did not love others more than myself enough.
You really didn't think I would be tranparent enough to give the specifics?
Hmmm – guess I'll have transparency to next year's list.


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How often do you train?
My training varies when I spend time away from home performing in high-diving shows. When I'm in England I train an average of 14 hours per week.
What's your normal workout?
My training usually consists of a two-hour session: the first hour is in the gym and includes plyometric exercises (to help with fast, powerful movements like somersaults), lots of abdominal work, somersaults, trampolining and stretching, and once a week I do a free-weights program consisting mainly of different squat exercises. This is followed by an hour in the diving pool.
Credit: (c)Predrag Vuckovic/Red Bull Photofiles
Event: Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2009, Vouliagmeni Lake, Athens
Do you follow a strict diet?
Personally, I am not super strict with my nutritional regime. I have always had a slim figure, which helps when trying to flip and spin through the air. I just make sure my diet is fairly balanced and try not to eat just before I dive; diving with a full stomach is not easy and definitely not enjoyable. My diet varies a lot, but in general it consists of a light breakfast, toast or cereal, something like pasta or a sandwich after training, and dinner could be anything from lasagne, bolognese, steak, chilli, fajitas... really whatever takes my fancy.
If you could make one food good for you what would it be?
If I could make any unhealthy food good for me it would have to be my favourite meal - a good old English breakfast.
Photocredit: (c)Samo Vidic/Red Bull Photofiles
I would say my body's biggest weakness is waking myself up in the morning. The diving competitions in the morning are sometimes a problem as it takes my body a long time to wake up properly.
Which athlete do you admire the most?
Dmitri Sautin. The Russian diver has competed in four Olympic Games, won a total of eight Olympic medals - more than any other diver in Olympic history. He is also one of the most consistent divers of all time. When an Olympic diver reaches the age of 30 they are normally past their peak and to see him still competing, and beating the best in the world at 36, he remains in my mind the greatest diver of all time.
Event: Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2009 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Have you ever been injured?
My worst injury was in 2000 when I broke my leg skiing, I was in a cast for eight months and only six weeks after having my plaster taken off I started training and managed to break the same leg in the same place... so I had another eight months out of training and many months of rehabilitation.
Why did you choose cliff diving as a sport?
I started diving in 1994 when I was nine, and sometime after that I remember seeing high diving on Eurosport and thinking to myself that I would love to try it. I realised that the possibilities with this sport are almost endless and instantly started to think of ideas for possible high dives.
Photocredit: (c)rutgerpauw.com/Red Bull Photofiles
Event: Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2009 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
What's your most memorable dive?
My most memorable dive would definitely be the first time I tried my most difficult dive, the back triple with four twists. Before trying this dive everyone had different opinions about what would happen and how it would feel. The problem is that it was impossible to practice this dive from a lower height or split the dive up into two parts because there were too many somersaults and twists. Therefore, it was literally a jump into the unknown; I spent many sleepless nights imagining myself performing the dive, so the moment my feet hit the water it was an incredible relief.
What's your next ambition?
Whilst watching the videos of cliff diving as a young diver I always talked about the possibilities of new dives with my friend Gavin Brown, who unfortunately was knocked down in a hit and run accident the year that we were supposed to start the high diving competitions. It was his dream to introduce the running take-off into the sport of high diving. So this year at the competition in Italy I am going to honour my friend by being the first person to compete a high dive with a running take-off.
Photocredit: (c)Ray Demski/Red Bull Photofiles
Event: Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2009 - Athens
What do you fear the most?
During the competitions and training, once you are diving from 26 to 27m the risk of injury is very high. There is obviously a competitive vibe but success for a high diver is for all the team to finish the competition without injury and be able to celebrate still being alive.
The funny thing about high divers is that many of us are scared of heights. Don't get me wrong, if there is water underneath me I know even if I fell I could probably find a way to land without hurting my self. The problem is if I look out from the roof of a hotel or out of a high window over concrete I can't help but imagine the feeling of jumping and somersaulting over the edge.
Photocredit: (c)Ray Demski/Red Bull Photofiles
Event: Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2009 -Tower Saint Nicholas, La Rochelle, France
What's your secret to winning the first two stops of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2010?
There is no secret. It is just hard work and practice. Learning all my difficult dives last year has paid off. I don't know why the others don't try to do the Triple Quad, but I suppose it's because it's a very difficult dive and you cannot practice in a diving pool. You just have to trust in yourself and go for it. When you see somebody before you get good scores, like Artem, it definitely makes you think that you have to do this and you go for 10s every time.
If you could give one training tip what would it be?
My top training tip would be not to stay with the same training routine all the time. This year I started a training course for the trapeze and I found muscles I didn't know I had before. It's easy to get stuck in a routine of the exercises specific to your needs, but it's definitely necessary to vary your training from time to time.
Watch Gary talking about his training and performing breathtaking dives here
Photocredit: (c)Dean Treml/Red Bull Photofiles
Event: Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2009 - Athens


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According to a post Friday on Three Speech, an informal and semi-official PlayStation blog, Warhawk will be released via download on Aug. 30 in the UK along with the PlayStation Store's regular Thursday update, not on Aug. 28 as previously announced.
Update: Sony officials confirmed the news over the weekend and said the delay does not apply to the U.S. version of the game, which will be available for download for North American consumers on Aug. 28 as previously announced.
The announcement says, in part: "As you know, Thursday is the usual day for our PS Store refresh. We are sorry for any inconvenience that the extra 48 hours wait may cause."
The Aug. 28 release date was originally planned to coincide with the GC Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany, but Sony decided to push the date to Aug. 30 in order to maintain a consistent schedule for future downloads, according to Three Speech.
Although other, smaller games have been up for purchase from the PlayStation Store in the past, Warhawk is the first full-sized title Sony has made available for download.
The old-fangled disc-based version of the game is scheduled for a Tuesday, Aug. 28 ship date in the U.S., which would put it in stores by Wed., Aug. 29.