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11/22/2008 3:13pm, #11Originally Posted by Punisher
11/26/2008 9:02pm, #12
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wow! always be careful of those ma schools that get mad at you for questioning them. also the fact of kicking you out and then charging you 170bucks for the next month is really shitty. ive heard a few things about this place from a few people in tn. and they all said that they felt the striking was second to the grappling and almost put on the backburner. its not your fault they dont understand how to equally train both styles. maybe they should change it to a sub. wrestling, bjj, mma gym. that seems it would be more accurate, oh yeah, get a real mma boxing coach.
1/03/2009 11:12pm, #13
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I'm sorry that you have had a bad experience at Bad Wolf. I have been training there for approximately five months and have been pleased with Rahman and Dee as Instructors. I have recieved a good balance of Muay Thai and BJJ and have enjoyed training in both!
1/04/2009 12:22am, #14
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I trained at Nashville MMA for a couple of weeks. I thought Shawn Hammonds was a top notch instructor and the guys there were both talented and relatively friendly ( i mean it is a fight gym so there is a certain amount of posturing). Shawn even asked me to stick around when he heard i was only a TN temp. Unfortunately I had this fool idea that I had to go to Los Angeles. Great jiu-jitsu program at Nashville MMA. For real.Secret moves such as hitting a thing with your hand and hitting a thing with your leg have been stolen and degenerated by arts like karate, boxing, muay-thai, Kung-fu, and basketball. -Epicurious
I for one welcome our new Ninja overlords.
I figure fighting a group of chunners would be like water torture, its not the force as such, just the constant trickle of chain punches wearing down your sanity. -The Juggernoob
1/04/2009 9:29pm, #15
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dont believe everything you read
Ive been training at bad wolf fore nine and a half months. what the guy above me said he heard from people I dout because the people who come their end up staying so I think you decided to come up with a little story to sound cool but you dont. Next I was their with el zorro and if he would ove said something to me we could ove done some stricking but he didnt. Yea I felt a little betrayed I thought we were better freinds than fore him to not talk to anyone about this and he didnt talk 2 anybody about this. The incedent in question about the 170 dollars he was told that he hade the right 2 finish out the month I personally read it after I saw el zorro at a small fight after all this was done. He gave me this same story but I read all the emails back and forth and he was told he could finish out the month but didnt that is his own fault. Fore the guys who visited from nashville mma I remember you very well and i was one of those athlets in the muay thai class I remember because both of you came up and said that i hade killer kicks and knees. Those guys you saw body sparring yes I said body sparring most of them were out of shape thats mainly why they did it I was late that day so i wasnt in that body sparring session sorry you missed it i think you might have a different point of veiw if you hade. We have some great striking and striking coaches. I do remember you rolling after class and I rolled with another student in the other room hade you come over and asked we would've gladdy rolled with you. Next point some people dont wear their colored belts all the time. We have other than the instructors a brown belt five blue belts and a couple guys on the verge of blue belts. I will gladly put my belt to the test with anyone posting on this topic my striking also. No im not mad im confident and really dont like the he said she said stuff going on like I said if anyone wants to get together and roll or strike i will be glad with no hard feelings.
p.s. notice i didnt say anything about your gym because im that confident in mine
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1/04/2009 9:44pm, #16Originally Posted by takedown101
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btw your grammar sucks. That does reflect on your credibility. You may want to work on that.
1/04/2009 10:00pm, #18
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my grammer has nothing 2 do with my fighting or the insruction at bad wolf so kiss my a**
1/05/2009 2:21am, #19
Yes, it does. Your post was unreadable and almost illiterate. Thus, I didn't read it. Thus, anything you said that had merit was just pissing into the wind.
You don't have to be nice. But try to use punctuation.
Oh, and not write "2" for "to". Because that's just an automatic epic fail.Monkey Ninjas! Attack!
1/05/2009 3:42am, #20Originally Posted by takedown101
How about if I just contact your coaches so they can see how you're representing them. You're a fucking embarrassment to the gym. Go back to school and graduate the 6th grade you fucking moron.
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ALBANY — The best thing that will happen to University at Albany graduate student Jacob Iati is Saturday night. Right around 7:30, the 5-foot-10 guard will be able to forget about what went down at SEFCU Arena Wednesday night.
The blown loss to Boston University will be replaced by another chance when the Danes play Vermont in an America East game at home.
"I am mad we lost," Iati said before the Danes practiced Friday afternoon. "I am not good to be around after we lose. I'm not a happy guy, my mood changes a lot. I hate to lose more than I love to win."
Iati is still miffed over how UAlbany dropped an 85-80 overtime home decision to Boston University. The Danes blew a six point lead with 15 seconds left in regulation as D.J. Irving hit a pair of 3-pointers to help BU get the game to overtime.
Iati said he has replayed Irving's two big shots in his head over and over again. And then he gets mad all over again.
The first 3-pointer, which cut the Albany lead to 63-60, came with eight seconds to play and Irving was left wide open. Unacceptable, Iati said.
The game tying shot, with 2.2 seconds left, was a result of the Danes not being able to inbound the ball. A tipped pass finally ended up in Irving's hands and he made UAlbany pay. And, in overtime, the Terriers didn't miss a shot and got out of town with a win.
"We gave that game away," Iati said. "Just poor execution down the stretch. They did make some big plays, but it was just too frustrating. We gave it away, there is just no way around it. We messed up."
Iati hopes that things change for the better when the Danes play Vermont Saturday night at 7:30 (the women's teams from both schools play at SEFCU at 5). UAlbany will also get the chance to erase bad memories of a 70-45 drubbing the Danes received in Vermont on Jan. 5.
"I am going to feel a whole lot better once the ball is thrown up on Saturday," Iati said.
Vermont (5-2, 12-7) will be without 6-7 junior forward Luke Apfeld, who has missed the last four games with a cracked bone in his lower left leg. Before getting hurt, Apfeld was averaging 10.3 points per game.
In the first game against the Danes, he had 12 points, one of four Catamounts in double figures.
"He was our leading scorer and our captain," Vermont coach John Becker said. "He had a great game against Albany the first time. We don't have a lot of bigs to begin with, and he was our best option."
Becker said Apfeld will return before the season ends, but it won't be against the Danes. Clancy Rugg, a 6-8 junior, has taken Apfeld's spot in the starting lineup. Once a walk-on player for the Catamounts, Rugg is averaging 10.5 points. He had a career high 21 points in Vermont's last game, a 71-68 loss at Maine.

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Aam Aadmi Party ad slammed for sexism
23 June 2015 07:56:44 The Asian Age
AAP's expelled leaders Yogendra Yadav (Photo: PTI) New Delhi: Launching an offensive against the Aam Aadmi Party over a recent advertisement, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav on Monday accused the city government of indulging in "political corruption." Mr Yadav said the AAP government was using public money in glorifying one person despite the restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court against such ads. "This is a form of political corruption as it is using public money for the advertisements. The AAP had come to power by promising new type of politics. But by coming up with such an advertisement, it is getting into the league of Mayawati and Jayalalitha," the former AAP leader, who was expelled from the party after he upped ante against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, said. Last week, another Swaraj Abhiyan leader and activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan in a series of tweets said the ad amounted to a "crass" projection of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal apart from being "crude abuse" of funds, which was "against a Supreme Court order." "Apart from being a crass and crude abuse of funds the Kejriwal ad on TV is sexist and projects women as servants of their husbands. Shocking," Bhushan, a senior Supreme Court lawyer had tweeted. Decrying "personality cult" as an anti-thesis of democracy, the Supreme Court has barred publication of photos of leaders in government advertisements except those of the President, Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India. "The guideline of the order clearly states that any government advertisement should avoid the glorification of political personalities and and such glorification of an individual at the cost of public exchequer be stopped in a Delhi," the group said in a statement.
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Aam Aadmi Party sacks Admiral Ramdas as Lokpal
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20 September 2014 00:23:33 The Asian Age
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Uttar Pradesh remains headless, rudderless and directionless but that has not prevented party workers from squabbling in public. AAP spokesperson in Lucknow Badri Narain was unceremoniously removed from his post by district secretary Vishal Vikram Singh last week. A curt email sent to mediapersons informed that Mr Narain had too many responsibilities on his frail shoulders and was therefore being divested of his responsibility as a spokesperson. The email further asked journalists not to take cognisance of any mail sent form Mr Badri Narain's email ID. Mr Narain responded to the "decision" saying that it was "arbitrary and unconstitutional" and blamed a section in the district unit for working against the party interest. Mr Narain further disclosed that he had been removed from the post because he had dared to demand the accounts of the party's unit and refused to accept the decision of his removal. As of now Mr Narain continues to function as the party spokesman and media-in-charge while Arvind Misra, the "new" spokesperson also sends out press releases.
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18 June 2014 10:32:38
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Crisis in Aam Aadmi Party
06 June 2014 09:37:43 In The News
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11 May 2014 18:50:31
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24 April 2014 16:12:14
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27 March 2014 08:19:08 WN.com - Asia News
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March 2010 Wayside Night Sky Program
On March 23, eight or nine club members set up on the Wayside Elementary playground as part of our Night Sky for Schools program. The sky was compromised somewhat by high thin clouds throughout the evening, and the first quarter Moon made the situation worse by illuminating the clouds. Nevertheless, we were able to observe plenty of brighter objects, including the Moon, Mars, Saturn and the Orion Nebula. Fainter objects, such as M67, that would show an eyepiece full of stars on a dark night, were degraded badly by the low sky contrast, and were not used.
About 50 students, each accompanied by at least one parent, attended the Night Sky program. It was a good crowd, well controlled and very enthusiastic. Despite the large number of visitors, we had enough telescopes and binoculars to provide plenty of viewing time for everyone, with no long lines. We also had plenty of variety among the instruments available, including several Newtonian reflectors, a couple of Schmidt-Cassegrains, several refractors and several tripod mounted binoculars. Daryl Doughty's equatorial mounted, dual refractor setup, attracted attention with live video images from a DSLR camera attached to one of the refractors. Daryl also displayed a nice collection of digital photos he'd taken previously.
It's always rewarding to see the excitement kids (and adults) have when seeing the Moon or planets through a telescope for the first time. There are lots of ooh's and ah's and "Cool!", but Saturn always gets the most dramatic responses. Last night I stopped counting the number of times I heard a long, drawn out "Oooh, Wow!", when someone put their eye to the eyepiece and saw the ringed planet for the first time. That alone made it worth the time and effort to disassemble, load, unload and then reassemble my telescope, twice.
We will provide a second Wayside Night Sky evening, this time for the younger elementary students, probably the week of April 20. I'll email the details when they're finalized. I hope we have as many or more volunteers as this time, and I've got my fingers crossed for good weather.
Thanks again to all the volunteers who helped provide such an interesting evening of astronomy for the kids.
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Typically when the topic of a woman's right to choose comes up in public discourse people's brains lock into their old, rigid channels and civility vanishes. It's been a long time since this country seriously questioned the right to choose contraception, though, which is why it's puzzling that now the state of Alaska might make birth control more difficult.
The Alaska State Medical Board proposes a rule that would effectively impede the use of emergency contraceptives - the so-called morning-after pill - by all but the most determined women who can afford to see a doctor quickly. The board would begin requiring a prescription, which means making an appointment to see a doctor while the clock is ticking. The hormonal treatment, not to be confused with the RU486 "abortion pill," is essentially a high-dose version of oral contraceptives. Its effectiveness tapers off over time, up to some 120 hours. The woman who is raped, experiences a broken condom or regrets a mistake would have to hope for a quick appointment and be prepared to cover the cost.
Under current regulations, a woman wishing to obtain emergency contraceptives may do so after an interview with a pharmacist who periodically consults with a doctor about criteria for dispensing the $40 drug. That interview is said to take 10 to 20 minutes. It is a humane process that the state has shown no good reason for abandoning.
One advantage of making the treatment readily available is clear: It has the potential for decreasing the incidence of abortion. This is not something that Alaskans need to fight about.
The morning-after pill is perfectly legal in Alaska. The state should not now begin to treat it as a controlled substance.
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PALM HARBOR, Fla. The final full-field event of the PGA Tour is supposed to be all about money. Maybe it's only fitting that the guy with the most of it Vijay Singh is in control at the Chrysler Championship.
Singh had to recover from back-to-back bogeys early in the third round. He grabbed a share of the lead with a perfectly played flop shop from deep rough over a steep bunker. He took the lead for himself with a 30-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole.
Still, the toughest task was reminding everyone that there's still 18 holes to play.
''I'm just leading. It's only one shot,'' Singh said after a 4-under 67 to take a one-shot lead over Tommy Armour III. ''A tough golf course like this, you just keep pace and keep your patience and see if you can get a chance on Sunday. Fortunately, I've done better than that.''
Singh was at 12-under 201 and will be trying to win for the ninth time this year. The 41-year-old Fijian has won five of his last seven starts on the PGA Tour, and he has won the last 10 times with at least a share of the 54-hole lead, dating to the MCI Classic three years ago.
''That's why we play the tour, to play with the best players and see what you got,'' Armour said after a 68.
No matter what happens Sunday, there still figures to be plenty of drama.
The only money that matters to Singh is getting to $10 million, and that looks like a lock barring a collapse.
For everyone else, it will be the last chance to finish in the top 30 on the money list and qualify for the Tour Championship; in the top 40 and qualify for the Masters; or in the top 125 to secure PGA Tour cards for next year.
Jesper Parnevik and Kirk Triplett each had 68 and were two shots behind at 203.
The real move came from Tom Carter (No. 164 on the money list) and Jose Maria Olazabal (No. 148), who were at 205. Carter had a 65, and needs at least third to keep his card. Olazabal, the two-time Masters champion, shot 67 and should keep his card if no one passes him.
Tim Herron had a 67 and could make it to East Lake next week with another solid round Sunday.
As for the trophy?
It looked like that would be up for grabs, with five players in a share of the lead at some point. Then, Singh made his birdie putt on the 17th, and suddenly it seemed like this tournament was headed for a familiar conclusion.
''You've got the best player in the world leading,'' Jeff Sluman said. ''Realistically, you'd like his chances against guys giving him two, three, four shots.''
Armour was lucky to be only one shot back. His approach to the 18th hit the bleachers, bounced off a tree and dropped into the rough near the green. He got up-and-down for par, putting him in the final group with Singh.
Sluman and Jonathan Byrd, the co-leaders through 36 holes, both got off to solid starts until they crumbled on the back nine. Sluman's slide started earlier, a triple bogey on the sixth hole, and he never quite recovered on his way to a 74 that left him five shots behind.
Byrd, who was 9 under on the back nine in the first two rounds, played his final four holes in 4 over for a 75. One of those was a double bogey on No. 15, when he called a two-shot penalty on himself for grounding his club in the bunker.
Singh started the third round only two shots out of the lead, then three-putted from 20 feet and had to save bogey from just off the green on the next hole.
''My first goal was to get back to par, and I did that immediately,'' Singh said.
He made birdie on the next two holes, then slowly worked his way up the leaderboard a 12-foot birdie on No. 7, a two-putt birdie on the 11th and a phenomenal flop shot from deep rough, over a steep bunker to about 4 feet for a birdie on the par-5 14th.
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JEJU, South Korea Kate Golden shot an 8-under 64 and moved into a tie for the lead with South Korean star Grace Park after two rounds of the CJ Nine Bridges Classic.
Annika Sorenstam moved back into contention for her seventh LPGA Tour title of the year after a 67, three behind the leaders.
Golden capped her bogey-free round with an eagle on the par-5 18th to finish at 9-under 135.
Park birdied the 18th to complete a 3-under 69 and retain a share of the lead at The Club at Nine Bridges course.
Volvo Masters
SOTOGRANDE, Spain Alastair Forsyth shot a 4-under 67 to open a three-stroke lead over Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia after three rounds at the Volvo Masters.
Play was completed in fading light at Valderrama because of an 86-minute afternoon delay caused by a passing thunderstorm.
Forsyth was at 9-under 204. Poulter, who birdied No. 16 with a chip-in and No. 17 to catch Garcia, carded a 69. Garcia had a 71.
Christian Cevaer (70) was five back, one shot ahead of Peter Hanson (70).
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For Europeans, gas prices decrease, for residents of Ukraine – grow
The highest price for gas among European countries pay the Swedes, the Portuguese, Spaniards, Italians and Danes. Russians with Kazakhs and Belarusians – the lowest. However, the way it did the last time, situation has significantly changed only in Ukraine. The victory of European integration is obvious: the tariffs for Ukrainians is almost on par with Hungarian and Romanian.
Swedes in Europe pay the highest price for gas, it follows from the ranking of European countries according to the cost of natural gas for the population, prepared by experts of RIA Rating".
"The record growth of tariffs for population of Ukraine against the background of reduction of the purchase price of imported gas for Naftogaz"
The population of Sweden (here and hereinafter in terms of the Russian currency) the rouble pays 68.1 per cubic meter of gas consumed. "However, because of extremely low natural gas share in the energy mix of this country in Sweden this type of fuel is more of a luxury for certain people in the country than a necessity. The population of Sweden is focused primarily on the consumption of "green energy", – analysts say.
Behind Sweden in the ranking Portugal (62.1 per ruble), Spain (57.3 ruble), Italy (56.8 per ruble) and Denmark (52.5 ruble). The population of these countries have to pay so much for gas due to state tax policy, which links the price of gas for households by cost of "green" energy. The point is that the creation of "green" energy is expensive, so the population – the consumers of cheap gas is forced from the pocket through taxes to pay for an expensive eco-friendly energy.
All this confirms the thesis that the gas in Europe for the population not so expensive because, for example, that Gazprom has too high prices (like trying to present the case of the EC). According to the Russian national energy security Fund, in the structure of the final gas price for European consumers (population and factories), the share of Gazprom accounts for only about 40%, and the remaining 60% is taxes and margins of intermediary companies who resell the gas.
Pay the lowest price for gas from the countries of the Customs Union. The cheapest gas among the countries included in the rating, Kazakhstan – 3.7 rubles per cubic meter, which is 18 times less than in Sweden. Russians in average pay 5.1 ruble, Belarusian ruble 6.1. Such low gas prices residents of Russia can afford thanks to the wealth of natural resources. And these riches Russians share with their neighbors. So, Alexander Lukashenko, is able to keep the population so low gas prices thanks to its supply from Russia at preferential rates.
Surprisingly, in Europe, even in those countries which are lucky with resources, the population of this wealth does not receive any dividends. So, the Netherlands is one of Europe's largest miners – are at a high seventh place in the ranking: the population pays an average of 49 cents per cubic meter of natural gas.
It is therefore not surprising that Ukraine, which has chosen the European integration and breakage of the historical, commercial and friendly ties with Russia, seeks to catch up with Europe in its gas tariffs for the population. Just a year after Maidan, Ukraine has failed in the absolute cost of gas to come close to the poorest EU countries – Hungary and Romania. And this is only the beginning.
Ukraine became the leader on growth rate of tariffs for gas for the population among European countries. Over the past year, rates have increased in the country in national currency five times. Now Ukrainians pay 15 rubles per cubic meter (Hun 19,1, Romania – 21%).
Most surprisingly, the record growth of tariffs for population of Ukraine against the background of reduction of the purchase price of imported gas for Naftogaz. In the first half of 2015, the dollar-denominated tariffs of gas supplied to Ukraine by Gazprom, were on average about 10% lower than in the first half of 2014, experts of RIA Rating". The reverse of Slovakia, Hungary and Poland in the country were delivered more than half of gas at more competitive prices than Russian. That is, the state reduces their costs while simultaneously increasing the burden on ordinary citizens. In this regard, knocking out Kiev discounts for Russian gas at the tripartite negotiations with Russia and the EU do not bear any practical use in Ukrainian households.
For comparison: a poor European countries Hungary and Slovenia, which resell reverse gas to Ukraine (essentially Russian), took advantage of favourable conditions for the benefit of its population. On the background of cheaper gas (due to the fall in oil prices) in these countries had the strongest decrease in the cost of gas for the population in Hungarian or minus 16.5 percent to 21 rubles per cubic meter, Slovenia – minus 10.7% to 37.9 ruble.
As Ukrainian oligarchs eats the whole Ukrainav many EU countries have reduced gas prices for its population on the background of favorable price situation. Among the 34 countries included in the rating, gas prices were reduced in 15 countries. The rest, they grew, but only in a couple of cases more than 10%. "Thanks to the coup, which was supported by part of the citizens of Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians turned out across the country in 2015 received five to seven times higher tariffs in three to five times too low, real wages and pensions," – draws a bleak picture of the expert of the Ukrainian public movement "Ukrainian choice" Alexander Koltunovich.
Due to the devaluation of the hryvnia from 8 to 25 to the dollar savings of ordinary citizens are impaired. Dramatically increased the price of all food, medicines and gasoline. "As a result of galloping inflation in 60.9% of the stores are now run as museums, everyone is looking and not buying anything," says Koltunovich.
In the same Hungary the minimum wage is 333 dollars, in Poland – $ 410, and the Ukraine in times less – 51.7 dollar (Eurostat data, in 2015). While gas prices in the three countries is almost the same: the difference is only four or five rubles, or in 0,1 dollar.
With this approach, the state is not surprising that many Ukrainians simply can not afford to pay for housing and communal services at the prices close to the European. The number of defaulters is increasing exponentially. On may 1, 2015 the debts of the population on payment of housing and communal services amounted to 12.9 billion hryvnia. In April, the debt of Ukraine's population has increased by 2.5% compared to March of 2015 and the average maturity of debt of the population for all services was 2.6 months, said Koltunovich.
And it is not that because of the war the population of Donbass does not pay for utilities. Their debts are generally not recorded in the statistics. And leaders for nonpayment – Sumy, Vinnytsia and Cherkasy region. The average charges for utility services for the year grew by 65.8%, from 218,4 USD in April 2014 to 550,2 UAH (taking into account electricity consumption at the rate of 150 kWh), the expert said.
And all the stories about aid to needy Ukrainians through the provision of subsidies in practice, only a drop in the ocean serious problems. On may 1, 2015 in Ukraine subsidies received 1248 of thousands of families. This is 7.8% of the total number of families in Ukraine. The average size of housing subsidies per family in April amounted to UAH 335.
"Of course, many Ukrainians in horror awaiting autumn and a new heating season 2015/2016. It was then to fully manifest the new tariffs for gas for the population, as well as other utility services. To master the new tariffs will be only one. Then what will the authorities do with the negative balance of payments of Naftogaz and other service providers?" – surprised Koltunovich.
Many Ukrainians do not particularly want to "be" European integration, wanting to come back, so to speak, the "criminal" rates, the levels of wages and pensions, 2013.
Recall that to raise significantly the tariffs for gas for Ukrainians – it is a direct requirement of the International monetary Fund. This is one of the many conditions that Kiev fulfills meekly to receive the next tranche from the IMF. The sad results of this policy: for the year Ukraine received a record fall in GDP – 17.6%, industrial production – by 21.7%, the collapse of exports to the third.
Ukraine is among the outsiders also in the ranking of countries according to ability to purchase natural gas on the average wage (after deduction of taxes and social payments). If the citizens of Kazakhstan at the average net salary can buy 8.2 thousand cubic meters per month, Luxembourg – almost 6 thousand cubic meters, Russia – 5.6 thousand cubic meters (the three leaders), Ukrainians – total of 482 cubic meter of gas. A year ago the average salary in Ukraine was much higher and the rates lower, so residents could buy 2.2 thousand cubic meters. Among the outsiders for the cost of gas adjusted for purchasing power were also Moldova, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Portugal.
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Snape, E. and Redman, T. (2004) 'Exchange or covenant? The nature of the member-union relationship.', Industrial relations., 43 (4). pp. 855-873.
Drawing on a study of members of the U.K. National Union of Teachers, this article considers the extent to which economic exchange, social exchange, and covenantal considerations underpin union members' willingness to continue membership and to participate actively in their union through union citizenship behaviors (UCB). Findings suggest that the more activist forms of UCB were motivated primarily by a perceived covenantal relationship with the union. In contrast, exchange, particularly social exchange, motivations played more of a role in motivating less demanding "rank and file" UCB and intent to quit the union. Union instrumentality appeared to be a necessary but insufficient condition for union viability, having an indirect effect on UCB and intent to quit the union and also moderating the effects of pro-union attitudes. Implications for union strategy are considered.
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How an Army of Postmen is Turning China's Rural Stores into the World's Largest Retail Network
A billionaire investor, a data-crunching genius and thousands of local postmen... How China's small-town stores are undergoing a tech revolution.
Samson Yeung won't relent in connecting China's village stores until he's reached saturation. "A million stores would be a very good number to dominate the market," he says. As Ule's chief operating officer, Yeung is moving fast to build the world's most ambitious real-time retail-data network.
"Being on the network makes each store a virtual Walmart: They can sell what they like, even if it's not in the shop, to turn themselves into internet businesses. Plus we're capturing every transaction that's made in the store, to help the shop owner. We know who they're selling to, at what time of day and in what weather. We work with owners to decide where to shelve products for maximum impact."
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i had cps called on me cause i let my kids play outside til dusk
in the summer
My sister's neighbor called CPS on her because some guys were carrying a sofa into her house and she told her 2 year old to move out of the way and joked with him about how she should tie him up to keep him out of the way.
People abuse cps...and its unfortunate, because there are children out there that are actually being abused, and cps doesn't do shit for them. I know first hand about that.
actually your child getting outside unsupervised is a reason to call. That is neglect and puts that child in a dangerous situation.


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Health gurus and Crohn's websites are always touting the benefits of juicing, but should you jump on the bandwagon if you suffer from Crohn's disease? It depends.
One benefit of juicing is that you can get the healthy vitamins, and antioxidants, of fruits and vegetables in a very concentrated dose. But, juicing foods instead of eating them robs your body of some nutrients it needs, like protein and fiber.
Sometimes, super-fibrous foods are difficult for Crohn's sufferers to digest, so juicing them can make sense when you want some of the health benefits of the foods but not too much fiber.
When thinking about Crohn's disease and juicing foods, it's probably best to take a moderate approach. It might be in your best interest to juice some fruits and vegetables (especially the ones you have a hard time digesting) and to eat other fruits and veggies in their whole forms.
Here's why:
A Balanced Diet
Even though Crohn's sufferers have difficulty digesting foods, they still need a balanced diet of protein (including complete proteins), complex carbohydrates, and fiber. Leaving any one of these nutrients out sets your body up for more imbalance in the gut.
The key is to eat a healthy Crohn's diet that gives you the protein, carbs, and fiber you need without putting extra stress on your digestive tract. This means that you should try to eat as many healthy, whole, plant-based foods as you can. But by all means, include some potent and powerful juices in your daily meal plan.
Key Nutrients
Did you know that protein, even a small amount, can satisfy a hungry tummy and promote healing in the gut? Don't leave protein out of your diet by going on a juice cleanse or a juice fast. Protein from plant sources like soy, nuts, beans, and even veggies can help heal inflammation, which is something that Crohn's sufferers should think about.
Essential fats from whole foods like avocado, nuts, nut oils, and seeds are essential for a healthy body and a healthy gut. Essential fats ensure proper cell function, nerve transmission, and immune function. You get essential fats from eating whole food, not juices.
Crohn's disease and juicing foods can go hand in hand, as long as you don't rely on juices to give you all of your nutrition. They'll only leave you with more problems if you rely on them as a sole source of sustenance. Be sure to also check out are article about Colitis and juicing.


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Review of WAI User Agent draft 19981019
Notes by Harvey Bingham
JA: Jim Allan
KB: Kitch Barnicle (AFB)
HB: Harvey Bingham (YRIF)
JB: Judy Brewer (W3C)
KC: Kevin Casey (RNIB)
WC: Wendy Chisholm (TRACE)
DC: David Clark (CAST)
CC: Carson Craig (Henter-Joyce)
JG: Jon Gunderson (UIUC)
EH: Earle Harrison
CH: Cathy Hewett (Microsoft)
IJ: Ian Jacobs (W3C)
CL: Catherine Laws (IBM)
CO: Chuck Oppermann (Microsoft)
MP: Mike Pedersen (Henter-Joyce)
HR: Hans Riesebos
JR: Joe Roeder (National Society for the Blind)
ST: Steve Tyler (only Sunday)
WC: 4.1.1. Grouping too diverse
KH: Bothered by ratings.
DC: The techniques are not parallel.
CO: Worry about use of these as a club.
HB: Several countries will be using these as clubs.
IJ: Let user control font size, is important.
CO: Down play marketing issues, focus this as input to managers and programs
Consider this is as a checklist, rather than universal guidelines.
HB: Checklist items may not be yes-no. Many are judgemental.
CO: Want yes-no to build checklists.
IJ: Break 4.1.1 into a set of seven.
DC: Consider that the guidelines are vision-centric.
JB: Read for other disabilities, to make sure they are not ignored.
JG: Images have 3 sources: alt-text, title attribute, or longdesc. Title for tool tips is normal use.
Tooltip can use title if present, else alt. Currently no use of longdesc. IBM Homepage reader does
Use longdesc. ?Opera?
DC: Should we assert going from text to speech.
JA: Turn off tool-tip to unclutter.
CO: CSS needs attribute for rendering of tool-tips.
KC: Subtitling and captioning.
KC: Simplified screen
JA: as JAWS linearizes/serializes, we have no guideline to assert this to be desirable.
CO: High Contrast flag in MS. IE3 and IE4 removes background image and double font size.
Removes eye-candy.
JG: User could set up profiles and invoke them. That could include a "simplification" setting.
JA: Add extinguisher, acts like a little proxy, simplifies what it gets before sending to browser.
IJ: 4.2.1 on access to alt content.
JB: We should break these out more consistently. Redundancy in "representation of" alternative content.
The SMIL material here has lost its context when incorporated here.
JG: Break out object treatment from where it was merged.
IJ: Too much was merged.
JG: 4.2 Under access to alternative content, need subguidelines for audio, video, table, objects, applets.
IJ: CSS allows generic mapping into table structures.
KC: Five senses available, guidelines need to address more than two.
JA: A RealAudio player is also a user agent. It needs to be considered,
JB: Much like plugins of many kinds.
KC: Multimedia is to way-out. TV is brought to the common understanding.
KC: Add the authoring clue on what longdesc points to. Mona Lisa should have pointer to the Louvre, not to some textual description of it.
IJ: User may choose to bring up separate window for images, keeping text only concurrently.
KH: Alt text shouldn't be smooth flow. An attempt to make it so, would lose the distinction about why it was included/selected.
JG: Users should have control over which can be displayed.
KC: Seriously low-vision want both image and alt-text. Both are useful.
JG: We don't want unimodal choice, but rather provide simultaneous choice.
WC: User scenarios for variety of users.
JB: A task for EO is to define the user profiles.
WC: Define a variety of disability profiles, and give task and expected use of these.
JG: Two concepts: choose one among, or supply alternatives for concurrent use.
WC: Announce when done loading.
XX: A full image with images off, a blank page.
KL: If there is a URL attached, that id different from a pure img.
KH: Do provide to screen readers info on img.
EH: A link attached to image is read in IBM reader. Often the length of the URL is too confusing.
MP: Render the last part of the link, not the whole thing.
KL: That's what is referenced.
TH: URL on status line, and screen reader would read that to user.
IJ: CSS has a before and after "pseudo-element" before rendered element. Rendering of external objects is not under author control, nor under stylesheet control even. For that reason, there is not adequate to use for alt text.
IJ: Split out 4.1 guideline topics.
JB: Propose overarching controls under user preferences.
IJ: Implementation (by particular ua) vs. technique (CSS).
JA: How pass through user preferences (and to where).
IJ: The techniques doc should be able to indicate what might be achievable.
KB: This format as a checklist is more amenable.
KH: Hard to get this from a longer checklist as too long to an executive summary.
JG: Thanks to participants for taking time and cost to attend.
JB: Indexes in page authoring guidelines, by priority of technique.
WC: Recommend generating checklist from the guidelines. Users of this guideline are the implementors, Microsoft.
CO: Checklist pushback from developer. Why is this important?
KC: How important the turning off of blinking text is dependent on the text, as determined by the author.
JB: May not know that importance.
JB: Report II. Didn't get further to rewriting. Hard to break apart the current organization.
KC: Include the variations in simultaneous access.
JA: complementary or supplementary information revelation. How tell screen reader that a longdesc
is present.
IJ: How let user know that a script is present.
CO: Technique to do longdesc, if image is not shown, put up special icon, add text [indicating that longdesc is present] as well as the alt text, and make the image tab-stoppable if it isn't already, and have menu
choice including longdesc…
WC: Need a querying mechanism to determine what are the alternatives for display.
JG: Characteristics of a context menu may be more generally useful.
EH: If image has longdesc, use "D" special image, present plain text,
CO: Now if right-click on an image get properties of it. Some power tools give more flexibility.
JA: Don't want to hit the context menu for each image.
IJ: Discription elsewhere: orientation about page, number of links, tables, objects, forms, etc.
DC: If in normal mode, need way to know that longdesc exists. [marking about longdesc notice]
is not a good solution in tool tip
JG: When image is rendered, add a visual indication of longdesc presence.
IJ: Any with longdesc set can trigger an action in CSS.
JG: D-link is claimed to be "proprietary", an old company called "D-Link"
WC: D-link is transitional.
DC: Page author guideline immediately. UA guidelines are for futures, assume implement longdesc.
JB: PA for here and now, vs UA for future.
WC: We hedge, do both today, (D-link and longdesc).
KH: Next version of browser 6-months to year.
JB: Could convert from PA D-link to longdesc
IJ: CSS can hide based on attribute value.
KB: Designers dislike D-link distortion. Future authors want converter to longdesc.
WC: ER may be the responsible group for identifying conversion.
WC: GL issue to use predefined values for REL?
IJ: To tell UA what to do with D-link?
JG: Argue against use of REL, there are alternatives, deprecated menu tag.
HB: Class is local convention
IJ: Let user exploit with authoring, and overrideable stylesheet from user choice.
JG: D-Link 4.1.4 is gone.
Techniques for audio and video objects.
DC: Concern for automatic conversion, with what limits?
MP: conflict sound cards driven from several sources.
KC: Put the context of "identify" needs to be said somewhere.
JB: In longdesc, we broke out identification from content, same thing here.
JB: Visibility, group access controls.
JA: If "show-sound" is on, also haul up captions if they are there. Multimedia two streams concurrently that captures visual text in balloons. That is different kind of captions. (Chuck … described to JA).
DC: Complementary vs supplementary, across modalities we have to be clear whether we have a direct interpretation, or an additive interpretation.
JA: Need text caption as well as second video for deaf-blind.
KC: Danger in image file of text, makes inaccessible.
JB: New models of presentation may need to map to
KC: Text in non-text is coming, particularly as digital photography will have overlays of text.
HB: Avoid "caption" as confusion with "closed-caption".
WC: has made distinct "text equivalent".
WC: Visual notification of sound being played. (Show Sounds)
CO: Windowing OS NT knows about wav files, Windows 9x doesn't know other that speaker sounds.
Background sounds in MS extension are available in CSS2. If the browser knows that a sound is being
played, give alerter: pause the sound, replay the sound. Could add ALT to this background sound.
CO: If browser is not involved, how detect it.
DC: We are addressing more than HTML for sounds.
JG: Need a notification and captioning means if text is available.
CO: In HTML, only way to do sounds <BGSOUND>
WC: Java can do sounds. Desire that
CO: Title bar, flash window, invert screen-- window9x only knows speaker, not other soundcard.
Window NT knows all sounds, any sort of *.wav file would work.
DC: User agent, the assistive technology, and the underlying operating system all may effect the user.
Post break.
DC: User agent is not necessarily the one to render the alternative.
IJ: Players that have limited modality may need synchronization with other modality user agents.
KC: Any object should be adequately able to treat its media, but not other media.
WC: RealAudio can handle the text-to-speech?
JA: Quicktime has caption embedded. It should be able to support the captions.
CO: SAMI can have captions from different source. Windows media player, shows video, plays audio, uses IE browser for text.
HB: Synchronization issues, SAMI one way, SMIL another. Use needs to stop, backup, resynchronize.
JB: Different UA have different needs. Summary needs to identify and to render, in some cases browser
May notify the other UA that work is available for it. There may a primary UA.
MP: Info given to assistive technology deserves its own standard for interchange/specification.
JG: Audio track identification and turn on/off.
HB: Multiple audio tracks need selection means.
JB: Text media object is the verbiage parallel to video or audio. Screen reader needs to know that there is a screen object to be read.
IJ: PA guidelines: accessibility issues; and the PA techniques: HTML implementations.
IJ: That model is less appropriate for UA. UA Guidelines include
The UA techniques don't have the same HTML/CSS/CSS2 restriction.
JG: Reorganize
KC: Could we separate structure and content from style.
CO: Want list of attributes that they need to implement. Accesskey on links should be implemented.
IJ: Index of elements in PA techniques, with link to where it is covered in the guidelines.
IJ: None done for attributes yet.
IJ: Consider side-by-side support of attributes "browser-caps, but not for HTML 4.0".
JB: Compatibility section should have implementation for W3C. Different for implementations.
DC: Bobby does some cross UA comparisions. Attribute analyses are not adequate. Different
browsers may ignore attributes, others may treat differently.
HB: No clear statement of what the #IMPLIED values means.
Identify these and note them to IG>
JB: Treat accessibility features to techniques document.
JG: We have items to add to compatibility: different w3c docs have impact.
We've missed title and alt. Do we need a list of compatibility issues.
IJ: Add SMIL and MathML.
IJ: Re: repositioning captions/content
KC: Useful for draggable matter to avoid conflict with what might otherwise be visible.
JC: Jaws gives alternative rendering, strip graphics, make linear reading order,
WC: Navigation bars put at bottom of page.
IJ: Class info could be used to move matter around window.
IJ: CSS2 has a positioning means to place stuff in known positions.
JG: How important is it for UA to do this?
DC: Implementation using class with CSS2 expects support of it. Many objects need repositioning.
IJ: Need to generalize.
KC: Not possible to separate style and content here for navigation. If move object relative to others,
That is a major intellectual property leap to do this for arbitrary objects.
JB: Limit to text equivalents. Authors shouldn't presume visible in authored display area.
JG: Positioning text rendering is issue of video/audio players.
WC: Change rate of either audio or video. Includes pause.
CO: For sound, start, stop, repeat, fast-forward, fast-reverse.
JA: Need to maintain synchronization.
Techniques for other types of objects.
DC: In NOSCRIP don't work in HTML 4.0. (as it isn't rendered).
HB: The bottom of an Object could be a noscript.
WC: Provide for noscrip or alternative to get around scripts.
IJ: If scripts are unsupported the noscript tries to give the alternative.
JA: Author who depends on scripts, if noscript were there with link to alternative that user could activate.
JC: Implies that user can turn off scripts.
IJ: No work on behaviors of HTML documents. Work is going on to bind events and actions, possibly in a cascading way with syntax like CSS.
WC: We'd like to be able to attach a script to recognize and navigate tables that could be reused.
IJ: Guidelines don't now let users turn off scripts.
CO: Now in security can turn off scripts. Not same as defaulting to noframes.
CO: Two kinds of pages from MS: DHTML or download version.
WC: User control: for pages that autoupdate, user should have update on/off, and rate of update, and notification of update. User processing rate differs. Pause, say-slow, user say "ready" before continue.
Now this is on the author. Now need non-refresh version to work as well.
HR: Some pages depend on refresh rate. Author should be able to deny user the choice to change rate.
KC: Lots of information update rate (stock price tickers) cannot be specified by user.
IJ: A meta element in the head did a non-normative html to use +3 to say wait 3 sections then go onto
Somewhere else.
CO: Metatags are opportunities to override user control. If turned off, there is likely some static link to
achieve the same effect.
JG: Scripts. Disable, update rate, automatically updated pages. More than DHTML. Some server may be doing this to the user.
KC: will do this clarification on refresh and apply in author ing as well.
JG: Alternatives to frames, NOFRAMES
WC: A list of titles would be useful, if user turn off frames.
KC: Author not stating the sequence in a frame.
MP: Can tell when move to new frame. IE allows moving from one to another frame.
CO: No difference between frames and lots of other products, with different window handles.
CO: Framed sites are often bad.
CO: Hotmail is good example of a second window for frames. Closing that second frame returns to the original.
DC: If frames off, and no noframes, what to do? Give frameset list.
JB: Also issues for cognitive folks. Once open frame, no way back using keyboard shortcuts.
Need clues to work this.
EH: Jaws for Windows lets lists be generated. This is a third-party issue. Not clear why it is a UA issue.
JB: Lot of issues are shared between PA and UA. Make sure that PA isn't looking at only visual issues.
WC: PA wants title and longdesc on frames. Need description of how frames interconnect.
User query to get descriptions, turn on/off frames.
DC: Want quick way to scroll through a page. Frames off, and main window off as default, need to click on it before scrolling through it.
HE: Hard to identify frames by looking at page by itself. The concept of frames is often obscure.
KC: Agent technology cannot clarify author's intention.
DC: Not all groups have alternatives.
JB: Navigation is big issue, for alternative users, quad, eye-gaze.
IJ: Choose noscripts, choose see or ignore noscrips. Probably also for frames.
JA: In some browsers Ctrl-Tab moves frame-to-frame. Title on frame should help identify frame.
JG: We expect keyboard support for stepping among frames.
JB: In identification section, deal with both identification to user agent, others to user. Many will not have mediators
WC: Title attribute is used in frame to step through the links therein(?)
CO: A description of a frame should fit into title or alt. Why need longdesc?
WC: To describe the layout?
CO: Would need to indicate that longdesc was available and a way to get to it.
JB: Deal with frame identification and navigation.
WC: Hard to get orientation with screen readers that just went across the content .
JB: Some screen reader UA could block frames.
EH: UA issue on page with frame, select in frame then go back to beginning, rather than go back to where you entered the frame.
IJ: With two frames and content changing, cannot get back to an ephemeral place. \
WC: Open current frame in windows is in context menu.
CH: IE5 addresses some of these.
IJ: This can be done with scripting.
JG: Keyboard support for frames, history across frames, specify what to do with noframes,
Use title as URI if there is no noframes.
IJ: How define current in the document? Bookmarking? Event cursor? Point of Regard to be returned to,
Needs better definition.
IJ: Events, which elements have them.
IJ: Popups, alertings and escapes from them, and where do we go from that completion.
IJ: onmousedown, onkeydown redundancy as alternative invocations.
WC: Lots of more PA issues today.
DC: The P element isn't used consistently.
IJ: Sentence recognition is an I18N issue.
WC: There are text models, smaller minutia of sentence. Work in Active Accessibility V 2, and Swing
Access model. If those are models for DOM, that would be useful. Swing uses its own object model.
Sun does this low-level work, compare it to DOM. Protocols and Formats group is the one to take this to the DOM working group.
CO: Java accessibility text model is a small subset of what is already in DOM.
IJ: Translations are at a sentence level, so would be useful as sentence recognition/tagging is worth while.
IJ: No draft guidelines on I18N out yet. There is a character model and I18N layout in working drafts.
IJ: Martin Duerst is principal contributor to I18N. Sentence recognition is language recognition.
Japanese have no spaces, or sentences. Word concept is different.
DOM use, what are problems.
CO: Twisties, all collapsed, a click on one of them expands tree under it. Most elements are hidden. Only the selected one initiates expansion.
IJ: A source tree and a rendering structure that may differ. Rendering with "before" and "after" may cause
more stuff to be rendered than in the source. DOM has only the source and structure. It is not always evident what the reverse mapping is from rendering to DOM.
CO: All elements and all attributes and values are exposed in DOM.
7. Ensure that user agent accessibility features are apparent
DC: Configuration part of UA must inherently be accessible.
CH: Turning off scripts is a security issue, so place it there.
DC: Universal design is ultimate objective. Should be integrated in all product.
HR: Some features on platform.
KB: Some redundancy is confusing, if an action can be taken several places.
EH: Wizzard, guidelines, make install, update accessible.
CH: Don't have printed documentation unless in a commercial product.
WC: A user agent assumes you can use info on a computer.
HR: What is "electronic accessible form"? Text, word processor format?
MP: Braille is beautiful, do own braille-out for quick reference. Some use JAWS with speech only.
CC: Provide large print, put braille cards to get started: "put in the CD".
IJ: Need bootstrap fully accessible.
CO: There are white papers on accessibility for all MS products.
Where do we go from here?
IJ: Editors have a new draft by the end of the week.
JB: Next telecon Nov 4. May not need another face-to-face. By end of the year, we are trying to get two guidelines to PR status: PA and UA.
IJ: Need to augment techniques document.
JB: Both need to be ready before going to PR.
JG: Tables for spatial formatting: These are used for layout
JG: Data tables
JG: Render summary information
JG: Row order or column order
JG: Data table row and column information.
KB: How do we specify rendering.
CO: Screen readers have been exploiting the logical order of a table. Since IE3.
DC: Make hooks available. Make document structure
Mke: Can read entire row or column
CO: Should pass all attributes that are part of the markup for programmatic means by other stylesheets.
IJ: Table guideline: data table or layout table. A user agent to resolve.
CL: Only uses header info if it is there. Also a where am I? Tried for several months to auto-recognize
JB: We need to get help from vendors. No authoring tools. MS will be willing to support the tools
5 or 6 months after UA guidelines.
CL: Too much scrolling, headers
WC: Other reasons for using data.
IJ: CSS2 has speak-header
IJ: There is an HTML4 algorith for guessing the headers in absence of TH.
JA: HoTMetaL 5. Doesn't support table attributes cleanly.
CL: Do use the headers attribute.
KB: Algorithm can read whatever is changing.
JG: New issue: some HTML available is ignored. Some HTML
CO: Lynx just ignores table markup to get original linearization.
CO: Smarter linearization uses logical structure.
JG: Maintain heads for large tables.
JG: Navigation doesn't require serialization. Serialize logically.
IJ: Techniques has all tables material in one place.
Today the UA techniques doc mirrors the UA guideline TOCs.
DC: Pass-through of system-level flags, such as sticky-keys.
IJ: Many of these are needed.
CO: The keyboard model should be logical and consistent with other apps running on the system.
HB: I18N issues on mapping keyboard equivalents.
KC: Different disabilities may want conflicting separations: close together, vs deliberately separate.
JB: provide a remapping. Could pick up on cognitive learning. Voice macros, keyboard combinations,
DC: Single switch input, not output.
IJ: Trace has raised the issues on keyboard needs. Add some rationale as intro to keyboard guidelines.
CL: User has access to most any structural information about page. Often use keywords, like begin/end form, or to images that are not links.
JA: Question need for user to get exposed to HTML markup.
IJ: Search scope:
element content, attribute values, external content (longdesc)
all elements vs active elements,
identification: numeric order, id values, text, some part of text (first letter).
WC: PA asserts importances. UA asserts separately, chicken and egg.
KB: Will typical user know all the search options.
JA: Regenerating what we had in the prior version.
WC: Navigating through headers is useful.
KC: Does use how author
CO: MSIE Powertools, one makes outline.
Find every structural element, put bookmarks into the original, make outline view, and navigate I, without change to the browser. Have two active windows. Alt-tab to get back.
KB: Navigating structural elements we need. Distinguish navigation from searching.
JG: Browser as application where many others may be invoked
How does user act on application with alternative input means (to mouse events)
How does user know what is changed on a page?
CO: Most difficult and/or important problem.
JG: Need cooperation of PA.
CC: Jaws cursor: either mouse pointer or PC cursor can be moved. Can route either to JAWS.
MP: Haven't done much with javascript.
JG: Some context menu useful.
JG: Event bubbling. Now no necessary correspondence to place and script (can have a default responder script for interpreting an event.) An alternative is to put all the event responders on any elements.
CO: In MS OLE style guide, a context menu with submenu allow editing of event/action matching.
JA: User needs to know that there is a context menu.
JG: only four have used DHTML:JG, WC, CO, CH.
IJ: Tried to get a bound on what we should address. Too much intractable as cannot predict semantics of a script. An element may be involved in the initiation of an event, though bubble up may make it remote.
The author must assert what a script is doing.
IJ: DOM 2 may have some coupling to help with semantics.
IJ: Identification only for elements with on… events.
IJ: Navigation
JG: WAI Protocols and Formats feeding DOM group. There are mechanisms to get into DOM any special
requirements that WAI may want.
JG: Any element may have associated script(s).
CO: Keyboard actions on equal footing with mouse actions, in DOM.
KH: Some of the MS developers are on DOM team.
CO: Chris Wilson is one.
CL: Often suppress scripts. Do have a DOM representative.
IJ: Scripts with resprect to HTML: bound to events, executed at load/unload, and in head of document,
Submit buttons to trigger scripts. Issue is which would be disabled.
CO: Demo of Outlook 98 Organize feature, uses HTML through scripting.
CO: Content + style + behavior + user input all impact this.
JA: That HTML is used in other application doesn't matter to us.
KH: If you solve the problem in the browser, then other applications built on it get solution free.
WC: We could list what we want for UA. Element may need events list.
IJ: Propose for PA that title be used to describe the on-event
CO: Title as tool tip.
HB: Title isn't explicit enough for all the ten on-events. There is no hook for these differentiations.
JG: Noscript is alternative.
WC: A page authored with script can be ok.
CO: Need path for older sites "noscript" to avoid rewriting site.
CO: Need improvements to DOM and UA to make scripts more nearly accessible?
IJ: What is an accessible script is?
KC: What makes a script inaccessible?
IJ: What makes a page inaccessible? Provide information to replace what script would have provided.
IJ: User can't tell whether or not a script is accessible.
DC: Focus on content rather than its representation. Find alternative
IJ: If script is making page inaccessible, then let user turn it off.
DC: Need alternative content from author.
JA: Why tell user that a script is doing something? If user is expecting something to happen that the
script provides.
CL: Celestial Seasons is all-script. Others use just java submit -- rather than just HTML submit.
JA: hotcoffee authoring tool has included ACSS styling.
KC: What is the problem we are trying to classify regarding scripts. What are the identifiable problems
in DHTML. We need to avoid the "all scripts are bad" syndrome.
CO: An application of a CD-sampler, lots of demo programs on a CD. Install Shield, Nuts and Bolts,
Hover over, watermarks, click and go, etc. May have been written in anything. The problems are
keyboard access, consistent systems colors, user interface timing, visual candy, consistent helps, etc.
CO: Given DOM and its event handling, these are harder to make keyboard mappings.
JG: Should UA try to repair pages authored in DHTML? Is this even doable?
CO: Can there be a keyboard synthesis algorithm that works?
WC: Added a tab index to do keyboard alternative. Can put tab index on a header.
CO: Impression that MS implementation of DOM closer than NS's.
WC: Has used tabindex on table as non-standard but working augmentation. Also put on headers.
JG: Author needs to take responsibility for accessibility of DHTML material. If use browser as application interface, how do we expect to guide them. What are the evaluation and repair issues.
KC: Legal requirements may make authors generate accessible pages. Then a commercial issue may encourage some sites to do so. Most sites won't bother. We can't impose on authors.
JG: An evaluation and repair strategy to synthesize mouse events might be possible.
HB: Question how to evaluate what a script is going to do?
WC: Use DOM, ECMAScript, profiles, etc. Authors needn't then author for multiple platforms. Recommend that UA only use W3C technologies/recommendations.
JB: Avoid non-W3-specific terms, such as DHTML.
CO: Want tabindex to apply to all elements in HTML 4.0
IJ: HTML group not adding function to HTML 4.0. Instead migrating it to XML.
WC: Each element, if it had onfocus
CO: If guideline on kind of trigger, synthesize a virtual tab index. We could do a repair strategy.
JG: supply explicit events to element for input mouse events.
IJ: Should turning off scripts help some users?
CC: IE4.01 and JAWS for windows 3.1.
USA Today page has typical layout table inaccessibility. Choice to reformat into list,
Demo download from on www.HJ.com 11 Mbytes, runs 40 minutes.
HR: Where does DOM come in to UA? Should we propose to design accessibility around DOM?
JG: Some think that DOM will improve accessibility. We may want to specify what parts of DOM
are important.
CL: IBM not using DOM now.
CC: Would like to provide more structure than have. Netscape doesn't have flexibility that MSIE has
in DOM.
JG: What features in DOM need improvement, what are evidently useful, what have no accessibility implications.
JG: Al Gilman is collecting info for DOM2.
IJ: DOM 1 has just gone to specification. Should WAI give requirements input to DOM2?
CO: Important to have companies that have solved or are working on accessibility issues also provide input on needs.
CC: Is the UA guideline useful?


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- A child who is born after his father died is an example of a posthumous child.
- An award given after a person's death is an example of a posthumous award.
The definition of posthumous is something that happens after your death.
- born after the father's death
- published after the author's death
- arising, continuing, or coming to pass after one's death: a posthumous award
Origin of posthumousLate Latin posthumus, for Classical Latin postumus, after death, origin, originally , last, superlative of posterus (see posterior): altered in Late Latin by associated, association with humus, ground or humare, to bury (as if meaning "born after the father is buried")
- Occurring or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award.
- Published after the writer's death: a posthumous book.
- Born after the death of the father: a posthumous child.
Origin of posthumousMiddle English posthumus from Late Latin alteration ( perhaps influenced by Latin humus earth ) ( or humāre to bury ) of postumus superlative of posterus coming after ; see posterior .
Related Forms:
- post′hu·mous·ly
- post′hu·mous·ness
(not comparable)
- (originally) Born after the death of one's father.
- Posthumous orphans never even knew their fathers.
- After the death of someone
- The posthumous Medal of Honor was given to the family of the soldier who died in battle.
- Usage note: Posthumous awards are made when the intended recipient dies as a result of the action which merits the award. Even a short time lag between the action and the decision may cause the award to be conferred after death or there may be a longer delay such as when a review board decides to confer an award decades after a war has ended but such awards while they may be post mortem (literally, "after death") are not posthumous awards.
- Taking place after one's own death
- Artists obscure during their life often receive posthumous recognition, too late for them to enjoy.
- In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
- His memoirs were his posthumous revenge on enemies he dared not take on alive.


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Todd Snyder comes from Iowa, which is not exactly known as a hotbed of fashion talent. But perhaps because of his midwest upbringing, Snyder designs menswear that always feels "real." Not real in the sense that it doesn't require a VR headset to try on, but real in the sense that a stylish gentlemen can watch Snyder's creations come down the runway and easily imagine himself wearing them. His clothes aren't some avant garde art project, though they are certainly artistic. They are designed to be worn—and worn well. He blends refined, tailored silhouettes with cooler, more downtown styles seamlessly. The result is that a guy can easily find pieces he'd wear for quite literally every occasion, from the office to the gym to a dinner or a wedding.
That realness extends to the brands that Snyder collaborates with. As he's created his own classic American menswear brand, Snyder has partnered with other American brands like Champion and Timex that have a rich history and an authenticity to the products they create. Snyder's latest collaboration is the PF Flyers Grounder sneaker. He had worked with the Massachusetts-based sneaker company for a few years before discovering the model in the archives. The Grounder was originally designed following World War II and featured a rugged rubber outsole suitable for playing football beneath a traditional high-top upper from a basketball sneaker. To reinterpret the Grounder, Snyder used heavy-duty military canvas in olive and black and added leather details for a more dressed-up look.
Sitting in Snyder's showroom in Manhattan, we talked about how he approaches collaborations, the new sneaker, and what he'd rescue if his house was burning.
What made you want to work with PF Flyers and on this model in particular?
I've been working with PF for about three years now. I'm a huge collector of vintage and PF is something you always see. You always see Levi's, old western shirts, PF Flyers in the mix any place you go because they were really the originator of high tops. They have this authentic look that you really can't achieve anywhere else. We'd been doing our Rambler, which is our basic PF Flyers sneaker that we've modernized. Then I was up at their offices about two years ago and Chris [Tobias of PF Flyers] pulls out this shoe, the Grounder. I was like, "That is the coolest shoe ever." Then Chris took me through all these catalogs from the 40s and 50s and that's where I really got excited, it was like getting into the belly of the brand.
What did you want to do on this shoe that you hadn't done in your previous sneaker collaborations?
The biggest thing was keeping its roots and authenticity but adding in the leather interior and leather trim on the back. The waxed flat laces make it seem less vintage and a little bit more modern. That was really important. The other big thing was color choice. We first saw the one in olive [from the archive] that I fell in love with. So I thought a great colorway would be black to make it a little more sophisticated, a little more downtown. It works really well with my collection. I've always been inspired by vintage military. My whole fall collection was about mixing tailored and military so it was the perfect blend of what I was doing for the season.
What is your approach when you go start a new collaboration?
Just work with great brands and great people. I don't go in with the intention of, 'Let's find this great shoe'. You start by getting to know [a brand], then they get to trust you and start to open up more. Sometimes because they're so close to it, they don't know what they have. They have a treasure trove of amazing things and I'm like "Oh my God, I want all of it." That's what happened with PF. Classic styles that you see other brands do, they've been making well before from basketball sneakers to boat shoes. I love telling that story. I think that's why I get along so well with so many brands is they like how I tell the story. I'm not just going to regurgitate what they did 50 years ago. I'm going to reinterpret it.
While a lot of fashion brands do one-off collaborations, you have a number of partners you've worked with for years. What are the benefits of doing things that way?
It comes down to credibility. With brands like PF and Timex, these iconic American brands, they get to know me over time. It's an evolution. It just keeps building. We started off with one shoe, the Rambler, and we've extended from there to when they open the kimono. When brands trust you enough, you definitely feel it.
Menswear has gone through a lot of life cycles of late. How would you describe the current state of things?
Things have gotten more casual. The whole sneaker thing is going to be a trend that is hard to shake. Being a guy, we are all about comfort. Women are the only people that will actually make their feet bleed for fashion. I don't think guys will do that. Do you remember when square-toe shoes came in? Guys are still wearing them. They're awful, but guys still wear them because of the comfort. And sneakers are probably the most comfortable thing. Thankfully they're very well rooted in tradition. James Dean and every cool dude wore sneakers.
And outside of footwear?
Ties are a thing of the past. You're starting to see a lot more guys mix up athletic wear with sportswear. I think that will continue. You're definitely seeing a shift from the way guys used to dress 5 to 10 years ago when it was kind of the J.Crew look of a sport coat with jeans and a tie or something a little more dressy. Now I think it's moving more sporty and figuring out how to incorporate that into a guy's wardrobe is the challenge.
When you see trends change how does that affect your creative process?
I get so inspired by watching people everywhere. Having a constant visual on what people are wearing is important. I've been doing this for 20 years and it's interesting to see trends come and go. But there's this interesting thing that happens with brands like Zara and H&M where they can develop trends very quickly and put them in the store very quickly. I think they become trend killers in a way because they shorten the life of a trend. You see everybody and their brother doing an athletic brand right now. All that means to me is that it evolves and the rules will change even more, which is really exciting. It's almost like getting a new set of crayons to play with. The new color comes out and you're like, "Sweet." You get to play in a different way.
When you are figuring out what to wear in the morning, what drives your look?
I love figuring out what makes people wear what they wear. But I can't for the life of me figure out what makes me wear what I wear. A lot of it is dependent on weather. If it's super hot out I try not wear a jacket. But it really does start more with the bottom for me, whether it's a jean or a trouser. That starts it because that's the thing I rotate the most. A shirt to me is much more of an accessory. [After picking the pants] I think through what I've been wearing or what feels right for the day or what meetings I have or if I'm going out after work. You stick all those things in your head. If I have a business meeting I need to look a certain way. If I have a dinner date I do this.
What's your morning routine like?
It's pretty quick. Like most guys, it only takes me 15 to 20 minutes to get ready. If I have to iron my shirt then I'm screwed because I do all my own ironing.
Do you have one piece that you would rescue if your home was burning down?
I'd probably say my vintage watches would be the first thing because they have the most value. I probably would cry pretty hard if my house ever burned down because I wouldn't be able to get everything out.
What's your favorite sneaker of all time?
I would say it's probably the Rambler. I love the Grounder but I can't wear them all year round. The Rambler from the very first season is still my favorite.We did this high-end leather in black and brown. I still wear them. I bought an extra pair because I knew I was going to need them. I still have a pair of clean black ones in my closet. I wear the black ones pretty religiously and I wear the brown one depending on the right outfit. Those are my favorites because you can dress them up or down. To me, they're the ultimate sneaker.
Justin Tejada is a writer and editor based in New York City. Follow him on Twitter at @just_tejada and Instagram at @justin_tejada.


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xtweet360 is a small Perl script to publish your Xbox status to Twitter automatically. The main reason for this is to avoid signing up to yet another Web service and giving them your password for Twitter. xtweet360 publishes your full playing status, including the level you're on if you choose, and has a link to your gamer profile. It's a Twitter authorized app, so it will say posted by xtweet360.
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A polyhedral extraction tool (PET).


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* 40 pct of people moved to higher class over past decade
* 'Vulnerable' class now the most common
* Latin America only region with smaller rich-poor divide
By Anna Yukhananov
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Rapid economic growth and more inclusive social policies in Latin America in the last decade have lifted 50 million people into the middle class, which for the first time rivals the poor in number, the World Bank said in a study on Tuesday.
Rising income levels have also created a 'vulnerable' class, which at 38 percent makes up the largest income group. These people hover just above poverty, living on a daily income between $4 and $10 per person.
"As poverty fell and the middle class rose ... the most common Latin American family is in a state of vulnerability," the World Bank, the global development lender, said in a report looking at the middle class and economic mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The World Bank measures the middle class as people who have economic security, facing less than a 10 percent chance of falling back into poverty. For the region, that translates into a daily income of $10 to $50 per person.
Roughly thirty percent of the population now falls into that category, equal to the third of people still in poverty — a remarkable shift in a continent that has been known for its vast income inequalities, dominated by the poor and a narrow slice of the rich.
With global economic expansion, and redistributive policies in some countries, at least 40 percent of the region's population has moved to a higher economic class between 1995 and 2010.
In Brazil, the region's largest nation and the world's sixth biggest economy, booming commodity-led growth and conditional cash transfers helped pull 30 million people out of poverty under left-leaning former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Across the region, the rise of the middle class has had clear effects, helping countries like Brazil become less reliant on foreign assistance and less amenable to foreign pressure.
Latin America is now the only region in the world with narrowing income inequality, the World Bank said in a report last month, though the rich-poor divide remains higher than in most developed countries.
It has nudged some countries toward greater democracy, and raised hopes for businesses eager to take advantage of the growing consumer tastes for everything from the Internet to financial services.
The question is whether this rapid rise can continue, especially with the global slowdown.
While families have improved their situation in the last decade, children are often still bound by the incomes and education of their parents, meaning mobility between generations remains low, the World Bank said.
It is unclear whether the middle class's rising expectations can by themselves create a society of more equal opportunities.
Traditionally in Latin America the middle class has opted out of public services like education and health if they can afford to do so, creating a fragmented society where the poorest members are stuck with subpar social protection. Low taxation has also exacerbated the problem of low-quality services, the World Bank said.
"The middle classes may not automatically become the much-hoped-for catalytic agents for reforms," the Bank said.


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Vitaly Yegorov: We can check, the Americans landed on the moon
"I have no doubt that they landed. But I want to show that these things are pointless to argue, because they can be checked: all there is left, there is" – said the newspaper VIEW enthusiast Vitaliy Egorov, who opened the fundraiser for the launch of Sputnik to the moon and search for traces of the landing of Americans on it.
More than a million rubles were collected via the crowdfunding platform during the four days of the project, a small satellite that needs to go to the moon to film the lunar surface, including the landings "Apollo." From 2011 to 2015 of the landing module "Apollo" station "Surveyor", the Soviet "Lunokhod" and station series is "the Moon" repeatedly acted with NASA LRO satellite. Russian enthusiasts expect not only to obtain images of higher resolution, but also to conduct a number of research works in aid of the Russian space Agency, about the author Vitaly Egorov said in an interview with the newspaper LOOK.
"I'm so tired to wait when something will fly, I said, let's do this ourselves"
VIEW: You can already sum up the preliminary results of your action?
Vitaly Yegorov: the Minimum requested us companies amount is reached, and we have already begun to work. We are determined to keep his word and to prepare a project description which we have given. When he's ready – it will take not less than six months – then we'll much better understand the technical features and capabilities of our system, requirements, cost, estimated budget, deadlines, etc.
Vitaly Yegorov plans to launch the device until 2020 (photo: vk.com/zelenyi_koteyka)
OPINION: How the amount collected corresponds with your expectations?
V. E.: This is what we hoped for. Now we have tackled the issue with data transfer. To the radio transmitter from the moon has serious requirements, due to the large distances. We are trying to consider different technical solutions. Maybe there will be two transmitters, and it may be a laser transmitter.
OPINION: What artifacts you expect to find on the moon?
V. E.: Automatic station plan to study the trace of manned landings, there remained a boarding step.
"Apollo" and "lunar Rover" is such a "public" purpose, that is, we want to make photos of objects that are interesting to society, but for scientists, a lack of interest. We would also like to survey the polar regions of the moon, because in the future they are interesting from the point of view of the development and construction of the base. We are ready to do this survey on their own initiative and submit it to the Russian space Agency, below, if they decide ever to take off and land, they already had good maps and images of terrain.
OPINION: How did you come to this idea?
V. E.: For me the most interesting part of the space are unmanned exploration of the Solar system. This is far enough, and that at least unmanned way you can really "touch". And that is exactly the direction of research, in which Roscosmos complete failure. 25 years Roscosmos did not launched on earth orbit, two attempts ended in the Pacific, and all. And I am so tired of waiting for something fly that I said let's do it ourselves. But "Apollo" is an object, need to look at which is most evident in the society. And though he is difficult, but feasible, and really attract any serious money, at least to start, to take the first step in their space program. From this point of view Apollo look the most attractive.
I'm sure if not me, then someone else would have conceived and began to implement such a program.
In three years your blogista on the space theme I got acquainted with a large number of people, including professionals in the space business. I went to friends and asked to try.
OPINION: IN connection with your project especially roughly discussed your plans to verify the authenticity of landing Americans on the moon…
V. E.: I Personally have no doubt that they landed. But here I want to show that these things are pointless to argue, because they can be checked: all there is left, there is. Now have the opportunity to check it out. Previously it was only capable of state. Now trying to make it public.
This is partly a kind of experiment: but is society ready for such an independent space program? And on top of fundraising, interaction with the public I see that there is such a need, many people are interested. Many are willing to help the ruble, space industry professionals propose to tackle a particular problem.
OPINION: How do you envisage the start?
V. Y.: We hope that we will get some kind of government missile, at least in the direction of the moon launch. And here on the lunar transition orbit, the device should work, we are preparing him to do so. He will have to brake and enter orbit. This is a very difficult task. But such a start can be negotiated. It happens that the rocket underload, and then space agencies send their information to the partners about it. It is sometimes commercially, sometimes you can negotiate the exchange of scientific data. I think we will be able to sell the capabilities of our apparatus, and the Indians or the Chinese will do us a discount or for free we will take over the exchange of scientific data. But of course, I wish it was the prerogative of the Russian space Agency – in the presence of their rockets to go to the Chinese are not very nice.
LOOK: If all goes according to your plan, when is the flight?
V. E.: I Think two years will be spent on design, but it will be a complete study of the project – up to each transaction. A lot depends on how much money we get. With a good scenario I hope to fly until 2020.


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Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a wonderful June! This week I spent quite a bit of time finishing up my Moda Building Blocks quilt top. It's all in one piece now!
It's a big quilt, so it's been a little hard to photograph indoors (at the end of the post I have an outside photo of the full quilt). I've had a few questions about the fabrics...they are all from a variety of Moda collections by many different Moda designers, and some have been in my stash for several years.
I had so much fun making the 6" blocks--and there were quite a few of them to make for the bottom half of the quilt. Making those small blocks reminded me of working on my Farmer's Wife quilt. Some of my blocks are extra scrappy because I tried to use up as many of the smaller pieces as possible.
The final block I made was one of the 36" blocks, but I didn't have enough of any red fabric for the large square needed to cut the block's setting triangles. Luckily, my local hardware store had the DaySail collection and I was able to get 5/8 of a yard of the text print on red I needed to finish up!
Although if I were to do it over there are some fabric combos I might change up, I'm truly happy with the finish--I absolutely can't wait to get this quilted! And It feels good to finish up another project from last year! I'll be sure to share photos again when it's all quilted and bound. Thanks so much for stopping by!


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Natural Products as a Source for Treating Neglected Parasitic Diseases
AbstractInfectious diseases caused by parasites are a major threat for the entire mankind, especially in the tropics. More than 1 billion people world-wide are directly exposed to tropical parasites such as the causative agents of trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, which represent a major health problem, particularly in impecunious areas. Unlike most antibiotics, there is no "general" antiparasitic drug available. Here, the selection of antiparasitic drugs varies between different organisms. Some of the currently available drugs are chemically de novo synthesized, however, the majority of drugs are derived from natural sources such as plants which have subsequently been chemically modified to warrant higher potency against these human pathogens. In this review article we will provide an overview of the current status of plant derived pharmaceuticals and their chemical modifications to target parasite-specific peculiarities in order to interfere with their proliferation in the human host. View Full-Text
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