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If you are in a domestic violence relationship creating a safety plan will help you escape when the time is right for you to leave. Planning ahead will help make the escape run smoother. Learn how to plan your escape.
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Adult survivors of child sexual abuse have great difficulty with trusting those closest to them for fear the person will hurt them. Learn how sexual abuse affects the survivors sense of trust.
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Confronting an abuser is something that some survivors feel they must do in order to bring closure. It is also a chance to express themselves regarding what their abuser did to them and how it affected them.
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When Craig Fox made a stop at Givens Hot Springs on a hot early-September day, he had no idea he and his two burros (his "girls") would be part of the entertainment for the Givens' 125th Celebration a few days later. Invited by Steve Givens to stay and participate in the momentous event, Craig charmed participants with stories of his own pioneering experiences.
A covered wagon was a must for the celebration! Months before the big event Steve utilized his construction skill, and antique and new parts and materials, to build a wagon reminiscent of the one that brought his great-grandparents Milford and Mattie Givens to the Springs over a century before. The minimal capacity of the finished wagon caused our family to marvel at how few worldly goods could accompany these intrepid pioneer ancestors in their search for a better life in the West.
In 1992, Givens' family friend Pete Aldrich ably restored a sturdy, serviceable covered wagon, built for travel, which his daughter Angela drove with a team of horses from Omaha Nebraska to Salt Lake City, Utah in the Sesquicentennial re-enactment of the 1852 Mormon Trek West. Pete and his wife Diane shared their wagon with us the day of the celebration, along with stories that gave flavor to, and paralleled the crossing-the-plains experiences of Milford and Mattie.
An exact replica of Bill Cody's Wild West Show stagecoach, built by Jack Givens--a grandson of Milford and Mattie--was a testament to Jack's expertise as a builder. It also evoked memories, for some, of Berry Givens, Jack's uncle and one of Milford and Mattie's sons, who rode in Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
Jack's daughter LeAnne Givens Colwell now owns the coach, and with the help of her husband maintains it and generously shares its charm with others on occasions such as this.
Janet Gomez, with a little help from her children, erected and displayed her beautiful Indian teepee, a reminder of the ones that dotted the landscape and greeted the pioneers as they made their way West.
Dozens of vintage and antique cars filled one side of the park, representing our country's early 1900's shift to motorized transportation. This emerging mode of travel allowed easier access from neighboring towns to the Springs and other places of interest.
A 1947 Piper Super Cruiser airplane, restored by Steve's father Orin, another grandson of Milford and Mattie, landed at the airpark just across the road for the event. The older plane and the newer skypark are both evidences of transportation progress in Owyhee County. The plane is currently owned by Howard Nau, who flew it from Nampa for the celebration.
Young participants were enthralled, and older ones nostalgic, as Peter and Elaine Oakander, Dr. Hugh Eddy, Carolan Zografos and Pat Packard involved them in gold-panning, blacksmithing, and pioneer domestic arts.
What would a celebration be without music! The Heatherwood Swingers, consisting of a singer self-accompanied by a keyboard, with background of Seniors drumming on bed-pans and strumming on washboards, provided a humorous and rousing introduction to the day. Later we enjoyed the musical skills of "Seniority," a "Seasoned Citizens" barbershop quartet, and the "Buck Family Fiddlers," a talented family trio of stringed instrument players.
Visitors watched in awe as the National Guard Blackhawk helicopter descended to the field behind the poolhouse. Respectful silence accompanied the loud whir of the engines. Many observers experienced a tug at their emotions as the craft set down, shut off it's engine, and the crew emerged. Here was an impressive sampling of the thousands of capable and caring men and women risking their lives all over the world to cover the cost of freedom for the rest of us, and the remarkable machinery that helps maintain that freedom.
Attendees shook the hands of the crew that came in response to our special request, chatted with them a while, and had their pictures taken with them. After the crew entered the aircraft to leave, many stood at quiet attention, observing attentively until the helicopter finally faded from view.
Descendants of Milford and Mattie joined with many others from the community to celebrate the day's events, and later shared the histories of their own ancestors in an evening Givens family gathering. That event was punctuated with a delicious dinner, graciously prepared by Dave and Debbie Beck and crew, and followed by some picture-taking and informal chats.
We're grateful to all who participated in this event. And we thank all our patrons who continually add wonderful stories to our history as they share memories of times enjoyed at Givens by their own families and ancestors.


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Mark has this really THICK hair and when he needs a hair cut I call him the Lego Man b/c it looks like that hair from a lego person you could take on and off when you were a kid...... Anyways - we just ordered our Lego man and lady from eBay and that is going to be our cake topped I'll post a picture when we get them in the mail!!!
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You all at AS must have a lot more cake choices than we have at AB. Your hazelnuts and other unique flavors sound amazing!!! I'm quite jealous. At AB, we get to choose between 5 cakes, all either vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry.
I sent them pics of two absolutely gorgeous but simple cakes to get them priced, and they came back being twice as expensive as their own cakes. Ridiculous! Imo, they were simpler than the ones they offer but one thing for sure about Karisma, they really stick you with a high price tag if you deviate from what they offer!
Also... I got reaaaaaaaallly lucky because the cake I absolutely LOVE was a cake done for a previous couple at AS that I saw in a Elizabeth Medina slideshow from there. So I sent them the cake that they had already done and had them make tweaks to it. My WC also has been successfully negotiating prices down for me. She got my cake cheaper and my chairs for almost half of what they quoted her... I don't know how she does it but she is the absolute BEST! We've become really good friends too in the last year, I'm sure that helps


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Moody's Investors Service downgraded six European nations and said the United Kingdom may be next.
While the other ratings firms already had downgraded several of the European nations, Moody's is the first to issue a warning about the United Kingdom, citing its waning ability to reduce debt.
Moody's downgraded Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia. Like Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings, Moody's cited concern over the Euro zone's debt crisis.
Moody's also lowered its outlook on France and Austria to negative. S&P had downgraded both of those countries.


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Rakudo doesn't have to be "feature complete" or be "highly optimized". To attract developers (who may write Perl code for a living), it needs to be stable enough that it's worth the (company) time to start writing code for it that it more complex than "Hello World" and more useful than self-test scripts.
Stop breaking things because you "need to optimize". Frankly, unless Perl6 gets at least one stable, extensible Interpreter (e.g. not major rewrites every time you feel like it), there won't be a big community writing actual, useful code for it that starts to attract even more developers. Ergo it wont run any code that needs an optimized interpreter...
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Chronophiles: The Reich Stuff is a series of alternate history action figures I made for a sculpture midterm while working on my BFA. I think it was one of my more successful attempts at bridging the gaps between hobby, craft, and art. Those are actually incredibly loaded descriptors, and a lot of my time in school was devoted to exploring how we navigate those labels, when they're helpful, and when they're limiting. C:TRS was also a means of exploring who gets lionized and who gets demonized in history, and who does and does not get representation when popular culture explores the past.
What set this project over the top, in my opinion, is the additional documentation I made. I had a pretty detailed story about how the timeline these figures are from differed from our, and rather than spell it all out for my audience, I decided to only give them glimpses into that world. On a whim at Half Price Books looking for inspiration, I tried to find books from the same era (or older than) my alt-history verse was set ib, and much to my surprise I found quite a bit. I harvested the blank binding pages and printed photographs and documents to accompany each character.
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NEW YORK, March 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Update on the Contact Center Outsourcing Services Market in Latin America
Domestic Business Drives Growth in a Highly Concentrated Market
Executive Summary -The Latin American contact center outsourcing services market attained revenue of $xx billion in 2013 as a result of a solid performance mostly driven by domestic business.
It is expected that the market will exhibit growth during 2014, with total sales exceeding $xx billion.
Although domestic business will continue to be the main source of sales, offshoring activities will exhibit higher growth rates in 2013 and 2014, slightly increasing their share of total revenues to xx% in 2014.
The Central American and Caribbean (CACAR) region is the only Latin American market that mostly focuses on offshoring activities, while other countries' main source of revenue is their domestic business.
The United States accounted forxx% of Latin American offshoring revenue in 2013 and will exhibit a higher growth rate than the total market, thus slightly increasing its share. Offshoring revenue from within Latin America remains second, while Spain's share will decrease as a result of its national economic crisis.
In terms of service types, inbound activities will remain the key revenue source, accounting for xx% of sales in 2014. Back office/others will exhibit higher growth rates in 2014 as outsourcers seek to diversify their portfolios to increase profitability.
The total number of workstations will reach xx by the end of 2014, which indicates a xx% year-on-year growth. This rate is lower than the revenue growth rate, due to the increase in average revenue per position.
Figures for some categories (e.g., market share, vertical breakdown) for 2013 were under review at the time of publication; 2012 figures have been provided.
The telecom vertical accounted for xx% of total revenues in 2012, while the banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) vertical was in second place with xx% of sales. Commerce and retail and government are other relevant verticals, both with more than xx% of revenues.
Among services, customer care, retention, and acquisition still had the leading revenue share at xx% in 2012, an increase of almost xx% from 2011. Sales accounted for xx% of revenues in 2012.
The top 3 outsourcers in Latin America accounted for xx% of total revenues in 2012, indicating that this is a highly concentrated market compared with other regions such as North America (xx% in 2012), Europe (xx% in 2010) and Asia-Pacific (xx% in 2011), the latest years that figures were available.
Voice remains the main contact medium employed in Latin America, accounting for xx% of total activities—stable in the year-on-year comparison. Email is still the key non-voice medium, with xx% of transactions, while social media represents a marginal portion of the market.
Research Scope and Definitions This Market Insight examines the trends in the contact center outsourcing services markets in Latin America, and provides extensive coverage of the services delivered for domestic markets in Argentina, Brazil, CACAR, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, and those provided from these countries to overseas markets. In this sense, offshore services are defined as services provided to customers outside the country where a contact center is located. This study shows data for outsourced offshore services excluding offshore operations performed in-house. In this study, revenue is defined as payment received by outsourcing companies for the provision of customer-agent interaction services. Revenue figures include any payment received for agent activities beyond these pricing structures that are contained in outsourcer contracts. However, they do not include toll-free service revenue. This study segments and differentiates the contact center outsourcing services market in a number of ways, including:
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Outsourced customer service is a subset of the much broader business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. It is usually defined as a business arrangement in which a company contracts an outside supplier to perform a service rather than accomplishing it in-house. Services can range from simple call handling to complex business processes such as technical support and customer self-service via interactive voice response (IVR) applications or the Web. Suppliers specialize in handling high volumes of inbound and outbound calls for customer care, retention, and acquisition; help desk; technical support; collections; and telemarketing/telesales for business clients.
These clients in most cases contract the use of both required technology and employee services (including managers, agents, and process experts). Outsourced services are purchased on an hourly, per-call, per-minute, per-position, or per-result basis. Higher-end customer care services typically involve handling a wide range of complex queries, and can manage the entire customer lifecycle. Agents in these centers use advanced customer relationship management (CRM) technologies, and they are trained to become specialists in client products. In many cases, such services consist of handling detailed inquiries, including billing, accounting, financial transactions, and technical support, as well as integrated business process.
Outsourcers in Latin America have started to offer other BPO services apart from the wide array of inbound and outbound customer-related services already mentioned. They usually begin by offering back-office services (providing administrative and support assistance). Revenue generated by these services are taken into account only when considering the total revenue of each provider.This study counts workstations that are active or ready to be used, regardless of whether they are occupied. However, built stations that are not active are not counted.
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Is the market growing, and at what rate?What is the status of contact center outsourcing services in Latin America? Is the region structured correctly to attain further growth?What are the key growth drivers and restraints?How will the market structure change over time? What key competitors must be watched?Are the services offered today meeting customer needs, or is additional development needed? Will the current services be commoditized? Will new services arise?How will offshore services evolve in the short term?Executive SummaryMarket OverviewTotal Contact Center Outsourcing Services Market-Drivers and Restraints-Market Status-Market Share and Competitive Analysis-Outsourcing and Contact Center ServicesThe Last WordThe Frost & Sullivan Story
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Welcome to HRC Hotels, LLC
Based in East Lansing, Michigan, we are a Company that is engaged in the acquisition, ownership, development, operation, financing and refinancing of premium brand select service hotels, with emphasis on the extended stay hotel segment of the lodging industry.
As a privately-held partnership that was formed in 1999, we currently own 20 premium brand select service hotels located in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa and Florida. Our current hotels operate under the Comfort Inn, Hampton Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites, Homewood Suites, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, Courtyard by Marriott and Baymont Inn & Suites brands. Our goal is to aggressively increase the size of our portfolio within the next three years.
Our core strategy is to invest primarily in premium-branded, select-service hotels that typically generate most of their revenue from room rentals, limited food and beverage outlets and meeting space and require fewer employees than traditional full-service hotels. These hotels have the potential to generate attractive returns relative to other types of hotels due to their ability to achieve RevPAR levels at or close to those achieved by traditional full-service hotels while achieving higher profit margins due to their more efficient operating model and less volatile cash flows.
We believe that the current market environment presents attractive opportunities to acquire additional hotels with significant upside potential that are compatible with our investment strategy. The current lodging market fundamentals provide significant opportunities for RevPAR and EBITDA growth at their existing hotels. With over 40 years of experience, our senior management team's extensive industry relationships and asset management expertise, enables us to compete effectively for acquisition opportunities and allows us to generate strong internal growth.


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With the national focus on completion, the results of this study will be of particular interest to postsecondary educators as they work to ensure their students' academic and career success.
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) September 07, 2011
Community college educators are well aware that student engagement is a pivotal factor in student retention, success, and completion. They also know that, as largely commuter institutions, community colleges often lack the more traditional ways students connect with each other, such as living and dining in residence halls. So where do community college students go, other than to class, to interact with their peers? One answer may be the Web, and particularly social media sites. As Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and similar products offer new ways for people to gather around shared interests, they raise a promising question for community colleges: Is there a role for social media technology in helping postsecondary students engage with each other and the college to achieve their academic goals?
To help find answers to this question, the League for Innovation in the Community College (League) has partnered with a group of researchers from the University of Arizona and Claremont Graduate University and a team of Schools App developers at Inigral, Inc., in a research project designed to increase understanding of issues relevant to the ability of social media technology to improve student engagement and increase student retention. Eight community colleges, selected through a national RFP process, will implement Schools App, a Facebook application, at their institutions this fall to better connect students to fellow students as well as to college programs, activities, support services, and personnel.
Gerardo E. de los Santos, president and CEO of the League, said, "The League is excited to be part of this exploration into innovative ways community colleges are using social media technology to improve student retention. With the national focus on completion, the results of this study will be of particular interest to postsecondary educators as they work to ensure their students' academic and career success."
The project, "Getting Connected: Harnessing the Power of Social Media Technology to Enhance Community College Student Success," is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The eight colleges selected to participate are Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio; Laramie County Community College, Wyoming; Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, California; Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona; NorthWest Arkansas Community College, Arkansas; Onondaga Community College, New York; San Jacinto College District, Texas; and Western Technical College, Wisconsin.
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The League for Innovation in the Community College is an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement. The League hosts conferences and institutes, develops web resources, conducts research, produces publications, provides services, and leads projects and initiatives with more than 800 member colleges, 160 corporate partners, and a host of other government and nonprofit agencies in a continuing effort to make a positive difference for students and communities. Information about the League and its activities is available at http://www.league.org.
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has kicked off this year's partner promotions season with a bumper crop of 20 lawyers set to join the partnership.
The number is up from last year's figure of 18, with the nine London promotions representing a 50 per cent increase on 2010, when only six City associated got made up.
Corporate is the best represented practice area with seven new partners, while dispute resolution will have six new partners when the promotions come into effect on 1 May.
Senior partner Will Lawes said: "We're delighted to have such talented lawyers join the partnership and are confident that they'll make real contributions to our firm for many years to come."
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James Aitken, London
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Gregor Von Bonin, Düsseldorf
Patrick Cichy, Hamburg
Mark Austin, London
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Fares Al-Hejailan, MENA
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Family homes take up three quarters of Vancouver's residential land, and produce about one fifth of the city's greenhouse gas emissions.
To counter this, the City has developed the Green Homes Program.
About the Green Homes Program
Under the Green Homes Program, new one- and two-family homes are required to include a number of sustainable features that will help you save energy, water, and money, while providing an improved indoor environment.
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ND regulators notified of coal gas plant plans
Published 6:00 pm, Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Developers of a factory to make natural gas from coal have formally notified North Dakota regulators about their plans to build the $1.4 billion factory and coal mine.
Great Northern Power Development LP sent a letter of intent to the state Public Service Commission this week, which Commissioner Tony Clark called the first step in the commission's role of reviewing the project's location.
State law requires companies to file an intent letter for energy projects a year before they submit its proposed site plan. The commission can shorten the waiting period, and it often does. Clark said Great Northern had not asked for an abbreviated time frame.
The intent letter is "basically a heads up to the commission, to let us know, for planning purposes, what their plans are," Clark said Thursday. "As far as the real work in digging into an application, that doesn't begin until they actually file the application paperwork itself."
Great Northern Power's chief executive officer, Chuck Kerr, first announced plans in November to build the project near South Heart, in western Stark County. The company held a public forum in South Heart's school gymnasium on Wednesday to take questions from local residents.
The project was first envisioned in 2001 as a coal-fired power plant, capable of generating 500 megawatts. About three years ago, company officials began contemplating a coal-to-gas plant instead, in part because of worries about carbon dioxide regulation and whether the region's electric transmission network could handle the new load.
Great Northern wants to begin construction in December 2009, and have the plant operating within three years, Richard Southwick, a company project manager, said in the letter of intent. The factory will be designed to product 100 million cubic feet of gas daily.
For comparison, the Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah makes between 150 million and 160 million cubic feet of gas each day.
Great Northern Power Development has its headquarters in Houston, and offices in Bismarck; Townsend, Mont.; and Miles City, Mont. It has formed a separate company, South Heart Coal LLC, to develop the Stark County project.
A Great Northern Power affiliate, Great Northern Properties LP, holds the rights to mine 3 billion tons of lignite reserves in western North Dakota.


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On October 30th, known as Devil's Night, Eric Draven and his fiancee Shelly are brutally murdered by a gang of vicious thugs. Exactly one year later, Eric returns from the grave to seek vengeance.
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Once you've decided you're ready for a baby it can come as a shock if Mother Nature has other ideas. The waiting turns into yearning and the stress levels rise.
I guess that's partly to do with hormones and also to do with feeling so ineffectual. After all there doesn't seem to be a lot you can do, apart from the obvious. Babies do not, unfortunately, come to order and in a world where we are used to controlling most things the lack of control can be hard to get used to.
However, there are things you can do to boost your fertility naturally. And if you still remain sceptical they might at least help you to remain a bit more relaxed while you wait for nature to work her miracles.If you are worried about your fertility it may be a good idea to visit your doctor but using some of these ideas to help yourself is worth doing too, if only to regain a bit of the feeling of being in control. It's also good to get yourself into peak condition should you conceive.
There are things men can do too boost their chances of becoming a father but these tips are aimed at women:
- Diet. Yes, that old chestnut but one that is worth paying attention to not only in terms of healthy eating but also to ensure you're not too overweight or underweight. Some people also swear by an organic-only diet.
- Give up smoking: This is true for both before and after conception and for both sexes. If you don't smoke but your partner does he could be affecting both your fertility.
- Exercise: Aside from helping weight loss, this is also good for stress busting.
- Reduce stress: I hate to include this one as not being able to conceive easily is highly stressful but it does apparently help. Try relaxation tapes, yoga, reflexology and aromatherapy.
- Stop drinking: Government advice is to cut it out if you're trying to conceive, as even drinking moderate amounts can affect your chances.
- Chart your cycle: It helps to know exactly when you're ovulating (and it's not always when you think). This can be done with help from online ovulation tracking tools or you can buy kits from chemists.
- Sexual positions: Get into the right position and you could boost your chances.The missionary position is said to be a good one as it allows for deep penetration, and elevating your hips afterwards is also said to help.
- Avoid caffeine: Government advice states that even two cups of coffee a day can make it harder to get pregnant, so cut this from your diet too.
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Wrong. Religion claims to answer the whys, but there's no reason to think they get it right.
Read what the parent poster said again. The post never claimed that religion answers the "whys". Let me quote again:
Science tells us about what we can observe and test; religion illuminates things that are by nature untestable, like morality, ethics, compassion, and love for our fellow man.
If it helps, substitute "philosophy" for "religion", because religion is really a part of philosophy.
For example, in the
Except for the best ones. Like Stanford's Donald Knuth [stanford.edu], for example.
Or take the case of Reverend Thomas Bayes, the parish priest who discovered Bayes' theorem, on which modern machine learning/data mining relies so heavily, including spam filters named after him.
When questioned about their beliefs, the scholars I mentioned describe ideas and concepts that are distinctly unorothodox. I suspect these people may have reached a personal understanding of the divine that would not be accepted by their respective communities. The ignorance of the lay community is a good thing, in this case, because the exact nature of their belief is not relevant to anything. The fact is they believe, and it provides a framework in which they can act in and upon the world.
I also suspect that the higher levels of theological scholars, pantheistically speaking, are far more tolerant of objective truth than most believe they are...
Ah. You mean apatheists."Could care less if there is or is not a God -- so, quit arguing incessantly about it and pass the gravy!"
Word History: An agnostic does not deny the existence of God
I am curious, is there anyone who takes ANY analyst seriously ? They are ALL paid shills. Everytime something happens in the SCucks case, Pretenderle and Didiot come out of the blue corner, and Dion Cornett comes out of the red corner. Each one has an agenda. Each one has paid "opinions" Would any buisness make an important descision based on these shills ? It's like my beloved NY Post. I like reading it, but take everything with a grain of salt
How long has it been a serious news source?
To be fair: Both Microsoft and Apple copied Xerox.
You can read [amazon.com] the story of how Xerox invited a number of companies (including Apple) to port Smalltalk to various hardware platforms. This exercise led directly to the Apple Lisa (the "Mother of All Macs"). No, they were not based on Smalltalk, but this introduced the WIMP metaphor to Apple.
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LinuxWorld Exclusive: Linus Torvalds Makes Startling Admission, Discloses *Real* Fathers of Linux May 17, 2004 Summary As only Linus Torvalds can, the undisputed - except by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute - inventor of Linux has as promised let LinuxWorld have his immediate comment on the AdTI's president's claims this morning that the parentage of Linux is in doubt. Read his startling admission exclusively here.
"Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus."
Thus begins a characteristically Torvaldsian e-mail to LinuxWorld News Desk sent by Linus Torvalds in response to our invitation to comment on the sensationalist claims this morning that he isn't, after all, the inventor of Linux.
"They (for obvious reasons) couldn't step forward to admit that they had gotten bitten by the computer bug, and had been developing a series of operating systems on their own during the off season. But when they started with Linux (which they originally called Freax - they do feel like outsiders, you know, and that's a whole sad story in itself), they felt that they could no longer just let it languish in obscurity. They started to look for a front-man, and since Santa Claus is from Finland and thus has connections to Helsinki University, and the tooth fairy claimed 'He's got good strong teeth,' I got selected."
"Since then," Torvalds continues, "I've lived a life of subterfuge, always afraid that somebody would find out the truth. I'm actually relieved that it's over, and that the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute has finally uncovered the lie. I can now go back to my chosen profession, the exploration of the fascinating mating dance of the common newt."
In a PS he adds:
"Btw, did you know that newts have more offspring if you play the harmonica to them during their mating rituals? It's true."
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Btw, I do believe that somebody took over adti.net.
I don't think the Alexis de Tocqueville institute ever had humor (they certainly used to take themselves very seriously), but their site today is filled with jokes.
Maybe they forgot to pay their DNS registration fee, and some enterprising person decided to play a joke on them? Or maybe their clocks are running a month-and-a-half late?
Or is it really unintentional?
Exactly. The original "study" is correct in that Linus didn't invent very much at all, but they fail to acknowledge that this is completely beside the point. Linus constructed the Linux kernel from scratch. Like all people who progress humanity, he only did so by standing on the shoulders of giants.
For what it's worth, Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, either, but even decades later, we'd hardly accuse him of theft. Moreover, he built cars that existing drivers would already know how to drive by making them look like the cars that were there beforehand.
The situation is similar to what Darrel Huff in How to Lie with Statistics refers to as "the semi-attached figure". If you can't prove something, prove something else and pretend they're the same. So, for example, you say your toilet cleaner "kills germs faster" and strongly imply, though never right-out say, that this has something to do with your family's health even though it probably doesn't.
Worst of all, this kind of thinking completely ignores how human progress happens. It's the myth of the genius all over again. Progress happens on the fringes of what we already have. When you get down to it, every work is a derivative work (except in the legal sense of the term). Einstein couldn't have come up with the idea of relativity without centuries of work by smart physicists and mathematicians before him.
Hell, Unix is just a castrated version of Multics, right?
;-)sice@kadath ~ $ whois microsoft.com | grep -i update
Database last updated on 17-May-2004 19:31:00 EDT.
sice@kadath ~ $ whois fark.com | grep -i update
Database last updated on 17-May-2004 19:31:46 EDT.
sice@kadath ~ $ whois somethingawful.com | grep -i update
Database last updated on 17-May-2004 19:32:24 EDT.
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Alaska tourism has a competitive advantage by virtue of its beauty, location and natural resources. The tourism industry has worked hard to promote the state's exceptional attractions. Nevertheless, an increasingly competitive global marketplace is bearing down on us, and it is no longer enough to have a great product. As Porter said, we must have the means to compete and differentiate ourselves in a marketplace where other destinations are willing and able to spend much more to reach their markets.
The good news is that tourism offers a strong marketing pipeline that connects the Alaska travel experience and Alaska businesses with consumers all over the world. The pipeline equates to more than 1.9 million visitors every year.
Like other natural-resource industries, we endeavor to reach the market, but our pipeline, which was built more than 50 years ago, needs refurbishing. The current destination-marketing budget combines $5 million in private funds raised from the industry with $5 million matched by the state. The budget is managed by the Alaska Travel Industry Association. But that amount is no longer enough for the message to penetrate the market.
Increasingly, other destinations are flooding consumers with more television commercials, travel stories, co-promotions, direct mail, brochures and Internet marketing. In fact, Alaska now ranks 38 out of the 50 states in terms of public-sector funding for tourism marketing.
The Alaska Travel Industry Association anticipates its marketing effort will be further affected when industry partners with bigger tax bills to pay are forced to abandon their voluntary contributions to the marketing program. Conservatively, the association stands to lose $2.5 million in industry contributions along with the matching $2.5 million from the state.
Other state and municipal taxes, fees, transport charges, a new car rental tax, lodging tax increases and pending cruise industry taxes now account for an estimated $140 million collected from tourism businesses and Alaska visitors. This number increases when you add in other relevant municipal and state assessments.
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The decision to help grow Alaska's travel industry should be an economic development and investment decision - not a budget decision - in which the governor and the Legislature participate.
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Replacing the x-clamp with a screwed version brought me a further year.
But problems again now. The reason for the first time was leaving it on overnight to download a mandatory xbox live update. And the second, leaving it on half a day downloading game trials for what I wanted to play next.
I'm sure brief ~1hr gaming sessions helped it last this long - will probably take it apart again - and screw it together even tighter.
And vacuum my room and move it from the corner.
I may as well make holes in the case top as well now and mount it horizontal. It's been vertical all it's life as it looked to me with an unmodified case it would keep cooler.
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Of these there is an unusually full series, from the end of the 13th century to the time of Queen Anne, commencing at an earlier date than any now in the Record Office. There are three undated rolls of Edw. I., being taxations of a sixth, (Nov. 1294) of a ninth (1297), and of a twentieth (1306). Two rolls are dated in Edward's 25th and 26th years, (1296–7, 1297–8), but these were not forthcoming at the time of my inspection, and appear to have been temporarily mislaid. There is also one in which the proportion is not specified, on two membranes, of which one bears an endorsement of the total as being 220l. 9s. 4d., and the other 134l. 14d.; but it is possible that this is rather a municipal assessment than a regal. An assessment for a tenth ("R[egis] xam") of the ward of the Castle Foregate and of the liberties belongs to the beginning of the 14th century, probably to the reign of Edward II. For that reign there is an assessment of a twenty-fifth (granted in 1309), which is very minute in its details of all personal property; a taxation of the liberties of the town at Easter in that year; a fifteenth for the town in 1313 ("Tallagium factum tempore r. E. fil. r. E. vi.") and of the liberties in the same year ("Taxacio libert. ville Salop. XVe domino r. concesse, de anno r. r. Edwardi fil. r. Edwardi vijmo incipiente"), on six numbered membranes; and a fifteenth in the ninth year (1316), in which 154 persons are taxed. For the reign of Edw. III. there is only one roll, that of a tenth in his tenth year (1336), and but one for Rich. II. That one, however, is specially interesting as being the taxation in 1380 for every person above the age of 14 which caused the insurrection of Wat Tyler, and as consequently giving the total of the population of the town above that age. It is headed, "Compotus Ric. de Graffton, Walteri de Brom. . . . ., Hug. Donfowe, et Johannis le Tyelere, collectorum subsidii domino Regi concessi in villa Salop et libertate ejusdem (struck out), videlicet de qualibet persona laica, homine et femina, etatis xiiij annorum iiijd," and begins, "In primis, in eadem villa Salop et suburbiis ejusdem computantur strata et venelle xv., quorum nomina sunt subscripta, cum numero personarum commorantium in eisdem, mendicantibus absque fraude prout in commissione continetur exceptis." The total is thus stated at the end: "Et sic in villa et libertate Salop computantur in totali summa tam de viris quam de feminis laicis etatis xiiij annorum, Ml Ml iiijxx et iij persone, secundum computacionem ad C vxx, de quibus quidem Ml Ml iiijxx et iii personis dicti collectores r[eceperunt] de qualibet persona iiijd, unde summa totalis recepta se extendit ad xxxiiijli xiiijs et iiijd." The roll is endorsed with the names of the collectors in the outlying liberties, but not with their returns. (fn. 1) The reigns of Henry V. and VII. are blanks; for that of Henry VI. there are three or four rolls, and one for Edward IV., of a fifteenth in 1474–5; but from the time of Hen. VIII. onwards the series is very regular. The latter king's series begins with the account of a benevolence in 1522; "the names and summes of those persones that have made lone or prest of money to the King's grace the xith day of November in the xiiijth yere," &c. In the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I. there are returns of collections made for provision of the royal household. The ship-money accounts form a large file in 1635–9, and include an original letter of instructions signed by the Privy Council; and in 1644 there is a small tattered parcel of returns of the monthly assessment at 4d. in the pound levied for the king in the months of June to September. Some papers connected with this assessment will be found below among the Miscellaneous Papers under the same year.


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Woman's body found in Waterford house
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Gardaí in Waterford are investigating all the circumstances following the discovery of the body of a female, aged in her early 60s, in Waterford city this evening.
The body of the woman was discovered by the Fire Brigade at approximately 6pm at a house at Killure Grove, St John's Park, Waterford City.
She was pronounced dead at the scene and was taken to Waterford General Hospital where a post mortem will take place tomorrow afternoon.
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Today, former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell appeared—at long last—before the House Select Committee on Intelligence in an open hearing. Committee members have, for some time now, desired to question Morell, who has proven an elusive and reluctant witness. Indeed, some believed he had previously misled the committee, suspicions which made for some pointed questioning.
The most significant finding from today's testimony: Morell and his team of analysts showed poor judgment (to say the least) and were stubbornly attached to the false narrative on Benghazi, which Morell helped create—for reasons that are still a matter of conjecture.
Morell said, "I believe it was a protest. I also believe it was a terrorist attack. I don't believe those things were mutually exclusive."
Morell (now a partner in the consulting firm Beacon Global Strategies founded by former Clinton aides) occupies a central place in the controversy over the notorious Benghazi talking points.
As established conclusively by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's bipartisan report, the original CIA talking points on Benghazi were quite comprehensive and included information on al-Qaeda activity in the Benghazi area. In the interagency vetting process, however, this paragraph raised red flags at Hillary Clinton's State Department, which had failed miserably at providing adequate protection against terrorists for U.S. diplomats stationed in Libya. Morell took it upon himself to edit out any reference to al-Qaeda, and blamed the attack on an anti-American demonstration. The remainder of the talking points was toothless pabulum.
Yet, on September 15, the day before U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice went on five national Sunday television talk shows and promoted the false narrative, the CIA Station Chief in Tripoli—our highest ranking intelligence officer in Libya—emailed Morell and others at the CIA, reporting that the attacks were "not an escalation[] of protests."
In today's testimony, Morell stated that he sent the information from the CIA chief in Libya to his Langley CIA analysts, who concluded that, with regard to the situation on the ground in Benghazi, they were better informed than the staff in Libya. And so they refused to change their original analysis. The false story of the demonstration remained unaltered.
Why did the CIA refuse to consider intelligence from the ground in Libya? Politicization of the agency is certainly one possible answer, and a resurgence of terrorist activity did not suite the Obama administration—especially with a national election looming.
The Obama White House, as well as likely Democratic front-runner for the presidency Hillary Clinton, wish that the outrage over Benghazi would simply go away. House members deserve support in their efforts to make sure the American people get all the facts of this tragic case.


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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: Passport (07/25/05)
TITLE: Eternal Passport
By Karen Ward
"What makes you say that?" Crystal had been traveling long enough to hope she didn't look like a tourist.
He gestured towards the pouch which she usually tucked beneath her jumper. "The passport hanging around your neck."
"Oh, I usually hide that better! Yes, I am, but I'm going home in three days."
"Been away long?"
"Nearly a year"
Crystal took out her passport and showed him her stamps. "I'm quite proud of this actually" She offered him an embarrassed smile.
"You like to travel?"
"Love it. But I'm looking forward to going home."
"Yeah. Nothing like going home." The stranger had been watching people get on and off the bus while talking to her. But now he looked her straight in the eyes, and his stare was fascinating. "Going home will be the best experience ever. But where are you going now?"
"I'm off to see Aunt Joan. A lovely lady, but a bit of a Jesus freak."
"Ask Aunt Joan sometime what she thinks about going home."
"Her home's here in London – are you from somewhere else?"
"You could say that. But I'm always ready to go home. You might say I have an eternal passport."
"An eternal passport?" She was beginning to wonder if this guy was OK. He looked trustworthy, but looks could be deceiving.
"Your passport gives you the right to travel yeah? You are a citizen of America and you have permission to travel here and all over Europe. With a valid passport and visa, you will never be refused entry to a country right?"
She nodded.
"Well, I believe that after this life, I am going to Heaven. My eternal home. I've not been there yet, but I have a valid passport. Jesus died for me, and it says in 2 Corinthians that God has set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit. I see that deposit as my eternal passport."
Crystal couldn't look away from his eyes. He clearly believed what he was saying. Even though she hardly knew him, she was drawn to him and through that, what he was saying.
Suddenly he broke eye contact and his face changed. Crystal was afraid as he leaned in close, his face drawn with seriousness. "When I get off the bus, go to the driver and tell him to call the police and evacuate the bus. I am an undercover policeman and that guy just left a bag on the bus." He flashed his id quickly as he spoke, confirming his claims, and then he was gone.
Stunned and now terrified, Crystal did as he said, running to the driver, relaying the message and being the first to get off the bus, her eyes seeking the stranger who had spoken to her.
There was a commotion to the left, and she was drawn to look, afraid of what she might see as people filed off the bus behind her. The stranger was struggling with someone, and then he fell to the ground. Unable to stop herself, Crystal ran to him. He was bleeding. It looked like he'd been stabbed in the chest. Whoever did it had run away. He looked at her intensely. "I'm Joshua" he rasped. "Get your eternal passport soon, I'll see you there." His eyes closed, and he stopped breathing. Crystal went into shock as someone came to help her. The next few hours were surreal to her as she and the other passengers were detained, questioned and counseled. The media were all around trying to get interviews with anyone involved. All she could think about were his last words. He was ready for death. He gave his life trying to save her and the others on the bus. He didn't look scared when she got to him. Just ready. Resigned. Peaceful. It was the first time she had seen anyone die, and it was not what she had expected. What if he was right? What if Jesus was real? As she finally made it back to her hotel, she knew she had to find out more. If Heaven was real, then she needed an eternal passport too. That's one place you don't want to be turned away at the border. She picked up her phone.
"Aunt Jean? It's Crystal. Can you come over? We need to talk."
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|Keep It Simple, Stupid
Re: Perl/Tk code structureby elef (Friar)
|on Jan 11, 2012 at 18:49 UTC ( #947407=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
Status report: still considering whether to build the GUI using a separate module that communicates with the original (and untouched) script á la BrowserUk. In the meantime, I decided to get my hands dirty with Tk a bit. I took a simple script and wrote a quick & dirty gui for it with the "cram everything into subs" approach. I had to use separate subs for each step because otherwise all the GUI elements show up at once. Can't say I'm happy about this trait of Perl/Tk.
It works fine and, importantly, it converted to .exe with pp correctly, except I had to replace -command => sub {exit} with -command => sub {$mw->destroy} on the exit button because with sub{exit}, the resulting .exe crashed instead of exiting on pushing the button. Anyone know why that would be?
Here's the code:
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Aquage is proud to announce our continued partnership with Wigs for Kids, a non-profit organization committed to helping children suffering from hair loss. Wigs for Kids was founded over 33 years ago by hairdresser Jeffrey Paul and his wife Zina in an effort to help their 15-year old niece who was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for leukemia. After searching for a natural-looking wig that would withstand the rigors of typical kids' activities with no luck, Jeffrey decided to make one himself!
Over 2 million children are affected by hair loss from chemotherapy, alopecia, trichotillomania and other medical conditions. Imagine how difficult it must be for kids suffering from hair loss. We did and wanted to do something about it. We hope you'll join us. This fall, look for limited edition cans of Uplifting Foam and Finishing Spray. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Wigs for Kids, with a minimum guaranteed donation of $40,000. This brings our three-year total to over $100,000!
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- A government critic who called President Lee Myung-bak a curse word on his Twitter account found the account blocked. The Twitter handle, @2MB18nomA, translates to "Lee Myung-bak bastard." The "2" is pronounced "lee" in Korean and "MB" is short for Myung-bak. (Hence, Lee Myung-bak.) The 2MB also means two megabytes, (the brain power of the president, critics say,) and "noma" is bastard in Korean. The Twitter identification says "I am 99%"
- An activist whose Twitter posting likened officials to pirates for approving a controversial naval base was accused by the South Korean navy of criminal defamation. The Twitter identification translates to "the voice of 99 percent" in Korean. (Source: Inews24)
- A judge who wrote that the president ("His Highness") was out to "screw" Internet users who challenged his authority was fired in what was widely seen as punishment.
- This man, Park Jung-geun, was indicted on charges of breaking South Korea's national security law after reposting North Korean propaganda through his satirical Twitter account. nyti.ms/zvCFy0 (Source: Money Today)
- In the parodied North Korean propaganda poster, below, Mr. Park inserted his face and a whiskey bottle.
- The police once wanted this Twitter account blocked or removed for writing that "even a dog would laugh" at the government's investigative report that blamed North Korea for the sinking of a South Korean warship in 2010. That defamed government investigators, the police said.
- The owner of the Twitter account also spread this satirical poster through Twitter. The account is still accessible but seems to be dormant.
- This opposition lawmaker came under attack from the governing party and many others after calling Park Geun-hye, the governing party's presidential hopeful, "that bitch" in a Twitter posting below. He later apologized on Twitter, calling it a "typo." (Source: Dong-A)
The Web celebrity Chung Bong-ju was sentenced to a year in prison in December 2011 for spreading false rumors connecting the president to allegations of stock fraud. His conviction came amid rising concerns about freedom of speech in South Korea, where defamation is a criminal offense and the onus of proof often lies not with those claiming to have been defamed, but on the defendants.
- A Leading Critic of South Korea's President Is Jailed - NYTimes.com1 day ago ... Chung Bong-ju was sent to prison Monday after he was convicted of spreading false rumors connecting Lee Myung-bak to alle...
- In 2010, North Korea ventured into the social media world by opening Twitter, YouTube and Facebook accounts. South Korea blocked the accounts, whose names translate to "our nation," calling their messages "illegal content." South Korea has since blocked or removed hundreds of Web sites and social media accounts for carrying pro-North Korean content.
- North Korea Takes to Twitter and YouTube - NYTimes.comSEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has taken its propaganda war against South Korea and the United States to a new frontier: YouTube and Tw...
- In 2007, the government arrested Kim Myung-soo on charges of "aiding the enemy" for running a Web site that sold used books deemed pro-North Korean. The police locked him in a jail cell so small he could spread his arms and touch the facing walls. In 2011, he was acquitted in court.
- South Korean Law Casts Wide Net, Snaring Satirists in a Hunt for SpiesMr. Kim was angry about his fate and confused by the reports of North-South conciliation. After all, he had been told his crime was "aidi...
- Facts: In 2010, 151 people were interrogated on suspicion of violating the National Security Law, up from 39 in 2007. The number of people prosecuted for pro-North Korean online activities increased to 82 in 2010 from 5 in 2008. During the first 10 months of 2011, the police deleted 67,300 Web posts they believed threatened national security by "praising North Korea and denouncing the U.S. and the government," a sharp rise from 14,430 posts in 2009. nyti.ms/MH1axg
How to Get Censored in South Korea
Free speech activists and international observers are concerned with South Korea's crackdown on social media. Below are examples of tweets and other cases that have caused trouble. Compiled by CHOE SANG-HUN and SHREEYA SINHA.
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Web Site for Chicago jazz singer, Shara. The single page site allows visitors to view upcoming events, download mp3s, read background information and book gigs.
Web site for a Chicago real estate developer. Visitors can view available properties for sale and complete an online needs assessment form. A content management system allows BigFin to easily update listings.
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Agreed, a great cedar is hard to beat. I have a fragrance that I recently created for myself that contains a cedar/frankincense coextract and it's just awesome. A good cedar is very light, very rich and extremely long lasting.
On the other hand I do absolutely love a good sandalwood in the dry down. It can seriously make a fragrance.


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The Growth and Trends of the Coupon Industry in India
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There is no denying the fact that the internet retail market in India has grown exponentially over the last three years. As per a recent Comscore Report, a growth rate of 31% per year was calculated. Since the country has leaped to become the world's third largest internet population with 73.9 million potential customers to tap; the Indian online market poses significant potential for retailers.
These numbers have undoubtedly resulted in catching the eyes of wide variety of international and domestic online coupon companies. With a wave of entities launching their online coupon businesses in the past 2 years, the quintessential Indian online buyer has been able to enjoy the benefit of a variety of money saving deals presented to them. This is possible with the help of tie ups with a variety of industries and some of the top brands in the market.
Anisha Singh, Founder of Mydala says, "There is a plenty of opportunity in this space. Users in India are deal hunters; a recent report had mentioned that 87% of online customers admit to looking for deals before making a purchase. Increasing Internet penetration, low cost gadgets and consumer awareness will fuel the rise of the digital coupon industry and there will be plenty of innovation happening in the near future in this space."
She also adds, "Success is not a day's work. So it's important to have a vision but it's great if that comes with some perseverance to back it up. Within 3 months of us starting, there were 38 deal sites and counting."
How does this help?
For starters, the fact remains that today, the Indian online retail industry is already quite contested and increasingly closing the point of saturation. The age of coupons will coax existing players to adapt to a variety of innovative strategies to compete with the new wave of international arrivals into the market or risk an early end. To be able to claim and maintain their market share, coupon websites will be forced to put on a creative thinking hat. Here, the beauty of competition lies in the fact that it is the customers that will win due to innovation driven online retail experiences.
Furthermore, Comscore revealed that in the year 2013, mobile internet use resulted in a 14.2% growth of traffic in the Indian online retail market. With more and more coupon websites and e-stores focusing on taking advantage of the mobile platforms, shopping online is not only more affordable but also a lot more convenient.
As already established, ultimately, the increase in competition will result in greater savings for the Indian online buyer. As each site works hard towards offering the best value for the shoppers; buyers will be able to make the most of a variety of deals introduced.
Another benefit that is unique to the coupon model is that higher the competition in the industry, the more the merchants will benefit from it. From the perspective of affiliate merchants, the more coupons that introduce on different websites; the higher the chances of traffic and sales conversions. Also, taking into consideration that the majority of the merchants that are listed on these coupon sites tend to be local Indian brands, this helps ensure that in spite of international coupon companies setting shop here, it is the local economy that is deemed to benefit.
All in all, India is at the cusp of witnessing the fastest growing e-commerce market in the entire Asia Pacific region. With a compound annual growth rate expected to be at 57% between 2012 and 2016, as per Forrester, the coupon sector is set to exhibit maximum growth.


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September 1, 2006
UN accuses official of steering contract to India
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. procurement official has
been referred to U.S. prosecutors over allegations he steered
U.N. contracts to an Indian government firm, the United Nations
and diplomatic sources said on Friday.
first named by the Italian newspaper Il Sole. The daily said a
U.N. audit report had accused Bahel of working through Indian
businessman Nishan Kohli, who rented him apartments at below
market price in return for steering contracts to firms
associated with Kohli.
The government company, is Telecommunications Consultants
of India, or TCIL, part of New Delhi Telecommunications
Department, U.N. diplomats said. The company is said to have
been awarded some $100 million in U.N. contracts around the
world. It has denied the allegations as has Kohli.
The United Nations has been investigating the procurement
department for several years but only last January placed eight
officials on leave.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, reacting to news reports,
said two of the eight had been exonerated and were back at
work, two others were reinstated but have been asked to respond
to allegations of mismanagement and three remained on leave
pending completion of the investigation.
He said the eighth, identified by U.N. diplomats as Bahel,
had been suspended "without pay due to the serious nature of
the charges" and has now "been given an opportunity to
"Evidence of the case has also been shared with U.S.
prosecutorial authorities," Dujarric said.
The American authorities involved are in the U.S.
Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, which
has previously investigated fraud in the procurement
department, including the case of Alexander Yakovlev of Russia.
Yakovlev pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court a year ago to
wire fraud and money laundering.
A man answering the phone at Bahel's New York residence
said he was unavailable for comment.
An official from TCIL told the Press Trust of India, "We
deny everything that has been said about TCIL in the report
about someone steering huge contracts to the company."
TCIL said it had "no access to the United Nations."
Bahel and Yakovlev had both been questioned at length by
the independent inquiry panel investigating the oil-for-food
scandal at the United Nations but were not accused of
wrongdoing in managing contracts for Iraq.
Both men were involved in awarding an inspection contract
to the Swiss firm Cotecna, which employed U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's son, Kojo Annan.
Among procurement officials still under investigation is
Andrew Toh, the Singaporean head of U.N. support services
including procurement, who has been on leave with pay since
January, U.N. sources said.
Toh has denied any wrongdoing and told Reuters earlier in
the year he was mystified about why he had been suspended since
he had no direct involvement in U.N. peacekeeping contracts.
Bahel, seconded to the United Nations from the Indian
government's military auditing service, first came under
scrutiny in September 2004 when a U.N. internal audit
investigated whether he steered several contracts to TCIL
without proper bidding.
But no action was taken until last year when allegations in
procurement were investigated again.
Christopher Burnham, the American head of the U.N.
management department, said in January that U.N. audits showed
potential abuse could go into the tens of millions of dollars
in the purchase of goods for peacekeeping missions.


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Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen's first recruiting class is highlighted by a pair of defensive ends from suburban Milwaukee.
Alec James of Brookfield East and Chikwe Obasih (CHEEK'-way oh-BASH'-ee) from Brookfield Central are among six players from Wisconsin who signed national letters of intent with the Badgers on Wednesday, about two months after coach Bret Bielema left for Arkansas. Andersen and his staff were able to retain most of the prospects who initially committed before Bielema's departure.
Another standout in the group is Corey Clement, who could be the next great Badgers running back from south New Jersey. Clement played at Glassboro High School, not far from where former Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne grew up. Clement will help fill the void created by the departure of Montee Ball.


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According to eMarketer, companies will spend a total of $77.37 billion (38.4% of total ad expenses) in digital ads this year. More companies are increasing their budget allocation for digital marketing and advertising. But are they maximizing the benefits of this shift? Here are some ways on how you can maximize your digital ad spend this 2017.
Consistent Testing, Continuous Refocusing
Digital technologies have given businesses more ways to reach their target consumers. It is important for teams to consistently test their performance in existing channels to see where ad spends appear to be a waste of time and resources. As consumer behaviors continuously evolve, consistent testing allows brands to refocus their efforts on the channels that perform well instead of wasting resources on the ones that barely generate leads.
Go for a Targeted Approach
It's time to veer away from the "spray and pray" approach wherein brands spread their message and hope for better lead generation and conversion. Targeted banners and other digital media products can generate better leads and sales.
Learn from the Past
Sometimes, old is the new "new." But this doesn't mean you should replicate what has been done before and simply revise it to accommodate the new campaign. What this means is that efforts in the past, whether successful or not, can serve as inspirations, guides, and springboards for new campaigns. It's always advisable to revisit old campaign channels and see how it can be successful now. Ask a reputable digital development company in Encino, CA about your options.
Measure Relentlessly
It is important to measure your efforts consistently to compute your ROI. Any campaign will be in vain if teams do not measure and come up with numbers that will prove its success. In business, everything is measured and analyzed. Knowing this, teams should have success parameters to help them measure ROI later on.
If you want to maximize your digital ad spend, make sure you are optimizing all of your channels to extend your reach. As more companies increase their budget for digital marketing and advertising this year, it is important to measure and monitor efforts to ensure high ROI.


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is my graph for the number of viewers right? it always says my blog has
received 200 or 500 or 1000 visitors but when i add it all up in the refferer
list it only comes up to like 50!! what am i doing wrong? PLEEEEZE HELP!!!
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is my graph for the number of viewers right? it always says my blog has
It's never been explained by staff what the graph is messuring exactly. My understanding, with some mucking around and testing, is that the graph measures page views, Post and Page views and loading of your blog's home page.
Referrers is just that. A single count of where people are finding your site.
A single visitor will come from a single source (The referral count) but should have more than one page view. (The graph count)
Search engines, browser bookmarks, and directly typing in your blog's URL are not counted within the refferer count as they are not comeing from another webpage.
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