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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
For the first time ever American soldiers have been deployed to Israel on a permanent basis to man a new early-warning radar system.
Defense News reported that 120 US military technicians and advisors will be based permanently in Israel to operate the FBX-T radar system, which should give Israel advanced warning of any Iranian missile attack.
The radar and its operating crew arrived in Israel aboard more than a dozen US European Command (EUCOM) aircraft last Sunday.
The deployment is believed to be part of the Bush Administration's compensation to Israel for not backing an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
According to reports last week, Israel wanted to attack Iran as early as May of this year, but was denied the needed support from Washington. The Bush White House also reportedly turned down a later request for a flight corridor through Iraqi airspace.
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UAE launches plans for mandatory military service
An Emirati visitor asks a question to a military representative in this file photo taken on Monday Nov. 12, 2007. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
Adam Schreck, The Associated Press
Published Sunday, January 19, 2014 8:43AM EST
Last Updated Sunday, January 19, 2014 2:02PM EST
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The United Arab Emirates has begun the process of imposing mandatory military service for adult males to add "another layer to the national defence force," the country's prime minister announced Sunday.
The move appears aimed at least in part on feeding more Emirati nationals into the federation's armed forces. The UAE military and police forces depend on foreigners to bolster their ranks.
Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said on his official Twitter feed that male high school graduates between the ages of 18 to 30 will be required to serve nine months, while those without a high school diploma must serve two years under the draft legislation. Military service for female Emiratis would be voluntary.
"The new law adds another layer to the national defence force to further protect our nation, secure its borders (and) preserve its achievements," Sheik Mohammed said on his official Twitter feed.
In separate comments carried by state news agency WAM, he said "national service implants the values of allegiance, loyalty, discipline and sacrifice among youth." Sheik Mohammed is vice-president and prime minister of the seven-state United Arab Emirates federation as well as the ruler of the emirate of Dubai.
The UAE, which sits across the Persian Gulf from Iran, enjoys warm relations with the United States and other Western powers. A relatively young country, it was formed in 1971 after decades under British protection.
Its seven semiautonomous sheikdoms have pursued increasingly tighter integration over the years, helped by financial support from the oil-rich capital, Abu Dhabi.
The UAE Cabinet has endorsed the draft law, which will now be considered by the Federal National Council, a largely advisory body. Emirati policymaking is dominated by the federal capital Abu Dhabi and the commercial hub of Dubai, and there likely to be little public opposition to the plans in the OPEC member nation.
Most of the country's workforce is composed of foreign guest workers, though Emirati leaders have tried to get more nationals into public and private-sector jobs.
Theodore Karasik, a security and political affairs analyst at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, said the unexpected initiative could lessen the country's reliance on military personnel from South Asia and other Arab countries.
"This did come out of the blue, but for a very good reason. The situation in the country demands manpower ... based solely on Emirati nationals," he said. "In the future, there may be trouble in other countries where those who serve in the armed forces now would need to go home. And that would leave a manpower shortage."
The UAE military currently has an estimated 51,000 active-duty personnel, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Much of its military posture is aimed at deterring potential threats from nearby Iran despite longstanding trade and cultural links between the two neighbours. The UAE military also has sent troops overseas, including as part of the NATO-led mission to Afghanistan and to provide humanitarian relief to Pakistan.
Karasik said the military conscription policy is unlikely to be directly aimed at bolstering the armed forces to confront threats from nearby Iran, but is rather "purely an Emirati issue."
"This helps to bind the country together," he said.


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Web exclusive, December 13, 1962
REMEMBER WHEN Excerpts from The Weekly Packet, December 13, 1962
Girl Scouts work on badges
The Weekly Packet, Celebrating our 50th year
Girl Scouts in Troop 1 are working on their first aid badge under the direction of Mrs. Gayler Gray. The project will take about six weeks.
Girls earning it are: Susan Torrey, Martha Sylvester, Vivian Yates, Bonnie Gray, Dawn Howard, Sheryl Rackliffe, Sherrie Cousins, Nancy Butler, Cherry Astbury, Dorothy Leighton, and Linda Billings.
Four of the girls, Martha Sylvester, Leona Sylvester, Susan Torrey and Gail Sinclair, are working on the sports badge in bowling.


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I have always been a big admirer of Barbara's. Not only is she a great cook who shares her delicious recipes on her fabulous blog, Winos and Foodies, she is also the creator of Hay Hay It's Donna Day, one of my favorite blogging events. She takes the time to organize events, answer all our comments, and post pictures of her beautiful New Zealand (a place I am now longing to explore). All this while fighting cancer. The strength and aplomb with which she approaches everything is remarkable. So when she put out a call to food bloggers everywhere to participate in A Taste of Yellow, a blogging event to raise cancer awareness, I definitely was not going to miss it.
A Taste of Yellow is an event to support LIVESTRONG Day:
LIVESTRONG Day is the Lance Armstrong Foundation's (LAF) grassroots advocacy initiative to unify people affected by cancer and to raise awareness about cancer survivorship issues on a national level and in local communities across the country. LIVESTRONG Day 2007 will occur on Wednesday, May 16.
Cancer touches everyone's life, whether it be our own, or that of friends and family. I have had family members fight this terrible disease…some triumphant, and some not. Three days ago we lost an uncle to cancer. I myself have experienced the fear that comes with discovering a lump in your breast. I thank God and all my lucky stars that it was nothing serious, but because of this I have been having mammograms and sonograms (to monitor) since before I was 30.
My mother (a very wise woman) always says: "Knowledge is power…don't be scared to find out…learn…own it!" And I suppose this is what awareness is all about. Not being scared in the darkness of ignorance, but fearless in the light of knowledge.
And so A Taste of Yellow…the color of sunshine and light! We can make anything we want as long as it features a yellow food and I have decided to make a very simple dish containing one of my favorite yellow foods around…eggs.
Huevos Estrellados (or more commonly known as Huevos Rotos) is a very down-to-earth, homey kind of dish. It's basically "broken" eggs with potatoes. You can vary it in countless ways by adding mushrooms, onions, garlic, chorizo, roasted peppers, or whatever you can think up. I kept it plain and yellow here.
Huevos Estrellados
(adapted from my cousin's recipe)
- 2 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- 3 eggs, separated
- Salt
- Olive oil
– In a pan, heat oil slightly and add potatoes. Cook over very low heat. You don't want to sear them just yet. You want to slow cook them in the olive oil until they are soft, and then wait until the edges get golden and crisp. Don't rush this. It's worth it.
– Once your potatoes are soft and golden, with edges that are as crisp as you want them, pour in – egg whites and stir for 3-5 seconds.
– Turn off the heat and stir in yolks until done to your liking. Season with salt and transfer to a plate (or the heat from the pan will keep cooking the eggs) and eat immediately.
We ate this for brunch with English bangers and local longganisa. Delicious and satisfying!
Make sure to check back at Barbara's for the round up on May 16!


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Vita Reportedly Only Holds 100 Apps
Another disappointing day for PlayStation Vita owners, as it was discovered the handheld can only hold 100 apps, regardless of memory card size.
As Joystiq reported Thursday, users with numerous downloads and games on their Vitas may soon want to be more picky about what apps they choose to keep. Once a user attempts to install the 101st app onto the handheld, a warning statement appears on the device stating, "There are 101 applications on your PS Vita system. The system can only display up to 100 applications. To display the missing applications, you must delete 1 applications, and then restart the PS Vita system."
The unlucky user who fell victim to this shortsighted technical issue claimed to have a 32GB memory card, 9GB of which were free space. Sony has yet to issue a statement on the matter, but it's strange to think the company wouldn't have foreseen someone downloading more than 100 apps to the console. That is, unless they didn't have very much faith in the Vita to start with.


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Physical Activity, Leisure, and Safety
T. Fenwick Faulkner, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
The physical activity, leisure, and safety (PALS) program provides diverse, skill-oriented physical activities as part of a general education program promoting the physiological development of students, improving their motor fitness and skills, and enabling them to maintain a suitable recreation program of their choice during and after college. A maximum of 6 credits in PALS courses, taken as open (free) electives, may be counted toward graduation. Each school or department determines the number that may be counted toward graduation. PALS courses are offered on a pass/fail basis only.
Activity Course Registration Information
Students must register online for activity courses. In order to do so, students must select the appropriate block: Block 1 (first 7 weeks of the semester) or Block 2 (last 7 weeks of the semester). There is the risk of being automatically dropped from the course if you do not attend the first class meeting. The only exception to this rule will be with prior notice of the absence. A student who is dropped for non-attendance may apply to be added at the next class meeting. (Note: The instructor is not obligated to drop a student; students who decide not to take the course must follow the regular drop procedures.)
All persons who participate in activity courses must have a health clearance on file in the College health center and must sign a "Responsibility of Student in Activity Courses" form at the first class meeting.
Intercollegiate Athletic Course Registration Information
Students must register online for intercollegiate athletic course credit. Students who do not make the team or who discontinue participation for any reason must drop or withdraw from the course online. Intercollegiate athletic courses are offered on a pass/fail basis only. Credit is granted either in the fall or the spring for any given sport. No late requests for credit will be honored. In the off-season, students may reserve practice time in their schedule from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. by using course number 664-00100-01. For credit (0.5 per session), students must use the course number indicated below for the appropriate semester.
Men's intercollegiate sports
Women's intercollegiate sports
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At a reception last week at the Laguna Art Museum, the Laguna Beach Community Foundation officials announced the formation of the Professional Council.
The council is open to professionals in law, accounting, financial services, insurance and real estate who live in or practice in Laguna Beach and donate $100 a year or more to the foundation. Attorneys Leslie Daff and Nicole Anderson were named chairs of the new group, whose activities will include educational and social events.
"With the assistance of these professionals, we will be better able to further our mission of increasing philanthropy in Laguna Beach," said foundation Chief Executive and President Darrcy Loveland.
The foundation assists charities by encouraging community philanthropy, developing endowments, providing information on legal issues and taxation, managing assets and bringing donors and needy organizations together to address the needs of the community.
"We help donors who might not know which group they want to support," said foundation Chairwoman Laura Tarbox.
The foundation has distributed more than $61,000 to Laguna Beach and neighboring area nonprofit organizations this year — and that is before the annual grants to be made Dec. 1.
In 2010, the foundation awarded almost $80,000 in grants.
The foundation began this year with a $25,000 contribution to the Laguna Relief and Resource Center from individual donations and from the Disaster Fund created to assist folks who suffered in the December deluge.
Three new charitable funds were also created, most recently the Claes Andersen Hospitality Scholarship Fund, established by Georgia Andersen and her children.
The Glennwood Housing Fund was established to help raise funds to open Glennwood House, a home at Ruby Street and South Coast Highway for young adults with special needs. Pledges and donations of $28,000 were raised for the capital campaign at an event at the home of Mary Kate and Kirk Saunders.
Barbara and Greg MacGillivray's One World One Ocean Foundation Fund was established to support their 10-year campaign to preserve the ocean, which includes three IMAX films and an eight-part television series.
The community foundation encourages folks to learn more about and donate to the fund by visiting http://www.oneworldoneocean.org.
Besides five workshops held this year to assist donors and potential recipients, the foundation also is sponsoring a philanthropic program at Laguna Beach High School. Foundation Trustee Mark Powell organized the class, which is designed to ignite students' interest in philanthropy by discussing issues, visiting sites and meeting people who work for or are involved in nonprofits.
Donnie Crevier, who attended the Boys & Girls Club when it was boys-only and now serves on its board, recently addressed the class on his commitment.
He is a member of the ambassadors, who spread the word about the foundation. The list of ambassadors also includes former Mayor Kathleen Blackburn, the MacGillivrays, architect Morris Skendarian, Ed Sauls and Vern Buwalda.
The foundation was launched May 2009 in a presentation to the City Council by Tarbox, but it had been in the works for almost six years.
Former Mayor Wayne Peterson, Laguna Canyon Foundation President Michael Pinto, former foundation Executive Director Mary Fegraus and board member Peter Kote did the spade work to get it off the ground.
The foursome created the trust, filed for nonprofit status and recruited trustees Rick Balzer, Robert Gamez, Richard Crum, Bob Dornin and Tarbox.
Fegraus, Kote, Balzer Dornin, along with Tarbox are still on the board, which also includes Don Clurman, Mark Towfiq. Pinto and Peterson are trustees emeritus.
For more information about the foundation, visit http://www.LagunaBeachCommunityFoundation.org or call (949) 494-8223.


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This Positive Life: An Interview With Lucia
September 15, 2011
"Don't give up. Educate yourself and find something that appeals to your psyche and to your inner peace to help you deal with the information you will be getting, because some of it is scary," says HIV advocate and long-term HIV survivor Lucia. In 1989, this Cuba native received a mandatory blood test in the hope of gaining her U.S. citizenship, but was utterly shocked when she was told her test results came back positive for HIV. Lucia, who was also pregnant at the time of her diagnosis, opens up about being pressured to have an abortion, the long journey it took for her to feel at peace again and why speaking publicly breaks down the walls of stigma in her community.
This is Bonnie Goldman reporting for TheBody.com. Welcome Lucia to This Positive Life.
Thank you for having me.
Tell me, how did you first find out that you are HIV positive?
It was 1989 and I went to the immigration office in hopes of beginning the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. The first step is to become a resident of the United States, and at that time, I was given a blood test for all STDs [sexually transmitted diseases], including HIV and that came back positive.
So what happened?
I was given a year to get my affairs in order. I definitely had no interest in pursuing my citizenship at this point; I needed to have so many other things in place. I was also pregnant, and at the time I was advised heavily to have an abortion.
So the journey began as far as finding out how the heck I had possibly become infected since my spouse of, at that time, 13 years was negative. I didn't have any more of an answer than they did. I had never been hospitalized or been a drug user or displayed any risky behaviors. Had only been in two serious relationships in my life. The only thing I did contribute at the time was that I had been sexually active one time with my previous boyfriend. That was dismissed, because that was over 10 years ago and there was no way I could be alive given how short of a lifespan people with the virus were living at that time.
The doctors believed that I had been recently infected. My blood, after many, many, many tests, ended up at the CDC [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], which was the final confirmation that I was in fact positive, because it was just not being accepted too easily. I can't even tell you how many labs -- how much blood work -- I had to undergo just because they were in total denial.
But after awhile, I realized that I was infected at the age of 16 by a hemophiliac boy I was with in high school. He passed away a couple of years ago. Neither one of us knew he was positive, and we were having unprotected sex. I was a virgin and didn't know much about sex. It was a one-time thing, because I wasn't thrilled about it, just the first time.
Why did they not think you were positive?
Because I didn't fit "the category." I was not promiscuous and had been in serious monogamous relationships in the past. I was 27, 29 at the time when I was diagnosed. Without a hospitalization, blood transfusion or any drug use, they just didn't know how the heck I could have possibly contracted HIV. But they told me to abort the child and that was that.
What did you do with the recommendation about abortion?
That was the hardest choice I ever made in my life, to give up something I desperately wanted, but that was what I had to do. I was put through a lot of guilt -- mainly by my spouse and the medical community as well. The chances of the child being born positive were high from what they were telling me.
My ex-husband was an accountant and he took the chances as being stronger than the facts and he would ask how could I be so selfish to want to bring a child into the world with this.
How many months pregnant were you?
Maybe a month.
You had a lot to deal with in a month! That just seems like so much.
Yes it was. But I was fortunate. I don't know if I'd have called it fortunate at the time. I'd call it fortunate now, because the stress I was under was going to kill me faster than the actual virus that had managed to live within me for who knows how long.
I had to get a grip and I did: I had enough people, good people, my so-called angels that came into my life. Religion was the first journey, eventually leading to psychology. I found some wonderful psychologists that worked with me. We didn't really talk about HIV -- this therapy was more about saving my marriage. It was what I needed at the time to get strong and the journey turned out to be more about self-love and learning to just count each day as a blessing. Consider it a gift to be alive and breathing.
When you were first diagnosed, did you tell your parents at all?
I told my spouse immediately and then I told my mom and she was just the most supportive and just an incredible person -- still is my best friend. I couldn't tell my father, because he had passed away.
During this time, HIV was really stigmatized. Did you tell any of your friends?
You're right, HIV was very stigmatized and the information out there wasn't the best. Home computers were not something everyone had at the time. The information that was available catered mainly to the medical profession and not the everyday person. Given that, I fully began to do public speaking behind my husband's back, which he was not happy about. I would speak when I was off from work.
What were you doing at the time?
I worked for an air-conditioning company as an accountant.
Why didn't your husband want you to speak publicly about HIV?
He was a sole practitioner and was afraid that people were going to find out and destroy his reputation and his business. I think he still is worried about it to this day. [Laughs.] We remain friends, but I believe he's had a long journey with this.
Speaking of jobs: Have you disclosed at any of the jobs that you have had over the years? And if so, did any co-workers bother you or anything?
No, as a matter of fact, if anything, I've been in their lives. I had one girl that was undergoing MS [multiple sclerosis] treatment. She felt that I was the one person that she could come talk to about what was happening to her. Another had hepatitis C for example. Cancer, whatever disease, you name it, I was the person to go to for strength.
So what has given you the strength to come out about your status?
Although I'm Hispanic, I don't come across as Hispanic. When I moved out here, I had no clue what was happening within my community. It prompted me to take action and do something. The next thing you know, somebody's offering me a job in this business and one thing is leading to another. I did not speak very fluent Spanish and the next thing you know, I'm brushing up on my Spanish.
Earlier you mentioned that you were trying to gain your citizenship. Where are you from originally?
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Well, Hey...
You're bringing back heartache, now a first name basis.
You shift the blame on me, but I have this crutch and it treats me well
and it makes me blush.
You say that we went astray from the moment that we let our hands have their way...
Or brains? Are they one in the same? In the moments we fake and the motions we slave.
I'm working on my pity and I'm sacrificing truth.
I'm acknowledging the moments that I've wasted on you.
I'm igniting all the ladies hearts with movements set on me.
I'm delivering the holocaust with sheep and bloody knees.
I'm complaining while indifferent and still honestly confused.
I am humble, I am heartache, I am young and abused.
I am numb, but I feel everything, I'm giving it to you...
As a gift, as a plea, as a right to abuse.
I lost myself, I found my way.
I've touched your thighs, I've felt your pain.
I've cried out loud, I've told the truth.
I've sacrificed my hold on you.
You're innocent, you spread your legs, you played your part, you had your way.
You've dug your hole, you've paved the way.
Well, you're hip and a flop and on top of the food chain.


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Kelly Ketterson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Non-profit day school for children in grades prek-8th grade
Parents and adult family of children attending school. Trying to get them to come and donate money.
Logo should include the symbol of the earth (blue/green) with a rocket (silver) imposed on it. Rocket should have Far Hills Country Day or FHCDS.
Banner on top of earth should say "Galactic Gala 2010"
Banner on bottom of earth should say "Your Night - Our Children's Future"
School colors are green and white, but theme of evening is silver, purple and orange.
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New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) Small screen actress Roopal Tyagi, best known as Gunjan from "Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke", was approached to participate in dance reality show "Nach Baliye 6" but says she had to turn it down as she doesn't have a partner.
"Nach Baliye" is a dance reality show where real life celebrity couples battle it out to win the trophy.
"I would love to be a part of a reality show. It was just two days back that I was approached to participate in 'Nach Baliye', but since I don't have a baliye (partner) I refused to participate," Roopal told IANS.
A source in the know-how of the show's progress, also confirmed to IANS that the actress was approached to be a part of it.
The sixth season of "Nach Baliye" will go on air later this year. It will be judged by actress Shilpa Shetty, director Sajid Khan and choreographer Terence Lewis.
Others who have been reportedly approached for the show include Mohit Raina, Vivian D'sena, Nakuul Mehta, Indo-Canadian actress Sunny Leone, chef Kunal Kapoor, 'Masterchef India 2' winner Ripudaman Handa, former Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Rakesh Bapat, Ashutosh Rana along with their spouses or partners.
Actors Jay Bhanushali and Mahii Vij won the last season of "Nach Baliye", which ended earlier this year. The show is aired on Star Plus.


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Virtualizing the Desktop: A stepping stone towards the Unified Workspace?
Last week during Interop Las Vegas, I was able to witness and participate in all sorts of conversations about virtualization, and its effect on the way we deploy, deliver and consume applications and services.
Virtualization itself is not a new topic, but given the way our environment has been shaping lately, it is becoming more and more relevant. In this new world we all carry multiple devices, we are always on the move, and the definition whether the app we are using is running from the cloud or from our devices is increasingly irrelevant.
Users do not care about the technology, or the role of virtualization or cloud, as long as they have access to the applications and data they need, whenever they need it. We sometimes think the users should care, but in reality, it is IT that should care, and not the users. And that is a big distinction.
This of course is not a surprise, but I perceived a sense of impatience and even annoyance from some of the users that I was able to question about this matter. I got a really clear message that whatever is the future of the desktop–or the workspace as more and more people refer to it, should be delivered to them soon.
As for the important characteristics of this workspace, from the users' perspective:
- Access to it has to be transparent. They must have an 'on-demand' connectivity environment that allows them to have secure access to the data and/or applications they need to complete the tasks at hand, without worrying about authenticating every time, on the device of their choice. Solutions such as Cisco AnyConnect and the Cisco Identity Services Engine provide these capabilities, and clearly there is pent up demand for such a solution deployed broadly across the enterprise.
- Content and applications should be adaptable, on demand. Many users don't really care if the application they are using on the device of their choice is identical across all their devices, as long as it has similar functionality, adapted to their device (such as touchscreen technology instead of point-and-click apps for touchscreen devices, and vice versa). And the content, particularly bandwidth intensive content such as video, voice and even large attachments, should be adapted on the fly to the amount of bandwidth and screen real estate available, so it is optimized for consumption. Cisco is also focused on creating that optimal experience for the user on any device at any time, with several solutions offering media transrating and transcoding that could be leveraged here.
- Last but not least, that workspace has to be mobile. And mobility in this regard is not a feature that you add to the workspace; it is intrinsic to it. The new workspace has to be mobile by definition. This means in addition to being compliant to the two requirements noted above, the delivery of the workspace with all its capabilities has to be enabled on demand, or as a service. And for that to happen, beyond mobility, the tech industry needs to deliver better integral and systemic orchestration and management capabilities, that would allow IT not only to create virtual instances of applications or even desktops, but to tie the user to its background services like security, identity, location, device authentication, etc. in one click… we are clearly not there yet.
To summarize my learning from Interop Las Vegas, I would say that just like with other technologies, Desktop or Workspace virtualization is a journey, a very interesting one. Users seem to be ready and the technology foundation is already available, but the real question is if IT is ready. The delivery of the unified workspace requires breaking silos within many IT organizations, in the same way convergence did over 10 years ago. And just like with convergence, the savings, increased productivity and the capability to enable new and exciting services to all users, so they can work their way, is in front of us. It is a journey all right, but we can start that journey today.
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Roberto – great post, thanks.
To take it one step further, the "Unified Workspace" will provide a consistent user experience across all popular OS's and devices. Which means that it will most definitely be different from the current Microsoft-only enterprise desktop environment (and associated constrains) we have today.
This is quite refreshing.
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Christmas tree lighting in the Bronx
Ken and I had hopped up to Manhattan for the day on Saturday and after a yummy Italian lunch at Lattanzi on W. 46th St., we strolled to Rockefeller Center to see the world-famous Christmas tree.
What? Not decorated yet? (I'm from Baltimore, what do I know.) Instead the enormous tree was hidden behind sky-high scaffolding and word on the street was that it would light up on the day after Thanksgiving … but hello New Yorkers! Those of you who told us incorrectly will be standing there waiting for five days — the ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 2.
It was perfect, then, that Ken had been invited to the annual tree lighting ceremony at The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, which was "a huge success," said Robert Heinisch, Vice President for Site Operations. "It was a thrilling event for the [approximate] 1,000 people that were present to witness the annual lighting of our trees."
Collaboratively lighting the tree at the NY Botanical Garden Saturday was (l to r) Ken Singleton, Assemblyman Carle Heastie, Senator Jeff Klein, Senator Jose Serrano Jr. and Congressman Jose Serrano.
Garden staff member Gayle Schmidt, Manager of Public Education, coordinated the show. After a few words from Assemblyman Heastie and Senator Klein (who also lit the menorah), Ken had the podium and was greeted enthusiastically by many Yankees fans on the promenade, some who are members of the Botanical Garden and had turned out on Members Day & Community Holiday Open House to tour the 18th Annual Holiday Train Show.
Mr. Heinisch treated us as well to an exploration of the model train garden in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory with Yankees staff members Gina Chindemi, Senior Manager of Non-Baseball Events, and Tony Morante, Director of Stadium Tours and Team Historian. (Also on hand outside at the tree lighting was Robert Brown, Yankees Vice President and CFO, and Michael Margolis, Media Relations Manager.)
I sound like a commercial here, but if you have a chance between now and Jan. 10, skip over to the Bronx and see that illuminated lush train garden. Take the kids. Take the grandparents. It's beautiful! Very well done. Who needs Rockefeller Center?
Inside a Victorian-style glasshouse, replicas of New York's historic landmark buildings, including Yankee Stadium, were designed using all natural and plant materials such as grape leaves and orange peels. This year designer Paul Busse added Penn Station and the Brooks Brothers flagship store to the annual favorite displays such as St. Patrick's Cathedral and some of New York's most treasured Hudson River mansions. Trains of all shapes and sizes — even a ladybug train — wind their way through the buildings and foliage.
We loved it. What a splendid way to infuse the beginning magic of the holiday season into our hearts. As Senator Klein said in his brief speech before assisting Ken and the others with the lighting of the trees, "If you don't believe in miracles, you're not a realist."
For more details on the train garden and other features of the beautiful NY Botanical Garden, visit them online.
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Mrs. Singy,
The Rockerfeller Christmas Tree is usually lit the first week of December. It has never ,in all of my 41 years of living in NY, been lit the day after Thanksgiving. Sometimes people who say they are NYers arent really.
Dawn P.
p.s. my husband and I met your husband at Camden Yards over Mothers Day weekend and he is such a nice man. He signed a shirt for my mom and I have to say, It was the highlight of my trip.
Thanks Dawn! I learn something new daily. And happy you found baseball happiness in Baltimore, too.
Thanks for reading,
Mrs. Singy
Hi Mrs. Singy…
Happy Holidays from your faithful viewers in Ovid, NY watching YES on DirecTV Channel 633. I miss baseball season already.


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For the past three years, IUCN Vietnam and Holcim Vietnam Limited (HVL) have organized a Summer Campaign, with a different theme each year: Waste Management and Environment Protection in 2009, Water Sanitation, Human Health and Effective Water Consumption in 2010, and Adaptation to Climate Change in 2011. This year's campaign was launched in Long Thoi Commune, Nha Be District, HCMC on June 27, 2011. This was followed by events in other sites where HVL has plants: in Phu My Town, Tan Thanh District, Ba Ria-Vung Tau (28/6), in Kien Luong District in Kien Giang (29/6), and in Thanh My Loi, District 2, HCMC (30/6).
This year's Summer Campaign launch event attracted 700 people. After a pledge by local government officials to protect the environment, participants picked up litter, cleared drains, and plante trees. An essay writing competition on Adaptation to Climate Change was organzied for 1,000 secondary school students. Of the 40 shortlisted essays, eight winners were selected at the launch. First prize, worth 1,000,000 VND, went to Ms. Nguyen Thi Khanh Hao of Hai Ba Trung Secondary School in Nha Be; second prize went to Ms. Do Thi Vy from Ba Hon High School in Kien Luong; and third prize went to Ms. Ly Thi Thanh Thao of Le Van Huu Secondary School in Nha.
"We should carry out positive actions to protect the environment: throw trash in the dust bin, keep public areas clean, and encourage everybody to protect the environment. Last week, on May 19, students at my school along with officials from the district planted trees in Nha Be. Looking at the green of the leaves, the growing young buds, I felt as if my wish was slowly becoming true. This is a really meaningful activity that helped current generations become more aware of environment protection, our green planet, the Earth." excerpt from Ms. Nguyen Thi Khanh Hao's essay. (Click HERE to read the whole of Ms. Hao's winning essay.)
As part of this year's Summer Campaign, local government officials were trained in climate change adaptation strategies and environmental groups led by local the Youth Union was set up. These groups are pioneers in local environmental action such as planting trees, collecting garbage, clearing thickets, drains, and canals.
"I have helped organize Summer Campaign for the past three years. Through these campaigns, I've realized that this is a positive activity as it helped raise awarness and provide local people with information on how to protect the environment. If the government does not put into place strict rules and if it doesn't collaborate with global environment networks and NGOs, in the near future we will have to pay a high price for environment pollution," said Tran Dinh Phuoc, Vice-Chairman of Phu My CPC, Tan Thanh District, Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
"We have fined just one or two households 50,000-100,000 VND for littering. But even after being fined, these people continued to litter, as other people do," said Mrs. Do Thi Hue from Tan Thanh Market, Tan Thanh District, Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
Similar feelings were expressed by Mr. Phuoc and Mrs. Hue who said that if goverment issues strict rules and explains that environmental protection is their responsibility and in their best interest, the Summer Campaign will had greater positive impact on the ground.
The Summer Campaign is part of a 4-year agreement (2009-2012) between HVL and IUCN Vietnam that aims to build support of local communities for environment protection and biodiversity consevation in Kien Giang. As well as the Summer Campaign, IUCN and HVL are collaborating to protect the last remaining karst limestone hills in Kien Luong District.


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By Jeff Caplan, NBA.com
VIDEO: Westbrook leave vs. Raptors after banging knee
DALLAS — Russell Westbrook returned to action Tuesday night for the first time since his knee scare four nights earlier in Toronto. He remains on a minutes restriction, up to 32 a game, a precaution he's not yet sure will be lifted once the playoffs start in little more than three weeks.
"I'm not sure," Westbrook said prior to Tuesday's game against the Mavericks. "Once I talk to the doctors, the coaches and the people I I need to talk to about that, then we'll figure it out."
What is known is that coming off three surgeries in eight months, and with Friday night's collision with Raptors guard Kyle Lowry reminding him of his vulnerability, Westbrook is embracing the bigger picture.
"I feel great, but it ain't about this year," Westbrook said. "I'm 25 years old, you know? It's not all about right now. You got to think about the future. I can't just think about what's going on right now. I'm still young, I'm trying to play as long as I can."
Westbrook's knee nightmare started 11 months ago in the first round of the playoffs when Rockets guard Patrick Beverley careened into him, tearing the meniscus in Westbrook's right knee and ending his season. He underwent surgery to repair the meniscus days later and then required two subsequent, and unexpected arthroscopic procedures, one coming days before the start of training camp and another two days after he put up a triple-double at Madison Square Garden on Christmas Day.
The latest setback kept him out until Feb. 20. Tuesday's 129-118 overtime loss to the Mavs was the first time since his return that he logged more than 31 minutes. He played 33, but Thunder coach Scott Brooks, in order to adhere to the minutes restriction, sat Westbrook for the first 2:57 of overtime. OKC fell behind 120-113 before he checked in.
Westbrook has averaged 26.3 minutes in the 12 games he played prior to Tuesday night. His career average is 34.0 mpg and he averaged 38.4 mpg in the 2011-12 playoffs when OKC advanced to the NBA Finals. Along with the minutes restriction, which has been bumped up from 25-26 minutes initially to 30-32, Westbrook will continue to be held out of one game of back-to-back situations.
That leaves Westbrook available for eight of the Thunder's final 11 games. OKC wraps up the regular season on April 16 and will open the first round at home that weekend. How the team will handle his minutes at that point, Brooks said, is not yet a significant part of the discussion.
"I haven't really focused on a lot of that because there's plenty of time for us to talk about that," Brooks said. "We're just focusing on what we have in place and that's just the regular season. We've had some small discussions about what we're going to do moving forward, but right now we haven't really locked up anything."
Both times Westbrook has returned from surgery this season, he's seemingly picked up where he left off. If he's lacked any speed or explosion, it's been impossible to tell. He's never allowed the recovery process to create a mental hurdle or slow his full-throttle style. He continues to attack the basket with reckless abandon.
"It's just my mindset, how I think, how I get myself going," Westbrook said. "I just think to myself, go out and try to compete, that's it, go out and help my team win. I know when I'm on the floor my only thing is go out and play hard and try to win."
Since his return after the All-Star break, he's averaged 21.0 points, 7.1 assists and 5.1 rebounds. His shooting percentages — 45.2 overall and 41.3 from beyond the arc — are higher than his overall shooting percentages.
"I mean, I've been confident," Westbrook said. "The training staff and the rehab that I've done has put me in a great spot to be able to come out and perform at a high level, how I want to perform. So I have confidence in my knee; just have to go out there and play and let the rest take care of itself."
Westbrook acknowledged that the incident Friday at Toronto put a scare in him. As soon as it happened, he grimaced, grabbed his knee and slammed the basketball to the floor, an emotional display that was eerily similar to the night he went down in the Houston series. He was helped off the floor by a teammate and head trainer Joe Sharpe and did not return. Immediately, the worst was feared. By the game's end, he was feeling more confident that he was OK, but wasn't fully confident until getting the results of the MRI taken the next day.
"I was just scared and wanted to know what was going on," Westbrook said.
Before Tuesday's game against Dallas, he was asked what his mindset is now as he suited up for his first game since getting his knee knocked.
"Kill," Westbrook said. "That's my mindset from now on."


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The Kunsthaus has been mounting temporary exhibitions for more than a century. They aim to enhance understanding of art in all its complexity, to explore its place in the history of ideas, and to offer original insights. The quality of an exhibition results from the interplay of the thematic focus and its visual presentation. An institution's cultural significance and long-term appeal stand and fall with the ability of its exhibitions and collection presentations to disseminate knowledge.
Every year, the Kunsthaus Zürich holds an average of three exhibitions in the Great Exhibition Hall, three medium-sized shows, and three cabinet or dossier exhibitions. The medium and long-term programme is drawn up by the curators in close collaboration with the exhibition organizers. Monographic and thematic exhibitions in the Great Exhibition Hall are given particular weight in the overall budget, in large part due to high and increasing insurance premiums for loans. Without additional funds from partners and sponsors, the Kunsthaus would be unable to implement its exhibition programme.
Exhibition activities are linked as closely as possible with the collection. Presentations range in topic from the late 18th century to the 21st and include experimental shows alongside classical formats. Exhibitions outside this spectrum may also be staged at less frequent intervals. Thanks to a wide variety of collaborations with international museums, the Kunsthaus is able to participate in the worldwide exchange of loans and projects. With a view to enhancing its reputation as a dependable partner, great importance is attached to the quality of the services provided, as well as excellence in the content and aesthetic aspects of all productions.


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Madagascar's natural resources include a variety of unprocessed agricultural and mineral resources. Agriculture, including raffia, fishing and forestry, is a mainstay of the economy. Madagascar is the world's principal supplier of vanilla, cloves and ylang-ylang. Other key agricultural resources include coffee, lychees and shrimp. Key mineral resources include various types of precious and semi-precious stones, and Madagascar currently provides half of the world's supply of sapphires, which were discovered near Ilakaka in the late 1990s. The island also holds one of the world's largest reserves of ilmenite (titanium ore), as well as important reserves of chromite, coal, iron, cobalt, copper and nickel. Several major projects are underway in the mining, oil and gas sectors that are anticipated to give a significant boost to the Malagasy economy. These include such projects as ilmenite and zircon mining from heavy mineral sands near Tôlanaro by Rio Tinto, extraction of nickel near Moramanga and its processing near Toamasina by Sherritt International,and the development of the giant onshore heavy oil deposits at Tsimiroro and Bemolanga by Madagascar Oil.
Exports formed 28 percent of GDP in 2009. Most of the country's export revenue is derived from the textiles industry, fish and shellfish, vanilla, cloves and other foodstuffs. France is Madagascar's main trading partner, although the United States, Japan and Germany also have strong economic ties to the country. The Madagascar-U.S. Business Council was formed in May 2003, as a collaboration between USAID and Malagasy artisan producers to support the export of local handicrafts to foreign markets. Imports of such items as foodstuffs, fuel, capital goods, vehicles, consumer goods and electronics consume an estimated 52 percent of GDP. The main sources of Madagascar's imports include France, China, Iran, Mauritius and Hong Kong.
Each of the many ethnic sub-groups in Madagascar adhere to their own set of beliefs, practices and ways of life that have historically contributed to their unique identities. However, there are a number of core cultural features that are common throughout the island, creating a strongly unified Malagasy cultural identity. In addition to a common language and shared traditional religious beliefs around a creator god and veneration of the ancestors, the traditional Malagasy worldview is shaped by values that emphasize fihavanana (solidarity), vintana (destiny), tody (karma), and hasina, a sacred life force that traditional communities believe imbues and thereby legitimates authority figures within the community or family. Other cultural elements commonly found throughout the island include the practice of male circumcision; strong kinship ties; a widespread belief in the power of magic, diviners, astrology and witch doctors; and a traditional division of social classes into nobles, commoners, and slaves. Although social castes are no longer legally recognized, ancestral caste affiliation often continues to affect social status, economic opportunity and roles within the community. Malagasy people traditionally consult Mpanandro ("Makers of the Days") to identify the most auspicious days for important events such as weddings or famadihana, according to a traditional astrological system introduced by Arabs. Similarly, the nobles of many Malagasy communities in the pre-colonial period would commonly employ advisers known as the ombiasy (from olona-be-hasina, "man of much virtue") of the southeastern Antemoro ethnic group, who trace their ancestry back to early Arab settlers.
The diverse origins of Malagasy culture are evident in its tangible expressions. The most emblematic instrument of Madagascar, the valiha, is a bamboo tube zither carried to Madagascar by early settlers from southern Borneo, and is very similar in form to those found in Indonesia and the Philippines today. Traditional houses in Madagascar are likewise similar to those of southern Borneo in terms of symbolism and construction, featuring a rectangular layout with a peaked roof and central support pillar. Reflecting a widespread veneration of the ancestors, tombs are culturally significant in many regions and tend to be built of more durable material, typically stone, and display more elaborate decoration than the houses of the living. The production and weaving of silk can be traced back to the island's earliest settlers, and Madagascar's national dress, the woven lamba, has evolved into a varied and refined art. The Southeast Asian cultural influence is also evident in Malagasy cuisine, in which rice is consumed at every meal, typically accompanied by one of a variety of flavorful vegetable or meat dishes. African influence is reflected in the sacred importance of zebu cattle and their embodiment of their owner's wealth, traditions originating on the African mainland. Cattle rustling, originally a rite of passage for young men in the plains areas of Madagascar where the largest herds of cattle are kept, has become a dangerous and sometimes deadly criminal enterprise as herdsmen in the southwest attempt to defend their cattle with traditional spears against increasingly armed professional rustlers.
Nosy Be is the best known, a relatively developed place with a number of boutique hotels. Though you can find quiet corners of Nosy Be, we prefer the sleepier islands such as Ile Sainte Marie on the east coast, Nosy Komba off northern Madagascar, or the private islands of Tsarabanjina and Nosy Iranja.
Deserted beaches
On these islands it is easy to Madagascar's Islands find deserted beaches with soft sand and clear water. Ghost crabs scuttle across the sand and - particularly in the north - frigate birds can be seen soaring overhead. Many of the islands have villages on or nearby and you become accustomed to the daily sight of dhows sailing past, filled with thatching palms, grain and cows until they float just inches above the water. In villages breadfruit trees shade bamboo huts and zebu cattle graze in the fields.
The islands are perfect for relaxing after the adventurous experience of Madagascar's rainforests. Flights go regularly from Antananarivo to Ile Sainte Marie while even more fly to Nosy Be, from where boats reach Nosy Komba, Tsarabanjina and Nosy Iranja. Once on the islands, days can be spent snorkelling and diving, pottering around on a bicycle or just lying on the beach.
With the people of the country engaged in various sports and activities, Madagascar sports form a major component of recreation in the island. Besides a recreational activity sports in Madagascar also holds an important place in the professional arena as many people select sports as a career option.
Madagascar sports include athletics, football, boxing, judo, tennis, basketball and various other games. From high school to the national level, the sports of Madagascar are practiced by many people of Madagascar. The country also participates in the international competitions especially in the field of Athletics.
Women's basketball and women's tennis are two of the major sports at Madagascar. There are many sportspersons who have distinguished themselves in these two games and also in athletics. Madagascar has been sending its national champions to international sports events like the U.S Open and Olympics. Athletes from Madagascar have participated in the World Cup in Athletics representing pan-Africa. Madagascar sportspersons have also represented the country in All-Africa Games.
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Sprint Says Its Clearwire Offer Still Better
Sprint sees that Dish is trying to buy Clearwire out from under it, but it doesn't sound too worried yet.
Clearwire announced it had received a bid from Dish Network that values its shares at $3.30, which is 12% above the deal Clearwire had agreed to with Sprint. But minutes later Sprint has put out its own statement, which sounds pretty confident in its current bid.
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Librarian Day in the Life, Day 5 (Round 4)Posted: January 31, 2010 | Author: Jason A. Clark | Filed under: libraries | Tags: libraries, librarydayinthelife |Leave a comment
The fifth day in the life of the Head of Digital Access and Web Services at Montana State University Libraries. Based on tweets in chronological order.
- 8:35am. AM check of email & twitter. My annual review is today at 2:30pm. Should be a good conversation with the deans. #libday4
- 9:15am. Filling out monthly summary leave reports. Have a block of time before annual review. Need to stay in office & close door. #libday4
- 10:58am. Email faculty re: feedback on tenure document revisions due noon on Mon. Reading draft of 3-5 year strategic plan for lib. #libday4
- 11:09am. Quick visit w/team member re: moving architectural drawings app into production. Performing code audit and moving it up. #libday4
- 1pm. Heading to lunch. Answered a quick Infotoday #cil2010 email re: javascript workshop. http://bit.ly/bLQEf5 #libday4
- 2:17pm. Excited by opps for DAWS team in strategic plan. Digitization, archiving, web services… Heading to annual review. #libday4
- 3:30pm. Good review. Now meeting w/range science faculty re: U of Idaho participation in MSU range science DB. http://bit.ly/9nneBb #libday4
- 4:50pm. Joy 2 meet faculty that geeks out over pictures of grass you digitized. Collab w/U of Idaho looks promising. Weekend. End #libday4.
Ahh, the fifth and final installment… LibraryWeekintheLife… It was a Friday which is usually an open day for me. Time to think about week, start on some projects, prepare for next week. It also a day where some admin duties get finished. The morning was mostly about taking advantage of some free time to talk to team members, audit some code before making it live, and preparing for my annual review. The review was a good conversation about where my work is heading and how the team can help the library in the next year. Nice surprise at the end of the day as a range science professor was giddy to see some of the Hormay collection digital objects. It always helps to see someone genuinely excited about your work. There are times when you wonder who's going to find this stuff valuable. More people do than you know… It also looks like there may be some funding for the range science project. Great to see as we did the initial metadata, DB and app design, and conversion pro bono. The theory was: if we show them something of value, we would be able to look for funding with next iteration. Worked out this time.


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Mall of Screaming Girls Fooled Into Thinking Normal Guy Is a Celebrity
It looks like a troupe of pranksters has trolled just about an entire Virginia shopping mall by convincing shoppers one of its members was a celebrity.
The jokesters at Chill Hill Media didn't even bother to change the name of Thomas Elliot, who played the "celebrity." Instead they just gave him a fake security detail and started spreading the word that he had appeared in movies like 'Spider-Man' and 'The Hunger Games.' Watch the hilarious social experiment unfold below.
So it turns out if you have a friend stick a wire in his ear and pretend he's protecting you from throngs of fans, mall security will shut down stores so you can shop. Well, that's good to know for next year's holiday rush.
And what about all those girls who scream and squeal for an actor named 'Thomas Elliot"? Oh. My. God. Do they not realize that Google can be accessed from the very same phone that they are frantically using to send messages to their friends about their great "celebrity" encounter.
This was a very bad day for humanity. But, hey, at least "Thomas" got a couple phone numbers.


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ROCHESTER, MN – A 15 1/2 pound baby was born in Minnesota last week!
Wendi and Michael Dolton of Rochester, Minn. were expecting their soon-to-be-born child to be big. Even 12 pounds would not have surprised them!
Wendi says she was a large baby, weighing in at over 10 pounds. Doctors had to break her shoulders in order to get her out of her mother!
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Vettel has every right to be frustrated - Horner
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Sebastian Vettel has every right to be frustrated after the lacklustre start to his championship defence this year.
Vettel is currently sixth in the drivers' standings after struggling with reliability issues and a lack of power compared to rivals Mercedes. He retired from the opening race of the season and again at the Monaco Grand Prix while running third, with his frustration starting to show on the team radio.
"He's doing nothing wrong and is smart enough to recognise that, so like any sportsman he is going to be frustrated when things go wrong," Horner said. "With time to take a breath and reflect, he will keep working away at it. It is the nature of who he is that he will never give up, keep his head down and keep working harder and harder."
After years of dealing with a toxic relationship at Red Bull between Vettel and ex-team-mate Mark Webber, Horner said it is refreshing that the focus is now on the Mercedes drivers this year.
"It's part of sport, I'm just relieved it's not us for a change. Every team will deal with their issues how they see the best fit and I assume that Mercedes will deal with it the way they want it dealt with. It's the nature of sport, that when you've got competitive sportsmen competing against each other the word 'team-mate' is a bit of a fallacy."


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Firebug 1.7a4Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
getfirebug.com has Firebug 1.7a4 (+API doc) with 12 fixed issues. There is also Chromebug 1.7a4 available. All tests pass.
Some improvements:
- Better formatting of stack-frame info in case of exception (issue 1601).
- Improve design for the Stack side-panel (issue 3520)
- Fixed command line API for inspector history (see more).
- Improved accessibility for the CSS editor (issue 3335).
Followup in the newsgroup please.


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AutoZone (NYSE:AZO) logged a 15% rise in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday even as the auto-parts retailer's U.S. sales barely budged.
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The largest U.S. auto-parts retailer said it earned $371.2 million, or $10.42 a share, last quarter, compared with a profit of $323.7 million, or $8.46 a share, a year earlier.
Analysts expected the company to earn $10.34.
Revenue rose 12% to $3.1 billion, narrowly exceeding the Street's view of $3.09 billion. Domestic same-store sales gained 1%. Gross margins were unchanged at 51.8%.
"While our same store sales performance was below our expectations for the quarter, we believe the initiatives we have in place will lead to improved sales in both retail and commercial in 2014," AutoZone CEO Bill Rhodes said in a statement.
Rhodes said the overall quarterly performance was "solid" and noted the company enjoyed its 28th consecutive quarter of double-digit EPS growth.
Memphis-based AutoZone said it bought back 1.3 million shares of common stock for $560 million during the quarter.


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What is Media Manipulation?
If you have a tendency know, you should. Because multimedia tricks previously styles everything you read, hear and view on line. Everything.
In the old days, we only had a handful of threats to apprehension when it came to multimedia tricks: the government propagandist and the hustling publicist. They had been considerable threats, but vigilance did the trick as a very clear and straight forward safeguard. They had been the exceptions ınstead of the rule-they taken advantage of the actuality that the multimedia was first known and dependable. At this time, with our blogging site and net driven multimedia bike, nothing at all can get away from exaggeration, distortion, manufacturing and simplification.
My spouse and i be aware of this because We was a fabulous mass media manipulator. My work was first to work with the advertising to produce most people accomplish or believe stuff they also would certainly not. Persons like me happen to be there, behind the drape, drawing the puppet strings. But that is definitely about to secure harder: I'm spilling my secrets to you and flipped my abilities from applying marketing vulnerabilities to disclosing them-for your gain.
When the news is decided not likely by what is important but by what viewers are clicking; when the pattern is normally thus quickly that the announcement cannot come to be anything else but persistently and routinely rudimentary; when doubtful scandals scuttle selection rates for bids or hit billions from the industry caps of publicly dealt providers; when the announcement commonly masks itself in testimonies about 'how the account unfolded'-media tricks is normally the popularity quo. It develop into, as Daniel Boorstin, creator The Look: A Instruction to Pseudo-Events in U . s, now that placed it, a "thicket …which stands between us and the facts of life.
At this time the media-driven by blogs-is assailed on all factors, by the crushing economics of their organization, dishonest resources, inhuman deadlines, pageview quotas, inaccurate data, greedy publishers, poor training, the wants of the market, and now substantially even more. These incentives happen to be legitimate, whether you're the Huffington Put up or CNN or some teeny webpage. They warp everything you examine online-and permit me convey to you, thumbnail-cheating YouTube clips and paid-edit Wikipedia content happen to be solely the starting point.
Everyone is found in on the video game, from bloggers to non-profits to internet marketers to the New York Moments itself. The appeal of gambling you for clicks is normally also interesting for anyone to avoid. And when everyone is normally managing the exact racquet, the the lines between the legitimate and the counterfeit turn into indistinguishable.
The Go up of the Manipulator
At best of the pantheon of the media manipulators, of lessons, sits the overdue Andrew Brietbart. "Nourishing the advertising can be like training a pet dog," he now that reported, "You can't place an complete burger at a pup to exercise it to stay. You possess to provide it little rolls of cheeseburger over and over yet again until it finds out." And found it does: they observed his business lead accurately on the Shirley Sherrod report, and continue to street to redemption for the manipulations of his pupil, James O'Keefe, who possesses ravaged NPR, ACORN, and most additional liberal corporations.
But found in this mounting elegance, I as well place some unlikely information. Michael Arrington, previous editor and inventor of the favorite blogging site TechCrunch. Manipulator is usually the solely concept for Arrington, a fella who now that reported "Having it ideal is certainly costly, finding it primary is usually low cost" and produced $25 million from around that point. Computer chip Denton and his cabal of Gawker writers-partially paid out by how various tourists their articles and reviews get-use the exact techniques to secure your interest and offer it to promoters. You can find it in how Brian Moylan, one of Denton's minions, now that described the skill of over the internet head lines: "[the important is usually to] secure the full report into the subject but keep out merely more than enough that many people will wish to mouse click."
And the old threat of governing administration abuse of the marketing? We understand that the Bush software is a pro at it. Believe of Dick Cheney leaks counterfeit tips to Judith Miller at the New York Situations as an unknown supplier and in that case citing himself (without exposing the struggle) to justify the build up to the world war in Iraq. He placed the facts which he in that case alluded to as assist. That took place in 2002. At this time, this cycle can be sometimes more convenient, because as politics strategists like Religious Grantham admit, "Promotions understand that there happen to be some experiences that routine reporters won't printing. Hence they'll offer those experiences to the websites."
So it goes: manipulators on equally factors of the equation-the writers and the advertisers and press agents-all influencing the information to their own benefit. I understand because I utilised to get one of them. I plied the company for bestselling authors and billion dollars designs. I can recognize treatment when I check out it…because I developed most of the runs myself.
Where It Comes From and What to Do Roughly It
Advertising treatment makes use of the main difference between understanding and fact. The mass media was first very long a relied on supply of info for the general public. At this time, all the obstacles that produced it dependable possess shattered down. Still the outdated perceptions keep. If a unique blogging site is normally 50 % as dependable as a New York Situations content that is reality examined, modified and analyzed by multiple editors, it is normally on two as simple to receive insurance policy coverage on. Hence manipulators (myself covered) take up the quantity match. We find out that if we can generate plenty of on the web buzz many people will expect that where there is usually smoke there is usually fireplace…and the unreal turns into legitimate.
This all happens as a result of the poor incentives. When viewers may Pay for for media, the builders of the media no longer possess any devotion to the visitors either. Everything is definitely read one off, transferred around on Facebook and Twitter rather than by registration. As a consequence, there is normally no final result for getting rid of anyone. Manipulators can deceive journalists because journalists happen to be not likely kept liable for misleading audience.
To battle these manipulations, we must difference the incentives. If we prefer faithfulness to the simple fact, we must become dedicated to the many people who give us with it-whoever they will be. This perhaps means spending for info in one variety or another. It means we possess to come to be further client. Fantastic facts will take time period to attain after all. The thought that information can stay presented to us iteratively and reliably is definitely preposterous. Screw Michael Arrington. I'd somewhat include my announcement straight than initially.


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Adobe has announced the general availability of CQ Cloud Manager, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that enables reduced time and costs for provisioning, managing, and metering Web Experience Management (WEM) solutions supporting digital marketing initiatives. Cloud Manager takes advantage of cloud computing technology, such the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, to start up CQ clusters quickly and consistently.
Using CQ Cloud Manager, Digital Marketing organizations can provision and deploy instances of their Web environment without having to procure hardware or pay large upfront costs. This ease of provisioning allows enterprises to rapidly engage customers, drive market shares, and focus on innovation.
The infographic below captures the overall CQ Cloud Manager framework:
To know more about Cloud Manager or to learn how to use it, refer to the documentation.


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surgery(redirected from cytoreductive surgery)
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1. the branch of health science that treats diseases, injuries, and deformities by manual or operative methods.
2. the place where operative procedures are performed.
3. in Great Britain, a room or office where a doctor sees and treats patients.
ambulatory surgery any operative procedure not requiring an overnight stay in the hospital; it must be carefully planned to ensure that all necessary diagnostic tests are completed prior to admission. Discharge instructions must place a high priority on patient safety. Called also day surgery.
bench surgery surgery performed on an organ that has been removed from the body, after which it is reimplanted.
day surgery ambulatory surgery.
maxillofacial surgery oral and maxillofacial s.
minimal access surgery (minimally invasive surgery) a surgical procedure done in a manner that causes little or no trauma or injury to the patient, such as through a cannula using lasers, endoscopes, or laparoscopes; compared with other procedures, those in this category involve less bleeding, smaller amounts of anesthesia, less pain, and minimal scarring.
open heart surgery surgery that involves incision into one or more chambers of the heart, such as for repair or palliation of congenital heart defects, repair or replacement of defective heart valves, or coronary artery bypass.
oral surgery oral and maxillofacial s.
oral and maxillofacial surgery that branch of dental practice that deals with the diagnosis and the surgical and adjunctive treatment of diseases, injuries, and defects of the human mouth and dental structures. Called also maxillofacial or oral surgery.
orthopedic surgery orthopedics.
plastic surgery see plastic surgery.
stereotaxic surgery the production of sharply localized lesions in the brain after precise localization of the target tissue by use of three-dimensional coordinates.
1. The branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease, injury, and deformity by physical operation or manipulation.
2. The performance or procedures of an operation.
[L. chirurgia; G. cheir, hand, + ergon, work]
surgery/sur·gery/ (ser´jer-e)
1. the branch of medicine that treats diseases, injuries, and deformities by manual or operative methods.
2. the place in a hospital, or doctor's or dentist's office, where surgery is performed.
3. in Great Britain, a room or office where a doctor sees and treats patients.
4. the work performed by a surgeon.
antiseptic surgery surgery using antiseptic methods.
aseptic surgery that performed in an environment so free from microorganisms that significant infection or suppuration does not supervene.
bench surgery surgery performed on an organ that has been removed from the body, after which it is reimplanted.
conservative surgery surgery designed to preserve, or to remove with minimal risk, diseased or injured organs, tissues, or limbs.
cytoreductive surgery debulking.
dental surgery oral and maxillofacial s.
general surgery that which deals with surgical problems of all kinds, rather than those in a restricted area, as in a surgical specialty such as neurosurgery.
major surgery surgery involving the more important, difficult, and hazardous operations.
minimally invasive surgery surgery done with only a small incision or no incision at all, such as through a cannula with a laparoscope or endoscope.
minor surgery surgery restricted to management of minor problems and injuries.
Mohs' surgery see under technique.
oral and maxillofacial surgery the branch of dentistry that deals with the diagnosis and surgical and adjunct treatment of diseases and defects of the mouth and dental structures.
plastic surgery surgery concerned with restoration, reconstruction, correction, or improvement in shape and appearance of body structures that are defective, damaged, or misshapen by injury, disease, or growth and development.
radical surgery surgery designed to extirpate all areas of locally extensive disease and adjacent zones of lymphatic drainage.
stereotactic surgery , stereotaxic surgery any of several techniques for the production of sharply circumscribed lesions in specific tiny areas of pathologic tissue in deep-seated brain structures after locating the discrete structure by means of three-dimensional coordinates.
n. pl. surger·ies
1. The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of injury, deformity, and disease by the use of instruments.
a. Treatment based on such medicine, typically involving the removal or replacement of diseased tissue by cutting: The athlete had surgery on his knee.
b. A procedure that is part of this treatment; an operation: The doctor performed three surgeries this morning.
3. An operating room or a laboratory of a surgeon or of a hospital's surgical staff: How long has the patient been in surgery?
4. Chiefly British
a. A physician's, dentist's, or veterinarian's office.
b. The period during which a physician, dentist, or veterinarian consults with or treats patients in the office.
Etymology: Gk, cheirourgia
the branch of medicine concerned with diseases and trauma requiring operative procedures. surgical, adj.
An intervention in which a body site is accessed via an incision on a mucocutaneous surface, most commonly the skin, and tissue excised, added to or manipulated to manage an injury, or to revise or renovate a failing part or aesthetically enhance the tissue's owner.
A place where a doctor, dentist or other healthcare practitioner treats or advises patients.
1. That branch of 'procedural' medicine which addresses physical defects and/or acquired lesions by operative design.
2. Any procedure to remove or repair damaged tissues or diagnose disease. See Abdominal surgery, Band-Aid™ surgery, Beating heart surgery, Billboard surgery, Brain-graft surgery, Cancer surgery, Cataract surgery, Cardiothoracic surgery, Cardiovascular surgery, Chemosurgery, Conservative surgery, Cosmetic surgery, Cranial base surgery, Craniofacial surgery, Debulking surgery, Dermatologic surgery, Dry run surgery, Disfiguring surgery, Elective surgery, Emergency surgery, Esthetic surgery, Facial plastic & reconstructive surgery, Functional (endonasal) endoscopic sinus surgery, Ghost surgery, Hand surgery, Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery, Head & neck surgery, Heart port surgery, Heroic surgery, Image-directed surgery, Keyhole surgery, Kiss of death surgery, Laparoscopic surgery, Laser surgery, Love surgery, Lung-reduction surgery, Major surgery, Mastoid surgery, MIDCAB surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Minimally invasive cardiac surgery, Minimally invasive valve surgery, Minor surgery, Mohs surgery, Mutilating surgery, Neurosurgery surgery, Nintendo® surgery, No problem surgery, Open heart surgery, Optional surgery, Outpatient surgery, Palliative surgery, Perineal surgery, Phonosurgery, Port access surgery, Psychosurgery, Radiation surgery, Radical surgery, Radioimmunoguided surgery, Reconstructive surgery, Re-do vascular surgery, Refractive surgery, Required surgery, Robotic surgery, Roller ball surgery, Same-day surgery, Second-look surgery, Stereotactic radiosurgery, Thoracic surgery, Tommy John elbow surgery, Unnecessary surgery, Urgent surgery, Videotaped surgery.
1. The branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease, injury, and deformity by operation or manipulation.
2. The performance or procedures of a surgical operation.
[L. chirurgia; G. cheir, hand, + ergon, work]
1. The treatment of disease, injury and deformity by physical, manual or instrumental interventions.
2. The diagnosis of conditions treated in this way.
3. The practice of operative treatment.
4. A room or suite used for medical consultation and treatment. From the Greek cheirourgia , hand work, as in cheir , hand and ergon , work.
n medical procedure in which the body is manually cut open to treat medical conditions.
1. Branch of medicine concerned with treatment of disease, injury, and deformity by physical operation or manipulation.
2. Performance or procedures of an operation.
[L. chirurgia; G. cheir, hand, + ergon, work]
n work performed by a surgeon.
surgery, access flap in osseous,
n a full-thickness or split-thickness flap created for the purpose of gaining access to the alveolar bone when surgical remodeling is indicated.
surgery, apically repositioned flap in mucogingival,
n a surgically created flap of gingival tissue that is repositioned apically to maintain or create a functionally adequate zone of attached gingiva. In the surgical procedure the existing attached and free gingiva is detached by employing a reverse bevel incision and apically repositioning the flap.
surgery, cosmetic,
n surgery whose purpose is to improve external appearance rather than general health.
surgery, first-stage,
n See surgery, stage-one.
surgery, full flap in mucogingival,
n a flap in which all the soft tissue elements are raised and repositioned, as opposed to the split-thickness flap.
surgery, mucogingival,
n surgical procedure designed to retain a functionally adequate zone of gingiva after surgical pocket elimination, create a functionally adequate zone of attached gingiva, alter the position of or eliminate a frenum, or deepen the vestibule.
surgery, oblique flap in mucogingival,
n an increased band of attached gingiva created by preparing a narrow papillary flap (to avoid donor site radicular recession), which is then rotated 90° and sutured into the prepared recipient site.
surgery, osseous,
n the therapeutic surgical measures used and designed to eliminate osseous deformities by means of ostectomy or osteoplasty or create a favorable environment by means of meticulous removal of the soft tissue contents of the infrabony osseous defect for the formation of new bone, periodontal membrane, and cementum to fill in the area of bone resorption.
surgery, pedicle flap in mucogingival,
n an increased band of attached gingiva created to repair a cleft by using proximal gingiva situated mesial and distal to the cleft, because gingiva in either location alone is not wide enough to cover the cleft if repositioned. The pedicles are repositioned laterally and sutured. Also called a
double papilla procedure.
double papilla procedure.
surgery, second-stage,
n See surgery, stage-two.
surgery, stage-one,
n a surgical procedure in which an endosseous two-stage implant is placed in the bone and the soft tissue over the implant is sutured closed to allow osseointegration of the implant before the abutment and prosthesis are attached; also known as
first-stage surgery.
first-stage surgery.
surgery, stage-two,
n a surgical procedure in which the soft tissue over a submerged implant is removed in order to place an abutment into the implant; also known as
second-stage surgery.
second-stage surgery.
1. that branch of veterinary science which treats diseases, injuries and deformities by manual or operative methods.
2. the place in a hospital, or doctor's or dentist's office where surgery is performed.
3. in some countries a room or office where a veterinarian sees and treats patients.
4. the work performed by a surgeon.
basic surgery kit
the collection of instruments, wrapped, sterilized and ready for use in the majority of uncomplicated surgical procedures. The choice of instruments may vary from one surgeon to another, but generally there are tissue forceps, thumb forceps, sponge forceps, hemostats, towel clamps, scalpel handle and needle holder. Scissors and needles may be added after cold sterilization.
bench surgery
surgery performed on an organ that has been removed from the body, after which it is reimplanted.
cold steel surgery
that performed with traditional cutting instruments; to distinguish from cryosurgical and electrosurgical methods.
cosmetic surgery
performed to improve the appearance, or change the appearance, of the animal; surgery that is not necessary for the health of the animal. Other than ear cropping and tail docking, where performed, generally discouraged or considered unethical for animals as it is usually done for purposes of improving their appearance in the show ring or to disguise traits that might be heritable.
elective surgery
surgery carried out at a time convenient to client and surgeon. The opposite of emergency surgery. Distinctly different to cosmetic surgery.
experimental surgery
that carried out as part of a planned experimental protocol, usually on animals selected specifically for the purpose and which are often sacrificed afterwards. Increasingly, use of animals in this way is under the control of institutional or governmental authorities.
plastic surgery
that concerned with the restoration, reconstruction, correction or improvement in the shape and appearance of body structures that are defective, damaged or misshapen by injury, disease or anomalous growth and development.
replacement surgery
transplanting of tissues or organs from another host. Not commonly undertaken in veterinary surgery.
veterinary surgery
see veterinary surgery.
Patient discussion about surgery
Q. I am worried how safe the operation would be and the post surgery complications? My wife has a cyst in her right breast and further tests are going on. Doctors have advised to go for an operation. I am worried how safe the operation would be and the post surgery complications?
A. My friend, surgery for the cyst in breast is common. Any cyst in breast indicates breast cancer. These surgeries are very safe. Initially they used to cut the complete breast to remove the cyst. Now with the advanced technology, only the cyst would be removed without harming other tissues. Rather complete removal is done these days, but that depend upon the severity of the cancer. These surgeries are proven with results. If the cyst is less they will remove only the affected portion and yes they do remove some nearby tissues because there some cancer cells may lay and can arrive again. For any post surgery complications, chemotherapy treatment is also available.
Q. Should I do surgery for varicoceles? I went to an urologist and he recommended surgery, but I don't know if I should do this…is it dangerous? Can I live with the varicocele?
A. I don't see your problem, you said an urologist advised you to do so- that should be enough no? if you don't trust him, go and get a second opinion. The surgery is not that bad, an hour later and you are walking out. Vary small risk of complication. I did it and it was fine.
Q. What types of gastric bypass surgeries are there? I heard all sorts of options for gastric bypass are available. What is the most in use?
A. Bariatric surgeries or – gastric bypass surgeries for weight loss fall into three categories: Restrictive procedures make the stomach smaller to limit the amount of food intake, malabsorptive techniques reduce the amount of intestine that comes in contact with food so that the body absorbs fewer calories, and combination operations employ both restriction and malabsorption. The exact one to be done should be decided with the physician according to each patients abilities and pre-operative function level.More discussions about surgery


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Attorney in GM litigation applauds proposed Senate bill
Legislation would make it a crime for auto execs to conceal defects
An attorney who is representing several hundred people in civil claims against General Motors has thrown his support behind proposed legislation in the U.S. Senate that would hold executives of auto companies criminally liable for concealing dangerous defects from the public.
The Hide No Harm Act sends a message to corporations "that put profits and greed before consumer safety," said attorney Augostinho Ribeiro, CEO of Ventura, Ribeiro & Smith, which has offices in Danbury and New York City.
Introduced by U.S. senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., the bill would make it a crime to conceal defects from the public and could result in executives being sent to prison. Their legislation was crafted in response to GM's massive, but delayed recalls this year, which affected 2.6 million consumers.
"We have clients as recently as this month that have sustained accidents because their vehicles are not being timely repaired," Ribeiro said. "Accidents are still happening. The Hide No Harm Act should also extend to the financial institutions and executives for destroying the lives of home owners during the financial crisis."
In 2004, GM learned that the ignition switches in Chevrolet Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other GM vehicles were defective, but failed to issue recalls.
Since the recall was announced, Ribeiro's firm has assembled a national team of attorneys that is representing victims of the GM defeat, including family members of those who have died due to fatal accidents involving GM vehicles.
Ribeiro has communicated with Blumenthal, supplying information that his team uncovered while interviewing clients affected by the GM recall.
"This is the legislative response that we have been waiting for, and we applaud Senators Blumenthal and Casey for taking swift and decisive action," Ribeiro said. "Based on my interviews (with clients), I agree 100 percent with Senator Blumenthal."
Blumenthal and Casey accused GM of covering up an ignition switch defect for over a decade before issuing a recall in 2014. The defective switches have been connected to at least 13 traffic deaths and 54 mishaps.
The bill calls for up to five years in prison for executives who knowingly hid information that their products could cause injury or death to purchasers or employees.
"There are fines against corporations, but corporate executives who make decisions that put people at risk by failing to disclose defective parts suffer no penalty whatsoever," Blumenthal said. "The purpose here is a deterrent. It will help change a culture that is so prevalent at GM that puts profits over people."
Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he expects to introduce the bill to the panel in September.
Maryann Keller, managing partner of Stamford-based Maryann Keller & Associates, an adviser to the international auto industry, questioned the need for such a law. Keller said that in March, the U.S. Justice Department leveled a $1.2 billion fine in a criminal case against Toyota for manufacturing cars with acceleration problems.
"This bill is going nowhere. It's a non-starter in this Congress," Keller said, adding that GM has not been severely impacted by a congressional probe into GM and faulty ignition switches. "Mary Barra (GM chief executive) didn't know. This happened pre-bankruptcy at GM. GM sales were up last month in the heat of the frenzy in Washington."