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Only the Saeco Intelia super-automatic espresso machine offers you the perfect Espresso experience, easy to use, easy to customize, easy to clean. Prepare perfect Cappuccino or Espresso with just a touch of a button. See all benefits
One touch Espresso and Cappuccino
Only the Saeco Intelia super-automatic espresso machine offers you the perfect Espresso experience, easy to use, easy to customize, easy to clean. Prepare perfect Cappuccino or Espresso with just a touch of a button. See all benefits
This espresso machine is equipped 100% ceramic grinders. Saeco uses ceramic grinders because of their consistent grind without overheating the coffee bean for an impeccable espresso. Ceramic also ensures long-lasting performance and a totally silent operation.
The Saeco quick heat boiler technology ensures your machine is always ready. Now you won't have to wait between brewing each espresso, but can prepare coffee after coffee.
Enjoy your milk specialties fully automated with the patented milk carafe with dual chamber technology. Simply pour milk into the carafe, plug it into the machine and select your coffee drink. With the dual chamber technology you will always enjoy professional coffee drinks with dense, long-lasting milk froth at the ideal temperature from a constant splash-free flow of milk.
You will always get a perfect cup of espresso brewed just for you, according to your personal preference, thanks to our innovative memo function to adjust the coffee length, strength and temperature. Enjoy a superb coffee drink in your favorite cup with just the press of a button.
The adjustable spout on our espresso machines will fit every cup and thus prevents the coffee splashing or cooling down while pouring in your cup. This way your espresso is always served at the right temperature while maintaining a clean machine.
For your convenience, you can put the Saeco's drip tray and milk frother or milk carafe in the dishwasher. This will save time and ensure a hygienic cleaning.
Different coffee blends require different levels of granularity for the full flavor to unfold. The grind granularity of this espresso machine can be adjusted in 5 settings, from the finest grind, for a full bodied espresso, to the coarsest, for a lighter coffee.
The brewing group, a Saeco invention, is the heart of our espresso machines, ensuring automation. The brewing group is, depending on the model, easily accessible from the front or side. It can be removed effortlessly for easily cleaning by rinsing under the tap ensuring maximum hygene.
Saeco designed this espresso machine to automatically clean its coffee circuit with water upon starting up or switching off of the machine, this delivers a great, fresh taste with each cup of coffee. Regular descaling prolongs your espresso machine's life. This machine will not only prompt when descaling is needed, the automated descaling process will start on your machine and guides you with clear on-screen messages when you have to intervene. Descaling has never been so easy!


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Summer is the time to chomp into a big, juicy, pink watermelon with friends and family. Spoofee has got a handy guide to picking a good one:
• Tap the watermelon with your knuckles and listen for a hollow sound
• There should be little color contrast between the green stripes
• The end should be going from white to light yellow
• Press your thumbs into the skin from all angles. It should be hard all around.
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Al-Jassem was arrested on May 11 and charged with "instigating to overthrow the regime," "slight to the personage of the emir," and "instigating to dismantle the foundations of Kuwaiti society" based on articles critical of the government published on his website. CPJ issued a letter to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah on June 18 protesting al-Jassem's detention. He was released on bail of 2,000 dinars (US$6,861), according to Reuters.
Al-Jassem told CPJ today that he is facing multiple charges in several complaints and he has a hearing on July 12 in a case in which he is accused of insulting the prime minister. "The political persecution continues," al-Jassem said.
"By jailing Mohammed Abdulqader al-Jassem and censoring Al-Jazeera, the
Kuwaiti government clearly hopes this embarrassing situation will disappear,
but their repressive actions are fueling international outrage," said CPJ
Executive Director Joel Simon. "The
only way to end the controversy is to drop the charges against al-Jassem
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Abdullah al-Ahmad, al-Jassem's lawyer, told CPJ that the international community "contributed in an effective way to achieve a breakthrough in this case." He said the next hearing in the May case is scheduled for September 20.
Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper reported
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Orion/Documentation/User Guide/Getting started
This tutorial will get you started with using Orion, and provides a step by step walk-through of some of the core functionality.
Getting Orion
You have two choices to get started with Orion. The first is to create an account on the public server at OrionHub. To do this, visit OrionHub, click Create a new account and enter your information. An email will be sent to confirm your address. Once confirmed, return to OrionHub and log in.
The second method to get started is to download a standalone version of the server. For instructions, see Install Orion on Localhost.
Once you have successfully set up an account, you can proceed to the next step.
Logging into Orion
When you attempt to access a page that requires logging in, you'll be redirected to the Login Page and prompted for credentials.
On your first visit to the login page, you can sign in using either of these ways:
- Sign in using the username and password of your Orion account.
- Sign in with a linked Google account. To link a Google account, use Orion's Settings page.
- Sign in using a Mozilla Persona. To do this, your Persona email address must be the same as the email address you chose when creating your Orion account. You can sign up for a Persona here.
If you are accessing a server other than OrionHub or localhost, the server administrator may have disallowed you from creating an account on the Login Page. In that case, you'll have to ask the server administrator to create one for you.
After a successful login, you will be redirected to the home page, or whatever Orion page you were attempting to access.
Working with folders and files
In Orion, each user has a virtual root folder where various folders and files can be created. These files are maintained on the Orion server. The Navigator page is used to browse and modify your files.
Creating folders and files
First, make sure you're at the Navigator page by clicking the "hamburger" menu (), and then clicking Navigator. The Navigator is the primary place where your files and folders will be shown. Because you haven't created any files or folders yet, the navigator is initially empty:
To start working with files and folders in Orion, create a folder by clicking the menu and clicking New Folder:
To navigate, you can either expand the folders in-place (using the ► twisties), or you can click on the folder's name to drill into that folder. After you have drilled into a folder, you can navigate back up using the breadcrumb at the top of the page (pictured below). You can also use your browser's Back button, or a keyboard command (Alt+↑) to navigate up.
The banner provides access to common operations in Orion. The navigation menu (sometimes called the "hamburger") appears in the left side of the banner, and provides access to navigation links that take you to various pages in Orion, as well as related resources or tasks that are relevant to your current context. (For example, if you're viewing a folder inside a Git repository, a Git Log link will be shown. Clicking it takes you straight to the Git Log page for the folder.)
The right side of the banner provides a user menu containing Settings, Help, and other actions vaguely related to your user identity.
In the center of the banner, you'll find the breadcrumb, and the name of the resource being manipulated. (Some Orion pages will show a simple static title here, if you're not currently targeting any particular resource.)
Below the banner, the content of the page appears. The page toolbar contains commands. The commands act upon the current folder (unless you've made a selection in the file tree).
Here is a picture of the banner with the navigation and user menus expanded, to show the various links they offer:
The New menu () contains commands for creating new files or folders, and the Actions menu () contains commands that apply to existing files or folders. The Go Up command lets you navigate up to the parent folder.
Files and folders may be selected by clicking their row in the tree, or by using the Ctrl and arrow keys on the keyboard. Once a selection has been made, the Actions menu will show commands that operate on the selected items (such as move, copy, and delete). If you have not made a selection, the Actions menu will show commands that act upon the folder you're currently viewing.
Importing folders and files
There are many ways to import your files into Orion. You can upload a zip file, import via SFTP, or clone a Git repository.
To import files from your local file system into Orion, select one or more files on your computer and simply drag them into the file tree. You can also drag Zip files into the navigator. Orion will ask you if you want to unzip the folder. This is convenient for backing up and restoring your work.
If your browser supports it, you can even drag and drop an entire folder from your OS file explorer into Orion:
Exporting folders and files
When you have worked with your code on Orion and are ready to export your work back to your local workstation, navigate to the folder you wish to export and choose the Export as Zip link.
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Stampede Sevens Rugby Tournament
Our tournament has become one of the biggest tournament of it's kind in North America. Our event takes place during the world famous Calgary Stampede which is one of the biggest rodeos in the world. We like to stick the the western theme for our tournament and really give it a country feel. Our colours are maroon,black and grey which you can see on our website http://www.stampedesevens.com.
With the sponsorship program we are focusing on corporate sponsors in the Calgary area that might be interested in sponsoring the tournament to help cover the costs of the event.
The creative must look sharp and professional. We want to stick with our tournament colours. I've provided pictures from last year's event if you want to include any of them in your piece. Our website address should be included http://www.StampedeSevens.com
Try and stick with a western theme
I think the front cover of this piece needs to really be eye catching. I'll ask that the tournament logo be included on the front cover, but they rest is up to you to be creative.
I will need to be able to send this to sponsors in the mail and over email, so I will need it in two formats. Perhaps a four page brochure (front cover, inside and back cover) 8.5"x 11" each page.
I've attached a picture of myself to go with the contact info.
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1. when you french-kiss a unicorn. in other words, inhale a Taco Bell Dorito taco in three big bites.
2. when picmonkey makes your day after your unexpected withdrawels from picnik.
3. when you wear cobalt blue tights or cobalt blue pants. either works for moi.
4. when you go through two books that have bored you like crazy and then come across a new one that makes you fist-pump the air and say yes, that was what i was talking about!
5. when you find a new shade of nail-polish that you wear for weeks - coral reef by sally hansen.
6. when you hear a sermon at church that you know you were meant to hear.
7. when you pour Almond Joy flavored creamer into your coffee. life-changing, i tell ya.
8. when you nail a drawing in Draw Something and feel like the next Van Gogh.
9. when you flip through the channels on a sunday afternoon and find a movie you never get sick of...like Forest Gump.
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Ray's Take I once heard it said that large cathedral weddings cost around $1,000 per step – and some churches have long aisles! According to TheKnot.com, U.S. couples spend an average of over $25,600 on their weddings. Of course, that's the "average" amount. When you take the mean cost – the point where most weddings cluster – the cost is just over $18,000 – still a substantial sum.
If a dream wedding is something a couple in love can afford, and it doesn't put anyone in debt, there's nothing wrong with spending that amount, or many times more. But not all parents and fewer about-to-be-weds have the financial resources on hand to do that.
What to do? Save in advance, scale back on expectations or both. You won't be surprised to hear me state the best way to control wedding expenses is to create a realistic budget and stick to it. The inevitable emotions and expectations intertwined with wedding plans make sticking to a budget more than a little hard. Wedding planners, caterers, florists, and every other professional in the wedding industry will offer a host of unbudgeted but attractive additions to the big day. After saying "yes," a couple has to spend a lot of time saying "no," or else start piling on the costs – and debt.
I am a big advocate of starting with the budget and working backward. The couple getting married should identify just two or three things that really matter to them. They should then keep the bulk of their budget focused on those areas – be they venue, flowers, photography, food or whatever – and skimp on the rest.
Keep in mind that wedding guests are there to celebrate the formation of a new family, and don't notice things like wedding favors or bridesmaid's bouquets as much as you might imagine. The memories guests will treasure most have much less to do with catering or music. They'll recall the joy on the faces of those being wed and this very happy and personal moment they shared.
Dana's Take When planning a wedding, consider going vintage to start the marriage on good financial footing. Ask to look at family wedding albums going back several generations.
In days past, the reception was often held in the house of worship or the parents' home. Is either an option? These days, we typically think of weddings as evening or weekend occasions, but traditionally weddings were likely to be morning affairs, followed by a wedding breakfast.
Is an heirloom ring or wedding band a possibility? Ray gave me his grandmother's engagement ring from the 1920's and I treasure it. If grandmother's wedding dress is still viable, can it be adapted for the bride?
Thinking outside the consumer-driven wedding industry mind-set can dramatically reduce the wedding budget, it can also make a wedding more distinctive, personal, and memorable.
Ray Brandon is a certified financial planner and CEO of Brandon Financial Planning (www.brandonplanning.com). His wife, Dana, has a bachelor's degree in finance and is a licensed clinical social worker. Contact Ray Brandon at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Timing Is Everything: Are We Heading to a New Global Food Price Crisis?
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Today the world seems to hold its breath again amidst the sudden hike in food prices caused by a historical drought in the US and lack of rain in Eastern Europe.[1] It is a thorny task to predict whether the very recent increases in food prices will unfold into magnitude of the crises seen in 2007-08 and again in 2010-2011: differences between now and then in the price of energy, a critical driver of food prices, give a reason for optimism; as does the hope that governments now better understand the painful consequences of some panic policies that have been put in place during previous episodes. On the other hand, months of volatility in global food prices, low food stocks and food security crisis alerts in parts of East and West Africa all paint a gloomy picture.


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Brave Broadcasting: Tom Holland's documentary "Islam: The Untold Story"
When my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer level accusations of political correctness gone mad, you had better take notice. Things must have reached a pretty pass to draw such complaints from such quarters. So it appeared when the Guardian's television critic complained that Tom Holland's documentary on the origins of Islam "tiptoed around the subject and apologised for his findings".
On the face of it, the critic was right. Channel 4's documentary — Islam: The Untold Story — seemed as nervous as a Victorian debutante at her first ball. Holland is a conservatively minded historian with a strong sympathy for the religiously inclined. Holland's documentary was as formal and — apparently — as inoffensive as a courtly dance.
Holland took a step forward and advanced the claim that there is no evidence in written records, coins or inscriptions that a new Islamic religion inspired the armies that erupted out of Arabia and conquered the Persian Empire and much of the Byzantine Empire. Having advanced, Holland took a step back and allowed religious conservatives to assure the viewer that the oral tradition, which emerged into the light of history in biographies of the prophet written 200 years after his lifetime, was all the evidence we needed that the word of God as delivered to Muhammad inspired the Arab conquests. Holland said nothing, moved a step to the side and advanced again to say that there was only one ambiguous reference to Mecca in the Koran, and what evidence we have suggests that the koranic city was 100 or so miles north of the modern place of pilgrimage. He then stepped back again, and allowed the purveyors of conventional wisdom to assert this was not the case. He did not harry them with sceptical questions but moved to the side once more, stepped forward and explained that Islam became the religion of the new empire some 40 years after the conquests when its rulers decided to harness the power of monotheism and distinguish themselves from the conquered Zoroastrians, Christians and Jews of the near East. The dance finished when he stepped back for the final time and sought assurances from an orthodox believer that he was not guilty of orientalism or imperialism or any other ghastly "ism" that right-thinking people so rightly deplore.
Holland appeared gentility personified, but appearances deceived. The critics may not have realised it, but censorious clerics did.
In my recent study of censorship — You Can't Read This Book — I examined the manufacture of offence. A writer or broadcaster did not need to have been deliberately offensive for trouble to begin, I said. Religious reactionaries had "to feed their supporters a diet of indignation, and needed to supply them with new targets for their rage". The identity of the targets they selected was almost irrelevant. As we have seen from Salman Rushdie onwards, the smallest transgression can lead to a disproportionate response that defies rational explanation. Not all manufactured offences generate fatwas and bomb alerts. But whether the controversy explodes or the bomb is a dud the manufacturing process is the same.


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The web is rife with around-the-clock consignment stores that aim to make shopping for antiques, vintage and previously-owned furnishings and handmade goods convenient — provided you can muddle through the sheer quantity available.
Hunters Alley, the scion of One Kings Lane, aims to streamline its offerings.
The promise of "lightly edited," "curated" and "social media" is woven throughout the conversation with Andrea Stanford, the site's easy-going general manager as she sits in her well-appointed glass office in Beverly Hills a week before the launch of www.huntersalley.com.
"People have started doing a more edited marketplace for fashion, but there weren't a lot of people doing it for home," says Stanford, who doubles as vice president of merchandising for design and vintage sales at One Kings Lane.
The company, known for its elephant logo, launched in 2009 as a flash sales site, meaning each morning it rolls out new sales events offering shoppers up to 70 percent off retail on brand name and designer home furnishings. That model has been evolved to include themed sales events, Tastemaker Tag Sales and Vintage and Market Finds to a growing audience of 10 million subscribers, many of them women. Despite its polished pedigree, Hunters Alley comes at it from the approach of a real-world market experience and the thrill of the hunt as the fox logo suggests.
"Foxes are clever little hunters," Stanford says.
It sniffs out one-of-a-kind listings from its approved sellers and organizes them in fun features to keep the excitement and urgency going. The recent launch saw a Former Loves event by L.A. interior design duo Scott Jarrell and Kristan Cunningham of Hammer and Spear clearing out its old furniture. Items dubbed Cheap Thrills are priced $25 and under, and a handful of spotlights on design trends, favorite sellers and that Singular Obsession.
Listing items on Hunters Alley for 30 days is free, provided they make the cut.
Stanford and her team reserve the right to reject anything that doesn't live up to their foxy brand.
"There's a certain sort of aesthetic that we're going for," she says.
When an item sells, the seller receives 75 percent of the proceeds with the rest going to Hunters Alley. The company in turn handles all shipping costs and uses negotiated rates it has with door-to-door "white glove" shippers across the country, directly coordinating with sellers on pick-up times.
Of course, Hunters Alley enters a competitive arena that includes household names like Craigslist, Etsy and the big daddy of them all, eBay.
As big as it is, eBay also sees the need for organization.
Last fall, it unveiled enhancements to its "inherently social" marketplace that enables shoppers to buy and browse in an even more social way, through curated collections and the ability to follow these collections and the people creating them.
"We are on a mission to continue delivering new ways for people to discover, browse and buy from the more than 500 million listings on eBay," says Michael Phillips Moskowitz, eBay's chief curator and editorial director. "We know that collectibles and art, including antiques and vintage, is a passion for many of our shoppers, so we will continue to develop ways to bring an inspiring selection of must-have merchandise and personalized experiences (for buyers and sellers) to eBay."
While Hunters Alley features a hand-picked selection of pre-owned furnishings, costume jewelry and lifestyle items — think 1950s handbags, vinyl records or vintage sporting goods — it also aims to engage buyers and sellers through social media.
"We're hoping because this is a social site, people will come on and say, 'You're out of your mind; that's way too expensive" or "What a steal! I wish I had room for it,' " Stanford says. "It's meant to have a great sense of humor and bring people together that care about the personality of their home."


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Web viruses drop off despite IE exploit flap
Hacker holiday confounds expectations
Web viruses fell by half in September, despite recent high-profile Microsoft vulnerabilities. But spyware infections grew 21 per cent over the same period last month, according to a study by UK-based web filtering firm ScanSafe.
Much attention was paid to Microsoft vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits last month but this didn't translate to much by the way of hacker activity. "None of the top 10 web viruses blocked by ScanSafe during the month were exploits of Microsoft vulnerabilities uncovered in September, including the much publicized Vector Markup Language vulnerability," said Eldar Tuvey, chief exec and co-founder of ScanSafe. "While these vulnerabilities were exploited, the exploits did not occur in high volume."
The drop-off in so-called drive-by downloads (web-based virus attacks) reported by ScanSafe confounded the firm's expectations in reversing trends from previous months. In August, web viruses rose 23 per cent while spyware decreased 12 per cent. So how to explain the shift? ScanSafe reckons malware production has become seasonal.
"We fully anticipate a jump in malware as consumers go online to start their holiday shopping. As such, we caution users and those responsible for corporate networks not to be lulled into a sense of complacency, but to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves from web threats, Tuvey said.
The latest ScanSafe Global Threat Report study, released Wednesday, is based analysis of more than five billion web requests and more than 10m web threats processed by the security firm in September. ®
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Access barriers to buses have to be fixed. Our "Stop for me, Speak to me" bus campaign aims to secure major progress from bus operators on the crucial issues.
Find out which operators have signed up the charter.
Transport is a lifeline for blind and partially sighted people across the country in order to lead independent and fulfilled lives. We want all modes of transport to be fully accessible for blind and partially sighted passengers.


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Walmart officials on Tuesday said they will take their case for starting construction on a new store in Burbank to a state appellate court after a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled he doesn't have jurisdiction to hear the appeal.
Walmart has been fighting an injunction preventing work on a new store adjacent to the Empire Center in Burbank.
The injunction also forced the city of Burbank to suspend its approval of building permits pending a trial. A Superior Court judge ruled on Thursday, though, that he did not have jurisdiction over the appeal to the injunction.
"We are moving forward with our appeal of the injunction because our contention remains that our permits were issued validly," Walmart spokeswoman Rachel Wall said in a statement. "The facts show that the city of Burbank properly issued the building permits for the Walmart store just as they have with the 1,200 previously issued permits in the Empire Center."
Superior Court Judge Richard O'Brien said he wanted to take a "more prudent approach" because construction would have to halt anyway if the three plaintiffs — Burbank residents Shanna Ingalsbee, Katherine Olson and Yvette Ziraldo — prevail at trial.
The trio filed the lawsuit earlier this year to block construction of the Walmart, which the retailer had planned to open in mid- to late-2013 at the former Great Indoors.
A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 14 to set a trial date for the case.
Gideon Kracov, attorney for the plaintiffs, said the case is a "David-and-Goliath battle," but the injunction at least keeps the project from getting underway.
"The injunction means that WalMart is not above the law and must follow the rules just like Burbank's small businesses and residents," he said.
Kracov also said that a new environmental impact review needs to be conducted to see how much more vehicle traffic the Walmart would generate. Street improvements mandated in a city-approved ordinance must also be completed before permits can be issued, he added.
"It doesn't take an expert to tell you that a WalMart with full grocery will cause a lot more traffic than the closed Great Indoors furniture store," Kracov said. "The city never publicly studied the traffic from a Walmart with 30,000-square-foot grocery, especially under current conditions and with the I-5 interchange construction that will seriously disrupt traffic flow."
The California Department of Transportation plans to start construction of an expanded interchange along the Golden State (5) Freeway at Empire Avenue in mid-2013, according to spokeswoman Kelly Markham, essentially replacing the off- and on-ramps at Scott Road.
-- Mark Kellam, Times Community News
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In a bid to aid the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in its ongoing efforts to block online porn in Pakistan, fifteen-year-old Ghazi Muhammad Abdullah has compiled and sent forward a list of 780,000 adult websites which he thinks should be blocked in Pakistan.
Speaking to ProPakistani, Abdullah said that he sent this list to the PTA following a letter sent to him by Director General, Law and Regulations, which stated:
"If there is any specific website that you wish to bring into the knowledge of PTA, it is requested that PTA may be informed of the same accordingly for further necessary action at our end."
The teenager had previously written letters to the PTA, Ministry of Information Technology and Chief Justice of Pakistan to get adult websites blocked in Pakistan.
Without revealing the specific selection process for the adult sites added to the list, Abdullah told ProPakistani that he was aided by his friends whose names he wished not to share.
In an ongoing clampdown on the internet, the judiciary and PTA have taken action against porn websites by blocking or banning access to over 13,000 sites in the country.
Additionally, a government department has recently called for proposals for the development, deployment and operation of a national level URL Filtering and Blocking System.
The ad had been placed in local papers by National ICT R&D Fund, a division of the Ministry of Information Technology, on February 22, 2012. The proposal request states that each box of the system "should be able to handle a block list of up to 50 million URLs with a processing delay of not more than 1 millisecond."


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Although they admit the evidence in thin, economists think that Loretta Mester, the new Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank president, will lean hawkish. The view is based on pedigree. Mester comes from the Philadelphia Fed, a traditional bastion of hawks, and now headed by Charles Plosser, who has opposed the last two round of Fed asset purchases and is a strong advocate for retraining Fed discretion through formal rules.
"I think she'll be slightly hawkish, but not nearly as much as Plosser," said Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at J.P. Morgan Chase.
When she joins the Fed's policy making committee in June, Mester will have an immediate vote.
Richard Fisher, the president of the Dallas Fed, and one of the most hawkish Fed presidents, said in an interview that Mester views are similar to his and Plosser's.
Michael Gapen, economist at Barclays, said that"relatively little is known" about Mester's views on monetary policy. But economists said they have the sense she'll be pushing for a rate hike sooner than some other Fed officials.
"We do think she's more on the hawkish side," said Terry Sheehan, a policy analyst at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates.Mester will replace Sandra Pianalto on the Cleveland Fed. Although often listed as a dove, she was more of a moderate hawk, Sheehan said.
Drew Matus, senior economist at UBS Securities, thinks Mester will be a voice for banking industry on the central bank given her research into regulation.
"If you talk to commercial bankers, many of them would argue that zero interest rates are not a panacea and that moving away from zero interest rates may be helpful," Matus said.
"Given her background, she could reflect those sentiments," Matus said.
Ryan Sweet, an economist at Moody's Analytics, said Fed watchers should be careful to label new Fed officials before they comment on current policy. He said that whatever stripe Mester takes will not impact new Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen.
"Yellen has plenty of votes in her pocket to stay on the [monetary policy] course she wants," Sweet said.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Georgia native Senario Hillman seemed determined not to lose to his home state team, no matter how many times the Georgia Bulldogs knocked him to the floor and out of the game.
Hillman shook off a hard foul to score 19 points and senior Alonzo Gee scored 20 points to lead Alabama to a 75-70 win in the home debut of interim Tide coach Phillip Pearson.
"We talked in the locker room about coming out and setting the tone," said Pearson. "I felt like our guys, other than a little lull in the first half, handled their pressure well. I asked our guys to play hard, play smart and play together. I put that on the (locker room) board.
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Pearson is now 1-1 after the Monday resignation of Mark Gottfried.
"Coach Phillip, he''s a great coach," said Alabama freshman JaMychal Green. "He knows what he''s doing."
Asked if the Tide can turn its season around, Green said, "It''ll take confidence, playing together as a team, and playing tough." .
Hillman left the game twice in the second half. Just 1:12 in, Georgia''s Jeremy Price took him to the ground with a hard foul, and later he appeared to briefly re-injure himself on a breakaway slam dunk.
He returned to the court after both incidents.
The sophomore from Irwinton, Ga., made 3 of 4 shots behind the 3-point arc, a rarity.
" These guys work on their shooting every day after practice, with managers," said Pearson. "That''s something we''re going to continue to do -- get a little bit of inside (play), and a little bit of outside."
Gee credited Pearson for the win.
"(Pearson) helped us out a lot, with the offense he ran and the defense he ran," said Gee. "Its really good to get one for him, just because of the all the things that have gone on the last couple of weeks. It means a lot, just coming out aggressive from the start, and finishing strong."
Green, the reigning SEC Freshman of the Week, had a double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds.
Georgia''s Trey Tompkins led all scorers with 22 points, while grabbing 14 rebounds.
Terrance Woodbury scored 15 points and Dustin Ware scored 11 for Georgia (9-12, 0-6 SEC).
" Just an emotional roller coaster," said Pete Herrmann, who is Georgia''s interim coach after Dennis Felton was fired. "Tonight was very different and very tough. I thought that we got good effort and good unselfishness.
"We''re going to continue to be enthused and excited about playing in the SEC. I really thought Alonzo and Senario were very tough and very clutch, as older players should be. After recruiting (Hillman) like I did since the ninth grade, I asked him, ''What are you doing?'' You try to cut off his drives, and he makes (jump shots)."
Alabama led 40-35 at the half, aided by a Green dunk during an 8-0 run
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Alabama had a 25-11 advantage in points off turnovers. Georgia turned the ball over 20 times to 16 turnovers for the Tide.
Alabama (13-8, 3-3) will travel to Vanderbilt for a 6 p.m. game Thursday.
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Emmrooz looks for consecutive Jebel Ali Stakes wins
Shadwell, the breeding empire of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, sponsors three of the six races at Jebel Ali on Friday afternoon, including the Listed Jebel Ali Stakes over 1950m.
The feature carries the name of Shadwell itself and Emmrooz bids to become the first horse to win the race twice after a comfortable victory last year. He is trained on the course by Dhruba Selvaratnam for his main patron and the racecourse owner His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and will be partnered by William Buick.
Last season's champion trainer Ali Rashid Al Raihe will saddle both Yirga and Glen Nevis in the race with stable jockey Royston Ffrench on the former who won the prep race for the Jebel Ali Stakes a fortnight ago.
Ffrench said: "We have to be hopeful as he has done nothing wrong this season at all. His second over 1600m was a narrow defeat to a good horse running under his optimum conditions and then we won the 1800m prep well. The 1950m will suit him and he should go close."
Ibn Al Nafis and Oroveso were second and third respectively in the prep race and both were staying on well.
Satish Seemar saddles Ibn Al Nafis and jockey Richard Mullen said: "Having missed last season he has improved with each run this year as we have stepped up in trip. Obviously we have ground to make up on Yirga but hopefully the extra distance will help."
The following race is the 1600m Jebel Ali Mile prep and it has attracted a quality field of 14.
Haatheq, runner-up in last year's Jebel Ali Stakes, makes his seasonal return for Al Raihe and jockey Richard Hills said: "He has been off since March when beaten by Otaared, so is entitled to need a run but the trainer and his team report him in good shape and we know he likes Jebel Ali."
Otaared is trained by Selvaratnam and is seeking a seventh win at Jebel Ali, though only one of his previous course wins was over the 1600m.
Buick is in the saddle on this horse who he gets on particularly well with and Selvaratnam said: "Otaared has done well for us in the last few years and this is the obvious race for him ahead of the Jebel Ali Mile. We have freshened him up since his last win and he should go close."
Seemar and Mullen again combine, this time with He'sminenotyours who won well over 1400m here a month ago.
Mulllen said: "We were very hopeful last time and he did it nicely. This is a better race but if he is to have a realistic chance in the Jebel Ali Mile he needs to prove himself on Friday."
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Greece's three biggest banks won board approval to take part in the country's debt buyback which expires on Friday, putting Athens on track to meet targets set by international lenders.
The buyback scheme, in which investors must declare their interest by Friday, is central to efforts by Greece's euro zone and International Monetary Fund lenders to cut its debt to manageable levels and unlock aid for the stricken country.
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As expected, the country's four biggest lenders - National Bank, Alpha, Eurobank and Piraeus bank - each said they had approval to participate, but did not specify how much of their sovereign debt holding they would tender.
Under the scheme, Athens aims to spend 10 billion euros of borrowed money to buy back bonds far below their nominal value, in a bid to cut debt by a net 20 billion euros.
Banking sources earlier said the banks had asked their boards to approve selling back as much as their entire holdings. Smaller Attica bank's board also approved participation.
"The proposals by banks to their boards were positive on the buyback offer, asking for approval to participate by up to 100 percent," said one banker, who declined to be named.
The buyback is the latest in three years of euro zone efforts to resolve Greece's problems. The economy has shrunk by 20 percent in the last five years and unemployment has hit a record 26.2 percent, pushing public anger to new highs.
Athens has pressured its banks, which hold an estimated 17 billion euros ($22 billion) out of the 63 billion in eligible bonds, to sell and they had been expected to do so since they depend on bailout funds that a successful buyback would unlock.
Analysts said the better-than-expected terms announced by Athens earlier this week would draw enough foreign investors as well, ensuring success.
"Athens put forth a reasonable if not generous offer for hedge funds to participate," said Sassan Ghahramani, CEO at New York-based Macro Advisers, a hedge fund consultancy.
"I expect there will be strong participation from hedge funds, tendering a substantial portion of their Greek bond holdings," he said.
Finance ministry officials denied the government planned to extend the deadline for bids beyond Friday, dismissing a Greek newspaper report suggesting the deadline could be extended to early next week. The deadline expires at 1700 GMT.
The buyback is part of a broader debt relief package worth 40 billion euros ($52 billion) agreed by Greece's euro zone and International Monetary Fund lenders last month.
Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, who has told banks it was their "patriotic duty" to ensure the scheme is a success, told local radio Athens would include a provision that protects bank boards from lawsuits from shareholders in case of losses.
"There will be the same provision that was included in the PSI (earlier debt restructuring)," he told Real news radio, referring to the March debt swap where Athens passed a law shielding bank boards from investor lawsuits.
Greek banks - already battered by the country's debt crisis - have been hit further by fears that they would be forced to book losses from the buyback.
The price range set for the buyback by Athens varied from a minimum of 30.2 to 38.1 percent and a maximum of 32.2 to 40.1 percent of the principal amount, depending on the maturities of the 20 series of outstanding bonds.
The buyback is being conducted through a Dutch auction, which allows Athens to assess the level of demand before setting the price. The settlement date is expected to be Dec. 17.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has already said Greek pension funds holding more than 8 billion euros of the bonds would not take part, increasing the pressure on the remaining domestic bondholders to do so.
Two in three Greeks have a negative opinion of the pro-bailout government, a survey by Metron Analysis published in the Efimerida Syntakton newspaper showed on Friday.
If elections were held now, the main opposition party SYRIZA would win with 22 percent of the vote over the co-ruling New Democracy party, which would only muster 19.8 percent of the vote, the poll showed.


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Add 'blood smartphones' and 'blood oil' to the list.
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to finalize sweeping new rules that would effectively force companies to tell the world about their business in 'conflict minerals' with the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country.
Specifically, the rules force new disclosures of the use of four 'conflict minerals' -- tantalum, tin, gold or tungsten -- commonly used in computer chips and electronic gadgets. These could include smartphones, cameras, video-game consoles and music players, even cars.
Another set of SEC rules will force new disclosures from energy companies of payments made to a foreign government to commercially develop oil, natural gas, or minerals, including payments of taxes, royalties, bonuses, dividends and for infrastructure improvements.
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The new rules would effectively shame companies into stopping their business dealings with the DRC.
With the passage of Dodd Frank, "Congress intended to further the humanitarian goal of ending the extremely violent conflict in the DRC," Ms. Schapiro adds.
Once in effect, the companies would have to audit their supply chain to determine whether minerals from the DRC are actually in their products, and then disclose the information to investors. Companies "using recycled or scrap conflict minerals will also conduct such an inquiry to confirm that the minerals are recycled or scrap," and disclose that information, Schapiro adds in the statement.
Even if the company discovers the minerals used did not come from the DRC, they still would have to disclose details about their inquiry in a brand new form, form SD, and file it with the SEC.
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Energy and oil companies fear competitors will be able to see their strategies and locations of their assets as well, while supporters of the new rule argue they won't have to disclose confidential, proprietary information, only payments to foreign governments.
Paul Griffin, a professor at the University of California Davis Graduate School of Management, studied the conflict minerals disclosures. His study says that half of the companies that had voluntarily disclosed before the new rules became mandatory lost $6.5 billion in shareholder value due to declining equity values, due to market uncertainties about their business practices. The sum far exceeds the SEC's reported estimated compliance cost of just $71 million.
U.S. companies including Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) have signed on to the new codes of conduct knocking out conflict minerals from their supply chains.
One caveat: the companies might be able to bury the information in form SD as attachments to their SEC filings, and not include the disclosures in the body of their government reports.


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text: Mark, Thanks for your helpful comments. At 11:31 PM 12/3/2007, you wrote: >>I am guessing you are using TCP NFS mounts as well? TCP forces >>retries in the event of bad packets. UDP doesn't force this, but >>the NFS protocol will > >UDP has a checksum as well, though it's only 16b. then again, the TCP >checksum isn't all that strong for today's data rates either. From reading the man page on nfs on the systems with the 2.4 kernels, it looks like the default for an nfs mount is udp. It also looks like tcp is not really an option until nfs v4, so it may be something to try on the 2.6 kernels that I have on some of my newer machines at another site. >you should definitely examine /proc/net/dev on involved machines. I hadn't known about /proc/net/dev. When I check there, I see no transmit errors on the server side and no receive errors on the client side. That's odd, because the other thing I see is that the average packet size received (bytes received divided by packets received) on the client side is 3.9, while on the server side, the average packet size sent is 1430. In other words, there are a many more packets received than there ought to be. That's very fishy. It's probably the result of the way the packet count is done and reported. I.e., it may be that all the received packets -- good and bad -- are counted, but only the bytes in the good ones are counted, with some similar problem on the server side. I think the statistics are aggregate since the last boot, so they may not be just from the troublesome tests I was performing, either. >I would attempt to reduce the complexity of your testing. >for instance, can a node write and verify to its local disk >without problem? The local disk read seems rock solid in comparison to the NFS one. The local md5sum produces the same result time after time, which is just not the case for the remote. >can it stream data over tcp sockets (netcat or the like) without >corruption or obvious problems reflected >in /proc/net/dev? netcat is not on my systems. Looks like I have to get someone to download and build it for me, and try the streaming tests you recommend. >does ethtool tell you anything about the config of the nic? Not on the 2.4 systems, though it seems to tell me a little on the 2.6's. >comparing tcp vs udp NFS would be sensible >as well - varying the packet size, too. switching client and/or >server to a modern 2.6 kernel may be instructive. Upgrading the kernel is probably the only way I'll get nfs over tcp. Given that these systems are headed out the door, I'm not sure that's a good use of our time. But it may be worth doing an our new and newer systems. Thanks again! Mike


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I caught myself almost going into this rant on someone post and this really had nothing to do with the topic at hand.
So here's my question: Are we, as a nation, actually ridding ourselves of racism, or are we 'sweeping it under the rug' so to speak?
Now in my opinion I feel that we are right on track, if not ahead of schedule, in the process of ridding our nation of racism. This thought is based off of the fact that Africans have been enslaved by Europeans since the 1400s, meaning that Europeans had roughly 400 years of ingrained racism in their system before the slave trade ended in the United States and then another hundred years or so before African Americans took the stage to fight for serious equality. So after 500 years or so of European Americans considering themselves above the African Americans for us to have come as far as we have in the last 50 years to me is quite the achievement.
I'm definitely not trying to imply that we don't still have a ways to go, nor am I saying that we don't have to try anywhere near as hard to help our people in a time where all of the negative stereotypes of the African American is not only encouraged, but rewarded by the media.
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well spoken, and i agree mostly with you
But I think the issue of ethnic conflicts( race) have to be analyzed in the context that they happen
as you pointed out, Modern and semi-modern examples of "racism" abound. A dead Kurd looks a lot like a dead Turk. A dead Hutu looks a lot like a dead Tutsi. Serb/Croat/Bosnian. these examples are not the same as americas problem with blacks. the general disdain for blacks that is communicated to every immigrant group is based on white society's degradation of blacks, not because of long time war and competition (except genetic lol), or past injustices perpetuated by blacks, i.e. there is no material (physical), or religious reason for black hatred, where as other ethnic conflicts almost always have some material / physical, religious reason, no matter how antiquated , basis for the conflict
There has been progress since Jim Crow. But I disagree, that his mom's viewpoint is somewhat outdated. I just think people hide it now, more than ever.
During Jim Crow, people were protected "so to speak" and could outright say things like "I don't hire Ni%$3s, Blacks or what have you. The Klan was protected, back in the day. Most Judges wouldn't convict Whites of killing Blacks, back then.
But now, it's not politically correct to state those types of opinions. And there are laws against it. It's hidden. One of my White friends told me that he thought racism was a dying thing until Obama made it into office. He was shocked at the things he heard his peers say within their own circle. People he thought were above and beyond being racist/prejudice. He, himself, told me don't be fooled. He now realized that many White folks hide their racist feeling, but for some, Obama was the straw that broke the camels back, so to speak.
Matter of fact, statistics show White Supremacist (sp?) groups on the rise! Within the US.
I try to be optomistic but at the same time be realistic.
Since President Obama's election, there's been a surge in hate crimes, political murders and assassination threats in this country. Right-wing militias are on the rise in several states, and high rates of unemployment have further stoked anger against racial minorities and recent immigrants. Independent filmmakers Rick Rowley and Jacquie Soohen go inside the white nationalist movement to file an exclusive report. [includes rush transcript]...
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HAYWARD, Calif., Jan. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANTH), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat autoimmune diseases, announced today that Paul F. Truex, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present a corporate update on the progress of the Company's development programs including additional plans for blisibimod beyond autoimmune disorders at three conferences in February and early March.
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June 13--Two years ago, Olmsted County joined other counties in the state that have a drug court -- a court-ordered treatment program described as "a collaborative effort of criminal justice stakeholders working together to break the cycle of substance abuse."
By all accounts, it's had value and is working as intended.
Now, Judge Ross Leuning of the 3rd Judicial District is proposing a court for veterans. Patterned after drug courts, a veterans court for the 3rd District would emphasize a court-ordered and monitored rehabilitation and treatment program, rather than routine sentencing.
It's not an entirely new concept. There are veterans courts in Anoka, Hennepin and Ramsey counties, and there's another based in Mankato that serves the 5th Judicial District counties of Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Jackson, Martin, Nicollet and Watonwan.
In the 5th District, the explicit goals are to "increase compliance with treatment and other court-ordered conditions, improve access to VA benefits and services ... and reduce contacts with the criminal justice system."
One would hope that last point is the goal of Minnesota's judicial system generally. The wish for all people convicted of a crime and standing in front of a judge for sentencing is that they'll never be in that position again.
In a veterans court, the judge would have a wide array of tools for sentencing that are geared especially for veterans, many of which already are available. These include intensive probation, substance abuse and other counseling, random drug and alcohol testing, employment and housing assistance, and peer monitoring.
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The existing veterans courts in Minnesota are a unique partnership of the Minnesota Judicial Branch, the VA, county attorneys, human services departments, local law enforcement and others who can help -- all in the service of helping a veteran deal with whatever led to a criminal conviction and avoid another one.
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The awards dinner was held in conjunction with the USA Water Polo Assembly at the LAX Crowne Plaza. Bailey was the recipient of the national award, given each year to the top women's coach in the country at the scholastic level.
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Richard "Doc" Hunkler was a legendary coach who helped build the sport of water polo at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
Bob Greene of Serra High received the Bill Barnett Distinguished Men's Coaching Award.
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