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The world has changed for investors, more than most advisors might realize. Despite everything that has occurred to markets and the economy over the past 10 years, the world economy has gotten much, much bigger. The reasons for that are the "tectonic shifts," as Doug Coté, chief market strategist at ING U.S. Investment Management, likes to call the forces that have been driving the global economy over the past few years. Those forces include the widespread penetration of technology; the rise in global manufacturing; the importance of the global consumer; and continued innovations in the energy industry.
Few observers, however, realize the extent to which these ongoing forces have impacted global economic expansion, Coté said. Nor do they realize how just a few years after the greatest economic recession in recent history, those forces have successfully pushed total global output from $37 trillion to $73 trillion.
"Everyone was focused on the depression we went through, but right underneath our noses, these changes have been going on, and the world economy is now twice the size it was a decade ago," Coté said.
That positive momentum, Coté believes, is only going to gain steam going forward, with emerging and frontier markets benefiting the most from the inevitable and underlying global dynamics.
Last year, emerging markets debt and equity were among investors' least favorite asset classes, but long term, investment opportunities in developing economies abound, Coté said. That's because these countries more or less have it all: commodities and raw materials, a stronghold on manufacturing, young populations and a continued increase in consumer spending. That spending is growing to such an extent that Chinese consumers are forecasted to make up 5% of global consumption by 2020, and the African Development Bank projects consumer spending in sub-Saharan Africa will reach $2.2 trillion in 2030.
As that dynamic continues to play itself out, the increasing incomes and improved lifestyles in the emerging and frontier markets are also leading to other kinds of cultural shifts, which in turn are creating new kinds of investment opportunities.
The Good and Bad of Emerging Markets
As an example of the big cultural changes around the world, consider a recent report from U.K.-based research firm the Overseas Development Institute. It found that rising incomes in developing economies are leading to higher rates of obesity and diabetes among their populations as traditional diets are abandoned in favor of fast food and other more unhealthy options.
"This is a disturbing trend that we're going to continue to see as first-world lifestyles catch on in these countries," said Clem Miller, investment strategist at Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors. "Ironically, though, and sad as it may be, it makes for a great long-term investment opportunity in companies that make diabetes drugs, for example."
On a fundamental economic basis, Miller is of the opinion that developed economies—European ones in particular—don't stand a chance against developing economies.
The United States' abundant supplies of affordable energy, especially natural gas, are a magnet for both foreign direct and portfolio investment, and the country is quickly moving from a net energy importer to a net exporter. Europe, however, is dogged by a host of challenges. Those include aging populations and high wages, Miller said, all of which have been compounded by the problems brought on by the sovereign debt crisis and the ensuing recession.
"I believe the only direction we're moving in is toward an Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa-led world," he said.
Nevertheless, most large companies are no longer truly European or American, even if they're listed on a particular exchange.
"A large percentage of the U.K.'s stock market, for example, is made up of energy and raw material companies, so it's clear that it is more correlated with raw material prices around the world than with the U.K. economy," Miller said.
How Europe Is Changing
More importantly, though, the crisis has highlighted the need for fundamental changes in the existing European economic model. Already there has been a noticeable cultural shift in certain areas that may well inspire a more competitive model for business and create a better framework for corporate activity and investment.
According to Giorgio Caputo, portfolio manager and senior research analyst at First Eagle Investment Management, one of the more positive developments in the post-crisis period has been the gradual shift from bank-led debt markets to institutional debt markets.
Historically, banks and businesses in Europe enjoyed cozy relationships, but with problem loans still lurking on bank balance sheets and new capital requirements specified in Basel III, "we are starting to see the further development of an institutional lending market in Europe that I think is set to continue," Caputo said.
High-yield bond issuance, for example, has roughly doubled in the last year in Europe, and this presents opportunities for global income funds like First Eagle's. Caputo is also encouraged by the improvement in bankruptcy regulations in Europe that are helping creditors feel more comfortable in certain jurisdictions. Great progress has been made in several European countries in terms of creditors being able to enforce their rights, he said.
"In the past, regulation tended to extort value from senior secured lenders and this impacted the future of even viable businesses because the reorganization process could be so expensive and time consuming," Caputo said. "So to have an improved, better controlled [bankruptcy] process that gives businesses a greater say, similar to the way Chapter 11 provides a means to rehabilitate business in the U.S., is a good step forward for Europe. Allowing businesses to declare bankruptcy and then restructure rather than limping along means that resources can be redirected to more productive uses."
Innovation Among European Financials
Financial sector innovation is definitely one of the more positive consequences of Europe's protracted crisis, agreed Bill McQuaker, deputy head of equities at Henderson Global Investors. That's particularly seen in the extent to which the financial markets are evolving to replace bank lending as a source of capital, and the creative ways in which companies are seeking out that capital.
Over the past months, Henderson has been approached by a few companies that want to source fund capital as opposed to bank loans or high-yield bonds, and are doing so in partnership with their banks by using the banks' credit network to source cash that would come from a third-party investment fund and not the bank's balance sheet.
"This is one example of how the financial sector is evolving quite significantly and, given time, we should see companies being able to access other sources of financing above and beyond bond financing," McQuaker said. "The notion of a fund manager teaming up with a credit officer at a bank and using the bank's credit network to ensure asset quality has some appeal. And smaller companies often find it tough to access bond financing, so the idea of an emerging loan market that's independent of the banks is good."
Overall, the shift toward a more institutional capital market system in Europe is very promising for European economies, as it leads to more arms-length transactions rather than clubby relationships between companies and banks.
At the end of the day, cosmetic changes alone won't help Europe. The cultural shifts needed to make the European corporate sector and Europe's economies more robust and vibrant must be deeper, longer lasting and designed to improve competitiveness in the global marketplace. That can't happen unless changes are made to the very core of the European system.
What Europe Still Needs
Labor market inflexibility has been and is still one of Europe's greatest problems, Caputo said, and together with the continent's robust social safety net and burdensome bureaucracy, several European nations continue to be at a disadvantage compared to the more flexible labor markets of Asia and the United States. Even Germany, which has remained the most resilient economy in Europe and a leader in the export sector (where countries like Spain are still sorely lagging), is in need of serious labor market reform.
Ultimately, the rigidity of Europe's labor markets will come to bear even on those companies that are securing revenues from places in the world where growth is strong.
"Developed-market-based global champions such as Nestle often derive much of their growth from emerging markets, yet provide investors with a more stable jurisdiction within which to be minority investors," Caputo said. But with youth unemployment now as high as 40% to 50% in some Western European countries, "the problem has to involve the labor market structure and the investment climate, and this is not just driven by the business cycle," he said. "Significant, additional reform is needed to make these countries attractive areas for investment. Otherwise job creation will continue to go elsewhere, and large parts of Europe will have an ongoing youth employment crisis."
While there is undeniably a cultural shift that's occurring in Europe, and some of the developments have been quite positive, it is too early to speak about any real or meaningful change, McQuaker said, particularly since the changes that are required are tough to achieve.
"But on balance, we're in a better place than we were two years ago. We shouldn't forget that," he said.
Challenges for Emerging Markets
Last year was a challenging year for emerging markets, and if there was one lesson to be learned, it was that despite favorable demographics and the direction of global economic trends, the market may not always be there for these countries.
In 2013, many emerging market nations lost out on the liquidity they had always banked upon. That money went elsewhere, although that doesn't mean it won't come back. The capital flight has revealed the need for many countries to fix some serious underlying issues and to find other ways to attract investment, McQuaker said, because "those economic policies that drove growth so well for more than a decade are reaching the end of their shelf life."
The BRIC model, for example, was well-developed and successfully exploited, and gave those countries a good run. Brazil benefited immensely from Chinese demand for commodities, and India's service economy rolled it forward. But now these models no longer have the validity they once did (Brazil's growth rate is negligible), and they must be revised in order to move these nations to the next level of economic growth.
"The challenge for these countries is to be able to evolve their underlying economic models and effectuate the shifts needed to bring about growth in different areas without compromising it as a whole," McQuaker said. "They must enact the necessary changes to allow the underlying dynamics—the emerging middle classes and the growing financial sector, for example—to deliver on the same scale."
McQuaker believes that China faces the greatest challenge in transitioning its economy from a fixed-asset model to a more consumer-oriented model.
Other economies around the world, developed or developing, rely upon China as the world's second largest economy and a key driver of global growth.
There has been a great deal of skepticism about China's transition, or at any rate the pace of that transition, from a manufacturing economy to a consumption-based economy. But ING's Coté is optimistic that the shift is happening and that the Chinese authorities are determined to see it through, having recently announced sweeping reforms aimed at economic growth and a concerted tilt toward greater market orientation.
In addition, China recently relaxed its one-child policy, recognizing that an aging population is an impediment to growth.
Coté believes that what's needed now in China—and in many emerging markets, including India and Brazil—is an end to state-controlled capitalism and a move toward greater private capitalism.
This is a huge cultural shift but a necessary one because while "the state—not just in China, but in other countries like India as well—gave these economies a boost and got the systems going, we are now starting to see that the state is an impediment to the private economy, which is what these countries need to develop," Coté said. "One of the most important shifts we would want to see happening is the shift toward greater private capitalism over state capitalism to create that next level of economic growth."
A Need for Recovery, but Also Leadership
This shift is happening in some countries. Mexico, for instance, recently introduced legislation to open up its highly protected oil and gas sector to private investment. Last September, China launched the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, a special area demarcated to invite private investment in a range of different areas. The country is also taking steps toward financial sector reform, including internationalizing its currency. In 2013, the renminbi overtook both the euro and the yen as a currency of choice for trade finance, coming in second behind the U.S. dollar, according to currency tracking firm Swift.
But as much as the push and pull of underlying global economic dynamics may require different kinds of shifts in different parts of the world, they must also be made with care. Emerging market countries like India have been promising for some time now to deliver more inclusive economic growth. In Europe, the rise of both extreme right and left wing political parties has raised different issues that may affect the direction of recovery as well as its beneficiaries, McQuaker said.
"Right now, the benefits of recovery are quite widespread, but if they are felt in a broader way, the growing discontent will disappear like snow in spring," he said. "If other developments come along, there are some meaningful risks for Europe that will require a political class capable of really leading."


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- News articles tend to fall off the front page rather quickly. Right now it's set to show 10 articles per page before you're forced to view page 2, 3, and so on. The last thing I want to do is set a parameter to show 50 articles per page and have a user scroll for eons.
- Featured articles is ugly. That row up there with the 5 most recent featured articles barely works. it was a stopgap measure to highlight some articles and provide a little bit more longevity on their front page appearance.
- The sidebar is a mess. I keep adding things and it's going to get taller and taller. There are things that I want to put there but haven't yet for this very reason.
- Article pages does not show comments. This is by design though, since we didn't want to have to moderate comments on articles AND moderate comments on our forums. So we disabled wordpress user registration and copied the article content into a forum post.
- The header space is too tall. The banner image is gigantic, I think the Cars theme is the worst offender, and it pushes relevant content down so a user has to scroll further to see anything worth looking at.
Well I took my gripes about the page and hired a friend/former co-worker of mine to help me redesign the page. Please take a look at it here. Some notes about the mockup:
- Yes, it's in black and white, the final design will not be in black and white.
- There are separate articles lists for Star Wars, Reviews, Other LEGO News, and Miscellaneous News. You only see a teaser image, and a headline. This allows more articles spread over more categories to live longer on the front page, addressing gripe #1 above.
note: other lego news is mislabeled. it should be "lego licensed news" and will feature all licensed related news that is not star wars. it's position will switch with reviews.
by splitting up the news in this way, you, the reader, can skim across the articles and click on the ones that interest you and ignore the ones that don't.
- The featured articles box at the top just below the header addresses gripe #2 above. it will show full sized images, article headline, and some text of the 10 most recent featured articles and will cycle through them in a slideshow format.
- The sidebar is completely revamped. a lot of the static links are moved to the header, and new content will show up such as a dedicated contests box, an accordian style box for forum topics, comments, and set guide entries.
- there's no mockup of the article page yet, but it will remain largely unchanged in terms of how the content is displayed. The sidebar will be completely redone, and the page will show the comments left in the related forum thread underneath the article content. up to 20 comments will be displayed with a link going to the forum thread.
- the header is completely revamped containing much of the sidebar elements. unfortunately the branding of the site will also temporarily disappear. I have plans for site branding that are not shown in the mockup but will eventually be implemented.
and by "branding of the site will also temporarily disappear" i mean the user selectable themes will completely go away. i realize that there is a drop down on the top right of the mockup that has the theme chooser, but that is going to change to a different menu.
i honestly don't know how many of you like the themes we produce for the site. they will be going away during the upgrade process, but i promise you they will be back in a different form.
there are a ton of other changes that aren't visible in the mockup, but they're all designed with the same goal in mind: which is to make relevant news to you, the reader, more accessible.
i present this to you, the community, to hear your feedback. I realize the change is extremely different from the blog format we've had for some time, but i feel like the changes are necessary for the reasons I outlined above. I want to avoid the mistakes of facebook and gawker and not at least prepare you for the changes ahead. and rather than make all the changes all at once, i'll be implementing them gradually over the next few weeks with a goal of having everything complete by december 1. please be frank in your response, but don't be a rooster. constructive criticism is welcome.
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Key features
- Traditional Semi Detached Family Home
- Extended Accommodation to Ground & First Floor
- Upvc Double Glazing + Gas Central Heating
- Reception hall
- Lounge + Sitting Room + Kitchen + Downstairs Shower Room
- 4 Bedrooms + Family Bathroom
- Driveway To Front + Rear Garden
- Good Location
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Traditional Semi Detached Family Home Offering EXTENDED Accommodation, whilst Situated in a good location. Having the benefit of upvc double glazing, gas central heating, EXTENTIONS TO GROUND / FIRST FLOOR...
Traditional Semi Detached Family Home Offering Extended Accommodation, whilst Situated in a good location. Having the benefit of upvc double glazing, gas central heating, extensions to ground / first floor, whilst briefly comprising, reception hall, lounge, sitting room, downstairs shower room, fitted breakfast kitchen, 4 bedrooms, loft room, bathroom, driveway and rear garden.
Reception Hall
Lounge 14' 6" x 12' ( 4.42m x 3.66m )
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28 The EO Computer Services Department: Maintaining Our Leadership Position Many people hate it; most people don't understand it. But the fact remains that there probably is no one alive in the United States today, and few enough in the world, whose life has not been touched by the computer. In a philosophical sense, the computer may well represent man's most successful attempt to date to extend his ego, to increase his powers of memory and computation, even his ability to explore the universe around him, to a degree undreamed of only a few decades ago. Whatever the philosophical implications, no one can deny that this is the Age of the Computer. Industrialized nations have become as dependent on computers as agricultural economies are dependent on climatic conditions. If the fifteenth-century Venetian Luca Paciolo, author of the first printed treatise on bookkeeping, might be thought of as the patron saint of accounting, Janus, the double-faced Roman god, may well be the deity of electronic data processing, which has created almost as many problems for the accounting profession as it has helped solve. "EDP has given many of our clients the ability to store vast amounts of financial, inventory and other information so that it is readily accessible, information that previously had been handled manually and therefore was not usable in making day-to-day decisions," observed Joseph D. Wessel-kamper, partner in charge of the Executive Office Computer Services Department. "As these clients became more sophisticated in their use of computers, the public accounting profession found it imperative to devise its own techniques for obtaining ready access to the information we need to perform our services." "You've got three basic factors to take into consideration," partner Richard A. Snyder added. "The first is the constant improvements in hardware technology, increasing the flexibility and capability of EDP systems. Second, the user is growing more expert in employing the computer in his own business. And third, the accounting profession has not only to stay abreast of these developments, but actually to keep ahead of them so that we can perform audit and other services from computerized records as accurately as we did in the past from those produced manually." Dick has responsibility for the Professional Systems group of the department. Under the Firm's organizational structure, the Computer Services Department reports to J. William Stewart, Jr., EO partner in charge of client services coordination. Broad policy decisions and overall


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My question is essentially if I can fake the behaviour one gets using usual window managers on linux if one has a dual head setup. That is, if I maximize a window it maximizes only on one part of the desktop, matching the area of one physical display. I have only one screen, but it has a fairly large resolution and most of the time I will want to work on multiple separate windows, horizontally tiled.
I have heard about tiling window managers, but all I know are more like corner groups and do not behave like other common window managers (xfwm, compiz). I am currently using xfwm, and would like to stick with it if possible. If this task requries, I'd prefer one which either behaves similar to the common ones out of the box or for which ready configuration is available.
The first hack which came into my mind was trying to fake the information xrandr gives about the screen geometry and fool the window manager using that approach, but this seems like a healy hack which should not be neeccessary.
I'm using fedora linux, but I'm also fine with building the software myself if its not in the package management.


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McLaren will be officially unveiling its P12 superultramegahyperinsanecar at the Paris Motor Show in two weeks time.
They have been teasing the car little by little, and today, yet another shot of the baddest car out of Woking has been released. Spoiler alert: It looks awesome.
We have already been inundated with rumors as to the car's outrageous specs and how it will look when it goes on sale. While this latest image cannot confirm or deny any of the specs, it does give us a window into the P12's appearance.
And damn does it look fiiiiiiine.
Cues from the classic F1 include a roof scoop and what appear to be very sculpted doors. There appears to be a very low front splitter as well as the distinct lacking of a rear wing. That probably signals another application of an air brake or active aerodynamics.
The design appears to be very flowing, with smooth curves and lots of oval/tear drop shaped bits.
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Its great to see Serbian locale and keyboard are translated, would love to help maybe better translation of some terms
and translating other software.
Since ATO Serbia is long gone, are there any instructions how-to for dummies?
Since Serbian, Bosnia and Croatian are similar to dialects level, people that speak Bosnian and Serbian
are most welcome, we can do separate translations of different locales and then just a bit adopt it to our language.
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The modern game of football was born in the Freemason's Tavern in 19th century London. Ebenezer Morley, a solicitor and local sportsman, met with representatives of a dozen London and suburban clubs on Monday 26 October 1863. Morley proposed that football should have one standardised set of rules and, at that meeting, The Football Association was formed.
The first match played under the new rules was on Saturday 19 December 1863, with Barnes and Richmond playing out a 0-0 draw. The early days of the FA were not without their difficulties, there was plenty of bickering between clubs and the initial membership was small, but the FA began to slowly grow in stature.
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly referred to as the FA Cup, was announced in The Sportsman newspaper on 20 July 1871, with "all clubs belonging to the Association … invited to compete". 15 clubs signed up, with Wanderers winning the first final 1-0.
Just over a year later, on 30 November 1872, the first official international between England and Scotland took place in front of 4,000 people. Another landmark first match ended in a 0-0 draw.
Over the next 15 years, professionalism was legalised and County and District Associations began to form a framework for hundreds of new teams. 12 clubs, including Aston Villa and Everton, formed the Football League in 1888. The FA was still the ultimate authority, but the League would exist as a self-contained body within it.
FIFA formed, England late to the party
England were not one of the original members of FIFA, founded in Paris in 1904, but within two years The FA had 'formally approved' the existence of the new body and sent a delegation to a FIFA conference in Berne. Daniel Woolfall, from Lancashire, was elected FIFA president.
At the onset of the First World War, The FA allowed the 1914-15 FA Cup competition to run its course, with the government agreeing that the continuation of football would boost morale.
The construction of Wembley Stadium was completed just four days before the 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United. The official capacity was 127,000, but the crowd that descended on the match was much larger. The game got underway 45 minutes late and it was decided that all future Cup Finals would be admittance by ticket only.
The FA withdrew from FIFA, and did not enter a team into the first three editions of the FIFA World Cup™. However, a link with FIFA was retained – that of the International FA Board (IFAB). The IFAB accepted Stanely Rous' re-written 17 laws of football in 1938, the most significant overhaul of the laws since 1863.
In the years leading up to World War II, England beat Italy (the World Cup holders) 3-2 and Germany 6-3. After hostilities began, the FA helped get the country's young men into combat shape, with nearly 200 football grounds used as 'Fitness for Service' centres to prepare more than 40,000 men for war.
Post-war FA look to future
As well as rejoining FIFA after the war, The FA offered help with funding to clubs and associations at all levels to improve standards across the country. They also appointed Walter Winterbottom as 'Director of Coaching' and 'England Team Manager'. He went on to build a national coaching scheme which would become the envy of the footballing world.
Despite being one of the favourites to lift the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, England went out of the competition after embarrassing 1-0 defeats to the USA and Spain.
They were then humbled 6-3 by Hungary at Wembley, the first continental side to beat England at home, and followed that up with a disappointing World Cup display in 1958.
The FA passed its 100th birthday, and plans were underway to host the 1966 FIFA World Cup. It was the first tournament to receive major television coverage, with the global audience for the finals estimated at two billion. England won an eventful Final 4-2 against West Germany after extra time.
Sir Alf Ramsey's team went to Mexico in 1970 with a realistic chance of retaining the trophy, but were defeated by West Germany 3-2 at the quarter-final stage. After failing to qualify for World Cup 1974, Ramsey was dismissed and, after an unhappy spell with Don Revie at the helm, they also failed to qualify for Argentina in 1978.
Lilleshall begins Bobby Robson renaissance
Ron Greenwood was preferred to Brian Clough as the new permanent manager, and he led the team to an unbeaten 1982 World Cup, with the side exiting in the Second Round. Bobby Robson succeeded him and under his tutelage, The FA set up a centre of excellence at Lilleshall in 1984. England lost a quarter-final to an Argentinian 'Hand of God' and goal of brilliance at Mexico in 1986 and went on to their best performance in a World Cup on foreign soil at Italy in 1990, exiting on penalties at the semi-final stage to their old foe, West Germany.
Due to the horrors of Bradford, Heysel and Hillsborough in the late 1980s, Justice Peter Taylor's report saw a plan for the radical modernisation of football stadia, with the arrival of 'all-seater' grounds. Following this in 1991, the FA Council agreed to set up an 'FA Premier League' to start in the 1992-93 season with a long term goal of reducing the number of games for top players to help the England team.
Though England failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1994, 'Football came home' as the country hosted UEFA EURO 1996. Terry Venables' side reached the semi-finals of a feel-good tournament. The FA bought Wembley Stadium three years later and a renovation was completed in 2007. The 126th FA Cup Final, between Chelsea and Manchester United, was the first final to be played there. England met Brazil in the first international at the new stadium two weeks later.
New Wembley heralds new era
In the meantime, England hired their first foreign coach, Sven Goran Eriksson, and failed to get beyond the quarter-finals of the World Cup. In a progressive move, the 'FA Women's Super League' began in 2011, replacing the FA Women's Premier League as the highest level of women's football.
Following the closure of the centre of excellence at Lilleshall in 1999, St George's Park was opened in 2012. It is a state of the art facility, a centre for coaching education and a leading centre of sports medicine and science. It provides a training home for all of England's 24 representative sides and it includes an elite training pitch graded to exactly match the current surface at Wembley Stadium.
The FA hope St George's Park will act as a springboard to return the glory days of 1966, and establish a successful production line to stand alongside those of European rivals Spain and Germany. Current manager Roy Hodgson, who was appointed last year following Fabio Capello's departure, has led the full England team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.


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The clock ran out on Michigan's big win at Michigan State last month, and as Wolverines guard Nik Stauskas jogged gleefully off the court, he blew a big kiss toward the crowd at the Breslin Center.
NOAH TRISTER, AP Sports Writer
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ? The clock ran out on Michigan's big win at Michigan State last month, and as Wolverines guard Nik Stauskas jogged gleefully off the court, he blew a big kiss toward the crowd at the Breslin Center.
A bit much? Perhaps, but in this rivalry it's easy to get lost in the moment.
"We were just excited to get a win there," Stauskas said. "Maybe I shouldn't have done that, but it's all right."
There are always bragging rights on the line when these teams meet, but when No. 20 Michigan hosts No. 13 Michigan State on Sunday, a lot more will be at stake. The Wolverines trail the Spartans by a half-game atop the Big Ten standings, so the race for the conference title could swing significantly this weekend.
This looks even more like a two-team race after Saturday, when No. 16 Wisconsin's 79-74 win over No. 15 Iowa left Michigan (18-7, 10-3) and Michigan State (22-5, 11-3) as the only Big Ten teams with fewer than five conference losses.
The Spartans still have to face Iowa and Ohio State later this season, so there may be a bit more pressure on them to stay in first place by winning in Ann Arbor. Michigan State tuned up by making 17 3-pointers Thursday night in a 94-79 win at Purdue.
"I guess destiny is kind of in our own hands ? and we're playing for a championship, still, in our last two weeks," Spartans coach Tom Izzo said. "That's my goal every year: In the last two weeks, do we still have a mathematical chance to win the league? We're there."
Michigan State has more than just a chance, if its last performance was any indication. Gary Harris scored 25 points for the Spartans against Purdue. Adreian Payne ? who missed the first game against Michigan with an injury ? scored 23.
"We're going to have to really play a great basketball game on Sunday," Michigan coach John Beilein said. "They're good. They've got a great program, they've got so many good things going their way, but we'll still show up and do our best."
If Beilein was trying to shift the pressure to Michigan State, the Spartans aren't likely to fall for that. Both these teams have dealt with potentially devastating injuries this season, and for Michigan State, that's been an ongoing source of uncertainty.
Payne (sprained foot) and Branden Dawson (broken hand) missed the first meeting with Michigan. Payne is back and playing well, but Dawson still hasn't played since Jan. 21. Keith Appling played against Michigan the first time, but he's been bothered for a while by a wrist problem. Appling is 4 for 23 from 3-point range over his last eight games.
The Wolverines, meanwhile, have been without big man Mitch McGary since mid-December because of a back injury.
There's an interesting rest vs. rust subplot to this game, because Michigan hasn't played since losing at home to Wisconsin last weekend. The Wolverines have not lost consecutive home games since January 2011.
"Not losing at home, that's a big thing," Michigan guard Caris LeVert said. "We're going to come in ready to play this weekend."
LeVert has emerged as an impressive offensive option for Michigan, which is important since opposing teams have done a better job slowing Stauskas lately. Freshman point guard Derrick Walton has had his moments too, and Glenn Robinson III is always a threat.
Michigan State has also developed secondary options ? perhaps by necessity amid all the injuries. Denzel Valentine is averaging 8.1 points per game, and Travis Trice is shooting 44 percent from 3-point range.
Both teams were undefeated in conference play when Michigan beat the Spartans 80-75 on Jan. 25. There isn't much separating them this time either.
"Every game is a momentum game right now. We need every game," Payne said. "We know it's going to be a big game."


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Strategic Procurement Overview
The Procurement and Contract Services Department is a service organization dedicated to providing procurement assistance to all departments of the University. This is accomplished through the acquisition of goods and services utilizing the strategies of strategic sourcing, negotiation, and e-procurement. Processes are in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code where applicable to colleges and universities, as well as within the Wright State University Policies and Procedures as approved by the Board of Trustees.


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DIY Valentine's Day: 7 Recipes For Homemade Truffles
As Valentine's Day approaches, reservations are being made, menus planned, and cards penned. What about adding a homemade gift to that list? Something easy to make but romantic in spirit? Something decadent. Something with chocolate. Something like truffles.
A basic chocolate truffle isn't difficult to make. There are really two steps: first, make a ganache from chocolate and cream and chill. Once that sets, roll the ganache into balls and dust them with cocoa powder. They're easy candies with a melt-in-your mouth, decadent flavor.
Of course the fun part is making them your own. You can add liquor, nuts, or spices. You can even expand the definition a little and make truffles out of cake. Click through the slideshow to see these ideas and more.
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Anyone know what versions of Python Mapnik is compatible with?
I'm having trouble getting Mapnik to work. I'm thinking it might be because I am on 64-bit Win 7 and installed the 64-bit Python (v2.7)
I looked on the Mapnik docs/wiki but didn't find any info. Any thoughts? Will Mapnik only work with 32-bit Python? Is there a 64-bit Mapnik (couldn't see it).


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Join forces to help Stamp out Hunger
On Saturday Campbell Soup Company will again join forces with Poteau letter carriers to Stamp Out Hunger across America, providing assistance to millions of Americans who are struggling to put food on their tables every day.Now in its twentieth year, the SOH effort is the nation's largest single-day food drive. In 2011, drive organizers across the country collected more than 70 million pounds of total food donations for the eighth consecutive year.In addition to CSCm the U.S.P.S., the National Association of Letter Carriers and Feeding America, AARP, Valpak, the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, the AFL-CIO, United Way and Uncle Bob's Self Storage are supporting the drive this year. To participate in the SOH drive, Poteau residents are encouraged to leave a sturdy bag containing non-perishable foods, such as canned soup, canned vegetables, pasta, rice or cereal, next to their mailbox prior to the time of regular mail delivery on Saturday. Local letter carriers will collect these food donations as they deliver the mail and take them to Kibois Food Pantry.Despite the generosity of millions of Americans who have supported the letter carriers' food drive in previous years, the need for food assistance still exists for many families. According to the U.S Department of Agriculture's annual study measuring food security in the U.S., nearly 49 million Americans, including more than 16 million children, are struggling with hunger.


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Speech of an Alexander[edit]
- I removed this from the article as it actually is a speech Herodotus quotes of an Alexander of Macedonia, (NOT the most famous one generally known as Alexander the Great, who lived after his time):
- Men of Athens... In truth I would not tell it to you if I did not care so much for all Hellas; I myself am by ancient descent a Greek, and I would not willingly see Hellas change her freedom for slavery. I tell you, then, that Mardonius and his army cannot get omens to his liking from the sacrifices. Otherwise you would have fought long before this. Now, however, it is his purpose to pay no heed to the sacrifices, and to attack at the first glimmer of dawn, for he fears, as I surmise, that your numbers will become still greater. Therefore, I urge you to prepare, and if (as may be) Mardonius should delay and not attack, wait patiently where you are; for he has but a few days' provisions left. If, however, this war ends as you wish, then must you take thought how to save me too from slavery, who have done so desperate a deed as this for the sake of Hellas in my desire to declare to you Mardonius' intent so that the barbarians may not attack you suddenly before you yet expect them. I who speak am Alexander the Macedonian.
- Though this is recorded in Book 9, Ch.45 as translated by A. D. Godley, as a speech made by this Alexander prior to a battle, it was wrongly cited as a speech made prior to being admitted to the Olympic games, and in any event this appears as a rather mundane quote of another person, and not actually a significant or notable statement of Herodotus himself. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:29, 23 April 2010 (UTC)


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WASHINGTON - Democrats and Republicans in Washington agree: It would be a disaster if the 'sequester,' with its more than $1 trillion of cuts to defense and domestic spending, takes effect March 1, as scheduled.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the reductions to his budget would undermine national security; the cuts to already pared-down domestic spending will set back critical needs such as cancer research, the Head Start federal preschool program for young children and funding for the Border Patrol. The economic recovery would be impeded, at a cost of as many as 750,000 jobs.
President Barack Obama says the cuts 'are a really bad idea.' In a rare display of accord, House Speaker John Boehner says the 'meat axe' approach would 'weaken' the nation's defense. Obama and Boehner were two of the authors of the 2011 sequester agreement, figuring a sensible alternative would have emerged by now.
It hasn't, and the sequester could kick in, even if only temporarily. It's a textbook case of Washington dysfunction.
Both sides created this debacle, but there is no equivalency of blame today. Any alternative must emphasize reductions in mandatory entitlement programs and add revenue. Obama, publicly and privately, has left no doubt he will surrender the Democrats' political trump card and accept cuts in programs such as Medicare. Republican leaders insist they won't give ground on new revenue, without which there can be no deal.
An impasse will be unsettling to markets and the economy in the long run, even if deficit hawks exaggerate the severity of the crisis.
'The 10-year budget outlook remains tenuous,' says Bill Gale, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution. 'Even if seemingly everything goes right - in economic terms and political terms - we are still on the edge of dangerously high debt and deficit levels.'
It isn't hard to devise a feasible alternative, if the irrational politics are put aside. First, any deficit-reduction plan should wait two years. That's because the deficit has already been narrowed by almost $2.5 trillion over the next decade. In the short term, the government needs to bolster the shaky recovery by spending more on infrastructure and other projects.
Then, it should put in place a long-term $1 trillion deficit-reduction package, half of which is achieved through entitlement cuts, one-third through tax increases and the rest by shrinking discretionary programs, chiefly defense, which are funded through annual appropriations from Congress. That would send an encouraging sign to markets and help the economy, but only if it's a long-term plan, rather than the one-year fix that Senate and House Democrats are proposing.
Entitlements or mandatory programs such as Medicare and Social Security make up almost 60 percent of the federal budget, and are the engine of chronic deficits. Getting $500 billion over 10 years wouldn't be pain-free, though it doesn't have to hurt those who can least afford to sacrifice.
The president has said he would go along with the scope of the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission's proposed cuts to Medicare. That's about $350 billion. It wouldn't require cuts for the most needy, but would contain a means test for more affluent senior citizens. A sensible deal wouldn't increase the eligibility age and would introduce more stringent cost controls and hit up drug companies for a little more.
Half the remaining savings could come from changing the formula for the cost-of-living increases for Social Security and other inflation-adjusted entitlements. That's a realistic proposal if protections are carved out for the very poor and the very elderly. The Center for American Progress has offered workable specifics. The rest could come from cutting agricultural subsidies and other entitlement programs.
The White House would buy this; and it has been the dream of Republicans for years.
On taxes, Republicans contend that the fiscal cliff deal in January, which raised taxes on the wealthy by $600 billion, means any further revenue-raisers are off the table. A number of party leaders also pay lip service to the Bowles-Simpson recommendations, which proposed $1 of revenue for every $2 of spending cuts, after eliminating former President George W. Bush's high-end tax cuts. If these Republicans have their way and the sequester or any alternative to it is exclusively spending cuts, that ratio would be more than 4 to 1.
The easiest way to get that revenue would be a plan resembling the administration's proposal to limit deductions to the 28 percent rate, and then exclude charitable deductions from that cap. That would raise more than $300 billion.
The other Republican argument is that any tax changes should await broad tax reform. But limiting deductions wouldn't narrow their options or dash their hopes of using reform as a vehicle for lowering rates. There are endless possibilities for curbing tax breaks in a revenue-neutral measure that also lowers rates, including scaling back big-ticket items such as the home- mortgage deduction or health-care exclusion or the preferential treatment for capital gains. Other changes are politically appealing, such as ending the carried-interest loophole for rich investors or the tax breaks for the oil and gas industries.
What shouldn't be cut is non-defense discretionary spending, such as veterans' programs, medical and scientific research and education. Even without the sequester, these programs are headed toward their lowest level, as a percentage of the economy, since the Eisenhower administration.
An entitlements and revenue-based deal, however, would approximate the Bowles-Simpson targets, and engender confidence in markets and businesses. The politicians could then turn to tax reform, immigration, gun violence, maybe a modest climate- change measure, and substantive oversight.
As a bonus, a successful deal might also lessen public cynicism about Washington.


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Leviton Manufacturing Co., Little Neck, N.Y., has gotten a foot in the door with Pulte Corp., Bloomfield Hills, Mich., one of the biggest homebuilders in the United States. Last month Leviton agreed to provide Pulte with its Integrated Network package of residential low-voltage wiring products. Graybar Electric Co., St. Louis, will be the primary electrical distributor of these products for Pulte's housing developments throughout the U.S.
In a statement that Pulte Corp. released announcing the marketing alliance, Bill Marshall, Leviton's vice president of marketing and product management, said the number of new homes wired with structured wiring systems capable of supporting high-speed Internet access, security applications, state-of-the art home entertainment systems and other low-voltage systems will double this year.
"In 1998, 38,000 new homes had some type of structured wiring," he said. "That number more than doubled to 90,000 new homes in 1999, and this year the figure is predicted to reach 200,000 new homes. The need to `future proof' a home is becoming more and more necessary as consumers do office work and kids surf the Internet for homework."
Marshall said the marketing agreement with Pulte makes Leviton the first in the U.S. homebuilding industry to collaborate with a national homebuilder to provide customers access to the leading-edge technology necessary to support the latest low-voltage wiring systems for these applications.
Marshall added that because structured wiring provides Internet service, it will become the fourth utility, alongside electric, telephone and gas service. As these systems get installed into more homes, he expects that they will become a critical selling point when homes go onto the resale market. In just a few years, buyers of existing homes will expect homes to be networked.
"These systems are becoming `must-haves' for customers to participate in the digital revolution, allowing them to work or do schoolwork at home, or even use the TV as a baby monitor and start the oven by using the phone," said Alan Laing, Pulte's vice president of e-business development, in a company release. "Your home can become obsolete without the necessary communications infrastructure to automate your home."
Starting with housing developments in Texas and Florida, homes will be equipped with the Pulte national standard package, which includes an enclosure box and panel, eight drops, amplifier, wall plates, jacks and connectors. The company will provide homebuyers with two upgrade packages, and customers can customize any package to include additional options for more sophisticated systems, such as a video unit and Ethernet hub.
"In joining with Leviton, we are transforming the home into a high-tech environment where the average homeowner can have the `home of the future,'" Laing said.
Pulte Corp., which has built over 250,000 homes, has operations in 41 markets across the United States and Puerto Rico, and is the one of the largest homebuilders in several of the nation's fastest-growing housing markets, including Atlanta, Phoenix and Charlotte. In 1999, the company sold 26,622 homes and had total revenues of $3.73 billion.
In another effort to offer homeowners the benefits of structured cabling, Pulte recently inked a deal with Cox Communications Phoenix Inc., Phoenix, to deliver broadband communications services at Springfield Lakes, a Pulte master planned community with 1,500 homes in Chandler, Ariz.


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Taking full advantage of the Lumix FX90's WiFi capability, Panasonic has unveiled its companion apps for both iOS and Android devices.
Throwing in shutter functionality and zoom control alongside a larger viewfinder, it's pretty much a glossy dumb remote; there's no further features to make the most of your precious smartphone, although the camera itself is already capable of linking up your camera shots with your major social network of choice.
The app requires a firmware update on the camera, but it should ensure all those self-portraits really pop in the future.


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x2networks necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 419 diseños de 111 diseñadores freelance.
x² Networks or x2 Networks (We haven't decided yet)
Need a clean, sharp, snappy, eye-catching logo. What more is there to say?! We are an IT solutions company. Anything else is just blah.. blah.. blah.
More blah.. blah.. Our audience is the world, baby! [smirk]
We haven't decided yet if it's going to be x² or x2. The entries/final logo will determine that.
Whichever catches your eye more, submit logos for that design. If you want to try submitting for both x² and x2, feel free to do it.
The "x²" or "x2" should stand alone. Feel free to include "Networks" as part of the logo, but if we opt to only use the "x²" or "x2" it shouldn't break up that portion.
Again, the logo needs to be clean and snappy.
We don't have any particular requirements at this time but will have plenty of suggestions as logos are submitted.
This isn't our first time at this and we will not tolerate disrespect of other entries. However, if anyone suspects stolen logos or designs, notify us immediately. Anyone stealing ideas or trying to pass off other work as their own will be eliminated immediately!
Thanks and good luck!
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smellibear wrote:what stuff Cass you mean like women?
As long as men and women are not biologically identical, there won't be equality.
smellibear wrote:Well that sounds like a pretty cool workplace
smellibear wrote:I trust everyone is paid the same as determined by their level of skill too.
smellibear wrote:But does this mean you view social justice as only an effort to equalize workplace opportunities and that people of color and women don't face challenges outside of this progressive field in which you are employed?
smellibear wrote:And that if an issue does not directly affect you then you have no interest in it?
Cassiel wrote: What you say is not implied by what I said. Being from China or Israel or Iran or India probably puts a different spin on things, but you'd have to ask them why it's not an issue.
smellibear wrote:whether this or what was what you intended to imply should have little impact on answering the question I should think.
smellibear wrote:what I'm trying to suss out is what you (y'all) believe social justice and the social justice movement to be. you said it was not a concern of those people you worked with and I am wondering what you base that on
smellibear wrote:I'm also curious about the notion of poisoning of the well of a movement or a school of thought but first I have to figure out what my question would be
smellibear wrote:q may be false but I'm not sure it doesn't merit an a
smellibear wrote:nah what I assume is that as minorities they have certain experiences that privileged majorities don't really share and that social justice is an attempt to address those. also I know social justice is a western concept that historically has not allowed much if any room for non-academics, non-whites, non-westerners etc and their experiences. doesn't mean it doesn't exist right?
smellibear wrote:I dunno I guess I'm curious as to how serious you are like do you mean that if you're a douchebag then you're a piece of shit and if you're a piece of shit then your ideas are shit? Also what is your criteria for douchebaggery, cuz sometimes you've been pretty douchey and it definitely hasn't meant that you were wrong
I perceive SJW activists as culture terrorists. And that is their own fault, not mine.
smellibear wrote:what do you call activists then like let's say the people who are protesting in Ferguson
smellibear wrote:@Zeut
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Iran state radio on Saturday, April 21, denounced US President George W. Bush's decision to maintain unilateral oil sanctions against Tehran. It said in an official commentary that the decision had "stunned political observers because everyone knows now that the Republicans will continue the Zionist-influenced policies of their predecessors."
Mahmud Vaehzi, former deputy foreign minister, was meanwhile cited saying Washington "in reality is only carrying out sanctions against American firms by keeping them out of an important market like Iran's."
Bush announced Friday that he had no immediate plans to repeal the sanctions in place against both Iran and Libya. The previous Democratic administration of Bill Clinton last year lifted sanctions on some non-oil Iranian exports including carpets, caviar and pistachios.
Iran and the United States broke off diplomatic relations in April 1980, several months after Islamic radicals stormed the US embassy in Tehran and took the staff hostage. Washington accuses Tehran of supporting international terrorism, undermining the Middle East peace process and developing weapons of mass destruction. —(AFP)
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Student or Learner
Unbounded spell of love & warmth
Wraps around you
Let the magic of blanket wraps around you
that weaves a spell of love & peace
These above sentences are for Christmas Wishes
Please let me know if they are correct grammatically
It's not easy to help with this kind of poetic language which the average native speaker would not use or expect the recipient of such sentiments to accept with equanimity.
You surely know that no sentence can be grammatical without a concluding punctuation mark.
More grammatical would be 'May unbounded spells of love and warmth surround you'.
I'm not sure how to improve your second sentence.
Thanks for your reply
I would just like to know if this approach of writing make sense or for native speaker it's bad taste of writing.
So I can really improve upon it
Please advice
You are still not using punctuation correctly.Thanks for your reply.
I would just like to know if this approach of writing make sense or for native speakers it's bad taste of writing,
so I can really improve upon it.
Please advise.
It's not in bad taste, but to be honest, if I wrote that on my Christmas cards my friends would fall about laughing.
I wouldn't want that to happen to you.
If you are writing to a native English speaker, I would stick to the standard "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year". You can add a nice personal message like "I wish you peace and happiness for the future".
Honestly, if I received a Christmas message containing your original writing, I would think my friend had perhaps taken a perfectly nice poem in their own language and then tried to use Google Translate to turn it into rather bad English.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.


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CTC Voluntary Group of the Year - Stevenage and North Herts CTC
CTC Voluntary Group of the Year - Stevenage and North Herts CTC
Hundreds of different people took part in Stevenage and N. Herts CTC's rides, helping to improve their health and well-being; see the local countryside; get some fresh air and enjoy good company.
Every ride has an accredited leader and sweeper. Often they are linked by radios. No one gets left behind.
The programme includes:
- A Saturday Starter every week. These gentle afternoon rides are an ideal introduction to riding in a group.
- An evening ride every Wednesday all year round. These rides of 15 to 20 miles are very popular.
- A variety of rides on Sundays.
- During the warmer months, Friday Evening Flings – slightly more adventurous evening rides going a little further away from town.
- A series of challenge events:
- Stevenage Start of Summertime Specials
- Stevenage Circular Cycle
- Emitremmus Desrever (Summertime Reversed)
- Off Road Challenges
- Cecil Cooke Trophy (which includes a hill climb and freewheeling)
The SSoSS and Emitremmus challenge rides attract hundreds of entries locally and bring visitors to the area. In 2013, the furthest travelled rider came from Tokyo!
- Lots of extras, particularly during Bike Week, Teddybears' Picnic ride, the Spring Rides and in connection with local events such as the Health Action Day.
Stevenage and North Herts CTC devised the route and helped in other ways to organise the new Baldock Cycle Challenge in 2012-2013 and it is planned again for 2014. They helped set up the award-winning Beginners' Biking scheme, which expanded to run across Hertfordshire starting in 2013. This year, they will be looking at ways to get even more new people into cycling. They have re-equipped with new radios, banners, signs and other equipment.
They have a light-hearted year-long competition called the "Blazing Saddles" with prizes for the leading lady/man and juniors.
The group have 21 accredited ride makers: the leaders, sweepers and event organisers comprising seven women and 14 men. There are five cycle instructors (three women and two men) linked with the group.
Regular riders range from 4 to 70 plus years and come from many backgrounds. A Stevenage CTC rider was first junior in the national CTC Tourist Competition and received her trophy at the National Dinner in May 2013. This is the second time this has happened in recent years.
The group works in partnership on projects such as the Health Action Day and the cycle route map. In 2014, the group hope to start the initial work needed to set up a 'satellite club' in conjunction with a local special needs school to provide disability cycling within the town. In 2013, they assisted with the East of England ITO cycle training conference held in Stevenage and will be doing so again in 2014.
Cycling is fun! Stevenage and North Herts CTC are all about participation. They ride with each other, not against each other. Come and join them.
You can find out more, including an extensive gallery of pictures by visiting www.stevenagectc.org.uk


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Curatorial Statement
Making a Difference: Deaf Peace Corps Volunteers
This exhibition seeks to examine ways Peace Corps service of deaf Volunteers aligns with and diverges from the experience of hearing Volunteers. Comments from deaf returned Peace Corps Volunteers reveal the challenging circumstances and resourceful solutions that most, if not all Volunteers encounter. They also suggest that skills gained from a lifetime of being deaf such as comfort with being seen as an outsider and acceptance of the spectacle of signing become tools that enhance international service. Deaf Volunteers embody proof of the value of educating deaf children, a requirement – and an honor – not bestowed on hearing Volunteers. Their presence in leadership positions challenges accepted notions of what deaf children can become and authority deaf adults can assume.
Get two or more deaf returned Peace Corps Volunteers together and the stories start to ricochet, each vignette prompting another. Given time, Volunteers get quickly past topics such as lack of running water and occasional electricity to reveal concerns about the long-term opportunities for deaf children, or their discomfort with discipline methods accepted in the host country, or unease about importing American Sign Language while struggling with no known local sign for vocabulary. They tell heart-wrenching tales of deaf children seen as evidence of past sins of the parents. They remark on the utter astonishment to their ability to read and write, and the hope it inspires for families with deaf children. Volunteers despair when youth arrive at their schools as teens or older with no language skills because it was assumed they were uneducable. Stories reveal what it means to grow up deaf in countries that are still working on basic human rights issues. At the same time, recollections spanning 44 years demonstrate progress in education, access and attitudes on what it means to be deaf. They teach us much about the ways societies respond to human difference.
All exhibitions are distillations; only a small part of any significant story fits on a wall. The creation of a new archival collection of images along with video interviews and taped public events offers the opportunity for a more in-depth exploration of deaf Peace Corps service. This exhibition is only the first part of a longer journey.
Jean Lindquist Bergey
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Making a Difference: Deaf Peace Corps Volunteers


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Before the 2000 presidential election, no one had ever heard of hanging chads. Before this year's U.S. Senate race in Minnesota, rejected absentee ballots were almost as little known.
Now, they've emerged as the biggest flaw in Minnesota's election system and may hold the key to finally resolving the contest between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and DFLer Al Franken.
But here and nationwide, the rejection of absentee ballots -- either because voters improperly filled out documents or because election officials erroneously spiked them -- is a problem that's long been hiding in plain sight.
"For years, people know some part of the [elections] system isn't working, but it flies under the radar screen because it doesn't cause problems until you have a situation like Florida in 2000 or Minnesota now," said Edward Foley, an election law expert at Ohio State University's law school. "Suddenly, it becomes a huge problem. Rejected absentee ballots are the new hanging chad."
"Boy, is that true," said Minnesota Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann, who has estimated that more than 13 percent of rejected absentee ballots in the Senate race -- possibly as many as 1,580 -- were improperly set aside.
"I would guess 13 percent is probably about normal for an election, but we have no way of knowing," having never examined those ballots in a previous election, he said.
The spotlight on the recount has illuminated the difficulties of voting absentee.
Eric Tjossem, a Twin Cities resident living in Australia, discovered the problems firsthand. He cast an absentee ballot but didn't sign the envelope it was placed in, as required by law. As a result, it was rejected, properly, leaving him frustrated.
"I do feel disenfranchised but not to the point where I have lost faith," Tjossem wrote in an e-mail. "I believe that the mistakes that are made will essentially balance each other out. I also believe that with the technology that is available, there has to be a better way of voting."
Increased absentee ballots
About 290,000 Minnesota voters -- one in 10 -- voted absentee this year, far more than ever before. An estimated 12,000 of their ballots were rejected.
On Friday, the state Canvassing Board took up the issue of rejected absentee ballots and sent it back to Minnesota's 87 counties, asking them to sort in a separate pile those that may have been improperly set aside.
To prevent fraud, absentee voters are required to document their identity and eligibility to vote, but the cumbersome nature of the process has led to repeated failed attempts to make it easier.
"You could do a lot to simplify the process with just some small improvements," said Joan Growe, who was Minnesota secretary of state for 24 years.
Growe and other good-government advocates have repeatedly tried to simplify the absentee process, or even transform it into a true early voting system, but the idea has never gotten much traction in the Legislature because there was little incentive to fix a system that didn't appear to be broken.
State Sen. Kathy Sheran, DFL-Mankato, shepherded a bill last year that would have eliminated the requirement that voters state a reason for voting absentee and dropped the need for a witness. It became part of a larger omnibus bill that Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed.
Had that bill become law, it might have somewhat reduced the pile of ballots that elections officials rejected, Sheran said. "I was just doing what I could to make access to absentee voting more accessible," she said. "I never had anything like this in mind, where everything is teetering on these absentee ballots."
Dealing with rejected ballots
When state elections officials realized that rejected absentee ballots could be crucial to resolving the Senate race, they instructed their local counterparts to separate the ballots into five piles: four for those rejected for each of four reasons specified by state law, and a fifth pile for ballots set aside for other, apparently improper, reasons.
Rejection rates in Minnesota counties vary. In Houston County, for example, just 1.8 percent of absentee ballots were tossed, while 2.5 percent were rejected in Olmsted County. In Dakota and Clay counties, by comparison, rejected ballots made up 5.4 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively, of the totals. Statewide, the estimated 12,000 rejected absentee ballots represent about 4 percent of the total.
Nationally, statistics from the Federal Election Commission show that 2.5 percent of all absentee ballots were rejected in 2004 and 2006.
At a national conference on election reform held in Washington, D.C., last week, Foley said, "Minnesota's struggles with absentee ballots came up as a question about the electorate that's getting less attention than it deserves. Until now, it's been a topic that has been understudied and underanalyzed."
At the very least, the voting public perceives it to be a problem. A survey released last week by the Pew Center for the States found that while 75 percent of people who voted on Election Day said they were confident their ballots were counted correctly, only 61 percent of absentee voters expressed such confidence.
That unease coexists with a national trend toward opening up the voting process: Thirty-one states offer early voting and 28 offer absentee voting that doesn't require a reason.
Many of the complicated, sometimes arcane, instructions for absentee voting in many states date from a generation ago "when it was really more the exception than it is today," Foley said. "There was a fear of shenanigans. But the psychology has changed completely and the laws haven't kept up with that."
Minnesotans are limited to five specific reasons for qualifying to vote absentee, most prominently that they will be away from their precinct on Election Day.
Growe said the more restrictive nature of Minnesota's absentee voting laws "is making liars out of Minnesotans, who want to vote early but don't have a valid excuse. We could make it much simpler."
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Here is another exciting Kickstarter project that is clearly a harbinger of things to come. As you can see in this little video, CamFind's concept is "mobile visual search". Google already introduced this concept with Google Goggles, but the people behind CamFind say their technology is at least 4 times more accurate.
It is however easy to imagine what would happen if you combined this sort of tech with something like Google Glass. In essence the entire process you see here taking place on an iPhone would actually happen right in your field of vision. People around you wouldn't even be aware of the fact that you are busy researching them or checking out how much they paid for their furniture or new outfit.
Just as exciting as it is creepy, no ?


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China's Top-Down Take on Innovation
State-Run Model Is Limiting, Some Chinese Economists Say
BEIJING—To understand why China has such a tough time producing world-class innovations, take a look at how the Chinese play games.
Ping pong tables are everywhere in public spaces and open to all comers, from kids to agile retirees, producing a reservoir of talent that has made China a ping pong innovator and champion. By contrast, basketball courts in China are generally locked up. Entrance is controlled by the state—in this case, school officials—shrinking the talent pool and the chance for youngsters to hone their moves. The result: basketball mediocrity.
For decades, China has followed a state-led innovation model, where science and technology ministries identify priority areas, fund them generously and send thousands of students overseas to study in those areas. In some fields, the approach has been successful, including space exploration, supercomputers and military technology. Now, China's leaders are looking to replicate that state-driven model in dozens of other technologies, including biotechnology, alternative energy and new materials.
But many Chinese economists and scientists say the central-planning tack has come up short on new ideas, noting that these fields are well-trod technologically by the West. They are calling for China to move beyond a "catch-up" strategy.
"With innovation, there is serendipity. You need a lot of participants [because] only 1 in 1,000 ideas may succeed," said Bai Chong-en, an economist at Beijing's Tsinghua University. "It's just like ping pong, where there is a lot of grass-roots participation."
In preparation for a November meeting of the Communist Party leadership, China is putting together a reform plan that is supposed to guide the country over the coming decade. But with China's growth slowing to about 7.5% this year from 10.4% in 2010, economists inside and outside China worry about a far sharper slide ahead. China needs to step up its game, they argue, so it no longer relies as much on low-cost exports on the one hand, and immense state-owned oligopolies on the other.
But how?
Former World Bank chief economist Justin Yifu Lin argues that because China is still a developing nation, it can still grow by imitating Western technologies and producing them better or more cheaply. "Our innovation doesn't necessarily have to be based on invention," said Mr. Lin, who now teaches at Peking University.
Other economists disagree. "You have to let big ideas flow" to power economic growth in the future, said Cai Fang, a senior economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "We're at a big turning point from government-led investment to innovation based on free-market growth."
In China, that's an especially tough transition. Chinese scientists complain that Beijing focuses too heavily on headline-grabbing efforts, like building supercomputers—it currently makes the world's fastest supercomputer, in a ranking done every six months by Top500, a group of leading computer scientists—rather than fundamental science that could spawn new industries.
China has become the world's No. 2 spender on R&D behind the U.S., but the U.S. spends 19% of its R&D budget on basic science—the kind of research that can spawn new fields over time—compared with just 5% for China, according to the U.S. National Science Foundation.
"Chinese politics is a major inhibiting factor—with so many circumscribed 'no-go zones' for research," said David Shambaugh, a George Washington University China scholar. Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, noted during a speech to a senior Communist Party school last year, "all eight Nobel Prize winners in science who are of Chinese descent either were or subsequently became American citizens."
Some Chinese startups have managed to handle the obstacles, including Tencent Holdings Ltd. , whose WeChat talk-and-text service is a hit internationally. The company is politically as well as technologically savvy. Earlier this year, Tencent's chief executive, Pony Ma, joined China's nearly powerless but symbolically significant parliament, a sign the company had become part of the Chinese establishment.
Even so, Mr. Bai, the Tsinghua economist, says China's state-owned telecom giants still have huge power to decide which Internet-based ideas can make it commercially because they control China's telecom infrastructure. The monopoly firms "have their self-interest" to protect, he said.
In some instances, the state doesn't intervene enough to protect invention, China technology experts argue. Intellectual-property protection is weak and private domestic firms frequently are barred from competing in lucrative state-owned sectors, such as telecommunications, energy or electricity production.
But for the most part, say a number of economists in and out of China, the problem is too much state control, which snuffs out what's often called "curiosity-based" innovation. Research grants must be approved by science and technology bureaucrats who judge whether they fit into a pre-approved state project. Corruption, or simply bad judgment, can kill ideas.
Over the coming weeks, Chinese leaders will need to confront a fundamental question: How much are they willing to ease control, let markets operate more freely and encourage curiosity-based innovation? The more they pull back, the more they may reduce their ability to control society. The more they continue to dominate, the less they spur the kind of innovation that can create new technologies and industries.
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Managing product variety can be easy but hard to do well. And the difference can be significant.
As businesses add more and more products to their portfolios, they face diminishing returns on variety and more costs in bringing their products to market.1 As a result, managers must balance the costs and benefits of variety in determining their product line-ups. Experiences at Hewlett-Packard Co. and elsewhere indicate that effective variety management can lead to bottom-line improvements of up to 20% of operating profit over a less systematic approach.2
One of the biggest challenges to effective variety management is obtaining a good understanding of the costs of variety. It is necessary to invest time up front to understand these costs and develop a set of guidelines that allow the business to make the right cost-benefit trade-offs. Then these guidelines can be incorporated into a comprehensive business process for managing variety on an ongoing basis. By applying the principles and the process described below, organizations can walk away with a clearer understanding of how product variety affects costs, enabling them to make smarter decisions not just for their current product line but also for future product launches.
We worked with a wide range of businesses (see "About the Research.") with products ranging from computers to laboratory filtration equipment, all struggling with the difficulties of exploding product variety, and discovered that despite sometimes intense efforts on the part of the businesses, their approaches exhibited several common pitfalls. In particular, a widespread approach to managing product variety is to cut low-volume products. This is also known as "trimming the tail." Trimming approaches vary: Products can be discontinued when volumes fallbelow a threshold, a hurdle can be set on forecasted volumes for new product introductions, or a cap may be set on the total number of product variants in a product line. Regardless of the method used, these approaches are only partially effective and can often be too simplistic to truly enable decisions that are in the best interest of a company.


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Stop almost anywhere in the Irish landscape, and you'll find proof of the country's ancient past close to hand. You just need to know what to look for
Burial mounds, stone circles surrounded by munching cows, enormous dolmens and amazingly engineered passage tombs… they're all scattered throughout Ireland in abundance. And sometimes in the most unexpected of places.
Who'd have thought, for example, that the world's oldest known field system would lie under a blanket of bog in west Mayo? Spread over several kilometres, the Céide Fields are a landscape of stone houses, walls and tombs built along mathematical principles by Neolithic farmers 5,000 years ago.
Visitors can take a guided tour, or just stroll towards the cliff edge and marvel that anything at all was built so close to the thumping Atlantic breakers.
Still out west, it seems people have always been drawn to settle in Ireland's wildest outreaches. What else but its strategic location could explain the presence of Dún Aonghasa, a prehistoric stone fort huddled on a cliff at the edge of the Aran Islands in the Atlantic Ocean? It's all too easy to imagine how approaching invaders would have been in awe – National Geographic recently included its "unclimbable" perch amongst its Top 10 Ocean Views.
The surprises keep on coming. Did you know that stone circles abound in counties Fermanagh and Tyrone? Or that at Mount Sandel, near Coleraine, you'll find the first known dwelling in Ireland, dating back to around 7,000BC, making it even older than Carrowmore in Sligo and way, way older than the Pyramids of Egypt?
And while people often talk of the High Kings of Ireland's stronghold in Tara, let's not forget Navan Fort near Armagh, seat of the Ulster kings, which was made famous in the sagas of the Irish mythical hero, Cú Chulainn.
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"What's the story?" Wherever you go in Ireland, you'll hear this casual greeting, a conversation-starter that says as much about the place of storytelling and oral history in Irish culture as it does the friendliness of the greeter. And just as you're never far from a ring-fort or stone circle here, so some rollicking tale of an ancient warrior, weird creature or pioneering saint is always close to hand.
Push through the old rhododendron below Muck Rock on Howth Head, County Dublin, for instance, and you'll come across a 2,500-year-old collapsed dolmen. It's known locally as Aideen's Grave. Why? Aideen was a warrior who died of grief shortly after her husband, Oscar, was killed in battle. Oscar's father, Oisín, is said to have personally buried her beneath a 75-tonne capstone.
Similar treasures lie hidden at Lough Gur, County Limerick. Pull up at the enchanting lakeside setting here, and you'll find a site at which people have lived for at least 5,500 years, and you can't swing a cat without hitting a stone circle, hill fort or mass rock of some kind.
Tread carefully, mind – it's said that every seven years, Gur demands the heart of a human. At the nearby Grange Stone Circle, however, the cowpats are a more imminent threat.
So you see, a slice of Ireland's history is never far away – but don't just look out for the obvious (or even the cowpats), it's often the stories surrounding them that'll take your breath away.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs have hired longtime Packers personnel man John Dorsey to replace the fired Scott Pioli as their general manager.
The Chiefs announced the hiring while the Packers were playing the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC playoffs on Saturday night. Dorsey will be introduced at a news conference Monday.
Dorsey, who played linebacker for the Packers in the 1980s, was instrumental in building Green Bay into a perennial contender. He was the director of college scouting from 2000-12, and spent last year as the director of football operations.
Dorsey also worked with new Chiefs coach Andy Reid from 1992-98, when Reid was an assistant coach for the Packers. Reid was hired to replace Romeo Crennel on Jan. 4.
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raamnet necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
Hi, i like to brainstorm about websites and applications and let them materialize when i think they can help others or myself. (gotta make some money). I also buy and sell websites, and hope to find a balance in income and creating applications/websites from that income.
This is just a starting point (hobby) and when get to work, time seems to disappear..
Interests: I am always stunned what people can do when they put their effort into it and i also like to meditate and i love fast cars.
Internet users and related users of my websites/applications. Not really specific if i think about it..
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the website i registered is: mbit.cc
I really like to color combination of red and black, or blue and black.
http://bestuff.com/stuff/red-and-black is a great example for red+black.
Blu-ray disc color looks great for blue+black.
If you can merge+glow the colors into the cable (utp/glass) i think that would look great, but not necessary.
For every new website/application i will create a seperate website, so the design will be some sort of a brandlogo. I hope this helps.
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Seussical Kids Matinee (School Show) Performance
Director: Kira Charbonneau
Music Director: Keith Hagerman
Stage Manager: Samantha Braun
Volunteers: Susan Cardinall & Skylar Smith
This will be a scheduled Performance in the theatre. Cambridge Arts Theatre (47 Water St S, Cambridge, ON N1R 3C8)
Stay in touch with your Stage Manager for schedule and updates. Times are Tentative.
ActOUT!'s Spring 2018 Mini Kids Production is in rehearsal!
Seussical KIDS
Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and all of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life onstage in Seussical KIDS, a fantastical musical extravaganza from Tony-winners, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty).
Transporting audiences from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus, the Cat in the Hat, our narrator, tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing tiny people called the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child, who gets in trouble for thinking too many "thinks." Horton's challenge is twofold – not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must also guard an abandoned egg that's been left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant!
Seussical KIDS is great fun for the whole family.
Seussical KIDS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com


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