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NSF PR 99-56 - September 23, 1999
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing
a boost to plant biology research through 15 grants
totaling $62 million over the next five years.
"The awards [from the second year of the NSF Plant
Genome Research Program: Collaborative Research and
Infrastructure Projects] will continue to build on
some of the exciting advances coming out of the work
funded last year," says Mary Clutter, assistant
director of NSF for biological sciences. "We
can now begin to gain a comprehensive understanding
of the functions of the genes required for normal
plant development. In addition to advancing basic
plant biology, this kind of work is the foundation
of ongoing efforts toward the rapid and systematic
development of improved crops. Eventual outcomes will
be of importance both to agriculture and to industries
using plant-based materials."
The new research will contribute to a better understanding
at the genome level of the inner workings of all plants,
including economically important crops like maize
(corn), pine, rice, and potato.
Some important crop plants such as maize and wheat
have large, complex genomes. However, only parts of
these genomes contain genes. Scientists are just beginning
to find out where the genes are and how they are organized.
At Iowa State University, research will focus on detailed
mapping of new genetic markers in maize. Research
funded at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will
provide an optical map of the rice genome currently
being sequenced as part of an international project.
This is a first step toward developing a comprehensive
understanding of the organization of this genome.
Complementary research funded at Purdue University
and Rutgers University will tie together gene content
and organization in of the barley, maize, rice, sorghum
and wheat genomes.
A first step in discovering the functions of individual
plant genes will be to find out when and where they
are "turned on" during the life of the plant.
Research funded at the University of Pennsylvania
and The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville,
Maryland, will study such gene expression on a chromosome
and genome-wide scale. This information will be invaluable
in getting the first snapshots of how plants develop
at the molecular level, researchers believe.
Unlike animal cells, plant cells are surrounded by
walls largely made of cellulose. The properties of
plant cell walls have a dramatic impact on the structure
and quality of plant products. It is the materials
in plant cell walls that constitute the bulk of wood
and wood-based products. However, our knowledge of
how these walls are made and assembled is still in
its infancy. Research funded at Michigan State University
will focus on how components of the cell wall are
made in Arabidopsis and maize. Research funded at
North Carolina State University will examine the genes
related to changes in wood quality in loblolly pine.
Pines are an economically important crop in the U.S.
and yield the bulk of wood pulp for paper products.
An understanding of the genes influencing wood formation
will eventually allow breeding of trees with enhanced
properties for wood and pulp production.
Some interactions between plants and microorganisms
are not beneficial to the plant and lead to crop losses.
Work at the University of California at Davis will
examine plant genes involved in resistance to pathogens.
Studies of the structure and function of these genes
in the model plant Arabidopsis will be extended to
soybean, rice and maize, allowing the development
of tools for manipulation of plant disease resistance.
Research at the University of California at Berkeley
will focus on developing additional tools for analyzing
the response of potato to late potato blight, caused
by a fungal pathogen. Late potato blight is a serious
threat to production of potato, a crop of worldwide
For more information on FY99 Awards for Plant Genome
Research Program Collaborative Research and Infrastructure
Projects, see: http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/awards/genome99.htm
National Science Foundation
Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
Tel: 703-292-8070


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Ranada Prasad Shaha University (RPSU) is an institution of Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal (BD) Ltd. The journey of the Trust began almost 75 years ago when the great philanthropist Rai Bahadur Ranada Prasad Shaha set up a free dispensary in his village home in 1938.R P Shaha was born poor, became very wealthy through his business ventures only to give away all his wealth voluntarily.
Between 1938 and 1944 R P Shaha had set up a 750-bed free hospital named Kumudini Hospital. He established a girls residential high school named Bharateswari Homes, Kumudini Girls College and Debendra College in the 1940s. In 1944 he donated an amount of Rs. 250,000/- to the British Red Cross which was more than a quarter million US dollars at that time.
R P Shaha and his only son were abducted by the Pakistan Army and their collaborators during Bangladesh war of independence in 1971. They never returned.
From the very beginning in the late 1930s the Trust has been actively involved in providing education to the masses, especially to the poor and disadvantaged group of the society. After independence in 1971, the Trust has been able to set up a Women's Medical College along with a Dental Unit, a Nursing School and a Nursing College. Having the long experience in the field of education, the Trust considers it to be an obligation to provide higher education through establishment of a university.

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5 Tips to Make Your Home Remodeling Clean Up a Breeze!
Going through a home remodeling project is exciting, frustrating, messy and loud. The idea of improving and renovating your home is not one to rush into lightly.
Make sure you take the time to access what you are looking to accomplish and gather as much information and advice as possible before you initiate the process. Talk with any family or friends who have experienced a home remodeling project and take note of what they wish they had thought to do or any other regrets or advice they offer.
Information is power and in this case it could give you the power to get through the remodeling process with most success possible. Every remodeling project has its hiccups, so be prepared for that. But most of all, be prepared for the known entities that come into play for every renovation. That would be the mess!
Here are 5 Tips to Make Your Home Remodeling Clean Up a Breeze!
5 Tips for a Clean Remodel:
- Contain the work zone as best as possible. Use plastic to seal off entryways and keep doors surrounding the work zone shut if possible.
- Cover items nearby your work zone, even if they are outside of the contained area….dust is pervasive!
- Stuff or close your vents in the work zone to prevent items from falling down the vents.
- Use a shop vac to clean drywall dust. Try NOT to use your regular vacuum…the extremely small particles can jam up your machine and make it less efficient.
- Change your air filter when the job is done.
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G.S section in SSC CGL Exam is very much unpredictable. It means, they can ask questions from anywhere. However, In last few years, It has been noticed that they have increased the number of questions from Economics .
As you all know SSC CGL Tier-1 2016 is not too far away, We are providing you a quiz on Economics. It has some most important questions. We have also provided the explantion of the answers so that you can understand the concept. We are pretty sure that it will help you.
As you all know SSC CGL Tier-1 2016 is not too far away, We are providing you a quiz on Economics. It has some most important questions. We have also provided the explantion of the answers so that you can understand the concept. We are pretty sure that it will help you.
Important GK One-Liners for SSC CGL 2016 Tier-1
- Consumer gets maximum satisfaction at the point where
(A) Marginal Utility = Price
(B) Marginal Utility > Price
(C) Marginal Utility < Price
(D) Marginal Cost = Price
- Production function is the relationship between
(A) Production and Profit
(B) Production and Prices
(C) Production and Production factors
(D) Production and Income
(E) None
- Any factor or production can earn economic rent, when its supply will be
(A) Perfectly elastic
(B) Perfectly inelastic
(C) Elastic in nature
(D) All of the above
- In the balance of payments account, unrequited receipts and payments are also regarded as
(A) bilateral transfers
(B) unilateral transfers
(C) capital account transfer
(D) invisible transfers
- Price and output are determinates in market structure other than
(A) Monopoly
(B) Perfect Competition
(C) Oligopoly
(D) Monopsony
- A philosophy that the worker should share in industrial decisions is termed as
(A) Industrial Democracy
(B) Worker Sovereignty
(C) Industrial Socialism
(D) Worker Dictatorship
- If average cost falls, marginal cost
(A) Increases at a higher rate
(B) Falls at the same rate
(C) Increases at the lower rate
(D) Falls at a higher rate
- Economies of a firm are:
(A) An increase in its profits
(B) A reduction in its selling expenses
(C) Its dominance of the market
(D) Saving in it's production costs
- The market equilibrium for a commodity is determined by:
(A) The market supply of the commodity
(B) The balancing of the forces of demand and supply for the commodity
(C) The intervention of the Government
(D) The market demand of the commodity
- Regarding money supply situation in India, it can be said that the:
(A) Currency with the public is in convertible only.
(B) Currency with the public is less than the deposits with the banks
(C) Currency with the public is more than the deposits with the banks
(D) Currency with the public is almost equal to the deposits with the banks.


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Feb 10, 2018
In 1996, comedian/director Ben Stiller and writer/producer Judd Apatow teamed with the biggest comedy name of the the decade Jim Carrey to make The Cable Guy. The film, a sharp, twisted satire about a down-on-his-luck everyman who befriends his television cable installation technician and quickly begins to regret it. The film, which divided critics and befuddled fans of Carrey, has slowly found a group of defenders yet still hasn't been vindicated. But does it deserve such vindication or should it be shut off? MovieDude Eric, Kent and Chris tune in to find out.
Music: "Poofy Reel" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
If you like this episode, you can find more of Arthouse Legends on GonnaGeek.com along with other similar geek podcasts. You can also leave comments at firstname.lastname@example.com or on our Twitter feed @arthouselegends.
Please make sure to leave feedback about the show on your podcast directory, especially on iTunes in order to help us gain more listeners. Thank you.


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Washington (CNN) -- Republicans continue to push for an in-depth investigation into former Democratic Rep. Eric Massa's alleged sexual harassment scandal -- questioning when Democratic leaders knew, and whether they failed to act.
"Calls for additional investigations are ways to say that some people knew and they didn't act quickly enough -- particularly the Speaker," said Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report. "This is about Massa, but they are trying make it more than that by bringing in other Democrats and the Democratic leadership. It's understandable and it's not unusual."
A report in The Washington Post said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office was notified of the situation within Massa's office in October by Joe Racalto, a top Massa aide, concerned about his boss' behavior. Pelosi said in published reports that she was notified about the sexual harassment claims on March 3.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he first learned about the Massa allegations in February, when a staffer complained to his office. Katie Grant, a spokeswoman for Hoyer, said the staffer was given 48 hours to contact the ethics committee -- or he would be forced to do it.
"Within 48 hours, Mr. Hoyer received confirmation from both the Ethics Committee staff and Mr. Massa's staff that the Ethics Committee had been contacted and would review the allegations," Grant said.
Rothenberg said even if Democrats aren't implicated in any wrongdoing, the end goal for Republicans is to keep Democrats on the defensive as the midterm elections approach.
"For Republicans, any time they can talk about an incident or an individual that is embarrassing to Democrats, it keeps the Democrats on the defensive. In this particular case, Republicans can portray Massa as part of the larger problems," he said. "There is a political advantage in calling for an investigation. You put the onus on the Democrats.
Massa resigned from office Monday -- just days after it became public that he was under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly groping male staffers. Initially, Massa cited a health problem in his decision.
The New York Democrat also hinted that the Obama administration was pushing him out of office because of his "nay" vote on the health care reform bill. It was a point that sparked interest among Republicans and conservatives looking to highlight concerns about the health care reform process taking place between the Democratic-controlled Congress and the White House.
That claim was later debunked by Massa himself, who told Fox News' Glenn Beck: "I wasn't forced out, I forced myself out. I own this. I take full and complete responsibility for my misbehavior."
Margaret Carlson, writing on the Huffington Post blog, noted that when those claims did not pan out, Massa became "something more as the backbencher used gullible Republicans to go out in a blaze of infamy."
Carlson, a longtime Washington observer and Bloomberg News columnist, said Republicans wanted a Democrat "to go rogue, and he [Massa] went rogue big time."
"Forgotten was Massa's resignation because of a sexual-harassment case before the House ethics committee and lymphoma, which he may or may not have," she wrote. "Massa's tale was irresistible -- a turncoat willing to single out the son of the 'devil's spawn' otherwise known as Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who already was the center of stories about White House palace intrigue."
Republicans may also be pushing for a further investigation after one of their party's members faced a similar incident years ago. That incident is largely cited for the large number of GOP losses in the 2006 midterm elections.
In 2006, Florida GOP Rep. Mark Foley was forced to resign after his sexually suggestive e-mails to male pages were exposed.
Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called for an investigation into when the Republican leadership, namely House Speaker Denny Hastert, was notified and "what corrective action was taken," according to her statement at the time.
After an investigation, the House Ethics Committee discovered that some people who knew about Foley's communications chose to "remain willfully ignorant."
Pelosi's resolution before the House was aimed at starting an investigation of "when the Republican leadership was notified and what corrective action was taken," according to her statement. Instead, then-House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, made a motion that the Foley matter be sent to the House Ethics Committee, which passed 409-0.
In the end, the ethics committee's probe concluded that House GOP leaders were negligent in not protecting male teenage pages from possible improper advances by Foley. But the panel said there were no violations of the House Code of Official Conduct and decided no one would be reprimanded.
Now the tables have turned with the Massa scandal.
Boehner urged the House on Thursday to pass a resolution calling for an examination of the Democratic leadership's knowledge of the sexual harassment claims. Following its rules, the House voted 402-1 on a motion by Democrats to refer the situation to the Ethics Committee, essentially tabling Boehner's resolution.
Nonetheless, Boehner touted it as a win, saying in a statement that the vote sent a "strong public signal" that an investigation of "what House Democratic leaders and members of their respective staffs knew about the allegations against former Rep. Eric Massa, and what actions they took after learning of those allegations, is necessary."
Boehner chastised Pelosi for breaking her promise to make Congress "the most open and ethical" one -- saying evidence suggests Pelosi's staff "had reports of his troubling behavior months ago, but apparently failed to act. ... The American people deserve to know the truth."
CNN's Susan Candiotti and Evan Glass contributed to this report.


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Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch is a member of the Dell PowerConnect 2800 Series family which includes PowerConnect 2808, PowerConnect 2816, PowerConnect 2824 and PowerConnect 2848 switches (as shown below). All of them are Web-managed Gigabit Ethernet switches designed for the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) that requires high performance edge connectivity. Among them, Dell PowerConnect 2824 is the most popular one. This post will introduce it in details and tell how to connect it to the network.
Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch uses 24 built-in 10/100/1000 Base-T ports and 2 SFP combo ports on the front panel for connecting to a network (as shown below). The 10/100/1000 Base-T ports can operate at 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps, supporting auto-negotiation, half or full duplex mode and flow control. While the SFP combo ports can only operate at 1000 Mbps, full duplex mode. These features make the Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch to be used in any networks requiring Gigabit speeds of 10/100/1000 Mbps and SFP combo ports for linking additional equipment. There is also a Mode push-button located on the right side on the front panel, which is used to transition between management modes and to reset the device. Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch can be configured for managed or unmanaged mode depending on your preference.
By default, the switch is often in unmanaged mode. You can conform it by looking at the managed mode LED on the front panel. If the LED is green, it is in managed mode; if not, it is in unmanaged or secure mode. To get access to the switch's management, you need to follow these steps:
- 1.turn the switch from unmanaged to managed mode by holding the managed mode button for three seconds, releasing it and the and the managed mode LED will turn on;
- 2.Connect a personal computer to any of the Ethernet ports on the switch;
- 3. Assign the personal computer an IP address 192.168.2.10 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0;
- 4. Open up a web browser and type in 192.168.2.1 (this is the PowerConnect 2824 switch default IP address) in the address bar and press Enter;
- 5. Log in with username admin and a blank password. You are now in the management of the switch.
As mentioned above, Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch has 24 10/100/1000 Base-T ports and 2 SFP combo ports. This part will provide information about cables and physical connections for its copper and SFP interface respectively.
Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch's 10/100/1000 Base-T ports can be set to Half Duplex, Full Duplex and Auto modes. These ports are used to connect high-speed workstations and other network devices such as servers, hubs and routers with the use of standard RJ-45 connectors and UTP cables.
NOTE: Cat5 cables can be both used for 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T connections. However, Cat5e cables are recommended to be used used for all critical connections or any new cable installations for better performance.
The two SFP combo ports of Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch are logical ports with two physical connections: an RJ-45 connection for copper cabling and an SFP port for optical transceiver which offers high-speed 1000BASE-SX or 1000BASE-LX connection. But only one of the two physical connections of a combo port can be used at any time. And if both RJ-45 and SFP ports are present, the SFP port will be the active port, whereas the RJ-45 port will be disabled and ignored.
The following table lists some common SFP transceivers for the SFP combo ports of Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch:
|Product ID
|Product Description
|Dell PowerConnect 790-10071 Compatible 1000BASE-LX SFP 1310nm 10km DOM Transceiver
|Dell PowerConnect 407-10436 Compatible 1000BASE-LX SFP 1310nm 10km DOM Transceiver
|Dell PowerConnect 320-2879 Compatible 1000BASE-LX SFP 1310nm 10km DOM Transceiver
|Dell PowerConnect 790-10070 Compatible 1000BASE-SX SFP 850nm 550m DOM Transceiver
|Dell PowerConnect 407-10435 Compatible 1000BASE-SX SFP 850nm 550m DOM Transceiver
|Dell PowerConnect 320-2881 Compatible 1000BASE-SX SFP 850nm 550m DOM Transceiver
Dell PowerConnect 2824 switch is ideal for the small to medium business that requires high performance network connectivity along with advanced web management features. It will perform for your business at the highest level, leaving you to concentrate more on your business and less on your networking equipment.


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Bryan, OH - July 2002: Spangler Candy Company announces the debut of Ice Cream Dum Dum Pops®, super-sized pops in cool, creamy flavors arriving just in time for summer! Ice Cream Dum Dum Pops come in six delicious flavors Root Beer Float, Orange Sherbet, Strawberry Milkshake, Peaches n' Cream, Banana Split, and Chocolate Mint. Ice Cream Dum Dum Pops will be available in 11-ounce bags, packed 24 per case, and 100-count boxes, packed eight per case.
Ice Cream Dum Dum Pops® are part of Spangler's commitment to grow by developing products that expand and enhance their flagship brand. "Ice cream flavors are a consumer favorite," said Dean L. Spangler, President and CEO of Spangler Candy. "Spangler has added new manufacturing lines to meet consumer demand for bigger Dum Dum Pops, and the six ice cream flavors are a bonus. These lollipops offer all the flavor of an ice cream treat, but in a compact, easy-to-eat package."
Spangler Candy Company, in business since 1906, produces a large line of quality confections including Dum Dum Pops®, Saf-T-Pops®, Atomic Fireball® Lollipops, Lemonhead® Lollipops, Astro Pops®, Circus Peanuts, Spangler Chocolates, Valentine, Easter, Halloween & Christmas Candies, Traditional Candy Canes & Cane Classics®, and Jelly Belly® flavored candy canes.
Lemonhead and Atomic Fireball and their logo designs are registered trademarks of Ferrara Pan Candy Company.
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What Is The Apple vs Adobe Debate About?
The debate started with an open letter to Adobe in April of 2010 from Apple's Steve Jobs. Jobs listed six points that laid out why Apple would not support Adobe's Flash technology. The two most important are Flash's ubiquity on the web, and cross-platform development.
Adobe's position is that Apple's devices can't access the "full web" given that 75% of videos online are created in Flash. Apple's side of the discussion is that the majority of those videos can be accessed in other formats. Apple, who had previously denied apps for its App Store because they were created using non-Apple tools, recently loosened their restrictions to allow to apps written using third party tools (including those from Adobe) which are then compiled for the iPhone and iPad.
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State snoops and private blacklisting
POLICE supposedly keeping watch on "extremists" in order to counter terrorism co-operated with the so-called Consulting Association, which kept illegal files on trade unionists whose only crime was that they sought better and safer conditions at work, and thus fell foul of employer blacklisting.
Many of us have long suspected collusion went on between the police Special Branch and employer-funded outfits, but evidence was anecdotal or circumstantial, or concerned chance finds of documents in firms. Now however the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), which deals with data protection, has come across solid evidence of the relationship between governmental and private snoops.
Reporting the breaking news, Dave Smith of the Blacklist Support Association says:
"The ICO have revealed that they have in their possession minutes from a Consulting Association meeting held in November 2008 where a senior police officer from an undercover police unit called NETCU gave a Powerpoint presentation. Despite a FOI request, the ICO have refused to provide the documents to lawyers Christian Khan, representing the Blacklist Support Group in our complaint against the police to the IPCC.
"However, the IPCC have written to Christian Khan admitting that the police were aware of the Consulting Association and that all Special Branches provided information about prospective employees". In February 2009 officers sent by the ICO raided the Consulting Association offices in Droitwich. It was revealed that the Association, which had taken on the business of the notorious Economic League, held files on about 3,200 construction workers, including political activists, shop stewards and health and safety representatives. The database was seized four years ago and Ian Kerr, who ran the operation gathering and exchanging information among member firms was fined £5,000. Invoices were discovered showing that 44 companies in total had paid for this service. They included big names in the construction industry like Skanska, Laing, McAlpine, Balfour Beatty, Taylor Woodrow and Mowlem.
As workers who were able to see their files took legal action, the scale of the blacklisting and snooping has become more evident. An ICO official told an industrial tribunal for a person who had been blacklisted that he believed the information on the database could only have been supplied by the police or the security services.
Carillion, whose business ranges from building and railway maintenance to hospital services management, figured in the legal action brought by Dave Smith over blacklisting. Carillion management was also at the centre of a dispute with Swindon hospital workers who complained of corrupt practices and bullying.
This week it was reported that Carillion had lost its space at Labour Party conference as a result of pressure from GMB, to whom it has been reallocated, and UCATT, though the latter union has reportedly had to cough up so the party can compensate Carillion.
This followed the good news that blacklisted sparks and Unite shop steward Frank Morris had won reinstatement on the Crossrail project. The move to get local authorities to bar contractors who carry out blacklisting received a big boost with the Welsh government announcing it was banning them.
But the collaboration between police and private agencies is a whole further dimension to the blacklisting scandal.
Here is Dave Smith again:
'In a recent Guardian front page article, undercover police officer Peter Francis, from the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) section within Special Branch admitted spying on a number of union activists who were involved in an anti-racist group that he had infiltrated. He says that specific information on their blacklist files almost certainly originated from his evidence gathering.
Brand new confirmation that police colluded with blacklisting trade unionists has now come to light. The Blacklist Support Group submitted a complaint to the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) in 2012. The IPCC and Met Police initially refused to even register the complaint but after an Appeal by Christian Khan solicitors the IPCC passed the complaint over to Operation Herne (the ongoing police investigation looking into the conduct of undercover police units).
In a recent letter about the Blacklist Support Group complaint, the IPCC update progress in the investigation and admit:
"initial scoping by the Operation Herne team identified that the
Consulting Association was an organisation that had developed from a number
of other organisations dating back to 1917. The scoping also identified
that it was likely that all Special Branches were involved in providing
information about potential employees" *(full letter attached)
This is an absolute admission by the police that Special Branch colluded with the blacklisting conspiracy which has been described as *"the worst human rights abuse against workers in the UK since the war"* by Michael Meacher MP during a debate in the House of Commons.
Another undercover SDS officer called Mark Jenner (aka Cassidy) spied on
activists in London in the late 1990s. Jenner used a cover story that he
was a building worker and attended picket lines about unpaid wages and even
chaired meetings of rank and file building workers campaigns. Information
about those picket lines and about the campaign that the undercover SDS
officer chaired appear on a number of Consulting Association blacklist
One of the blacklisted union activists that was spied on by Mark Jenner is
Steve Hedley, current RMT Assistant General Secretary, who even invited the
undercover SDS officer to stay in his family home in Derry during a trip to
Ireland at the time of the peace process.
Steve Hedley said:
"I feel utterly violated by a police officer befriending me, then spying
on me and passing information on to the blacklist which resulted in me being unemployed for a year.This man stayed at my family home as a guest.
Are we now living in a police state?"
Brand new documentary evidence has now come to light that proves beyond
doubt that senior officers from the National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (NETCU) attended secret Consulting Association meetings. NETCU was set up in 2005 after lobbying by big corporations.'
According to the Association of Chief Police Officers, "The National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit's role is to support others to prevent, reduce and disrupt criminal activity associated with domestic extremism and single issue campaigning.
Because domestic extremists don't work within police force boundaries, NETCU works with police forces across the country to provide tactical advice and guidance in order to promote a co-ordinated and consistent approach to tackling domestic extremism.
Acting as a crime prevention unit, NETCU supports industry, academia and other organisations that have been or could be targeted by extremists, by raising awareness and building resilience through security advice..."
Dave Smith continues:
'Last week the Information Commissioners Office responded to a Freedom of Information request which requested "a copy of any minutes/notes/powerpoint presentations in relation to and the list of attendees of the meeting between the NETCU and the Consulting Association in November 2008 held by the ICO." In an email response dated 3rd September 2013, the ICO have now stated:
"We can confirm that we do hold information in the scope of your request which are dated November 2008. It is unclear whether this is a formal minutes or just notes taken by an attendee at the time or afterwards." This is documentary evidence that senior police officers attended secret meetings of the Consulting Association blacklist. The ICO have refused hand over this documentary evidence claiming it would be a breach of the Data Protection Act. The IPCC are investigating police involvement with an illegal blacklisting conspiracy - the ICO have the documents that prove this and they are refusing to hand it over to the lawyers of the blacklisted workers. A similar FOI request to the police has also resulted in no documents being disclosed. This smacks of a cover up.
(We might remember here the government's refusal to release all documents relevant to the Shrewsbury pickets trial, which also involved collusion between the law, police and big employers, forty years ago).
"To make matters worse, when the ICO gave evidence to MPs as part of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee investigation into blacklisting they were asked specifically about possible police involvement in the Consulting Association blacklist and completely failed to mention that they had documents in their possession that proved the police attended CA meetings.
But as Dave Smith says, this is not just a matter of individual officers:
Blacklisting campaigners believe that the police officer who gave the powerpoint presentation at the CA meeting in November 2008 was previous head of NETCU, Superintendent Steve Pearl, currently director of a firm which provides employment vetting.
"Blacklisting is no longer an industrial relations issue; it is a conspiracy between multinational construction firms, the police and the security services. The parallels with phone hacking are obvious. There is, however, a significant difference from phone hacking, where the police involvement was supposedly due to individual corruption. The police collusion in blacklisting is not one or two rogue officers, but standard operating procedure by the state to target campaigners under the guise of "domestic extremism", routinely sharing information with big business.'
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Kitchen Gardens International is a group that can get things done. Their Eat the View campaign was instrumental in bringing about the current White House kitchen garden. Now the group has a new campaign – Food Independence Day.
By petitioning each of our 50 governors, the group hopes to persuade the 50 first families to eat locally sourced meals this July 4. They are asking those who support this campaign to go to their website and sign a petition asking their governor to not just "lead by example but eat by example." Petitions will be delivered to the governors in the last week of June.
Here's what the petition says:
To: The first families of the 50 U.S. states and territories
We, the undersigned, are petitioning you to lead and eat by example this July 4 by sourcing the ingredients of your Independence Day meal as locally and sustainably as possible. Whet our appetites by publishing your planned menu in advance of the holiday. Share your recipes and the names of the local farmers, fisherfolk and food producers whose ingredients you'll be using. Make it into a friendly competition with the other first families to see who can serve the meal that inspires the most while traveling the least. As residents of your states and by our signatures below, we pledge to join you in this celebration of edible independence by eating healthy and delicious foods from our own local farms, gardens and communities.
What do you say? Are you ready to celebrate your food independence? Why am I picturing Bill Pullman asking this question?
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A lot of people asked for it, and I got the fateful text last week that said Scott was ready and had something to say!
In all seriousness, I loved talking to Scott Raab every week and I love talking to him whenever I get the chance to now. With the Johnny Manziel draft pick and the Josh Gordon rumors that cropped up, there was little doubt that he and I would get together on the phone and talk about the Cleveland sports news of the moment.
We also found time to talk about the Sin Tax and Chief Wahoo briefly.


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U.S. stock index futures are pointing to a flat open as the market's focus turned from Greece back to the 'fiscal cliff.'
- Market sentiment had improved after eurozone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund clinched agreement late on Monday on reducing Greece's debt in a breakthrough to release urgently needed loans to keep the near-bankrupt economy afloat.
- But as U.S. budget negotiations continued in Washington, the market quickly reverted to a more cautious stance on concerns over the fast-approaching fiscal cliff. Futures cut earlier gains to trade flat.
- S&P 500 futures were little changed and in line with fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 6 points, while Nasdaq 100 futures were up 2.5 points,
- As of Monday's close, the S&P 500 was holding above the 1,400 level it retook last week, and volume continued to be weak as traders awaited any advance in talks between the Obama administration and Congress to avert a series of spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to begin next year, which threaten to drag the economy into recession.
- The Commerce Department said on Tuesday durable goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, rebounded 1.7% last month, smashing economists' expectations of 0.5% decline.
- Standard & Poor's releases its S&P Case/Shiller Home Price Index for September at 9:00 a.m. ET. Economists expect an adjusted 20 city index to rise 0.4%, versus a 0.5% increase in the previous month.
- Conference Board releases November consumer confidence at 10 a.m. ET. Economists expect a reading of 73.0, compared with 72.2 in October.
- ConAgra Foods Inc will acquire Ralcorp, the largest private label food manufacturer in the U.S. for $90 per share in cash, a deal valued about $6.8 billion.
- ConocoPhillips' partners in Kazakhstan's Kashagan field have 60 days to exercise pre-emption rights to prevent India's ONGC Videsh from buying an 8.4% stake in the project held by the U.S. company, the Indian firm's managing director said.
- Europe is preparing to follow the United States in delaying the introduction of stricter rules on bank capital, while it lobbies for a rethink of the U.S. stance, EU sources said.
- However, the head of the Basel Committee at the Bank of International Settlements told Reuters on Tuesday that the introduction of stricter capital rules for banks will go ahead as planned on Jan. 1.
© Thomson Reuters 2012


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Stigma and discrimination - challenges to development
Dr Glenda P. Simms, Contributor
In November 2010, UNAIDS released its report on the global AIDS epidemic. This very important and eye-opening report has provided the needed information for every nation to revise and reaffirm the world's commitment to conquering the scourge of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The report highlighted the following concerns which were addressed by significant numbers of the nation states that report periodically on a number of human-rights issues to the United Nations.
- Stigma and discrimination in health-care systems continue to adversely affect access and provision of services to citizens who are either vulnerable to or affected by HIV.
- It was noted that in Central and South America, some health-care deliverers are likely to deny services to high-risk population groups such as sex workers and men who have sex with men. This situation is also relevant to African societies such as Lesotho, Mozambique and Senegal, where stigma and discrimination continue to be barriers to citizens who need a range of health-care services including HIV testing and treatment.
- The United Nations-designated organisations responsible for monitoring the HIV/AIDS pandemic also hear horrendous stories of violence against and murder of individuals who are suspected of homosexual orientation and practice.
- The continuing global culture of intolerance, stigma and discrimination calls for all nation states to involve persons living with HIV and those who are identified as most vulnerable in all national efforts to fight the disease. The 2010 Global Report has noted that 96 per cent of countries which contributed to the information that is highlighted involve people living with HIV in meaningful ways in their country policies.
The report also highlighted the negative effects of punitive legislation and policies on the ability of persons with HIV or those who fall in vulnerable groups to access HIV-prevention programmes, treatment, appropriate care and access to all services that would guarantee their dignity and inherent human rights. Some of these laws are very explicit in many parts of the world. In some societies, same-sex consensual relations are criminalised; in others, homosexuals run the risk of getting the death penalty for having sex with a same-sex partner. Furthermore, some societies restrict or prevent the entrance across their borders of individuals who are HIV-positive.
Another vulnerable group that is affected by punitive legislation is sex workers.
Fossilised legislation
While it is a fact that more and more countries have been systematically removing such fossilised legislation, there is still a concern that without mechanisms to record, document and address cases of discrimination experienced by people living with or vulnerable to HIV, the stated problems will still remain. In fact, the global review has revealed that support systems such as legal-aid services are more available in First World or high-income countries, while the lower middle-income and the poorest societies continue to lag behind in the access to services, even when the discriminatory legislative framework is cleaned up.
In the ongoing global discourse on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the issue of gender equality has been finally placed on the front burner. This focus is in line with the achievement of many of the Millennium Development Goals. In particular, it is a challenge to nation states to demonstrate the progress towards the achievements of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
The 2010 UNAIDS Global Report reminds us that gender relationships and the response to HIV/AIDS differ from region to region and from country to country. However, in spite of these variations, the following realities must be addressed in every nation state:
- Power imbalances between men and women at all levels of society.
- Harmful gender norms which have been ingrained in both the private and public spheres.
- The relationship between the spread of HIV and gender-based violence.
- The impact of poverty on women and their children.
- The marginalisation of women in the political process.
- The need for greater access to education for both girls and boys.
In an effort to demonstrate the urgent need for gender equality as a plank of development, the report forcibly stated that "in nearly all countries in sub-Saharan Africa and certain Caribbean countries, the majority of people living with HIV are women, especially girls and women aged 15-24 years".
In 2010, the local UNAIDS office convened a stakeholder meeting in order to identify the linkages between the global concerns about the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the local vision for change in the Jamaican situation. This interactive and spirited meeting agreed on the need for a holistic approach to the pandemic. The participants underlined the need for the Jamaican Government and the various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that are partnering to make a difference at the levels of the individual, the family and the community.
These stakeholders came to the conclusion that even though the data show that in Jamaica and the Caribbean the epidemic is declining, the reality is that the gains are fragile. The following priorities were, therefore, identified for the approaches in 2011.
- A holistic approach that integrates a gendered analysis in all HIV programme is an immediate necessity.
- A partnership framework must be identified if the pandemic is to be effectively managed.
- Leaders of government agencies and NGOs must be held accountable in all HIV/AIDS initiative.
- Stigma and discrimination must be addressed in clear and non-ambiguous terms by both government and non-government actors.
All laws that impinge on the human rights of any sector of the Jamaican society must be repealed in a framework that respects the inherent human rights and dignity of every citizen.
In line with these discussions, the issue of the HIV/AIDS pandemic should be seen as a prime-time issue for Jamaica in 2011.
Dr Glenda P. Simms is a gender expert and consultant. Email feedback to email@example.com.


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COLUMBUS – Any adult, group, or conservation club who has a sincere interest in taking kids fishing should consider becoming a certified Passport to Fishing instructor, according to the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
A Passport certification course is being offered on Monday, April 26th at the Wildlife District One Office. Passport to Fishing is a one-day instructor training program that qualifies individuals to become Division of Wildlife certified fishing instructors, similar to a hunter education instructor. The free workshop is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants will need to pack a lunch. The Wildlife District One Office is located at 1500 Dublin Road. To register for a workshop, call 1-800-WILDLIFE


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While the girls don't have friend birthday parties every year – we always have birthday parties with our families. As the first born, Norah has had several but (other than first birthdays) she is the only one. Lucy has been asking to have a party for several months now, so we decided to have a birthday party for her this year. I threw out some theme ideas – tea party, Pinkalicious, camping, etc. She didn't like any of those ideas – I should have known she already had her own idea. Lucy wanted a rainbow party. At first I wasn't sure how I would make that work – but after some encouragement from facebook friends and some ideas on Pinterest, I knew a rainbow party could be really fun. The only problem – I couldn't do all the cute ideas – which ones do I try to recreate. I started by asking my friend, Sara, to do the birthday invitation. She did a great job!! (Seriously, people, if you need birthday invites, Christmas cards, birth announcements, etc, check out her great designs!!!)
While this week was CRAZY with soccer and Boot Camp Challenge and this weekend is CRAZY with more soccer and more Boot Camp Challenge, I knew today was the best day to fit in her party. The girls seemed to enjoy themselves and Lucy was THRILLED to finally have a friend party!! Her actual birthday is Tuesday – I will post more about Lucy then!!


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I've come to dread when new Firefox updates roll around. Besides the problem of add-ons and themes giving me trouble, it's largely because the UI team is constantly on the lookout for new ways to make things worse.
To qualify that statement, I know that any time a program or Website changes, users are going to complain and want things back the old way. Sometimes that's not feasible, and I accept this. I've been on the receiving end of those complaints myself, and I get it. But Firefox's UI team has a history of making changes for spurious or even outright stupid reasons, and they're almost never good changes.
Newer versions have screwed with add-on compatibility in unexpected ways. I use the Qute 3++ theme, which is what Qute used to look like before the author went berserk and frelled it up to make it look like Firefox 4's horrendous default theme. When I went to Firefox 15 I head to reinstall it because I couldn't get Firefox to reenable it; they have no convenient way to force-enable it, and the Add-On Compatibility Reporter extension lost its ability to force the issue. Now on Firefox 17, the only way to get it back was to install a new add-on that would basically do what the compatibility reporter used to. And the frustrating thing is, I couldn't simply edit the theme's settings because the file says internally that it's compatible with versions up to 30. Whatever metric Mozilla is using to track compatibility, it must go beyond that now; but the theme still works, and they shouldn't just keep disabling crap willy-nilly.
In truth, Firefox's add-on compatibility handling has always been terrible. The problem has merely become exacerbated with the new rapid release schedule. They do have some smart people there, so I hope someone sooner or later comes up with a solution.
Meanwhile I'm still POed at the UI team for other reasons. Back in Firefox 14 they removed site icons from the location bar, because they thought there might be a security risk from a malicious Website putting a padlock icon up there. This was of course moronic: Not only were they color-coding the icon area before so you could see if it was a secure site that way, but who's stupid enough to fall for that and why is it my problem? So they made the change, and it required a new add-on to bring icons back, and a separate icon to bring the color-coding back. A whole bunch of "helpful" people said the lack of icon shouldn't matter because you have the site icon on the tab, but that's kind of meaningless if you hide tabs when you're not using more than one of them, isn't it?
In Firefox 17, I suddenly had to contend with the results in the Awesomebar being ridiculously spaced. It looked horrible, and they did it for no reason. I was expecting a problem because I read a page saying they'd made changes to this part of the program, which is why I put off the upgrade in the first place. This change required me to fire up the DOM Inspector, create a temporary stylesheet in Stylish (this is a great extension, although I have to use a variant of it since the original stopped working right a few versions back), and play around with styles till something worked. This is nothing I hadn't anticipated having to do, but it's the kind of crap I hate being right about.
So far I haven't run into any other issues—yet. But I am waiting for the other shoe to drop.
One comment I get a lot whenever I complain about Firefox's upgrade woes is that I should switch to Chrome. That will not happen. Chrome is difficult to impossible to customize. Some kinds of extensions flat-out won't work, like something that can download a YouTube video. If there's a way to turn http:// back on in the URL bar or fix similar annoyances, it's news to me. The minimalist interface bugs me on a visceral level. In spite of standards junkies yapping about how Chrome is oh-so-compliant with CSS standards, last I checked it still had a horrendous bug leftover from Safari where vertical-align is inherited from a parent element, which has caused me no end of professional grief. Google's auto-updater is also the work of the devil, making itself nearly impossible to disable.
No, Firefox will remain my browser of choice for the foreseeable future. It has made great strides, particularly with the excellent work of the MemShrink project. Just because the UI team screws up everything they touch doesn't mean the rest of the project is doomed. But it does mean update day is an unwarranted hassle.


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by Liz Carr, The Spectator, 17 August 2017
Liz Carr is a UK actor, comedian and disability rights activist perhaps best known as forensic examiner Clarissa Mullery in the BBC's Silent Witness.
Disability is fundamental in any discussion about assisted suicide: those high profile campaigns calling for a change to the law are almost always fronted by those who would be described as disabled. As a wheelchair user who needs 24-hour assistance with the most personal of tasks, the people we see in the media calling for help to end their lives, often look like me. No, they often look healthier than I do. But when we have so few representations of disabled people on TV or in the media then the assumption becomes that people like me must find life unbearable and that of course, we'd want to end our lives.
There is such a fine line between terminal illness and disability both medically and in public perception, that they become one and the same. Consequently, assisted suicide is seen as an understandable and rational response to both. Perhaps that's why I've had complete strangers tell me that if they were like me then they couldn't go on.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons I oppose the legalisation of assisted suicide? As long as some lives are deemed as not worth living and are viewed as less valuable than others, there is the unwitting potential that state sanctioned assisted suicide would further enshrine this inequality in law. When most people choose to end their life, we offer prevention but when ill, dying, older and disabled people talk about doing the same, they are often met with understanding and encouragement.
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Yi-Ping Qin
Articles written in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
Volume 32 Issue 1-2 March 2011 pp 269-272 Part 7. Other Topics
Estimation of Black Hole Masses from Steep Spectrum Radio Quasars
Ye Chen Zhi-Fu Chen Yi-Ping Qin You-Bing Li
In this work, we employ a sample of 185 steep-spectrum radio quasars (SSRQs) to estimate their black hole masses from broad emission lines. Our black hole masses are compared with the virial black hole masses estimated by Shen (2010). We find that there is a large deviation between the two kinds of values if the black hole masses are estimated from broad emission line of CIV. However, both values are in agreement if the black hole masses are estimated from broad emission line of MgII or H𝛽.
Volume 41, 2020
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P-Noy's SONA praised, jeered
By Shiena M. Barrameda
NAGA CITY — While many praised the President for speaking the native tongue throughout his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, July 25, a good number of national and local leaders still believe that his administration remains wanting in terms of concrete long-term services for the people, especially the impoverished sector.
Militant groups in Bicol, particularly in the cities of Naga and Legazpi, braved the pelting rain brought about by tropical storm 'Juaning' to air their own version of the state of the nation which according to them did not speak well of the economy, and the promises that President Aquino made when he ran for office.
Karapatan-Bicol and Kabataan, and ordinary employees challenged P-Noy's declaration of a decreasing percentage in the number of hungry Filipinos which, according to the President went down to 15.1% in June 2011 from 20.5% in March 2010.
His fellow Liberals
Mayor Antonio Chavez of San Jose, Camarines Sur, a known P-Noy ally because of his affiliation with the Liberal Party said that President Aquino's most notable achievement during his first year in Malacañang is the reduction in the number of substandard public works projects, and probably the absence of ghost projects within his first year term of office, proving himself faithful to his vision of 'Matuwid Na Daan' under his term.
Naga City Vice-Mayor Gabriel Bordado, another Liberal Party member, stressed that P-Noy's SONA was "generally OK."
"P-Noy did the right thing when he underscored the upgrades made by Fitch and other international entities engaged in rating the economies of sovereign states. He should have provided, however, additional broad strokes to serve as guideposts or veritable roadmaps. I personally appreciate his concern for local governments," Bordado said of P-Noy's description of the Philippines' triumph in the ranking of nations by such credible institutions such as Moody's, Standard and Poors, Fitch, and Japan Credit Ratings Agency.
Bordado had admitted in his previous assessments that the first few months of P-Noy's administration have arguably not been too rosy for the President and his Cabinet.
He stressed that the government is still on the right track despite the travails and pitfalls the Aquino administration experienced.
Meanwhile, Ako Bicol party-list Rep. Rodel Batocabe praised the President's simple and clear speech.
"The SONA was concise and very definite as to what the President intends to do," Batocabe said. "Above all else, his plan is to change the culture of corruption and inequity where the rich, powerful and well-connected can bend the law, justice and fair play to suit one's interest. In other words, he wants a regime where the rule of law, fair play and equity reign supreme. These are, after all, the reasons why our people placed him there."
Voices in the street
Jahn Cristopher Tapalla, 24, a mall employee and single father, admitted he was impressed by the President's use of the national tongue.
But he was not convinced about the President's declaration of progress taking place under his watch.
"They all shouted, 'No. That's not true! A lot of us are still hungry!' I guess whatever he is doing is still not enough," Tapalla said of the televised SONA on that day.
Dimple Viñas, a receptionist from Tinambac, Camarines Sur, commented on Facebook that Filipinos should try to understand P-Noy's situation because he was elected into a position in a country with an almost irreparable political condition. She stressed that she was pleased with the developments she sees now, encouraging others to do their part in nation-building.
On the other hand, Congressman Teddy Casiño of Bayan Muna voiced out that the President's report is almost lacking in concrete long-term solutions and tangible progress.
Representing the view of the party-list, he said that the 'Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program' which the President was waving in pride is nothing more than a temporary solution that would only leave the coffers of the Republic missing a lot of money which could have been used to finance basic services and create more jobs.
"What the common man needs are long-term solutions and not cash on hand to spend," Casiño said.
Despite this, Casiño commended the President for his relentless effort in running after corrupt officials and taking the initiative of cleansing the government of corrupt practices.


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About Kristina O'Grady: Kristina O'Grady has always loved telling a good story. She took up writing at a young age and spent many hours (when she should have been doing her math homework) writing romance stories in a book she hid in her sock drawer. She still remembers the first romance book she ever read. She was without anything to read (oh no) while on vacation with her family and bought a book in the small shop in the hotel lobby. It involved an Earl, a horse and very bad fever and of course, a Lady. Since then she has been hooked on the Regency era.
Kristina grew up on a cattle ranch in Western Canada and although has been told many times she should be writing about cowboys, she can't seem to leave the fantasy of Dukes and Earls alone. She worked in the Oil and Gas Industry for several years first as a laborer, machine operator, crew foreman, technician and eventually as an environmental consultant. She loves getting out in the fresh air and enjoying the peace of nature. In mid 2000 Kristina met her own knight in shining armor/cowboy who swept her off her feet and across the world to New Zealand, where she now lives on a sheep and beef farm with her amazingly supportive husband, three gorgeous young kids, seven working dogs and one very needy cat.
Website: http://www.kristinaogrady.com/about.html
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Stuff. That's what I have, and not much of it.
My burnt thumb is all better. No I did not spill the cookies when I burned my thumb, thankfully.
I actually don't enjoy baking at all. I do it but I don't enjoy it. But that's life, living with another person and two dogs. You do things you don't enjoy anyway, just to be kind. And Paul loves to have cookies. He really hates store-bought cookies, too. He also hates store-bought ice cream, now that I've spoiled him by making it every week. It's so simple with my ice cream making machine that I don't really mind doing that job. As long as he buys the cream at the store, I can make the ice cream.
What I have not done in a very long time is make dog cookies. Remember when I used to make those?
I wonder if the dogs remember them. I think they do because every time I make cookies for Paul, and I'm sitting there scooping out the batter into balls for the cookies, my Kip is there beside me, waiting for me to put the bowl down for him to lick out, but I never do. I used to do it for him when I made dog cookies (This entry has spurred me on to make dog cookies today… they deserve a treat just for them.)
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On another topic, Paul's "new" truck (it's a 2012 Ford F-150) is starting to become a problem. The driver's side door has been frozen locked now twice. Once right after he bought it and then again today. Luckily, he could get in on the passenger's side because that door hadn't frozen locked. But this is not good.
I went and bought two different brands of battery operated lock de-icers and he tried both of them today – neither of them worked. He may not have let them warm up enough, I don't know, but he said he got in on the passenger side. But now I'm thinking that this was pure luck. It's only a matter of time before he comes out to two frozen locked doors and can't get in his truck at all.
I have researched this online and it's a very common problem apparently. I don't think there is a cure either. I told him he needs to go over to the Ford dealer and pose the question to him – what can be done? Can anything be done? This is not acceptable – living in New England and not being able to open your locked vehicle in the cold weather.
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New topic – Paul's boat.
The day before yesterday his boat conked out and he was stuck out in the ocean. I don't know the details of what exactly went wrong – it's always something with a boat, and he has experienced just about every possible problem over the years. So he just waited out there until a friend, Hugh, came along in his boat and Hugh towed him in. (BTW, Hugh has written a book called Marblehead's First Harbor: The Rich History of a Small Fishing Port.)
Great! What if Hugh hadn't gone out lobstering? He does have my cellphone with him, but he is very lax about charging it regularly, and I always worry that it won't be charged up. He said if there were no Hugh, he would just wait for anyone.
Anyone? Really? In New England, on the Atlantic Ocean, in mid-December? Who does he think is going to be moseying along? Santa?
Actually, Santa and Mrs. Claus made their appearance at The Landing in Marblehead Harbor on Friday as start of the annual Christmas Walk.
The woman who plays Mrs. Claus was in my class all through school.
We met in kindergarten and graduated high school together. She used to wear a white wig for playing Mrs. Claus (the Clauses come by lobster boat into the Landing each year to a throng of the town's parents and children). But now she uses her own shock of white hair and doesn't need the wig!
So the Christmas season has arrived here. Let the shopping begin.
Enough from me. Keep on keeping on… if possible.
Bex & Co.
It's in every one of us to be wise;
Find your heart, open up both your eyes.
We can all know every thing without ever knowing why.
It's in every one of us, by and bye.
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Gregory Alan Isakov – my new favorite musical artist
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In the week ending 3 May 2019 the net decrease of EUR 15 million in gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) reflected the sale of gold by one Eurosystem central bank for the purpose of producing a commemorative coin.
The net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 0.1 billion to EUR 287.5 billion.
As a result of the Eurosystem's open market operations and standing facilities, net lending to credit institutions (asset item 5 minus liability items 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 4) decreased by EUR 23.4 billion to EUR 90.6 billion.
Base money (liability items 1, 2.1 and 2.2) increased by EUR 48.5 billion to EUR 3,266.5 billion.
The table below provides the detailed breakdown of securities held for monetary policy purposes (asset item 7.1) into the different portfolios. All portfolios are accounted for at amortised cost.
|Monetary policy securities portfolios
|Reported value as at 3 May 2019
|Weekly change – purchases
|Weekly change – redemptions
|Covered bond purchase programme 1
|EUR 3.2 billion
|-EUR 0.0 billion
|Covered bond purchase programme 2
|EUR 3.5 billion
|-EUR 0.0 billion
|Covered bond purchase programme 3
|EUR 261.1 billion
|+EUR 0.3 billion
|-EUR 0.7 billion
|Asset-backed securities purchase programme
|EUR 26.2 billion
|+EUR 0.1 billion
|-EUR 0.1 billion
|Corporate sector purchase programme
|EUR 177.7 billion
|+EUR 0.1 billion
|Public sector purchase programme
|EUR 2,090.3 billion
|+EUR 3.6 billion
|-EUR 12.0 billion
|Securities Markets Programme
|EUR 62.8 billion
The content and format of the weekly financial statement are set out in Annexes IV to VI of Guideline (EU) 2016/2249 of the European Central Bank of 3 November 2016 on the legal framework for accounting and financial reporting in the European System of Central Banks (ECB/2016/34).
Source: www.ecb.europa.eu


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CRM Manager
- Recruiter
- Stopgap
- Location
- Surrey
- Salary
- £40000 - £50000 per annum
- Posted
- 25 Apr 2019
- Closes
- 25 May 2019
- Ref
- Contact
- Rebecca Bryan
- Discipline
- Marketing
- Specialism
- CRM, Email & Database Marketing
- Business Type
- Brand / In-house
- Seniority
- Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full-Time
An Employee Benefits and Insurance provider based in Surrey are looking for a CRM Manager to work on Salesforce.
CRM Manager - Up to £50,000 - Surrey
An Employee Benefits and Insurance provider based in Surrey.
You will be responsible for leading the CRM team, managing the strategic roadmap and development and maintenance of the CRM platform (Salesforce).
Core responsibilities include:
- Driving the creation and development of the CRM product roadmap
- Ensuring the strategy is aligned with the sales and marketing plans
- Owning the relationship with Salesforce.com
- Cross-function collaboration
- Management of the CRM team
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November 8, 2011
Video: Passenger Gives Eerie Guided Tour of Splendor
Carnival Splendor Fire Q&A: What You Need to Know
Anatomy of a Relief Mission: Navy Helps Splendor
Fact or Spam? Lingering Questions from the Splendor Saga
Cruise Critic Member Recounts Carnival 'Adventure'
Passengers, Others Speak Out About Life Onboard Splendor
Slideshow: Navy Delivers Much-Needed Supplies to Splendor
Passengers Debark Splendor; Cruise Line Comps Crew
On the Boards: Readers Discuss Splendor Fire
(1:40 p.m. EST) -- A year ago today, fire tore through the engine room of Carnival Splendor, leaving the vessel adrift and cut off from the rest of the world. The ship, which had just begun a weeklong voyage to the Mexican Riviera, had 3,299 passengers and 1,167 crewmembers onboard. For the next four days, a saga unfolded that riveted millions worldwide -- one that involved a daring Navy supply mission, a cruise director who both entertained and kept things in check, and a mysterious pallet of Spam caught by a photographer's lens.
On November 11, 2010, the ship was finally towed into San Diego, where it was met by a phalanx of journalists, family members and buses that transported passengers to area hotels. The fire, it was revealed two months later, was caused by the "catastrophic failure" of a diesel generator.
So what did the Carnival Splendor adventure teach us?
The best way to handle a crisis is to let the world know what the crisis is. From the beginning, Carnival was forthcoming about what was going on and how things were expected to progress. Even as the media firestorm ticked upward, the line sent out a steady stream of alerts via Twitter and Facebook. It responded to all of Cruise Critic's e-mails and phone calls, even going so far as providing us with copies of the makeshift dining menus and access to a very busy Senior Cruise Director (John Heald).
John Heald deserves a promotion. Talk about dumb luck. Somehow Carnival's star cruise director was on the right ship at the right time and was able to skillfully prevent panic on a dead ship and mount a PR campaign at the same time. Then, upon his return, his candor was both reassuring … and almost unnatural.
Nothing adds to a story like photo and video. The first-hand footage that surfaced on YouTube and elsewhere -- of the food lines, passengers hanging out in eerily dim cabin corridors -- had us glued to our computer screen. Another clip showed John Heald addressing the somehow still plucky crew in the ship's darkened theater. Riveting. There was also much said about the food onboard, and, understandably, it wasn't to everyone's tastes. But, thanks to ChadsJewel, we actually had a (haunting) visual of one of the sandwiches.
Treat your passengers right and there will be (almost) no bad feelings. Carnival announced Monday night (the day of the fire) what the compensation would be for stranded pax -- a full refund, reimbursement for transportation costs and a complimentary future cruise equal to the amount paid for the shortened voyage. Even some of those onboard initially remarked that it was overly generous. That said, there were very few complaints in the days following the event. Passengers on the summarily canceled voyages -- Carnival first announced repairs would take until January -- received full refunds and air transportation costs, plus a 25 percent discount on a future cruise. There was, however, a second round of cancellations after the line revealed repairs were taking longer than expected. And those further cancellations did ruffle some feathers.
Cruise Critic members know everything. From beginning to end, this site's members were a font of knowledge. At one point, when the ship was said to be heading to Ensenada, Mexico, sharp-eyed members, tracking Splendor on MarineTraffic.com, realized that it was heading to San Diego instead. As Splendor came closer to land, family members of the folks on the ship started posting on the boards. And the exchange of ideas, thoughts and news pieces on the boards expanded the story exponentially and created one of the longest threads in Cruise Critic history. Indeed, one of the first accounts of life onboard the ship came from member Bob Flynn, who noted that "Splendor's crew worked under difficult circumstances for unusually long hours, but still always had a pleasant greeting and a smile on their faces."
The U.S. Navy made Americans proud. Part of the U.S. Navy's core mission is to deliver humanitarian aid for those in need -- be that a capsized boat off the coast of Africa or a cruise ship carrying nearly 4,500 people. With Splendor running on auxiliary power and the reality of losing a large amount of perishable food setting in, Carnival asked the Coast Guard to help deliver provisions. But due to the logistical challenge of this mission, the Coast Guard brought in the Navy. Enter the 1,092-foot-long USS Ronald Reagan, a Pacific-based aircraft carrier, which managed the effort to deliver thousands of pounds of food -- including bottled water, Pop-Tarts and sandwiches -- to the stranded ship.
Cruise ship fires can be incredibly costly. Carnival bigwig Gerry Cahill estimated the total cost to the company to be $65 million, including the repairs, the deductible on the line's insurance, the lost revenue from canceled cruises, free or discounted cruises offered to passengers, and the costs to transport and house passengers when Splendor first returned to San Diego. He said that the line had displaced 47,000 cruise travelers with the cancellations, and the line and its travel agent partners worked as hard as possible to re-accommodate everyone.
Cruisers are more adventurous than you think. It's surprising that over 70 percent of the readers who responded to a Cruise Critic poll in the days following the event said they would have wanted to be onboard the disabled ship. But we learned that some readers will take a cruise -- even one with closed pools and only sandwiches to eat -- over pretty much anything else. "A bad day stuck on a cruise ship is still way better than a good day being stuck in a cubicle all day," Valerie Seit Clark Johnson posted on Cruise Critic's Facebook page. Still, basic amenities are important for some. The largest contingent in the "no" group (14 percent) said they couldn't live without toilets, air-conditioning and lights.
People will sell T-shirts to commemorate anything. As passengers debarked the ship in San Diego on Thursday, November 11, entrepreneurs were at the ready. Some reportedly did a brisk business selling T-shirts, including one that read "I Survived the 2010 Carnival Cruise Spamcation."
Carnival cruisers don't eat spam: It was a photo op gone awry, and to this day Carnival is explaining that Spam was never served to hungry strandees. True, it was delivered to the ship during a relief mission by the U.S. Navy, but the mystery meat never made it onto any menu on the crippled ship. Said Carnival spokeswoman Jennifer De La Cruz at the time: "We gave the supplier a list of items that we wanted ... Spam was not on the shopping list. … We gave it to them on very short notice and gave them latitude to substitute where they needed to."
--by John Deiner, Managing Editor, and Dan Askin, News Editor


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Their only lead is an overdramatic spirit—stage name Lawrence Laurentz—who doesn't take direction well and won't talk until they find his killer. Alison will reluctantly play the part of PI, but when the clues take a sinister turn, the writing is on the wall: If Alison can't keep a level head, this will be her father's final act—and maybe her own.
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How do you export songs from iTunes into a folder on your computer outside of iTunes? Sometimes, you may want to copy selected songs from iTunes to a new folder on the computer but find that' not easy especially for iPhone newbies. In this guide, we will show you two different methods on how to export music from iTunes to computer in a selected folder.
Method 1: How to Export Music from iTunes to Computer Manually?
To export music from iTunes to computer, the first method comes to people's mind is to transfer manually. Yes, without doubt, this manual method is effective in exporting music from iTunes to computer. Check out the step-by-step guide to export music from iTunes to computer.
Step 1Locate iTunes music folder on your computer. Of course, the first step for moving music from iTunes to computer is to locate iTunes music on your computer.
- Mac: On Finder page, click Go > Home from the menu bar at the top of your computer screen, and then double click the Music folder to get access to iTunes folder.
- Windows: Click \Users\username\My Music\iTunes to find iTunes music.
Step 2Drag and drop iTunes folder to desktop.
Step 3Move the iTunes folder to computer.
Same computer: Just move the folder on desktop to any folder you desire on the computer.
New computer: Plug in an external drive to the computer, copy and paste the iTunes folder into the drive, and unplug the drive from the computer. And then you can drag the iTunes folder from your external drive to the Music folder (Mac) or My Music Folder (Windows) on your new computer after you connect the drive with your new computer.
It is slow and time-consuming to export music from iTunes to computer in this manual way. For computer newbies, it might be difficult to locate the iTunes music folder. For them, an easy and one-click solution is preferred. Some purchased iTunes music is protected by Apple's Digital Right Management (DRM) technology. Moving iTunes music to computer won't make those music files work. Sometimes, you might run into iTunes errors, and iTunes limitations will prevent you from doing transferring task to some extent.
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