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Moderate growth continues. That's the latest word on the greater Grand Rapids industrial economy, according to the data collected in the last two weeks of January. New orders, our index of business improvement, eased slightly to +25, down from +31. However, the production index rose to +29, up from +19. Activity in the purchasing offices advanced to +29 from +19. The employment index remained virtually unchanged at +29, up from +27. Overall, the steady growth reported for the past 20 months continues unabated.
Turning to local industrial groups, the recovery of the office furniture industry is still on track, although there is a long way to go to get back to the sales levels of 2005-2006. Stronger auto sales have resulted in more business for local auto-parts suppliers, and several local firms are approaching full capacity. In general, performance for industrial distributors remains positive. Although capital equipment firms are still recovering, this month's performance was mixed. Performance for the firms related to the aircraft industry was generally down.
At the national level, recovery from the recession picked up considerable speed. The Institute for Supply Management, our parent organization, reported that new orders posted a near-record increase to +28, up from +9. ISM's production index also posted a substantial increase, and rose to +24 from +12. The employment index edged up to +17 from +10. ISM's overall index of manufacturing rose to 60.8, the highest since May 2004. We hope February will build on this success.
At the international level, the JPMorgan Global Manufacturing Feb. 1 report rose at a survey record pace. JPM's worldwide index of new orders increased to 59.8 from 56.4. Of the 29 countries included in the survey, noteworthy expansion came from Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S., the U.K., and Eurozone. For the first time in recent months, positive reports came from Japan and Spain. Greece is still sliding. The employment index rose to 55.3, the highest the survey has recorded in its 12-year history. On the negative side, the index of prices rose to a four-year high of 73.6.
This month's most significant economic news came from the Commerce Department's press release that the fourth quarter of 2010 showed a tentative growth rate of 3.2 percent. Although this is up considerably from the 2.6 percent reported in third quarter 2010, it disappointed some analysts who had projected rates as high at 4 percent. Further analysis shows that the .8 percent uptick was fueled by increases in personal consumption expenditures and residential fixed investment for household goods of all sorts. A sharp downturn in imports for the fourth quarter also helped. GDP for all of 2011 is estimated by many economists to grow at a rated 3.5 percent, but this number still seems optimistic. The rising cost of commodities as well as the inevitable increases in interest rates will probably limit the 2011 GDP to something less.
Another important economic consideration is the ominous drum beat of higher prices for most industrial commodities. Some grades of steel are up in price by 60 percent in the space of two months. Other key commodities like copper, aluminum, zinc, lead and nickel also are rising at a rapid rate. The preliminary cause of this inflation is the resurgence of worldwide demand for these commodities, especially from Chinese manufacturers. Even our domestic demand has risen in recent weeks. However, it is disturbing to note that some of these commodities have become vehicles for speculation and hoarding. Firms that had virtually eliminated raw materials inventories under the JIT banner are starting to build stock because of fear of higher prices. If this inventory accumulation and speculation gets out of hand, it could create another bubble, which will eventually burst.
Will industrial inflation spill over into consumer inflation? Yes, but only over the long term. Unlike the economy of 50 years ago, domestic producers of consumer goods are restricted from raising prices too rapidly because of foreign competition. The lack of acceptance of higher pricing by consumers is also a factor. Some manufacturers have turned to productivity enhancement in order to hold the price on finished products as input costs rise. So far, these measures have held consumer prices fairly constant. In fact, the U.S. has less consumer inflation than any other nation in the industrialized world.
Among the good news in recent months has been the resurgence of optimism. As previously noted, the recovery from this recession has been the slowest in 70 years. But as it builds momentum, businesses are beginning to spend more on plants, equipment and new hires. So far, a lot of the expansion in our index of employment has been from calling workers back and from employment through temp agencies. Fortunately, we are now seeing more firms hiring permanent workers. As we head toward spring, these new hires should start to reflect lower unemployment numbers. By the end of the summer, the unemployment situation should look better, but it still won't be great, especially for Michigan.
There is also good news regarding automobile sales for January. Of the major firms, GM and Chrysler led the way with increases of 22 percent and 23 percent. Ford was up 9 percent. Toyota posted the best results in months at +17 percent. Honda was up 13 percent. Nissan gained 15 percent, VW 7 percent and Subaru 21 percent. For the industry as a whole, sales were up 17 percent. All of this is good news for our auto-parts suppliers.
The recovery is far enough along that there is now very little talk about a "double dip." However, global events could upset this balance. Sustained financial instability in any of the European PIIGS countries could put the Euro into a tailspin. The trouble in Egypt shows how quickly the world economy can be thrown into turmoil. All-out war in the Middle East will run the price of oil up to record levels.
Brian G. Long, CPM, is director, supply chain management research, Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University.


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Excelsior Performs Critical Sealing Functions on Pneumatic Thermostats
Excelsior Performs Critical Sealing Functions on Pneumatic Thermostats
Excelsior Inc (Rockford IL) has announced the acquisition of Grumen Manufacturing Inc. (Gurney IL).
Highlighting the common rubber or elastomer materials and the advantages of each.
Excelsior Inc. is celebrating 100 years of making custom synthetic parts such as gaskets, washers, seals, insulators, shims, spacers and shipping covers in Rockford IL.
Video tour of Excelsior Inc. Rockford, IL
As we have visited our customers over the past several years, we find some don't fully understand our capabilities and the value proposition we provide.
Excelsior Inc. has initiated a series of newsletters that will focus on the proper selection of material for gaskets and other synthetic components as well as key manufacturing processes.


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JOB TITLE:Medical Assistant
LOCATION: Geisinger Medical Center Hospital
DEPARTMENT:General Surgery
WORK SCHEDULE: Days
WORK TYPE: Full time
Provides primary clinical support to the physician and patient to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition. Follows up on diagnostic testing to ensure completion, accuracy, and filing of same in medical record to ensure continuity and quality of care. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in specific age range on their assigned clinical area.
Performs duties to support the goals and objectives of Geisinger in its efforts to provide quality patient care and patient satisfaction.
Works under the general supervision of the Clinic Nurse Supervisor/Operations Manager for daily operational issues. Works under the supervision of the Physician/Midlevel in providing patient care.
Demonstrates ability to accurately prioritize clinical and clerical tasks.
Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills, willingness to accept continuing education to broaden skills, and good clinical skills to work effectively with patient's families and physicians.
Demonstrates ability to work effectively in a team of environment, be flexible and maintain confidentiality.
Successful completion of designated education curriculum for the unlicensed care associate required.
Certification of Basic Life Support (CPR) required.
Minimum one year in a primary care setting preferred.
Pharmacology knowledge preferred.
Work is typically performed in a clinical environment.
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER: (GMC), located Danville, Pa., the largest tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital in the region, is licensed for 475 beds, including 89 pediatric beds in the Janet Weis Children's Hospital. GMC, a Magnet Hospital, maintains the region's only Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatrics. GMC offers an array of highly specialized medical and surgical services, including neurosciences, cardiovascular services, transplantation, women's health (in the Women's Pavilion), oncology and orthopaedics. The Hospital for Advanced Medicine serves as an integrated center for the most critical patients. Outpatient services are available on and off campus.
About Geisinger
One of the nation's most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Repeatedly recognized nationally for integration, quality and service, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to patient care, medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
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Italian little Italies: Castiglione del Lago, A rock on a silver veil
- WTI Magazine #118 Aug 19, 2019
"I write to you from an enchanting place. Our house is in front of the Trasimeno Lake, all surrounded by thick hills and on the lake three green little dream islands, lying down abandoned as in a state of ectasy". These are the words written by a poetess of the early twentieth century, Vittoria Aganoor, who describes to a friend a landscape of enchantment, miraculously preserved thanks to the commitment of the inhabitants and a group of intellectuals led by the deputy Guido Pompilj, who in the last century opposed to the drainage of the lake.
Today the "saved" lake offers a landscape rich in colours, light and tranquility. The Borgo has much more to offer: Palazzo della Corgna is a monumental complex of great historical and artistic importance. It was created between the 16th and 17th centuries by Galeazzo Alessi around the former nucleus of Palazzetto Baglioni, probably under the supervision of Vignola. The Palazzo contains one of the major painting cycles of the late Umbria- Tuscan Mannerism. It was painted to celebrate the glorious achievements of the condottiere Ascanio della Corgna, representing valiant feats of Roman heroes and scenes inspired by Greek mythology.
Today most of the frescoes by Niccolò Circignani, known as Pomarancio, that embellish the halls have reacquired their former splendor thanks to a meticulous restoration project. The Ducal Palace is connected to the medieval Rocca, or fortress, by a passageway that winds along the walls and which was covered in 1617, during the Della Corgna marquisate. The Rocca del Leone is a medieval fortress with a unique pentagonal shape based on the Leo constellation.
Its location on a spur of calcareous rock overlooking the lake proved to be of great strategic importance during the numerous wars fought between Tuscan and Perugia lords for the control over the territory. In the Borgo you cannot miss visiting the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena, built in 1836 to the design of the architect Giovanni Caproni. Inside are a Madonna del Latte by the Sienese school of the 1300s, a panel of the Madonna and Child, attributed to a student of Perugino and recently restored, and frescoes by Mariano Piervittori painted after 1850. The Baroque Church of San Domenico datres back to the first half of the 1600: built for the duke Fulvio Alessandro, it offers visitors a splendid coffered ceiling and numerous 17th century paintings.
The name
It derives from the medieval fortress built in the middle of the thirteenth century and called "Castello del Leone" for its pentagonal shape inspired by the constellation of the Lion.
Local products and dishes
The soil around Lake Trasimeno is ideal for the growing of fagiolina del lago, a tiny bean with a skin so thin that you can find it only in this place. It is endorsed by the Slow Food association. Freshwater fish is the king of the local cuisine, especially regina in porchetta, which is a large oven baked carp seasoned with fennel, garlic, pepper and salt and served with the excellent Colli del Trasimeno red wine. First courses include pici co' la nana, a homemade pasta served with a duck sauce and parmesan.


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In the English Premier League match played on Saturday, which happened to be the only game of the season we had Arsenal taking on Norwich City in what was a great game and both the teams were up for it. Although the home side started on the front foott with a goal coming from Youssi Banayoun but Norwich soon replied and made it 1-1 on the day while Arsenal had a poor half and Norwich made it 2-1 just before the halftime to make it 2-1 for them.
Arsenal tried to get the equilizer in the 2nd half and they got it from the ever reliable Robin Van Persie who scored his 29th goal of the Premier League season
Match Updates and Highlights
[ Arsenal 3-3 Norwich ]
02′ [1 – 0] Y. Benayoun
12′ [1 – 1] W. Hoolahan
27′ [1 – 2] G. Holt
72′ [2 – 2] R.v. Persie
78′ [3 – 2] R.v. Persie
85′ [3 – 3] S. Morison
Benayoun Goal Video vs Norwich City
Hoolahan Goal Video vs Arsenal
Arsenal 1-1 Norwich City
Grant Holt Goal Video vs Arsenal
Arsenal 1-2 Norwich City
Robin Van Persie 1st Goal Video vs Norwich City
Robin Van Persie 2nd Goal Video vs Norwich City
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There's something feel-good-ery about actors on a movie or television show who play a fictional couple and get together in real life. Isn't there? You know, as long as they weren't already married or anything ... but let's not get into that. Let's get into the fact that love had once blossomed admist all the torture and violence and baby killings on the HBO show Game of Thrones. Jon Snow, played by Kit Harington, and wilding Ygritte, played by Rose Leslie, were reportedly a couple. But sadly it seems their fairy tale romance has come to an end. A while ago ...
Rumors were circulating that the two got together while filming Game of Thrones, but it seems we're only able to get confirmation they were once a couple because it's confirmed they've officially split up! How sad indeed. Not only was their relationship seemingly doomed in Westeros, it's doomed in our world too.
Fans of the show will not soon forget their forbidden romance, especially, um, the "lord's kiss" (hehe) and how Jon loved how Ygritte was "kissed by fire." But since this is Game of Thrones, and something tragic was bound to happen between the two of them, well ... it's just a shame they couldn't have gotten married and had a bunch of babies in real life to starkly compare to how dark and depressing and twisted the show they met on is.
"Rose and Kit are no longer together. Rose has a new boyfriend who is not in the public eye. She is eager to keep this relationship out of the spotlight," said a source.
So now what will Kit do since Rose has clearly moved on from their torrent love affair?
Duh, clearly he should hook up with Emilia Clarke, aka Daenerys Targaryen, and represent one half of the ultimate Game of Thrones power couple!
Seriously, no couple could encompass more badassery than a Kit & Emilia pairing. And could what may happen in real life in fact happen down the road in (unpublished) books 6 and 7? Jon's and Ygritte's affair ends, but then Jon and Daenerys get together and rule Westeros. Then Kit and Emilia would actually get together and prove how much cooler and hotter they are than Robsten! GoT fans' minds would be completely blown. The Internet would explode. I can't even imagine the memes and gifs that would come out of a Kit/Emilia romance.
It could happen. Right?
Are you sad to hear that Kit and Rose's relationship ended? Should they get back together or should Kit move on to Emilia?
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Salvation Army Seeks New Christmas Center
WCCB Charlotte
The Salvation Army needs a new home to house its Christmas donations this year. The organization is losing the facility it's used for the past decade.
Victory Christian Church owned the former Walmart building in south Charlotte, but recently sold it to a developer. The Salvation Army plans to collect donations for more than 10,000 kids and 1,300 seniors this year.
"It takes a lot of space," said Maj. Larry Broome. "We're thinking we need at least 75,000 square feet to do what we need to do to make that happen in the community this year."


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JUST THE OC MEOctober 15, 2010
Posted by Verna Luga
She earned her Masters in Applied Social Research at Ateneo de Davao University. She's a mother, a writer, a dreamer and who knows one day a potter.
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That seems like a basic connectivity issue, if something as basic as pinging does not work. Many people have installed on the HP MediaSmart server.I installed Amahi on my HP MediaSmart server (I had to put the HD in another computer to do this, as a USB install failed).
Following your instructions, I turned off the DHCP on my router and restarted various computers that attach to it.
Result: none of our computers could connect to the internet. The Amahi server was not assigning IP addresses.
So I did a factory restore on the router (since I couldn't even connect to it to turn the DHCP back on).
Then I turned the DHCP off on my Amahi server.
Result: I can now connect to the internet, but I cannot connect to the Amahi server. It does not show any IP address for the HDA.
Pinging the router from the server also fails. (I have a debug board attached to the MediaSmart, so I can see what's going on and enter commands.)
I tried ifconfig to get the mac address to add the client manually, but this returned an error "command not found"
Are you positive the settings in Amahi.org have the proper networking settings?
A typo in those would produce this behavior exactly as you described.
As to ifconfig, it's a little antiquated tool. These days, you can better use
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Anastasia Tumanova is a designer and self-taught ceramic artist in San Francisco. Originally from Moscow, her youth was colored by camping trips in the Russian wilderness and travels around the world with her adventurous family. She prefers to work with earthy materials that bring her in closer communion with nature such as clay, leaves, and botanical ephemera. Anastasia creates intricate patterns and large-scale murals from leaves and flora and is the inventor of porcelain wallpaper. Her innovative work has been seen at First Amendment Gallery, West Coast Craft, in the studio of Windy Chien, and most recently at Eleanor Harwood Gallery.
Artist Statement
There are few places in a city that provide the same experience of tranquility and inner peace than in the rejuvenating parks and great outdoors of California. My botanical work evolved from spending hours in groves, trails, forests, gardens, and parks — places that are like a healing balm to my digitally immersed life. Communing with nature gives me space for my spirit and heart to speak, and for all the digital noise (the emails, Instagram and Facebook posts, the articles, the news, the updates, the videos) to fade away to the background. My work is an expression of gratitude for nature's healing gifts, and a celebration of its serene and eternal beauty.


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Pranayam Techniques
Kundalini Yoga employs a wide range of pranayam, using the breath to effect and manage different states of consciousness, relaxation, and well-being. The links below contain guidelines for simple breathing techniques that will get you started on this path of healing and awareness.
Long Deep Breathing
Calm the mind; balance the emotions; harmonize the body, mind, and spirit.
Alternate Nostril Breathing
Energize and calm the nervous system.
Breath of Fire
Strengthen the nervous system; purify the bloodstream; energize, stimulate, wake up, and increase vitality.
Suspending the Breath
Recondition the nervous system; integration of the body systems; experience deep stillness, shuniya
Segmented Breath
Sitali Breath
Cannon Breath
Whistle breath
Lion Breath
Sitkari Breath
Vatskar Breath
You may also be interested in:
- The Healthy, Happy, Holy Breath Meditation
- Rebirthing Meditation
- Breath Purification and the Navel Energy
- Padmani Kriya for Energizing and Healing
- 4 Stroke Breath
- The Key to Unlock the Unlimited, Infinite Power in You
- The Liberated Heart Meditation
- The 8 Stroke Breath for Energy and Stress Release
- Soothing Left Nostril Breathing
- Pranayam to Balance Mental Energy II
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The project made use of the exceptional composition of cereal proteins to accumulate bioactive peptides and amino acids. Cereal proteins were hydrolysed with rye malt or fungal proteases and hydrolysates were converted to amino acids or peptides by fermentation with food-grade lactobacilli.
Hydrolysed plant proteins, like those created as part of this project, are often used in food products to replace the use of glutamate as an additive, and to reduce the salt content of processed foods. Glutamate is what gives foods their savoury flavour. These bioactive food ingredients created from barley protein also have the potential to help with health conditions like high blood pressure.
This technology could potentially create a new market for barley food additives, increasing demand and improving the crop's profitability.
Investigations on some aspects of the project (accumulation of taste-active glutamate) are currently conducted in collaboration with Dr. Mirko Betti, in a project funded by Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions.
July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011
Alberta Barley Funding: $4,991
Project Partners:
- Alberta Barley
- Alberta Crop Industry Development Fund
- Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education
- University of Alberta
Project Lead:
Dr. Michael Gänzle
Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2)
University of Alberta


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Attention all seniors who are interested in applying to be a Riverton High Sterling Scholar, October is the time to begin applying to the departments of your choice. Applications and instructions on how to apply are available below. Applications are due October 17th, 2019 by 3:00 p.m. Please ask the teacher listed in the instructions or go see Ms. Marshall in room 2403, if you have any further questions. For more general information about the Sterling Scholar program, go to the official website: sterlingscholar.org
Sterling Scholar Applications 2019-2020
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Dedé to sign a new contract with Cruzeiro, until December 2018
Cruzeiro are close to renewing the contract of defender Dedé, who's recovering from a knee injury; he's expected to sign a new deal until December 2018.
According to the information from UOL Esporte, Cruzeiro's vice president Bruno Vicintin has held talks with the entourage of the defender – formed by Ubiraci Cardoso and Giuliano Aranda – with the intention of keeping him at the club for a longer period. The defender, who was the most expensive signing in the club's history has a contract until April 2017. At first he planned to extend the bond until December of the same year, but, after a few conversations, he agreed with Cruzeiro's intention of changing the term to December 2018. The Cruzeiro leader and the representative of Dedé will meet in the coming days with an objective of signing the new contract of the player. In the conversations, it was established that the wages of the 28-year-old [around R$ 400,000] will be maintained. The player has agreed not to receive any increase due to injuries that have hampered him since November 2014. In April 2013, the defender was hired by Cruzeiro for a cost of 5 million euros (R $ 14 million at the time). The club holds 45% of the economic rights of the player of 28 years and will continue with this percentage in the new commitment.
Dedé is currently recovering from a series of problems in his right knee. In January 2015, he underwent surgery on the posterior cruciate ligament. In April, he was operated at the same site, and the problems in the leg again bothered him in March 2016. However, this time he suffered a fractured patella, a situation similar to that of August of the same year.


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ABYC offers the following summary of their reason for existence on their website:
"American Boat & Yacht Council, Inc. (ABYC) develops the voluntary consensus safety standards for the design, construction, equipage, maintenance, and repair of small craft. The development of uniform standards is the basis for industry-wide comparisons of products and performance. Both nationally and internationally, ABYC is on the leading edge of movement toward greater use of and reliance upon standards that improve your products, increase your profits and improve boating safety for your customers."
To understand in detail what ABYC does it is important to differentiate what they do not do as well. Perhaps the most fundamental distinction is that ABYC does not test or certify any components that are used aboard boats. They do specify what type of components need to be installed, in what situations and how they need to be installed. In some cases ABYC also will specify a standard such as those from UL that a component must conform to or a type of functionality that a component must have. An example of this is the common specification that circuit breakers must be "trip-free".
Another way to think of this is that ABYC sets systems standards that are comprised of products manufactured to component standards to which they are then tested by organizations such as UL.
The ABYC Standards (formerly known as Standards and Recommended Practices) is easily the most coherent body of standards specific to small boat systems, rivaled in their comprehensiveness only by the European ISO Standards. In fact, ABYC is the U. S. representative to ISO, and works to promote the needs of the U.S. marine industry in relation to ISO and to harmonize the ISO and ABYC standards.
With respect to other systems standards bodies in the U. S. that concern themselves with marine issues, the two principal bodies are the U. S. Coast Guard which administers federal maritime regulations as embodied in the Code of Federal Regulations and the National Fire Protection Association, Inc., which owns the National Electrical Code (NEC) as a Registered Trademark.
Among all these, the ABYC Standards is the most comprehensive, understandable and practical body of knowledge available creating sale pleasure craft. The Standards are available for ABYC in printed or CD-ROM format.


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The success stories in the MEA region in the field of communications technology were celebrated and awarded at the 11th edition of the CommsMEA Awards, which were presented in Dubai yesterday.
The awards were presented to operators, regulators and other technology and service providers in recognition of their achievements in ensuring that the Middle East and Africa region stays at the frontier of digital innovation.
All the shortlisted companies can be found here.
Seventeen awards were presented at a gala dinner at the Conrad Hotel, Dubai, with around 200 ICT leaders and professionals in attendance. The 11th CommsMEA Awards attracted a strong field of nominations, reflecting the various ways communications technology is taking fast strides towards a complete revolution.
The winners of the CommsMEA Awards 2016 are:
Most innovative new service of the year- Huawei - MVNE
Business service award- Mahindra Comviva
Satellite Service of the year- Yahsat
IPTV service of the year- Ooredoo Qatar
Award for connecting the unconnected- Yahsat
Customer service provider of the year-STC
M2M solution of the year- Etisalat - M2M control centre
CSR campaign of the year- Ericsson, Asiacell, and IRC
Marketing campaign of the year- Zain Iraq- Hassa Eliya (Now for Me) campaign
Telecoms technology investment of the year- Ooredoo Oman
Network optimisation award- Nokia and Ooredoo Qatar
Regulator of the year- The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority ("TRA")
Middle East mobile operator of the year- Etisalat
African mobile operator of the year-Safaricom
Overall operator of the year -Zain group
Editor's choice award for managed services innovation - Du
Editor's choice award for mission critical communication – Bravo
The annual CommsMEA Awards acknowledge operators and other technology providers who have taken a leadership role in the region's fast growing and rapidly changing telecoms sector.
Most of all, the awards aim to recognise those organisations that have helped turn the communications sector in the Middle East and Africa into one of the most dynamic and vibrant in the world.
For full coverage of the awards, see the December issue of CommsMEA magazine.


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Last weekend brought a binge of movies for us. But we didn't feel overstuffed at all! In fact, all three that we saw were enjoyable.
First, on Christmas the four of us saw "Sherlock Holmes," which was the #2 son's #1 choice. We beat the crowd by going to the 9:45 a.m. showing. And we saved money—tickets are $5 each before noon.
Robert Downey Jr., who is not British, played the title character, who, of course, is British. Fortunately, he's a good enough actor to carry that off. Jude Law was his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, with Rachel McAdams as beautiful career criminal Irene Adler. Director Guy Ritchie's rendition featured lots of physical action, which included Holmes boxing, juxtapositioning the mental game of crime solving.
The movie kept us on the edge of our seats the entire time. We really enjoyed it!
Saturday morning brought "Avatar" into our lives, the #1 son's pick. The special effects were dazzling, so much so that I was glad we didn't opt for the 3D version. While it was an interesting story (humans genetically engineered alien bodies called "avatars" to try to reason with aliens in the future), I didn't like being hit over the head with the pro-environmental, anti-war message. And I am both of those! However, it was much too heavy-handed in the movie, which was pretty violent. The boys really liked it, of course.
The Mister and I saw "Up in the Air" yesterday. It stars my "second husband," George Clooney.
Sidebar: This was my unusual conversation with another female moviegoer when I was buying tickets Friday. She was going to see "Up in the Air."
Me: I really want to see that! My second husband, George Clooney, stars in it.
Her: Well, I'm having an affair with your second husband!
By the way, no male on earth will understand that exchange!
"Up in the Air" is about Clooney's character, who plays a corporate downsizer (e.g., someone who fires people for companies). He has no attachments other than two sisters he hardly sees until he becomes smitten with a frequent-flying gal played by Vera Farmiga. As he continues in a hardly rational pursuit of mega airline miles, he's paired with a new, young, female downsizer who wants to fire people via iChatting/Skype. Anna Kendrick, who plays Bella's closest friend in the "Twilight" series movies, gets a more-sizable role here and really shows her acting chops.
The Mister and I both really liked "Up in the Air." It's billed as a romantic comedy or a comedy drama, but it's really much more drama than comedy. It definitely makes you think about what's really important in your life.
As someone who dislikes flying, I know frequent flying miles never will be more important than the people I love. And that includes those make-believe husbands!


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Brookfield ethics ordinance problems to be tackled
BROOKFIELD -- The chairman of an ad hoc committee charged with resolving several issues concerning the town's ethics code said he hopes to present findings to the Board of Selectmen at its September meeting.
The chairman, Howard Lasser, said he will meet with the town attorneys next Friday to try to resolve concerns they had about the language of the ethics ordinance and the intent of the code.
"The committee wants to follow what the intent of the charter was, to have the (Board of Ethics) be the adjudicator or finder of fact in those cases in which there is a question of a violation of the charter," Lasser said. "We're trying to find the right words to make that happen.
"We think there are statutes that support the intent, so we need to write the right words to bring it all under that umbrella," he added.
He said there isn't a firm time when his committee will be able to present a finished product to selectmen, but he hopes it will be before their September meeting.
"If we can get it to them and have a special meeting before the seventh of September, maybe at the seventh of September meeting (the Board of Selectmen) can schedule a public hearing so this ordinance can be in place before the elections," Lasser said. "It'd be nice to get it out of the way."
Other questions raised since the incorporation of the new ethics ordinance last August include whether a prohibition against use of force by town employees could be used against police officers who need to use force in the line of duty.
Lasser said a suggested amendment from the town attorney clarifying the issue should settle the problem.
Another issue, whether the ordinance would apply to teachers -- and whether teachers are town employees or employees of the Board of Education -- is not one his commission should be answering, Lasser said, but rather a question for the Board of Selectmen to settle.
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Police arrest teen for alleged DUI
An officer was conducting a routine check at the business at 6 Queen St. when a car pulled into the parking lot. The officer approached and questioned the operator, since no businesses were open at the time.
The person -- identified by Newtown police as a youthful offender, which means a 15- or 16-year-old -- was arrested for drunken driving while being younger than 21, possession of alcohol by a minor, and violation of curfew restrictions.
The teen's identity cannot be released because he/she is a minor, police said.


text: Oil prices had dropped 23 per cent since mid-July The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries will make the cut after prices dropped 23 per cent in less than three months, a senior delegate said. World markets are oversupplied with crude and fuel stocks in the US are at a 7-year high which has caused prices to fall from a peak of $78,40 in mid-July. The exact date for the move is still to be decided, the delegate added. The US expressed dismay at the decision. Sam Bodman, the energy secretary, said he would tell Opec ministers that the world still needed all the oil they could pump as they head into winter. He pointed that at $60 a barrel oil was still near record highs. "We still need oil for sure. We still need all the oil we can get," Bodman told Reuters news agency. December meeting The 11-member organisation is due to meet on December 14 in Nigeria. Edmund Daukoru, the Opec president, said that some members wanted an emergency meeting before then, but he thought it would be worthwhile only if the group were ready to make a substantial cut from its ceiling of 28 million barrels per day. "If we meet now, to have an impact on the market, ... it would have to be substantive," said Daukoru, who is also Nigeria's petroleum minister. A formal position on oil cuts will only be agreed after consultations, he added. Saudi Arabia will reportedly reduce its production by 300,000 barrels a day from September's 9.1 million barrels a day, the senior delegate said, taking the kingdom's production to its lowest since May 2004. No decision made But a spokesman for Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US told Associated Press that there was no plan in Riyadh to cut supplies in order to prop up prices. "A decision hasn't been made," he said. This will be Opec's first output cut since April 2004. Analysts have expected a cut for some time, especially after Nigeria and Venezuela said last week they were making unilateral reductions. "The marketing departments of these countries are finding it difficult to move their oil. And high global inventories are of grave concern," said Gary Ross of New York's PIRA Energy. "At the end of the day, Opec members are trying to protect their revenue and, in turn, the oil price." Oil prices have tripled since the start of 2002. SOURCE: Reuters


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SilverStone has done a fine job making a mini-ITX case ready for the consumer market. The case supports a wide variety of expansion and if your motherboard supports it, even a 9" dual-slot graphics card. SilverStone has tested the included PSU with a HD 4850 graphics card and a fairly impressive Core 2 Quad 9550 with the 300W PSU and found it to work. Unfortunately, I did not have the motherboard or CPU to test how the PSU would work. The ITX220 motherboard from ASUS worked easily with no problems as to necessary power.
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Archive for September 2011
How to care about Equality
Like many utilitarians and economists, I have a hard time caring about inequality for its own sake, even though many people seem to think it is very important. Making poor people richer is good on standard utilitarian grounds, but it is hard to imagine wanting to make rich people poorer just to make everyone feel more equal. How can utilitarians support wealth equality, and redistribution, without putting any value on equality itself?
One reason is as old as utilitarianism itself- the diminishing marginal utility of money. If rich people don't value $1000 as much as poor people, in theory we can increase total utility by taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Wolfers' finding that happiness rises with the natural log of income supports this. Of course in practice this leads to incentive problems and an efficiency/equality tradeoff; this lowers the optimal amount of redistribution but gives us no reason to think it is zero.
Second is the fully general trump card against utilitarians (I hope a philosopher can tell me how to get out of this): other people say equality will increase their utility, and you say you want to increase utility, so you should support their desire for equality.
I think one version of this is influential in practice. An economist like Greg Mankiw might not care about inequality himself, but everyone around him talks about it, so he thinks of more constructive things to say than "your values are silly".
Another version is the "realpolitik" concern. Bismark invented the welfare state not because he cared about equality or happiness but to stave off revolution. Similarly, we might care only about happiness, but realize that voters may be more supportive of happiness-enhancing pro-market policies when inequality is small. Look at the Economic Freedom of the World Index– Northern European countries like Denmark have high levels of redistribution but are otherwise very free markets. Denmark is often rated the happiest country in the world. I would like to see a poli-sci paper on this, or write one if none exists. If you count the Republicans as the pro-market party (iffy), I have written a paper finding this for the US. But one should look internationally, as well as looking at survey data on opinion in addition to actual outcomes.
There is one more utilitarian argument for redistribution that I don't recall hearing, though I am sure it has been made. Economists like to emphasize that the price system is an amazingly efficient mechanism for allocating resources to their highest valued use. A common response to this point is that the system is inefficient and unfair, because a poor person who will get 10 utils from a good can be outbid by a rich person who makes 4 times as much money and gets 5 utils from the good. Somewhere, a rich kid is ignoring or complaining about a toy that a poor kid would love to have but can't afford. What I have yet to hear is the obvious corollary of this criticism: the more equal incomes get, the more efficient, fair and utility-enhancing the price system becomes. The price system more efficiently allocates resources in Denmark than in Mexico. Perhaps Danish voters are more willing to let prices work because they actually work better in the more equal country of Denmark.


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Anamorphic Stretch Capabilities
The Sanyo Z2000 review has stimulated a lot of questions which we are trying to get to. One of them was regarding confusion over the anamorphic stretch capability of the Z2000. Apparently other reviewers are saying the Z2000 has it. I said it didn't, without any further clarification.
The fact is that the Z2000 does not provide an anamorphic vertical stretch mode with HD signals, either via HDMI or component. However, if you want to feed the projector 480i or 480p, then the Zoom mode will in fact accomplish the stretch for you. Of course, nobody in their right mind would spend all the extra money for an anamorphic lens and 2.35 custom screen, just to end up feeding that whole rig a 480 signal. So practically speaking, the Z2000 does not provide anamorphic stretch capability in any usable manner.
If you don't know what we're talking about, it is probably not relevant to you. The only time you'd ever need an anamorphic stretch mode on your projector is if you want to install a 2.35:1 Cinemascope widescreen system, and pay big bucks for an external anamorphic lens. Most people looking to spend in the low $2,000's for a 1080p projector will be quite happy with a conventional 16:9 format screen, and wouldn't ever use the anamorphic stretch mode even if the projector had it.
We've received many questions regarding the relative brightness of the Panasonic AE2000 and the Sanyo Z2000. We have also had a number of inquiries about how each of these units perform with 1080p/24 signals. We will address those issues in the upcoming review of the AE2000, which we still hope to post on Friday.


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Altice saw its opcos in France and Portugal return to revenue growth in the fourth quarter, as it announced plans to produce a TV series with Sky Vision.
Sales in France, where Altice owns SFR, snapped a 24-quarter declining streak in the three months to December to post a 0.6 percent year-on-year rise to €2.9 billion.
In Portugal, 32 quarters of revenue reverses ended as MEO registered a 0.5 percent increase to hit €580 million.
Group revenues jumped 2.7 percent to €6.1 billion as a result of the performance in Europe, plus growth in the US.
This pushed EBITDA up 15.7 percent, to €2.3 billion during the quarter.
The Q4 performance helped full-year group revenues hit €23.9 billion, up from €23.6 billion last year.
EBITDA jumped from €8.3 billion to €8.9 billion over the same period.
Altice CEO Michel Combes said: "2016 was a pivotal year for Altice as we successfully transformed the Group into a leading, transatlantic converged communications player.
"Our business is stronger than ever and we have put all the building blocks in place for continued profitable growth."
The financial results were accompanied by the news that Altice is to produce a 10-part drama series with the production and distribution arm of Sky.
Riviera will premiere at the MIPTV event in Cannes, France, next month.
The press release said the series would explore "the dazzling depravity of morally ambiguous characters".
However, the series will be shown exclusively on the Sky Atlantic channel in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Austria.
Altice said its involvement "sat within [our] ambitions to develop original series and… the launch of a new premium pay TV linear channel in the summer".
The company announced plans to create new content via the launch of Altice Studios and Altice Channel Factory last September.
It did not disclose how much it was investing in the Sky venture.
Combes said: "This partnership with Sky Vision is a new step in our strategy to become a strong player in the production industry and to reach our ambition to propose the best series to our clients".
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Authenticity, as defined by Webster, is being true to one's own personality, spirit, or character. This word seems to be following me around this year. I have been yearning for authenticity in everything I do and consume. I think authenticity is not only going to lead to me being my best self but also the give me the ultimate success I yearn for. So here are a few tips that are helping me be more authentic:
- Never Settle For Less Than You Want.You know how when you're asked something as simple as what you want to eat, and the answer is you don't know or don't care? Well, you do know and you do care. Get what you really want at all times even if it's as simple as getting the right sauce on your chicken nuggets. GET WHAT YOU WANT.
- Tell The Truth. This may seem like a no-brainer but is actually not as easy as it may seem. Telling the truth also means telling the truth to yourself. Tell the truth when you're not feeling something. Tell the truth when something isn't right with your spirit. It's about not just about telling the truth to other people, tell the truth to yourself.
- Move with love. I know this may sound cliche, but when you go in the direction of things and people you genuinely love you are truly your most honest self. Lead with your heart and not fear, you'll always be lead to authenticity.
These are just a few things I keep in mind while trying to be my most authentic self…my best self. Comment below different ways you remain authentic.


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Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings less than half of the 70 or so ultimately expected.
The painstaking job of transcribing often hard-to-decipher handwritten documents from history's lead players not to mention a lack of money has meant that most originals are seen by a just a handful of scholars and kept out of the public's reach altogether. After more than five decades, only slightly more than half of James Madison's papers have been transcribed and published, while work on Thomas Jefferson's papers, begun in 1943, probably won't be finished until around 2025.
Now the scholars behind the Bentham Project think they may have come up with a better way: crowd-sourcing.
Starting this fall, the editors have leveraged, if not the wisdom of the crowd, then at least its fingers, inviting anyone yes, that means you to help transcribe some of the 40,000 unpublished manuscripts from University College's collection that have been scanned and put online. In the roughly four months since this Wikipedia-style experiment began, 350 registered users have produced 435 transcripts.
These transcripts, which are reviewed and corrected by editors, will eventually be used for printed editions of the collected works of Bentham, whose preserved corpse, clothed and seated, has greeted visitors to the college since 1850.
Other initiatives have recruited volunteers online, but the Bentham Project is one of the first to try crowd-sourced transcription and to open up a traditionally rarefied scholarly endeavor to the general public, generating both excitement and questions.
It is an undertaking that Bentham, who died in 1832 at 84 and is best known for his utilitarian philosophy that sought "the greatest happiness for the greatest number," would no doubt appreciate.
This experiment, part of the way technology is revolutionizing the study of the humanities, has the potential to cut years, even decades, from the transcription process while making available to the public and the general pool of scholars miles of documents that are now off limits, difficult to read or unsearchable.
"It's fairly astonishing," Sharon Leon, a historian at George Mason University, said of crowd-sourcing's potential. Ms. Leon recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to design a free digital tool a plug-in that any archive or library could use to open transcription to the public.
Ms. Leon and her collaborators are working with 55,000 unpublished documents from the United States' early War Department that have been collected, copied and reconstructed in the last dozen years to replace those largely destroyed in 1800 when a fire swept through the department's offices.
These manuscripts, written from 1784 to 1800, are the equivalent of a national archive, since the early War Department handled not only military matters but also diplomacy, internal security, Indian affairs, the country's only social welfare program for veterans and accounted for 7 of every 10 dollars spent by the federal government.
Ms. Leon said she assumed the project, scheduled to begin in January, would primarily attract scholars, students, history enthusiasts and genealogists, some of whom might have already transcribed portions of these documents in the course of their research.
Karen Mason, a librarian at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn who has transcribed some of Bentham's papers, described her participation in the project as "a service to the scholarly community."
"I'm no Bentham scholar, but I am interested in history, so it's interesting to look at the addenda and deletions in the manuscripts and generally follow the thought processes of a man living in 18th-century England," she wrote in an e-mail. "I usually take about 15 to 20 minutes of my lunch hour if the weather is bad or if I don't feel like going out to do it."
To advocates of crowd-sourcing like Ms. Leon, making the country's documentary heritage available to the public is one of the most valuable aspects of that approach. Yet it also underscores how the digital humanities have become a new source of tension between experts and amateurs.
Max J. Evans, the former executive director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, said he had long campaigned for using digital technology like putting scanned originals online as a way of widening access. This way, at least, the papers of the founding fathers and others, despite being tough to read and unsearchable, would not be "held up in these scholarly editing offices for years and years, and not only available to a select group of scholars," he said. (The Library of Congress has done this with some of the founders' papers.)
But generally, document editors tend to be very resistant, he added.
" 'It'll be great when it's done,' they say, 'it's the Sistine Chapel, it's a magnificent masterpiece,' " Mr. Evans said. "I get all that. But in the interim, I don't know why we can't use the images we have in an easy-to-use form without all the scholarly apparatus."
Crowd-sourced transcription would naturally flow from such a set-up, he said.
Another obstacle is practical, said Daniel Stowell, the director and editor of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill. His office experimented with the hiring of nonacademic transcribers, he said, but they produced so many errors and gaps in the papers that "we were spending more time and money correcting them as creating them from scratch."
When tens of thousands of unpublished and rarely seen documents written by or to Lincoln were digitally scanned for the project for his bicentennial celebration in 2009, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, created a prototype for crowd-sourced transcription. It was ultimately abandoned.
Mr. Stowell said he expected the rest of Lincoln's papers to be transcribed and posted in 10 to 15 years. As to whether newer endeavors like Project Bentham or the War Department papers will end up saving time, he said, "I'm skeptical."
Certainly, deciphering Bentham's sloping antique script can be difficult for the pajama-wearing amateur. Bentham Project participants are given a long list of guidelines instructing them on how to enter codes for deletions, additions, marginal notes, headings and other textual quirks, which makes the work slow going in the beginning. Users can choose a manuscript to work on by subject ("Box 73 and Box 96 contain interesting manuscripts on drunkenness, swearing, adultery and much more ..."), or by how easy a document is to read. Bentham's handwriting deteriorated in his later years, and he occasionally wrote in between the lines of a previous letter.
Will there be mistakes? Of course.
"We're not looking for perfect," Ms. Leon of George Mason said of crowd-sourced transcription. "We're looking for progressive improvement, which is a completely different goal from someone who is creating a letter-press edition."
Mr. Evans quoted from a 1791 letter by Jefferson. "Let us save what remains," Jefferson wrote of national documents not destroyed during the war, "not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."
"I think there's a good deal of 'fencing' now," Mr. Evans said, "not by keeping them under lock but by keeping these documents in the hands of only small group of documentary editors, and those scholars who can make their way to the archives, until formal publication."


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Rick Hendrick. How sweet is it to have Nationwide Series development without having it under your umbrella? If Patrick is any good, there's a natural opportunity for her to sign with Hendrick when Mark Martin retires. If Patrick stinks, Hendrick takes none of the blame because all he provides is technical and motor support. All the gain, none of the pain. No wonder he's won 2,133,494,236 titles.
Michael Waltrip. I have no idea what realistic chance Waltrip had of signing Patrick. But it would have been a monumental step for his race team. Not only would there be enhanced name recognition on new platforms, it would have provided ample money to better support his Sprint and Nationwide Series teams. Plus, the commercials would have been awesome.
The IRL. Imagine your three-time series champion bolts to your rival and can't sniff the Chase. Oh wait. That's Sam Hornish Jr. Now imagine your defending Indy 500 Champion bolts to your rival and can't make it through half a season. No sense in imagining. It's Dario Franchitti. Now imagine your biggest star bolts for a rival company to work in their minor leagues. I'd like "Inferiority Complex" for $1,000,000,000,000,000 Alex.
Danica Patrick. Patrick will make gobs of money. But she's won one race, and that was a fuel duel. Still, a win is a win and she is competitive in the IRL. That said, being great in the IRL has gotten jack and squat in NASCAR. It is a different kind of racing. Plus, there are a ton of young drivers who will try to make a name for themselves at Danica's expense. And nobody has tried to run open-wheel and stock cars for an entire season simultaneously. It's quite possible Danica will find a home racing stock cars. It's equally possible she'll fall flat on her face. Just as it's possible she'll end up somewhere in the middle. Regardless of what happens, we'll all be watching.
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- Build towers to defend your mine in this tower defense where enemies break rocks to create shortcuts. The game features three difficulty levels and six different towers.
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- Use the mouse to buy towers and place them around the path. If the enemies reach the cave, you will lose a life. Bombers can break rocks creating shortcuts for the enemies. If you need time to think, there is a pause button which will still allow you to place towers. Tips: Every 10 levels the enemy will become stronger. Bombers move faster after each wave.
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Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix: Middle School Lesson
Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts differs markedly from his first four years. In previous books, Voldemort was an intangible being to be feared. Now, he has returned to bodily form and Harry must be constantly on the watch to protect himself.
The Plot Thickens
One would think the Ministry of Magic would go to great lengths to protect the "Boy Who Lived," but it seems the Ministry has reasons of its own for not wanting the Wizarding World to believe that the Dark Lord has indeed returned. Therefore, this book, by far the darkest yet in the series, explores not only the prophecy about Harry and Voldemort, but also the role politics plays in governing and shaping the beliefs of an entire community.
Teaching on the Theme
The major theme of this novel is person against authority. It is the Ministry of Magic, as an organization, represented by Dolores Umbridge at the school, who causes the major problems for Harry. She manages to begin her career at Hogwarts as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, although she does not teach defense. She rises to the position of High Inquisitor and has access to all things at Hogwarts, students, teachers, clubs and of course the inner workings of Dumbledore's office. She finally manages to have Dumbledore removed from power for a time, not because she is a supporter of Voldemort but because she longs for order and knows that conflict between Harry and Voldemort will affect the entire Wizarding World.
Major Points for Discussion
This novel also gives us another marked loss of a major character: the death of Sirius Black at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange. It also shows us the full scope of Voldemort's powers as well as the loyalty of both his followers and Harry's young supports. Finally, it paints a picture of what happens when government has too much power. It is an excellent teaching tool for 7th grade and higher.
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This post is part of the series: Harry Potter Middle School Lesson Plans
Each article in this series covers one book in the Harry Potter collection and includes a PowerPoint download that will serve as a helpful teaching tool.
- 1. Teaching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- 2. Teaching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- 3. Teaching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- 4. Teaching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- 5. Teaching Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
- 6. Teaching Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince


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Given the film's abbreviated running time and target demographic, the events depicted in "Lewis and Clark" are abridged and sanitized. A character named York is described as Clark's slave "and friend." Sacagawea's participation in the excursion and her marriage to a French trapper (she was 16 and pregnant when she met Lewis and Clark) are colored as voluntary and enthusiastic. The two men are described as great friends despite their great differences, but it's unclear exactly what their differences are. And while the film does mention Lewis' apparent suicide, it does little to foreshadow his depression leading up to it.
In addition, while the scenery is gorgeously photographed and a thundering buffalo herd fully utilizes the powerful sound of a large-format theatre, the storytelling is not particularly compelling: As Jeff Bridges narrates, the men and women portraying the historic character merely act out what he's saying, doing little to engage viewers in the story. Narrated by Jeff Bridges. Directed by Bruce Neibaur. Written by Mose Richards. Produced by Lisa Truitt and Jeff T. Miller. A Destination Cinema release. Large-format docudrama. Not yet rated. Running time: 42 min


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Frantic Hints and Tips
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Control Scheme 1
Move: Mouse
Activate Bonus: Left-Click
Pause: P
Mute: M
Toggle Quality: Q
Control Scheme 2
Move Up: W or Up Arrow Key
Move Down: S or Down Arrow Key
Move Left: A or Left Arrow Key
Move Right: D or Right Arrow Key
Activate Bonus: Z, X, C, <, >, /
Pause: P
Mute: M
Toggle Quality: Q
- Your ship shoots automatically, so all you have to worry about is aiming and dodging.
- If you're a beginner, you should probably go with the ship with balanced stats (the middle one). When you gain more experience, you can decide whether you prefer firepower or shields, or you can just stick with the balanced one.
- If you're not in any danger of dying, save your Adrenaline for bosses. If you're about to die, then go ahead and use it.
- If you really need to buy an upgrade, then do it. If not, save your money for the really powerful upgrades.
- When fighting a boss, stay near the bottom of the screen so that the bullets will be spread out by the time they reach you. This will make it easier to dodge them.


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Creamy vegan lasagna
This is a delicious, family-friendly gfcf, gluten free recipe! It is also wheat free, dairy free, soy free, egg free, tree nut free, peanut free, fish free, shellfish free, top 8 allergen free, corn free, vegetarian & vegan recipe. It could be OK for South Beach phase 1 by serving the filling as a side-dish. If you use whole-grain pasta, this should be OK as is for South Beach phase 2.
We serve this with a side of Italian sausages, as there's no meat in it. You could probably put ground turkey in with the vegetables, but I like it being Vegan, as then I can serve it to vegetarian friends. We all love this recipe, and it takes care of my need for something creamy and Italian without eating dairy.
- 1 batch White sauce
- 2-3+ cups marinara sauce (how much you use depends on how soupy you want it)
- 2-3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 medium eggplant, peeled and diced
- 1 bag baby spinach (10 oz) (or 1 lb of regular spinach that has been cleaned, de-stemmed, and torn into pieces)
- 1 package crimini (baby bella) mushrooms, sliced (7-10 oz)
- 1 package GF lasagna noodles (we like Tinkyada Brown Rice Lasagne)
- olive oil
Preheat oven to 350F
Heat olive oil in skillet over low heat and let garlic simmer for a few minutes – watch to make sure it doesn't brown.
Turn heat up to medium and add eggplant and mushrooms. Cover and cook until eggplant is very tender (almost mushy), stirring occasionally. This takes about 5-10 minutes.
Make the white sauce while the eggplant & mushrooms are cooking.
Add spinach to the skillet, stir and take off heat once spinach has just wilted. Add 1/2 of the white sauce to this mixture, and stir to combine.
Barely cover the bottom of a 9×13 (or so) baking pan with marinara sauce. Lay 3 uncooked lasagna noodles across the bottom of the pan. Spoon half the spinach/eggplant/mushroom mixture over the noodles. Ladle some marinara on top of the vegetables. Top with 3 more lasagna noodles. Repeat with another layer, and top with 3 more lasagna noodles.
You will have now used 9 lasagna noodles. Put the rest away for something else – sometimes we break them up for use in soup.
Pour white sauce on top of the final layer of noodles.
Cover tightly with foil and bake 45 minutes at 375 degrees. Take off cover, and bake additional 10-15 minutes until everything is browned and bubbly (I sometimes turn on the broiler for the last 2 minutes to brown the top).
This ends up tasting like it has cheese in it. YUM. No one ever even notices that there's eggplant in it or that it is gluten & dairy-free. Serve with a side of some sort of protein (we like turkey Italian sausages), and you're ready to eat!
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is a black and white comic book published by Dark Horse Comics and written and drawn by Frank Miller that takes the pulp/noir genre, sets it in the modern day, and takes it to its darkest and most violent extremes. Sin City is a dark and desperate place in which grimy back alleys and seedy bars sit alongside the mansions of the rich and corrupt, where life is cheap and money, power, and pleasure are the only things that matter. Basin City, in which the stories are set, gets its nickname from its famous red light district, Old Town, a unique place in which the prosititutes have created a sort of independent district in which the cops and the mob are not welcome, and in which they themselves are the law. Miller delves into the dark underside of humanity in Sin City, telling tales of greed, lust, perversion, and murder in a hard-boiled voice and with lurid detail. Sin City is not all that unlike the films of John Woo and Ringo Lam, both in theme and in action, and the heroes are just as flawed, if not moreso. Sometimes it is only the sheer evil of their enemies that makes them good by comparison.
The original Sin City appeared over the course of 13 months in Dark Horse Presents. This was followed by three Sin City miniseries which appeared on their own: the 6-part "A Dame To Kill For" the 5-part "The Big Fat Kill," and the 6-part "That Yellow Bastard." All of these miniseries as well as the original Sin City story have been reprinted as trade paperbacks. The latest Sin City comic, "Family Values," was released directly as a 128 page trade paperback. There have also been two, single-issue short story collections: "The Babe Wore Red," and "Lost, Lonely, and Lethal," and two one-shots: "Silent
Night," and "Sex and Violence. The various Sin City stories and miniseries deal with different characters who tend to overlap from one story to the next, giving the work as a whole a finite setting in place and time while varying the cast of characters and their prominence. A main character in one story may only appear in the background of one panel for another, linking the current story to the continuity as a whole. Sin City tends to be somewhat darker and grittier than Feng Shui as a whole, and of course it lacks the magical and supernatural elements. If you want to run a game in the Sin City setting, you'll have to bear this in mind. Things that would be at least questionable, if not unacceptable in a typical Feng Shui game would be commonplace here. The best way to understand this is to see it for yourself. Unless you're easily offended I recommend that you go and check it out. You won't be disappointed.
Dwight McCarthy
"I'd give anything. Just to cust loose. Just to feel the fire.
One more time."
Bod 7 (Tgh 8), Chi 0 (For=5), Mnd 7, Ref 7
Guns 13, Journalism 12, Info/Sin City 11, Martial Arts 11, Driving 11, Detective 10, Intrusion 10, Intimidation 8, Seduction 8
Both Guns Blazing, Unique Journalist Schtick
Two .45 automatics
Wealth Level:
Hook: At the start of A Dame to Kill For: Recover the remnants of his shattered life. Afterwards: Repay his debt to the women of Old Town.
Dwight first appears in A Dame to Kill For. Formerly a newspaper journalist,
a series of bad events has reduced him to snapping pictures of cheating
husbands in order to make ends meet. He is broken shell of his former self,
betrayed by the woman he loved and destroyed by his own failings. By the
end of the story he's been given a new face and a chance to start over
again. He's on his way back to what he once was, but he's had to pay a
high price for it, including the blood of an innocent man on his hands.
Dwight is a man with many weaknesses, chief among them alcohol and women.
The two make him lose control of himself and act irrationally. Though exactly
what happened is never fully revealed, we learn that Dwight fell in love
with a woman who coldly left him for a richer man. What followed was a
decent into hard drinking and self-destructive behavior that left him a
broken man. When we first meet Dwight, he lives a lonely life, haunted
by his past and unwilling to let himself live again. However, Dwight also
posesses a number of strengths as well. He's tough, smart, courageous,
loyal, and resourceful, and he goes out of his way to protect women in
danger. This has made him a number of friends in and out of Old Town who
come to his aid when he needs them. With their help he's able to overcome
the demons from his past and start anew, but he also now owes them a debt
which he knows he will never fully be able to pay off. Dwight is muscular
and bald and appears to be in his early 30's. Although handsome, he gets
battered quite a bit in A Dame to Kill For. By the end of the story he
has had surgery to change his appearance, which includes the addition of
a mop of dirty-blonde hair. He wears a long army coat under which he conceals
a pair of .45's (in Family Values he wears an expensive wool coat). Besides
being the hero of A Dame to Kill For, Dwight is also the main character
of The Big Fat Kill, Family Values, and the short story The Babe Wore Red.
He has also made cameo appearances in other Sin City stories.
Big Bruiser
"All I've ever been good at is killing so I might as well enjoy
Bod 11(Tgh 12), Chi 0, Mnd 4 (Wil 9, Per 6, Cha 1), Ref 7
Skills: Martial Arts 12, Intimidation 12 (This is based on Bod, not Cha.), Guns 10, Driving 9, Intrusion 9, Info/Sin City 7
Schticks: Signiature Weapon (Gladys), Big Bruiser Unique Schtick
Weapons: Gladys - Signiature .45 automatic (11/2/7+1)
Wealth Level: Poor
Hook: At the start of Sin City: To find out who murdered Goldie and to avenge her death.
Marv is, as Dwight puts it, "Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem."
He's a thug and a killer and not completely sane, and he's a danger to
be around. Marv is a monster in combat, both with his fists and with a
gun. He's capable of taking on several men at once and he can shrug off
injuries that would fell a normal man. Marv is also the hero of the original
Sin City miniseries. Marv embarks on a mission of vengeance after Goldie,
a beautiful prostitute who befriends him, is murdered only hours later
while in bed with him. Marv is framed for the murder, and so he begins
his search for the real killer. This is what sets Marv apart from the rest
and makes him a hero; he continues on his quest to the bitter end out of
a sense of duty, out of guilt at his failure to protect Goldie, and because,
as he puts it, "She gave me something I didn't even know existed." Marv
may be a fearsome figure, but he's also human, with human fears and frailties.
Several times he considers giving up, but he continues nonetheless. He
has to take medication to keep his head clear. Also, he's something of
a sadist, yet, ironically, he's at his calmest when he's at his most violent.
Yet, as bad as he can be, Marv is nowhere nearly as twisted or evil as
those he opposes. Marv is loyal to his friends and will never hurt a woman.
In fact, he is protective of the opposite sex, and gets angry when he sees
a woman being insulted or hurt. He is particularly fond of a dancer named
Nancy, and as a result no one will dare harm her. He can often be found
at Kadie's, a seedy Country bar where Nancy works. He's done a lot of favors
for the owner, and so he always drinks there for free. Marv is tall and
massive, with a blond crew cut and a face so ugly that he can't even buy
the services of a prostitute. His weapon of choice is a .45 he's named
Gladys after one of the sisters from his old school. Marv is the main character
of both Sin City and Silent Night, and he appeared as a supporting character
in A Dame to Kill For.
"She'll cut you quick, She'll kill you quiet. You won't feel a thing, not unless she wants you to."
Bod 6, Chi 0, Mnd 5 (Cha 8, Wil 8, Per 9), Ref 10
Martial Arts 15, Intrusion 15, Guns 10 (For bow and arrow only; Miho never uses guns.), Seduction 12
Razor-Edged Senses, Quick Draw, Both Blades Flashing x 3
Paired Ninja-To (9), paired kama (8), shuriken (5), bow and arrows (10), throwing knives (6), manriki-gusari (6) and virtually anything else possible.
Hook: To protect the women of Old Town.
Small, silent, and deadly is the best way to describe Miho. A tiny,
beautiful, Japanese prostitute who apparently never speaks, she's also
one of the most lethal individuals in all of Sin City. Miho is an expert
killer, capable of dispatching a houseful of armed guards with little effort.
She carries a wide variety of edged weapons, and is quite handy with all
of them. She moves with incredible stealth, taking down her victims quickly
and quietly - that is, when she wants to. If Miho can be said to have a
weakness, it's that she will sometimes toy with a victim before finishing
them, and when she does, it is often with a ghoulish and sadistic sense
of humor (such as slicing through a victim's throat, then punting their
head off their shoulders like a football). She doesn't display much emotion,
except perhaps a hint of boredom when she's not actively killing someone.
Miho is utterly devoted to her companions in Old Town, and will not hesitate
to kill on their behalf. She also owes a debt to Dwight, who saved her
life when she was outnumbered by a gang of Tong hoods. Miho is included
here, not because she's a major character, but because she's probably the
closest thing in Sin City to a Feng Shui character. She's best described
as a killer, though in truth she doesn't fit the archetype exactly, and
is probably more like a hybrid with the Ninja archetype. Compared to the
typical staring PC in Feng Shui she's not that extraordinary, but in the
world of Sin City she is the deadliest thing around. Imagine Jet-Li - playing
one of his usual roles - into a John-Woo style movie and you get the idea.
Miho just barely stands 5 feet tall, with a slender, sinuous body, catlike
eyes, and straight dark hair that reaches to around her chin. She usually
wears a black kimono in which she conceals a number of weapons. Her swords
rest in a sash at her waist. Miho has appeared in A Dame to Kill For, The
Big Fat Kill, Family Values, and in a short story in The Babe Wore Red.
On further consideration, I realized that Sin City has quite a bit in
common with with HK cinema, especially John Woo and Ringo Lam. It just
seems darker, but then again HK cinema can get pretty dark too. I guess
I tend to think of FS as somewhat more light in tone, but the game can
just as easily be played dark and nasty.
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once again, we are in complete agreement with the great domed one.
not every medium is suited to advertising. and anyone who has any experience of actually * trying to harness the internet for advertising purposes knows that while it has created exciting new opportunities, it does not rely on advertising for its existence.
and anyone who has worked in the traditional media knows that, creatively, not all media are equal. TV for example is a much better medium than radio. you can show and demonstrate things. you can create exciting little films.
so while facebook attracts a huge crowd, there isn't much opportunity to create a meaningful brand experience. how many of banner ads on facebook have you clicked on? exactly. does anyone get excited about the prospect of creating a banner ad for facebook? exactly.
now we are not ruling out someone potentially conquering the world via a facebook app or banner ad, and ideally it would be us! but we aren't holding our breath for it.
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UW World Series, Meany Hall, 8 pm through Oct. 5
By Alice Kaderlan
Put an able-bodied dancer on stage next to a man in a wheelchair and you might expect the able-bodied performer to be the more athletic and the more compelling. In the case of paraplegic Joel Brown and dancer/choreographer Sebastian Grubb, however, that is not necessarily the case.
In Grubb's riveting duet with Brown, titled "The Narrowing," Brown mimics Grubb's acrobatic moves using only his upper body. As Grubb hops, slides, twists and folds his body into a series of ever changing shapes, Brown does the same from his wheelchair, astonishing us with his strength and artistry.
Apart from showcasing the physical talent of both dancers, "The Narrowing" raises certain unavoidable questions: Who is the more physically abled? What does it mean to be wheelchair-bound? What stereotypes and preconceptions do we have about those who are physically disabled?
Over the course of an evening watching the Oakland-based AXIS/Dance/Company, it's hard not to think about the issues raised by this "physically-integrated" troupe. But it would be a mistake to assume that AXIS is just making a political statement. As the three pieces on the Meany program demonstrate, this is a company committed to making art and expanding our appreciation of what contemporary dance can be.
The first work on the program, Mac Brew's "Full of Words" featured five dancers – Emily Eifler, Juliana Monin and Sonsherée Giles join Grubb and Brown – in a touching exploration of love. Eifler and Giles are a lesbian couple who cavort on, around and under a kitchen table. There's an undercurrent of violence to their interactions that suggests a tense and competitive relationship. Giles is an acrobatic wonder and Eifler, who relies on a hand crutch at times, is her match in emotional intensity.
The second couple, Monin and Grubb, is a more conventional pair but as they maneuver in, over and around an empty bathtub, it's clear there are tensions in their relationship as well. Brown, seated by himself off to the side in a La-Z-Boy, is isolated from the others, both by his ability to move only his upper body – which he does with elegance and finesse – and by his solitary position.
Over the course of "Full of Words" Giles eventually makes her way to Brown and the dance ends with a touching duet between the two of them, Brown folding his body over Giles in a gesture of deep connection and love. Again, AXIS sends a powerful message through an artistic vehicle full of beauty and emotion.
Only the final work on the program, "What If Would You," edged into preachiness. The five performers tell the audience to, in effect, open their minds, then bring onstage a small group of able-bodied and disabled audience members whom they lead through a series of simple gestures and movements. Although some of the movements were lovely to watch, in the end "What If Would You," felt a little like a lecture and less like the innovative artistic expression


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Demographic Fluctuations, Generational Welfare and Intergenerational Transfers
NBER Working Paper No. 8530
This paper extends the Ramsey model's normative analysis to issues of generational welfare and intergenerational transfers. A planner, who maximizes the discounted welfare of an endless stream of generations, is intrinsically biased against larger cohorts, which are more costly to provide utility. Imperfect production substitutability produces a market bias against baby booms as well, lowering their lifetime income. The market bias, however, tends to be greater than that of the planner, who provides the baby boom cohort with more favourable lifetime transfers. Intuitively, the baby boom benefits from temporarily reduced elderly dependency, allowing greater lifetime consumption relative to lifetime income. Declining population growth leads to rising elderly dependency, which the planner supports with increasing intergenerational transfers. Secularly rising social security taxes, and declining lifetime returns, with a baby boom cohort receiving more favourable treatment than their heavily burdened successors, are consistent with the wishes of a social planner in an environment with declining population growth.
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