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's seventh season, the Hawks set program records in wins (26-3), best start (21-2) and winning streak (15 games). Hartford set another program record Monday when it was awarded the No. 11 seed in the Bridgeport Regional in the
"Certainly we felt like it was a reward for a great season we've had," said Rizzotti, a former New Fairfield High and UConn star. "And our goal this year was to have a great season so we could get a higher seed because last year we felt completely overwhelmed with a 3-14 match-up. We wanted to have a better chance to get a (win) in the first round of the tournament, so we were certainly happy with our placement."
The Hawks, who face sixth-seeded Temple in the first round Sunday in Trenton, N.J., showed throughout the season they were deserving of a better seed than they received last year. They had a final RPI of 29 in the NCAA's official ranking and their 26 wins entering the NCAA tournament are tied for 11th-best among the 64 teams in the field.
The main aspect working against Hartford's seeding was its strength of schedule, ranked 113th according to CollegeRPI.com, which resulted in a first-round game against Temple, ranked 19th in this week's AP Top 25.
Facing a Top 25 team in the first round is nothing new for the Hawks. Their first trip to the NCAA tournament in 2002, they were a No. 16 seed and lost to top-seeded Oklahoma 84-52 in the first round. Last year, they dropped a 62-37 decision to third-seeded Rutgers as the No. 14 seed.
Even though Hartford again is the underdog in Sunday's game, Rizzotti said she likes the team's chances of getting past the first round more so than in previous years.
"We felt like if we continued to win and we win our conference tournament we would probably put ourselves in a much better position than we were the first two times we made trips to the NCAA tournament," said Rizzotti, the America East Coach of the Year. "This is the direction we wanted our program to head in and we wanted to build upon last year's tournament appearance. We felt like we did that with a great season this year with four more wins so far than we had last year and sitting in a much better position this year in the postseason."
If the Hawks pull off the upset Sunday, they likely will face third-seeded Georgia in the second round on Tuesday. Another upset in the second round means they return to their home state and have a potential match up against second-seeded UConn in the Bridgeport Regional semifinal.
Before worrying about playing the Huskies again this season, Rizzotti is just concerned about trying to win the first NCAA tournament game in Hartford history.
"Now for us to win a game against a Top 25 program, it would change the program," Rizzotti said. "It would bring it to the next level and it would bring us some notoriety like we've never seen. Certainly it means a lot to us. I know what Temple's playing for and I know they're going to be a tough team to beat, but I do think on our end we could gain a lot from this game."
Rizzotti has turned the Hartford program completely around since she took over the team in 1999, and the Hawks enjoyed their most success this season.
One of the highlights of the season was a record-setting 15-game winning streak, surpassing the previous best mark of 12 games. The Hawks upheld their preseason pick to win the America East and won the regular-season title with a 15-1 league record. They almost swept the postseason awards, as guard Erika Messam was named the America East Player of the Year and forward Erica Beverly was the league's rookie of the year. They were the first players in program history to win their respective awards.
Hartford then had an impressive showing in the America East tournament.
The Hawks swept through the tournament and won all three rounds by an average of 17.7 points. They won all three games by double digits and defended their tournament title with a 76-56 win against Boston University .
"I feel like we're playing our best basketball of the year," Rizzotti said. "Last year we won the (America East) tournament, but I wouldn't say we played better than we had during other stretches. Right now, I feel like they're playing the best that they've played all year."


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Austin: np, 1877. 16pp. Issued in printed wrappers, here bound into quarter leather and marbled boards preserving the front wrap. Wrap slightly soiled pages browned light vertical fold. Hubbard became governor in 1876, serving until 1879. Raines says of him, "Gov. Hubbardd has no superior, perhaps, as an orator in Texas." In this oration, addressing the president of the U.S. and the U.S. Centennial Commission, he traces Texas history, expounding on the state's glories and riches and defending the moral character of her people against the myth of lawlessness and "the envenomed slang of the hustings and the promptings of a blind and unforgiving fanaticism!... Sir, you have been told that we are demons in hate, and gloat in the thought of war and blood.... I denounce the utterance as an inhuman slander, and a damnable and unpardonable falsehood against a brave, and God knows, a long-suffering people!" He ends with an appeal for a healing of the wounds left by the Civil War: "Let us bury the feuds of that stormy hour of our history. In this generous and knightly spirit, Texas to-day sends fraternal greeting to all the States of the Union." Item #20607
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Listed is a custom black leather Ford Mustang 1994-98 emergency brake boot. I had this custom made for a 1998 Mustang Cobra, but I sold the car before I installed it. The quality of the leather is excellent and I am providing a picture of it shown inside out for your review as well. It is available from Northern VA (22152 zip code).
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The power of theatre can be undeniable. But the power of the puppet? For actor Tim Kornblum, who plays Brian in the current touring production of Avenue Q, which plays Vancouver in February, that power is very real.
Kornblum's not only living his dream of being part of Avenue Q, he also credits it as part of his own coming out story.
"Avenue Q had a direct influence on my own coming out," said Kornblum. "When I saw the show, people had just started to find out I was gay. I was able to find the peace in my own life by connecting with the characters that I saw on stage. It is definitely a very personal story for me".
Even now that personal connection to Avenue Q continues for Kornblum. Asked if he was currently attached, he confessed that he had just recently broken up with someone after a five and a half year relationship.
"It's definitely hard," he said. "But I'm a big believer in everything happens for a reason and I can use the show as part of my healing process and help me to figure things out."
Kornblum's journey to the street of puppets started back in 2006 when he was 17 years old and saw Avenue Q for the very first time. Not only did the show have a profound effect on his life as a gay man, he knew after that very first viewing that he would one day be part of the show himself.
Participating in open auditions in New York, Kornblum says that he originally tried to cover as many bases as he could, not wanting to limit himself to a single character.
"For the auditions I did dress much like Brian would dress, but that is also how I normally dress," he laughed. "I also did both the Rod and Nicky voices. After a number of call backs I finally landed the role of Brian. The rest, they say, is history".
But all seriousness aside, one can't lose sight that while Avenue Q touches on some pretty serious subjects, it is all done with a great deal of humour. After all, this is a show populated by puppets who sing songs like "The Internet Is for Porn", "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" and even Kornblum's character gets a little ditty called "I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today".
Avenue Q tells its story of Princeton, a college grad who moves to New York City through a cast of people and puppets. Playing one of only three human characters in the show, a stand-up comic named Brian, Kornblum admits he has never done stand-up himself and isn't sure he would make much of stand-up comedian as he says he is "not good at planning things". But he does credit his parents for exposing him to a wide variety of comedy.
As for acting to a bunch of puppets, Kornblum says that the puppets are so life-like and the actors so talented that they make it very easy: "the only real difference in acting in Avenue Q is that he look at the puppets instead of the puppeteers".
Having just seen the current tour extended through April (it was originally scheduled to end in March), Kornblum is looking towards the future with one of his first tasks to complete the independent film "Repetition of Change", a dark comedy about the underbelly of psycho-pharmaceuticals and corrupt doctors, that was put on the backburner when the tour started. He may also go back to finish college, something else that was put on hold when the opportunity in Avenue Q came about for him.
As our conversation came to an end so he could get ready for a matinee performance in Anchorage, I couldn't resist asking him about Rod (one of the puppet characters in the show) and whether Rod was looking forward to seeing his girlfriend Alberta while in Vancouver.
"Absolutey," said Kornblum as seriously as he could. "As a matter of fact I was just talking with him and he was jumping for joy and sounding like a little school girl".
Perhaps a little enigmatic to end a show about puppets especially for those that haven't seen Avenue Q, but I'm not about to ruin the surprise. You'll have go and find out for yourself.
Avenue Q
The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts
1 – 5 February 2011
Tickets are $48 – $73 and are available online.


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Brazilians launch "Libre," a new microfinancing technology for journalism
Brazil has seen dozens of independent journalism initiatives emerge in recent years, many of them launched with the proposal of innovating in terms of content and the ways it's presented. One challenge facing most of these initiatives concerns financial sustainability: how to generate the income needed to improve journalistic quality, keeping content accessible to as many people as possible?
Libre, a new microfinancing technology for digital journalism, aims to help Brazilian outlets solve this impasse. The tool uses a mechanism similar to likes and shares in social networks, but proposes the transformation of these manifestations of appreciation for content into financial support for outlets and journalists.
"The amount of clicks and reach on networks have become dangerously synonymous with success," said Bruno Torturra, of journalism studio Fluxo, Ariel Kogan of Open Knowledge Brasil, and Thiago Rondon from AppCivico, the team responsible for Libre. Torturra, Kogan and Rondon responded jointly to questions from the Knight Center about the technology that was launched in mid-September.
"While likes and shares determine this new relevance, they do not create a direct relationship between audience and financial return. The idea is to offer a new metric, a bridge that allows a small and direct economic recognition of the contents that the public determines to be the most valuable," they explained.
The tool appears as a button on editorial pages inviting the reader to click, and instead of simply appreciating the material or sharing it in their profiles on social networks, collaborate with the outlet by donating a Libre. In order to donate, the reader must register on the Libre platform and select a monthly pre-paid plan from among those available on the website, which range from R$20 (about US $6) to R$500 (US $157) per month. Once registered, the reader can distribute their Libres between the sites that they frequent.
The value of a Libre starts at R$1 (US $0.31) and can rise if the person distributes less Libre than the maximum of their contracted monthly plan. As shown on the platform, if a reader has a plan of R$30 and donated 30 Libres in a month, each Libre is worth R$1, but if the plan is R$30 and 10 Libres were donated, each Libre is worth R$3.
"We believe that Libre offers a particularly simple and direct solution to sample the audience and the relevance they attribute to content. It's an intuitive, familiar kind of interface in this timeline environment and post-to-post information consumption," the creators of the technology said.
Torturra, Kogan and Rondon said that the initial expectation with Libre is "to test the platform's fundamental hypothesis: that there is an audience interested in quality journalism that is willing to participate in creating a new economic viability for the press." The second "is to create a sense of belonging, community through shared economic solutions among digital outlets and journalists," as well as "to bring people and outlets together in a relationship of mutual support and trust."
Fact-checking agency Aos Fatos is one of the first outlets to adopt the tool. "Aos Fatos supports Libre in this first phase because it believes that it needs to embrace innovative projects, test them, understand them, help its creators adapt them," agency director Tai Nalon told the Knight Center. "If the new journalistic enterprises do not serve to try new formulas of narrative, technology, management and financing, what then do they serve?" she asked.
The creators of the tool also alluded to the recent explosion of digital journalism in Brazil, celebrating experimentation in business models. They criticized, however, what they consider as repetition of "dysfunctional funding models for journalism."
"Crowdfunding works well for specific projects, but not for monthly sustainability. Subscriptions require a broad, faithful base and a high content production. Paywall restricts the impact of journalism and only works for outlets with great strength and volume," they believe. "We do not want any outlet to change its business plans or to have Libre as the only source of revenue. But it can be a complementary and very useful tool to generate more revenue and a more direct and tangible relationship with the public."
For Nalon from Aos Fatos, "new journalism initiatives have very different forms of funding, so it's difficult to know which is the ideal model and whether there are models that work better than others." But she believes something can be said of all journalistic endeavors: "No outlet can afford to live only from one financial source. Libre could be one of them," she said.
In addition to Aos Fatos, Libre has also been adopted by a site focused on urban cycling, Vá de Bike, and gastronomy site Gastrolândia. The creators of the tool said they are open to outlets and journalists from any area who want to adopt it.
"Well-researched reporting, relevant articles done with hard work may not be big successes in terms of audience but have the potential to generate high financial returns. And we also believe that the tool can be especially interesting for topics of more specific interest," they said.
"In these first weeks, all the tests went well and we are making the first real transfer to the outlets for the support given to corresponding content. We are ready to register more outlets and increase the base of supporters."
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Bernie Karl knows a gold mine when he sees one. In the 1970s, Bernie and his wife Connie moved to Alaska and mined gold in the frontier before eventually landing their dream job of running Chena Hot Springs Resort, just outside of Fairbanks.
"We always wanted to own a hot springs," Bernie says.
In 1998, Bernie bought the Chena Hot Springs Resort, and the 22-building spa was expensive to heat – astonishingly expensive – because it ran on diesel generators that cost him roughly $1,000 a day to fuel. As you can imagine, that adds up pretty quick.
But now the resort is home to two geothermal power plants that generate enough power to meet nearly all the resort's electricity needs. The power plants, known as the Chena Chillers, were developed in collaboration with United Technologies Corporation and are the lowest operating temperature geothermal power plants in the world, operating with 165 F water.
The energy savings has been remarkable. Bernie estimates he saves anywhere from $300,000 to $400,000 in electricity costs alone each year.
That's not the only benefit geothermal energy provides to this rural resort that is known for its wildlife, natural hot springs and fantastic views of the Northern Lights. The air is a whole lot cleaner for his guests.
"It was running on 22 smoke stacks," Bernie recalls. "Now, we're a zero-smoke-stack resort."
Chena Hot Springs is now a destination resort for eco-tourists from around the world. Each year, 90,000 visitors flock to Chena Hot Springs to unwind and learn more about its various renewable energy projects. Eco-tourists can take a renewable energy tour and educate themselves about the interesting, energy-saving projects for which Chena Hot Springs is famous.
Bernie sees these treasures on a daily basis in the midst an economic climate that has most rural communities reeling.
"I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I'm up 2 percent for the year, and I attribute 100 percent of it to doing things green," he says. "People come to Chena Hot Springs because we do things green."


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Yes youths redirect their ernegy to better things than being used by gready politicians .
I was in Sesheke yesterday and the other day. I have been avoiding to comment on Sesheke for two reasons; number one Zambians are very difficult to correct.
Objectivity is not one of our strengths. Number two, when two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
Truth be told both the Patriotic Front (PF) and the United Party for National Development (UPND) are two violent parties. They have been at each others tails and now throats for too long.
Unfortunately their escalating of these fights is getting worse and more militant.
Already they are both planning an Armageddon blood bath at the next two by elections. With the police completely out of the picture now, it is obvious what will happen.
My father told me never to rebuke elders in public. So I shall not point fingers. I will have a private talk with the two people responsible for this violence when I meet them.
When Colonial Masters where in power they butchered UNIP. When UNIP came to power they terrorised MMD. When MMD was in power they almost lynched PF. When PF came to power they have built "walls" of fortification financed by an intricate deep pocket. This periodic cycle will only be
broken by serious hearts of love for nation and forgiveness of even bitter rivals.
One of the great leadership mistakes President Chiluba made was to create a Street Vendors Desk at State House. In America there is a law which demands the separation of State and the Church. I pray for (I shall lobby for it one day) a law that can separate politics from the state in
Paul Kagame has shown us that Africa can rise above its conflicts. Nelson Mandela showed us that hateful feelings could be erased through truth. Odinga and Kenyata had to put Kenya first because those two
were literally playing with Fire Works, Kerosene and Match Sticks in the same pocket while standing on Propane Gas.
I shall not comment about the police and how they have managed (or mismanaged) their affairs.
I am just appealing to the youths of Zambia; we are better than this. They were weapons in Sesheke from both sides. I condemn violence no matter who pedals it.
We don't need bloodshed in Zambia. We have enough metaphors and ironic (even iconic) sheds of blood as it is. I can't tell politicians how to behave. I thought that came with the operational manual. But I can encourage youths to redirect their energies to better things.
At the rate things are going, the instruments of power will shift pendulums in the wrong hands and we may soon see civility disappear (whatever is left of it).
Laws must not be prejudiced against a few and presumptive measures taken to advance personal or myopic agendas.
Absolute power still corrupts. Desperation for power still corrupts. Abuse of power is actually evil. In the case where wrongs and rights stand in blared lines, we can learn from history. History never lies.
May God bless our nation. May God bless the youths of Zambia. God has a remnant out there. Stand up for justice and equity.
Yes youths redirect their ernegy to better things than being used by gready politicians .
Ba Nawa I wonder how some individuals allow their minds to operate. surely even with one sense you can tell yourself that fighting is no go area.. what more five senses.? me I get surprised..
What you said is factual and true ,if Zambia will not resist from political violence , the nation is on fire, because from the name of politics ,people are losing lives.
While UPND is not entirely clean,violence in this era is clearly orchestrated by PF.NASA there is a group of PF cadres based at Soweto Market by the name America 2 whose function is to cause mayhem and violence. President Lungus condemnation of violence is vague and lip service as well as Kampyonyo.Police officers in Sesheke got fed up of treating PF cadres with kids gloves and reacted by beating the cadres who they found with assorted weapons. If police had beaten UPND those men would still have their jobs and Dora Siliya would have continued defending police and condemning UPND.This violence can be stopped in one day,but no they are not stopping, 2021 will be the most violent elections in Zambian history unless God intervenes..


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Meryl Streep does it all in 'Mamma Mia!'
Streep lets loose in her first movie musical
At this point in Meryl Streep's career, nothing is really surprising. She's played tragedy, she's done pratfalls. She's seen her children die, survived centuries as a comic vampire. She's done hardcore drunks and jilted wives, steered a raft through whitewater rapids and gotten high from snorting the root of an exotic orchid.
She learned to play Bach's Concerto in D on the violin for "Music of the Heart," perfected Irish step dancing for "Dancing at Lughnasa." She aced the accents of characters Polish, Italian, British and Oklahoman, and morphed, miraculously, into a bearded rabbi for "Angels in America."
And so, when Streep took on "Mamma Mia!," the movie version of the ABBA musical, it didn't seem as if she was slumming through bubble gum - just launching another experiment in a rich, unpredictable career.
Streep, 59, plays Donna, an ex-hippie and single American mom raising her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) on a Greek island. When Sophie gets married, three of Donna's ex-lovers (Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard) congregate on the island - any one of them could be her father - along with the bawdy broads (Julie Walters, Christine Baranski) who were Donna's colleagues in a long-ago, all-girl trio.
Streep is amazing in this role; she acts it as if she'd been waiting all her life to cut loose and have this much fun. In the movie's first half she clowns and capers: hanging from her feet, vamping, shaking her butt. She even bounces off her bed and does midair splits, like a 12-year-old.
In the brilliantly staged "Dancing Queen," Streep is at her most radiant, leading the women of her Greek village down a rocky hillside to a boat dock. Mothers and grandmothers drop chores and fall into rank as Streep, a beaming Pied Piper, leads the spontaneous sisterhood. Later she kills with her big emotional solo ("The Winner Takes It All"), draws tears with a simple, affecting song about seeing her daughter grow up ("Slipping Through My Fingers.")
This isn't just a great performance - it's an affirmation of joy and vitality, a celebration of optimism and resilience irrespective of age. It's an effervescent lark, but I think it will go down as one of her greatest moments.
No stranger to musicals, Streep was in stage productions of Kurt Weill's "Happy End" and Elizabeth Swados' "Alice at the Palace" early in her career. She sang in the films "Ironweed," "Postcards from the Edge" and "Prairie Home Companion," and she was set to do "Evita" before the role went to Madonna. Streep always had the chops but until "Mamma Mia!" - 31 years into her film career - she'd never done a full-blown movie musical.)
"Mamma Mia!" works because Streep and the other cast members embrace this material instead of winking at it. It's easy to dismiss ABBA songs as cheesy, simplistic ditties. What's more challenging, and what director Phyllida Lloyd and her crew achieve so well, is hitting emotional notes that are honest and direct and never condescending. Streep and her cohorts - Walters and Baranski, in particular - are clearly having a blast in "Mamma Mia!," and that permits the rest of us to do the same.
There's never been an American film star who's sustained the level of excellence and inventiveness that Streep has. Brando, Bogart, Bette Davis - these were all great artists but none of them consistently raised the bar on their own achievement like Streep. None continued to make strong, varied work for as many years and none has pursued the job of acting with as little ego or vanity.
Her instincts aren't flawless: "Rendition" and "Lions for Lambs," a pair of political films from last year, were misfires. Her participation in "Dark Matter," an unseen indie about a Chinese man studying in the United States, is still a mystery. But even when she misses her mark or the film disappoints, there's always the sense of a sustained inquiry.
An artist at his or her best is a life force put on earth so the rest of us can see the articulation of our own complexity and humanity. You read the psychological fiction of Ian McEwan or Alice Munro and you think, "Yes, that's exactly true. I couldn't have pinpointed or expressed it so perfectly, but I know that." The clarity and release we feel listening to certain music; the transporting properties of great painting or sculpture - these are the gifts of the artist. They connect us to ourselves and to each other.
Streep has been the gold standard for movie acting for so long that a lot of people take her for granted or reduce her to the stereotype of the high-minded "Sophie's Choice" actress, the one with the pedigrees who does all those accents. But in fact, she never stops changing.
Mike Nichols, her director on four films, noted that Streep, who studied at Vassar and Yale, got her best training by living a full life and not cloistering herself. She married, raised four children, and lives a non-celebrity existence in Connecticut. Her acting, as a result, is authentic, deeper. We recognize ourselves in her.
By building a clear channel between her heart and the characters she plays, by continuing to expand her range of interests and reflect the dimensions in her own life, Streep gives us touchstones for our own experience.
A protean career
Meryl Streep has made roughly 45 feature films since her debut in "Julia'" (1977). The
10 listed here demonstrate her range and breadth of interest.
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). Joanna Kramer leaves her husband, then tries to regain custody of their son. An unsympathetic character emerges as believable and human.
Sophie's Choice (1982). Still devastating. Concentration camp survivor Sophie Zawistowski emigrates to Brooklyn and falls in love, but the past's horrors never recede.
Out of Africa (1985). Streep is letter-perfect as Karen Blixen, a.k.a. Isak Dinesen, the Danish author who ran a coffee farm in Kenya.
Postcards From the Edge (1990). After a decade of screen tragedies, Streep shifted gears with a series of comedies. This one, based on the Carrie Fisher best-seller about a drug-addicted actress, was the best. The River Wild (1994). Gail Hartman turns mama lion when a pair of thugs terrorize her and her son on a whitewater rafting trip. Streep bulked up to play this, her most athletic part.
The Bridges of Madison County (1995). Clint Eastwood's lovely, measured direction is the ideal context for Streep's delicate performance as an Italian American housewife tempted by extramarital romance.
One True Thing (1998). Married to a womanizing literature professor (William Hurt) and dying of cancer, Kate Gulden (Streep) teaches her bullheaded daughter (Renee Zellweger) about forgiveness.
Adaptation (2002). Journalist Susan Orlean goes to Florida to profile a toothless orchid thief (Chris Cooper) in Charlie Kaufman's surrealist fantasy.
Angels in America (2003). The Picasso of acting nails each of four parts she plays in this TV miniseries: Ethel Rosenberg, Mormon housewife Hannah Pitt, the Angel of Australia and a bearded rabbi.
The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Miranda Priestly, a villainous fashion magazine editor, was another new arrow in Streep's quiver. She never shows her claws, but effectively underplays it.
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The huge doll event hosted by Volks called "Dollpa" (Also known as Dolls Party) took place in Tokyo last weekend where a load of parents got together to adopt new daughters or bring their current ones to gather with other parents.
Dollpa also have a load of dealer booths selling clothing and accessories for the little ones too. Today however, we take a look at what went on in the doll display area where proud parents display their little precious ones.
If you are looking for more doll info and photos then Figure.fm and Doll.fm have loads.


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Joe Prunty has selected 17 players for his first squad as the new GB head-coach in preparation for the 2013 EuroBasket.
The former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant has had to make do without leading NBA stars Luol Deng and Joel Freeland while Ben Gordon and Byron Mullens are once again not involved.
Prunty seems to have an eye on the future having selected the young trio of Myles Hesson, Alex Marcotullio and the Under-20's MVP at the European Championships, Devon van Oostrum. The three men will no doubt relish the opportunity to learn from experienced members of the squad including the likes of Pops Mensah-Bonsu and Leicester Riders' Drew Sullivan.
Orlan Jackman has been rewarded for having a fine first season in the BBL with his first call-up while former BBL players Liam Potter and Dzaflo Larkai are the other new additions to the GB squad. The former last played in the UK with the Everton Tigers in 2010 while Potter has recently played for both Leicester and Plymouth.


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An add-on to Pfesence, I'm taking this out to install on my squid transparent router for collecting cumulative bandwidth report.
BandwidthD tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds html files with graphs to display utilization and will be one of the good traffic visual analyzer like Cacti does which collect the statistics data from SNMP port.
How do I install
Bandwidthd requires the following package support
2. libpng
3. libgd
4. bison
5. flex these all are get free from the GNU library.
After installing the said above packages, download the core package from sourceforge,
download url : http://sourceforge.net/projects/bandwidthd/files/bandwidthd/
#tar -zxvf bandwidthd-2.0.1.tgz && ./configure && make && make install
This install copy the binary files under "/usr/local/bandwidthd" and then create a symbolic link of it to system path
[root@rc-009 bandwidthd]# ln -s /usr/local/bandwidthd/bandwidthd /usr/bin/bandwidthd
Edit the config file and set the network source to collect the data
Add or modify the values respect to your network, some values are shown below
<code>[root@rc-009 bandwidthd]# cat /usr/local/bandwidthd/etc/bandwidthd.conf | sed '/ *#/d; /^ *$/d'
subnet 192.168.0.0/26
dev "eth0" # my router private IP
Start Bandwidthd
[1] 15270
[root@rc-009 bandwidthd]# ps -aux | grep "bandwidthd"
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.7/FAQ
root 15272 0.0 0.0 5312 688 pts/0 S 14:05 0:00 bandwidthd
root 15273 0.0 0.0 5312 676 pts/0 S 14:05 0:00 bandwidthd
root 15274 0.0 0.0 5312 676 pts/0 S 14:05 0:00 bandwidthd
root 15275 0.0 0.0 5312 676 pts/0 S 14:05 0:00 bandwidthd
root 15277 0.0 0.0 3916 668 pts/0 S+ 14:05 0:00 grep bandwidthd
[1]+ Done bandwidthd
[root@rc-009 bandwidthd]#
Now you need to configure Apache to serve the static html file. Open the config file and added a Alias entry in it.
Alias /bandwidthd /usr/local/bandwidthd/htdocs/
Now you can access the graph over the browser like http://squidserver ip/bandwidthd


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Next destination in our itinerary is the Ocean View Park and International Doll House, or simply OVP & International Doll House. It's also in Bislig, you can visit it before you go to Tinuy-an Falls or after; either way. Your choice!
Entrance is only 20pesos, if you're not going to visit the Doll House it's consumable in the restaurant.
With 280+ small step stairs towards the top.
That's the entire dollhouse.
With different dolls from other places.


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FUSION TV today announced that it is, along with more than 60 other leading companies, public interest groups, and associations, launching the Creative Thread Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on breaking down barriers of entry for underrepresented content creators and those working behind the scenes in media and entertainment. The Creative Thread Foundation was unveiled at an event in Washington D.C. today with the Congressional Multicultural Media Caucus Co-Chairs Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA), Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Rep. Judy Chu (D-C) and featuring FUSION TV Correspondent Kimberly Brooks.
"We are committed to moving the dial when it comes to ensuring we see more accurate representation and diversity across the media and entertainment industries, but we know that it takes more than one company to make a difference," said Henry Louis Gates Jr., who will serve as the Chair of the new Foundation. "We are thrilled to be working with like-minded companies and nonprofits to educate policymakers on this important issue, while also amplifying the efforts of those focused on making diversity and inclusion not just a priority but the norm." Gates also serves as the Chair of FUSION TV's Creative Board and is Chairman and co-founder of The Root, America's premier news site for African-Americans.
The Foundation will aim to create talent pipelines and mentorship opportunities for uncovering and promoting talent and projects that reflect the new American reality. It will also encourage coalitions of corporations, industry associations, universities, and public interest groups to work together to provide better opportunities for underrepresented creative talent. In addition, the Foundation will facilitate opportunities for sharing best practices to allow for better recruitment, retention and awareness of diverse content creators.
"Part of NAN's basic principles include diversity, how people are projected, and who makes the decisions. Being a part of this venture with FUSION helps NAN to address and empower our community," Rev. Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network (NAN), said in a message at the Washington event.
"As underrepresented communities, it is critical that we are involved in telling our stories across media and entertainment," said Jose Antonio Tijerino, President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. "With a soon-to-be majority minority in the US, it is more important than ever that we content creators are not just consumers. The Hispanic Heritage Foundation has developed creative programs to address this issue as have other organizations, which is why Fusion's leadership in bringing like-minded organizations together is critical."
The Creative Thread Foundation brings together like-minded entities who share a commitment to creating pipelines and opening doors for multicultural representation, diversity, and inclusion in the media, entertainment, and related industries. Over 60 organizations have joined as founding partners and supporters including 21st Century Fox, Amazon, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian & Pacific Islander Health Forum, AT&T, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Building Skills Partnership, California State University of Fullerton, Campaign for Youth Justice, Care for Life and Limb, CBS Corporation, Central American Resource Center, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Color of Change, Computer and Communications Industry Association, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute, Disney, Eastmont Community Center, El Rey Network, Entravision Communications, Entertainment Software Association, Green 2.0, GreenLatinos, Fusion Media Group, Fusion TV, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality, Hispanic Heritage Foundation, Interactive Advertising Bureau, Latino Memphis, Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Miami Dade College, Mi Familia Vota, Mnet America, Motion Picture Association of America, Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, National Action Network, National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, National Association of Broadcasters, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Publications, National Association of Latino Independent Producers, National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, National Hispanic Media Coalition, National Hispanic Medical Association, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, National Urban League, Native Public Media, Nielsen, Northwest Side Housing Center, Pandora, Para Los Niños, Scripps Networks Interactive, Solutions Project, Spotify, UnidosUS, United Farm Workers, Univision Communications Inc., Urban Health Plan, U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute, Valle del Sol, and Viacom. A full list is available at CreativeThreadFoundation.org.
Creative Thread Foundation Board Members, as well as an Executive Director, will be announced at a later date.
In May, FUSION TV made a ground-breaking announcement with the launch of the FUSION TV Creative Board. Through the Creative Board, FUSION TV has brought together passionate, marquee talent to help it identify the next generation of creators and build a pipeline of diverse talent that is representative of the diversity of our country. This announcement further builds on the network's commitment to delivering enriching and entertaining content that authentically represents today's America.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A ceremony has been held in Tennessee to unveil the restored tomb of President Andrew Jackson, six weeks after profanities were painted on it.
Officials posted on The Hermitage"s Facebook page the cleaned tomb was presented to the public Sunday in Nashville.
Andrew Jackson Foundation CEO Howard Kittell said in April that someone marred the stone covers of the graves of Jackson and his wife, Rachel, with black and red paint. He said the word "killer" was written, along with profanities. Anarchist symbols were drawn at the site.
Jackson served as president from 1829 to 1837. He was beloved as a man of the people but also oversaw the forced removal of Native Americans from the southeastern U.S.
Jackson was buried at his home on June 10, 1845.


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COOKING HAS BEEN A PASSION, since I was about five years old. I can vividly remember Julia Child in one of her first PBS broadcasts. I was glued to the television watching this woman taking raw ingredients and making fabulous-sounding dishes. Even at five, I liked the process.
IN COLLEGE, I WAS AN ANIMAL SCIENCE MAJOR; I was going to be a veterinarian. But I took some accounting classes and got an A and decided I really liked it. I graduated with a business degree with an accounting specialty and then worked for two firms in California.
I WAS THE ASSISTANT CONTROLLER OF THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY for about six months, until I got homesick and came back to California. Then I worked as a business manager for a company in the entertainment industry, working with movie executives and rock stars. That was very interesting. There were some big names there—Chicago and Don Henley. I was the manager on their accounts; I did all their family office work and their loan-out corporations and royalty reconciliations. But I just couldn't stop thinking about cooking.
SO I ATTENDED THE CALIFORNIA CULINARY ACADEMY in San Francisco and then worked for six months at the Ritz-Carlton at Laguna Niguel. But I came to the conclusion that because I started working in the kitchen at an older age, I might not meet some of my retirement goals. So I joined Burr, Pilger & Mayer in San Francisco, where I head up the restaurant industry group.
FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS AT BPM, I had a catering business. That was fun, but it just got to be too much with public accounting and then going home and cooking until midnight and then getting up at 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning and doing it again.
I STILL KEEP MY FINGERS IN THE CULINARY WORLD, mostly for friends and family. It's a great way to show clients that I'm credible, because I've worked in the kitchen and in the front of the house. I understand the lingo. I'm also the resident what-to-serve and what-wine-to-match-up person here at the firm.
SO MANY CHEFS OUT THERE don't have a solid understanding of how to run a business. We teach the staff the ins and outs of how a restaurant should be run. We help clients with menu pricing and the forecasts and projections for new restaurant opportunities. We can really make a difference and help these folks get out of the gate well prepared.
I LOVE COOKING ITALIAN FOOD; that's probably my favorite cuisine. I make a killer Bolognese sauce that I give out to friends and family members. I like making pastries, too. I make a mean apple cobbler.
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Baby seals. We've all seen pictures of them, like the one here. We've all gone 'ahhhh'. With their gorgeous innocent eyes poking out from their snow-white coats, cute just doesn't do them justice.
They are also totally defenceless, no matter how protective their mothers.
For the thousands of Whitecoat harp seal pups recently born in Newfoundland that means they're more than likely to suffer a gut-wrenching, slow and agonizing death within the next few weeks, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
Canada's annual commercial harp seal hunt has kicked off again in Newfoundland. This year, the government-approved kill quota (total allowable catch) has been increased by 70,000. This means 400,000 baby seals can legitimately be slaughtered. And this will happen thanks to the financial support of the Canadian government, which argues the practice is vital for the survival of indigenous people and that necessary safeguards are in place to ensure the killing is done as humanely as possible.
Shocking support from a conservation giant
Canada's annual seal hunt and the increase in the kill quota has been supported, some may be surprised to learn, by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). "WWF does not actively oppose the annual hunt by indigenous people as long as the hunt is of no threat to the population of over 5 million harp seals, and is based on a scientifically based management programme," said Elizabeth Davis, Supporter Care Executive of WWF in Britain, in response to an email from a member of Harpseals.org, a non-profit organization working to bring an end to the hunt.
"WWF is not an animal welfare organisation…"
Elizabeth Davis, WWF, Supporter Care Executive
WWF is convinced, she added, that hunting, fishing and gathering by Inuit in Nunavut is the only real option to protect the environment from far more damaging industrial uses of the landscape and the seas. "In other words if one denies the rights of these indigenous people to hunt, fish and gather wildlife in Nunavut, much of this wildlife would be lost forever," she suggested.
Davis also pointed out: "WWF is a conservation organisation with a clear mandate to protect and conserve habitats and populations of the world's most endangered species, from local as well as global threats. WWF is not an animal welfare organisation, but takes every care when working with animals to ensure that they are treated as well as can be, and that if animals are killed it is done as humanely as possible."
Davis makes a solid case in defence of WWF's position in her email, you could argue, but it has sparked fury amongst some of its supporters. In one of the most high-profile responses, famed French film actress and animal welfare activist Brigitte Bardot expressed her "profound indignation, deep sadness and disgust" about WWF's support for the new quota, which she called a "scandalous position".
"I saw the massacre of these baby seals, their heads smashed by clubs and picks … I feel betrayed, it has attacked my most symbolic battle"
Brigitte Bardot on WWF's position
In a letter to WWF, she wrote: "I went to the ice pack more than 25 years ago, I saw the massacre of these baby seals, their heads smashed by clubs and picks, I saw these bleeding bodies, these babies struggling for life whilst being skinned. I will never forget these pictures, the screams of pain, they still torture me but they have given me the strength to sacrifice my whole life to defend the animal's one."
Bardot has often supported WWF and allowed her image to be used for some of its programmes. "I feel betrayed, it has attacked my most symbolic battle," she lamented.
A picture speaks a thousand words
Meantime, evidence gathered recently by IFAW would seem to suggest the hunt is being conducted far from humanely.
"Contrary to what the Canadian government claims, the commercial seal hunt is not humane, the hunting regulations are not being followed, and there is virtually no enforcement," explains Fred O'Regan, the advocacy organisation's President and CEO.
"Baby seals just a few weeks old are being shot at on small pans of ice, then clubbed or hooked and brought onboard the sealing ships to be skinned," adds IFAW's seal campaign director, Sheryl Fink, who has witnessed the slaughter firsthand. "Few sealers have been checking to see if the seals are unconscious before hooking or slicing them open."
In one horrendous incident, captured by IFAW on video, a young battered seal – still alive — is dumped in the bottom of a small boat while the sealers continued hunting. This poor defenceless seal pup is then seen reaching up and waving its flipper repeatedly, "clearly still alive and in terrible agony".
Be warned, the video is stomach churning, but it's clear evidence of exactly what's going on out there and does make one question WWF's position on the hunt all the more. Whether WWF likes it or not, much of the support it receives is given by people with a simple passion for animal protection and in the belief WWF would not support such a barbaric practice.
During the Canadian hunt, some seals are also being killed for no reason, their bodies left to rot on the ice, Fink has observed. This, she points out, is also in clear violation of Canada's Marine Mammal Regulations.
Taking action
With this fresh evidence now widely available, it remains to be seen if WWF will change its position on the hunt. But IFAW, Harpseals.org, and other organizations such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are lobbying hard against the hunt, with growing support from stars such as Ke$ha and Iggy Pop, as well as Bardot.
The campaign has yielded significant results so far. "Over 200,000 seals were saved last year," says IFAW's O'Regan. "And this year only 27 sealing boats have joined this hunt so far, compared to 58 from last year. This is significantly down from years past."
Many professional hunters have recognized that seal hunting is no longer an economically viable business. "Most sealers are making the economically viable choice and fishing for crab instead of participating in a cruel seal hunt that is worth less and less each year," explains Fink. "Even those who ignore the cruelty involved in the commercial seal hunt cannot ignore the numbers."
"This cruel hunt just isn't worth it. Not from an animal welfare perspective, not from the perspective of the sealers and not from an economic perspective for Canadians,"
Sheryl Fink, IFAW Seals Campaign Director
According to IFAW, the landed value of the hunt was just over C$1 million in 2010, yet an estimated $2.3 million was spent to support it. Meantime, a 2010 study by Professor John Livernois at the University of Guelph found that ending the commercial seal hunt would save Canada at least $7 million each year.
"This cruel hunt just isn't worth it. Not from an animal welfare perspective, not from the perspective of the sealers and not from an economic perspective for Canadians," says Fink. "Seals and sealers need protection and they are not getting it. With its current approach, the government is failing. It is time that the Canadian government stood up, did the right thing, ended the seal hunt and transitioned sealers into stable and secure alternatives."
The Canadian government, which uses taxpayers' money to subsidize the annual seal hunts, does not appear to be listening however. IFAW's campaign has succeeded in shutting down many markets for seal pelts, including the sector's primary market of Europe. But while the EU ban on seal products is in place, the Canadian government announced plans in February to launch a formal challenge to it at the World Trade Organisation. The challenge is set to cost Canadian taxpayers around $10 million.
That same month, the Canadian government also gave the green light to a new grey seal hunt in Nova Scotia. Permitting the slaughter of 60,000 pups, it basically authorized the death of roughly 80% of the grey seal pups born this year, says IFAW.
Campaigners against the seal hunts insist there is no economic, scientific or ethical argument that can support the shooting, clubbing and skinning of defenseless seal pups. While being another long-time supporter of WWF and understanding its conservation/fight against extinction-only logic, I too must nonetheless agree with the anti-hunt campaigners including Brigitte Bardot. It seems to make sense – economically and morally – to bring this vile trade to an end.
With the latest evidence at hand, supporting it seems counter to every conservation – be it human, habitat or animal welfare – bone in my body.
The anti-hunt groups are urging citizens around the world to help bring the slaughter to an end by writing to Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Using a pre-prepared template on IFAW's website, or alternatively via PETA's site, anyone can easily urge Harper to "do the right thing and protect, not slaughter, Canada's beautiful wild seals". As O'Reagan says: "The fate of this year's generation of seal pups is in our hands."
The same is true for the fate of future generations too, I would add!
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Was Tila Tequila's recent hospitalization due to a brain aneurysm, a drug overdose or a suicide attempt? Whatever the reason, the former reality star is all kinds of WTF.
Radar Online is saying that a brain aneurysm made her "think irrationally" and ingest "two bottles of unspecified heavy prescription drugs."
"Tila threw up all over her bed after overdosing and felt like she was dying. She was screaming for help, and in desperation, broke her bedroom window and attempted to jump out," a source says.
"Finally, a friend came over after getting a strange text from her and found her convulsing on the bed. He called an ambulance and she was taken to the hospital."
Reports say Tequila was treated at two different hospitals over a week's span, but she's not out of the woods yet.
"She still can't fully speak properly," the source says. "It's sad to think she may have some permanent brain damage."
But TMZ.com says all the drama was caused by a suicide attempt and that she'd been trying "kill herself all week."
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Miguel Street, V S Naipaul, Alfred A Knopf, 1959, 142 pp
Miguel Street was the third novel published by V S Naipaul, except that it is not really a novel. He wrote this collection of vignettes before he had published any novels, so it makes sense that it is actually composed of short stories about different characters who live on this street in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Through the eyes of a young boy, we experience the life of the street.
I like Naipaul's writing style so I didn't mind reading the book, though there is no plot. I assume he was warming up for his first two actual novels: The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira. Because I had already read and enjoyed those I felt at home in Port of Spain.
Now I am looking forward to his breakout novel A House for Mr Biswas, published in 1961.
(Miguel Street is available in paperback and Google eBook by order from Once Upon A Time Bookstore.)


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In preparation for a presentation yesterday, I was thinking about what precisely we mean when we say something (a technology, an idea) is disruptive; and what happens to disruptive technologies a little downstream. Wikipedia can tell you all about Christensen; none of that here.
Let me illustrate instead by example. In the mid 1990s, the Internet and its killer app, email, crept out of academia (and the military). We had AOL and Compuserve, and a few others.
Corporations didn't adopt email. But a lot of individuals did, and began to short-cut the conventional channels of (snail) mail and telephone. They imported their personal accounts into the workplace; procured and paid for a modem; and did their own thing. For business benefit. I was one of them. And no-one knew how much hardware was bought, or subscriptions covered, on corporate expenses to facilitate this new way of doing business.
But one thing a lot of managers did get was scared. Scared of viruses. Scared of damage to internal networks and resources. Scared of leakage of intellectual property. Scared of reputational risk. When I wrote a case for corporate websites, internet access and email, I had to tackle those issues. One thing I didn't need to address, though, was probably the most important disruption that email brought. People started to communicate across their own personal networks. It compromised the old command-and-control lines of management.
Well. At the time, I had just ceased being a Part Time Tutor for the Open University. Note the job title; it's important. In those days, everything was paper based, including marking. You were sent a mark script, which you followed – quite rightly, because with large numbers of assignments being marked consistency was vital. But occasionally I'd disagree, academically, with something in the script and I'd write in. Invariably I'd get a courteous response; but in essence it would just say "Don't argue; the real academics at the centre know best".
Then I was recruited onto a course that provided students and tutors with online conferencing (and a host of other stuff) at the beginning of the revolution in home-based online learning. We had private conferences where the central academics and the (still "Part Time") tutors could and did discuss course issues. So that became where comments about the mark scheme, or anything else went. All of a sudden, a comment might generate a small handful of support, from other tutors. And the central team (who'd been farsighted enough to set up this one single conference for all the staff members) would react positively, often accept the comment, and offer a work-round – or a reasoned argument why in practice it couldn't be changed for now.
It became a total change. It drew us, as part time staff, much more fully into the academic environment; we were contributing not just to the teaching but to the development of the materials and future courses. And when I came back to the OU a couple of years ago I found that I am now an Associate Lecturer on a salary, not a Part Timer paid piece-rate. The OU was always a good employer and develops its staff and their skills. But now we are accepted as academics equally with the full time staff, and share much more fully. The change of name is more than just symbolic.
That was a disruptive change, to be sure. Because the OU is an open organisation, it accepted the disruption and achieved great benefit from it. Twenty years downstream, that disruptive change has shaped the new normality, for the better.
In the IT space, especially the corporate IT space, there's a perception that the existing delivery model is being disrupted. And it is: I'll explore that another time. But what happens to disruptive innovations (Christensen's phrase) as they evolve?
In short: the change may be permanenent and creates a new normality as in the OU: or think what Ryanair did to travel and the south of France; aeroplanes weren't new technology.
Or the disruptive new idea may become niche, important in its space but not in the mainstream (some of these, though, may be biding their time, like electric cars). Or it doesn't fulfil its hyped potential and simply disappears. For your own thoughts: examples please of the latter two …
It's fairly easy to see that social media – Twitter, Facebook and the rest – are still disruptive, by one simple test: IT Security are still scared of them! And like email, the risks are real. But the benefits will drive us to manage them, not least because today's business is disaggregated and networking is the way we work these days. What's not to adopt from a set of tools that match the way we do business?
But Cloud is a different matter. In the beginning the model was highly disruptive: business executives could do things, pay with their corporate credit card, and escape the long-drawn-out procurement, installation and verification cycles. And this Cloud is still there, finding its niche in testing, proof-of-concept, rescuing overwhelmed servers and so on. But "as a Service" stuff like, particularly, messaging have been tamed. Buyers are discussing service level agreements, compensation clauses, long term contracts and business risk. It's outsourcing, with a few twists. It's gone mainstream:
"Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe, client/server, and network computing eras." The Evolution Of Cloud Computing Markets, Forrester Research, Jul 2010
Cloud is no longer disruptive. It's been tamed.
Do you agree?
Links: none, but I might add one or two. Watch this space!


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Victoria Beckham does it again! After being very successful with the Spice Girls Victoria launched her own fashion range a few years ago with VB jeans. The business developed into two fashion lines: Victoria and Victoria Beckham which both show during the New York Fashion Week. Posh always had passion for fashion but could never imagine to become such a succesful designer who dresses the A-list stars like Kate Winslet and Cheryl Cole. The first 3 months of this year the fashion line of Posh generated more than a staggering 23 million dollars! In between Victoria gave birth to her 4th child, finally a little mini-me: Harper!
Is there anything Posh can't turn into a success? Congrats girl!!
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Hi guys as most of you know last October I acquired an old First Alert SA76RS smoke detector serial number 415115 meaning it has to be an earlier model going back to 1977. I am able to successfully set it off by pushing the button and I have done with both cover on and off and I love the high pitched squeal now which was one of my childhood fears. I want to set it off with a smoke test and I have tried several times using candle smoke but it won't sound. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? I know a push button test just usually tests the circuit board. Maybe the detector is too old to smoke test? Any advice please let me know because I want to try and smoke test it soon in a video. Either way it is a cool smoke detector and thanks to bmccorkle who is not a collector and I am I finally have this detector. Take care for now.
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'Found out'? Solskjaer & Pogba issue perfect response to PSG setback
As Manchester United lined up for Monday's FA Cup test against Chelsea, all eyes were on two men.
For the first time since taking over from Jose Mourinho, interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was feeling the heat.
His side were thoroughly outclassed midweek by Paris Saint-Germain to leave them with an uphill struggle to make the Champions League last eight, raising doubts over whether the Norwegian was the right man for the job having tasted defeat for the first time on the bench.
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On the pitch, meanwhile, Paul Pogba had his own critics to silence.
Transformed since the dark days of Mourinho, the Frenchman nonetheless suffered a regression on Tuesday with an unnecessary late foul on Dani Alves that earned him a second yellow card that rules him out of the return fixture at the Parc des Princes.
Pogba has been a revelation under Solskjaer but, like his manager, the midfielder needed to show he could deliver when it most counted. He did all that and more in a 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge that sent United marching into the next round and piled further pressure on the beleaguered Chelsea supremo Maurizio Sarri.
Unwilling or, perhaps, unable to meet Chelsea's exhausting high-octane approach head on after struggling to keep up in a hectic opening to proceedings, Solskjaer decided that less was more in west London.
Sarri's men were granted the lion's share of possession and invited to hurt the visitors in any way they could, a risky strategy that threatened to backfire early on when Gonzalo Higuain was gifted a free header in the area.
Happily for the visitors, the Argentine steered his effort wide of compatriot Sergio Romero's left-hand post and United earned a reprieve for their somewhat slapdash marking. That near-miss prompted a general tightening across the back and, while Eden Hazard's quick feet were a constant thorn in the Reds' side, the Belgian's slippery dribbling did not translate in further danger for Romero.
It was at the zenith of Chelsea's dominance that United found the breakthrough courtesy of Pogba.
Breaking on the left off a pass from the equally excellent Juan Mata, he waited just long enough for Ander Herrera to break into the box on the shoulder of Marcos Alonso, apparently too preoccupied with chasing butterflies under the floodlights in the west London evening to notice his countryman moving for goal. Pogba's cross was executed perfectly and Herrera barely had to break stride to nod past Kepa and open the scoring.
A matter of minutes later, it became all too clear that the Blues had failed to learn their lesson.
Once more a passage of broken play in the middle of the field led to a United player, this time Marcus Rashford and this time on the right wing, breaking clear with no marker in sight. And once again no Chelsea defender had the presence of mind to pick up the midfielder decked in red who had ghosted through their porous backline to meet an inviting cross with a thumping header.
Chelsea huffed, puffed and took even more of the ball in the second half but they found no way past a formidable United defence, failing to register a single shot on target after the break.
Having made the difference in the Chelsea area earlier, Herrera and Pogba tucked alongside Nemanja Matic after the break to form an unbeatable barrier, capping a terrific all-round performance from Solskjaer's men as a whole and the Frenchman in particular.
Now averaging a goal or assist every 68 minutes under Solskjaer, Pogba has been absolutely vital to United's post-Mourinho renaissance and he proved decisive again to book the club's passage to the FA Cup quarters.
Equal credit, however, belongs to the rookie Norwegian, who has ridden out this first crisis – at Old Trafford, after all, one is never more than 90 minutes away from perceived meltdown – to prove that talk of his being out of his depth is at the very least premature.
Solskjaer is equally an easy target for critics: a relative novice on the bench in one of the world's most demanding jobs. Thus, any weaknesses will logically see demands for a more experienced head to take over at the end of the season.
He has plenty of admirers, though.
"He has got them into the top four – something no-one thought was possible this season – but they lose one game to a team full of superstars and people start talking sh*t again," former United star Dimitar Berbatov fired in typically colourful terms to Betfair in the aftermath of Champions League disappointment and as the usual vultures began to circle.
"It's the way of the world these days but everyone who understands football knows what a good job Ole has done."
Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes have voiced similar opinions: forget Mauricio Pochettino or any other potential suitor, Ole is the man for the job.
The Champions League trophy may be a step too far for Solskjaer and Pogba this season. But Monday's masterclass keeps the FA Cup on the horizon, and if the Reds can keep up their form in the Premier League, a place in Europe's premier tournament – a near-impossibility a matter of weeks ago – is well within reach.
A slip is not a fall, the old adage goes – and the two masterminds behind United's recent revival have dusted themselves off and shown that they remain on the right track.


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Dollars, Debt, and Deficits : Sixty Years After Bretton Woods
- Introduction
- Opening Speeches
- toggleBlock I. Global Imbalances, Exchange Rate Issues, and Debt
- Session 1: Global Imbalances - A Map to the Revived Bretton Woods End Game: Direct Investment, Rising Real Wages, and the Absorption of Excess Labor in the Periphery
- Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Accumulation of Net Foreign Liabilities in the US: An Empirical Model*
- Session 2: Exchange Rate Issues - Financial Globalization and Exchange Rates*
- What Makes Balance Sheet Effects Detrimental for the Country Risk Premium?*
- Session 3: Debt in Emerging Economies - Public Debt, Fiscal Solvency, and Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Latin America: The Cases of Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico*
- Exchange Rate Regimes and Debt Maturity Structure*
- Comment: Financial Globalization and Exchange Rates
- Keynote Speeches
- toggleBlock II. International Financial Architecture
- Session 4: The Role of the IMF - A Model of the IMF as a Coinsurance Arrangement*
- The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets*
- Session 5: Innovations in Private and Multilateral Lending - Dollars, Debt, and the IFIs: Dedollarizing Multilateral Lending*
- Optimal Collective Action Clause Thresholds*
- Comment: The Role of the IMF
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- International Monetary Fund
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- September 2005
Dollars, Debt, and Deficits
Sixty Years after Bretton Woods
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- List of Participants
- Foreword
- Rodrigo de Rato and Jaime Caruana
- Raghuram Rajan and José Viñals
- Session 1: Global Imbalances
- A Map to the Revised Bretton Woods End Game: Direct Investment, Rising Real Wages, and the Absorption of Excess Labor in the Periphery
- Michael P. Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau, and Peter Garber
- Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Accumulation of Net Foreign Liabilities in the US: An Empirical Model
- Giancarlo Corsetti and Panagiotis Th. Konstantinou
- Session 2: Exchange Rate Issues
- Financial Globalization and Exchange Rates
- Philip R. Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
- What Makes Balance Sheets Effects Detrimental for the Country Risk Premium?
- Juan Carlos Berganza and Alicia García Herrero
- Session 3: Debt in Emerging Economies
- Public Debt, Fiscal Solvency, and Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Latin America: The Cases of Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico
- Enrique G. Mendoza and Pedro Marcelo Oviedo
- Exchange Rate Regimes and Debt Maturity Structure
- Matthieu Bussiere, Marcel Fratzscher, and Winfried Koeniger
- Contributions:
- Daniel Cohen (discussant)
- Stanley Fischer (panelist)
- Malcom Knight (panelist)
- Agustín Carstens
- Jean-Claude Trichet
- Session 4: The Role of the IMF
- A Model of the IMF as a Coinsurance Arrangement
- Ralph Chami, Sunil Sharma, and Ilhyock Shim
- The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets
- Barry Eichengreen, Kenneth Kletzer, and Ashoka Mody
- Session 5: Innovations in Private and Multilateral Lending
- Dollars, Debt, and the IFIs: Dedollarizing Multilateral Lending
- Eduardo Levy-Yeyati
- Optimal Collective Action Clause Thresholds
- Andrew G. Haldane, Adrian Penalver, Victoria Saporta, and Hyun Song Shin
List of Participants
Enrique Alberola, Unit Manager, Banco de España
Juan Carlos Berganza, Economist, Banco de España
Lorenzo Bini-Smaghi, Director General, Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance
Jorge Blázquez, Advisor, Economic Office of the President of the Spanish Government
Geoffrey H. Board, Board Chief Representative, Reserve Bank of Australia
Jan Brockmeÿer, Deputy Executive Director, De Nederlandsche Bank
Ariel Buira, Director of the G-24 Secretariat
Matthieu Bussiére, Senior Economist, European Central Bank
William Calvo, Chief Economist, Banco Central de Costa Rica
José Manuel Campa, Professor, IESE
Agustín Carstens, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Jaime Caruana, Governor, Banco de España
Miguel de las Casas, Economist, Banco de España
Michael Casey, Head of the Funds Supervision, Central Bank & Financial Services Authorities of Ireland
Ralph Chami, Division Chief, International Monetary Fund
Roberto Cippa, Director of International Monetary Relations, Swiss National Bank
Kenneth Coates, Director, Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies
Daniel Cohen, Professor, Ecole Nórmale Supérieure
Giancarlo Corsetti, Professor, European University Institute
Daniel Daco, Head of Division, European Commission
Thomas Dawson, Head of the External Relations Department, International Monetary Fund
Guillermo de la Dehesa, Member of the Board, AVIVA
Michael Dooley, Professor, University of California and Deutsche Bank Special Advisor
Sonsoles Eirea, Economist, Banco de España
Santiago Elorza, Technical Advisor, Spanish Ministry of Economy
Yuchuan Feng, Deputy Governor's Assistant, People's Bank of China
Roger Ferguson, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Vicente Javier Fernández, Advisor, Spanish Secretariat of State for the Economy
Santiago Fernández de Lis, Director of the International Economics and International Relations Department, Banco de España
Iñigo Fernández de Mesa, Deputy Director General of EMU Affairs, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance
Stanley Fischer, Member of the Board, Citigroup Inc.
Allen Frankel, Head of the CGFS, Bank for International Settlements
Marcel Fratzscher, Senior Economist, European Central Bank
Luis de Fuentes, Deputy Director General, Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
Peter Garber, Global Strategist, Deutsche Bank
Alicia García Herrero, Head of Division, Banco de España
Luis Garcia Lombardero, Advisor, Spanish Secretariat of State for the Economy
José García Solanes, Professor, University of Murcia
Francisco Gismondi, Director of Macroeconomic Analysis, Banco Central de la República Argentina
Giorgio Gomel, Director of International Affairs, Banca d'ltalia
Jane Haltmaier, Division Chief, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Hervé Hannoun, Deputy Governor, Banque de France
Claudio Irigoyen, Director of Monetary and Financial Policy, Banco Central de la República Argentina
Zhongxia Jin, Director General of the International Department, People's Bank of China
Alfred Kammer, Deputy Managing Director's Advisor, International Monetary Fund
Kenneth Kletzer, Professor, University of California
Malcolm Knight, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements
Panagiotis Konstantinou, RTN Research Fellow at the University of Rome III
Philip Lane, Director of the IIIS, Trinity College Dublin and CEPR
Nuno Leal de Faria, Deputy Director of the International Relations Department, Banco de Portugal
Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Professor, University Torcuato Di Telia
Ruogu Li, Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China
Zhengming Liu, Chief Representative, People's Bank of China Representative Office in Frankfurt
José Luis Malo de Molina, Director General of Economics, Statistics and Research, Banco de España
Luis Martí, Executive Director, International Monetary Fund
Manuel Martinez, Economist, Banco de España
Aurelio Martínez Estévez, Professor, University of Valencia
José R. Martínez Resano, Economist, Banco de España
Enrique Mendoza, Professor, University of Maryland
Gian M. Milesi-Ferretti, Division Chief, International Monetary Fund
Ashoka Mody, Division Chief, International Monetary Fund
Joaquín Muns, Member of the Board, Banco de España
John Murray, Advisor, Bank of Canada
Michael Mussa, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
Franz Nauschnigg, Head of Division, Oesterreichische National Bank
Emilio Ontiveros, Member of the Board, AFI
Guillermo Ortiz, Governor, Banco de México
Adrian Penalver, Economist, Bank of England
José Pérez, President, Intermoney
Kristina Persson, Deputy Governor, Sveriges Risksbank
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Professor, University of Paris-Dauphine
Richard Portes, Professor, London Business School and CEPR
Federico Prades, Advisor, AEB (Spanish Banking Association)
Raghuram Rajan, Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, International Monetary Fund
Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Luis Ravina, Rector, University of Navarra
Carmen Reinhart, Professor, University of Maryland
Rafael Repullo, Director, CEMFI
José Juan Ruiz, Head of Department, Santander Central Hispano
Juan Ruiz, Economist, Banco de España
Sinikka Salo, Member of the Executive Board, Suomen Pankki
Javier Santiso, Chief Economist for Latin America and Emerging Markets, BBVA
Jesús Saurina, Head of Division, Banco de España
Miguel Savastano, Division Chief, International Monetary Fund
Miguel Sebastián, Director of the Economic Office of the President of the Spanish Government
Sunil Sharma, Division Chief, International Monetary Fund
Pedro Solbes, Second Vice President of the Spanish Government and Minister for Economy and Finance
Alberto Soler, Advisor, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance
Michel Soudan, Assistant of the International Service, National Bank of Belgium
Marc Olivier Strauss-Kahn, Director General, Banque de France
György Szapáry, Vice President, Central Bank of Hungary
David Taguas, Economist, BBVA
Fernando Tejada, Head of Division, Banco de España
Panayotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor, Bank of Greece
Jens Thomsen, Member of the Board, Danmarks Nationalbank
Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank
Juan José Toribio, Director, IESE
José Uribe, Head of the Management Office, Banco de la República de Colombia
Pierre Van der Haegen, Director General of International and European Relations, European Central Bank
Félix Varela, Head of Research and International Economy, University of Alcalá
Manuel Varela, Emeritus Professor, University Complutense Madrid
Fernando Varela, Former Executive Director, International Monetary Fund
David Vegara, Secretary of State for the Economy
Jaume Ventura, Professor, University Pompeu Fabra
Pedro Pablo Villasante, Director General of Banking Supervision, Banco de España
José Viñals, Director General of International Affairs, Banco de España
Regine Wölfinger, Economist, European Central Bank
Concerns over the major challenges the international monetary and financial system currently faces and the attendant debate on the policy-related and academic facets of the international financial architecture have arisen from the lessons imparted by the financial crises of recent years and from the need to redefine the international financial community's strategies and strengthen crisis-prevention mechanisms. A new landmark in this connection has been the international conference Dollars, Debt and Deficits: Sixty years after Bretton Woods, which took place at the Banco de España headquarters on 14-15 June 2004. The conference was jointly organized by the Banco de España and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The conference commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Bretton Woods meetings in July 1944. These meetings were one of the most significant events for the world economy in the last century and gave rise to the birth of an economic, monetary and financial system that has played a crucial role in promoting economic and financial stability, improving global welfare, and alleviating poverty. Representatives from 45 countries met at Bretton Woods against the backdrop of a world economy devastated by war and marked by protectionist trade policies and unstable exchange rates. The foundations were laid there for a stable framework of economic cooperation and an international financial and monetary system, and two institutions which have proved pivotal for the attainment of these goals were created: the IMF and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later the World Bank.
Spain's growing ties with the Bretton Woods institutions reached a high in autumn 1994 when Madrid hosted the IMF/World Bank annual meetings, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the agreements. Marking another pinnacle was the IMF's obliging acceptance of the proposal to commemorate the 60th anniversary with the organization of an international conference at the Banco de España. Significantly, this has been one of the few occasions on which the IMF has decided to hold a meeting of this nature outside its Washington headquarters.
Conference preparations were set in train in December 2003, when the co-organizers made a call for papers to the academic community for contributions on economic development, policy measures and implications of debt sustainability, exchange rates and global imbalance in the capital account, debt and exchange rate crises, crisis-resolution strategies, the relationship between the adopted exchange rate regime and economic development, the link between fiscal development and exchange rate regimes, and regional integration and the main international currencies. The selection of contributions from among those received was by a committee made up of representatives from the IMF and the Banco de España. The committee was pleasantly surprised by the number and quality of the contributions submitted, ten of which were finally chosen. For the session chairs, discussants and expert panels, prestigious academics and expert staff from central banks, international agencies and economic research institutes were called upon. The outcome was a high-quality program that generated notable expectations about the conference, expectations which were more than fulfilled thanks to the calibre of the participants and the results of the debates. Among conference speakers and participants, a significant total of 27 countries were represented.
The conference was therefore an excellent opportunity to reflect on the major challenges currently facing the international monetary and financial system and on the future role of the Bretton Woods institutions. It has provided for better understanding of the development of and changes in the international financial architecture and has helped offer a perspective as to how a global response should be designed in the future to avert the perverse effects of crises on the world economy. The conference also allowed a fruitful exchange of views on exchange rate fluctuations in an increasingly integrated world economy, the consequences of political uncertainty and other issues relating to exchange rates, and the term structure of interest rates and the sustainability of public debt.
The main contributions and debates turned on the dynamics of international disequilibria, such as the US external deficit, the effects of exchange rate fluctuations, the impact of uncertainty on public and private external debt, the role of the IMF and of international financial institutions in reducing emerging economies' foreign currency financing needs, and the prospects for the international financial architecture in light of the emergence of new international lending instruments and mechanisms.
In sum, the tight but stimulating conference agenda highlighted once again the need for national authorities and international financial institutions to coordinate their work in areas of common interest, harnessing their experience and comparative advantages, and providing the degree of technical rigour needed to address global financial problems.
Rodrigo de Rato
IMF Managing Director
Jaime Caruana
Governor of the Bank of Spain


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Love Field is trying to soften the blow of travel delays, Southwest cattle calls and rubbery, sometimes inedible food by classing up the joint.
In the middle of its facelift , Love Field will add four new dining options known -- three that are native to Dallas. Campisi's Restaurant, serving pizza in Dallas since 1946, debuted at Love Field early last month. Jose L. Torres, spokesman for the Dallas Airport System, shared with City of Ate that Paciugo Gelato & Caffè, which has been offering Dallasites gelato since 2000, will open its Love Field location next week. And by the end of October, Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse, which has been serving barbecue in Dallas since 1910, will open at the formerly called "Gate 9 food court," along with an updated and re-branded Pizza Hut and a bar.
A non-local newcomer, Starbucks Coffee, will also arrive at Love Field. According to Torres, a Starbucks kiosk opens this week, and a "complete Starbucks in-line unit should be open the first week in November."
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Love Field's existing food and beverage concessionaire selected and proposed the four new brands. But Campisi's, Paciugo, Sonny Bryan's and Starbucks aren't guaranteed space in the airport's new terminal. They'll operate until the initial 12 gates in the new terminal open, which is planned for April 2013. After that each company "will have to propose like everyone else" for a more permanent spot in Love Field's new terminal.