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The Role of a Contract Manager
Published: 27 Feb 2017
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This series of three articles tracks the continuing development of the contract management role and purpose. It illustrates that, over a ten year period, there have been significant changes in the strategic importance of contract management as a competency. This is true in bot...
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Published: 25 Aug 2020
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Training and development were already changing, and now COVID has accelerated the move towards online delivery. But before you rush headlong into 'webinising' your training courses, or pushing them into a virtual classroom, take a step back. Think about how you can tak...
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Published: 21 Apr 2020
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The pandemic has changed many things - and finding a job is one of them. With face-to-face meetings almost non-existent, the recruitment process will need to adapt to a world of virtual meetings and networks.
IACCM Post Award Contract Management Templates
Published: 15 Dec 2015
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These templates are especially useful for small to medium sized companies and those who are looking for basic templates to support straightforward operations.
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Into the Future: Contract and Commercial Management: Role and Direction
Published: 24 Jul 2019
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Today, Contract and Commercial Managers stand at a cross-roads. Many of their traditional tasks will erode and disappear, outsourced or automated. However, that does not mean an inevitable route to nowhere because new technologies elevate these activities from largely operatio...
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Contract and Commercial Management - it's a great job, but is it a great career?
Almost 1,000 IACCM members contributed to the 2019 talent survey and their input should act as a wake-up call to senior management. While the need for highly skilled commercial ex...
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PRS for Music
2020-08-24 12:52:42
Contract Centre of Excellence (CoE)
Hi All Has any company out there transitioned into a CoE model and if so would you be willing to have a conversation with me on your approach and your learning? We ...
Hi All
Has any company out there transitioned into a CoE model and if so would you be willing to have a conversation with me on your approach and your learning?
We have reviewed articles on the IACCM, but I would be interested in talking to someone who has gone through the actual steps and could share their experience. I am keen to link up with another organisation who can confident talk about both the benefits and pain points in moving to a model like this.
Kind Regards
Jan Buckle
• World Commerce & Contracting • 2020-08-24 16:05:02
Hi Jan
I am sure we can connect you with a few organisations. It would help to know what scope you envisage - for example:
- will this be a 'commercial CoE' or a more limited 'Contract Management CoE'
- will it cover Sales contracting, Procurement contracting, or both?
- are you envisaging a Center-led model (i.e. core activities undertaken by the CoE, but remote staff still report into business units) or a 'Centralized' model, where all relevant staff have central reporting line
If your answer is that right now, you don't know and part of what you want to discuss is what options to consider, it may be worth us having an initial discussion to cover the pro's and con's of each option. On the other hand, if you know the answers already, let me know so that we connect you with the right people.
Contact me at tcummins@
and we can progress from there.
• Novartis • 2020-08-31 13:05:57
Hi Jan,
I have a direct experience in this space and we can share where you are with in the journey.
Replies: 2
KEO International Consultants
2020-05-26 13:02:59
Negotiation effectiveness
What are the fundamentals and effective tools to be taken into consideration before negotiation meetings. Please share negotiation cases initiated from both parties. I...
What are the fundamentals and effective tools to be taken into consideration before negotiation meetings. Please share negotiation cases initiated from both parties. Individual cases. - Thank you.
• World Commerce & Contracting • 2020-05-26 13:29:38
Hi Mohammed,
Great question. You have certainly come to the right place for some expert advice. I hope others jump in as well. You can find an array of resources at your fingertips (including case studies).. if you go into the resource library (Resources > Resource Library) and search by category = Negotiation. I would particularly recommend:
IACCM Dubai Member Meeting April 2019 Presentations
Ask The Expert: Negotiating and Contracting in the Middle East
The Power of Intent Workshop - IACCM APAC Conference 2019
Do Procurement practices cause dishonesty?
Negotiating in a time of coronavirus
In Negotiations, Givers Are Smarter Than Takers
In addition, you may wish to consider our new Managing Contracts Virtually training program (which is currently included as a member benefit) .. Training > Managing Contracts Virtually.
If you need help accessing any of these materials, please contact me at info@
Regards, Paul
Replies: 1
New Zealand Defence Industry Associat...
2020-04-15 23:00:12
Conflicts of Interest in Contracts which arise during the contract term
Hi all I have been looking for contract draft words and processes, registers etc to deal with conflicts between people in contract fiduciary roles rather than Governan...
Hi all
I have been looking for contract draft words and processes, registers etc to deal with conflicts between people in contract fiduciary roles rather than Governance or employment roles. Had a look at a few sets of documents and not seeing conflicts words and processes consistently carried through from procurement templates into contracts and contract management processes. Does anyone have good examples they can share?
World Commerce & Contracting
2020-03-18 18:52:06
Cultural Differences Contract Management Russia
Hello everyone, I am a Masters student at a French university and am writing a paper on cultural differences in Contract Management between Western Europe and Russia...
Hello everyone,
I am a Masters student at a French university and am writing a paper on cultural differences in Contract Management between Western Europe and Russia.
I was wondering if anyone had any experience of working as a Contract Manager in Russia and could give some examples of differences in what the job entails (for example, is it more a legal job rather than a commercial one?).
To what extent is the concept of contract management developed in Russia?
Are there any works written on the differences between being a CM in Russia and Western Europe?
Any help would be gratefully received.
Many thanks
• LUKOIL Mid-East Limited • 2020-03-19 19:03:08
Hello Harry,
I worked in several Russian companies as Contracts Manager and in related roles at both domestic and international projects. What I can tell you exactly is that there is no such thing as specific Russian Commercial Management, there are may be some cultural differences between Russian and Western Europe management style, but methodological basis is based on the same principals and sources.
If you have any specific questions, I'll try to share with you my thoughts and observations based on my past experience.
• World Commerce & Contracting • 2020-03-25 13:38:15
Hello Andrei,
Thanks for your answer, this confirms what I had originally thought!
Is there any reason why there isn't any Russian Commercial Management? Is it linked to hierarchy in the business structure?
Also, would it be worth adapting it to Russia? Or is Russian "Contract Management" more of a legal job better suited to lawyers?
Replies: 2
2020-03-04 12:23:59
Retain talent or seek talent
In my company we have carried out an analysis about the people who work in our supply chain a year ago. Getting good buyers is easier than getting good service contrac...
In my company we have carried out an analysis about the people who work in our supply chain a year ago. Getting good buyers is easier than getting good service contractors. The first is very similar to a commodity, the second is more complicated and requires formal knowledge, experience and good attitude.
We have found that operational personnel that require the services (planners and supervisors) can begin to work as contract administrators performing a good function, that is, within our company we find the resource and talent we need
World Commerce & Contracting
2019-10-16 23:31:01
Pros and Cons about where Contract Management fits in an organization (e.g., Legal? Procurement? Finance? the Business?)
Hi everyone. I am looking for some thoughts / collateral concerning where does the Contract management group best fit in a firm? I know of one company where it is in...
Hi everyone. I am looking for some thoughts / collateral concerning where does the Contract management group best fit in a firm? I know of one company where it is in Legal and they are considering moving to within Procurement (which is in Finance). any thoughts or experiences? thanks.
• Ministry of Defence • 2019-10-22 13:59:48
In my team its cross functional; procurement, finance, project management. Whoever the beneficial user is may the best person to advise if the requirement is being delivered to time, quality etc. Suggest you might want to think about creating a cross function contract management team.
Dear Ted, it pretty much depends on your organisational ambition & objectives with the Contract Management function. In my oppinion many organisations don't realize the potential (strategic advantages and benefits) of Commercial Excellence - if the organisational understanding & culture around Contracts & Commercials are at a low maturity level you can see Contract Management placed as a sub-function in eg. Legal or Finance (being a somewhat defensive approach), while the few org. (as I know it) who realize the potentials are placing it higher in the organisation, some even spilt it out to a stand-alone veritical (making sure that the context of being a "support function" is embedded, implemented & maintained) of course balanced with the organisations overall aspiration, purpose and "nature". BR Ole
• BC Hydro • 2019-10-31 00:03:28
In our organization, Contract management resides within the business; however Supply chain (Finance) own the process. Over the last 5 years we have been fully integrating Category Management and as a result putting in more strategic, long term agreements with an overview to the category rather than the need. Putting in such a strategic shift in business has saved us millions in our new contracts by looking at all the driving forces behind the need. Now that we have a robust Category Management program in place which covers 80% of our spend - we need to ensure that a enterprise wide practice is in place to make sure we are getting what we need, when we need it and are paying the right price otherwise the contract is simply a piece of paper. That is why Supply chain owns the process but the business is responsible for managing the work and providing the required resources to do so.
• PRS for Music • 2019-10-31 15:42:32
Hi Ted
In my company the contracts team sits in Operations as the contracts they manager supports our deliverable pipeline. However, we have close links with our legal team and procurement sits in Finance. Looking at some of the replies it seems there doesn't seem to be any best practice.
• Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems • 2020-03-18 03:53:08
In my organization, our pre-award and post-award contract management for new equipment sales are led by different teams (Commercial Operations and Project Execution respectively), however there are many functions that actively support and contribute to our contracting processes such as Legal, Finance, Sales, and Engineering departments. Legal's input and review into the contract is critical for protecting the organization from unacceptable risks, but we have the overall bidding and contract process managed by the Commercial team since we are focused on the company's strategic/sales goals.
• World Commerce & Contracting • 2020-03-18 14:11:30
Hi Graham. Thanks for the response to this and sorry so late getting back to you. Is there an "owner" of the CM discipline? I would always expect that there would be participants from various functions but where does this all come together? is there any consolidated reporting view?
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2019-09-22 10:42:18
Resource Planning Tool for Contracts Teams
Currently reviewing the different techniques of developing a contracts team resourcing plan that caters for number of contracts, the complexity of contracts, budget al...
Currently reviewing the different techniques of developing a contracts team resourcing plan that caters for number of contracts, the complexity of contracts, budget allocation per position. Looking to utilise an automated tool if possible. If anyone has any examples would appreciate heads up. Thank you.
• SirionLabs • 2019-12-06 07:22:48
Hi Charlie,
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PRS for Music
2019-06-13 09:28:40
Customer survey
Hi, my colleagues and I are putting together a survey for our stakeholders and suppliers. the Objective is to gauge the standard of service and engagement and identify...
Hi, my colleagues and I are putting together a survey for our stakeholders and suppliers. the Objective is to gauge the standard of service and engagement and identify any areas for improvement. Does anyone have any suggestions of good questions to ask of these audiences please?
• Australian Red Cross Lifeblood • 2019-06-21 01:28:00
Here are a couple that I just quickly came up with:
1. Can you recall the last time that you engaged with our team. Was it;
a) In the past 7 days
b) In the past 4 weeks
c) In the past 3-6 months
d) More than 12 months ago
c) Who is this?
2. When you engaged with our team, did you know the name of the person you were contacting?
a) No, I had to look someone up using either the contract, website, intranet, LinkedIn
b) Vaguely, I have spoken to a few different people in the course of business
c) Yes, I have regular communications with a consistent point of contact
Replies: 1
2019-06-13 06:49:19
Procurement and Purchasing
Hi all, Can we have a clear explanation for the differences between the terms of Procurement and Purchasing, and also the right position of the Supply Chain, is it a p...
Hi all,
Can we have a clear explanation for the differences between the terms of Procurement and Purchasing, and also the right position of the Supply Chain, is it a part of the Procurement Cycle or not?
Eng. A.A.N
• Fire and Emergency NZ • 2019-06-14 06:59:15
Good evening Abdullah - I'll contribute an observation on the first one. Perhaps others who have been doing contract management and procurement for longer than me might have a different view, or say it more eloquently, but here goes....
Purchasing is a subset of procurement. It is the giving effect to a lot of the procurement work that you've done earlier (i.e. establishing what you want, identifying suppliers etc).
That said, I think that you can purchase without doing procurement, and in fact, I'd go so far as to say that you can even get the same outcome.
However, only by procurement can you demonstrate that you've got the right outcome. If you only purchase, and don't understand your needs, identify the market and consider the offerings against your needs, you can't demonstrate that you've got the best outcome for the business.
And this is where I think we as a group can demonstrate our worth to the business. We can show with procurement the outcomes that we've avoided (goods not matching requirements, getting better pricing outcomes, repetitional damage etc) by running a fair and robust process ensures that the business is better off.
On many occasions I've seen my team has moved someone from their initial fixed ideas into better outcomes by taking the time to show them what's possible and what good looks like. Do that enough times, and you have more and more allies in the business to encourage others to use your services.
• World Commerce & Contracting • 2019-06-14 17:41:27
Hi, Abdullah,
Check out this article in the IACCM Library, 'Procurement' and 'Purchasing' Are Different:
• 2019-06-14 17:45:20
Having looked at this topic, there is actually already a lot written on the question of the difference between purchasing and procurement. As they observe, for the typical person they are probably the same, but apparently 'the experts' in procurement know the difference! Though once you start reading, there is plenty of contradiction...
When it comes to Supply Management, it is yet another variant and clear as mud whether it is actually different from Procurement. Supply Chain Management is certainly a more holistic activity of which procurement is part, but that's about all you can really deduce.
The net is, these terms are used with a high degree of variability and tend to mean whatever anyone wants them to mean; the only common factor is that they are all associated with the act of buying!
Tim Cummins
• Ginkgo Management Consulting • 2019-06-24 04:21:43
Hi Abdullah
Years ago Procurement and Purchasing were often used interchangeability. These days they have very different meanings. Procurement refers to the end-to-end activities from strategic category management, through to the operational analytics of spend and performance, to the tactical buying and sourcing activities which can happen in-house or in shared services.
As the Procurement function has 'grown up'it has become far more strategic, so although the term Procurement refers to all the activities conducted by the function, it also implies more strategic perspectives. The scope is also overlapping with other related functions like Finance (Accounts Payable as part of the purchase to pay process) and supply chain (Supply Planning, product innovation and supplier performance management). The increasing focus on digital in Procurement is also seeing more collaboration with other functions for example, RPA (Robotic Process Automation) and machine learning, process automation and contract management, and predictive analytics.
Purchasing is clearly the administrative activity of raising a purchase order, managing the goods/service receipt notice and approving to pay. More advanced companies use on-line catalogues to support this along with automated workflow routing and defined delegations of authority. Put simply, Purchasing includes the tactical purchase and approval activities to support buying.
When we speak about supply chain today, we tend to talk about a value chain. Some organizations are now including supply chain and Procurement in one organization given the overlaps, but predominantly they continue to be separate, but related functions.
Supply chain will include demand planning and forecasting, distribution planning, warehousing and logistics, manufacturing (which may also be a separate function), supply planning and often new product development.
Where Procurement gets involved most is in supply planning and supplier performance management, for instance, using contracts to enforce performance, and collaborating with supply chain and marketing for product and service innovation by tracking supply markets and innovations.
Conceptually, the Procurement function has shifted from managing costs to providing value. Using advanced analytics of COGS and SG&A data, digital tools and advanced supplier market research, the function is working far more collaboratively with other functions. As business cadence increases, functions are becoming more linked and lines between which function does what is blurring.
Hope this helps.
Replies: 4
General Electric
2019-02-11 10:18:29
Does a Contract/Commercial Manager require a Law Degree?
Hello All, I have been working as a Commercial Manager for 6.5 years, responsible preparation and negotiation commercial contracts for high value complex transactions(...
Hello All, I have been working as a Commercial Manager for 6.5 years, responsible preparation and negotiation commercial contracts for high value complex transactions(FIDIC etc). I have a bachelors degree in electrical/electronic engineering and a masters degree in power systems engineering. My concern arose when I looked for job opportunities for a commercial manager outside my organisation, almost all job posting required a law degree. I am unsure whether or not I should purse a law degree to give myself the best change for future job opportunities. Your thought/ideas are well appreciated.
Dear Daniel - In my view any legal training/education will help you going forward and demonstrate to a new employeer that you have legal competencies in place.
If I was hiring my interest in you being such a strong technical profile would increase if you had legal merits to show.
Hope this was of some help !
• Occidental Petroleum Corporation • 2019-02-12 17:40:50
Daniel - I recommend you go for it. However, I have two perspectives on this based on experience; and one personal perspective that underlies my decision to take the same course of action you're contemplating. I worked as a US Federal Contracting Officer for almost ten years - the first seven before I attended/completed law school. Subsequently, I have worked in the private sector including large, global agreements in the IT industry.
Experience perspective 1: Some attorneys and paralegals felt threatened in some manner because I had a law degree. Their perspective is that they are "legal" and I should only be dealing with commercial matters, leaving the "legal" issues to them. I've actually heard some in legal oppose the hiring of Contract Management professionals who also possess a law degree. Finally, I also had at least one manager who apparently felt threatened that subordinates (I and five other Contract Managers) had law degrees from colleges and universities from around the world and had told me that he would not agree to hire an "attorney" for a role I had on my team.
Experience perspective 2: Other attorneys and paralegals I have worked with were more self-confident and not threatened by the fact I had a law degree and was licensed to practice law. Instead, we worked together to leverage my legal knowledge/skills to help manage their time. I would escalate issues and have regular touch-point meeting so that they were informed as to ongoing issues and permit us to collaborate and discuss difficult legal/contractual issues. It also gave me more flexibility to negotiate agreements that protected the legal and business interests of the party I worked for without having to go back to "mommy/daddy" each time an issue arose in the negotiations. At the same time, we also had a working knowledge of the limits of my authority and a good working relationship where I could quickly escalate and propose a solution for them to consider and ask questions about - something we called the "4Cs", ("Communicate, Collaborate, Consult and Crosscheck"). I had learned this from a wonderful attorney who had been the general counsel where I had once worked.
Personal perspective: I decided to go to law school because as a US Government Contracting Officer I had to regularly discuss issues with our attorneys. Not having a sound understanding of the broad areas of the law that applied (not just contracts) sometimes caused me confusion when the attorney would try to explain something - particularly when it ultimately impacted the contract or the enforceability of a provision in the contract. I decided to go to law school to gain a better understanding. It resulted in me have a much deeper understanding of contract principles that must be applied and of the concepts we all rely on (whether or not we realize it) when we draft, negotiate, operationalize and enforce our contracts. I recommend you go for it.
• Neptune Marine Service Ltd • 2019-02-26 05:23:02
Hi Daniel,
If you can afford the time & cost for the legal degree (LLB or JD)- then will be worth considering that.
From my personal experience, some sort of Commercial/ Contracts/ Business law certifications or diploma will give the required knowledge and upper edge for the jobs.
Gaurav Seth
• AusNet Services • 2019-02-28 18:24:20
Hi Daniel, I don't believe a law degree is necessary. It depends on the role.
I am legally qualified and I echo Mark's comments. I find that I am better able to articulate the risk I see with my legal friends.
The main thing is do you want to do it? A law degree will give you additional skill such a negotiation etc. It will also give you confidence in the law around contract law, construction, tort and tax.
But a law degree will also give you so much detail on those areas that you won't need all in your role.
• BAE Systems • 2019-03-01 05:23:07
Hi Daniel,
I was also a Commercial Manager at GE for approx. 4 years and with the company 11 years. Since my redundancy just over a year ago, I have been trying to find a like-for-like Commercial Operations function like we had at GE but a number of Commercial Manager roles sit either in the Finance function or the Legal function, not as their own Commercial Operations function.
I'm contemplating doing a Juris Doctor to gain legal qualifications on top of my BBus and MBA Exec as I don't want to go down a CA/CPA path. Otherwise I am exploring the IACCM certification.
Hope it all goes well for you with the decision,
• Itron, Inc. • 2019-05-01 21:42:38
Depends on how your organization is structured but typically no. In fact there is a good argument that they should not be lawyers as that role has different specialties.
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Obama seeks to allay Israeli doubts in first visit as president
TEL AVIV, Israel -- As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama visited an Israeli border town that was the target of thousands of rockets from Hamas to deliver a message: His support for Israel is unshakable.
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," Obama, standing in blistering heat, told the citizens of Sderot, which borders the Gaza Strip. "And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."
The effect was "very dramatic," David Makovsky research director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said in an interview from Jerusalem. "Israelis like it when American leaders can connect on a gut level -- that visceral level connection that he did in 2008 is something he's going to try to repeat in 2013."
Returning to the country Wednesday for his first visit as U.S. president, Obama is seeking to renew that connection and allay skepticism among Israelis about his commitment to their security following tension with Netanyahu over Israeli settlements, the peace process and dealing with Iran.
Obama's four-day agenda, three in Israel and one in Jordan, doesn't include specific goals for reviving peace talks with the Palestinians or settling disagreements over how to confront Iran over its nuclear program. Along with a meeting and news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Obama is scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday and Jordan's King Abdullah II on Friday.
With Obama at the start of his second term and Netanyahu forming a new government, the U.S. president has an opportunity to reintroduce himself and ease lingering doubts that extend also to some American Jews about his commitment to Israel.
To succeed, he needs to be little less like himself and a little more Bill Clinton when he arrives in Tel Aviv, according to Makovsky.
The former U.S. president was never able to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians and disagreed publicly with the Israeli government on issues like settlement construction. Yet he still remained popular with the Israeli public. Eulogizing former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995, Clinton said "Shalom, haver" or "Goodbye, friend" -- which became the national phrase to mourn Rabin.
"Obama's ability to manage his relationship with Netanyahu is best served by his ability to be Clintonian and connect with the Israeli public on a more visceral level," Makovsky said.
After delivering his message of solidarity during the visit to Sderot, Obama, 51, frustrated Israelis and American Jews early in his presidency when he visited Cairo in 2009, gave a speech to the Muslim world and didn't visit Israel, according to Martin Indyk, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and director for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
"That was the start of a message that Israelis received over four years, which was that the president doesn't like it because he doesn't visit them, he visits everywhere else in the Middle East," Indyk said. By contrast, Clinton and former Presidents George W. Bush, Obama's immediate predecessor had been "showering affection on Israel for 16 straight years."
The doubts remain even as Obama has funded Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, repeated his unconditional commitment to Israel's security, has opposed a Palestinian statehood bid through the United Nations, and declared that all options -- including military action -- will be considered to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon.
The skepticism has dogged Obama at home as well as in Israel. While Obama won 69 percent of the Jewish vote in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, that was down from 78 percent in 2008, according to exit polls. In Israel, a majority of the public had a negative view of Obama, according to a March 15 poll from the Maagar Mochot polling institute. Ten percent had a favorable attitude toward the U.S. president and just 33 percent think Obama has a favorable attitude toward Israel.
Netanyahu is tuned to the political implication of Obama's standing with Israelis and American Jews, as well as his own, according to Indyk.
Netanyahu "eats polls for breakfast, he knows very well what the standing of the president is and what his own standing is," Indyk said. "What the president can get out of this is a more pliant Netanyahu" on Israeli settlements in disputed territories, restarting the peace process and dealing with Iran.
In Israel's Jan. 22 election, Netanyahu emerged with a weaker mandate, with his Likud-Beitenu list winning 31 seats in the 120-member Knesset, down from 42.
Israel's economic growth eased to 3.1 percent in 2012 from 4.6 percent the previous year, the statistics bureau said on March 10. Excluding first-time natural-gas revenue, growth is expected to shrink further in 2013, according to the central bank. The cost of protecting Israeli government debt against non-payment through five-year credit-default swaps has reached a two-year low of about 120.7, according to data provider CMA.
Symbolic gestures planned during Obama's visit may be as important as the discussions he's having with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He will view an Iron Dome missile defense battery brought to Ben Gurion Airport for the occasion, view the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls at the Jewish Museum, visit Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum, and lay wreaths at the graves of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, and Rabin.
"For the Israelis, it's not about what have you done for me lately, it's about how do you love me," said Indyk.

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The much-awaited month of Ramadan is fast approaching, beginning from 26th of May - 24th of June 2017. It's a month of fasting, self-reflection & prayer for the Muslim community before they celebrate the Hari Raya Aidilfitri festival.
My MIL invited me to join her for the preview/review of some Ramadan buffets at a few hotels in Kuantan. Seems like I do get to attend reviews after all, but in a very different manner :P My 1st review in Kuantan for the Ramadan buffet this year began with The Zenith Hotel Kuantan last night. It was a night where corporate representatives were all present to sample the buffet spread that their companies could consider during the month of Ramadan.
One of the highlights every year during the month of Ramadan at The Zenith Hotel Kuantan is their Whole Lamb Kuzi with Rice Ratna Sari. It's like a medley of aromatically, flavored rice with tender roasted lamb that's served with a special vegetable curry that goes with the rice & brown sauce to compliment the lamb. I enjoyed this dish, but wish that it was served piping hot! It'll be even more delightful & tasty, I'm sure :D
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New England coach Steve Nicol quickly pinpointed the reason for the Revolution's 1-0 defeat in Los Angeles on Saturday night [WATCH HIGHLIGHTS HERE].
In a game in which neither team enjoyed much fluency in the attacking third, New England gave away far too many set piece opportunities, Nicol said.
"We were solid," Nicol told Fox Soccer Channel after the match. "They didn't cause us too many problems, to be honest. It was all set pieces where they looked dangerous. So if we can eliminate giving silly free kicks away in our third, then we'll be OK."
One rather sloppy foul led to the only goal of the game after five minutes. Sainey Nyassi impetuously scythed down Galaxy fullback Todd Dunivant on the left touchline as Dunivant posed little threat to deliver a dangerous ball into the penalty area.
Landon Donovan's ensuing free kick located the unmarked Edson Buddle on the edge of the goal area, and the Galaxy striker simply nodded home for his first goal of the campaign.
New England fielded a young side with half of its projected starting XI missing through injury. The Revs started a pair of rookies (Zack Schilawski and Seth Sinovic) and MLS debutant Joseph Niouky as part of an inexperienced lineup. They failed to assert themselves in the first half, but managed to keep the Galaxy at bay with a tight defensive shape and some profligate Galaxy finishing.
Nicol's halftime team talk perked up his side as the Revolution enjoyed its best spell of the match in the 15 minutes after the break. Both opportunities fell to Kheli Dube, but the striker pushed Schliawski's neat square pass around the near post and scuffed a volley attempt inside the penalty area after Chris Tierney's deep diagonal ball.
The Revolution never really mounted a serious threat to level the proceedings for the remained of the match, but Nicol focused on the promising aspects of the match rather than the opening day defeat.
"I said at halftime that we lacked a wee bit of belief in ourselves," Nicol said. "I think in the second half, we showed a little bit more belief. We created two fantastic chances, which would have and should have got us level. So we're disappointed overall, but there are a lot of positives to be taken out of the game. Hopefully, we'll grow from this."


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Introduction to Duty to God
When Joseph Smith was 17 years old, Moroni, a messenger sent from the presence of God, appeared to Joseph and said that God had a work for him to do (see Joseph Smith—History 1:33).
Dear brethren of the Aaronic Priesthood, God has a work for you to do as well. It probably won't be to translate ancient records on gold plates—rather, it will be something that fits your unique talents and circumstances. How will you know what your work is? Part of it is described in your Aaronic Priesthood duties, which are found in the scriptures and summarized in your Fulfilling My Duty to God booklet (see pages 23, 47, and 71).
Learn about those duties. Study them prayerfully. As you do, the Spirit will whisper to you specific things you can do to fulfill them. Is there someone in your family who needs your service? Do you have a friend who needs to hear your testimony of Christ? Is there something you can do to make the ordinance of the sacrament a more spiritual experience for ward members? Write down what the Spirit tells you to do. Carry out your plans, and then share your experiences with your quorum members.
You will be richly blessed as you fulfill your duty to God, but instead of focusing on the blessings you will receive, focus on the blessings you can share. People all around you need your priesthood service. That is the work God has for you to do.
We have seen the marvelous good you are doing as priesthood men. We testify that the priesthood is God's power. He shares it with you because He loves you—and because He loves the people you serve.


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We got new Primal cards several months ago. They're made of strong paper surrounded by some kind of plastic-like stuff that could probably withstand the worst of elements. That's always good to know in case I ever need to hand some cards out to hikers on top of Mt. Everest or something. My pal Vegas here at work (he's a 3D animator) decided to test the durability of our new cards by placing one in a glass of water to see how long it would last before it started to warp. The verdict? Over 24 hours.
I found this cool item in an antique market about a year or two ago: The Pancaker. Not the best of names for a kitchen utensil, but man, what a nice dose of mid-century modern design the box packaging provides:
The item was still inside the box, which is always a plus. Not as cool looking as the packaging suggests, but still pretty neat:
Look, I tried to pose like the design-y hand on the cover:
It's not as easy as it seems.
I came to work one day and found my one and only Dunny designed by my very talented pal Ingri posed like so:
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Then you may be interested to know about a new tech offering that's not trying to turn robots into financial advisors but rather to get the robots to work for the financial advisor.
Meet FlexScore, an online financial planning scoring system designed to provide average Americans with their "number"—not just for retirement but a numeric description of their entire financial picture.
The online tool, which has attracted some 30,000 consumers during its beta phase from September through April 29, is now available free to advisors as FlexScore Pro in a new advisor beta phase lasting till October 1.
In an interview with ThinkAdvisor, FlexScore's CEO, Jason Gordo emphasized that far from competing with financial advisors, the tool actually solves a problem endemic in the advisor-client relationship: the tendency of clients to withhold information about their finances that they're managing outside that relationship.
"They are willing to tell us everything because they want to get to a [perfect score of] 1,000; it's a scoring system and clients want more points," Gordo says of the game-style program.
"We're trying to empower people to better engage with their advisor," he adds. "Our whole aim was to build an engagement tool for clients. They can link accounts in an engaging format encouraging them to tell more about themselves, and the advisor can see everything going on. We don't manage money; we don't pitch advisors' clients; we enhance the relationship the advisor has with clients."
Indeed, Gordo, himself a practicing financial advisor with RIA firm Valley Wealth, based in California's Central Valley, says of one of his own staff advisors:
"He thought he knew everything about a $600,000 client until [using FlexScore] he uncovered a $300,000 401(k) at Schwab. We uses Schwab as a custodian, so now [the advisor] manages $900,000 from that client."
Gordo and his partner Jeffrey Burrow's background as financial advisors is a key differentiator, he says, from the many robo-advisors out there.
FutureAdvisor, Betterment, LearnVest, Wealthfront—all of their founders "came from tech and are looking to disrupt this industry," he says, adding that they're also seeking to manage assets.
"[But] we've given tens of thousands of people financial advice. We know the industry can do better and we are not in any way, shape or form trying to cut out the financial advisor. We're driving awareness back to that advisor; we want to help brand the advisor and develop that client as a better client to the advisor."
So far over 100 advisors have signed up since the April 29 advisor version beta launch; that's in addition to boutique planning firm United Capital, which makes the product available to all of its 74 advisors.
Gordo says the program is scalable and his ambition is to form additional partnerships with OSJs at broker-dealers, even firms as large as Merrill Lynch.
The FlexScore CEO says Merrill is an especially apt client because of its Bank of America connection.
"We can help anybody with wealth creation. It's just as powerful for a $12-an-hour receptionist as for somebody with millions of dollars."
Indeed, that cross-wealth spectrum insight, borne of Gordo's and Burrow's experience as advisors during the Great Recession, is what inspired FlexScore's creation. Serving both high-net-worth business owners and their modest-income 401(k) plan participants in 2008, they found that both client segments came to them with the same questions:
"'How am I doing with my money?'" and 'How do I improve my financial situation?' We looked around and didn't find anything that quickly [answered those questions]," he recalls.
They subsequently surveyed over 3,000 people and found that fully 92% had no clue what steps they needed to take to get their financial act together.
Their goal was to offer something akin to AAA's travel guidance, which lets consumers instantly know through their diamond ratings whether they're looking at a Motel 6 or a Sheraton in Maui. The duo created their scoring algorithm based on a period survey the CFP Board conducts of its advisors and the financial planning engagement issues they confront with their clients.
Using an online wizard, users can link all their accounts, state their goals—such as when they want to retire, college savings or second-home ambitions and see what's achievable.
If their goals are unrealistic, they can drop the aspiration for a beach house, or increase their rate of saving and investing. If they're unhappy with a score of, say, 583 (a score of 1,000 represents financial independence), they can immediately add points by responding to one or more of a number of "action steps" the program offers.
Many of those action steps involve providing more information—about clients' insurance policies for example. The program always provides incentives to add information.
When the advisor version beta ends on Oct. 1, Gordo says the currently free service will cost advisors $150 a month and a $75 initiation fee. The service is month to month, so advisors have no long-term contract and can drop it at any time. FlexScore licenses its account aggregation program through Fiserv, so there is a per head additional fee for the program that encourages deeper disclosure about client finances, he says.


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Proposed Guidelines - Buses and Vans
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in the provision of transportation services by public and private entities. 42 U.S.C. §§12101 et seq. The ADA sets out different responsibilities for the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) and the Department of Transportation with respect to implementing the statute.
The ADA requires the Access Board to issue guidelines for transportation vehicles that are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities. 42 U.S.C. §12204. These guidelines, by themselves, are not legally enforceable and do not require existing transportation vehicles to be retrofitted.1
The ADA requires the Department of Transportation to issue regulations that specify:
- Which public and private entities must comply with the transportation provisions of the ADA;
- When transportation vehicles acquired or remanufactured (i.e., structurally restored and new or rebuilt major components installed to extend the vehicle's service life) by the public or private entities must be accessible; and
- What accessibility standards the transportation vehicles must meet. 42 U.S.C. §12149, 12164, and 12186 (a).
The ADA requires the accessibility standards for transportation vehicles included in the Department of Transportation's regulations to be consistent with the guidelines issued by the Access Board. 42 U.S.C. §12149, 12163, 12186 (c). The Department of Transportation's regulations are legally enforceable.
Prior Rulemaking
The Access Board issued accessibility guidelines for transportation vehicles in 1991 and amended the guidelines in 1998 to include additional requirements for over-the-road buses (i.e., buses characterized by an elevated passenger deck located over a baggage compartment). 56 FR 45530, September 6, 1991; 63 FR 51694, September 28, 1998. The Access Board's transportation vehicle guidelines are codified at 36 CFR part 1192.
The Department of Transportation issued regulations to implement the transportation provisions of the ADA in 1991. 56 FR 45621 and 45756, September 6, 1991. The Department of Transportation's regulations are codified at 49 CFR parts 37 and 38. The Department of Transportation's regulations at 49 CFR part 37 specify in:
- Subpart B (§37.21 to 37.37) which public and private entities must comply with the transportation provisions of the ADA;
- Subpart D (§37.71 to 37.93) when transportation vehicles acquired or remanufactured by public entities must be accessible;
- Subpart E (§37.101 to 37.109) when transportation vehicles acquired or remanufactured by private entities must be accessible; and
- Subpart H (§37.181 to 37.197) when over-the-road buses acquired or remanufactured by private entities must be accessible.
The Department of Transportation's regulations in 49 CFR Part 38 set out the accessibility standards that the transportation vehicles must meet. The accessibility standards in 49 CFR Part 38 are consistent the Access Board's transportation vehicle guidelines in 36 CFR Part 1192.
Proposed Rule
The Access Board is issuing this proposed rule to revise and update its accessibility guidelines for buses, over-the-road buses, and vans (hereinafter referred to as the "1991 guidelines"). The guidelines for transportation vehicles operated in fixed guideway systems (e.g., rapid rail, light rail, commuter rail, and intercity rail) will be revised and updated at a future date.
The proposed rule addresses the following issues, which are further discussed later in the preamble:
- When the 1991 guidelines were issued, low floor ramped buses were relatively new and ramp slopes were based on what was feasible at the time. The 1991 guidelines permitted 1:4 maximum ramp slopes at bus stops without sidewalks. There are documented incidents of wheelchairs and their occupants tipping over backwards going up bus ramps with 1:4 slopes. Since the 1991 guidelines were issued, buses have been designed with lower floors and longer ramps that have less steep ramps. The proposed rule specifies 1:6 maximum slopes for ramps deployed to bus stops with sidewalks and to bus stops without sidewalks (referred to as the "roadway" in the proposed rule).
- The 1991 guidelines require buses, over-the-road buses, and vans to provide "sufficient clearances" for passengers who use wheelchairs to reach the wheelchair spaces in the vehicles. Individuals with disabilities, transit operators, and vehicle manufacturers have requested guidance on what are "sufficient clearances." The proposed rule specifies minimum dimensions for circulation paths connecting doorways that provide accessible boarding and wheelchair spaces, and for wheelchairs to maneuver into and out of wheelchair spaces.
- Additional research has been conducted on wheelchair transportation safety since the 1991 guidelines were issued. The proposed rule reduces the design force for wheelchair securement systems on large vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 30,000 pounds or more, and adds a requirement for a forward excursion barrier at rear facing wheelchair securement systems based on the research. The proposed rule also requests comments on other recommendations submitted by researchers and safety experts regarding wheelchair securement systems.
- Public transit agencies are increasingly deploying intelligent transportation system technologies on buses. These technologies enable automated stop and route announcements on buses. The proposed rule requires public transit agencies that operate 100 or more buses in annual maximum service in fixed route systems to provide automated stop and route announcements on newly acquired buses that are more than 22 feet in length and operate in fixed route systems.
- Bus rapid transit is a new type of service that did not exist when the 1991 guidelines were issued. Some bus rapid transit systems are designed with raised platforms to provide level boarding, and the vehicles which operate in these systems can have passenger doors on both sides of the vehicle. The proposed rule addresses how the requirements for accessible boarding, circulation paths, and doorways apply to vehicles which operate in bus rapid transit systems that provide level boarding.
The proposed rule also removes some requirements in the 1991 guidelines that are unnecessary, modifies other requirements, and adds a few new requirements. A side-by-side comparison of the 1991 guidelines and the proposed rule is available on the Access Board's website at http://www.access-board.gov/transit/. The side-by-side comparison shows what requirements are removed, modified, or new.


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By George, these Royals could go far
Brett sees team capable of reaching postseason for first time since '85
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- So could the 2014 Royals bring postseason play to Kansas City for the first time since the World Series championship of 1985? Let's ask a guy who was there.
"They're capable of it," Hall of Famer George Brett said. "There are capabilities of it, yeah."
Brett is in Spring Training camp as an extra instructor and inspirational presence, as he has been almost every year since he retired as a player in 1993. As a club vice president, he's close to the club during the regular season, too. During the 2013 season he got real up close and personal with the players when he served two months as interim hitting coach. So he brings a special perspective to this year's camp.
What did he learn about the Royals last year?
"I learned that winning is important to them, that they expected to win every time they went onto the field -- they weren't [just] hoping to win like teams of the past," Brett said. "I think winning was important, they played to win and I think what was evidenced by that is that guys were trying to do more than they were capable of doing at lot of times at the plate. They were trying to be heroes rather than soldiers."
Brett had a device to help combat that attitude.
"One of the things I used to do was walk around and ask guys what their name was," he said.
"What's your name?"
"Uh, Mike Moustakas."
"Well, be Mike Moustakas. You're not Babe Ruth, you're not Mark McGwire, you're not Barry Bonds. Just be Mike Moustakas and we'll be fine."
Brett and Pedro Grifol took over from longtime hitting coaches Jack Maloof and Andre David just after a dreary 4-19 stretch last May.
The Royals improved enough to make a late run for a Wild Card berth. Brett signed off in late July, leaving the job to Grifol, but sees some good signs for 2014.
While Brett appreciated what Alex Gordon did as the Royals' leadoff man last year, he believes he's better suited for the middle of the lineup. Gordon is penciled into the 5-hole behind third-place hitter Eric Hosmer and cleanup man Billy Butler.
On top of the order are newcomers Nori Aoki and Omar Infante who, as Brett noted, have had low strikeout totals. In fact, Aoki has walked more than he's struck out in his two seasons in the Major Leagues.
"And that doesn't happen very much in baseball anymore," Brett said. "Back in the old days, it happened. Strikeouts now are part of the game. Strikeouts didn't used to be part of the game. Do we strike out too much? I think we were last in the league in strikeouts [1,043] but you still shouldn't have a guy strike out 120, 130 times."
The Royals had three hitters -- Gordon, Hosmer and Butler -- with 100 or more strikeouts. although the team total was lowest in the Majors. Brett would like to see it go lower.
"What Pedro is doing with the hitters this year, practicing a lot of two-strike approaches in batting practice, I think it's going to cut down on strikeouts," Brett said. "Anytime you put the ball in play, you've got a chance for something to happen."
The Royals ranked 11th in the American League in scoring last year.
"We're going to score more runs, I don't think you're going to see anything like that 4-19 swoon of last year and it was all due to a lack of hitting," Brett said. "I don't think you're going to find us having long losing streaks, because our pitching is so good. I think our offense is going to be a lot better than last year and our defense is maybe the best in the league.
"To me, our bullpen is one of the best in the league, so it takes a lot of pressure off pitchers to say, 'All I've got to do is go six.' Blood-and-guts it for six innings, just go out there and do the best you can, maybe seven, and then you've got the bullpen."
Brett paused a moment to soak up the Arizona sun.
"So, yeah, I think there's good reason to be optimistic this year. Good reason," he said.
Brett officially yielded the hitting coach job to Grifol on July 25.
"It was to a point when, in all honesty, the players didn't come to me. They went to Pedro," Brett said. "I was a glorified hitting coach, but he was doing all the work and, as a result, I just didn't feel right. This guy should be the hitting coach, not me."
Also, getting back into the demands of baseball travel after 20 years brought back not-so-fond memories.
"That's one of the reasons I retired [as a player]," Brett said. "The reason I retired in 1993 at age 40 is I lost the fire. I remember saying that if we win, I don't feel great, if we lose, I don't feel bad. If I get a hit and it would help the team win, I don't get goosebumps and if I make an out, I don't want to break something.
"The frustration isn't there when I'm playing bad and the excitement isn't there when I do something good, so I figured it was time to leave. But the main reason was I was just tired of traveling."
Brett, however, continues his annual return to uniform in Spring Training.
"I love it," Brett said. "This is my baseball fix."
Does he see any similarities between this team and the World Series winners of 1985?
"We didn't score a lot of runs, I know, in '85," Brett said. "But we had good pitching and good defense, so this team is similar in a way."
Encouraging words for Royals fans.


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Few shows that open the week of Thanksgiving are as suffused with melancholy as the sardonically titled "Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter," a quiet, honest, intermittently moving play by Julie Marie Myatt at the Next Theatre, a company eschewing the usual holiday fare. Myatt is telling the story of a veteran who loses a leg to the war in Iraq and, thereafter, really doesn't want to come home at all, even though her kids await, because her experiences in the war have exploded her entire sense of self. This is by no means the only play looking at the difficulties of re-integration faced by members of the Armed Services, but it is one that approaches the issue with a particularly restrained kind of dignity and that, as a consequence, rings very true.
We first meet Jenny Sutter (Lily Mojekwu) as she removes her military fatigues and pulls a pair of civvy jeans over her new leg. We then see her wander in Northern California, eventually striking up a conversation with a loquacious young woman named Lou (Jenny Avery), a mostly likable basketload of various addictions. The effusive Lou takes quiet Jenny off to Slab City, the real-life squatter's camp built on the remnants of a decommissioned military base in the Badlands of California (its name comes from the concrete slabs covering the floor of the desert). There, the title character meets various other folks who, for one reason or another, have chosen to live their life off the usual grid.
The ethos at Slab City is rather like Christiania in Copenhagen: The place operates in a kind of parallel universe to the world outside. For Jenny it's a waystation to put herself back together and face the future.
Jenny was conceived by Myatt as a taciturn character: a wounded soul for whom trauma is not manifest in outwardly visible scars but resides very much on her inside. Passivity is very difficult to play in the theater, yet Majekwu somehow manages to forge a profoundly sympathetic character with a really striking amount of gravitas and honesty. This performance, one of the best of the fall, is the main reason to see this show. That said, Kurt Brocker, who plays one of Slab City's many apathetic, disengaged souls, rises to meet Mojekwu's majestic work. These two characters could fall in love, we clearly see, if only they could deal with their own issues, and the way they interact in this play's most powerful scene shook me greatly on Monday night.
Whenever "Jenny Sutter" strays from Jenny Sutter, the writing becomes less convincing. Although Lou's energy is surely needed as a counterweight, she's a more obviously theatrical character, as is her sometime boyfriend Buddy (Lawrence Grimm), a kind of preacher-leader in Slab City. Then again, the fine actor Grimm gives this character a certain luminescence.
Jessica Thebus previously directed this show in Washington in 2008, and she certainly understands its point of view and has cast its roles exceptionally well. Boy, though, this earnest staging could use more vivacity, messiness and variety — its rhythms get far too fixed in set patterns, and there are a lot of scenes wherein characters seem to wander on to Jacqueline and Richard Penrod's resonant setting with all of the urgency of folks on the beach. To some extent, I suppose, these denizens of Slab City are symbolically on vacation, but I kept thinking how the piece would be so much stronger theatrically if only Thebus were working counter-intuitively. Just because you're dropping out of the big picture doesn't mean the small stuff is all proceeding at half-speed. Au contraire, such crises only intensify. Jenny Sutter saw plenty of rough edges in Iraq: her play in Evanston could use far more bite.
Next was also struggling on opening night to work with the relative size of this production: There was much uneasiness from a production-management point of view. But that will surely settle. Whenever you go, and there are real rewards here, Mojekwu's deep dive of a character will surely sit with you long after you leave. If you've ever had trouble facing the day, you'll intuitively understand what she's going through here.
Former warriors just don't re-enter the American atmosphere the ease of some post-orbital rocket; rarely has this been fully appreciated. In the absence of a Slab City of understanding, some vets have to welcome themselves back home, assuming they have figured out what that means.
Through Dec. 23
Where: Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., Evanston
Running time: 1 hour, 30 mins.
Tickets: $30-$40 at 847-475-1875 at nexttheatre.org


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Jailbreak developer Chronic has some big news about the next iPad, Cult of Mac reports: it'll pack a nice big gigabyte of memory.
According to a debug screenshot BGR acquired last month, the 1 GB spec was just hiding in the numbers:
It's been in plain sight since the beginning of February when BGR posted their exclusive photos of debug output from an iPad 3 development unit. The (full) last line says:
vm_page_bootstrap: 244276 free pages and 8396 wired pages
So, just do some simple math:
244,276 (pages) x 4,000 bytes (size of a page) = 977,104,000 bytes = 977MB
Gibberish to most, but if you take his word for it, that last figure is the amount of memory the iPad 3 will pack, so round on up to 1 GB.
If true, this will mean a faster iPad than ever before, particularly when it comes to opening big apps and multitasking. We'll find out if it's true in a few hours. [Chronic via Cult of Mac]


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Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross Over Jerusalem, in 351 AD - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 1
The image of Your cross has shown more brightly than the sun, / extending from the holy mountain to the place of the skull. / In it, You have shown Your strength, O Savior, / and confirmed all Orthodox Christians in the True Faith. / Through the prayers of the Theotokos, / save us, O Christ our God.
Kontakion — Tone 4
The pure and Life-giving Cross which opened paradise / appeared in splendor above the earth, / extending its brilliant rays to the heavens. / Today we faithful accept its radiance as our guide to the eternal light. / We bear it in our struggles as an assurance of victory and triumph!


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Kristen Stewart stopped by Jay Leno's The Tonight Show studio in LA wearing a too-cool combination: Rebecca Minkoff's red Becky blazer, black leather pants by J Brand, a James Dean tee by Dolce & Gabbana, and black Bloch oxfords. The actress is known for loving her t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, but we love it when she dresses up her signature fashion formula. This outfit is still true to her style, only a polished version. To get in on Kristen's rad look, buy her exact tee, leather pants, and lace-up shoes now. Then top it off with a bold red blazer for extra pizazz. To get even more fancy, swap the oxfords for pumps, sandals, or booties.


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You'd expect a Wanda Sykes guest appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to be an occasion for gales of laughter. However, the 47 year-old comedian has something much weightier on her mind.
"I had breast cancer," admits Sykes. "Yeah, I know it's scary."
Sykes says she had no idea she had cancer, and was alerted to the illness when she went in for breast reduction surgery this past February.
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"It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS [ductal carcinoma in situ] in my left breast," she says. "I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky."
Since the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine" star said that the cancer history in her family convinced her to have a double mastectomy.
"I had both breasts removed, because now I have zero chance of having breast cancer."
But lest her appearance become too dour, Sykes, who is busy raising a toddler with wife Alex, closed with her usual snarky wit.
"At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade, we get a float, it's a party," she joked. "I was real hesitant about doing this, because I hate walking. I got a lot of [cancer] walks coming up."
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Silicon Alley Insider reports that Time Warner's Telepicture Productions — the company behind TMZ, the place for all of your salacious Britney Spears, Dog The Bounty Hunter and random drunk girls on video news — has a new target: Moms. Yes, women who spawn and spend have attracted the attention of the media conglomerate, and the result is the launch of MomLogic, a site for mothers by mothers. Logically! And it's not just a website: It's an ad network. Plus: photos, shopping, games, community. Time Warner's got big hopes for MomLogic: A TV show! And maybe a TV channel! Because, you know, even though NBC has Oxygen and iViilage, and Lifetime Television is launching myLifetime.com — which will have content from Glam, the leading internet destination for women, there just isn't enough stuff out there for moms. And when they're done reading about Britney, they're gonna want to hop over and read about where she got that carseat!
TMZ Creators' Next Target: Moms [Silicon Alley Insider]