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European austerity finally has its poster boy, as Ireland demonstrates that bailout is not a permanent state, by exiting its emergency deal with the "Troika" of international financial institutions. We can expect George Osborne, who used to cite the Republic as an example of low-tax virtue up until it collapsed, to start mentioning it once again. But there are, in truth, few serious parallels with Britain.
After a disastrous promise to protect banks with the public purse in 2008, previously-prudent Dublin was suddenly bust. No one but Europe and the IMF would finance it at all, a predicament the UK never approached. Whereas the Republic was locked into the single currency, Britain could and did price itself back into world markets by letting its currency sink. Remarkably, membership of the euro remained consensual through these punishing times, and within that constraint, it truly could be said of Ireland, as it never could of Britain, that there was no alternative. Supposed "lessons for Britain" here are thus point-scoring rhetoric; the serious question is what – if anything – Ireland has to teach Portugal and Greece, nations still under the Troika's yoke.
A couple of years ago, there were Irish citizens who would protect their mental health by routinely switching radio stations whenever the headlines came on. Against that background, Taoiseach Enda Kenny is naturally keen to make the most of a moment of good news. He will deliver a declaration of independence on television on Sunday night, a good moment for his standing at home, no doubt, and one that will have leaders in Athens and Lisbon looking on in envy.
But under the heartening symbolism of a free state restored, a host of troubling statistics remain, after five years of budgeting by bludgeon. Previously low public debt remains well in excess of national income, and although Dublin is currently proudly financing this through private means, any fresh bout of market jitters could send it back to the emergency room. The unemployment rate remains in double digits, and in a few short years, one young man in every 10 has left the country. The human toll has been devastating. Nonetheless, from jobs to GDP the data is now finally suggesting a corner has been turned. Does that imply that as long as you swallow enough of the pain, the gain will arrive in the end?
There is no such certainty. Keynes acknowledged how, in very particular circumstances, it might be possible to deflate out of recession. His contention was not that austerity could never work, but rather that it could only do so through a tortuous mechanism, which could go wrong at several points. It might, for example, simply not be possible to cut wages, if enough workers took to the streets; it might be impossible to get anyone spending at all if scared consumers were bent on clinging on to their cash; and, however much money gets squirrelled in banks, businesses are never going to borrow it to invest if expectations are stubbornly depressed. In short, while austerity is always painful, its efficacy is entirely contingent.
Ireland was probably better-placed than some other countries to avoid the many traps laid by austerity. The role of foreign firms in sectors like high-tech makes overall investment less dependent on animal spirits at home. And beyond business psychology, there is the wider stoic psychology of a traditionally poor, property-owning population that never quite believed in its boomtime riches. An idiosyncratic party system, dominated by two centre-right parties, allowed voters to let off steam in 2011 by obliterating one government without fundamentally changing the course. Austerity's triumph in Ireland is still not assured, and – even if it comes – it will have extracted a terrible price. The tale of an island that has suffered in silence has little read-across to other lands, where there is more rage in the air.


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Blunt Chest Trauma in A Book
Hi. I`m writing a book and having a hard time researching the medical aspects. One of my main characters is attacked and beaten pretty badly. She has a compound rib fracture and a fractured skull. I would like to know what would happen to her as soon as she reaches the hospital. What would the treatment be? How long would it take to heal? Would it have been possible for her to drive herself a few blocks back to her house, immediately following the attack? Every search I`ve done for this information has simply told me to seek immediate medical attention, but not what that attention would entail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Yes it would be theoretically possible to drive a short distance say within 10 to 15 minutes time to a hospital. With respect to her injuries, compound rib fractures are extremely rare. A compound fracture means that fractured or broken bones are exposed through the skin and the degree of force required to cause that would more likely be seen with a high speed, high impact crash. Having fractured ribs makes it extremely painful to move at all including and especially breathing. So for both of those reasons driving may be potentially difficult. A fractured skull in and of itself is not necessarily life threatening. An underlying injury to the brain would be of more concern, such as edema (swelling) that develops over a few hours, the same as with a sprained ankle. The other brain injury of concern would be a blood clot (sub dural or epidural hematoma) these are potentially fatal and often require an emergency operation by a neurosurgeon. Recovery from fractured bones generally takes 6 to 8 weeks.
Upon arrival to a hospital she would be seen in the emergency department by an Emergency Medicine physician where she would undergo an initial assessment for life threatening or potentially life threatening injuries ( airway and breathing assessments), resuscitation for shock if present (IV fluids, blood transfusion if necessary), then a secondary assessment for more subtle injuries. This is a thorough medical history if possible and detailed physical exam. At this time diagnostic tests such as X-rays (cervical spine, chest and pelvis),ultrasound of the abdomen, CT scan (head and abdomen) would be obtained. At that point some decision about definitive care would be made, eg involvement of a trauma surgeon, a neurosurgeon, transfer to a trauma center, operation, admission to the hospital possibly intensive care unit or discharge home.
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In June 1942 more than 500 Jewish residents of the Administrative District of Kassel were deported to Sobibor and Majdanek. The Friends' Association of the Vöhl Synagogue, local authorities and instiatives and the International Tracing Service (ITS) remembered the victims in Vöhl last weekend.learn more
After more than 40 years, Isabelle de Cocatrix Kechavarz longed to come back to Bad Arolsen – the place where she spent many years of her childhood. Her father, Albert de Cocatrix, had been Deputy Director and subsequently Director of the International Tracing Service (ITS) from 1955 to 1977. "He was a very discreet...learn more
In mid-May 2012, 26 pupils from the Bad Arolsen Kaulbach School came to see the International Tracing Service (ITS). Apart from preparing a presentation on the history and present tasks and objectives of the ITS, the pupils formed groups and occupied themselves with the subject of "conceptions of man". "A three-hour...learn more
Between 9th and 11th May 2012, Karsten Kühnel, Archivist and Head of the section Archival Description at the International Tracing Service (ITS), attended a conference of the Work Package Standards and Guidelines of the Archives and Research Portal EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure). EHRI partners met at...learn more
In his book "The Women of Block 10", author and journalist Hans-Joachim Lang gives the victims of medical experiments at the concentration camp Auschwitz a face, focusing on those who suffered rather than on the doctors by seeing events from their perspective. "The Nazi doctors considered women to be guinea pigs,"...learn more
"Truth and Witness mirrored in the variety of the ITS collections" was the title of the talk that René Bienert and Karsten Kühnel from the International Tracing Service (ITS) contributed to the international workshop "Truth and Witness" within the scope of the EU project European Holocaust Research Infrastructure...learn more
Amateur researcher Heiko Kania has examined lists of prisoners from Concentration Camp Neuengamme at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. "One list was found and saved during salvage work on the wreck of the ship 'Thielbek'", knows Kania. "Another list was drawn up by the coast guard in 1950."...learn more
Every year on the 27th Nissan (Jewish calendar) Israel commemorates the six million victims of the Shoah. The Jewish communities in other parts of the world also remember the murdered on this day. In Israel this day is a public anniversary and holiday, initiated by ceremonies in Yad Vashem. At ten o'clock in the...learn more
Dr. Susanne Urban, Head of Research at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, took part at the conference "The Holocaust and Legacies of Race in the Postcolonial World" in Sydney and held lectures on the work of the ITS. She also contributed for the exhibition of the Sydney Jewish Museum facsimiles of...learn more
The sensitive documentary film "Kinderblock 66 - Return to Buchenwald" tells the story of four Jewish children from Block 66 at the concentration camp Buchenwald. They represent the fate of roughly 1,000 Jewish children and youths liberated by the US Army in April 1945. The film was premiered at the memorial last...learn more


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London 2012: IOC begins Olympics tickets investigation
The International Olympic Committee has begun an investigation into claims Olympics representatives were willing to sell thousands of tickets for the London Games on the black market.
The IOC's ruling executive board met after fresh claims by the Sunday Times involving more than 50 countries.
Tickets for top events were said to be priced at up to 10 times face value.
A UK member of the board, Sir Craig Reedie, said the IOC would consider improvements to ticket sales systems.
"We will see what improvements we can build in to a more modern system, because it's very important that we protect the integrity of the ticket distribution system for Olympic games," he told the BBC.
The IOC has also referred the allegations to its independent ethics commission.
Former LibDem leader Sir Menzies Campbell, a member of the Olympic Board, called for offending countries to lose future allocations of tickets.
He said it was the responsibility of the IOC to regulate ticket allocations to member countries and was "not at the discretion of the London organisers".
The UK's Olympics organiser, Locog, denied claims its chairman, Lord Coe, was persuaded to hand over extra tickets to an IOC national representative.
The Sunday Times has submitted a dossier of evidence detailing claims that Olympic officials and agents had been caught selling thousands of tickets on the black market for up to 10 times their face value, says BBC Sports News correspondent James Pearce.
The IOC could also review how Olympic tickets are distributed among member countries - more than one million were distributed to those taking part in the Games.
Sir Menzies Campbell, a former Liberal Democrat leader who is on the Olympic Board , - which helps oversee London 2012 - told the BBC it was a "thorough disgrace".
"The sanctions [for offending countries] should be not just that the tickets get cancelled for this Olympic Games but that tickets are not awarded on future occasions," he added.
The Sunday Times alleges, during a two-month investigation in which reporters posed as Middle Eastern ticket touts, it found corruption involving people representing 54 separate countries.
Ticketing policy
Accusations include an allegation a member of the Greek Olympics Committee said he had "persuaded" Lord Coe, chairman of the London organising committee, Locog, to give Greece more tickets on the pretext demand had outstripped supply.
Locog denies the claim.
A spokeswoman said: "With regard to 'boasts' by the Greek Olympic Committee' (HOC) that discussions on tickets took place with Sebastian Coe, we can confirm this is untrue.
"Seb received a letter from the HOC (as he did from other NOCs) and responded saying that tickets had been allocated in accordance with the IOC's ticketing policy. There was no further contact - either formal or informal - on this subject."
More than one million London 2012 tickets were distributed abroad among all the nations taking part in the Games, but the IOC has strict rules to try to combat touts.
National Olympic committees must ensure that their allocation is only sold within their own region.
Last month a senior Ukrainian Olympic official resigned after being filmed by the BBC offering tickets for cash.
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The IOC said in a statement on the latest claims: "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has moved quickly to deal with allegations that some National Olympic Committees (NOC) and Authorised Ticket Resellers (ATR) have broken rules relating to the sale of Olympic tickets.
"The IOC takes these allegations very seriously and has immediately taken the first steps to investigate.
"Should any irregularities be proven, the organisation will deal with those involved in an appropriate manner.
"The NOCs are autonomous organisations, but if any of the cases are confirmed the IOC will not hesitate to impose the strongest sanctions.
"The IOC has also determined that it will take on board any recommendations coming out of the inquiry to improve the way that tickets are allocated and sold internationally in the future."
London 2012 organising committee Locog said: "Rules and regulations for selling London 2012 tickets to international fans are clear and unambiguous.
"National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and their Authorised Ticket Sellers (ATRs) sign a contract with Locog agreeing to specific terms and conditions.
"The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) has launched an investigation in to the allegations and we will support them in any way we can. None of the tickets in question came from the allocation to the British public.
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Comic 512: Worthless
GUYS do you remember how Randall Munroe is aware of the traditions of the internet, which include humorous pictures? Probably you don't because the time he wrote a long comic series about it was more than one month ago!
GUYS do you know how sometimes instead of writing a full fleshed out idea for a comic he just had a little idea like "what if jpgs were currency?" Probably not because the last time he had a similarly lazy comic was more than one week ago!
GUYS remember the Onion book Our Dumb Century which had the headline, "Cambodia Switches to Skull-Based Economy"? Probably you do because Our Dumb Century is an amazing book and I trust that you've all read it.
Oh and also inflation is not actually really one of the problems with the US economy these days but whatever if Randall wants to think it is I'll be glad to buy his dollars.
Speaking of dollars, would people think I was selling out if I put up google ads on this site? I'm really just curious how much money they could make, and I would put the money back into anti-xkcd efforts (assuming I could think of any).
22 comments:
1) When Randall jokes about something old, you complain about him not being up-to-date and when he is joking about something recent he is a know-it-all who knows everything that happens in the world? Fair.ReplyDelete
2) Let me continue my counter-criticism in one act play form.
THE SCENE: A RESTURANT SHOP IN BOSTON. CARL, a self named Trained Humor Analyst is eating dinner with a friend, JILL.
JILL: Wow, this chili sausage tastes great!
CARL: Well I would have liked it if it weren't for the fact that I've eaten both sausage and food with chili in it before.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
3) I agree, the idea was simple and quite silly. But for a mathematician, a simple solution is usually a elegant one. The punchline is in the sentence below the picture, by the way. If you should criticize a comic, don't ignore the punchline. I laughed out loud on this one.
I can understand that some people don't enjoy this joke. Everyone don't have the same taste in humor. But you can't say that xkcd used to be good AND not like this comic. This is a typical xkcd comic with the kind of joke Randall used to deliver during is "golden period".
I guess quite a few people like me, who still likes XKCD but prefer you to the forumites, reads this blog. Using us to make money to bring XKCD down doesn't sound right to me. I'd probably stop reading your blog then. ;)
This is kind of random, but have you noticed that Randall has stopped drawing necks for his stick figures? They're all just a bunch of circles hovering over bodies now. I am wondering why.ReplyDelete
M7S - I am guessing that Carl, like me, liked reading xkcd for its more original jokes, rather than for its references to both old things that are old and new things that make it sound pretentious.
Carl I would not mind if you put up Google ads because they don't tend to be those annoying flashy talky ones. But what would you do with the money? Use it for postage for all the letters you send Randall begging him to stop this comic? =P
What? Writing about funny pictures or economic crises makes you look pretentious? I guess I'm missing something here.ReplyDelete
This comic was alright. The punchline(s) appeals to jpg collectors and 4channers alike by way of our most useless commodity. Plus this is followed by one of Randall's best, #513. I DARE you to comb out flaws in it, Carl! The Carl/Randall (Carandall? Randarl?) Conspiracy is a step closer to truth!ReplyDelete
M - I only complain if a joke is old if it's like the pluto thing, where it really is just an old reference that no one's talked about for like a year and a half. A joke about say, the original mario bros. game would not qualify, because people still talk about it and play it.ReplyDelete
And I only complain about recent stuff if he really clearly doesn't know what he's talking about (for example, the comic that went up the day after the election elicited nothing from me along these lines). In this case, it's because this comic, combined with his past comics and blog posts about the economic crisis, show that he has no clue what he's talking about. In this case, it's because the dollar hasn't collapsed, so the premise is completely off.
As to your play, I am quite sure that it is difficult to be around me, yes.
This simply may be a comic where my bias against xkcd prevents me from liking it where I would have had it come out a few years ago. I can accept that.
I will note your opinion on the google ads thing. Still haven't made up my mind.
Amanda - I hadn't noticed the neck thing but I suspect that I won't be able to ignore it now.
M Redux - Yeah i would say having a computer scientist who doesn't know economics write about the super complicated economic crises is pretentious, yeah. Remember, it's not just this comic, it's that stupid story he wrote too.
Thomas - I believe the correct name would be The Crandall Hypothesis. And I hope to god you are kidding about #513. I think you are. My usual sarcasm detectors are still asleep.
I'd just like to say that I wouldn't mind Google ads on this site because I use Adblock anyway and that you're entitled to attempt to monetize the things you do with your time. I hope it pays out great dividends for you.ReplyDelete
(I can't wait for your 513 critique. I've checked your site like four times since that comic went up in the hopes that it'd be here.
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2008 at 2:10 PM
I wouldnt care if you used some ads, as long as it doesnt get in the way of the blog.ReplyDelete
Ha ha brian I use ad block too...you don't get money for adblocked ads I don't think? If you do then I think we have some excellent opportunities for fraud here.ReplyDelete
Anyway, my comments of 513 are going to take a while because there is...a lot to say, we can put it that way. Until then, you can read the forums and see definitive proof that they are FUCKED UP PEOPLE.
- DoubleBlackbirdDecember 5, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Gotta agree with M7S here - this is the first XKCD in a while to make me LOL. And the art is, uh, minimalistic, but it doesn't make me wince in pain like the one with the sexual experimentation rigour did. So good job, Randall.ReplyDelete
(Although the Economic Crisis Humour is wearing a bit thin, I must say. But economics is not a Science, and thus it is a Liberal Art obviously and this is probably why Randall has reacted with such glee at its failures.)
Re: Google Ads: fine, just so long as you use the income to purchase kite photography equipment and inscribe 'xkcdsucks' into the ground somehow (preferably with rocks, in a desert) and post the resulting image on the blog. It will be amusing for us and it will increase your monetary worth, if this comic is to be believed.
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2008 at 11:13 PM
While there is nothing I can do to stop you from putting up ads, if you asked my opinion I'd say DON'T DO IT!ReplyDelete
For one, this site is not costing you a dime since it's hosted on Blogger (of course, it's costing you your time, but I suspect you like doing it... if you spend time doing things you like, you shouldn't really expect monetary compensation for it). If you had your own domain, things would be different.
Second, ads (yes, even Google ads) are quite annoying. Even targeted ads. I am here for an anti-xkcd rant. I don't see how any ad could target this demographic, unless it's an ad for anti-xkcd merchandise like posters or T-shirts.
Actually now that I think about it, selling from here anti-xkcd T-shirts might be a better idea than putting up ads.
Anonymous guy, are you really going to stop going to this site just because there Google ads on it? That's both sticking by your principals and being a dick.ReplyDelete
DoubleBlackbird, that is a good idea. I will spell it with rocks THAT ALSO ARE A COMPUTER that can simulate the whole world.ReplyDelete
Anonymous, part of me is just curious what ads would come up. To judge from my gmail ads, it's mostly just random webcomic stuff. I actually like the idea of anti-xkcd shirts except I can't think of any real designs, I doubt anyone wants them and it seems like a whole lot of trouble to set up. But in theory I do like the idea.
Brian, whether he would stop visiting or not, he says they would be annoying. That's what I'm trying to find out.
If you are wondering, I'm currently leaning towards trying them for a few weeks just to see how much money they would bring in. Then I would see how people felt about them, unless the amount was so tiny as to not be worth it or so huge that I don't care what people think. Of course, I would spend the money on sending Randall Munroe a real live package that had two items: as heavy a brick as I could afford to send using only the google ad money, and a note saying "I'm getting paid for this!"
come to think of it I might just do this regardless of what you people think.
Carl I semi-apologized for making you notice the lack of neck. Semi because I take a sick pleasure in making people notice weird unimportant things. =PReplyDelete
Also, the idea of T-shirts is nice, but think of the thousands of xkcd "fans" that would try to rip your clothes off, and not in a good way. =\
I am wondering as well where the ads would be? I suppose there are rules, like they gotta be at like the top of the page or something, perhaps. But if not, I would say a fairly unannoying spot would be below where the digg thingy is right now? Or even along the orange headliner, actually.. Hmm.
> Of course, I would spend the money on sending Randall Munroe a real live package that had two items: as heavy a brick as I could afford to send using only the google ad money, and a note saying "I'm getting paid for this!"ReplyDelete
please do this.
that would be all-time.
also, please keep up the blog! i've been following it for half a year now. i love reading your views more than the comics these days.
it has come to the point that i think i will just delete my xkcd.com bookmark and will just check the bookmark for this site.
in general i think your critiques are spot on, and are only a tad harsher than the comic deserves every now and then. (but at least it's funny)!
fwiw, these are the only recent ones i like.
#507 i actually like his version exactly as it is
#495 it got my hopes up.
#493 only just.
#492 good!
#487 a maths joke!? and i thought he had forgotten about the Math part of his webcomic title.
#479 i agree with him here. (but if the bottom text of panels 1 and 2 were cut out it would be much better).
#474 a classic.
#458 would make this list if it were for the shit alt-text.
#457 one of my favourites!
anyway, the rest are pretty ordinary, and there are some absolute stinkers in there.
my main gripe with xkcd these days is it is about internet memes, internet jokes, using computers all day, etc, etc. but i'm sure you know this.
the only "love" in it these days is how much he and his minions love the internet.
i think randall probably spends too much time sitting in front of a computer masturbating the internet. he needs to get a job, and write the comics in his spare time.
that will make them better.
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2008 at 2:30 AM
Hi. Same anonymous guy here.ReplyDelete
> "are you really going to stop going to this site just because there Google ads on it?"
That depends. If the annoyance of the ads becomes greater than the enjoyment of reading the posts, then yes, I'll stop. In addition, I don't see myself clicking any ads anyway, so it's not like it's gonna be lost revenue or anything if I stop coming.
Regarding your original question, yes, I would see you as a sell-out if you put ads here. (But again, I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing or that I'll stop coming here because of them (subject to my answer above, of course).)
The t-shirts need not be "anti-xkcd" per se. Something to the effect of "bring back the old xkcd" or "new xkcd is the new Coke" might work. But yeah, as Carl said, probably too much trouble.
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2008 at 2:36 AM
Addendum: If you do add adverts, Carl, I'd be tempted to take you up on your open offer of running xkcdsuckssucks.blogspot.com.ReplyDelete
- Same anonymous.
Just curious, where exactly did he mention that this comic was ACTUALLY about the economic crisis, and not just some unrelated hypothetical scenario? Just because the dollar may not be in danger of collapsing doesn't mean that he's making a failed reference to the economic crisis. Your criticisms of this comic along those lines seem pretty unfounded, at least to me.ReplyDelete
Jim, that's a pretty interesting point. Except...well he does use "with the collapse of the dollar" as his premise, and if it's just hypothetical, well, it's pretty easy to make up hypothetical situations that have humorous side effects. It's basing them on reality that makes them accessible and good. I think. Anyway the real problem with the comic was just the "i STILL read 4chan so i'm STILL cool please don't forget!" nature of it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Hehe. No one who reads 4chan is cool.ReplyDelete
Been 4chan free for two years now, still recovering.
I really wouldn't care if you put ads up, so long as they weren't obnoxious. Besides, how sweet would it be if you were actually able to make a living off them? The internet would have redeemed itself in my eyes.ReplyDelete
Fun fact: xkcd has ruined the word internet for me. Every time I say it, I feel like I'm making some sort of reference, in that Randall 'I love memes' way.
- AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM
O NOES HE MENTIONED TEH INTERNETS!ReplyDelete
oh no, now you mentioned the internets!ReplyDelete
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Then the Boeing 777 vanished as it cruised over the South China Sea toward Vietnam, and nothing has been seen or heard of the jetliner since.
Those final words were picked up by controllers and relayed Wednesday in Beijing to anguished relatives of some of the 239 people aboard Flight MH370.
The search for the missing plane, which left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday, now encompasses 35,800 square miles (92,600 square kilometers) of Southeast Asia and is expanding toward India.
After several days of sometimes confusing and conflicting statements, the Malaysian military officially disclosed why it was searching on both sides of country: A review of military radar records showed what might have been the plane turning back and crossing westward into the Strait of Malacca.
Air force chief Gen. Rodzali Daud said the radar showed an unidentified object at 2:15 a.m. about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of Penang. "I am not saying it's Flight MH370. We are still corroborating this. It was an unidentifiable plot," he said.
Foreign experts and the manufacturers of the radar were studying the images to try to determine whether the blips were in fact the missing plane. For now, authorities said the international search effort would stay focused on the South China Sea and the strait leading toward the Andaman Sea.
Some of the confusion over the statements by Malaysian officials has led to allegations of incompetence, lack of coordination or even a cover-up.
"There's too much information and confusion right now. It is very hard for us to decide whether a given piece of information is accurate," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in Beijing. "We will not give it up as long as there's still a shred of hope."
Two-thirds of the passengers on the flight were Chinese.
"We have nothing to hide," said Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. "There is only confusion if you want to see confusion."
Flight MH370 disappeared from civilian radar screens at 1:30 a.m. Saturday at an altitude of about 35,000 feet above the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and southern Vietnam. It sent no distress signals or any indication it was experiencing problems.
The government said it had asked India to join in the search near the Andaman Sea, suggesting the jetliner might have reached those waters after crossing into the Strait of Malacca, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the flight's last-known coordinates.
Malaysian officials met in Beijing with several hundred Chinese relatives of passengers to explain the search and investigation, and to relay the last transmission that Malaysian air traffic controllers received before the plane entered Vietnamese airspace, according to a participant in the meeting.
Aviation officials in Vietnam said they never heard from the plane.
Its sudden disappearance led to initial speculation of a catastrophic incident that caused it to disintegrate. Another possibility is that it continued to fly despite a failure of its electrical systems, which could have knocked out communications, including transponders that enable the plane to be identified by commercial radar.
Authorities have not ruled out any possible cause, including mechanical failure, pilot error, sabotage and terrorism, and they are waiting to find any wreckage or debris to determine what went wrong.
In June 2013, Boeing issued a safety alert to Boeing 777 operators, telling them to inspect for corrosion and cracks in the crown fuselage around a satellite antenna. The alert says one airline found a 16-inch crack in one plane, then checked other 777s and found more cracking.
"Cracks in the fuselage skin that are not found and repaired can propagate to the point where the fuselage skin structure cannot sustain limit load," Boeing said. "When the fuselage skin cannot sustain limit load, this can result in possible rapid decompression and loss of structural integrity."
The FAA issued a safety order Wednesday that is effective April 9, directing operators to make repairs outlined in Boeing's safety alert.
Asked about the safety alert as it relates to the Malaysia Airlines disappearance, former U.S. National Transportation Safety Board member and aircraft maintenance expert John Goglia said he thought it was "pretty far down on the probability list."
"It could lead to depressurization of the airplane," Goglia said, "but it wouldn't turn off the transponder and it wouldn't prevent the pilots from calling" by radio.
Aeronautical engineer Chuck Eastlake, a former professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., added that it's unlikely a rapid depressurization of the plane would cause it to disintegrate in the air.
Two U.S. Federal Aviation Administration technical experts and a regional representative are in Kuala Lumpur as part of an NTSB team supporting the investigation. Experts in air traffic control and radar are providing technical help, the board said.
Hishammuddin described the multinational search as unprecedented. Some 43 ships and 39 aircraft from at least eight nations were scouring an area to the east and west of Peninsular Malaysia.
"It's not something that is easy. We are looking at so many vessels and aircraft, so many countries to coordinate, and a vast area for us to search," he told a news conference. "But we will never give up. This we owe to the families of those on board."
Confusion over whether the plane had been seen flying west prompted speculation that different arms of the government might have different opinions about its location, or even that authorities were holding back information.
Earlier in the week, Malaysia's head of civil aviation, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, was asked why the Strait of Malacca was being searched and replied, "There are things I can tell you, and things I can't," suggesting that the government wasn't being completely transparent.
If all those on board are confirmed dead, it would be the deadliest commercial air accident in 10 years.
Choi Tat Sang, a 74-year-old Malaysian, said his family is still holding out hope that the plane and all on board are safe. His 45-year-old daughter-in-law, Goh Sock Lay, was the chief flight attendant. Her 14-year-old daughter, an only child, has been crying every day since the plane's disappearance.
"We are heartbroken. We are continuing to pray for her safety and for everyone on the flight," he said.
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In Don Tennant's post "Dealing with the 'Vice' in 'Devices,'" he writes about the extent to which we're addicted to the instruments that keep us online, following a discussion he had on the topic with Dr. Joanne Cantor, a psychologist and author of the book, "Conquering CyberOverload." Chances are you're able to identify with that need for a fix to at least some degree, so advice on changing the habits that drive that need might be helpful.
Here are 10 tips offered by Cantor on how to retrain yourself so that you can show your devices who's boss.
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text: On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > I am looking at two different configurations of 600Mhz, 2M cache alpha > > 21264w > > 6*2 processor UP2000, 512M RAM > > or > > 12*1 processor DS10L 256M RAM > In our case we chose DS10 machines because of their better memory performance compared to UP2000. > You might also prefer the DS10 over the DS10L, since it costs money to get > that 1U package. This is true. In our case Compaq seemed to be much more interested in selling DS10 models instead of their slim versions. I suppose they can get more money by selling slim models to commercial sector and standard models (DS10) to universities. Another thing to keep in mind is the heat. I don't know what is the situation today, but I have heard that Compaq used to have somekind of heat problems with fully loaded DS10L racks. in addition, I do not know if Compaq even has DS10L version of their fastest DS10 models. -- Ari Lukkarinen ; Email: Ari.Lukkarinen at hut.fi Laboratory of Computational Engineering / Helsinki University of Technology


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Detectives hunting for a missing 12-year-old girl are continuing to sift through hours of CCTV footage for a clue to her location.
Tia Sharp, who has not gone missing before, was last seen leaving her grandmother's home in New Addington, south London, at around midday on Friday after telling relatives she was going to the Whitgift Centre in Croydon town centre.
Detective Chief Inspector Nick Scola said: "We are currently examining CCTV; at this time we have found no trace of Tia on the footage examined thus far, but this is an ongoing process which will take time.
"We have spoken to Tia's family and some of her friends and Tia has never gone missing before and it is extremely out of character for her not to return home or contact her friends or family.
"There has been a lot of activity on Twitter from Tia's friends and, whilst we would want to ensure that images of Tia and details of her disappearance are spread far and wide, we would urge people using social media to include the incident room number rather than their personal numbers.
"We have received a number of purported sightings but none are confirmed as Tia at this time."
Scola reiterated appeals for information and said he was particularly keen to hear from anyone in the Lindens area of New Addington who had information.
Tia did not have her young person's travelcard with her but some bus and tram drivers let children travel without one.
Scola said: "I am appealing for any bus or tram drivers in the Croydon area who recognise Tia's description to contact us.
"Of course if Tia herself is able to contact her family or the police, we urge her to do so."
Tia is white, 1.35 metres (4ft 5in) tall and slim, and was wearing FCUK glasses.
She was dressed in a yellow bandeau top over a white bra with visible cross straps, light grey leopard print leggings and black and pink Nike high-top trainers.
Police believe Tia had a small amount of cash with her, but no travelcard and she did not have her mobile phone.
She is known to frequent the Croydon, Mitcham and Wimbledon areas.
• Anyone who has seen Tia or knows of her whereabouts should call Merton police on phone number 101, quoting reference 12MIS025216.


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Since we have a thread here dedicated as to what models went from hit to shit, let's do it the other way round!
In my opinion, this '09 Mustang was alright... But it was shit on many levels, especially any of the engines it was available with. Even though I have a soft spot for the 4.6 and 5.4 modulars, the 4.6 especially just didn't generate a whole lot of power.
Then, 2010, Ford tweaks a few lines, tightens up the headlights and the car went from boy racer, to something slightly graduated from that. More importantly a V6 that's competitive with the outgoing V8 and an all new 5.0!
Here we have the 2009 Taurus, it was riding on a dated Volvo platform that should've been killed off with the failure of the Fivehundred.
Then in 2010, we not only get a all new Taurus, while still on the same platform, its characteristics are improved beyond recognition. It's roof-line is less like that of a massive Beetle. But even more importantly, and I am admittedly biased here, we get the return of the SHO! With 365hp of Ecoboost glory.


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Wearing an Insulin Pump can be Creative, Fun,and Less Worry for Parents! Diabetes Insulin Pumps
When my 2 1/2 year old daughter was diagnoised with Type 1 diabetes, I really wanted to have her getting the best diabetes care and the best option at the time was putting a then 3 year old on an insulin pump. I quickly discovered that an insuin pump and a 3 year old created many problems in how to wear the insulin pump, how to sleep with the insulin pump and basically how to manage living day to day with this device on our beautiful daughter. That's when my best Friend Dawn and I decided that we could make a difference not only in Nikki's life but the lives of other families sturggling with this challenge. In designing PUMP WEAR products, our goal is to allow "Kids to be Kids" and let Adults have fun. Wearing an insulin pump shouldn't take the fun out of being a kid or being an adult. All of our products are designed to give kids and adults the freedom, comfort, flexibility and fun they thrive on. Nikki is now 20 years old and we actively helping us here at Pump Wear.
Our line encompasses all ages. A full line of diabetes awareness and support items, also help us spread the word for a cure.
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Pump Wear Inc. is committed to offering a growing line of items specifically made with children and adults in mind. Insulin cases that grow with you and a insulin pump clothing line that affords you the comfort you deserve. Pump Wear Inc. "Where Kids are Kids" and "Adults just have fun". Through our line of diabetes insulin pump clothing we have developed a full line of insulin pump shirts, insulin pump pump bands, t-shirts, insulin pump pj's and clothing that make you feel good!
Children and adults who wear an insulin pump run into many obstacles when trying to find ways to wear their insulin pumps. Where do I wear my insulin pump for sleeping? How do I play sports with an insulin pump? What do I do with my insulin pump if I want to wear a dress. Sleeping with an insulin pump can also be challenging. These are just a few of the many questions that come up with new insulin pumpers and experienced insulin pumpers. We hope that here at Pump Wear you will find a large variety of insulin pump accessories along with many many beautiful Diabetes Awareness items along with a new line of diabetes medical alert bracelets.
2 years after Nikki's diagnoised our then 14 and 11 year old sons were also diagnoised with Type 1 Diabetes, they were diagnoised 4 months apart.


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MMO-Champion first rushed the images to us and I likey what I see!
My link comes from [Epic] Wins, which is another nice site that delivers the news (and my work filter doesn't block it).
I don't know if I like the blue aura on the red shoulders, but in general I really like the design. The shoulders look more menacing and powerful than the T9 ones, and they also carry on the tradition of having skulls in prominent places.
That sword though, oh my!
It's the most delicious thing about the armor set. One wonders if we'll be able to get that one somewhere in Icecrown and how good it's dps/stats would be. I have a feeling that were I to get that one, even if I had a better weapon, that would be my Dalaran armor set. ^^
I'll be eager to see the stats on the gear and how they balance the armor pen vs haste etc issue.
Forgot to comment on the set bonuses:
T10 Death Knight Tank 2p Bonus: Increases the damage done by your Death and Decay ability by 20%.
T10 Death Knight Tank 4p Bonus: When you activate Blood Tap, you gain 12% damage reduction from all attacks for 10 sec.
T10 Death Knight DPS 2p Bonus: Your Obliterate, Scourge Strike, and Death Strike abilities deal 10% increased damage.
T10 Death Knight DPS 4p Bonus: Whenever all your runes are on cooldown, you gain 3% increased damage done with weapons, spells, and abilities for the next 15 sec.
Those are nice. It's been pointed out those could be placeholder values, and they may, but I can drool, can't I?


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My original plan was to drive through Bryson but I didn't do that. This was my tour of the Quebec side of the Outaouais River. I discovered another route, Chemin Wilson, that took be directly to the bridge that crosses to Calumet Island.
What is it about a place that captures your imagination or charms you?
I had obsessed about getting around on this island but it turned out it was a no brainer. Silly me!
Anyway you just follow the highway, Chemin des Outaouais from the bridge and it curves around and comes very quickly to the little village of L'îlle-du-Calumet. From the main land side at Campbell's Bay, I had noticed that Calumet Island's eastern side sloped upward to the crest of the island. Again if I had more time and energy I would have explored more. I contented myself with exploring just the southeastern part.
There was a lovely park with parking that faced the Outaouais River. This is the eastern branch of the river that surrounds Calumet Island and is the gentler lazy side of the river. I did not investigate the western side which I believe is where the rapids are and all the whitewater rafting takes place.
I continued passed the village,L'îlle-du-Calumet, for a good kilometre and I came upon the St. Anne Roman Catholic Cemetery. Here I provide one photograph. Sorry, it was getting late and I had more touring to do.
There was another church with black stone in between the beige and white stones. It was beautiful. It was right in the village and behind it up on the hill was another cemetery and I am assuming that is the Grand Calumet Roman Catholic Cemetery. Neither one of these cemeteries listed McDonald's.
I did park along the river's edge in the park I mentioned and enjoyed the Outaouais river views. In the distance was a church spire. Ah…Campbell's Bay.
It almost seems like times stands still on Grand Calumet Island.
I was curious about the Jean Cadieux legend and memorial. I am always drawn to these types of stories. Apparently the monument had been in a different location and got vandalized so it was moved closer to the village on the east side and just south of it. I blazed right by on my way to the village my focus on the river, but found it on my way out. There was a little half circle driveway that you could pull off the road to read the information board and view the memorial. I will let this website tell about his legend in both English and French:
One last item, someone's video of a tour of the island, which has been removed because of copyright?
Even though my visit was short, I was glad I came…yes I was charmed.


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BOSTON (Reuters) - The son of a former Boston Red Sox player and broadcaster has pleaded not guilty to charges he stabbed his girlfriend to death in their apartment outside Boston.
Jared Remy, 35, was arraigned on murder charges in Middlesex Superior Court on Tuesday and ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan's office said in a press release.
Remy is accused of killing Jennifer Martel, 27, after a fight at their apartment in the suburb of Waltham in August, where they lived with their 5-year-old daughter.
Martel had obtained a restraining order against Remy two days before she was killed, claiming he beat her.
"The defendant is accused of stabbing Martel, who was later pronounced dead. He was arrested on scene," according to the release from Ryan's office.
Remy is the son of former Red Sox player Jerry Remy, who played for the Red Sox from 1978 to 1984. He is a Red Sox broadcaster, but announced after his son's arrest he would not return to the broadcast booth this season.
Jared Remy's next court date is October 15.
In a jailhouse interview with The Boston Herald on Sunday, Remy denied killing Martel and said he still loves her. His lawyer was not immediately available to comment.
Writing by Richard Valdmanis; editing by Andrew Hay


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CLSR Personnel
- Professor David M. Siegel, CLSR Director and Director of the Criminal Justice Project
- Professor Russell Engler, Director of the Public Service Project
- Professor Judith G. Greenberg, Director of the Womens' and Childrens' Law Project
- Professor Dina Francesca Haynes, Director of the Immigration Law Project
- Professor Peter M. Manus
- Professor Monica Teixeira de Sousa, Director of the Education Law Project
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Professor Siegel teaches Comparative Criminal Procedure, Criminal Advocacy, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Clinical Evidence, Evidence, and Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Process. He co-directs the Center for Law and Social Responsibility and directs its Criminal Justice Project. He has written articles on the history of mental health defenses in criminal law, the ethical obligations of criminal defense lawyers and prosecutors, and involuntary medication of criminal defendants. He is a founding member of the New England Innocence Project and serves on its Case Review Committee. Before joining the New England faculty in 1996, he was a senior assistant public defender for the Office of the Metropolitan Public Defender in Nashville, Tennessee. He served as a clerk for the Hon. E. Grady Jolly, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Professor Engler directs the law school's clinical programs. He teaches The Lawyering Process and the Public Interest Law Seminar and Clinic and co-teaches all clinical component courses. He directs the Public Service Project of the law school's Center for Law and Social Responsibility and guides countless students into public service internships and jobs.
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Professor Greenberg teaches Domestic Violence, Family Law, Torts, and Women and the Law. She is Co-Director of the Women's and Children's Advocacy Project. Associate Dean Greenberg is the coauthor of Mary Joe Frug's Women and the Law, originally by Mary Joe Frug, late Professor of Law at New England. She directs the Sexual and Domestic Violence Project of the law school's Center for Law and Social Responsibility, and in that capacity she leads students in their work on two on-line informational services and numerous other public service projects.
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Dina Francesca Haynes teaches Immigration Law, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering, International Women's Issues, Refugee and Asylum Law, and Property. She previously taught Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Immigration, and Refugee and Asylum Law at Georgetown University Law Center, American University's Washington College of Law, and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. She directs the Immigration Law Project of the Center for Law and Social Responsibility. Before teaching, she served as director general of the Human Rights Department for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as human rights adviser to the OSCE in Serbia and Montenegro. She also served as a protection officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Croatia. Professor Haynes was an assistant district counsel with the United States Department of Justice in the Honor Program and clerked on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She researches and writes in the areas of international law, international organizations, ethics and self-care of international civil servants, immigration law, human rights law, human trafficking, post-conflict reconstruction, humanitarian law, and migration.
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Professor Manus teaches Administrative Law, Environmental Advocacy, Environmental Law, Property, and The Lawyering Experience. He co-directs the Center for Law and Social Responsibility and directs its Environmental Advocacy Project. Professor Manus regularly writes on environmental issues and engages in environmental projects on a pro bono basis, often with the assistance of interested students.
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J.D. Georgetown University Law Center
Professor Teixeira de Sousa teaches Education and the Law, Education and Class Mobility, Family Law, and Property. Before joining the New England Law faculty in 2007, she was staff attorney at Rhode Island Legal Services, where she began practicing in 2002 as a Skadden Fellow. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Roger Williams University School of Law and served as a trainer for the Legal Services Training Consortium of New England. She is a founding member and past chair of the Rhode Island Education Justice Council and has been a presenter on issues of equity and education at a number of programs.


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October 2017
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Wednesday October 4, 2017
Grand Re-Opening Fairfield Inn & Suites
Join us for food, drink and live entertainment while we tour the updates of the facility.
Thursday October 5, 2017
Flu Clinic
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Tuesday October 10, 2017
BRG1 - Tuesday Business Referral Group
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Wednesday October 11, 2017
Ambassador Meeting
Ambassador Meeting
Thursday October 12, 2017
Business After Hours hosted by Filomena's on Main & Payroll Matters
An evening of networking and enjoying some drinks and appetizers from Filomena's on Main's kitchen.
Tuesday October 17, 2017
Town of Manchester Candidate Forum
The Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that they will host the Town of Manchester Board of Directors Candidate Forum 2017, in partnership with students from Manchester High School Communications Academy.
Thursday October 19, 2017
EPIC @ The Adams Mill Restaurant & Banquet Facility
Join us for food and drink while networking in a relaxed atmosphere. Non-profit represented: Veterans Support Foundation
Wednesday October 25, 2017
Financial Reality Fair
Experimental learning designed to help high school students recognize the value of money in a fun and interactive way.
Thursday October 26, 2017
Coffee Connection - Hosted by Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union
Coffee and treats make for a great event for newcomers and seasoned members alike.
Friday October 27, 2017
BRG 2 - Friday Business Exchange
BRG 2 - Friday Business Exchange


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Roasted Pumpkins Seeds
One medium sized pumpkin
Olive Oil
Preheat oven to 400°F. Cut open the pumpkin and use a strong metal spoon to scoop out the insides. Separate the seeds from the stringy core. Rinse the seeds.
In a small saucepan, add the seeds to water, about 2 cups of water to every half cup of seeds. Add a half tablespoon of salt for every cup of water (more if you like your seeds saltier). Bring to a boil. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and drain.
Spread about a tablespoon of olive oil over the bottom of a roasting pan. Spread the seeds out over the roasting pan, all in one layer. Bake on the top rack until the seeds begin to brown, 10-20 minutes. When browned to your satisfaction, remove from the oven and let the pan cool on a rack. Let the seeds cool all the way down before eating. Either crack to remove the inner seed (a lot of work and in my opinion, unnecessary) or eat whole.


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NPR.com is teasing a story with the following words:
Female Priests Defy Catholic Church At The Altar Four more women were recently ordained as priests in the Catholic Church, risking excommunication.
Except that at the very least that ordination is in dispute. And since one of the disputing parties is, well, how do we put this, the "Catholic Church," the whole story is oddly phrased. Even this caption:
Roman Catholic "Womenpriests" on their ordination day, June 4, at St. John's United Church of Christ in Catonsville, Md.
Why is "Womenpriests" in quotations but not "Roman Catholic"? The group calls itself not "Womenpriests" but "Roman Catholic Womenpriests." And, again, the Roman Catholic Church denies any involvement with the group. The caption is also misleading.
As for the story, it starts off with a bang:
In 2002, seven women were secretly ordained as priests by two Roman Catholic bishops in Germany. After their ordination, a kind of domino effect ensued.
Those seven women went on to ordain other women, and a movement to ordain female priests all around the world was born. ...
On a recent June day in Maryland, four more women were ordained as priests. The gallery at St. John's United Church of Christ was filled with Catholic priests and nuns, there to support the women and the ordination movement — though visitors were asked not to photograph them. Witnessing the ceremony was enough to risk excommunication.
Who were these two Roman Catholic bishops, I wonder. When tmatt critiqued a Baltimore Sun version of this story last week, it was three bishops.
But as is the problem with the previous version of this story, ordination in the Roman Catholic church doesn't happen via priests but, rather, bishops. While any denomination can ordain people however its leaders and adherents want, the central claim to this story is that these rites are done in accordance with the Vatican. So such claims need to be tested.
The story explains some of the mysteries with the previous Baltimore Sun account. Apparently media outlets are respecting a request for privacy in coverage of the story so that visitors aren't photographed. Everyone asserts, though, that visitors included members of the Catholic church. I would love to know a bit more about how such claims were verified.
This line is curious, though:
As members of the Roman Catholic Church, these female priests are all breaking church rules, which allow ordination only to baptized males. No member of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests has been excommunicated by the Church, but they have felt repercussions. They've not only been threatened but also have lost friends and colleagues within the Church -- many of whom fear they will lose their jobs if they support the women's ordination movement openly.
Is that true? What type(s) of excommunication are we referring to here. Is this what the Catholic Church itself would say? That performing an ordination rite such as this is not grounds for automatic excommunication? And what threats are we talking about? And who is issuing these threats? And did we speak with the people who we're claiming made threats?
Did I mention that nowhere in the entire story is an official within the actual Roman Catholic Church quoted? Isn't that weird?
I know that stories about Roman Catholic Womenpriests and other similar groups are like catnip for reporters, but we shouldn't just throw out all of our reporting principles. When the whole point of the story revolves around a disputed claim, it's usually not a good idea to ignore one side.
This isn't about picking sides or favoring one group over another but, simply, giving readers information. It's a journalism thing.


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Mr. Lichtenstein is managing director for Natural Resources within Accenture Strategy. His role focuses on helping Natural Resources clients develop strategies and capabilities that optimize their financial and operating results, while also capitalizing on digital innovation.
Mr. Lichtenstein has more than 30 years of experience as a company executive and consultant to the global metals and mining industries and has worked for Accenture since 2000. During that time he has worked with leading companies in the areas of strategy and organization, technology, merger and acquisitions, and business transformation.
Mr. Lichtenstein has written numerous articles for industry publications and is frequently quoted in the press. He regularly appears as a featured speaker at events sponsored by the World Steel Association, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), Metal Bulletin,American Metal Market (AMM's) Steel Success Strategies, the Brazilian Steel Institute, the China Iron and Steel Association and others.
Prior to joining Accenture, Mr. Lichtenstein held senior positions at Inland Steel, Arthur D. Little, and Beddows & Co.
Mr. Lichtenstein has a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. He is based in Boston, United States.


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I will give 25p of all card sales to Angel Children which is my non profit organisation,this will help me with funding for the headstones and comfort gifts I supply free of charge to bereaved parents and families. As we are always in need of funding so designing these cards to sell will help a great deal.
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The Pen tool is indeed probably one of the most powerful tools in Photoshop, once you learn how to use it. Special thanks go out to San Weng for sending in this tutorial! San writes :
Why use a Pen tool to draw or make selection? Because it gives you better control and higher precision that other tools cannot give you.
The Pen tool can be intimidating at first but once you learn it everything you touch with have a more professional look. You will get a clean and accurately outlined selection on all your photo. A pen path can also be saved within a .jpg file for use with other software!
Activate the Pen tool with the Tool Box or hit P on your keyboard.
Click and Drag to create your first point, you will see two Direction Handles once you start dragging, they control the curvature on either side of the control points, and this is NOT the actual path. Your path will appear once you make the second click. (above, right)
Hold Alt/Option while you are dragging if you need a sharp corner, or go back to a previously created handle and hold the Alt/Option key (note that your mouse icon turn into a > shape) than drag the handle around, a sharp corner will be created. (above left)
If you've miss placed the anchor and need to move it around, Hold the Ctrl/Command key than drag an anchor point. Notice the mouse icon turns to a black triangle in the picture above, right.
Series of tool indicators:
1) Clicking anywhere on Line will add point; you will see a plus sign next to your pen icon.
2) Clicking on existing anchor point of delete it
Clicking the first anchor point again will close the curve, you will notice a circle appears next to your pen icon.
Holding Shift will snap to handle angle of 45 degrees angle
3) After you break the handle you can still have the handle on both side move relative to each other by holding Ctrl/command and alt/option at the same time.
4) Use Direction Selection Tool or A on your keyboard to select your path after you are done.
Ctrl/Command & Alt/Option click on the anchor point will reset the curve handles.
Types of Path – You can create Create Shape Layer (first Icon on top) or Path (second icon). If you set it to Shape Layer, you will be able to access the Shape through the layer pallet, you can change the color and opacity of this layer as you would with any layer items. If you set it to Path, you will need to look for it in the path pallet, you will be able to save your path in your .jpg and use it a selection to outline objects in your photo.
If you select Path option you can add Shape and subtract shape using these icons. The third icon is for intersection, so your second path need to intersect the first for this to work. Or you can exclude the intersection only with the last icon.
Softer selection, under the menu in path pallet, you can set feathering to soften the selection edge.
This is pretty much the basic of the Pen tool. Don't forget to see my video below. If you have any other tips about the Path tool please share it with me, thanks!
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NEW YORK Neurochem, a biotechnology company, said Monday its Alzheimer's disease treatment candidate failed in a late-stage clinical trial, the Associated Press reported.
Alzhemed (tramiprosate) was found not to be statistically significant in the Phase III clinical trial. The company claimed site variations as complications for the failed study. It did say the drug candidate showed "numerical differences" in the 18-month study.
Neurochem said it already met with the Food and Drug Administration to discuss next steps and statistical models. Though the company said the agency "recognized the difficult issues surrounding a trial of this magnitude … neither the proposed adjusted models nor any further adjustments could be used for this trial to provide results in support of a claim of clinical efficacy."
The results could be used in the future to potentially revise the design of an ongoing European study, according to the Associated Press.
Neurochem said it will continue to study the drug's effectiveness with post-hoc evaluations. It also established a special advisory board to assist the company over the coming months in reviewing and analyzing the data.
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Today was the last day and apparently this was the highest attended SXSW Interactive ever with 19,364 attendees up from 14,251 last year. I made it for Reid Hoffman's keynote. Reid is the founder of LinkedIn. He had a lot to say and I wish he a few slides for us to look at because it was hard to keep up, but here are my notes. I missed the first two "rules for entrepreneurs," but here they are:
1. Zoned out, was checking email or twitter. UPDATE from Jeffrey in comments below: Pay attention to your customers.
2. Zoned out, was checking email or twitter. UPDATE from Jeffrey in comments below: Stay focused.
3. Aim big. It's the same effort to do a small businesses as it is a big business so it's better to try to change the world.
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Then I headed to the Austin Technology Incubator's Entrepreneur's Lounge for some networking and then to the Game Salad (an ATI company that is doing very well) party, which I left a bit early from. I'm too old for loud music and late nights. And so concludes another SXSW Interactive, but wait, I still have one more post to do about SWAG that I'll hopefully have time to write later.
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Brussels, 29 October 2012
Background on Commissioner Piebalgs' visit to Ghana and EU energy cooperation with West Africa
EU cooperation with Ghana
Ghana receives a total of €455.34 million under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) 2008-13. Funding focuses on transport, governance and general budget support for poverty reduction. 70% of EU funds are channelled through budget support.
Ghana is one of five countries for the upcoming 11th EDF for which EU Member States and the Commission will jointly programme their support under what is called a Compact for "Leveraging Partnership for Shared Growth and Development" over a ten year period (2012-2022). Joint programming will help to better serve to the needs of the country and increase the coherence and efficiency of the combined support.
Examples of the EU's work in Ghana:
Fighting illegal logging: The Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade
Illegal logging can have not only serious environmental consequences, but also economic and social ones too. Europe's response to the problem is the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) Action Plan. It provides a number of measures to exclude illegal timber from markets, to improve the supply of legal timber and to increase the demand for responsible wood products.
A central element of the EU's strategy are trade agreements with timber exporting countries, known as Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA), to ensure legal timber trade and support good forest governance in the partner countries. Ghana was the first country that signed such an agreement in September 2008. The forest sector has long been at the heart of Ghana's economy: 43% of the total value and 33% of total volume of Ghana's timber exports go to the EU. Ghana has been a positive example which has been followed by other countries in Africa, who have signed VPAs.
The overall agreement with the EU will provide a legal framework and compliance monitoring system to ensure that all timber imports into the EU from Ghana have been legally acquired, harvested, transported and exported.
Ghana expects that the VPA will further help its governance reforms in the forestry sector, contribute to sustainable forest management and encourage investment in forest restoration. This is expected to pave the way for the sustainable economic use of forests and help alleviate poverty: adding value to the products along the production and trading chain will generate higher incomes, from which communities, companies and the government will benefit.
The implementation of the VPA in Ghana is funded through multi-donor budget support, which covers forestry and wildlife, mining and environmental protection. Donors are the the European Commission, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and the World Bank.
The country is currently working on a Wood Tracking System which will enable traders and consumers to trace timber back from its source. Ghana is also working towards being the first country to export licensed products to the EU market.
Water supply and sanitation: worm eradication in Northern Ghana (€15 million)
Until recently, Ghana was one of the few remaining countries where the guinea worm disease - a parasitic illness contracted through drinking contaminated water - still affected parts of the population. Access to clean drinking water and proper sanitation has been a continuing challenge for many people living in Ghana. Lack of access to improved drinking water can result in water-borne diseases, but also has a specific impact on women who spend hours every day fetching water and on children who miss school due to illness or because they need to help their mother.
Over the period of 2007-2011, this project, implemented by the government of Ghana and UNICEF, helped increase sanitation coverage by 35%. It created 250 new water schemes (boreholes and simple mechanized systems of water provision), built 30 water facilities (in the locations where drinking water was not accessible) and repaired 200 facilities, serving a total population of 267,000 people.
In addition to access to safe water, the project constructed 4,600 latrines in households. It also carried out intensive campaigns on improved hygiene practices with a focus on hand washing in schools and communities. This contributed to a 90% reduction of guinea worm cases and a 40% reduction in the reported cases of diarrhoeal disease among children under five years old. EU support helped to massively reduce guinea worm in Ghana, which in 2007 still reported 3358 cases: in 2011, the authorities of Ghana reported that the country had been free of reported cases for over a year.
The "EU Maternal Health Support Programme" (€52 million) will help the Ministry of Health to overcome bottlenecks in health services for women around the time of giving birth. The EU funding is designed to help to ensure that by 2015 80% of mothers are attended by a trained health worker while giving birth; and to improve the overall support during pregnancy and in the postnatal period. It also aims to increase the knowledge and use of family planning methods. Finally, it will help to increase access to basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care in the country to 60% by 2015. Through these programmes, the EU is helping Ghana to reach its goal of reducing deaths during childbirth to 185 per 100,000 live births (2008: 451 per 100,000 ).
Some of the results that are expected from the Ministry of Health's programme, with EU support:
• At least 2000 Community Health Nurses and midwives will be trained to meet demand.
• 150 district hospitals will be refurbished to meet the requirements of focused pre-birth care, with 540 staff trained
• Equipment to monitor pregnancy, labour, newborn and postnatal care will be improved (e.g. with procurement of 130 electronic foetal monitors (CTGs) and 57 ultrasound machines) and staff trained
• In the area of emergency obstetric care, approximately 4100 midwives will be trained in live-saving-skills, including assisted delivery
• Equipment such as generators, and solar power installations will be provided, operating theatres will be constructed
• Overall, the government programme is expected to save the lives of 13,870 mothers and babies during the project duration (2012-2015) alone.
EU cooperation on energy in West Africa
In West Africa only 30% of the population have access to modern energy, with less than 10% in rural areas. Power supply is often unreliable; overall, not enough energy is available to fuel economic growth, and the current energy sources (fossil fuels, fire wood etc) are harmful to the environment.
The EU institutions have contributed more than €450 million to energy programmes in West Africa in the last five years. Examples include:
In Burkina Faso (Zagtouli), EU is helping to fund the construction of the biggest solar power station in sub-Saharan Africa (EU grant €25 million). This will increase the share of the population that has access to electricity (currently 15%, with 3% in rural areas). It will also make the country less dependent on energy imports and on the use of fossil fuels. The new power station will have a capacity of 22MW, which corresponds to 10% of the country's current annual production capacity.
Cross-border supply of electricity to rural communities in Togo from Ghana. Thanks to a contribution from the ACP-EU Energy Facility, this project has provided access to electricity to 60.000 people, to businesses and social services in Togo.
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre: Research into the potential of renewable energy in Africa
As part of the Africa-EU energy partnership, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has evaluated the potential of renewable energies in Africa. The work has been carried out in close cooperation with ministries, universities and research organisations from 40 African countries. Results have been published in a report entitled "Renewable Energies in Africa: current knowledge". The conclusions highlight that rural communities on the African continent could benefit the most from the establishment of renewable energy systems.
As a next step, the JRC has launched a mapping initiative and has created a map of Africa's competitive solar electricity potential. It shows that in many parts of Africa, off-grid photovoltaic systems (such as solar panels) produce electricity that is cheaper than conventional diesel-generated electricity (see link below).
Currently, the JRC and its African partners are working on similar maps which show the economic potential of on-grid solar, wind, mini-hydro and biomass energy. These maps are intended to serve as a tool for creating business concepts to accelerate the uptake of renewable energies in Africa, encouraging local entrepreneurship.
For further information
IP/12/1161: Visit of Commissioner Piebalgs to Ghana: "Ghana is a model of development"
JRC Report "Renewable Energies in Africa: current knowledge":
JRC Map on photovoltaic solar electricity potential in Africa:
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