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The Noble Public Library and the University of Oklahoma Confucius Institute are partnering on a pair of family-oriented story times titled "Chinese Storytelling with Cartoons."
The programs will take place on Saturdays, Dec. 1 and 15, at 10 a.m. in the Coman Culbert Community Room of the library, 204 N. 5th St.
Cartoonist James Yang will lead the story time, utilizing his own Chinese style comic illustration to accompany each storytelling journey and explore the most popular Chinese idioms, fairy tales, folklores and anecdotes of famous Chinese historical figures.
The University of Oklahoma Confucius Institute endeavors to build strong relations between the people of the South Central U.S. and the people of China, enhancing understanding and mutual respect. It is a partnership established in 2006 between Beijing Normal University and OU.
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Chris Arreola doesn't want to let another opportunity slip away, and says he's put in serious work for his May 10 rematch with Bermane Stiverne.
Chris Arreola has another shot at a world title on May 10, and another chance to beat Bermane Stiverne. He's training in San Diego, with the hope that he won't fall into bad habits.
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Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola meet up at USC's Galen Center today for a news conference at 1:00 pm EDT. Stream the show right here on BLH.
Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola will meet on May 10 at USC's Galen Center to determine a new WBC world heavyweight titleholder. The fighters and their teams spoke on Monday.
Chris Arreola will have home field advantage in Los Angeles when he seeks to even the score with Bermane Stiverne on May 10.
Bryant Jennings and Mike Perez are now part of the WBC heavyweight title scene, as the organization has ordered another eliminator.
Deontay Wilder is riding high after another early knockout win, and now has the WBC heavyweight title in his sights.
ESPN -- the real one, not ESPN2 -- will air the vacant WBC heavyweight title fight between Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola on May 10.
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LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — A two-car crash closed the Mall Road for about two hours Thursday night and sent four to the hospital.
According to Police Officer Brad Lepicier, two sedans collided on what is officially known as the Route 7/8 Connector Road and one vehicle had caught on fire.
Bystanders pulled three people from the burning vehicle and they were transported to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. The driver of the other vehicle, who was traveling eastbound, was also transported to the hospital.
"All four people were transported to the hospital," Lepicier said, later adding that "bystanders pulled three people out of the car that was on fire before I got there."
The extent of the injuries is not known at this time but initial scanner reports indicated the injuries were "serious."
On Thursday night, Lepicier said he had not determined a cause of the crash and is not yet releasing the names of those involved.
Police immediately closed the road after responding to the call at about 7:30 p.m. and Cheshire Police and State Police were stationed at each end: Cheshire near the Berkshire Mall and state police at the intersection of Route 7. Lanesborough Fire and Ambulance responded as did County Ambulance.
The road was reopened at about 9:30 p.m. The accident happened near the top of the long, steep Connector Road, which was recently rebuilt. Snow and ice during the day Thursday created dangerous conditions on many county roads. The Mall Road call was the second major accident Lanesborough Police responded to on Thursday. They were also called to assist Williamstown Police in response to a head-on collision on Route 7 earlier in the day.
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Though I did not furnish them with the Iphones and Ipads they arrive to my place with, I've allowed them to play their games on rainy and cold days when we can't go outside or we've been to the museums to the point that we are on a first name basis with the front desk. I get it...when I was a kid, we had ATARI for those days. But to my point.
This Minecraft game is all the buzz. Kids everywhere are playing it...it's a freaking religion. Minecraft's parent company made like 800 million their first year out of the box...and yet...IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING WE'D HAVE PLAYED IN 1984...(which made me think....WHAT HAPPENED TO ATARI?)
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Also, on this page, after you download and install the Atari emulation app...they have 375 ORGINAL Atari 2600 titles. Games like RIVER RAID, YAR's REVENGE, DONKEY KONG, and even that low-rent version of PACMAN. I was 12 years old again and had forgotten about Iphones, Ipads, and Minecraft....I was in my glory.
"HEY DAD...WHAT'S THAT?!?!" peeped a voice from behind my head. It was my daughter.
"IS THAT A GAME?", she asked.
"Baby," I said, "This is PITFALL and I first played it on a Wednesday afternoon in 1984 when I was your age."
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I sat them down and in about 3 seconds they had gotten the object of the game. JUMP OVER STUFF, KEEP MOVING TO THE RIGHT.
...they played for about 30 minutes...laughing...cackling...and smiling...just like I did that Wednesday afternoon at Joel Marcue's house in Oswego, NY as a kid. It was the first time I got to Play ATARI...and through my kids it had all come back to me. This was a magical moment...and it was something I did not have to buy...it was FREE on the internet.
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The United States government has established the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to investigate the causes of the economic catastrophe we have been experiencing since September 2008. Similar to the reasoning behind establishing the Pecora Commission of the 1930s (which investigated the cause of the Great Depression), the government's hope has been that this time, perhaps, we might learn from our mistakes. So far, things don't look promising.
Something that has been barely mentioned throughout the ongoing recession is GRC: governance (the "rules"), risk (the "what if") and compliance (the "obeying of the rules"). This legal concept provides the structures, systems, frameworks, principles and ideas on how corporations should conduct their operations and businesses so as to protect the interest of all stakeholders—be they employees, senior management, vendors, shareholders, customers, etc.
If GRC had been enforced in the financial sector—even in its present form—less damage would have resulted. Our economic crisis was man-made. Avoiding it required people with the foresight, imagination, courage and creativity to see it coming, speak out against it and do something. As Paul Volcker, the ex-Federal Reserve chairman, said decades ago, "Someone must be willing to take the punch bowl away during the height of the party."
In the case of our recent financial meltdown, since so many people failed in their respective duties and obligations, havoc ensued. The gamblers and speculators—in that big casino called Wall Street—privatized their gains and socialized their risks. When Wall Street won, the players kept the loot. When Wall Street lost, we taxpayers had to ante up.
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Governance exists when corporations set down their own rules, systems and guidelines that mandate, for example, what a board of directors is responsible for, what senior management's role is and what all other stakeholders should expect to do in their jobs. The board sets the tone at the top and everyone under them must follow the rules.
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Will we take our medicine and start to behave accordingly? If we don't, expect a repeat of the past. Next time, though, we may not have the means for another bailout. GRC is one of the remaining vestiges we have available to protect ourselves from another crisis. MT
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It was a perfect day for football practice Wednesday afternoon as Alabama continued to prepare for the national championship. The temperatures were in the low 70s, it was sunny and didn't feel one ounce like Christmas weather. The media was granted about 15 minutes to watch practice, so here are some observations.
--Once again, center Barrett Jones wore a black non-contact jersey, a cast on his left foot and did not practice. Alabama head coach Nick Saban said Tuesday evening that Jones will not practice at all this week and they'll reevaluate after Christmas. Jones quashed any qualms about his availability for the national championship when he told reporters this week that he'll be fine and is "100 percent" playing against Notre Dame.
Redshirt freshman Ryan Kelly continued to work with the first team in Jones's absence.
Jones was working with a trainer, doing different light, strengthening type of exercises during the media-viewing period.
--Nose guard Jesse Williams (knee) also wore a black non-contact jersey and rode the stationary bike while reporters were present.
--Safety Jarrick Williams (tore ACL in August) continued to practice with the defensive backs. He wore a knee brace and black jersey, but did not appear limited during drills. Saban said Tuesday that it's too early to determine if he'll be ready to play in the national championship, but didn't rule it out.
--Wide receiver Kenny Bell (leg), who wore a black jersey while riding a stationary bike on Tuesday, didn't appear to be out at the practice fields.
--Defensive backs coach Jeremy Pruitt, who has reportedly taken the defensive coordinator position at Florida State, was not at practice (he was on Tuesday though). Reporters were told that his absence was not due to the FSU report, but rather for personal reasons.
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By Mr. Hedlund, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2161) of Robert L. Hedlund and James M. Murphy for legislation to establish a sick leave bank for Judith Christianson, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance. Public Service.
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Is there an app that changes the SMS keyboard from qwerty to phone pad?
This would definitely be more easy to text and the buttons would be bigger
Is there an app that changes the SMS keyboard from qwerty to phone pad?
This would definitely be more easy to text and the buttons would be bigger
Sure there is a way. Get a regular cell phone. :p
I guess asking questions in this board is very critical, because of some worthless answers given by worthless germans! Go screw with your iphone since you probably spent your whole life savings for the phone..ha!
awsmori does have a valid point. After browsing these forums a lot over the last few weeks it is obvious that 997TT is quite critical of some questions.
n. pl. fo·rums - A public meeting place for open discussion.
People should be able to ask whatever they want without worrying about what other users will say, especially senior ones.
finally someone who understands!
im sure im not the only one who gets pissed whenever you have a simple question and some wiseguys comes in and thrashes you. It is just so upsetting.
But to make it clear...i am in no way bashing all germans just the worthless ones like 997TT, so matt68 i apologize if i have offended you in any way. Still 997TT your worthless!
Yes there is!
But it only runs on 1.1.1
I haven't try using it on 1.1.2
I basically do some mod of your iphone. Use the Japanese keyboard and enable it for chinese input. It support pinyin and a few other input method.
Once installed, you need to pick the language. It will modify your setting, enable International keyboard and jap keyboard.
The app is in the installer.
ADD source> http://www.iphone.org.hk/repository.plist
you will then find the keyboard mod for 1.1.1
once it's working, it will work on EVERY app. email, sms, notes, map....
preview here : http://www.iphone.org.hk/cgi-bin/ch/...=1&bpg=1&age=0
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thanks for the reply but isnt there anything on english...and the preview doesnt show a keypad of 0-9 as your text input, still shows the qwerty keypad with chinese characters in it
I have thought about the same idea: having a big keypad to use it with the thumb.
I was used to typing in my celphone as I walk, without really looking at the screen. How many times have you been on public transportation with both your hands completely free?? Using the index requires not only to permanently stare at the iphone, but also to be completely still in order not to make too many mistakes.
However, not having the natural shape of the keys will make it a lot harder to memorize where to go with the thumb.
My 2 cts.


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A 12-year-long hunt for answers began just after Fremont, Neb., set off its Fourth of July fireworks in 2002.
That day, Fremont's Dr. Tom McKnight took a deep breath and walked into the office of Dr. Tahir Ali Javed, Fremont's sole oncologist. He needed to confront Javed about a problem.
Five Fremont-area residents, including McKnight's own wife, Evelyn, had recently tested positive for hepatitis C — a dangerous and sometimes deadly virus.
The positive tests befuddled McKnight. But members of the group did have one terrifying thing in common: All were cancer patients being treated inside Javed's clinic.
This uncomfortable conversation between doctors felt doubly awkward because Javed, his wife and the McKnights had grown close during Evelyn McKnight's two bouts with breast cancer. They had dined together on Saturday nights. They had shared hopes and fears. When Evelyn McKnight got sick, Javed's wife took casseroles to her house so she wouldn't have to cook.
Now Tom McKnight, as gently as he could, broached the idea that Javed's office might be the cause of a hepatitis C outbreak and a potential public health nightmare.
Javed listened and then promised that, together, they would get to the bottom of this medical mystery.
Two days later, the well-liked oncologist boarded a plane in Omaha bound for his native Pakistan. He had told Fremont hospital administrators and his office staff that his mother had fallen gravely ill and he needed to care for her.
I will be back in two weeks, Javed promised.
He never returned.
Javed's international flight left a series of uncomfortable questions in its wake: What exactly had happened? Who was to blame? And, as the hep C cases mushroomed into the worst outbreak of its kind in U.S. history, another question emerged. Would the doctor running the clinic ever be held responsible?
The answer has been no for a dozen years. Even as 99 people tested positive for hepatitis C and five people died, Javed faced no criminal charges. And even as old medical records, several of Javed's nurses and several of his victims suggested that the oncologist had long known of the danger — that he had presided over a clinic whose employees repeatedly committed serious safety errors — Dr. Tahir Ali Javed got elected to a new post in Pakistan.
He became a public health minister.
"It grinds me that despite what he did, he has that kind of influence," Evelyn McKnight said. "I guess, in that way, I have no closure."
The Nebraska Attorney General's Office appears newly interested in examining the questions swirling around the infamous Fremont hep C outbreak.
The Attorney General's Office confirmed last week that it has restarted an investigation into Javed and the circumstances surrounding the outbreak. Shannon Kingery, communications director for Attorney General Jon Bruning, confirmed an "open, ongoing investigation regarding Dr. Javed."
She didn't respond to further questions, including why prosecutors have decided to pursue Javed so long after the outbreak, or what criminal charges, if any, the office might be pursuing.
News of the new investigation cheers Evelyn McKnight, the outbreak's most outspoken victim. She has spent the past dozen years on a strange journey from cancer patient and silent hep C sufferer to author and activist. Even after writing a book on the case, �McKnight still has a couple of questions of her own.
How could she have so fully trusted her oncologist? Did Javed or his employees know they were putting her at serious risk? If so, why did they do it?
Evelyn's own slow-motion tragedy began six days before Valentine's Day 2002. A breast cancer survivor, she had recently received awful news: You have breast cancer again. Then a routine blood test at the University of Nebraska Medical Center revealed something more shocking. You have hepatitis C, a med center doctor told her.
The diagnosis carried with it a special stigma. Nearly 200 million people worldwide are infected with hep C, but in the United States it's most commonly associated with drug users who share needles.
Evelyn McKnight, an audiologist, suffered from symptoms related to hepatitis C long after her cancer went into remission. She describes it as battling the flu, except instead of battling it for a day or two, you wake up each morning with the flu, and go to bed each night with the flu, and repeat that over and over.
"It was years before I felt like myself," she said.
As her husband, a family doctor in Fremont, tried to get to the bottom of the outbreak, Evelyn McKnight continued to believe for months that Javed had nothing to do with her new illness.
In fact, weeks after Javed flew to Pakistan, she took Javed's wife and children to see a dinosaur exhibit at the Durham Museum. She believed that Javed was coming back to Fremont. That he would never consider skipping the country to avoid dealing with the hepatitis C outbreak.
"I trusted him," Evelyn McKnight said.
Investigators eventually determined that Evelyn and at least 98 other people had been infected after Javed's nurses repeatedly didn't change the syringe while flushing cancer patients' ports using saline from a community saline bag. Patients told state investigators the saline bag would be clear in the morning, and swimming with pink particles in the afternoon.
Shoddy medical practices, including reused syringes, had earlier been present in Javed's oncology clinic, known as the Fremont Cancer Center, according to an earlier audit done by the Missouri Valley Cancer Consortium. That investigation's results were shared with Javed in 2001, and then became public during the civil litigation that followed the outbreak.
A state-run liability fund eventually paid McKnight and more than 80 other Fremont-area victims a combined total of $12 million in damages. (A judge had earlier ruled that payouts would come from the fund, which is paid for by hospital fees and meant to serve as a type of supplemental insurance in cases like the outbreak.)
That $12 million, when split up, comes to an average of roughly $150,000 per victim, though the size of the confidential payouts differed based on the victim.
McKnight took her part of the settlement and started HONOReform, a patient advocacy group that now works around the country educating people about the risks of hepatitis C outbreaks caused by shoddy medical practices.
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On a recent Friday, Evelyn sat at a conference table in Columbus, Neb., with Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, who has championed her case in Congress. Also present were a dozen executives of Becton, Dickinson, a multinational company with a Columbus, Neb., manufacturing plant. BD is the world's leading producer of a new kind of syringe — one designed so it can't be reused.
When it was her turn to talk, Evelyn pointed out the irony of the situation. Here we are, sitting in BD's Columbus plant that makes safe syringes it sells all over the world, she said. And we are only 50 miles from the spot where the use of dirty syringes caused the largest outbreak of hepatitis C in American history. The technology spread across this conference table, if used by every hospital and clinic in the country, could make a hep C outbreak like the one in Fremont a virtual impossibility.
"It shouldn't have happened to us," she told the men in suits. "It shouldn't happen now. It shouldn't happen ever. But it does."
When medical professionals do infect dozens of people with hepatitis C, they often end up behind bars.
A former Las Vegas doctor was recently charged with second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison after unsafe practices at his clinic infected nearly 100 people with hepatitis C in 2007 and 2008. A technician is serving between 30 and 40 years in a New Hampshire prison after he infected 46 patients in four states.
Steve Langan, director of �HONOReform, thinks Javed should face a similar fate.
"Think about the Norfolk bank murders, and ask yourself what the difference is," said Langan, referring to the deadly 2002 armed robbery that claimed five lives. "What is the difference, really?"
The Nebraska Attorney General's Office will face serious hurdles if it does pursue criminal charges.
The statute of limitations on most felonies is three years, according to Nebraska law, though there is no statute of limitations on the most serious offenses or on "any person fleeing from justice."
There is also this: Javed lives in Pakistan, not Paxton. The oncologist has made at least one trip to New York City since he fled Nebraska. He is not believed to have returned to the Fremont area since July 2002.
In those dozen years, Javed, his former head nurse and other employees in that office haven't faced any criminal charges. Because of malpractice insurance and because most victims accepted settlements from the state fund, he has also avoided much of the civil liability.
I recently asked Evelyn McKnight if she could live with the reality that America's deadliest medical care hepatitis C outbreak may well result in no criminal punishment.
"If nothing ever comes from this, if our suffering was for naught ... ," she said, her voice trailing off. She fell silent for 30 seconds, maybe a minute.
"Myself and the 98 others, our voices need to be heard," she said finally. "We need to be heard."


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Why Veterans Don't Get Hired -- And How to Change That
NEW YORK (MainStreet) The "boots on the ground" overseas are coming home looking for a job and finding it hard to get a foot in the door. Three million vets have already transitioned from military life over the past ten years, and many struggle to find a job after active service. And the challenge is growing: an estimated 1 million more service members will be moving into the civilian job market by 2017, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Returning to the civilian workforce with leadership skills, discipline and teamwork abilities, it's a wonder this vast talent pool suffers a higher unemployment rate than their civilian peers. The jobless rate for post 9/11 veterans climbed to 10.1% in September, compared to an overall national unemployment rate of 7.2%, according to the Labor Department.
Why do veterans go unhired? The Center for a New American Security, a Washington think tank concerned with national security issues, examined veteran employability in June of last year, by conducting interviews of 87 individuals representing 69 companies. The firms claimed these challenges in hiring veterans:
- Skills transfer. Civilian companies don't always understand what jobs veterans performed in the military and how those skills and experiences might transfer to meet a company's hiring needs.
- Stereotypes. Employers reported concerns about the possible lingering effects of combat stress, anger management and tendencies toward violence. And while some companies appreciate the discipline of a military background, other employers worry about the possible "rigidity" of veterans.
- Future deployments. Some employers are concerned that veterans, especially those who serve in the National Guard or Reserves, will have to take extended leave for long or repeated deployments.
- Transition. Some companies reported a belief that veterans require time after military service to adjust to civilian life, and might require a period of transition.
- Finding veterans. Some companies simply reported difficulty in locating veterans looking to be hired.
In an effort to address these challenges, nearly a dozen companies launched the 100,000 Jobs Mission in 2011, with a goal of collectively hiring at least 100,000 veterans by 2020. As of the end of the third quarter this year, the coalition had grown to 121 companies and had already hired nearly 93,000 vets.
The group has since doubled its commitment and now aims to hire a total of 200,000 veterans within the next seven years. Its website, JobsMission.com, offers veterans access to profiles of companies committed to hiring returning service members, a talent exchange database, as well as tips, resources and jobs announcements.
--Written by Hal M. Bundrick for MainStreet


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'Dreams of the Underworld' Performance & Art Closing Event
November 2, 2013 at Gallery 15, 6-11pm. "All Hallows' Eve" basement, the bowels of the former Green Cross Hospital (c 1943). The world of underground dreams will unfold in a multimedia experience; combining music & dance. Also view works of 10 area artists using a variety of media to express the imagery of dreams in the main gallery & outdoor garden.
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With a Trace: Photographs of Absence
Ongoing through January 26, 2014. Photographers spanning several generations do not merely capture scenes but create distinct moments in time. Their images bear traces of human presence, the transmission of energy, atmospheric phenomena and experiments with light. Among the artists: Christopher Bucklow, Margaret De Patta, Adam Fuss, Alison Rossiter, Minor White and Hiroshi Sugimoto.


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Gary Cahill felt the fact we came from behind to beat Southampton 3-1 at Stamford Bridge made the victory all the more pleasing.
The Blues trailed after conceding a Jay Rodriguez goal inside 13 seconds, but Cahill equalised early in the second half with his first of the season, adjusting his body to head home after Demba Ba had hit the post.
Goals from John Terry and Ba secured the three points, and Cahill was delighted with the way we responded to suffering an early setback.
'It was a terrible start for us, one of the worst you can imagine in a game, but you just have to pretend it hasn't happened because there's nothing you can do about it,' he said.
'We still had 89 minutes to turn the game around and put it right. It was far from ideal because it puts them on the front foot and gives them a bit of confidence, but in the end it made the victory even better because we showed great character in the second half to get the goals and get the win.
'It was a very important win. When you lose a game you always look to bounce back with a victory. We were under a little bit of pressure because we saw the other scores, so we knew we had to get a result.'
The Blues defender acknowledged that the manager's calming words at the interval helped the players approach the second half in the right manner.
'He stressed not to really worry about the first half in the sense of we had the second half to go and change what had happened, and we went out and did that and we were pleased that the second-half performance was good,' he said.
'The keeper [Artur Boruc] pulled off a couple of great saves in the first half as well so we could have gone in level but the second-half performance was a lot better.'
Cahill is usually no stranger to the scoresheet, but his first goal of the season certainly couldn't have been timed any better.
'I would have taken anything but Demba got a touch, it came back off the post and I got a back header and I was delighted to see that go on in because it has been a while I have not scored,' he explained.
'We're about trying to get clean sheets but it's also a bonus if you can contribute with a few goals, and between myself, Iva, JT and David we contributed a lot last season. Hopefully it will be the same this time, it's been a while since I scored so I was really pleased to get the equaliser today.'
The game against Mauricio Pochettino's side marked the start of a week in which we now face consecutive away matches against Sunderland and Stoke City.
Cahill, though, is confident we can build on two successive Premier League wins.
'We have some very tough games but you can also look at them as opportunities to keep the momentum going,' he said.
'Maybe the consistency isn't quite there but we're still in the Capital One Cup, we've qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League and we're pushing near the top of the table, so it's not all doom and gloom.'
-A clip of Gary Cahill talking to Chelsea TV after the game can be viewed above with the full interview available now via the channel's online access.


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Utility remains on track for outages to be between 5,000-10,000 by late tonight
BALTIMORE, Sept. 2, 2011 – Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) today announced that its nearly 6,000 field and support forces, including nearly 2,000 out-of-state overhead line and tree personnel, continue to make significant progress restoring electric service to customers supplied by secondary power lines and other equipment that could not safely be repaired until substations and main lines were repaired. BGE still expects the number of outages, which totaled approximately 750,000, to be between 5,000-10,000 by late tonight (approximately one percent of those who lost power), and expects to restore outages that remain by Saturday evening. The utility's website may not reflect updated outage information until late tonight because data reconciliation often occurs at night and into the early morning hours after crews have completed their shifts. This puts the utility in the position of having restored electric service to the vast majority of its affected customers within five days of Hurricane Irene's passing.
"BGE has been relentless in its efforts to restore service to all of our customers and proactively secured additional resources well in advance of the storm, to ensure we could begin this monumental restoration effort as soon as it was safe to do so," said A. Christopher Burton, senior vice president of gas and electric operations and planning. "For the customers who are still without power, we recognize that the tremendous progress BGE has made is of little comfort. In many cases, service to these remaining customers could not be restored until the main lines and other equipment upstream from their home or business were repaired. Our dedicated employees have been working around-the-clock and are committed to getting them back in service as safely and as quickly as possible."
In addition to linemen and tree personnel from 18 states including Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas, all available BGE employees and contractors have been actively engaged in this monumental restoration effort.
"While service to the vast majority of customers has been restored, BGE will continue to communicate with customers who are still out of service, attempting to keep them informed of when a crew will be in their area to restore power," said Jeannette M. Mills, senior vice president and chief customer officer for BGE. "Customers can also obtain crew locations and other restoration information via www.bge.com, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr."
As part of BGE's restoration efforts, crews are operating in "pods," meaning work that requires multiple crews with different skill sets travel together. In so doing, each crew begins its work as soon as the crew before them has completed their part of the job, resulting in the most efficient approach to restoration.
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Feedback is highly welcome for this early concept of the Parkbud iPhone 5 Meter Time Entry Screen Concept. The Challenge: fit into the design language of 2010 where the App Design started....
@Dominik Bektas - Great layout, the shadow on the scroll bar is a bit heavy i'd reduce that a bit, and the radius of the clock and alarm don't work at all with the sizing of the widget but over all looks good. Cheers.
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@Ty Thanks Mate - your Feedback is highly valuable... will try some less aggressive shadow language. I personally don't like the clock icon and need there a better filler....
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Join in the fun and action of the Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival with a Melbourne river cruise to Flemington Racecourse. Enjoy all the excitement of The Derby, Oaks Day and the infamous Melbourne Cup, the race that stops a nation!
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Cruise the Yarra River to Flemington aboard a decorated cruiser. You'll be welcomed aboard with a glass of Australian sparkling wine, and during the cruise enjoy morning and afternoon tea, a gourmet buffet lunch and unlimited drinks. Study the form guide on the sun deck or just relax and admire the views. The fun doesn't stop when the races have finished, as the party continues with entertainment by our onboard DJ as you travel back to the Melbourne City Marina.
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- A decorated cruiser for the entire race day, docked adjacent to the entrance gate
- Return cruise to Flemington Racecourse from the Melbourne City Marina
- Morning and afternoon tea
- Selection of premium Australian red, white and sparkling wines, heavy and light beer, basic spirits, soft drinks, mineral water and orange juice
- Gourmet stand up buffet including a selection of the freshest seafood, cold platters, salads and desserts
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Itinerary:Flemington is the oldest and best-known racecourse in Australia with races held every year since 1840. The highlight of the racing calendar is the Spring Racing Carnival which features the main events of Derby Day, Oaks Day, Melbourne Cup and Stakes Day. Flowers, especially roses are an important part of the week's racing at Flemington, with each of the major race days having their own official flower.
Derby Day - Victoria Derby Day kicks off the Spring Racing Carnival in style. Traditionally black and white are worn on this day by women and morning suits by men. The flower of the day is a blue Corn Flower.
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The program came as the company reported a 2 percent dip in fourth quarter net profits from continuing operations to (EURO)1.479 billion. Profits were dragged down by (EURO)327 million in charges related to its oil and gas business in Iran due to new U.S. and European Union trade sanctions.
Still, the result was slightly better than expected and with the announcement of the cost cuts Siemens shares were up 4 percent to (EURO)82 in afternoon trading in Frankfurt, the biggest riser on the DAX stock index.
CEO Peter Loescher said the strong quarter had enabled Siemens to meet its 2012 targets, but that the company "didn't fully succeed in significantly boosting our performance vis-a-vis competitors as we did in recent years."
In order to meet those goals, Loescher announced the two-year "Siemens 2014" cost-cutting program, which is aimed at raising profit margins for its four core businesses to 12 percent from 2012's 9.5 percent.
"We know what we have to do, and we're doing it," Loescher said.
The program, which is expected to cost (EURO)1 billion in 2013 to be implemented, aims at strengthening the company's core activities.
Loescher said there were no "topdown targets of employment levels" and insisted that the focus would be on cost reductions and increasing productivity, but conceded that there would be jobs lost.
"At the end of the day, naturally there will be effects on positions," he said.
As part of the strategy, Siemens said it was acquiring for around (EURO)680 million the Belgium-based LMS International NV, a company that produces simulation software used for testing vehicles, aircraft and other complex products.
It said it would also restructure its water business, to focus on automation and drives while selling units involved in processing and treating water and wastewater.
Already, Siemens announced in October that it would sell its solar business and concentrate on wind and water power in its renewables focus.
Revenue for the fourth quarter was up 7 percent to (EURO)21.7 billion, while orders rose 2 percent to (EURO)21.5 billion.
For fiscal 2012, orders were down 10 percent at (EURO)76.913 billion but revenue was up 7 percent to (EURO)78.296 billion, thanks to a strong backlog of orders.
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The composer Harold Arlen, a dapper man whose songs brought something both dashing and deep to the Republic, liked to tell a story about the time he danced with Marilyn Monroe. "People are staring at us," Arlen whispered to Monroe. "They must know who you are!" she replied. The joke, as Arlen knew, was on him. Although his catalogue included "I've Got the World on a String," "That Old Black Magic," "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)," "Get Happy," and "Over the Rainbow"—which was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America—Arlen was virtually anonymous. "Who's Harold Arlen?" Truman Capote asked in 1953, when it was suggested that he collaborate with the composer on the musical version of his short story "House of Flowers." In 1955, at a concert in Cairo partly devoted to American music, five Arlen songs—"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Ill Wind," "Blues in the Night," "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues," and "Stormy Weather"—were billed, without attribution, as American "folk songs." Even this year, which happens to be the centennial of Arlen's birth (he died in 1986), at a celebration for a postage stamp honoring the late lyricist E. Y. Harburg, with whom Arlen wrote a hundred and eleven songs, including the score for "The Wizard of Oz," no one thought to even mention Arlen.
If Arlen's name is not on the American public's lips, his songs are in our hearts. "Harold's best is the best," Irving Berlin said. The songwriter and historian Alec Wilder, in his canonical book, "American Popular Song," warns himself at the beginning of his chapter on Arlen, "I must guard against over-enthusiasm." He goes on, "If the story was true that George Gershwin was his hero"—it was—"then as far as I'm concerned, the pupil surpassed the teacher. . . . I respect Gershwin, but I envy Arlen." Gershwin himself respected Arlen, whom he called "the most original of all of us." Unlike the music of most of his contemporaries, Arlen's harmonic flair and his melodic opulence were not influenced by Europe; instead, they grew out of the liberating principles of American jazz. "He, more than any of his contemporaries, plunged himself into the heartbeat of the popular music of his youth, the dance band," Wilder writes. "He had that crazy jazz going," Johnny Mercer, one of Arlen's collaborators, told Walter Cronkite in a nineteen-sixties TV special on the composer. "George's jazz was mechanical compared to Harold's." Mercer continued, touching his solar plexus, "Harold's was right from in there."
Arlen's sound also incorporated the Jewish wail and the wail of the blues. Across the decades, it found its most eloquent expression in the mouths of black performers: Ethel Waters, Dooley Wilson, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, and, especially, Lena Horne, whose lengthy collaboration with Arlen began with "As Long as I Live," which she performed at the Cotton Club in 1934, when she was sixteen. Arlen and the lyricist Ted Koehler wrote five Cotton Club revues in the early thirties; their songs—among them "That's What I Hate About Love" and "Kicking the Gong Around"—were introduced to the world by the bands of Cab Calloway, Jimmy Lunceford, and Duke Ellington. Ethel Waters, who did twelve encores after singing "Stormy Weather" on the opening night of the 1933 "Cotton Club Parade," referred to Arlen as "my son"; she considered him, she said, "the Negro-est white man I know."
Unusually for a songwriter, Arlen was also a great interpreter of his own work. His sexy, pliant vocals, one wag said, were "like someone singing with his fly open." Bing Crosby considered him "one of the best stylists I've ever heard." Even Noël Coward, with his punctilio for diction and display, wrote to Arlen, "I'm here to tell you that I would rather hear you sing your own songs than anybody else."
"Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel," Arlen said. "It just breathes the air of freedom." But his liberating songs, full of buoyant triumph, are also imbued with a sense of loss. The bittersweet began almost at Arlen's birth, in Buffalo, New York, on February 15, 1905: his twin brother died the following day. Throughout Arlen's life, his parents, the fine-voiced cantor Samuel Arluck and his wife, Celia, refused to acknowledge him by the American first name he adopted. To the family, to his close friends, the survivor of the Arluck twins was always Chaim, the Hebrew word for "life."
From the age of seven, Arlen sang in the choir at his synagogue, where he was a constant witness to his father's musical virtuosity. "Pop had a perfect genius for finding new melodic twists," Arlen told this magazine in 1955. "I know damned well now that his glorious improvisations must have had some effect on me and my own style," he said in another interview. When Arlen was nine, his father started him on the piano, and by the time he was in his early teens he was sufficiently adroit to play at local cafés. He was, he said, "aping what jazz I heard at the time and superimposing on that my own ideas—which led to orchestrating and my beginnings." At fifteen, he formed his first professional band, Hyman Arluck's Snappy Trio. As the band's name suggested, Arlen wanted to shine in a modern, streamlined way. In 1921, at the age of sixteen, and against his parents' wishes, he left home.


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Part one of a three-part series in which Bret Berg talks to filmmakers about introducing their kids to cult films. This time he talks to producer Daniel Noah (Cooties, Open Windows)
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Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) today announced that Richard Hodges is to leave the company later this year.
22 April 2014
Peel announces that Legal & General has forward funded a 73,300 sq ft Asda Superstore at Chatham Docks, Chatham Waters, Kent, allowing it to commence works on its circa £650 million development scheme.
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Legal & General Property announces that it has received consent on its revised planning application at the Arndale Centre in Eastbourne, paving the way for a £85 million retail and leisure extension to start on site in early 2015.
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Legal & General Pensions Strategy Director, Adrian Boulding responds to today's announcement from Steve Webb to introduce a pension charge cap.
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Legal & General has today (add date) announced that it has secured a buy-in arrangement with the ICI Pension Fund, ("the Fund"), covering £3bn of the pensioner liability. The buy-in is the largest ever bulk annuity policy arranged by a pension scheme in the UK.
26 March 2014
Legal & General Property announces on behalf of its UK Property Unit Trust, one of the fastest growing funds in its sector, that it has acquired the Argos Distribution Centre, Acton Gate, Stafford from Dimah Capital, for a total consideration of £33 million, equating to a net initial yield of 6.22%.
24 March 2014
Legal & General Property announces that it has appointed James Lidgate as Head of Residential, as it continues to accelerate its activity in the residential sector and support the UK's housing needs.
21 March 2014
Legal & General is supportive of the FCA Market Study that will review the retirement income market as a whole. In its Thematic Review of the annuity Market, which resulted in the Market Study, the FCA estimates that 150,000 consumers each year would potentially benefit from shopping around and switching provider. Over the coming months the FCA Market Study will investigate this situation further and see how it can be improved.
19 March 2014
Legal & General has announced it has secured a portfolio of over 4,000 housing units, let to Places for People Homes on a new 50 year lease, as it continues to grow its role in supporting the UK's housing needs. Places for People Homes will use the new finance from L&G's investment to expand the housing stock in the UK by building 7,000 new housing units over the next seven years. The new housing stock will include affordable, private rented sector and owner-occupier accommodation.
17 March 2014
Local social enterprises in Croydon have the opportunity to apply for a package aimed at transforming their business, as well as supporting the local community from this week.
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Welcome to the first Online Melting Point meeting:)
Puoi partecipare qualsiasi la tua nazionalità o lingua madre. Sarebbe bene che tu sia già in grado di comunicare in italiano. Sky genzano33.
Let's take a look at the picture. We can write a short or a long sentence with your native language and English( via Google translate), to describe these keywords" who, what, when, where" or even " why, how, how much", use your imagination!!
Hi everybody,
This is my first post, and I just would like to introduce myself.
I am Brazilian, 28 years old, I work as web developer in a multinational company and I'd like to improve my English as well as help those people who want to learn Portuguese. In july I`m moving to Canada, I'm going to stay there for one year in order to study and work.
I am looking forward to make new friends
I´m learning Sanskrit at university and I hope to find other people who want to conversate about it, perhaps not in Sanskrit, but maybe we can help eachother with problems (for examples the Sandhi - Rules)
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Hello Everyone,
I have used this site awhile ago and enjoyed speaking with people, helping them out with their english. I now have more free time to devote to any of those who are interested in improving their english through skype or emailing. Hope to hear from you soon!