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15 Must Have Applications in Ubuntuhaven't really tried it !
well .. tell us why ekiga then ?
Posted 06-20-2010 at 03:41 PM by sheshta
15 Must Have Applications in UbuntuWhy not ekiga?
Posted 06-19-2010 at 11:32 PM by Mr-Bisquit
15 Must Have Applications in Ubuntuoh yess .. Kate is much much better ! i love the auto complete from what you've previously written .. pretty smart move .. all KDE programs have smart functions .. which makes their programs very handy
Posted 06-19-2010 at 09:12 AM by sheshta
15 Must Have Applications in UbuntuI prefer kate to gedit
Posted 06-19-2010 at 06:47 AM by ultimate_linux
15 Must Have Applications in UbuntuThanks /.. glad you liked it ..
for more cool open source tips check http://sheshtawy.wordpress.com
Posted 06-18-2010 at 03:36 PM by sheshta
15 Must Have Applications in UbuntuOf the apps you recommend, I find the most useful for the non-developer is VirtualBox. Its no londer necessary to dual boot with Windows. I can conserve the Windows drive (in my case a separate hard disk) for other uses.
Most importantly it gives me the capacity to experiment with other distros. I'm currently running Ubuntu Jaunty as my "main" OS, but I have installed other distros -mandriva, debian, knoppix, damn small linux, Open SUSE etc. --you get the picture. One can play with and evaluate the various linus distros and unix like systems. I really enjoy experimenting with apps and systems and intend to download some of the apps you listed. Thanks for that.
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TALLAHASSEE — The late Sen. Jim King wants to be a Seminole for eternity. And his beloved alma mater is happy to oblige.
Sen. King, the popular Republican lawmaker who passed away Sunday after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer, will be cremated and interred at the year-old King Life Sciences Building on the campus of Florida State University, family spokesman Gus Corbella confirmed Monday.
FSU officials dedicated the $55 million building to Sen. King in September in honor of his help in securing state funding over the years for biomedical research and other campus projects.
"He proudly always said one of the reasons he was so successful in life was the education he got there," said Corbella, a lobbyist and longtime family friend who served as Sen. King's chief of staff for 10 years. "When you think about it, where else would he ever be?"
Sen. King will be the first person interred on a Florida public campus since lawmakers this spring passed legislation (SB926) allowing for university to build "columbariums," permanent structures that hold the ashes of alumni.
University of Florida officials pushed for the law at the request of alumni, prompting Sen. King — ever the FSU devotee, ever the funnyman — to call it "the dead Gator bill."
Sen. Thad Altman, sponsor of the law, said it's fitting that King be the first to benefit from it.
"He always was one step ahead of the Gators," said Altman, R-Melbourne. "And now with this, he's one step ahead again."
Sen. King, 69, earned bachelor's and master's degrees from FSU after graduating from St. Petersburg Junior College in 1959. He settled in Jacksonville, where he made millions selling off his successful personnel management business to Wackenhut Corp.
Sen. King spent much of his 23 years in politics pursuing improvements in higher education, health care and cancer research. He helped FSU establish a partnership with the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, where he sought treatment after he was diagnosed in May with pancreatic cancer.
Sen. King lost his own parents to cancer and later sponsored legislation establishing a biomedical research program in their names. Since 1999, the program has provided millions in grants to Florida universities, including FSU for research into smoking-related diseases.
The plan is for Sen. King to be interred with the ashes of his beloved Labrador retrievers Valentine and Gemini. Until 2007, state law forbade the mingling of pet and human remains. Sen. King sponsored legislation that now allows the practice.
FSU spokeswoman Jill Ellish said details are being worked out, "but we plan to honor the wishes of Sen. King."
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The Bianconeri boss concedes defeat in the race to bring the Fiorentina striker to Turin, as the Premier League outfit are set to swoop, but is happy with his attacking options
|Man City are 6/1 with William Hill to win the FA Cup
"He has a high price, which is justified because we are talking about a great player," the Juve coach told reporters.
"But at these prices, it is obvious that he will not be going to an Italian team but elsewhere."
The Old Lady have brought Carlos Tevez and Fernando Llorente to the club this summer in a bid to bolster their attack but Conte has promised not to turn his back on the strikers already at the club.
"Now we have six attackers, so we will see what happens," he continued. "Everybody knows that the coach has no favourites. None of them will receive any favours, a starting place is earned through training and matches.
"I have great respect and admiration for all of the boys who have accompanied me in the last two years."


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June 2005, Volume :35 Number 6 , page 6 - 6 [Free]
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If you're like me, you enjoy jokes about nursing when they're in good taste. Many professions provide fodder for humor, with politicians, lawyers, and health care professionals high on the list. Frankly, though, I'm fed up with sexual stereotyping of nurses.
What's gotten me up on my soapbox is a Canadian ad campaign launched in March by Virgin Mobile phone service. To grab attention, company owner Richard Branson, posing as a superhero atop a Toronto building, slid down a cable to a public square, jumped into a monster truck, drove it over three cars, and "saved" three "nurses" wearing stiletto heels and skimpy skirts. The nurses were supposedly there to cure the ills caused by other mobile services.
When the Canadian Nurses Association learned about the stunt, they quickly communicated their outrage to Virgin Mobile, demanding an apology and a halt to the ad campaign. The Ontario Nurses Association urged its 21,000 members to boycott the company. (You can read about the ad campaign and nursing's response at The Center for Nursing Advocacy Web site, http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/news/2005mar/virgin.html.)
Defiant, Virgin Mobile says it has no intention of stopping the ads. In fact, life-sized cutouts of the nurses now appear in malls and retail stores where the company's products are sold.
We nurses have worked hard to advance our profession and dispel sexist myths. A tasteless stunt like Branson's sets us back. Portraying nurses as empty-headed bimbos demeans our important work and the education and skills it demands.
When I think about the people watching Branson's antics-especially teens, men, and others who might be considering a nursing career-I recognize that the messages they're getting are strong and wrong. At a time when we desperately need to recruit more of the best and brightest, these messages drive potential nursing students away. Who'd want to enter a profession of shallow, incompetent, laughable "girls"?
If you share my outrage, write Virgin Mobile. But also think about other times when cartoonish portrayals of nurses have made you angry. Do you set the offender straight or do you let it slide?
I'm not letting it slide anymore, and neither should you. The next time you see or hear someone putting us down, set him straight. By speaking out, you can help eradicate demeaning stereotypes and educate the public about what we do. Let others see the pride you rightly feel as a hardworking professional nurse.
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We're Off to See the Wizard
The Wizard of Oz is one of those things that will never die, like baseball and Dick Clark. As someone who once played a bit part in a multi-thousand-dollar high school musical production of the classic L. Frank Baum tale (I recall people flying on wires and an actual, trained Toto that was fond of string cheese), I can assure you of this--people take their Oz very seriously. From the book to the classic 1939 film to the '70s revamp The Wiz, time and time again Oz has proven its timeless appeal, a precursor to the popularity enjoyed by other well-crafted fantasy tales like Star Wars, Star Trek and Harry Potter. They're all just fairy tales, really--some of them just have cooler props. And just as J.J. Abrams released his contemporary revamp of the Star Trek franchise, stage director Todrick D. Hall (whose previous credits include Oprah's Broadway version of The Color Purple) has put his stamp on Baum with OZ, The Musical, which rolled through town earlier this year with former American Idol contestant Diana DeGarmo in the role of Dorothy (Grammy-nominated Christian singer Stacie Orrico takes her place this go-around). Take a modernized trip to Oz 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm St. Tickets are $20 to $35. Visit ticketmaster.com.
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Foreign Secretary William Hague voiced Britain's support for Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza as he met European Union counterparts in Brussels to discuss the crisis.
Arriving for the meeting of foreign ministers from the 27 EU states, Mr Hague made it clear Britain blames Gaza's Hamas rulers for precipitating the conflict, but also urged Israel to "de-escalate" the violence.
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So I recently purchased the [url=http://bungiestore.com/collections/accessories/products/destiny-thermos]Destiny Thermos[/url] and the [url=http://bungiestore.com/collections/accessories/products/titan-bottle]Titan Bottle[/url] (the Hunter Bottle has a butterface helmet) from the Bungie store. I just received them yesterday and they are freaking sweet! I put a cold drink in the Destiny Thermos this morning and after a hard day's work, I'm sitting at home drinking a STILL ICE COLD beverage from it (i didn't drink it all while at work because 40 freaking ounces)!!! The Titan bottle looks super sick and filled my gamer co-workers with much envy. one of them said to me "Damn dude, how do you find all this awesome stuff?" Who needs all those rare and legendary items from the beta when you can have legendary gear in real life?! hue hue hue hue Bungie Store, you have made this gamer very happy! Please restock so I can throw more of my money at you! :D PS: how about a shirt that says: I -Sparrow icon- Destiny or "I used to be a Guardian but then I took a Sparrow to the knee" Edit: I've been putting my thermos to the test and after 27 hours all of the ice melted but the beverage is still cold!
Does it state the maker of the thermos it self? It looks exactly like my hydro flask . Sweet
I picked up a thermos myself a couple of weeks ago. I haven't left the house without it since, and pretty much drink exclusively from it. Nothing better than leaving it in the car and having it be hot to the touch when you get back, only to have the water inside be ice cold. I thought $35 was a bit steep, but I feel it's been worth every penny!
Good review Everything's always sold out, except that damn bicycle gear, wth who at bungie rides a bicycle?


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Prescription eyewear makes it easier to read the trespassing notices that prove you've been accidentally living in the neighbor's den. Clarify life's fuzzy edges with this Groupon.
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- $50 for an eye exam and $200 toward prescription eyewear (a $269 value)
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Nonprescription sunglasses start at $99, and prescription sunglasses start at $199. Single-vision plastic lenses start at $80, and frames start at $120. Eye exams cost $69.

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Hi Inn GuanQian
Address: 22 Yinguo Lane, Pingjiang District, Suzhou (close to Guanqian Street, 100m from the intersection of Renmin Road and Yinguo Lane. Walk 100m after getting off from Tourist Bus Line 1, You Yi Lu)
Our inn offers a variety of recreation facilities free of charge (board games, table football, XOBOX, wii). Board games include Killers of the Three Kingdoms (San Guo Sha), Monopoly, Halli Galli, Chinese Chess, and Kriegspiel. Also, we provide high-speed online surfing areas and self-service laundry.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
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- 24 Hour Reception
- Air Conditioning
- Bicycle parking
- Card Phones
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- Currency Exchange
- Elevator
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Our address is No.22 Yinguoxiang Pingjiang Area. Close to the Guanqian street,key renmin road, Yinguoxiang on border 100 meters.
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Hi Inn (Suzhou Guanqian Street) is located in the busiest business area in Suzhou. Bordered by the main street Renmin Road to its west, the Humble Administrators Garden and the railway station to its north, it is also close to the Xuanmiao Guan snack street, century-old shops like Deyue Lou and Caizhi Zhai, and shopping malls like Renmin Department Store, Meiluo Shopping Mall and GrandOcean. You can also easily drive to Suzhou Industrial District, New District, Wuzhong District.


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Loves Park, IL – John Frana and his #907 RCV Performance/"the Official" Brand Name Prescription Card/Rooster Synthetics/FK Rod Ends Honda-powered AWD Super Buggy made a last minute decision to come to Charlotte and the end result was a pair of podium finishes. The Super Buggy division was added to the PRO-Truck program as TORC continues to expand the footprint of short-course off-road racing.
After fellow Super Buggy competitor Steve Krieman convinced Frana to race Charlotte, the two drivers wired Frana's truck for trailer lights and towed Krieman's trailer to NASCAR land. The two Illinois drivers arrived at the track early Friday morning. When the sun came up over the track a few hours later, Frana took a quick view of the track and headed for tech inspection.
The temporary .9 mile long circuit had various combinations of moguls, whoops, and jumps making it a very tough track for drivers to get a good set-up on their race vehicles.
Then almost immediately after PRO truck practice, the Super Buggy group hit the track for a combination practice and qualifying session. After all the times were counted, the RCV Performance Super Buggy qualified third quickest.
"The track looked mild from the stands but it was the roughest I've ever driven on with nonstop jumps and turns," remarked Frana after practice. "It will be a fun, but tiring 16 laps."
After practice, John's father, who flew out to help with the team, fixed an electric cooling fan problem and then the two family members went over the race car one more time to ensure it was race ready.
The start of the Friday night feature had John on the front row thanks to TORC inverting the starting positions of the top four qualifiers. One added feature to Friday's racing was the live broadcast of the entire night of racing on SPEED.
When the green flag was waved, John grabbed the lead hoping his AWD hot rod would give him an early advantage on the freshly watered track. The first three laps of the sixteen lap event had the #907 Super Buggy leading the pack. Then the hard charging teenage Mitchell DeJong made a clean pass over the table top jump to take over the lead. As the laps continued, the transmission on the exotic Super Buggy was giving John some problems. Eventually the issues prevented the use of second and fifth gears.
The race did have its exciting moments for Frana. The wildest incident was when Frana was racing through the fastest portion of the track and practically jumped over a sideways Bob Klaus and landed on the hood of Klaus. Somehow the incident didn't cause any damage and the two racers continued to the checkered flag.
At the finish the Frana Vehicles Super Buggy finished on the podium in third place on the bumper of second place finisher Andy Zipperer.
"We will try to rest and get some sleep tonight and then replace the transmission tomorrow after breakfast," noted John Frana. "We didn't drive across the country to finish third."
On a side note, Frana and his crew chief Ryan Brumund experimented with new body work for Friday's race and it paid off as the engine water temperature was thirty degrees lower than during the 2011 race season.
The next morning the gearbox swap went without any problems and gave John several hours to relax before hitting the track.
Saturday night's starting lineup had John starting from the second row. When the race started the AWD Super Buggy quickly moved in the second position behind Steve Krieman. Just before the midway point competition caution, Mitchell DeJong swept by John, as well as the leader, moving the #907 in third place at the break.
On the restart, DeJong had mechanical issues and dropped off the pace. Now John and good friend Steve Krieman were in a tight battle for the top spot. With six laps to go, John made the pass for the lead. It looked like the #907 RCV Performance/"the Official" Brand Name Prescription Card/Rooster Synthetics/FK Rod Ends Honda-powered AWD Super Buggy would take the win, but a rear tire went flat with just two laps from the finish. This slowed John's pace just enough for Krieman to take the top spot a mere one hundred yards from the finish.
Afterwards John Frana commented: "Wow what a battle, the flat tire cost us the win, but to race with Steve as close as we did from start to finish made it the most intense race I've ever driven. Finishing on the podium both nights was great. Steve and I will be full of adrenaline with plenty to discuss on our ride back home….That's for sure."
You can watch XSAN's internet broadcast of Saturday night's Super Buggy race on the internet, anytime at: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22025676


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NetSuite, Inc., the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that its financial results for the third quarter 2012 will be released after the market close on Thursday, October 25, 2012. NetSuite will host a conference call to discuss the results at 2:00 pm. PDT (5:00 pm. EDT) on the same day.
Dial-in information for the call and a live webcast will be available at netsuite.com/investors. An audio replay will be available for three days following the conclusion of the call (between 5:00 pm. PDT October 25, 2012 and 12:00 am. PDT October 28, 2012). The replay will also be available as a webcast on NetSuite's Investor Relations website.
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DENVER — Hostess Brands' plans to go out of business will affect workers in Colorado.
The maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread announced Friday that it will close its plants and lay off all of its 18,500 workers.
The plants include one north of Denver in Adams County. KMGH-TV reported that drivers were still making deliveries but the plant could close by Tuesday.
The Irving, Texas, company says a nationwide worker strike crippled its ability to make and deliver its products at several locations.


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TAMPA — Each day, Circuit Judge Chet Tharpe takes in the unabridged horrors of Hillsborough County's worst sex crime and child abuse cases.
He hears the fantasies of pedophiles, the nightmares of women and the screams of children raped in kiddie porn videos.
He often contains his outrage. But not always. Some things, he believes, shouldn't go unsaid.
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On a routine morning last week, 35 defendants stood before him, some for quick case updates, others to learn their sentences.
Then came number 36.
A father had fondled his two girls, starting when each was 12. Now, they were young women.
The family's behavior troubled Tharpe. The victims and their mother had asked prosecutors to drop the charge. They didn't want to lose the father to prison.
Prosecutors offered a plea deal. At most, he would be sent away for five years. Now, Tharpe had to decide whether to order the maximum.
The entire family showed up to ask for probation, including the girls' younger brother, 13. The mother said the boy came to support his dad. Tharpe thought she should have known better than to expose her son to this scene.
The woman spoke:
"We have so much we're going to lose — a four-bedroom home, animals that I can't take with me. We've had over a year of not being together as a family, no holidays, no birthdays.
"I love my husband and I love my kids.
"I'm just stuck in the middle."
This man had molested their two girls for years, touching their breasts, going further with one, telling one to relax, according to a police report, after she told him to stop.
Tharpe wondered: Where was her sense of outrage?
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The courtroom was silent as Tharpe cleared his throat.
"I am appalled," he told the mother, "that you don't take your children's interests first. … I can't believe that you didn't go to him and say 'How dare you? Who do you think you are? What kind of father are you?' "
Tharpe was left to do that, and so his eyes drilled into the man.
"You," he said, "should be ashamed of yourself."
"I am sorry," the father said.
"Then why don't you tell me about it?" the judge said, folding his arms. "Tell me what you want to say to keep you out of prison."
"Well, sir. I'm at a loss for words," the father said.
"Why would you do that to your daughters?" Tharpe asked. "You did it because you're twisted. You're sick."
"I don't disagree," the man said. "I'll go get counseling. I'm not a …"
"You're not a what?" Tharpe asked. "A pedophile? Oh, yeah you are. You're a pedophile. Yeah, you are. You're a sexual offender. … You've admitted to two lewd and lascivious molestations. Oh, yeah you are. You're going to be registered from now on. You're going to report from now on. Your face is going to be on the Internet. Oh, yeah, absolutely."
Tharpe told the father he deserved prison but sentenced him to 25 years of probation. The man, 43, will be 68 when it ends. He can't be alone with other people's kids. If he fails to follow the rules — including a curfew, treatment and polygraph tests — he could get locked up.
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Tharpe asked the 18-year-old victim to stand up. He wanted to ask her something.
"Do you feel like any of this is your fault?" Tharpe asked. "Do you feel guilty because your dad is here in the courtroom?"
The teen tucked her thumbs into the back pockets of her jeans and nodded. A victim's advocate slid over a box of tissues.
"You know," Tharpe told her, "it's not your fault. You didn't cause this, and you don't need to feel guilty about it. Okay?"
She listened.
He watched her return to her family.
"Good luck," he told her.
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She says on the phone that the car is a Honda Civic; just one thing, the air conditioning doesn't work. It also takes two keys to start because the original ignition is worn out. The first key you turn in the defective ignition; the second goes into an added secondary switch.
It turns out the car is an 18-year-old Honda Vigor.
"I want another car."
"We don't have any other cars," the pretty rental agent tells me. I know from this morning's phone calls that no one else has cars on the whole Island of St. Vincent and I really want to see the north end, where my Scottish ancestors grew sugar 200 years ago.
We walk around the Vigor to record its other defects.
The front bumper is dented on both sides and grazed in the middle. One headlight is broken. The outside mirror hangs from the door post. Both wipers are rusted and have caused deep scores across the windshield. One wheel has no hubcap; the others are trashed from meeting too many curbs. The rear bumper hangs partly detached. Once-dark paint is sun bleached to whitish grey. All four tires are smoothly bald.
"Look, if necessary I'll pay more for a different car."
"We have no other cars."
The radio doesn't work either. The centre armrest falls off onto the floor before I reach the Leeward Highway. The "check engine" light is on all the time. There is no manual to identify the reason.
If the car is dangerous, the road up the Leeward side of the island matches it. It is as if concrete was simply poured over the natural contours of the land, straight up the sides of mountains. Then, teetering at their tops, the road careens down the other side to a switchback corner, over a one-lane bridge, then doubles back on itself to repeat the adventure once again. It seems fitting that every few kilometres there is an Anglican church to provide prayer and/or burial.
Finally, at the end of the Leeward Highway, there is Richmond, the former 500-acre estate of my ancestor Patrick Cruikshank, Esq., who in 1829 had 347 slaves and produced 723,167 pounds of sugar and 18,142 gallons of rum. Today, it is shanty collection of tin and cardboard shacks outside the former estate entrance - a wagon-wide arch through a lichen-sprouting two-metre-thick stone wall. Beyond that, the plantation is today a few apathetically tended fields, growing some bananas, some bits of cotton and probably marijuana.
I would spend more time here, but concerns over the Vigor put me back on the road. I want to be back in Kingston before nightfall; the headlights don't work. I have gone barely five kilometres when coming down one hair-raising hill - thunk-thunk-thunk. The bald left front tire is flat.
Luckily, there is a silly, bright-orange undersized spare wheel. Also luckily, there is a jack. But there is no lug wrench and no jack handle. So, here is the very white descendent of slave masters alone on a semi-deserted road of this mostly black island.
But then a good sign - a Suzuki pickup comes down the hill behind me. I wave it down and I ask its two rough-looking occupants if they'll give me a hand.
"No problem, mon!"
They brace a back wheel with a rock. They speak rapidly between themselves in the indecipherable local tongue that I have heard all over St. Vincent. When I ask what language they are speaking, they look mutually nonplussed and think that is a great joke.
"We speakin' English, mon. We just speakin' fast.
"We speak more polite, more slow to you."
So, Basil Daniel, known as "Coconut Man" ("Because, I sells de coconut milk at Arnos Vale"), and Godfred Fraser, known as "Country Man" ("Because I lives in de country"), set to work for the slave master's descendant and don't appear to mind doing it at all.
"Cruikshank, that be a well-known name in these islands," Basil tells me.
"My ancestors once owned plantations here."
"Ya, they be big landowners."
"What do you think about that?"
"Oh, mon, nobody worry about that kind of thing no more."
Before I know it, the spare wheel is on, the flat is in the trunk and we do the gentle fist hit that takes the place of a handshake. I give them each five bucks for a beer.
So, what could have been a lousy experience, walking miles to a phone sweating in the sun, has brought me a pleasant meeting with two of my generous, easygoing island cousins and small forgiveness of my ancestral past.
The Vigor isn't a bad car after all.
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Extreme weather, from above.
The engineers and scientists at Dundee University's Satellite Receiving Station record conditions above the earth year round, but their work has been in particular demand in the last month, as Scotland experienced exceptional weather conditions including high winds, blizzards and flooding.
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The images below, transmitted from satellites as they pass over the station, give an aerial view of Britain on three of the most significant days, including Tuesday's devastating storm.
Helen Chivers, a Met Office Forecaster, explains what they show:
January 3rd: This image shows the most recent Atlantic storm to affect the UK. The 'eye of the storm' can be seen as a swirl of cloud to the east of Aberdeenshire. An interesting feature is that you can see the shadow cast by the clouds over the North Sea. This brought storm force winds to Scotland, especially through the Central Belt where gusts of 102mph were recorded at Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, 97mph at Islay and 91mph at Glasgow, Bishopton Airport.
December 28th: The image above shows the intense Atlantic depression (low pressure area) which brought stormy conditions to the country. The 'eye of the storm' shows up clearly as the swirl of cloud to the north of the Hebrides. This brought severe gale force westerly winds and frequent squally showers. Gusts of 79 mph were recorded on Tiree and South Uist.
December 18th: This image shows much of Scotland covered in snow following a few days which saw snow showers falling across the country. By the 18th the showers were mainly affecting coastal areas with clear skies over land allowing us to see the snow covered land. A temperature of -9.4 degrees C was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch early on December 18th - the lowest temperature recorded in the UK during December.
Online extra: Neil Lonie, manager of Dundee University's satellite receiving station, explains how the images are gathered


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The UK's Military Flying Training System could provide high-quality training for the next 25 years, but there are pitfalls to be avoided
The UK's Military Flying Training System (MFTS) programme is beginning to heat up with Lockheed Martin's formation of a team to bid for the overall programme management role - the so-called training systems integrator. Within the next six months or so the Ministry of Defence should issue invitations to negotiate. The eventual winner will provide an initial service from April 2007.
MFTS, however, is far more complicated and bolder than almost all other UK defence procurements. Not only will it be acquired under the private finance initiative (PFI), it will also encompass the gamut of UK military training: the three services, pilots, navigators and "rear-crew", from post-selection screening to operational conversion unit (OCU) entry.
There are inevitably issues with handing over the entire training system to a private contractor, that in turn will have to manage a large number of subcontractors providing not only trainers, but personnel, airfield operation services and the other aspects of running an air force and its infrastructure.
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There are issues, as with every procurement programme, but there is also plenty of evidence to suggest MFTS can be highly successful. Much of the UK's flying training system is already supplied under some form of contract - Hunting and VT Aerospace between them deliver elementary flying tuition to all three armed forces; helicopter training is provided by the tri-service Defence Helicopter Flying School run by Bristow and FR Aviation; maintenance and support of the RAF's Shorts Tucano T1s and BAE Systems Hawk T1s are contractorised, with companies required to provide a given number of serviceable aircraft on the flightline. Multi-engine training and simulators are also provided by contractors.
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Another sign that MFTS is achievable is the Bombardier-operated NATO Flying Training in Canada (NFTC) programme, which provides basic, advanced and fighter lead-in training to the Canadian Forces and those of other countries. Bombardier, for now, also provides the Canadian Forces elementary, multi-engine and rotary-wing training.
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Then the snow hit for a single day, and all the bookings just stopped.
And in the silence left behind, all I can hear is one question. "What next?"
the future, the truth is nobody can say for certain what will happen next.
In the last few days the maligned NAG lease-holders officially left their offices and a new sign appeared on the Nurburgring office doors. While NAG are still running place, at least the way is clear for a new direction.
As you'd expect after this news, rumours are flowing quicker than the weissbier. Popular topics include the asking price for the track, or if it might be sold separately from the concrete mess that is the 'Eifel Dorf'. Possible buyers dominate the conversations too. From rich Arabs to Hollywood millionaires, everybody knows somebody who is interested. Possible consortiums of top-tier German businesses are already being formed by brown-nosed yes-men intent on taking their commission.
My personal favourite rumour (although possibly the least likely) is that the circuit could be bought and operated by a co-operative. I like that idea, millions of motorsports fans around the world would love to be a shareholders of the Nurburgring.
But to be honest, it's irresponsible reporting (when has that ever stopped me) to start regurgitating every rumour in every gory detail here. But conjecture runs rife when the atmosphere is starved of truth. And what I find disagreeable is that once again the future of the 'ring, and of a whole dependant region and economy, is being discussed (and maybe even decided) behind closed doors. That's exactly what got us into this mess.
Hotels are adding more beds, yet more new buildings are going up down at the industry park. My own employers are refreshing and increasing their fleet of rental vehicles, swapping from one German hot hatch to another. Yesterday this gave me an opportunity to stop worrying about the future and do some actual laps planning for it. And that's a pleasure considering the snow on Monday scared the whole track empty again.
Now call me a snob, but DSG, VAG and FWD are not acronyms that I would normally associate with trackdriving pleasure. But I was happy to be proved wrong, so it doesn't matter who will be running the track next year; we'll be renting out race-prepped Sciroccos for it.


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A Return to Form
John Shannon is one of my favorite crime writers. C. J. Box is another. Yesterday I read about half of the latest in Box's Joe Pickett series, Free Fire, and over lunch I made it to page 192. As much as I love reading, there are times when opening a book is about as exciting as picking up a shovel to dig a camp latrine.
This is not one of those times.
Reading Free Fire gives me the rarest of sensations, making me feel not like a professional paid to offer a cold-blooded assessment but like a fan who can't wait to keep turning the pages of the newest book by his favorite author. It's series gold, a perfect blend of the fresh and the familiar. And it's really, really fun. I'm already kind of bummed out, knowing that I'll be done reading in a day or two.
In April I wrote at length about In Plain Sight (2006) and my feeling that it wasn't up to Box's usual stellar standards (see Out of Range [2005]). So when I picked up Free Fire I was hoping that it would be a return to form. Much as it seems unfair to hold Box to his own high standards–it hardly seems possible that a series can get better indefinitely–I want each new book to be as terrific as the last.
(Like an addict, I also wonder sometimes if it's the potency of the stuff that's diminishing or if I'm merely learning to metabolize it better.)
Anyway, it's too early to say for sure–it depends on how things wrap up–but so far, Free Fire definitely feels like a return to form.
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GPO Script not working in windows XP but works in windows 7
I have a simple GPO startup script linked to OU to install inventory agent. In windows 7, inventory agent installed fine, however in windows XP the exe file got copied to c:\windows\temp folder but installation did not happen. Below is the script using for GPO startup script.
Dim objFSO, strSourceFile, strTargetFile, booOverWrite, strResult
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCommand = "sc query INVClient"
Set objExecObject = objShell.Exec(strCommand)
strText = objExecObject.StdOut.ReadAll()
'WScript.Echo strText
If Instr(strText, "RUNNING") > 0 Then
'WScript.Echo "Agent is Running"
ElseIf Instr(strText, "STOPPED") > 0 Then
'WScript.Echo "Agent is Stopped"
objShell.run "sc start INVClient"
'WScript.Echo "Installing Agent..."
strSourceFile = "\\domain\netlogon\INVClient.exe"
strTargetFile = "c:\windows\temp\"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
booOverWrite = vbTrue
objFSO.CopyFile strSourceFile, strTargetFile, booOverWrite
'WScript.Echo "Installing Agent..."
objShell.run "c:\windows\temp\INVClient.exe"
End If
any reason why this script does not installing agent in windows XP ? Script copied "INVClient.exe" to c:\windows\temp folder but the installation did not happen. However this works fine in windows 7 ( INVClient.exe copied to c:\windows\temp folder and installed agent as well ).
I don't know what "invclient" is, but generally software installation on computers is best managed by a GPO-managed MSI installer (or alternatively, some applications provide a "push install" method). I don't have any suggestions on why your script doesn't work the way you expect.
- Proposed as answer by Bill_StewartModerator Monday, July 02, 2012 3:17 PM
- Marked as answer by Richard MuellerMVP, Moderator Saturday, July 14, 2012 10:27 PM
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It's not recommended to install software using logon scripts as software installations typically require elevated permissions, but logon scripts run using the user's credentials. Usually software vendors recommend an alternative method - typically this is installation via GPO or via some kind of "push" method.
The installation file is 4mb and GPO configured as computer settings > startup script. so the script executes in system administrator permission. This script works fine in windows 7 but not on windows xp. Script copied exe file to c:\windows\temp folder and windows xp but somehow the installation did not triggered.
I don't know what "invclient" is, but generally software installation on computers is best managed by a GPO-managed MSI installer (or alternatively, some applications provide a "push install" method). I don't have any suggestions on why your script doesn't work the way you expect.
- Proposed as answer by Bill_StewartModerator Monday, July 02, 2012 3:17 PM
- Marked as answer by Richard MuellerMVP, Moderator Saturday, July 14, 2012 10:27 PM
I don't have a solution, but do have some troubleshooting questions that might help pinpoint the problem:
- Have you tried a manual install on an XP machine, copying the file from the share and then trying to install it from the command line? Did that work? If not check question 2.
- Is the executable a 32 bit or 64 bit application? If it is 64 bit, are your XP clients also 64 bit editions?
- Have you tried running the script on an XP machine manually at the command prompt to see how it behaves?
As it is, I don't see enough information to permit a person to make a clear diagnoses.
Tom Lavedas
I manually executed GPO script on same XP machines and script works fine. script able to copy file to temp folder and started installing. This executable supports both 32 and 64 bit compatible. wondering why it is not triggered installation after copied via GPO !!!!!
Try this batch
sc query INVClient
for /f "tokens=4 delims= " %i in ('sc query INVClient ^| findstr /i "state"') do; set agent=%i&&call :subr0
if %agent% == "RUNNING" (
echo "Agent is Running"&&goto :EOF
) if
%agent% == "STOPPED" (
echo "Agent stopped"&& sc start INVClient&&goto :install
echo "Installing Agent"
copy \\domain\netlogon\INVClient.exe c:\windows\temp /y
start /w c:\windows\temp\INVClient.exe
if errorlevel 1 (
echo Failed installing agent
echo Installation OK
exit 0
echo The Agent is UP and running, installation aborted
exit 0
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- Edited by SuperUzer Wednesday, June 27, 2012 2:37 PM
Unfortuanaely if this is an MSI package wrpped in an EXE the star/w will not work. The installer always runs asynch to teh bootstrap. You need to monitor the log file to knwo what is happening.
In this case the OP needs to review the installer logs and eventlogs.
There should be little diffrence between XP and Win7 on a startup script but the timing can be different.
Other questions to add to Tom's:
1. What is in the log files?
2. Are all systems in the same OU - if not are the policies different? Asynch versus synch GP settings can cause this kind of failure.
Run RSOP on the two machines (7 v XP) and check the differences.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
ABC Wednesday - W is for...
Ever since joining ABC Wednesday I'd always planned W to be something to do with Wiltshire as it's where I live. However, last week's last minute holiday to an even bigger W, put paid to all of that. We may have only travelled a couple of hundred miles, but Wales certainly feels like being in a different country. The fact that around 40% of the population are native Welsh speakers plays a major part and we were staying and travelling around stronghold Welsh speaking communities in North Wales so got to hear it most of the time. The radios playing in shops are tuned to Welsh speaking stations, TV's Channel 4 shows the Welsh version and the word on the street is in it. In fact I was so entranced by the sound I even followed (surreptitiously I hasten to add) a young father and his toddler girl around Woolworths in Porthmadog just to hear them, in spite of having absolutely no idea of what they were actually talking about - probably something along the lines of 'Mind that mad woman following us Myffanwy - choose your toy and let's go and find mummy'.
Welsh is a living Celtic language (this also includes Cornish, Manx, Scots Gaelic, Irish and Breton - some extinct, others living) and is the most widely spoken of its type today as well as being Britain's oldest language. Whilst it's been repressed in the past, usage is increasing now thanks to its inclusion in the National Curriculum for Welsh schools plus the use of bilingual signage such as that shown in the above picture. As you can see it's totally different to English. For a start it has 7 vowels, instead of 5 as W and Y are included - that would make Countdown a bit more difficult to play eh? Also a number of double letters are counted as a single consonant - ch, dd, ff, ng, ll, ph, rh and th. Remember these will be fitted into single squares when completing a Welsh crossword! To counteract this explosion of consonants, there's no k, q, v or z.
NAH and I have had a lot of fun with a simple Welsh dictionary on holiday - deciphering place names, everyday words etc. So we know Llanegryn where we were staying means 'Church of' (Llan) and possibly Egryn as a saint's name. Nearby Tywyn translates as a 'sandy plain near a seashore'. We've also been continuing our definitive guide to Bara Brith (= speckled/ mottled bread) whilst we've been away. This is a delicious, gooey tea bread and the station tearoom at Llanfair got the 'best of vote' this time around. NB this was not the famous Llanfair PG - Britain's longest place name (do click on the link to see the full name in its full mind blowing glory, you'll see why I didn't attempt to type it!), but a more modest community we passed through in mid Wales on the way home.
North Wales isn't the only Welsh speaking stronghold, parts of South Glamorgan in the south are too, particularly the former mining villages of the Rhondda. My uncle Sid was a miner from this area and I have clear memories of him teaching me to swear in Welsh when we used to visit him and aunty Violet for summer holidays on the Gower as a child. Unfortunately this skill hasn't followed me into adulthood.
For other W posts for today, see Mrs Nesbitt.
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I love this post, as I love where words come from and how they are put together. There is a place in Somerset called The Leg of Lamb Lane, and another called the mutton place.ReplyDelete
Bakers Street? Wonder where that came from!!! LOL.
Cornwall is the same, as Wales with the names meaning things. Surnames as well, Taylor, Smith. As you can tell I could wax lyrical about this for hours!!!
Love the post
I am of the same persuasion as SOL, I love language full stop. I love how words came to be, their origins and so on. Place names and peoples names fascinate me too. My own name is Greek for 'life'.ReplyDelete
It is fascinating to find out more, and I think it makes the places we stay more interesting to find out. Top post VP.
Languages are always interesting. The long Welsh place names impresses as does the double signposting you now see in Wales.ReplyDelete
An enjoyable post
great W themReplyDelete
I fully understand how your choice for W changed at the last minute...happens all the time to me.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for your comment re Family Stuff! You know where I am!
Thanks for the interesting information about Wales. Wales is indeed a different country. We felt at home as in the rest of the UK, but we could pronounce the LL sound as we have the same sound in Holland. Wales has also a lot of great singers and choirs.ReplyDelete
VP, you always come up with the most interesting posts! Like some of your other readers, I love language, and enjoyed learning something about Welsh. I didn't realize that it was still spoken that much in Wales.ReplyDelete
I do so want to visit the UK and visit all the different areas this time. In the meantime, I enjoy taking a tour of the countryside through your posts.
Well how intesting... I'm learning quite a bit this morning... Thanks.ReplyDelete
Best regards, Don.
I live in Chester which is virtually on the Welsh border, and you do hear the Welsh language quite a lot in the city centre. I love listening, as they are sometimes a bit short of Welsh words & come out with something incongruous in the middle of a sentence, like 'helicopter' or 'laptop'.ReplyDelete
Great W!
What a nostalgic post for me. Nowadays, living in Ireland, I don't hear Welsh. I've tried to learn Irish, but I get confused - too old to learn new tricks, I suppose!ReplyDelete
SOL - I love language too AND place names. I love how you can trace our history through how place name change across the country - all those Tre- names in Cornwall for exampleReplyDelete
Zoe - Thanks!
Runee/esnorway/aphotoaday - glad you liked it
Denise - thanks, I'll keep that in mind
readerwil - I didn't know about the LL sound in Dutch, thanks!
Rose - so glad you like them.
HM - I didn't know Welsh was prevalent in Chester too - must be all the visitors you get from over the border!
Dragonstar - they are on different branches of the Celtic language aren't they, so I expect there must be some major differences between them?
I love hearing from you and welcome thoughtful conversations :)
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This week Forbes published a manifesto calling for a "slow word" movement, pushing readers to change their habits to a more publishing-friendly model. The essay singled out Dave Eggers as a publisher dedicated to this new cause.
Journalist Trevor Butterworth (pictured, via) defined the slow word movement as "the idea of consuming less, but better, media." If the movement catches on, it could be a boon for publishers and long-form writers–bringing writing back to a less hectic pace. What do you think–is it possible to change 21st Century reading habits?
Here's more from the article: "[L]ook to what Dave Eggers has brilliantly shown with the San Francisco Panorama, namely that the physical quality of a newspaper and the aesthetic pleasure of reading can make people so excited about journalism that they'll buy it–not just conceptually, but in terms of parting with cash. Eggers could well be the Alice Waters (queen of American slow foodies) of the news media, McSweeny's its Chez Panisse."


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Lymes Disease Town Meeting
Town Meeting on Lyme Disease - Saturday, May 15, at 10 AM in the Board Auditorium
Chairman Bulova and Providence District Supervisor Smyth are hosting a Town Meeting on Lyme disease with Special Guest, Congressman Gerry Connolly on Saturday, May 15 at the Fairfax County Government Center. The seminar will provide information about Lyme disease, how we can protect ourselves, and what the County is doing to monitor the disease.
The Town Meeting will feature a panel of experts on Lyme disease and a question and answer period in the Board auditorium. In addition, exhibits and displays will be set up from a wide variety of organizations.
For additional information about ticks and Lyme disease, please visit: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/hd/westnile/
Fairfax County is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination in all county programs, services and activities and will provide reasonable accomodations upon request. To request special accomodations, please contact the Chairman's Office at 703-324-2321, TTY 703-324-2319.


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Survey: Google+ has second-highest number of U.S. account holders, above Twitter
eMarketer recently found that Facebook and Google+ had the highest number of account holders among the 2,500 U.S. men and women it surveyed.
Of the women surveyed, 56 percent have Facebook accounts; 26 percent have Google+ accounts; and 17 percent have Twitter accounts. Of the men surveyed, 49.5 percent have Facebook accounts; 24.5 percent are Google+ users, and 15.5 percent are Twitter users.
Only about 5 percent of men have Pinterest accounts, compared with 22 percent of women. (No big surprise there.)
The research also found that mobile social network use is continuing to increase:
The desktop and laptop remained the No. 1 place where users accessed sites, but the smartphone wasn't far behind. Just less than half of both men and women accessed via their smartphone, and another 32% of men and 21% of women accessed via the tablet.
Of course, just because someone has set up an account on a social networking site doesn't mean that person regularly uses the site. Still, the research is a reminder that social networking is an increasingly mainstream part of people's lives, and that news organizations need to be where their audiences are.
Other research supports this argument. Half of Americans now get their news digitally, according to recent Pew research. Last fall, Pew found that more than one-third of people under the age of 30 get their news from social networking sites. It also found that while Twitter's usage among Americans is limited, its users tend to interact a lot with the media. Of those surveyed, about 36 percent use the site "to follow news organizations or journalists."
Related: Social media editor role is "more about an evolution than a contradiction."


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Plus, Legg Mason's new A shares, Neuberger Berman sale, and more.
Morningstar's fund analysts cover 2,000 mutual funds. Their full analyst reports, including Stewardship Grades, are available in Morningstar Principia Mutual Funds Advanced and Morningstar Advisor Workstation Office Edition.
Vanguard is planning to add a new small-cap international index fund to its lineup. The Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund will track the index listed in its title, which follows more than 3,300 stocks in 47 countries. Estimated expenses for the retail share class are 0.60% and will require a minimum investment of $3,000. ETF shares are also available at a cost of 0.38%. This will be Vanguard's first small-cap international index fund. It is expected to launch in early 2009.
Legg Mason Adds A Shares
Investors will soon have a way to avoid the high fees of several of the Legg Mason Primary funds. The firm is planning to introduce cheaper A shares into its Primary Shares fund lineup in February 2009 (Legg Mason Partners funds already offer A shares). Exact expense ratios are not finalized, but the new share class should provide a cost break for funds like Legg Mason International Equity
Neuberger Berman Buys Itself
After months of speculation, the future of Neuberger Berman (the asset-management arm of Lehman Brothers) has finally been decided. A group of senior executives and portfolio managers will acquire a majority interest in the firm, with the deal expected to close in early 2009. The transition should not directly affect fund shareholders, as the fund family's lineup and investment approaches are not expected to change. Management's stake in the firm should give them incentive to stick around for the long haul.
The transaction comes on the heels of several failed deals, including one involving Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Hellman & Friedman, LLC.
More Manager Mayhem
PIMCO has said goodbye to municipal-bond fund manager Mark McCray. Several of his funds have tanked this year, notably PIMCO Municipal Bond
DWS has also shaken up the management teams at several lackluster funds. Robert Janis is out as lead manager of DWS Small Cap Growth
Tara Kenney, Stephen Russell, and Rainer Vermehren have replaced Terrence Gray at the middling DWS Latin America Equity
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WHEN A ship starts sinking, the solution isn't adding more life boats. It's fixing the leak.
That's how the public should respond to the high cost of public safety in Savannah and Chatham County, where a jumbo-sized, 2,300-bed jail is under construction for $100 million and nearing completion.
Public safety already consumes a big bite of the community's tax dollars — and for legitimate reasons.
Keeping people and their property safe from predators, thieves and other criminals must remain the top priority of local and state governments. When order breaks down and citizens no longer feel secure, neighborhoods unravel. Cities eventually deteriorate and die, as people flee for safer pastures — or become prisoners in their own homes.
But the ultimate response to crime can't be a cop on every corner or the biggest jail or prison system in the country. That would bankrupt local and state treasuries.
Chatham County Commissioner Helen Stone, in a timely guest column published Feb. 10 in the Savannah Morning News, raised concerns about the rising cost of public safety to taxpayers. Ms. Stone is a fiscally conservative Republican and no bleeding heart. But she does know how to read a balance sheet.
She noted that once the huge jail is completed, county taxpayers will be required to operate it and maintain it. It's like a ticking time bomb. If the solution to crime is simply building larger and more expensive jails, costs to the public are going to explode.
"Just for this fiscal year, 36.71 percent of the county's $667.4 million budget goes toward public safety, exclusive of the courts," she wrote. "Of that amount, approximately $47 million is appropriated for the operation of the sheriff's department and the jail. These costs amount to a double hit as inmates become tax recipients rather than tax contributors."
The current jail holds about 1,500 inmates. Thus the new jail will be about 50 percent larger than the existing one.
Because of economies of scale, the cost to operate the jumbo jail won't skyrocket by 50 percent to $70 million. But they will rise. Additional sheriff's deputies will have to be hired. The costs of food, bedding, clothing, medicine and other goods consumed by inmates will jump. The public will pay bigger bills to cool and heat a larger building.
No one in county government has shared with the public how these additional costs will be covered or whether a property tax hike will be necessary. Yet it should be discussed. So should a bigger question: How does Savannah-Chatham County turn its criminal classes into graduating classes?
Ms. Stone, to her credit, is forcing the public to face this complex concern.
She and other officials, including State Sen. Lester Jackson, D-Savannah, support efforts to steer Savannah-area residents away from crime and toward productive lives. That includes providing more vocational-technical training in the Savannah-Chatham County public school system and raising Georgia's dropout age from 16 to 18.
Unfortunately, Republican state lawmakers aren't keen on the latter idea. One reason is that keeping more students in school would cost the state and local school systems millions of dollars — money they don't have right now. Some educators don't like this proposal either. Many older students who are at risk of dropping out are disruptive. They prevent others from learning.
Yet dumping unemployable young men onto Savannah's streets contributes to another public expense — crime and rising public safety costs.
About 90 percent of the inmates in Georgia's jails and prisons are dropouts, Ms. Stone has said. Their average age is 21-22. It doesn't take a rocket science to link the lack of education and job skills to crime.
Gov. Nathan Deal knows that Georgia must find ways to halt Georgia's spiraling prison costs. He's working on a plan to steer non-violent, low-risk criminals away from expensive lockups, which makes good sense. But it would make more sense to invest in efforts that keep them in the classroom and on the path to productive citizenship.
Georgia doesn't need any additional life boats. It needs more ways to stop leaks. And soon.


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Tomasson returns to Feyenoord on a free
Feyenoord are set to complete the free transfer signing of Jon Dahl Tomasson from Spanish outfit Villarreal.
The Denmark international will return for a second stint at De Kuip having been a key member of the Feyenoord side that won the Eredivisie in 1999 and the 2002 UEFA Cup.
The 31-year-old, who has also played for AC Milan, Stuttgart and Newcastle, is expected to pen a three-year deal later on Wednesday.
A statement on their website read: 'The striker [Tomasson] has had his medical without a problem and he will be presented on Wednesday afternoon in De Kuip to the media, together with already signed Karim el Ahmadi.'
Meanwhile, defender Andre Bahia has signed a contract extension that will keep him in Rotterdam until June 2012.
The 24-year-old Brazilian joined the club in 2005 and has been a regular at the heart of the defence since.
'I have always said that I wanted to stay at Feyenoord as long as possible,' Bahia said. 'I feel at home at the club and in Rotterdam. I want to grow further with Feyenoord to a higher level.'
The club's technical director, Peter Bosz, believes that there is more to come from Bahia.
'Andre is a defender on which a coach can always rely,' Bosz said. 'It's not for nothing that he is the player with the most games played to his name in the last few years at Feyenoord.
'Both myself and (coach) Gertjan Verbeek find that we can get a lot more out of Bahia. He is already reasonably experienced and physically strong, but he is still only 24 years old.'
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Karen Berman; Joe Knight; John Case
|Format: Hardcopy Black & White
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|List Price: $7.46
|Source: Harvard Business Press Chapters
|Publication Date: Nov 17, 2005
|Product #: 4997BC-HCB-ENG
|Discipline: Finance
|Length: 18 p, English Hardcopy Black & White
Most managers have plenty of personal experience with expenses. But did you know that there are plenty of estimates and biases that go into those expense lines? This chapter examines the major line items in this section of the income statement.
This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean."
To describe some guidelines for calculating costs and expenses.
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A goal for 2012 is to have more fun with food by planning some of our meals around our many National Food Holidays.
If you wanted, you could celebrate a different food practically every day of the year.
And some lucky foods have whole months dedicated to them.
What better place to start than January, with Easy Healthy Oatmeal Recipes for National Oatmeal Month.
Oatmeal is good and good-for-you.
In addition to being packed with thiamine, iron and fiber, it's been shown to lower cholesterol, stabilize blood sugar, reduce your risk of diabetes and prevent breast cancer – just for starters.
(Here's a great article from Natural Health if you want to know more about the health benefits of oatmeal.)
Inexpensive and easy to make, oats are a great way to start the day – either in a steamy bowl of oatmeal or as the primary ingredient in homemade granola bars, muffins and breads or scones.
And there are lots of ways to add them to your diet throughout the day – as a substitute for bread crumbs in meat loaf or as part of a tasty sweet treat like oatmeal bars or cookies.
Here are some of my favorite easy healthy oatmeal recipes, with calorie and Weight Watchers Points Plus information, gathered all in one place.
Easy Healthy Oatmeal Recipes with Weight Watchers PointsPlus Values
Applesauce Oatmeal Cookies – simple wholesome cookies that are easy to make and really satisfying, each with only 92 calories and 3 PointsPlus value.
Baked Oatmeal Recipes – a great collection of recipes for baked oatmeal with Points+ value information.
Banana Oatmeal Cookies – the kind of cookies you can eat for breakfast without feeling too guilty since they are full of good-for-you breakfast ingredients like oatmeal, bananas and walnuts. Each cookie has 2 WW Points+.
Best Healthy Homemade Maple Granola – lots of granola recipes call for honey, but I like maple syrup, so I use it instead. Each 1/2 cup serving has a Points+ value of 5.
Buttermilk Oatmeal Pancakes – start your day with a plate of nourishing wholegrain pancakes with 7 WW Points+ value.
Caramel Chocolate Oat Mini Bars – a little sweet treat that's easy and delicious. Because they are sweet and rich a little goes a long way to satisfy your sweet tooth. Each mini bar has a WW PointsPlus value of 2.
Cranberry Orange Oatmeal Bread – a delicious quick bread brimming with fresh cranberries, orange zest and oats. Each 1/2 slice serving has 3 WW Points+.
Great Granola Bar Recipe – makes granola bars with great flavor and lots of texture that are packed with wholesome ingredients. Each generous bar has 7 WW PointsPlus value.
Healthy Homemade Granola Bars – makes delicious soft and chewy healthy granola bars (or energy bars) full of oats, dried fruit, and whole grains. Sweetened with maple syrup, each bar has a Points+ value of 4.
Moist & Chewy Low Fat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars – a delicious healthier way to satisfy your sweet tooth. Each bar has a WW PointsPlus Value of 3.
Skinny Banana Oatmeal Muffin and Bread Recipes – a great collection of of winning easy healthy oatmeal recipes with weight watchers pointsplus values.
Skinny Mini Meat Loaf Muffins – one of my all time favorite easy healthy oatmeal recipes, these quick and easy mini meat loaves with just 7 ingredients, including quick cooking oats that are delicious. Each serving has 6 PointsPlus.
*PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT Weight Watchers Zero Points fruits and vegetables using the WW Recipe Builder.
Slim & Healthy Ways to Enjoy Easy Healthy Oatmeal Recipes for Breakfast – including instructions and videos for making both rolled oats and steel cut oats, topping ideas and oatmeal recipes with Weight Watchers PointsPlus values.
Summer Muesli Recipe – a great way to enjoy oats for breakfast during the summer. Each serving has WW PointsPlus value of 5.
Weight Watchers Pumpkin Oat Bread – when you can't get enough of pumpkin flavored treats, here's another one to try. Each piece has 4 WW Points+ value.
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In recognition of that fact, NESN gives back to the community through NESN Connects, a series of initiatives and ways of making life brighter as many people as possible. Over the past year 125 employees have participated in various charitable endeavors, helping to make such charity possible.
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Red sky at night is a sailor's delight, but red sky at morning means the ship's been steered inside a volcano. Ride life's waves with this Groupon.
Choose from Three Options
- $11 for one adult dockside boarding ticket to Tall Ships Chicago 2013 on Thursday, August 8 and Friday, August 9 ($25 value)
- $13 for one adult dockside boarding ticket to Tall Ships Chicago 2013 on Saturday, August 10 ($25 value)
- $12 for one adult dockside boarding ticket to Tall Ships Chicago 2013 on Sunday, August 11 ($25 value)
Celebrating the towering ships whose wooden hulls ruled the waves before the advent of mechanical propulsion, Tall Ships Chicago 2013 delights nautical aficionados with tours aboard the sea crafts. Throughout the weekend, nine tall ships sit open for visits, from the diminutive, 72-foot brigantine Pathfinder, to the majestic, 210-foot SS Sørlandet, the oldest full-rigged ship still sailing. The schooner Hindu is also on hand, which ferried spices from India during the Golden Age of Sail. On several evenings, fireworks will light up the shimmering waves and rippling sails with bursts of fiery luminescence.
Navy Pier
Originally part of architect Daniel Burnham's ambitious "Plan of Chicago" drafted in 1909, Navy Pier was designed to handle both recreational and freight traffic for the burgeoning metropolis. Its role quickly changed when it began serving as a barracks and training facility during two World Wars—it earned its nickname because of the more than 200 planes that littered the lake bottom around the pier, lost during exercises and sunk to intimidate fish with military technology. In the decades that followed, the pier was home to a University of Illinois campus, a convention center, and a venue for citywide festivals before falling into disuse. This ended in 1989, when the state moved to transform the venerable pier into one of Chicago's foremost attractions.
Reopened in 1995, the revamped Navy Pier boasts 50 acres of parks, restaurants, shops, and entertainment, scenically located along Lake Michigan and the mouth of the Chicago River. Other attractions include a towering IMAX screen that shows educational films and Hollywood blockbusters, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, which treats audiences to bold stagings of the Bard's greatest hits. In the past year, Navy Pier has undergone significant renovation and re-imagining as well.


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Spend a day with the butterflies at Magic Wing Conservatory.
While you're there, make sure to take a stroll through the Iron Butterfly Outdoor Gardens.
Monarch Restaurant: (413) 397-1000
Private Party Information: (413) 665-2805
Open 7 days a week, year-round, 9am-5pm. (Summer hours: 9am-6pm)
Adults: $12
Seniors:$10 *Wednesdays :$8.50
Children (3-17 years old): $8
Children under 3: FREE
Tip: No strollers are allowed in the conservatory or gift shop.
Phone: (413) 665-2805
Website: www.magicwings.com
Magic Wings is located:
281 Greenfield Road
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Access to Art is a New Jersey non-profit organization devoted to bringing imaginative artists and their visionary talent to Cape May County. Venues include presentations in music and and theater (theatre).
|Mailing Address
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Cape May Court House, NJ 08210
|Main Branch
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DevopsDays Barcelona 2013
Rhommel Lamas
Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 9:00 AM - Friday, October 11, 2013 at 9:00 AM (CEST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
For the first time in Barcelona, we are organizing a Devopsdays.
It will take place on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 of October 2013.
Do yourself a favor reserve those days and register for the event!
The event will take place at the Moritz Fàbrica at Ronda Sant Antoni, 41. Beers are for sure ;)
Expect the usual conference talks and openspaces for networking...
And we also are planning an evening event on Thursday 10th that will take place in TBA
place, so you can do networking, have some drinks and some music jamming.
If you want to sponsor or propose a talk, don't hesitate to contact us if you are interested!
Keep tune on @devopsdays and #devopsdays
TBA: To be announced.
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
When & Where
Fábrica Moritz Barcelona
41 Ronda de Sant Antoni
08011 Barcelona
Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 9:00 AM - Friday, October 11, 2013 at 9:00 AM (CEST)
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Photos: Annual cruise for special needs adults
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:12:17 GMT —
Nearly 40 local developmentally-disabled adults were treated to the annual Harbor View Yacht Club river cruise and picnic on Saturday. At 10 a.m., 12 boats departed for the trip along the Maumee River.
The residents from the Wiley Homes ranged in age from 24 to 91 years old.
"It is truly a special time every year for them. They look forward to this all year long," said Marie Cousino, entertainment director for the Yacht Club and LPN for Wiley Homes. "As soon as we are done, they wanted to go again. The joy and expression on their faces is priceless."
Cousino said the cruise began years ago, and after a temporary break, she rekindled the effort in 2007. Since then, the Harbor View Yacht Club kept the event growing by getting more residents and boaters involved.
"There are over 125 people involved in making this special day happen for the residents," Cousino said.


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MSI's Z87I Gaming AC motherboard and GTX 760 Gaming ITX video card offer the same gaming prowess at a smaller form factor.
Gamers wanting to build a decent mini-ITX rig can now look forward to the Z87I Gaming AC motherboard from MSI. The Z87I is based off Intel's Z87 Express Chipset, and comes with an LGA Socket 1150 (4th generation Intel). Gamers can install DDR3 memory that is clocked as high as 3000 MHz, and the board allows for a total of 32 GB of RAM over two slots.
In terms of connectivity, the board comes with six USB 3.0 ports, four at the back and two through internal connectors, and a total of four USB 2.0 ports (two at the back, two available through USB connectors). There is a single PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, and four internal SATA 6 Gb/s ports. At the back, there is a DisplayPort along with an HDMI out (max. resolution of 3840 x 2160) and a DVI-I.
An Intel Centrion Wireless-N 2230 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card comes installed on the board, which provides Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity, along with Bluetooth v4.0 LE. There is a Realtek ALC892 codec on-board that brings 7.1 channel HD audio, and a Killer E2205 Gigabit Ethernet card. MSI's Command Center software makes it easier for users to configure overclock settings and monitor system functions directly from the interface.
The GTX 760 Gaming ITX video card brings the features of the GTX 760 in a diminutive form factor. The card measures just 170mm x 120mm x 35mm, which allows it to fit comfortably in a mini-ITX rig. MSI has mentioned that it has used a Radax fan on the GTX 760 Gaming ITX, which is a hybrid of a radial and axial fan, and allows for more efficient cooling.
The card is also an overclocked version as it comes with a base clock of 1,033MHz (from 980MHz on the reference GTX 760), and a boost clock of boost of 1,098MHz (from 1,033 MHz on the reference GTX 760).
MSI has not divulged the pricing information for both products yet, but they should be making their way onto store shelves shortly.
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Day 1: Alexandria Port - Cairo. Morning time you will be picked up from your cruise by our M21126 representative to Cairo. Upon arrival meet your English speaking guide who will accompany you to visit the Great Pyramids, Which is ONE of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world and mysterious Sphinx, the Father of Terror for the ancient pharaohs. You will be having lunch on the way which is included.
Later on you will be driven to see the Museum of Egyptian Antiques. Continue the tour to Old Cairo where you are going to visit Hanging church and Ben Ezra synagogue, then enjoy a tour to Khan Elkhalili old market if you still have time. Finally you will be escorted by your guide back to the cruise in Alexandria Port.
Tour Notes:
- After your tour is confirmed we will email you final confirmation and voucher to print and travel along including contact numbers of your tour operator and customer care and additional information for your convenience in travel.
- Departure time from Cairo depends on the departure time of your ship at Alexandria Port.
- Price is based on two persons. (Starting from 3 pax; rate will be reduced)
- This Tour can be arranged from Port Said to Cairo.
Price From: 195 USD.
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