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iPhone contacts sync with iTunes and iCloud
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iPhone Apps
MCBackup: Export and import iPhone contacts
Groups 2: Create iPhone contact groups, delete iPhone contacts etc.
Duplicate Remover for iPhone contacts
Smartr Contacts: iPhone contacts go social
iPhone contacts sync with iTunes and iCloud
Although the iPhone is said to be THE Smartphone, it only provides unsatisfactory features when it comes to the sync of iPhone contacts.
If you want to copy iPhone contacts to the PC you have to create an entire iOS Backup, which is decrypted and well hidden in some mysterious Apple folders on your system. If you want to transfer iPhone contacts from your old to the new iPhone you'll also have to use the iOS backup feature or the famous iCloud. The latter is quite easy to use, but you don't have any chance to visualize your contacts or to edit them before importing all contacts to the new iPhone. This also means that you will totally rely on Apple for the backup and restore of your iPhone contacts. Yes, there are still some possibilities to sync your iPhone contacts with Outlook or Gmail, but this seems to be a little complicated and doesn't always work out the way it should. And finally, if you want to edit your iPhone contacts you have to do it on the iPhone itself and there's no means to create groups or to edit some contacts quickly. That's why many people decide to use 3rd party apps to manage and backup their iPhone contacts.
Here are some apps besides
that you might find useful for organizing contacts on your iPhone:
PC Software
Tools that run on your computer and are useful when it comes to the management of iPhone contacts.
CopyTrans Contacts
CopyTrans Contacts
is an all-in-one solution to manage iPhone contacts directly on your PC. Using this small tool you will be able to...
Export iPhone contacts to PC
Import contacts from PC to iPhone
Group iPhone contacts
Add new contacts to iPhone
Edit iPhone contacts and
Delete iPhone contacts
At first sight the program looks well structured and you might wonder where the above mentioned functions are to be found. Well, you should be familiar with the use of Drag&Drop and the right mouse button.
The right mouse button can be used in the groups and contacts field to e.g. create new groups, rename groups and delete iPhone contacts groups. When you use the right mouse button on a contact, you will be able to switch to the edit mode, to delete the contact or to add a new one. The same functions can be found in the main contact sheet in the right part of the application.
In the task bar of the program you will find the possibility to export selected contacts from the iPhone to the PC, or to import contacts from your PC. You can perform the same action just in dragging selected contacts from the program to your desktop. Drag and Drop can also be used if you want to add contacts to a group.
In the edit mode you can modify the phone numbers, email addresses, related persons etc. Don't forget to apply the changes, before leaving the program.
Basically, the program offers an easy way to manage iPhone contacts on a PC. Using a real keyboard instead of the tiny iPhone touch screen keyboard is very comfortable. Another advantage is that your contacts are not stored on a foreign server, but only on your computer. The only drawback at the moment is, that it is a Beta and therefore limited to 40 contacts per version.
Tansee iPhone Transfer Contacts
Another easy to use, but somewhat less sophisticated PC app for the iPhone contacts management is called
Tansee iPhone Transfer Contacts
. Using this software you will be able to export contacts from your iPhone to the PC. In doing so you can choose between the two file formats of *.antc and *.txt. Both are not very commonly used formats as the industry standard for saving iPhone contacts is *.vcf or *.csv.
But, with iPhone Transfer Contact you can choose between the export of single or multiple contacts and you can also save the profile pictures of your contacts. When opening the *.antc or *.txt format you will be able to visualize your contacts and the *.antc format also allows you to protect the contact file with a password. But, keep in mind that iPhone contacts groups or contacts that are synchronized with services like iCloud or Outlook will not be recognized by iPhone Transfer Contact. The trial version of this program only allows you to export 5 contacts. If you wish to transfer more than 5 contacts you will have to buy the full version for $19,95.
Compared to some other iPhone Apps that are listed below and have a lot more features this app quite expensive. The only advantage when using this software is, that your iPhone contacts are not stored on a foreign server.
iPhone Apps
Tools that can be installed directly on your iPhone and come in handy if you want to group, export or share iPhone contacts.
MCBackup: Export and import iPhone contacts
Have you been looking for an easy way to export and import iPhone contacts from and to your iPhone?
MyContacts Backup
allows you to back up all iPhone contacts into a csv or vcf file and to send it to yourself via email. This way you will always have a copy of your iPhone contacts online and can even save them to your computer. Just open the app, tap on backup, wait until the Email button appears and send it to one of your email addresses.
To import contacts to a new iPhone just go back to the email, tap on the iPhone contacts backup file and click on add all contacts. That's it. In my opinion this is one of the easiest ways to export a copy of iPhone contacts to a PC or new iPhone.
Groups 2: Create iPhone contact groups, delete iPhone contacts etc.
Groups 2
is a comprehensive iPhone app that allows you to create, manage and delete iPhone contact groups; to add, edit and delete iPhone contacts; to send mass emails or SMS to all contacts or all members of a contact group; to export iPhone contacts in vcf format and to merge iPhone contacts etc.
Additionally, this iPhone contacts manager is very easy to use and therefore one of my favorite In-iPhone Apps. Groups and Smart Groups can be added quickly and iPhone contacts can be added to the groups in a simple drag and drop gesture. With a click on a contact you can call, send a message, mapOut, edit, or export the contact from the iPhone. Stay with your finger on an iPhone contact group and you will be able to do the same for an entire group. If you click on edit, you can choose multiple iPhone contacts to delete or merge them, or to simply remove them from a group. Tap on the plus in the upper right corner to add a contact, group or smart group to your iPhone.
If you want to get out more of your iPhone contacts app, this tool is clearly a must have.
Duplicate Remover for iPhone contacts
Duplicate Remover
and Merger for Contacts doubles and Address cleanup" is not the prettiest app, but all the more useful. Like the name of the app already says, it identifies and deletes duplicate contacts on your iPhone, or merges contact doubles.
Once you open the app a button called "Search for duplicate contacts" appears. Tap on it and the app starts analyzing your iPhone address book. As this is the free version, you will have to wait for the result to appear and watch some ads in the meanwhile. Afterwards you can have a look on the iPhone contact duplicates and restore or delete them. There is no way of excluding contacts from the deletion or merge, but the restore button is crucial, as in my case the app deleted not only the duplicate contact but also the original contact. Nevertheless, it's better than nothing and if you've got many duplicate contacts on your iPhone it may save you some time.
Smartr Contacts: iPhone contacts go social
Smartr Contacts
is an iPhone app that automatically creates content rich profiles for your contacts, including communication history and updates from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. To be able to import this information to your iPhone, you'll have to grant access to your social media profiles and this also includes the right for "Smartr Contacts" to post messages on your behalf on your Facebook wall. The merge of the contacts or the collection of information takes some time and did work only for some cases.
Directly from the app you can access Facebook and Twitter accounts of your contacts and email, SMS or call them. Basically it's a way to keep track of people you've communicated with in your life. Important people will appear on top of the contact list and with some luck some telephone numbers, email addresses and Social Media accounts will be assigned automatically. Unfortunately you can't edit contacts manually, meaning that you can't add information to your contacts, even if the app doesn't find it.
Summarized, Smartr Contacts is a good idea but there's still some room for improvement and I personally don't think that a right to post messages on users' Facebook walls is necessary to retrieve contact information.
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Over the past few days, I've been mulling over that whole idea of bike friendliness in Nashville. The commute route I have chosen (my secret back ways, as Dottie said) is quite bike-friendly, so I do my best to stick to those roads and not get on a street where I feel at risk. In my neighborhood, I can do that—crossing town, during peak traffic periods, it's a little more difficult, which was why I was in my car yesterday afternoon.
While looking at the beautiful blue sky and wishing I'd been able to bike (an evening drive in traffic is just horrible when you're used to biking, but being in a convertible does help) I spotted two cyclists on a road I usually avoid when on my bike. Though Wedgewood is a more direct route to my office, I won't ride on it between 8th and 21st. The massive amounts of traffic (by Nashville standards, anyway), the hills that slow you down and create blind spots for drivers, and the fact that two people I know have been hit by cars while biking here keep me away.
That did not dissuade these two guys. Would you bike this road?
You've got to love the "Bike Route" sign here. I suppose it's nice but on a road like this, you need more than a sign to make it bike-friendly!
Then I spotted a guy to my left riding on the sidewalk in the opposite direction of traffic.
Perhaps deciding there's safety in numbers, sidewalk safety guy rode across the crosswalk while the light was red and joined adventure man in climbing up the hill.
I'm not sure this car was observing the 3-foot rule.
Sidewalk safety man turned off somewhere on Belmont, but white shirt guy continued merrily along until about 14th Ave., where he inexplicably got off the road and onto the sidewalk.
Not knowing their departure points or destinations, it's hard to say if they could have chosen a different route. Certainly cyclists being more visible, and staking out their right to the road, is a good thing. But though I've been increasing my comfort zone and traveling to new places, I'm not sure I have the balls to back up traffic for blocks and put up with increased risk (and hills!) to bike a street like Wedgewood. So what do you think? Would you bike this road, or would you go a couple of blocks out of the way to avoid one like it? And if you are white shirt or safety man, say hi. :)

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Global Tax Alert | 11 October 2013
Spain's draft Budget Law extends application of increased tax rates for non-Spanish residents
Executive summary
On 30 September 2013, the Spanish 2014 draft Budget Law was published. Both the Spanish Congress and Senate have to pass it.
Among many other measures, the draft bill extends the application of increased tax rates on Spanish source income derived by non-Spanish residents with no permanent establishment in Spain.
Extension of the application of the increased rates for non-Spanish residents
On 30 December 2011, a number of measures to reduce the public deficit, including a temporary increase of the tax rates applicable to non-Spanish tax residents acting in Spain without a permanent establishment1 were approved.
The increase on tax rates was imposed for years 2012 and 2013; the 2014 draft Budget Law extends the application to 2014. If the Budget Law is passed with no changes, tax rates applicable to these taxpayers in 2014 will be as follows:
- •The general tax will continue to be set at 24.75% (the rate was formerly 24%).
- •The tax rate on dividends and interest will be fixed at 21% (originally 19%).
- •Capital gains will continue to be taxed at a 21% tax rate, where they were previously taxed at a 19% rate.
- •The 21% branch remittance tax applicable to profits repatriated to the foreign head office by Spanish permanent establishments will remain in force.
Other domestic tax measures for Spanish corporations, permanent establishments and individuals
The application of the creditable 21% increased withholding tax rate on account of the recipient's final tax liability to payments made by Spanish corporations, entrepreneurs and permanent establishments of foreign entities on payments to other Spanish entities, as opposed to the 19% rate applicable before 2012, is also included in the draft Budget Law.
1. See EY Tax Alert, Spain increases tax rates for 2012 and 2013, dated 5 January 2012 for further details.
For additional information with respect to this Alert, please contact the following:
Ernst & Young Abogados, Madrid
- •Laura Ezquerra
+34 91 572 7570
- •José Luis Gonzalo
+34 91 572 7334
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Hardly blinking when down early 14-2, the Braham girls ground their way to a 77-66 victory over Pequot Lakes in the quarterfinal round of the Class AA Basketball tourney March 16 at Williams Arena.
The win sends the Bombers to the March 18 semifinals at Target Center (8 p.m.) against Providence Academy who defeated St. Peter 43-33 in its quarters match. Playing in the other AA semifinals will be defending champ Minnehaha Aademy (60-59 over Jackson County Central) and Sauk Centre (58-43 over Caledonia).
Faced with the early deficit against the Patriots, the Bombers began clawing back when Becca Dahlman hit a three pointer and Kelsey Sorenson-Giffrow finished off a three-point play. Katie Nickles and Liz Anderson sunk free throws. The team passed well on field goals by Anderson and Hannah Dahlman on consecutive possessions, then B. Dahlman's two free throws gave Braham its first lead at 19-18 with just under nine minutes to play in the first half.
The half closed with the teams tied 37-37 as Kayla Nickles and Sorenson-Giffrow hit consecutive three-pointers for the Bombers.
Senior Emily Lueck was a principle thorn in the Bombers' side in that half, scoring 12 of her team's first 18 points and 19 in those full 18 minutes.
"We tried everything against her. We'd tried man, we tried doubling on her," said Braham senior Hannah Dahlman who pulled a long shift on Lueck. "She's an incredible player. I give her props for coming out here in her first State appearance, and she played like that. That just says who she is as a person and a player. We knew she couldn't beat us by herself, so our job was to limit the rest of the team."
The long-range bombs also played huge to start the second half when Anderson and Sorenson-Giffrow knocked down shots in a row to build a quick 43-40 edge. The game stayed extremely tight for the majority of the half until Braham gained a little daylight when Nickles finished off a mad scramble for an offensive board with a bucket, H. Dahlman scored inside, then B. Dahlman drove hard to make it 60-54 and forcing a Patroit timeout.
With under five minutes to play, B. Dahlman finished off a steal with a layup , then she stepped back to swish a '3' which propelled the lead out to 70-62. Then just like in the section championship against Esko, the Bombers smartly began wearing down the clock with long possessions forcing two Patroit starters to foul out.
Becca Dahlman led all scorers with 34 points and doubled up with 14 rebounds. Sorenson-Giffrow finished with 14 points and 3 assists, and Katie Nickles worked for 11 points and 8 rebounds.
For Nickles, it was a great way to enjoy her 18th birthday.
"It was the best birthday gift ever. I got maybe a little nervous early, but we pulled through it," she said. "18th was the best birthday I ever had in my whole life."
She continued, "We knew if we didn't want this to be our last game ever together, we had to get through it. Emily Lueck was just lighting it up on us; she could make everything. She is a very good athlete, but we knew her team would cool off in the second half."
Lueck led Pequot Lakes with 23 points, and Kylie Beltz scored 21 before fouling out. Also scoring for Braham were: Anderson 8, H. Dahlman 6, Kayla Nickles 3, and Austyn Eng 1.
"We didn't shoot the ball real well in the first half, and I think we just had to get our nerves under control and calm down a bit. I think we shot the ball a little bit better in the second half," said Bomber Coach Tim Malone.


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Scientists have warned that our visual world will almost certainly revert to monochrome, or black-and-white, within the next five to ten years.
Those who have viewed photographs, films or television recordings made during the early or mid 20th century, will have seen the achromatic world in which people then lived. Those alive at the time will recall the gradual emergence of colour, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, that finally led to the rainbow-hued spectrum with which we are now familiar. Continue Reading


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Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects. Cannot be taken if student has already received a grade of 2.0 or higher in either ENGL 111, ENGL 121, or ENGL 131.
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CRITICAL FASHION: STYLING THE SELF, STYLING THE BODY This section of English 131 is designed to help you cultivate academic writing skills that will benefit you throughout your college career (and beyond). Over the course of the quarter, you will learn to read, think, and write critically. This means that you will read texts carefully and contemplate not only what they say, but how they say it and why. You will be able to identify the strategies that writers use in different rhetorical situations and assess the effectiveness of those choices. You will also develop research skills that will enable you to follow a line of inquiry and create complex, analytic arguments about relevant issues. Most importantly, you will be able utilize these skills in your own writing by following a process of drafting and revision.
To facilitate these writing goals, we will look critically at the fashion industry, commodity culture, and contemporary issues of embodiment. We will investigate what it means to style ourselves and style our bodies. Course texts will include essays on the dissemination of style, subculture, advertising, photography, body disorders, tattooing and body modification, disability, prosthesis, and cyborg embodiment, as well as photographs of fashion lines and episodes of television shows such as America's Next Top Model, Project Runway and Fashion Star.
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A writing assignment each week. 6 short papers (2-3 pages each) and 2 major papers (5-7 pages each).
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Standing before the board in 2003, Superintendent Jim Johnson explained the rules and academic expectations laid out for their students by the federal governmentís No Child Left Behind program. The expectations were to increase student achievement each year until, by 2014, all students' standardized test scores would achieve or exceed proficiency standards.
Though the rules have changed – and 100 percent proficiency has not been attained – Johnson said the district's recent test scores have shown progress and advancement in ways they hardly thought possible in the early years of No Child Left Behind.
This year, for the first time ever, Monticello students achieved adequate proficiency progress in reading and math exams in all of their different student cells: special education, free and reduced lunch students, limited English proficiency (LEP) students, whites, blacks and Hispanics.
"Part of me just wants to bask a little bit in this," said Linda Borgerding, director of curriculum said. "It's quite an achievement for our staff, our administration, our kids and our families, who all supported us in this five-year journey to show something like this."
"People need to understand that it's harder to get no X's today than it was four years ago," added board member Liz Leitch-Sell. "Every year the standards are higher."
In the past, one or more of these cells of students would not achieve adequate yearly progress (AYP) and thus "ding" the district as a whole, causing negative things to happen such as losing some of its Title 1 federal funding.
A lot has changed since the state of Minnesota applied for and received a waiver from the federal government's No Child Left Behind program. State schools now receive a Multiple Measurement Rating (MMR) that takes into account, not only proficiency, but also measures student growth and level of achievement gap closure to reach a total combined score. These three measurements each have a maximum score of 25 for a total possible score of 75, which the district shows as a percentage.
This year the high school fared the worst of Monticello's schools, with a MMR score of 58.97 percent. Of the three measurements, proficiency was the biggest negative factor for the school.
Fewer than 50 percent of white students did not receive a proficient score in math. Borgerding said they found the problem lies with the middle track of math students, neither the high-flyers nor the lower-level math students. Specific areas where students lose comprehension have been identified and teacher training is ramping up to help students understand Algebra II principles in different ways, Borgerding said.
The news only gets better for the younger students. The middle school scored 86.86 percent for their MMR score, with high proficiency and growth. Achievement gap reduction was their lowest score of the three measurements, receiving 18 of 25 possible points. Borgerding noted middle school's special education scores as a particular highlight. In 2008, 75 to 80 percent of special education students were not receiving proficient scores on their reading and math exams. For 2012, proficiency percentages have soared to 41 percent in math and 58 percent in reading, this from a group of students whose cognitive delays must be significant to qualify for special education services.
Little Mountain scored 80.04 percent for their MMR, mirroring the middle school with very high proficiency and a lower achievement gap reduction that kept their score lower than Pinewood, which received a score of 96.47 percent and had near-perfect scores for proficiency, growth and achievement gap reduction. In fact, board members were especially impressed by Pinewood's ability to nearly erase the achievement gap between white and Hispanic students in reading, a group that scored 30 percentage points lower than white students as recently as two years ago.
Because of these high scores, Pinewood had been designated a Reward School, which are schools that perform in the top 15 percent of Title 1 schools based on their MMR. Little Mountain has been designated a Celebration-eligible school for being in the 60-85th percentile of top performing schools based on these scores. The middle school and high school do not receive Title 1 funding and thus are not eligible to be recognized in this way, though Borgerding suspects the middle school would have been recognized as well if it were a Title 1 school.
"Change can be difficult, but over the last three years, the administration, right down to the staff, was willing to change," said board chair Scott Hill. "Mr. Johnson led that change, but the staff responded and was willing to make the changes. That's a lot of hard work. That hard work got us where we are, and it's an upward trend that is going to continue."
District celebrates academic performance milestones
Standing before the board in 2003, Superintendent Jim Johnson explained the rules and academic expectations laid out for their students by the federal governmentís No Child Left Behind program. The expectations were to increase student achievement each year until, by 2014, all students' standardized test scores would achieve or exceed proficiency standards.


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Really great work.
Hey guys,
I have finally managed to paint my new items and take some fotos!
Some time ago fellow Orgers MldMnrdReporter and MasterCollector mentioned the sword SKeletor had once used in the Filmation cartoon. I had completely forgotten about it but agreed that it could be a really cool design.
I went with a color scheme that matches the normal Skeletor weapons because I thought it would fit better than the grey/silver from the FIlmation epsiode.
Together with it I want to show you my own design of a shield for Skeletor. The base design is the same as the normal Classics He-Man shield but I added the crossbone symbol and replaced the rivets with cones. I imitated the clip to attach it to the arm and it works really well. I went with a color scheme matching the sword but I could also imagine to do one for Faker or perhaps for Keldor with the Bones in silver and a red circle in the middle.
But enough words. Here are the pics:
Forgive me that the paintjob on the backside is so sloppy. At first I did not want to paint it at all...
Let me know what you think!
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So much better than the purple power sword. I can't wait until mine gets here.
Gwildor: Moo? Moo.
He-Man: Gwildor!
Gwildor: I'm going, I'm going...Moo!
Gonna go buy it on your Shapeways page right now!!!
I gotta go home and watch that episode now - which one is it?
Oh MOTU, Why Can't I Quit You!
My Trader Feedback thread:
It might be in the Dragon's Gift? Or possibly the Diamond Ray of Disappearance? I think it's the Dragon's Gift.
It's the Dragon's Gift. I just finished watching the episode.
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Gwildor: Moo? Moo.
He-Man: Gwildor!
Gwildor: I'm going, I'm going...Moo!
Those are awesome man.
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I think it looks great. My only gripe is it's size. Just add an extra inch and it would be perfect.
Maybe Marzo as an archenemy was the biggest thing to happen to Mekaneck, but as far as Marzo was concerned...it was Tuesday.
Those are amazing! What brand and color paints did you use?
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They're awesome are you gonna cast more? I love that sword.
That is a very cool sword!
Mines getting ready to ship as we speak.
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He-Man: Gwildor!
Gwildor: I'm going, I'm going...Moo!
Looks great - I want one! Check out the Sorceress custom i did
I got the four I ordered in today. From left to right: Skeletor's bone sword, He-Man's Alacala Power Sword, New Adventure He-Man's updated Power Sword, and New Adventure She-Ra's updated Power Sword.
I took a different route & made the bones on Skeletor's bone sword more bone-like (sounds redundant, I know). I also painted one half the Alcala Sword black the other gray (to distinguish the light & dark halves). I used the detailing on the Galatic Swords to add something special to He-Man and She-Ra's; not sure I like the yellow blade on She-Ra's though. I may change it later.
Here's the black side.
Here it is so you can see the "halves".
And yes, I do have figures (or ideas for figures) to go with these. I'll post pics of them with their weapons once the figures are done in my custom figures thread for those who'll want to see them.
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From my youth and hometown when I was a kid...He-Matt and the Masters of the Kunaverse!
My feedback thread: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...d.php?t=214152
My customs thread: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...d.php?t=215292
My B/S/T thread: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...ings-For-Sale!
Hey Evil Mike! I'm just finally getting around to painting the bone sword for ole' Skelly. Please, tell me what color/brand paints you used. Especially, the main color purple used for the shield and bones on the sword. I'm literally starting to paint it now. Thanks
P.S.-I may have to order one of those shields for my Skeletor, too


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Obituaries from the Pendleton Times,
25 February 2010
William Fisher, 63
William Stanley "Bill" "Buttons" Fisher, 63, of East Liverpool, OH, died at home suddenly on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010.
Born in Franklin, Aug. 12, 1946, a son of the late William C. and Armeda Wright Fisher, he lived most of his life in Ohio.
He worked as a truck driver for Sunoco Company in Beaver, OH, for many years and enjoyed fishing and music. He was a member of the Wellsville High School Class of 1965 and loved his two dogs, Smokey and Gizzie.
Surviving are a sister, Ruth S. Edison of East Liverpool, OH; a brother, Roger S. Wright of Arlington, VA; and many nieces and nephews.
He was also preceded in death by a sister, Rossetta Anderson; and three brothers, Nathaniel "Sonny" Wright, Kenneth Wright and Charles Fisher.
Friends may visit from noon to 1:00 p.m. today at the Dawson Funeral Home, East Liverpool, OH, where Rev. Ernest Peachey will conduct a funeral service immediately following the visitation. Following the service, friends and family will gather at the Dawson Family Center for further fellowship and remembrance.
Online condolences may be left at www.dawsonfuneralhome.com.
Evan Eye, Infant
Evan Michael Eye was stillborn on Feb. 20, 2010, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, VA.
He was the son of Richard Allen and Shana Lee Johnson Eye of Brandywine.
Also surviving are a brother, Zane Benjamin Eye of Brandywine; grandparents, Mary and Clinton Eye of Brandywine and Tim and Cheryl Johnson of Ft. Seybert; and great-grandparents, Allen and Betty Eye of Brandywine.
Pastor Cindy Skinner will conduct a memorial service on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at Riverside United Methodist Chuch, Brandywine. Family will receive friends at the Riverside United Methodist Church following the service.
Memorial donations may be made to the family, c/o Richard and Shana Eye, HC 74 Box 126, Sugar Grove, WV 26815.
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Chinese crackdown on house churches
500 arrested, 40 leaders held for 3 weeks
Chinese police launched a massive raid on house churches in Changchun, the capital city of the Jilin province in the northeastern part of the country, detaining 500 and holding 40 leaders three weeks later, say religious freedom activists with the Voice of the Martyrs
On May 22, during Sunday worship time, police and Public Security Bureau officers simultaneously raided approximately 60 house churches. While most of those detained were released after 24 to 48 hours of interrogation, approximately 40 leaders are still being held in different detention centers.
"This is clearly a major assault on unregistered house churches in Jilin province," said Todd Nettleton, director of news services for the Voice of the Martyrs. "The amount of man-power, coordination and planning involved in raiding 60 church meetings simultaneously shows this effort came from high levels of the Chinese government."
Five days after the major raids, approximately 60 additional house church leaders were arrested at Jiutai, a suburban city near Changchun. Most of the 60 leaders are still in custody.
One church pastor, Zhao Dianru, 58, was released Monday after 15 days of "administrative detention." Zhao's arrest document accused him of "using other means to instigate and disturb social stability," but did not mention religion or church activities. According to reliable contacts in that area, about 20 boxes of Christian books were confiscated during the police raid.
VOM sources say that university students, professors and other young intellectuals make up a large portion of the raided house church groups. It's believed this is a coordinated campaign to eliminate house church influence in the university areas.
China's new law on religion, the Provisions on Religious Affairs, took effect March 1. Some believed the new law would lead to less restriction on unregistered churches, but these large-scale raids and arrests seem to show otherwise.
The raided house churches are not all part of the same group, and are not affiliated with any of China's major house church networks. They are independent house churches with thousands of believers who choose not to register their Christian activities with the Communist government.
"We urge Christians around the world to protest these illegal detentions," said Nettleton. "These Christians are not a threat to the Chinese government and they have not committed a crime. It's time for China to live up to the commitments and treaties it has signed on religious freedom."
VOM advises letters of protest can be sent to the Chinese Embassy in Washington at the following address:
Ambassador Yang Jiechi
Embassy of the People's Republic of China
2300 Connecticut Ave NW,
Director of Religious Affairs: (202) 328-2512
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Translations: Chinese (thanks to Chen Feng) | Portuguese (thanks to Marcelo Cruz dos Santos) | Russian (thanks to Sergey Loy) | send us your translation How to write a PhD thesis? This is not a trivial task. Related literature needs to be found, notes need to be taken and finally the thesis has to be drafted and written including the creation of the bibliography. Dozens of books exist about how to do a literature survey and how to write a PhD and scholarly literature in general (e.g.
- All tools presented in this tutorial are free and open source (except Microsoft Word)
- All tools presented in this tutorial are based on Java and run on Windows, Linux and MacOS (again, except Microsoft Word)
- All tools used in this tutorial may be substituted:
- SciPlore Mindmapping (or Docear) may be substituted with FreeMind, MindManager, XMIND and most other mind mapping tools allowing to link PDF files
- Foxit Reader may be substituted with Adobe Acrobat or PDF XChange Viewer.
- JabRef may be substituted with any other reference manager supporting BibTeX (e.g. BibDesk, Referencer and Mendeley)
- Microsoft Word may be substituted with OpenOffice or LaTeX or any other word processor that BibTeX support/plugins exist for
You will spend the next couple of years doing your PhD (or months if you are doing a Master or Bachelor). We highly recommend to read this and other tutorials to find out the way that is best for you to manage your literature and references and write your PhD. Spending a few hours now will save you days if not even weeks later. This tutorial will be updated from time to time to consider the latest features of the tools presented here. Last update of this tutorial: November 2013 Before starting, we present some user feedback that we got by email for our software and this tutorial. We hope it motivates you to read the complete tutorial :-).
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This tutorial is divided into three parts. The first part covers how to manage literature. The second part covers how to draft a PhD thesis. The final part covers how to write a PhD thesis and how to manage references. But before you begin, you might want to have a look at this video of Docear, a great solution to manage academic literature.
How to Write a PhD Thesis (Part I): Literature Management
To write a good PhD thesis it is key to keep track of related work in your field. That includes that you know all the relevant studies, results, facts, ideas and so on in your field. Keep in mind, by the end of your literature review you will have read or at least skipped through hundreds of books and papers. You must be a genius to remember every interesting fact and idea you have read in a paper without any tools. Before the computer-age, academics could only rely on index cards, (post it) notes, highlighting pens, indices, etc. With computers, and especially mind mapping software, new possibilities evolved. In this part of the tutorial we explain how to search for literature with academic search engines. Then we show how you create summaries of your PDFs with bookmarks and keep on overview of all important information in our mind map. By the end, your mind map will contain literally all information that you have considered to be important. Whenever you want to know something, you can look it up in your mind map, and read in more detail about it by clicking on the link to the PDF.
Searching for (Electronic) Literature
A prerequisite for a good PhD thesis is to know what others have done in your field of research. But how to find this related work? Due to computers and the internet, searching for literature has changed dramatically over the last years. Instead of using catalogues in libraries, students can use full text search offered by academic search engines and databases such as Google Scholar, SciPlore and ACM Digital Library. In addition, academic search engines usually offer sophisticated ranking algorithms which help in finding the most relevant documents [10-12]. Dozens of academic search engines exist. Some are focusing on specific disciplines such as computer science and some are trying to cover several or even all disciplines. For the field of computer science, popular academic databases are Springerlink, ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore as well as ScienceDirect and to sometimes Emerald Insight (Wikipedia provides you with an extensive list of available resources). All these databases require a subscription to access their content. If you are lucky, your university has an agreement with these databases so you can access all their articles for free. Ask your supervisor or in your library which databases you have access to. Free alternatives are CiteSeer and SciPlore which provide you free access to many academic articles. Google Scholar is a special case: Often you can download the linked content for free but not always. In this tutorial we will focus solely on the management of electronic literature.
Storing Files in Folder Structures
Most academic search engines and databases offer to download scholarly literature in PDF format. The probably simplest way to store (and retrieve) these PDFs is a reasonable structured folder system. Each PDF can be stored in one folder which is labeled with an appropriate descriptor. It is usually helpful to give a meaningful filename to the PDF such as the article's title. In case that one document fits into two or more categories, most operating systems allow creating a shortcut or alias for a file (see picure). Some feel this approach as being too structured and prefer tagging.
Tagging allows assigning multiple keywords (tags) to a file independently of where the file is stored. Based on these tags, users can retrieve the files from their hard drive. Popular tagging tools for the desktop are Tag2Find, iTag, and Punakea. There are also services allowing to tag and store academic articles online such as Connotea, CiteULike or Bibsonomy. However, for the approach we present in this tutorial we will focus on desktop tools and, more importantly, neither folder structures nor tags are important for the approach we present. Of course, a good folder structure never harms but you do not really need it.
Starting to Search and Storing Files in One flat Folder
In the beginning of your PhD you should just search for the most relevant keywords in academic search engines and store whatever paper you get on your hard drive. If you wanted to do a PhD about academic search engines, it might make sense to start doing some research about Google Scholar, one of the leading academic search engines. Let's assume you have found a hand full of interesting PDFs and stored them in c:myliterature (don't spend too much time with judging the relevance of a PDF. If the title or abstract sound interesting, store it).
Memorizing a PDF's important information
What you really need to know as a researcher is: Where have I read which information? For your thesis it is worthless to know something but not where the information is from. Eventually you will have to reference the origin (ideally with page number). As a first stept, PDF readers are perfect to keep track of a PDF's most important information. You need a PDF reader that can create bookmarks and ideally highlight passages and create annotations. If you have access to Adobe Acrobat that's great (the free Acrobat Reader is not sufficient). Otherwise we would recommend the free version of Foxit Reader. Now, whenever you read an interesting PDF you create a bookmark for every statement that might be interesting for your PhD thesis. We would also suggest highlighting the interesting text directly in the document. Have a look at the picture.
This is the PDF of an article titled "Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO): Optimizing Scholarly Literature for Google Scholar and Co.". It is about how to get your papers indexed and well ranked by academic search engines such as Google Scholar. If you write your PhD about academic search engines it might be interesting to keep in mind that this paper is the very first paper about academic search engine optimization. And also the definition of "academic search engine optimization" might be relevant later for your PhD thesis. Therefore you create a bookmark for each of this information (see the picture). It is up to you how detailed you make the bookmark structure. In the very beginning it might be appropriate to create just one bookmark that briefly describes the paper (e.g. "first paper about academic search engine optimization"). If you need more information you could come back to this paper later. It is easy to get lost with all the information you read. So, for the beginning, really, create bookmarks only for the very important information. When finishing reading the first PDF you proceed with the other PDFs in the same way.
Managing information from various PDFs
In the long run, it is not very helpful to have the information only in the PDFs. Here is where mind mapping joins the game. Mind maps were 'invented' by Tony Buzan in the 1970s [13]. A mind map is a diagram with a central topic and subtopics branching from it, like a tree (see the picture for an example). Usually a node in a mind map contains only one or two important keywords. Due to its visual structure a mind map is more effective for learning for many people. In this tutorial we use the mind mapping tool SciPlore MindMapping (Update: better use its successor Docear) as it is especially designed for students and researchers. Please download and install it.
When you never did mind mapping before, the concept might appear strange to you in the beginning. And actually, mind mapping is not for everyone the best solution. But please, invest 30 minutes and we guarantee that the chance you will love it is really high.
Monitor all new PDFs in your Mind Map
We want to keep track of all the information you have read in one single place. Open SciPlore MindMapping / Docear and create a new mind map which you will use to manage your literature (press Ctrl+N). By clicking on the already existing node called New Mindmap this node is selected and can be renamed by either pressing F2 or just typing the new name, for instance My Literature. One of SciPlore MindMapping's special features is monitoring a folder for new files. We use this feature to list all our PDF in the mind map. The aim is that whenever you find a new PDF on the Internet, you store it on your hard drive, and immediately it will be displayed in your mind map. Create a new child node by pressing the Insert key on your keyboard or selecting Insert | New Child Node from the menu. Call this node Incoming Literature. Now, right-click on that node, select Add PDF Monitoring Directory and choose your literature directory (e.g. c:myliterature). Now, all PDF files (plus DOC(X), TXT, RTF, ODT and XLS(X)) that are stored in the defined folder are displayed in your mind map's Incoming Literature node. Other files are ignored. And the best – also the PDF bookmarks are imported. The following picture illustrates this.
That means, as of now the important information are not only in the PDFs but all together in a single place – your mind map.
Giving Structure to Your Mind Map and Literature
After you have read the first PDFs and created bookmarks, you should start giving some structure to the information: Create nodes for all the important categories you plan to do research in (you can change them later at any time). Then drag & drop the bookmarks from the incoming node to the appropriate categories. If you feel that one bookmark fits to several categories, just create a copy of it. The following picture shows an example.
Now you have a good overview of what you have read. On first glance this might seem similar to a folder structure on your hard drive and indeed it is. But there is one big advantage (and there will be more): In contrast to a folder structure you have not only sorted your PDFs but the PDFs' contents by having direct access to the bookmarks in the mind map. Despite this, creating, deleting, renaming, copying and moving nodes in a mind map is much faster than doing this with folders in a file structure.
Deepening the Literature Review
Basically, you can go on as you did before. You find new PDFs, read them, create bookmarks, and sort them in your mind map. Let's assume you want more information about a certain topic that is already in your mind map. For instance, about differences between academic and classic search engine optimization. Then you can just click on the node "Differences between ASEO and classic SEO" in the mind map.
The PDF will open on the right position and you can read on that topic and, if you like, create more bookmarks (in the current version, only the front page of the PDF is opened when clicking on the bookmark in the mind map). The new bookmarks can be easily imported by a right click and on the node and selecting Import Bookmarks.
After a while you will have a huge mind map with all the information that is important for your PhD thesis. You can use the search function (STGR+F) to find special nodes and (un) fold to get a better overview by selecting a node and pressing Space.
Making Notes
Another feature that makes mind maps superior to simple file systems is the possibility to add notes. To each node you can add any kind of text as a note and this note is shown in a separate window and as hover effect (see illustration).
How to Write a PhD Thesis (Part II): Structuring and Drafting the PhD Thesis
This is the second part of our tutorial about how to write a PhD thesis. In this part we cover how to structure and draft your thesis.
There is lots of good literature on how to exactly to structure your PhD so we will not cover this in detail here. However, either in your literature mind map or in a new mind map you start with a basic structure such as in the picture. You can then start drafting your thesis directly in the mind map. Create one node for each heading and one sub-node for each sentence. You might wonder why not doing this directly in a word processor. Simply, because it is much easier to move mind map nodes than sentences and paragraphs in a word document. Moreover, you have all the important information in your mind map already. And, in a mind map it will be much easier for you to restructure the thesis (we guarantee that you will have to restructure your thesis several times before you are really happy with the structure). You can also put all the administrational data in our mind map, as you see in the picture in the left half. For instance, deadlines of your PhD, important contacts and so on. The following shows how a final mind map for a PhD thesis could look like (nodes with a circle are folded and contain more nodes). You will notice that the related work section is very similar to your literature mind map. However, it is not the same. Most likely you will not use all the literature you have read. Accordingly, your literature mind map will probably contain much more information than your final related work section in your mind map / thesis. For finally structuring your thesis these information are not important. Therefore, we suggest using two mind maps: one for your literature in general and one for your PhD.
Keep in mind that your mind map for the thesis does not only include PDF links but you can write complete sentences. Again, have a look at the picture to get an idea how your final mind map should look like. Now, read in the third part how to finally write a phd thesis.
How to Write a PhD Thesis (Part III): Writing the PhD Thesis up and Managing References
This is the third part of our tutorial series about how to write a PhD thesis. In this part we finally explain how write up a PhD thesis and how to manage references.
How to Write the PhD Thesis
There is not much to say about eventually writing up your phd thesis. Basically, all you need to do is taking some word processing software of your choice and start writing everything up that is already in your mind map (see Part II of the tutorial). You could argue that this is inefficient because why should you type everything twice, once in your mind map and then again in your word processing software. And you are right. Therefore, we are working on a function that lets you export a mind map perfectly to MS-Word and OpenOffice. However, this will not happen in the next few months or so. And it has also advantages to do the part of the work twice. You will find much more errors and enhance the text much more if you are forced to write your thesis after you have structured it in great detail in the mind map than as if you had started directly in the text document. In theory, you could write your thesis within a few days if you had a really, really good mind map. In practice, it probably will take you a few weeks because when finally writing the thesis up you will realize some issues you want to do some more work on.
Maintaining References
There is one important part we have left out so far: The management of bibliographic data and creation of reference lists. This is probably the most annoying part in writing a PhD thesis. It is not unusual that a thesis is referencing a hundred or even more publications. Imagine you have to create for 200 publications the bibliography list as shown in the right part of the picture. And imagine, you did this and then your supervisor tells you that you have to use a different style and you have to do it all over again. Or you have numbered your references manually (see left part of the pictures) and for whatever reason you have to insert another reference at the beginning of your thesis and therefore renumber all references in your phd thesis.
Fortunately, this can all be done automatically (more or less).
Reference Management Software
Download and install JabRef. With JabRef you can maintain a database of all bibliographic data of the publications you want to reference. Eventually, your BibTeX database file will look like this.
A brief step-by-step tutorial how to create your first BibTeX database and create new entries is available here and the complete manual here.
So what you need to do is creating an entry for each of the papers you want to cite. This is still a lot of work but that's how it is. To integrate your BibTeX data with your mind map (and finally MS Word, OpenOffice, …) one more step is necessary. You need to link the corresponding PDF to the BibTeX entry. This can easily be done by drag & drop the PDF from your literature directory to the BibTeX entry.
Integrating BibTeX (JabRef) with SciPlore MindMapping / Docear
SciPlore MindMapping / Docear has support for BibTeX (no other mind mapping software can do that). That means whenever a node in your mind map links a PDF (or PDF bookmark) the BibTeX key will be displayed as an attribute. To do so, just go to SciPlore MindMapping / Docear | Preferences and specify your BibTeX file. Then select SciPlore MindMapping / Docear | Update reference keys in current mind map.
You now see the title and BibTeX key of the linked PDF file as attribute. This way you can easily see where the information in your mind map is from. If the information is annoying you, select View | Attributes | Hide All Attributes (the attributes are still stored in your mind map, you just won't see them any more). You might not realize this right now while reading this text but actually this feature is fantastic. It will allow you to very easily create a reference list for your PhD. Read on…
Integrating BibTeX and SciPlore MindMapping / Docear with Microsoft Word
To automatically create reference lists in MS-Word, based on BibTeX, you need a plug-in. We recommend BibTeX4Word. The installation is anything but user friendly and also requires the separate installation of MikTeX but it is definitely worth the effort. If you have installed BibTeX4Word you can simply copy and paste the BibTeX key from SciPlore MindMapping / Docear to MS Word as shown on the following picture.
Then you can copy the BibTeX key from SciPlore MindMapping / Docear with a right mouse click and paste it into MS-Word (click on the red +).
After copying the BibTeX key to your word processor you just need to click on the reference list icon and there reference list is created automatically (you can choose out of hundreds of reference styles such as APA, IEEE, ACM, Harvard, …)
That's it, your PhD thesis is done 🙂 To remind you what makes this tutorial (and the software SciPlore MindMapping / Docear ) special in contrast to other software tools and tutorials is the fact that everything – PDF files, the content of PDFs (bookmarks) and references are integrated with mind mapping and word processing software. Imagine, for instance, you would not have the BibTeX keys in the mind map (or wherever else you draft your PhD with). You would have to manually make some notes where the information is from and later look the bibliographic data up in you reference manager. And without having PDF bookmarks you could hardly read in more detail about something that interests you. You might have a note somewhere (maybe even with the page number the information is from) but to look it up would take some time. With PDF bookmarks it takes 2 seconds. If you have any questions, please contact us or post a comment here in the Blog.


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A case was registered against four women of a community for beating up and another case was registered against nine people, including a priest, over conversion related matter.
''Members of a family had undergone conversion and were pressurising others to follow suit. However, other members wanted them to return to their own religion,'' said Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar Mathur.
A case was registered against four women on the complaint of VHP's Jaikant Mahajan for allegedly beating him up and threatening him for getting police action against the family.
Besides, another case was registered against nine people, including priest Hate Singh and one women, on the complaint of a tribal woman, Bhuribai, for allegedly harassing her for undergoing conversion.
Meanwhile, prohibitory action had been taken against six people of one side and two people of another side of the family following incident of fire in Lallu's farm and police force was deployed as a precautionary measure.
Activists of Bajrang Dal, VHP and other Hindu outfits staged a demonstration before Barwani Kotwali over these developments and demanded arrest of culprits.


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What if the whole 2011-2012 season is cancelled ? Does anyone know how the 2012 Draft will work ? Will we keep our 2011 draft rank ? That could be quite awesome if we get lucky with the lotto balls...
What if the whole 2011-2012 season is cancelled ? Does anyone know how the 2012 Draft will work ? Will we keep our 2011 draft rank ? That could be quite awesome if we get lucky with the lotto balls...
hopefully not or i'm going to be bored next year.
I agree that this would be a high cost to pay. But if we get two #1 picks in a row, that'd be a good reward.
The draft will go regardless. The CBA doesn't expire until July, and the Draft is in June. But once those players are drafted, and IF the CBA expires without a new one in place, they will not be paid until Play resumes.
They will however, maintain their Rookie Level Salary depending on where they are drafted, right through the end of the Usual Rookie Contract. This is how I understand it anyway.
I would like to hope that if they do an entire NBA lottery for seeding that weight would be put in favour of those teams that had loosing records in the last season played. The NBA knows that Miami, Chicago, OKC, LA, among others are still going to be playoff teams, no need to give them an equal shot at winning the first pick in the draft.
LINKWhat makes this year's draft intriguing is that any of the NHL's 30 teams have a shot at landing the No. 1 pick.
Each team begins with three balls in the lottery barrel. For every playoff appearance in the last three years or No. 1 overall pick over the last four years, a team loses one ball.
So, a team like the Heat would have a shot, but they'd have fewer ping pong balls.
At the NHL draft that year, the draft order they went by was a snake draft, so whoever had the last selection of the 1st round also had the 1st pick of the second round.
Last edited by MangoKid; Tue Apr 12th, 2011 at 11:20 AM.
Is the lockout likely to happen (in missed games) or will it most likely get resolved before the games start?
Well, no, actually Miami would have no shot if it went according to the proposed criteria of losing 1 ball out of 3 for each playoff appearance in the past 3 years or 1st overall pick in the past 4 years.
Teams that would have no balls in the lottery (if it went NHL style, not including - obviously - whoever wins this years lottery):
Chicago (2 playoffs + 1st pick in 2008)
LA Lakers
San Antonio
One ball in the lottery:
New Orleans
Two balls in the lottery:
LA Clippers (1st pick in 2009)
Washington (1st pick 2010)
New York
Three balls in the lottery:
New Jersey
Golden State
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Basically, all the teams that you listed as having 0 balls would have 1.
That said, even the teams that have 3 balls would only a 6.25% chance of winning the lottery. I think the Raps would have better odds at a high draft pick through a regular or shortened season vs. this type of lottery.
But this is all how the Selection process would work for NEXT years draft if there was a lockout.
Then you need some sort of system to determine rank, as the games didn't allow for that.
But THIS upcoming draft, will not be affected by the Lockout.
Except of course, as Apollo mentioned, if the contracts are not signed by the time the Lockout is put into effect.
Very good point Joey. In the case of a full year lockout who knows how next season's draft would work out. Maybe a 30 ball, 30 team lottery would be fair?
My apologies. I misread what you has said. I wish I had an answer for you. I think David Stern doesn't even know what they would do in such a case. Perhaps it would be part of the new agreement if it gets to that point?
They should decide the draft order by having all the GMs participate in a Ro Sham Bo tournament.
i envision dan gilbert getting a running start on his matchup with pat riley.
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UK Family Law
UK Family Law Questions Answered by Verified Experts
Hi ,
Yes I am saying that my wife will submit her application in June, with documents dated up to 8th May.
My question is what is the UKBA'S legal requirements with regards XXXXX XXXXX submitted and the dates on the docuements exactly?
Hi Tom,
I have a letter from my bank on original letter head, signed and stamped stating that I am a private client of the bank, and that in order to have the account with the bank; I meet the terms and conditions of the bank, which is a minimum income of £100,000 or £75,000 in savings and investment.
Can me my wife and I that I meet the minimum financial requirements of having savings of £16,000 and above, without having to show my pay slips and income, although the bank statement will show my income in any case.
I have also have a letter from my employer confirming my position with the company for 12 years and my income, and my NI check will confirm I have never been on benefits at all ( although)I do not pay tax, as my income is generated offshore.
Hi I am afraid that would be quite a big risk unfortunately, I couldn't say for sure that they wouid accept it.
Hi Tom,
it confused by your reply (I couldn't say for sure that they would accept it. ) Accept what? Referring to what exactly?
Please allow me to explain (1.) The UKBA state that you must be in employment with a minimum income of income of £18,600
(2.) You must have saving held for a minimum of 6 six months and not less than the amount of £16,000
Now the UKBA state than you can apply if you can meet either of the 2 examples I have given you.
What I would like to confirm is that if you apply with option (2) as above, do you still have to provide 6 months bank statements and payslips, as I my wife is not applying on that method.
We have an original letter from the bank stating when the account was opened and that that I meet I am private Client as I meet the expectations, with regards to the Banks T& C'S mini income of £100,000 or savings of £50,000.
My bank will also confirm that I held an amount above the £16,000 for more than 6 months, along with an original one month statement, showing funds are cleared and available to use.
My employer confirms my employment and how much I earned in the last 6 months, which matches my bank statement, and length of time with ,but if not if we apply on option (2) on that basis, do I still have submit, 6 months bank statements and payslips or not?
it is now 11.59 pm, you stated a reply by 5.pm.... It would have been better to say you would reply by tomorrow.
Thanks for all your positive feedback uptodate, but dissapointed with a promise of getting back to me and not doing so....
I am sorry the final points you refering to do not exist on the UKBA Appendix 2 (VAF 4A Novemember 2012)
Financial Requirement..?
Please confirm which UKBA form and points you are referring to.
Just to recap, have 6 months statements which confirm income of £80,00 year to date, ( past six months ( Net income) along with confirmation of holding the min of £16,000 for more than 6 months.
Want to apply on meeting financial requirement based on savings, so I do not need to go into details on my income so that they can see that I have the funds, with out having to provide salary pay slips, proof of employment etc, as they will see evidence of this in my 6 months bank statements anyway. Very simple answer that I am looking for, if I have the minimum savings required and they can see my income, can apply on that basis, with out having to give payslips ect?
With regards to the following- "If you do not have this amount then you must rely on some of your income and therefore you would be required in these circumstances to produce your payslips and bank statements " Does the UKBA CHECK INCOME TAX, AS i WORK AND AM PAID OFFSHORE. i DO HAVE MORE THAN £550,000 in savings held for more than 6 months, with a Barclays Wealth in Jersey, will and can tet UKBA de jealous and investigate me for tax ?


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A laptop computer
An iPhone
A Nano
20 books
Knitting needles and yarn
A menorah
Three purses
A bed, one set of linens and pillows
Two scented candles
Some incense
Two lamps
One medium box of pictures and keepsakes
After 47 years of being on planet Earth, those are my worldly possessions. Am I a failure? An adventurer? A modern aesthete?
After a four-year stint in my lovely, 1925-era Hollywood apartment, I quit it and moved in with a friend as I prepare to move abroad. I am headed to the Middle East for a whole, new, radically different chapter in my life.
I yearn to live the simpler, quieter life of expat aestheticism. Getting rid of my stuff is the price of admission, the first test. So many emotions swept over me as I parted with thing after thing after book after pretty cocktail glasses I got in Soho once.
I had to ask each thing:
1) Does this have HIGH sentimental/heirloom value?
2) Can I easily replace this once I've moved?
3) Does this really work? Does it fit?
4) When is the last time I used or wore this?
5) Would someone else enjoy this as a long term lend while I'm away?
6) Would someone less fortunate than me appreciate and use this?
7) Do I love this so much I'm willing to pay to have this shipped 9,000 miles?
I invited my friends over for an estate sale of sorts. You like this artwork? Then you keep it and when and if I come back to the U.S., I may just ask for it back. For now, enjoy it. In this way, I got rid of the stuff that I care about so much that I need to know a dear friend is enjoying it and using it, day to day. I need to know that it will be there for me, should I want it again.
It is stunning what you are left with when you really examine all of your stuff for its sentimental, pragmatic or comfort value. Do I need three pictures of the mountain under which I grew up? No. How about the BEST picture of the mountain? One is fine. So -- why did I have three in the first place? If I loved my books so very much, why did they sit on shelves gathering dust rather than being read by others? If I really love my Doc Martins but haven't worn them for 10 years because they're out of fashion, just how do they earn the space they take up? Do I need every picture my daughter drew, from age two to a teenager? Or do I need three of the best ones?
We carry our stuff with us like living scrapbooks, bringing us memories and comfort in the face of a life that is fleeting.
Most of us say three words when we are gazing upon stuff that we are considering parting with: But what if... ? My grandparents lived through the Great Depression. I remember how my grammy would take the little packets of saltine crackers from the restaurant table (much to my utter mortification) "just in case." She had a scarcity mentality that stayed with her for life. And now, having come full circle, we are living through the Great Recession. And we too have a scarcity mentality. What if I need this again? What if it comes in handy? But I spent so much money on this! But someone gave this to me!
How did we wind up with so much stuff in the first place?
America long ago became a culture defined by consumerism. Billboards selling stuff line the highways and streets of our every city. Brochures of stuff we should buy turns up rubber-banded to our doorknobs or stuck to our windshields. Stuff we didn't know we needed. We are assaulted on all sides at all times to buy more. We've all drunk the Kool Aid; the current economy and the storage units that have sprung up like fungus attest to our belief that in some way, buying stuff leads to a happy life. We have become a nation of hoarders, addicted to the quick-fix and the disposable, leaving us with a profoundly dysfunctional relationship with our stuff.
In this time when Americans are occupying Wall Street, when the war in Iraq has ended but the economy seems to be in an endless downward spiral, you can take back your power. Defy the dominant paradigm: Buy only what you need, recycle what you don't and take better care of what you have.
Opting out of this collective culture of consumerism and stuff worship is a self-preservatory act of subversion. Circulate your stuff back into the flow; somebody needs to use your old crock pot now more than you need to save it "in case." There's a family out there who would love to have half the towels in your linen closet. Read the newspaper. Trust me.
Home is where the heart is, and I know my heart will be very much in my new home. Not in my Doc Martins, not in the dusty stuffed animal that my daughter gave me five years ago and has long since forgotten about. Not in my William Sonoma café dishes, my old, busted sewing machine or the vintage typewriter I got a great deal on at a garage sale once. My heart does not reside in things, nor do my hopes, my ego or my sense of well-being.
Some questions to ask before you buy new stuff:
- Am I shopping bored or looking for an emotional pick-me-up?
- Do I need this now or can I wait a week? A month? A year?
- If I buy this now, will it hold its value? If I sell it later, how much return will I receive?
- Do I already have something like this that I could spruce up or repair?
- Where will I put this when I'm not using it?
- How often will I use this?
Questions to ask your current stuff:
- Do I use this?
- Am I keeping this IN CASE I might need it in the future? Does that seem reasonable or rational?
- Can somebody else enjoy or benefit from this right now?
- Am I keeping this heirloom because I am supposed to? Do I really like or use it? Is there another relative who might enjoy it more?
- Am I keeping this because it was a gift, even if never liked it?
- Is this the last version of this I will ever need? Or does it need to be updated?
- If I buy this, can I then donate that?
- Does my stuff make me feel safe or sentimental or in some way more complete? Is that reasonable?
- Does my stuff make me feel successful? Is this stuff truly a reflection of that?
- Does my stuff make me feel burdened or guilty?
- Can my stuff be replaced?
Here are some great things to do when re-evaluating your stuff:
- Take turns with your stuff: Give the item to a good friend for a long-term loan.
- Donate your stuff to a prop house -- see it in the movies!
- Repurpose your stuff and gift it to someone who'd enjoy it.
- Donate your stuff to a thrift store or charity. There are so many to choose from.
- Throw your stuff out if it is broken or too old to be useful.
- Fix your stuff; sew ripped seams, order missing parts, give it a paint job.


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You don't mess with Comfort Friddle.
That's one of the lessons learned by Home America Mortgage (HAM) in the wake of recent Department of Justice action against the lender. The firm, along with its parent company, Taylor, Bean and Whitaker, agreed to pay the U.S. government $320 million to settle allegations of fraud. The woman who blew the whistle on the company, former loan processor Comfort Friddle, has now spoken out about what went on at the mortgage company.
Friddle started at HAM in 2004 and immediately found an workplace that she described as a "teenager-kinda-party-atmosphere, according to Al Jazeera America. But, more importantly, Friddle saw that the company was engaged in unethical practices. "They ignored guidelines," Friddle told Al Jazeera reporters. "I had even seen a couple of the girls making up documentation at a copier. And whiting out stuff and making copies and putting it in the file, which is insane."
As a result of this type of behavior, the company closed hundreds of bad loans per month, providing enormous profits to the company's CEO. After two years of witnessing this behavior, Friddle decided to speak out and blow the whistle on HAM. Friddle alleged that HAM and its parent company "knowingly engaged in a pattern of fraudulent activity and business practices, including falsifying and manufacturing loan documents, disregarding HUD regulations, and ignoring the absence of necessary documentation to obtain financing for FHA-insured loans."
Friddle filed a qui tam suit in 2007, but action against HAM was slow to occur. In the intervening years, HAM went under. Since HAM is now in bankruptcy, it is unlikely that the company will be able to pay the entire amount of $320 million.
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The Solano Lamp features a ceramic base in elegant burnt russet that supports silver champagne details and a linen shade. Desk, table, or nightstand - the Solano Lamp promises to bring style and functional lighting to any space.
- Designed by Carolyn Kinder
- Made in China
- Wattage: 150W
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Ceramic and metal
- Overall Size: 34.5" h x 17" w x 17" d
- Shape Height: 13.5" h
- Shape Top: 8" w x 8" d
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- Box Size: 9.5" l x 9.5" w x 26.5" t
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For nearly half a century, the family owned Uttermost has produced premium quality home accessories and decor at an affordable price. Uttermost was founded on the idea of an inter-connected product cycle. From the initial designer to the end consumer, Uttermost understands that everyone is connected and deserves respect and appreciation. From accent furniture, to wall art and home decor, Uttermost offers a diverse designs while maintaining the highest levels of quality and craftsmanship.


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It's hard to believe that it's been 12 years since the release of 10 Things I Hate About You, but, for a lot of us, the movie has become a beloved classic. Not only does the memorable teen comedy boast a baby-faced Joseph Gordon-Levitt and an equally young Heath Ledger, it also has lines that are still super quotable. Check out a few of our favorites, then add yours in the comments!
- "Aaand I'm back in the game!" — Cameron
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Yorktown Police report the arrest of 28 year old Michael A. Keerdoja of Buchanan, NY on the following charges: Driving While Intoxicated (misdemeanor), Speed in Zone (traffic infraction), Fail to Keep Right (traffic infraction) and Fail to Maintain Lane (traffic infraction).
According to police, on 07-04-2014 at approximately 2:46am P.O. Dillon and P.O. Beyrer were on patrol of Route 118 when it's alleged they observed a vehicle traveling 56mph in a posted 40 mph zone. It's further alleged that the vehicle crossed over the double yellow line and drove on the shoulder. The vehicle was stopped and the operator was identified as Michael A. Keerdoja. Following an investigation at the scene, it's further alleged that Michael A. Keerdoja was operating the vehicle while in an intoxicated condition. Michael A. Keerdoja was placed under arrest and transported to the Yorktown Police Department for processing.


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A PEACEFUL nature reserve was taken over by more than 200 revellers who descended on it for an illegal rave.
Police were called by angry residents after scores of people turned up at Canvey Wick, off Northwick Road, at about 1am on Sunday.
The reserve is home to a rare, protected species of shrill carder bee and has just undergone a major revamp by the RSPB.
Islander George Watley, of Limburg Road, said he had been kept awake by the ruckus.
He added: "This really should not be allowed.
"It kept us awake and was an absolute nuisance.
"These youngsters are not interested in the rare wildlife on the Wick. They are just interested in getting themselves absolutely blottoed and head banging."
"I have no objection to people having a good time, but once people start doing things illegally, it encourages the wrong element."
Last July, about 100 people damaged the reserve after turning up at the Wick for an illegal rave organised via Facebook.
On Sunday, residents and local councillors spotted youngsters clambering over the seawall and through ditches and called the police.
Canvey Island Independence Party town and borough councillors Dave Blackwell said: "The people at these raves leave behind a lot of mess, such as broken bottles and glass.
"It's worrying and dangerous because people go to the Wick with their children to ride horses and walk their dogs.
"You cannot have people drinking and doing drugs there.
"There is also the safety of these young people at these events to consider.
"It is very dark there.
Someone could easily fall down into one of the ditches and hurt themselves and nobody would know about it."
Steve Roach, RSPB warden at the Wick, said the organisation had been trying to strike a balance between making the Wick accessible to nature lovers and keeping it secure.
He added: "At the minute, we are working with the police and council to keep them updated.
"We have signs up, warning people they could be prosecuted.
"We are making the site as secure as possible, while allowing the public who want to enjoy it, to go there.
"We have put up bollards to stop motorbikes getting on, but they are a type which still let horse riders through.
"When work is complete on the site we will be taking on volunteers who will be looking after it and will also keep an eye on things there."
A police spokesman said the Essex Police helicopter had been launched at 1.50am in response to reports of an unlicensed rave.
He added: "Officers attended and found between 100 and 200 people there.
"They tried to identify the organisers and the event ended at 3.30am."
Anyone with information about who organised the event is asked to call police on 101.