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Interns make a commitment to their duties for a total of either 24 or 12 hours (approximately) between Monday, 14 December 2009 and Saturday, 19 December 2009.
All interns will receive a Conference Access badge (equivalent to Full Conference registration, excluding conference documentation). All interns who fulfill their commitment may also be eligible to receive a copy of the Conference Proceedings following the conference.
Interns who fulfill 24 hours or more and who do not live in the Yokohama-Tokyo area (or whose commuting time is more than two hours) can apply for up to six nights of accommodation in conference housing. Housing is provided according to need and availability. Up to six Interns of the same gender will be assigned to each room. Further information on housing will be provided upon acceptance as an Intern.
All interns are responsible for their own travel to and from Yokohama, as well as their own meals during their time at the conference.
Some limited Travel Assistance Awards and meal vouchers are available, though they are not guaranteed. When these awards are granted by the Internship Program Committee, they establish a maximum amount per recipient. After arriving in Yokohama, Interns must meet their commitment to the program (either 24 or 12 hours) in order to receive the award and to be eligible to receive tickets to events and receptions.
A limited number of graduate students who are majoring in computer graphics or interactive techniques will also be invited to attend a "group lunch" with SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 speakers.


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(Podem ler este artigo em Português aqui. Podéis leer este artículo en Español aquí.)
As you may have noticed through my Twitter account (if you are not yet a follower take this chance to do it ), I accepted the challenge of waselwasel.com "Drawing Along March". So, from this Saturday on and until the end of March I will publish on my Instagram account (and yes, you should also follow me on Instagram ) a photo of a drawing of mine with the selected theme for each day.
I don't know if I'll be able to draw every day because I'm giving birth in the beginning of March, but one thing I do know is that I want to do it, so I'll catch up sooner or later throughout the month!
You can join us too! Just publish your photos in whatever social platform you prefer with the hashtag #DrawingAlongMarch.
Oh! I almost forgot to thank Mónica from cortarcoserycrear.blogspot.com for finding out about this initiative for me.

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A petrol station is located near to this hotel.
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Check in early from 12pm (normally 3pm). For just £10, make your stay more flexible with the option to drop off your luggage and go. We now offer this service at most of our hotels for an additional charge subject to availability. Add to your online booking, or call the hotel for further information.
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Guests can enjoy a variety of food and drink choices within easy walking distance from this hotel.
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Book a breakfast to go on the extras page or purchase at Reception 24 hours a day.
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Located just 6.2 miles from York train station and 25.5 miles from Leeds Bradford Airport, York Tadcaster Hotel is a great starting point for all your adventures in the area. The hotel has great proximity to some of York's best attractions, including the National Railway Museum which is only 8.4 miles away. If you fancy taking in some world class racing (or enjoying one of its evening events), York Racecourse is just 6.2 miles away. The Dante racing festival, which takes place every May, stands as one of the key milestones in the UK flat racing season. Races such as the Ebor handicap and the Dante Stakes are among the highlights.
Alternatively, if you're looking for hotels near the University of York, this hotel is an excellent choice for visitors, located only 8 miles away.
All rooms feature a comfy king size bed with four plump pillows and a cosy duvet.
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This hotel has accessible bathrooms, but no wetrooms suitable for wheelchair access.
Due to the roadside location of this hotel, some external noise may be heard.
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In-Home Aide Services provides personal care and home management services to older adults and adults with disabilities who are unable to perform these tasks. Services are often provided to remedy or prevent abuse, neglect, or exploitation, and unnecessary out of home placement. These services are designed to provide assistance, not to replace the family in carrying out their responsibilities to individuals needing care and support.
The individual needing services or someone acting on the individual's behalf can call the Adult Services line at 704-920-1400 to request assistance. Requests for assistance can also be made in person.


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Jo Beverley pens romance novels of immense appeal, as evidenced by her frequent appearances on the New York Times best-seller list. In this installment of Beverley's Georgian Secrets trilogy, young Dorcas Caroline Froggatt rushes into marriage with a soldier who defends her honor. Supposedly killed soon after going off to war, the erstwhile groom again figures in Dorcas' life when, years later, she attempts to marry another.
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Edifice Rex
The official dedication of the Jewish Federation headquarters at 6505 Wilshire Blvd. this weekend marks a new era in the history of Jewish Los Angeles.
The structure near Wilshire's intersection with San Vicente Boulevard is stunning. From a distance it appears as a gleaming tower of cool, aqua-colored glass. Up close, it greets drivers and pedestrians with a grove of mature olive trees and a facade of Jerusalem stone. The trees in their heavy planters are, of course, an ideal security barrier, but they are also inviting, symbolic, perfect.
There is every reason to be proud of this place, created on the frame of the old 6505, which was damaged by the Northridge earthquake. Of course 6505 will stand as the new headquarters of the Jewish Federation, but is this, then, the headquarters of Jewish L.A.?
The answer is, positively, unequivocally, maybe. Perhaps. It depends.
Inside the Federation's Goldsmith Center, as 6505 has been renamed, you get a feeling the architects struggled to combine 21st century design with traditional notions of communal space, and they succeeded. Walk in, and you feel welcome, secure and impressed.
To your left is the Slavin Children's Library, a nice message there. To your right is the Zimmer Children's Discovery Place, a 10,000-square-foot state-of-the-art children's museum that will serve as an ideal introduction for all children to the values of Jewish life and community. The Zimmer will open officially in February, but a walk-through in the company of museum founder and director Esther Netter brings it to life. The tens of thousands of children expected to visit the Zimmer will begin to understand not just what a community is, but how it is built and maintained.
The floors above the Zimmer will house the work spaces of the Jewish Federation staff and those of many of its affiliated agencies. (Full disclosure: the Federation is this paper's largest client. The Journal is independently incorporated and managed, and our offices are, as they have always been, deep in the vibrant heart of Koreatown.) These areas are nice, but hardly exciting. It's here that much of the heavy lifting of community building gets done. The Federation is the central planning, coordinating and fundraising body for 18 local and international agencies that provide humanitarian programs to Jews and non-Jews: food, clothes and legal services for the poor; job training and immigrant resettlement, relief services, child care, literacy and other programs. This is important labor, and it costs money. The Federation and its fundraising arm, the United Jewish Fund, are the second largest fundraising endeavor in Los Angeles, after the United Way. Raising money at that level is a corporate undertaking, and its headquarters need to reflect that.
A relative handful of men and women contributed the more than $20 million dollars necessary to renovate 6505. Some people have complained that the funds would be better spent elsewhere. The answer to these critics is simple: Don't worry, there's plenty more money out there. This is a very wealthy community whose capacity to fund worthy causes has yet to be really tapped. The Skirball Cultural Center, the Wiesenthal Center, the University of Judaism, Milken Community High School of Stephen S. Wise Temple, the Irmas Campus of Wilshire Boulevard Temple are just a few examples of entire campuses — and in some cases whole institutions — that came into being when people with a vision encountered people with deep concern — and the kind of checkbook that turns dreams into reality.
The 1994 earthquake that damaged 6505 also served as a reminder that a building, no matter how grand, can offer only the illusion of shelter and stability. Whether the Goldsmith Building will be the headquarters of the Jewish L.A. of the future depends on what vision emanates from within its striking exterior. The headquarters of L.A. Jewry will in the end be known by the good it does for others and the message its leaders articulate for the next generation.


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Da Leo Trattoria
819 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 674-0350Add Hours
819 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 674-0350Add Hours
Cuisines: Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch, Italian, European, Continental
Price Range : Average
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06/03/2011Provided by Citysearch -
I love Italian and the atmosphere of all the restaurants on Lincoln; however, the service for Da Leo makes the food and setting not worth it. Our waiter never refilled our waters; we had to flag down a server assistant any time we wanted service. When the waiter did come to check on our food, it was way too early so we had no idea that one of the plates had overcooked salmon on it. When we did inform him about the salmon, we became the bad guys because we didn't let him know ahead of time. Plus on top of that the manager made excuses of having to question us not eating the salmon because tourists try to take the house. Again the pasta was amazing, but the experience was terrible. Please spend your money elsewhere.
05/04/2009Provided by Citysearch -
We have dinner at da Leo about 3-4 times a month. We love good food but have 2 picky toddlers that limit our venues.
the waiters at da Leo are fantastic. They are friendly, fast (very important with toddlers) and more than happy to change items on the menu to cater to our kids tastes.
The soups of the day are always, always, always delicious. The pastas taste like nonna has been in the back slaving for hours, my husband always raves about how fresh the seafood is, and the kids love the milanese.
Few places in Miami are this consistent. For that da Leo is a gem.
02/16/2009Provided by Citysearch -
If you were sure you were living in the open city of Miami where there is NO discrimination, you are WRONG. This past saturday Feb 14 at 815pm my husband and I were at this restaurant reading the menu along other potential customers. There was this kind of chubby bold guy reading the menu out loud and recommending some entrees, also offering seating, since they had availability. We decided to walk and compare other places, 5 minutes later we came back and requested seating for 2. Same guy looked at us down and up (we had bermudas and caps on, we were in the boat show) and said that if we did not had any reservations there was no way he could have us. Looking around again all of these guys tables were practically empty. He looked away and turn around to seat other people who just came and asked for seating and he immediatly accepted. By the way, these other customers did NOT had any reservations either. I was in total disbeleive and pist off. I wanted to storm at this guy and have everybody know that they are discriminating customers. However I did not wanted to end a perfect day with my husband by having a fit with these type of scums. I am however alerting you, potential customer in Miami, do not bring bussiness to this place, have them apologize for these actions and correct their personnels actions towards potential customers.
At the long run it was better for us, after visiting this and other websites, apparently their food is horrible.
Again, do NOT help these type of actions go unheard of and do NOT patronize this bussiness.
02/15/2009Provided by Citysearch -
I was looking for a good Italian restaurant to take my gf on a Sunday afternoon. After looking through CitySearch I came across De Leo and was very enthusiastic about tasting some good authentic Italian food. Well let me just begin with the bread.STALE. That should have been a sign of things to come...but I kept being positive. We both ordered appetizers, avocado and shrimp app and the beef carpaccio. They sent out avocado and TUNA?!?! I sent it back and he returned with this mayo laden avocado half...I was skeptical to even dig into it. After find the courage to dig into this milky white avocado half, it was not half bad. But oh do I feel it now as I am writing this review. When ordering our lunch, we noticed how limited the menu was. The choices ranged from Osso Bucco and Lamb $24-$30 to Penne Pasta and Rigatoni $8.95-believe me there was no inbetween. I really didn't mind spending the cash because I wanted my gf to have a good time. We asked the waiter what he recommended and he suggested the Chicken Penne & Rigatoni with Meat Sauce. When those dishes arrived to our table I was flabergasted. I normally do not like making a big deal of bad food because I think the main part of the dining experience is the company & also I was trying to show my gf a nice time. But she could see the disgust all over my face and she couldn't hold in the laughter. My Rigatoni with meat sauce looked like pasta with dog food (SERIOUSLY). But the worst part of the dish was the PASTA!!! I believe there are certain staples that a restaurant should get right...rice in cuban restaurants, chips in mexican, fish in sushi and PASTA IN ITALIAN!! My pasta was so undercooked...I not only had to get by the look of my dish but also the lack of taste and texture. My gf said her chick penne was lean cuisine like at best. This was truly a HORRIBLE lunch experience and I would NEVER go back. Chef Boyardee is more authentic italian than this. GO ELSEWHERE
I have lived on the beach for years, and am well aware of the gimicks and shortcuts that have unfortunately become embedded in dining culture here. This is not one of those places. This is where my boyfriend and I go when we celebrate something, because when you're there- everything is special.
The service is amazing. The staff is attentive. They speak of the dishes on the menu with the passion of true foodies. I have had many, but my favorites are the proscuitto sage stuffed chicken, veal osso bucco, and the seafood linguine. I can't get past the seafood linguine- it is such a cohesive dish. The sauce made from what have to be the most gorgeous tomatoes (no jars of tomato sauce here!) and the seafood so fresh it crunches. The dish easily serves two and I've split it- which they are more than happy to do for you, on many occasions.
My perfect night out is here, where they will greet you as if they know you, sit you at a table where you get a great view of Lincoln Rd, start you with fresh baked bread, tomatoes with a hint of basil, and an extensive menu highlighting some of Italy's best. Order the seafood linguine, a bottle of Villa Antinori Toscana, and the tirimisu. You wont be rushed, you will be taken care of, you will leave glowing. You can thank me later.
I should mention here that I am a chef. I appreciate the intricacies of the menu, the dishes, the wine list, and the service with a trained eye. Yet when I am there, it is the fact that you're not just eating food, you're enjoying a dining experience that makes it such a pleasure.
I am most appalled at the fact that you may think that da Leo a business in the service industry with a long standing record of good service and excellent community relations may engage in the practice of discrimination. This is simply not so.
In an effort to clarify your concerns, I will enlighten you on the nature of the business. We accept reservations. This is a given. On one of the busiest days of the year - Valentine's day - we accept reservations also. Valentine's day coupled with the boat show, along with the fact that it's also saturday night, and ""season"" we have a large amount of requests for tables.
Yes...it's possible that the bald gentleman with the long sleeve shirt and ""chubby"" offered a table to someone while you were at the menu board. This was possibly a no-show or a party of more than 2 people that could be accomodated due to the fact that the bulk of the reservations were made for 2 people. You may have also missed the fact that the tables you saw empty all had ""Reserved"" signs on them. You see we have a long tradition of honoring our reservations, hence our seating another couple without reservations would have made our reserved patrons wait...Something we try to avoid.
ILastly, I invite you to come to da Leo at any time, what your are wearing is of no consequence to us, since we are in a resort town. You're right...economy is off, however, discrimination is illegal, and we simply don't do that.
I feel terrible that you feel discriminated against, however, it certainly wasn't the case.
I invite you to come over anytime you want, and experience what great food, and service we have...however, I do caution you to make a reservation whenever possible, since we are a very busy restaurant, and the longest running restaurant on Lincoln Road.
I can assure you you will be treated with the respect, and given the service that you deserve.
Very truly yours,
Marcos T. Urias
09/15/2008Provided by Citysearch -
I read the newspaper review posted in the restaurant thet recommended veal marsala $24.00. My friend ordered the waiter's recommendation, veal parmigiano $25.00. Both dishes were terrible. At first I thought I was served the wrong dish because it did not taste like veal. Was it chicken? No, it was their version of veal. The parmigiano had the exact same brown sauce as the milano dish (I expected a red tomato sauce). The mozzarella was fake. Both meals were served with identical vegetables that were inedible; broccoli and string beans which were extremely over cooked and I swear the string beans were out of a can. The restaurant often promotes wine specials, free bottle or half price bottle. I guess if you drink enough wine you will not notice the below par food.
06/29/2008Provided by Citysearch -
When you come here for some authenic food ask for PIERO he is the best. It dosen't get more authenic then a guy from ITALY you know. The food here is to die for I had the filet and my girlfriend had the meat lasanga. I have ate all across the USA I have had good service and bad service and let me tell you this place will become a favorite very fast. I will see you every time I come back to MIAMI ( da Leo Trattoria ).
Awesome food and even better service just ask for PIERO when you come and you won't be disappointed. Always trust an Italian from LAS VEGAS.
05/03/2008Provided by Citysearch -
This is a genuine Italian restaurant. I had the ?Involtini? and have to declare it the best I ever had! The tiramisu was the real stuff... Being a Miami native, it is was great find!
08/17/2006Provided by Citysearch -
the place was really quaint and the staff was really friendly. my girlfriend had the penne alfredo with shrimp and it was the best she has ever had. i had the penne with chicken, sun dried tomotoes, pine nuts, in wine and that was really good as well. the price isn't that bad, but it's much cheaper than the nearby italian places.


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Learning: anytime on every device
The story of the project
How would you like to trick your brain into thinking its not doing any work? Learning was never meant to be a chore. It should be as easy and as natural as doing any other enjoyable pastime. Learning can now be ubiquitous and painless, not hard work. Anywhere, anytime learning on any device is just the start of how we use Engagement Science. Engage your brain and be cool.
The Engagement Science method is based on evaluating barriers to leaning and teaching. It provides incentives to ensure greater effectiveness in education for alI learners.
The Engagement Science method was identified in 2003 and is not new. It was assisted by the Late Dr Roy Lundin's forty years of research (he was the co founder). Previously there had been no accountability in the field of Engagement. Poor delivery was the result and students paid. Teachers were not equipped with tools for teaching and using technology. Computer use did not improve learning outcomes as a result.
The Engagement Science method paves the way for low cost accelerated learning. It is a system that has always been well received by students and teachers. Better bandwidth and more readily available devices mean that developing technology can now really improve education and access for all learners.
The Engagement Science method can identify poor educational communication with students. An Engagement evaluation can be used to assess the effectiveness of present technology in educational institutions and identify poor organisational cultures.
How the funds will be used
2 . To fund Free education to the disadvantaged in the West, and in developing nations and war zones;
3. To Create an International standard for Engagements "ES 5000" and compliance;
4. To create a new legal entity and offer support and basic infrastructure and administration;
5. Build relationships with corporations and other groups who support such values.
We are always happy to answer any questions and open to assistance for those wishing to promote these goals.
Some of my other work
I have a Masters Degree in Education from Finders University and extensive research and IT development experience. My work has been recognised internationally and in Australia As founders, In 2011 my wife and I had our philanthropic goals in education using Artificial Intelligence thwarted by aggravated fraud and corruption. This caused great personal financial loss as third parties are still fraudulently making claims to my patent work and research in the field of AI. A technology that I developed also to assist global low cost education. See video from 2008.
I am committed to principles of integrity, respect, honesty, equality, responsibility and fairness.
Ideally it should be supported by blended learning in live or real-time multi video user virtual classrooms. This requires some equipment to enable classrooms to accept live online users. It is what we refer to as blended learning.
Getting wide acceptance and enough funds appears the greatest Challenge to develop and release Engagement Science.com.au
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Sugar Hill Records is set to release their fourth album with bluegrass stalwarts The Gibson Brothers on April 8, 2008. Iron & Diamonds showcases the brothers' trademark harmonies as well as songwriting that is among the best in the genre. Interspersed with original songs like the title track - a snapshot of the miners' baseball league in their upstate-NY home - are carefully chosen covers like Tom Petty's "Cabin Down Below" and others.
Iron & Diamonds boasts the brothers' best vocal mix to date thanks to being able to record live on one mike, capturing the energy and closeness that concert audiences rave about. The band - Mike Barber on bass, Clayton Campbell on fiddle, and Rick Hayes on mandolin - is tighter than ever, complementing the brothers' harmonies with adept instrumental performances.
Leigh and Eric Gibson have been performing together since encouraged in their youth by a minister in the borderlands of upstate New York, where they still reside. They received a Best Emerging Artist nod from the IBMA in 1998 and went on to record three albums for Sugar Hill Records - Bona Fide, Long Way Back Home, and Red Letter Day.
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Writing Assignment, Spring 2017
Because all scientific disciplines are changing rapidly, new ideas are commonly presented in journals months or years before they are incorporated into textbooks. In order to introduce you to some of the current or classic ideas in oceanography I would like you to read an article from the recent literature and then, working from the premise that one of the best ways to understand something is to explain it to someone else, I also ask that you write an outline and an abstract (concise summary) of that article. Developing the ability to recognize which elements of a presentation provide key support for its hypothesis and then communicate your analysis to others through a well-organized and clearly-written narrative is a skill that will serve you well in whatever work or studies you pursue.
Instructions for each part of the writing assignment
- Article: To begin, read one of the articles listed below. If you would like additional background you may want to look back (or ahead) at our text's discussion of the topics covered by the article you choose. Remember, however, that your outline and abstract are to present information only from the article and not from other sources.
- Outline: Then, write a outline of the article's key points using complete sentences.
A good way to begin organizing your outline may be to imagine that you are telling a friend what the most important conclusions of the article are and what data support them. If you can lay our your statements and data this way you'll be well on your way to writing a good outline.
- Your final version must be typed, include the class number and submission date, and you should identify yourself only by typing your class PIN—but not your name—on the upper, right-hand corner of the first page.
- The outline will be worth 10 points, and will be graded on grammar, completeness and relevance of the material to the main ideas of the article (focus on major points, not peripheral details) according to the accompanying rubric.
- You should also review this sample outline, which was written from an article previously used for this assignment, so that you can get an idea of what sort of detail your outline should include. Because the rubric and sample outline (as well as the other sample documents linked below) are PDF files you will need to install a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them if you do not already have one on your computer.
- Please submit your outline to turnitin.com. The class ID is 14937399 and the password is the same one you use for Gradeserver.
- Here is a list of the annotations I will make on student writing assignments when I review them.
- Preliminary Abstract: Next, prepare an abstract that summarizes the most important observations
and conclusions of the article according to the instructions given on the
accompanying abstract instructions.
If you're not familiar with what an abstact is, check out this short
essay on what makes a good versus a bad abstract by Kenneth Landes.
- Your final version must be typed using the format given in the template. Just highlight each element of the template in turn (title, author name(s), journal title, abstract text, index terms, etc.) and type in the corresponding text for your abstract. The template will correctly position and space text on the page. Be sure to save the edited template so that if anything goes wrong you won't have to type it again.
- Your abstract text should fit in the space available in the left-hand column but not wrap over into the right-hand column. If it does you'll need to shorten the text accordingly. Also, the top line of the right-hand column should be flush with the title in the left-hand column. If it's not, be sure to remove any extra carriage returns from the top of the right-hand column.
- Finally, you should only identify yourself only by typing your PINnot your namein the space indicated near the top of the right-hand column. You will want to work from your outline, but be careful not to paraphrase the article closely or include text directly from it. Doing so constitutes plagiarism and will result in a loss of points.
- The preliminary abstract will be worth 15 points and will be scored about 2/3 on format (page layout and index terms) and 1/3 on content (sentence structure, narrative coherence and completeness and accuracy of content) according to the first abstract rubric. You should also review this sample abstract, which was written from the same article as that used for the sample outline, so that you can see how the narrative content of the abstract is related to the ideas presented in the outline.
- Final abstract: Finally, prepare a revised abstract that takes into account all of the comments you received on you first version. This final abstract will be graded about 2/3 on content (clarity, originality and coherence of narrative) and 1/3 on form (layout, index terms, grammar and sentence structure) according to the accompanying final abstract rubric. Special emphasis will be given to those sections where you were asked to make changes to the preliminary version. It will also be worth 15 points.
- Hotspots Unplugged by John A. Tarduno, Scientific American, January 2008, p. 88-93.
This article examines paleomagnetic and fossil data that suggest the Hawaiian hotspot has moved within the mantle and, therefore, that plate velocities calculated assuming "fixed" hotspots may be incorrect.
- Waves of Destruction by Mark Harris, Scientific American, May 2015, p. 64-69.
Arctic sea ice is shrinking faster than global climate models predict and research suggests that large waves forming in the newly-opened waters of the Arctic Ocean may be responsible.


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U.S bereft of ideas against Guatemala
FRISCO, Texas -- There is no question that somewhere out there, a World Cup qualifier lurks that looks an awfully lot like the slow-going squad seen Wednesday at Pizza Hut Park.
Still, that fact is of little comfort to any U.S. Soccer fan who blew a couple of hours watching such a humdrum friendly, a 0-0 draw at Pizza Hut Park that everybody will simply have to view as something of an investment. Think of it as little something to sock away, then to withdraw later when the stakes are higher.
Otherwise, a scoreless draw against Guatemala is a patently unsatisfactory result for the Yanks in the new blue stripes -- and the first slight blotch on Bob Bradley's international managerial resumé.
A Guatemalan side that went through a three-plus hour workout the evening before Wednesday's kickoff made its aim quite clear -- to collect its appearance fee and get out of suburban Dallas with as little as possible happening on the field.
Clearly, the Guatemalans were elated with the tie. The time wasting began early in the second half, with even the trainer getting into the act, dropping things Keystone Cops-style as he "rushed" out toward another fallen player.
Bradley's side obviously wasn't nearly as happy with the result -- nor should it be. Not getting on top of this Guatemalan bunch, a defensively dug in, below average international squad, was easily the team's worst performance in Bradley's first four games in charge.
If Bradley's first three matches (all wins) were crisp $1 bills, this one was a chipped quarter.
The tie itself is pointless, of course. What Bradley and his charges are unhappy about is the lack of problem-solving, the failure to "stick to the task" as the manager said, the failure to hunt, probe and scan for a way to break down a stubborn bunch aligned in a frustrating 4-5-1 bottleneck.
The manager noted that this kind of game plays out similarly all over the globe during World Cup qualifying. "It's a different kind of game [for the players] to see," he said. "Because we all understand, we will see these kinds of games in qualifying."
For the 10,932 at the stadium or the national TV audience, it certainly might have been nice to see a better match. Or, at the least, a good lopsided whopping like 2006's 4-0 U.S. victory over Guatemala in Frisco.
So in one way this was a terrific learning experience for the impressionable likes of Michael Bradley and Benny Feilhaber (combined age: 41) and maybe even Landon Donovan. Problem solving is a part of big-time soccer. There will be such matches, where the brains of the team will be required, simply put, to figure it out.
These are the contests where the problem-solvers have to stir a few new ingredients into the soup. They have to consider adding some of this or a dash of that, probing, searching, experimenting, moving into slightly different spots, just making little tweaks and adjustments until they start to find the spaces. The gaps are out there, it's up to the primary ball handlers to target them.
The problem Wednesday, of course, was that some of the chief problem solvers were young enough to be Kasey Keller's kids. Really. Feilhaber is 22 and Bradley is 19. Both are national team pups. Neither has a starting role at this time with their respective European club, so they didn't even have that to lean on. So they were rightly concerned with playing a tidy game and not conceding possession in bad spots (which Bradley did exceptionally, while Feilhaber was guilty of making one early miscue).
Even Donovan, 25, has mostly been asked to play in supporting roles at this level. Older fellows such as Claudio Reyna or Brian McBride have always provided the direction, the confidence and the emotional pep when their side saw the initiative slip away toward the opposition.
So, who should have been doing more out there on a pleasant spring night to help break down the defense? Should Donovan have found more ways to get involved, or is it the challenge of others around the best U.S. attacker to get him the ball more often?
Bradley blamed the group's collective effort. As a team, he said, the Americans struggled to find ways to keep the tempo high, to execute faster and to move the ball and the ideas along at a faster clip.
"You are looking for ways to create advantages," he said. "The advantages can come at times because the ball moves faster. Or the advantages may come because the movement off the ball is good. Sometimes the advantage comes because a guy makes a great play. Sometimes it's winning a ball defensively and having an opportunity before the other guy is set up."
That's exactly how it happened early, as a ball collected sharply in the midfield was sprung quickly and finished with a Justin Mapp cross. But Eddie Johnson couldn't do enough with it, leaving the effort at goal to bind safely away. The first of a precious few scoring opportunities on the night had been squandered.
Later Donovan sent Johnson through, but the struggling U.S. striker couldn't beat Guatemalan goalkeeper Ricardo Trigueno. To that point, Johnson had been somewhat effective as a target forward. After that, however, he seemed to sink further into the scoring funk that has settled over him for more than a year now. The question of the night: Where will the next ball land that bounces hard off Johnson's chest?
Midfielder Clint Dempsey wasn't much better early. His crosses -- what few there were -- weren't international-soccer quality. Ditto for Mapp on the left. Meanwhile, Feilhaber and Bradley weren't stepping forward quickly enough once possession was secure.
"We had too many guys who didn't understand how to play in a game like that," Donovan said. "I guess it's a good learning experience. It's better now rather than later, but it's clearly not good enough."
Isn't it asking a lot for inexperienced guys to go figure it out? Perhaps it is, Donovan said, but at some point that's exactly what they all must do.
"Guys need to figure out ... that games look different," he said. "Not every game is going to look like the Ecuador game [last Sunday]. It's not good enough to take it slow, to just move the ball around slowly. We've got to figure out ways to go score."
Player Ratings
GK Kasey Keller, 5 -- Very little to do as he crept toward the milestone 100th cap. (No. 98 on Wednesday). Made two saves, not dirtying his uniform on either.
RB Frank Simek, 6 -- An international debutante, he was easily the better of the two young outside backs. Managed the technical stuff, the occasional tough stuff and got forward adequately. Won't displace Steve Cherundolo anytime soon, but it seems the U.S. has decent cover at right back.
CB Jimmy Conrad, 6 -- Some of a dull game's best moments were his battles against Carlos Ruiz. Conrad dished it out, took it, then helped Ruiz off the turf a time or two. He was Jimmy On the Spot once when Spector was beaten.
CB Jay DeMerit, 5 -- Usually the free man centrally as Conrad matched up more often with Ruiz. A solid U.S. debut, although he could have moved the ball faster at times. An utterly unnecessary yellow card in the opposition penalty area damaged his grade.
LF Jonathan Spector, 4 -- He'll presumably have better nights in the U.S. jersey. Beaten about four times. And his JV-level swing and miss attempted shot from 18 yards drew howls from the crowd.
RM Clint Dempsey, 5 -- He can cross the ball, right? You couldn't tell it Wednesday. Below average out wide early, he improved by drifting inside more often. By game's end, he was the most productive U.S. attacker, if only because he was throwing his body around inside the penalty area.
CM Benny Feilhaber, 4 -- Not as good as he was on Sunday against Ecuador. Lost the ball in a bad spot early. Passed adequately, but his game lacks a little bite at that spot.
CM Michael Bradley, 5 -- Played a tidy, simple match, which is probably what you'd ask of a 19-year-old in his first international start. Decent tackling. Safe passing. Usually kept the ball moving and seldom lost his defensive bearing.
LM Justin Mapp, 4 -- The better of the U.S. wide midfielders early. He was active throughout, although nothing special. Earned a couple of free kicks, but his crossing was ineffective. Needed to pull the trigger faster on a couple of opportunities to serve.
F Landon Donovan, 5 -- A couple of well-placed passes to onrushing teammates highlighted an otherwise ordinary night by his standards. Needed to find more ways to engage. Seemed irritated at the final whistle, something you want from the captain following an unsatisfactory result.
F Eddie Johnson, 4 -- Confidence sagged further still after blowing two good, early chances. First touch not great as a target forward. Must turn on defenders more often and develop a keener sense for when to slow the attack and when to maintain the pressure.
F, Kenny Cooper, 5 -- Came in for Feilhaber in the 59th. Active early; made a couple of things happen around the penalty area. Needed to throw his big body around a little more late as the U.S. went to Route 1 soccer.
M, Brian Mullan, 5 -- Experience showed after replacing Johnson in the 67th. Delivered a couple of nice passes (although nothing game-changing) and tweaked the tempo by sliding inside here and there.
D, Wade Barrett, 5 -- Played safe and simple after replacing Spector in the 74th. Maybe a little too safely.
Steve Davis is a Dallas-based freelance writer who covers MLS for ESPNsoccernet. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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BEMIDJI — A popular local Facebook page, managed by Beltrami County Emergency Management, solicited its 3,200-plus followers for their best punchlines Monday morning, challenging them to finish the joke, "It's so cold in Minnesota that…"
"Dentists don't need to use Novocaine to numb their patients' mouths," offered one woman.
A true story was offered by one of the department's employees, "Newlyweds had to postpone their Key West honeymoon because it was so cold the plane wouldn't start at the airport."
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Winter officially began Saturday and the temperatures in the region proved it, with actual temperatures dropping to 25 below zero Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service office in Grand Forks, N.D.
At 8:11 a.m., the NWS reported a wind chill of 43 below zero in Bemidji.
The coldest temperatures in the area, according to the Beltrami County Emergency Management, were in Waskish, which reached 26 below zero.
"Could drop a degree or two before 'warming' up to the single digits below zero for high temperatures," the department posted Monday morning, talking about the predictions for that day's forecast.
Peter Rogers, a meteorologist with the NWS in Grand Forks, said the weather service does not specifically keep records for Bemidji so he could not definitively say whether the temps flirted with a record low Monday.
However, he looked at the historic lows in Grand Forks and Fargo, N.D., which were 30 and 31 below zero in 1983, and the temperatures throughout the region were generally 15 to 25 below zero Monday.
"Chances are, it wasn't a record-cold morning," he said, "but it certainly was a cold morning."
The NWS issued a wind chill advisory through 1 p.m. Monday, warning the wind chills could drop to 25 to 40 below. A similar warning was issued for much of the Red River Valley until 6 a.m. Tuesday.
The temps would remain cold and the winds were expected to again pick up for the Monday to Tuesday overnight, with extremely low wind chills again predicted.
The NWS issued the advisory to warn of potential frostbite and hypothermia for those venturing outside, if they did not take proper precautions.
The forecast for the holiday looks more favorable, with a high of 9 above predicted for today and 12 above on Christmas Day. On Thursday, temps are again predicted to drop, to a high of 1.
But the weekend is forecasted to be more pleasant, with double-digit highs of 20 degrees predicted for Friday and maybe even 21 on Saturday.
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MIXUP: There was some confusion, and an ejection of Maddon, after a play in the ninth in which the Rays' Michel Hernandez was initially called for a catcher's balk, advancing Matt Holliday to third. It was later clarified as an error on Hernandez, who touched the ball with his mask after blocking a pitch in the dirt. A catcher's balk is only called when he leaves his designated area before the pitch. Maddon agreed with the ruling after watching the replay.
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Obama's birth control mandate, which requires some religious employers to cover birth control in their employees' healthcare plans, has incited a lawsuit from seven state attorney generals, the Hill reported.
The lawsuit was filed today in federal court in Nebraska by the state's Attorney General Jon Bruning, who was joined by attorneys general from Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and South Carolina, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. They argue that the White House is violating the religious freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
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"Government has no business forcing religious institutions and individuals to violate their sincerely held beliefs," Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement Thursday, CNN reported. "This lawsuit is about protecting religious liberty and the rights of conscience, our most basic freedoms as Americans."
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April's number was a significant jump from March's 4.17 million openings and well above analysts' expectations for roughly 4 million. Openings peaked at just over 4.6 million during the height of the housing bubble.
The jump in job creation is good news for unemployed workers. The ratio of job openings to unemployed workers fell from 2.5 to 2.2, down from 3.2 a year earlier and nearly 7 at the worst of the crisis.
April's strong job creation, however, didn't translate into hiring. The number of hires rose by just 2,000 to 4.71 million.
Over the course of the recovery, hiring has lagged job creation.
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Quits also rose slightly in April. It's considered a sign of labor market strength when workers are willing to quit their jobs, because it indicates that they are confident of their prospects. Quits edged up 12,000 to 2.47 million in April, not enough to budge the quits rate, which remains slightly below its average level over the 2001-2007 economic expansion.
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Net profit after tax plunged almost 60 per cent to $20.4 million while trading revenue dropped 8.2 per cent to $859.8 million for the six months ended September 30, 2012, and Morningstar says the high fixed cost nature of the business reflects the yawning gap between the decline in revenue and net profit.
"The economic downturn of FY09 hit hard, forcing a cut in dividends. There is substantial leverage to a recovery in residential building activity. Moderate earnings growth can be expected over the longer term. The stock is only suitable for investors seeking a reasonable yield and accepting cyclical moves in earnings and share price."
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Varjak Paw / S.F. Said ; illustrated by Dave McKean.
author: Said, S. F.
title: Varjak Paw
pagination: 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
publisher: New York : David Flicking Books, c2003.
isbn: 0385750196
notes: Guided by the spirit of his legendary Mesopotamian ancestor, Jalal, Varjak Paw, a pure-bred cat, leaves his home and pampered existence and sets out to save his family from the evil Gentleman who took their owner, the Contessa, away.
subjects: Cats Fiction. Family life Fiction. Snobs and snobbishness Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Adventure and adventurers Fiction.
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Juan Felipe Diaz
Throughout his first semester at Vanderbilt University, Juan Felipe explored a plethora of service organizations. He was involved in the building of houses for families in need with Habitat for Humanity and he cooked and visited ex offenders living at Dismas House. Additionally, he served as a Spanish tutor at Vanderbilt's School for Science and Engineering and volunteered to pack food at the Second Harvest food bank. The highlight of his semester was becoming an official translator for Kiva, the world's largest online micro finance company. His involvement with this organization improved his understanding on how micro financing can be an alternative to break the poverty cycle in developing countries.
During his second semester, Juan Felipe's service was more focused. He served the homeless in Nashville by teaching a Spanish class at Room in the Inn, Nashville's second largest homeless shelter. Through this class, he was able to build strong relationships with his students and increase his understanding of homelessness. During his spring break, Juan Felipe participated in the National Coalition for the Homeless' "Homeless Challenge" program, in which he lived on the streets of Washington D.C as a homeless man for two days. This was a very enriching, eye-opening and educational experience for him because although he had interacted with the homeless community on a daily basis through his work at Room in the Inn, "going homeless" provided him with a unique perspective on the current challenges of this widespread societal problem.
As a second year student, Juan Felipe became a board member of Grassroots, a student-run service organization. Grassroots provided Vanderbilt students with weekly service opportunities, allowing them to engage with the Nashville community. It also organized speaker events that aimed to bring attention to critical societal issues such as food deserts and homelessness. In addition to his role on the board, Juan Felipe taught weekly ACT prep classes at the Oasis center. The purpose of this course was to reduce the socioeconomic barriers to college that many kids from disadvantaged backgrounds face as a result of deficient preparation for standardized tests. His work at Oasis particularly focused on one-on-one tutoring for math and science. The goal was that with this additional support, these kids would be able to get into the college of their dreams and be eligible for scholarships. Simultaneously, Juan Felipe taught financial literacy lessons to seniors at Hillwood Highschool through Moneythink. He touched on topics such as the meaning of net worth, the financial benefits of going to college and how to go about setting goals and following through with them.
For his summer project, Juan Felipe travelled to Kigali, Rwanda and worked with Urwego Opportunity Bank, the largest microfinance institution in the country. In partnership with his fellow scholar Nick DeNuzzo, he spent two and a half months conducting a statistical evaluation of the impact of Urwego's loans on both its staff and its clients. A countrywide survey of the loan products was conducted and recommendations regarding the conditions of the loans were presented to the management of the bank. Through an analysis of practices at comparable institutions, Juan Felipe and Nick persuaded the bank to change the strict conditions of its loans, amplifying the impact that the microloans had in the lives of their clients. The second part of his project involved the structuring of mortgage loan and construction loans, products not previously offered by the bank. Additionally, Juan Felipe and Nick consulted with several construction companies to establish a partnership between the bank and these companies in order to launch a pilot project to improve the housing situation in Kigali. After extensive research of the housing market in Kigali and the current demand for affordable housing, the bank agreed to finance the construction of 100 affordable housing units. These homes will be for the benefit of both the bank's staff and the clients. The establishment of this partnership between the construction companies and the bank will create significant synergies. On one hand, the construction companies secured a source of financing and on the other hand the bank reduced the risk of construction loans by making sure that their clients were investing their loans in quality assets. More importantly, the clients will benefit because the process of financing and constructing their homes is streamlined. In addition to the work with Urwego Opportunity Bank, Juan Felipe's experience in Rwanda was incredibly enriching from a cultural point of view. He had the opportunity to travel to other East African countries after completing his work at the bank, expanding his understanding of the region.
During his third year at Vanderbilt, Juan Felipe focused on working with Hispanic immigrants in Nashville. In partnership with his fellow scholar Jordan Clark, he taught English as a second language and organized several events to raise awareness about the services provided by the organization that they worked for. During his second semester, Juan Felipe's service was a lot more international since he lived in different parts of South America and Europe during this time. While in Colombia, he worked with Fundación Santa Isabel, a halfway home for girls that live in abusive homes. This non-profit sustains itself by running its own thrift store, which he helped manage and staff. The highlight of his experience was realizing how to make an organization sustainable by combining a business component. Whilst in Germany, he volunteered at a local soccer team in Berlin that provides free soccer clinics to immigrant children who have sought asylum in Europe. Playing soccer helped integrate kids from completely different backgrounds and served as a first step to help these culturally distinct groups live in one city.


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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi Parliament devoted part of today session's discussions to brief on the initial report over Falluja recent violence events. The Parliament lifted its regular session till Tuesday of next week.
A statement by the Parliament media office cited on Monday "The MP Khalid al-Atiya recited the initial report prepared by the parliamentary investigating commission formed to investigate the violence events that took place in Falluja district on last Friday."
The commission pointed out that "Falluja mayor office's report and the district's citizens' testimonies stressed killing of 7 persons and inuring of 50 others during the clashes that occurred between the demonstrators there and the army forces."
"The commission recommended to punish the army elements who involved in this incident and those who used weapons against the army forces in addition to compensate the affected people," the stateemt added.
"For his part, the Parliament Speaker, Osama al-Nijaifi confirmed that the parliament will follow up these recommendations and support the commission to set a final report about the events," the statement concluded.


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Perimeter Institute is a facility like no other. Designed to facilitate basic research and discovery, the building boasts over 120,000 square feet of blackboard-lined offices, casual interaction spaces, formal conference and seminar rooms, library, fitness centre, and the Black Hole Bistro. With collaborative opportunities around every corner, Perimeter Institute is an important contributor to the research culture within.
Perimeter's facility has seen significant growth in its history. The first custom-built facility was opened in 2004 as a deliberate marriage of form and function, later winning the national Governor General's Medal for Architecture. Perimeter outgrew its original facility, and by 2011 opened the doors of the Stephen Hawking Centre during a special ceremony with television broadcast to accommodate its expanding research, training, and outreach activities. This expansion has doubled the size of the Institute, making room for up to 250 researchers and students operating as a single community. In 2015, the Stephen Hawking Centre was awarded LEED Silver.
The building includes:
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the 205-seat Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas
a two-floor library with work spaces
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Perimeter's very own Black Hole Bistro
State-of-the-art IT infrastructure supports visualization, analysis of complex calculations, and remote collaboration.
The Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) program is centrally located on the second floor of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute. PSI facilities include a custom-designed lecture hall -- known as the Time Room -- as well as a work room with space for up to 50 students. PSI students have complete access to the entire Perimeter Institute facility, and all of the blackboards and chalk within.


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How to tune vmware server 64 bit with only one 2008 SBS Premium VM guest ?
Dear friends,
I'm experiencing slow network performances and other abnormal cpu activities on the guest in subject.
Do you have any tip or configurations to suggest me?
The configuration is pretty nice
Vmserver 64 bit running on ubuntu 64 bit on a xeon quad core server with 8GB RAM and SAS raid made by 4 10000 rpm drives.
There is also a drbd replica on another quad core machine with obviously same OS setup.
Drbd + heartbeat are running on two dedicated gigabit nics by crossed cables (no switches in between)
Both the two boxes have got 4 gigabit nics. On each phisical server, the other two nics are used in bondig to double the bandwidht.
(About this is pretty strange that 100MB file is copied in 30 seconds... and in the next turn we will try just one nic w/o bonding)
The guest has been clean installed as brand new VM. Assigned RAM is 4GB.
There is, and there will be, just and only 1 VM guest in this system.
Ask me more details if u need them.
Thank you for any help.
There are lots of things you can try...
Sorry I don't think I can help much since I'm not a network expert, nor am I familiar with vmserver.
However I do have some experience in these areas (vm, networking, etc.) so here it goes.
This is what I would try and do.. either together or separately.
- strip everything down as much as possible and add one new feature at a time, until you find the culprit.
- since it's deb based.. you should have a plethora of programs to trace your systems actions.
- what fs are you using.. if ext4 it needs to be set up right or it will actually be sloooower than 3.
- I am supposing vmserver is more appropriate for your task than kvm? All I know is, KVM on single system/servers is actually FASTER than on the *regular* OS from the partition!
- kernel config.. is it selected and *tuned* for your project(s)?
- extranious programs, daemons etc. that are using resources, or NOT using them when they should.. again, this is where there should be some programs available in apt to help.. sorry I can not suggest any, since I have not had the opportunity to evaluate any yet significantly.
Either way, lettuce know :)
Thank u.
Yesterday, doing some tests we discovered what follow
- initially we assigned 2 processors to the VM. Leaving one only drastically changed performances. 2008 SBS startup boot process time with 2 processors was 5 minutes and 30 seconds, with one processor it is now only 3:00 minutes
- after the CPU change, also the network performances increased. Yes now network is faster but with a weird action. This is the test we made and any of you that can explain this I'll thank him/her so much:
We shared one folder on the server and one on our client.
Our test environment is 100 megabit only switch
We had take one file 500MB size, expected average time for copying it is 50 seconds on a 100mbit lan
And here you the weird
Logging in the client and copy the file from client to server taken 60 seconds (not the best, but acceptable). Doing the reverse takes 90 seconds, yes it does "move" but it is a poor network performance.
Now the weird than weird
Loggin in to the server and repeat the copies but from server side
To copy the file from client to server takes 55 seconds while copying from server to that same client takes 45 seconds!!! Peaks were over 11MB/sec
Can u explain this?
I'll update you with next tests.
Try some very similar (the same) *tests* without the VM.
In other words, see what your system specs are (should be), while running your normal operating system...and then match them up against the vm state.
This way you can see if the problem is directly connected to the vm software/state, or not.
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KARACHI, Nov 27: The benefit of Rs45 billion provided in subsidy to the Karachi Electric Supply Company by the government should reach people and the power utility ought to reduce tariff, said a representative of the KESC Shareholders' Association at a public hearing called by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority on Tuesday.
The public hearing was called in the matter of monthly fuel charges adjustment of KESC for the month of September as well as tariff adjustment for the quarter ended in September 2012 at the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA).
The meeting was presided over by acting Nepra Chairman Habibullah Khilji with two members Khwaja Mohammad Naeem and Shoukat Ali Kundi. Nadir Ali Khoso, adviser for Consumer Affairs, Nepra, was also present.
A KESC representative from the regulatory affairs department, Mr Amir, earlier presented a case for September and quarter of July to September. Their total variations were minus 75 paisas on account of reduction in furnace oil prices.
The first consumer to speak, Dr Ahmed Kamal, vice president of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, while hinting at the efficiency of KESC and the performance of Nepra said that Nepra had given efficiency approval to KESC generation plants even though they showed that their generation was comparatively less than other generation plants in the country as far as the consumption of oil was concerned.
"If the correct generation is settled, the KESC should go even lower in minus in their variations than -75," he said. Industrialist Arif Bilwani said that the KESC was not following Nepra guidelines. "They don't listen to any consumers' complaints or anything else that demands an explanation or reply from them," he said.
In response, the Nepra chairman said that they should reply to consumers. "And still if they fail to do so then consumers can complain to Nepra or even go to court."
KESC Shareholders Association General Secretary Choudhary Mazhar Ali presented his observation to Nepra that their notifications and announcements in the form of newspaper advertisements were being given in papers with less readership.
"They are therefore often missed. Please make sure that they are more prominent," he said to which the chairman said that they would keep that in mind.
He added, "My second point is that in the past six months, the KESC has seen no addition in their consumers. Also no oil price went up by 10 to 12 per cent in the last six months at any stage. But the government of Pakistan has given them Rs45 billion in subsidy. The benefit of this subsidy should go to the consumers. And in view of the huge amount in subsidy, they really ought to give -Rs3.75," he said.
"And my third point is that loadshedding in the city is not being carried out evenly. If kunda is responsible for more loadshedding in certain areas, then it is KESC responsibility to do something about it.
"Theft of power is also happening in the posh areas, but KESC chooses to ignore this," he added.
The Nepra chairman's reaction to this was that loadshedding should be reduced and its system regularised.
Lastly, one of the industrial consumers said: "If the KESC disconnects our power for any reason, they take an undertaking from us for its restoration. This undertaking is that the consumer will not go to the court or make any complaints to Nepra."
Hearing about this, the Nepra chairman asked the KESC to send them a copy of the undertaking in order for them to decide if they could do that.
Both KESC representatives, Mr Amir and director accounts Mr Rizwan, were asked by the Nepra chairman to reply to all the grievances registered against them in writing.


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THE Duke of Wellington got a sprucing up ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
Council workmen used a cherry-picker to remove the famous Royal Exchange Square statue's cone while it was filmed for this summer's sporting spectacular.
The trademark traffic cone, which has been a feature of the statue since the mid 1980s, was returned to its position by the workmen after filming was finished
A council spokesman confirmed the footage was being recorded to be included part of the opening ceremony for the sporting event, which will take place on July 23.
More than 3000 city residents and sports enthusiasts are expected to join in the ceremony at Celtic Park as cast members.
They will be put through their paces ahead of the event by taking part in intense choreography sessions, acting classes and workout routines.


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Faster New USB 3.0
New USB 3.0 will deliver up to ten times the speed of the existing USB 2.0 standard.
San Francisco Intel and other companies including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors, have formed a group to help produce, test and promote the new USB 3.0.
The third-generation Universal Serial Bus interconnect will transfer data at speeds up to 4.8Gbit/s, ten times faster than the previous USB 2.0's which transfers at just 480MBit/s.
Jeff Ravencraft, Intel's technology strategist, said,
"The digital era requires high-speed performance and reliable connectivity to move the enormous amounts of digital content now present in everyday life. USB 3.0 will meet this challenge while maintaining (USB 2.0's) ease-of-use experience."
USB 3.0 will be optimized for low power and improved protocol efficiency. It will also be backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, which is backwards-compatible with the first USB 1.1.
The USB 3.0 ports and cabling will be designed with both copper and optical cable capabilities; this means even higher speeds will be possible in the future.
Intel also revealed a Wireless USB (WUSB) transfer format that operates at 480Mbits/s, the same speed as USB 2.0. In addition they also said they are working on the 1.1 version of the WUSB which operates at a speed of up to 1Gbits/s.
A working prototype of the USB 3.0 has already been presented, however there is typically a one- to two-year lag between the release of the specification and the availability of the technology, so USB 3.0 might not be available in stores until 2009 or 2010.
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September 26, 2017,
A fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is a noninvasive test (nothing enters the body). This test detects hidden (occult) blood in the stool. Such blood may come from anywhere along the digestive tract. Hidden blood in stool is often the first, and in many cases the only, warning sign that a person has colorectal disease, including colon cancer.
Recent findings and perspectives on medical research.
Fewer than half the people who should be screened for colon cancer bother to do so.
Stool occult blood test
There are two types of FOBTs: 1) the traditional guaiac smear test (Hemoccult, Seracult, Coloscreen), and 2) the newer, flushable reagent pads (EZ DetectT, ColoCARE). They are both useful in detecting hidden blood in the stool, and are mainly used for colorectal cancer screening.
The tests differ in the way they are performed. The flushable reagent pads are available without a prescription at many drugstores. In contrast, the traditional guaiac smear test is completed and interpreted by a medical professional, and these tests are usually available from a laboratory or a doctor's office.
Many consumers prefer the flushable reagent pads because there is no stool handling and no laboratory processing. However, health care providers usually favor the guaiac tests because the large studies that have shown the benefits of colon cancer screening were done with guaiac tests.
See description under specific type of FOBT for how these tests are performed.
See description under specific type of FOBT.
See description under specific type of FOBT.
This test is mainly performed yearly for colorectal cancer screening. It may also be performed in the evaluation of anemia.
A "negative" test result is normal. It means no blood was found in the stool.
Positive test results may indicate the following:
Note that false positives are common.
Additional conditions under which the test may be performed include the following:
A negative test does not necessarily mean there are no colorectal diseases present. Not all polyps bleed, and not all polyps bleed all the time. That is why a FOBT must be used with one of the other more invasive screening measures (sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, double barium contrast enema).
Colonoscopy is generally recommended as the preferred follow-up test to a positive FOBT.
Factors that can cause this test to be less accurate include the following:
Drugs that can cause GI bleeding include anticoagulants, aspirin, colchicine, iron supplements in large doses, NSAIDs (anti-inflammatory analgesics), and corticosteroids.
Drugs that can cause false positive measurements include colchicine, iron, oxidizing drugs (for example, iodine, bromides, and boric acid), and reserpine.
Large amounts of vitamin C can cause false-negative results on most FOBTs.
In general, avoiding food is not recommended, with the exception of red meat as described above.