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Want to wear an iPad on your chest so it's obvious to everyone how cool what a sad, sad virgin (not by choice) you are? Introducing the Style iPad Shirt. Despite it's name, it's actually the opposite of style. Your ass will get kicked!
This pre-shrunk heavyweight cotton tee sports a slit on the inside for sliding your tablet into, and there's a window on the front that enables the wearer (or anyone else, for that matter) to fully interact with the tablet without you having to disrobe. Imagine that! Heck, there are even ports for accessing the dock connector and the 3.5mm headphone jack, which certainly helps to justify the otherwise unconscionable $49.95 to $54.95 price tag.
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Western Tour Report, Day 3 -- Man-o-Man is it a good crop out west!
Note: Terry and Chip traveled together through southern Minnesota today, so we'll combine our comments into one for tonight's report.
For the first time on this year's Crop Tour, we ran into some variability. Western Iowa had it's "holes" in the corn crop, but it was a solid corn crop from south to north. Nebraska... well, Nebraska really didn't have many holes. South Dakota is a maturity issue -- that crop has some work to do to get to the finish line before Jack Frost arrives.
And then there's Minnesota. Minnesota has it's holes, has some crop that has to hustle to get to the finish line before the growing season comes to an end and it has some areas where it's really hard to find anything wrong with the crop. In other words, the Minnesota corn crop was everything the other three states on the western leg of the 2009 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour had. But when it was all wrapped up today, the Crop Tour is pointing the Minnesota crop to a very good yield... probably better than the 167 bu. per acre estimated by USDA on Aug. 1.
Here's why I say that -- USDA's Aug. 1 estimate was up 1.8% from last year's final yield peg of 164 bu. per acre... the Crop Tour corn yield was up 3.9% from last year's Tour results. That means we "found" a few more bushels than did USDA compared to year-ago.
The Crop Tour yield for Minnesota was 185.3 bu. per acre. Now... before that shakes you up too much, the Crop Tour consistently measured the crop in Minnesota too big. In fact, on average since 2001, we've measured the crop 12.38 bu. too high. The reason is because we don't get into traditionally lower-yielding areas in central and even northern Minnesota.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the most well-known penguin species in Antarctica -- chinstraps and Adelies -- are under pressure because a warmer climate has cut deeply into their main food source, shrimp-like creatures called krill.
Fewer of the juvenile penguins survive what scientists call their "transition to independence" because there isn't enough krill to go around, according to a study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences.
The study found only 10 percent of young penguins survive the first independent trip back to their colonies from their winter habitat, said lead author Wayne Trivelpiece, a sea bird expert at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division.
When the study began, back in the mid-1970s, the chances that a two-to-four-year-old penguin would survive the trip was about 50 percent, Trivelpiece said in a telephone interview.
"What's changed is young penguins surviving their transition to independence," he said. "They're no longer able to do that anywhere near the way they used to do, and we think that's directly related to the fact that there's 80 percent less krill out there now."
Initially, scientists figured one of these two penguin species might actually benefit from climate change, since Adelies love ice and chinstraps avoid it. They theorized that the chinstrap penguins might flourish with less ice and more of the open water they favor.
But this latest research suggests it is less a question of vanishing penguin habitat -- though this is also occurring -- than it is a matter of vanishing habitat for krill.
Krill form the basis of the marine food web, supporting organisms ranging from fish and penguins to whales. Krill feed on phytoplankton -- basically, ice algae -- that grow lushly on the undersides of ice floes.
These tiny crustaceans are specially adapted to graze for the tiny plants among the ice crystals. But in the last few decades, winter ice has formed later in the season and has covered less area and spring melt comes earlier. Without ice, krill's feeding is disrupted and populations fall.
Trivelpiece's research focused on an area that is experiencing some of the most extreme climate warming on the planet: the Antarctic Peninsula and the islands around it.
Mean winter temperatures have risen 9 to nearly 11 degrees F (5-6 degrees C) in that area since the mid-20th century, compared to the rise in world mean temperatures of less than 2 degrees F (about 0.74 C) for all of the 20th century.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Pablo Carreno-Busta of Spain upset fifth-seeded Julien Benneteau in the first round of the Portugal Open on Tuesday, defeating the Frenchman 6-3, 6-4.
In the women's event, top-seeded Marion Bartoli also exited the tournament. After a poor start in her first-round match, the Frenchwoman fought back against Peng Shuai to win the second set before losing the match 6-0, 1-6, 6-4.
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I am wondering how other units handle their lunch breaks. I work nights, and we have extremely flexible breaks during the work shift. Most of us don't really leave the floor, just get our food and eat in the conference... Read More
- 2Jan 23, '13 by joanna73 GuideYes. Unless it's an emergency, I do not want to know when I'm on break. It can wait until I return.KelRN215 and hiddencatRN like this.
- 0Jan 23, '13 by nurseywifeymommy1None of us ever take our breaks until we are caught up. Our first break is after morning med pass. Our company only guarantees 1 30min break. If everything is completed others take the 15min breaks and those are the smokers.
- 0Jan 23, '13 by eatmysoxRNI opt out of early breaks because I know that if I did so, something bad would happen and ruin my night and leave a ton of unfinished tasks. If she isn't listening to her coworkers, maybe speak to the manager and express concern that she is struggling. A talk from the manager may be more beneficial in letting her know she has to manage her time more efficiently.
~ No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent -Eleanor Roosevelt ~ - 3Jan 23, '13 by AnonRNCI think you're both "wrong" and you're both "right."
Workers - even nurses - are entitled to breaks, even if the work isn't all done. Certainly, if someone is coding, we need to postpone our own needs. On a routine day with stable patients, I can usually carve out time to take my breaks. However, if I have a critically ill patient, I may never be caught up. Does that mean I don't get to eat or pee or sit for 12 hours? Of course not, but I do need to be diplomatic in how I request break coverage.
Someone mentioned taking your phone with you on break. My understanding of FEDERAL law is that if you're required to be available by phone, you must be paid for your break/lunch. I could be wrong. Do your own research.
Someone else mentioned that they "maintain our ratios during breaks" (or close to it - forgive me if a word or two isn't quite right). Do y'all know what that MEANS?!?!? It means that the person covering your break is ONLY covering your patients - they don't have their own assignment! What a wonderful thing! It's done that way in California because of legislation mandating nurse-patient ratios.
To the OP, you coworker sounds ignorant -and I mean that in the nicest way. She seems to not understand "how we do it here." Hopefully, someone can establish a relationship with her and guide her managing her workload and prioritizing care needs. She should not have to work an entire shift straight through with no breaks just because she's new and slow. But neither should she be asking you to do a dressing change or a routine med. On the other hand, if she's really having an occassional bad night, she should be able to go to the Charge and say "I'm drowning. Is there someone who can do Room 12's dressing change? (or whatever)" - 5Jan 23, '13 by batmikI agree with AnonRNC. A break is relief from work duties it doesn't mean every single thing is done. Working in California at a hospital that follows keeping ratios at all times makes break relief much more doable. I would not expect someone to do a complex dressing change but pass meds sure, ambulate a patient sure, call a doctor for a sleeper sure. Last night got a new order for Coumadin right before my break, the pharmacy hadn't approve it yet, should I wait to go on break and throw the whole break schedule off, no the break relief nurse is paid to take over my load while on break. I've worked as break relief and rarely am I given tasks to do that I think the primary should do.
Some times I think nurses are their own worse enemy. They tolerate working conditions such as working without breaks without blinking an eye. In California if you miss a 30 minute meal break you get paid one hour of pay. If you miss one or both 15 minutes breaks you get paid an extra hour. Do I put in for this if I miss a break....... heck yeah! Does it happen often...... heck no! But I always have legitmate reasons for it happening.
Also by law anytime a break is interrupted you are allowed to restart your break.
The original poster does need to speak with this new nurse but some issues lay in the unit culture and some at organization and state level. - 1Jan 23, '13 by ♪♫ in my ♥I just don't get it...
(I) would never think of expecting the nurse that covers me to pass a med or do anything for my patient...
When I'm being "covered" then that means essentially that the person covering me is *doing* the work that needs to be done... otherwise I'm not "covered."
except of course tend to the call bellmelmarie23 likes this. - 2Jan 23, '13 by Orange TreeI ask covering nurses to give pain medication on occasion. Sometimes I have a PRN that I know the patient will want in exactly 15 minutes, but the same situation with another patient/pain med in 35 minutes, Should I put off break for 40 minutes and hope that my new admit doesn't show up as I'm giving the second pain med? I would never expect a covering nurse to do my dressing changes or put down my NG tubes, but giving a med (scheduled or PRN) shouldn't be a huge deal unless the nurse you're asking is already overwhelmed.
I don't want my nursing buddies starving themselves because they're afraid to ask me to give a norco. I will give your norco. I might even get your patient an extra blanket. Go feed your weary self. - 0Jan 23, '13 by ♪♫ in my ♥Quote from AnonRNCAnd also because it's in our contract.Someone else mentioned that they "maintain our ratios during breaks" (or close to it - forgive me if a word or two isn't quite right). Do y'all know what that MEANS?!?!? It means that the person covering your break is ONLY covering your patients - they don't have their own assignment! What a wonderful thing! It's done that way in California because of legislation mandating nurse-patient ratios.
All in California, my first two jobs were non-union; this one is union... the union place is so much better... and our nurses are a great team who totally have each others' backs. - 0Jan 23, '13 by MichigangirlThat is what I was wondering, how much do people expect the other nurses to do for them...
I don't want a detailed report on someone else's patients... just tell me who is a DNR, and who might need pain meds in the next hour. I don't mind answering call lights, toileting, things like that, but if you know that someone needs an antibiotic hung in 15 minutes, why wouldn't you do it yourself before you go?
Sometimes I have enough trouble keeping up with my own load!
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Dec 23, 2011Amazing game, had it since alpha and I still cannot get enough, best of its kind. Notch has done a great job with this game I hope him and Mojang keep bringing out the updates :)
Dec 23, 2011MineCraft is really awesome game . You can sit all the day and play it . After few maps on singleplayer you will move to Multiplayer and after around few months you will get bored again . Then you will download some mod and you will be addicted again . minecraft is ultra fun game
Dec 25, 2011how could you hate a game that lets you do whatever you want there is no downside if you dont like something mods are easy as pie and ill bet most haters dont play on a server with friends cause thats where the real fun is
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Dec 27, 2011Minecraft is the best game ever.The Grafik is nice and if you don't like it,insall a texture pack.You want to play even more and more.Buy it,20 â
Dec 28, 2011Minecraft proved to be the great game independent of year 2011, Minecraft is a game that explores the infinite creativity and puts the games back at the top of survival.
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Jan 8, 2012Minecraft is a very good game where you can do a lot of things just with block... You can have a lot of fun... Notch is a pretty cool guy the game is really awesome.......................
Jan 7, 2012A wonderfully balanced game. With all of the different mods and texture packs, you can never get bored. Multiplayer is awesome and I've sunk hundreds of hours. Definitely a 10.
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Apr 23, 2012If you have anything bad to say about this game you are stupid. This game is fun because f the building and digging and playing with your friends. Some of these reviews are complaining about money shut up about money why did u buy the game then. If you like creating things and enjoy games that you can play with friends this game is for you.
Apr 1, 2012It's a fairly good game. The graphics don't bother me at all. I actually think that they give the game a unique quality. It's fun to roam around and just explore whatever you want. To build whatever you want to is also a very fun thing to do. Overall, pretty good game. Not the best sandbox game I've ever played, but certainly not the worst.
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Feb 1, 2012Minecraft is a creative and fun game. Unlimited world space. and you can build whatever you want in this game. Ive spend over 100 hours playing this game. Great job Notch!
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Feb 12, 2012Create your own world in this simple and fun game. Although its clearly lacking in the graphics department, which is not of concern, this game lets you expand on any creativity you have to let you build your own world. I've wasted hours exploring, making houses, and surviving. You would be crazy not to buy this game.
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Mar 14, 2012This game Is absolutely revolutionary. However I cant give it a 10 because of the new pointless NPC villages and the new world generation. Still a great game though
Feb 28, 2012Minecraft ist meiner Meinung Nach eines der besten Indiespiele aller Zeiten! Wie das Spiel funktioniert ist schnell verstanden. Blöcke abbauen, einsammeln und Items craften. Ein simples, aber geniales Prinzip. AnschlieÃ
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Mar 6, 2012Very hard to talk about as a game, which may be the 9/10. But I have put tons of hours into this and watched it evolve from alpha, to beta, to release and get better and better. A lot of fun if you like building stuff, if you are a MW3 fan, then you might want to stay away.
Mar 7, 2012Excellent game that can be played in a variety of ways. While I find the survival aspects wear themselves out fairly quickly, the building aspect of the game is extremely fun, and is literally limited only by your own creativity and patience. The game is literally what you make of it.
Mar 9, 2012Minecraft is a revolution. Its concept is simple yet so addictive. It was copied by Terrarria which is also pretty good. The 3D is pretty bad whn you look closely but from a distance it can create true masterpieces. Google them and you'll see. A really innovative game that is deserving of the success it got.
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May 18, 2012Epic. Best game ever so far. Beautiful graphics, terrain. And "turing complete" redstone logic. Yeah, the game isnt really finished yet, but it's nearly open source (thanks java) so everybody can extend and modify what he wants. I bought it for 10â
Mar 23, 2012Minecraft is a game on survivalism. It teaches you the basics to survive in a world you spawn in.
What's great about this game: There's always something to accomplish every time you play!
What's not so great about this game: I can't sing "I'm on a Boat" when I'm actually on a boat correctly...
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Mar 24, 2012Only recently started playing after noticing all the hype. Really addictive, rather clever and unique!
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Apr 14, 2012Minecraft is a great game but i dont play it mush because then minecraft gets boring but the only thing i miss is the old minecraft there are too much new stuff in the game but if youre new its a great great game
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Apr 19, 2012Minecraft offers a somewhat simple experience in designing what you want with some adventure elements placed in. While there are some bugs, Minecraft excels in exactly what it advertised, the power for us to build to our heart's content. Despite this Minecraft feels somewhat incomplete though every block of it is still worth what you paid for.
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Dec 12, 2013The PC version of "Minecraft" is fantastic. It's a brilliantly designed 3-D game. You can play by yourself and construct houses, explore caves and fight mobs. You can also play online and build together with your friends, PVP with other online players, or just explore the beauty of Minecraft together with friends. Definitely a recommended game for young and old.
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May 19, 2012This will/would be excellent game if it had just a bit more depth in content. Hope the guys at Mojang will get some decent advancements to get it even more interesting. The digging and building part of the game gets quite tedious after few dosen worlds. Multiplaying makes the world a bit more alive and more fun.
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Jun 2, 2012I am a Chinese player. But in China, it is not very popular.
It's a creative game. But Chinese education kills students' creativity.
So, many students think it's a puerile game.
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Jun 2, 2012I have to give the user score a boost here, a lot of hateful trolls are trying to make it look bad.
Minecraft is what you make of it, and if you suck at making good things, then the game is going to suck for you. But that doesnt make it a bad game. You just suck. -
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Jun 10, 2012This is one of the best indie games out there. This one can't be missed. You can make so much stuff, a lot of excitement, just one of the best out there. Don't listen to the bad reviews!
Jun 10, 2012Some people hate the game. I seriously don't know why. Its a fun game were you can do pretty much anything you want. Anyways its a very good game and mabye play the game for more than 5 minutes before you rate it.
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Jun 19, 2012Minecraft proves that modern games don't need fancy graphics or in-depth story to be truly amazing. Highly recommended, and one of the most innovative games I have ever played.
Jul 16, 2012For the amount of games I own in my steam library, and on the xbox the game that I still have put more hours in, and continue to put many hours in is Minecraft. I don't know why this game is so incredibly addicting but it keeps me coming back day after day.
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Jul 29, 2012Minecraft is the best pc game I had ever played.I loved the way you have to create your own house and live there. You can do crafting which is great.
Jul 29, 2012Notch is thick and it is from Sweden, if you bought Minecraft you are what destroys the games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jun 11, 2013It is truly the worlds only true "open-world" game, having unlimited possibilities, unlimited stories, and an unlimited world. Minecraft has plenty of flaws, but it adds to the game somehow, making it more interesting, and, occasionally, frustrating. The only limit Minecraft has is the limit of the players own mind, and that is what makes it special.
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Dec 31, 2012This game is truly a wonder of 8-bit gaming, I mean who doesn't like donkey kong or super mario bros? If you want an older 8-bit feel with a touch of 3D than this is the game for you, easy to learn and the mobs are easy to fight, plenty of mods to make the game better. The only problem ive had with it is it gets boring after awhile, but all games do.
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Apr 6, 2013I don't understand that why people think Minecraft is a low-graphic game? Are you serious? This game does not about GRAPHIC. This is about your creativity. You can do whatever you want! Like castles,houses... Example, someone made a Battlefield 3 map in Minecraft (Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be3CyvUptEc) This game will broad your mind. Just build something. Or play with your friends.
Mar 17, 2013Minecraft is a great game. Ia would recommend this game whether you are a hardcore gamer or just someone who is looking for a game just to kick back and relax. Some people may think that this game gets a bit boring but that is why there are tons of mods to experiment with.
Jul 6, 2013This is the game that made indie gaming so popular it is really good while the graphics aren't realistic they are memorable and not dull but interesting the exploration is really encouraging and will keep you engaged the unlimited creativity is what makes this game excel. Then there are all the mods and texture packs.
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Mar 29, 2013Opening the door for creativity and absolute sandbox give this game a perfect score in my book. Gamers understand that sometimes the modding community can make the game so much more than its original developers... for for that This game will be forever entered into the hall of firsts. some times good graphics do not matter, as long as mechanics and fun exist. HINT HINT AAA developers.
Mar 23, 2013Amazing game! Unending fun, addicting multiplayer, and the ability to be extremely creative make this one of the most memorable and maybe one of the best games of all time. You can put hundreds of hours into Minecraft and still have fun.
Mar 28, 2013This game is amazing its endless fun and hard to stop playing. If you don't like the main game that's fine just check out some mods. If you don't like the graphics get a texture pack. Over all this is an amazing game.
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Apr 6, 2013I don't really know what to write in here. Minecraft is just awesome. If you are creative, you'll never get out of work and fun! To describe it very short: Minecraft is THE game, I would take to a lonely island!
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Feb 6, 2012The 1.0 version of the indie phenomena is still obviously unfinished and flawed in many ways, but it's so easy to forget that when you're building your dream castle, exploring scary caves and vast mountain ranges and having a great time in its blocky world.
Jan 30, 2012While Minecraft may not be everybody's cup of tea, I doubt anyone can deny that it's an important step into new territory.
Jan 29, 2012A must-play title - as much a part of videogaming as it is anything else. [Issue#118, p.102]


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The Office of Immigrant Worker Compliance there cited 41 businesses for failing to check new hires against E-Verify, put them on probation and had them enroll with E-Verify, according to data on the office's website.
But just because a business is enrolled in E-Verify does not mean they are using it, Pace said.
"A lot of time they sign-up, but with the economy the way it is, they don't use it," she said.
Small businesses, in particular, claim E-Verify is an unfair financial and legal burden, causing many to simply ignore the mandate, experts say.
"Small businesses don't have lawyers on staff or HR [human resources] departments to handle this," said Alex Nowrasteh, a Cato Institute immigration policy analyst. "Big businesses have that and it won't cost them a lot more to verify."
Nowrasteh's report, "The Economic Case Against Arizona's Immigration Laws," put the cost of a single E-Verify query at $147, for labor, paperwork and additional steps an employer might take to fully comply with the law.
With many small businesses operating on slimmer profit margins, Nowrasteh said he was surprised that 19 percent of Arizona firms with four or fewer employees were enrolled in E-Verify.
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For Anna Johnson, who owns Super Embroidery and Screenprinting in Phoenix, participating in E-Verify makes business sense.
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Johnson began using E-Verify at sbout 2005, when it was still a voluntary federal system. Now enrolled under the state law, Johnson said she feels more secure when hiring. If she was not using E-Verify and was audited again, she "would be scared to death."
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Synta Pharmaceuticals has a market cap of $317 million and an enterprise value of $232 million. This stock trades at a fair valuation, with a price-to-book of 5.35. Its estimated growth rate for this year is -12.3%, and for next year it's pegged at 4.2%. This is a cash-rich company, since the total cash position on its balance sheet is $90.39 million and its total debt is $23.64 million. After you back out the debt, this company has $66.75 million of total cash on its balance sheet.
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UPDATE 2-Foreign buyers snap up shares in Iraq's Asiacell
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* Foreigners account for 70 pct of demand for share sale
* Asiacell to start trading on Baghdad bourse on Monday
* Share sale is Iraq's largest, 2 other telcos must follow (Recasts, adds foreigner dominate buy orders, investor quotes)
By Aseel Kami
BAGHDAD, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Foreign investors bought more than two-thirds of Iraqi mobile operator Asiacell's $1.35 billion share sale, with parent Qatar Telecom expected to have increased its stake.
The share offer was one of the Middle East's biggest in the last few years, and was seen as a test of investor confidence for future deals as Iraq recovers from years of war, political instability and financial sanctions.
Domestic rivals Zain Iraq, a subsidiary of Kuwait's Zain , and France Telecom affiliate Korek are also required to sell shares under the terms of their licences, having missed an August 2011 deadline, along with Asiacell.
Taha Abdulsalam, chief executive of the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX), told Reuters on Sunday it had received orders for all 67.5 billion Asiacell shares on sale, comprising 25 percent of the company's share capital.
Qatar Telecom (Qtel), which owned 53.9 percent of Asiacell before the sale, was expected to increase its holding, Layth Sulaiman, head of the exchange's board of governors, said last week.
Ali al-Mukhtar, a local broker, on Sunday said most buyers were foreigners, with Qtel the main acquirer. Qtel was not immediately available to comment.
Qtel in June agreed to pay $1.5 billion to raise its stake in Asiacell to 60 percent from 30 percent, with the remaining 6.1 percent pending regulatory approval.
Firas Mechael, a member of the ISX board of governors, said foreign investors placed orders for more than 47 billion shares, with Iraqis accounting for the rest. In total, there were 2,900 separate orders. The shares were sold at 22 Iraqi dinars ($0.02) each.
A breakdown of purchases by foreign investors was not available.
The share sale is technically not an initial public offering (IPO), with Asiacell having earlier completed a nominal IPO so that it could convert to a joint stock company as required under Iraqi law to be able to list on the local bourse.
As a secondary offering, some shareholders offloaded their shares - Faruk Group Holding, owner of an estimated 40 percent, stake was thought to be a main seller - and they will receive the proceeds, rather than Asiacell.
Trading had been expected to start on the exchange on Sunday, but it will now begin on Monday, ISX officials said.
Investors on the trading floor of the Baghdad bourse, which has a daily turnover of about $4.9 million, gave a mixed reaction.
Some cheered and congratulated each other. Yaseen al-Dulaimi, a local investor who had bought 10 million shares, said he expects the share price to rise when trading starts on Monday, but Ammar Jassim, 32, was more wary.
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Banking and financial companies make up most of the 85 stocks quoted on the ISX. Asiacell's listing values the telecom operator at $5.4 billion and will more than double the bourse's market capitalisation when it starts trading. (Reporting by Aseel Kami in Baghdad, Writing and additional reporting by Matt Smith in Dubai, Editing by Andrew Torchia and Erica Billingham)
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The climate talk at Durban is heading for a stalemate. I do not see any major breakthrough other than some sort of "Durban declaration / mandate" to take the negotiation process forward. We might also have some decision on Green Climate Fund and its architecture, which the host South Africa and the African Union is pushing for.
The discussion on the latest draft decision text and language has been thrown open, for Tuvalu has made a strong and determined representation against the use of new market mechanisms as instruments of climate mitigation in the climate treaty of the future.
We are scanning the document. More on it later.
Durban, December 7: It is a humdinger. At 138 pages of bracketed text, and paragraph shifts, this exemplar of sharp and concise decision-making is longer than the one the Chair circulated on Saturday, December 3, 2011.
Let's look at an immediately notable 'change' between the two drafts, for now only in the text related to 'A shared vision for long-term cooperative action'.
Durban, December 7: Today, Wedsensday 7 December, 2011, the high-level segment will discuss the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Ministers will put their wise heads together and decide the fate of the GCF, which has had quite a stormy year since its inception at the Cancun CoP in 2010. Their goal is to create what is called a 'cover decision' that adopts the governing instrument and puts in place an interim arrangement until the GCF is finally operational.
Agenda item 3.2.5: Various approaches, including opportunities for using markets, to enhance the cost-effectiveness of, and to promote, mitigation actions, bearing in mind different circumstances of developed and developing countries
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By Ambuj Sagar, Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Durban, December 6: Remove the firewall at all costs: this sums up what the rich countries are doing in the climate negotiations at Durban to remove the differentiation between past polluters – responsible for climate change impacts currently occurring – and the future polluters, who need ecological space to grow.
This is the core of the politics at the Durban conference on climate change. The rich countries are doing all they can, in different ways, to remove this distinction, for until the distinction remains, they will have to take action first to reduce and create carbon space for the poorer countries to increase their emissions.


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Mar. 13: Guy Cools, Move Over dance lecture series
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The Department of Contemporary Dance presents
Move Over
, an exciting new lecture series.
Admission to
Move Over
lectures is free of charge and everyone is welcome. All lectures in the 2013 series will take place in MB 7.265 (1450 Guy St.).
Feb. 13, 3 to 4 p.m.:
Marie-Hélène Falcon - Curating Interdisciplinarity
Marie-Hélène Falcon, artistic director of Festival Transamériques, an international event celebrating new works in contemporary dance and theatre, will address curatorial methods for programming contemporary dance and theatre.
Feb. 15, 2 to 4 p.m.:
Mårten Spångberg - Dance for Political Reasons
Mårten Spångberg is a performance-related artist, choreographer and theoretician living based in Stockholm. He has collaborated with among others Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt/Les Ballets C de la B, Jan Ritsema, Krõõt Juurak. His interests concern choreography in an expanded field, something that he has approached through experimental practices and creative process in multiplicity of formats and expressions. In this lecture, Spångberg recalls the last 20 years of focus on choreography in order to sketch a landscape on which dance as autonomous expression carries political potentiality.
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Sarah Chase - Narrative in Dance
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Jets place Mark Sanchez on short-term injured reserve
The New York Jets have gone back and forth on the matter of what to do with Mark Sanchez ever since he suffered a labral tear in his right shoulder against the New York Giants in an Aug. 24 preseason game. There had been rumors about Sanchez getting season-ending surgery after consulting with Dr. James Andrews about his shoulder, and just as many people opining that Sanchez was happy with his rehab process and was looking to return sooner than later.
Finally, on Saturday, the Jets announced a compromise. Sanchez was placed on the league's Injured Reserve, Designated to Return list. He will be eligible to return to practice after six weeks, and he can be placed on the active roster eight weeks from now. The earliest he could potentially see the field would be Nov. 17 against the Buffalo Bills, the week after the team's bye.
"If we didn't think it was realistic that Mark would get back on the field, we'd put him on injured reserve, and that's not the case," Rex Ryan said on Friday when he was asked about Sanchez's progress. "He's doing a great job in rehab. Our doctors and trainers are pleased."
Sanchez had said that he won the quarterback competition with Geno Smith at the time of his injury, which Ryan refuted to a point.
"That's his opinion. It's not about a company line," Ryan said Friday. "If that's what he said, that's his opinion. Again, there is that ongoing competition. I never said he won the competition."
Sanchez is due an $8.5 million salary in 2013, and that's guaranteed no matter what happens. The Jets can more easily offload the rest of the onerous five-year, $58.25 million contract extension he signed in March, 2012. He's due a $2 million roster bonus, and in the end, the current posturing between the two sides is mere preamble to Sanchez's inevitable release before that roster bonus comes due.
Smith threw three fourth-quarter interceptions in the Jets' 13-10 Thursday loss to the New England Patriots, but looked fairly consistent in his regular-season debut against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an 18-17 last-second win for the Jets.
Sanchez has completed 1,028 passes in 1,867 attempts for 12,092 yards, 68 touchdowns, and 69 interceptions in his NFL career. The Jets, under the auspices of new general manager John Idzik, selected Smith in the second round of the 2013 draft.


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GE dishwasher model PDW7880G00SS blows the ckt breaker
This isn't a question, but rather a fix to a dishwasher problem that I just wanted to post so it might help someone, someday...
I found this question on justask.com: "I have a 6 year old ge profile pdw7880g00ss.when you touch the start button it kick off the breaker. I HAVE replaced the module and the escutcheon key pad and still have the same problem. I also looked at all wires and did not see any bare wires. " This is pretty much exactly the problem I was having. Thanks to their post, I didn't buy the control module but looked for the answer elsewhere. Turns out the problem was with a diode in the wiring to the water valve. There's a diode in the wiring to the water valve that is meant to control the flyback voltage from the valve's solenoid. But it went bad and would short power to ground when the power was sent to the water valve to turn it on. The diode has a 220V breakdown voltage. I went to www.digikey.com and found part # 1.5KE220CALFCT-ND that would replace the component. Actually just about any diode that has a part # that matches 1.5KE220CA will work in case that part is out of stock. The diode is surrounded by black heat shrink tubing. The tubing will have a little bulge where the diode is. It's in a wire that connects the valve's power line to ground. You have to cut away the tubing to get at the diode. That heat shrink tubing is going to be hard to replace as it's meant for use in wet environments. You could probably get a replacement at a store that has marine wiring supplied, like West Marine or Outdoor World. Note that when you replace the diode, you have to have the polarity correct! If you don't, it'll just break the ckt breaker again. Shouldn't cause any damage if you wire it in backwards the first time though. Hope this helps someone... jason |
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GE dishwasher model PDW7880G00SS blows the ckt breaker
Thank you for the note. My breaker started to trip on our GE profile dishwasher after 16 years of perfect performance. I immediately went to Google and found this note. I pulled the unit out from the counter and cut out the TVS guessing it was the culprit. An ohmmeter confirmed the short across both directions. My friend had a similar component (an MOV which clips any over voltages) and I put it in today and the dishwasher now fires up the water solenoid with no problems. On New Year's Eve I was not going to get any parts so thanks for helping solve this quickly.
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I bet I could still fence though. I could get into it again. But like underground, you know? Street fencing. Like fight club but with foils and French.
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I play guitar. And I fence. Or I did in high school. I'm better at guitar than I am at fencing. Which is, actually, not saying that much?
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Siesta Key Beach has been named the top beach in the country. No news there.
The designation was snagged last month when Dr. Beach — nationally recognized Dr. Stephen Leatherman, director of Florida International University's Laboratory for Coastal Research — named our white-sand attraction as tops.
Naturally enough, Siesta Key hotels, restaurants, other merchants and leaders want to let the world know. They will be doing so in marketing campaigns at every opportunity. They also rightly want to let people know upon arrival.
The Siesta Key Village Association and Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce want banners to be flying from both approaches to the island, loudly proclaiming that drivers are entering the home of the best beach in the nation. Rightly so. Everyone should be proud that we have such a jewel.
Alas, the problem being run up against — and this cannot be a surprise to anyone — is government regulations at the county level.
Sarasota County has strict zoning regulations for signage. Some of those regulations are clearly over the top and even dangerous. Those looking for a retailer for the first time and trying to find it among the small monument signs, which commissioners and bureaucrats have grown so fond of, is apt to cause problems for others by having to drive so slowly to find their destination.
Among the sign regulations is a general ban on banner signs, except for special occasions, such as temporary community events. Apparently they are too gaudy. Whatever.
The thing is, county officials seem to want to accommodate Siesta Key's desires. But they are going to have to massage their own rules to make it happen.
Honestly, this should have been an easy action, except for the constant trip wires of government regulations. It is always interesting to watch how government deals with getting around the same rules it is less inclined to let private citizens get around.
Nonetheless, Sarasota County needs to find a way, and swiftly, to allow banner signs to be put up for this year. Find a zoning loophole such as community events that last most of a year, or some sort of emergency exception. Once a beach reaches the No. 1 designation, it is retired from the list. So maximum exposure this year counts and time is ticking away.
However, Siesta Key and county leaders should find a way to more permanently memorialize the designation. One suggestion might be for a plaque or other sign on the north and south bridges that would let everyone know they are entering the Key with the No. 1 rated beach in 2011. Or perhaps leave off the date.
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It has a nice ring to it. Let it ring out for a lot of years.
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With defeat at Thermopylae, the inconclusive naval battle at Artemision, and Xerxes' Persian army on the rampage, the Greek city-states faced an unprecedented attack, one which threatened their very existence. The tide would turn, though, in September 480 BCE at the Battle of Salamis in the Saronic Gulf, a naval battle which would rank as one of the greatest and most significant in antiquity. Overcoming superior numbers with daring tactics and sheer determination, the allied Greek forces won a freedom which would allow a never-before-seen period of artistic and cultural endeavour which would form the foundations of Western culture for millennia.
Context: The Persian Wars
By the first years of the 5th century BCE, Persia, under the rule of Darius (r. 522-486 BCE), was already expanding into mainland Europe and had subjugated Thrace and Macedonia. The next objective was to quell once and for all the collection of potentially troublesome rebel states on the western border of the Empire. In 490 BCE Greek forces led by Athens met the Persians in battle at Marathon and defeated the invaders. The battle would take on mythical status amongst the Greeks, but in reality it was merely the opening overture of a long war with several other battles making up the principal acts. In 486 BCE Xerxes became king, and he invaded first the Cyclades and then the Greek mainland after victory at Thermopylae in August 480 BCE against a token Greek force. At the indecisive naval battle of Artemision (also in August 480 BCE), the Greeks held off the superior numbers of the Persian fleet but were obliged to regroup at Salamis.
Greece then, lay open to the invaders and Persian forces rampaged through the Greek poleis or city-states, sacking even Athens itself. Some 30 Greek poleis, however, were preparing to fight back and the Battle of Salamis would show Xerxes that Greece, or at least a large chunk of it, was far from being conquered.
The Persian Fleet
The vast Persian Empire stretched from the Danube to Egypt and from Ionia to Bactria, and Xerxes was able to draw on a huge reserve of resources to amass a huge invasion force. Ariabignes, the son of Darius, commanded the Ionian, Carian, Achaimene, and Egyptian fleets. Cybernis, the king of Xanthos, led the Lycian fleet of 50 ships. Artemisia, the tyrant of Halicarnassus, led the Dorian fleet of 30 ships and other known commanders included Prexaspes, Megabazus, and Achaimenes. Technically, the Persians, and especially the Phoenicians, were better seamen, but as the fleet was drawn from all parts of the Empire, the motivation and communication levels were perhaps less than their opponents who all spoke the same language and who were fighting not only for their own survival but that of their families and their way of life.
The exact number of ships in the Persian fleet is not known. Herodotus in his Histories (440-430 BCE) compiles precise lists but these are widely thought to be exaggerated and unreliable. Also, his list is for the Persian fleet which originally sailed to Greek waters and by the time of Salamis, many would have been left to guard ports and supply routes or have been lost in storms (especially at Magnesia) and in the Battle of Artemision a month earlier. Nevertheless, below are his figures for triremes - warships with three banks of oars (note the contributions from conquered or pro-Persian Greek cities):
- Phoenician 300
- Egyptian 200
- Cyprian 150
- Cilician 100
- Ionian 100
- Hellespontine 100
- Carian 70
- Aolian 60
- Lycian 50
- Pamphylian 30
- Dorian 30
- Cyclades 17
An alternative source - the writer of Greek tragedy Aeschylus - does seem to support Herodotus in his Persae (472 BCE) where he states that the Persian fleet had 1,207 ships compared to the Greek force of only 310. Accounting for losses incurred in the manner described above it is estimated that perhaps around 500 triremes faced the Greeks at Salamis but there is no scholarly consensus on even an approximate figure. There would also have been many smaller ships such as penteconters (50 oars) and triaconters (30 oars) but Herodotus' figure of 3000 seems wildly exaggerated.
The Greek Fleet
The allied Greek fleet was commanded by the Spartan Eurybiades, a surprising choice considering it was Athens who was the great naval power and supplied by far the most ships. The two other senior commanders were Themistocles of Athens and Adeimantus of Corinth. In effect, tactics and strategy were decided by a council of 17 commanders from each of the contributing contingents. However, it is Themistocles, the brilliant naval commander, drawing on his twenty-year experience and flush from the success of Artemision against far superior numbers, who is widely credited with deciding to hold position at Salamis instead of retreating to the isthmus of Corinth and masterminding the Greek victory.
Herodotus' figures are once again inconsistent, his grand total of 380 triremes making up the Greek fleet is 15 more than the sum of his individual state contributions:
- Athens 200
- Corinth 40
- Aegina 30
- Megara 20
- Sparta 16
- Sicyon 15
- Epidaurus 10
- Eretria 7
- Ambracia 7
- Troezen 5
- Naxos 4
- Hermione 3
- Leucas 3
- Styra 2
- Ceos 2
- Cythnos 1
The figures for some states are suspiciously similar to those given before the Battle of Artemision, implausibly suggesting either they suffered next to no losses in that conflict or a swift replacement of vessels. Aeschylus states a total figure of 310 and Thucydides 400. In summary, we can only say that the Persian fleet seems to have significantly outnumbered the Greek.
The Trireme
Both sides had very similar ships - the triremes (triērēis) - which were 40-50 ton wooden warships up to 40 m long. Light, streamlined, and manoeuvrable, they were powered in battle by 170 oarsmen split in three ranks down each side of the ship. Able to rapidly accelerate, break, zigzag, and turn 360 degrees in just two ships' lengths, good seamanship could place the vessel to best advantage and employ the principal strategy of naval warfare at that time which was to ram the enemy, making full use of the bronze ram fitted to the prow of the vessel. Triremes also carried a small complement of soldiers, at least 10 hoplites and four archers. The Persians generally carried more - 14 combatants and 30 Medes armed with bow, spear, and sword. These extra troops came into their own when at close quarters with the enemy and in the case of boarding an enemy vessel.
Triremes had a weakness in that they could only operate effectively in relatively calm seas with waves less than 1 m high; otherwise, water would enter via the oar-ports and flood the ship. Also, they had to stay close to shore as each night they needed to be beached if the light wood was not to become water-logged, significantly reducing the speed performance of the vessel. In addition, there was very little space on board for provisions and no room to sleep so the crews had no choice but to land each night. Prior to the battle the Greek ships were beached at several bays on the island of Salamis from Cynosoura to Paloukia. Here too were much of the evacuated populace of Athens and Attica. The Persians, meanwhile, were stationed at the Phaleron Bay, less than 10 km away across the Saronic Gulf and close to the captured Piraeus.
Commanders led from the front and each would have been on his own ship at the heart of the battle. From there, manoeuvres could be signalled to other ships in the fleet using flags and trumpets. However, once the battle got fully underway, naval conflicts became a case of a single ship against a single opponent rather than precisely coordinated manoeuvres.
Prior to full engagement between the opposing fleets, there were two principal strategies employed by the more able commanders. The first was sailing around the enemy line (periplous) and the second was smashing through gaps in the enemy line and attacking from their rear flank (diekplous). Both were designed to get one's ship in a position to ram the weakest point of the enemy - the side or stern quarter. The objective was to puncture a hole in the enemy vessel or break a sufficient number of their oars to disable the ship. To avoid damaging one's own oars, crews were drilled to withdraw them in a matter of seconds (usually on only one side of the ship whilst the other side maintained the momentum of the vessel). As a defence against these two tactics, an able commander would ensure one of his flanks was closed off by shallows or coastline and ensure his crews were sufficiently drilled to maintain close order. In open water the ships could be organised in a defensive circle or an arc (more practical with larger fleets) with prows pointing outwards (kyklos).
The Battle
The actual details of the battle are sketchy and often contradictory between ancient sources. Nevertheless, presenting the most commonly agreed upon elements, the first action of the battle was the defection of two Ionian ships to the allied Greek fleet. Themistocles, perhaps sending messages to the pro-Persian Greek state fleets, had hoped for more such defections but no others occurred. One such ship from Tenos informed the Greeks that the Persians were amassing in the straits, blocking in the Greek fleet. The Persians had moved into position overnight, hoping to surprise the enemy, but this strategy was unlikely to be successful considering the short distances involved and the noise made by the rowers. There is also the possibility that Themistocles had sent messages to Xerxes intimating the fragile Greek alliance was breaking up and the fleet was about to retreat.
Probably, the two fleets aligned along an oblique east-west axis with the Persians close to the mainland shore with both fleets having a friendly shore behind them. Indeed, proximity to the opposite mainland shore would have been avoided by the Greek ships due to Xerxes' positioning there of a contingent of his archers. On the western (right) wing the Phoenicians faced the Athenians and the Ionians against the Spartans. On the left flank of the Persians were the Carians and Dorians. Behind the main Greek line, the Aegina contingent and some of the Athenian ships waited in reserve. The Corinthians were stationed to the west of the battle lines protecting the passage to Eleusis whilst the pro-Persian Cyprians, Cilicians, and Hellespontines held back to the south, guarding the exit to Piraeus. According to Diodorus Siculus, Xerxes sent his Egyptian fleet to seal off the straits between Salamis and Megara and engage any Greek ships breaking off from the main fleet.
Overlooking from his command post in the early morning, Xerxes would have seen not a fleet about to retreat but the Greeks positioned two-ships deep along a 3 km long curve, perhaps presenting a line of 130 ships against the Persian main front of 150 ships, three ships deep. The Persians advanced, becoming more closely packed as they aligned themselves with the enemy's narrower front. The Greeks held position, drawing the Persians into an ever tighter confine. Ships began to ram each other and in the tight space they would have struggled to disengage. Then the armed soldiers on board would have come into their own with hoplites and archers fighting on the decks much as in a land battle. With more Persian ships pressing in from the rear and the Corinthians joining from the side, there must have been a chaos of broken ships and drowning men - particularly amongst the Persians who had no shore to retreat to and most probably could not swim.
With more space to manoeuvre, the Greek ships were able to pick off the closely packed Persian vessels which could not retreat because their lines were now several ships deep. By the afternoon, Greek victory was assured and the remaining Persian ships retreated to Asia Minor. The final stage of the battle was the transferral of the Greek hoplite force on Salamis over to the mainland which then made short work of the Persian land forces.
Once again the cryptic oracle of Apollo at Delphi had been proved right: 'only a wooden wall will keep you safe'. As at Artemision, the wooden ships of the combined Greek fleet had, for a second time, rebuffed the Persian advance.
The Aftermath
Following defeat, Xerxes returned home to his palace at Sousa and left the gifted general Mardonius in charge of the invasion. The Persian position was still strong despite the defeat - they still controlled much of Greece and their large land army was intact. After a series of political negotiations, it became clear that the Persians would not gain victory on land through diplomacy and the two opposing armies met at Plataea in August 479 BCE. The Greeks, fielding the largest hoplite army ever seen, won the battle and finally ended Xerxes' ambitions in Greece.
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11 Sep 490 BCE
482 BCEThemistocles persuades the Athenians to build a fleet, which saves them at Salamis and becomes their source of power.
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