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We started with Midnight Mass, fortunately well before midnight.... Began outside church, lighting the Easter Fire, from which we all lit candles and processed into the church. After the service there were eats downstairs, the first of a 24 hour marathon of Easter eating! Some of us then wandered down to the Orthodox church, as Easter falls on the same day for Eastern and Western churches this year. People were streaming out of the church with lighted candles, spreading the light in all directions.
Back to church i. The morning, after which we received official visits. I was encouraged that 2 people came from the Islamic Centre, one of them originally from our village. Other people who came were the mayor, politicians etc, as well as members of the congregation.
Home for a quick sleep before setting off for the Sisters,mwho were receiving guests. I stayed with them aerwards as we had been invited to supper, and what a supper, with the Sisters in a nearby town. I got a lift to supper and home afterwards, as I get blinded by headlights when driving at night. The supper was fantastic. The visiting priest, as well as being a man of God, is also great fun. We were telling jokes and anecdotes till 11 p.m.
I was amazed o. tuesday that I seemed to be back to my goal weight in spite of all that eating and not much exercise!
In our village we shall be having our belated Easter celebration on Friday. We shall tell the Easter story, from Jesus entry to Jerusalem when he was acclaimed as king, through his passion and death and resurrection, to his command to his disciples to go and spread the good news through the whole world. I now need to prepare the programme! People know whichnpart of the story they will be telling.
I shall probably blog aboutnhow that went, but had to blog today, as I am doing the 100 day challenge, and one of my aims is to blog at least once a week!
My friend is marrying a German, and has had to jump through hoops to qualify for a visa to join him in Germany. First she had to pass a (fairly simple) German exam, for which she had only a short time to prepare. Then she had to get various documents and get them translated and notarised and sent to her fiance. He sent them back, duly approved in Germany,but the post office mislaid them, so she got them 4 days after the Albanian 3 month deadline had expired. As the German documents are valid in Germany for 6 months, they couldn't even get replacements till the 6 months were up. Albania has agreements with many countries that she will accept their documents for 6 months, but no agreement to that effect with Germany. SO my friend had to wait till the 6 months were up and her fiance sent the new documents. Then she had to renew her own expired documents, and send them back to her fiance to be validated in Germany. After which, she was able to apply for a civil marriage here. (They will have a church wedding in Germany, when she eventually gets there).
Now the fun and games continues. They decided to have the marriage early, 8.30 a.m., as she wanted to get her application for a new passport handed in that day. They asked me to be a witness. Rain was forecast for that day, but in fact we had heavy snow, with really nasty slushy roads. I had asked my neighbour to take me to the registry office in the next town, as I didn't know where it was. I was glad not to have to drive in the driving snow on slushy roads. We arrived at the registry office and had to wait about half an hour as the girl was busy with other things. Then the fun started. When she saw my passport, she explained that, as a foreigner, I could not be a witness. My neighbour had come without his identity card and they needed proof of identity for him to be a witness. They rang the registry office where he is registered, but they couldn't help for some time as their internet connection was down... Eventually they got back to us to say he was who he said he was, so we did the formalities. By now the internet was down in our registry office.
In the registry office
Eventually we left the happy couple to wait for the internet to come back, and had a nightmarish drive through terrible roads till, to my relief, we arrived home safely. The happy couple waited all morning and the internet didn't come back. Don't know why they can't get a competent provider for the local authorities. My internet seldom fails.
Next item on the agenda was a small lunch party, just the bride and groom, the bride's immediate family, the other witness' family, and me. I was dreading the journey in the snow and we thought about putting on chains as I was taking my friend's sister and family. In fact the snow suddenly decided to stop falling and start melting and the roads cleared, to my relief. The lunch was at a restaurant I had not been to before.
in the restaurant
With great difficulty my friend had persuaded her mother to come to the restaurant, with moral support from her daughter's mother in law. She's embarrassed to eat out as she has no teeth.
Sister's mother in law and mother
The food was good, and they gave us so many starters we would have been satisfied without the generous portions of meat that followed.
There was lots of meat left over, so I packed it into my doggy box and gave it to the sister's family. Albanians are embarrassed to ask for doggie bags, tho the restaurants have no objection.
Now my friend has to get her new passport. Hopefully they were able to hand in the application for that today. Then she goes to the German consulate with new passport and marriage certificate etc to apply for the visa, which will take about 7 weeks. Then I shall lose my colleague and one of my best friends here. AT about the same time another good friend should also be leaving to join her (Albanian) husband in America. I'm happy for them, but we shall miss them both.
Have joined 100 days to new you challenge. My goals for this challenge are
1. 30 mins exercise a day, aiming to burn 150 cals at least, but yoga OK if I cant do more, e.g. Now, recovering from flu bug
2. 5-15 mins decluttering, except when away from home
3. Blog once a week
Exercise was a habit till sabotaged by flu.
Havent blogged since January, so it will be good to get into the habit.
DECLUTTERING is the main challenge, so important for present and future happiness. I also have a deadline to turn the present junk room back into a welcoming guest room for when my sister comes to visit on 30th April. When I eventually get my bedroom decluttered, I shall reward myself with some purpose built storage units, affordable in Albania.
Incidentally yesterday I contacted a workman who measured up my balcony for transparent plastic blinds I can raise or lower according to the wind. This will give me hours more each day when I can sit outside. And enjoy the sun. I was enjoying my capuccino at one of my favourite restaurants up the mountain, sitting on the balcony on a windy day, protected by the blind. I got the name and workplace location of the chap who had installed them. We found the place ysterday morning, he came in the afternoon. He is quiet, concerned that I should choose what will make me happy, unusual in Albania, and has proved his competence by the sample of his work I appreciated at the restaurant. And not expensive. One thing I wanted done while he was here, he suggested I wait till he has done the rest and see if I still feel I need it, in which case he will happily come back. He should do the job this week or next.
The little church by the nice restaurant part way up the mountain.
My jogging is gradually getting less slow. Interestingly uninterrupted jogging for about 10 mins is a few seconds slower than either walk-jogging or walking for the same distance!
When I set off up the mountain in a leisurely manner I arrive with more breath and more speed than when I tried to get there fast!
Last year I aimed to weigh the same at end of January as I had on Christmas Eve, and then to shed a kilo a month till I hopefully reached my goal weight in the summer. I weighed less by end of January than I had before Christmas, reached my goal weight early March and shed another 2 1/2 kilo while trying to find out how to maintain. I decided 2 kilo below original goal felt right, and failed to stay there!
A calorific month in Germany in October, visiting hospitable friends and enjoying German cuisine put on about 3 kilos. Thought I's take most of it off before Christmas. Took off about one kilo in those 2 months, not helped by feeling genuinely hungry.
Now I am exercising more, repeated January Jumpstart, and seem to have shed a second kilo. One more to go! Hunger pangs have stopped, which is a blessing.
SC Mail a Coach has been a great help. My year's half price sub has ended and I have not resubscribed as the programmes no longer met my needs and the Coach's advice had taught me good principles for working out. Not once but 3 times I sabotaged my progress by overexercising. The coach patiently helped me through this each time.
I celebrated getting my 10 year residence permit, no mean feat finding our way through multiple administrative hangups with the help of an exceptionally friendly, helpful policeman... I celebrated by treating myself to a microwave, which I use more than once a day. Saves time and washing up.
Once again, many thanks to SP, and particularly to supportive friends in Losers Keepers.
Incidentally forgive me for being rotten about failing to respond to kind comments. I hope I may reform....
Petri on the mountain.
Jumping jack squat reps up to 30, plus 10 to make 100. Very challenging today for some reason. Pushups over the hiccough. 5 reps stretches me to my limit, but I can do it this week.
Cardio blast. Have done all the workouts and sometimes repeated one.
Fit firm and fired up. I'm working at it. I find strength exercises challenging.
Last week I had no problem burning cals, but was an hour short of minutes on Saturday afternoon, my non-cardio day! I got the car out to go into town. Then waited for a thunderstorm. It came, but wouldn't go. I realised I needed to do my shopping, so went into town despite continuing rain. I don't have really waterproof clothes. But the rain stopped soon after I got into town, so I walked around for an hour and clocked up 11000 steps.
Today after the storm it was much fresher and cooler, so I took the dogs out. Getting home was complicated. There are 2 ways home. On the first one I saw a large loose dog, on the other one was a flock of sheep, who often have dogs who are bred and trained to protect their sheep from any perceived aggressor, which would ;probably include me and my dogs! I took a round about route and eventually got the shepherd to reply to my call. He didn't have a dog, so we passed in peace.
FOOD PLANNING remains semi-organised. I have about 5 portions of chili, and 5 of couscous. Have thawed some mince, but not yet decided what to do with it. Have the wherewithal to make panzanella salad etc. And a flatfish that will do at least 2 meals. I need to get my act together and make a quiche or breakfast casserole. I've been saying that for ages.
I'm eating my 5 helpings of veg and usually 5 of grains. The grains do increase calories consumed! But my weight seems to be staying fairly constant in spite of high calorie consumption!
I need to get into the garden more.
I'm concentrating hardest on getting the exercise programme running smoothly. That's making progress.


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Commissioners believe that's unfair to the local bars and restaurants.
Panama City Mayor Greg Brudnicki "I mean they're the ones who pay taxes year round to try and sustain themselves in business, so whenever there are a lot of people downtown, that someone can go into their establishment, and they could walk out of there with a beverage in their hand."
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Canton has elected Democrat Arnel Bolden as the city's new mayor.
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"I'm feeling a lot of humility. This has been an opportunity that the voters of our great city have bestowed upon me to be our city's next mayor. The office does not belong to me, it belongs to the voters. I'm just trying to take everything in and think about what lies ahead," Bolden said Tuesday night.
When Bolden takes office in July, he will succeed Mayor William Truly, whom he defeated in a runoff that followed the Democratic primary.
In the Ward 1 Board of Aldermen race, Rodriguez Brown, a Democrat, was leading independent Jeff Ross by one vote.
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At a Glance
To fill strategic positions in their organizations with top talent, nursing and finance leaders can:
Healthcare leaders are no strangers to strategic planning. They have developed visions. They have analyzed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). And they have allocated resources to best pursue their goals. However, strategic planning is about to become more challenging. Anticipating major payment changes in the near future, hospital leaders are struggling to maintain positive margins at the same time they must boost their strategic capabilities.
One of these capabilities is the efficient deployment of human resources. That's why most hospitals have a plan for their workforce development, although they may call it by different names. Some hospitals may refer to it as a "people strategy," while others may use another trendy title.
Traditionally, we hospital leaders have been eloquent about the need to hire and retain only "outstanding" people who are "team players." The current environment, however, calls on us to question whether this is a fiscally sound, or even attainable, goal. Can we realistically expect that we will be able to hire the "best and the brightest" for every job? Not likely. However, what we can, and must, do is identify, hire, and nurture top-of-the-line talent for the most critical jobs-those who could mean the difference between our organizational success and failure.
The idea that hospitals should strive to place only exceptional performers in every job is problematic for a number of reasons. It assumes, for instance, that:
In an environment of constrained resources, strategic planning should include an examination of these assumptions. Can we hire or develop only outstanding performers in every job, particularly with projected clinician shortages? Is every position equally important to attain our goals? If not, how do we determine which positions and which teams should be a priority for development? Given our limited budgets, should we prioritize our development dollars by position?
Appropriate education and training, as well as clear expectations and standards, can help all people improve their competence. However, with the rapid change in our industry, just maintaining competence requires continual education for most of the workforce. Some of that education is required by regulatory or accrediting bodies, which may not be as focused on strategic goals as is the hospital itself.
Hospitals should invest in their workforce simply to ensure they have competent individuals, not valedictorians, in each job. Outstanding individuals exist in every type of job, but that does not mean that each job requires every individual to perform at a higher level than his or her competent peers. Some expectations for job competence are reasonable for all employees, and others are not. For example, it is reasonable to expect all employees in the organization to show competence in customer service by following hospital scripts when answering the phone. And it is also reasonable to expect all nurses to be competent in placing an intravenous (IV) line according to an evidence-based procedure. But only a few nurses may be able to insert "difficult" IVs in veins that the majority of their peers can't "hit," and the fact that these nurses possess this exceptional IV ability does not mean their colleagues are incompetent.
That's not to say that there are no specific jobs that demand only excellence. The challenge is in knowing which jobs truly require only the most talented people if the hospital is to excel. Part of the organization's strategy should be to identify those positions.
In their book The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact (Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston, 2009), authors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty explain that a limited number of an organization's positions "have significant impact on one or more of the firm's strategic capabilities." These jobs are "characterized by a significant amount of variability in the performance of employees holding them." In other words, a large gap exists between high and low performers.
Although scarcity is not a determinant of strategic value, top talent for strategic positions is difficult to attract and retain. According to the authors, significant consequences to an organization can occur if a person who is not "top talent" is hired for and retained in a job that requires an "A" performer.
The idea of filling strategic positions with top talent is not new. One organization that has long practiced workforce differentiation is the U.S. Army. As officers move up in rank, they gain more control over assets essential to the success of military strategy. Promotion is strongly influenced by the officer's efficiency report, or annual evaluation, which is designed to evaluate strategic abilities needed by the Army. Not every officer will be promoted to the next level (there aren't very many generals, and there are many more lieutenants than colonels). Part of the evaluation is to compare each officer with his or her peers so the most capable will move into more strategic positions. Some years ago, this became a truly forced ranking, meaning each superior officer could place only a limited number of subordinates in "top box" ratings.
Strategies in the civilian world are different from those in military organizations. Becker, Huselid, and Beatty note that strategic positions are not necessarily the "top" positions in a hierarchy but exist at all levels of an organization. The authors caution that these jobs should not be confused with important positions. In health care, every job is important to the success of the organization or it would not exist.
Hospital leaders expect competence from every employee and provide education to help ensure this expectation is met.
However, some jobs have an inordinate influence on the success of a hospital or health system. These jobs also may differ from organization to organization, depending on the organization's strategic plan, but certain positions are likely to be more critical strategically than others. These positions include world-class clinicians in the organization's top service line, the financial leader responsible for investing the hospital's funds, (especially if much of the organization's income comes from investments rather than operations), and others responsible for the successful implementation of a strategic objective.
To be successful, each hospital or health system must determine which jobs are strategic positions in its own organization. As strategies change, the strategic job list may change as well.
At Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), we have instituted a process for identifying these "mission-critical" jobs. Hospital leaders have designed a systemwide talent management program to ensure that top talent is hired and retained for specific strategic positions. We deem a position to be strategic based on its significance for improving finances (by substantially enhancing revenue or reducing costs) and its impact on CHI's patients and communities.
To help determine the most critical positions at CHI, we've identified six capabilities essential to the organization's strategic plan. These capabilities are clinical excellence, operational excellence, strategic growth, transference of the ministry into the future, improvement of community health, and physician engagement.
At CHI, hospital leaders use these six capabilities as a basis to determine which job titles are most critical to advance a particular goal. This also assists the organization in assessing which individuals should be a priority for strategic team building. The rationale is simple: When those who are most important to the success of a particular strategy are working in sync, an organization is more likely to meet its goals.
Some positions, such as the CEO, CFO, CMO, CNO, and practice management leader, have a substantially higher impact on multiple strategies than other positions do. Many of our strategies depend on strong clinical leadership. At CHI, one of our first team building priorities is to strengthen CMO and CNO partnerships. Both leaders are members of clinical professions with strong experience and knowledge of patient care, quality, and safety. However, these leaders come into management with different knowledge and skills. For example, an individual CMO may have exceptional talent in understanding the medical profession and medical care, as well as the realities of working in an outpatient arena. On the other hand, a CNO may have more experience in operations, having progressed from staff nurse to middle manager to nurse executive. The CNO may understand nursing, as well as how to get things done in a complex organization. For an organization to meet the clinical goals that support its strategies, it needs the coordinated talents of both leaders.
An additional strategic position is the CFO. Besides having outstanding financial skills, top talent CFOs have exceptional interpersonal abilities. They are able to explain the organization's strategies to diverse stakeholders as well as communicate with, and sometimes teach, nonfinancial leaders about the connection between finances and continuation of the mission. These leaders partner with their clinical and operational peers to produce the value that results from high-quality care and high-quality financial management.
Clinical leaders are ideal for team building because of their strong impact on a system's strategic capabilities, says Lou Forbringer, CHI vice president for strategic talent management. "Successful facilities have CNOs and CMOs who work well as partners," he says. "If the CNO and CMO do not effectively collaborate, the probability of achieving the desired clinical and financial outcomes in our facilities is greatly diminished."
At CHI, the chief clinical officers' development program involves individual leadership skills assessments, followed by individualized management and leadership education, with special attention to cultivating the CNO-CMO dyad. This end is accomplished through shared formal educational experiences, joint responsibilities for projects, and open conversation about the two professions, which may be facilitated by a coach. Building strategic teams of any size requires that team members understand each person's role and responsibilities, and how his or her work enhances the rest of the team. Hospital leaders should not assume that everyone has the same picture of what a collaborative partnership looks like. Part of team building is to develop a shared understanding of actions, behaviors, and effective communications that are essential to true teamwork.
Although CHI is currently focused on nurturing CMO and CNO partnerships, system leaders will continue to focus on developing other positions, with an emphasis on building collaborative skills. One important triad to develop will be among the two clinical leaders and the organization's CFO. It will take the three of these strategic positions to ensure that the organization maximizes value through care quality and financial excellence.
Kathleen D. Sanford, RN, DBA, MA, FACHE, is senior vice president and CNO, Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver (email@example.com).
A Final Word on Top Talent
Good leadership requires collaboration throughout the organization, just as good management demands that all employees are competent, and that each has an opportunity to excel in his or her job. Outstanding individuals exist at every level in an organization. However, not enough resources-human or financial-exist for every hospital or health system to hire and retain only top talent in every job. For hospital leaders, identifying and developing the individuals and teams with the highest degree of influence on the successful implementation of strategic plans is not just good strategy. It is good stewardship.
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Number theory
Fractions and mixed numbers
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- K.5Mixed numbers
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Mixed operations
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- N.5Solve equations
- N.6Function tables
- N.7Convert graphs to input/output tables
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Coordinate graphs
Data and graphs
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- P.6Interpret pictographs
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- P.8Interpret histograms
- P.9Create histograms
- P.10Interpret line plots
- P.11Create line plots
- P.12Frequency charts
- P.13Stem-and-leaf plots
- P.14Circle graphs
- P.15Choose the best type of graph
Patterns and sequences
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- S.3Elapsed time
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- S.5Convert between 12-hour and 24-hour time
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2010 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet Review
Most tenacious and visceral handling of any vehicle I have owned. Truly brilliant to drive in every respect... as long as there's no snow or ice on the ground!
None really; perhaps a tad more low-end torque...?
Best All Around Sports Car On The Market — I've owned several different brands of high-powered sports cars and keep coming back to Porsche. I've owned three, all cabriolets, and all with manual transmissions. I don't drive my 2010 every day, but when I need to really DRIVE somewhere--and the roads are interesting--I click the garage door opener and naturally gravitate to the 911. It's pure joy. In my view, the 2009-2012 911 (997 Generation 2) has the best combination of shift feel, clutch take-up, steering feedback, "right there" brakes, handling dynamics, engine note, seating position and ergonomics of any road car. You literally become "one with the car" (and I'm not being ironic, hyperbolic or intentionally naff). Take one for a test drive and you'll immediately see why people keep buying Porsches over the more sexily designed, yet somehow more brittle and less rewarding competition. If you don't own one and have wondered why Porsche drivers often wear a goofy grin and/or a smug expression, it's not because we're self-satisfied egotists or poseurs... we're just having a blast (thank you very much!).
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|7 The witnesses must throw the first stones, and then all the people will join in. In this way, you will purge all evil from among you."
|7 The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.
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The Great White shark: seaside antichrist, cinema icon, hilarious videogame character. Appaloosa Interactive's attempt to turn it into the anti-Ecco (a series it also created), complete with special moves and characterised foes, is charmingly insane. When it isn't giving its movie ancestor cause to roll in its grave with blasphemously daft missions and joyless cut-scenes, it conjures a lively, evocative, sometimes ghostly experience both above and beneath the waves.
The first sign of trouble and it's admittedly trivial, is that someone's seen fit to call the shark itself 'Jaws.' Call us anal for pointing it out, but Peter Benchley's novel wasn't a biography and neither is its subject the latest in a James Bond style succession of identically codenamed marine assassins. It's a shark. It has no name, just as it doesn't have a library card, a council house in Byfleet or a daytime chat show on Living TV. Granted though, the game does give you a licence to kill (everything, as it happens), and at times bears an unwitting resemblance to Thunderball.
But the trivial can be symptomatic of greater ills, and Unleashed's other issues with authenticity form part of the reason for it being so difficult to get on with. It wants to be a thriller one minute, a comedy the next, yet finds out the hard way that not even a Great White can have its cake and eat it. Thanks to the recent troubles of publisher Majesco, it's also somewhat unfinished, marred by control and camera issues. It makes sense that the shark can't reverse, sit still for too long (they die, you know) or strafe, but not enough sense to justify the damage dealt to the game's accessibility. Much challenge is derived from the need to manage your trajectory when approaching a target and striking during a small window of opportunity, but what fun is that when even modestly elaborate scenery can trap the shark or send the camera into a prolonged fit?
Had Appaloosa been given time to properly complete Unleashed, it's tough to know how much would have been fixed. Malfunctions aside, the game remains a hit and miss affair. The shark itself is fantastic, if only for its lithe animations and ability to raise a smile. In pursuit of the main mission objectives, which typically involve either mass slaughter or eco-friendly industrial sabotage, the shark employs some unexpected skills: the spitting power of a ballistic missile submarine is one, a nose as rigid as Dr Doom's is another, and an unlikely penchant for aerobics tops them off. You could say he's like a Jet Li of the ocean, only flabbier and more constipated.
While deflecting the attacks of marine life (watch those dolphins - they've a side to them), you're charged with miscellaneous terrorist activities, from tearing seafarers apart to seeking out collectible items. The shark has a love of car number plates, tin cans and skeletons, so no council house then, but perhaps plans for an autoyard, corner shop or theme park. A hunger gauge ensures your appetite for mashing the chomp button never wanes, and points earned by fulfilling your duties boost your low-level attributes (power, agility, etc.) while unlocking special manoeuvres.
As the modelled ocean unfolds into an alternately tranquil and haunting domain, Unleashed provides a scattering of pleasures, but never gels them into something durable, and sometimes does the exact opposite. Its natty interpretations of John Williams' movie score, together with cut-scenes that look like a casting call for McCain Oven Chips, conspire to pull the game under when they should be drawing you in. Not the most seaworthy of vessels, despite its worthy seas.
Unleashed is a decent ocean adventure with bite, but distracting as it is, it's unlikely to set up a Jaws Unleashed 2, let alone a Jaws IV: The Revenge.


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Speaking on the occasion, Ranjit Yadav, president, passenger vehicle business unit, Tata, said, "Customer centricity is the hallmark of Tata Motors. As desired by today's Indian motorist, the showroom offers best-in-class service in a stylish and premium format to enhance the buying experience of our brands."
With the new flagship showroom, Tata plans on providing its customers a more upmarket buying experience. The company intends to implement this new look and feel to the rest of its dealer network as well, complete with all the customer-centric initiatives incorporated, as seen in this flagship Mumbai showroom. Tata currently has more than a 1000 sales points pan India and the car manufacturer plans to inaugurate another four to five outlets across all the metros in the first quarter of 2013.
In December 2012, Tata's vehicle sales declined 51 percent to 14,185 units as against 28,916 units sold in December 2011. However, according to Ranjit Yadav, the newly introduced Manza Club Class and Safari Storme are doing well in their respective segments.


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From left to right: Marc Copage as Corey
Baker, Diahann Carroll as Julia Baker,
and Michael Link as Earl J. Waggedorn.
Series Description
The Julia TV show was a 30 minute groundbreaking drama series on NBC about a young African-American widow who worked as a nurse while raising her son as a single mom.
Julia Cast
Diahann Carroll .... Julia Baker
Lloyd Nolan .... Dr. Morton Chegley
Marc Diego Copage .... Corey Baker
Michael Link .... Earl J. Waggedorn
Betty Beaird .... Marie Waggedorn
Mary Wickes .... Melba Chegley (1968-1971)
Ned Glass .... Sol Cooper (1968-1971)
Hank Brandt .... Len Waggedorn (1968-1971)
Eddie Quillan .... Eddie Edson (1968-1971)
Lurene Tuttle .... Hannah Yarby (1968-1970)
Paul Winfield .... Paul Cameron (1968-1970)
Allison Mills .... Carol Deering (1968-1969)
Fred Williamson .... Steve Bruce (1970-71)
Janear Hines .... Roberta (1970-71)
Richard Steele .... Richard (1970-71)
Stephanie James .... Kim Bruce (1970-71)
Julia Trivia
It was ironic and unfortunate that the very thing that made Julia a groundbreaking series also garnered Diahann Carroll much undeserved criticism. The white liberal press and black critics shared in their comments that her character did not portray black women accurately. Apparently, they didn't realize that black women were entering main stream society, leaving welfare and careers as maids behind. The criticism drove Diahann into the hospital twice due to stress. She had no appetite and her weight fell to under 100 pounds. She asked to be released from her contract after the third season's filming ended and NBC agreed although the series was doing very well in the ratings.
In response to the critics and as an explanation for why white fans loved the show Diahann said, "I'm a black woman with a white image. I'm as close as they can get to having the best of both worlds. The audience can accept me in the same way, and for the same reason. I don't scare them".
The same magical recipe that Julia had was reproduced just four years later on CBS with the premiere of "The Jeffersons", another series about African-Americans partaking of the American dream and living in the same world as white people while maintaining the best aspects of their black heritage. That series obviously also appealed to a wide audience as it ran for eleven seasons and 253 episodes!
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Last Friday night, onstage at a Los Angeles venue known for featuring indie bands, a goateed historian in a vintage purple corduroy suit and silver silk shirt beguiled a room packed with artists, writers, scholars, morticians, and other curious observers, with his research into bejeweled skeletons from the Roman Catacombs.
The topic of the night was death, but not in a horror-filled, Halloweeny way. The gathering drew an intellectually hip and increasingly death-conscious crowd of mostly 20 and 30-somethings, who had waited in a long line outside of the Bootleg Theater to get in. They sipped bottles of La Fin Du Monde and plastic cups of Populist beer from the Eagle Rock Brewery, and perused copies of the Lapham's Quarterly death issue between cabaret acts, which included a soulful shaggy-haired death gospel singer, a writer of death and obscure history, and a funeral director.
The weekend-long Death Salon also featured presentations on decomposable garments for the grave, discussions on feminism and the funeral industry, and a Saturday night death soiree in Silverlake with "funerary treats," like cupcakes topped with edible tombstones. The event was part of a recent surge of people trying to demystify death through social and educational gatherings, one that is spreading across the U.S. and beyond with death dinners, death cafes (talking death over tea and cake), and waitlisted death-related classes on college campuses.
"You have this critical mass of interest. Death is fascinating," said 29-year-old Caitlin Doughty, who has been called a hipster mortician, but prefers "macabre nerd." A Death Salon organizer and host of the YouTube series, "Ask a Mortician," Doughty is enthused that the broader public is finally beginning to appreciate death as she does. "What if all of a sudden being involved with your own mortality is cool?"
Forty years ago, the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker claimed that fear of our own mortality was the fundamental motivator behind all human behavior. But could popularizing death through social settings help it become less scary for the rest of us? Some scholars think so, since prolonged exposure to death in comfortable environments, where dying is viewed as an essential part of living, has shown decreases in death anxiety.
"What's interesting about people flocking to these parties is that a lot of people want to have those conversations in a private arena," said Laura Harrawood, a professor of counseling at McKendree University, who has studied death anxiety. "Often people are afraid to bring death up at all," she said, but "celebrating and talking about it in an open dialogue can be healthy."
On stage at the Death Salon's Friday night cabaret, a medical historian wearing a corset and fitted pencil skirt spoke of seeing her first cadaver. Lindsey Fitzharris recalled how a pathologist handed her the heart and kidney, and she fell into the detachment of the dissection. "Everything was on display," she said. "All the muscles, and all of the tendons. Then my eyes fell on her hands. On her fingertips was a red fiery nail polish. I will remember that until the day I die."
"This is even cooler than I thought it would be," said Savannah Dooley, a 28-year-old television writer who professed to have no particular obsession with death. She stumbled upon the Death Salon on Facebook and decided to bring a date. "For someone not comfortable with death, this makes it accessible."
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Fueled by social networking and the Internet, the growing "death movement" is a reaction against the sanitization of death that has persisted in American culture since the 1800s, with the rise of embalming bodies to make them look lifelike, or having loved ones die in hospice or in hospitals instead of at home, said Megan Rosenbloom, head of metadata and content for the Norris Medical Library of the University of Southern California, and Death Salon organizer.
"Too often people experience the untimely death of a loved one and are thrown into their own existential tailspin," Rosenbloom said. "You realize you're going to die someday, and wonder how could someone your age die? What happens is people have a selfish response to other people's deaths. The more you deny it and try to be separate from it, the more people are psychically destroyed when it happens in their lives."
In recent decades, psychological researchers have developed ways to measure the emotional reactions that emerge when considering death, using surveys like the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale (MFODS), which assesses areas like fear of being destroyed, fear of a conscious death, and fear of the body after death.
These researchers have found that jobs in which workers jump from one tragedy to another, like critical care nurses, can lead to increased death fears, as can jobs in which people put their lives at constant risk, like police and firefighters, who score higher on death anxiety scales than college faculty and business students.
That makes sense to Doughty, whose work in the death business over the last six years, has allowed her to handle the corpses of everyone from babies to drug addicts to elderly people who committed suicide. "If you're getting little snippets of death in a horror movie or on the news—like those women who died in a limo fire—yeah it's going to train you to be in this cycle of fear, absolutely," she said. "They are little fear bombs that go off in your mind and reinforce a pattern of terror."
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Although the Evangelical Lutheran Church is the state church, Norway has complete religious freedom. Education is free through the university level and is compulsory from ages 7 to 16. At least 12 months of military service and training are required of every eligible male. Norway's health system includes free hospital care, physician's compensation, cash benefits during illness and pregnancy, and other medical and dental plans. There is a public pension system.
Norway is in the top rank of nations in the number of books printed per capita, even though Norwegian is one of the world's smallest language groups. Norway's most famous writer is the dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Artists Edvard Munch and Christian Krogh were Ibsen's contemporaries. Munch drew part of his inspiration from Europe and in turn exercised a strong influence on later European expressionists. Sculptor Gustav Vigeland has a permanent exhibition in the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo. Musical development in Norway since Edvard Grieg has followed either native folk themes or, more recently, international trends.
The Norwegian Government offered the throne of Norway to Danish Prince Carl in 1905. After a plebiscite approving the establishment of a monarchy, the parliament unanimously elected him king. He took the name of Haakon VII, after the kings of independent Norway. Haakon died in 1957 and was succeeded by his son, Olav V, who died in January 1991. Upon Olav's death, his son Harald was crowned as King Harald V. Norway was a nonbelligerent during World War I, but as a result of the German invasion and occupation during World War II, Norwegians generally became skeptical of the concept of neutrality and turned instead to collective security. Norway was one of the signers of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and was a founding member of the United Nations. The first UN General Secretary, Trygve Lie, was a Norwegian. Under the terms of the will of Alfred Nobel, the Storting (Parliament) elects the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee who award the Nobel Peace Prize to champions of peace.
The 165 members of the Storting are elected from 18 fylker (counties) for 4-year terms according to a complicated system of proportional representation. After elections, the Storting divides into two chambers, the Odelsting and the Lagting, which meet separately or jointly depending on the legislative issue under consideration.
The special High Court of the Realm hears impeachment cases; the regular courts include the Supreme Court (17 permanent judges and a president), courts of appeal, city and county courts, the labor court, and conciliation councils. Judges attached to regular courts are appointed by the King in council after nomination by the Ministry of Justice.
Each fylke is headed by a governor appointed by the King in council, with one governor exercising authority in both Oslo and the adjacent county of Akershus.
Norway maintains an embassy in the United States at 2720 - 34th Street NW, Washington, DC 20008, tel.202-333-6000 and consulates in Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, and San Francisco.
From 1981 to 1997, governments alternated between Labor minority governments and Conservative-led governments. Labor leader Gro Harlem Brundtland served as Prime Minister from 1990 until October 1996 when she decided to step out of politics. Labor Party leader Thorbjorn Jagland formed a new Labor government that stayed in office until October 1997. A three-party minority coalition government headed by Christian Democrat Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik moved into office when Jagland, after the September 1997 election, declared that his government would step down because the Labor Party failed to win at least 36.9% of the national vote, the percentage Labor had won in the 1993 election. Bondevik's nonsocialist coalition is composed of the Center Party, the Christian Democratic Party, and the Liberal Party. The coalition parties control only 42 seats in the 165-member National Assembly, and the coalition governs on the basis of shifting alliances in Parliament.
Norway's emergence as a major oil and gas producer in the mid-1970s transformed the economy. Large sums of investment capital poured into the offshore oil sector, leading to greater increases in Norwegian production costs and wages than in the rest of Western Europe up to the time of the global recovery of the mid-1980s. The influx of oil revenue also permitted Norway to expand an already extensive social welfare system.
High oil prices from 1983 to 1985 led to significant increases in consumer spending, wages, and inflation. The subsequent decline in oil prices since 1985 sharply reduced tax revenues and required a tightening of both the government budget and private sector demand. As a result, the nonoil economy showed almost no growth during 1986-88, and the current account went into deficit. As oil prices recovered sharply in 1990 following the Persian Gulf crisis, the 1990 current account posted a large surplus which continued through 1997. Unemployment fell gradually to 4.1%. Given the volatility of the oil and gas market, Norway is seeking to restructure its nonoil economy to reduce subsidies and stimulate efficient, nontraditional industry.
Norway's exports have continued to grow, largely because of favorable world demand for oil and gas. Moreover, the flight of Norwegian-owned ships from the country's traditional register ended in 1987, as the government established an international register, replete with tax breaks and relief from national crewmember requirements.
Norway voted against joining the European Union (EU) in a 1994 referendum. With the exception of the agricultural and fisheries sectors, however, Norway enjoys free trade with the EU under the framework of the European Economic Area. This agreement aims to apply the four freedoms of the EU's internal market (goods, persons, services, and capital) to Norway. As a result, Norway normally adopts and implements most EU directives. Norwegian monetary policy is aimed at maintaining a stable exchange rate for the krone against European currencies, of which the "euro" is a key operating parameter. Norway is not a member of the EU's Economic and Monetary Union and does not have a fixed exchange rate. Its principle trading partners are in the EU; the United States ranks sixth.
Energy Resources
Offshore hydrocarbon deposits were discovered in the 1960s, and development began in the 1970s. The growth of the petroleum sector has contributed significantly to Norwegian economic vitality. Current petroleum production capacity is more than 3 million barrels per day. Production has increased rapidly during the past several years as new fields are opened. Total production in 1997 was about 237 million cubic meters of oil equivalents, nearly 81% of which was crude oil. Hydropower provides nearly all of Norway's electricity, and all of the gas and most of the oil produced were exported. Production is expected to increase significantly in the 1990s as new fields come onstream.
Norway is the world's second-largest oil exporter and provides about 40% of Western Europe's crude oil requirements and 20% of its gas requirements. In 1997, Norwegian oil and gas exports accounted for 48% of total merchandise exports. In addition, offshore exploration and production have stimulated onshore economic activities. Foreign companies, including many American ones, participate actively in the petroleum sector
In addition to strengthening traditional ties with developed countries, Norway seeks to build friendly relations with developing countries and has undertaken humanitarian and development aid efforts with selected African and Asian nations. Norway also is dedicated to encouraging democracy, assisting refugees, and protecting human rights throughout the world.
The U.S. Embassy is located at Drammensveien 18, 0244 Oslo (tel. 47-22- 44- 85-50; FAX: 47-22-43-07-77).
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RBC And TIFF Announce Finalists For The 2013 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition
TORONTO, July 17, 2013 /CNW/ - RBC and TIFF today announced the five finalists for the 2013 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition. Now in its fourth year, the competition asked filmmakers to develop a one to five minute short film on the topic of 'memory'. The 2013 RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition finalists are:
Rafael Balulu , Tel Aviv, Israel MY NAME IS SOLOMON HAGOS - My name is Solomon Hagos. I am from Eritrea. In Eritrea, I was forcibly recruited to Sawa military training base against my will. I left the country illegally to escape these harsh conditions. If I am returned to Eritrea, they will imprison me, torture me, and maybe even kill me.
Kevan Funk , Vancouver, Canada DESTROYER - A young athlete struggles with the weight of witnessing his fellow teammates commit an act of violence.
Mako Kamitsuna, Los Angeles, United States THE LULL BREAKER - A housewife, a victim of domestic violence, relives a childhood trauma that initiated her to an act of vengeance.Dan Popa, Montreal, Canada TALES OF SANTA FE - A traveler shares his impressions of a city through a photographic journey into his fragmented past. Christoph Rainer , Vienna, Austria REQUIEM FOR A ROBOT - Tortured by a recurring nightmare, an alcoholic robot has nothing left but a corrupt memory. In order to find out what has happened, he returns to his creator. The finalists have been selected by a panel of esteemed jurors of directors and producers. The five emerging artists were chosen from a group of up-and-coming filmmakers who participated in TIFF Talent Lab, a four-day intensive lab during the Toronto International Film Festival that offers hands-on, artistic development opportunities. Each filmmaker was given a $500 bursary donated by RBC to make a one to five minute short film. The winner and honourable mentions will be announced September 4, 2013 at a news conference prior to the start of the Toronto International Film Festival. The winner will receive $20,000 and the honourable mention will receive $10,000. "Each year, we are excited to see the thoughtful, creative and interesting films that are produced for the RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition," said Jennifer Tory, RBC's regional president for Greater Toronto. "TIFF plays an integral role in promoting up-and-coming filmmakers in Canada and abroad. We are enthusiastic about lending our support to grassroots arts programs." "The RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition is an annual celebration of the works of artists to watch," said Piers Handling, Director and CEO, TIFF. "We are proud to partner with RBC who, through this competition and through their many initiatives, continue to focus on and support emerging artists in Canada." The panel of esteemed jurors for 2013 include:
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