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Welcome back to a second season of chasing wonder. It's a thrilling search for that elusive state that emerges when a spectacular place and a special moment collide. And while it might be elusive, there's no question wonder seems to concentrate in these mountains.
Season 2 of the Wonder Reels brings you the sweet anticipation of a new season and the forecasting of a deep winter. We get a glimpse at the magic of an enchanted tree fort and the physiological impact of an adrenaline-inducing couloir. And, in celebration of the opening of the new Crystal Ridge Express and the Harmony 6 Express we'll take a tour of Crystal's powder-filled playground and get a Harmony history lesson from the Godfather of Freesking. So sit back, relax and take it all in. But don't sit around for long, because your own wonder is waiting to be discovered here, at Whistler Blackcomb.
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As October's rains finally give way to November's storms, and the mountains reveal their first dustings of white, a palpable anticipation begins. Skiing and snowboarding's faithful start a ritualistic foreplay that culminates in the un-matched celebration of another opening day.
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Waffles & Wagers
A chairlift shared by a foursome of skiers and snowboarders on Blackcomb Mountain's new Crystal Ridge Express leads to a friendly wager for waffles at Crystal Hut.
A crew in Whistler Blackcomb's Highest Level Nintendo Terrain Park come across a lost GoPro. They agree it needs to go to Lost & Found, but there's a perfect park session begging to be shot with it first.
Storm chasing. It's a labour of love for Whistler Blackcomb snow forecaster Tony Sittlinger. This story follows Tony and the Blackcomb patrol on their early morning ritual, readying the mountains for the rest of us while we're snug in our beds.
Freeski icon Mike Douglas takes a ride on Whistler Mountain's new Harmony 6 Express, and takes us for a ride back through time to recount the history of the Harmony Zone and the legends that came before him.
A University professor unveils the relationship between daredevils, DNA and the quest for the dopamine rush. Whistler Blackcomb unveils the path to satisfying the craving with some of the steepest and deepest in-bounds terrain anywhere in the world.
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New Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs - 6th Edition composed by Various. For Piano/Vocal/Guitar. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. Disney. Difficulty: medium. Songbook. Vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names, introductory text, background text and color photos. 264 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.313100).
ISBN 0793593654. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names, introductory text, background text and color photos. Disney. 9x12 inches.
This magnificent 6th edition coffee table collection is a Disney lover's dream come true! It is a guided tour through the many legendary years of Disney music, from "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" in 1930 up through "We're All in This Together" from High School Musical. The book begins with an extensive musical history of Disney, followed by beautiful piano/vocal arrangements of 68 Disney classics. Printed on deluxe stock with more than 100 stunning full-color illustrations accompanying the text and music, The Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs is a keepsake to treasure for years to come! Songs include: The Bare Necessities • Beauty and the Beast • Breaking Free • Circle of Life • Go the Distance • It's a Small World • Look Through My Eyes • Mickey Mouse March • Reflection • Some Day My Prince Will Come • Under the Sea • When You Wish upon a Star • A Whole New World • Winnie the Pooh • You've Got a Friend in Me • You Are the Music in Me • Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah • and more.
- A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes From "Cinderella"
- A Spoonful Of Sugar From "Mary Poppins"
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- Baby Mine From "Dumbo"
- Be Our Guest From "Beauty And The Beast"
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- Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) From "Cinderella"
- Breaking Free
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- Friend Like Me From "Aladdin"
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- Go The Distance From "Hercules"
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- Hakuna Matata From "The Lion King"
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- Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (An Actor's Life For Me) From "Pinocchio"
- I'm Late From "Alice In Wonderland"
- I'm Wishing From "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
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- It's a Small World
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- Seize The Day From "Newsies"
- Some Day My Prince Will Come From "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
- Someone's Waiting For You From "The Rescuers"
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- Two Worlds From "Tarzan"
- Under The Sea From "The Little Mermaid"
- We're All In This Together
- When I See an Elephant Fly From "Dumbo"
- When She Loved Me From "Toy Story 2"
- When You Wish Upon A Star From "Pinocchio"
- Whistle While You Work From "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
- Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? From "Three Little Pigs"
- Winnie the Pooh From "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"
- Written in the Stars From "Aida"
- Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me)
- You Are The Music In Me
- You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! From "Peter Pan"
- You'll Be in My Heart From "Tarzan"
- You've Got A Friend In Me From "Toy Story"
- Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah From "Song of the South"
- Someday (Esmeralda's Prayer)
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The African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child," means that it takes a community to work together to nurture the next generation. It's also the inspiration for Jean Rattigan-Rohr and several of her students at
Rattigan-Rohr developed The Village Project five years ago, as a way to help local children who have difficulty reading, while simultaneously giving her student teachers an early opportunity to work with struggling readers.
"It was an extension of a service learning class I teach," said Rattigan-Rohr. The class, called Literacy Development: Teaching Struggling Readers, takes place at the university and in the
To accommodate the growing Wednesday night tutoring sessions, The Village Project will soon be moving to its own building at
First, Rattigan-Rohr said she instructs her students how to teach phonics, vocabulary, fluency and reading comprehension to children, and the pre-service teachers are given difficult scenarios they may encounter in a classroom. In the second phase of the class, Rattigan-Rohr said each student is paired with a child who has difficulty reading.
At first, Rattigan-Rohr would approach teachers at local elementary and middle schools and invite children struggling with reading to The Village Project at May Memorial Library on Wednesday nights.
"Now we're at the point where parents are telling parents about the project," she said. "It's been really interesting over the years how it has grown by leaps and bounds."
Rattigan-Rohr said The Village Project asks parents to attend tutoring sessions and to help their children with reading during the week. In the beginning, naysayers told Rattigan-Rohr the children's parents wouldn't put in the time.
"We have not seen that to be true," said Rattigan-Rohr. "Parents come faithfully." In fact, parents' willingness to participate in the program has extended to other family members.
"We have parents bringing siblings," and both parents are attending, said Rattigan-Rohr. "That's been an interesting development."
Parents read to the younger siblings while the older children are being tutored, she said.
As a result, Rattigan-Rohr said the program has grown past its original capacity to provide one-on-one tutoring with student teachers. Several of her previous students who've graduated — now teachers themselves — return to The Village Project to lend support.
Other educators in the community have also joined The Village Project to meet the high demand for reading tutors, including other Elon University staff, local classroom teachers and librarians at May Memorial Library.
IN THE MEANTIME, the reading tutoring still takes place at the library. And as of this year, The Village Project also teaches science on Monday nights at First Presbyterian Church downtown.
"This semester, for the first time, we have moved beyond just the reader intervention," said Rattigan-Rohr.
She said when a child struggles with reading, other classroom subjects are also affected. After consulting with children's parents at The Village Project, the program added science classes to the curriculum, since it's a "heavy reading" subject.
Kelsey Cones, a senior elementary education major at
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Cones was especially excited about her lesson plan Monday night, which involved the experiment revealing fake "germs" on the children's hands under blacklight, which disappeared after they washed their hands properly.
"A lot of it's very hands-on," Cones said of The Village Project's science classes. While the kindergarten through second grade small group was learning about germs, student teacher Paige St. Germain's sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders were quizzed about the past five weeks' lessons.
The Village Project not only fosters a learning environment for kids, but also for their parents. While the children were learning health and science lessons Monday night, their parents were huddled in small groups of the church's library, teaching each other Spanish and English.
Rattigan-Rohr said at first, the parents had a "nod/wave relationship," since some could only speak Spanish while others only knew English. The parents came up with the idea of teaching each other the basics of their first languages, and El Centro de Español – the university's Spanish language center – provided booklets for the parents to reference.
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Apparently, not only does a village help raise a child, but it teaches adults in the community, as well.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Competing in the state of Tennessee for the second time in four weeks, the Miami University men's track and field team recorded six top-10 individual finishes Friday, including four on the track, on day one of the Sea Ray Relays, hosted by the University of Tennessee at Tom Black Track in LaPorte Stadium.
In the 5000m run, junior Daniel Garleb (Pickerington, Ohio) crossed in fourth (out of 28) in a personal-best 14:41.78. Senior Matt Marol (Evanston, Ill.) paced a trio of RedHawks in the 32-man 10,000m run, finishing 12th in 31:18.75, also a personal best. In the 3K steeplechase, redshirt senior Brett Wagner (Toledo, Ohio) crossed in ninth in a season-best 9:24.02 to lead a quartet of RedHawks.
Juniors Wade Coffin (Willoughby, Ohio) and Kevin Brown (Lewis Center, Ohio) claimed sixth and seventh, respectively, in the 800m run in 1:53.64 and 1:54.30. In the 400m dash, junior Robert Balzano (Poland, Ohio) placed 11th in 48.81 while classmate Jahquil Hargrove (Norristown, Pa.) will run in the 400m showcase Saturday at 1 p.m.
In the hurdles, sophomore Sam Chester (Medina, Ohio) placed 13th in the 110m hurdlers in a season-best 14.60, while classmate Skyler Coburn (La Porte, Ind.) was 18th in the 400m hurdles in 54.73.
In field action, senior John Cantwell (Holland, Pa.) grabbed eighth (out of 20) with a personal-best triple jump of 14.55m/47-9, smashing his previous best by nearly four inches. Fellow senior Sam Wildeman (Naperville, Ill.) finished seventh out of 22 in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.70m/15-5, tying the same height as the fourth-place finisher but in more attempts.
Junior Rob Stein (Villa Park, Ill.), who was 20th in the hammer throw (53.09m/174-2) Thursday, placed 17th in the shot put with a toss of 16.01m/52-6, to round out day one action.
The RedHawks conclude action at the Sea Ray Relays Saturday, beginning with senior Jarrod Eick (Hartville, Ohio) in the 1500m run showcase at 12:42 p.m. Hargrove runs his 400m showcase, as well, as the lone other individual race. Miami also has relay teams in the 4x100m at 2:25 p.m., the 4x800m relay at 3:10 p.m. and the final race of the day, the 4x400m relay, at 4:40 p.m. The RedHawks also have entrants in four field events Saturday, starting with the high jump at 12:15 p.m. and ending with the javelin at 3 p.m. Live results for Saturday can be found here, while live video is available here.


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Mehmet Sofuoglu MD, PhD
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Office of Student ResearchCancer Prevention and ControlPsychiatry: Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY); Psychotherapy Development Center; Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health; Stress & Addiction Clinical Research Program; Addictions, Division of; Yale Translational Center to Develop Gender-Sensitive Treatment for Tobacco Dependence; Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
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- Sofuoglu M, DeVito EE, Waters AJ, Carroll KM. Cognitive enhancement as a treatment for drug addictions. Neuropharmacology. 2013;64:452-63. PMCID: PMC 3445733.
- Herman AI, Jatlow PI, Gelernter J, Listman JB, Sofuoglu M. COMT Val158Met modulates subjective responses to intravenous nicotine and cognitive performance in abstinent smokers. The pharmacogenomics journal. 2013. PMCID: PMC3675163.
- Sofuoglu M, Herman AI, Nadim H, Jatlow P. Rapid nicotine clearance is associated with greater reward and heart rate increases from intravenous nicotine. Neuropsychopharmacology 2012;37(6):1509-16, PMCID: 3327855.


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An apologetic Petraeus expresses regret for affair
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus, who was whisked clandestinely into private meetings with Congress on Friday to avoid reporters, expressed regret anew in an appearance that marked his first official business since he resigned in disgrace over an extramarital affair.
In ways befitting a spy, the former four-star general was sneaked into a secure room beneath the Capitol to escape a clamorous crowd of photographers and television cameras. After more than four hours, Petraeus left much the way he came and was seen departing in a two-vehicle motorcade. About 20 minutes later, The Associated Press photographed Petreaus entering his home _ one of the only public images of him since he resigned.
The scandal over Petraeus' affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, has preoccupied Washington, even as the possibility of war loomed in Israel and the U.S. government faced a market-rattling "fiscal cliff" that could imperil the economy. So far, the scandal has ensnared Petraeus; the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen; two Florida socialites; and a decorated FBI counterterrorism agent.
Across town, the White House acknowledged Friday that Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite who inadvertently triggered the FBI investigation that uncovered Petraeus' affair, visited the Executive Mansion three times in the last three months with her sister, Natalie, twice eating in its mess. Kelley and her sister _ both are friends with Petraeus and Allen _ were guests of a mid-level White House aide, according to an Obama administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because those visitor records have not yet been made public. Kelley and her family also received a tour of the mansion.
The White House also acknowledged that Broadwell visited there twice since 2009.
In his Capitol Hill appearances, Petraeus, who until last week was among America's most respected military leaders, discussed with the House and Senate intelligence committees the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead. He did not discuss his adultery with Broadwell, except to say that he regretted his behavior and that his departure was unrelated to the deadly violence in Libya. The scandal has led to a new CIA internal investigation.
"He was very clear his resignation was tied solely to his personal behavior," said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., a member of the Intelligence Committee. "He was apologetic and regretful but still Gen. Petraeus."
Unlike previous appearances at the Capitol, when Petraeus walked through the front door and greeted reporters, he was smuggled inside through a network of underground hallways. Police closed down entire corridors in the Capitol. Members of Congress said they made arrangements to spare Petraeus embarrassment and humiliation. Before the scandal, he famously cultivated personal relationships with journalists and served as the U.S. war commander in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, apologized to reporters and photographers for the stringent security.
"I know that's wrankling you," Feinstein said. "We didn't want to make it any more difficult for him. And you know, you people aren't always the easiest. So the blame is on us. Any waiting that you did, I apologize, but, you know, there's a lot of suffering going on."
Feinstein said no senators asked Petraeus about the affair. A congressional staffer who attended one of the closed briefings said talk about the sex scandal was off the table.
Petraeus, 60, publicly acknowledged last week that he had cheated on his wife of 38 years with Broadwell, 40.
It wasn't until Oct. 26 that Petraeus acknowledged the affair to FBI agents, during their second interview of him, a federal law enforcement official disclosed Friday. The official was not authorized to speak on the record about the ongoing case and requested anonymity for that reason.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are expected to meet next week to discuss the recent stumbles of two of the military's top generals, said Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of U.S. Naval Operations. The joint chiefs want to review ethics, accountability and behavioral issues and determine whether senior officials are living up to the military's standards, Greenert said Friday at the National Press Club.
The FBI began investigating the case against Broadwell last summer but didn't notify the White House or Congress until after the election.
In the investigation, the FBI uncovered flirtatious emails between Allen and Kelley, both of them married. On Friday, two U.S. officials said investigators have found just a handful of the emails between Allen and Kelley to be potentially problematic. They said investigators determined the vast majority of the 20,000-plus pages of documents were routine. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.


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After a diagnosis of diabetes is made, to help distinguish autoimmune type 1 diabetes from type 2 diabetes
When to Get Tested?
When you are first diagnosed with diabetes to help determine whether your diabetes is autoimmune-related; when you are a diabetic who is treated with diet or drugs and have great difficulty maintaining normal or near-normal blood sugar (glucose) levels and are suspected of having type 1 instead of type 2 diabetes
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What is being tested?
Diabetes-related autoantibodies are proteins produced by the immune system that have been shown to be associated with type 1 diabetes. Testing can detect the presence of one or more of these autoantibodies in the blood.
Type 1 diabetes is a condition characterized by a lack of insulin due to autoimmune processes that destroy the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Diabetes-related autoantibodies reflect the destruction of beta cells, the loss of beta cell function, and inadequate production of insulin that are features of type 1 diabetes, but they are not thought to be the cause of type 1 diabetes. In contrast, type 2 diabetes primarily results from the body's resistance to the effects of insulin (insulin resistance) and does not involve autoimmune processes.
Type 1 diabetes was previously known as juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes but has been re-characterized to reflect beta cell destruction. When autoimmune type 1 diabetes is present, one or more of the diabetes autoantibodies will be present in about 95% of those affected at the time of initial diagnosis. With type 2 diabetes, the autoantibodies are typically absent.
Four of the most common diabetes-related autoantibody tests include:
- Islet Cell Cytoplasmic Autoantibodies (ICA)
- Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Autoantibodies (GADA)
- Insulinoma-Associated-2 Autoantibodies (IA-2A)
- Insulin Autoantibodies (IAA)
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About 5% of all cases of diabetes are type 1 (autoimmune) and the majority of these cases are diagnosed in people younger than 20. Symptoms of diabetes, such as frequent urination, thirst, weight loss, and poor wound healing, emerge when about 80-90% of a type 1 diabetic's beta cells have been destroyed and are no longer able to produce insulin. The body requires daily insulin so that glucose can enter cells and be used for energy production. Without sufficient insulin, cells starve and high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) results. Acute hyperglycemia can cause a diabetic medical crisis and chronic hyperglycemia can damage blood vessels and organs such as the kidneys.
How is the sample collected for testing?
A blood sample is obtained by inserting a needle into a vein in the arm.
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When President Obama announced his intention to "initiate a national awareness and education campaign to promote cybersecurity" all he had to do was look north to Gaithersburg.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology was already familiar with the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative of President Bush, focusing on cybersecurity training and awareness in the federal government.
NIST's Dr. Ernest McDuffie now runs the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE).
McDuffie told Federal News Radio expanding the program to all 50 states from kindergarten to graduate school, through the public and private sectors to teach "what it means to be safe in cyberspace" from the internet to ATMs, absolutely cannot be done by NIST alone.
The main idea behind an interagency effort is the fact that it's too big of an issue for any one agency to deal with by itself. In fact, it's too big for the federal government to deal with by itself. We need to partner with the private sector, with academia, so that we can touch everybody in a positive way.
To get the word out, NICE is planning a "wide ranging campaign," said McDuffie, "where we'll actually touch on things in Hollywood, PSAs and the like, where we're going to try to get bumper stickers and have catch phrases where people really can identify with what it means to be safe in cybersecurity."
The tricky part, or "largest challenge" as McDuffie put it, will be keeping up with the changes in cybersecurity even as they get rolling. He said that half his time as a computer scientist was spent reading technical journals just trying to stay current.
So the same thing happens now for cybersecurity education. As we're standing up these programs and outreach and doing curriculum development, we're very cognizant of the fact that everything we're doing today is changing and evolving the next day, the next week, the next month. So we have to go back and make sure we have real strong ties to the research community and we're able to bring those changes and updates to our program as well.
One of the first events on the NICE timeline is a workshop next month where McDuffie said they would be inviting the public, and partners from industry and academia.


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With the Supreme Court's recent decision on altering the Voting Rights Act, additional restrictions could be enacted in parts of
Last month, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to repeal Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, deeming the need of the Justice Department's civil rights division or the D.C. federal court to change voting laws unconstitutional.
As a result, some state legislators are trying to put several plans in effect which could hinder voters, including requiring photo ID, eliminating Sunday voting, a limit on early voting days and no same-day registration. Many of these resources benefited President Barack Obama, who won both of his elections with huge margins in early voting.
"I would not look upon those as restrictions," N.C. Sen. Louis Pate, R-Wayne, said. "I would call them safeguards. I think same-day registration is fraught with danger because people who are unauthorized to vote can get away with it, as there's no way to check authenticity. Information is necessary and needs to be on appropriate documentation."
Pate said he has proof there has been illegal voting in
"I've gotten affidavits from people saying their vote had been exorcised when they got to the polling place," he said. "There should be a way of proving who a person is before they vote."
Pate went on to say early voting — which lasted for 16 days in 2012 — should be cut down.
"I think we tend to keep the polls too long and we can trim that to 12 days," Pate said. "It costs the counties quite a bit."
There is some opposition to the possible changes. Shirley Richmond — N.C. Correspondent Secretary for Democratic Women — feels like there will be serious consequences if the laws are enacted.
"I feel like this is a step backwards, saying we don't have the same problems from years ago,"
John Nix — co-owner of Matrix East and president of the CSS Neuse Foundation — was part of the case against the Department of Justice that eventually got Section 4 repealed. Nix feels like a form of photo identification is necessary for all voters.
"There's no reason we there shouldn't be a need for photo ID," Nix said. "We need it to cash checks, board trains and get on planes. It's a way of life. I feel there isn't a need for any accusation about the government suppressing voters or limiting the ability for some people to vote. There is legislation that will be provided as well as means to obtain picture ID."
Nix also said there have been several cases in
"I have worked at polls and seen someone try to vote under two separate names," Nix said. "I know it happens, which is why I don't think there should be a hassle with asking for picture ID and eliminating same-day registration."


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Iraq to remove three zeros from the dinar
The Iraqi Central Bank announced the completion of a plan to remove three zeros from the dinar, replacing current banknotes with new ones. The Bank will re-print 30 trillion dinars (26 billion dollars).
According to Mazhar Mohammad Saleh, an expert in the Iraqi Central Bank, in a speech with the ALHAYAT of London, "our problem lies in the timing of the currency exchange, as we need to select a suitable time for implementing the project without obstacles."
The Central Bank planned to remove three zeros from the Iraqi dinar, after suffering from inflation and the decline of the currency during the nineties, due to economic sanctions. The value of the dinar decreased internationally to its current value of approximately 1120 dinars per dollar.
In 2003, the Central Bank adopted a new mechanism to maintain the dinar's exchange rate. It created a foreign exchange auction to sell dollars that Iraq obtained from the sale of oil in the global markets and then transferred to the bank to sell in local currency, which helped raise the value of the dinar over the last few years to more than 2000 points.
Saleh estimated the government will exchange more than 30 trillion Iraqi dinars, or more than $26 billion dollars. The most important change after deleting the zeros, is to reduce the number of banknotes in circulation, simplifying the payment system in Iraq.
Some economists have warned that the process of exchanging the Iraqi currency will be rife with corruption due to the inaccurate structuring of Iraqi banks. Previous attempts to exchange the currency resulted in major corruption, costly to the Iraqi economy. However, Saleh responds that the process of changing the currency in 2004, occurred under the exceptional circumstance of an occupation, was managed by a civil American governor, and was still successful.
The Central Bank sells, through a daily auction, between $150 million dollars and $190 million dollars daily to clients of private banks and the financial companies. (Source: www.yallafinance.com)
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This is just another of those rubbish articles about Iraq trimming three zero's from its currency.
Firstly these rumours have been going around for years, and it has yet to happen.
And secondly, website owners who publish these articles know that mentioning a lop causes a great stir and panic, and people read these articles, thus pushing up the click rate and therefore the value of the site because of ad revenue.
Websites publishing these articles are merely acting out the old maxim, 'In a goldrush, you don't sell gold, you sell shovels'.
In this case, websites are selling gossip, and making money from it.
You can turn in your old dinars. Just go to the Central Bank of Iraq. What? There's no branch in your town? Well, then just go to your local Dinar Dealer. He'll be glad to help you.
Now really, folks, those who buy these silly things are being hoo-doo-ed coming and going. First they sell them to you at about a 40% mark-up, so your "investment" (not) needs to gain 40% just for you to break even. Then, here's the question: IF (and that's a big IF) these things ever gain value, WHY SHOULD ANYONE give you money (as in U.S. Dollars) for them? Say, you have whatever number of dinars which after the RV is now worth one million U.S. dollars. And then, say, I happen to HAVE one million U.S. dollars. here is the question:
WHY SHOULD I BUY YOUR DINARS? I already have a million US dollars. The only reason I would do this is so I could make more money than I have. Which means I'm going to discount your million, and give you, maybe $750,000 for them. Then I can turn around and make a cool quarter million by turning them in for what they're worth.
Get it? These "suckers" are being taken coming and going. And that's only IF the stupid things ever appreciate, which they won't.
As has been said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time..."
Tsk tsk tsk.
Replacing current banknotes with new ones - what happens if you can not trade your 25000 notes in?
Does this mean the dinar I currently own will not be accepted as legal currency? Will I be able to convert it or trade it for the new currency
About the same, minus the rate of exchanging currency.
No because its still 1000 IQD. When you cash it in at the bank you will get the exchange rate of equal to 1000 IQD not 1. 1000 IQD is still 1000 IQD, they are simply removing it from circulation.
Yes, It will be worth $1000.00 USD!
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TomTom HOME Hits One Million Users – the world's largest Satellite Navigation Community!Customers See TomTom HOME As An Invaluable Tool To Keep Their TomTom Updated 14 March 2007, London: TomTom, the world's largest portable navigation solution provider today announces that more than one million users across the world have accessed and registered for TomTom HOME, TomTom's free software that enables TomTom users to future proof and personalize their devices. Via easy desktop access, any TomTom customer can update maps, download the latest application, celebrity voices and more.
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Northern Irish theatre was celebrating last night as the Lyric took four of the available 12 judges' awards at the annual Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards in Dublin.
This was the Lyric's biggest ever haul at the Awards, and followed the theatre's unprecedented 12 nominations this year. It was also the best performance on the night from any theatre on the island of Ireland.
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Executive Producer Jimmy Fay said, "I'm absolutely delighted that the Lyric has been recognised with these four awards. The fact that the awards are for three different productions and cover costumes, set and lighting design as well as directing, shows how vibrant and exciting Northern Irish theatre is right now".
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Of course, that was in 1950, a more genteel era when men still wore hats and women still wore gloves. These days, one would be well-advised to wear Kevlar.
In 2008, a Wal-Mart worker named Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death by a mob of holiday shoppers who broke down the doors of a store in
About the best that can be said of this year's Black Friday is that nobody died. Two people were shot in
And as people were thus celebrating the season of thanksgiving, redemption and light, the Rev. Nancy was saying grace over two cups of Jell-O.
She is my pastor's mother, a preacher in her own right, who took ill on Thanksgiving eve and had to be rushed to the emergency room. She spent the holiday in the hospital and her son was so moved by watching her give thanks for Jell-O that he preached about it Sunday.
Maybe you say to yourself, Well, yeah, but what is Jell-O to be thankful for? Especially when everybody else is gorging on turkey and ham and dressing and greens and mac and cheese and pies and cakes?
But when your last meal was intravenous, Jell-O is quite a lot.
This is not a church, so there will be no sermon, only an observation that, whatever one's belief structure or lack thereof, there is something to be said for learning to be content in the face of circumstances you cannot change.
Otherwise, you are in for a bumpy ride through this life.
Folks forget that sometimes. Heck, folks forget it all the time.
"The trouble with you and me, my friend," Don Henley once sang, "is the trouble with this nation. Too many blessings, too little appreciation."
Or as the serenity prayer puts it: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Such sentiments are necessarily at odds with the cult of consumption and its belief that one is incomplete until one buys what the store is selling, that one can change one's entire life, find wholeness and a better self, in the things one owns. It is a faith — the word is used advisedly — that finds expression each year in scenes of people surging into temples of commerce, pulling guns and getting into fistfights while trying to buy things they feel they need.
But the things we need most in this life cannot be found in temples of commerce or bought at any price. Did more of us know that, back in the era when men still wore hats and women, gloves? Maybe. Or maybe that's just a trick of memory, painting olden days in sepia tones.
So fine. No olden days, no sepia tones here. But you don't have to go back to 1950 to marvel at how some of us define what matters in this life. You can just go back to last week, to a holiday weekend some folks spent camping at the mall and punching one another in the face — and at least one of us spent in a hospital bed giving thanks for Jell-O. Something in that juxtaposition makes you want to pause, reconfigure your ideas of what truly matters in this life and what, ultimately, does not. Perhaps that's only to be expected when a woman is able to locate grace in a gelatin snack as the shoppers rush home with their treasures.
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Learning Italian at Florence's Koine Center
I managed to avoid my fear of language learning when I was younger because studying a foreign language was never a requirement for me when I was in high school and college.
I took a second trip to Italy last spring to take an intensive language course in Florence, figuring that since I planned to make travel to Italy a regular part of my life, it would be nice to learn the language without all of the pressure of grades and exams.
After completing the written test I was given a private oral assessment and then placed in a beginning level classroom. There were three other students in my class – two Americans and one lady from Germany.
My time at Koine was challenging and fun. We did a variety of lessons from workbooks, basic conversation exercises and listening comprehension.
My teacher was funny and engaging. Every morning at the start of class she would ask each of us what we'd done the previous afternoon during our free time. We'd go around the room recalling what we had done and trying to find the right words to express it in Italian. She would tell us about her afternoons spent riding her bike to the park with her two dogs.
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The Decent Films Guide rates films for moral and spiritual value on a scale from +4 (a feast for the spirit) to -4 (poison), with a baseline of zero (basically harmless). (Note: The
As with all the ratings, the moral-spiritual rating is an index of opinion, not a statement of fact or article of faith. Readers are encouraged to read the reviews critically and arrive at their own conclusions.
The Decent Films moral-spiritual rating may be unique among religiously-oriented film sites in considering both positive and negative moral-spiritual factors individually, rather than reducing every film to a single moral character. This system is meant to reflect the fact that many films are mixtures of both praiseworthy and problematic elements.
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Another way of putting it is that the baseline for the moral-spiritual value rating, the cutoff between films with positive and negative content, is zero. But the baseline for the star rating, the cutoff between films that are well made and those that arent, is three stars.
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