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Single Link Saturday Night Dance Party: The neon-dripped hallucinatory candy-pop world ofBrite Futures' - Sideways Pony Tail [more inside]
Knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing might be the most crucial factor of all
Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. — Clive Thompson describes the results of the Stanford Study of Writing, mainly that young people today write far more than any generation before them.
Queer Teen Talk
The Kids Are Alright, A Documentary (Warning ~60 MB Quicktime download. Worth it.) A bit of strange luck led me to this documentary, in which several teenagers discuss frankly and openly what it's like to be a queer kid in North Carolina. Contrast and compare their experiences with that of 14 year old Thomas McLaughlin in Arkansas. I wonder what Aaron Fricke would think about the last 20-odd years.
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I've got dozens of lists, each is a collection of 11 data frames. Some data frames are empty (another script did not output any data, not a bug).
I need to push each list through a function but that chokes when it sees an empty data frame. So how do I write a function that will take a list, do a dim on each element (i.e. data frame) and if it's 0, then skip to the next.
I tried something like this:
empties <- function (mlist)
for(i in 1:length(mlist))
if(dim(mlist[[i]])[1]!=0) return (mlist[[i]])
But clearly, that didn't work. I would do this manually at this point but that would take forever. Help?


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Never Mind The Buzzcocks - In The Press
Continuing their trend of rotating hosts, the music panel show is back for a staggering 25th series with cheesy David Hasselhoff taking the chair. Regular team captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding return. This week's guests include Amelle Berrabah, from troubled pop trio Sugababes, cutting comedian and actor Peter Serafinowicz, and impish reality star Louie Spence, whose manic campery should guarantee maximum mayhem.
Buzzcocks at Latitude Festival ends in mass-karaoke
A one-off live episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks ended in Phill Jupitus leading a packed-out comedy tent in Rolling Stones' Satisfaction.
Such Small Portions, 16th July 2011
You may be forgiven for thinking you'd somehow slipped through a hole in the space-time foam if you tuned into BBC Two at 10pm - as a new episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks aired with Simon Amstell at the helm and Russell Brand, restored to lascivious form, as a team captain.
Russell Brand's Buzzcocks to be screened
A Never Mind the Buzzcocks episode with Russell Brand, pulled after the furore over his on-air phone messages to Andrew Sachs, is to be shown more than two years after it was filmed.
BBC News, 17th January 2011
Simon Amstell: 'I wasn't too mean on Buzzcocks'
Simon Amstell has said that he does not think he was too mean as host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Digital Spy, 26th November 2010
Video: Why did Simon Amstell quit Buzzcocks?
Simon Amstell rose to fame as the cheeky and irreverent presenter of PopWorld, whose sarcastic interview style bewildered his popstar guests. As the host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, his venomous wit was legendary and his ability to cut musicians down to size became a defining characteristic of the show. After winning several awards for his work on the programme, he left in 2009, to the dismay of many fans. He explained his decision to BBC Breakfast.
BBC News, 22nd November 2010
Planet Jedward takes over the Buzzcocks studio tonight - a surreal experience that's as painful to watch as it is snortingly hilarious.
Mentally prepare yourself: Jedward are on tonight, appearing as one guest, and looking and being utterly ridiculous. But don't worry, because host Jack Dee and team captain Noel Fielding eat them alive. 'They're like a simpleton Bros' is just one of many, many insults hurled at them. Addictive viewing, sadly.
Happy Shopper Russell Brand, Noel Fielding has had a pop at Simon Amstell for "ruining" Never Mind The Buzzcocks by being too rude to the guests, which suggests that he hadn't watched any of the series before Amstell was on. Or after. Or even tonight's episode in which Jack Dee describes Jedward as the "greatest musical meeting since Chapman met Lennon".
The Buzzcocks studio can handle most things, but can it handle the prattle-storm of Jedward? It's a close call. Seated side by side as one guest on Noel Fielding's team, they nearly capsize the show. At one stage even the benign Fielding has to abandon them and swap places with Phill Jupitus because he can't cope with their daft interruptions (many clearly edited out). "It's like a simpleton Bros!" he wails. Other descriptions of the pop twins include "A production of Oliver! styled by Vivienne Westwood" (from fellow guest Katy Brand) and "the greatest musical collaboration since Lennon met Chapman". That cruel offering comes from guest host Jack Dee's autocue. He's just the man for the occasion: for much of the show, it's essentially Jack Dee versus Jedward - and cryingly funny.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 4th November 2010
Catherine Tate grated on Buzzcocks
The music quiz show was this week hosted by sketch show queen Catherine Tate on typical grating, nasal form. Come back, Simon Amstell, all is forgiven.
Written by Rachel Tarley. Metro, 29th October 2010
Never Mind The Buzzcocks Series 24 review
Mark Ronson has an incredibly dull voice and when doing the interlinking piece-to-camera sections he couldn't hide the fact that he was clearly reading off a screen, so the majority of jokes fell flat. It's all in the delivery.
Written by Steven Cookson. Suite101, 22nd October 2010
There was life before Simon Amstell, though Never Mind the Buzzcocks doesn't seem to know it. A full series after the catty, facetious quiz host left to write and star in Grandma's House, programme-makers are still fumbling around without a replacement.
The pop quiz is back for its second series without Simon Amstell - it coped just fine last year. On Phill Jupitus's team tonight: syntax-mangling Strictly judge Alesha Dixon, and Mollie King of the Saturdays - a girlband so nondescript, Mollie could appear in the line-up round. With Noel Fielding, it's rapper Tinie Tempah and comic Paul Foot. Even the guest host has something to promote: it's Mark Ronson, who has a new album out. But if he's still got the bleached hairdo he sported on Later, that's one laugh in the bag already.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 21st October 2010
The pop quiz's new season gets under way not, we're sorry to say, with the eagerly awaited edition in which guest host Jack Dee reportedly "almost" reduced irksome pop twins Jedward to tears with his barbs. Instead, ice-cool "pop sensation" Mark Ronson hosts - but there's still fun aplenty as team captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding are joined by Alesha Dixon, Mollie King of The Saturdays, rapper Tinie Tempah and surreally coiffed comedian Paul Foot.
Continuing its post-Amstell coping strategy of a HIGNFY-style rotating host, Buzzcocks is back for a 24th series, showing more longevity than most of the popstars it has on it. The surprisingly affable Mark Ronson takes the chair and attempts to rein in returning team leaders Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding[, who get Alesha Dixon, Mollie King from the Saturdays, Tinie Tempah and Paul Foot as their guests. Future hosts look likely to include Josh Groban, Tim Westwood and Frankie Boyle. No Dappy from N-Dubz?
Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Question Time
Never Mind The Buzzcocks is back!
Written by David Thair. BBC Comedy Blog, 18th October 2010
Terry Wogan to host Buzzcocks quiz show
Veteran broadcaster Terry Wogan and music producer Mark Ronson are to be guest hosts on the next series of BBC Two show, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
BBC News, 13th October 2010
Jack Dee nearly makes Jedward cry on Buzzcocks
Jack Dee left X Factor twins Jedward on the brink of tears after bombarding them with insults while recording Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Written by Gordon Smart. The Sun, 30th September 2010
Never Mind The Buzzcocks - Ask Phill & Noel
Hey Pop Quiz Fans! Have you ever wanted to ask Phill & Noel a question that they can answer in a contractually obliged, shortform, format? No? Neither did we... until now!
Written by Steve Saul. BBC Comedy Blog, 16th September 2010
Phill Jupitus interview: I am not everyone's cup of tea
As his new book is published, the comedian speaks about the row that led to him leaving 6 Music, the 'amoral weasels' at the BBC and why he nearly quit Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Written by John Plunkett. The Guardian, 9th August 2010
Currently, the Wednesday night TV schedule is the most boring in the UK, unless you watch Spooks. I've never been so grateful to see pop music panel show Never Mind The Buzzocks (BBC2, 10pm) as I was yesterday evening, with Frankie Boyle as the week's guest host. Is it just me, or has the guest-host format worked wonders for Buzzcocks? I was expecting Have I Got News For You-style tedium (where they insist on making everything look amateur and distracting by keeping in outtakes of the host fluffing their lines, etc), but Buzzcocks has avoided all that redundant inanity.
Has Buzzcocks survived Simon Amstell's departure?
We've had eight episodes now since Amstell's departure - and the guests hosts have generally been enjoyable, if not as much of a success as they were post-Deayton on Have I Got News for You.
Written by Will Dean. The Guardian, 25th November 2009
Dermot jokes of 'death threats'
X Factor host Dermot O'Leary stunned a Never Mind The Buzzcocks studio audience with a string of bad-taste X Factor jokes.
Written by Colin Robertson. The Sun, 16th November 2009
Jamelia, Buzzcocks, and Maxwell D's Apology
Jamelia appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks last night and had a very odd encounter. Maxwell D, a London based MC, was star of the line up. It turns out he attempted to sell a story on Jamelia back in t'day.
Written by Rob Taylor. Music.co.uk, 5th November 2009


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Not only was 1998 notable as the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it also marked the conclusion of a landmark agreement to establish an international criminal court to try war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. This agreement, by 120 nations, reflected an increasing tendency to view human rights as a corollary to regional stability. This trend was also noticeable in ongoing efforts by the international community in former Yugoslavia, with the province of Kosovo presenting the latest challenge.
Contrasting with these positive developments, limited international resolve and comparatively scant resources were dedicated to problems far from Europe, such as Rwanda and the surrounding African countries. Major human rights violations in countries where civilians continued to suffer the aftereffects of conflict and associated human rights abuses, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo [Kinshasa]), Algeria, and Indonesia, were given only cursory attention at the annual UN Human Rights Commission meeting. In June U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton's visit to China, where a policy of detention of dissidents continued, was notable for its low-key approach to human rights issues.
On July 17 in Rome, after discussions that lasted four years, a group of interested countries agreed by an overwhelming majority--120 in favour, 21 abstaining, and 7 against--to establish by treaty an international criminal court. The U.S. drew widespread criticism from human rights organizations by attempting to introduce amendments that would have considerably weakened the eventual powers of the court. It finally voted against the treaty, along with such unlikely bedfellows as Iraq, Libya, The Sudan, and China.
Crimes covered by the treaty included genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; such contentious issues as terrorism and drug trafficking were not included. The court was not intended to be a substitute for a national judicial system and would intervene only when the national system did not investigate a possible crime or was "unable or unwilling" to do so. The real impact of the treaty was not expected to be felt for some time, as it required ratification by 60 nations before it came into force, a process that could take several years.
The decision by British courts to allow the extradition of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to Spain for crimes committed against Spanish citizens in Chile while president of that nation from 1973 to 1990 demonstrated a more robust approach to the issue of universal jurisdiction. The decision not to allow immunity for former heads of state for "crimes against humanity" revealed growing support for the legal enforcement of international human rights law but marked the beginning of a protracted legal battle over Pinochet's extradition.
The UN Security Council's role in the process of initiating investigations was limited by the treaty in favour of an independent and unfettered prosecutor. The power of the prosecutor to initiate an independent investigation was affirmed in the statute that established the court and was subject only to judicial approval prior to instituting a prosecution.
The first verdict by the UN-established International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was handed down on September 4. Jean Kambanda, former prime minister of Rwanda during the genocide there in 1994, was found guilty. Cooperation by the states of former Yugoslavia with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) continued to be unsatisfactory, and both tribunals were hampered by a lack of resources.
War crimes trials by national courts in both former Yugoslavia and Rwanda often suffered from procedural deficiencies indicative of ethnic biases. Trials by the national courts in Rwanda resulted in the public execution of 22 persons in April for participation in the genocide, despite serious procedural inadequacies in the hearings. An estimated 130,000 persons detained in Rwandan prisons awaited trial.
Ethnic conflict continued to produce a cycle of revenge in Africa and former Yugoslavia. Despite a general return to stability in former Yugoslavia, substantial return of refugees did not occur and ethnic discrimination and isolation continued to typify the climate in the region. At the end of February, the tension in the 90% ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo in Serbia finally led to the outbreak of a long-anticipated armed conflict between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and Serbian security forces. The civilian population suffered massive forced displacement, extrajudicial execution, torture, and the deliberate destruction of property reminiscent of the war in former Yugoslavia. The KLA also carried out human rights abuses against the native Serb population, albeit on a smaller scale. Serbia refused to accept ICTY jurisdiction for war crimes in Kosovo despite affirmation by the UN Security Council.
The conflict continued throughout the spring and summer as the international community sought a diplomatic solution. In October Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic agreed under threat of NATO air strikes to allow in large numbers of unarmed representatives from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions providing for the withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosovo and the return of the displaced population. Late in the year sporadic fighting continued in some areas, and the situation remained unstable.
Chaos continued to reign in the aftermath of the conflict in Rwanda. In Congo (Kinshasa), Pres. Laurent Kabila refused repeated requests by the UN and human rights groups to send missions to monitor the situation. Twenty-four soldiers were executed in Sierra Leone in October for treason following trial by a military tribunal. The executions were widely criticized by human rights organizations, in particular because of the lack of the right to appeal the death sentences.
Elections held in Cambodia on July 26 highlighted the limited success of the costly 1993 UN operation, when the first democratic election was held in that country. In the weeks preceding the 1998 vote, violence and intimidation encompassing illegal detention, torture, and extrajudicial killings increased. International observers pronounced the elections basically fair, which caused protests from human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and the main opposition groups, Funcinpec and the Sam Rainsy Party. They alleged fraud and threatened to boycott the new National Assembly. In September demonstrations in Phnom Penh, resulting from the postelection suppression of opposition parties, provoked a clampdown by the authorities, which led to further injuries and killings. In an anticlimactic episode in April, Pol Pot died in a jungle village near the Thai-Cambodian border, amid a growing clamour to establish an international tribunal to try Khmer Rouge leaders responsible for the 1979 genocide. The cause of his death was unverified but was said to have been a heart attack. (See OBITUARIES.)
The death of Nigerian leader Gen. Sani Abacha in June (see OBITUARIES) heralded positive changes in Nigeria's human rights climate. His successor, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar (see BIOGRAPHIES), released several prominent political detainees, introduced economic reforms, and initiated steps for Nigeria's readmission to the Commonwealth. A presidential election was scheduled for May 1999, marking the beginning of Nigeria's shift toward a more democratic system.
Changes in the political landscape in Iran indicated moves toward a more moderate policy by the regime. Rapprochement between Iran and the U.S. revealed the softening stance of the more liberal elements, represented by Pres. Mohammad Khatami. The internal struggle with the conservative Iranian religious establishment continued, however. Political repression was still commonplace, but the political shift gave new hope for the overall human rights environment.
Human Rights Watch reported in November on mass killings of 2,000 civilians by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif during fighting earlier in the year. Widespread repression of women living under the Taliban regime continued, including denial of education, employment, and freedom of movement; transgressors suffered beatings.
A peace deal concluded in Northern Ireland provided hope for a decrease in human rights abuses caused by the conflict. In the Middle East the peace process staggered along at a painfully slow pace threatened by continuing violence on both sides. The ultimate success of the negotiated agreements in both regions remained unclear.
The controversy involving U.S. President Clinton (see BIOGRAPHIES) dominated the American news media during the year and spawned several legal decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. The alleged wrongdoing that caused his troubles started in Arkansas while Clinton was governor there and involved a failed land deal, called "Whitewater," in which he and his wife, Hillary, were involved. Troubles continued for Clinton after he was elected president. In this connection one matter that later became important concerned the wholesale dismissal of White House travel office employees, allegedly done so that Clinton, through friends and colleagues, could take over this lucrative business. In view of these events and the charges and countercharges that they engendered in the media and the political arena, the Department of Justice appointed a special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr (see BIOGRAPHIES) to investigate the president's role in some of these activities.
Meanwhile, an employee of the state of Arkansas named Paula Jones brought an action in Arkansas charging Clinton with sexual harassment, allegedly committed while he was governor. As part of her proof, she sought to establish that Clinton had sexual affairs with many women and that this pattern of conduct was ongoing. In this connection Jones alleged that Clinton had engaged in sex with a young White House intern named Monica Lewinsky. In a deposition taken in the Jones case, Clinton denied under oath that he had a sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
Special Prosecutor Starr added the Lewinsky matter to his portfolio. His inquiry into this and the other charges falling within his jurisdiction went slowly, and he came under personal attack and was accused of delaying his work for reasons of personal political gain. In response he asserted that his investigation had been impeded by the refusal of Clinton and his staff to cooperate. Clinton replied that he was cooperating fully, but that many persons whom the special prosecutor wanted to interview or take before a grand jury were protected by various legal privileges that allowed them to refuse to give evidence. Starr then brought appropriate legal action to compel this testimony. It was this legal action and not the underlying facts or allegations making up the controversy that excited American legal scholars and produced two landmark decisions by the Supreme Court.
The first case involved the travel office dismissals. A deputy White House counsel, Vincent Foster, met with an "outside [the White House] attorney" to seek legal representation concerning the investigation of that matter. The outside attorney took three pages of handwritten notes of the meeting. Nine days later Foster committed suicide. Starr, through a grand jury subpoena, directed the outside counsel to produce the notes, but he refused. The Supreme Court held that the notes were protected by the attorney-client privilege, which survived Foster's death, and therefore could not be used in the ongoing investigation.
In a subsequent case, however, the Supreme Court limited the interpretation that some legal scholars were putting on the Foster decision. It let stand a lower court decision that Bruce Lindsey, a White House counsel, could not invoke the attorney-client privilege to refuse to testify before a grand jury regarding his conversations and other dealings with President Clinton. In that decision the court also held that Clinton had no "protective-function" privilege that would prevent his bodyguards from giving testimony to a grand jury concerning his activities.
At the same time, President Clinton agreed to testify before a grand jury empaneled by Starr, and his testimony given by video transmission from the White House was later telecast to the nation. This testimony was given under oath, and Starr subsequently alleged that some of it, particularly portions pertaining to Lewinsky, was untruthful and thus perjurious. Clinton denied the charge, but some Clinton supporters said that, even if it were true, no major importance should be attached to it, because most men deny sexual peccadilloes in an effort to protect their marriages and families. The Supreme Court may have taken note of this defense, endorsed widely by the news media, by seemingly going out of its way in an unrelated case to state that "witnesses appearing before a grand jury under oath are, likewise, required to testify truthfully on pain of being prosecuted for perjury. . . . The predicament of being forced to choose between incriminatory truth and falsehood does not justify perjury."
By the year's end two important developments involving the Clinton controversy had occurred. Initially, the Jones case was settled out of court for $850,000 paid to her by Clinton with the explicit understanding that he had done no wrong. Second, Starr released his findings to Congress, and the House of Representatives impeached President Clinton.
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that an employer's refusal to allow travel concessions given by it to members of the opposite sex living with one another in a stable relationship could be denied to lesbians, even though they were living together in a meaningful relationship. The U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps, took a different view, holding that a same-sex harassment in the workplace was actionable under a federal statute prohibiting sexual harassment. Additionally, the court showed its propensity to protect homosexuals by ruling that an employer of a person who sexually harassed a fellow employee could be held liable for that act without a showing of negligence.
In South Africa the abortion rights adherents gained a significant victory when the Transvaal division of the High Court ruled that a fetus is not a legal person under the constitution and therefore is not protected by its "right-to-life" provisions. The question arose in a lawsuit brought by pro-life adherents in which it was alleged that the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1966, which allowed abortion, was contrary to the right-to-life provisions of the constitution.
The Supreme Court of Canada resolved a case that attracted national attention by holding that First Nations could sustain their claim to 58,000 sq km (22,400 sq mi) of land in northern British Columbia through proof of title by adducing oral history and tradition. They did not have to abide by common-law rules that allegedly had been made part of the basic law of Canada by an English Royal Proclamation of 1763.
The Supreme Court of the U.S. let stand a decision from the Supreme Court of Wisconsin that a school vouchers program did not violate the Constitution. School vouchers made government money available to economically disadvantaged students to attend private schools, including those affiliated with a religion. This program had been a key plank in the Republican Party's agenda and had been strongly opposed by advocates of public education, including teachers unions, most members of the Democratic Party, and President Clinton.
In 1998 Arizona, by means of a statewide initiative, amended its constitution to make "English the official language of the State of Arizona." The amendment further provided that the state and all its political subdivisions "shall act in English and no other language." This amendment, quite obviously aimed at a substantially large Spanish-speaking population in the state, was declared unconstitutional by the Arizona Supreme Court as a violation of the First Amendment of the federal Constitution, which preempts the constitutions of the various states.
A major dispute between the U.K. and Spain concerned General Pinochet, a former president of Chile in Great Britain for medical treatment. The Spanish government wanted to extradite him and prosecute him for the alleged serious violations of human rights he committed when he was president of Chile. His supporters claimed that he suppressed communism in Chile and left the country, after his resignation, incomparably better off than the one he had inherited. Early in December a British court granted Spain its request of extradition but later voided it and scheduled a new hearing in 1999.
The ICTY sentenced Drazen Erdemovic to five years in prison for his part in an execution squad that allegedly murdered many Bosnian Muslims. It was alleged that Erdemovic himself had murdered 100 persons.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECH) held that a decision by the Constitutional Court of Turkey dissolving the Communist Party of Turkey was in violation of the Convention of the ECH. The International Court of Justice determined that it had jurisdiction to deal with the merits of a case brought by Libya against the U.K. concerning Pan Am Flight 103; two Libyan nationals were suspected of having caused the destruction of the airplane and the death of its 270 passengers and crew members over Lockerbie, Scot., in 1988.
The constitution of Denmark sharply limited the right of a government to cede sovereignty to international organizations. Using this provision as their base, a number of citizens of Denmark sued their prime minister for signing the Treaty on European Unity in 1991. The Supreme Court of Denmark found no conflict between the constitution and the treaty but observed that if such a conflict should develop in the future, the Danish constitution would take precedence.
In India, in what the media considered a landmark decision, the Supreme Court held that courts are competent, in the absence of controlling legislation, to make law on the particular point in question. The decision was based on Article 142 of India's constitution to the effect that courts are required to do "complete justice" in cases they resolve. "Justice," the court said, must represent the will of the people on the particular matter in question, and the court opined that any court-made law would therefore be valid only until such time as the legislature passed legislation on the point in question.
The High Court of Australia decided an important case during the year involving secretly recorded evidence affecting the outcome of a criminal trial. The case had important implications for Australia's strict adherence to principles of human rights, including the right of one accused of a crime to remain silent. In the case at hand, the accused voluntarily admitted to a police officer, without knowledge that the confession was being tape-recorded, that he had committed the crime for which he was subsequently charged. When interrogated, he had not refused to answer questions or asserted any privilege in that regard. In a far-reaching decision the court ultimately resolved the matter by giving the trial court substantial discretion to admit or deny the confession into evidence. This discretion, however, was limited by a three-pronged test: (1) Was the confession voluntarily made? (2) Did the accused refuse to answer questions or stand on his right to remain silent? (3) Was the confession reliable or "bought at a price" that is unacceptable under contemporary community standards?
On Aug. 7, 1998, terrorists launched coordinated and devastating attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, a massive truck bomb blast killed 257 people, 12 of them Americans, and left more than 5,000 persons wounded. An almost simultaneous blast in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's capital, killed 11 people and injured hundreds more. The blasts provided a tragic reminder of just how vulnerable even the world's sole superpower remained to attacks of this type. They also precipitated an immediate and massive FBI investigation into the bombings, which were believed to have been committed by an Islamic terrorist network associated with Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi businessman said to be living in Afghanistan. (See BIOGRAPHIES.) On August 20 U.S. military forces, utilizing cruise missiles, delivered powerful surprise attacks against a number of sites in Afghanistan in an effort to destroy key bases used by the Islamic terrorists claimed to have been involved in the bombings. An attack was also made upon an alleged chemical weapons factory located in Khartoum, the capital of The Sudan.
The military strikes, which were condemned by Russia and a number of other nations, were said to have signaled a shift to more aggressive counterterrorist tactics by the U.S. in order to respond to a new phenomenon, the privatization of terrorism, in which individuals such as bin Laden replaced government-sponsored terrorism groups. Bin Laden appeared to have survived the cruise missile strikes and remained at large, but the ongoing investigation resulted in a number of arrests of bombing suspects associated with his far-flung network. A reward of up to $2 million was also offered by the U.S. for information leading to the arrest of Haroun Fazil, a native of Comoros, who allegedly had played a leading role in the Nairobi attack.
In October U.S. federal authorities announced that they had charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the long-unsolved bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga., in which one person died and more than 100 were injured. A reward of $1 million had already been posted in May for information assisting with Rudolph's capture on charges involving a bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., on Jan. 29, 1998, that killed one person. Final closure came in May in another long-running U.S. bombing investigation and prosecution when Theodore Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who killed 3 people and injured 22 in 16 attacks between 1979 and 1995, was sentenced to four terms of life in prison without parole. The sentence was part of a plea bargain that Kaczynski, 55, made in January to avoid the death sentence.
In Patterns of Global Terrorism, the U.S. Department of State reported 13 international terrorist incidents in the U.S. during 1997, 12 involving letter bombs sent from the Middle East. None of the letter bombs detonated. Worldwide, 304 acts of international terrorism were recorded, one of the lowest annual totals since 1971. The number of casualties remained large, however, with 221 deaths and 693 nonfatal woundings reported. Seven U.S. citizens died, and 21 were wounded in 1997, compared with 23 dead and 516 wounded during the previous year. Approximately one-third of all international terrorist attacks were against U.S. targets, and most consisted of bombings of business-related targets such as oil pipelines and communication facilities.
A historic but fragile peace accord reached in April between Protestant and Catholic factions in the British province of Northern Ireland was placed in jeopardy on August 15 when a massive car bomb exploded in the centre of the town of Omagh, killing at least 28 people and injuring 220. The blast was the deadliest single atrocity in almost three decades of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland. Responsibility for the bombing was claimed by a hard-line terrorist splinter group, the Real Irish Republican Army, which had rejected the cease-fire announced during 1997 by the mainstream Irish Republican Army (IRA). In the wake of the Omagh bombing, both the Irish and the British governments introduced legislation giving new and wide-ranging powers to police to arrest, detain, question, stop, and search terrorist suspects.
On September 16 the Spanish Basque terrorist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) announced an indefinite cease-fire after 30 years of guerrilla attacks that were blamed for 800 deaths. Spanish political leaders in Madrid suggested that the cease-fire was the result of pressure on ETA from police arrests, large public street demonstrations demanding peace, and inspiration drawn from the peace accord reached in Northern Ireland.
In April, following the longest trial in French legal history, a jury in Bordeaux found Maurice Papon guilty of complicity in Nazi crimes against humanity while he was an administrator in German-occupied France during World War II. Papon, who was the highest-ranking French civilian official ever to be tried on war crimes charges, was held responsible for the handing over to the Germans of more than 1,500 Jews in occupied Bordeaux. Following his conviction Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison and deprived of his civil rights.
On April 15 Pol Pot, the leader of the radical communist Khmer Rouge and one of the most reviled figures of the 20th century, died in Cambodia. From 1975 to 1979 he presided over the party and regime whose paranoia and brutality resulted in the deaths of as many as two million Cambodians. (See OBITUARIES.) Despite the horrors inflicted by the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot and his close colleagues in the party were never made accountable for their crimes. Pol Pot's death provided a stark reminder of the helplessness of the international community to try those accused of crimes against humanity in the face of the failure of a national criminal jurisdiction to protect its own people. In July the international community took a historic step toward redressing this situation when 120 countries voted in favour of a draft treaty setting out the fundamentals for an international court to prosecute war criminals and tyrants like Pol Pot. Though the conference approved the draft treaty, its implementation remained dependent upon ratification by at least 60 nations.
Meanwhile, the existing special tribunals set up by the UN to deal with crimes committed in former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda continued their work. In Arusha, Tanz., the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda handed down a landmark decision on September 2 finding Jean Paul Akayesu, a former mayor of a small commune in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. The verdict was the first of its kind, following a full trial, for the crime of genocide under international law. Akayesu, who was subsequently sentenced to the maximum penalty of life in prison for these crimes, was found by the court to have ordered fellow members of the Hutu tribe to kill their Tutsi neighbours, including children. He also encouraged and ordered the rape and murder of Tutsi women. In making rape part of Akayesu's genocide conviction, the tribunal's decision advanced the definition and punishment of sexual violence within the context of international law.
On October 16 British police arrested the former Chilean president, General Pinochet, who was in London seeking medical treatment. Pinochet's arrest was made at the request of a Spanish judge who sought Pinochet's extradition as part of an investigation into atrocities committed in the "dirty wars" in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s. The Spanish authorities held Pinochet responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 people, including Spaniards, Britons, Chileans, and other Latin Americans. (See Law, above.)
In February, as part of the annual antinarcotics certification process first required by the U.S. Congress in 1986, President Clinton's administration announced it had decided to waive economic sanctions imposed two years earlier against Colombia because of that nation's poor performance in combating drug trafficking. Although Colombia remained the world's leading producer and distributor of cocaine and a major supplier of heroin and marijuana, officials said the decision was based in part on the emergence of the Colombian national police as an effective force against narcotics. In addition to Colombia, Pakistan and Cambodia also received sanction waivers despite their poor records in dealing with the trade in narcotics. Critics of the certification process suggested that it was a clumsy tool for encouraging better narcotics enforcement, forcing the U.S. into difficult choices between papering over problems or offending otherwise friendly countries. Many of the nations subject to the evaluation also claimed that it was counterproductive. The root cause of the drug problem was, they said, the insatiable demand for narcotics in the U.S. and not lax enforcement by source countries.
In October retired general Barry McCaffrey, President Clinton's national drug policy director, warned on a visit to Haiti that the country had become the fastest-growing transit point for U.S.-bound cocaine shipments. Colombian and Dominican drug traffickers, sensing an opportunity in a nation weakened by a paralyzed government and an inexperienced police force, were said to be moving through Haiti up to 15% of all the cocaine consumed in the U.S., about four tons a month.
For the sixth consecutive year, the overall rate of serious crime in the U.S. fell in 1997, according to the FBI's annual survey of law-enforcement agencies. Murder and robbery showed the greatest decline, each down 9% from 1996. Serious crime also continued to fall in all of the largest cities, although a little more slowly than in 1996. A comparative study of crime and justice in the U.S. and the U.K., published in October by the U.S. Bureau of Justice, revealed that serious crimes rates were in general no higher in the U.S. than in the U.K. The major exception to the pattern was murder, with the U.S. murder rate in 1996 nearly six times higher than that of the U.K.
Americans were shocked in March by the bloody ambush killings of four young students and a teacher by a 13-year-old boy and his 11-year-old cousin outside the Westside Middle School in the small Arkansas town of Jonesboro. It was the fourth multiple shooting in less than six months at an American school by a person under the age of 17, and it prompted immediate debate about school safety and the pervasiveness of guns in U.S. homes. Some of the high-powered weapons used by the two boys were said to have been taken from the home of the grandfather of the 11-year-old suspect. In August, on his 14th birthday, Mitchell Johnson pleaded guilty, and Andrew Golden, 12, was found guilty at their trial on charges relating to the killing of four of their schoolmates and a teacher and the wounding of 10 others during the ambush. They were sentenced to be confined by state juvenile authorities until they turned 21, the maximum punishment available for children of their age. (See Special Report.)
The Vatican was stunned in May by the slaying of the commander of the Swiss Guard, the Holy See's private army, shortly after the pope had appointed Col. Alois Estermann to lead the 100-strong force. Estermann's corpse, together with that of his wife, Gladys Meza Romero, and a vice corporal in the Swiss Guard, Cedric Tornay, were found in the commander's apartment on May 4. It seemed that, in what a Vatican spokesman claimed was "a moment of madness," Estermann and his wife had been shot dead by Tornay, who then took his own life, after Tornay had received an official reprimand in February for breaking the Guard's midnight curfew. Tornay had also just learned that he was not to receive a medal he had anticipated being awarded.
One of Russia's most admired and courageous advocates of democracy, Galina Starovoytova, was assassinated in St. Petersburg on November 20. A potential presidential candidate and virulent anticommunist critic, Starovoytova was gunned down as she climbed the stairs to her apartment with an aide, who was critically wounded in the attack. A liberal deputy in the State Duma (parliament), Starovoytova was the seventh deputy to be murdered since 1993 and the first woman. She had received threats from political enemies and was said to have prepared a dossier of evidence pointing to corruption in the Communist Party, which she was expected to have tabled shortly in the Duma. Her death came at a time when the Russian general prosecutor's office reported an increase of almost 18% in murder, rape, and other serious crimes in the first nine months of the year.
The annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI), published by the Berlin-based global anticorruption organization Transparency International, ranked Colombia, Indonesia, and Nigeria as the world's most corrupt large countries. The CPI, a poll drawing upon many surveys of expert and general public views of the extent of corruption in 85 nations, listed Denmark, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, and Canada among the least corrupt.
With billions of dollars' worth of foreign aid and investment in Asia disappearing as part of the economic collapse in the region, many countries began to deal with the rampant corruption that had fueled the crisis. In Vietnam in January three former businessmen convicted of corruption were executed in front of thousands of witnesses on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. In China the government's policy of promoting capitalist economic reform without comparable change in the nation's closed political system was said by Western experts to be responsible for an epidemic of corruption among public officials, including the military. In July Chinese Pres. Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Zhu Rongji unveiled plans to prosecute corrupt Communist Party, law-enforcement, and military officials and to create a national antismuggling force. China's military was mentioned as being heavily involved in smuggling activities, which were estimated to cost the government at least $12 billion each year in lost tax revenue.
Policing experts remained uncertain about the role played by law enforcement in reducing rates of serious crime in the U.S. over recent years. The FBI admitted it could not readily explain why rates were falling so fast, and senior police officials expressed concern that the sharp drop in crime had produced new pressure on police departments to show ever-decreasing crime figures. Several charges of falsely reporting crime statistics led to the resignation or demotion of high-ranking police commanders, including the head of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) Transportation Bureau, who presided over an elaborate scheme to reclassify incidents on the city's subway as street crimes. The scheme underestimated crime in the subway by as much as 20%.
Despite such practices, other experts attributed the national decline in crime to the new "zero-tolerance" policing policies of the type adopted in New York City by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. This concept was based on a theory, advanced by two criminologists in the 1980s, that authorities could create a climate in which serious crime would find it impossible to flourish if they refused to tolerate minor infractions of the law, such as painting graffiti on walls or dropping litter on the sidewalk. The criminologists termed this the "broken window" phenomenon--if one window in a building was broken, all the others would soon suffer a similar fate. If, however, one fixed the broken window rapidly, the situation would not deteriorate. In New York, Mayor Giuliani ordered crackdowns not only on graffiti writers and litterers but also on windshield cleaners, people who urinated in public, and jaywalkers. The policy seemed to work, as crime rates in the city dropped. Not everyone agreed that this was the reason for the fall in crime, however, and many critics suggested that zero-tolerance policing policies often resulted in the abuse of civil liberties.
Former NYPD police commissioner William Bratton attributed the declining crime rates to a revitalized police department with better weapons and new personnel-deployment policies. Officers were removed from desk jobs and put back on the streets with increased discretionary powers. Precinct commanders were made personally responsible for reducing crime in their own areas, and those who failed were fired. Such policies were not unique to New York City. In most U.S. cities the number of police officers had increased during recent years, and in many locations officers were encouraged to work with the community to prevent crime and apprehend criminals. This community-policing philosophy was matched in many departments by the use of sophisticated computer mapping and intelligence systems to target high-crime areas.
In October the FBI opened a national computerized DNA database that, its proponents said, would help reduce rape and serious crimes by catching repeat offenders more rapidly. Similar to a database already in operation in the U.K., the FBI's new investigative aid allowed comparisons of a DNA sample from one state in the U.S. with all others in the system. From only a few cells, enough DNA could be obtained to identify the owner.
On October 1 Europe's cross-border police force, Europol, officially began operations with ambitious plans to target the illegal drug trade and terrorism across 15 European Union nations. Europol had worked in a more restricted capacity since 1995 as the European Drugs Unit. In this capacity, with only 155 staff members based in The Hague, it had assisted national police forces in combating illegal immigration networks, vehicle theft, and trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials. After scandals in Belgium in 1996 concerning pedophilia and child murder, it was given additional responsibility for monitoring sexual exploitation, including trafficking in humans. It also collated information about money laundering. With this new role, Europol's staff was scheduled to rise to 350 by 2000.
The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) announced in January that it had brought its technological capabilities up to date, streamlined its operations, and tightened its security. More than 150 of the organization's 177 member nations were now linked by computer to the world's most extensive law-enforcement communications network.
Hardening political and public attitudes on crime and punishment continued to be reflected by the rising numbers of untried and sentenced prisoners in many parts of the world in 1998. In this respect Russia and the United States held the lead with incarceration rates of approximately 690 and 645 prisoners per 100,000 population, respectively. Whereas the Russian figures declined slightly during the year, this was not the case in the U.S., where there had been an annual growth rate of about 6% since 1990. With the probable exception of China (where data were unavailable), reliance elsewhere upon imprisonment was mostly some 50-75% lower. Although the overall pattern was one of steady growth in the incarceration rate, there were a few indications of reductions in Eastern and Central Europe, notably in Poland.
Excessively crowded conditions, dismal standards of sanitation, and a shortage of basic medical resources remained the norm for many prison systems. The conditions endured by prisoners awaiting trial remained especially abysmal. In South Africa the number of children sentenced and remanded to prison had doubled since 1996, with many of them held 50 to a cell designed for half that number. In Russian prisons the rate of infection of tuberculosis was estimated to be 20-60% higher than the rate in the general community. Widespread deaths from infectious diseases were also reported among prisoners in Kenya and Uganda, and in Cambodia inmates frequently died of untreated diseases, exacerbated by malnutrition and overcrowding. In Venezuela, where 75% of prisoners were awaiting trial, 24,000 were held in facilities designed for 15,000. At the New-Bell prison in Douala, Cameroon, some 1,900 persons were crammed into a facility designed for 800. Severely crowded conditions were also by no means unknown to countries with more advanced economies. In Italy the Naples prison was housing twice its capacity, but even it compared favourably with Portugal's Oporto prison, which was designed for 500 prisoners but held 1,350.
Extensive prison-building programs were under way in the U.S., The Netherlands, and elsewhere but with problematic results. In England and Wales, where the prison population had risen from 42,000 to 66,000 since 1993, a huge capital investment in prisons was achieved in part at the expense of education and other services. Despite an expansion of the prison system in New York state, it was decided (contrary to the standards laid down by the American Corrections Association) to place two prisoners in cells measuring 4.2 sq m (45 sq ft) that had been designed for one person, a determination made necessary by cuts in staffing levels.
Elsewhere, imprisonment was made especially unpleasant as an explicit matter of public policy. It was reported in Chad that prisoners were bound with chains for the first three months of their detention. In China torture and ill-treatment of inmates remained widespread. With prisoners often denied protection from extreme temperatures, torture was also reported to be routine in Saudi Arabia. Torture and ill-treatment, including incidents of flogging and amputations, were widespread in prisons operated by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Deaths in custody remained widely reported by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations.
Prison riots and other serious incidents occurred in a number of countries. Sixteen prisoners died in a fire at the severely crowded Sabaneta prison in Venezuela, and seven inmates were killed during rioting at the Lurigancho prison in Peru, which at the time held 6,000 (mostly pretrial detainees) in 1,500 places. Riots were also reported in Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Mexico, and Jamaica. At the Soracaba prison near São Paulo, Braz., prisoners took 650 hostages, mostly visitors, in a protest against overcrowding that ended peacefully. Also in Brazil, at the Linhares prison eight inmates died when fighting erupted.
As a result of increased prison populations, many commercial firms were becoming interested in the management of prisons. By 1998 such "private prisons" had been established in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, with developments under consideration by governments in Canada and South Africa. The largest operator, Corrections Corp. of America, was responsible for some 62,500 prison beds worldwide.
According to Amnesty International, 104 countries had by 1998 abolished the death penalty in law or practice. In 63 countries abolition was for all crimes, in 16 it was for all but exceptional crimes, and in 25 abolition was a matter of practice rather than law. In 91 other countries the death penalty was retained. Since 1976 each year an average of two countries had abolished the death penalty, and most recently the abolitionist majority was joined by Georgia and Poland. Against this worldwide abolitionist trend, the scope of the death penalty was extended in 1998 by a number of countries. In Pakistan it covered gang rape. In Singapore it included the crime of trafficking in more than 250 g (8.8 oz) of crystal methamphetamine (during the first half of the year, at least six people were executed for drug offenses). It was reported in Tajikistan that the death penalty had been extended to cover "hooliganism." Executions for theft were reported under China's "Strike Hard" anticrime campaign. In April the United Nations Commission for Human Rights strengthened its call for a moratorium on executions. A UN official also declared that capital punishment in the U.S. violated international law. He concluded that "race, ethnic origin and economic status appeared to be key determinants of who would and would not receive a sentence of death." There were 68 executions in the U.S. during 1998. The number of death sentences carried out seemed likely to increase under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Statute, which imposed strict time limits on appeals, restricted access of prisoners to the federal courts, and empowered state courts to redress any constitutional violations. Worldwide, at least 2,375 persons in 40 countries were known to have been executed during 1997. Of these, 1,644 were in China, 143 in Iran (which included 3 persons stoned to death), 122 in Saudi Arabia, and 33 in Nigeria. In South Korea 23 persons were reported to have been hanged in a single day.
Death Penalty
According to Amnesty International, 104 countries had by 1998 abolished the death penalty in law or practice. In 63 countries abolition was for all crimes, in 16 it was for all but exceptional crimes, and in 25 abolition was a matter of practice rather than law. In 91 other countries the death penalty was retained. Since 1976 each year an average of two countries had abolished the death penalty, and most recently the abolitionist majority was joined by Georgia and Poland.
Against this worldwide abolitionist trend, the scope of the death penalty was extended in 1998 by a number of countries. In Pakistan it covered gang rape. In Singapore it included the crime of trafficking in more than 250 g (8.8 oz) of crystal methamphetamine (during the first half of the year, at least six people were executed for drug offenses). It was reported in Tajikistan that the death penalty had been extended to cover "hooliganism." Executions for theft were reported under China's "Strike Hard" anticrime campaign.
In April the United Nations Commission for Human Rights strengthened its call for a moratorium on executions. A UN official also declared that capital punishment in the U.S. violated international law. He concluded that "race, ethnic origin and economic status appeared to be key determinants of who would and would not receive a sentence of death." There were 68 executions in the U.S. during 1998. The number of death sentences carried out seemed likely to increase under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Statute, which imposed strict time limits on appeals, restricted access of prisoners to the federal courts, and empowered state courts to redress any constitutional violations.
Worldwide, at least 2,375 persons in 40 countries were known to have been executed during 1997. Of these, 1,644 were in China, 143 in Iran (which included 3 persons stoned to death), 122 in Saudi Arabia, and 33 in Nigeria. In South Korea 23 persons were reported to have been hanged in a single day.


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Stock and Orders Manager
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+ By Anis BEN ASKER
You are customer or supplier or both at the same time, StockProManager was conceived for you in a customizable way to give you the ability to easily manage your stock of products by adding movements in the form of inputs/outputs. You can take easily orders of your customer (customer order) and/or add an order to be sent, by email, to your supplier (supplier orders).
To save time, StockProManager allows you to export and import easily your products/articles as well as your customers and suppliers to or from an Excel file.
StockProManager also allows to export the movements and the state of your stock to an Excel file, to update the stock/inventory and import it into the application with a few clicks.
In addition to the basic features, StockProManager
gives you the possibility of signing manually and to generate easily your customer order (sales order) or suppliers orders (purchases order) in a PDF file and to send it by email to your customer/supplier with a simple click.
You want to export your customer orders or suppliers order? With StockProManager you can filter your orders and export them to an Excel or CSV file to integrate them into another external tool.
With the feature of statistics, you can follow the monthly or annual variation of your orders and compare it with that of the previous years.
StockProManager is a complete tool which is going to simplify your inventory management of your business.
- Customers management
- Suppliers management
- Products/articles management
- Management category of products
- Stock management
- Movements management (inputs/outputs)
- Alerts or over of stock management
- Orders suppliers (purchase orders) management
- Orders customers (sale orders) management
- Generation of orders to PDF
- Sending orders by email
- Exports orders to an Excel/CSV file
- Export of movements
- Import/export products
- Import/export customers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdd9ITRuyC8)
- Import/export suppliers
- Sending exports by email
- Management Setup: logo, company stamp, currency, tax, ...
- Statistics of orders by day, month, year, customer or supplier
- Ability to add a client from an android contact.
- Generation catalogs produced in PDF
- Attaching a PDF document (data sheet) at the product
- Scan the barcode of a product
- Search product by barcode
- Save and restore database
- Possibility of signing an order
- Add a filter search product in the list of details in an order
To improve this application, please send me your requests to add features, feedback, comments or bugs/problems (email@example.com).
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Version 1.10:
- Add a list of categories in the new order details.
- Add the list of categories in the new movement.
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if I could manipulate, change or add fields I may perhaps find some use for this - until then it can hardly be described as being "StockProManager is the most complete and the most intuitive solution of management of stock, orders, customers, suppliers and products/articles" and goes nowhere in making my life easier ?? - I have emailed the developer and he's replied to confirm updates soon
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Still setting up but easy to use so far. But no security features? Is there anyway to restrict other users from accessing different features? Notably changing stock counts once admin has confirmed?
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I have a little problems here, hope your team can solve it, About quantity items/products, for example I have Product in a unit/case/carton, it contain 60pcs, so i confuse when my customer buy this product for 1000 unit/case, so I have to put into this app 60,000pcs for the qty, any idea to make it simple and not make me and my customers confuse ? Many Thanks, email@example.com
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How can I transfer database to another device? Without using import/export function?
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Have bought StockProManager but just can't find out how to use e.g. how to import products. Just basic stuff. Where is the user guide?
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1. How to reset Product id ? as we need to update product list often with new. 2. What you mean by Product "ref " in product list ? 2. how can I get sales order out put in excel ? best way to contact you ? wrote email no reply.
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Please fix, if I apply a signature it shows under 'Client' and NOT 'Company'. Thanks!! Great app!!


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Groundwater table depleting in the region
COIMBATORE: The Avinashi Athikadavu Groundwater Recharging Scheme Federation has appealed to the State Government to implement the scheme immediately.
Water quality
"The Government should do it at the earliest since the groundwater table is depleting and the quality of water is affected," said SMR Natrajan, member of the federation.
The scheme envisages filling up for 85 ponds and a large number of tanks in this region with the excess water from the Bhavani.
Mr. Natrajan said the scheme had been announced in two earlier budgets. Just 0.9 tmc of excess water from the river was needed to fill these ponds.
These would help in recharging the groundwater table, benefiting the public and farmers in a number of places from Mettupalayam to Perundurai.
Water was now available at 600 ft or 700 ft and some were even drilling up to 1,000 ft to get groundwater.
With rapid development in this belt a large number of people were tapping the groundwater.
If a farm was using 20HP power to pump water, with the improvement of the groundwater table, just three HP would be needed. The scheme would ensure availability of quality water and help reduce power consumption in farms.
A survey was conducted a couple of months ago to study encroachments along the canal alignment.
A revised project estimate had also been prepared and was waiting for the Government approval, Mr. Natrajan said.
Hence, the Government should start implementing the project immediately and it could be completed in phases too, he added.


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CAPEA President's Message.
Our invited paper, "What Being a Successful Principal Really Means: An International Perspective," was written by Christopher Day of the University of Nottingham. Day discusses emerging data from the International Successful School Principals' Project. There are both similarities and differences that cross international boundaries; all successful principals share the ability of working with a wide range of stakeholders to form strategic partnerships. They also have commitment and resilience and are able to promote these positive qualities in others that they work with. Day then discusses the combinations of skills and abilities successful principals use at various times and with different emphases in order to meet the particular needs of their schools and constituencies.
The theme of "Leadership in a Global Society" continues with Michael C. P. Fanning's paper titled, "Developing a Perspective on the Global Achievement Gap: School Leaders as International Collaborators." Fanning gives us examples from around the world of educational leaders who are concerned with improved learning for all students. He then discusses how the value of gender, the peripheral costs of education, socio-demographics, religion, and ethnicity can intensify the achievement gap. Several steps to eradicate the global achievement gap are suggested, as well as how school leaders can work to overcome these inequities for all children.
Bonnie Piller's article, "Preparing Educational Leaders for the Global Society: Learning Conversations with Professors in Thailand," summarizes a visit from a multi-disciplinary team of professors who spent a month working at six Rajabhat universities in Thailand. While some discussion topics were predictable, other themes that emerged were unexpected and had an entirely different focus than the achievement and testing issues found in US schools.
In addition to the global leadership theme, there are articles which highlight the CAPEA focus areas of teaching educational administration, diversity and justice, technology, research, and advocacy.
G. Thomas Bellamy, Connie Fulmer, and Rodney Muth authored "Five Ideas for Reframing the Principalship." In this article, they discuss five ideas that assist the principal with improving learning outcomes for students. Jose Lalas and Eva Valle have used the lens of social justice and narrative inquiry to show how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, poverty, and disability have directly impacted student learning. Recommendations for educational leaders are included in their work, "Social Justice Lenses and Authentic Student Voices: Enhancing Leadership for Educational Justice." The work by T. Mack Hines III, "The Effect of Leadership Style on Preservice Concerns about Becoming a Principal," suggests that the supervising principal's leadership style is an influential determinant of preservice principals' concerns of becoming a principal, particularly when the supervising principal has a transformational style of leadership. Dorothy Garrison-Wade, Donna Sobel, and Connie Fulmer suggest in their article, "Inclusive Leadership: Preparing Principals for the Role That Awaits Them," that in order to improve learning for all students, including those identified with special education needs, we need to better equip our future leaders with the skills to understand and work with special needs students, which in turn will help with the recruitment and retention of special education teachers. Wayne Padover and Donna Elder's article, "Fund Development Strategies from Higher Education for K-12 Administrators," discusses how K-12 leaders might utilize similar methods to those used in obtaining funding for institutions of higher education.
Finally, CAPEA Senior Editor Elizabeth C. Reilly presents "Leadership in a Global Society: Habits of Mind, of Heart, and of Action"--a discussion of the larger implications of leading and of preparing leaders for a world where values of cooperation and collaboration are more frequently taking precedence over competition and combat. Thoughtful questions for our reflection on the broader themes of this year's journal call us to respond.
CAPEA is an organization which is committed to developing school leaders who have the best interests of our students at heart and to preparing leaders to be meaningful participants in a global society. If you are not already a member, we hope that you will consider joining our organization. Additional information may be found on our website at www.capea.org.
CAPEA will be hosting the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA) next summer from July 29 to August 1, 2008, at the Kona Kai Resort in San Diego. We hope you will be able to join us at this exciting event.
On behalf of the authors and editors, thank you for taking the time to read and reflect on the work included in this journal. We hope that it offers ways to improve our programs as well as broaden and expand our horizons.
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The A-list have been out in fashion force on the front row at the a/w haute couture shows in Paris. But while Jessica Alba looked like a summery breath of fresh air and Amber Le Bon gave her mum a run for her money in the beauty stakes, all focus has been on the jaw-dropping runway displays.
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The Congress party is determined to prevent takeover by communal forces personified by one individual, the party said on Friday, virtually scotching speculation that Rahul Gandhi would prefer that the party sits in the opposition rather than stitch a coalition government.
"The question is hypothetical and premature. The numbers will be known when the results are out on the 16th. Congress is determined to prevent takeover of communal forces personified by one individual," party spokesman and Union Minister Anand Sharma told reporters.
He was asked whether the Congress was now preparing itself to sit in the opposition after the Lok Sabha polls with opinion polls predicting a Congress drubbing.
Sharma said the BJP and RSS have pumped in huge resources in the Lok Sabha elections and sought to create a personality cult.
He said the people have started listening to the Congress in the last few rounds of the polls. He said that the "mistake" on the part of the Congress was that it should have called to a halt long back the vilification campaign against the government which has done "good" work.
Dubbing the opinion polls that showed Congress not doing well as "doctored" and "fixed", he said that in the 2004 and 2009 elections too the Congress was projected as the underdog, but the results were different.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram had on Thursday said that the Congress had always given the call for unity of secular forces, indicating that the party would make efforts to rally all like-minded parties after the elections to keep Narendra Modi-led BJP out of power.


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Dallas played a long game, and now faces a short week. And Washington's Robert Griffin III is on his way in for the most appropriate of Thanksgiving games: Cowboys vs. Redskins. It's safe to say the sigh of relief was brief for Dallas after Sunday's 23-20 overtime win against last-place Cleveland. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said the team would enjoy a wild rally against the Browns ''for another 10 minutes'' before moving on to Thursday's game against Washington, a blowout winner against Philadelphia on Sunday. It's the first NFL game in Texas for Griffin, the Heisman Trophy winner from Baylor. Dallas has injury issues in the offensive line, and third-string running back Lance Dunbar could be the No. 1 guy if Felix Jones (knee) and DeMarco Murray (foot) can't play. --- Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL
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HouseCallAuto 4/2/2010I am working on the same car at this time with the same problem. This particular Honda has a frozen Right Side ball joint - I am not sure if it is the upper ball joint or the lower but I'm sure that it is a ball joint on the right side.
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