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On Sunday 27 May, two teams of footballing legends and celebrities will meet at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium to help change the lives of children around the world, in a match to be broadcast live on ITV1.
The brains behind Soccer Aid, UNICEF Ambassador Robbie Williams, will once again lead England out against a Rest of the World team captained by actor Michael Sheen.
Joining them on the pitch will be Marvin Humes and Aston Merrygold from Britain's biggest boy band JLS, world-famous chef Gordon Ramsay, presenter and DJ Jamie Theakston and footballing heroes Teddy Sheringham and Edwin van der Sar.
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The banana is a fruit that is commonly seen in video games, particularly those with animals as main characters. It is famous for its sweet taste and affiliation with primates.
A piece of exercise equipment used by weightlifters and bodybuilders.
A plumbing fixture used for bathing. Usually used in video games as a decorative item.
A furniture that provides a place to sleep. In video games, often used to regain health, skip time and *ahem* other activities...
Belts in games range from magical objects that confer special abilities to decorative adornments.
A long seat fit for several people.
Some games have readable books. Come and quench your thirst for knowledge.
Whether it's translucent, transparent, opaque, glass, plastic, or some other material the bottle can be your best friend, or your worst enemy. Sometimes filled with liquor, or maybe an extra supply of lantern oil.
A hemispherical vessel, wider than it is deep, used for holding food or fluids.
A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, laid using mortar.
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Harnett family reflects on the true meaning of Memorial Day
Lorie and Eric Southerland held a big cookout at their home Thursday, with many children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews at their Harnett County home just south of Sanford.
However, none of them were actually related.
The guests were all former squadmates of Lorie's son Spc. Michael Rodriguez, who was killed in Iraq in 2007. This Memorial Day, less than a week before what would've been Rodriguez's 28th birthday, some soldiers brought their own small children to the party — several of whom are named Michael, in honor of their fallen comrade.
Southerland is president of the local Dogwood chapter of the Gold Star Mothers, a group for moms who lost children in the military. There are 10 of them in her chapter serving Harnett, Lee and Moore counties, she said, most of them having lost children in Iraq or Afghanistan.
And she wants people to stop this weekend, even if just for a little while, and think about what the Memorial Day holiday really stands for. It's not just the start of summer. It's a remembrance of all those who have died while serving their country.
"So take a moment and tell your children what it is, and why we do it," Southerland said. "To be completely honest, we know that in two generations, Michael won't be remembered. ... We understand. Individuals aren't remembered. But take a moment and think about all the names that aren't remembered."
Yet for the time being, his name will live on, through the children of his fellow soldiers — Army calvary scouts based out of Fort Bragg – who were manning a checkpoint in the violent Diyala River Valley when a truck bomb exploded, killing Michael and eight others.
He will also live on at the North Carolina Veterans Memorial in Broadway, where his name is engraved. He will live on in a quilt that features him and other fallen soldiers from around the country and tells their stories in a coffee table book, or through the 82nd Airborne Division sticker that still adorns the back window of a truck in their driveway. And for now, Southerland said, it also lives on whenever she goes to meet with fellow Gold Star Mothers.
"A lot of people don't want to mention Michael's name because they're scared I'll cry," Southerland said. "But that's OK. And that's why the Gold Star Mothers exist, to talk and cry. That's how our children stay alive, through the stories that you tell."
But it's not all just stories and crying. They put together trips and fundraisers, meetings and ceremonies.
"It's not a pity party," said Eric Southerland, himself an Air Force veteran who attends many of the Gold Star Mothers events in honor of his stepson and others who have died.
They've previously sent supplies to Iraq for girls' schools, and many volunteer in hospitals. Lorie Southerland began volunteering at a home at the Fort Bragg hospital for visiting family members, where her own family stayed before her son's funeral. She's now the manager.
And to celebrate Memorial Day, they plan on attending the public ceremony at the Broadway Veterans Memorial — which will begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday and will feature a wreath ceremony and speeches — as well as a more private celebration, a trip to Aberdeen to visit a woman in a nursing home who lost a son in Vietnam.
They've also got bigger plans. In 2011, the Southerlands were invited by the Iraqi government to visit the country. They toured the Kurdish areas where Saddam Hussein's government carried out genocidal attacks in the late '80s, killing as many as 182,000 men, women and children.
The trip solidified that her son's death wasn't for nothing, Southerland said — she already knew he loved being part of the military, but it was good to see the progress of an area that was once targeted by a dictator their son helped topple.
And now the local Gold Star Mothers are organizing even more aid for the area, planning a trip in October.
"We're taking a dentist, an oncologist and another doctor with us," Southerland said.
So on this Memorial Day weekend, she said, take a moment to think about those who gave their lives so that doctors can visit a war-torn country, or so that people in America can still vote or enjoy any number of other freedoms that are often taken for granted.
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AT&T says commuters even worse than teens when it comes to texting while driving
Recent surveys commissioned by US cellular network provider AT&T cast a grim light on the state of texting-while-driving, showing commuters are even worse than teens when it comes to the dangerous practice. According to AT&T:
Commuters are texting and driving even more than teens – 49%, compared to 43%. And the problem has gotten worse. Six in 10 commuters say they never texted while driving three years ago.
These days I typically commute only as far as my home office or local coffee shop, but my previous job entailed a 60-90 minute commute downtown, each way, every day, for over a decade. During that time I saw a lot of people texting while driving. I also saw people reading the newspaper across their steering wheel while driving, or eating while driving, or putting on makeup, or bent over fussing with the radio or GPS, or, in a couple of cases... with other people sitting on top of them. Yeah.
The real issue here is distracted driving, of which texting-while-driving is a major instance. Laws tend to focus on the instances, however, which is where things like awareness campaigns can help.
Some of us can't take being "bored" for even a moment, so traffic lights, stop signs, even relatively straight pieces of road become an excuse to text, tweet, email, get in a moment of gaming, or otherwise do... something. Some of us are so used to being online now, the idea of being cut off seems intolerable, even when our lives depend on zero distractions.
I used to listen to podcasts and audiobooks while on the road, and I carpooled a lot. At least conversations with friends in the car come with additional sets of eyeballs for the road. (Yet arguments, fights, and other extreme interactions, front seat or back, can also be huge distractions.)
Technologies like Siri in general and Siri Eyes-free in specific may one day minimize some types of distractions, but many others will likely remain. Relieving boredom, staying in contact, shoving down some food or on some eyeliner, fooling with the radio or navigation, or just plain fooling around, are short term benefits, and humans are often really bad at weighing those against potential consequences, even life-threatening ones.
And according to AT&T, that's as true, or truer for adults now than for kids.
So how do you handle distractions while driving? And if you have friends and family members who drive while distracted, how do you handle them?
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I hate people who use their phone when driving. Stop risking your life and others near you! Just wait till you stop.
There's nothing going on so important that it can't wait till I get wherever it is that I'm going.
I used to talk on the phone while driving but I eventually learned to avoid it. I never got into texting while driving. Not because the texting interfered with the driving, but because while driving I couldn't focus enough on the text to get a sentence out so I gave up trying.
I am extremely guilty of this. I have an hour drive to work each way, mostly divided highway or interstate. It's very hard for me to resist texting, emailing, or reading texts or emails, or reading a message board post or even posting on facebook. If there are no cars around, it's a temptation I more often than not succumb to. If I have my kids in the car I won't get on there unless I'm at a stop sign or stop light and never while driving with them. I've been doing better, but my OCD kicks in sometimes.
i would imagine. in toronto we have a law against texting and driving but when you look on the road everyone is doing it. people are just use to checking their phones all the time
It's rather sickening how engulfed into their phones some people are while driving! Staying stopped at green lights, running the red ones. Swerving in and out of lanes! What in this world could ever be so important that cannot wait? Typing "lol" to a cat 'hazzing' cheeseburger can certainly wait! It's rather infuriating to say the least. Kind of makes a person want to switch lanes, getting in front of said texter, and slam on the brakes. Thank you Florida no-fault.
...could you imagine drunk texting WHILE drunk driving! Only in the U.S. of A!
Kind of makes a person? You mean you? Because I have no desire to have some texting jackass slam into me.
I used to text while driving like 3 years ago, but I stopped doing that a while ago. I also don't answer my phone in the car, due to science and a heart wrenching experience a friend went through. But my dad texts while driving, answers the phone while driving, messes with his gps while driving and I've told him if it doesn't stop I won't let him drive anymore. As a man who claims to be about science my dad ignores what science says in this matter. It can wait, but if it can't? Hey, there's a shoulder right there for you to pull over on.
I do not text, at all. Don't talk on the phone when driving.
Have been rear ended by a texter, who admitted to it to police.
My wife used to text while driving, not any more.
Not since she ran head on in to a semi coming from the opposite side of the road,
While texting
It should be against the law, everywhere.
I've used siri a few times to send a text while driving but even that is a little distracting albeit much less distracting then trying to type out a msg on a touchscreen. I don't have much tolerance for people who drive like idiots and most people have a hard enough time with 0 distractions much less checking their stupid FB or twitter while at a stoplight or texting their friends/family something stupid while driving. Then again, no matter what TV campaigns or laws that get put into place the people who want to do this will continue to do it because they feel as if they are "better at it" then others. It isn't until something bad happens that they will quit.
Driving behind a texter is the most obnoxious thing ever. But hands free options are getting better recently. It'll only improve..
"Some of us can't take being 'bored' for even a moment" is a scary thought all by itself. People who can't go a moment without constant external stimulation, who can't ever just sit quietly or be patient, these are people who don't know how to give attention to anything and aren't capable of focusing on a single task or carefully thinking anything through. The Internet and smartphones didn't create that problem -- there have always been people like that -- but they seem to encourage a potentially destructive behavior pattern.
I really made a conscience decision not to text while driving. I only text at red lights using the voice recognition.
People texting and driving are very annoying. I hate when people do it and I'm there passenger. It's like "WTF BRO, risk your own life all you want but don't go risking mine!" Only problem is even if you weren't riding with them and in a car next to/in front of/behind they are still a danger to you. More vehicles need hands/eyes free technology in them. Glad a lot of car companies signed up with Apple for Siri eyes free feature.
I find I drive better with my left knee so I can use both thumbs. It saves time so I don't have to waste time looking at the road and phone. I wait for a point on the road where I think I'll have 10 seconds to look away and quickly text. You'd be surprised how little you actually have to look at the road to maintain a relatively straight path.
Texting while driving is illegal here in Islamabad (Pakistan) as well. And despite the bumpy roads in various areas, even that doesn't stop some people from texting while driving - always sneaking their phones out of sight upon seeing a policeman or aware of an upcoming checking point.
Unfortunately, it still leads to accidents and people just don't learn! I guess recklessness is a part of most all around the world!
Distractions will always be everywhere, I think talking in the phone is safer than texting - at Lear you can look at the road!
But some people are just terrible driers with or without a phone.
Wow, I typed that poorly... I'm not even driving!
Aha! Wow, I wasn't even driving when I wrote that! Or drying...
Nooo....... Talking on the phone while driving is the bane of society. Those people always drive 10 to 15 mph slower than the speed limit and/or whatever the flow of traffic is. Completely Unaware of what they are doing or their surroundings. They never check behind or to the side. MUCH worse than texting, but texting and browzing the internet.. or watching CNet TV or a Movie -- all are major problems.
That's why a lot of people die in car accident… this is insane people are plain stupid
So how do you handle distractions while driving? And if you have friends and family members who drive while distracted, how do you handle them?
Rene...I honestly try not to text while driving but it does happen sometimes. I have not mastered the Siri thing yet. I know this is extremely dangerous. It is kind of crazy but I use bluetooth to talk in my truck but wish I would use Siri. I like Siri but I find it has been difficult to incorporate it into my life. I have family...specifically my wife that text while driving too much...I have tried to talk with her about it but it hasn't changed. Maybe with iOS 7 and getting her out of her iPhone 4 and into an iPhone 5 with Siri might help her. I am shocked by the article due to the fact that the percentage of teens isn't higher.
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Mar 28, 2013 at 5:36 pm - 1 day ago I have it set up on my phone that if I'm driving, all texts get a response of: "I'm driving, call me instead" because I use bluetooth and I refuse to text and drive. It is wicked dangerous.>
I just researched 'auto response to texts' and found that it not an option on Apple products. Not even an app for that. Too Bad. Maybe apple will create something in IOS7 for texting like they did for replying to phone calls with"Reply with Message".
Apple has made it so we don't even need to touch our phones while driving as long as you have a Bluetooth and Siri!
I too use Siri as I don't have to take my eyes off the wheel.
Distracted driving makes me crazy. Society has been hammering out the message about distracted driving for a long time. So maybe the old adage is true that you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The youth of today has grown up with this message and it has become ingrained... at least more so than the older generations it seems.


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Chicago Architecture Today LLC, is planning the 1st Global Conference and Expo on Architecture to take place in Chicago in April.
The topics are: Global Challenges: Architectural Solutions and Global Convention and Expo of Architecture.
Where: Campus of Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
When: April 15-17, 2010
Few career paths inherently aspire to advance the conditions of populated environments like those idealized in architecturally-related professions. In celebration of Architecture Week 2010, product leaders, design professionals, and academics will gather at the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology for the 1st Annual Global Convention and Exposition on Architecture.
The event will feature a professional exposition, a product exhibition, a design college and university connection event, a seminar series, professional and mock firm competitions, and will conclude with the first Amazing Architectural Race. For more information, visit chicagoarchitecturetoday.com


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The ghosts of The Assembly Room have been waiting for someone to unlock their horrifying secrets, and 14 year old Merryn Stearne has arrived. But why do the spirits from the past want to destroy an ordinary Suffolk family?
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Welcome to the University of Illinois Music and Performing Arts Library.
This guide is divided into sections, with each tab at the top covering a different topic. Information for accessing specific course materials (readings and listening) assigned by your professor is available under the "Course Materials" tab.
To go beyond the assigned readings and listening (for instance, for a class project or a paper), start with the "Recommended Reading" tab and work your way to the right.
A basic outline of the research process:
- Read the listed Grove articles to put your subject in context, to get topic ideas, and to view the bibliographies at the end of each article.
- Look at the Recommended Readings list and read items relevant to your topic; these may be in addition to readings suggested by your professor.
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- Use the "Journal Articles" tab to help you learn how to find articles on specific pieces or topics.
If all you need is to locate printed music or recordings of string chamber music, please see the "Searching the Library Catalog" tab.
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The PPIC released findings from their survey of Californians and their perceptions of higher education in the state.
PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Higher Education (November 2011)
- 52 percent of residents are unwilling to pay higher taxes to maintain current higher education funding
- Residents give good or excellent marks to each branch of the state's higher education system: California Community Colleges (62%), California State University (56%), and the University of California (59%). But ratings have declined since 2007 for both CSU (down 10%) and UC (down 8 points), while ratings for community colleges have been similar over time. , 65 percent of residents are very concerned about increasing tuition and fees. Over half (55%) are very concerned about colleges and universities offering fewer classes or admitting fewer students (53%). Parents of children in the system are even more concerned about higher tuition and fees (77%), as are current students (70%).
- What value do Californians put on a college education? Most (58%) say it is necessary for success in today's work world, while 39 percent believe there are many ways to succeed without it. However, the percentage saying college is necessary has reached a low point since PPIC first began asking the question in 2007 (64% 2007, 68% 2008, 66% 2009, 63% 2010, 58% today).
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. Dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research.
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FRA research over the last five years has found that LGBT persons face discrimination across all areas of social and economic life, are vulnerable to verbal and physical attacks and remain largely invisible out of fear of negative consequences. In 2012, some 93,000 LGBT people responded to an EU-wide survey which FRA carried out to discover the everyday issues affecting LGBT people. This survey collected comparable data on LGBT people's experiences of hate crime and discrimination, as well as their level of awareness about their rights. The final survey results were published in May 2013. The results of the survey will be supplemented by research among public officials and key service providers in the area of education, health and law enforcement, with the aim of identifying barriers to the full implementation of LGBT rights.
Globally, UN treaty bodies have included sexual orientation and gender identity on the open-ended lists of discrimination grounds on the basis of the relevant UN covenants. In the EU, lesbian, bisexual and gay people are currently protected from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation under EU law in the field of employment only. Transgender persons are protected from discrimination on the ground of sex to the extent that discrimination arises from gender reassignment (the EU directive implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services).
The EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. Transgender persons are protected from discrimination on the ground of 'sex' in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in line with the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice.


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Sections 215.21 through 215.28 prescribe standards for financial management systems, methods for making payments and rules for: satisfying cost sharing and matching requirements, accounting for program income, budget revision approvals, making audits, determining allowability of cost, and establishing fund availability.
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The local union president tells The Plain Dealer newspaper (http://bit.ly/T1lzy2 ) the union wants shields installed around drivers on buses.
A spokeswoman for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority says it would cost more than $1 million to get the 450 buses the type of plastic shields used in cities such as New York and Boston. RTA wants to test different types of shields.
The move comes after several confrontations in the past few months. RTA fired one driver who punched a female passenger during an altercation captured on video. Another passenger punched a driver, and a third threw hot coffee in a driver's face.


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But Rubenstein was not a finance guy. For six years he puttered in private practice in Washington before finding two financial minds, Conway and D'Aniello, to help him. In 1987 they raised $5 million with the help of Ed Mathias, a friend of Rubenstein's who worked at T. Rowe Price. There were deals involving Alaskan tax writeoffs and some early investments that tanked, and the firm barely survived that year's stock market crash. But while D'Aniello, an ex-Marriott finance executive, kept their new investment firm running smoothly handling administrative tasks, Conway, a former MCI Communications chief financial officer, quietly mastered the art of buying companies, incentivizing the managers with ownership and working to change them over a period of time before putting them up for sale. Carlyle's private equity funds have averaged 18% annual net internal rates of returns since inception, consistently ranking in the top quartile of their peer groups. Like virtually all private equity shops, Carlyle collected its "1.5-and-20″ fees–1.5% of the assets plus 20% of profits–making the three cofounders billionaires.
Carlyle also amassed a slew of former government heavyweights–and an accompanying cloak-and-dagger reputation. Given their location, the partners initially focused on defense deals, a strategy aided by Rubenstein's hiring of former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci and by an increase in military spending after the post-Cold War lull, spurred by the first Gulf war. "The early success in defense helped us understand that we had a core skill of dealing with businesses that are heavily impacted by government policy and regulation such as transportation, health care, telecommunications, etc.," says D'Aniello.
See our list of the Dealmaker 50 top partners in private equity here.
Rubenstein made sure Conway had plenty of cash to put to work by pioneering the idea of raising multiple funds simultaneously. And to impress all those potential investors he supplemented Carlucci with a former Secretary of the Treasury and State (James Baker), a former British prime minister (John Major) and then a former U.S. President (George H.W. Bush). "If I invited you to a dinner 15 years ago to hear David Rubenstein speak, you would throw that invitation away," says Rubenstein. "If I invited you to a dinner with Jim Baker or John Major, you would go."
All of this took place from the ultimate Washington power location, an office on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the U.S. Capitol. If you have seen the movie Broadcast News , you've seen Carlyle's relatively modest second-floor offices, which Rubenstein leased after the movie was shot there. He refuses to leave the space, calling it lucky, even though to visit some of his partners he has to walk through a hallway that can be seen from the building's lobby.
After Sept. 11 , however, these government ties began to backfire. Private equity firms were rolling in money, courtesy of Alan Greenspan's low interest rates and alpha-hungry pension funds desperate for fat returns that could help them meet their mounting obligations. But Carlyle's cash pile seemed tainted, even sinister. Carlyle's ties to the Bush family at the time of the second President Bush's military ramp-up didn't look good. Carlyle investments from prominent Saudis–notably the Bin Laden family–looked still worse. Cynthia McKinney, then a member of Congress, called out Carlyle and said, "Persons close to this Administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war." The Economist magazine wrote that "the secretive Carlyle Group gives capitalism a bad name."
Carlyle ended up asking the Bin Laden family to take back their money, and eventually the former government officials retired. "I made a mistake of having too many of them, and when George W. Bush got elected I should have recognized that we would be seen as a proxy for that Administration if his father was still here," says Rubenstein. "Ultimately, they retired, we depoliticized the image, and now we are the least political firm even though we are in Washington."
The credit crisis would prove to be an even bigger challenge. Conway had an inkling a crash was coming. "I know that this liquidity environment cannot go on forever," Conway wrote in a January 2007 staff memo, which admitted that cheap debt as opposed to Carlyle's investment genius had been responsible for much of the firm's fabulous profits in the period. "I know that the longer it lasts, the worse it will be when it ends." After telling his dealmakers to be "careful," Conway instructed Carlyle-owned companies to secure and draw on their credit lines early in 2007, helping Carlyle's private equity portfolio weather the financial crisis relatively unscathed. There were some losses, like those stemming from the bankruptcy filing of portfolio company Hawaiian Telcom. The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund that bought 7.5% of the Carlyle partnership for $1.35 billion saw the value of its investment plummet. But the biggest crash for the firm occurred outside the private equity arena in Carlyle Capital, a highly leveraged credit fund listed in Amsterdam that purchased residential mortgage-backed securities and cratered, causing $900 million in investor losses. The core business emerged in a strong position just in time for the most recent run-up.
Rubenstein currently is doing what he does best: raising yet another buyout fund–a $10 billion monster. He'll surely get it done, though all these money-raising events also create an inevitable (and, for the partners, enviable) problem. The more assets a firm has under management, the harder it gets to find enough attractive targets to pop an above-market return–and the more pressure there is to chase deals.
Conway remains bullish: He thinks the U.S. economy endured its worst stretch of the year between April and June, and will continue to be reasonably good. Encouraged by relatively cheap financing, Conway has secured interest rates of about 6% for his most recent deals–seemingly high in an environment where good returns are rare, but Conway finds costs like that attractive. He patiently waited for there to be good deals coming out of the financial crisis, and now he has pounced. "When you want to buy low, people generally don't want to sell," says Conway. "They hang on by their fingernails, waiting for things to get better, and frankly, it did, so I do think now is a good time to invest."
In the last year Conway has found opportunities snapping up assets from reeling European banks in need of capital, signing deals to buy bond manager TCW from Société Générale and Spain's Telecable from Liberbank. He bet on industrial companies, inking a $3.5 billion deal to buy Hamilton Sundstrand with BC Partners from United Technologies, which needed cash to buy an aerospace supplier. Carlyle outmaneuvered others for this prize by making a simpler single bid for Hamilton's three pump-and-compressor units, while most other serious buyers were interested in acquiring only a single business line separately. Conway plans to buy more and has told investors in the $13.7 billion fund Carlyle raised in the boom years that he won't have any trouble putting the $2 billion still committed to the fund to work prior to a mid-2013 deadline. Carlyle has also found ways to exit out of investments like Booz Allen Hamilton, which in August paid Carlyle a $620 million dividend, meaning Carlyle's $910 million 2008 investment in the consulting firm is now worth $2 billion. Carlyle, across all its asset classes, distributed $18.8 billion to its investors last year, more than ever before. In the first six months of this year it distributed $6.7 billion.
With 1,300 employees and offices from Barcelona to Beijing, Carlyle has been using a global approach to try to offset the challenge of managing larger funds that has historically bedeviled money managers. At the center of that approach is a concept developed by D'Aniello called One Carlyle, which calls for all Carlyle employees to collaborate across industries and geographies.
Conway quickly rattles off examples, like when he took his U.S.-based health care investors down to Australia to analyze a hospital deal. Carlyle's deal for Moncler, maker of the $1,000 ski jacket, is another example. It only had stores close to Milan when Carlyle invested some $200 million in 2008. Carlyle helped transform the company into a global brand by getting its staff in Asia to work with Moncler to open dozens of global stores, and by the time Carlyle sold a big chunk of its Moncler stake last year for $500 million or so, half of Moncler's sales were in Asia and its biggest store was in China. Carlyle still retains stock in the company recently worth $260 million. In another example Conway flew to Brazil to help Talaris, a British portfolio company that makes ATMs and other cash-handling equipment, become a client of Banco do Brasil, a Carlyle fund partner. Earlier this year Carlyle sold Talaris to a Japanese company, making $540 million in profits in less than four years.
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Well, well, well. Singers are making big moves–and by big we mean topping Forbes annual Hollywood's Highest-Paid Women list. Endorsement deals and other ventures outside of music are paying off in a major way. Unsurprisingly Oprah topped the list pulling in $165 million last year. Pop (and country) divas Britney Spears, Taylor Swift and Rihanna trailed behind Oprah in the second, third and fourth highest paid spots respectively. Talk about Britney Spears making a comeback pulling in $58 million! The new X-Factor judge didn't make the list last year, but has since bounced back with numerous endorsement deals and a fragrance line.
For a young star Taylor Swift is doing well for herself as the third highest paid woman in entertainment making $57 million last year. According to Forbes, our VH1 Storytellers: Taylor Swift pop-country singer's tour garnered $1 million per night on more than 65 nights. And as one of the faces of Covergirl she's getting a pretty penny to look good for the cosmetic company. Nivea may have decided not to renew our favorite badgirl's contract, but not before Rihanna pulled in millions. The Bajan beauty tied with Ellen Degeneres earning $53 million. Other endorsements with companies like Vita Coco, her tours and her fragrance Reb'l Fleur ensure that Rihanna reign just won't let up. Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez followed close behind also making the top 10. Who run the world? Girls!
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I recorded the Oprah Show on Monday. She did apologize and did sound sick. So, that covers one no - show. What about all of the others. Let us hear from you Glenn Close, Salma Hayek! Salma..You want us to buy pampers for your cause. Show up when you say you will or at least have your publicist make a statement on why you were absent for such a good cause.
I feel cheated since most of the no-shows didn't even apologize or give a statement on why they couldn't show up.
Also, a note to Vagina Monologues producers. It would be in good taste to adopt the same policies as Broadway Shows and other Theatres around the world. When a scheduled star or main act is NOT going to be in that night's performance, provide a flyer stating who will replace the performer on that night. Also, make an announcement at the BEGINNING OF THE SHOW that Oprah Winfrey, Salma Hayek, etc. etc. will not be in tonight's show. Reading their parts will be Liz Mikel.
Have some class and courtesy. With tickets in the range of $125.00 - $300.00 ....I'm sure you could afford to make thousands of black and white photocopies to inform people of "no-shows" or "replacements" before the show begins. Or were you afraid of a mass exodus because of your extreme false advertising?
I paid the hundreds of dollars for my ticket. It's up to me if I choose to stay. But, I want to be informed!! V-day website should offer an apology for waiting until the end of the show to inform their guests of Oprah's illness.
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National WASH Coalition
The Cambodia WASH Initiative was started in 2008, coordinated by the Department of Rural Health Care in the Ministry of Rural Development. It received strong support from UNICEF, and other partners include the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), Plan Cambodia, Lien Aid, IDE and government departments concerned with youth, education and rural development.
The goal of the coalition is to contribute to advocacy and policy development through sharing and developing evidence and experience from partner programmes and projects.
Milestones and achievements
The school-community project started in 2008 in four children's schools and 10 communities in two provinces. Its success has meant the approach is being replicated in six provinces with national budgetary support. The activities the coalition undertook included:
- providing information, education and communication materials for sanitation and hygiene education produced for training facilitators;
- running training sessions for provincial government departments on school and community WASH
- promoting improved sanitation and hygiene in schools and communities;
- establishing a self-monitoring system and introducing community planning on sanitation.
The coalition's achievements were increased knowledge and improved sanitation and hygiene practices among students and teachers. These eventually spread to parents thanks to encouragement and continuous monitoring of latrine construction and use.
The colaition was as well vital in contributing to the development of the new Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Sector Strategy and the development of a sanition options and construction manual.
Related to CLTS, which has likewise gained momentum in Cambodia, a national implementation guide has been developped. WIth Sanitation Marketing activities beeing currently implemented by partners, it is envisaged to have a similar guideline soon.
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(AP) PHILADELPHIA - Here's the Joker!
Film producer and comics fan Michael Uslan, who acquired the rights to make Batman as a movie in 1979, knew nearly a decade before Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman" was released who the Joker would be.
It came in a burst of inspiration in 1980 from the pages in the New York Post: a publicity photo of Jack Nicholson from the "The Shining" in which he hacks through a door and announces, "Here's Johnny!"
Uslan knew immediately he'd found his clown prince of crime. Using black marker, a red pen and Wite-Out, he turned Nicholson into the DC Comics villain.
The sketch went up for auction Monday until Dec. 3 through ComicConnect.com, along with several other pieces of art and comics that Uslan has collected.
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Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society; the Freshman Composition Program and the Freshman Convocation Committee have announced the winners of the spring semester freshman essay contest.
This contest was the second phase of the freshman essay contest conducted in the fall as part of Freshman Convocation.Winning students wrote their essays in English composition courses fall semester and submitted them to contest organizers in February.
"We want to congratulate all the participants for taking out the time and putting in the effort to contribute to this universitywide event," said organizer JoAnn Pavletich, director of composition and associate professor of English. "Deciding to submit an essay was itself an act of success and all students who participated deserve our congratulations."
First place winners will receive $400 in book vouchers; second place winners will receive $200 in vouchers; third place winners will receive $100 in vouchers and those receiving an honorable mention award will receive vouchers for $50.
English 1300 winners:
First Place: La'Mia Bradshaw, "Bullying."
Second Place: Ikhlas Musa, "The Importance of Teachers Understanding Cultural Differences."
Third Place: Pablo Rivera, "The Master Plan."
Honorable Mention: Vincent Elizondo, "Confidence."
English 1301 winners:
First Place: Moin Marediya, "Texting While Driving."
Second Place: Crystal Mouton, "What Can Unite Our Divided Country?"
Third Place: Alejandro Madrigal, "Equality for Success."
Honorable Mention: Zitlalit Andriano-Rodriguez, "The Connection of Innocence, Racism, and Power, from Shelby Steele's View."
Honorable Mention: Jack Weisberger, "Respect Is Not Easily Earned."
English 1302 Winners:
First Place: Elena "Kate" Walker, "Fairy Tale Endings for a Young Girl in Danger."
Second Place: Lluvia Flores, "Mosque at Ground Zero."
Third Place: Reyna Valdez, "Censorship:Violation of the Right to Free Speech."
Honorable Mention: Ali Fazal, "Rotting Apple:The Simultaneous Rise and Fall of an Empire."
Honorable Mention: Rodney Jenkins, "The True Origins of HIV/AIDS."
Pavletich also thanked the following instructors who encouraged and assisted students: Santiago Lopez, Dagmar Scharold, Crystal Guillory, Yvonne Guillory-Welch, Catherine Alexander, Harbeer Sandhu, William Brown, Antonio Garcia, William Waters, Sandra Dahlberg, Guiliana Lund, Carolyn Rubin-Trimble and Merrilee Cunningham.
He will discuss UHD's budget and proposed reductions. All faculty and staff are invited to the Town Hall meeting.
The Student Government Association is sponsoring Town Hall meetings from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Cullen Robertson Auditorium, Academic Building, and from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in room B-110 in the Shea Street Building on Tuesday, March 29.
SGA leaders said the meetings are designed to offer students a forum to communicate with University administrators. The topics of discussion will be higher education budget cuts and the impact those cuts could have on tuition and student services.
Refreshments will be provided. A live webcast of the meeting will also be available online.
The Campus Activities Board (CAB) will host its annual Poker Tournament from 5 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, April 9 in the Special Events Room, A-300, Academic Building.
Buy-in is $10 and prizes will be awarded to the top 7 winners. The Grand Prize is an iPad. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Houston Area Women's Center.
Email email@example.com for more information. A flier is available here.
The UHD student and alumni production of "You Can't Take It with You," the 1937 comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, will open at 8 p.m. Friday, April 1, in the O'Kane Theatre.
This story about the Sycamore family and its unforgettable characters can also be seen at 8 p.m. April 2, 7, 8 and 9 as well as 3 p.m. Sunday, April 3. The student matinees are 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, and Friday, April 8.
Tickets cost $3 and are available at the University cashier's office on the third floor during regular business hours and at the theater door 30 minutes before each performance. Come see the talents of UHD students and alumni as they bring to life this time-proven classic of the American theater.
The International Business Association will host Abdulaziz Al-Attar of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, in room B-117, Shea Street Building.
Al-Attar will discuss the Kuwait Petroleum Corp. and the international oil market. The presentation is free and open to the University community. Al-Attar has worked in international oil sales and market research. He has conducted economic studies and he worked for OPEC on behalf of Kuwait as a fiscal policies analyst. He now heads Kuwait Petroleum's Houston office.
For more information, contact Anisul Islam, professor and IBA advisor, at email@example.com or IBA President Gebran Charbim at firstname.lastname@example.com.
UHD's fourth annual Gender Studies Conference, "Framing Gender," will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Monday, March 28, in the Special Events Room, A-300, Academic Building, featuring the research of students working in a variety of disciplines.
A complete schedule and additional information is available here.
The University of Houston-Downtown Department of Arts and Humanities' annual Fine Arts Festival April 4 to 10 will include theater productions, visual art, concerts, UHD alumni presentations, a film screening and a bilingual community story hour. (A flier is available here.)
The UHD student production of "You Can't Take It with You" has a nominal admission fee. All other events are free and open to the public. Event dates, times, and locations on UHD's campus, One Main St., follow. The Festival is sponsored by UHD's O'Kane Gallery, O'Kane Theatre, the Cultural Enrichment Center, and the Office of the President. To read more...
Spring Graduation will be held Saturday, May 21, and faculty who plan to participate and do not own their own regalia can rent items from the bookstore.
Orders placed before May 2 should arrive the week of May 9, and bookstore staff members will notify faculty by phone and email to pick up regalia at the bookstore. Orders placed after May 2 will be subject to a $10 late fee for rush shipping. The bookstore cannot guarantee delivery of orders placed after May 16.
The UHD Bookstore requires prepayment for all orders and accepts cash and all major credit cards with valid identification. Orders can also be charged to a University department PCard or purchase voucher with prior departmental approval.
Any items left with the bookstore on Friday, May 20, will be available at the ceremony on Saturday, May 21, in the faculty reception area.
Contact bookstore staff members Bill Schaub or Britney Ikner at 713-221-8145 for more information.
The regalia rental fees are as follows:
Master's Unit Complete - $60.98
(Includes cap, gown, tassel and hood)
Doctorate - $109.98
(Includes tam, gown, tassel and hood)
Individual Piece Prices:
Master's Cap, Gown, and Tassel - $30.98
Master's Hood only - $29.98
Master's Gown only - $25.98
Doctorate Cap, Gown, Tassel, and Hood - $68.98
Doctorate Hood only - $33.98
Doctorate Gown only - $29.98
8-sided Tam - $40.98
Job seekers often don't realize they should thoroughly research a company or organization before attending a job fair or an interview. The Library and Career Services teamed up to provide students with an informative, hands-on presentation on how to most effectively research a company's history, current events, who's who, products/services, challenges and opportunities. For more information, call Career Services at 713-221-8980.
Jo Bailey, left, Bachelor of Social Work Program Director, introduces a delegation from the Republic of Moldova to students Thursday, March 24, for a discussion on human trafficking. The delegation visit was sponsored by YMCA International Services. The delegation included individuals who deal with human trafficking including a Moldovan judge, attorneys and a United Nations representative. The group was in Houston to see how Houstonians deal with the problem and crime of human trafficking.
A reception honoring Willie Mae Dawson, accounts payable technician II, who is retiring after 32 years of service will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in room N-420, One Main Building.
Refreshments will be served. A flier is available here. Her last day is also March 31.
Trevor S. Hale, an associate professor of management science in the Management, Marketing, and Business Administration Department in UHD's College of Business will return in May to Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, Calif., to continue research he started there two years ago.
Hale is assisting the Navy in finding ways to reduce its carbon footprint and its overall energy expenditures.
"I am looking forward to returning, and I think it will benefit the country and my future students," Hale said. "Some of my most interesting research looks at how we can harvest and store energy from ocean waves."
His prestigious Senior Faculty Fellowship provides Hale with valuable classroom examples of how government agencies apply business principles.
March 23, 2011
To: The UHD Community
From: Michael Dressman, Chair, Strategic Planning Group
As promised in late February, the Strategic Planning Group is publishing a set of proposed goals and metrically stated University objectives for the next ten years.
These goals were derived from last year's "Good to Great" meetings and recent conversations between President William Flores and the Strategic Planning Group. The metrics are based on various published and proposed targets that UHD vice presidents, deans, department chairs, Faculty Senate leadership, staff and students have brought forward.
We share these goals and objectives now with the larger University community for comment, proposed modification, and shaping, leading to eventual adoption of these or similar ones as our strategic-planning statement.
In addition, as you read these proposed goals and objectives, the President and the Strategic Planning Group challenge each area of the University to start imagining strategies and steps that could be taken in your part of the University that could lead to achieving these institutional goals.
For now, please send your comments directly to me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I will share them with the Strategic Planning Group, and we will compile and distribute the suggestions back to the campus. I draw your special attention to the sixth goal where the metrics are the least well developed. We need some measurable statements there. I will also look into using the Blackboard Vista site for campus discussions so there can be additional give and take on these issues.
Here are the Proposed Strategic Planning Goals and Metric Objectives:
I. Increase enrollment.
From 13,000 head count in Fall Term 2010 to 15,400 by Fall Term 2015
From 15,000 head count in Fall Term 2015 to 18,000 by Fall Term 2020
From 125,800 semester credit hours in Fall Term 2010 to 150,000 by Fall Term 2015
From 150,000 semester credit hours in Fall Term 2015 to 175,000 by Fall Term 2020
II. Improve retention and student success.
Improve retention from year one to year two for FTIC students (First Time In College) by 3% a year. To do so would move our retention rate for first-year students from 60% to 73% by 2020.
III. Increase our graduation rates.
Six-year graduation rate (FTIC) from 11.4% in 2010 to 35% in 2020
Four-year graduation rate (for students entering with 30 semester credit hours) from 29.8% in 2010 to 45% by 2020
Two-year graduation rate (for students entering with 60 semester credit hours) from 52.5% in 2010 to 75% by 2020
IV. Increase the number of community-relevant programs.
During the next ten years, UHD colleges and departments will develop and bring forward 30 degree proposals for consideration on campus: 15 bachelor's degrees and 15 master's degrees.
By 2020, UHD, having fully developed degree proposals and worked them through the UH System, will have introduced 10 new degree programs: four bachelor's degrees and six master's degrees.
V. Expand financial resources.
The grants through the Office of Sponsored Programs, which now total just less than $3 million a year, will increase to $10 million a year by 2015 and to $22 million a year by 2020.
UHD will undertake a comprehensive capital campaign that will begin in a silent phase in 2013, will be announced in 2016 (or so), and will culminate with a total of $50 million to $75 million in 2020.
UHD will increase alumni giving, which is now less than 1%, to 5% by 2020.
UHD will increase its endowment, which is now at about $14 million, to $35 million by 2020.
VI. Ensure an infrastructure that will support these goals.
Every year for the next ten years send ten new faculty or staff members (that is, people who have never attended such a meeting before) to a national meeting on assessment, recruitment, or retention.
Cut costs and improve productivity by 1% each year for the next 10 years.
Improve the UHD classroom use (SUE) score from 58% to 75% by 2015 and to 80% by 2020.
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Author Notes: Here we have a soup that has a surprising amount of delicate yet bold flavors, and elements that I never would have thought would have complimented each other in such symphonic unison. It starts out thick and hearty, but somehow finishes wispy and soft – almost ethereal. —F for Food
Serves 4
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 shallot, chopped
- 2 cups yellow corn kernels
- 2 cups vegetable stock
- 1 teaspoon dried mint
- 1/2 teaspoon hot curry
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon fresh mint, chopped
- salt & pepper to taste
- creme fraiche
- In a heavy saucepan sauté shallot in butter until translucent (approximately 5-7 minutes. Add corn and mix to coat corn with shallots and butter. Add vegetable stock and simmer for about 20 minutes. Add dried mint, curry, coriander and cumin. Let simmer to allow flavors to marry.
- Blend using an immersion wand.
- Add buttermilk, fresh mint and salt & pepper to taste. Cook down for about 30 minutes on low heat.
- Garnish with a dollop of crème fraiche and serve.
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- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe with Mint
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Corn off the Cob
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over 1 year ago Yodamom
My family loved this. I served it with you recipe for Naan bread ti was a wonderful meal. Thanks you
over 3 years ago Homemadecornbread
Made this for dinner tonight. It was delicious! I garnished is with chopped fresh mint. It was light but hearty at the same time. Great recipe - many thanks.
almost 4 years ago Lizthechef
I always enjoy your recipes and their little original twist that makes them special.
over 4 years ago megbennington
I just made this soup (with a few changes for lack of ingredients) and it is delicious! I used onion instead of scallion, olive oil instead of butter, and left out the dried mint. The corn, curry, buttermilk and fresh mint taste wonderful together. I made this to use up some extra buttermilk, but I will definitely be making this again. Thank you for sharing a great recipe!
almost 5 years ago gingerroot
This sounds delicious.


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