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Waterford Crystal was first established in 1783 in the heart of the Irish harbour town of Waterford. Its founders were two brothers, William and George Penrose, who had a vision to "create the finest quality crystal for drinking vessels and objects of beauty for the home." More than two hundred years later, the reputation they established for creating glass of unsurpassed beauty and quality has remained.
The most popular pattern of Waterford Crystal is the classic and timeless Lismore pattern. The inspiration for the Lismore collection, which is now over 60 years in existence, was the gothic architecture of the 800-year-old Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Ireland. Here at the Irish Store we have a range from the Lismore collection including the Waterford Crystal Pitcher; the Cake Plate and the Biscuit Barrel.


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By C.J. MCMANUSSun Advocate community editor
As a new year begins, cancer survivors and the community that support them are gearing up for the 2009 Relay for Life. The yearly fundraising event will kick-off on Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. in the Pinnacle Canyon Academy lunch room and is open to anyone interested in helping end a disease that will affect one in every three Americans during the course of their lives.
Carbon County will celebrate its 15th relay this year, and while some in the community have shown extended support, those in charge of the '09 event are looking to raise the stakes, gather additional community support and put on fundraiser to be remembered.
"Although we did well in terms of funds raised last year, we have seen community support waver somewhat," said 2009 relay chairperson Paula Wells. "Celebrating our 15th relay is a great achievement and we are going to do whatever it takes to get the people excited about this year's event."
Funds raised for the American Cancer Society event have benefited Carbon County greatly and will continue to, explained Wells. The ACS has helped to sponsor the building of Castleview Hospital's Cancer Center and its continued upkeep and renovation. Money garnered from the event has also provided the local community with cutting edge vaccines and extended life expectancy for those facing many types of cancer.
The Relay for Life is the ACS's signature event. It offers everyone in the community an opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer. Teams of individuals camp at the College of Eastern Utah campus and take turns walking or running around the track. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event at the overnight event that can run for up to 24 hours.
"Teams of people from all walks of life have fun while raising much needed funds to fight cancer and raise awareness concerning cancer prevention and treatment," states the relay's website at www.relayforlife.org.
The relay site reports that nationally, relay brings together more than 3.5 million people to:
â¢Celebrate the lives of those who have battled cancer as the strength of survivors inspires others to continue their fight.
â¢Remember loved ones lost to the disease.
â¢And fight back as cancer has touched many who desperately want to help bring an end to the disease.
Teams who register before Jan. 31 will be charged $50 to join the event and teams signing up after that point will be charged $100.
However, if individuals are interested in participating there are a limited number of sponsorships available and those interested in sponsoring or being sponsored can contact local sponsorship chairperson Ruth Metzger.
"I have already had two individuals commit to sponsorships and am hoping to garner more today," said Metzger during an interview Wednesday.
"We really would like to see more community participation this year, we want to invite all teams that have relayed before to come back anyone who has a glimmer of interest to show up at the kick-off and learn more about their local relay."
Metzger noted that any interested teams should contact team recruitment chair Karen Spigarelli regarding returning to the event or joining for the first time. She will be in attendance at the relay's kick-off.
The funds raised by local communities save lives by funding cutting edge cancer research, early detection and prevention advocacy efforts as well as life affirming patient services.
"It is because of your involvement that the ACS is able to save lives, help those battling cancer and empower all to fight back against the disease," explains the relay website. "One person can make a difference."
That rings true as the history of Relay for Life can be traced by to one individual.
In the mid-1980s, Dr. Gordy Klatt, a Tacoma, Wash. colorectal surgeon, wanted to enhance the income of his local ACS office and show support for all his patients who had battled cancer.
He decided to personally raise money for the fight by doing something he enjoyed, running marathons.
According to the relay site, in May of 1985, Dr. Klatt spent 24 hours circling a running track near his office running for more than 83 miles.
"That first year, nearly 300 of Dr. Klatt's friends, family and patients watched as he ran and walked the course," the site explains. "Throughout the night, friends donated $25 to run or walk with Dr. Klatt for 30 minutes and his efforts raised $27,000 to fight cancer."
In 1986, with the help of Pat Flynn, now known as the mother of relay, 19 teams took part in the first team relay event and raised more than $33,000.
The rest, as they say, is history as relay has popped up everywhere in the county and become a massive national success.
The theme chosen for this year's relay is, "Back to the Future," and it is the hope of those involved with the project that the local community will look back to Dr. Klatt's dedication and do whatever possible to support the 2009 Relay for Life.

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Cannot contact to the authentic Todois.com site
Asked on Apr 16, 2014 - 11:54 UTC
I cannot access to Todist.com now through the Gmail plug in, nor through the website, nor through the Chrome Extension.
The error is apparently related to the certificate.
I've already deleted my Chrome cookies, revoke my certificates and reinstall them, set back my Chrome settings to default.
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Hello Carolina,
Please tell me - what operating system are you using? We're aware that such issue can occur on Windows XP wirh Service Pack 2. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about it on our end, this system is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft (and apparently it works fine with the Service Pack 3).
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News Feature | March 24, 2014
China Pharma Equipment Industry Report 2013-2016 Released
Research and Markets has released its report for the Chinese Pharmaceutical Equipment industry for 2013 -2016. According to the analysis, revenue is expected to hit Rmb 53.22 billion in 2016, but the market will slow down in the next two years.
The report entitled "Concise Analysis of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Equipment Industry" stated that both revenue and total profit of China's pharmaceutical equipment industry have experienced significant growth since 2010. Revenue reached a year-on-year growth rate of 51.5%, 28.2% and 26% in 2010-2012 respectively.
The analysis forecasted a more modest revenue growth rate for the industry in 2013 to 2016. Held back by the actual progress seen in new GMP certification and market capacity, the Chinese pharmaceutical equipment industry is expected to reach an annual average growth rate of more or less 20%, with anticipated revenue of RMB 53.22 billion in 2016.
The analysts declared that the market has no single or elite group to dictate growth. "Due to a wide range of pharmaceutical equipment product categories and a customized business model generally adopted by enterprises, there is no one or a few pharmaceutical equipment companies capable of controlling the entire market, the industry concentration is low, the majority of enterprises are small and medium-sized, and the market concentration is low (20%=CR8<40%)."
Several companies were highlighted in the report. These include Shinva Medical Instrument Co., Ltd. as a leading sterilization equipment company (2012 revenue: RMB 2.408 billion), Shanghai Tofflon Science and Technology Co., Ltd. as the top company in the freeze drying system industry (2012 revenue: RMB 822 million), and Truking Technology Ltd. as the major supplier of liquid injection pharmaceutical equipment (2012 revenue: RMB 589 million).
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- Zhejiang Hualian Pharmaceutical Machinery Co., Ltd.
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Is it possible to upgrade Symantec Mobile Management Agent has a required app ?
In regarding to the coming iOS 7 release we want to upgrade 2500 users (iPhone 5) from Symantec Mobile Management Agent version 4646 to version 4962.
We are running Symantec Mobile Management 7.2 SP 2.1 and due to the coming iOS7 release we are going to apply Point-fix 3275244-3 according to TECH209914 besides upgrading the MGMT agent to version 4962 (In-House-Agent):
Has anyone done this by making the new agent a required app in the Mobile Management Suite ?
If not - what is the way to do a agent upgrade as an alternative to Enrollment URL ?
Thank you for all your assistance.
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Based on my testing it would appear no. There's 2 issues I can see at play. The first is the required app functionality of the feed relies on the bundle ID. If that were the same across your versions (I.E. you used "Mobile MGMT" to name all your apps) then as far as the agent is concerned, you've already got the program. Even if you have a newer version in the feed entry, I haven't been able to get it to pop up requesting install.
So in theory it would work if you changed the program name but used the same App ID, I tried this however I still don't get a pop up. So I tried to manually install it from the Apps tab, however it will just sit on "Installing" and not do anything. That brings me to the second issue, it really seems like the agent can't install over the top of itself when it's open (which would make sense).
I'd say your best bet is to target the users you want to update via e-mail and inclue a link to the plist file. I.E:
The above works fine for us, it replaces the existing app and no need to re-enroll as long as the agent was functioning properly in the first place.


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Jacks "win and in"...
The South Dakota State men's tennis team won its regular season finale against Oral Roberts 5-2 and clinched a spot in the Summit League tournament...
The Jacks rebounded from a shutout loss on Friday to UMKC with a win over ORU to claim the No. 4 seed at the league tournament.
In doubles, SDSU won at No. 1 and No. 2 and earned a default at No. 3 to take the team point. Parker Lawley and James Thorp paired at No. 1 for a 9-8 (7-5) win. Justin Pyle and Dominic Rossetto teamed up for an 8-3 win at No. 2.
In singles, Oral Roberts took the top two matches, but the Jacks ran the table en route to the 5-2 win. Lawley and Thorp won at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, while Alejandro Marin scored a 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 5. SDSU received a default at No. 6.
"Today's win feels great for everyone, especially the seniors," head coach Michael Engdahl said. "Dominic Rossetto and Justin Pyle have put in a lot of time on the tennis court, wearing the Jackrabbit uniform and they certainly earned this trip to the finals."
Complete results from today's meet are available at the beginning of this article.
SDSU ends the regular season with a 7-13 overall record and 2-3 conference record.
"It is also a great win for our program," said Engdahl. "Even though we will enter the tournament as the No. 4 seed, it proves we can compete with any team in the Summit League. I am proud of how hard the team worked this year and looking forward to playing more tennis next weekend."
The semifinals for the conference tournament take place on Friday, April 27, in Kansas City, Mo. Time and opponent are to be determined.
It is the first trip to the Summit League tournament for the Jacks.


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Post Your Resume And Find Pharmacy Jobs In The Career Center
Pharmacy is an evolving profession. Over the years pharmacists have found new ways to leverage their status as experts in medication therapy to create new pharmacy careers that have significantly improved patient care and advanced the pharmacy profession. Here is a brief description of 22 jobs and careers for pharmacists and links for current job openings. If you know of a job we did not include please suggest it in the comments box.
Ambulatory Care Pharmacist
Job description: Direct patient care and management of medications for ambulatory patients; manage ambulatory clinics
Requirement: Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Bachelor of Science (BS) in Pharmacy; ambulatory care pharmacy residency and board certification in ambulatory care pharmacy are preferred. Certification in management of chronic conditions or therapies such as diabetes, asthma, anticoagulation is desirable.
Advantages: Provide direct patient care in a clinic setting
Practice site: Outpatient hospital or community clinics
Academic Pharmacist
Job description: Conduct research, publish articles, teach and mentor tomorrow's pharmacist. Some also practice pharmacy in the community, hospital, or ambulatory settings.
Requirement: Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Bachelor of Science (BS) in Pharmacy, some also have PhD degrees; one-year residency, and/or fellowship.
Other Skills: Need excellent writing and speaking skills, interest in research
Advantages: Flexible schedule, work in an office, opportunity to shape the future of pharmacy, pharmacy license may not be required
Practice site: universities, schools of pharmacy and medicine, local, state, national, and international organizations
Community Pharmacist
Job description: Fill prescriptions, counsel patients, resolve reimbursement issues, manage
drug inventory, supervise pharmacy technicians
Practice sites: traditional chain drugstores, independent community pharmacies, and supermarkets
Requirements BS or PharmD and active pharmacy license
Other Skills: ability to multitask, work long hours, strong communication skills, work in a stressful environment, business management skills
Advantages: Multiple work shifts, direct patient interactions, can work part-time,
pharmacies are ubiquitous
Statistics: 62% of pharmacists work in community pharmacies.
Compounding Pharmacist
Job description: Compound drugs for individual prescriptions to meet patient needs. Counsel patients and collaborate with healthcare providers.
Requirement: PharmD or BS degree, active pharmacy license, compounding course
Practice sites: Compounding pharmacies, community pharmacies, hospitals, universities
Critical Care Pharmacist
Job description: Provide clinical pharmacy services in an acute setting, may manage a decentralized pharmacy, teach and mentor students and residents
Requirement: PharmD or BS degree, active pharmacy license, ACLS certification, general residency followed by a specialty residency in critical care
Other skills: experience working in a multidisciplinary team, in depth knowledge of several diseases, excellent communication skills
Advantages: Direct patient care, teaching, clinical pharmacy practice
Practice sites: intensive care units, emergency departments, operating rooms
Drug Information Specialist
Job description: Research literature and provide responses to drug information questions.
Requirement: BS or PharmD; one-year residency or other training in drug information. Active pharmacy license may not be required in non-patient care or drug dispensing settings.
Other Skills: experience and training in clinical toxicology, poison, and drug information, must possess strong communication skills, capable of working with computers and other modern technologies
Advantages: Work in an office setting, predictable hours
Practice sites: hospitals, pharmaceutical industry, publication (content development) industry, poison control centers
Home Care (Home Infusion) Pharmacist
Job description: Provide home infusion and nutritional services, visit patients at home and teach them about their medications
Requirement: BS or PharmD and active pharmacy license, experience preparing Intravenous medications is desirable
Other Skills: Participate as part of a multidisciplinary team, communicate effectively, keep accurate records, understand parenteral nutrition
Advantages: Less stressful than retail pharmacy
Practice sites: patients' homes, home care agencies, hospices, specialized infusion companies, ambulatory infusion centers
Hospice Pharmacist
Job description: provide compassionate care to hospice patient, work with a health care team of nurses, doctors, social workers, and counselor
Requirement: Pharmacy license, residency in hospice may be preferred
Other Skills: comfortable with end of life discussions, understand pain management
Practice sites: care medicine, hospices, patients' homes
Hospital Staff Pharmacist
Job description: responsible for drug distribution in a hospital, provide clinical services, educate doctors and nurses, develop policies for drug storage and distribution, create protocols for drug administration, counsel patients
Requirements: BS or PharmD and active pharmacy license; residency or fellowship may be required for clinical positions
Other Skills: Participate as part of a multidisciplinary team, must have strong communication skills
Practice sites: hospitals, health care systems
Infectious disease pharmacist
Job description: Assist in selection, monitoring, and administration of antimicrobials; evaluate antimicrobial drug use and create policies.
Requirements: PharmD, active pharmacy license; residency or fellowship in infectious disease; strong knowledge of anti-microbial pharmacology and guidelines
Other Skills: Participate as part of a multidisciplinary team, must have strong communication skills
Advantages: Direct patient care, teaching, clinical pharmacy practice
Practice sites: Research settings, hospitals, universities, government agency
Long-term Care or Consultant Pharmacist
Job description: Provide clinical pharmacy services to the geriatric population. Review drug regimens and provide recommendations to providers.
Requirement: PharmD, BS, active license; certification in geriatric pharmacy is preferred, one-year residency in geriatric pharmacy, and clerkships in long-term care may be helpful
Other Skills: Great communication skills and ability to interact well with people, ability to work as part of a healthcare team, must enjoy working with a geriatric community
Advantages: Predictable schedule. Often can work independently as a consultant
Practice sites: Nursing homes, hospitals, assisted-living facilities, psychiatric hospitals, home care, sub-acute care facilities
Managed Care Pharmacist
Job description: Collaborate with physicians, case managers, and care givers to provide pharmacy services in a managed care setting.
Requirements: PharmD or BS, active license
Other skills: Business and management skills
Advantages: Fewer number of payers; closed formularies limit the type of drugs that are available
Practice sites: Health maintenance organizations (HMO), care management programs, ambulatory clinics, Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO)
Medication Therapy Management Pharmacist (Personal Pharmacist)
Job description: Review patient medications, monitor treatment, optimize medication use, minimize cost of drug therapy
Requirements: PharmD or BS, active license; certification or courses in medication therapy management are useful
Other skills: Board certification in areas of specialty, entrepreneurial spirit
Advantages: Direct patient care, opportunity to be own a practice
Practice sites: Office, community clinics, hospitals, community pharmacies, patient's homes
Nutrition Support Pharmacist
Job description: Collaborate health care providers and patients to manage parenteral and enteral nutrition.
Requirements: PharmD or BS, active license; board certification in Nutrition Support Pharmacy is preferred
Other skills: able to work with a multidisciplinary team, ability to individualize treatment specific to a patient's needs; experience with intravenous admixtures
Advantages: Provide specialized services; serve as a consultant to care teams
Practice sites: acute facilities, ambulatory clinics, skilled nursing facilities, patients' homes
Nuclear Practice Pharmacist
Job description: Prepare radiopharmaceuticals and maintain quality standards.
Requirements: PharmD or BS, active pharmacy license; authority to handle radio active substances; residency or board specialty in nuclear pharmacy preferred
Advantages: High demand for nuclear pharmacists
Practice sites: Imaging and diagnostic centers, hospitals, specialized pharmacies
Oncology pharmacist
Job description: Selection, compounding, administration, and monitoring of chemotherapy agents.
Requirements: PharmD or BS, active license; residency or board certification in oncology preferred
Other skills: Experience in critical care
Advantages: Specialized field, higher pay than hospital pharmacists
Practice sites: hospitals, universities, cancer centers
Operating Suite (Surgery Unit) Pharmacist
Job description: Manage availability of medications used for surgery and post-operative care.
Requirements: PharmD or BS, active license; critical care experience preferred
Other experience: Experience with anesthesia and surgery medications; work in a multidisciplinary team and fast paced environment
Practice sites: hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers
Pediatric pharmacist
Job description: Provide clinical pharmacy services to pediatric patients.
Requirement: PharmD or BS, active license; one-year general residency and specialty residency in pediatrics
Other experience: Able to communicate effectively with children
Advantages: Specialized field
Practice sites: Children's hospitals, hospitals, universities, cancer centers
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM)
Job description: Manage prescription drug benefit programs; claims processing and related administrative services; and perform drug utilization reviews.
Requirement: PharmD or BS, active license; experience in business is preferred
Additional Experience: Possess management and strong analytical skills.
Advantages: Work in a corporate office environment
Practice sites: Pharmacy benefit management companies (PBMs)
Pharmaceutical Industry Pharmacists
Job description: Varies depending on specific job. Usually involves educating healthcare providers, training commercial teams, developing communication tools, and research. Regulatory, sales, and marketing roles are also available.
Requirements: PharmD preferred; fellowship or residency; clinical or teaching experience. MBA, PhD are help.
Other experience: Business management, marketing, sales experience are desirable; excellent communication skills required for many roles
Advantages: High pay, great benefits, work in an office or from home, excellent growth opportunities
Practice sites: pharmaceutical, biotechnology companies, contract research organizations (CRO)
Pharmacists in the Military
Job description: Provide pharmacy services in various branches of the military. Duties may range form dispensing to clinical practice, ambulatory care, and research. May travel to foreign countries with frequent moves.
Requirements: PharmD or BS, active license from any state, completion of a personal interview and satisfactory physical exam, must be a U.S. citizen
Additional Skills: Extreme flexibility and able to assume large responsibility at an early age. Comfortable working in a military setting
Advantages: Great benefits; early retirement; variety of practice settings
Practice Sites: Army pharmacies, navy pharmacies, air force pharmacies, public health service pharmacies
Poison Control Pharmacist
Job description: Provide medical information about poisoning and drug overdoses.
Requirement: PharmD or BS, active license from any state; certification by the American Association of Poison Control Centers; clinical toxicology training and one-year residency in poison-control are preferred
Additional experience: Crisis management over the phone and know crisis intervention techniques
Practice sites: Poison control centers, hospitals, universities
Post Your Resume And Find Pharmacy Jobs In The Career Center
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Personal Pharmacist: A Career Option for Pharmacist
Pharmacy Career: Is it Still a Top Option in Healthcare
Pharmacy Jobs and Career Resources
Additional Resources
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
© Copyright 2015 Gwinnett Daily Post
ATHENS - University of Georgia police arrested Caleb Darnell King, 19, the Gwinnett County tailback some call the Bulldogs' star recruit, for a traffic violation.King, a Greater Atlanta Christian grad, was allegedly driving a motor scooter the wrong way on a one-way street Monday near Sanford Stadium - the place where fans hope he will run for big yardage this season, in the right direction. An officer stopped King's 2005 Schwinn Sport moped in front of UGA's Journalism Building on Sanford Drive after seeing it make a restricted turn from Baldwin Street, according to UGA police. A computer check showed King's license had been suspended June 15 because of previous motor vehicle law violations, UGA police said. King was booked into the Clarke County Jail at 11:39 p.m. on charges of driving the wrong way on a one-way road and driving on a suspended license. He was released about half an hour later on a $2,000 bond. King became a hot prospect during his junior year at Parkview High School in Lilburn, when he rushed for state junior record 2,765 yards and scored 19 touchdowns. The Rivals.com online college football rating service ranked King the nation's top running back recruit before he transferred to GAC in Norcross, where he gained 957 yards for 13 touchdowns in seven games before his season with the Spartans was cut short by a broken leg.
More like this story
- UGA suspends three tailbacks for Saturday's game ( November 2, 2011 )
- GAC's Chapple, King make college debut ( August 31, 2008 )
- UGA's King ruled ineligible for 2011 ( July 9, 2011 )
- Tight end's loss could be gain for Georgia receivers, fullbacks ( August 5, 2007 )
- Star RB King takes part in first practice at GAC ( August 10, 2006 )


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Galaxy Nexus port geting a new virtual gesture area 29
The Open webOS porting project to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is moving along. We've already seen the port in action, and while still a work in progress, that code has been released for public hackery. There's plenty of work yet to be done to get Open webOS running well on the Galaxy Nexus, but that doesn't mean the developers working on the port aren't going to make some improvements along the way too.
Case in point, a video posted today by WebOS Ports showing off a newly-implemented virtual gesture area on the Galaxy Nexus running Open webOS. If you'll recall, Open webOS is from the user interface perspective essentially the same thing as webOS 3.0.5 on the TouchPad. And there's something the TouchPad is missing that those of us that are webOS phone users have come to know, love, and cherish: the gesture area.
Alas, the Galaxy Nexus does not have an extension of its touch panel below the screen like our beloved Pre, Pixi, and Veer smartphones. But that doesn't mean the gesture area is something we're going to have to live without. Even though we expect Open webOS 1.0 will work just fine on a Galaxy Nexus without a gesture area, there's something to be said for the one-handed operation such an addition permits.
And with all the expansive screen real estate that comes with the Galaxy Nexus, creating a virtual gesture area wouldn't be stealing away too many pixels. It's worth noting that when Samsung and Google were designing the Galaxy Nexus, they did it without hardware buttons on the chin (the Galaxy Nexus being the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, and thus having virtual navigation buttons instead of physical), so the margin under the screen is fairly narrow, meaning a virtual gesture area wouldn't be too far up from where we'd expect it to be.
So create a virtual gesture area did @ShiftyAxel do. Right now it just serves to emulate the swipe-up behavior present on the TouchPad, which is a start. As WebOS Ports chief Tom King noted in response to a comment about the lack of the expected back gesture on the YouTube video, "Rome wasn't built in a day...takes time to implement "features"." Indeed, it does, and this is just pre-alpha at this point (they're not even releasing the code yet it's so early). But progress is progress, and we'll take that any day.
Video after the break.
Source: WebOS Ports (Twitter)
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So fast!!!
But seriously, as a former day one Palm Pre owner and current unlocked GSM Gnex owner, I'm really excited. Can't wait to see this in a more useable form. Keep up the good work!!!
One word. Awesome. I wish that for just one party day I had the talent these guys (and gals) have.
This is fills me with so much hope, if a small group can do this part time in what weeks, think of the small amount of effort it would take a true dev team to pump some Web OS love into a device and have it day use ready...
Keep up with the amazing work guys!
I wonder if it will be possible for them to implement the phone ui. This strikes me as a wasted effort if the phone ui isn't hiding in the open webos code somewhere.
Here's hoping. I would really love to have webos on a phone again.
If you're an Android phone fan, give Paranoid Android a try. It allows you to merge phone and tablet in interesting ways. Starting to figure out that tablet ui is surprisingly functional as a phone. As long as you can use phone app, it's a phone.
Seriously! It's so much improved from the first video! Is there a place where those of use with dull day jobs can learn to do stuff like this?! You guys rock!
Awesome! Keep up the incredible work everyone. Amazing work is being done here by what I consider a true developer team!
wow you guys rock. These new devices are still too big for me but now this real estate is used in a reasonable way :D
where was the donation button again?
That thing is already faster than my pre- was
They say they want to port Open webOS on small and large devices, but stealing pixels for an empty gesture area goes in the opposite direction with regard to small screens. There are wonderful phones like the HTC ChaCha with a very low resolution. Think about MP3 players, too. Why don't they use the Quick Launch Bar as a gesture area? The only ambiguity in input interpretation would be when the user taps and holds an icon of the Quick Launch Bar. It would be simple to solve.
Ok, I know there would still be problems and ambiguities when a card is maximized (for example to close a card), but they may just let the user (or the guy who installs Open webOS) choose whether he wants a gesture area in the maximized cards or not. The user could for example revert to using physical keys (if any) when a card is maximized, without any gesture area. If you have a TouchPad in an iPad case, then you understand what I mean.
However, thanks to the Open webOS team.
Most android devices have the buttons at the bottom and these can be repurposed, so if they have capacitive buttons those stop being buttons and are used as the gesture area instead. If you get what I mean.
Anyone have their donation link?
"Hurray!" for webOS gesture areas!
Sweetness! The guys who put this together must be commended!! The potential here is awesome. Obviously there are things that need to be refined in its current state, but that is to be expected. Can't wait to see to see this in a "release" form.
Nice! Can you show us how the keyboard looks?
Geting? Someone seriously needs to proof read....
But this is excellent news. Now I only have one other thing on my wish list - a portrait slider that can run open webos.
omg I cant wait!
keep up the good work you guys!
Amazing. I just switched to the dark side with my recent upgrade (apple) and I must say webOS is just plain better on the surface. iPhone has a ton of very refined features but it is frustrating having to take another two to three steps for simple functions webOS is able to do in one.
The ultimate would be webOS on an iPhone, but I will gladly sell my iPhone once this Galaxy becomes prime time. Missin webOS
Got to agree with you spooledup7. I'm using an ipad from work and I can't stand the way iOS has done multitasking. It really is lame after using webos for 2.5 years. Our ipads are communal and I was surprised when I did the 4 finger multitask gesture that reveals all the open apps. There must have been 20 apps that people had left open! No one bothers to close them because it's such a hassle. That wouldn't happen in webos. It's actually fun for us to close apps! IOS reminds me of my old PalmOS devices of which I had 4 (palm IIIe, zire 72, T2 and Tungsten) Start a program back out of it, open another program etc., So last decade! It's the apps that are the saving grace of this turd of an OS. Give me webos with the iOS app count and all will be right in the world.
I have own all of the Webos phones and they are great. I have a pre3 and love it. However, it is the lack of apps or the update to the apps I have. It is great that they can port Webos to different hardware. Keep up the good work, of porting open Webos to different hardware. Such a wonderfull OS, with no apps that is the most fustrating part, the lack of developers. Which I really don't blame the developers for why take the time to write a application if there is nobody using the platform. I just hope that maybe this opensource project will grab the some of the major players attention in the mobile industry.
This is so wrong.. I can't even watch this.
does anyone know if OpenWebOS supports swipe back and foward gestures still or if its just like the touch pad version with back buttons everywhere?


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Jefferson Community College had the highest six-year graduation rate among state community colleges for students who enrolled in 2002.
JCC recorded a 46 percent graduation rate, according to the Center for Urban Studies as a part of a State University of New York Completion Day initiative.
According to Betsy D. Penrose, JCC vice president for students, the number was calculated by combining the colleges 29 percent graduation rate for associate degrees with those who transferred to receive bachelors degrees an additional 17 percent.
Although Vice President for Academic Affairs Thomas J. Finch is pleased with the graduation rate, he said he understands why community members may be unimpressed by the numbers.
The biggest part of that is people see 46 percent and say big deal, Mr. Finch said.
He said college graduation rates are measured differently from high school rates. If a student transfers to another community college, the state considers the student a JCC dropout.
Because JCC has open enrollment, Mr. Finch said, some parents persuade their children to attend for a year to save money. In addition, some people wish to take only a class or two to update their work skills or find out what theyre interested in pursuing.
Based on figures Mrs. Penrose released for those who enrolled in 2006, JCCs rate appears to have improved since 2002.
Based on the National Community College Benchmarking Project numbers, I can tell you that our six-year associate degree completion rate was 34.34 percent in fall 2012 based on the 2006 cohort, she said in an email. The SUNY rate was 32.17 percent and the national rate was 27.67 percent. So, it appears we are trending in a positive direction.
Mrs. Penrose did not know the percentage of students who transferred and received a bachelors degree.
Mr. Finch said he encourages students to send their four-year school transcripts back to the community college so they can receive credit there at the same time. When they have enough credits, they can receive an associate degree and boost the colleges graduation rate at the same time.
Something can happen in their lives where they dont finish their bachelors degree, Mr. Finch said. You never have to explain a degree. You have the credentials.
Mrs. Penrose said she is happy for the students who transfer to get their bachelors degree, even if it hurts the college.
For us, they might look like a non-grad, but theyre a successful transfer, she said. Also, with adult learners, job opportunities come up.
Mr. Finch said Fort Drum creates a transient population in the area.
A third of our population, over a third, is made up of Fort Drum soldiers, and they dont stay here, he said.
Mr. Finch said there are few exceptions to having a student who does not graduate after six years count against the colleges graduation rate, but military involvement is one of them.
If youre in a cohort and you start, youre counted, he said.
Mrs. Penrose said the college has many programs in place to keep the graduation rate climbing.
One of the things about getting students to graduate is keeping them all along, she said.
She said the best way to do this is to start during the students first few months.
The college has a welcome week at the beginning of the year to get freshman students acclimated.
A $2 million federal Title III grant awarded four years ago was aimed at different ways to improve student retention. One was to increase faculty development efforts and start a mentoring program for new professors at JCC. Adjunct instructors have an online training program to help them better understand student needs.
Faculty can refer students they think are struggling to a specialist who can give them the help they need, whether it is getting them a tutor or finding them a ride to campus.
A new reading specialist was hired to add to the math and writing specialist, Mrs. Penrose said.
Because professors see the students frequently and know who may be at risk, the college started an early alert program.
Its designated to intervene to get students needs addressed so that they can continue to be a student, Mrs. Penrose said.
Recently, JCC began doing the same for more than 300 students who received 45 or more credits in the past five years but stopped enrolling in classes.
We asked why they didnt come back, and we had some responses, Mrs. Penrose said.
Some went on to four-year colleges. Others had work obligations or children to take care of. However, after counseling, some of those students decided to return to school.
Part-time students can take a long time to gain 60 credits, Mrs. Penrose said. It can take someone six or eight years to get a degree.
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March Madness continues for Winsor's Mock Trial team.
With a nail-biting win on Thursday, it's on to the "Final 4" for Winsor. On Monday, March 18, Winsor will face Marshfield High School in the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston. The state finals await the winner.
While trials don't come much closer than the team's two-point win in the "Sweet 16" round, Winsor emerged victorious in Thursday's "Elite 8" round by virtue of a one-point tiebreaker over the Maimonides School of Brookline!
Since the tourney that gives a nod to the annual excitement of NCAA basketball championships, tri-captain Corinne Candilis extends the sports analogy. "Sometimes Mock Trial can feel like an individual sport because you are performing your part on your own, but we all work together at council's table," she says. "No one is solely focused on their own role. On trial day we perform for each other. That's what makes this sport and this team special."
The key to success this year? To junior Sara Zhou, "it's definitely the leadership of our three outstanding and inspiring captains [seniors Corinne, Pavlina Karafillis and Ellie Bridge]; we wouldn't be half the team we are without them."
So what's it like? "Imagine combining acting and debating and then putting that on steroids," adds Sara. "No other activity teaches you how to communicate and think on your feet on the same level. Lawyers need to analyze the opposing side's argument, apply it to the rules of evidence, come up with two ways to counter it, and then organize all of that into a concise, three-sentence response. And they have about 10 seconds to do it. After managing that, class presentations and discussions seem like a piece of cake."
That quick-thinking aspect is what Corinne enjoys most. "You never know what the other team will respond to your cross or what they will object to in your direct," she explains. "Taking the rules of evidence and the case materials and trying to form logical arguments on the spot is really an amazing exercise."
The Winsor team has been furiously working to prepare for the tournament, spending hours together on late-night Skype calls and weekend meetings. "There is nothing quite so satisfying as seeing your hard work pay off when you face off against a tough opponent," says Sara.
She loves the camaraderie. "As they say, we win together and we lose together," she says. So far, winning together has become a habit.
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VIDEO: Angelina Jolie's infamous Oscars moment
The In the Land of Blood and Honey director and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, 36, kept covered up but was still radiant in a white blazer with gold clasp, loose chiffon top and black pants.
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The stunning mother of six's hair was in the same lighter shade -- and Kate Middleton-esque waves -- she sported at the Oscars in L.A. nearly two weeks ago, where she inspired an enduring Internet meme after dramatically baring her right leg in a black velvet Atelier Versace gown with a thigh-high slit.
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Mitchell Report names MVPs, All-Stars as steroid users
NEW YORK - Roger Clemens turned out be Exhibit A in the long-awaited Mitchell Report, an All-Star roster linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark — if not an asterisk — next to some of baseball's biggest moments.
Barry Bonds, already under indictment on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about steroids, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte also showed up Thursday in the game's most infamous lineup since the Black Sox scandal.
The report culminated a 20-month investigation by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, hired by commissioner Bud Selig to examine the Steroids Era.
Seven MVPs showed up and in all, 80-some players were fingered, enough to put an All-Star at every position.
No one was hit harder than Clemens. The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was singled out in nearly nine pages, 82 references by name. Much of the information on Clemens came from former New York Yankees major league strength and conditioning coach Brian McNamee.
"The illegal use of performance-enhancing substances poses a serious threat to the integrity of the game," the report said. "Widespread use by players of such substances unfairly disadvantages the honest athletes who refuse to use them and raises questions about the validity of baseball records."
While the records will surely stand, several stars could pay the price in Cooperstown, much the way Mark McGwire was kept out of the Hall of Fame this year merely because of steroids suspicion.
"If there are problems, I wanted them revealed," Selig said. "His report is a call to action, and I will act."
Mitchell said the problems didn't develop overnight and there was plenty of blame to go around.
"Everyone involved in baseball over the past two decades — commissioners, club officials, the players' association and players — shares to some extent the responsibility for the Steroids Era," Mitchell said. "There was a collective failure to recognize the problem as it emerged and to deal with it early on."
Mitchell recommended that the drug-testing program be made independent, that a list of the substances players test positive for be listed periodically and that the timing of testing be more unpredictable.
Eric Gagne, Gary Sheffield, Jason Giambi, Troy Glaus, Gary Matthews Jr., Paul Byrd, Jose Guillen, Brian Roberts, Paul Lo Duca and Rick Ankiel were among other current players named in the report — in fact, there's an All-Star at every position. Some were linked to Human Growth Hormone, others to steroids.
Fort Myers resident Adam Piatt is also named in the report. The former Bishop Verot High School standout admitted to using performance-enhancing substances during the 2002-03 off-season. Piatt, who played four seasons with the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Devil Rays, told investigators his regimen was to take one shot of testosterone per week for three to five weeks. He also injected himself with human growth hormone every day until he contracted carpal tunnel syndrome.
Piatt, who is now a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch in Fort Myers, could not be reached for comment.
Piatt said he started using steroids after an injury slowed his bat speed. He retired from baseball in 2004 at the age of 28 because, as the report states, he had lost his love for the game.
"According to Piatt, the time he used illegal substances was the only time he did not enjoy baseball. He thought he had 'compromised something.' " Mitchell's report states on page 199.
Piatt, who cooperated with investigators, produced canceled checks for steroids totalling more than $11,000.
Only Bonds was mentioned more than Clemens, 103 times, most of it recounting previous reports.
More than a dozen Yankees, past and present, were identified. Players were linked to doping in various ways — some were identified as users, some as buyers and some by media reports and other investigations.
"According to McNamee, from the time that McNamee injected Clemens with Winstrol through the end of the 1998 season, Clemens' performance showed remarkable improvement," the report said. "During this period of improved performance, Clemens told McNamee that the steroids 'had a pretty good effect' on him."
McNamee also told investigators that "during the middle of the 2000 season, Clemens made it clear that he was ready to use steroids again. During the latter part of the regular season, McNamee injected Clemens in the buttocks four to six times with testosterone from a bottle labeled either Sustanon 250 or Deca-Durabolin."
Former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski also provided information as part of his plea agreement in a federal steroids case. Jose Canseco's book "Juiced" also was cited.
Mitchell urged Selig to hold off on punishing players in the report "except in those cases where he determines that the conduct is so serious that discipline is necessary to maintain the integrity of the game."
Selig said discipline will be determined in case by case basis, and actions will be taken "swiftly."
"Former commissioner Fay Vincent told me that the problem of performance-enhancing substances may be the most serious challenge that baseball has faced since the 1919 Black Sox scandal," Mitchell said in the 409-page report.
"The illegal use of anabolic steroids and similar substances, in Vincent's view, is 'cheating of the worst sort.' He believes that it is imperative for Major League Baseball to 'capture the moral high ground' on the issue and, by words and deeds, make it clear that baseball will not tolerate the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs."
Rafael Palmeiro, who tested positive for steroids, was among the former players named. So were Kevin Brown, Benito Santiago, Lenny Dykstra, Chuck Knoblauch, David Justice, Mo Vaughn and Todd Hundley.
Mike Stanton, Scott Schoeneweis, Ron Villone and Jerry Hairston Jr. were among the other current players identified.
"We identify some of the players who were caught up in this drive to gain a competitive advantage," the report said. "Other investigations will no doubt turn up more names and fill in more details, but that is unlikely to significantly alter the description of baseball's 'steroids era' as set forth in this report."
"The illegal use in baseball of these substances also victimize the majority of players who don't use them. We heard from many former players who believe it was grossly unfair that the users were gaining an advantage," Mitchell said.
The report took issue with assertions that steroids were not banned before the 2002 collective bargaining agreement.
They had been covered, it said, since the 1971 drug policy prohibited using any prescription medication without a valid prescription, and were expressly included in the drug policy in 1991.
"Steroids have been listed as a prohibited substance under the Major League Baseball drug policy since then," the report said, although no player was disciplined for them until the 2002 labor agreement provided for testing.
Mitchell is a director of the Boston Red Sox, and some questioned whether that created a conflict, especially because none of their players were in the report.
"Judge me by my work," Mitchell said. "You will not find any evidence of bias, special treatment, for the Red Sox or anyone else. That had no effect on this investigation or this report, none whatsoever."
Giambi, under threat of discipline from Selig, was the only current player known to have cooperated with the Mitchell investigation.
"The players' union was largely uncooperative for reasons that I thought were largely understandable," Mitchell said.
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Edited by Sarah Stroud, Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada, and Christine Tappolet, Department of Philosophy, University of Montreal, Canada
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October 2010 - Dr Callum Floyd has called for the government to increase its awareness of the part franchising can play in New Zealand's economy and to create the right conditions for recovery.
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A director of Franchize Consultants (NZ) Ltd, which carries out the quarterly Franchising Confidence Index survey, Dr Floyd notes a continued downward trend in sentiment in the franchise sector and low levels of expectations for many key franchising variables. 'This is of considerable concern to franchisors and franchisees, and should concern the wider economy and government.'
'Franchising is pervasive, covering many important sectors of business from grocery to home services, and is a great contributor to job growth, business training, SME compliance (due to good business systems) and GDP. But it requires the right environment including, crucially, access to capital for expansion and confidence.'
'Many well-known (and lesser-known) franchisors and franchisees have been hammered by the economy and continue to trade and battle despite considerable adversity. They do not crave handouts but they are desperate for an environment that fosters positive business growth and development.'
'It's time government recognised franchising properly for its contribution and needs.'
'Positive but falling' sentiment
The latest Franchising Confidence Index survey, released in October, found 'positive but falling' sentiment across many key franchising indicators including general business conditions, access to financing, suitable franchisees and locations. Meanwhile, franchisee sales levels and operating costs, and franchisor growth prospects are forecast to improve, while availability of suitable staff and franchisee profitability levels are expected to remain unchanged.
Encouragingly, franchisor sentiment for franchisee sales levels climbed to net 48% (from 36% in July), and the outlook for operating costs improved dramatically – with a net 51% (compared to -29% in July) expecting improvements over the next 12 months. Meanwhile, a net 16% of franchisors expect franchisee profitability levels to be better (same as July, but down from 41% in April).
Comparatively, service providers were far less optimistic in their outlook for franchisees, generally. A net 7% (27% in July) expected deterioration in franchisees sales levels. 41% (compared to 46% in July) expected deterioration in operating costs. Finally, a net 24% expected franchisee profitability levels to deteriorate. Overall, while franchisors expect improvements in sales and growth, both groups clearly see tough times ahead for franchisees generally. However, the response varies according to which industry the franchise respondents are operating in. Franchisors were asked 'How things are looking in their sector,' and service providers 'How things are looking for franchisors and franchisees (generally).' Franchisor comments indicate huge variations in current and expected sales activity. Indeed comments range from 'still very grim' to 'solid and looking promising.' On balance, sales were challenging, but expected to improve – with some franchise systems more positive than others.
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Down here in Alabama we don't mess about with spanking our wives with hairbrushes, belts or wooden spoons, no sir, when it comes to keeping the little woman in line nothing works better than a good old-fashioned birching cross her bare butt!
When my little wife Susan gets uppity to me and starts nagging about having to do her chores, I go straight out to the nearest hickory tree and cut me a switch to make sure she knows I ain't one for taking sass from a woman. I usually take her straight into the milk barn, pull up her skirt and take down her little cotton britches for a good switching that leaves her dancing and clutching her little red bottom.
Sometimes A Wife Needs A Public Spanking
And don't think I'm shy about spanking my wife if there is company or family over either. Why, one time she sassed me about serving viddles to my 2 brothers, so I took her right a cross my knee in front of them in the kitchen, pulled down her shorts and let them watch as I spanked her good and hard before making her go out to the yard and cut her a switch for me. After she brought it back, I bent her straight over the couch and proceeded to tan her hide as they sat there watching and drinking beer. You can bet she damn well stepped lively after that little session with the hickory switch and I didn't have no more trouble from her for the rest of the week.
Like all married women she soon got to nagging and sassing me, so I had to go out to the fence row by the blueberry bushes and cut myself a whole bundle of hickory switches to make a good birching bundle. The very next day I had to put her across the hood of my pickup and birch her naked ass right in front of the preacher and his wife, who would come to visit and drop off some eggs and cheese. The preacher's wife said that I shouldn't chastise her so harshly, but the preacher heself gave me a good nod and a wink, and told me to carry on with the gusto and vigor that the job demanded. He even said he would come back later alone and that I should strip my wife naked and birch her good and proper in the front yard as he read from the good book.
Now sometimes I get the thinking that my little Susie is doing stuff just to make me mad, so I'll run out and grab that switch and proceed to blister her buns like some young hussy under the guidance of her daddy. How can I tell? Well sometimes when I'm laying that hickory switch or birch bundle across her naked butt, she gets a look on her face like she does when we be upstairs having relations like husbands and wives do. One time she even asked me to pull her hair and call her names as I switched her bare butt out on the front porch while the mailman watched.
Yeah, spanking your wife is pretty common down here and you'd have to drive pretty far to find some good old boy who put up with his wife sassing him and not taking her britches down for a good birching. It's been that way for many a long year and I don't see it changing anytime soon. If any of you city fellers out there read this and don't agree, then you are probably one of those liberal homosexuals that lets his wife step all over them, because any real man knows that the wife should obey the husband and the best way to ensure that is by spanking her on a regular basis!
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A gay Saudi prince jailed for life in Britain for murdering his servant is to serve the rest of his sentence in his home country, a British government source said on Tuesday.
Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir, a grandson of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah II, was jailed in 2010 for killing Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz in a London hotel after subjecting him to a "sadistic" campaign of violence and sexual abuse.
The source confirmed that British Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has approved the 36-year-old prince's transfer to a jail in Saudi Arabia.
The source could not specify when the prince would be transferred, but The Times newspaper reported that he was expected to fly home within weeks.
Britain's justice ministry said it did not comment on individual prison transfer cases.
But a ministry spokeswoman told AFP: "We have a prison transfer arrangement with Saudi Arabia which allows nationals of either country to serve their prison sentence in their home state."
Saud denied that he was gay but the trial at London's Old Bailey court heard that he had ordered gay escorts in London and had frequently looked at websites for gay massage parlours and escort agencies.
His lawyers argued that he could face the death penalty in Saudi Arabia over the revelations of homosexuality.
The jury heard that the prince was fuelled by champagne and cocktails when he beat and strangled Abdulaziz to death on February 15, 2010 after the pair had returned from a Valentine's Day night out.
A post-mortem found that Abdulaziz had suffered heavy blows to the head, injuries to the brain and ears and severe neck injuries consistent with strangulation by hand.
Prosecutors said bite marks on his cheeks showed a clear "sexual element" to the killing. - Sapa-AFP
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Salary scales "compressed" for early-career teachers at AISD
Gap between new, mid-career educators small
A comprehensive database, available here, shows the salaries of 14,600 employees of seven school districts: Abilene, Wylie, Midland, San Angelo, Tyler, Waco and Wichita Falls ISDs.
Increasing starting pay for teachers over the past few years has left Abilene school officials with another problem.
Even with changes approved Monday to boost the salaries of mid-career teachers, the pay scale is compressed: A teacher hired with three years of experience would make only $150 more than a teacher hired with zero experience.
"I think it is a problem, and I think it will be a problem we will address in future years," said school board member Charlie Wolfe. "This year we just didn't have enough to address all of our problems."
The scale has not meant paltry raises for teachers over the past few years, however, said Keith Dowell, the district's executive director for business and finance.
The school board has often voted to give raises across all experience levels, effectively tearing up the pay scale yearly, Dowell said. Teachers in the system are not tied to the scale in place when they were hired, but to their experience level whenever a new, higher pay schedule is implemented, Dowell explained.
Based on survey data for teacher pay, Abilene had the smallest gap between earnings for fifth-year teachers and those with no experience last year among districts with at least 1,000 students enrolled.
Fifth-year teachers got a raise Monday, but Abilene's pay scale last year had teachers without any experience starting at $36,000, which was almost equal to the average starting pay statewide last year of $36,009, according to the Texas Association of School Boards.
But teachers with five years of experience earned only $250 more, according to last year's pay scale.
In comparison, the scale in place last year at San Angelo Independent School District had a teacher with no experience starting at $37,000.
The same pay scale increased the teacher's salary by $1,800 if the teacher had five years of experience.
The data, collected by the Texas Association of School Boards, were based only on voluntary submissions from districts, so they did not include every district in the state.
"Over the last five or six years, we've made a concentrated effort to try to raise the starting salary, and in that process, that difference between zero and five got compressed," Wolfe said. Starting teacher pay was below $30,000 until July 2006, when the starting salary was increased to $32,500.
Instead of giving an across-the-board raise like in years past, however, the board voted to approve increases for mid-career teachers while leaving the pay scale unchanged for teachers with zero to three years of experience.
Teachers with five years of experience are now set to earn $36,800. Other teachers with up to 21 years of experience will see a bump in salary in the new payscale under changes approved Monday.
For example, a teacher with 10 years of experience is now set to earn $40,000, up from the $38,747 the teacher would have earned under last year's pay scale.
Employees with more than 30 years of experience also are getting a raise of $750.
"In other words, you kind of have a bell curve with low raises in the early years. You kind of hit your stride and hit some of the other bigger increases in salary," Dowell said, adding that salaries paid by other districts also led to the structure of the pay increases for more experienced teachers. "We talked about getting them in a more regionally competitive ballpark."
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Get that foot of yours tapping, Black Stone Cherry are here.
From the second you press play, until the fifty three minutes finish, your body is put into a solid rhythm. Blind Man is the ultimate start to any album, setting a very high expectation on the rest of the release from 2008 which is more than definitely met.
The tough going vocals and hard rock drumming are a perfect match to the guitars which rock throughout. A beautifully constructed solo in the later half of the song makes the experience so much more energetic before Please Come In and Reverend Wrinkle. If your entire body isn't aching by this point, go and see your doctor. Something's wrong. If you're doing it properly, every joint in your body will be rocking out to the ever growing strength in the beautifully distorted guitars.
A catchy drum melody in Reverend Wrinkle keeps you alive, until the first 'ballad' of the album on Things My Father Said. Successfully breaking the release up, opening with piano with raw and strong vocals that discretely build up successfully in a mix of instruments into a fantastic chorus that like the first few songs, gets you moving.
In The Bitter End, drums occupy the mind with heavy guitars and a dirty bass line through to another slower song of Peace Is Free which continues to boast the same strength of vocals against another confident drum line and guitar. The song has great lyrics too,
"And if you feel the urge to raise your hand, you can start a revolution or start a band,
You better sing your song and sing it loud"
You is also another slower song, in comparison to the hard songs that accompany these, but they are all a great combination of fantastic lyrics and great use of instruments – honestly making my job of describing the album extremely difficult as it is so perfect. There are enough variables to make the album work without sounding too monotonous, but there's enough grip on it to keep it real and to keep it on the pace it started with.
I'd recommend it to anyone to enjoys hard rock bands of any exposure, and one band that springs to mind the most for me, Glassbullet, who I will be reviewing for next Thursday.
If you've never listened to a hard rock band, or not heard of Black Stone Cherry, get yourself a copy of Folklore and Superstition and you won't regret it.


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Daniel Benjamin was sworn in as Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the Department of State with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large on May 28, 2009. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Benjamin was Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution from December 2006 to May 2009. He spent six years as a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Benjamin served on the National Security Council staff. In 1998-1999, he was director for counterterrorism in the Office of Transnational Threats. In 1994-1997, he served as foreign policy speechwriter and special assistant to President Clinton. Before entering the government, Mr. Benjamin was a foreign correspondent for TIME Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
Daniel Benjamin has co-written two books. The Age of Sacred Terror was published by Random House in 2002 and documents the rise of religiously motivated terrorism and American efforts to combat it. The Age of Sacred Terror was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2002 and was given the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right, was published by Holt/Times Books in 2005 and named a Washington Post "Best Book" of 2005. He also edited America and the World in the Age of Terror: A New Landscape in International Relations (CSIS, 2005). He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate Magazine, TIME Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
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Since the early 1990s, CFOs have been benchmarking traditional finance functions such as how fast a company could close its books, or reduce its DSO - or Days Sales Outstanding - rate. Getting into the top quartile was the Holy Grail for most, and evidence that they were at the helm of a high-performing finance function.
With the advent of disruptive technologies such as mobile, big data, predictive analytics, and new cloud and social computing platforms, CFOs are quickly recognizing that the way they create value has changed, and so must the finance benchmarks associated with those value creation mechanisms. These were just some of the key findings of the real-time surveys conducted at the 2013 Oracle Chief Financial Officer Summit, part of the Leaders Circle events at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. The 2013 CFO Summit, hosted by Oracle Chairman Jeff Henley and sponsored by Accenture, brought together 190+ senior finance executives from around the world to discuss the growing role of CFOs in driving transformational change in an increasingly disruptive global economy.
The real-time surveys sought to validate new research by Oracle and Accenture on the evolution of finance organizations from more traditional finance and oversight functions, to a more strategic role that places finance at the very heart of business strategy and value creation. David Axson, a Managing Director of Finance & Enterprise Performance in Accenture's Management Consulting practice, kicked off the survey process in his keynote by asking CFO Summit attendees about their plans to create value by leveraging emerging technologies, and whether they felt emerging technologies were influencing the need to develop new best practices to measure finance effectiveness.
"I wasn't surprised by the survey findings around emerging technologies driving value creation," Axson noted. "What was interesting was how finance viewed emerging technologies as enablers of specific value creation strategies." For example, 43.3 percent of senior finance executives felt that emerging technologies would support their growth initiatives. The rest were divided between the impact that emerging technologies would have on improving their competitive position (26.7 percent) and improving customer interactions (21.7 percent).
Axson was also interested in how senior finance executives viewed the disruptive impact of emerging technologies on finance best practices. Nearly 90 percent of those surveyed agreed that the use of emerging technologies will lead them to reconsider or introduce new best practices, especially in areas such as cloud adoption and the use of predictive analytics and big data to improve planning and forecasting. To help CFOs in these areas, Oracle and Accenture are launching a new series on finance best practices entitled "Five Minutes on Modern Finance". Look for the best practice guides and new global research commissioned by Oracle and Accenture on the attributes of the modern finance organization coming in February 2014 on Oracle C-Central.


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ATLANTA -- This summer, the Atlanta Braves, the National Education Association's "Read Across America" and the Georgia Association of Educators are partnering with Georgia Public Library Service for the 2013 Atlanta Braves Summer Reading Program, "Home Run Readers."
The new educational outreach program encourages students to build a love for reading as well as advance their reading skills during the summer. Home Run Readers rewards students in grades K-12 throughout Georgia by providing one free Braves ticket for each participant who reads at least one book about sports or good sportsmanship. Discounted tickets for accompanying family members and friends will be $7 each.
All-Star pitcher Tim Hudson and All-Star second baseman Dan Uggla will serve as Atlanta Braves ambassadors for the Home Run Readers program.
"We know that reading and literacy will provide a platform for success and the keen knowledge to make wise decisions not only in school, but throughout their entire lives," said Executive Vice President of the Atlanta Braves Derek Schiller. "The Atlanta Braves are proud to provide a reward for the hardworking kids in the state of Georgia."
Reward tickets can be redeemed for any of the five following games:
-- Sunday, June 30, vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
-- Tuesday, July 2, vs. Miami Marlins
-- Monday, July 29, vs. Colorado Rockies
-- Thursday, Aug. 1, vs. Colorado Rockies
-- Sunday, Aug. 11, vs. Miami Marlins
"We are extremely pleased and excited about this partnership and to be able to offer these wonderful reading incentives to young people and families across the state," said Lamar Veatch, Georgia's state librarian. "A program that encourages education while providing fun for the entire family is a true treasure. Home Run Reading and its related events will be excellent examples of our three organizations' joint commitment to every community in Georgia."
Additionally, the Braves will host GPLS days at Turner Field on three separate dates. GPLS and local library staff will be on hand to enable fans that don't already have a library card to sign up for one at the stadium. The GPLS Days are slated for June 30 against the Diamondbacks, Aug. 18 vs. the Nationals, and Sept. 15 as the Braves take on the San Diego Padres.
Home Run Readers is open to all Georgia students in grades K-12 and runs through Aug. 11. Program rules, a list of suggested titles, registration information and redemption forms are available online at www.braves.com/reading.
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Born Aubrey Drake Graham, the recording artist and actor was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is the son of drummer Dennis Graham and educator Sandi Graham. He grew up in the wealthy area of Forest Hill with his mother, after his parents divorced when he was 5 years old. Drake began his acting career in Degrassi: The Next Generation, playing basketball star Jimmy Brooks. In 2006 he launched his music career by releasing his first mixtape entitled 'Room for Improvement'. Three years later, his 'So Far Gone' mixtape led to both commercial and critical success. Due to this success, he released his debut album Thank Me Later the following year and has since sold over 5 million albums worldwide, winning a Grammy, six BET Awards, three Juno Awards and setting numerous US chart records. Drake is currently working on his fourth studio album, Views From The 6.


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Coming our way via developer Acquire and publisher XSEED, the official story details on Sumioni are as follows:
The world of Sumioni: Demon Arts is one of melancholy and anguish. Years prior to the game's opening, two evil men named Seimei and Fukujou successfully conspired to overthrow the Chancellor of Japan, Michisada, and his loyal aide, Tengan. But after this successful coup, Fukujou betrayed Seimei, attempting to steal all the glory for himself. Furious, Seimei invoked a forbidden incantation to unleash an ancient demonic energy, which he then used to do away with the traitor Fukujou and rule the land through intimidation, violence and fear. He kidnapped Michisada and his daughter to use in his twisted rituals, and threw the aide Tengan in prison on false charges. It seemed as if no one could stand in his way.
As time went on the land was driven further into despair by Seimei's relentless oppression. Tengan, now old and frail, decided something needed to be done. Having heard rumors of an ancient Inkdemon named Agura sealed away within the borders of his prison long ago, Tengan began to toy with the idea of releasing this creature into the world and sending it off to put an end to Seimei's tyranny. Despite the objections of his Inkgod companion, Shidou, Tengan gave his life to do this very thing, awakening a very confused and irritated Agura.
After a bit of coaxing, Agura finally agreed to help their cause and, along with another phoenix-like Inkgod named Yomihi, these unlikely heroes took off towards the capital to stop Seimei and the growing evil presence he had summoned years before.
In Sumioni: Demon Arts, players are given control of Agura on his quest to destroy Seimei and save Japan. Along the way platforms, strings of fire and jets of water can be drawn into existence at will on the PS Vita's touchscreen, and Agura's two Inkgod companions can each be summoned to perform massive, screen-filling attacks.
So, now that you know exactly WHY you'll be going about the game's 30 stages on a quest to experience as many of its multiple endings as you can, the question becomes – "Are you intrigued enough by Sumioni: Demon Arts on the PS Vita to check it out when it releases this spring?" The good news is that you have a little time before having to, uh, "draw" a conclusion.


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