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I have been inspired to install a helmet or bike cam -- still have not decided where to mount the device -- for several reasons.
- to serve as evidence in case of some weirdo event
- it would be cool to share some ride videos
- it would be useful for online cue sheets
Other than what I learned over the weekend, I really know little about this. So I'm interested in other opinions and experiences with these action cameras. If you have not seen these incidents, the video has proven helpful in some collisions or near collisions ...
I plan on starting with either a helmet or front mounted cam and potentially springing for a rear mounted camera. After a weekend of reading a few reviews, checking out some youtube videos, and looking at company websites, I'm thinking that picking up one of the following:
Tachyon XC Micro ... http://tinyurl.com/yk6bd7q
Drift X170 ... http://tinyurl.com/256a8v6
From what I gather, both are
- reasonably waterproof
- small and lightweight
- have memory capacity for several hours of video
- run on commercially replaceable batteries
- available through Amazon
- shockproof
- take decent video; although not HD
Some of the differences ...
- Tachyon uses AAA batteries while the Drift uses AA
- the Drift comes with an assortment of mounts
- the Drift has an LCD screen
- the Tachyon and Drift have 90 and 170 degree lenses respectively
- the Tachyon is $30 cheaper ($129 and 159)
Presumably, even though their reported weights are about the same, with the AAA batteries the Tachyon will be lighter than the Drift. I have not determined whether having a wider view with some distortion at the edges is better or worse. I believe both will work with Macs; but if anyone determines otherwise please let me know. The LCD screen is nice not only for reviewing video but checking to see whether the placement is appropriate.
As an aside, Jeff (bikesafer) the cyclist almost hit by the snow plow in the second link, uses older (and much cheaper) ATC2k cameras which are now less than $60. Looking at his video, however, the picture quality is bad enough such that picking out license plates and other fine details appears just about impossible.
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Ros-Lehtinen: End funding to OAS
Organization of American States main building in Washington
Miami Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen today tried to cut off U.S. funding to the Organization of American States because of its ``warm overtures'' to Cuba and ``knee-jerk support'' of leftist Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.
"The OAS is fast abandoning its founding mandate,'' said Ros-Lehtinen, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She said the group ``is losing credibility as an entity that stands for democratic institutions, human rights and the rule of law.''
"U.S. funds can be better spent elsewhere, where they can truly be used to advance the freedom agenda.''
The congresswoman introduced an amendment today that would transfer $15 million of U.S. funding for the OAS to the National Endowment for Democracy.
Ros-Lehtinen likes the endowment much better, partly because it supports dissidents and opposition leaders in Cuba.
The amendment reflects her long-standing dissatisfaction with world organizations that do not share her strident opposition to the Cuban regime and other Leftist governments and leaders.
The OAS -- backed by President Obama and nearly every other leader in the hemisphere -- has called for the reinstatement of Zelaya, who was ousted by a military coup in Honduras. Forcing out elected leaders is a violation of democracy, Obama contends.
To the delight of other members of the OAS, Obama also has tried to form a more open relationship with Cuba and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Ros-Lehtinen prefers the much more confrontational approach of past presidents, such as George W. Bush.

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Deputies: Man tied-up child, 4, with rope; watched violent video games
Deputies have arrested Heath Howe for reportedly tying up a four-year-old child with rope and then leaving the girl in the kitchen while he played what the child described as violent video games, according to a news release from the Sarasota County's Sheriff's Office.
The girl remained tied up in the kitchen until her mom and a friend came home from the gym.
But mommy did nothing to help the child, according to the report.
Mom's friend was the person who untied the little girl.
The rope left ligature marks on the girl's arms and red spots caused by a hemorrhage of blood vessels under the skin, the report states.
The 27-year-old Sarasota man was charged with one count of child abuse, according to records.
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Mad Decisions and Endless Runningemptyhaven | Oct. 17, 2014 | See all emptyhaven's reviews »
Too Many Me is an endless runner filled with too much of you. As its name implies, the character you control simply has too much of him running around for you to properly control all of them. And therein lies the beauty of the game. It makes you decide between crucial two crucial things: quality or quantity. On one hand, you have many clones ensuring survival in the end. On the other hand, you can get various powerups that should help make playing easier. Choosing is tricky too. Often your choices are presented in detriment of the other. What I mean is, if you pick one, often you miss the other. For example, there was one jump I had to make. There was also a powerup above the jump. If I jumped early, all my clones would have made it. If I jumped later, a good number of my clones would fall, but I would have gotten the powerup. There are moments like that, and it really makes each run a challenge, especially when things get faster and more frantic. This isn't for Steam, so there aren't any Steam achievements, obviously. But that's just really a minor thing you can live without. The game itself is more than enough fun to play as it is.
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One of the best "autorunners" I've ever played. You have to collect stars and stay alive. Best thing is that you can clone yourself. Really funny game to play. Graphics are good and even low-end computers can run it. Music is just fantastic.
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Too Many Me is exactly what you think it is. Great fun. Just as the title suggests, you control a lot of clones of the same character. Now, this is always fun to platform around a classy-looking, 2D environment designed with all those platforming obstacles you know : gaps, traps, unstable tiles. You can make use of your clones in order to proceed further, and here and there you will, willingly or unwillingly, kill them all with a missed jump or land with some straight into a spinning saw. Fun ! The level design is great and the backdrops are quite diverse, you you won't really get bored. The graphic style is minimal, but suits the game's purpose perfectly, as does the soundtrack. In conclusion, if you want to enjoy a game that does not take itself all too seriously, this is a great way to do just that !


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Pushing beyond the brutal exterior of his material, Mackenzie reveals the tender story of estrangement beneath, but never forces the sentimentality.
Intentionally obtuse in its closing scenes, the movie doesn't quite manage to pull off the comeuppance promised by the initial semblance of an eerie presence in the finale.
A loud, visually assaultive assemblage of genre tropes as technically accomplished as it is difficult to watch, "The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears" has plenty to impress while simultaneously offering so little.
"Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon," the directorial debut of Mike Myers, is a vaudeville celebrity remembrance of mega-manager Shep Gordon by stars who might have starved without Gordon's help.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — University of Missouri economists estimate about $85 million in potential crop value lost from blowing out the Birds Point levee on the Mississippi River.
The university's Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute said Monday that the economic loss climbs to about $156.7 million when other economic changes are factored in. FAPRI estimated current-year plantings and potential yields based on U.S. Department of Agriculture records.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blew up the Birds Point levee last month to reduce the flooding threat to Cairo, Ill. The levee breach flooded 130,000 acres and damaged or destroyed houses in southeastern Missouri.
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After surgery(June)my doctor said i have symmastia so I wore the thongbra.Now standing upright it's perfect but if my breasts are getting lift up the skin is too and looks like I have uniboob.However the implants are staying in their place it's my skin causing the problem.Going submuscular won't tighten my skin and may still lift up whenever my breasts do.My only choice is to tighten up my skin tissue.But most methoods are firming only the top layers of the skin,not the tissue itself.Any advice?
I Don't Have Symmastia but Still Looks Like Uniboob. Any Method to Restore my Skin Tissue? (photo)
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You are absolutely right, your breasts look great when you stand upright! However, they are coming together and lifting the skin off of your sternum when you lean forward. Unfortunately, this is symmastia and it's correction will require more than a non-surgical technique like skin tightening (BTW, your skin is tight enough there, and couldn't be tighter.)
Regardless of the placement of your implants above or below the muscle, there are a few good options for surgical correction. Revision breast surgery is complicated and should be performed by very experienced surgeons. Be sure yours has experience, otherwise do yourself a favor and find someone who does.
I think you should be able to resolve this issue and have a great result.
Best of luck!
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Yes it can be fixed. It will require surgery. Either "taching sutures" or placing the implants under the muscle is required. Most plastic surgeons don't see this often as it is an infrequent problem so talk to your surgeon or find someone with lots of breast experience.
How best to treat synmastia
It appears by your photos that the best treatment for you would be to change to a sub-muscular augmentation but the pocket overlying the breast bone needs to be repaired or sutured down. You would need to wear your thong bra again while you healed but other than trying to repair the sub-glandular pocket where they are right now. There is no replacement for an in-person physical exam though. I hope this helps.
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Symmastia correction
It sounds like your implants are on top of your muscle. That's good news, since putting your implants under the muscle will likely correct the problem. If surgery is done on the current pocket instead (whether on top or under the muscle), there are more surgical maneuvers that need to be done, and the rate of success a bit lower. Although I have tried percutaneous technique with some success, I agree with the others that you are looking at having another surgery. "Tightening" the skin is not what the surgery does, however.
Thanks for the photos. The correct diagnosis is symmastia. There are no conservative non-surgical methods to correct the problem. Tighening the skin will not help. The pocket around the implants are communicating and need to be adjusted (revised)
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Judging by your photos, I think your doctor was correct, you do have symastia. The most reliable way to address this problem is to wait until you are completely healed from the first operation and then create a new submuscular pocket just below the original pocket but father from the midline in order to not have the recur. I do not know of any reliable non surgical method of correcting this problem.
Thank you for your question and for the photos, best of luck.
Synmastia correction
Symmastia Problem
By definition, you do have "breasts together and need to have a separation either by using your own tissue,adding alloderm skin replacement or in addition put implants below the muscle. This must be done by an expert because it tends to reoccur.
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According to reports, Vartanian was pronounced dead after being taken to a nearby hospital.
CBS News reported that speed as well as a road slick from drizzle is believed to have been a factor in the accident.
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Sascha's 527 on Charles Street is expanding
Sascha's 527 is adding a bar to its restaurant.
Customers of the Charles Street restaurant have long known a set-up that includes a lunch menu friendly to nearby office workers, and a salad bar afterward.
But owner Sascha Wolhandler is transforming the salad bar into just a bar after the lunch hour.
"We'll be like a bipolar restaurant," she says. "When lunch ends, the sneeze guard comes down, the chairs come out, and the lights go down. And we become a bar."
Wolhandler calls it the copper bar, but the lunch-hour turnaround makes it sound more like Mt. Vernon's new speakeasy.
Wolhandler says the change to a dual-purpose property came about because the bar they had for ten years - a tiny one at the back - was getting too crowded.
"At ten years, we wanted to reinvent all those things about Sascha's," she says.
She wouldn't discuss exact figures, but she says they didn't spend a fortune.
At the new bar, they can sit 16 people, and still offer the same dinner menu they were already offering. The kitchen will stay open until 10 p.m. weekdays, and until 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
The bar offers a dozen bottled beers starting at $3.50 each, ten red wines by the glass and eight white wines by the glass. At their happy hour - lasting two hours, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. - all taste plates are discounted at 50 percent, glasses of wine are $2-off, and all bottled beer is $4.
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"Beltran will be a free agent after this season upon completion of his seven-year, $119 million deal with the Mets. Beltran has a full no-trade clause and was asked if he would waive it to join Boston. "They're in first place," he said. "That's a no-brainer." Red Sox sources, however, said they won't have much money to spend this summer in order to upgrade the roster. Beltran is owed more than $6 million during the second half of the season. The outfielder is hitting .285/.377/.503 with 13 homers and 58 RBI in 377 plate appearances. He leads the league with 28 doubles."
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Of course I am sure. I done this myself. I am back to Moto stock firmware. I tried GPE but HDR mode was missing in the camera app.
and no Audio Effects (DSP Manager). But it is possible to go back to 4.4.2 from 4.4.4 but you have to skip the motoboot image file. that is the bootloader. you cant downgrade the bootloader.
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Eighteen "bundlers" from Washington state have helped raise $4.2 million for President Obama's re-election.
Even as he visited Seattle for two more fundraisers Tuesday, records show President Obama's re-election campaign already has received plenty of help from high-powered campaign cash "bundlers" in Washington state.
Of the president's 638 national bundlers, 18 are from Washington, according to an updated list disclosed by the Obama campaign.
That's already more than double the eight Washington bundlers relied on by the Obama campaign in 2008.
The bundlers are volunteers, frequently wealthy and politically connected, who collect donations from others on behalf of the campaign. The Obama bundlers are credited with raising at least $50,000 to help re-elect the president — and more than $500,000 in the case of the top-tier fundraisers.
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They sometimes are rewarded with invitations to White House dinners or even patronage appointments.
Obama's 18 local bundlers this year have been credited with raising at least $4.2 million for the Obama campaign and a related Democratic National Committee fund.
They include Microsoft leaders and business executives, attorneys and nonprofit consultants, all from the Seattle area.
The top local bundlers, who have raised at least $500,000 each, are John Frank, vice president and deputy general counsel for Microsoft; Lou Frillman, an investment company executive, and his wife, Carol; Suzi LeVine, a former Microsoft marketer; and Michael Parham, associate general counsel for RealNetworks.
Other notables include philanthropist Susan Brotman, the wife of Costco co-founder Jeff Brotman, who has raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama; former Microsoft President Jon Shirley, who has raised between $100,000 and $200,000; and Rion Ramirez, general counsel for the Suquamish Tribe's economic development agency, credited with raising between $200,000 and $500,000.
Republican Mitt Romney, meanwhile, has refused to disclose his full list of campaign bundlers, despite repeated requests from campaign watchdog groups, including the Center for Responsive Politics.
Romney instead has disclosed only a much smaller list of registered federal lobbyists — none from Washington state — who have bundled contributions for him, as required by Federal Election Commission rules.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton's argument that she is the better Democrat to take on Republican John McCain in the general election got a boost today from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Surveys in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania – crucial swing states – show Clinton beating McCain in all three. McCain would beat Sen. Barack Obama in Florida, if the election were held now, Obama would edge out McCain in Pennsylvania and they are dead even in Ohio.
The poll also shows Clinton with a 50-41 percent lead over Obama in Pennsylvania among likely Democratic primary voters. An earlier poll put Clinton's lead at 53-41 percent.
"When it comes to November, Sen. Hillary Clinton's strength is a big edge over Sen. Barack Obama among white voters, who have not given a majority of their votes to a Democratic presidential nominee since Lyndon Johnson in 1964," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the polling institute.
The Pennsylvania primary vote splits along racial lines, with Clinton leading among white voters and Obama leading among black voters. Clinton holds a 59-34 percent lead among white Pennsylvania voters who are likely to participate in the primary, while Obama leads 73-11 percent among black Democrats likely to vote in the primary.
For the general election, the survey shows that Clinton would edge out McCain 44-42 percent in Florida and McCain would beat Obama, 46-37 percent there.
In Ohio, Clinton would beat McCain 48-39 percent, while Obama would narrowly beat McCain 43-42 percent.
And in Pennsylvania, Clinton would beat McCain by 48-40 percent if the election were held today, while Obama would beat him by 43-39 percent.
"At least for now, Sen. Clinton's argument that she is the better general election candidate in these key battleground states appears to have some validity," said Brown. "In this survey, her strength among white voters is why she runs better against Sen. McCain than does Sen. Obama."


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Plant and enjoy, I'm sure they will soon catch up and you will have many blooms. At the end of the season why not allow some of them to drop their seeds----an autumn sowing.!
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Dr. Nelida Fuccaro specialises in the history of the modern Middle East with a focus on the Arab World and its frontier societies, particularly Iraq, Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, Kurdistan and Iran. She is the author of The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq (IB Tauris 1999), Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf: Manama since 1800 (Cambridge University Press 2009); editor of Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East (thematic issue in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2013) and Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East (forthcoming); and co-editor of Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State (Berghahn, 2015). She has also published articles on ethnicity, nationalism, colonial knowledge and port cities. Although a regional specialist Dr. Fuccaro has a keen interest in cross-regional and inter-disciplinary approaches to the study of modern Middle Eastern history and has been the recipient of several grants for international collaborative research. Between 2011 and 2014 she has led an international project on the history of public violence in modern Middle Eastern cities sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain
Previous Mphil and PhD Students
Lauren Banko, 'The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship: Discourse and Practices, 1918-1937', 2013 PhD
Tammy Elmansoury, 'Spirituality, Islam and the State: the Origins and Disavowal of Sufism in the Ikhwan al-Muslimin' 2012 MPhil
Roberto Mazza, 'Jerusalem In The First World War: Transitions From Ottoman To British Rule', 2008 PhD
Johan Franzen, 'The Power Of Ideas: Communism, Iraqism And Pan-Arabism In The Ideological Formation Of The Iraqi Communist Party, 1958-1979', 2009 PhD
Vivian Ibrahim, 'Modernisation, Community And State: Coptic Mobilisation In Egypt, 1882-1954', 2009 PhD
Farah Al-Nakib, 'Kuwait City: Urbanisation, the Built Environment and the Urban Experience Before and After Oil (1716-1986)', 2011 PhD
PhD Students under supervision
Louis Allday, 'British Cultural Propaganda in the Persian Gulf 1934-1971'
Talal Al-Rashoud, 'Modern Education and the Emergence of Arab Nationalism in Kuwait and the Gulf 1911-1971'
Fadi Dawood, 'The Making of a Warrior Race in Iraq: The Case of the Assyrians'
Matthias Freidank, 'British Colonialism and Urban Violence in Mandatory Palestine, 1922-48'
Jacques Rouyer Guillet, 'The Evolution of Domestic Consumer Culture in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1909-1969'
Nada Saliba, 'The Urban History of Tripoli (Lebanon) During the French Mandate, 1920 – 1943'
Programmes Convened
- MA Historical Research Methods and Intensive Language
- MA History
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- MA in Historical Research Methods
Courses Taught
- H130 Introduction to the History of the Near and Middle East
- H248 The Making of the Modern Middle East
- Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle East I
- Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle East II
PhD Students supervised
- Fadi Dawood, Makings of a Warrior Race in Iraq: The Case of the Assyrians
- Jacques Rouyer Guillet, The Evolution of Consumer Culture in the Families of Jaffa between 1920 and 1967
- Louis Allday, Cultural Propaganda in Britain's Informal Empire: The British Council in the Persian Gulf c. 1939 - 1971.
- Nada Saliba, The Urban History of Tripoli (Lebanon) During the French Mandate, 1920 - 1943.
My recent and current work on public violence and oil cities in the modern Middle East reflects my long-standing interest in the history of urban spaces and societies which has been informed by comparative approaches and theoretical insights from disciplines such as urban studies and anthropology. Sponsored by an AHRC international collaborative grant and by a number of research networks on petro-urbanism, my own research has explored the impact of the development of the oil industry on urban development, violent unrest and consumer cultures in twentieth-century Kirkuk and Manama. I have also edited two volumes which bring together original case studies on violence in the cities of the Arab World, Turkey and Iran, and a thematic collection of essays on oil in urban modernity in the modern Middle East. I am also working on a new research project on the social and cultural history of the oil industry in Iraq and of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf before 1973 which looks at its role in the production of new urban lifestyles, political cultures and knowledge.
- 2011-2014 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and DFG (Deutsche Forschungemeinschaft), International Collaborative Research Grant for the project 'Urban Violence in the Middle East: between Empire and Nation State'.
- 2003-2006 Social Science Research Council (New York), International Collaborative Research Grant for the project 'The City and the Public Sphere in the Middle East: Lebanon, Egypt and the Arab States of the Persian Gulf'.
- 2003 British Academy Small Grant for the project 'Urban Space and Politics in Bahrain, 1783-1970'.
- 2002 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for the project 'Urban Space and Politics in Bahrain'.
- 1999 Arts and Humanities Research Board Small Grant 'Urban Space, City Networks and State Formation in 19th/20th century Manama'.
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Authored Books
Fuccaro, Nelida (2011) Öteki Kürtler. Sömürge Irak'inda Yazidiler (Turkish translation of The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq). Istanbul: Boğaziçi Gösteri Sanatları Topluluğu.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2009) Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf: Manama since 1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Paperback edition, 2011). (Cambridge Middle East Studies)
Fuccaro, Nelida (1999) The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq. London: IB Tauris.
Fuccaro, Nelida Urban Violence in the Modern Middle: From the Imperial Age to the Arab Spring. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)
Edited Books or Journal Volumes
Fuccaro, Nelida, ed. (2016) Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (In Press)
Fuccaro, Nelida and Freitag , Ulrike and Ghrawi, Claudia and Lafi, Nora, eds. (2015) Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State. Oxford; New York: Berghahn.
Fuccaro, Nelida, ed. (2015) The Middle East in London / Iraq: People and Heritage. London: The London Middle East Institute .
Fuccaro, Nelida and Hakimian, Hassan, eds. (2014) The Middle East in London / Oil - Past, Present and Future. The London Middle East Institute, SOAS.
Fuccaro, Nelida, ed. (2013) Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in the Middle East. Thematic issue in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 33/1, 2013.
Book Chapters
Fuccaro, Nelida (2016) 'Urban Life and Questions of Violence.' In: Fuccaro, Nelida, (ed.), Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (In Press)
Fuccaro, Nelida (2016) 'Dissecting Public Unrest: Moments of Violence in Twenty- Century Kirkuk.' In: Fuccaro, Nelida, (ed.), Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (In Press)
Fuccaro, Nelida (2015) 'Knowledge at the Service of the British Empire: The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia.' In: Brandell, Inga and Carlson, Maria and Cetrez, Önver, (eds.), Borders and the Changing Boundaries of Knowledge. Istanbul: Swedish Research Institute, pp. 18-34. (Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul Transactions, Vol. 22) (In Press)
Fuccaro, Nelida (2015) 'Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation.' In: Fuccaro, Nelida and Freitag, Ulrike and Ghrawi, Claudia and Lafi , Nora, (eds.), Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State. Oxford; New York: Berghahn, pp. 222-242.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2014) 'Rethinking the History of Port Cities in the Gulf.' In: Potter, Lawrence G., (ed.), The Persian Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan , pp. 23-46.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2011) 'The Ottoman Frontier in Kurdistan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.' In: Woodhead, Christine, (ed.), The Ottoman World. London: Routledge, pp. 237-250. (Routledge Worlds)
Fuccaro, Nelida (2010) 'Pearl Towns and early Oil Cities: Migration and Integration in the Arab Coast of the Persian Gulf.' In: Freitag, Ulrike and Furhmann, Malte and Lafi, Nora and Riedler, Florian, (eds.), Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond. London: Routledge, pp. 99-116.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2008) 'Between imara, empire and oil: Saudis in the frontier society of the Persian Gulf.' In: Al-Rasheed, M., (ed.), Kingdom without Borders: Saudi Political, Religious and Media Frontiers. London: Hurst, pp. 39-64.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2005) 'Mapping the Transnational Community: Persians and the Space of the City in Bahrain, c. 1869-1937.' In: Al-Rasheed, M., (ed.), Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf. Routledge, pp. 39-58.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2004) 'Minorities and Ethnic Mobilisation: The Kurds in Northern Iraq and Syria.' In: Meouchy, N. and Sluggett, P., (eds.), The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspectives. Brill, pp. 579-595.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2002) 'Tunisia in the British Archives: the Public Record Office.' In: Temimi, A and M.S.Omri, , (eds.), Tunisia in the British Archives: the Public Record Office. Foundation Temimi pour la Recherche Scientifique et l'Information, Zaghouan (Tunisia), pp. 97-103.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2002) 'Kurds and Kurdish Nationalism in Mandatory Syria: Politics, Culture and Identity.' In: Vali, A., (ed.), Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism. Costa Mesa, US: Mazda, pp. 191-217.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2002) 'Tribes, Religions and State in Early Modern Iraq: the case of the Yazidi Kurds.' In: F.A.Jabar, and H.Dawood, , (eds.), Tribes and Power: Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Middle East. SAQI (London).
Fuccaro, Nelida (1997) 'Die Kurden Syriens: Anfänge der nationalen Mobilisierung unter französischen Herrschaft.' In: Borck, C. and Savelsberg, A. and Hajo, S., (eds.), Ethnizität, Nationalismus, Religion und Politik in Kurdistan. Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 64-70.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2013) 'Shaping the Urban Life of Oil in Bahrain; Consumerism, Leisure and Public Communication in Manama and in the Oil camps, 1932-1960s.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 33 (1). pp. 59-74.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2013) 'Urban Studies in the Arabian Peninsula: Six Thoughts on the Field.' Arabian Humanities (2).
Fuccaro, Nelida (2010) 'The Making of Gulf Ports Before Oil.' Liwa. Journal of the National Centre for Documentation and Research, 2 (3). pp. 19-32.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2004) 'Indigenous State Traditions and Urbanism in the Islands of Bahrain, 1602-1932.' Eurasian Studies, 3 (2). pp. 245-63.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2003) 'Ethnicity and the City: the Kurdish Quarter of Damascus between Ottoman and French Rule, c. 1724-1946.' Urban History, 30 (2). pp. 206-224.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2002) 'The Cities in the Gulf: a Challenge to Modernity?' Eurorient, Specia . pp. 64-70.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2001) 'Urban Studies of the Gulf: Visions of the City.' Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, vol. 3 . pp. 175-188.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2000) 'Understanding the Urban History of Bahrain.' Journal of Critical Studies of the Middle East (Critique), 17/2 . pp. 49-81.
Fuccaro, Nelida (1999) 'Islam and Urban Space: Ma'tams in Bahrain before Oil.' Newsletter of the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), 3 . p. 12.
Fuccaro, Nelida (1999) 'Communalism and the State in Iraq: the Yazidi Kurds (c. 1869-1940).' Middle Eastern Studies, 35 (2). pp. 1-26.
Fuccaro, Nelida (1998) 'The Kurds of Syria (in Kurdish).' Havibun, 2 (3). pp. 74-99.
Fuccaro, Nelida (1997) 'Ethnicity, State Formation and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: the Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 29 (4). pp. 559-580.
Fuccaro, Nelida (1995) 'The Kurds of Jabal Sinjar (in Arabic).' al-Thaqafah al-Jadidah, 265 (8-9). pp. 89-100.
Fuccaro, Nelida (1993) 'A 17th century travel account on the Yazidis: implications for a socio-religious history.' Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 53 (3). pp. 241-253.
Book Reviews
Fuccaro, Nelida (2014) 'Review of Enemy on the Euphrates: the British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt, 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge.' BBC History Magazine, 15 (9). pp. 70-71.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2012) 'Review of The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone by Janet Klein.' Middle Eastern Studies, 48 (3). pp. 483-485.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2012) 'Review of 'The Persian Gulf in History' by Lawrence G. Potter.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 75 (2). pp. 395-396.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2011) 'Review of Eugene Rogan,'The Arabs: A History'.' BBC History Magazine, 12 (5). p. 71.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2011) 'Review of Yasser Elsheshtawy (ed.), 'Planning Middle Eastern Cities. An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalising World' Planning Middle Eastern Cities. An urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalising World. London: Routledge, 2004, 210pp.' Urban history, 38 (1). pp. 203-204.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2010) 'Review of Peter Sluglett ed., 'The Urban Social History of the Middle East 1750-1950'.' The Middle East Journal, 64 (3). pp. 499-500.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2010) 'Review of 'Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa' by Jonathan Miran.' The American Historical Review, 115 (5). pp. 1558-1559.
Fuccaro, Nelida (2009) 'The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj. Merchants, Rulers and British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf.' Reviews in History .
Fuccaro, Nelida (2009) 'Review of 'A Companion to the History of the Modern Middle East' edited by Youssef Choueiri.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 72 (2). pp. 396-397.


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October 15, 2009
Two African cardinals attending a meeting at the Vatican to address the role of the Catholic Church in Africa "said their countries needed economic development partnerships that are based on trust and fairness, not ones that exploit Africa's natural resources and put conditions on aid," the Associated Press reports. Cardinals Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar, Senegal, and Wilfred Fox Napier of Durban, South Africa, "denounced 'hidden' agendas of international aid groups and countries that promote abortion rights and condoms to fight HIV, saying the West was trying to impose its views on Africa," the AP writes. Against abortion and artificial contraception, the Vatican "has come under heavy criticism for its opposition to condoms as a way of fighting HIV, particularly in hard-hit Africa" (10/14).
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Palm Beach County agrees to close sexual offender residency loophole
Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday agreed to close a loophole that threatened to allow out-of-state sex offenders to move in and avoid local residency restrictions.
The county since 2006 has imposed limits on where sexual offenders can live to try to keep them away from children. But the Sheriff's Office contends that the wording of the county rule enables sexual offenders convicted out of state to avoid the county's rules.
On Tuesday, the County Commission voted to change county codes to insure that that sexual offender residency restrictions also apply to those convicted in other states and jurisdictions.
The commission on Nov. 15 takes the final vote on the proposed change.
The current county law forbids sexual offenders from living within 2,500 feet of any school, school bus stop, day care center, park playground or other place "children regularly congregate."
That covers areas outside city limits and mirrors residency prohibitions for sexual offenders in municipalities from Boca Raton to Wellington.
Sexual offenders have to register with the sheriff's office when they move and it's the sheriff's office that enforces the residency rules.
Punishments for breaking the county's residency rules include $500 fines, 60 days in jail and also potential violations of probation, which can mean longer jail time.
State law still sets residency restrictions for sexual offenders convicted outside of Florida, but it is less restrictive, requiring them to stay 1,000 feet away from restricted areas, according to the Sheriff's Office.
"If the code is not changed to include offenders not convicted in Florida, those individuals are only subject to the 1,000 feet restriction under state law," Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera said.
Palm Beach County has more than 900 registered sexual offenders, without about 50 joining the list each year, according to the Sheriff's Office.


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had onset of confusion that led to his admission to our emergency department.
We did not imply that camphor intoxication explained all signs and symptoms
of the patient. We agree that there is no known association of hyponatremia
and camphor intoxication. The probable cause of hyponatremia was the gastrointestinal
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mental status, although the confusion was temporally associated with the coin
rubbing. At admission vomiting and diarrhea were no longer present. While
we asserted that the elevated liver enzymes were caused by camphor intoxication,
more importantly, they cannot be attributed to hyponatremia.
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All graduate students completing a Plan A (Master's Thesis) or a Plan C (Creative Project) as part of a culminating experience degree requirement must deposit their thesis with the Office of Graduate Studies & Research (GS&R). Upon approval by your thesis committee, your thesis manuscript is reviewed by our office and processed for publication. GS&R assures that all formatting requirements for publication have been met and that your thesis meets the quality standards established by the SJSU Thesis Guidelines (pdf) before the final version is uploaded to an online ETD administrator that is used for delivering the thesis to the external publisher, ProQuest, and to the SJSU library.
Below is a brief description of the Plan A and Plan C culminating experience options. For more information on other culminating experience options and general graduation requirements, please visit our sister website Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluations (GAPE).
Plan A - Thesis
This plan requires selection and approval (by your advisor and/or a thesis committee) of a thesis topic, and its successful completion and publication. Students must register for their departmental 299 course. The thesis will not only be reviewed by your department committee for content but it will also be reviewed by GS&R to ensure that the document follows the university's thesis guidelines. Because of this, the process for completing and submitting a thesis is an intensive one that requires students to follow strict deadlines and requirements.
Plan C - Creative Project
This plan is reserved for cases in which the final requirement is met through a special creative assignment. A creative assignment may include original paintings, dramatic presentations, motion picture productions, works of sculpture, and similar items. The student is required to submit a written report to the GS&R on the creative project following the same formatting guidelines as a regular thesis. Plan C also requires registration in a departmental 299 course.
Students should check with their department to determine whether or not their work is considered a creative project or a thesis.
Preliminary Requirements
Students submitting their thesis to GS&R are expected to have applied for graduation and completed all the necessary steps towards completion of their degree. Information on the steps for completing a master's degree and other relevant deadlines can be found on the GAPE website. The thesis must be submitted for review to GS&R in the semester that you intend to graduate.
Reviewing the procedures and the SJSU Thesis Guidelines (pdf) in advance can save time and help avoid stress, especially for candidates who are completing their thesis, moving, applying for or beginning new jobs at virtually the same time. The most important thing you can do to make the thesis process go smoothly is to take time as soon as possible to learn about requirements, mark deadlines on your calendar, and be realistic about the amount of time you will need. You may submit your thesis up to a month in advance of the posted deadline.
Criterion Software Use for Editing
San Jose State has at its disposal an online electronic editing service, called Criterion, to which students have access at no cost. Papers can be downloaded on a website, at which point a text editor quickly produces an on-screen read-out with various kinds of writing errors identified. GS&R has invented a course – GSR290E (GSR Editing) – with the access code PD28-ZFY8 for your use.
Access to the Editor. To gain access to this service, go to the eCampus page of the Academic Technology website at http://www.sjsu.edu/at/ec/ and follow the following prompts for first-time registration. Under Teaching Tools on the left side of the page, select Criterion. On the Criterion page, select Student Guide for Criterion. If you later have difficulties with any part of this process, you may select Need Help? Send a Ticket on the rightmost Navigation menu and fill out a "help ticket." When you follow the link for the Student Guide, a complete explanation of the login process for new users and returning users appears. For the first time, copy and paste the URL given (https://criterion.ets.org), Create Account, and fill in the fields including that for the access code: PD28-ZFY8. Then press Submit. Any subsequent time, start at this page (https://criterion.ets.org) rather than at the eCampus page, and simply Sign In with the use name and password you identified when you created the account.
Activating the Editor. At this point (login), a page should open with the GSREditing class shown under Classes. Click on the class and then on Assignments. Select Start Response. To enter text for editing, copy and paste from a Word document in the window at the bottom of the page. Press Response to see the analysis of writing. A dark blue header indicates the errors identified under Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, and Style. Each of those opens into a set of specific errors. Clicking on the ones with numbers in parentheses takes you to the text box below in which the error is highlighted. Passing the mouse over the highlighted text produces an explanation for the error. You must then decide whether the editor is correct so that you would change your original thesis or project writeup. To make a change, click on Revise at the bottom. With each submission, you can view the analysis under Response as you did before. Ultimately, you would copy and paste the corrected version back into your original document.
Editing Accuracy. The editor is imperfect. It misses some errors. Most of the errors it positively identifies though are indeed errors. However, one must use discretion in all cases. For example, it struggles with headers and titles, where it often calls them incomplete sentences or lacking in ending punctuation. Do not take these corrections as a way to make your paper flawless, but they can help to improve your paper if you use good judgment in choosing the suggestions to accept.


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UIT Educational & Scholarly Technology Services (ESTS) is a university-wide service organization supporting innovation and meaningful integration of technology for clients engaged in teaching, learning, and collaboration across diverse academic contexts at Tufts and beyond.
Projects Highlights & New Service Offerings from ESTS:
- Production rollout of Trunk service Phase 1 for the University, including platform and coordinated service and support model, course sites for A&S, SoE, The Fletcher School, and Friedman; and project sites that are self-provisioning for the full Tufts community with support of Trunk Implementation Steering Committee (http://trunk.tufts.edu).
- ~11,000 unique Trunk users thus far, including 1340 instructors
- 2025 published course sites in year 1
- project sites used by ~680 groups thus far, including Interdisciplinary Research Collaborative facilitated by OVP
- Trunk Tips newsletters
- Trunk enhancements during first year of production:
- Student Photos
- Trunk Mobile v.1
- WIRIS math editor
- first major version upgrade to Sakai 2.8
- i>clicker integration – Find instructor guide for Trunk i>clicker integration: http://sites.tufts.edu/teachtufts/educational-technologies/crs/clickers/
- Continuous enhancement to Trunk Support site based on faculty and student questions and suggestions
- Trunk Phase 2 implementation projects:
- Friedman School migration from ANGEL (complete)
- Online Course Evaluations underway for Fall 2012
- Completion and successful launch of Academic Integrity Tutorial
- iTunes U service for Tufts launched (http://go.tufts.edu/itunesu)
- VUE hits 161,000 registered users globally. We've provided support to developers to enable two active forks of VUE – one at Imperial College, London, in production now; the other at North Texas (http://vue.tufts.edu).
- Implementing Sakai-based ePortfolio service version 1 for the community (http://sites.tufts.edu/ests/projects/e-portfolios-for-tufts-university/)
- Dental School ePortfolio pilot (mid-pilot now, going well)
- Strong interest from across academic programs at Tufts University
- Working now through December to implement in production and to define a sustainable, expandable ePortfolio service model
- Tufts is institutional host for the AAEEBL ePortfolio Annual Conference in Boston this July
- Helping to launch and further adoption of the Open GeoPortal at more than 10 other universities
- Completed upgrade of Spark WordPress
- Active participation in IT Integrated Service Experience for Medford Campus project, including participation on AT Services, Client Support, and Infrastructure & Systems working groups.
- Active participation on IT Website Redesign project, including facilitation of UCD activities.
- Contribution to selection of Modo Labs' Kurogo Framework as part of UIT Mobile project
- Contribution to Research Administration System technical evaluation and selection process
- Contributed to the Gay Dads Study through system hosting, application design consultation, and security review
- Contribution to several grant proposals, including Textus grant involving VUE, NEH and Bamboo grant proposals for digital humanities projects, etc.
Faculty Development: Networking & Learning Opportunities:
- Teaching with Technology Awards Program and expanded faculty development programming through two-day Teaching with Technology Symposium and year-round workshops (http://sites.tufts.edu/ests/projects/teaching-with-technology-symposium-awards-program/)
- Teaching @ Tufts resource site launched for the university in partnership with the Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching (CELT) (http://sites.tufts.edu/teachtufts/)
- Planning committee for 25th University-wide Teaching Conference on ""Classrooms without Borders: Extending the Classroom Experience"
- Engaging Students in the Classroom – the 2012 Veterinary Medicine Mini Symposium, Friday, March 16 http://sites.tufts.edu/vetsymp12
- More than 600 instructors have participated in Trunk workshops and open labs focused on setting up their course and project sites and using advanced Trunk features
- Hosted expert peer institution presenters to educate Tufts ePortfolio Community of Practice (Darren Cambridge of the Institute for Advanced Research, Teggin Summers and Marc Zaldivar of Virginia Tech)
- Two issues of TLR Innovations published (http://go.tufts.edu/tlr)
- AT Fellows Program: M-F 9-5 drop-in consulting hours and online support during the academic year at the Digital Design Studio, Tisch Library, to help faculty use technology in their teaching
- "Afternoon Teas" for faculty, jointly facilitated and sponsored by CELT and ESTS, focused on major topics of interest to university faculty, including teaching with technology, how to foster discussion/engagement in large classes, and how to work with students who are diverse in many ways
- UIT Forum brown bags: "Tufts Students Respond" (ECAR Study of Undergraduates and IT), "Searching for Context: Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age," etc.
Library Collaborations:
- TDL Redesign and transition to Hydra framework in partnership with Digital Collections & Archives
- Convened and facilitated the Digital Asset Management (DAM) working group, comprised of colleagues from DCA, ESTS, RGTS, Tisch Library, Webster Library, and ULTS, in order to articulate a strategic approach to managing the burgeoning Tufts digital collections needs across the areas of teaching, learning, research, and preservation. Strategy proposal reviewed by IT Advisory Council and University Library Council. DAM group sponsoring affinity group demos and discussions around related technologies such as Hydra, Dataverse, etc.
- Participation on Next Generation Search & Discovery Task Force
- Active participation in University Library Council, including planning based on the Digital Asset Management strategy proposal and complementary Next Generation Search & Discovery report, and initiation of overall library and library leadership planning process
- UIT and Libraries partnered to connect Tufts with the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) initiative.
- Participation on Scholarly Communications Team
Distance and Blended Learning:
- sponsored and facilitated diverse experiments in distance/blended learning and global connection via "Islam on the Indian Ocean Rim," History of Science connection with Notre Dame, Trunk used as platform for 13 online courses
- continued ESTS co-leadership of Tufts Distance Learning Consortium (TDLC)
- education for faculty via the University Teaching Conference, faculty meetings, etc., and continued sponsorship of SLOAN-C membership as resource for Tufts
- continued strategic planning for central Tufts distance/blended learning support services
Tufts Service & Continuous Improvement:
ESTS staff participate actively on Tufts University committees and projects and facilitate multiple community of interest groups.
- continued representation on University Committee on Teaching & Faculty Development (UCTFD), including review of Tufts Innovates! proposals and support for successful projects, review of Open Access Fund proposals and recommendations from Scholarly Communications Team
- Participation in Tufts NEASC Re-accreditation process in preparation for 2013:
- Participated on NEASC Chapter 7 Working Group – "Libraries and Other Information Resources"
- Contributed to NEASC Chapter on "Students" at chair's request to include ePortfolio information in support of learning outcomes assessment at Tufts
- Contributing to President Monaco's interdisciplinary group on Graduate Education chaired by Lynne Pepall
- Participate on TLHS Steering Committee and continued planning for "Phase 3" of Trunk project, integration of essential TUSK functionality with Sakai-based university platform, planning sessions at NYU and in Austin, TX, with Sakai Foundation and peer institutions to determine whether development partnership is desirable/viable.
- co-chair IT Leaders Forum (ITLF)
- co-chair Faculty Development Affinity Group with CELT – beginning to build university-wide faculty development calendar
- chair Programmers Affinity Group
- chair User-Centered Design Affinity Group
- Participate on Mobile Affinity Group
- ESTS leadership team helped to make significant progress towards UIT Career Ladders
- Successfully filled key open positions: Senior Educational Technology Specialist, Interactive Media Designer, Senior Software Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator – LMS
Staff Presentations/Service beyond Tufts:
Members of ESTS share exemplary Tufts projects and professional best practices with colleagues in the broader professional community and serve in various leadership capacities within professional organizations.
- Multiple staff organized several regional events through NERCOMP: "Facilitating Complex Institution-wide Projects," SIG "Usability on a Shoestring" SIG, Development Tools SIG, etc.
- Multiple staff also presented at regional and national events: Course Evaluations at Sakai annual conference, LMS migration at NERCOMP SIG, etc.
- Chair NERCOMP Board of Trustees Nominating Committee
- Participation on international Teaching with Sakai Innovation Awards Selection Committee
- NERCOMP Institutional Representative for NERCOMP


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Q3 2012 Earnings Call
October 17, 2012 5:00 pm ET
Tom Hudson
John J. Donahoe - Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Interim President of Paypal
Robert H. Swan - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance
Heath P. Terry - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division
Sanjay Sakhrani - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division
Ross Sandler - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Mark S. Mahaney - Citigroup Inc, Research Division
Brian J. Pitz - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division
Scott W. Devitt - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Colin A. Sebastian - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division
Douglas Anmuth - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division
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» eBay Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
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Tom Hudson
Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to eBay's Earnings Release Conference Call for the Third Quarter of 2012. Joining me today on the call are John Donahoe, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Bob Swan, our Chief Financial Officer. We're providing a slide presentation to accompany Bob's commentary during the call. All growth rates mentioned in John and Bob's prepared remarks represent year-over-year comparisons unless they clarify otherwise.
This conference call is also being broadcast on the Internet, and both the presentation and call are available through the IR section of eBay's website at http://investor.ebayinc.com. In addition, an archive of the webcast will be accessible for 90 days through the same link.
Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that during the course of the conference call, we'll discuss some non-GAAP measures in talking about our company's performance. You can find a reconciliation of those measures to the nearest comparable GAAP measure in the slide presentation accompanying the call. In addition, management will make forward-looking statements relating to our future performance that are based on current expectations, forecasts, assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expected financial results for the fourth quarter and for the full year 2012 and future growth in Payments, Marketplaces and GSI businesses, mobile payments and mobile commerce. Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed in the call for a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to: changes in political, business and economic conditions; foreign exchange fluctuations; our need to successfully react to the increasing importance of mobile payments in commerce and increasingly social aspect of commerce; an increasingly competitive environment for our businesses; the complexities of managing an increasingly large enterprise with a broad range of businesses at different stages of maturity; our need to manage regulatory, tax and litigation risks, including risks specific to PayPal and Bill Me Later; our ability to integrate, manage and grow businesses recently acquired or that may be acquired in the future; our need to timely upgrade and develop our systems, infrastructure and customer service capabilities at reasonable costs while maintaining site stability and performance; and adding new products and features.
You may find more information about the factors that could affect our operating results in our most recent annual report on our Form 10-K and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q available at http://investor.ebayinc.com. You should not rely on any forward-looking statements. All information in this presentation is as of October 17, 2012, and we do not intend and undertake no duty to update this information.
With that, let me turn the call over to John.
John J. Donahoe
Thanks, Tom, and good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our Q3 earnings call. We had a great quarter with strong momentum across the company. Our third quarter revenue was up 15%, and non-GAAP EPS was up 14%. With our focus on enabling commerce, we've set bold goals for ourselves in our 3-year growth plan, and we're delivering.
I want to start out by briefly touching on 4 areas that are helping to generate momentum and create broader opportunities for our company. First, mobile continues to be a game changer, and we continue to be a clear leader in mobile commerce and mobile payments. Our mobile experiences are changing the way people shop and pay. Mobile is more deeply engaging our existing customers and attracting new ones. And now, we're focused on using mobile technology to drive innovative multichannel commerce experiences for local and national retailers.
Second, we're capitalizing on our global reach. Our platforms enable us to connect buyers and sellers anywhere in the world, and our core international businesses are strong. We have significant global presence, but we're only beginning to scratch the surface in emerging markets such as Brazil and Russia, which offer substantial long-term growth opportunities.
Third, we're investing in our brands. Our new eBay logo and site enhancements, as well as our recently updated PayPal look and feel, create a fresh, contemporary user experience for these businesses. We're investing in marketing in both eBay and PayPal, which this week launched its first integrated consumer marketing campaign online.
And last, we're leveraging our portfolio. In addition to growing our core businesses, we're also driving multichannel commerce innovation. We're focused on better integrating our technology capabilities to deliver innovative solutions for our consumers and retailers. And we're creating new long-term growth opportunities by extending our capabilities offline.
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We do not know what happened behind closed doors during this era, nor will we ever know.
We do not know if in fact there were incidents of the non-users confronting abusers on their respective teams.
I suspect the players who play the game clean were turned off by the ramped PED and HGH use throughout the game and did protest to mlbpa union reps.
I also suspect those same players were turned off by the rumors of possible use whenever they had a season where they themselves worked hard played within the rules and put up decent numbers and then had to listen to those rumors.
But I cannot hold it against any one player who was not involved to play sheriff to finger those that were.
Too much pressure to bear from the mlbpa, fellow players and the media who would immediately hound dog those who came forward for more information.
That they are allowing random blood testing in 2013 tells me that the tide has gradually changed within the membership of the mlbpa and for the better I might had.
Myself I prefer to focus on those who have failed tests or have had evidence come presented to prove that were involved with HGH or PEDS.
In my mind without any of those circumstances players like Mike Piazza should be left out of the conversation, he should be judged by the numbers he put up as a player alone.
That guys like Piazza have been caught up in the scandal without proof that he was involved is unfair and one of the reasons I think the MLBPA decided it was time for random blood testing.
I don't disagree with any of your positions. I think over the years you know where I stand as well.
All I will add is you reap what you sow...the players and all involved in the facilitation of bare responsibility for where the game is today and the suspicion of and the lack of trust that we can believe any of them that declare themselves to be clean.


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J&D Foods, a Seattle-based company that specialises in all things bacon including bacon lip balm and bacon lubricant claims to have launched a genuine bacon coffin.
The casket is allegedly made of 18-gauge gasketed steel with a Premium Bacon Exterior/Interior'.
It also includes a bacon air freshener 'for when you get that buried-underground, not-so-fresh feeling.'
The firm claims they are putting the fun back into funerals by helping bacon-lovers live out their piggish fantasies into the afterlife.
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