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Nadine is a 25-year-old married mother of one child. She has worked as a makeup artist and facial expert at her house for a year and a half.
She is a hard worker who seeks perfection in her business and in pleasing to customers. The loan will be invested in buying new summer beauty cosmetics and make up, in addition to newly-released tools specialized for facial treatment. She is the one sitting in the middle.
Liliane is the one sitting on the left. She works in tailoring and knitting beads for wedding dresses and dresses for special occasions. She is a 23-year-old single lady who is working hard to develop her business by buying necessary beads and threads in addition to several other related accessories.
Fadwa is the one at the right side of the picture. She is a 22-year-old single lady who works selling plastic house products. Through the acquired loan she is planning to increase her merchandise with new released items.
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This loan is helping support a borrower who is under age 30. Because many young people lack business experience or established credit histories, it can be even more difficult for them to access financial services. By funding this youth loan, you are expanding opportunity for a young person with limited resources.
About Al Majmoua – Lebanese Association for DevelopmentThe Lebanese Association for Development – Al Majmoua is Lebanon's leading microfinance institution and the oldest Kiva partner in Lebanon. Al Majmoua's vision is to "be the leader in creating an inclusive financial system where all people in Lebanon have access to affordable services." Given Lebanon's diverse population, Al Majmoua lends to all nationalities, provided legal residency. The strong financial position achieved to date has allowed Al Majmoua to steadily lower its pricing over the years.
Based on the belief that non-financial services play a complementary role in improving the quality of life of the most vulnerable entrepreneurs, Al Majmoua has established a solid Business Development Services program for both borrowers and non-borrowers with a focus on women and youth.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Colonel's Class on Radical Islam Leaves Career in Limbo; Class on Radical Islam Leaves Career in Limbo
Scarborough, Rowan, The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
Byline: Rowan Scarborough, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
When Army Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley last year began teaching a class to fellow officers on the dangers of radical Islam, he seemed to have landed in a perfect spot.
A highly rated armor officer who saw combat in Iraq, Col. Dooley planned to instruct for several years at the Joint Forces Staff College within the National Defense University, then seek command of a combat battalion - a ticket to better postings and higher rank.
Today, Col. Dooley finds himself at a dead end while being targeted for criticism by American Islamic groups, at least two of which are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which advocates universal Islamic law.
More important, Col. Dooley's critics include Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In a news conference with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta in May, Gen. Dempsey, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, publicly excoriated
Col. Dooley's training materials as being unfair to Islam and academically irresponsible.
A month after Gen. Dempsey's rebuke, a general on his Pentagon staff ordered Col. Dooley to be removed as an instructor for cause.
As a result, regulations called for Marine Lt. Gen. George Flynn to order the National Defense University to produce a negative officer evaluation report on Col. Dooley - a career ender.
Richard Thompson, president of the nonprofit Thomas More Law Center, is representing Col. Dooley in an appeal against the negative report. He said the Pentagon is trying to appease the Muslim Brotherhood.
What happened here was this whole idea of political correctness ... deterred the ability of our military to speak frankly about the identity of the enemy, Mr. Thompson said in an interview. Once you allow political correctness to overwhelm our military, then we are really going to have an impact on our national security.
Congressional letter
Mr. Thompson said the university simply could have informally counseled Col. Dooley to change some of the material, which the officer would have done. Instead, Gen. Dempsey and others chose to throw him under the bus in public and damage his reputation, the lawyer said.
Col. Dooley's evaluation report last year, while he was teaching the course, lauded him as a superb officer.
In addition, the course and the materials in it had been approved by the National Defense University, whose guidance to instructors says that no subject or issue is considered taboo.
On Aug. 29, two raters at the university issued a negative officer evaluation report, as ordered, ruining any chance for Col. Dooley to make full colonel and effectively cutting short his professional upward path.
That action prompted two Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee last week to send a letter to Gen. Dempsey asking why such harsh action was taken. The Washington Times obtained a copy of the letter.
Since [the Department of Defense] had already directed [National Defense University] to cancel the [course], and LTC Dooley was then relieved as its instructor, we would like to know why the [Defense Department] was compelled to further discipline LTC Dooley by jeopardizing his reputation and his future in the service, Reps. Thomas J. Rooney of Florida and Duncan Hunter of California wrote. It is our understanding that LTC Dooley did not violate any established University practices, policies or [Defense Department] regulations to merit a negative [officer evaluation report].
Marine Col. David Lapan, Gen. Dempsey's spokesman, told The Times that Col. Dooley was removed for poor judgment.
It's not the subject matter, Col. Lapan said. It's the way the course was taught.
As to Mr. Thompson's charge that Gen. Dempsey poisoned the investigation of Col. Dooley by publicly criticizing him, Col. Lapan said: Absolutely, it's false. …

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Located centrally to Robinson Township, Stafford Park offers access to one of the most coveted areas of Pittsburgh real estate. Prospective homeowners in search of new homes in Robinson Township will be thrilled with what's available for them in the Stafford Park community. Amenities include:
Truly, Stafford Park cannot be beaten. Robinson Township homes for sale typically don't offer the quality of location on tap in this community. With easy access to I-376 and I-79, homeowners in Stafford Park can get from one place to another quickly and easily. This ease of access is perfect for busy homeowners who commute into the city, Cranberry Township, the South Hills, or just about anywhere in the Greater Pittsburgh Area. It also brings all of the amenities and offerings of the cities to their fingertips.
That being said, homeowners in the community will probably find they don't need to do much travelling. Robinson Township offers great conveniences that can't be found elsewhere in the region. Just down the road, you'll find the hustle and bustle of the Robinson Town Center, featuring familiar family chains and harder to find brands like Ikea and more. The Robinson Mall and Settlers Ridge shopping centers are just as convenient and robust. Additionally, business travelers will be thrilled with the easy access to the Pittsburgh Airport.
In addition being in in proximity to all the trappings of modern civilization, these new Robinson Township homes are also in a great location for residents who enjoy the outdoors. Clever Park is just a short walk away, and has a pool, playground, ballfield, plenty of picnic space, and courts for volleyball, basketball, and tennis. Located a short drive away are several golf courses and the wonderful Settler's Cabin County Park as well.
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|TELLERMETRIX, INC. Patent applications
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|Automated Financial Institution Customer Reward Program - A method and system for automating a reward program for a financial institution is provided. Accordingly, information about a customer transaction is received by a system and an affinity-point value of the transaction item is determined and associated with the transaction item. An affinity-point balance associated with the customer is determined and one or more rewards that are available to the customer are determined. A notification concerning a particular reward for which the customer is eligible is displayed. Multiple reward programs can be operated simultaneously and customers can participate in multiple reward programs. Thus, after determining an affinity-point balance, a list of rewards available to the customer can be determined from multiple reward programs and the list of rewards can be sorted based on associated affinity-point value and based on a prioritization of the various reward programs.


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Workshop / 1 session / $60 / Room 203 / Mon 6–9pm / May 9
Learn the basics of designing, carving and printing with the Hawaiian 'ohe kapala, or carved bamboo stamp. Possibly influenced in part by the finely designed patterns in modern cloth, Hawaiian kapa makers began creating and using intricately carved bamboo stamps to decorate their kapa. Students will also learn how to prepare the bamboo for carving and will print on a piece of tapa.
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Banking in Transition Economies: Does Efficiency Require Instability?
Gorton, Gary, Winton, Andrew, Journal of Money, Credit & Banking
"Banking" and "instability" seem inherently intertwined. On one hand, a well-functioning, efficient banking system is essential to the workings of a capitalist economy: banks direct savings to investment opportunities when they choose a portfolio; they are an important part of the corporate governance system since they monitor firm managers; they provide a medium of exchange through the issuance of demand deposits and the associated payments and clearing systems. On the other hand, information asymmetries and banks' highly leveraged nature may lead to bank failures or system-wide panics, and such crises can be very costly because of externalities. Even advanced economies experience widespread and costly problems with banks; a current example is that of Japan's banks, where the latest official estimate puts problem loans at 77 trillion yen, or roughly 15 percent of GDP (see "Details, Details," Economist, January 17, 1998). Emerging economies also experience regular and costly banking crises. For example, in Chile in the 1980s bad loans accounted for 45 percent of GDP; losses from Venezuela's 1994 crisis are estimated at 16 percent of GDP.(1)
To varying degrees, the transition economies of Eastern Europe have taken measures to privatize their banking systems so as to improve their operating efficiency. However, the movement toward privatization has gone hand in hand with increased instability; virtually every transition economy has had some sort of banking crisis. Highlights include the crisis in Bulgaria resulting in nonperforming loans exceeding 60 percent of assets; in Estonia in 1992 insolvent banks had 47 percent of the deposits in the banking system; in Hungary in 1993, eight banks were found to be insolvent, totaling 25 percent of the total assets in the banking system; in Latvia in 1995 the central bank took over the largest private commercial bank after it suffered losses in the range of $50-$100 million (see Caprio and Klingebiel 1995). Further instability seems likely.
Because banks are now owned by private agents rather than the government with its deep pockets, and because transition economies inherit a large overhang of weak loans, privatization inevitably invites instability--some banks will fail. Also, private bank owners may choose a level of risk that is at odds with the socially optimal choice, so there is concern that too many banks will fail. As a result, the issue of banking system stability in transition economies has received a great deal of attention. Nevertheless, banking system efficiency is also important, and there is evidence that banking systems in transition economies are not only unstable but inefficient as well. In comparison to developed countries, the volume of credit creation in transition economies is generally too small, especially since capital market alternatives often do not really exist. Also, banks continue to direct funds to former state-owned enterprises (SOEs), despite the fact that many of these SOEs are inefficient. Finally, these banking systems are inefficient in providing transactions media and payments system and clearing services.
Given the instability and inefficiency of banking systems in transition economies, many basic questions about bank regulation and institutional design remain unanswered or in flux: what bank capital requirements are appropriate, whether free entry into banking should be allowed, etc. Nevertheless, at the root of these immediate policy questions lies a more basic issue: the combination of instability and inefficiency may reflect the difficulties of a transition from a command economy to a capitalist system, but it may also be the result of misguided policies that emphasize bank stability over efficiency--policies that ironically may make the banking system even more unstable. The underlying issue is whether it is possible to simultaneously achieve the goals of stability and efficiency for a transition economy's banking system; until this is resolved, it is difficult to answer the other questions. …


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Each year as the flu season approaches, we all start to think about taking precautions. We want to make sure that everyone in the ORU family knows the precautions to take to prevent the spread of this virus. We want you to stay healthy. To reduce your risk, please read over the following steps from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the CDC, the symptoms of flu include fever or chills and cough or sore throat. In addition, symptoms of flu can include runny nose, body aches, headache, tiredness, diarrhea, or vomiting. ORU students should contact Student Health Services at 495.6341 if they are exhibiting flu symptoms. ORU faculty and staff should consult their personal physician if they are exhibiting these symptoms. The CDC recommends that people with influenza-like illness remain at home until at least 24 hours after they are free of fever, or signs of a fever without the use of fever-reducing medications.
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"Court Rejects Kansas Appeal In EPA Air Pollution Case"
"A federal court has rejected Kansas' challenge of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) disapproval of an air pollution plan from the state."
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By Graham Dwyer
The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)
"On this disc is a selection of the composer's works from his heyday, the 1920s, including such orchestral pieces as the substantial Arcana, three miniature movements of Octandre, the Offrandes for soprano and chamber orchestra, and Integrales. The CD rounds off with Deserts, composed in the 1950s after a long compositional silence and juxtaposing two-track tape with chamber music.
The two lyrical soprano movements of Offrandes (assuredly sung by France's Maryse Castets) are the most approachable works here, while most of the others reflect the musical crisis and search for a new artistic direction that faced the majority of composers in the first three decades of the 20th century.
Apart from a brief snatch of jazz in Integrales, this music is a mass of restless motifs, textures and rhythms set to a strident kaleidoscope of dissonance and timbre. Oddly attractive, though, are the tape movements in the Deserts, offering the kind of shadowy sounds that can be found in the likes of Tan Dun today. There are not many avant-garde composers that do not owe at least a little to this neglected and highly experimental composer. All credit to Naxos and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (under Britain's Christopher Lyndon-Gee) for giving us a chance to hear the works of a 20th-century original."
By Geoffrey Norris
The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
"This excellent disc on Naxos's budget label emphasises the trailblazing nature of his music in its uncompromising combination of timbres and its juxtaposition of violent, dissonant incident."
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)
The fact that the French-born American composer Edgard Varèse is deemed to be one of the most innovative and influential composers of the twentieth century is all the more remarkable when one considers that his uvre consists of just a dozen works, the majority of which were written between 1920 and 1936. Yet his novel developments in the field of rhythm, form and timbre, his works often featuring richly coloured ensembles of wind and percussion, acted as a significant model for composers as diverse as Stockhausen, Xenakis and Birtwistle. The composer himself merely remarked that Contrary to general belief an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Varèse was born in Paris on 22nd December 1883, the first of five children, and spent most of his early childhood with his maternal grandparents in Burgundy. In 1904 he entered the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where his teachers included Roussel, Bordes and dIndy, only to leave the following year to study composition under Widor at the Conservatoire. In 1907 he moved to Berlin, establishing a close friendship with the composer Busoni, whose influential Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst (Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music) had made a great impression on him. Busonis attack on traditional nineteenth-century music aesthetics and his advocacy of a new music free
from architectonic, acoustic and aesthetic dogmas found a particularly sympathetic recipient in Varèse, whose mature output encapsulated a continuous search for new means of musical expression.
Having returned to Paris by the outbreak of World War I, he lost most of his early works, written in a romantic idiom, which were subsequently destroyed in a fire in Berlin. On 18th December 1915 he emigrated to New York, making his conducting début with the Berlioz Requiem and also conducting concerts of new music with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra which he himself founded, the New Symphony Orchestra. In 1921 he co-founded the International Composers Guild with the harpist Carlos Salzedo, to perform contemporary music. Until it folded in 1927 the ICG presented works by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Stravinsky amongst others, as well as premières of Varèses Offrandes, Hyperprism, Octandre and Intégrales. With Slonimsky, Ives, Cowell and Chávez he also helped co-found the Pan-American Association of Composers, dedicated to the performance and dissemination of contemporary music. Following a five-year sojourn in Paris, during which he worked on two unfinished projects, Lastronome and Espace, he returned to New York, having applied unsuccessfully for funding to continue his research into electro-acoustic music. His most fecund period of composition effectively came to an end in 1936 with the solo flute piece Density 21.5 after which, dispirited and disheartened, he composed nothing for over a decade. It was only in 1953, when he received an Ampex tape recorder from an anonymous donor, that he was finally able to put into practice ideas that he had been harbouring for decades. This ushered in a final period of composition which was to produce two pioneering works of electronic music, Déserts and Poème électronique.
The thematic material of Arcana (1925-27) for orchestra the score of which is prefaced by a quotation from the sixteenth-century Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus is derived from the varied repetition of a handful of motifs including a rising tritone/rising tone figure also used in Intégrales. The première was given at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on 8th April 1927 conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
The title of Octandre (1923) refers to its scoring for an octet of flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone and double bass (octandrous refers to a flower having eight stamens). The only work of Varèse to follow a traditional division of movements, namely Assez lent, Très vif et nerveux, Animé et jubilatoire, it grows out of the material stated by the oboe in the opening bars, with Varèse treating the octet essentially as a timbral pool from which he extracts textures of a quite startling originality.
Offrandes (1921) for soprano and chamber orchestra sets two surrealist poems by Latin American writers, Chanson de là-haut (Song from on high) by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro and La croix du sud (The southern cross) by the Mexican poet José Juan Tablada. The première of the work in New York on 23rd April 1922 was the first performance of any music by Varèse since the première in 1910 of his symphonic poem Bourgogne in Berlin (a work which he subsequently destroyed). In its orchestration Offrandes clearly shows the influence of Debussy, although its focus on solo wind instruments was to become a trait of the small ensemble works written during the next few years.
Work on Intégrales (1924-25) began in Paris in the summer of 1924 and was completed in New York in January 1925. Scored for an ensemble of two piccolos, two clarinets, oboe, horn, two trumpets, three trombones and seventeen percussion instruments requiring four players, its first performance was given in New York on 1st March 1925 again conducted by Stokowski. It is cast in three distinct sections, the first based on the three-note motif of a rising tritone/rising tone that is stated first by clarinet and subsequently imitated by other instruments, the second a syncopated outburst from the brass sextet, and the third a melody first heard in the oboe that is repeated with slight variations and reaches a climax by dramatically superimposing echoes of earlier material.
Déserts (1950-54) is scored for an ensemble of fourteen wind instruments, piano and five percussionists, plus two-track tape. The works four instrumental sections can be played alone or, as on this recording, juxtaposed with three electronic interludes. Characterized by its focus on sustained chords or single pitches in its attempt to penetrate the inner essence of sound, the first performance of Déserts took place in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 2nd December 1954 conducted by Hermann Scherchen. Its stormy reception recalled that of Stravinskys The Rite of Spring in the very same theatre some forty years earlier.
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Is it too risky to buy remanufactured ink cartriges?
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Is it too risky to buy remanufactured ink cartriges?
I was looking for an online store to buy ink for my Canon printer and came across Inkjetsuperstore:http://www.inkjetsuperstore.ca/canon-pixma-pro-9000-mark-II-toner-cartridge
Along with the original cartriges they sell remanufactured stuff where "remanufactured" refers to cartridges produced by a third party and meeting all brand standards. These remanufactured cartridges cost only a third of the original brand price.
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Can he embrace the child he never knew he had?
Nine years ago, Kelly Bravo and Michael Vakulic went their separate ways--he to a new name and a new life, she to a family she never knew she had. And then Kelly comes across an tantalizingly familiar photo in the newspaper. Her long lost Michael has reinvented himself--as Mitch Valentine, multimillionaire entrepreneur. As for Kelly, she's got a new name too--mother! And a little girl with Michael's eyes...
How can she tell him the truth?
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Raptors, Nets provide fantasy fun
It's not hard to determine which game to focus on when four of the top five players in the ESPN Daily Leaders all participated in the same game. The New Jersey-Toronto game was kind to fantasy owners. Vince Carter rebounded nicely from a subpar outing against Cleveland with a turn-back-the-clock line of 39 points, 3 3-pointers, 9 boards and 6 assists. Other than the Cleveland game, Carter has been killing it of late. Owners worried about his lack of motivation can relax. Still, one could forgive VC owners if they pursue an opportunity to sell high.
Ron Turenne/Getty ImagesVinsanity is probably a sell-high option right now, before he gets hurt.
Chris Bosh owners who reached with a first-round pick for the forward can bask in the glow of self-satisfaction. Bosh continues to post the best numbers of his career and last night put up 42 points, including 13-of-15 from the line. He is blowing up. Jose Calderon is over his hamstring issues and had his best line of the young season with 25 points, 4 3-pointers and 15 assists. This is second-round value obtained in the third or fourth round.
It's official. I was wrong about Andrea Bargnani. I was down on Il Mago before the season and have been proved wrong-headed on this former No. 1 pick. Bargnani had a career-high 29 points, 5 3-pointers,10 rebounds and hit 8-of-8 from the line. The more significant stat is the 49 minutes played. He played 37 minutes on Wednesday and has averaged 33.4 over his past five. The inconsistency will rear its ugly head from time to time, but Bargs is for real and very much worth a look. He is somehow available in 90.4 percent of ESPN leagues.
With all these spectacular stat lines, don't overlook the contributions of Brook Lopez, who again started for the Nets. Lopez put up 14 points and 6 rebounds but played 30 minutes and is earning the trust of coach Lawrence Frank. The rookie has averaged 12.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 1.6 blocks on 56.5 percent shooting from the field and 75 percent from the line over his past five games. Owners in two-center leagues cannot keep him on the wire any longer.
Under the boards
It was a bad night for Hedo Turkoglu and his owners. He shot a woeful 1-for-13. He has been shooting very poorly this season (38.3 percent) in particular from downtown (just 31.6 percent). Turk is a career 43 percent shooter from the field and 38.8 percent from 3-point land. He hasn't shot worse than 36.8 percent from deep since his second year in the NBA. His owners should hold tight and wait for him to return to his career norms. Non-owners should be looking for a buy-low opportunity. It's a safe bet that D.J. Augustin is one of the hottest adds in leagues this morning. In case he is still available in your league, here are a few reasons to suggest why he shouldn't be: 26 points, 7 3-pointers and 7 assists. He started at shooting guard last night and will hold that job until Jason Richardson comes back. Even after, he has played his way into more minutes, which is good for him and bad for Raymond Felton. Felton owners should use this game as a cue to move him ASAP. Charlie Villanueva came back after missing four games with a strained hamstring and came back gunning. In 13 minutes Villanueva shot 8-of-12 from the field on his way to 20 points. That's excellent production, but temper your expectations. Luc Richard Mbah a Moute was effective as the starter (8 points, 13 rebounds, 2 blocks and a steal) and his predilection for defense will always win him favor with Scott Skiles. Paging Mike Miller. Remember when he used to drain 3-pointers and score? Well, the shooting is still there (52.1 percent from the field and 76.5 from the line), but the attempts are not. Miller is attempting two fewer shots per game than last season and five fewer than two seasons ago. It's not a matter of minutes, and this is what should spook his owners. He is healthy and playing more minutes than last season; he just isn't looking for his shot. Jason Thompson (19 points, 12 rebounds) continues to improve as a starter. Look for the rookie to hold onto the starting power forward job even after Mikki Moore comes back from a sprained right ankle. After four mediocre performances, Drew Gooden posted 18 points and 16 rebounds against the Warriors. This is going to be a consistent theme all season. The Warriors will be exploited by big men with any semblance of a post game. Keep this in mind when streaming big men.
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CentOS Admin Mysteriously Missing
An open letter on the CentOS distribution website gives the impression that their main administrator has mysteriously disappeared.
Lance Davis is mainly in charge of the Linux distro CentOS, a re-build from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In an open letter aimed at him, seven developers are appealing for him to get in touch. Efforts to contact Davis by phone have been of no avail. Davis holding the domain plus sole 'Founders' rights in the IRC channels makes the situation particularly difficult for the developers. Davis obviously is also in charge of donation money. In the letter: "You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds, to this date this has not appeared."
Developers at CentOS are worried that Davis' AWOL will endanger the whole project: "Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the project."
CentOS AccountingHas there been an accounting and disclosure of funds collected and disbursed? Money collected for non-profits must be accounted for on IRS form 990. Has one been created? What is the non-profit name collecting money for CentOS?
I gave money to CentOS and want an accounting.
CentOS Admin Mysteriously MissingUmm, no.
He is not "mysteriously missing" and he is *not* the main administrator of the project. He just has his fingers on some central things - the project has survived for the last year without him surfacing.
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MIDDLEBURY — An Addison County Superior Court judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by a local man against the town of Middlebury, Middlebury College, the Addison Independent and Bread Loaf Corp. The plaintiff, Middlebury resident Alpine Bingham, alleged the defendants' collective actions unduly influenced the electorate prior to votes held earlier this year on the $6.5 million municipal building/recreation center project.
Last week when I wrote this column was Agricultural Literacy Week in Vermont — a great opportunity to learn about new methods as our farms continue to grow and modernize. This week is also the week of Thanksgiving. The holiday is traditionally a time to give thanks for the many gifts we've been given. In our homes, our churches and our communities we also take time to think about stewardship — how we care for those gifts. Here in Vermont we have no greater gift than our beautiful environment.
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Chelsea Barrows, 22, (no address given) pleaded guilty to an Aug. 9 charge of careless or negligent driving, amended from a charge of driving under the influence, and was fined $607.
Shane Branchaud, 31, of Addison pleaded guilty to a July 20 charge of unlawful mischief and was sentenced to 29-30 days in jail, interrupted daily, and was fined $147.
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Flowers Foods Prices $400 Million Of Senior Notes
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G. W. Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646, in Leipzig. His father, a scholar and a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Leipzig, who apparently began to teach Leibniz as a small child, died when Leibniz was only six years old. Leibniz seems to have been largely self-taught, teaching himself Latin at the age of seven. Gaining admittance to his late father's library, he concentrated especially in the Church Fathers and in the Latin classics. Leibniz attended university from age fourteen to age twenty-one, first at the University of Leibzig and then the University of Altdorf, graduating with degrees in law and in philosophy. He was soon recognized as a talented young man of great promise and was offered a position on the faculty at the University of Altdorf. He declined the offer, choosing instead public service. Under the patronage of Baron Johann Christian von Boineburg, Leibniz entered the service of the Elector of Mainz and occupied a number of positions in Mainz and nearby Nuremburg. There he stayed until he was sent to Paris in spring 1672 on diplomatic business, a trip that deeply affected his intellectual development.
In Paris from 1672 to 1676 Leibniz made the acquaintance of such intellectual luminaries as Christian Huygens, who became his teacher and introduced him to other philosophers and scientists, such as Arnauld and Malebranche. It was in Paris that he laid the foundations for his work in calculus. Before Leibniz returned to Germany, in December 1676, he stopped in England and in Holland, where he met Spinoza. Both Boineburg and the Elector of Mainz had died while he was in Paris. Leibniz returned to the court of Hanover as a counselor, where he settled for the rest of his life.
Although recognized today as one of the leading philosophers of all time and one of two founders of calculus (with Newton), Leibniz was not popular in his own time. Newton accused him of stealing his invention of calculus (we know now that the two geniuses invented it independently, Leibniz publishing his work first in 1684, Newton in 1687), and many of his contemporaries (including the prestigious Royal Society) belittled his work. Bertrand Russell has written the following in this regard:
Leibniz was one of the supreme intellects of all time, but as a human being he was not admirable.
He had, it is true, the virtues that one would wish to find mentioned in a testimonial to a prospec-
tive employee: he was industrious, frugal, temperate, and financially honest. But he was wholly
destitute of those higher philosophic virtues that are so notable in Spinoza. His best thought was
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It was the popular Leibniz who invented the doctrine that this is the best of all possible worlds
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1 Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945), p. 581.


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The menu is extensive and breakfast is served all day. The portions are enormous. All of the produce is organic and they are a certified green restaurant. Since it is so good, on weekends the line can be super long but it is definitely worth the wait. I live in San Diego and I go there every time I am in L.A. The staff are the best ever - always friendly and smiling and very attractive. Make sure you say hi to Danielle and Johawna!! Bring your dog, sit on the patio, people watch, and enjoy your meal.
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Usually very good breakfast, We asked for crispy bacon and received it under cooked and limp.
Main items are creative, sometimes wonderful (French Toast with Fig preserves and maple syrup, when offered) other times average.
Order at the inside counter and a number is issued for the server to bring to your table. to order a coffee refill, you must go back inside and ask for your refill at the register. Kind of a pain. Nice patio for a Sunday meal.
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Whenever I have friends visiting the are I am sure to recommend a trip to the Alcove.
The portions are ginormous and the fare is ostentatious enough to please even my most discriminating tastes. Dont get me started on the desserts...simply divine.
There is a gourmet cheese shop adjacent which carries the most wonderful and hard to find gastronomique goodies... so much more that just cheese.
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12 years before Van Morrison's song, I knew that it was blue eyes that were beautiful.
I didn't need a commercial, TV show or anyone else to tell me that blue eyed blondes hit the genetic jackpot and I didn't. All I had to do was look at my dolls.
I remember walking up and down the toy aisles looking for a doll that looked like me. There weren't any. My parents were surprised when I told them I didn't want any of them. I never told them why. They thought I had outgrown dolls at age 8
DR1939's comment on my blog Saturday sparked this long buried memory about the effect of the lack of diversity on self image.
When she wrote about the importance of variety (all races, colors, creeds, genders) in the media, I remembered when the faces we once saw were all homogeneous. Entire groups of Americans grew up never seeing anyone on TV that looked like them. Not in commercials, or programs and definitely not at the news desk.
There's nothing wrong with showing slender, fit or beautiful women in the media unless that's the ONLY women we ever get to see.
There's nothing wrong with showing women as homemakers/housewives unless that's the ONLY image we're ever shown
There's nothing wrong with showing women as teachers, secretaries etc, unless you NEVER see them on any other career path.
There's nothing wrong with blonde, blue eyed dolls either, unless that's the ONLY option you have for your child.
In an interview actress Ernestine Wade discussed the Amos and Andy TV series and her character in particular. She played "Sapphire" the shrewish wife of George "Kingfish" Stevens. She said that she knew women like Sapphire and men like George too. The problem was that "Amos and Andy" was the ONLY image people were shown of the African American community.
Today when you see a commercial with many races included, some disparage it as "politically correct." I prefer to call it "correct" PERIOD and an important step toward equality. Actually, it was more likely economic rather than political pressure that brought about this change. Companies finally realized that their favorite color was green. All kinds of people spend money.
I still have a few of my dolls. In addition to their physical features, their dress also describes the mindset of the day.
Yes, they were all dressed as brides.
I had baby dolls too (Tiny Tears and Betsy Wetsy), but they didn't survive the years.
There was one other career path open to girls in Brooklyn in the 1950s
At least the Catholic ones.
I should point out that my doll experiences predated Barbie which was introduced in 1959. Although she was blonde and blue eyed too, at least I never had to deal with a doll with a physically impossible figure. None of my dolls had boobs.
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Love the pictures of your dolls! I'm also glad now that dolls come in a wide variety of skin color and eye color. I did grow up with Barbies, since I was born in 1955. As many have said, a woman with her proportions would be so top heavy in reality!
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I know this isn't the point of the blog but I REALLY want that nun doll! She is so cool!
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A little late, but here you go.
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My blond, blue-eyed daughter asked for and received a black doll (she's 48 now). It's the only doll she still has.
The US is not the only country where this is prevalent. When we were in Hyderabad, India, about 8 years ago the blowup manikins that hung outside the shops were all blue-eyed blondes. Hyderabad is in the south of India where most people are very dark (as well as very attractive). I am blond and blue-eyed. One weekend our group of college professors and Indian hosts were out in the countryside at India's largest dam. One other woman was blond as well as much younger than me. The two of us drew the most attention of our group. Our group were the only non-Indians in the huge holiday crowds. My guide kept telling me they were talking about me.
When we were in Delhi where whites, or as one of my black students used to say "pinks," were more common, we did not draw so much attention.
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Great heart felt blog with wonderful heart and hits the heart strings. You are so right... I understand completely what it feels like ... the world is a bit more accepting of diversity today, but still not totally embracing the beauty of it.
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I was given one Barbie it had brunette hair around 1969 I wanted the blond since that is all you'd see my Mother wouldn't have any part of that, but it didn't make it LOL now I collect dolls and they are brown haired brown eyed ..... except for 1 that I found that looks like my costa rican DIL olive skin and curly black hair .... DIL doesn't like dolls but I thought it was an ingenius find from Precious Moments, so it's a keeper !!
P.S. after reading the comments I guess I had a knock off Barbie since they were all blonde back then, and I had a Brunette doll...Who knew ??? My Mother Did !!
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My Barbie was a brunette (1960-ish), but she did have the blue eyes. Loved Watermellen's comment about how so many of the "stars" look alike. I honestly can't keep them straight.
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good blog, enjoyed it, me, brown eyed and darker hair, was never envious of anything except curly hair,
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What worries me is the swing back to the norm of the blue eyed blonde -- how many Hollywood actresses post Botox and surgery in their size 0s look pretty much identical??
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I had a "Tammy" doll and my mother made clothes for it for me. I don't know if I still have that doll any longer, I wonder what she might be worth if I did?
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A nun doll -- who knew? Not this Jewish girl. I still have my Alice in Wonderland doll - blonde & blue-eyed. When I was small I loved my storybook dolls - remember them?
This reminds me, though, of the movie stars and singers I watched when I was young, who made me very uncomfortable and I didn't know why. Doris Day, Peggy Lee (not a good example), Rosemary Clooney (who I came to love later) -- all blonde, blue-eyed, wearing tight clothes. In retrospect, I think it was about the virginal yet sexual way they were presented and how blonde and blue-eyed was considered the most desirable.
When my own kid was little I wouldn't allow Barbies in the house (now modified for my littlest grand-daughter) and she had an African-American doll whom she named "Joan" after Joan Baez. :)
Have you seen the American Girl dolls of today? Expensive but quite wonderful in their multi-culturalism.
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Speaking of your "edit" there at the end, Barbie's figure is still unattainable for most women, but her boobs are quite a bit smaller than my Malibu or Ballerina Barbie of 1976. We can't even velcro shut current Barbie tops on them. They bust out of them! (ha ha, pun intended)
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I have a nun doll still as we'll as many other dolls tucked away! I collected the Barbies from different nations and tucked them away too!
We were definitely not the Cleavers or Donna Reed in our family!
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As usual, another great blog with a lot of insight. I never realized that all of those Barbies were the same back then until you mentioned it. Of course, I didn't play with dolls too much -- I was busy outside exploring the "wilderness" (something I wish kids could do more of today).
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"I prefer to call it "correct" PERIOD and an important step toward equality."
Well said.
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That last picture of the nun doll made me laugh out loud. Great blog, Mom.
You know, when I found out I was having a baby girl, I went out and bought a brown-haired Barbie. Back in the 70's there were no brown-haired barbies... only Barbie wannabes, which weren't as nice a quality.
So imagine my surprise when this brown-eyed, brown-haired mother gave birth to a blue-eyed blonde! She LOOKS like Barbie!!!! Anyway, when we played Barbies together, I always used the brown-haired one. She is forever to be known as "Mommy Barbie".
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Love your blogs.
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"Actually, it was more likely economic rather than political pressure that brought about this change. Companies finally realized that their favorite color was green. All kinds of people spend money."
You nailed that one!!! The bottom line will overcome anything.
Another great blog.
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You know I did not realize that little fact when I was young. All of the barbies were blonde and blue eyed. That was an interesting insight. I loved my stuffed animals and was not in to dolls. Who know what color their eyes were. LOL.
You are so right. Keep the diversity up in media! We are all here on the planet and should be loved and respected.
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You've done a good job pointing out the differences between the options available to girls now and in the past. Have you noticed that girls now do not want anything to do with women's liberation? How soon they forget! And we are only partially liberated in a small portion of the world
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Thanks for your blog. I had all of those dolls, too...brought back some fond memories.
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First, Cummins announced March 26 that it was consolidating its two Indianapolis offices into one by constructing a new building on part of the former Market Square Arena property. The $30 million investment will be the headquarters for its global distribution business, one of the company's four primary business segments.
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