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Ricoh recommends several approaches to help businesses take advantage of the revenue-generation potential of document processes
West Caldwell, NJ, September 5, 2012 - Ricoh Company, Ltd. is advising companies that improving document processes such as sales and marketing, customer communications, customer onboarding, service and support, developing new products, and billing and collection, which are traditionally seen as a strategy primarily for cost reduction, could yield some surprising revenue benefits – in fact, a potential increase of approximately 10 percent to the top line based on a recent IDC white paper sponsored by Ricoh.The reasoning? Improved document processes can enhance the overall experience of a customer's interaction with an organization. Efficient processes, which allow for greater focus on the customer's needs, can have a positive impact on customer satisfaction, which is critical for retention and revenue growth. On the other hand, customers may flee to competitors if confronted by inefficient and ineffective customer-facing document processes.These assertions are backed by research reported in a new IDC white paper sponsored by Ricoh, "Organizational Blind Spot: The Role of Document-Driven Business Processes in Driving Top-Line Growth (September 2012)."¹ The white paper is the second major product of Ricoh's new Process Imperative initiative for improved information management. The white paper is based on IDC's recent global study of 1,516 document-driven business process owners and information workers.Deficient document processes may cause customers to defect, the research revealed. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said they would be less likely to do business with companies having inefficient or ineffective document processes. Sixty percent said they would take their business elsewhere, and 57 percent said they would tell others not do to business with these companies.The good news is that better document processes have the potential to improve revenue. More than 8 in 10 respondents indicated that optimizing customer-facing document driven business processes would increase revenue – on average by 10.1 percent. This could be achieved by improving customer communications, streamlining the sales and customer on-boarding process, and improving customer support."This is great news for executives who are struggling to prioritize business process improvements," said Sergio Kato, Deputy General Manager, Ricoh's Global Marketing Group/Services Business Center. "No longer do they have to wonder if tackling document processes will yield a big enough return to justify the investment. Especially in this economic climate, any process that can both reduce costs and improve revenue is a win-win and should rise to the top of the priority list."Ricoh is uniquely equipped to assist its customers in executing a comprehensive strategy for document process improvement that helps reduce costs and potentially increase revenue through its Managed Document Services approach. Its proven methodology (Understand, Improve, Transform, Govern and Optimize) helps Ricoh pinpoint an organization's key processes and then align them with services that will help customers achieve measurable and sustainable business outcomes. The knowledge Ricoh has gained through its thousands of implementations has also provided insight into the top business concerns that are most prevalent in today's corporate environments including: cost control, environmental sustainability, information security and governance, business process efficiency, organizational change management, information worker (iWorker) productivity, information optimization and strategic infrastructure. This valuable insight helps accelerate the first step in the process – Understand – so customers can begin the Improve phase more quickly and start realizing the resulting benefits as soon as possible.For more information on Ricoh's full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.About the Process ImperativeRicoh's Process Imperative is an on-going initiative to promote understanding of new document and information processing paradigms that help enterprises leverage the collective wisdom embodied in their organizations. This initiative will fund research and provide resources, like those found on this site, which combine Ricoh's document and information process expertise with that of industry visionaries, our partners and our customers. The insights gained through this work help businesses transform their business processes to improve productivity and drive out cost by delivering the right information, at the right time, in the right form.| About Ricoh |Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,903 billion yen (approx. 23 billion USD). The majority of the company's revenue comes from products, solutions and services that improve the interaction between people and information. Ricoh also produces award-winning digital cameras and specialized industrial products. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability initiatives. Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees.For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com/about/###© 2012 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.¹IDC White Paper sponsored by Ricoh, "Organizational Blind Spot: The Role of Document-Driven Business Processes in Driving Top-Line Growth," September 2012
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The Lady Bucs came out swinging as they took the doubles point in the No. 2 and 3 positions. In the No. 2 position, Tara Byrne (
The Lady Bucs again dominated the Bears with victories in the No. 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 positions. Play was suspended as the No. 1, 5, and 6 ended simultaneously and with Batsula's match against Patricia Assumpcao was called at match-point when they suspended play. Freshman Tara Byrne defeated Rachael Kerley in the No. 4 position, 6-1, 6-1 and Sandie Knight defeated Lauriane
"We came in today and played well, we just try to keep playing the same way. We don't want to peak, we just want to play the same way every match. We're hoping to come out tomorrow and just play the match the same way and just treat it as just another match, "said head coach Steve Brooks.
ETSU will face either Stetson or Campbell in tomorrow's championship match. The match is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
No. 1- Masha Ilina (ETSU) def.
No. 2- Olya Batsula (ETSU) vs. Patricia Assumpcao (MU) DNF
No. 3- Sandie Knight (ETSU) def. Lauriane
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No. 5- Sylwia Ziolkowska (ETSU) def. Kelly Blount (MU) 6-1, 6-3
No. 6- Vita Moskaliova (ETSU) def. Karen Bellman (MU) 6-2, 6-1
No. 1- Ilina/Ziolkowska (ETSU) vs. Auvergne/Kerley (MU) DNF
No. 2- Batsula/Byrne (ETSU) def. Pazsoldan/Blount (MU) 8-3
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The author of the great new novel Breaking the Bank reflects on a huge transition: Hers.
Today we dropped our firstborn off at college. Hardly a remarkable event in the scheme of things, but one that to me is both seismic and powerful; it will reconfigure both the family structure and all of our places in it. Yet there was little overt drama to the day, which proceeded without impediment.
The drive to Connecticut was easy, the weather golden and clear. We were too late for the freshman-parent lunch because my husband, a college teacher himself, had to make an appearance at one of his classes this morning, and so we drove up just in time for convocation, an event about which we had known nothing at all, as our son had not mentioned it. No matter. It was a lovely ceremony, full of not too much pomp and just the right amount of circumstance, held out in the main quad under a beneficent gathering of elms. There was a processional through an archway, a speech from the president that touched on the Madoff scandal, global warming and Thoreau, a serenade from the school chorus, and a lemonade toast, a long-standing school tradition.
We were moved, and a little shaky too, blinking into the sun and wondering how we'd gotten, so quickly it seemed, from the "there" of infancy and toddlerhood to the "here and now" of almost manhood. Our son had no time for any of this, however, and longed to get on with more practical issues: obtaining his ID card, finding his room, unpacking. As we helped him unload the boxes and the suitcases that carried so much of what was essential to him, we discovered, of course, the things we had forgotten, like his Tempurpedic mattress pad, the mug stuffed with several of his favorite peach tea bags, the enormous container of detergent I had purchased in anticipation of his finally learning to do his own laundry. I was more bothered by these minor omissions than he was; he was just eager to move ahead and say his goodbyes. I felt I had barely had time to absorb the sense of the new place in which he would live before he was off to a meeting, a barbecue or both.
After a quick hug, during which I accidently smeared the shoulder of his white T shirt with my red lipstick (his faint annoyance both palpable and familiar) my husband and I found ourselves back in the car, returning to the home that would no longer be his, at least not in the same way, ever again. The beautiful day morphed seamlessly into a beautiful dusk; we crossed into Manhattan under a wide sky whose fluffy gray clouds were lit with rose and coral. The house, when we arrived, was quiet; our younger daughter was off with a schoolmate for a long weekend in the Hamptons. I have not gone up to his empty room yet; I am not ready to see it stripped so bare. Instead, I will cherish a thought of him in the cool New England night, the glowing ribbon of his young life stretched out far, far ahead of him, smoothing his path, lighting his way.
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(April 13, 2006) - The Lady Bucs tennis team defeated Gardner-Webb, 4-0 in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic-Sun conference tournament. The Lady Bucs are now 21-4 on the year and have collected their 13th sweep of the season.
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With her victory in the No. 2 doubles position, freshman Tara Byrne broke the school record of 27 wins.
The Lady Bucs dominated the Bulldogs in singles with wins coming in the No. 1, 3, and 5 positions. Conference tournament play is suspended when one team has clenched the match. In No. 1 singles, Masha Ilina defeated Jenny Gomez, 6-0, 6-2 and Sandie Knight (
"We are playing really good tennis right now and if we continue to play this well then we should have fun this week, "said head coach Steve Brooks.
ETSU will face host-school Mercer tomorrow at 2 p.m. The Lady Bucs defeated Mercer, 7-0 on March 23 in
No. 1- Masha Ilina (ETSU) def. Jenny Gomez (GWU) 6-0, 6-2
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No. 3- Sandie Knight (ETSU) def. Sara Zirnheld (GWU) 6-0, 6-0
No. 4- Elena Volobueva (ETSU) vs. Monica Walser (GWU) DNF
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No. 6- Sylwia Ziolkowska (ETSU) vs. Tracey Tonsor (GWU) DNF
No. 1- Ilina/Ziolkowska (ETSU) def. Walser/Sigmon (GWU) 8-1
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So, after a few, requests I finally decided to write an article on Pokemon Platinum. Here's the breakdown (I must say, it sounds a lot cooler than Daimond or Pearl):
-Pokemon Platinum is scheduled to be released on Septemer 17 to all of Japan. The dates for anywhere else have yet to be announced.
-Giratina will be appearing on the cover, being the third of the dragon trio. (Giratina, Dialga, and Palkia)
-There will, of course, be a special promo DS kit:
(Left: Cover for Pokemon Platinum, Right: Promo DS with original color "Platinum White")
-The GTS will have some new changes to it, including the introduction of the "Global Terminal". This allows you to also trade with your your friends over Wi-fi. (The way that this is different from just regular trading over Wi-Fi has yet to be announced).
-A new item called the "Battle Recorder" is introduced, which (of course) records battles, which you can then send to anyone in the world.
-The story is slightly different from that of the others. Shinnoh's gotten colder, and a mysterious void has appeared at the top of Mt. Coronet, which takes you to the Ruined World, Giratina's original domain. In this world, Giratina takes on his Origin Forme:
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NWZ-765 and album art
Just bought one of these (and well pleased with it), but wondered if there is a way to fill in the missing album covers for the wma files I transfered from my old mp3 player?. Been using 'Media Go' to rip some new albums, and the covers with those has made me want it for the older rips too.
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If Media Go can't fetch and embed album art I'd look at another media library/transfer software. I only used MG for a fairly short time and was very frustrated by how slow it was and it's lack of intuitive interface.
A decent music library software like Musicbee will fetch album art as part of it's tagging process. It will do it while the files are on the player but that can be really slow. It's better to drag everything off, tag it with embedded album art and then put it back using either drag and drop or the MusicBee sync process.
MediaMonkey was the software I recommended for this until recently but it lost some of it's edge after the latest upgrade. It still does a decent job but moves slower now. Each can install in portable mode and won't interfere with the other if you decide to test them both.
You can just drag everything off and use a good quality tagger like Mp3tag to do the same thing for adding AA. It doesn't move the files on and off a Sony but some consider it a better tagger. I think they all do a decent job but if I were to recommend one now for all around use it would be MusicBee.
TBH I think foobar2000 beats all of them for most purposes but it doesn't do MTP transfer. That's needed for syncing a Sony. If you want to just drag and drop the files after foobar2000 tags them I'd look into that.
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Thanks Skip for a very thorough reply. Decided on using MP3Tag and just copying the files back to the player now. This stuff can get a bit OCD - even been touching a few poorer quality covers up first in photoshop
I know about the OCD part all too well. I went through that for a while until I realized that I only saw the image on the player for a few seconds at a time. The quality of the image I saw didn't much matter (to me!). Blurry and out of focus wasn't acceptable but I didn't need studio quality either.
I also found embedding places the image in each file and I lost quite a bit of music storage space for images I rarely saw. It didn't take long for me to find a compromise between size and quality. Losing a couple of albums to look at nicer AA for a few seconds wasn't worth it for me. You'll find your own sweet spot.
If you have the full Mp3tag install you may want to try the Amazon cover art plugin. If your albums are in it's database it can fetch some decent images. They usually are of high enough quality where photoshop may not be needed.
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I had the problem of album art showing up fine in MediaGo but not showing up on my S764.
I tried using Mediamonkey and it worked fine with no fiddling around. The only problem with Mediamonkey is it took some settings changes to tidy it up a bit because the default settings are too cluttered for my tastes.
Hello, I have a related problem.
I use Linux and want to get Cover Art working on my NWZ-S764. There are several library managers available for Linux, but none seems to support Cover Art well. And with the few which do support it (I only found Easytag), it will not show up on the player.
I have transferred around 20 albums (folders) onto my player, and actually with two of them the album art shows up. However, I don't know which conditions it makes such that it shows up. It is not the filename, it must somehow be the ID3Tags of the mp3-files. But if add the album art of other albums to the ID3 tags, it still did not show up on the Sony mp3 player.
Does anyone know what the exact conditions it are which must be satisfied such that the cover art shows up? (Filenames, ID3-tags, sizes of images etc). If I know the conditions, I can do it manually.
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I embed .jpg images no larger than 500x500 pixels. They are also all under 96 kB. The images have to be baseline, not progressive. Progressive images will embed but won't show. As I mention earlier embedding places a copy of the image in each file so the larger an image is used the more storage space you lose for music.
I use Kid3 in Linux for album art embedding. I've used EasyTag in the past and it worked reliably to embed album art that worked on a Sony. If you prefer Easytag you may want to try again making sure your images fit the guidelines I posted.
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Microcephaly is a condition in which a person's head size is much smaller than that of others of the same age and sex. Head size is measured as the distance around the top of the head. A smaller than normal size is determined using standardized charts.
Microcephaly most often occurs because the brain does not grow at a normal rate. The growth of the skull is determined by brain growth. Brain growth takes place while a baby is in the womb and during infancy.
Conditions that affect brain growth can cause smaller than normal head size. These include infections, genetic disorders, and severe malnutrition.
Genetic conditions that cause microcephaly include:
Other problems that may lead to microcephaly include:
Most often, microcephaly is diagnosed at birth or during routine well-baby exams. Talk to your health care provider if you think your infant's head size is too small or not growing normally.
Most of the time, microcephaly is discovered during a routine exam. Head measurements are part of all well-baby exams for the first 18 months. Tests take only a few seconds while the measuring tape is placed around the infant's head.
The health care provider will keep a record over time to determine:
It may also be helpful to keep your own records of your baby's growth. Talk to your health care provider if you notice that the baby's head growth seems to be slowing down.
If your health care provider diagnoses your child with microcephaly, you should note that in your child's personal medical records.
Kinsman SL, Johnston MV. Congenital anomalies of the central nervous system. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW III, Schor NF, Behrman RE, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 585.10.


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ZF-4955: Have zend_mail support instantiation from an options array
It would be great to have ability to configure Zend_Mail from config file similar to Zend_Db or Zend_Cache components Sample use case:
mail.transport = smtp
mail.host = 127.0.0.1
mail.config.name = localhost
mail.config.auth.type = login
mail.config.auth.userame = somelogin
mail.config.auth.password = somepass
[development : production]
mail.transport = sendmail
mail.parameters = '-f someparameters'
$config = new Zend_Config_Ini('config.ini', 'production');
$mt = Zend_Mail::factory($config->mail);
MEMO: parameter name could be took into account from ZF-8436.
Sorry, I have been inactive since last April.
Ramon, if you implement this; please do so by implementing a setOptions() method, which gets called if Zend_Mail::__construct()'s first argument is an array or instance of zend_config. If you're uncomfortable doing this or unsure how, please just reassign. I'll then do it (but maybe only with zf2).
Hi Dolf Thanks by your feedback. Sorry by delay in response ;). I want to do this improvement to 1.11.
Will be or has been implemented for ZF2


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Workers and Trade Unions
- Date submitted: 27 Oct 2011
- Stakeholder type:
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Major Group
- Name: Workers and Trade Unions
- Submission Document: Download
General Contenta) What are the expectations for the outcome of Rio+20, and what are the concrete proposals in this regard, including views on a possible structure of the Outcome document? The International Trade Union Confederation sees two different set of outcomes for Rio+20: a concrete set of decisions that governments need to implement, and be hold accountable for, from day one and a declaration, with the main aspects of the agreements on the objective and the themes of the conference.
Leaders? commitments at the Summit level
- A commitment to implement the Universal Social Protection Floor initiative by 2020.
- A decision on the Financial Transactions Tax.
- A country by country self-identified target on decent and green jobs to be reached in the next 5-10 years, accompanied by a package of decent work policies to secure jobs quality. This target should help at least doubling the number of ?green and decent jobs?.
Key contents in a policy-based declaration
- A recognition of the role social protection systems play in reducing people?s vulnerability in a sustainable way.
- An agreement on the principles of the green economy, which must include social equity, gender equality, decent work and trade union rights, democracy and a Just Transition for workers.
- A clear acknowledgement of the role of redistributive and environmentally-friendly tax policy in the green economy.
- The inclusion of ?Decent Work? and ?Just Transition? as central dimensions of any sustainable development policy.
- An acknowledgement of the role collective bargaining and environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) rights for workers could play in sustainable development.
b) What are the comments, if any, on existing proposals: e.g., a green economy roadmap, framework for action, sustainable development goals, a revitalized global partnership for sustainable development, or others? In any agreement on sustainable development goals, governments should agree on a commitment to ensure that at least half of the workers of the world have decent jobs by 2020, accompanied by a second goal ensuring all governments have, as a minimum, a Social Protection Floor in place by 2020.
Trade unions also support
- the designation of a national council or public representative or ?ombudsperson? to represent the interests and rights of present and future generations
- the launch of negotiations for the establishment of an international convention on Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration that deals with access to information, public participation and environmental justice.
- decisions in support of food security and energy access, pursued within the framework of sustainable development
c) What are the views on implementation and on how to close the implementation gap, which relevant actors are envisaged as being involved (Governments, specific Major Groups, UN system, IFIs, etc.); See ITUC response on 'Objective of the Conference'
d) What specific cooperation mechanisms, partnership arrangements or other implementation tools are envisaged and what is the relevant time frame for the proposed decisions to be reached and actions to be implemented? See section on Institutional Framework
Specific Elementsa) Objective of the Conference: To secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development and addressing new and emerging challenges. Contributions could include possible sectoral priorities (e.g., (e.g., energy, food security and sustainable agriculture, technology transfer, water, oceans, sustainable urbanization, sustainable consumption and production, natural disaster preparedness and climate change adaptation, biodiversity, etc.) and sectoral initiatives that contribute to integrate the three pillars of sustainable development could be launched and endorsed at Rio+20. 1. Objective of the conference
The condition we are living in shows that despite the adoption of ambitious wording twenty years ago, sustainable development has not become a reality. A full report on gaps in implementation would exceed the scope of this document. However, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) highlights one major barrier to progress on sustainable development: financing. None of the financial commitments made at the international level in terms of development, environment or social justice has been fulfilled, and this has made it difficult to evaluate the pertinence of sustainable development policies. A renewed political commitment needs to go hand in hand with a clear identification of the sources that would fund those commitments.
In addition, securing political commitment requires each and every actor in society to take responsibility, be it a government, a labour leader, an employer or a community representative. Rio+20 needs to become a turning point in history; one when the international community managed to make a first step towards sustainability through a series of decisions at the heads of state level, with strong governance mechanisms based on broad public involvement.
First, a commitment for sustainable development must effectively enshrine a commitment to people?s human, labour, social and environmental rights. Too many men and women lose their lives and health fighting for freedom or trying to organise workers; too many people die because they lack access to health services, or because of their exposure to toxic substances? too many have no access to education or die because they lack access to food, social protection and can not work any more. This is unsustainable and can be changed. A renewed political commitment to sustainable development is therefore also a renewed political commitment to democracy, fundamental rights, and social justice.
Second, Rio+20 must promote coherent decision-making and policies guided by public interest objectives. Achieving sustainable development requires putting at the heart of economic policies the need for equity and social progress as well as environmental protection. This is being undermined by dominant economic orthodoxy in many countries and by unprecedented influence by the financial markets in decision-making. Trade unions will not accept the tyranny of uncontrolled markets, and calls on governments and communities to stand together to reform them.
Third, a renewed political commitment can only be sustained if it comes with a commitment to provide citizens with accessible means to claim and exercise their rights to sustainable development. Accountability and social scrutiny is key. Leaders need to be held fully accountable and responsible for their actions and decisions. Rio+20 must therefore take steps aimed at securing the long term involvement of civil society and citizens in this agenda.
2. [Rio+20 agenda item: New and emerging issues] Our deepening problem: social vulnerability. A solution: social protection
Poverty is a major factor into people?s vulnerability to environmental crises, such as climate change, as well as to economic crises. Income losses generated by these crises leave the poorest communities in even more precarious situations. The current economic model and its governance must be changed to ensure the end of crises, and measures need to be taken now to protect the livelihoods of those families and communities that are on the edge of exclusion as a consequence of present crises. The time has come to decide on long-term solutions to people?s vulnerability. Social transfers, income security, health security, child benefits, maternity protection, unemployment benefits, quality essential public services, adequate nutrition, housing, education? These aspects of social protection systems are key to reducing vulnerability and to improving resilience. Rio+20 has a unique opportunity to ensure universal access to them.
What can Rio+20 do for social protection?
Rio+20 must send a clear message on the links between strong social protection systems and the capacity of communities to respond to emerging risks and reach a sustainable development.
This message, which must apply to all countries, needs to be accompanied by concrete actions aimed at tackling the absence of robust public social protection systems in many developing countries, notably the Least Developed Countries.
This is why trade unions call on governments to support a rapid implementation of the Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPFI) especially in the world?s poorest countries. This implies extending globally two main elements: social transfers providing minimum income security, and access to essential goods and services for all those in need including the unemployed, the poor, the disabled, pregnant women, the elderly and children and the provision of quality public services such as sanitation, health and education. The Social Protection Floor should be the first brick towards the construction of solid social security systems everywhere.
From our perspective, in order to allow this minimum protection to enable sustainable development, it needs to be the based on decent work policies, rely on legal entitlement of the beneficiaries and be designed with the involvement of the social partners. They should aim at building solid social security systems, providing universal coverage and including at least the contingencies and guarantees provided for in ILO Convention 102, the key international instrument related to social protection. Ultimately, all governments should ratify and implement ILO Convention 102.
Trade unions are conscious that the financing challenge is huge. We are convinced that in the long run, the system can be self-sustained through strong decent work policies enabling the development of contributory schemes and public taxation. Nonetheless, in the short run, developing countries face sizeable upfront costs for launching or improving their social protection systems. This is why it is important to ensure that developing countries have the required fiscal space they need to implement adequate social protection policies. While governments should try to mobilise national resources to finance social protection schemes, in some cases, the mobilisation of international resources might be necessary at the short term. Developed countries should contribute to the costs of a social protection floor by meeting their promised commitments to targets for official development assistance, and by supporting policies for a fairer taxation of the corporate and financial sector, for an end to tax evasion and for a Financial Transactions Tax (see below).
Key messages from this section:
- Social protection is THE solution to the emergence of multiple sources of vulnerability.
The ITUC calls on governments and stakeholders to support, in the context of Rio+20:
- At the ?Declaration level?, the inclusion of Social Protection systems as key tools for building resilience of workers and communities, and a call for maintaining and strengthening existing social protection systems in both developed and developing countries, with specific programmes that address the effects of the transition to a green economy, especially in terms of employment;
- At the ?Heads of State level?, commitment to implement the Social Protection Floor Initiative in the Least Developed Countries and advance towards a horizontal and vertical extension of social security, with special attention to the centrality of decent work;
In any agreement on Sustainable Development Goals, a commitment to ensure that all governments have, as a minimum a Social Protection Floor in place by 2020.
3. [Rio+20 agenda item: Means of implementation, New and emerging issues] Time for innovative funding: a Financial Transactions Tax
Earlier we indicated that the gap in the means for implementation is huge. Almost none of the promises regarding funding over the last twenty years has been fulfilled. For new actions to become reality, the international community needs to start looking at additional sources to fund its actions. Although a change in priorities and a re-direction of existing funds (eg. bailouts of financial speculators, military budgets) would go a long way towards funding social and environmental needs, the international labour movement is deeply convinced that one fundamental stepping stone towards a global funding architecture is a Financial Transactions Tax (FTT).
The effects of uncontrolled and unregulated financial markets are not only being suffered in the developed world, now facing one of its worst crises in its history, but also in developing countries which have frequently been affected by financial crises over recent decades.
In addition to its perverse effect on development, the financial sector is also exempted from paying value-added and corporate taxes in the vast majority of countries. It benefits from the many tax cuts on capital gains that were favoured by the IMF and the OECD and thanks to the globalisation of capital flows, it is better positioned than any other sector to take advantage of tax ?avoidance? and tax evasion strategies via offshore financial centres. At the same time, it is taking an increasing share of economic wealth and, as the current crisis has shown, it is generating new forms of financial stability ?systemic? risks.
It has been estimated that the international community needs US$324-336bn per year between 2012 and 2017 to fund global public goods (development and climate), at a time when developed countries are already running budget deficits at unprecedented levels as a result of the global crisis. Some political and business leaders want to eliminate those deficits through cuts in public expenditure, public pensions and regressive tax reforms that would hit chances of economic recovery and working people extremely hard. Thus current fiscal scenarios would make working families pay twice for the crisis: firstly through rising unemployment and falling incomes, and secondly as a result of cuts in public and social services.
The financial sector cannot be allowed to make the victims pay for the crisis of its own making. It needs to live up to its responsibilities. Private economic returns in the financial sector need to be pegged to social and environmental returns through taxation measures.
A Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) could reduce the risk of witnessing more speculative bubbles in the financial markets and generate revenue for financing global public goods, including development, social protection and climate action. According to the Austrian Institute for Economic Research, a global transaction tax of 0.1% could yield between US$410 billion and US$1060 billion a year.
It is time to take the FTT option seriously. The FTT could be designed with different rates for each party (large banks, other financial institutions including hedge funds, and non-financial corporations) and per market (?traditional? foreign exchange markets, exchange-traded derivatives, over-the-counter derivatives).
Key messages from this section:
- There is a need for innovative sources of funding to fund the gap and finance global public goods.
The ITUC calls on governments and stakeholders to support, in the context of Rio+20:
- At the ?Heads of State level?, a decision to implement a Financial Transactions Tax.
b) Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication: views regarding how green economy can be a means to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions, and poverty eradication; what is its potential added value; experience to date, including what has worked and how to build upon success, what are the challenges and opportunities and how to address the challenges and seize opportunities, and possible elements of an agreement in outcome document on a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication 4. A Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication
The world is currently facing rising unemployment, and for those who have work, increased risk of precarious working conditions and poverty. Almost half a billion young people are set to join the workforce within the next decade. This explains why a green economy that does not incorporate the challenges of the world of work is neither politically feasible nor sustainable.
For several years, the international trade union movement has promoted policies, debates and research on green and decent jobs and the means to ensure a ?Just Transition? for workers in the move towards a sustainable society . These are two of our main priorities in the green economy debate. We are convinced that focusing on these two ideas can lead to policies which achieve social justice, environmental protection and economic prosperity.
The international labour movement agrees with the urgency of moving towards a resource efficient, low-carbon economy, prioritising renewable resources over non-renewable, implementing a life-cycle approach to products and better integrating environmental benefits and costs in production and consumption in order to protect and, where possible, restore ecosystems. We also consider it important to start re-thinking the economy around the satisfaction of needs rather than the capacity to buy goods (for example promoting mobility services with multiple options, rather than buying one car per household).
We acknowledge the difficulty of changing our system massively while we are still part of of the old paradigm, but we are convinced that the right policies can ensure the foundation of a different economic model.
A green economy will not per se be fairer, pro-poor or pro-decent jobs. In order to secure the support of workers, the green economy will need to demonstrate that it can deliver social progress and equity. It will need to be significantly distinct from market fundamentalist approaches to the economy. This is why in the context of Rio+20, we expect the debate on the ?Green Economy? to define the principles on which ?green economy? policies will be based (4a), and to recognise the role of greener and fairer tax systems as tools to improve the equity and environmental performance of our societies (4b).
The trade union movement is convinced that in order to move this agenda forward, concrete decisions need to be taken at Rio+20. Governments need to present their plans for decent job creation through green investments in the next 5-10 years, commit to them at Rio+20 and respect them in the subsequent years (4c).
4.a. Principles for a Green Economy that meets the needs of workers and their trade unions
In order to ensure that the ?Green Economy? will deliver in terms of social equity and decent work, Rio+20 has to integrate a certain number of principles in its declaration, as a means to guarantee positive social outcomes and a real contribution of the green economy towards sustainable development. The international labour movement promotes these ten principles for a socially-fair and inclusive green economy:
1. A green economy must be based on equity between and within countries, to distribute benefits and costs in a just manner. It needs to reduce global imbalances between developed and developing countries and respect their different development paths. It also needs to take into account that in the last two decades, in a majority of countries higher income households have earned more than their lower income counterparts which have seen their wages decrease. This is one of the major causes behind the decline in the share of wages in total national income. Some ?green? policies have reinforced this trend: poor households have paid three times more environmental taxes than wealthy ones . This is not the green economy we want.
2. It must be inclusive. The participation of young people, women, and poor and low skilled workers in the green economy is fundamental. It is essential to attract young people to new sectors, to offer them green and decent jobs and to ensure that skills-enhancing programmes promote their integration in the labour market. The green economy needs to provide jobs for working women and facilitate their employability through anti-discrimination and family-friendly programmes, quotas to hire women for non traditionally female jobs, green skills training and policies aimed at reducing gender wage gaps . The green economy needs to acknowledge precarious and informal workers, and provide them with a pathway towards decent work.
3. It must create green and decent jobs. A green job should be one which reduces environmental impacts of enterprises and economic sectors to sustainable levels, while providing decent working and living conditions to all those involved in production and ensuring workers? and labour rights are respected. Under this definition, several dimensions of green jobs must be taken into account: their ability to reduce environmental impacts in different sectors, their capacity to deliver Decent Work, their respect for trade union rights and their ability to enable the inclusion of women and youth in the labour market.
4. It must protect the rights of workers and trade unions. The green economy should be a rights-based economy: based on the rights of the planet, on human rights and on workers� rights. Trade unions will fight for this to be a fundamental part of the equation. There are huge challenges ahead: new jobs in new sectors may entail worse working conditions than in mature industries where unions have been organising workers for decades. The challenge of organising new sectors can not be underestimated. In some new sectors, there are no collective agreements to protect workers, or those existing are not applied. Trade unions will only support a transition that comes with job security and this is only possible with strong collective bargaining mechanisms. When workers can organise collectively into trade unions, they can achieve dignity in the workplace, receive a fair wage, be defended against discriminationand enjoy a decent standard of living. They can enjoy security, and work with their trade unions to protect the environment.
5. It must fulfil social objectives and satisfy human needs in the long term. The green economy has to be a driver for social progress. From its inception the green economy?s aim must be to satisfy human needs in the long term, including universal access to water, food, housing, energy, land, health, education, transport and culture.
6. It must reverse the current economy?s tendency to ?wring out? workers. Under the current economic model, companies and governments tend to concentrate their efforts on increasing their competitiveness in international markets through a reduction in labour costs. And since the industrial revolution this strategy has been coupled with the overexploitation of scarce natural resources and energy with little incentive for efficiency gains. This has resulted in a higher increase in labour productivity than in the productivity of materials and energy. For example, in Europe, in the last fifty years work productivity has increased by 300% while the productivity of materials improved by 100% and energy productivity by 20%. The green economy needs to move towards full employment together with the optimal use of materials and energy .
7. The transition to a Green Economy must be a Just Transition. The transition in the sectors that will be negatively affected must be managed. Without specific Just Transition policies, the green economy could be unfair, more costly and harmful to social services. Workers, families and communities affected need adequate social protection and access to new opportunities. A Just Transition needs to be based on sustainable industrial policies, active labour market policies, income protection, retraining, meaningful social dialogue, ex-ante research on potential impacts, investments at the local level and economic diversification .
8. It must widen social protection schemes. To advance towards a green economy, investments in social security and health systems are just as important as those in new energy sectors, in order to build resilient societies and address poverty reduction. A universal social protection floor for many countries where there is none is important, as would the ratification of ILO Convention 102. (See social protection section #2)
9. It must promote democracy. At the international level, the promotion of democratic processes in which civil society and citizens participate in decision-making is essential. Only truly democratic institutions can effectively design and implement the changes required by a green economy. The identification of the most efficient and appropriate options, and their implementation, will require the informed and empowered participation of all and in particular affected populations.
10. It must be based on the real economy and be non-speculative. Short-term speculation leads to significant price fluctuations and creates artificial bubbles, like those that contributed to the current economic crisis. The time has come to return to the real economy, as speculation is a major barrier to sustainable development. A green economy needs stringent regulation of financial markets, actors and services including taxes on speculative flows as a transition measure to control speculation.
4.b. Recognising the role of green and fair taxation
In order to provide some signals about the kind of green economy we would like to see, and to start building solid bridges with the sustainable development concept, trade unions would like the Rio+20 summit to highlight the potential for social progress and environmental protection of a transformation of tax systems.
Taxes are generally used to raise revenues for government to redistribute wealth within societies, including through the financing of public services or redistributing income for people in need. However, recent reforms have tended to make taxation less progressive and therefore less likely to address growing income inequality. As an example, indirect taxation, such as consumption taxes, has taken a larger share of government tax revenues, without an increase in compensation mechanisms or other social transfers. In addition, few policies have addressed the rampant level of tax evasion effectively...
Furthermore, the challenge of securing a fair distribution of natural resources in our societies while also ensuring a sustainable natural resource base for future generations needs to be addressed. In this sense, Green Taxation offers a way to respond to these societal needs. In practice, Green Taxation forms are as diverse as taxation itself, as are also its effects and possible contributions to a fair and green economy.
Trade unions are convinced that progressive tax reform, having as a guiding principle the fair distribution of material and natural wealth, will play a key role in achieving the objectives of sustainable development. The Rio+20 declaration should recognise this.
4.c. Kickstart the process: Green Investments in decent job creation and transformation
Trade unions are convinced of the importance of the principles and measures mentioned above. Nonetheless, we are also conscious that principles alone will not transform the current economic model. We need a concrete action plan which will move us towards environmentally and people-friendly investments, which will create and transform jobs into decent and green jobs and put us on the road towards sustainability. Nonetheless, how can action be taken at the international level on green and decent jobs, when we know the differences between countries when it comes to their levels of development, employment needs, social protection coverage and environmental challenges?
The trade union movement has concluded that in order to move this agenda forward, we need nationally-based commitments to decent work creation through green investments. These commitments must come from domestic analysis of where the highest potential for win-win solutions is (for the planet, for workers and for society as a whole) and how an annual investment of 2% of GDP in green sectors will modify the labour market in the next five to ten years, combined with an accompanying set of policies that ensure the decent work dimension of these investments is achieved.
It is possible. Several sectors have already shown their potential in terms of green job creation (i.e. renewable energy, building retrofits, public transport). And we have also seen successful linkages being made with manufacturing and the services sector. The ?greening? of jobs in traditional sectors is also crucial if we want to succeed in the transformation of the whole production system. The ITUC has initiated research to estimate the potential impact, and with our affiliates, we will be presenting to governments policy packages which will include proposals on the investments as well as the accompanying social policies needed to ensure that the jobs created correspond to the ILO definition of Decent Work and follow all the principles mentioned above, including the need for integrating women and young workers in the ?green economy?. The positive impacts on environmental protection will be significant and those on people?s prosperity and social progress even more.
This is why trade unions think an ambitious Rio+20 agenda must be one that includes a commitment, at the highest levels possible, to invest in ?green? policies with high job creation potential and to implement accompanying decent work policies in the next five to ten years.
Key messages from this section:
Generating millions of new green and decent jobs and transforming existing ones into greener and more decent jobs could be the most positive achievement of the green economy. This could also ?plant the seed? for systemic change.
Therefore, the international labour movement calls on Rio+20 to decide:
- at the ?Declaration? level, the principles that must be followed by the Green Economy, in order to ensure that it contributes to social progress and sustainable development, including those described in section 4a above; and to acknowledge the role of socially-progressive and environmentally-friendly taxation reforms.
- At the ?Heads of State? level, a country by country self-identified target on decent and green jobs creation to be reached in the next 5-10 years, through environmentally-friendly investments coupled with decent work policies.
In the event of an agreement on Sustainable Development Goals, a commitment to ensure that by 2020, the share of decent work in total employment has reached more than half the global working population, including through the implementation of green and decent jobs targets.
c) Institutional framework for sustainable development: Priorities and proposals for strengthening individual pillars of sustainable development, as well as those for strengthening integration of the three pillars, at multiple levels; local, national, regional and international. 5. Sustainable development needs stronger governance and coherence [Rio+20 agenda item: The Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development]
Over the last decades we have witnessed a global crisis of governance and regulation, both at national and international levels, along with economic and financial deregulation. Both before and since Rio 1992the orthodoxy of weak government participation in the economy has prevailed, first through the ?Washington Consensus? and now in the developed world through the predominance of market fundamentalism and financial speculation. The assumption is demonstrably wrong but remains effectively unchanged: that the weaker the government the better, at national and international levels.
The social and environmental dimensions of globalisation have not been addressed. Global businesses have become increasingly able to operate beyond the constraints of national regulation, and no effective system of international governance has been put in place to ensure that their activities contribute to economic prosperity, social progress and environmental protection. The absence of effective public oversight at national and international levels has fostered a culture of corporate greed and irresponsibility. We need democratic and effective states at the national level and democratic and effective UN institutions at the international level.
A stronger and more efficient multilateral system is the instrument to create a democratic, legitimate and coherent framework for globalisation. The UN multilateral system constitutes the core of the current system of global governance. Nonetheless, at the international level, the need for reform and greater coherence is huge, in all three dimensions of sustainable development.
Economic governance has to be reformed in order to improve transparency, democracy in decision-making, balance between developing and developed countries and a much better redistribution of benefits and burdens, providing the necessary resources for global prosperity and sustainable development.
Social governance has to be strengthened in order to ensure economic decision-making also achieves social and environmental gains. Despite the existence at the international level of formal institutions with a mandate to redress social imbalances, they have not been empowered to stop the trend towards greater global and national inequalities.
Environmental governance also needs to be strengthened. The lack of environmental governance is forcing workers in many parts of the world to choose between their health and their income, putting their lives, communities and jobs at risk. Strong environmental governance contributes to social justice. The trade union movement agrees with the creation of a new UN Environmental Organisation that would strengthen the authority of environmental decision making and facilitate more coherent decision-making and implementation. This organisation will need to be democratic and ensure the balanced participation of developed and developing, small and big countries in informed decision-making.
There is also a need to reform the way in which these three social, environmental and economic dimensions interact. The international labour movement is convinced that we need first and foremost a commitment to prioritise social progress and environmental protection. If this commitment exists, institutions will succeed in their mandate of achieving sustainable development. The creation of a Sustainable Development Council should also be considered as an option.
6. Governance of sustainable development is about peoples? rights and empowerment [Rio+20 agenda item: The Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development]
Finding a balance between developed, emerging and developing countries at the international level should not be the only aim of a stronger governance of sustainable development or of its dimensions. The ultimate objective of discussions on governance is to ensure decisions are solid and democratic and positively affect people?s lives. Therefore, there is no truly sound governance without the strong participation of civil society and citizens, at national and international levels.
Governments should be guided by a rights-based approach. In the same way that social rights can only be enhanced if workers see their rights respected and enforced, environmental governance requires citizens to have the right to access information, justice (dispute settlement, arbitration, courts), and public participation on environmental matters. Civil society holds governments accountable. It is an essential aspect in the implementation of sustainable development decisions.
This is why trade unions support the call to launch negotiations for the establishment of an international convention on Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration that deals with access to information, public participation and environmental justice.
Another mechanism that trade unions support to give workers and communities a voice is the creation of ?Ombudspersons for Future Generations? at global, national and local levels, who will advocate sustainable development, serve as an auditor at the heart of governments and deal with citizens? complaints and address violations.
The contribution of trade unions to environmental protection could be improved if real changes were made in sustainable development governance. All elements described under Principle 10 of Agenda 21 need to be translated into rights at the workplace. This applies to:
Right to participate: Workers have the right to participate in decision-making processes related to environmental concerns in their workplaces. At present, such a right is not envisaged in national legislation, although it is to some extent recognised in some large enterprises, sectoral collective agreements and voluntary regional accords.
Right-to-know: Workers have the right to be aware of environmental hazards in their workplaces. These hazards can be identified and evaluated, and information concerning them must be communicated to employers and employees through such means as labelling, material safety data sheets and employee training.
Whistleblower protection: A worker must not be held liable or be disciplined for reporting workplace practices that he/she honestly believes may pose an environmental risk.
Right to refuse dangerous work: A worker must not be held liable or be disciplined for refusing to perform work that he/she honestly believes may pose an immediate or serious threat to his/her or other workers? health.
Right to refuse work which harms the environment: A worker must not be held liable or be disciplined for refusing to do work that he/she honestly believes may pose an immediate or serious threat to the environment.
Building the governance of sustainable development is the real challenge of Rio+20. Governments should not hesitate to take the necessary steps to empower their citizens today, in order to secure a long-lasting legacy of this Summit.
Key messages from this section:
- An institutional framework for sustainable development must be based on a strong political commitment to prioritise social equity and environmental protection over economic performance, and this must be translated into the importance given to economic, social and environmental institutions in the multilateral system.
Trade unions call on governments at Rio+20 to:
- Support the designation of a national council or public representative or ?ombudsperson? to represent the interests and rights of present and future generations;
- Launch negotiations for the establishment of an international convention on Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration that deals with access to information, public participation and environmental justice;
- Work towards the creation of a UN Environmental Organisation with strong powers and authority and support the creation of a Sustainable Development Council
Final remarks
The enormity of the challenges facing our world means that no social group can act alone. We need to enter a time in which trade unions, environmental, social and gender NGOs and movements, local governments, consumer organisations, indigenous peoples, and responsible employers, among others, work together and build a progressive agenda for change.
For the last twenty years, trade unions have worked to integrate all components of sustainable development into their work. Much remains to be done. Our work is based on the belief that a commitment to ensure workers? participation in decision-making will improve our capacity to achieve a decent life on a healthier planet.
Trade unions will continue to raise awareness among workers and their communities of the need to change our current production and consumption models. A paradigm shift towards an environmentally and socially responsible society needs the commitment of workers and their organisations and the recognition of their role. We will work with commitment to achieve this end.
d) Any proposals for refinement of the two themes. Recall that Resolution 64/236 describes the focus of the Conference: "The focus of the Conference will include the following themes to be discussed and refined during the preparatory process: a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and the institutional framework for sustainable development". N/A
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Emerald Eagle Honors 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 6:00pm
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, the UNT Foundation will host the second annual Emerald Eagle Honors: Recognizing a Lifetime of Contributions to the American Landscape. This evening of live entertainment will take place at Dallas' Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, with seating limited to approximately 1,500 ticket holders.
This Kennedy Center Honors-type stage production allows the University to annually celebrate three UNT alumni who have profoundly impacted our culture and society. Last year's honorees were Pro Football Hall of Famer "Mean" Joe Greene; Rock and Roll icon, the late Roy Orbison; and former Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm. Honorees for this year include actor and Academy Award nominee Peter Weller; actress, former sportscaster and 1971 Miss America Phyllis George; and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Larry McMurtry.
These trailblazers will be celebrated from the Meyerson stage via career video retrospectives, remarks by speakers significant to their careers, and musical tributes by special guests and the UNT College of Music. During the show, the honorees will watch from private boxes, surrounded by family and friends.
The show will also spotlight the wonderful stories of the evening's beneficiary, UNT's award-winning Emerald Eagle Scholars program. The Emerald Eagle Scholars program helps high-achieving but financially challenged students pursue their college dreams.
The program provides students with financial and academic support and campus connections to help them succeed in college and earn their degrees. It has allowed nearly 3,500 students -- most of whom are first-generation college students -- to attend UNT.
The approximately 120 Emerald Eagle seniors will be recognized during the proceedings and will be seated behind the stage in the Meyerson's choral terrace.
Tickets and sponsorships are being sold through an event committee comprised of UNT alumni and civic leaders dedicated to the cause of the Emerald Eagle Scholars program. All proceeds go to this worthy cause.
Attire for the evening is cocktail and ticket holders will be served cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres prior to the show's approximate 7:45 pm curtain.
Learn more about event details.
"It is a blessing to be a part of the Emerald Eagle Scholars community, where its members inspire each other, every day. Most of my fellow scholars are first generation college students and this program is the reason they are here. With this program, we have an opportunity to make our world a better place."
Derek L. Villarreal
Class of 2015
Meet Darryl Robinson: UNT Emerald Eagle Scholar
The Emerald Eagles in Costa Rica
The Emerald Eagle Scholars traveled to Costa Rica in the summer of 2010 to study "green" tourism. Explore their blog for more about their study-abroad experience.
Making Dreams Come True
Juan Carlos Franco ('10) wants to engineer a robot that can find life on other planets. Ashton Brielle Burton ('11), a first-generation college student, plans to pursue an M.B.A. and launch her own line of cocktail dresses. And Lauren Doxley ('10) is on her way to influencing the court system.
Learn how the Emerald Eagle Scholars program changed the lives of these recent graduates. Read full story in the North Texan


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Do you enjoy the rush of watching the brash style of Maksim Chmerkovskiy or the grace of Karina Smirnoff as they jive, quickstep, and waltz on ABC's Dancing with the Stars? Well, the American Cancer Society may have the next best thing, and it's for a good cause.
ACS invites you to their first annual Salt Lake area Relay For Life Kick-off Event dubbed "Dancing with the Salt Lake Stars." "Stars" from all over the Salt Lake Valley will perform with the help of DF Dance Studios to raise funds for this year's Relay. After the stars dance their hearts out, the audience will vote for their favorites by placing money in the stars' donation buckets. The star with the most funds wins bragging rights as Salt Lake's dancing queen or king!
See it all on stage at Rowland Hall, 720 S. Guardsman Way, SLC, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9. This event will fill up fast as only 500 seats are available. It's free of charge, but a $2 donation per ticket is suggested.
Once you've been inspired by the Salt Lake stars movin' and shakin', you can become a star in your own community by registering for an upcoming Relay for Life, a 24-hour relay in which teams take turns keeping one teammate on the route day and night to acknowledge that cancer never sleeps, and neither should cancer research.
Find a Relay for Life near you at relayforlife.org.


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Student Garners Awards for Proposed Mobile App
By attending "Harrisonburg Startup Weekend," Joshua Mensah and George Greene hoped to promote their clothing-design business. Instead, these digital design majors ended up hatching new business plans. Working in teams among 24 competitors, including many experienced "serial entrepreneurs," the two Eastern Mennonite University ...More


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Recent server upgrades cause online store problems
- On 13 August 2014
Hi everyone!
There has been a recent upgrade to the server that I run my JustJoomla.com site on, and that has caused some unanticipated problems with the online store software. Due to interruption that this has caused - I've decided to move sales back to my business site at RaptorServices.com. Sorry - I know this is a bit of short notice :-( I had thought I was prepared for managing this changeover - but I didn't factor in getting the flu and spending yesterday in hospital being treated for dehydration.
All customers with current support subscriptions at JustJoomla.com can continue to receive support from me via the ticketing system here, and those customers should also be able to access their downloads here. If you're a customer with a current subscription - and you can't access the ticketing system etc - please contact me via email.
New sales and associated support will be handled over at RaptorServices.com, which has an updated online user guide and crowd-support.


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Give the gift of Ojo with an Ojo Caliente Gift Card!
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Our signature line of Ojo logo items includes both men's and women's clothing and assorted gifts.
We're adding new items to the online store all the time, so please check back often.


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Caldwell, NY, has long been the battleground for the vampires and their enemies, the Lessening Society. It's also where Rehvenge has staked out his turf as a drug lord and notorious nightclub that caters to the rich and heavily armed. His shadowy reputation is exactly why he's approached to kill Wrath, the Blind King, and leader of the Brotherhood. Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood, even though his sister is married to a member. Because he's a sympath, his identity is a deadly secret- the revelation of which will
result in his banishment to a colony for sociopaths. And as plots within and outside the Brotherhood take their toll against Rehvenge, he turns to the only source of light in a darkening world- Elhena, a vampire untouched by the corruption that has its hold on him- and the only thing standing between him and
eternal destruction.
Black Dagger Brotherhood Book 7
Rehvenge, a.k.a. the Reverend, is the most glamorous baddest of bad boys in J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood world. Drug Lord, pimp and owner of the night club, ZeroSum, it's not unusual for Rehv to pull down 200K a night. Keeping his Chosen mother in the lap of luxury is expensive, but it's nothing compared to the monetary demands of his blackmailer, the princess, for Rehvenge has a secret. Beneath the sable coat, couture suits and mohawk, this amethyst-eyed vampire is half sympath. Also known as sin-eaters, sympaths have evolved from their vampire genes into cerebral beings. They are complete sociopaths and feed off the emotions of others. For these and many other reasons, sympaths were banished to a colony in upper New York. Any sympath discovered in the general population must be reported and deported. For a half breed like Rehv, deportation to the colony would mean torture followed by death. Sympaths despise weakness of any kind and a half sympath would surely be deemed weak.
For the last twenty-five years, Rehv has been blackmailed by his half sister, the princess and mate to his uncle the sympath king. Threatening to not only reveal his dirty secret but the same secret that's being hidden by Rehv's head of security at ZeroSum, the female Xhex. In order to protect the ones he loves, Rehv has sold his body and his soul to the princess by whoring himself out to her one night a month and using the drug profits to pay her to keep her mouth closed. The monthly experiences are horrific and Rehv feels that no matter how many times he washes, he'll never again be clean. The deaths of so many can't be washed away and the taint of the princess runs deep.
Rehvenge, despite his sociopath sympath genes, at his core he's intrinsically good. While he doesn't believe it, it's clear to not only the reader, but to those close to Rehv that he'd easily sell his soul to protect those he loves. The proof positive is in his dealings with the princess. But Rehv is blind and considers himself a male of no worth. He has lived his entire existence with the knowledge they he'll never be normal and he'll never have love for no female of worth would ever want him. Except maybe one.
The only drug that Rehv acquires through legitimate means is his dopamine. The drug acts as a suppressant of his sympath genes but it also has dire side effects by not only numbing his entire body, but rendering him impotent as well. Rehv's nurse at Havers Clinic, Ehlena, has always intrigued him. He can tell that they share something in common: Loneliness.
Ehlena, once the daughter of a prominent member of the glymera - the vampire upper class - is now penniless with all available finances being used to help her father and his condition. Suffering from severe schizophrenia, Ehlena's father requires round the clock care. With the onset of his disease, her father lost everything. Not only his social standing and wealth but also his shellan who committed suicide. Ehlena is all that he has left and she does everything she can to make him comfortable. Living in a crumbling rental house, all Ehlena knows is work and caring for her father. Mentally and physically exhausted she can't seem to take her own advice that she delivers to patients in similar situations. But one day, the patient Rehvenge is able to shake her out of life's stupor.
The nurses at Havers Clinic have never particularly liked Rehvenge and that works just fine for him. But for some reason he wants the perfectly starched and coiffed nurse to see him. In classic Rehv attitude, his flirting is more like blatant sexual aggression. It's almost as though he doesn't even take his own words seriously for he knows he'll be shut down anyway. Yet the idea of being shut down by Ehlena irritates him. Acting extremely out of character, Rehv offers an apology for his behavior by extending his card to Ehlena in the hopes that maybe one day she'd need him. For what he couldn't say but he wants to be reachable by this beautiful and intriguing female.
Ehlena's initial reaction to Rehvenge may appear haughty on the surface but inside she's really confused by the male's attention. Besides, why would a male of obvious wealth be interested in her? She turns down his offering and refuses his card. But even after the handsome male leaves, Ehlena can't get him out of her mind. She forces her thoughts towards a clinical avenue as an excuse for her dwelling. Remembering the busted veins in Rehv's arm that suggests infection, Ehlena calls the male to question why he didn't have Havers tend to his condition. Rehv, the master manipulator, convinces Ehlena that what she really needs to do is meet him for dinner at his high rise penthouse. Ehlena says yes to his request and Rehv finds that he loves this female's acquiescence.
In a total spur of the moment act, Ehlena pilfers some penicillin tablets from the clinic pharmacy. She has to make this dinner about his health for her mind simply can't process any other means for her irrational behavior. It's upon her very arrival at Rehv penthouse that Ehlena realizes the two of them couldn't be any father apart in the social stratosphere. She makes the decision then and there that this "relationship" is going nowhere. She'll deliver the meds and leave. But as she stands outside his glass doors she can't bring herself to dematerialize. Instead she's transfixed by the obvious remorse that Rehv feels over her departure. She watches as he sits at a table elegantly set for two complete with flickering candles. He took the time to make the night special for her. It's when his head lifts up and he pierces her with amethyst eyes that Ehlena goes back on her earlier decision and once again walks though the sliding glass door, realigning both their fates.
Rehvenge is a complete giver when comes to pleasureing his female. It doesn't matter that she can't recipricate because of the dopamine's effects. He takes total satisification pleasuring Ehlena to the point that she can't even see straight. Yet Ehlena, wanting to return whatever pleasure that she can, offers Rehv her vein. It's the only part of her that she knows he can feel, taste and touch - her blood. But Rehv can only feel his worthlessness at her offering. Ehlena is far from too good for him, he shouldn't even be touching her much less be given the honor to take her vein. Except Rehvenge can't fully explain these thoughts for it would mean revealing his true identity. It's not just the need to hide his sympath nature that's holding him back, he's also reminded how many lives he's taken, the drugs he's sold, and that his body has been tainted by the princess. The last thing that Rehv wants to do is taint Ehlena. She represents all that is good and he won't blacken her with his dark baggage.
On the flip side, it's Ehlena that feels unworthly of Rehv. She lives one paycheck away from the streets. She's been shunned by the glymera. How would a male of Rehv's worth even be tempted by her. With these thoughts, all Ehlena can feel is anger and humilation. It's as she's thrusting her body into her clothes with all the determination to leave that Rehv stops her and takes her offering. He can't let her go. It's selfish and wrong, but he needs Ehlena.
Of course as always, one can't free fall through love forever before hitting rock hard earth. The walls that Rehv has paid in blood to contain his secret are crumbling. The charade is up, leaving him fighting a losing battle and is left with one option: Protect the ones he loves by returning to the sympath colony. In the loving need to drive Ehlena away for her own saftey, Rehvenge reveals all his ugly truths in the harshest way possible to ensure her hatred and her desire to never look for him. Rehv suceeds.
Don't you just love the cliffhanger review?? *wink*
First of all, I want to thank J.R. Ward for returning to the ROMANCE. 'Lover Avenged' was relationship central! There was romance throughout the novel and not just with Rehvenge and Ehlena but with Wrath and Beth and even with John Matthew and Xhex.
I loved Rehv and I thought that Ehlena was definitely worthy of him. I was worried about whether any female would be right for Rehv in my reader heart and I'm happy to report that I couldn't be more satisfied. Reading 'Lover Avenged' was like taking a long sigh of relief. 'Lover Enshrined' was such a disappointment although I want to stress that it was a disappointment only in the romantic sense. Ward still delivered.
The series itself is so much darker now than when it started with 'Dark Lover'. Those early days seem like eons ago and as Ward has evolved and built the series, I've been a willing follower. From what I've read, I can only guess that the series will continue to get even darker.
Next in the BDB series: John Matthew and Xhex in 'Lover Mine'. Supposed release date is this time next year.


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ZF-3065: Create CodeSniffer ruleset to accompany coding standards
I am actually working on this ruleset. Just tell me if it's helpfull for you or not. I can send you what I've done until yet, but it's far away from being finished because I want to have a complete testbed, and not only the things which we found to be problematic.
For example: Also how the indention is done (4 spaces) should be tested. I've seen 3 and 2 spaces in the code already. Or how the braket of the if clause is set... it should always be in the same line and not in the next.
Changing to comply with new IT coventions for components.
We are not allowed to add a coding standard testbed without writing a proposal even if I was said in past that I don't need it. I had to delete my existing work from incubator as wished by the Zend Dev-Team.
Feel free to download the non-finished version from my blog in a few days.
Therefor reassigning this issue to Ralph as he was the main initiator of this work.
such a shame. maybe more luck with ZF2. :/
[~dasprid] already working on it, see https://github.com/DASPRiD/ZFCS :).
Greetings, Ramon


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Talavera pottery originated in the Arab-Andalusia culture of Talavera de la Reina, Spain, where it was known as majolica. When Spanish monks came to Mexico in the 16th century, they wanted to decorate their monasteries and churches with tiles like they had back home. But although pre-Hispanic Mexican cultures had a long history of working in ceramic, they didn't use a potter's wheel or glaze. The monks brought specialized artisans to the Mexican state of Puebla to train them in the majolica style. Mexican artisans fused their knowledge of ceramic techniques and local materials with their own interpretation of majolica, creating the distinctive patterns and colors that have come to be known as talavera pottery.
These colorful mugs are created in the Talavera style by a family-run studio in Guanajuato, Mexico. They're microwave and dishwasher safe, making them just as practical as they are beautiful.
Handcrafted in Guanajuato, Mexico, with food-safe glazes. Holds 13 oz each. Approximately 4 3/4"H x 4"D x 5"W including handle.
Microwave- and dishwasher safe.
About Talavera Pottery
With roots in Andalusian Spain, the Mexican ceramic technique of talavera is the major craft of the state of Puebla. Earthenware pottery is covered with a white tin glaze, which is then decorated with pigments before the white glaze is fired. Since the tin glaze is highly viscous, it lends a glossy surface and helps the lines of the colored design remain crisp during firing.
The technique is a true cross-cultural craft evolution. In the 13th century, Arab potters brought tin glazing ceramic techniques from North Africa to southern Spain. The pottery was given the name maiolica by Italians who imported it from the Spanish island of Majorca. During the conquest, Spanish priests brought craftsmen from Talavera de la Reina, Spain, to the Puebla region of Mexico, where they taught the native craftsmen their Arab-Andalusian ceramic techniques. These early pieces, tiles and religious icons, decorated Catholic churches throughout the area. Over the years, Mexican craftsmen combined these new ideas with their existing earthenware traditions and developed a homegrown version that is now known by the Spanish name talavera.
Is it "Real" Talavera?Just as true champagne can only be made in the Champagne region of northeast France, only talavera produced in the Mexican state of Puebla can be certified as authentic by the Talavera Regulating Council. The talavera-style pottery we sell at National Geographic is not certified authentic, for a variety of reasons. Pursuing certification can be an expensive process, and some of the small studios we work with, even if they are located in Puebla, choose not to incur that cost. But most importantly for us, authentic talavera must be produced according to the original methods from the 1600sthis includes the use of lead-based glazes. We prefer to err on the side of safety and only sell talavera-style items that meet or exceed FDA regulations for acceptable lead content.


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ZF-7902: Zend_Filter_StringTrim does not work when trim string is '/'
Zend_Filter_StringTrim no longer works (i just upgraded from 1.7.3) when the string you wish to trim is '/'.
I get this warning and Zend_Filter_StringTrim::filter returns 0 Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier ']' in Zend/Filter/StringTrim.php on line 112
How to replicate: $stringTrim = new Zend_Filter_StringTrim('/'); $stringTrim->filter('/some/uri/here/');
The issue is caused by the forward slash also being the delimiter in the regular expression used. I've prepared a patch that escapes the forward slash properly.
Patch for ZF-7902
(sorry for the duplicate upload, but got a stacktrace on the first try. deleting one of the files.)
Fixed with r18399. Thnx for the patch.
This issue still present in version 1.9.7
This issue is marked as fixed for the next minor release which is 1.10. Otherwise "Fix-Version" would point to a defined release where this issue has been solved.
IMHO the test case for this issue does not check for the bug reported here. Attaching a changed test case.


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