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Have you ever needed technical support and did not know how to accurately describe your problem to the help desk or technical support representative on the phone? Perhaps you can duplicate your problem over and over, but the person on the other end of the call simply does not understand what you are describing. After all, the representative's computer is working properly, and they don't have that annoying error on the screen, or they can connect to wireless just fine!
On the other side of the spectrum, as a technical support representative, you may not be able to visualize the steps that an individual is taking to create a problem or error. Wouldn't it be nice to see exactly what the person is clicking, what order, and what exactly the error or symptom is that they are experiencing? In technical support call centers, such as Columbus, Ohio's Teleperformance where FCR (first call resolution) and AHT (average handling time) are some of a representative's key metrics for measuring performance effectiveness, such accurate relaying of information is invaluable in assisting a customer. Both the customer and the representative appreciate efficient flow of information as everyone's time is valuable.
The answer could be a great new tool from Microsoft included in Windows 7, the Problem Steps Recorder. This tool can be a massive help to you no matter which side of the phone you are on.
The Problem Steps Recorder can be started by clicking Start menu Search box, or command prompt and typing PSR.exe and clicking Open. It is basically a screen capture client that records actions such as keystrokes, mouse clicks, menu accesses, etc... and records the sequence in a stand-alone web page that can be sent to technical support through e-mail or other means.
This makes it much easier to verify the steps taken, or explain your problem accurately to technical support. The interface is a simple one-click menu, consisting of 3 commands, "Start Record", "Stop Record", and "Add Comment", making it easy for even the novice user to use. In addition there is a timer to show exactly what sequence windows or clicks, as well as errors occur in.
The program may be simplistic, but it includes detailed information that can make the difference between someone getting the support they need, or spending an hour on the phone in a loop trying to work out a verbal communication "language" that both the support representative and the customer can collaborate in. Ultimately, such a tool can relieve much frustration on the part of everyone.
Additionally, such a tool can be used to build effective knowledgebases to assist other customers. By attaching screen captures of the event, a technical support organization can assist other customers experiencing the same issue, as well as facilitate training of new representatives and helping them become effective in their support calls much quicker than "trial and error" methods.
The next time you are in need of support, shorten your call and get your point across quickly and effectively by trying Problem Steps Recorder.


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I watched a fair amount of this game (hey, its Christmas eve, and I'm just sitting on my couch anyway!)...the first half was strange. Not so much because Miami took the lead, but more because Tom Brady looked completely off. Maybe he stayed up all night with his son. Maybe his wife is making him take out the garbage. Who knows? So it was 17-0 and he was not the player we've come to expect.
And then came the second half. Miami did a lot of things right - much as they had in the first half - but Brady suddenly looked in control. And the net result was that the Pats mounted a comeback to win.
So I was wrong that the Pats would blow out the Fins; nevertheless they won. And Gronkowski had another big day.
Ho hum.
Now please join me back in reality where the Fins need a coach, a QB, and a GM. We don't have any of those things.

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The Florida Bar
August 12, 2011
CONTACT: Jessica J. Lyublanovits, Clerk of Court,
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
The United States District Court, Northern District of Florida, is currently accepting applications for a full-time magistrate judge position to be resident in Tallahassee, Florida.
The duties for the position are demanding, wide-ranging and include: 1) pretrial matters and evidentiary proceedings on delegation from judges of the district court; 2) discovery and settlement matters in civil cases; 3) pretrial motions, trial and disposition of civil cases upon consent of the litigants; 4) civil rights cases filed by prisoners, non-prisoner pro se civil cases and social security cases; 5) preliminary proceedings in criminal cases; 6) trial and disposition of misdemeanor cases (CVB); 7) other duties such as criminal complaints and arrest warrants, search warrants, initial appearances, grand jury matters; and 8) naturalization ceremonies. The basic jurisdiction of the United States magistrate judge is specified in 28 U.S.C § 636 and in United States District Court.
To be qualified for appointment an applicant must
1) Be, and have been for at least five years, a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and have been engaged in the active practice of law for a period of at least 5 years (with some substitutes authorized);
2) Be competent to perform all duties of the office; be of good moral character; be emotionally stable and mature; be committed to equal justice under the law; be in good health; be patient and courteous; and be capable of deliberation and decisiveness;
3) Be less than seventy years old; and
4) Not be related to a judge of the district court.
A Merit Selection Panel composed of attorneys and other members of the community will review all applicants and recommend to the Judges of the District Court in confidence the persons it considers best qualified. The Panel for the Tallahassee position will submit to the Court the names of five candidates for such position. The court will make the appointment, following an FBI full-field investigation and an IRS tax check of the appointee, which probably cannot be completed prior to March 19, 2012. An affirmative effort will be made to give due consideration to all qualified candidates, including women and members of minority groups. The current annual salary of the position is $160,080.00. The term of office is 8 years.
Applicants must use the official application form. The application form may be obtained at the intake counters of the Clerk's Office in Tallahassee, Gainesville, Panama City, and Pensacola or at the Court's internet website at www.flnd.uscourts.gov. The original and 13 copies of the completed application, including a recent and in-depth writing sample and a two page response to the following question: "Why are you interested in becoming a United States Magistrate Judge and why are you the best person for this position? The application packet must be submitted only by the applicant personally (i.e., an application may not be submitted on behalf of another) and must be received, regardless to mode of delivery, at the following address of the Office of the Clerk in Tallahassee by September 14, 2011. Applications by facsimile or e-mail transmission cannot be accepted.
Jessica J. Lyublanovits, Clerk of Court
United States District Court for the
Northern District of Florida
Attn: Magistrate Judge Applications
111 N. Adams Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301-7730
All applications will be kept confidential, unless the applicant consents to disclosure, and all applications will be examined only by members of the Merit Selection Panel and the judges of the district court. The panel's deliberations will remain confidential.
EDITORS: Please note The Florida Bar is not an association and "Association" is not part of our name. Proper reference is "The Florida Bar." Local bar organizations are properly termed "associations."
[Revised: 08-12-2011]


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Valentine's Day is here. During this season of love, there are many different events across Connecticut that you can enjoy and share arts and crafts projects as a family. Here are some of the highlights for this weekend:
Saturday, February 13th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm visit the Valentine's Craft Fair at the view the Knights of Columbus Hall in Stratford. Enjoy the many craft vendors and pick up a valentine gift for your special someone
Also on Saturday, February 13th from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm participate in a Crafty Valentine's Day Tea Workshop at the Guilford Art Center in Guilford. Crafts include a heart shaped fabric pillow, floral scented sachet and heart jewelry box. There is a material fee of $5.00 and tuition is $40.00 for non-members or $36.00 for members.
On Sunday, February 14th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm the Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center in Waterbury will be having a Be My Valentine: Family Valentine Workshop. See their collection of antique valentines then make your own beautiful valentines to share with friends and family. And this Sunday there is free admission to the museum.
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Two magical days away as Disney's spectacular new ice show 'Worlds of Fantasy' comes to town with four of your favourite Disney stories. Be dazzled with high-speed stunts and special effects as the CARS race across the ice, be amazed at the undersea kingdom of the Little Mermaid, welcome Tinker Bell and the Disney Fairies as they unveil their mystical world and cheer along as the Toy Story gang return. Sensational fun for all the family, plus a visit to fabulous Cadbury World!
● Coach travel throughout
● Reserved seating throughout your break
● One night dinner, bed and breakfast at our select hotel
● All bedrooms with en-suite facilities
● Visit to Cadbury World
● Inclusive admission to Disney on Ice – Worlds of Fantasy at the LG Arena.
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With the snow days made up, all the schools are finally closed. As soon as the weather clears, folks will be heading out to enjoy local water parks.
Lafayette: Closed during storms, no refunds. Season passes are available for each facility. Facilities can be rented for private parties.
Vinton Pool is next to Vinton School in the North End (link). This is the last remaining traditional pool in Lafayette. Built in the 1960's, Vinton and its twin pool, Edgelea, were supposed to ease the over-use of the pool at Columbian Park. These pools also made access to pools easier for North end and South end residents. Today Vinton has been revamped and features a zero-entry in the kid's area and handicap entrance by hoist. The deep end has slides. 1 session per day, noon to 6 p.m., 3$ per person (2 and under free). Thursday the pool remains open until 8 p.m. and after 4 p.m. the pool is ½ price.
Castaway Bay replaced the defunct Edgelea pool (link). Located on Beck Ln. near 9th St., there is plenty of parking and is part of Armstrong Park. This small water park features zero entry, fountains and water basketball. Daily session noon to 6 p.m., Adults: $4, kids 3-17: $3.50. Tuesday the water park is open to 8 p.m., after 4 p.m. entry fee drops to $2 per person.
Tropicanoe Cove is a water park located in Columbian Park (link). It features a kiddie's area, lazy river, and large slide among other amenities. Sunday hours: noon to 6 p.m., Weekdays: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Weekdays: under 48" $4.50, over 48" $5.50, just watching $2.00 (2 and under free). Sat. /Sun. and holidays: under 48" $6.00, over 48" $7.00. Just watching $2.00 (2 and under free).
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The Hanoi Region is one of myth and history. Travelers come to hotels in the Hanoi Region to see the old and the new, the past and the present, American, French and Chinese influences. This is where you leave Hanoi Region hotels to hop a bike and ride around Hoan Kiem Lake. Alternatively, you can sail over to Goldfish Islet in Ho Truc Lake to visit the Tran Quoc Temple, one of the oldest in the city of Hanoi. Some stay here and explore Hanoi Region and its major city, Hanoi, for a week; others come for a weekend. Hanoi Region accepts them and shows off its sights.
In Hanoi's Frenchtown, you can see St. Joseph's Cathedral, the block-wide Opera House and the elegant green-shuttered apartments. You can leave from even Hanoi Region cheap hotels to see Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum. Check with EasyToBook.com for good deals including discount hotels. The Hanoi Region can then show you its high priced villas and its old narrow alleyways.
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Always Someone Better
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Today is mid-term - I seriously had a nightmare about one of my exams last night! But all is well - I have an "A" overall in both classes I'm taking. A girl who sits behind me in Calculus is a high school student who is so advanced, she is taking college credit courses. I think it's incredible that she is so young and has an opportunity that I wish I had when I was her age. We got our exams back today, and I got an 89%, which I am totally thrilled about (because I literally had a nightmare it was terrible!) She seemed hesitant to share her grade, so I was worried she might not have done well, but then she revealed she got a 100%. I cheered and congratulated her. I think she was worried I might be jealous that she got a higher grade. It doesn't matter where I am relative to anyone else - we aren't graded on a curve. I made a couple of silly mistakes, and I would have liked my grade to be higher, but that's because I'm in competition with myself - not her or anyone else.
Truth is, there will always be someone better, smarter and more successful. It is stupid to compare ourselves with anyone else. I think it's even more stupid not to applaud people who do well and not push them forward. It is a very poor reflection of ourselves if we can't recognize talent in others.
My husband and I are doing well at the moment, and we recognize that while we've worked for it, there is always an element of luck in any ups or downs. I'm disappointed that I'm not working, but I am happy to be back in school. I really hated being at home with seemingly no purpose. My husband says my mood has been 100x better since I started classes and have some structure keeping me busy.
It has been disappointing that there are some people in our lives who are less than happy about what we've accomplished. Some either consciously or subconsciously have tried to diminish us. We ran into one of my husband's coworkers at Lowe's when we were shopping for window blinds. He explained to his wife that we just bought a house. She said, "Oh, is it a prebuilt house?" I thought that was a very odd question, but I later learned that they are in the process of having a house custom built. Hmm...ok...was that an attempt at upstaging? Then my husband said this coworker approached him at work and said he'd never buy a house less than 2 years old because you're just buying someone else's problems.
My husband is from England where all the houses are old. Good luck finding a plot of land to build a custom house if your name isn't Lord or Lady something. Where I'm from, generally buying a house less than 10 years old is risking foundation problems because the soil is very unstable. The house we bought at 23 years old has no structural or foundation problems - it's been standing long enough that those problems would have revealed themselves. That's one of the reasons why we bought it.
He's the coworker that belittles my husband for driving a fuel efficient Honda, while he brags about his luxury sedan. The thing is, my husband and I could care less. We don't care about playing keeping up with Jones or Kardashians or whatever. We compare us to ourselves. I'm not jealous of my coworker and his wife, but I now have a very poor opinion of them. We have had dinner with them before on occasion, and I told my husband that I don't really care to meet with them again. He agrees.
Right now we have a fold up table and patio chairs for our 'dining' table because we've been mobile for many years. Our real friends wouldn't care if it was a grand formal or a turned over box in the middle of the floor. Those who judge otherwise reveal themselves as persons of poor character.
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You are so right about all of this! I love this blog! we have no kitchen table right now ...our Apple computer is on the ground and the wooden fold up chairs are sitting around the computer desk until we can figure out a table situation! The house that we owned in the US was built in 1875 and was one of our great loves! ...There was a tree stump in the basement crawl space that appeared to be assisting in holding up the house...character...it is what I call character.
I am so tired of those who judge and of those who feel threatened by others success. Back in Oslo Quin had a hard situation with some girls who were upset with her because she was able so say that she drew well out loud. They told her that she shouldn't say things like that about herself! Why not!?! Really...do we have to diminish what we do well to make others feel better about themselves. Bah! No way!
Great---Great Blog! Thank you!!!!!
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Keeping up with the Joneses is a silly thing. And I won't buy a new house probably ever. My husband brother did and I couldn't stay there overnight without mega inhaler usage. The new building dust can be awful it seems to be for a few years. Even new stores or newly remodeled stores get me big time.
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How nice that you could realize THEIR positions...and ignore the not-so-subtle jabs....I have found my husband and I have managed to phase out the folks who act like this...a lot easier all around!
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Ah, keeping up with the Jones', really not worth the effort. Love your attitude about it. Some of our best times were when we lived in a tiny 12x56 mobile home. We had a huge yard so we always entertained in the yard. Once we had 50 or 60 people in the yard and it started sprinkling rain, we just all crammed into the house and had a great time laughing about how "close" friends we all were. It makes for some good memories and even better friendships!
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I am with you on not keeping up with the Jones. Are they any happier with all of their "stuff" then you, I don't think so.
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Don't let others bother you, you know what's important to achieving your own goals and that's what matters. Saying what they did was poor form. Perhaps they have more money, but money can't buy class.
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February 18, 2013
Healthy Habits
After years of trying to stick to a work out routine and truly eat a balanced diet, I feel like I'm starting to get a lot closer to these goals. At twenty seven I'm also realizing the reasons why it was probably hard to stick with the strict regimen I've tried to develop for myself over the years:
There really wasn't any need to do those things before. At twenty two I could (blissfully) eat whatever I wanted, so when I would try to "diet"or eat better it didn't work because I didn't really have any sort of goal in mind I was just thinking "I should diet! Everyone else is doing it." It reminds me of Mean Girls when Regina says "I need to lose three pounds." What? No you don't. I see now that dieting for the sake of losing weight isn't sustainable (which is why you're only supposed to do it for a fixed amount of time), but eating a delicious, well-balanced diet is. It can even be fun and delicious with the right recipes and a little research.
Likewise with exercise: I've taken boot camps, pilates, cardio kickboxing, yoga, but none of it has ever stuck. I realize now that I'm the kind of person who needs variety in their workouts. I'm not going to sustainably get up every morning and go do the same thing. I just can't! But now a mix of yoga classes, jogs, trips to the gym and walks with friends create a fun and varied schedule for me to get in the physical activity I need.
Here's what I use and rely on to get and stay healthy: delicious healthy recipes, reliable gear and (obviously) fun clothing and accessories to make it all a little more rewarding (clockwise from top left):
Lululemon: If you've never been in here before you're thinking: What's up with that place? It's true that it's pricy and yes, the salesgirls are very energetic. But it's sort of infectious and the clothes make working out really exciting. Go in and try anything on and I promise you'll feel like a super-fit babe. Every single thing I've gotten is so flattering that I want to wear it all day long after I'm done at the gym. This top is a particular favorite—it doesn't look like much online but try it on and I swear you'll be hooked. They also frequently have items for sale in store and online.
Nathan Water Bottle Belt: I love this for runs over three miles.
The Dirty Dozen (image from this print on Etsy—love this in a kitchen): I have this bookmarked on my phone for when I'm grocery shopping. I like buying organic when possible, but it definitely gets expensive. This list helps me determine what's best to buy organic and what's okay to purchase conventional.
Green Ginger-Peach Smoothie: I love this before a yoga class or after a run. Sometimes my smoothies veer towards the milkshake side, but this one is nice and healthy: spinach, peaches, fresh ginger and a little honey. I promise it's delish!
Towel for yoga: Any towel will do if your hands get slippery like mine on your mat.
Healthy Recipes: I've discovered that eating well is really just a matter of finding the right recipes for you. What do you like? What do you not like? It may sound obvious, but I think a lot of times in our attempts to eat healthfully we forget to take that into consideration. Do some research and makeover your favorite dishes with a healthier focus: add whole grains, lean proteins, double the vegetables and serve with a nice big salad on the side. This quinoa salad hits all the right notes for me with some of my favorite ingredients, plus it's easy to make.
The cutest water bottle: I try and keep bubbly water around so I drink more of it during the day, but a cute water bottle also helps to make the stuff a little more desirable. These are glass + silicone.
What do you do to stay healthy?


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The FERPA mid-term General Assembly was held in Malaga (Spain) on 16 and 17 April 2009. In this section, you will find some usefull documents.
The New Social Deal : Rights for Retired and Older People ; Defending and Improving Pensions - FINAL DOCUMENT
In particular, the Assembly focused its attention on the following points :
Reaffirmation of FERPA's principles and of Rights for Retired and Older People in Europe.
We confirm the validity of the founding principles behind FERPA and its demands during the past twenty years and more, implemented in political and trade union action over the years and set out in the "Charter of Rights of Older People in Europe." In particular :
The right to dignity
Everyone is entitled to respect for their dignity and respect for their private life. This principle applies particularly to older and more vulnerable people living with their families or in care homes, including retirement homes ; it is necessary to ensure that they can enjoy appropriate care by qualified and available staff sensitive to those people's needs ; violence and maltreatment must be prevented and punished.
This right entails a struggle against all forms of discrimination, particularly by gender, age, genetic features, language, religion or other beliefs, disablement or sexual orientation.
The right to an active old age and social participation
The state must guarantee a safe society that exercises solidarity, by means of efficient services, by promoting social cohesion, citizens' involvement in the life of the community and strengthening social relations. Pensioners and older people are entitled to be informed about social rights and developments in related legislation and to take an active part in the European and national decision-making process.
The European institutions and member states must take adequate measures to enable them to enjoy the right to such participation and to enable the trade union (ETUC and FERPA) to be consulted and to negotiate, at the national and European level, on the specific issues of this group of society and to prevent entirely different entities from usurping this right of representation.
The voluntary work done by retired people must be recognised and appreciated, both as a social resource and as an expression of intergenerational solidarity. In this connection FERPA welcomes the European Commission's proposal to devote the year 2012 to these themes, asks to be among the social actors involved in preparatory work and declares its full willingness to contribute.
The right to housing
All retired and older people are entitled to suitable, safe and affordable housing, without discrimination. Society must provide the poorest people with acceptable conditions, taking account of incomes and living requirements, whether for those living alone or for families.
The right to public services
The public bodies must guarantee all citizens accessible services based on fulfilling the general interest, transparency, continuity, democratic supervision, solidarity and equal treatment of users.
Everyone must be guaranteed an adequate quantity of water and energy, at affordable prices, subsidised if necessary.
The negative experiences witnessed in recent years in connection with the economic theories of liberalism and a deregulated market must prompt the national and European institutions to propose reforms in this direction.
The right to a pension
All pensioners are entitled to an adequate pension guaranteeing their purchasing power by means of sufficient annual indexing. All states must define the legal retirement age and/or number of years' contributions on which basis a person can enjoy the right to a pension. The adoption of one system or another of financing and calculating pension benefits must in any case be the result of a dialogue and negotiations between the social partners.
Be that as it may, all retired and older people are entitled to a minimum income above the poverty line, financed by public resources, capable of guaranteeing them a dignified life.
The right to health
All older people must have access to care either at home, in an institution or in hospital. In this connection FERPA considers it important that public health action and funding be guaranteed and given priority over private initiatives.
Access to treatment must be guaranteed and provided promptly. Priorities in the health field must include the development of preventative medicine, early screening and the use of new therapies.
One of FERPA's fundamental goals is for public systems to provide medical care to dependent persons. The rights and freedoms of all dependent persons must be guaranteed, as must their place in their natural environment and contact with other generations, within respect for diversities.
The state must guarantee the quality of services through cooperation with local communities. It is essential that the work done by care providers be acknowledged.
FERPA is examining, and providing information about, the European countries' various standards and laws with a view to demanding the best protection and good practices everywhere.
The right to training
Everyone is entitled to access to training throughout their lifetime, even after retirement, to learn to master the new technologies and to avoid new forms of social exclusion.
European funds must support educational initiatives and schemes for pensioners and older people, too. Volunteering activities must be promoted and encouraged and FERPA must continue to develop and support experiments that meet people's needs and that offer participation in social life, taking account also of relations between the generations.
Pensioners' socioeconomic situation in Europe, in relation to the present crisis.
The economic and social crisis that has emerged during the past year has brought about an unforeseeable rise in job losses, redundancies, unemployment schemes, and job insecurity.
Pensioners, too, who have in recent years suffered an erosion of their benefits because of rising inflation, are having to face further cuts in social spending, resulting in a deterioration of their living conditions and a sharp rise in the proportion of the population forced to live below the poverty line.
The European Trade Union Confederation, ETUC, supported by its member Confederations and Federations, has adopted a major political initiative and its bodies have identified suitable and effective approaches and measures in response to the exacerbation of social problems due to the economic and financial crisis.
To increase government and public awareness of the difficult situation affecting older people and pensioners, FERPA supports the campaign promoted by ETUC via the trade union action days planned in several European cities with a view to forging a "New social deal" and the defence of workers' and pensioners' rights.
To this end it calls on its members to stand ready and to implement, in coordination with their respective countries' national Confederations, whatever forms of support and trade union action may be deemed useful and necessary.
Specific aspects concerning Women
FERPA's pensioners and older people demand respect for equality between men and women.
Discrimination against women must be abolished in all European Union countries, in terms of pay, too. It has been observed that pensions paid to women are on average 15% lower than men's. The women of single-parent families and women of earlier generations are particularly affected, as FERPA has shown through its research work.
The average pay gap between men and women within the EU masks major national and regional differences that conflict with the EU's goal in terms of social and territorial cohesion. This discrepancy in pensions stems from the continuing pay gap once retirement age has been reached.
It is of the utmost importance to combine social and political policies in the employment field in order to guarantee equality between men and women not only in terms of pay but also in terms of social protection.
In order to be more effective the FERPA Executive Committee must, as far as possible, regularly convene the working group and the Women's Committee in order to target work more closely and to propose action initiatives for women pensioners.
FERPA's political role, relations with ETUC and the Institutions
FERPA is resolutely convinced that the prime concern of national states and the European Union must be to defend the social wellbeing of all citizens, partly by means of pension and welfare systems.
The role of the European Federation of Retired and Older People must therefore be to enhance awareness of these social issues on the part of governments and the European Parliament and Commission.
We must also seize the imminent opportunity provided by the European Parliament elections to increase political parties' and individual candidates' awareness of issues affecting older people and their willingness to allow FERPA to perform its full role as interlocutor and representative.
To this end FERPA intends to work with ETUC and within ETUC, in the knowledge that potential synergies can strengthen not only employed workers but also pensioners and young people entering the world of labour, in an exchange of intergenerational solidarity that lies at the basis of a modern trade union policy.
FERPA asks to take part in all committees and study and discussion groups within ETIC on these topics and to be involved in negotiations and consultations connected with the issues of ageing and social conditions.
The aim is to make trade unionists' experience and expertise available to ETUC and its associated Confederations, and to make its own contribution to the analysis of problems and to make proposals for resolving them.
While considering that its full involvement at the statutory level, via acknowledgement of its voting rights on the ETUC Executive Committee, remains essential, FERPA calls on ETUC itself to make a greater commitment to defending pensioners' rights and demands and to represent and defend, together with FERPA, the rights of older people in Europe, encouraging all trade unions and their members to do the same within both EU and national institutions.


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Shop JC Penney's doorbusters on Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22. There are hundreds of night and day doorbusters on Friday from 3 p.m. to close and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. This is an opportunity to get the best prices possible on bright new separates for spring, stock up on basics, and add touches of sparkle with fine and fashion jewelry.
For a great casual look that will take you into early spring and beyond, pair a white St. John's Bay woven shirt with slim medium-wash denim. Roll the sleeves up to the elbow and accentuate the detailing on the bodice by leaving the top buttons open. Add a slim white belts for a versatile, go-everywhere look.
Create a chic career look with Liz Claiborne's black and white print top and black slacks. Slip on a black and white narrow stripe jacket for a look that's easy-to-wear and flattering to all figure types. Choose mid-heel pumps and a black oversized tote to complete the look. Add a touch of dazzle with a dainty Monet gold pendant necklace.
Stock up on the basics for the family, with JC Penney's doorbuster prices on bras, panties, socks, tights and leggings.
Use JC Penney's coupon to save an extra 15% off apparel, shoes, accessories and fine jewelry through February 23.
Friday and Saturday doorbusters include:
- 50% off select Liz Claiborne separates for misses, petites and women
- Select bras from Bali. Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair and Warner's $16.99 (Reg. $27-$40)
- 50% off select dresses for misses, petites and women
- 50% off select Xersion activewear for misses and women
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Introducing my first chapter book. At approximately 4000 words and 6 chapters, it is intended for early readers.
Rudy is a 12 year old elf who means well but often finds himself in trouble. He is given his first North Pole job, but is soon reassigned because of the trouble he causes. He goes through several jobs, having mishaps and making mistakes, before he discovers where he fits best.
I have been writing and illustrating children's books for many years and have recently branched out into the art journal market.
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Reflections a journal Publicado 02 de octubre de 2013
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WIP: Xev of B3k (from LEXX)
Actually, it's more of a pre-release than a "work-in-progress." The model is done, the textures are done, the sounds are done. This is my first fully-featured model. I've done Quake models in the past, but they lacked a true professional quality. With this first JK2 model, I hope that I've covered all necessary features (LODs, sounds, skins, etc.)
Here's a somewhat dated picture:
(I've made some slight modifications since this was rendered.)
You can download and try out Xev here:
http://www.flamegrape.com/fg_xev.zip (1.88MB)
The accounting of the polygons and vertices is somewhat complex for this model. First of all, there are four levels of detal (LODs). Also, there are three general versions of the Xev model: one representing her costume as seen during season two, one for season three, and one for the fourth season. Since all three versions mostly use the same parts, in each case some parts
are hidden while others are visible. This also permits greater variations for skins.
- Poly count: 2581 <<<=======
- Vert count: 1562
Xev2 (LOD1):
- Poly count: 1626
- Vert count: 1035
Xev2 (LOD2):
- Poly count: 769
- Vert count: 529
Xev2 (LOD3):
- Poly count: 353
- Vert count: 286
- Poly count: 2623 <<<=======
- Vert count: 1600
Xev3 (LOD1):
- Poly count: 1655
- Vert count: 1059
Xev3 (LOD2):
- Poly count: 776
- Vert count: 540
Xev3 (LOD3):
- Poly count: 352
- Vert count: 292
- Poly count: 2719 <<<=======
- Vert count: 1652
Xev4 (LOD1):
- Poly count: 1726
- Vert count: 1093
Xev4 (LOD1):
- Poly count: 811
- Vert count: 557
Xev4 (LOD1):
- Poly count: 368
- Vert count: 300
I posted a BETA version of this model a while ago. I got some good crits from people and put them to good use. However, the issue of the head and lips requires explaination because I know I will receive the same crits as before if I don't bring this up now. This may be unprofessional, but many sci-fi fans are not familiar with Xev or the show in which she appears, Lexx.
One of the most frequent crits I received was the size of her head. This was due in part to the terrible screen cap that was posted at JK2Files.com. (I made the mistake of not providing a picture myself.) This picture was poorly composed and it made it seem like her head was gigantic! I took a hard look at the model and I thought that they were probably right. So I reduced the size of the head... SLIGHTLY. The thing you must understand is that Xenia Seeberg, the actress who plays Xev on the television show, is a relatively short woman. Since the BETA was released, I've checked, double-checked, triple-checked, quadruple-check her proportions dozens of times over. I'm convinced that I have achieved correct proportions. HOWEVER, in order to make her look perfect in the game, she needs to be scaled down to 88% normal size using a mod like JediPlus.
The issue of the size and shape of her lips was another criticism I received for this model. It was pointed out that they stick out and give her a sort of fish-lip look. This was done on purpose. Xenia Seeberg really does have large, uniquely-shaped lips. (And, apparently, they are totally real, not faked with plastic surgery.) Her lips are easily on par with Angeline Jolie and Jolene Blalock, perhaps even larger. On the set of tv shows and movies, her lips can cause lighting problems, casting a "mustache" shadow. This trait was painfully obvious in the screen cap that was posted with the BETA version at JK2Files.Com. I don't know what arena map they used to make that screen cap, but the lighting was worse than office florescent lighting. And because of the criticisms, I very SLIGHTLY reduced the size of the lips. But only slightly because they are still very large, as they were meant to be.
Be sure to read the README file for further information about the model and how to use the "secret skins."
It looks excellent. I'm impressed with how accurate it looks in regards to the show! The 'secret skins' don't include a blue-haired mini-series Xev, do they?
No, the "secret skins" do not include Zev from the first season miniseries of movies. That would require completely different meshes because it was a different actress. And BTW, I think Zev's hair was white or silver. However, the blue team Xev2 has very blue hair. It just made sense since Xev had very red hair during the second season.
Ok i downloaded it and
It S...j/k i like it great job on the skins
Lips look like they need to be more towards the head *DON'T BLOW A CASKET* If from the lips look like that really then hella great job on it
I don't watch the show much
I like the taunts too
Some kinda err nasty ''You going to stick it in'' err ;)
As the story goes, kids would make fun of her when she was a child, calling her "duckface" or something like that. But now that she's grown up into a beautiful woman, you know those lips are great for... kissing. Yeah, that's it. I was gonna say kissing. Anyway...
And you can take one good guess what her lightsaber will look like!
cool, i liked yer beta, new hair styles are a bonus
Any plans for a Kai model? That would be so cool! We could have him swinging around on a jedimod grappling hook, and that Brunnen-G chant song could be his taunt.
yes her hair was white in the first series, but when she was reborn (replaced by a new actress) LOL her hair became red or brown
I'm still trying to get it to work right in the game. Everthing is working great and it's compatible with the mods. But the only thinkg it's doing wrong is that the blade is tilted 90 degrees to the right. I cannot figure out why it's doing this. I've followed all of the tutorials (that I know of) and advice in posts. Nothing works. This has got to be a problem that others have had in the past. But no one has been answering my posts about this for the last several days.
I'm going to work on a Kai model next. Then Stan. Then maybe Zev. Then Prince. Then Giggerotta.
2 things:
Who the hell is Kai :P
And if u look carefully at the dooku hilt does the SAME thing the saber is tilted over a tad
Or are you just comparing the style of my saber hilt model to that of Dooku's saber hilt? Yes, they are similar.
They are simmilar... but dooku makes saber goto the right a bit too
could u show me a pic of Kai?
Kai is the dead guy in black.
Actually i did see the show once and i remember Kai just didn't know his name if i where u i would make Kai before others cuz hes cool
I didn't make Kai first because I saw that Xev was going to be the most difficult part of the project. Kai is not going to be as hard because of his costume. And I know that Stan will be the easiest because he just has a simple red jumpsuit.
I've seen it before. Someone starts on a project and focuses on the easiest, coolest part. Then when it comes to doing the other difficult and important parts, they fail miserably and then give up the entire project.
I intend to make all three of the characters. If I had learned how to model for JK2 by just doing a Kai model, then I wouldn't have learned as much. And by the time I would have got to working on Xev, I would have run into all sorts of problems that I hadn't encountered with Kai. And I may have become frustrated and given up altogether.
It's bad enough that I live in a part of the country where there isn't ANYONE who remotely understands ANYTHING that I try to do with computer art. I'm completely on my own when it comes to learning how to work on computer games. All I have is the scant information that I can glean from the internet and that's it.
1. I don't have max but i owuld love to make player models
2. By saying make Kai i meant AFTER Xev and before the other ones u are going to make
Okay. Nevermind.
hehe i dont think poor hellfire jedi knows what your saber is meant to look like ROFL
hes obviously to erm Inoccent :D
A long smooth shatf with 2 NUTZ :P i know what it is LDJ btw i htink ur maps kick the **** cept i get this MAX SHADER HIT or osmething on new carbonfreeze
thanks hellfire =]]
hopefully you wont get shader error in my next map
which will be a CTF
ive made plenty of them for EF and we need a good one for jk2
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Car Sales Highlight Europe's Divisions
Monthly European car sales figures out Tuesday morning back other economic data and highlight the widening gulf between Europe's boomers and laggards.
The figures are now clean, with no benefit from any scrapping schemes, so they're a good economic indicator in their own right. We're talking big-ticket items here, so it's clear which consumers have spending power and which have none.
Just look at the figures from some of the bloc's more compromised countries. Portugal's down 21% on the year, Greece down 55% and Spain down 29%, although Ireland's car sales were actually up 5%.
Then those in the middle of the economic divide: the U.K. saw registrations decline 7.9% and Italy by 28%.
But France and Germany are powering ahead with registrations up 6.1% and 11% respectively. They're joined by Scandinavia, with sales up even more in each country, and by Eastern Europe, where sales were up strongly in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia.
Tie this in with other economic data out this morning: French manufacturing and services PMI data was very strong, German manufacturing continued to surge. They'll need every penny they get of course so they can bail out the laggards.
The figures also show that it's the German carmakers that are succeeding in this declining market. Volkswagen Group sales rose 3.8%, powered mainly by Audi although VW branded cars, Skoda and Seat all saw sales rise.
BMW, meanwhile, saw sales rise 7%. Nissan and Toyota were the only other major producers to post an increase. Ford and Renault both saw steep declines, but Italy's Fiat, heavily reliant on domestic sales, recorded a 20% slump despite an improved performance from its Alfa Romeo brand.


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If you happen to need a last minute gift for the casual gamer in your family, it's worth mentioning that more than 150 indie titles are also on sale in various $5 packs. As a reminder, today marks the conclusion of Steam's 'Treasure Hunt', so be sure to complete your objectives and log on before the end of the day for a chance to win 100 games of your choosing.


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Schaitberger Joins Senator Lieberman in Tour of Connecticut
July 17, 2006 – After making stops in Fairfield at the Fire Headquarters to visit members of Local 1426 and to cheer New Britain fire fighters in a charity softball event against the city's police officers, more than 100 fire fighters from across Connecticut joined IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger and Uniformed Professional Fire Fighters Association of Connecticut President Pete Carozza July 16 in support of Senator Joe Lieberman's re-election.
President Schaitberger introduced Senator Lieberman to a crowd of more than 200 supporters in Rocky Hill. "The IAFF supports Senator Joe Lieberman because he's right on all of our issues," said Schaitberger. "His record goes all the way back to his days as president of the Connecticut State Senate when he held open a floor vote on bargaining rights for state workers to ensure the bill's passage."
"Whether it's pushing to get SAFER passed or to get funding allocated to ensure that our communities get the equipment, training and staffing they need, Senator Lieberman has always been there for us," Schaitberger said.
"We don't look at political party, we look to see where someone stands on the issues important to this union and the job of our members," Schaitberger added. "Joe has always been there for us, and now that he's in a tough fight, we damn sure are going to be there with him, fighting to make sure he returns to the Senate to champion our issues in the future."


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by Rob Moseley
Editor, GoDucks.com
Shaun Chase entered the on-deck circle prior to his final at-bat Sunday hitting a cool .396 in Pac-12 play this season.
Oregon led 1-0 in the bottom of the eighth, and had runners on second and third with one out. Conventional wisdom said Arizona would be wise to walk Steven Packard and load the bases for Chase, setting up a possible inning-ending double play, or a force out at home.
Conventional wisdom was wrong.
Chase continued a torrid hot streak and capped a monster weekend with a grand slam to deep left-center field, the exclamation point on Oregon's 5-1 victory over the Wildcats at PK Park. The Ducks completed a sweep of Arizona, and get another shot at Oregon State in a nonconference game Tuesday in PK Park at 6 p.m.
"It's always a shot in the stomach when someone gets intentionally walked in front of you," said Chase, who was 7-for-11 with three homers on the weekend. "It means they want to pitch to you instead of him. I was like, 'All right, I'm down with that.'"
Brando Tessar, making his first weekend conference start in two years, enjoyed his third straight outing of seven scoreless innings to earn the win for the Ducks (34-13, 13-8 Pac-12). Oregon experienced a successful recovery from being swept at OSU the week before, and plays its next two conference series on the road, at Arizona State and UCLA.
"It was good to come out, especially on Friday night, come out and get back into feeling good," said UO third baseman Mitchell Tolman, whose sixth-inning home run onto the roof of the Player Development Area in right field looked for a while Sunday like it might be Oregon's only run. "Obviously the win helps, but I just thought we played well all weekend."
A big share of the credit goes to Chase. A career .194 hitter entering this season, the junior catcher is up to .408 in Pac-12 games this spring, which would be No. 2 in the conference were he not five plate appearances shy of qualifying for the leaderboard.
Chase's two home runs Friday powered Oregon's 6-1 victory and he singled to open the 10th inning Saturday, with a pinch runner eventually scoring the winning run. Then on Sunday, Chase had two more hits, the latter crushed toward one of the deepest parts of cavernous PK Park.
"When you have power to all fields, especially here, it's really impressive and a lot of fun to watch," Tolman said.
Chase's grand slam overshadowed some clutch pitching by the UO staff, beginning with Tessar, the fifth different Duck to start in that spot in the rotation this season. A senior from Simi Valley, Calif., Tessar started five Pac-12 games in 2012 before his career was thrown off-track by injuries.
Primarily a midweek starter the last two months, Tessar had a scoreless streak of 15 1/3 innings entering Sunday, and he tacked on seven more against the Wildcats. Tessar (4-0) earned his first victory in a conference start since April 1, 2012.
"I've been working hard to get back in there," Tessar said. "It's been a long process, and it felt really good to help the team."
Lacking feel for his changeup and suffering from inconsistent fastball command, Tessar relied on his curveball to keep the Wildcats at bay. He first found significant trouble in the sixth, allowing two runners before striking out three straight to end the threat.
Tessar pumped his fist as he left the mound and headed toward the dugout.
"Usually I don't show much emotion on the mound," he said. "I was pretty jacked up, and the team was pretty pumped up when I came in. It was cool."
Tessar stranded two more in the seventh, after walking two. He was replaced for the eighth by Jordan Spencer, who originally held the spot in the starting rotation that Tessar is now filling.
Spencer allowed a hit and two walks to load the bases with one out, then got Arizona's cleanup hitter to pop out after a lengthy at-bat before ending the inning with another pop up in foul territory.
Now, it's another shot at the Beavers for Oregon, which won't soon forget the sour taste of being swept in Corvallis.
"It's just motivation," Tessar said. "I think it's always in the back of our heads, and it's pushing us to work harder."


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City in Talks to End Lawsuit Over Community Gardens
By ANNE RAVER and JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: April 26, 2002
The Bloomberg administration is negotiating with New York State Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer to put to bed one of the most rancorous legal battles left behind by the previous administration, one that pit gardens against low-income housing, Bette Midler against Rudolph W. Giuliani, and the city against various plantiffs.
The Giuliani administration had adopted a policy that city lots, which over the years had become speckled with tomato plants and sunflowers, should cease being community gardens and be used instead for housing or economic development or put up for sale.
Environmentalists and community groups fought the city, asserting that the tiny plots were the closest thing that poor neighborhoods had to a park. Lawsuits ensued, including one brought by Mr. Spitzer arguing that auctioning off the lots violated state environmental laws.
Bette Midler bought some of the plots. In July, a judge in Brooklyn denied the Giuliani administration's request to lift a court order protecting more than 400 gardens.
But now the Bloomberg administration and Mr. Spitzer have begun negotiations that both sides hope will result in some gardens reverting to the city for development of low-income housing, and some going to communities, officials from both sides say. Mr. Bloomberg has said recently that he believes that community gardens are viable in some situations, but that housing is preferable in others.
''We are in discussion with the attorney general's office, to see if the suit can be resolved,'' said Jeffrey D. Friedlander, a lawyer for the city. ''I don't know the numbers precisely, but some gardens would be developed and some would not.''
He added: ''We hope to resolve the lawsuit soon, in discussions, and the sooner the better.''
City officials would not comment on whether those gardens not slated for development would be sold to a land trust, like the New York Restoration Project, which bought 111 gardens for $1 million in May 1999.
But Joseph Pupello, the president of the Restoration Project said: ''I will probably be able to talk about it next week. If there's a way that we can preserve a high number of gardens in one fell swoop, it would be absolutely amazing.''
The city gained legal ground with an April 8 ruling by Judge Leon Ruchelsman of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn that rejected a suit brought by the Green Guerillas, a community garden advocacy group, to block the development of the city's 600 community gardens without an environmental review process, because they are ''dedicated parkland.''
That argument was a keystone to the lawsuit brought by Mr. Spitzer's office, which prompted Justice Richard D. Huttner to issue a preliminary injunction in 2000, barring the auction of city gardens.
''I don't know when he will rule on the attorney general's suit,'' Mr. Friedlander said. ''One of the issues that is common to both is the question whether these gardens are dedicated parkland. If they are, then parkland is unalienable and cannot be sold. But that claim was rejected by the judge.''
The Bloomberg administration, which has been trying to settle various pieces of litigation from the previous administration -- and to prevent certain types of other suits from beginning -- was receptive to the idea that they could develop housing on the sites of some gardens, as long as they followed state laws dictating that environmentalists study the land first, the officials said. The Giuliani administration resisted this idea and wanted to begin development unfettered; as such, the two sides were never able to meet.
The city's law department and officials from Mr. Spitzer's office resumed discussions three weeks ago. The discussions, officials on both sides said, are going well but are far from over, and will resume next week. ''We are hopeful of working with the administration to resolve the matter,'' said Darren Dopp, a spokesman for Mr. Spitzer.
Photos: A city worker dismantled a shed in the Cabo Rojo community garden at 159th Street and Courtlandt Avenue in the Bronx on March 25. A protester was arrested that day after he chained himself to a building in the garden to prevent the city from destroying it in order to develop the land. (Photographs by James Estrin/The New York Times)


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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2011 Article IV Consultation with The BahamasPublic Information Notice (PIN) No. 11/135
November 4, 2011
Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case.
On November 2, 2011, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with The Bahamas.1
The Bahamian economy began a tepid recovery in 2010, following a sharp recession in 2008 and 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by about 1 percent. The rebound was driven by the trade, hospitality, transport, and government services sectors, while the construction and offshore financial services sectors continued to contract. Inflation remained subdued at 1.5 percent, despite higher fuel and transportation prices, reflecting their relatively low share in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket. The external current account deficit remained broadly stable at 11.5 percent of GDP. Exports rebounded, and growth of non-oil imports remained subdued in line with economic activity. At the same time, rising foreign direct investment and other private capital inflows boosted international reserves to US$860 million at end-2010 (about 2.5 months of next year's imports of goods and services).
Staff estimates that the deficit of the central government deteriorated in Fiscal Year 2010/11 (July to June). Total revenues increased, owing to large one-off transactions, but expenditure—especially current spending—increased more than proportionately. As a result, the central government deficit rose to 4.7 percent of GDP (from 4.4 percent in 2010). The sale of 51 percent of the shares of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (about 2.5 percent of GDP) eased financing pressures. The ratio of government debt to GDP continued rising and exceeded 48 percent of GDP by mid-2011. The bulk of the debt is held domestically by commercial banks, public corporations, and pension funds.
Financial soundness indicators remained strong. Banks have maintained high overall capital-adequacy ratios (well above the minimum requirement) and prudent levels of provisioning. Banks' loan portfolio, however, continued to show signs of weakness, as the severe economic downturn pushed up the ratio of non-performing loans to total loans above 10 percent.
The outlook is for stronger growth, but weaker fiscal and debt positions. Real GDP growth is expected to hover around 2.5-3 percent per year, but the central government deficit is projected to remain at about 4.5 percent of GDP over the medium term under current policies. Increased economic activity and ongoing improvements to the regulatory and supervisory frameworks are expected to contain financial sector risks. The risks to the outlook, however, are tilted to the downside, given the uncertainties about the pace of the global recovery and world commodity prices.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors welcomed the gradual recovery of The Bahamas economy, but noted that unemployment remains high. While large investment projects will support growth, downside risks arise from a slower-than-expected U.S. recovery, elevated international food and fuel prices, and the vulnerability to natural disasters. Directors called for steadfast implementation of reforms to place public debt on a sustainable path, build fiscal buffers, and enhance medium-term growth prospects.
Directors underscored that the key policy challenge is to ensure sustainable public finances. They encouraged the authorities to strengthen revenue mobilization by improving tax administration and reducing tax expenditures. Directors noted that revenue reforms, such as a broad-based consumption tax, would improve debt dynamics. They also advised the authorities to exercise expenditure restraint, strengthen the financial position of public enterprises, and enhance fiscal transparency.
Directors viewed the authorities' growth strategy as broadly appropriate. They agreed that measures to enhance the business environment, improve infrastructure, and develop high value-added downstream tourism products are key to achieving higher growth.
Directors agreed that the fixed exchange rate regime serves the country well. They noted the staff's assessment that the level of the exchange rate remains broadly in line with medium-term fundamentals. Directors called for close monitoring of the current account position. They welcomed the authorities' commitment to strengthen the country's external position by continuing to build up foreign exchange reserves.
Directors commended the authorities' measures to strengthen financial sector supervision, including the adoption of macro-prudential policies and steps to enhance supervision across sectors and at the regional level. They also welcomed the strengthening of the Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. Directors looked forward to timely implementation of plans to establish a credit bureau and bring credit unions under the supervisory oversight of the central bank. Noting the high level of non-performing loans and limited provisioning, Directors called on the authorities to further intensify the monitoring of financial institutions. They supported the authorities' request for a Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP).


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July 25, 2013 | Vol. 117 -- No. 14
Much has been written about adulterous politicians and the public's apparent willingness to look past their infidelity. This lumps very different kinds of cheating into one neat sin, equally applicable to all sneaks. But just as "theft" covers everything from armed bank robbery to lifting a bag of chips, cheating on one's spouse may entail a wide range of misdeeds and gray areas.
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The reality of maternal mortality: a father's perspectiveFri 10th Oct 2008 by Ben Palmer.
This is the text of the speech I gave to The Sixth National Conference on Current Issues in Midwifery organised by the British Journal of Midwifery yesterday. I have reproduced it here by popular request. I am not going to include the photographs of my family that I refer to, nor the medical charts, but the important information from these is in the text. The full version of the story is, of course, told in Friday's Child.
Good morning. My name is Ben Palmer, I am a father of two children, and a widower. I am also founding trustee and chairman of Jessica's Trust – a charity focused on raising awareness of childbed fever or puerperal sepsis, but more about that in a minute.
First, I'd like to introduce you to my family and give you a small and brief glimpse into our lives.
This is my wife, Jessica, and I just after we were married.
This is Jessica and our daughter Emily, just after she was born ... we didn't know she was a girl, so she's in her brothers hand me downs already.
It is one of only two photographs of the two of them together. Emily keeps it beside her bed wherever she stays.
Jessica died in June 2004 when Emily was just 6 days old, and three weeks after Harry's third birthday. She was 34.
This photograph is hanging in poster size on their bedroom wall, so that they will never forget her.
This is my family today.
Emily is a relatively carefree 4 year old still learning about who and what it is she has lost. Harry is a seven year old, unfairly burdened with the reality of maternal death. I'm less troubled than I have been, but a little greyer than I used to be.
This is a story that fills numerous files, but I'm going to condense it right down, hopefully retaining the salient information. Please remember that the small amount of medical knowledge I have now is 98% more than I had at the time.
I'm also going to illustrate the story with an early warning chart that I have filled in retrospectively from Jessica's notes. Unfortunately they were not being used at the time.
Emily was born at 6.26 on a Thursday evening after a complication free vaginal delivery. She was 9lb 13ozs. Jessica and I were ecstatic after the birth of our daughter - a sister for three year old Harry.
Jessica's temperature at delivery was normal, heartrate 78, BP 120/56.
After a sleepless night because of Emily's constant crying for milk, Jessica was shattered and wanted to go home, but her midwife was worried – Jessica was tachycardic.
At 9.40am Her BP had dropped to 80/40 and she was hot (although her temperature wasn't recorded anywhere that I can find it.) and her heart rate had increased to 90.
The SHO was bleeped just before 10am. Had the hospital been using this chart, these obs would have registered as a red score and should have made her a priority.
Through the day Jessica's heartrate rose to 100 - which would have registered as a yellow score - and with no sign of her, the SHO was bleeped again.
And again.
At 8pm the doctor at last visited Jessica without (Jessica told me) taking any fresh observations. Looking at the notes, it might appear that she re recorded the previous ones and then discharged her.
After supper that night, an hour or so later, Jessica was shivery and had blue lips.
I got her into bed and then took her temperature as she now looked flushed. It was 38.9C.
I could have called the hospital or, indeed, an ambulance, but two things occurred to us.
- that her previous symptoms - not that we fully understood them - had not been cause for concern, and
- that both of us had had high temperatures in the past with no ill effect.
I had no reason to think that Jessica was in any danger after a normal delivery. And anyway, as second time parents, we knew that the community midwife would be visiting the following day.
Jessica was tired and made it quite clear that she wanted to be left to sleep until the next feed.
Yes, the benefit of hindsight makes me uncomfortable about this. It was my missed opportunity.
Unfortunately, the midwife was too busy, with too many mothers, to visit the next day, but I told her on the telephone about Jessica's temperature and so she recommended paracetemol for the fever, should it return, and promised to visit the next day, Sunday.
Had the discharge form mentioned the problem or concerns in hospital, again with hindsight, I might have thought to mention it, but the 'Other problems' box was empty.
We were reassured and so got on with the business of looking after our young family.
Jessica came downstairs once over the weekend - in fact it was the only time she did in the three and a half days she was at home with us - and it wasn't for very long.
So, when the midwife visited on the Sunday, Jessica was in bed with Emily beside her.
She didn't have her thermometer with her, so just recorded that Jessica was feeling feverish.
She didn't know what Jessica's hot and red looking abdomen meant, so it was forgotten about. The midwife left Jessica after about 40 minutes and she carried on resting.
On Monday morning, Jessica was in a lot of pain in her lower back and so rang the GP's surgery. She was diagnosed as having sciatica and given Diclofenac. The medicine was great and made Jessica much more comfortable for the rest of the day, but the pills were obviously masking a worsening crisis.
By breakfast on Tuesday, Jessica was beside herself with pain and barely able to walk, and so I drove her around the corner to our GP. Jessica was seen immediately and referred back to the maternity ward by blue light ambulance.
On the way, her BP crashed and she was redirected to A&E. She was diagnosed with septicaemia and soon moved to Intensive care.
During the next twenty hours or so, I slept little, and shuttled between my home where my mother was looking after Harry and Emily, and Jessica's bedside.
She was given drugs for the infection and failing blood pressure in ever increasing strengths and dosages.
During the night she was put onto dialysis and a ventilator. I left her bedside at 6 in the morning to be at home when Harry woke up, but by eight in the morning, when I was called back to hospital after 40 minutes sleep, it was apparent that she was in very grave danger and deteriorating.
As a last ditch attempt to save her, Jessica was taken into theatre for a possible hysterectomy in the late morning. Almost immediately after the first incision, she went into cardiac arrest, and death was recorded just before midday.
Jessica died of multi organ failure caused by group A streptococcus.
I don't mean to judge or criticise - I just want to tell you what happened and why I'm here. Legally, the matter is closed after admissions of liability, but I hope there is something that everyone can learn from Jessica's case; parent, midwife and doctor.
I'd hate her death and our loss to be a wasted opportunity.
You don't need me to tell you:
- that puerperal sepsis is no longer a disease of dirty practitioners like in Semmelweiss' day when it was being spread from mother to mother in the wards;
- or to tell you that it is a community bacterium that many of us live with harmlessly - until it is given the opportunity to invade a body as in the case of a postpartum woman,
- or that it is still the cause of 14% of maternal deaths in this country.
In the grand scheme of things, 18 deaths between 2003 & 2005 may be a small statistic, but the human impact is not.
What I do want to tell you is what happens when you wake up as a single parent and a widower, with small and confused children.
When I got home, broken hearted and in shock, I had to go on and on breaking others' hearts. Jessica's parents, my parents, our friends and family and my son Harry's.
When I told him that the doctor's had tried really hard to mend mummy's sore tummy, but that she was too sick and now she was in heaven with God and the angels where her tummy couldn't hurt any more, he just looked at me.
He didn't say a word. He was three - how could he understand what I was also struggling with?
Thanks to my mother and sister, and subsequently a nanny, our day to day life carried on during the first few weeks: meals were cooked and our routine was followed, but we were crumbling inside.
Harry's fear and confusion usually manifested itself at bedtime. He wouldn't settle, would often wet the bed, and frequently woke me in the night to climb in to bed beside me, but it was the shouting, the screaming, that was most upsetting,
"I DON'T LIKE MUMMY ANYMORE" he yelled at me once after an extended tantrum. He was angry with her for deserting us. Another time, he thought that maybe she and I had had a fight and was now living somewhere else.
How could she not want to see him or live with him anymore?
I lost count of the number of times we'd go through this sequence, and I quickly ran out of answers. In the end he - and sometimes I - would fall asleep on his bed, him in my arms.
Every time I took him to a party or to a friends house there would be trouble at night. He couldn't express it to start with, but he was angry that other children had a mum; what had he done wrong that meant he couldn't.
My own reaction over time was not much better. Consumed by anger, isolation and despair, I sunk into depression. I was eventually diagnosed in 2006 as having agoraphobia, anhedonia, dysthymia, depression and an alcohol dependence. I was drinking, on average, two bottles of wine a night - over 120 units of alcohol a week.
My work - I was self employed - was too much for me, and my clients politely drifted away one by one. I just couldn't stay focused. I got to the point where I didn't care about anything, myself included, other than Harry and Emily.
After being diagnosed, I was lucky enough to have counselling and a long course of cognitive behaviour therapy, and I have now stopped awfulising.
Eventually, life does start to get easier every day, but we'll never be 'better' - bereavement isn't an illness and it never goes away, you just have to learn to live with it.
Emily has never kissed her Mum, she and Harry will never have their mother there on red letter days. On Emily's first day at school last month, in her new dress, she looked at me with a sadness and simply said, "I wish my mummy could see me today."
What will she say if she graduates, or gets married?
My point is that death never goes away once it has struck, but what I want to underline, through Jessica's Trust, is the vital importance of regular and continued observations, fast recognition of symptoms and of action. By the time sepsis is clinically obvious, it may already be too late.
That was where the mistake was made in Jessica's case – too many people passed off the increasing symptoms as anything but dangerous, and Jessica and I were reassured into accepting symptoms that now make me shudder when I think of them.
My focus is to raise awareness of childbed fever - I want all of us, midwife and parent together, to understand it and to talk about it. The last thing I want to do is to invoke terror, but childbed fever should still be feared as it once was. That way another mother's life may well be saved, or she may just be saved from a long recovery from organ damage or a hysterectomy.
I want to see early warning charts being used routinely, and they should go home as well, for the community midwife.
I'd like to see more midwives, so that no one is too busy again, and I'd like to see a maternity service that is as valued with funding as it is needed by us as parents.
I hope that you will remember my wife, our motherless children and all the others like them.
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