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Luchemos por la vida
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|20 June 1990
|Non-governmental organization
|Road traffic safety
Area served
|Volunteering, free workshops, mass media campaigns, research
Key people
|Alberto Silveira, María Cristina Isoba
|In-company courses, donations
|"Every effort is worth to save a life"
Luchemos por la Vida (Spanish for "Let's fight for life") is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to help prevent traffic accidents in Argentina. It promotes road traffic safety and focuses its efforts in contributing to safe behavior in the traffic system. The organization does not receive financial support from government agencies and is mainly held by the effort of volunteers, help from private firms, and services provided to the community. In 2010 there were 21 deaths per day in Argentina (nearly 7,600 in the course of the year), more than 100,000 injured people, and severe material losses due to traffic accidents.[1][2]
- 1 History
- 2 Objectives
- 3 Areas of work
- 4 Activities
- 5 Government and public policies
- 6 Production of teaching materials
- 7 Research
- 8 The Luchemos por la Vida awards
- 9 Participation in international scientific organizations and publications
- 10 Training courses for drivers
- 11 Support of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020
- 12 Board of Directors
- 13 See also
- 14 References
- 15 External links
Luchemos por la Vida was created in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 20 June 1990 by a group of people concerned about the daily loss of lives in Argentine traffic. Their principle stated that "every effort is worth to save a life", but their main goal was ambitious: "that no more people die in traffic accidents". As none of the members had specific training on the subject, it was decided to look up national and international information about the problem. Some local institutions related to the road issue in Argentina were contacted apart from embassies to know the situation abroad.
The first tasks of the organization consisted in spreading the concern about traffic accidents in the Argentine population. Since this process required to work closer with the community, initially each member talked to friends and neighbors about the problem, followed by the first brochures and posters that were distributed in shops, schools, churches, and newspapers in the neighborhoods of the city. Since then, Luchemos por la Vida has maintained a continued work that, among other things, helped place the problem of traffic safety in the media agenda and national politics. The authorities of Luchemos por la Vida estimate that many lives have been saved due to the changes that have occurred in road safety in Argentina since 1990[citation needed].
Luchemos por la Vida's main purpose is to prevent traffic accidents to reduce the fatality rates connected to this cause. The organization concentrates its biggest efforts in actions to modify the attitudes, behaviors, and habits of those who walk or drive on the streets every day (car drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists) to reduce the number of dead and injured people. Because of this, the organization takes three main courses of action:
- Creating awareness about the risk of traffic accidents among the public.
- Educating people so that they learn to practice life-preserving habits (simple safety rules to reduce risks).
- Encouraging the passing of appropriate laws and their enforcement.
Areas of work[edit]
Luchemos por la Vida works on four areas to improve traffic education and road safety:
- Mass media: An ongoing campaign for public awareness and education on TV, radio, and newspapers, and other activities.[3]
- Institutions: Educational activities in all school levels: pre-school, elementary, and high; intermediate organizations, etc.[4]
- Government: Bills of laws and regulations to be presented to the executive and legislative powers.[5]
- Research: Analysis of local and foreign situations, surveys, statistics, and projects.[6]
Since 1992, Luchemos por la Vida has carried out a massive campaign of prevention of traffic accidents on Argentine radio and television that is broadcast throughout the country and other Latin American nations. Designed to help prevent traffic-related deaths and injuries, it attempts to raise concern about the problem of traffic accidents, increase the "perception of risk" among users of public roads, and promote safer road behavior. Through the use of several and changing advertising strategies, the organization provides information about safe behaviors along with main causes of accidents and deaths in traffic. The keys for prevention of mortality in traffic are spread every day: use of seat belts and helmets, alcohol and driving, speeding, night driving, and safety of pedestrians, passengers, and bikers, among others. With different formats, the advertisements provide messages that are suitable for the population in general and also focused groups. Nearly 1,000 Argentine media outlets –among them, open TV channels, cable TV channels, and AM and FM radios from Buenos Aires and all the Argentine provinces and from Latin America through CNN en Español and other international channels have contributed to spread the campaign of the organization.
Work with newspapers, magazines, TV, and radios[edit]
The organization has built channels of communication with radios and television channels to guarantee the collaboration of opinion formers in spreading public awareness regarding the lack of road safety and its possible solutions. Different kinds of activities are carried out, among them:
- Delivery of periodic reports about research and analysis of current facts to be spread in newspapers, magazines, and TV programs.[7]
- Participation in TV programs, news programs, and talk-shows.[8]
- Advertisements for Life campaign: Monitoring of commercial spots and complaints to companies that show behaviors that are against road safety.
- Media for Life campaign: Contacts with companies that produce fictional or entertainment content for local TV to introduce commentaries or show safe road behaviors in characters and programs.
Luchemos por la Vida magazine[edit]
This quarterly publication is distributed freely to all town councils and is designed to promote public interest on traffic safety and prevention of traffic accidents and share information from developments and research in other countries.
Traffic safety education[edit]
Since the beginning of its activities, the organization has promoted the incorporation of traffic safety education at schools with the help of private firms.
- Schools for Life program: Educational workshops for elementary and high school students. Teams formed by especially trained teachers belonging to the organization carry out participative workshops in private and public schools with contents and activities that are suitable for different ages and the environment which the children belong to. According to the organization, by 2010, approximately more than 600,000 people had received, direct or indirectly, road education through this way.
- Training courses for teachers: Since 1994 the organization has given theoretical and practical courses for teachers from all levels that aim to provide theoretical knowledge of basic concepts of road safety and education, and training in teaching resources to develop these concepts in their daily work integrated with the program of studies.
Government and public policies[edit]
The organization petitions the authorities for public policies about road safety and effective actions, and attempts to contribute, clarify, and collaborate with these activities.
Proposals for laws and monitoring of their effective enforcement[edit]
Luchemos por la Vida promoted, through mass media and document mails sent to the national authorities, the sanction of a decree (692/92) and, later, a new National Law of Traffic (24,449), declaring the obligatory use of seat belts and helmets for motorcycle and moped riders, the prohibition of taking children on the front seats of a vehicle, and maximum BAC levels, apart from other regulations. Luchemos por la Vida also follows the proper enforcement of the law so that it is really put in practice through effective controls and sanctions to the transgressors. Luchemos por la Vida is currently promoting the punishment of crimes against traffic safety and its inclusion in Argentine legislation.
Members of the Consultative Committee of the National Road Safety Agency[edit]
The organization is part of the National Road Safety Agency (Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Vial, ANSV) as a member of the Consultative Committee and provides direct advice in several issues, such as: campaigns for public awareness, training and traffic education programs, criminal research, production of books, implementation of controls, training for patrols, statistics, etc.
Training courses for government employees[edit]
Every year, conferences and training courses for government employees with executive responsibilities, inspectors, and traffic police are developed in the city of Buenos Aires and different provincial towns to improve their enforcement of the law in the traffic system or as trainers of their forces or community traffic teachers. 18 National Conferences on Safety and Road Education have already been given only in Buenos Aires and more that 700 government employees have been present at them.
Traffic safety courses for drivers looking to renew their licenses[edit]
As certain Argentine town councils do not require minimum conditions of suitability for driving when granting licenses, Luchemos por la Vida designed and promoted training programs and theoretical and practical tests in order to achieve a responsible granting of driving licenses. In addition, the organization has designed and given courses for new drivers and people that renew their driving licenses in the Directorate of Traffic of the government of the city of Buenos Aires.
Production of teaching materials[edit]
The organization has created two free educational videos that aim to improve traffic safety and education.
Claves para una conducción segura ("Keys to safe driving")[edit]
Produced for training of drivers, it is given without cost to offices that grant driving licenses in Argentina and Latin America.
Cazadores de peatones ("Hunters of pedestrians")[edit]
Its distribution is free to all public and private elementary schools in Argentina. The film promotes the participation of the students and encourages their capacity to think about the traffic system and safe pedestrian behavior. A guide for educational activity in the classroom is attached. It can be used for teaching of ten to thirteen-year-old children, as part of the program of studies or in an extracurricular way.
Production of books, posters, and brochures[edit]
Design and printing of posters, brochures, and books concerning road safety and education and manuals respecting safe driving.
Luchemos por la Vida carries out studies and research about two problems of road safety: statistics of traffic accidents, especially about mortality in Argentina, and research on human behavior in the traffic system: behaviors that are able to be seen and beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, and other factors that motivate them, use of seat belts and helmets, efficiency of law enforcement, and traffic flow.
The Luchemos por la Vida awards[edit]
Given for the first time in 1996, the Luchemos por la Vida awards are bestowed on those who make important efforts to promote the prevention of traffic accidents and spread public awareness. The ceremony is held yearly and guests, people who represent institutions and private firms, authorities, and media outlets are present.[9][10]
Participation in international scientific organizations and publications[edit]
Luchemos por la Vida takes part in or collaborates with international technical and political scientific organizations such as:
- United Nations: Luchemos por la Vida makes up the list of NGOs that work for road safety, part of the UN and WHO's Collaborators Net on traumatisms in traffic.[11]
- Global Road Safety Partnership: members of the organization have been invited to participate as speakers in some of its International Conferences, as well as to take part in the scientific committee for one of its conferences. Moreover, the organization also collaborated in reviewing the Spanish version of the book "Speed Management, a Road Safety Manual for decision-makers and practitioners".
- International Traffic Medicine Association: Whose regional vice-president for Latin America is the President of Luchemos por la Vida as well, Alberto José Silveira.
- Prevention Rutiêre International.
Training courses for drivers[edit]
The organization has designed and puts into practice safe driving courses for new drivers, drivers seeking to renew their licenses, drivers working in private firms, and professional drivers.
Support of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020[edit]
In support of the declaration of the years 2011–2020 as the "Decade of Action for Road Safety" by the United Nations General Assembly, Luchemos por la Vida promotes its own actions and seeks to engage authorities and society regarding four subjects to reduce road fatalities: helmet use, use of safety belt and child restraint systems, avoidance of driving after taking alcohol, and speed control.[12]
Board of Directors[edit]
- President: Dr. Alberto Silveira
- Director of Road Safety Education and Research: Lic. María Cristina Isoba.
- Secretary: Jorge Sabaté.
- Permanent members: Alicia Balboni de Copello and José Auletta.
See also[edit]
Luchemos por la Vida's official web site
Luchemos por la Vida's official channel in YouTube
- ^ LA NACIÓN (23 July 2011). "Editorial: Reducir los accidentes viales" (in Spanish). LA NACIÓN. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ^ REUTERS (22 September 2000). "Driving is murder on Argentina's roads". Countdown.org. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ AUTOTÉCNICA TV (4 June 2011). "Debate Autotécnica con María Cristina Isoba" (in Spanish). YouTube - Canal debateautotecnica. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ GOYA VIRTUAL (28 June 2011). "Inspectores y docentes asistieron a jornada educación vial en Buenos Aires" (in Spanish). WWW.GOYAVIRTUAL.COM.AR. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ^ CLARÍN (16 June 2011). "Sin control, sin sanción" (in Spanish). CLARÍN. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ^ SILVEIRA, ALBERTO JOSÉ (16 June 2011). "Experiences and approaches of a non governmental organization planning an awareness program for a developing country". WWW.WHO.INT. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
- ^ m24 Digital (23 July 2011). "Wearing a helmet isn't optional". www.m24digital.com. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ PRESS TV (10 September 2011). ["http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xl0gk6"> "Argentina road rage"] Check
|url=value (help). Daily Motion. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ AMÉRICA NOTICIAS (4 December 2011). ""Haz lo que yo digo pero no lo que yo hago" premiado" (in Spanish). YouTube - Canal TheHugoMendonca. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ^ CLARÍN (2 December 2010). "Premio Luchemos por la Vida a Clarín" (in Spanish). CLARÍN. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ^ WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (23 July 2011). "Agenda for the World Health Day". WWW.WHO.INT. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
- ^ ANDRIOTAKIS, MANOLIS (27 July 2011). "2nd Global Meeting Of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating For Road Safety And Road Victims". YouTube - Canal LxLVArgentina. Retrieved 20 August 2011.


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loreallepaAge: 35-44Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5amazing bookDecember 19, 2013loreallepaAge: 35-44Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5If there is one thing i'm good at, it's holding a grudge. Actually, I might even be considered a professional grudge holder. Forgiveness, no matter who it is directed to, is something that just doesn't come easily to me. But over time I've learned a very important lesson, a lack of forgiveness hurts you more than it hurts the other person.
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Forgiveness will wake you up to reality. If you are struggling with forgiving others or yourself, then this book is for you, my friend. It will open your eyes and help you realize that it is not impossible to forgive the wrongs.
Forgiveness isn't easy, not at all. But it's what God has commanded us to do. One reason we resist forgiving is because we don't really fully understand what forgiveness is or how it works. West points out that there is a difference between forgiveness and acceptance. It's possible to forgive an abuser, for example, without accepting the abuse any further. Most of us (myself included) think that if we forgive our offenders, they are off the hook. Or if we forgive them it shows weakness on our part. Forgiveness means you can let go of the anger. It doesn't mean you condone what they did or let them do it again. It's an important distinction and one that people sometimes miss. Once you learn the way of forgiveness, you won't have to spend all those hours turning over the past, replaying the wrongs someone has done you, holding on to the pain as though it were your best friend.
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I'm currently running my webapps on Tomcat 6 in production, and would like to evaluate running Tomcat in embedded mode.
Is there a good tutorial or other resource besides what's in the api documentation?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
I'm currently running my webapps on Tomcat 6 in production, and would like to evaluate running Tomcat in embedded mode.
Is there a good tutorial or other resource besides what's in the api documentation?
Code speaks for itself. See the pom.xml snippet and the class to run tomcat.
Though this post is some what aged, I m answering my own answer as it could save some other' time
I also faced the
Do not forget to place the default
It should be noted that the shutdown hook is inspired from Antonio's answer.
There are a number of reasons why one might use Tomcat over Jetty:
Point #5 has been important in my work. For example, I can gain direct access to a JSPWiki instance via Tomcat, but it's completely inaccessible when using Jetty. I asked for a solution to that in 2007 and haven't yet heard an answer. So I finally gave up and began using Tomcat 6. I've looked into Glassfish and Grizzly, but so far Tomcat is (amazingly) the most stable and well-documented web container (which isn't saying much really).
This might help.
If you download the source package for Tomcat6.x, you get this class:
Which is an example of how to use the Embedd class: its a shell to stop|start a specific Tomcat installation. (I mean you can set up
If you compile this you can run like this:
java -D"catalina.base=%CATALINA_BASE%" -D"catalina.home=%CATALINA_HOME%" org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
I'm not sure how to alter this code to shutdown the server yet though!
After reading this thread some months ago, I wrote this project: spring-embedded-tomcat. It can be used to embed tomcat6 into Spring-based applications.
I think with Tomcat 7 or Jetty 9 embedding is easier. Here you will find a nice introduction: http://www.hascode.com/2013/07/embedding-jetty-or-tomcat-in-your-java-application/


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I have an automated FTP process that runs at night to a FileZilla server on a windows XP box. The FTP traffic comes from an automated FTP client on a proprietary health care server (Meditech Magic). Sometimes the transfer works fine and sometimes it fails. This is all within our LAN, and the XP firewall is turned off.
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If We Tumble Into A Depression
If America goes over the brink, then it won't be a good day to be a Zionist. You could see by the reaction to Madoff, that there is a lot of subliminal distaste, and distrust, of this group.
A European Poll
It seems 36% of Europeans blame Jews for the financial crisis.
An American Poll
The ADL admits that at least 40% of Americans see Zionists at the heart of this fiscal calamity.
Throughout History, Zionists Have Always Known How To Shift The Blame
When they want something, they will always use a provocation (False Flag), as a staging event. In World War One, the Lusitania was conveniently sunk, World War Two was Hitler invading Poland, and in 2001, you had the 9/11 attack.
Zionists want America to invade Iran, and Arabs to be blamed for triggering the depression. One choice is for Israel to attack Iran, then America enters the Iran fracas, but in that scenario, the Americans will blame the Zionists. There is only one option for Zionists to escape the blame for this economic calamity, and that's if a 'Arab' nuke goes off in America.
A nuke is a clean operation. You could do it with five people. An attack on a US warship is too complicated, and is not fool-proof, as Israel learned from their False Fla
Now we are seeing reactions to cuts like airport traffic controllers that democrats know there will be public outcry to. The strategy is to create the notion that DO NOT make budget cuts! When their own CBO report says they could cut more than a trillion dollars in waste from spending by eliminating duplication, and services no longer needed.
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The Food and Drug Administration's panel of vaccine experts voted 10-1 in favor of Pfizer's Prevnar 13 to protect against pneumococcal disease.
The new vaccine reduces risk of infection from 13 varieties of the disease, which causes thousands of cases of ear infection, meningitis and pneumonia each year. The new version adds protection against six additional strains to the seven covered by the current vaccine.
The FDA says the new strains account for more than 60 percent of
pneumococcal cases in children younger than 5 in the U.S.
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Public Transport Users Association
The Public Transport Users Association is a community-based public transport lobby group in Victoria, Australia, based in Melbourne. It is run entirely by volunteers and has no full-time staff.
History and aims[edit]
The organisation was founded in 1976 as the Train Travellers Association, and became prominent after the controversial Lonie Report recommended huge freeway expansion and closure of most public passenger transport in the city.
The Association advocates a greater role for public transport and less dependence on the private car. Key PTUA policies include:
- A public transport authority to provide co-ordinated planning and management of train, tram and bus services
- Urban planning, taxation and transport project resource allocations that favour sustainable transport modes over car use
- Opposition to major road expansion such as the building of new freeways
- More frequent public transport services, longer operating hours and better connections between modes
- Expansion of the train, tram, and bus networks
- More staffing at stations and on trains/trams
- Fares that ensure public transport is competitive with car travel
Of particular interest to the Association are potential extensions to Melbourne's metropolitan rail network, particularly lines to Doncaster, Rowville (via Monash University's Clayton Campus) and Melbourne Airport, a reorganisation of the bus network, including more routes being upgraded to SmartBus status,[1] and filling in so-called tram "missing links" by the construction of "modest" extensions to the tram network that would ensure that routes connect with nearby railway stations, bus routes and activity centres.[2]
The PTUA successfully campaigned for extended New Years Day public transport hours in 2004,[3] and that has been continued by the government in subsequent years. The Association maintains a high media profile, publishes a regular newsletter for members, operates an office in Melbourne, and has a branch in Geelong.[4]
The current president is Dr Tony Morton, who succeeded Daniel Bowen in October 2012.
- ^ "Policies: Extending the network". Public Transport Users Association. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
- ^ Carey, Adam (2013-03-06). "Lobby urges tram extensions to avoid dead-end trips". The Age. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
- ^ How Melbourne got all-night NYE public transport YouTube video 03:23 in length
- ^ "Geelong Branch". PTUA. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Look up DO in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
DO may refer to:
- Dominican Republic, ISO country code: do
- .do, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Dominican Republic
- IATA airline code for Dominicana de Aviación, an airline of the Dominican Republic in 1944–1995
- IATA airline code for Air Vallée
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- Direct object, the object that is being acted upon (by a verb)
- Do., an abbreviation for Ditto mark
- Discouraged Ones, a 1998 album by Katatonia
- Delta Omicron, an international music fraternity
- The Dø, indie-pop duo
- D.O. (singer), a member of the Chinese-South Korean boy band EXO
- Daansgard-Oeschger cycles, a solar forcing-based climatic temperature cycle
- Delta Omega, an American public health honorary society
- Dissolved oxygen or oxygen saturation, a measure of oxygen dissolved in a medium
- Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, a degree held by physicians in the United States
- Evolution-Data Optimized, a wireless radio broadband data standard
- Diffractive optics, a type of lens on the Canon EF lens mount
- DO (film)
- D/O, or delivery order, a legal document
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- Denominación de Origen, a Spanish wine appellation
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Jo Malone Orange Blossom
206 reviews
69% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.0
Price: $$$$
Package Quality: 4.0
Price: $$$$
on 3/27/2016 4:32:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
Pricey, yes, but one of my go-to Jo Malone classics.
Sweet, floral and very wearable. Alas, $65 an oz. is a rip.
on 8/4/2015 10:30:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
When I was 18, I was dating the boy who used to live next door to me, but who had since graduated high school and moved to Indiana to attend Notre Dame. We spent a week together on summer break, during which time he had flown down South to stay with me and my family. It was early in this visit that he proposed to me on the beach one night, and I accepted...though something told me that this was a doomed venture. I knew it was not going to last, and yet I agreed anyway; I suppose I just liked the idea that something interesting loomed in the distant future for me. One late afternoon a few days later, we took a drive; the sun hung low on the horizon, the windows were down, and on the wind that ruffled our hair was the musky, sweet scent of orange blossoms, as we had just driven past a massive orange grove. Jo Malone�s Orange Blossom smells like that summer afternoon, sweet blooms and dying suns and the melancholy of tears yet to be shed for reasons you�re not quite sure of.
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on 4/30/2015 4:51:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
Very pretty and fresh. My friend wears this and it always smells lovely on her. I may purchase it myself; the only thing holding me back is that although I love the initial orange blossom notes, I am not as thrilled with the lilac notes that emerge in the dry down. It smells truly beautiful when first sprayed, and I wish it would keep those top notes, but tends to get a bit powdery in the dry down.
on 4/4/2015 8:13:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Dry, Olive, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
Absolutely love this scent. Long lasting and fresh all day long. I wear it alone or layer with other Jo Malone scents. Well worth every cent.
on 3/27/2015 7:00:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I didnt like the smell i didnt think it was special. But when i put this scent on me i felt so happy and very confident and very pretty and very girly not sure to do with the scent or one of those days feeling. But I havent felt like that for along time it was only a sample i used and lasted only 2 days wonder if i should buy the full bottle this scent which i didnt like the scent but loved the feeling that may did for me. So it is a question i may will try the samples again before invest my money to on big bottle.
on 4/7/2014 11:32:00 AM
Age: 56 & Over
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
I love this fragrance. However, it has absolutely NO staying power! I realize it's a cologne -- I questioned the sales rep. at Nordstrom's about this. Her response was that it was very long lasting. I can spray this ridiculously expense fragrance and in 20 minutes I smell nothing! I might try layering a little petroleum jelly first and see if that give it more oomph.
on 4/7/2014 10:32:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Green
As I kid I was convinced that nothing smells better than my grandparents garden in the whole wide world. Well, I still am. It was full of orange, lemon and mandarin trees along with a few jasmine plants. When in full bloom it was heavenly; this garden might not exist any more but I'll never forget the way it smelled.
Orange, lemon and jasmine blossoms are my mother's favorite scents.
And her mother's favorite scents.
There is no surprise that they hold value to me as well but had never thought about finding a perfume that smells like that; I considered capturing that particular elusive scent impossible. Especially after noticing that most orange blossom fragrances are too warm or honeyed and lacking that breezy radiant transparency.
Enter Jo Malone.
This one took me by surprise. Starts with a burst a clementine that leads to the floral heart; not a true orange blossom but a combo of the flowers mentioned above. What a delight! It stays this way for a couple of hours and dries down to a misty lilac bouquet. Very very lovely.
I would still like a bit more sillage and longevity but it might be unfair to ask such thing from such an ethereal scent. And since it's bottled sunshine and happiness for me there is really no reason to complain.
Definitely a new favorite :)
on 4/1/2014 11:50:00 PM
Age: 56 & Over
Skin: Very Dry, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I love this fragrance!
I'm not a floral fragrance kind of woman, partly because most dry down to something I just don't care for. I tend to go for gourmand, oriental, or tobacco type scents.
That said, I grew up in Miami Florida, and loved beyond words, the smell of orange blossoms! I remember burying my nose in them, there was nothing better.
If you're from Florida, or have spent some time there, you'll know what I mean :) In fact, my mom's wedding bouquet and headpiece included orange blossoms. This was immediately post WWII, and maybe there weren't that many flowers to choose from, but, I like to think she would have chosen them regardless of availability. The church must have smelled amazing :)
Anyway, back to this fragrance. It is linear, pure and simply just orange blossoms. It opens that way, and stays true until it fades away. I get about five hours or so from it. It is the most authentic orange blossom fragrance I've ever tried.
Also, a nice layering combination is to spritz a bit of Avon (yes) Naturals body spray in vanilla. Don't knock this if you've not tried it. It's another gem, the added bonus in that it's so affordable.
on 3/20/2014 10:30:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Brown
It's a perfect combination of honeysuckle and citrus. It's effervescent and delicate and playful all at once. I especially like this as a pick me up scent; my mood always brightens for a few minutes after spritzing this because it's so cheerful. Like most JM fragrances, it's linear. If you like it when you spray it, you'll like it in a few hours, too. And the packaging is gorgeous. Only con is the sillage isn't amazing, but layering takes care of that and for a citrus scent this good, I'll deal.
on 3/15/2014 12:13:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
This smells to me like "floral orange juice". I don't consider it to be a neroli scent, it's too juicy for that. Citrus is in it, but it's not a citrus scent. I don't get jasmine at all. Layered with blue agava, it makes ... chocolate orange with a floral twist.
Lasts about four hours, with the first ten minutes being the best part. I spray it in my hair so it lasts longer and I get an unexpected blast every now and then.
It's lovely for summer.
There is a candle which smells v juicy and strong in the jar, though I've not actually burnt it.
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Bombardier Sees NetJets Order Beginning Long Relationship
NetJets Inc.'s record aircraft order from Bombardier Inc. may begin a long-term relationship between the two companies just as the business-jet market begins to recover, the planemaker's chief executive officer said.
NetJets, the business-jet operator owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., agreed to buy as many as 120 planes from Montreal-based Bombardier.
"If you look at the fourth quarter, and then this order, these are good indications things are picking up," Bombardier CEO Pierre Beaudoin said in a telephone interview. "Through this order, we are building a relationship that will be there for the long term."
The agreement, valued at as much as $6.7 billion at list prices, comprises 50 firm orders and options for 70 more aircraft, the companies said in a statement.
The firm orders include 30 of Montreal-based Bombardier's Global 5000 Vision and Global Express XRS Vision aircraft, which will be delivered starting next year, and 20 new Global 7000 and Global 8000 jets, which will be delivered starting in 2017.
"It's a confirmation that they feel we have the right product strategy," Beaudoin said. "We've come up with a new airplane and they think it's the most competitive product."
'A Good Start'
The order, Bombardier's first from NetJets, shows confidence in both the market and the company's new aircraft, particularly since NetJets typically orders from General Dynamics Corp.'s Gulfstream unit, said Joseph Nadol of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
"Last month, Bombardier reported a breakout quarter with 74 net new orders, more than the past nine quarters combined," Nadol, who's based in New York and rates Bombardier "overweight," wrote in a note to clients today. "The NetJets deal carries that momentum into" the first quarter and "gets the new year off to a good start."
Bombardier, the biggest business-jet maker, climbed 46 cents, or 7.5 percent, to C$6.60 at 4 p.m. in Toronto Stock Exchange trading. The shares have gained 32 percent this year.
Class A shares of Berkshire Hathaway, which also has units running railroads, offering insurance and making consumer goods, fell $650 to $127,400 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
Operators typically negotiate discounts on aircraft orders and NetJets, based in Columbus, Ohio, didn't say how much it would pay.
'Pickup in Demand'
NetJets, which also ordered 125 Embraer SA jets in October, said it expects the planes' arrival to help meet increasing demand following what will probably be a "difficult" 2011.
The unit made a profit last year after David Sokol, named by Buffett to lead a turnaround in 2009, fired staff and wrote down plane values.
"NetJets is probably positioning themselves for a pickup in demand next year," said Julius Yeo, a Singapore-based aerospace consultant at Frost & Sullivan Inc. "The business-jet market in the U.S. still hasn't really picked up yet."
NetJets has a fleet of more than 800 business jets, including ones made by Dassault Aviation SA, Textron Inc.'s Cessna Aircraft Co. and Gulfstream, according to the statement. The company operates a fractional-ownership model that lets customers buy flight-hours across a fleet of jets.
'Difficult' 2011
"Although we anticipate 2011 to be another difficult year, when Bombardier begins to make deliveries of these aircraft, we will be ready to satisfy the market's demand," Sokol said in the statement.
The order was NetJets' first from Bombardier, Hamzah Mazari, a New York-based analyst with Credit Suisse AG, said in a note to clients. He has an "outperform" rating on the shares. It have been "in the pipeline for some time, with one of the key catalysts for it to materialize being the management change at NetJets," Mazari said.
Buffett installed Sokol to run the unit, which the billionaire called Berkshire's "major problem" for 2009, after reductions in corporate-travel spending amid the global recession damped demand for business-jet flights.
"We've been very impressed with the quality of the team Mr. Sokol brought to Bombardier" to evaluate the aircraft, Beaudoin said. "We definitely see that as a long-term relationship."


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Stomach (Gastric) Cancer Prevention (PDQ®): Prevention - Health Professional Information [NCI] - Description of the Evidence
Epidemiologic evidence from case-control and cohort studies suggests that increased intake of fresh fruits and vegetables is associated with decreased gastric cancer rates.[22,23] However, no RCTs have been done to establish a causal association.
Because of the evidence for an inverse association between gastric cancer and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables, especially those rich in antioxidants, there has been interest in dietary supplementation with antioxidants.
Dietary indices of micronutrient intake have been calculated and indicate possible protective effects of beta carotene, vitamin A, vitamin E, selenium, vitamin C or foods that contain these compounds. A chemoprevention trial in China reported a statistically significant reduction in the gastric cancer mortality rate after supplementation with beta carotene, vitamin E, and selenium.[24] The population studied, however, may have been nutritionally deficient, raising questions of generalizability to other populations such as that of the United States. In addition, the experimental design did not permit assessment of the relative effects of beta carotene, vitamin E, and selenium.
Likewise, there was a randomized placebo-controlled trial of 200 mg of oral allitridium (a component of garlic) every day combined with 100 mcg of oral selenium every other day for 1 month of each year over a 3-year period in Qixia County (Shandong Province, China), an area with low intake of garlic and low selenium content in their garlic compared with other areas of China.[25] Although designed as a double-blinded trial, allitridium causes a distinctive odor of garlic. A total of 5,033 people, who met at least one of the following criteria: (1) medical history of stomach disorder, (2) family history of tumor, (3) history of smoking, or (4) history of alcohol consumption, were randomly assigned. The study, published in a Chinese medical journal, was not well described. After a follow-up for as many as 11 years, there were a total of 23 gastric cancer cases in the allitridium/selenium group and 30 cases in the placebo group (RR after adjustment for a number of baseline characteristics = 0.48; 95% CI, 0.21-1.06). Only 60% of the gastric cancers were diagnosed by histopathology. There was a qualitative difference in outcome by sex: RRmen = 0.36 (95% CI, 0.14-0.92); RRwomen = 1.14 (95% CI, 0.22-5.76). Given the problems with design and reporting of the study, the evidence of benefit (including men) is weak and may not be generalizable to Western countries.
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The latest example of a graphene-based wireless sensor that could make 24-hour healthcare easier to achieve by enabling wireless monitoring of various biomedical events in order to gain a more comprehensive assessment of the wearer's healthcare status. This novel device, which detects chemical/molecular agents and lengths of exposure, can be used as lightweight and transparent wearable or bio-implantable electronic sensor. It may provide an inexpensive way to detect in real-time the biomedical of interest.Posted: Jun 6th, 2016
Nanomaterials like graphene and fullerenes provide an excellent platform to enhance weak signals from biomarkers. While graphene and fullerenes perform very well for detecting isolated biomarkers, their ability to amplify emission of biomarkers in a real physiological milieu is limited due to their strong interactions with other biomolecules such as proteins and lipids. A team of researchers now have developed new sensing platforms that use two-dimensional materials beyond graphene.Posted: Apr 11th, 2016
In order to make robots and robotic technology more human-like and more human-friendly, smart skin technology is a critical element that helps robots sense the world. These electronic or smart skins could help machines to accurately perceive the environment and better assist human owners. By applying the triboelectric effect and planar electrostatic induction, researchers for the first time have created a self-powered analogue smart skin.Posted: Apr 8th, 2016
Our environment will slowly but surely evolve into an 'Internet of Things', where chips and sensors are integrated invisibly in the environment to assume their manifold tasks. Think of sensors that detect the presence of individuals and adapt the light in a building accordingly, resulting in serious energy savings. Those sensors will be, in a sense, the eyes, ears, and noses of our environment. At the recent ISSCC-conference, researchers have presented a number of remarkable developments. These may pave the way to a world where sensors assist us to drive more safely, live healthier, and make the planet more sustainable.Posted: Mar 10th, 2016
Researchers have explored common inexpensive materials to demonstrate their valuable and advantageous properties for artificial skin development. They demonstrate a scalable fabrication approach using off-the-shelf household items such as aluminum foil, scotch tapes, sticky-notes, napkins and sponges to build 'Paper Skin'. Paper Skin promises to be an affordable all-in-one flexibel sensing platform, applicable for applications such as health monitoring, 3D touchscreens, and human-machine interfaces, where sensing diversity, surface adaptability, and large-area mapping all are essential.Posted: Feb 19th, 2016
Many virus detection platforms, including conventional fluorescent label-based ones, have limitations because they are time-intensive and not easily compatible with point-of-care use without the existence of significant infrastructure and expert staff. Researchers have now developed a technique capable of specifically visualizing label-free single viruses in complex solutions in real-time. This approach eliminates virtually all sample preparation.Posted: Feb 5th, 2016
The future Internet of Things (IoT), with its intuitive applications, will operate based on an broad stream of data supplied by sensors placed everywhere. These will be sensors that are many times smarter and more sensitive than the ones we have today. They will also be produced and installed in far greater numbers and be much cheaper than they are now. For example, researchers envisage a radar that is capable of distinguishing pedestrians from cyclists. That technology might even allow to identify individuals from the way they walk.Posted: Jan 18th, 2016
Researchers have developed a suspended planar-array chip whose in situ capabilities with a spatial molecular-probe arrangement combine the advantages of both suspended arrays and planar arrays. This opens the way towards the multiplexed detection of intracellular biological parameters using a single device in dramatically reduced volumes, such as inside a living HeLa cell. The chip's volume represents only about 0.35% of the total volume of a typical HeLa cell.Posted: Dec 29th, 2015


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Pitchers hitting batters is nothing new. Catchers getting drilled by errant pitches happens every now and then. Even umpires get beaned by wild pitches on occasion.
But on Monday night, all three instances happened on the same exact pitch.
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Curtis Partch, the pitcher for the Cincinnati Red's Triple-A affiliate Louisville Bats, managed to hit a batter, his catcher and the umpire on the same pitch.
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people that have died at your school????
how many people in the past years that you have been in high school how many people died??? how did they get killed?? how did your school deal with it??????
at my school myfreshman year we havd like close to 6 i believe
there was like 3 people that commeted suiccide
1 kid was killed in a car acedent that he didnt even cause!! he was hit by a drunk driver!! and he was helping a friend move!!
then a freshman was killed in his own house!!! some guy came in when the kids parents weren home and shot him the temple and left for his parents to find!!!
then we had a staff member comment succide beacuse he was gettin charged for a crime that he didnt comment but he knew since he did before thta he would be in jail for the rest of his life so he just killed hiself!!!
the last year a couple of other kids commented succied!!!!
how my schoold ealt with what happened my freshman year is the next year we had to watch a video on the sighns of succied because of the many of studdents and the staff member that we lost!! is was hard to watch and see that you saw some os the semptions that you saw in those people!!!!!
Even though there isn't anyone at my school that has commited suicide they still made us watch a video on it in health class. It's pretty sad and some people don't understand that when you kill yourself it's forever and you left people behind thats upset and don't understand. Although I'm not the one to judge because I might no understand their postion. But if someone is murdered or killed in a car accident that's different. But aslo sad.
5 people in this year that I knew personally have died.
One went camping and had an accident and bled to death.
Another that I knew for years who stopped me from committing suicide, hung himself at a party in front of his ex girlfriend.
Another, got poisoned from eating bad meat.
Another was very sick and he suffered many years and finally peacefully passed away.
Another overdosed.
Not sure if there are anymore.
My school is pretty small, so it happens VERY rarely. We've had two suicides in the last three years. And 1 car crash. That's all.
i don't know if anyones died in my school, but we had a bomb threat and we had sit in boys football locker that is outside and hasn't been cleaned forever and it was january. we had to be in there all day. but i felt real bad for the kids who were in swwimming class and had to get out of the pool, throw there clothes over there wet bathing suits and go sit with us in a crowded freezing football locker room. so yeah. bomb threats suck
Well, my school is small, but it seems like there's been a death every year.
Three years ago, this little girl got shot by her cousin or something by accident because he was goofing around with a gun
Two years ago, a girl died in a car crash.
And this year, a boy died from drug overdosage. They're not sure if it was suicide, though.
We've only had 2 people die (that I know of anyway).
The first one was about 4 years ago, some year 11 boy died in a car crash.
And the second one died of an illness around the same time, she was in my year and we did some classes together.
We've had one boy just about die when him and his mates were playing around on the stairs and he tripped. But that's about it.
We haven't had any deaths at my school. Oh, beside one that happened a few years ago...if he wouldn't have commited suicide (and in the middle school hallway i might add...) he would've graduated last year. I didn't know him, but this girl who's mom worked with my mom and that I've known forever did.
I don't think that there have been deaths at my school. It's a Jr. High. In elementry, a kid died of a brain tumor though. I never knew him though.
I don't think we have ay deaths at our school...lots of kids have had to been rushed to the hospital though
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You can buy off the shelf servers to do what AKAM does.
Keep on shorting so I can buy MORE !!!! tablets and cell phone data plans are growing rapidly. That's where you look at it. $50+ very soon. If ever there will be corrections may not be that harsh ad it will recover quickly like it always did.
I found money on this garbage. Bought lots of shares when it dipped now I may add some more. Eager to join the millionaires club. :-)
Actually, they do buy "off the shelf servers", that is not what makes AKAM tick, it is the software and algorithms that make the distribution of bits and bites faster, safer, and more secure. That might be why insiders and institutions own 88.86% of this company which has a debt to equity ratio of 0.00. So now, when I think of welfunco, I think of idiot!
I'll settle for this kind of garbage anytime. Up 75% since I bought it. YAY YAY YAY!!!!! A new Lexus for me.
So...Why don't ya just short some more shares then...?
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Does stress cause your acne or rosacea to flare up? Or do you chew your nails to the quick? Experts say emotions can have an impact on your skin.
The Mind-Skin Connection
New Field, New Treatment Possibilities continued...
For example, every time your hand reaches above your neck, grab a pencil and write a sentence.
When children develop stress-induced skin conditions, the onus may be on adults to ask what kind of impact the skin disease is having on them and what kind of stressful events they are going through because very young children experience stress just like adults do, Mallin says.
"Maybe they are being teased or bullied," she says. A doctor or parent can ask about school and friends to find out if the child is socially connected or excluded form normal social activities," she suggests.
The mind-skin connection makes all the sense in the world to Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, MD, clinical assistant professor of dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
"Studies that show that at least 30% of all dermatology patients have some underlying psychological problem that often goes unaddressed, at least on initial visit, but if addressed, it can have a very positive and powerful impact in improving the skin condition," she says.
[During development in the womb], the brain and skin are derived from the same cells, so there is a connection," she says. "And the other immediate relationship is that when people experience stress in life, quite frequently, their skin becomes a reflection of the stresses."
What to do varies depending on the condition and the cause, she says.
"If the condition is short-lived, such as a college student gets an acne flare during finals, there is not much to do because stressors are episodic," Sekula-Gibbs says." But if the stressors are more chronic, such as a difficult marriage or a person is unemployed and unable to find work, the dermatologist would be well served to try and address the social issues involved."
Perhaps, she suggests, a social worker, marriage counselor, or psychiatrist can help. But if the patient is clinically depressed as a result of a skin condition, depression is causing the skin condition, or they are suffering from a psychosis or obsessive-compulsive disorder and might be hurting themselves, safer and easier-to-tolerate medications are available, she says.
The bottom line is that "if the dermatologist and patient are both aware that the stressors exist, then they are better suited to deal with problem, but if no-one talks about it, it can't be addressed." Sekula-Gibbs urges patients to "speak frankly to your doctor about issues that are bothering you."


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Maya Rudolph Did Not Like '300'

 300, the bloody action movie based on Frank Miller's graphic novel about the ancient battle of Thermopylae, has conquered the all-time March box-office record, and also the hearts of the SNL cast — with the exception of Maya Rudolph. Asked what was the most "rockin'" thing they'd done to prep for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony they attended this week, Fred Armisen replied, "We went to the movies!" Andy Samberg clarified, "We saw 300." Did they get more excited about this movie than the Chronicles of Narnia? Their tale of moviegoing is after the jump.
Samberg: "It was at the Union Square theater, and we dove off the balcony into
the bottom-floor audience. We were just so fucking fired up about Sparta!"
Fred Armisen: I punched everyone around me and got kicked out in the first five minutes.
Samberg: Fred ripped his shirt off with one finger. He was the animal. I was the brains behind the operation. We dove together. It was like a Thelma and Louise moment. Everyone caught us and carried us up to the screen and put us up to the screen and then they shot us.
New York: And what were you doing?
Maya Rudolph: Falling asleep. —Jada Yuan


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I have a pascal code file and need to parse it (using c#) and display all the public functions, my file looks something like that (not actual code):
function Test(str: string):bool;
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Notice Test2 there, and how it is in multiple lines. I can do some basic (very basic) regular expressions, but can't make anything that work with this. Basically what i need is: get all functions between the strings "public" and "published" and return it in one single line...


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I tell you what, fantasy-heads: These long runs are nice, but the runs in the games we win always seem to be a little sweeter.
It feels good to break another 50-plus-yard run. I mean, think about when you were a kid: Did you like scampering for 5 yards before someone gave you the two-hand touch (and then you tried to convince everyone it was only one hand that got you)? Or did nothing beat breaking free with that nerf ball and sprinting down half the field, dodging the kids from down the street trying to tackle you, and crossing the goal line totally out of breath? It's Option B every time for me; I'm not ashamed to admit that there's still a little kid under the 39 jersey.
So how'd these runs start popping up now? The past two weeks, we've really tried to focus on finishing games. I've been coming into the game just trying to dominate the ground game, control the ball, and run out the clock. And I've been fortunate enough to have some great blocking, which is allowing me to run down the field and get you all these fantasy points. In fact, I took a peek at my fantasy scoring from last week. 22 points! Not bad, right? And for those of you with me in one of your running back slots heading into the fantasy playoffs, know that I'm going to try and get us up into that 30-point range this week.
Now, on to a more pressing matter:
I know there was a pretty big deal made after the win this week about me requesting some better music in the Edward Jones Dome. And I wanted to address that here, because I know you ESPNers love hearing about things that have very little bearing on your fantasy play. Do you all remember the scene in "Caddyshack" when Rodney Dangerfield throws a bunch of bills at the band to pep up the music at the Bushwood mixer? That was pretty much me. Al Czervik. Without all the money being thrown around.
But the Dome had been a little quiet as of late, and I just felt like we needed some better stuff coming out of the speakers to get us fired up a little bit. Like when Derek Jeter steps up to the plate and gets his favorite song blasting through Yankee Stadium. Why not throw a little bit of that in now and then during the games? And it wasn't only for us. I did it just as much to get the crowd up and moving, and it worked -- you could see them dancing on the JumboTron! In my mind, there's no better way to do that than pumping a little music over the speakers to get the bodies moving.
Anyway, I figured I'd share a little bit of what I listen to if I want to get pumped up before a game. Maybe you can fire it up on your laptop while checking fantasy scores this week
Generally speaking, anything with a good beat that has some gut-wrenching, high-energy sounds to get the blood flowing, or to get the guys pumped up, works. Before Week 13's game, I was going back and forth between the new Jay-Z (I love "American Gangster") and Incubus.
On my iPod, though, I'm all over the place. I have a little Bob Marley, some Sade, and I have the Gorillaz on heavy rotation right now. It all pales in comparison, though, to me doing my karaoke version of "Welcome to the Jungle." I'm going to have to get that one out to the masses. Somehow.
So this week, we're on the road, and I'll be unable to test my "better music" theory, but I'm still looking for another win. The team is really coming together -- we've won three of our past four -- and I think we're all still holding out hope that if we win out, and a couple of things go our way in terms of the teams ahead of us, we can at least try to get that last playoff spot at 7-9. It's going to be tough, but it isn't necessarily impossible.
To those of you in the playoffs, good luck this week. I'll do my best to get you into the next round.
See you in seven days.
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The Matrix is a 1999 American–Australian neo-noir science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer "Neo" learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the "dream world". Wikipedia
Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.
Neo: What is the Matrix?
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
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NFE-MIS: Developing planning and monitoring tools for Non-Formal Education in Nepal
While Educational Management Information Systems (EMIS) are consistently improving to plan and monitor formal education in the country, there is lack of such systems for Non-Formal Education (NFE).
To fulfil the information gap in the NFE sub-sector, the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu, in collaboration with Non Formal Education Centre (NFEC), has initiated the process for developing an operational Non-Formal Educational Management Information System (NFE-MIS) under its CapEFA project in three pilot districts: Rasuwa, Makwanpur and Rupandehi.
The NFE-MIS development process includes mainly three stages: the pre-planning stage; the planning stage; and the implementation stage. The project has already surpassed the previous two steps: pre-planning; and planning stages and is now in the implementation stage.
Under the implementation stage, two major activities, data collection and data cleaning, were undertaken. Literacy facilitators and local monitors were involved in data collection activities, while resource people and school supervisors were involved in data cleaning and verification.
The next steps in NFE-MIS development will be entering and processing data, producing output tables, analyzing data and producing a comprehensive NFE-MIS report.
It is expected that NFE-MIS will very soon provide reliable, relevant and timely data to policy makers, planners and programme managers for informed decision making and to improve planning, management, coordination and delivery of NFE at national and sub-national levels.
It further aims to improve the coordination of NFE-programmes among NFE actors by offering a map of NFE provision in the country.
The information available on NFE opportunities generated by the NFE-MIS will help raise interest and encourage participation in NFE programmes.
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text: People in the know - guys like Trent Dilfer - say that Peyton Manning is like Michael Jordan, i.e. he should be the MVP every year. He does everything for that team, working in new receivers without a hitch, an offensive coordinator on the field, and the best clutch quarterback with the game on the line - witness his seven 4th quarter comebacks this year. So, I have no problem with Manning as the MVP. My question is: what does a running back have to do to get any traction in the MVP voting? Chris Johnson rushes for 2,000 yards with teams stacking the line against the Titans, and he doesn't get a single vote?? I know quarterback is THE position in the NFL, but Shaun Alexander won this award in 2005, and LT came back and won it the next year. So, where was the love for Chris Johnson in 2009?.