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Bomb threats should always be treated as though there actually is a bomb until all facts are evaluated and authorities can thoroughly search the area.
If you receive a bomb-threat telephone call, ask the caller:
If you receive an email bomb threat or a suspicious package, note any pertinent information such as background noises, gender of caller, voice pitches and patterns, then call 911 and evacuate the building.
Before the police arrive, the building safety coordinator can help facilitate the investigation. This is called the "Two-Minute Scan." Do not stay in the building, but as you are leaving:
Scan your area for things that may be out of order. This will greatly reduce the amount of time required to search a building. Employees can recognize objects that are out of place. That information may help authorities search more quickly.
Do not touch, jar or move any suspicious objects. Do not use cell phones, radios or other wireless devices. Anyone who has had contact with a suspicious package should wash the exposed skin with soap and water after reaching a place of safety.
When leaving the building, take your purse, backpack and/or briefcase with you. This will reduce the number of items to be searched and will help get you back in the building sooner. Leave doors, offices and storage spaces open and unlocked. Every room will be searched. Please share this information with the people in your area.
A suspicious object is defined as any object of unknown origin. It may be a backpack, briefcase, radio, shopping bag or book. A suspicious package or object may be suspected for any of several reasons:
If a suspicious package or bomb is found, evacuate the area. Do not handle it, move it, immerse it or cover it. You do not know how the device is fused. Do not take the time to try to barricade or "sandbag" a suspicious object.
If a suspicious object is found in a room in the building, leave the door open when you leave it to summon aid. (You want to create an escape route for expanding gases. You close doors in a fire evacuation; you open doors to ventilate in a bomb threat evacuation.)
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The Straits Times (Singapore) publishes an interview with Ms Carol Bartz, the CEO of Yahoo, on 25 November 2009. This ST Interview by Robin Chan is entitled "I'm not taking on Google".
In the Q&A box, Robin posed the question, "Yahoo was one of the first and most successful dot.coms. What are the challenges of starting and building an Internet company today?"
Ms Carol Bartz replied, "The Internet is one of the most amazing low-barrier businesses you could get into. It's pretty much capital-free…and you can bring ideas to life pretty quick. The problem is it's hard to get attention. I think Internet sites are doubling every year, so it's easy to get lost. So while it's easy to enter, it's also easy to fail. But at least you don't waste a lot of money."
I think there is much truth in Ms Carl Bartz's words.
It is extremely easy to start online small business. Almost everyone is starting a blog as an online small business. Since many bloggers are looking forward to make money from blogging, we have to treat blogging as an online small business.
Many people are affiliate marketers for Ebay, Clickbank or Amazon. It is easy to start online small business when you join the affiliate marketing program. You can get the free blog or pay for a hosting domain at ten dollars per month or less.
It is easy to design the website for online small business. The easiest way is to get the free template and use the template for online small business. You hardly need any skill to copy and paste the code to your website of the online small business.
You do not need to worry about secure payment and other features if you are concentrating on affiliate marketing as your online small business model.
All you have to do is to write product reviews or articles relating to the products, and put the product widgets next to your articles. The interested parties can click on the advertisements to assess Amazon, Ebay or advertiser's website. They will in charge of payment, and compute the commission for you.
It is true that the entry barrier to online small business is very low. Everyone can start online small business. In fact, some people are so addicted to starting online small business that they create a website every month. Once an online small business starts to roll in money, they can sell for 12x to 30x profit. In fact, their business model is to buy and sell online small business.
It is very easy to exit from online small business. If you do not update your blog, the search engines will not send traffic to the website of your online small business. In this way, the blog is as good as dead.
In the event of using a paid hosting for your online small business, the host will shut down the website if you do not pay for the hosting.
You probably do not even use money when you use free blogging platform for your online small business. You lose the amount of money for the domain if you exit from the online small business.
Entry and exit are very easy. In fact, this is what makes online small business so difficult to do. There are so many people who are not seriously considering making a success out of online small business. They just want to try and have fun, and the numerous blogs and websites drown your online small business.
The most difficult part of online small business is to promote business online.
Many people are frustrated with online small business because they do not know how to promote business online. They think that if they have great products to sell, and have a nice website, they can get customers to their website.
The problem is that promote business online is similar yet different from promote business offline.
If you open a shop in the shopping area, you benefit from the traffic in the shopping area. However, this is not possible for online small business. You have to promote business online aggressively, since it is unlikely for anyone to just stumble upon your online small business.
There are many ways to promote business online, and nearly all are very time consuming.
The first way to promote business online is to write articles and submit to article directories, with link to your online small business.
The second way to promote business online is to submit the website to business directories.
The third way to promote business online is to join many forums, and make many postings, and use the url of your website as signature.
The fourth way to promote business online is to use Facebook and Twitter. You have to get many followers.
The fifth way to promote business online is to use traffic exchanges.
The sixth way to promote business online is to send emails to all your friends and contacts, signing off with your website.
The last way to promote business online is to use seo companies, such as textlinkbrokers, so that your website can get into the front page of search engine result.
Your online small business cannot survive without your conscious effort to promote business online. The learning curve is very steep. You have to swim with many wannabes who are not determined enough to make a success out of it. As long as you do things correctly, and put in enough effort, your online small business can survive and thrive.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
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We can hardly believe it's been over a year since the USO named Stephen Colbert "Mr. USO" and sent him to Iraq for a week-long taping and airing of The Colbert Report. That tour was a smashing success, with hundreds of Troops able to enjoy the show in person and millions more viewers back home.
Beginning yesterday and continuing through tonight, The Colbert Report is dedicating two special episodes as a salute to the Troops. "Been There: Won That: The Returnification of the American-Do Troopscape" (yes, that's the official title!) features several of the same guests who appeared during the Iraq shows, including Gen. Ray Odierno, who - as you'll recall - participated in one of the most talked about moments from the show: shaving Stephen Colbert's head.
Last night Colbert returned the favor, by presenting a very special…Well, we won't give it away. Just watch the clip (pun intended) below!
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USO and the What To Expect Foundation Host Special Delivery Baby Shower in Dover
Being pregnant isn't easy under the best of circumstances. But being pregnant and having a spouse in the military – or serving yourself – can make the expecting experience exponentially more difficult. That's why the USO and the What to Expect Foundation, led by best-selling author Heidi Murkoff, team to bring Special Delivery Baby Showers to military bases around the world.
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A Dish in the Desert: USO Piloting Expeditionary Satellite Internet Kit Program for Service Members Downrange
After months of research, two reinforced plastic cases arrived at Camp Shorab, a once-bustling Marine Corps base in Southwestern Afghanistan. When unpacked the packages' color-coded contents provided a free USO internet connection for troops on the ground.


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DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates will suspend use of Blackberry services in October, citing concerns about security risks, the state news agency said on Sunday. The UAE said it would halt Blackberry services until an "acceptable solution" is developed and applied. "It's a final decision but we are continuing discussions with them," Mohammed Al Ghanem, director general of the UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) said.
"Censorship has got nothing to do with this. What we are talking about is suspension due to the lack of compliance with UAE telecommunications regulations." The UAE objects to Blackberry data being exported offshore and managed by a "foreign, commercial operation". The regulator said Blackberry data services are the only ones operating in that method. The decision will not affect users of rival Nokia and Apple's iPhone smartphones.


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Humane agents discover animal hoarding in Youngstown
They found over 30 dogs, two cats, a snake, multiple rats and birds living at 1937 Weston Avenue.
They found over 30 dogs, two cats, a snake, multiple rats and birds living at 1937 Weston Avenue.
The Western Reserve Port Authority decided to stop funding the flights last week.
17 people were injured when a railing collapsed at a Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa concert in New Jersey.
Authorities say a Pennsylvania hospice nurse stole a dying cancer patient's medication and blamed it on a sore neck.
The Western Reserve Transit Authority plans to add more bus trips around Mahoning County.
Officials said that between 300 and 800 people were displaced.
The campaign encourages drivers to focus on the road and arrive at their destination safely.
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The service would give first responders instructions on how to care for people with special needs.
Many of the programs aim to empower students to speak up when they see bullying going on.
The latest weather forecast for Youngstown, Warren, Austintown, Boardman, Sharon, Lisbon and East Liverpool.
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The current restroom facilities are 37 years old, and fair board members say it's time for an upgrade.
Ricky Sigmon was found at a home on McGuffey Road early Wednesday morning.
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OCT 15, 2013 - Boston Herald
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's coast guard says a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship is sinking off the country's southeastern coast and all of its 19 crew members are missing.The coast guard said in a statement that the 8,461-ton ship had anchored off the port city of Pohang but hit a seawall amid high waves Tuesday.Coast guard officers said 18 Chinese and one Vietnamese were aboard the ship and were missing more than nine hours after the incident.
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Secure and Portable License Collector
Store, track and mange your licenses. Licenses for software, services and tools - allocatable to different Macs. Available as portable application - so you can have your licenses with youâ¦
- Secure encrypted database
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Tags: licences , license , serials , serialnumbers , registration
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Tags and/or categorys would be nice. So I can tag them coming from the MacHeist bundle for example.
Version 5.0 already available.
And the app now has new name: myLicenses.
Ehhh it's ok. I mean, for free, it's good. But:
- Non-conforming with Apple standards (can't delete a license by hitting delete or cmd-delete; have to use the menu?!)
- Can't drag/drop apps
- Can't drag/drop images to specify the app's icon
Just doesn't quite have a Mac application feel to it, as far as the UI goes.
Hmm, I like RapidoSerial and its drag and drop functionality personally.
the GUI looks really sleek and functional, gonna give it a try :)
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- May 27:
- UC Santa Barbara cancels classes, holds memorial Tuesday to remember victims of rampage
- May 26:
- Santa Barbara rampage: Three promising lives of Bay Area men cut short
- Elliot Rodger's parents made frantic dash to Santa Barbara but arrived too late
- May 25:
- Three fatal stabbing victims in Santa Barbara hailed from Bay Area
- Santa Barbara shooting: Sheriffs never saw menacing videos before rampage
- Reconstruction: Denied again by people he hated, Elliot Rodger improvised
- Elliot Rodger's manifesto reveals a long struggle to fit in
- Isla Vista mass killer's videos reflect cold rage
- Tearful plea from victim's dad in deadly rampage
- Suspect in Isla Vista rampage blamed aloof women
- May 24:
- Video vowing slaughter may be tied to shootings near UC Santa Barbara
- Sheriff: Gunman killed 3 people at home before going on rampage
Elliot Rodger, the suspected gunman who went on a shooting and stabbing rampage near a Santa Barbara university this weekend, had been able to "fly under the radar" and conceal a history of mental instability for a long time, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Deputies from Brown's department met with Rodger on April 30 after a relative expressed concern about his well-being. Rodger told "a very convincing story" to the deputies to make them believe he wasn't going to hurt himself or anyone else. Brown said. He also did not the criteria for further intervention at that point, Brown added.
Read the rest of the report on The Los Angeles Daily News: http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140525/sheriff-santa-barbara-shooting-suspect-was-able-to-fly-under-the-radar


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Former Boston Bruins Forward and long-time NHL tough guy Chris Nilan may have been considered a bully back in his playing days. After 3,584 career penalty minutes and 326 fights under his belt, the West Roxbury native now spends his time doing the exact opposite. Nilan recently spoke with Jen Royle about his battle with drugs and alcohol, his advocacy for anti-bullying, and his new book, "Fighting Back: The Chris Nilan Story."
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Happy birthday and congratulations to a grand lady, Mary Puna Bivins, who celebrated her 84th birthday on Saturday, March 24th at her home with a host of church friends, family in town and from out of town who all enjoyed The Junkanoos who concluded the festivities. Congratulations goes out to Mount Olivette Baptist Church and its members who are enjoying their 100th anniversary. Rev. S.A. Samsonwas its first minister from Coconut Grove Days Happy wedding anniversary greeting go out to Kevan and Hilda Marchwhich was on March 25th. It was their 34th. Our get well wishes and prayers go out to all of you! Among those who need our positive thoughts are Inez McKinney-Johnson, Grace Heastie-Patterson, Julia Smith-Tynes, Naomi Allen-Adams, Philip Wallace, Louise H. Cleare, Elouise B. Farrington, Shirley N. Funches, Princess Lamb, Thelma Dean, Ella Mae McKinney, Vennda-Rei Gibson, Winston Scavella, Yvonne Johnson-Gaitor and Jackie Livingston. The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Womens Club, Inc. held its 54th Southeast District Conference, March 15th - 18th, in Miami at the Doubletree Miami Mart Airport Hotel. District Governor Juanita Miller (of North Carolina) directed the entire event and was re-elected as district governor. The Miami-Dade Club was the host club and under the leadership of Wylene Robinson, who did an outstanding job assisting in the planning and selecting the speakers. Local speakers, Rosetta Hylton (organ donation), Shirlyon McWhorter-Jones (president of Miami Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta) and Eve Wright Taylor (associate counsel for the Miami Heat) set the tone with outstanding messages to district attendees. Maya Thurston, a graduating senior at Turner Tech, won second place in the district oratorical contest. South Florida Club attendees included: Kathleen Thurston (president), Nancy Dawkins, Martha Day, Nikki Baker, Regina Francois, Anna Cohens, Regina Hudson and Aquilla Williams. Miami-Dade Club attendees included: Wylene Robinson (president), Dr. Deborah Allen, Lillian Floyd-Ross, MaeDeon Reid and Roberta Felton. Local entrepreneur Nikki Baker published a superb souvenir journal though her company, SuperFlyers-Miami. Two local graduating seniors, May Thurston and Kyra Williams, participated in the districts Rites of Passage. Deceased members Ollie Williams and Barbara Wallswere given a special tribute during the memorial service. The Junkanoo Band paid a special visit to get everyone out of their seats. Only Miami can put on such a good time. To all my Tornados, do you remember how great Barbara Williams-Kee was (and still is) doingduring our high school days? Well, come to St. Agnes Episcopal Church and you can hear this song birds melodious voice in the choir any Sunday. Enjoyed your solos very much at our final Lenten service at St. Agnes last Sunday, Barbara! You still have that melodious voice. Karen Bullard-Jordan enjoyed her visit to the Bahamas. She also flew up to Rum Cay home of the Strachan family. Karen was the house guest of her aunts, Patrona Major and Shirley Strachan, and her cousin, Jackie Seymor. Congratulations to my Soror Stephanye Johnsonwho has been accepted as an inaugural member of the South Florida CRED (certificate in community real estate development) Class of 2012. Hearty congratulations to the 20, 2013 Black women listed of whom we are most proud. These exceptional women are Georgiana Johnson Bethel, Alice W. Johnson, Rebecca Butterfly Vaughns, Commissioner Juanita Smith, Charlie Powell Albury, Florene Litthcut-Nichols, Mary Alyce Treadwell Martin, Eunice W. Liberty, Vickie M. Smith Jackson,Dorothy W. Graham, Mary Williams Woodard and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and all Black women throughout the world!


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The Testing Center
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We are located within The W. A. Franke College of Business, building #81, room 103/106 on the Northern Arizona University campus. Specifically, we are in the northwest corner of the first floor, just behind the stairwell.
All guests visiting the Northern Arizona University campus are required to purchase a parking permit from NAU's Parking & Shuttle Services. NAU students, staff, and faculty with a valid permit can park in an appropriate parking lot. Non-NAU individuals can purchase a valid parking permit in one of two ways.
1. Visit the Parking & Shuttle Services web site, create a guest account, and purchase/print a day pass for any South Commuter (SC) parking lot. Parking lot P62 is a SC lot and is located just south and west of the intersection of McConnell Drive and Pine Knoll Drive.
2. Purchase a day pass for any South Commuter (SC) parking lot at one of the campus KIOSKS. The closest KIOSK to our building is located on the right-hand side of the road (eastbound) on McConnell Drive, just after the three-way intersection at Pine Knoll Drive.


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Governor-General receives honorary degree
On a sunny, chilly May morning the University awarded an honorary doctorate to former Principal of its Women's College, now Australia's first woman Governor-General, Quentin Bryce AC.
Chancellor and NSW Governor, Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO conferred the Doctor of Laws in the Great Hall, after a citation read by Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael Spence.
Dr Spence paid tribute to Ms Bryce's career and time at the University. "Throughout her career she has been a role model for Australian women. She practiced what she preached and managed to balance commitments to her family, workplace and the community.
"As principal of Women's College at this University, Ms Bryce made a personal and lasting impact on the lives of hundreds of young women who resided there," Dr Spence said.
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By Leah Beckmann — Tonight's foray into the self-esteem building activity that is pageantry, revealed that there is indeed truth behind an adage as old as the great Redwoods: fart jokes are funny!
Tammy, the supreme Fartstress and mother of pageant contestant, Isabella, used her fart-making powers (including SIX different kinds of farts) to get her baby diva to laugh. Welcome Isabella! She enjoys cheerleading, acting, and a variety of farts.
While an endless parade of fart jokes graced this episode, so did another ancient myth: that of the mystical Mean Girl. Enter Eden Wood, Queen of the Province of Arkansas. Her mother's reality TV show, Pruning the Garden of Eden, is in the works and will premiere on TLC next year.
While this episode was supposed to feature Mercedes, Tiffany, and Isabella, they were thrust into the dark shadow that was cast across the Holiday Inn by the enormous crown resting atop Queen Eden's fair head. Her influence on these poor minions is truly remarkable; fear and chaos are left in her wake. Her very presence prompts Mothers and Fathers (Mercedes' specifically) to "pop an extra [anti-anxiety] pill," while others will wait in line for her autograph for days. In summary, you can think of this episode as a subtle plug for Mean Girls 3.


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Architecture Details
- Core Applications
Core-apps include the following Enyo 1.0 applications: accounts, calculator, calendar, clock, contacts, email, and memos, and the Node.js-based services required to run them.
The core-apps repo is available here.
The repo for app-services, which is used by core-apps, is available here.
- Enyo
Enyo is an object-oriented JavaScript application framework emphasizing modularity and encapsulation.
The Enyo site is here.
- System Manager
The luna-sysmgr GitHub repository is here. It contains the webOS System Manager, which is a key webOS component responsible for:
- Managing the application and service interface for physical devices, such as keys, accelerometer and vibrator.
- Managing the running of applications and passing of messages between applications.
- Managing the installation and removal of applications.
- Managing display and notify applications and services.
- Managing the sharing of system resources between different applications and services.
- Managing the dock mode status.
- Managing the security policy and access to a locked device.
- Providing for the display of notifications.
- Providing for system menus.
- Providing for the coordinated rendering of applications.
- Rendering webOS card view, lock screen, status bar, system menus, virtual keyboard, notifications, and launcher, in addition to other system management features that are viewable in the System Manager User Interface.
WebAppMgr is provided by System Manager and is responsible for running Enyo applications.
- Browser and Browser Server
Open webOS uses a version of QtWebKit to render web pages and apps. Code-named "Isis Project", it uses a client-server model that separates the rendering process from the user interface. This architectural approach delivers smooth scrolling and a responsive user experience. The Isis Browser uses the highly portable Qt framework with the goal of delivering a cross-platform browser in the future. The code may be found in the Isis Project repository on GitHub.
Rendering Subsystem: Rendering is achieved through a set of policies orchestrated by luna-sysmgr, relying on Qt, qtWebKit and OpenGL/ES and supporting hardware rendering.
Novacom: Novacom and Novacomd provide a generic communication toolset to allow communication between a host and an embedded device using sockets over USB. New devices can be supported by adding a new vendor ID in the USB device stack.
The repo for Novacom can be found here. The repo for Novacomd can be found here.
- System Services
System Services policy features are implemented on top of the Platform Portability Layer. They include:
The repos can be found here:
- https://github.com/openwebos/powerd
- https://github.com/openwebos/sleepd
- https://github.com/openwebos/storaged
DB8: DB8 is the database service provider for webOS components. The initial release provides a partial implementation on top of the LevelDB database engine. Future releases will provide an implementation based on LevelDB.
The repo for DB8 can be found here. Access to DB8 is provided via the API documented here.
Luna-service2: Luna-service2 provides a bus-based IPC mechanism used between components in Open webOS. Luna-service2 is composed of a client library and a central hub daemon. The client library provides API support to register on the bus and communicate with other components. The hub provides a central clearinghouse for communication. Utilities for monitoring and debugging the bus are included.
The repo for Luna-service2 is here.
Node.js: Node.js is an open source project which can be found at http://nodejs.org. The Node.js release in Open webOS provides minimal extensions to enable access to the webOS system bus and extended system access for Node.js services. This includes the node_spawner tool used to launch Node.js services within webOS.
The repo for Node.js is here.
- Platform Portability Layer
The Open webOS platform portability layer (PPL), code-named "Nyx Project", is used to isolate the upper layers of webOS from dependencies on the hardware and the core OS upon which it is running. It is implemented as a shared library that exposes a uniform client API and expects to call into a series of platform-dependent modules that implement the API for a particular device. The code may be found in the Open webOS repository on GitHub.
Open webOS is intended to be built on any standard Linux kernel, with the Platfor Portability Layer providing platform abstraction.
- Build and Development Environments
Our OpenEmbedded-based Build System: OpenEmbedded is specially targeted at managing porting to multiple platform architectures and is an ideal base for contributors interested in bringing Open webOS to new hardware. The OpenEmbedded build supports an ARM emulator which boosts to System Manager running the core apps.
Our Linux Desktop Build: Develop on your own desktop, where you have access to your own tools and code. This is the ideal, productive environment for OS developers to enhance the user experience and integrate other best-of-breed open source technologies. The desktop build supports running System Manager as an application on your desktop and the Core Applications running within System Manager.


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A Christmas Story House booth at the Taste of Tremont
A Christmas Story House booth at the Taste of Tremont
A Deranged Easter Bunny handing out balloons
Patty Johnson, the Evil Elf in A Christmas Story
Face Painting
Christmas Story House & Museum balloons!
Kids coloring "contest"
Kids coloring "contest"
Steve Siedlecki, Executive Director of A Christmas Story House on air with Robin Swoboda during the Christmas in July Special on That's Life with Robin Swoboda.
A Deranged Easter Bunny!
The leg lamp ring toss becomes the Santa ring toss
Robin Swoboda interviewing Santa
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It seems no awards season news can begin without a discussion of gay cowboy fireside tale Brokeback Mountain. Early this morning, Brokeback piled up seven Golden Globe nominations, with best drama, best director, and best actor nods among them. But the Hollywood Foreign Press quite callously split up the movie's heartsick cowpokes, celebrating sensitive monosyllabic mumbler Heath Ledger while snubbing dreamy-eyed, bull-riding (SPOILER ALERT!) bottom Jake Gyllenhaal. It seems that even the Globes are conspiring to keep these star-crossed lovers apart.
In non-Brokeback news, both Black-And-White and Fat George Clooneys scored big, with four nominations for his Good Night, and Good Luck (including director and drama), and a supporting actor nod for his generously padded Syriana CIA operative. Acting nominations for Charlize Theron in North Country and Russell Crowe in Cinderella Man, however, send risky HFP endorsements of the stunt-smudging of great screen beauties and the late-night brutalization of haughty American hotel personnel by entitled Australian hotheads, respectively. (It appears that no, we are not quite ready to let that go.) And so we can end on a happy note, The Squid and the Whale, which we continue to flog tirelessly to anyone who will listen, made noise in three categories.
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We are enjoying the cleanliness of our hotel room. Having both showered, we feel reborn. Jeremy is sleeping quite soundly, and I don't want to disturb him. Our train last night left at 8:15PM, but we were sharing a cabin with two locals who stayed up and chatted for a little while, though once we turned in, they soon followed. The train stopped a number of times, waking us up, as we were both sleeping with one eye open in case of attack or robbery. I was awake at 11:15, 12:21, 3:25, 3:53, 4:15, and finally about 4:30 when we pulled into the station. Having nothing else to do so early in the morning, we decided to walk back into the Old Quarter of Hanoi. This proved to be an interesting experience, since we didn't really know where we were going, we were limited to the maps in our Lonely Planet guidebook, it was pitch black, and we both really needed to use the restroom. While it was somewhat tranquil to not hear the constant beeping of horns (they were sporadic), it was a bit unnerving to know that we were walking blindly through the filth of the streets, sometimes walking on the sidewalk and sometimes walking next to it, feeling wetness or squishiness with a few of our steps. I let out a shriek when I stepped on a stick - I thought I was being attacked by a rodent.
With the help of a few kind people, we made it back to our hotel and enjoyed breakfast. We then wandered and looked at backpacks. We were interested in buying one, but I guess we spent too long at one store examining our many options, for the proprietor waved us away and grabbed the bags from our hands as if we were disgusting creatures (perhaps she has a keen sense of smell) who had just sullied her merchandise by being in its presence.
We were able to get an early check in, and we quickly broke into action, wrapping up the truly vile clothing, figuring out what was wearable, and determining what needed a wash so we could use it during the next 48 hours. We washed out a few items, and I'll later post a photo of the wash water, for it was so surprisingly gray I had to take a picture of it.
Jeremy is stirring. Perhaps I'll soon be able to convince him to venture out of the hotel (we can come back!) to get some lunch. Many of the tours we've booked have included our food, which isn't the way either one of us likes to eat.


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Harley discovered CrossFit in 2009. His combat military experience with the 82nd Airborne Division and background in personal training fit right in to the CrossFit world…both as an athlete and trainer. Harley currently holds a Level 1 CrossFit and CrossFit Olympic Lifting Certification. He strives to create a safe environment for pushing limits and helping others to realize their full potential.
Emily Smith
Emily began her CrossFit journey in 2009. Her love for competive sports and camaraderie is what drew her to the sport. She currently holds a Level 1 CrossFit Certification, CrossFit Mobility Certification, and CrossFit Kids Certification, in addition to her Yoga and Group Fitness certificates. Emily has been guiding people along their path for health and wellness for 7 years, teaching Yoga, Pilates, and Boot Camps in the Tulsa area. She believes in potential, no matter what your current fitness level.
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Alton began her CrossFit journey in 2009. Her background as a high school and collegiate athlete and her competitive nature made CrossFit a perfect fit. She holds a Level 1 CrossFit Certification. Alton has been coaching and educating people and adolescents about the benefits of being more active and healthy for many years. She is currently a middle school volleyball coach and has coached several 5K training programs through Fleet Feet of Tulsa as well as coordinated the CrossFit fitness/wellness program for her employer. Alton has been a member of the 918 CrossFit family since it opened in April 2011. Alton is also CrossFit Endurance certified and has been integral in implementing the 918 CrossFit Endurance program.
Justin Orrick
Justin discovered CrossFit in 2012. His experience in the US Marine Corps as an instructor of the Military Martial Arts Program made a perfect match for CrossFit. His love for competitive sports led him to cycling and endurance training. He has coached several marathon and half marathon programs locally. Justin has paced the 4:15 Route 66 marathon group, completed 5 marathons, over 15 half marathons, a sprint triathlon and two duathlons. His passion or learning and sharing knowledge has has led him to become a better coach and athlete. Justin receives his CrossFit Level 1 certification in August 2012 and is an integral part of 918 CrossFit Endurance.
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You get your settlement every two weeks, and it isn't much....the highest check I ever received was $1000.00 (which breaks down to $500.00 a week) for my first two weeks of employment with them, and from there, the checks went south. After that, my earnings ranged anywhere from $300.00 for two weeks of work to $700.00 for two weeks of work. I lost our cell phone contract, my car and had to go on food stamps to feed my family because of the low wages I was paid.
You get two days off after a two week run for home time, yet day one of your home time is spent waiting at the terminal for your settlement.....and, be prepared to wait at least 7 to 8 hours for your pay, even if you get your paperwork in early in the morning. Buel, Inc. will assign you runs that you do not have the hours to run, and if you try to refuse the load, you could have your contract terminated. Once you are assigned a load, they expect you to get it there on time, whether you have the hours or not.
They say you are not responsible for paying the reefer fuel, yet they take it out of your settlement. The trucks Buel, Inc. leases to you are in poor shape. Buel, Inc. does very little in maintenance before you get the truck, and when something breaks down it is up to you to fix it. I could continue, but I think I have given you enough to think about. No, I'm not a former disgruntled employee....I am not saying these things to enact some sort of revenge. I am saying these things to warn other potential drivers of what awaits you if you drive for Buel, Inc.
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If you can't afford a truck go drive a company truck until you can, of course even there you have to watch who you drive for, after 20 years you know this is an ugly ugly industry.
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MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD: Once seen as the solution to India's energy problems, the Krishna-Godavari Basin's gas reserves, and the companies that have drilled there, are in a sea of troubles with mounting uncertainty over government policy and question marks about how much gas can be extracted.
Apart from Reliance Industries Ltd, which has surrendered a block in KG Basin and has seen output from the prolific KG-D6 block almost halve in two years to 35 mmscmd, state-run firms Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corp (GSPC) have also struggled to deliver in the deep-sea region, which requires specialised technology and equipment. Reliance's output has fallen to about 34 mmscmd instead of rising to 80 mmscmd, and the company has been sternly treated by the Director General of Hydrocarbons and the oil ministry, but other companies have either not started production or are pumping tiny quantities of oil and gas, much behind schedule.


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Samsung's Next Record: 5 Things to Watch in 4Q Results
In late October, investors worried that Samsung Electronics Co.'s financial performance in the last quarter of 2012 wouldn't live up to the records it set earlier in the year.
But by mid-November, the company was giving off signals that its cellphone sales were doing better than expected and investor expectations, along with Samsung's stock price, took off.
On Jan. 8, Samsung announced that its operating profit for the fourth quarter had reached another record level – and net profit likely did, too. Of course, Samsung's record year was sealed in the third quarter, when its profit for the first nine months of the year had eclipsed any of its previous annual results.
Beyond the superlatives, here are five things to watch in Samsung's earnings announcement on Friday morning Asia time, late Thursday U.S. time:
Operating profit margin in semiconductors. Investors have already accepted that the big jumps in profits and growth in Samsung's cellphone business are over. This year, Samsung's stock is likely to be swung by its traditional influencer, the profits coming from the company's cyclical semiconductor business. At the moment, that cycle is on the upswing. Analysts expect the chip business to show an operating profit margin of around 18%, up from 13% in the previous quarter and the highest level of the year.
Operating profit margin in telecom. Though Samsung dominates the industry in both overall cellphones and smartphones, its profit margin appears to have peaked last summer just after the introduction of its latest flagship model, Galaxy S III. During the year-end holidays, the company boosted marketing spending (code for incentives and discounts to carriers to get them to push its phones) though perhaps not as much as investors feared. In the third quarter, the business had a margin of 18.8%. Analysts expect the fourth-quarter number to be around 18%. It may pop up again later in the year when the next Galaxy flagship comes out. But investors generally expect Samsung's telecom operating margin to slowly decline as both it and competitors increase their mix of lower-priced, less profitable smartphones.
Capital spending change. Company executives avoided any discussion of 2013 spending plans three months ago, when the market was chewing over rumors of a plan for a sharp drop in year-on-year capex. But the fourth-quarter earnings announcement is usually the moment when they disclose the annual plan. Investors will watch most closely for the expected spending on chip manufacturing capacity. That number can affect perceptions of the longer-term cycle of chip profits — and give a clue about Samsung's overall profits 18 to 24 months out.
Lawsuit-related set-aside. Samsung's net profit could be reduced by a provision for royalty payments to Apple. To date, Samsung's financial results haven't been affected by its dispute with Apple over mobile device patents. And the judge in the most-significant case to date — the one that went to trial in California last August — is still thinking about whether to change the $1 billion penalty against Samsung. So executives may decide not to do anything for now. But the longer the dispute wears on, the more gadgets Samsung will sell that appear to infringe on Apple patents. And that means the size of the royalties Samsung will ultimately have to pay will also grow. At some point, Samsung executives may decide to set aside funds just to avoid the one-time impact that a sizable back payment will have. It can certainly afford to do it: Samsung has made about $25 billion in operating profit on devices Apple claims infringe on its patents since mid-2010.
OLED inside Samsung Display. Much of the recovery in the company's display component business, which makes LCD and OLED screens for itself and others, has been due to the newer OLED technology. The business has been the industry leader due mainly to its strength in cellphone displays. But new competition from Japan's Panasonic in larger TV displays could mark a shift for the industry. Investors will take Samsung's latest OLED results as a benchmark for the rest of the year, when the impact of the battle over TV-sized OLED screens begins to hit.


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OAKLAND -- Coliseum College Prep Academy, a middle and high school in one of East Oakland's most violent neighborhoods, has had one fight on campus all school year, Principal Aaron Townsend said. But off-campus criminal activity has disrupted that sense of calm, threatening the safety of his students and those at three other schools near 66th Avenue and International Boulevard.
Sometimes the chaos breaks out in the middle of the school day. The schools underwent six "lockdowns" in a 12-week period last fall because of what was happening in the streets outside. In December, middle-schoolers from Roots International were outdoors for P.E. when a shooting occurred in an adjacent park, Townsend said. No one was hurt, but the possibility was chilling.
As 16-year-old Akeem Hayes put it, "Who's going to protect us from the gunfire around us?"
In the aftermath of the Oakland Police Department layoffs, ongoing city and school district budget cuts and a bad economy, local agencies have fewer resources at their disposal to tackle such pervasive problems. But on Tuesday, Oakland's mayor, superintendent of schools and police chief said they would work together on a new initiative to protect those four schools, pay extra attention to students who are at risk of dropping out, and build trust between students, families and the police.
"We're going to change the future of this city and give the kids back their dreams," Mayor Jean Quan said.
The Youth Safe Haven initiative was launched at Coliseum College Prep and its three neighboring schools: Roots, Community United and Futures Elementary. It aims to add 50 mentors to existing after-school programs, including seven Oakland Police Department officers and 18 high school students from Coliseum College Prep.
Ronell Johnson, 16, has been training for weeks to become a mentor for the program. "I just think I could be the big brother that some kids don't have," he said.
To keep the streets around the schools safer, the Oakland school district's police department will devote a full-time officer to the area until 6 p.m., said Alicia Perez, public relations officer for Safe Passages, an intergovernmental partnership that runs student and family support programs at Oakland schools.
The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, which is providing about $110,000 per year for the Youth Safe Haven effort, has supported similar initiatives in Columbia, S.C., Irvington, N.J.; Jackson, Miss.; Providence, R.I.; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Toledo, Ohio, and Tuskegee, Ala. The foundation's president and CEO, Alan Curtis, said while the funding amount is small, other communities have seen a significant reduction in crime.
Curtis said his foundation is carefully evaluating its programs and collecting evidence to show national policymakers how police and community leaders can help residents who need it the most. If and when the political will in the United States shifts, he said, the model can be adopted in communities throughout the nation.
"This is a focus on the truly disadvantaged," Curtis said. "We're trying to add another dimension to the political debate that's so focused on the middle class."
Hayes, a mentor from Coliseum College Prep, said students may begin to see the police differently once they begin to know them as human beings -- "not just another cop that's going to arrest my cousin and put him in jail for no reason."
Akeem said he wants to convince younger students of the possibilities they can create for themselves if they stay in school and away from crime. "If we can lead by example, they might actually fall in love with being good," he said.
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Starting Our Laughs Early Before Tonight's 'A Funny Affair' Honoring Tommy Hilfiger
Tonight Autism Speaks and the New York Center for Autism (NYCA) will host "A Funny Affair for Autism" at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Proceeds will benefit Autism Speaks and NYCA. The event will honor Tommy Hilfiger and will feature Seth Meyers and Bill Hader.
This evening is Co-Chaired by Laura & Harry Slatkin and Suzanne & Bob Wright with Dee Hilfiger serving as Honorary Chair. Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan, Sir Elton John, Ralph Rucci, Adam Sandler, Robert & Michelle Smigel and Vera Wang & Arthur Becker are the event Vice-Chairs.
The event will feature a unique auction of Christmas trees and menorahs designed by Jonathan Adler, Godiva, Tommy Hilfiger, "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," Isaac Mizrahi, Adam Sandler, Martha Stewart and Tiffany & Co.
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In early November, we launched our latest "Odds" PSAs with the Ad Council. Created pro bono by BBDO, the PSAs feature fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger and NASCAR driver Jamie McMurray, who both generously donated their time to help further the cause of autism awareness. Viewers are taken on voyages through Hilfiger and McMurray's lives that highlight the extraordinary statistical odds they each overcame on the road to success compared to the startling one in 110 odds of having a child diagnosed with autism. The PSAs end by encouraging parents to visit autismspeaks.org/signs to learn the signs of autism and to seek early intervention if a delay is suspected.
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Autism Speaks 400 – Final Day
This guest post is by Autism Speaks Blog contributor Kerry Magro. Kerry, an adult who has autism, is a junior at Seton Hall University, majoring in Sports Management. He is currently working at Autism Speaks as a writer.
Sometimes you don't have the words to express your amazement at a series of events. That was me after witnessing the Autism Speaks 400 on Sunday, May 16. But luckily for the readers, I've come back to earth and I'm ready to blog. Enjoy!
Sunday was another great day for driver Kyle Busch. Busch dominated the weekend. Almost winning Friday's Camping Truck Series race, then winning Saturday's Heluva Good 200 Nationwide Series race. On Sunday he completed his great weekend by winning the Sprint Cup Series Autism Speaks 400 Race. What made Kyle so special this weekend was his aggressive, winning attitude. I had the opportunity to watch Kyle accept his trophy in victory lane. That positive, winning mentality was evidenced by the smile on Kyle's face as he accepted his award. His confident winning manner is well known on the NASCAR circuit and indicates he will continue his winning ways.
Although many had Kyle winning before the race had even started, driver Jimmie Johnson was competed closely with Kyle all day long. However, after 365 laps, Johnson had a disastrous pit stop. He received a passing penalty, which put him a lap down to Busch, ruining his chances to win. This led to Jimmie Johnson finishing in 16th place.
Two of Sunday's best stories came from driver Jamie McMurray and FOX Sports Senior Executive and Autism Speaks Board Member Artie Kempner. Both of these gentlemen have done amazing work for NASCAR and also for Autism Speaks. Jamie spent several minutes talking to fans along with giving me an interview. Artie Kempner said it best, "Jamie does more than just drive a race car". Jamie has a passion for helping others and his family has been touched by Autism. When asked about the race, Jamie said "This is a really cool weekend. Awareness is something unique to our sport. To have a race, not named after a bank or a product, it's something very special. The race is something very special to me because my niece is autistic." Jamie, during the time with the fans signed several autographs and made a lot of people's days just like mine; special.
As a final note of the day I would just like to thank Jamie, Artie Kempner and the Alpha Xi Delta Sorority for volunteering at three Autism Speaks booths outside of the race way. The Sorority sold Autism Speaks memorabilia to help in the fight against autism. Finally, I'd like to thank everyone at Autism Speaks, NASCAR, and HERSHEY'S Milk & Milkshakes for such a great weekend.
I'm already looking forward to the race next year and am hoping you enjoyed the blog the past couple of days. As a bonus for our readers, below are several photos from this weekend's events. Thank you all!
* Read the Day 1 Recap from the Autism Speaks 400
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Definition of gather in English:
- Philip's statement brought a ripple of laughter from the crowd of assembled contestants gathered around the archery range.
- Mike looked around at the assemblage gathered around him.
- I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store.
- Nevertheless here, and in the Source book, material previously scattered in archives is gathered together and ordered.
- All information contained herein is gathered from sources we believe to be reliable.
- The main sources used to gather information were as follows.
- They gathered up the sheet they put on the ground and shoved it into the bundle they carried with them.
- For years thereafter, the comic book would dutifully be gathered up every evening and locked in a safe.
- She gathered up her things and hurried after him.
- The abundance of apple sellers, though, harks back to the old days when all the crops would be gathered in and no fruit picked after this date for the puca, a supernatural being, would be busy spoiling unpicked fruit at Halloween.
- August to November heralds another period of fair weather, when the harvest is gathered in.
- To most Pagans Samhain is a sacred day - a time when the last harvests are gathered in before winter's arrival, and the time when family members who have passed away are remembered and honored.
- In some areas of low population density hunting of wild pigs predominates, along with food gathering, hunting and collection of wild plants and animals.
- This led to the creation of tools to aid them in their activities such as hunting and food gathering.
- After collecting several branches of large red berries, he gathered as many wedge fruit as he could carry from the nearby tree and walked back to their spot on the grass.
- The two embrace and gather the child between them.
- In the next instant I felt him pulling me to him, gathering me into his arms.
- She reached out for him, with both hands outstretched, and he responded by standing, and gently pulling her to her feet, and gathering her into his arms.
- Pull up the threads to gather the fabric into pleats.
- The fabric is gathered at the waist with a belt which is tied at the side.
- Pull the basting bobbin threads to gather the skirt.
- You will have gathered by now that it would be an understatement to say he is no admirer of his subject.
- The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters.
- Indeed, the genre blurring of the title is intended, one gathers, to apply not only to Manet and Flaubert but also to Reed's own text.
- The inter-county hurling and football championships have been gathering pace this past few weeks.
- The prog rock revival gathered pace last year when they toured Europe, South America and South East Asia.
- The battle for a second doctors' surgery in Westbury gathered pace this week, with residents being urged to take the fight to their local MP.
- Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
- He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
- Thankfully that was not the case as the lads once again gathered themselves and shot two late points to secure that all-important victory.
- This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combination of the above.
- Ruffles, lace, pin tucks, gathers, folkloric embroidery or lettuce leaf edging are the perfect accent to more classic silhouettes or a pair of well-worn jeans.
- The garments would have soft volume with gathers, frills, layers and plenty of patterns, reads the forecast.
gather way
- (Of a ship) begin to move.Example sentences
- It bellied in the wind, and the dark wave hissed loud at the keel, as she gathered way over the water.
- Gradually the two battleships gathered way and proceeded to head down the river abreast of each other.
- Shortly afterwards she began to move down the bank, bumped, gathered way and then bumped very heavily.
- Example sentences
- 'These people are actually paid and trained semi-professional evidence gatherers, and they are not police officers,' he said.
- 'We've already lined up squads of volunteer signature gatherers,' she says mischievously.
- For much of the 200,000 or so years prior to agriculture, humans lived as nomadic hunters, gatherers and scavengers - surviving solely on wild plants and animals.
Old English gaderian; related to Dutch gaderen, also to together.
good from Old English:
The ancient root of good probably meant 'to bring together, unite' which was also the source of gather (Old English). In 1957 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said, 'Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good'. 'You Never Had It So Good' was the US Democratic Party slogan during the 1952 election campaign. Also in 1952, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened its first outlet, and for many years its slogan has been 'It's finger-lickin' good'. Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Day, on which Christ was crucified, uses good in the old sense 'observed as holy'. Our word goodbye (late 16th century) is actually a shortened form of the phrase God be with you. In time good replaced God, in line with phrases such as good morning and goodnight. Sweets and cakes have been goodies since the mid 18th century, and the childish exclamation goody is first recorded not much later. Goody goody gumdrops was the catchphrase of Humphrey Lestocq, the host of the British children's TV show Whirligig in the 1950s.
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Along "Panton's Gold Coast", this lakeside retreat is well-sited on 12.5 acres and with 350 feet of shoreline, just 10 minutes to Basin Harbor.
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G20 Leaders: Changing Words on Fiscal Policy
Over the past five years, the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies have altered their message from endorsing stimulus (November 2008) to calling for "fiscal consolidation" (June 2010) to urging "countries with sufficient fiscal space" to prepare to do more than allow automatic stabilizers, such as unemployment compensation, to widen their deficit (June 2012.). (Read related Capital column) Excerpts from the fiscal policy sections of their communiqués:
We will…use fiscal measures to stimulate domestic demand to rapid effect, as appropriate, while maintaining a policy framework conducive to fiscal sustainability
We will avoid premature withdrawal of stimulus. At the same time, we will prepare our exit strategies and, when the time is right, withdraw our extraordinary policy support in a cooperative and coordinated way, maintaining our commitment to fiscal responsibility.
We agreed today on…following through on fiscal stimulus and communicating "growth friendly" fiscal consolidation plans in advanced countries that will be implemented going forward. Sound fiscal finances are essential to sustain recovery, provide flexibility to respond to new shocks, ensure the capacity to meet the challenges of aging populations, and avoid leaving future generations with a legacy of deficits and debt. The path of adjustment must be carefully calibrated to sustain the recovery in private demand.
There is a risk that synchronized fiscal adjustment across several major economies could adversely impact the recovery. There is also a risk that the failure to implement consolidation where necessary would undermine confidence and hamper growth. Reflecting this balance, advanced economies have committed to fiscal plans that will at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016.
The plan includes our commitment to… undertake macroeconomic policies, including fiscal consolidation where necessary
Taking into account national circumstances, countries where public finances remain strongly commit to let automatic stabilizers work and take discretionary measures to support domestic demand should economic conditions materially worsen.
Advanced economies will ensure that the pace of fiscal consolidation is appropriate to support the recovery, taking country-specific circumstances into account and, in line with the Toronto commitments, address concerns about medium term fiscal sustainability. Those advanced and emerging economies which have fiscal space will let the automatic fiscal stabilizers to operate taking into account national circumstances and current demand conditions. Should economic conditions deteriorate significantly further, those countries with sufficient fiscal space stand ready to coordinate and implement discretionary fiscal actions to support domestic demand, as appropriate.


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How fitting is it that the title to usher in the age of video games still remains one of the most popular games today? Tetris reigns above all other games that changed the world simply because of its household name status. Gamers and non-gamers alike know it and revere it. But how did it get to this point?
In many ways, Tetris is an outlier. It stands unique as a game with simple-yet-deep gameplay that has endured a shelf life unmatched by any other video game. Some would even consider it to be the Chess or Go of video games. Several important factors have brought the game this far.
This year, 2014, marks the 30th birthday of Tetris. In remembrance of its history, join me as I explore the past and future of the world's most famous puzzle game.
Tetris: A Throwaway Idea Turned Successful
Have you ever played Pentomino? Imagine five tiles that can be combined to form any shape as long as the tiles are only adjacent to each other horizontally or vertically. Twelve shapes can be created in this way. Now imagine filling an empty grid with these shapes such that all spaces are filled and no pieces overlap. That's the goal of Pentomino.
And this game is where Tetris finds its roots.
In the early 1980s, Soviet computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov played a similar puzzle game that involved tetraminos rather than pentominos – shapes made from four tiles instead of five – but he found it dull. So he asked himself, "What if the tetraminos fell into a rectangular glass and piled up?" He ran with the idea and Tetris was released in 1984.
A few years later, with the help of his colleague Vadim Gerasimov, Pajitnov released a 2-player version of his game. The playing field had no top or bottom. Pieces for Player 1 fell from the top while pieces for Player 2 rose from the bottom. Thus, the basis for the Tetris name: "tetramino" + "tennis".
The game did not sell well. With little motivation left, Pajitnov gave away free copies to all of his friends, which resulted in a wildfire spread of popularity. Tetris soon spread outside of the Soviet Union and received a lot of foreign attention, prompting Pajitnov to abandon all other efforts, immigrate to the United States in 1991, and focus on Tetris.
After many battles for legal ownership of the game, Pajitnov co-founded The Tetris Company in 1996 with an American entrepreneur, Henk Rogers. Only then did he begin to earn proper royalties for his creation.
What Makes Tetris So Addictive?
The era of arcade games produced a lot of titles that are considered classics today, including Breakout and Pacman. Even still, Tetris looms over all of those titles as the matchless king. But why? What are the ingredients that make this game so beloved by so many?
Simplicity. The controls are simple: you have one active block that you can move left, right, or spin. The premise is simple: you clear space by fitting blocks together into lines. If the blocks pile up too high, you lose. The shallow learning curve means Tetris can be learned in less than five minutes by anyone.
Complexity. There are seven possible tetramino pieces in Tetris. Most of them can be rotated to create additional shapes. Among the possible shapes, how many different combinations can there be? The possibility space of Tetris is enormous, which means each decision is crucial. This keeps tension high while playing.
Engagement. At any moment, your goal is obvious: holes must be plugged and lines must be cleared. You know what you have to do but you don't know the best way to approach it, so you problem solve. You feel a sense of accomplishment when you clear those lines, then quickly realize that you have more to clear. You're compelled. Before you know it, you're engaged and invested.
Do these qualities sound familiar to you? Think about modern mobile games. Which ones tend to explode with widespread popularity? The addictive qualities of Tetris are the same ones that make Angry Birds so engaging. It's no coincidence at all.
The Many Clones and Spin-Offs of Tetris
In the thirty years since its release, Tetris has been cloned and spun in so many different directions that it would be impossible to track them all down. There are the obvious mobile game knockoffs, but there are also creative adaptations that have taken the simple gameplay to new heights.
Quadra deserves first mention. We consider it to be one of the few game clones that are better than the original. Why? Because it stays true to the spirit of Tetris rather than muddying it up with unnecessary gimmicks. It has multiplayer capabilities as well, allowing up to 4-player matches that can be spectated by others.
If you have access to a Nintendo 64 (or an N64 emulator like Project64), Tetrisphere is one game that you ought to try. The objective is the same – clear space by fitting tetraminos together – but the playing field is now a multi-layered sphere. As if that weren't enough, the different game modes add extra fun to the mix.
As far as cross-genre clones are concerned, Letrix combines the falling-block gameplay of Tetris with the word-building gameplay of Scrabble. The result? A tough, fast-paced puzzle game that will keep you on the edge of your seat all the way through. It's one of the better Tetris-like games for Android.
Search around and you're bound to find more falling-block-inspired games out there. Check out our list of the best online Tetris clones for a good starting point.
Final Thoughts
It seems unlikely for Tetris to ever fall out of popularity. With thirty years under its belt, it's proven to be a classic title with gameplay that transcends any given generation. Happy birthday, Tetris, and may you be blessed with many more years of fame and fortune.
Share with us your favorite Tetris moments, stories, or anecdotes. Do you love the game? Hate it? Are there any particular remixes or clones that you prefer to play? Post in the comments below!


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Mortgage-Bond Spreads Fall to Record Low as Fed Starts Buying
A measure of relative yields on mortgage securities dropped to the lowest on record after the Federal Reserve said it will expand its purchases, extending a rally that offered hedge funds returns of 15 percent in a week.
A Bloomberg index of yields on Fannie Mae-guaranteed mortgage bonds trading closest to face value fell about 1 basis points to 92 basis points, or 0.92 percentage point, higher than an average of five- and 10-year Treasury rates as of 3 p.m. in New York. That's the narrowest spread since at least 1984 for the securities that guide U.S. home-loan rates.
"A typical fundamental-value framework really isn't applicable here" because the Fed's goals differ from those of normal investors, said Todd Abraham, co-head of the government and mortgage-backed fixed-income group at Federated Investors Inc. "It makes it pretty challenging to determine at what point you need to change your allocations. It's almost more of a case of needing to try to anticipate what others are going to do."
The Fed's focus on the mortgage market, after speculation its third round of so-called quantitative easing would also include U.S. government bonds, capped a rise today in the housing debt's absolute yields. A climb of 9 basis points from a record low to 2.21 percent reflected a jump in benchmark Treasury yields as the central bank's move yesterday to strengthen the economy created soaring inflation expectations.
The spread, which tumbled 20 basis points yesterday as the central bank announced a plan to expand its holdings with monthly purchases of $40 billion of agency mortgage bonds, has declined from 152 at the start of the year.
Spread Measures
A type of bet on the outperformance of mortgage bonds that was recommended on Sept. 6 by Credit Suisse Group AG offered a gain of 1.5 cents on the dollar through late yesterday, when analysts led by Mahesh Swaminathan said in a note it was no longer attractive. With the 10-times leverage often employed by hedge funds on such wagers, potential returns were 15 percent.
Relative yields may not widen even with so-called option-adjusted spread measures signaling the bonds offer less yield than Treasuries, Nomura Securities International analysts led by Ohmsatya Ravi said.
With much further spread tightening amid the start of the Fed's purchases today, "investors should consider exiting overweights," they wrote. Still, "investors shouldn't consider shorting agency MBS yet, considering that the likely size" of the open-ended program "is not known at this time."
$1 Trillion
A "reasonable person" could see additions of as much as $1 trillion to the Fed's holdings in the $5.2 trillion market for agency, or government-backed, mortgage securities, according to the Nomura analysts, the second-ranked for strategy on the debt in this year's Institutional Investor magazine poll. An increase of $650 billion is most likely, they said. The central bank already owns about $850 billion.
Investors are usually considered overweight if they are holding more of the debt than found in benchmark indexes.
About 77 percent of investors surveyed by mortgage-bond analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. last week expected the Fed would start a round of bond buying involving home-loan securities. Among the respondents, 22 percent predicted it would be announced at yesterday's meeting and 26 percent in October.
Most expected $200 billion to $500 billion of mortgage-bond purchases. Seventy percent said they were already overweight the securities among those guaranteed by government-supported Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or U.S.-owned Ginnie Mae that the central bank would target.
'Incredible' Performance
"Many were expecting they would do something, but the probability seemed pretty low they would do something open-ended like this," Federated's Abraham, whose Pittsburgh-based firm manages about $356 billion of assets, said in a telephone interview. "You're seeing performance that's frankly pretty incredible."
Bond gains amid Europe's debt crisis, concern that the U.S. economy is slowing and anticipation of Fed purchases drove down the average rate on a typical 30-year mortgage to a record low 3.49 percent in the week ended July 26, according to Freddie Mac data. After a subsequent increase to as high as 3.66 percent, borrowing costs declined through the week ended yesterday, falling back to 3.55 percent.
Swings in lending rates have been smaller than seen in bond yields as lenders prevent borrowing costs from falling too far to avoid being overwhelmed by applications a jump in refinancing demand. That dynamic will limit the initial declines in mortgage rates from falling yields on home-loan securities after the Fed announcement, according to Credit Suisse.
Including an existing program in which the Fed is reinvesting proceeds from its past purchase of housing debt into the market, the central bank will be buying about $65 billion to $70 billion a month, Bank of America Corp. analysts including Chris Flanagan and Satish Mansukhani said in a report yesterday.
Cheap Financing
"As it stands right now, this volume of purchases would absorb a substantial share" of issuance, which totaled $122 billion in August, they wrote.
The securities that the Fed may target "could remain rich and tighten further based on the strong technical backdrop this creates, the outlook for lower volatility" and potential for especially cheap financing costs to be created for investors using the so-called dollar roll market, they said.
With dollar rolls, an investor seeking to borrow money enters into contracts to sell mortgage securities in any month and then buy similar bonds the following month; a lender would undertake the opposite trades. Investors entering into transactions for other reasons may be on either side of the contracts.
Higher Volatility
Higher forecasted rate volatility increases doubt about when mortgages will be repaid because homeowner refinancing fluctuates, as well as the cost of options used as hedges. Investors in mortgage bonds trading for more than face value stand to lose as prepayments return their cash faster at par and curb interest.
Option-adjusted spreads, or OAS, capture projected average yields relative to benchmarks over a range of potential future interest rates that will influence homeowner prepayment speeds. Simpler yield spreads against benchmarks of a single maturity also fail to reflect that borrowers' principal is paid down both sooner and later than the average lives of the debt.
The Fed may already be the biggest buyer in the agency mortgage-bond market after starting in October to purchase new securities with proceeds from its past acquisitions of housing-related debt, including $1.25 trillion of home-loan notes through March 2010. It has bought $305 billion of securities under the reinvestment program, which it announced with the first round of its so-called Operation Twist for Treasuries.


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Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of inherited diseases in which the muscles that control movement (called voluntary muscles) progressively weaken. In some forms of this disease, the heart and other organs are also affected.
There are nine major forms of muscular dystrophy:
Muscular dystrophy can occur at different ages of a person's life, ranging from infancy to middle age or later. The type of the disease is based in part on when in a person's life muscular dystrophy appears. It also depends on the severity of the muscle weakness, which muscles are affected, the rate of symptom progression, and the way the disease arises. Some types of muscular dystrophy affect only males; others affect both males and females. Some sufferers still enjoy a normal life span with mild symptoms that progress very slowly, while others experience fast and severe muscle weakness and wasting, dying in their late teens to early 20s.
The various types of MD affect more than 50,000 Americans. Through advances in medical care, children with muscular dystrophy are living longer than ever before.
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The Strawberry Shortcake Baby Doll Travel System is a two-in-one toy that allows little girls to play "mommy" with their baby dolls. This carrier and stroller can be played with together or separately. Both are different shades of pink with Strawberry Shortcake fabric. Girls can carry their baby dolls or rock them to sleep in the carrier. The stroller has cute features, including a canopy that opens and closes, and a storage basket just like a real stroller. The best part is that it folds up like an umbrella stroller so kids can bring it to the park or the store to push around. It's also easy to store at home. The Strawberry Shortcake Baby Doll Travel System doesn't come with any dolls, but the carrier and stroller fit dolls up to 18 inches.
We think the Strawberry Shortcake Baby Doll Travel System is really cute and kids will have fun playing "mommy" with this set. Both items in this two-in-one set give kids realistic parent tools for taking care of their baby dolls and engaging in nurturing play.
The Strawberry Shortcake Baby Doll Travel System is for ages 3 and up.
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Definition of unpleasant in English:
1Causing discomfort, unhappiness, or revulsion; disagreeable: an unpleasant smell the symptoms are extremely unpleasant
More example sentences
- It's really unpleasant, the smell is awful and it can irritate your lungs.
- We may say the same of bodily discomfort, an unpleasant sensation distinct from pain.
- More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating.
disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, annoying, irritating, vexatious, displeasing, distressing, nasty, horrible, terrible, awful, dreadful, hateful, miserable, invidious, objectionable, offensive, obnoxious, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, nauseating, unsavory
1.1(Of a person or their manner) unfriendly and inconsiderate; rude: when drunk, he could become very unpleasant
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- For a start he was English, but he had a bit of a weaselly face and slightly receding hair and a somewhat unpleasant manner.
- All I can say about it is nice people are easy to deal with and unpleasant people are much more difficult to cope with.
- There are unpleasant people out there who like to spoil it for everyone else.
unfriendly, rude, impolite, obnoxious, nasty, spiteful, mean, mean-spirited;
insufferable, unbearable, annoying, irritating
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- They said they were unpleasantly surprised by the move.
- Perhaps the most unpleasantly nationalistic sporting fixtures in this part of the world are the Old Firm derbies in Glasgow.
- Oh, and people with unpleasantly posh Home Counties accents who speak far louder than they need to in an enclosed space should probably be gagged with gaffer tape.
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US to propose ban on in-flight cell phone calls | Ars Technica
The International Air Transport Association, a trade group representing airlines, argues that the decision should be up to individual carriers. Some airlines have already said they would prohibit in-flight calls, but others may want to experiment with "passenger-friendly" ways to allow them, "such as in-flight phone booths or quiet zones," the Journal report said.
Imagine. Let the airlines decide how they want to run their businesses, rather than having the government pile on yet another regulation doing it for them.