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I thought I'd take some time to review my two favourite lipsticks from MAC - Rebel and Cyber. Rebel is probably my most used lipstick, and I always turn to Cyber when I want something dark, dramatic and vampy. MAC lipsticks cost £13.50 each.
Starting with Rebel...
Rebel is a deep pink berry colour. It isn't too dark, but at the same time it isn't too light either. I find that this works for both everyday looks along with dramatic night time looks. It has a very slight shimmer - it appears more shimmery then it really is in my swatch photo at the bottom. It has a satin finish and isn't drying on the lips. It is super pigmented and applies really easily. It might be my favourite lipstick in my collection - it's so versatile and lovely.
I love these lipsticks. Of course, I only ever buy MAC as a treat when I can afford it - they aren't really super affordable on a student budget. However, I really do think that the lipsticks are worth the cost.
What's your favourite MAC lipstick?
Disclosure: I bought these products myself.
Random note: Not sure if anybody can actually help me with this, but I currently have a FujiFilm JV100 and for some reason all my pictures are turning out either off colour or blurred. I also can't get it to auto-focus (is this the right word? I am so not tech-savvy). I have to hold it really still for a good few seconds to get an image that isn't blurred. I've been playing with the settings but it isn't making any difference. Does anybody have any advice, or know of another affordable but good quality camera?


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ICF worked closely with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Interdisciplinary Team, and Entiat Habitat and Species Conservation (HSC) to interpret data, select and design alternatives, and ultimately select preferred alternatives at multiple salmon-recovery sites.
We analyzed Reclamation's two-dimensional hydraulic model to determine the potential for interrelated hydraulic effects between the multiple project sites. We also prepared a reach-scale geomorphic assessment to determine potential channel responses associated with each proposed restoration action. We then evaluated project alternatives on factors such as biological benefit, construction feasibility, geomorphic and hydraulic effects, cost, risk, and landowner willingness. The prioritization process used Beechie et al. 2008 as guidance.
ICF drafted concepts for each project alternative and ultimately prepared 30-percent permit-ready designs for the preferred alternative. In support of the analysis of alternatives and development of conceptual plans, ICF conducted archaeological surveys, wetland delineations, and rare plant surveys. These surveys not only aided in the analysis of project alternatives, they provided the foundation for the development of permit applications. For permitting, we prepared letters and a technical report for Section 106, Endangered Species Act (ESA) consultation documents, and a Joint Aquatic Resource Permits Application (JARPA), and we assisted the Bureau of Reclamation with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation.
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View the original article at: http://www.countryweekly.com/news/gac-serves-soundstage
The first episode airs July 12 and features the award-winning duo Sugarland from the Grainger Studio in Chicago, performing hits like "Baby Girl," Stay" and others. Future Soundstage episodes include: Alison Krauss & Union Station, July 19; Trace Adkins July 26; Lee Ann Womack and Billy Currington, Aug. 2; Trisha Yearwood, Aug. 9; Travis Tritt and Nickel Creek, Aug. 16; Martina McBride, Aug. 23; Kenny Chesney, Aug. 30 and a two-hour George Jones Tribute show, Sept. 20. Shows will air at 8 p.m. ET.
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[2] http://www.countryweekly.com/news/mel-mcdaniel-battles-life


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NPP Defined
Net primary productivity (NPP) is defined as the net flux of carbon from the atmosphere into green plants per unit time. NPP refers to a rate process, i.e., the amount of vegetable matter produced (net primary production) per day, week, or year. However, the terms net primary productivity and net primary production are sometimes used rather liberally and interchangeably, and some scientists still tend to confuse productivity with standing biomass or standing crop. NPP is a fundamental ecological variable, not only because it measures the energy input to the biosphere and terrestrial carbon dioxide assimilation, but also because of its significance in indicating the condition of the land surface area and status of a wide range of ecological processes.
Estimating NPP
There are many ways to estimate terrestrial NPP from field measurements that depend on the type of plants and available measurements. Methods are discussed in connection with the biomes included in the NPP Database. Some of the methodology reviews were carried out as part of the NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) Working Groups on "Development of a Consistent Worldwide Net Primary Production (NPP) Database" between December 1997 and October 1998.


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After seeing Amber Heard on the red carpet for her new film "The Rum Diary," it's clear she is the most gorgeous woman in Hollywood.
Also featured today: Rosario Dawson at the Calvin Klein Collection Dinner; Fergie selling her shoe collection at Nordstrom; and Vin Diesel doing charity with his model girlfriend on his arm.
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Indiana deputy, suspect dead after gunfight
A sheriff's deputy and a suspect have died following a gunfight early Sunday inside a mobile home.
A sheriff's deputy and a suspect have died following a gunfight early Sunday inside a mobile home.
A Coast Guard crew rescued a 65-year-old man who was aboard a sailboat east of Hobucken.
The Coast Guard found an abandoned vessel near Bridge Road in Bennett's Creek on Sunday afternoon.
Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, of Temecula, California, died from wounds suffered when the enemy attacked his unit with rocket fire.
The submarine was one of the two that arrived to Ice Camp Sargo as part of ICEX 2016
Click here to check out the pictures from runners and spectators braving the cold and rain to participate in Virginia Beach's annual Shamroc…
Stepping into history, President Barack Obama opened an extraordinary visit to Cuba on Sunday.
The ERT has released construction-related delays for the I-264 Downtown Tunnel.
Spring officially starts Sunday, and for many that means the greening of the grass, yard work and yes, baby wildlife.
A non-profit in North Carolina is helping veterans deal with combat trauma through tattoo therapy.
Busch Gardens is seeking fans' help to design a new wooden coaster set to debut in 2017.
Virginia used a strong second half to defeat Butler and with it, a trip to the Sweet 16.
75-year-old Don Wright is not letting cancer treatments get in the way of his goal of running 100 marathons.
Click here to see the photos from the crime scene where Norfolk Police shot and killed a woman.
Liberty Baptist Church held their "Act of Love" event at their campuses in Hampton, North Suffolk and Chesapeake.
A man had to be rescued from a vehicle following a crash in the 2000 block of West Pembroke Avenue on Saturday night.


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Hello, hallo, hola, and bonjour! My name is Matthew Miller and welcome to my site. I love to program, read lots of books, watch movies and play games, but my passion is my faith and family. I am a proficient front and back end developer looking for work and currently freelance with bfac, LLC and bfac's subsidiary sites. If you would like to contact me for a chat or for some help, feel free to. I may not respond right away, but I have good intentions to do so!
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Nearly all of my work experience has consisted of working with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, with varying degrees of use with C#, PHP, MySQL, SQL Server, Apache and IIS, depending on the job, so other languages/technologies are listed.
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I like to read, nay, I love to read. I periodically post reviews of the books I recently read (and perhaps music too). I love reading fantasy, science fiction, and thrillers, so if you have any recommendations, I am all ears. I read a lot now because I wasted many years neglecting books... how foolish of me!


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Last night, we were excited to tune in to watch the newest storyline on Degrassi which features Adam, a trans teen and the challenges that he faces. The episode featured a great portrayal of how many of these very real challenges play out – from finding allies in both friends and his brother, to the harassment he endures when he's outed by another student, to his mother's difficulty with achieving full acceptance.
The producers of the show worked with GLAAD to ensure that the portrayal of this student was accurate, and they worked with PFLAG to create a PSA that aired after the episode encouraging viewers who think that they may be trans or who just want to learn more about trans issues to visit PFLAG at http://www.pflag.org/.
If you check out the PFLAG homepage, we've got a feature about the show up right now. Or, just start by going to www.pflag.org/degrassi to directly access the resources we collected for this show and to watch the PSA. These resources are all tied to PFLAG's Transgender Network – or TNET – which you can directly access by visiting www.pflag.org/tnet.
Adam's story continues on Degrassi this evening, airing on Teen Nick at 9:00 pm (EST) / 6:00 pm (PST). Clips from last night's episode are available at the Degrassi website, and full episodes are available for download on iTunes. (The series name is "My Body is a Cage").


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New site to feature weather, webcams on Blue Ridge Parkway
A website that provides information about the weather in western North Carolina plans to start a separate site to provide weather reports from the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that Ray's Weather Center will use webcams to provide live scenes from the parkway through North Carolina and into Virginia.
The center provided a sneak peak on its Facebook page of the 18 weather stations and webcams that should be in operation in January. The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation is funding the project.
Ray's Weather Center has about two dozen webcam features on its site featuring weather from Boone and other areas in western North Carolina.
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When you want a good, wholesome meal on your camping trip or just don't have time to cook after a long day, just-add-water meals are your saving grace. All you need to do is add water to your food, and in a few short minutes you've got a hot, homemade meal!
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The PIGS Keep Gobbling Up ECB Cash
Two little PIGS went (back) to market (partly) last month, but the other two stayed firmly at home.
According to central bank data, the four countries whose banks have been most dependent on the ECB for liquidity–Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain–still accounted for over 60% of all the ECB funding still in the market in September.
Spanish and Portugese banks cut their dependence by 14% and 20%, respectively. Meanwhile, Greek banks stayed on the drip feed, and Ireland's, beset by balance sheet problems and ratings downgrades, positively grasped for the bottle. Irish banks now borrow more from the ECB than French, Italian and Austrian banks combined.
That's bad news for central bankers who are sounding increasingly impatient to have the region's banks back on a sound footing, so that they can start to raise interest rates if they need to. The ECB has to run a monetary policy for 16 countries, most of which are emerging from recession and starting to look reasonably healthy again.
At the very least, some at the ECB would like to return to their old practice of rationing liquidity and letting banks bid competitively for it, but the data suggests there are still too many banks who would collapse under that kind of pressure.
The ECB had opened the liquidity taps as wide as they would go to keep Europe's banking sector afloat and off the rocks in 2009. In theory, that could have risked inflation. As it turned out, it has managed to take back all but €40 billion of the excess without causing a panic, and without causing inflation. Inflation may have hit its highest level in nearly two years in September, but at 1.8%, it is still below the ECB's 2% pain threshold–and it's expected to fall again next year, according to ECB President Trichet.
It could be much worse though, because there is no need to raise interest rates yet. Even the ECB's biggest hawk, Juergen Stark, thinks so–although he was true enough to his old self in a speech Friday to repeat again the case against leaving rates too low for too long.


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Knoxville area explodes with gun violence
Beginning Aug. 14, a spike in what police are calling retaliatory gun violence left five dead and several others seriously injured across the city within a 24-hour period. The vast majority of the victims had criminal backgrounds, and though several were shot in front of multiple witnesses, Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper said his department is receiving little, if any, help from the community. NATE HARPER "If 30 people are standing around talking after an incident, even if its rumors—we need to be part of that discussion," Harper said during an Aug. 19 press conference about the rash of shootings. He said the recent shootings were actually triggered 10 days earlier when Chris Michaux, 19, was killed outside a friend's house on the North Side, less than an hour after his mother had been shot on her porch in the same Perry South neighborhood.


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Sound Board Operator and lighting tech needed for Uranium Madhouse production of "Conversation Storm" at El Centro Theater.
There is pay.
Load in: June 6th, Tech June 7,8, Run: Thursday – Saturday at 8PM June 9 – 25. (part of LA Fringe)
Please contact Kerry Farmer at [email protected] if interested.
About the Author: ENCI is an actor and recently turned writer and director. She is an urban cyclist, passionate about living intentionally, about leaving less behind and about living healthy. Enci is a member of SAG and AFTRA and is on the board of the 501(c)4 Bikeside and is co-founder of the Bike Writers Collective. Enci teaches all over town about web etiquettes and social media and is involved with the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council where she serves on the Arts & Culture Committee. Enci is passionate about leaning new things and currently she is studying ASL. You can visit her at http://EnciPerforms.com or read about her adventures at http://illuminateLA.com


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It is estimated that 450,000 people in the United States will die of lung cancer and other tobacco-related disorders this year. The relationship between smoking and lung cancer is inarguable. It is strongly believed that changes in population behavior could in time almost eliminate this disease, and efforts to bring about such changes remain a challenge for those involved with public policy.
In contrast to efforts in breast cancer prevention, which have demonstrated that antiestrogens are effective in reducing the risk of disease development in high-risk women, attempts to identify pharmacologic interventions effective in secondary prevention of lung cancer have thus far met with little success. There remains, however, a strong interest in this area, and a number of novel agents are currently being tested in clinical trials.
The combined-modality treatment approach has resulted in modest gains in the survival of lung cancer patients. Specifically in locally advanced disease, neoadjuvant systemic therapy followed by local therapies, including surgery and radiation therapy, has had a favorable impact on disease-free and overall survival. The availability of novel cytotoxic agents and drugs with substantial antitumor activity as well as target-specific biologics has the potential to further favorably alter the prognosis of lung cancer patients.
This volume reflects MD Anderson Cancer Center's commitment to the multidisciplinary disease-oriented approach—an approach that has evolved here over a number of years and is contributing to the progress in patient outcomes. We would like to thank the volume editors—Dr. Frank V. Fossella, Dr. Ritsuko Komaki, and Dr. Joe B. Putnam, Jr.—for their significant efforts in putting this book together. This volume is a tribute to their continued dedication, as well as that of the faculty in their departments, to a resolution of the lung cancer problem. We would also like to thank the Department of Scientific Publications for their assistance with this volume, especially Walter Pagel for helping develop the series, Stephanie Deming for editing the manuscript, and Leigh Fink for editorial assistance, including help with permissions and illustrations.
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8420 US HWY 14 Ranchester, Wyoming 82839
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Type of Shoots: Wild Bird Hunting, Preserve Hunts, Sage Grouse Hunts
Game/Birds Offered: Sharptails (chuckle chickens), pheasants, Hungarian partridge, Sage Grouse
Gun Dogs: Available
Other Hunting/Sporting Opportunities: Working Ranch Vacations
Lodging: Available
The Padlock Ranch was established by Homer and Mildred Scott in 1943 with 3000 acres and 300 cows. Today, headquartered out of Dayton, Wyoming (just north of Sheridan), we raise over 11,000 calves a year on nearly 500,000 acres across Wyoming and Montana. To us the Padlock Ranch is a small piece of Paradise we wish to share with those who want to experience our working ranch vacations. Padlock Ranch is located in the ecotone between the Big Horn Mountains and the mixed prairies of eastern Montana and Wyoming. This location provides a mixture of habitat types supporting a great diversity of plant and animal species.


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Apples Peel
Peels from apples the apple peel you know the skin on the out side of the apple Grown in temperate zones throughout the world and cultivated for at least 3,000 years, apple varieties now number well into the thousands. Apples range in color from lemony yellow to bright yellow-green to crimson red. Their textures range from tender to crisp, their flavors from sweet to tart and from simple to complex. They're available year-round but are at their best from September through November when newly harvested. Apples are a good source of vitamins A and C.


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Our Month in Focus videos give you a chance to visit some of MSF's projects around the world.
On International Women's Day, MSF raises the alert on the number of preventable deaths during pregnancy. We visit Dadaab refugee camp where hundreds of thousands of Somali people depend on humanitarian aid. Worsening security is a problem.
In 2011, MSF treated 25,000 people with tuberculosis. As World TB Day approaches we highlight the cruel lack of new diagnostic tools and medicines.
We travel with MSF's mobile sickness team to remote parts of central Africa and meet the tetse fly, the carrier of the disease.
And finally we join protesters in New York, campaigning to stop drug company Novartis' attack on Indian drug patent law, which would have disastrous consequences for affordable medicine.


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Boston Fundraiser at The Liberty Hotel: A Chocolate, Art and Wine Affair
Enjoy a Chocolate, Art and Wine Affair at The Liberty Hotel in Boston, MA. Come to a silent art auction to help the Friends of Brigham and Women's Hospital fund the unmet needs of the hospital and improve the lives of patients, their families and staff. This event is sure to delight with chocolate and wine tastings. A portion of the proceeds will help to fund the BWH/DFCI Bloodmobile. MORE >
The Liberty is Recognized by 2011 Fodor's 100 Hotel Awards
The Liberty Hotel is honored to be recognized as one of 2011 Fodor's 100 Hotel Awards! Fodors has a reputation of of providing travelers with accurate information and top recommendations for hotels around the globe. Fodor's believes the 100 hotels chosen represent the "best of the best." MORE >
Getting Around in Boston
Getting around in Boston using public transportation is a convenient way to travel through the historic city. Liberty Hotel is located steps from the Boston public transportation system. MORE >


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Jacksonville Jaguars NFL Draft Hub Gives Up to Date Rumors, Analysis and Speculation on the Jags
The Jacksonville Jaguars came within a single win of winning the AFC South a year ago, but instead they were left on the outside looking in as the Colts won the division yet again.
The good news for the Jags is that they seem to have some real weapons that are going to make them an interesting team to watch for if we are playing football next year.
Maurice Jones-Drew had a typical season. The UCLA product eclipsed the 1,300-yard mark for the second straight season but he also had a career-low five touchdowns.
Many of those touchdowns were thrown to breakout star and former college teammate Marcedes Lewis who had career highs in receptions, yards and touchdowns.
The question going forward is will the Jags stick with David Garrard or will they target a new quarterback in the draft this year?
The Jags have plenty of needs going forward after missing out on the playoffs, but what will they target in the first round?
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Damon Francis
Assistant Coach
Damon Francis begins his first season as part of the Henderson State men's basketball staff.
Francis came to Henderson State after spending the last two seasons at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J.
No stranger to Arkadelphia, Francis earned his B.A. in Kinesiology from Ouachita Baptist University in 2005. Francis will earn his master's degree in sports management from the United States Sports Academy at the end of the summer.
As a player, Francis lead OBU to two straight second-place finishes in the Gulf South Conference West Division.
Before enrolling at Ouachita, he attended Cincinnati State Community College, a Division I NJCAA school at the time, and helped the team win the Region 12 regular season championship. Francis received an Associate of Arts degree from Cincinnati State.
While at Fairleigh Dickinson, Francis was responsible for scheduling, assisted in scouting and was the academic liaison for the team.
Prior to his stint at FDU, Francis was the assistant coach at Missouri State-West Plains in West Plains, Mo. He helped coach the Grizzlies to their best record in school history (31-4), while taking the team to the NJCAA Division I National Tournament for the first time in school history. MSWP was also ranked No. 1 in the country over the final five weeks of the season, the first time in school history the team was ranked at the top.
Following his playing days at OBU, Francis served as an assistant coach and head junior varsity coach at OBU for six years.
As a coach, he helped lead the Tigers to the semifinals of the NCAA South Region Tournament. Along the way, Francis helped recruit and coach eight All-Conference performers. He served as the Tigers' student assistant coach from 2005-2006, graduate assistant coach from 2006-2007 and as assistant coach/head junior varsity coach from 2007-2009. Francis also coached the top Ohio AAU team, the All-Ohio Red, for two years.
A 2001 graduate of Springboro (Ohio) High School, Francis was a two-time Mid-Miami League Player of the Year (2000, 2001) and participated in the 2001 Ohio/Kentucky and Ohio/West Virginia All-Star Games. He set the school record in career assists and game assists and is seventh all-time in assists in the state of Ohio. Francis was inducted into his high school's Hall of Fame in February 2010.
Francis is married to the former Whitney Santifer who is also a graduate of OBU and was a member of the Lady Tiger softball team. The two have one daughter, Blakely.
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E3 2011: Catwoman is Cooler Than Batman (In Arkham City)
E3 2011: Catwoman is Cooler Than Batman
Warner Bros. Interactive had one of the most eye-catching booths this year at E3 due to a mammoth image of Batman and Catwoman. The sly feline is featured just as prominently as the bat himself, and after seeing playable Catwoman in Batman: Arkham City, this spot is well deserved. [Click the image to the right, then right-click to download the full size wallpaper!] The closed-door demo began with Batman approaching two cats perched on top of a roof. Upon reaching the cats, Batman is given the option to "take a break." If he chooses to do so, Catwoman will pounce in. Arkham Asylum is one of the most revered comic book video games because players were finally given the chance to move as they had seen Batman move in comics and movies. The game mechanics fit to his character, it wasn't just some avatar donning the cowl. Arkham City gives the same consideration to Catwoman. She does not play like Batman. She moves differently, fights differently, glides – pounces – differently. She is her own character and is treated as such by the talented team at Rocksteady.
Arkham City isn't the only bat-themed game WBIE showed off at E3 2011. I'll admit to being incredibly skeptical about this game. At first glance it looks and sounds like it'll just be another generic shooter. The premise of having a gang of Batman wannabes fighting against a gang of Joker wannabes has been done in other mediums, but how much fun could it really be in a first person shooter? Turns out, it can be quite a bit of fun. Rather than trying to make this a "serious" shooter, Monolith Productions has gone the exact opposite direction. The fully customizable male and female characters on both sides can look utterly ridiculous. The weapons are also customizable and go from standard firearms to a ball-bearing gatling gun. The general atmosphere of the game is off-the-wall and goofy, and the relatively small spaces (though they were layered with several floors of gamespace) keep things gloriously chaotic. As a downloadable multiplayer-only shooter, casual fans of the Batman or aspiring supervillains will be able to blast each other with unique weaponry and will surely be laughing and cheering at the sheer zaniness of the game. This one was definitely a pleasant surprise.Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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Archana Gupta joins Jaggesh-Komal in Lift Kodla
The film Lift Kodla is made under the tagline 'Swargakke Moore Genu'. Directed by Ashok Kashyap, the movie has already completed the shooting of the first schedule. And the shooting of the second schedule is expected to start by the end of this month. The shooting will be held in the beautiful locations of Bangalore and Malenadu, says the director.
Comedy actors Jaggesh and Komal Kumar are playing lead roles and Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu is playing Home Minister in the film Lift Kodla. Katta has already completed the shooting of a day and he has assured to dub in his own voice for his role.
Ashok Kashyap will crank camera and V Manohar will score music for the movie Lift Kodla, which will have Ramnarayan's dialogues, Udayaravi's editing, Bhava's art direction, Jolly Bostin's stunts and Devanand's choreograppy. Raju Talikoti, Sudarshan, Kishor, V Manohar, Bullet Prakash, Killer Venkatesh and others are in the cast.


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Garland authorities ask for help in identifying copper thief
Garland police have asked for help in solving the July 29 theft of $10,000 worth of copper belonging to Garland Power & Light.
The copper was taken from the city storage area. The thief was caught on surveillance cameras located inside a secured area.
Authorities are asking that if anyone knows or recognizes the person to call Garland Crime Stoppers at 972-276-TIPS (8477) or email the information to garlandcrimestoppers.org.


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A reward or tribute given to a male after he has had sex with a woman.
In the Schrute family, we have a tradition, where when the male has sex with another woman, he is rewarded with a bag of wild oats left on his door step by his parents. You can use these oats to make oatmeal, bread, whatever you want. I don't care - they're your oats.
I just earned my oats today!
I just earned my oats today!
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Oat.: used to describe very strong cannabis (can sometimes be misheard as the noun: 'ant').
"Hey bob, I smoked some well good Oat the other night!"
dari Fin_Beast Kamis, 20 Mei 2004
Slang term for money, similar to paper.
"Yo we hustle at the box factory to get that oat!"
dari VG4life Kamis, 18 Oktober 2012
a fit, good-looking girl
i got with a girl last night, she was an oat.
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Aeronautical abbreviation for "Outside Air Temperature." Almost exclusively given in degrees Celsius.
"Lawrence Tower information Juliet time 2000 Zulu. Wind 300 @ 8. Visibility >10. Sky Scattered @ 1-2000. OAT 9. Dew point 2. Altimeter 30.07. Landing and departing runway 32. Advise on initial contact you have Juliet."
dari Cataphract_40 Minggu, 28 November 2004
Over Achieving Teenagers, implies to anyone who is working too much, is stressed, and just tries too hard. Often people who gets grades such as C's and B's but still consider they failed and did not do enough.
Person A: What did you get on the test? Person B: Man i friggen missed up. The multiple choice screwed me over. Person A: (Looks at Person B test paper) ... you got a 96 -_- Person B: It's horrible. Person A: you friggen oat -_-
dari failingBminus Kamis, 26 Oktober 2006
Abbreviation for Over Active Taint Syndrome, excesive sweating inbetween your balls and asshole.
I had a bad case of oats so i wiped it with my hand and rubbed it in kevins mouth.
dari samtheman4808 Senin, 28 April 2008


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2012: The year in reviewNational:
Year in photos:
The San Gabriel Valley this year lost several prominent residents who left a lasting imprint on their communities.
Here are some of the notable people who died in 2012:
Hometown soldiers
This year saw the deaths of three local servicemen who were killed in the line of duty.
In July, 28-year-old Army construction engineer Jose Oscar Belmontes was killed from enemy fire in Afghanistan. Belmontes, who joined the Army in February 2011, was deployed in July of the same year. He left behind his wife, father and mother.
Just a month after Belmontes was killed, the Covina community mourned the passing of Lance Cpl. Curtis J. Duarte, a 22-year-old Marine who lost his life during a combat operation in Afghanistan. The husband and father of a 2-year-old daughter joined the military in 2008, after graduating from Covina High School.
In November, Army Staff Sgt. Kenneth Wade Bennett was killed by an improvised explosive device during his third deployment to Afghanistan. Bennett was charged with the dangerous task of locating and disabling IED's and other bombs before they injured or killed his brothers in arms.
Wade is survived behind his wife, 2-year-old daughter, parents and sister. He and his wife were also expecting their second child.
Frank Pastore, radio host
Popular Christian radio show host and former Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Pastore died earlier this month, after suffering major injuries in a motorcycle accident.
The death came nearly a month after the collision on the 210 Freeway in Duarte, while Pastore was making his way home from his daily radio show at the studios of KKLA-FM (99.5) in Glendale.
The 55-year-old Upland resident played baseball at La Verne's Damien High School and went on to pitch for the Cincinnati Reds and Minnesota Twins in an eight-year major-league career.
Mel Eaton, coaching legend
One of his generation's most respected football coaches, Mel Eaton died in April at his West Covina home at the age of 88.
A graduate of UC Santa Barbara and USC, Eaton began his more than 36-year coaching career at Bonita and West Covina high schools.
The father of two served as the head football coach at Mt. San Antonio College from 1970 to 1987, winning South Coast Conference titles in 1980 and 1982.
Eaton's teams won a total of 256 games, in addition to earning a number of area Coach of the Year awards, he was selected the area coach of the decade for the 1960s.
Jim Lloyd, former West Covina councilman, congressman
The 89-year-old Jim Lloyd, who served on the West Covina City Council from 1968 to 1975 before he was elected to Congress, died after a January car collision in Florida.
Lloyd was visiting his grandson, who was training to be a Naval pilot, when his vehicle went off the side of the road on Scenic Highway in Pensacola, Fla.
The Washington state-born Democrat served three terms as a congressman immediately after serving on the West Covina City Council. He lost his seat to Rep. David Dreier, R-San Dimas, in 1981.


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The way we watch television is changing faster than you can change the channel on your TV! Click through for more information ... or click here to watch the video.
Our favorite shows are now available wherever and whenever we want them. The best part -- you don't need to pay a monthly cable or satellite bill to watch.
WXII's Bill O'Neil said he cut his cable bill and is now saving $129.10 a month – more than $1,500 a year! Let's look at how he did it.
Bill said his TV fix comes two ways: Free over-the-air broadcast TV, and streaming content over the Internet.
This fly swatter looking device is an antenna called "The Leaf" and is made by a company in Raleigh.
It costs about $35 and delivers live network TV as well as local news.
But to replace the 500+ channels offered by cable and satellite providers, you need more than free broadcast TV.
Some of the hottest shows on cable and satellite are available online. Streaming content from a computer to your TV isn't new, but it's getting a lot better and a lot easier to use.
For $5 a month, or $40 for the first year, you can stream TV shows and movies using a service called PlayOn.
Hulu, Comedy Central, HGTV, as well as subscription services like Netflix, Amazon and Major League Baseball are available.
What's more, using PlayOn TV, you can watch your favorite shows on TV, an iPad or a cell phone.
In addition to PlayOn, a streaming service called Roku can be used.
Bill's family cut the cord on cable a few months ago. His daughter's favorite show, Drop Dead Diva, is available over the Internet through Hulu Plus.
The service costs $8 a month, Bill said.
If you want to do what Bill and his family have done, here's what you need.
An antenna for each TV in the house.
A streaming device for each TV – Bill bought this Netgear box for $20 on eBay.
You can also buy a Roku, or if you have a gaming system in the house (such as a Wii or an Xbox), that works just as well.
Bill said his monthly bill is now $13 -- $8 for Netflix and $5 for PlayOn.
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it is for iDEN (nextel) phones, at least it used to be...
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Well, Sprint did just recently announce that they are now going to unlock their phones and network. See Sprint Nextel Agrees to Unlock Phones for more details.
Now, as for 2 lines per phone, I know that Nextel has always allowed this on their iDEN phones. It started out with their i1000, then i1000+, and continued on up to the merger. As far as I know, all current iDEN-only models support 2 lines (if you opt to use a second line). I don't know about any of the PowerSource nor CDMA-only phones.
So, if you desperately need a 2-line CDMA-only phone, you might inquire about purchasing an unlocked CDMA phone that is capable of offering 2 lines of service, and then grafting that onto Sprint's network. Otherwise, buy an iDEN-only and don't worry about it.
In addition to Nextel iDEN phones having two-line capability, the billing system is designed to be set up so that Nextel will send the bill for the work line to your employer's address and the bill for your personal line to your house.
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OMG What an indescribeable nightmare putting two lines on my Nextel Phone.(i335). I will spare you the gory details but it was the worst CS relation I have had to date. And it is NOT over. I have the two lines but, they are trying to convince me now that I may not call out from the second line. That the phones are not designed to do it..... BS BS BS BS BS BS BS. Tell that to the i1000 I had back in 1998 and the i90c I had in 2002. I have talked to so many CS reps including escalations and tier 2 tech support. Even the guy who got the two lines (incoming -one out) doesn't know what the **** he's doing. He is the one being told by others that it only receives and doesn't make calls on line two. Furthermore, I can't use a shared plan for some odd reason but, hey he said he will look into it we will see....
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Tangled Web of Conflicts Over Lung Cancer Screening
A spat is developing over the moonlighting of researchers leading a big government study of lung cancer screening as expert witnesses in tobacco litigation, the WSJ reports.
Two of the researchers, including study co-director Denise Aberle of UCLA, have testified for tobacco companies sued by smokers seeking to have the cigarette makers pay for annual CT scans to screen for lung cancer. That has upset some patient groups and pro-screening advocates who were already concerned that the government study is tilted against screening.
While screening advocates point to the tobacco company work as a troubling conflict of interest, scientists who have been among the biggest promoters of screening have their own conflicts.
No group has been more active in the study and promotion of screening than the one at Cornell Medical/New York-Presbyterian led by Claudia Henschke. Henschke and collaborator David Yankelevitz have published some of the most promising studies demonstrating a benefit to screening for lung cancer with CT scans.
In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, the Cornell group reported that CT screening of more than 30,000 smokers discovered first-stage lung cancer in 412 of them. Of those, all but eight received some kind of treatment. The overall survival rate for those found to have early stage cancer was 88% after 10 years. The eight patients who declined treatment all died within five years of diagnosis. Currently, the five-year survival rate for lung cancer is just 16%, mainly because the disease is often detected too late for treatment to work. That article concluded by noting "no potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported."
But Henschke and Yankelevitz, however, receive royalty payments from General Electric, a big maker of CT scanners, for a computer algorithm they developed to detect lung cancer on diagnostic images.
Henschke told the Health Blog that the licensing agreement with GE was struck after the medical journal Lancet published a paper from the Cornell group in 1999. She said the royalties are small and declining. She couldn't specify the money amounts. Yankelevitz said most of the royalties go to Cornell. He also was unable to provide a specific amount paid to him by GE.
A GE spokesman said the company has "an agreement in place to license Cornell patents around lung cancer screening." Henschke says she informed the NEJM of the GE royalty agreement but that the journal decided not to disclose it. The NEJM didn't immediately return a call for comment.
Yankelevitz owns shares in and consults for PneumRx, a company that makes needles used to biopsy suspected cancer tissue in the lung. The company would likely benefit from any uptick in screening as further tests are ordered. PneumRx CEO Erin McGurk says Yankelevitz was given stock in exchange for licensing some intellectual property he had developed. Yankelevitz said he has consulted for PneumRx for about a year and a half but doesn't consider the work to be a conflict because "it isn't a screening company."
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Meditations with Meezers: Understanding
"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding."
~ Vincent van Gogh
Chey says: And now you know that cats are instinctively smarter than humans. After all, we always look at things for long periods of time.
Ichiro: I knew it! I am smarter than Mom!
Chey: You do know she's not really your Mom, right?
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So, from the looks of it Electronic Arts is making bank on downloadable content. Bloomberg reports that EA is expecting to make something around $1 billion worth of its yearly …Continue reading →
Amazon and Twitch have reached an agreement that has the online retailer acquiring the video game streaming website for $970 million dollars in cash. "Like Twitch, we obsess over customers …Continue reading →
Sad news coming from the PlayStation space as Sony-owned developer Sucker Punch Productions has suffered layoffs. News of this comes from a statement issued to IGN that confirms the Seattle-based …Continue reading →
While Microsoft recently shut down Xbox Entertainment Studios, the studio meant to bring original television content to Xbox platforms, the book might not be closed on the studio entirely. The …Continue reading →
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During the company's Gamescom press conference today, Sony revealed that the PlayStation 4 has sold over 10 million units worldwide since its launch last November. Sony Computer Entertainment's Jim Ryan …Continue reading →
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By user12610627 on Dec 23, 2008
There's a broad cultural divide between the real media world, and the world of current 2d graphics toolkits, such as web browsers, Flash, JavaFX 1.0, Java Swing, Silverlight, QT, Cocoa, etc, etc.
An important thing to note is that this, and this (meaning the flash content on this web site), and this (meaning the actual product - not the web site), all run on the same consumer hardware. What differentiates them is the skill of the artists/designers involved, and the performance and capability of the software systems that enable such artists.
In spite of being composed of the very most simplistic graphics imaginable, the AJAX site above delivers unconscionably poor, stuttering, animation performance. In spite of being a premier 3d game engine provider, the Flash content on Crytek's web site is very poor animation-performance-wise (although a lot better than the web browser's) - and still remarkably simplistic (compared to Crytek's real product) - and obviously lack of availability of artists is not part of the equation in their case. Meanwhile EVE online brings you amazing graphics, sound, animation and interactivity with silky smooth performance.
At the end of the day, however, these discrepancies clearly are about hardware. It's impossible to get a sufficient frame-rate for smooth animation of non-trivial graphics without hardware acceleration (GPU + CPU SIMD) - even for 2d. This is the very reason for the existence of GPU hardware. By contrast, the web browser, Flash, Java2D, & etc have a software architecture which is not designed around leveraging such hardware, and such is the result you get.
The state of the art in real media is created and advanced in the world of movies, TV, and video games, not that of the PC desktop and web browser. Nevertheless, modern video game engines demonstrate that interactive, real-time, very high production quality, high-performance multimedia (2d and 3d animation and graphics, audio, and video), is possible on today's desktops and on the web, not to mention devices with multimedia hardware acceleration.


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As the primary provider, the female Bengal tiger is at once both an aggressive hunter and a nurturing mother.
Aggressive: strong or emphatic in effect or intent
Nurture: to nourish and protect
The planet is in need of aggressive nurturing in the face of unsustainable practices that undermine the natural systems that support not only the economy, but life on earth as we know it. These systems must be brought back into balance to ensure a sustainable future for generations to come.
"One who is blessed with the spirit of the white Bengal tiger will have strong ideas and will stand by this belief system, even if that means leaping in the face of popular opinion." This is the spirit of Tigress Ventures.


text: Ordination is a multivariate technique that arranges vegetation samples in relation to each other based on compositional similarity and relative species-abundances. Ordination procedures summarize multidimensional data in a reduced coordinate system, extracting those axes that explain the most variation in the data. DCR-DNH ecologists use non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) , an ordination technique based on indirect gradient analysis that maximizes, to the extent possible, the rank-order (i.e ., non-parametric) correlation between inter-sample dissimilarity and inter-sample distance in ordination space. The results of ordination analyses are depicted by diagrams, in which each point represents a plot and the distance between points roughly indicates the degree of compositional similarity. Statistically significant correlations between measured environmental variables and sample coordinates on each axis may be plotted as vectors and overlain on the diagram. The direction of a vector indicates the direction of maximum correlation through ordination space, while vector line lengths are determined by the strength of the correlation. This diagram shows a two-dimensional ordination of the same dataset used to illustrate cluster analysis. Symbols indicate the four groups identified in the dendrogram and significant environmental gradients are plotted.


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Tenn. - Trevecca right-hander Tim Dunn, the 2009 TranSouth Player of the Year,
was picked in the 46th round of the Major League Baseball first-year player amateur
draft by the Cincinnati Reds. Dunn was 12-0 with a 1.81 earned run average and
earned NAIA All-America First Team honors as a junior this spring. Dunn is 24-1
over the last two seasons. As a sophomore he was 12-1 and was named a Junior
College All-American for Logan College.
Dunn commented on his waiting over the last two days to see if he would be taken, "I'm excited about being drafted because it's something you hope for when you start playing baseball as a kid. There was one part of me that expected it and another that wasn't so sure. The San Diego Padres were talking to me early in the draft and when that didn't work out I began to think it might not happen."
"If the offer from the Reds is right, then I'd have to take it, but at this point I'm working out and making plans to return to Trevecca in the fall and working toward another great Trojan baseball season and a higher draft position."
Trevecca baseball coach Jonathan Burton knows Dunn has professional baseball material, "Tim is a winner as evidenced by his 24-1 record the last two seasons. He is already a professional in the way he carries himself and he's going to get a chance to play after college. He's as good a pitcher as we've had come through our program in some time."
"We want the best for Tim and his family and if that's with the Cincinnati Reds organization this year, we'll be his biggest fans. Whether it's now or next year, Tim has all the tools to be successful and turn heads at the next level."
The last Trojan to be drafted was center fielder Brad Coon, who was drafted in the 15th round by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2005.
Dunn was the first Trojan to be named to the NAIA All-American First Team since fellow hurler Eric Van Slyke was selected in 2006.


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Character: Isabelle
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Co-Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel
Summary: Based on a 1988 novel by Gilbert Adair.
Left alone in Paris whilst their parents are on holiday, Isabelle (Eva Green) and her twin brother Theo (Louis Garrel) invite Matthew (Michael Pitt), a young American student who share their love of cinema, to stay at their apartment. Their obsession with films is used to create their own world of role-playing, and increasingly demanding mind games, cut off from the rowdy Parisian streets and the growning anger of the crowds.
Set against the turbulent political backdrop of the Paris riots in the spring of 1968 when the voice of youth was reverberating around Europe, The Dreamers is a story of self-discovery as the three students test each other to see just how far they will go.
Adair writes of the film: "It is about the spring: the springtime of Paris, the springtime of its political awakening and the springtime of their bodies. What happens inside the apartment seems to reflect, in a certain way, what is happening outside."
Bertolucci, who was in Paris during that frenetic spring, is even more carried away by the memory of it. "There was something quite magic in the 1960s," he says. "We were dreaming. We were fusing cinema, politics, jazz, rock'n'roll, sex, philosophy and dope. I was devouring it all. There was hope in young people that you had never seen before, and never will again. The attempt to dive into the future, and freedom, was fantastic. It is the last time something happened that was so idealistic and so utopian."
The premise of the movie in Eva's words: "It's about a twin sister and brother who have a passionate, almost incestuous relationship. They meet an American student and become friends with him. The three of them start playing mind games involving sexual forfeits, based on the movies. They try to reach beyond the limits, to see how far they can go. They experiment with their emotions, their sexuality. It is very Bertolucci."
Isabelle, according to Eva: "At first she's showing off how controlled and confident she is. By the end she's more like herself. I think she takes refuge behind all those characters because… it's very difficult to explain the character, because I feel very close to her in some ways. In life I can keep a certain distance from people I'm rather reserved, and people might think that I'm very haughty and impassive, cold. But it's just a mask of protection. And when she makes love with Matthew, she becomes an adult, in some way. She lets reality come into her… Theo and Isabelle, they don't want to face the fact that they have to free themselves from each other – and they know that their ambiguous relationship cannot last forever and by remaining in childhood, they're only "playing games", they're still protected."


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Obama Renews Myanmar Sanctions Powers, Eases Investment Restrictions
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President Barack Obama renewed on Thursday the U.S. national emergency against Myanmar that grants the administration power to impose sanctions on the country, but an official said some restrictions would be lifted.
The review that led to the renewal, required annually under the National Emergency Act, came despite the recent progress Myanmar has made "in a number of areas," Obama said in a message to Congress.
"Burma has made important strides, but the political opening is nascent, and we continue to have concerns, including remaining political prisoners, ongoing conflict and serious human rights abuses in ethnic areas," Obama said, referring to the country by its former name.
The European Union in April suspended sanctions on Myanmar for a year as the country enacts reforms. Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) suggested earlier this week the U.S. do the same, which received cautious support from Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar's foreign minister was scheduled to meet Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
An unnamed U.S. official told AFP that, despite the announced renewal, some curbs on investment in Myanmar would soon be allowed.
"We will license certain types of investment in financial services and for businesses to do business in Burma," the official said. "We will continue to sanction individuals associated with the former regime."
UPDATE: Though the U.S. renewed the emergency powers authorizing sanctions, the U.S. suspended some measures on Thursday against Myanmar.
It will allow for the first significant economic investment by American companies in Myanmar, also known as Burma, in decades. Obama, in a statement on Thursday, while noting the renewal of the emergency power also announced the appointment of an ambassador, Derek Mitchell, and encouraged greater cooperation between the countries.
"As an iron fist has unclenched in Burma, we have extended our hand, and are entering a new phase in our engagement on behalf of a more democratic and prosperous future for the Burmese people," said Obama in the statement.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while speaking to reporters, explained how the easing of economic restrictions will work: Washington will issue a general license enabling American businesses to invest in Myanmar's economy, allow citizen access to international credit markets and dollar-based transactions.
"So today, we say to American business: Invest in Burma and do it responsibly; be an agent of positive change and be a good corporate citizen; let's all work together to create jobs, opportunity, and support reform," Clinton said.


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Update September 2011
The club needs new leadership. I am too busy to do any more than update this web site as directed by the new volunteer club president!
Step right up, and I will turn over the keys to the North American Motoring (NAM) on-line forum. Post a message there, and I will get back to you right away.
What are we about?
We are MINI enthuiasts...but more than that, we are MINI MOTORING enthusiasts! After we got the keys to our MINIs, we want nothing more than to drive, drive, drive!
We think MINIs are fantastic, and we know that you do too. So join us...
The Manitoba MINI Motoring club wants YOU.
Or to put it in terms of your interests, we think YOU (as a Manitoba MINI owner) want to be part of the Manitoba MINI Motoring club! We also welcome MINI owners from near-by provinces or states a day's drive or so away to join us...
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri...or even futher away, if you feel like driving longer than a day to take part in our activities!
- This club is for people like you who love MINIs and would like to participate in fun MOTORING activities with other MINI owners.
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The 782-06 from PANAVISE is a Stay-Put Flexline Phone Mount – 6" Rise that has a patented "pinch design" to prevent the flex shaft from becoming loose from the base or the mounting plate. The 782-06 includes screw caps for a finished look. The 782-06 comes with double wound shaft and vinyl coated for heavy-duty protection. In 782-06 the base can be mounted vertically or horizontally; the shaft easily screws into either configuration.


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They are a little more generous across the board and a little less egocentric in their giving. More often they believe that charity is a moral obligation. And they tend to be more inclined toward education, religion and health-related causes.
Saying so isn't a case of sexism or stereotyping, it's just statistics, said Debra Mesch, the director of the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
"Women tend to want to spread the wealth a little more, and a lot of that has to do with how men and women are socialized in terms of their upbringing," Mesch told JTA. "In this culture especially they are the nurturers and are charged with raising the family. Their altruism is more developed."
Statistics show that single women are twice as likely to give charity than single men, she said.
That's why, in part, as the National Women's Philanthropy division of the United Jewish Communities preps for its annual Lion of Judah conference, organizers and philanthropy experts are saying that women's philanthropy is more important than ever.
The annual conference, scheduled for Nov. 9-16 in Tel Aviv, is the preamble to the UJC's General Assembly in Jerusalem immediately afterward.
The Lion of Judah, so named because of the solid gold lion-shaped pins that women are awarded because of their giving -- and bejeweled in relation to the size of the gifts -- is expected to draw some 1,100 women who each give more than $5,000 annually to their local federations.
Over the past decade, the federation system has seen its general annual campaigns slump, but women's giving has grown rapidly, according to the managing director of the National Women's Philanthropy division, Beth Mann.
The Jewish federation system in 1946 became one of the first charities to launch a separate campaign to solicit gifts from women. In its first year, giving by women to that campaign accounted for $10 million -- or 10 percent -- of the total taken in by the federations.
That dollar total has climbed steadily to $61 million in 1973 in the aftermath of Israel's Yom Kippur War, and to $138 million in 1995. As the general campaigns fell flat, in 2006 the women's campaigns took in $192 million, or 22 percent of all of the money that federations raised.
Thirty-four percent of donors to the federation system are women, and that doesn't count the women who give gifts from couples and families.
Mann estimates that some 50 percent of all the dollars federations take in come from women.
That number stands to increase in coming years.
By 2010, experts estimate that women will control some 60 percent of America's wealth -- a figure that could increase as some $41 trillion is passed on from the oldest generations to younger generations over the next 50 years. That's because with women living on average seven years longer than men, many husbands will end up leaving their estates to their wives.
Some observers see women's philanthropy as a new well that could help bridge the philanthropic gap between today's economic crisis and recovery.
"Women's philanthropy has been an untapped resource because I don't think people have been paying attention to women's giving and women's power," Mesch said.
The Lion of Judah conference is focused on thanking women for their giving and inspiring them to give more. That same week, Indiana University will run its own symposium on women's giving to help fundraisers focus on how to tap into the women's market -- a problem for a fundraising world that still more often focuses on courting men.
"I hear from development officers at Indiana that they talk to the man," Mesch said. "If there is a couple sitting with them, they assume it is the man writing the check, so the discussion always goes to the man. The thank-you note goes to the man.
"But you need to do the little things and realize that it is the women who open the tap. I think it is a huge faucet."
Other philanthropies are catching on. The United Way started its National Leadership Women's Council in 2003 to help guide local United Way branches as they started separate women's campaigns. Already the charity has seen gains.
The system as a whole saw a 2.6 percent growth in donations last year, but local branches that started women's campaigns saw on average a 3.6 percent growth, according to the United Way's director of strategic marketing for the women's council, Linda Paulson.
To put into perspective how effective the federation system has been at raising money from women, consider this: The United Way raised $4.2 billion systemwide in 2007 and took in $102 million from women.
In the same year, the federation system raised $908.1 million through its general campaigns, $193 million from women.
And while rumors persist that the federation's umbrella organization, the UJC, has had trouble with sagging attendance numbers for this year's General Assembly, the Lion of Judah conference is bringing about 400 more attendees than organizers anticipated.
"In the future," Mann said jokingly, "there will be a general campaign and a separate men's campaign."
For those women who are the givers, the mission is less about bridging the gap than it is about fulfilling a personal mission.
"The opportunity to give your own gift means that you can express yourself philanthropically in a different way," said Cheryl Fishbein, a board member of a litany of charities, including the UJC and the UJA-Federation of New York.
Before she became involved in the women's campaign 15 years ago, Fishbein's giving was done with her husband or her family.
"We really believe in a lot of the same things, but if it is my own gift, I can have a say in where it is going to go and what it will fund," said Fishbein, who is a Lion of Judah. "And as I have become more knowledgeable on philanthropy, it gave me an opportunity to feel that the things I am most passionate about, I can fund."
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>> From: Clement Sciammas [mailto:email@example.com]
>> We are using net-snmp 22.214.171.124-25.25 and.doing an extend query
>> that is returning a string but we would like it to return an
>> integer because it is used by another application that will
>> only accept integer input.
> The extend command only returns strings.
That's actually a slight over-simplification.
The extend command actually returns two values:
- the output of the command (a string), and
- the exit value of the command (an integer)
This latter value can be retrieved using the OID
Unfortunately, this return code is limited to the
range 0-255 (being the values handled by _exit(2))
So that probably doesn't help you with this
particular problem.
Mike's suggestion of having the client side convert
from string to integer is probably the best approach.
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THOROUGH EXAM: A doctor performed a physical on a military recruit in Bozhou, Anhui province, China, Thursday. Male applicants for the People's Liberation Army are usually between 18 and 20 years old, unless they join after college. They serve for a minimum of two years. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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SOAKING IT IN: People sat in chairs in flooded St. Mark's Square in Venice Thursday. (Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)
FACING A CHALLENGE: Britain's Andy Murray walked on the court to play a tennis match against Poland's Jerzy Janowicz during the BNP Paribas Masters at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy venue in Paris on Thursday. Mr. Janowicz won. (Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
LETTER MAN: A worker rested on scoreboard-sign letters during rain that delayed a cricket match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand in Pallekele, Sri Lanka, Thursday. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)


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No more munchies: Abeer Sabri in hospital with food poisoning
As if she wasn't traumatized enough by people's comments when she decided to take off her hijab (head scarf), now Abeer Sabri has been hospitalized for food poisoning.
The Egyptian actress spent several days in hospital. She described the experience as "very harsh," and felt as though she was hanging between life and death.
Apparently, what made the sensitive patient feel even worse, was the number of ill people at the hospital. Well, it is a hospital after all!
Abeer thanked everyone who looked out for her while in hospital, and has reportedly returned to filming the three TV dramas she will be starring in this Ramadan.
The busy actress will be starring in "Khalaf Allah" with renowned Egyptian actor Nour El Sherif, "Mazaj Al Khair" (Good Mood) with actor Mustafa Shabaan and in "Al Walidah Basha" (Mother is a Pasha) with actress Sawsan Badr and actor Salah Abdullah.