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Apple sells 3M iPads after launching the Mini
NEW YORK -- Apple says it sold 3 million iPads of all kinds in the first three days it sold the new Mini model.
Apple started selling the Mini on Friday, starting at $329. It's a third smaller than the full-size iPad.
The sales figure compares with 1.5 million iPads sold in the first three days after Apple launched the third-generation iPad in March and cut the price of the iPad 2.
The full-size iPad got an update on Friday as well, with a faster processor and a better front-facing camera.
GM restructures financing with $11B in credit lines
DETROIT -- General Motors says it has received $11 billion in credit lines from 35 financial institutions in 14 countries.
The lines of credit include a $5.5 billion, three-year credit facility and another $5.5 billion line for five years.
They replace GM's existing $5 billion credit line that was to expire in 2015.
Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann said in a statement Monday that GM will use the credit as a source of backup liquidity. The company said last week that it ended the third quarter with $31.6 billion in cash.
GM says the new lines have more favorable terms than the old one, and will allow GM to borrow in different currencies.
GM expects the new lines to get investment grade ratings from the major ratings agencies.
Humana's income falls as medical claims rise
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Health insurer Humana Inc. said Monday that its third-quarter net income fell 4 percent as more premium dollars from its members went to pay for medical claims, offsetting continued growth in its lucrative Medicare Advantage business.
But its earnings still beat analysts' expectations and the company raised its earnings forecast for the full year.
Humana also announced a deal aimed at solidifying its Medicare Advantage business, especially in Florida.
Former Airbus boss offers help for ailing economy
PARIS -- Former Airbus boss Louis Gallois is presenting dozens of prescriptions for the ailing French economy to the government, including a recommendation that it reduce payroll taxes for companies.
Gallois, who used to run defense and aerospace giant EADS, Airbus' parent company, says France needs a "competitiveness shock, that is, a confidence shock."
France's economy has been on a long slide into stagnation, and the global slowdown and Europe's debt crisis have exacerbated the problem.
Tony Blair says Britain should be proud of war role
LONDON -- Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says British forces should be proud of their role in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, citing what he claimed is major progress made in the country since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Blair said Monday that the country's economy had been transformed, with oil revenue rising rapidly and significant foreign investment. He also pointed to drastically lower child mortality rates.
It was a rare speech by Blair on Iraq, a divisive issue that came to define his office.
Facebook postings lead to arrest in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The family of a Malaysian man detained for allegedly insulting a state sultan on Facebook called for his release Monday, saying the government is violating his free-speech rights.
Police arrested 27-year-old Ahmad Abdul Jalil in Kuala Lumpur and took him to southern Johor state late Friday.
His sister, Anisa Abdul Jalil, said the family was told he was being investigated for seditious remarks against the Johor sultan. But she said the family did not know what the offensive postings were.
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Since May 2010, "$200K Chump," who claims to be "an average full tuition paying parent at one of the local Bergen County yeshiva day schools," has been sparking lively, often heated, exchanges on his "Bergen County Yeshiva Tuition" blog.
With no-holds-barred tirades against "legacy" [established] schools, "Winthrops" [wealthy benefactors], "admins" [yeshiva administrators] and "leeches" [those he accused of abusing the scholarship system] the anonymous Chump not only coined a new vocabulary but won legions of fans and critics: he claims the site gets over 3,000 unique hits per day.
Detractors argue that the blog — which has included suggestion that scholarship families be subjected to unannounced home inspections and various commenters referring to African Americans as "Jamals" — is inaccurate, uncivil and divisive, and have questioned the credibility of an anonymous forum.
Last week, Chump announced that, with the low-cost, high-tech Yeshivat He'Atid set to open next fall in Bergenfield, his mission is accomplished and he plans to close down the blog. In an exclusive interview via e-mail (he declined to speak by phone and refused to reveal his identity to this reporter), Chump reflected on his blog.
Q: What spurred you to start the blog?
A.: I was fed up with the polite, respectful conversation about tuition that our community has been having for decades and felt that something a little more "edgy" was needed to wake the rank-and-file community members up and to spur the leaders of our community to stop talking and actually take real action.
Why did you feel it was necessary to remain anonymous?
In order to keep the conversation edgy and honest.
What are some of the wackiest e-mails and comments you've gotten?
I have received all kinds of crazy threats from people. I'd prefer not to get into detail, lest I give any nuts who may be reading this article any ideas. People have tried to take certain steps to hack into my blog, and some think they have uncovered certain information about me, but I have always been one step ahead of them. ... Most of the threats have to do with exposing my ID (because people think they know who I am) and having my kids thrown out of one of the local legacy yeshivas.
Have you done any analytics to determine who your readers are, in terms of location and demographics?
Over 90 percent of hits are from Bergen County or NYC (where most Bergen County parents work during the day). The other 10 percent are from Israel, Canada, California, Florida and other areas with large Modern Orthodox Jewish populations.
How many children do you have and what kind of work do you do? Is your salary actually $200,000?
My salary is in the "chump range." No further comment on type of work or number of children I have.
Will your kids be going to He'Atid next year?
If I had children of the proper age for He'Atid [the school is opening with pre-K, kindergarten and first grade] I would send them there.
What role do you think the blog has had in spurring the creation of He'Atid and in addressing the day school tuition crisis?
I would like to think that my blog created the necessary type of atmosphere to spur the creation of a real alternative to the legacy schools, but I deserve none of the credit for the creation of He'Atid. I have no affiliation with He'Atid. All the credit in the world goes to the men and women who founded He'Atid and have put in many hundreds of hours behind the scenes. The entire community owes them a huge debt of gratitude. Even those who don't send their kids to He'Atid are already benefiting from it as numerous legacy schools have recently cut prices for certain grades and put in other pricing gimmicks to try and compete.
What are you most proud of?
Changing the tuition discussion from a polite but unproductive discussion to one that is edgy, but where real action is being taken by the leaders of our community. There is nothing more satisfying than getting e-mails from legacy board members telling me that their school had a board meeting and refrained from taking certain actions because they were concerned about the coverage such an action would get on my blog and the reaction from my thousands of readers.
What are your parting words to the Jewish community?
Your voice can make a difference, and it is important to keep the pressure on the legacy schools in whatever forum and way you feel comfortable doing so. ... Although I am retiring as a blog host, the discussion will continue on a new blog called "YeshivaSanity." A certain individual has graciously agreed to take over the conversation. ... I look forward to posting comments on this new blog from time to time but will not miss the responsibility that comes along with actually hosting a blog.
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The hard truth is jewish day school will not survive unless you are rich and most Jewish kids will have to attend public and slowly assimilate with non jews. The only way to fix this is find way to make aliyah. Nefesh B Nefesh is first start. I left USA 2 years ago with 4 kids ( including infant) and hubby stayed behind in usa to work while I raise kids in Israel where day school, healthcare, youth groups, and synagogue membership free. We tour the land and see our biblical roots daily and my husband slowly searching for work in Israel and visits us often. You can't imagine how many American couples I meet in Israel making aliyah whose husbands work in America just like my husband and sending money back tonisrael to support families so that next generation ensured to stay Jewish and in homeland. My worst nightmare is to go back to usa where I know my kids will lose jewish identity. Aliyah is an option and I was able to convince my parents to make aliyah with me. I have spent years thinking of day school crisis and see no solution in sight. Jabotinsky Zeev said it you don't escape galut the galut will devour you and eliminate you( via assmilation or nazi like situation) so far he has been proved right. If Jewish day school was affordable there would be less assimilated Jews. My reform and conservative friends never attended day school since their parents could not afford the prices but had it been affordable they would have been saved from intermarriage. I have orthodox friends who are slowly drifting from religion once they take their kids out of day school to public due to enormous costs. Unfortunately, aliyah hard and not simple but is the ideal choice for Jews who say every year after Seder "next year in Jerusalem"
Claims victory? How about I was outed and now need to go back to my hole.
I was an avid reader of this blog and greatly respect and appreciate what 200k chump did. I'm sure He'Atid would've happened eventually, but I really believe he made it happen a lot sooner
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By Kari Hawkins, USAG Redstone June 29, 2011
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Career exploration involved a lot of fun activities for a group of middle and high school students who spent a week learning about Redstone Arsenal.
And for some that career exploration may have actually changed their aspirations for the future.
"I wanted to be a lawyer," Darby Nash of Buckhorn Middle School said. "But I don't know now. After seeing all these things going on at Redstone Arsenal, I want to work for the government."
That's precisely the reaction organizers were hoping for from the second annual Adventures at AMCOM student experience. The weeklong educational initiative is designed to provide opportunities to learn about Arsenal careers, explore the fields of science and technology, and understand what it takes to become an Army civilian. The program reaches out to the younger members of the community and educates them concerning the importance of AMCOM's role in supporting the Soldier and how they can be a part of that mission in the future.
"It opened my eyes to all the different opportunities," Sabina Dang of Randolph School said.
"It's neat to know that whatever we decide to do, we can come back here and get a job, even if we decide to be a zoologist," Dortha Bradford of New Century Technology High School said.
This year's Adventures at AMCOM included the following students listed with their schools: Dortha Bradford, New Century Technology High School; Blake Muzny, New Hope High School; Sabina Dang, Randolph School; Jacqueline Martin, Sparkman High School; Shelby Morgan, Jacob Loach, Cassidy Elliott and Joshua Abreo, Liberty Middle School; Roderick Cook, Lee High School; Ebony Ford, Johnson High School; Matthew Watts, Katherine Steel, Steven Riddick and Patrick Lee, Grissom High School; Austin Anderson, Excalibur Christian School; Katie Jones, Challenger Middle School; Darby Nash, Buckhorn Middle School; and Christopher Lin, Challenger Middle School.
For some of the students, the week's hands-on activities re-emphasized their desire to pursue an engineering degree and eventual employment with research and development programs at Redstone while other activities introduced students to a wide range of non-science careers in such areas as acquisition, logistics and foreign military sales.
"This program lets you into Redstone Arsenal and into AMCOM and AMRDEC, and lets you get a feel of what goes on here behind the fence," Redstone senior commander and AMCOM commander Maj. Gen. Jim Rogers told the students during their awards ceremony.
"I hope it opened your eyes a little bit … It's a huge mission here at Redstone and you all saw a piece of that."
He encouraged the students to get college degrees, adding that 95 percent of the jobs on the Arsenal require that level of education. He also encouraged them to seek summer employment opportunities on the Arsenal.
"Take a look at the programs we have to bring you back and that grow into a government job. They're open and available," Rogers said.
The week included visits with the Security Assistance Management Directorate, Army Dosimetry Center and Radiation Standards Laboratory, Integrated Materiel Management Center, Software Engineering Directorate and the Garrison. There were hands-on activities that included taking a flight helmet apart and then rebuilding it while also correcting errors in the helmet's technical manual; developing a foreign military sales case; flying a Kiowa helicopter simulation and calibrating the weights of a bathroom scale.
"It was the best week of the summer," Katherine Steel of Grissom High School said. "We got to go and do so much stuff we wouldn't normally get to do. It was a huge privilege and a whole lot of fun."
Several of the students said they enjoyed the hands-on activities, particularly the master planning activity at the Garrison where they had to develop plans for a new "green" building on the Arsenal.
"We had to figure out where to put a building on a map," Austin Anderson of Excalibur Christian School said. "We had five teams and they came up with completely different plans."
The students also enjoyed learning about the science " such as artificial lightening and how to put an unmanned aircraft system together -- and other aspects behind the projects on the Arsenal.
"It's been extremely educational," Matthew Watts of Grissom High School said. "I thought all they did on the Arsenal was blow stuff up with rockets. Now, I know there's a lot more out here that has to do with missiles and engineering. I also learned about USATA, IMMC and calibration."
"The in-depth research really interested me," Nash added. "I learned that long before you blow something up you have to do all the stuff that involves safety and reliability. It doesn't start with a bang. First you have to do a lot of research."
The students also learned about teamwork and about the Redstone mission.
"Everyone who works here has a mission. Everyone is so focused. Supporting the war fighter is the ultimate goal," Katie Jones of Challenger Middle School said.
"I didn't know what that actually meant. Now, I've been here a week and I understand what supporting the war fighter means," Steel said.
"It's the best jobs. But it's not just about the income. Everyone here supports a bigger purpose," Nash added.
Adventures at AMCOM proved to be as good as advertised, the students agreed.
"I really didn't know anything about the military except from what I've seen on TV," Joshua Abreo of Liberty Middle School said. "I wanted to learn and get a chance to see the Arsenal since I've never been out here. This gave me the chance to learn about what goes on out here and see the military inside and out."
Besides learning about the Arsenal, the students also appreciated learning about each other.
They have established a Facebook page to keep the group in touch with each other.
"My parents are both military so I wanted to learn more about what they do and learn about what else happens on the Arsenal and I wanted to meet people from different schools," Steel said. "Everyone here has been great and I hope to keep in contact after the week."
Rogers picked up on the sense of friendship and camaraderie that the students developed during the week, and the excitement they had in learning about the Arsenal.
"I know this week was pretty cool. It's better than Space Camp," Rogers joked.


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"Crazy Claus At Your Service!" and his wife, "Call Me Margaretta Claus" just love to laugh and love to have fun. They just love to hang out and enjoy the holiday festivities. Whether it's at your house or at the North Pole, they're comfortable anywhere.
"Crazy Claus At Your Service!" is an 8" primitive Santa cloth doll ornament He has a muslin body. His face is embroidered and his cheeks are blushed and rosy. His mustache and scraggly beard are made of raw mohair. His black boots are cross laced. Crazy Claus has a mass of white wool roving hair all over his head. He is wearing his favorite red and green plaid Santa outfit. The pants are fringed and gathered at the waist and knees. His fringed jacket has a center panel and hood that barely contains his thick head of hair.
"Crazy Claus At Your Service!" really isn't "crazy!" He's a bit of a kidder and when he gets to laughing he can't stop. He gets to laughing so hard he starts to cry and then he can't stop himself. Maybe then things can get a little crazy. All this laughing and crying and laughing and crying could turn anyone crazy. Whether he's at your house or the North Pole get ready to laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
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PROGRAM ON PARANORMAL LEGENDS: Whether local paranormal legends are fact or fiction will be the topic of a 6 p.m. Monday meeting at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, 444 Mahoning Ave. N.W., Warren. Dave Karr of the Ohio Valley Paranormal Research Group will talk about his group's activities and investigations in Trumbull County. The program is free.
BUDDY NOT BULLY PROGRAM: Be a Buddy, Not a Bully, a program designed to enrich the lives of young children, will hold events at the Eastwood Mall during October, which has been designated National Anti-Bully Awareness Month.
The program teaches children to be kind to each other, and to reject bullying behavior. A program will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Eastwood Mall in Niles. The event will include the opportunity to sign an Anti-Bullying Pledge and to learn about Captain McFinn and Friends.
HABITAT CELEBRATES: World Habitat Day was recently recognized by Habitat for Humanity. The day is dedicated to highlighting the need for decent housing around the world with the theme, "Many Homes, One Community." In recognition of the day, Mahoning County ReStores are participating in a campaign to raise awareness of housing issues while soliciting cash donations for Habitat affiliates through Oct. 27.
For information, call 330-755-2232, Ext. 305.
YWCA HOSTS PROGRAM: The YWCA Warren and Catholic Charities Ashtabula County will hold a program to help connect workers and clients to tax benefits - "Your Money. You Earned It. Now Claim It!"
A training workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at YWCA Warren, 375 N. Park Ave. Representatives from Ohio Benefits Bank, Legal Aid, Internal Revenue Service and Catholic Charities will be presenters.
The workshop is free. Register by calling 330-373-1010.
TRICK-OR-TREAT SET AT FIELD: The Scrappers and Seven Seventeen Credit Union will hold the 14th annual trick-or-treat at Eastwood Field from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday for children 12 and younger. Ticket quantities are limited and available on a first-come first-served basis. Children and adults will require a ticket. Tickets are just $1 each at the Scrappers Team Office, Eastwood Field.
The Scrappers are looking for area businesses to participate in this year's trick-or-treat event. Companies will receive a free table and banner space on the Eastwood Field concourse. The participating businesses may pass out information and decorate their table however they choose.
BENEFIT TO HELP MAN: A benefit to help officer Bruce Gaugler will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Nicholas Church, Warren. Gaugler is battling cancer and is need of out-of-state treatment.
The event will include a dinner and Chinese auction. Tickets are $6.50 for adults and $2.50 for children. Monetary donations can be made to the Bruce Gaugler fund at any Chase Bank branch location.
LIBERTY STARTS DROP OFF: Liberty Township secured a grant for a drug drop box at no cost to the township. Residents can drop off unwanted, unused or expired prescription drugs for proper disposal at the box located in the township administration building, 1315 Churchill Hubbard Road.
To reach the 24-hour information referral and crisis intervention service in Trumbull County, call Trumbull 211 at 330-393-1565 or 211. Call Trumbull 211 or Help Hotline at 330-747-2696 or 800-427-3606 for more information on service agencies and support groups.
Someplace Safe, domestic violence agency, offers support groups for women, children and individual support services. 330-393-3003.
Sunday Night Our Gratitude Speaks, Narcotics Anonymous open speaker meeting, Sundays, 7 p.m. Serenity Place, 29 E. Broad St., Newton Falls.
Youngstown Area PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), 3 p.m., Youngstown Playhouse, 600 Playhouse Lane, Youngstown. For more information, call 330-747-2696 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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Helen Powell Beck, 78, of Amarillo died Friday, Jan. 11, 2002.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday in Polk Street United Methodist Church with Bob Thomas, chaplain of Crown of Texas Hospice, and the Rev. Marty Hamrick of the church officiating. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Cedarlawn Memorial Park in Sherman. Arrangements are by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel, Fifth Avenue and Pierce Street.
Mrs. Beck was born in Kingston, Okla., Feb. 17, 1923. She was married to James William Beck for 22 years. She had been a model for Neiman Marcus in Dallas and owned The Vogue Beauty Salon in Sherman for many years. She and her husband were avid square dancers and members of several square dance clubs in Sherman.
They moved to Amarillo in September 1964 from Sherman. She taught at Draughons Business College for 10 years. She was a certified apartment manager and a member of National Apartment Managers Association. She was a member of Rebekah Lodge and Amarillo Senior Citizens Association.
She was awarded Speaker of the Year several times with Toastmasters and Toastmistress Association in which she served for 30 years. She was a published writer. She was a resident of Independence Village for 15 years. She was a member of Vaughn-Selby class at Polk Street United Methodist Church.
Honorary pallbearers will be Kevin Roe, Scott Roe, Brandon Fletcher and Mitchell Flanders.
She was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Tammie Roe.
Survivors include a son, Ronald D. Beck and wife, Carol, of Comanche; three daughters, Marta Beck Cole of San Angelo, Megon Beck Fletcher of Carrollton and Jama Flanders Sommers of Amarillo; a son-in-law, Charles A. Sommers of Amarillo; five grandchildren, Kevin Roe and wife, Brenda, of San Angelo, Scott Roe and Jamie Fletcher, both of Dallas, Brandon Fletcher and wife, Leslie, of Chicago and Mitchell Flanders of Amarillo; and three great-grandchildren, Leslie Roe, Ryan Roe and Kimberly Roe, all of San Angelo.
The family suggests memorials be to American Heart Association, 2404 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106.
The family will greet visitors from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The family will be at 1919 S. Milam in Amarillo.
Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 13, 2002
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Hi All,
In this post I just want to share my experience passing the SAP certification exam C_FSUTIL_60 SAP Certified Associate - Utilities with SAP ERP 6.0.
As most of the SAP certification exams, this one consists of 80 questions from the following area (number of questions are aproximative as are cited from memory):
Configure basic functions - 9 questions
Create master data - 9 questions
Validate integration - 8 questions
FI-CA Post Items - 9 questions
FI-CA Manage payments - 8 questions
Customer Service - 9 questions
Device Management- manage devices - 5 questions
Device Management-Process meter reading - 9 questions
Billing and Invoicing - 14 questions
There are questions with 1 answer and questions with multiple answers (the number of correct answers is specified). Questions with one answer have usually 4 answers to choose from and the ones with multiple answers have 5 answers to choose from.
The passing score is 53%, meaning you need to answer correctly to 43 questions.
My weak area is FICA but I scored 88% for FICA- Post Items but only 37% for FICA-Manage payments.
The certification can be done online. I took the exam at an authorized PearsonVue center, more details here:www.pearsonvue.com. The cost is 500 USD or 300 EUR.
Some sample questions:
1) About installation facts - one factor operand has value 1 at the installation facts starting from 1 sept 2012, value 2 at the rate category facts level starting from 1st June 2012 and value 3 at rate facts starting from 1st July.
Q: What value is taking into account by billing engine for billing period 1.06.2012 to 30.06.2012
2) EASIBI transaction is execute successively but the are no posting to FICA. When can this happen? (2 answers are correct)
a) the print document is outsorted
b) the meter reading is implausible
c) the processing option was set to billing
3) Other question was about EL31 - Monitoring meter readings: for which master data you can see meter reading result with the following options:
a) Contract account
b) Contract
c) Premise
d) Tehnical installation
4) There was another question regarding register relation ships. The question had a picture where 3 devices where linked (dev 2 to dev 1 and dev 3 to dev 1) and there was the description of how this construct is behaving (the dev2 consumption is deducted from dev1 consumption) and the question was what kind of relationship is defined betweek the dev1 and dev2 and it had a few options, one of them was the serial switching.
There were some tricky questions I don't remember :), specially in the FI-CA :).
Other sample questions are here:
If anyone else has passed the certification exam, please feel free to share you experience in this post.
Thanks for sharing this very nice information.
Were there any CRM questions? CRM to ISU linkage related?
Also anything related to Idocs / IDE?
and last question - was there negative marking for wrong answers?
What documentation helped you prepare for exam? Is IUT110 course sufficient enough?
I have recently taken the C_FSUTIL_60 exam in SAP TechEd 2012 held at Bangalore and cleared the exam. I wanted to share my experience in preparation for the exam.
When you have planned to appear for the exam, you have to read through two training documents - IUT110 and IUT210. But just reading these documents theoretically will not be sufficient. It will be really beneficial if you also see those relevant transactions in SAP system for each of those sections discussed in the documents. Because some of the questions can be answered only if you have seen the relevant transaction screens.
If you are an expert in a specific module of IS-U, then get help of other module experts to understand the sections discussed in the training documents. If you are a Device Management consultant, then get help of Billing & Invoicing, FICA and Customer Service while you read those sections in the document.
A sample question is:
1) In Account Balance Display (FPL9), what are the options possible? (Multiple answers are correct)
a. Display installation
b. Display returns history
c. Change Contract
d. Mass Change
e. Create budget billing plan
Hence some questions were really tricky. Sincere advice is that please take at least few days to prepare for this exam and then take the exam. All the best.
Hi Sakthi ,
Congrats for clearing the exam.
As you said that you taken the exam from India,is there any option we take this test from India.
I heard that India is not in list of countries where we can take exam .
Please advice
Thanks in Advance
Pabba reddy
Hi Pabba reddy,
I have taken this exam during the SAP TechEd 2012 event held in Bangalore during 28-30 November 2012. During this event, SAP had allowed to take this Utilities certification exam C_FSUTIL_60 in India.
Still this exam is not opened up for India
I am also planning for SAP ISU BILLING certification. I am studying IUT230. Can you please suggest me the course syllabus. what else I have to refer. where I have to enroll and what are the fee, all the details.
there is no certification specifically for billing. The only utilities certification is for the full solution scope as indicated above.
Hi All,
I have also taken the SAP ISU Certification ( C_FSUTIL_60) exam in June and cleared the exam.
Go through the below link who willing to take up the ISU Certification exam:
Please see below the list of topics that will be covered within this certification and the courses that cover them:
Billing and Invoicing , RTP > 12% (IUT 110)
Create master data , IDE > 12% (IUT 210)
Customer Service , CRM > 12% (IUT 110)
Configure basic functions 8% - 12% (IUT 110)
Device Management/EDM 8% - 12% (IUT 110)
FI-CA: Manage payments 8% - 12% (IUT 110)
FI-CA: Post items 8% - 12% (IUT 110)
Validate integration 8% - 12% (IUT 110)
Device Management /Process Meter Readings < 8% (IUT 110)
Clearing this exam needs a thorough reading of IUT 110 and IUT 210 course material. Majorly, we all good at one topic out of ISU modules DM, Billing , Fica, CS/CRM, IDE, Master Data, RTP...
For to clear this exam, we need to have basic concepts of all modules.
Narendar Konakanchi
Hi Narender, Did you take the exam at TechEd or outside India?
Conratulations Danial,
The exam can be taken in India, please do check with SAP training India.
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Hi Experts,
Does anybody knows where to get the training material for this certification?
Can any one share the process to apply for this examination.As i can see there is less replies received to the utilities associate level exam queries compare to other modules certification queries.
Please any one who had recently passed utilities associate level exam please your ideas.
Thanks & Regards,
Is there any sap press book for sap isu ?
Or any online study material sap authorized ?
Hi All ,
I'm not able to find a Utility Training Courses in English , i only found the german language One and its only In Germany
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Fayetteville Police arrested a man Saturday on suspicion of having sex with a 13-year-old "at least twice," a police report shows.
Police said Daniel Ray Brinkley, 20, admitted to having sex with the victim during the summer of 2013. A police report shows Brinkley said he may have had sex more than twice but would "black out on occasion."
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There's a light at the end of the tunnel for Boston Marathon bombing victim James Costello.
Eight months after the horrific tragedy, Costello, who suffered severe burns on his right arm and leg, is engaged to a nurse he met while in treatment at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
"April 15 was one of the worst days of my life. I soon wondered why and for what reason this has happened," Costello wrote in a Facebook post.
Costello had been waiting at the finish line when the bomb went off, leaving him in need of multiple surgeries. For two weeks, he stayed at Massachusetts General Hospital before transferring to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where he met nurse Krista D'Agostino.
"After sharing a handful of conversations I realized not only how beautiful she was, but also what a kind heart she had," he wrote. "I somehow convinced her to attend a benefit with me, which turned into a few dates, which turned into a few inseparable months."
The couple are spending part of December in Europe on an all-expenses-paid "Heroes Cruise" with other victims and first responders. Costello revealed on Facebook that he asked D'Agostino to marry him in the French city of Lyon.
"I'm happy to announce that we will spend the rest of our lives together. I now realize why I was involved in the tragedy. It was to meet my best friend, and the love of my life," he wrote.
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Members of a University of New Mexico campus group are concerned that a disproportionate number of minority students are being placed on academic suspension.
Hispanics for UNM points to a study the university conducted earlier this year of more than 4,500 students in the office of undergraduate studies.
The study indicated that more than half of the 315 students placed on academic suspension in spring 1998 were minorities. At UNM, minorities make up about 38 percent of the total student population.
"That's a high number (of suspensions)," said Arturo Sierra, co-chairman of Hispanics for UNM and the director of the College Enrichment Program. "When I look at these figures, they don't speak highly of us."
UNM undergraduate students who have taken no more than 30 hours of classwork must have a cumulative grade point average of 1.7, a low C average, to be in good standing. Students with more than 30 hours need to maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0, a C average.
Students who fall below these levels are placed on probation for a semester. If students don't bring their grades up, they are eligible for suspension.
Peter White, interim associate provost, said he knows there is room for improvement when it comes to helping minority students succeed at college.
"Suspensions are a small part of the big picture with regard to retention," White said.
White said when he was appointed interim associate provost in June, one of the things he was asked to do was to improve student advisement and retention rates.
Improving retention efforts will translate into fewer students leaving the university, whether through academic suspensions or other reasons, and more students graduating, he said.
Sierra said in order to curb the number of minorities being suspended, UNM needs to continue expanding services offered by ethnic centers, mentoring programs and summer programs.
The centers and the programs offer tutoring and other help for minority students.
Sierra also said students need a more accepting campus environment.
"Once the university admits students, it shouldn't put labels on them, saying they're unprepared and shouldn't be here," he said.
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What could be the difference between the immigration of the late 1800's to the early 1900's and now? Well, for one thing, back in the day people were fleeing poverty, social unrest, and were being......
"With the attack on Christianity by the government and the acceptance of other religions, certain people will leave the country for religious and political reasons."
Unbelievable, I am assuming, however, you are referring to Christians not excepting other religions.
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The recent Boston bombing is a perfect example of what Mr. Weigle is talking about. The two bombers had lived here in the US for about ten years and had received welfare the entire time! Why are we allowing non-producing youth from other countrys to come here and absorb resources that are clearly spread to thin falready on our
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On the other hand, turning a blind eye to illegal aliens flooding the work force in the US, basically amounts to modern slavery without the guilt assosiated witg the word "slavery". Because we want to make and grow things as cheaply as possible here, we are willing to risk going to jail by hiring undocumented workers because we pay them less than minimum wages, they cannot complain about working conditions and if they do complain, we hold their status as an illegal over their heads to shut them up! If they get sick or injured, we don't provide them with health insurance or workmans comp, we ship them off to ANY American hospital for the best health care in the world for FREE! Yes, we need immigration reform, but not the type that creates millions of new beholding voters that will vote for their political benefactors!
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Liberals despise corporations that outsource their business to lower wage nations.
But they support the outsourcing of domestic jobs to criminal aliens that have no real interest in becoming Americans and assimilating into our culture.
No, the vast majority of illegal border-crossers are like locusts who travel to the country that looks the other way while they feed off the low-paying jobs, free healthcare and free education.
Once the country is devoured, they will move on to the next best opportunity available.
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Only European immigrants were required to process through Ellis Island. There was no such requirement for the Chinese that came to this country through San Francisco and who were then often forced into slave labor or for the millions of immigrants who freely moved across our open and unguarded southern border.
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Rick, Are you really that blind. If you are a Muslim taxi driver in this country, you can refuse service to anyone under the guise that it would offend your religious beliefs, but if you are a Christian business owner, you can be forced to serve at a gay wedding even though it offends you religious believes. Our President says that the future must not belong to those who denigrate the prophet (Mohammed), but the government give financial support to artists who denigrate Jesus Christ. Do you really believe that Christianity gets equal treatment in this country? It is the majority religion in this country and liberals have this crazy idea that majorities are bad and need to be persecuted. The only thing worse than being a white male in this country is being a Christian white male.
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"We are moving to a bilingual country.." - Gregory Weigle
Hey Greg, pssst, we have always been a bilingual country. Did you ever wonder why so many towns and cities in the southwest have so many Spainish sounding names?
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The bad part about the democrats wanting amnesty for illegals is the chain immigration that will result.
With 20-35 million illegals, of which the majority are from Mexico, amnesty will result in hispanics turning this country into another Mexico. With their citizenship, they will be able to sponsor their spouses, kids, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends to come here. How long do you think it will take for them to elect hispanics to every local, state and federal office? In a few years, spanish will be the official language. There will be no southern border. According to news last week, they have now become the majority in California. Check out the number of hispanic politicians in that state.
And for those who tsk tsk at the 20-35 million count, just remember the government has been using the 11-12 million number for the last 15 years!
I'm glad I won't be around to see it, but not so glad for my children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, ect.
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"The two bombers had lived here in the US for about ten tears and received welfare the entire time". The youngest bomber was 9 when he came to the US. His parents received some benefits under those available as immigrants. These people entered legally. The older brother received some type of benefits along with his wife (US born and daughter of an ER physician) along with their child who was born in the US. The youngest brother was in college and ineligible for benefits. (see Mass. eligibility requirements). The issue is not really about a maximum of a few hundred dollars in benefits. The cost of building the "pressure" cooker bomb is minimal. Welfare benefits were not needed for the construction.
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What a stupid and preposterous letter. There are no facts in this letter just fear that is not substantiated.
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Hey Rick, I forgot one very important one. There has never been a case in which a terrorist turned out to be an evangelical Christian, but who is the government watching? The new terrorist training material does not even mention Islam, the religion that has spawned all of the terrorists of the last 20 years, but it says to watch out for people who believe the Bible. You can't say the name Jesus in a public school, but you have to set up Muslim prayer rooms and teach Islam there. Yeah, it's the Christians who are not excepting other religions, you moron.
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"There has never been a case in which a terrorist turned out to be an evangelical Christian,..." - enigma
Eric Rudolph.
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Don't look at the number of American citizens in prisons. There is no such thing as a criminal American only criminal immigrants.
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Chuck, you do understand the difference between criminal activity and terrorist activity, right?
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All terrorist activity is criminal activity, but not all criminal activity is terrorist activity.
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Hi rick.. yes, that's the part of the letter that jumped out at me too.. enigma, aren't Christians bombing abortion clinics an example of domestic terrorism? Of course it is, abortion is a legal procedure, but, as is typical, your moral outrage is selective..
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Hit a nerve there didn't I there enigma. That is alright, just call me names, it doesn't bother me. I will just turn the other cheek so to speak.
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Chuck said - "What a stupid and preposterous letter. There are no facts in this letter just fear that is not substantiated."
Jealous, Chuck? We say that about all your submissions.
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Good job of trying to keep both sides honest in their remarks by Gavin. Thank you for the consistency.
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There have been more Islamic terrorists who have reached their targets in the US under President Obama than the number of abortion clinic bombings.
But liberals turn a blind eye to the Dr. Gosnells while being consumed with hatred for Rick Warren.
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"The recent Boston bombing is a perfect example of what Mr. Weigle is talking about. The two bombers had lived here in the US for about ten years and had received welfare the entire time!" - Tedeaux
Ya' gotta quite relying on "The Axis Of Ignorance" for all your talking-points. In the end, you only (consistently) look like any other fool who relies on verbally-delivered "facts".
Massachusetts Releases Welfare Info On Boston Bombing Suspects
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"Chuck, you do understand the difference between criminal activity and terrorist activity, right?"
I understand it Gavin however your right wing brethren doesn't. Only immigrants are bad and criminals and terrorize.
I understand that Gavin but does
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Vince I see you still don't have anything to offer.
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Eric continues to show how politically stupid he is.
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Gavin has a bias not consistency and honesty.
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Two in the front, and two in the back. There's a (sort of) logical reason for this.
Copy translation: "Touch both sides. Twice the sensations."
See, the Vita has a front touchscreen and rear touch panel, which means something to gamers, I guess. I am not a gamer.
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Congratulations are in order to the people of Kenmore, for voting themselves to become a new city. Unfortunately however, some people may have cast their votes based on some very very misleading and uninformed statements contained in recent letters to the editor in your publication. One in particular from Mr. Ed Garrido.
References were made in his letter to a conversation Mr. Garrido had with a Firefighter at the Northshore Fire Department, about Emergency Medical Services which caused the letter writer grave concern. Had the information he stated been accurate in any way his concerns would have been valid.
Comparisons were made between the EMS system in New York City to those being provided to the Kenmore and North King County area, which were totally false. I have been a member of the team of firefighter paramedics which have provided Medic One services to Shoreline and Kenmore for 18 years. Shoreline Fire Department has administered the Medic One program for this area since its inception nearly 21 years ago. While King County EMS has within the past year, made some changes based on statistical demographics, your service level for Medic One services remains excellent and cannot be compared to any other like service in the country.
Until March 1996, New York City provided EMS services NOT through the Fire Department, but rather, through a separate very non productive and non coordinated EMS system. The present mayor of New York has implemented changes which will in time model the New York system much like the King County - Seattle success. As of March 1997, only half of their firefighters had been trained to do even the most basic EMS skills. The EMS division was slowly being integrated into the fire department under a new Assistant Fire Chief of EMS.
Prior to the EMS system being taken over by the Fire Department in New York City these were the FACTS:
Average response time not including talking with the 911 operator was 8 minutes 46 seconds. Usually about 10 minutes.
30% of all potentially life threatening emergencies (135,000 per year) took more than 10 minutes for the arrival of an ambulance (non fire department). Hundreds more calls took more than 20 minutes to receive services.
12-14 percent of the time there was NO ambulance available when a dispatcher took a call.
98.6% of cardiac arrest victims in New York City were dying . (We here have a success rate approaching 30 percent on average.)
Because the New York City System stationed ambulances on the street in neighborhoods, 70% of the time the ambulance assigned to a specific area was not available to their area. 25% of all calls labeled "potentially life threatening" by EMS operators have never received a paramedic level response.
By New York City switching to a modified version of a Fire Department based system using Firemen doing EMS, the city has saved millions of dollars in administrative costs alone in the first year. Those savings were allowed to remain in the system to enhance it even more in the coming years.
Our system here in King County, Seattle, Kenmore, Shoreline is light years ahead of the comparison used in Mr. Garrido's letter. We are light years ahead simply due to a vision which has been in force for 25 years. We are light years ahead due to the fact that INFORMED citizens have provided levy money every six years in order to maintain a system of excellence that will always respond 24 hours a day in less than 4-5 minutes for a first unit arrival, and less than 10 minutes on average for a paramedic unit arrival.
Please don't compare your system to that of New York City. It is simply not a comparison.
P.S. The fire stations referenced in Mr. Garrido's letter in fact belong to the City of Kirkland. If you will note they are located south of 145th street.
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I was reassured to learn that Heeley Cardinal and Serge Noire have quite different roles--a bottle of each in my collection wouldn't be redundant. Serge Noire is much spicier and more challenging, even several hours after application. Cardinal is clean and smooth, with, as I've said, no "side dishes" other than a temporary waft of fruit at the beginning. They'll serve for very different occasions.
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Based on the reviews I've read, Serge Noire is a love it or hate it fragrance. I personally dwell on the "love it" side.
Thise who dwell on the "hate it" side find Serge Noire reminds them of old-timey pharmaceutical preparations. To me, it's just good medicine!
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- Ben Gordon Mental Health Center
12 Health Services Dr.
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Crisis Line: 815-758-6655
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- DeKalb County Abuse Program
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DeKalb, IL 60115
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418 Oak Ave
Aurora, IL 60506
Domestic Abuse Hotline: 630-897-0087
Services: Shelter for domestic violence survivors, 24-hr hotlines, counseling, medical and legal advocacy
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Today is Saturday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2009. There are 110 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 12, 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addressed questions about his Roman Catholic faith, telling a Southern Baptist group in Houston, "I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me."
Five years ago: US Airways Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — At least it will be easy to remember their birthdays. An Arkansas couple welcomed a new baby girl into their lives Wednesday — giving her the birthdate of 9-9-09. Andy and Alison Miller's newest daughter Molly Reid will come home to sister Campbell, who was born on August 8, 2008, or 8-8-08.
The coincidences don't stop there. Molly Reid has nine letters to her name, while Campbell has eight.
The Millers don't appear poised to go for a third child on 10-10-10.
Alison Miller tells Rogers, Ark. television station KHOG that she and her husband are going to take a rest.
Actress Irene Dailey is 89. Actor Dickie Moore ("Our Gang") is 84. Actor Freddie Jones is 82. Country singer George Jones is 78. Actor Ian Holm is 78. Actress Linda Gray is 69. Singer Maria Muldaur is 66. Actor Joe Pantoliano is 58. Singer-musician Gerry Beckley (America) is 57. Rock musician Neil Peart (Rush) is 57. Actor Peter Scolari is 54. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) is 53. Actress Rachel Ward is 52. Actress Amy Yasbeck is 47. Rock musician Norwood Fisher (Fishbone) is 44. Actor Darren E. Burrows is 43. Rock singer-musician Ben Folds (Ben Folds Five) is 43. Rock musician Larry LaLonde (Primus) is 41. Actor Josh Hopkins is 39. Actor Paul Walker is 36. Country singer Jennifer Nettles (Sugarland) is 35.
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This practically oriented text was prepared by a well-known specialist in the field of industrial deafness, who designed his book to bring physicians and other students of hearing loss a useful guide to the intricasies of otologic examination, diagnosis, and hearing assessment. The 27 chapters discuss areas ranging from the classification of hearing losses with tuning forks, the inter-pretation of a pure-tone audiogram, various causes of conductive hearing and sensory-neural hearing losses, mixed central and functional hearing impairment, tinnitus and vertigo, techniques for hearing tests, and hearing loss in children. Since the book was not intended as a scholarly work on hearing, its simplicity and straightforward writing are both refreshing and appropriate; however, there are many inaccuracies or anachronisms included probably more because of expedience than ignorance on the part of this experienced author.
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BOSTON – Rajon Rondo says he has agreed to a five-year contract extension with the Celtics, keeping the star point guard from entering the market as a restricted free agent after the season.
The deal has yet to be signed, but Rondo said Monday that was just a "formality."
"That's the biggest thing for me, take care of my family," Rondo said. "I'm very excited."
Talks between Rondo's agent Bill Duffy and the Celtics became more focused last week, just before the team's opener.
"I think the time we started to negotiate it was time for tip-off of the regular season in Cleveland," Rondo said.
"Maybe a day before, they offered during the Cleveland game, but I had to focus. It was the start of the season. I had had four games already and didn't have much time to stress about it because I had to focus on winning games."
Rondo is averaging 11.8 assists per game in the first week of the season and has averaged 9.6 points per game and 5.8 assists over his three-plus seasons in the league.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers, a former star NBA point guard, likes the stability that the agreement brings.
"I love it," Rivers said. "Whenever we can lock up a player like him, that's what you want to do. I said last week that I really thought he'd be a Celtic for life. Now, with the contract, at least for the most part of it, he will be. That's a good thing."


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HONOLULU (AP) - Manroop Clair made his first start for the University of Hawaii men's basketball team and scored
15 points, helping the Rainbow Warriors defeat East Tennessee State 84-61 on Sunday in a Diamond Head Classic consolation game at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Vander Joaquim scored 23 points for UH (6-4), which will play for fifth place on Tuesday against Mississippi.
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Hawaii's Christian Standhardinger shoots as East Tennessee State's Todd Halvorsen defends during the Rainbow Warriors' 84-61 victory over the Buccaneers in a Diamond Head Classic consolation game Sunday at the Stan Sheriff Center.
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Clair, smiling, said that he was tired after the game.
"It's a good feeling," Clair said of being on the floor. "As long as we got the 'W.' The win is what matters."
Christian Standhardinger had 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Rainbow Warriors. Isaac Fotu had 14 points and 14 rebounds, and Brandon Spearman added 10 points. The 23-point margin of victory was the largest in tournament history.
Rashawn Rembert and Jarvis Jones each scored 14 points for the Buccaneers (2-9), and Lester Wilson added 11.
Clair and Brandon Jawato, both freshmen guards, previously averaged less than 10 minutes per game, but both played well enough off the bench in Saturday's loss to Miami to be named starters on Sunday.
Clair also had five assists.
"If you've ever coached freshmen - and I've coached a bunch of them - there's always usually a game where all of a sudden it kind of clicks and they grow up a little bit and we're hoping this one is Manroop's," said UH coach Gib Arnold. "He always has this to fall back on and we can refer back to the confidence that he played with, because I do think he needs to be a part of this rotation."
Hawaii, which never trailed in the game, opened the second half with a 12-0 run. Clair hit back-to-back 3-pointers to give the 'Bows a 57-31 lead with 12 minutes, 39 seconds remaining.
"He hurt us," ETSU coach Murry Bartow said of Clair. "He's a guy that can make shots. We lost him a couple times in our zone."
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Linda Christian, a 1940s Hollywood starlet remembered for her marriage to leading man Tyrone Power and for the distinction of being the first Bond Girl – though on the small screen – died in Palm Desert, Calif, Friday after a battle with colon cancer, say published reports. She was 87.
A brunette beauty born Blanca Rosa Welter in Mexico, Christian was discovered in Acapulco by Warner Bros.' swashbuckler Errol Flynn before she eventually signed with MGM after she was spotted by studio chief Louis B. Mayer's secretary.
Life magazine, in writing of her curves, dubbed her the "anatomic bomb."
She married 20th Century Fox's biggest star, Tyrone Power, in 1949. The marriage ended in a 1956 divorce, though it did produce two daughters, singer Romina Power and actress Taryn Power. (Tyrone Power died in 1958.) In the '60s, she was also briefly married to the actor Edmund Purdom.
Christian starred as Vesper Lynd, James Bond's romantic interest, in the 1954 TV adaptation of Casino Royale, with Barry Nelson as 007. The episode was part of a CBS dramatic anthology series called Climax!. Author Ian Fleming's character was so new that Bond was called "Jimmy."
Christian's best-known film was 1963's The V.I.P.s, which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton immediately after they did Cleopatra. Christian played the gold-digging girlfriend of Rod Taylor's character.
Besides her daughters, she is also survived by eight grandchildren.
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Your organization is in crisis. Your first step: Get your internal team up to speed on the crisis. And in the heat of the moment, how do you begin formulating your very first communication to employees? Here's a step-by-step plan:
1. Begin With the Five Ws and the H
Like any respectable reporter, you must now inform employees on the basics of the crisis—and no model encapsulates the framework of doing this better than journalism's famous Five Ws (also known as the Five Ws and One H). They are the fundamentals of telling a full story in the form of answers to the following questions:
- Who is it about?
- What happened (what's the story)?
- When did it take place?
- Where did it take place?
- How did it happen?
- Why did it happen?
2. Explain the organizational implications
Explain what the crisis means for the organization as a whole in order to set the context for what it may imply for employees individually. If you need to make difficult decisions with respect to your workforce, this is the opportunity to lay out your organizational rationale or justification as a preface.
3. Describe individual implications
This component is the one on which your employees will naturally focus the most, and while it should be a corollary to the previous one, articulate it with patience, respect and sensitivity—especially if it's not the kind of news you'd expect to go down easily.
4. Illustrate your course of action
Is this a crisis you can and will do something about? If so, then by all means, tell employees what management is prepared to do or is already doing. If needed, enlist their support, and explain what they can do to help.
5. Keep your employees posted
Conclude by assuring employees that you will keep them apprised of developments and communicate to them regularly as the situation evolves.
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Ronald James Burgess, 67, Altoona, died Saturday at UPMC Altoona.
He was born in Altoona, son of the late Donald E. Burgess and Mary Ilene (Hufford) Burgess Royer.
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Surviving are a son, Dion James of Corning, Ohio; two granddaughters: Caitlyn and Kaylee Burgess; a brother, Terry L. and wife, Nancy, of York; a sister, Barbara Benton and husband, Chuck, of Altoona; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
He was preceded in death by his twin brother, Donald, on Jan. 27, 2013.
Ronald was a graduate of Tyrone High School and El Camino College. He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving with the 82nd Airborne during the Vietnam War. He was employed as an electrical engineer for Northrop Grumman Corp., retiring in June 2010 after more than 40 years of service.
Ronald enjoyed working out at the gym, going out to eat, music and reading his Bible.
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'Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer' premieres at Sundance: Freed member takes questions
PARK CITY, UTAH -- "A Punk Prayer" from Russian band Pussy Riot has been in circulation for months as a rallying cry for feminism and political protest in Russia and worldwide. "Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer," the documentary on the phenomenon, only bowed last night at the Sundance Film Festival.
Katia Samutsevich, Nadia Tolokonikovoy and Maria "Macha" Alyokhina were arrested in March 2012 for their feral punk performance in a church, a musical plea to remove Vladimir Putin from power. Under charges of hooliganism, they were put in prison, though just this fall, Samutsevich's sentence was suspended, though the other two arrested women are carrying out their terms. Two other Pussy Riot members escaped from the incident and have thumbed their noses at Russian authorities from hiding.
This seemingly small strife made waves in the music community in America and elsewhere, as a cry for equality and freedom of expression. Acts like Madonna (in a big way) and Bjork made public stances against Pussy Riot's imprisonment, and came out in support of a lenient sentencing, if not having the charges dropped altogether.
Only three days ago, a judge refused Alyokhina's request to postpone her sentence, so the two remain in a criminal facility. But things have freed up for Samutsevich, who answered Sundance audiences' questions via Skype from Russia after the documentary debuted.
Co-director Maxim Pozdorovkin translated her answers to burning questions from fans and newswatchers:
While she was in prison, did she know about the global awareness the band's imprisonment was raising?
We did know that there was some sort of global awareness going on and we heard about it and as it got bigger and bigger, and with Madonna's performance and all these other things, we felt like there were other things coming our way.
Was there any resentment felt from the other two women who remained imprisoned, after Katia's sentence was suspended?
There wasn't really any feelings. And even til the 10th, we were all certain we were going into a penal colony together. As I remembered it, they were all very happy for me. I went to visit them the day after I got out, so I don't think there's hard feelings.
Are you afraid, or is the band afraid of any dangerous backlash?
No, I don't fear any specific backlash from the religious community because part of that was a mass campaign against them... and that was just mostly words and threats. In terms of the government response, [I] think that we're probably on several black lists and some extremism lists, and it may be in the future when we continue to do performances, we may have [charges pressed against us] for smaller things, smaller actions.
Does Katia have any hope that the other two girls' sentences will also be suspended?
There's hope and not all legal means have been used up, so they will continue to fighting so that all opportunities will be used up.
Have they ever released an album officially, and do they have plans to?
No, we reject commercialism of any sort, and we have no plans to release anything commercial... we will never commodify our art.
Right now in Russia, how much is still going on in regards to Pussy Riot?
Most of the battle is to get Nadia and Macha out of jail. The punk prayer was deemed extremist and ordered removed from the internet, so now they're repealing those decisions... it's a tough situation because of the repressive means that were used before, there's less of a drive than there was before for people on the streets.
There were two other people in the band that weren't arrested. What happened with them?
They're fine, they're in Russia (laughter).
What do the people of Russia think of Pussy Riot?
If you take just the average opinion, it tends to be overall negative of [us]. a\And part of the reason for this is because of the way the performance was presented it was considered almost exclusively as a religious act of hooliganism. So that's what most people tend to believe. Whereas the feminist and political aspect of our performance has been largely ignored and this points to the larger problem of cultural education that people don't understand it as a piece of art.


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"It's perfect looking out there. The snow is sticking to the trees and with the sun shining, it's great. I'm had a lot of fun."
- Matt Thomas of Ypsilanti Township, who packed up the cross-country skis and headed out to Huron Hills.
Previous snowstorm coverage:
• Snow buries area in nearly 11 inches
• Travelers warned roads could be impassable
• Road crews prepare for snowstorm
By DAVID JESSE
The Ann Arbor News
Pete Wallace planned to start working on his New Year's resolution Tuesday morning.
That's until he woke up and saw snow covering the driveway, sidewalks, streets and yards in his Ann Arbor neighborhood.
"There's no way I could have run in that," he said while taking a break from playing with his two sons. "Besides, this is exercise anyway, isn't it? It's sure a lot more fun."
For most area residents, the nearly 11 inches of snow that fell across the area Monday night meant one thing come Tuesday - a chance to play in the snow.
"It's great," Wallace said. "Nobody had to work anyway."
Sledding hills across the area quickly filled up by mid-morning as children and adults took advantage of the New Year's holiday and its day off from work and school to frolic in the snow.
"I love the snow," said 11-year-old Liz Calvin of Ann Arbor. "We need more days like this."
The amount of snow that fell on New Year's Eve varied across the region - from just over four inches in some parts of Ypsilanti Township, to 10.5 inches in Ann Arbor, to more than 11 inches in Brighton.
But not everyone had fun.
Area police were kept busy all day long with jack-knifed semi trucks, cars in the ditch and numerous accidents.
The slippery roads didn't dampen the spirits of 36-year-old Matt Thomas of Ypsilanti Township. He packed up the cross-country skis and headed out to Huron Hills.
"It's perfect looking out there," he said at the end of his jaunt. "The snow is sticking to the trees and with the sun shining, it's great. I'm had a lot of fun."
Fun for 13-year-old Eric Williams, 14-year-old Austin Lord, 13-year-old Justin Harron and 14-year-old Joshua Simmons meant a quick game of football.
They were using the front yard of Eric's Ann Arbor home as a football field.
"It's hard to run, but it's fun," Eric said.
"Plus you can tackle them into the snow," Austin added.
Football was also on the minds of some older folks.
"I've got to get all this snow out of the driveway so I can make it to my friend's house to watch the (University of Michigan) football game," said Christopher Richards, 32, of Ypsilanti. "It's all about football today. I don't mind the snow, as I long as the roads are OK."
The weather even changed some people's plans to watch the game. The Arena, a downtown Ann Arbor sports bar, posted a sign on its doors Tuesday afternoon to alert patrons that the business was closed because of the weather.
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As first reported on ESPN, the Mets have had a conversation with the Padres about outfielder Brian Giles. But as of Friday, the talks had not progressed very far. The Mets are said to be waiting to see if Ryan Church's situation clarifies itself at all in the coming days, and are still deciding whether 19-year-old prospect Fernando Martinez is ready to come up and help in the outfield. The leg injury that knocked Martinez out of a game Thursday complicates matters as well.
The Mets believe the Pirates will deal outfielder Jason Bay before Thursday's deadline, and they believe they have a chance to get him.
As part of what appears to be an exhaustive search for relief pitching, the Mets have been in touch with the Blue Jays about both Brian Tallet and Scott Downs. They are apparently looking into the possibility of getting multiple bullpen arms in case they have to include Aaron Heilman in a deal to get a hitter or a top-flight reliever.
BENGIE MOLINA, Giants C
If teams are out there looking for catchers, it only makes sense that Molina's name would come up. He's an established veteran catcher with a (2002) World Series ring, and he plays on one of the worst teams in baseball. The Yankees and Marlins are among the catching-needy teams that have checked in on Molina, who turned 34 on Sunday.
Nobody knows if the Giants will even deal Molina, who's making $6 million this year and is signed through 2009 at $6 million more. But if he is available, the Yankees could be interested in acquiring him to team with his little brother, Jose, for the remainder of the season. The Yankees have first-hand experience with the Molina brothers as a winning combination, as both played for the Angels teams that bounced the Yankees out of the playoffs in 2002 and 2005.
Key stat: The 129 games Bengie Molina caught for the Giants last year were a career high. He's on pace to catch 136 games this season.
The Marlins are said to be the favorites for Colorado lefty Brian Fuentes and Seattle lefty Arthur Rhodes, though they probably won't get both, which may be why the Mets and other teams who have expressed interest in those pitchers remain hopeful that at least one will be available.
Many teams are still waiting to see what the Rockies and the Braves decide about their own seasons. The Rockies began play last night six games out in the NL West and the Braves were 6 1/2 out in the NL East. It being the National League, and considering what the Rockies did last year, those deficits aren't insurmountable. So Colorado and Atlanta were still deciding whether to sell at all. Teams are pressing the Rockies for Fuentes and outfielder Matt Holliday and the Braves for lefty reliever Will Ohman and first baseman Mark Teixeira. But, right now, neither team seems completely in the mood to sell off players - yet.