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The last twenty years have witnessed tremendous advances in the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools available to applied macroeconomists. This rapidly evolving field has redefined how researchers test models and validate theories. Yet until now there has been no textbook that unites the latest methods and bridges the divide between theoretical and applied work. Fabio Canova brings together dynamic equilibrium theory, data analysis, and advanced econometric and computational methods to provide the first comprehensive set of techniques for use by academic economists as well as professional macroeconomists in banking and finance, industry, and government. This graduate-level textbook is for readers knowledgeable in modern macroeconomic theory, econometrics, and computational programming using RATS, MATLAB, or Gauss. Inevitably a modern treatment of such a complex topic requires a quantitative perspective, a solid dynamic theory background, and the development of empirical and numerical methods--which is where Canova's book differs from typical graduate textbooks in macroeconomics and econometrics. Rather than list a series of estimators and their properties, Canova starts from a class of DSGE models, finds an approximate linear representation for the decision rules, and describes methods needed to estimate their parameters, examining their fit to the data. The book is complete with numerous examples and exercises. Today's economic analysts need a strong foundation in both theory and application. Methods for Applied Macroeconomic Research offers the essential tools for the next generation of macroeconomists.
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A race HUD in the traditional sense is gone. Instead, you'll gleam information about a race from the environment itself. While Split/Second mapped its HUD to the car, Ridge Racer: Unbounded developer Bug Bear is doing the opposite - integrating positions, times and scores with the track itself.
This poses a problem, however: how do you get the information you want, when you want it? Producer Laasko Jonaas explained that the game would choose which piece of information to reveal based on your current situation in the race. Somebody in first or second place, for example, is going to be more interested in their score than their position.
The demonstration saw Jonaas driving about the fictitious city of Shatter Bay; an urban sprawl inspired by New York and Chicago. There's the odd reference to the iconic Ridge Racer tracks of yesteryear, but Unbounded is intent on creating its own world. Another deviation from the customs and conventions of Ridge Racer is a dynamic physics system. "We are really good at smashing things up," boasts Jonaas, who took great pleasure in colliding his vehicle into anything that happened to be nearby.
What followed was a massive vehicular altercation, with bits of shrapnel spraying in all directions, and the carcasses of wrecked motors bouncing about the track in slow-motion. Nothing in the game is scripted, meaning each crash is unique. A destruction resource permits such carnage, with 'targets' around each track becoming available as you fill the gauge.
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From an odd and tragic childhood, to life as an underground metalhead, to crazy success, James Hetfield has managed a mountain of rage quite well.
Still Pulling Your Strings: 'Master of Puppets' 25 Years Later
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Master of Puppets not only rocketed Metallica into stardom upon its 1986 release, but it also blew a hole in the industry's unwritten rule that a band without commercial aspirations could not make it and, as a result, helped undermine music censorship.
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Elin Nordegren Has Found a New Billionaire Boyfriend
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Jamie Dingman is rich, handsome, and doesn't play golf.By Chris Rovzar
He's selling his megayacht.By Chris Rovzar
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"The issue I have with relationships is related to a hole I am trying to fill in my heart," the preeminent Tiger mistress explains.
The animal, not the man. We hope.By Jessica Pressler
That's what her affair with Tiger Woods was about. Romance.By Jessica Pressler
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"Mad crush" on Dr. Drew is behind her decision to join 'Rehab.'By Josh Duboff
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Why didn't anyone think of this before?By Chris Rovzar
All those years of winking and posing with her mouth open have not gone to waste!By Chris Rovzar
With, you know, a billion dollars.By Jessica Pressler
The 'Enquirer' has done the necessary research to determine this number.By Jessica Pressler
It's not just that Elin skipped the Masters.By Chris Rovzar
Data indicate that Woods's approval rating is way up.By Adam K. Raymond
The golf great faces reporters' questions before the Masters.By Chris Rovzar
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Mary Patricia Weindel, Williamsport, and Anthony Thompson, Mifflinburg, were united in marriage at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011.
The Rev. Paul Fontanella officiated at the ceremony at St. Ann Catholic Church.
A rehearsal dinner was held at Vincenzo's Italian Restaurant and a reception was held at the Genetti Hotel.
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The bride is the daughter of Patricia and Uwe Weindel, Middletown, Va. She graduated from the former Bishop Neumann High School, now St. John Neumann Regional Academy, in 2003. She received a bachelor's degree in special education in 2007 and a master's degree in education of the deaf and hard of hearing in 2008, both from Bloomsburg University. She is employed by Canton Area School District as a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing.
Thompson is the son of Victoria Thompson, Mifflinburg, and the late Edward Thompson. He graduated from Mifflinburg High School in 2001 and is employed by RoseView Court as a dietary aide.
Maid of honor was Annalise Weindel, Middletown, sister of the bride.
Bridesmaids were Leela Cleary, Lebanon, and Jennifer McBride, Philadelphia, sister of the bridegroom.
Best man was Joe Kelly, Woodbury, N.J., cousin of the bridegroom.
Ushers were Nicholaus Weindel, Middletown, and Philip Weindel, Austin, Texas, both brothers of the bride.
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LL INTRO: THE MAYORS OF BOTH VILONIA AND MAYFLOWER GATHERED HERE ON THE STEPS TO THE COURTHOUSE ALONG WITH THE FAULKNER COUNTY JUDGE. THE MAIN POINT THEY WANTED TO DRIVE HOME THEY HAVE PLANS TO HELP STREAMLINE THEIR RECOVERY PROCESS. PKG: NOW THAT MOST OF THE DUST HAS SETTLED, THEIR MAIN FOCUS IS TO HELP ORGANIZE VOLUNTEER AND DONATION EFFORTS. THEY PLAN TO BRING IN AN OUTSIDE GROUP, TEAM RUBICON TO BEGIN STREAMLINING VOLUNTEER EFFORTS IN BOTH COMMUNITIES TO HELP ENSURE EFFICIENCY. "They're going to do a really good job of managing the inflow and outflow of volunteer resources. From everything from registration, to assignment, to full coverage of areas that need assistance." THE MAYORS OF BOTH VILONIA AND MAYFLOWER STRESSED THAT THEY HAVE A LOT OF WORK AHEAD OF THEMEVEN JUST ACCESSING SOME AREAS TO GET POWER AND WATER RESTORED WILL BE CHALLENGING IN SPOTS. James Firestone - Mayor of Vilonia "What we're focusing on is to get all the roadways cleared, you've got to be able to get around and to access all the properties. The utility companies getting the electricity back on, that's a big thing. MAYFLOWER ALREADY HAS HAD SOME PROGRESS WITH THEIR OWN UTILITIES BEING RESTORED. Randy Holland - Mayor of Mayflower "I was in one neighborhood and when the lights came back, they all was "Hallelujah," they were ready to be back. I think the whole community is ready to go forward and to get back on their feet." LL TAG: BOTH MAYORS SAY THEY'RE PLANNING FOR THINGS TO GET BACK TO NORMAL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. MAYFLOWER'S MAYOR SAYS SCHOOL STARTS BACK UP AGAIN IN TOWN ON MONDAY. REPORTING FROM THE FAULKNER COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN CONWAYBRAD CARL40/29 NEWS.
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•Scouting out business•
A Summerville boat maker is broadening its sales range to new places in the Atlantic, Gulf and Midwest and to a preserve near Hilton Head Island.
Scout Boats Inc. added four dealers this year, the company said. They include two outlets in Florida, a new dealer in Wisconsin and a venture in Puerto Rico.
"We're pleased to be partnered with these outstanding dealerships," said Alan Lang, national/international sales manager for Scout Boats. "The additions in Florida, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico will help us penetrate further those important markets."
The outlets include Cal Marine LLC in Sister Bay, Wisc., and Industrial & Marine Service Inc. in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also offering Scout Boats are Walkers Marine dealers in Marco Island and Fort Myers, both in Florida.
Also this month, Scout Boats said it delivered four Scout 210 Dorado models to Palmetto Bluff, the touted 20,000-acre nature preserve and resort in the Hilton Head-Bluffton area. Palmetto Bluff's dry stack marina, Wilson Landing is on the May River and offers quick access to Lowcountry waterways, the boat builder said.
The facility includes 80 racks handling boats up to 36 feet, a dock with six platform lifts, an outfitters center and the Boat Club rental program. The Scout models are part of the rental plan.
Chris Story, captain and supervisor of Wilson Landing Marina, explained, "We've experienced a growing demand to expand and update our current private Boat Club fleet, so we began a search for a boat that would meet all our particular needs."
Those requirements were "a vessel that could easily operate under a wide range of experience levels — from folks just getting their feet wet, to seasoned veterans," Story said. "We also required a boat that could meet the varying needs of a boat club program; fishing, skiing, cruising, sand baring … while being able to give eight passengers a comfortable, dry ride in less than perfect conditions," he said.
After a search, the marina chose Scout Boats and the 210 Dorado. Story said the Boat Club members "love the ample cockpit space, versatility, ease of control and comfortable ride." He also cited the "power" of the Yamaha 150 horsepower outboard motor.
"We're pleased to have the opportunity to provide these Scout models to Palmetto Bluff and the facility at Wilson Landing," Lang said. Scout builds sportfishing, fish 'n ski, walk around, flats and bay boat models 15-35 feet in length. For more information, visit www.scoutboats.com.
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Someone has turned me on to your site recently and upon reading
the recipes for the purees - I noticed particularly the orange puree
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Believe it or not, steaming and boiling preserve more of the nutritional components than baking. Steaming and boiling temperatures are about 212 degrees, versus 400 or so for baking. Baking tends to concentrate flavors, which is great for eating veggies straight up like many adults do. But for pureeing and hiding, we want the flavor to be as mild as possible. So steaming and boiling work for both taste and preserving nutrition in sneaky recipes.
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University of Detroit Mercy students interested in part time employment as a student auxiliary officer should stop at the Department of Public Safety, located in the Student Center building and pick-up an application.
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i suggest a swing/burpee ladder.
ladder down on your swings from 20 to 2 by 2's as you ladder up in burpees from 1 to 10 by 1's.
here's how the reps would break down...
20 swings/1 burpee
18 swings/2 burpees
16 swings/3 burpees
14 swings/4 burpees
12 swings/5 burpees
10 swings/6 burpees
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this is a guaranteed SMOKER. as you get more advanced, you can substitute the swings for kettlebell snatches.
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Yield: Yield: about 3 dozen meatballs
- 1/4 pound ground beef
- 1/4 pound ground pork
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 and 1/2 cups unseasoned bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup (1/2 ounce) grated Pecorino Romano cheese
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2 teaspoons kosher or sea salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Olive oil
- Garlicky Tomato Sauce
- Garnish: chopped fresh parsley
InstructionsHeat oven to 200 degrees. In a large bowl, combine beef, pork, garlic, bread crumbs, cheese, parsley, eggs, salt, and pepper. Form very small (marble-sized) balls and place on a baking sheet.
Heat a cast-iron skillet with 1/4 inch olive oil over high setting. Fry meatballs about 1 minute per side, moving them around in pan to brown lightly on all sides. Remove with a slotted spoon to a paper-towel-lined plate. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to oven until you've cooked all meatballs.
To serve as an appetizer, 12 pieces at a time, place one meatball onto each of 12 decorative spoons and top with 2 teaspoons tomato sauce. Garnish with chopped parsley. Place a dozen spoons in a circle (handles pointing out) on a serving platter and serve immediately.
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Holly Hill issues city-wide boil water notice
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Officials in Holly Hill issued an alert for all residents to boil water.
At about 4:45 p.m. Thursday, a car crash damaged a fire hydrant along the 400 block of Walker Street.
City officials said all residents should boil water for at least one minute before drinking it.
Utility crews are still working to fix the damaged hydrant.
About two hours after the accident, a gas line was compromised, according to officials. Eight homes were evacuated and Walker Street was closed for several hours. That situation has since been cleared and those residents returned to their homes.
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Proponents of austerity are out of ideas. We have the alternative
The needless shutdown of the US government this month – and the accompanying brinksmanship on the issue of raising the debt ceiling – were only the most recent in a string of crises that have characterized the political and economic climate in much of the industrialized world since the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. With persistently high unemployment, plodding economic growth, and frequent political turmoil, it's little wonder public confidence in our institutions has eroded so dramatically in many developed nations.
It doesn't have to be this way. We can have strong economic growth without shredding the social safety net. We can find a path to shared, sustainable prosperity by investing in the true engine of economic growth: the middle class. These are the policies real people believe in, whether they live in Boston, Bonn, or Bologna. These are the solutions progressives around the world fight for every day, and they led to the founding of the Center for American Progress 10 years ago.
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The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) wants to make American communities stronger and to build a safer nation. Public safety improves when police officers live in a neighborhood. The Officer Next Door (OND) program helps make this goal a reality by making homeownership faster and more affordable for Law Enforcement Officers.*
You must be a full-time, sworn law enforcement officer who is "employed full-time by a Federal, state, county or municipal government; or a public or private college or university." You must be "sworn to uphold, and make arrests for violations of, Federal, state, county, or municipal law." Your employer must certify that you are a full-time police officer with the general power of arrest. You don't have to be a first-time homebuyer to participate. However, you cannot own any other home at the time you close on your OND home. You must agree to live in the HUD home as your only residence for three years after you move into it.
The selected bidder may purchase the property at a 50 percent discount from the list price. For example, if a HUD home is listed for $100,000, an officer can buy it for $50,000. To make a HUD home even more affordable, you may apply for an FHA-insured mortgage with a downpayment of only $100 and you may finance all closing costs.
If the home you want to purchase needs repairs, you may use FHA's 203(k) mortgage program. This program allows you to finance both the purchase of the home and the cost of needed repairs. You have the benefit of one loan for both costs and one monthly payment. Discuss these financing options with your lender.
Because homes sold through the OND program are located in Revitalization Areas there may be additional assistance from state or local government sources. Local or state governments want to encourage families and businesses to move into Revitalization Area neighborhoods. Contact your state government housing office or local municipal government and request information on assistance for homebuyers.
HUD's Officer Next Door program is a commitment to strengthen America's communities. The program offers HUD-owned, single family homes to law enforcement officers at 50 percent discount. It helps to prevent crime and promotes neighborhood safety and security by encouraging law enforcement officers to become homeowners and residents in economically distressed communities.
Since the program began in August 1997, more than 6,000 homes have been purchased in the next door program - almost tripling the initial goal. As a result, officers in the program are already making an important contribution to crime prevention and community revitalization.
Officers must live in the property as their sole residence for at least three years after purchase. A law enforcement officer who is employed full-time by a federal, state, county or municipal government and is sworn to uphold, and make arrests for violations of federal, state, county or municipal laws is eligible to participate in this program.
The following law enforcement groups announced their support of the Officer Next Door program today: National Fraternal Order of Police, International Association of Chiefs of Police, International Union of Police Associations, Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, Major Cities Chiefs Association, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, Police Executive Research Forum, National Sheriff's Association, National Troopers Coalition, and the Police Foundation.
* - A Law Enforcement Officer participating in the OND program must grant HUD permission to confirm the Officer's place of employment, home of record, and telephone number.
(1) Q. Can an officer purchase a property at the 50% discount outside of the jurisdiction where he/she has authority to make an arrest?
A. Yes. Although it is desirable to have the officer buy within her/his jurisdiction, this is not a HUD requirement.
(2) Q. Is the officer eligible to receive any Real Estate Own sales incentives and/or bonuses?
A. Yes. However, the only sales incentive available under this program is the early closing bonus.
(3) Q. Can the officer wrap repair cost into their mortgage?
A. Yes, the contract sales price is the as-is value and the discount is calculated on the as-is value. The repair escrow is not deducted from the officer's discount, but may be financed as part of the loan.
(4) Q. Is this program restricted to first-time home buyers?
A. No, but the officer cannot own any other real property and the officer must reside in the HUD home as their primary residence during the owner-occupancy term.
(5) Q. Can we tie the Officer Next Door program into the revitalization zones or areas as defined by cities?
A. No. The Officer Next Door Program is designed to operate in HUD's revitalization and exception areas.
(6) Q. Does the $100 down payment apply only to 203(k) program?
A. No. The $100 down payment applies to all FHA-insured programs.
(7) Q. Is there a one time discount of 50 percent?
A. Yes. This is the discount for properties in revitalization areas.
(8) Q. Are all the properties within a revitalization area zip code part of the revitalization area?
A. It depends. It is up to the local HUD field office to determine if only certain neighborhoods within a zip code area meet the revitalization area definition.
(9) Q. Will it be up to the HUD office to devise a system to inform officers of available property?
A. Yes. Officers should tell the HUD office which areas are of interest to them.
(10) Q. Will the officer be offered the property before interested non-profit organizations or government agencies?
A. No. The list of available properties should be made available simultaneously.
(11) Q. If non-profits, city agencies, and officers get the list of available properties at the same time, who has priority?
A. The first acceptable sales offer received has priority. The field office establishes the procedures for what constitutes an acceptable offer.
(12) Q. How will the officer be able to obtain a HUD key to enter the property?
A. Keys are available at our office in Queens at 10703 Rockaway Blvd Ozone Park, NY 11417 during business hours 7 days a week. An officer can request to pick up a key at our Brooklyn or Bronx locations by appointment. There is a $1.00 duplication charge for the key.
(13) Q. What happens if an officer wants to purchase a property that is advertised to the public?
A. If the property is: (1) located in a HUD-designated revitalization area, and (2) is unsold with no active offer (s) on it, then it may still be purchased by a law enforcement officer at the 50% discount. The officer must submit a competitive bid at 100% of the listing price, but will only have to qualify for 50%. The 50% discount will be applied at closing.
(14) Q. Will HUD provide a home warranty?
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(15) Q. Can we offer multiple unit properties (e.g. 2-4 units) to the officers?
A. No. Only single unit properties may be purchased for the OND program.
(16) Q. Can an officer offer less than the value established by the office?
A. No. The contract sales price must be the value established by the office.
(17) Q. If we get ten calls from officers to look at several properties, do we give all of them keys for each property?
A. Yes, the general principle is to try to be as fair as possible.
(18) Q. May the HUD office require an officer to provide a pre-qualification letter?
A. Yes. However, if this is a requirement, be consistent and require it for all prospective buyers under the program.
(19) Q. If a non-profit or government agency is purchasing the property with the intention of selling it to an officer at a later date, is the name of the officer required when the offer is made?
A. No. The name of the officer is not required at the time the offer is made.
(20) Q. If we have more than one officer interested in the same property, can we hold a back-up offer?
A. Yes.
(21) Q. Will the officer be required to pay an earnest money deposit when submitting contract for a HUD/REO property?
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(22) Q. How long can a non-profit hold onto the property before they actually sell to an officer?
A. There is no prescribed time for the ultimate sale to an officer. However, the office should monitor the non-profit's performance.
(23) Q. Will HUD pay a sales commission and/or all or part of the closing costs?
A. Yes, but the amount is deducted from the total discount. Example: The purchase price is $80,000 and the officer requests closing costs of $2,000 and commission of $4,000. With the 50% discount = $40,000, at closing the officer's discount is reduced to $34,000.
(24) Q. Can the officer sell the property for whatever the value is after the 3 years and keep any profit?
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(25) Q. What happens to an officer, who is separated from the department within 3 years of the purchase?
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(27) Q. Is there a certain length of time an officer is required to stay in the house they purchase?
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text: The The Box wiki last edited by fesak on 06/04/13 08:00AM View full history OriginThe BoxThe Box, commonly known as the "Lament Configuration," is a mystical/mechanical device that acts as a door (or a key to a door) to another dimension or plane of existence. The solution of the puzzle creates a "Schism" or doorway to another realm through which beings may travel. The best known of these boxes features prominently throughout the Hellraiser movie series. Lemarchand, who had been in his time a maker of singing birds, had constructed the box so that opening it tripped a musical mechanism, which began to tinkle a short rondo of sublime banality. The tune continues to evolve as each additional piece is moved.Powers & AbilitiesEach segment presented a fresh challenge to fingers and mind, the victories rewarded with a further filigree added to the tune. The puzzle draws the player onward until suddenly the puzzle is solved and the gateway is opened. As the puzzle is nearly completed, the sound of a large bell can be heard tolling mournfully. The sound comes from the realm of the Cenobites, and announces their impending arrival. Once the gate is opened, the box begins reassembling itself. This generally ends with hooked chains springing from the cube and the arrival of the Cenobites.Alternatively, when individual Cenobites are to be summoned or banished, partial solutions have some effect. In the first Hellraiser, the protagonist, Kirsty, could move two or three parts in the presence of Cenobites to banish them. The configuration could also alter itself to call up a particular Cenobite, who disappears when the alteration is reversed.Other VersionsFilmOther Lemarchand boxes appear throughout the Hellraiser film series. Dr. Channard is depicted as a collector in Hellbound: Hellraiser II; he has several on display in his study. The Host in Hellraiser: Hellworld also possesses several. Most of the boxes seen in the films are not named or used onscreen, so their powers (if any) are simply unknown.Video GamesThe Hellraiser (unofficial) game makes a reference to the Pandemonium Configuration. While it does not state its effects directly, it implies the cube does not bring on sudden effects so much as a gradual displacement from the world. This configuration is seen as a comfort among the homeless and marginalized.NovellaAn important difference between the book and film versions (aside from the name) is that the film version of the Box is merely twisted into new alignments or shapes, whereas the version in the novella is completely disassembled and reassembled. The film version is also trimmed in brass or gold, and appears to have arcane symbols etched on its surface. The novella version is completely smooth and has no obvious designs save for an almost imperceptible etching along the seams between the pieces, but seems to display the faces of its victims in the reflection of light over its surfaces.


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DOHA: The traffic department hopes to launch a recruitment drive for policemen soon, and may employ expatriates in large numbers.
The department is increasing its field staff to cope with the exploding population of the country.
Since the Qatari population is small, the director of the traffic department says they would need to rely on expatriates for staff requirements.
"We would like to recruit citizens in large numbers but since our population is small, we will have to depend on expatriates," said Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al Kharji.
He said the need for more traffic policemen was dictated by the growing population of both, humans and vehicles. More traffic cops need to be deployed on roads to ensure safety.
However, raising public awareness about road safety is the key since policemen cannot be present on roads all the time and in all places, said the director.
He was taking part in a Ramadan symposium being held by Al Sharq Arabic daily at its premises recently.
Replying to questions, the director said one could now renew his or her driving licence through the post office and a deal to this effect had already been signed with the postal authorities.
Plans are also afoot to introduce the traffic department's services at the service centres of the Ministry of Interior in outlying areas.
On average, 200 to 300 new cars are being registered by the traffic department daily, he said.
Responding to questions, Al Kharji said there were no plans to nationalise driving schools and they would continue to be owned and run by the private sector.
Two driving schools have been closed for a month as punishment for violating rules, he said, but did not elaborate. He said the closure could be extended to three months if the violation was severe and the school could be closed down permanently if the breach of regulations was more severe.
According to Al Kharji, 90 percent of accidents take place due to errors by motorists. He, however, refused to blame driving schools for poor training of motorists, and in reply to questions said it was his department that conducted driving tests.
Some new driving schools have opened recently after a new rule made it compulsory for driving schools to have a minimum area of 40,000 square metres.
Al Kharji denied rumours that fines for traffic violations had been raised. He said, in response to questions, that there were no plans to reduce fines.
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New World Translation and you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth."
compared to New International Version
10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
and they will reign on the earth."
Seems to be another clear cut case where the NWT has been mistranslated to fit in with JW beliefs. Seems as if just about every other translation uses the word "on" too. The original Greek word "epi" can apparently be translated for on or over.
Interestingly the Old J.W Interlinear (The EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT) published by the WTBTS and used for over 100 years as their teaching Interlinear show Rev. 5:10 as "on" and not "over". This was obviously being used prior to 1914 to show that Jesus' rule would be "on" the earth. With their failed predictions and new meaning of an invisible presence, comes the new interlinear.
Surprise, surprise, the new Kingdom Interlinear Translation (KIT) translates the word "epi" as over.
So it all fits. Unbelievable! It is only recently i have been discovering mistranslations in the NWT and find it fascinating.


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Tom Hicks Jr has resigned as a director of Liverpool following the furious reaction to the foul-mouthed e-mail he sent to a supporter.
Pressure on Hicks Jr – son of Tom Hicks, one of the club's co-owners – had been intense after he responded to a concerned e-mail from one supporter, Stephen Horner, by writing: "Blow me, f**kface. Go to hell. I'm sick of you."
This morning Liverpool announced that Hicks had succumbed to the pressure to resign from the board of the club and its parent company, Kop Holdings.
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May 1-2, 2008
Keynote by Tara Nummedal of Brown University
As Steven Shapin argues in The Social History of Truth, Robert Boyle constructed the ideal of the truthful natural philosopher in seventeenth-century England as the sober, disinterested, decorous gentleman. Passion, interest, and exaggeration were cast as the signs of the lowly tradesman or mechanick, who could be given the lie without offense to the natural philosophical community. Shapin successfully interrogates the credible witness as a social category; in this workshop we hope to do the same for the voluble liar. One use of "charlatan," a new term in the sixteenth century designating one who talked too much, was as a social marker for branding those not accepted among the gentleman virtuosi. Without turning critical attention on the category of the "charlatan," we run the danger of re-creating the social biases of our sources.
The gentlemanly witness, himself transparent, had to see through the rough corporality of natural bodies. His optical instruments opened a perfect window onto a reality too remote to be apparent to the unequipped eye. Svetlana Alpers relates early modern optical instruments to a particularly northern "art of describing." Yet optics were also widely employed to create magical distortions or illusive verisimilitude. What was the relationship of visual fiction and the early modern optical exploration of reality or irreality?
While early modern exploration can be seen to contribute to "information overload," it also entailed the telling of fantastic traveler's tales. In the literature of our period we find a marked prominence of the unreliable narrator, from More's Utopia and Erasmus' Praise of Folly to Cervantes' Don Quixote. In this workshop we hope to draw attention to irreality, imagination, falsehood, and contradiction in Renaissance discovery.
Papers from all humanistic disciplines addressing the following topics in all regions of Europe are welcome:
Publishing and intellectual property rights
Unreliable narrators
Invention and sociability
Incredible witnesses in historiography
Stranger's tales
Entrepreneurs and natural philosophy
Early modern terms of abuse
Gender and truth
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The probe body formed by the government to investigate the sensational seven murders with involvement of law enforcers, including Rab officials, yesterday interrogated Dhaka divisional commissioner Zillar Rahman.
The seven-member probe body, headed by Public Administration Ministry additional secretary Shahjahan Ali Mollah, interrogated him at Mollah' s Secretariat office from 10:15am to 11:30am.
Shahjahan Mollah said they, during the interrogation, asked the divisional commissioner about his perspective of the sensitive seven-murder incident and received some important recommendations from him to prevent such incidents in the future.
The probe body chief, however, declined to give any detail of the interrogation.
Shahjahan Mollah said there has been a lot of progress in the investigation as over 400 people were interrogated since the probe body started working on May 7.
About further interviews, Shahjahan Mollah said the probe body will interrogate all the Rab officials who have recently been arrested in connection with the seven-murder case.
The probe body has already quizzed three former Rab-11 officials -- Tarek Sayeed Mohammad, Arif Hossain and MM Rana.
Six more Rab personnel have been arrested in connection with the Narayanganj multiple-murder case on August 27. They are Habildar Emdadul Haque, Radio Operator Arif Hossain, Lance Nayek Md Hira Miah, Lance Nayek Billal Hossain, Lance Nayek Md Jalal and Sepoy Abu Taiyab.
The Rab men will be quizzed at jail gate, said Shahjahan Ali.
Meanwhile, Lance Nayek Billal Hossain reportedly made his 'confessional' statement before a local court on Tuesday.
Senior judicial magistrate HM Shafiqul Islam recorded the statement of the Rab man.
In his statement, Billal described the whole episode of the abductions and killings of the seven people, claiming that he got involved in the incident only to execute to order of his senior officers.
The probe body chief also noted that the probe committee will submit its progress report to the High Court by September 9.
However, the probe committee will take further time to complete the final report as it is a sensitive case, he added.
The Public Administration Ministry on May 7 formed the seven-member probe panel following a High Court order to look into the alleged involvement of Rab officials in the abductions and killings of seven people in Narayanganj.
On April 27, Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam, his three associates and driver, were abducted by miscreants from Fatullah area of the city.
Hours after their abduction, senior lawyer at district Judge's Court Chandan Kumar Sarker and his driver were also abducted on their way to capital Dhaka.
Three days into their abduction, the bodies of six people, including that of Nazrul and Chandan Kumar, were recovered from the Shitalakhya River on April 30. Besides, another body was recovered from the river on May 1.
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This is it, a Bridget Jones for guys, except that the 60 lbs. of unsexy fat this lovably flawed, fictional London hero wants to lose are his two kids. Oh, Michael loves his damp-diapered darlings. He just needs some time away from them and his harried wife once in a while—say, several days each week. During his sabbaticals he dashes off jingles for TV commercials and catches up on his sleep and soccer trivia in a grungy secret flat with three other minimally employed boy-men. His exhausted wife thinks he's slaving when he's snoring. "I felt," says our hero heel, "like a man having an affair, only it wasn't an affair with a younger woman, it was an affair with a younger version of myself."
O'Farrell, a joke writer for British prime minister Tony Blair, knows that boys will be boys—and men will be boys too—for as long as they can get away with it. Waiting for Michael to get caught makes this an exercise in suspense (never fear: he is appropriately punished) as well as laughs; but unlike sitcoms, with their often lame sits, every achingly funny gag here rings achingly true. (Broadway, $19.95)
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It is a day of remembrance for those at one Putnam City school.
Overholser Elementary held a special ceremony to honor three students killed in the May 31 severe weather. Brandon Sarat-Santos had just finished second grade and his sister Lesly just finished first grade and their younger brother Christopher had been in pre-K when the siblings were swept away by flood water.
Friday their former classmates and teachers came together to honor their memories. At 10:10 a.m., the students gathered in the gym for a slideshow.
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Obscured by the podium, the black headband Michael Vick nervously fingered swayed rhythmically throughout the quarterback's 12-minute media session Wednesday.
That sweat-soaked pendulum was an apt symbol for a 2013 Philadelphia Eagles season that, like most others, figures to oscillate between good times and bad.
As long as Vick and the Eagles, who debut Monday night in Washington, seem on the upswing, Eagles fans will be content. But should the downswings prove too numerous or pronounced, the 33-year-old almost certainly will not get another shot at redemption here.
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The 2005 Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds Summer Reading Program at the Avon Public Library was a huge success, thanks in part to parents and teachers of our students. Students enjoyed listening to stories, playing games, and doing crafts during our weekly programs. They also went on dragon hunts and entered into a quest for Knowledge. We had a total of 129 students registered, which was a 64 percent increase over last year. Many of our materials were translated into Spanish, and as a result, 25 percent of our Spanish-speaking students reached their reading goals. The students who completed their goals were: Kaelyn Boe, Kelsey Boe, Jordan Brandt, Chloe Brook, Woody Brook, Daniel Calzadillas, Valeria Calzadillas Melissa Degado, Brett Ferraro, Peter Ferraro, Heddie Hall, Carlie Harrison, Jordan Harrison, Hans Hintermeister, Sydney Hintermeister, Magaly Najera, Daniel Ortiz, Nan Peck, Keavy Quagliano, Keefer Quagliano, Keegan Quagliano, Keily Quagliano, Reilly Quagliano, Juan Rojas, Marnina Seller and Mackenzie Thaxton.A big thanks goes out to all of the community for their support of our programs. We are always working hard to improve our programs and value any suggestions or comments you might have. Brenda BoberCathy CiffeliAvon Public LibraryThanks for helpI would like to thank you for advertising, the Avon Public Library for hosting, and fellow community members for participating in the discussion following Wednesday's showing of the film "The Fog of War." The discussion following the viewing of Robert McNamara's 11 lessons was great.Todd Gould VailSome presidentI would like to start off by saying that Matt Zalaznick's columns are probably the only reason I read this conservative-based newspaper. Also, I would advise the people who are "flushing more cash to the Republican Party machine to crush forward-thinking liberals" not to read this.Even though I'm only a freshman in high school, I'm very into politics and what's happening in our country. In my opinion, our president is not a very good one. Our president obviously doesn't care about the lives of our troops fighting in Iraq. If he does care about our troops, then he obviously doesn't care about their families who miss them and want them to come home. Also, why can't supplies for the people of New Orleans be placed in a sanitary facility? Their food is being dropped on the ground where dead bodies and feces have been floating around. Basically, I think that our president's efforts aren't very good, and it makes me sick. So to those of you who think that we live in the best country with the best president, think about the lives of others that are being destroyed because of our president. You might think he is the greatest thing that has ever happened to this country, but to be quite frank, he isn't.People might not take this letter seriously because I'm not an adult, but I do know what I'm talking about.Oh and Arthur Blank II, I really think that you should mind your own business because there's a law in this country saying that people have the right to freedom of speech. Matt Zalaznick should be able to say what he wants without being criticized. Mariel Morency VailBush's faultIt would be nice if we could grandfather ourselves under the bankruptcy laws that are soon to expire because our country is heading straight into Chapter 11. Thank you, Mr. Bush, for all of your wrongdoings and your carelessness and absolute snuggling of corporate ideals. Cheers to you.I count the days until you are no longer my country's president, although unfortunately I'm sure your replacement will not be all that much better. I really wish you could read all of my letters to the editor because as a patriot and grand supporter of our country I feel betrayed like so many other Americans, and I want to tell you these things personally. I'd like to support your war and everything you stand for but it is all so repulsive I can't stand to watch the next great mistake you will commit. I love our country and I wish you would do the right thing for once and quite ruining everything.And then there is the environment and how you care so little for simple things like the earth we walk on. Why did you not rebuild the levees? Pathetic! I feel ill. Tavius Sims Avon Need to work togetherI would like to respond to Kathy Westover and all the other Bush bashers. I think I'm an average semi-retired American. On most issues I'm a few steps right of center. Locally, I generally vote with my pocket book. Nationally, I'm a card carrying Republican. However, I don't agree with all the party planks. What I do believe in after serving my county in Southeast Asia, traveling the world and dutifully paying taxes for 40 years that America is the strongest nation in the world and we got this way by pulling together. Not by pointing fingers and calling names. My grandparents and my parents would roll over in their graves if someone in 1942 had called for impeaching FDR because he took us to war. We were at war then and we are at war now. The only difference is that then we had identifiable nations imposing their will on other nations. Now we have radical individuals and groups imposing their will on everyone. We don't impeach a president for defending our nation from evil people.As to Katrina, I like many other Americans watch the horror of the days following the initial blow. My first thoughts were, G.W. dropped the ball here. However, as I studied the aftermath and learned more of the details, I came to a different conclusion. There were definitely mistakes with the aftermath of this disaster at all levels. First of all this was and is a local or regional disaster, not a national disaster. Our national defense was not an issue here. It is my understanding that the first line of response in a local or regional disaster is the local government and the state government. The federal government and military do not get involved with local and regional emergencies until the local officials request it. So when you start pointing your finger, make sure you start at the right level.In world opinion, I think the U.S. got a bum rap from all the one-sided media coverage of this tragic event. In a rush to press, many facts and circumstances were misrepresented. Even today, they are showing photos and tape that was taken a week ago, leading one to believe they are current. It is sad that this tragedy happened at all, much less to people who have been portrayed as the poor and down trodden of American society. Because the majority portrayed is a minority group of people does not mean they are poor. I doubt very few of the people who have been displaced would agree that they are poor, even those who have lost everything they owned. Let I remind you that the poorest of the poor in any American city would be considered wealthy by the standards of the poorest of most third world nations. I have not seen one neighborhood portrayed by the many hours of TV coverage that I could classify as a slum.What makes America so great is in the coming together in a crisis and pulling together. Not by name calling and bashing our leadership, not by politicizing the situation for one's personal advantage or one's party's advantage. But by joining together to support our leaders and our troops. Let us be Americans first! Jim AkinVailTime limitDear Mayor Slifer and members of the Town Council: when citizens of Vail can be asked to limit their comments to three minutes, I think it would be advisable to put the same limit on Michael Cacioppo. Especially when he is ranting on and on and being disrespectful to the Town Council and outright insulting to some council members. You may not be able to stop him now that he is a member of the press again, but you can certainly stop him from dominating the meeting by limiting his comments to three minutes. Josef StauferVailVail, Colorado
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her office as she maintains her blog Cupcakes & Cashmere. I love her sparkly garland from Confetti System that gives a feminine and playful touch to an otherwise adult office. 2. Kristina of House of Hues notes her admiration of this hanging garland on Etsy, available for a mere $12 and it adds automatic festivity to her already beautiful wall. 3. Artist Christopher Bettig of The Mountain Label was asked to create an installation for The Standard in West Hollywood. Later on various elements of his installation, including the garland were seen in a local gallery space with more of his artwork. 4. Blogger quilter from Moments of Perfect Clarity, writes about many things. But her hanging garland which was constructed of leftover fabric swatches is just a wonderful idea of DIY crafting. 5. Gina Comin's home was lively, collected and diverse... but one of the simplest things I loved in her home was the colorful garland that lined her hallway.


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"I was the secretary of Anne's murderer." So began a strange letter written in 1988 to Melissa Mueller after the publication of her best-selling "Anne Frank: The Biography" (Owl Books, 1999). The secretary was Traudl Junge, who served as one of Hitler's personal assistants from 1942 until his suicide in 1945. In the final days of the war, she took down his last will and testament before he shot himself in his Berlin bunker. Fearing retaliation, she refused to tell her story for the next 53 years. But now, remorseful and suffering from terminal breast cancer, she seemed ready to talk.
Mueller immediately called her friend, internationally renown multimedia artist Andre Heller, the son of a Holocaust survivor. "I was interested in how someone had changed from Hitler's assistant to an anti-fascist," Mueller told The Journal from his hometown of Vienna. "Was it believable or not?"
The result is his riveting documentary, "Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary," culled from 13 hours of interviews conducted with the chain-smoking Junge in her spare, one-room Munich flat in Spring 2001. Essentially a series of close-ups without stylistic embellishments, the 90-minute film is part confession, part fascinating memoir. Junge, 81, describes how she grew up fatherless and she craved the affection of a boss who called her "child"; how Hitler practically never used the word, Jew; how he disliked flowers because he hated dead things around; and how he numbly sat with a puppy in the days before his own suicide.
"'Blind Spot' is an intriguing film because Frau Junge is probably the last intimate of Hitler who will speak before a camera," said Princeton University history professor Anson Rabinbach. "From a historical point of view, there is little that is really new [here].... However, as a film about Hitler's secretary, which is really the subject, there are fascinating moments, especially her repeated attempts to come to terms with ... her own behavior."
As such, "Blind Spot" joins a growing body of work on more ordinary Nazi perpetrators emerging after years of intense focus on the Holocaust victims, notably Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
For Heller, however, the focus was more personal. Initially he worried about what his late father, the Holocaust survivor, would have thought of the film. Apparently the elder Heller had hated the Nazis so virulently that he once forced a neighbor to eat the swastika-shaped thread embroidered on his pillow. "Why should I be taking a confession from a woman who worked for my father's greatest enemy?" Heller asked himself. "But in the end, I felt [vindicated] because I knew I was speaking to a person who had transformed herself."
Junge's survivor guilt reminded the filmmaker of his own father's experience.
Before Hitler came to power, the Hellers were wealthy industrialists who had converted to Catholicism "because they thought it would help them rise through Viennese society, but of course it helped not at all. When the Nazis arrived in 1938, my father was promptly arrested and forced to clean the streets with a toothbrush as onlookers jeered."
While the family fortune helped him flee to England, the murder of a large part of his family in concentration camps and his survivor's guilt left him a broken man, Heller said. "He became addicted to opium and by the time I was born in 1947 he was already a wreck."
Eleven years later, he committed suicide by locking himself in the family library while suffering an embolism. Subsequently, young Andre was sent to a boarding school in the district of Styria. "On the first day of class, the teacher told everyone, 'This is Heller; don't sit beside him because he has bad blood in his veins.'"
When his classmates sang anti-Semitic songs in the streets, Heller, then 15, took the train to the district capitol and tried to complain to the governor -- unsuccessfully. "That was the beginning of my political awakening," he said.
Heller became a prominent activist on the anti-fascist front, for which he at times received threatening letters and even sacks of excrement in the mail. When he began interviewing Junge with cameraman Othmar Schmiderer in 2001, he discovered that she feared similar kinds of retribution.
Ten minutes into the interview, he said he realized "this was an impoverished woman who was widowed young, never remarried, never had children, who had punished herself for years with cancer and with total isolation. She couldn't forgive herself, just as my father also couldn't forgive himself for his survival."
Apparently "Blind Spot" proved cathartic for Junge. She died hours after the film's 2002 premiere in a Berlin theater less than 56 feet from the bunker where she had jotted down Hitler's will. "I don't consider her one of my heroes," Heller said. "But I had a kind of respect for what she went through, not to hide the truth from herself."
"Blind Spot" opens today in Los Angeles. Â
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