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Poor Customer Service And Understaffing Cited In Cable Provider Woes
Matthew Hersh
Members of Borough Council were in attendance at the Township Committee meeting where residents of both Princetons complained of the substandard customer service of Princeton's cable provider, Patriot Media.
The cable company, which replaced RCN ten months ago, admitted that while customer service fell to a level below standard, it was because of an unexpectedly large number of obstacles that presented themselves in the overhaul of the old infrastructure.
"Princeton was a challenge unlike any I've seen," said Jim Holanda, Patriot's general manager and president of central Jersey. "The amount of in-home wiring work required more work than we had anticipated."
The main problem was the need for complete conversion of Princeton's old cable infrastructure, Mr. Holanda said. The system, which operated on a two-channel A/B dual architecture, caused Patriot to visit roughly 200 homes per day in August and September. Mr. Holanda added that approximately 6,700 homes out of 6,800 homes were properly converted and that the remaining 100 homes would be served imminently.
The terms of the franchise with Patriot Media stipulated the completion of the rebuild. Under the franchise agreement reached in negotiations with RCN in October 2002, the new franchise holder must abide by the terms contained in the agreement. Among the stipulations that Patriot followed was a rebuild of Princeton's cable TV systems within 18 months from that time.
Committeeman Bernard Miller said in February that Patriot had planned to complete the rebuild by late August or early September. As it stands, that schedule would put Patriot Media well ahead of its rebuild deadline of April 2004. It was not good enough, however.
"They need to do something more than stand up here and tell us what a good job they're doing," said William Koehn, who owns residences on both Green and John streets. He added that while one residence was properly converted in a timely manner, there were several instances where Patriot servicemen did not show up for scheduled appointments.
Mr. Holanda said that there was an increase of 2,500 customer service calls during August and September. This amount, he admitted, was too much for Patriot's customer service staff to handle.
He also said that in addition to recent improvements in customer service, Patriot, along with all other cable service providers, is required by state and federal law to field customer calls in 30 seconds or less.
This information did not go over well with residents in attendance. The primary complaint about Patriot Media's service has been deficient customer service. Mr. Koehn said that while a computerized operator answers calls in the time required by law, it takes up to six to eight minutes "at best" to speak to an actual customer service representative. Other residents complained of being placed on hold for up to half an hour.
"I have not encountered a properly trained representative," said Larry Weiss, of State Road. Kester Pierson, of Wilson Road, said that while he was happy with the "expeditious" conversion that Patriot provided, he had to wait 35 minutes to speak to a Patriot representative on the phone.
Mr. Holanda said he regretted customer dissatisfaction and said this summer's problems posed "once in a lifetime" obstacles.
The session served as the public hearing of an ordinance that reflects the Board of Public Utility's newly-ordered construction deadline. Patriot took over the Central Jersey franchise from RCN in February, and in doing so, also took over the responsibility for overhauling an antiquated infrastructure.


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Domestic Violence - Recognize Warning Signs and Where To Get HelpFriday, 22 June 2012 16:41
Domestic violence can happen to anyone regardless of size, gender, or economic status. Are you or someone you care about in an abusive relationship? Do you feel afraid of your partner most of the time? Do you avoid certain topics out of fear of angering your partner? Do you feel like you can't do anything right for your significant other? Does your partner humiliate you, criticize you or put you down?
Does your partner blame you for their own abusive behavior? Have your significant other ever threaten to hurt you, kill you or force you to have sex? Victims of domestic violence sometimes fail to recognize the general warning signs. It is often overlooked, excused or denied and at times the abuse may lead to death.
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Mark your calendars the City will celebrate Independence Day, on Saturday, July 2nd, with the 93rd Annual Parade which starts at 10 am.
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Hi everyone, I'm 22 and currently 14.9 stone and about 5 foot 7 inches
I've been primal for about a year now and have found it brilliant. When I started with the PB I was 16.8 stone, I lost weight by following the diet and walking to work about 3 out of 5 days which is about a 30 minute walk.
The reason im going to start a journal is because for the last couple of months I have been slacking. I havent put on much weight maybe a pound but of course weight loss has stalled. I now plan to get in the gym and really crack down to get back on track with the diet. So here's my current stats:
Weight= 14 stone 9 pounds
Chest= 40 inches
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Upper leg= 26 inches
Next weigh in- 06/03/13
My plan is to update these stats every 2 weeks and keep a daily account of what ive eaten and what exercise ive done.


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For an online game, I'd consider things like auction house, NPC shop, forum, equipment management, minigame, PvP arena, and that sort of thing to all be game modes. I'd define a game mode as one that has a distinct set of common player actions, a distinct set of relevant information, and a GUI adapted to these.
I would say those examples are sets of mechanics. A game mode has a more persistent aspect during the game play. A game mode could be two players sharing the screen, one of the players could die and the game would become single player, but the original mode selection is what matters. On the other hand NPC shops are temporary stages, unless you choose playing in the shop from the beginning, e.g. as a clerk, and you are mainly constrained to your role. That would be a game mode for a mini-game.


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IT MAY NOT totally solve the problem, but at least it's progress.
Police have arrested two men for short dumping on an overgrown lot on Beach Street next to the Delaware River, in Port Richmond, that is home to thousands of discarded tires and a few teetering trash heaps - and which you may have read about in a previous Marquis column.
The lot, owned by Glasgow Inc., a highway-construction company based in Glenside, has also been the site of at least two fires since September and is the target of an Environmental Protection Agency complaint from neighbors.


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Updated: February 17, 2010
The false and malicious report in a Swedish newspaper that Israeli soldiers abducted and killed Palestinians, including children, to harvest their organs has mushroomed into a global conspiracy theory. Within months, the story has generated several conspiracy theories about various Jewish plots to harvest organs from victims around the globe, including from kidnapped Algerian and Ukrainian children and from Haitians pulled from the rubble of the earthquake that devastated their nation.
The conspiracy theory related to the Israeli rescue teams in Haiti reached all the way to the British House of Lords, where Baroness Jenny Tonge called on Israel to launch an investigation into the conduct of its military in Haiti. Tonge made the comment after an English-language Palestinian newspaper, The Palestine Telegraph, published an article that cited a report by Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV regarding the organ trafficking allegations. The Palestinian paper lists Tonge as one of two members of a "board of patrons." Following the story, Tonge apologized. However, Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrat party, called Tonge's comment "unacceptable" and subsequently announced that she was stepping down from her position as party spokeswoman on health issues.
The conspiracy theories have been reported as fact by Iranian and Arab media, including Press TV, a state-funded Iranian TV news channel, and leading pan-Arab satellite news networks Al Jazeera and Al-Arabiya. In addition, newspapers in Jordan, Oman, Qatar and other Arab countries published series of editorial cartoons that depicted Israelis as vicious butchers who were gleefully cutting off the body parts of Arabs and trading in Palestinians' organs.
The most recent version of this conspiracy, claiming that Israeli rescue teams in Haiti may be involved in stealing organs, was created by a Seattle man who posted a YouTube video. Within hours, the allegations appeared on various Web sites around the world, including that of Press TV; the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, an armed wing of the terrorist group Hamas; and the site of Alex Jones, an American anti-Israel conspiracy theorist.
Several American groups, including If Americans Knew, which seeks to de-legitimize U.S. support for Israel, and We Hold These Truths, an Arizona-based Christian anti-Semitic group, have endorsed a petition that calls for an "investigation into allegations that Israelis have removed organs from Palestinians." The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a Los Angeles-based group that presents itself as a moderate voice of Islam in the U.S., called for an international investigation for alleged war crimes based on the original allegations in the Swedish newspaper. MPAC also suggested that Israel's efforts to defend itself from the organ trafficking claims illustrated its tendency to bully critics of Israel with charges of anti-Semitism.
The following is a list of the various organ harvesting conspiracy theories:
Swedish Daily Blames Israel of Killing Palestinians for Organs
On August 17, 2009, Aftonbladet, a Swedish daily tabloid, published an article by Donald Bostrom, which accused Israeli soldiers of kidnapping and killing Palestinians, including children, in order to harvest their organs. The article, "They plunder the organs of our sons," claimed that in the beginning of the 1990s while the Israeli government was launching a public campaign to register organ donors, a more secretive operation was being run by the Israeli Defense Force in which Palestinians were murdered and their organs stolen. Bostrom, who reportedly made similar allegations in the past, linked the story to the arrest the previous month of an orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, who is accused of brokering a trade of organs. The article was reprinted and posted on numerous Internet sites and applauded in editorials in the online editions of leading pan-Arab satellite news networks Al Jazeera and Al-Arabiya.
In the U.S. several groups published statements that repeated the allegations from Bostrom's article. One group, the American Muslims for Palestine, issued a statement demanding that the U.S. and United Nations investigate "Israeli culpability in the New Jersey Rabbis case" and allegations "concerning illegally harvesting Palestinian organs."
Algerian Daily Claims Jewish Gangs Abduct Algerian Children
On September 6, 2009, the Arabic-language Algerian daily El-Khabar published a fabricated story that claimed that Interpol, the international police organization, has revealed the existence of "a Jewish gang" that was "involved in the abduction of children from Algeria and trafficking of their organs."
The story was reported on by Al Jazeera, Press TV and Islam Online, a popular online publication connected to Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi. It also appeared in various Arab-American newspapers and Web sites, including Al Watan, an Arab-American newspaper published out of Anaheim, California, and The Palestine Chronicle, a Washington-based online publication that often prints anti-Semitic conspiratorial stories. It was further picked up by dozens of other news Web sites and blogs around the world, including anti-Semitic sites, and was disseminated via email.
The story was based an alleged statement by someone named Mustafa Khayatti, who in different places has been identified as either an Algerian official or the head of an Algerian NGO. Khayatti claimed that, "Jewish organ trafficking gangs…remain active in several Arab countries."
Ukrainian Professor Accuses Israel of Abducting 25,000 Ukrainian Children
On November 29, 2009, a Ukrainian philosophy professor, Vyacheslav Gudin, told the audience at a conference in Kiev that about 25,000 Ukrainian children were brought to Israel where their organs were harvested. He claimed that the children were taken for adoption but ended up as "spare parts" for Israeli medical centers. He called it "genocide." The conference purported to be a scientific gathering but included other anti-Jewish presentations. In response to an official Israeli protest, demonstrators gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Kiev chanting "Ukraine isn't the Gaza Strip."
Several Ukrainian Web sites published stories that repeated Gudin's claims. It was also picked up by Press TV, which published an article titled "Ukrainian kids, new victims of Israeli 'organ theft.'" That article was then reprinted in a Canadian Muslim bi-weekly, al-Ameen Post. Responding to demands from B'nai Brith Canada, the community paper later published an apology "to our fellow Jewish Canadians" in which it pointed out that "the issue of 'Organ Harvesting in Israel' was being discussed at the time of our last publication, by major media outlets."
YouTube Video Claims Israeli Rescue Team in Haiti May Steal Organs
On January 20, 2010 a Seattle man who identified himself as "T. West" of "AfriSynergy Productions" posted a video on YouTube in which he said that that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operating a rescue mission in Haiti may attempt to steal organs based on past involvement in stealing organs from Palestinians.
Within hours the story was picked by several anti-Israel Web sites and some Middle East news sources, including the Web sites Press TV; Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV; Hamas affiliated Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, and the Web site of Alex Jones, an American conspiracy theorist.
Counterpunch, an American Left-leaning anti-Zionist newsletter, published an article by Bouthaina Shaaban, an advisor to the Syrian president, which claimed that "there are documented reports from Haiti that organs are being stolen by Israelis," and that Israel and the U.S. "use the Haiti disaster to cover up their crimes."
Several days after West posted his YouTube video, Khalil Bendib, the most published cartoonist in Arab and Muslim-American newspapers, posted to his Web site a cartoon that depicted an IDF soldiers with angel's wings spilling out "Palestinian organs."
One of the most blatantly anti-Semitic reports to be published based on T. West's video was aired on Syria TV, a state-run channel, on January 27. It falsely claimed that T. West's video actually showed members of the IDF mission to Haiti stealing organs from earthquake victims. One person interviewed for the show as an expert, a Damascus University professor, said that Israel's conduct in Haiti was reminiscent of Shylock and explained that "as we see, the Jew has not changed – especially the Zionist Jews, who are now gathered in the so-called 'Israel,' which is the largest concentration in history of war criminals."
The History of the Blood Libel
The allegation that Jews murder non-Jews to use their blood for ritual or medicinal purposes dates back to the Middle Ages and has spawned many variants over time. Jewish law expressly prohibits the consumption of any blood. Nevertheless it was alleged that Jews drank Christian blood on Passover and mixed it into matzah, the unleavened bread eaten on that holiday. During medieval times two popes expressly declared such claims to have been fabricated. Nevertheless, instances of what has come to be known as the "blood libel" have persisted into modern times. Blood libels have frequently led to mob violence and pogroms, and have occasionally led to the decimation of entire Jewish communities.
Famous blood libels in the past two centuries took place in Damascus in 1840; Kishinev in 1903; Kiev in 1913; Massena, New York in 1928; and Kielce, Poland, in 1946. More recently, the claim that Jews harvest blood and organs from non-Jews has been published in books and disseminated in the media, especially in Arab and Muslim countries.
The Big Lie Of Israeli 'Organ Harvesting' Resurfaces As YouTube Video On Haiti Earthquake Goes Global
Arab Cartoons Suggest Israel Harvests Organs
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[QUOTE=Timthetaco;1150592]Holy Christ, if you alternative hypothesis people spent half the effort researching basic physiology as you do constructing useless thought experiments, you would have abandoned all this nonsense a long time ago.[/QUOTE]
[FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]Hehe, Don Quijote is still alive and thrives here on MDA, but instead of windmills he is now battling against mainstream science and empirical truths that has been proven over and over again for hundreds of years! So, the anti-CICO's team pulling out blatant straw-men and riding against them as they were fighting windmills, obviously to the bitter end on this thread, moving goalposts and using every trick in the book to score some cheap points in their favor! But it's nothing else than a futile battle against windmills…[/SIZE]


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Our View: An enthusiastic thumbs up for Presidents Day
For as much grief as they took before, during and after their presidencies, some might wonder why they wanted to be president in the first place, or why we celebrate them this weekend. There's good reason.
- Abe Lincoln saved the union, ended slavery, won the Civil War, created land-grant colleges and defined the modern presidency.
- George Washington won the Revolution, turned down the chance to be crowned king of America and set precedents, from two terms in office to promoting dental hygiene. Just kidding on that last one.
- Franklin Roosevelt brought us out of the Great Depression, led us to the brink of victory in World War II and helped create a middle class.
- Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, fought for states' rights and talked the French into the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the United States for $15 million.
- Andrew Jackson, hero of the War of 1812, brought the common man into the White House, started the national bank and took guff from nobody.
- Teddy Roosevelt broke up railroads and huge corporate monopolies, fathered conservation, founded state parks, walked softly and carried a big stick in foreign affairs.
- James K. Polk, Mr. Manifest Destiny and the most unheralded president, outlined his goals, then accomplished them (established independent treasury; acquired California, New Mexico and the Oregon Territory; led the country through the Mexican-American War), and all in one term.
There are many more, of course, whose accomplishments we celebrate still: Harry Truman, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, to name a few.
So, come Monday, go ahead and celebrate our American presidents by taking a moment to remember a few of the great things they achieved -- in the toughest job in the world.
Influence wanes: The party line from Republicans is that Erie benefits now that we have two members of Congress representing our region -- currently, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, of Butler, R-3rd Dist., and U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, of Centre County, R-5th Dist.
Three Democrats are running for Kelly's seat, and two are vying for Thompson's. But no Erie candidate has leapt into the race; they say it would be difficult to build support in a county split in half during redistricting. Erie had strong voices in Congress on both sides of the aisle in years past -- Republicans Tom Ridge and Phil English and Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper. Because of our geography, we're often overlooked in Harrisburg political circles. It's disheartening to see that a political drawing exercise created the same effect in Beltway politics.


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Do you consider this child abuse?
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Question: Do you consider that child abuse?
Yes it is and it should be illegal.
It should be illegal but I wouldn't call it child abuse.
I don't see anything wrong with it.
Total Votes: 268
Question: Do you consider that child abuse?
Total Votes: 268
I saw this in another group. What do you think?
Stop smoking with your innocent children in the car. It's abusive and neglectful to force innocent kids to breathe in your posion and destroy their body. Are you that selfish that you can not wait until you reach your destination so that you can step away from your children and fulfill your toxic addiction? You don't piss and shit in the Car as well, do you? So if you would stop the car and get out to relieve yourself, you should stop the car and get out to smoke your cancer stick!!!
Stop the child abuse!!!!
Abuse: to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way
I think it's abusive to put anyone in a position where they aren't in control of the what is going on. Children who are strapped into a car seat who cannot roll down the windows for fresh air have no choice but to inhale second hand smoke. If it's a situation where another adult would say or do something about it, then I consider it abusive to those who cannot speak for themselves. I have seen so many parents who smoke with tiny children who are asthmatic or sick all the time with respitory issues. It's not fair to make the children suffer when the parent can simply go outside and smoke.
Abuse? Maybe not. Negligence? Sure, it's certainly a form of negligence, and usually negligence caused by ignorance. I get the addiction of smoking entirely, and I don't blame those that cannot quit, but it does make sense to move away from children and other people if you need to smoke. I think though, that we could say the same about any drug. Addiction, is often immune to common sense.
Anyone who does, IMHO, is disgusting.
Spanking and washing their mouth out with soap are not only abuse, they are examples of slack ass, lazy parenting.
Quoting marchantmom06: Spankings, washing mouths with soap, hell making kids play outside.Quoting paganbaby:
Like what?Quoting marchantmom06: Not abuse. But many things aren't actually abuse that people think are now a days.
Yes, of course it's abuse. We know that second hand smoke is just as bad as or worse than smoking, with many of the same health risks. Likewise, all that smoking in the car leads to a build up of toxic chemicals (third hand smoke), which is very dangerous to children.
Wouldn't you think it was abusive if a parent gave her child a cigarette to put in her mouth and smoke? What's the difference?
I had asthma as a kid. Guess a common denominator? My mother's boyfriend, who we lived with, smoked. When we moved, within a year I was 80% better. I didn't have any breathing problems until I picked up smoking myself. Breathing problems are pretty much gone once again and, lookie there- I no longer smoke.
For every anecdotal piece of evidence that says it's fine, there's another that says it isn't. There are various studies that say it's unhealthy and even dangerous. Is every second-hand smoke victim going to get sick? Nope, and neither is every smoker. But should that be a risk one is willing to take because they 'must' have their cancer sticks?
Yes- it is abuse. It is one thing to smoke in a vehicle with another adult who is okay with it, and a completely other thing to smoke in the vehicle with any person who is unable to speak up and say NO.
Not all abuse results in blood and bruises.
Of course it is. You're doing somehting harful around a child and endangering him or her. People may want to say it's not abuse because people did it all the time years ago but it is. Don't try to sugar coat endangering a child.


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GEESEYTOWN -Whiffs of roasted chicken fill the air in the hall at Juniata Valley Gospel Church in Lower Reese, Hollidaysburg, on a recent Wednesday afternoon.
The aroma is coming from the kitchen where about 10 women are laughing and talking as they prepare a meal with chicken cordon bleu as the entree.
Patricia England and Barb Horne prepare salad dressing while Sondra Lynn stirs peas and Brenda Gualdoni checks on the macaroni and cheese.
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(Mirror photos by Gary M. Baranec) Debbie (left) and Wendy Gardner prepare servings for shut-ins and their families.
The women are members of Kim's Krew, an outreach of the church in honor of Kim Scott.
Scott, 58, was an active member of the church and served as its treasurer until her untimely death a year ago.
She was in the church's fellowship hall, decorating for a Christmas party on Dec. 21 when she was fatally shot by Jeffrey Lee Michael, who also took the lives of William Rhodes and his father-in-law Kenneth Lynn, during a shooting spree in the Geeseytown area. Michael was killed by state troopers.
Scott's death was the second blow that the church of about 150 members suffered in a week. Their pastor, D. David McCaulley had died Dec. 14, 2012, and was buried the day before the shootings. He served the church for 58 years and was the only shepherd/leader most of the members had known.
Current Pastor Bill Gualdoni first visited the church in March when he was being considered as a candidate for the pulpit. He said he expected to find "kind of a broken church."
He pointed out that McCaulley had married many couples and dedicated their babies.
"You don't find that kind of stability in a church," he said, referring to McCaulley's almost six-decade tenure. That loss was compounded by the tragedy that occurred on the church property a few days later.
Instead of a church that was emotionally torn, he said he found "a large measure of grace" in the congregation.
"Although people's feelings were very raw, they had a real sense of confidence in Christ," Gualdoni said. "They believe to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ. Kim died too young, but the church has hope, real hope."
He said he has served bigger and smaller churches, but never one like Juniata Valley Gospel Church, where the stability of the people's faith remains despite what they have endured.
"It is one thing to talk about it - that God is faithful, that he will take care of us - but this church has to live it. I'm part of a church that is living by faith. It's been a blessing for me and my wife."
A sign of that hope and faith that the Gualdonis have witnessed can be found in Kim's Krew.
The meals the women prepare monthly are a way for the church to bless people who no longer enjoy an active lifestyle because of health conditions or age.
It was Debbie Gardner of Lower Reese who proposed providing monthly dinners to shut-ins in Scott's memory.
Gardner and Scott were friends. Not only did they attend services in the same church, but they played cards together for more than 30 years.
"Everybody took to her as soon as they met her," Gardner said. "She had a wonderful personality. She always had a smile on her face. She was very faithful and giving to the church."
Gardner said she had been thinking about the meal ministry for awhile.
"I always wanted to do something for shut-ins," she said.
Her goal was to visit with members who no longer could attend Sunday services because of health reasons. She said those members stayed connected to the church through bulletins, but she wanted to do more. The meals provide a way to keep in touch and chat, perhaps providing a bright spot in their day, she said.
She approached the trustees about the idea and received full support.
The meals are "a way to remember Kim and celebrate her life," said trustee Pat Imler.
Providing the meals is "doing something positive," said trustee Mike Gampe. "We remember Kim and lead by her example."
They keep Kim's memory alive through something that is tangible that will impact lives. It's not like a plaque you hang on a wall," Gualdoni added.
Kim's Krew started about 10 months ago with Gardner, her sisters Patricia England and Linda Robinson and her sister-in-law Marlene Helsley preparing and delivering meals to four homes on Feb. 13. While most of the meals go to seniors or disabled people, Gardner also includes dinners for Scott's husband, her parents and the families of Rhodes and Lynn.
Since February, six more members have joined Kim's Krew with additional church members volunteering to deliver the food to about 14 homes.
Gampe said the women feed about 30 people.
"You don't have to be a member of the church to receive a meal," Gardner said.
Funds for the food come from the church, as well as donations from family and friends.
"People have been very generous," she said. "It has been well-received."
And with the meals, each family is given a remembrance card with Scott's picture.
"It's wonderful," Gardner said of the outreach. "It keeps Kim's memory alive."


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TORONTO – A media report is making fresh claims about Rob Ford, with accusations the Toronto mayor was driving while under the influence and using racial slurs.
The Toronto Star posted a story on its website Friday night under the headline "Rob Ford: One wild night in March."
The story is based on unnamed sources and an audio tape that the Star says was recorded on the night of March 5.
Ford had just returned to Toronto from Los Angeles where he appeared on the late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The Star says Ford's speech sounded slurred on the audio tape and a source told the newspaper the mayor was wasted.
The Star says Ford can be heard on the audio tape making racist slurs.
The Canadian Press has not heard the audio tape nor talked to the newspaper's sources and so cannot independently verify the account of Ford's behaviour.
At one point the Star says Ford spoke to his lawyer Dennis Morris and the report said he expressed concern about him driving under the influence.
Morris told The Canadian Press he can't comment on most of the Star story but says he doesn't recall that Ford was driving.
"I don't recollect his ever driving, I was thinking 'don't be driving," Morris told The Canadian Press in a phone interview Friday.
"I was under the impression he was…not sure if it was parked or shopping plaza and he was making phone calls and I think I mentioned 'shouldn't be driving if you're under the influence.'"
Ford indicated last week that he would be seeking immediate help for alcohol abuse.
The CBC reported Friday night that it spoke with a doctor at a clinic that treats people for substance abuse problem who verified Ford is a patient at the facility.
The CBC didn't release the name of the facility citing the need to protect the privacy of the other patients, only saying it's somewhere in North America.
There was speculation the mayor's brother, Coun. Doug Ford, would provide verification Friday that Ford was actually in a treatment facility in the wake of reports on social media that Rob Ford had been spotted in Toronto.
Morris says the CBC report was "part of" the verification.
"It was needed to have somebody aware of the mayor's whereabouts, verify he was in a treatment facility, so I think that's probably it," Morris said.
In 1999 Ford was arrested in Florida for driving under the influence and marijuana possession. He ultimately pleaded no-contest to the impaired driving charge and the drug charge was dropped.
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Jewel has taken a wounded bird under her wing.
The singer came to the rescue of an injured hummingbird she discovered on her Texas ranch over the weekend.
"Look what I found. Poor thing must have hit my window and is stunned. Hope he's not hurt 2 bad," she Tweeted Sunday, with a photo of the tiny bird in the palm of her hand.
The animal lover and mom to 10-month-old son Kase set up a cozy place for the bird to recover and nursed it with supplemental food.
"I gave him sugar water and made him a comfy little nest out of old gloves," she Tweeted. "Hope he feels better!"
Jewel Rescues Injured Hummingbird
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Here is a list of the top MBA instituted providing an MBA through distance education.
1. The ICFAI Centre for Distance Education offers students and professionals The program is designed for a career oriented certification program. Graduates from any discipline are eligible for the program. Duration of the course is two years.
2. NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies) offers MBA programs like PGDBM, PGDM etc. They are approved by the DEC (Distance Education Council, New Delhi).
3. XLRI, Jamshedpur has one-year executive programmes in Management
4. IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) offers Distance education programs in Management like MBA, DIM(Diploma in Management) and PGDIM. A Management Aptitude test OPENMAT conducted by IGNOU for admission. The MBA is of 2 years duration and is approved by AICTE.
5. TASMAC distance learning programs are a good choice for professionals who have long working hours. They have two year courses.
6. Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning (SCDL) offers PGDBA, PGDIB, PGDHRM, PGDIT.
7. Tamil Nadu Open University offers MBA and Shipping and Logistics Management.
8. Annamalai University, Directorate of Distance Education
9. Pondicherry University, Directorate of Distance Education offers programs of 4 semesters.
There are many other institutions offering management degree and diploma programs like Karnataka State Open University, Anna University, Indian Institute of Finance, Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open) University, IMT Distance and Open Learning Institute, ASCI (Administrative Staff Colleges of India).


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Britain's one-time oldest man, Harris Shoerats, died in 1984 aged 111. Explaining his longevity in a radio interview, he said: "First, I am a lifelong vegetarian. Second, I begin each day with a glass of whisky. And third, I never got involved with the politics of my local synagogue."
This sensible advice came to mind last week as the Borehamwood shul magazine dropped through my letterbox, together with a letter from the shul chairman. The shul's honorary officers and board, he wrote, "strongly disassociate themselves from the article on pages 20-21… We unreservedly apologise for any distress that this has caused the rabbi, his family and members of the shul office staff."
Naturally, I turned immediately to pages 20-21. The offending article was written by journalist, JC writer and shul member Michael Freedland, in which, inter alia, he compares the performance of the rabbi, Naftali Brawer, with that of his predecessor, Alan Plancey, who still lives in the area and recently returned to the shul as emeritus rabbi. Mr Freedland speculates about their relationship; makes patronising remarks about the shul's office staff and volunteers; and asks whether the rabbi really needs a secretary to manage his diary: "What does a rabbi record in that diary? A row with a member? Deciding to help his wife with the washing up?"
There is also a dig at the Chief Rabbi, who apparently no longer introduces himself to Mr Freedland as "Jonathan", but rather, when he calls to chat, says, "the Chief Rabbi here…"
No matter where you stand on the range of issues raised by Mr Freedland, such an article does not belong in a synagogue's own publication, which is there to build community, not to sow discord. There is certainly room to discuss community issues, but as an in-house magazine, not an independent newspaper, the journalistic rules are different. I do not expect to read personal criticism of the US Chief Rabbi or of the local shul rabbi in a US publication. Nor is it appropriate for a magazine belonging to a religious institution to spread gossip — let alone about its own staff.
In this modern age, our synagogues cannot be run like shtibls. They require the highest standards of governance, with a well thought out programme of management, accountability, transparency and professional decision-making.
This applies, first, at the level of individual shuls. One of the problems in this case was that the magazine editor was not answerable to anyone before the magazine went to print, and so his editorial judgment went unchecked. A shul publication needs clear guidelines and supervision by an editorial board.
Once printed, the synagogue board was clearly wrong in allowing the issue to be distributed — disclaimer notwithstanding — rather than pulping the entire print-run or cutting out the offending pages. Nowadays, lay leaders as well as professional staff must be trained, and be good enough, to make sensible decisions that protect the community they serve.
The question of good management applies, secondly, at the organisational level — in this case, the US. Behind Mr Freedland's comments about Rabbis Brawer and Plancey lies a real problem that can, and has, affected most communities: that of a tense transition between rabbis. The reality is that a change in community leadership is always upsetting to one constituency or another.
The retirement of a long-serving rabbi, familiar with his contemporaries and the community he built, and the arrival of a new rabbi, who will relate to a different set of families, invariably disappoints some and delights others.
The US does run a training programme for rabbis moving to new communities, and another helping the lay leadership work with the new rabbi. But perhaps this should be broadened to deal with all transition issues — including helping the community prepare for and deal with change.
Of course, all these problems are considerably compounded and unnecessarily prolonged when the retirement of the previous rabbi is mismanaged — or, because the US does not currently have a retirement programme for its rabbis, not managed at all.
Borehamwood is not unique in having a retired rabbi remain in the community. But, no matter how distinguished and respected the retiring rabbi, a new rabbi cannot be expected to function with his predecessor watching from his front pew; and a congregation must be allowed to develop a relationship with a new spiritual leader without distractions.
The Church of England (which begins to prepare its clerics for retirement at 55) has a detailed retirement policy covering issues such as housing, financial planning and subsequent employment. One of its rulings is that clergy "are expected, and advised for their own sake, to move an appropriate distance from their last parish on retirement."
Perhaps it is time for the US to follow suit.


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Facebook is a good venue for sharing comments and photos with friends, but without care you will wind up sharing more than you meant to. The biggest problem with security on the site is that users don't protect their content, allowing any one of the millions of users to see photos and other personal information. By limiting your sharing and hiding things from most users, you protect your privacy.
Over Sharing Personal Information
If you don't know each one of your Facebook friends extremely well, it is not a good idea to share a lot of personal details on your wall or the "Info" section of your profile. For instance, posting your home address or constantly showing your current location will make it easy for anyone to find you -- which is not always a good thing. Sharing details about your employer or a specific project on which you are working also creates a risk, as another user might steal your intellectual property.
Using Broad Privacy Settings
If you are going to post a lot of personal information on your profile, make sure to restrict access to your profile. By default, your profile information is visible to anyone who uses Facebook, but you can change any section so that only friends or friends of friends are allowed to view it. Likewise, the posts you and friends create for your wall may be restricted so that only certain people can see them. Allowing the entire Facebook community to view your content opens you up to unwanted messages from strangers and your personal information being compromised.
Clicking on Spam
When a strange looking ad appears on your wall or that of a friend, or a link appears that you don't believe your friend would have posted -- don't click it. Phishing scams are often presented in the form of an advertisement or video link, and once the Facebook user clicks it her personal information is stolen. This includes your Facebook password and access to your account.
Having Weak Password
Perhaps the easiest way to protect a Facebook account is to have a good password. If your password is easy to guess, or the same password you use on other sites, your account has a greater chance of being broken into. Always use a password that contains numbers and letters -- the longer the password, the better.
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MOVIES: Opening Friday, "Thor" (PG-13), "Jumping the Broom" (PG-13), "Something Borrowed" (PG-13); opening May 13, "Priest" (PG-13); opening May 20, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides."
THEATER: "The Pirates of Penzance," 7 tonight, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Niagara University, Lewiston.
CONCERTS: Save This Dance with As Skies Burn, the Blind Wires, Fiasco Jones, Kiss Your Fists and Odd Man Out, 6 p.m. Saturday, Extreme Wheels, 356 Hertel Ave.
Shawn Phillips, 8 p.m. Saturday, Tralf, 622 Main St.
Sam Bradley with Holly Conlan, 7 p.m. Sunday, Mohawk Place, 47 E. Mohawk St.
Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Mainstage Theatre, UB Center for the Arts, North Campus, Amherst.
Holly Golightly and the BrokeOffs, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Ninth Ward at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave.
Face to Face with Strung Out, the Darlings and more, 7 p.m. May 11. own Ballroom, 681 Main St. 852-3900. www.townballroom.com. $20 advance, $24 day of show (box office, Tickets.com).
Do you think that your iPhone or iPad most likely will be dropped from great heights before too long? Time to get a protective case for that overpriced gadget that holds all your important numbers and details. Even better, get something with a sweet, old-school flavor, such as the Etch-A-Sketch iPad or iPod case from Thinkgeek.com.
The cases are as functional as they are whimsical. They are protective cases made of impact-resistant ABS plastic and molded to look exactly like an Etch-a-Sketch. They are made in the same factory that makes the original Etch-a-Sketch toy. You can even run the Etch-a-Sketch app while using your iPad in its Etch-a-Sketch case. The iPad case is $39.99 and the iPhone case is $24.99. Check them out at www.thinkgeek.com.
Lancome has joined forces with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama for a collection of six limited-edition glosses. Kusama, often called the Princess of Polka Dots thanks to her love of playful dots and botanically inspired motifs, has been recognized since the 1960s for her contribution to the avant-garde world of environmental art.
The glosses are made out of Hungarian honey, royal jelly extract, beeswax and shea butter. There are six flavors: hazelnut cacao, apricot, honey, raspberry, vanilla and grapefruit. The formulas are 100 percent natural and preservative-free.
The tubes are $15 each, available exclusively through May in Nordstrom, and after June on lancome-usa.com and at all Lancome counters.
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Persistence appears to have paid off. After pushing local officials for a safe way to pedal between West Ashley and the peninsula, bicycle advocates have their goal in sight.
The state Department of Transportation has okayed a plan that would convert one lane of bridge traffic to bike and pedestrian use.
This is terrific news for a community that has demonstrated, via the busy bike lane over the Cooper River, its enthusiasm for biking and walking.
And while it is not seen by the DOT as a permanent fix (vehicular traffic is expected to increase and eventually require that the lane revert to cars), it is a good way to accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians while determining what a permanent solution will look like.
Mayor Joe Riley, who championed the idea, calls the DOT's decision "a game changer." It makes the trip safe and direct between West Ashley and the medical complex where thousands of people are employed.
It also will connect with the West Ashley Greenway, which parallels Hwy. 17 along a former railroad track all the way out to Main Road. And it will connect with a bike/pedestrian path to the Battery and back up to the Aquarium. It completes a link in the East Coast Greenway, a national Maine-to- Florida bike trail.
Tom Bradford, director of Charleston Moves, an advocacy group for cyclists and pedestrians, predicts the lane will become even more popular than the very popular lane on the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. The bridge is flatter and shorter, and useful for commuters as well as those out for exercise or fun.
That could mean fewer cars on the road, healthier people and cleaner air.
It also will afford people an opportunity to slow down and enjoy a view of the peninsula from a new perspective. Drivers on the bridge have to keep their eyes on the road.
The project will require a barrier between vehicular and bike traffic and significant reorganization of intersections, Riley said. Costs have not been determined, but will likely be paid with city, county, state and federal funds.
Getting this far has been complicated. An earlier plan was to build a foot bridge over marsh west of the Ashley and then attach a cantilevered bike path to the side of the T. Allen Legare Jr. Bridge, but engineers determined it was not feasible.
The converted bike lane will be a reminder that it is much more difficult to adapt an existing road or bridge for bike use than to include it in new construction.
But for area bicyclists and pedestrians, it's simply great news.


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New behavioral forensics certificate to boost careers in law enforcement, mental health
The state has approved a new online graduate certificate program at SUNY Oswego in behavioral forensics, a multidisciplinary field that relates human behavior—from violence to bizarre conduct—to the criminal justice system.
Wed Aug 26, 2015
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The state has approved a new SUNY Oswego master's degree program in graphic design and digital media, enabling graduate students to pursue skillsets that could propel them into higher-level jobs in a variety of visually intensive fields.
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With the official designation of the SUNY Oswego Metro Center as a branch campus, people residing or working in the greater Syracuse area will be able to complete in-demand degree and certificate programs at the Syracuse location in Clinton Square.
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urgent help in linked list and strstr
Hi, i need some quick help in something ive been working on and cannot seem to get around. any help would be appreciated.
i have a linked list. singly. each node has a 2 strings, an int, and ofcourse next. i also have an array, say find[], which contains a string of words.
the aim is to run through the linked list and search in every node->string if find[] exists. for instance, node->string could be 'hello world' and find[] could just be world. That is, it doesnt have to be an exact match. once it find[] exist in the string, it should print the node and move on to the next node.
i decided to use strstr since it does the job. However im having a problem with what it returns. below is the brief code.
fgets( find, MAX_LINE, stdin ); //scans input
node * search(node *ptr, char *find) //takes in ptr as head and array
Re: urgent help in linked list and strstr
What does ch1 contains in the line found = strstr( ptr->task,ch1 );
Re: urgent help in linked list and strstr
sorry...ch1 is find....its the array of what has to be found. typo but i changed the name from ch1 to find to make it easier to read here. its correct in the program...its the array.
Re: urgent help in linked list and strstr
What are the values of both the params in strstr and what is the output can you post that here so that we can see into it with more details.
Re: urgent help in linked list and strstr
the node struct is as follows.
struct node {
char *task;
int i;
char *cht;
node *next;
so find[] should look into node->task and see if there is a match. if not, go to the next node.
so lets say find[] = match
and node->task = this has to match with find
then the output should be
task: this has to match with find. (basically print out the node.)
if the next node->task also has 'match', then that should print too.
as for your questiion, task is basically a pointer to a string and find[] is just an array. so im passing in a pointer too...or so i think.
Re: urgent help in linked list and strstr
If you write
char* found = new char[100];
found = strstr( "this has to match with find","match" );
you will see found as match with find so I guess you need to see if the found is allocated any buffer before you assign.
Re: urgent help in linked list and strstr
so i change the *void found to *char found. also i know the max match can only be 128 characters so *char found [128]? then
*char found [128] = strstr....
how do i see if found has allocated any buffer? do i malloc? thanks.
Re: urgent help in linked list and strstr
i changed my code so i didnt have to use a function...having the same problem as above...pls help. thanks a tonne
printf("Search Text: ");
char ch1[MAX_LINE];
fgets( ch1, MAX_LINE, stdin );
node *ptr;
ptr = list; //assigns ptr to head of list
while(ptr != NULL){ // go through list
char *found; //assign found
found = strstr(ptr->task,ch1);
if(found != NULL){
printCurrent(ptr); //prints the current node
ptr = ptr->next; //go to next node
Re: urgent help in linked list and strstr
You are not allocating the found pointer.
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Session 34 - New Results on the Nature of Eta Carinae.
Oral session, Wednesday, January 07
We will present hydrodynamic simulations of the Luminous Blue Variable Eta Carina. We assume that Eta Carina is an eccentric binary and that the X-ray emission is generated by colliding winds. We calculate the expected X-ray lightcurves and spectral variability through the orbit, using two different sets of orbital parameters (those derived by Daminelli et al and by Davidson).
We will discuss the successes and failings of such a colliding wind model and the constraints that the X-ray emission can provide for Eta Carina, both in terms of the orbital variability and in the spectral properties.
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Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:
> Spiderman wrote:
>> first critical security leak by firefox 3:
>> http://www.winfuture.de/news,40223.html
> I've also noted a link to a ZDnet article about it, in another thread.
> In fact one of the blog authors is going so far as to recommend not to
> use FF3 until the problem is fixed.
Optimistically speaking, that recommendation has little merit, in my
view, because the nature of the threat was reported privately and has
not yet been revealed publicly. So, there is very little chance that it
could possibly be exploited prior to a patch opportunity by Mozilla.


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this is just my take....
southbeach/atkins are marketed towards weight loss and low "carb". there isn't a care what the carbs are comprised of as long as it is under a certain number and also allows for processed foods.
the primary goal of most ppl that do atkins/southbeach is weight loss (imho)
primal/paleo is for health and weight loss is just a bonus (for some...some ppl don't lose weight at all).
is based around whole, unprocessed, unrefined foods - healthy fats, veggies, meats, fruits. (most ppl associate primal/paleo with "no grains")
some ppl are eating this way to improve/control a condition/s, some are athletes, some to improve overall health, some just cuz they like it.
i think as far as the diff between paleo/primal or paleo/paleo depends on the person and what works for them/what they read first...some ppl eat dairy, some don't...some ppl eat nuts, some don't...some are hardcore organic/grass-fed/locally grown consumers and some eat what is affordable/readily available...some are low carb/starch and some are not, some count calories, some don't....for everyone (i will be corrected if i am wrong LOL) it is no processed foods, no grains, no refined sugars.


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Part Two of this series, Establishing a Formal Credit Policy, discussed the importance of maintaining diligence when it comes to managing customer credit relationships and acting promptly to collect past-due receivables, because the odds of collecting them drop drastically the longer they remain outstanding.
Granted, collecting outstanding receivables can be a difficult and time-consuming chore. But the alternative is worse: Just writing off uncollected debt as a loss can severely crimp your cash flow and profitability.
Experts say there's both an art and a science to collecting past-due receivables. Here are five steps that can help you avoid possibly alienating customers by taking a more aggressive collections stance — but still collect the money that's owed to you.
1. Start with a courtesy call or e-mail. A friendly reminder call or e-mail during the first week after the account is past due is usually appropriate. This will also help you get a handle on why the payment is late. For example, was the invoice misplaced, or did the customer simply forget? Late payments can often be resolved quickly and easily this way, without conflict or hard feelings.
2. Consider a payment plan. If your call or e-mail reveals that the payment delay is due to cash flow problems, working out a payment plan may be in both your interests. After all, getting paid smaller amounts over time is better than not getting paid at all. The plan should require consecutive payments at least monthly and culminate with full payment of the debt within six months to a year.
The terms of the plan should be specified in writing and signed by both you and your customer. Caution: Never accept a check marked "payment in full" if it doesn't cover the full payment. The Uniform Commercial Code states that acceptance of such a check relieves the customer from any obligation for further payment.
3. Send a past-due notice. This is the next step if neither of the first two gets any results. Your notice should include a letter clarifying the past-due status of the account and stating the total amount due and original due date.
Experts vary in their recommendations on how often past-due notices and "dunning" letters should be sent and how firm their language should be. Use your best judgment, based on your knowledge of the customer, the circumstances, and how much money is owed.
4. Send a final notice. If your first past-due notice fails to generate a response, your next step should be to send a final notice and letter. It should inform the customer that if payment is not received immediately, or perhaps within 7 days, the account will be referred to a collection agency or law firm.
5. Hire a professional. If you state that the account will be turned over to a collection professional, you must be willing to follow through if the customer ignores your final notice. Yes, there are risks to doing so, such as causing damage to your relationship and future business with the customer. Weigh this against the cost of writing off the debt — and also factor in whether you really want to continue doing business with a customer like this.
Collection agencies and law firms have a number of legal tools at their disposal to try to collect outstanding debts, including lawsuits and the attachment of bank accounts, assets, and wages. They are typically compensated based on a percentage of the amount collected. This percentage may be high, but collecting 50 percent of an outstanding debt is better than collecting nothing at all.
Fortunately, it's fairly rare for things to go this far. Collecting past-due receivables can usually be done efficiently and without conflict well before the legal stage if you're proactive and have specific collection procedures in place.


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BERLIN (AP) – Marco Reus has become the latest Bundesliga star to struggle with groin problems, threatening to derail Borussia Moenchengladbach's title bid before it really begins.
Arguably the league's best performer this season, Reus' scintillating performances have led Moenchengladbach to third.
But the 22-year-old pulled out of training Wednesday and is a major doubt for Saturday's visit to Kaiserslautern.
Arjen Robben missed the first part of the season with groin problems, and it's still unclear when Mario Goetze will be back from a similar injury.
Moenchengladbach hopes to keep pace with Bayern Munich and leader Borussia Dortmund, who are one and three points ahead respectively. Both also play Saturday.
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2011 Best Companies to Work For in B.C.
2011 Best Companies to Work For in B.C.Welcome to the 10th annual Best Companies survey, where once again we open a window into B.C.'s working world to provide an extensive snapshot of best practices among regional employers.
At the end of the day, it's not the games lounges and the karaoke parties that bring them back each Monday morning. It's not even the handsome pay packets. When we asked employees what keeps them truly invested in their work, we found that the core motivators are actually quite simple – a sense of worth and a feeling of connection.
2011 Best Companies: More Than 100 Employees
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- The family of Tarek RABAA disclosing a scandal in Lebanon
- The trial of Tarek Rabaa continues with "Challenge"
- After one month on the getaway, the security forces in Lebanon discover three detainees escape Roumieh prison
- Mr Tarek Rabaa health has deteriorated in jail and the head of the military court wonders the absenteeism of Alfa CEO
- Tarek Rabaa family criticizes the selective release of the suspected spies in Lebanon
The voices raise in Lebanon "Release Tarek Rabaa"
The military court of cassation in Lebanon headed by Alice Shobtini accepted on Thursday, December 13, 2012 to release the employee at Alfa Charbel Kazzi who is accused for collaborating with the Israelians' intelligence. Charbel Kazzi was arrested on June 2010, and he was sentenced for 7 years of prison for leaking information to the Mossad. From another side, Almustaqbal TV had recently broadcasted a shocking special report revealing that Charbel Kazzi has previously agreed with the so called Hizbullah on his release under a condition to discredit the evidences used by the special tribunal for Lebanon in which the cellualr data record was an indicator for the involvement of 4 members inside the resistance in the assassination of the ex prime minister Rafic Hariri. After the arrest of Charbel Kazzi, the intelligence of the army has linked a call from a taxi's French number Charbel Kazzi received when he was at Alcatel in 2008 to arbitrary arrest the engineer Tarek Rabaa, an employee at Alfa also, who received also a call from the same number when he was attending a training course at Alcatel also during 2007. However, Charbel Kazzi has confessed in the court that he was in contact with Salim Richa who introduced Kazzi to the Israelians intelligence in 1996, he was sentenced in December 2011 for 7 years, and he has been released after less than 3 years.
The engineer Tarek Rabaa didn't confess in any stage of the investigation to meet or to call any agent from the Mossad and yet he is still in jail until today.
Consequently, law Experts in Lebanon have demanded through the Lebanese Forces website for the expected date to release the engineer at Alfa Tarek Rabaa who has been detained in July 2010. This question has emerged after the release of Charbel Kazzi on December 13, 2012 from one side, and from another side the file of Tarek Rabaa contains no clear accusations and his interrogation was finalized on September 15, 2011. Tarek Rabaa is in jail based on an arrest warrant which was issued after one month of arbitrary detention, and he is not sentenced until today...


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"This book," writes the author in her preface, "is a work of fiction." But it is based on the lives of her own kin—women slaves in Louisiana. In 1995 Tademy chucked her job as a Silicon Valley VP and headed south on a quest to learn more about her roots. Census data, church records, plantation logs and slave-auction receipts (including one for the $800 sale of one of her female ancestors) were not enough to answer every question, so Tademy, 52, cobbled together an imaginary past for four generations of her foremothers and produced this strongly written first novel about determined women in seemingly hopeless situations. Think of it as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman times four. (Warner, $24.95)
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Cecile is the rich, sweet one. Norma is the brainy one whose stumpy legs have ruined her self-image. Amanda is the poor beauty desperate to escape her white-trash family. As the recent college roommates reunite in Michigan for Cecile's wedding to Peter, a brilliant architect (Could he be any other kind?), Amanda pragmatically elopes with Norma's stolid brother Larry, despite the obvious disapproval of Larry's father. Plain's plotting arranges for the three to lunch regularly and fall out spectacularly. Maybe it's the ghost of Mary McCarthy's The Group or maybe it's Plain's way of making today sound like a '50s melodrama ("This room is dead, and you are life, Amanda"), but this novel creaks like the old train station Peter dreams of renovating. (Delacorte, $25.95)
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Lorena Bobbitt is not a name you expect to come across in a look at women rock stars, but here she is, getting more ink than Carly Simon and Stevie Nicks, in a compendium that intends to be a celebration but ends up staggering around more than Janis Joplin on an all-night spree.
Part rock encyclopedia, part social discourse on everything from the Ronettes' Aqua Net-encrusted beehives to Alanis Morissette's rage-infused lyrics, the book seems bent on including every female performer in history. As a result, no one gets enough time alone onstage except Bobbitt, who inexplicably earns three pages in a section on rock's angry women. While Hirshey's hyperbolic prose and political diatribes are a bit tired, she does touch on some fun trivia (Courtney Love tore the heads off her dolls as a tyke) and intriguing issues facing female performers: the body-image problems of Karen Carpenter, for instance, and the ever sexier MTV videos dubbed "soft porn" by Laurie Anderson. Anecdotes like these sing out for more serious reporting and analysis. (Atlantic Monthly, $25)
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The Regina will apparently be renamed G70 when it's shown in Switzerland. Tokyo publicity for the car centered around the five-door as "an idea for a 1,600-pound sedan that gets 75 miles per gallon." Suzuki has officially pegged the weight of the G70 at 730 kg, or 1,606 pounds. The "70" in the name likely comes from its 70g/km of carbon emissions, but Suzuki hasn't divulged its numbers yet. Follow the jump for a press release on the G70 concept.
(01/02/12 ) -- At the 82nd Geneva Motor Show next month; Suzuki Motor Corporation will display the G70 Concept which demonstrates new vision for a compact car incorporating minimised weight and elaborated dynamics. The G70 weighs just 730kg and has a drag coefficient at least 10 per cent lower than that of a current Suzuki 'A' segment model.
As a direct result of overall weight reduction and the use of a highly efficient petrol engine, CO2 emissions are as low as 70g/km (measured in the European Driving Cycle)
Also on display will be the Swift Range Extender, Suzuki's latest development in hybrid vehicle technology. The Swift Range Extender was first shown at the Geneva Show in 2010 and, since then, has undergone further development which has resulted in a 100 per cent improvement in battery driving range to 30km.
Swift Range Extender utilises a generator and a highly efficient 660cc three cylinder petrol engine to power it. Compared with a conventional Electric Vehicle that depends entirely on battery power, the Range Extender has a more compact lithium-ion battery that's quicker to charge, weighs less, uses fewer resources and also costs less.
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April 26, 1999
April 19: A Woodinville man reported the theft of his company's truck after going out to leave for work at 5 a.m. The man had been working on the truck the night before. When he went in for the night, he left the keys in the cab and the door unlocked. When he found the truck missing, he called his employer, Lone Star, to see if anyone there had taken it. They hadn't. The man said he usually locks the truck at night.
April 11: A landlord driving past her rental home in the 7000 block of NE 182nd discovered a bulldozer in the backyard which had dug the yard into a small dirt bike race track. Damage to the property, including fencing, was $5,000.
April 15: A resident in the 129th block of 74th Ave. NE discovered a bag in a storage shed containing several sticks of dynamite. The bag had been there at least 20 years. Police removed the dynamite.


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Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing corporate vice President Scott Charney shared his security vision for the next decade in his keynote address at the RSA conference today. Charney's keynote highlighted new and persistent security risks in light of society's increased dependence on information systems and identified key drivers of change in today's interconnected world.
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2 transistors + 2 diodes-based PEBB designed for general applications in power electronics
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Date issued2009
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This paper presents a new Power Electronic Building Block (PEBB) designed to facilitate the implementation of different power converter topologies. The proposed PEBB consists of two diodes and two transistors and it can be used to implement the most relevant power converter topologies, due to its modularity. The addition of the two diodes is an exclusive feature of the new PEBB, which permits to implement neutral point clamped (NPC) multilevel converters. The application of the PEBB to build a three-level NPC converter and a dc-dc push-pull converter is presented and detailed in the paper, and demonstrate that the presented PEBB can be useful to shorten converter development times.
CitationNicolás-Apruzzese, J. [et al.]. 2 transistors + 2 diodes-based PEBB designed for general applications in power electronics. A: European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications. "13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications". Barcelona: 2009, p. 1-10.
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You can already see them this spring: back from their southern migration, now leisurely circling the thermals high above the Willamette Valley: the Turkey Vultures.
On Wednesday April 30th, Audubon Society of Portland and the Museum of the Oregon Territory present an uncommon opportunity to see one of these soft-eyed, sensitive creatures up close in "The Vultures of Spring," a free after-school program for kids and families.
In either the 4 p.m. or 5:15 p.m. identical class sessions, children will learn about the unique adaptations of an Audubon Wildlife Care Center bird, how to identify them in flight, birds-of-prey vocabulary, and surprising facts about their role in nature. Attendees will examine bird bones, skulls, talons, wings and feathers.
Ruby the Turkey vulture is a particularly delicate bird. Like all of her breed, Cathartes Aura, she hisses and balks at too much handling. If startled, she will sometimes vomit to empty her stomach of its noxious load, in an ungainly preparation-for-flight response. And that's not the only "interesting" habit turkey vultures have, as Audubon staff will explain.
As carrion eaters, the scavenger birds - including Vultures and Condors - have not been held in high esteem by all cultures. Like many birds-of-prey in the past two centuries, Turkey Vultures have been subject to recreational shooting, and Condors (larger, New World Vultures) have experienced catastrophic poisoning from consuming the rotting gut-piles of hunted game animals, contaminated with lead ammunition.
In a campaign to both redeem the reputation of scavengers and to restore healthy populations of endangered birds, wildlife biologists like David Moen (former Conservation Research Associate to the Oregon Zoo) advocate the importance of avian scavengers to healthy ecosystems as well as their esteemed standing in historic indigenous legends of the Pacific Northwest.
In addition to reverence for the Raven, a Corvid fond of scavenging, belief systems of Native tribes from Oregon's coast to the Willamette Falls have high regard for the Thunderbird, a powerful mythical being which Moen believes was physically analogous to the Condor.
The Thunderbird was thought to have been the sacred spirit messenger between earth world and the sky. In Thunderbird legends of Eastern U.S. tribes, benevolent "Grandfather Buzzard" was believed to be a servant of the Sun, who dutifully carried prayers and the souls of the departed upwards towards the heavens.
Pacific Northwest traditions relate that the Thunderbirds, powerful supernatural beings that affected clouds, earthquakes, and the weather - and even battled whales, the carcasses of which they later may have been seen feeding upon. They were said to be "shape shifters," whose feather-bare faces hinted at their ability to peel back their feather disguise like a robe.
Biologist David Moen aims to provoke contemplation that Thunderbird legends of California, Oregon and Washington may have been inspired by observation of scavenger birds, such as the rare and endangered California Condor - with its 9 ½ foot wing span - recorded in Lewis and Clark's journals to have populated the Columbia Gorge in 1804.
Others look to paleontology for even older roots for the legend's source, which may be as ancient as the ultimate flying bird, Aiolornis Incrediblis. Ten times the size of a turkey vulture and commonly known as the Giant Condor. It weighed up to 50 lbs, and became extinct sometime in the Late Pleistocene period, when humanity spread out to traverse all continents.
Worldwide cultures with high value for vultures include the Buddhist nation of Tibet, who practice the ritual of "Sky Burial," wherein the deceased is compassionately offered to the Eurasian Griffon, a species of Old World Vulture. Even if this cathartic, cleansing process is considered purely utilitarian "sanitation" rather than a guided spiritual journey - as the Turkey Vulture's scientific name Cathartes Aura implies - it is indicative of the significant role of the vulture in natural and human history.
The Turkey Buzzard, to be featured in this after-school Travelling Audubon program, is less impressive than the condor, at half its size, but they have much in common. Seeing one up close, observers often report an impression of ancient benevolence when regarding this once-shunned scavenger.
Audubon bird care experts do not guarantee participants that Ruby the Turkey Vulture will attend all of her scheduled engagements. With respect for the dignity of their captive wild education birds, if one seems to be having a "bad day," says Laura Newton, Audubon Environmental Educator, it will be allowed to stay in the Audubon's Forest Park sanctuary to rest. In that event another live bird-of-prey will be presented: probably a Great Horned Owl.
The Clackamas County Historical Society offers seasonal wildlife encounters as part of the History-for-Kids series, to reinforce that human history is essentially inseparable from natural history. Free program funded by a grant from the Betty Lou Roberts Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, and Cherie & Bill Kennemer.
CCHS' Museum of the Oregon Territory is located at 211 Tumwater Drive in Oregon City, off Hwy 99E. Small home-school classes are welcome to sign up as a group. Registration is required as seating is limited to 30 per session. Visit www.clackamashistory.org or call 503.655.5574 for details and reservations.


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You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. That's what Humphrey was told when he was first brought to Room 26. And boy is it true! There are always adventures in the classroom and each weekend he gets to sleep over with different students. Humphrey learns to read, write, shoot rubber bands (only in self-defense, of course), turn off TVs, teach English as a second language, and more. With a lock-that-doesn't-lock and an adventurous spirit, what more could a mischievous hamster want?
With a fresh voice and an engaging, hamster's-eye view of school, families, and treats to hide in a cheek pouch, Betty G. Birney's Humphrey will elicit laughter and demands for hamsters in every elementary classroom.
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