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The publications of the Institute are wide-ranging and comprise scholarly editions, books, and treatises. The scholarly editions include the complete works of major composers who lived up until the seventeenth century, composers such as Machaut, La Rue, Dufay, Willaert, Clemens, Rore, Compère, Crecquillon, Romero, and others. (See CMM for sacred and secular music and CEKM for keyboard music). Significant research findings resulting from the edition-making efforts are published in the series MSD. Published treatises include the works of influential writers from Guido of Arezzo to Jean Philippe Rameau. (See CSM and MISC). Significant collections of papers appear in MISC. Reference works are published in the series RMS. The Institute is continually accepting new book and edition proposals.
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'Suits' Recap: 'Blind-Sided' (Midseason Premiere)
With Thursday's midseason premiere, USA's Suits re-established why it is the best show on television - in fact, required viewing for anyone who loves TV.
Picking up a week after the midseason finale, "Blind-Sided" starts with Mike (Patrick J. Adams) still on emotional tilt, still getting high and still mixed up with his very much married old friend Tess (guest star Elisabeth Hower), the night before he's supposed to go back to work at Pearson Hardman.
The next morning, Harvey (Gabriel Macht) watches Daniel Hardman's name being scraped off the former managing partner's office wall, before Donna (Sarah Rafferty) tells him that he's got a message from Zoe Lawford. "I wanted to be in a position of power when I toyed with you," Donna says, determined to know why Harvey called Zoe in the first place. She eventually gets him to admit that Zoe is the person he wants to celebrate Hardman's defeat with.
Someone Harvey isn't excited about seeing is Louis (Rick Hoffman), who's still very much in the doghouse with his colleagues, much to his annoyance.
Elsewhere in the office, Rachel (Meghan Markle) nearly snaps Mike's head off when they start talking about her finding Tess in his apartment, and Rachel is surprised when Mike admits to her that Tess is married. Harvey interrupts their debacle by saying there's a crisis that needs attention. That crisis surrounds a young man named Liam Carson, who hit Albert Chung with his car driving home from a party, and doesn't know what happened to the victim because he left the scene of the accident. It's a hit-and-run.
Liam insists that he wasn't drunk at the time of the accident, but Mike doesn't believe him, and his badgering of Liam makes Harvey think Mike needs to chill. Harvey pulls Mike aside and tells him that that as his parents were killed by a drunk driver and his grandmother just died, he might need to find something else to do, but Mike refuses to step away from the case.


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During the first quarter of 2014, demand for the Volvo Group's products continued its gradual improvement in the mature economies in North America, Western Europe and Japan, while the emerging economies in South America and Asia saw weaker demand. Net sales rose by 13% to SEK 65.6 billion and operating income amounted to SEK 2.6 billion excluding restructuring costs, corresponding to a margin of 3.9%.
• In the first quarter net sales increased by 13% to SEK 65.6 billion (58.3). Adjusted for currency movements and acquired and divested units sales increased by 15%.
• The first quarter operating income amounted to SEK 2,588 M (496) excluding restructuring charges of SEK 318 M (14). Currency exchange rates had a negative impact of SEK 1,104 M.
• Operating margin in the first quarter was 3.9% (0.9) excluding restructuring charges.
• In the first quarter diluted earnings per share were SEK 0.53 (negative SEK 0.15).
• In the first quarter operating cash flow in the Industrial Operations was negative in an amount of SEK 9.0 billion (negative SEK 7.6 billion).
"The measures we are implementing to increase the Group's profitability are running according to plan and starts to have a positive impact on our gross margin and costs, but there is still more work to do in terms of cost reductions and this is the Group's main focus for 2014," says Olof Persson, President and CEO.
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JK says in League Express today that Faal will be out for three weeks with ankle injury. With Danny also out leaves us a bit short there. Suppose Breth can fill in like he did at Eagles but don't think it is ideal.
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 02:28 PM
Posted 11 February 2013 - 04:00 PM
Leroy Cudjoe...?
Posted 11 February 2013 - 04:06 PM
Behave thi sen
"I love our club, absolutely love it". (Overton, M 2007)
Posted 11 February 2013 - 05:56 PM
Wasn't Maun on the verge of fitness anyway. Bretherton will do a good job.
Posted 11 February 2013 - 07:22 PM
Leroy Cudjoe...?
Not funny Gav , he has missed one week already, so only 2 to go, and Danny was looking at the york game anyway for a return , bretherton did ok against sheffield,


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Synchronicity being what it is, it came as no surprise to find myself in Callicoon, NY (www.cafedevine.com)—this time participating with another writers' group (www.facebook.com/yarnslingers) expounding on their individual interpretation of a common theme: "Freedom." Ten storytellers gathered to share thoughts, songs and tales in another packed house, eliciting laughter and tears, not uncommon for this diverse troupe. Yarnslingers is an open group, constantly striving to include anyone who wishes to express himself or herself in a public forum, with few constraints. Sometimes I wonder why I choose to take the mic, but the answer is usually the same. Nothin' left to lose.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Ohio Art, Little Tikes, Today's Kids and Fisher-Price announced a voluntary recall to replace the nets on 10.1 million toy basketball sets. Children could strangle on loops or openings in the nets that come unhooked from the rim, or have knots that slide. If children put their heads into these openings, the net can get tangled around their necks.
Since 1988, CPSC and the manufacturers have received 20 reports of children under 5 years old getting their heads and necks caught in the nets of toy basketball sets. In 1992, an 18-month-old child died after becoming entangled in a partly unhooked net.
Consumers should immediately inspect their toy basketball sets for nets that can unhook from the rim or have knots that slide.
The toy basketball sets with nets that need to be replaced come in a variety of colors and include a nylon net and plastic hoop attached to a plastic pole. The pole is set in a plastic base and adjusts from 3.5 to 6 feet high. The manufacturer's name and model are located on the backboard or base of each toy. The manufacturers will help consumers determine if the nets need to be replaced.
Toy stores nationwide sold the toy basketball sets for about $10 to $50. While most have been sold since 1988, some were sold as early as 1976. Toy basketball sets sold in stores today, by the participating manufacturers, have nets that are attached securely to the rim, without sliding knots, and are not involved in this recall.
Consumers should remove and throw away nets that can unhook or have knots that slide, and call the manufacturer. However, one of the manufacturers, Today's Kids, is out of business and a replacement part is no longer available, so either that set should either be used without the net, or that set should be discarded or destroyed. Consumers should have the manufacturer's name and model on hand before calling the other manufacturers, who will send consumers new nets that securely attach to the rim, and do not have sliding knots. The basketball set can be used without a net until the new net arrives. Consumers should not return the product to retailers.
In 1995, Come Play, of Worcester, Mass., recalled about 70,000 basketball nets that were included in its Junior Pro Basketball Sets. For information about these recalled nets, consumers should call Come Play at (800) 528-3328.
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Can the New York Stock Exchange be saved?
The day after Jeffrey Sprecher, the chairman and chief executive of Atlanta's Intercontinental Exchange took control of the New York Stock Exchange, he sent trusted lieutenant Thomas Farley to size up the 222-year-old icon of capitalism.
On a crisp November morning, the 38-year-old Farley arrived alone at the corner of Wall and Broad streets in lower Manhattan. After walking beneath the building's majestic colonnade and past its storied trading floor, he found signs of an institution that was showing its age.
Farley says he got lost in a "rabbit warren" of hallways and wood-panelled offices. He saw little interaction among employees, and some longtimers said they had never heard of colleagues who worked a few floors away.
Within minutes, Farley made a decision: gut the place.
Since then, Farley and his boss have launched a bruising, top-to-bottom renovation of the former NYSE Euronext, acquired for $8.2 billion. They want to shrink the company, simplify its operations and reshape its culture.
Through layoffs and the sale of several European exchanges and technology businesses, the two men have slashed the number of employees and contractors from 4,000 to about half that amount.
Of the 22 people on NYSE Euronext's management team before the takeover, only three still work at ICE. The departure of former NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer, announced in May, was sped up by several months partly because Sprecher and Farley found themselves undoing much of what Niederauer built over the previous seven years, according to people familiar with the matter. Niederauer, whose last day was Friday, declined to comment.
Some outsiders see the moves as a sign that the days of floor trading at the New York Stock Exchange, where specialists still handle a fraction of trades, are numbered or that ICE will sell the exchange.
Sprecher says he wants the Big Board to get better at what it still does best: helping US companies raise capital and encouraging people to invest in them.
Getting there includes an $80 million renovation to transform parts of the clubby NYSE interior into a modern, open-plan layout with glass-walled conference rooms and whiteboards. Executive offices and the corporate boardroom will be converted into space for NYSE-listed companies. ICE also is remaking a 92-year-old trading area known as "The Garage" into a new options trading floor.
Some of the executives who were pushed out by the takeover say ICE is moving too fast. The company is "all about the bottom line," says Paul Cassell, former chief information officer of the US operations of NYSE Euronext, who left at the end of last year. "It's a different philosophy."
Many investors wonder how much ICE can accomplish as the Big Board's new owner given how far the world's largest and most famous stock exchange has fallen. A decade ago, the NYSE handled about 80% of all stock trades in the US Its market share is now 20%.
"A lot of people have said we are naive," says Sprecher, 59, a former chemical engineer who started ICE in 2000 as an online marketplace for energy trading. His response: Even more changes are coming.
In his most-detailed interview since the acquisition, Sprecher said he wants to pare the former NYSE Euronext company's five remaining stock and options exchanges down to about two. He also wants to focus more on helping companies list their shares on the stock market—and less on the day-to-day buying and selling of shares.
Sprecher believes that trading has become overly complicated, so he also is planning a number of internal adjustments at the New York Stock Exchange to make things simpler, such as reducing the number of order types. He has emerged as a leading proponent of broad regulatory changes that would force more trading away from so-called dark pools and back to public exchanges like the NYSE.
Kenneth Langone, a Home Depot co-founder and former NYSE director, is sceptical that the Big Board will ever regain its former dominance because modern financial markets no longer need costly physical institutions to handle trades.
"It's a shadow of itself," Langone says. "You could throw a bowling ball down the trading floor and not hit anybody."
ICE says the challenges are a big reason behind the continuing shake-up. The NYSE needs to be less enamored with its own traditions, says Sprecher, who gave strict orders to Farley when he replaced Niederauer as president of a subsidiary called NYSE Group in May.
"I told him I want our culture to be the one that survives," Sprecher says.
Farley, once a baseball star at Georgetown University, quickly eliminated catered staff lunches at the NYSE and the option for employees to work from home. He cut back on employee business travel, especially outside the US, and all travel requests are now scrutinised, according to people familiar with the matter.
In 2007, Sprecher hired Farley to transform the New York Board of Trade, where futures on commodities such as cotton, coffee, sugar and cocoa were traded since the 1800s, into a modern electronic marketplace. ICE bought the exchange in 2006 for $1 billion.
With the backing of Sprecher, Farley shut down the historic trading floor despite resistance from many of the brokers who worked there. He keeps a memento in his office at the NYSE: a blue-and-white trading jacket from the closed NYBOT floor.
Some NYSE employees eye the jacket with suspicion. Farley says: "We have a vision and we are going to proceed with that vision."
When ICE announced the NYSE Euronext takeover in late 2012, the primary target was the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, known as Liffe. That operation fit easily into ICE's constellation of global derivatives and clearing businesses. In 2013, the company had net revenues of $1.67 billion and net income of $254 million.
The New York Stock Exchange was a problematic bonus prize.
Due to tight rules and intense competition, stock exchanges aren't as profitable as derivatives exchanges. Some analysts predicted ICE would try to sell the NYSE to someone more interested in its cachet and legacy.
Instead, Sprecher decided to try to revamp the stock exchange himself.
Started under a buttonwood tree in lower Manhattan in 1792, the NYSE thrived for generations as a nonprofit organisation for its members. They were paid handsomely and enjoyed oysters and single-malt whiskey in the Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, started in 1898. The Big Board's trading floor is viewed as an embodiment of American capitalism.
In 2004, former Goldman Sachs Group executive John Thain was brought in to modernise the exchange, already under assault from the rise in electronic trading and rivals such as Nasdaq OMX Group. He was taken aback by the old-fashioned sensibilities of the NYSE.
"You had an institution that had not changed over many, many years," he says now. "Getting that culture to change was probably the biggest challenge" he faced before leaving in 2007 to become chief executive at Merrill Lynch. Thain now is chairman and CEO of CIT Group.
The Big Board went public while Thain was in charge, generating a big profit for longtime members but diluting their power. The casualties included a full-time tailor and the basement barbershop where a man nicknamed "Jerry the Barber" had worked for 43 years. The Stock Exchange Luncheon Club closed for good.
At the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission was pushing to increase competition among exchanges and encourage more electronic trading. As a result, stocks now can be traded on 11 exchanges and more than 50 privately run trading venues and dark pools in the US. The NYSE runs three stock exchanges and two options exchanges.
"The biggest issue is to reduce the fragmentation and get more trading back on the exchange," Thain says. "How do you get more of the stock to trade on the NYSE again?"
Sprecher's plan: dismantle much of the work done by his predecessors, including Thain. While previous NYSE executives sought to diversify by offering technology and new market-data products to high-speed traders, Sprecher is putting the brakes on those efforts.
Instead, he wants to position the NYSE as a simpler marketplace for investors and companies. In particular, he believes that will help the Big Board attract more listings of initial public offerings. In June, it won the hotly contested battle for Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding. The stock sale, planned for later this month, could raise more than $20 billion.
ICE hasn't publicly announced a specific goal for boosting listings. Sprecher and Farley say the presence of floor brokers at the New York Stock Exchange, one of the last stock exchanges in the world where humans match buy and sell orders, is a big advantage when wooing IPOs.
Analysts say listings can be a steady source of revenue, but overall business is inextricably linked with healthy trading volumes. ICE also risks alienating high-frequency traders who have been a source of big trading volume.
"The risk of neglecting trading is that a company won't want to list on a venue where there isn't a lot of volume," says Richard Repetto, an analyst at Sandler O'Neill + Partners.
As part of their strategy, Sprecher and Farley have also become regulars in Washington, urging lawmakers to pass new rules that might force more trading back onto exchanges.
"The market has become too complex, too costly and there's too much operational risk. That's why you see us charging up the Hill," Farley says. "It's not abundantly clear how many people are behind us."
Sprecher lives in Atlanta and visits New York once or twice a month, staying at hotels in lower Manhattan. He usually travels with his wife, Kelly Loeffler, ICE's head of investor relations and communications.
The day-to-day work at the NYSE is Farley's job. The son of a retired federal judge and decorated Vietnam veteran, he is the second-youngest person to run the exchange in its history. His early-morning workout group includes Australian actor Hugh Jackman.
Even cosmetic changes are meant to eliminate what Farley calls a "culture of silos" at the NYSE. He got rid of most of the coffee areas that were scattered throughout the building. A single coffee area under construction will force employees to "bump into each other," Farley says.
Some longtime NYSE employees bristle at the oft-repeated assertion that they haven't been "customer-focused" enough. Recent cuts to internship programs, including one for military veterans, struck current and former employees as a turn away from the NYSE's traditional role in the community.
ICE's management style is also less collegial. At a town-hall meeting in December for several hundred employees, Sprecher said executives shouldn't "come looking to him" to be a mentor, according to people at the meeting. In the past, top NYSE officials often sought out younger executives.
Some executives who were let go since the takeover had deep relationships across Wall Street that spanned decades. The exit of Joseph Mecane, a former UBS executive who oversaw NYSE's markets since 2008, was criticised as an example of cutting too deeply into the ranks of NYSE executives with deep knowledge of how financial markets function.
Sprecher responds that he doesn't mind that some people don't embrace ICE's strategy. One advantage ICE has is that the NYSE is a small contributor to the overall company's financial results, generating just 6% of ICE's total revenue. "We have a little more license" to take risks, he says. "We can try some things that might cause us to lose market share or alienate certain kinds of traders in the short run."
If the overhaul doesn't start to pay off quickly, Sprecher has left himself wiggle room to sell the New York Stock Exchange, many outsiders say.
"Jeff is coming at it with a blank piece of paper," says Thomas Caldwell, CEO of Toronto's Caldwell Financial, the second-biggest owner of seats on the NYSE before it went public and now an ICE shareholder. "But my sense is if he can't get an adequate return after a couple of years, enough time to bask in the limelight, he'll put it up for sale."
Sprecher says he has no plans to sell the NYSE and won't turn back from the changes being made. "A lot of people were saying I don't like this style," he says. "I respect that, so if you want to leave, we make it civil and easy to go."
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Pimco chief has lost one heir. He should not lose another
Asked this year who could succeed him as head of Pimco Bill Gross, aged 70, replied: "Think of me as a permanent feature. I'd like to be here a long time." Sure, Bill. We'd all like to be here a while. But nobody – not even you – is immortal.
And you should be aware that mutterings of disquiet at your failure to name a successor to run the firm you co-founded in 1971 are getting louder.
For years, it was a racing certainty that the man to succeed Gross at the top of Pimco, and take charge of its $2 trillion of assets, would be Mohamed El-Erian.
But Gross kept El-Erian hanging on for years and disagreements multiplied. In January El-Erian walked out and reclaimed his life. Gross's response was to name six heads of investment as deputies and appoint his operations chief, Douglas Hodge, as chief executive.
A person close to Gross says he was reluctant to select another successor without ensuring that person was better prepared than El-Erian to handle the strain of managing the giant fund manager. Some say the evaluation process could take two years, or more.
The delay has gone down badly with several investment consultants, who are wary of the fear, adulation and awe Gross inspires at his firm. They like to see a clear succession strategy at asset management firms. They reckon Gross's appointment of six deputies could amount to divide and rule.
The issue is overshadowing some remarkable achievements. No less than 89% of Pimco's funds are beating benchmarks on a three-year rolling basis. The firm is securely backed by German insurer Allianz, to which El-Erian is now a consultant.
But cynics argue that bond indices (often criticised by Pimco itself) are easy to beat. In recent quarters, Pimco has suffered outflows, equivalent to $27 billion in the three months to June.
Returns for Pimco's Total Return fund, the world's biggest bond fund managed by Gross himself, have fallen below the fund's index benchmark and peer group over the last year, after beating them for decades.
Consultants have also been heard to argue that Pimco is now so big that it would struggle to sell its bonds in a crisis, due to the illiquid nature of various markets.
This uncertain direction of travel underlines the importance of a clear succession strategy.
The weirdest thing about the whole business is that Bill Gross already employs the perfect heir apparent, in the shape of Daniel Ivascyn. He was the one of two people to be named as deputy chief investment officer by Gross following El-Erian's departure.
Andrew Balls, European investment chief, was also named, though, as a Brit, he could struggle to take the helm of a company with such a strong focus on US markets.
Gross subsequently appointed Mark Kiesel (credit); Scott Mather (global); Mihir Worah (real return) and Virginie Maisonneuve (equities) as additional deputies.
But none can compare to Ivascyn. He is renowned across Pimco as its most consistent fee generator. He is in overall charge of its cutting-edge alternatives division, comprising hedge funds, distressed strategies and real estate, where he supervises 64 portfolio managers. Balls has the next biggest empire, totalling 49.
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Pimco Income, the $30 billion fund, managed by Ivascyn and Alfred Murata, has a five-star Morningstar rating, while Gross's Total Return only has four.
The income fund has delivered top-percentile performance over three and five years. It has returned an annualised 13.5% over five years, against 4.5% from its benchmark. It avoided risky mortgage debt during the credit boom but piled in, to its immense profit, as prices crashed.
Ivascyn has also led Pimco's initiative to get stuck into the restructuring of some of the unwanted $1 trillion debt held by European banks.
Morningstar analyst Sarah Bush says Pimco has packed plenty of resources behind Pimco Income: "Pimco is good at a lot of things and the fund has not yet showed any signs of slowing down."
Gross is a big fan of the income style. In his latest newsletter, he said: "Capital gains from almost all asset classes are approaching dusk. Low but relatively dependent income will be the market's future driver."
Gross is not the only US asset management chief to stay a long, long, time in the hot seat. Dan Fuss, 80, manages Loomis Sayles & Co's flagship bond fund. Ned Johnson retains the title of chairman and chief executive at Fidelity Investments at 84.
But executives who delay their departure are at permanent risk of losing potential successors within their firm, as rivals woo them away.
Kathleen Gaffney spent 15 years as deputy to Fuss at Loomis. She jumped ship for Eaton Vance last year. Johnson has lost a series of successors, most recently Ron O'Hanley, who quit Fidelity this year, leaving Johnson's daughter Abigail in pole position.
Gross would be well advised not to postpone Ivascyn's promotion much longer.
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In fulfilling the Peace Corps' mandate to share the face of America with our host countries, we are making special efforts to see that all of America's richness is reflected in the Volunteer corps. More Americans of color are serving in today's Peace Corps than at any time in recent years. Differences in race, ethnic background, age, religion, and sexual orientation are expected and welcomed among our Volunteers. Part of the Peace Corps' mission is to help dispel any notion that Americans are all of one origin or race and to establish that each of us is as thoroughly American as the other despite our many differences.
Our diversity helps us accomplish that goal. In other ways, however, it poses challenges. In Azerbaijan, as in other Peace Corps host countries, Volunteers' behavior, lifestyle, background, and beliefs are judged in a cultural context very different from their own. Certain personal perspectives or characteristics commonly accepted in the United States may be quite uncommon, unacceptable, or even repressed in Azerbaijan.
Outside of Azerbaijan's capital, residents of rural communities have had relatively little direct exposure to other cultures, races, religions, and lifestyles. What people view as typical American behavior or norms may be a misconception, such as the belief that all Americans are rich and have blond hair and blue eyes. The people of Azerbaijan are justly known for their generous hospitality to foreigners; however, members of the community in which you will live may display a range of reactions to cultural differences that you present.
To ease the transition and adapt to life in Azerbaijan, you may need to make some temporary, yet fundamental compromises in how you present yourself as an American and as an individual. For example, female trainees and Volunteers will not be able to exercise the independence available to them in the United States; political discussions need to be handled with great care; and some of your personal beliefs may best remain undisclosed. You will need to develop techniques and personal strategies for coping with these and other limitations. The Peace Corps staff will lead diversity and sensitivity discussions during your pre-service training and will be on call to provide support, but the challenge ultimately will be your own.
- 1 Overview of Diversity in Azerbaijan
- 2 What Might a Volunteer Face?
- 2.1 Possible Issues for Female Volunteers
- 2.2 Possible Issues for Volunteers of Color
- 2.3 Possible Issues for Senior Volunteers
- 2.4 Possible Issues for Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Volunteers
- 2.5 Possible Religious Issues for Volunteers
- 2.6 Possible Issues for Volunteers With Disabilities
- 2.7 Possible Issues for Married Volunteers
Overview of Diversity in Azerbaijan
The Peace Corps staff in Azerbaijan recognizes adjustment issues that come with diversity and will endeavor to provide support and guidance. During pre-service training, several sessions will be held to discuss diversity and coping mechanisms. We look forward to having male and female Volunteers from a variety of races, ethnic groups, ages, religions, and sexual orientations, and hope that you will become part of a diverse group of Americans who take pride in supporting one another and demonstrating the richness of American culture.
What Might a Volunteer Face?
Possible Issues for Female Volunteers
Although Azerbaijan's culture is more secular than that of most Muslim countries, it remains largely patriarchal. Men are accorded more leeway than women in most supervisory and leadership roles. In schools, however, most language teachers are women. Volunteers find that, while on the surface
Azerbaijani culture seems to give women more freedom (in dress and some careers), women are carefully "protected" in that they don't go out alone and don't go to many places in town (e.g., teahouses, cafes, and certain parts of the baazar). This often appears restrictive to Americans entering the culture.
Female Volunteers may find that Azerbaijanis think it is strange for a single woman to live alone. They will receive more unwanted and inappropriate attention from men than they do in the United States. Female Volunteers will not be able to have male visitors in their home-stay rooms or apartments in villages. They may have to work harder than male Volunteers to gain the respect of Azerbaijani counterparts in the workplace. And they will need to keep a low social profile and practice discretion in public (i.e., not smoke in public or drink in public) to avoid developing an undesirable reputation in the community.
Possible Issues for Volunteers of Color
Azerbaijan has an ethnically diverse population and a long history of interaction with peoples of Central Asia.
Still, a person of color may be the only minority trainee or Volunteer in a particular program. You may work and live with individuals with no experience or understanding of your culture. You may not receive, or be able to receive, the necessary personal support from other Volunteers and may be questioned about socializing exclusively with other minority Volunteers. Finally, you may not find minority role models among the local Peace Corps staff.
African-American Volunteers may be evaluated as less professionally competent than nonblack Volunteers. They may be called "Negroes," not necessarily in a derogatory sense but as the local word used to describe black people. They may be the focus of staring, pointing, or comments. Hispanic American Volunteers may not be perceived as being American or may be the subject of stereotyped perceptions of Hispanic cultures other than their own. Asian-American Volunteers may be the subject of stereotyped perceptions based on behavior observed in films. Like all Volunteers of color, they may be identified more by their cultural heritage than by their American citizenship.
Possible Issues for Senior Volunteers
Respect comes with age in Azerbaijan. Younger Volunteers may have to work harder than their older colleagues to be accepted as professionals. Older Volunteers may feel isolated within the Peace Corps community in Azerbaijan because the majority of Volunteers are in their 20s. In training, seniors may encounter frustration in not having their needs met for an effective learning environment in areas such as timing, presentation, and style. They may need to be assertive in developing an effective individual approach to language learning. During their service, seniors may work and live with individuals who have little understanding of, or respect for, the lives and experiences of senior Americans. Older Volunteers may find that younger Volunteers look to them for advice and support. While some seniors find this to be very enjoyable, others choose not to fill this role.
Possible Issues for Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Volunteers
In Azerbaijan, homosexuality is generally considered immoral for religious and cultural reasons. There are certainly homosexuals in Azerbaijan, but their level of acceptance is very low. While there is some evidence of gay culture in Baku, it is quite discreet and underground. However, in the regions where you will be placed, homosexuality is definitely not accepted. Even certain styles of hair and clothes, earrings on men, and certain mannerisms that are accepted in the United States may be viewed with suspicion or disdain in your community. Your basic civil liberties may be ignored, or you may be hassled in bars or on the street.
You may not find the support you desire within the Peace Corps community in Azerbaijan. Homosexual or bisexual Volunteers may serve for two years without meeting another homosexual or bisexual Volunteer. Relationships with homosexual host country nationals can happen, but as with all cross-cultural relationships, they are not likely to be easy.
Lesbians, like all women, may have to deal with constant questions about boyfriends, marriage, and sex. Wearing an "engagement ring" may help. Gay men, like all men, may have to deal with machismo: talk of conquests, girl watching, and dirty jokes.
Possible Religious Issues for Volunteers
Azerbaijanis frequently ask Volunteers about their religious affiliation, but this is more out of curiosity than out of any challenge. Ninety-three percent of Azerbaijanis are Muslim, and mosque attendance and other religious observances are generally greater in rural areas. If you wish to visit a mosque, ask your host family or counterpart first, and be guided by their response. Azerbaijan has a long tradition of tolerance toward and coexistence with other faiths, with the exception of Armenian Orthodoxy, an outgrowth of the ongoing tensions between Azerbaijan and its western neighbor. Proselytizing of any kind by Volunteers is prohibited.
Possible Issues for Volunteers With Disabilities
As a disabled Volunteer in Azerbaijan, you may find that you face a special set of challenges. In Azerbaijan, as in other parts of the world, some people hold prejudicial attitudes about individuals with disabilities and may discriminate against them. Some people may mistake you for a war veteran at first. In addition, there is very little of the infrastructure to accommodate individuals with disabilities that has been developed in the United States.
As part of the medical clearance process, the Peace Corps' Office of Medical Services determined that you were physically and emotionally capable of performing a full tour of Volunteer service in Azerbaijan without unreasonable risk of harm to yourself or interruption of your service. Peace Corps/ Azerbaijan staff will work with disabled Volunteers to make reasonable accommodations in training, housing, job sites, and other areas to enable them to serve safely and effectively.
Possible Issues for Married Volunteers
Azerbaijanis welcome married couples, so being married per se should not cause any problems. Difficulties for married Volunteers do sometimes arise, however, in the areas of language training, living with a host family, and placement.
If one spouse has superior language learning skills, the other spouse may not work as hard at learning the language or come to rely on his or her partner's language skills. But to integrate into the host community it is essential that both learn Azerbaijani. Furthermore, everyone must successfully meet minimum language requirements to complete training and become a Volunteer.
Couples may find that the privacy they have become accustomed to is in short supply when living with an Azerbaijani family. You will be expected to participate in the family's life, especially during and after dinners. Arranging for private time and space in a culturally acceptable manner may require some sensitivity and flexibility on your part.
Spouses should expect to be separated during pre-service training, especially if spouses are placed in different programmatic sectors.


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"This is an exciting new opportunity for even more people to get involved in conserving natural resources," said Rhode Island state conservationist R. Phou Vongkhamdy. "We encourage Indian tribes, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, and private landowners to contact the NRCS office in Warwick to find out how to apply."
The ACEP, created through the 2014 Farm Bill, funds easements for agricultural lands and wetland reserves.
Approved agricultural easements would prevent productive working lands from being converted to non-agricultural uses and maximize protection of land devoted to food production. Cropland, grassland, pastureland, and nonindustrial private forestland are eligible.
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Townsend, who served as the interim city manager for a while until current City Manager Jack Hamlett was hired, was contracted to study Beeville's water system and make recommendations on how to improve the system.
Townsend reminded council members that at one time, the city had provided water and wastewater services to both the McConnell and Garza East and West Units.
In fact, a pipeline still exists between the city and Garza units through which the city was able to supply water for the two facilities.
The bulk of that pipeline had been financed by a federal government grant, Townsend said.
The former Corpus Christi city manager noted that Beeville maintains an agreement with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and if that agency should request that the city provide water to its units at the Chase Field Criminal Justice Center, Townsend said he believes the city would have to comply.
The Chase Field center quit using city water after the agency had wells that had been established at the former naval air station put back into service.
Townsend reminded council members that the McConnell Unit, which still uses city water, is a major customer for the city's utility department.
He said the McConnell Unit spends about $2 million a year buying water from Beeville.
"That's one-third of the Utility Fund budget," Townsend said. "That's a big, big customer."
He told council members that he had traveled to Huntsville to meet with Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials and had been assured that the prison facilities here will continue to use city water and wastewater services.
He said the prison system needs to play an active role in water planning for the city.
Townsend said the city's utility department needs to focus on three important facets on providing water service to its customers.
Those include reliability, service to customers and a dependable backup capability.
Reliability depends on the Beeville Water Supply District pumping and treatment facilities having reliable electric service.
Backup power sources should be considered an important part of that. He recommended that the city make sure that every pumping facility between Lake Corpus Christi and the city have a backup generator to provide power to its pumps in the event electric service is interrupted.
Then Townsend touched briefly on the amount of raw water the BWSD purchases from the City of Corpus Christi.
One bit of good news came when the consultant said that the equipment at the George P. Morrill Water Treatment Plant is capable of pumping up to seven million gallons a day to the city's distribution system.
Another encouraging figure came up when Townsend went down a list showing how much water the city had purchased from Corpus Christi on a daily basis.
"There are not fours, fives or sixes," he told the council as he explained how many millions of gallons of water Beeville purchases a day.
That means that, except for peak demand situations, the city is not buying an unanticipated amount of water from Corpus Christi.
Townsend explained that a couple of water purchase contracts exist to assure Beeville residents a steady supply of water.
The BWSD purchases raw water from Corpus Christi and the City of Beeville buys treated water from the water district.
At the time the contacts were approved and signed, Beeville agreed to some rationing priorities and even agreed to stop pumping water from the headwaters of Lake Corpus Christi if the level should drop to a certain point.
Townsend reminded the council that, at the time, the city still had working wells and that it had agreed to maintain those wells.
That did not happen. Today those wells not only are dysfunctional, but he would not recommend trying to use them again.
Today, Corpus Christi has a contract to use water from Lake Texana by pumping it through the Mary Rhodes Pipeline.
"Texana is at 97 percent capacity," Townsend told the council.
He also said that today, Choke Canyon Reservoir and Lake Corpus Christi have more water combined than Lake Corpus Christi would have been able to hold before it became silted up.
Townsend recommended that Beeville develop some new wells to supplement its lake water. But he said the city should never agree to stop using water from the lakes.
He had some good news concerning the city's bond selling ability. The BWSD's outstanding debt will be paid off in August of 2016 and at that point Beeville will be able to sell up to $15 million in new debt without having to raise taxes to repay the bonds.
That money could be used to pay for a variety of projects to improve the city's water situation.
He also recommended that the BWSD be allowed to annex some of the property that has been taken in by the city but not by the district. That way, the district would be able to improve its annual tax collections.
Townsend plans to deliver other reports and make some recommendations at future council meetings.
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In 1964, long before high school junior Lewis Hightower had decided to choose pest control as a career, he read an article in Time magazine about "killer bees" that escaped a laboratory in Brazil.
He kept up with the news over the years, reading estimates that this species, known as Africanized honeybees, would not reach the United States until 2012.
By the time he bought Southwest Pest Control in 1993, the bees were confirmed in New Mexico's Hidalgo County. It's 2006, six years before Africanized honeybees were predicted to reach the United States, and they're here to stay — changing the public's idea of what constitutes a pest and how pest control does its business.
To Southwest and others, bees were primarily pollinators and honey-producers as recently as three years ago. Hightower remembered Southwest handling six calls for bees in 2003. Then it was 10 calls in 2004.
In 2005, the company handled 19 calls for bees in a three-week period.
"Up until 2005, we didn't attribute anything to them," Hightower said. "We were just dealing with bees."
In was in July 2005 that Africanized honeybees were first confirmed in Roosevelt County, and nothing has stopped the spread. Southwest has sent 51 samples from a four-county area to labs in Arizona between February and August. Of the 46 that have been returned, 32 (70 percent) were confirmed as Africanized — including nine of 10 samples from Curry County.
"Clovis is hotter than a firecracker right now," Hightower said.
It's an impact that's been felt not just by a bigger business such as Southwest, which has eight branches in New Mexico. It's also felt by smaller businesses, such as Dave's Vector Control, where the Yellow Pages listing is the cell phone number for David Gutierrez of Clovis.
In both cases, the businesses are swamped with phone calls.
"If you do that kind of work, they're going to find you," said Gutierrez, who has spent most of his 15 years eliminating pests for local dairies. "I don't advertise for bees."
Nor does Southwest, which used to handle beehives at night with workers dressed in street clothes. Now, the business gets so many calls it has to handle many during daylight hours, and that means more protection.
"The only change it makes for us is it requires us to wear full protective gear," said Hightower, who spoke while wearing a collared SPC shirt and jeans. "You take your life in your hands (destroying a colony) dressed like I am now."
Gutierrez said he also upgraded equipment, noting that a bee suit is a $300 cost on top of normal equipment he uses. He's recouped his investment with a greater number of calls, but didn't take much solace in the extra money.
"I think it's a case where it's going to hurt the people, and I don't want to make a profit on it," said Gutierrez, who said he has given discounts to people with tight finances.
Hightower echoed those sentiments. He said Southwest doesn't need bee work to have a successful business, but encourages people to seek professional help for what he deems a public safety issue.
"Call somebody," Hightower said. "It doesn't have to be us. There are other companies that can do the job as well as we can."


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Addison's Disease
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It is possible that the main title of the report Addison's Disease is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
- chronic adrenocortical insufficiency
- primary adrenal insufficiency
- primary failure adrenocortical insufficiency
General Discussion
Addison's disease is a rare disorder characterized by inadequate production of the steroid hormones cortisol and aldosterone by the two outer layers of cells of the adrenal glands (adrenal cortex). The symptoms of classic Addison's disease, also known as primary adrenal insufficiency, result from the insufficient production of these two hormones, cortisol and aldosterone. Major symptoms include fatigue, gastrointestinal abnormalities, and changes in skin color (pigmentation). Behavior and mood changes may also occur in some individuals with Addison's disease. Increased excretion of water and low blood pressure (hypotension) can lead to extremely low concentrations of water in the body (dehydration). The symptoms of Addison's usually develop slowly, but sometimes can develop rapidly, a serious condition called acute adrenal failure. In most cases, Addison's disease occurs when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks the adrenal glands causing slowly progressive damage to the adrenal cortex.
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Addison's Disease Self-Help Group (UK)
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|Pre-service training will probably be the most intense period of your Peace Corps service, as you will need to gain the knowledge and experience necessary to successfully serve as a Volunteer in just 10 weeks. While the training period will be extremely busy, it should also be a time of excitement, discovery, and self-fulfillment. The effort and challenges of adapting to a new culture will draw on your reserves of patience and humor but will be handsomely rewarded with a sense of belonging among new friends.
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Training is an essential and ongoing part of your Peace Corps service. Pre-service training will give you enough skills and information to begin your adjustment to and service in South Africa. It is the first "reality test" of your life as a Volunteer, which will help you make an informed commitment when you swear in as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
The 8- to 10-week pre-service training in South Africa is community based, meaning that the bulk of the training takes place in a community similar to where you will be placed as a Volunteer. The training staff will design a learning environment with experiences and meetings designed to allow you to develop the knowledge and skills needed for your work as a Volunteer. There will be sessions on language, community integration, cross-cultural communication, development issues, health and personal safety, and technical skills appropriate to your assignment. Throughout your training, you will live with a South African family and work in villages and schools.
At the onset of training, the training staff will outline the training goals and assessment criteria that each trainee has to reach before becoming a Volunteer. Evaluation of your performance during training will be based on a continual dialogue between you and the training staff. The training manager, along with other training staff, will work with you to achieve the training goals by providing you feedback throughout training.
Technical Training
Technical training will prepare you to work in South Africa by building on the skills you already have and helping you to develop new skills in a manner appropriate to the needs of the country. The Peace Corps staff, South Africa experts, and current Volunteers will conduct the training program. Training places great emphasis on learning how to transfer the skills you have to the community in which you will serve as a Volunteer.
Technical training will include sessions on the environment, economics, and politics in South Africa and strategies for working within such a framework. You will review your technical sector's goals and will meet with the South African agencies and organizations that invited the Peace Corps to assist them. You will be supported and evaluated throughout the training to build the confidence and skills you need to undertake your project activities and be a productive member of your community.
Language Training
As a Peace Corps Volunteer, you will find that language skills are the key to personal and professional satisfaction during your service. These skills are critical to your job performance, they help you integrate into your community, and they can ease your personal adaptation to the new surroundings. Therefore, language training is the heart of the training program, and you must successfully meet minimum language requirements to complete training and become a Volunteer. South Africa language instructors teach formal language instruction five days a week in small classes of four to five people. South African languages are also introduced in the health, cross-cultural, and technical components of training.
Your language training will incorporate a community-based approach. In addition to classroom time, you will be given assignments to work on outside of the classroom and with your host family. The goal is to get you to a point of basic social communication skills so that you can practice and develop language skills further on your own. Prior to your swearing in as a Volunteer, you will work on strategies to continue language studies during your two years of service.
Cross-Cultural Training
As part of your pre-service training, you will live with a South African host family. The experience is designed to ease your transition to life at your site. Families have gone through an orientation conducted by Peace Corps staff to explain the purpose of the pre-service training program and to assist them in helping you adapt to living in South Africa. Many Volunteers form strong and lasting friendships with their host families.
Cross-cultural and community development training will help you improve your communication skills and understand your role as a facilitator of development. You will be exposed to topics such as community mobilization, conflict resolution, gender and development, nonformal and adult education strategies, and political structures.
Health Training
During pre-service training, you will be given basic medical training and information. You will be expected to practice preventive healthcare and to take responsibility for your own health by adhering to all medical policies. Trainees are required to attend all medical sessions. The topics include preventive health measures and minor and major medical issues that you might encounter while in South Africa. Nutrition, mental health, safety and security, setting up a safe living compound, and how to avoid HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are also covered.
Safety Training
During the safety training sessions, you will learn how to adopt a lifestyle that reduces risk in your home, at work, and during your travels. You will also learn appropriate, effective strategies for coping with unwanted attention and about your individual responsibility for promoting safety throughout your service.
Additional Trainings During Volunteer Service
In its commitment to institutionalize quality training, the Peace Corps has implemented a training system that provides trainees and Volunteers with continual opportunities to examine their commitment to Peace Corps service while increasing their technical and cross-cultural skills. During your service, there are usually three training events. The titles and objectives for those trainings are as follows:
- In-service training: Provides an opportunity for Volunteers to upgrade their technical, language, and project development skills while sharing their experiences and reaffirming their commitment after having served for three to six months.
- Midterm conference (done in conjunction with technical sector in-service): Assists Volunteers in reviewing their first year, reassessing their personal and project objectives, and planning for their second year of service.
- Close of service conference: Prepares Volunteers for the future after Peace Corps service and reviews their respective projects and personal experiences.
The number, length, and design of these trainings are adapted to country-specific needs and conditions. The key to the training system is that training events are integrated and interrelated, from the pre-departure orientation through the end of your service, and are planned, implemented, and evaluated cooperatively by the training staff, Peace Corps staff, and Volunteers.


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Mrs. Sanders was born to Rye Amos Rigby Bonner and Alpha Mildred Maroney Bonner on April 29, 1928, in Bloomington. She married James M. Sanders on July 1, 1949, in Galveston and was a member of First United Methodist Church in Three Rivers and First United Methodist Joy Circle. She was a Live Oak County health nurse in the mid-1960s, a retired nurse for Three Rivers Independent School District and worked for several public and private companies as a nurse. She enjoyed painting.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James M. Sanders; and a brother, Robert R. Bonner.
Survivors include her children, James R. (Kelly) Sanders of Beaumont and Sheryl (Tony) Ferguson of Three Rivers; a brother, Warren (Faye) Bonner of Ozark, Ala.; three grandchildren, Nicole Allison, Will Ferguson and Katie Ferguson; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation was held from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, July 15, at Galloway & Sons Funeral Home in Three Rivers.
The funeral service was conducted at 3 p.m. Monday, July 16, at First United Methodist Church in Three Rivers with Rev. Harry West officiating. Interment followed at Three Rivers Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to First United Methodist Church or the charity of one's choice.
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Welcome to awesome bug tracking system.
FS#561 - Support for column objects
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Opened by antti valli (elefantti) - Monday, 27 July 2009, 17:47 GMT
Opened by antti valli (elefantti) - Monday, 27 July 2009, 17:47 GMT
In current versions of awesome you can decide the number of master windows and the number of slave columns (for tile layout). There is no public api (?) for determining the column in which a window has been placed (awful.client.idx is local). Windows are distributed evenly across the slave columns. Only master columns width can be changed.
This could be improved by adding explicit column objects that store as fields the wfact of each column, the number of clients in that column and the last focused client of each column. The column sizes could be used to calculate the clients column and placement in that column based on the clients index.
Storing the focus for each column would allow swapping between columns similar to client.focus.bydirection.
Columns could also be maximized independently (so that the clients in that columns would be stacked on top of each other rather than tiled).
This is similar to how the layout is done in wmii. Awesome should also implement horizontal layout direction though.
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Comment by Angus Frinc (afrinc_) - Tuesday, 14 September 2010, 09:48 GMT
Really agree with this Featuring Request. This is the most missing for me, coming from wmii/i3, the possibility to maximize a slave window over the other slaves.


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