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Category: Art and Entertainment, Education, Health, International, Media, Reproductive Rights
Delivering the News—Ghana's "Maternal Health Channel"
| April 25, 2013
Expectant mothers and their caregivers in Ghana can now look to the airwaves for critically important information.
April 5, 2013, marked the 1000-day milestone in working towards the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. The fifth goal, MDG 5, is to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75 percent from 1990 to 2015 and to achieve universal access to reproductive health.
While important progress has been made, we are not nearly close enough to reaching MDG 5. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 800 women die every day across the globe due to avoidable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. In 2010—two-thirds of the way through the MDG period—287,000 women died due to childbirth or pregnancy, only a 47 percent decline from 1990.
Mahmoud Fathalla, former president of the International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, points to the social implications of these horrifying statistics in "Human Rights Aspects of Safe Motherhood," his 2006 study: "Women are not dying during pregnancy and childbirth because of conditions that are difficult to manage. They are dying because the societies in which they live did not see fit to invest what is needed to save their lives."
Giving birth should not be a death sentence.
In Ghana, where the maternal mortality ratio is 350 deaths for every 100,000 live births—one of the highest in the world—some have started to think outside traditional measures to reach MDG 5. Inspired by Dr. Kwesi Owusu's documentary, "The Lights Have Gone Out Again," a new television series sheds light on the debate surrounding maternal health strategies while disseminating vital pre- and post-natal health information to Ghanaians: the "Maternal Health Channel" (MHC).
The MHC began airing in February 2013 and is scheduled to continue for a year. The series broadcasts one 30-minute weekly episode for two evening slots on GTV and TV3 in Ghana.
While it takes the form of a TV series, the MHC is very much a channel—or a road or conduit—in that it seeks to connect people to something they need: in this case, maternal health information. Rather than discrete episodes, each individual program combines documentary footage, news broadcast, and narrative drama.
The first problem that leads to high maternal mortality rates in Ghana is a delay at home: when families are unable to spot problem signs related to pregnancy. There's often a further delay in reaching a hospital due to poor infrastructure. And the hospital is likely to be over-crowded and under-staffed, causing more delays in treatment that put women's lives at risk.
Television can help combat the initial delay—the lack of information at home—given its popularity in both rural and urban regions of Ghana. According to a 2009 survey, more than 80 percent of Ghanaians regularly watch television. With so many people tuning in, the MHC has the potential to significantly affect the way people respond to pregnancy and childbirth. Women and their families can receive information that will better equip them to make early decisions about maternal health and safety.
Television can also relieve issues caused by poor infrastructure. In a society that lacks stable infrastructure, broadcast media become one of the more reliable ways to reach people, spread information, and keep people connected. Media theorist Rudolf Arnheim suggested decades ago that television resembles the "motor-car and the aeroplane" in its ability to connect us and, even, transport us mentally—and this is as true today as ever.
In the Kute-Buem region of Ghana, people use the phrase "plying the death" to describe the journey one takes via motorbike over poorly constructed and ill maintained dirt roads. As a response to high maternal mortality rates, the World Health Organization has encouraged women in labor to go to the hospital rather than seek local help, but for too many women that means "plying the death." If traditional birth attendants and women themselves had access to the maternal health information they need, fewer women would risk their lives trying to reach an under-staffed hospital in time. The MHC is an example of how television and broadcast media in general can connect us to vital resources when other infrastructure cannot. If the roads have failed, we have the airways to connect us to what we need.
But will the MHC ensure that Ghana reaches MDG 5? Most likely not. It can, however, broaden the conversation about women's health as a key to peacekeeping as well as social and economic development. Perhaps most significantly, the MHC will ultimately help us begin to imagine the ways we might use television and broadcast more generally to improve women's health—and subsequently advance women's rights and amplify women's voices.
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UPDATE: Friday at 11:30 p.m. I'm still working on it! Sorry y'all these units take a long time and I want it to have lots of good ideas. Tomorrow my son has an out of town basketball tournament but I PROMISE to have it finished by Sunday.
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One of my RBC holdings stmts (Canadian Equity Funds) as of Dec 2011 states: Total amount in 3,741.20. Change in Value: 746.59. Current value is 4,487.79. It states my personal rate of return (annualized since 2003) is 5.65%.
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ROR = profit/cost, therefore 746.59/3741.20 = 20%/9 years = 2.2% per year.
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Pre-K Program Seeking Teacher: Must Be Caring
Mayor Bill de Blasio's promise to deliver high-quality pre-kindergarten to 53,000 4-year-olds depends on one critical factor: teachers. Officials say they're hiring a thousand teachers to staff the new classrooms in the fall.
But it can be challenging to hire this volume of qualified and capable educators. So the city's Department of Education set up a hiring fair last week at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Midtown, where 300 aspiring pre-kindergarten teachers met recruiters from 80 community organizations.
"I feel like I'm speed-dating here," said Dawn Posporelis, a manager at Precious Moments Nursery School in Queens, as she sat behind a table holding five-minute conversations to size up applicants.
Unlike some job fairs, where the chances of actually getting a job are slim, here the chances are high and the task is matchmaking. Community organizations need to staff up quickly, and some organizations were looking to hire as many as 10 teachers.
"A lot of good-quality talent is coming through. So I'm pretty confident that we're going to be full by next weekend," said Ron Tompkins, who needed to fill five pre-k teaching jobs at two sites in Queens. He said he found several prospective teachers with the wisdom and experience he was looking for. "Basically, I just said to them, 'I've got money, you've got skills, let's do something,'" he said.
Recruiters described their ideal candidate as "warm," "kind" or "caring." Many of them are talking about the same quality: responsiveness. Research shows this quality most impacts young children.
Many of the aspiring teachers are CUNY students who are taking an intensive pre-k work-study program that the de Blasio administration set up to staff the new classrooms. Starting in the fall, they'll take courses at night while teaching pre-kindergarten during the day.
The prospective teachers are almost entirely women, some with years of teaching experience. Many are switching careers. There are at least two lawyers, a dancer, an HR director and an artist.
Stacey Sperling said that the past week has been a bureaucratic blur of health forms and fingerprints. Sperling, a yoga instructor enrolled in the CUNY program, has taught kids in a homeless shelter and said she would use yoga techniques to help 4-year-olds deal with frustrations. "Stopping, pausing, taking a moment, taking a breath," she said.
Then, taking a breath herself, she went back to speed-dating in the hopes that a pre-kindergarten class would be a match for her.


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The vision of the Comprehensive Integrated Mental Health Plan is optimal quality of life for all Alaskans, especially those experiencing mental and emotional illness, cognitive and developmental disabilities, alcoholism and substance use disorders, and Alzheimer's disease or similar dementia.
Alaska Statute 47.30.660 requires the Department of Health and Social Services, in conjunction with the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, to develop and revise a plan for a comprehensive integrated mental health program for Alaska. Under the statute, the preparation of this plan is to be coordinated with federal, state, regional, local, and private entities involved in mental health services.
The purpose of this Comprehensive Integrated Mental Health Plan (Comp MH Plan) is to guide resource allocation decisions in the development of services, workforce, and facilities to meet the needs of Trust beneficiaries. The overall goal is a service system that quickly meets the needs of each individual, where highly qualified staff from state, federal, tribal and private agencies have the resources necessary to work together to provide seamless care for the best outcome possible for each person. Another goal is to reduce the incidence of Trust beneficiaries' disabling conditions through prevention and early intervention, to the extent possible.
Moving Forward: Comprehensive Integrated Mental Health Plan is coordinated with plans developed by the Alaska Mental Health Board, the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education, the Governor's Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and the Alaska Commission on Aging, collectively called the beneficiary planning and advocacy boards, and by the Department of Corrections'1999 plan. This plan is also linked with such DHSS plans as Healthy Alaskans 2010 and other planning initiatives.
Moving Forward: Comprehensive Integrated Mental Health Plan has a vision of optimal quality of life for Alaskans, especially those Alaskans who receive services under the Comprehensive Integrated Mental Health Program (AS 47.30). By law, these service recipients (also called Trust beneficiaries) are Alaskans who have a mental illness or a developmental disability, experience chronic alcoholism or Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia, or could be diagnosed with a comparable disorder due to either a general medical condition such as brain injury or a substance-induced disorder (AS 47.30.056 and 20 AAC 40.510). Efforts include prevention, to the extent possible, of these disabling conditions. Those who may need services in the future are included in this plan since prevention is the surest way to limit human suffering and is usually the least costly strategy.
With Alaska data and national prevalence data, we can estimate that there are currently up to 97,948 Trust beneficiaries in Alaska, as follows. There are unavoidable duplications in this estimate (e.g. some individuals are in more than one beneficiary group, so they are counted more than once).
A recent report on behavioral health prevalence estimates in Alaska estimates that in the year 2006, 4.6 percent (21,754) of Alaskan adults in households had a Serious Mental Illness and 7.2 percent (12,725) of Alaska youth had Serious Emotional Disturbance. The adult estimates include only those with a diagnosable DSM IV disorder that has persisted over one year and is associated with significant impairment.1
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia.
Alzheimer's disease is now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States across all age cohorts, and the fifth leading cause of death for Americans age 65 and older. An estimated 5.4 million Americans of all ages are living with Alzheimer's disease; one in eight people age 65 and older has the disease. Almost half of those aged 85 and older are affected.3
The Alaska Commission on Aging estimates that as of 2010, there were roughly 7,785 Alaskans with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia (6,067 Alaskans aged 65 and above and 1,718 aged 55 to 64). This estimate does not include those with brain injury. As of October 1, 2011, 58 percent of residents in the Alaska Pioneer Homes had a dementia diagnosis.
An estimated 14.9 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer's or other dementia. In 2010, they provided 17 billion hours of unpaid care, a contribution to the nation valued at $202.6 billion. In Alaska, an estimated 30,927 caregivers provided over 35.2 million hours of unpaid care, valued at nearly $420 million.3
The number of Americans with Alzheimer's disease is increasing each year due to the aging of the population. Because of pipeline-era (1970s and 80s) in-migration of young and middle-aged workers, Alaska now has the fastest-growing population age 65 and older in the United States. The number of older Alaskans with Alzheimer's Disease is projected to nearly triple by 2030.6
Traumatic Brain Injury.An estimated 11,900 Alaskans are living with disability due to a Traumatic Brain Injury..7. The highest rates of TBI are among Alaska Natives, residents of rural Alaska, youth ages 15-19 in motor vehicle crashes, and elders who fall. Each year the Alaska Department of Health & Social Services reports about 650 traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases resulting in hospitalization or death.8 The number of people with TBI who are not seen in an emergency department or who receive no care is unknown.
According to the Alaska Brain Injury Network, the available TBI data does not include service-related injuries, but it is estimated that 20 to 30% of service members returning to Alaska from Iraq and Afghanistan will need TBI services
According to national prevalence data, 1.8 percent of the national population has a developmental disability. At this rate, it is estimated that 12,784 Alaskans have developmental disabilities..9
According to the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies, autism is the fastest-growing developmental disability. It is the most common of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders, affecting an estimated one in 110 births..10
Rates of heavy and binge drinking are consistently higher in Alaska than in the United States as a whole. According to the 2008-09 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the estimated number of Alaskans abusing or depending on alcohol or other substances was:11
Dependence or abuse is based on definitions found in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV).11
According to the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 17 percent of Alaska's high school students engaged in binge drinking during the past year. The high prevalence of alcohol use among Alaska teens is a significant concern, because research shows that young people who begin drinking before the age of 15 are four times more likely to develop dependence.12
According to the 2008-09 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Alaska ranked number 1 in the U.S. for illicit drug use (age 12 and above). The NSDUH also found the following about use of illicit drugs:


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Discussion in 'April 2007' started by mercury, Apr 8, 2007.
Man i wish we could get Dwight Howard. Oh, I must have been dreaming, lmao.
Howard ain't none too good at the line, and we do have even Mohammed over on the bench to lay fouls on the big guy. Another strategy is to go after him on the offense. CWEBB and Sheed between them should be able to get it done. Live inside.
About those dunks by Darko. Milwaukee had most all their bigs out injured. The one they had left, after some foul trouble depleted them even more, they had to put on Howard, leaving Darko defended by a tall shooting gaurd. Orlando went to Darko several straight times at that point, and put the game away exploiting this mismatch. PS, Darko has shot two jumpers in the last two games. Swish, swish. You do have to play him on the perimeter.
What the s**t....
I have not been paying much attention to Darko. He has modest but ok stats for 24 MPG 8.0 PPG 5.5 RPG 1.1 APG 1.7 BPG 1.57 TO he only shoots 0.449% with 0.614% from the line.
I just thought of a new stat. The average number of minutes it would take a player to get a triple-double. Jason Kidd: 45 minutes Chauncey: 108 minutes Rip: 98 minutes Sheed: 185 minutes Darko: 141 minutes
yeah. jmax has a couple of those. they don't track his either.
what about quadruple double?? i have darko on my fantasy team and i think he would be pretty high on that list. he racks up the points, steals, blocks, rebounds.
how far did that you get you this year?
Same as me: in the non-winners pile.
not far but i won't hesitate to draft him again next year. he provides more than ben wallace though. darko wasn't my downfall in fantasy leagues anyway. this was my first year and i was much too balanced instead of focusing on winning certain categories. this was darko's first real year playing and it was my first real year playing fantasy basketball. me and darko's career will grow together.
Did you bleach your hair and go with the earring?
Jay. I'm not trying to be mean or critical. I'm trying to help you here. Your team was 63-123-3. You ended up 57.5 games out of first place and were in dead last. The next closest person to you was 13 games ahead of you. Your problem was not balance. Your problem was having a bunch of guys who had "potential" but very few proven players. The only balance you had was that you were weak in every single category. Go ahead and draft Darko next year but do NOT waste your first round (second overall) pick on him like you did this year. Draft him a few rounds later if you really want him. He should still be there for you. I'm glad you had fun in the league, but it's a lot more fun when you field a competitive team.
Drafting him first buried you, Ben was a better fantasy basketball player this year, and I have no doubt that you will get better. To be a good fantasy bball GM requires alot of attention to detail. You excel in that area. Good luck next year. Just don't let your love for your fav get in the way of your drafting. Had I done that, my squad would have been Pistons only and I would have surely been creamed by the competiton.
I know this was meant to be supportive, but you have the subtlty of a train ramming into a house of cards and the sarcasm of a hundred starving comics.
I'm working on it Mo. These things take time.
Anyone care to throw a score out there? I'll go with 100-88 Pistons. Darko - 8 pts 5 rebs 1 stl 1 block 2 assists
Orlando wins 105-99.......Darko has 17 points, 11 rebounds............and I don't like him..............
fantasy basketball represents something else to me. it's not fantasy basketball if i don't have darko on my team. i drafted him second because i would have had to pay high prices in trades to get him because everyone in my league knew he was my guy. win or lose darko's my boy. i disagree about my picks though. i drafted great picks but i didn't trade and pick up free agents well. i'll do better next year. 102 - 99 pistons. darko 15 pts, 11 rebs, 2 assists, 1 steal, 3 blocks. 2008 fantasy stud.
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V6: 3.0, 3.2 LA3, 3.6 LY7, 3.6 DI LLT Discussion, Losing Oil in Cadillac Engine Discussion; Anybody else having problems losing/consuming oil? I have an 07' CTS with 85,000 miles and it wouldn't start this morning, ...
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Losing Oil
Anybody else having problems losing/consuming oil? I have an 07' CTS with 85,000 miles and it wouldn't start this morning, turns out it was only because it was 2.5 quarts low on oil. WHAT?! Check engine light never came on or anything and never noticed any spots in the driveway. Took it to a local shop with a GREAT reputation and they said they couldn't find a leak anywhere. Not sure where to go from here.
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I have the same year CTS and the 3.6 is known for eating oil. I use Mobil 1 full synthetic and it helps.
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Re: Losing Oil
The problem is that the CTS doesn't have a PCV valve, thus the oil is being sucked into the air intake (due to the power of the engine). If you take off the container that connects to the air intake, you'll find about a cup of oil in there. That oil gets burned through the system. This causes the O2 sensors to fail or worse the Cats to clog.
You need to constantly check your oil level. If it gets too low, it could cause the ignition coil # 6 to fail.
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2.5 qts low on oil will not keep engine from starting.
Re: Losing Oil
If you get into the CTS performance forums you'll find wars on whose "oil catch can" is better - one won't stop oil consumption but it will prevent most of it from getting into the cylinders.
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Set against the backdrop of a fierce Indian war, the tale focuses on a love-triangle between three Pilgrims: Miles Standish, Priscilla Mullens, and John Alden. Longfellow claimed the story was true, but the historical evidence is inconclusive. Nevertheless, the ballad was very popular in nineteenth-century America, immortalizing the Mayflower Pilgrims.[1]
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858) was a literary counterpoint to Henry Longfellow's earlier Evangeline (1847), the tragic tale of a woman whose lover disappears in a colonial war. Together, Evangeline and The Courtship of Miles Standish captured the bittersweet quality of America's colonial era, then only recently past. However, the plot of The Courtship of Miles Standish deliberately varies in emotional tone, unlike the steady tragedy of Longfellow's Evangeline. The Pilgrims grimly battle against disease and Indians, but are also obsessed with an eccentric love-triangle, creating a curious mix of drama and comedy. Two bumbling, feuding roommates, Miles Standish and John Alden, vie for the affections of the beautiful Priscilla Mullins, who slyly tweaks the noses of her undiplomatic suitors. The independent-minded woman utters one of the most famous retorts ever: "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?". The saga has a surprise ending, one full of optimism for the American future.
A debate persists as to whether the tale is fact or fiction. The main characters, Miles Standish, John Alden, and Priscilla Mullins, have names of real-life Pilgrims. Henry Longfellow claimed to be a direct descendant, and that he was relating oral history. Skeptics dismiss his saga as a folktale. No conclusive evidence exists either way. At minimum, Longfellow used poetic license, condensing several years of events. Scholars though, recently confirmed the cherished place of romantic love in Pilgrim culture,[2] and documented the Indian war described by Longfellow.[3] Circumstantial evidence of the love-triangle also exists. Miles Standish and John Alden were likely roommates;[4] Priscilla Mullins was the only single woman of marriageable age.[3] The families of the alleged lovers remained close for several generations, moving together to Duxbury, Massachusetts, in the late 1620s.[5] Descendants still retell the love-triangle of their ancestors.


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My tank leaked and since I flooded my neighbors 6 times (my daughter lol) I couldn't bear the thought of anything leaking again.
So I built this leak proof enclosure for the turtle tank. If it leaks - it will just leak inside the wooden box which is lined with a pond liner (it's like a thick rubber material). So the water will stay there until I come home and pump it out.
Anyway, while building it I realized that the thing weighs over 1500 lbs with water and now I'm worried it will fall through the floor))))))
While researching how likely this is, I learned more about building regulations than I ever hoped to. So now I know that I'm at about 3 times the overload on those 15 sq ft. But the rest of the room is almost empty and it's by a bearing wall and is probably sitting on 3 joists (if the building was built to code and nothing rotted) so I'm hoping I'm OK. Time will tell
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I love these projects. This is when I live in Home Depot. Basically, I do everything myself except electricity.
Lol got shocked once. Didn't mess with it again
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"On one of the forms it asked me if I had a gun in the house."
I would have answered "NO" and I would have been telling the truth because I do not have "a" gun in the house.
I have a whole bunch of them in the house.
Oh...And...BTW: ~ I have one in your waiting room right now too.
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Adarniye Dr. Sarin Sahab, Sadar Namaskar! Apke sneh se kushalta hai. - Vijay Kumar Jain
Madam Hawa has followed Dr. S.K. Sarin's advice with his medical prescription. We're extremely delighted to share with you after paying a visit to Dr. Aron T Korah Gastroenterologist Specialist at Universal Hospital in Abu Dhabi, has informed us that Madam Hawa has no longer Hepatitis C Virus RNA is - Syed Ali A. Ainab, Family Member, UAE
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Check-in delayed for Delhi airport hotels over security
By Aditi Shah and Anurag Kotoky
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The 287-room Lemon Tree Premier hotel at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport features a dramatic view of planes landing and taking off, but it has no guests to see them.
The hotel - one of 12 built or planned next to India's busiest airport at a cost totaling more than $2 billion - has been unable to open as it awaits security clearance from police worried about its proximity to an active runway. The cluster of hotels known as Aerocity, on a site bigger than 40 American football fields, was approved by the government six years ago.
India is eager to attract foreign investment to revive economic growth that is stalling at a decade low and help plug a current account deficit that has widened to a record. Yet bureaucratic hurdles including a lack of coordination among authorities still plague big-ticket projects, such as the hotel development at the capital's showpiece $3 billion airport.
"On the one hand the prime minister wants to drive investment into the country, the finance minister is travelling halfway around the world to get investment, but on the other hand these things spoil the country's reputation," said Rahul Pandit, CEO of Lemon Tree Hotels.
The Lemon Tree Premier and 208-room Red Fox have been ready to open since late December and are losing a combined 2 million rupees ($36,800) a day, said Pandit of Lemon Tree, which is backed by U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus.
A property under French giant Accor SA's Ibis brand, which does not face the runway, has been ready for more than a month, its developer said.
A swanky JW Marriott hotel, operated by Marriott International Inc, is due to open this month, according to its website.
The 43-acre Aerocity site owned by Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) - a consortium led by GMR Infrastructure Ltd and including the Airports Authority of India, Germany's Fraport and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad - sits about 400 meters from the runway. Between the runway and the hotels lies an aircraft taxiway. Continued...


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Feb. 28, 2012
GAME 30: ST. JOHN'S (13-16, 6-10 Big East) at PITT (15-14, 4-12 Big East)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7 p.m. ET
Petersen Events Center (12,508) Pittsburgh, Pa.
Television: ESPNU (Adam Amin and Bob Valvano; Producer: Todd Jones).
Pitt Radio: Pitt IMG College Sports Radio Network (Bill Hillgrove, Dick Groat and Curtis Aiken). 93.7 The Fan, 93.7 FM; Satellite Radio: Sirius-128 (Pitt feed); XM-N/A.
Internet Radio Broadcast/Live Stats: www.pittsburghpanthers.com.
Coaches: Pitt: Jamie Dixon, 13th year at Pitt, 9th year as head coach (231-74); St. John's: Steve Lavin, 2nd year at SJU (179-106), 16th year overall (359-174).
Rankings: Pitt: AP-NR; ESPN-NR; St. John's: AP-NR; ESPN-NR.
Series: Pitt and St. John's meet for the 56th time since the series began on February 23, 1956. Pitt is 21-34 all-time vs. St. John's, but has claimed five of the series' last six meetings. Since the 2001-02 season, Pitt has won eight of its last 11 matchups against St. John's. Pitt has won six straight home games vs. the Red Storm and is a perfect 5-0 vs. St. John's in the Petersen Events Center.
PITTSBURGH--Pitt returns home for its final regular season contest in Pittsburgh when it hosts St. John's (13-16, 6-10 Big East) on Wednesday, Feb. 29 at the Petersen Events Center. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. ET.
The game will be nationally televised on ESPNU with Adam Amin and Bob Valvano calling action. Todd Jones (producer) will handle production.
Two Big East regular season games remain on Pitt's schedule: St. John's (Feb. 29) and at Connecticut (March 3) before Big East Championship play begins on Tuesday, March 6. Pitt will play in the Big East Championship First Round and will enter the tourney as either the No. 12, No. 13, No. 14 or No. 15 seed.
Pitt enters the Wednesday night home contest after dropping five straight games and following a 57-54 loss at No. 17 Louisville. The Panthers were in the game right up until the closing seconds and had several opportunities to win the game. Once again, J.J. Moore led Pitt with 16 points (6-9 FG) off the bench. Dante Taylor added 11 points (5-7 FT) and Nasir Robinson scored eight points and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds. Pitt battled back from deficits of 10 points (first half) and eight points (second half) and cut a second half lead all the way down to one point (53-52) with 29 seconds but could not overturn it.
This season, Pitt has had a variety of players play through and sidelined with injuries including Woodall who sat out 11 of 12 games with a groin/abdominal strain, Dante Taylor (concussion), Ashton Gibbs (ankle), Cameron Wright (finger), Nasir Robinson (knee surgery before the season). Because of the injuries, 11 different Pitt players have started and the Panthers have used seven different starting lineup combinations.
Pitt's senior class of Ashton Gibbs and Nasir Robinson needs one more victory to become the eighth class to win 100 or more games in a four-year career.
Pitt is in its 10th season in the Petersen Events Center and carries a 159-19 record (.893) in the arena. Pitt also owns a 68-16 record vs. Big East opponents in the PEC. The Panthers have won 65 of their last 74 home games. Pitt has won 30 of its last 37 Big East Conference home games.
Over the last 11 seasons, Pitt has been the Big East's leader in overall winning percentage (288-85, .772), league winning percentage (128-56, .696), consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (10) and most 20-win, 10-win Big East years (10).
Pitt is one of only three programs nationally to win more than 20+ games, 10+ league games and advance to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last 10 seasons (Gonzaga, Kansas and Pitt).
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Innovation Hub: Work, Interrupted
On this episode of Innovation Hub, celebrate Labor Day weekend with a look at how the American workplace and its workers are changing -- for better and for worse.
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee tell us about how robots are taking over our jobs -- and which ones we should particularly fear. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman weighs in on the future of work conversation, and how we should be better preparing for it. Plus: a look at how much work really goes into making a fledgling start-up succeed. And we get further dialogue on why America might be heading for a 32-hour work week, and the pros and cons that would arise from such a radical transition.
Hear Innovation Hub's "Work, Interrupted" multiple times this holiday weekend:
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Ashlee Simpson's Trendly L.A. Afternoon
Taking a walk with friends in the sunny California weather, Ashlee Simpson was spotted meandering the streets of Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon (March 20).
The 27-year-old singer looked chic in a black and white striped off the shoulder sweater and black skinny jeans along with a floppy, brown fedora.
On a personal sidenote, Ashlee's son Bronx will soon be getting a younger cousin!
The LA outing comes just after the "I Am Me" songstress made a stop at sister Jessica Simpson's baby shower over the weekend.
The oldest of the two Simpson siblings is expecting a little girl in just a few weeks with her fiance, former NFL player Eric Johnson.
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So you've been saving for years for your kid's education. Then the economy tanks and suddenly the college dough you'd put in a stock fund is worth half what you planned. You try to tap your home equity line of credit but find you don't have that much equity anymore. Then you lose your job.
You may have been fine last fall when your child applied to all those schools. Now it's college acceptance season and things aren't fine anymore. What do you do?
Tell the college.
One of our Public Insight Network members told us this week that one of the schools his son applied to upped the financial aid package after hearing that dad lost his job.
Paul Landskroener, a lawyer, was laid off in December. He told us:
Colleges were very eager last fall to write to say that we shouldn't worry about the dismal financial news, that they were committed to meeting financial need via financial aid.
By and large, this has proven true. Only one college (Earlham), however, has increased its financial aid offer after learning of our unemployment. This now makes Earlham the most likely place he will go."
Family income plays a big role in how colleges typically calculate financial aid. If they based the package on income you don't have anymore, some will reconsider.If a parent or student becomes unemployed their need for financial aid changes and financial aid offices can use "professional judgment" to accommodate for recent changes to a families ability to pay for college. That can make them eligible for more financial aid, says Holly Chitty with the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
Changes in employment are a standard appeal to colleges to adjust aid packages, says Steve Bjork, a Public Insight Network member who's director of college counseling at St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights and former admissions director at Hamline University. He said:
Students can appeal to financial aid offices with changes in family income (job change, loss of of job, etc), additional dependents, extraordinary medical expenses, etc.Families submit documentation via the college's process and the schools evaluate to determine if additional aid can be awarded. Given that a lot of the country's job loss was after January 1 — colleges are expecting more appeals.
Landskorener says his family also hopes to use the enhanced college tax credit in the federal stimulus package.
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Almost a month since Mimi and Nikko's "leaked" sex tape spread like wild fire on April 14, it looks like these two are still down for each other….. Ugh! His face tho..Yuck!… anywho…
Over the past few weeks Rat Face has been posting pics of him and MiMi boo'd up with a hint of PDA on his Instagram.
Ugh! I really would like to know the attraction. I can't seem to get past his face.
If you caught last night episode, Ms. Faust stated several times that she was having "The best sex of her life" but from the looks of the footage….ummmm.
Whack!! Atleast be freaky on tape. You need more than Oohs and Ahhs to successfully make a Porno.
Damn shower rod scene saved ya life. Smh
Master Slater got her in these streets looking crazy.
But if she like it I Love it!
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Enchanted Times Mini brings you updates on and between issues of the full-size Enchanted Times journal. Issue #3.5 comprises 3 mini-zines featuring Rumpelstiltskin, the Emperor's New Clothes and an update from the Enchanted Express Mail Services including a mini sheet of faux postage.
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Target: Australian Government
Goal: End the illegal transfer of child asylum seekers from Australia to offshore islands
The Australian government has recently resurrected a policy that ships asylum seekers to offshore facilities outside of Australian jurisdiction. Among those affected are child asylum seekers, often transferred away from Australian soil without an accompanying parent or guardian. Such callous disregard for the plight of these young people flies in the face of Australia's obligations under international law and treaties. Call upon the Australian government to repeal this policy once and for all.
Asylum seekers, often survivors of both a traumatic event in their home country and a perilous journey to Aussie shores, are legally entitled to have their refugee claims heard before being forcibly moved from Australian turf. Furthermore, any unaccompanied child is guaranteed guardianship and legal assistance under international law.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has made clear the need to provide migrant children with basic services by qualified professionals, regardless of citizen status. Nonetheless, Australia continues to expel child asylum seekers to offshore facilities in Manus Island of Papua New Guinea and Nauru to await the processing of their claims.
Migrants have had to spend as much as five years on Manus or Nauru waiting for results. In the meantime, they are exposed to high rates of infection and mental health problems. Mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria run rampant on Manus, and migrants are forced to live in tents while waiting for Australia to begin construction on more permanent buildings.
Most troubling are studies which show that children who are forced to live for long periods of time in immigration facilities experience declining mental health, including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Simply keeping these young people on Australian shores can solve these problems.
Call upon the Australian government to end these terrible policies and protect these children.
Dear Australian Government,
The reinstatement of policies that transfer asylum seekers offshore and outside of Australian jurisdiction is a step backwards for human rights. Most importantly, it is directly harming children who survive traumatic events in their homelands and perilous journeys overseas simply to reach the hope signified by the Australian shore.
Under international law, Australia is obligated to assist these child asylum seekers. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees says asylum seekers are entitled to have their claims heard by a judicial authority before being forcibly removed from Australian soil.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child specifies that "the best interests of the child" must be put first, and this means providing them with basic services by qualified professionals. Shipping child asylum seekers to the islands of Manus or Nauru demonstrate a significant failure on the part of Australia to live up to international obligations.
Furthermore, it has been documented that in going to one of these island processing facilities, young people are being disproportionately exposed to unnecessary health hazards. Mental illness, lack of shelter, high rates of infection, and a large quantity of mosquito-borne diseases await many transferred migrants. Studies also show that children in immigration facilities are more prone to declining mental health.
I call upon you to repeal this dangerous policy and put children first.
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Franck Doat: Symmetry In Surrealism
August 31, 2010 , 5:40 am | By Bryan Reesman
While I was visiting Monte-Carlo back in June, I wandered by an elegant apartment complex that housed an art gallery on its second floor. An intriguing display outside of the front window caught my eye, with the surreal imagery of...More
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Japanese Tourism Could Benefit From A Monster Ad Campaign (Literally)
December 22, 2009 , 1:27 am | By Bryan Reesman
With so many airlines facing significant drops in business thanks to the economic downturn, you figure that they need some sort of jazzy ad campaigns to lure people to travel again. Indeed lack of personal funds dampens enthusiasm for flying...More
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Travelers Beware: London's Appalling Currency Exchange
August 3, 2009 , 11:00 pm | By Bryan Reesman
I love traveling overseas and exploring new places. I adore London and its culture and find the city charming and exciting. But I will not tolerate their currency exchange booths. The exchange rate between the American dollar and the British...More


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This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Comprehensive in scope, this book refers to over thirty authors whose work has contributed to the tradition, from Margaret Walker to Sherley Anne Williams to Toni Morrison. Ana Nunes's approach to the text emphasizes the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels against the backdrop of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel.
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Rock Band's Album Cover Double As A Wooden Chopping Board
Album case that can be used as a chopping board reinvents album art and breathes new life into product design.
Ireland's second biggest rock band, Bell X1 has released their newest album, entitled Chop Chop, incased in a wooden chopping board. In today's age of music downloads and digital radio stations, Bell X1 has gone against traditional album release marketing and merchandising. The innovative product design was brought to life by designer Alexis Deacon.
The design is simple, compact and, in reality, quiet useful in the kitchen if one ever needed a chopping board. Drawing on the current trend of handmade, whimsically crafted goods, this wooden album case is more than just a CD case. It's a super-limited collectible that die-hard Bell X1 fans would pay serious money to get their hands on.
Only 300 oak album cases were produced and they were almost instantly sold out. The good humor and musical sentimentality of the oak album case design should definitely inspire other musicians and brands to look for different ways of packaging their own products.


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Arduino Altimeter
This is a revisit to the CanSat project to share some tips on how to use a simple MPX4115A pressure sensor as an altimeter. In a previous post I shared how to set up the sensor to detect ambient pressure, so now that we have that data, how do we estimate our altitude?
When Life Gives you Oranges, Make Arancello
We all started January with good intentions, but while mine included eating more fruit, I may have overestimated my enthusiasm for it. Yes, I've definitely eaten more fruit this month, but I've also bought far more than I needed.
So now I'm looking at a fruit bowl full of oranges, and wondering what to do with them…
Testing SD Cards with Linux
While on holiday recently, my wife bought a 32GB micro-SD card, which she intended to use in her tablet. Since then, it has been giving various errors, so I thought I should take it and verify its quality.
In order to test the card, we're going to run three tests:
- Access Speed, to assess the card Speed Class.
- Drive Size, to assess if the reported size matches the actual size.
- Data durability. to assess that data written can be read back reliably.
Buttermilk Scones
Breakfast. The most important meal of the day. I've pretty much settled on a bowl of oatmeal for some time now. I find it can carry me to lunch much better than other cereals I've tried. Although I tend to like strong flavours (curries, chillies, mustards, spices, etc.), I tend to avoid them at breakfast, so oatmeal's reputation for being a little boring doesn't bother me.
Until today. It's the weekend, and I want something more interesting for breakfast. So today, I've decided to use up some leftover buttermilk to make some Buttermilk Scones for breakfast. Nothing beats a hot cup of coffee, and a warm from the oven scone, smothered in melting butter.
Damson Ketchup
It's barbecue season again, and when I have friends around, they're sometimes surprised to see that tomato ketchup isn't on the table. I've nothing against tomato ketchup, I just haven't been bothered to buy any since I'm sitting on several liters of Damson Ketchup from last year's damson harvest.
Once they get over their initial reaction of, "Damson what?", and try it, most are pleasantly surprised by the tangy fruity flavor. So open your mind to a burger sauce with a difference!
Manage Passwords and Keep Your Sanity
In life, I wear many hats.
I am a Software Engineer, so I know what leaps we have to go through to keep your data safe, when it's on our servers. We do our best to keep things simple for you, but we can't do it all. As such, having a good password is what we expect of you. Doing this keeps us, and you safe(er) from data breaches.
But, it would seem you're not keeping your end of the bargain:
So what makes a good password? Longer is better. Multiple types of characters (letters, digits, special characters, etc.) are better. Not based on a dictionary word. So on, and so forth. What are you left with. Phrases that are unrecognizable as 'human'.
I am also a consumer. Setting different passwords for each account is also recommended, as a breach on one won't lead to a breach of another. But who has time to generate (and remember) these complex password for every site one visits?
I feel the pain on both sides of the equation. Passwords suck!
I am also an open-source advocate (some might even say zealot). So until the boffins in the lab come up with something better than passwords, I can heartily recommend KeePass Password Safe. This is a nifty bit of open-source software that will help you manage your passwords. You can run it pretty much everywhere you can run software. It saves your passwords to an encrypted file, and helps you generate strong, complex passwords. When you need to use them, just copy-paste them from the KeePass application to your browser or other application.
Go forth and continue to enjoy your computing experience, but help keep us all safe by using strong passwords. Using KeePass will help you keep them strong and unique and best of all, maintain your sanity. Just don't lose that password file!
American Meat Loaf
Meat loaf was one of the family favorites during my childhood until one day, in our eagerness, we took it from the oven a little too early, and all ended up with food poisoning for the next few days. So by all means, cook it and enjoy it, just give it the time it needs. Read More…


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[reprinted from wcpo.com]FLORENCE, Ky. - The controversial Church of Scientology has opened its doors to the public in Florence.It's been a 10 year project that has cost millions of dollars. The Church of Scientology of Greater Cincinnati is home to 10,000 parishioners from across the Tri-State.It stands on a 3-acre campus and is 50,000 square feet.The former home of Florence Baptist Church has been transformed. The Public Information Center is the first thing you see when you … [Read more...]
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For consumers, mobile payments offer low-friction checkout. For retailers, it's an easy point of sale system. So why haven't mobile payments taken off?
Starbucks is the surprising current leader, generating more than 3 million in-app transactions per week.
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Starbucks has put mobile first, building loyalty with customers through an efficient, elegant way for them to pay — essentially with a digital gift card that users love.
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We know that the Sex and the City spin-off, The Carrie Diaries isn't exactly the most beloved show on television, (even Sarah Jessica Parker has said she kind of hates it) but we couldn't help but wonder if, upon seeing this photo of a young Samantha, played by Lindsey Gort, that you might at least be won over about the casting. Because the resemblance is uncanny, is it not? We can only hope that Gort brings all the chutzpah that Sam Jones had, (and at least a few of the lewd, crude puns).


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Does anybody know if they changed the formula? I loved it because it clumped really well, worked on odors but was not dusty. But the last 2 boxes I got at BJs Wholesale Club were so dusty that when I filled the litterboxes it coated the entire bathroom in dust and then raised a cloud every time I scooped. This won't work with my allergies nor my Persians sensitive squishy faces. Has anyone else bought it recently from a store with a good turnover of merchandise? Maybe they just had a bad batch at BJs and I need to wait for them to restock. I had given up on Scoop Away because of the dust but I bought that today because by comparison it's less dusty than the A&H seems to have become. And the girls do not like any of the natural products like Feline Pine or World's Best Cat litter which would be my first choice over clay. (not to mention that my dog thinks World's Best is a huge bowl of free corn flakes....UGH!)
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Stick with brand names that claim clumping superior features. Best of all scoop Kitty's box often.yeah I had a whole bunch of dogs who enjoyed Kitty biscuits. I ended up putting the litter box on a table Kitty could get to but the canine litter raiders couldn't. My cats said ""ha ha ha ha" as they looked down on them. My whippet said "what? Who? Where did that rabbit go?" I've had sulukies,Afghans,Borzoi, etc.. ADHD
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I do believe that Arm & Hammer have certainly changed their formula. I used this brand for a couple of years & I liked it. All of a sudden every box I bought did the very same thing that you said yours did. I use Pro Pet Fresh Results Clumping Litter now. The problem is that it's only sold at Walmart & not all Walmarts carry it. Good luck on finding a new litter.
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Lynn professor discusses how science could feed the world at conference in Ghana
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Khalique Ahmed, a professor of chemistry and physics in Lynn University's College of Liberal Education, traveled to Accra, Ghana, last month to attend the International Pan African Chemistry Network (PACN) conference on agricultural productivity.
The conference, sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry, focused on how the chemical sciences can help feed the world. On Nov. 22, Ahmed presented his paper entitled, "Overview of Scientific Methods for the Assessment of Oilseeds Nutrients" in which he stressed the need for the improved agricultural productivity of oilseeds.
"Oilseeds play an important role in meeting nutritional needs," said Ahmed. "On a per gram basis, they provide two times more energy than proteins and carbohydrates. They are also a good source of micronutrients including vitamin E, sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium and zinc."
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Most of of the world's hunger is concentrated in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean countries, but due to the economic recession, the developed world is also experiencing it.
"The cause of hunger in United States is very different than in the rest of the world," said Ahmed. "There is no doubt that the practices of our farmers are in line with the scientific advances. However, our retailers, food services and consumers waste around 100 billion pounds of edible food per year. Some of the steps that can be taken to reduce hunger in U.S. are: reduce food waste, increase access to full time employment and expand the federal nutrition programs."
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Ahmed has more than 20 years combined teaching, research and administrative experience – ten of which have been at Lynn. His research is focused on the application of infrared and near-infrared photonics to the understanding of the basic and applied problems.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida State women's soccer program will once again be well represented this month with the United States U-23, U-20 and U-18 Women's National Teams all in action.
Tiffany McCarty, Toni Pressley and Casey Short were named to the U.S. U-20 roster as selected by U-20 National Team head coach Jillian Ellis. The trio of Seminoles will head to Guatemala City, Guatemala for the CONCACAF qualifying tournament which will be held January 19-30 with a berth to the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany (July 13 - August 1) on the line.
The 2010 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship is an eight-team tournament that will send three nations to Germany. The qualifying matches will be played at the 17,000-seat Estadio Cementos Progreso. This is the first time a qualifying tournament for this age group has been held in Central America.
The event will consist of two groups of four teams each with the top two finishers after group play crossing over into the semifinals. The reigning U-20 world champion USA is up against Jamaica at 4:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 21, live on Fox Soccer Channel. The U.S. will then face Trinidad & Tobago at 4:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 23, and will wrap-up pool play against Mexico at 4:30 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 25, in Group B. Group A consists of Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba and host Guatemala.
The group winners will play the runners-up from the opposite group on January 28, with the championship and third-place matches set for Saturday, Jan. 30. Both semifinal matches and the tournament final will be televised live on Fox Soccer Channel.
Becky Edwards and Amanda DaCosta are headed to Carson, Calif., January 13-20 to train with the U-23 Women's National Team. Edwards and DaCosta are two of 24 players called into camp by head coach Bill Irwin. The camp will overlap four days on the front end with the U.S. U-18 Women's National Team camp and three days on the back end with the full U.S. Women's National Team. The U-23 squad will face Korea Republic's Full Women's National Team twice while training in Southern California on Saturday, January 16 and then again on Monday, January 18. Both matches are scheduled for 3:00 p.m. PT at The Home Depot Center.
Freshman Alex Crown is already in Carson, Calif., training with the U.S. U-18 Women's National team. Camp began on January 10 and will run through the 17th at The Home Depot Center. This marks Crown's second appearance in camp with the U-18 team.
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Nice cruise but so boring entertainment : Golden Princess Cruise Review by sherry siery
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Nice cruise but so boring entertainment
Destination: Hawaii
Embarkation: Los Angeles
I will not talk too much cause everything think was great exept the entertainment , it's the same people every night with different songs or dace.
They have the New Deal band in Explorers Lounge, and they are so great cause they present all kind of songs, new ,oldies , or country.
They had Doug and the Orchestra on the middle ship the Piazza, playing music every night , but they were good too but not every night the same.
They have a piano guy super nice and good too, but here is the so boring part, they had Hawaii Melodies with Elua and this one was so boring, she and her husband are so boring same same every time and every night, I stop get out of my room cause I knew it will be same.
I don't thing because it's Hawaii cruise , I do have to listen to Hawaiin songs for 14 days days and More night, and the two singers were no good at all.
They had 4 dancers and singers they come out every night dancing and singing, so u feel it's the same people every night.
At the end , what I want to say that Golden Princese had to spend more money on entertainment, and get a real shows, cause I went befor with Norwaigen cruise and they really get a very height classes entertainment , so my advice to Golden Princees to pay a very good attention to the entertainment programs cause for that reason I don't think I will never take them again.
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At a birthday party last week, people were talking about how they are 'over' the iPhone, and Apple in general. They don't like iTunes, they don't like how Apple forces them into a corner, they don't like not being able to customize their phones, they don't like how Apple wants to take control of their phones and their lives.
Yes, the iPad is great. But there are cooler, more chic tablets around. Yes, the iPhone 5 is good but iOS itself seems dated when compared to Android. Even Windows 8 'looks' cooler. The point being — Apple wasn't cool in their eyes anymore. And the footnote of all these discussions was Samsung, a conglomerate that accounts for 17 percent of South Korea's gross domestic product.
One of the people present at the party simply said, 'Ditch Apple for Samsung.'
A few years back, a statement like that would have been unbelievable. Indeed, it would have been unthinkable. But now, it just seems right. Samsung's rise has been stunning.
"In 1991, Samsung started making LCD panels it sold to other television brands. In 1994 it started making flash memory for devices such as the iPod and smartphones," reports an article in the Business Week. "Samsung is now the No.?1 maker of LCD televisions and sells more flash memory and RAM chips than any other company in the world. And in 2012 it passed Nokia (NOK) to become the world's largest mobile-phone manufacturer."
It's easy to say that this isn't an indication of change. But then what is? The Business Week has a brilliant profile of the company and how it has risen to become one of the biggest conglomerates in the world.
Lee Kun Hee's father, Lee Byung Chull, founded Samsung in 1938. The name means "three stars," which was the company's logo for decades. Lee took over as chairman following his father's death in 1987. (Lee Kun Hee's son, Lee Jae Yong, is vice chairman and heir apparent.) The company immediately prospered under Lee Kun Hee's leadership. "Between 1988 and 1993, the company had grown two and a half times," says Shin Tae Gyun, Samsung's president of the Human Resources Development Center, "so executives thought things were working." Lee, however, didn't just want Samsung to be a successful Korean company. He wanted it to be a world player, something on the level of General Electric (GE), Procter & Gamble (PG), and IBM (IBM). He even set a deadline: the year 2000. "2000 was not that far away," says Shin. "At that growth rate, could we become a world-class company in time? The answer was no."
To see how his company was faring internationally, Lee embarked on a world tour in 1993. His findings were not encouraging: A visit in February to a Southern California electronics store revealed Sony and Panasonic (PC) TVs in the front window and Samsung TVs gathering dust on a low shelf in the back. Lee was not happy.
By June, he'd made it to Germany and was staying at the Falkenstein Grand Kempinski Hotel in Frankfurt. He summoned all of Samsung's executives-who numbered in the hundreds-to meet him there. "He did this at the drop of a hat, and they all gathered," says communications chief Lee. On June 7 the chairman delivered a speech that lasted three days (they adjourned in the evenings). The most famous quote to emerge from the address was, "Change everything but your wife and children," which has "Ask not what your country can do for you" levels of recognition at Samsung.
The event became known, formally, as the Frankfurt Declaration of 1993, with all the United Nations import the name suggests. The content of the Frankfurt Declaration is called New Management, its principles distilled into a 200-page book that's distributed to all Samsung employees. A stand-alone glossary was later published to define the terms laid out in the first book. Workers who weren't fully literate were given a cartoon version. Lee went around the globe, evangelizing his gospel to all corners of the Samsung empire. "He conducted a lot of lectures," recalls Shin. "It comes to 350 hours. We transcribed those events; it took 8,500 pages.
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It's Here! Honeywell has internet enabled Thermostats!
This post is for all those out there such as myself who have been waiting for Honeywell to produce an internet enabled thermostat. That day is here!
Excellent. I have been using the 3M Filtrete version of a RadioThermostat (model 3M50) for a year or so and really enjoy the Internet connectivity. It works well but I'll be checking out the Honeywell for comparison.
One question that is key: will Honeywell charge a fee (monthly or annual) for the web interactivity? The other guys are free.
It is free. I already installed the ap on my phone. I think comparatively vs the radio stat for someone who has all the bells and whistles like. Twelfth then the Honeywell will be the way to go. I have humidification, dehumidification, and ventilation. So one control such as the prestige IAQ 2.0 will be the way to go. Currently I have the vision pro IAQ.
Hmmm... One thing I don't like about the Honeywell is you need that separate internet gateway. The RTCOA connects directly to the router via wifi. One thing I like about the Honeywell is there is a wireless outdoor temp sensor available. I have an Aprilaire powered humidifier and it would be nice to be able to get a wireless outdoor temp signal to the humidistat. I suppose that would require some more Honeywell IAQ controls inside to do that?
It would require at least the prestige iaq. This would allow your hvac stat to also control the humidifier with window frost protection.
I have always used my Aprilaire 700 in manual mode and with my old mid-eff furnace pulling in dry air for combustion I never had frosting/condensation issues and the humidifier basically ran 100% of the time the furnace ran. But with my new direct vent furnace I am hoping to have better humidity retention. I will probably install the Aprilaire wired outside temp sensor and run the thing in auto this winter. Maybe look at upgrading to fancier IAQ next year depending on how this works out.
For ease of installation of the wired stat for the humidifier. You can drill a hole in the intake of the direct vent furnace and install the sensor there. It wont be exactly accurate but will be close enough to do the job. And then you wont have to run. The wire all the way outside.
Hey, that's a great idea! And it should be pretty accurate since the pipe run inside of conditioned space is only about 12 feet. I could install the sensor where it comes through the wall but not sure there would be significant warming in that 12 feet.
Thanks for the idea!
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Every year we create an "agricultural adventure" on our farm. Visitors to the 6+ acre maze in Thompson, Conn. receive a game sheet as they enter and search for clues among the corn stalks. Along the way, they will learn about farmland preservation issues and solutions like sprawl, sources for local food, the Connecticut Farmland Trust and open space.
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3 Vanderbilt churches hold community Bible school
Three churches in Vanderbilt have joined forces to provide a better vacation Bible school experience for area children.
East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Vanderbilt Church of the Nazarene and Vanderbilt Church of Christ are sponsoring a free community-wide Vacation Bible School from 5:45 to 8:30 p.m. through Friday this week. A closing program will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Vanderbilt Church of Christ.
"The nice thing is with three different churches we can pull our resources to make it a more meaningful and effective ministry, so I'm looking forward to it," the Rev. H. David McElroy of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church said.
The Rev. Glen Willis of the Vanderbilt Church of the Nazarene said the partnership is very beneficial to his church as well as the others. He said that with declining numbers in church attendance and many members aging, the church did not have enough volunteers to staff a Bible school, but they still wanted to help make an impact in the community.
"I hope this shows other communities that you don't just have to have a vacation Bible school by yourself, and when you work together, you can make a big impact on the community," Wills said.
He said an unexpected benefit came from the churches combining their efforts.
"I think it's important that the community see the churches of different denominations working together for a goal. I think it makes an impact on the community to see all these churches able to work together," Wills said.
This is the second year the churches have combined their efforts.
"We think it was a tremendous success. We had over 100 children registered, from preschool age through high school," McElroy said.
The free Bible school is open to all children, ages 3 to 18.
"It is open to any child that would like to come from any area. They can come one day or all the days," McElroy said.
Registration will be at the Church of Christ in Vanderbilt, starting at 5:30 p.m., followed by an opening program at that church. Then children will go to their age-appropriate classes.
This year, all three churches will be utilized for classes. Students in preschool through second grade will attend classes at the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Third grade through sixth grade will take class at the Vanderbilt Church of Christ and junior and senior high students' classes will be at the Vanderbilt Church of the Nazarene.
"All of the churches are within a comfortable walking distance to one another," McElroy said.
McElroy said since children will be walking between the different churches, the DL&V Volunteer Fire Department will provide traffic control on Route 201. Vanderbilt council will block off some of the borough streets during the Bible school hours for increased safety.
"So it will truly be a community vacation Bible school," McElroy said.
For more information call 724-398-3138.
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