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By Richard Leitner, News Staff

The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board will cut 30 jobs as a direct result of closing Hill Park, Parkview and Prince Philip at the end of June.

A school-based staffing report presented to trustees last week also projects that the board will require 40 fewer high school teachers this fall as a result of a continuing decline in enrolment.

The job losses will be partially offset by the hiring of the equivalent of nearly 15 full-time elementary school teachers and 40 more early childhood educators as part of the fifth and final year of rolling out all-day kindergarten to all primary schools.

The board projects it will gain 146.5 students at the elementary level while losing 207 at high schools due to closures and fewer students opting for a second year of Grade 12, the so-called "victory lap."

"These are preliminary numbers based on a snapshot in time," education director John Malloy said, adding actual enrolment could change the staffing levels, other than those directly tied to school closures.

Pat Rocco, superintendent of human resources, said he's hopeful retirements and other departures will help avoid layoffs.

The school closures will cut five principal/vice-principal positions, 12.5 administrative staff and 12.5 custodians, he said.

Overall, the board forecasts there will be 1,982 elementary teachers, 1,078 secondary teachers, 579 educational assistants and 180 early childhood educators next year.

There will also be 168 principals/vice principals, 208 school administrators and 383.25 custodians for a total of 4,578.45 employees. That's down by 15.3 jobs from this school year.

The board is planning for 30,961 elementary and 15,791 secondary students to be attending its schools this fall.


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Amador County, California (The Weekly Vice) - Jimmy Goodall, an Amador County registered sex offender was jailed after he allegedly stole flowers and other mementos from local grave sites, then handed them out as gifts to his friends and neighbors.
According to the Amador County Sheriff's Office, police were contacted after numerous items were stolen from grave sites and mausoleums at Sunset View Cemetery, some of which belonged to deceased children. Officers reviewed surveillance video, and identified the suspect as Goodall.
Investigators say officers searched Goodall's residence and recovered several items stolen from the cemetery. They also discovered that Goodall was giving the stolen gifts to several friends and relatives.
Stolen property was also found at his neighbor's homes. He was apprehended at his mother's residence.
Stolen property was also found at his neighbor's homes. He was apprehended at his mother's residence.
Goodall was booked into the Amador County Jail and charged with malicious acts at a cemetery, possession of stolen property, and failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements. He is currently being held in lieu of $40,000 bail.
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I have a 1.12 OTB iphone. I have been using a turbo sim card. It was working fine until the bottom DOCK all froze up. Therefore, I cannot make calls, check email, safari or IPOD. Everything else works but cannot make or answer calls. The phone does ring and allow voicemail but cannot check it because the Bottom Dock is locked for some reason. Everything else works on the phone. I needed help to fix this problem and help with unlocking this phone so that I don't need to use Turbo sim and Iworld.
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The biggest casualty of Microsoft's radical overhaul looks set to be Intel. The 'Wintel' partnership spans more than 20 years and proved fundamental in bringing both companies to prominence, but Intel's continued failings in the mobile space have seen Microsoft come to realise that it must put evolution above loyalty.
The strains on this relationship can already be seen. Just last week Renee James, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Software and Services Group, claimed: "There will be four Windows 8 SoCs for ARM [see below running on Snapdragon]. Each one will run for that specific ARM environment, and they will run new applications or cloud-based applications. They are neither forward- nor backward-compatible between their own architecture – different generations of a single vendor – nor are they compatible across different vendors. Each one is a unique stack."
Microsoft retorted: "Intel's statements during yesterday's Intel Investor Meeting about Microsoft's plans for the next version of Windows were factually inaccurate and unfortunately misleading." For companies once in contact so regularly they could end phone calls with 'You hang up... no you hang up' this hardly bodes well. Then again relations have been on the wane for some time. Intel partnered with Nokia to make MeeGo, a platform it hoped would rival Windows Phone... and look what Microsoft did. Intel and Microsoft may remain business partners, but they're no longer sharing a bed.There are further problems. Microsoft has Nokia as its hardware lap dog, but commitment from other manufacturers remains less than stellar. Only HTC has made more than two Windows Phone models (the HTC 7 Trophy, HTC Mozart and HTC HD7) and the likes of Sony Ericsson and Motorola have so far steered clear. Furthermore for all Microsoft's enthusiasm about Mango it still isn't prepared to break down its total Windows Phone handset sales, industry shorthand for 'they're not great'.
Add to this the fact Microsoft will be extremely late in the tablet market (at least with a credible product not based on Windows 7), that Apple has already launched its desktop App Store and Lion will be on sale over a year before Windows 8 and there is still much work to be done.
Then again, for a company which gets endless abuse, right now Microsoft deserves some credit. Both its mobile and desktop platforms are now credible, the Xbox is riding high, Kinect has been a great success and its ability to buy Skype and secure an exclusive deal with Nokia means it is safeguarding much of its future. There are still bumpy times ahead for Microsoft, but its aggressive moves have gone a long way to prove there's life in the old dog yet.


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Our inspectors are carrying these things out in the field. They're laying them down on concrete. They do occasionally drop them. They're exposed to the elements, so we went with the ruggedized Toughbooks. And it's really worked out well. It has met all of our needs."
Completed reports are also immediately uploaded into the department database, making review of employee work a snap for supervisors. It also significantly simplified end-of-the-month reporting. Instead of poring over pages of handwritten reports, Higgins and his staff can quickly analyze automatically generated reports in minutes.
"It has been just a giant leap forward in productivity and consistency," said Higgins. "Florida's a big state, and we want our contractors to be consistent. The program's designed so everyone is asking the same questions. So you could take the computer and you could be working in key West, and you could take that same computer and give it to somebody, and they could do the same inspection in Pensacola in a different facility and everything would be exactly the same."
Higgins said the Toughbooks have helped cut costs and improve efficiency. The printing of thousands and thousands of forms every year is gone, he said. The cost of shipping those forms from the counties to the districts is gone. The cost of archiving the huge number of boxes every year is gone. And the software is designed to deliver the completed inspection automatically, so other than printing out an inspection in the field to give the operator, he added, it truly is paperless.
The results have garnered Higgins and his staff recognition and even awards from the state. Twice Higgins' team won the Davis Productivity Award. The award, presented by Florida Tax Watch, is given to government agencies that excel at saving taxpayer money.


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Still got the turbo.. how much you selling it for?
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Still got the turbo.. how much you selling it for?
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Tim Stauffer went six innings, surrendering three runs on seven hits and two walks to get his first win of the year. Stauffer also struck out five and did not allow a homer – something that will be monitored all year.
Bobby Scales went 3-for-5 with his second homer this year in just his fifth game. Scales played in 93 games between two leagues a year ago and hit just one home run.
Josh Barfield went 2-for-4 with three stolen bases. Barfield had four stolen bases all of last year and the last time he had multiple thefts in the same game was April 10, 2003. He had never recorded more than two in a game until Wednesday.
Brad Baker recorded his first save of the year and fifth
A strong pitching performance from Mike Thompson went for naught on Wednesday as the BayBears dropped another close one. Thompson went six innings, allowing one run, coming on a solo home run, on four hits and two walks. It is the second consecutive start to open the year that Thompson has allowed just one run. He went five innings in his previous outing.
Dale Thayer came on in the ninth inning with the game knotted at 1-1. A single, a stolen base, another single and a sac fly scored the eventual winning run. Thayer had come into the game without allowing a run in his first three appearances. In 58 games last year, he only allowed three or more hits in the same game on four occasions, something he accomplished for the first time on Wednesday.
No BayBear had more than one hit on the day, although Luke Carlin did walk three times and Jason Clements singled and walked.
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Steve Baker had his third consecutive three-hit game and drove in multiple runs for the fourth straight day. He also doubled for the fourth straight contest. He is 11-for-18 with six doubles and nine RBI's over that stretch.
For the third consecutive game, Michael Johnson homered. He has RBI's in all six of his games this year and an RBI streak of nine games dating back to last season. Johnson has multiple hits in each of his last four games, going 10-for-18.
Drew Macias has scored a run in each of his first six games of the season. He has ten runs scored on the year and four multi-hit games. Macias has also tripled in each of the past two games.
Eddie Bonine and Howie Pence struck out the side in their respective innings.
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Matt Varner allowed two runs on three hits and a walk in the ninth but managed to get the save. His ERA actually dropped from 27.00 to 24.00 in the process. The opposition is hitting .438 off him this year.
Matt Bush has a five game hitting streak but is just 6-for-23 over that stretch, a .261 average. Bush has hit into a double play in each of the last two games. His first RBI of the season came on Wednesday.
Lachlan Dale went 0-for-4 with four strikeouts and a walk. Dale has struck out at least once in every game this year and has whiffed 13 times in 23 at bats.


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Calls to fight the Americans have found fertile ground among Iraq's impoverished Shiites, reports Sabrina Tavernise from Najaf.
It was just about lunchtime when the sound of tank and gunfire tore through the quiet, just blocks from Amal Juad's house.
A group of her neighbours, standing on a street corner nearby, did not even stop talking.
"It's normal," one said. "Like tomatoes," Iraq's most ubiquitous vegetable.
Twenty days after fighting erupted between US soldiers and followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, a rebel Shiite cleric, firefights are no longer a surprise. But this neighbourhood, Judaada, a few blocks from the front lines, is a special case. People are weary of the fighting and blame both sides.
US troops and Shiite rebels continued fighting in Najaf yesterday with multiple explosions and gunfire echoing around the sacred shrine held by Sheikh Sadr's followers.
At least 10 explosions, some sounding like artillery shells, rocked the area near the Imam Ali mosque, where the Mahdi Army militia of Sheikh Sadr has defied the interim Government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi for nearly three weeks.
Shrapnel landed in the courtyard of the gold-domed mosque, whose outer walls have already been slightly damaged in fighting since the eruption of the rebellion that has killed hundreds.
Juad, 49, a homemaker, watched through her lounge room window as a US helicopter fired at rebel fighters at the weekend. On Sunday morning, an ice peddler was shot dead as he tried to cross a road that - at least on this day - divided the two sides. The roar of artillery fire had kept Juad and her children awake and on the floor all night on Saturday.
"It was like an earthquake," she said, sitting on her cool stone lounge room floor.
As the interim Iraqi Government and US officials worry about how to control Sheikh Sadr - whose impassioned calls to fight Americans have found fertile ground among this country's impoverished Shiites - civilian casualties are another concern. Sheikh Sadr's followers are fighting from rooftops and grammar schools, drawing US troops into battles that create great danger for civilians.
Hussein Hadi, deputy director of Najaf's main al-Hakim Hospital, said that the recent fighting had been even worse for civilians than the last time Sheikh Sadr and his militia rebelled. Then, fighting lasted for more than two months, and the hospital received about 180 dead, Mr Hadi said.
In the last three weeks, the daily death toll has been about the same, but it includes more women and children than before.
Shops in the area are locked. Chunks of plaster lie in the street, and electrical wires hang freely.
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Watch this hilarious video on Funny or Die featuring Betty White and Ben Feldman from 'Mad Men' as they get ready for American Humane Association Hero Dog AwardsTM. The clip will be featured in two-hour broadcast of Hero Dog Awards hosted by Kristin Chenoweth on Hallmark Channel on November 8.
The American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards were presented by the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation, Inc., and produced by Emmy® award-winning MRB Productions. The sold-out, star-studded awards show honoring America's most courageous canines, hosted at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 6 by Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, was created to celebrate the powerful relationship between dogs and people and recognize extraordinary acts of heroism performed by ordinary dogs. The two-hour program will air as part of Hallmark Channel's PetProject, the network's cross-platform advocacy campaign designed to celebrate the joy and enrichment animals bring to our lives.
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The Middle East is now temporary home to hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who mainly come from Asian nations like India, Pakistan,Sri Lanka and elsewhere. The Human Rights Watch has issued a report on the conditions faced by Sri Lankan immigrants in the Middle East that is entitled: "Exported and Exposed: Abuses Against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates." The immigrants are mainly women and they encounter a variety of abusive behaviors such as not getting paid or being under paid, physical and psychological abuse, sexual abuse, long hours of work, confiscation of passports so they cannot readily return home, and restrictions that make it difficult for them to learn what are the norms in their new country of residence. It is estimated many of the Sri Lankan women work 18 hour days, seven days a week and receive about $100 a month for their labor.
The condition of the migrant workers is among the most ignored stories in any discussion of Middle Easter issues. Migrants constitute a rather large percent of several small nations like Kuwait or Omar. They lack leverage on the system to bring about changes and most Middle Eastern nations tend to believe that migrant workers are better off, with all the abuse, than being elsewhere.


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FAFSA Friday
2:00 PM until 5:00 PM
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Seamore Shuttle
6:00 PM until 10:30 PM
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Alpha Phi Omega Rush Week Baked Potato Bar
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Irresistible side dishes and the one-oven plan
Golden olive oil-roasted potatoes
Nothing more than good olive oil and crunchy sea salt turn super-simple potatoes into an irresistible holiday side dish.
Braised winter greens with bacon
Old-fashioned long-cooked winter greens are pure comfort; sneak in some top-quality bacon and zippy mustard seeds, and they're holiday fare.
The one-oven plan
Bake the shrimp on the rack closest to the heat source when you start the roast. (The temperature is only 450°, but because the shrimp are close to the heat, they brown well.) When shrimp are done, let them rest at room temperature, loosely covered with foil, until beef is almost done; then uncover shrimp and return to oven for 4 to 5 minutes to reheat. As soon as you take the roast out of the oven, crank up the heat to 475° and bake the potatoes while the roast rests and you serve the shrimp.


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Exploring the role of gender and risk perceptions in people's decisions to register as a bone marrow donor
Mclaren, Patrick J., Hyde, Melissa K., & White, Katherine M. (2011) Exploring the role of gender and risk perceptions in people's decisions to register as a bone marrow donor. Health Education Research, 27(3), pp. 513-522.
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Increasing the number of bone marrow (BM) donors is important to ensure sufficient diversity on BM registries to meet the needs of patients. This study used an experimental approach to test the hypothesis that providing information about the risks of BM donation to allay unsubstantiated fears would reduce male and female participants' perceptions of risk for donation and joining the Australian BM Donor Registry (ABMDR). Males' and females' intentions to register on the ABMDR, their attitudes, norms, and perceived behavioural control (efficacy) in relation to registering were explored also. Participants were allocated randomly to either a risk (exposed to risk information about BM donation) or no risk(not exposed to risk information) condition. In partial support of hypotheses, exposure to risk information did reduce perceived risk for registering on the ABMDR for males only. Participants in the risk condition also demonstrated lower scores on attitude (males only) and intention compared to participants in the no risk condition. These findings highlight the complex role of risk perceptions and gender differences in understanding people's decisions to join a BM registry.
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You are hereBlogs / Lisa Simeone's blog / TSA agent sentenced in child pornography case
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Just quickly looked over the master list which is linked with the last link in the last paragraph of the short or introductory article that a link is provided for in the above article or notice, here, and it's outrageous. I think it's also yet another example of how roguish the government is.
I only read the first and the last four accounts in the master list and the one that really gets to me is the one about the woman dying of leukemia and who was flying to Hawaii. The treatment she received for someone in her kind of condition is incredible and the TSA agent who committed these acts should pay a very serious penalty.
Two of the last 4 stories are about thefts, one being inconvenient but petty, for it was for $100, while the other is more serious, since it was for $3,700 worth of items that were in a woman's baggage. And the other story is about a guy who needs to learn to wear regular-looking watches in order to avoid alarming people due to an artistic watch that apparently looked like it has a fuse and possibly some other components that all together could cause someone in the times we're in now to think that the watch might be a bomb.
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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ firms on U.S. jobs data, eye on Bank of Canada
* C$ at C$1.0289 vs US$, or 97.19 U.S. cents * Canadian retail sales rise 0.2 pct in Aug * U.S. adds 148,000 jobs in Sept, below expectations of 180,000 * Bond prices higher across maturity curve By Leah Schnurr TORONTO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar strengthened against the greenback on Tuesday as a disappointing jobs report south of the border took the U.S. currency lower, while investors looked ahead to an upcoming monetary policy announcement from the Bank of Canada. Domestically, data showed Canadian retail sales edged up in August, though the rise was slightly below economists' expectations. Analysts said the U.S. jobs report garnered more attention in the market. The release, which had been delayed by the U.S. government shutdown, showed the economy added 148,000 jobs last month, suggesting a loss of momentum in the economy. The figures underscored economists' view that the Federal Reserve may maintain the current pace of its economic stimulus efforts for longer than had been expected. "It highlights that even leading into the government shutdown, the employment sector in the U.S. was slowing," said Camilla Sutton, chief currency strategist at Scotiabank in Toronto. That pushes out when the Fed could start to wind down its $85 billion a month in bond purchases "well into 2014," she said. The Canadian dollar ended the North American session at C$1.0289 versus the greenback, or 97.19 U.S. cents, stronger than Monday's close of C$1.0301, or 97.08 U.S. cents. The greenback lost 0.6 percent against a basket of currencies. Still, the loonie did not gain as much against the U.S. dollar as some other major currencies. The market was cautious ahead of Wednesday's interest rate decision from the Bank of Canada. The central bank is expected to keep rates steady at 1 percent. The accompanying statement will be a bigger focal point, with investors sensitive to any change in tone that might indicate when the Bank will eventually raise rates. Analysts are also looking for the central bank's view on the economic outlook for both Canada and the United States. In a speech earlier this month, Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem said the central bank expects lower growth in the third quarter than had been previously forecast. "We're not expecting any radical changes tomorrow but Canada's and the U.S.'s fortunes are so inextricably linked to one another that the market is placing a lot of emphasis on their outlook for the U.S. economy and the potential downside risks," said Gareth Sylvester, director at Klarity FX in San Francisco. Government bond prices were higher across the maturity curve with the two-year bond up 6.3 Canadian cents to yield 1.168 percent and the benchmark 10-year bond up 57 Canadian cents to yield 2.483 percent.
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CPR (infant/child) for Expectant Parents @Sprout SanFrancisco
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Would you know what to do for a choking or water emergency? The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all parents know CPR. This is the ideal pregnancy class, featuring the lifesaving skills of adult Hands-Only CPR, child CPR with breaths, adult and child AED use, infant CPR and relief of choking in an adult, child or infant. Skills are taught in a fun, dynamic group environment utilizing the American Heart Association research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which provides students with the hands-on CPR practice time using the industry's best manikins. This event is held at the fantastic Sprout San Francisco.
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Arsenal's FA Cup Fifth-Round tie at Manchester United will be played as above.
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A modeled whip using recordings of swinging a power cable, hitting a leather purse with said cable and my old wet towel sounds ( http://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/74476/ ).
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I am currently just starting again with my workouts after a month of skipping out, and my shower routine has changed a lot in that month and I feel as if it's too much stuff for a quick shower at the gym. I am using shampoo (shush I really need shampoo), two conditioners, face wash, which is a must, two body washes, shaving, and a foot scrub. I have been taking showers at home because it is too much to take with me to the gym everyday and it feels gross. Can someone please help me figure out a quick and simple shower routine that I can follow daily while still maintaining healthy hair?
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we have a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee LMT, the electric fan has stopped working, we took it to our man to fix, well he cannot trace the problem. seems to think its electrical, how do I figure this one out??:confused:
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Welcome to the garage.
Best to place your questions in the WJ section, you will get more responces.
First check the 40A fuse in the power distribution center under the hood. (you are talking about the radiator cooling fan and not the AC blower motor, right?)
If your jeep has the electric cooling fan, then it has a relay under the right headlight. This relay often get bad. You will have to remove the bumper to get access to it, or have to cut a hole to get access to it. If this relay is bad, there is a good change that the fan is the problem. The fan can still run, but it can draw too much current and will burn the new relay in no time. Don´t say this is you case, but it happens quite often.
Be aware that on 4.7L engines normally a hydraulic cooling fan is used.
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Check the relay, they go out a lot due to normal wear and tear
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I think I've discovered my hair is mostly 4b after I washed it and just let it sit there to see what happens! I picked up a piece that actually clumped and it was in a clear z patten ha!
Anyway, I like that my braids and twists stay styled without products. The thickness, volume, great fros. And I kinda like that my hair doesn't "define" on it's own because I can make it look however I want "defined" to be that day
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Fitch: do not liken Malta to Cyprus
Potential bank liability much lower in Malta
There are "substantial differences" between the Maltese banking system and failed Cypriot banks, according to a special report released yesterday by international ratings agency Fitch.
The Maltese banking system does not present the same level of risk despite having assets worth eight times the country's GDP, it found.
The analysis compared the size of the banking sectors in Malta and Cyprus, their funding sources, asset quality and capitalisation.
"While both Malta and Cyprus seemingly have large banking sectors that substantially exceed the size of their economies and that rely to some degree on funding from non-resident depositors, a closer examination reveals substantial differences," the report noted.
However, it warned of "some danger" in the long term for the business model adopted by Malta's financial services if European and global authorities shifted their stance towards offshore financial centres.
Fitch said financial and insurance activities represented eight per cent of Maltese value added two years ago, compared with Cyprus's nine per cent and the eurozone average of five per cent.
Fitch noted Malta had the second largest banking sector in the eurozone after Luxembourg, outstripping Cyprus where total bank assets accounted for just under seven times the island's GDP.
Malta's banking sector was in the spotlight soon after the EU and the International Monetary Fund agreed a €10 billion bail out for Cyprus, which had to wind down its second largest bank and depositors with sums over €100,000 were forced to take a massive cut on savings.
The international press speculated whether the banking sectors in Malta and Luxembourg were next in line.
However, the Fitch report dispelled any doubts about the similarities between Malta and Cyprus, even after the Central Bank of Malta and the Finance Minister had underscored the differences.
"We think the Government would support the core domestic banks, but would be less likely to support non-core domestic banks and would be very unlikely to support international banks, where support would come from the parent bank or home government," Fitch said.
Core domestic banks have assets just over twice the GDP but Fitch noted that, for at least one of the core domestic banks, HSBC Bank Malta, the bulk of support would come from the parent company.
Within this scenario Fitch said the contingent liability that potential bank support placed on the Maltese Government was near 128 per cent of GDP (less than twice the economy), significantly lower than in Cyprus, where domestic banks accounted for 466 per cent of GDP.
Cyprus had to bail out its banks, which had heavy exposure to Greece, but they were too big to handle and the country had to ask for help from the EU and IMF.
Malta's banking sector is inflated by the presence of international banks with assets worth 494 per cent of GDP that have very negligible links to the domestic economy and non-core banks with smaller operations that account for 77 per cent of GDP.
Fitch said the Maltese banking system was less vulnerable to a destabilising withdrawal of non-resident deposits even though these account for 69 per cent as opposed to 37 per cent in Cyprus.
The majority of Maltese non-resident deposits are in international banks, mostly the deposits of the parent banking groups, which present "a lower risk of capital flight than other types of foreign deposits", Fitch said.
Cyprus was blighted by deposits of wealthy foreigners, particularly Russians, of dubious origin.
Fitch said only 17 per cent of deposits in Malta's core domestic banks came from non-residents.
Fitch's rating of Malta's economy is A+ with a stable outlook while Cyprus is B on a negative rating watch.
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Bella DolceModel Female Atlanta, Georgia, US
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About Me^^^^I am taking a break from TFP at this time due to my hectic schedule....
please notify me by email @ email@example.com if you are interested in work, I do not check this page regularly.....Thank you^^^^
Hey! My name is Bella Dolce... :)
Sooooo...some of you may ask why I choose this nameâ¦.well it is because Bella is Latin for beautiful and Dolce is Italian meaning sweet or pleasant. I would hope that this describes me considering how I can get along with anyone and always like to make people laugh!! :) I am a very hard worker and I WILL get the shotâ¦.doesnât matter how dirty, how high, how awkward, or how cold. You can count on that!!!!
OKâ¦so I said I was sweet up above, butâ¦ummmmm....this must be said....(and yes this is a contradiction to what I have chosen for my name, some of you may say that is down right b*tchy!!!!) Lol
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I will do what it may take to get the shot (implied) however if you are interested in just nude photos the answer is NO.....
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I donât like BS so if you donât BS me I wonât BS you!!!! :) I am very honest and upfront and I expect that from anyone I work withâ¦.
I am not on here to simply see how many friends I can have, I am on here to obtain the best photos with the best photographers for awesome results and, of course, in the end lots of $$$$! :)
I donât just TAG people and I REFUSE to do the whole, comment on me and I will comment back twice!!! Actually I donât comment on anything unless it really catches my eye!
I am not looking to just "shoot" for pleasure....this is a job for me, and while I love it, I want to know what you plan on doing with my photos....and to put it bluntly....if you don't have a reason that you want to shoot other than TFP, unless it is something I feel will benefit me as well, then I will have to spend my time elsewhere. I hope you can understand why and always know that I will give you 100% every time!!!
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France Telecom Is On The Ball
The article "The Continent's wake-up call" (Information Processing, Dec. 20) was unjust in bashing European PTTs. It is true that for many years Europe's telephone monopolies were noncompetitive and plagued by "lagging technologies, surly clerks, and high rates," as you stated. But this is no longer the case.
As an employee of France Telecom North America, I am pleased to see that market-driven changes are continually being implemented. We claim the most highly digitized network in the world in terms of backbone and switching equipment. The transatlantic demonstration of ATM [switches for multimedia data] presented by France Telecom on Oct. 27 at the Interop '93 trade show in Paris was the very first of its kind.
A recent public survey demonstrated a 91% satisfaction rate for France Telecom users in France. This would not be the case if we were not providing high quality, competitive services.
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France Telecom North America
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The New Disruptors: Content, Devices & Distribution
School of Film and Television | Loyola Marymount University
Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 6:00 PM (PDT)
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The Steed Symposium | School of Film and Television | Loyola Marymount University
The New Disruptors: Content, Devices & Distribution
Moderated by Paula Wagner, film, theater & television producer
Rick Allen, CEO, SnagFilms
Michael Fuchs, former chairman and CEO of HBO and Warner Music Group
Ross Levinsohn, EVP, Yahoo!
Warren Lieberfarb, Chairman, Warren Lieberfarb & Associates and "Father of DVD"
Sara Pollack, Senior Marketing Manager for YouTube
Lance Weiler, Story Architect/Experience Designer
Forty years ago, HBO upended the three major broadcast networks' total domination of TV viewership in the United States, ushering in a new age of television. The new technology of the day – cable and satellite – enabled HBO to deliver content into the home, and this disruption sparked the big bang of channel expansion, forever fragmenting audiences around niche programming.
Today, the entertainment industry is in the midst of another rapid disruption. Following an exponential growth of technology over the past decade, mobile devices, platforms and on-demand television are influencing viewers' consumption of entertainment and simultaneously spawning the creation of new content genres and channels. This panel examines The New Disruptors – the people and companies poised to shape, capitalize on and dominate this entertainment space.
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The cocooned trees are a side-effect of spiders escaping flood waters in the area. Although people in this part of Sindh have never witnessed this phenomenon, they report there are now less mosquitoes, thus reducing the risk of malaria.
As if being devastated by monsoon floods weren't bad enough, it seems the people of disaster-laden Sindh, Pakistan (circa 2010) were also the recipients of a more surreal holocaust: SPIDER TREES.
This has made the rounds on the mainstream interWEB I'm sure but it was too terrifying for me to resist.
The general consensus seems to be that the flood waters drove billions of spiders and other insects up into the trees where they then sealed them in ghostly cocoons.
The people of Sindh said they have seen nothing like it before yet apparently no formal scientific analysis was made.
National Geo sent photographers who insist that when you stood under these things lots of tiny, tiny spiders would fall on your head.
This has been heavily contested, many say that certain moth larvae or other silk spinning worm types are more likely to be blamed. But in the end does that really make this any less of a nightmare made flesh? Yet another relentless, overwhelming example of the wonder/terror that is the natural world.
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Interviewer: An estimated 3.83% of adults aged 20 or older -- that's about 7.7 million Americans -- have physiological evidence of chronic kidney disease. Dr. Narva explains that chronic kidney disease is defined in two ways.
Dr. Narva: One is a decrease in the filtering ability of the kidney. The kidney is a filter and when you've lost about half of your filtering capacity you can be diagnosed as having chronic kidney disease. The second way of being diagnosed as having chronic kidney disease is if you have evidence of kidney injury, even if your kidney filters normally.
Interviewer: Most people have two kidneys. They're located near the middle of the back. Every day healthy kidneys filter about 200 quarts of blood and remove about two quarts of waste and extra water to make urine. But how do you know if your kidneys are functioning normally?
Dr. Narva: Kidney disease is often referred to as a "silent disease." It's said that it's silent because most people have no symptoms until their kidneys are very, very seriously injured. In other words, normally we have a lot of extra kidney capacity -- a lot of extra filtering capacity -- and you can lose half of that and not even be aware of it. You can loose three quarters of it and you may not be aware of it. In fact, many people don't become aware that they have kidney disease until just a relatively short time before they require dialysis. That's why it's very important for people to be screened early if they're at risk. So if you have heart disease, if you have high blood pressure, if you have diabetes, if you have anyone in your family with kidney disease, you should be screened and the screening is very simple.


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Neither Chris nor Kimmy saw online dating as a venue likely to work for them. But both saw themselves as faithful Catholics who wanted to live out their lives with someone who would aid them in getting to heaven and felt they had to try unconventional options.
"I thought it wasn't for me," 30-year-old Kimmy said with regards to online dating. "I was concerned about whether it was safe." Kimmy had an aunt who encouraged her to try it, telling her niece that sometimes God wants to see you're trying. It was Kimmy's aunt who sought out an online venue, found CatholicMatch and in effect said "you're doing this."
Chris had similar doubts. "I was hesitant—skeptical even—that I would work for me," the 32-year-old resident of Pittsburgh told CatholicMatch.
In the end, he decided that if he was going to give this online thing a chance he was going to do it the right way. "I came to believe that anybody with the courage to identify himself or herself to the world as a Catholic single was open to allowing God to do great things with their lives."
Great things take time to develop and that was the case with Chris & Kimmy. They corresponded online for three months before meeting face-to-face, even though she also lives in Pittsburgh. Kimmy's concern for the safety of online dating led her to be cautious about meeting anyone face-to-face, but Chris found the right balance of patience and persistence.
The big reason Chris stayed patient was what he saw in Kimmy. He'd even hesitated to contact her on CatholicMatch because her profile seemed to good to be true. It was only after he woke up one morning with her face as the first thing he thought of, that he messaged her and a little prudence on her part wasn't going to dissuade him.
"She turned down my offer of a date no fewer than two times," Chris recalled. "Or it wasn't that she turned me down. She said 'maybe' or 'hopefully.' That discretion and discernment attracted me to her even more."
Their first date came at Mad Mex's, a restaurant in Pittsburgh's North Hills area and both had electric responses to each other. "As soon as I walked in my jaw dropped," Kimmy told CatholicMatch. "I knew right away, but didn't want to believe it."
For his part, Chris found Kimmy's genuineness to be even more real in person than it had been on her profile and as they got to know each other, her spiritual depth stood out more and more.
"I was shocked to learn this self-described fitness nut did not own an iPod," Chris said. "When I asked what she does to survive the mental lull that comes with working out she said simply 'I pray.' I knew I was where God wanted me to be."
Their love for each other only grew with the passage of time. "He makes me laugh and he makes me happier than I've ever been," Kimmy said, recalling how she was never as excited for a date as she was knowing Chris was on his way to pick her up. Chris added that Kimmy's infectious enthusiasm makes it "impossible for her not to brighten the day of everyone she encounters."
This past May they were back where it all began, at Mad Mex's in the North Hills. On that first date, Chris had given Kimmy a pair of Penn State pom-on gloves, in honor of her past as a PSU cheerleader. When they got back to the car after this return date to Mad Mex's, Chris told Kimmy he had something in the glove compartment for her. It was a pair of Pitt gloves. That's not something you customarily give a Penn State fan or alum, but Chris was a Pitt fan so Kimmy, in his words, "tried to fake her excitement or appreciation at first." But after she pulled the left-hand glove out of the console, there was an engagement ring waiting. "It seemed like the perfect way to offer my hand in marriage," Chris said.
Chris and Kimmy are preparing for their wedding next April, as they continue live and work in Pittsburgh, he in banking and she in health care sales. Their happiness didn't come without a struggle. Chris spoke of the challenges in discerning God's will and the impossibility of serving two masters, as Christ warns of in the Gospel. "I came to the realization that he created me to love him, know him and serve him," he told CatholicMatch. "His guidance and direction led me to the perfect teammate in Kimmy."
Kimmy sees the hand of someone else in Heaven pulling a few strings on her behalf. Her father passed away six years ago and in Chris she sees not just the qualities of her dad, but even his mannerisms. "I never thought I'd find someone like Chris," she said. "I believe my dad picked him out."


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My cousin and I just did a 58 to 64 chevy pass car rear end into my 55 1st ser pickup. You just need to be aware of the axle flange to axle flange dimension. So you can get correct tires and wheels to fit under your fenders.


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Many mothers start out with the best of intentions when it comes to breastfeeding. Health experts agree that "breast is best" and the benefits of breastfeeding for both the baby and the mother are numerous. Yet while a lot of people give lip service to the importance of breastfeeding, there isn't a lot of support for women once they make the decision to breastfeed. In fact, our society offers very little support to breastfeeding moms and often sabotages breastfeeding altogether.
How many times have you heard about a mom being told to cover up her nursing child on an airplane or at an amusement park or at a store or at a restaurant or even asked to leave or had the police called on her? How many times have you seen formula ads in parenting magazines and on television? How many times have you read a magazine article giving incorrect breastfeeding advice (or should I say formula advice) or heard of a well-intentioned pediatrician giving parenting advice that compromises the breastfeeding relationship? Has a can of unwanted infant formula ever mysteriously appeared at your doorstep?
The examples above all have one thing in common -- they are Breastfeeding Booby Traps. Best For Babes (a non-profit that believes "ALL moms deserve to make an informed feeding decision and to be cheered on, coached and celebrated without pressure, judgment or guilt, whether they breastfeed for 2 days, 2 months 2 years, or not at all") describes Breastfeeding Booby Traps as "the cultural and institutional barriers that prevent moms from achieving their personal breastfeeding goals."
Some Booby Traps include:
- sending moms home from the hospital with a "gift bag" of formula,
- having family and/or friends who are uncomfortable with you nursing ask when you are going to give the baby a bottle,
- or having a pediatrician who is unable to answer your questions about breastfeeding.
This post is not to debate breastfeeding vs. formula-feeding. Parents have the right to decide how to feed their baby. But they also have the right to be presented with factual information and the right to not have their feeding decisions undermined. Best For Babes is working to help accomplish that.
Here are some more Booby Traps that have set the blogosphere abuzz.
Amber from Speak Her Truth wrote Marketing and Breastfeeding, Who Hasn't Been Duped?, and said she is not going "to join in on this back and forth bashing of breastfeeding vs formula feeding mothers."
As long as we fight amongst ourselves on this one symptom we cannot unite against the disease. The disease of markets that profit solely on the belief that our bodies are not good enough, not good enough to be sexually attractive, not good enough to give birth and not good enough to nourish our babies afterwards. A simple statement that could bring down this entire empire of insecurity: "Not only are we good enough, we are better just the way we are."
Maya from Musings of a Marfan Mom wrote about Babble's partnership with Similac -- in which Similac sponsors Babble's Breastfeeding Guide -- after first reading about it on PhD in Parenting. Maya said:
You might ask why I care whether a formula company sponsors a breastfeeding portion of a website. I care, because I want women to have a choice in how they feed their children. I care, because women aren't being given proper information on nursing, which sabotages the attempts of women who want to breastfeed. I care because, believe it or not, formula advertising has been shown over and over again to have a negative effect on breastfeeding relationships. Formula advertising not only affects women's choices in how to feed their children, whether they are conscious of it or not, but it results in drastically higher costs for families who choose to feed their children formula (who do you think ends up paying for the "free" samples given at the hospital and sent in the mail, as well as all those commercials and Internet ads?). That affects their choice as well.
Tumbling Boobs pointed out its not just parenting websites promoting Similac's latest marketing ploy and included screen captures of a few medical providers that are actively promoting Similac's feeding hotline to moms seeking breastfeeding help.
Annie from PhD in Parenting also pointed out that even WebMD's breastfeeding guide is sponsored by Gerber (which is owned by Nestle). There are six Gerber ads on the page that is supposed to help mothers with breastfeeding! Annie, who said, "There has to be a way to stop this incredibly unethical and predatory infant formula marketing on websites pretending to offer breastfeeding support," urges her readers to take action and lists a few ways to get involved.
Jem wrote a review of the book The Politics of Breastfeeding (which I will be adding to my must-read list). She believes the book should be read not only by nursing moms, but by all women.
Reading the book frustrated me on so many levels. I've talked before about Nestle's marketing practices before, but it goes beyond that. The origins of formula; unnecessary death of babies in both developed and 'third world' countries; the undermining of women because we're "not good enough"/"not reliable enough" to maintain life; the supplementing with formula without permission from mums; the strange habit of separating babies from their mums in hospital, etc.
This book has changed the way I look at so many aspects of birth and infant care.
Taking a more light-hearted approach to the subject is Dou-la-la whose humorous, but also disturbing post Breast is Best, Sponsored by Simfamil: Don Draper Explains It All For Us is sure to be enjoyed by many a Mad Men fan. Heck, I thought it was awesome and I've only watched about 15 minutes of Mad Men.
What is the solution? How do we stop undermining breastfeeding moms?
I think the best start is if formula companies would start following the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes. We all know formula exists. We all know where we can get some (even for free), if we so desire. The marketing and the deceit needs to stop. If you are upset about the Babble/Similac partnership or the WebMD/Gerber/Nestle partnership, follow Annie's lead and take action. Let the companies know you disagree with their choices and why and then spread the word.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
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Contributing editor Amy Gates writes about parenting, women's health, green living and more at Crunchy Domestic Goddess. You can also follow her on Twitter: @crunchygoddess.
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