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For obvious reasons, though certainly none of them good, IBM is shipping a version of the smartphone client for Lotus Notes for the Android OS.
Lotus Notes Traveler is the evil Notes version of the obsolete Blackberry push email system, but with a host of centralized management and security functions, including the ability to limit end-user access to email or certain documents based on the security level of their device or their location, as well as encrypted email, data filtering and connections to a central directory.
It supports the iPhone, iPad and devices running Nokia Symbian or Microsoft Windows Mobile. It provides automatic two-way synchronization of email, calendar, journal, task list and contact information and a host of centralized management tools, including the ability to wipe data from a device that's gone missing.
End user companies have to install a Lotus Notes Traveler server, which installs the client software and keeps it up to date automatically.
The client won't install automatically on devices using AT&T's network because they can install only apps downloaded through the Android Marketplace. Otherwise Traveler's support of Android is designed to be as comprehensive as for other OSes.
Good news for those stuck with Notes; bad news for those hoping Notes would fade away with the rest of the painfully slow, 80's-looking, clunky databases masquerading as high-functioning email clients. (Some poor deluded people love Notes, btw, but in my scientific survey of this one user-gripe site, Notes Love messages are outnumbered by Notes Hate messages by almost five to one. )
Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld. Follow him on Twitter @KevinFogarty.

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Higher EU greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 due to economic recovery and cold winter
Greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2010, as a result of both economic recovery in many countries after the 2009 recession and a colder winter. Nonetheless, emissions growth was somewhat contained by continued strong growth in renewable energy sources. These figures from the greenhouse gas inventory published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) today confirm earlier EEA estimates.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU-27) increased by 2.4 % (or 111 million tonnes CO2 equivalent) between 2009 and 2010. This can be partially explained by the fact that there was a sharp 7.3% (or -365 million tonnes) decrease of emissions between 2008 and 2009.
The EU remains fully on track to meet its Kyoto target. The long-term reduction trend continued, since EU-27 greenhouse gas emissions still remained 15.4 % below 1990 levels in 2010. Emissions in the 15 Member States with a common commitment under the Kyoto Protocol (EU-15) in 2010 were 11 % below the Kyoto Protocol base year. These consolidated figures confirm earlier estimates for the EU, published by the EEA in October 2011.
"Emissions increased in 2010. This rebound effect was expected as most of Europe came out of recession," EEA Executive Director Jacqueline McGlade said. "However, the increase could have been even higher without the fast expansion of renewable energy generation in the EU."
Why were greenhouse gas emissions higher?
Higher emissions were partly due to the economic recovery (GDP grew by 2 % in the EU in 2010), as many European countries emerged from the 2009 recession. Higher final energy demand (+3.7 % in 2010) also contributed to the emissions growth. Moreover, the winter in 2010 was colder than in the previous year, leading to higher heating demand.
However, GHG emissions growth was contained by several factors. As in previous years the growth in the use of renewable energy sources continued in 2010 with a 12.7% increase of total consumption of energy from renewable sources. In addition, gas prices fell markedly in 2010 and EU total consumption of gas used for energy purposes went up by 7.4%. The higher share of gas led to an improved carbon intensity of fossil fuel consumption in many Member States.
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- Emissions were higher in most of the key sectors in 2010, particularly those sectors relying on fossil-fuel combustion. Sectors with the highest GHG emissions growth included: CO2 emissions from residential and commercial sectors (caused by a higher heating demand due to a colder winter); CO2 emissions from manufacturing industries and construction (including iron and steel process emissions); and CO2 emissions from public heat and electricity production.
- Road transport emissions continued to fall in 2010, despite more demand for freight transport.
- Higher industrial activity during 2010, after the economic contraction in 2009, appears to have led to higher final energy demand and related emissions in those sectors covered by the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) compared to other sectors.
- Among the greenhouse gases reported to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), carbon dioxide (CO2) accounted for the largest increase in emissions in 2010. The gas represented 82 % of total EU GHG emissions.
- Industry emissions of hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), extremely potent GHGs, grew significantly in 2010, continuing the upward trend observed since 1990.
- Methane (8.6 % of total EU GHG emissions in CO2 equivalent) and nitrous oxide (7.2 %) declined.
- Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom accounted for 56% of the EU's total net increase in GHG emissions. The relative growth in emissions was highest in Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Latvia. Spain, Greece and Portugal again reported lower GHG emissions in 2010.


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Eve Ensler, whose play "The Vagina Monologues" helped get three high school girls in trouble with their principal, has accepted an invitation to speak to the school district, a board member said Friday.
The girls were suspended for a day each after they included the word "vagina" in an excerpt from the play that they read aloud at a school event last week. John Jay High School Principal Richard Leprine said they had agreed not to use the word.
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A synthetic derivative of vinblastine, a naturally occurring vinca alkaloid. Vindesine binds to and stabilizes tubulin, thereby interrupting tubulin polymerization and preventing the formation of the mitotic spindle and cell division; treated cells are unable to undergo mitosis and are arrested in metaphase. This agent also disrupts macromolecular synthesis. Check for active clinical trials using this agent. (NCI Thesaurus)
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300 French police corner Mohammed Merah, a 24-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, in Toulouse apartment The Jews have killed our brothers and sisters in Palestine, Merah said, adding that he had uploaded a video of the attack onto the Internet.
French police launched a pre-dawn raid on a house in Toulouse early Wednesday morning, cornering a man suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three French paratroopers in three attacks that took place in the southwestern French city and the nearby town of Montauban over the last two weeks.
Gunfire erupted as members of the RAID police special forces team tried to storm an apartment in a residential district of Toulouse in the early morning operation, and at least two officers were wounded, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said.
Police named the suspect as Mohammed Merah, a 24-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin, who they said claims to be a member of al-Qaida.
He claims to be a mujahideen [holy warrior] and to belong to al- Qaida, Gueant told journalists in Toulouse, adding that the suspect had ties to people involved in jihadism and Salafism.
Gueant said the man targeted in the raid had visited Afghanistan and Pakistan, and had shot dead the four to avenge Palestinian children killed in the conflict with Israel and due to Frances military involvement abroad.
The Jews have killed our brothers and sisters in Palestine, the killer reportedly said, adding that he had uploaded a video of the attack onto the Internet.
Gueant said the suspect was thought to be armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a mini-Uzi 9mm machine gun and other handguns, but had thrown a .45 pistol used in seven murders in the previous nine days from a window.
He is currently in a dialogue with a police official and he says I do not know if he is telling the truth that he will hand himself in later in the day, the minister said, in an interview with the BFM-TV news network. As of 12:30 p.m. (Israel time), however, news reports said the suspect had cut off contact with police negotiators. Authorities were determined to take the suspect alive so he could stand trial.
French authorities said national intelligence had been monitoring Merah for years. He had also been previously arrested on a matter of common law in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold, police said, according to French news agency AFP.
Merah, who was holed up in the Toulouse house during the hours-long standoff, had been speaking with a police negotiator over the course of Wednesday morning before cutting off contact.
Gueant did not say how police had tracked the man down, but said they were talking to his brother at a separate location in connection to the killings. His mother had also been brought to the scene to help negotiate with him.
Heavily armed police in bullet-proof vests and helmets cordoned off the area where the raid was taking place, in a suburb about three kilometers from the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where Mondays shooting attack took place. Residents of the besieged building were being evacuated.
Gueant said French President Nicolas Sarkozy had been informed of the raid, which began at 3 a.m. in Toulouse. Sarkozy, campaigning for re- election in a presidential poll in five weeks time, has blamed racism for Mondays school attack. His handling of the crisis could be a decisive factor in determining the vote.
As events unfolded in Toulouse, Sarkozy said Wednesday that terrorism will never succeed in fracturing our nation.
Far-Right candidate and Sarkozy challenger Marine Le Pen decried the attacks as the result of Frances mistaken policy in Afghanistan and said France should wage war against fundamentalist political and religious groups.
The risk of fundamentalism has been underestimated in our country. Certain political and religious groups are developing in the face of a certain laxness, she told the i-Tele news channel, questioning the decision to deploy in Afghanistan.
We must now wage this war against these fundamentalist political and religious groups that are killing our children, that are killing our Christian children, our Christian young men, young Muslim men and Jewish children.
Paris Grand Mosque Rector Dalil Boubakeur urged France not to stigmatize its Muslims in the wake of the shootings, saying, according to AFP, that 99.9 per cent of French Muslims were law- abiding citizens and the killings were the work of a tiny fringe.
French security forces expanded their hunt for the attacker on Tuesday, using hundreds of officers in their effort, as officials cleared three neo-Nazi soldiers suspected in the case. The three had been discharged from their army unit in 2008 after a picture of them was discovered posing with a Nazi flag and raising their hands in a Nazi salute.
Police released footage from a security camera outside the Jewish school on Tuesday, showing a man on a motorcycle wearing a white helmet, while Gueant said on Tuesday that the murderer arrived at the school with a camera attached to his chest to film the attack. This proves he lacks sensitivity and is determined, and adds to the tremendous cruelty of his acts. The symptoms of anti-Semitism are always around us and we must be weary of them, Gueant said.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Paris Chief Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that the murderer was cold, calculating, determined, worked alone and appeared to execute pre-mediated plans. Molin said that the investigation had been transferred to a counterterrorism unit, because racially motivated attacks and attacks of an anti-Semitic nature are also terrorist attacks.
The chief prosecutor said there was a connection between the murder of a French Muslim soldier in Toulouse on March 11, the murder of two other soldiers of North African descent and wounding of a French soldier from the Carribean Islands on March 15, and the attack at the school. According to Molins, the same gun was used in all three cases and the perpetrator arrived at all three sites on a Yamaha TMAX motorcycle wearing a helmet, indicating it was likely the same man who committed the crimes.
The murderer does not hesitate to kill his victims at close range, as he did with the soldiers and three of the four school attack victims. We are confronting a man who is very determined and knows there is a broad manhunt taking place to find him. He may act again without hesitation. He has acted each time with a four-day interval, Molins said.
The French interior minister told Israel Hayom on Tuesday that France was committed to the security of French Jews.
Pierre Basnano, a senior Jewish community leader in Toulouse, promised that security for additional Jewish venues would be bolstered in the coming days.
Meanwhile, also on Wednesday, a package bomb exploded at the Indonesian Embassy in Paris, causing minor damage but no injuries, police and Indonesias foreign minister said.
A Paris police official said an employee at the embassy discovered a suspicious package and stepped back in time before it exploded. There was minor damage to a window but no injuries, the official said. The source of the package was not immediately clear.
Asked whether the embassy would be closed, the minister said the embassy would remain vigilant but the bomb would not deter us from going on with the business of our activities.
He said it was too early to say whether there was any link between Wednesdays mail bomb and the attack on the Jewish school in Toulouse.
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One Last Whiskey Dawn
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No Regrets: A Hard-Boiled Life
By John Schulian
The train to glory left without James Crumley, who seems to have been too busy examining life's gnarly side to bother catching it. There are no best-sellers for him, no money-bloated deals with Hollywood–just hard-boiled novels that are better than anybody else's because all those lost nights stashed in the margins make each one a survivor's story.
Crumley has never shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he knows how blood looks when it's spilled against a backdrop of whiskey dawns, cocaine pick-me-ups, and wall-shaking sex. His is a wisdom acquired by bellying up to the bar in roadhouses where bikers, ranch hands and oil-field workers beat each other senseless for playing the wrong Merle Haggard song on the jukebox. It's no life for the delicate, but the delicate don't have a taste for Crumley's novels anyway, so the hell with them.
The time is right for saying so now that Crumley has again unleashed Milo Milodragovitch, one of his two memorably unapologetic rogue heroes. Milo comes barreling back in "The Final Country" because he needs something to keep Texas and a woman who's the queen of mood swings from driving him crazy. To tell the truth, he'd rather be home in Montana after reclaiming his father's stolen inheritance and snagging some unlaundered drug money in the process. Failing that, he uses a sap on a sucker-punching lady bartender, knocks the teeth out of a one-armed man's mouth, and almost twists the nose off a security-company executive's face–all before the shooting gets serious. Crumley, for what it's worth, says Milo represents his kinder, gentler side.
They've both passed 60 without a whimper, no problem for Crumley, but strange territory for a hero in a genre that avoids aging as if it were a homely blond. Be advised, though, that when readers first met Milo, in "The Wrong Case," in 1976, he was in strange territory for a PI then, too–the modern West–and he survived nicely. So when he talks about the two white streaks in his hair early on in "The Final Country," he isn't worried. It's like he says: "I'm old, babe, but not dead."
Of course, he comes close to making a liar of himself when the simple job of tracking down a runaway wife puts him in the path of a drug dealer "no larger than a church or any more incongruous than a nun with a beard." The drug dealer, fresh out of prison, is looking for a woman, too, and when he doesn't succeed, he decides the next best thing is to kill a bar manager. In the midst of the mayhem, over drinks, naturally, he and Milo connect. So it is that Milo decides to help a guy who doesn't look like he needs any.
The set-up is straight out of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely," which Crumley admits and which, when you think about it, is only fitting since he has been described as Chandler's "bastard son." Anyone who doubts the accuracy of that label should read Crumley's 1978 masterpiece, "The Last Good Kiss." With all due respect to Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke and the genre's other heavyweights, it's the best hard-boiled novel of the past 25 years. Some admirers swear it is even more than that, comparing it to Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and Hunter Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." To make their case for Crumley's artistry, true believers don't have to go any farther than "The Last Good Kiss's" first sentence:
"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon."
The hero of "Kiss" is C.W. (Sonny) Sughrue, whose last name, as Crumley once explained it to me, is pronounced "sug as in sugar and rue as in rue the goddamned day." Sughrue is a little younger than Milo and he isn't as bright, but he's a lot meaner, which comes in handy for a private eye wading through obsessions, sordid pasts and the dark places in men's souls. When questioning a particularly difficult thug, Sughrue shoots him twice in the foot: "'Once to get his attention…and once to let him know I was serious.'"
Culture critic Greil Marcus recalled that quote in the issue of Rolling Stone devoted to the September 11 attacks, as if to suggest that America can play as rough as any terrorists. But the quote's presence so many years after it appeared in a novel that didn't sell all that well also suggests an enduring fascination with Crumley. It's not just that there's enough demand for his six novels before "The Final Country" to keep reviving them as paperbacks; it's that there are people who pay upwards of $300 for leather-bound copies of scripts he has written for movies that were never made. And there are even more people, it seems, who will gladly recall finding this expatriate Texan in his Missoula, Montana, lair and joining him in debauches worthy of rock stars.
Documentation of such events is hard to come by, if not impossible, but nothing Crumley has written or said in interviews discourages the telling of such tales. "I think there are more people who drink a lot in America than ever show up in fiction," he said once, the implication being that he was one of them. And he said, and implied, the same about drugs. But there was a 10-year lull after 1983's "Dancing Bear" that left the impression his excesses may have gotten the best of him. When he finally reappeared with "The Mexican Tree Duck," he used the acknowledgments to thank his agent for sticking with him and his publisher for gambling on him. The sentiment didn't sound like it was coming from someone who'd been lounging on top of the world.
Three years after that, Crumley delivered "Bordersnakes," which teamed Milo and Sughrue for the first time. And now there is "The Final Country," his finest work since "The Last Good Kiss," a splendid balancing act between Milo's sense of moral outrage and his flare for the outrageous. It's good to know there's still a private eye who can enjoy a ménage a trois and then face down a rich, corrupt Texan he sees as "a hyena in the rotten wake of the multinational prides."
Crumley obviously has a full head of steam, and the news from his camp is that he's deep into writing his next Sughrue novel, "The Right Madness." It's hard to say what's driving him. Maybe he feels the dogs of mortality nipping at his heels, maybe he has decided to get the most out of his vast talent. Not that he has ever given the impression of someone burdened by regrets. He did, however, apologize the day he showed up 10 minutes late for a writers' panel on which he was the cult hero.
"I lost my watch," he said.
"Any idea where?" asked an unsuspecting straight man.
"Yeah," Crumley said. "I threw it out a car window in El Paso in 1978."
Crumley died in 2008 at the age of 68 [7]. This piece originally appeared on MSN.com (12/3/2001).
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Bucks headed to chemistry class
At the end of the 2011-12 season, the clarion call coming out of Cousins Center was that the Milwaukee Bucks needed to add some length to its front court to replace Andrew Bogut.
Throughout the summer, general manager John Hammond answered that call. He signed free agent veteran center Samuel Dalembert, noted for his defensive presence more than his offensive skills. He drafted John Henson out of North Carolina, who enters the league with the same calling card.
He also added veteran center and former Buck Joel Przybilla, who averages a career 2.6 blocks per 36 minutes, and re-signed Ersan Ilyasova.
The quartet joined Larry Sanders, Ekpe Udoh and Drew Gooden on the 15-man roster, giving coach Scott Skiles as much big man depth as any team in the NBA.
In the Bucks 97-80 preseason opening win over Cleveland on Tuesday night, it was on display. Ilyasova started alongside Dalembert, but all of the big men played between eight (Gooden, Przybilla) and 18 (Udoh) minutes.
Dalembert blocked three shots in 15 minutes. Off the bench, John Henson and Udoh combined to block another three shots while Sanders had a good offensive night, scoring 10 points.
Can a rotation be determined off one preseason game?
No. But Skiles did give an early hint that on some nights, some of the bigs will play, and some will not. And that may become his biggest test of the year as well.
"It's going to be a challenge," Skiles admitted. "We talk about it every day. We've got seven big guys that have played or are capable of playing well in an NBA game. The way the game is played now, some games it's hard to get three of them out there because you have a well-intentioned game plan and then all of a sudden five minutes into it (and Indiana's) Danny Grainger is playing the four and you've got to adjust because maybe they haven't done that for a week and all of a sudden they think it's something they can get away with you so they do it and now that night you can't get your big guys into the game."
That balance, or perhaps lack thereof, is enough of a concern that Skiles addressed all of the big men about it once they all arrived at the start of training camp.
"It's something we've talked to them about," he said. "We talked about it in our meeting (on Oct. 1) and it is going to be a challenge but we've just got to come in, we've got to look at the guys, we've got to see what the guys can do and how they fit," Skiles said. "We don't want to be in a position where guys are looking over their shoulder every night and wondering when they're going to play. We've got to keep an open line of communication."
Skiles continued: "But the reality is there are going to be nights probably where there's maybe three guys that deserve to play in the game and didn't play at all or didn't get the minutes they wanted. We've got to stay with that, stay with those guys, keep them part of it. Chemistry is going to be big for us and that's one area right there we've really got to be mindful of and pay attention to."
For their part, the players admitted that finding that chemistry takes time.
"What's kind of hard for us is that we're always got a lot of new guys on the team so by the team we build that chemistry we end up at the end of the season and it's kind of too late for us," Ilyasova said. "But this season I think we've got the main core of guys who were here last year and just build up that chemistry and play together. It's all about, I believe, a good start. We gotta get a good start at the beginning of the season and we'll be competitive in the playoffs."
Of the seven big men, Dalembert and Henson are the only true "new" members to the organization. Ilyasova was retained despite hitting the open market, and Przybilla was drafted by the organization in 2000. While he hasn't played in Milwaukee since the 2003-04 season, the 33-year-old Brookfield resident most likely came in with a clear understanding of his role as a reserve and mentor.
It's also why many of those players have been working out at the Cousins Center as soon as last year ended.
"Every team needs time to click and get the chemistry," said small forward Tobias Harris, who will likely take minutes from some of those seven players. "A big goal for us this year is to get off to a fast start and start out the season well and finish well also. That's our goal as our team, and chemistry. A lot of teams don't have chemistry and some do, so as a team a lot of us been here after (Labor) Day so we were here working out an getting to know each other and getting a jump start on team chemistry."
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The confrontation between the Mexican state and violent drug gangs is escalating, with the Mexican government moving to stomp out the bloody drug-related conflict in the border town of Ciudad Juarez. The first of some 7,000 troops have moved in to try to take control of the city.
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More than 1,500 Mexican troops have moved into a city on the US border being fought over by rival drug gangs.
Soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try to regain control of a city in which more than 2,000 people have been murdered over the past year.
Officials say they intend to have 7,000 troops and police in position by the end of the week.
Rival gangs are battling for control of the city, which is a key entry point for drug smuggling into the US.
Drug violence took the lives of 2,000 people in Ciudad Juarez last year.


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Tim Tebow's Jesus-like pose turns heads
Even in the dog days of August, we can always count on Tim Tebow to provide a heaping helping of sizzle.
The latest issue of GQ, which hits newsstands on August 21, offers an interesting take from a writer who is a Jets fan but not a Tebow fan, and how he is trying to resolve this dilemma.
"This, really, is the root of my beef with Tebowmania: It has nothing to do with football," writes Devin Gordon. "It's a sales pitch -- a sensation built on evangelism, not ability, powered by people who see a chance to turn the NFL into the next front of the culture war. And now that culture war is coming to my team."
Compelling stuff. Not just the standard I-love-this-guy/I-hate-this-guy yelling that inevitably comes with any Tebow discussion. Gordon brings some context, texture and complexity to the conversation.
But Gordon's incisive analysis will likely have to settle for the silver medal in the Generating Buzz competition when GQ packages his story with a photo like this:
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I got rear ended in February. The other driver was speeding, driving while under the influence of drugs, and was arrested on scene. Initially the other insurance company told me they won't take responsibility and claimed it was my fault because I cut him off. I didn't cut him off. I sent them the police report and they said it had no merit because the police got there after the accident happened so they don't know what happened. Three weeks later they sent a appraiser out to look at my car. He told me they would cover everything including a rental and I have an email saying all I need to do is bring his estimate to the garage of my choice and it will be taken care of. I brought my car to the garage and now they told the garage they haven't taken fault yet and are still investigating.I already reported it to my insurance company and they contacted the other insurance company but its still not going anywhere. I don't have the money to use my coverage and pay my deducible. I don't know what else to do other than bring it to court.
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text: One of the most successful producers to emerge from the disco-house scene in the 2000's, Grum first rose to fame in 2008 with his hit single 'Heartbeats' before releasing a string of successful singles and remixes over the coming months and years. A No.1 selling album on Itunes, UK music video awards, and a host of sell out dates that included playing the Creamfields mainstage w/ Tiesto and the mainstage at Ultra w/ Fatboy Slim and Above & Beyond heightened his profile further, making the producer a virtual mainstay in the dance world.Born in Edinburgh in 1986, Graeme Shepherd aka Grum began producing electronic dance music at age 17, before forming a label, Heartbeats with fellow Scot Kevin McKay (previously responsible for signing MYLO.) Since then he's released numerous singles and is due to release his second album in 2014.


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Fresh closing highs for the Dow and the S&P 500 , and a fresh buy on Rio Tinto, have set the stage for a positive local open.
What you need2know:
• SPI futures up 22 points to 5362
• AUD at 94.95 US cents, 96.42 Japanese yen, 69.42 Euro cents and 55.36 British pence
• On Wall St, S&P 500 +0.7%, Dow +0.8%, Nasdaq +1.2%
• In Europe, Euro Stoxx 50 +0.9%, FTSE +0.9%, CAC +0.9%, DAX +0.7%
• Spot gold down 0.1% to $US1325.96 an ounce
• Iron ore adds 0.4% to $US94.20 per metric tonne
• Brent oil down 0.1% to $US112.20 per barrel
What's on today
Australia: BA assistant governor financial markets Guy Debelle speaks at a FT conference in London; NAB May online retail sales index; ABS releases the May trade balance;
US: Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen delivers a lecture in Washington DC; US May factory orders; US June ADP employment change.
Stocks to watch
Rio Tinto was among the best performers in Europe, up 3 per cent, after falling about 6 per cent this year - underperforming a 4.8 per cent rise for the mining sector as a whole. An upgrade to "buy" from BofA Merrill Lynch, citing factors including valuation grounds, also lent support.
Scentre Group, the $17.3 billion shopping centre trust born out of the controversy of the Westfield restructure, is weighing the sale of half of its New Zealand shopping mall portfolio.
Shaw Stockbroking upgrades to a "buy" recommendation on Transfield Services with a $1.50 stock target.
Macquarie has an "outperform" recommendation on Cover-More Group and a target price of $2.25.
The Aussie peaked at 95.05 US cents during New York trading overnight.
The euro slipped from a six-week peak against the greenback, as worries about verbal intervention by the European Central Bank after recent strength in the euro zone common currency tempered buying. Investors were wary ahead of the ECB's monetary policy meeting on Thursday.
"If (ECB) president Mario Draghi does open the door further to the prospect of Federal Reserve-style asset purchases or warn about an overvalued euro, the single currency could become vulnerable to renewed selling," said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.
Copper pulled back from its strongest levels in nearly four months after LME copper stocks rose for the first time in about a month as 650 tonnes of metal arrived in Busan, Korea, raising concerns that this could be the start of an influx of shipments.
Zinc retreated from 16-1/2 month highs as investors liquidated long positions after healthy gains and producers sold material at attractive prices. Three-month zinc on the London Metal Exchange closed down 1.4 per cent on Tuesday at $US2186 a tonne after touching a session high of $US2222, the strongest since February 13, 2013.
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US stocks rallied on Tuesday, with both the Dow and S&P 500 setting record closing highs on the first trading day in July as manufacturing activity picked up in the United States and Asia, increasing optimism about the global economy's health.
Financial data firm Markit said its final US Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index rose to 57.3 in June, the highest since May 2010, although it was slightly lower than the preliminary read of 57.5.
A separate report from the Institute for Supply Management showed its index of national factory activity was at 55.3, little changed from May's 55.4 reading.
Twitter named Anthony Noto as CFO, putting the well-regarded former Goldman Sachs executive who led its successful November IPO in charge of finances.
European shares began the month with a gain, as BNP Paribas rose on relief it had settled a US sanctions case and mining companies rallied after encouraging economic data came out of China, the world's top metals consumer.
BNP Paribas rose 3.6 per cent in trading volume of almost twice its 90-day daily average. It had lost about 20 per cent - or $US21 billion of its market value - since February 13 when it announced the provision for the fine.
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What happened yesterday
Confirmation that record low interest rates remain on hold and improving manufacturing data out of China were not enough to prevent the local market starting the new financial year with a whimper.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index fell 0.37 per cent on Tuesday to 5375.9, while the broader All Ordinaries Index fell 0.29 per cent to 5366.5.
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> Devices map to physical devices i.e ports in your lingo. How many of those > do you see in your average Linux machine? The problem is that if you only think about the "common" network types (ethernet, PPP, etc) this line gets blurred, since there's a one-to-one corresponance between: * physical devices * network devices (i.e. things that you can bind IP addresses to, netfilter based on, tcpdump of) Any sane implementation of VLANs needs to be a network device in the second sense. > VLANs are virtuals circuits which are abstracted on the device. So are > PPPOE sessions, ATM *VCs, MPLS LSPs, FR etc and the list goes on. > They all 'suffer' from the same problem as you, i dont understand why you > are such a special case. Neither do I. PPPoE shows up as a device (ppp0). ATM LANE shows up as a device (lec0). ATM CLIP shows up as a device (atm0). Currently, atm *cards* don't show up as a network device (since they can't be bound directly to L3 protocols), but that may need to change for benefit of SNMP (which wants it to be an enumerable device for statistics purposes). This is how Cisco deals with ATM - there is one device for the physical interface and one for each LANE/CLIP running on it. > You try adding all those thousands of > VLANs as devices and i can _guarantee you_ that you are not optimizing for > the common case. ...or thousands of routes, or gigabytes of RAM, etc... do you suggest we drop kernel support for those too? It's all a matter of finding an algorithm that scales. > I like Lennert and Gleb's because they dont use devices for the > abstraction rather they attach themselves to the device. You dont. Again, how do I write an IP filter that discerns traffic on two different VLANSs - for instance imagine we had one shared ethernet switch that included * (VLAN 1) Router to outside world * (VLAN 1, VLAN 2) Linux box acting as masquerading firewall * (VLAN 2) Internal machines How do I do this under your system? Keep in mind that for security's sake we need to make sure that traffic on VLAN1 doesn't spoof an internal IP address. > I have heard that the authors of 802.1q > have already apologized to the world for the mess ;-> Do you have a reference, or is this just flamebait? I'm sure 802.1q has some interesting applications. Just because it doesn't solve every problem doesn't mean that it's not worth supporting well (much like ATM :-) -Mitch
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North Korea has sent "strong and clear signals" that it is prepared to abandon its nuclear weapons programme if the US guarantees it will not attack the communist state, according to Jimmy Carter.
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Amanda Mae drops the beat and her EP Jan. 31 at The Bridge
EP release will benefit Amanda's charity STEREO
Jan. 31 is going to be a big day for Amanda Mae.
Between an EP release, merchandise line launch and jump-starting STEREO, independent singer and songwriter Amanda Mae Wells has never been busier. And, to top it all off, her new single "Love Again" hits iTunes this weekend.
"Everything's been going really great," she says. "I've had a lot of success with my new song. I've also just got through booking some new shows. I have a really big show that I booked on Dec. 14 opening for Kirko Bangz. That's the biggest thing that's happened."
The pinnacle of Wells' hard work thus far will be her concert/EP release in January at The Bridge. Four other local acts will each play a short set leading up to Wells' live debut of her first EP, Girl Talk. Amanda says she hopes to pack the venue.
Girl Talk features five new songs from Wells, including her radio single "Love Again".
"The songs on (Girl Talk) are mostly dance songs," says Wells. "They're really fun. They just kind of embody what girls talk about when we're together."
Wells' EP release will also be the launch of her merchandise and sunglasses line, and a percentage of profits from the event will help jumpstart her charity program for Columbia kids, STEREO.
Even though STEREO is still just a concept, Amanda has a unique vision for the program. STEREO will be an after-school program for kids interested in music.
The nonprofit hopes to get local musicians and producers involved by allowing them to volunteer their time to work with the kids on music skills. Whether it be writing rap or playing the guitar, each child will have a mentor to cater to the area they like best. They'll be able to record in a real recording studio and perform live, Wells says.
"The show on Jan. 31 is going to really help start STEREO and get this thing going for the kids," Wells says. "The next concert that I have will showcase the kids and what they've accomplished."
Post-January, Wells has tons of exciting things planned. Her next big move is to tour the Midwest with her new songs. She also wants to film a music video for "Love Again" (she's holding auditions for backup dancers). So watch out music world, Amanda Mae might just be the next big thing in 2013.


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Ems1984 replied to Ems1984's topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)Hi There!! Thanks for your message Just wondering if you're able to tell me what your symptoms are? Its important to remember that celiac symptoms are similiar to a few other conditions also. For example, lactose intolerance has similiar side-effects such as gas, bloating and diarrhea. Whilst your tests came back negative, the only real way to work out if you cant tolerate gluten is to eliminate it from your diet completely for at least a month. Be mindful of foods that you wouldnt necessarily think contain gluten such as some soy sauces, soft drinks etc. In terms of nothing changing in the last few days for you, dont be discouraged! Depending on the damage to your small intestine, it can take a while for the healing process to begin to show. Have you tried doing a food journal? I found this really helpful, i wrote down not only what id eaten but also any symptoms i could think of that could possibly be related. it really helps to look back over it and see when and where i had a reaction. Im actually going to see a naturopath this week to work out if there are any other things going on in my body that im not aware of! whilst being gluten-free seems to help, i do have other symptoms going on that seem to occur regardless of not eating gluten. but just give it time, and try to be as disciplined as possible, thats the only way you will know for sure what the problem is. godd luck, and keep me posted! Em
Ems1984 posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)So one of my favourite snacks during the day is yohgurt and gluten-free museli, i have it nearly every day... Something weird happened today though, about 2 mins after eating it i got all the symptoms of being glutened; headache, fatigue, gas and d. The museli is def gluten-free so the only other poss thing it could have been was the lactose in the yoghurt. ive been drinking soy milk instead of normal milk to eliminate any reaction to lactose other than yoghurt (apparently it has good antibodies that lactose-free people can tolerate). I know i havent cross-contaminated either because i am the only cook and i obviously dont have gluten in the kitchen... Can anyone share any experiences they've had with feeling glutened even though they havent eaten anything bad? or perhaps experiences with lactose allergies?? Ta!! Em xx
Ems1984 replied to Ems1984's topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)oh and i ended up going to the Thai resturant and ordered a chicken stir-fry because the only gluten free item was fish and chips!! i felt fine afterwards and started questioning whether or not my body can tolerate gluten. the next day though, i felt really fuzzy headed, lethargic and gassy... symptoms i usually dont question but now i can see their source
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Ems1984 posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Post Diagnosis, Recovery/Treatment(s)Hi All!! Well today is day 16 of my month long gluten-free challenge (as suggested by my GP) and things are looking realy good!! I have seen a very positive improvement in my BM's, bloating and stomach pain. The added bonus is that i feel like i have a more consistent mood and energy level - something i wasnt expecting. Whlst im only half way there, if things continue to improve the way they have been then i think i will be committing to gluten free for life... but will still give it another 2 weeks. Something else i love is the challenge of cooking gluten-free food, there are so many creative ways to go about it, and i am cooking far more yummy things now than i was before this challenge! Just one quick question... i am going to a Thai restaurant today and am wondering if anyone knows of any particular Thai menu items that generally are free from gluten?? Thanks for reading! Em
Ems1984 posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Related Disorders & ResearchHi people, I have been trying to find some info regarding amenorhea and celiacs, and havent been overly successful... i havent had my period for an entire year, i have been tested for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome which i dont have thankfully. the only other possibility the docs have given me is that i am underweight or have a low body fat percentage. I am currently 58kgs and 175cm tall so im actually not that underweight. i have been on the gluten-free diet for about 3 weeks now and am starting to acknowledge a whole bunch of symptoms that may be related to celiac disease and was wondering if anyone can shed some light on the existence of amenorrhea in those who are celiac... Ta, Em
Ems1984 replied to Ems1984's topic in Celiac Disease - Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptomsthanks for all your responses! i feel so encouraged being able to talk with people who have some understanding of how this all works! i have been recording what i have been eating and also how my body has been reacting. i do think my increase in soy could be the cause of some of my latest symptoms... but yes, will keep at it for a few more weeks!
Ems1984 posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsI decided to go gluten-free after my mum was told she was gluten-intolerant. we both have IBS related synptoms. the worst for me is the gas and bloating, sometimes its soo bad i cant stand up. anyway, i've been gluten-free for 2 weeks today (have prob stuffed up two or three times tho). i felt pretty good for the first week and a half, but the last two days have been horrible. ive had shocking gas, diarrhea and bloating but am fairly confident i havent had any gluten. i really just want an answer, im happy to give up anything in order for these symptoms to go away! ive also eliminated lactose from my diet to see if that is also a problem. i know that other foods can cause gas (such as beans and brocolli) but the severity of my symptoms suggests it was more than just a few gas-causing foods... so how long should it take to see improvements if it is gluten that is causing these symptoms? should i assume by now that im not gluten-intolerant if the symptoms came on without me eating anything bad?? definately appreciate any help or answers!! Em
Ems1984 replied to Ems1984's topic in Celiac Disease - Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsThanks for that!! Here's the specifics of my results Endomysial antibody - negative Tissue transglutaminase IgA - 0 U/ml (<7) Total serum IgA - 0.96 (0.69-3.10) thats all i can see that relates to the coeliac screeing...
Ems1984 replied to Ems1984's topic in Celiac Disease - Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsThanks for your reply I have the test results with me... The only thing it really says is that my total Serum IgA is 0.96 g/l Can you, or anyone else, explain that a bit to me? Keeping in mind that when i had the blood test id been gluten free for about 6 six days, would that have affected it much? the doc didnt seem to think so... Em
Ems1984 replied to Ems1984's topic in Celiac Disease - Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsThanks for your reply I have the test results with me... The only thing it really says is that my total Serum IgA is 0.96 g/l Can you, or anyone else, explain that a bit to me? Keeping in mind that when i had the blood test id been gluten free for about 6 six days, would that have affected it much? the doc didnt seem to think so... Em
Ems1984 posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsHey everyone! I've been looking into going gluten-free after my mum was told by a naturopath that she cant tolerate gluten. i have a lot of the symptoms of celiacs; mainly gas, bloating and irregular bowel movements. so i've been gluten free for just over a week and went and got a blood test, got the results back today and it said "unlikely to have coeliacs" so now im not sure what to do... ive noticed some improvement in my gut since ive restriced my gluten intake. just wondering if anyone else has opted to go gluten-free even if the docs have said they dont have celiacs?? em


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N.Y. Times Reporters Shouldn't 'Contaminate' Their 'Impartial' Reputations on Fox News?
After layoffs cost him his job as a media reporter for socialist editor and author Greg Mitchell at Editor & Publisher magazine, Joe Strupp landed at Media Matters for America, where he can ask the liberal media elite why on Earth any of them would ever appear on that unethical Republican swamp known as Fox News (or Fox affiliates on Sundays).
In this case, Strupp went looking for former New York Times reporters and editors to denounce current Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller (the one who suggested to President Bush he should feel personally responsible for the 9/11 attacks) for sinking to an appearance on Fox News Sunday. Former Times media reporter Alex Jones even suggested Fox gets zero credit for open-mindedness for allowing a liberal Times reporter on their set:
"It is a bad idea, period," said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. "I think the format is calculated to make you say things you would like to put back in your mouth."
...He said Times reporters appearing on any cable talk show is a mistake, but singled out Fox, stating, "Fox is an organ of the Republican party. I think everyone who goes on there shares in being used by them for their entertainment value. Fox uses them to demonstrate they are open-minded by putting the Times on there. But does it show Fox is open-minded? I don't think so."
One former Times editor who requested anonymity also criticized the move: "I think it is really stupid," the former editor said. "They become a party in the partisan debate. I don't think the reader is served by that."
Strupp led his article with the comments of former Times ombudsman (or as the Times calls them, a Public Editor) Byron Calame, who said the Times shouldn't lend its brand, "given the news channel's history of ethical problems and parent company News Corp.'s recent political donations."
"If it were me, I wouldn't do it," Calame said Monday. "Is Fox News so biased and perceived to be so one-sided that you are contaminated by going on their air? I don't know. It is a close call."
Calame, also a former Wall Street Journal editor who spent 39 years at that paper, raised the issue of News Corp.'s recent million dollar donations to the Republican Governors Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He said those actions further impact the credibility of all News Corp. outlets, not just Fox.
"It doesn't just affect Fox News, it affects the Journal and other News Corp. outlets," he said. "It creates a perception problem to have such large donations on the books. I am sure News Corp. is giving money to Democrats, but nothing like those amounts. I think it creates needless perception questions."
Liberals are very quick to suggest that any liberal reporters who appear on Fox are now suspected of Republican sympathies. Some are upset that the Times would discourage its reporters from attending the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally, but allow them to "grant legitimacy" to a Fox News show, as if a virginal bride was entering a brothel. But perhaps the funniest quote in the Strupp attack-piece on Fox is the e-mail that Times executive editor Bill Keller sent to Media Matters:
I missed Elisabeth's appearance. But, briefly: We've never banned our reporters from going on Fox. We do discourage them from going on the noisier cable shout-fests, whatever their political persuasion, because those shows try to enlist reporters as advocates or foils rather than as...reporters. And whenever our reporters go on TV we expect them to apply the same judgment to their on-camera interviews that they apply at The Times -- impartial, accurate, non-polemical.


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But you're right - the other flavors probably do well to mask the chocolate to begin with.
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But you're right - the other flavors probably do well to mask the chocolate to begin with.
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I use powdered as it's much easier to use with making chocolate than a dropper. I sweeten to taste - generally chocolate gets sweeter as it cools, so while it's hot I make it about 2/3 as sweet as I'd like it. When it cools, it always tastes sweeter.
I always add a pinch of Himalayan pink salt and hot chili powder to my chocolate.Don't put your trust in anyone on this forum, including me. You are the key to your own success.
Originally posted by ChocoTaco369 View PostI always add a pinch of Himalayan pink salt and hot chili powder to my chocolate.
id love to do this with a green and blacks 85% bar ... macadamias, shredded coconut, perhaps a lil dried fruit, a little bacon .. make 1 chocolate bar into the equivelant of 3 ... damn that sounds good ..
perhaps this will be my next gift to myself when i hit another goal!started at 310 July 23rd 2011 ... workin and workin!
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I made chocolate bars with the following ingredients:
85g of 88% dark chocolate (I prefer Endangered Species over G&B)
60g of unsweetened bakers chocolate (100%)
15g of shredded coconut
15g of coconut oil
15g of shredded organic flax
mmm!Began Primal Living: 25 Sep 2012
Starting Weight: 82kg (180 lbs) - Lost 30 lbs since going Primal!
"I do not eat enough carbs to justify eating low-fat."
"Have some bread with your bread, pasta, bread, and HFCS." - Unicorn
"I also walk my dog twice a day now instead of paying someone else to do it." - IronGirl
"Tell me you're not weak minded enough to be outsmarted by a donut?" - not on the rug
Well, I mostly don't like to take risk when it comes to cooking, so I buy chocolates and eat them up.
Chocolate Recipe:
Take water and sugar in a saucepan and allow it to boil until it reaches 1 string consistency.
Remove from fire and add butter to it.
Once it melts down, add the milk powder, cocoa powder and vanilla essence.
Mix really well until everything blends.
Allow it to cool down for few minutes.
Grease your hands slightly with butter.
Pinch small portions of the chocolate and roll them into balls.
Refrigerate for a while and wrap them in colored papers or arrange them in gift boxes
This quantity would make around 35 small chocolate balls.
Anyways it depends on the size and shape you make.
1. You can also roll a ball, press it flat and place raisins, almond or pistachio in the center and roll it again to make nutty chocolates.
2. Roll balls of chocolate and screw in a tooth pic or skewer to make lolly pops
3. Roll chocolate balls and dip them in almond powder and coat it well.
4. Make chocolate balls and roll them on cocoa powder or sugar powder.
5. Or simply pour the chocolate mixture on a greased plate and cut them into squares.
Recipe courtesy: 4th sense cooking
Are non-salted Macademia nuts available on the mainland? All I can find are the Mauna Loa that are loaded with salt?
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Education Reform
While few would argue that education is both the great equalizer and the single most influential program to benefit american society over the long run, many do argue on the merits and obstacles related to america's public education program.
In a recent Associated Press report, an America's Promise Alliance study found that 17 of the country's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Indianapolis, Cleveland and Detroit. The research also found that about half of all students attending public school systems in the nation's largest cities receive diplomas. Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma and about 1.2 million students drop out annually. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, founding chair of the alliance, illustrated the magnitude of the problem by stating "When more than 1 million students a year drop out of high school, it's more than a problem, it's a catastrophe."
American K - 12 public education is a pitiful program that primarily serves teachers' political interests at the expense of student interests and achievements. School administrators and elected officials serve teacher unions, teacher unions serve teachers and nobody serves parents and students. While there are a minority of teachers which go above and beyond their fiduciary duties in nurturing, educating and caring for students, the system itself is subject to the vested financial interests and demands of teacher unions. Educational performance metrics have succumbed to union pay and job standards well and above student progress and parent evaluations. The public education customer has wrongfully migrated from the student to the teacher.
The ultimate litmus test that demonstrates the failure of the public school system is the staggering number of parents who scrape together the funds necessary to send their kids to private schools over the public school systems which can be attended at no out of pocket expense.
If politicians want to make students and their parents the primary customers and beneficiaries of the public school system, and in fact fix the public school system, they need only give parents the option to enroll their children in private schools with the amount of funding given to the public school systems. By granting parents tax credits toward private schooling equivalent to the amount which the government spends per student in the public system, parents and students would become for the first time the beneficiaries of public education, and students would for the first time be able to attend the school most capable of maximizing their education.
The steady erosion of public education is the single greatest long term threat to America. Continuing the status quo will continue widening the achievement gap between classes of people as well as contribute to the steady loss in literacy, creative thinking, advanced education and global competitiveness. If a politician wants to truly become a public education advocate, he or she must recognize that protectionism is a losing strategy. Only when public education can compete and win against private education will it be truly successful.
To overhaul and reform public schools, offer a comprehensive alternative to the existing governance system.
Efforts to date to reform public education have been piecemeal and lacked any type of progressive sequence. Vouchers give some parents the financial resources to choose better schools but do not advise how public or private agencies should provide better schools. Charter schools reduce regulations on a few schools but leave the majority unaffected. Site-based management changes local decision-making but does nothing to relieve pressures from the central office, federal and state regulations, or union contracts. And "systemic" reforms--which align mandated and standardized tests with required curricula and prescriptive teacher certification methods, do not eliminate the political and contractual constraints that can make schools unresponsive to change. All these proposals leave intact the core of the existing system: a rigid top-down, rule-driven, bureaucracy that is resigned to governing schools by politically negotiated rules.
But there is a viable alternative: contracting. This alternative builds on the charter school movement but would extend the autonomy of charter schools to all schools. Under contracting, school boards would no longer directly manage schools. Instead, they would contract with independent organizations to operate them. Contractors might range from the staff and parents of currently successful schools to community groups or universities. If they failed to deliver, they would be replaced. The role of school boards would be transformed to evaluate proposals, manage contracts, and ensure that contractors deliver on their promises. This arrangement would reduce spending on school bureaucracies and direct the money to the schools themselves. Large school systems could not convert to this new governance structure overnight. Big-city school boards could subject this proposal to a pilot or hard first test by contracting out for operation of their poorest-performing schools.
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Milwaukee Event Calendar
Comedy Tonight: Love American Style
Feb. 14, 2013 7:00 p.m.
The Waukesha Civic Theatre presents "Comedy Tonight: Love American Style." Featuring a cast of WCT favorites, "Love American Style" will serve up an evening of love, laughter, and music. This cabaret-style show delivers some love songs that you're sure to remember, some that you may have forgotten, and some that will keep you in stitches. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and seniors, or $6 for subscribers and groups of 10 or more.
Waukesha Civic Theatre264 W. Main St.
Waukesha, WI 53186
Venue Description:The Waukesha Civic Theatre runs the gamut by representing a variety of genres through local, community-based productions that aim to resemble the affairs of real life.


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NYC Jazz Singer Eleonor England's
NYC Singing and speaking lessons, online singing and voice lesson with Skype
Studio News
Eleonor England offers singing & voice lessons in Manhattan, NYC as well as online voice lessons via Skype! and has worked extensively as a jazz vocalist, voice coach and singing instructor in California as well (Hollywood, San Diego, and San Francisco). Ellie's singing lessons students and their accomplishments are her resume – she doesn't solicit "star" voice lessons students but a remarkable number of her beginning singing lessons students have gone on to win awards and nominations locally and internationally. If you're serious about your voice you are in the right place – just take a look at some of Ellie's singing lessons students and ex-students' accomplishments during or after they took singing lessons or voice coaching with Ellie, online through Skype or in person in California and NYC (for more click here):
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Congratulations to Los Angeles client, recording artist Lio Nicol on her very first music video, a new take on Leonard Cohen's iconic tune Hallelujah. Her originals are great, as well! She took Skype online singing and voice lessons as well as in-person singing lessons in San Diego. Check out her great pop belt, growl, and whistle range (flute/flageolet range) work on this tune. Couldn't be prouder of her work. (video) Remember to subscriibe too her Youtube channel and FAN her on Facebook!
Congratulations to Kate Kim (김지연) from San Francisco (link), pop/television
Ellie's San Francisco student Kate Kim was recently scouted from her YouTube channel and flown to Seoul, Korea to be in Korea's largest and most popular singing talent show called Superstar K (슈퍼스타 K),(website). It's for the Summer/Fall season 2014 and the first episode aired August 2014. Check out her YouTube Channel to see her demos and follow her for her latest vids! We will post video links of the show as they come available.
Stay Tuned: Ellie's new CD is in the works!
Congratulations to Aoede>, Indie/Singer-Songwriter
Ellie's San Francisco student Aoede was nominated for a Grammy at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles! Yes, THOSE Grammys! We're a bit late in posting this but happy belated Grammy nomination to SF student Aoede!
Congratulations to Karl>, pop/television
Ellie's San Francisco student Karl has passed his first 3 auditions and is being flown to scenic Hollywood for the final audition. They already came to his school, did an on-camera interview with him, and filmed him in his "natural habitat". Ellie is really looking forward to hearing the results of the audition this wee – check out the new season of American Idol on Fox starting January!
Taipei R&B singer and Idol Runner-up Hawawa Yang (超偶3 楊蒨時) (links: China US) …is finishing up her series of lessons in the US at Ellie's San Diego AND San Francisco studios. Ellie is sad to see her go back to China but her label needs her back at the beginning of December. Ellie's looking forward to meeting her more singing lessons online with Skype! while she is in Taipei. (Ellie offers online lessons through Skype, Oovoo, and other platforms to those on the road or far away!)
Congratulations to Recording Artist Aeode (link), pop/indie/folk A former singing lessons client in San Francisco who just got back from Los Angeles where she won TWO 2012 Artists In Music awards – Album of the Year and Best Folk/Acoustic Act. She also won at the LA Music Awards for Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year. I am proud of her and her accomplishments since the time we had singing lessons in San Francisco. Visit her site to hear her music, see her videos and buy her music!
Congratulations to multi-platinum Recording Artist and International Super Star Prudence Liew (劉美君, 刘美君) (links: China – US) Canto-pop …for her 2012 album Stolen Moments. She took singing lessons and voice coaching in San Francisco from Ellie and then went on to playing two sold-out shows at the Hong Kong Coliseum (13,000 seats) and being nominated and winning lots and lots of international awards and nominations including: CASH Golden Sail Music Awards (2008), Golden Horse Awards (2008), Hong Kong Film Awards (2009), Ming Pao Weekly Magazine Awards (2009), and Chinese Music Awards (2008, 2009 & 2010). Prudence is an awesome entertainer and a great person to boot and being her voice coach and giving her singing lessons in San Francisco was fun!
Congratulations to recording artist Lio Nicol (link), country/pop …who recently completed a 12 week course of private lessons in San Diego. On her final session, we got her hitting a high G (G6 – that's the second G from the top of the piano for those of you watching at home ;)), in the so-called "whistle register". She's definitely going to be nailing a Bb above that pretty soon! I am super proud of her and her hard work toward relieving her vocal strain and increasing her range. She is continuing with online Skype singing & voice lessons with me from Montana and then hitting Los Angeles!
Congratulations to Neha Jiwrajka (link), jazz
After going on to finish grad school in jazz singing at New England Conservatory of Music, Neha has just completed her debut CD and it should be available soon! Neha took singing lessons from me and then went on to make the audition for the post-grad programs in jazz voice at both the New England Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. Ellie's students have a 96% admittance rate to the school, conservatory, or musical theater "part" of their choice after a year of study – this goes for classical, jazz, or musical theater. I am very very proud of Neha, the San Francisco singing lessons and voice coaching we did, and her subsequent accomplishments. In fact, I just learned that she is now a Metropolitan Opera Guild Teaching Artist and is on her way to NYC! Nice!
Congratulations to student Steve Bulger and 145th Street Blues Band (link), hard-driving blues …on their recently-released 2nd album Where The Blues Live (nominated by the 2012 San Diego Music Awards as Blues Album of the Year)! It's a great CD! The also WON the regional International Blues Challenge for Southern California and went on to compete in Memphis, TN against some of the best blues acts in the country! Also see their gig page for upcoming blues shows (popup). I have been Steve's voice coach and given him singing lessons for a number of years in San Diego.
Ellie recently named one of the top voices in jazz …worldwide by French jazz writer and publisher. Maximillien J De Lafayette. I am amazingly flattered! Thanks so much!
Congratulations to Recording Artist Tracy Johnson in San Francisco (link), indie/pop/singer-songwriter …on her 2012 EP (sound samples) Sometimes Love is Fire which will be her 3rd release – or buy it on iTunes. Also, congrats on having her song "Old Enough To Know Better" on the TV show "Keeping Up With The Kardashians". Her 2nd cd "Dreams in Cold Weather" was featured on MTV's "Real World Laguna Beach" and "Real World Denver" plus the film "Winter of Frozen Dreams". She was the L.A. Music Awards' "Female Singer/Songwriter of the Year" and has also been a San Diego Music Award nominee for "Best Pop Album". I am really proud of Tracy – she is an awesome artist and person and I am so proud to have given her singing lessons and been her voice coach in San Diego! ADDED: OK I can't even keep up with Tracy's song placements. She just got a bunch more. I dunno if it is through her manager who also managed Jewel or some other thing but her songs are reallllllly popular with TV and movie producers! Check her FB page for the latest!
New York City and Online Skype Voice & Singing Lessons with Vocal Coach Eleonor England
(San Diego & San Francisco singing & voice lessons also available 3x/yr)
- Bel Canto and traditional method of singing lessons and voice coaching for all styles including pop, jazz & rock
- I have a great track record of singing lessons and voice coaching student achievement in blues, jazz, rock & classical – both with in person and online singing lessons.
- Voice & Singing Lessons with a singing/voice instructor trained in classical, belting, and jazz (and a listeners and teacher of many other genres!)
- Vocal injury recovery for many singing lessons students,
- Special programs in vocal coaching:
- jazz singing lessons, phrasing & improvisation — Blues vocals
- singing lessons for singers who sing while playing an instrument
- injury recovery
- singing lessons to fine tuning the highly-trained voice
- "tone deafness recovery" for many singing lessons students
- Alexander Technique-compatible approach to singing lessons and voice coaching for a free singing voice
- Singing lessons and voice coaching for a better, fuller sound with less effort
- Locations in Manhattan, New York City; San Francisco; and San Diego:
- San Diego: La Jolla at Girard and Torrey Pines Road
- Manhattan, New York City: 8th Ave between 36th and 37th
- San Francisco, CA: 1011C Shotwell Street 94110
- Online singing lessons given by video chat programs (Skype, Oovoo, etc)
- Vocal and singing lessons and instruction for the professional vocalist
- Beginners singing lessons students always welcome by a patient and empathetic voice coach in Manhattan, New York City – online Skype singing & voice lessons are also available.
Talk to Ellie about in New York City Singing Lessons, and voice lessons and singing coaching in Manhattan, San Diego and San Francisco! Online Skype Singing & Voice lessons are also available!


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Amazon launches Kindle store for Spanish speakers
Amazon is introducing a new Spanish-language eBook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store, the company announced today. Called 'eBooks Kindle en Español', it is targeted at Spanish speakers in the U.S.
According to Amazon, the store boasts 30,000 titles, including Spanish-language bestsellers such as Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, as well as recent titles from popular authors such as Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Carlos Monsivais and Isabel Allende. It also features translations of foreign language e-books, from Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist to the Hunger Games series.
Besides regular e-books, this new section also offers Kindle Singles in Spanish and subscriptions to 14 leading Latin American newspapers like El Universal and La Nacion.
While Amazon had recently launched its Kindle Store in Spain, it is the first time it has been catering to Spanish speakers in the U.S. Says Kindle Content's VP Russ Grandinetti:
"We're excited to introduce Spanish language storefronts on all Kindles, as well as a dedicated store for our Spanish-speaking customers in the U.S. We expect our Spanish-speaking customers to enjoy both the newly-added books in Spanish, and the improved shopping and reading experience—including dedicated customer service in Spanish—that we've added to eBooks Kindle en Español. And we're looking forward to continued expansion of our store for Spanish language readers around the world."
As a matter of fact, Amazon's new offer for Spanish speakers goes beyond books, and the company is now offering help pages and customer support in Spanish — not to mention the fact that they can already navigate their Kindle devices in their mother tongue.
Although Amazon is targeting Hispanics as a whole, it seems to have paid particular attention to Mexican Americans. In its press release, the company claims that its store offers "the largest representation of Mexican authors." As for its compilations of articles from El Pais, they include "exclusive pieces from Mexican journalists writing about Mexican current affairs."
This story originally appeared on The Next Web.
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Issue Position: Immigration
Times have changed since the last time the United States Congress addressed immigration reform. Since the 1986 "solution" that resulted in amnesty, millions of illegal immigrants have unlawfully crossed our borders and unfairly cut in front of people that respected our immigration and naturalization procedures. We are a nation of laws and we must enforce the laws that are currently on the books. More importantly, the world has changed since September 11, 2001. Our homeland security requires that we know who is in our country, and why they are here.
We must secure our borders by strengthening border enforcement. This means ensuring that we fund adequate resources on the border, and deploy advanced technologies to effectively patrol and secure our borders. We can utilize technology, like high-tech communication systems, infrared cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles, fences, and barriers, to provide continuous surveillance of our borders, and allow border patrol agents to further concentrate their activities to enforcing our laws and apprehending those that are unlawfully in our country. We need to train additional border patrol agents, and in the interim while we train more, I agree with the President's proposal to temporarily send National Guard members to assist in operating surveillance systems, analyzing intelligence, and installing fences and vehicle barriers, among other things, on our southern border.
Each person caught illegally entering our country needs to be booked, fingerprinted and promptly returned home. If they have a previous record or are repeat offenders, they should be jailed. I agree with President Bush that we need to expand the number of beds in our detention facilities and to expedite the legal process to reduce the average deportation process.
I applaud President Bush for immediate proactive steps that recognize the problems in our immigration system. My family immigrated to this country seeking the American Dream. We are a nation of immigrants and our country is a lawful society that embraces lawful immigration. However, the American people demand that our laws are obeyed and the nation's borders are secure. I want to go to Washington to ensure that these basic responsibilities of our federal government are carried out.
Source: http://www.mccarthyforcongress.com/immigrationletter.asp


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OZ / Beta Pi Chapter Reunion 2013
Omega Psi Phi - OZ/BP Reunion Committee
Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 1:00 PM - Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Thursday, July 18, 2013:
Happy Hour Meet & Greet/Registration (Location: TBA)
Friday, July 19, 2013:
Registration (Host Hotel - Hospitality Suite)
Fellowship Basketball Game (Central Park, Orlando)
Happy Hour/Night Groove (Draft Orlando Lounge)
Saturday, July 20, 2013:
Registration (Host Hotel - Hospitality Suite)
State of the Chapter Meeting & Breakfast (Host Hotel)
Beta Pi & OZ Que-Nic (Bill Frederick Park @ Turkey Lake)
Harlem Nights Semi-Formal & Casino Night/Comedy Show (Host Hotel - Ballroom)
Sunday, July 21, 2013:
Fellowship & Farewells
Our host hotel for the reunion is the DOUBLETREE BY HILTON AT THE ENTRANCE TO
UNIVERSAL ORLANDO, located at 5780 Major Blvd., Orlando, FL 32819. We have blocked
rooms for the weekend at a room rate of $99.00 + tax per night. To reserve your room,
please contact the hotel directly at (407) 351-1000. You must inform the hotel that you are
with Omega Psi Phi to receive the room rate stated above. Reservations must be made and
guaranteed with a credit card no later than June 7, 2013. Please make your reservations
The registration fee includes all activities (with exception of the Golf Outing or entry to theme parks) and your Reunion TShirt. The Registration fee for a guest is $55.00 per person which includes all activities (with
the exception of the Golf Outing and entry to theme parks), and does not include the Reunion
T-Shirt. Only registered Brothers and participants will be admitted to the weekend's
When & Where
DOUBLETREE BY HILTON (Universal Studios)
5780 Major Blvd
Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 1:00 PM - Sunday, July 21, 2013 at 4:00 PM (EDT)
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Seattle • Microsoft Corp. is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, as the software maker looks to slim down and integrate Nokia's handset unit, people with knowledge of the company's plans said.
The reductions — which may be unveiled as soon as this week — will probably be in areas such as Nokia and divisions of Microsoft that overlap with that business, as well as marketing and engineering, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren't public. The restructuring may end up being the biggest in Microsoft history, topping the 5,800 jobs cut in 2009, two of the people said. Some details are still being worked out, two of the people said.


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Graham remixes a track by Massukos on a 2,000-only 12" single, launched at this Sunday's gig (featuring Toolshed).
Graham Massey remixes Massukos
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For all of us that couldn't make the night - the 12" is now available £8.95 and a download of Graham's mix of Bumping £1.00. Great start to the year for 808 fans!
They have also got a little snippet of the track.
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Tara McKinnon and Peter Meadows married Saturday, Aug. 31. The Folsom couple dated while attending Oak Ridge High School in the mid-1990s. Peter, 36, graduated in 1995 and Tara, 35, in 1996.
The couple broke up when Peter left the area to join the Army. Peter was an intelligence specialist for eight years, then spent six years in the Navy. Now he is an executive recruiter for Strategic IT Staffing in Roseville.
Tara became a hairdresser and today works at Aqua FX salon in Folsom. She married and had two children but after her divorce kept thinking of Peter and often told family and friends he was "the one who got away."
"I'd go running at Cameron Park Lake just like we used to when we were dating in high school," said Tara."Running there made me feel close to him."
Today, the couple calls the reunion "coming full circle." They reconnected on Facebook in 2012 and the rest is history.
"The first time we talked on the phone we were up until 4:30 a.m.," said Tara. "I knew I was in love with him. I told him to come back to the area from Southern California and I'd cut his hair!"
To introduce him to her boys, ages 3 and 8, Tara had Peter meet them at Chuck E. Cheese.
"I wanted him to know what he was in for, so I picked the most obnoxious place possible," laughed Tara."But Pete loves my boys as his own."
"When we dated we were teenagers, so I never saw Tara's mother side," said Peter. "Seeing how she is as a mother is what I love most about her. She takes care of me as well as the boys. No one has ever treated me this way."
"Peter has seen a lot in the military," added Tara. "But he's so nurturing and kind as well as strong mentally and physically."
The couple exchanged vows at Cameron Park Lake Saturday and will live in Folsom. Peter is the son of Don and Linda Meadows of Sutter Creek and Tara is the daughter of Randall and Candace McKinnon of Cameron Park.