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WTSA-12 assembles government and industry leadersDubai, 20 November 2012 — Meeting at yesterday's Global Standards Symposium (GSS-12, 19 November) government ministers, private-sector executives and the standardization community urged ITU to create standardization mechanisms to serve the needs of 'vertical markets' that are becoming increasingly dependent on information and communication technologies (ICTs). In addition, participants encouraged ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) to provide leadership in driving standards education and ICT innovation in developing countries.
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ITU is piloting mobile optimised web pages for the upcoming World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-12) and World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai, UAE.
The apps will feature meeting agendas, the composition of committees and their contributions, and mechanisms to establish email contact with other event participants. Also crucially allowing for the retrieval of the latest meeting documents in real time, the apps are designed to engage delegates in a way that enables more informed participation and consequently more productive events.
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Global Standards Symposium (GSS-12), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 19 November 2012
Convening Letter (TSB Circular 299)Registration
In the run-up to WTSA-12, The Assembly discusses the importance of WTSA with Malcolm Johnson, Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH3HFlDCh0M&feature=share&list=PL61A87AA21E1C14E4
WTSA-12 will host three side events to feature e-health standards,innovation and network resilience. In addition a "showcasing event" will exhibit state-of-the-art products meeting ITU-T standards.
"e-Health", 21 November, will build on ITU-T's new collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) in advancing the rollout of international e-health and telemedicine standards to overcome current interoperability concerns.
"ICT Innovations", 22 November, will draw on the findings of ITU-T's Focus Group on "Bridging the Gap: from Innovation to Standards" (FG Innovation), discussing the reciprocal relationship between innovation and standardization, and means for international standards to capture the best of innovations rooted in developing countries.
"Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery", 23 November, will offer expert opinion on measures to bolster the resilience of critical communications infrastructures in the face of natural disasters. The event will contribute its findings to ITU-T's Focus Group on "Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery" (FG-DR&NRR), a group established primarily to distill lessons learnt from the Great East Japan Earthquake.
More information on these events and an online registration form here…
In addition the opening day of WTSA-12 will feature an interactive workshop introducing activities undertaken by the ITU-T, its membership and secretariat to engage with universities and research institutes. A registration form for this event can be found here…
The Assembly will report live on the events and outcomes of WTSA-12 in Dubai, UAE, 20-29 November. Updated daily with highlights from Dubai, the Assembly will keep WTSA-12's participants and those not able to attend in tune with the progress of the conference.
The blog is up and running, introducing WTSA-12 in an interview with Malcolm Johnson, Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB). Also featured are key facts and figures, the Global StandardsSymposium (GSS-12), and four side events to discuss academia's participation in ITU-T; e-Health; ICT Innovations, and Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery.
This post originally from The Assembly a blog covering WTSA12
The Global Standards Symposium (GSS) will take place one day prior to WTSA-12, on 19 November 2012 – in the same venue. The GSS is a one-day event where ministers, regulators, heads of other international, regional and major national standards bodies, and industry from the different regions of the world will discuss global ICT standards challenges. GSS 2012, the second of its kind, will focus on the intersection of the ICT sector with other sectors such as healthcare, utilities, and transport. A detailed draft programme is now posted on the GSS website. The GSS Chairman, H.E. Mr Nasser Bin Abood Al Falasi (Chief Government Relations & Communications Officer, Etisalat Group) will present the symposium's conclusions to the first Plenary meeting of the WTSA. The event is open to the interested public – register here.
"This post originally from The Assembly a blog covering WTSA12"
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Featured student: Anna Graham, Class of '12
It may sound like a contradiction, but Anna Graham '12 wants the college that feels most like home to take her far away.
"I chose Manchester because of the study abroad program," says the Spanish and social work major from Fort Wayne. "But once I came to visit, I fell in love with the campus, the teachers, class sizes and the students. Everyone was so friendly and it just felt like home."
Anna's life goal is to help children "grow up to be well-rounded, fully functioning adults." But she hopes to get her passport stamped a few times first. She studied in Mexico for a semester and taught English there. "Living in Mexico has changed how I view myself as a person from the United States," says Anna. "It made me appreciate what I have and who I am."
She also plans to apply for a Fulbright grant to teach English in another country. Anna says it's about more than giving students in her host country an educational advantage. "I hope to help bridge the gap between the differences in this world that can't be explained because of a language barrier."
Eventually, Anna will focus her social work career on young people. "I want to give a life back to children and teenagers who are troubled or without homes and families," says Anna. "Working in an adoption agency would be a dream come true. I could help children find a home and a family."
Wherever life leads, Manchester has prepared her in many ways, says Anna. Home or abroad, she's using her education to go places.
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The scent
L.I.L.Y by Stella McCartney
The back story
This is McCartney's follow-up to her widely successful eponymous scent from 2003. L.I.L.Y was the nickname that her father (Paul, if anyone needs reminding) gave her late mum, an acronym for "Linda, I love you." Yes, we awww'd, too.
What it smells like
Playing off the name, the scent bows to lily of the valley, an ambiguously spring-like white floral. Its wabi-sabi twist comes from Périgord truffles (the mushroom, not the chocolate) and a grounding note of oakmoss. But the truffle's funk is played down in favour of sweet, unobjectionable lightness.
The nose
Jacques Cavallier is an industry hotshot whose CV reads like a duty-free shop's bestseller list: Jean Paul Gaultier's Classique, Bulgari's Eau Parfumée au Thé Blanc, both the men's and women's L'Eau d'Issey scents from the early 1990s, Elle from Yves Saint Laurent and the original Stella.
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There is a Vitruvian Man aspect to the bottle, which boasts a silver metal oval-within-a-rectangle frame. The faceting resembles a stylized pineapple and the sculpted, panelled cap looks like a mini architectural model. The media materials declare it "a meeting of glassware and modern art."
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Photographed in the English countryside by David Sims, the print campaign features a naked Malgosia Bela (who, refreshingly, is 34, not 18). With her parted lips, bedroom hair and hint of boob smushed against her thigh, she renders any of the background landscape irrelevant.
Who It's For
Picture an art history lecture. There's the young woman who brashly speaks at every opportunity, not caring that she's confusing Tintoretto with Titian. And then there's the student who has sketched the Venus of Urbino in her notebook but never once raises her hand. L.I.L.Y, of course, is what the latter would wear.
Cachet Factor
Stella McCartney introduced her titular fragrance two years after launching her clothing line, before she had married. Now she designs Olympic uniforms and is a mum herself (to four kids, no less). Her story resonates enough to give the scent broad appeal, even if its ultimate impression is a tad L.I.G.H.T.
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Jadore L'or Perfume
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Jadore L'or Perfume by Christian Dior, This fragrance was created by the house of christian dior with perfumer francois demachy and released in 2010 . This is different from the original version of jadore but it still has the high quality that you expect from the house of dior. It is a rich and inviting floral fragrance. Shocking yet soothing, this is not your typical floral fragrance. Jadore l'or is a step above the rest with an incredible blend of notes. It opens with notes of jasmine and rose ... Read More ... Read More and is followed by a heart of tonka bean and vanilla. The bottom notes are amber, labdanum and patchouli. All products are original, authentic name brands. We do not sell knockoffs or imitations.
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Interview with Tim Moore, creative director of 29th Street Publishing
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The apps themselves are text-driven (although V as in Victor has sported a very smart series of cover illustrations), featuring a spare, modern design that owes a lot to the look of The New Yorker. The navigation is not as linear and structured as most traditional magazine apps, and features some of the novel approaches used in digital versions of Letter to Jane and Port.
It's no surprise then, that one of the wizards behind this set of apps is Tim Moore, the creative director of 29th Street Publishing. Before moving to New York City to work on the project Tim was the creative force behind the SPD-fave Letter to Jane app, which was produced out of his home in Portland, Oregon. He also worked as a developer with art directors Matt Wiley and Jeremy Leslie on several digital issues of Port magazine. On the eve of the launch of the newest issue of Letter to Jane, and with the debut of the third app from 29th Street Publishing, Maura Magazine, we talked with Tim about his approach to making apps and take a look at some of his creations.


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LAS CRUCES — Authorities say a teenage boy is hospitalized in critical condition after being struck by lightning during football practice at a New Mexico middle school.
Albuquerque TV station KOB reports the teen was hit about 5 p.m. Tuesday at Picacho Middle School in Las Cruces.
Las Cruces police say the boy was rushed to MountainView Regional Medical Center and is reported to be in critical condition.
Las Cruces Public Schools officials say two additional players and a coach were sent to the hospital, but they were conscious and responsive.
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Of the 2,600 lots featured in the Fine Art, Asian & Antiques Auction being offered by James D. Julia Aug. 19-22, more than 1,300 are Chinese porcelain — including a 400-year-old porcelain bowl which features marks from the Li period, which ran from 1573 through 1619, on the base.
Leland Little Auction teams up with Invaluable to offer online bidding
North Carolina's Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales is teaming up with Invaluable to offer online bidding, beginning with a series of auctions set for March 13-15.
Bronzes, jade and textiles to take center stage at January Asian auction
Among the lots expected to draw top dollar at Kaminski Auctions January Asian auction Jan. 19, is a stunning Qing Dynasty jade censer, and a kesi silk robe.
Fresh-to-the-market collections of jade, textile and ceramics headline art sale
Several American-owned collections of impressive Chinese art including jade, ceramics, and textiles are headed to auction Dec. 17-18 at Bonhams' in San Francisco.
Estates auction offers up art glass, netsuke, signed jewelry
Three fantastic collections – of 1920s Rene Lalique glass, netsuke carving and signed estate jewelry – will headline a 500-lot estates auction planned for Sunday, Oct. 27, by A. B. Levy's, in the firm's main gallery located at 211 Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Fla.
Qing Dynasty jade carving may earn up to $100,000
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The fine art portion of an April 1, 2012 estate auction encompasses more than 125 lots of European and American works from the 17th to 20th centuries. An unusual collection of nine opium bowls highlights the Asian antiques and art selection.
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Asian and ancient antiques continue to rise as jadeite Guanyin brings $42,240
A mid-19th century Chinese carved jadeite Guanyin sold for $42,240 at Litchfield County Auctions' Oct. 12, 2011 Modernism, Asian art and European antiques sale, continuing the firm's success in selling Asian and Oriental art and antiques. The sale grossed more than $660,000, including a tag sale and buyer's premium.
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Diane Levin didn't mean to make me cringe, but as she spoke I kept thinking of hand-me-down Disney dresses and tiaras in the toy chest at home.
I also had flashes of the first time I saw my son, then 4, play a shooting game with a friend.
"We're only pretending," they said when asked about their stick guns and imaginary bullets.
Where had they learned this? I was curious, and a bit concerned.
So was Levin, back in the 1980s, when Boston-area teachers sought her help. They were seeing significant shifts on the playground. Boys and girls were grouping differently. Violent play was on the rise.
"I went around trying to figure out why, and what had changed," said Levin, who co-authored with Jean Kilbourne, "So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and How Parents Can Protect Their Kids."
Levin, an education professor at Wheelock College in Boston, taught and wrote her way through the women's movement. For about 10 years, she saw gender roles expanding and children developing with much greater freedom of expression.
A significant shift came in the mid-1980s, she said, when the Federal Communications Commission deregulated children's television and allowed marketers to use kids' programs to push toys. Children had become a consumer group, with boys and girls being targeted very differently.
"Using programs to market to children became the norm," Levin said. "Things are much worse now than before the women's movement. Now there is much more focus on buy, buy, buy, and there's much more focus on marketing."
Children as consumers.
Rigid gender roles.
No wonder the princess dresses and jeweled crowns were making me squirm.
"The younger you hook kids with your product, the longer you have them," Levin said. "Gender is a huge way to hook kids."
Research since deregulation has focused more on the use of violence in marketing to boys, but what Levin and Kilbourne point out is equally chilling: the use of sexual content in marketing to young girls.
Today, Levin said, we are seeing the fallout and what she calls the "sexualization of childhood."
"People were acting mystified, acting like it just suddenly appeared," Levin said.
Girls today are becoming "meaner and meaner at younger ages to girls who don't look right and whose parents don't buy them the right things," she said.
I thought again of my daughter and son, now 4 and 7, and my dreams for them: joy, health, compassion, meaningful relationships and rewarding work. Strong connections with nature.
Genderless, sexless dreams.
They are no different for my daughter than they are for my son.
I accept the swords and ribbons. I've found all play fodder for conversations and ideas, especially since one of their best friends is a wildly imaginative boy who loves dresses and tiaras, not soccer and trains.
What I'm realizing is that I don't want their ideas about gender - theirs or anyone else's - to be influenced by what sells. I don't want them to believe in a plastic fairyland.
So, what can be done?
Levin urges adults to protect young children from marketing stereotypes. And since some exposure is inevitable, start communicating early.
"Help them process. Don't just say, 'No, that's bad,' " she said. "You need to start having conversations, and then, as things start getting more serious and heavy, they know you are there to help them."
She urges parents to mix things up at home: Teach your son to cook, and play catch with your daughter.
Set rules about what they can watch and when, and talk with the parents of your children's friends about your values.
And, finally, my favorite Levin suggestion: Complicate your children's thinking, challenge what they see and hear.
Yes, complicate their thinking - and, therein, hopefully, you can keep it free.
If you go
"So Sexy, So Soon: Combating the Sexualization of Children"
• What: Workshop with Diane Levin.
• When: 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 12.
• Where: Green Fields County Day School, 6000 N. Camino de la Tierra.
• Cost: $15. Seating is limited. Reservations can be made by e-mail through Friday at email@example.com.
"A narrow definition of femininity and sexuality encourages girls to focus heavily on appearance and sex appeal. They learn at a very young age that their value is determined by how beautiful, thin, 'hot,' and sexy they are. And boys, who get a very narrow definition of masculinity that promotes insensitivity and macho behavior, are taught to judge girls based on how close they come to an artificial, impossible and shallow ideal."
"And they learn to associate physical appearance and buying the right products not only with being sexy but also with being successful as a person. Such lessons will shape their gender identity, sexual attitudes, and values, and their capacity for relationships, for love and connection, that they take into adulthood."
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Thousands of South Korean farmers and fishermen rallied Tuesday against a proposed free trade deal with China as the two countries started a second round of talks.
"We oppose a Korea-China free trade agreement!" they shouted at a protest outside Seoul city hall. Police said about 10,000 took part.
The protesters -- waving flags and wearing headbands with slogans such as "Stop Korea-China FTA!" -- said any deal would flood local agricultural and fisheries markets with sub-standard Chinese products.
An agreement would also "eventually threaten the health of Koreans and kill the (two) industries", they said in a statement.
The two countries launched free trade talks in May after a series of joint feasibility studies and began a second round Tuesday in the South's Jeju island.
Agriculture and fisheries are considered the most sensitive sectors for South Korea, while China categorises its manufacturing industries as sensitive.
China is South Korea's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade expected to reach $300 billion by 2015, up from $245.6 billion last year, according to Chinese data.
Seoul policymakers say such a pact would allow South Korea better to compete against Taiwan in the lucrative Chinese market after Taipei struck a trade agreement with Beijing in 2010.
Export-dependent South Korea has already signed free trade deals with the United States, the European Union, India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and is expanding its commercial reach in Latin America.
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Tunstall was last seen in Oakland, California on September 10, 1987. He disappeared from his office at Berkeley and his car was found the next day in San Francisco's Sea Cliff area.
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Review: New Parallels, Fusion virtual desktops for OS X fail the smell test
Parallels has interesting ideas that only half work, and Fusion adds almost nothing new beyond better hardware support
Parallels Desktop 9: Making Windows 8 a little less objectionable
Unlike Fusion, the new version of Parallels tries to add something new for users to experience.
A neat idea is shared access to your cloud storage -- be it iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, and/or SkyDrive. Its appeal may not be so apparent until you realize that these cloud storage services copy their files to your local devices in a cache while you're connected; if both your Mac and VM access one of these services, you end up with two caches taking space. When running Windows, Parallels displays the iCloud (including Photo Stream), Google Drive, and Dropbox caches on your Mac as if they were local folders in Windows. They're actually aliases.
Likewise, your SkyDrive folder in Windows is supposed to appear as an alias on the Mac, in the Devices section of Finder windows. But even after installing the SkyDrive desktop app in the Windows 7 portion of Windows 8 (so that it appears in the File Explorer), I couldn't get it to display on the Mac.
Also, if you use SkyDrive on the Mac, it's not aliased to your Windows VM as the other services are, nor to Box in either direction. Cloud aliasing doesn't work if you're running an OS X VM on your Mac either.
But most of what Parallels proposes to make Desktop better in the new version has to do with Windows 8. Nearly everyone who's used Windows 8 strongly dislikes it; everyone I know who's tried it has bought a Mac or found one of the few remaining Windows 7 PCs at Dell or Hewlett-Packard instead. Not a single person I know went with Windows 8 by choice -- and these people were not fanboys of any platform.
So making Windows 8 work better is a laudable goal that may have limited appeal. After all, one of the beautiful aspects of running Windows in a VM is that you aren't forced to switch to a new version when you get new hardware. A Mac can be a Windows 7 PC you run forever.
But let's say that you have to run Windows 8. Parallels Desktop 9 claims to make it less obnoxious.
First, Parallels promises that you'll get a real Start menu, not the silly button in Windows 8.1 that merely switches between the Start screen and the Desktop -- which the Windows key on your PC (or Command on your Mac) already does for you. But Parallels' Start menu is not there out of the box. To get it, you need to ... well, I don't know. I couldn't figure it out, and Parallels didn't respond to my several queries. You might as well get an app like Start8 for your current VM and not fool with the new version of Parallels Desktop. [After this article was published, Parallels exlained that to get the Start menu, you have to choose View > Windows 7 Look to download the Start menu application into the VM, which will appear whenever the Windows 7 Look option is enabled. The company did not address the other issues raised in this review.]
Parallels also promises that you can run Metro apps in windows on your Mac's Desktop, rather than in Windows 8's ungainly full-screen-only Start Screen mode. I guess the folks at Parallels took InfoWorld's suggestions for improving Windows 8, even if Microsoft didn't. However, you can't run Metro apps in their own windows within the full-screen Windows Desktop -- where this feature would be most useful. Worse, I couldn't get this feature to work as advertised on the Mac Desktop, either. Parallels' PR shows multiple Metro windows on the Desktop, sized appropriately. But in my tests, every Metro app took a full screen (and required switching to what Parallels calls Coherence mode) -- a major waste of screen real estate if you have a 27-inch monitor as I do.
There are some promising under-the-hood improvements in Parallels Desktop 9. For one, Windows apps can update while Windows is asleep, using the Power Nap mode in late-model Macs that allows OS X background app updates during sleep. Another is direct support for Thunderbolt drives, which can be directly connected to the Windows VM, if formatted as NTFS, FAT, or ExFAT. Then there's the ability to print straight to PDF from any Windows app's Print dialog box, offered by OS X for years. (Unlike some of the other Parallels additions, these actually work!)
Linux gets more support in Parallels Desktop 9, including new compatibility with the Mint and Mageia distros, as well as the ability to share apps between a Linux VM and OS X, as you could long do with Windows apps and OS X.
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We were paying her 255.00 So if the amount adjusted to 215.00 as of May 17, 2013 and we just got this adjustment in the mail on Thursday, we were over paying her. My husband did the math of overpaying and it came out to be we paid her 15.00
The adjustment is because she has two that live with her and we have one. She is now working, but never brought that paperwork in. So, the judge adjusted it. Also, this is in NH and the judge 100% favors the mother. So, if she does get a court date for this 15.00 check, I hope the judge sees our point as well. It wasn't to screw the mother over, clearly an adjustment.
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The highly successful Soul:ution residency at London superclub Fabric continues to go from strength-to-strength, with Lynx now added to a core that includes Calibre, Marcus and the ever-reliable MC DRS. Marcus's Fabric Live 35 mix CD highlighted many of the reasons why, proving that music with lasting appeal and a diverse selection are among the key ingredients.
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MusicIP Releases Music Search Tools, New Services
Monrovia-based MusicIP, a provider of technology for music discovery and search, released a number of new features this week, including a new Acoustic Discovery service, a free music identification service, and tag fixing software for digital music files. MusicIP said that its new acoustic discovery service search engine will identify music similar to artists, albums, and tracks that users like, and can be integrated into any application. The firm also said it will make its music identification service, MusicDNS, free to developers; and has also rolled out a new product to fix metadata in music files, which can also be incorporated into third party products.


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Hi Lee:
It's been a long time since I responded to the list here. I'm trying to
respond to your "Remote Access" post of June 11, 2007. I hope my post here
appends to that post. I'm hoping by me putting in the exact Subject name,
that it will append.
I have also been trying to set up remote access on my M0n0wall, using
Dyndns like you do.
I have the client in my M0n0wall set up. And I have my Dyndns account set
The thing that held me back was I didn't know how to open up the firewall in
a relatively secure way, so I could remote in.
I assume you set rules up only in the Firewall: Rules: WAN section? I
wasn't sure if I needed to set something up in the Firewall:NAT: Inbound
Is there a reason you used port 443 to remote in on? I think I heard saw
somewhere where port 443 is used to remote into sometimes. But from what
you are saying, I don't have to use port 443. Does it matter which port I
pick? Any ports I should stay away from? If I don't specify a particular
port, won't it come in on port 80? Is that bad?
Assuming I am lucky enough to be able to remote into my M0n0wall, will I
also be able to remote into my access point, which is connected to my
M0n0wall? And to the CPE, which is wirelessly connected to my AP? Or does
Dyndns only allow me to remote into my M0n0wall, and nothing else on the LAN
side of my M0n0wall?
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"The education of our children should be the first priority," she said.
West Middle School Principal Wendell Marlowe, a former county commissioner, talked about the salary and budget increases in various departments, including a 51 percent increase in the salary of the county finance director, and a 66.9 percent increase in the jail wages budget, 20 percent-plus increases in salaries of road department and landfill administrators.
He then asked, "Was all that necessary? Absolutely. Those improvements had to be made." Marlowe added that as a member of the court at the time some of the raises were sought, he voted for them.
But those increases have been absorbed into the budget, Marlowe added. If the increases in the school budget had been absorbed instead, the county would now be raising taxes for law enforcement instead of education.
"Why does the school system continue to be tied to the whipping post?" he questioned. "When will the school system be treated the same as other departments in the county?"
A Mt. Juliet sixth grader named Sessie Schmidt tried to tell the commission how important sports were to her and her friends, but burst into tears.
Later Wilson Central High School Student Body President Lauren LaFevers told the commission how sports and other extracurricular activities benefit students and the schools.
She said not only do participants have opportunities for scholarships, the coaches encourage players to do well in school so they can remain eligible to play.
"This is like the commission is the mom and the board of education is the dad," she said. "We the kids are the one being hurt, because you're getting a divorce."
During the regular meeting several commissioners and Sheriff Terry Ashe suggested ways to help finance school needs without actually raising taxes more than 20 cents.
Ashe said his department could absorb the entire salary of one of the School Resource Officers needed to cover Truckers Crossroads Elementary and Carroll-Oaklands Elementary.
Both District 20 Commissioner Annette Stafford and District 22 Commissioner Heather Scott tried to find funds to cover the Beacon Reading Program in other budgets, but the rest of the commission voted their plans down.
Next, District 14 Commissioner Jeff Joines suggested an amendment transferring 2 cents from the Sanitation Fund balance to the General Purpose School Fund, and District 4 Commissioner Jim Emberton accepted that amendment. Emberton had previously made a motion to accept the budget with the 20-cent tax increase.
However later after District 8 Commissioner Frank Bush convinced the commission to move 5.89 cents from sanitation, Joines withdrew his amendment, in part because he said there was no longer 2 cents in that fund.
Initially, Emberton, who also chairs the county finance committee, accepted Bush's amendment to fully fund the school budget, but following a short recess, he withdrew the approval, opening the issue up for discussion.
At that time Bush moved to amend the budget to move about $1.5 million from the sanitation budget to the General Purpose School Fund.
However, the final version of Bush's amendment, which was approved by the commissioners, moved 5.89 cents from two sanitation fund budgets to the school budget, giving the school system a total of $1.35 as its tax base for this year, or about $5.488 million more than last year.
The additional money voted for Wilson County Schools will also mean a $1.37 million windfall for the Lebanon Special School District Schools since 18 percent of all taxes earmarked for county schools goes to the LSSD.
The commission then voted 13-11 to approve the amended budget. The vote, however, tied at 12-12 on the needed tax rate to fund the budget it had just passed, leaving County Mayor Robert Dedman with the tie-breaking vote, which he cast as "yes," making the final vote 13-12 to fund the 2008-2009 budget.
School board Chair Teddy Cook said the added funds would allow the school board not to cut any personnel, and Director of School Mike Davis added it would give the board about a penny to work on restoring other programs.


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Bordeaux Red Blends from Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California
Winemaker's Notes
Licorice, crushed rock and juniper are immediately present on the nose. Sandalwood and fresh cigar box provide an exotic counterpoint to the savory notes, along with black currant and cherry. Seamless and complete, Legacy is a testament to the art of blending from benchland, mid-mountain and high elevation blocks—the latter of which adds a formidable tannin and mineral element to the wine's texture and aromatic intrigue.
Blend: 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5.5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Malbec, 2.8% Petit Verdot, 2.7% Merlot
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "It appears owner Jess Jackson is positioning this wine to be a separate entity apart from the wines of Stonestreet. A 600-case blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Petit Verdot and Merlot made by Graham Weerts, this beauty reveals a deep purple hue along with abundant notes of blueberries, black currants and crushed rocks intertwined with toast and earth. It possesses superb purity, silky tannins and a concentrated, intense mouthfeel."
International Wine Cellar - "Good deep ruby. Crushed blackberry, graphite and licorice on the nose. Lush and seamless in the mouth, but with no easy sweetness to the chewy flavors of black fruits and minerals. The least sweet of these Stonestreet reds but this offers impressive mouth coverage. Finishes with substantial dense tannins that call for at least seven or eight years of cellaring.
Rating: 92(+?) "
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so you know who is the happiest girl in the world today? the love triangle space lady. she got knocked out of the news by anna nicole's death. the news people, i mean entertainment pushers, will be on this bizarre sadness for at least a week. i feel sorry for her little baby.
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text: Hi, this is me again with some "size matters" topic. This time, it's not the executable size, no! Instead I want to discuss a runtime memory footprint and speed issue that affects everyone, and how to improve the situation dramatically. In D we allocate memory through the GC, that is initialized according to the type's .init, which gives us a save default. In most cases this will result in the memory block being zeroed out, like in the case of allocating ubyte[] buffers. Let's assume, we have a program that allocates some buffers in advance, that it may not use fully. This often happens when the input data is much smaller than the anticipated case. So our memory manager should handle this situation well: o zero out a memory block o we probably don't need all of it So here is a small benchmark that allocates 512 * 1 MB, first using the typical method: new ubyte[1024 * 1024]. The oputput is: ** new ubyte[1024 * 1024] ressource usage: +526840 KB user time: +0.098s | sys. time: +0.368s As expected we have a physical memory usage increase of ~512 MB and spent a considerable amount of time in the system to find free memory blocks and in our program to initialize the data to zero. Can we use the GC more directly? Let's try GC.calloc: ** GC.calloc(1024 * 1024) ressource usage: +525104 KB user time: +0.089s | sys. time: +0.370s Again, 512 MB and about the same time. Nothing gained, but my RAM is starting to fill up. By the way, how does a good old system call to 'malloc' compare? That gives us a block of garbage 'initialized' data - a situation we left behind for good in D! So here we go with another test: ** malloc(1024 * 1024) ressource usage: +2048 KB user time: +0.000s | sys. time: +0.002s Oh nice! May I say... these 512 calls were for free? 2 MB and 0.002 seconds ain't worth talking about. The operating system didn't actually allocate the memory, it merely gave us a virtual memory range to use. Only when we write to the memory will physical memory be bound. That's perfect for a generously sized buffer, right? Well... we still want it zeroed out, so let's initialize this data to zero with ptr[0 .. 1024 * 1024] = 0: ** malloc(1024 * 1024) + zero out ressource usage: +526336 KB user time: +0.053s | sys. time: +0.366s ... and we are back at square one. With the exception, that the user time is notably lower. What we need is a facility that gives us lazily allocated zeroed out memory. And guess what, it's not too much to ask for. Here is 'calloc' to the rescue: ** calloc(1, 1024 * 1024) ressource usage: +2048 KB user time: +0.001s | sys. time: +0.001s How does it work? The operating system fakes the memory allocation and just gives us 131072 references to a special read-only memory page of zeroes. The semantic is copy-on-write. So we start with a view on zeroed out memory and get the real thing once we write into it. (Sorry, if I tell some of you nothing new, but I just found this out today ;) ) The question I have is, should we go and improve druntime with that knowledge? I'm not aware of any caveats, are there any? Thanks for reading and the test program for Linux is in the attachment (I used GDC to compile). -- Marco -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: memory_benchmark.d Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2405 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/attachments/20120207/f7598ac1/attachment.obj>


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Well where to start, senior citizens are smelly and they cant hear a word that you are saying! They think that everything is cute and you grow so much everytime you see them, well have i got news for you! Its not you that is getting better looking, its just them going blind! Sorry but you had better be thankful that mirrors cant talk, and for they cant laugh ither, becaue if they could, well your life would suck! Back to seniors, "so what are you going to do today??" " well i think that i am going ot sit in my rocking chair...no wait im gonna go for a walk! " " ok lets go! klets walk around my room" FOUR HOURS LATER --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 126.96.36.199 (talk • contribs)


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ALVA, Okla. - The Northwestern Oklahoma State University softball team split a doubleheader against Friends College taking game one 7-6 while losing game two 10-3 at home on Wednesday afternoon.
Game One - Box Score
The Lady Rangers (3-1) were able to outslug Friends college and survive game one despite shaky defense. Kellie Mason's RBI single in the bottom of the fifth proved to be the game winner for NWOSU after the Lady Rangers committed four errors in game one.
Kylee Wilson's run-scoring single put the Rangers on the board in the second inning.
After three unearned runs crossed the plate in the top of the third, Northwestern plated three of their own highlighed by a two-run home run by Alyssa Taylor.
Ali Seibel's two-run single to right gave NWOSU a 6-3 lead heading to the fifth inning, but Friends took advantage of more Lady Ranger miscues plating three unearned runs to tie the game at six.
Mason picked up her first save of the season in relief of Jasmine Braxton, who was the winning pitcher for Northwestern.
Seibel finished the game with three RBIs. Taylor and Wilson each had two hits in the game for the Lady Rangers.
Game Two - Box Score
Things didn't go well for Northwestern in game two as the Lady Rangers fell 10-3.
All of Northwestern's offense came in the third inning. Braxton led off the inning with a home run to center. Seibel got a hold of a pitch and crushed it over the right field fence for the Lady Rangers' second run of the game. The other run in the inning scored with the help of an error.
Northwestern was within striking distance down 6-3 in the fourth but a four-run sixth inning put the game out of reach for NWOSU.
Braxton had three hits in the game for the Lady Rangers while Seibel and Monique Zevada each added two.
The Lady Rangers will be back in action Thursday at Oklahoma Christian. The doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and will be the first Sooner Athletic Conference games of the year for head coach Cody Hooper's group. Live stats will be available at the links below.
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Harald Cramér (Template:IPA-sv; 25 September 1893 – 5 October 1985) was a Swedish mathematician and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. He was once described by John Kingman as "one of the giants of statistical theory".[1]
Early lifeEdit
Harald Cramér was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 25 September 1893. Cramér remained close to Stockholm for most of his life. He entered the University of Stockholm as an undergraduate in 1912, where he studied mathematics and chemistry. During this period, he was a research assistant under the famous chemist, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, with whom he published his first 5 articles from 1913–1914.[2] Following his lab experience, he began to focus solely on mathematics. He eventually began his work on his doctoral studies in mathematics which were supervised by the famous Hungarian mathematician, Marcel Riesz, at the University of Stockholm. Also influenced by G.H. Hardy, Cramér's research led to a PhD in 1917 for his thesis "On a class of Dirichlet series".
Academic professional careerEdit
Following his PhD, he served as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Stockholm University from 1917 to 1929. Early on, Cramér was highly involved in analytic number theory. He also made some important statistical contributions to the distribution of primes and twin primes. His most famous paper on this subject is entitled "On the order of magnitude of the difference between prime numbers", which provided a rigorous account of the constructive role in which probability applied to number theory.[3]
In the late 1920s, Cramér became interested in the field of probability, which at the time was not an accepted branch of mathematics. Cramér knew that a radical change was needed in this field, and in a paper in 1926 said, "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."[4] Cramér took an interest in the rigorous mathematical formulation of probability in the work of French and Russian mathematicians such as Kolmogorov, Lévy, Bernstein, and Khinchin in the early 1930s. Cramér also made significant development to the revolution in probability theory.[4] Cramér later wrote his careful study of the field in his Cambridge publication Random variables and probability distributions which appeared in 1937. Shortly after World War II, Cramér went on to publish the influential Mathematical Methods of Statistics in 1946. This text was one that "showed the way in which statistical practice depended on a body of rigorous mathematical analysis as well as Fisherian intuition."[1]
In 1929, Cramér was appointed to a newly created chair in Stockholm University, becoming the first Swedish professor of Actuarial Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Cramér retained this position up until 1958.[5] During his tenure at Stockholm University, Cramér was a PhD advisor for 10 students, most notably Herman Wold and Kai Lai Chung. Starting in 1950, Cramér took on the additional responsibility of becoming the President of Stockholm University. In 1958, he was also appointed to be Chancellor of the entire Swedish university system. Cramér retired from the Swedish university system in 1961.
Actuarial careerEdit
A large portion of Cramér's work concerned the field of actuarial science and insurance mathematics. During the period from 1920 to 1929, he was an actuary for the life insurance company Svenska livförsäkringsbolaget. His actuarial work during this time led him to study probability and statistics which became the main area of his research.[6] In 1927 he published an elementary text in Swedish Probability theory and some of its applications. Following his work for Svenska livförsäkringsbolaget, he went on to work for Återförsäkringsaktiebolaget Sverige, a reinsurance company, up until 1948. He was also known for his pioneering efforts in insurance risk theory. After this period, he remained as a consultant actuary to Sverige from 1949 to 1961. Later in his life, he was elected to be the Honorary President of the Swedish Actuarial Society.[3]
Later yearsEdit
Cramér remained an active contributor to his professional career for an additional 20 years. Following his retirement in 1961, he became extremely active in research, which had been slowed due to his Chancellorship. During the years from 1961 to 1983, Cramér traveled throughout the United States and Europe to continue his research, making significant stops at Berkeley, Princeton, and at the Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina. His academic career spanned over seven decades, from 1913 to 1982.[7]
Harald Cramér married Marta Hansson in 1918, and they remained together up until her death in 1973. He had often referred to her as his "Beloved Marta". Together they had one daughter, Marie-Louise, and two sons, Tomas and Kim.
See alsoEdit
- Cramér's conjecture
- Cramér's theorem
- Cramér–Rao bound
- Cramér's V
- Cramér–Wold theorem
- Large deviations theory
- Cramérs inequality
- Cramér, Harald (1936). Über eine Eigenschaft der normalen Verteilungsfunktion. Mathematische Zeitschrift 41 (1): 405–414. MR1545629
- Cramér, Harald (1938). Sur un nouveau théorème-limite de la théorie des probabilités. Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles 736: 5–23.
- Wegman, Edward (1986-11-01). Some Personal Recollections of Harald Cramér on the Development of Statistics and Probability. Statistical Science 1 (4): 528–535.
- Kingman, J. F. C. (1986). Harald Cramér, 1893-1985. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 149 (2): 186.
- Blom, Gunnar (1987-12-01). Harald Cramér, 1893-1985. The Annals of Statistics 15 (4): 1335–1350.
- Kendall, David (1983). A Tribute to Harald Cramér. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 146 (3): 211–212.
- Heyde, C.C.; Eugene Seneta (2001). Statisticians of the Centuries, 439–443, New York, New York: Springer.
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- photographs of Harald Cramér at the Oberwolfach Photo Collection
- Photograph with C. R. Rao from the PORTRAITS OF STATISTICIANS
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DAE News August 15, 2001
Hi Folks!
We're into the thick of production, and best of all, with a complete cast! It was a little hair-raising; I found one lovely woman only to lose her to NY City Opera the next day, but in the end, Christina Paolucci joined us on her layoff from NY Theatre Ballet, another company in the city. She's got wonderful presence and I think she meshes well with the other women. She began with us on Monday and she's learned almost all of Scherzo Fantastique by now.
The men (Ryan Kelly and Abraham Miha) also began on Monday. That really felt like the beginning of production for me because their rehearsals the first long rehearsals of new choreography with the company (Peter's rehearsals usually feel somehow separate, partially because they're shorter and because they are one on one.) Like Midare, the men's duet (it has no title yet) began creation by me deciding what it wasn't. We make a few isolated ideas, and I step back from them and read them like a Rohrshach test. Where am I going with this and what doesn't fit in? I started the duet by having the men circle each other warily. It fit the music by Rameau perfectly, so perfectly it's been done at least 20 times already. I knew I didn't want to head down the path of least resistance. I then began to just make steps. What struck me was the beauty of both Ryan and Abe's line. I don't often get to work with two men with such clean beautiful lines. So the work has really become about showing that off. I often work in this paradoxical way, most of 1999's works were made this way, but most of the pieces from 2000 were not, so it feels foreign and risky. Today's rehearsal was more of the same. We had just finished the first movement, where the men move in a great oval around the stage, but they move in unison. I think I don't want them to touch until well into the dance, but when they do, I don't want it to be loaded. I've done gay works before, but it's not what I feel like saying this time. I want to have two men dancing together and for it to be nothing but two men dancing together. It would be nice to reclaim that possibility. But I want them to be able to touch each other. It's infinitely harder to keep that neutral and the challenge is interesting.
We also came within 30 seconds of finishing Peter's solo today, and should have it done tomorrow. It's a contrast to last year's work, a bit more virtuosic and more otherworldly than lyrical, but like Shropshire very atmospheric. It's only natural though. With a solo or even a duet, it's much harder to make designs in space or structure than it is to create a mood. I think people will enjoy it; we both seem pleased with it.
Have I aroused your curiosity about the works? As an incentive for generosity, You can see all the works in progress next Monday at a special fundraising event! We're having a special "sneak peek" rehearsal on Monday, 8/20 at 7:30 p.m. for Dance as Ever patrons. Peter will be performing the solo, we'll do excerpts from the other ballets and you'll get to meet the dancers at a small reception, all in an informal studio setting. We'd like attendees to make a donation of $50 (or if you'd like to give more, it is deeply appreciated!) at this fundraiser. It's an incredible treat to see a dancer like Peter in this sort of intimate setting, and a rare thing. If you'd like to come, email me for more details.
Want to help in ways besides writing a check? Here are things you can do to help Dance as Ever!
We need one or two people to help us set up before and clean up after the preview on August 20.
Can you help us get our postcard mailing out on either August 25 or 26?
We need these to make the Scherzo set. If you have any old picture frames or wood trim you want to get rid of and can get them into the city, email me!
We have a wonderful lighting designer, Jeff Salzberg, and a great videographer, Amy Reusch - but neither of them live in NYC! Can you help us find them a place to stay during production week? Both are quiet, well mannered, won't be around much and have had all their shots.
I've still got some tweaking to do on it, and the raffle and bazaar parts have a good deal of work to go on them, but check out the great auction items, from shawls and scarves to socks to an over the top jacket! http://members.aol.com/dnceasever/auction.htm for the auction page. We'll have the other parts fully up ASAP. And watch out, I've already received a bid on the black silk evening wrap!
I think I should have some sort of barometer for the state of the apartment.. We've passed "natural disaster" and gone to "epicenter of nuclear disaster". I'm noticing the fatigue from the long hours (My brain can usually handle three hours of new choreography daily before I lose it; I've been doing five) but there's been less wear and tear than I thought. I like these dancers a lot. The other benefit is that the subway rides between studios (Peter and I work in midtown, the main company works downtown) has produced bonus knitting time. I'm on the sleeve of the sweater I promised Abe for his birthday that was two months ago. Be quiet all of you, this is good comparatively!
Don't' forget to visit our home page and please help support the company by clicking on the yellow "donate now" button. It takes you to helping.org, an Internet clearinghouse for charities. There's no cost at all, either to you or to us; we get 100% of your donation and you save a stamp.
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