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Both are synthetic versions of a natural ingredient found in the east african khat plant.
There are no elite sprinters who are Asian—or, intriguingly, east african.
They've turned their stretch of the east african coastline into the most dangerous waters on earth for the shipping industry.
The rhetoric has been harsh, but given the realpolitik of east african foreign policy, the actions have been decidedly mixed.
Over the next year, the aim is to roll out this program to other east african countries.
In 1890 a subsidy of ninety thousand marks annually was granted for an east african line on a ten-years' contract.
"Aye, I know the east african station well," continued my friend.
As regards the Portuguese part of the east african coast, the explanation just given is sufficient.
"east african; Danakil, or Somali, or something like that," he commented.
It is far from my desire to disparage the east african Protectorate, or to suggest diminution of activity or support.


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I'm fine. No scratches, no bruises, nothing at all. But im worried about my bike .
It happened 2 mins away from my apartment. I was going to school on my bike (even though school is in walking distance) cause i will be needing the bike later in the night and as soon as i turned on the engine, the gas light flashed so i decided to ride 2 more mins and go to the gas station.
It was raining and the rain just decided to stick on it. I thought that was fine since i can still see. Wrong! I was going around 40 and all of a sudden i see an orange light turning red. I slammed on the brakes, downshifted but it was too late, i already passed it and i t-boned a car that was already pulling in to the street.
I think i hit its front right tire (not sure though) around 10 mph or more. I do remember thinking "**** this is gonna cost me a lot"! I did all i can do to avoid it, i even swerved a bit.
Just before i hit the car, i stood up on the pegs (pure reflex). Is that something i should avoid?
I hit the car and the bike fell to its left but i managed to pull my leg and almost jump off the bike completely but i still hit the ground. My helmet didn't hit the ground nor did any other part of my body except my left butt cheek which shows no signs of bruising.
I locked the front wheel twice while trying to stop, so i think i did my best to stop.
Anyway, i picked up the bike, VERY EASILY, which shocked me and parked aside. Exchanged words and contact info with the driver and apologizing a million times and then started the bike and went to the gas station. Im still very worried about my bike. It runs smoothly and the brakes work properly (i haven't checked for leaks yet, cause my final is on monday and i cant afford a minute - even now im wasting time :S).
No signs of physical damage at all except a very small scratch on the engine cover. The sliders did their job perfectly.
What should i do now?
I feel really stupid as i've never blown a red light in my life (whether be it on purpose or not).
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> Is this a error of my configuration monowall or limitation of current
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UCONN, Stony Brook, Bryant To Face Off April 4-6
By Connecticut Tigers | February 21, 2014 3:39 PM ET
NORWICH, CT- The Connecticut Tigers are proud to introduce the "Dodd Stadium College Baseball Classic" in 2014. The first annual event will feature three of the premier college baseball programs in the Northeast as UCONN, Stony Brook University, and Bryant University will square off in a series of games beginning Friday April 4th and concluding Sunday April 6th at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, Connecticut.
All three baseball programs have won games in the NCAA tournament over the course of the last two seasons. Bryant and UCONN are the only teams from New England to have done so in 2013. Stony Brook reached the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska after a storybook run in 2012, marking the first time a team from the Northeast reached the College World Series in three decades.
"We are extremely excited to be able to host three of the region's top college baseball programs in one weekend this spring," said Tigers Vice President & General Manager Eric Knighton. "Our hope is to make this an event everyone marks on their calendars each spring for many years to come."
The schedule of games will be as follows: Bryant and UCONN kick things off Friday, April 4th at 3 pm. On Saturday, April 5th Stony Brook and Bryant face off at 12 p.m. followed by Stony Brook and UCONN at 4 pm. The Classic concludes on Sunday, April 6th with Bryant vs. Stony Brook at 12 pm and Bryant vs. UCONN at 4 pm. Dodd Stadium gates will open one hour prior to the start time of the day's first game.
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Jessica Simpson Shares Cute Pic of Her 'Twins' Maxi and Ace
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 12, 2007
China missed government-set targets to cut pollution by two percent last year as fast-paced economic growth produced more rather than less environmental contamination, state media reported Monday. Two key pollution indicators rose by more than one percent, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) reported, according to Xinhua news agency. Sulphur dioxide emissions increased by nearly 463,000 tonnes, or 1.8 percent, compared to 2005, the environmental watchdog said.
Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), an index measuring water pollution, was up 173,000 tonnes, or 1.2 percent from the previous year.
Air and water pollutants were to be reduced by two percent in 2006 as part of the government's five-year plan to curb pollution emissions by 10 percent between 2006-2010.
Fan Yansheng, director of the pollution control department at SEPA, told Xinhua that the failure to meet the target was caused by economic growth.
Despite the 2006 failure, SEPA said it aimed to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions and COD by 3.2 million tonnes and 1.23 million tons respectively in 2007.
"We are optimistic we can accomplish the mission by taking a series of concrete measures," said Zhou Shengxian, director of SEPA, referring to the introduction of pollution control measures at heavy industry sites and shutting down polluting small cement, steel and power plants.
Last month, SEPA's vice minister Pan Yue said 2006 saw serious environmental degradation in China.
"The year 2006 was the most serious year for China's environmental situation," he said in a statement on the watchdog's website.
"Environmental problems have already become the major bottleneck constraining China's economic and social development."
He said China had also failed to realise its 2006 goal of reducing energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by four percent, although he did not say by how far China missed the goal.
However, the National Development and Reform Commission, China's planning agency, said energy consumption per unit of GDP increased by 0.8 percent during the first half of the year.
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 116. Monday, 1 March 1993.
Date: Monday, 1 Mar 1993 9:33:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Query About Online Shakespeare Periodicals
A query to anyone on this list associated with *Shakespeare Bulletin* or
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The best thing about the Bracks/Faulkner/Carr report on the future of the Australian Labor Party is the photograph on the last page. It shows that the party's machine men, in defiance of their public image, still have a sense of humour.
The text of the report deals with Labor's "crisis of membership", suggesting rule changes to "open up our party to greater participation". Yet the party officials publishing the document have chosen a photo that captures perfectly the pain of having to consult the membership.
Two crusty warriors of the Victorian Left have surrounded a seated
Labor's MPs and backroom operators know the drill. How, as the novelty wears off, the excitement of party life is replaced by a slow road to drudgery. Or to use the words of Hawke government minister Barry Cohen, writing in 1990:
"The greatest problem any Labor branch meeting has is keeping under control the social misfit who uses the branch forum as an opportunity to expound his or her own radical and often extremist views. Unable to get a hearing at home or in the pub, the monthly meeting becomes a psychiatrist's couch (for them). It is a rare branch that does not have its share of those deeply in need of psychiatric care."
In the two decades since, the representativeness of the Labor Party has declined further. Ethnic branch stacking has driven genuinely committed members from the branch system. People who hold down regular employment, people with young children and people without ties to a trade union or factional clique – that is, normal, well-adjusted citizens – have disappeared from the party's membership roll. Those who remain are old, cranky and incredibly repetitive.
It is a measure of the futility of local Labor membership that the party's heavyweights brazenly bypass its branch meetings. The secretary of the AWU,
In practice, union and factional bosses like Howes and Robertson belong to a different party to Labor's rank-and-file members. Through the influence and financial power of the union movement, they have become key factional players, running the ALP without having participated in its grassroots forums. Think of it as the ultimate in political remote control.
This is the tension plaguing modern Labor. The factional chiefs would happily allow the branch membership to disappear, knowing that in an era of advanced campaign technology localism is unnecessary. They argue, not without logic, that political parties simply require a viable financial base and a cadre of competent officials and MPs to survive.
Romantics advocating participatory democracy are dismissed as dewy-eyed fools. In the case of Steve Bracks,
In most respects, the Bracks et al report is disappointing. Its greatest failing is to talk about party reform without even mentioning the word "factions". This is like discussing the problems of the Third World without mentioning poverty. Factional control is the reason why the rank-and-file membership has been disenfranchised.
The starting point for any successful program of party renewal is to tear down these fiefdoms. This, in turn, can be achieved only by ending Labor's dependency on the union movement, the system of remote control.
In avoiding this issue, the report's recommendations lack credibility. For instance, its proposal for primary-style preselections is sullied by the inclusion of a 20 per cent trade union voting bloc – a compromise designed to appease the factions. By their nature, oligarchies are self-sustaining. Once power is concentrated at the top it stays there. There is nothing in this latest report to suggest Labor is about to defy the iron laws of oligarchy.
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Like Von Brunn, the overland Park shooting suspect was white, older, and appeared to be acting alone.
The main threat Israel faced in the past was an overland offensive by a coalition of Arab countries.
"It was not just an obsession, a one-sided romance of unrequited love," said overland.
She lives in overland Park, barely a mile from where the shooting took place.
For a number of years, she worked as a cashier at a Burger King in overland.
But the Captain gallantly helped her and Eeny-Meeny made her overland journey with perfect ease.
As that was a prominent point on the overland trail, the tourists did the rest.
Joe Shafto and her club met them, and so did the overland girls.
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The Farnborough-based aerospace company is considering either a full merger with the US company, or looking at it as a buyer for its shipbuilding arm as part of a deal to merge with Boeing, according to the Sunday Times newspaper.
BAE refused to comment on the report, but a spokesman told the paper the company held talks on a regular basis with major players in the defence industry.
If BAE could find a buyer for its shipbuilding business, it would help make it a more attractive merger partner for Boeing, which has already said it would have no interest in the shipyards if the two companies tied up.
French deal snubbed
BAE Chief Executive Mike Turner denied the reports.
Speaking at the Paris Air Show, he said BAE had been in close contact with General Dynamics about its Astute nuclear attack submarine after the programme ran into major cost overruns and had seconded a dozen of its engineering managers to help with the contract.
Shares in BAE Systems rose last week after it said it had rejected an informal approach from French-owned defence firm Thales.
However, Thales later denied it had suggested a merger.
Earlier in the week, newspapers reported BAE was looking to merge with one of its US rivals, Boeing or Lockheed Martin.
Cross-border defence sector mergers are complicated by restrictions on foreign ownership of defence firms. The UK government has imposed a 15% limit on the size of individual foreign stakes in BAE.
And a tie-up between BAE and Boeing could force the British firm to dispose of its 20% stake in Boeing's European arch-rival, Airbus.


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Harrriet Buck sympathises with others who battle with their weight - after all, she knows only too well just how hard it is to live with an "imperfect" body shape.
With a deep sigh, she says: "My problem is the top of my legs and my bottom, which sticks out. I would like a smaller bottom because I find it difficult to fit into some jeans."
Warming to her subject, she continues: "Ideally, I would like my legs to be slimmer all over and then I could wear what I wanted.
"Instead, when I go shopping it's hard to find jeans that look really nice, and I can't wear very short skirts."
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Feb 21, 2013 at 7:12 am
Underage drinking took center stage as members of the North Dakota House passed legislation to crack down on those providing booze to minors. A person caught buying the stuff for the under 21 crowd would face a 500 dollar fine. That would double for a second offense and become a class "C" felony the third time around. Representative Joe Heilman says the bill sends a message. Heilman says a recent survey suggests 84% of underage drinkers get their alcohol from fiends over 21 and 26.8% get alcohol from parents with consent.
The measure passed on a 61-33 vote and still needs to be heard in the senate.
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Mogul, Model, Mom Kimora Lee Simmons Tells Celebuzz How She Does it All!
But exactly how does Kimora do it all? Celebuzz spoke with the fabulous Ms. Simmons and she dished on just how she stays so level-headed in the crazy industry she works in:
Why was it so important for you to relaunch KLS.com and what does it mean to you?
KLS.com is sort of like the index for my life. It's the place where I can categorize everything I'm doing and where I'm going, and it helps keep my audience up to speed.
You've always been a master of fresh and new beginnings. How do you guide yourself out of the old and into the new so gracefully?
I've been in the fashion business for over 20 years, and I feel like I have evolved. I have a family and I'm a working mom, so I think it's very important that we at all times are graceful and maintain a sense of fabulosity. I think life is about the evolution and I try to focus on my family. I'm really great at multitasking and I'm always up for the challenge. I'm always looking to create new and exciting things.
How do you reflect your personality into your brands?
My brand is about women and children, and being that I'm a woman and a mom – a working mom – it's about business, family life, and the lessons of life. I'm a designer, and I'm involved in fashion and entertainment – my husband [Djimon Hounsou] is in Hollywood – but what I speak to, what I create for, and what I live is the fact that I have three children and that I'm a woman, and I cater to an audience of young people that have grown up with me and equally have these demands in their lives. We want to look great and feel great, so I feel like my message to my audience is the life that I live – which is a busy woman, a working mother on the go.
You have a good head on your shoulders and your daughters are blossoming into really lovely young girls. How do you balance it all and keep everything in check?
It's about multitasking and prioritizing. My family comes first, and I try to be very involved in my kids' lives. I'm watching the social media and what they're exposed to, and am engaging them in conversation and activities. I think it's so great to encourage young minds and their creativity and development.
How has Twitter helped you connect with your fans?
I'm kind of addicted to Twitter. I started an account last year but use it more now. It helps me be directly involved and interact with people from everywhere through quick, short messages. I think it's important because people like the one-on-one accessibility. I like the immediacy of it. I can upload things to KLS.com and tell them to take a look right away. I'm a multi-tasker, so it helps me do a lot of things at once.
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The band announced via GunsNRoses.com that the much-delayed album is in talks to be released soon.
Guns N' Roses have announced that their "Chinese Democracy" that has made history by being the most expensive recorded album, is currently "in negotiations" for a release. The album has been shelved for over a decade and lately the talks of actually putting it on the street have been making rounds with the latest challenge coming from Dr. Pepper the soda company.
In their official site, the band which is fronted by Axl Rose posted a message to their fans, confirming that negotiations are under way. They, however, do not elaborate further on what kind of deal is made for the album. The old plan was to release the album via Interscope in March 2007.
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after my first rhinoplasty i had fulness on my tip.i was told it was due to excessive lower lateral cartilage on one side.i went through a revision but now it looks like the other side of the nose got worse and i still can see excessive fullness of the tip .at this point I can't tell if the nose was made too short and the bridge was over resected instead.could a problem (overresected bridge and too short nose)have been confused with another (tip fullness due to cartilage)?
Supratip Fullness?
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Supratip fullness
Just can't give you any sensible advice without pictures, and understanding the time intervals between your rhinoplasties, and the time since your most recent surgery.
As Dr Fleming suggests, please post pix!
Supratip issues
An exam in person is critical to access your issues. Most of the time supratip fullness is swelling or excess tissue that was not treated adequately.
Supratip Nasal Fullness
Supratip fullness (a Pollybeak) is caused by excess cartilage above the tip or inadequate projection of the tip. From your description I'm not sure exactly where the fullness is located. It is impossible to critique your nose without pictures or a physical examination. My website has instructions on how to take pictures for nasal evaluation which you can submit.
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Sources close to the Israel Foreign Ministry indicated today that Israel was determined to oppose any United Nations attempt to obscure the "central point" of Israel's complaint to the Security Council of Syria's guilt in the recent upsurge of attacks on Israel's northern border.
Premier Levi Eshkol's statement to Parliament yesterday was seen as an effort to impress on the Council Israel's concern lest the UN key body limit itself to a routine appeal to "both sides." Mr. Eshkol pointed to possible repercussions of such a stand on future Israeli response to future Syrian aggression. It was assumed that this was the principal subject of an hour-long meeting here yesterday between Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister; and Maj. Gen. Odd Bull, chief of staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
United Nations observers today carried out a day-long survey of defense and demilitarized zones involved in the Syrian incidents, literally combing the area on the Israeli side. Accompanied by an Israeli liaison officer, the UN officials examined groves, fields, communal homes and even old and abandoned defense positions. They even looked into cowsheds, garages and packing houses, but found no army concentrations or weapons banned by the 1949 Israeli-Syrian armistice agreement. Israeli settlers in Gadot and Huleh pointed out to the UN observers Syrian tanks dug into positions in the defense area.
The survey was made in line with an agreement by both sides to permit UN inspection on both sides of the Israel-Syrian border to help ease tensions in the area.


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Emmys 2012: Nominee Tom Berenger Hopes For More 'Hatfields & McCoys' Reunions (VIDEO)
The annual Emmys always draw TV's biggest celebrities to the swanky ceremony, but Hatfields & McCoys star Tom Berenger is only excited to rub elbows with only two of Hollywood's most elite actors: His co-stars.
Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton — the leads of History Channel's miniseries — are both up for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, and Berenger says the Emmys is a perfect place for a cast reunion.
"We were in Romania for three months at the same hotel. It was a boys' town," Berenger told Celebuzz. "I hope we have many more reunions [soon]."
Hatfields & McCoys earned an impressive 17 nominations, including Berenger's own Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie nod.
"This thing needs to end tonight," Berenger joked about the miniseries' long press tour since nabbing the nominations. "[It] has gone on and on and on."
Lucky for Berenger, it was finally his night — winning the Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Miniseries/Movie for Hatfields & McCoys.
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|From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 18 20:39:41 EDT 2011
That's all our sound teachpack ever did. The old one is located at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP/Sound/ As you can see, it hasn't been maintained in a while. Sorry, let us know if it works [I don't have time right now to try.] On Jul 18, 2011, at 5:44 PM, John Riedl wrote: > Hello. What happened to the sound.ss teachpack, which apparently used > to include speak-word and speak-list methods. Those sound great fun > for teaching ... but I can't find any evidence on the Web that it ever > existed, except for Google Books hits on HtDP :). (Note that there is > a deinprogramm/sound.ss file in the current distro, but that just > plays sound files, which is less cool.) > > Thanks, > John > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
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Subject: Re: [LEI] Family Search website
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 23:36:37 -0000
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If you want to find something that you know exists then yes you might be able to replicate the
But theres the rub, you need to know its there to find it
If you are looking for something without specifics (actually even if you do have specifics quite
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You only have to read the comments on the blog page to see what others, including the LDS members
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Since its inception it has improved slightly but until they sort out the search engine it puts off
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>I thought the New Family Search was amazing! Guess it all depends on what
> you are seeking and most importantly, WHAT YOU FIND!
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Reborn Iraqi navy heads back out to sea
ABOARD AN IRAQI NAVY BOAT IN THE NORTHERN GULF (AFP) Oct 16, 2005
With the Iraqi flag hoisted, one of only five small patrol boats that make up the entire flotilla of Iraq's reborn navy, has begun venturing into Gulf waters.
But it will be a while before the Devil and her four sisters -- one of them disabled after a run-in with a dhow -- are taken seriously, if ever.
Since the navy was smashed in the March 2003 US-led invasion, British forces deployed in southern Iraq -- home to the ports of Basra and Umm Qasr -- have been trying to resurrect it with US assistance.
A 25-strong team of Royal Navy instructors is stationed in Umm Qasr to train Iraqi crews.
Lieutenant Wared al-Mohamdawy is commander of the Devil and has been putting out to sea for a few weeks now.
His mission is to support "Task Force 58," the coalition flotilla protecting the Gulf oil terminals of Basra and Khor Al-Amaya.
Gazing toward the horizon, this Shiite Muslim from the southern town of Amara who served in the old Iraqi navy, awaits orders from the USS Chosin cruiser currently commanding the group.
The navy's Chinese-made boats, ordered in 2002, are 20 meters (66 feet) long and equipped with two machine guns, one Polish and the other Russian.
The Devil, the Shark, the South Star and the Tiger sail one after the other south from Umm Qasr to join the USS Chosin, staying overnight on the open northern Gulf sea before returning to port the following day.
It may seem very little, but it is a lot by regional standards.
The Iraqi Navy is "the most operational force in the Gulf," said US Navy Captain Hank Miranda, commander of the naval group protecting the Iraqi oil terminals.
"The Iraqi Navy, with their four small boats, go out and patrol every day," he told AFP.
The US Navy is helping train the Iraqis by testing officers for command of a patrol boat.
Rubber dinghies from the Chosin simulate incursions into an exclusion zone enforced around the terminals, defying candidates to stop them.
A total of 20 officers have passed the test in the past six months, including seven out of seven on October 4. It was not all smooth sailing though -- the first candidate initially failed after becoming seasick.
There is no doubt the Iraqi sailors still have a long way to go.
Indeed, when asked when he thinks they will be able to guard the oil terminals on their own, Miranda smiles and replies: "Some time in the future" -- in other words, probably never.
"It's more than just having the forces. It's about logistics. It's so much more complex than putting one person to guard a post," he said.
Keeping a ship at sea is indeed too complex a task for a country like Iraq which currently has neither the resources nor the know-how to do it.
"They cannot even pay their own sailors. They cannot bring fuel to their ships," Miranda said.
The navy "are the last people on the food chain of the Iraqi government," he added.
For the moment, the 650-odd Iraqi sailors, nearly all Shiites from Basra, can only dream.
"We need two like that one," sighed Lieutenant Mithaq al-Siraih, standing on the deck of his boat, the Shark, while looking with envy at the Chosin.All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.


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The head of shipbuilder
Chief executive Andrew Bellamy told The Australian Financial Review that the 20 warships that Austal is contracted to deliver to the US Navy are among the most cost-effective units and are unlikely to attract the attention of the Washington razor gang.
"Those ships have less crew, less fuel cost, less maintenance cost than just about any other program in existence," he said.
"If there is some implication, it's likely to be a slowing down of the acquisitions, rather than a termination of the acquisition."
Austal has moved to reassure investors after the US moved to cut spending across the board following the failure of a joint committee to agree on specific cuts.
Under current contracts, Austal will build up to 10 littoral combat ships and 10 joint high-speed vessels for the navy. Seven high-speed vessels are already locked in and Austal expects to be awarded two more in February. Two littoral combat ships have also been ordered with another two expected in March 2012. Cuts to the defence budget are not expected to kick in until 2013.
That would provide about four years' work at full capacity for Austal's Alabama shipyard, and Mr Bellamy said the after-sales maintenance of the ships would be a lucrative new income stream for up to 30 years.
"That's going to change the company. If you turn back the clock, Austal was a ferry builder. Today Austal is a defence shipbuilder. Tomorrow Austal is going to be a supporter of defence vessels."
It will cost the US navy $500 million per year to maintain the Austal vessels, and Mr Bellamy was confident of getting a "good share" of that work as much of the technology was proprietary to Austal.
One littoral combat ship will be deployed to Singapore as part of the US's renewed Pacific focus, and Austal plans to establish a maintenance base there, as well in Darwin, soon to be home to 2500 marines.
Hartleys analyst Peter Gray said Austal's navy contracts were "game changing".
The company will now be able to clearly report its stream of after-sales income, which will reassure investors, he said.
Austal's share price has tumbled, closing on Friday at $2.30 after almost breaking the $3.00 mark in July.
Mr Gray said the company was undervalued and would remain so until full revenue from the navy work flowed. Hartleys has a buy on Austal and a 12-month share price target of $3.32.
But Patersons Securities analyst Graeme Carson is holding off on a recommendation until the direction of budget cuts is more clear and Austal's transition is complete. He said he felt Austal was very reliant on the US as a single client, but agreed the maintenance work could prove lucrative.
"But that's not factored into anyone's numbers yet, because there are a few hurdles to overcome in between."
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Can learning be accessible to all? With appropriate pedagogy and technology digital learning provides an opportunity for people who are marginalized by time, place, and distance to obtain education and training. Not everyone has the opportunity to save for school, quit work and attend a traditional full-time education program (while balancing family responsibilities).
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Inspiring creative learning through technology for the troubled student. This article takes a look at collaborative learning using technology. This type of collaboration can be used with students, teachers and even administration.
Giving Chromebooks to an entire kindergarten class might be daunting, but it yielded some encouraging results.
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"Although even the youngest children are considered tech-savvy today, there exists a difference between a child who knows how to use a tablet to watch videos and a child who knows how to navigate a device for active learning."
By Getting Smart Staff - During summer break it's important for students and teachers to relax but avoid summer brain drain. Here are 10 resources to help.
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We have catalogued nearly every outright lie the president has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
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Tech leaders say motivating teachers is the biggest hurdle, according to a new report.
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"Two-thirds of parents report that effective classroom technology use provides an opportunity for their children to develop college and career skills, according to a new report from Project Tomorrow and Blackboard. Meanwhile, motivating teachers to change their instructional practices is the biggest challenge to adopting digital learning or deploying new technology, according to school and district technology leaders."
By Catherine Wedgwood - Here's a list of our top 10 innovative edtech products and tools featured at this year's ISTE conference.
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"Without further ado, here are ten EdTech products and tools (in no particular order) revealed at ISTE 2017 that we found intriguing" Some really interesting products here to check out
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Google is gaining a stronghold in United States classrooms, with Chrome OS expanding its presence on school computers, while Apple's iOS has been on the decline since the first quarter of 2015 among students and teachers. These are some of the findings in Kahoot!'s first-ever EdTrends Report.
Infographic showing the future of virtual reality and how businesses can use it
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Here are some of our favorite WordPress.com features that will help improve your publishing experience.
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Community schools that are truly integrated as a partner into the wider neighbourhood are rare. However, they are increasingly important as more community agencies try to work together to solve complex social problems. Education institutions stand apart from these cooperative efforts mainly because they still see themselves as silos or islands of instruction not…
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The community school is a unique entity and not one that everyone understands - partnership with the community is vital.
Last week I attended a webinar hosted by Lee LeFever from Common Craft. The webinar was about the process that Common Craft uses to produce their excellent explanatory videos. One of the points tha…
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"Lee uses PowerPoint to create the storyboards for Common Craft videos. That's a good option if you have access to PowerPoint. You can also do the same in Google Slides. A third option is to use a purpose-built storyboarding tool like Storyboard That."
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A blog about digital leadership, pedagogy, learning, and transformative change in education.
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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
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This is my third summer offering maker education summer camps as part of a bigger program at a local school. During mornings (9 to 12 with a half hour recess), campers, grades Kindergarten through 6th grade, can choose from one of four enrichment classes: art, drama, games, foreign languages, computers, and in my case, maker…
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Students need to know human geography; they need to understand the relationships that exist between cultures.
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This is more example of me preaching to the choir, but I hope that this will arm you with resources to use in discussions with administrators and colleagues in the fight against geographic ignorance. This is a great article to put into my new tag of article that discuss why geography matters.
Tags: education, K12, geography education, geography matters.
Seth Dixon's curator insight, June 5, 12:13 PM
This is one more example of me preaching to the choir, but I hope that this will arm you with resources to use in discussions with administrators and colleagues in the fight against geographic ignorance. This is a great article to put into my new tag of article that discuss why geography matters.
Tags: education, K12, geography education, geography matters.
By Aaron Maurer - Teaching robotics in the classroom has proven to be a great way to teach students the STEM skills needed for the future job market.
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Some really interesting points to consider here in this article - "Robotics can lead to community involvement."
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Explore new content additions as well as some exciting summer learning opportunities.
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Resources for summer learning from Discovery Education
We beat Sweden, while Mexico beat the U.S.
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"A country's reputation has a direct impact on tourism, its exports and foreign investment," Fernando Prado, a managing partner at the Reputation Institute, said in a statement.
"The striking thing about Canada is that the nation's reputation is equally strong both inside and outside its borders — which should be a source of pride on its 150th birthday." USA down 10 spots to 38 this year.
ISTE used educator feedback to guide the development of the latest standards.
Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shocked Washington by punting on a vote to repeal Obamacare, but he's still searching for a way to revive the bill.
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"If the bill failed, the GOP's base could abandon them for not following through on the party's years-long campaign against Obamacare. It would also be harder for Republicans to pay for a sweeping tax reform plan. President Donald Trump's agenda could be mortally wounded."
Here we are. The last collection of awesome reading from the blogs of Ontario Edubloggers for this school year. It's another inspirational collection. Flip or Flop? - Student Perceptions of Flipped Teaching I wouldn't normally include a post that is just a slideshow presentation. But, I was really intrigued by the information here from Camille Rutherford.…
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The best of Ontario bloggers from Doug Peterson for the last week of school
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"Today we have many more ways to introduce students to programming and coding. Here are some good resources that you can use to introduce students to programming and coding."
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New ISTE CEO Richard Culatta identifies the biggest changes in how technology is affecting teaching and learning as roughly 20,000 educators and ed-tech enthusiasts gather in San Antonio.
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"Ed tech is at a "tipping point," Richard Culatta, the new CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education or ISTE, told a gathering of educators at the nation's largest ed-tech conference happening here this week. "
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Looking at the periodic table, most of us have no issues identifying the use of certain elements. Sodium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and others are no-brainers but what about the less talked about elements. Seriously, do you know what Vanadium is used for? How about Polonium? Of course you don't. There are dozens of elements on …
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They have a staying quality, these Hookses, that I can only describe as haunting. They have inhabited my imagination all my life, inexplicable ghosts, to be exorcised only by that bit of magic that created them in the first place, the turn of a phrase."
Thus Callie Coe Wilson introduces us to her family of inveterate tale tellers, the expansive and eccentric Hooks clan of Hardin County, Texas. Wilson and her cousin Ellen Walker Rienstra capture in this unusual family saga the essence of why families take such delight in the stories of their ancestors.
We see William Pap" Hooks, legendary progenitor of the numerous clans, plowing his fields in his shirttail because he disliked the constrictions of conventional dress and refused to be encumbered by custom." We hunt black bear in the Big Thicket with Ben and Bud, confronting the enraged bear that once grabbed the end of Bud's gun in its teeth. We marvel at Ben's fiddle rendition of Cattle in the Canebrake," recorded with a cactus needle. Ben, the shrewdest of Pap's many sons, is said to have made three separate fortunes: one in whiskey, one in lumber, and one in oil. In 1904 he brought in the Saratoga oil field in East Texas with just small hand pumps, a hand-bolted derrick, and a passel of friends and brothers.
There are also fleet-footed Gus, unconventional to the point of being perverse"; khaki-clad Arden, the family's principal raconteur; and Bryant Coe, who declined an invitation to a family dinner party because he could not find his other sock."
In a unique blend of two voices, Wilson and Rienstra sing the ballads of their forebears, who not only settled Harding County but largely populated it. Each from her own perspective, but with both perspectives formed by the same family traditions, the cousins memorialize the exploits of the celebrated Hookses. Their stories are true---with the truth that is the patina that forms in time on fact." They illustrate and celebrate the passage of time, the permanence of memory, and the melding of separate lives into an acceptable family tradition.
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Rick and Tonya Kelley of Byesville will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on July 21, 2014.
On July 21, 1989, Tonya Neff, daughter of the late Rose and Daryl Neff, and Rick Kelley, son of Rick and Kay Kelley, were united in marriage, with the former Byesville mayor, Art Valentine, officiating.
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Tata Nano - The little car that might change the world
The ultra-secret people's car for India - the Tata Nano - is here. How will this car change the way India, and the developing countries drive?
Here are the pictures from the unveiling of the Tata Motors' small car to be sold at a price of US $ 2500 approx. (Rs. 1 lakh.). The Tata Nano was unveiled at the 9th Auto Expo in New Delhi, India.
The Nano is disruptive tech - make no mistake.
The world's car manufacturers have expressed all shades of opinion in the run-up to the Tata Nano. Suzuki has said that it is impossible, VW said it is not what they want to do. DaimlerChrysler said they think it is an important market Tata is trying to tap.
There was no way Tata could design a car the conventional way. So went at it on a clean slate. And seems to have pulled it off. The rear engined car will have a small boot for luggage storage in the front. In the process of developing the Nano, Tata Motors has added 40 patents to its kitty.
This car, if it becomes a hit, will make every auto company change the way it works and look at the volume market. Not only in India, but in entire Asia and every third world country. Offering mobility for the masses is big business. The VW Beetle did that, and so did Henry Ford.
Environmental impact
Is it a real car?
The car will have a two-cylinder 624-cc petrol engine with 33 bhp of power. It will also have a 30-litre fuel tank and four-speed manual gearshift. The car will come with air conditioning in the deluxe version, but will have no power steering.
I know, that's pathetic power by American and Western standards. But Indian maximum legal speeds are way lower than them - and Tata Motors anyway claims that the car is as fast as the Maruti 800, India's original People's Car that changed things a couple decades back. And there are a million or more of them on the streets of India already.
The car will have front disk and rear drum brakes. The company claims mileage of 22 kmpl in city and 26 kmpl on highway.
The $ 2500 is the dealer price - the actual price on the road might be approx Rs $3000.
The car would be commercially launched in the second half of 2008 and would be produced at the Singur plant in West Bengal.
The car launched is being avidly watched by the auto industry around the world.
Passes crash tests. Side impact test yet to be done, but Tata is confident about it. It has 2 A-pillars on one side to better meet safety norms.
No airbags. Airbags are still not a required feature in India.
But you have crumple zones, intrusion-resistant doors, seatbelts and anchorages.
A four wheeler is safe than a scooter. So to begin with, the huge two wheeler population of India gains a safety benefit. But will it pass the safety requirements of a large car or even a high technology compact? Unlikely. But that is not the objective - it is to improve the safety of four-member families like this one that rides scooters and at risk every day.
And so here it is. If Tata Motors is right, we could be witnessing a serious disruptive force - and one that might kick-start India on to a high growth path. Successful mass market mobility does that to a country.


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Column: Why Mormons flee their church
The nation is having something of a "Mormon Moment." It is evident in unprecedented scrutiny of Mormon beliefs stemming from Mitt Romney's candidacy, the rise of social media, and a popular Broadway show and television programs. But largely overlooked is the growing reform movement within the Mormon community — one aimed at helping church leaders adapt to the modern world. They need help.
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Faith. Religion. Spirituality. Meaning. In our ever-shrinking world, the tentacles of religion touch everything from governmental policy to individual morality to our basic social constructs. It affects the lives of people of great faith — or no faith at all. This series of weekly columns — launched in 2005 — seeks to illuminate the national conversation.
This year, Elder Marlin Jensen, the Mormon Church's outgoing official historian, acknowledged that members are defecting from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "in droves" and that the pace is increasing.
This poses a particular dilemma for a hierarchical church that was historically isolated like no other. Church leaders can crack down and continue to see members, especially young people, leave. Or they can allow churchwide dialogue and changes relating to the church's historical and doctrinal claims, financial dealings, proselytizing and treatment of women, skeptics and outsiders.
Changing attitudes
The unofficial dialogue is already widespread. Groups such as Mormon Stories, Post-Mormon Community and the ExMormon Foundation offer support for questioning and for former Mormons who in the past faced ostracism. These communities are a welcome development that was impossible before the Internet. In March, a group of unorthodox Mormons released a survey of more than 3,000 questioning or former LDS members illustrating reasons for their alienation.
At Brigham Young University, a student movement has forged greater acceptance of gays and lesbians, pushing the LDS school to acknowledge homosexuality in its honor code and sponsoring a YouTube video telling stories of gay students' struggles to reconcile sexuality with faith. It has garnered nearly half a million views. Also this month, hundreds of Mormons marched in downtown Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C., to show support for gays and lesbians. Such things would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, especially as the church fought for California's Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage.
My decision to resign
I formally resigned from the LDS Church in 2010. Leading up to my exit, I experienced alienation from some immediate family and friends. But through my alma mater, BYU, my multigenerational Mormon heritage and friendships created during decades of church participation, I am connected to my roots. I have a loving extended family who accepts me.
Leaving the faith of my fathers has been a lonely road. Many have asked me whether I'd return. I don't know whether the church would have me, or whether I'd want to return. Perhaps I'm too outspoken, and I have many concerns. Even so, I am grateful that I've found community with others who share LDS ties but don't necessarily agree with the whole package.
It's difficult to talk about Mormonism without including Romney's candidacy. Some evangelicals fear that a Romney presidency would lead to many Mormon baptisms — a fact that doesn't jibe with my analysis of LDS Church data showing that Mormon baptismal rates in Massachusetts slowed substantially during Romney's governorship. And I've yet to hear of multitudes of born-again Christians citing George W. Bush as the source of their conversions.
In this brave new digital world, I hope the official Mormon Church will return to its egalitarian roots. If this doesn't happen, the exodus of young people could impact generations to come.
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Box Office: "Hotel Transylvania" Scares Off the Competition
Topping the competition with ease while posting solid opening numbers, "Hotel Transylvania" is perched atop the box office to begin the weekend of September 28-30, 2012.
The Sony Pictures Animation crafted family comedy, which features the voices of Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez, enjoyed an estimated first day take of $11 million followed by another $19 million on Saturday while projected to boast debut weekend sales of $43.0 million.
Also a theatrical newcomer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt's sci-fi thriller "Looper" is off to a fine start with an estimated $6.8 million opening day and $8.8 million day two putting it in line for a three day total of $21.3 million.
Filling out the top five at the box office in earmarked earnings are a trio of motion pictures in their second week of release, with third place going to Jake Gyllenhaal's crime drama "End of Watch" ($7.8 million), which outpaced the Clint Eastwood, Justin Timberlake and Amy Adams helmed drama "Trouble with the Curve" ($7.5 million) and Jennifer Lawrence's horror/thriller "House At The End Of The Street" ($7.3 million).


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Travel chaos looms at Bus Eireann after strike threat
BUS Eireann passengers may face travel chaos from Sunday after more than 1,000 staff served notice of industrial action.
Members of the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) have backed industrial action – which could mean a strike – by 92pc in a ballot.
A smaller union, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, also voted by 73pc for industrial action if the company forges ahead with a cost-cutting plan.
The company's other big union, SIPTU, will tomorrow reveal if its 1,000-plus members will throw their weight behind the campaign.
NBRU leader Michael Faherty warned there would be no services on Sunday if the company went ahead with the cuts, although this means the union could not give legal notice of seven days.
"Staff won't be working these changes on Sunday and the company better take it on board," he said.
Bus Eireann said it would "try and maintain a level of service" but could not "firm up" contingency plans as the union had not told the company what type of industrial action it would take, and when.
Both sides seem set for a collision course as they refused to compromise last night.
Bus Eireann took a hard line with the union, and said it planned to go ahead with the cuts to premium and other payments this weekend.
"We still intend to enforce the changes on Sunday," said a spokesperson.
"We are at this process since June, when we first announced the plan and went to the Labour Relations Commission, but the unions would not negotiate on the key savings, which include changes to overtime, shift and premium pay rates."
After this, the company told staff it would go ahead and impose the cuts without union agreement from January 13.
It said the NBRU's letter serving notice of industrial action did not specify when industrial action would take place, or what form it would take.
This poses problems for Bus Eireann if it tries to seek an injunction to prevent any action.
It insists it has an in-house agreement with the union that means it should give 30 days' notice before taking industrial action.
"It is critical for our customers that the NBRU inform the company of what industrial action they are planning to take and when," said the spokesperson.
The cuts are part of a €9m payroll savings plan as the company predicts losses of €16m this year.
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not sure about how to improve the forums as i only visit them when i see a topic that catches my eye.
altho any sneak peak at this new marketplace design ?
One other thing I would really like to see :
List all forum posts by 'username'.
List all forum threads started by 'username'
Your a secret forum stalker, reading a certain users every post are you lol
Another idea I had that might be an effective way of cutting down on forum spam and SEOers using our forums for link-building : Entrust a number of full-time 'sheriffs' with the power to delegate spam to a "sin bin" as soon as they notice it. It will immediately be removed from the forums and flagged for admin attention. If admin deem it admissible it goes back on the forum and the 'sheriff' gets a black mark. Too many black marks and the sheriff loses his badge permanently.
Here is a man who is not happy with his current badge collection and wants more lol. I think there are one or two forum moderators around here but your right, having a few more will be no harm…
I also love the simple look of the forum. Please don't fill it with a bunch of things like other forums.
The thing I would ask for the most: Subscribing to threads with email notifications. And please subscribe one automatically to a thread when one replies.
I use the "forum threads" box at the bottom of every page the most. Mostly because it lists the last person that replied. I used to use the sidebar, but when it changed to "started by" it got confusing: one can't tell if one visited the last post or not. I'd add how much time ago the last post was made in these boxes.
Being a graphic site, better looking smilies wouldn't hurt =)
one thing … this forum isnt a real forum , you know what i mean ?
its soo simple and i,d like it to stay this way , a small tiny place where we can diss each other alrighty ? otherwise it kicksass
A way to check which threads I replied in.
A way to check which threads I replied in.
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You sure you're not thinking of the code tags? I've had those get smilies, I've never had a pre tag get a smilie.nope this is a pre tag with a f$&$"!!!!! smilie
Crap, that sucks. Add that to the list, code and pre tags should not get smilies!!!!!
I used to use the sidebar, but when it changed to "started by" it got confusing: one can't tell if one visited the last post or not.
Being a graphic site, better looking smilies wouldn't hurt =)
Crap, that sucks.
You must have been lucky to not yet have a smilie crap all over your code lol. We've asked for this for aaaaaaaaaages, lets hope they do it now
I think it would be cool to post flash right into comment box .you could use this file to do it http://www.flashden.net/item/flash-popup-as3/34326 I think that would be sweet.
I kind of like people posting images and video in the pages makes things easier to explain and describe issues and more fun too. I know im out numbered but anything new and fun makes interesting life