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DEAN Conkey blasted the ball off the tee and sank a few long range missiles at Gerringong Golf Course on Anzac Day to win with 39 points.
Trent Conkey kept the prize pool in the family, coming in second with 37 points, closely followed by John Cronin on 36 points to place third.
Balls went to players who had 33 points or better. Nearest to pins; 2nd T. Quinn, 8th M. Schibeci, 14th M. Schibeci.
The Burgin family sponsored Saturday's stableford with Jamie Reay from B grade romping it in with 46 points, while Shaun Clay put in a good performance to take the A grade with 41 points.
The runners-up in A and B grades respectively were Travis McMahon (38) and Manning Berry (37 pts).
Balls went down to 36 points. Nearest to pins; 2nd D. Hughes, 8th D. Hughes, 9th Drive and Pitch K. Puckeridge, 14th D. Hughes, 18th K. Mathew (V), 17th longest drive (A) K. Mathew (B) G. Long.
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World Contraception Day marked by study
A study printed to coincide with World Contraception Day has shown that the number of your people engaging in unprotected sex has risen significantly since 2009.
The study, which involved surveying information from 200 British young people aged 16 - 19 collected during a larger study of 6,026 young people (aged between 15 and 24) from 29 countries, revealed a number of worrying statistics relating to usage and understanding of contraception. Of the British teens studied, 61% had had sex. Of those, 43% had had unprotected sex with a new partner, up from 36% in 2009.
Understanding contraception was raised as an issue, with 55% of girls and 62% of boys saying they did not feel well informed about contraception. The withdrawal method of contraception (known as coitus interruptus) was believed to be an effective technique of contraception by 16% of participants, when in actual fact it has an actual use estimated failure rate of up to 28%, which is far higher than other methods of contraception. The results also showed that 19% of girls and 16% of boys did not receive any sex education while at school, while a number of young people (16%) who did receive information did not trust it to be accurate and unbiased.
World Contraception Day has been devised as a worldwide campaign to promote awareness of contraception, with the motto "Live Your Life. Know your rights. Learn about contraception." A coalition of 10 bodies, including NGOs and medical societies, is supporting the annual event, and it is being sponsored by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals.

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Those convicted include Aftab Ahmed Ansari, who the judge said had planned the attack in which five policemen were killed and nearly 20 others injured.
Two other men were acquitted for lack of evidence.
The attack heightened tensions in South Asia, coming just weeks after a bloody raid on India's parliament.
India accused Pakistan of having a link to both attacks which was strongly denied by Islamabad.
Although India still supports the death penalty it is rarely carried out.
On Tuesday, the special court in Calcutta had found the seven men guilty of the attack.
The verdict came after 300 court hearings involving 123 prosecution witnesses and three defence witnesses over the past three years.
Their defence lawyer, Syed Shahid Imam, said they would appeal against the verdict in a higher court.
Judge Basudev Majumdar, who headed the special court, said the men had been found guilty of "waging war against the legally constituted government of India", murder and several other offences.
The special court was set up inside a jail in Calcutta after intelligence reports suggested that Ansari might try to escape while on his way to the court.
Ansari was arrested in Dubai and later extradited to India to stand trial.


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The Minnesota Twins will leave Target Field with a sour note after losing four straight to the Yankees. Minnesota will travel to Toronto for a wekeend series before taking on Tampa Bay and then the three game rematch with New York. The Twins won't return home until after the All-Star break.
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Another player's house broken into
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According to TMZ Sports, Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Andre Roberson's home was broken into during Game 3 of the NBA playoffs.
Police say the burglars took OCT backpacks and an Xbox. However, there has been a string of burglaries in that neighborhood during the month of April. Moreover, they caught a suspect by the name Taron Stevenson on a neighbors surveillance camera.
Reports say that the burglary happened April 24th, Stevenson was arrested the day after for a DUI and once cops investigated the car they found a OKC thunder back pack with a baggage claim check with Roberson's name.
Stevenson has been charged with multiple counts of burglary.


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Recouping Gaga Finds Strength From Her Fans
Lady Gaga underwent surgery on Wednesday to repair a torn labrum in her right hip. Before before the procedure, the pop phenom expressed her gratitude to her fans for their outpouring of support and well wishes on social media.
"Thank you so much for sending me love and support," she tweeted. "I will be dreaming of you."
"Monsters, You really gave me a lot of strength today," she wrote on Littlemonsters.com. "Everything happened so fast, but when it came time to face it I reflected on the many stories and experiences you've shared with me about your lives. Meeting you backstage, reading your letters, watching you communicate with fans from around the globe to form a community that supports one another–You have completely blown my mind."
"As they wheeled me into surgery today, I thought about all of your pain and perseverance, your unique family situations, school environments, health issues, homelessness, identity struggles — sometimes you are so brave that it terrifies me," she continued. "You have changed my life. I love you and am proud to be a part of your lives. If you can do it, I can do it too, and if we stick together we can get through anything."
Just last week, the injury cause Gaga to cancel the remaining concerts of Born This Way Ball, forcing the refund of roughly 200,000 tickets for 22 dates, which total to a loss of at least $25 million in gross sales, according to Billboard.
Since the announcement, Live Nation touring professionals have been scrambling to shutter one of the most successful pop tours in history. Beyond compensating thwarted concertgoers, many bases must be covered: venues are notified, press releases put out, and all of production is shut down, sending more than 100 strong of cast and crew and all staging equipment packing back to their proper homes.
With Gaga sidelined from the stage, Little Monsters are now left waiting with bated breath for their next dose of their idol, which may well be ARTPOP, her much-anticipated upcoming fourth studio album. The artist plans to release it as an app, as well as on CD and in digital form, this year.
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John Patrick Shanley's drama about abuse in the Catholic church won four awards at Sunday's ceremony.
The musical The Light in the Piazza, a love story set in Europe, was honoured with six awards.
Monty Python-based show Spamalot won three awards, including best musical and best director for Mike Nichols.
Sarah Ramirez won best supporting musical actress for her turn in the show, which has taken Broadway by storm.
Doubt won best play, while Cherry Jones took best actress for her role in it.
Director Doug Hughes also won for his staging of the production and Adriane Lenox won best supporting actress.
The best actor in a play was won by Bill Irwin for his role as George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
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The best musical actor went to Norbert Leo Butz for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Among other awards won by The Light in the Piazza was best score for composer Adam Guettel, grandson of Broadway legend Richard Rodgers.
Collecting his award for best play, Doubt playwright John Patrick Shanley said: "Happy. Joy. Fleeting.
"I want to thank the Sisters of Charity for teaching me how to read and write. I want to thank the Irish Christian Brothers for throwing me out of high school."
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross was a double winner for best revival of a play and best supporting actor in a play for Liev Schreiber, beating his co-stars Alan Alda and Gordon Clapp.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee also won two awards for best book of a musical and best supporting musical actor for Dan Fogler.
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Everything you need to know about safari in Tanzania
The Northern CircuitThe Northern Circuit is the most frequented by tourists for two reasons: most of the destinations are fairly close to each other and many of Tanzania's most famous sights, such as Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti and Mt Kilimanjaro are all a part of this circuit. Due to the fact that all the parks, towns and attractions are within easy reach of one another, one can tour this entire circuit by vehicle with only a couple of hours in-between destinations.
The Coastal CircuitOne of the great attractions of Tanzania is its fantastic 800 km coastline with palm fringed beaches of white sand and the historic towns of Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo, Kilwa, Lindi, Mikindani and Mtwara, along with the exotic islands of Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia.
Swahili language and culture trace their roots to the Indian Ocean coastline. Many explorers, sultans and slave traders encountered Africa for the first time along this history-steeped coastline and contributed to the events that were to define modern Tanzania. The islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago became principal stepping stones for the culture that was to mould Tanzania's people and their language.
The Southern CircuitThe national parks and game reserves of the Southern Circuit are, arguably, the hidden treasures of Tanzania's authentic Africa. These parks are enormous, with some of the highest concentrations of animals anywhere in Africa and a spectacular diversity of wildlife including roan antelope, sable antelope, Cape hunting dogs, and a multitude of colourful birdlife. The lodges and camps of the South are small and intimate, with no more than 30 rooms or tents at the very most. This means there are far fewer tourists in the South compared to the North, and allows the area to hold true to the tenets of eco-tourism. The travel times between parks in the South are long as the parks are far apart. The parks of the South can be visited independently, or as a circuit combining various parks into one package. Packages can be arranged using scheduled air services or as road safaris using 4x4 vehicles.
The Western CircuitLying in the Great Rift Valley are the inland lakes, Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika. All three national parks in this circuit offer the only safe opportunities to see chimpanzees in the wild today. The habitats of these areas are a merger between Western Africa and East Africa therefore the cultures, rainfall and flora are unique to this small area. The Western circuit is seldom experienced on its own but is more often an addition to either the Southern or Northern circuits, or both. The Western circuit is so remote that travel by both aircraft and boat is necessary in order to experience this lovely side of Tanzania.


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What is the best home elliptical machine? That is a question many first-time home exercise equipment buyers ask. Some things are really important to take into consideration: this includes price, quality, and the size you have dedicated to machine.
Prior to purchasing an elliptical trainer you should have an ideal amount of money you are looking to spend. By having a predetermined budget you're unlikely to spend more than what you can afford to and get the best elliptical trainer for your home. This will also help as many online retailers allow you to select items by price range. You have to understand oftentimes you get what you pay for, so you should be careful as to not buy too cheap of a machine.
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Air Force Research Laboratory scientists have demonstrated world-record performance of transparent transistors created from thin-film nanocrystalline zinc oxide which can function, undetected, on clear surfaces such as glass or plastic.
Lead investigator Dr. Burhan Bayraktaroglu of AFRL's Sensors Directorate and his team are responsible for developing and testing these transparent transistors under support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
A combination of high channel mobility, mechanical flexibility and high optical transparency at room temperature make the transparent transistors excellent candidates to support a wide range of future Air Force electronics needs and applications.
Dr. Kitt Reinhardt, the AFOSR program manager, said potential applications include: video image displays and coatings for windows, visors and windshields; electrical interconnects for future integrated multi-mode, remote sensing, focal plane arrays; high-speed microwave devices and circuits for telecommunications and radar transceivers; and semi-transparent, touch-sensitive screens for emerging multi-touch interface technologies.
Another attractive aspect of this new type of thin film transistor is that the processing technology used to fabricate the devices is relatively simple and is compatible with inexpensive plastic and flexible substrate technology.
The AFRL team found that the trick to controlling the conductivity and transparency of the devices is optimizing the size and density of the zinc oxide nanocrystals.
They have demonstrated films that are 90 to 95 percent transparent, have metal-like electrical conductivities and can withstand high temperatures for long periods without degrading.
Dr. Bayraktaroglu and his team have used these devices to demonstrate the world's first thin-film microwave transistor.
They also have perfected the application of zinc oxide films onto various surfaces using a special technique called pulsed laser deposition, which employs an ultraviolet laser beam to remove zinc oxide nanocrystals from a source, and deposit them as a thin film on the desired surface.
These films are then processed into field effect transistors and transparent conductors using standard lithography techniques.
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In Hinkie We Trust.
This has been the mantra Sixers fans have used ever since Sam Hinkie made his presence known at the 2013 NBA Draft when he sent Jrue Holiday to the New Orleans Pelicans. At the time, many fans were pretty upset and rightfully so. Holiday was the only All-Star on the team, the player some were anticipating the new GM would rebuild the Sixers around. Instead he shipped him off to the franchise with the worst name in professional sports and grabbed Nerlens Noel and a protected first round pick for the 2014 draft, one of the deepest in recent memory.
I think we can all agree that worked out pretty well for us.
It was fairly obvious after that what the Hinkie Plan was: tear down the 76ers to the foundation and rebuild from scratch. Sacrifice the 2013-14 season in order to be in a great position to draft an impact player that will help reshape the Sixers into a winner. Spend the year developing Michael Carter-Williams and Noel so that when next season starts, the team can hit the floor running.
And every decision Hinkie has made has been with that goal in mind. Every player added or released, every 10 day contract offered or player moved to the 87ers has been towards that end.
Which brings us to the quickly approaching NBA trade deadline.
It has been generally thought that one or all of the Sixers trio of veterans would be wearing another team's uniform by the time February 21st rolled around. Spencer Hawes, Thaddeus Young and Evan Turner have all been the subject of trade rumors and speculation almost since the day the season started and it has only heated up the closer we've gotten to the deadline. There have been scenarios that have sent Hawes to Dallas, Turner to either Charlotte or Oklahoma City and Young to Phoenix, just to name a few.
The latest word is that the Charlotte Bobcats, desperate to make a playoff run despite not having the talent to do so, would be willing to give up the protected first round pick they got from the Detroit Pistons and the expiring contract of Ben Gordon in exchange for both Turner and Young. And while this would give the Sixers the possiblity of three first round picks on draft night, it would decimate the roster and effectively end the season for the team.
The one constant through all the trade talk regardless of who would go where has been Hinkie's insistence that the Sixers get a first round pick out of any trade. This has apparently been a deal breaker and something he is not willing to waiver on. Which would make perfect sense if it wasn't for the fact that neither Hawes or Turner are realistically worth a first rounder. They have improved this year, but of the three veterans the only one worth a first round pick is Thad Young, and most fans seem kind of keen on the idea of the Sixers holding on to him for at least another season.
Considering that both Hawes and Turner won't be back regardless if Hinkie trades them or not, I think he should take what he can get for them and run with it. In a draft as deep as this one even a early second rounder is going to be a help to a team with as many issues as the Sixers. Why let two veterans with some value walk for nothing when you can at least get a player who might be a help to your team?
But who knows. This is Sam Hinkie we're talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a plan already in motion and by the time you're reading this he has pulled it off, putting the Sixers in an even better situation than they were last night.
What do you think? What do you want to see Hinkie do by the trade deadline?
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text: The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 08/30/2013 settlement date, which shows a 546,642 share increase in total short interest for National Instruments Corp. ( NATI), to 4,258,860, an increase of 14.73% since 08/15/2013. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded. The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days (at the average volume) it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed. Average daily volume for NATI at the 08/30/2013 settlement decreased to 300,166, as compared to 520,621 at the 08/15/2013 report. That brought "days to cover" up to 14.19, a 98.98% increase from the 7.13 days to cover calculated at the previous short interest data release.


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CSUEB student takes green steps toward sustainability
- May 28, 2010 5:00am
Student environmentalist Elysse Grossi '08 is one of a growing number of Cal State East Bay students working to put the environment at the top of University priorities through club events, academic pursuits, and student leadership activities.
"One of the reasons I chose CSUEB for my undergraduate education was our ongoing dedication to sustainability," Grossi says. "I thought I would feel at home on a campus that uses solar energy and sustainable landscaping."
Now as a graduate student studying cell and molecular biology and a full-time outreach coordinator for CSUEB Student Health Services, Grossi continues her drive to make Cal State East Bay a greener place.
Grossi's current projects include collaborating with Associated Students Inc. and the Marin Agricultural Institute to bring a farmers market to campus starting spring quarter. Additionally, she is working with Student Health Services to make the department as paperless as possible by moving medical records, appointment schedules, and resource materials online.
Read the rest of the article in the spring issue of Cal State East Bay magazine.
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Canada's Tax Laws Put Animals LastPosted by Michelle Lee, ALDF Litigation Fellow on March 23, 2011
"Promoting the welfare of animals is only charitable when it results in a benefit to humans. Purposes that benefit animals, but not humans, are not charitable."
– Canada Revenue Agency, Consultation on proposed guidance for The Promotion of Animal Welfare and Charitable Registration (Feb. 3, 2011) Paragraph 23
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently released its proposed guidelines on charitable registration for animal welfare organizations. These guidelines describe how the CRA will determine whether an application for "registered charity" status will be approved–an important determination for organizations that depend on tax-deductible donations. The guidelines include the note above, indicating that organizations cannot gain charitable status based solely on a purpose to benefit animals.
Such a broad statement directing disregard for animal interests is cause for dismay, and has alarmed many who are concerned about the ability of Canadian organizations to carry out basic animal protection work. As it turns out, CRA guidelines go on to explain that certain types of animal protection work can be considered charitable because of the way they benefit humanity by "the advancement of morals and education" and the promotion of public morality by "checking [humanity's] innate tendency to cruelty." Thus, the rescue and treatment of injured wildlife, as well as the operation of shelters, spay and neuter programs, and non-profit animal hospitals, remain "charitable" in the eyes of the CRA – but only because such projects make us better people, not because of the benefits they provide to the animals.
Further, the CRA guidelines note that for an animal organization to be charitable, "[t]he public benefit resulting from promoting the welfare of animals must clearly outweigh any harm or potential harm to humans." Consequently, an organization whose purpose is to abolish vivisection would not have a charitable purpose according to the CRA, even if it abided by the Income Tax Act's restrictions on political activities, because the supposed harm to humans that would result from the abolishment of that practice would outweigh any benefit in the advancement of morals.
The CRA's proposed guidelines do not represent new restrictions; rather, they represent old ideas with roots in the English common law. In fact, the CRA's position on anti-vivisection organizations comes directly from the United Kingdom's House of Lords. While the same law does not prevail in the United States, animal advocates everywhere will recognize the familiar theme of subordinating even the most fundamental of animal interests–to be free from pain and cruelty–to those of humans.
All non-human animals face an uphill battle towards having their interests recognized by the law. If CRA guidelines are any indication of the state of the law in Canada, then Canadian animals have an especially long way to go. The Supreme Court of Canada has expressed reluctance to change the law of how a "charity" is to be defined in Canada. It therefore falls to the Canadian Parliament to bring Canadian law in line with modern norms by amending the Income Tax Act to recognize that promoting humane treatment of animals is a charitable purpose to be valued for its own sake. Until then, not only will animals' interests be disregarded in the pursuit of justice; they will not even be proper objects of charity.
The Canada Revenue Agency's complete proposed guidelines can be seen here. CRA is accepting comments on its guidelines until March 31.


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Can we discuss if girls are better than boys?Does anyone agree with the statement above?
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All living creatures, including humans, are the way they are because of adaptation through natural selection. Desmond Morris has written many interesting books on human evolution, explaining why women have evolved one way and men another. Richard Dawkins, the most eminent living Darwinian biologist, stresses that evolution does not necessarily make creatures "better." Mankind is not gradually evolving towards perfection, towards the creation of Superman and Superwoman. Man is just adapting to changing conditions for the sake of survival and reproduction. It is interesting to see how girls and boys, women and men, have evolved in different ways over thousands of generations of Homo sapiens. It is also interesting to speculate about how they might change in the future. But they will probably always need each other, and so they ought to try to get along with each other. Like, the fundamental things apply as time goes by.
I, also, cannot agree with the statement. Men and women are simply too different to be judged in that way. Think about it this way: apples and oranges are both fruit (in the same way men and women are human beings). Unfortunately, the two simply cannot be judged against each other given their genetic differences. Any "suggestions" made would simply be too subjective.
No, I do not think the statement is true. There are certainly difference between men and women, but these differences don't make one better than the other. Women might be naturally better at some things, but men are naturally better at other things. For instance, men and women think differently. Women are better at multi-tasking because they can think about many different things at once. Men tend to focus on one thing at a time. This makes men better than women at focusing on a single task. Women have trouble only thinking about one thing. Their minds tend to wander to other topics even while working. I think men and women each have their strengths, but one sex is not inherently better than the other.
I had a sexist, gender conscious, male-hating female principal who would probably agree with your statements. She believed that male teachers were only good for coaching (boys' teams but not girls' teams) and handling male-oriented classes like shop, agriculture and auto mechanics. She maintained different rules for male and female teachers, and she represented the worst aspects of a school administrator. Your simplistic idea that boys are inferior to girls is a type of reverse-discrimination that used to be prevalent in the minds of men. I try to live by the dictum that all "people" are created equal, and try to treat all my students--black, white, male and female--fairly. I would agree, however, that female students are more serious than the boys I have taught over the years, and girls have consistently earned higher marks in my English classes. Of course, I have also witnessed an increase in female "macho" attitudes, and misbehavior in the classroom and physical altercations are now more likely to come from female students than males.
Most comments show women being different from men. If we look at a Third World country where women die more often in childbirth than men and where women are not allowed to be educated, do we then say that men are better than women? I don't think that we can say who is better or worse based on effects that are societal more than they are innate to one sex or the other.
I think that women and men are different in some ways and that there should be no value judgements attached to the differences that do exist.
The word "better" in the initial question is kind of ambiguous. If you are a girl, would you rather have been born a boy? If you are a boy, would you rather have been born a girl? If so, why? If not, why not? If you were going to have only one child, would you rather have a boy or a girl? Why?
It is always hard to separate the subjective element from the objective truth. I note that most girls who answered the question think that girls are obvioiusly "better" than boys, whereas most boys think that boys are obviously "better" than girls. What is the objective truth?
This has been the most popular discussion I have ever seen on eNotes. I wonder why. I would like to point out that the original question was not about whether men were better than women or vice versa; it was only about whether girls were better than boys. I would like to offer my opinion. Some girls are better than some boys, and some boys are better than some girls. Isn't that obvious? I don't mean just that boys are better at some things and girls better at others. I mean that some girls are better as persons than some boys and vice versa.
There is something naive about this assertion. First, you separate humans by their gender difference, then ask if they are different. Two wise quotations to share:
1. A difference that makes no difference is no difference (this is germane to social equality questions)
2. No taxonomies are innocent (in other words, a person who starts dividing people by gender has a motive in mind.) Wordprof
I don't think women are betters than men but different in creation. Sure women can do things better than men and men can do other things better than women. Some can do both but I think they sholud not be compared.
The post 30 by Caglatekeli gives some of the factors that make them 'more than equal' because 'they have been created like that in view of the believers' and 'have evolved like that in view of the evolutionists'.
Men & women and boys & girls have to play their distinct role in the society due to difference in their sex hormones and the capabilities of the neural & sensory systems. Pushing them to perform same role does not seem to be fair.
Men and women are made for each other. If some one can prove that human race can survive without the other, I would vote for the survivor to be better.
As a female, I definitely lean towards the statement that girls are better than boys, but only as a biased opinion simply to empower myself :) In all actuality, no one is "better" than anyone else. No male is better than any female, no black person is better than any white person, no short person is better than any tall person. It's just a fact of life that we are all equal, even though that concept is difficult for some to grasp.
Hope this helps!
Girls and Boys shouldn't be compared at all, they should be equal. No matter what we all have the pros of being a girl or boy and the cons. I'd get why girls would start a conversation about this, is even today men still think they have more power then the girls. Which explains the presidents of the United States being men. Just recently there was a girl president in some other country. I'll list some pros and cons about being girls and boys. Girls are weaker then boys, while the boys are naturally stronger. Girls are more gifted in music wise then boys, but some boys still perfect in music. Girls are naturally more polite then boys and more artistic. Boys are more talented in rough sport then girls. A lot of boys care about their grades but some they don't care at all. Anyone who is saying girls are better then boys, or boys are better then girls are sexist. In my family most of them are sexist, about how only girls can do work and stuff like that. While they don't care what the boys do [lucky me :P]. To be honest women can get jobs too, while men can do home chores. It's just personal preference. I've guess we just grown into the mode that women has to take care of the children and the men works. Girls have good opportunity for jobs a lot too, while men can easily take care of children. So my answer for this is Men = Women
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There is no difference in men or women. They're the same, both have pros and cons.
p.s anyone says either one is better is sexist
In some ways girls are better, and other ways boys do!
Post42# can u explain ur answer
Gender discretion is a creation of human mind. the inherited culture and heritage brought the change in mind set. i do not find any difference in nature, it is perfectly harmonious. how ever the role of female is superior since the procreative responsibility is fully mother oriented.


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- Adventure Divers is well known in Pattaya for purchasing and maintaining a number of buoys, shot lines and mooring lines for Pattaya diving sites. These buoys and lines help protect both divers and dive sites from harm. Dive companies use these markers to find and moor to dives sites like Koh Rin, North Rock and the HTMS Khram and HTMS Kut wrecks and divers uses the lines to safely descend and ascend to the sites. In addition, other dive centers in Pattaya occasionally purchase and donate buoys and line for Adventure Divers to place on the various dive sites.
- Adventure Divers also participates in Project Aware and other programs to promote the protection and conservation of coral reefs.
- Adventure Divers was an active participant of the Pattaya Dive Club, a club trying to promote Pattaya as a scuba diving destination working with the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the Pattaya city government, the Thailand Department of Fisheries and the Thai Navy. Our goal is to help preserve the marine environment through responsible diving, fishing and mooring practices in our diving area. Also, the Thai Navy has given a verbal pledge to sink another five wrecks over the next ten years and we would like to influence the locations of these wrecks so that they may be enjoyed more thoroughly. Though the club is no longer active, Adventure Divers is still trying to coordinate various entities to work together and still accomplish the goals.
- Because of our involvement with the Pattaya Dive Club, we have studied the project of putting these five wrecks down and have come up with a proposal for the New Pattaya Wreck Placement and a thesis of The Benefits of Promoting Pattaya as a Dive Destination.
- Early September, 2011, Adventure Divers donated their labor, boat, food and dive equipment, along with others who did the same, to the Great Shark Release Day initiated by the Dive Tribe, who's stated goals are to attract public attention and public monies to help pay for the deployment of numerous mooring buoys in the Pattaya area, and to arouse public awareness of other marine environmental concerns, such as shark fining, sustainable fishing, ocean debris and chemical pollution of the oceans. The Dive Tribe had asked for logistical support to accomplish the day and for advise on where the mooring buoys are most needed.
- Early November, 2011, Adventure Divers joined Divers Helping Reefs, a new project to deploy Mooring Buoys at, initially, our more frequented and favorite dive sites. Through the 'Divers Helping Reefs' program, we have been successful in installing 3 donated buoys around North Rock near Koh Rin, everybody's favorite coral dive site. Divers Helping Reefs hopes to put 2 more desperately needed buoys there before moving on to other dive sites. "Divers Helping Reefs" purchase the materials for the buoys and Adventure Divers contributes the logistics to secure the buoys as well as to maintain them.


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Ivanhoe Mines boss
Mr Friedland said China's desire to secure copper concentrate to feed its smelters gave him "great confidence" that a power line to the project would be built on time.
"I don't think it's anything really worth worrying about," Mr Friedland said. "China would much rather own 10 per cent of Rio Tinto or a piece of Oyu Tolgoi than hold US dollar debt obligations."
He said Australia's positioning as "the lucky country" would last for "hundreds of additional years" as China and emerging nations continue to drive demand for mineral resources.
China's move overnight to cut the reserve requirement ratio for its banks signals the beginning of an easing platform that will continue to drive the Australian economy, he said.
"The situation is hopeless but not serious," he joked.
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This review is from: Klipsch Rebel Red Image S3 3.5mm Connector In-Ear Rebel Red Nosie-Isolating Earphone W/ Oval Ear-tips
Cool looking.
Sound quality is very average
Short cord
Not very durable construction
Very unconfortable
Fall out easily
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The more I use them, the more I hate them
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The other review of the same title is actually mine, I just posted it without logging in. I wanted to add a few more thoughts on these ear buds.
Still, not impressed with the sound. Mostly with the lack of being able to hear bass. I don't mind not feeling it (unlike Bose ear buds that have EXCELLENT base). I use these on my phone, and if you turn the volume all the way up to really jam, the high frequencies are so intense it makes your eyes hurt. The sound quality just goes right down the tubes.
The cord is very annoying. It's very low grade construction, and quite short. I use these at work, and I can't even turn around and throw something in the garbage without the ear buds falling out.
It did come with different size rubber inserts but none of them stay in your ear very well. Mostly because they're so small. Even with the largest insert, it has to be pushed inside the ear canal. This not only makes them fall out very easily, but also will make your inner ear tense up. You know like when you clean ear wax with a q-tip? imagine that happening every now and then. I have to take them out and let my ear settle down.
They fall out all the time. You can't eat or drink while using them because the movement of your jaw jars them loose from your ear.
After thinking of all these cons, I'm really mad I paid money for them. I wish I could return them but they were a christmas gift from my wife. And I picked them out thinking they were going to be a great value. (don't tell my wife I hate them!) Plus I threw away the box. Which is to bad.. Because these are a very bad design.
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Eye on Bryan, Liberty counties
The deadline to register to vote in the November general election is today. In Bryan County, call 653-3859 if you have any questions. In Liberty County, call 876-3310.
Adam Winkler
Adam Winkler knows he's leaving Savannah. By this time next year, his graduate work will be complete and he will be on the West Coast casting his lot with so many aspiring actors like him.
Commissioner-elect wants chief assessor to quit
Commissioner-elect Jeff Rayno wants to see county taxpayers treated better by the Assessor's Office -- and the best way to achieve that is for the chief tax appraiser to go.
Community calendar
Shag-Beach Bop-Etc., Savannah's "Dance to the Music" fund-raiser for Open Arms, will be held Nov. 17-19 at The Country Hearth Inn in Pooler.
Chasing a cure
Diabetes runs in families. Ask Darlena Eunice about that. Her dad died of complications from diabetes when she was 12.
Jobs on the line at Fort Stewart
Plumbers, electricians, road pavers and other civilian workers will march into a movie theater Thursday to learn the fate of their jobs with the Army.
Group forms business incubator
As home to the former Gottleib Bakery and Delicatessen, workers would often try new recipes and new techniques seeking to give birth to the perfect loaf of bread, the model pastry.
Habitat teams with food bank
Organizers are calling it a match made in heaven -- Habitat for Humanity teaming up with the Manna House food bank for a mutually beneficial project.
Symphony season opens on some familiar notes
Last year the Savannah Symphony Orchestra polled its listeners, asking them what sort of music they wanted to hear.
Eye on Effingham briefs
Band boosters for South Effingham High School and South Effingham Middle School will meet at 8 p.m. today at the high school.
Delta dawns
When in high school, he had to sneak onto the old Delta Plantation with a few friends to hunt. Today, Henry Ingram owns 1,700 acres of the land between U.S. 17 and S.C. 170 but he still searches for four-legged beasts.
Charges will not be filed against Garden City officers
On June 24, Garden City police officers tried to arrest Steven R. Duncan, 28, of the 300 block of Main Street in Garden City. Duncan resisted by allegedly threatening to break an officer's leg and by punching and biting.
DeLoach wants election laws changed
Six years ago, Buddy DeLoach surprised many by deserting the Democratic Party to become a Republican. He won the District 172 State House seat in a traditional Democratic county.
Book it and win
As a young child, Shawn Champion picked out books rather than toys in the store.
All fired up about good eating
Firefighting is all about bad smells, whether it's charred wood, burning rubber or smoldering stucco.
Neighbor asked cops for some lawn order
"... complainant has a snake in her yard ... she advised the mailman is trying to detain it ..."
Have platform, will travel
Georgia Senate Republicans concluded a five-day bus tour of the state today, brandishing a platform reminiscent of the Contract with America that swept their GOP congressional colleagues to power six years ago.
Criminal justice 101
Thomas Wearing dreamed that if he worked hard enough he would have professional football scouts waiting to sign him by the time he walked across the stage to accept his bachelor's degree from Savannah State University.
Memorial set to expand surgery services off-campus
Weekend warriors should soon be able to take their bad knees to an ambulatory surgery center on Paulsen Street. But doctors from Chatham Orthopedic Associates won't be the only ones operating there, as was originally planned.
Past second, headed for home
In suits and ties, they sat on the bleachers at Grayson Stadium, eating hot dogs as John Fogerty's "Centerfield" played over the loudspeakers.
Not registered?
To make your voice heard on Election Day, you better make sure your name is on voter rolls by this afternoon. Registering usually takes a few minutes.
Vox Populi, the voice of the people
"Do you suppose that the Atlanta Braves could get any multi-million dollar players that can hit and possibly field for a change?"
Community calendar for October 10, 2000
A jazz concert sponsored by the City of Savannah Leisure Services Bureau, will be held at 6 p.m in the Savannah Civic Center Ballroom. The event is for senior citizens and will feature the Teddy Adam's Band and a fashion show.
Vox Populi, the voice of the people
Concerning the questionnaire on depression that ran in the paper last week -- of course, I answered yes to five or more, but only when I'm on DeRenne Avenue.
Obituaries for October 10, 2000
Obituaries for October 9, 2000
Editorial: It is time to level the playing field for onion growers
While we appreciate your attempt to accurately portray both sides of the issue, and your strong support of the Vidalia onion reputation, we believe that you left out important information.
Editorial: Put heat on Arafat
THAT SEVEN years of Middle East peace negotiations could be all but vaporized by little more than a week's worth of rioting in Jerusalem is a testament to the fragility -- and, ultimately, the futility -- of the Oslo Accords.
Letters to the editor
Yes, it is impossible for our preserves to extend endlessly, but it is not impossible for responsible elected officials and local and state agencies to develop zoning controls and mandates for adequate tree buffer zones on properties bordering our parks and preserves.
Letters to the editor
I read with dismay your lead editorial on Sept. 29, "Protecting the helpless," because it appears that you have jumped to some conclusions without proper and full information.
Editorial: Burial for the Braves
The brash, exciting team that once won America's hearts with its unbridled passion and last-minute heroics is now dead, a victim of its own smothering underachievement.
Editorial: Tax-cut truths
DURING LAST Tuesday's presidential debate, it was impossible
The sights and smells that make autumn the best season
The trees around here and throughout the "Deep South," as some Yankees like to refer to our region, still haven't gotten the word yet that they're supposed to begin changing color and eventually fall off.
Editorial: A 'thorn' in Garden City
AN INDEPENDENT investigation of an ugly confrontation this summer between Garden City police and Rosignal Hill residents has determined no criminal charges are warranted against the officers. That's reassuring from a public safety standpoint.
Mathis: Falcons need to have fun
Terance Mathis has a message for the entire offense for the Atlanta Falcons: Either get excited about playing or get off the field.
Discipline translate into success for BC
"Today is just another day in which to excel." -- Lieutenant Colonel John M. Owens, head of Benedictine's ROTC program.
Handicapping makes race fair for everyone
A 22-foot powerboat carrying news photographers bucked and rolled as it tried to tame the crests of six-foot swells in Wassaw Sound Sunday, the second and final day of the Oktoberfest Regatta.
UGA Police Chief: There weren't enough of us
The frenzy following Georgia's win over Tennessee Saturday was unlike anything the University of Georgia had seen before, UGA Police Chief Chuck Horton said Monday.
Pesqueira gets league's weekly honor
It wasn't the best weekend for the Georgia Southern defense, but Monday was the start of a good week for tackle Freddy Pesqueira.
Prep honor roll
Earl Scott continued his onslaught on Coastal Empire defenses in Friday night's 39-14 win over county rival South Effingham.
Pretty, no, but Eagles will take win
Happy, yes, but the Georgia Southern Eagles didn't leave E.J. Whitmire Stadium satisfied with their performance Saturday night.
Sorting out leftovers from ECHS-South Effingham game
Before putting the 2000 edition of the Effingham County-South Effingham rivalry to rest, here are some interesting tidbits.
Braves GM not planning on making any drastic changes
Atlanta Braves general manager John Schuerholz knows the question is inevitable. On the heels of a three-and-out postseason, is it time to break up the Braves?
Banner year gives promise for SSU baseball
The yellow banner hangs on the backstop at Tiger Field, a modest tribute to an astounding feat.
Saints capture Area 3-AAAAA title
One minute they were shaking hands with Camden County, their opponent in the Area 3-AAAAA Championship match. The next thing you knew, the St. Vincent's volleyball team was hoisting the first-place trophy.
Dogs look to stay focused after win over Vols
For folks who have so recently broken free from the death grip of a hated rival, Georgia coach Jim Donnan and his players are exhibiting a strikingly business-like manner.
Falcons continue tailspin in dismal loss to Giants
Sunday's effort by the Atlanta Falcons makes you miss the Run 'N Shoot. It makes you wonder if Jerry Glanville still wants to coach.
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Re "Hatch for Senate: Give Utah's lion one more term" (Our View, Sept. 23):
Your endorsement of Sen. Orrin Hatch for re-election to the United States Senate is laughable. You call Hatch a "lion of the Senate". The lion symbolizes strength, courage, a willingness to not back down.
When it comes to tea party activists, Hatch has been a pussycat of the Senate. He spent the past two years distancing himself from any piece of progressive legislation or policy that he supported before the tea party came out against them.
For example, the now stalled DREAM Act, the bipartisan legislation pioneered by Hatch and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., in which qualifying undocumented youth would be eligible for a six-year-long conditional path to citizenship that requires completion of a college degree or two years of military service.
If you want a senator who is afraid of his own shadow, Hatch is your man.
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Volunteer and Intern in Mexico
- Location: Guadalajara, Ciudad Guzman, Cuyutlan
- Accommodation: Host families
- Local languages: Spanish
Mexico is regarded as an emerging power in the global economy, but a wide gap between the wealthy and the underprivileged has hampered its development. Volunteering with Projects Abroad on a worthwhile project or internship is a way for you to contribute to sustainable development and help improve quality of life in disadvantaged communities. Our projects in Mexico are available for anyone interested in volunteering in the developing world, including those on a summer break, gap year, career break, or volunteer vacation.
Mexico is a meeting-place of cultures: a modern, industrialized, and well-educated country filled with history. American, Spanish, and Indian influences all come together to make it a fascinating place and the country offers amazing opportunities for volunteers to learn and travel within its expansive borders. It is also one of the most diverse countries in the world in terms of biodiversity, with over 200,000 different species of flora and fauna.
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"Mexico offers a bit of something for everyone. Our country is a fascinating mixture of cultures, history and traditions, with growing development and enthusiasm to participate in worldwide globalization.
When you join Projects Abroad in Mexico you can be confident about the support of our experienced staff, who will help you all the way from the beginning to the very end of your placement. Remember that half of the experience is up to you: we show you the way but you are the one who has to walk through!"
Where You Will Live in Mexico with Projects Abroad
The large city of Guadalajara is the home of Projects Abroad Mexico. The office is based in a popular cultural and artistic neighborhood, close to the center of the city. We have a variety of volunteer projects and internships for volunteers to get involved in. You could find yourself contributing to Early Childhood Development in orphanages, care centers, and special needs centers, or helping students develop essential language skills in high schools and universities.
If you would like to experience life in a smaller, more rural town, we also offer projects in Ciudad Guzman, a 90 minute journey from Guadalajara. The town sits under the shadow of the great Colima Volcano and offers a more traditional experience than living in Guadalajara. There is a central plaza with plenty of cafes, restaurants, and shops to explore.
Did you know? The green stripe on the Mexican flag stands for hope, the white for purity, and the red stripe represents soldiers lost during the fight for Mexico's independence. In the middle, the Mexican coat of arms represents an Aztec legend about how Mexico City was settled.
Volunteers traveling to the Conservation & Environment Project stay on the Pacific coast in the small town of Cuyutlan, in the state of Colima. Here, volunteers live together in a shared house close to the project.
Living in Mexico is an incredible experience. All of our volunteers (except for those joining the Conservation & Environment Project) live with a local host family and are immersed in the local lifestyle and community, from the universal passion for soccer to the "Day of the Dead" celebrations, when the whole country grinds to a halt to honor its ancestors.
Travel and Sightseeing Opportunities in Mexico
Guadalajara is fondly known as the most Mexican of cities. Tequila, sombreros, mariachi music, and rodeo riders all originated in Guadalajara.
There are plenty of activities here to fill your leisure time Attending a soccer match or lucha libre (dramatic Mexican wrestling) followed by a meal of tortas ahogadas - pork rolls drowned in chili sauce - is something that has to be experienced!
Mexico offers a bit of everything to everyone volunteering abroad, all accessible via the reliable bus services that cross the country. Domestic flights are numerous and reasonably priced, so traveling around on weekends and after your project is affordable and easy. There are cheap, clean, modest hotels in almost every small town.
To get away from it all, find a good map and a bus schedule and head for the beaches, hills, jungles, or mountains. In Mexico it is easy to get off the beaten track. It's a paradise of mountains and volcanoes, deserts, beaches, and ancient ruins and civilizations, with nearly 30 World Heritage Sites.


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We deploy the majority of our Windows XP computers through imaging. We use several different imaging solutions – Ghost, Zenworks, Acronis, and the Microsoft imaging tools found in Windows Deployment Services, which used to be called RIS.
One of the challenges I have experienced is after you join the Active Directory domain post-imaging, Windows prompts you to login to the local computer rather than the domain by default. I came across Ronni's post the other day, which shows the appropriate registry entries that can be added using the reg.exe utility that will change the logon target from the local computer name to the domain.
Execute both of the commands found below:
reg.exe add "HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\winlogon" /v altdefaultdomainname /t REG_SZ /d "yourdomain" /f
reg.exe add "HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\winlogon" /v defaultdomainname /t REG_SZ /d "yourdomain" /f
Replace yourdomain with the name of your Active Directory domain. Reg.exe is built into Windows XP+ and is available for download from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit.
Note that these values are set only for the initial logon. After a user logs into the machine for the first time these values are overwritten.


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Your new favorite craft cocktail has just been invented — the California Aurora! This unique drink has already made a star of its creator, Brittini Rae, who has agreed to share her secret recipe so you can concoct her gem all on your own.
The countdown's on for Christmas and a rockin' New Year's Eve. If you're working on a shopping list for the next few weeks of parties and dinners, here's a spin on the Christmas countdown that will provide plenty of variation on ye olde spiked eggnog.
Molly Sims grew up in the south, so if there's one thing she knows about, it's entertaining and cooking for all her family and friends. Just because she also happens to be an incredibly famous model and actress doesn't mean she isn't a great party planner. Actually, with a new book on the way called The Everyday Supermodel, being a new mother and running her own lifestyle blog, Molly is proving that she knows a thing or two about throwing a great holiday party. Here are some of her best tips on how to breathe new life into traditional holidays to create new favorites for family and friends!
After arriving at the New Orleans Cooking Experience (NOCE), I knew I was in for a great cooking class when the first words out of Frank Brigtsen's mouth (a fifth-generation NOLA chef and owner of Brigtsen's Restaurant) were, "Food is about sharing, not about keeping secrets."
The holidays are here (Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away!) and for anyone who already owns a Nespresso machine this means one thing when it comes to coffee: a new seasonal variation. Earlier this year Nespresso Club Members were asked to vote between three flavors: Cioccorosso, Liminto and Masala Chai.
Halloween may have passed us by, but that strange little celebration is only a teeny blip on the holiday radar. It's completely socially acceptable for the next couple of months to surround yourself with pumpkin foods, and my stomach couldn't be happier. One of my favorites is a good pumpkin soup and this recipe from Maria Zoitas looks fantastic, bringing in Granny Smith apples and orange juice.
The best thing about this time of year is all the recipes that involve pumpkins! From pie and soup to lattes and pastries, I really can't get enough of pumpkin on the menu. To branch out from the usual fall fare, try this recipe from Pumpkin and Ginger Cream, which combines our favorite ingredient with tasty vegetables and ginger.
Since we've already shared some great Halloween decorating tips with you, we will now share some unique cocktail recipes that keep with the spooky theme. After all, if you're throwing a party, your dressed-up guests will need a variety of drinks to sip. Maybe the lonely Rob Stark in the corner can have a Red Wedding drink, while the hipster vampire unsuccessfully hitting on your friend can mix up a Vampire's Kiss. With so many options, we're willing to bet there will be something for everyone!
Thanks to Justin Warner, the season eight winner of Food Network's The Next Food Network Star, here's another fun recipe to whip up for your Robert Mondavi Private Selection Pinot Noir tasting party. Warner created this recipe for those nights he and his girlfriend are craving authentic Japanese ramen but don't want to leave the house to get it.... Read More
Knowing the importance of matching food with wine, Robert Mondavi Private Selection has collaborated with Justin Warner to create a few seasonally-appropriate recipes. A self-taught cook, Warner is the owner and chef at Brooklyn's Do or Dine restaurant.... Read More
If you enjoyed the unique olive oil recipes for baked pears and wet chocolate cake that we shared recently, you should definitely add this new recipe for almond cake to your cookbook. Utilizing orange zest and you guessed it olive oil, Cat Cora's Kitchen by Gaea dreamt this cake up for anyone looking to experiment in the kitchen.... Read More
What's better than crabmeat? Crab stuffed inside tilapia, that's what! Sent to us from the talented Maria Zoitas of Westside Market NYC
, this dish would be a great way to feed party guests whether it be for an actual meal or just fun hors d'oeuvres. If you want to add some refinement and sophistication to your evening, Zoitas suggests pairing the recipe with a nice spot of tea.... Read More
Sent to us from Cat Cora's Kitchen by Gaea, this recipe for baked pears continues our experimentation with desserts and olive oil. While they may not seem to go together, Iron Chef Cat Cora thinks differently and pairs them with chocolate ice cream which goes with anything, in our opinion. Not only is this a light alternative to that after-dinner craving, it's a great way to impress your friends and family!... Read More
If you're a fan of mangos, you probably already know that August is the peak season for the tasty tropical fruit. To celebrate, The Westin Resort & Spa in Los Cabos have dedicated the entire month to celebrate by hosting their very own Mango Festival. Thanks to Executive Chef Manuel Peruyero's culinary skills, several new food and cocktail recipes have been added to the menu, each one showcasing the juicy fruit.... Read More
Experimentation in the kitchen is booming, with unique new recipes being created every day. Whether it's the cooking method that's unusual or the ingredients, there's always something new to discover, including this neat recipe that combines olive oil with cake. This Wet Chocolate Cake with Olive Oil, created by Cat Cora's Kitchen by Gaea, is a light alternative to assuage that sweet tooth and seems pretty easy to make too.... Read More


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TORONTO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The pace of growth in the Canadian manufacturing sector for October hit its strongest level in nearly a year, rebounding from the pull-back in September and helped by an increase in new orders, data showed on Monday.
The RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' index (PMI), a measure of manufacturing business conditions, rose to a seasonally adjusted 55.3 last month from 53.5 in September. A reading above 50 shows growth in the sector.
It was the highest reading since November 2013, and the forward-looking new orders index rose to 56.4 from 53.7.
"We saw a strong uptick in Canada's manufacturing business conditions in October driven by new order growth," said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC.
"Despite the challenges we are seeing in the European and emerging markets, the continued recovery of the U.S. economy should continue to support Canadian exports going forward."
The seasonally adjusted new export index fell below the survey average, indicating only a subdued pace of expansion.
Last week, the head of Canada's central bank said that the stronger U.S. economy could pressure the Canadian dollar, but it could also help spur more export business for Canadian businesses.
Reporting by Solarina Ho; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama


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Red Pepper & Rosemary Chicken over Fettuccine
- 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips
- 1 tsp. salt
- 3 Tbsp. Bertolli® Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic
- 4 tsp. fresh rosemary leaves
- 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
- 2 medium red bell peppers, cut into thin strips
- 1/3 cup dry white wine [or chicken broth]
- 12 ounces fettuccine, cooked and drained
- Season chicken with 1/2 teaspoon salt. In 12-inch nonstick skillet, heat 1 tablespoon Olive Oil over medium-high heat and cook chicken, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
- In same skillet, heat remaining 2 tablespoons Olive Oil over medium-high heat and cook onion, garlic, remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, rosemary and black pepper, stirring occasionally, 1 minute or until onion is tender. Add red pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, 3 minutes. Add wine and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer covered 5 minutes. Return chicken to skillet and add hot fettuccine; toss well. Cook 1 minute or until heated through. Garnish, if desired, with shaved Parmesan cheese.


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Google has released a new Webmaster Help video featuring Matt Cutts talking about duplicate and unique meta descriptions.
Cutts answers this submitted question:
Is it necessary for each single page within my website to have a unique metatag description?
"The way I would think of it is, you can either have a unique metatag description, or you can choose to have no metatag description, but I wouldn't have duplicate metatag description[s]," Cutts says. "In fact, if you register and verify your site in our free Google Webmaster Tools console, we will tell you if we see duplicate metatag descriptions, so that is something that I would avoid."
"In general, it's probably not worth your time to come up with a unique meta description for every single page on your site," he adds. "Like when I blog, I don't bother to do that. Don't tell anybody. Ooh. I told everybody. But if there are some pages that really matter, like your homepage or pages that have really important return on investment - you know, your most featured products or something like that - or maybe you've looked at the search results and there's a few pages on your site that just have really bad automatically generated snippets. We try to do our best, but we wouldn't claim that we have perfect snippets all the time."
No, believe it or not Google is not perfect (as Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt also reminded us).
Cutts concludes, "You know, in those kinds of situations, then it might make sense to go in, and make sure you have a unique handcrafted, lovingly-made metatag description, but in general, rather than have one metatag description repeated over and over and over again for every page on your site, I would either go ahead and make sure that there is a unique one for the pages that really matter or just leave it off, and Google will generate the snippet for you. But I wouldn't have the duplicate ones if you can help it."
Some will probably take Matt's advice, and start spending a lot less time bothering with meta descriptions. Just remember that part about looking at the search results and making sure that Google isn't displaying something too weird, particularly if it's an important page.


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Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report. Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of recent net-based attacks. Analysis of the motives of the actors behind many attacks carried out via the internet showed that many were mounted with a explicitly political aim.
It said that many nations were now arming to defend themselves in a cyber war and readying forces to conduct their own attacks. "There are at least five countries known to be arming themselves for this kind of conflict," said Greg Day, primary analyst for security at McAfee Europe. The UK, Germany, France, China and North Korea are known to be developing their own capabilities.
(Source: BBC)
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The first applications were accepted on Monday for internationalised domain names (IDNs), in one of the most significant steps to making the Internet more accessible around the globe.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the application process, ending the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses. On the first day, "we have already received six applications from around the world for three different scripts," ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom told an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
(Source: AFP)
Criminal gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a web security firm said on Monday.
Sophos, a British security software firm said it had intercepted hundreds of millions of fake pharmaceutical spam adverts and websites this year, many of them trying to sell counterfeit antiviral drugs like Tamiflu to worried customers. Tamiflu, an antiviral marketed by Switzerland's Roche Holding and known generically as oseltamivir, is the frontline drug recommended by the World Health Organization to treat and slow the progression of flu symptoms. GlaxoSmithKline makes another antiviral for flu, known as Relenza.
(Source: Reuters)
A new spam campaign is targeting a financial transfer system that handles trillions of dollars in transactions annually and has proved to be a fertile target of late for online fraudsters.
The spam messages pretend to come from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), a U.S. nonprofit association that oversees the Automated Clearing House system (ACH). ACH is a widely used but aging system used by financial institutions for exchanging details of direct deposits, checks and cash transfers made by businesses and individuals. In 2002, ACH was used for nearly 9 billion transactions worth more than $24.4 trillion.
(Source: ComputerWorld)
Testing a brand new copy of Windows 7 shows that malware still finds its way around inbuilt preventative measures.
Got Windows 7? Yes, we know an increasing number of you have. But you'll still need antivirus protection. A test by the security company Sophos has found that Windows 7 is, out of the box, vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses that dropped into its feed (its feed being gnarly viruses picked from the internet). But of those 8, the User Account Control (UAC) - meant to save you from yourself, you button-clicking obsessive, you - did stop one.
(Source: Guardian)
Nearly half of England's 14-year-olds have been a victim of bullying and cyber-bullying is now the joint most common form, according to new research.
The Government-commissioned research, conducted by the National Centre for Social Research, analysed bullying among more than 10,000 secondary school pupils in England aged 14-16. The initial findings show that 47 per cent of young people report being bullied at the age of 14. After cyberbullying - where children face taunts, threats and insults via the internet and mobile phones - and name calling, the most common type of bullying was teenagers being threatened with violence, being excluded by their friends and facing actual violence.
(Source: Telegraph)
For the last few days, some jailbroken iPhone users have found their home screen background a little different than they remembered. A hacker, going by the name "ikee," created a worm that changes the home screen background on jailbroken iPhones whose owners failed to change the default password after installing SSH.
Simply jailbreaking your iPhone will not make you vulnerable to this sort of hack. The iPhone OS, in general, is also immune to this hack. On jailbroken iPhones, SSH is installable with a package from Cydia that allows you to connect to your phone and make changes to the filesystem.
(Source: TUAW News)
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Australian internet provider BigPond has become the latest internet company to be targeted by hackers on Twitter, after one of its accounts was hijacked as part of a phishing scam.
Affected users received a private message from BigPondTeam saying "Hey, look at this," and directing them to follow a link that asked them to enter their Twitter password. The attack was part of an attempt to steal their credentials and potentially gain access to other services they use - such as their bank accounts or email services.
THE next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief has warned. "The next world war could happen in cyberspace and that would be a catastrophe. We have to make sure that all countries understand that in that war, there is no such thing as a superpower,'' Hamadoun Toure said.
"Loss of vital networks would quickly cripple any nation, and none is immune to cyberattack,'' added the secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union during the ITU's Telecom World 2009 fair in Geneva. As the internet becomes more linked with daily lives, cyberattacks and crimes have also increased in frequency, experts said.
(Source: News.com)
Spain says Internet-related child pornography has risen tenfold in the past five years. Francisco Villanueva of the Interior Ministry says the number of cases has gone from 108 in 2004 to 1,024 last year. Other Internet-related crimes also rose.
Villanueva said Thursday that hacking has risen from 92 to 447 cases, and that bank fraud has more than doubled in the same period, from 509 cases to 1,954. He says piracy of intellectual property decreased slightly from 330 to 298 cases, but that if more resources are not dedicated to policing piracy, Spain could lose up to 300,000 jobs. Villanueva says Spain's cyber crime levels are similar to those of neighboring European countries.
(Source: AP)
Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they'll get caught. Pranksters or someone trying to frame you can tap viruses to make it appear that you surf illegal Web sites. Whatever the motivation, you get child porn on your computer and might not realize it until police knock at your door.
An Associated Press investigation found cases in which innocent people have been branded as pedophiles after their co-workers or loved ones stumbled upon child porn placed on a PC through a virus. It can cost victims hundreds of thousands of dollars to prove their innocence.
China has issued rules banning the beating and confinement of youths being treated for Internet addiction after revelations of abuse at rehabilitation clinics, including the death of one teenager. The regulations posted on the health ministry's website Wednesday stressed that restraint must be used in dealing with such youngsters as "the concept of 'Internet addiction' has not been fully defined".
In August, the beating death of a teenage boy enrolled by his parents at an Internet addiction camp in southern China's Guangxi region provoked outrage across the country.
Internet users throughout Europe accused of illegal file-sharing are to receive more protection from being cut off by their service provider. The European Parliament and Council is due to make a decision on its Telecoms Reform Package in late November. The package will entitle users in all 27 EU states to be put through a "fair and impartial procedure" before being disconnected.
The outcome is a compromise agreed during all night negotiations. Some members of the European Parliament felt nobody should lose their connection until after they had been prosecuted in a court for illegally downloading content.
An expert on cable modem hacking has been arrested by federal authorities on computer intrusion charges. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Ryan Harris, 26, ran a San Diego company called TCNISO that sold customizable cable modems and software that could be used to get free Internet service or a speed boost for paying subscribers.
China's police chief has called for a reinforced nationwide Internet security system, in the nation's latest effort to oversee the activities of the world's largest online population.
"The Internet is developing quickly, there are many loopholes in social management, and maintaining social stability faces unprecedented new challenges," public security minister Meng Jianzhu said in rare public remarks. Internet use has expanded at a dizzying pace in China, which now has the world's largest online population of at least 338 million users.
If your cash card gets eaten by the automated-teller machine, it may not end up in the hands of a bank employee. European financial institutions are seeing a sharp rise in card "trapping," where criminals use various tricks in order to capture and retrieve a person's ATM card for fraudulent use.
For the first half of this year, financial institutions reported 1,045 trapping incidents, according to a new report from the European ATM Security Team (EAST), a nonprofit group composed of financial institutions and law enforcement. The figure, which covers 20 countries within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), represents a 640 percent increase over the first half of 2008.
(Source: CIO)
Twitter warned users Tuesday of a new phishing scam on the social networking site. It's the latest in a series of scams that have plagued the site over the past year, designed to trick victims into giving up their user names and passwords.
"We've seen a few phishing attempts today, if you've received a strange DM and it takes you to a Twitter login page, don't do it!," Twitter wrote on its Spam message page. The message reads, "hi. this you on here?" and includes a link to a fake Web site designed to look like a Twitter log-in page. After entering a user name and password, victims enter an empty blogspot page belonging to someone named NetMeg99.
Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy on Thursday and asked for feedback from the social network's more than 300 million users. Members will have until November 5 to send in their comments about the proposed changes.
"This is the next step in our ongoing effort to run Facebook in an open and transparent way. After the comment period is over, we'll review your feedback and update you on our next steps." Some of the changes to Facebook's privacy policy are the result of pressure from Canada, whose privacy czar conducted an investigation into its handling of personal information.
I am advised to "avoid giving my credit card online" and to be "careful when banking online" and to use random, complex passwords that I never repeat and never write down. So, as long as I refrain from commerce, stay indoors and have a superhuman memory, I should be fine!
I worry about identity theft and take measures, throughout the year, to defend my identity. So here's some identify defense advice that's actually practical: * Don't sign credit cards. I sign mine "See ID". Why give a card thief my signature too?
The 17-year-olds body was dumped in a ditch after she sneaked out of her home on Sunday night to meet a boy she thought was 16, but who turned out to be 32. Her mother, Andrea Hall urged, Tell your kids to be careful on the internet. Don't trust anybody and don't put your children on Facebook or other sites if they are under age. All we ask now is that people help the police in any way they can. We don't want any other child to be a victim.
A 32-year-old man, of no fixed abode was due to appear at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates Court on Wednesday, charged with manslaughter and kidnap. The convicted sex offender was also charged with failing to notify a new address as required for sex offenders under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Nearly a decade after it introduced a program to internationalize domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is expected to take another step on Friday. ICANN, during its annual meeting in Seoul, Korea, will vote on the internationalized domain names (IDN) initiative, better known as the Fast Track.
"In Seoul, we plan to move forward to the next step in the internationalization of the Internet, which means that eventually people from every corner of the globe will be able to navigate much of the online world using their native language scripts," said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's CEO.
(Source: NewsFactor)
A man is being questioned after the body of a teenager he is believed to have met on the internet was discovered in a field in County Durham.
Det Ch Insp Paul Harker said the case highlighted the dangers of meeting people on the internet, and urged parents to monitor their children's online habits. He said: "This is a very, very unusual event. My message in terms of meeting people from the internet is 'please do not do it unless you are absolutely certain it is safe'." He added: "Speak to them about it, speak to their friends, let them know the dangers of the internet."
The Swiss Foreign Ministry says it was the victim of a "professional" cyber attack aimed at obtaining information from its computer network. Spokesman Georg Farago says the ministry cut the connection between its network and the Internet after the attack was discovered on Thursday. He says specialists are trying to determine the source of the attack and whether any information was stolen.
Farago said Monday it appeared the Foreign Ministry was specifically targeted. Switzerland frequently plays host to international peace talks and other high-level negotiations.
Developing countries risk missing out on the benefits of information technology because of their lack of broadband infrastructure, a U.N. agency said.
Lack of broadband Internet access deprives countries of the possibility of building up offshoring industries, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report late on Thursday. It also prevents people from tapping into all the advantages of mobile phones, whose use is exploding in poor countries. "What is known as the broadband gap for example is becoming a serious handicap for companies in many poor countries," he told a briefing to launch UNCTAD's Information Economy Report.
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This release contains the following changes and bugfixes. You can now send a break to a LISP process and load/compile the content of a editor buffer. The state of the interaction buffers is saved during exit. Enter processing by a interaction buffer is fixed. Fixed tabbed pane processing of interactions. Fixed numerous NullException bugs. Fixed display of warnings.
Editor buffer is no longer marked unmodified when entering debug mode. Entering debug mode will not fail anymore when there are watch buffers. Resizing of the Error,Message and Input area is now always possible.
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