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Side Event: Statement by Ambassador Thoms on "Transformative Human Development - How Can a New Sustainable Development Framework Support People of All Ages?"
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Distinguished panelists,
Colleagues and guests!
Our event today is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the specific needs of different generations when it comes to sustainable development. In our debates and discussions we always keep an eye on the three dimensions of sustainability: the economic, social and environmental dimensions. And we must also bear in mind that sustainable development by its very definition is a concept that takes into consideration the needs of all generations, present and future. Solidarity between generations at all levels, in families, communities and nations is fundamental for sustainable development.
Now that we are entering the final stages of the open working group for sustainable development goals, we must ensure that this perspective is taken into account. Especially with a view to the upcoming negotiations of the Post-2015 Agenda.
Children and young people deserve and need our special attention. Every child should be able to grow up in a peaceful and stable society, free from violence, exploitation and fear. Access to education, health, nutrition and water and sanitation – just to name a few – are essential for a healthy, productive and fulfilled life. We also owe it to our children to protect our natural resources and biodiversity. This is only possible if we change the way we live today and achieve low carbon economies, sustainable consumption and production patterns on a global level.
But young people also need access to vocational training and higher education. And they need, of course, decent jobs so that they can live independent lives and are not confined to poverty. The basis for this is sustainable, inclusive economic growth.
All this is required for today's children and young people but also for future generations. We can achieve these objectives with an ambitious Post-2015 Agenda.
Yet, we must not forget the positive fact that for various reasons people in most parts of the world live longer. Therefore, elderly people will make up a higher proportion of the world's population in the future.
Obviously, this is a challenge for health and care systems in many countries worldwide. Solidarity between generations is a major prerequisite for social cohesion and a foundation of formal public welfare and informal care systems. Demographic, social and economic changes require the adjustment of pensions, social security, health and long term care systems. All this needs to be factored into the Post-2015 Agenda.
On the other hand, the changing fabric of our societies is also an opportunity. Older generations offer wisdom, experience and valuable insights that we should harness. A society for all therefore has to provide older people with the opportunity to continue to contribute to society. In other words, older people need full access to and participation in the development process and also share its benefits.
I am convinced that this event today will give us valuable input how to achieve this goal. For my country it is very important that people of all ages equally benefit from the sustainable development goals.
Thank you very much"


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@Married_Man We will definitely look into trying to get the stickies to collapse (or take up less space). Can't promise, but we will definitely do our best!
@BBcue-Z Regarding the truncated posts, I tried to edit one of your posts, and it looked like the content had disappeared entirely. It might have something to do with the strange character set that was used? Were these posts originally written in Word or anything like that? What else was supposed to be in the post that you provided as an example?
In terms of search, thanks for looking into it, ScreamingChicken! I get a lot of results searching "bbcue," but searching "hamburger summer" had issues. We will definitely look into trying to get that working, and if not, see what options there might be to work around it.
Thanks for the patience, everyone!
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Watchful Waiting Versus Open Tension-free Repair of Inguinal Hernia in Asymptomatic or Minimally Symptomatic Men
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|Inguinal Hernia
|Procedure: watchful waiting or tension-free hernia repair
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Watchful Waiting Versus Open Tension-free Repair of Inguinal Hernia in Asymptomatic or Minimally Symptomatic Men
- Pain limiting usual activities at two years.
- Physical function (PCS) at two years.
- Complications
- patient-reported outcomes of pain, functional status, activity levels, and satisfaction with care.
- Cost effectiveness.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 1999
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2005
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
CONTEXT Many men with an inguinal hernia have minimal symptoms. Whether deferring operation is safe and a good option for some patients has not been assessed.
OBJECTIVE To compare pain and the Physical Component Score (PCS) of the SF-36 at two years in men with minimally symptomatic inguinal hernias randomized to watchful waiting (WW) or a standard tension-free hernia repair (TFR).
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS. Between January, 1999 and December, 2004 we conducted a multicenter trial of 720 men (364 WW, 356 TFR) who were followed for 2-4.5 years. Men were excluded with hernia pain interfering with activities; undetectable hernias; infection; American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status >3; recent difficulty in reducing the hernia.
INTERVENTIONS Men assigned to WW were followed at 6 months and annually and watched for hernia symptoms. Men assigned to operation received TFR, and were followed at 3 and 6 months, and annually.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria: men 18 years of age and older with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic inguinal hernias who give informed consent to be randomized.
Exclusion Criteria:Presence of pain limiting usual activities, difficulty in reducing hernia within last 6 weeks, undetectable hernias, local or systemic infection, ASA physical status >3, or participation in another clinical trial.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00263250
|United States, Illinois
|American College of Surgeons
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60610
|Study Director:
|Olga Jonasson, M.D.
|American College of Surgeons
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Creighton University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00263250 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01HS009860 ( U.S. AHRQ Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|December 6, 2005
|Last Updated:
|June 28, 2013
Keywords provided by Creighton University:
inguinal hernia
watchful waiting
tension-free hernia repair
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hernia, Inguinal
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Hernia, Abdominal
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 22, 2017


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1. A Tour of Economy Candy, the Best and Craziest Candy Store in NYC
2. Nothin' but Nuggets at the Nugget Spot
3. Steakcraft: Watch Marc Forgione Make a Porterhouse and Steak Tartare at American Cut
4. The Best (Mostly Cheap) Eats on St. Marks Place in the East Village
5. Our Favorite Food Costumes at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade
6. So This is What Real Vanilla Custard Tastes Like: White Cow Dairy
7. Ask the Critic: Where To Get Lunch Near Penn Station?
8. Is Mumbai Xpress NYC's Best Chaat House?
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There's so much going on in Talk and the comments week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week.
A Sandwich a Day: Hate Beak from Kuma's Corner
"Kuma's is soooo bad"—illone
"@illone - You misspelled 'good'"—GretchinF
How do y'all stay thin?
"I stay thin by only looking at myself through funhouse type mirrors."— ESNY1077
"I tend to taste many things, but rarely finish a whole dish. That's why I love Chinese food served family style! And then take the leftovers home for another day."— lilnek069
Under the Weather
"There's a garlic soup on epicurious that will kill every bug in your system and keep folks far away so they won't give you more of their nasty germs.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Roasted-Garlic-Soup-with-Parmesan-Cheese-100669"— metaphora
Fictional Animals Eating Human's Food...
"You sound like the sort of person who would keep a rabbit from his Trix."— FatBaztard
Recipe pet peeves
"Not including the volume amount of a vegetable (ie: 1/2 an onion or 3 carrots). I'm a pretty savvy cook but it's irritating when I start chopping and think 'that's way too much' or 'that's not nearly enough'." — jujyfruit
what do you have too many of in the kitchen?
"Knives. They're all great knives, but I have a few favorites. (I'm sure Jolie and Pitt feel the same way about their kids).
Also, saute/fry pans; tons. But again, I use a select two."— Mr. Nick
New smoker...gift ideas?
"An ash tray. Its nice when people adopt older troubled kids, or is it a new spouse? Either way lay off the chips or they will get fat, especially if you're smoking in Washington or Colorado."— Meat guy
"Lipitor."— jedd63


text: My dad, John Sr., attempted to join the U.S. Marines in 1943 when he was still 15 or 16. Like a lot of boys at that time, he lied about his age and I believe used his older brothers birth certificate to enlist. Some got away with it and no doubt the military did not scrutinize too closely as long as you appeared able to hold a rifle. Guess I have to give him credit for trying and he did make it through basic at Parris Island. Dad never spoke about it much but the Corp. either finally realized the mistake or he did something stupid (most of us did at 16) to get himself tossed out...not sure which. I am trying to find some records but no luck so far.


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The Roundhouse isn't so much a maze as it is an MC Escher creation. The second floor is actually the ground floor. The office lists mounted next to the elevator actually describe a completely different building. You're also just as likely to catch your own tail in those looping passages as you are to find your legislator's office. (You could leave bread crumbs, but the lobbyists will eat them). Here are some tips for using the Internet to help you find your way through the sausage grinder of the Legislature.
1 Bill tracking: The New Mexico Legislature's Web site leaves a lot to be desired (Arizona, Texas and Colorado each offer streaming video of committee hearings), but it does allow constituents to track the process of specific bills through the law-making process. It's a meandering process straight out of Bill Keane's Family Circus and severely over-acronymed. One of the best ways to track bills is to register a "Bill Watcher" account, which will automatically update movements of bills on your watch list.
You can also spot-check specific bills using the "Bill Finder" system.
2 Pork: Aside from passing new laws, legislators also earn kudos from their constituents by bringing home millions of dollars for community projects. In 2008, for example, Santa Fe's delegation brought home more than $20 million in project money. These "capital outlay" projects are usually bundled in the "junior budget bill," but this year there probably won't be much with which to play. Once the session starts, information on requested projects will be posted online by the Legislative Council Service, so you can view projects by agency, county or legislative sponsor.
3 Public comment: With the exception of conference committees, all legislative hearings are open to members of the public, who have a right to be heard. (The right to petition the government is in the Constitution.) Practically speaking, letting everyone have a say is not always possible, especially when there are hundreds turning up to protest a measure. So, if you're turning up in a large group, you should a) designate in advance a few individuals to represent your interests before the committee and b) make sure everyone behaves themselves, because the committee chairman does have the authority to order people ejected from proceedings. You can also file your comments in writing with each committee for consideration. Committees often have regular, preset hours, which can be accessed online.
4 The guv: The Legislature can only do so much; once it passes a bill, it's up to the governor to make a final decision to sign it into law or veto it into oblivion. The governor's actions, often with an explanation of his decisions, can be tracked online. The governor usually holds open office hours with the public once the session is over in order to hear final arguments on whether he should pass or veto legislation.
5 SFR: The Santa Fe Reporter will cover the session both in print, online and on its new blog site, sfreeper.com. We encourage you to post comments on legislation and to alert us to important hearings and decisions and minor, overlooked amendments throughout the 60 days. Last year, SFR also launched a research resource, MuckrakersGuide.com, which can be helpful for tracking legislation, lobbyists and the influence of campaign dollars throughout the session.


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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is not consolidating its own budget but policy overall is appropriate, Olivier Blanchard, chief economist of the International Monetary Fund was quoted as saying on Thursday.
In an interview with German weekly Die Zeit published on Thursday, Blanchard added the United States of America was consolidating its budget too much budget at the moment.
"Germany is not saving. According to our calculations, the public deficit adjusted for economic swings, is rising slightly this year," Blanchard told Die Zeit in an interview.
"The debate isn't without a degree of irony. The Americans are telling the Germans to save less - but their own speed of consolidation is one of the highest in the world.
"The Germans are giving the Americans advice to save more - but their own fiscal policies are slanted towards expansion."
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I have created a simple table with 4 fields:
id (auto incr. int)prefix (varchar)startrange (int) (these are ranges and this is starting value of the range)endrange (int) ( and this is ending value of the range)
The data in it is like the following:
Now the above data has to be searched by a user:
So for eg. if user enters: 66121 it would show the record 3 coz i must search with and without prefix (i.e combine the prefix with start and end range).
But if user enters only: 121 then i have to show: 1, 2, 3, 6 (coz this is without prefix but comes in starting and ending range)
And user can also do: CL then it will show: 1 (I have taken care of this by stripping out the numbers from the user's search and then just searching the alphabets in prefix and show the matching results. So if user enters CL101 then i remove the 101 and just search prefix field for CL and show the results. This one is working fine.
The above 2 are not working for me which are i.e all data specified by user is numeric including or not including prefix...how to work it out ?
Your best bet is to separate the prefix and the number out into distinct variables in your application language of choice, so instead of sending 66121 to the database you have the ability to send 66 and 121 as separate parameters.
With this in mind, the code you'll need will be something like this.
Assume that $prefix is 66 and $integer is 121 for the purposes of this query. If the user hasn't specified either they will be passed in as an empty string and the integer 0, respectively.
FROM tableName
WHERE prefix = '$prefix'
OR ( startrange <= $integer
AND endrange >= $integer );
Does this help?
Sorry but i don't think that will work coz we don't know whether user has specified prefix or not: so it can be 66121 or 121 or it just can be 661 also coz that is also in range..and some users will know prefix but they don't knwo that its seperate coz its shwon to them as 1 single number. Its upto us to do a search with and without prefix.
I think running 2 queries will do the job...i.e if user has specified 66121 (which inlcudes 66 as prefix and 121 as range):
1st query: search just ranges (without prefix): select * from tablename WHERE 66121 >= startrange AND 66121 <= endrange;
2nd query: search prefix combined with range: i don't know how to combine 2 fields and then do searchselect * from tablename where 66121 >= prefix + startrange AND 66121 <= prefix + endrange;
Maybe this is how it will work ? Any suggestions on how to combine and compare ?
Ah, gotcha. Sorry about that. Try this query for size instead...
FROM tableName
WHERE ( prefix = '$prefix'
AND startrange <= $integer
AND endrange >= $integer )
OR ( LENGTH('$prefix') = 0
AND startrange <= $integer
AND endrange >= $integer )
OR ( prefix = '$prefix'
AND $integer = 0 );
Thanks for trying but i must say: that we don't know whether user has specified prefix or not. So we cannot split the value specified by user. Instead we must combine our data (prefix and ranges) and then compare it with user's value. How to do that ?
Oh right, now I'm with you. Sorry, it's been a long day today.
I'm going to have a think about this and get back to you later if I come up with any ideas. Unless someone else can offer any help of course.
I think i have done it using CONCAT. Now what i have done is:
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE
66121 >= startrange AND 66121 <= endrange OR
66121 >= CONCAT(prefix, startrange) AND 66121 <= CONCAT(prefix, endrange);
This seems to be working great!
Try that with a non-numeric prefix and let me know if it still works
As said in my first post: If user enters alphanumeric value eg. CL101 then i remove the 101 and just search prefix field for CL and show the results. This one is working fine and my query is like:
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE prefix LIKE '%CL%';


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DALE Steyn has been laid low by food poisoning as South Africa's fast bowlers rouse themselves for a more sustained barrage of short-pitched bowling at Australian captain Michael Clarke.
It might seem a desperate tactic to disrupt Clarke's supreme batting form after his unbeaten 259 in Brisbane, but all four Proteas pacemen caused him some uncomfortable moments with bouncers at the Gabba. Clarke built his innings on an array of sublime drives and feasted on anything wide, as the quicks failed to exploit his occasional awkwardness ducking or swaying away from the short balls. ''Any batsman struggles with the short ball so we'll come up with game plans and start working on those sort of things. But that is the plan, to always use the short ball. We've got two an over, so why not use it? The thing is to use it in a clever way and go from there,'' said Morne Morkel, whose towering height makes his bouncer a dangerous weapon.
He was South Africa's best bowler in the drawn Brisbane Test, and hopes to benefit from the uneven bounce in Adelaide.
''We need to create more pressure and stop him [Clarke] from rotating the strike, that will be the key,'' Morkel said.
Steyn was floored by a gastric illness on Sunday night and although he attended training on Monday, he was restricted to light duties, and did not bowl.
A spokeswoman for the Proteas said the world's best paceman was not in doubt for the Adelaide Test, starting on Thursday. ''He ate something bad,'' the spokeswoman said. ''It's not a serious concern but he has been told to take it easy.''
Morkel said South Africa's fancied quicks would have to lift their game to protect the nation's No. 1 ranking.
Not for the first time in his career, he put his foot in it at the Gabba, a front-foot no-ball costing him the wicket of Ed Cowan on the way to a maiden Test century.
''If my foot was behind the line … it would have been a different story,'' said Morkel, whose front foot has cost him a wicket on half-a-dozen occasions in his career.
''It's a bitter pill to swallow, especially as you know the quality of the batsmen. You don't want to give the guys that extra chance. It's a matter of getting over it and trying to get on with the job.
''As a fast bowler, I back myself. If I can get them out once I can do it twice, so I just need to let it go and really focus on the next ball … at times, I'm good with my foot. I don't know if it's my long leg or big foot, but I'm at times tight on that front line. All jokes aside, it's definitely something I'm working on very hard and hopefully it can go well in the next Test.''
The presence of a specialist spinner in Adelaide, where Imran Tahir is expected to replace fourth seamer Rory Kleinveldt, will ease the pressure on the South African quicks.
''Obviously the No. 1 spot is crucial for us, so we're not going to let it go that easily,'' Morkel said.
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RUNNERS are being reminded the deadline for entries into this year's Acorns Triple Run is approaching fast.
Fundraisers wanting to take part must apply by this Wednesday (June 18).
So far more than 1,000 participants have signed up for the event which is taking place Sunday, June 22.
It is being held at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern to raise funds for Acorns Children's Hospice.
The event consists of three courses, the 1kmfun run, the 5km woodland trail and the Malvern half marathon.
Shujea Khatun, Acorns major events officer, said: "So far 1,050 people have signed up to take part in the Acorns Triple Run. We're really pleased with the numbers but we're holding a final push to sign up more participants.
"Acorns Children's Hospice doesn't charge families for making use of its services, regardless of the ever increasing costs involved. We rely heavily on public fundraising and voluntary donations from events such as this provide us with the majority of the funding we need to operate."
Anyone wishing to take part in this year's run should visit acorns.org.uk/triplerun or call 0844 984 0405.


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"How could a journey to Mars relate to butterflies?" The answer to this question comes from the scientists who discovered the aerodynamic talent of the butterflies.
A recent study revealed the outstanding aerodynamic talent of the butterflies that are known with their splendid motives. Dr. Adrian L.R. Thomas at Oxford University, who has been studying about the aerodynamics of the insect flight for 12 years, developed a particular wind tunnel in order to watch how the wings interact with air during the flight. The tunnel, that took 3 years to complete, is used to observe the flaps of a butterfly flying towards an artificial flower. While flapping towards the artificial flower, a colorful smoke is released towards its wings. By evaluating the shapes formed from the mixture of colorful smoke and the movement of flapping; it is determined how the wings interact with air. Meanwhile, a high speed digital camera records the movement of flapping.
Using this tunnel, Dr. Thomas and his assistant Dr. Robert Srygley observed the butterflies known as the Red Admiral, belonging to Vanessa Atalanta species. When they watched the recordings of the butterfly, they were astonished by the aerodynamic talent of the insect. Scientists, who compared the smoke shapes and the movement of flapping, indicate that the butterfly adjusts itself easily to changeable air currents with no extra energy lost. Accordingly, butterflies are so talented at dealing with air currents that they are able to flap their wings in 6 different ways as well as rotating them. Due to the particular movement they performed via their wings, mini whirlwinds are formed in the air – that will enable them to have extra lifting force. Thomas and Syrgley whose research results were published in Nature magazine say the following: "Butterfly flapping is not a random and undetermined wandering. These movements came from a talented usage of a wide range of aerodynamic mechanisms." (www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/Nature/2566092.stm)
The movement of a butterfly in air is likened to the movements performed by acrobatics pilots. Dr. Thomas indicates that butterflies show no signs of exhaustion while doing these movements. Similar to that of a horse that can easily shift from walking into running or from running to a full gallop; butterflies can perform a flight style as they wish.
Beside the particular structure of the wings, the neural system controlling the movement of wings has also an important role for butterfly flight. The system that determines the speed and direction of the wings is compared to the electronic system on planes. Yet, scientists are incapable of understanding how the butterfly is able to perform these complex movements only with 3000 neurons. The control system of the butterfly is much more superior than that of modern planes. Here is a comment by Thomas published on Nature about the research:
"Man made flying vehicles are controlled by software instruction. However, designing a software is the result of a labor that takes years and in order to apply it, high-powered computer chips are required. Nevertheless, for instance in flies, flight control comes out of a complexity made of about 3,000 neurons in the fly's brain. For a fly, this means an operational capability less than that of a toaster; but in any way flies are swifter than planes equipped with super-speed digital electronics."
(Aerodynamics: Red admiral agility, Nature 420, 615 – 618 (2002); 12 December 2002)
Inspired By an Insect
It is known that insect flight is much more superior than that of planes. It is so much superior that miniature planes capable of flying like a fly is every engineer's dream. For instance, in the "journey to Mars" project – the dream of aeronautics and space industry- robots capable of landing in the planet and maneuvering effectively are required. Butterflies performing air acrobatic shows are inspiring scientist in developing these robots. Scientists from institutions such as NASA and Georgia Tech have been designing robots that can land on and move on Mars. These robots are inspired by insects are called "entomopter". (www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-plane-01a.html)
Despite today's technology, it is impossible to produce a plane having a wingspan less than 15 cm. A wing smaller than that is not big enough to establish a lifting force. Nevertheless, flies – despite that they are smaller- are able to perform perfect flight with their tiny wings. When the lifting force provided by the wings is compared in terms of unit area; it is seen that insect flight is 10 time more superior than that of airplanes. (HarunYahya, Biyomimetics)
15 cm planes are used for spying, by flying 100 meter distances as they are equipped with mini cameras. A company called AeroVironment in California in the United States has been producing these kind of planes for years. Matt Keennon, the project leader, wants to develop a robot-fly that can hang in the air, make sudden maneuvers, that can land on vertical surfaces, and that can be controlled by a remote controller. However, today's technology is completely inadequate in mimicking flies. It is Allah's will that the insects flight is so complex that it cannot be mimicked, and that movements performed by a tiny creature cannot be copied by man. Allah announces the miracle of the fly in the Holy Quran:
Mankind! an example has been made, so listen to it carefully. Those whom you call upon besides Allah are not even able to create a single fly, even if they were to join together to do it. And if a fly steals something from them, they cannot get it back. How feeble are both the seeker and the sought! (Surat al-Hajj, 73)


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A Jewish scholar or scientist says "Being a Jew is one thing, and an adherent of Judaism another." But statements in the Qur'an make it clear that Jews are adherents of Judaism. Because it speaks of their commandments, of their not abiding by the Torah. Isn't that right? Of their opposition to the Qur'an, of their martyring the prophet. Since it refers to their not obeying the commands of the Qur'an, they are adherents of Judaism. Allah speaks of a pagan, or polytheistic people. This person says, "There was a people known as the Jews, but they were a separate people." They were not a separate people. Allah speaks of the same people in the Qur'an. If He refers to them as disobeying the Torah, is there any other polytheistic people? Allah speaks of the people of Moses who should obey the Torah. But in some verses Almighty Allah refers to them as the people of Israel, and sometimes He refers to them as otherwise. Look at verse 163 of Surat al-A'raf, for instance:
"Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke the Sabbath...", the people being referred to here are the people of Israel. "...when their fish came to them near the surface on their Sabbath day but did not come on the days which were not their Sabbath...." The Jews being described here are the people of Israel. Look, "When they were insolent about what they had been forbidden to do, We said to them, 'Be apes, despised, cast out!'"
Allah does not say, "When they are not insolent." He says, "When they were insolent." They fail to understand this. They say, "They [the Jews] are all apes." But Allah says they are only that if they rebel against His commandments. Almighty Allah does not say they are apes if they obey His commands. So there is a provision applying to believers here.
Look, verse 46 of Surat an-Nisa', reads: "Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of words, saying, 'We hear and disobey,' and 'Listen without listening,' and 'Ra'ina!'..." They alter these words, the commands of the Torah. Pagans have nothing to do with the Torah so they are not a separate people. This also refers to the Jews. "Allah has cursed them for their disbelief", says Allah. He does not say they are cursed for killing people. He says they are cursed because of their disbelief. So if they do not engage in disbelief, they will not be cursed. Do Muslims also not go to hell because of disbelief? Are they not cursed? They also go to hell and are cursed. "Very few of them have faith." Allah is referring to the whole world. "Very few of them have faith." They can explain this to our brothers who do not know in this way. It is incompatible with the Qur'an to curse Jews en masse and say that they are all accursed apes. They are misinformed and do wrong. The verse is explicit, there is nothing about it to misunderstand.
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Most of your company's employees lose touch with each other and with your customers when they're not wired to the network. Whether they're at the airport, taking a child to the doctor, stuck in traffic, or waiting for an off-site meeting to start, they're outside the reach of corporate e-mail and collaboration systems.
The cost of a BlackBerry is easily justified for those workers who can't ever be without e-mail, and those who need such a device will use it religiously. Less dedicated users will not carry the BlackBerry everywhere they go or set it to alert them to the arrival of every new e-mail. However, almost all your workers already carry cellular phones, and they're always on. Why not use cheap, plentiful cell phones to send urgent e-mail to employees?
Using System Seven software from Seven Networks, Sprint and Cingular are helping companies do just that. For $10 per month, any Sprint or Cingular Web-enabled phone — just about every device the operators sell — can be used to securely access your company e-mail, directory, and scheduling services. Your employees and you don't have to install any server or client software, yet your company retains complete control over the provisioning and monitoring of each device. Seven Networks' solution isn't just a smart and affordable approach to mobile e-mail; it's a great model for subscription-based outsourced services.
Pay as you go
If you haven't heard of Seven Networks, don't be surprised. The company licenses its technology only to cellular operators and allows each operator to brand it as its own. In the United States, Sprint markets Seven's solution as PCS Business Connection Enterprise Edition. The service costs $10 per month, per phone. If you'd like to try Seven on a smaller scale, Sprint will add PCS Business Connection Personal Edition to any phone for just $5 per month. Cingular's Xpress Mail Network Edition is virtually identical to Sprint's Enterprise Edition service and carries the same monthly fee.
The setup is easy because all the server infrastructure is hosted by the operator. The subscribing company arranges a secure connection (typically using VPN, but other options exist) from its existing Exchange or Domino mail server to the cellular provider's operations center. The operator's staff, trained by Seven, guides IT through the process.
Once the link is activated, the operator provides the subscribing company with access to System Seven's Web-based provisioning and reporting console. To be added to the messaging system, a user's mobile device must have a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) browser and be set up with a rate plan that includes Internet access. The System Seven console lets a company's IT administrator add and remove users, and change their access rights.
Sprint's PCS Business Connection, Personal Edition (Cingular doesn't yet offer a comparable service) installs gateway software on an individual user's desktop PC. The gateway creates a secure tunnel through the company's firewall to Sprint's operations center. The Seven gateway accesses Notes or Exchange from the desktop and relays the data to the mobile user. Each desktop must be left on and Personal Edition connections can't be centrally managed.
The user's perspective
The typical user of Sprint's PCS Business Connection service probably carries a phone with a numeric keypad and a small monochrome dot-matrix display. To read e-mail, view contact information, or check an appointment, the user first launches the phone's WAP browser. The contents of the phone's WAP home page are set by the operator, so when PCS Business Connection is available, it appears as a home page option.
If a device hasn't previously made a Business Connection link, the Seven software authenticates the user. It then creates an AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption key that is known only to the System Seven software and the device. AES is used on all data; at no point in its transmission is a message unprotected.
If the service is configured for it, a new incoming e-mail will trigger an SMS (short message service) alert to a user's device. An SMS alert is generally received within a few seconds of sending. On ordinary phones, the alert will instruct the user to use WAP to pick up her new e-mail. On Palm-enabled phones, users have the option of running Seven's rich client. A Handspring Treo 300 with Sprint's PCS Business Connection receives new messages as soon as they hit the server. Seven's Handspring client intercepts the SMS alerts and automatically grabs the incoming mail. Seven plans to offer similar clients for other devices. Seven alluded to Pocket PC, Symbian, and J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition, a feature of many smart phones) versions of the rich client, saying that Seven's design makes it easy to adapt to new platforms.
Whether the user makes use of the WAP interface or the rich client, communication with the subscribing company's back-end servers takes place in real time. When a user deletes a message from his phone, it is immediately deleted from that user's Notes or Exchange mailbox. There is no intermediate cache, so all devices stay in sync with collaboration servers as long as they're on the air.
Frequent users will undoubtedly prefer Seven's rich client to the WAP interface. Cellular data networks impose lengthy round-trip delays, and depending on the strength of the signal, disconnections, refused connections, and lost data may be common. RIM masks these limitations with its custom client software. An interactive WAP session with a remote server makes the shortcomings of cellular data networks painfully clear. It's also not much fun to read long text messages on a tiny screen. Devices such as the Handspring Treo have larger, more readable displays, but like the BlackBerry, the Treo costs far more than a basic digital cell phone.
Operators will address problems with cellular data networks as they become more popular (and therefore more profitable). Device manufacturers are already building larger, sharper, higher-resolution displays into phones. Even though adoption in the U.S. market lags other parts of the world, text messaging will eventually be as important to mobile users as voice calls.
Seven's architecture is designed to take advantage of improvements to networks and devices. Companies that use System Seven-based services don't have to buy software upgrades or change equipment as the solution evolves. Whenever Seven updates its technology, operators will pick it up, and subscribers will reap the benefits immediately. That is probably the best argument in favor of Seven Networks' approach to mobile messaging.
Small phone displays and flaky cellular data networks present some problems, but operators and manufacturers are addressing them. Outsourcing mobile messaging to cellular operators makes a lot of sense, and as technology improves, Sprint and Cingular enterprise messaging subscribers will benefit.


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Technology Commercialization
Sharing our Discoveries With the World
Taking a discovery from the lab and getting it to a place where it can help people requires a lot of work. UC Riverside maintains an active patenting and patent licensing program through Research and Economic Development's Technology Commercialization program, ensuring that the results of our research are made available for the public's use and benefit.
UCR has had many remarkable research success . Our inventions have run the gamut from research in plant varieties, plant genomics, biomedical sciences, materials science and engineering.
The UC system has used patents and licensing for more than 40 years to promote the development of research while also preventing that emerging research from straying outside the inventor's control.
The Process of Transitioning to Market
Transitioning a product or technology from the lab to the marketplace involves several steps, all of which are designed to protect the rights of the person or persons whose breakthroughs will be in great demand. These steps include:
- Publication – Proper publication and disclosure of an invention is crucial to ensuring patent rights to the invention, both domestically and abroad.
- Reporting – University policy calls for disclosure of all inventions for which a patent could conceivably be necessary.
- Evaluations – The university will help an inventor determine whether an invention is likely patentable, what its commercial potential may be and how much it likely will cost to protect the invention with patents in the U.S. and abroad.
- Patent applications – The University Licensing Office coordinates the process of seeking a patent. The inventor works closely with a patent attorney to complete the process and answer questions from a U.S. patent examiner.
The process can take two years, but it is the safest way to protect an invention for the benefit of the inventor and the university.


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Get Me Outta Here!
18 creative tips to drop your soul sucking job and find work you love
de Suzannah Scully
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You want to be happy in your job. You know that you have a lot to offer the world but just don't know in what capacity. You are ready to start a career and not just another job.
But now you are burnt out, stagnant and in a soul-sucking job with golden handcuffs that are burning your skin but you don't know where the key is to get them off.
This book gives you creative tips to overcome your fears and discover work you love to do.
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Suzannah Scully's mission is to inspire others to discover and follow their passion. She is a CPCC certified career coach who believes that what you do should reflect who you are. Suzannah challenges, motivates and holds her clients accountable to make positive changes in their lives and career. Suzannah graduated from UCLA and spent almost ten years in the corporate world in both design and merchandising for Gap, Inc. and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and later became the director of marketing for a major wine company. While of these jobs sounded great, she found herself unhappy in each one. She finally went to see a life coach herself and discovered that what she loved most was helping others discover and follow their passion. When Suzannah is not working with her clients, she loves being outdoors playing with her son, husband and dog, practicing yoga, dancing, cooking and discussing theories about the show LOST.
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103071 Working with Suzannah was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Breaking out of a job that's not your dream job is tough, but making it to the other side is worth it. You'll find you worried about the wrong things, and underestimated how happy you could be once you finally started truly following your passion and doing what you were meant to be doing. Suzannah has the tools to help you get there.


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REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The jury trial for the man charged with a triple murder in Redford Township begins Monday.
Joshua Manners, 23, is accused of killing Shawn Dunlap, Darrell Bulock and Bryant Jones.
The victims were found shot to death last April in Dunlap's home.
Manners is charged with three counts of murder.
He is suspected of having some type of business relationship with the victims.
He faces life in prison if convicted.
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She was talented, witty, a theatre and film critic, an aspiring chef and stage performer; she was always "Technicolor". She taught us how to live and, sadly, also how to die. Our daughter, Heidi, died in February after 2 ½ years of struggling with leukemia. She was 21. We learned so much about ourselves and how many of the attitudes within America do not support those who are grieving.
Burying one's child is "out of order". There is no preparation for dealing with such a loss. My wife and I have been blessed with three other daughters, their wonderful husbands and extended family who grieve as deeply as we do. But we have observed the difficulties others have had relating to us. Why do Americans find crying so difficult? Why do we say that someone is "doing well" during the grieving process if we don't see him/her crying? Crying is essential. We must purge our hearts of the grief. A number of people have apologized for crying in our presence. I have always told them that it's a comfort to me that they cry. It shows they care. Another difficulty we experienced occurred when people would say: "If there is anything I can do, just call." This well-intentioned sentiment is not really helpful. During Heidi's struggle we were too tired to think about what others could do for us. Although they were showing us their concern, it's really better to be specific: "Do you want me to do …?" Or just bring food over!
Too many people feel awkward because they don't know what to say or do. There is NOTHING that can be said that takes away the pain. There are no proper words; there are no great insights. What is important is that the other person comes and is willing to listen. Americans, especially men, are preoccupied with "fixing" things and making a situation better. A death can never be fixed, and the grief is not going to be made better by anything someone is going to say. Ultimately each person has to journey through grief alone and come to terms with all that it means. Americans are "cussedly" independent, but we are ill-equipped to travel alone and sit quietly and patiently with our thoughts, prayers, and sadness. So we are not prepared for these journeys – sometimes we may not even know how to begin. Friends should never hesitate to call or visit, and shouldn't be afraid of "bothering" someone who is grieving. Of course, we need some space, but we do not need to be avoided because "you" are uncomfortable. Too many of Heidi's friends failed to see her when she was alive because they were uncomfortable or did not know how to deal with her struggle. Caring for someone else means that we have to "get over" our own feelings of inadequacy or discomfort – "it" is not about us. "It" is about the person who needs our care.
Americans tend to avoid talking about someone who has died. Those of us who are grieving have constant pain. One of the best therapies for us is to talk about our loved one. We have an insatiable need to talk about Heidi and keep her spirit alive. People believe that they are adding to our pain if they talk about her. This attitude does not help. If you care about someone else who has lost a child, encourage him/her to talk about the child, even if you are uncomfortable. Remember, pain will always be uncomfortable, and a true friend will be willing to share that discomfort. The best gifts that anyone can give are a comforting shoulder and a willingness to listen. Our hearts will be restored with love. It will take time and patience to find joy again.
Charlie Schmidtke, Associate Professor at Canisius College – lives in Town of Tonawanda, NY.
Please--- don't ask me if I'm over it yet, I'll never be "over it."
Please--- don't tell me he/she's in a better place. He/she isn't here.
Please--- don't say "at least he/she isn't suffering." I haven't come to terms with why he/she had to suffer at all.
Please---don't tell me you know how I feel, unless you have lost a child.
Please--- don't tell me to get on with my life. I'm still here, you'll notice.
Please--- don't ask me if I feel better. Bereavement isn't a condition that "clears up."
Please--- don't tell me "God never makes a mistake." You mean he did this on purpose?
Please--- don't tell me "at least you had him/her for 'so many' years." What year would you choose for your son/daughter to die?
Please--- don't tell me God never gives you more than you can bear – who decides how much any person can bear?
Please--- just say you are sorry.
Please--- just say you remember him/her if you do.
Please--- just let me talk if I want to.
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Gold Coast co-captain Greg Bird is adamant the Titans have the talent to succeed in the NRL.
But can prime coaching target Neil Henry be convinced?
Following foundation coach John Cartwright's announcement on Tuesday that he is stepping down after eight years at the helm, assistant coach Henry has quickly emerged as the favourite to be his successor.
Henry will lead the club in a caretaker role until the season's end following Cartwright's last match in charge this Monday night against the Sydney Roosters.
The ex-North Queensland mentor has impressed Titans executives and players since his arrival last year and it's believed the club's board will table a permanent coaching offer within a fortnight.
But with the club apparently unable to use its entire salary cap allocation due to financial constraints and other NRL teams such as St George Illawarra reportedly interested in Henry's services, whether he will accept the Titans' offer is debatable.
Cartwright conceded coaching the Titans came with unique challenges.
"There's a lot of clubs with a lot of resources and cash and they're making it very hard to compete with," Cartwright said.
"We're not like that and probably never going to be like that."
Bird believes the club's off-field woes shouldn't stop them being an attractive prospect for any coach.
He says this year's poor form has more to do with injuries and bad luck than any lack of ability within the playing group.
"We've had deficiencies this year in certain positions," Bird said.
"We've had a lot of injuries in the halves and that's definitely made our venture through the season pretty tough. Losing both your No.1 halves and then losing your reserve half, having to throw centres, back-rowers and all sorts in there, has made it difficult.
"We've got great quality back-rowers; great quality forwards; great quality outside backs. I don't think we can use that as an excuse that we can't keep up with the other teams."
After coming within a game of the 2010 grand final, the Titans have never fully recovered from multi-million dollar legal disputes over a failed centre of excellence which reportedly left the club $25 million in debt.
Since then, the club has finished dead last in 2011 and failed to return to the finals, with a top-eight finish in 2014 appearing increasingly unlikely.
Crowds are also dropping, with this year's average of 13,382 the lowest in the club's existence and attendances dropping every year since a peak average of 21,618 in 2008.
Gold Coast rugby league identity Chris Close is among those claiming the Titans' issues hindered Cartwright's ability to do his job.
"Sadly, the club's had some real turmoil over the last four or five years and there's no doubt in my mind that has affected Johnny's opportunity to reach the full potential of the club and also of his own coaching career," Close told NRL.com.
If Henry can be sold on taking up the Gold Coast job permanently, Titans forward Nate Myles would clearly be supportive, saying the 53-year-old has been impressive since joining the club.
"He's definitely created a bit of accountability around the group," Myles said.
"He's honest. He's always pretty spot on and the players receive that pretty good.
"He's been an asset for us. I obviously don't know whether it's going to go any further but he's been really good so far."
* The squad: Veteran back-rower Ashley Harrison has retired while Luke Bailey and Mark Minichiello's futures are far from certain. Despite their age, all three leave a significant void in the club's forwards next year if they're not around
* The cash: Outgoing coach John Cartwright admits the club doesn't have the resources to match their rivals. It's hard to recruit top talent if you can't pay top wages
* The fans: Crowds are down at CBUS Super Stadium and have been declining for years. A community needs to be convinced
* The board: An ongoing internal review into the club means whoever gets appointed will need to agree with the board's plans
* The history: 2014 is looking like it'll be the fourth year without finals for the club. That record can't continue


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As father of three girls, Kansas rancher Derek Klingenberg is no stranger to Disney princess movies, including 2013's smash hit, "Frozen." Now he's taken the popular movie to the next level with a new parody of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"
Click here or the embedded video above to watch the parody.
Klingenberg made a name for himself with numerous other pro-agriculture parodies, including "What does the farmer say?" and "Feeding Cattle in the USA." Recently, in April, he incorporated dozens of videos and photos from fellow farmers and ranchers to turn Pharrell Williams' "Happy" into an ag dance party. His parody in February took on Pitbull and Ke$ha's "Timber," showing off his herd's twerking skills.


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There are 3 beds for 2 persons each, with 2 real beds on a mezzanine and a sofa bed in the lounge. The ceiling in the mezzanine of 1m93, the ceiling height of the mezzanine is 1m10.
At your disposal a few condiments, crockery, a flat screen TV, an internet connection, a Senseo coffee machine, mini dishwasher, a kitchen, an iron, a hair dryer, heating, sheets, and towels.
The studio is located in the "Capitol" of the downtown district. The apartment is located at 100 m from the place du Capitole, place central city around which revolve different shops, museums, theatres, restaurants, cafes, tourist office, shops and cultural sites.
In so far as public transport is concerned, there is a station of metro (line A - Capitol) 200 m from the building, as well as nearby velib stations. There is public parking, nearest is that of Capitol, the cheapest that Jean Jaurès details.
For car rental the better it is at the station to go which is 2 stops from the Capitol.
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Beautiful apartment very well located close to very good reception center
Bel appartement tres bien situé proche centre ville tres bon accueil
We had a wonderful holiday in Severines apartment. It was lovely to be in an old building but with such modern living. Severine was really helpful and friendly and the apartment had everything we needed. We had great fun changing the colours of the lighting. It was great being so close to the Capitole and we were able to walk everywhere. Found fantastic restaurants and cafes nearby and enjoyed going to the numerous street markets nearby. What a wonderful city and a great place to explore it from.
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Severine fue muy atenta. Nos retrasamos un poco pero no hubo problema. Te ofrece información de todo tipo sobre Toulouse. El alojamiento es ideal para una estancia corta como la nuestra, muy bien situado y en zona tranquila.
Thank you, dear Severine! We had a beautiful time in Toulouse and in your cozy, elegant flat. TV, a modern bathroom, cozy bed, free coffee. It was great!
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This article was published 25/12/2012 (1699 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
American and British banks, one after another, have been engulfed by scandal this year, leaving Canadians to admire the probity of this country's banks -- where nothing is ever found amiss.
HSBC, the venerable Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., admitted this month to U.S. authorities that it helped Mexican drug lords launder $881 million in drug-trade profits. The bank agreed to pay $1.92 billion in fines and improve its internal controls in relation to drug-money laundering, sanctions-busting and other shady dealings.
"We accept responsibility for our past mistakes. We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again. The HSBC of today is a fundamentally different organization from the one that made those mistakes," HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver said.
Meanwhile in London, three people, including a former trader at Union des Banques Suisses (UBS) and Citigroup, were arrested Dec. 13 in connection with an official investigation of interest-rate manipulation.
Leading banks have for years been abusing the daily settings of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) by submitting fake estimates of the rates they would have to pay to borrow funds from other banks. By nudging the posted rate up or down, they can raise or lower their interest costs or the value of contracts they have issued. Barclays paid a hefty fine in June and its chief executive resigned over Libor manipulation. Investigators then turned their attention to the roles of Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS, which pleaded guilty to fraud last week and agreed to pay $1.5 billion in fines to Swiss, British and U.S. authorities on account of its Libor manipulation shenanigans.
The investigations, the fines, and the resignations help to reassure the public that regulatory agencies are hard at work, keeping the bankers honest. But regulators and investigators can only deal with what they know about. The vast laundering operations of HSBC came to light only because a federal prosecutor in Wheeling, West Virginia, received a tip that HSBC was helping a local doctor launder the proceeds of Medicare fraud. The prosecutor started digging and eventually a great many abuses came to light.
HSBC management admits it did terrible things back in the old days -- 2008 and before -- but contends it has reformed itself. The public has to decide how far to believe that. Why would executives of the leading banks be more trustworthy today than they were a few years ago?
In November, HSBC reported "underlying profit before taxes" (disregarding change in the value of its own debt) of $5 billion for the third quarter of 2012, up 125 per cent compared to the third quarter of 2011. This was after a U.S. Senate report had drawn attention to HSBC's large role in money laundering. Dishonesty and the reputation for dishonesty, it appears, are not necessarily bad for business and might even be helpful.
Confidence in banks might be encouraged if the public saw that banks are enforcing standards of integrity on their employees. Personal saintliness is probably no more common among Canadian bank officers than it is in the rest of mankind or at the top levels of Barclays, HSBC and UBS. But the Canadian banking tradition of quietly covering up scandals prevents the public from knowing what happens to dishonest bankers in Canada. We know something of the scope of the problem in the U.S. and the U.K. because the authorities there took a close look and announced what they found. We also know what corrective steps have been taken.
In Canada, the slate is surprisingly clean -- so clean that it is hard to know what to make of it. Canada's banks have never liked washing their dirty linen in public for fear of undermining public confidence. But the public is keenly aware, from U.S. and U.K. experience, that banks' linen occasionally is soiled. It would be heartening to see some washing being done -- not laundering of drug profits but enforcement of integrity within the banking world.


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Close your eyes and try to recreate the following smells. This exercise helps improve your ability to form concrete impressions from memory.
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2. Pumpkin pie
3. Wet dog
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Just 16% of Americans have a favorable opinion of hipsters, a new PPP poll on the much-discussed subculture shows. 42% have an unfavorable opinion of hipsters, and 43% aren't sure. Democrats (18% favorable, 34% unfav) are twice as likely as Republicans (9% fav, 48% unfav) to have a favorable opinion. Voters age 18-29 have a favorable opinion of them (43% fav-29% unfav), but very few voters over age 65 do (6% fav -37% unfav).
Just 10% of voters say they consider themselves to be hipsters – and almost all of those are younger voters. Half of all voters aged 18-29 consider themselves hipsters; every other age group is 5% or less.
14% of voters say they'd be more likely to vote for a hipster for political office – mostly independent voters. 12% of Democrats and 27% of independent voters say they'd be more likely to vote for a hipster, but just 2% of Republicans agreed. 98% of Republicans say they'd be less likely to vote for a hipster.
We asked voters whether they thought hipsters made a positive cultural contribution to society or whether they just "soullessly appropriate cultural tropes from the past for their own ironic amusement." 23% of voters said they made positive cultural contributions while nearly half – 46% – went with soulless cultural appropriation. Independents at 31% were most likely to say hipsters make a positive cultural contribution, while Republicans were least likely (15%) with Democrats in the middle (23%).
27% of voters said they thought hipsters should be subjected to a special tax for being so annoying, while 73% did not think so.About one in five voters (21%) said they thought Pabst Blue Ribbon, commonly associated with hipsters, was a good beer. Democrats (29%) were more likely than Republicans (23%) to think so, while independents (11%) were least likely.
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Management team
Walter D. Scully, CPA (industry since 1996)
Strategy and process
- A large-value focus: The fund focuses on large companies whose stocks are priced below their long-term potential, and where there may be a catalyst for positive change.
- Dividend growth: The fund places a distinct emphasis on companies that can grow their dividends and are able and willing to return cash to shareholders.
- A disciplined process: The portfolio manager invests using fundamental research and quantitative tools supported by strong risk controls in portfolio construction.
Manager commentary | Q2 2017
Safety trade lifts dividend payers
Portfolio Manager Darren Jaroch talks about the role of dividend-paying stocks in his strategy.
Current performance may be lower or higher than the quoted past performance, which cannot guarantee future results. Share price, principal value, and return will vary, and you may have a gain or loss when you sell your shares. To obtain the most recent month-end performance, visit putnam.com.
Performance assumes reinvestment of distributions and does not account for taxes. Returns before sales charge do not reflect the current maximum sales charges as indicated below. Had the sales charge been reflected, returns would be lower. Returns at public offering price (after sales charge) for class A and class M shares reflect the current maximum initial sales charges of 5.75% and 3.50% for equity funds and Putnam Absolute Return 500 Fund and 700 Fund, and 4.00% and 3.25% for income funds (1.00% and 0.75% for Putnam Floating Rate Income Fund, Putnam Absolute Return 100 Fund and 300 Fund, and Putnam Short-Term Municipal Income Fund), respectively. Class B share returns reflect the applicable contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC), which is 5% in the first year, declining to 1% in the sixth year, and is eliminated thereafter (except for Putnam Floating Rate Income Fund, Putnam Absolute Return 100 Fund and 300 Fund, and Putnam Short-Term Municipal Income Fund, which is 1% in the first year, declining to 0.5% in the second year, and is eliminated thereafter). Class C shares reflect a 1% CDSC the first year that is eliminated thereafter. Performance for class B, C, M, R, T1, and Y shares prior to their inception is derived from the historical performance of class A shares, adjusted for the applicable sales charge (or CDSC) and, except for class Y shares, the higher operating expenses for such shares (with the exception of Putnam Tax-Free High Yield Fund and Putnam AMT-Free Municipal Fund, which are based on the historical performance of class B shares). Class R5/R6 shares, available to qualified employee-benefit plans only, are sold without an initial sales charge and have no CDSC. Class Y shares are generally only available for corporate and institutional clients and have no initial sales charge. Performance for Class R5/R6 shares before their inception are derived from the historical performance of class Y shares, which have not been adjusted for the lower expenses; had they, returns would have been higher. Class A, M, and T1 shares of Putnam money market funds have no initial sales charge. For a portion of the period, some funds had expenses limitations or had been sold on a limited basis with limited assets and expenses, without which returns would be lower.
The Morningstar RatingTM for funds, or "star rating", is calculated for managed products (including mutual funds, variable annuity and variable life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and separate accounts) with at least a three-year history. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product's monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-, and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. The weights are: 100% three-year rating for 36-59 months of total returns, 60% five-year rating/40% three-year rating for 60-119 months of total returns, and 50% 10-year rating/30% five-year rating/20% three-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent three-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods.
The Russell 1000 Value Index is an unmanaged index of those companies in the large-cap Russell 1000 Index chosen for their value orientation. You cannot invest directly in an index.
Consider these risks before investing: Value stocks may fail to rebound, and the market may not favor value-style investing. Income provided by the fund may be reduced by changes in the dividend policies of, and the capital resources available at, the companies in which the fund invests. Stock prices may fall or fail to rise over time for several reasons, including general financial market conditions and factors related to a specific company or industry. You can lose money by investing in the fund.


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The next edition of "Police Report," the Baltimore County Police Department's cable TV program, runs through March.
The opening segment focuses on the department's recruitment efforts. Officers Shelly Knox and John Mitchell, of the Recruitment Unit, talk about career opportunities to become a Baltimore County police officer or cadet.
The topic of the second segment is human trafficking. Alicia McDowell, of the Araminta Freedom Initiative, discusses its impact on Baltimore County and our nation.
The program airs seven days a week on cable Channel 25, only in Baltimore County. The times are:
- Monday: 10:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.
- Tuesday: 9 a.m., 3:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
- Wednesday: 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
- Thursday: Noon, 4 p.m. and 10 p.m.
- Friday: 10 a.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.
- Saturday 11 a.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
- Sunday 11 a.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Police Report is also available online, to watch on your own computer, on your own schedule.


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I'll expand on this post with a specific example in a few days, but I wanted to get a shout out to Vladimir Kharlampidi for his new Swiper library.
It's a Carousel, it's an app-store slider, it's Windows Metro, all in one slick, performant package. It's new, it's FREE, and it just works.
There are some bugs and missing API calls ( .index() and .currentSlide() need to be fixed, and you absolutely need to get to the baseSlides when params.loop = true — I'll prob. submit the pull requests) so if you want to get programmatic you have to do a little bit of landscaping, but it's competitive with any other HTML slider out there, works 100% with touch, and it's fast.
Oh, and did I mention it's FREE?
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The firefighters at the "Happiest Place on Earth" don't appear to be very happy, as they battle with district leaders on a solution to increasing health insurance.
A number of the Reedy Creek firefighters, whose fire district handles most emergencies, injuries and fire threats at Walt Disney World, filled the room on Friday to debate the future of their insurance.
Previously, the firefighters had hashed out pay and picketing issues.
On Friday, the firefighters also said the hand-picked board isn't treating them fairly.
"Well the ethical fact here is the fact that these people are elected officials via an election but the election is not a true election ... they're given their property by Disney and voted on by Disney," said Tim Stromsnes, Reedy Creek Firefighters Union president.
When Local 6 questioned the district administrator, he said it was the most fair way and believed the right decision would be made.
No ruling has been made as of Friday afternoon. Check back for more information.
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Mumbai, Sep 17 (IANS) A Music Composers Lab, which will offer a unique opportunity to budding composers to interact with successful professionals in the field of music, will be launched during the 15th Mumbai Film Festival here in October.
While the fest will be held Oct 17-24, the Lab will be conducted at the Yash Raj Films Studio here Oct 21-23. It will provide a hub for like-minded emerging film composers to network with each other and share new skills in the realms of film scoring.
Six budding composers will attend the Mumbai Composers Lab and interact with professional composers. A team of music and film industry specialists will share their knowledge with them.
A two-day film scoring session will be followed by an interview and audience question and answer session with award-winning British composer Ilan Eshkeri and the Lab's creative advisors.
Ilan Eshkeri, best-known for his film scores of "47 Ronin", "Coriolanus", "Stardust", "The Young Victoria" and "Kick-Ass", as well as his collaborations with Coldplay, Annie Lennox and Take That, will lead the creative team of composers.
The Music Composers Lab will be held in the Yash Raj Film Studios. Applications for budding composers to take part in the workshop will open Tuesday.


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Casie Bazay holds a bachelor of science degree in education from Oklahoma State University. She taught middle school for ten years, but now is a nationally certified equine acupressure practitioner and freelance writer. She has owned Quarter Horses nearly her entire life and has participated in a variety of horse events including Western and English pleasure, trail riding, and speed events. She was a competitive barrel racer for many years and hopes to pursue the sport again soon.
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July 07, 2014
Researchers found that obesity levels rose significantly from 27% at winter's end to 35% during the summer. Read More
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The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee received the first copy of a book"President Pranab Mukherjee – A Statesman" on 2ndJuly 2017 from ________ at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The President expressed his gratitude to The Statesman for bringing out a photo essay on the 13th Presidency. He appreciated the wonderful photos taken by Shri Varun Joshi from The Statesman that feature in the photo essay. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi said that the photo essay was important from the historical perspective.
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The book "Indira Gandhi – A life in Nature", was launched by Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the Indira Gandhi Memorial in the presence of former ministers, bureaucrats and environmentalists who worked closely with her to frame some of country's landmarks wildlife and environment laws. Renowned mountaineer Capt Manmohan Singh Kohli recalled how Gandhi once told him "please call me as a daughter of the mountains". The book has been written by former Union minister Jairam Ramesh and it has been published by Simon & Schuster.
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Hello everyone. Let me start off by saying it's been quite some time since I've used backtrack (I think 3 was the last stable version I'd used) so I'm a bit behind. I was going to post this in the beginner's section, ut the sticky in that section indicated this kind of question should go here.
At this point I've tried this a few different times & ways, just reverting to a snapshot on my VM of a fresh install upon failure, but that's failing me, SO. . .
I've got a fresh install of BT5/Gnome. Metasploit works, things are nice. Of course metasploit is outdated, so I try to run msfupdate and it updates fine. I load msfconsole and try to use db_driver and it says it's an unknown command. That happened to me before, but from experience I knew that db_connect was still recognized. Tried that and I got "No Database Driver installed try gem install pg. Which of course I tried. That gave me an error saying it couldn't find libpq-fe.h. The file is there. Checked pg_config.bin which the ./configure said it was using & it lists INCLUDEDIR as /opt/framework3/postgresql/include/ and the file is in there. This makes no sense to me.
No I can't think of anything else. All help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.


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The 2010 British Fashion Awards just took place, and guess who won? Well, Burberry, for Digital Innovation; Mulberry, for Designer Brand; and — drumroll please — for Designer of the Year: Phoebe Philo for Celine. Oh, and Alexander McQueen, with that Lifetime Achievement thing. In other words, a large chunk of the major international brands that can be linked to the UK (and that advertise globally). Read more
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Damascus denies US report on clash with Syrian infiltrators to Iraq
A spokesman of the Syrian delegation to the Islamic States Summit in Kuala Lumpur denied on Wednesday reports about an infiltration to Iraq by some Syrian individuals.
According to SANA, the Syrian spokesman said that "these allegations are fabricated and it is not the first time such allegations are circulated."
These comments came following a US military report that several people were killed after having crossed the border and fired at an American helicopter.
The American announcement said that several people were killed by US troops late Tuesday after infiltrating Iraq from Syria and shooting at a US helicopter, forcing it to land but causing no US casualties.
"Soldiers engaged a small number of people who infiltrated from the border," a US spokesman said. "Some were killed, others detained," he said, adding that small arms and rocket-propelled grenades were seized. (Albawaba.com)
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- Syria denies reports about clash on Iraq border
- Clash on Syrian- Israeli border: Israel kills infiltrator, captures Syrian soldier; Two Palestinians dead in PA areas
- Syrian PM denies US allegations on Iraq
- Report: US drops "terrorist funding" charges against Syrian firm to avoid provoking Damascus
- Clashes reported 8 kms from Damascus


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Hey everybody
I was just wondering if anyone had any clues on how to turn a rub into a sauce.
I have my secret ingredients, and the rub goes on well, but when its all done and said, I always want more sauce. I got hooked on BBQ since ive been 6 or 7 and ive been a BBQ master ever since (or ide like to think so). If anyone has any idea how i might go about doing this that would be awesome!!! THANKS IN ADVANCE!


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Gentleman of the Road tour continued on Saturday as thousands were getting their party on at Francis Field.
As Mumford and Sons, the London-based folk band, was getting ready to take the stage Saturday evening, many who were inside Francis Field had one thing to say to Channel 4's Elizabeth Campbell: Water, water, water.
The clouds were out Saturday evening, which made people feel a little cooler, but it was still hot out there as lots of people were drinking alcohol, which can make you even more dehydrated.
St. Johns County Fire Rescue said they treated 70 patients Friday and transported 10. The majority of them were treated for dehydration or heat-related injuries.
Jeremy Robshaw with St. Johns County Fire Rescue said there were 85 patients treated on Satuday -- most treated and released back to the concert.
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Some advice from Fire Rescue is to continue drinking water all day, even if you don't feel thirsty.
Two men who said they were from Florida and are used to the heat said they deal with it another way.
"We're Floridians. We're born this way, no shirt, no shirt," said one of the men.
"Drinking a lot of water so far. Water, water, water, beer and water," the other man said.
"Lots of water, lots of water, and just keep drinking water all day," said Sarah Stokes. "Stay in the shade, drink water."
Besides the heat, business owners also spoke to Channel 4 about some of the available lots along U.S. 1 close to the concert.
Those business owners said there were hundreds, if not thousands more that were not being used on Saturday. They said it's the same along A1A and San Marco.
Earlier in the week, the city had encouraged people to ride their bikes and take the shuttle.
As the festival brought in tens of thousands of people, even folks from out of town, some of the people who live and work here just want concert-goers to know you just have to look, but you'll find what you need.
"You have the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park has several hundred spaces available. There's about 700 spaces still available," said John Fraser. "There are numerous small lots all around town and you can still find spaces. The prices range anywhere from $15 all the way up to $50. That depends on how close to the concert you get."
The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said they were not seeing a great deal of traffic issues.
When Mumford and Sons got done playing their hit song, "I will wait," the crowd cheered. The band was done playing around 10:30 p.m. and the last band of the night was Yacht Club DJ's.
A bug surprise Saturday night was John Fogerty. He filled in when the band fun. canceled because their lead singer had vocal issues.
Although one woman was excited for Fogerty, she said she was hoping for another rumor to be true.
"There were so many rumors and I thought Elton John was going to be here then I heard it's just John Fogerty, which is good too," she said.
St. Johns County Fire Rescue said an estimated 26,000 people were in attendance Saturday night. They treated 120 patients, 4 of those were transported to Flagler Hospital in stable condition.
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AS ENGLAND prepare to face Italy tomorrow evening the organisation responsible for sexual health services in Worcestershire has unveiled the first of its posters promoting safe sex during the World Cup.
With almost half a million people in England alone diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in 2013, and the highest rates reported among the under-25s, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is running a campaign during the tournament encouraging people to take precautions in the bedroom.
The first poster in a series of three, which features the light-hearted yet serious slogan 'Planning to score? If you're a player, wear a condom' was unveiled today.
For more information on sexual health visit www.playinitsafe.co.uk or follow @SHEducation on Twitter.