text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- As a person who doesn't mind surprises, it surprised me to learn that on Thursday a company I've never heard of is going to step into the earnings confessional and may surprise to the upside.MSC Industrial Direct ( MSM), together with its subsidiaries, operates as a direct marketer and distributor of various metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations, or MRO, products primarily in the United States. It offers nearly 600,000 stock-keeping units representing a range of MRO products, such as cutting tools, measuring instruments, tooling components, metalworking products, fasteners, flat stock, raw materials, abrasives, machinery hand and power tools, safety and janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies, materials handling products, power transmission components, and electrical supplies. The company sells its products through its master catalogs, specialty and promotional catalogs, brochures and the Internet to small, medium, and large companies in various sectors including durable and non-durable goods manufacturing, education, government, and health care. It's downright exciting to realize MSM is based right in the heart of what I call "the rebuilding gold mine of America," the region of the U.S. most impacted by Hurricane-Super Storm Sandy. MSC Industrial Direct was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., with an additional office in Southfield, Mich. Analysts have been underestimating companies like Alcoa ( AA), so why shouldn't it be possible they've done the same to a company like MSM? The stock has had a nice run-up after a nasty mid-year 2012 correction, as the chart below illustrates. The share price recovery has been especially encouraging to director David Sandler, who as of Dec. 27 owns 218,824 shares worth over $16,618,000. MSM's quarterly revenue-per-share growth is heading in the right direction as well. MSM data by YCharts


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Girls' Generation member Hyoyeon displayed both her fierce and elegant charms.
On May 4th, the most anticipated 'Dancing With The Stars' team of Hyoyeon and coach Kim Hyung Suk were the last to perform a tango dance to "Hotel California".
Hyoyeon who is fairly new to the show followed the lead of her male partner, looking ever so elegant and sexy as she moved.
Though she admitted that engaging in so much 'skinship' while dancing was a bit awkward, she did not let it show and the two put on a believable 'playing hard to get' performance.
Song Seung Hwan remarked, "I'm impressed that you found the time to rehearse the moves, despite being the busiest person in all of Korea. I think you only gave us a taste of what's to come, and I am looking forward to your next performance."
Alex Kim then added, "I think Latin dance suits you well, you danced the tango nicely. I am looking forward to next week."
Kim Joo Won also praised Hyoyeon saying, "We heard that you are the greatest girl group dancer. Thus, our expectations of you are extremely high."
Hyoyeon and her partner were given a score of '6' by each the three judges, earning a total of 18.
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Suspended in a haze of terror, humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction
Stephen King's sinister imagination and the miracle of 3-D sound transport you to a hot, lazy day in a sleepy all-American town -- where a sudden, violent storm leaves behind a mysterious mist that traps you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from your families and the world.
"The Mist" is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. "The Mist" has you in its grip, and this masterpiece of 3-D sound engineering surrounds you with horror so real that you'll be grabbing your own arm for reassurance. To one side -- and whipping around your chair, a slither of tentacles. Swooping down upon you, a rush of grotesque, prehistoric wings. In the impenetrable mist, hearing is seeing -- and believing. And what you're about to hear, you'll never forget.Learn more about Signet's paperback edition of The Mist.
Format: Audio CD
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 1
Published: 2nd October 2007
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
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Hemiarthroplasty or Internal Fixation for Displaced Femoral Neck Fractures - 5 Years Follow up
This study has been completed.
Ullevaal University Hospital
Norwegian Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation
The Research Council of Norway
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Oslo University Hospital ( Ullevaal University Hospital )
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 29, 2008
Last updated: October 22, 2014
Last verified: October 2014
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Detailed Description:
An estimated 1.6 million patients sustain a hip fracture every year, about half of these are intracapsular femoral neck fractures. A femoral neck fracture is a life changing event for any patient, and the risk of disability, increased dependence and death is substantial. The main treatment options for displaced femoral neck fractures are internal fixation and arthroplasty. It is established that there are more complications and reoperations after internal fixation, and better short term clinical results with arthroplasty, but knowledge about long term results is lacking.
|Femoral Neck Fractures
|Procedure: Bipolar hemiarthroplasty Procedure: Internal fixation
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Hemiarthroplasty or Internal Fixation for Displaced Femoral Neck Fractures - 5 Years Follow up
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Fractures Hip Injuries and DisordersU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Oslo University Hospital ( Ullevaal University Hospital ):
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Harris Hip Score [ Time Frame: 5-6 years ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Eq-5d [ Time Frame: 5-6 years ]
- Barthel Index [ Time Frame: 5-6 years ]
- Reoperations and complications [ Time Frame: 5-6 years ]
|Study Start Date:
|October 2002
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Internal fixation
Closed reduction and internal fixation with two parallel screws (Olmed)
Procedure: Internal fixation
Fluoroscopic Control. Percutaneous. FWB. Two parallel screws (Olmed)
Other Name: Olmed (DePuy)
Bipolar hemiarthroplasty
Hemiarthroplasty with Charnley/ Hastings prosthesis
Procedure: Bipolar hemiarthroplasty
Lateral approach. FWB.
Other Name: Charnley/Hastings
Detailed Description:
Patients were included from 2002-2004. Two years follow up was finished by 2006. Patients with displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures were included and randomized by means of closed numbered envelopes to operation groups:
- Two parallel screws (Olmed).
- Hemiarthroplasty with Charnley/ Hastings prosthesis.
A priori one would expect that there would be less morbidity and mortality with the less extensive and quicker operation with parallel screw and that a faster and better rehabilitation would be achieved with hemiarthroplasty.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|60 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Displaced femoral neck fracture
- Age 60 or above
- Able to walk (any aids allowed)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Anesthesiologically unfit for arthroplasty surgery
- Previous symptomatic hip pathology (i.e. arthritis)
- Pathological fracture
- Delay of more than 96 hours from injury to treatment
- Not living in hospital area
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00764153
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00764153
Sponsors and Collaborators
Ullevaal University Hospital
Norwegian Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation
The Research Council of Norway
|Study Chair:
|Jan Erik Madsen, MD PhD
|Orthopedic Center, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
More Information
Keywords provided by Oslo University Hospital ( Ullevaal University Hospital ):
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 18, 2017
Frihagen F, Nordsletten L, Madsen JE. Hemiarthroplasty or internal fixation for intracapsular displaced femoral neck fractures: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2007 Dec 15;335(7632):1251-4. Epub 2007 Dec 4.
Frihagen F, Grotle M, Madsen JE, Wyller TB, Mowinckel P, Nordsletten L. Outcome after femoral neck fractures: a comparison of Harris Hip Score, Eq-5d and Barthel Index. Injury. 2008 Oct;39(10):1147-56. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.03.027. Epub 2008 Jul 25.
|Responsible Party:
|Ullevaal University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00764153 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 29, 2008
|Last Updated:
|October 22, 2014
Keywords provided by Oslo University Hospital ( Ullevaal University Hospital ):
Displaced Femoral Neck Fractures
Quality of life
Internal Fixation
Activities of Daily Living
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Fractures, Bone
Femoral Neck Fractures
Wounds and Injuries
Hip Fractures
Femoral Fractures
Hip Injuries
Leg Injuries
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 18, 2017


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Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal
The Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme, 2013 (VCES, 2013) has been introduced by Finance Act, 2013 by the Union Government as a one-time measure to serve twin objectives – to encourage voluntary compliance of tax return filing and payment of Service Tax by granting immunity from interest and penal provisions. With the passage of Finance Bill, 2013, on 10th May, 2013, the provisions of VCES – 2013 have come into force. Accordingly, Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Rules, 2013 have also been notified w.e.f. 13 May, 2013 which prescribes rules, forms and procedure for implementation of the Scheme. The period for which a person may seek benefit under VCES, 2013 shall be of five years from 1st October, 2007 to 31st December, 2012.
The defaulters will be required to make a truthful declaration of all pending tax dues (from October1, 2007 to December 31, 2012) and pay at least half of that before December 31, 2013. The remaining half shall have to be paid by:
(a) June 30, 2014 without interest; or
(b) By December 31, 2014 with interest from July 1, 2014 onwards.
On compliance with all the requirements, the person will have immunity from interest, penalties and other proceedings. The monetary penalties and interest may otherwise go upto three times the tax amount.
Though VCES, 2013 is a beneficial scheme from assessee's point of view, it prohibits certain categories of assessees for availing the same. VCES, 2013 cannot be availed –
If any person makes a declaration under the scheme, despite aforementioned disqualifications, such a declaration is liable to be rejected.
The Cost – Benefit Equation
VCES 2013 is applicable only to registered service tax assessees. Those who are already registered under service tax can avail of the benefit of VCES, 2013. However, any person who wants to avail VCES, 2013 and is not registered for service tax can do so by first taking registration under Rule 4 of Service Tax Rules, 1994 and then make a declaration under VCES, 2013.
While Form VCES – 1 is to be used for making declaration under the scheme, declarant may note that declaration is in duplicate and is of tax dues. VCES-1 is in two parts- declaration and verification duly signed and dated by the declarant.
To conclude, it may be said that while the VCES, 2013 is a welcome move from the view point of both, exchequer and the Service Tax assessees, yet it is not forward looking and suffers from certain distortions. The main draw-back is that the scheme allows the core defaulters, even the non-registered ones an opportunity to pay Service Tax without any interest, penalties and prosecution but it restricts those who are genuine defaulters in one way or the other. Just because someone filed the return but could not pay Service Tax, he can not avail of this scheme. Those who have not even filed the return are better off.
CBEC has recently issued FAQs on the VCES, 2013 which may be referred to for clarifications in implementation of the scheme.


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Guwahati, Aug. 8: Kamrup district police today submitted a comprehensive status report regarding investigation into student leader Arup Kalitas murder case, in Gauhati High Court for the next hearing on Wednesday.
A police officer at Chaygaon in Kamrup district, who is associated with investigation into the case, told The Telegraph: We submitted the fresh detailed status report of the case in the high court, as instructed by it.
Kalita, a leader of the All Assam Non-Tribal Students Union, was missing since August 25 last year when he went to the forest depot at Kukurmara under West Kamrup forest division to provide information about timber smuggling. He is believed to have been killed by timber smugglers with the help of some forest officials.
Although the police did not divulge details of the fresh report, sources said it contained details about the actions taken so far and the development that took place after the recovery of human skeletal remains, from a pond, which Kalitas family identified as his. The report also included details about arrests of two forest guards from Kukurmara in connection with the case.
The comprehensive status report was submitted after the court last month found that the earlier status report furnished by the police was prepared in a casual manner and directed the Kamrup superintendent of police to file a comprehensive status report by Monday. The court order came after Kalitas mother had filed a writ petition in the court in October last year. The police on Saturday arrested two forest guards Tapan Das and Adit Barman in connection with the case. Three more persons involved in the crime were absconding.


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In front of the second lowest crowd in the 5-year history of the Stadium of Light, 14,550, a figure that reflected both clubs' appetite for the FA Cup this season, Sunderland took 99 minutes to break down an unambitious Bolton Wanderers last night.
Stubborn Bolton defence and the appalling finishing of Sunderland's striker Kevin Kyle took the game into extra time but, when Kyle failed to control a cross from Emerson Thome, the ball ran to Julio Arca and he drilled it past Bolton's veteran keeper Kevin Poole.
Less than a minute later Michael Proctor turned Ivan Campo inside out to ensure that it is Sunderland who travel to Blackburn Rovers in the fourth round.
Bolton are thus denied a Lancashire derby and they can blame only themselves. Not until the 67th minute of normal time did Thomas Sorensen make a meaningful save and Bolton would have been buried long before then had Kyle possessed any kind of goal instinct. The lumbering forward's miss in the 90th minute was particularly special. Luckily for him others compensated.
Two clubs haunted by the thought of Premiership relegation sent out shadow teams. Bolton could be said to have taken the match and the competition more seriously, given the appearance of Kevin Nolan, Youri Djorkaeff and Campo, though Campo's early contributions were decidedly casual.
His manager Sam Allardyce certainly thought so, lambasting the Spaniard for two dalliances that almost led to breakthroughs for Kyle. With neither Kevin Phillips nor Tore Andre Flo even on the bench, Kyle partnered Marcus Stewart up front.
But it was the midfield where the sparse Sunderland fans found most interest. Peter Reid signed the Argentinian Nicolas Medina for £3.5m 18 months ago. That was a time when Sunderland were a club buoyed and young men like Medina were seen as part of an adventurous future. Medina, though, disappeared with Sunderland's optimism. This was his first senior start. He will be 21 next month.
Delicate of frame, Medina found himself opposite Stig Tofting. Perhaps as a consequence it was another Sunderland debutant, Sean Thornton, who made the greater initial impression. Signed by Reid from Tranmere Rovers for £200,000 last summer, he provided neat touches and an inswinging third-minute corner that Kyle headed wide.
That was the first of several home chances that were racked up in the opening half- hour. Yet Poole in the Bolton goal made only one serious save in that period, the 39-year-old tipping away a Kyle blast from 20 yards.
Sorensen was less busy but was fortunate that a ninth-minute fumble of a Djorkaeff corner bounced a couple of inches over the bar. Other than that Wanderers offered nothing going forward and were lucky that Kyle kept finding Poole. In first-half injury-time, unmarked seven yards out, he headed straight at Poole.
To say the game could have done with a goal then is understatement. Bolton for a start would have been provoked into reaction.
The visitors did make a change at half-time, Nolan moving up front in place of the ineffective Delroy Facey. Facey, though, would have surely done better when a Jeff Smith cross came off Emerson Thome and fell to Nolan. One loose moment of control and the ball was gone and Sunderland resumed their attacking.
It was, as before, high on energy, low on end product. Thornton on the right and Arca on the left did what they could to stimulate their team-mates but Bolton, for all their inability to create, were proving obdurate in defence.


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Beirut, Lebanon: Safe and sound in Middle East
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, March 18, 2012
Jason Bennett, San Francisco
I went because: For my favorite DJs Above & Beyond. They were celebrating the 400th episode of their weekly radio show "Trance Around the World" with a live broadcast.
Don't miss: Sunset at Pigeons' Rock, cafes in the Gemmayze neighborhood, gondola to the top of Harissa, caves of Jeita Grotto and the ruins of Byblos.
Don't bother: Changing money. Euros, Lebanese pounds and U.S. dollars are all accepted.
Coolest souvenir: Above & Beyond found out we came all the way from San Francisco and interviewed us live on the radio.
Worth a splurge: Hiring a driver for the day to see all the sights. Very common and safe.
Wish I'd packed: Less fear. Beirut felt safer than some parts of San Francisco.
Other comments: We had some apprehension going but quickly fell in love. Lebanon and the people are exceptionally open, liberal, friendly and warm.
Got a great photo of yourself on a recent vacation? Submit it and details of your trip at sfgate.com/mytrip.


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|Stalked jellyfishes
Temporal range: Latest Precambrian—Recent[1]
|Stauromeduse from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 Kunstformen der Natur
|Scientific classification
Haeckel, 1879
Stauromedusae are the stalked jellyfishes. They are the sole living members of the class Staurozoa, and belong to the medusozoa subphylum of Cnidaria. They are unique among medusa jellyfish in that they do not have an alternation of polyp and medusa life cycle phases but are instead interpreted as an attached medusa stage, with a life style more resembling that of polypoid forms. They have a generally trumpet-shaped body, oriented upside-down in comparison with other jellyfish, with the tentacles projecting upwards, and the stalk located in the centre of the umbrella.
Members of this class are commonly found in relatively cold waters, close to the shoreline. Sexually mature stauromedusae free-spawn eggs or sperm, which fertilize in the sea and form a creeping, unciliated planula larva. The larvae crawl across the sea floor and find a suitable place, attaching themselves typically to rock or algae, where they eventually develop into a new, attached stauromedusa. Unlike most scyphozoan jellyfish that practice strobilation, or the process of dividing themselves into body segments, which become new individuals, nearly all stauromedusae develop directly into the adult form.
Although conventionally considered to be an order in the class Scyphozoa, recent genetic studies suggest that Stauromedusae should be elevated to a taxon equivalent of Scyphozoa and Cubozoa, and should therefore be known as the class Staurozoa.[2]
- ^ Liu, A. G.; Matthews, J. J.; Menon, L. R.; McIlroy, D.; Brasier, M. D. (22 October 2014). "Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the Late Ediacaran period (approx. 560 Ma)". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281 (1793): 20141202. PMC 4173675 . PMID 25165764. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1202.
- ^ Marques, Antonio C.; Allen G. Collins (March 2004). "Cladistic analysis of Medusozoa and cnidarian evolution". Invertebrate Biology. 123 (1): 23–42. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2004.tb00139.x.
- Introduction to Stauromedusae
- Jellyzone
- Brief classification University of Michigan
- List of all known species of Stauromedusae


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Bathurst legends on the Block at MotorEx
SYDNEY – June 27, 2013: Two famous Australian Group C Touring Cars are primed to take pole position at Shannons Sydney Custom & Collectable Auction at Meguiar's MotorEx on Sunday, July 21.
The 1975 Ford XB GT Falcon Coupe that was raced by John Goss, Kevin Bartlett, Allan Moffat and Sir Jack Brabham in its era and the lone surviving and most successful of the Mazda RX-3s that competed in the mid-1970s, are both looking for new grid positions – either in private collections or in full-blown Group C Historic Racing, which is currently booming and attracting large grids in Australia.
Resplendent in its signature '75 Bathurst livery of Blaze Blue with white flanks, the Falcon Hardtop is a major part of Australia's motorsport history.
Owned and raced by Bathurst winner John Goss from 1975 to the end of 1978 the XBGT Coupe ranks in the top echelon of all the Falcon Hardtops that ever raced and still survive.
Replacing the XAGT in which Goss and Bartlett won Bathurst in 1974, the special order XBGT was delete sound deadener and seam sealer to save extra weight was delivered to Goss via sponsor McLeod Ford just a few weeks prior to the 1975 'Great Race'. However its 351 engine 'let go' after just 10 laps and it retired.
More famous is what happened in June 1976. While Goss was in transit to Round 6 of the Australian Touring Car Championship in Adelaide, Allan Moffat's transporter caught fire in the Adelaide Hills, burning it and his GT Falcon Hardtop to a cinder.
Goss generously loaned his freshly rebuilt Falcon, which Moffat promptly put second on the grid and won the round.
Moffat also used the Falcon in the following ATCC round at Queensland Lakeside Raceway, qualifying second on the grid, winning the first round and finishing second in the next, to come second overall to Colin Bond's HDT L34 Torana.
These two results kept Moffat in contention for the touring car title, which he eventually won in his own 'Project Phoenix' XBGT.
For the 1977, new backing allowed Goss to expand into a two-car team, recruiting triple F1 world champion Sir Jack Brabham and his Le Man winning son Geoff to drive the XBGT. They were in the top five and could have troubled eventual winners Moffat and Ickx, but a rocker gave trouble and the Brabham team finally had to settle for 18th.
After Goss sold the Falcon in 1978, it passed through the hands of a number of racing drivers before being acquired by a Falcon Hardtop expert and restorer Kerry Turley, who painstakingly restored the car to its original specification and into what is unquestionably the finest Group C Falcon Hardtop available today.
Because of its racing significance, its celebrity deriver list and exceptional condition, Shannons are expecting bids in the $330,000-$360,000 range.
The other Group C racer in the auction from the same era with a significant Australian history is the Mazda RX-3 coupe raced by Sydney's Don Holland and Japan's Hiroshi Fushida to first in class and an outstanding fifth outright behind four V8 Torana L34s in the 1975 Bathurst 1000.
The RX-3 was campaigned successfully for a number of years and was sold, virtually unscathed, in the late 1970s.
Miraculously it passed through a number of hands for more than a decade and was even road registered with plans for an entry in Targa Tasmania without being tampered with mechanically or visually until it fell into the hands of its current owner, Sydney Mazda rotary enthusiast, Zyg Ryter, in the mid-1990s.
Respecting its rarity as the lone surviving original racing Group C RX-3 of its era, Ryter has since been carefully maintained, but never raced the RX-3
In mid-2012 the Mazda's 1146cc 12A Twin Rotor Wankel engine has been rebuilt by rotary specialist Matt Russell Race Engines and according to Shannons, the RX-3 presents beautifully and sounds awesome.
Because of is exceptional and predominantly original condition, its history as a successful 1970s Group C touring car and its potential as a current Group C Historic racer, Shannons are expecting bids in the $80,000-$100,000 range at its MotorEx Auction.
Shannons National Auction Manager Christophe Boribon said the Group C cars would attract considerable interest from both collectors and potential Historic competitors alike.
"The resurgent interest in Group C & A racing that is now producing large grids of the actual cars that raced in the 1970s and 1980s has made these cars increasingly collectable and valuable," he said.
"To find two in such excellent condition represents a rare opportunity."


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Goodbye NOKIA and thanks for all the fish
12. Februar 2011 von Uwe Kaminski
Just my personal opinion about the decision of Nokia to support Windows Phone as main mobile platform.
NOKIA's decision is a big smash into the face of
- all the developers which believed the story about QT as main framework and actively working on applications for MeeGo/Symbian
- the community which was supported over years and which was growing more and more
- Intel and all the other MeeGo partners
- Business partners and shareholders which now have to wait at least one more year until the new platform is ready
- all the NOKIA employers which have to do a 180° turn now
- the whole open source idea @ NOKIA
NOKIA will end up as an hardware partner among others like Samsung and HTC for Microsoft's OS which may be nice but not relevant for me. This decision comes years to late now. It is the second time a decision which changes everything at NOKIA without releasing a real product. The first time was the decision to do it the open source way.
It's a very sad day for NOKIA and also for me.
But I don't will go without a list of things I got from the Maemo community and NOKIA the last years:
- Contact to a great community and awesome people all over the world
- Maemo (and also MeeGo) was helping me to understand open source and the idea behind
- A much better knowledge about GNU Linux
- An awesome device, the N900
- indirectly it helped me to get a new job
- indirectly it helped me to get a c-base member
I'll track what happens with MeeGo but I'm sure I never will own a NOKIA product again. Open Source is not dead (outside of NOKIA).


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Silva double sends Uruguay into semis
July 19, 2004 11:49 IST
Striker Dario Silva scored two second-half goals as 10-man Uruguay came from behind to beat Paraguay 3-1 in the quarter-final of the�Copa America football tournament�on Sunday.
Silva put Uruguay 2-1 ahead with his first international goal since November 2001 two minutes after Gustavo Varela had become the third Uruguayan to be shown a red card in the tournament. He then made it 3-1 with one minute to play.
Paraguay, who are using the tournament as a warm-up for next month's Olympic soccer tournament and are fielding virtually an under-23 team, had gone ahead with a header from Carlos Gamarra, one of their few older players.
Carlos Bueno levelled for Uruguay with a penalty just before halftime.
Paraguay, fresh from a shock first round win over Brazil, made a lively start and German-based striker Nelson Haedo was close to giving them the lead with a shot on the turn which went just wide.
They deservedly went ahead when defender Gamarra rose to head a Carlos Paredes free kick into the net.
Uruguay equalised six minutes before halftime when Bueno won and converted a penalty.
The Penarol player was upended as he tried to meet Diego Forlan's cross from the left and sent Justo Villar the wrong way to collect his third goal of the tournament.
Uruguay, who lost their previous four matches against Paraguay, appeared to be in trouble as Varela was dismissed for a late, sliding tackle from behind on Fredy Bareiro.
Instead, the Uruguayans went ahead when Silva scored two minutes later.
He received a Cristian Rodriguez cross with his back to goal and, although his first touch was not good, he managed to get to the ball first and scored with a shot on the turn which took a deflection off a defender.
Silva, who refused to play for Uruguay after the 2002 World Cup in a dispute over bonuses, last scored in the World Cup qualifier against Australia nearly three years ago.
Uruguay goalkeeper Sebastian Viera kept his team ahead with some fine goalkeeping before Silva finished off a counter-attack in the 89th minute.


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Pawnee is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,647 at the 2000 census, and 2,550 at a 2009 estimate. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Pawnee was founded, by virtue of getting a Post Office, in 1854. Originally the community was called 'Horse Creek', which was an improvement from the nearby 'Dead Horse Creek' (where a dead horse was found in the creek Southwest of town), but the petition for a Post Office sent to the postmaster in Springfield, Illinois, was denied under that name. 'Pawnee' was suggested on the grounds that it was fashionably Native American for the time. Justus Henkle was the first settler in the township, and he came to the area in 1818.
Abraham Lincoln used to travel through Pawnee en route to Springfield, Illinois via the Black Diamond Road on the SE side of town, and sometimes the Pawnee Road on the SW side. The Black Diamond Road appears to have been so named based on a nearby coal mine of the same name.
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Dance programs at The Children's Aid Society are designed to teach youngsters technique and appreciation while providing them with a physical and creative outlet.
Children's Aid offers a diversity of dance classes and clubs across our community schools and community centers - both traditional and otherwise. For example, the list of clubs at Manhattan Center for Science and Math includes Capoeria, a Brazilian movement art combining dance and martial arts, and Breakdancing.
We also partner with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the creation of CAS/AileyCamp.
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Jamie Lynn Spears' show gets rating boost
Jamie Lynn Spears' Nickelodeon show Zoey 101 saw its ratings double when the season finale aired on Friday. Jamie Lynn already taped the fourth season before her pregnancy and Nickelodeon has been debating whether to air the new episodes. Obviously, now they will. In the meantime, Jamie Lynn is working on her GED, according to Us Magazine:
"I haven't thought anything about what I might study," she has said. "I'll have to look more into that. But if I went anywhere, I think it would be fun to go to LSU."
I don't see the appeal of watching episodes of Zoey 101 just because Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. I mean, she wasn't even pregnant at the time they were filmed so it's not like the baby is going to fly out of Jamie Lynn's uterus during a scene at the ice cream shop. Unless Nickelodeon plunked down on some CGI and really went for that Emmy.


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Type of Document Dissertation Author Pereira Silva, Vladimir A. Author's Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-04112005-220637 Title A Conductor's Analysis of Amaral Vieira's Stabat Mater, Op.240: An Approach between Music and Rhetoric Degree Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) Department Music Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Kenneth Fulton Committee Chair Lori Bade Committee Member Robert Peck Committee Member Sara Lynn Baird Committee Member Robert M. Hausey Dean's Representative Keywords
- Amaral Vieira
- Schenkerian analysis
- twentieth-century Brazilian choral music
- rhetoric
- stabat mater
Date of Defense 2005-03-18 Availability unrestricted AbstractChoral music is one of the most common musical activities in Brazil. However, the lack of biographical studies, music publication, and theoretical works which discuss stylistic and interpretative aspects of choral performance creates problems for conductors. The primary goal of this study is to consider Amaral Vieira's Stabat Mater, op. 240 specifically from a conductor's point of view, focusing on biographical, analytical, stylistic, and interpretative issues.
The document is divided into three chapters; chapter one discusses twentieth-century Brazilian choral music, Amaral Vieira's life and music, history and overview of the Stabat Mater, op. 240, and textual aspects. Chapter two presents the analytical premises of the monograph as well as individual analytical studies of the twenty movements that comprise the composition. It examines each movement in detail, including relevant background and the relationship between text and music. Chapter three examines performance issues necessary for the preparation and performance of the work.
Amaral Vieira was born in Săo Paulo in 1952. He studied piano and composition with different professors in Brazil and abroad. He has won several international prizes and performed in Brazil and different countries such as Chile, Argentina, Germany, Japan, China, and Hungary. Amaral Vieira has also devoted part of his time to musicological research and has contributed to the history of Brazilian music. His output comprises three hundred compositions, including works for chamber music, piano solo, and voice, among them forty five choral works.
The Stabat Mater, op. 240 was written in 1989. It is for soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass soloists, SATB chorus and string orchestra. It has twenty movements and each one corresponds to a different strophe of the poem. The score is still unpublished, and the Slovak Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Mariah Vach and Jan Rozehnal, made the only commercial recording available of the work. Based on harmonic, thematic and textual elements, the Stabat Mater, op. 240 can be divided into two parts: movements 1 through 12, and movements 13 through 20.
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There are several brands of cereal that have gluten-free varieties, including Chex and Cream of Rice. Both cold and hot cereals are available so those who want to avoid gluten can do so without giving up a traditional part of breakfast.Continue Reading
Glutens are the proteins found in grains such as wheat, rice and barley that allow the grain to hold its shape. Celiac disease is found in people who have an intolerance to gluten. To help these people, manufacturers have been creating gluten-free versions of foods, and breakfast cereals are part of the list of foods that can be made gluten-free.
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United are 13 points clear of City and will clinch a record 20th title if they beat Aston Villa at Old Trafford tonight.
Mancini said United had deserved their success but is adamant that the points margin does not reflect the respective quality of the teams.
"They are not a better team but they deserve to win this title because we lost a lot of points in games we probably didn't deserve to lose," said Mancini.
"They had a better attitude because they lost last year. We don't have a gap. The last two or three years every time we have played United we have played better. Last year we beat them easily.
"The reason there is a gap like today probably there is more attitude [from United]. They started the season and they wanted to win after last year. We can say only congratulations to them for this. They did not win by luck. There are many reasons why we lose."
Mancini again pointed to City's transfer strategy over the past year and referred to Manchester United's signing of Robin van Persie. "It is mathematics, as the goals we concede is the same," he said. "They bought some new [players] in the summer and they scored a lot of goals. They conceded a lot of goals but they scored more."
Asked if City had gifted United the title, he said: "Sometimes we probably did. I think the 13 or 15-point gap is not the reality for this championship."
Mancini added that there was no need for him to speak with the Manchester City hierarchy before the end of the season and pointed to the opportunity that still exists to win a second FA Cup in three years.
"What should I explain? We have another five games now, we play in the FA Cup, and when I have the chance to talk with the chairman I will explain," he said.
"I'm not happy because I like to win the championship because this was our target when we started the season but we have another chance to win the FA Cup.
"I think the FA Cup is important and we can be in second position. If that is not good enough, then every manager should be sacked."
That last remark was followed by a laugh but Mancini did make it clear that, should he stay, he wants new players this summer.
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OTTAWA — The agencies of the Putnam County Crisis Assistance Network
will collect and distribute basic school supplies again this year for
children who might otherwise go to school without the tools they need to
succeed. The 11th annual "Putnam County Back-to-school Giveaway" will
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Aug 11. To receive free school supplies, qualifying families may acquire
a referral form at Putnam County Job and Family Services.
and individuals interested in helping provide school supplies should
contact the United Way for information at 419-523-4505. Cash donations
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New Delhi, Aug. 27 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee has extended his heartiest greetings and best wishes to all citizens on the auspicious occasion of Janmashtami.
"Let us, on this sacred day, recall the teachings of Lord Krishna which have for centuries, been an inspiration to us to follow the path of virtue and righteousness in thought, word and deed," said President Mukherjee in his message.
"May Lord Krishna's noble message of 'Nishkama Karma' or duty without thought of reward, motivate all of us to work in unity and with selfless dedication for peace, prosperity and progress in our country," he added. (ANI)


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Nicki Minaj Confirms Madonna Collaboration
Nicki Minaj is EVERYWHERE!! Now she's about to record a track with the Material Girl herself, Madonna!
Shortly after she performs at the halftime show of the Super Bowl, Madonna will release her next album in the spring. The disc does not have a name yet, but the track with Nicki is titled "Give Me All Your Love." "Paper Planes" rapper M.I.A. is also expected to appear on the album.


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The beginnings of a folder containing functions used in Number Theory.
Computes the number of partitions of n. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(number_theory).)
A BigInt result is returned. Be prepared for long compute times if you get into 4-digit integers as your input.
This is a JavaScript adaptation of original Java code copyrighted 2002 by Henry Bottomley (http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/partitions.htm)
Can someone implement the new (2011) method by Ken Ono et al.? (http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-theories-reveal-nature-of-numbers.html)
p(4) = 5
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I'm confused by this problem. Can someon
I'm confused by this problem. Can someone break it down for me?
Nov 8, 2012 at 4:44pm UTC
Input an integer containing only 0s and 1s (i.e., a "binary" integer) and print its decimal equivalent. Use the modulus and division operators
to pick off the "binary" number's digits one at a time from right to left. Much as in the decimal number system, where the rightmost digit has a positional value of 1, the next digit left has a positional value of 10, then 100, then 1000, and so on, in the binary number system the rightmost digit has a positional value of 1, the next digit left has a positional value of 2, then 4, then 8, and so
on. Thus the decimal number 234 can be interpreted as 2 * 100 + 3 * 10 + 4 * 1. The decimal equivalent of binary 1101 is 1 * 1 + 0 * 2 + 1 * 4 + 1 * 8 or 1 + 0 + 4 + 8, or 13.
Please explain what the problem is asking. I dont know where to start with this one. What is the program supposed to do step by step? I want to write the code myself but before I do, I need to understand which steps the program will need in order to perform.
Nov 8, 2012 at 4:50pm UTC
The program should prompt the user to enter a number.
This number should be in binary, so the user should only enter 0's and 1's.
Then your program must take this binary number and convert it to a decimal.
The program should output this converted number to the screen.
Nov 9, 2012 at 9:17am UTC
Get the input as a string of ones and zeros, e.g. "1101".
It would be sensible to verify that the input is valid, that is, no other characters other than '1' or '0' were entered.
Next, you need to convert the string of characters into a number (an integer type). This part, while fairly straightforward, will take a few lines of code.
As an integer, you can then easily print the decimal value. (just cout << n;).
Lastly, you convert your integer into binary digits. The method is to repeatedly divide it by 2. The remainder will be either 1 or 0, which gives the required binary digit. The number will get smaller each time until it is zero. Then you can stop.
Nov 11, 2012 at 8:52pm UTC
Thank you for breaking it down for me. Now, I understand what the program should do. I searched how to convert binary numbers to decimal and vice versa. Based on what I understood 010110 would be converted to 22. I'm trying to write the code for the program to do it, but I'm realizing I have no idea how to program each step. Any advice or more suggestions?
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Listen, Junior.
I know you think you are being cute with this whole "it's over your head" crap, but the fact of the matter is this. Any one of us on this board could give you a 5 year head start of any of these topics and still whoop your ass.
Believe that if you want to, but like I stated earlier, The NERD is not giving any free handouts here, you have yet to refute that dent The NERD has put in your belief.<quoted text>
You simply aren't equipped to participate in a discussion about science because you believe in a world view that revolves around make believe concepts and not reality.
That's why you haven't presented any evidence. There can be no evidence for your imagination.
The initial URL I gave you was the link to the scientific document from a very reputable science and medicine publishing site ( NATURE.COM ). You stated it was the homepage as if you couldn't search the site and find the document yourself. Keywords like "Gorilla", "Genomics","Gen etics", "Evolution" "March 8" could take you far if you wasn't so lazy. You could easily just reference the URL I gave you and take the article number from the URL [n7388] and put it in the search field on the website and viola!<quoted text>
All you have is your misunderstanding of articles from the popular press (not even the actual scientific papers),
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Embraer ERJ 135LR, Newark, N.J., July 24, 2006–The NTSB determined that the captain of the American Eagle ERJ 135 failed to follow company procedures, which resulted in pushback with the parking brake set. An additional factor was the use of a larger tug than preferred for the regional jet. The airplane skidded about 14 inches. The forward pressure bulkhead, the forward longerons and the nosegear were substantially damaged, but there were no injuries.


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Should Florida change its class-size rules? Lawmakers want to hear your thoughts
The Florida Department of Education is busy running the numbers to see how many teachers school districts might need to hire next fall when the class size amendment moves to classroom counts.
Districts are making noises about how difficult it will be to meet the stricter rules next fall. Newspapers are publishing stories highlighting those concerns.
In that atmosphere, Florida lawmakers are again talking about how they should deal with the amendment, especially in light of budget estimates projecting continued multibillion-dollar deficits.
The Florida House seems poised to pass yet another measure aimed at keeping the class-size reduction rules as a school average. "We're going to do exactly what we did last time," said Rep. Will Weatherford, chairman of the House Education Policy Council.
But will the Senate follow?
Sen. Don Gaetz, chairman of the Policy and Steering Committee on Social Responsibility, tells the Gradebook that many senators are worried about the financial implications of full implementation. But they also understand that lawmakers can't overrule the will of the people.
So Gaetz wants to hear from the people.
"The polling that I saw last year suggested that it was absolutely imperative that there be a united front of school board members, administrators, teachers and parents in order to get 60 percent for a constitutional modification," said Gaetz, who backs scaling back the amendment. "If they don't step forward, then based on the polling data that I've seen, there's very little chance that a constitutional amendment would be successful at the polls. Why go through an exercise in futility?"


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So, briefly, my top five reasons* why any school would benefit from running Office365.
1) OneNote and the OneNote Class Notebook
There is nothing comparable to OneNote and the OneNote Class Notebook / Staff Notebook anywhere on the market. It's paper... made digital! It allows an easy transition from folks used to working with paper but also is a springboard to digitize everything in a classroom, office or home. It makes it easy to take a quick note (on any device) or write a thesis. It's a container for everything (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, sound and video files) but then allows you to organize, categorize and summarize. It has collaboration built into its ecosystem and things can be shared for reading or editing. And although it aids making a transition away from paper, it's also great kindling for those being transformative -- there are no barriers to creativity as you'll find in text-based environments and since OneNote is ink-based, it's open to happenings of creativity through easy sketching and doodling. So much is built into OneNote (and linked through Office365) that you don't have to track down an app -- it's all there, tied into the ecosystem. And -- most importantly -- it caches on the device so if you lose the internet (by geography or misadventure) you can continue working and things sync up when wifi returns).
It's cross platform so I can take an anecdotal note on a student (or a pic/video) from my phone and it automatically appears on my laptop - and on the student device if that's the section I posted it in.
I've written plenty on OneNote already so I'll just include these links for more information... and a series of educational examples that showcase the transition we've made away from and beyond paper.
But just to emphasize... if only for OneNote, people should use Office365. It's that much of a game changer. But more importantly, it allows people to easily begin to change their game, it's such a gate way drug to pedagogical and learning changes because of the low technological threshold and the near infinite opportunities not hog-tied by being text based and bringing all the convenience of paper in a digital format.
2) Delve
In a modern collaborative working space, a simple list isn't sufficient anymore. And search isn't smart enough. Having an intelligent agent available to every student, every faculty and every staff member has been an unexpected and universally appreciated boon. Things don't get lost. People know what they should be working on and what's important.
Delve is the face of the background search built into Office365. It knows all the content and shows you cards of things that should be important to you.
When you first visit the Delve page, it shows you the global picture of things going on that involve you. So for me, I see some math things I've been working on with my colleagues.
Then, you can drill down by person or search term. So if I know that my principal, Katrina, has been working on a document for me, I can track it down. I don't have to remember where it's stored or what it's named because Delve is more concerned that she and I have been working on it recently and it knows that Katrina is someone who I value. (How does it know that? It measures the volume, spread and how quickly I reply to emails within my environment.)
Delve also measures what my colleagues find important so a document that has been opened a lot recently gets moved up in priority - which is why ParentTeacher Conferences is showing up; we're coming into another PT conference shortly!
Given the vast number of documents we have emailed to us (it does attachments) and that exist in shared spaces (including OneNotes) it becomes impossible to know where everything is located - Delve does that organizational part for us.
And its mobile app gives you a daily "here's what's popular" list, too!
3) Collaboration
Every aspect of Office365 is collaborative. Documents, spreadsheet, presentations, sways, sites -- there's a share button everywhere and in almost every situation it's synchronous collaboration. Want to work on a presentation together? Click to share... and it surfaces in Delve so you know what you're supposed to be working on together.. and who's updated it recently. And you can pull or expire permissions easily (and it correspondingly disappears off of Delve).
You can work within the online Office365 system, which gives you basic editing options necessary to pull of most tasks or push your work into the full desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint & OneNote with the press of a button. The convenience of the online apps is noticeable when you're on a different device. It really opens up the opportunity for BYOD because it really doesn't matter which device you're on ... the mobile apps are as responsive as the desktop ones even if they're not as feature rich. But, since most people have their own full-powered device either at their desk or in their home, they can use the full power when necessary.
4) Depth of Ecosystem
For us, OneNote and the OneNote Class Notebook is the container for everything and we use it as a springboard to the other aspects of Office365 : our documents, videos, online meetings, etc are all linked from or embedded in the appropriate OneNote pages for students and faculty..
However in the administrative side of the school, they're still Site driven, so they use the more traditional site structure with document libraries and calendars. It doesn't matter! Delve ties everything together regardless of the way people work.
Everything is brought in to the mobile environment with all the productivity apps but also mobile specific apps like Microsoft Lens (which ties your camera to OneNote, Word, etc). They added a complete video storage & distribution system so we can publish videos involving students and not worry about having them spread across the internet and we have our own discussion area in Yammer that is tied into every other piece. You may notice the Y* Yammer button in the Delve screen above. And faculty and students have been using data from Excel and moving to experiment with PowerBI, Microsoft's business visualizing software (that's again, both online and on device).
And it's all tied together with one password and one Waffle menu (circled in the image above).
5) Customer Response
Microsoft has been incredibly responsive to user suggestions. They have an active UserVoice system that has prompted a great many developments. There were over 400 additions to Office365 in 2015 - and these range from minor improvements to the addition of completely new applications like Sway (an online presentation system) to the forthcoming Planner (simple project management).
They also have a large Yammer community through which you get a lot of troubleshooting, training and roadmaps to ongoing development. Because it's cloud based, things can change quite quickly -- when doing training, I emphasize that what I show will likely change within the month.
*I am not including the fact that it's free. Lots of things are free but everything carries a cost. I'm also not including all the benefits of the paid plans because, well, they involve money.


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So how many is to much in your opinion
Over 45 Roge23 22:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC) 22:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
- well the limit is 60, but between 40 and 45 is ideal I believe. Dmaster (Contribs • Count) 22:54, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
most generally keep it at fourty if they can, i prefer to have it a fifty, but thats one player. Prince Of Darkness 00:24, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
I believe a deck should not exceed 43 cards. My decks are at 42 each while I have encountered ppl who have theirs at exactly 40. Most of the time, smaller decks are faster to pull what you need like pulling Destiny Draw when you need it most or something of the sort.
Warlord Frog 00:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
I personally prefer to use 40 cards to keep up the pace of the duel and make cool counterattacks occur like on the anime. User:Machineguy 15/08
- Most decks I think should stay at 40-43 cards (I believe 42 is the ideal number). For Lightsworn decks, I can see 45 cards working pretty well. -- Sub 02:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
I personally think that you should keep it at exactly 40 but 42 is ok. Monarch1 20:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
40-45 is the ideal number, as past posts have stated, but it all depends on the deck. Decks containing cards that allow one to draw cards or special summon monsters(sangan, pot of avarice, etc.) and have key cards to win a duel would tend to have fewer cards. Although, if you are aiming for a combination of cards that eats away at your opponents lifepoints, then a higher number of cards is preferred. Keeping the deck to a minimum of 40 cards allows one to practice his analytical skills in only keeping cards of the utmost importance. I keep my deck at 40 for the sake of speed.
it depends on the deck you are running, my synchro deck works best at around 50 cards while my cloudians is better at around 42 Blood-Stained-Doz 11:02, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


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REVIEW: Pantech Matrix Pro Windows Mobile 6.1 Smartphone
www.smartphonethoughts.com This is my review of the Pantech Matrix Pro, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard smartphone offered by AT&T for 9 USD on a two-year contract. This phone has the distinctive feature of having two keyboards (12 key and QWERTY), both hidden away via a slider. It weighs 4.3 ounces, has a 2.4 inch display at 240 x 320, comes with 256 MB of ROM, and 128 MB of RAM. It also features a microSDHC card slot for expandability up to 32 GB. It's a GSM phone, functioning on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands for GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 850/1900/2100 MHz for 3G data. The battery is 1320 mAh, giving 3 hours of talk time and 10.4 days of stand-by time. More details about the Pantech Matrix Pro can be found here: tinyurl.com


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The Port of Newport on the Oregon coast is planning to develop a log export terminal. That's led to a conflict with the port's new neighbors.
Back in 1948 Newport built its first log export terminal on top of a pair of sunken barges leftover from World War II. The barges leaked oil into Yaquina bay and over the years the terminal fell out of use. Now the port has finished a major renovation of the site. Several timber companies want to use it to export logs to Asia. Cameron LaFollet is with the Oregon Coast Alliance. She says the terminal would route at least 50 log trucks a day through a residential neighborhood.
LaFollet: "The terminal has recently been renovated, that's great. The neighborhood has changed, that's great. But now there's a problem. Because the two uses don't really work together very well."
The Port President says she understands the neighbors' concerns, and says the Port was not responsible for the zoning decision that allowed condos to develop next to an industrial site.
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A description of the implementation during the preceding fiscal year of the current biennial plan under section 6302 of this title.
(Added Pub. L. 109–233, title IV, § 402(a), June 15, 2006, 120 Stat. 410.)
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Attorney-General George Brandis has given an extraordinary undertaking not to read highly sensitive documents seized by ASIO agents in a raid on East Timor's lawyer last year.
The undertaking comes as Australia attempts to thwart a Timorese bid in the Hague to have the material returned.
East Timor put its objections to the International Court of Justice in the Hague overnight as its representative, Joaquim da Fonseca, spoke of the nation's ''deep offence and shock'' at the raids.
As well as seeking the return of the documents and destruction of any copies, East Timor wants the court to order Australia to stop spying on its lawyers.
The raids on lawyer Bernard Collaery and a former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer in Canberra on December 3 were part of an escalating dispute with East Timor over $40 billion of oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea amid allegations of dirty dealings and espionage.
The raids stunned many observers given that they came in the midst of legal proceedings in the dispute. Correspondence between the fledgling nation's legal advisers was seized.
Senator Brandis, who authorised the raids, is in charge of ASIO and the legal case being run in the Hague against East Timor over the oil and gas reserves.
Court documents obtained by Fairfax Media show the unusual lengths to which the senator is prepared to go to justify the raids and keep the documents.
He told the Arbitral Tribunal in the Hague that he would undertake to ''not make myself aware or otherwise seek to inform myself of the content of the [seized] material''.
If there was any change, he would inform the tribunal and offer further undertakings.
The document reveals that ASIO agents only ''briefly inspected'' the documents they took, aware that their conduct was likely to lead to objections by East Timor.
''With one exception, all materials were then placed in sealed envelopes and have remained sealed to the present day,'' according to written observations Australia presented to the ICJ last week.
Senator Brandis argued that legal professional privilege did not apply as the documents disclosed national security information and ''commission of a serious criminal offence under Australian law''.
Any objections by East Timor should be heard in an Australian court or another arbitration tribunal in the Hague, he said.
East Timor wants a 2006 treaty carving up the reserves declared invalid, saying it was unfair and not completed in good faith as Australia bugged Timorese offices during negotiations.
Australia's lawyers will be heard on Tuesday night and both sides will sum up on Wednesday.
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A word which comes from the german meaning of happy or merry, spelt as Frohliche. A Frohlich is a very happy person or someone who enjoys to smile and laugh all the time.
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Trying their best to outrun the oncoming storm were the challengers that competed at the Lincoln County Raceway on Saturday evening. Bryan Herrick, Kyle Bond and Charlie Blowers tamed the storm to claim top honors and earn a trip to the winners circle.
Herrick started in the fifth row and avoided incident and be among the leaders throughout the contest. Finishing second overall after leading the first 13 laps of the feature was Robby Kosmacek of North Platte.
Heat race winner Terry Dressel of North Platte earned a podium finish with third place. Along with Dressel, Sutherland's Henry Henderson won an opening night heat race.
In the stock car division, Casey Werkmeister of Maywood and Wallace's Kyle Clough won opening night heat races, but with the impending weather approaching, the Feature event was postponed until the next regular season race night.
Driving his way to the front and then running away and hiding was Kyle Bond of Gibbon in the Hobby Stock Feature. Bond started in the fourth row and snared the lead on the fourth circuit after winning an earlier in the evening heat race.
Following Bond through the traffic was the Benkelman Bullet Austin Davis, who was high on the wheel in hopes of running down Bond, but he was forced to settle with runner-up honors. Recovering quite nicely from an early spin, Robert Leonard of Gibbon was third overall. Bond and Leonard won the heat races.
Scoring his first ever victory was Charlie Blowers of Arnold in the Sport Compact division. Blowers started in the second row and was able to complete the pass Devin Bjorklund of Cozad for the lead on the eighth lap and drive to the win.
Sutherland's Alex Fletcher was the runner-up with a consistency filled effort on the oval. The leader for the initial seven laps, Bjorklund crossed the finish line to earn show accolades. In one of the most impressive efforts of the night, Andrew Baumgardner of North Platte lost a wheel on the final laps of the Feature and finished fourth place overall on just three tires.
Coming up on Tuesday night at the Lincoln County Raceway is the Second Annual 'Buffalo Bill Wild West Challenge,' where over $10,000 purse will be awarded to the competitiors that challenge for the checkered flags. Pit gates open at 4 p.m. and the racing action is set to start with the drop of the green flag at 7 p.m.
Unofficial Results
--Northern Sport Modified Feature: 1. 0-Bryan Herrick; 2. 15r-Robby Kosmacek; 3. 13-Terry Dressel; 4. 11h-Henry Henderson; 5. 3-Gary Long; 6. 12j-Kerry Jones; 7. 69-Adam Kackmeister; 8. 88-Eric Kackmeister; 9. 11-Tim Cooper; 10. 848-Troy Douglas.
Heat 1: 1. 11h-Henry Henderson; 2. 15r-Robby Kosmacek; 3. 0-Bryan Herrick.
Heat 2: 1. 13-Terry Dressel; 2. 11-Tim Cooper; 3. 1-Paul Donovan.
--IMCA Hobby Stock Feature: 1. 0-Kyle Bond; 2. 22-Austin Davis; 3. 85-Robert Leonard; 4. 88j-Jacob Olmstead; 5. 72h-Kevin Hagan; 6. 22w-Brady Weinman; 7. 7s-Scott Gibson; 8. 2c-Tyson Canas; 9. 33-Ben Arvdahl; 10. 72b-Jacob Hagan.
Heat 1: 1. 0-Kyle Bond; 2. 72h-Kevin Hagan; 3. 22-Austin Davis.
Heat 2: 1. 85-Robert Leonard; 2. 88j-Jacob Olmstead; 3. 22w-Brady Weinman.
--IMCA Sport Compact Feature: 1. 22b-Charlie Blowers; 2. 67-Alex Fletcher; 3. 28d-Devin Bjorklund; 4. 44u-Andrew Baumgardner; 5. 33-Andrew McClellen; 6. 67x-Blake Fletcher; 7. 12t-Tanner Jones.
Heat 1: 1. 44u-Andrew Baumgardner; 2. 22b-Charlie Blowers; 3. 28d-Devin Bjorklund.
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Pink Pony offers Spring Training specials fit for Giants fans
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SaltRock now serving pine needle and cactus juices
Executive Chef Massimo De Francescas of SaltRock Southwest Kitchen and Craft Margaritas in Sedona announced some delicious juice recipes he's serving up with a twist. SaltRock is a restaurant that blends Southwest culinary traditions with California cuisine, and the menu includes a collection of juices packed full of antioxidants, but the "Pine-Apple" and "Thirsty Cactus"… Read More →
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Yesterday was the official start to Spring Training for the Baltimore Orioles as pitchers and catchers reported to camp, and although nothing much went on yesterday but physicals, it still brought baseball into 2013. Today in part two of our Spring Training preview, we will examine the catchers and role players.
Today will be the first official workout for the pitchers and catchers, and yesterday in part one of our Spring Training preview we examined the pitchers, but now let's take a look at the catchers that will be in camp followed by the battle for the final bench spots on the Orioles 25 man roster as role players.
Non-roster invitees catchers:
73 Allan de San Miguel
74 Jose Gil
60 Luis Martinez
63 Chris Robinson
40-man roster catchers:
59 Luis Exposito
31 Taylor Teagarden
32 Matt Wieters
The catcher discussion is fortunately, a short one since the depth chart at catcher will be the same as it was last season with the All-Star Matt Wieters and back-up Taylor Teagarden. Luis Exposito will start the year in Norfolk and will be the next man up if an injury were to hit either Wieters or Teagarden. The interesting part will be whether or not Teagarden can improve his approach at the plate because Wieters, who is coming off a career high 134 games behind the plate in 2012, will need to be able to get more rest in order to keep him fresher later in the season, thus Teagarden's offensive production will be a huge influence on Wieters games behind the plate.
Now let's examine the battle for the final bench spots for the Orioles active 25-man roster. The battle will be for two or three spots, depending on how many pitchers manager Buck Showalter decides to keep in the bullpen. If he elects to have eight in the pen, there are three total bench spots, but one will be occupied by Teagarden. Now even though that only leaves two spots open on the bench, the battle is still for three total positions because no one is entering camp as the everyday DH.
With three roster spots up for battle, we first must acknowledge what a team's needs are on the bench. Baltimore will need a fourth outfielder, a utility infielder, and preferably a corner infielder, thus there will be some key battles to watch for during Spring Training. First on the list will be for that fourth outfielder spot, and although Nolan Reimold has not been "officially" given the starting left field job, we can safely assume if he stays healthy he at least has a guaranteed roster spot so it will be interesting to watch Nate McLouth, Conor Jackson, Xavier Avery and L.J. Hoes during Spring Training to see who is sticking out amongst the extra outfielders. Another big IF scenario heading into Spring Training is second base because it can be assumed, if healthy, Brian Roberts will be starting at second base, so the utility infielder battle will be fun to watch between Ryan Flaherty, Alexi Casilla and Yamaico Navarro. Finally a corner infield battle will take place, but could ultimately be all for not because you can't fathom that Baltimore will cut or release Wilson Betemit, so that puts Danny Valencia in a tough spot.
So who will make the cut? Ultimately, as Showalter wants it to be, it will come down to Spring Training performances by the aforementioned players to see who will break camp with the big league club. McLouth, barring a horrid Spring or injury, will earn that fourth outfield spot, and honestly could end up being the everyday left fielder as I believe Reimold will end up being the DH more often than playing in the field. As for the utility infielder spot, I give Casilla the inside track to land that job due to his ability to play all over the infield and can even play in the outfield in a pinch, plus the speed he can bring on the base paths goes a long was as well. I believe Flaherty, who now has options available, will begin the year in Norfolk so he can get some consistent at bats and work on his approach at the plate. As I mentioned before, Betemit will get the final bench spot as the extra corner infielder, thus Valencia, who does have options remaining will likely start the year in Norfolk, but with an injury to Reimold or Roberts, Valencia would likely be the first man called up.
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N.Y. Solo Shows by Sculpture Alumnus Receive Critical Praise
July 20, 2011
International contemporary artist and alumnus Sean Landers BFA '84 (Sculpture) received critical praise for his two New York solo shows "Around the World Alone" (a retrospective of work from the mid-90s not previously shown in New York) and "Midnight Modern Conversation" (a show of new work) in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Artforum and The Huffington Post.
A Q&A with the artist appeared in Art in America, who called Landers "the leading proponent of 'slacker art,' the practitioners of which use confession and metaphors for misery to both self-lacerate and critique the easy pathos of popular entertainment."
Landers has had over 25 solo exhibits of his work at galleries around the world.


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Savoir Fare London
Stylish and Affordable Dining
By Elaine Louie
Photographs by Phil Nicholls
Dining affordably and well—very well—in London is quite possible, it turns out, if you find the places Londoners themselves have discovered and love best. Author Elaine Louie has followed the leads of some of the city's most fashionable epicures—architects, curators, designers, and others with discriminating taste and exacting palates—and discovered 50 venues that would be great finds at any price and where a meal (not including tip and beverage) can be enjoyed for $25 or less.
The restaurants range across ethnicities, deliver on décor (cool, charming and/or beautiful), and the food (not necessarily three-course meals, but sometimes more modern, light dining) is always memorable. Follow the leads of fashionable epicures to:
Baker & Spice, a chic spot favored by impeccably dressed young mothers who savor the best quiches in London and golden-crusted meat pies filled with baby veggies fresh from the British countryside; the "darling and simple café" atop four floors of fashion in the hip Dover Street Market, centrally located near Bond Street; Crazie Homies, in hip Westbourne Grove, where the food is inspired by street vendors and taquerias found throughout Mexico and is freshly made to authentic recipes.The venues are located in city central locations, hip neighborhoods, and a few of the best are even tucked away in museums and department stores, making this a highly practical guide for travelers who need to plan their time efficiently.
About the Author
Elaine Louie is on the staff ofThe New York Times, where she contributes to the Home, Dining, and Sunday Styles sections. She is co-author of The Shun Lee Cookbook, and won the 1995 James Beard Journalism Award for a series of articles on ethnic cuisine in New York City.
About the Photographer
Phil Nicholls's photography book, Classic Cafés, is a study of London's "greasy spoon" café culture. His photographs appear in The Little Bookroom's The Traditional Shops & Restaurants of London by Eugenia Bell.


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Centennial also announced on Wednesday that directors Catherine Brenner, Richard Grellman and Paul Moy had resigned and had been replaced by Banpu's nominees Chanin Vongkusolkit, Somruedee Chaimongkol and Rawi Corsiri.
Banpu, which now has a 53.73 per cent stake in the coalminer, on Tuesday received unconditional support from Treasurer Wayne Swan for its off-market offer.
The condition that the Foreign Investment Review Board approve the offer had been fulfilled, Sydney-based Centennial said in a statement on Tuesday.
Last month, Centennial's shareholders approved the proposal.
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Woodbury gains No. 4 seed in state tourney, will face Eden Prairie
The Woodbury Royals on Saturday learned their quarterfinal opponent in the state 4A basketball tournament will be Section 2AAAA champion Eden Prairie.
The No. 4-seeded Royals will face the No. 5-seeded Eagles at noon Wednesday, March 20, at Target Center. Woodbury enters the game with a 25-4 record after topping Stillwater in the Section 4AAAA title game. Eden Prairie (21-8) gained a state berth after defeating section opponent Bloomington Jefferson.
The winner of the quarterfinal match faces either No. 1-seed Apple Valley (28-1) or its opponent, unseeded Brainerd (28-1) on Thursday, March 20, at 6 p.m.


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50 metres refers to the pressure experienced if it was static at a depth of 50 metres. When the watch moves the pressure rises well above a static pressure of 50 metres. 50 metres of static water pressure is easily achieved even in shallow depths. Consequently, a 50 metres watch should not be used for diving, however it can be immersed in water.
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Water resistant means splash proof only - it can withstand slight splashes and rain, but is NOT to be immersed in water.
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A new standard from Rotary is Dolphin. Nearly all Rotary watches now have the Dolphin standard. This means they are 'waterproof' and can be used in all water activities except deep sea diving. This is a revolutionary concept from Rotary and means you can wear your dress watch with the confidence that water will not enter the watch. For diving specifically, we have a large range of Citizen diving watches.
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