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Sunderland have confirmed that Connor Wickham is to undergo a scan to determine the severity of his knee injury.
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Last Updated: 07/11/11 10:09pm
Sunderland have confirmed that Connor Wickham is to undergo a scan to determine the severity of his knee injury.
The 18-year-old suffered suspected ligament damage during Saturday's 1-0 reversal at Manchester United.
He lasted just two minutes of that fixture before being forced from the field.
Black Cats boss Steve Bruce was in a pessimistic mood after the game when pressed on Wickham's fitness.
Sunderland are still in the dark regarding the full extent of the problem, but will send the England U21 international for medical tests in an effort to shed some light on the issue.
A statement released on the club's official website read: "The youngster, who has made nine appearances for the Black Cats this season, is set to have his knee looked at to assess the full extent of his injury and results will be known in the coming days."
Should Wickham be sidelined for a prolonged period of time, Sunderland will be left with just two senior strikers in the form of Nicklas Bendtner and South Korea international Ji Dong-won.
It is understood that there is no chance of Asamoah Gyan being recalled from a season-long loan spell at Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates, so Bruce will be left desperately short on options.
He has, however, welcomed news that Fraizer Campbell is three months ahead of schedule in his rehabilitation from a serious knee injury and could be ready for a first-team return in the New Year.


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Kate Bush outs a double CD "A Sea of Honey" and "A Sky of Honey," which both filled with Bush's lush piano-playing, strings, moody electronica, nature
The singer outs from her hiding place after quite a long time. Now fans of Kate Bush could again enjoy her lush piano-playing, strings, moody electronica, nature sounds and her poetic in her double-CD set titled "A Sea of Honey" and "A Sky of Honey."
Hope the singer's new set will satisfy those thirst fans who have been waiting for their idol to live up the music industry. The first set includes the first single "King of the Mountain" and "Pi," while the second one covers "Prologue" and "Sunset."


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Because—His public and private career has been one of unselfish service.
Because—Though Governor, he continues his philanthropic and social service work.
Because—As Governor, he has proved his capacity and independence.
Because—It is manifestly bad business to replace an experienced executive by an inexperienced man.
Because—Of his progressive, humane viewpoint and sound business administration.
Because—By practicing intelligent economy he reduced the State's accumulated deficit one third.
Because—He has courageously fought to modernize all forms of local government against stubborn political opposition.
Because—He forced creation of Municipal Housing Authorities to eradicate slums.
Because—Of his $100,000,000 program for direct unemployment relief.
Because—His victory over the public utilities lobby assures cheaper electricity for homes.
Because—By forcing mandatory fair wage standards he put an end to exploitation of women and children in industry.
Because—He backed unemployment insurance and adoption of the Federal Child Labor Amendment.
Because—By setting up Poor Man's Courts, he brought Justice within easy reach of those of limited means.
Franklin D. Roosevelt says:
He is a man who has the knowledge, a man who knows every nook and corner of the State, who knows every principle of the details of government, a man who understands how to run things in a business way, but more important than that, a man with an understanding heart, a man to whom social justice is not an unknown word, a man who has courage—and you need lots of guts to be a Governor.
Alfred E. Smith says:
I don't know of any man that ever occupied the office of Governor who went through any more perilous times, gave more attention and devotion to it than did Herbert H. Lehman. The State has never been more prudently managed, never been better supervised. Its appropriations of public money have never been better scrutinized. Incentive for hard work, application to business and careful management of State's affairs, coupled with a record of progressive achievement, is entirely removed if the capable, sincere efforts of Governor Lehman are not appreciated by the people of our State through his re-election by an overwhelming plurality.
Herbert H. Lehman has endeared himself to millions with his activities in all fields of economic, philanthropic, cultural and spiritual endeavor in behalf of fellow Jews here and abroad. As one of the founders of the Joint Distribution Committee, as Chairman of the Reconstruction Committee of the J. D. C. , as one of the organizers of the Palestine Loan Bank and Palestine Economic Corporation, as a member of the Jewish Agency and as officer, director or trustee of numerous educational and social service organizations he has earned universal gratitude for what he has accomplished for the future of Jews the world over.


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Oh! Boy-o-boy! Are Tustinites, both past and present, in for a treat.
Tustin News "Remember When" columnist Juanita Lovret has written her second book, "Tustin as It Once Was," published by American Chronicles.
She will be signing copies from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Dec. 3 at the Tustin Area Historical Society Museum, 395 El Camino Real, in Old Town.
Chock full of data and down home humor and memories, it sells for $20 with all profits going to the society's continuing Tustin history-based educational programs in local schools and the on-going preservation of Tustin's historical materials. It is liberally laced with photos.
Juanita Jones Lovret is a third generation Tustinite who was reared on the family's citrus ranch on Yorba Street. Both she and her mother were born there.
Writing is her talent, her passion and her life's work. She was the society editor at the Tustin News the summer before she entered Tustin High as a freshman. She had a long list of people whom she called weekly to find out whose mother-in-law had come to dinner or who had driven to Los Angeles to see friends. "That was big news back then," she reminisced.
After graduation from Tustin High, she attended USC. It was there when she was doing graduate work that she met Clint Lovret, from the University of Colorado, who also was going post grad work. After they married, the couple returned to Tustin. He was an engineer with Rockwell International in Anaheim.
She started teaching at Tustin High in 1954 and took leave in June to have her first baby. "I was the first pregnant teacher there," she said. "I went back as a half time English teacher a couple of years later. Then I started teaching adult education at night until Wes Hambidge, adult education principal at that time, needed someone to teach a writing class at Leisure World. I stayed there for about 15 years before going to work for a trade magazine in Newport. I became an editor and stayed there until I retired."
The Lovrets have three adult children, all of whom live in Tustin. Their daughter Laurie and her family currently live in the ranch house.
Call the museum at 714-731-5701 for more information on the book signing.
Note: I know of one copy that is going to be signed by the author and sent as a Christmas gift to a certain former mayor (Leslie Pontious Pope) who decamped to the wilds of Highland Scotland a few years ago.
Eleven Tustin nonprofit organizations received grant checks from the Tustin Community Foundation on Nov. 17 at the Mayor's Thanksgiving Breakfast at the Salvation Army Tustin Ranch Church.
Kay Kearney, vice president of grants, handed out checks to the Boys & Girls Club of Tustin; Mary's Shelter; Olive Crest Transitional Housing; Orange County Rescue Mission; Special Olympics Orange County; The Legacy Foundation; Sunday Suppers; Tustin Family and Youth Center; Tustin High School Baseball Booster Club; Women Helping Women; and YMCA Tustin.
Over the last four years, the foundation has awarded over $160,000 in grants to deserving nonprofit organizations and schools in greater Tustin. Information: www.tustincommunityfoundation.org.
El Torito restaurant in Enderle Center is the venue of this year's Soroptimist International of Santa Ana/Tustin Breakfast with Santa. In conjunction with Enderle Center, the buffet will be served from 8:30 to 10 a.m. and from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 3. Tickets are $12 and include breakfast, a photo with Santa, gift bag, balloon man and face painting.
Call 714-538-3755.
SAT scores: The Tustin Unified School District has announced that its 2011 Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores continue to be higher than California and national scores.
The average math score of 561 continues to be well above the state average of 515 and national average of 514.� The average critical reading score of 534 also is above the state average of 499 and national average of 497.� The district's writing score of 548 is much higher than California's score of 499 and the national average of 489.� �
Parking lot sale: Robert Heideman Elementary School will hold a Parking Lot Sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the school, 15571 Williams St. A variety of items will be sold including books, clothing, furniture, household items and toys. Call 714- 730-7521.�
Elk's essay contest: The Santa Ana Elks Lodge is sponsoring its annual Americanism Essay Contest for sixth-grade students in the Tustin and Santa Ana unified school districts.� This year's theme is "Why I am Proud to Pledge Allegiance to Our Flag." Lodge members will choose the top essayists, regardless of school district.� From this group they will select eight winners – four boys and four girls.� The finalists will be awarded U.S. Savings Bonds of $250, $200, $150 and $100 for the top four boys' essays and the top four girls' essays. Call 714-730-7339; deadline is Dec. 13.
Staff of Chemer's Gallery in Enderle Center, 17300 Yorba, Suite G, are hosting their 20th annual Children's book Illustration Art Show and Signing. An open house will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 3, but the show will continue until Dec. 17.
More than 50 different books will be offered for preorder, and more than 200 original illustrations will be on sale.
The event will benefit Chapman University College of Educational Studies' K-12 literacy programs. Call 714-731-5432 or visit www.chemersgallery.com.
The city of Tustin will host its annual free Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at City Hall, 300 Centennial Way, from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 9. The free event will feature lots of local entertainment and a visit from Santa for the younger set. Refreshments will be available.
During the festivities, the Business Alliance of Orange County will hold a holiday boutique inside of the Clifton C. Miller Community Center. Call 714-573-3326.
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Teach Them Diligently has created a new innovative program at our events meant to provide the best and most reliable information available for parents homeschooling high schoolers. This event within our events is built on a revolutionary concept called the reverse exhibit hall, and it provides an opportunity for parents to get real answers from actual college representative regarding their homeschooling and getting into college. Here are the main features of the program for you as a homeschool parent.
- Each of the presenting sponsor schools will reach out to families participating in this Teach Them Diligently event to schedule short meetings on-site at our event.
- Only families signed up for the Homeschool to College Fair and have 10th, 11th, or 12th graders are eligible to participate.
- Each family with a 10th, 11th, or 12th grader will be eligible to participate in this on-site homeschool to college fair. If you do not have a 10th, 11th, or 12th grader, you can still participate in speaking workshops during TTD and get access to a wealth of online content on our websites (there are not registration rebates for these other programs)
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SFPE Completes First Engineering Standard
By Morgan J. Hurley, P.E., FSFPE | Fire Protection Engineering
In December, 2010, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers completed its first engineering standard - the SFPE Engineering Standard on Calculating Fire Exposures to Structures. Publication of this standard is a major milestone in a process that began in June, 2001, when SFPE first considered whether to develop standards.
A number of factors influenced the SFPE board of directors' decision for SFPE to develop engineering standards.The board's decision that SFPE should proceed with standards development was primarily influenced by the positive recognition and visibility that has accompanied SFPE's development of engineering guides.
SFPE began developing engineering guides in 1995. Since then, 11 guides have been published. Each of these guides has advanced the fire protection engineering profession and further solidified SFPE's position as the worldwide leader of the fire protection engineering profession.
However, many aspects of fire protection engineering are governed by codes and standards, and guides are not suitable for reference in most codes and standards due to the permissive language in which guides are written. Standards, on the other hand, would be suitable for reference.
SFPE developed a set of standards development procedures that meet the criteria of the American National Standards Association. Fire exposures for performance-based design of structures were selected as the topic for SFPE's first standard due to increasing interest in the subject and the relative maturity of the underlying science.
Performance-based design of structural fire resistance entails three major steps: (1) determination of the fire exposures to which a structure could be subjected, (2) determination of the thermal response of the structure to the exposing fire, and (3) prediction of the structural response to elevated temperatures. SFPE's first standard covers the first of these steps.
SFPE envisions that the SFPE Engineering Standard on Calculating Fire Exposures to Structures will form part of a suite of codes and standards that govern the performance-based design of structural fire resistance. SFPE is also developing a standard that will define how to conduct an analysis of the thermal response of a building structure to the fire exposure. NFPA is developing a standard (NFPA 557) that will provide the fire loads that are to be used as input data into calculations of fire exposures. The fire load directly affects the duration of the fire exposure.
SFPE's new standard is also consistent with the optional, performance-based option in NFPA 5000. Requirements for the performance-based design of structural fire resistance were added in the 2009 edition of NFPA 5000 (section 126.96.36.199.2). These requirements broadly define the fire exposures that should be used and the intended performance. The SFPE Engineering Standard on Calculating Fire Exposures to Structures provides details as to how these fire exposures should be calculated.
The missing piece is a standard that identifies how to predict the response of the structure at elevated temperatures. This is a task that generally requires the expertise of structural engineers, and SFPE hopes to work with the American Society of Civil Engineers on developing such a standard.
The publication of SFPE's first engineering standard is just one more step in SFPE's technical excellence goal to establish SFPE as the primary source of fire protection engineering information and advancements. However, more work remains. SFPE will continue to develop engineering guides and standards and seek formal reference in codes and standards where appropriate. For a complete listing of SFPE's technical activities, see www.sfpe.org.
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TUESDAY, July 24, 2012 (MedPage Today) — The first weeks after a hip or knee replacement are a period of high risk for heart attack, a population-based study affirmed.
In the first 2 weeks, the risk was elevated 25.5-fold for total hip replacement patients and 30.9-fold for total knee replacement patients, Frank de Vries, PharmD, PhD, of Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and colleagues found.
That risk remained five-fold higher out to 6 weeks in the hip arthroplasty group, the group reported online in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The elevated postoperative risk comes as no surprise, since it has been seen across types of major surgery in prior studies, Arthur W. Wallace, MD, PhD, of the University of California San Francisco and San Francisco VA Medical Center, noted in an invited critique of the paper.
"The perioperative period is stressful to patients," he explained, noting that even "thinking about surgery increases cardiac risk."
Another possible mechanism is embolization of bone marrow, which occurs primarily with hip replacement and to a lesser extent with the knee prosthesis implantation, perhaps explaining differences between the surgery types, the researchers pointed out.
Also, the surgery includes hemodynamic stressors from anesthesia, blood loss, fluid shifts, arrhythmias, and hypoxia, they added.
The researchers recommended keeping an eye on patients' heart attack risk for the first 6 weeks after hip replacement and for 2 weeks after knee replacement.
But physicians need to go further than just assessing risk, actively working to reduce it with use of preoperative beta-blockers, clonidine, statins, and aspirin as appropriate, Wallace urged.
"There is a high risk of discontinuation of therapy with anti-ischemic agents in the perioperative period, despite level I evidence for continuation, with significant cardiac morbidity from discontinuation," he added. "Physicians must carefully review perioperative medications and ensure they are appropriately managed in this critical perioperative period of high cardiac risk."
The study included a nationwide cohort of 95,227 primary total hip or total knee arthroplasty patients matched for age, sex, and geographic region to three controls each in the Danish national registries from 1998 through 2007.
Absolute 6-week risk of heart attack was 0.51 percent after hip replacement and 0.21 percent after knee replacement.
Both were strongly influenced by age. During the first 6 weeks, risk was significantly elevated for those age 60 and older, but particularly high in the oldest group ages 80 and over (adjusted hazard ratio 25.3 for hip and 11.2 for knee replacement).
For hip replacement, other significant predictors at 6 weeks were:
- Male sex
- A prior heart attack
- Heart failure
- Cerebrovascular disease (adjusted HR 2.06)
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in the prior 6 months (adjusted HR 1.80)
- Beta-blocker use in the prior 6 months (adjusted HR 1.45)
- Potassium-sparing diuretic use in the prior 6 months (adjusted HR 1.61)
- Organic nitrate medication use in the prior 6 months (adjusted HR 2.68)
- Antiplatelet drug use in the prior 6 months (adjusted HR 2.68)
Many of these factors likely were surrogate markers for either older age or the presence of coronary artery disease rather than causal risk factors, Wallace noted.
Because the heart attack risk appeared roughly four-fold elevated with a history of heart attacks in the 12 months to hip replacement, that should be a contraindication for elective procedures, the researchers argued.
The major limitation of the analysis was the lack of data on other risk factors for heart attacks (such as smoking, blood pressure, biochemical variables, and body mass index), inpatient anticoagulant use, and general anesthesia, they noted.
Source: New Hips, Knees May Pose Heart Attack Risk in Short Term


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There were confrontational scenes as UKIP gatecrashed a public debate from which they were deliberately excluded this evening.
The anti-EU party's prospective Hendon candidate Adrian Murray-Leonard loudly interrupted the start of the event hosted by left-wing campaign group the Barnet Alliance for Public Services (BAPS) at The Larches hall in Edgware.
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The 52-year-old stood up and demanded to know why he was refused a place on the panel, to which representatives from Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the Conservatives were all invited.
BAPS said earlier this week its committee had made a "democratic decision" to exclude the party because it did not agree with its "racist" policies, adding that the Barnet branch, founded in November, had not been active enough locally.
Mr Murray-Leonard described the ban as "undemocratic and crass" but the war of words looked on the verge of breaking out into physical violence this evening during angry scenes at the start of the 7pm meeting.
UKIP told the Times Series this afternoon it expected a "rent-a-mob" to gatecrash the meeting after support was voiced from other party branches.
But it was the lone figure of Mr Murray-Leonard who shouted down BAPS chairman Ruth Kutner as she introduced the panel, announcing that the meeting was "a joke" and "undemocratic" in the face of heckling from the audience.
Ms Jacobson explained that the panel was for "people who have been involved in and shown their face in Barnet politics for several years".
And when Mr Murray-Leonard refused to leave, an audience member, who claimed to be in charge of security, told the UKIP representative to get out, as expletives and heckles began to drown out his protests.
The fracas spilled into the foyer of the hall, where BAPS supporters continued to swear at Mr Murray-Leonard, who repeatedly described the meeting as a joke.
The confrontation was watched by Barnet's UKIP chairman Chris Apostolou, who at one stage moved to urge his party colleague to leave before retaking his seat in the audience.
Barnet's Conservative Party declined to send a representative to tonight's meeting, reportedly due to their belief the panel and audience would be biased.
BAPS appointed two of its own members to the panel – meeting chairman Ruth Kutner and group chairman Barabara Jacobson – as well as loyal BAPS supporter and left-wing blogger Theresa Musgrove, who posts online under the guise of 'Mrs Angry'.
Labour was represented by group leader Alison Moore, while the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party were represented by stalwart councillor Jack Cohen and council candidate Andrew Newby respectively.


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- 1 tablespoon Dijon Mustard
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons butter
- dash of hot sauce
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- salt and pepper
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- Preheat oven to 450. Move oven rack to middle position. Toss crumbs with 1 tablespoon of the dill. In a separate bowl, mix the remaining 1 tablespoon dill, the mayonnaise, mustard and lemon juice together. Pat the fish dry with paper towels, then season with salt and pepper. Butter a baking dish. Lay the fish in prepared dish, spacing the pieces about 1/2 inch apart. Brush the tops and sides of the fish with the mayonnaise mixture. Sprinkle and press the cracker crumbs into the mayonnaise. Bake until the crumbs are golden brown and the fish flakes apart when gently prodded with a paring knife about 15 minutes. Serve with the lemon wedges.


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what a marvelous arrangement. Thanks for that!
And a merry belated Christmas to you.
wow.. thank you xavier :) this was just... wow. speechless! thank you so much :) merry late cristmas!


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Faraday Future's upcoming EV could look like a Toyota
- Sebastian Blanco
- Jul 25, 2016
Toyota U-squared urban utility concept inspired by Maker Faire [w/video]
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- Sep 9, 2014
There's a quiet revolution happening in US cities. People want to mix an urban lifestyle with a connection to nature and appreciation for craftsmanship. The result of all of this is folks pursuing things as varied as urban farming, home brewing and the whole maker movement. Toyota thinks it has the perfect concept for these intrepid customers with its new Urban Utility – or, U-squared, not U2 like the band – concept that it is debuting during a panel discussion hosted by Make: magazi
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- Jan 15, 2007
Toyota Motor Sales, USA and Calty Design Research, a Toyota design studio, have unveiled student-designed vehicle concepts as part of the Bridge Project, a Toyota-sponsored program for the College for Creative Studies. Calty designs vehicle concepts for Toyota, Lexus and Scion aimed at the North American market and is credited with Toyota F3R, Scion FUSE, and t2B, Toyota FT-SX, and the Lexus LF-C sports coupe.
Video: Development of the Scion FUSE concept
- Stuart Waterman
- Apr 18, 2006
CNet's Alpha blog pointed us in the direction of this interesting video, describing the design and development of Scion's FUSE concept car unveiled last week in New York. The video, titled "Scion FUSE: An Evolution" was produced by UrbanRacer.com, and debuted on their site last week.
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The Hague
Delivering its first sentence, the International Criminal Court has jailed Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga for 14 years for recruiting child soldiers.
The Hague-based court was set up a decade ago to punish and discourage the world's worst crimes through a system of international justice, but its critics say it has moved too slowly and failed to put its most important suspects on trial.
Lubanga was found guilty in March of abducting boys and girls under the age of 15 and forcing them to fight in a war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002 and 2003. At least 60 000 people are thought to have been killed.
"The trial and sentence handed down today send a strong message to those who recruit and use children during times of war," said Anneke van Woudenberg of Human Rights Watch.
But taking into account the six years Lubanga spent in detention during the trial, his sentence has only eight years to run. He could get parole earlier.
Critics of the International Criminal Court questioned how big an achievement it could claim from sentencing Lubanga.
"If you'd said at the beginning that this court would finish one trial in 10 years, and that would be for a secondary offence like using child soldiers, people would have said they won't waste their money on it," said William Schabas, a law professor at Middlesex University.
Some Congolese were also disappointed in Lubanga's sentence, which compares with the 50 years handed down in May by another court in The Hague to former Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes in Sierra Leone. "We had hoped he would stay in prison for life in order to ease the minds of the victims," said Emmanuel Folo, a human rights lawyer in Ituri.
Presiding judge Adrian Fulford criticised the ICC's founding prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, for his conduct of Lubanga's case. Ocampo recently completed his term. Lubanga's sentence was shortened because of his good behaviour in the face of the prosecutor's failure to disclose some evidence and giving misleading statements to the media, Judge Fulford said.
Lubanga's Union of Congolese Patriots fought against militias from the Lendu ethnic group, including the Congolese Popular Army and the Patriotic Resistance Force in the Ituri region.
During sentencing, Lubanga's initial wariness gave way to growing confidence as Judge Fulford criticised Moreno-Ocampo.
Some of Moreno-Ocampo's detractors said he had focused too strongly on bringing prosecutions mainly against Africans – although his defenders always said that was because Africa's own justice systems were less able to cope.
Suspects include Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Ivory Coast, who is in The Hague awaiting confirmation of charges of crimes against humanity in his country. But others remain at large.
Those include President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted by the court in 2009 and accused of war crimes in Darfur.
Then there is Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, the subject of a worldwide internet campaign last year, who is accused of enslavement and using child soldiers.
The ICC's record compares with more than 60 people convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia since it was set up in 1993.
"The ICC must ensure it learns the lessons of the first 10 years and challenge those who argue international justice is too costly and lengthy," British Foreign Minister William Hague said on Monday.
But even if US opposition to the court under president George W Bush has given away to tacit support under President Barack Obama, the ICC is still constrained by its political environment.
It is unable to prosecute alleged atrocities in Syria, for example, because Syria never signed the Rome Statute establishing the court. The ICC could still bring prosecutions if it had a referral from the UN Security Council – but that has so far been vetoed by Russia.


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Carriers' price war in the U.S. bad for Wall Street, great for Main Street
AT&T is offering up to $450 to T-Mobile customers who leave the latter for the nation's second largest carrier. Sprint threw its hat into the ring with its new Framily plan that allows as many as 10 unrelated people to share an account. And while all of these lower priced options are great for consumers, they make it harder for the carriers to show revenue growth.
Wall Street analysts are concerned that the tail is wagging the dog. Verizon and AT&T control 67% of the U.S. market for mobile wireless service, and AT&T's reaction to what has amounted to taunting by T-Mobile CEO John Legere, has them scratching their heads. Jefferies analyst Michael McCormack pointed this out when he said, "The most disappointing thing is that AT&T is reacting to T-Mobile. How long is it before Verizon reacts?" Wall Street would prefer that Verizon and AT&T ignore T-Mobile or else a price war might breakout. Again, it would be bad for Wall Street, but great for Main Street.
T-Mobile has led the way over the last few months, led by its charismatic CEO John Legere. The executive has tossed out those Harvard and Wharton textbooks on how a business should be run, and has led the industry to make some very consumer friendly changes. T-Mobile has ended subsidized pricing on new phones and the accompanying 2-year contract. It offers customers multiple phone upgrades in a 12 month period, and has eliminated roaming for data used in over 100 foreign countries. T-Mobile also offers tablet owners 200MB of free data a month. While the carrier has added more than 2.6 million new subscribers over the last two quarters, all of these promotions have to affect the bottom line.
The public sees this back and forth between T-Mobile and AT&T as a way to score lower prices, but analysts seem to believe that both participants are going overboard. Kevin Roe of Roe Equity Research calls this whole battle between the two operators as an "unhealthy market dynamic," and sees AT&T continuing to react to Legere's red cape until it can stop the exodus of customers leaving for T-Mobile.
Legere might be the first CEO of a public company to shrug off the risk to profits of a price war. Already considered to be extremely pro-consumer, at CES he said that he would rather give consumers a good deal even if it means not matching the profit margins achieved by rival firms. Such blasphemy used to be rewarded with a pink slip issued by a company's board. "We can be very profitable,"said the executive, "but I don't think you need to make 55 points of EBITDA margins." T-Mobile has a long term goal of a 34% to 36% EBITDA margin. Verizon and AT&T have higher EBITDA margins of 51.1% and 42% respectively.
Despite T-Mobile's bold moves, Verizon Communications CEO, and former Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said that T-Mobile can't buy loyalty and that Verizon customers who switched will eventually return. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse chimed in with a similar statement. The other day, John Legere said that if everyone in the U.S. switched to T-Mobile, Americans could save $20 billion. While obviously this will not happen, it is an indication of the amount of money that could be cut from carriers' bottom lines. And that is what makes Wall Street nervous. Main Street, on the other hand, wouldn't mind seeing this price war escalate.
source: Reuters
19 Comments
1. Commentator (Posts: 3722; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
"Such blasphemy used to be rewarded with a pink slip issued by a company's board."
Any board that would do that would be extremely short-sighted, especially were it T-Mobile's board. As the "little-guy," T-Mobile has no choice but to respond like this. Going head-to-head with a behemoth like AT&T on their own terms would be suicide.
Legere's not an idiot. He's not just doing this to be the good guy. He knows that doing this can very well mean much larger profits down the road.
2. Augustine (Posts: 1043; Member since: 28 Sep 2013)
In Capitalism, the economic system is controlled by the consumers. The control of the economic system by corporations is called Syndicalism. In other words, when it's good for consumers it furthers Capitalism, when it's good for corporations if furthers Syndicalism. Ergo, Legere is a true capitalist and McCormack, a crony capitalist, a corporatist and a syndicalist.
18. Jayshmay (Posts: 82; Member since: 27 Mar 2011)
Very well worded! Thank you for explaining that!
I'm relatively new to Tmo myself, joined them 4/29/13 fir the S4, left Verizon.
3. corporateJP (Posts: 2458; Member since: 28 Nov 2009)
"McAdam said that T-Mobile can't buy loyalty and that Verizon customers who switched will eventually return"
Lowell McAdam, like every other high level Verizon executive, has a whorish arrogance about him.
Sorry, Lowell, your smelling your own farts again, not all of us will be coming back to be violated by your band of corporate rapists.
On a side note: up yours, Wall Street.
19. Jayshmay (Posts: 82; Member since: 27 Mar 2011)
I agree! Not just Vzn's execs, but some of their customers are cocky!!
4. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
I'd say very bad. every year they are getting greedier and greedier. I used to be with AT&T for 8yrs till they got rid of my unlimited data then went prepaid got a unlocked phone stick a SIM CARD prepaid in it and save myself 70$ per month. who can afford 80$ a month with only 2GB worth a data?
15. bigdawg23 (Posts: 462; Member since: 25 May 2011)
How did they get rid of your unlimited data? Unlike Verizon they don't force people off of it when buying a new phone. Today I still have my unlimited data for $30 before discount. Going prepaid gives you less acess to towers and shrinks coverage.
Last month I hit 10GB and no throttling or warning from ATT so it is truly unlimited.
5. a_merryman (Posts: 749; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
This is what they seem like to me:http://i.imgur.com/RsI9t.gif
6. TheRetroReplay (Posts: 254; Member since: 20 Mar 2012)
I see no reason to go to T-Mobile again, I had it as my first carrier and no matter where I went there as no service at all, of course I lived out in the middle of nowhere but I couldn't use the phone as a phone. When I moved to a big city I finally had service, but I eventually switched to Verizon due to several very poor T-Mobile customer service experiences. And then I moved back to the middle of nowhere
If you live in the right areas T-Mobile is good, not great, but good. But if you're in an area where their service is nearly non existent, you're paying them for no reason because you don't have coverage. Verizon is correct that you can't buy loyalty and that customers they lost to T-Mobile will be back because those living in areas where T-Mobile's coverage is bad, they'll go back to Verizon so they can use their phones, as phones.
I hope that this price war will work out for T-Mobile though, then they could get more towers to expand their coverage.
11. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
T-mobile does offer Wifi calling and is the only major carrier that does, so that they can allieviate coverage woes somewhat, depending on how good someone's access to Wifi is. Wifi calling also helps with network congestion and such too.
14. npaladin2000 (Posts: 165; Member since: 06 Nov 2011)
They implemented that WiFI calling out of necessity, primarily because their 1900 mHz signal has too much trouble penetrating buildings and working indoors. That's all it's really meant for, to let you use your T-mobile phone at home, and maybe at the office if the IT department doesn't block it. But there's never going to be enough WiFI hotspots out there to replace a decent amount of cellular towers,
7. GeekMovement (unregistered)
"Despite T-Mobile's bold moves, Verizon Communications CEO, and former Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said that T-Mobile can't buy loyalty and that Verizon customers who switched will eventually return. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse chimed in with a similar statement."
LOL Sprint has loyalty? Maybe if they expanded their voice coverage years ago they would! The only loyalty I see are the big cities such as LA, Dallas, Chicago, and NYC where they're constantly upgrading the network, but other cities? Nah not so much. I'm fed up with waiting for better coverage from Sprint and I'm under serious consideration about switching over to T-Mobile despite some negative experiences I've heard from people.
8. camera531 (Posts: 346; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
You're wrong about Sprint's coverage in LA. They're data service is non-existent and even if you see 3g or lte on the phone, it's edge speeds at best, or no service at all. I don't know how Sprint gets away with this without major lawsuits. They charge almost $100 a month, but literally don't provide service.
10. GeekMovement (unregistered)
Wow that's even more shocking.
9. npaladin2000 (Posts: 165; Member since: 06 Nov 2011)
I might give T-Mobile a chance...if they had more than a single tower around here. He's definitely trying to make his company competitive but ultimately, he's a service provider that can only provide limited service, and until he fixes that, it's going to limit their capability of adding subscribers.
Interesting little fact about AT&T: they don't offer LTE in my area to their own subscribers paying $100 a month or more. But buy a NET10 AT&T SIM card, slap it in the same phone, configure the APN, and voila! LTE. Methinks AT&T isn't quite reacting enough to T-Mobile.
12. DAMONORIBELLO (Posts: 109; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
"he's a service provider that can only provide limited service, and until he fixes that, it's going to limit their capability of adding subscribers"
This is his move to fix that.
13. npaladin2000 (Posts: 165; Member since: 06 Nov 2011)
But he can only add so many before he's going to have to spend money on infrastructure to accommodate them, Towers and backhaul cost a lot of money to deploy. Even with their metro area strategy to get the most out of the towers they do deploy, there's still a capacity issue.
So the question is, is he willing to make the investment to do it, especially while at the same time cutting down on potential revenue and leaving him less money to invest in infrastructure expansion?
17. housry23 (Posts: 132; Member since: 03 Jun 2012)
They just spent 3 billion dollars to buy 700Mhz spectrum from Verizon. T-Mobiles AWS bands are great for keeping congestion down and fast speeds, but they don't penetrate buildings and homes very well. This purchase is a first step toward fixing the poor coverage. Not only does the 700Mhz spectrum penetrate buildings, it also reaches further. This is how VZW and ATT can cover all of America. The bought up all the low band spectrum because they have all the money. Also, there's going to be an auction for more low band spectrum. I believe it's the 600Mhz that the TV stations used to broadcast on before they went digital. If the FCC allows T-Mobile to buy that and doesn't play favorites, there's a real possibility that T-Mobile will be the best choice for coverage in 3-4 years.
Yes I understand their coverage stinks now. If you're in a highly populated area, there's a good chance T-Mobile is your best choice. If not, wait, continue to check the coverage, and when they expand give them a chance. Or...hopefully by then, AT&T and VZW will take T-Mobile seriously and start unlocking their phones, and charging less for the tiny little bit of data. They want everything streamed from the cloud, but you have to pay to really be able to do it.
16. bigstrudel (Posts: 529; Member since: 20 Aug 2012)
Translation: Whats good for Wall street is bad for consumers.


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Turning a phrase with Wendy Liebman.
Can I get a "78 – My Brothah – Up Top?"
69 minus 9. My pleasure.
Great ep!
There was a town makeover show called Town Haul w/ Genevieve Gorder
Wendy looks pretty damn good for 51, a little Julia Louise Dreyfus-vibe.
It was funny about you talking about the weather as I was listening to this while I was walking to work in a snow storm in Scotland. You weather sounds like a nice summer's day here.
The new season and this episode is looking good but
WHY: the siamese twin snake on the new season logo?
What a great guest. I love the surprises I get sometimes of people I already like that end up….
On the Podcast.
chrnk: it's a play on The Price Is Right logo, but instead of a $ it's Jimmy's initials.
I just love Wendy Leibman, this was a great episode, and look forward to Jimmy getting her booked at the Comedy Attic.
There's this new kid at work with curly black hair that I started calling Fred Savage. A couple of weeks ago, he told me I should update my references and I replied "Whatever, Ben Savage."
Haven't stopped laughing.
i usually can't remember where i left my keys in the morning, but for whatever reason, music trivia sticks to my brain. i think the Berlin song Jimmy was thinking of was "No More Words".
great episode!
IanEye – you are 100% right. Thanks for reminding me!!!
Damn me for not being able to pull it.
I love Wendy, but I thought of the very same joke she thinks was stolen. To wit: I visited my mother-in-law over the Christmas holidays and she cooked so much good food, I ate way too much of it. Therefore, that's what I got for Christmas: fat.
But y'know, great minds and all…
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1. Re: outOfMemory error presents when cleaner occursLinda Lee-Oracle Sep 22, 2012 12:02 AM (in response to liang_mic)Thank you for your bug report and analysis. I have opened SR [#21786] for this.
You are right, and have detected a flaw in the implementation of this method. It is indeed trying to do the entire delete in one transaction, and is therefore vulnerable to accumulating a huge set of changes, requiring a lot of memory. We certainly need to change make this more constrained, and the deletion should occur as a series of transactions. The change is slightly trickier than meets the eye because we need to traverse the metadata to be deleted in reverse order; right now, it's being deleted from end -> front, and to chunk it, we need to go front -> end. That may have some dependencies, which we will have to think about and test.
One reason we have never noticed this before is because it can only occur when you are going to delete a really large amount of data in one attempt. The JE log cleaner is designed to work steadily in the background, cleaning in small increments. This kind of sudden burst of cleaning is unexpected. The VLSNIndex problem is a bug that we will fix, but this kind of heavy log cleaning is certainly going to cause your application performance problems, in that disk space is not being incrementally reclaimed. Does it make sense to you that there is such a sudden burst of log cleaning? Are there some characteristics of your application that might cause this?
In the meantime, do you need to recover this environment? I think it might take a little while to work out a fix, and perhaps there is a way to force incremental cleaning of your log, so that the VLSNINdex deletion also ends up being incremental. I would have to do some investigation to see if there is a workaround; let me know if you need that.
Thank you for the bug report,
2. Re: outOfMemory error presents when cleaner occurs909806 Sep 22, 2012 12:29 AM (in response to Linda Lee-Oracle)Actually, any time you truncate a database you are liable to get a sudden burst of cleaning, so I'd think that would not be an unusual situation.1 person found this helpful
3. Re: outOfMemory error presents when cleaner occursLinda Lee-Oracle Sep 22, 2012 12:48 AM (in response to 909806)Jeff,1 person found this helpful
You're right that a truncation would make a lot of data obsolete. But nevertheless, the log cleaner would still process the JE .jdb files in an incremental fashion. However, what you said makes me realize that there is a difference between the way the actual log cleaning works, and the maintenance of VLSN metadata, which is used for JE HA. The VLSN metadata is getting sorta truncated in a fashion, (or beheaded) reallly, rather than following the same pattern as the log cleaning.
Well, one way or another, it's our bug.
4. Re: outOfMemory error presents when cleaner occursliang_mic Sep 24, 2012 2:20 AM (in response to Linda Lee-Oracle)Linda Lee,
Thank you for your timely reply,and your reminding about log cleaning performance in my case.
Yes, this kind of sudden burst of cleaning may occurs in my application:
My application is a distributed HA cluster. When we add "new" group (two-nodes bdb je group) to cluster,a lot of data will be moved out from "old" groups to "new" groups.
And after rebalancing data,we will remove obsoleted data from "old" groups;thus sudden burst of cleaning occurses.
Thank you for paying attention about recovering of my bdb environment.
Because I found this problem in a test environment,so I do not need to recover it at this time; and I look forward to your next release fixing this little bug.
Thank you for your reply,


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The actress is said pregnant with a baby girl and is due to give birth in October.
The sex of Ellen Pompeo's not-yet-born baby has been exclusively revealed by In Touch Weekly. It is said that the actress is carrying a baby girl. Nevertheless, there has been no single evidence offered by the news media to support the baby's sex claim.
In April this year, Ellen had her representative confirming that she is pregnant with music producer husband Chris Ivery's baby. Not providing details of her pregnancy, the representative simply stated "It's great news."
The baby that Ellen is carrying will be her and Chris' first child. The pair has been married since November 2007.
Ellen Pompeo, as reported by In Touch Weekly, was spotted shopping with a friend at Juvenile Shop in Sherman Oaks, Calif., on July 23. At the venue, she met fellow celeb Nicole Richie, who is pregnant with her second child, and gave her a hug. "Nicole was so excited to offer her help to Ellen," says a source. "She was giving advice about what she should buy and things she'll need for the nursery."


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Musicians have been making the most of chilly weather in northern Italy, by putting on a concert with a difference.
High up in the mountains, a giant igloo is home to musicians playing instruments made of ice as part of a special festival.
The man behind the idea, musician Terje Isungset, says it's pretty tricky to find the right ice for the instruments, but it's worth the effort as no two concerts ever sound the same.


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Here is Part One, Oh, how I love Jesus.
This is Part Two, What I Remember.
We left Sixth Avenue Baptist Church and soon thereafter began to attend Calvary Church on West 57th Street in Manhattan. Forty five minutes from home by car, Calvary was tucked between a hotel and an expensive apartment building across four lanes of traffic and two lanes of parked cars from Carnegie Hall. I loved wandering around the streets of midtown between the 11am Sunday morning service and the 6pm evening service. We spent all day every Sunday at or near the church.
Sunday School.
Worship Service.
Walk about.
Evening Service.
The long drive - or subway ride - home.
Truthfully, I loved spending my Sundays that way. Three of my four best church friends were sisters who lived in Greenwich Village. They didn't stay for the Sunday evening service, so my fourth friend, Emilia (I've changed her name), and I would walk them home (from West 57th Street down to West 4th St) and back between the services. A lot of walking. A lot of talking.
Emilia shared stories with me about her experience of life at Calvary. Her father was an elder at the church, and her mother was also deeply involved in leadership and ministry there. Emilia told stories that opened my eyes about what happened behind the closed doors of the church, behind the pulpit, behind the scenes at that respected and influential church. I spent most of our time together listening to her stories, pulse racing, mouth agape. How could that stuff happen at church? At CHURCH?
Soon after our arrival at Calvary, my parents joined Emilia's parents as prominent leaders in the church. Meetings. Retreats. Dinners. Teaching. More meetings. More retreats. People at our house. My parents at other people's houses. Phone calls. Late night arrivals after late night meetings.
Fear set in.
What if they disagree with the pastor again? What if we get kicked out again?
What if I have to abandon my good friends again?
What can I do to ensure that I don't have to go through that pain again?
I know: I'll be a good girl. I'll be the best girl I can be, the best girl the church has ever had. I won't lie or cheat or steal. I won't gossip or bully or tease anyone. I will obey my Sunday School teachers, speak respectfully to the pastors and elders, and I will do the same with my parents. I won't ask them for anything and I won't complain about anything either. I won't ask for prayer at prayer meetings; we didn't need prayer. We prayed for other people.
If I'm a good girl, a good student, a good person, then nothing will go wrong.
The only thing that went wrong was that I became addicted to being good, to being complimented, and to having to find new ways to impress people with how good I was and how good I could be.
I was afraid all the time that the truth would come out. That I would be discovered to be a fraud, a liar, and once again, we would get kicked out of the church. I would embarrass my parents and myself. Somehow I managed to forget that what had happened at Sixth Avenue Baptist wasn't my fault. I had nothing to do with the decision to leave that church, and my pleas that we be allowed to stay went unheeded. Nonetheless, I thought that this time, if I was good enough, then everything would be okay.
Fear set in.
There was the persistent fear of telling the truth about what I thought, felt and needed,
fear of asking questions,
fear of challenging people in authority over me,
not only people who truly had earned that authority,
but also people to whom I abdicated authority over me -
these fears and so many others consumed my every thought.
Not only in my church life and my spiritual life,
in my education, in my family relationships,
but also in my thoughts about money, friendship, and love,
I believed that there was never enough of anything,
and that everything could be taken away unexpectedly and without explanation.
I believed that there was never enough of anything,
and that everything could be taken away unexpectedly and without explanation.
Fear most definitely became a factor.
So I determined to live the life of a good girl, a good teenager,
a good young adult, a good wife, a good mother,
a good teacher, a good church member, a good volunteer.
I was terrified all the time, but I was so very good.


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Lynn, Tan Jo and Sha`ameri, Ahmad Zuri (2007) Automatic analysis and classification of digital modulation signals using spectrogram time-frequency analysis. In: Communications and Information Technologies, 2007. ISCIT '07. International Symposium, 17-19 Oct 2007, Sydney.
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Automatic analysis and classification of signals is important for spectrum monitoring. It enables the system to monitor the conformance of frequency planning from the users. Spectrogram time-frequency analysis can be used to extract useful information from time-varying signals. The information can be used for signal classification. This paper describes the design and implement an automatic system to analyze and classify the basic types of digital modulation signals such as amplitude shift-keying (ASK), frequency shift-keying (FSK) and phase shift-keying (PSK). Analysis method is based on the spectrogram time frequency analysis and a rules based approach is used as a classifier. From the time-frequency representation, the instantaneous frequency is estimated which is then used to estimate the modulation type and its parameters. This information is further used as input to the rules based classifier. The robustness of the system is tested in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise. On the average, the classification accuracy is 90 percent for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 2 dB. Thus, the results show that the system gives reliable analysis and classification of signals in an uncooperative communication environment even if the received signal is weak.
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Amir: "Rest in peace to him-Isaac Hayes meant a lot to hip-hop, just like James Brown. That's one of the songs that Public Enemy used, on 'Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos,' that was a big song off their second album. A few other people used other parts of the song as well, but that was definitely one of the best."
Kon: "That is another amazing artist, all around. He covered it all, he did everything. What can I say...I mean, it's Isaac Hayes! That's Chocolate Salty Balls. [Laughs.]"


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J. Zhou Oriental Cuisine Opens at The District In Tustin
J. Zhou Oriental Cuisine
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It's been about three years since Pablo's Cantina shuttered at The District in Tustin. Even longer since Bistro West closed in that very spot. Does anybody even remember Bistro West?
Now a new restaurant has moved in. J. Zhou Oriental Cuisine is the restaurant that's owned (at least the last time I checked) by the owner of Happy Harbor Restaurant in Rowland Heights, whose name is Jackie Jin Qi Zhou. As we originally reported two years ago, it, too, was supposed to be called Happy Harbor, but a lot of things can happen in two years.
The restaurant opened yesterday and is reportedly serving Cantonese food.
Still to open at The District: Union Market, which is a mall-within-a-mall concept that will house a handful of eateries in the space left behind by Borders. Union Market is being developed by the same people who brought you The OC Mix in Costa Mesa.
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Mary-Kate Olsen makes another media headline with her being reported to get up close and personal with former marketing manager and heir to the automaker Fiat, Lapo Elkann.
It appears that Mary-Kate Olsen has moved on from her broken heart following the death of her rumored boyfriend Heath Ledger and found new love in another hunk. The pint size actress provokes another dating rumor with her being reported to get down and dirty with Italian playboy Lapo Elkann.
Lapo is a New York-born Italian industrialist, former marketing manager and heir to the automaker Fiat. The heir to the $7.3 billion Fiat auto dynasty, according to reports, overdosed on cocaine and heroin at the home of a transsexual back in 2005.
Mary-Kate and Lapo bonded at the Giambattista Valli show during Paris Fashion week on February 28, it has been claimed. "Mary-Kate and Lapo seemed very cozy," a source in the know revealed. "Lapo's a good-looking guy, and Mary-Kate seemed to love the attention she was getting from him."
It's not the first time these two were linked to each other. Both billionaires apparently been party buddies overseas for quite some time now. "Perhaps, this time in Paris, they'll strike up a romance," the source went on adding.
Mary-Kate and her twin sister Ashley Olsen have recently announced that they're about to publish a coffee table book, titled "Influence," through Penguin Young Readers Group.
The set reportedly will detail their favorite style icons and the people who have influenced them over the past decade. It will feature "the most interesting, challenging, creative people we know - the ones who helped pave the way for us and our generation," Ashley said in a statement. "Ashley and I interviewed the people who have inspired us, with the hope that they will inspire and teach others," Mary-Kate added.


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Pick The Right College Without Having Difficulty
Are you returning to pick up the place you left off? Are you away from school for a long period? Are you presently in need of assistance? This post will help give you answers to a few of your queries. It really is easy to return. Fulfilling your ideal can be done. Read along to discover tips on how to achieve this stuff. You might be worthwhile.
Try to obtain your books from online sources instead of through the college bookstore. Buying used books online will help you save a whole lot, but order them in advance so they arrive by the time classes start. This can include both new books along with books that have been utilized by previous students.
Take various electives which contain a lot of variety. The wider the spectrum of classes, the more effective potential for finding your niche. Benefit from the relatively relaxed first year of college to explore different opportunities and activities.
When at college, you cannot rely on your past high school achievements to obtain through. College is much different and lots of things you accomplished in secondary school won't matter to the people you encounter in college. Challenge yourself up to you can and push your old boundaries.
When selecting or selling your schoolbooks online, ensure you compare the costs each site provides. Make certain you test all sites for top level deal possible.
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Make the most of your academic strengths. You can make a lot of money by tutoring your peers inside your best subjects. Use bulletin boards along with the Internet to promote your services like a tutor. You can also post ads online.
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To submit items for the Arts Calendar, email: [email protected].
Charlotte Shover, author of "Augustus Temme in the Civil War," will sell and sign her book, 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Presented with the Rosemount Area Arts Council.
Craig Ferguson, 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake. Mature audiences only. Tickets: $49 to $59, www.mysticlake.com.
Frightmares at Buck Hill, 7 p.m. Oct. 11-12, 17-20, 24-27, Buck Hill, 15400 Buck Hill Road, Burnsville. Tickets are $18 Sundays and $20 Wednesdays-Saturdays. Information: 952-435-7174, www.frightmares.com.
Valleyscare Halloween Haunt, Oct. 11-12, 17-19, 25-26, Valleyfair, Shakopee. Tickets range from $30.99 to $43.99. Ages 13 and older. Information: www.valleyfair.com/haunt.
Visual art exhibit by Stephanie Molstre-Kotz is on display through October at the Robert Trail Library, 14395 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount.
Dan Petrov's "The Mystery of Light" exhibit is on display through Oct. 26 in the Burnsville Performing Arts Center gallery, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Information: 952-895-4679 or www.burnsvillepac.com.
An Acoustic Brunch Fundraiser for CCFA-Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, Icehouse, 2528 Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis. Performances by Elizabeth Kupchella, Faith Boblett, Dustin Lee, and Lydia Hoglund of Bomba de Luz. Featuring a silent auction and wine grab. Cost: $30 for adults, $10 for children. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Minnesota/Dakotas Chapter of the CCFA. Tickets available at the door and in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/461375.
Billy McLaughlin, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, Lakeville Area Arts Center. Tickets: $25 in advance (www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com), $29 at the door.
"Afternoon at Pops: Latin Rhapsody" by Dakota Valley Symphony featuring Nachito Herrera, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $5-$16 at the box office and Ticketmaster.com.
A Salute to the Rat Pack, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $22-$51 at the box office and Ticketmaster.com.
Country Roads: A John Denver Celebration, 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave. Tickets: $51-$71 at the box office and Ticketmaster.com.
"Spooky Music 2" by the Minnesota Symphonic Winds, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $25 or $15 for groups of 10 or more at the box office, by phone at 800-982-2787 or Ticketmaster.com.
"Ole & Lena's Family Reunion," 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18-19 and 2 p.m. Oct. 20, Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave. Tickets: $17.50 at www.LakevilleAreaArtsCenter.com.
Mad Munchkin Productions puppet shows, Friday, Oct. 25, garage at 17699 Lake Oak Circle, Lakeville. "The Great Candy Caper" for ages 3-12, 6:30 p.m. "Late Night With Pumpkin Headerman" for ages 13 and older, 8 p.m. Bring lawn chair or blanket for seating. Free, but non-perishable food donations requested. Information: www.madmunchkinproductions.com.
"Arsenic & Old Lace," presented by the Prior Lake Players Community Theatre, 7 p.m. Oct. 25-26 and Nov. 1-2, and 2 p.m. Oct. 27, Twin Oaks Middle School, 15860 Fish Point Road S.E., Prior Lake. Tickets: $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, and $8 for children 12 and under at www.plplayers.org or at the door. Information: www.plplayers.org.
Traditional Japanese Bookbinding, 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S., Eagan. Cost: $30. Registration required. Information: www.eaganarthouse.org or 651-675-5521.
Classic Film Night – "West Side Story," 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Tickets: $6 at www.rosemountarts.com.
"Explorers of Light" photography workshop, 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, Rosemount. Cost: $5, free for students. Registration required at www.rosemountarts.com.
Rock 4 Real, an authentic rock 'n' roll experience for adults, begins Oct. 23 for five sessions at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis. Coaches will be Mike Arturi and Tim Mahoney. Information: macphail.org/offerings/adults/ensembles or 612-321-0100.
Broadway Connections Triple Threat Intensive for Teens, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, Pinnacle Performing Arts Center, 1001 Division St., Northfield. Ages: 12-18. Cost: $95. Register at www.pinnacleperformingartscenter.com.
Maiolica Tile Making, 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S., Eagan. Cost: $30. Registration required. Information: www.eaganarthouse.org or 651-675-5521.
Teen Poetry Jam/Rap Battle, 4-5 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at Apple Valley Teen Center, 14255 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, 952-953-2385. Ages 12-18.
Adult painting open studio, 9 a.m. to noon Fridays at the Eagan Art House, 3981 Lexington Ave. S. Fee is $5 per session. Information: 651-675-5521.
Drawing & Painting (adults and teens) with Christine Tierney, 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays, River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville. Information: www.christinetierney.com, 612-210-3377.
Teens Express Yourself with Paint, 5-7 p.m. Mondays at Brushworks School of Art in Burnsville, www.BrushworksSchoolofArt.com, 651-214-4732.
Drama/theater classes for ages 4 and up at River Ridge Arts Building, Burnsville, 952-736-3644.
Show Biz Kids Theater Class for children with special needs (ASD/DCD programs), In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville, 952-736-3644.
Broadway Kids Dance and Theater Program for all ages and abilities, In the Company of Kids, 13710 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville (Colonial Shopping Center), 952-736-3644.
Join other 55-plus adults at the Eagan Art House to create beaded jewelry. The Jewelry Club meets on the third Friday of each month from 1-3 p.m. Information: 651-675-5500.
Soy candle making classes held weekly in Eagan near 55 and Yankee Doodle. Call Jamie at 651-315-4849 for dates and times. $10 per person. Presented by Making Scents in Minnesota.
Country line dance classes held for intermediates Mondays 1:30-4 p.m. at Rambling River Center, 325 Oak St., Farmington, $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833.
Country line dance classes on Wednesdays at the Lakeville Senior Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave. Beginners, 9-10 a.m.; Intermediate, 10 a.m. to noon. $5/class. Call Marilyn 651-463-7833.
The Lakeville Area Arts Center offers arts classes for all ages, www.lakevillemn.gov, 952-985-4640.
Rosemount History Book Club meets 6:30-8 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Robert Trail Library. Information: John Loch, 952-255-8545 or [email protected].


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Families have been named the big winners in Treasurer Wayne Swan's fifth budget, which has delivered a razor thin surplus of just $1.5 billion. Here's how it breaks down:
- Increase to family tax benefit A if eligible.
- For families on maximum rate, extra $300 per year for one child, extra $600 a year for families with two or more children.
- For families on base rate, extra $100 a year for one child, extra $200 a year for families with two or more children.
- Limiting of eligibility for Family Tax Benefit A to children under 18, or children at secondary school up to the age of 19.
- Tripling of the tax-free threshold from $6000 to $18,200, as previously announced.
- From July 1, the carbon tax will lead to an average increase in household costs of $9.90 per week, but this will be offset by tax cuts and increases in support payments of $10.10 per week on average.
- $2.1 billion over five years to replace Education Tax Refund with Schoolkids Bonus.
- From 2013, eligible families will receive up to $410 per year for each primary school student and $820 per year for each secondary student for education expenses.
- $225 million over four years to help with childcare fees for parents on income support who are studying or training.
- Financial assistance will now be available for parents undertaking new courses at Certificate II or higher level.
- Access to up to 50 hours of child care per week for parents doing at least 15 hours of work, study or training and up to 24 hours of child care for activities requiring less than 15 hours per week.
Disability Services:
- $1 billion over four years for roll-out of National Disability Insurance Scheme.
- First stage of scheme to begin in mid-2013 for about 10,000 Australians with a significant and permanent disability in up to four "launch" locations in Australia.
- From mid-2014, scheme will be expanded to bring the total number of eligible people up to 20,000.
Breakdown of funding for the NDIS:
- $342.5 million over three years from July 2013 to help with care and support for people with a disability.
- $240.3 million over four years to build and operate an NDIS information technology system.
- $154.8 million over three years to employ local area coordinators to help with one-on-one care for people with a disability.
- $122.6 million over four years to help prepare the disability sector for delivering care under the NDIS, particularly in the launch locations for the first stage of the roll-out.
- $58.6 million over three years from 2013-2014 to assess people with a disability in the launch locations to determine their eligibility for the scheme and level of care needed.
- $53 million over four years from 2012-13 to establish a National Disability Transition Agency to coordinate the care for people in the launch locations.
- $18.3 million over four years from 2012-13 to continue the Commonwealth taskforce advising the government on the development of the NDIS.
- $11.7 million over four years from 2012-13 for research into early intervention to improve support for people with a disability.
- $5.2 million over four years from 2013-14 to evaluate the scheme in the launch locations.
- States and territories that host the launch sites will have to contribute to the cost of care and support for people with a disability.
What do you think about the 2012 budget? Have your say on the Essential Baby forums.


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This is a very good news for Windows Phone 8 and Nokia Lumia 920. This powerful and incredible smartphone had a sold-out reservation in Italy and France.
In Italy, one of the biggest Windows Phone market, Nokia website had open a pre-orders for Nokia Lumia 920. The price is 599 Euro. The pre-orders was sold-out very quickly in 10 days. With the rate, look like that Nokia Lumia 920, the Windows Phone 8 device, will be hot in the smartphone war challenge.
And in France, the Phonehouse showed that Nokia Lumia 920 in Black is in top rank in the best seller chart. It had took down the most powerful opponent, iPhone 5. The website opened for pre-orders in black only. I think the other colors will come after this.
Windows Phone 8 didn't show all features yet, but more people are going to see it. Windows Phone 8 will show all their cards on 29th October and sell in 1st November in Italy, USA Germany and England that I think it will plus Canada, France and Sweden on the list
With these news, Nokia Lumia 920 is playing the powerful role for Windows Phone 8 in smartphone war.
Thank you WMP


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On Food Network
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Episode: Just Like Yesterday
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Original Aired On 01/16/2013
Episode: Pork Paradise
In the decades since her father opened the restaurant in 1967, owner Teresa Breckenridge has continued to use his unconventional recipes, all still loved by customers.
What a cool place based on the nostalgia factor alone. As I child of the 60's this place is a time machine. Don't go there expecting fine dining go there for a fair deal and a real meal. I had breakfast, 2 eggs, grits, country ham with red eye gravy. This came with 2 fluffy excellent biscuits an an endless cup a joe. Textbook classic hands down and the quintessential truckers diner. In total the food was sound, well executed, and served quick and friendly. It's another Atlanta must visit places for us normal folks. FoodDude!
Really nothing special. And that lemon icebox pie is super sweet and not edible. Breakfast was nothing to write home about. Wouldnt return.
If there's a long line, try the smaller dining room next to the main one. You don't get the same ambience, but you do get the same food.
Seating is on the "honor system"
Come for breakfast, best in Atlanta. The biscuits are awesome, hot, fresh and delicious.
One of the best brunch meals I've ever had! A "must do" in Atlanta!
Try the shrimp
Don't pass up the lemon icebox pie!
When u walk in, b sure to figure out who is ahead in the line.
Get the French toast. It's the best thing in the world
Ask for Kara!
If u want lunch, come after 11 cuz they r strict!!!
Best hangover breakfast in Atlanta, however it wasn't featured in The Hangover, it was featured in Anchorman 2. Biscuits the way grandma made 'em! ?


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