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Who will break down and cry this week? (Besides Gordana)
Please keep all chatter in here until 2AM ET / 11PM ET.
Enjoy the show!
Who will break down and cry this week? (Besides Gordana)
Please keep all chatter in here until 2AM ET / 11PM ET.
Enjoy the show!
OK -- this makes two weeks in a row that Logan is blatantly daring Michael Kors to use his "the crotch on those pants is INSANE" line...
Oh dear..Epperson's dress is hideous...
Gordana makes a great body-hugging dress outo f the inner lining, so it's grey instread of white. They love it.
Christopher made some garbage-bag-looking bubble dress that is clever but ugly.
Epperson's is a Heidi-Pippi Longstocking dress, and he didn't use enough of the actual wedding dress as material. They trash it.
Shirin made a tight, structured dress that the crazy divorcee thinks is too safe but the judges love.
Logan's gray trousers and frilly top is another "Oktoberfest" look according to Heidi -- bad execution, hem is to the floor, unflattering top. Yeesh.
Irina's dress is gold, but it's from the dress. The judges think it's chic and expensive looking but I think it's tacky. Irina can do nor wrong apparently. It was accessorized/styled well.
Christopher, Logan and Epp are in trouble.
I hope Gordana wins. I liked hers the best, so much so I'd love to be on a plane tomorrow to whatever Carolina she's in and have her reconfigure my bridesmaid dress from last weekend into something that fits and is more flattering.
She'd be the one I would trust with that too!
Yay! Gordana wins!
On to the judging:
Shirin is in.
Gordana is the winner!
Irina is in.
Christopher is in! Logan and Epperson are bottom 2.
Auf weidersehen, Epperson. Apparently they want to keep staring at Logan's pants for another week.
I am so flabbergasted at this.
Epperson's may have missed the mark some, but I think he did a better job than Christopher.
And I hated this outfit when Logan made it LAST WEEK for the Macy's blue challenge!
I mean, come on - it was ill-fitting tweedy pants all over again.
Sorry, but there is no way I agree with this.
On a better note, however, huzzah Gordana!
Nina is back next week! And Bob Mackie is a guest judge! They are designing for "a multi-platinum selling recording artist"...
Wow, they are really cranking up the camp factor next week! Can't wait
Yeah. Logan made the same crap outfit as last week, he should have gonoe home. He's been skating by for too long. At least Christopher and Epp put some thought into it...Originally Posted by Fierce Critter;3722478;


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Poland in the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom
390 pages
March 2014, Wiley-Blackwell
Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global context
- Challenges traditional accounts Poland that tend to focus on national, political history, emphasizing the country's 'exceptionalism'.
- Presents a lively, multi-dimensional story, balancing coverage of high politics with discussion of social, cultural and economic changes, and their effects on individuals' daily lives.
- Explores both the regional diversity within Poland and the country's place within Europe and the wider world.
- Provides a new interpretive framework for understanding key historical events in Poland's modern history, including the experiences of World War II and the postwar communist era.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Pronunciation Guide x
Introduction 1
1 Poles without Poland, 1795–1918 6
2 The Political Landscape at the Start of the 20th Century 43
3 Nation and/or Revolution, 1914–22 65
4 The Ambivalence of Democracy and Authority, 1922–39 90
5 Hyperinflation and Depression: The Interwar Period 105
6 Jews, Ukrainians, and Other Poles in the Interwar Period 126
7 World War II, 1939–45 144
8 Conquest or Revolution? 1945–56 186
9 The Year 1956 and the Rise of National Communism 231
10 Communism and Consumerism 258
11 The End of the PRL, 1976–89 285
12 Shock Therapy 328
13 Politics in the Third Republic 348
Index 367
Author Information
"While the authors largely agree that the main motif of Polish history is the way in which leaders and communities pursued modernization and nationalization in the modern era, each writes about these topics in unique and fascinating ways." (Pol-int.org, 1 October 2015)
"Brian Porter-Szucs's new book Poland in the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdomis like a breath of fresh air . . . In sum, this is a splendid book and an optimistic one. Porter-Szucs tries to find some good in everyone (well, maybe not in Stalin), for which he is to be commended. This reviewer believes that his book will become the standard general work on recent Polish history." (The Polish Review, 1 October 2014)
"Moving in a new direction, Porter-Szûcs' work adds an important and distinct voice to the fray. It is a genuine attempt to look at Poland's history through that new prism of a transnational spirit. It forces us to look at history in different waysfrom the outside in, from the bottom upand to rethink it in significant ways. Ultimately, at times, it challenges us to reconsider the existing master narrative." (Cosmopolitan Review, 1 October 2015)
"Poland in the Modern World is a valuable contribution to central and eastern European historiography and the study of Communist and post-Communist societies. In presenting sophisticated insights from a variety of disciplines and from a comparative perspective, the author characterizes Poland's history of the last two centuries as a history of neither winners nor losers. In doing so, he gets beyond stereotypes and clichés about the country, particularly the "national martyrology" that informs much of Polish historiography." (H-SAE, February 2015)
"Well researched, engagingly written, and full of striking anecdotes, Brian Porter-Szûcs's Poland in the Modern World deserves a wide readership." (Slavic Review, 1 October 2014)
A remarkable achievement, Poland in the Modern World
offers the stuff of real history. Instead of heroes and
villains so often featured in national narratives,
Porter-Szücs emphasizes the everyday lives of ordinary people
in a global context, bringing the history of modern Poland down to
earth in an easily accessible yet highly informative text.
—Robert Blobaum, West Virginia University
By virtue of its avoidance of patriotic clichés, its
comparative approach and the sophistication of its discussion of
politics and economics, this comprehensive and well-written
overview will be the first destination for all of us teaching the
history of Poland in the modern era.
—Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
There's nothing remotely like this work out there. The approach
is authoritative and enlightening yet in an interesting way
"democratic". Poland in the Modern World reads very well and
will serve as an excellent basis for classroom discussion.
—John Connelly, University of California at Berkeley

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Retailers: Do you feel your relationships with your growers are healthy? Our sister magazine, Today's Garden Center, posed this question as a poll to its readers late last month. Here's what one independent retailer had to say:
"I feel as though relationships with growers are like all other relationships: They require consistent communication and feedback so that good is rewarded and problems can be addressed and repaired. When quality slips, a quick but helpful phone call or email makes sure we all stay on the same page – making our customers happy!"
Here's how retailers responded in the Today's Garden Center poll:
• About 24 percent say their relationships are "very healthy"
• About 33 percent describe their relationships with growers as "OK"
• 3 percent say their relationship is "slipping"
• About 6 percent say they are "shopping for new vendors" due to a "series of problems that have not been resolved"
• About 33 percent indicate they grow their own plants so they don't work with other growers
Let's look at the flip side of those relationships? How would you describe your relationships with retailers? Are they very healthy? OK? Slipping? Are you looking for new retailers because your current ones are simply uncooperative? Tell us in the comments section below.


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Xavier Thames came to San Diego State on a recruiting visit last week and bumped into new Aztecs Athletic Director Jim Sterk.
And Thames thought: "This is crazy. Didn't I just see you?"
Thames was a freshman point guard on Washington State's basketball team last season. Sterk was WSU's AD. Now both are on Montezuma Mesa. Sterk left earlier this year for the same position at SDSU, and yesterday Thames announced that he is transferring to Steve Fisher's basketball team. Thames, 19, will have to sit out next season, per NCAA transfer regulations. But he provides crucial cover at the point once D.J. Gay, who will be a senior in 2010-11, runs out of eligibility.
Thames was the backup point and was one of four Cougars to transfer this spring. He played in all 31 games for WSU (16-15), averaging 4.6 points and 17.6 minutes.
"It wasn't any hard feelings or anything like that. It was great experience playing the Pac-10, but it just didn't work out at Washington State," said Thames, a prep star at Pleasant Grove High near Sacramento. "I couldn't really play my game as much. Coach Fisher lets you play your game. If you make a mistake, he's not going to just pull you out."


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Gamespy is down for Neverwinter Nights
Since Gamespy is down for NWN, all Persistent Worlds are no longer on the Multiplayer server list and can now only be accessed through direct connect.
If you are fond of NWN (and play on a server like me) and would like to see the list returned, please fill in the petition:
Couldn't be a coincidence that Gamespy decided to terminate this one month before NWN Online goes into beta?:(
The online game is just Neverwinter. There is no Night in the title.
Anyhow, it's not a coincidence with Neverwinter going into beta, because they closed down multiple games server support at the same time.
And it all happened after they were purchased by Glu.
That's just crazy- I checked and Daggerdale which uses Gamespy is still up. Seems to be a lot more traffic for NW1 and NW2 than that piece of crap.
I wonder if they will shut the online magazine down also.
Rebellion made a comment on the whole GameSpy/GLU debacle a while ago. Basically when GLU purchased GS they promised that they would keep things up & running, and also sad that they planned to do some more things with GS.
Then all of the sudden GLU pulled support from a lot of games, without first talking to the games owners. When Rebellion contacted them, they said that they wanted a lot of money (tens of thousands of £/year) in order to keep hosting the games' matchmaking. GLU also never bothered with doing what they said that they planed to do, and did not inform the game developers that they apparently had been in contact with beforehand regarding this.
Also, want to know how much GLU cares about GS? So much that they have not even bothered setting up a support mail address and if you contact their regular support they say that they won't answer questions regarding GS.
It is possible that GLU were just after some patents/technology associated with GS, and never really had any plans to keep the service up & running (that is at least my personal theory).
NWN2 had a pretty good Baldur's Gate PW up it looked like. Too bad. End of yet another era. And yet Ultima Online still goes on.
I wonder if this means Civ4 is down now too?
You can probably still connect to that server, you just have to use direct connect instead of selecting it in the Multiplayer-PW Action-Server list.
You can still play all the nwn games online. Download the user created tools and connect to the server. It's not hard to do.
Just takes a little more time and energy.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, March 10 (Reuters) - The DAX top-30 index looked set to open 0.4 percent higher on Friday, according to premarket data from brokerage Lang & Schwarz at 0701 GMT.
The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks:
Indicated up 0.4 pct
Annual report due. The group reported preliminary results on Feb. 17 and said it would return up to 3 billion euros to shareholders.
Allianz has picked a new finance chief, it said on Thursday, as the German insurance group presses ahead with a reshuffle of top management positions.
A total of 30 banks have signed up to back Deutsche Bank's 8 billion-euro rights issue, relieving the demands on the eight banks that provided the initial underwriting last weekend.
Lufthansa indicated down 0.1 pct, Air Berlin indicated flat
Nearly all flights were cancelled at Berlin's two airports on Friday due to strike action by ground staff, who want an increase in pay to 12 euros ($12.71) from 11 euros an hour.
Indicated up 0.2 pct
Austria's competition regulator has approved the acquisition of Austrian TV station ATV by ProSiebenSat.1.
Indicated up 0.6 pct
Volkswagen is set to plead guilty on March 10 in Detroit to three felony counts under a plea agreement to resolve U.S. charges it installed secret software in vehicles to enable it to beat emissions tests.
VW plans to scrap bonus payments for members of its supervisory board, it said on Thursday, the latest sign of belt-tightening as the German carmaker grapples with the cost of its emissions scandal.
Indicated up 0.2 pct
Fraport said passenger traffic at Frankfurt Airport rose 1 percent in February. Adjusting for last year's leap-year effect, passenger numbers would have risen 4.9 percent, Fraport said.
Indicated up 0.4 pct
Annual report due. The group published preliminary financial results on Feb. 7 and predicted a return to earnings growth this year. It said it aimed to pay a stable dividend.
Indicated up 0.3 pct
The company has completed an acquisition of U.S. firm Cite Prepaid Card Services.
EVOTEC - Berenberg starts with "buy"
ZALANDO - Barclays starts with "overweight"
Dow Jones unchanged, S&P 500 +0.1 pct, Nasdaq unchanged at close.
Nikkei +1.5 pct, Shanghai stocks -0.1 pct.
Time: 7.25 GMT.
German January trade balance rose to 18.5 bln euros, with exports +3 pct, imports +2.7 pct.
German February wholesale prices rose 0.5 pct m/m, 5.0 pct y/y.
REUTERS TOP NEWS (Reporting by Andreas Cremer and Georgina Prodhan)


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Thanks for thy present! None sweeter or better.
A poem for Thanksgiving Day
John Greenleaf Whittier 9 p.m., Nov. 22
heya matt...
A friend of mine (who's more often right than wrong) claims that Sony Corporation was originally founded by Shell Oil of New York during the occupied-Japan period after WW2. I find it hard to believe that I have never heard that before, but then I've never heard of a Japanese named "Sony" either. Is my friend right, once again?
-- Jeff, via e-mail
Lay this on your friend the next time he's pummeling you with facts. 1. There is no such company as Shell Oil of New York. 2. There was a Standard Oil of New York. 3. Oil companies have their hands full already; why would they want to go into the consumer electronics business? 4. Sony's original name was Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, a.k.a., Totsuko (founded, 1946, by two guys in Japan who repaired radios). 5. Totsuko marketed products with the brand name Sony (or Soni), 1950. 6. "Sony," from sonus, Latin for "sound." 8. Totsuko dominated Japanese market. 9. Americans couldn't remember or pronounce Totsuko. 9. Corporate name changed to Sony, 1958, in order to dominate U.S. market. 10. The plan worked.


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Nation's largest truckload carrier opens new facility bringing 440 new jobs to Edwardsville, IL
On July 18, Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich announced the state is awarding approximately $7 million in Opportunity Returns support for Schneider National, a premier provider of transportation, logistics and intermodal services. The funds are enabling Schneider to invest in a new, state-of the-art Operating Center (company-owned truck stop) at the Gateway Commerce Center in Edwardsville, Ill., and to create at least 440 new jobs over the next two years. Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director Jack Lavin celebrated the official grand opening of the facility today with company, state and local officials in Edwardsville.
"Schneider National is one of the largest transportation and logistics companies in the world and will be a tremendous asset to Southwest Illinois. The decision to locate its new Operating Center in Madison County means more than 440 new jobs. It also means a strengthened and invigorated transportation and logistics industry that will help us attract more companies and continue expanding our economy over the near and long term. By investing in companies that are investing in Illinois, and not raising taxes, we are encouraging innovation and putting more and more people to work," Gov. Blagojevich said.
Schneider National's new Operating Center will provide company drivers and owner-operators with an array of amenities, including showers, Internet access, and other services, such as equipment maintenance and fuel. Services will be available 24 hours per day and the new Operating Center will also offer office space for training and recruiting. On average, 150 drivers per day will come through the facility.
"We are seeing an increase in demand for transportation services in the region and are pleased with Gov. Blagojevich's support of our efforts to bring new jobs to the area and invigorate the local economy," said Todd Jadin, senior vice president of operations at Schneider National. "With the largest customer base in the industry, Schneider expects that new and experienced drivers will join our team and benefit from leading-edge technology, superior training and rewarding career options. We're proud to add Edwardsville to our network of Operating Centers nationwide."
"Attracting a quality company like Schneider National to the region, along with the more than 400 new jobs it will bring, is a huge victory for our local economy. Major projects like this one demonstrate that Gov. Blagojevich's constant work on the frontlines to make Illinois an extremely competitive place to do business is paying real dividends," State Senator William Haine (D-Alton) said.
"We are very pleased to welcome Schneider National to Southwest Illinois and are thrilled it is going to be bringing more than 400 new jobs. I will continue supporting legislative initiatives that will attract more companies and jobs to keep growing our regional economy," State Representative Daniel Beiser (D-Alton) said.
"Gov. Blagojevich and I understand that the transportation and logistics sector is a vital cog of our local economy. By attracting Schneider National and its new Operating Center to Madison County, we are not only bringing quality jobs to the area, but fortifying a key industry and strengthening the economic foundation of this region," State Representative Jay Hoffman (D-Collinsville) said.
The business investment package comes from the Illinois DCEO which will provide Economic Development for a Growing Economy (EDGE) corporate income tax credits over 10 years based on job creation; a Large Business Development Program grant for infrastructure improvements; Employer Training Investment Program (ETIP) job training funds that will help enhance the skills of its workforce; as well as additional financial benefits, such as sales tax exemptions and tax credits for job creation, resulting from the company's location within an Enterprise Zone.
"In today's global economy, compan


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On average, people with untreated HIV progress to AIDS in about 10 years. However, a small group of HIV-positive people develop very few or no symptoms of AIDS, even without the use of antiretroviral drugs. Now researchers led by a Massachusetts General Hospital team have found that about one in 300 people with HIV never display symptoms of their infection because of the way their immune system reacts to the virus. These "controllers" — as the researchers classify the one in 300—have immune systems that, because of a genetic variation, alert the body's virus-killing T cells of HIV's presence, thereby preventing HIV from replicating and destroying immune cells.
Mass General and other institutions recruited thousands of HIVers in North America, Europe, and Australia for the study, whose results were published in the journal Science in November. The researchers found that the controllers showed very little of the virus in their blood, and in some cases it was entirely undetectable. Still, the patients had tested positive for HIV antibodies, indicating that they had indeed contracted the virus.
Bruce Walker, MD, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Mass General's director of AIDS research, first became involved with controllers when the Reverend Robert Massie, a young Episcopal minister, came to his office in 1994, a decade after learning he had HIV, but still showing no symptoms. He came to Walker to find out why he was still alive and well, and he thought his case might provide information that could help others. Walker at first was certain that Massie had received a false-positive HIV antibody test result.
After Walker took his own tests and confirmed that Massie was truly HIV-positive, Massie became the first subject in a study that has grown to include 3,500 volunteers. Florencia Pereyra, MD, who worked on the research team, told HIV Plus that it is still unclear how the data from the study will aid in development of drug therapies, but she said the intense examination of the immune system will help scientists understand how to manipulate cell operations. For instance, researchers might be able to determine how to artificially replicate the controllers' natural response in others with HIV.


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Vietnam will scruntinise rubber planning and may make adjustments to prevent possible losses from typhoons in the future, as well as attain sustainable growth, one official has said.
Dr. Pham Dong Quang, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)'s Cultivation Department, made the statement at a seminar on the issue held in Hanoi on November 8.
After the 10th and 11st typhoons hit Vietnam recently, a total of 21,500 hectares of rubber trees in northern central region were affected with up to 13,000 hectares entirely destroyed. Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Ha Tinh Provinces were the hardest hit. Vinh Linh District in Quang Tri Province incurred losses of over VND2 trillion (USD94.63 million).
The situation was mainly a result of a fact that so many of rubber growing areas were developed outside of the MARD's planning. Under the plan, rubber growing areas in the region should be around 80,000 hectares by 2012; but to date the figure has reached over 132,000 hectares.
"Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has directed the Institute of Planning to scruntise rubber planning nationwide, especially in northern central region this year. The ministry will then make an official proposal to the government to make any necessary adjustments," Quang noted.
According to Quang, rubber has been grown in the region for 53 years and has considerably improved incomes in these areas, and it is necessary to maintain around 80,000 hectares of rubber areas under planning mentioned in the government's Decision 750.
However, due to the effects of climate change, all stakeholders should draw lessons from these events and work out a comprehensive solution to protect the current rubber growing areas and expand production in the future.
"It's necessary to quickly draw out a technical plan for rubber cultivation for the northern central region, especially solutions to deal with the effects of storms. The solution is not to simply expand rubber growing areas, but to switch some of them to other crops, such as pepper, weed, corn and soybean," he suggested.
Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Lung, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Certificate, said rubber growers are investors who should act responsibly and keep close track of market changes.
"Over the past two years, Vietnam's rubber exports have increased considerably, but rubber export revenues are tending to decrease. Those that are in a rush to grow rubber should take a lesson from the rice and coffee growers," Lung added.
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Deputies draw awards for burglary case actions
Two Milam Count y deput y sheriffs have been commended for their work in early July which helped break up a Houston-based burglary ring.
Mike Clore and Lee Dixon received commendations and exceptional service bars which will be worn on uniforms.
Sher if f Dav id Greene said "quick action" and "attention to detail" by the two deputies, after the department received reports of persons in two white vans committing burglaries, helped resolve the situation.
Antonio Vega, 47, and 27-yearold Mario Moreno were arrested and charged with burglary of a building.
A third suspect has been identified and a warrant for his arrest has been issued. "He is believed to be in hiding in either Houston or Mexico," Greene said.
Greene said the suspects are believed to have been responsible for three Milam County breakins, one or more in Burleson County and other burglaries in counties between Houston and Rockdale.


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Tuesday night's votes, which overturned Labour's manifesto pledge to exempt pubs which do not serve cooked food, saw all the main parties divided on the crucial balance needed between liberty and public health - with even Plaid Cymru's three-man parliamentary team split 2-1 in favour of the near-total ban.
It will come into effect in mid-2007 and smokers who flout the ban will face on the spot £50 fines.
Many pubs, restaurants and other public places of entertainment have already followed the growing wish of their customers for a smoke-free environment. Scotland and Ireland have led the way.
Though the Palace of Westminster will, as critics were quick to point out, remain exempt as a royal palace, smoking was banned in the Strangers' Bar and tearoom some time ago. Geoff Hoon, leader of the Commons, is one of many MPs convinced it would be hypocritical if the ban is not now made comprehensive.
Alongside the entrenched positions over smoke-related risk that cost an estimated 85,000 British lives each year lay hard-nosed calculations about the impact of the ban on the pub trade and whether exemption for working men's and other clubs would give them an unfair competitive advantage.
Ian Payne, the Laurel pub chain's chairman, predicted the ban would be "positive for the industry in the long term". But pub owners would have preferred to be able to offer drinkers the choice of whether to smoke, he said.
As the British Heart Foundation predicted that millions of lives could be saved by "the best possible Valentine's gift from MPs to bar workers", Deborah Arnott, director of Ash, said the vote was won "without clear leadership from government, which only makes the result even more remarkable". But at least one big hotel and pub chain condemned the move as an "undemocratic retreat" from Labour's manifesto, which should be challenged in court.
One instant convert was the Labour MP Steve Pound, who spoke against a total ban on Tuesday, but woke up a convert - and did not immediately light up.
How they voted
In the final 384-184 vote to ban smoking in private clubs:
Labour Yes: 276 No: 50
Conservative Yes: 47 No: 125
Liberal Democrat Yes: 47 No: 8
DUP Yes: 8 No: 0
Unionist Yes: 1 No: 0
SDLP Yes: 2 No: 0
Plaid Cymru Yes: 2 No: 1
Richard Taylor, independent, also voted yes


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UN Women Gender Equality and Human Rights Technical Coordinator
Job ID/Title : 930
Category : Other
Brand : UNWOMEN
Application Deadline : 03-Jan-17
Duty Station : Ramallah
Type of Contract : Service Contract
Duration of Initial Contract : 1 year
Expected Duration of Assignment : 1 year
The UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
UN Women plays an innovative and catalytic role in the State of Palestine since its inception in 1997 as UNIFEM. UN Women focuses its activities on one overarching goal, namely to support the implementation at the national level of existing international commitments to advance gender equality in line with the national priorities. In support of this goal and thoroughly taking into consideration the specificities of the context in Palestine, UN Women concentrates its efforts and interventions toward the realization of five strategic goals: Engendering governance, peace and security; Supporting women's economic security and rights; and Promoting women's rights and protection against violence.
UN Women works very closely with the Palestinian Ministry of Women's Affairs (MoWA) as the principal National Women's Machinery for coordinating national efforts towards the integration of gender equality and women's empowerment (GE/WE) in national planning and budgeting process. The Palestinian government is a high depend on the international development aid on the implementation of development programs, where the mainstreaming gender equality issues in this aid is very importance to ensure the equality between men and women to take advantage of the development results, so the UN Women has been working with Ministry of Women's Affairs, Ministry of planning and the Local Aid Coordination Secretariat (LACS) to mainstream gender in Local Aid Coordination Structure (LACS) which were set up following the decision made at the meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee in December 2005 in London to improve the effectiveness of aid coordination structures in providing assistance and financial support to the Palestinian people in line with the OECD-DAC Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. In that regard, UN Women has been supported the development of gender survey in LACS that provides policy recommendations to enhance the mainstreaming gender in LACS.
In 2013, the LACS co-chairs adopted the full membership of MoWA in all strategy and sector working groups as a national machinery for gender equality and women's empowerment mandated and responsible to monitor the responsive of local aid coordination structure for gender equality and women's empowerment national priorities. In addition, to increase the LACS member commitments toward gender equality and women's empowerment issues the MoWA with support from UN Women was developed the gender charter in aid coordination, conducted several round table discussions for LACS member focusing on gender in development cooperation and finally developed the gender marker to track the development aid allocated for gender equality and women's empowerment.
UN Women is seeking to hire a coordinator embedded at LACS to follow up on and coordinate the efforts of various partners to implement the LACS Gender Mainstreaming work plan in 2016 & 2017 to promote gender mainstreaming in the local aid coordination structure with a focus on supporting the role of the Ministry of Women's Affairs in this regard.
Description of Responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the overall guidance of UN Women Special Representative and the direct supervision of UN Women Program Coordinator and in collaboration with the Head of LACS, the coordinator will coordinate and support the efforts to mainstream gender equality and human rights in the local aid coordination structure. The main duties and responsibilities are as follows:
- Establish a Steering Committee to promote gender mainstreaming within the LACS comprising of MoWA, PMO, LACS and UN Women).
- Report on a daily basis to Head of LACS and ensure that all requirements related to the assignment are well coordinated with and approved by the head of LACS, as needed and requested
- Coordinate the working group's meetings, agenda setting and drafting minutes of meetings and follow up on actions to be taken;
- Provide monthly updates to the working group on the implementation of the LACS Gender Mainstreaming Work Plan with the involvement of all relevant stakeholders;
- Follow up with various partners and stakeholders for implementing the LACS Gender Mainstreaming Work Plan;
- Provide technical support to enhance MoWA's engagement in LACS Strategic and Sector Working Groups and ensure that MOWA representatives are present in working group meetings ;
- Foster coordination and communication among various partners and stakeholders working on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment;
- Organize, plan for and support policy discussions and meetings on Gender Equality & Human Rights in development and development cooperation;
- Coordinate and liaise with the heads of the strategic and sector working groups and ensure placing Gender Equality& Human Rights in meetings' agendas.
- Follow up and evaluate donor commitments to the Gender Charter in the LACS and coordinate as needed with the heads of the strategy groups to enhance the commitment to the charter;
- Follow-up and evaluate the gender marker application in the DARP system and provide a set of recommendations to the working group on enhancing its application
- Work closely with MoWA to prepare a report on GEWE issues and gaps in the State of Palestine and presenting it at the strategic and sector working groups meetings;
- Disseminate information and analysis on GEWE gaps among LACS members;
- Coordinate and support organizing meetings with interested donors to support Gender Equality & Human Rights issues and discuss priorities and challenges
- Coordinate and support organizing Gender Equality & Human Rights awareness workshops targeting LACS members;
- Keeping MOWA aware about recent reports, M&E , outcomes of discussions with donors;
- Perform any other task as required by the working group.
Competencies :
Core values and Guiding principles:
Integrity: Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct;
Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity: Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.
Core Competencies:
Ethics and Values: Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity;
Organizational Awareness: Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring: Initiative-taking; coaching and mentoring ability;
Working in Teams: Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
Communicating Information and Ideas: Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
Self-management and Emotional intelligence: Creating synergies through self-control.
Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements: Managing conflict;
Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning: Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of other.
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Knowledge Management and Learning
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- Strong communication, facilitation and mediating skills
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Semi Crashes; Catches Fire
KSAL Staff - September 14, 2013 8:24 am
A driver is hurt when his truck crashes and bursts into flames.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 53-year-old Mark Hitzfield of Ogden was driving a semi pulling a grain trailer southeast of Abilene in the 1200 Block of 1400 Ave. For an unknown reason he lost control. The truck rolled and came to rest on its top in a ditch. It caught fire and was completely destroyed.
Hitzfield, who was buckled up, was hurt. He was transported to the hospital in Abilene.
The crash happened at 3:32 Friday afternoon nine miles southeast of Abilene in Dickinson county.
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@Glorpin, I use Spirit of Summer a lot, and regardless of how many times you inflict your opponent with Burning (from Flame Breath, Immolate or Scorched Earth), Conflagrate deals extra damage only once.
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NPCscan went off four times-- the first three times were caused by other hunters who had previously tamed Jadefang. They would release their tamed version of Jadefang in the cave right there beside me. >_<
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Paul London will be returning to Ring of Honor at the promotion's next big event, Glory By Honor XI, taking place in Chicago Ridge, IL on 10/26. London will face Roderick Strong at the event, and more information can be found at ROHWrestling.com.
The following is a video wrap up, hosted by Kevin Kelly, of ROH's 10/5 event in Baltimore:


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What's The Worst That Could Happen? | 2001
A thief tries to get his lucky ring back from the man he was robbing.
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Max Fairbanks is a very wealthy, powerful man who has built an incredibly successful business empire by being ruthless. Kevin Caffrey is a sophisticated procurer of other people's possessions. An accidental meeting brings the two men together and in a simple moment their fates are sealed. When Max catches Kevin during an attempted robbery at his beachside mansion, he steals Kevin's lucky ring in retaliation, claiming it as his own. Because the ring is his girlfriend's, Kevin is furious and vows to stop at nothing to get it back.


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Review for Invisible Children Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
Invisible Children is a young nonprofit organization with a lot of room for growth, but a lot of its bad reputation is misplaced or focused too heavily on the Kony 2012 campaign or the founder. I believe that this organization is doing well, but could do much better, if given the time. This is a nonprofit with a campaign of raising awareness and political pressure, which requires a heavy focus on media and personal image, which explains so much of their profits are focused on media and maintenance. True, they tend to gloss over details in their videos and websites, but personal research has shown that IC isn't as poorly run as skeptics try to portray. I intend to investigate both sides of the story more thoroughly before I make a concrete decision, but I don't think IC is as terrible as I've been told.
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Welcome to MarketerGizmo's weekly life hacks for marketers! I'm Andrea and I'm here to bring you this week's life hack.
Every marketer knows there's a fine line between over promoting and under promoting your content. But some people choose to just blatantly ignore that line and go overboard with over promoting.
This week's hack is very, very simple: Stop. Over. Promoting.
I get it, your blog post is probably about something that your company does. Adding in a mini sales pitch at the end of every single section, now you're just insulting my intelligence.
If you can't rely on the quality of your content to prove to me that you know what you're talking about, it might be time to re-write it. Having a paragraph at the end of every single section that says, "ooh hey we could do that for you!" or "You could just get that here", that's just plain annoying.
It's kind of like having pop-up ads all over your content.
Just use the power of your content to convince me. Sure it's tempting to promote yourself anywhere and everywhere that you can, but be tactful and specific.
Add value propositions, not sales pitches.
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Vandals caused traffic jams after damaging a set of temporary lights.
The traffic lights at Viking Junction, where London Road meets King Offa Way, temporarily all turned red causing confusion among drivers on Sunday March 23.
Engineers were called and found the lights had been vandalised – causing the malfunction and subsequent disruption. They were repaired and working as usual again by the evening the same day.
East Sussex County Council is responsible for roads across the county and a spokesman for the local authority explained: "Our traffic management crews noted the problems with the temporary traffic lights at this junction while on routine patrol and advised our maintenance subcontractors in the early hours of Sunday morning (March 23).
"It appears some of the power cables and controls for the lights were cut during the night as an act of vandalism. "The traffic light system is designed to fail in a safe mode in this kind of situation, meaning lights either all show blank or all show red.
"The damage did mean some lengthy repairs had to be carried out, which meant unfortunately some disruption was caused to motorists.
"We are still investigating but would urge anyone who has any information about this vandalism to report it to the police."


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Northpointe Prevention Education program provides a wide range of services to promote responsible choices regarding alcohol, other drug use and gambling and to educate the community about alcoholism and addictive behaviors, particularly that they are preventable and treatable health issues.
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Adult presentations made in conjunction with civic business, government and service organizations, include topics such as: prescription drug abuse, alcohol and substance abuse in older adults, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, gambling, and talking with youth about drugs and alcohol. The P&E program also sponsors community events such as Take a Stand Day and the Jack O'Lantern Fall Classic 5K Race and 1.5 mile Health Walk.


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The euro rose against the dollar Thursday as borrowing rates fell for Italy and Spain, a sign that investor confidence in those two debt-hobbled countries is improving.
Traders also bought euros because of worries that the economic recovery in the United States is slowing. More Americans filed unemployment claims last week, and retail sales barely grew in the last month of the year.
The euro rose to $1.2827 in afternoon trading Thursday from $1.2697 late Wednesday. The euro hit a 16-month low of $1.2661 on Wednesday after Germany predicted that its economy shrank in the last three months of last year.
Italy sold one-year bonds at a rate of 2.735 percent, less than half what it had to pay last month. And Spain raised double the amount of money it had hoped to at its bond auction.
Investors have worried about the debt of Italy and Spain, the No. 3 and No. 4 economies among nations that use the euro. Greece, Ireland and Portugal had to be bailed out after their borrowing rates became unsustainable.
The dollar fell against most other currencies. The British pound rose to $1.5342 from $1.532. The dollar fell to 76.76 Japanese yen from 76.87, to 0.9438 Swiss franc from 0.9551 and to 1.0189 Canadian dollars from 1.0196.
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The "Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen," written by Matt Lee and Ted Lee, is a breath of fresh air for a city saturated by recent attention paid to its cuisine. With more than 100 recipes and photos, maps of walking and driving tours, and stories to accompany nearly every dish, it explains the simple but sophisticated culinary allure of the South Carolina port city, ranked number one on Condé Nast Traveler's "Top U.S. Cities" list for the past two years and voted their readers' favorite city in the world for 2012.
The book opens with an image of the two brothers coasting along a street on skateboards. They're wearing tailored jackets, ties, jeans, and sneakers, and the backdrop is pure Charleston: ornate wrought iron, lush green, and an arched doorway on an historic building with shuttered windows. Their effortless merging of formal and casual also comes through in their Southern hospitality and well researched attention to detail. Who wouldn't want to kick back with these two nerdy yet cool guys over a Moonshine Martini garnished with boiled peanuts, nibbling on their Deviled Crab or Pickled Shrimp with Fennel?
Yesterday we spoke to Ted by phone, just after he landed in Charleston from New York. A few hours later, he and his brother would host an oyster roast for more than 100 people to celebrate their hometown launch of the book. He answered our questions thoughtfully and graciously, like he had all the time in the world.
Growing up in Charleston, what was the culture like in terms of cooking?
I think the reason that Matt and I work together and are interested in food is that we moved to Charleston at a young age from New York City. We arrived here when I was eight, and Matt was ten. When you move to a new city as a child, you're processing all this cultural change. One of the easiest things for us to grasp on to and get a hold of was the food. The differences between New York and Charleston were kind of wondrous and crazy. Kids our age already knew how to fish, how to catch crab and shrimp, and we didn't know any of that stuff. There was all this new amazing material that was really compelling, and I think that's why we bring a sense of wonder to what we do. It's almost child-like, my interest in Charleston's food.
In the introduction to your new book, you say "We're not a 'foodie' town; we're a food town, pure and simple." I like that distinction. What do you really mean by it?
I'm always mesmerized by how much I don't know even though I grew up here. If you're from outside of Charleston, you don't really realize how much food is a part of life here in the low country. It's just what we do. It's not really an identity. That's what I was getting at with "this is a food town, not a foodie town." We don't wear it like a garment...it's just part of us, part of our flesh and blood, rather than an identity that we chose. It's just in us because we grew up here.
Here you remember the first time you shucked your first oyster, and the first time your parents trusted you with an oyster knife. There are a million rites of passages and rituals related to the food world that, as a kid, you don't even notice as being related to food. You're a kid -- you don't really care. It's fun to catch crab. You think crab is delicious, but you don't really connect it in your mind. Your mom might cook up the shrimp that you caught, but you don't think of it as a food pursuit, it's just a sport. It's a part of life.
What brought your family from New York to Charleston?
My parents were academics raising three children, and living in New York in the '70s wasn't really easy. I just think they were kind of worn out. They had visited Charleston and had friends here.
Is your attention to research and historic context related to being raised by academics?
Maybe [laughs]. My dad's a professor of medicine, so he's always been in a lab. We've always been geeks.
What's your take on the influence of cooking shows, like those on the Food Network?
I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Food Network for mainstreaming the discussion of food. There are so many ways into the discussion -- so many more ways now than ever before. We welcome that. We're not academics, we're people who cook. We contribute to a show on the Cooking Channel called Unique Eats, and we've just signed a deal with a production company to record a pilot for a television show in late March.
What should first-time visitors to Charleston have for a meal?
Shrimp and grits definitely -- that's one of the icons of new Charleston, certainly. She-crab soup is a classic. And there's a Charleston okra soup that's tomato-based and made with hearty beef bone. Rice dishes are huge here because Charleston was a rice-growing region. Rice dishes with protein from the sea, typically oysters or shrimp cooked up in a broth, are really delicious. Hoppin' Johns is a classic dish with rice and red field peas. There are so many great dishes and so many great restaurants to have them in. In the new book, Matt and I really wanted to shine a light on the city's home cooking traditions. There's been a lot of attention brought to the fairly new restaurant scene here, which is so exciting, but Charleston has always had a great home cooking tradition. The culinary through lines are what unite people.
How would you describe your collaboration with Matt?
We've been working together since 1999, when we wrote our first story for Travel + Leisure magazine. We were running a mail order business selling boiled peanuts and other Southern staples, then one of our customers asked us to write about traveling around South Carolina and eating, and we embarked on a second career as food and travel journalists. We share a similar palate and a similar interest in the fact that every story about food is really a story about a person -- and getting to that. We grew up in the same environment, with similar mentors in the world of food. That said, we're very different cooks. He's a more intuitive cook; I'm more of a recipe follower. He's a neater cook; I'm messier.
Do you still feel like an outsider observing the food culture of Charleston?
We're complicated Southerners because we weren't born here. We have a weird Southern-but-not-Southernness. We can get perspective on it every now and then because we didn't grow up with a Southern grandmother. We can see how special and exotic it is. Or we can be locals…it depends on what community we're with. To the kids I grew up with, I'm always going to be that Yankee who moved here when I was eight. It's a funny town. I just love it.
For more on the Lee brothers' interpretation of regional cuisine beyond Charleston, check out "The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Downhome Flavor" and "The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners," which won the James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year in 2007.


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Through this initiative, the high-voltage feeders most affected by outages will be installed underground. Approximately half of the District is already served by undergound lines. Secondary and service lines will remain overhead on the existing poles.
This undergrounding solution is practical and it will achieve the electric system resiliency objectives of the District and Pepco.
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Brandon McCarthy would like nothing more than to move on from the horrific line drive to the head injury which shut down his season in 2012.
His first spring appearance is a step in the right direction.
Almost six months after taking a line drive to the head as a member of the Oakland Athletics, McCarthy resurfaced on the mound Wednesday for the Arizona Diamondbacks and struck out four Cincinnati Reds batters during two shutdown innings of work.
Signed on a two year, 15 million dollar deal in the offseason, McCarthy projects behind: Ian Kennedy, Trevor Cahill and Wade Miley in the D-Backs' rotation. He's hoping he can concentrate on that more than talk about his injuries from the freak accident.
McCarthy suffered an epidural hemorrhage, skull fracture and a brain contusion after the Erick Aybar line drive in a game against the Angels last season. It was such a horrific injury, many were left wondering whether McCarthy would ever pitch in the big leagues again.
Now the righty is concentrating on developing a changeup to accompany his fastball and curveball. His pitches were effective all day, as McCarthy struck out big-time prospect, Billy Hamilton along with Joey Votto and Ryan Ludwick in the first inning alone. McCarthy finished the game allowing just one run, a sac fly after a leadoff triple in the second.
Diamondbacks manager, Kirk Gibson, made great strides in creating a clubhouse of players modeled after himself this winter. The Diamondbacks are rumored to have traded Justin Upton, Chris Young and Trevor Bauer this offseason simply for not having the right "demeanor" which is to imply they did not play "tough" enough.
Regardless of whether or not the strategy will prove successful, there's little doubt Gibson is content with his new fourth starter. McCarthy figures to have tremendous upside if he can stay healthy. The 29 year old posted back to back seasons of an ERA of 3.32 or better the past two years, giving up just more than a hit per inning over a span of over 280 innings. Both seasons included injuries.


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According to the Ramona Municipal Water District website, the repairs are completed and there are no water shutdowns.
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Crews are repairing a water main break at State Route 67 and Etcheverry Street that is affecting over 30 customers in that area, said one of the members working at the site.
According to the Ramona Municipal Water District website, an emergency mainline shutdown went into effect at 9 p.m. Thursday and will continue until repairs are made. The interruption in service affects 34 meters and 11 fire hydrants on Route 67, from Susie Way to Rotanzi Street, and all of Rancho Maria Lane and Outback Place.
Brian Wilson with TC Construction said the company had been called for the emergency repair and worked through the night.
"We had a real quick mobilization last night," he said.
Wilson said they were replacing a section of the pipe that had rusted out. Once the pipe is repaired, he said they would repave the approximately 15-foot long section along Route 67 where the crews had dug to reach the water main.


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I'm coding a custom wp plugin for my blog site http://techxd.net that uses Shoutbox Magazine WP Theme and I need to get the featured media linkof a post. How can do it?! Is there a sql field inside the wp database?!
maybe I'm wrong but I'm not aware of a "featured media link". You can get the link to the post (permalink) or you can get the links to all images/attachments to this post (attached featured images). What would you like to have?
When I write a new post I can add a featured media, as you know :) . I want to get dynamically the full path of the image I added, from the wordpress database with a query. Ex:
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My goal is to get, from WP database and for each posts, the banner image URL.
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i want to use streams from std lib to output int, long, __int64, etc...
but i dont want to have them formatted, i want unformatted output. that's no problem useing write(), but if i use operator<<, it get's allways formatted.
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Raising money for Relay for Life is serious business and Southern Pharmacy employees knows that only too well. The pharmacy lost a longtime employee in November 2011 with the passing of Les Stanley, who lost his battle with liver and lung cancer. For more, see the Thursday, May 29, 2014 edition.
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Anyway... my XWH emails me a couple of days ago to ask if the kids have ever been stung by bees, had bad reactions, etc. Apparently, his house (my former marital home) has an infestation of bees... not on the outside... the INSIDE. I guess that the other family members (not my kids, fortunately) have gotten stung. The exterminator has been and gone, and my kids were just there for an overnight, so I guess it's taken care of.
So, okay. Lots of people have bug problems. And then I heard the next incident.
My DD told me that she couldn't use one of the upstairs bathrooms "because of the flood" and that the "kitchen ceiling fell in." Well, she's little, so I figured that she must be wrong. I ask DS #1 about this, and he says, "Oh, yeah! The upstairs toilet overflowed, and the ceiling of the kitchen and the downstairs bathroom both caved in!" This happened while my kids were with me.
Is it terrible that I laugh at these situations? Please note that they are only humorous to me because no one got hurt (aside from some minor bee stings that did not result in hospitalization). I can just imagine how much XWH had to hold it together when he saw the disaster in his house; with his temper, that must have been some effort. I'm sure that the repair will be no small amount; that will likely be a nice kick in the pocketbook, which will infuriate him.
I wonder what their third thing will be? No two without three! Sing along with Boy George and the Culture Club, if you like: "Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon..."
Double Betrayal D-Day 7/26/2013
Divorced 11/18/2014
Is it terrible that I laugh at these situations?
One day DD told me that OW bakes horrible cookies which were all burnt (I love baking...)-
At the end there will be justice- I have finally found my peace in this conclusion.
This was a great way to start a day! Thanks for the laugh!
He and OW deserve every bug and broken toilet the karma gods can muster!!!! Maybe locusts will be next.


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Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust Acquires Two High-Quality Shopping Centers In Minneapolis-St. Paul And Cincinnati Markets
Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (NYSE: RPT) (the "Company") today announced that it has acquired two strategic, multi-anchored community shopping centers in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota and Cincinnati, Ohio for approximately $150 million. The acquisitions were financed with $58.6 million of assumed mortgage debt, $9.9 million in disposition proceeds, $60.0 million in borrowings under the Company's revolving line of credit, and $21.5 million in cash. The Company also announced that in the first half of 2014 it raised approximately $50 million in net cash proceeds by issuing 3.1 million common shares through its at-the-market equity program.
The shopping centers are:
Woodbury Lakes is a premier community shopping center located in Woodbury, an eastern suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. The shopping center encompasses approximately 366,000 square feet and is anchored by Trader Joe's (shadow anchor), buybuy Baby, DSW, H&M, The Gap, Charming Charlie, and Michael's. In addition to its strong anchor line-up, the center features a well-rounded tenant mix including a number of fashion specialty retailers unique to the trade area, highlighted by Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, White House/Black Market, American Eagle, Chico's, LOFT, Buckle, and Express. Woodbury Lakes was built in 2005 and is currently 89% leased. As part of the acquisition, the Company has reached an agreement to purchase additional acreage for the development of restaurant and entertainment uses. The Company also plans to benefit from a number of lease-up and retenanting opportunities.
Woodbury Lakes is prominently positioned just east of the intersection of I-94 and I-494/I-694, 25 minutes from downtown Minneapolis, 15 minutes from downtown St. Paul, and 10 minutes from Wisconsin's western border. The Minneapolis-St. Paul market has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation at 4.0% and a population growth rate 1.5x times the national rate. Woodbury Lakes is part of an expansive trade area that is bolstered by excellent schools, executive housing options, and convenient access via I-94 with an average household income of $96,000. Woodbury Lakes is the Company's first acquisition in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market.
Bridgewater Falls is located in Hamilton, Ohio, a northern suburb of Cincinnati. The shopping center encompasses approximately 630,000 square feet and features a diverse tenant mix highlighted by a strong anchor line-up that includes Target (shadow anchor), JC Penney (land lease), Dick's Sporting Goods, TJ Maxx, Old Navy, Michael's, PetSmart, and Bed, Bath & Beyond. The shopping center is also comprised of over 50 additional outstanding national and regional retailers and restaurants, notably ULTA Beauty, Kay Jewelers, Justice, Rue21, Salon Lofts, Massage Envy, Charming Charlie, Panera Bread, Chick-fil-A, Fuji Steakhouse, and Buffalo Wild Wings. Bridgewater Falls was built in 2007 and is currently 94% leased. The Company has identified a number of value-added opportunities including a shopping center expansion, several tenant expansions and relocations in response to strong sales, and leasing vacant space to accommodate high-tenant demand.
Bridgewater Falls is located at the intersection of Princeton Road and State Highway 4, approximately 30 miles north of Cincinnati. The trade area has an average household income of $77,000. Bridgewater Falls is the Company's second acquisition in the Cincinnati MSA. In December 2013, the Company acquired the 460,000 square foot Deerfield Towne Center in Mason, Ohio.
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The fraud and negligence suit is the first of thousands to reach trial in the United States.
They involve an all-metal ball-and-socket joint that was implanted in some 90,000 people worldwide before Johnson & Johnson recalled the product in 2010.
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I have a HP Photosmart 3210 All-in-one printer. I have been on holiday for 1 week and have just tried to use my printer but some of the colours wont print. I have printed a self test report and the only boxes that appear are the black and yellow (although the yellow box is actually blue/purple) the light cyan, cyan, light magenta and magenta boxes are blank.
I only ever use HP cartridges and have never had a problem before. The cartridges are not emply.
I have tried to clean the print heads and have also aligned the printer. I started to colaborate the colours but cancelled that becasue I couldn't see the colours becasue the wont print.
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Hi Sharontoms77,
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I see you have a Photosmart 3210 that is having issues printing all of the colors. I'm sorry to hear this, but I will certainly do my best to assist you!
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Reeves, Willis (1778 NC - 1848 TN)
Reeves, Rev. Willis
Mother: possibly Mary Walton
Birth: 07 May 1778, Orange County, North Carolina
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Death: 25 July 1848, Somerville, Fayette Co., Tennessee
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Spouse1: Mary Clayton, b.1779 Brunswick County, VA., d. 1817 Orange County, NC, Married 19 Dec 1805 in Brunswick County, VA
Spouse2: Thisbe Jones, b. 1790 Berkshire County, Massachusetts, d. Tennessee, Married 10 Jan 1822 in Wake County, North Carolina
NarrativeChildren of Willis Reeves and Mary Clayton:
- James O'Kelly Reeves, b. 1806 NC d. before 1870 TN
- Willis Pendleton Reeves, b. 1816 NC d. 1816 NC.
- Sarah Lewis Reeves, b. 1808, d. 7 Mar 1827
- Martha Eliza Reeves, b. 1810 NC, d. 1855 TN
- John Claiborne Reeves, b. 1812 Orange Co, NC d. TN
- George Washington Reeves, b. 1814 NC, d. date unknown.
- unnamed male b. 07 March 1817 NC, d. 07 March 1817 NC
Children of Willis Reeves and Thisbe Jones Higbe:
- Mary Andes Reeves, b. 1822 NC
- Calvin Jones Reeves, b. 1824 NC
- Atlas Jones Reeves, b. 1827 NC, d. 1900 TN
- S M Reeves, b. c1828
- Willis Gales Reeves, b. 1829 NC, d. 1881 TN
- Benjamin Franklin Reeves, b. 1831 NC, d. 1866 TN.
- Thomas Jefferson Wesley Reeves, b. 1834 TN, d. after 1860
Buried in Somerville City Cemetery, Somerville, Fayette Co., TN
Listed in the following census:
1810 Hillsboro, Orange, NC age 32
1830 North District, Orange, NC age 52
1840 Fayette, Somerville, TN age 62
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Lives of Christian Ministers (1909)
REV. WILLIS REEVES entered the ministry after the separation from the Methodists. He labored in the North Carolina and Virginia Conference in the early days of the church. "Among the Christians in the South," says Rev. W. B. Wellons, D.D., "the only man that ever avowed himself a Unitarian in sentiment was cut off from the church; I refer to Rev. Willis Reeves of North Carolina." [77]
Willis wrote a letter dated 31 March 1823, to his brother in law Calvin Jones and a transcription of that letter can be found at this link:
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Critical Pharmaceuticals Receives Notice of Allowance from US Patent and Trademark Office for Intranasal Growth Hormone and Parathyroid Hormone Products
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CriticalSorb™ formulation technology covered by this patent has exceptional utility for the delivery of poorly absorbed biological and small molecule drugs
Nottingham, UK, April 8 2014, / B3C newswire / - Critical Pharmaceuticals today announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of allowance for a patent application directed towards the Company's CP024 Intranasal Growth Hormone and CP046 Intranasal Teriparatide (parathyroid hormone 1-34) products formulated using it's proprietary CriticalSorb™ drug delivery technology.
The patent application allowed by the USPTO (application number 13/063,411) relates to pharmaceutical compositions of growth hormone or parathyroid hormone and the CriticalSorb™ absorption enhancer in a form suitable for administration to the nasal, buccal and / or respiratory tract. Similar patent protection has already been obtained in Russia, Singapore and New Zealand with pending patents in other major territories including Europe and Japan. Together the market for growth hormone and parathyroid hormone products is in excess of $4bn per annum with strong interest in alternatives to the current daily injectable products.
Professor Lisbeth Illum, co-inventor of the CriticalSorb™ technology and an internationally recognised expert in drug delivery, said "The CriticalSorb™ formulation technology covered by this allowed application has been shown to have exceptional utility for the delivery of poorly absorbed biological and small molecule drugs in both preclinical and clinical studies. CriticalSorb™ has the potential to enable intranasal dosing of a wide-range of therapeutics and provide an attractive alternative to frequent injection that are strongly disliked by patients."
Dr Gareth King, CEO Critical Pharmaceuticals commented "The allowance of a US patent further strengthens the data package on our CP024 nasal growth hormone product that has demonstrated strong biological activity in Phase I clinical trials. It will provide important protection to future license partners for the continued development and commercialisation of CP024 and CP046 intranasal teriparatide products."
The allowed applications are part of Critical Pharmaceuticals broader capability and intellectual property in advanced drug delivery and formulation technology for challenging molecules such as peptide, protein and antibody drugs. La Marie Business Intelligence recently estimated this market to be worth in excess of $140bn and growing at +12% a year. Potter Clarkson LLP, a leading European firm of patent and trademark attorneys, advises the company on intellectual property matters.
The CriticalSorb™ technology was developed by Critical Pharmaceuticals scientists in Nottingham, UK. Dr Faron Jordan, co-inventor of the CriticalSorb™ technology and Head of Preclinical and Clinical Project Management at Critical Pharmaceuticals, said "The CriticalSorb™ technology has rapidly progressed from the lab to clinical proof of concept. I'm extremely pleased with the allowance of the US patent application and look forward to progressing additional Critical Pharmaceuticals products and partner programs into the clinic and into the hands of patients who prefer nasal administration over injection."
Critical Pharmaceuticals has used the CriticalSorb™ technology to develop CP024, a nasal growth hormone product that has completed two Phase I clinical studies and has established clinical proof of concept for CP024 and the technology: CP024 was shown to be well tolerated and able to induce insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) to the same levels as a subcutaneous injection of the marketed product. IGF-I is the main mediator of hGH activity in the body and a clinically relevant indicator of bioactivity.
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Asia stocks down as Fed holds off on new stimulus
BANGKOK—Asian stocks fell Wednesday after the Federal Reserve refrained from offering new initiatives to help a slowly recovering U.S. economy.
Benchmark oil hovered below $100 per barrel while the dollar rose against the euro but slipped against the yen.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 0.5 percent to 8,509.24. South Korea's Kospi lost 0.3 percent at 1,857.85 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 0.2 percent to 18,404.38. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.1 percent to 4,197.80.
Benchmarks in mainland China, Singapore and Indonesia fell while Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand rose.
U.S. stocks gave up gains Tuesday after the Fed released a policy statement that made clear it was not offering any new steps to help the economy.
The Fed said that the U.S. economy, while improving, is still weak. Unemployment remains high, and it remains vulnerable to the European debt crisis, which could push the continent into a recession and slow U.S. growth.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.6 percent to close at 11,954.94. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 0.9 percent to 1,225.73. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.3 percent to 2,579.27.
The Dow dropped more than 70 points in the last hour of trading and had risen as high as 126 points earlier Tuesday after two strong auctions of European debt. The Spanish government was able to sell short-term debt at much lower interest rates compared with a month ago, a signal that markets are becoming less fearful about the government's ability to repay its debt.
And in its first sale of short-term bills, the European Financial Stability Fund raised 1.9 billion euros ($2.6 billion).
Still, investor sentiment remained fragile amid threats by Standard & Poor's to downgrade the credit ratings of 15 countries that use the euro because of the region's debt crisis.
"We are likely to continue seeing some cautious trading as the threat of S&P coming out to issue some downgrades at some stage this week looms," said Stan Shamu of IG Markets in Melbourne, Australia.
"Some would argue that this is already priced in, but it will still likely rock the boat should it happen."
Export shares in Japan were under pressure as the yen strengthened against a shaky euro. Sharp Corp. dropped 1.8 percenet and Toshiba Corp. lost 1.7 percent. Honda Motor Corp. slid 2.4 percent.
In Hong Kong, meanwhile, the most actively traded shares included Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the world's biggest bank by market value, up 0.2 percent, and China Construction Bank, down 0.4 percent.
Australia's Westpac Banking Corp. was down 0.6 percent after the bank warned that net interest margins, and revenues in its markets business, were being impacted by Europe's debt crisis.
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In currencies, the euro fell to $1.3036 from $1.3043 late Tuesday in New York. The dollar fell to 77.93 yen from 77.97 yen.


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Letitia James' victory in the runoff election for public advocate could have a spillover effect on who controls the City Council next year, sources said.
As the first African-American woman to hold citywide office, James unintentionally cleared the path for one of the white male candidates vying to become the next council speaker.
It was all but certain council members would elect a minority or a woman had James lost to rival Dan Squadron.
In that case, all three citywide officials would have been white males, assuming Bill de Blasio ended as mayor and Scott Stringer as comptroller.
"If the city's entire elected leadership is white, it gives a person of color a much stronger argument as to why they should be speaker. Now, that's somewhat off the table," said one Democrat closely following the race.
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Australian Open: Rafael Nadal delighted with his performance in semi-final win
Rafael Nadal admitted the sight of Roger Federer on the other side of the net brings out the best in him.
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Top seed Nadal defeated his old rival 7-6 6-3 6-3 in their Australian Open semi-final to increase his lead in their career head-to-head to 23-10.
And the Spaniard will now take on another Swiss, Stanislas Wawrinka, in Sunday's final with the chance to become the third man to win each Grand Slam event on two occasions.
"I played a lot of times against him and a lot of times I played great against him," said Nadal. "So probably that's why I had this success against him.
"I think I played probably my best match of the tournament. Great news that I played my best match in that semi-final against Roger.
"He arrived to that match winning two great matches against (Jo-Wilfried) Tsonga and Andy (Murray) two days ago. I'm very happy the way I played tonight and very special moment try to have the chance to be in another final."
On his game-plan in the semi-final, Nadal said: "Every time I go on court I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I will be able to do it or if he will give me the chance to play the way that I want to play.
"What happened in the past probably will not help me. I take every match like a different history and every day is different.
"Sure, the matches that I won against him in the past helps to make me feel confident in the way that I have to play, but that's doesn't mean that I will have the chance to do it again.
"Even if we played each other 32 times before this one and I was able to win against him 22, I go on court knowing that I am playing against a player that is unbelievable."
Nadal has not dropped a set to Wawrinka in their 12 previous meetings but still expects a tough final.
"I saw him play against Novak (Djokovic) and I saw him play against (Tomas) Berdych," he said. "He's playing great. He's a good friend, great guy. So, happy for him that he's in the final. He deserves it. He's playing better and better every year.
"He's serving unbelievable. He's hitting the ball very strong from the baseline. If I am not able to play my best, I think I will not have chances because he's coming to this match with a lot of victories and playing great."


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