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With a stay at Wingate by Wyndham Schaumburg / Convention Center in Schaumburg, you'll be convenient to Schaumburg Medieval Times and Harper College.
This hotel is within close proximity of Woodfield Mall and Legoland Discovery Center.
Make yourself at home in one of the 81 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, and LED televisions with cable programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and complimentary newspapers, as well as phones with free local calls.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as a fitness center, or other amenities including complimentary wireless Internet access and concierge services. Getting to nearby attractions is a breeze with the complimentary area shuttle.
Enjoy a meal at a restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in Schaumburg? This hotel has 1100 square feet (102 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and meeting rooms. Free self parking is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 1100 square feet (102 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, tour/ticket assistance, and coffee/tea in a common area. Onsite self parking is complimentary. A total renovation of this property was completed in July 2015.
Wingate by Wyndham Schaumburg / Convention Center is a smoke-free property.
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- Conference space size (meters) - 102
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- Conference space size (feet) - 1100
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- Total number of rooms - 81
- Number of floors - 4
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A complimentary breakfast is offered.
Wingate by Wyndham Schaumburg / Convention Center has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center.
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Industrial Systems Technology is an Associate in Applied Science Degree program designed to prepare the graduate for immediate employment as electronic, electrical, and mechanical maintenance personnel in manufacturing settings.
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Through an articulation agreement with the University of Northern Iowa, graduates of the Industrial Systems Technology program may continue their education by transferring to baccalaureate programs in such industrial technology fields as manufacturing, electromechanical systems, engineering technology, or supervision and management. Help of a NIACC counselor or program instructor is advised.
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Atlanta restaurants are getting lucky this month. Throughout October, select eateries are receiving these cool paper placemats that feature the work of 40 photographers. It's part of an Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) public art project curated by Atlanta native Jason Fulford. According to the ACP website, "This concept engages audiences at random and imposes an unexpected experience with art." (Does the image on the placemat above look familiar? It's Highway 1 in Big Sur, taken by Melissa Catanese.)
Since we're many miles from Atlanta, we're sure glad that the placemats are available for purchase online at yoyashop for $25. If you do happen to be in the Atlanta area this month, you can try to track them down during lunchtime at these restaurants. And you can view more of the placemats in the ACP's Flickr set.
Update/Correction: It appears that the placemats sold on yoyashop are not the ATL collection (despite being marked as such). They are likely the original series of placemats, which were part of a J&L 2004 project.
Participating artists include Ethan Andrews, Roy Arden, Roger Ballen, Zander Blom, William Boling, Able Brown, Melissa Catanese, Reuben Cox, Paul Davis, Tim Davis, Jason Evans, Ted Fair, Harrell Fletcher, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Gill, Andrew Z. Glickman, Maury Gortemiller, James Hall, Kyoko Hamada, Cristobal Hara, Nicole Jean Hill, Margarete Jakschik, Dave Jordano, Ron Jude, Hee Jin Kang, Martin Kippenberger, David La Spina, Michael David Murphy, Ed Panar, Gus Powell, Greta Pratt, Shawn Records, Will Rogan, Sasha Rudensky, Michael Schmelling, Shimabuku, David Shrigley, Mike Slack, Camilo Jose Vergara and Douglas Weathersby.
Image: Melissa Catanese's placemat at the West Egg Cafe (from the ACP's Flickr set).


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ApproachStart from the O'brien TH. See directions to the TH on the main page.
Route DescriptionThe O'brien Creek TH is where the hike starts from. The trail gains elevation rapidly and after about one mile, it crosses a small creeklet prior to coming to a sign that indicates a fork in the trail with the O'brien trail and the Boundary trail going to the right. The left will take you to the Krause cabin (see hut inscribed at bottom of the sign). We did the side trip to the cabin (worth a look) and checked it out before we made our way back up the trail to the sign again and took the Boundary trail. A windstorm had done tremendous damage to the forest and trees were down across the trail in unbelievable numbers. Where the trailswitched backed, we continued on and went directly up the hillside to get to the summit which is achieved a by a relatively easy scramble (see pics below) Map one, shows the TH at the 4700 foot mark and Map two shows the trail to the summit (which we ended up not taking by going directly up the hillside) . The overall hike / scramble was about 5 miles by not taking the trail and had an elevation gain of about 2400 feet.
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In my book, it says, Doctor may refuse to give you an antibiotic for a mild illness because he/she may not wish to risk your developing a resistant strain. It sounds more like Lamarck's theory that because your body wants to resist penicillin, then it develops a resistant strain. But Lamarck was wrong. According to Darwin, it should be a mutation just happens naturally, so even if your doctor gives you a lot of antibiotics, if the mutation doesn't happen, then there is no point of not giving you antibiotics. Suppose your doctor just gives you antiobiotic once, then you have mutation, it's a random chance of developing a resistant chain.
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Maybe I misunderstand you. It sounds like you're saying that "you" (the patient) mutate in response to antibiotic. That's not the case. Giving you an antibiotic kills off the susceptible bacteria, but selects for resistent strains that are not affected by treatment. The resistence "mutation" in all probability already existed in the population of the infecting bacteria. By treating an infection that could just as easily be handled by your own natural immune mechanisms, you may be encouraging the spread of resistent strains of bacteria. This is becoming a serious problem. The overuse of antibiotics has helped create strains of Tuberculosis and Staph, for example, that are resistent to almost anything now availble.
Hi,blcr11, thanks for your explanation. So you mean antibiotics make us develop a resistant strain? but according to Darwin, it's wrong. For an example, a giraffe's neck becomes longer because he has to reach the tree to get food, that's why it becomes longer? I mean that mutation should develop in ourself naturally, it shouldnt be influenced by antibiotics.
There is no mutation occurring in blcr's reply. Lets just get one thing clear, there is not going to be a mutation with the bacteria living inside of this particular sick person, I'm just stating that so our discussion can become easier. There could be, but we are ignoring it. The resistant strain probably already exists but cannot take over the body because it has to compete with other nonresistant bacteria. The antibiotics will eliminate the nonresistant ones, leaving the resistant ones to grow and eventually overwhelm the body.
It's about as Darwinian as I can imagine. We don't induce anything. There are individual bacteria already present in the population that are more fit for growth in the presence of antibiotic. They have a selective growth advantage over those that are not resistent, and are therefore selected by antibiotic treatment. It's survival of the fittest. Now, if we don't treat with antibiotic, there is no selective pressure exerted and the resistent strains have no better chance of survival than the non-resistent ones, all other things being equal.
From what I understand is that once you are given such a treatment like antibiotics, then the cells that have no resistance to it dies away. But usually, there are some mutated cells in the population that are already immune to this disease. So what this antibiotic does is it 'selects' the cells immune to the virus already which then lets the mutated cells reproduce resulting in a population of new cells that are immune to the disease. But the thing about this is that some things such as colds have a protein coat which change the way they look so that the antibodies can't recognize it. That's why there aren't any vaccines or specific medicine to cure colds since the cold is always changing its structure.
Ouch that is a mess of a comment. You are mixing up bacteria, cells diseases and viruses in an awful mess.
So to make it clear:
You have bacteria living in you, some permanently, some more transiently (the latter ususally includes the one that you will receive antibiotics for). There is ahuge diversity among those bacteria, notably in the case at hands in terms of sensitivity to antibiotics. Some will be fully resistant, some will be fully sensitive and some will just see their growth survival compromised. The different level of resistance can come either by the presence of pre-existing resistance genes (which are not always counter selected, but that message is already too long to give more details) or because some mutations confered resistance to some part of the bacterial population. When you take the antibiotic, all the sensitive bacteria in the population that get exposed to the antibiotic will die, and the resistant population suddenly has plenty of ressource available and take over. So the frequency of resistant strains increase in your population, and you now start to shed mostly resistant strains, which can in turn get into the rest of the community. As blcr11 said, nothing but darwininan selection here.
But your cells are not disseminated, and are resistant to the antibiotic (otherwise it would kill you too), so whatever happenes to your cells is not relevant. And antiviral molecules have completely different modes of actions, and usually have side effects that are not really worthy to fight a cold (but much more to fight AIDS for example), that is why in some case it is better to let your immune system handle things.
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lets not use the word mutate so lightly. After all bacteria dont like mutation either. Viruses on other hand have enzymes that purposely create variations in their genes, or lack error proof mechanisms unlike bacteria and of course humans.
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The fixed gear bike has taken over, that is for sure. We have seen adidas present the Zeitgeist, Nike comes with the City Tiempo and now also Onitsuka Tiger gets into the game and presents a collaboration with Human Traffic and Shoebiz from San Francisco on the Mexico 66. The iconic silhouette from the Japanese sneaker brand features a reflective all-vegan upper, directed at the fixed gear rider. Well, at least you have some choice now.
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Bangladesh blocks YouTube over anti-Islam videoSeptember 18, 2012 in Technology / Internet
Bangladesh has blocked YouTube after the video-sharing website failed to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world, government officials said Tuesday.
The country's telecommunications regulator blocked the website "to prevent violence and social disorder over the derogatory video", its acting chairman Giashuddin Ahmed told AFP.
"On Sunday we wrote to (site owner) Google to remove the video clip from YouTube. We told them that it could incite violence, but they have not done so," he said.
"Yesterday we told our officials to block YouTube. The site has been blocked since Monday night," he added.
Google, which has barred access to the video in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Libya and Malaysia, was not immediately available for comment.
The film entitled "Innocence of Muslims", believed to have been produced by a small group of extremist Christians, has sparked a week of furious protests outside US embassies and other American symbols in several countries.
At least 19 people have died in protests against the film including the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans who were killed in Benghazi when the US consulate came under attack.
Protests reached Muslim-majority Bangladesh last week as thousands of Muslims belonging to Islamist groups burnt US and Israeli flags on Friday and tried to march to the US embassy before they were stopped by police.
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This is a Vintage 1940Ü#39;s 33-1/3 and 78 RPM Meissner Radio Phono Recorder which came from my Dads furniture store in Manchester, NH. It is in good looking and in working condition. It is Model 9-1065 made by the Meissner Manufacturing Co of Mt. Carmel, Illinois and was designed to cut records up to 10" in diameter recorded from the radio only, phono playback, public address and/or record mike and to play records up to 12." When we plugged it in the radio played and the turntable works and the microphone lights light up. It comes with reproducing needles. PA system is working. The case is in rough condition as pictured, however it is sturdy and intact and has protected the unit commendably over the years. This Meissner model has been used to record a number of radio commercials over the years and has been an early and dependable unit for cutting records whether you use it for display, add it to your collection, and/or use it. It measures 9-1/4"x20"x20" and weighs 48 pounds. It is offered as is, as shown, with all defects known and unknown. Call with any questions. Thanks and Good Luck Bidding!


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Nov 6, 2012 – Governor Rotimi Amaechi's Driver Electrocuted At Abual Quarters In Port Harcourt
Mr Ibiba Jack, one of the drivers of Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi's convoy has been electrocuted. www.naijagists.com
Jack who died in his early 40s at the Government House quarters (Abual Quarters) in Port Harcourt on Sunday was trying to help a cleaner who suffered from a naked electrical cable shocks during the mishap.
As Jack was trying to help the cleaner, his legs got tangled up in the faulty electrical cable. He suffered from electrocution on Sunday and was declared dead at the Government House clinic.
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Press Release: IMF Deputy Managing Director Takatoshi Kato's Statement at a Seminar in Trinidad and Tobago
June 14, 2004
The following press statement was made by Mr.Takatoshi Kato, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, at a high-level Seminar on Developmental Challenges Facing the Caribbean in Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago, on June 11-12, 2004:
"My visit takes place on the occasion of the 2004 High-Level Seminar on the Developmental Challenges Facing the Caribbean-a two-day conference hosted jointly by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and the IMF and attended by eminent experts, senior policy makers, the donor community, and representatives of the civil society from the region. It coincides with the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago—I would like to congratulate Governor Williams for this great achievement.
"The purpose of this visit—my first to the Caribbean as Deputy Managing Director of the IMF—is to listen to and participate in the discussions on the main challenges facing the region. Today, the first day of the conference, there were three important sessions on development strategies, stabilization and debt, and the sources of growth. As a result, I already have a deeper appreciation of the region's achievements and its challenges. My hope is that, at the conclusion of this seminar, we will together emerge with a better sense of the policy agenda for realizing the region's growth potential and moving it forward.
"This conference has also provided me with a valuable opportunity to interact with many leaders of the region. I had the privilege today of meeting with the Honorable Prime Minister Patrick Manning, Minister Conrad Enill, and Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams of our host country Trinidad and Tobago. I also valued very much the discussions I had this morning with Governor Dwight Venner of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and his team, and several senior officials of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union countries. The occasion of the conference is another opportunity for us to strengthen the regional dimension in our dialogue with the Caribbean countries.
"While the Caribbean region is a diverse group of countries—in culture and in the nature of their economies—there are many common strengths. The high quality of human capital and abundant natural resources, democratic political systems and, importantly, the determination of the people to confront the many challenges of globalization, are assets of justifiable pride.
"In particular, I am encouraged by the determination of policy makers in the region to strengthen their policy framework to ensure more rapid and sustained growth that works for the benefit of all their citizens. Recurring themes at the conference included developing a more supportive macroeconomic policy framework with declining public debt burdens and strengthening financial systems; increasing the flexibility of the economies to respond to shocks as well as to take advantage of the opportunities of globalization; and enhancing domestic institutions in areas critical to entrenching macroeconomic stability, attracting foreign investment, and reducing poverty.
"While policies in these and other areas will necessarily be tailored to the individual circumstances of each country, building a wide social consensus for them is key to their lasting success. In this endeavor, the IMF is a full partner. We have greatly enhanced our role in surveillance, and are placing more emphasis on issues crucial to the region's outlook, for example, in assessing fiscal sustainability and strengthening further the financial sector. Indeed, we will do all we can within our mandate to help our members develop and entrench this agenda."
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Why You Do the Crazy Things You Do
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The Good: : An amusing tour of how people act against their best interests.
The Bad: Less useful for policymakers than Nudge
The Bottom Line: Personal and accessible
Predictably Irrational:The Hidden Forces That Shape Our DecisionsBy Dan Ariely;Harper; 280pp; $25.95
Nudge:Improving Decisions AboutHealth, Wealth, and HappinessBy Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. SunsteinYale University Press; 304pp; $25.95
Behavioral economics has hit the mainstream, and it's about time. Behavioralists are finally bringing the economics profession around to recognizing that real human beings don't act like the coldly rational, welfare-maximizing automatons of traditional textbooks. They are proving what those of us without the heavy burden of a PhD in economics already knew, which is that real people are impulsive, shortsighted, and procrastinating—95% Homer Simpson and only 5% Mr. Spock.
Economists aren't just sitting on this newfound wisdom. They're using it to design fixes for problems ranging from drug addiction to undersaving for retirement to the proper positioning of cookies vs. fruits in the cafeteria.
Two new books should help spread the word about behavioral economics to an even wider audience. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely, is an entertaining tour of the many ways people act against their best interests, drawing on Ariely's own ingeniously designed experiments. The soon-to-be-published Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, covers similar territory but with an emphasis on how society could reshape institutions to get people to do the right thing for themselves more often.
Ariely's book is the more personal and accessible, starting with his own poignant history. When he was an 18-year-old in the Israeli army, a magnesium-flare explosion left him with third-degree burns over 70% of his body. For the next three years, nurses would yank the bandages off and replace them with new ones daily. Ariely realized later that he and others would feel less pain if the bandages were removed slowly. But the nurses felt less psychic pain when they did it quickly.
Exploring the mental errors that led the nurses to cause their patients unnecessary suffering led Ariely, now a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, to his life's work of teasing out the psychological origins of bad decisions. It's fun to watch him manipulate the subjects of his experiments into doing really dumb things, like abruptly switching to a cheaper brand of chocolate when its price is discounted trivially from one penny to the "irresistible" price of zero. Concludes Ariely: "We are pawns in a game whose forces we largely fail to comprehend."
Nudge, by University of Chicago colleagues Thaler and Sunstein, picks up where Ariely leaves off by focusing on what to do with all these insights into human nature. Thaler is the grand old man of behavioral economics, having helped pioneer the field at Cornell University in the 1980s. He co-invented (with Shlomo Benartzi of the University of California at Los Angeles) the successful Save More Tomorrow program, which boosts retirement savings by persuading employees to commit part of future pay raises to their 401(k)s. Sunstein is a law professor and prolific writer who specializes in the intersection of policies and behavior.
Nudge is an argument for the gentle steer that neither forces people down one path nor ignores them as they blunder. The authors call it "libertarian paternalism," a deliberate oxymoron. As in the case of placing desserts in a lunch line, they say, institutions inevitably affect people's choices, so they should do so carefully. When the government assigned poor people randomly to Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, they say it was "somewhere between callous and irresponsible" not to nudge them instead toward a plan that would best meet their needs. A word to the wise may be sufficient, but to those of us who are predictably irrational—and who isn't?—a nudge works better.


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Canadians may well be the world's leaders in the journalistic cottage industry of dressing up Muslim. Seven years ago, a Huffington Post editor put on a burka for a week, and attempted to play it for laughs in a piece titled "Does This Burka Make Me Look Fat?" Last year, Quebec's favourite hothead, Richard Martineau, wore a burka on his French-language rantfest, "Franchement Martineau" — mirroring a stunt performed by Sun News personality Ezra Levant, who pronounced the garment "bloody uncomfortable" before ripping it off after a minute or two. His Sun colleague, David "The Menzoid" Menzies, put a Burka on a 14-year-old child and filmed him buying 24 ounces of hard stuff at an Ontario liquor store.
The latest installment in this genre comes courtesy of Queen's Journal copy editor Anisa Rawhani, a young non-Muslim woman who wore a hijab (a veil that covers the head and chest, but leaves most of the face exposed) for 18 days to see how people would react. Unlike the above-mentioned stunts, Rawhani's journalism seems to have been motivated primarily by genuine sociological curiosity.
The Queen's University campus and its Kingston, Ont. environs are full of well-educated liberals. So right off the bat, Rawahani tells us, "I suspected I wouldn't be the target of racial slurs, threats or ill-treatment." And indeed, she wasn't. Just the opposite: "If anything, people were being nicer . Much nicer."
"At first I thought I was just imagining things," she writes. "So what if strangers smiled at me in the street? [But] you can imagine my surprise when I realized that the friendlier-than-usual interactions — with friends and strangers alike — were by no means unique episodes, but a common theme. I started to experience instances where I was treated in a noticeably different manner from others." She supplies one vivid example from a low-rent pizzeria "where the man on cash wasn't in the best mood." He treated Rawhani's friends with disdain when they asked him for condiments, but "smiled broadly" when serving the hijabbed author.
The only awkwardness that crept into the experiment unfolded when Rawhani put up her hand in class, and a teacher mistakenly called on her using the name of the class' one other hijab-wearing student (who happened to be absent). As one might expect in this day and age, the professor was mortified by his error, and made a great show of apologizing. To her great credit, Rawhani describes the incident matter-of-factly, and does not seize on it as an indicator of seething racism. (Given the way these incidents often are treated by campus star chambers, the professor no doubt was terrified that he would spend the next few years of his life being investigated for thoughtcrime.)
[np_storybar title="Samira Kanji & Azeezah Kanji: In defence of the niqab" link="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/27/samira-kanji-azeezah-kanji-in-defence-of-the-niqab/"%5DThe Supreme Court's recent decision in R. vs. N.S. (deciding whether a woman can wear a niqab while testifying in court) provides a timely opportunity for some much-needed reflection on the way we talk about the niqab in Canada.
The niqab often stimulates reflexive, visceral reactions of dislike — even disgust — from those who view it as an unambiguous symbol of women's subjugation and degradation in Islam.
The flurry of commentary in this very paper precipitated by the decision yields some illustrative examples. David Frum insisted "Canadians are generally mistrustful of rules that subordinate or demean women … veiling takes for granted that women are sexual objects first and foremost, and assigns to women all the onus and burden of preventing sexual misconduct." Chris Selley describes the niqab as "an arcane religious or cultural practice." Barbara Kay claimed that "the niqab is a symbol of female dhimmitude … The niqab is a defilement of our credo."
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What explains the extremely non-Islamophobic — indeed, outright Islamophillic — response to Rawhani's hijab? She puts that question to Leandre Fabrigar, a Queen's psychology professor who specializes in the study of "attitude and persuasion." Fabrigar describes the phenomenon as one of "impression management": Most of us realize we may be bigots, but our rational minds tell us that this bigotry is wrong. So we "engage in an overcorrection process, which, ironically, would then lead [us] to be more friendly to the minority member than others."
That sounds plausible to me, as does most of Rawhani's own sociological speculation. Still, it left me wondering whether the nature of the author's experiment allowed her to dodge the real concerns that even non-bigotted Canadians have about socially conservative Muslims. Hijab or not, Rawhani presented herself to the world as what she apparently is: a modern, confident, well-integrated, socially engaged young woman who attends college, goes out on weekends with her friends, and works for a student newspaper. If this is your way of interacting with the world, what difference does a headscarf make?
Rawhani's pizza example hit home for me. Last weekend, I happened to be enjoying a glutinous late-night meal at Angela's Pizzeria on Montreal's de Maisonneuve Blvd., when a gaggle of hijabbed women came in and began carrying on in Arabic while feasting on fries and a veggie pie. (This area has had a large young Arab contingent for several decades now.) In the manner typical of all teenagers, they babbled at each other incessantly while ignoring anyone over the age of 20 who wasn't serving them food. In the way they presented themselves to the world, they might as well have been French-Canadians, or Anglos, or Jews, or Greeks, or Italians. The hijabs changed nothing.
Where things become more complicated is when a Muslim woman ups the ante by exchanging the hijab for the full face mask of the niqab (or, when combined with body covering, a burka). You do see some women like this in large Canadian cities (though not a hundredth as many as one might think from reading the commentary of certain overheated culture warriors). But they are never (by my observation) having a rollicking good time in pizzerias. Instead, they are more apt to be traveling silently on the subway with a baby carriage, or unobtrusively taking notes in the back of a trade-college classroom.
This is not to say that the niqab is a complete social death sentence. Travel along Overlea Blvd, through the commercial heart of Toronto's heavily Muslim Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood, and you will see women in Burkas traveling in groups, talking with one another, doing their shopping at East York Town Centre, or dropping their children off at school. But socially, it's a closed shop: The face covering sends the clear message that they conceive of the world around them to be largely one of leering men and other vulgar social contaminants, against which they must protect every inch of their body — except an eye-slit just big enough to make sure they don't bump into cars and lampposts.
Islamic fundamentalists claim that niqabbed women do so out of their own free will, rather than the threat of a beating by their husband. But even if that is so, their "free will" obviously is informed by a paranoid and highly regressive understanding of women's place in society. And it is perfectly understandable — and not in any way "Islamophobic" — that ordinary Canadians (including Levant, Martineau and The Menzoid) would be creeped out by it.
Eighteen days would be a long time to wear a niqab. But I'd be interested to hear the results if Rawhani were interested in repeating her experiment, but this time in full face covering as opposed to a mere headscarf.
I'd be interested to hear the results if Rawhani repeated her experiment, but this time in full face covering as opposed to a mere headscarf
My guess is that she would find, once again, that people would be perfectly civil to her. But I suspect that this friendliness would come from a different, much more anxious place.
One of the effects of the niqab is that it strips away all of the informal social cues that we typically rely on when we talk to people: the smiles, raised eyebrows, furrowed brows and such that tell us if our jokes are funny or not, our stories interesting or not, our presence welcome or not. The Burqa signals to the non-burqa-wearer that, to the extent he is capable of arousing any emotion at all, it is of the negative variety. In such a situation, most of us non-burqa folks are likely to put on a nervous smile, say something harmless, and get any necessary social or commercial interaction over with as quickly as possible so as not to induce the fear of sexual predation that, the niqab's existence implicitly signals, is but thinly suppressed in all of us.
Since 9/11, all Western societies have become obsessed with the way Muslim women dress. (Indeed, in parts of Quebec, it has become a sort of full-blown neurosis.) But Rawhani misunderstands the issue if she thinks that this is really about the hijab. It is about our basic, socially felt human need to see the faces of those we interact with. The fact that we politely tolerate those who live behind masks bespeaks Canadian civility. But it does not mean the underlying practice is in any way healthy or desirable.
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ALBANY – New York's job growth rate is trailing the nation for the first time in six years, the state's chief fiscal watchdog reported Friday.
The job growth rate in New York was 1.8 percent in 2012, down from 2.1 percent the previous year, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.
The nation's job growth level went from 1.8 percent to 2.2 percent.
While New York's unemployment picture has been improving, private-sector job growth in the state in the one-year period ending this past June was 1.5 percent, below the nation's 2.1 percent level.
"The good news is that New York's job count has increased above its pre-recession levels. The bad news is that, over the past year, we have fallen short of the national growth rate in several major employment sectors," DiNapoli said in releasing the employment report this morning.
Robert Megna, who is Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's budget director, called DiNapoli's report "baffling.'' He said it is in "direct contradiction'' to a report issued the day before by Moody's Investor Service when the Wall Street rating agency upgraded the outlook on New York to a positive rating.
"Moody's report, which the comptroller issued a statement applauding just yesterday, cited the recent job growth, which includes adding 300,000 private sector jobs in the last two and a half years, has 'surpassed or closely approximated the U.S.,' '' Megna said in a statement.
From 2007 through 2012, New York lost 100,000 manufacturing jobs, a 16.9 percent decline, compared to the nation's drop of 14.1 percent. In the past year alone, New York's manufacturing jobs are down 3.6 percent.
What the report called a bright spot in the numbers was the inflow of people from other countries to New York. Without such international immigration, New York would have seen its overall population drop 680,000 people. Instead, the state's overall population grew 2.4 percent in the 10-year period ending in 2012.
In the one-year period ending in June, the state added 110,000 jobs. It said the growth has been geographically uneven, with private-sector growth up in places like Buffalo, New York City and the Albany area, but there have been "sizable" private-sector employment declines in Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton and Elmira.
The report said the state is trailing the nation's job growth in almost all major sectors, including trade, transportation, professional services, construction, financial services and leisure and hospitality. The financial, real estate and insurance sectors are crucial because while they employ only 9.5 percent of New Yorkers they account for 27 percent of the state's economic output, the report said.
New York has done better than the United States as a whole, the report said, in education and health care sectors.
The report said the state did not fare as poorly during the recession as some other states because New York had not gone through major spikes in housing prices, which then plummeted during the recession amid a collapse in the real estate market.
In a state known for its high taxes, at least New Yorkers make more money, on average, than the nation as a whole. New York's per capita income is $52,095, compared to $42,693 for the nation.
DiNapoli's report came as a national construction group reported most metropolitan areas in New York saw gains in construction jobs from July 2012 to last month. The Buffalo and Niagara Falls areas were one of only two areas in the state, however, that saw a drop in construction jobs during the period, according to the Associated General Contractors of America. The number of construction-related jobs in Western New York fell 3 percent to 20,900 positions, while the state as a whole saw an increase of 3 percent in construction jobs.
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I just got a link to an article this morning that I wanted to share here. The Ohio Genealogical Society is looking for the gravesites of Revolutionary War vets. Volunteers and members of the county chapters are walking cemeteries looking for those who served in the Rev War in order to document the names and locations for future reference. The article mentions that many graves that have been found, have no mention of their service and some are calling for them to be memorialized in some fashion.
I was excited to hear that they were planning a documented (and I hope published) collection of the names and locations because that would be a great reference for those seeking the resting sites of their ancestors. But I was also excited about the effort because the brother of one of my ancestors (another Bromagem, this site is becoming Bromagem central! LOL) was Rev War vet and I have long suspected he was buried in Ohio but just haven't had the time to try to find him. It was one of those things on the neverending "to-do" list. But now I feel like if I can't get around to it, he won't be lost for long now that the Ohio Genealogical Society has taken the initiative. I think it's a great thing, and how wonderful would it be if more states would join in.
So here's the link to the article, take a look. http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/07/13/z-apoh_revolutionarywargrave.ART_ART_07-13-09_B5_S5EF7EE.html?sid=101
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Donavan Tolifson
Donavan Tolifson, age 84 of Phoenix, Ariz., passed away on Sept. 28, 2009.
Don was born on Dec. 8, 1924 in Windom, Minn. where he worked as a farmer before relocating to Arizona with hes family. He retired from the city of Phoenix where he worked in the water department as a water meter reader. Don is survived by his wife, Arlene; sons, Gayle (Christina), Lyle (Laura); daughter, Patricia; seven grandchildren; and eleven great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on Friday, October 2 at Green Acres Glendale Mortuary. Interment was at Resthaven Park Cemetery in Glendale, Ariz. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Valley in his name.


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Sofia Vergara to voice Flamenco Dancer Emoji in 'The Emoji Movie'
Sofia Vergara has joined the voice cast of Sony's upcoming animated comedy, The Emoji Movie.
"Excited to be Flamenco Dancer in @emojimovie," the Modern Family star wrote on Instagram Tuesday alongside a photo of herself standing next to her animated character who is seen donning a red and black dress along with a rose in her mouth.
The Emoji Movie marks the latest animated film Vergara has lent her voice to after starring in The Smurfs and Happy Feet Two.
Vergara joins a cast that includes T.J. Miller as Gene, an emoji who can show multiple expressions, Ilana Glazer as Jailbreak, a codebreaker emoji, James Corden as Hi-Five, a hand emoji, Steven Wright as Mel Meh, Gene's dad, Jennifer Coolidge as Mary Meh, Maya Rudolph as Smiler, a smiley emoji and Patrick Stewart as the Poop Emoji.
Directed by Tony Leondis, The Emoji Movie arrives in theaters July 28.
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No Revenge I want to embrace all those who left us – Basil Rajapaksa
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- NOC in disarray as IOC intervenes NOC forced to further delay holding the AGM
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- Indian pace trio gets boost ahead of away tours
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- Real cruise into last 16
- 'Singer Cup' U-19 Cricket Rusara's 12-wicket haul steers Gurukula
- Kumar, Dhawan opt out of 2nd Sri Lanka Test
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- SriLankan expands codeshare with Qantas
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- SLT to host 2nd SLT Zero One Awards
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- Was the fuel crisis created to get rid of Arjuna ? IOC ship still off the seas of Trincomalee
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- An argument for a new Constitution
- 'Otriachchi', 'Orumiththa Nadu', 'Aekeeya Rajya' and unitary state
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — With three major votes on the agenda, Olympic leaders begin weeklong meetings today that will bring a close to Jacques Rogge's 12-year reign as IOC president.
The International Olympic Committee convenes in Buenos Aires to choose a host city for the 2020 Games, elect Rogge's successor and add a sport to the 2020 lineup.
First up, Rogge chairs his policy-making executive board for the last time, a two-day meeting to review a range of Olympic issues.
The full IOC then convenes starting Friday for its 125th session, a landmark meeting that will set the Olympic movement's direction for the next decade.
On Saturday, the 100 or so IOC members will vote by secret ballot on the 2020 host, a three-way contest between Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. A day later, the members will choose between wrestling, squash and baseball-softball for a spot in the 2020 Olympics.
And next Tuesday, the IOC will elect a new president from among six contenders.
IOC vice president Thomas Bach, of Germany, has been considered the longtime front-runner to succeed Rogge.
Richard Carrion, a Puerto Rican banking executive who heads the IOC's finance commission and vice president Ng Ser Miang, of Singapore, shape up as the other main contenders.
Also on the ballot are executive board members Sergei Bubka of Ukraine and C.K. Wu of Taiwan and former board member Denis Oswald of Switzerland.
Bach, a 59-year-old lawyer, is a former Olympic athlete, winner of a team gold medal in fencing in 1976. He has served at the top levels of the IOC for years and is president of Germany's national Olympic committee.
Some members are uncomfortable with the pro-Bach lobbying by Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, the influential Kuwaiti who heads the Association of National Olympic Committees. But Bach downplays the connection.
"I would, of course, be more than happy if the national Olympic committees would support me because I am an NOC president," Bach said in telephone interview last week with The Associated Press. "But that is not enough. I want to be a president for all. You need the support from many different sides."
The IOC is looking into comments made by Sheik Ahmad in a German television interview five months ago and aired last weekend. He openly expresses support for Bach and says he is doing everything he can to help him get elected.
Such comments are against IOC election rules. Sheik Ahmad could receive a warning or reprimand from the IOC ethics commission, though no severe sanctions are expected.
Carrion, the 60-year-old head of Puerto Rico's Banco Popular, has earned respect as the IOC's money man. He negotiated the record $4.38 billion deal with NBC for U.S. TV rights through 2020. He impressed members with his emotional notes-free speech during presentations by the six candidates in Lausanne in July.
"They liked what they saw. They liked what they heard," Carrion told the AP. "I'm happy with what I've done. I'm following my plan. I'm where I wanted to be at this point."
Ng, a 64-year-old businessman and diplomat, organized the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010 and represents an Asian continent that is growing in world influence.
"I believe in my heart that I have the independence, the integrity, the leadership qualities and the required experience to take the movement to new levels over the next eight years," he said in a letter to IOC members last week.


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FAN 94.2 (First Amendment News) Buckley v. Valeo: 40th Anniversary — Cato & Center for Competitive Politics to Host Event
United States Supreme Court
BUCKLEY v. VALEO (1976)
No. 75-436
Argued: November 10, 1975 Decided: January 30, 1976
The event is titled "The Past and Future of Buckley v. Valeo" and is being presented by the Cato Institute and the Center for Competitive Politics. It will take place on Tuesday, January 26th at Hayek Auditorium at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. (1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW).
Should Buckley be considered a First Amendment failure? Or did it embrace inevitable compromises that were both worse and better than everyone desired? How does Buckley affect the law and American politics and campaigning today? Does the decision have a future?" Those and related questions will be discussed at the upcoming event.
Introduction (9:00 a.m.)
Bradley Smith, Center for Competitive Politics
The Impact of Buckley on Campaigns and Elections (9:15-10:15)
Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri
Jay Goodliffe, Brigham Young University
Interviewer: Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic
Why the Buckley Decision Matters (10:15-11:15)
Bradley Smith, Center for Competitive Politics
Floyd Abrams, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Interviewer: Matea Gold, Washington Post
What is Living and What Is Dead in Buckley v. Valeo? (11:30-12:30)
John Samples, Cato Institute
Jan Baran, Wiley Rein LLP
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Interviewer: David Savage, Los Angeles Times
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Bradley Bergesen Tagged With Loss in Blue Jays-Orioles Match
Baltimore got a 2-HR day from J.J. Hardy on Thursday at Rogers Centre but Toronto still managed to defeat Baltimore 8-5 in baseball action.
Toronto was favored by -168 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 9.5.
Toronto got 5 innings from Carlos Villanueva, who gave up 4 earned runs on 6 hits, while striking out 1. He earned the victory, while the Blue Jays got 2 RBIs from Edwin Encarnacion in the win.
Baltimore's starting pitcher Bradley Bergesen worked 3 innings, giving up 6 hits and 4 earned runs while striking out 0 in the loss. They got 3 hits from J.J. Hardy in a losing cause.
Toronto outhit their counterparts 12-8 in the game.
Toronto heads into a battle against Texas. Baltimore, meanwhile, will have their next action against New York.


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After months of silence, Mila Kunis, who is expecting her first child with her fiancé, Ashton Kutcher, opens up about her pregnancy on The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week.
Decked out in a cute white maternity mini dress, the Jupiter Ascending star, 30, chats with Ellen about everything from pregnancy cravings to her birth plan, Us Weekly reports.
According to the actress, Kutcher has been amazingly supportive and even stocked up their second refrigerator with all sorts of food he anticipated she might crave — such as sauerkraut, anchovies and ice cream.
Kunis admits that she's having very "stereotypical" cravings during her pregnancy (like pickles!), but the one food she indulges on a regular basis is sauerkraut. "I eat sauerkraut all day long," the mom-to-be said. "This is the worst craving to have because sauerkraut smells and so every time you open up a jar, it just reeks in the whole kitchen...It's not like ice cream where everything smells lovely."
The couple, who met when they played teenagers in love on That '70s Show, are still keeping mum on their baby's gender (rumor has it that they are expecting a girl), but the actress reveals that they do have a name picked out.
I'm betting that the name will honor her Ukrainian heritage. Kunis, who speaks fluent Russian, was born in Ukraine and says that Kutcher began taking Russian language lessons about six months ago, so it's safe to say that they plan to raise a bilingual child.
When talking about her birth plan, Mila Kunis inadvertently confessed to Ellen that her pregnancy was planned: "I mean, I did this to myself — I might as well do it right! I wanted this."
And when it's time for the baby to arrive, Kunis says that she will have a natural birth. She and Kutcher watched birthing documentaries, and the hospital at which she will deliver works with midwives, so she will have a doula present at the birth. "I'm going to do it as all-natural as I possibly can unless there's an emergency or something," she explains.
My advice to Kunis is to prepare for everything because you can make all the plans in the world, but it's the baby who's in charge!
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Patrolman Henry A. Mandleco was shot and killed as he attempted to interview two men.
Patrolman Mandleco was on foot patrol on Troup Street when he observed two suspicious men in a truck containing stolen cargo. As Patrolman Mandleco approached to question them, one of the assailants produced a revolver and fired. Patrolman Mandleco died instantly.
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50 CFR 560.2 - Definitions.
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Administrative Officer means the Administrative Officer of the Marine Mammal Commission.
Commission means the Marine Mammal Commission, a collegial body established under 16 U.S.C. 1401 that functions as a unit and is composed of three individual members, each of whom is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Commissioner means an individual who is a member of the Marine Mammal Commission.
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It's been a while, I know. All I can say is that this placement has made me far busier and stressed than the previous one. In fact, I actually had a mini breakdown last week.
Anyway, I'll give you a little bit of everything here.
- After much debate, I've chosen my case study, a girl with autism and a history of eating disorders who deliberately self-harms through cutting and headbanging.
- I've read a pretty decent, useful article titled 'The Role of Occupational Therapy in the Treatment of Adolescents with Eating Disorders as Perceived by Mental Health Therapists' by Elizabeth Kloczko and Moses N. Ikiugu, published in 2006 in Occupational Therapy and Mental Health.
- I'm terribly amused by these pictures of microscopic creatures, particularly the one of the bluebottle fly larva.
- I think celebrating Osama Bin Laden's death is a little stupid, as it's not as if it will end terrorism. In fact, it'll probably make things worse. I can understand feeling relieved and a sense of closure in some cases, but celebrating out in the streets simply provides a target for revenge bombers.
- A while ago, another OT student contacted me, asking me to look at her website. Basically, they got involved in beta-testing mind map software and have put it to use building a giant OT mind map. When I first saw it, there wasn't much up, but I just took another look, and it's starting to come together, so if you're interested, take a look at www.otstudent.info.
- My eczema has gone crazy. I'm embarrassed to go out these days.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's attempts to cut off Turkey's access to Twitter, YouTube, and now Facebook has been met with resounding defiance from students and others who rely on the platforms to communicate with the world.
"There is no democracy. There is no human-rights protection. The president is doing whatever he feels like and doesn't care what the public wants. The lives of Turkish people are not secure any more. We can't trust the police or the government. We want a free, civilized, secular country," DD, a student in Istanbul, told VentureBeat on Thursday.
Like others in Turkey interviewed for this story, DD asked that their name be withheld for fear of government reprisals.
Erdoğan's moves are seen as a desperate attempt by a career politician to squash widespread dissent at what many Turks consider a corruption-plagued government. The Twitter and YouTube cutoffs come at a pivotal time for the world's largest secular Muslim country. Erdoğan is facing local elections, and he has been met with widespread dissatisfaction from many secularists in the country who charge he has attempted to establish an Islamist agenda in the country, which Turkey's constitution forbids.
The Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to questions Thursday.
Erdoğan blocked the country's access to Twitter last week and did the same for YouTube on Wednesday. Sources inside Turkey fear that Facebook is next. Internet-savvy Turks have relied on Twitter in particular to mobilize street protests against Erdoğan, and the platform has proven useful in alerting protesters to police actions against them.
"Since social media is the primary organ of modern communication, related bans are affecting the Turkish youth's communication, awareness, education, and participation in national and international affairs," AT, another student, wrote in an email to VentureBeat on Thursday. "The bans can also be considered a violation of human rights as they are blocking the communication during such a hard time for Turkish people."
As early as March 7, Erdoğan threatened to block Google's video service. When discussing YouTube, the prime minster proclaimed he "will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook."
Thus far, Facebook is still operational. Indeed, I spent the better part of the morning communicating with several sources inside Turkey. The sources said they believe Erdoğan will cut access to Facebook "any minute."
RT, another Turkish college student, said the ban is having minimal impact on the protests and that many are working around the bans.
"There are ways of changing your internet settings to get onto the internet sites. Everything basically depends on what happens this Sunday. We don't care about their bans, they don't work anyway."
The U.S. State Department issued a statement on the Turkish government's actions:
"We urge the Turkish Government to unblock its citizens' access to Twitter and ensure free access to all social media platforms. The United States supports freedom of expression in Turkey and opposes any action to encroach on the right to free speech. We urge the Turkish Government to unblock its citizens' access to Twitter and ensure free access to all social media platforms."
Asked what is the Turkish people's message to the outside world, AT put it to VentureBeat in an email this way:
"Please be aware of this dictator and let everyone know what we're going through."


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Class (classroom) management tips?
Yes, I have looked up and found two questions that are relevant (Q. one and Q. two. I find the tips good.
I have been little more kind towards students. I haven't reprimanded anyone. So, what it is turning to is students keep on talking in the classroom. Secondly, quality of the assignments (more specifically drawings on sheets) is deteriorating. Do I turn strict on students?
And, few (sincere) students have asked me to be strict since they find others' talking disturbing.
My fear is, if I turn strict, it will be too hard for students. What should I do? What do I say? any examples?
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Could it be that more men die than women? Unlikely, you say.
Then why is it that so far this year about 73 percent of the Tribune's obituaries are about males?
The newspaper's research library checked previous years and found the gender breakdown roughly the same back in 2002 and in 1998. A man was the lead obituary writer one of those years, and a woman the other. The Tribune's library also checked with other newspapers, from St. Louis to New York, and found the imbalance was similar or even greater.


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Apple, HTC resolve patent disputes that threatened shipments
Apple Inc. and HTC Corp. have settled all global lawsuits and signed a 10-year licensing agreement, ending a dispute that threatened their shipments of mobile devices.
Apple, which had accused HTC of copying features that made its iPhone unique, "will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation," chief executive Tim Cook was cited as saying in a joint news release confirmed by both companies. HTC had accused the Cupertino, Calif.-based maker of iPads and MacBooks of infringing its wireless patents.
An Apple complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission sought to block imports of HTC smartphones because the devices allegedly copied the iPhone's pinch-to-zoom feature. HTC fought back, alleging infringement of patents it bought last year for ways to reliably transmit a larger amount of data. Both parties declined to provide details of the settlement.
"This is definitely a positive surprise for HTC," said Daniel Chang, who rates the stock underperform at Macquarie Group Ltd. in Taipei. "The shares will probably get a bump on this news, though it doesn't solve the structural problems at the company."
Shares of HTC, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based maker of One, Desire, and Sensation handsets, have fallen 55 percent this year in Taipei trading, after a 42 percent drop last year spurred by continued market-share losses, falling sales and lower profit.
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"HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation," chief executive Peter Chou said in the statement.
In May, HTC said availability of its HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE handsets was delayed due to a U.S. customs review required after an exclusion order by the ITC. The company had said it redesigned its devices to remove disputed technology while maintaining it breached no patents. The delay pushed back a release of the devices by Sprint Nextel Corp., which had planned to offer the LTE model to help boost its own subscriber numbers.
Less than a month later, HTC cut its second-quarter sales projection by 13 percent, citing a delay in U.S. shipments among the reasons for the second lowering of its revenue projection in three quarters. Weaker-than-expected sales in Europe amid heightened competition were named as the primary reason for the guidance cut.
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In July, the ITC ruled that HTC could keep shipping its devices while the agency investigated whether the phones violate the exclusion order, denying an emergency request to have the handsets halted at the U.S. border.
Apple's complaints included claims HTC copied the iPhone maker's technology for detecting phone numbers in emails, allowing users to save the information or make a call without dialing. The dispute, which include a case filed in London, also had the U.S. company accusing its rival of copying other features such as "slide to unlock," multiple screen touches, and using various alphabets when sending messages.
HTC's rebuttal included its $300 million purchase of 3G Graphics Co., a company part-owned by HTC chairwoman Cher Wang, in a bid to leverage that company's patent claims against Apple to bolster its own defense. The gambit failed when the ITC ruled in November 2011 that Apple's Macs didn't infringe on two S3 Graphics patents.
A separate case before the ITC may have forced Cook to the negotiating table after a judge at the agency said Apple would likely face difficulty getting a series of HTC patents invalidated. HTC bought those patents, which covered technology used in LTE high-speed wireless devices, from ADC Telecommunications Inc. for $75 million.
"The settlement is a big surprise and is likely due to HTC's LTE patents which it bought from ADC last year, as Apple's LTE patents are relatively weak," said Jeff Pu, who rates the stock reduce at Fubon Financial Holding Co. in Taipei. "What HTC still needs though is good products."