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Scheduler for iTunes
By Micromedia AG
Open the Mac App Store to buy and download apps.
With Scheduler for iTunes you can create a schedule of iTunes playlists.
The scheduled playlists are automatically played by iTunes at given time.
In addition you can set the volume either at the start point of a playlist or at any time as a scheduled command. Further you can schedule a stop command which does fade out and stop playing iTunes.
Use it at home to play your playlists in multi-rooms at scheduled times, in stores and restaurants to change volume and playlist matching to your customers or for internet radio.
This application is designed to control iTunes 11 only.
What's New in Version 2.0.0
+ AirPlay support
+ Multiple schedules with import, export, backup and restore functions
+ Displaying current track with artwork (if available)
+ Possibility to colorize tasks in list
+ Schedule search function
+ Switching automation mode on/off
Customer Reviews
Poopr web interface
limited functionally. I did not feel this App was woth the money in any way.
- $29.99
- Category: Music
- Updated: Dec 09, 2013
- Version: 2.0.0
- Size: 7.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Micromedia AG
- © 1992 - 2017 Micromedia AG
Compatibility: OS X 10.6 or later


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$14,800 CARFAX Value
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Damage Reported
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CARFAX 1-Owner
Purchased on 04/06/16 and owned in CA until 07/17/17.
Personal Use
Driven an estimated 13,216 miles/year.
Service History
Last serviced at 16,925 miles in Antioch, CA on 07/20/17 • Pre-delivery inspection completed • Battery serviced, Brakes checked, Oil and filter changed, Wiper(s) replaced, Emissions inspection performed

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II won the Best Film of the Year and Best Director for David Yates at the held Jameson Empire Awards this year at in London. It's a last hurrah for the Potter series, as the wizarding film takes the big prize.
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Full list of Empire Awards 2012 winners below:
- Best film: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
- Best British film: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Best actor: Gary Oldman
- Best actress: Olivia Colman
- Best Director: David Yates (Harry Potter)
- Best male newcomer: Tom Hiddleston (Thor)
- Best female newcomer: Felicity Jones (Like Crazy)
- Best comedy: The Inbetweeners Movie
- Best horror: Kill List
- Best thriller: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Best sci-fi: Thor
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- Empire Inspiration Award:Ron Howard
- Empire Legend:Tim Burton
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Belgian Jazz War Continues
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Friday, 5 October, 2001, 12:02 GMT 13:02 UK
G7 plans to tackle slump
Finance ministers from the world's leading industrial countries are meeting in Washington this weekend to consider how to tackle terrorism and the global economic slowdown.
Top of the agenda will be plans to revive the flagging world economy through interest rate cuts and more government spending.
But differences are expected to emerge between the United States, which has already announced a $75bn economic recovery package, and European leaders, who are reluctant to add to their budget deficits and would prefer to use interest rate cuts to stimulate the economy.
Return of Keynes
Central banks around have already cut interest rates in the wake of the terrorist attack, with US rates now at a 40-year low of 2.5%.
But the US wants more aggressive action to help boost growth, especially in Europe.
"This needs to be a worldwide recovery. The US economy has been carrying most of the rest of the world, especially in the last year..we need to all pull together," US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said on Thursday.
Economists, including those at the World Bank and IMF, are concerned that the rules that govern spending in the eurozone are too strict.
"I am sure that President Bush and other Americans understand that no matter how big a stimulus we will have in the United States it will be less successful if the Europeans do not play along," commented Christian Weller of the Economic Policy Institute.
European caution
However, leaders of Europe's biggest economy, Germany, have expressed reluctance to take part in any joint stimulus package.
Hans Eichel, Germany's finance minister, said that "generally, such programmes do not bring much," and the German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, has repeated his backing for the growth and stability pact, which obliges member countries to bring their budgets into balance or surplus in the medium term.
And French finance minister Laurent Fabius also insisted that the eurozone countries would be unwise to abandon the tough rules that have kept inflation and interest rates low.
"It wouldn't be reasonable or efficient to change the stability pact... it will have a negative effect on our economies, particularly long-term interest rates," he said.
Mr Fabius praised the action of the European Central Bank in cutting interest rates by half a point after the attack, and said that, with inflation now contained, he hoped there were be more rate cuts. .
Terror funds
The US will also be spearheading a renewed effort to combat money laundering.
It may consider setting up a special task force, according to John Taylor, US Treasury undersecretary for international affairs.
The effort to cut off financing for terrorists "requires complete coverage" and "it may be necessary ... to think outside the box," he added.
A US Senate committee has approved tough new laws on overseas banking which had previously been opposed by leading Republicans.
And the European Parliament moved on Wednesday to speed legislation on the freezing of terrorist assets throughout the EU.
Mr Fabius said that "the fight against terrorism is also a fight against pessimism," adding that coordinated action to "find every black hole" will be necessary.
The Group of Seven countries are the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada.
The finance ministers and central bankers will be joined during part of the discussions by Russian officials, including finance minister Alexei Kudrin, in a show of international solidarity.
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STAFF at an army surplus shop were surprised to see a wild poppy spring up at the feet of a model soldier recently.
A solitary bright red poppy has grown at the feet of the fibreglass soldier who stands guard at the Genuine Army Surplus Store on North Road in Darlington.
Owner Jack Thompson said he'd been surprised when a member of staff spotted the poppy – a poignant symbol of lives lost at war.
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He said: "I just thought blinking heck, that's unusual. Our shop front is massive and for all the places to grow, it grows at the feet of our soldier.
"He's not a realistic soldier, we just use him to model our clothes and he's stood there for years but it seems very fitting and I think it's a nice little tribute."


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Questions follow the career of Pasco Deputy Robert Gattuso.
By THOMAS LAKE, Times Staff Writer
Published December 2, 2007
On a warm fall night two years ago, as the moon rose over Lake Tarpon, a silver Nissan Pathfinder rolled down a boat ramp and plunged into water the color of dark chocolate.
No one was inside as the Pathfinder sank. Its registered owner was Robert Scott Gattuso, a resident of New Port Richey. He said it had been stolen.
Gattuso was a Pasco County sheriff's deputy. He was paid to investigate others. Now he found himself under investigation.
In two decades with the agency, Gattuso has been investigated for 30 possible policy violations. Thirteen of the allegations were sustained, including discourtesy, insubordination, conduct unbecoming, conflict of interest and attempted forgery. In one case, Sheriff Bob White kept him suspended, with pay, for more than a year - meaning Gattuso collected nearly $48,000 for no work - and then returned him to the road, with a badge and a .40-caliber Glock, to enforce the laws of Florida.
Gattuso remains employed by Sheriff White today. So do others with extensive records of careless job performance.
Deputy Andrew Izrailov has been accused of 22 policy violations; 10 of those allegations were confirmed by internal-affairs investigators. He once failed to check out a domestic battery complaint in which the suspect had a gun.
Deputy Stephen Cryoskie has been investigated for nearly 40 policy violations. Close to 30 of those allegations were confirmed, many of them for failure to submit reports or evidence in a timely manner. Izrailov has been suspended without pay at least three times; Cryoskie, at least seven times.
Still, a St. Petersburg Times analysis of the agency's disciplinary database found no other current deputy with a tale of misconduct as intriguing as Gattuso's.
And that database never mentions the case of the sinking Pathfinder.
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Just before 2 a.m. on Sept. 24, 2005, a Tarpon Springs police officer was running radar on U.S. 19 when he saw two vehicles enter Anderson Park, which was closed. He followed. As he approached the entrance, a silver Chevrolet Cobalt pulled out. At least two people were inside, but the officer didn't get a good look at them. He continued toward the boat ramp and saw the Pathfinder sinking.
After a tow truck pulled it to shore, the officer checked for evidence. He found only a stuffed animal and an empty blue purse. Besides windows broken by firefighters, there were no obvious signs of forced entry.
About 6:50 a.m., the officer spoke to Gattuso by phone. He sounded "disoriented and possibly intoxicated," according to a report. Gattuso said he had been with friends just after midnight, talking with his wife on a cell phone. She was driving the Pathfinder, he said, and she'd had too much to drink. He told her to pull over and then he drove to retrieve her, leaving the Pathfinder behind.
The officer asked where they had left the Pathfinder. Gattuso said he wasn't sure.
"This seemed extremely odd," the officer wrote in his report.
The officer asked Gattuso if he knew anyone with a Chevrolet Cobalt, the kind of vehicle seen leaving the park.
No, Gattuso said.
The officer asked to speak with Gattuso's wife, but Gattuso said she was sleeping and refused to wake her up.
"This seemed very strange," the officer wrote.
Robert Scott Gattuso declined multiple interview requests from the St. Petersburg Times. He was born 44 years ago in Philadelphia. He earned letters in high-school football and baseball. He has worked as a disc jockey and a gas-station manager. He likes to joke, though his humor is sometimes misunderstood. Most of his friends are fellow cops. Nine years ago in a charity football game against the Cobras of Hudson High, he threw two touchdown passes in a 32-16 loss.
Gattuso joined the Pasco County Sheriff's Office in 1988, after getting out of the Air Force, and in August 1990, Sheriff Jim Gillum named him Courteous Deputy of the Month.
Then the complaints began rolling in. He was counseled for failing to pursue a call for service when the caller hung up on him. He was suspended for threatening to arrest a traffic court clerk who wouldn't give him a document. In the presence of a citizen, he played a tape of a man relieving himself.
On Dec. 19, 1995, after 21 complaints and investigations, Sheriff Lee Cannon fired Gattuso.
"Based on the totality of the incidents involved, the disregard shown the PCSO and the citizens it serves and the disciplinary history of Dep. Robert Gattuso, a violation of Incompetence is applicable," an internal-affairs document said at the time.
But it was not so simple.
Gattuso was a detective in the Economic Crimes Unit, which had been under scrutiny by Cannon for flaws in the way it handled evidence. In addition to Gattuso's firing, the investigation led to the demotion of his supervisor, Sgt. Oonagh Guenkel. Many believed it was a plot to discredit Guenkel, who would later try to unseat Cannon as sheriff.
Gattuso appealed the firing to the agency's Career Service Appeals Board, and in February 1996, members voted to reinstate him. Gattuso was jubilant.
"I'm looking forward to going back to work," he said at the time.
In 2005 in Pinellas County, 4,195 vehicles were reported stolen. One was a silver Nissan Pathfinder with the license tag G2SO. The case was closed in March after nearly 18 months of investigation. The detectives concluded there had been no theft.
The detectives were James Wright of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office and Norm Proper of the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud. They saw holes in Gattuso's story. They wanted to talk to his wife.
But on Nov. 4, when Wright tried to find her at work, he was told she was out for a medical procedure. At her home, when Wright went to see her husband, she was nowhere in sight.
Months passed, and she and Gattuso separated. On June 27, 2006, she sat down with the detectives to talk about her husband's scuttled Pathfinder.
"Okay," Proper said, according to a transcript. "In his statement, of course, he says that you were out drinking that night and everything else. You were not?"
"No," she said.
"You were home?"
"Okay," he said. "You didn't leave it in the parking lot somewhere?"
"Okay. You didn't leave the keys in it?"
"Why was your purse still in the car?"
"Because that was part of it," she said. "You - you - you leave it. That was part of the whole plan."
"That was staged?" Proper said.
"Uh-huh," she said.
Later in the interview, she said her husband began shopping for a new Chevrolet Avalanche before the Pathfinder disappeared.
"About three months before," she said, "maybe two months before the Avalanche was bought, he started calling me at night, telling me that he was looking at Avalanches at the Chevy dealership, did I like them; he liked them, the Avalanches. What color would I like? And explaining to me that he could get a new truck and that he would just dump the old one. And he would just put it in the water somewhere and make it disappear where they would never find it. ... After a while he decided that the Avalanche was what he wanted, that that would be a good car and we went down and purchased one. And at that point whenever he would leave in the Pathfinder, he would roll the window down and - and make, like, the facial expression like something was swimming."
According to Wright's report, Mrs. Gattuso said her husband told her it was a white-collar crime - no one would look closely and no one would care. This was ironic: Looking closely at white-collar crime was part of Gattuso's job when he was fired.
Mrs. Gattuso also said the sinking was a conspiracy between her husband and his brother, Jeffrey Gattuso, an officer at the state prison in Zephyrhills. Jeffrey Gattuso declined to comment for this story.
In addition, she said her husband told her this: "You have no idea what I've gotten away with."
Police officers handle controversy as a matter of course. They apply handcuffs and fire Tasers. They must make split-second decisions with life-and-death consequences. Complaints are inevitable. Or are they?
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office Professional Standards database holds some surprises. The version obtained by the St. Petersburg Times runs from 1975 to February 2007 and contains more than 5,000 alleged rules violations. You might think almost every deputy has at least one. This is not the case.
The Times matched the database to a roster of deputies - which does not include those in vice and narcotics because of their undercover status - and discovered that more than half had never been found responsible for a serious rules violation. Among rank-and-file road patrol deputies like Gattuso, more than half had never been investigated.
Among deputies who had been with the agency 10 years or more, nearly a quarter had never been investigated. At least eight had gone 20 years or more. Lt. Richard Moore had gone the longest: more than 29 years without a complaint. And Moore doesn't sit behind a desk all day; he still drives a patrol car.
This makes Gattuso's record - 30 alleged violations, 13 sustained by investigators - all the more startling.
Perhaps the most startling chapter unfolded in 2003. By this time he had already been suspended for getting in a crash and trying to arrest another person involved in the incident, reprimanded for doing personal chores instead of responding to an officer-involved shooting, and accused - though the allegation was not substantiated - of shooting the car window of a man visiting his ex-wife.
And on April 23, 2003, he was arrested on a felony charge of forgery. According to a complaint affidavit, Gattuso received a $372 check from State Farm Insurance that was intended for his ex-wife. The affidavit said Gattuso forged her signature and deposited the check. He said he had her permission. She said he did not.
On March 7, well before the arrest, Gattuso was placed on paid leave pending the outcome of the investigation. He remained there more than a year.
Agency records show he was paid $22.02 an hour each weekday for 8.5 hours of nonwork. In July, he notified the court that he would be flying to Las Vegas.
In August, he got a scheduled raise, to $22.57 an hour. In September, still not working, he got another one, to $23.13 an hour.
In November, he agreed to plead no contest to attempted forgery, a first-degree misdemeanor. The court withheld adjudication and put him on three months' probation.
On Jan. 8, 2004, a judge ordered his probation terminated and the case closed. Still Gattuso remained on paid leave, because now Sheriff White had to conduct his own investigation.
The suspension lasted until March 12. By then Gattuso had collected nearly $48,000 for no work since the suspension began and more than $14,000 since he entered the plea agreement.
What did the internal investigation reveal?
"It revealed that he should not have cashed that check," sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said.
Gattuso's punishment was a demotion from detective to road patrol, the loss of about 11 weeks of vacation, and a pay cut - from $23.13 to $22.02 an hour - that put him back where he was before the suspension. He returned to duty on March 15, 2004. He has been there ever since.
Here are some highlights from the insurance fraud case against Gattuso. He reported the Pathfinder stolen, but there was no sign of forced entry. Personal items of little or no obvious value to thieves had been removed. He claimed he had picked up his wife and left the Pathfinder, but he couldn't remember where. He denied knowing anyone with a Chevrolet Cobalt, the kind of vehicle seen leaving the park, but records show his brother had obtained one the month before.
His wife told authorities that Gattuso and his brother conspired to ditch the Pathfinder. Her story had details that seemed to confirm knowledge of the incident.
Activity logs from the security gate at Gattuso's apartment complex indicate that Jeffrey Gattuso showed up in his silver Chevy Cobalt at 2:19 on the morning in question, about 24 minutes after the officer saw the vehicles enter the closed park. According to Google Maps, the driving time from Anderson Park to Gattuso's complex is 23 minutes.
Nevertheless, State Farm Insurance paid Gattuso's insurance claim. And the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office closed the case without filing charges.
When asked to explain, Assistant State Attorney Bob Lewis said Andrea Gattuso's statements were inconsistent and at least partly inadmissible because of spousal privilege. He said Jeffrey Gattuso had developed a credible alibi: a woman confirmed that at the time of the incident, they were having sex in a parked car.
"If you wanted to be suspicious," Lewis said of Robert Scott Gattuso, "you could say this looks a little too convenient. How could it not be him?"
"But we can't prove it."
Sheriff Bob White refused a St. Petersburg Times interview request. His second-in-command, Col. Al Nienhuis, said the agency did not investigate the Pathfinder case.
"There's no legitimate questions that are left unanswered," he said.
And so Gattuso remains in uniform. If you call for a deputy in west Pasco County, he may be the one who shows up. He got another raise in October, to $27.11 an hour, or about $60,000 a year. He is one of the agency's highest-paid patrol deputies.
He responds to overdoses, car burglaries, domestic violence. He can take people to jail by force. He writes reports that are presumed to be reliable.
Not long from now, in a courtroom near you, during someone else's trial, Robert Scott Gattuso will take the stand as a witness for the state of Florida. He will swear to tell the truth.
Times staff members Matthew Waite, Connie Humburg and Shirl Kennedy contributed to this report. Thomas Lake can be reached at email@example.com or 1-800-333-7505, ext. 3416.
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Optus had this to say about their new program:
"The partnerships announced today take us another step closer to the seamless connected world we're aiming to offer Optus customers. We're committed to providing customers with a simpler, safer and easier user experience when it comes to making payments online," Optus VP of Digital Communities and Ecosystems Austin R Bryan said in a statement.
Carrier billing for Blackberry App World is long overdue. Then instead of making multiple transactions on your credit card, you just make one big payment each month. Easier to keep track of.


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Dairy trading experts offer strategies and practical perspectives to optimize market performance.
By Jon Spainhour, Rice Dairy
Many dairy producers have begun to change their attitude toward risk management tools like futures and options.
While they once viewed these tools as a form of gambling, producers are changing their minds. Many now see them as a sound business practice that will help them survive the ever-increasing volatility in the price of dairy products.
One such tool is the fixed-priced contract, more commonly referred to as a "futures" contract. This is nothing more than an agreement to buy or sell something at a specific price, at a specific time, in the future.
In the dairy complex at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, we predominately trade Class III milk. The contract size is 200,000 pounds. There is a contract on every month for 24 months in the future.
This means that as dairy producer, I can agree to contract my milk today at a specific price, for as little as one month in the future and as many as 24 months in the future, in 200,000-pound increments. The price that I choose to contract that milk at is a price that is decided on the open market.
Let's assume, for example, that a dairy producer creates an average of 1 million pounds of milk every month, or an equivalent of five Class III contracts (1 million pounds/ 200,000 pounds). He would like hedge his expected production today, for only the July 2010 time period. The futures contracts for July are trading at $14.25/cwt.
He agrees to sell his five contracts worth of milk at those levels. This means that during the middle of April, he knows that the price that he will receive for his 1 million pounds of milk in July will be $14.25/cwt., regardless of what happens to the spot price of milk between now and July.
Let's use two scenarios. In the first, the price of milk is below $14.25/cwt. We'll assume that the Class III price for July was $12.00/cwt. For the second scenario, the price is below $14.25/cwt. at the end of July.
First scenario: While the mailbox check that he will receive will only be $12.00, his futures account will have contracts in it that he sold at $14.25. This means that his futures account will have $2.25/cwt. worth of profit of in it for each of his five contracts that can apply toward his low milk check. Between his $12.00 mailbox check and his $2.25/cwt. futures profit, his net milk check is $14.25/cwt.
Second scenario: The flip side of this discussion is the case where the mailbox check comes in higher than the Class III contracts that were sold at $14.25/cwt.
If the price of milk in July were to come in at $17.00/cwt, the dairyman would receive a mailbox check of $17.00/cwt. Because he agreed to sell his milk at $14.25 on the futures market, however, he will have $2.75/cwt. worth of losses in his futures account. When he applies those losses to his milk check, his net price is $14.25/cwt.
In either case, his net price for his milk production in July was $14.25/cwt. This means that in the middle of April, this dairyman knew the price he was going to receive for his milk in July would be $14.25, regardless of what happened to the spot price of milk.
That is the nature of a fixed-price, or futures, contract.
Look for "Know Your Market" in the May 11 issue of Dairy Today eUpdate, when I will discuss contracts that act more like insurance, guaranteeing a minimum milk price while leaving the potential for much higher prices. Those contracts are called "options," and I hope you will join me for that discussion.
Jon Spainhour is a broker/trader with Chicago-based Rice Dairy, a boutique brokerage firm offering guidance, analysis, and execution services on futures, options, spot, and forward markets. You can reach Spainhour at firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.ricedairy.com.
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Professor A.M. Low was off a bit on the wonders of the future.
Back in 1925, in a Popular Science Monthly essay of what life would be like in a century, the British scientist figured we'd all be eating from feeding tubes around now and alarm clocks would wake us up with backrubs.
But the greatest marvel of all, he foresaw, would be the transfer of power to the Earth from other planets.


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ITU:Six billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide and still growingListen /
More than a third of the world's population is now connected to the Internet, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
In its annual Measuring the Information Society Report, which tracks development in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry, the ITU says 86 out of every 100 people worldwide are mobile phone subscribers.
The ITU report ranks South Korea as the world's most advanced ICT economy, followed by Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland.
Susan Teltscher is the Head of ICT data and Statistics division of ITU.
"The growth rates for mobile broadband have been at 40 per cent over the last year and this has definitely made a big difference because most of the growth is coming from the developing countries, where the services have not been available until recently. We have now for the first time, in our report looked at four year time span from 2008 to 2011 during which we have monitored prices of ICT services and we have found there was a 30 per cent drop in the price of ICT services over that time period. The drop has been highest in developing countries. So a combination of increasing availability of services and more affordable services because the prices have dropped are key contributing factors to this growth."
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A purse snatcher in an SUV has struck at least seven times in northern New Jersey this month, cops say.
Police say the robber has grabbed purses as he drove by women in Clifton, Lodi, Kearny and Bloomfield.
Lodi Deputy Police Chief Vincent Quatrone told The Record newspaper the latest incidents happened Sunday when the driver reached out of his window, grabbed a woman's purse and drove off.
Police in Kearny says the robber struck later that day in Kearny when a woman was knocked down after her purse was grabbed in a parking lot.
Police say witnesses believe the suspect is driving a blue Hyundai Santa Fe.
Published at 8:22 AM EST on Dec 14, 2010 | Updated at 8:30 AM EST on Dec 14, 2010


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On Jan. 20, 2005, the results of the Mozambique elections of December 2004, in which the ruling party, Frelimo, and its candidate, Armando Guebuza, were victorious, were validated by the Constitutional Council. The Council commented, however, that it would like to see greater transparency in the conduct of future elections. The demand of the main opposition party, Renamo, for a rerun of the elections was rejected, Renamo having already agreed, for the sake of the country, not to carry out its threat to boycott the parliament.
The economic outlook was good, and the country, according to a report from the Bank of Mozambique, had achieved all its targets for 2004. Work on the infrastructure was going well, but the bank recommended that investors place more emphasis on encouraging labour-intensive projects that would have a greater impact on employment prospects for ordinary people. This latter theme was taken up in May by an economist, Manuel Araujo, who, while echoing the growing criticism of the widening gap between the wealthy and the poor, also suggested that foreign investors were linked too closely with industry rather than developing the country's agricultural potential, an area in which the majority of the population was involved. Prime Minister Luisa Diogo also pointed out that tariff barriers set up by wealthier countries seriously restricted Mozambique's trading opportunities.
Nevertheless, foreign donors remained friendly. On a visit to Mozambique in January, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said that Britain would cancel the country's total debt of $154 million. The IMF also promised to support Mozambique's economic-reform program into 2006, and in September the World Bank approved credit to a total of $120 million to assist the government's action plan to reduce absolute poverty. These economic benefits, however, were overshadowed by the impact of prolonged drought, which later in the year threatened hundreds of thousands of people with acute food shortages.
A strike in April by mine clearers claiming unpaid wages underlined the continuing problems posed by the aftereffects of the civil war and the inefficiency of the administration. In June workers declared that an increase of 14% in the statutory minimum wage was wholly inadequate for meeting the rising cost of living.
Guebuza's vigorous campaign against corruption, which had won widespread approval from the international community, encountered criticism in September when the replacement of the temporary Anti-Corruption Unit by a Central Office for Combating Corruption was accompanied, without explanation, by the dismissal of the highly regarded head of the unit, Isabel Rupia, under whose leadership a number of high-profile investigations had met with opposition.
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SACRAMENTO — Kristoffer Diaz' Pulitzer Prize nominated play "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" makes its Sacramento debut at Capital Stage this summer.
Slamming together thrilling spectacle, incredible characters, and geopolitical allegory, the play is a uniquely invigorating theatrical experience. "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" runs from July 10 through Aug. 11 with a press opening on Saturday, July 13.
The play
"The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" explores the larger-than-life world of professional wrestling. Macedonio "Mace" Guerra has been the fall-guy for mega-successful "THE" Wrestling, losing again and again to the impossibly charismatic champ, Chad Deity. When Mace discovers a young Indian-American Brooklyn kid whose charisma rivals that of the champ, Mace decides to get him a job in the company. But when their wrestling rivalry is used to exploit racial stereotypes to raise ratings, Mace is faced with the question: Is swallowing his integrity too high a price for the rewards of the media spotlight?
"The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" had its world premiere in 2009 at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago before moving to Second Stage in New York. In addition to a finalist for the Pultizer Prize, this thrilling new work by playwright Kristoffer Diaz garnered the 2011 New York Times Play Prize, the Obie Award for Best New American Play and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best New Play.
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Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright and educator living and working in Brooklyn. His full-length titles include "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity", "Welcome to Arroyo's," "Guernica and "#therevolution." Awards include 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award; finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; winner, 2011 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play; winner, 2011 OBIE Award, Best New American Play; and the inaugural Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowship from The Public Theater (2011).
His work has been produced, commissioned, and developed at The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Goodman, Second Stage, Victory Gardens, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Theater Company, The Atlantic, InterAct, Mixed Blood, The Orchard Project, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, Summer Play Festival, Donmar Warehouse, and South Coast Repertory. He has written short work for the 24 Hour Musicals and the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway.
Kristoffer was one of the creators of Brink!, the apprentice anthology show at the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays. He is a playwright-in-residence at Teatro Vista; a resident playwright at New Dramatists; a co-founder of the Unit Collective (Minneapolis); and a recipient of the Jerome Fellowship, the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant, and the Van Lier Fellowship (New Dramatists). Kristoffer holds a BA from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing, and an MFA from Brooklyn College's Performing Arts Management program.
The production
Capital Stage Co-Founder and Producing Director, Jonathan Williams directs this Sacramento premiere which features Sacramento actors Andrew Perez ("Enron," "The North Plan") as Macedonia Guerro and Robert August-Norton ("Enron," "It's a Wonderful Life") as The Bad Guy, along with Sacramento newcomers Donald Paul as Chad Deity and Rushi Kota as Vigneshwar Padua. Rounding out the cast is San Jose Stage Company's artistic director Randall King as wrestling promoter Everett K. Olson.
Ian Wallace designs the set and video features, Steve Decker is the production lighting designer, Lalena Hutton is the costume designer and Gregg Coffin composes the original soundscape for the production.
Tickets and info
Performances for "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" will begin with three previews at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10, and 8 p.m. Thursday, July 11, and Friday July 12. The production will open at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 13. Performances continue for five-weeks. Showtimes will be Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. General tickets range from $24 to $35. Discount tickets are available as follows: Preview tickets are $18; Student Rush tickets are half-priced; Senior Sunday matinee tickets are $28; and group rates are available for parties of 12 or more. Tickets are currently available at the Capital Stage box office, by phone at (916) 995-5464 or online at capstage.org.


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Accidental Fortune
This reality series focuses on people from all walks of life who managed to discover something of value that they were able to then sell for millions of dollars. Among the individuals who earned an accidental fortune are a golfer who discovered dinosaur bones that museum officials were willing to purchase for $600,000; a woman who recovered a painting from the trash bin that sold for a cool million; and a lady who uncovered a centuries-old table in her attic worth $7 million.
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Is it possible an original copy of the Declaration of Independence could be found in a thrift store, or a pre-historic treasure on a golf course? Unimaginable treasures are found in the most unusual places on this episode of Accidental Fortune.


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Marty wrote:Ad hominem will send me to hell? You're a humanist buddy
You display your heart for all to see.Unrepentant sin leads to hell.
No further response.
Marty wrote:Carnal-minded,
Marty wrote:Neither of you can by reference to Scripture restrict such an endeavour. It's you two that wish to restrict the manner of civil government. You mock the reformers, but even 200 years ago, what were the rates for fornication, divorce or even sodomy? How will you compensate victims and protect the weak?
There IS a regulative principle of worship. There is NO regulative principle of political national government. If you believe there is one, prove it from the scriptures.
Marty wrote:Christianizing
Of course, this is just much as a lie as satan offering two-halves of the world to Christ. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof!
John UK wrote:It's yon ancient Presby idea, Frank.Och aye, "Christian Geneva" all over again. Not biblical.


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Guidance produced by Families Need Fathers (FNF) has come under criticism for giving the impression that they might have emanated from, or were approved by, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF ) or Cafcass.
The guidance is on Shared Parenting: for Cafcass Case Officers, for Teachers and Schools, for Surestart and for Litigants in Person and can be found on the FNF website.
The guidance also appeared on the Cafcass website for practitioners, however Cafcass have now removed the guidance pending revisions. Although written by Craig Pickering, the FNF Parliamentary Officer, the schools guidance begins: 'This DCSF guidance is aimed at helping schools and teachers to encourage shared parenting where it is appropriate.'
In the guidance for Cafcass, having stated, correctly, that 'shared parenting does not mean that the child's time is necessarily divided equally between the two parents' it then goes on to say 'though that is an option which should always be considered as a starting point (by Cafcass officers as well as the parents themselves) unless there is good reason to advise otherwise'.
In September's Family Law journal, Joan Hunt of the University of Oxford, Judith Masson of the University of Bristol and Liz Trinder of the University of Exeter strongly criticise the guidance and correctly outline the relevant legislation in their article Shared parenting: the Law, the Evidence and Guidance from Families Need Fathers .
The academics outline their concerns that the guidance and the inclusion of a 50/50 presumption does not reflect the current law, that the guidance is founded upon a distorted interpretation of the available research evidence, and that the guidance, which appeared to have official approval, was produced without consultation with any other stakeholders, apart from, it seems, Cafcass.
The academics continued: "it is critical that guidance of this nature is produced through an open and transparent process and one that engages a range of stakeholders. It is simply not good enough to have one pressure group writing guidance, without consultation, for agencies that may influence the lives of thousands of children."
The DCSF has clarified that the guidance is not officially endorsed.
However, although FNF have since changed the guidance to a 'draft', they have not withdrawn it from their website.
In a statement the FNF Chief Executive said: "We accept that although the core arguments are sound the guidance could be improved and are currently working with Cafcass on a revised version".
To read the Shared parenting: the Law, the Evidence and Guidance from Families Need Fathers article, see September [2009] Family Law journal.
Guidance produced by Families Need Fathers (FNF) has come under criticism for giving the impression that they might have emanated from, or were approved by, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF ) or Cafcass.
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The soaring imagination of the late British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke is coming to UC San Diego, through a center formed in honor of the late science fiction writer.
UCSD is teaming up with the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation to form the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.
The Clarke Center will promote interdisciplinary study in technology, education, engineering, health, science, the arts and other fields, UCSD said last week. The goal is to spur innovative research using the human imagination.
The center will work with leading edge innovators and institutions within academia and industry globally. It will also draw upon media and the arts, including science fiction authors such as alumni David Brin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vernor Vinge, Greg Benford and Greg Bear.
Clarke, who died in 2008, is best known for his science fiction classics such as " The City and the Stars ," " Rendezvous With Rama " and "2001: A Space Odyssey." But Clarke also used his imagination to turn science fiction into science fact. He proposed the geostationary communications satellite in 1945, in the magazine Wireless World.
The UCSD/Clarke Foundation agreement was signed April 12, taking place during the foundation's annual Clarke Awards.
Sandra A. Brown, vice chancellor for research at UC San Diego, and Sheldon Brown (no relation), professor of media arts at UC San Diego, represented the campus. Tedson Meyers, chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation, represented the foundation.
"The Clarke Center will be a focal point for active collaboration on current and future research and an intersection of disciplines for the purpose of identifying and advancing creative and innovative solutions for the challenges of contemporary and future societies," UCSD's vice chancellor Brown said in a university press release.
Sheldon Brown will become the director of the center. He is a professor of media arts in the Department of Visual Arts in UCSD's Division of Arts and Humanities and the former director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UC San Diego's California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies, known as Calit2.
Meyers, the Clarke Foundation chairman, said in the release that other universities responded to the foundation's request, but UCSD "made the most compelling case."
"UC San Diego and its faculty provide both a practical as well as theoretical framework to put imagination under a microscope, to find its historic limits and go beyond them, and to promote or restore its positive use in education, commerce, science, social change and more," Meyers said. "Clearly, ACCCHI will also put Sir Arthur's spirit back to work in a significant way."


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WindowBlinds 8.01 Update Released
Thursday, September 5, 2013 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The WindowBlinds 8.01 update was released today which adds a variety of improvements and fixes including support for Windows 8.1. WindowBlinds gives you the ability to change the look and feel of Windows giving you the ultimate desktop customization experience.
v8.01 includes:
- Adds support for the Windows 8.1 including tweaks to the jump list painting)
- Assorted start menu fixes
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Anderson Cooper Needs To Do a 180 and Get the Hell Outta Egypt!
I know when I'm not wanted, especially when I get punched in the head 10 times!
CNN's Anderson Cooper escaped serious injury Wednesday when he was attacked by a group of demonstrators in Egypt, which has been plunged into crisis in recent days by political protests.
Cooper, 43, said he and his production crew, reporting from Cairo, were set upon by demonstrators loyal to embattled president Hosni Mubarak. "The attackers pushed and shoved the CNN crew and punched them in the head, he said, but no one was seriously hurt," according to a report on CNN.com.
A colleague, CNN's Steve Brusk, tweeted that Cooper was "punched 10 times in the head" by a "pro-Mubarak mob."
Appearing on CNN's American Morning Wednesday, Cooper looked fine, and the anchor continues to file reports on the unrest in Egypt.


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Volleyball: Tigers go 1-3 at Burnsville tourney
A 1-3 showing at the competitive Burnsville Tournament has the Farmington volleyball team sitting at 8-16 heading into the final week of the regular season.
But the Tigers still have something to play for. A sweep of Chaska and New Prague this week could vault them to third in the Missota Conference and earn them a home game in the opening round of the upcoming Section 1AAA Tournament.
"We hope to continue the track we've been on, but rather than breaking through in one game, we'd like to break through in two or three games," head coach Mike Woody said. "We feel we match up well against both Chaska and New Prague and the girls are working hard to peak at the end of the season. The girls have a positive attitude and they're continuing to work hard."
The hard work paid off in the opening round Friday at Burnsville when the Tigers overcame a 20-25 Game 1 loss to win 25-15 and 15-10 against Chisago Lakes.
Senior Katie Habeck supplied 17 of her tournament-high 53 kills in the contest and joins former teammate Danielle Dombeck as the only Farmington players to reach 1,000 career kills.
The Tigers squared off against host Burnsville in the second round, and the Blaze held on for a 25-23, 25-22 victory in a rematch of last year's first-round state tournament pairing.
Farmington opened play Saturday morning with a 25-18 win over Chanhassen, but the Storm rallied for a 25-15, 15-13 win. Woody's team closed out the tournament with a 25-16, 25-22 loss to Totino-Grace.


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Don't look a gift-horse in the mouth…
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We're close enough to Christmas for everyone to be aware of the subtle status games and power struggles involved in the ostensibly altruistic process of present-giving. Reassuringly, Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos's new book The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England reveals that this is nothing new, and that gifts and their bestowal have always been laden with subtexts and hidden meanings. Read Jonathan Healey's review here.
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August 29th, 2013 01:09 PM #1
Opinions on Chelsea💖💖💖17 year old Britberry💖💖💖
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My best friend's name is Chelsea, so I really do think the name is beautiful. As mclevine said it was pretty popular in the 80s, but I think it is a gorgeous name that deserves a place in your Top 10, especially if you love it!
August 29th, 2013 01:41 PM #7
I really like it! I know a few, but not many at all. It's a cute sound, and energetic to boot. I give Chelsea a thumbs-up.~*~**~*Larissa~*~**~*
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Honestly, Chelsea is forever tainted for me. I went to school with 3 or 4 Chelsea/Chelsies and they were all chavvy girls, one of whom really bullied me. Other Chelseas I've since come across IRL or on TV, in books/magazines etc have been very similar. I don't think it has the greatest image in England and it is dated.
But I think it fits quite well with Ashlyn, Alana & Bianca from the names in your signature.


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Final Days to Register for Georgia Family History Expo
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This year our opening keynote will be presented by renowned author and speaker Robert S. Davis, M.Ed, MA will reveal the "Secrets to Research in Georgia" and much more. Davis is director of the Genealogy Program of Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama. He has more than 1,000 publications on records and research to his credit and ours. He will be presenting 4 additional classes at the Expo, you will certainly learn new ways to increase your research success.
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Bernard E. Gracy, Jr. of Connecticut will be back with more information on DNA and Echos from the past. His presentations will focus on how we can take modern technology and more our research into the realms of the unknown. At the end of the day on Saturday Gracy and Adjei will lead us in an amazing Q & A session to assist us with making the connections of oral history and DNA to open new worlds of thought to our research. Don't miss this once in lifetime experience.
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#FOAMed has gone global
Despite numerous negative comments that FOAM is platitudinous and 'chest-beating' I think it is making the difference it intended to make. It is drawing together like-minded healthcare professionals globally to collaborate efforts to amalgamate medical education altruists…
As such a roadmap is being developed to assist in producing a structure to the community efforts. As a starting point we have a means of sharing information by using the #FOAMed on Google Plus, Twitter and Symplur and we can follow and support #FOAMed supporters on Twitter.
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KULR 8's Chelsea Rabideau Activates Time Machine! [VIDEO]
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Discussion in 'PlayStation Lobby' started by Ardaam, Oct 30, 2013.
Quiet you
Does Xbox get all map packs early, or do they release at the same time from now on?
I have no idea. I think they get the week early release this time. I only know Second Assault came out yesterday for PS4.
Lately when I've been playing BF4 it has me back at Level 1 and none of my upgrades/new guns are unlocked. Eventually I get my stuff back a couple rounds later, but has this been happening to anyone else?
just quit and rejoin a match and it will be fixed.
Only Second Assault
I guess I should have kept up on my BF4 news... the free unlock kits are going to start going live for pistols, grenades, DMRs, etc. (some of those are premium only). I literally spent the last week or so unlocking all these things unnecessarily. At least I know I unlocked them all legitimately.
On an annoying note, I was going to go back and get all the collectibles from the campaign and discovered at some point BF4 deleted my single player save file. Going to need to check the cloud to see if I can pull it back down to my console.
And, the cloud-saved file has my SP progress as non-existent, so I guess BF4 erased my SP progress and then that lack of SP progress got uploaded to the cloud...
Da future
Optional unlock packs? I know it's a bit stubborn, but I like unlocking everything in Battlefield on my own.
Yea, I don't like free unlocks either... the pistols and shotguns could be annoying at times to unlock. But as I said, I can still say I got them all the right way
Just tried the "new" maps. They all work well with BF4, except Metro. That's some hot garbage...
lol why is that? I only got a chance to play Firestorm and a little bit of Gulf of Oman, not long enough to see the sand storm roll in though..
Hot garbage? Is that Good or bad?
I had a great time. But yes, major clusterfuck.
To be fair, I mostly played Rush on Metro in BF3, and I was playing Conquest last night. But the choke points are so narrow that it makes it damn near impossible to get to B once a team has settled in. And the nade spam, OH THE NADE SPAM! It felt like nades were falling from the ceiling. Unless that glitch carried it's way over to BF4...which would suck.
There were multiple guys sitting in entry ways with motion sensors, spamming C4 so you couldn't get anywhere near them. At least in Locker there's that outside area so you can try and flank in a more open area.
I'll play it some more, but the contrast in enjoyment between that map and the others is striking. Oman is probably my favorite map in the game now. I hope they bring Karkand to BF4 too.
True that, Karkland and even Wake Island I enjoyed alot in Bf3. I just remember seeing some gameplay of Metro and they made it sound like they gave you a one maybe two more options of flanking in comparison to the orginal Metro setup in BF3. I feel you though, I really hate when the gameplay just turns into nade spammers. Now they are also going to give grenade launchers 3 rounds before a reload, it's going to be fabulous
Yea, those new flanking routes are utter shit. They're literally one-person wide hallways so you just funnel out as fodder for the enemies. And those elevators only work if nobody is watching. Otherwise it's a quick 180 and you've got a nice metal resting place for you and your friends.
As much fun as I've been having, this game is severely broken on PS3.
1) Game freezes every time I try to play. Usually ~ 1 - 1.5 hour mark
2) My loadouts started not appearing in servers, even telling me I hadn't unlocked anything yet
3) The non-second assault servers are not appearing in my server browser. I literally cannot play the game at the moment.
If you're on PS3 and thinking about buying this ... buyer beware. Fun but broken.
Finally got my Veteran battlepack yesterday. Not sure why I didn't get it sooner.. like.. the very first day of playing.
Same here and I bought it at launch
Same here.
Did you see that website I linked you to in the CT for that game dev program for windows?
So we gonna make an IGN Ps4 platoon?
I can't I don't have premium
You need premium to join a platoon?
Yeah if I read it correctly. You have to have premium and minimum level 10
Well that sucks. Guess you'll have to get it.
I think it says to create
To create a Platoon, you'll need to be aBattlefield 4 Premium subscriber with a minimum rank of 10.
Nothing about needing to have premium to join.
I guess @DignityThief or I could create it since we both have premium
Sign me up when we go live. Speaking of going live we need to organize another game night.
I don't like to do things.
I see... so it should be Weekend Warriors?
right now?
I'm tired of that name.
I can't tell for sure. Does this update mean you can party up before going into a server?
No. Nothing to do with that unfortunately.
How big is the update
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We can tell you on the 27th when the update comes out.
Oh misunderstood. Thanks!
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Well I can name it whatever we want... it apparently goes live tomorrow, so we need something before then.
Like runaway renegades
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Anybody playing this afternoon/tonight? A lil' obliteration perhaps?
Anyone know if you can be in two platoons? I hope so i always platoon with the board and my local friends.
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If you got killed by someone with a pretty cool emblem and you were wondering how on earth they got that, you fellas should check out http://emblemsbf.com/
They have 320 PAGES of emblems to go through, some are pretty awesome and to add it to your battlelog emblem to use in game is pretty easy.
We ever decide on a platoon name? They are supposed to roll out today.
Platoons are live. Not a game update, just an addition to battlelog.
I can create, but need to know the name we want to use...
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LONDON (Reuters) - News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch has agreed to appear before a group of British politicians on Tuesday over phone-hacking allegations that have caused public and political fury and shaken the media baron's empire.
Australian-born Murdoch, 80, now a U.S. citizen, will be joined at the parliamentary hearing by his son James, 38, chairman of News Corp's British newspaper arm, News International. Rebekah Brooks, 43, who quit on Friday as News International's chief executive, will also attend.
The trio will be asked about allegations that their now defunct flagship newspaper, the News of the World tabloid, hacked into the phones of up to 4,000 people, including a missing schoolgirl who was later found murdered and families of dead soldiers.
The executives could face criminal charges if police accusations that News International hampered investigations into phone hacking prove to be true.
The following are the members of parliament's Culture Media and Sport (CMS) committee who will conduct the hearing, with a short profile of each:
Whittingdale is a member of Prime Minister David Cameron's centre-right Conservative Party. He worked for the Rothschild investment bank before going on to work as political secretary for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom he has described as having a great influence on him. Whittingdale joined the CMS committee, a role he has said he had always wanted, while the Conservatives were in opposition.
Watson has been one of parliament's most outspoken critics of media abuses, and assumed a prominent role as the phone-hacking scandal engulfed News Corp. He fought Rupert Murdoch's bid for the 61 percent of pay-TV operator BSkyB he does not own, saying the media mogul had too tight a grip on Britain's media and political life. Watson has accused politicians of all parties of "kowtowing" to Rupert Murdoch.
Sanders worked in a timber yard and then in the insurance industry after leaving school. He has been heavily involved in advising charities and the voluntary sector on gaining funding from Europe.
He was critical of the timing of the arrest on Sunday of Brooks, saying it risked hampering the committee inquiry.
"It is not in our interest to impede on any police investigation, but it shouldn't have been in the police's interest to impede on our inquiry," he told BBC TV.
"We are probably some way from knowing the whole truth, but I hope that tomorrow (Tuesday) will move us a little bit closer towards knowing the whole truth," he added.
Coffey was once finance director for Mars Drinks UK, before going to work for the BBC's property finance department. She joined the Conservatives in 1988. Coffey has defended Brooks, warning of a developing "witch hunt" against the former News International chief.
Collins has worked in the advertising and communications industries, joining the M&C Saatchi agency in 1999 and later Lexington Communications in 2008. He left the firm to fight the 2010 parliamentary election. He called Rupert Murdoch's reversal of his decision not to attend parliament's committee hearing a "great day for parliament."
Davies has been a member of the Conservative Party since 1988, and has long campaigned against political correctness on grounds of free speech.
Farrelly worked for the Barclays banking group after graduating from Oxford University. He then turned to journalism, working for the Reuters news agency, and later the left-leaning Independent on Sunday and Observer newspapers. A campaigner against anti-social behaviour, Farrelly was last year involved in a brawl at the Palace of Westminster with a newspaper vendor, in which the politician said he acted in self defence.
Keen joined the army at 22 and finished three years of military service before becoming a systems analyst and running his own fire safety business. He was first elected in 1992.
Before joining parliament Mensch worked as a press officer with EMI Music and later as a marketing official with Sony Music. Mensch has also written a string of novels aimed at young women under her maiden name Bagshawe.
Before entering politics, Sheridan worked for Thales Optronics, part of the Thales electronics and defence group. Sheridan told Reuters that politicians courting media moguls such as Rupert Murdoch "damages our democracy."


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On November 16, 2012, the "Global Jihad" website (aljahad.com/vb) posted a fatwa by the Saudi mujahid sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al-Fahd mandating jihad against the Jews. Al-Fahd has been incarcerated in Saudi Arabia since 2003 for praising the Riyadh bombings in May of that year. In 2004, the Saudi media reported that he had recanted his jihadi ideology, but subsequently he published a communiqué stating that he had been forced to do this and that he did not regret anything he had done before his arrest.[i]
In response to the question whether it is permissible to kill Jews and harm their interests everywhere, even outside Palestine, and whether this counts as jihad, the sheikh replied that the Jews are the leaders of the infidels and the greatest enemies of Islam and the Muslims in the present age. Therefore, jihad against Jews everywhere is "one of the most important duties and greatest virtues," and any guarantees of protection granted them by tyrannical and infidel governments are meaningless, especially when the Jews are attacking Muslims as they please. Al-Fahd stressed that, when jihad against Jews outside of Palestine is more harmful than beneficial, Islam does not permit it; however, the only ones who can determine whether this is the case are the mujahideen, not "those who shirk jihad."


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Was very impressed with my entire experience. We were travelling from York to Scotland with my elderly Mum and needed to have a wheelchair delivered to the B&B we were staying in. When I originally phoned up they were very helpful and everything went according to plan. We found the chair easy to use and my mother found it comfortable. Hint: we always take a cushion for her to sit on which makes it even better! A shame that it was a two week minimum hire as we only needed it for 2 days, but couldn't have managed without it.