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Location :- Services are available in Delhi/NCR and Lucknow. We also conduct online Puja(puja conducted through video chat) for all other locations
About Nakshatra Puja:
Nakshatras are the phases of the moon's yearly revolution in its orbit. Each Nakshatra is denoted by a star or a group of stars. There are 27 Nakshatras in total. Depending on which Zodiac sign we are born under and the time of our birth, we fall under the influence of different Nakshatras.
Our lives are affected significantly due to the Nakshatras we're born under. All aspects of our life can benefit if our Nakshatras favor us. But if someone is suffering from problems due to the influence of a negative Nakshatra, Nakshatra Puja can help them reduce its ill effects.
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TÜV Rheinland Opens New Testing Lab in Irvine, CA, Schedules Open House
Laboratory to serve medical, smart grid, electrical & lighting industries, offer certifications for market access, product safety, ZigBee & corporate social responsibility
Irvine, Calif. — August 14, 2013 — TÜV Rheinland has opened a new laboratory in Irvine, Calif., offering area manufacturers, retailers and service providers a variety of testing and certification programs. They include product safety, ZigBee Alliance and market access (International Approvals) certifications for Smart Grid, medical, lighting (including LED luminaries), Information Technologies and electrical equipment. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) audits and programs are also available.
The 5,300 sq. ft. office expands the company's existing network of laboratories providing a similar scope of services and located in Pleasanton, Calif., Newtown, Conn., Boxborough, Mass., and Austin, Tex., in addition to the broad network of laboratories across the world. The Irvine lab will house the company's knowledgeable team of experts who have years of training and experience in the above-mentioned industries. The staff was handpicked to provide an excellent customer service and quick turn-around.
To introduce the staff and its services to the area businesses, TÜV Rheinland will hold an open house on Wednesday, August 28, from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. PST at 8 Pasteur Street, Suite 170. Encouraged to attend are design, development, and test engineers and technicians specializing in wireless and medical devices, solar products, global market access, EMC approvals, as well as product safety and environmental compliance.
During the open house, guests will attend a selection of brief seminars to learn about the regulations in CSR, lighting, market access, medical and Smart Grid industries. The open house will also include a tour of the facility, continental breakfast and lunch and networking opportunities.
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TALLINN – According to a Eurobarometer poll, the most problematic issue for Estonian people last autumn was price increase, Public Broadcasting reports.
58 percent of respondents considered price increase the biggest problem, followed by economy (37 percent) and unemployment (30 percent).
24 percent consider healthcare and social insurance a problem, while 9% consider pensions and 9 percent taxes the biggest problem.
Crime is considered the biggest problem by 7 percent of Estonian people.
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Marilyn Bart, a Fairfax County teacher accused of racially insensitive behavior, has been placed on paid leave.
Bart is being investigated for allegedly asking an African-American student to read a poem "blacker."
Jordan Shumate, a 14-year-old ninth grader at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church, was reading Langston Hughes' "Ballad of the Landlord" when Bart asked him to read it "blacker." Bart allegedly said to Jordan, "I thought you were black."
The school system's Office of Equity and Compliance is investigating.
Bart's attorney told The Washington Post that Bart intends to cooperate with the investigation.
Published at 7:24 AM EDT on Mar 21, 2012 | Updated at 7:28 AM EDT on Mar 21, 2012


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it's a must (check up your /proc/config.gz), and his AlsaMixer should be installed (it's on the Market).
Records like a charm, both your party and your voice from the line (rather than from the mike) are _equal loud_ and clear, even when you attach the headphones or anything


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[4.10 - 4.11] Systems Team Forecast
**Note:** As this is a forecast, this won't have many specifics in it. I'll have my usual style of post with the specifics of item changes on Friday when we try to coordinate a PBE push. **Attack Damage - B.F. Sword normalization** **Items Affected:** {{item:1038}} {{item:3031}} {{item:3072}} {{item:3139}} We're going to be normalizing everything that builds out of B.F. Sword to have 80 Attack Damage with minimal price increases to compensate - as well as shifting B.F. Sword to have 50 Attack Damage at the 1600 Gold price point, instead of 45 Attack Damage at the 1550 Gold price point. On the whole, we like what this does to the overall decision making when purchasing a B.F. Sword - you know it will eventually morph into an 80 Attack Damage item - the only question being what sorts of side utility you want out of the whole deal. There's a slight caveat here in that this puts an unfortunate damper on **Bloodthirster** - whose presence is too dominant and skews the power between Ratio driven carries and more traditional basic attack oriented carries. Essentially, BT goes down in power - everything else goes up in power - including the midgame where you build up to BT. **Attack Speed Itemization - Dagger Retuning** **Items Affected:** {{item:1042}} {{item:3006}} {{item:3086}} Attack Speed isn't a particularly attractive statistic to overcommit to at the moment given the natural Attack Speed growth of carries. We're making some slight buffs to Dagger to help mitigate some of the mid-game power issues that carries are facing at the moment where Attack Speed only feels good at the final completed item rather than during the build-up, where it matters. Basically, you usually do get enough Attack Speed by the end of the game with your build. It's just that the entire way to the end item, you don't have nearly enough. You can expect these items to have slightly more attack speed with a minimal price increase. For example: Berzerker's Greaves giving 5% more Attack Speed and costing 50 more Gold. **Lifesteal** Going to start with a quick item preview as a framing piece: {{item:1055}} **Doran's Blade** 80 Health --> 70 Health 8 Attack Damage --> 7 Attack Damage 3/5 Life on Hit --> 3% Life Steal For a long time, we were trying to phase out early life steal as a statistic and replacing it with other mechanisms such as life on hit. However, with the rise of non-sustain supports - this avenue no longer makes sense. With non-sustain based supports being the norm rather an exception - Life Steal needs to be easily accessible from a variety of sources in order for the ADC to not be locked into a single early build path - the one that includes Life Steal. With this in mind, it makes more sense for Life Steal to be more expensive overall but easier to 'stack' from a wider variety of sources rather than have Life Steal be a single specific path. Hence, we're going to lower the life steal amounts of all items - but introduce it back into Doran's Blade in order for carries to have a wider range of possible % Life Steal values - this allows carries to basically build the 'right' amount of life steal for their carry type, their support and the power of their lane opponents - rather than having one single overpowered choice that tries to cover every situation in which you might need sustain. On the whole, you can expect there to be less life steal on each of the life steal items but more available % life steal options. What we expect to see is a slightly wider range of potential first order buys - especially since this version of Doran's Blade has more mid game potential. {{item:1055}} {{item:1055}} {{item:1055}} {{item:3031}} {{item:1055}} {{item:3072}} {{item:1055}} {{item:3153}} {{item:1055}} {{item:1055}} {{item:1053}} --> ? {{item:3072}} **Bloodthirster** 70 Attack Damage --> 80 Attack Damage 12% Life Steal --> 15% Life Steal Stacking Passive --> **Removed** New Unique Passive --> Your life steal effects can overheal you, granting you a shield equal to the excess up to X (based on character level). This shield decays if you haven't dealt or taken damage in 15 seconds Bloodthirster becomes a problem when its too commonplace as it creates a situation where it basically comes down to who acquires it first. This is both due to the power and build path of the item as well as the stacking mechanic on it. Additionally, it favors Attack Damage ratio-driven carries who traditionally have weaker end-games to begin with. We're retuning Bloodthirster to be a more consistent choice and to give other damage options a more favorable comparison point. We know that this will leave certain ranged characters that rely on Bloodthirster Stacking in a bit of a bind at the moment - Certain heavy AD Varus and Miss Fortune builds will be in a bit of a pinch without a stackable Attack Damage source. However, given how Bloodthirster both supports these characters *and* suppresses them by being **more** favorable to other characters - it's not really contributing to a healthier ecosystem. Melee will generally come out favorably as they have a very offensive life steal item (Hydra) and a more defensive one (Bloodthirster). {{item:3222}} **Mikael's Crucible** Lastly, I want to talk about Crucible - this item is too commonplace and negates a lot of decision making in the end game. Crucible does odd things where it devalues long cooldown initiation patterns in exchange for repeated pick patterns. This **heavily** suppresses utility centric carries like **Ashe** or **Varus** who rely on these patterns to be strategically interesting. We do like that Crucible is an option in the game but it is currently too broad of a pick and appearing too frequently on a much wider array of supports than intended. Mikael's is just as good as a buy on offensive tanky supports as defensive ones - which skews the balance of power even farther away from initiation based carries as their unique niche both gets countered *and* replaced by the same character. We're going to both raise the cost of this item and adjust the statline to favor more Mana intensive supports to shifts Mikael into favoring more mage-centric supports rather than Tank supports. We'll be adding another support item in Mikael's price point in order to grant a wider breadth of items - the details of which will be on the PBE post on Friday. **Note - 11:43 a.m.:** Gotta run. Won't be responding to posts for the rest of the night. I'll check back in this thread tomorrow. **Note - 1:11 p.m.:** Can't.. respond to every post in this thread based system. Nested hierarchy too strong. Also need food. **Note - 3:55 p.m.:** Okay - way too many comments. I actually need to work on the items some more based on feedback from this thread. I'll be responding again when I post the specifics on PBE. Probably won't reply to this thread - though I'll probably read it again - then my attention will be focused on the PBE post. **Notes - 8:34 p.m.:** PBE specifics post is up! I won't be responding to this thread anymore. If you note the specifics - there's already some minor numerical adjustments based on concerns raised in this thread. 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Antique Radio Schematics
Specializes in antique radio schematics, circuit diagrams and service data for vintage tube radios. Carries information for American, Canadian and European antique radios.
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Unbroken Spirit
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- 5 min 2 sec
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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
You should make an intrumental version of the song, I'm not sure if this is just me, but vocals kinda soil a good metal song.
It's just you. By the way, look in my audio submits. I have an instrumental version of this in there.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
A while ago i've listened your song The Art Of War and i think i'll check out even other songs.First of all i think your singer is really great,i'm not a musician nor someone with skills to tell bad singing or bad guitar playing but i think his voice is really clean,but what i still keep on thinking about is that someone should make more mixing or volume adjustments (yes english is also not my first language)-i hear more guitar and it sounds like too much in the front,like if its right in front of me,i dunno if its drumms but at some parts i hear this cracking noise like if something is breaking to pieces and drumms also sound kinda silent,and at some parts i feel like if singer's voice is drown in guitar and drumms-i think someone could a bit play with instruments and voice volume.Also by the file size i guess it's 320 kbps quality - thats great,keep it that way.I wish you and your band luck.
Thanks for the review. As for the levels and everything, you might have some EQ issues. All the mixing was done in a studio on a set of dry studio monitors, which add no effects and do not "color" the actual audio coming out. Everything sounds perfect on them, so you may want to play around with your EQ in Windows.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
very good the band definately has an 80's feel to it a bit like iron maiden.
Rated 4 / 5 stars
first of all, sorry for my bad english ... it's not my first language (also my first time reviewing)
the only thing that i don't like from this song is the intro.... it's like as it if were a continuation of another song.... very spontaneous... the thing that i liked the most is that the song is somehow progressive and i like that... not like the same beat over and over again... the voices were i don't know how to expalin it ... the only thing that comes to my mind right now is that they are very high pitched and i don't like that much ( i'm not sayin' that they are bad)... but in the end it's a pretty good song, i see a good future with your band :)


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RIDGELAND — The Secretary of State's Office has ordered the Fine Arts Institute of Mississippi to stop soliciting money in the state and fined the group and executive director Billy Murphy $25,000 each.
According to The Clarion Ledger, the $50,000 in fines are to be paid within 30 days of the order.
The Ridgeland-based charity operated Boxcar Bingo in Olive Branch — FAIM's primary funding source — until the state Mississippi Gaming Commission shut down the operation for reasons very similar to those raised in the Secretary of State Office's investigation.


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Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, Web-based, multilingual, tightly integrated, all-in-one wiki, CMS, and groupware. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box". It is highly configurable and modular. All features are optional and administered via a Web-based interface. Major features include a robust wiki engine, news articles, discussion forums, newsletters, blogs, file and image galleries, bug and issue trackers, a link directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, FAQs, a banner management system, calendar, maps, mobile access, RSS feeds, a category system, tags, an advanced themeing engine (Smarty), spreadsheet, live support, shoutbox, inter-user messaging, menu generator, advanced permission system for users and groups, internal search engine, external authentication support, and more. It was formerly named TikiWiki.
Release Notes: This release, with more than 150 code contributions by eight Tiki Community members, includes several fixes and updates. Among the new features are several new, detailed user permissions, support for stateful SOAP sessions, and UI enhancements.
SyncWall is a basic wallpaper changer with a special feature, the ability to synchronize wallpaper changes between several workstations with a basic (and unsecured) client/server protocol. Each workstation must share the same pool of files, there is no FTP or Internet download. Other interesting features are simple multi-monitor support and the ability to add special effects to wallpaper.
Release Notes: This release corrects a bug when a secondary monitor is unplugged.
PDFedit is a scriptable PDF editor implemented in C++. It uses XPDF for low-level PDF manipulation. It uses Qt3 for user interface and QSA (Qt Script for Applications) for scripting. Plugins can be used.
Release Notes: This release fixes one potential regression caused by xpdf code base refactoring. It fixes a long term bug where PDFedit could create an invalid PDF if a new object had been added under certain conditions. It fixes an issue when some characters changed unexpectedly in some documents (e.g. created by OpenOffice) after any change had been made to the page.
ncdc is a modern and lightweight Direct Connect client with a friendly text-mode interface.
Release Notes: The networking backend has been rewritten to use raw sockets instead of the GIO library. TLS is now supported by directly linking against GnuTLS. This change fixes an occasional segfault, improves portability and efficiency, and removes the need for the separate 'ncdc-gen-cert' utility. Additionally, 'reconnect_timeout' and 'tls_priority' settings have been added, ncdc won't quit anymore on Ctrl+C, and various bugs have been fixed.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Release Notes: A problem where incorrect data was shown in the profiling chart was fixed.
hg-diff is a simple GUI program to browse mercurial revisions. It is used to display a summary of all changes between two revisions and to display a graphical comparison of the two versions of each changed file.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release. The program can now handle a working copy which has two parents. It can handle a repository with more than one root. It can handle a working copy which is at revision "null" (which is not the same as rev. 0!). gvimdiff can now be terminated like all other diff viewer programs. The HTML documentation no longer depends on a CSS file from an external URL. All these changes are documented in more detail in the source repository.
Yioop! is a PHP search engine. Yioop! can be configured as either a general purpose search engine for the whole Web or it can be configured to provide search results for a set of URLs or domains. Yioop can crawl pages or can directly index archives such as ARC and WARC. It supports indexing several file formats such as HTML, Atom, PDF, DOC, PPT, RTF, RSS, XML, SVG, PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, and sitemaps. The Yioop! crawler can be deployed on one or many machines. It supports having one or more to crawl scheduler processes, as well as multiple fetchers and mirrors. Crawling respects robots.txt including Crawl-delay. Yioop! crawls are stored in a Web archive format that is easy to move around. Crawling can be done on one machine and the results deployed elsewhere. Yioop! supports mixing of crawls. Yioop! comes with a search front end that can be localized as desired using a GUI. This GUI supports RTL languages. Management of crawls can also be done using this GUI. Yioop! can be configured in a straightforward manner to make use of file caching or memcache if available.
Release Notes: This release adds initial support for word suggestions as a user types in queries. The bigramming used to speed common two word queries now works with n word grams. N word gram filter files can now be created using Wikipedia raw page count dumps. This version adds support for * and $ in allowed- and disallowed-to-crawl sites. Using this, the user can crawl sites to a fixed depth. Robots.txt processing now supports * and $ in robot.txt paths. Support for NOSNIPPET, NOARCHIVE, and X-Robots-tag HTTP headers has also been implemented. A tool for editing search summaries after a crawl has also been added.
Valgrind is a tool that helps you find memory management problems in programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision, all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can detect problems such as use of uninitialized memory, reading/writing of memory after it has been freed, reading/writing off the end of malloced blocks, reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack, memory leaks in which pointers to malloced blocks are lost forever, passing of uninitialized and/or unaddressable memory to system calls, and mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs. free/delete/delete [].
Release Notes: This release adds support for ARM/Android, S390X/Linux, and Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). A GDB server has been added, so you can now control your application from inside GDB while it runs on Valgrind. There have been performance and functionality improvements for Helgrind, DRD, Memcheck, and exp-Sgcheck. The tool formerly known as exp-Ptrcheck has been renamed to exp-SGCheck. This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux, S390X/Linux, ARM/Android (2.3.x), X86/Darwin, and AMD64/Darwin (Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7).
feedparser is a Python library that parses feeds. It supports the Atom, RDF, RSS, and CDF feed formats.
Release Notes: This is a security and bugfix release. Dangerous XML entities were not being stripped from documents if the document was not in an ASCII-compatible character encoding. This release fixes that. The RFC822 date parser now supports single-digit days. Feeds that have been compressed with the deflate algorithm but lack headers and checksum data are now supported. Magnet URIs are no longer filtered out.
SmartSVN is a feature-rich and easy-to-use Subversion client. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, and Windows. In addition to the normal SVN commands like checkout, update, commit, merge, etc., it provides tag and branch handling (no need to deal with URLs just to switch to a different tag or branch), a built-in file compare and conflict solver, and much more. There is no need to install additional tools for handling SVN working copies, like a command line SVN client or a file comparison tool.
Release Notes: This release supports the SVN 1.7 working copy format.
ProjectForge is a Web-based solution for project management including time sheet booking, Gantt charts, financial administration and controlling, issue management, and managing work-break-down structures. First-party and third-party plugins are supported. Ready-to-run packages of the ProjectForge server are available for Windows, Mac OS X, and all Java6-capable platforms (database and Web server are included). ProjectForge is also available as a web-archive file (war) for usage within your own Web server and for your own database installation.
Release Notes: This release includes a complete new implementation of ProjectForge's calendar with drag&drop functionality and a week/day view. ProjectForge has been tested successfully with Internet Explorer, and further layout improvements and some bugfixes made.
LE has many block operations with stream and rectangular blocks, can edit both unix and dos style files (LF/CRLF), is binary clean, has hex mode, can edit text with multi-byte character encoding, has full undo/redo, can edit files and mmap-able devices in mmap shared mode (only replace), has tunable syntax highlighting, tunable color scheme (can use default colors), tunable key map. It is slightly similar to Norton Editor, but has more features.
Release Notes: This release adds mouse wheel support, fixes a filename glitch, and fixes HTML comment highlighting.
TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful project and to-do list management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is far superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools. It has already been successfully used in many projects and scales easily to projects with hundreds of resources and thousands of tasks. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, and risk and communication management.
Release Notes: A new report type to track values over time has been added. This can be used e.g. to generate burndown charts for your Scrum project or simply track any task or resource attribute over time. The data is stored as a CSV report and can be exported to other CSV aware applications.
Webminstats is a Webmin module designed to store system information in an rrdtool database and to display historic (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and custom) graphs. It is modular in design, so as to be able to log everything from CPU usage to email box size.
Release Notes: A new module (postgres) is added. Some modules (custom, genfiles, genproc, hplog, irq, load, ping, and snmp) are promoted to stable release (1.0). Several bugs are fixed on (Free)BSD. A lot of work was done to standardize module code.
The 'expp' tool (the Epeios XML preprocessor) reads an XML file to transform it to another XML file. It simplifies the writing of XML files by allowing the handling of macros, the definition and testing of variables, the inclusion of files, and more. This is done by writing, directly in the source XML file, predefined tags owned by a given namespace, tags which are then recognized and handled by the 'expp' tool. The tool is also available as a Java native component.
Release Notes: 'CDATA' sections are now handled properly. The corresponding Java native component was introduced.
iBodyFat calculates your body fat percentage and keeps a log of your results. Two different calculations are presented for each measurement made. The body fat percentage formulas used by iBodyFat are the girth body fat calculations invented by the U.S. Navy and professional body builder and writer Hugo Rivera. For taking girth body fat measurements, no special equipment is needed. All that is required is a vinyl tape measure.
Release Notes: This release added a per-person preference for imperial or metric units when taking new measurements, with all conversions automatically calculated. Existing persons will continue to use imperial. Dynamic graphics were added for measurement dialogs based on gender and unit type preference. Documentation was updated.
OXID eShop is an eCommerce system backed by a flexible range of support and licensing options, Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, and additional Enterprise features.
Release Notes: This release provides downloadable products, RDFa + GoodRelations support, and a bunch of other cool features. Module handling was revamped and performance was improved.
GNU ed is an 8-bit clean implementation of the POSIX line-oriented text editor. Ed is the "standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.
Release Notes: Ed now shows the "Try 'ed --help' for more information." message if a bad option is given on the command line. Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU Coding Standards. The "--datadir" configure option has been renamed to "--datarootdir" to follow GNU Standards.
Hiawatha is a secure and advanced Web server for Unix. It has been written with security as its main goal. It features advanced access control, prevention of SQL injection and cross-site scripting, banning of clients who try such exploits, the ability to run CGIs under any UID/GID you want, and many other features. These features make Hiawatha an interesting Web server for those who need more security than what the other available Web servers are offering. Hiawatha is also fast and easy to configure.
Release Notes: This release contains new features that makes Hiawatha able to serve the ownCloud application.
LPAR2RRD makes historical, future trends and nearly "realtime" CPU utilization graphs of LPARs and shared CPU usage of IBM Power servers. It collects complete physical and logical configuration of all servers/LPARs. It is agent-less (it gets everything from the HMC/SDMC or IVM). It supports all kinds of logical partitions (AIX/AS400/Linux/VIOS).
Release Notes: This version contain fixes and enhances for "Physical and Logical cfg".
JID is a system which can deserialize, update, and reserialize a map of 100,000 entries in half a millisecond on an i7 at 3.40 GHz. Serialization/reserialization timings are largely independent of the size and complexity of the table entries. Incremental serialization/deserialization is used to achieve high performance.
Release Notes: The tuple package has been simplified, and some general cleanup was undertaken.
The Big Faceless PDF Library is a Java class library for creating PDF documents. The Extended Edition offers the ability to create and edit AcroForms, PDF's answer to the HTML form. Like HTML forms, PDF forms can contain text boxes, radio buttons, and can call JavaScript functions. The Extended Edition also includes a PDF reader for importing and editing, along with FDF support, verification for digital signatures and text extraction. Both variations offer full Unicode support, encryption, embedded TrueType and Type1 fonts, barcodes, hyperlinks, and spot and calibrated color.
Release Notes: This release added support for reading/writing PDFs with AES-256 Encryption as used by Acrobat X. Version numbers when reading/writing PDFs with ISO 32000 extensions were corrected. Exceptions when rendering documents containing progressive JPEG images were fixed. Memory footprint when moving pages from one PDF to another was reduced. A crash and/or incorrect glyph widths in the resulting document when merging certain types of font with the MergeResources feature was fixed.
The Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer is a Swing component that can display PDF documents. It is intended for developers who don't require the full API. The PDF Viewer can be installed as an applet, an application, via Java Web Start, or embedded in a Swing application. Printing, saving, text search, forms, digital signatures, and annotations are some of the many features available. The viewer can be tailored to include just the features you need, and is a cost-effective solution for those needing the features of Adobe Acrobat on a Java platform.
Release Notes: A crash and/or incorrect glyph widths in the resulting document when merging certain types of font with the MergeResources feature was fixed. The memory footprint when profiling or extracting text from documents with large bitmap images was reduced. An issue with the OpenType layout engine that would prevent features from being set on digits was fixed. A minor deviation from spec for the StandardFont class was fixed.
The Big Faceless Report Generator is a Java application for converting source documents written in XML to PDF. Built on top of the Big Faceless PDF & Graph Libraries, the Report Generator combines these features and wraps an XML parser around them. Using JSP, ASP, XSL, or similar, creating dynamic PDF documents directly from a database is now as easy as HTML.
Release Notes: An "aes256" option was added as an encryption algorithm (requires Acrobat X). A "font-feature-settings" attribute was added for turning OpenType font settings on or off. A "quantize" option was added for when importing images, to downsample 24- or 32-bit images to 8-bit on the fly.
Anywhere Board Games (ABG) allows users to play board and card games on the Web in real time on multiple machines (PC, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android). ABG runs as a Google+ Hangout App or as a standalone PHP app. Unlike other gaming environments, this one has a peculiar vision: projecting the main board on our table and using laptops or tablets to control players' hands (with other friends joining in remotely). It supports flipping, stacking, rotating, rolling, and shuffling of pieces, so most board and card games are playable.
Release Notes: This release makes manipulating pieces easier with a mouse: the left button for moving, the middle button for flipping, and the right button for rotating a piece.
A script that installs the MATE desktop environment on Ubuntu.
A VRML/X3D browser and a viewer/converter for other 3D model formats.


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Rick Steves' Europe "Greece's Peloponnese" On the Peloponnese Peninsula, Rick visits the old port town of Nafplio, time-trips through the ruins of Olympia, and takes center stage at the preserved theater at Epidauros.G
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Hey all,
I'd like to send a quick thanks for the regular posters on this board and to John Talbott for putting together such a great website, which I've killed countless hours on the past few days.
My wife and I are going on a 15 day trip through Europe and I have been working on planning our Sunday and Monday (I know, a lot of places are closed) in Paris.
We arrive at 11:30 a.m. by train on Sunday. Question number one, I figure we can get to our hotel in the 1st and drop off our bags by 12:30. What open air market has the most potential that late in the day for us to graze and enjoy different food stands as well as experience the buzz of a Paris Outdoor market? Thoughts on BistroY... Les Papilles for lunch?
I have sent an inquiry to the Hidden Kitchen couple to see if I could get on their list for Sunday evening. If that doesn't work out, I am thinking Le Marcab. Thoughts? It seems to be well reviewed and at a generous price point. Chez L'ami Jean and Rech had originally caught my eye for its Neo-Bistro approach but of course it is Sunday. Any suggestions are appreciated.
On Monday I plan to make a reservation for the Prix Fixe lunch at ZKG. Seems like a great choice based on John Talbott's writings. In fact, I spent a day in Paris two years ago and really wanted to go to ZKG but the company I was with could not appreciate it.
I imagine a lighter meal will be appropriate for Monday night. Maybe a wine bar with small plates? Fish seems to be a popular choice.
Is there anywhere in Paris that is well known for craft cocktails?
On Tuesday we are headed to Reims for a night, any suggestions on dining and small artisan champagne houses in the region are appreciated.
Wednesday we are headed down to Puligny Montrachet, any suggestions for wineries that produce great Red Burgundy on the way to Puligny are appreciated as is any dining options for lunch north of Beaune and dinner in the Beaune area. I have read good things about Ma Cuisine.
Thanks to all in advance. Of course all suggestions are appreciated and please let me know if you have any questions.


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hi,just a bit of clarification before buying apple tv. can i stream movies and tv shows from my iPad to apple tv?
- Asked by Dionne B
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It depends what service you are using.
iTunes - yes,
Netflix yes, but it's built into Apple TV anyway.
LoveFilm no, only sends audio no picture probably due to software restrictions.
SkyGo - no, due to software restrictions.
BBC iPlayer - no, not supported.
Blinkbox - no, not supported.
I'm not sure about the others as the above ones I use, Hope this helps.
- Answered by Simon R
- 01-Mar-2013
you can stream bbc iPlayer from ipad using Airplay
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- 29-Mar-2013


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Dr. Randall Hansen is the Career Doctor. Discover more about Dr. Hansen read about the purpose of this column and find previous issues of this column at the home page of The Career Doctor.
If you have any career- or job-related questions or comments that Dr. Hansen could provide valuable assistance with please feel free to email email@example.com.
In This Issue (01/04/02):
- Relocated job-seeker having trouble finding a new job
- Recent psychology grad looking for direction in job search
- Retail bank manager looking to make a career change
- Job-hopper (7 jobs in 7 years) looking for career direction
| Greg Adelman writes: I just moved from San Francisco to Laguna Beach and I have no job. It has been six months and I'm worried that it is hurting my search. I also am finding it hard since I do not know a sole down in this area. What do you suggest doing? I was going to pay a executive search company but it seems very expensive for something I can probably do myself. What about headhunters? It seems they all want you to post your resume. I want someone that I can sit and discuss my experience and work with closely. Is this possible without paying someone?
Thank you very much.
| The Career Doctor responds: Greg it's often a bit harder finding employment when you've relocated than when job-hunting in familiar territory. In your case though I have to ask you to carefully examine what you've been doing for the past six months. Have you actively been involved in job-searching every single day during these past six months? What has been your job-search strategy? Are you getting job interviews? Are you actively involved in building your network in Laguna Beach? Have you kept your skills current by trying to do some freelancing temping or volunteer work?
I am going to give you some quick guidelines for getting your job-search back on track but because space is limited may I suggest you take the time to read our latest article on Quintessential Careers New City New Job: How to Conduct a Long-Distance Job Search.
The first thing you need to do is sit down and devise a detailed job-search strategy. Set a goal to accomplish at least two or three job-search activities daily. Identify the key companies and hiring managers for your area of expertise. Join at least one professional organization and one community organization — and get to work networking. Contact friends family and associates from San Francisco and see if any of them have connections in Laguna Beach. If you attended college contact the career services office and see about job-search help for alums — including potential alum network contacts in Laguna Beach. Contact some of the colleges and universities in the area — I know UC Irvine is only about 10 miles away — and see if they offer any kind of career assistance. Put the recruiter contacts you've made to work harder — or find other headhunters who will work for you. Check geographic-specific job sites. Watch the Sunday classifieds and other resources for job-postings.
If you read the article and put into place all the suggestions I outlined in the previous paragraph you should be closer to at least getting job interviews. If you are not getting any offers after you've interviewed then you'll need to examine your interviewing techniques. Go to the interviewing resources section of Quintessential Careers for help.
|Erika Martinez writes: I have recently graduated from the University of Connecticut where I earned a B.A./Psychology major. My work experience is limited to food service and education (I supervised the patient dining room of a psych hospital and worked as an aide in a special ed school). I intend to go on to graduate school but would like some office experience while I decide what area of study to pursue. I am uncertain about which specific positions I am qualified for; I hope you can help point me in the right direction! Thank you for your time.
| The Career Doctor responds: Erika the real question is what are you not qualified for? The combination of your degree and the skills you acquired from your work experience really open the door to numerous job possibilities. The key for you is to try and decide the type of office experience you desire. What are your long-term career goals? Why do you want to attend graduate school — what do you want to accomplish with a graduate degree?
My best advice for you is to contact your adviser and/or mentor at your alma mater and seek counsel from them. If you are looking to make psychology/counseling a career then it is critical to get the "right" kind of experience before graduate school — and your adviser and the career services office should be able to help you with networking contacts and perhaps even job leads.
If you are simply looking for a job to pay the bills while you contemplate graduate school then you have an extremely large array of jobs that you qualify for. You should determine your skills and interests but certainly employment in human resources marketing social work and admissions counseling all come to mind.
If you're really unsure about your future might I suggest taking advantage of the advice and resources in an article written by my partner Katharine Hansen? Read Using a Personal Mission Statement to Chart Your Career Course.
| Steve writes: I am a Branch Manager for a large retail bank in New England. I have been in Banking for 8 years and I have experience in various areas. My banking career started as a Telephone Sales Representative (one year) transitioned to the Training Division as a Training Associate for new hires (three years) and transitioned again to branch retail banking where I worked my way up to manager of a very busy full service supermarket branch (four years/two years as Manager).
Retail banking does not hold the same appeal for me that it once did. The hours are long and stress levels are high. The challenges offered in branch management just aren't appealing. I feel like I am just a babysitter and that I am not using my skills to their full advantage. I would like to get out of retail and I am having trouble determining where to go and how to get there.
What suggestions do you have for someone in my position?
Thank you for your time and attention.
| The Career Doctor responds: Believe it or not a lot of job-seekers are in your shoes. We tend to get hired for one thing and as we get promoted or transferred — or switch jobs — we end up somewhere that either bores us or fails to challenge us and one sometimes a distance away from our career interests and passions.
You need to rediscover your career interests and passions. Sit down and make a list of the skills and experiences you enjoy — either in your work experience or in hobbies or volunteer work. Now make a list of stuff you never want to do again; things you dislike about your job. The next step is then discovering the types of jobs that match your skills and interests. If you're having trouble — or just for some fun — you might want to take one or more of these career assessments.
Whether you'll want to use any of your previous skills and experience you certainly have some solid experience that can be a great platform to build other opportunities. Keep in mind however that you may need get more education or training to accomplish your goals.
I also suggest you also read this article: Research Your Next Job by Targeting Your Preferences and Ideal Companies.
Finally I recommend you take advantage of the resources we have in the career change section of Quintessential Careers.
Just remember to take your time and relax'the more time you spend finding your ideal job the happier you'll be. Best of luck.
|D. A. Rodriguez writes: There is no way for me to hide the fact that I've had 7 jobs in last 7 years. Although I have great credentials no one will hire me — I actually have a job paying 1/3 less than what I'm used to making. Do I stick it out for a year? Do I try to finish my CPA license in this state (varies from state to state). Do I go back to school at night for IT? Thanks.
| The Career Doctor responds: You actually have a couple of problems. First you need to figure out why you've had seven jobs in the last seven years — not only for your own well-being but because employers are going to be asking you that question — and then you need to determine how to stop the job-hopping. Second you need to determine why you are working at a job that pays a third less than what you've been making — and whether you should continue to do so. Third you need to determine your career interests — do you want to be a CPA or work in IT'or do something entirely different. I suggest you do some of the strategies I suggested for the pervious letter writer — with the key being to sit down and determine what you want to do for the next five years or so.
Once you've determined the root of your restlessness and have zeroed in on a career goal then you can start with your career and job-search strategies. If you don't already use one I strongly suggest changing your resume to a functional format. Read more in this article: Should You Consider a Functional Resume? You'll also need to have an answer for your job-hopping — one employers will believe. You can find help in the interviewing resources section of Quintessential Careers.
Be sure to take the time to really address — for your sake — the reasons for your restlessness. You will be much happier (and healthier) when you are in a career field and job that challenges you and one which you enjoy doing.


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Ronalyn & Chris' Old Town Alexandria Engagement Pictures in Virginia
- February 10, 2014
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We're back this afternoon with a sweet little engagement session from Jeffrey Ocampo Photography. Jeff explained that Ronalyn & Chris love living and working in Old Town Alexandria, and so they are using it as the backdrop for their entire wedding theme. They met in college and their friendship eventually blossomed into more. I'm pretty much in love with Ronalyn's style (that mustard hat, the top bun) and who can say no to an engagement session that features an adorable Corgi too !? Check out their entire engagement session and love story (including a fun family BBQ proposal) below!
Chris & Ronalyn's Old Town Alexandria, Virginia Engagement Pictures
"How we met" told from Ronalyn:
Ronalyn and Chris met at Virginia Commonwealth University 10 years ago. At a party one evening, Ronalyn engaged in an unusual conversation with mutual friends — the subject? Her bed. Apparently, it's too small to be a Queen, but too big to be a Full. Chris rudely interrupted and said, "well, then it must be Princess-sized." *Wink wink*
Their friendship blossomed shortly after, but when Chris revealed his true feelings, Ronalyn freaked out and ignored him for about a month and now they're set to marry on November 2014. They live in Old Town Alexandria with their corgi, Kirby.
Click inside for the rest of Ronalyn & Chris' adorable Old Town Alexandria, VA engagement pictures & proposal story.


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Bob Picken is concerned. The Manitoba Curling Tour events co-ordinator will be asking teams to confirm that they will be competing in the MCT Championships in Dauphin, Feb. 6-8. But he does not know if the men's winner will still be offered the berth into the 2005 Safeway Select, the big carrot when the current MCT season first started.
The Safeway Select review committee will meet in late January to determine whether exemptions to the Select will be offered to the top point-getting teams on the Canadian Curling Association's Canadian Team Ranking System. If the committee recommends exemptions to the Manitoba Curling Association's board of directors, the MCT men could lose that Select perk as soon as this February.
"If they had come out at the beginning of the year and told us that, it would have been different," Picken said. "But there was nothing to indicate that they would take it away from the MCT Championship at that point.
"What are we supposed to tell our people when we are asking them if they are going to Dauphin now? From the MCT's point of view, if it's taken away, it could take away teams' incentive for going to the championship."
At least, both the men's and women's MCT champs will get berths into the new Canada Cup West Bonspiel (but will not get CTRS points as reported here previously). The Cup spiel winner will get an Olympic trials berth while the top four finishers will qualify for the 2005 Canada Cup.
"But we are willing to listen to what they (review committee) have to say," Picken said.
That committee will take a long look at whether to continue awarding provincial berths to both the MCT and Select champs and whether to keep the southern berth bonspiel and/or the MCA bonspiel's minor berth playoff. That would make room to allow the MCA to award exemptions.
First step
The committee, which includes MCT president Andy Stewart, will meet in late January. The MCA board will vote on its recommendations on Feb. 7.
"I hope people understand that this is just the first step in the process," said MCA executive director Ian Staniloff. "Really, nothing is a done deal."
But even the fact that the MCA is considering exemptions flies in the face of its own survey where an overwhelming majority of Manitoba curlers were completely against it.
"But that survey was based on the top teams getting exemptions based on World Curling Tour points," Staniloff said. "Everybody said that wasn't the direction we wanted to go.
"But then, the CTRS came into place and I'm not so sure. The question is different now."


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Police report preview - Sept. 22 to Sept. 28
Political signs were stolen from a lawn in the 300 block of Whispering Lane. They were signs about the upcoming marriage amendment on the ballot. They were vote "Yes" signs.
A person was reportedly camping on ConAgra's property. The man was having a bonfire on the property. Officers found the man sleeping under a tarp.
A shopper arrived at a liquor store in the 200 block of 33rd Street at 8:50 p.m. and wanted to buy alcohol. The store refused to sell to the man. People then saw the man drive away in a work vehicle. Officers initiated a traffic stop and confirmed the man was intoxicated.
He had a blood-alcohol-content of .28 and was arrested for DWI.


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Parallel transmission for wideband wireless personal communications
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|The third generation wireless mobile and personal communication systems are expected to support not only high quality voice, but also data, facsimile, and video services on networks such as wireless LANs. To achieve such an objective, the next-generation personal communication systems will need to be able to support a very high speed data transmission along with a wide range of services. However, obtaining high bit rates at low error rates over wireless channels is a difficult task. Transmission over wireless and mobile channels is severely restricted by the propagation characteristics of the wireless environment. Signals typically arrive at the receiver via a scattering mechanism resulting in multiple propagation paths with different time delays, amplitude, and phases. Therefore, a time delay spread also occurs and this imposes a limit on the maximum transmission rate. This multipath propagation also produces inter-symbol interference (ISI) which leads to the introduction of an irreducible error floor. Recently, a new modulation technique, known as multicode modulation, has been developed for high-speed data transmission over wireless environments. In this method, the incoming high-rate data stream is divided into a number of parallel low-rate bit streams as in multitone modulation. However, each low-rate data stream is then modulated by a code, which is a combination of orthogonal codes and spreading sequences, on a single carrier. The processing gain is properly selected so that the required bandwidth will be the same as that of the original high-rate data stream; thereby, gaining the inherent benefit of multipath rejection without expanding the bandwidth of the original high-rate stream. Potential applications of this method include those that require variable and high transmission rates such as wireless Ethernet connection for multimedia communications. In this thesis, we investigate the use of channel coding, such as convolutional codes and turbo codes, in multicode modulation over multipath Rayleigh fading channels. In addition, we propose various multicode modulation schemes which employ different combination of orthogonal codes and signature sequences. In order to improve the system performance, we also consider the use of antenna diversity. Since the conventional multicode system uses a RAKE receiver in each sub-channel, the complexity of the receiver can be quite high. Hence, we propose a new low-complexity receiver structure for the multicode modulation system which is based on the concept of Fast Walsh Transform or Fast Fourier Transform. There may be one possible disadvantage of multicode modulation; namely, the peak-to-average power ratio can become large when the number of sub-channels is large. Hence, power amplifiers which are linear in a wide range are required for the amplification of these signals. Thereby, reducing the efficiency of the power amplifier. We thus propose a new orthogonal code structure that can reduce the peak-to-average power ratio.
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Barbara Daniel of Cross Lanes, W.Va., was looking for a "good old" recipe for making pickled green beans. She said that her grandmother always made them, but most of her recipes are long gone.
Gene Fisher from Baltimore sent in a copy of an article from The Backwoodsman magazine written by Benny Finch that had good basic information on canning and pickling, as well as his recipe for making crisp dill pickled green beans. As the article states, many people are again looking into canning as a method of preserving their garden harvest or farmers' market purchases.
Canning is really not all that difficult and one doesn't need an expensive canner to pickle or put up jams and jellies. A large soup pot will work just fine, so long as it is deep enough to allow the water to cover the jars with about an inch of water to spare. It is important to have a rack that fits inside the pot for the jars to sit on so that the boiling water can circulate under each jar, allowing for more uniform heating.
Finch suggests using a long, stringless bush variety of snap beans such as Contender or Blue Lake. If you don't have your own garden, you should be able to find them at your local farmers' market into the fall. Look for a stringless variety that has a nice snap when you break it.
So long as you don't object to your house smelling like vinegar for a few hours, an afternoon spent putting up beans or other fresh vegetables can happily yield a bounty that will last well into the winter. The biggest challenge may be waiting the two weeks for the beans to pickle before eating them.
Greg Brown from Belleville, Ill., is looking for the recipe for a cookie that his grandmother made when he was young. It looked like a small white pillow and was basically inedible unless it was dipped in hot coffee. He thinks his grandmother may have used a springerle rolling pin or mold to make the cookies, though they did not have a licorice flavor like a traditional German springerle cookie.


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Good morning, and thank you for joining us today for the second in a series of hearings on the Trafficking in Persons report and U.S. efforts to combat human trafficking. In April, our committee took a close look at the records of 6 countries which had exhausted all of their allotted time on the Tier 2 Watch list and must, by law, be moved to Tier 2 or Tier 3 in this year's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report.
As discussed by experts in the April 18 hearing, the trafficking records of China, Russia, and Uzbekistan were particularly worrisome. An upgrade to Tier 2 would have been completely unmerited and would have damaged the credibility of the Trafficking in Persons report.
The TIP report was released late last month, and I was pleased to see that it is one of the best yet--and that it faithfully reported and graded the records of China, Russia, and Uzbekistan, which had been skirting accountability for far too long. Now, the Administration is faced with next steps including what sanctions might be imposed to press these nations to reform.
When I wrote the law--the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000--that created not only this report, but also the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons in the U.S. Department of State, and several other provisions to prevent both sex and labor trafficking, protect victims, and prosecute traffickers, it was hoped this report would become the international gold standard and primary means of anti-trafficking accountability around the world. It has. From the halls of parliaments globally to police stations in remote corners of the world, this report is today being used to focus anti-trafficking work in 186 countries.
But with the power of this report to improve situations came the risk that it could also be used to whitewash the truth about a country's trafficking record--it could fail to report accurately and inadvertently give cover to negligent or complicit governments.
I am happy to say that the 2013 report is one of the best ever produced. Special thanks are especially in order for Ambassador Luis CdeBaca and his dedicated staff for faithfully highlighting the good, while exposing the bad and the ugly. The TIP report is faithful in and reflects the hard, meticulous work and leadership of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. This office not only analyzes whether a country is complying with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, but also sets specific recommendations for how a country can move forward.
With this report, countries should have no question about where they rank, or how they can improve. Many countries have publically or privately credited the report as the impetus for real improvement in their trafficking laws and policies. Since the TIP report's inception, more than 130 countries have enacted anti-trafficking laws, and many countries have taken other steps required to significantly raise their tier rankings.
This year, China, Russia, and Uzbekistan finally have to confront their records. The
report tells it like it is. For instance, the TIP report states that:
"The Chinese government's birth limitation policy and a cultural preference for sons,
create a skewed sex ratio of 118 boys to 100 girls in China, which served as a key source of demand for the trafficking of foreign women as brides for Chinese men and forced prostitution. Women from Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Mongolia are transported to China after being recruited through marriage brokers or fraudulent employment offers, where they are subsequently subjected to forced prostitution or forced labor Traffickers recruited girls and young women, often rural areas of China, using a combination of fraudulent job offers, imposition of large travel fees,and threats of physical or financial harm to obtain and maintain their service in prostitution.'
Because tens of millions of girls have been systematically killed by sex selection abortion over the past three decades--resulting in an unprecedented number "missing' women and girls--demand for prostitutes and so-called "brides" is exploding in China.
As a direct consequence of the barbaric one child per couple policy in effect since 1979, China has become the global magnet for sex traffickers. Women and young girls have been and are today still being reduced to commodities and coerced into prostitution. Without serious and sustained action by Beijing, it is only going to get worse.
The TIP report also makes clear that "Chinese law remains inadequate to combat all
forms of trafficking and the Government of China's efforts to protect trafficking victims remained inadequate " In addition, China's "government continued to perpetuate human trafficking in at least 320 state-run institutions."
I, along with Congressman Frank Wolf, visited one of those state-run institutions in the early 1990's--Beijing Prison #1. We were shocked to observe the horrific conditions imposed on inmates including more than 40 Tiananmen Square human rights activists. The report makes clear that state-sponsored forced labor is part of a systemic form of repression known as "reeducation through labor. The government reportedly profits from this forced labor, and many prisoners and detainees "
With this report, we have done right by the millions of trafficking victims in China. With this report, we are holding China to account for its complicity in profits off of modern-day slavery. It is my sincere hope that the truth will turn the tide in China.
However, I was disappointed to see that Vietnam was not downgraded to the Tier 2
Watch List or Tier 3. Vietnam's labor export companies--most of which are owned by or affiliated with the Government of Vietnam--have been engaged in practices that lead to debt bondage and forced labor. The Government of Vietnam has yet to pay millions of dollars in damages to Vietnamese labor trafficking victims found in the United States and its territories, as ordered by U.S. courts.
Vietnamese trafficking victims in other countries report that the Government of Vietnam sides with the traffickers to keep them in bondage when the victims seek help. Other reports indicate that the Vietnamese embassy in Russia is actively working with organized crime to enslave Vietnamese nationals in sweatshops and brothels, and the TIP report itself notes reports that officials at border crossings and checkpoints accept bribes from traffickers.
Some notable trends in the 2013 include:
* Tier 1: 30 countries (as compared with 33 in 2012)
* Tier 2: 92 countries (as compared with 93 in 2012)
* Tier 2 WL: 44 countries (as compared with 42 in 2012)
* Tier 3: 20 countries (as compared with 17 in 2012)
The Africa region increased its prosecutions by 45% (labor prosecutions by 500%), its convictions by 16%, and its victim identification by 13%. Africa is the region with the greatest number of Tier 3 countries, and does not contain any Tier 1 countries.
The East Asia and Pacific region saw a 23% decrease in prosecutions, but a 28% increase in convictions and a slight increase in the number of victims identified. The number of victims identified remains alarmingly low (8,521) in a region where the International Labor Organization believes there are nearly 12 million enslaved individuals. The number of labor convictions (103) also remains extremely low in the region of the world most plagued by labor trafficking.
The Europe region saw a slight drop in prosecutions, but a 13% increase in convictions and a 17% increase in victims identified. The European region identified the most victims out of all regions in 2013.
The Near East region saw a 19% increase in prosecutions in 2012, and more than doubled its conviction rate (largely due to efforts in the United Arab Emirates). The Near East region also more than doubled its number of victims identified. This region has the greatest relative proportion of Tier 3 countries.
The South and Central Asia region saw slight, but appreciable increases in its prosecutions (7%), convictions (5%), and number of victims identified (13%). India, one of the first countries to be moved off of the Tier 2 Watch List under the TVPRA of 2008 two-year rule, maintained a questionable Tier 2 ranking for a second year. Out of nearly 2 billion people, only 4,415 victims were identified.
The Western Hemisphere region, in which the United States is included, prosecutions
increased by 72%, and convictions increased by 44% (including a 650% increase in labor trafficking convictions). However, victim identification decreased by 15% (although there was a significant increase in the number of labor trafficking victims identified). Eight countries in this region improved their anti-trafficking laws in 2012. Cuba is the only country in the region to be Tier 3. Colombia and Nicaragua share Tier 1 status with the United States and Canada.
I look forward to discussing this, and other issues, such as possible sanctions against Tier 3 countries, with our only witness today, Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca.
Source: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA16/20130711/101114/HHRG-113-FA16-20130711-SD001.pdf


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New details have emerged on Bruce Springsteen"s appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" tonight, Nov. 16.As we posted last week, "Fallon" will be his only television performance to promote his new boxed set, "The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story," out today.
Springsteen will bring E Street guitarist Steve Van Zandt and keyboardist Roy Bittan with his performance with the Roots, "Late Night"s" house band. The Boss is the only guest booked for the hour, which starts at 12:35 on NBC, and is expected to play two songs.


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AUSTIN — At least a hundred protesters gathered outside the LBJ Library at the University of Texas campus Thursday for the Civil Rights Summit, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Singing "We Shall Overcome," the group representing several UT student organizations was protesting President Barack Obama's immigration policy, which has continued to deport undocumented nonviolent offenders, said Amelia Fischer, one of the protesters.
"It's a lot of pretty words at the top level and then nothing actually changes, it doesn't trickle down," she said. "Nationally, the deportation machine has got to stop."
As protesters held signs outside, Obama took the stage to give the summit's keynote address.
Recalling Lyndon Baines Johnson's presidential legacy, Obama noted the country's atmosphere after John F. Kennedy's assassination and the many people who stood up for human rights that were not yet protected by law.
"A lot of Americans needed the law's most basic protections at that time," Obama said. "And passing laws is what LBJ knew how to do. No one knew politics and no one loved legislating more than Johnson. He was charming when he needed to be and ruthless when required."
A poor boy from the Texas Hill Country, Johnson's presidential legacy included the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other landmark legislation such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Obama said. He also began the "Great Society," which was a series of governmental programs that started the "War on Poverty," as well as Medicaid and Medicare, he said.
"Because of the civil rights movement and the laws LBJ passed, new doors of opportunity swung open for everybody, not all at once, but they swung open," he said.
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Obama said that like the debate still going on today, Johnson understood that equality was not only freedom from oppression but also equal opportunity. Johnson understood the role of government in ensuring each, he said.
Securing the gains this country has made requires the vigilance of its citizens, Obama said, and the country's rights and freedoms must be won.
"With enough effort, enough perseverance and enough courage, people who love their country can change it," Obama said. "In his final year, President Johnson stood on stage, wrapped in pain and battered by the controversies of Vietnam and delivered what would be his final public speech, 'We have proved that progress is possible, we know how much still remains to be done. And if our efforts continue, and if our will is strong, and if our hearts are right and if courage remains our constant companion, then my fellow Americans we shall overcome.'"
Meanwhile, grouped with a cluster of young college students holding signs outside, David Barrios stretched up his sign, which reads "Bring Them Home," and then lists his father's name.
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ANANIAS, Glydiston Egberto Oliveira et al. Functional capacity, performance and metabolic needs in professional soccer players during real match-play assessed by computer-video analysis. Rev Bras Med Esporte [online]. 1998, vol.4, n.3, pp.87-95. ISSN 1517-8692. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1517-86921998000300004.
The purpose of this investigation was to caracterize the relationship between the level of physical fitness, performance and metabolic needs in soccer players during a real match-play. Six professional soccer players aged 20.8 ± 2.6 years old (17-25), weight 70.4 ± 7.5 kg (63-81.3) and height 173.3 ± 9.7 cm (166-188) were submitted to a fitness test which was performed in the soccer field. The players were assessed by a video-camera, in the field, during the match-play with lactate evaluation. The alactic metabolic pathway was evaluated by means of five 30 m sprints, in maximum velocity and one minute of passive pause between each sprint. The lactic acid concentrations were assessed at one, three and five minutes after the five sprints had been finished. To detect anaerobic threshold (AT), three 1,200 m races were performed at an intensity of 80, 85 and 90% from de maximum speed to that distance, with 5 minutes intervals between each running. The soccer players underwent individual film recording by a video-camera, during the match-play and the lactic acid concentrations were assessed before, during the interval and at the end of the match, to analyze the metabolic and energetics expenditure. The following results were verified: 1) the AT at running, relationed to 4 mmol.L_1 lactic acid concentration, was found at 268 ± 28 m.min_1 or 16.1 ± 1.6 km.h_1; 2) the average speed and the maximum lactate concentration at 30m sprint were 6.9 ± 0.2 to 4.5 ± 1.0 mmol.L_1, respectively; 3) the total performed distance was 10,392 ± 849 m, 5,446 ± 550 m was found in the first half of the match and 4,945 ± 366 m was found in the second half of the match; 4) the average values found in assessing blood lactate concentrations were 1.58 ± 0.37; 4.5 ± 0.42 and 3.46 ± 1.54 mmol.L_1; before, during the first to the second interval and at the end of the match, respectively; 5) the total average distance approached at the end of the matches by midfield players (10,910 ± 121 m) was slightly greater than the one reached by the forward players (10,377 ± 224 m) and defenders (9,889 ± 102 m), nevertheless, it was not significant. There was a negative correlation (r =- 0.84; p < 0.05) among the AT (268 ± 28 m.min_1 or 16.1 ± 1.6 km.h_1) and blood lactate concentration (4.5 ± 0.42 mmol.L_1) in the first half of the match-play. Thus, the results suggest that the aerobic capacity is an important determinant, which leads the soccer players to cover the long distance runnings in the matches, and be able to recover earlier from the high intensity effort with a lower development of blood lactic acid concentrations in the whole match-play.
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The target: a two-inch or so sticker on a five-inch phone. The distance: 1,123 yards.
Did TrackingPoint's precision-guided rifle system, which claims to make it nearly impossible to miss, make the hit? Sure did.
Featured on the firearm savvy YouTube site RatedRR, the host conducted this "slow-mo torture test" on an HTC One M8 from more than a half a mile away. The tactical rifle system that gives real-time ballistics info and shooter point-of-view video was, in part, behind the success of hitting this tiny target.
RatedRR said that the system could have helped a shooter who needs a bit of assistance hit a target up to 1,200 yards away.
Watch the target practice video, which includes other abuse to see what the phone can withstand:
To put this distance into perspective, the average military sniper is said to be able to hit a target about 1,200 yards away at night thanks to technological advancements and training.
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My father was born and raised in the countryside. In that time, boys were engaged in work, not study. Already large and providing military service was when my father could learn to read and write well. At that time, he met a man who watched his interest in learning and gave some advice to my father and said "every day write a little something, write so that something good stays." My dad finished his high school, and being married with children, he entered college to study law.
Today my father is a lawyer in addition to a writer. I remember when I left high school and I started college, my father told me that I should write something good that would remain, but at that time, I was very dedicated to art and crafts, and there was no time to write.
Now I'm studying English and I write often, either what's on my mind or these wise words, and I try to write not only to express any opinion or emotion, but also to explain a topic. I wish I could leave a nice, positive message to those who read it. And believe it; I discovered that I can be a creative writer. It is not easy, but it's possible. In conclusion, when you have time, write anything, even only three lines so that something good can stay.
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I hope your Sabbath was refreshing too.
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I like to keep a close eye on the developments of the auctioneer industry. Sometimes, I come across interesting investment options, like Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc. (NYSE:RBA). Although I take many aspects into account when I analyze a company, I will focus, in this article, on debt and liabilities, in addition to examining what analysts and other top investors think about this company.
This analysis is crucial to understanding the risks of investing, and will allow us to appreciate how leveraged the auctioneer is, and what kind of returns to expect from a long-term investment after the company reported its earnings last Monday. As the years 2008 and 2009 have taught us, leveraged companies with large amounts of debt can have a devastating impact over your investment. However, by taking a close look into the debt scheme of Auctioneers, we will be able to elucidate if the company is likely to maintain its capital, and use it for future growth.
As the world's largest auctioneer of industrial and agricultural equipment, this company owns over 40 auction sites in 14 countries and counts on 1,400 employees. Its focus lies on unreserved public auctions, where the product is sold to the highest bidder, and the domestic market represents half of the company's auction proceeds. Furthermore, the firm enjoys a wide economic moat due to its network effect. So, let's take a look at the debt side of things and see where this industry giant is headed.
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For the three months ended on December 31st, 2013, Ritchie Bros. reported net earnings of $0.31 per diluted share. This implies a 53% increase compared to net earnings of $0.21 per diluted share, reported for the same quarter last year. Revenues also grew, year-over-year, by 12%, to a record $131.2 million, compared to $117.1 in 2012.
Total Debt to Total Assets Ratio
This is a metric used to measure a company's financial risk by determining how much of the company's assets have been financed by debt. Calculated by adding short-term and long-term debt and then dividing this figure by the company's total assets, when the ratio is greater than 1, it indicates that a company has more total debt than assets; meanwhile, a debt ratio of less than 1 indicates that a company has more assets than total debt. Used along with other measures of financial health, the total debt to total assets ratio can help investors determine a company's level of risk.
Ritchie Bros' total debt to total assets ratio has increased from 0.20 to 0.29 over the past three years, meaning that since 2010, the firm has acquired more debt than it has increased the value of its assets. This is certainly a warning sign for bond investors.
However, given that the ratio of 0.29 is smaller than 1, the financial risk faced by the company is relatively low: its assets' value comfortably surpasses its total debt levels.
Debt ratio = Total Liabilities / Total Assets
The debt ratio shows the proportion of a company's assets that is financed through debt. If the ratio is less than 0.5, most of the company's assets are financed through equity, while if above 0.5, the company's assets will be financed through debt. Companies with high debt/asset ratios are said to be "highly leveraged" and could be in danger if creditors start to demand repayment of debt.
When looking at Ritchie Bros' debt ratio over the past three years, we can see that it has, in fact, increased from 0.33 to 0.41. Furthermore, the fact that the 2013 TTM ratio is below the 0.50 mark, indicates that the company has financed most of its assets through equity, which is a good sign.
Outranking competitors
One of the factors in favour of Ritchie Bros' is its vast network of auction sites across North America. In addition to selling more used equipment than any of its competitors, the company also owns an online bidding site, EquipmentOne, which accounts for 33% of overall auctions. This network has allowed the company to generate average returns on invested capital of 17% over the past decade, surpassing the cost of capital.
Despite some weakness in ROIC levels over the past years, due to the lack of equipment produced during the 2009 recession, profitability should return to its normal rate as the economy regains pace. Furthermore, the buyer's fee incorporated in 2011 has helped improved the firm's core auction rate at a steady pace and will continue to generate profits in the long term.
Debt-to-Equity Ratio = Total Liabilities / Shareholders' Equity
The debt-to-equity ratio is another leverage ratio that compares a company's total liabilities with its total shareholders' equity. This measures how much suppliers, lenders, creditors and obligators have committed to the company versus what the shareholders have committed. A high debt-to-equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt, resulting in the company reporting volatile earnings. It also indicates that a company may not be able to generate enough cash to satisfy its debt obligations, and therefore is considered a riskier investment.
I usually like companies with very low debt-to-equity ratios and conservative balance sheets. On the contrary, Ritchie Bros' debt-to-equity ratio has escalated from 0.50 in 2011 to 0.72 in 2013. As the company's ratio for 2013 stands at 0.72, under the 1x mark, the risk for the company is quite low. This figure also implies that shareholders have invested less than suppliers, lenders, creditors and obligators.
Capitalization Ratio = LT Debt / LT Debt + Shareholders' Equity
(LT Debt = Long-Term Debt)
This ratio tells investors the extent to which the company is using its equity to support operations and growth, thereby helping in the assessment of risk. Companies with a high capitalization ratio are considered to be risky: if they fail to repay their debt on time, jeopardy of insolvency gets high, causing difficulties to get more loans in the future.
Over the past three years, Auctioneers' capitalization ratio has increased, from 0.19 in 2011 to 0.23 in 2013, implying that the company has less equity compared with its long-term debt. As this is the case, the company has had less equity to support its operations and add growth through its equity. Given that as the ratio increases, so does the risk for the company, standing at 0.23 the financial risk for this auctioneer is merely moderate.
Cash Flow to Total Debt Ratio = Operating Cash Flow / Total Debt
This coverage ratio compares a company's operating cash flow with its total debt, thereby indicating a firm's ability to cover total debt with its yearly cash flow from operations. The larger the ratio, the better a company can weather rough economic conditions.
As the ratio stands below 1x, the company does not have the ability to cover its total debt with its yearly cash flow from operations. The ideal is finding stocks that have ratios well above 1.
Institutional Investors
I also look at which hedge funds bought the stock in the recent quarters. These past months, both Joel Greenblatt (Trades, Portfolio) and John Keeley (Trades, Portfolio) among other investment gurus added over 60% more of Ritchie Bros.' company shares to their portfolios, at an average price of $20.61.
Analyst Outlook
Several analysts expect Ritchie Bros to perform well over the upcoming years. The Yahoo! Finance team, for example, expects the firm to retrieve EPS of $0.90 for the current fiscal year and an EPS of $1.03 for the next fiscal year. On the other hand, they estimate that revenue will reach $484.26M for the current fiscal year and $516.65M for the next one. On Feb. 4th, research firm Cantor Fitzgerald upgraded Ritchie Bros. to a "Hold" rating, with a target price of $22.00, which implies no upside potential from this point.
After analyzing the company's debt status, it's clear that the balance sheet experienced some damage after the 2009 recession, putting pressure on margins and debt. However, Ritchie Bros' returns on capital remain stable, as well as the 2.20% dividend yield, which should be attractive features for investors looking for profits. Also, the company's wide economic moat is favourable and should guarantee a sense of stability in the future. In addition to this, the firm's focus on providing the best market-price for its products should help retain customers. Despite the fact that the market doesn't value the stock very much at the time, the company looks strong and established to me.
Disclosure: Vanina Egea holds no position in any stocks mentioned


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At the foot of the towering Wasatch Range, the stunning Sundance Valley offers the ideal setting for an immersive photography experience. Explore Green and Braided River invite you to participate in a Fall Nature Photography Workshop at Sundance Mountain Resort led by acclaimed conservation photographers Amy Gulick, Carl Johnson, and Dave Showalter. Each will bring their expertise and passion for wild country to this hands-on workshop.
Participants will learn solid compositional technique, supported by constructive photo critiques, discuss a storytelling approach, and explore the role of photography in conserving wild lands, in keeping with the Sundance mission of land stewardship.
The workshop will include early morning and afternoon-evening photo shoots. Amy, Carl, and Dave will review images from the group and offer constructive feedback to participants – a valuable way to study light and learn techniques to make mindful, compelling images. Sundance promises to work her magic, and we'll provide the instruction and inspiration to assist you with your visual journey.
This workshop runs September 7 – 10, 2017. Price per couple is $3,900 Small Mountain Suite, and $4,400 for a Large Mountain Suite. Please inquire for single person rates. This trip is limited to 20 suites.
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- All taxes included for Sundance.
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So far, it's been a service targeted at women. Women who, like me, delight in all the little sample bottles and enjoy a child-like sense of glee at opening a surprise package every month.
But dudes like surprises, too! And now they can join in the fun: Birchbox Man is here and it caters to the manicured man you've always wished you could be.
For those of you unfamiliar with Birchbox, here's a little peek at what I received in my April box. It had an Earth Week theme, and most of the products were natural and/or organic.
Of course, the man's version would look a little different (and for some reason costs $20 a month instead of $10?) Essentially, you'll get "grooming" products instead of beauty products, but the other services, like rewards points and tips on how to use your Birchbox samples will be the same. Go get your groom on.
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text: The hydrologic system, which includes all possible paths of motion of Earth's near-surface fluids including air and water, is largely responsible for the variety of landforms found on the continents. Heat from the sun evaporates water from oceans, lakes, and streams. Although most of the water returns directly as precipitation to the oceans, some of the water is recipitated over land as rain or snow. If it is precipitated over land, it then begins its journey back to the sea as "runoff." The relentless action of surface runoff, streams, and rivers, glaciers, and waves sculpts the rock into intriguing and bizarre shapes. This set of slides includes examples of wave erosion, wind and water erosion, valley shapes, and glacial rosion. The views are often dramatic. Many were taken at U.S. National Parks and Monuments.