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Nov 6, 2012, 06:25 PM #22The moral question of whether you should surf or not is a personal choice
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I live in the bayshore area and my town/ surroudning towns were effected pretty badly from Hurricane Sandy, I lost 3 out of 4 working vehicles almost took water in my house thank god my foundation was built higher then 6' I'm still without power and been staying at a friends house with power, and I must say im looking forward to the upcoming swell I did not get out during "before" or "After" sandy I dont know how many Jersey guys did or did not but im sure it was pumping somewhere and wish I couldve atleast seen it!! But I couldnt leave my house for 2 days with out WADERS and a dry top it helps that I fish and have this stuff. with that being said I'm really itching to get out tired of cleaning, helping, working, and everything inbetween curfew laws going on ODD EVEN gas days, I need a day out in the water and hoping I can find acess and a good break....
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[QUOTE=walkingonh2o;145718]i miss that thread....
ya, i am bummed too. Even tho all the sand bars look sooo much better...
how are all the beach breaks in the nj beaches? like did it make the beach flat or create any sandbars? i wouldnt have any way of findding out untill next year?
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Nov 7, 2012, 05:03 AM #27
There is nothing wrong with taking a break to get in a surf. It really helps to get your mind off things for a while. I have had to take some time every day just to keep from freaking out. I was not able to enjoy the one session I had, but it still helped clear my head a bit.
The problem is that the waves will be joined by a Noreaster. That's what nobody needs right now. We need nice warm weather.
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Even if the water is unclean what about all the debris? It may be a few months until I get back into the water.
Feeling for you guys, we have definately had our share. I say surf when you can, just don't get speared by any roller coaster tracks.
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Tired of waiting for politicians to act, they are buying Series I U.S. Savings Bonds, a special type designed specifically for retirement savings. And with good reason: Average-income workers in their 30s will earn twice as much from these bonds as they will from Social Security, which-absent reform-is looking like less and less of a sure thing all the time.
Take my friend George, who was born in 1970. His retirement check from Social Security is supposed to total about $1,310 a month. That's hardly a princely sum, but there's no guarantee he'll draw even that much. Social Security's own numbers show the program will be collecting enough in taxes to pay him only $947 a month the year he retires.
The remaining $363 a month will have to come from some other source. The question is where.
Assuming that Congress doesn't cut benefits between now and the day George retires, there are only two ways to pay George the extra $363 a month. One is to raise the payroll taxes levied on his children and other future workers. The other is to slash health, defense, education or other social programs to pay George-and millions of his contemporaries-what Social Security has promised them.
Imagine, on the other hand, if George was able to put a portion of his existing Social Security taxes into some form of personal retirement account and avoid this problem. Because his invested taxes would earn far more than Social Security can afford to pay him, it will help make up the difference-and then some.
Series I U.S. Savings Bonds are one type of investment that would fit perfectly into a Social Security personal retirement account. They are super safe, have no administrative charges, and pay fairly high interest. Currently, these bonds pay 7.49 percent interest, and are guaranteed to pay 3.6 percent interest plus inflation throughout their 30-year life.
On top of that, just about everyone can afford them. Series I Bonds can be bought in amounts ranging from $50 through $10,000. Their convenience, low cost and safety have caused the sale of these bonds to grow from about $30 million a month two years ago to about $200 million a month today.
It would make perfect sense to include these bonds in a Social Security personal retirement account, but there are other low-cost ways to invest. Federal government employees, for example, today can invest their payroll taxes in a savings plan that offers a government bond fund, a corporate bond fund and a stock index fund-all safe and low-cost options.
There are also more than 5 million state and local government employees who are not part of Social Security. Their retirement plans vary, but for the most part, they earn more than they could get from sending the same money to Social Security. Not surprisingly, these workers show no desire to shift to Social Security.
The chance to earn a higher rate of return is the main reason attacks on Social Security plans that would let people invest a portion of their taxes have failed. American workers would rather have some control over their futures, rather than simply trust the federal government to provide for them. Despite heavy-handed warnings about "risky schemes," Social Security reform remains popular among Americans at all income levels.
Which makes sense, considering that Social Security itself must now be classified as a "risky scheme." After 2015, the program can't afford to pay everything it has promised. The choice is having more personal control over your retirement or trusting the same people who are even now making promises they can't keep. Looking at recent bond sales, it's clear many Americans have already made that choice.
David John is a senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org), a Washington-based public policy institute.
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@joxer: Alistair is always whiny…. and weak. That's why you need to "harden" him to make him less sissy.
@MinorityReport: You know, you have a choice not to have romantic relationship with your companions, right? At least I didn't find it that bad in DA:O, unlike Anders from DA2… (creepy). I think Leliana can kind of ninja romance you if you aren't careful though, but you can always tell her early you aren't interested.
To be honest, I didn't really see much of content difference (at least for Alistair) whether you romance him or not. I don't know about Zevran - he creeps me out, so I never tried. Leliana is even more no-no…. (at least for me).
Anyway, I'm at Circle at the moment and I just found out Ser Gilmore mod isn't compatible with Skip the Fade if you take him to the Fade…. NO!!! So I had to uninstall the Skip the Fade mod and have to go through the whole crap again =.= I realised it by the time you can't swap out the party members so that's the only option I have left =.= yay!
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make sure your nuntchuck is conected cus i've read that it'll freeze if you havent...
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When I try to install cios249.wad I get error -1035. I did all previously steps over and over again and just got all the same. What should it be?Quote:
b). Load the Wad Manager 1.4 again, but this time select IOS16 as the one it should use and then install cios249.wad.
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I haven't tried this guide yet. Wanted to find out the difference between Rev 8 and Rev 9 of cIOS249.wad. Are there situations where the older Rev is preferred? Thanks in advance.
i am stuck at the hack.ini part. i read everything on the 11 pages here n did everyting but i am still stuck at that part. can somebody plz help me :(
also when i go to the "systemmeny hacks" on the preloader, it says... "couldnt find "hack.ini" either on FAT nor on NAND! blahblah"
If your Wii is an American Wii, you should rename NTSChack.ini to hack.ini and delete the other that is pretty unnecessary.
i did change the ntsc-usa one to the hack.ini // and my wii is a usa one, i did the rest of the steps and my wii is changed back to 3.2U but the preloader cannot find the hack.ini // i changed it to hack & hack.ini & hack.ini. // & none of it worked. i did the autoboot then to the system menu & put hack.ini at the root of the sd & still it can't be found. the only thing that changed was when the did the auto boot and changed my hack.ini to just hack, there was a black screen for a long time so i figured it wasn't doing anything so i restarted..
thanks in advance for the help!
oh thank you but i did find that link & tried it too but it didnt work also; thats how i found out about putting hack.ini at the root of the sd. thats why im sooo confused becuhz i know im doing everything the guide says but im still struggling with it :/


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Out of all the awesome photos of the Royal Wedding yesterday... there's one that is definitely going to be doing the rounds for a while 🙂
If you watched the Royal Wedding yesterday you would have noticed how it "went down" absolutely flawlessly... but as with most things in life there's always something that will always cause a bit of a chuckle 🙂
Of all the thousands of pounds that will be paid for official photographs of the Royal Wedding, there's one that will most definitely be more famous than ANY of the others...
Well here it is 🙂
Ja, I'm sure we are going to see this pic on a few china plates etc 🙂
Also check this pic of the door opener dude checking out Pippa Middleton's ass 🙂
EISH! Cranking Hot! I don't blame the oke 🙂
The Phreak just happened to be down in the crowd yesterday in the front row near Buckingham Palace, she got to see the Bride; Groom as well as the Queen and the legend that is Prince Philip... she got some wicked shots... DAMN I think we can say that Kate has pulled into pole position as being the hottest royal around... EISH! 🙂


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Category: Political/Other
Designer: Ron English
Year: 2000s
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A Distinguished and Fine Family are leaving the White House. Hope to see you again, SOON. Abraham Obama is an image melding the faces of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama. It was originally a painting by world reknown artist Ron English and fast became one of the most recognizable icons indirectly involved with the Barack Obama campaign for president.


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News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said Tuesday that its net income fell 69 percent in the latest quarter compared with a year earlier, when it recorded a huge gain on the sale of its stake in a technology company.
The company earned $839 million, or 32 cents per share, in the fiscal third quarter. That compared with a net income of $2.7 billion, or $1.04 per share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose 19 percent to $8.79 billion, thanks to a $1 billion uptick from its 20th Century Fox movie studio, which benefited from the release of "Avatar." Revenue in the year-earlier period was $7.37 billion.
The results beat the expectation of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, who had predicted net income of 23 cents per share on revenue of $8.18 billion.
Shares jumped 61 cents, or 4 percent, to $16 in after-hours trading, after falling 64 cents, or 4 percent, to close at $15.40 in the regular session Tuesday, before the release of results.
"Our global portfolio of sought-after content is ideally situated to benefit from the increase in consumer spending, advertising and access to new platforms we are seeing across our regions," Murdoch, the chief executive, said in a statement.
"Avatar," the 3-D epic from James Cameron, has become the highest grossing film in history, with $2.7 billion in worldwide ticket sales to date. It helped push the studio unit's operating income to a record $497 million, up 76 percent from a year earlier.
An advertising recovery helped cable channels such as Fox News and FX; News Corp.'s cable network programming unit posted operating income of $588 million, a 38 percent increase.
The company's newspaper division, which owns The Wall Street Journal, also saw income soar to $131 million, more than quadruple the $29 million posted a year ago. Higher advertising revenue and lower costs led to the jump.
Its other segment, which includes flagging social networking site MySpace, lost $150 million compared with an $88 million loss a year earlier.
In its fiscal third quarter last year, News Corp. benefited from a $1.2 billion gain from the partial sale of its ownership stake in NDS, a technology company that delivers video signals to pay TV subscribers. It also posted a $1.2 billion non-cash tax benefit in last year's period.
Excluding those one-time charges and others, operating income grew 55 percent to $1.25 billion in the third quarter from $810 million a year earlier.


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Canonical's Rick Spencer has written about two small changes that are happening to Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04. The first is the default Ubuntu home-page with its search box in Firefox will now follow whatever the user has set as their default search engine in Firefox. The second change is that Canonical is changing the default search engine for Firefox in Ubuntu to Yahoo.
Canonical's Jos Boumans has sent out an e-mail on the Ubuntu development mailing list to outline some of the new plans going forward for Ubuntu Server with the 10.04 release. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 2 came out just nine days ago, but Jos is hoping to incorporate these new Ubuntu Server changes prior to the Alpha 3 release that is scheduled for the end of February.
Canonical's Tim Gardner is seeking comments regarding a new build of Ubuntu Server that he is proposing. Canonical is considering another build of Ubuntu Server (there is already Ubuntu Server 32-bit and 64-bit along with specialized builds for cloud computing with Amazon EC2 and UEC), but this one would be specialized for just 64-bit platforms that have low-latency requirements and on power consumptive systems. This new build would be tuned for tasks like Asterisk that have low-latency requirements and where the current Ubuntu Server builds may not be sufficient. Though from the initial RFC, it may just end up being an alternate kernel that can be selected during the installation process of Ubuntu Server.
While we knew it was coming, this afternoon Canonical and the Ubuntu development community have announced the release of Lucid Lynx Alpha 2, or more easily known as Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 2. This second alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04 delivers on Plymouth integration, the likewise-open package for Active Directory authentication has received a major upgrade, KDE 4.4 RC1, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud improvements, and many other improvements to this popular Linux distribution.
A month ago we wrote about Plymouth getting pulled into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS after Canonical ended up flip-flopping on their decision to use this Red Hat created splash program that leverages kernel mode-setting to provide a pleasant and flicker-free boot experience while being highly customizable and extensible. After the Plymouth packages got pulled into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS we also provided a video that showed it running on the "Lucid Lynx", but it was pretty boring with just a static Ubuntu logo and at the time some warning messages bled into the background.
While it's not too difficult to get your own package within Ubuntu's universe repository, it's more difficult to get a Debian package promoted to be within Ubuntu main, or the main repository that is officially supported by Canonical. However, the Ubuntu development community has decided to make that process a bit easier by eliminating some of the hurdles imposed when a package is initially rejected from being pushed into the main repository. Clarifying main package concerns used to require writing lengthy Wiki page entries, but now it's much more concise, simpler, and should be easier on everyone involved in the process.
Mark Shuttleworth has just announced this morning via a blog post that he will be stepping down as the CEO of Canonical, the formal company behind Ubuntu Linux. Jane Silber, the current COO of Canonical, will be taking over Mark's position as the CEO.
A few days back we shared Plymouth is coming to Ubuntu 10.04 after this wonderful Red Hat creation was proposed to replace USplash last year, set to be integrated for Ubuntu 9.10, and then later dropped on the basis of improving Ubuntu's boot-time instead. The Plymouth graphical boot splash program that leverages kernel mode-setting is here for good with Ubuntu 10.04, but right at the moment in the daily builds of Lucid is not on there by default.
Plymouth is a Red Hat innovation that came around last year to provide a new, attractive boot graphical splash screen that went on to replace RHGB (Red Hat Graphical Boot) in Fedora 10. We have extensively talked about Plymouth as its interesting and provides a very clean boot interface thanks to it leveraging kernel mode-setting to offer a flicker-free experience and then providing tight integration with GDM and the X Server. Mandriva also ended up adopting Plymouth for use in its distribution.
Just as planned, the first alpha release for Ubuntu 10.04 (the "Lucid Lynx") has arrived. Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 1 is running with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel, X Server 1.7, GNOME 2.29.3, KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Beta 1, and many other package upgrades since the release of Ubuntu 9.10 back in October.
Just in time for the Alpha 1 release of Ubuntu 10.04, X.Org 7.5 with X Server 1.7 has been pulled into the Lucid Lynx package repository. With this push of new X.Org 7.5 packages comes a number of other upstream X package updates along with rebuilds of the other non-updated drivers so that they will work against this latest stable X Server.
The Ubuntu kernel team has written a message on the Ubuntu announcement mailing list in which they lay out the kernel summary for Ubuntu Lucid. In this message the kernel team confirms that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (the "Lucid Lynx") will indeed be shipping with the just-released Linux 2.6.32 kernel. By the time Ubuntu 10.04 rolls around in April, the Linux 2.6.33 kernel will have been released and the Linux 2.6.34 kernel will be in development, but the Ubuntu developers have decided to stick it out with the 2.6.32 kernel for a maximum stabilization period, especially since this is a Long-Term Support release.
A week ago we found out that Nouveau would be pulled into Ubuntu 10.04 as the default NVIDIA graphics driver replacing the current open-source NVIDIA driver mess that is known as xf86-video-nv. The Nouveau driver stack isn't stable or officially released yet, but the 2D portion is in good standing and the 3D portion written to use Gallium3D is progressing (recent status update). The Nouveau driver has been used by default in two Fedora releases, but on the Ubuntu side it will be the default starting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx", including the DRM / kernel mode-setting bits.
Started during the Ubuntu 9.10 development cycle was an Ubuntu project to address paper cuts in Ubuntu, or rather small usability bugs in Ubuntu and the Linux desktop that are often only minor impairments or annoyances, but these easy-to-fix issues have never been heavily targeted for correction. These "paper cuts" are often spotted by new Linux users but frequently go unnoticed to those that have been using the Linux desktop for a while and are accustomed to its shortcomings. Most of the 100 paper cuts targeted for Ubuntu 9.10 were addressed (the official count seems to be at 76), but this project is going to live on with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Canonical's Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (codenamed Lucid Lynx) is taking place this week in Texas, but happening right now on the Ubuntu-X mailing list is a discussion about what the X.Org plans are for Ubuntu Lucid.
Just as planned, Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" has been officially released this morning. Additionally, 9.10 Karmic releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Studio are also available. The Ubuntu 9.10 Server build also sports support for the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon EC2 support. Furthermore, another flavor of Ubuntu 9.10 that is also available is Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix with its many improvements.
With one week to go until the official release of Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", Canonical has announced the release candidate of this forthcoming Linux distribution update. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu have all reached Ubuntu 9.10 RC status as well.
Ubuntu 9.04 was released back in April while the next release, Ubuntu 9.10, will be out in less than three weeks. However, only recently has Dell been getting around to rolling out their Linux desktops, netbooks, and notebooks with an Ubuntu 9.04 installation option rather than Ubuntu 8.10. Besides switching out the base operating system to Ubuntu 9.04, Dell's Linux engineers also took this time to make a few other changes to their "Dellbuntu" stack.
Ubuntu 9.10 (the "Karmic Koala") will be officially released later this month along with the other distributions in the Ubuntu family, but coming out of the Canonical camp yesterday was the beta releases for these Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems.
With the current Ubuntu 9.10 release cycle that we are currently going through, like most earlier releases, there were six alpha releases followed by one beta and a release candidate before going gold. However, with Ubuntu 10.04 -- the next release that will bear Canonical's Long Term Support and is codenamed the Lucid Lynx -- this will not be the case.
Mark Shuttleworth has announced at the Atlanta Linux Fest that the next major Ubuntu release following Ubuntu 9.10 (the Karmic Koala) will be codenamed the Lucid Lynx. Ubuntu 10.04 will be the official name and with their bi-annual scheduling, this release will also serve as a Long Term Support (LTS) version.
For those of you wanting to test out some new software over the weekend (well, if you are not at Oktoberfest in Munich), Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 is now available. Ubuntu 9.10 entered into a feature freeze a month ago so there are major upstream package updates in here, although there is the final Linux 2.6.31 kernel, more recent GNOME 2.28 snapshots, etc. More of the Ubuntu-specific improvements like artwork and enhancements to Ubiquity are visible in Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 too.
Besides the ATI Catalyst Linux driver still lacking public XvBA support (the library is in the driver, but there's no documentation or public implementations of it) even though we exclusively detailed the X-Video Bitstream Acceleration architecture nearly a year ago for enhancing HD video playback on Linux, the other leading problem we usually end up facing with AMD's proprietary Linux driver is their slow response time with supporting new X Server and kernel releases. AMD's policy has been not to focus on providing support for unreleased kernels/X servers, and then to provide the support once out, but while they do provide new releases on a consistent monthly basis, things usually don't end up working out as planned.
Yesterday Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 5 was released and besides shipping with a number of updated packages and the Ubuntu One client along with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud images, the Ubiquity installer shipped with its new slide-show feature enabled. Now during the Ubuntu installation process from the desktop LiveCD, rather than just showing a status bar it also advertises various features of this Linux operating system.
In just under two months there will be the release of Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", but until then, there is the continual stream of new test releases. The latest test release to emerge from the Canonical camp is Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 5. This fifth testing release of Mark Shuttleworth's operating system brings the Linux 2.6.31-rc8 kernel, the latest KDE/GNOME packages, a few updated X.Org bits, and many other package updates, although the Karmic Koala is now under a feature freeze.
Introduced last year with Fedora 10 was Plymouth, a project to replace the aging Red Hat Graphical Boot (RHGB) software. From the start, Plymouth leveraged kernel mode-setting to provide a flicker-free boot process and a splash screen that would run at the panel's native resolution. Beyond using KMS, Red Hat designed a nice plug-in architecture for Plymouth to offer different functionality and make it easy to add in new artwork.
Right on schedule, Canonical's Steve Langasek has announced the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4. This fourth development release of the Karmic Koala brings more updated packages (including a kernel based upon Linux 2.6.31-rc5), Ubuntu One file sharing support, and some other new features. Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4 is also the first build to have Kubuntu Netbook Remix support for KDE 4.3 and Ubuntu UEC. Ubuntu UEC is for the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud with support for Amazon's EC2 service.
There's twelve days left until the release of X Server 1.7 and X.Org 7.5! Wait, there still is not even an X Server 1.7 Beta, which should have happened last month, so chances are slim to none on seeing a final release this month. The release schedule for X Server 1.7 / X.Org 7.5 has already slipped a few times, after it was supposed to be released back in April.
Intel's Poulsbo driver for their GMA 500 IGP on the SCH U15W is a bloody mess. Unlike their X.Org driver for their other Intel IGPs, the Poulsbo driver is closed-source (since they licensed some of the technologies for this graphics processor), but the problems go beyond just whether or not you like to use a binary blob. Intel hasn't done a good job at maintaining this driver and ensuring it works with the latest kernel and X.Org releases and tracking down all of the components to use the driver on a non-supported distribution can be challenging. In fact, it took quite some work to even get the Poulsbo driver running on Fedora.
Canonical, the parent company behind Ubuntu, has announced this morning that next month they will release Landscape Dedicated Server. Canonical's Landscape provides systems management and monitoring support for Ubuntu systems, but with Landscape Dedicated Server it should be easier to deploy in data-centers and the like.
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Ron Paul addresses the crowd at his Linn County Whistle Stop
Ron Paul's whistle-stop tour of Iowa, done today in concert with his son Rand Paul, yielded enormous crowds often numbering in the hundreds.
The Polk County Whistle Stop in Downtown Des Moines attracted more than 700 supporters, the Scott County Whistle Stop held in Davenport drew more than 350 people, and the Linn County Whistle Stop held in Cedar Rapids yielded more than 300 people.
In addition, the Black Hawk County Whistle Stop in Cedar Falls drew more than 300 supporters, and the Cerro Gordo County Whistle Stop in Mason City attracted more than 200 voters.
"The excitement is palpable as Ron and Rand Paul make Ron's closing arguments to the hundreds of supporters who braved the cold, windy weather to see the Pauls. We hope this level of energy, so unique to Ron Paul's candidacy, propels us to a strong top-three finish in tomorrow's caucus," said Ron Paul 2012 Iowa Chairman Drew Ivers.
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Ron Paul greets the spillover crowd at the Cerro Gordo County Whistle Stop


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Muna Zakki: Sahar Al Layali does not contain nudity nor does it have sexual connotations
Prominent Egyptian actress Muna Zakki had recently participated in the 13th Damascus Film Festival with her latest movie "Sahar Al Layali" (Up All Night). The movie, directed by Hani Khalifa, was criticized because it was directed towards Egyptian values in an embedded but yet a polite way. The movie had won the prize of joint acting in the festival.
According to the Qatar based daily, Al Raya, Muna revealed in a personal interview that she only finds herself in the cinema, stressing that the cinema industry is a very important source of income for Egypt, and she wonders why this is not the case in other Arab countries? Muna went on to defend her film saying that it is not once that displays nudity or has sexual connotations.
Muna stressed that it was made into an international one because it contained human feelings that are expressed every where, and dealt with an issue that no other film in Arabic drama had ever dealt with. At the same time it did not provoke Arab public's feelings, showing the talent of the director, because he was able to present bold issues without being rude. Syrian artist Abdul Min'im Amairi, husband of Syrian singer Asalah Nasri, had said that the scenes are so convincing and emotional that you cannot be shallow and concentrate on the looks of the actress or her body.
Muna adds that looks are not the main factor of success, but hard work and always striving to be better, besides being beautiful or ugly does not make one a good actor. The film had faced some crucial criticism accusing it of being too provocative and promoting American culture or products.
Muna notes that the cinema is for all kinds of people; cinema is affection, and magic, and that there is a special atmosphere when one goes to see a movie, the lighting, sharing the view with a crowd, the big screen and the sound effects. These days, movies are making high profits exceeding six or even twenty million EGP. There was a time during the eighties when the cinema was not getting profits at all.
Zaki has accepted an offer for the leading role in the new television drama series "Amout Habba" (A Slow Death), after being away from the small screen for over two years. Muna's last appearance on television was in the drama series "Juha Al Masri" alongside Egyptian actors Yahia Al Fakharani and Lucy.
Muna will be playing the role of young country girl who falls in love with a man, but is faced with many obstacles due to the fact that her family refuses their union. The series written by Mohammad Safa Amer and directed by Mohammad Khan will costar Khaled Al Nabawi and a large number of new faces.
Zaki and her husband Ahmad Hilmi had announced the coming of their first newborn baby girl into the world in August, surprising everyone at the news of delivery since she was not due for another two months. –Albawaba.com


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This year marks what would have been the 450th birthday for one of the greatest playwrights the world has ever known: William Shakespeare.
If you're in search of a Shakespeare fix, you won't want to miss the yearlong celebration being held in London in 2014. Here are five hot spots to hit for a little Shakespeare appreciation.
The Globe Theatre
This early 20th-century open-air theater in the Soho of Elizabethan London is an exact replica of Shakespeare's playhouse built in 1599 as an homage to where many of Shakespeare's plays were once performed. This year, you'll be able to experience Shakespeare's work as it was meant to be enjoyed at The Globe, with productions like "Antony & Cleopatra," "Julius Caesar" and "The Comedy of Errors" taking the stage in 2014.
London Walks
Get a sense for Shakespeare's London with your feet on the ground during a London Walks tour. The "Shakespeare's and Dicken's London: The Old City" tour gives you a literary double hitter as you tour the city, experiencing the same sights that inspired these two men to write some of the world's most notable literary works. Tours are held Wednesday mornings and Sunday afternoons.
Middle Temple Hall
This historic hall was said to have hosted the very first performance of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" with Queen Elizabeth I herself in attendance in 1602. The cobblestone lanes and majestic hall have been kept in pristine condition over the centuries, and today, Middle Temple Hall is considered one of the most outstanding Elizabethan Halls in all of England.
Victoria & Albert Museum
For a deeper look at the influence Shakespeare's plays have had around the world, don't miss the upcoming "Shakespeare: Our Greatest Living Playwright" exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Running from Feb. 8 through Sept. 28, the exhibit will display objects and feature interviews that examine how Shakespeare continues to shape the theatrical world to this day.
Noel Coward Theatre
If you're headed to London during the summer of 2014, you can catch a live performance of the award-winning "Shakespeare in Love," which is set to be adapted for the stage at the Noel Coward Theatre. The fictional story follows the playwright as he struggles to write another successful play and finds inspiration in a young noblewoman.
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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – An I-R-S ruling could open the door to lawsuits that could cost local governments thousands of dollars in tax revenues from utilities. Area tax experts say it comes at a time when many local governments are fighting to pay for services without raising taxes. In its ruling, the I-R-S said a phone company could classify its lines as real estate. Many companies are expected to use it to change how they are charged for local property taxes. That could mean railroads, natural gas, cable companies and others could cut their property taxes in half.
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" Address: North End / Mablethorpe / Lincolnshire / LN12 1QQ "
I've been visiting Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire for holidays all of my life as my grandparents owned a caravan on the Golden Sands site (now Haven). Since they both passed away a few years ago myself and my family have continued to still holiday there opting to stay in a nearby chalet park which is quite close proximity to The Ferryboat pub. Whilst my review will concentrate on my most recent visit, which was at the end of October 2012, it is a pub that we visit whenever we are in Mablethorpe so I have had plenty of opportunities to sample both food, drink and get a feel for the ambience as well as getting to know the bar staff.
The Ferryboat Inn is located near to the popular attraction of the Seal & Animal Gardens at the North End of the beach. Whilst most places in Mablethorpe are easily accessible by walking, there is a car park adjacent to the Ferryboat though it doesn't belong to the pub itself, and is a paying one which is manned from around 8am to roughly 5pm for people who are visiting the Animal Gardens. After 5pm (sometimes 6/ 6.30pm in high season) it is usually free though as just mentioned it is in walking distance of around 5 minutes from the nearby caravan and chalet parks. The pub is situated at the entrance to the beach and is just off of the main road with a small, but busy at times, roundabout just in front of the doors. As the roundabout is near to a bus terminal as well as the aforementioned car park it can be busy at peak times so keeping small children close and dogs on leads for safety is advisable.
Ferryboat Inn
North End
(01507) 477385
**Interior & Exterior**
The Ferryboat looks like quite a large pub from the outside and whilst it's quite spacious inside it is much smaller than you think as part of the building houses a small games and penny arcade which is joined onto the building. Years ago the arcade was partly where the pub area is now with the now arcade being a small bingo hall which was very popular with local holiday makers, then around 20 years ago or so the building was turned into mainly a pub with the arcade still being very much at the heart of the building and proving successful with children and parents alike.
On walking up the wheelchair friendly ramp and through the double pull open doors you are greeted with a smart interior which is very smart yet has a down to earth and friendly feel as soon as you step inside. The pub has several large windows though as they are slightly tinted it's hard to see both in and out though the pub inside is very bright due to the electric lighting that is provided by the many lamps dotted around.
The pub is one large room which is segregated into different sections with the 'drinkers' area as you walk through the door. This area features several comfortable sofa style seats as well as lots of small round tables with buffets. There is a large screen on the wall which is popular with holiday makers and locals as it shows several major sporting events and whilst children and families are welcome in this area it tends to be frequented more by adults. The bar is adjacent to the door on walking in and features 4 tall buffets but these are mostly unused so getting served isn't too much of a problem even in high season when it's busy as it's quite easy to get to the bar.
To the left on entering the pub is a small sectioned area which houses several small leather seats and coffee tables. This is the only area in the pub which states 'No Children' are allowed though there is access through double doors to the arcade in this area as well as the disabled toilet so children are allowed through it's not encouraged. The main 'family room' is straight forward through the main entrance and to the left, which is part of the main room but is segregated for mainly eating as it's close to the kitchen. This room is long and narrow and features a few round tables down the centre with buffets, whilst against the wall there are several large rectangular shaped tables with buffets on one side and long padded seating against under the windows. There are also two flat screen TV's at either end of the room which mainly feature adverts and music videos unless there is a sports match of some kind on, though the TV's are normally turned down quite low and blend into the background so aren't too intrusive.
There is a small door at the bottom near to the kitchen doors which lead to a small corridor where the male and female toilets are on either side, whilst straightforward is another entrance into the arcade which also features a pool table (cues and white ball are available via a small refundable deposit from the bar).
The outside of the pub is well worth a mention as it's a main attraction for thirsty holiday makers in the hot weather. To the side of the main building is an ice cream parlour which also sells a variety of hot and cold drinks, sandwiches and snacks and an assortment of beach toys such as bucket and spades. If not manned then everything on offer can be purchased from inside the bar though in high season there tends to be someone in the small kiosk area as it's a popular stop off both to and from the beach.
Just before the main entrance there are the first of 15 or so large picnic style benches which line the entire building, and whilst some are in direct sunlight there are several which are shielded from the hot rays as it's a sun spot where the pub is situated. The building is an 'L' shape and there is a small shelter area in the form of a canopy in the corner part, which though it has been there for years is frequented more so now by smokers as it's perfect shielding from all the elements regardless of the weather. What attracts people outside even when the weather is less than inviting is the fact there is not only a perspex style roof but also patio heaters and a large TV screen on the outside of the building which caters for people who want to enjoy food and drink (or smoke) whilst outside in the open air.
**What's on the menu?**
The Ferryboat offers good value, affordable 'pub grub' which includes a few light bites such as:
*Assorted sandwiches
*Jacket potatoes with various fillings
*Onion rings
to mention a few examples, all priced reasonably between £1.95 upwards.
The children's menu has choices of:
*Chicken Teddy Shapes
*Fish Whale Shapes
*Mini Pizzas
*Cottage Pie (small portion)
All are served with either chips or mash and with various different vegetables which you are asked about first on ordering with prices from £3 for a generous sizing.
A few years ago there used to be free ice cream with flavour of your choice as a dessert making it exceedingly good value but they have since revoked this (well over the past 2 years) and now you have to order and pay for desserts separately, and whilst disappointing it's still good value.
Mains include various 'pub food' meals including:
*Chicken Breast Portion
*Various burgers in a bun (Chicken/ steak/ beef)
*Chilli Con Carne
*Chicken Tikka Massala
*Tuna Pasta bake
*Half or Full rack of BBQ Ribs
*Roast Dinner and all the trimmings
*Yorkshire pudding and various fillings
*Traditional Ploughman's
*Steak Pie & gravy
*7oz/ 9oz Haddock
these are to name but a few.
Vegetarian offerings are unfortunately thin on the ground with the following available:
*Cheese & Broccoli Bake
*Vegetarian Vegetable Kiev
*Quiche (various flavours)
*Tomato & Cheese Omelette
There is a selection of desserts which change quite often so it's worth asking when ordering as they have cake and buns in a display case situated at the end of the bar whilst items such as cheesecake and hot puddings are readily available on a regular basis on the everyday menu.
Prices are very agreeable, with the main meals costing between £4.99 and £6.25 (barring the full rack of ribs which is around the £9 mark) and all the meals are accompanied with a choice of either chips, mash, beans or rice and salad or vegetables and plates are stacked high.
My own personal experience is of the female toilets though I have it on good authority from a disabled friend that the disabled toilet is clean and adequately stocked, whilst my husband has said the men's toilets are very clean and tidy and quite spacious to say the toilet block only looks little. The women's toilets are always very clean, even when the pub is packed with revellers as they are checked quite frequently and the toilet block houses two separate toilets and two sinks with the usual vending machines on the wall. There is a hand dryer which whilst it does the job, it extremely slow and takes forever and whilst it does get hands dry (eventually) more often than not you end up with damp hands still!
**Ordering and service**
The main room and family room has numbered tables up to 70 and each table has a menu placed in the centre. Once you have chosen what you want to eat you order from the bar where there is a designated food till at one end away from the drinks tills. The staff will first ask you your table number then once you have ordered your food you are required to pay there and then and you are given a receipt.
Next to the food till are the condiments, napkins and cutlery (etc) which is self service and once you are seated the food is brought out to you by a waitress. I've found even in busy times that there isn't usually a wait of longer than 20 minutes for food and whilst the waitresses often seem stressed at times they are still friendly and always ask if everything is okay.
Although there isn't much from the menu that we haven't tried over the years, as it hasn't changed much, our most recent visit saw us all order our favourites. My husband chose the chilli con carne with rice and salad which was served steaming hot with the rice cooked to perfection and the salad was crisp and fresh. My two young sons had a mini 7" cheese & tomato pizza each which both arrived with chips, peas and a small amount of salad. I opted for my personal favourite choice from the menu being the vegetable kiev. Although I eat white meat and fish these days after a 10 year stint of being vegetarian I still always tend to opt for a vegetarian meal when eating out and the vegetable kiev at the Ferryboat is one of the finest. It is made up of several chopped vegetables mixed with a creamy garlic sauce and topped off with bread crumbs and this arrived with chips and salad and a side order of onion rings.
The food is home cooked (not home made) but tastes very fresh and is always presented nicely on the plates, even at very busy times.
The bar staff are always very friendly, in particular an older gentleman that has worked there for as long as I can remember and is always chatty and friendly even when the pub is very busy. Having worked in pubs myself over the years I know how hard it is to keep a smile on your face when customers aren't always being compliable but the staff at the Ferryboat are always friendly and helpful in any way they can.
Although the pub can get extremely busy in the high Summer season it's never dirty or scruffy. In the family room empty plates are immediately taken away and tables are swiftly wiped down, whereas if there is excess mess on the floor from food falling then the staff are quickly on hand to sweep the mess or at times I've seen them ask customers if it's ok if they get the Henry vacuum out.
The only down side is being so close to the beach there are often little bugs or flies which can be irritating when eating outside and if all the windows are open in the family room as it's next to some sand dunes.
I think the overall answer here is a resounding Yes. I've never had a bad experience whilst visiting the Ferryboat and hopefully I never will. It's a place that we always visit when we stay at Mablethorpe as it's a stone throw away from our accommodation and especially in nicer weather it's lovely to sit outside and enjoy a relaxing drink. My children love it too as they always take some of their spending money to play in the arcade after we have eaten and it's popular with everyone, be it locals or holiday makers.
On our last visit we ordered a drink each (1/2 of carling for myself, 1 pint of bitter for my husband and 2 fruit shoot substitutes for my boys) which came to under £5 and our food bill total for the four of us was under £20 at £19.30 making it exceptional value for the quality and quantity of the food.
This is highly recommended by me whether it's for eating or just enjoying a relaxing drink by the beach and gets the full 5 stars from me.


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The first Rivals.com Rivals250 To Watch for the class of 2014 followed our release of the first 10 five-stars last week.
It is loaded with prospects who will jockey for position and push for that elite five-star status for the next 15 months.
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Led by players such as Washington (D.C.) Friendship Collegiate Academy cornerback Jalen Tabor, Rivals.com released our alphabetical list of top juniors with star and Rivals Rankings earlier than ever before.
"This is the earliest we have released a list this comprehensive, so it's very specific," said Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell. "However, it's an alpha list because it is still very early in the process and there is still junior year football to be played. We have always been and always will be the industry leader in prospect rankings and players, coaches and fans look to us for that accuracy so we will never rush lists out.
"This is a very good list, but is also the first of many for this 2014 class, but now fans have an earlier handle on who the top kids are. I can say, without hesitation, that this is the most accurate assessment out there regarding stars for this class."
Last week, Rivals.com rolled out its first 10 five-stars of the class of 2014 and this list revealed numerous prospects who were either discussed for that lofty status or could end up in the discussion down the line.
In our Sunday rountable, players such as Tabor, Olathe (Kan.) South offensive tackle Braden Smith, Palo Alto, Calif., quarterback Keller Chryst, Hendersonville (Tenn.) Beech Senior athlete Jalen Hurd, West Monroe, La., offensive tackle Cameron Robinson and La Porte, Texas, linebacker Hoza Scott were all brought up as five-star candidates in the initial rankings meetings. Our team of analysts chimes in on this group.
"Tabor's great ball skills, instincts and footwork are five-star caliber," said Rivals.com Mid-Atlantic analyst Adam Friedman. "Before he earns a coveted fifth star, Tabor needs to become more physical and a better tackler but he obviously has impressive upside. You're not going to find a better defensive back when it comes to natural instincts, he's making the adjustment from a safety prospect to a cornerback for us."
"Smith just missed landing a fifth star out of the gate, and it's hard to imagine that he won't add one eventually," said Rivals.com West analyst Rob Cassidy, who also handles the JUCO prospects as well as prospects in Kansas and Missouri.
"He moves tremendously for his impressive size and plays with the sort of aggression that coaches love. Strangely, the only real knock on Smith has nothing to do with Smith. Playing out of position at guard has restricted him from showcasing his full range of talent."
"Chryst is the best West quarterback I've seen in the 2014 class so far as he greatly impressed me at the Oakland Elite 11 this past spring," said Rivals.com West analyst Adam Gorney. "He has also been impressive on film, showing off a strong arm that can accurately throw the deep ball. He's good in three or five-step drops, (it) doesn't look down his receivers and just seems to have a lot of comfort sitting in the pocket and picking apart defenses."
"Hurd is a dynamic playmaker at the running back position who set school records for rushing yards and touchdowns this season," said Rivals.com Southeast Analyst Woody Wommack. "At 6-foot-3 there are some questions about his future at the position, but his athletic ability will translate well, no matter where he ends up on the field."
"Robinson already has an NFL body and light, quick feet. He has all the tools college coaches look for in an offensive tackle. I would like to see him add a little more in the strength department but he's right on the verge," said Rivals.com Southwest analyst Jason Howell. "As for Scott, he is not far away from receiving his fifth star. He is one of the most explosive playmakers on the defensive side of the ball. His lateral speed and ball skills make him a threat to anyone on the field at anytime."
In addition to these prospects, many others were near the top of our analysts lists and are broken down by regional expert. Rivals.com Southeast analyst Kynon Codrington has two prospects in Florida and one in Alabama he is especially high on.
"Palm Beach (Fla.) Bayside defensive tackle Travonte Valentine is a four-star for plenty of reasons. At 6-foot-3, 296 pounds he offers scheme versatility lining up at the tackle spot and defensive end," he said. "The Florida commit does a nice job getting consistent push upfront and has a quick first step. In addition, he does a nice job reading keys by opposing linemen.
"Also in Florida is Bradenton (Fla.) Manatee defensive tackle Demarcus Christmas. The Florida State pledge plays low, knifes through on penetration, and has great technique. Christmas sheds and uses his hands well along the interior and rarely gets caught in the wash. He has superb run-stuffing ability and can get pressure on the quarterback from his tackle position."
"In Alabama, we have Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Northridge running back/athlete Bo Scarbrough. The power back reminds of current Crimson Tide running back T.J. Yeldon in this year's class. Scarbrough has excellent size, speed, and deceptive lateral quickness. He is a move-the-chains type back with home run ability. He is the kind of back that Nick Saban covets at that position."
Meanwhile, Rivals.com Midwest analyst Josh Helmholdt has three prospects at the top of his list from Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, respectively.
"Detroit (Mich.) Loyola big man Malik McDowell was 6-foot-6, 290-plus pounds before his junior season even began. Kids that size tend to get projected at offensive tackle, but McDowell is being universally recruited as a defensive end because of how explosive he is at that size," said Helmholdt. "His length, his strength and his ability to rush the passer are a rare combination."
"Over the summer, I saw Joliet (Ill.) Plainfield South linebacker Clifton Garrett on the summer camp circuit and was impressed with how fluidly he moves for a big linebacker. On junior film, we see him flying to the football, making plays in the backfield and sideline to sideline.
"Physically, Garrett looks like a man already and his game is starting to catch up to his potential," Helmholdt said. "And I saw many of the top class of 2014 wide receivers in the country this past offseason, but no receiver I have seen in-person thus far impresses me more than Urbandale, Iowa's Allen Lazard. His basketball background really comes through in his athleticism and ability to elevate and come down with the football. He has the speed to get behind cornerbacks and the agility to take short passes and make defenders miss in the open field -- rare for a player of his size."
Wommack has two others in addition to Hurd that stand out to him.
"Nashville (Tenn.) Montgomery Bell Academy offensive tackle Alex Bars comes from a great football family, with his two older brothers, uncle and father all having played Division 1. At 6-foot-7 he has great length, perfect for a tackle, and has a frame that can still add muscle without sacrificing his quickness," Wommack said. "And Tyrone (Ga.) Sandy Creek wide receiver Demarre Kittis very polished for a prospect of his age. He has some of the best hands in 2014 class and he has tremendous concentration and isn't afraid to go up and get the ball in traffic."
With Howell already boasting two near five-stars, he has a third in his sights as well from his region.
"Monroe (La.) Neville safety Laurence Jones has linebacker size, cornerback ability, and projects to safety," said Howell. "At 6-2 and 210 pounds, he is able to handle bigger receivers in one-on-one situations and does a great job of running with them."
From his perch in the Mid-Atlantic, two prospects have emerged for Friedman in addition to Tabor.
"Forestville (Md.) Bishop McNamara offensive tackle Damian Prince already has an NFL-type body to go along with quick, light feet and pretty good strength for his age. He would be a five-star candidate if he improves his technique and is more aggressive.
"Norfolk (Va.) Lake Taylor defensive end Jalyn Holmes is physically gifted and comes off the edge very well and he has a really good frame and great motor. He's a natural pass rusher but could also play standup linebacker and he could be this year's Jonathan Allen if he adds weight and strength."
Finally, things always seem to develop a little slower out West when it comes to junior-year hype for prospects. But Gorney and Cassidy can point to a few prospects that could be stars down the line.
"In addition to Chryst in California, I am really high on Sacramento (Cali.) Capital Christian defensive end Nifae Lealao," Gorney said. "He has great size and he's also incredibly fast off the snap getting into the backfield without any problems. He is really active, too, fighting off blocks, having active hands, using an impressive spin move and always looking to knock down a pass.
"La Miranda, Cali. athlete Tyler Luatua is an excellent prospect who has thrived at tight end and defensive end this season. He can line up and block along the offensive line but because he's so athletic, is best when he splits out and then uses his size to his advantage. He has good speed either running routes or coming off the defensive line to make plays."
"Las Vegas (Nev.) Bishop Gorman athlete Nathan Starks is known as a hard-charging power runner that doesn't shy away from contact," Cassidy said. "All of that is true, but he has a finesse side to him as well. Starks has caught more passes out of the backfield as a junior and is broadening his skill set.
"Some top-level players are prone to take plays off at the high school level, but not Jalen Brown. Playing at Arizona's top level of high school football, the Phoenix Mountain Pointe junior never fades into the periphery. Even as a junior, he's almost always the most impressive player in the field and shines at both safety and wide receiver."
Overall, Farrell feels this is a strong crop at certain positions but a bit weak early on at others.
"Athletically this is a strong 2014 class, especially at cornerback, along the defensive line and with multiple players like Hurd and Starks who are big kids who can play different positions," he said. "I also like the offensive line group early but again it's not top heavy at wide receiver like 2013 and the depth at tight end is an issue. What's also interesting is that, for the first time in a few years, we could be more loaded at inside linebacker than we are at outside and I think that's a good thing. We know more players will emerge as we continue to do our homework, but this will be a very exciting class, especially near the top."
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Concerns about advertising volatility, declining sales and rising newsprint costs have led City analysts to question the robustness of Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press's recovery from the recession and cut 2011 profit forecasts.
Trinity Mirror's share price fell more than 14% yesterday, following a dip of more than 6% for Johnston Press on Wednesday, as analysts and investors took stock of worse than expected interim management statements from the two newspaper groups and questioned the state of the fragile print advertising market recovery.
The Daily Mirror-owner's national newspaper operation saw ad revenues fall by 1.3% year-on-year in the 17 weeks to the end of October. A "blip", the company said, explaining that the ship was righting after September fell by 5.9% due to major drop in retail spend.
However, some analysts were less convinced. Several pointed out that Daily Mail & General Trust, publisher of the Daily Mail, recently pleased the market reporting national newspaper revenues up 13% in the three months to the end of September.
"Compare Trinity, blip or no blip, to what the Daily Mail is saying on nationals and ITV on ads and they have both been strong," said one analyst.
Citi called the Trinity Mirror stock "weak", describing the performance of the national division as "particularly disappointing". "The cautious outlook for 2011 also gives us no reason to get excited," the investment bank said.
However, the larger cause for concern is the performance and outlook of the regional newspaper operations at Trinity and Johnston Press.
Both companies blamed issues with the fragile and volatile environment, not helped by the uncertainty resulting from the government spending review, although Trinity said it remained "confident" of a robust performance this year.
Trinity's regional operation saw ad revenues decline by 6.7% year-on-year, an improvement on the 8% fall in the first half of 2010. But circulation and more worryingly digital revenues both fell.
Johnston Press reported a 29% year-on-year fall in recruitment advertising in the 18 weeks to 6 November, and within this a 46% fall in public sector job ads, as its overall revenues fell 5.4%.
The finance chief, Stuart Paterson, identified a silver lining in that at least the pain was almost over with public sector ads now just 9% of total ad revenue. "You can only lose it once," he said. Some newspaper groups are understood to have lost in excess of 50% of public sector advertising this year.
Commenting on Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press, one City analyst said they were the kind of stocks "where you don't want to be left holding the baby". "The cake is getting smaller, recovery is uncertain and because of the issues they require [market] momentum," this source added.
"Recruitment is the highest yield and everyone has just frozen up. For the moment it is a complete unknown post the VAT increase [on 4 January] in terms of advertising, not to mention the ongoing structural issue of classified advertising moving online."
Analysts cited Yell as a sign of the "frozen" classified advertising market. Earlier this week outgoing Yell chief executive, John Condron, delivered news of a widening sales slump in the third quarter of 2010, pointing to small business owners seeing "little evidence of economic recovery, hence their reluctance to invest in marketing".
Compounding advertising uncertainty is the cost-base burden of rising newsprint prices, an issue raised by both Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror. Johnston Press said it expected to raise cover prices to counterbalance this.
Numis downgraded Trinity Mirror, cutting its forecast on pre-tax profits by 11% from £102m to £90m in 2011.
"When combined with greater than expected uncertainty at the revenue level, especially in the high-yielding recruitment category, we feel it prudent to downgrade our 2011 estimates," Numis said.
RBS also cited concerns with Trinity Mirror and worried that the quality of its newspapers might come under pressure as the markets harden.
"We are concerned by the lack of signs of recovery, and believe that while management are cutting costs very well, this is resulting in under-investment in the product," said RBS.
However, it has not been all doom and gloom from City analysts with Alex DeGroote, from Panmure, arguing that the share price tumbles are a "gross overreaction" and urging investors to "get real".
"For Trinity today the September ad number at the nationals was worse than expected when the trend overall for the first half has been pretty robust," he said. "The stock market reaction to Trinity and to an extend Johnston Press, has been pretty overdone."
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What Makes Sammy Run (Lib)(CD) (Compact Disc)
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First published fifty years ago to tumultuous praise and protest, WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN? shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced Sammy Glick, the archetypal Hollywood player. Sammy's got a machete mouth and a genius for the double cross. As Budd Schulberg - author of the screenplay of ON THE WATERFRONT - follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate.


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Cons: The driving range is a known limitation before purchasing, so it's not a true con in the sence on would be surprised by it.
My wife and I own four other cars and a motorcycle in addition to the i-MiEV. I usually rotate cars in and out of storage so they all get driven during the year. That may change now that we have this. I plan on driving this all year round, including northern Illinois winters. My drive to work is two miles so this car will easily handle over 90 percent of the driving I need to do. And the other great benefit is the lower wear and tear on my other vehicles. This car won't care that it's only driven two miles at a time. There's no exhaust system to rust out or piston rings to subject to extra wear from starting a cold engine.


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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
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Chestnut Post & Rail
Chestnut post and rail is perhaps one of the most rustic of the post and rail fencing styles and is still very popular in rural locations because of this.
Chestnut is a beautiful wood that is naturally very strong. This means it has the added perk of not requiring treatment when used as a fence post.


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MANILA, Feb 5 (Reuters) The Philippines will insist Muslim separatists must disarm in a proposed review of a peace agreement with Islamic separatists in Jeddah next month, the president's peace adviser said today.
Jesus Dureza, a former lawmaker, said Manila would propose to amend the 1996 peace deal with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) to avoid future mistaken encounters between soldiers and Moro rebels in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic country.
Formed in March 1968, the MNLF fought a violent and bloody Muslim separatist war that cost about 120,000 lives and displaced nearly 2 million people in the south until it signed a peace deal in September 1996.
A month after signing the deal, Nur Misuari, founder and leader of the MNLF, was elected governor of an autonomous area for Muslims in the south. The rebels were allowed to keep their weapons in their recognised bases.
''There's no disarmament provision in the 1996 peace agreement,'' Dureza, a close ally of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, told reporters a day after a general and 20 others were held for two nights in an MNLF camp on the southern island of Jolo.
''But, we will look into these things when we sit down next month. We will try to set the parameters and determine which issues should need a thorough review in the agenda.'' ''GOODWILL MONEY'' The MNLF freed Major-General Benjamin Dolorfino, Manila's military commander, after the government gave 450,000 pesos (,200) as ''goodwill money'' and sacks of rice and sardines to the families of nine MNLF members and civilians killed in an encounter last month.
The MNLF said the military had wrongly identified the dead as members of Abu Sayyaf, the Philippines most deadly Muslim rebel group, which Manila has vowed to crush.
The MNLF also wanted assurances that a meeting about the 1996 peace deal would be held in Saudi Arabia.
Disillusionment with the way the 1996 peace deal was implemented has encouraged some MNLF members to defect to other groups such as the Abu Sayyaf.
The Philippines was negotiating a separate peace deal with the largest Muslim rebel group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, but talks have stalled since May 2006 over the size and wealth of a proposed ancestral homeland for 3 million Muslims in the south.
Dureza said the incident at the weekend has ''eroded the level of confidence'' between the two sides, adding ''there's going to be a lot of work to bring it back again''.


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Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is the only one of the great early 20th century French Modernists who hasn't had a major museum show in America in nearly half a century. Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Duchamp and others, yes; but not Leger--a fact that is doubly odd, since no French painter, indeed, no French cultural figure of any kind, was more fascinated and stimulated by American culture, or did more to make a bridge between Paris and New York. Now, with an excellent and tightly focused show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, this has happily changed. Curated by Carolyn Lanchner, the show is...
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CS61A Summer 2011 Homework 12
Topic: Metacircular evaluator, Analyzing evaluator
Reading: Abelson & Sussman, Section 4.1.1-4.1.6
Metacircular evaluator: ~cs61a/lib/mceval.scm
Analyzing evaluator: ~cs61a/lib/analyze.scm
To provide extra time for the project, many questions are marked as optional, but it's much better if you do all of them! So try as many of them as possible!
1. A&S exercises 4.3, 4.6, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15
1. A&S exercises 4.7, 4.10, 4.11, 4.16 through 4.24
2 . Modify the metacircular evaluator to allow type-checking of
arguments to procedures. Here is how the feature should work. When a new
procedure is defined, a formal parameter can be either a symbol as usual or
else a list of two elements. In this case, the second element is a symbol,
the name of the formal parameter. The first element is an expression whose
value is a predicate function that the argument must satisfy. That function
should return if the argument is valid. For example, here is a
procedure foo that has type-checked parameters num and list:
> (define (foo (integer? num) ((lambda (x) (not (null? x))) list))
(list-ref list num))
> (foo 3 '(a b c d e))
> (foo 3.5 '(a b c d e))
Error: wrong argument type -- 3.5
> (foo 2 '())
Error: wrong argument type -- ()
In this example we define a procedure foo with two formal parameters,
named num and list. When foo is invoked, the evaluator
will check to see that the first actual argument is an integer and that the
second actual argument is not empty. The expression whose value is the
desired predicate function should be evaluated with respect to foo's
defining environment. (Hint: Think about extend-environment.)
Note: It's highly recommended you attempt the above - or at least read the solution to it!


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West Ham beat Cork City 6-2 in first pre-season friendly
West Ham United kicked off their pre-season friendly programme with a convincing 6-2 victory over Cork City.
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West Ham United kicked off their pre-season friendly programme with a convincing 6-2 victory over Cork City.
Sam Allardyce's side have spent the past few days training in Ireland and used 21 players against Cork, including former Sunderland defender Titus Bramble.
The Premier League club made a flying start to the game as Alou Diarra headed home Joe Cole's corner after just five minutes and the same two players were involved in the second goal on 18 minutes.
Diarra picked up possession and fed Kevin Nolan, who played in Cole to finish, and it was almost 3-0 on the half-hour when Modibo Maiga clipped the crossbar.
Cork pulled a goal back on 38 minutes through former Rochdale winger Adam Rundle and the hosts were given a reprieve two minutes into the second half when Mark Noble saw a penalty saved after Ravel Morrison had been fouled.
Matt Taylor drilled home a low shot from 25 yards on 62 minutes and West Ham made it 4-1 on 72 minutes when new signing Danny Whitehead's cross was headed home by Paul McCallum.
Noble was successful from the penalty spot a minute later and Morrison got in on the act with five minutes to go before Cork notched a second through Rob Lehane.


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Portugal came from behind to beat Northern Ireland 4-2 in Belfast thanks to a stunning second half hat trick from Cristiano Ronaldo. The Real Madrid forward's three goals, two headers and a free kick, sent Portugal back to the top of Group F, and made him his country's second all-time leading scorer with 43 goals.
"This is historic for me, I'd scored a lot of hat-tricks for Real Madrid but never any for Portugal. It was a special match, I feel really happy," Ronaldo told Portuguese TV station RTP as he held the game ball.
Fenerbahce defender Bruno Alves, who scored the opening goal of the game with a fantastic volley in the 29th minute, added: "We went through a lot of difficulties, particularly in the first half. But we stuck together and our effort was worth it in the end."
Portugal, which was reduced to 10 men shortly before halftime when Helder Postiga was sent off, looked in deep trouble after Jamie Ward scored Northern Ireland's second goal to make it 2-1 early in the 52nd minute, but a second yellow card to Kevin Brunt shortly thereafter brought the Portuguese back into the match. Kyle Lafferty was later shown a straight red before Ronaldo completed his hat trick.


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OTTAWA — It seems Prime Minister Stephen Harper and aboriginal demonstrators remain at a stalemate after weeks of blockades, protests and a high-profile hunger strike in Ottawa.
Aboriginal protesters, who have participated in a number of protests and blockades across the country, want the federal government and the Crown to discuss treaty implementation and a variety of problems plaguing First Nations communities including a lack of safe drinking water, housing problems, educational gaps and violence against Indigenous women.
Former auditor general Sheila Fraser also referenced some of the "unacceptable" conditions in First Nations communities before she left her decade-long post as federal fiscal watchdog in 2011.


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I completely understand now all about the printings!
Thank you
AS for J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Hammond, which would you recommend me buying, the 1993, or the 2002. Are there any differences between them?
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VentureFX Pioneers talk about their experience of
pioneer ministry
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We believe that the good news of God's love in Jesus is for all
people, not just for those who are already part of the
Church. However, the culture in which we live is changing so
rapidly that sometimes it can feel as though there is an increasing
gap between existing forms of church and the majority of people in
the UK today, particularly those under 40, who don't have any
church connection. But the reality is that many of them are
spiritually open and are willing to explore a Christianity that
engages seriously with their context.
VentureFX is part of the way the Methodist Church is trying to
respond to this. Rather than beginning with church, VentureFX
pioneers begin with communities of people. As they explore
what it means to be disciples of Jesus there, new and relevant form
of Christian community are beginning to emerge. They are
based on pursuing a radical and authentic lifestyle based on the
teaching of Jesus, but they are marked by a re-imagination of what
church might need to look like for them.
There are 13 VentureFX locations around the UK where pioneer
mission leaders are working with others to explore Christian
discipleship and form new Christian communities where faith can be
explored and lived out.
The VentureFX pioneers form a network that has a Rhythm of Life at its heart.
There are VentureFX pioneers based in circuits in Edinburgh,
Inverness, Colwyn Bay, Nottingham, Milton Keynes, Cambridge,
Dartford, South London, and Exeter, and in the Sheffield, Chester
and Stoke-on-Trent, Plymouth and Exeter, and Cornwall districts.
Pioneers are from a variety of backgrounds, lay and ordained, women
and men.
It was originally hoped that there would be 20 VentureFX
locations but, in the light of the cost of funding them, it has
been decided to keep the number as it is. However it is hoped
that the scheme will be able to share with others what is being
learned, and support others around the Methodist Church who are
doing, or who would like to do, similar pioneer mission.
The links below will take you to some resources that you might
find helpful:
Could it be me?
(For those exploring a call to pioneer ministry)
Could it be here?
(For circuit or districts thinking of starting a pioneer
How are we doing?
(Resources for gauging the health of a pioneer
Managing well?
(Resources for those who manage or oversee a
pioneer project)
scheme is co-ordinated by Rev Ian Bell who can be contacted
Methodist Church House
25 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5JR
Email: email@example.com
Tel: 0207 467 5193
Ian says:
'Sharing the good news of Jesus in ways that make sense to all
involved is an important part of the calling of the Methodist
Church, and VentureFX is a great investment by the church in
mission for today's world. However, all of us need to find
pioneering ways to share our faith with those who aren't currently
part of church life. I hope that VentureFX will inspire many
others in circuits and districts all over the country to do
something similar'.
The scheme was independently reviewed in the autumn of 2011 and
the report ofthat review can be read here:
VentureFX review,
January 2012
The Ministries Committee, Methodist
Council, and now Methodist Conference have approved the development
of a pathway for pioneers. Read
VentureFX works
with a number of other organisations to arrange an annual
conference for pioneers.
This year's gathering at will be held
in September. Read more.
Visit the
VentureFX pioneers' website for information about them and their
VentureFX is holding regular learning
and support days for those involved in pioneering and fresh
expressions work.
Birmingham: The Queen's Foundation
Manchester: Nexus Art Cafe
Newcastle: The Holy Biscuit
Exeter: The Cavern
More details available at the
VentureFX website If you think this
might be of value to you, you'd be most welcome - just email the
contact person for the relevant venue.
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Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
With every passing day, the expected/potential/planned war on Iraq becomes more of an exercise in political thinking. Not a single bullet has been fired in this theoretical war, but the scenarios of the day after could already fill a thick book. Who will run Iraq?
With every passing day, the expected/potential/planned war on Iraq becomes more of an exercise in political thinking. Not a single bullet has been fired in this theoretical war, but the scenarios of the day after could already fill a thick book. Who will run Iraq? Will it become the first real democracy in the Arab Middle East? Will the Middle East break up and then perhaps reunite? And what about the Islamic fundamentalists? A whole series of mega-questions exists, which, on second thought, should have been presented before declaring war or even the intention of war.
In this intellectual exercise, some are running around with their shears already harvesting the fruits of victory - not America, which is still in the midst of analyzing all sorts of scenarios, but rather Israel, which posits a linear approach that goes approximately like this: "America will topple Saddam's regime, and the next regime, even if it's not the most democratic in the world, will at least owe its rule to the Americans. In other words, it will be what's known as `a pro-Western regime' - like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Afghanistan. But that result is less interesting. What's really important is that the Americans will show the Arab world that recalcitrant Arab regimes that threaten America can be replaced - and that's the lesson the Palestinians will learn, so they'll immediately sign a surrender to Israel."
This is not a mocking depiction of Israel's war scenario, but rather a description of what officials in the various research and intelligence departments of the government are saying. "Getting rid of Saddam through a Western power is the only chance to reach a breakthrough in the peace process," said one. "A war on Iraq will make the new world order tangible to the Arab world, which will have to choose between supporting terror and joining the family of Western nations, and that includes making peace with Israel," says another.
This expectation stands on very shaky legs. The underlying assumption is that a war with global reasons - "eradication of the evil regime" of Saddam Hussein or eliminating his threat to the U.S. and the free world - also eliminates local reasons for national conflicts. Just as the birth of democratic Russia did not end the conflict between it and Chechnya, and the establishment of a relative democracy in Afghanistan did not end the domestic strife there, nor deter India and Pakistan from nuclear brinkmanship, there also should not be any expectation that a war against Iraq will relieve the conflicts between Egypt and Sudan, Jordan and Qatar, Morocco and Algeria, and of course, Israel and Palestine.
Even the proponents of democracy can calm down. It's doubtful that we'll see Hosni Mubarak, King Fahd or Bashar Assad among the pilgrims to Baghdad after the war to get a firsthand look at the amazing new democracy in Iraq. And those expecting that after the war the U.S. will immediately turn to Israel demanding that it pull out of the territories will also be disappointed. Does anyone really believe that an Israeli government, especially if it is a right-wing government, as expected, will tell its loyalists in the territories that as a result of America's victory over Saddam, the settlers immediately must come home?
Israel's problem in the world has never been the number of democracies in the Middle East but rather the danger that while chasing Saddam, America will lose its influence in the Arab countries. American prestige has been what has defined the U.S. administration as an Israeli strategic asset. It is still what gives America the ability to mediate, to pressure, and particularly, to deter. A popular anti-American Arab movement that could drag Arab governments along, could erase American influence in the region. And the other possibility, that the U.S. will want to present a friendly face to Arab countries after it conquered one of their sister regimes, could yet result in a lot of shrapnel flying into Israel's face. The anticipation of America finally dropping the other shoe could end up with a painful step on Israel's foot.
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