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AMMAN, Jordan, May 19 (UPI) -- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, has announced that he will give $10 billion to help raise his nation's standards of education.
In what has been labeled as one of the world's most generous donations, the Dubai ruler recently said he would donate the $10 billion to create a Middle Eastern educational foundation, the BBC said Saturday.
The sheikh said his funds would go to the creation of "a knowledge-based society" in the region and would promote increased research efforts.
"In order to realize these objectives, I have decided to establish the Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum Foundation to focus on human development, and have I decided to endow a fund of $10 billion to finance its projects," he said.
The sheikh said his generous donation was in response to the Middle East's high illiteracy rate, along with its lack of scientific research and book publishing.
"There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge," he said.


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For some reason, I had it stuck in my head he'd be finished about the beginning of October. So I was surprised this week when I checked his Web journal and found out Ron Dye was already home.
They are called "thru-hikers," and each spring between 500 and 600 people take off, most from east of San Diego near the border with Mexico, with plans to hike the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail to the Canadian border.
Usually about 150 of them make it all the way.
That's just what Dye, a Murrieta resident, accomplished this summer.
An avid hiker, the retired chief deputy from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department left in April to hike the rugged route, not only because it was there, but to call attention to a devastating disease that had claimed the life of a close friend and neighbor.
Steve Heidorn suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Gehrig was the great New York Yankee first baseman who died from ALS at age 38.
About 30,000 Americans have ALS ---- a motor neuron disease ---- at any given time. It can strike anyone at any time, and there is no known cure.
Heidorn, also an avid hiker, was diagnosed more than four years ago and died in December, leaving behind his wife and three children. He was 47.
"Because so few people have the disease, there is no incentive for the drug companies to work on it," Dye said.
The Pacific Crest Trail ranges in elevation from 140 feet above sea level in Oregon to 13,153 feet above sea level at the Forester Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Heidorn and Dye had talked about one day hiking the Pacific Crest Trail together. Instead, Dye dedicated his solo effort to his friend.
Dye kept a journal along the way, posting entries when he could at www.trailjournals.com/rdye.
He dubbed that journal "Burning Daylight ---- Hiking for those who no longer can."
"It was a harder physical challenge than I thought it would be," said Dye, who turned 62 on the trail. "But I did a lot of planning ahead of time."
His plans proved very accurate. Covering about 25 miles each day, on Sept. 5, the day before he had projected, Dye walked into Manning Park, British Columbia, at the end of the trail.
"I met a lot of very interesting people along the way," he said. "There were people along the trail who really go out of their way to help the hikers."
Along the way, several hundred dollars were pledged to ALS research at a link Dye had on his journal Web site.
Dye said he may one day hike sections of the trail again, but probably will not attempt to "thru-hike" again.
On those trips, his friend will be with him in spirit.
"Hopefully, what I did created a little more awareness about the disease," he said.
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The hottest race on the ballot Tuesday might be the runoff between Republicans seeking the District 12 congressional seat, but Columbia County voters also have to settle a school board race.
About 1,000 voters took advantage of advance voting to cast ballots in the runoffs at the Board of Elections office, said Nancy Gay, the registration coordinator.
Predicting, however, how many voters show up Tuesday for the final day of voting will be tricky, she said. Turnout for previous runoffs have ranged from a low of 4.19 percent to a high of 41.9 percent in 2007 in the countywide congressional runoff, she said.
Voters who live in the 12th Congressional District will choose between Republicans Lee Anderson and Rick Allen, the men who took the top two spots in the July 31 primary. Voters in Columbia County school board District 1 will settle the runoff between Carolyn Chase and David Dekle.
Unlike advance voting, which took place at the Board of Elections office in Evans, voters will return to their assigned precincts for Tuesday's race, Gay said.
Figuring out which voters are qualified to participate in the runoff can be tricky because the county is split between two congressional districts.
Only voters in the 12th District can vote Tuesday in that runoff, and then only if they chose a Republican or nonpartisan ballot in the primary or did not vote at all but registered before the July 2 deadline.
During early voting, Gay said, "We have had a few, about 15, voters who either did not realize they were not in the 12th Congressional District or who voted Democratic and were unable to participate."
Voters who chose a Democratic ballot in the primary are not eligible to vote in the Republican congressional runoff, but they and all voters can decide the nonpartisan school board race if they live in District 1.
From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, polls will be open in 40 of the county's 46 precincts, Gay said.
Because of the potential for confusion about districts, especially in the Kiokee Baptist Church, Harlem Middle School and Harlem Baptist Church precincts – which are split between the 12th and 10th congressional districts – voters are asked to call the Board of Elections office or go to the county's Web site to confirm their district information.
The office can be reached at (706) 868-3355.
Voting information is available at www.columbiacountyga.gov under the Maps Online feature, in the Congressional Districts layer for individual home addresses.


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The Free Vision Of Susan Kaprov
"Photography is
magic. It has always been and always will be for me--just magic.
Because you see the world in a microcosm. You see the world on a piece
of paper. And it is real in a way yet it is illusory. And it is a way
of translating something you see. I could give you a photograph of something
you had never seen before and tell you that it really exists. And then
I can manipulate the photograph and say, well, but it doesn't
really exist that way. Then you can go and see the thing and see it
through my eyes and say, oh yes it does--your interpretation is
just fine. To me that is magic."
"I consider myself a stylistic nomad," Susan Kaprov says with passion. "I like to give myself the freedom to explore an idea thoroughly." The esthetic freedom that Kaprov speaks of usually involves an idea that may have been external to her and then internalizing it to make a visual kind of poetry. Her specialty has been commissioned art for public places, large photomontages where thousands of people can see them daily. They include Prudential Insurance Co. of America, National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, DC, and Reeves Communication Corporation in New York. Her smaller work is no less important, however, and is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. These are based on floral motifs that Kaprov describes as her cosmic tapestries.
"I always begin with an idea," she says. "I look at flowers and wonder what would happen to their exquisite detail if I took them and bunched them all together or fragmented them. They would lose their identity to some extent but would form another kind of identity and we would see them differently."
All of Kaprov's images
seem to find a new pulse and surprisingly hold together, the glue being
her sense of style and color sensibility. Her career started as a small
child, watching her father, a lawyer and amateur photographer, work in
his darkroom in the Bronx. "He built an enlarging machine from the
encasement of an old car light and I was totally fascinated as I watched
him count out the seconds and develop his pictures," she recalls.
The Random Factor
One of Kaprov's most
beautiful installations is "Precambrian Waltz," commissioned
by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1994. Eight ft high
and 40 ft long, the photomontage is mounted on aluminum panels to form
a curved wall. Using traditional methods of photography the piece was
divided into narrow columns, scored at the junction of the grids so it
appears seamless. Though it comes apart, it appears as one solid work.
The idea was to deal with motion and transportation and though the content
didn't have to be literal, it needed some kind of metaphorical suggestion
of motion or connection. "I had a lot of esthetic freedom and I
based the piece on a musical motif," Kaprov says. "I used
primary colors and thought in terms of 3/4 waltz time. You see the three
parts to the work--how the red, yellow, and blue loosely interconnect
even though it is a grid. It's a very painterly piece and poetic
though I had to work within some kind of restriction."
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I've created a little app to play flash games on WM devices.
With Supergames Mobile you can made your flash games collection simply.
Finger friendly
Portrait and Landscape mode
Audio Volume On/Off
Customizable skins
Supports QVGA (240x320), VGA (480x640) and WVGA (480x800) resolution
Windows Mobile 6.x
.Net Compact Framework 3.5
Flash Player 7 PPC (no Flash Lite!)
Pay attention, not all games will be playable on ppc because of incompatibility with Flash Player 7 or too low performance.
How to:
1) Download SupergamesMobile's CAB, (QVGA or VGA/WVGA version);
2) Install it on your device or microSD;
You will have two Directory ("games" and "skin") and one Exe ("Supergames Mobile");
3) put your favourite games (.swf files) in "games" directory;
4) (optional *) in the same directory ("games") you can put an image thumbnail (.jpg files) for any games you add
(image file name must be the same of game file name: tris.swf -> tris.jpg);
5) start "Supergames Mobile" and enjoy.
(*) if you don't put thumbnails the app will show a standard image "no_thumbnail.jpg" placed in "skin" directory.
You have to resize image thumbnails (I use 200x150pixel images for WVGA/VGA or 100x75pixel images for QVGA)
Please tell me:
1) I think that your app is...
2) I've tested your app on...
3) I've addes these games... (if they are not too low, in other words: playable)
4) I know that your are Italian but you make some english mistakes: ...
Release notes:
Version 1.1 (05.05.2011)
+ Fixed problem with anticlockwise rotation
+ Fixed problem with QVGA visible scrollbars on game start
+ Fixed problem with case sensitive file extension (.swf or .SWF)
+ Added support for VGA resolution
+ Added direct games starting from explorer (by tap on file such as a standalone flash player)
+ During playing if the screen rotate the game will not restart but will adapt to new window dimension
Version 1.0 (01.05.2011)
+ first release [ SupergamesMobile.zip - SupergamesMobile_QVGA.CAB - SupergamesMobile_WVGA.CAB ]
Tested on:
Emulator (WM6.0/6.5, W|Q|VGA)
HTC Touch HD (WM6.1)
HTC Touch Pro 2
Acer P300
Samsung Omnia2
Tested games:
[01.05.2011] Ace High Blackjack , Anti Terrorism Squad , Blocky , Bubblewrap , Catch thirtythree , Coconut Curumba , Diamond mine , Geopraphy Europe , Giggi poker , Hit the looser , La bisca del califfo , Plumber , Poke penguin , Rock paper siz , Shootemin , Simon , The color test , Tic tac toe
[10.05.2011] 3 lines , Dynamic lines , Connect 4a , Connect 4b , Jewel quest , Sudoku , The shell game , Yeti sport 1 , Znax


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Dungeon Siege 3 - X360 Demo Available
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You should now be able to grab the X360 demo for Dungeon Siege III on XBL (at least in NA) - PC and PS3 versions should follow in a week.
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The first game to make full use of the DS functionality!
A great title by Cing, and given its release date, the first adventure game to make FULL use of the DS functionality. I mean it has everything: stylus control to tap/slide/nudge/bounce things, blowing/yelling in the microphone and even closing the DS (the most vicious method the DS has to offer) to solve puzzles. It's the very thing Cing expanded on for their future titles Hotel Dusk and its sequel Last Window. Gameplay-wise it's top notch.
The story is pretty good too, despite a pretty redundant "altered memory" plot line near the end. And maybe they should have emphasized solving D's memories a bit more because I had to play the game TWO times to get the full ending. I had completed Ashley's story, but I had missed a few items in D's story (but could still continue) and that gave me an incomplete ending the first time around. That scenario should've been avoided, imo.
I also didn't like the weak descriptions of objects you could examine. Examine a table and all you get is "It's a table.". If you were lucky you got a "The table is dusty.". That's too little, imo.
But they learned from their mistakes and improved matters for Hotel Dusk, so kudos to them. It's actually a shame they're defunct, because they have made a few amazing DS games. They really tried getting the max out of the DS functionalities and for that Cing should be applauded!
Difficulty: Just Right
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By Adam Van Brimmer | Morris News Service | Story updated at 10:40 PM on Sunday, November 6, 2005 MIAMI - Third down tends to be an iffy proposition for the Atlanta Falcons.
They face the situation often - second most in the NFL - because of a strong running game and a quarterback who struggles with his accuracy.
Not so on Sunday, however.
The Falcons converted 11 of 17 third-down plays - 7 of 10 in the first three quarters - in Sunday's 17-10 win against the Miami Dolphins.
That's 25-percentage points higher than their average. And perhaps a sign of things to come.
"Teams in this league can win these tight games with that type of efficiency," coach Jim Mora said. "It allows you to overcome turnovers and penalties and be successful."
Atlanta converted six third downs on its three scoring drives. Wide receiver Brian Finneran and tight end Alge Crumpler made two catches each on third down. Wide receiver Roddy White caught one, and quarterback Michael Vick scrambled for the other.
Vick was the key, Miami linebacker Zach Thomas said.
"It is tough with Vick because he can scramble and he can pass," said Thomas, who made a game-high 14 tackles. "That is one thing that puts a lot of pressure on your defense."
Rossum needs rosin
Punt returner Allen Rossum muffed a punt that led to a Dolphin field goal in the first half, continuing his season-long struggles.
The Falcons' all-time punt return leader came into the game averaging 4.9 yards a return this season, more than six yards below his career average. He'd fair caught as many punts - eight - as he'd returned.
On Sunday, he fair caught one punt and let three others hit and bounce.
Then there was the muffed punt, a play that resembled a circus clown skit: he let it bounce off his hands, kicked it while trying to pick it up and then was shoved to the ground by Miami's Matt Roth. The Dolphins' Yeremiah Bell recovered the fumble.
Mora gave Rossum a vote of confidence despite his struggles.
"My confidence in Allen is unshaken," Mora said. "I know what he's about. I know how import it is to him. I know how good he's been."
Duckett still inactive
Atlanta didn't come out of the bye week as healthy as coach Jim Mora hoped. Both tailback T.J. Duckett and defensive end Brady Smith were inactive against the Dolphins.
Duckett missed his second straight game with a sprained his right ankle. The fourth-year tailback practiced this week but still had weakness in the ankle at game time.
Regular fullback Justin Griffith spelled starting tailback Warrick Dunn in Duckett's absence. He finished with 20 yards on seven carries.
A dislocated toe kept Smith out of the game. He suffered the injury in the Falcons' last game against the New York Jets. He was listed as questionable on the injury report.
Backup defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux started at Smith's end spot and finished with four tackles.
This and that
Griffith committed his first career fumble in the first half of Sunday's game. Griffith, a fourth-year pro, had 104 career touches (carries and receptions) without dropping the ball. ... White made the most of his first career start. White had three receptions for 50 yards, more than doubling his season yardage total. The first-round pick from Alabama-Birmingham came in with five receptions for 44 yards. ... Atlanta's defense failed to record a sack against the Dolphins, the first time in 18 games without one.
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As per requirement I am hiding and showing particular group so that subreport also get hide and show. So I have to use grouping. I need solution for exporting data to .csv while using subreport in group
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text: Rafael Nadal v Andy Roddick - US Open 2011 live - Nadal takes first 2 sets Live Tennis Staff in Tennis News 9 Sep 2011 0 share Share Tweet Email Share RedditYou can bet on the US Open 2011 live in-play at bet365 Rafael Nadal is in cruise control against Andy Roddick in a very one-sided US Open quarter-final so far.You can watch and bet on live tennis for free at bet365 > live tennisNadal will be wary after Roddick's superb four set win over fifth seed David Ferrer, a match which many people did not expect him to win. However Roddick has always saved his best for the US Open. No one appreciates the atmosphere of Flushing Meadows more than the 2003 champion, whether he's competing on Arthur Ashe stadium or slumming it on court 13.Roddick's head-to-head record with Nadal is not good (whose is ?) but he's always given the Spaniard his fair share of problems. Nadal may have won six of their nine matches but he knows he's in for a tough time against Roddick, just scraping through their ATP World Finals match last year 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.Roddick must play exactly the same sort of tennis which brought him so close in London, come out serving consistently huge, attack short balls, get to the net and try to ensure his approach shots aren't too predictable.However Nadal has been quietly improving through the rounds. He's yet to face anyone of Roddick's calibre but he's been steadily moving his game up a few notches. He knows what it will take against Roddick and he'll be focusing on imposing his kicking forehand on the match to yank the American round the court unless his lungs can take no more.Roddick is never given enough credit for being such a gritty competitor and he'll stick with Nadal but ultimately it's unlikely to be enough.


text: Ivan R. Dee United States. Distributed by National Book Network Chicago Education, Higher--United States Higher education--United States 9781566638883 1566638887 2011 681502170 2011 The faculty lounges : and other reasons why you won't get the college education you paid for 681502170 College tuition has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation in the past two decades. While faculties like to blame the rising costs on fancy athletic buildings and bloated administrations, professors are hardly getting the short end of the stick. Spending on instruction has increased 22 percent over the past decade at private research universities. Parents and taxpayers shouldn't get overheated about faculty salaries: tenure is where they should concentrate their anger. The jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with an ivory tower position is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. Veteran journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley, an alumna of one of the country's most expensive and best-endowed schools, explores how tenure has promoted a class system in higher education, leaving contingent faculty who are barely making minimum wage and have no time for students to teach large swaths of the undergraduate population. She shows how the institution of tenure forces junior professors to keep their mouths shut for a decade or more if they disagree with senior faculty about anything from politics to research methods. And she examines how the institution of tenure -- with the job security, mediocre salaries and low levels of accountability it entails -- may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching.--Publisher. en 2017-10-21 9781566638869 1566638860 Riley Naomi Schaefer Naomi Schaefer Riley ilu Education, Higher Lanham, Md.


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Assessment of the Status of African Science and Technology Policy Formulation
In cooperation with the African Union (AU), UNESCO will conduct a survey of Member States to determine which countries have S&T policies and whether these policies are adequate for meeting present S&T needs and orientations. The survey will include an analysis of training needs in terms of the capacity to develop policies.
UNESCO's Division for Science Policy and Capacity-Building and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) are organizing regional training workshops in Africa, in cooperation with the AU and the New Partnership for Africa's Development. The workshops follow the request from the African Member States for assistance in capacity-building in STI policy reviews. The first workshop was held in September 2008 for the countries of the Southern African Development Community and the second in March 2009 for 14 countries of East and North Africa (see below for details).
Expected results
- Publication of a report on the status of African science and technology policy.
- Holding of several sub-regional workshops in Africa to build capacity in STI policy reviews
Read about the three thrusts of the African Science, Technology and Innovation policy Initiative:


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Radio One Chicago: The Drop
Blah Blah Blah, The Bright White, Good Evening, Paper Thick Walls, God and The Architects
Double Door
1572 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL, 60622
Doors 6:30 PM / Show 7:00 PM
This event is 21 and over
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Radio One Chicago is hosting a networking party for artists of all varieties. We are inviting all other artists, musicians, bands, promoters, photographers, graphic designers, and any other artists to come out and network with each other.
"The Drop" is an event that allows bands and musicians to come meet the Radio One Chicago DJs and drop their CDs off personally.
Radio One Chicago's soul focus of "The Drop" is to unite Chicago's artistic community together.
In a time when most artists spend the bulk of their energy trying to brainstorm over clever band names and contrived marketing schemes, it's refreshing to see a group that picks honesty over hyperbole. With that very notion in mind, the members in Chicago's beloved Blah Blah Blah, decided long ago that the music is what matters the most. And who can blame them? With an unassuming name like that, you better make damn sure that your music is way better than just good enough.
Comprised of two friends from Iowa and two Chicago musicians, the midwest quartet really found their footing in 2010 after being voted one of the Chicago Tribune's next bands on the verge of breaking BIG! While pioneering the genre of ballroom rock, the band has continually won fans over with their emotionally-driven yet upbeat songs that playfully strike a balance between the alternative and organic. With a revitalized sense of vibrance and a newly recorded EP on the horizon this fall, it's not hard to see why the band is so optimistic about the next chapter of its career.
For the last project, "Thank You Thank You", the band decided to ditch the ease of digital and embrace the techniques of yester-year. By recording the entire EP in analog reel-to-reel on 2-inch tape, they convincingly proved the adage, that sometimes you have to take a step back to truly move forward. With the help of music vets, like producer Matt Walker (Morrissey, Smashing Pumpkins) and engineer Sean O'Keefe (Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, Less than Jake), the new recordings serve as a magnum opus for the band and a beacon of hope for indie music.
After touring nationally during the fall-winter, Blah Blah Blah headed to Los Angeles again in February during Grammy weekend for Pre-Grammy events hosted by Garth Trinidad (KCRW). The band is currently recording it's debut album. The bands much improved live show is something not to be missed.
Comprised of four working class guys who proudly wear their hearts on their sleeves, Chicago's The Bright White debuted in 2011. Frontman Matthew Kayser and guitarist Joe O'Leary dreamt up the concept of an infectiously loud and spirited rock n' roll band months before they were fortunate enough to have drummer Steve Zelenko and bassist Peter Krutiak respond to a Craigslist ad for a rhythm section. Inspired songwriting sessions and a slew of local and regional bookings immediately followed.
Fueled by Kayser's impassioned vocals and their own brand of careening, yet smart, rock n' roll, The Bright White released their second album, Lose Yourself, in June of 2012. They look forward to connecting with audiences who have been waiting for sing-along choruses, fist-in-the-air guitar solos and the swagger of a band who knows its best days are ahead.
Good Evening's greatest pleasure is to please. The band formed on the Ides of March just after Weston had decided to quit law school in favor of a musician's life of delightful poverty, and not long after Alyssa had completed her BFA in Poetry at the School of the Art Institute, thus assuring herself a similar fate of inspired impoverishment. That very day the duo had secured their first shows and set about finding the supporting cast of instrumentalists they would require to fully realize their unique brand of indie-folk music. What they found were a long-haired wine&music-buff named Davis Krieg; a pianist on his way to a PhD in Physics, calling himself Matthew Sternberg; and Weston's long-lost cousin, the multi-instrumentalist virtuoso David Rose. Since then, the group has released one album, 'In Public,' toured from coast to coast, and drunk about 1,000 bottles of whiskey. Their second album, 'Till We're Broke' debuts in July.
Paper Thick Walls presents an elegant mix of deep, reflective, and at times haunting music, which captures elements of sound similar to acts like Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens. The almost orchestral arrangement of piano, upright bass, guitars, drums, fiddle, mandolin, and other various instruments has a fascinating way of complimenting the profound fictional story lines that Paper Thick Walls portray through their lyrics.
Their songs quickly caught the attention of sound engineer Mike Hagler (Neko Case, Wilco) who engineered Paper Thick Walls' debut record entitled "A Thousand Novels" which was released on May 3, 2011 and promptly followed by a sold out record release show at "Hideout" in Chicago. Here is what Rock NYC had to say about the bands debut album:
"My verdict, then, is that Paper Thick Walls' "A Thousand Novels" is quite good. Not only are their compositions very nicely crafted, with the band displaying a penchant for a number of musical styles, their storytelling will keep you entertained and often contains elements of that darkness that lends a haunting quality to a song. Take a look."
"A Thousand Novels" received over 150 positive reviews, and was featured on dozens of blogs. This past year, Paper Thick Walls has performed throughout the Midwest and East Coast, as well as several taste maker music festivals including NXNE, SXSW, Summer Fest, and CMJ Music Festival.
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Research in Motion confirmed that Vodafone customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East were experiencing some "service issues" Friday morning. In a message posted to the company's British Twitter account, RIM indicated that it was working with the carrier to get full service restored.
The service problems do not appear to be as large-scale as the company's outage in October 2011, when a problem with its European servers snowballed into disruptions across the world, including in the United States.
But it is bad timing for Research in Motion as it races toward the much-delayed launch of its latest operating system, BB10, at the end of the month. The launch, seen as the company's last chance to mount a comeback, is set for Jan. 30. After many quarters of declining subscriber growth, RIM reported its first subscriber loss in December.
Things have mostly been moving in RIM's favor. The company didn't make an appearance at the International CES tech show, VentureBeat reported, but it still had a presence there as AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile announced that they would all carry BB10 devices.
The company has also been slowly recovering from a sharp drop in its stock price after it announced that it would stop charging regular customers lucrative service fees, to lower the cost of owning a BlackBerry and bring prices more in line with phones running Apple's iOS of Google's Android mobile operating system. Service fees made up 36 percent, or about $980 million of the company's revenue in its last reported quarter.
Enterprise customers, which include the business and government contracts that are the company's bread and butter, will still be charged the fees to cover extra security and device management services.
In an analyst's note Wednesday, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu maintained a neutral rating on the company, saying that it has potential to succeed on the higher end of the market. RIM, Wu said, has passed the first tests of running leaner and getting carriers on board with its launch. But, he noted, the real test of whether it can make any dent in the Apple-Google mobile duopoly is yet to come.
BB10 also faces competition for third place from a surprisingly strong Nokia-Microsoft partnership. On Thursday, Nokia stock soared on better-than-expected sales of the Lumia 920, its flagship phone for Microsoft's latest mobile operating system. With its existing PC presence in businesses and schools, Microsoft is also well-positioned to gain a foothold in the market as the third-place operating system — if Lumia sales are an indication of strong interest in the platform.
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Women's decision making power and human development : evidence from Pakistan
When deciding who should receive welfare benefits with the aim to increase household well-being, it is necessary to understand the effects of the distribution of power within the households at which the aid is directed. Two primary household models have been used to study intra-household bargaining and decision making: the unitary model and the collective model. The unitary model seems to fit Pakistan's context because the prevailing traditional culture positions the male head as the household decision maker. However, using a set of direct measures of decision-making power from the Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurement Survey, this study finds that even in a country where men seem to have more power than women, the collective household bargaining model applies. This study also finds that, in Pakistan, when women have more decision-making power at home, households tend to spend more on women's preferred goods (such as clothing and education), family members eat more non-grain food items, and children, particularly girls, are more likely to be enrolled in school.
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The 2nd edition of the Jazz And Experimental Music From Poland festival continues its mission to present to London audiences a flavour of the next generation of Polish contemporary music. Taking place at various venues in north and east London the festival showcases groundbreaking acts producing challenging, experimental and improvised music.
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Country music star George Strait to receive Pickens sportsman award
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George Strait will be in Dallas on Thursday to accept yet another award. This one, however, is not from the Country Music Association. Strait will receive the T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award from Park Cities Quail.
The fundraising event was sold out before Christmas and is expected to raise more than $600,000 to be invested in quail-related research, education and habitat enhancement programs through various entities.
According to the Audubon Society, America's bobwhite quail population has declined from an estimated 31 million in 1967 to about 5.5 million today.
Strait has been a dominant force in country music since he broke in with a top 10 single in 1981. What most people don't know is that Strait grew up hunting on his grandparents' ranch and now owns ranches. He's a team roper, a rodeo fan and a cattleman, but he's equally interested in improving wildlife habitats.
Wildlife biologist Macy Ledbetter has worked with Strait for eight years. Ledbetter is a South Texas-based consultant who works with 256 Texas ranches through all geographic regions.
"Mr. Strait is extremely committed to native habitat management on his properties," said Ledbetter. "He's very comfortable in the brush, on the tractor, in the helicopter, behind the shotgun or rifle and takes ranch management very seriously."
Strait is also a deer manager who told Park Cities Quail Chairman Joe Crafton that he started hunting when there weren't many deer in South Texas. He sometimes sat all day on a board nailed in a mesquite tree in hopes of seeing a buck.
Now Strait studies remote camera photos to identify which bucks to take and leave. He told Crafton that he occasionally takes a trophy buck from his ranch but mostly hunts for the ugliest buck he can remove from the herd.
Strait told Crafton that he's always been amazed to receive country music awards for doing something he loves, and he feels the same way about the lifetime sportsman award.
Using a volunteer committee, Park Cities Quail has raised and spent more than $3.5 million since 2007. The group's success has encouraged the creation of 13 Quail Coalition chapters with more than 4,000 members. The group also raises money through private donations.
Most of the event proceeds are used to fund the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch, but other research has been funded through grants.
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"Scientists have known about the eye worm in quail since the 1930s but it was not until June 2013 that Dr. Ron Kendall at Texas Tech had enough curiosity to uncover the entire life cycle of the worm," Snipes said. "It's a blood-sucking nematode that stays in the bird until the bird dies. We've authorized over $800,000 to complete studies on how to deal with this parasite, mostly how do we kill it?
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Happy 40th birthday Kate Moss: We celebrate her greatest fashion moments
THE queen of fashion celebrates her 40th birthday today and in honour of the star's enduring career we look back at nearly three decades of her best fashion shoots and catwalk moments.
As Kate Moss reaches this massive milestone in her life the Croydon born model is as prominent in the fashion world as ever, yet the women behind the famous face is still an elusive mystery.
The supermodel has been cast in gold by sculptor Marc Quinn, painted naked by Lucian Freud and appeared on countless billboards and magazine covers the world over, yet she has always shied away from interviews, and this has always been part of her charm.
She is the most enduring and famous British fashion model of all time and has helped fashion brands and high-street stores sell products to the adoring public for over 25 years.
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A Fresh-faced 14-year-old Kate Moss on a photoshoot with David Ross in 1988. It is twenty six years since the young Londoner was spotted by a talent scout at JFK airport.
Kate first appeared in the famous Calvin Klein ads in 1992 when she was just 18. She had to pose topless and straddle Mark Wahlberg as part of the campaign, which she has since addmited made her feel very uncomfortable.
Left, the supermodel hits the catwalk in Calvin Klein in 1993 and right, she wears a Gianni Versace dress in the catwalk in Milan in 1999.
The supermodel wore a patriotic union jack jumper as she launched London Fashion Week in 1997.
Kate looked young and innocent in this photoshoot by photographer Patrik Andersson.
Left, Kate wears a Chanel bra style top under a trouser suit at a Paris fashion show in March 1997, right, wearing a Todd Oldham outfit at the New York fashion show in 1995
Kate has modelled for Calvin Klein, Chanel and Rimmel - to name a few. Here she models a pale pink trench coat for a Burberry campaign.
Left, Kate wore this gold mirrored dress by Julian McDonald on the catwalk at the Camden Roundhouse, right, she shows her versatility in a sheer silver embellished gown and short black wig.
Left, Wearing an embellished dress from Kate's latest Topshop range and right, flaunting her svelte figure in a black bikini from her first range for the highstreet store.
In 2013 Kate became the face and the body of tanning specialists St Tropez, here she flaunts her figure in a white swimsuit.
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After observing firsthand my mother's failed attempt to renew her driver's license under Georgia's new "real ID" statute, I want to share an outsider's impression of the runaround she received.
Because the name on her 84-year-old birth certificate did not match her married name, the same name on her current license, her Social Security card, her Medicare card, my father's death certificate, her property tax bill, her federal and state tax returns and her bank account, officials insisted that she must produce her 1948 marriage certificate to prove who she was under the new "real ID" requirements. A handy printout of the vital statistics offices of all the various states and the cost to obtain a "certified" marriage document was cheerfully provided, and she was told she could come back and wait in line again after she had the marriage certificate.
While clearly not required by the Georgia Department of Driver Services' own printed explanation of the new requirements – they allow any of the documents she presented as sufficient name change proof "if a marriage certificate is not available" – the front-end staff demand it. Unlike most women who took their husbands' names, my mother drives just about as often as she votes, but they all need drivers' licenses to do both.
Whether simple ignorance or subtle policy is the motivation, the new "name change" requirements most certainly amount to a poll tax for women as misinterpreted by the staff at the Thomson DDS office.
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Schedule 5 of the Family Assistance and Other legislation Amendment Bill
2011 proposes to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act
1976 to stipulate that the Public Works Committee Act 1969 (PWC Act)
does not apply to Aboriginal Land Trusts.
The substance of this proposed amendment is to remove the requirement
for works carried out by Aboriginal Land Trusts to be subject to the scrutiny
of the Public Works Committee (the PWC).
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 provides
for the granting of traditional Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory for
the benefit of Aboriginal people. The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern
Territory) Act 1976 was the first legislation to provide the basis for
Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory to claim rights to Crown land based
on traditional occupation and association with land.
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
establishes Aboriginal Land Trusts to hold title to land in the Northern
Territory for the benefit of Aboriginal people entitled by Aboriginal tradition
to use or occupy the land concerned. Land trusts hold communal title for land
granted to them as inalienable Aboriginal freehold, meaning that the land
cannot be bought, acquired or forfeited.
The PWC Act provides for the establishment of a joint Parliamentary
Standing Committee on Public Works (the PWC) to scrutinise expenditure on
capital works undertaken by or for the Commonwealth, utilising Commonwealth
The PWC is one of the oldest investigative Committees of the Parliament
and is one of very few avenues for the Parliament to scrutinise capital works
expenditure proposed by the Executive. It plays an important role in the
scrutiny and accountability of Commonwealth agencies and embodies the
fundamental right of the Parliament to scrutinise the appropriations of the
There are very few grounds for exemption from the PWC Act. For
individual projects these are:
defence purposes
where scrutiny would be contrary to the public interest; and
the work is of a
repetitive nature.[1]
The PWC Act sets out that a request for exemption must be justified to
the Finance Minister, the PWC, the Governor-General and/or the House of Representatives
prior to approval.
Similarly, there are very few circumstances under which an authority may
be given blanket exemption from PWC scrutiny. The PWC Act provides that this
may only be approved by the Governor-General where she is satisfied that the authority
'is engaging in trading or other activities, or is providing services, in
competition with another body or other bodies, or with persons'.[2]
An exemption on these grounds must be justified to the House of
Representatives, where it sits as a disallowable instrument for 15 sitting
For those authorities, such as Australia Post, which are granted
exemption from the PWC, this has been enshrined in the PWC Act itself or in its
regulations, rather than in legislation relating to another authority.
The PWC has consistently noted in its annual reports to the Parliament,
concerns about exemption provisions being inappropriately utilised by agencies
to avoid scrutiny.[3]
The Explanatory Memorandum to the amendment notes that section 5AA of
the PWC Act will still apply to works undertaken by or for the Commonwealth.
Section 5AA sets out the meaning of a public work.
The Committee understands that, currently, capital works for Aboriginal Land
Trusts are undertaken by the Department of Families, Housing, Community
Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) and therefore section 5AA of the PWC
Act applies.
Indeed, under Part IIb of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern
Territory) Act 1976, it appears that the Commonwealth holds statutory rights
over Commonwealth funded buildings and infrastructure on Aboriginal lands
unless transferred to the another body. It is clear in this circumstance that
the PWC Act applies.
If this amendment is passed, it is unclear what scrutiny and
accountability processes will be put in place for the administration and
expenditure of these funds if the PWC requirement is removed. Regardless of
which authority administers the funding, FaHCSIA or Aboriginal Land Trusts, it
is important that proper processes of scrutiny and accountability are in place.
The PWC should not be regarded as an impediment to capital works, but
rather the opportunity to ensure expenditure is value for money, and that the
resulting work is apt and fit for purpose.
The Committee recommends that the exemption of the Aboriginal
Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 from the Public Works
Committee Act 1969 be passed by the House of Representatives without
The Committee takes this opportunity to make some general comments about
the reforms introduced in the 43rd Parliament which have enabled the
Selection Committee to refer bills to a House of Representatives committee for
an advisory report.
The Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee states from the outset its
strong support for bill referrals to committees and its desire to engage in a
number of bill inquiries through the course of the parliament.
As at May 2011, a total of 15 bills were referred to four different
House of Representatives committees. Since the beginning of the 43rd
Parliament, some 25 bills have been referred. Of those tabled to date, the
average inquiry length is nearly 27 days.[4]
The Committee appreciates the urgency of the House in considering some
bills; however, timeframes must also balance the need for careful investigation
when a bill has been referred to a committee for inquiry and report. In this
instance, due to the omnibus nature of the bill referred, the Committee has
only been able to highlight issues of concern which it considers require
clarification, rather than conduct its own detailed investigation into these
In addition, with the increase in the number of bill referrals to House
committees, there are obviously instances when Senate committees will be tasked
to conduct inquiries into the same bill. The Committee considers this an
important element in the independence of both Houses. However it also considers
that the work of House and Senate committees should inform consecutive debate
and scrutiny, rather than concurrent inquiries placing additional demands on
These issues have been noted by other committees in their advisory
reports to the House.[5] In addition, the previous
bill referred to this Committee for inquiry was already the subject of a
lengthy and intensive inquiry by a Senate committee.[6]
The Committee expresses it reservations that the bill referral process
as it currently operates can undermine the capacity of committees to fulfil
their independent and investigative functions. The Committee makes these
comments as general observations to the House in order to promote a dialogue on
the processes and value of parliamentary committees.
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Sheron Sukhdeo, the 28-year-old businessman who was accused of assaulting his wife, has been granted $85,000 bail.
Sukhdeo appeared before a Chaguanas First Magistrate's Court in Tunapuna, before Magistrate Joanne O'Connor.
He was charged with maliciously wounding his wife at their home at Orchard Gardens, Chaguanas on February 10. He was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm from another beating the following day.
A protection order is already in place preventing him from coming into contact with her.
Magistrate O'Connor again warned him to stay away from her and asked where he would be staying since he cannot return to their home.
His lawyer said he had not arranged for a place to stay, but assured the Magistrate that Sukhdeo would find somewhere else.
The wife was present in the court today for the hearing.
His matter was adjourned to March 15.
Crime Watch talk show host Ian Alleyne also appeared before the Magistrate today. Yesterday Alleyne was detained at Sukhdeo's Orchard Gardens home for allegedly obstructing an officer on duty, resisting arrest and using annoying language. He was later charged for those three offences.
A video captured by both CNC3 and TV6 cameras showed Alleyne and Beyond the Tape host Inspector Roger Alexander in a fracas outside Sukhdeo's home. Alexander subsequently arrested Alleyne.
Last night Alleyne was granted bail in the Chaguanas police station. At the court his bail was ratified.
Alleyne pleaded not guilty to all three charges and his case was adjourned until March 22.


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An Ohio reader's e-mail begins: "As a soon to be 30-year dealer, I want to weigh in on (the issue of the death of antiques shows). Our area is currently watching the demise of one of its premier shows. It is not the dealers or buyers that are to blame. It is the show promoter.
"An antiques show or flea market is not rocket science, so why is it so difficult for some promoters to 'get it together?' There is a saying in the show car trade: don't go to a car show that is not run by a 'car guy.' This is also true in the antiques trade . . ."
Author's Aside: As an independent researcher in the antiques and collectibles trade, I have the opportunity to view the trade through multiple eyes—appraisers, auctioneers, collectors, dealers, the general public, mall owners, show promoters, etc., I have learned many truths in my 30-plus years observing the field. Two are: (1) we can learn from each other, and (2) the blame game is counterproductive. I want to share my reader's suggestions. My comments, which follow, are meant to add perspective, not detract the reader's points. Her thoughts are valid from a dealer's perspective, and every show promoter should take them under advisement.
"These are some of the issues," my read goes on to say, "that show promoters need to address:"
1. "Pick a time and location for the show and be consistent. If this is a regular show, strive to be regular."
This is easier said than done. A large show in another venue, especially if it sells hotel rooms and meals, will bump an antiques show from its regular dates. Antiques and collectibles shows are fills for most convention centers, not prime clients. This is why many promoters have trouble holding fixed dates.
Author's Aside: I appear at Home and Garden shows several times during the year. Promoters face the same issues as antiques and collectibles show promoters. Home and Garden shows are also one-day crowd shows. Attendees drive from home, shop the show and drive back. They do not go out for dinner in the show's area nor spend the night. Many exhibitors stay in inexpensive hotels/motels in the area, as opposed to the more expensive hotels near the convention center. Convention center managers are pressured to give first preference to events that financially support local business.
2. "Seek out and promote quality dealers. They are out there looking for the right show… Give the perk to the GOOD dealer, not an extra space to the T-shirt guy, because he came on the last day and (there happens to be) an extra space."
The golden age of the small (less than 50 dealers) antiques and collectibles show has long passed. A few shows survive, but their number continues to decline. Thanks to Super Malls, antiquing towns, Interstate intersection antiquing destinations and extravaganzas, buyers expect volume. The old business axiom of "there is money in the numbers" applies.
The attributes of a "quality" dealer very much depends on the person doing the defining. The traditionalist antiques dealer assumes "quality" identifies individuals selling objects made before 1920 or at the very least 1940. A show promoter assigns "quality" to those dealers who (1) price their merchandise to sell, (2) have merchandise that attracts customers, especially young buyers, to the show, and (3) have a client base that returns show after show.
I share my reader's concern over the growing addition of non-related booths at shows billed as antiques and collectibles shows. If a promoter is forced to add this material to meet expenses, he should divide his exhibit space into sections that provide a clear merchandise distinction.
3. "Make sure that parking is done in a logical fashion. I once arrived at a show early and was directed to the back of the grounds."
I am early because I am an interested buyer and do not want to buy things and schlep them across the grounds. I have visited many antiques and collectibles flea markets and shows where dealers take all the front parking spaces, especially on the last day. I tend to never return. Front spaces should be reserved for buyers.
Many show promoters designate special parking spots for dealers. The antiques and collectibles business, of course, is filled with an abundance of ornery and independent cusses who take special delight in breaking rules. This is one of many nightmare scenarios that haunt show promoters.
4. "Every location has 'primo' spaces. Make sure that these are awarded to the good dealers. Some of the best spaces at our local declining show are saved for a semi-load of European reproductions."
Show promoters award front and end of row spaces to those dealers who sell the best or to furniture dealers, one of the most difficult groups to attract to a show. If I was a dealer, which I am not, my goal would be to keep the same space and not worry about its location. Good dealers rely on repeat business from steady customers. When a dealer moves from one location to another in a show, customers do not always find them. More often than not, the customer sees another dealer in the accustomed space and assumes the previous inhabitant is no longer doing the show. The customer does not take the time to check the show newspaper or walk the show to see if the dealer has moved. A good dealer makes whatever space he/she is assigned a primary location.
5. "If the promoter is going to charge an early buyer's admission, make sure that the buyer paying for that premium ticket is able to view and buy items from dealers. It is just as important (perhaps more) for dealers to be manning their booths during early buyers hours as it is on Sunday afternoon."
Dealers traditionally used set-up as a time to roam a show and buy. The addition of the "early buyer," a non-dealer who pays a fee to shop the show during set-up, changed the dynamics. Promoters introduced early buying in search of a new revenue stream. I have never felt comfortable with it. Early buying, like the buyer's penalty (I will not call it a premium) at auctions, is now a fact of life. Little is gained by arguing.
Dealers deserve the opportunity to shop a show before the general public is admitted. Those dealers who do not have additional help face a dilemma—stay in their booth to serve early buyers or seek out bargains they can resell to favorite customers. The early buyer has to accept the show as he finds it during set-up. Dealers must be back in their booths when the doors open to the general public. However, they are free to do what they like prior to this.
6. "Advertise realistically. If a show is going to have 50 dealers state this . . . don't advertise 500 when only 200 signed up."
Nothing disappoints a potential buyer more than when a show does not live up to its advertising hype. An angry customer is not a comfortable buyer.
7. "Make it mandatory that dealers price their merchandise. I am not worried about the seller 'sizing' me up, but I weary quickly waiting for a dealer to give me a price on an item that should be marked. I know that tags occasionally fall off, but it is not unusual to go into a booth where nothing is priced."
I do not buy from dealers who do not price their merchandise. The price is the offer to sell, not the fact that the merchandise is displayed for sale. I walked away from some highly desirable pieces because they were not priced. Alas, most customers do not find the lack of pricing objectionable. This is another practice like early buying and the buyer's penalty that will not change. Each individual has to let his conscience be his guide in determining how to handle it.
8. If a promoter is going to host a Web site, keep it current!"
Right on! I could not agree more. Credibility and trust are critical elements in the antiques and collectibles trade. When information is not reliable, credibility and trust are lost. Alas, customers tend not to focus their anger on one individual when encountering a problem but the trade as a whole.
Thanks to all the "Rinker on Collectibles" readers who have taken the time to send e-mails and letters in response to issues I have raised in my columns or to share their insights into the business. Please keep them coming.
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"SELL, KEEP OR TOSS? HOW TO DOWNSIZE A HOME, SETTLE AN ESTATE, AND APPRAISE PERSONAL PROPERTY" (House of Collectibles, an imprint of the Random House Information Group), Harry's latest book, is available at your favorite bookstore and via Harry's Web site: http://www.harryrinker.com
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