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Queen's photos found in attic show off-duty life of the Royals
February 22, 2011 - London
A number of never-before-seen candid photographs of the British Royal family that had been stashed away in an attic have been released.
Of the 40 photos that were handed over to the Queen, seven got her blessings to be published.
Many of the photos, which date back over a 40-year period, capture family members relaxing at Balmoral and Windsor.
One shows the Queen stirring tea in a plastic picnic cup, and another shows Philip gazing wistfully over fields, while another shows him with his youngest son Edward.
Another showed a carefree Sarah Ferguson grinning beside Diana and ex Andrew at a Windsor Castle bash.
Princess Margaret is also shown attending a banquet with the Queen Mother in one of the pictures, while another shows Fergie with an infant Prince William on a pony at Windsor stables.
The images were discovered by an unnamed person at the home of a deceased relative, who worked at a photo lab, which handled the Royals' snaps.
"We think the relative used to take an extra set of prints home as a matter of course to study them for quality control purposes," the Sun quoted him as saying.
"We are delighted that the Queen and other royals are glad to have them back and hopefully they will revive many happy memories," he stated.
A senior Buckingham Palace spokeswoman added: "The Queen was interested to see the photographs handed in by The Sun and had no objection to them being published in the newspaper."

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In 1973, my family first visited Walt Disney World in Florida. At that time, you had to purchase tickets for the rides with the number of tickets for each ride determined by its "category". My parents spent a significant amount of time standing in line in order to purchase tickets while always keeping the balancing act in mind: purchase just the right amount of tickets so there were no leftovers.
After we were home several days, my Dad received a phone call from Disney asking for his opinion of the trip with an emphasis on what they might be able to improve on. The person on the phone made a comment that has stuck with me since: "You can't get better until you first know where you are". My Dad went on to explain the frustration with having to stand in line often to buy tickets. To this day, my Dad will tell you that his feedback is the reason that Disney operates that way it does today.
The quote has driven my belief that the effective collection and use of metrics is a critical element in managing the delivery of Managed Services engagements. Metrics provide information needed to proactively manage the processes for the delivery of services, providing an ability to predict and control the quality of the products being produced and the visibility into the status of the on-going effort.
The post is the first of four that will focus on which metrics I feel are most helpful in determining where you are and then identifying potential improvement opportunities.


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"You must be the change you want to see in the world." ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
There are two main purposes for this aggregation of government information: 1) for my own quick-reference use (as is the case with my other aggregations, and 2) to radically reduce online research time for any interested people who happen to stumble across this website. By making these kinds of aggregations, I don't have spend nearly as much time searching for information which I might have forgotten to archive in my system of folders, files and bookmarks.
In reality, there is no such real thing as "government". It is not a rock, a tree, a river, or even a cloud. It is mere behavior, an established social order, a dominance-based pecking order. With other animal species, it is often called "dominance hierarchy". In the case of humans, the term "social hierarchy" is more often used. As Frédéric Bastiat said, "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." As H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." As General Smedley Butler has written, "War Is A Racket". In reality, "government" is merely the dominant individuals in the inherently evil and inevitably corrupting stupid-human pecking order struggle known as "politics". These disordered-by-definition dominant individuals merely call themselves "government" so the hoi polloi masses will view them as being intelligent enough and moral enough to follow and obey.
You can't accomplish anything by trusting in the inherently evil, inevitably corrupting One Ring of government Power (over the Other). It's a risky proposition because, as the Founders said, "government is a dangerous servant and a fearful master". I believe the only way a society can sustain a limited constitutional government for any length of time is with an Anarcho-Christian culture. I believe the dominant members of the stupid-human pecking order who call themselves "government" will inevitably become our master the second we stop distrusting/"hating" it. "Hate evil" ~ Amos 5:15. So-called "self-government" is actually herd government. REAL government of the self is voluntary compliance with the Two Great Commandments and the Decalogue. Lawyers have taught people to think that kingship-of-God paradigm is "anarchy". While the kingship-of-man paradigm is called "self government". That's why Jesus rebuked the lawyers at Luke 11:52 It's a major human conundrum. Few there be who see it. Matthew 7:13-14. And those who do see the Truth are usually demonized by those who don't. Grace is amazing and inexplicable. Some people are given a lot of grace and some people are given only little or none. I am one of the lucky ones who was given a lot. So I see this stuff -- perhaps because I've never stopped sincerely looking for the Truth with an open heart. That's why I will not longer participate in 26 USC 501 (c)(3) "churches". The people who do participate in them can't understand why I don't. For me, Ephesians 5:11 and 1 Thessalonians 5:21 say it all. I usually don't talk about it with those who can't see Truth. It only upsets them, and I don't want to be a stumbling block.
Active 'Patriot' Groups in the United States in 2011 - In my opinion, the propagandists at the Southern Poverty Law Center are sophistic neofeudalists (aka "scum1"). Here is an example of how the information they intend for evil can actually be used for good. The groups on this list the SPLC considers to be "anti-government" are actually groups you might want to check out.
Citizen Action / Patriotic Groups
Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals, by Saul Alinsky
The Art of Political War And Other Radical Pursuits, by Daivd Horowitz
The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
: See John's Twitter for one of the web's most eclectic mashups of interesting real-time news articles. I surf the web for interesting real-time news stories and informative tidbits so you don't have to.
Government Explained - YouTube video
George Carlin - Language complaints at American Press Club - YouTube video
George Carlin on soft language - YouTube video
CIA Officer (Robert D. Steele) Explains the Good Old Boys' Demise
Hope Number 9: Robert Steele - Spy Improv: Reality Unfiltered
Gerry Spence on the American "justice system"
Gerry Spence – The Spence Law Firm: Who We Are - I didn't have the computer skills necessary to embed this video, so interested persons will just have to click on the link.
Project Camelot Interviews Jim Marrs
Jim Marrs Terror Conspiracy and 9/11
1. It bears constant repetition: explaining the words "scum" and "scumbag" as an epithet used in self-defensive demonization against select individuals and/or ideologies. Hey, what can I say? It is a long-proven statistical fact that negative political ads are in fact effective. And since the so-called "left" uses lies, half-truths, demonization and the politics of personal destruction as standard political strategies, failure to engage in a little "turn about is fair play" merely makes it easier for the various assortments of disordered illiterate fascist control freaks to destroy individual freedom. As I said on my blog homepage, "Some folks just think they're smarter than everybody else, a higher form of life than everybody else. So, instead of engaging in good faith discussions about specific ideas, they simply resort to deception, sophistry, unspecificity, undefined terms, manipulation, demonization and the politics of personal destruction AS A MATTER OF PREFERRED STRATEGY to get their little spoiled-brat control-freak way. Such behavior is anathema to intellectual honesty, an open mind, a kind heart, free inquiry, the freedoms of thought and speech, and the free flow of information. It MUST be eternally warred against if humankind is to entertain a realistic hope of ever reaching its full spiritual and intellectual potential." To avoid the violence which is directly related to repression of free speech and the crushing of polite and civil discourse, I believe it is essential to engage in strategic tit-for-tat with wannabe-clever manipulative demonizers by openly calling them what they are: the anti-freedom, anti-Golden-Rule scum of the earth (aka "scumbags"). Accordingly, it doesn't bother me in the least to do so. No less brilliant a person than Jesus of Nazareth himself referred to the scumbags of his day as "hypocrites", "blind guides", "vipers" and "whitewashed sepulchres". To paraphrase Ann Coulter, Jesus was not some moron driving around in a Volvo with a "be nice to people" bumper sticker on it. So, having read The Art of Political War and Other Radical Pursuits by David Horowitz, I don't have any problem with calling "scum" what it is. Surely a huge majority of people, especially black people, would agree that any person or group who sincerely believes in slavery or pedophilia, by way of example, qualify as "scum". Point made.
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Hi Chowhounders --
I will be in Rome for the last week of August and the first few days of September, and thought it might be fun to take a cooking class there. Anybody have any leads? Also, how about suggestions for restaurants -- especially ones that remain open in August, when I understand many places close.


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Early Effects of Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) on the Proximal Femur
This study has been completed.
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Accellera has approved the Accellera Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) Best Practices Interoperability Guide. The Guide details how to use VIP components developed using SystemVerilog testbench environments based on either the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) or Verification Methodology Manual (VMM) interchangeably to lower verification costs and improve design quality. The document is the result of work of the VIP Technical Subcommittee (TSC), which was formed in May 2008.
The VIP Best Practices Interoperability Guide includes a VIP reference library that can be used as part of a verification interoperability methodology and a chapter devoted to introducing the high-level concepts of interoperability and component integration. It outlines a process that can be used to define a verification environment and select which cross-referenced best-practice sub-chapter or sub-chapters apply to specific integration challenges.
The Accellera's VIP Interoperability standardization effort makes it easier to reuse verification components and reduces the cost of repurchasing and rewriting IP for each new project or electronic design automation tool.
Accellera's VIP TSC will continue its efforts to develop a Common Base Class Library (CBCL) and associated verification methodology with the goal of achieving IEEE standardization. Accellera's VIP Technical Subcommittee is open for participation by everyone, and holds weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 9am PST. Accellera membership offers additional benefits to participants.
More info: Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) Recommended Practices (pdf)


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Discretional political budget cycles and separation of powers
In contrast to previous empirical work on electoral cycles, which implicitly assumes the executive has full discretion over fiscal policy, this paper contends that under separation of powers an unaligned legislature may have a moderating role. Focusing on the budget surplus, we find that stronger effective checks and balances explain why cycles are weaker in developed and established democracies. Once the discretional component of executive power is isolated, there are significant cycles in all democracies. Whether the political system is presidential or parliamentary, or the electoral rules are majoritarian or proportional, does not change the basic results.
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Three Graphic Novels That Might Make This The Greatest Week of New Graphic Novels Ever
Tomorrow, you will be able to walk into a comics shop (yes, they still exist, despite me downloading most of comics to an iPad), and you will be able to buy three graphic novels. One is by Grant Morrison. One is by Eddie Campbell. One is by Alan Moore.


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Address: 3478 Buskirk Avenue, Suite 300, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Phone: (925) 906-1880
Hillman, Lucas & Canning PC, provides quality advice and representation in an array of business and personal matters, including estate planning and administration, real estate and bankruptcy. We also offer services in mediation and arbitration.
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Microsoft officials have posted a Live Mesh question-and-answer document to the Microsoft Web site that finally answers many of the questions about the much-ballyhooed Microsoft sync service customers have been asking for two years...
In February of this year, the LiveSide.net folks unearthed information indicating Live Mesh was still alive and going to be merged with the existing Windows Live Sync (a k a FolderShare) platform. Indeed, that's what has happened. Much of what was known as Live Mesh is being merged with the existing Windows Live Sync service and is going to be part of the next version of Windows Live Essentials, Microsoft's consumer services bundle which is expected to be released to the public for beta testing later in June.
The Top 4 Apps and Platforms Takes That Go Against The Grain Report by the BI Intelligence Research Team.
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Check out this old-school B.J. Penn knockout
James Toney's neverending stream of trash talk can obscure the fact that the UFC lightweight belt is being contested at UFC 118. B.J. Penn has a golden opportunity to immediately try to win back the championship he lost to Frankie Edgar at UFC 112.
To get ready for that bout, jump into the DeLorean and head back to June 29, 2001 for UFC 32.
In just his second MMA bout, Penn threw a vicious knee to take out Din Thomas in the first round.


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Rooms, services Take a few-days trip to Denmark and enjoy the hospitality of Ibsens Hotel Copenhagen. 118 comfortably furnished rooms are offered by the hotel to guests looking for accommodation in Copenhagen. If you feel like having a meal not included in your chosen type of catering, you can always taste local dishes in the restaurant of the hotel. Car parking possibility is available nearby. If you love spending your leisure time actively it may be a good idea to check the table tennis, bike rental, billiard, sailing and boat rental opportunities nearby. The local gym will provide a great opportunity to do sports and exercises. For meetings and nice evening chats the local bar will provide an ideal location. You may secure your valuables in the safe. Wireless Internet connection (WiFi) is available at the hotel, ensuring that you can stay up-to-date during your holiday. You can find the exact list of services provided by Ibsens Hotel Copenhagen (including those for extra fees) and the exact equipment of the rooms on the information sheet below.
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U.S. Open
Looking for your favorite
This titanic,
immensely viscous stout is loaded with inimitable flavors of
chocolate-covered caramel and coffee and hide a hefty 98 IBUs underneath the
smooth blanket of malt. Ten FIDY (10.5% ABV) is made with enormous amounts
of two-row malt, chocolate malt, roasted barley, flaked oats and hops. Ten
FIDY is the ultimate celebration of dark malts and boundary-stretching beer.
Beer Review from
Beer Advocate:
Appearance- Poured into an 8 oz snifter this. It's as black as the ace of
spades. The head is also a very dark coffee color and sticks around for a
bit. Not even light can escape the surface of this beer.
Aroma- Sells like what you would expect from this style. Lots of chocolate
upfront with a hint of hops. No trace of booze at all.
Taste - Mother of God.... It tastes strongly of chocolate and malty
goodness. This beer has an alcohol content of 10.5% (hence the name "Ten
FIDY"), but it is hardly present in the taste. Everything is balanced
perfectly. Not too sweet. Not too bitter. Not too boozy. One of the best
RIS's I've had.
Mouthfeel - It feels like velvet going down. Decent carbonation. One thing I
will mention is that I think this beer is pretty filling. It would be
difficult to drink more than two of these in a night....and expensive. I'm
sure i would if i could though.
Over all, I love this beer. It has given me a new appropriation of the RIS
family. I found a four pack of this at a grocery store on the East coast.
Unfortunately it was about $17...I almost cried.
Oskar Blues History
Great canned beer? The term has been an oxymoron for craft beer lovers used to
getting their full-flavored beers from bottles only. But in November of 2002 in
the tiny town of Lyons, Colorado, Oskar Blues Brewery changed that by launching
its Canned Beer Apocalypse.
The brewery began hand-canning its hoppy, assertive-but-elegant Dales Pale Ale
on a table-top machine that sealed just one can at a time. The move made Oskar
Blues the first US craft brewer to brew and can its own beer.
Why cans? We thought the idea of our big, luscious pale ale in a can was
hilarious, recalls founder Dale Katechis. And it made our beer immensely
portable for outdoor enjoyment fun. Katechis and his crew then discovered other
bennies of aluminum cans. Cans keep beer incredibly fresh by fully protecting
it from light and oxygen.
And unlike cans of old, the modern aluminum can is lined with a coating so beer
and metal never touch. Cans are also easier to recycle, free of glass breakage
issues, and less fuel-consuming to ship. (35% of the weight of a bottle of beer
is the bottle itself.)
Starting a Craft
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Welcome Fisherman
Electric and Hybrid Cars
Panacea USA - Alternative Energy
Ranger - Guide to US National Parks
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Ethiopian teenagers growing up in Israel today face a real identity crisis. They do not feel Israeli, they do not feel Ethiopian, and as a result they tend to be ambivalent towards both cultures.
We aim to create a sense of belonging and pride, both in their Israeli home and in their Ethiopian heritage, and to build self-confidence and leadership skills.
Participants are chosen from the many applicants. An eight-month course of weekly meetings teaches leadership skills, patriotism, Zionism, pride in their heritage and hope for the future.
The course culminates with a one week heritage trip to Ethiopia where they visit the villages their parents came from, experience the rural life they had led, and understand the very difficult route their parents took walking through Sudan to reach the holy Jerusalem.
They will also be able to meet family members who may still be there and whom they have never known.
The experience gives these teenagers an insight into their heritage, a sense of pride in the centuries of Judaism practiced in Ethiopia, a new regard for their parents' difficult paths and a new feeling of belonging not to the past, but to Israel and the present.
15 teenagers, specially chosen (many of whom were pupils in ESRA's Students Build a Community Projects), 5 group leaders and escorts for the trip to Ethiopia.
The Umbrella Organisation of Community Centers
The Hefzibah and Neot Ganim Community Centers
If you would like to help fund, or be involved in any way, to help ensure the continued operation of this
worthy project, please contact: Herzliya Office 09 9508371 or email email@example.com ?subject=Journey%20To%20Identity%20Project">firstname.lastname@example.com
Or just click on the link to make an online donation http://www.esra.org.il/donations-esra
Required funding for the trip to Ethiopia: NIS 90,000
Weekly activities: NIS 12,500
The pupils work during the summer holidays and each pay NIS 2,500 = NIS 37,500
The Community Centers Organization NIS 30,000
ESRA Funding NIS 35,000
'Volume' Music Center, Netanya
This project provides an opportunity for young people to develop their musical talents through listening and playing music, receiving professional training and strengthening their connection to Israeli music culture.
The world of music plays a key role in the world of youth and is a significant expression of their attitudes and emotions. The identification of "What music I hear" is often the identification of "which group I belong to."
Our aim is to provide a creative educational framework, attractive and meaningful to youth, thereby reducing their involvement in and exposure to violence and vandalism.
The center is an open house for local teens for learning, recreation and leisure.
The center operates 3 times a week (with the possibility of 5 times a week at a later date) from 15:00- 21:00 throughout the year, staffed by professional youth workers, teachers and volunteers.
Musical talent will be developed alongside social and educational enrichment, teaching values of patience, empathy, teamwork, cooperation and community involvement.
The "Volume" Center in the Hefzibah neighbourhood will provide a social & educational music center for the teenagers of the Hefzibah and Neot Ganim communities, bringing together different cultures through their common interest in music.
"Chevra Lematnasim" (Community Center Society)
East Netanya Community Center
Hefzibah Community Center
Martin's Men
This project, conceived in 2013 to honour the memory of Martin Peled ז''ל , takes pupils from an ORT school in Kfar Saba and gives them the tools (literally and figuratively) to brighten up their world a little, as well as helping their neighbours.
Renovations expert, Philip Symon, (Martin's brother-in-law) first teaches pupils the techniques they will need, and then takes them into Kfar Saba to spruce up public and private buildings (of disadvantaged communities.)
Youth aged 14 - 17 from an ORT school in Kfar Saba, who are happy to learn a new trade and to contribute to the community they live in.
ESRA, ORT Kfar Saba and the Kfar Saba Municipality
"Martin's Men" was born from his family's wish to honour the memory of Martin Peled, who died much too young from pancreatic cancer.
Click here to view a YouTube film of the project made by ESRAvision volunteers.
Purchasing paint (in addition to the paint donated by companies)
Purchasing other equipment such as brushes, ladders
Organising an end-of-year special day for the pupils (for example at a water park, or an outing of their choice).
Paying painters to supervise teams of our pupils so that they can get to more buildings.
NIS 100 buys brushes
NIS 350 buys a ladder
NIS 500 buys paint
NIS 1000 pays for professional supervision
To donate online please click on this link, or call our Gan Rashal office 09-950 8371. Thank you for your generosity
Neve ESRA After School care centre
Neve (Oasis) is an aptly descriptive term for an afternoon care center for a group of 15 high-risk children in the city, who need to be kept out of the home but not entirely away from the family hearth.
The underlying aim of Neve ESRA, which has a permanent staff of 3 adults, is to protect these children from potential and irreversible harm by providing them with a warm, secure and supportive environment.
Neve ESRA is open 11½ months a year, 5 days a week from 1pm - 6pm.
Children receive a hot, nutritious meal at midday, alongside schoolwork assistance, remedial teaching and afternoon enrichment programs.
Once a week they have bi-lingual volunteers running fun activities in English as a way of learning the language. Now also includes an Excellence Program where children attend institutions of higher learning; Once a week kids are transported to a local Ecological Farm and given lunch. Hope to establish an outdoor recreation area.
15 children, aged between 9-11 years, hand-picked by a professional committee due to difficult conditions at home affecting his/her emotional and physical well-being.
The Social Services Department of the Modi'in Municipality, in close cooperation with the education authorities.
ESRA Modi'in sponsors ongoing needs such as enrichment programs, household items and gifts for the children. ESRA Modi'in initiated an English enrichment program where three professional English teacher volunteers regularly assist children with their English homework and promote spoken English through games and other activities.
Midday meals, facilitator for parent support group, professional evaluations, remedial teaching, special ed teachers, transportation, enrichment activities, outings.
Neighborhood Computer Centers
Innovative teaching of computer skills to underprivileged children, youth and adults.
Anyone growing up in a home without a computer is at a huge disadvantage, placing them at the wrong end of the educational and cultural gap. With teachers increasingly emailing students and parents regarding assignments, children without computer skills, as well as their parents, are left behind.
ESRA Computer Centers offer children courses in basic computer skills and help them with online learning of mathematics, science and English. Some advanced computer skills, including competence in digital photography, are also taught through games and use of the Internet.
Courses for adults include basic computer skills and use of the Internet, particularly Facebook, to enable them to keep abreast of their children's and grandchildren's activities.
20 Ethiopian adults.
Neot Shaked Community Center
Heftzibah Community Center
Neot Ganim Community Center
For professional staff, equipment, maintenance and administration:
Neot Shaked Computer Center: NIS 60,000
Heftzibah Computer Center: NIS 40,000
In addition, we we need to replace our old, outdated computers so any help you can give will be appreciated.
Programmes of Excellence
Encouraging talented underprivileged teenagers to fulfill their potential by providing them with a challenging program of enrichment and leadership training at the Ruppin Institute of Marine Science. Two programs have been running since September 2011. The programs choose talented children in the 7th grade from lower socio-economic levels. The programs run for 2 years each and are today fully integrated, choosing children from all backgrounds of Israeli society.
The teenagers are given courses in biology, chemistry, computer skills, marine science and ecology once a week for 3 hours. They are collected from school and given lunch on the way. ESRA has established a community garden in the Institute as a way for the children to "give back" into the community that is enriching them. Two Students from ESRA's Students Build a Community Projects receive extra scholarships to lead these two groups.
Right Track Centers for Youth
4 centers provide afternoon social activities and help with homework, for children aged 13 - 17. ESRA is currenttly working in 3 of the centers
ESRA pays for 8 teachers who give supplementary lessons.
ESRA's funding of professional teachers in Hebrew, English, Mathematics, Bible & History Tuition provides tuition to ensure that each youngster will attain the best test results possible, right through to matriculation level.
In addition, the children receive counseling and courses such as preparation for the army, navigation, drama and computer activities. There are also films and lectures on a variety of topics.
ESRA participates in tutoring of over 80 of these children.
The Hefzibah Community Center
Donations of TV's, sports equipment, computers and monitors are welcome.
Summer trip for the participants: NIS 3,000
Snacks: NIS 2,000
Please follow the link to donate to this project - Thank you.
'Bayit Cham' Clubhouse for Girls
A clubhouse in Netanya creates a 'home away from home' in the afternoons for 13-17 year old girls at risk, offering a safe, warm environment of social and counselling activities.
NETANYA: The center operates daily Sunday to Thursday from 12:30 – 18:30 throughout the year, staffed by professional social workers.
- Hot lunches supplied by ESRA
- Individual and group counselling
- Lectures on a variety of topics
- Assistance with homework (ESRA volunteers help with English homework)
- Arts and Crafts, baking, games and other activities
- Television and computers for use by girls
NETANYA: 40 teenage girls, mainly of Ethiopian origin.
The clubhouse is in the Nordau area - where ESRA also has a 'Students Build a Neighborhood Project', a 'Right Track Center' and a Sewing Center.
The Municipality of Netanya - Welfare Department of Girls at Risk
Translation of Letter from The Netanya Municipality, Welfare Dept (Teenage Girls Division)
To: ESRA
Subject: Thank You for Your Participation in "Bayit Cham".
We would like to thank you and express our appreciation for your participation in our Bayit Cham over the last several years and in several different areas.
First of all, we would like to thank the wonderful volunteers who come on a daily basis to help the girls with their English. The volunteers have improved the grades and motivated the girls of Bayit Cham to succeed.
We would also like to thank ESRA for the very important donation of hot lunches for these girls, which is the only hot meal they get all day.
And we'd like to mention the special activities that were provided by ESRA over the past year, including kickboxing, a trip to the movies during the summer holidays, and more.
The highlight of the activities was inviting the girls to participate in the ESRA Netanya Crafts Fair in November where the girls prepared their own handiwork and were given a stand at the Fair to sell their wares. The stall was a great success. The girls learnt the value of preparing and selling their own crafts, the value of their investment and respect for the money they earned.
It is very important for us to thank especially Esther Tolkin, the wonderful ESRA volunteer who works with us all the way through.
With great appreciation
Yaffa Cohen – Manager of the Service to Teenage Girls Department
Staff of Bayit Cham
Welfare Dept – Netanya Municipality.
Professional Staff, Equipment, Meals and Administration.
NIS 100 pays for 8 meals for one week.
NIS 500 pays for art therapy for 1 girl for 3 months.
NIS 1000 supports an activity for all the girls for a month.
Sewing Courses for Ethiopian Adults and Pensioners
5 centers provide sewing courses for adult Ethiopian men and women providing skills, social meetings and work!
ESRA pays for instruction by qualified teachers and purchases material, accessories and sewing machines. Volunteers assist in teaching, maintaining the machines and collecting donated material and machines.
The adults - men and women, young and pensioners - are taught the skills to make and repair clothing. They are given sewing machines to take home, enabling them to sew for profit. The project also serves as a social activity for the participants.
Instruction and practice in small groups (some of whom are physically handicapped) once or twice weekly.
Total number of participants: 70-80 adults in the 25 - 70 age bracket.
The centers are in Netanya, Kfar Saba and Sderoth.
Neot Shaked Community Center
Hefzibah Community Center
Youth Advancement Dept of Netanya Municipality
Kfar Saba Ethiopian Community Center
Sderot 'Atzmaut' Ethiopian Community Center
Netanya: Once weekly in each of 3 centers
Kfar Saba: Once weekly
Sderot: Once weekly
The participants are also given an annual day trip to places of interest in Israel.
Professional Staff, Equipment and Administration.
NIS 100 provides 2 pairs of scissors
NIS 500 provides 6 months of thread and needles
NIS 1000 provides professional staff for 1 group for 1 month
Please donate generously and help these communities to help themselves. Click here to donate
Five centers in Netanya, Sderoth and Kfar Saba provide sewing courses for adult Ethiopian men and women providing skills, social centers and work!
ESRA supplies sewing machines, fabric and pays for instruction by a qualified teacher and volunteers are on hand to assist.
Students Build a Community
Students Build a Community project has two main tracks:
1. To create and establish new foundations in distressed communities based on the education of their children.
2. To assist motivated university students to complete their studies by providing living accommodation and to enrich their lives through community service.
- Students actually live in the neighbourhood – in return for free accommodation they must give 6 hours per week to assist 4 local children with their academic and social skills.
- The children come to the students in their apartments and see how the students live and work.
- Students become role models for the children, showing them by example that they too can achieve their dreams.
- Students also help within the families and in the neighbourhood in general.
- In addition, the students give a further 8 hours per month organising joint social activities for the children.
- After one full year working on the project each student is given the chance to receive an extra scholarship from ESRA to help towards studying and living expenses for the next year. In return they must provide an additional 3 hours of services per week to the community.
Hefzibah, Netanya – 9th year of project: 12 students live in 5 apartments in the neighborhood. 48 children from 3rd - 6th grades, get a minimum of 6 hours of help every week.
Kiryat Nordau, Netanya – 5th year of project: 9 students live in 3 apartments in the neighbourhood, each mentoring 4 children from the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grades for 6 hours a week (36 children in total).
Sela, Netanya – 2nd year of project : 9 students live in 4 apartments in the neighbourhood each mentoring 4 children in the 3rd-6th grades for 6 hours a week for 6 hours a week (36 children in total).
Neot Shaked, Netanya – Project started in September 2015: 8 students live in 3 apartments in the neighbourhood, each mentoring 4 children from the neighbourhood for a total of 6 hours a week (32 children in total)
Each year these projects enrich the lives of 38 students and over 150 children from these distressed communities.
- The Netanya Municipality.
- Netanya Education Department
- The Community Centers of Hefzibah, Neot Ganim, Kiryat Nordau, Neot Herzl and Neot Shaked
ESRA also gives individual scholarships to the students for extra involvement in the communities.
ESRA is a full partner with the Netanya Municipality for all projects and is their preferred partner for future planned similar projects.
ESRA has provided 8 scholarships to students in 2014-5 – through donations from individual donors.
ESRA pays for and organises Bat Mitzvah celebrations and other community activities during the year.
The photo on the right shows representatives of ESRA Tel Aviv Branch at the bursary award ceremony in December 2014
- Rental of apartments for the students
- A professional coordinator for each project
- Scholarships for the students.
- Special activities during the year.
Your donation will enrich the lives of all of the families in these areas and as a result the whole of each community will benefit. Click here to find out how to make your donation.
An ESRA scholarship for a student means involvement with more children at-risk, helping them on the path to achievement!
Your contribution will enrich the lives of the families in these neighborhoods, thereby benefiting the whole community.


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I met him in 1998 in Chicago when he was plain Mr Obama. He wants to rule Russia, he wants to rule the Middle East, he wants to rule Europe, and now he wants to rule Britain. He just cannot keep his snout out of things which should not concern him. This man has enough to worry about--such as all the loonies shooting one another all around his country, and releasing a bunch of terrorists in exchange for a soldier who deserted and put others lives at risk--indeed, if the stories are true, his cowardice COST several good men their lives.
Butt out, Mr Obama. You may think you're God, but in reality you are doing more to help destroy society than you are helping it. If you're so keen on Scotland, how's about leaving the White House and buying yourself a cosy little farm in the Highlands? You could retire here with a few of your cronies--Bush and Blair would be good at herding sheep, and maybe you could hire a few feminists to wait on you hand and foot, and arrange a few of those gay weddings you pretend to approve of. You could sponge off the NHS. In your spare time, you could go out hunting haggis. Some of the politicians you support are so stupid, they probably think they exist. You might also get a little visit from Bowe Beefburgerdahl--though you would have to keep him in a cage to make sure he doesn't run away, and watch out for that man with the beard!
A meddlesome Obama should keep his nose out of our affairs
No one who has studied the history of Britain's so-called special relationship with America will be surprised that the Obama administration is nervous about the idea that we might leave the European Union.
Yet it was outrageous for a White House official to warn this week that our membership of the EU was 'in the American interest' and that pulling out would be a mistake.
State Department official Philip Gordon may hold a post that is the equivalent to a junior under-secretary in our Foreign Office but he is the authentic voice of the Obama administration.
President Obama and David Cameron: Obama's unwelcome interference comes at a most sensitive time, considering that David Cameron is soon due to make a major speech on the subject
Ironically, those on the Left who normally revile America — for its interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, support of Israel and alleged mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay — are happy to use the U.S. official's remarks as a stick with which to beat Mr Cameron.
For their part, it is easy to understand why the Americans are so worried about Britain's relationship with the EU.
Even if the American's grasp the cultural, linguistic and historical differences that separate rather than unite Europe, what business is it of theirs?
Memorial: As we saw in the tragedy at Sandy Hook just before Christmas, when a deranged gunman murdered 20 children and some of their teachers, America is a nation with a vein of psychosis running very near its surface
Ever since the end of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson attended the peace conference at Versailles in 1919, American foreign policy has been consistent. It has wanted to reduce European power and fill the vacuum with its own.
As a result, it has always cultivated officials to interfere in European affairs. The meddlesome Mr Gordon is just the latest.
America is well-versed at patronising and bullying Third World countries, but the consequences of behaving in a similar way towards Britain — a country where a substantial, and growing, number of people are fed up with membership of the EU — are very different.
Outrageous: The arrogance and insensitivity of White House panjandrum Philip Gordon beggar belief
The present discontent among many Britons about Europe is not, as is so often caricatured, a question of our 'sleepwalking towards the exit'.
In fact, we are wide awake. After 40 years of a European project that has meant the loss of sovereignty, and economic turmoil, many of us have decided enough is enough.
If we choose to leave — and I for one hope we do — it will not be on a whim, but after a long period of rational reflection and deep consideration.
A key factor is likely to be the inevitability of Europe becoming more of a superstate as the only way to save the troubled single currency.
This will remove what remains of individual nations' control of their own economic fate.
Unless we wish to join the single currency, the alternative is to make sure we remain outside the main body of the EU. But even this semi-detached position would still mean Britain was subject to its increasingly anti-democratic policies.
The best course for the British national interest would be to get out altogether. But I fear that the Americans do not understand the sense of these arguments. Even if they grasp the cultural, linguistic and historical differences that separate rather than unite Europe, what business is it of theirs?
The arrogance and insensitivity of White House panjandrum Philip Gordon beggar belief. It is almost as if he, and others in the Obama administration, regard Britain as a colony which must defer to the demands of the imperial power.
However, we are not the Puerto Rico of the North Atlantic. And America should get its own house in order before lecturing the rest of us.
It should not surprise the Obama administration, that British politicians, too, are keen to act in their own country's national interest
Its economy is limping and threatens to get worse because of Obama's chronic inability to stop spending money his country doesn't have.
Also, America is a society riddled with inequalities far worse than any seen in Europe, and with communities deeply divided by race as well as by income.
And, as we saw in the tragedy at Sandy Hook just before Christmas, when a deranged gunman murdered 20 children and some of their teachers, it is a nation with a vein of psychosis running very near its surface.
More from Simon Heffer...
- Putin on D-Day beaches violates the very values our heroes died for, by SIMON HEFFER05/06/14
- Talk to Farage, Mr Cameron: SIMON HEFFER outlines a blueprint for a pact between Tories and Ukip26/05/14
- For Essex man, the only way is Ukip, says SIMON HEFFER (who 25 years ago coined the phrase Essex Man)23/05/14
- SIMON HEFFER: The bonfire of taxes that would make Britain boom16/05/14
- Migrants WOULD vote for Dave - if only he acted like a Tory, says SIMON HEFFER09/05/14
- SIMON HEFFER: How Ed's getting redder by the minute03/05/14
- SIMON HEFFER: How CAN we stop Blair sucking up to tyrants?25/04/14
- SIMON HEFFER: Minority rights for Cornwall? We Essex men want them too! Government's grovelling announcement has inspired an almighty outpouring of drivel25/04/14
- SIMON HEFFER: How can this great, UNITED Kingdom - which gave the world Christian civilisation - just tear itself apart?19/04/14
As for Mr Gordon's specific comments about the possibility of Britain holding a referendum on our future membership of the EU, he reveals America's own myopia.
He said: 'Referendums have often turned countries inwards.'
Such a remark is pretty rich coming from an American whose country is one of the most parochial societies in the world. What's good for the U.S. should be good for Britain.
Mr Gordon and his Washington buddies must accept that we, too, should be able to decide what our national interest is — whether America likes it or not.
Labour need big brother
The more perceptive Labour MPs realise two political facts: that their party is on course for a general election victory that will owe nothing to Ed Miliband and everything to Messrs Cameron and Clegg; and that their front bench is seriously underpowered.
Hence all the talk — wishful or informed, one cannot be sure — about David Miliband returning to front-line politics.
His party could do with his experience — particularly of the private sector, where he has trousered large sums of money for himself over recent months.
If there is a Labour Shadow Cabinet reshuffle this summer, though, the Tories must be hoping that the economically illiterate Ed Balls remains as Shadow Chancellor.
I agree! The UK's membership in the EU is none of our business and our left-wing excuse for a President should butt out. One small quibble though, Puerto Rico is a US Territory not a colony. It can leave the US anytime a majority of its voters decides to do so which is something that the States can not do. It is no more of a colony than Yukon is a colony of Canada.
Good article, agree with you. Mr. Cameron needs to listen to this country's voters, first and foremost, in a referendum.
The American administration does not understand the relationship we have with them, let alone the one we have with Europe. Anyway, Don't be fooled. It matters not a jot whether we are in or out of Europe, Business and Trade does not depend on politics. As a retired businessman with years of experience in this field I can tell you that the European Union is based ' Entirely 'upon Political Objective' certainly nothing to do with trade. People will buy products based on quality, price, and availability. No other reason. We Brits are good marketeers when government doesn't interfere so ' My View ' Out, and keep out ' Lose no sleep on trade issues, Unless of course protectionism creeps in. Generally when governments do interfere you have a strong element of corruption involved, so keep them out The only question on Europe is. " Do we want to have a centrally controlled mish mash of nation states headed up by Germany. I thought we already had that discussion, Twice in fact as I recall.
The writer assumes that Americans see the EU similar to the United States. In fact, most Americans do not, instead still seeing it as an economic union similar to the North American Free Trade treaty. Obama is sending this message no doubt because it would be bad for banker friends of his (and he has a LOT) who would lose if the EURO downgraded further, which would be bound to happen if the UK pulled out. It's your country and your sovereignty. We should stay out of it. Choose what you will.
Well you folks wanted him as our president, as did most of Europe--this is what you got. Now you are surprised that he is what many in the US have always known him to be? I guess you finally realized what he really is, because he did something that affected YOU directly. Before that, many of you cared less that his policies are ruining the US,maybe to the extent we will never recover.You just loved the ''cool'' black president! Now you know him for the arrogant lying dictator that we have to deal with 24/7. Better late than never, I guess.
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Set in the future and starring Chibi-Robo, a cigarette lighter-sized robot who loves to help, your job is to assist the curator of a museum by going back in time and taking photographs to fit a series of templates. Naturally, Chibi is in fact jumping back to our time, the camera on your 3DS acting as his lens, letting you frame nearby objects to match the silhouette of each template, a task which starts with readily identifiable everyday bric-a-brac and soon gets much more obscure. Earning new templates means collecting happy points by doing favours for some deeply eccentric characters, your jobs ranging from hoovering and picking up litter, to finding ingredients in a cluttered fridge. It's in these moments that the game loses some of its zing. The photo-taking augmented-reality moments shine, but the rest feels like padding.
Nintendo, £11.69 (download)
Sniper Elite III, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 & PC
The standard-issue grizzled antihero of Sniper Elite III isn't a sniper so much as a one-man Nazi-assassinating special forces team, in this no-frills second world war jaunt. Its penny-pinching sensibilities extend to wobbly controls, rough-and-ready graphics, and enemies who forget about their dead comrades once you've moved a certain distance away, as you singlehandedly change the course of the allies' campaign in north Africa. Stealth is the only viable approach here so you'll have to get used to using ambient noise to mask shots and learn to enjoy running away when guards get suspicious. Shots that connect with the soft parts of enemies treat you to a kill-cam that follows the bullet from the muzzle of your gun to an X-ray view of their exploding brains.
505 Games, £24.98–£45


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Lester and Darlene were both raised on farms in the Swift Current, Saskatchewan area of Canada. During their teenage years, they both sensed a call to foreign missions. Darlene graduated from Millar College of the Bible, Pambrun, SK in 1963. Lester graduated fromSteinbach Bible College in 1964. A year after marriage they were accepted by the Evangelical Mission Conference Board of Missions and served with them in México for a year, and then in Nicaragua for 13 years in church planting and leadership development. Lester then served as a pastor in Saskatchewan for a couple of years. In 1992, Lester took the position of foreign secretary for Latin America with the EMC until 2005. During this time Darlene worked in a Christian Bookstore and served as manager for ten years. They have two married children, Lyndon and Elizabeth, and five grandchildren. Since retirement from active ministry they have been involved with a ministry for Children at Risk (CINAG – Gethsemane Centre for Children at Risk) in Nicaragua, spending up to four months a year in Nicaragua. They are serving as short-term missionaries promoting the ministry of CINAG in Canada and offering consulting services to the board of directors of CINAG. They will continue to serve on site in Nicaragua a couple of months each year. Current Projects:1. Lester and Darlene Olfert support for travel to Nicaragua and local travel in promotion of the ""Gethsemane Centre for Children at Risk"" (CINAG) ministry. 2. Child Sponsorship $40 a month. You can register online to support community children in the Life Skills program. (www.cinag.org) 3. CINAG ministry support for the day program with 30 children and an adolescent program with 25 junior youth.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German broadcaster Deutsche Welle said on Monday it had filed a complaint with a civil court in Ankara seeking the return of a confiscated video interview with Turkey's youth and sports minister.
Turkey confiscated the tape after reporter Michel Friedman asked the minister, Akif Cagatay Kilic, in the Sept. 5 interview about a range of sensitive issues including July's attempted military coup and the mass layoffs and arrests it prompted.
"This is an event that has nothing to do with the rule of law and democracy," Peter Limbourg, director-general of Deutsche Welle, said on Monday.
"We are now using legal methods to demand the prompt return of our video material," said Limbourg, who previously condemned the seizure of the tape as "a blatant violation of press freedom". [nL8N1BI56L]
In Ankara, sports ministry spokesman Ubeydullah Yener said he did not know what the outcome of the court case would be but referred Reuters to an earlier statement, which requests that the interview not be aired and refers to "presumptuous comments and allegations" made by the presenter in the interview.
The case comes at a difficult time in relations between Germany and Turkey.
Critics of German Chancellor Angela Merkel accuse her of turning a blind eye to Turkey's human rights record because she needs Ankara's help in managing Europe's migrant crisis.
Martin Schaefer, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry, said the government accepted Deutsche Welle's decision "to do what it thinks is right to exercise its rights".
The German government said after the incident first erupted earlier this month that it regarded press freedom as "non-negotiable". [nL8N1BJ2PX]
(Reporting by Thorsten Severin in Berlin; Additional reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu in Ankara; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Gareth Jones)


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Poor Little Shyla Trailer (2011)
"Being Challenged Has It's Rewards" 03 June 2011 120 mins
Shyla wants desperately to be part of the cool crowd but the leg braces she wears makes it hard for her to fit in. One afternoon she is subjected to the cruel machinations of Faye and Georgia who forcibly bind and undress her before they are interrupted by Faye's horrified mother. In the ensuing aftermath, parents and therapists attempt to counsel the young girls in order to help them better understand their behavior and lesbian tendencies. The older, more experienced women instruct the girls how to properly explore and satisfy their curiousities. Were the girls acting out or did they really know what they were doing?
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Two days without football – can you believe it? Tulkinghorn couldn't either, and went into hibernation in silent protest at the lack of legitimate reasons to duck out at 4pm for a swift pint or three.
Joachim Fleury, head of TMT at Clifford Chance flew out to Germany for the biggest anti-climax of the World Cup since England's last foray forward – the Argentina vs Netherlands game.
Fleury is Dutch. Being a Europhile kinda guy he wanted to take some German clients but a corruption uproar a few years back means that German lawyers are, or at least Fleury's German lawyers, are unwilling to take gifts.
Foolish boys, or perhaps they knew something the rest of us didn't. But Fleury managed to cunningly get around the problem by inviting a non-lawyer head of M&A, who circumvents the corruption issue because he doesn't officially instruct lawyers. Honest.
Avid readers will recall Tulkinghorn's jealous incredulity at Clifford Chance's audacious show of magic circle wealth, taking a private jet from Alan Sugar's fleet out to the games.
It set a standard to match, but if anyone was going to have a crack at it, you would imagine it would be that global monolith DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary.
Joint global head of TMT Simon Levine and joint global head of litigation Julian Stait went on a joint global jolly to the joint global World Cup match of England v Sweden.
For a such a high profile group of partners escorting about eight or so others, you would have though they would have been able to do better than the cheap seats on Germany's favourite budget airline, Air Berlin.
It's getting to the business end of the tournament, and Tulkinghorn still hasn't managed to sort himself a ticket yet. What a shambles. See you next week for post-England agony or ecstasy.


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Federated's Head Received 58% Bonus Increase for '97
NEW YORK -- Federated Department Stores Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive James Zimmerman received a $700,000 bonus in 1997, up 58% from $443,200 in 1996, according to the company's proxy statement.
The proxy statement, filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, reported that Mr. Zimmerman was granted options of 450,000 shares in 1997. In 1996, he received no options.
Mr. Zimmerman's 1997 base salary rose to...


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A BRAWL landed a man with a fixed penalty notice after officers were alerted to the early morning incident on Shoreham Street in Highfield, Sheffield.
Police arrested one man on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly before issuing the penalty notice. Nobody was injured.
Two men arrested over a fight on a bus in Sheffield have been issued with fixed penalty notices. Police were called to the brawl on the bus on Nursery Street near The Wicker.
A SMOKE alarm installed in a house by firefighters alerted a family-of-six to a kitchen fire. The alarm was fitted at the property on Manor Oaks Road, Wybourn, Sheffield, as part of a community safety initiative. It activated when a grill pan caught fire on Thursday night.
FIREFIGHTERS were called out to the store room of an electrical shop on New Street, Halfway, Sheffield, after a blaze broke out yesterday morning. They extinguished the flames within half an hour and ventilated the room. The cause of the fire is not yet known.
BUXTON Mountain Rescue Team was called to Millers Dale when a 16-year-old girl collapsed on the Monsal Trail. She was treated by paramedics and carried to a waiting ambulance to be taken to Chesterfield Hospital for treatment on Wednesday night.
A MAN in his fifties is on bail after being arrested by police on suspicion of possessing cannabis with intent to supply. He was arrested after officers raided a property on Shirecliffe Road, Shiregreen, Sheffield.
A BMW car found burning on Wensleydale Drive, Brinsworth, Rotherham, had been set alight deliberately. Firefighters were called to deal with the blaze but it was already out when they arrived.
FIRE crews were called out to a skip which was set alight in an arson attack. The fire on Tinker Lane, Hoyland Common, Barnsley, was discovered at 8.10pm on Thursday.
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a foundry in Sheffield after an extraction unit caught fire. The incident at Darwin Alloy Castings, Sheffield Road, Tinsley, did not stop production.
A CAMPER van found burning on Midland Road, Royston, Barnsley, was set alight in an arson attack. Firefighters extinguished the flames.


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Lecturer: Nadia Pisanti
[April 3rd] The lecture of Monday April 24th will not take place.
[March 9th] The papers assignment for the final exam will take place during the lecture of March 30th.
[February 27th] As we agreed, on Monday's the class will start at 14:30. Hence, the class will be 14:30-16:00 with no break.
[February 6th] The first lecture will be on Monday February 20th in room L1.
[February 6th, 2017] (This) Web page for academic year 2016-2017 is created!
This course has the goal to give the student an overview of algorithmic methods that have been conceived for the analysis of genomic sequences. We will focus both on theoretical and combinatorial aspects as well as on practical issues such as whole genomes sequencing, sequences alignments, the inference of repeated patterns and of long approximated repetitions, the computation of genomic distances, and several biologically relevant problems for the management and investigation of genomic data. The exam (see below for its description) has the goal to evaluate the students understanding of the problems and the methods described in the course. Moreover, the exam is additionally meant as a chance to learn how a scientific paper is like, and how to make an oral presentation on scientific/technical topics, that is designed for a specific audience.
A brief introduction to molecular biology: DNA, proteins, the cell, the synthesis of a protein.
Sequences Alignments: Dynamic Programming methods for local, global, and semi-local alignments. Computing the Longest Common Subsequences. Multiple Alignments.
Pattern Matching: Exact Pattern Matching: algorithms (Knuth-)Morris-Pratt, Boyer-Moore, Karp-Rabin with preprocessing of the pattern. Algorithm with preprocessing of the text: use of indexes. Motifs Extraction: KMR Algorithm for the extracion of exact motifs and its modifications for the inference of approximate motifs.
Finding Repetitions: Algorithms for the inference of long approximate repetitions. Filters for preprocessing.
Fragment Assembly: Genomes sequencing: some history, scientific opportunities, and practical problems. Some possible approaches for the problem of assembling sequenced fragments. Link with the "Shortest common superstring" problem, the Greedy solution. Data structures for representing and searching sequencing data.
New Generation Sequencing: Applications of High Throughput Sequencing and its algorithmic problems and challenges. Investigating data types resulting from the existing biotechnologies, and the possible data structures and algorithms for their storage and analysis.
A basic course on algorithmic.
SUFFIX TREE tre.pdf
PATTERN MATCHING patternmatching1.pdf e patternmatching2.pdf
FRAGMENT ASSEMBLY fragmentassembly.pdf
SEQUENCES ALIGNMENTS allineamenti.pdf
FINDING REPETITIONS: FILTERING amb.pdf
NEW GENERATION SEQUENCING illumina-assembly.pdf
OVERVIEW OF SEQUENCING TECNOLOGIES en104-pisanti.pdf
BUBBLES IN DE BRUIJN GRAPHS (slides) seminar-bubbles.pdf
Each student is assigned a paper that is a very recent scientific work on topics related to those of the course (tipically it is a paper accepted for publication in the proceedings of an international conference that is going to be held in a few weeks/months). The paper is part of a pool of possible papers selected by the lecturer. The paper assignment follows a brief description of all papers in the pool made by the lecturer, and a bidding phase of the students over such papers. Once the student has his/her paper assigned, the task is to prepare and make a presentation of that work that: (1) describes the results presented in that paper, (2) is suited for the actual audience (that will be the course class) as for comprehension opportunity, (3) sticks to the allowed time slot.
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Giulio Del Corso. "Dynamic Alignment-free and Reference-free Read Compression"
Andrea Madotto. "AllSome Sequence Bloom Tree"
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Lucio Messina. "Optimal Omnitig Listing for Safe and Complete Contig Assembly"
Federico Umani: "On-line pattern matching on similar texts"
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Matteo Loporchio. "Joker de Bruijn: sequence libraries to cover all k-mers using joker characters"
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February 2009
For "Just One Thing" John Mauldin asked some of the best minds in the world of investing to write down "one best investing concept that you want to pass on to your kids." Their answers edited by Mauldin himself appear one per chapter and are the book.
Another billionaire, Sir R. Allen Stanford of Texas bytes the dust. SEC civil complaint alleges among other charges that Stanford and companies lied about the safety of the Stanford International Bank (SIB) CDs, that they faked historical data of other investments and that they falsely reassured investors that there was no exposure to losses from the Madoff affair. Today federal agents raided the offices of Stanford Financial Group and a U.S. federal judge ordered his assets along with those of his companies frozen and placed into receivership.
At the great risk of alienating all of the gold bugs out there, I hereby solemnly declare that today, February 11, 2009, I sold my entire StreetTracks Gold Trust ETF (GLD) position at $92.87 / share. I bet on gold outperforming by buying into the GLD ETF on 12/30/2004 at $43.80 / share. Now, a little more than 4 years later I got out with a 112% profit (not accounting for commissions).


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Shigaraki, former town, one of the six major pottery centres of ancient Japan, located in southern Shiga ken (prefecture), east of Kyōto and southeast of Nara. The wares for which the town is known were first produced in 1278; they have a crude shape and an oatmeal-like surface covered with various glazes. Water urns, seed jars, and bottles were produced for daily use by the farming community. Shigaraki bowls and jars have been used as utensils in the cha-no-yu (tea ceremony) since 1520. Modern factories produce imitations of the blue splash Kwangtung stoneware of China. Agricultural products of the area include rice, mandarin oranges, tea, and timber. A physical-science research institute is located there. In 2004 the town of Shigaraki merged with surrounding communities to form the city of Kōka. Pop. (2005) Kōka city, 93,853; (2010) 92,704.
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Mike Huckabee Admits Most Conservatives are Birthers
Huckabee said he misspoke about the president's childhood and had meant to reference Mr. Obama's four-year stint in Indonesia. But the explanation was not sufficient for many critics, who noted that Huckabee suggested that the president's views were shaped by growing up in Kenya with a father who sent the message "that the British were a bunch of imperialists." Mr. Obama barely knew his father as a child. […]
He said that "what I have never done is taken to position that Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia or anywhere other than Hawaii where he claims to have been born," adding that he has stuck to that belief even though it "is not a popular position with conservatives."
I'm sure we'll all very impressed with your brave stand against Republican birtherism, Huck. But winking at birth certificate skepticism while simultaneously claiming that Obama's a closet Mau Mau isn't going to win you any non-wingnut friends.


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Republican gubernatorial candidate Rod Roberts is calling for the elimination of the state corporate income tax to help create jobs for unemployed Iowans. The state's unemployment rate increased to 6.7% for the month of November, which is one of the highest unemployment rates for the state since the 1980s. Roberts says the state can reduce its unemployment rate by creating a better business climate in Iowa through the elimination of the corporate income tax.
"We need bold solutions to tackle Iowa's historic unemployment rate," said Roberts, a five-term State Representative from Carroll. "Out-of-work Iowans and their families are struggling. Elimination of the state corporate income tax will help put Iowans back to work in 2010."
Roberts points out that the U.S. News and World Report earlier this year called Iowa the second-worst state in the country to start a new business. Iowa needs to change the perception that it is "bad for business," according to Roberts. He says that elimination of the corporate income tax will lure new companies to the state that will ultimately provide new jobs to help the over 113,000 Iowans who are currently out of work.
"The unemployment rate is as high as it has been in over 20 years. Iowans need action" said Roberts, an Assistant Minority Leader in the Iowa House of Representatives. "By eliminating the corporate income tax, not only will new businesses be drawn to the state for its lower taxes, but existing Iowa businesses will also be in a better economic position to add employees."
Roberts notes that his plan to eliminate the corporate income tax shows how he fundamentally disagrees with Governor Culver on how to put Iowans back to work. Governor Culver and legislative Democrats have borrowed millions of dollars to fund a government-run program called I-JOBS that will provide payments for select business ventures. Roberts disagrees with this government-run plan to create jobs.
"The private sector is better suited to create jobs than state government," said Roberts. "Iowa businesses have long-term success because of entrepreneurship, good management, and hard-working employees. It's unclear how the Governor's plan to dole out taxpayer dollars to select business ventures will encourage these good business practices."
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Himself a house of
A robe of virgin flesh He
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for ay.
Hark, hark, the wise
eternal Word,
Like a weak infant
In form of servant is the
And God in cradles
This wonder struck the
world amazed,
It shook the starry
Squadrons of spirits stood
and gazed,
Then down in troops
they came.
Glad shepherds ran to
view this sight;
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And eastern sages with
Adore this King of
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Generosity is part of a group of character
included in the broader category of love.
"We love, because he first loved us" (1
John 4:19).
Explain to your children that we give
gifts at Christmas to show our love for
others, just as "God so loved the world and
gave his only begotten Son."
• Because
God has been generous to us (Eph. 3:19-20).
• Because
God tells us to (Luke 6:30, 38; Romans 12:8,
13; Eph. 4:28; Isa. 58:10-11; II Cor. 9:7).
• Because
we are stewards of what He has given to us.
Study the characteristics of love and
generosity and what God says about
Wanting and doing the best for another,
expecting nothing in return. Also:
compassion, affection, concern, caring,
empathy, encouraging.
See I Cor. 13; I John 3:17-18; Romans
12:9-10; John 15:12-13; Phil. 2:1-4.
Gladly and unselfishly giving self, time,
talents, money, and possessions. Also:
See II Cor. 9:7; I Tim. 6:18; II Cor.
8:1-5; Heb. 13:16; I Tim. 6:18.
Read and study Bible passages that
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with the following.
• We
must thoughtfully consider the needs of
others in order to meet those needs in a
practical manner.
• We
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attention, conversation, work, service, etc.
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In this issue we offer suggestions for
your family as you prepare for Christmas.
Regardless of objectionable practices of
past and present Christmas observances,
Christian families can focus on the true
reason for the celebration—God's love
in sending us a Savior!
This is an opportunity to teach spiritual
truths to our children and to share the same
Good News to our world today that the angels
proclaimed 2,000 years ago.
May the Lord bless you and your family for
His glory.
By no means! Christmas is the
primary Christian holiday celebrating the
birth of Jesus Christ the Lord.
However, there is no indication that
Christ was born on December 25, and there is
no instruction or example in Scripture of
celebrating His birth. Further, the
celebration of Christmas did originate from a
pagan winter festival and various customs
centuries ago.
Yet today the content of Christmas is a
celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ the
Lord. The old pagan roots of Christmas
are no longer remembered or associated with
Christians' observance of this day.
Christmas provides a unique opportunity
for Christians to proclaim to the world the
good news that a Savior has come—Jesus
Christ the Lord!
Adapted from "Isn't
Easter a pagan holiday?"
At Christmas time, it is appropriate to
include a witness for Christ in our greetings
to extended family, neighbors, and co-workers
in keeping with the holiday. We have a
ready-made opportunity to explain the Good
News of the Gospel.
Your presentation of the good news of
God's gift may take many forms:
These tracts use Scripture to show that
Jesus came to die for man's sin and invite
readers to accept Him.
• Send
cards with a biblical message and/or Bible
verse, write out a verse such as John 3:16,
or include Christmas tracts with all your
Christmas cards.
• If
you mail or e-mail an annual family letter,
include a personal testimony of the Lord's
working in your life, your gratefulness for
His salvation, and a Bible verse.
If you send e-cards (Crosscards,
etc.) or if you have a website or other
online presence, you can include a message
and/or link to the Gospel, such as:
• Scripture:
"The gift of God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23)
"To all who received Him, to those who
believed in His name, He gave the right to
become children of God." (John 1:12)
• Links
to online information and video:
Have you accepted the most precious gift
anyone could ever give you? Read
Watch a free on-line video which clearly
explains how Jesus Christ was born and
why – starting at the very beginning,
at the
dawn of Creation. Watch The
Hope, an 80-minute video.
Prepare a plate of goodies for your
neighbors, friends, and/or family and include
a Christmas tract (see above), a Scripture
portion (see below), or an audio tape or CD
of a book of the Bible.
• Pocket
Testament League offers free copies of
the Gospel of John with different cover
designs and translations.
Everyone loves to hear the familiar
Christmas carols.
• Go
caroling in your neighborhood, in a hospital
or nursing home, or to shut-ins.
• Go
as a family or with another family or group.
• Include
your testimony in just a couple of sentences
between songs, briefly speak of the gospel
message in the songs, and/or pass out
Christmas tracts.
Christmas is a time of giving, modeled on
God's great gift to us. Teach your family how
giving pleases the Lord.
• Model a
free and happy generosity.
• Teach
your child to be thoughtful of those in need
and understand how to meet their needs.
• See
"Teaching the Character Quality of
Generosity" in the sidebar at left.
Talk to your family about those God
told us to give to: prisoners; widows and
orphans; our "neighbors"; the poor,
handicapped, hungry, thirsty, or sick;
strangers, those in need of clothing, and
those that cannot return our gifts.
(See James 1:27; Luke 14:12-14; Matthew
25:35, 36.)
"Let us not love with word or with tongue,
but in deed and truth." (1 John 3:1)
Discuss ways to meet the different needs
of people.
• Some
need material things. Give food, clothes, or
money for housing, utilities, or
transportation to a needy family or
• Some
need friendship, companionship, time, or
service. Make a short visit to a nursing
home, take a meal or a "tea party" to a
shut-in from your church, or help serve a
meal at a rescue mission.
There are several ways that you may become
aware of the needs of others and give to
• You
may know someone to give to directly. This
may be extended family, neighbors, friends,
or acquaintances. (See the story of the
Good Samaritan in Luke 10:30-37.)
• You
may give through your local church, an
example given to us in Scripture. (See
Acts 6:1-7.)
• You
may give through an organization that
ministers in parts of the world with which
you would not come into contact, such as:
for Asia offers you the opportunity to
give the Gospel as well as a practical gift
to meet urgent needs of Dalit ("Untouchable")
families, showing them a tangible expression
of God's life-changing love.
Gospel Rescue Missions present the Gospel,
as well as provide emergency food and
shelter, youth and family services,
rehabilitation programs for the addicted,
education and job training programs, and
assistance to the elderly, poor, and at-risk
youth. See a directory
of missions and "Eight
to Truly Help the Homeless" (including
precautions for your family's safety).
"He who is generous will be blessed, For
he gives some of his food to the poor."
(Proverbs 22:9)
Hospitality is a gift that money cannot
buy, and it is something that God tells us to
give to others (Romans 12:13). You do
not need to do an elaborate dinner or party.
• Ask
a neighbor in for tea.
• Do
not wait until your house looks "perfect" to
practice hospitality.
• True
love will offer the best gift, the Good News
of salvation, along with any gift that
ministers to physical needs (Acts 3:6).
• Give
in the name of the Lord so that He gets the
glory and others are pointed to Him.
Christians' celebration a Christ-centered
Christmas is a testimony to all around us and
can have an impact in the culture warfare
Many do not recognize the extent of
Christian influence on our nation's founding,
giving us a rich Christian heritage, or the
majority of our population that are at least
nominally Christian.
For example, The
Barna Group did a nationwide
survey that revealed that "most American
adults believe that the stories they read in
the Bible can be taken as literal truth" and
that "Three out of four adults (75%) said
that they believe Jesus Christ was born to a
virgin, Mary, as described in the gospel
Some Christian organizations are working
to keep the Christian emphasis in our public
celebration of Christmas in various ways,
such as:
Bruce Barilla furnishes information on right
to display the Nativity scene on public
property at nativityhelp.org
As Christmas nears, Barna (see above)
pointed out that the large majority who
believe in the virgin birth coincides with
the fact that few Americans are offended by
public displays that remind people of the
meaning of Christmas and the importance of
the celebration.
Counsel founder Mat Staver
has launched the seventh annual campaign to
determine what stores want to take "Christ"
out of Christmas.
Liberty Counsel's website has provided
a list for consumers, so people know
where to patronize when they go Christmas
shopping. "The 'Friend or Foe Campaign' is
designed to make sure that Christmas does not
get secularized or censored from its essence,
namely the birth of Jesus Christ," says
Liberty Counsel is also offering a "Help
Save Christmas" action
pack designed to help
show that it is legal to celebrate Christmas.
Also see American Family Association's list
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In a sample of 1,200 children with autism, 49% had wandered, bolted or "eloped" at least once after age 4; 26% went missing long enough to cause their family concern. By comparison, only 13% of 1,076 siblings without autism had ever wandered off at or after age 4, developmentally the age when such behavior becomes less common, finds the study published today in Pediatrics. Among children with autism who went missing, 65% had close calls with traffic; 24% were in danger of drowning.
"Elopement is one of the very few problems in autism that is life-threatening," says pediatrician Paul Law.... "It is probably one of the leading, if not the leading, causes of death in children with autism," he says.
- USA Today 10/8/12
Thursday was a snow day. You know, because school being closed for a week for Frankenstorm and then again Tuesday for Election Day wasn't enough of a disruption to our routine. So Ryan was playing in the snow in our yard, and I was wandering in and out of the house, sometimes playing with him, sometimes enjoying being warm with a cup of tea like a civilized grown-up. I marveled at the fact that I could leave him in the yard to play on his own - a huge change from last winter, when we lived in a 9th floor apartment and I had to watch him constantly to make sure he wasn't running off somewhere.
So he's playing outside, and I suggested, "Would you like to go sledding? I'll go inside and look up where we can go, and then we can get your snow pants and go sledding later." I went to the computer, looked at maps, figured out a likely place to sled. I did a few of minutes of work, as long as Ryan was content playing outside. Then I went to check on him.
And he was gone.
I searched the back yard, the front yard, inside the house. I looked for footprints in the snow that would indicate where he had gone. No clues.
Then I noticed the sled was missing from the porch. And I realized that all Ryan had heard me say before was "Would you like to go sledding." So he had taken the sled in search of a hill.
I suppressed a heart attack and thought like Ryan. Wednesday afternoon, he and I had taken a walk around the neighborhood looking for someplace to go sledding; we found nothing, and we got pelted with icy wind the whole mile we ended up walking. So using Ryan logic, I figured he had probably taken off on the same route we had walked the previous day. I got in my car and drove slowly through the neighborhood, retracing our Wednesday steps.
And there he was, at the halfway point of the route, just hanging out on the side of the road with a sled.
I got out of the car and started shouting, "What the hell were you thinking?" while pulling him into a hug. He clearly had no idea he had done anything wrong.
"Sledding," he explained.
I threw his sled into the car and told him to get in.
"Where are my snow pants?" he asked.
"They're at home. Where you're supposed to be."
I made a speech about how he can't leave our yard without telling me where he's going; he ignored me and requested hot chocolate.
An hour later, I tried explaining the problem again.
"When you left home before, I didn't know where you were, and I was very worried."
Something about this registered with him. His face looked concerned and surprised, and he gave me the most sincere "I'm sorry, Mommy" he could muster.
But I know this won't stop him from going off on his own in the future. The police have brought him back to me before, and I won't be surprised if something similar happens again.
My mother suggested I have a RFID chip implanted in Ryan's ear. I'm investigating more realistic solutions first.


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Your pretty card looks so dreamy in the shades of lilac Susan, like a Summer meadow.
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Really gorgeous card Susan, hope you are doing ok.xx{aNNie}
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Gorgeous Suzan.
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Gorgeous canvas!
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Hi Susan,
what a very gorgwous card, and I love your wonderful design.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.
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Amazing project. Love the colours and all the details.
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Lovley card, Susan, well done!! Do love the colours and design elements.
I've just joined your nlgo too an shoe you might pop over my way too.
Thanks for sharing your inspiration!
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This is a great canvas Susan - especially as it is in my favourite colour! Love those little rolled roses and the butterflies flying above the stamped flowers. I've really enjoyed looking at all the details. Hugs to you Sue Pxxx (just popped over from Allsorts)ReplyDelete
WOW What a pretty canvas, Love all the detail on it, just popped by via Allsorts, Love HazelxxReplyDelete
Beautiful spring colors and gorgeous blossoms!ReplyDelete
Super creation. Love soft colors you used anddies you combined on canvas.
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Absolutely magical!!! Love the pre-dawn feel of the colors. Gorgeous work!
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Basham facing lengthy absence
Blackpool midfielder Chris Basham has broken his leg and faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines.
Last Updated: 02/12/10 5:25pm
Blackpool midfielder Chris Basham has broken his leg and faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines, Ian Holloway has confirmed.
The 22-year-old, who has made just three first-team appearances this term, sustained the injury playing for the Pool reserves last week.
Manager Holloway has revealed the youngster, who arrived at Bloomfield Road from Bolton in the summer, will be out for a while, but could return before the end of the season.
Holloway said: "It is not good news for him but it is not career-threatening.
"It is another setback. He is a young lad I paid a lot of money for in the summer and I was working him in two or three different positions.
"But there is a chance he could be back before the end of the season."


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Prof T.Ramesh
C.Vineela Rao (CS08763)
D.Vijay Chekravarthy (CS08712)
Y.Sanath Chandra (CS08764)
K.Anil Kumar (CS08725)
A university portal which caters to the above mentioned problems is the solution
Prerequisite : For a student to register in his/her department, he/she should have a bank account in bank related to the institute
Types of Users:
Functions of General User :
Additional functionalities of Admin : students with scholarships/bank loans they are given intimation about it in their profile or by email and they have to pay their fees with DD/Challan.