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By taking part in Den Day, you and your children will be raising money to help make life better for children all over the world. These great ideas will help you make the most of your fundraising.
Raise money however you like on Den Day, follow these top tips to take your fundraising far! Every penny you raise could help children who don't have somewhere safe to sleep tonight.
- Ask children to get sponsored by friends and family to take part in Den Day. Find sponsorship forms in your fundraising kit or set up an online fundraising page
- Organise an overnight stay – give pupils the chance to set up camp in your school hall and get sponsored to do it.
- Collect a £2 donation from each child as an alternative to getting sponsored.
- Raffles, bake sales and dress-down days – add these classic fundraisers to your Den Day to raise even more money to transform children's lives.
- Den Day gallery – invite parents along to admire their children's den creations in exchange for a donation.
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- Set up an online fundraising page – and share it with your friends on Twitter and Facebook.
- Ask your best donors to donate first – a few generous donations at the start will encourage others.
- Hold a Den Day party – invite friends and family round to join in the fun, like four-year-old Holly (below) did, or turn your den into a pop-up hotel and ask people to pay to stay.
Holly held a Den Day party at home to raise money. She even baked cakes to sell, along with ice lollies and drinks.
"Holly was really excited," mum Kate said. "She even saved her sweets from holiday to give out to her friends as a thank you for supporting us!"
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Knicks vs. Cavaliers - 12/4/14 NBA Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Cleveland Cavaliers (9-7) at New York Knicks (4-15)
NBA Basketball: Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 8:00 pm (Madison Square Garden)
The Line: New York Knicks +7.5 -- Over/Under: 199 See the Latest Odds
The Cleveland Cavaliers and New York Knicks play Thursday night at Madison Square Garden.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are starting to show signs of life, as they've won four straight games. On the season, the Cavaliers are averaging 103.8 points on 43.6 percent shooting and are allowing 99.9 points on 46.4 percent shooting. LeBron James leads the Cavs with 24.9 points and 7.4 assists while Kyrie Irving is averaging 21.5 points and 4.9 assists. kevin Love is averaging 17.9 points on 45.4 percent shooting and Anderson Varejao is grabbing seven rebounds per game. The Cleveland Cavaliers have always been able to score points by the truckload, but it's their defense that's improve most during this stretch, as they're allowing just 42.2 percent shooting in their last five games. This begins a three-game road trip for the Cavs, and they're 3-3 SU away from home.
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The New York Knicks have lost five straight and are in serious danger of missing the playoffs. On the season, the Knicks are averaging 93.4 points on 44.8 percent shooting and are allowing 99.1 points on 44.8 percent shooting. Carmelo Anthony leads the Knicks with 23.5 points and 6.1 rebounds while Amar'e Stoudemire is averaging 12.8 points and 7.9 rebounds. Jose Calderon is shooting 51.7 percent from beyond the arc and Iman Shumpert has scored 15 points in his last two games. The New York Knicks main struggles all year have been on the offensive side, but the numbers have gotten even worse, as they're shooting just 41 percent from the field in their last five games. J.R. Smith is probable for this matchup despite an illness.
The Cavaliers are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 road games and 5-1 ATS in their last 6 road games vs. a team with a losing home record. The Knicks are 15-5 ATS in their last 20 Thursday games and 1-9 ATS in their last 10 home games. The Cavaliers are 2-5 ATS in the last 7 meetings and the road team is 6-2 ATS in the last 8 meetings.
Can we completely buy that the Cavs are back? I'm not sure. I do know that the Knicks are in desperation mode and usually show up at home during primetime games. I'll take the Knicks and the points, especially considering NY has already beaten the Cavs this season.

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I am running 8 different databases on 1 server, in my services overview I have 8 different OracleService<DATABASENAME> entries.
Once all databases are up and running I can't distinguish in my taskmanager wich oracle.exe matches wich OracleService. How can I accomplish this ?
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Not quite the answer to the question you were asking, but if you look at this:
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The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated.Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand.
Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King's Poor People's March.But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party - where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heaven ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird.
Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Album, 2002
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For All Round Pain - Paracetamol - Caplets
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Review of "Boots Value Health Paracetamol Caplets"
My beautiful mum passed away this year and I had lost my way and mojo writing reviews but am hoping that I can have it back soon. Having more down days recently than up but getting there slowly.
"Cheap price for pain relief."
I have been buying these caplets for quite some time now because they are really cheap and very affordable and I have found over the years the cheaper brands work just as well for me as the branded ones and so I usually buy the non branded unless I run out of them and have to buy the more expensive variety.These caplets are Boots own brand and they only cost 16p for 16 caplets, a bargain price in my opinion, they come in a cardboard box and the tablets are encased in a silver strip of which the tables are inside and can easily be popped from the strip, there are 2 strips of which there are 8 in each. This is handy because it means I can carry a strip in my bag for when I need them outdoors and the size of the strips are approximately 2 and a half inch square and so they take little room in a bag or hand bag.
The actual strength of these are 500mg and they are designed for mild to moderate pain relief and although they are for this level of pain I find they work perfectly for my relief and I have a little higher than these amounts at times and they suit me well and they work. I have used them for when I have headaches mainly and for when I have had pain if I have fallen and had a few bruises and the pain from the bruises have caused me discomfort as I fall quite often at times and so these have helped to ease the pain.They are small caplets with a groove in the centre if you struggle to swallow tablets, as some people often do, I myself can swallow tablets with no problems at all but if you need to snap them in half they are a handy little tablet for this purpose. They are slightly coated and they are handy for me to swallow if I am outdoors and have no drink to swallow them as I often do not carry a drink outdoors and I have had no problems to take them this way.
The dosage is to take no more than 2 every for hours and to not exceed more than 8 caplets per day, the same as most other pain killers. It also tells me on the box to do not take them for more than 3 days without consulting a doctor. I do not take these kind of pain relief constantly for more than 3 days and so they are fine for my pain. I have found they helped in recent months with a gum problem, my gums were quite sore for a good few weeks and these caplets helped with some of the pain and gave me a little relief, although they could not take the pain away completely, they certainly helped a little to help me feel a little more comfortable and a little happier.I have not felt any sickness while taking these as I have occasionally when taken some tablets of this kind, these ones are gentle on my stomach and caused me no problems at all. I have found they work a treat to ease pain and remove it in no time. I usually take these when I have a persistent headache that I cannot seem to shift. They are excellent for any pain relief such as toothache, muscle pain and any pain that a table of this kind can remove. I have even taken some of these when I once trapped my finger in a door and it throbbed like hell, a couple of these helped to ease the throbbing in an hour or so and a couple more after 4 hours and the pain was removed. As I am getting older I am finding that pain is a little bit more annoying and troublesome, such as an headache and so I am reaching for these kind of tablets more frequently because they are so cheap and they work out at just 1p per tablet and so good value for the price in my opinion and you just cannot go wrong with that price.
I highly recommend these for anyone to buy as they are so affordable and they work for me and I cannot honestly tell the difference with the branded ones and these cheaper tablets. I will always buy cheaper pain killers and I will continue to buy these ones in the future because they work for me perfectly. These give me all the results that I expect from a cheap brand of paracetamol caplets.I give them 5 stars.
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Coloneljohn published 02/11/2011Branded ones can be so costly when these work just as well. John
pgn0 published 29/10/2011Cheap is good when it comes to painkillers - I remember making salicylic acid, the chief analgesic constituent of aspirin tablets, in the chemistry lab when I was at school! That some companies can charge a small fortune for something so simple to mass-produce never fails to amaze me!
Novabug published 27/10/2011Same as Sue for me too. :)
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It was Friday, under the sign of Pisces. The US president was Bill Clinton (Democratic).
Famous people born on this day include Josh Sobo and Martin Jurtom.
In that special week of March people in US were listening to The Sign by Ace Of Base.
In UK Without You by Mariah Carey was in the top 5 hits.
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, directed by Peter Segal, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1994
while The Client by John Grisham was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing BloodStorm or Battle Frenzy.
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Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable and even ridiculous to hold the opposite opinion. However, if we consider it more closely the question will be seen to be still unsettled, and so decidedly not to be despised. For every apparent change in respect of position is due to motion of the object observed, or of the observer, or indeed to an unequal change of both.
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that the book will contain as it were the general structure of the universe. In the remaining books I relate the motions of the remaining stars, and all the spheres, to the mobility of the Earth, so that it can be thence established how far the motions and appearances of the remaining stars and spheres can be saved, if they are referred to the motions of the Earth.
In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.
For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.
Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
Not only the phenomena of the others followed from this, but also it so bound together both the order and magnitude of all the planets and the spheres and the heaven itself, that in no single part could one thing be altered without confusion among the other parts and in all the universe.
The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the stars' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings . . . for what is more beautiful than heaven?
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The child sex ring, dubbed the Dirty Dozen, targeted youngsters and may even have passed on their victims for MPs to abuse.
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1. I have been thinking about how cool it would be to forget this imaginary teaparty stuff and have a real teaparty! Would that not be fun? I think SCS needs to come up with some sorta special SCS cardmaker time travel machine that we could all jump into on Tuesdays, hit a magic red button and end up at a place like this! Tea, cookies, teapotter camaraderie! A placed called Teapot Tuesday Teapotville!
2. However, don't you be thinking that all is well in Teapotville! Yes, the clouds are in the shape of hearts, the shrubs are strawbabies, raspbabies, and bluebabies! There is always a beautiful blue sky, the weather is perfect and the cookies are unlimited. And the ultimate draw? There are many, many places cookies can be hidden! Snort! The problem is, Cruella Deville has moved to Teapotville! After many a year, she promply moved here. She'd become worn out and tired, all the help that she'd hired, she had promptly just fired. They didn't do their job, they'd lost track of the mob, of black and white puppies who belonged to the yuppies! As she was sipping from her cup, she'd decided to give up! She thought.....the only thing for me, is a continual cup of hot tea! She's turned her attention from polka dotted pups to retirement, relaxation, tea pots and tea cups! This place call Teapotville is perfect for Cruella Deville!
3. But after a year, the town lives in fear! A hot cup of tea is no longer working, the town hides in fear and moves around lurking! They are painfully aware, she's pulling out her hair, from boredom, depression and just plain ole despair! Her mood is just fowl, kinda like Simon Cowell! Oh my! That noise was so shrill! It was Cruella Deville! She's running up that hill after her Cadillac Seville! Oh no! Sweet Mr. McGyver, her kind little driver, is no longer employed just like the gardener, Lloyd. Unemployment has begun to soar, the total is now 42,000 and 4! The town council must meet, hurry up, send a tweet! This meeting's called to order a little early in the quarter! The order of business on this fine Fall day is to come up with a way to end our dismay! What is that Tia? You have an idea? Cruella will be 67 on September 11! We gotta come up with some cash for a big birthday bash! All those in favor, say Aye. Those opposed, go blow your nose! Our plan won't be easy, it sorta makes me feel queasy!
4. That's the plan, Stan. Stan was the unfortunate poor soul who drew the short stick and now finds himself to be Teapotville's new party planner! He's short on experience but is up for the challenge. There is always a teaparty being held somewhere in Teapotville where there are those willing to share their expertise in the planning of parties! Happy Birthday Cruella! You're about to be happy!
Lots of good conversation ahead for us Teapotters! Share your favorite, most happy birthday! Your best birthday memory! What you did, what you got, how old you were, what made it special. Was it a party, was it a trip, were there balloons, what kind of cake? How many people were there? Who were they? Did you blow out some candles? Did your wish come true? Did your friends surprise you? Was it quiet with just two? Did your family come through?
If your favorite birthday memories had anything at all to do with black and white polka dotted dalmation puppies, you must come in the back door! Are you kidding me? So you want to take that chance? A word of of advice, you'd be better off bringing mice!
Option One ~ Make a birthday card using what you think makes a birthday special. Cake, confetti, candles and balloons, lots of presents, lots of friends, lots of fun!
Option Two ~ Make a card displaying in paper your memory of one of your fondest birthdays. It does not have to look like a birthday card but your commentary when you upload should explain a little about that birthday. Where you went, what you did, who you were with, you get the picture!
All the extra cookies will probably be eaten at Cruella's birthday bash but as I mentioned before there are lots of wonderful hiding places for cookies in Teapot Tuesday Teapotville. So, no worries there, you get extra cookies for including a hand written (or typed) letter inside your card to the recipient of this week's DESTINATION STATION sharing your most fond memory of a birthday past! The hidden cookies are birthday cake cookies! Whoot!
It's a surprise! A surprise how to get extra, extra cookies! You can find out how to earn them when you read this week's post in the Destination Station thread! Whoot! It's easy and involves just three little words!
This week our destination is a Philadelphia, PA. If you would like a destination for your card this week, how about sending it to Eula! Eula is celebrating her 110th birthday on September 14th. This is the third birthday we have helped Eula to celebrate. She was originally brought to our attention in 2010 at age 108 by Lorraine
Lorraine has a friend (Jackie) who met Eula and became very good friends! Eula is an amazing women, she's colorful and fun!
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Amendments and New Clauses to be Moved on Behalf of the Government
(Sheet Number QS391)
(Circulated by authority of Senator the Hon. Helen Coonan,
Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts)
The Bill implements the Government's longstanding commitment to reform Australia's outdated media ownership laws while protecting the public interest in a diverse and vibrant media sector.
Foreign ownership
The Bill will remove broadcasting-specific restrictions on foreign investment in Australia's media sector.
Cross-media ownership
The Bill will permit cross-media mergers in radio licence areas where sufficient diversity of media groups remains following the merger. At least five separate media groups will be required to remain after any merger activity in mainland State capitals, and four groups in licence areas elsewhere, including regional areas. Any media merger, including one that is not a cross-media merger, will not be permitted if it would reduce the number of media groups in a licence area below the minimum level.
To ensure compliance with the minimum number
of separate media groups rule, the Australian Communications and
Media Authority (the ACMA) will maintain a Register of Controlled
Media Groups identifying the ownership and control of media groups
in each licence area. A person who undertakes a transaction
that breaches the BSA will be guilty of an offence, and may be
ordered by the ACMA to divest licences or newspapers to return to
compliance with the Act.
Public disclosure of cross-held entities
The Bill will establish a requirement for public disclosure when a media outlet reports on the activities of a cross-held entity.
Regional protections
The Bill requires that all mergers involving commercial radio, commercial television and Associated Newspapers within a regional radio licence area will be required to obtain a clearance from the ACCC prior to transacting.
The ACMA will be required to impose licence conditions on commercial television licensees in regional Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania from 1 January 2008 to provide minimum levels of content on matters of local significance. Licence conditions were put in place by the ABA in 2003 in those markets following an investigation undertaken in response to the closure of local news services. A requirement for licence conditions will also be extended to Tasmanian licensees.
The Bill establishes local content licence conditions and Local Content Plans for regional radio licensees. These are intended to provide protection for local content on radio in regional areas. They will apply where control over a commercial radio licence is transferred or becomes part of a merged media group. These requirements may also be imposed if the format of a commercial radio service is narrowed or the Minister directs the ACMA to consider imposing them. These conditions will establish minimum standards for local news and weather bulletins, local community service announcements, emergency warnings and minimum service standards for other types of local content, if specified by the Minister by legislative instrument. Licensees subject to these conditions will be required to maintain existing higher services, and maintain existing levels of local presence.
Licensees will be required to demonstrate in a Local Content Plan (LCP) how they will meet the local content licence conditions and what resources they will have in place to meet the requirements.
Government Amendments
An unintended consequence of the definition of regional licence areas in the Bill was the inclusion of the Western Suburbs Sydney RA1 licence area in the category of regional licence areas. This licence area incorporates much of the Sydney metropolitan area and serves the Sydney community, and its inclusion as a regional licence area is inconsistent with the policy intention of the Bill.
The amendment will define the Western Suburbs Sydney RA1 licence area as a metropolitan licence area for the purposes of the Bill. That area will therefore be a metropolitan area for the purposes of the cross-media amendments made by the Bill, and will not be covered by the regional protection measures in the Bill. This ensures that licensees in a licence area that predominantly serves metropolitan Sydney and which is identified entirely with the western Sydney community are not, for the purposes of the protection of media diversity and local content, regulated as regional licensees.
The amendments are not expected to have any significant impact on Commonwealth expenditure or revenue.
Amendment (1)
Amendment (1) replaces the definition of "metropolitan licence area" in new section 61AA of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (the BSA).
The new definition includes the Western Suburbs Sydney RA1 licence area. That area does not contain the Sydney GPO, so would not otherwise be a metropolitan licence area for the purposes of new Division 5A of Part 5 of the BSA (inserted by item 8 of Schedule 1 to the Bill). Division 5A replaces the BSA cross-media rules with a prohibition on mergers and acquisitions that reduce the number of independently controlled media operations below 5 (in metropolitan licence areas) or 4 (in all other licence areas - defined as regional licence areas).
The amendment means that the Western Suburbs Sydney RA1 licence area will be a "metropolitan licence area" for the purposes of Division 5A. This reflects the fact that the Western Sydney licence predominantly serves the western suburbs of the city of Sydney, and that the licensee operating in Western Sydney is significantly different in its programming and intended audience from the regional radio licensees to which Division 5A is intended to apply.
Amendment (2)
New Division 5C of Part 5 of the BSA, inserted by item 7 of Schedule 2 to the Bill, introduces minimum local news and information requirements for regional commercial radio licensees.
Amendment (2) makes the same amendment to the definition of "metropolitan licence area" in new section 61CA of the BSA as Amendment (1) makes to new section 61AA.
The effect of Amendment (2) is that the Western Suburbs Sydney RA1 licence area will not be subject to the requirements in Division 5C. This reflects the fact that the Western Sydney licence predominantly serves the western suburbs of the city of Sydney, and that the licensee operating in Western Sydney is significantly different in its programming and intended audience from the regional radio licensees to which Division 5C is intended to apply.


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The Economy Primary
Monday, February 4, 2008
With the electorate increasingly focused on the nation's sagging economy, the fight for "economy voters" has become a central front in the battle for the GOP nomination. In nearly every early-voting state, the winner prevailed among those most concerned about the economy.
More than half of those voting in Michigan's Republican primary called the economy the single most important issue facing the country. But the issue was considered tops not just in the economically hard-hit state, but also in Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In Iowa, one-fourth of GOP caucusgoers said it was their single biggest concern.
Only in South Carolina did the victor not carry economy voters. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who won the state, split economy voters with former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who finished second.
Heading into Super Tuesday, a new Washington Post-ABC News national poll shows that concerns about the economy have gripped Republicans across the rest of the country. Asked an open-ended question about the presidential campaign, nearly four in 10 Republicans listed the economy and jobs as the election's top issue, about triple the number saying so in early September.
No GOP candidate has clearly established himself as the consensus leader on the economy. McCain holds a double-digit lead over his remaining rivals on the issue, but among the conservatives who make up the core of Republican primary voters, there is an even divide: 36 percent favor former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, 32 percent trust McCain more.
In follow-up interviews with poll respondents, ambivalence about the field of candidates and concern about the economy went hand in hand.
"No doubt right now it's the economy," Helen Sinclair Gaevert, a retired nurse and nursing professor from Seattle, said of her top concern. Most worrisome to her is the nation's escalating mortgage crisis. She knows people who have lost their homes because of bad loans, "and [they're] not poor people," she said.
She has been unimpressed by the answers McCain, Romney and Huckabee have provided. "I sincerely believe in the part of the Republican tenet that says that the government ought not to do anything for you that you can do yourself," she said. "I'm just not really wild over the candidates that are being presented."
Mark Barrett, of Orange County, Calif., expressed similar feelings. "I'm still on the fence," he said. "I'm going to wait until the last minute to make my decision."
His top two issues are the economy and national defense -- day-to-day issues, he called them. "McCain would be fine for national defense, but in terms of the economy, I think he would raise taxes," Barrett said. He thinks Romney would be good for the economy, but he is unsure about Romney's national security experience.
Barrett was most impressed with a candidate who recently dropped out of the race.
"Truth is, I liked Fred Thompson a lot," Barrett said. "In the debates, I liked what he had to say, I agreed with his issues, what he had to say in terms of national defense on Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and on the economy in cutting more taxes. Sadly, this time around that's just not it for the Republicans. We're not going to get the whole package."


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The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has announced that slow-moving funeral processions or convoys are no longer allowed on major roads of Metro Manila. This is part of the Inter-Agency Council on Traffic's (i-ACT) effort to improve the worsening traffic conditions in the metropolis.
After a recent consultation meeting, a general agreement between i-ACT and the funeral services industry has been reached. Some of the guidelines are as follows:
(1) The funeral convoy must move at normal traffic speed once it leaves its origin.
(2) Convoys must obey traffic rules especially the traffic light which means the convoy should stop or gets cut on a red light.
(3) For those who will be walking, as per tradition/culture, designated walk areas will be identified based on the assessment of the funeral parlors.
According to the MMDA, this is now being enforced until the end of the year to prevent the traffic build up caused by slow-moving funeral convoys on busy streets. This will then be re-assessed, fine-tuned, and recalibrated soon after.
Member–agencies of the i-ACT are continuously exploring and consulting every sector of society because we believe that we need not only the active participation of government but also of the private entities as well to come up with traffic solutions," said MMDA General Manager Tim Orbos.
The i-ACT is made of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), MMDA, Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG), Land Transportation Office (LTO), and Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB). It is an organization that focuses on addressing traffic-related issues.
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Naked man falls from hotel window minutes after Armistice Day commemorations
A NAKED man fell from a fourth floor hotel window in Glasgow moments after people had observed the Armistice Day commemorations.
Police cordon off the area where the naked man fell
Passers-by reported the incident after seeing the man fall from the Central Hotel in the Scottish city which adjoins Glasgow Central Station.
One witness said the police were holding the man by his ankles as he was hanging out of a window before he fell onto a coffee shop table below.
The witness, who did not want to be named, said: "There was a crowd, the guy was already hanging out the window.
Police search the Glasgow coffee shop below the hotel
"The police and the attendants had him by the ankles.
"He had his socks on, no other clothes on, and was hanging upside down.
"He was fighting away from the people who were trying to pull him back in to the window.
Emergency services arrive on the scene
"You could see him actively pushing away off the window ledge and before long he fell.
"He fell head-first and crashed into the tables of the coffee shop at Central station.
"There had been an area cleared. He's destroyed a few coffee tables. It's sad, just shocking to see."
A policeman stands guard after cordoning off the area
Emergency services, including a number of police vans and ambulances attended the scene and cordoned off the area, including both entrances to the Gordon Street.
The man was taken to hospital shortly after 11am.
His condition is not yet known.
Police outside the Glasgow Central Hotel
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: "Police Scotland can confirm emergency services are in attendance after a man fell from a window in Gordon Street, Glasgow.
"There are no details on injuries and the man is being taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital."
Emma Baxter said: "Can't stop shaking after what just happened at Glasgow Central Station."
Simone Low added: "A man has just jumped from the 3rd or 4th floor outside my office at Glasgow Central Station, the street is cordoned off... I can't believe it."
Robert J Somynne stated: "Just saw a man fall from the third floor of the hotel at central station in Glasgow onto the pavement in front of me. Praying for the guy."


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The co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus says that new details about the Obama Administration's secretive drone war call for heightened oversight.
"The Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept echo what the Congressional Progressive Caucus has been saying for years. America's drone program needs transparency and oversight," said Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., in a statement e-mailed to the Intercept.
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Two bills filed to combat domestic violence in Texas
AUSTIN - Texas State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) authored and filed two important bills addressing domestic violence in Texas. The two pieces of legislation aim to inform the public of repeat offenders and to increase the punishment given to repeat offenders.
"Domestic violence is a growing epidemic with tragic consequences," said Rep. Villalba. "We need to send a strong message that this behavior will not be tolerated and that repeat offenses will be met with the harshest penalties available under the law. Domestic abusers must understand that they cannot threaten, intimidate or harm those around them - and if they do - they better be prepared for Texas-sized consequences," Villalba continued.
"We applaud Representative Jason Villalba's efforts to hold accountable those persons who perpetrate family violence," added Jan Langbein, CEO of Genesis Women's Shelter and Support in Dallas. "We know that abuse in the home will never stop until abusers stop abusing."
Rep. Villalba authored and filed House Bill 524, which will make the 3rd conviction involving domestic violence a second degree felony offense, requiring incarceration for at least two years. Currently, a first offense for domestic (or family) violence is a Class A misdemeanor, a second offense is a third degree felony, and the third offense, and all offenses thereafter are also third degree felonies. Under Rep. Villalba's proposed legislation, if an offender is convicted of domestic violence a third time, the offender will be sentenced to prison, where such offender shall be required to serve the longer of two years or the minimum of one half of the length of the sentence, prior to being eligible for consideration for parole.
Rep. Villalba also authored and filed House Bill 525, relating to a central database containing information about offenders who have committed certain offenses against children or offenses involving family or dating violence. This bill requires that the Department of Public Safety maintain a computerized central database containing public information about offenders who have been convicted of three or more family violence crimes. The bill establishes that the information contained in the database is public information with the exception of the person's social security number, driver's license number, telephone number or any information that would identify the victim of the offense with respect to which the affirmative finding was made. This amendment to the Government Code is meant to aid in the safety of our families and community.
"The combination of these two bills sends a powerful message to repeat abusers - if they engage in domestic violence, there will be severe, long-term consequences," said Rep. Villalba. "It's time to take action to put an end to domestic violence in Texas. For far too long, we have talked about ways to combat this issue without taking real and tangible steps that will result in reducing these crimes. Today, we are taking action and all abusers in Texas need to be on notice that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and that if they continue to abuse a spouse or a loved one they will go to jail."
Under Texas statute, domestic violence is referenced as family violence and defined as an act by a member of a family or household against another member of the family or household that is intended to result in physical harm, bodily injury, assault or sexual assault or that is a threat placing the member in fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, assault or sexual assault, not including self-defense measures. It also includes abuse by a member of a family or household toward a child of the family or household and dating violence.
Representative Jason Villalba represents Lake Highlands, Preston Hollow and North West Dallas in the Texas House of Representatives. Rep. Villalba, a graduate of Baylor University and the University of Texas School of Law, was first elected to House District 114 in November of 2012. He is a proud, fourth-generation Texan and the first in his family to attend college. Prior to attending law school and becoming a partner in a major Texas law firm, Rep. Villalba held the positions of financial analyst and economist for a Fortune 500 Company located in Dallas.


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Tannishtha attended the opening night of London Indian Film Festival last month looking great in a chiffon gown. If we'd change one thing about the look, it would be the gold clutch. It didn't gel with the gunmetal embellishment of the gown.
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Re: [PanoToolsNG] Re: Macro panoramas with webcam
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- I think the original poster said he wanted to photograph ants.?
I'd love to see a 360 from inside an active wasps' nest after finding a 3 tiered
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- Here is another kind of "orbit" webcam, also good for capturing panoramic views
... I've programmed it to look where I want pretty much
This movie is actually with my Logitech/Sunex webcam, being about the central 140 degrees of the fisheye view. The lighting is from the LED on the webcam -- a handy thing for closeup views, pity it is red.
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> Gotham City! The first thing I thought was Batman.
> The images stitch well.
> What if you moved the lens farther from the sensor so that you
> could take 4 around. More detail. Sharper -- maybe? Or would you
> loose focus?
> panovrx wrote:
> > Ok here is a work in progress
> > http://www.mediavr.com/bridgestmodel.htm
> > This model is very dark in sections with the available lighting and looks much more colorful (though less atmospheric) with flash -- so I will try a panorama with flash next.
> > Here btw is what it looks like with flash (with my Canon TX1 cameras)
> > http://www.mediavr.com/3d/?p=46
> >
> > Here are some shots of the model with the standard Zeiss lens on the webcam
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A few years after the Russian Revolution, Lenin was asked to define the distinctive features of his country's regime. The reply was terse: "electricity plus Soviets". For decades afterwards, the USSR's rush to industrialise, based on polluting, energy-guzzling factories, remained the model throughout the Soviet empire - and the region's environment and its people are still paying the price to this day.
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Apple Store Sales Legion high brand loyalty with a low hourly tug (lower)
[Reprinted from the Digital Era Network Contributor: Chen Di Ya compile Date: 2012/06/28]
Diehard Apple fans do not care about salary?
Finally have a point!
Both of the above it can be low-paid and non-Apple pumped into the means of employment will be sold to the super-academic staff of the University of reasons, this is great feeling for the service of the Apple Store employees almost never feel dissatisfied.
In addition, Apple Store sales staff generally younger; MIT School of Management professor Paul Osterman said: "Young people working different values, they can look at low-paying different eyes." He said: "We will think Wal- Mart paid an hourly wage of 9 yuan single mother is very excessive, but we do not think that Apple paid a young man $ 12 an hour where there is nothing wrong. "
When the Apple Store's store managers and looking for a job interview the interviewer, store manager said the company will probably want every employee at least six years of service, but according to former Apple Store employee Shane Garcia said that the average service time for each employee for two years half, especially when the iPhone and iPad more and more popular, more and more busy work, the working environment has become increasingly noisy as the crowd increased, turnover rates are also increasing, but Apple refused to respond.
According to understand, since promoted to headquarters from The Apple Store is almost 0 chance to work, many employees will be promoted because of hopeless resignation.
Because Apple prohibit employees of external speakers, the media usually only ask for information from former employees of the mouth. Notably, most of the former employees have said that a young man working at the Apple Store a good memory, they think this experience "is very suitable for the not ready when a white-collar 20s lad."
Store manager, said the former Apple Store, Apple's signature is indeed able to resume considerably, he said most of the technical staff were later found in the IT industry, a good job, while the sales staff when looking for a new job "because everyone knows Apple Store is so tough retail environment ", and can succeed in the retail sector.
A former Apple Store employees Jackson Miss (now serving the buy site Groupon), said: "Usually someone wants to leave we will congratulate him on the completion of other people's wishes."
Apple Store employees' stories
When Steve Jobs Apple Store in 2000 proposed the idea, few people support him. Finally, the leadership team to compromise, and promised to try to open four stores.
Jobs hired a management team to build and manage a group of stores, Macy's and recruit competent Denvelle Bruno. Bruno has been using a Mac computer, she could not refuse, and Apple-related jobs, "I was deeply felt discouraged."
Bruno is the first generation of diehard fans into the Apple Store Apple representative, she was still responsible for the new Apple Store manpower recruitment. But by May 19, 2001, took the lead after the opening of two stores, Apple Store expect more people to work Bruno does not need to bother to find people; time, want to become Apple Store employees than harder to get into Stanford.
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U.S. teens aren't prepared to work in jobs for which there are vacancies. PERIOD. They can't do anything that actually generates a paycheck, yet they apply for work as though they could.
In the past, when the economy was flourishing, they were hired, trained and paid. Now though, times being tough, casual paychecks aren't easily dispensed. Here's a teen test: We're
paid for work for which we developed a skill or were trained to do. Assuming a teen doesn't speak a second language, how long would he keep his retail service assistant job in a strongly ethnic shopping area? Not long I would imagine
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] In the sole vision of its director Izabella Pörös, Ben O'Brien leads the cast of this film of Hungary, with script in English (available with subtitles), whose presentation to the public was scheduled for 2014. You can watch It's a Long Way online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
Rating: 5 by 11 users./
Runtime: 10 minutes
Ben O'Brien, Izabella Pörös, Rebecca Costa, Szandra Sebestyén, Júlia Galambos, Dóra Barta, Lili Marjai, Ildikó Fehér and Virág Gyöngy.
Short film, Drama.
10-minute film (full movie) directed by Izabella Pörös.
The original audio of It's a Long Way has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in Hungary.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
Screenplay written by Izabella Pörös.
Balázs Dobóczi and Márk Grátz.
Izabella Pörös.
Composed by Szilárd Horváth.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie It's a Long Way has a duration of 10 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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- What is the Mean Job Proximity Index?
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- What is the Percent Without Health Insurance?
- What is the Mean Environmental Health Hazard Index?
The population count of Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK was 9,685 in 2014.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
A New Blog for Your Delectation!
One blogger you need to add to your list: Donna Freedman, the frugalista of the MSN Money network. Donna graduated recently from college, after a middle-class life and divorce. She survived on an income that most people would have dismissed as impossible -- no more than $12,000 a year, if that. Yet she did it, so far as I know, without student aid, and without the "I deserve being treated special" attitude so prevalent right now for people going through hard times.
She comes from frugal stock, which helps. But she has some great ideas of her own, including a thorough acquaintance with beans, and a nagging thought in the back of her mind that she may end up a bag lady someday. (I can relate to both.)
I've learned a lot from this gutsy lady; you will, too. Her new blog is Surviving and Thriving -- visit it soon.
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- Donna Freedman said...
Hi Cindy,
Thanks for featuring my site! Just to let you know, though, I *did* get student aid: Some Pell, some Washington state, a community college scholarship, a one-time Mensa scholarship and the big enchilada, a three-year tuition package from a private scholarship foundation.
All this plus work-study meant I graduated debt-free. Whew. The only thing I'd go into debt for in my early 50s would be something I can *live* in.
Again, thanks for the mention.
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I know you did, Donna -- but you applied for it, and you earned it by keeping up your grades. I've really enjoyed following your life via MSN, and am looking forward to hearing more from you!
Thanks for writing.
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WASHINGTON -- Environmentalists and the timber industry -- on opposite sides of a sweeping Clinton-era road ban in many national forests -- both found fault with a Bush plan announced Friday to maintain the protections while a revision is crafted.
The regulation, which covered an area more than twice the size of Ohio, was a key piece of the Clinton administration's environmental policy. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said the Bush administration will let the ban take effect May 12, but it wants to revise the rule to address what she said was a lack of local input.
Environmental groups and a former Clinton administration official were quick to complain. Many felt the new rule could poke holes in otherwise solid forest protections and prompt the return to a system that produced gridlock.
They were eager to see the specifics of the administration's proposed rule, expected next month. The new rule might take a year or more to complete, and possibly much longer to implement.
Michael Francis, The Wilderness Society's national forest program director, said the administration may be ''sugar coating'' their attempt to overturn the policy.
''We are better off than we were before, but we are only better off for a little while,'' he said.
Timber industry representatives said they didn't want the rule to take effect because its development was flawed. One official said it was in the environmental groups' best interest to make it seem that they are losing out.
''They know that they prevail if there's gridlock,'' said Chris West, vice president of the American Forest Resource Council. ''The opportunity for this to be tied up in the courts -- and for the decision never to be finalized at the local level -- is to their benefit.''
Much of the 58.5 million acres of federal forests set aside in the road ban are in the West, although they spread from Alaska's Tongass National Forest to Florida's Apalachicola National Forest.
Conservationists don't want to see road-building on those lands because they harm the environment and allow increased access for timber and mining interests, among other reasons.
Those industries and some recreation groups say they aren't opposed to the ban in theory. But they argue it may needlessly endanger valuable forest resources when they can't be reached to undertake efforts to prevent severe wildfires or the spread of insects and disease.
The administration was vague on the specifics of what would come next. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth said he hoped the rule would institute a process to make decisions on a forest-by-forest basis, using individual plans that are regularly revised by agency officials.
Bosworth said he expected the new rule would allow input from local leaders, community members and Forest Service officials throughout the country.
As the Bush administration revises the rule, the Clinton policy is being weighed in courts nationwide and may be blocked judicially.
The state of Idaho and timber company Boise Cascade are seeking an injunction in federal court in Boise, Idaho.
In a court filing Friday, the administration reiterated that it planned ''to maintain the protections embodied in the current rule'' while it protected roadless area ''values and conditions.'' It said it does not favor an injunction blocking implementation of the ban.
Idaho Attorney General Al Lance said the state planned to move forward with its suit, despite Friday's developments.
''The roadless rule, as it was promulgated by the Clinton administration, is patently illegal,'' he said. ''No amount of window dressing will change that fact.''
In an interim decision, U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge rejected a call to immediately block the Clinton policy. But he said there was ''strong evidence'' the rule-making process was hurried and that the Forest Service was not prepared to produce a ''coherent proposal.''
Bosworth wouldn't say whether an amended regulation would increase logging, though he thought about 9 million acres of the nearly 60 million acres included in the road ban were considered suitable for logging under current forest plans.
With the new revisions, ''local supervisors working through their local planning processes may be able to make some adjustments,'' he said. But ''it would depend on what the amendment to the rule said.''
Western Republicans, who had been highly critical of the road ban, applauded the administration's decision to revise the policy, though some still didn't want to see the Clinton rule implemented next week.
''What the president did today comes about as close as you can to making a silk purse out of a sow's ear,'' said Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho.
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Queen Announce eBook
40 Years of Queen is unveiled.
Brian May has revealed details of the new 40 Years of Queen eBook, which according to the guitarist "does an incredible job of telling the life that Queen led. This is the best book ever".
The book is made up of items from May's personal archives:
"I was the guy that tried to hold onto these moments as they passed. If we played Madison Square Garden, I'd keep a ticket. I also kept hold of clothes and posters, an amazing cornucopia of artifacts. Instead of leaving them to gather dust in some air conditioned storage room, I wanted people to see these things and be able to play with them."
40 Years of Queen is an interactive volume that allows users to listen to the band's music and purchase songs from iTunes:
"It takes you as deeply into the Queen legacy as you can get. Touch an album and a replica of the vinyl comes out of the page. You can see the track listing. Our first album, for instance, now has all of our original demos. This version of the book leads you directly to all of those different extras; it's as state-of-the-art as you can get."
May also revealed that new content and extra features will be added to the book as times goes on:
"We will be updating the content as we go along. It already has a Live section which is already extremely good, but over the coming months we will be adding material from Live At The Rainbow which can be fed into this product... you'll be able to see it and click on it as an update. The fact that it can continue to evolve is what makes it so exciting."