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Memphis City Council members voted Tuesday, Nov. 5, to start over again in plans to find a legal use for city funds in renovating the Southbrook Mall in Whitehaven.
And the administration of Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. gave a qualified endorsement through what amounts to a new feasibility study on the mall due before the council in a month.
The council approved $1.5 million in funding in October for general renovation of the mall contingent on a legal opinion about whether the funding would be for an illegal private use.
The funding would have come from state and federal money for improvements to the Elvis Presley Boulevard streetscape that will not be spent this year. But if the funding had been used for what federal officials later determined was a private use, it would have endangered the larger amount of federal funding for the streetscape improvements as well.
The legal opinion from the city attorney's office is that the council cannot fund the mall renovation in that way. And council attorney Allan Wade made the same point.
That set off a council debate about whether to try to revive the possibility with a public use like a police precinct in the mall.
Council member Kemp Conrad, at one point, proposed and the council approved an amendment directing the administration to "attempt to conjure up a public use for the property."
Conrad is a critic of the attempted funding of the mall renovation.
Council member Harold Collins later amended that language out of the resolution and replaced it with directions to "find an appropriate use for the facility, if any, and identify the proper funding to carry it out."
The council approved that language and a report from the administration is due by the Dec. 3 council meeting.
The council debate on the next move in the controversial project saw council members on both sides of the debate raising broader questions about the extent of the administration's support as well as whether the administration has ever expressed outright opposition to any similar proposal for funding.
Meanwhile, the council approved $7.5 million in capital funding for initial project work on a redevelopment of the Raleigh Springs Mall. The money from the city's Division of Housing and Community Development is a transfer from a line item that was to go to building a new Memphis Police traffic precinct near the mall. The city has tentative plans to relocate the traffic precinct to the footprint of the mall.
The council also approved on the second of three readings an ordinance that would establish a retirement supplement for city sanitation workers of up to $1,000 per worker per year. The supplement is to be funded with savings from an overhaul of sanitation services that the council is scheduled to vote on next month.
An attempt by council member Janis Fullilove to add new rules for citizens to opt out of Memphis Light Gas and Water Division's Smart Meter program was ruled out of order by council chairman Edmund Ford at the end of what amounted to the council's second lengthy debate of the new meters in four months.
The first was when the council approved a $10 million expansion of the pilot program this past August after Fullilove delayed the contract numerous times in her council committee.
Wade advised the council that Fullilove's resolution violated the separation of powers between the council and the utility board which makes policies for MLGW.
Fullilove wanted to give utility customers the ability to opt out of Smart Meters by calling the utility.
MLGW President Jerry Collins said the utility has to verify who they are talking to in such an instance and sends those who call-in a form to fill out that starts the process of opting out. Collins also said the utility doesn't allow those not on the list to get the new meters the ability to opt out because the meters are being phased in over a seven year period during which many customers will move.
Some council members were working on a resolution which would suggest a phone opt-out option be considered by the MLGW board.
The council also delayed approval for two weeks of an $860,834 contract by Memphis Light Gas and Water Division with Ventyx for further development of the Downtown Smart Grid project.
Also approved by the council Tuesday was $24.8 million in funding to rehabilitate the city's wastewater collection system to meet terms of a consent decree with the federal Environmental Protection Agency that settles claims of pollution on the Mississippi River the federal agency filed against the city. The funding is financed through a state revolving loan fund and is to be paid back from the city's sewer fund.
In planning and zoning items, the council approved the Overton Square North planned development at North Cooper Street and Court Avenue with conditions that any retail business operating there will close by 9 p.m. The council also approved a funeral home at Knight Arnold Road and Mendenhall and a day care center at 1135 Winchester at Twinkletown Road but restricted it to no more than 30 children. And the council gave the green light to four single-family homes as infill development on Allison Avenue west of Graham Street.
A council vote was delayed for two weeks on a commercial retail development by Crosstown Art LLC at 495 Watkins Street at Autumn Road.
And the council elected current vice chairman Jim Strickland as its new chairman for 2014. Strickland was elected for the one-year term as chairman without opposition.
Council member Myron Lowery was elected vice chairman over council member Wanda Halbert.
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There are many problems with this installation. First, let's start with the lack of a cover being installed on the panel. This violates 408.38, which requires panelboards mounted in cabinets or enclosures to be dead-front. We could also say this violates 110.18 since arcs or sparks are produced by overcurrent devices in their normal operation, and the lack of a cover would allow sparks to easily escape the panel. The exposed energized bus bars also create an extremely dangerous situation for an unqualified worker. The surge arrester sitting at the bottom right of the panel is a violation of Sections 285.5 and 110.3(B). The listing requirements and instructions do not permit the SPD to be left floating around inside the panel. It needs to be properly secured using its threaded neck and a locknut. In violation of 820.21, the accumulation of coaxial cables in front of the panel denies access to the electrical equipment. Perhaps this is why the cover was left off of the panel. This accumulation of cables also violates 110.26, which requires access and work space to be "provided and maintained" in order to allow safe operation and maintenance of the electrical equipment.

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Rich. I've run over my Internet data allowance and so my download speed has been reduced to much less than dial up speed, and so Vimeo keeps going into error when I try and download the videos.
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Now a days every one intend to aware about HTML5 more and more. According to experts HTML5 is a future of the web. There are some interesting features added to HTML5, Video and audio elements for media playback is one of them. I like this feature very much.
In this post I am sharing five open source HTML5 video players to help web designer and developers. This list includes Video JS, MediaFront, Flare Video etc.
Here's the following list:
The mediafront platform is an open source (GPLv3) front end media solution for the web. This platform offers two industry changing - open source media players that can be used free of charge on any website! Including the Open Standard Media (OSM) Player ( as shown ), which is an open source (GPLv3) all-in-one HTML5 media player for the web!
jme is an HTML5 audio / video development kit with Flash and VLC Fallback, which focuses on flexibility, intuitive DOM-API and semantic code.
Flare is an open source HTML 5 video player. It is easy CSS/HTML/JS customization and theming. Completely open source and free for commercial use.
Projekktor is a JS wrapper for the new HTML5 video and audio elements. It solves cross browser and compatibility issues, adds some eye candy to the native players and provides useful non standard features.
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You can learn more about HTML5 Video on the new site Kaltura recently launched with Mozilla and the Open Video Alliance – http://www.html5video.org.
There you can also check out Kaltura's HTML5 Media Library – in beta with Wikipedia.
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Daily Dose: Lionsgate this morning said Chief Executive Jon Feltheimer signed a five-year contract to remain with the movie and TV production company that runs through May 2018. Under Feltheimer and Vice Chairman Michael Burns, Lionsgate has had an active last few years. It acquired Summit Entertainment and successfully launched "The Hunger Games." More recently, it partnered with CBS on the TV Guide Network.
Left in the dust. Will Smith's "After Earth" got toasted not only by "Fast & Furious 6," but also by "Now You See Me," the crime thriller starring Jesse Eisenberg and Morgan Freeman. For Smith, who co-stars in "After Earth" with his son Jaden, the movie's performance is a rare disappointment in his otherwise stellar box office career. "Fast & Furious 6" drove off with almost $35 million in ticket sales while "Now You See Me" had plenty of magic as well, making $28.1 million. "After Earth" took in $27 million, below both studio Sony's projections and those of box office analysts. The Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal with box office recaps. Variety looks at whether the international box office can give "After Earth" a boost.
Will she or won't she? A relaxing Sunday night was shattered when The Wrap published a story saying Deadline Hollywood editor Nikki Finke had been fired by Jay Penske, whose company PMC owns the site. PMC then issued a statement published on Deadline denying the story. But that hasn't stopped the speculation that Finke -- whose at times scathing take on the industry has made the site a must-read and made her one of the more colorful characters in town -- may be on her way out of Deadline. Early Monday, Finke herself finally weighed in. Here's the take from the Los Angeles Times.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Bernie Fuchs: "an important moment in his life"
David also provided the following quote about that truck ad from Bernie Fuchs:
"I was 26 or 27 when I painted this, and yes, I painted the truck and everything else in this picture. I'm trying to remember whether they had one of the older guys in the studio touch up some of the chrome on the fender after I was done. Chrome was pretty hard to get right. But I don't think so. It was a long time ago. Later I specialized in people and backgrounds, and the cars themselves would be painted by artists who were more capable than I was. My art director submitted this painting to the Society of Illustrators competition without even telling me. I had no idea there was such a thing until he came to me and told me that the jury had picked my painting to be in the show."
Speaking of Bernie Fuchs' automotive art, here are a few scans, courtesy of Charlie Allen...
Charlie writes, "The Edsel ads especially good....though didn't help the ill fated car down the line."
He continues, "Head honcho art director for Foote Cone on those ads.....Fred Ludekins, no less!"
Having done his fair share of auto advertising art during the same period when Bernie Fuchs did these pieces, Charlie gives us the benefit of his vast personal experience: "on Fuchs and photos. Even, or maybe especially, on cars....the artist can't 'trace' or Lucy the photo....it just doesn't work. Autos need, or needed back in those days, an amazing amount of tweaking, stretching, tucking, changing reflection patterns, etc. etc. If 'photo copying' were easy, everybody and his uncle would have been successful artists and illustrators in my time."
Charlie adds, "I like his ads and the more conservative techniques. But you have to admit, his loose editorial style [was] brilliant. Far out for the times....and so well designed, drawn, and painted."
Next comes this note from Bryn Havord in England:
"I was very saddened to learn that Bernie Fuchs had died. I've had a privileged life, and one of those privileges was to publish a lot of his work when I was a women's magazine art director in 1960s London and, of course, I consider that I have been privileged to continue to see his beautiful work develop over the years. Not an easy task as I live in the United Kingdom and have not been to the States since the mid 60s."
Bryn continues, "Bernie's work had a profound effect and influence on the English women's magazine illustrators working at that time: in particular when he was working in pencil with Liquitex acrylic washes. Liquitex wasn't available in England at the time, and a large trade developed when the artists had friends in America sending tubes and jars of the paint over the Atlantic so they could try and emulated Bernie's work."
Bryn elaborates on the anecdote Tom Watson described on Wednesday about how Bernie Fuchs' painting style changed because "he was trying to find a method of creating the effect of a still life illustration of a glass of beer on a shiny bar top." Bryn provided us with several scans from the issue of Lithopinion, the magazine that sent bernie to England to paint scenes from London pubs.
Bryn writes, "That visit to England proved to be a catalyst in Bernie's career; he never used acrylics ever again."
"Bernie was quoted in the catalogue of his recent 50 year retrospective at the Telluride Gallery thus: "I started working in oils because I was inspired by the rich glow of sunlight passing through an amber mug of ale in London. I wanted to be able to capture that feeling in a painting..."
Bryn continues, "I also attach a scan of a recent painting by Bernie of a couple of wine glasses painted for the Telluride Wine Festival in 2008. It's interesting to compare the wine glasses to the beer mug, forty years has seen a development in sophistication, not only in technique, but in the choice of drink!"
Regarding that experience in England while on assignment for Lithopinion, Bryn concludes, "I think it was an important moment in his life which needs illustrating."
* Many thanks to Bryn Havord and all the other contributors who made this week possible: Charlie Allen, Harold Henriksen and Tom Watson, as well as everyone who contributed comments.
* My Bernie Fuchs Flicks set
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- Charlie Allen5:32 PM
They say....'You get an education every day....it's schooling that's expensive!' I got an education today on the scans from England. What a treat....and what amazing, inspiring work. I had no idea Bernie Fuchs worked in oils for a time. Not sure he gave up acrylics and gouache after that time. Thanks, Leif....great blog.ReplyDelete
Shockingly amazing work. From the glow on those wine glasses to the vastness and detail of the narrative in the first car ad... really astounding.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing these.
Thanks to Bryn, we now have the complete story on that beer mug assignment. As so eloquently pointed out, Bernie Fuchs' exceptional talent covered such an amazing span of over 50 years, that I personally cannot say I particularly liked one period better than another. Simply put, they each have their unique great qualities, and I can't think of another illustrator I can make that statement about.ReplyDelete
A wonderful tribute to Bernie Fuchs this week Leif. I'm sure it has been appreciated by far more than we'll ever know.
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- Chad9:25 PM
Bernie Fuchs' evocative automotive paintings sell the Detroit dream more eloquently than any photos or clever copywriting I've seen.His cars are portrayed in all their pristine beauty, the backgounds so real you could almost step into them and the people,living and breathing,'paused' as it were for a split second before resuming their glamorous lifestyles.That's advertising at its best-selling the sizzle-and that was where Mr Fuchs came in, like an illustration alchemist creating dreams right there on the pages of magazines and journals.Who could ever calculate how much his work earned for the U.S car industry?ReplyDelete
Just saw Fuchs' race car prints for the 75th (?) Indianapolis 500 this past week, posted in an office building lobby. Great stuff, wonderful use of color.ReplyDelete
Great artwork, it's got everything, artistic skill,complete control of perspective, figure drawing, composition, color, light, atmosphere... can't ask for more.ReplyDelete
As I was going through your blog I was thinking of Tom Adams, I figure you are familiar with his work, he did a lot of Agatha Christie's novel covers, so beautiful and intriguing.
I guess you answered my question that I posted on 9/22 here. Thanks for these educational posts.ReplyDelete
I have just seen "Flash of Genius" (2008) based on real story about a man who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.
I wonder if that was the time when Fuchs did illustrations for Ford. It is fun to learn about the people and culture of that time through Fuchs's illustrations and the movies like "Flash of Genius".
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text: COLDOC2013: Genres in Written and Oral Productions CALL FOR PAPER N°2 ****************************************** * * Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; ... Call Deadline: 15-June-2013 (Submissions will be done using the EasyChair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coldoc2013> platform.) * * Date: 13-Nov-2013 - 14-Nov-2013 Location: Nanterre, France Contact Person: Organization Committee Web Site: http://coldoc2013.wordpress.com/ ***************************************** * *Call for paper* *« Si les genres n'existaient pas et si nous n'en avions pas la maîtrise, qu'il nous faille les créer pour la première fois dans le processus de parole, qu'il nous faille construire chacun de nos énoncés, l'échange verbal serait quasiment impossible » (Bakthine, 'Esthétique de la création verbale', 1984)* COLDOC 2013 aims to examine the notion of genre in a multidisciplinary approach and to illustrate the variety of both theoretical and practical problems it raises. We seek to articulate different perspectives on gender issues and to contribute to identify an essential category for interpretation. Although it has long remained been considered to taxonomic approaches, the issue of genre categorisation sees new developments thanks to the interest it has raised in various humanities disciplines, gradually integrating different aspects in their definitional approaches: contexts of utterance, medium (written or spoken), language norms, social practices, etc. (see S. Branca, « Types, modes et genres entre langue et discours », Langage et Société n°87, p. 5 -24, mars 1999). This renewal is also expressed by the fact that the studies less systematically seek to define it through production rules or classificatory categories, but rather try to examine the question of genre through the process of recognition and interpretation. Theoretical approaches and case studies tend to focus on the addressee's point of view: horizons of expectations, habits, cultural pre-conceptions, cognitive framework, communication circuit, etc. The genre is then modeled as a set of constraints or necessary conditions of meaning. COLDOC 2013, bringing contributions from diverse backgrounds, aims to review the state of the art and the diversity of work on genres. Relying on theoretical and applied propositions, COLDOC 2013 aims to suggest new descriptive categories needed in the search for meaning in written and oral discourse. This 2013 edition of COLDOC therefore strongly encourages participation from master students, PhD students candidates and young researchers in general linguistics, corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, sociolinguistics, didactic, computational linguistics (written or speech) and, more generally, any area that would be interested in the study of genres for itself or as a category of analysis. Several issues - solely as examples - can be considered as sources of inspiration. These issues, both theoretical and practical, highlight the variety of possible approaches in the study of written and oral genres: - Why categorize according to genres? How should boundaries between genres be established? - How should genres be defined, formalized and modeled? - What are the dynamics implied in genre building? - What are the implied relation(s) between 'genre' and 'linguistic operations' (describe, summarize, tell)? - Does genre influence grammatical phenomena? - What are the sociolinguistic instantiations of genre? - How can usage, variety and language registers linguistic variables become genre-specific social markers? - How does corpus linguistics answer to genre study? - How can genre study in written productions be applied to oral genres and vice versa? - What observables is genre assignment based on? Can it be automatically calculated? - What is the role of genre as a tool for teaching and learning language and literature? - How can we categorize and interpret the emergence of new linguistic practices according to new communication devices (forums, blogs, social networks, chats, tweets, emails, etc.)? - Do techniques for automatic analysis of texts and discourses question or redistribute the categorization into genres? Do they contribute to other forms of categorization? - Is the oral-written distinction a major distinction in the study of genres? - How can genre be accounted for in the development of NLP resources (lexicon, grammar, parsers, etc.)? *Invited Speakers: * The two days of the colloquium will be opened by a talk of invited speakers. We are pleased to announce the participation of Jean-Michel Adam (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). A second invited speaker is soon to be announced. *Submission Process: * PhD students and young researchers interested in the issue have to submit a two-page project including a title and a list of five key words (font 12; margin 2,5; 1,5 line spacing). A third page will include the bibliography linked to the subject. Non-French speakers can submit their project in English. *Evaluation Process: * The draft articles will be submitted to a blind review process by two members of the scientific committee. The selected projects can result, according to the scientific committee decision, in either a 20 minutes oral communication or a poster communication. The articles will be reviewed again by the members of the scientific committee, so that the authors can receive feedback on their production. The authors will have to take comments and suggestions offered by the readers into account in the final report of their articles to ensure the quality of the proceedings. The articles must be formatted using suitable models given to the authors. Oral communications: those will include a twenty minute presentation followed by a ten minute discussion and then for long paper (8p). Communication by posters: the colloquium will organize a poster session (A1 format) and then short papers (4p). Submissions will be done using the EasyChair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coldoc2013>platform. All accepted papers (short and long) will be published and available in print and electronic versions and will be made available at the start of the conference. *Calendar*: The colloquium will take place on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 November 2013, in Paul Ricoeur Thesis hall, Paris-Ouest University, 200 avenue de la République, Nanterre. Application deadline for abstract/project submissions: June 15, 2013 Notification of acceptance for abstract/project: July 30, 2013 Program: available by the end of July Application deadline for complete papers (short/long): September 3, 2013 Notification of acceptance for complete papers (short/long): October 3, 2013 *Scientific Committee: * Jean-Michel Adam (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Sophie Anquetil (CoDiRe, University of Nantes and CRISCO, University of Caen, France) Antoine Auchlin (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Jacqueline Authier (University Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) Mathieu Avanzi (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Delphine Battistelli (STIH, Université Paris Sorbonne) Sonia Branca-Rosoff (University Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) Shirley Carter-Thomas (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom Ecole de Management, France) Bernard Combettes (University of Lorraine, France) Anne Condamines (University Toulouse Le Mirail, France) Marcel Cori (University Paris-Ouest, France) Flore Coulouma (University Paris-Ouest, France) Guillaume Desagulier (University Paris 8, University Paris-Ouest) Marion Fossard (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Jean-Philippe Goldman (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Jean-François Jeandillou (University Paris-Ouest, France) Anne Lacheret (University Paris-Ouest, France) Bernard Laks (University Paris-Ouest, France) Sabine Lehmann (University Paris-Ouest, France) Sylvain Loiseau (University Paris 13 Nord, France) Dominique Maingueneau (University Paris Sorbonne, France) Philippe Martin (University of Toronto, Canada) Jean-Luc Minel (University Paris-Ouest, France) Colette Noyau (University Paris-Ouest, France) Sabine Pétillon (University Paris-Ouest, France) Paola Pietrandrea (University Roma Tre, Italy) Fanny Rinck (University of Grenoble 3, France) Anne-Catherine Simon (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) Frédérique Sitri (University Paris-Ouest, France) Noalig Tanguy (Lattice laboratory, France) *Organization Committee: * Julie Beliao (University of Paris-Ouest, France) Anaïs Moreno (University of Paris-Ouest, France) Tony Onguene (University of Paris-Ouest, France) Lucie Rousier-Vercruyssen (University of Neûchatel, Switzerland) Charles Teissèdre (University of Paris IV, France) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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|Fuel type
|Number of doors
|Number of seats
|Gearbox type
|CO2 emissions
|144 g/km
|Insurance group
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (miles)
|0 miles
|Standard manufacturer's warranty (years)
|2 years
|Standard paintwork guarantee
|3 years
Performance & economy
|Fuel consumption (urban)
|34.4 mpg
|Fuel consumption (extra urban)
|55.4 mpg
|Fuel consumption (combined)
|45.6 mpg
|0 - 60 mph
|9.5 seconds
|Top speed
|124 mph
|Engine power
|123 bhp
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|1513 mm
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|Multifunction Computer (Midline)
|Steel Space Saver Spare Wheel
|Rev Counter
|Alloy Wheels, Four 6.5J x 16 Cleveland with 205/55 R16 Tyres and Anti-Theft Wheel Bolts
|Automatic Dimming Interior Rear-View Mirror
|Rear Screen Wash/Wipe with Intermittent Wipe
|Exterior Temperature Gauge
|Windscreen Wiper
|Pyramide Black Decorative Inserts in Dash and Door Panels
|Body - Coloured Bumpers
|Front Footwell Illumination, Reading Lights Fr. and Rear x 2
|Electrically Heated and Adjustable Door Mirrors
|12V Socket in Luggage Compartment
|8 Speakers
|Front Seats with Lumbar Adjustment
|Heated Rear Windscreen
|Front Centre Armrest with Storage Compartment and Two Rear Air Vents
|Front Centre Armrest
|Cruise Control
|Electric Windows, Front and Rear
|Cup Holder, Front x 2 and Rear x 1
|Heat Insulating Green Tinted Glass
|Front Comfort Seats with Height Adjustment
|Split Folding Rear Seats, 60:40
|Rain Sensor
|Smoking Pack
|RCD 310 Radio/MP3 Compatible CD Player AUX-in Socket for Connection to an External Multimedia Source. MDI (Multi Device Interface) with USB and iPod Connection Cables
|Height and Reach Adjustable Steering Wheel
|Electric Rear Windows
|Grab Handles
|Air Conditioning, Climatic Semi - Automatic Control
|Upholstery - Merlin Cloth
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|Drivers and Front Passengers Whiplash-Optimised Head Restraints
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|Power-Assisted Steering, Speed-Sensitive
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In the last month on the iOS 4 scene a new, successful VoIP application has started spreading gaining popularity: Viber.
This app promises to all the Apple's based iOS4 devices a free VoIP calling service, using Wi-Fi or (already payed) 3G data services.
But one question soon attacked me after installing the application … even if the iTunes Store overlooked at it how safe are my data and my Address book?
So I've wrote to Viber support:
Koolinus, Dec-10 13:48 (IST):
how do I delete my account and be sure you don't hold my address book?
After a couple of weeks the team asked me if the "question is still relevant" and I said yes … yesterday they've replied me like this:
Viber Support Team, Dec-27 10:47 (IST):
If you wish to delete your account completely and remove your data, you can delete the Viber App from your device.
When you delete the Viber App, your Personal Information will be automatically deleted from our primary storage within 45 days.
However, Viber maintains back-up information of each user's account for a period of up to 12 months.
For additional information regarding our Privacy Policy, contact Viber via "Viber Support" or send us an email to email@example.com. You can see the Viber Privacy Policy here: http://www.viber.com/privacypolicy.html


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My little sister has intracranial hypertension, which basically means that her body makes way too much spinal fluid and it starts to squeeze her brain and give her the worst headache ever. She's been hospitalized a dozen times since she was 12 and has had to have six spinal taps to drain all the extra fluid. We live in Salt Lake City, Utah and the only hospital in the state that she can go to for the specialized care she needs is the Primary Children's Medical Center right next to the University of Utah.
The pain from the headaches and severe exhaustion and illness caused by the medicine she takes while hospitalized mean that she doesn't have the mental facilities required to read a book or do her school work while she's in, so pretty much she just gets to play the cheap boardgames the hospital keeps around that were probably picked up at a secondhand store somewhere.
The last time she was in, though—about a year ago—the Child's Play fairy had visited and left an Xbox 360 Core System in her room. She'd been watching me play Fallout 3 for a few weeks at home, and was interested, so I snuck in my own 360's external hard drive and Fallout 3 into her hospital room the first night she was in the hospital. She was hospitalized for nearly a week and beat the entire main storyline of the game and even spent some time getting familiar with the dozen or so Arcade titles I had bought. According to the doctors, it was the quickest recovery she had ever made out of the many hospital stays she had made up to then.
So, I'm really thankful for Child's Play. This charity really helped my baby sister when she was at her worst and when I think how many other millions of people's younger siblings have the same story, it just makes me bawl like a little girl.


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Kempinski Hotels, one of Europe's oldest luxury hotel groups, is in the process of moving its entire corporate IT infrastructure into Amazon Web Services' (AWS) public cloud, where it expects to save up to 40 percent on its costs over a five-year period.
The project began in 2009, when IT director Jeremy Ward began putting together a strategic plan for the company's IT. This started with an audit of the hotel group's assets, where it found 147 servers, all virtualised (ESX host) running VMware, with an assortment of Windows, Linux and Novel operating systems.
Ward explained to Computerworld UK that the move to AWS was motivated by wanting his IT staff to spend more time improving on productivity.
"One of the key guiding principles that we came up with was that we are a hospitality management company, we are not an IT services company. I wanted to make sure that my staff is putting their skills towards improving the productivity of applications, rather than administering applications," said Ward.
"We are a relatively lean team, but if I can free up 50 percent of somebody's time to get them working more closely with our partners, it actually improves the performance of Kempinski as a whole."
He added: "They can drive the efficiency of applications, rather than spending their time running a backup, changing a hard disk or patching an operating system."
Ward explained that Kempinski selected AWS out of three possible cloud providers, though he did not want to reveal the names of the other two, as the hotel group still works with them in other areas.
"After a number of meetings it became obvious to me that AWS was the best fit for our requirements. We wanted a solution where we could have a number of base servers that we knew would be running most of the time, but also have a number of servers running in a specific environment – such as a training environment – where they would be switched off for a significant amount of time during the year," said Ward.
"When we run a training course, which may be one week in any month, we are able to switch that environment on, pay for our consumption as we go, and then when the training is done we reset the images, turn those servers off and the images still sit on AWS. However, we don't pay for them whilst they are switched off."
He added: "Out of the companies we were talking to, they couldn't do that for us. With the other two, once you had committed to having an image up on their solution, you pay for it whether you are using it or not."
Ward said that he also went with AWS because they introduced Kempinski to Cloudreach, a consulting service that the hotel group is using to help get its infrastructure into the cloud, and will then manage it after the project is complete.
"We wanted a company that could provide monitoring for us, do the back-up, a more proactive type managed service," said Ward.
"However, we didn't want to be tied in from day one so we asked them to produce a report, an AWS Deployment Framework, which described the business case and return on investment scenario. We could have just used this report without actually working with Cloudreach, but we were very impressed and decided to go forward with them."
Since the beginning of 2012 Kempinski has been working with Cloudreach to deploy its infrastructure into AWS' cloud. The first two phases are complete, which involved setting up the security infrastructure, firewalls, migrating non-critical applications (such as the helpdesk), connecting all the hotels to AWS and testing VMware imports.
Ward said: "We are now moving into phase three, where we are going to start moving a lot of our live systems over. We have tested functionality, we know it's going to work, so we will get the five-month project started in September."
The company hopes to have nearly all of the corporate infrastructure in Amazon's cloud by the end of February 2013. It has so far rationalised its services down from 147 to about 60, and Ward is "fairly confident" that this will go down to 10 by the end of February.
In addition, Ward said that the company was keen to look at long-term benefits when making the business case for the cloud migration project.
"When you are looking at something like this you have to take a long-term view. If you take any given year, where you look at the infrastructure that you have already got, you have a sunk cost because of the capital investment, the licences, the staff that manage that infrastructure etc.," said Ward.
"Take all of that and move it to AWS in year one, and it is going to cost you – there are set-up costs, migration costs, depreciation costs. However, if you take a five-year view, and consider a hardware refresh in that five-year period, you can make a saving."
He added: "In year one and two we worked out we won't see any significant return on investment. After two and a half years, that's when we really start to see the benefits. If you also include non-tangible figures, such as staff efficiency, we are looking at about a 40 percent saving over the five years."


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In 1778, the Batavia Society for Arts and Science established what would become, after many expansions and name changes, the world-famous National Museum.
Fatahillah Square, also known as Old Batavia, is the historical district of Jakarta located in Kotas. During Dutch Colonial times in the 16th century, this was the heart of the walled city. Home to attractions such as the Jakarta History Museum and many colonial buildings, this area fills up with artisans, jugglers, and tourists on the weekends.
Once the first banks of Indonesia, now a museum of banking in Indonesia.
Built to commemorate Indonesia's independence, National Monument dominates Medan Merdeka.
Once known as Pasar Ikan (Fish Market), Sunda Kelapa was the early 16th-century trading post from which the Dutch domination of Indonesia began and flourished.
This is the old city of Batavia. Rundown, picturesque and a great night market.
Indonesia's largest mosque is a sacred place of worship as well as a center for conferences, lectures and seminars.
The Jalan Surabaya market is the place to find antiques, rare finds, and other oddities.
The free portions of Jakarta bay are dirty and messy, but if you are willing to pay there are some lovely places to enjoy the breeze and the sea view
These former Dutch East Indies warehouses contain objects related to seafaring and the spice trade.
Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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Turbulent Cauldron of Starbirth in Galaxy Centaurus A, With Ground View (inset)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers a stunning unprecedented close-up view of a turbulent firestorm of starbirth along a nearly edge-on dust disk girdling Centaurus A, the nearest active galaxy to Earth.
A ground-based telescopic view (upper left insert) shows that the dust lane girdles the entire elliptical galaxy. This lane has long been considered the dust remnant of a smaller spiral galaxy that merged with the large elliptical galaxy. The spiral galaxy deposited its gas and dust into the elliptical galaxy, and the shock of the collision compressed interstellar gas, precipitating a flurry of star formation. Resembling looming storm clouds, dark filaments of dust mixed with cold hydrogen gas are silhouetted against the incandescent yellow-orange glow from hot gas and stars behind it.
Brilliant clusters of young blue stars lie along the edge of the dark dust rift. Outside the rift the sky is filled with the soft hazy glow of the galaxy's much older resident population of red giant and red dwarf stars.
The dusty disk is tilted nearly edge-on, its inclination estimated to be only 10 or 20 degrees from our line-of-sight. The dust lane has not yet had enough time since the recent merger to settle down into a flat disk. At this oblique angle, bends and warps in the dust lane cause us to see a rippled "washboard" structure.
The picture is a mosaic of two Hubble Space Telescope images taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, on Aug. 1, 1997 and Jan. 10, 1998. The approximately natural color is assembled from images taken in blue, green and red light. Details as small as seven light-years across can be resolved. The blue color is due to the light from extremely hot, newborn stars. The reddish-yellow color is due in part to hot gas, in part to older stars in the elliptical galaxy and in part to scattering of blue light by dust - the same effect that produces brilliant orange sunsets on Earth.
Ground-based image (upper left): NOAO;
HST image (lower right): E.J. Schreier (STScI) and NASA;
Team members are: E.J. Schreier, A. Marconi, D. Axon, N. Caon, and D. Macchetto (STScI)


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LETTER- Crafaik's passing: Hook owes apology, condolences
The Hook's coverage of Michael Craifaiks tragic critical condition [December 12 online story: "Restaurateur, former candidate Crafaik mortally wounded"] can be summed up with the following: irresponsible and heartless.
Reporting the incident was to be expected; the utter lack of respect given to Michael's life was not.
Good journalism relies on the ability to capture the essence of the event that is being reported. Irresponsibly and carelessly, journalist Courtney Stuart failed to do her job; she failed Michael's family, his friends, his employees, the Charlottesville community, his alma mater, The University of Virginia, The Hook, and most important, her compassionless reporting failed Michael.
The juicy facts she selected to report do not accurately reflect Michael's life. Instead of spewing out a laundry list of past hardships, more accurate and respectable reporting would have printed how deeply everyone who knew Michael would mourn their loss.
Despite what personal transgressions Michael had, he remained an influential, positive, and prominent figure in the community. The Corner wouldn't be the same without Michael's Bistro, and Charlottesville is certainly not the same sans Michael.
As an employee of Michael's Bistro, I had the pleasure of knowing him for a few short months. From the moment I met Michael, engagingly chatting a mile-a-minute with a huge smile on his face and skate-board in hand, it was clear he embodied the pure spirit of Charlottesville: charming and free-spirited.
My deepest condolences go out to his family during this time; and, as a member of the tight-knit Charlottesville community, I hope the Hook sends condolences, too.
Haley Kreutzer
University of Virginia 2009


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"'Speak a little or a lot,
but tell me just the gist.
The gist is what I want.
What use is a lot of rhetoric?'
"Then Ven. Assaji gave me this Dhamma exposition:
"'Whatever phenomena arise from cause:
their cause
and their cessation.
Such is the teaching of the Tathagata,
the Great Contemplative.'"
Then to Moggallana the wanderer, as he heard this Dhamma exposition, there arose the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye: Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.
I like the above conversation very much. My limited understanding based on this conversation is the following:
If anything originates at any point of time, it will definitely cease at any other point of time.
Why is that? It is because everything happens due to complex webs of many different causes. When there is any slight change somewhere in one of the causes there will be a change in its effect too. There are inconstruable number of chains of cause and effect in the nature, and these complex web of chains are the reason why everything changes and nothing is permanent.
In fact, changes at the deepest levels (at the levels of atoms or molecules) are unimaginably fast. The perception of relatively stable surrounding is yet another complex illusion of nature.
Only that "thing" can be permanent which does not have any origin or beginning point.
Please suggest if there are flaws in this understanding or if there is anything else I missed.


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My living room with inherited French antique chairs
Ask any interior designer who their mentor was, whose style first influenced them, who introduced them to a certain look - and most likely they will have a long story about that person and how important they were in shaping their aesthetic. Ask me and I'll answer with two words: Betty Rae!
Betty Rae - just the name itself goes so far in describing her: A southern lady, gracious and beautiful, with an accent that matches her name. I always say that Betty Rae's style influenced mine more than anyone - bar none. Who is this Betty Rae you are probably wondering?
Legally, she's my step-mother, but we don't use the word "step" - she's my mother in every sense of the word and today is her birthday. I've been wanting to write about her and how she influenced my design style, so today - her 78th birthday, seemed the perfect time to do it.
Betty Rae came into my life when I was 14, after my mother, Sonia, died unexpectedly at the age of 42. My father had one date and was hooked. Who wouldn't be? She was beautiful with dark brown hair and eyes, sweet and loving, and very stylish. She introduced me to antiques and french design and for that I'll always be grateful.
That us, me and Betty Rae at my high school graduation.
Thinking about it, I guess you could say I came out of the womb interested in design. When I look back, it must have been well known in my family that I was into decorating. One of my more vivid childhood memories is when a elderly cousin brought me all her old home magazines. I was so excited to get them - in those days back in the 50s, there weren't a lot of design magazines like today. I remember after my cousin went home, I sat down to look at the magazines and was utterly disappointed. She had brought me her old magazines and I was expecting new ones! They were probably from the 40s (ones I would kill for today!) and were such a let down. I must have been only six or seven years old at the time - I know this because we still lived in our old house. A few years later, my parents built a home across town and that experience was a further strengthening of my interest in interior decoration. They let me help design my room all in lilac and white, I even had a lilac sink! We all pored over the architectural drawings for months and this fueled my fascination with floor plans. For years, I drew plans - doodling them in school instead of listening. At that time, it was thought I might become an architect - but those hopes were dashed when the reality of my lack of math skills became apparent. And so, when our lives changed for ever, and I ended up with a new mother - her sense of style was an extra bonus in the package. Betty Rae was into French antiques, two words I knew nothing about, but which would form the basis of my design aesthetic forever.
In contrast, my own mother who had immigrated as a teenager to the United States on the heels of Hitler invading Poland, knew nothing about interior design. A redhead and a natural comedienne, she only knew to hire someone to fix up our house in the popular "modern" style of the 50s and 60's. Because of this, modern design was all I knew - everyone in my life decorated their houses this way. It's not that I wasn't interested in other styles, I just had never been exposed to them. French antiques weren't a part of our lives or of our neighbors.
When I first met Betty Rae and her two daughters who would become my sisters - they were living in a fashionable high rise apartment, something that was an anomaly to Houston at that time and something that was extremely exotic to a teenager from the suburbs. I can remember that apartment vividly: the living room was designed around a blue and green flowery fabric on a cream background which covered a down filled sofa. There was a light blue velvet skirted table in the room and French antique chairs were scattered about. The family room had an antique bakers rack (what's that?!!) that doubled as a tv stand and a bar. The master bedroom was done in blue and white, with a french headboard and a huge, fruitwood antique armoire that housed the tv. Picture this: Jacqueline Kennedy's personal space in the White House and you can get an idea of what the apartment looked like. It was as if Stephane Boudin had decorated it himself, instead - the french antiques and reproductions were bought from a Mrs. Handy.
I can not begin to explain the effect that this apartment had on me. It was so beautiful, so feminine, so foreign to me. I just loved everything about it then and still do today. My love of french antiques was born on that day I first visited them in their apartment. They say good taste runs in families, and Betty Rae's was no exception. The youngest of three daughters, they all shared great style. Her two sisters both lived in New York, so their more cosmopolitan exposure trickled down to Texas. At one point, Betty Rae and her best friend opened a small antiques store that specialized in accessories. The two went to England to stock their inventory and were nice enough to let me work there sometimes on the weekends. Over the years, as I became more and more exposed to french antiques, Betty Rae was always there to help guide me and teach me about them. We would often go to antique stores and shows together, along with her daughter - my sister - Cathy. We had so much fun antique shopping together, most times not even buying, just looking. We even flew to Dallas to antique there. We would go the Round Top antique fair twice a year and slosh through the mud to find some great piece of Masonware for Cathy or transferware for me. We still will rehash the new Veranda or Southern Accents over the telephone or talk about some great new design book. For fun, we'll go together to someone's new home to admire their antiques and ooh and ah. In short, Betty Rae and I developed a great closeness centered around our love of French antiques.
Betty Rae's taste has remained impeccable and she can "kill" something with a just a glance. She will quietly say, "Oh, I don't...know...." and she might as well of have shouted "I hate that with all my might, don't buy it!!!!" She's my best sounding board and I never make major decisions about decorating my house without talking it over with her first. When I bought my own armoire, I needed her and Cathy to approve it and say, "buy it" and the decision over which buffet a deux to choose - I left to Betty Rae to tell me which one I should pick. Her vote of approval, whether it's for a dress or a husband, means the world to me and I would have trouble making a choice she didn't approve of, even though I'm 53 years old now and not a shy teenager any longer.
My mom and dad: This was taken on Betty Rae's birthday a few years ago.
While I still love French antiques and live with them, Betty Rae's tastes have evolved over the years. She and my father now live with Biedermeier antiques. Their look is more sophisticated and eclectic these days. But, whenever she gets lonesome for her old furniture, she doesn't have to travel far. In fact, much of the furniture from that first apartment that I so admired is now in my own house, slowly accumulated over the years as Betty Rae's furnishings and houses changed. The french chairs in my living room are from that apartment and so is the french secretary in my entry hall. Her bakers rack is in my breakfast room along with her antique tole light fixture. I have her french desk and antique nightstands from her master bedroom. The armoire? She sold that to someone else!
I hope that one day my daughter will share my love of antiques and that we might be just like Betty Rae and I are. I even secretly hope that one day Elisabeth will join me in my interior design business, but she doesn't seem to have a great love of it, like I did at her age. I was really lucky in my life, to have met Betty Rae who always encouraged me to put my heart into my home and fix it up and I try to instill that in my daughter. I wonder, sometimes, if I had not met Betty Rae and she wasn't my mother, would I even be into antiques and French design today? I honestly don't know that answer. Maybe, but I'm not positive about that. We talk about how few families out there get along with their stepmothers and stepchildren and we count ourselves so lucky that we aren't like that. Not only do we get along, we are all the best of friends.
And so, today, Betty Rae, even though you are sick with a "full fledged" cold, happy birthday and thank you! I love you!
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Justin Bieber's Birthday Party & Speech For Selena Gomez Bring Her To Tears
Justin took Selena out for her birthday after the Teen Choice Awards on July 22 and we now have exclusive details about their romantic celebration! Read on for details.
Selena Gomez turned 20 years old on Sunday, July 22, and after she and boyfriend Justin Bieber appeared at the Teen Choice Awards ceremony, he took her to an intimate birthday party he'd planned for her at Il Cielo in Beverly Hills.
An eyewitness of the evening tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY, "Justin made sure that everyone at Il Cielo treated Selena like a princess last night. He was really adorable about it. You could tell that her birthday dinner party meant a lot to him."
It meant so much to him that he planned out the menu and decorations! "There were rose petals on the tables, which was Justin's idea. He is quite the romantic. The party was held in the back room and was very intimate. There were about 30 guests. There was plenty of food to choose from including grilled calamari, baby spinach with sliced pears, goat cheese and candied walnuts, homemade pappardelle with lobster, grilled salmon and grilled rib-eye steak," our source reveals.
Our source says that Justin's gifts didn't stop at the planning of the meal. "Justin made a speech which brought tears to Selena. It was basically about how wonderful and exceptional Selena is and everyone stood up and applauded. It was very sweet," the eyewitness continues, "There was a beautiful birthday cake for Selena along with a variety of desserts like Tiramisu, sorbet, and apple tarts."
"Justin looked like he is just head over heels in love with Selena," our source says, which was evident by the amount of consideration and care he put into the evening. How sweet!
What do you think, HollywoodLifers? Was Justin's birthday celebration for Selena the sweetest thing ever?
— Reporting by Sandra Clark, Written by Billy Nilles
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — China's efforts to weaken its currency could be bolstering U.S. Treasurys and weighing on a rally in the dollar against the euro.
The Asian nation's currency actions, thought to be an effort to boost its slowing economy, have contributed to these unlikely trading patterns, market participants say. It's the latest way in which China's economy has become intertwined with the U.S., five years after an American real estate bust elicited finger-pointing at the role Chinese funds played in cheap U.S. mortgages.
The 10-year Treasury US:10_YEAR yield fell from over 3% at the start of the year to an 11-month low of 2.44% at the end of the May; it more recently traded at 2.60%. The push lower in yields came even amid signs that the U.S. labor market recovery is picking up. All things being equal, yields were primed to rise.
The dollar EURUSD, -0.1319% has similarly moved at cross-purposes to what's expected as the economy strengthens and the Federal Reserve starts to tighten monetary policy. The dollar fell 0.2% against the euro in the first quarter, even as declining euro-zone inflation made it more likely that the European Central Bank would have to ease further. The dollar is up 1.5% against the euro this year, a modest bump compared to expectations.
As U.S. Treasury yields have fallen this year, companies and consumers have found it less expensive to borrow money. Simultaneously, the lack of a major dollar rally against the euro means that U.S. exports are more competitive than they were expected to be.
Among the variety of explanations, demand from China continues to grab the attention of traders and strategists. It starts with the depreciation of the Chinese yuan USDCNY, +0.0000% against the dollar in 2014. Some attributed the move to the government's desire to shake out speculators betting on a continued rise in the Chinese currency, while others point to the fact that a weaker currency makes Chinese exports more attractive. Whatever the reason, the dollar rose 2.7% against the yuan in the first quarter of 2014, marking the first quarterly gain since the three months ended June 2012, according to FactSet data.
To accomplish that depreciation, China has sold yuan and bought dollars, leaving it with a huge pile of American currency in its reserve. In the first quarter, China's official data show its foreign-exchange reserves rose by $129 billion to $3.95 trillion, touching an all-time high.
From MarketWatch in Hong Kong: China's falling yuan may be policy driven
By most accounts, China likely doesn't want to keep its increased stash of greenbacks. Traders and market participants on the front lines speculate that the U.S. dollars have been used to buy U.S. Treasurys and have been swapped for euros, adding to demand in those markets.
"You can be reasonably comfortable saying they buy a lot of Treasurys, diversify a lot into euros," said Steven Englander, head of G10 foreign-exchange strategy at Citi, referring to the Chinese.
Of course, it's difficult to attach changes in China's reserves to any specific market movements because the data is lagged. But when markets act up, the "China explanation" tends to lurk.
"The Chinese economy and Chinese demand for U.S. Treasurys is significant in the big picture," said Gregory Whiteley, government bond portfolio manager at DoubleLine Capital LP.
But there are also skeptics who argue that the influence of China is too readily given.
"Generally, you talk about China when you don't know what's happening," said Sebastien Galy, senior foreign-exchange strategist at Societe Generale. "It's a nice story and completely unverifiable," he said.
The Belgium gambit
One way to gauge flows is by looking at Treasury International Capital data, which break down U.S. government debt holdings by country each month. But the data is released with a two-month lag, and can include securities in one country that are actually being held in custody for another country, called a custodian bias.
China's official holdings of Treasurys moderated in March, but at the same time, Belgium's holdings have surged, making the tiny European country the third largest holder of U.S. debt, according to Treasury International Capital data from March that was released in May, the latest available. The combined rise of U.S. debt held by China and Belgium tracks the growth in foreign exchange reserves, according to data from Wrightson ICAP LLC. That suggests China may be buying Treasurys under the guise of a different nationality.
Euroclear, a Belgium-based securities depository and custody provider, is often cited as a potential channel through which Treasurys are bought.
"You can make a circumstantial case that the fact that China's reported holdings leveled off about the time Belgium's holdings were exploding, and the fact that China was expanding reserves makes that a possibility," said Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP LLC. But Crandall emphasizes that while these flows are all possible, the lack of data makes it difficult to confirm.
More from MarketWatch on market surprises in 2014:
Why bond contrarians are beating the vigilantes
How China may be dragging down the U.S. dollar


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Series opener against Kennesaw State pushed back to Friday
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Due to the rain that moved into the Nashville area late this afternoon and early evening, the scheduled baseball Atlantic Sun contest between Lipscomb and Kennesaw State has been moved to a 1 p.m. start on Friday.
The two teams will play a pair of nine-inning games with the second game that was originally scheduled for a 6 p.m. start following approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one.
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WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve made note of a modestly improving economy Wednesday, but said it would maintain its accommodating monetary policy intact.
The Fed's Open Market Committee said it would continue to purchase $85 billion in assets each month -- $45 billion in Treasury securities and $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities. The central bank also said it would leave its federal fund rate -- the overnight rate it charges for bank-to-bank loans -- at zero to 0.25 percent, an historic low rate it has maintained since December 2008 in an effort to fuel economic expansion.
The Fed said a pause in economic growth in late 2012 has ended with "a return to moderate economic growth."
"Labor market conditions have shown signs of improvement in recent months but the unemployment rate remains elevated," the bank's policy-making committee said in a statement.
The bank said inflation remains below its target rate.
"The committee also anticipates that inflation over the medium term likely will run at or below its 2 percent objective," the statement said.


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Red Sox bid, but Phillies re-sign Carlos Ruiz
The Philadelphia Phillies today agreed on a three-year, $26 million deal with catcher Carlos Ruiz.
There is a club option for a fourth year and yearly bonuses of $500,000 if Ruiz appears in 125 games.
According to several major league sources, the Red Sox were in on the bidding for Ruiz but dropped out when the Phillies went to a third year.
At first glance, it seems like a wild overpay by Philadelphia. Ruiz will be 35 in January and is coming off a season that saw him hit .268/.320/.368. He had only 21 extra-base hits and 37 RBIs over 341 plate appearances. Ruiz was suspended for the first 25 games of the season for using a banned amphetamine.
Ruiz hit .303/.388/.454 from 2010-12. But can he recapture that level at his age?
Ruiz's deal would seem like very good news for 28-year-old Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who hit .273/.338/.466 last season with 54 extra-base hits and 65 RBIs. If Ruiz is worth that much, Saltalamacchia could land four years and $40 million, if not more.
That the Red Sox were actively bidding for Ruiz would suggest they are seeking a short-term option to pair with David Ross. That Ruiz also hits righthanded further suggests the Sox were more concerned about defense and length of contract than offense.
Does that mean Saltalamacchia is not coming back? Not necessarily, but the Ruiz deal makes that less likely.
The Red Sox would now seem to have these options:
1. Bite the bullet and sign Saltalamacchia for more than they anticipated.
2. Go for an even bigger contract with free agent Brian McCann and hope he can morph into an acceptable DH down the road. But it seems unlikely the Red Sox would invest $60 million-$80 million (if not more) on McCann.
3. Sign free agent A.J. Pierzynski for a year or two.
4. Trade for a catcher.
The guess here? They make a trade and piece it together until Christian Vazquez is ready. They also have Dan Butler on the 40-man roster.
The Sox also have Ryan Lavarnway. But based on how sparingly he played when Ross was on the disabled list, Lavarnway is not viewed as a solution and could be part of a trade.
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Iran 'tells US that toppling Assad would endanger Israel'
Iranian deputy foreign minister confirms that Washington and Tehran have exchanged messages over fighting Islamic State militants.
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TEHRAN Iran has reportedly warned the US that ousting Syrian leader Bashar Assad in the guise of battling the Islamic State would endanger Israel.
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The report in the Iranian media came as a senior Iranian official confirmed that his country and the US had exchanged messages over the fight against the militant group.
Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian also was quoted Saturday by Iranian media as saying Iran warned Washington that Israel's security will be at risk should the US and its allies seek to topple the embattled Syrian president in the name of fighting the extremist group.
Islamic State fighters in Syria (Photo: AP)
Iran has backed Assad during Syria's three-year civil war. The US has called for Assad to resign and rules out cooperating with his government in the fight against the Islamic State group.
Abdollahian's comments were the first time a senior Iranian official confirmed that Iran and the US had discussed fighting the Islamic State group.
Iranian officials have slammed the US policy on fighting Islamic State forces, after US Secretary of State John Kerry ruled out Iranian
involvement in the broad coalition formed to fight the radical Islamist group.
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani told Iranian media last month that "the US logic for annihilating the ISIL (an acronym for the Islamic State) will not result in reforms in the Middle-East and won't destroy the ISIL, rather it will cause an overwhelming fire of hatred in this region."
Last week, the Sunday Times reported that the Islamic State is preparing to wage war on Iran in order to obtain the secrets of its nuclear program, citing a manifesto attributed to a member of the Islamic State war cabinet that the newspaper had uncovered.
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Posted 12 October 2014 - 01:43 PM
That is actually a veiled threat similar to the ones when usa was about to bomb Syria after saudi ghouta chemical attacks. Iran does not need to directly attack in that case as well. regional dynamics would do the trick. If Syria falls then the turn will come to Hizbollah so before that happens Hzb will do the best to take out as much of israel as possible for example. saudis should worry the most after israel. this item should be in global military section in my opinion.
-If you have faith and put resistance-hard work to it like defending your people or finding a scientific breakthrough then you channel down blessings the more you put resistance-work. If they believe in lies and covering truth then they put resistance for it work for it and cover truth by darkness and lies. The choice is given to us and thus the responsibility.
- Everything is from Allah. There is no other source of power and all causes are from Allah. This way you don't fall into theist or pantheist fatalism immobilising you.
- Submission, acceptance, let go of the roadblocks that we are sticking to the ego,fears,doubts etc.
We are in a constant war with our nefsh and eventualy we will experience death, the ego what we attach to will inevitably be gone whether we want it or not so do not stick to any result within this process.
- In this process desire everything but dependent on nothing without attaching to any cause but Allah. Everything becomes a tool a window for you. One who loves Allah loves everything from Allah. One who desires Allah desires everything from Allah.
- Take action, resist and be a wider channel for the 99 Forces of Allah. Ibadah is all your life process not snapshots of when you do Salat or dzikhr.
Gradually the false consciousness,the lies will melt away and Truth remains. You will experience what you do is from Allah. Then InshAllah you won't feel alone and disconnected.
If you can be selfless there can be wholeness in your conscioussness. If you can handle the internal battle which is the most important then you remove the blocks within the mind and your mind becomes like a channel. You can crush egos, smash idols, reveal the Truth, always transform and improve. Everything becomes possible. Most importantly it is the ego and lies that we are up against and at the essence the aim is to understand and live fully with the conscioussness of there are no many powers, sources of power like ego or images, only Allah. This fact in turn leads us to the point that it is those lies that makes us and the opponent seperate and prior aim should be on changing the opponent without using violence unless it is inevitable.
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LOL... this has been known for years. An Iranian PM himself said on the BBC that they offered the US support in Afghanistan as well as airspace.
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As everyone in the hockey world knows, Finland lost to Sweden at the men's hockey semi finals in Sochi.
A loss that ended an unlikely dream for the Finns, but a dream that started to look like a possibility as the games went on. A dream that was not meant to be. Not at these Olympics. Not for this team. Not for its veterans.
The Finns were never considered a top team on paper. They were weakened as two key forwards were sidelined by injuries and furthermore its number one centre being ruled out early in the tournament.
The Finns were close to repeating what it had done in Turin eight years prior. Alas it was not meant to be. For few of the players on the roster, the ultimate award in their national team career is in tatters and is something they can't achieve as players.
Teemu, Kimmo, Sami and Olli will not have another chance to win Olympic gold. A group of players that have laid everything on the line for the Lion crest, often withstanding criticism of an expectant nation, hungry for success.
It was so close, but yet so far. Just like eight years ago. It was not meant to be. However empty the players must feel right now, there is still hunger there. The old guard will not want their last memory of their national team careers end on a sour note. Bronze, in hockey is always a med that is won. It is a sign that you left the tournament as a winner. Perhaps it is not the win you were after, but every self respecting hockey player wants to win.
The old guard will rise to the breach once more. The team, that has become to play like a team will sacrifice one more time, before passing the torch to the next generation. A generation that is poised to lead the nations' hockey to success. It may not happen right away, but for the first time it looks like the dawning of a new day in Finnish hockey brings forth a brighter future, like the first light of a crisp winters morning.
As tomorrow will be the last time we see some of our nation's hockey legends wear the national uniform, I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for all the triumphant moments. For those moments when a nation dived into fountains. For the moments when the guards of Buckingham Palace didn't want a lion statue to wear the Finnish jersey. For the moments when a young man got angry at the losses, for the times when that young man was moved to tears by the tears you shed on the ice, for you were not alone in your disappointment. In essence, thank you for all the wonderful moments you have given us. Thank you for teaching me how to be a player at the time of victory and at a time of loss.
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Event 7: Genealogy Book Collection
From the list of 15 books Randy posted for this challenge, I have the following:
- Professional Genealogy, edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills
- Evidence! Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills (print and PDF editions)
- The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, any edition
- Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, by Val Greenwood
- BCG Genealogical Standards Manual
Event 8: Go Back and Cite Your Sources!
For some time, I've been using different techniques to go back and find events that have no source citations. For this challenge, I ran a report in my genealogy software to show all direct-line ancestors that were missing source citations for any one of the following facts: name, birth, death, or marriage.
Using that report, I was able to write proper source citations for 134 events!
Event 9: Write, Write, Write!
I completed two parts of this challenge:
- Prepare several posts in draft mode (if possible with your blog platform) and pre-publish.
- Write a brief biographical sketch on one of your ancestors.
I completed three areas of this challenge:
- Comment on a new (to you) genea-blog.
- Participate in an indexing project.
- Join a genealogical, historical, heritage or lineage society.
And my final MEDAL COUNT
for the 2012 GENEALYMPICS!
Bronze – 2
Silver – 4
Gold – 3
Platinum – 1
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This is a picture of the finished quilt top of a nine patch with half square triangles on the corner of each block. It is 3 blocks across and 6 blocks down. The colors are burgandy, blue, and off white. I made it to put on the back of a couch, but it will fit a twin sized bed.
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