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Today I was going through my blog and decided to write, I was having trouble logging in but managed to restore my account.
I have been astonished at the way things are going here in Iraq!! I governmental figures ask for change in Iraq , these figures control very important ministries and capable of the so called "change"
I have nothing against protests as long as they are peaceful but I am so sad that protestors are asking to free all prisons of convicts, but never once did anyone mention the rights of the people that have been victims of suicide bombers , orphans widows, injured people that have lost parts of their body.
There are some bad people in jail, rapist, terrorists and killers do we really want those out in the community with us? It's bad enough as it is do we need more criminals
Do protestors believe that they can force out Nuri al-Maliki ? And if this happened will the problems be solved, you have to change the whole government. Governmental figures have no right to support the protests (they are the reason for them) if there was some decency they would have left the job for someone that could do it instead of stealing Iraq's wealth , they have held positions that could have made change possible , this is not about Maliki , although some are trying to make it look as if it is , it is about you face it you failed !!
Conditions in Iraq have become worse, infrastructure that has been devastated not only by war but of corruption. It's unfortunate but I see no hope for this country at this time, and I really fear that these protests go out of hand to become sectarian and lead us back to year 2005, 2006 when sectarian violence was at its peak.
Sometimes I close my eyes and wish that I was somewhere else in the world, a place that's peaceful .


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Windows 10 Operating System was welcome by almost all users quite warmly and happily. Users switched to Windows 10 in great numbers due to lots of exciting and new features introduced in this OS.
Windows 10 comes in different versions that meet up with the needs of users in a different perspective. If you are a home and non-commercial user, then you may use Windows 10 Home, if you are a Pro and need Windows for your organization then you can use Windows 10 Enterprise or Pro version. There is a separate version for students which is Windows 10 Student.
During installation, Windows 10 will ask you for a product activation key. You will not be able to go ahead further without entering a valid key. If you want to test Windows or install Windows without entering your purchased license key, you can easily use the following generic Windows 10 activation product keys which will let you successfully install Windows with 30 days expiry. You can extend the expiry up to 90 days.
The Windows you installed on your system is s trial version and will expire after 90 days. And it is mandatory to activate your copy of Windows to avail all features of Windows properly. Keys are required for each version at the time of installation to activate your Windows for the lifetime.
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With the Emirates Seat Selection tool you can choose a seat based on your preferences, whether you prefer to be seated at the front or back of the plane, enjoy extra legroom, a great view from the window seat, or access from the aisle seat to get up and move around.
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Core System Modernization Makes Customer Centricity Possible
There's a lot of talk in the banking industry about shifting capital investments from "running the business" (maintenance, operations, etc.) to innovating and "transforming the business." Much of that discussion is focused on core systems, without which there would be no account opening, no bill paying, no lending.
Until recently most of the analysis had to do with whether banks' aging legacy systems were becoming less capable of effectively running these essential parts of the business. At the same time, there continued to be legitimate concerns about replacing or upgrading those systems, since these kinds of expensive and difficult projects can seriously disrupt the business.
But a dramatic shift in expectations is taking place. Increasingly, core systems are being viewed as the foundation of a banking transformation marked by customer-centricity and a nimbler, more flexible business model whereby banks perform less like lumbering behemoths and more like e-businesses. With this redefinition of core systems modernization as a competitive and compliance-related necessity rather than a discretionary risk, the debate has shifted from "Should we or shouldn't we?" to "How should we do it?" This new thinking about the role of core systems and the best ways to modernize them is the subject of the December digital issue of Bank Systems & Technology.
At the recent SAP Financial Services Forum in New York, Andrew Hagger, general manager of transformation and analytics at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, related how a major core systems initiative it's doing with SAP is helping the bank go beyond the rhetoric of customer-centricity. "We all want to be customer-centric, but it's a hard challenge across the world," he acknowledged. "We are leveraging our core to do that." The bank, he said, is "aiming to be more channel-agnostic. Real-time and seven-day banking are critical for us." Raising the stakes, Hagger said, "Our competitors are launching capabilities similar to ours."
[The Case For 'Progressive Renovation': Legacy Systems Are Not Equipped for Today's Multichannel Banking]
At Commonwealth Bank, the core banking system is known as "the revolution -- it's a whole new way of doing business, a new way of interacting, and the key to us delivering what our customers want and need. … It has galvanized our organization," Hagger said. "Our core banking vision is to build a great client-centric bank whose profitable growth is powered by simplicity."
No one is saying this comes easy, but it's clear that competitive advantage and the ability to innovate productively will be driven and enabled by core systems capabilities. The question for all banks has to be: Is our core making us more competitive, or is it holding us back?
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Chemical Landmark: Kekule at Ghent Tim Reynolds | added on Sep 29, 2011 | Belgium On October 28 the work of August Kekule at Ghent University will be marked with the presentation of an RSC Chemical Landmark to Ghent University. The ceremony starts at 16:00 in the Aula of the University of Ghent with a reception afterwards.
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On a friend's recommendation...[I] signed up. I felt tremendous physical, emotional and spiritual healing from Eliot and his team. … I'm still feeling the blessings weeks later. Wish every human being could experience Healing Camp.
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People yearn to be free of illness. And people long to feel connected… to spirit, to each other and to the natural world, yet how often do people give themselves time to nurture that heartfelt yearning? Modern life has become so busy and stressful! Such a pace takes a painful toll, which many try to remedy with healthy food, therapy, yoga classes or meditation. All these approaches help, yet still the question is there -- could there be more?
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Could the potency and mystery of ancient healing tradition provide medicine for the illnesses and alienation of modern culture?
Healing Camp is composed of five days of Huichol Shamanic Healing at the sacred ground of the Blue Deer Center. Through Eliot Cowan's authentic training and apprenticeship with Huichol Indian shaman don Guadalupe Gonzalez Rios, participants have the opportunity to discover that the medicine of the old cultures runs deep and exerts a powerful effect.
Eliot Cowan, a fully initiated Tsaurirrikame (Huichol shaman), has lead over 50 healing camps in the past two decades. Over the years he has gathered extensive experience working with the full spectrum of life events from birth to death.
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STARS paid tribute today to Victor Spinettti, the Cwm-born star of stage and screen who died this morning.
Comedian and actor Rob Brydon said: "Terribly sad news. One of the funniest raconteurs there's ever been, a lovely man who I was lucky to call a friend.'' Among visitors during the past few days were close friend Barbara Windsor, on whose Radio 2 show he made a recent appearance - one of his final recordings.
Spinetti's agent, Barry Burnett, said: "He had cancer for a year, but he was very cheerful to the end. I spoke to him on Friday and he was talking about his plans and everything.'' The versatile actor was able to easily turn his hand from serious classical roles to comedy performances and roles in sitcoms.
He has also been a successful stage director, wrote poetry and became known for his appearances in a Jaffa Cake ad campaign.
However, for many fans, Spinetti will always be known for his roles in The Beatles' three live action films - A Hard Day's Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour.


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Productions using LilyPond
Here you can read about people who actually use LilyPond in their productions, be it for performances of their music or as published scores.
LilyPond engravings have been used for performances around the world. Some highlights:
Aurélien Bello has arranged a
version of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier for four singers
and a chamber orchestra of thirteen players. This has been commissioned
by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra whose members will be the performers on
April 2nd and 6th
at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, and on
April 26th
in the Philharmonie (großer Saal), Berlin. We are pleased to see
musicians of such reputation playing from LilyPond scores – and they are
reportedly very happy with them.
Aurélien has also re-orchestrated Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner to a 100-minute version for children. Written for a standard symphony orchestra, but with a reduced cast of singers, it was performed by the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in April 2014 at the Atze Musiktheater, Berlin. The Conductor was Heiko Matthias Förster.
- Joe Smeets created sheet music for the children's book Zing Mee (Sing along) by Annie M.G. published by Querido – ISBN 9789045106205; choir rehearsal scores for the Dutch translation of Benjamin Britten's Saint Nicolas performed by Muziektheater Hollands Diep in 2011; www.muziektheaterhollandsdiep.nl. He has also worked on the score and parts for an arrangement of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov for wind quartet, piano and percussion which was performed in 2014, again by Muziektheater Hollands Diep.
- A critical edition of Tommaso Traetta's Enea nel Lazio (1760), opera series with libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi, in four parts: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Created by Luca Rossetto Casel for his Ph.D. Thesis.
- Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition, was re-orchestrated and conducted by Aurélien Bello with the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg in October 2011 and April 2012.
- Kieren MacMillan, composer and musical director. His many, recent works include; Go Thy Way, performed by the Salt Lake Choral Artists in March 2012; The Just Out of Reach Suite performed by the Chrysalis Duo ; thrafsmata performed in July 2011 by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
- Anonymous Student Compliment or Complaint, by Mike Solomon, winner chosen from among 172 entries from 22 countries of the 2011 Left Coast Composition Contest. Other works include, Norman (age 1) for clarinet solo, performed at the University of Florida's Electroacoustic Music Festival (FEMF), October 2010.
- A modern edition of the Serenata Erminia by Alessandro Scarlatti, edited by Thomas Griffin, Musicologist (Rome, Italy). Performed on 22 October 2010 in the Galleria of the Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples, Italy. Alessandro Scarlatti 2010, in celebration of the composer's 350th birthday.
- Mercury Baroque's performance of Lully's Armide, May 15-16, 2009, in Houston, Texas (engraving by Nicolas Sceaux).
- Instrumental excerpts from Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie at St. James's Church in Manhattan, May 8, 2009, by Frederick Renz and his ensemble Early Music New York (engraving by Nicolas Sceaux).
- Affaire étrangère, an opera by Valentin Villenave to a French libretto by Lewis Trondheim, premiered February 1, 2009 at L'Opéra National de Montpellier, France.
Published sheet music
- Mutopia Project, over 1500 pieces of classical sheet music for free download, and the main showcase of LilyPond scores.
- Etude, "sheet music on steroids" is an iPhone app which displays piano music engraved with LilyPond, including many pieces from Mutopia. The app includes a virtual piano keyboard showing which keys to press to help beginners learn how to read sheet music.
- Adoro Music Publishing, high-quality scores of sacred music, available for immediate download or in traditional paper format.
- The Shady Lane Publishing, a "micro musical publishing house" whose goal is to promote a new form of musical economy closer to the musicians and music lovers.
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Pakistan in Talks to Acquire 3 Nuclear Plants From China
The 3 Large Plants Would Cost Some $13 Billion and Would Cement Strategic Regional Alliance
By SAEED SHAH
Updated Jan. 20, 2014 6:59 p.m. ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan is in talks with China to acquire three large nuclear power plants for some $13 billion, Pakistani officials said, in a further blow to international efforts to restrict the trade in nuclear technology.
The deal is in addition to last year's agreement to build two Chinese reactors in Pakistan's southern port of Karachi.
The agreement, if reached, would help plug the crippling gap in Pakistan's electricity supply and cement its strategic regional alliance with China, which is aimed against mutual rival India. Alarming Washington, the China-Pakistan nuclear trade bypasses international rules against nuclear exports to countries—like Pakistan—that have not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Negotiations are going on currently with China "for three more plants," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told his cabinet's meeting this month, according to those present.
The three Chinese reactors would likely be located in the center of the country, in Punjab province, at a site now being prepared, officials said. Two advanced 1,100-megawatt reactors from China are already due to be built near the southern port of Karachi, under a $9 billion agreement completed last year. Mr. Sharif led the groundbreaking ceremony for the Karachi reactors in November but the discussions about the additional plants have not been made public until now.
Fixing Pakistan's electricity crisis is a top priority of Mr. Sharif's government, which was elected in May last year. The shortage of energy is a major constraint to Mr. Sharif's plans to boost growth and pull Pakistan out of its downward spiral of violence and economic woes. Coal, hydro and nuclear energy plants are all planned to plug the shortfall.
However, an international body called the Nuclear Suppliers Group, of which China is a member, is supposed to bar the export of nuclear technology or fuel to countries that have not signed the NPT. Pakistan possesses nuclear weapons and isn't a signatory. Moreover, the leading scientist behind the Pakistani nuclear program, A.Q. Khan, has been involved in spreading the country's nuclear know-how to countries such as North Korea and Libya.
A senior U.S. official said about the latest reactors plan: "This does cause us concerns because of the commitments within the Nuclear Suppliers Group. It is also a U.S.-China issue."
However, China says that its nuclear trade with Pakistan predates its membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and is therefore protected. India is also not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty but the 2005 U.S.-India civil nuclear deal led to India being given an exemption to import nuclear materials by the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
"The India-U.S. nuclear deal was discriminatory," said Mushahid Hussain, a lawmaker for the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid and head of the Senate defense committee. "It was meant to prop up India against China."
Mark Hibbs, an expert on nuclear issues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an independent research organization based in Washington, said that the Nuclear Suppliers Group was "clearly in a crisis that has continued to escalate" as a result of the trade taking place with India and Pakistan. The rules of the group had no binding force, as it is a voluntary arrangement, he said.
Although the U.S.-India nuclear deal is about nuclear power plants, Pakistan sees it as also having military implications. The agreement allows India to source uranium on the international market, freeing up its indigenous uranium for use in its nuclear weapons program. China's unilateral trade with Pakistan provides Islamabad with similar benefits, analysts say.
Pakistan produces between 12,000 MW and 14,000 MW of electricity, while demand is at least 18,000 MW, according to the ministry of power, causing hours of power outages every day across the country. Demand is set to rise sharply with the ballooning population.
Nuclear energy provides just 750 MW of power currently, through two Chinese-built 330 MW plants at Chashma, in Punjab province, and a tiny, aged, plant outside Karachi. China is currently building two more plants of the same size at Chashma, boosting nuclear output to 1,400 MW by 2016. The plan for the future is to acquire much larger 1,100 MW plants from China, including the two new reactors for Karachi.
China is the only country willing to supply Pakistan with nuclear plants, and Pakistan is China's sole market for nuclear exports, providing an outlet for China's hopes of selling its nuclear technology more widely.
"It is very difficult for the Pakistan government to get such a full package of support from any other place in the world," said Li Ning, an expert on China's nuclear industry at Xiamen University.
Ansar Parvez, chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, which builds and runs the country's nuclear power plants, said that the country's aim is to generate 8,800 MW of nuclear power by 2030.
"When we're talking to the Chinese, we're discussing how to get to 8,800 MW by 2030," said Mr. Parvez. "We'll continue talking to them until we meet the 2030 target."
That target requires Pakistan to build six to seven large nuclear power plants, including the two already scheduled for Karachi. Each such plant costs $4 billion to $4.5 billion, said Mr. Parvez.
China's Foreign Ministry didn't respond to a written request for comment on the latest negotiations, nor did state-owned China National Nuclear Corp., which has sold reactors to Pakistan previously.
A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry, Hua Chunying, defended the countries' nuclear cooperation in December, which she said was in accordance with the countries' international obligations.
"In the future, the Chinese side wishes to continue offering help to the best of its ability to resolve the electricity-shortage issue," Ms. Hua had said


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When it comes to big data, "size doesn't matter," Ravi Mhatre, managing director of venture firm Lightspeed Venture Partners just told Business Insider.
"It's not just big data. It's got to be fast data and it's got to be meaningful data" he says.
There's a new wave of startups trying to make it easier to use big data systems. If they succeed, they will really hurt the multibillion-dollar market for business-intelligence software and threaten products like SAP's Business Objects, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion.
"We're talking an industry today that's probably $20 [billion] to $30 billion that I think, overnight, is going to be replaced by a completely new set of platforms," he predicts.
Big data apps like Hadoop allow companies to store humongous amounts of data on inexpensive servers and storage. As they store more data, it leads to two problems: 1) you can't easily turn all that data into charts 2) it can take a long time—minutes—to get results when you ask a question, run a query.
For instance, your Hadoop system could store info on every item ever sold by your company. If you wanted to find out what time of day, each month, you sold the most items, you couldn't output all that into a spreadsheet and start running charts. It could be 10 million rows of stuff.
Mhatre says he's funded a startup, still in stealth mode, working on tech that will take those 10 million rows and turn them into pictures. "Not so much charts, but other ways a human can visually look at large amounts of data," he explains.
He didn't name his stealth startup but another example of a big-data startup is Platfora, funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Sutter Hill Ventures, and the CIA's investment arm, In-Q-Tel.
Mhatre's funding other startups that will speed up Hadoop and other big-data technologies. This includes a company called Qubole with a product in beta. Qubole was cofounded by two guys who used to run Facebook's infrastructure, Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma.
Don't miss: Big Data Is The Hottest Thing To Hit The Web In Years: Here's Why


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People often ask me where do I get my inspiration. Inspiration comes to me in many shapes and forms. I often find myself inspired by fibers themselves: using different textures, colors, and weights of yarn can create very unexpected results!
Using mohair and silk together is one of my favorite combinations! The sheen of silk and the matte texture of mohair balance each other beautifully. Combining them in a way that uses lace weight and worsted weight yarns gives the piece a very delicate look.
This is the garment that was published in Vogue Knitting Winter 2006/07. I used worsted weight silk/mohair blend together with the lace weight mohair at the neckline. Later I also tried to invert the pattern and use lace weight yarn for the body and worsted weight yarn for the insert. You can see the result below:
In both Luxe Knits and Luxe Knits: The Accessories, I combine different weights, fibers, and colors a lot. One of my favorite pieces is the Shawl Sweater:
Here I combined a variation of different yarns in a fold pattern to give the shawl lightness and drape.
Try the Fold Pattern yourself and be inspired by fibers just like I am:
You will need: Chunky Weight (CW), Sport Weight (SW), & Lace Weight Yarn (LW), and US 11 needles.
Fold Pattern:
With CW using US 11 needles desired amount of sts.
Hint: CO about 25 sts if you want to turn it into a scarf.
Row 1 (WS): Purl.
Row 2: Knit.
Repeat these two rows once more.
Row 5: Purl.
Row 6 (RS): With SW- Slip one stitch pick up a corresponding CO stitch
from behind of work- knit them together- Repeat from * till the end of row.
Space Between the Folds (WS):
With SW work in St St (starting with Purl row) for 6 rows.
Repeat Fold & Space in Between Folds Patterns once more- but pick up corresponding stitches from behind 5 rows below instead of stitches on CO row.
On the third and fourth repeats of the pattern, use LW for Row 6 of the fold & for Space Between the Folds.
If you wish to continue and turn this swatch into a scarf, repeat this pattern till desired length and end with BO on Fold Row 6.
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The current trek isn't even a "B." It's more like a "C" — as in, it's probably OK if you don't "see" it.
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The show, which will return to the same venue on Dec. 2, was full of perplexing problems. The production was poorly planned and executed, especially in the way the longtime hits were handled. There was plenty of filler in the set list, mostly hailing from Beyonce's latest offering, 2011's "4." It never felt like the show was building toward anything meaningful, except, of course, the inevitable downpour of confetti.
On the plus side, Beyoncé sounded great and looked even better. But two hours of disjointed moments rarely jell into one satisfying evening, no matter how talented the performer.
Queen B kicked off the show in royal fashion, appearing in front of her 11-member female band to belt out two cuts from "4" — "Run the World (Girls)" and "End of Time." She boogied alongside 10 dancers, while her hair amazingly always seemed to have just the right amount of breeze blowing through it, and then fireworks rained down from the ceiling.
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The first half of the set was almost entirely forgettable, as Beyoncé fed the crowd a steady diet of bland ballads and marginally interesting up-tempo numbers.
The mediocrity definitely took its toll on the crowd. At the start of the show, the screams rivaled what one hears at a Justin Bieber or One Direction show. An hour later, the scene was decidedly more subdued.
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She closed the main set in rather unimpressive fashion with the new cut/TV commercial jingle "Grown Woman," which served as a preview of Beyonce's next album — as well as a sales pitch for Pepsi. It didn't make me want to buy the album, but darn if I didn't have a sudden urge to go buy a soft drink.
She bounced back in the encore, delivering a faithful snippet of the Dolly Parton/Whitney Houston favorite "I Will Always Love You" and then — the song of the night — "Halo."
Sadly, it was the only truly heavenly moment of the show.
Follow Jim Harrington at http://twitter.com/jimthecritic, www.facebook.com/jim.bayareanews and http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/category/concerts.
When: Dec. 2
Where: HP Pavilion in San Jose
Tickets: $45-$250, www.ticketmaster.com
Online: To see a setlist from Tuesday's show, go to www.mercurynews.com/music.


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I've been a fan of the Prince of Persia franchise ever since 2003's The Sands of Time. The combination of acrobatics and combat– along with the sweeping environments — made the Prince of Persia franchise one of my favorites from the last generation. And despite Ubisoft beating the franchise into the ground by releasing sequel after sequel each year, I still bought and played them all — though I recognized that the Prince was starting to feel more than a little tired.
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Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games.
You haven't heard much…or perhaps anything…yet about a disaster relief supplemental appropriation for the state and local governments and individuals who were hit so hard by Sandy.
But you will, probably starting this afternoon when President Obama tours New Jersey arm-in-arm with Governor Chris Christie.
My guess is that the disaster relief package will jump the fiscal cliff as a priority immediately after the election and that it will be dealt with weeks before the fiscal cliff deadlines at the start of January.
There are three questions.
First, how much aid will be needed and what will it be used for? The state and local governments that were in Sandy's path have huge infrastructure problems and the individuals who have been affected will look to Washington for assistance in rebuilding.
Second, congressional Republicans demand reductions in other spending to offset the impact of the new Sandy-related aid? No matter what the disaster, that's been the pattern the past two years and it is hard to see it changing for a storm that ravaged primarily blue states.
Third, how will House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) deal with this situation? If the tea party wing of the GOP opposes the aid without offsets, Boehner will be forced to chose between supporting a package that will be extremely important to a large number of states — including his own — or opposing the package without spending cuts to boost his chances of being reelected speaker. As I've said before, Boehner very likely needs the support of the tea party wing of the GOP to get reelected speaker and alienating it with support for more spending before the House Republican caucus holds its leadership elections for next year makes this a very difficult political problem for him.