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Welcome to PWInsider.com's coverage of WWE Night Of Champions. We will be updating this page throughout the evening with results from the show, so check back often.
The PPV opened with a great video package putting over the importance of a championship, followed by segments on the World and WWE Title matches.
Unified Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho & ??? vs. Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase.
Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler called this match. DiBiase & Rhodes entered first, then Jericho. The announcers noted that Jericho could select someone from any brand to defend the tag belts. Jericho took the mic, and then said we would have a reminder of what happened to his former partner. They showed a video package on Edge's injury and surgery, including his promo vowing to come back. Back live, Jericho cut a promo on Edge, calling him injury prone and selfish. Jericho said he now had a partner who is worthy to stand next to him. Jericho then introduced his new partner, Big Show. Big Show, wearing new ring gear, came out holding the tag belts.
Big Show shoved Cody in a corner at the bell, but Rhodes avoided a chop. Show backed him into the opposite corner though, and landed the chop. Show flung Cody across the ring with a Beel throw, and Cody rolled to the floor. Cody got on the apron and yanked Show throat first across the top rope, then tagged DiBiase. Show easily downed DiBiase with a shoulderblock, then chopped him and tagged in Jericho. Show whipped Jericho into an avalanche on DiBiase. Jericho hit a back elbow, rammed DiBiase into Show's boot, then tagged him back in. Show and Jericho worked over DiBiase, including Show slamming Jericho onto a downed DiBiase, which looked awkward. Cody tagged in, but was elbowed by Show from the apron, allowing Jericho to roll him up for a two count. DiBiase pulled down the ropes as Jericho went to bounce off, and Jericho went over the top and to the floor.
Cody went out of the ring and rammed Jericho into the apron. DiBiase and Rhodes hit Jericho with a legsweep/clothesline combo. Rhodes worked over Jericho with a cravate, but Jericho came back with a sunset flip. Cody looked like he wanted to tag before going over, but instead fell through the ropes in another awkward spot. Jericho battled back, with some fans chanting for him, but DiBiase and Rhodes kept him in their corner and away from tagging Big Show. Jericho and Rhodes exchanged forearms, and Rhodes hit a top rope moonsault on a standing Jericho for a two count. Jericho came right back with an enzugiri, but Cody tagged DiBiase, who cut off Jericho from tagging Show. Jericho rolled DiBiase into a small package for two, but DiBiase kicked out and hit a clothesline. Jericho kicked away a backdrop, but DiBiase hit a powerslam. DiBiase rolled Jericho with an armdrag and kicked Jericho in the face. Jericho avoided a splash in the corner and went for the Walls Of Jericho, but DiBiase blocked it. DiBiase went for Dream Street, but Jericho blocked it and applied the Walls. Cody teased running in, getting Big Show to come into the ring and distract the referee. This allowed Cody to break up the pin. Jericho finally made a tag, and Big Show came in and teased chokeslamming both opponents, but Priceless pounded Big Show to break his grip. Jericho got Cody out of the ring and Show speared DiBiase, but Cody broke up the cover. Cody dropkicked Show from behind, and DiBiase clipped his knee from the front. However, Jericho ran in and gave DiBiase a Codebreaker, while Show swatted Cody from the ring. Show put DiBiase in the Colossal Clutch for the submission at the ten minute mark.
Winners: Big Show and Chris Jericho.
CM Punk started to be interviewed backstage by Josh Mathews, but when he heard the crowd supporting Jeff Hardy, he took the mic and walked into the arena. Punk stood in the crowd and said he didn't blame the fans for the way they support Jeff Hardy. He blamed the single-parents, who give their kids whatever they want, because their marriages failed. Punk said they weren't good parents, they were enablers. Punk said parents letting their kids look up to Jeff Hardy shows they don't really care at all. Punk said it "starts with a Jeff Hardy T-Shirt, then they're smoking cigarettes", drinking beer, using illicit street drugs, etc. It was a great promo, but I wonder if a lot of it went over the heads of the fans.
ECW Champion Tommy Dreamer vs. Christian.
Dreamer and Christian bumped knuckles at the start in a show of respect. They locked up and went into a corner, then slapped each other on the break. Dreamer hit a shoulderblock for a two count, then armdragged Christian. Christian kipped up and flipped Dreamer to the mat. Christian slid under Dreamer's legs, then hit a spin kick for a two count. Dreamer reversed a whip into the corner and charged Christian, and when Christian went for the pendulum kick, Dreamer caught it and hit a neckbreaker off the ropes. Christian came back with a forearm and a reverse elbow off the ropes. Dreamer shoulderblocked Christian from the apron and teased suplexing him to the floor. Christian slid to the outside and tripped Dreamer, sending him face first into the ring apron. Christian hit a baseball slide kick, then went for a springboard bodypress, but Dreamer moved out of the way. Dreamer hit a rolling senton off the ring apron, then rolled Christian into the ring for a two count.
Dreamer powerslammed Christian for a two count. Dreamer got on the second rope, but Christian pulled Dreamer off, sending him crashing to the mat. Christian snapmared Dreamer and kicked him in the neck. Christian went for a Killswitch, but Dreamer blocked it and went for a back suplex. Christian floated over that and applied a sleeper, but Dreamer fell backwards to the mat to break it. Christian got back on Dreamer with the sleeper, but Dreamer threw them both over the top rope to break the hold. They got back into the ring and Christian went to the top rope, but Dreamer hit him as he came off, then delivered a clothesline and a flapjack for a two count. Dreamer put Christian in the Tree Of Woe, then hit a baseball slide kick. Dreamer went for a DDT, but Christian blocked it, only to be caught with a spinebuster. Dreamer went for a pumphandle slam, but Christian floated over it and hit a DDT for two. Christian went to the middle rope and hit a dropkick. Christian went to the top rope for another, but Dreamer caught it and applied the Texas Cloverleaf. Christian rolled under it and traded punches with Dreamer. Dreamer hit a catapult, but Christian came back with a sunset flip off the ropes. They traded reversals for two counts. Dreamer missed a charge in the corner and Christian hit the Pendulum kick, then a top rope dropkick. Christian went for the Killswitch, but Dreamer reversed it for a DDT, but Christian reversed it again and hit the Killswitch for the win at the eight minute mark.
Winner and new ECW Champion: Christian.
Dreamer and Christian shook hands and embraced. Dreamer then raised Christian's hand.
Backstage, Todd Grisham interviewed Big Show and Chris Jericho. Show said they aren't friends, this is about business. Jericho bragged about what a great choice he made, then proclaimed they would be better than the British Bulldogs, Road Warriors and all the other great teams. Show said they have held 40 championships between the two of them. They said they would be the most dominant team ever. Jericho mockingly thanked Edge for making it possible.
United States Champion Kofi Kingston vs. Primo vs. MVP vs. Carlito vs. Jack Swagger vs. The Miz.
Primo replaces Big Show in this match. Carlito bailed out of the ring at the bell to avoid Primo, while everyone else went at it. Lot's of pinfall attempts early. Kofi and Carlito did a nice sequence that ended with them colliding. Kofi gave Primo a rana, right into a Swagger powerbomb, in a cool spot. Swagger started throwing people out of the ring at one point. MVP gave Swagger a belly to belly suplex and brawled with him to the floor. Swagger threw MVP into a security wall. Miz and Kofi ended up being the only two in the ring at one point. Carlito hit a top rope dive on MVP on the floor. Swagger got in with Kofi, while Miz was kicked to the floor. Kofi hit a top rope dropkick on Swagger, then hit a double legdrop. Miz broke up the cover, then nailed Kofi with a clothesline. Miz hit a corner clothesline on Swagger. Primo and Miz fought on the top rope, then Kofi joined him. Swagger powerbombed Primo and Kofi while they superplexed Miz. Carlito ran in and tried to get covers on the downed wrestlers, but only got a two count. MVP went to work on Carlito, then Miz yanked him into the middle turnbuckle. Carlito flipped over Primo on a suplex attempt, then they collided going for bodypresses. Kofi mounted Swagger in a corner but got powerslammed. MVP backdropped Miz to the floor, then bodypressed Swagger over the top rope.
This left Carlito in the ring with Kofi. Kofi and Carlito traded reversals on cradles, then Primo got in on it and we had three wrestlers traded reversals. Carlito held Kofi and told Primo to hit him, but before he could, Swagger tripped Primo. Primo and Carlito got double clotheslines by Swagger, who then knocked Miz off the apron. MVP caught Swagger with a facebuster on the knee, then called for the Ballin' elbowdrop, which he hit. MVP went for the Playmaker, but as he hit it, Miz gave MVP a full nelson slam. The Colons tossed MVP out of the ring, then Carlito gave Primo a Backstabber. Kofi then hit Carlito with the Trouble In Paradise kick for the win at the nine minute mark.
Winner: Kofi Kingston.
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TypePhysical object
DescriptionObject is a printed circuit board with no land patterns. It has a hand soldered network of resistors and diodes.
Date1960 ca.
ManufacturerDigital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Place ManufacturedMaynard, Mass.
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November 8, 2012Trenton, NJ – As NJ TRANSIT continues recovery operations from Hurricane Sandy and a significant nor'easter storm, the Christie Administration has announced plans to provide more free shuttle bus/ferry service for the Trans-Hudson commute.
On Friday, November 9th, free weekday emergency shuttle bus/ferry service will operate from to/from the following locations:
Morris & Essex Lines
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Northeast Corridor
These new bus shuttle/ferry services will operate weekdays between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. (inbound) and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. (outbound). Bus shuttles will operate on a load and go basis every 10 minutes.
Please note that Weehawken ferries serve Midtown Manhattan while LSP ferries serve Lower Manhattan. Customers traveling to Weehawken will be given two free NY Waterway ferry tickets for use to/from New York. No tickets are required for the LSP Statue Cruises ferry service.
The additional emergency shuttle bus service complements established emergency shuttle bus service already established at Ramsey Rt. 17, Meadowlands/MetLife Stadium Lots J & K, PNC Arts Center and Hudson-Bergen Liberty State Park Station. Please check njtransit.com for more information.
The region's mass transit network suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Sandy late last month, and some additional damage in the November 7th nor'easter. As a result, NJ TRANSIT is in the process of rebuilding much of its rail and light rail network. These new bus/ferry services continue to supplement existing bus service, very limited rail service and other emergency bus and Trans-Hudson ferry services that have been implemented since the storm.
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United Steelworkers Local 1-242 is the largest geographical local in Canada, representing 6,000 members in forestry, mining, electrical and automobile sectors in northern B.C.
In 2004, the resource industries faced a declining market and in 2006, the forest industry started to close mills and curtail operations. The USW local formed a committee of local service providers and education facilities to map a plan for action, as many in the forest sector had never been unemployed. Attaching them to the right agency and preparing them for the possibility of closure became a critical task.
In 2007, a rapid response team was formed and, with funding from Service Canada, the plan was put into action. This was followed by a labour market agreement with the federal and provincial governments and the local union to run a $2-million pilot project called Assessing Planning Training. This program worked with and provided funding for displaced or threatened workers to retrain and gain the skills needed to prepare for the possibility of job loss or to find new employment.
The program was slated to have 250 participants but ended in 2010 with more than 630 people taking advantage of it.
In 2011, the local union again applied for and received funding through the labour market agreement for $3-million for a new pilot called Northern Skills Training.
It gives employed United Steelworkers members in forestry and mining a chance to enhance their skills to meet changes in technology and take advantage of apprenticeships within the industries where they work.
Under the program, participants' skills are assessed, then a plan is developed to ensure they gain the skills that will help them move into training or courses relevant to the industry that employs them.
Northern Skills does not deliver the courses, but covers the costs and, where possible, arranges the training in participants' home communities. The pilot is the only program of its kind operating in Canada today.
The United Steelworkers has contractors in most communities to start the process and develop participant action plans, which has worked extremely well as these service providers know the community, the people and the training resources available in the region.
Working in partnership with industry, education facilities and private trainers ensures the best results for both participants and industry. The Northern Skills Training Pilot has a target of 840 participants; today more than 500 are receiving assistance from the program across the north.
Program participant Tina Lamsrsh, who works at a sawmill, just started a millwright apprenticeship.
"This program has been great," she said. "I started upgrading my essential skills and taking computer training, which will really help me as I proceed through my apprenticeship. This is an unbelievable opportunity that I am thankful is available."
Frank Everitt is president of the United Steelworkers Local 1-424, serving northern B.C.


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Need a cute holiday accessory? Simply take holiday pom-pons, per your favorite holiday colors, and hot-glue to a fabric headband. I made one each for New Year's and Christmas Eve. This inexpensive project is great for smaller crafters. Just be careful when it comes to smaller crafters – the glue gun is a grown-up job!
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NEW YORK -- Gonzalo Bustamante has launched Gonzalo Bustamante Design Works (GBDW), a new multi-disciplinary design studio. The Manhattan-based firm will offer a wide range of visionary, yet practical design solutions for hospitality and beyond. For GBDW, Bustamante has assembled a team of top creative talent including architects, graphic and interior designers to develop highly conceptual, innovative environments and experiential designs. GBDW's core design principles and inspiration are rooted in the natural world, fashion, music and art. With each project the studio seeks to evoke emotionally powerful story telling, an immersive experience, and a unique sense of craft and wonder.
According to Bustamante, "I'm really excited to launch the next chapter in my career. Developing GBDW has given me the opportunity to take a look at my profession with a fresh perspective. I am looking forward to developing our work in other markets and also broadening our portfolio beyond interior architecture to branding and product design."
GBDW is focused on a number of new initiatives including a restaurant in the South Street Seaport of New York City, a neighborhood that is still working to get fully back on its feet after Hurricane Sandy. In addition, GBDW has designed Corcho, a new series of decorative laminates inspired by cork for Montreal-based manufacturer Arborite, which launched at NeoCon as part of the company's innovative INK Collection.
Bustamante, a Pratt Institute alum and active board member for FIT's Student Advisory Board, is best known for his recent work with Vincent Celano at Seed Design Studio. Their recent projects include Heraea at the Palms Resort in Las Vegas, Bulla Restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla, and Little Market Brasserie by Mercadito Hospitality in Chicago, in addition to their award winning projects such as LIV Nightclub at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, chef Jose Andres' China Poblano in Las Vegas' Cosmopolitan Hotel, and Public House at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.


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This week's NFL action was Jekyll and Hyde personified. You either were forced to watch your favorite team get pummeled unmercifully or bask in their pigskin awesomeness. After four weeks of action, four teams remain win-less, while The Broncos, Patriots, Chiefs and Seahawks have yet to lose. Monday's encounter between the Dolphins and Saints will also be a classic as both teams go into the game with perfect records. The Titans, Lions and Colts continue to surprise with steady offense and timely D and are riding high with 3-1 records.
Here's what else we learned:
Who is Brian Hoyer?: On his fourth NFL team in only his fifth season in the league, it's perfectly OK if you don't know who the dude is. But after a solid three-TD performance last week against the Vikings and a 25-for-38, two TD performance in the Browns 17-6 win against the Bengals this week, you'll know who he is soon enough.
A quartet of teams still without a win:
Pittsburgh steel on the decline: The Steelers haven't been 0-4 since the pre-Woodstock days of 1968, but head coach Mike Tomlin said after the team's 34-27 drubbing by the lowly Vikings that he's going to be patient. With one of the worst run games in football and spotty defense that isn't forcing turnovers, you have to wonder what he's waiting for exactly.
Little Giants?: New York head coach Tom Coughlin isn't any better. After this week's loss against the Chiefs, Coughlin said he was going to watch the tape and try and find out what's wrong with the team. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. At this point, the only Giant who hasn't been a complete disappointment is Victor Cruz, who had 10 catches for 164 yards and a TD against the Chiefs in a 31-7 disaster this week. For those keeping score at home, the Giants haven't been 0-4 since the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were cool in 1987.
Tampa Bay dead in the water?: As far as the Bucs go, they have a dynamic running back in Doug Martin and a decent enough defense, but between Josh Freeman and Mike Glennon, they can't get anything cooking with the passing game. If you can't score through the air in the NFL, you're a dead Buccaneer. And not the cool Disney kind either.
Jacksonville offense a caged cat?: The Jaguars are an easy one to solve. So far this season, they've averaged just 7.8 points a game and given up 129 point in four contests. Ouch isn't the word.
Welcome Back, Cassell: After a horrid few seasons in Kansas City where he was riddled with bout of ineffectiveness and injuries, Cassell was practically flawless against the 0-4 Steelers, throwing two TDs for 248 yards and no interceptions this week. The Minnesota O-line was stellar as well, allowing just one sack and helping Vikings RB Adrian Peterson run for 140 yards and two scores.
Titans prove not sharing is caring: The Titans 3-1 record this season is a testament to the old school football they play. Although their defense has been sturdy, the offense, led by the now injured Jake Locker has only shown flashes of brilliance when its had to. Then how do you explain the record? Through four games this season, the Titans have not committed a single turnover. Their 38-13 drubbing of the Jets continued the trend.That could change however if backup Ryan Fitzatrick is forced to take over the offense.
Chiefs, Patriots, Seahawks and Broncos stay gold: The fact that the Seahawks are 4-0 (for the first time in franchise history) shouldn't be a surprise. They have one of the deepest lineups in the NFL as well as one of the league's best QB/RB combinations in Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch. Although Wilson was marginal with just 123 yards passing (and 77 yards rushing) in the team's 23-20 OT win over the Titans this week, Lynch was more than solid with a TD and 98 yards on the ground on just 17 carries and three catches for 45 yards.
The Broncos passing game is quite possibly the best in the NFL, but it's a hard terrain to navigate. With Wes Welker, Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas all jockeying for targets, you need a special QB. Luckily for Denver, Peyton Manning has done an excellent job of keeping his wide-outs well fed. Case in point with Denver's 52-20 win over the Eagles this week, Manning connected with eight different players for four TDs and 327 yards.
The Chiefs, on the other hand, don't have the same type of weapons, but continue to get big plays when they need them. Recently acquired Alex Smith trashed the Giants with a three TD, 288-yard performance, while a 89-yard punt return TD from Derek McCluster added to the pleasure in the 31-7 win over the Giants.
Similiar to the Chiefs, the Patriots continue to produce on offense, even without proven weapons in slot receiver Danny Amendola and tight end Rob Gronkowski. On defense, it's often been ugly. Falcons QB Matt Ryan threw for 421 yards and tight end Tony Gonzalez torched them for 12 catches and 149 yards and two scores, but they somehow held on for a 30-23 win.


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More than 1,000 e-mailed complaints signal that Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s restocking challenges are more widespread than the world's largest retailer has said.
Wal-Mart customers from Hawaii to Florida and from Texas to Vermont wrote to express their frustration after Bloomberg News reported March 26 that there aren't enough workers in the stores to keep shelves stocked, cash registers manned and shoppers' questions answered. In response to the original article, Brooke Buchanan, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman, said in part: "The premise of this story, which is based on the comments of a handful of people, is inaccurate and not representative of what is happening in our stores across the country."
The e-mails began arriving shortly after the article was published and were still coming a week later. Most were from previously loyal Wal-Mart customers befuddled by what had happened to service at a company they'd once admired for its low prices and wide assortment. Many said they were paying more and driving farther to avoid the local Wal-Mart. Some had developed shopping strategies, including waiting until the last minute to grab ice cream, lest it melt in the lengthy checkout lines.
Wal-Mart founder "Sam Walton must be rolling over in his grave to see what has become of his business," said Tony Martin, a 54-year-old forklift driver who once frequented a Wal-Mart store in Glen Carbon, Illinois.
Thinly Spread
Wal-Mart's restocking challenges stem from a thinly spread labor force struggling to keep up with all the work that needs to be done, said Colin McGranahan, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer's workforce at its namesake and Sam's Club warehouse chains in the U.S. fell by about 120,000 employees between 2008 and Jan. 31, according to a securities filing on March 26. The company now has about 1.3 million U.S. workers. In the same period, it has added about 455 U.S. Wal-Mart stores, bringing its total to 4,005.
McGranahan said he has talked to workers who say they're being asked to do more than they can accomplish in a shift.
"Stuff gets backed up, and they're forced to respond as best they can," said McGranahan, who rates Wal-Mart market perform, the equivalent of a hold. "The result is an increasing amount of customer-encountered out-of-stocks."
Those items are missing at a crucial time for Wal-Mart, when the U.S. economy already is restraining its shoppers' spending. Same-store sales for Wal-Mart's U.S. locations in the 13 weeks ending April 26 will be little changed, Bill Simon, chief executive officer of Wal-Mart U.S., said on a Feb. 21 earnings call.
Company Surveys
Wal-Mart said the customers complaining to Bloomberg aren't a sufficient sample size and don't represent shoppers' impressions of its stores nationwide. The company surveys more than 500,000 customers a month, asking them about checkout lines, store cleanliness and the helpfulness of workers, Buchanan said yesterday in e-mailed statement.
"These customers continue to tell us they have had a positive shopping experience and those numbers have trended upward over the past two years," she said. "Our in-stock shelf availability is at historically high levels and averages between 90 and 95%. We will continue to work hard for our customers and meet their expectations by offering them everyday low prices on the broadest assortment of merchandise."
Wal-Mart U.S. had sales of about $274.5 billion in the year ended Jan. 31, more than the total sales of Target Corp. and Costco Wholesale Corp. combined in their comparable periods. Wal-Mart says two-thirds of Americans shop at Wal-Mart each month. The company also had 6.6 billion visits to its U.S. stores in the last year, up 23 million from a year earlier, Buchanan said.
Share Valuation
Still, investors have lost some enthusiasm for Wal-Mart. It closed at a 0.2% discount to Target on a price-to- earnings basis Monday, compared with an average 7.3% premium during the past year. Wal-Mart on March 20 traded at a 3.2% discount to its smaller rival, the lowest in more than a year.
Martin, the forklift driver, said Wal-Mart's low prices don't matter because he loses money on gas when the store isn't the one-stop shopping destination it's billed to be. All consumers appearing in this story were contacted to verify their identities and addresses.
"As much as I need to take advantage of the low prices that Wal-Mart has to offer, the money I would save" is spent on gas to drive to other stores to buy the items that the retailer doesn't have on its shelves, he said. "So it is easier to just shop elsewhere."
Driven Away
Customer service also drove him away. He tried to get a watch battery changed. No one could find the batteries and a worker didn't know how to change it anyway, he said.
"The lady told me to go to a pawn shop to have it changed," he said.
Bob Shank Jr., 68, of Tucson, Arizona, said he and his wife shopped at Wal-Mart and "experience exactly what you've described."
Shank said there are two Wal-Mart stores in his area, one of them new. At the older one, there are "different items left on shelves where they don't belong, items on the floor not replaced, empty shelves." Even the brand-new store has "bare shelves" with yards of empty spaces and "few employees visible, especially at the check-out counters." He said "you're lucky to find one" at 7:30 a.m., when he used to shop.
Shank tried several times to buy his favourite type of rum at both of his local Wal-Mart stores. He eventually asked employees whether the brand had been discontinued. He got the same response at both stores: "'No', they said, 'we just haven't had time to re-stock.'"
'Lost Cause'
He also used to buy jeans at Wal-Mart. "Now a lost cause," he said, after failing repeatedly to find them in the sizes and style he wanted.
Shank buys his rum at Safeway Inc., a grocery store, and his jeans, shirts and sneakers at Costco Wholesale Corp.
Dennis Austin, 54, who shops at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Shreveport, Louisiana, said he avoids the store on Sundays when "you will find one cash register open and a line of 30 people trying to check out."
Austin, a computer-support worker, used to buy pet food at Wal-Mart until noticing that "every time I needed to buy more dog food it was out of stock." Now he buys it at PetSmart Inc. Formerly a dedicated Wal-Mart shopper, Austin said gasoline is the only purchase he regularly makes there.
Jean Martin, 56, who read the Bloomberg News article after shopping at her local Wal-Mart in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, said the piece "backed up my experience 100%."
15-Minute Wait
Martin had gone to the store, which she described as a recently renovated supercenter, with a list of three items.
"They were out of all of them," she said. "I picked up a couple of other things not on my list and then waited in line 15 minutes to pay for them."
Martin, a materials engineer at a company that weaves specialty fabrics, said she has noticed for more than a year that some of her favorite items such as Good & Plenty candies and Suave hairspray are regularly not available. Although Wal-Mart conveniently is located about a mile from her office, Martin said she "will be shopping at Target from now on."
Mike Grimes, 61, shops at the Wal-Mart supercenter in Sikeston, Missouri. He and his wife expect to wait at the register.
"We wait until we're about to put items on the conveyer belt, then one of us will run back and get the ice cream," Grimes said of his family's strategy. "Otherwise it will melt. We know we'll be standing in line 20 minutes or more."
"If you need help you can never get anyone to help," said Grimes, who operates a furniture and appliance store. "If you stop an employee and ask for help they just point and tell you to 'go over there,' and they go on."
Incomplete List
When Barry Hastings, 65, shops at the Wal-Mart in Fredericksburg, Virginia, he rarely emerges with everything on his list.
"They run out of Simply Lemonade. No stock on Dr. Pepper 7-ounce cans. No ground pork, no onions, no green beans and the list goes on and on," he said.
Hastings takes pictures of empty shelves and shows them to the store's managers as proof of the problem. He said he spends about $400 a month at other stores that he'd prefer to spend at Wal-Mart in order to get all his shopping done at once.
"Went to the store for 7 items and they had one," he said. "Wal-Mart never has what I am looking for and I have given up."
Unpleasant Experience
Michael Young, a 63-year-old accountant in Oklahoma City, goes to Wal-Mart "only when I need things I know I can usually get for less money." He has to prepare himself for what he knows will be an unpleasant shopping experience.
"I really dislike the long checkout lines," he said.
"When Sam Walton was alive and running things, one could go to Wal-Mart and get help all the time," Young said. "No more."
Bobby Blackmon, 37, lives in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Wal- Mart's home state. He travels for his job working with cranes — and no matter where he goes, he said he always has trouble finding things at Wal-Mart.
Two weeks ago, he was at the Wal-Mart in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to buy energy drink mix, nicotine gum and ambrosia apples.
"Zero for three," he said. "All the shelves were empty."
Blackmon, who works as an emergency room nurse on the weekends, picked up some peanut butter and headed to a checkout line.
Leaving Empty-Handed
"There was one register open, and I was the tenth person back," he said. "It was ridiculous. I just put it down and left without it." Several of his fellow customers did the same.
Blackmon is married with four children, ages 12 and younger.
"We used to spend 40% of our income at Wal-Mart," he said. "Now we just try to avoid it."
Instead, Blackmon goes to Target and Dollar General Corp.
Rosemary Alvino-Ditmore, 63, of Sierra Vista, Arizona, always makes "a list before venturing to Wal-Mart, and I always end-up complaining to my husband about the barren shelves, missing merchandise aisle after aisle, and not being able to find what I want," she said.
Alvino-Ditmore, a self-employed writer who shops at her local Wal-Mart at least twice a month, keeps a running list of items she's been unable to find over the past year: oatmeal, nutrition bars, Suave shampoo, clothing patches, distilled water, drapes, sweatpants, knee-highs and more.
"Why have this huge Wal-Mart if you always have pegs empty or empty shelves?" she said.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 92 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
Who we are:
betterjobs.org.au is a free job-seeking web-service that is about to launch in Australia – initially only in the Hotels industry. If successful, we hope to expand into other industries.
What sets us apart from other job seeking websites – it is free for both job seekers AND (approved) employers; it allows job-seekers to search for jobs only provided by union-recommended employers so they can find jobs with better pay and conditions. At the same time, it rewards employers that treat their workers with respect.
The Better jobs website is part of a 'better jobs, better hotels' campaign being run by LHMU, the hotel workers union, to transform the hotel industry in Australia.
Long term goals
In 5 years we want to be THE job seeking website in the Australian hotel industry and we want to be expanding out to other industries covered by our union. In ten years we want to replace seek as the most used job seeking website in Australia. Seek http://www.seek.com.au/ is our main competitor.
They dominate the market. Mycareer http://mycareer.com.au/ is also a big competitor. Within the hospitality/hotels industry, discover jobs are also competitors http://www.discoverjobs.com.au
The primary target audience is job seekers, particularly young workers looking to begin a career in hospitality. Our secondary target are employers.
Top three things we want to communicate with our logo:
#1 jobs on the website offer superior employment conditions (pay, conditions & respect)
#2 It is beneficial to job-seekers AND employers
#3 we screen out the bad jobs/employers – we take the hard work out of job seeking
The LHMU http://www.lhmu.org.au/ has a logo and color scheme, but there is no current logo for the better jobs website.
The LHMU color is burgundy C=0, M=100, Y=64, K=33, another color preference is blue - but we're open to any color/scheme.
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Obviously, we want a logo that is unique and memorable and conveys what the site is about. We want it to be simple, young, modern, and energetic. We want the words better jobs in the logo – we don't want the acronym BJ. It can be in lower case, title case or capitalized – whatever looks best. We would like a Black and White version as well.
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The primary use of the logo will be on the website. It will also be used in advertising, both online and in print, so it should be scalable and simple enough to work across mediums. Posters, flyers, leaflets, videos, cards, etc..
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- Profile: Nothing much to say here...I'm 22 years old(at the time I typed this), Female, I'm a hobbyist, and yes, I do game. I have been video editing as a hobby since I was 13. I also took up graphics about 3 years ago as a hobby. Gaming since 6 years old. And yes, I work, I have a life.
I used to write fan-fiction but after a hell of a lot of rejections for archiving, I somehow discovered WMM out of boredom, and with my web cam I recorded myself or my cousin so I would have footage to work with. Then I had some old midis on my pc and edited against that. Even though it was pretty crappy, I knew I had magic something going there, but I had no idea exactly what the hell I was doing. It picked up from there.
One day I got bored of working with myself, and searched the web for some footage to work with, I stumbled upon some decent quality FF X fmvs (at the time, I didn't even know what FF X was). Then I began my first GMV. Which then progressed from one to 6...a year later I found a website that was looking for music videos to post up, it was the old Final Fantasy Hybrid. Surprisingly, they accepted my submission and it went from there. I met a lot of great critics and made many friends, most of which are also editors. One by the name of Raistlin, who is from Nkode, Legaecy, and then Epical Studios. He helped me improve greatly, but I knew I could do better. Eventually I joined the Epical Studios forums, and realized that what I'm doing is part of a much bigger fan base. I was then blown away by Liz's "It's not enough" FFX and X-2 video and since then figured out this is what I want to do. I started talking to many of the great editors at Epical and they taught me ways to improve and make better videos, also giving me great constructive criticism. Wanting more criticisms and seeking a much bigger group of editors I joined animemusicvideos.org It then became my goal to join some of those great editors at Epical Studios, and after a years worth of heck and learning how to use various programs, I made my first "good" video which is called "Feline Intuition", that landed me a spot among the staff of Epical Studios. But that wasn't before joining Zeuxis Studios and making my "On with the show" video.
And here I am, still editing. I thought it would be something I'd grow out of but instead it grew on me.
Random advice (who am I to give advice anyway) :
An editors work is never done, never perfect, never amazing, there is always something that you can do to improve. And no matter what, there will ALWAYS be someone better than you, or worse at what you do. It's a fact. What matters most is that you are happy with what you have done.
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Three more names to be added to the 2011 list:
Joe Frazier
Probably most remembered for his short managing stint with the New York Mets, finishing 3rd in 1976. He was an outfielder during his playing days for the Indians, Cardinals, Reds (appeared in 10 games in 1956) and Orioles. The advice he gave his children caught my eye: "Never look for a pitch you can't hit". Good advice, Joe.
Gino Cimoli
Much-traveled outfielder playing from '56 thru '65 but I most remember him as a Dodger. Forever famous, I suppose, for being the first Major League batter on the West Coast. "Cimoli was a Dodger but a San Franciscan at heart" so Walt Alston made sure he was the leadoff man as the Dodgers faced the Giants in the first ML game on April 15, 1958 in Seals Stadium in SF.
Cliff Dapper
"Dapper made history when he was traded in 1948 by the Dodgers from their Montreal affiliate to the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association for broadcaster Ernie Harwell."
Cimoli was really mad at Brosnan following The Longest Season, wanted to kick his butt for claiming that Cimoli dogged a flyball.
Of course like most baseball fights it ended up being more talk than action
Buddy Lewis passed away February 18. Largely forgotten now, he might have been a legitimate Hall of Fame candidate except:
1) He played for a now-defunct team, the Senators, so he doesn't have much of a present-day constituency.
2) He played in Griffith Stadium, an extremely tough park to hit in.
3) He missed several years to World War Two, and was never quite the same player whe he returned.
His stats up to 1941 are very impressive, and given a nomal career arc from that point on he'd be a lot more famous than he is. But I'm prejudiced in his favor; I had him in a Diamond Mind historical league a few years ago, and the more I read about him the more he struck me as a genuinely nice guy.
"In baseball, you don't know nothin'"...Yogi Berra
Duke Snider, RIP. The HOF outfielder was 84.
"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it." --BABE RUTH
I think that leaves Carl Furillo as the only star left from the Brooklyn days.
"Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it." Cal Hubbard
*sigh* RIP Duke. Always a depressing thing to see one of my baseball card heroes die.
RIP Duke Snider "The Duke of Flatbush".
Here is a lengthy obituary from the NY Times
And another one from espn
He is still alive, yes.
Carl Erskin is also alive.
Though they were not key components of the club, Don Zimmer, Roger Craig, Tommy LaSorda and Sandy Koufax all played with Brooklyn in '55.
Back to Snider, though. Extremely saddened to see this one. The man was a legend, to be sure, but so overshadowed by those other two New York guys. Willie, Mickey and The Duke still remains a classic.
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Security updates to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and OS X 10.7 Lion were pushed out to Macs worldwide Tuesday evening (April 3), inoculating iMacs, MacBooks and professional Macs against drive-by Trojans that infected machines unlucky enough to visit rigged websites.
All users of those two versions of OS X should apply those updates immediately.
The flaw in the Java runtime engine that made the exploits possible was discovered in mid-January. A month later, Oracle, Java's owner, released a stand-alone patch for Windows and Linux/Unix machines. But because Apple bundles Java updates into its own OS X security updates, it can take much longer for Macs to get such patches.
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That wasn't a problem until malware writers took notice in late March. First the Blackhole exploit kit, a sort of jack-of-all-trades malware bundle that keeps probing browsers until it finds a flaw, incorporated the Java flaw into its latest version.
Several days later, the Mac Flashback Trojan, a hardy bug that manages to always stay one step ahead of its pursuers, added the Java flaw exploit to its many features.
Both of these developments essentially left Mac users exposed to the worst forms of drive-by downloads. The Java flaw was so severe that exploits based on it could bypass the administrator permission normally needed to install any software on a Mac.
Finnish security firm F-Secure even recommended that Mac users disable the Java runtime engine entirely to protect themselves. (Java comes bundled with OS X 10.6, but not with 10.7.)
A Russian security firm, Dr. Web, claimed today (April 4) that its research showed that 550,000 Macs had been infected with Mac Flashback, 75 percent of which were in the U.S. or Canada. Those numbers couldn't be independently confirmed.
Unfortunately, users of older Macs with PowerPC chips will still have to do that. Apple no longer supports their machines, and didn't push out a patch for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the last version of OS X that those machines can run.
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The list looks at developments in 2011 that had an impact - whether positive or negative- on people's ability to access needed drugs, diagnostics and vaccines in developing countries.
'For the diseases our medical teams encounter every day in places where we work, 2011 was a year of both critical progress and dangerous backsliding,' said Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, executive director of MSF's Access Campaign. 'At a time of so much promise, it is crucial to continue pushing forward, and refuse to accept a double standard in care between rich and poor countries.'
The list covers key developments regarding diseases MSF confronts in developing countries: landmark findings about HIV treatment as HIV prevention; the strikingly low number of people receiving treatment for more lethal, drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis; a new subsidy intended to lower the price of malaria treatments that is headed in the wrong direction; a dangerous global shortage of the drug needed to treat the parasitic slow killer Chagas disease; slow progress on better adapting food aid to meet children's needs; vaccine prices finally becoming more transparent; and the first-ever guidelines to treat an HIV-related 'opportunistic infection,' cryptococcal meningitis.
It also looks at key policy developments of the year, including unprecedented funding shortfalls at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; drug companies cutting across-the-board discounts in middle-income countries; and the continued struggle to ensure affordable generic medicines can be produced in India, the 'pharmacy of the developing world.'


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Brutal Killings Inside Mosques Will Not Deter The Resolve Of The Ethiopian Muslim Community
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In the twenty one years of the TPLF rule, the Ethiopian people and the world at large have witnessed mass killings, targeted killings, and indiscriminate killings of the young, old, women and children as young as 8 years old. In 2005, the mass killing in Ethiopia reached its climax when special security forces under the direct order from the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi savagely killed over 200 people as the world watched quietly. When Deputy PM Haile Mariam Desalegn took the oath of office and promised to walk on the same path as his predecessor, many Ethiopians lowered their expectation of witnessing a free, just and democratic Ethiopia in their life time.
In just a little over a month in office, PM Haile Mariam Desalegn has kept his promise of staying the course of his predecessor in gunning down peaceful demonstrators on the streets of Ethiopian cities. On Sunday, October 21, 2012, Haile Mariam Desalgen mercilessly took the lives of his first four victims in a standoff that started inside a Holy Mosque in the Amhara zone. Two of his young victims were frog marched by security forces and shot execution style at the nearby police station while the other two were shot and killed inside the Mosque compound. According to reliable local sources, there are many people who are seriously wounded and the death toll may increase by two fold.
Ginbot 7, Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy categorically denounces the barbaric killing of innocent civilians and holds Haile Mariam Desalegn and his associates accountable for the lives lost. Ginbot 7 acknowledges that the Muslim community in Ethiopia has been waging a legitimate struggle in Ethiopia for the past 11 months. The demands are simple and crystal clear – they have asked the regime for freedom of worship and for the right to elect their religious leaders in their own way and place of their own choosing. These rights are protected by the Ethiopian constitution which the regime is obligated to respect.
Ginbot 7 urges Ethiopians inside and outside of Ethiopia to stand together with our Muslim brothers and sisters in this difficult time. Ethiopians of Muslim and Christian faith must stand together as a community to continue the struggle for freedom, justice, democracy and equality understanding and believing that we live in the context of each other, and acknowledging that the source of our freedom is our collective struggle.
We ask that donor nations and international organizations get their act together and start holding the brutal regime in Ethiopia accountable for its heinous crimes and its wanton disregard for the sanctity of life. All civilized nations should strongly condemn this act of terror against the Muslim community in their place of worship.
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I am building house in Franklin and I will highly recommend my builder - GOLDRUBY- to any one. It is on a 21sq house. It is now on lock up stage. If anyone wants to visit my house, we can make an arrangement. I usually go there on either Sat or Sun.
Builder Matt (Mathew smith) is really trustworthy, flexible and reliable, more over friendly. Mostly, he does repeated business (it is just from my observation). He know value of customer service something is missing in this industry. So he is getting repeated business.
I haven't heard anything bad on him from anyone so far. My experiences are also really good including his total team (Jas and Joe). My solicitor gave a 5 stars to him!. She has got around 25 years experiences in this industry (Canberra).
I work for Govt and in IT industry; recommended to another three friends and they are also going through GOLDRUBY.
I am not paid to do this testimony. The reason for this testimony is, I spent around 12-18 months in ACT LDA display homes to discuss builders and paid to some money to blo*** builders as advance for discussion and "initial talks". I gave up twice after paying 500 and 1000. "Admin" fee if you change something from standard. Pre-decided suppliers, else "admin fee". Suppliers are paying "commission fee" to builders. If a doctor is doing this (prescribing medicine with company name), it is illegal. It is illegal. So, there is no authority to question this?
Matt provided space in his garage to put the stuff those got from non-listed suppliers. He is not charging anything to deliver these stuff to the building site. His favor to customer as I know. I am living in Unit now, don't have enough space to put the stuff. So he was helping me. He is doing around 50-100 houses every year in Canberra ACT.
Most of other Builders know you pay for your dream "house". You think it is just 1K or 2K. Especially in Canberra things are really worse. You have to pay 50K extra than SYD and MELB to build house. Yes it is our "capital"!!
I just want to help fellow Canberrian. That's all. My house will be finishing in 4-6 weeks time. I will keep you all updated with latest. If anyone would like to talk to me or want to visit my house please send me message.
Whatever I wrote here are completely my views. Purely my view. My experiences may not be repeated to another person, all depending person to person. You should do your own information gatherings, analysis, estimations, expert advice on any builder before you sign the contract. My views are completely my own, it can change at anytime. It is completely 'personal views'.


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NJ Gov. Chris Christie: Opposing NSA Surveillance Is A 'Strain Of Very Dangerous Thought'
from the because-protecting-civil-liberties-is-like-hugging-terrorists deptNew Jersey governor Chris Christie may be looking forward to a possible presidential run in 2016, which would at least partially explain his broadside attack on Justin Amash (of the "defund the NSA amendment") and Rand Paul and their "strain of libertarianism" that's now threatening established American institutions like domestic spying and fighting Wars on Stuff.
Christie invoked an old standby to criticize recent legislative activity like the narrow defeat of Amash's amendment and Rep. Rush Holt's recently introduced bill to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
"As a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious, because this strain of libertarianism that's going through both parties right now and making big headlines, I think, is a very dangerous thought," Christie said.Christie went on to characterize these debates as "esoteric" and "amnesiac."
Asked whether he includes Paul — a fellow potential 2016 presidential candidate — in his criticism, Christie didn't back down.
"You can name any one of them that's engaged in this," he said. "I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. … I'm very nervous about the direction this is moving in."
"I think what we as a country have to decide is: Do we have amnesia? Because I don't," he said. "And I remember what we felt like on Sept. 12, 2001."For starters, debates pertaining to the rights of millions of Americans are hardly "inside baseball," indicating Christie isn't familiar with the definition of the term he chose to deploy. As for being "amnesiac," Christie might be best served with a blow to the head to jog his memory -- many aspects of these programs were in place pre-9/11. The 9/11 attacks ushered in the PATRIOT Act, something hurriedly passed with bipartisan support. Now that the bipartisan movement (a.k.a. "strain of libertarianism") is moving in the opposite direction, Christie suddenly feels this sort of cooperation is "dangerous."
But the most depressing part of Christie's rant is how completely rote the argument is, as Gene Healy at Reason points out:
[H]aven't the arguments for unrestrained spying gotten any better over the last 11 years? Talk to the "widows and orphans," visualize a smoking crater, and write a blank check to the Security-Industrial Complex?At some point during any discussion of the NSA's programs, defenders invoke an attack that wasn't prevented and/or attacks theoretically prevented by this surveillance. Very occasionally another attack that wasn't prevented is dragged into the mix (the Boston bombing), its rare appearance largely due to the fact that all of these programs failed to prevent the sort of terrorist attack we're always being told the programs are in place to prevent.
Continually going back to the "9/11" well does very little to push the "discussion" forward. Defenders of the surveillance state obviously prefer it this way. If the discussion moves forward, the shortcomings of the programs are revealed and the abuses uncovered are left without a credible defense. Justifying future abuse using a past tragedy is nothing more than baldfaced attempts to guilt the public (and their representatives) into exchanging more liberty for security.
At this point, defenders like Christie are taking on the appearance of Sally Struthers stand-ins, dragging victims of terrorist attacks through smoking ruins, asking members of the public to donate some of their "excess" privacy in order to "ensure" a future free of further attacks. Obama has said he "welcomes" a debate on these issues, but then slams the door by calling legislative efforts like Amash's counterproductive. Other politicians running flack for the national security agencies have made no such overtures, but tellingly, their reactions and justifications are largely the same.
This "strain of libertarianism" doesn't threaten anything more than the growth of government and its intrusion into everyday lives of American. The fact that it has gone unchecked for so long is what's actually "dangerous," to use Christie's words. To derail the discussion by continually invoking 9/11 is nothing more than a cheap form a manipulation.
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The scary reason Saudi farmers are kissing camels despite MERS warnings
MERS is very scary. This week, while avoiding the term global health emergency, the World Health Organisation announced that the deadly viral infection was both serious and urgent. So far, there have been 571 confirmed cases of MERS; 171 of those people died from the disease.
There's one place, however, where the mood about MERS isn't scaring everyone. It's also the place where the infection was first reported in 2012 and where almost 500 recorded cases have been found so far: Saudi Arabia.
And the scepticism about the virus has taken a strange turn in Saudi Arabia, where people have begun kissing camels in response to MERS.
"Do sneeze in my face," the farmer says in a video clip, according to a translation from Gulf News. "They claim camels carry the coronavirus," he continues in the video, which has been watched over 11,000 times.
On Twitter, photographs of men kissing and stroking their camels have been accompanied with comments disparaging MERS:
It seems a strange protest, but there's something behind it. Earlier this week, the Saudi government began a campaign to stop people from eating raw camel meat and liver or drinking unpasteurised camel milk.
Experts argue that Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS' full name) or traces of it have been found in a large proportion of the camels tested in Saudi Arabia, and antibodies from the virus have even been found in camel populations in Spain's Canary Islands, thousands of kilometres away.
Camels may not be the main source of MERS (many experts point the finger at bats), but they certainly seem like one big possibility.
For some in Saudi Arabia, avoiding camels is not such an easy task. One study from 2008 found that there were almost 900,000 camels in Saudi Arabia alone, with almost 15 million across other Arab states. The animals are a source of income for a large number of people, and popular too.
"Camels in the kingdom are like dairy cows, beef cows, racehorses, pulling horses, beloved Labradors, and living daily reminders of holy scripture, all in one," Cynthia Gorney wrote for the National Geographic this week, noting that camels are featured honourably in the Koran.
Partly due to this fondness for camels, and partly due to a perceived lack of transparency from the Saudi government about MERS, a lot of people aren't totally convinced by the warnings about camels.
Reuters reported from a Saudi camel market on Sunday and noted that only one person was wearing a mask as recommended. Some farmers are pointing out they have worked with camels for decades with no ill health.
Whether it's transmitted via camel or not, MERS is still a worrying situation for Saudi Arabia. It's a coronavirus like SARS, which is believed to have infected 8273 people and led to 775 deaths in 2002-2003, and while its hard to say for sure at present, MERS may well be deadlier than its predecessor.
Given that millions of Muslims are expected to travel to Mecca this October for Hajj, even officials in Saudi Arabia are beginning to wonder if the country is doing enough.
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At the sight of this little work dyspeptic people will exclaim, as they always do: "What! another of those books...!" Don't listen to them. Run your eye through the French Primer, and if you think it amusing and instructive buy it for your numerous little boys and girls, thereby delighting(Hachette's illustrated French primer, or, The child's first French lessons: containing the alphabet, words, phrases, and French nursery rhymes, 1890 edition (downloadable Google eBook)
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What on earth were Charlotte Mason's secrets that allowed "nine pages of the story read straight through by the mistress, without pause or interruption of any kind...As soon as the reading ended, on the instant, without hesitation of any kind, narration began in French, different members of the class taking up the story in turn till it was finished. All were good; some astonishingly good...Yet the time given to French is two hours and three-quarters a week only. Such results compel attention."*
Such results just make some of us want to throw in la serviette. [Although, to be fair, these were her student teachers--not young children.]
Well, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you too can "run your eye through the French Primer."** You can also download Siepmann's Primary French Course Part One, and French Fables in Action. If you can speak enough French to manage the stories and exercises in these books, you can teach French just like Charlotte Mason, and for free. Can't lose with that. (Also the German Primer, which you can read online although I'm not getting anywhere downloading the PDF.)
I'm not sure exactly how they managed to stretch out just a few lessons over one term (did they read a whole passage once, narrate it, and then never go back again?), and neither the prefaces to the textbooks nor the short description in Volume Six are going to shed any light on that. I am impressed with the amount of material that these books cover, even the Primer. If you went through the Primer and the first part of Siepmann's with the kind of attention Charlotte Mason describes--meaning that you actually remembered the lessons afterwards--you would have a solid vocabulary for reading the French literature assigned in later years. True, you might be more comfortable talking about wagons, beehives and swords than you would computers and soccer; but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you're going to read older books, you need that vocabulary and those phrases. And since modern languages in the P.U.S. weren't a drill-and-kill or strictly utilitarian subject, everyday conversation, though important, wasn't the only or the ultimate goal.
If you don't speak any French, or want to study Spanish or some other language that you do or don't already speak yourself, obviously your needs will be different. But it still might help to get a look at the books and see what sorts of things were covered at the various levels.
(I want to publish this post now, but I may come back later and add some points on learning languages. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts in the meantime.)
*Written by H.W. Household. Originally published in Journal of Education and School World, Volume 52, Oxford University Press, 1920. Reprinted in Towards a Philosophy of Education, Chapter 10.
**If you're comparing the 1890 French Primer with the page counts given in the PUS programmes, especially the programmes from around 1920, they don't match; there aren't enough pages. I don't know if later editions just made the book longer, or if they completely renumbered the pages.


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I'm a little confused about "Musavada veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami" part in Five Precepts.
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I thought Musavada literally means lying. Why is it changed to incorrect speech?4. Musavada veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami
I undertake the precept to refrain from incorrect speech.
If you click the incorrect speech's link, it will open to Right Speech (samma vaca) page. If you read on, the definition of Right Speech is: Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, & from idle chatter. So Musavada-veramani (abstaining from lying) is part of samma vaca (right speech), but literally musavada-veramani is not same as samma vaca, right?
So, based on the pali words meaning, if someone want to observe Five Precepts, does he/she should refrain from lying only or all incorrect speech?
I hope someone can clarify.


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The Academy has made some mistakes over the years, some big ones; they've already made some big mistakes this year, and the awards haven't even been given out yet. And if you believe the prognosticators, it looks like they're primed to make a few more mistakes at the ceremony on February 24.
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VAIL — Aspen's Tejay van Garderen has about a minute and a half lead, not insurmountable in some stage races but likely impossible to beat in the USA Pro Challenge.
The remaining two stages are Saturday's 115.2-mile course from Loveland to Fort Collins. It features a Category 2 climb (5 is the lowest) up 8,000-foot Devil's Gulch but it's in the middle of the race and nearly downhill from there.
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Motorists travelling on the A1 in West Yorkshire face heavy delays after a crash this morning (Tuesday).
Highways England said the collision happened on the A1 northbound, between junctions with the A638 at Doncaster and A639 near Leeds.
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Friday, April 20, 2007
Some would say I was asking for trouble.
In my office practice, on any given day the plurality of patients were women with breast problems. Conservatively, fifteen hundred to two thousand a year. With a receptionist or two out front, in the work area it was only me and my medical assistant. She was a wonder of efficiency (me too!), but had lots to do: scheduling surgery and followup visits, talking to insurance companies, fielding calls from patients. Plus getting patients in and out of rooms. I helped: when necessary, cleaning rooms, bringing patients from the waiting room to the exam rooms, getting them settled and properly attired. There simply was no way Trish would have had time to chaperone while I did breast exams. So, with rare exceptions, I did it alone.
We used to have nice cloth garments: like a mini-poncho, they'd slip over a woman's head and were, I think, comfortable. When it became cheaper to use disposable items (yes, I contributed to trash, too. Were it up to me, I'd have kept the cotton. The clinic overlords demanded otherwise) we had to switch to scratchy paper vests. "Undress from the waist up and put this miserable thing on," I'd tell them, on my way out of the room. "So it opens in front, like a vest." About one out of six, I'd find on re-entry, had put it on backwards. Since the paper wasn't particularly pliable, it was hard to maneuver under them that way, so I'd ask patients to switch them around, while I discreetly turned away. Some didn't care if I turned away or not: "You're going to see it all anyway."
With the rest of their clothing on, and with the vests being large enough to provide good coverage, I think most women felt as if they were still dressed while we talked. They sat on the exam table; I sat in a chair, lower than their eyes. Maybe that helped to get things going in a non-threatening way. Sometimes there were vibes: the bra hadn't been removed; eye contact was lacking; various non-verbal clues. So I'd either ask if they'd like my assistant to be present during the exam, or just invite her in without asking. That happened less than once a month. Mostly, after talking, I'd do the exam. Life being as it is, it amazes me that I never got any complaints, any claims of indiscretion. Mind you, there was none. But there are crazies out there, and we were generally alone.
My standard breast exam was four ways. I'd examine initially while the woman lay down, first with her arms above her head, then by her side. And then I'd have her sit up, and I'd re-examine, again with arms up and then down. While sitting, it was bi-manual; that is, my left hand would elevate the breast, and the right would palpate, like a human mammogram. That maneuver struck me as both intimate and mechanical: intimate because it was unexpected, since most women hadn't been examined that way and may not have know what to make of it; mechanical because it was done in the most matter-of-fact way. It also often led to the most detailed findings.
After any office visit, I dictated the note immediately. For breast exams, I never failed to use the phrase, "She was examined erect and recumbent, arms up and arms down." Our stenographers were headed by a highly, uh, extroverted woman. On the occasions when I'd wander into the steno room -- usually to share a joke or two with the boss lady and catch up on office gossip -- she'd announce, "Ladies, Dr. Schwab is here." At which point they'd stand in unison, throw their arms into the air, whip them to their sides, then sit and do it again.
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- Lisa said...
The only person those paper vests are comfortable for is for someone not wearing them. Every woman out there who's ever been examined in one can tell you with certainty that they were designed by a man.
I personally have never had a problem with being undraped for an examination, save for one thing....it gets COLD in there waiting for fifteen minutes in less than full street clothing. I have been tempted to bring a bathrobe next time, to be removed when the doctor gets around to seeing me.
That last bit is hilarious.
- Greg P said...
We had paper gowns for a while and I insisted we go back to cloth; the paper ones are just too dehumanizing.
BTW, neurologists don't do many breast exams -- we're usually having patients put them on with the opening in the back, thus contributing to the confusion women feel about which way they're supposed to go.
- SeaSpray said...
I have never had a nurse in the room for any of my OB or GYN (paps) exams. The 1st OBGYN doc I went to never asked if I wanted anyone (I would have said no) and in the 2nd group, they asked if I wanted a nurse and I always said no. Then it would be TWO people looking! :) Just kidding - when I am with the nurses I enjoy talking with them but when I am with the Docs - I just want to talk with them. I don't want to ask my med questions with an audience even though I know they are probably privy to the info at some point.
I was surprised that for their own protection they didn't have someone in there,even for the pap tests but I like to think that they knew I was the kind of person that they could trust and of course I knew I could trust them too.
My PMD and last fall a surgeon examined my breasts - both never even offered to have some one in there, and again, I would have said no.
My urologists however have all always had a nurse in there - no questions asked. There is usually a procedure going on and she assists them. However, in February, the new urologist I met did have a nurse in there and all he did was examine me internally to help him determine some things about the possible surgery.
I agree with you Dr Schwab - that there are crazies out there and given today's litigious climate the doctor should protect himself.
That said - I really, really hate that doctors have to get so squirrelly about getting sued and I am just grateful for the good and trusting relationships I have been fortunate to have with all of my Docs.
I agree with anonymous - hilarious!
Oh - I have never had a doctor do a breast exam while erect. Does it matter? Is it something only surgeons do? Although, last fall, my surgeon only examined my breast while I was lying down.
I've had a breast exam done by a general surgeon where he had me lie down, with one arm up and one arm down. That's how he found the difficult-to-locate lump that my gynecologist couldn't feel.
I was impressed with the surgeon's skill.
The paper vests aren't as bad as the paper shorts I was subjected to at the orthopods office. They are just the thing a middle aged lady wants to wear for the long waits in the various departments and the long walks between them. ugh.
FWIW, I examine first with the woman sitting up, and I palpate the neck and supraclavicular node areas first before examining the breasts and axillae. Then I ask her to lie down and elevate one arm at a time for a monomanual(?) exam. Some women apparently do not care, but for some, not going straight for the boobies makes it less embarrassing, and my fingers may get a little warmer.
If I were to ever do a breast exam without a female chaperone in the room, it would be even money whether my insurance carrier or my state medical board put me out of business first.
"I have never had a doctor do a breast exam while erect. Does it matter? Is it something only surgeons do?"
I'm sorry, but this made me laugh so hard that I have tears running down my face. (my apologies, SeaSpray, I don't mean to offend you, but this just struck me as funny)
- Unknown said...
Hello Dr. Schwab!
My name is Danni R. and I am the owner/webmaster of MedicalAssistant.net for all medical assistants. As I was surfing the Internet for articles that interest me and my peers, I found your well written blog entry(down to earth, along with humorous injections, LOL).
Indeed, one of the medical assistant's duties is to chaperone during certain types of medical exams. It often means---drop what you are doing, no matter how busy you are at the moment, and spend 5-6 minutes with the doctor and patient during the exam.
I enjoyed reading your article, and feel inspired to write an article on the same subject to be added to the medical assistant website. I believe it is indeed a "hot topic" on thin ice...
Warm regards,
Danni R.
- SeaSpray said...
It's o.k. anonymous - I am laughing too. Well actually- laughing, cringing,laughing dying here.
I did not see THAT! YIKES! :)
Wish I could say I am such a comedian that I planned it but no....while the questions were sincere...obviously not well thought out! :)


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WASHINGTON, DC -- More females play team sports now than 10 years ago, and far more females will play team sports in the next decade, according to the U.S. Trends in Team Sports(2006 Edition).
In the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association's (SGMA) study, authors analyzed many team sports and the role that females play in each activity. In 1990-1991, female high school varsity athletic teams numbered 1,892; in 2000-2001, the number increased to 2,746; and in 2005-2006, that number grew to 2,953 teams—a 56.1 percent increase from the 1990-1991 school year. During that same period, the number of male high school varsity teams increased by just 23.5 percent.
In 2005, there were 32 million basketball players in the United States—of which 10 million were female. In slow-pitch softball, nearly half of all players are female. In fast-pitch softball, females account for three-quarters of all players. In volleyball, females account for the majority of the player base in the court and grass versions. In sand/beach volleyball, females represent less than half of all players. Of the 17 million soccer players in the United States, 42 percent (or 7.2 million) of them are female.
Other team sports where the female presence is significant include lacrosse, rugby, cheerleading, field hockey and ice hockey. More than 50,000 girls play high school lacrosse; in rugby, the U.S. Women's national team finished fifth at this summer's Women's Rugby World Cup in Canada; in cheerleading, 99 percent of participants are female; field hockey is the 11th most popular high school sport for girls; and in ice hockey, roughly half as many women college teams exist as men's teams.
When analyzing high school and college sports, four out of the top five most popular participatory activities for both categories are team sports with basketball as the most popular high school sport for girls. At the college level, soccer is number one, the researchers found.