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Bishop Maxim celebrates his slava - Lazarus Saturday
His Grace Bishop Maxim celebrated his Patron Saint-day (slava), Lazarus Saturday, on Saturday, April 27, 2013. Bishop Maxim officiated at the Holy Hierarchical Divine Liturgy with the clergy from Saint Steven's Cathedral and a few hundred Orthodox faithful. The festal slava Service was held in the main hall and was followed by a delicious luncheon prepared by the Diocesan Kolo Sprkih Sestara. Many priests from neighboring churches arrived after having served Lazarus Saturday services in their own parishes.
A very joyous and Sretna Slava to His Grace. Eis polla eti despota!
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I wanted to upgrade my father's laptop with an SSD drive. He has a Presario Compaq CQ-57 with Windows 7 HOME.
First I installed the latest BIOS firmware on his laptop. Then I removed the HDD (250GB with 100GB Free) and installed a Sandisk Ultra II (240 GB). I connected the original HDD with a USB drive cable. I booted from a USB thumb drive with IFD installed on it. I used the following settings:
Global Settings (1st Page):
- Automatic Scaling Restrictions
- Automatic Boot Partition Update
- Align Partitions on 1 MiB Boundaries
Options (Last Page):
Scale to Fit
Align to Target
Validate Byte for Byte
Write Standard MBR Code
Omit Page File
Omit Hibernation
When finished (a couple of hours later as the USB was only 2.0 and I had it make a validate byte-for-byte pass), I shut down the laptop, removed the HDD and the USB Thumb drive and restarted. The laptop would go through the BIOS startup and then hang with just a blinking cursor on the screen - no error message.
I went into the BIOS Setup which had almost NO options for anything. The only Hard Drive related options were the boot order. I did run the hard drive diagnostic in the BIOS and that found the drive and did a non-destructive pass on it.
I finally gave up and put the old HDD back in - it booted fine.
What did I do wrong? or how could I fix it?

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The Penn State Ballroom Dance Club's 7th Annual Keystone Classic intercollegiate competition is Saturday, March 27. The daylong competition features competitors from Penn State, Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia. The Penn State team will compete in various levels and in all competition-style dances, including the waltz, tango, quickstep, foxtrot, cha cha, rumba, samba and jive.
The competition, which begins at 10 a.m. in 126 White Building, is open to the public and is free for spectators. A professional showcase at 6:30 p.m. will feature professional dancer Mayo Alanen and his partner, Michelle Officer. Mayo has been on "Dancing With The Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance," and he and Michelle appears in Disney's Enchanted. Click on the "schedule" button on the Penn State Ballroom Dance Club's Web site at http://php.scripts.psu.edu/clubs/up/ballroomdance/keystone.php for more information. This event is supported, in part, by the University Park Allocation Committee (UPAC).


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Getting a job as a bail bondsman is probably easier than you may think. However, getting customers is quite a different story. In areas of high competition, the chances of a brand new bail bonds agent outperforming the other companies is pretty slim. That is, unless you know how to market your services better than the others.
For example, one Atlanta bail bondsman is extremely competitive with rates and the industry is generally being monopolized by two or three different companies. When I say 'monopolize,' I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean that most bondsmen don't know how to properly market their services. They are too concerned with looking at the immediate goal of getting customers from the city of Atlanta. However, if they were to take a step back and look at what customers are looking for, they would realize that there are several counties throughout the area that haven't been marketed to properly.
Clayton County Bail Bonds
A great example of failing to market effectively is if you were to search for Clayton County bail bondsman you would only find one or two companies showing up for that term. I can almost guarantee that they aren't focusing on those terms, but are simply ranking for them by default.
There are several arrests throughout the Clayton County area and most bail bonds agents aren't focusing on that area deliberately. They should be. This is just one example of what you can do to market your agency effectively once you get up and going.
Bail Bondsman Jobs in Georgia
It's actually pretty easy to get into the bonding industry. All you really have to do is pay a few hundred bucks and get licensed by the state. After that, you have to get licensed in whatever county(ies) you wish to do business in.
You may want to get some experience before you start out on your own. You can easily accomplish this by just doing some administrative work in a bail bonding company for a few months or assisting in searching for inmates. This will allow you to figure out how the industry works and find your way around.
Here's some of the better bail bonds companies in Atlanta that you can get a job with.
Besides gaining experience, you're going to want to acquire some funds to get incorporated. This will help you alleviate any personal risk on your end. An LLC or a corporation is great for this purpose, but also for taxes at the end of the year.
Another thing to consider is the financial liability of the bail bonds industry overall. After all, you are essentially vouching for someone to be let out of jail. An inmate should have to qualify to get a bond written. This is usually done through a cosigner and collateral. In addition, you can charge up to a 15% fee for your services.
All-in-all, the bonding industry can be fairly lucrative, but so can a lot of businesses. You'll have to do your homework and gain some experience in the industry to really make an impact. Best of luck!
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Expanded Study Will Track Adolescent Behavior on Facebook
NIH Grant Adds Use of Social Media Site to Study of Texts, Emails, Instant Messages
A large-scale, long-term UT Dallas study focusing on adolescent friendships and electronic communication is expanding to include Facebook posts.
Dr. Marion Underwood is leading the study of digital teen communication.
A research team led by Dr. Marion Underwood of The University of Texas at Dallas will capture and code the content of adolescent activity on Facebook, the most popular social networking website. The new research is supported by a more than $408,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH earlier funded Underwood's study of teen texts, e-mails and instant messages with a $3.4 million grant.
According to national surveys conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 73 percent of teens and preteens (12 – 17 years of age) use social networking sites. About 51 percent of the young people check social networking sites daily, and 22 percent check more than 10 times per day.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently reported that social media may offer adolescents benefits such as increased opportunities for social connection and communication, academic opportunities and access to health information, but also warned that use of social media may increase risks of cyber bullying and "sexting." Despite the serious concerns, little research has examined the content of adolescent Facebook communication, said Underwood, Ashbel Smith Professor in UT Dallas' School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
"Although systematic studies of Facebook communication are lacking, the structure of Facebook has the potential to provide great social satisfaction but also painful social rejection."
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Ashbel Smith Professor
"Although systematic studies of Facebook communication are lacking, the structure of Facebook has the potential to provide great social satisfaction but also painful social rejection," she said. "Facebook allows users to customize an online profile with information about relationships, activities, likes and dislikes, and numerous photographs, all of which are visible and available for comments posted by others for all to see. Comments can be positive but also negative."
Facebook communication will be analyzed from a sample of 200 adolescents participating in the ongoing study of friendships and social adjustment. The study began when participants were 9 years old and since then has involved yearly assessments of relationships and adjustment.
Four years ago, the summer before the participants started high school, the children were given BlackBerry devices with service plans paid for by the researchers, including unlimited text messaging, internet access for email and a limited number of voice minutes. The researchers have been capturing the content of all text messaging and email sent and received on these BlackBerry devices.
Starting this summer, and for each year of the two-year study, the adolescents and their parents will be asked to grant permission for the investigators to access the young people's Facebook communication by installing a Facebook application developed by Arkovi, an Ohio-based company.
The Facebook application will record wall posts, status updates, in-boxes and photo albums. All Facebook communication will be captured from all devices used. Facebook content will be stored by Arkovi and maintained in a searchable online archive maintained by another firm, Global Relay, for later coding and analysis.
Studying the content of Facebook communication is vitally important because adolescents and young adults are heavily engaged in Facebook in ways that likely affect their relationships and adjustment, Underwood said.
She added that Facebook has the potential to be powerfully reinforcing because every posting can be "liked" (by pressing a thumbs-up icon) or commented on by others. But it also has great potential to make some people feel lonely because of constant social comparisons among acquaintances.
"Facebook can also be used for intentional, public bullying," she said. "Facebook users can post negative remarks on others' walls or make hurtful comments about others' pictures that can be viewed by all of that person's friends."
By coding the content of Facebook activity in the context of an ongoing longitudinal study measuring friendships and adjustment, the study will examine how social development and adjustment from third grade onward – as assessed by observations, parents, peers, teachers and self-reports – relates to the content of Facebook communication by a typical group of adolescents.
"Studying the content of Facebook communication could reveal much about adolescents' developing social relationships, the extent to which youth communicate with strangers, and if they are harassed, by whom," Underwood said.
She said the findings could have implications for policy and parenting.
"This study will also illuminate whether some features of Facebook communication are related to psychological health for youth," Underwood said. "Nothing about Facebook has to be inherently negative. Teenagers may use Facebook in positive ways: to express their identities, share information with friends, plan social events and service projects and school activities, and as a means of seeking social support in times of stress."
Media Contact: The Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected].


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Futures are down a little this morning, bonds are up and the dollar is down. Here's the DOW and S&P overnight action:
The big economic data this morning is the CPI reading. It came in very similarly to the PPI numbers yesterday, below the inflation reading expected, slightly higher month over month, but lower still year over year which is the reading that matters. EconoPRAY flat out said this reading was good for the Fed and good for bonds. Whoever is writing those reports is insane, so here's what CNN said about it, hello, the most deflationary reading in 59 years:
Consumer price index: Largest drop in 59 years
Key measure of inflation fell 1.3% over past 12 months, the sharpest drop since April 1950.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A key index of prices paid by consumers showed the largest year-over-year decline since April 1950, primarily due to sinking energy prices, the government said Wednesday.
The Consumer Price Index, the Labor Department's key measure of inflation, has fallen 1.3% over the past year. That's the largest decline in nearly 60 years, and is due mainly to a 27.3% decline in the energy index.
On a monthly basis, CPI rose 0.1% in May, after remaining flat the previous month. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com expected a 0.3% increase.
The even more closely watched core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased 1.8% on an annual basis.
Core CPI rose 0.1% in May compared with April, matching forecasts.
Index-by-index: The indexes for shelter, new and used motor vehicles, and medical care posted increases in May. Energy -- which had declined the previous two months -- also rose, climbing 0.2%.
Many other indices slipped. The food index decreased for the fourth consecutive month with a decline of 0.2%.The tobacco and smoking products index fell 0.3% in May after rising sharply in the two months prior. The increase in March and April was due to an increase in the federal tax.
The indexes of public transportation and apparel also fell.
Here's a chart from Econoday:
Again, this is getting very close to a deflationary spiral. Despite the Fed's QE and all the other "stimulus" prices continue to fall in a historic collapse. That's exactly what happens on the backside of parabolic curves.
And for those greenshoot tokers who didn't pay attention to the bond market, here's the result:
MBA's purchase applications fell back a disappointing 3.5 percent in the June 12 week to 261.2. The refinance index fell back very sharply, down 23 percent to 2,605.7. Both reflect the dampening effect of rising interest rates along with still limited credit availability. Mortgage rates dipped back in the latest week but still remain much higher than a month ago, about 75 basis points higher for 30-year loans which averaged 5.50 percent in the latest week. Yesterday's strong gains in housing starts were a big plus, but sagging mortgage applications and indications of limited buying interest in Monday's housing market index point to disappointing home sales data at month end.
Refinance index down 23% in one month!
And we also got the Current Account Deficit for the first quarter. It came in lower than expected which is good from the longer term perspective of not over-consuming, but it is another clear indication that exports and imports are falling in an overall general depressed environment. Again from Econoday:
The nation's current account gap narrowed dramatically in the first quarter, to $101.5 billion vs. a revised $154.9 billion in the fourth quarter ($132.8 billion gap first reported). But the improvement reflects the drop in domestic demand for foreign products as the balance on goods improved by more than $50 billion to -$124.0 billion. The gap in the current account represented only 2.9 percent of GDP, the lowest rate in 10 years and what is a silver lining of sorts for the recession. But an easing outflow of dollars is a definitely plus for the dollar which rose in immediate reaction to the data.
This is still money that must ultimately be financed. Foreign governments and investors see how riddled with debt we are and now want higher interest rates for that debt.
I think the past two day's worth of economic data is a great lesson in how all these data points are connected and how they all are influenced by the massive overhang that is our debt. So many people didn't understand even before the market melted down in late '07 and in '08, and they STILL don't understand which is simply amazing to me. I guess that's all part of the Economic Mass Psychosis and why nothing ever moves in a straight line.
Despite what I see here as nothing but bad news, stocks are very oversold in the short timeframes and could bounce at any point in time. We're also, however, getting to that point where we could keep descending in oversold conditions, too. So the ultimate destination for equities is lower but it may not get a lot lower today so be careful.
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General and Vascular Surgery training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At USC, he has served as Program Director for General Surgery, and later for Vascular Surgery.
Dr. Weaver received his Masters in Medical Management from USC in 2005. He is Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Chief of Vascular Surgery at Keck Hospital of USC, and Co-Director of the USC CardioVascular Thoracic Institute. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General and in Vascular Surgery. Dr. Weaver is past President of the Western Vascular Society, Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and Society of Clinical Vascular Surgery. In 2015, he received the Society for Vascular Surgery Presidential Citation Award.
Dr. Weaver is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Vascular Surgery, on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Vascular Surgery, and serves as the Chair of the Society for Vascular Surgery/Vascular Quality Initiative. He has been recognized as a Top, Best, or Super Doctor by various local and national publications. He has published over 200 articles and 43 textbook chapters, and has been
an invited speaker at numerous regional, national, and international meetings. His major clinical and research interests concern the diagnosis and management of diseases affecting the aorta and its major branches.


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Forum Series 2 for Anderson County was held in the gymnasium of Anderson County High School. Working in small groups, the 34 participants shared their visions for East Tennessee in the areas of economy and workforce, transportation, healthy communities, neighborhoods and the environment. After an initial brainstorming session each group's top ideas were submitted to the forum as a whole. Participants then used real-time polling to vote for the ideas they viewed as most important in each focus area.
Once the top ideas from each small group had been gathered, they were presented to all meeting attendees for voting. Keypad voting technology was used to capture preferences as participants were asked to vote for their top three vision-related ideas in the five focus areas. Basic demographic information was also gathered to help gauge the makeup of the meeting attendees for comparison against the region as a whole.
Working in groups of six to eight, participants selected their top two ideas that described what they would like East Tennessee to be like in 2040. The documents below serve as both a record of the two most important ideas identified by each table and as a catalog of ideas not selected by members of each small group.


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Welcome to NLnet Foundation
When it comes to important ideas that can help improve our society, there really are no boundaries. The challenge is to turn those opportunities into reality. Great ideas just come, but they are gone in a breeze as well. Lets make good use of them.
Since 1997 NLnet foundation (after its historical contribution to the early internet in Europe) has been financially supporting organizations and people that contribute to an open information society. It funds those with ideas to fix the internet. The procedure is fast, competitive and open to anyone.
NLnet has contributed funding to many important and very visible projects around fundamental standards from securing the core routing protocols and the domain name system of the internet to safer email, vendor-independent videoconferencing, more reliable wireless networks and private instant messaging - all based on open standards and verifiable open source software and/or hardware. It spawned the world-renowned NLnet Labs, and supported great open source projects like Jitsi, ARPA2, WireGuard, NoScript, Tor Hidden Services, GPLv3, GNUnet, and webODF. And many more ....
What is perhaps most amazing about this all is the size of NLnet. NLnet does not have huge budgets. The foundation's current funding comes from donations, legacies, collaborative funding and subgranting mechanisms, after having been kickstarted by a substantial capital established by pioneers of the European internet. NLnet itself at the time was the very first Dutch Internet Service Provider, and transitioned into a recognised public benefit organisation in 1997. The articles of association for the NLnet foundation state: "to promote the exchange of electronic information and all that is related or beneficial to that purpose".
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To improve working with the global community at large, the organizers of the 5th World Water Forum wish to encourage the participation of the Major Groups of Agenda 21. Special efforts are being made to ensure that the nine Major Groups, namely women, youth and children, business and industry, local governments, science and technology, workers and trade unions, indigenous people, farmers and NGOs, are integrated into the different platforms of the Forum.
The Major Groups will be provided with contact points and will be supported in their networking and self-organization so as to create well-organized mechanisms for dialogue with the thematic and political processes of the Forum. Inclusion of the Major Groups in the Forum's thematic and political process through these mechanisms will be unique to the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul and will complement these groups' existing structures at the Forum (e.g. Istanbul Urban Water Consensus of the Local Governments, the Global Water Education Village and the Youth World Water Forum).
Each Major Group has a section in the Virtual Meeting Space (VMS) which can be used to exchange ideas and information between and amongst registered VMS members. We thus encourage the interested Major Groups' members to register themselves in the VMS to take advantage of this networking and exchange tool as early as possible.
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George Soros is heartened by current efforts to revive growth in the world's major economies, the hapless eurozone being the one exception.
"All of the looming problems for the global economy are political in character," he writes.
The U.S. is showing its muscle as the developed world's strongest economy on several counts:
- Shale energy is an important competitive advantage in manufacturing in general and in petrochemicals in particular.
- The banking and household sectors are deleveraging.
- Quantitative easing has boosted asset values.
- The housing market has improved, with construction lowering unemployment.
- The fiscal drag exerted by sequestration is about to expire.
"More surprising, the polarization of American politics shows signs of reversing," Soros writes, the fever apparently having broken after the recent government shutdown.
In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is launched on a "risky experiment" of massive quantitative easing in order to reinvigorate a long-stagnant economy. "Faster growth could drive up interest rates, making debt-servicing costs unsustainable," Soros writes, but Abe and the Japanese man in the street consider the risk worth taking.
But "the major uncertainty facing the world today is lies in the future direction of China," he writes. "The growth model responsible for its rapid rise has run out of steam." This constrained the household sector, now only 35% of GDP, in order to drive export and investment growth. But the forced savings can no longer finance the current growth model, leading to a huge rise in the use of various forms of debt financing.
Soros sees some "eerie resemblances" with financial condition in the U.S. leading up to the 2008 crash, but also a significant difference. Financial markets tend to dominate politics in the U.S., whereas the state owns banks in China and much of the economy, and the Communist Party controls state-owned enterprises.
Sensing danger on the horizon, the People's Bank of China started curbing growth of debt in 2012. In mid-2013, when the slowdown was causing distress in the economy, the leadership ordered the steel industry to restart the furnaces and the PBOC to ease credit. "The economy turned around on a dime," Soros writes.
Now, far-reaching reforms announced in November "are largely responsible for the recent improvement in the global outlook."
However, an unresolved self-contradiction exists in China's current policies, according to Soros. "Restarting the furnaces also reignites exponential debt growth, which cannot be sustained for much longer than a couple of years.
"How and when this contradiction will be resolved will have profound consequences for China and the world."
He writes that successful transition in China will likely entail both political and economic reforms; failure would undermine continuing trust in the country's political leadership, resulting in repression at home and military confrontation abroad.
Soros is downbeat about the European Union, which "is heading toward the type of long-lasting stagnation from which Japan is desperate to escape."
The euro's design has a fatal flaw. Because the common central bank lacks a common treasury, government debts are denominated in a currency that no single member country controls, making them subject to the risk of default. "As a consequence of the crash of 2008, several member countries became overindebted, and risk premia made the eurozone's division into creditor and debtor countries permanent."
The current arrangements governing the euro are here to stay, Soros thinks, because Germany will always do the "bare minimum to preserve the common currency." Moreover, the markets and European authorities would punish any other country that challenged these arrangements.
Still, the acute phase of the financial crisis has passed, Soros writes. European financial authorities, having tacitly recognized that austerity is counterproductive, have eased off. Debtor countries have gained breathing room, and financial markets have stabilized—even in the absence of any growth prospects.
Soros considers the absence of proper global governance to be the world's other great unresolved problem.
Lack of agreement among the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members is aggravating humanitarian catastrophes in countries like Syria, and global warming is allowed to proceed largely unhindered.
"But," he writes, "in contrast to the Chinese conundrum, which will come to a head in the next few years, the absence of global governance may continue indefinitely."
Check out Soros: Germany Should Lead Eurozone or Leave It on ThinkAdvisor.


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Effective ideas that will help you transform your old home into a modern one
Interior design ideas are very important when deciding on the decoration pattern to undertake while transforming your old house to a new house. This transformation is usually very important especially for people who have old furniture and other house items and see the need for change. There are different ways through which you can be able to upgrade your house while still using the old furniture in the house. This is usually very important in that it makes it quite easy and economical to transform your house. You do not have to replace your old furniture with new ones as this might prove to be quite hard and even uneconomical. In addition to this, you may not be in a position to be able to dispose off the old furniture.
In order to spice up the interior decoration of your house, you should change the decoration pattern that exists in the "old" house. This change is usually very important in that it makes it quite easy for one to be able to note a difference in the house. You should recessed lighting to replace the already existing hanging light fixtures in the house. You should also consider upgrading the paint in your house to a modern paint, one that is very attractive and appealing to the eye. You should carry out an extensive search on the best color combination that matches the furniture and other items in your house.
It is equally advisable to give your house a feel of custom made drapery. This decoration is a high quality decoration that is able to effectively complement the house's lighting, painting and even furniture among other items. This decoration should mainly be used in the living room and in any other room that you may feel like. The main aim of interior design and decoration ideas while upgrading an old house is so as to bring out a very clear difference, one that clearly stands out for identification. This also helps in giving your house the much needed luxurious touch.
While upgrading your old house, you should ensure that you use the already existing furniture and other items instead of purchasing new ones. However it requires you to be quite resourceful in order to identify the best interior design idea to use in order to achieve an excellent decoration. You can rely on the internet and other resource centers in order to be able to identify the best idea to use. Old furniture is better than new furniture in that the old one has a better sustainability as compared to the new one. As such the old furniture is usually more resistant to damage and breakage.


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Muslim celebrities share what Ramadan means to them
For many popular Muslim artists, Ramadan is an opportunity to step back from the limelight for some much-needed reflection. Saeed Saeed asks some global and regional stars reveal their thoughts on the Holy Month
Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens), singer-songwriter (UK)
"Fasting and staying away from food and drink is a choice we make, but while so many are suffering the pains of hunger and war, Ramadan is the best time to sympathise and give what we can to help awaken our humanity. Especially living in a place like Dubai, where I spend a lot of my time with my grandchildren these days, it is important with all the endless delights and metropolistic luxuries available that we remember how valuable charity and the inner aspects of the fast are. They constitute provision for the hereafter and we are not of this lower world - even if it boasts the tallest building."
Mohamed Rifi, The X Factor Arabia winner (Morocco)
"This Ramadan will be different than any other year. Last Ramadan, nobody knew me. Now when I walk out of my home in Morocco everybody says hello to me and this is a strange new feeling that I have to adjust to. I love Ramadan. It is truly a month of mercy and it really brings out the best in all of us. During the month I don't perform live concerts because it is a time for me to work on my self-development. It's a good opportunity to reflect on what has already been an amazing year."
Zain Bhikha, nasheed artist (South Africa)
"The month is truly a gift from Allah. For me it is a chance to take a step back and shed myself from worldly routines. I reflect a lot, and through prayer and reading the Quran I feel that my mind is very focused. It's about simplicity and letting go of the bad habits that set you back. You make a real conscious effort to do good deeds and become a better person. As I get older I appreciate it much more. I realise I need Ramadan."
Jalal Luqman, artist and curator (UAE)
"I slow down during Ramadan and I focus on developing the spiritual aspect of my character. The art world can sometimes be very harsh so the month is a chance to calm down and focus on what is truly important. People have New Year's resolutions and many Muslims use the holy month to kick-start their own goals. You think of others that are less fortunate and you do your best to repair relationships and give charity. It's not about being just a better Muslim but a better human being."
Jermaine Jackson, singer (US)
"It is important for me to pray, do my fast and fulfil my obligations in Islam and accepting God in my heart. It is also the most important time because we sacrifice some of our day-to-day things and think about those that are less fortunate. We fast but we also eat at iftar every day while other people don't have that luxury. So you think about those that don't have it easy - and by reflecting on that and giving charity, it brings you closer to God. I may be in the entertainment business but my religion comes first and everything else in second."
Maitha Alhameli, poet (UAE)
"This spiritual connectedness is felt not only in the home but all over the community. I use this time to study how I was in the last year, my positives and negatives, and look at ways to improve myself. I also do a lot of meals for the less fortunate during Ramadan. I make a very big pot of food and leave it at the mosque during iftar so others can eat from it. I do that for me. Helping others makes me feel good."
Sumayyah Al Suwaidi, artist and curator (UAE)
"Ramadan for me is about family time. It's a special month where we are all gathered together with our loved ones. It is also about giving and forgiving. You know, these are not easy things. Especially forgiving others who might have hurt us. But the month, because it is holy and there is a special spiritual feeling around it, makes it easier to achieve those hard tasks. Every Ramadan I organise the Ramadan Bazaar in Abu Dhabi. That is a chance to give back to the local artists by having their works showcased and hopefully sold to others."
Mourad Bouriki, The Voice winner (Morocco)
"During Ramadan I take a break from music. I love listening to nasheeds and spiritual material. I focus on spending time with my family and cherishing those relationships. I also try to get involved in humanitarian tasks in my city of Safi and perform nasheeds only. It's a blessed time full of goodness and I just hope that rubs off on all of us."
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The Department of English seeks to help students understand, appreciate, and use responsibly God's gift of language. Students should develop a Christian awareness of the issues and problems in each area of language use and work toward Christian answers. In this way students should be equipped with the ability to understand language and use it responsibly wherever the Lord leads them after college.
Courses in composition aim to teach students how to generate, organize, and communicate ideas clearly, correctly, and effectively; students also get practice in analyzing and evaluating the ideas of others. Various courses in creative writing offer students a chance to develop their gifts in particular types of writing: fiction, poetry, nonfiction. The communication department's courses in playwriting and screenwriting offer additional options.
Believing that its students should understand the nature of language as part of the God-given structure of reality, the department offers a variety of courses in linguistics as well as a linguistics minor.
In the department's wide range of literature courses, students learn how to approach and appreciate literary art forms, as products both of the creativity which is part of the image of God in humankind and of human beings living in particular cultures and employing particular literary techniques.
Study Elsewhere
Many English majors take advantage of opportunities to study off campus. Of particular interest are programs offered in cooperation with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities; these include semester and summer programs at Oxford University as well as the semester programs at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center. For those students interested in journalism, The King's College Journalism Semester offers a chance to study journalism in New York City.
For a full list of approved programs, please see the study abroad page.
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A wide range of opportunities is available to graduates of Covenant's English program. Some students, especially those who have completed the education department's certification program, become teachers in secondary schools; but most go in other directions. Some continue their studies in law school or seminary. A significant number continue their study of English or related fields in graduate school and become professors in public universities or Christian colleges. Some have pursued careers in journalism or theatre, while others have found positions in business, government, and non-profit organizations where they can use their skills in analyzing, writing, and editing.


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A real estate scam had them living out of their van with an infant
A layoff from a job of almost two decades. A real estate scam that left them homeless and living out of their van. The theft of almost all of their possessions.
Barbara Hernandez and Kimari Robinson have had to face all of these challenges and more while also raising a baby. But thanks to help from the Season of Sharing fund, the couple formerly from Miami are facing a stable and promising future once more.
Hernandez, 40, is now working two jobs that she found after two months of applications and the help of three local social service agencies. She and Robinson, 37, just moved into a Bradenton apartment they found with the help of the Community Coalition on Homelessness.
Their eight-month-old baby, Kimari Jr., once again has a crib and toys because of help from the coalition and the Manatee Community Action Agency, both of which receive Season of Sharing funds. And although their furniture now consists of little more than a few lawn chairs, the couple has a tiny Christmas tree provided to them by one of the agencies.
"It's been a nightmare, but I'm grateful now," says Hernandez, who still tears up when thinking back on the past two months. "This has been a humbling experience and makes me look at the homeless in a different way. It could happen to anybody, at the drop of a hat."
The couple had made it through Hernandez's recession-related layoff three years ago from an office management job she held for 17 years. She had been finding jobs through temporary agencies since 2009 while Robinson, who suffers from bipolar disorder, depression and a back injury from construction work, worked when possible.
The two, along with their infant son, had settled for almost a year in a Miami apartment complex. But two months ago, police showed up and said they and all other tenants had to leave immediately because of a real estate scam; the lease they had signed was with someone other than the actual owner. "They told us, 'In that very moment you have to grab whatever you can and vacate the property,' " Robinson recalls. The two grabbed as many baby items as possible and planned to return for their furniture the next day, only to find their belongings had been put on the street and picked over by passersby.
Unable to find help in Miami, the couple followed a friend's advice and drove to Manatee. Since October, they have been meting out their limited funds carefully, staying in hotels every third night or so and in their van the other two nights, while applying for assistance and jobs.
When Jonathan Gonzalez, a caseworker at the Community Coalition on Homelessness met them, "their time was running out," he said. Short-term aid from other agencies had been exhausted. "They struck me as diligent, hard-working and willing to do whatever it takes to resolve their situation," Gonzalez says.
Season of Sharing funds paid for deposits and other move-in expenses in an affordable housing complex. Now, Hernandez and Robinson say they are ready to make the most of their "second chance."
"We've been giving a chance to rebuild," Robinson says. "We're grateful for that, and we look forward to hopefully being in a position soon to help somebody else. It's all about giving back."


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Every superhero flick needs a good love triangle, and The Dark Knight doesn't disappoint. In the film, Rachel Dawes (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) has won over two of Gotham City's most powerful men, but when one guy pops the question she must choose her hero.
There's "Dark Knight," Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman (played by superhottie Christian Bale), the billionaire who keeps the peace in Gotham in his skintight Bat suit. In the other corner stands District Attorney Harvey Dent (played by the gorgeous Aaron Eckhart), the "White Knight" of the city who fights crime in the courthouse.
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To explain the columns below, Median is a median point spread, and can be used to get a feel for how good a team is without overly weighting a blowout win or blowout loss. HS is Brian Burke's Homemade Sagarin, as implemented in Maggie Xiong's PDL::Stats. Pred is the predicted Pythagorean expectation. The exponent for this measure is fitted to the data set itself. SOS, SRS, and MOV are the simple ranking components. MOV is margin of victory, or point spread divided by games played. SOS is strength of schedule. SRS is the simple ranking.
Today, Philadelphia is the only team with a losing record and a winning Pythagorean. Medians favor Baltimore, Green Bay and Cinncinnati, while SRS "likes" Detroit, San Francisco, and Green Bay.


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AMD is trying to breath new life into its dual-core Opteron by upping the chip to 3.2GHz just weeks before Barcelona rolls on store shelves.
AMD announced today the pricing and availability to its Opteron 2000 and 8000 series x86 chips, both in a mainstream and high performance flavor.
The top-end models 8224 SE and 2224 SE now clock in at a speedier 3.2GHz. Model 2224 SE — aimed at dual-socket rigs — costs $873 in volume. The model 8224 SE chip — which fits in four-socket boxes — will go for a meatier $2,149 greenbacks.
Meanwhile, the mainstream 3.0GHz version of the chip are getting a performance-per-watt makeover. Both models 8222 and 2222 are now running at 95-watts. The 8222 will cost you $1,514, while the 2222 is priced at $698. Model 1222 is running at 103 watts and costs $360.
AMD is still sticking to Barcelona's August release date for customers and a September landing for server makers. When the tardy chip finally arrives, it will come in 2.0GHz SE standard and 1.9GHz HE low-power versions. ®


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Low participation dooms recycling incentives program
Few enroll in program, even fewer participate
The sudden disappearance of recycling incentives seems more of a fizzle than a bang.
Before Ollie Kroner lugged his recycling container up the steps of his Northside home Friday, he tried to mentally tally what his recycle scoreboard would show.
"I monitored for a couple months, maybe, but it took quite a number of points to earn any rewards, so in the end I don't think I ever cashed out," Kroner said.
Kroner was among 83,000 households eligible for the city's rewards program, and he was one of only about 20,000 who enrolled. Few of those who signed up redeemed any of their points.
"Over time we found that they were motivating less change and behavior," said Larry Falkin, director of the office of environmental quality.
Falkin said the participation levels no longer justify the $8,000 monthly cost, so the rewards program has been discontinued.
As constructed, the program did not differentiate between someone like Kroner, who recycles much of his refuse and someone who uses their container like an extra garbage can.
Phase 2 of the city's new trash can rollout picks up Monday in Avondale, Madisonville, Oakley and Roselawn.
The city hasn't given up on incentives, and a redesigned rewards program is being planned to encourage residents to recycle more.
"If people want to send messages to the city via Facebook or Twitter or the city's website, we would encourage people to give us input on what kind of incentive program they'd like to see," Falkin said.


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This study provides several important practice implications. First, prior research on audit sampling that relied on the assumption of relatively large error rates may not provide useful guidance for post-SOX audit sampling populations. Second, auditing educators, regulators, and standard setters benefit from an updated understanding of how auditors apply audit sampling guidance in auditing standards when using audit sampling in the field. For example, knowing the relatively high compliance (compared with prior periods) with requirements in auditing standards should impact the way audit sampling is taught in universities and firm trainings, how peer and federal inspectors address audit sampling issues, as well as the need for further clarity of auditing standards. Auditors also benefit as they consider the sampling techniques and input assumptions that will produce the most effective and efficient sampling plans. Specifically, an important implication of our study is related to the impact of standardized sampling templates. The firm in this study mandated the use of such templates, which contributed to levels of explicit consideration of error projection, sufficiency of sample sizes, and of sampling risk in planning and evaluating sample testing.
For more information on this study, please contact Steve Glover.
Durney, M., R. J. Elder, and S. M. Glover. 2014. Field data on accounting error rates and audit sampling. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 33 (2): 79-110
Although little research evidence exists on the effectiveness of audit sampling, auditors should consider the effectiveness of audit sampling compared to other sources of evidence, and the use of statistical compared to nonstatistical sampling for both tests of controls and tests of details to develop the most effective and efficient sampling plans. Auditors that use nonstatistical sampling techniques should evaluate procedures to determine whether sample sizes and evaluation of results are comparable to sample sizes and conclusions reached using statistical methods. Auditors also often fail to project sample misstatements and explicitly consider sampling risk; auditor performance in the evaluation of samples is enhanced with the use of standardized sampling templates.
For more information on this study, please contact Randy Elder, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Elder, R. J., A. D. Akresh, S. M. Glover, J. L. Higgs, and J. Liljegren. 2013. Audit sampling research: A synthesis and implications for future research. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 32 (Supplement 1): 99-129
The findings suggest that the frequency of waived audit adjustments dramatically declined right after accounting scandals and passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, suggesting the regulatory environment led to changes in auditor-client resolution of proposed adjustments. Further, repeat adjustments are often waived, perhaps because this sets a precedent making it difficult to withstand client objections. Finally, auditors are more likely to waive reclassification entries than those impacting income, suggesting an implicit belief that these types of adjustments are less important to users even though reclassifications could impact various widely used ratios.
For more information on this study, please contact Jennifer Joe.
Joe, J., Wright, A., and S. Wright. 2011. The Impact of Changes in the Reporting Environment and Client and Misstatement Characteristics on the Disposition of Proposed Audit Adjustments. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (May): 103-124.
The study has implications for audit planning and practice that are not specifically discussed in the paper. First, the study provides some support for a seemingly obvious position that seniors/managers are more efficient in identifying financial statement errors than audit staff. Second, the study shows that when auditors are given time to freely sort errors (e.g., when the errors have already been identified in the audit), they prefer to classify the errors by audit objective. This finding is somewhat counterintuitive, given that auditors' knowledge is primarily structured around transaction cycles. The authors suggest that this finding may be attributed to auditors thinking about the causes of errors when sorting through errors, which would correspond more directly to audit objectives than to transaction cycles.
Coyne, M. P., S. F. Biggs, and J. S. Rich. 2010. Priming/Reaction-Time Evidence of the Structure of Auditors' Knowledge of Financial Statement Errors. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 29(1):99-123.
The results of this study are important for auditors to consider when making materiality judgments. The evidence indicates that auditors are more likely to overlook the qualitative importance of adjustments that affect a client's ability to meet or beat analysts' forecasts. Furthermore, findings suggest that auditors are more lenient with subjective audit differences. The study suggests that providing auditors with guidance on qualitative materiality may improve materiality judgments, but it does not completely alleviate the differences among the earnings benchmarks.
Ng, T.B. 2007. Auditors' Decisions on Audit Differences that Affect Significant Earnings Thresholds. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 26 (1): 71-89.


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Just-Approved Flu Vaccine Uses Newer Production Method
Cell culture technology
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Flucelvax is the first seasonal flu vaccine to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration using a manufacturing method called cell culture technology, the agency said.
Other flu vaccines are produced inside eggs. But that process takes longer than the newer method and could be harmful to people with egg allergies, the FDA explained. In cell culture technology, virus strains are grown inside mammalian animal cells.
This technology has been used for decades to produce other vaccines, the agency said, and since it is quicker, it can be used more efficiently to develop flu vaccines rapidly in the event of a pandemic.
Flucelvax was evaluated in clinical studies in the United States and Europe involving some 7,700 people ages 18 to 49. Common side effects included pain, redness, injection-site soreness, headache, and fatigue -- reactions typically seen in people given egg-based flu vaccines, the FDA said.
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I agree with all of these Trine. Totally just love these scenes.Dovrebanen wrote:About the script...I read a version too...Hoping and praying that it's a very early draft...
Lines that I would want:
Edward: "You look...sexy. Very sexy, really." So unexpected to hear that from Edward.
Edward: "I love you. I want you. Right now." And the whole scene in the meadow.
I also hope that the scene where Bella calls Edward after Jacob kissed her is in there. Hearing his car in the background.
And I really want the part where Bella tells Jacob she chooses Edward, and she leaves LaPush and starts crying in her truck. When she crossed the borderline, Alice see's her crying and Edward appears. I think this part is written really well in the book, and it always has an effect on me reading it. Plus it shows how wonderful and caring and only-wants-Bella-to-be-happy Edward is.


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How high can I build my front fence?
If applying for a new fence approval from your local authority, most fence laws and requirements are documented in a local county development plan. Generally, in most states (and many countries), front fences can be built up to 3′ (0.9m) high.
If the surrounding properties have a higher fence it is safe to assume you can build a fence to the same height.
This measurement is taken from the ground level on the higher side of the fence and therefore, does not include retaining walls. There are some exceptions:
One exception to this rule is where you may live in a development where a developer has placed a covent over the height or style of fencing in order to keep a uniform look to the development, or to protect individual owners views or privacy.
Another exemption can occur where your property boundary is shared with a national park or declared fire hazard where the local council may place a restriction on the fence material used in the construction and/or the height of the fence.
Can I build my boundary fence higher then 6′ (1.8m)?
Privacy is a common cause of dispute between neighbors, but privacy is a 2 way thing! If your neighbor can see you in your kitchen from their lounge room, then you can see them in their lounge from your kitchen!
So What Should I Do?
The first thing is to speak with your neighbor. If you are both in agreement you can provide a privacy screen to the top of the fence, or even increase the fence height. If no other neighbors are effected then you can simply proceed.
What If My Neighbor Objects?
If you cannot gain the approval of your neighbor you can lodge a development application for small projects or speak with your local council representative. A development application will allow the council to assess the fence height request and may or may not approve it depending on individual circumstances.
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