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No child left behind: UNICEF in Serbia
Everything UNICEF does in Serbia has one clear goal: to ensure the full social inclusion of the country's most vulnerable children.
This is a country on the road to EU membership, with a fully-functioning democracy and –until the global economic crisis of the late 2000s – falling poverty rates. It is a country that has almost halved its child mortality rates in just ten years, putting it on a par with its wealthier EU neighbour, Hungary. In short, Serbia is a country where most children are healthy, well-fed, educated and protected.
So why is UNICEF here? What's the problem?
The problem is the widening gap between the majority of children whose rights are respected, and a significant minority whose most basic rights – to be part of a family, to have an adequate standard of living, to health, education and protection – are all at risk.
These are the most marginalized children and adolescents – such as the poorest, those with disabilities and those from Roma communities. UNICEF works to ensure that they are no longer left behind while the rest of Serbia forges ahead. We believe that lasting development begins with the well-being of the most marginalized and vulnerable children and adolescents, and this is where we focus our efforts.
As the global economic crisis has shown, economic progress is not always guaranteed, and we cannot rely only on economic growth to safeguard the rights of those who are excluded from its benefits. What is needed is a shift from 'blanket' approaches that benefit most children but overlook the most marginalized. We help Serbia's systems to fulfil their obligations towards the most vulnerable children and adolescents, and respond to their specific situation, as blanket approaches aimed at the majority may not reach those on the margins of society. UNICEF works to ensure that these children and adolescents have 'first call' on political commitment, policies, resources and public attention. We do so by trying to improve the accountability of the state to fulfil child rights and provide them with quality services, working not only to strengthen systems but also to stimulate demand for rights and services from marginalized communities via their representatives, including parents' associations and other community-based organizations.
Social inclusion is on the agenda
Serbia's progress towards EU integration has pushed social inclusion higher up the Government agenda. There is growing recognition that attempts to build genuine and lasting social inclusion must focus on the most marginalized children and adolescents. A whole raft of good legislation is now in place to pull marginalized children into society, including the laws on inclusive education, on social protection, health care, juvenile justice, backed by protocols and by-laws setting out the roles and accountability of service providers. Serbia now has a range of independent child rights monitoring bodies that are tracking progress. It has an increasingly active and vocal civil society to hold the Government to account on its promises to marginalized children. And it has a thriving private sector that is increasingly aware of its corporate social responsibility.
From social inclusion policy to action for children
UNICEF helps to shape laws and legislation for vital improvements and to translate these into tangible progress for the most vulnerable children. Our work is not only about boosting access to services: it is about changing entire systems in favour of Serbia's most marginalized children and adolescents.
Our goal is to ensure that, by 2015, more of the country's most vulnerable children and adolescents are treated with dignity and respect, able to participate in the decisions that affect them, and able to express their opinions and views. One result of a stronger child rights infrastructure and greater engagement across society on children's rights would be a growing number of marginalized children and families benefiting from pre-schooling, education, social welfare, health and justice services.
We strengthen systems – the supply side – to ensure that those working with and for children have guidelines, skills and support to meet their obligations. In our work on inclusive education, health, child care reform, juvenile justice and efforts to prevent violence against children, for example, we have helped to develop legislation, built the capacity of those with a duty to ensure respect for the rights of the most marginalized, and we have monitored progress.
We support the creation of social accountability – the demand side – so that parents and children know their rights and, through their representatives, are empowered to demand respect for those rights. We work with Roma-led NGOs, for example, to help Roma families claim their rights to health, education and other economic, social and cultural rights. We also work with the Parliament, Ombudsman and the private sector, all of whom have a major role to play, and a major influence, on the promotion and protection of child rights.
We build the knowledge and monitor progress on marginalized children through, for example, system analysis and for knowledge gathering systems, such as our work with Roma Health Mediators to capture much-needed data on Roma children. Our monitoring work includes support for the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) that are carried out every five years, as well as DevInfo – the database system endorsed by the UN Development Group to monitor human development at the country level across government departments, UN agencies and development partners. We are also supporting the development of social protection indicators to monitor inclusion of the most marginalized children and adolescents.The complex problems faced by marginalized children cannot be addressed by any single sector or organization working alone. UNICEF works to bring different sectors together, so that they can forge strong links and address cross-cutting issues. Our aim is to build strong partnerships across all relevant actors from the highest levels of government to those most directly concerned and affected – Serbia's vulnerable children and adolescents.
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as the owner of rides i would like to reply to the 5 reviews by the same person & her friends 1st our limo did over heat and we had a up graded suv limo @ the brides pick up location in 20 mins i myself came to the location leving my own 60 birthday party the brides party then took photos with this new limo 2nd we had offer a free late night pick up when i first spoke to the brides on the phone but the brides parents did not book one when they fill in the contract we have our copy onfile on the late night of the wedding i and 2 of our chauffurs with 3 of our limos where waiting @ the venue @ 12-30am @ the main door waiting for the other wedding we were servicing @ the same venue we left @ 1 40am @ 1 45 the groom phone to say where was his limo & that he had been waiting outside from 1am by the main door" i said that as i did not have tha contract with me but i was sure no late night pick up had been booked, i then told the groom that one of our limos had left from the venue and...
For us to be writing such a bad review only meant that we were that disappointed in your services as well as all of our family and friends who attended the wedding. Feel lucky there were only 5 reviews on here from them.
It wasn't so much the limo that overheated and broke down that did it for us. We're greatful that our officient was still there to marry us by the time the bride did show up...
It was at the end of the night when there was nobody there to pick us up and that you were everything but accommodating to your customer. Even the next few days after when you wouldn't even return our call. Very unprofessional.
i would like to point out the facts that you do not reply to 1) when i spoke to the groom on the night of wedding i did say that no late night pick up had been booked as per the contract and that no one bride or groom made contract with any of our 3 limo drivers who were @ the venue from 12 30 until 1 30 the limos were park in front of the bus you had booked so please tell me if as the groom said that you had been waiting outside @ 1 pm you did not contact the drivers and the groom call @ 1 45am with coments which were !! i did have the phone on bluetooth and the bride & groom from the other wedding were in the limo and heard the coments by the groom also that i did offer to get a limo to pick you up in 5 to 10 mins reply from groom !! i also called the next day sunday to the grooms phone and left massage .i then spoke to your mother on the monday i then made reply to your father by email but he just blamed us for the late night pick up & not himself as he & your mother who filled in the contract which cleary shows if there was to be a late night pick the time of pick up maybe you would like to comment on these points i do have the contract on file & the emails thank you terry @ rides

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Top court lifts Goa iron ore mining curbs
Apr 22 2014 , Mumbai
Move to boost exports; global supply glut may play spoiler
The court on Monday said mining leases that were not renewed post 2007 had expired and, hence, operations in those mines would be illegal. Goa mines produced 45 million tonnes a year before the ban.
The apex court had banned mining in all the 90 mines in the state in October 2012 after the Justice M B Shah Commission probing alleged illegal mining operations pointed out massive irregularities in the industry.
Monday's order will boost India's exports, as Goa was exporting almost all of its produce mostly to China before the ban. The slowdown in the Chinese economy, however, raises some uncertainty over demand, as are the surplus supplies from BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. The two biggest global miners raised output in the past two years.
Shares of Sesa Goa, India's largest iron ore producer, jumped 7 per cent in Mumbai trading on Monday, after the court order but settled lower at Rs 201.80 apiece, a gain of 4.78 per cent. Sesa Sterlite is based in Goa and will likely see a jump in exports in the coming months, mostly to China.
Graeme Train, a Shanghai-based commodity analyst with Macquarie, told Reuters that 20 million tonnes was not a huge amount, but it would be another contributor to rising supply. "The question to ask is whether Chinese steel mills will be willing to take on the low-grade iron ore from Goa, given Chinese producers' growing preference for higher quality material in step with Beijing's anti-pollution campaign,"
At around $117 a tonne, iron ore price has fallen over 13 per cent this year as a slowing Chinese economy curbed demand for the steelmaking raw material.
"Chinese mills are looking for high-grade material and the discount for low-grade material is starting to open up. It will be interesting to see if they (India) can actually get 20 million tonnes into the market," Train said.
Morgan Stanley expects global seaborne iron ore supply to exceed demand by 79 million tonnes this year, with the surplus doubling to 158 million tonnes in 2015.
Excess supply will affect iron ore price in the global market, but it will help Indian steel firms such as JSW Steel and Tata Steel, which can source good quality iron ore for their plants and export finished produce to high-priced markets like the US. "Tata Steel will benefit due to the higher steel price in the US, where production has moved out and the industry has become dependent on Europe. Tata Steel will benefit from its presence in Europe while JSW Steel, which is mostly dependent on imported iron ore and has to buy at auction, will benefit from the price reduction due to the global supply glut," said AK Prabhakar, advisor to Anand Rathi Securities.
Shares of JSW Steel rallied 5.23 per cent to Rs 1,097 on Monday, while Tata Steel closed 1.06 per cent higher at Rs 423.
Fimi said the lifting of the mining ban would increase port activity and economic activity in the coastal belt of Goa. "This will revive the mining industry, create employment and boost economic activity," said R K Sharma, secretary general, Fimi. India was the third-largest iron ore exporter in the world with shipments of over 100 million tonnes a year, mainly to China, before the mining and export bans were clamped in Odisha, Karnataka, Chhattishgarh and Goa. India exported 12.57 million tonnes during the April-February period of 2013-14 against 17.35 million tonnes in the year-ago period.


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Tag Archives: Muslim Madness
Myths surround Islam – leader
The federal government is considering plans for a new-look advisory body to help combat public perceptions of an overly-religious image of Islam.
Dr Ameer Ali, of the Regional Islamic Council, said he agreed with comments by the Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs Laurie Ferguson that the idea that all Muslims were religious was a "misconception".
"Islam has been portrayed as religion of violence, which is not true. Islam has been portrayed as a religion that promotes jihads … that's not true," Dr Ali told Sky News.
Misconception…Not true….fine. I don't think any reasonable person would disagree with Dr Amir Ali. They are not all religious neither do all of them support jihad or violence but some of them do and therein lies the problem.
Dr Ali says; "The Muslim problem is not a religious problem – it is educational, economic, humanitarian, social. It (the problem) needs a wider attack."
I agree the problem is educational – fix that and the other problems will dissolve.
In the meantime Australian Muslim leaders need to be a bit more proactive.
Heres an idea. The next time some radical idiot blows himself up taking innocents with him condemn the act. Call a press conference and denounce the violence.
The next time a leader is reported as agreeing with jihad or condemning the west for taking action against the radicals call a press conference and tell Australians the person quoted doesn't represent the vast majority of Muslims. Tell us that you have given his name and the names of his followers to the Australian Federal Police and that you have removed his power to represent Muslims.
Tell us every day that first and foremost you are Australians and have no time for killers, murders or religious zealots.
How do Muslims worldwide think?
Daniel Pipes reports on the dismaying results of a world-wide poll on Muslim attitudes to the west.
A proclivity to conspiracy theories: In not one Muslim population polled does a majority believe that Arabs carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001, on America. The proportions range from a mere 15% in Pakistan holding Arabs responsible, to 48% among French Muslims.
…….In other words, in every one of these 10 Muslim communities, a majority views September 11 as a hoax perpetrated by the American government, Israel, or some other agency.
Conspiracy theories also pertain to larger topics.
Asked, "What is most responsible for Muslim nations' lack of prosperity?" between 14% (in Pakistan) and 43% (in Jordan) blame the policies of America and other Western states, as opposed to indigenous problems, such as a lack of democracy or education, or the presence of corruption or radical Islam.
Overall, the Pew survey sends an undeniable message of crisis from one end to the other of the Muslim world.
I see no mention of polling done in Australia and wonder what the outcome would be. I'm not optimistic as it will most probably take another generation of Australian education to bring some of the locals out of the 12th century.
Read Daniels take on the poll and the original Pew Poll report here. The Pew Report is a .pdf but worth the read.
Beazley and Downer on cartoons
OPPOSITION Leader Kim Beazley has condemned the publication in Australia of controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
Mr Beazley said he believed publishing the caricatures was "extremely unwise".
"It's an offensive cartoon and it shouldn't be printed," he said.
I'm sure he meant to say they are offensive cartoons.
Brisbane's Courier-Mail newspaper has published one of the 12 cartoons, while political commentator Tim Blair has posted all 12 on his website.The cartoons, which were first published in Denmark, have sparked violent protests around the Muslim world.
Downer says;
"I see the cartoons they produce of me and John Howard and so on and they're usually incredibly offensive but that is just the nature of our society."
"I think around the world people have got to learn that not everybody needs to agree with them or have the same interpretations that they have of events or people, and they need to demonstrate a higher degree of tolerance."
Mr Beazley also has condemned the global violence over the cartoons, as "absurd and disproportionate".
It might be procative to publish the cartoons but the alternative is to be seen as buckling under fatwas and only printing in our media what these 7th century zealots authorise.
Not this little black duck.
Meanwhile, Al JAzeera reports that Iran is planning a series of Holocaust cartoons in retaliation
Iran's largest selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
When no Mosques are destroyed, no riots eventuate, no Iranian flags burnt and no threats made they are going to appear stupid.
So stupid in fact that they won't even realize it.
Funny and sick
This is funny!
This is not.
It's a sign of a very sick and disfunctional society.
Globe win for suicide bomber film
Palestinian film-maker Hany Abu-Assad was perhaps the most surprised man at the Golden Globes on Monday as his drama of suicide bombers crossing into Israel, "Paradise Now," was named the year's best foreign language film.
Not surprisingly, no one expects any bookings for the film in Israel
I googled for reviews and considering I am not heavy into alternative movies the first one I looked at will suffice. IMDb provide a generally positive review on the film but I think the reviewers rose coloured spectacles has some sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
I guess if you review films for a living or hobby and seldom touch the real world, like actors, you will have some bias. On the face of it, one might have some sympathy for the Palestinians.
I don't.
The general subject is one which has become a focus of world attention in the last few years, particularly since 9/11: young Muslims suicide bombers who destroy themselves and others around them based on their warped interpretation of passages in the Koran which guarantee entry to paradise for martyrs who die in the defense of Islam. While many viewers may wonder whether a religion that involves terror, murder, misogyny and repression deserves to be defended, for Palestians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip the issues have a more secular basis. They see Isreal as the occupier of their land and an oppressor which treats them unjustly.
Reasons for the sense of injustice are both given in the dialogue as well as shown: third world conditions in the Palestian area where even water needs filtering contrasts with the glitzy tall buildings in Tel Aviv where beautiful girls in bikinis walk along the beachfront promenade. However, the viewer isn't preached to, the issues get presented and contemplated thoroughly. The two recruits in the film are equipped with plastic explosives around their waists under suits and get to cross the Isreali border but things don't go as planned. They both grapple with the ethical, moral and religious implications of what they are doing and change their minds more than once. Finally one of the two seems to have decided that even if, as his female friend tells him, there is no paradise, he is dead anyway and may as well extract revenge on the Isrealis. There is plenty of tension from the start to the finish and the script, directing, acting and cinematography are all superb. I rarely give scores of 10/10 but there is nothing I can fault about this.
One attempt at rationalization of their suicide;
….third world conditions in the Palestian area where even water needs filtering contrasts with the glitzy tall buildings in Tel Aviv where beautiful girls in bikinis walk along the beachfront promenade.
And for that we blow ourselves up. Could I suggest a better path to paradise; ignore the local Hamas and Mulah advocates, seek some education, get rid of your victim mentality and do something with your life. Maybe, after you became acceptable to civilized society, you might be able to go over and chat up the Israeli bikini clad girls.
I note they see Israel as the occupier of their land and an oppressor that treats them unjustly. Given that if the Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians and a few other were disarmed the Middle East would be a little more peaceful. Unfortunately it is also a given that if Israel alone was disarmed she would cease to exist.
One says oppressed, the other; defending my right to exist.
I wonder if this viewpoint was presented in the film.
If you listen to the Arabs; from Palestine east to Iran, it's all about Israel and/or the US support of Israel.
In VIEW OF THE ARAB WORLD BY AN ARAB by Haim Harari, he says;
Yes, there is a 100 year-old Israeli-Arab conflict, but it is not where the main show is.■ The millions who died in the Iran-Iraq war had nothing to do with Israel.
■ The mass murder happening right now in Sudan, where the Arab Moslem regime
is massacring its black Christian citizens, has nothing to do with Israel.
■ The frequent reports from Algeria about the murders of hundreds of civilian in
one village or another by other Algerians have nothing to do with Israel.
■ Saddam Hussein did not invade Kuwait, endangered Saudi Arabia and butchered
his own people because of Israel.
■ Egypt did not use poison gas against Yemen in the 60's because of Israel.
■ Assad the Father did not kill tens of thousands of his own citizens in one week in
El Hamma in Syria because of Israel.
■ The Taliban control of Afghanistan and the civil war there had nothing to do with
■ The Libyan blowing up of the Pan-Am flight had nothing to do with Israel, and I
could go on and on and on.
The root of the trouble is that this entire Moslem region is totally dysfunctional, by any standard of the word, and would have been so even if Israel had joined the Arab league and an independent Palestine had existed for 100 years.
The 22 member countries of the Arab league, from Mauritania to the Gulf States, have a total population of 300 millions, larger than the US and almost as large as the EU before its expansion.
They have a land area larger than either the US or all of Europe. These 22 countries, with all their oil and natural resources, have a combined GDP smaller than that of Netherlands plus Belgium and equal to half of the GDP of California alone.
Within this meager GDP, the gaps between rich and poor are beyond belief and too many of the rich made their money not by succeeding in business, but by being corrupt rulers.
We don't need to 'understand' the suicide bomber anymore than we need to understand any other weapon of war. We need to understand the societies that produces them…and we do.
They are, simply put, disfunctional and Israel is only a part of their problem.
I wont go and see the movie should it be released in Australia. It will not teach me anything I don't know already and, I suspect, will only reinforce my opinion that Hollywood has lost some balance.
No-nudes Playboy for Indonesia
The Weekend Australian (no link) reports that Indonesian Muslims reacted angrily to a purported plan by Playboy to launch a version of it's magazine in Indonesia.
Indonesian businessman Avianto Nugroho said the magazine would be launched in March and would not contain nude photos
What's the point?
Predictably, Irfan Awas from hardline Muslim group Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia said;
Different or not, Playboy is Playboy. It is a porn magazine.
Well this blog is a blog, but without the text it isn't anything.
Sort of lends credibility to the old "I only buy Playboy for the articles" line that young men use, or used to.
You can leave your hat on
Cairo: An Egyptian cleric's controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars.
According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University's faculty of Sharia, "being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage".
But wait, all is not lost for the Egyptian Lothario.
Al-Azhar's fatwa committee chairman Abdullah Megawar argued that married couples could see each other naked but should not look at each other's genitalia and suggested they cover up with a blanket during sex.
Raises the old arguement I had on this site as to whether the Muslims are stuck in the 7th century or the 12th.
Via reader HRT
Another reason not to encourage veils
AN Egyptian man discovered on his wedding day that his fiancee of three years was a man who had been concealing his identity behind a veil.
You'd think in three years of being betrothed the guy would've got to first base at least once.
Talk about buying a pig in a poke.


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Firm: Third Point
Earnings: $425 million
The founder and head of hedge fund firm Third Point had a fabulous year in 2012. His flagship hedge fund beat the U.S. stock market, which most hedge funds failed to do, with a 21.2% net return. His smaller leveraged fund was one of the best-performing hedge funds in 2012. The New York investor has enjoyed big years before, but now he is managing $10 billion. He made money betting on Greek sovereign debt and on a couple of activist positions. Loeb led a successful effort to dislodge Scott Thompson from the CEO position at Yahoo and replace him with Marissa Mayer. The stock has been a winner for Loeb as has his activist position in Murphy Oil. Now 51, Loeb made news early in 2013 by taking a position in Herbalife, the nutritional supplements seller, shortly after another prominent hedge fund manager, William Ackman, called the company a pyramid scheme.
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I've been searching on wiki and on this forum but it doesn't seem I have a solution for my question.
I want to raise the history of log files (especially mailbox.log). According to my network version default istallation it keeps only last 9 days. Is there a way to raise this limit to something like 2 months?


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Are You Tough Enough?
Donlon, J. P., Chief Executive (U.S.)
The search for scale, like the search for the holy grail, is a neverending quest.Just when we thought that merger combinations couldn't be any bigger, along comes a deal like AOU takeover of Time Warner. How big is big enough? Apparently not nearly as big as you would think. The fascination has its corollary in the stock market whereby the leadership in the market becomes increasingly narrow as the fashionable dot-com shares rise faster and faster. "As these favored Internet stocks rise spectacularly by factors of 10 and 15, their weighting in the overall index becomes larger," observes American Enterprise Institute economist John Makin. "What that support conceals," he remarks, "is an ever weakening performance by a broader and broader sector of unfavored' stocks."
The number of shares at new 52-week lows on the NYSE rose to 1,200 near the end of last year. With investors eager to add to their holdings of tech companies, what's happening to less fashionable shares? Those who attempt to put a value on stocks based on earnings and future returns haven't quite given up, but many have given up this criteria to feed the insatiable desire not to lose out on the tech momentum. Serious distortions result in serious corrections. This will no doubt sort itself out when the Fed raises interest rates, but what happens to value stocks in the meantime? And what happens to the cost of capital for the traditional value company?
This is a dilemma shared by many CEOs today, but few more so than Michael Bonsignore, the subject of this issue's cover feature. With the merger of AlliedSignal and Honeywell, Bonsignore must convince investors that the traditional industrial technology company he leads can deliver on its growth targets. As Prudential Securities' Nicholas Heymann points out, the most critical issue likely to affect all such companies going forward is their ability to achieve first or earlymover advantage in converting their traditional product-based historically cost accounting business model to an e-business model. …


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Video Journalist
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- 25 Oct 2013
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Guardian News & Media is seeking a Video Journalist to join our New York office. This new role in our newsroom involves working, sometimes alongside a producer/presenter, to create compelling, entertaining video content for our site www.theguardian.com. Day to day, our Video Journalist will film, edit and publish video reports, shows, strands of programming and other output as well as to provide video support and training across the newsroom.
Candidates should possess:
- A strong track record of filming and editing mini-documentary style videos,
- Demonstrable experience in news and feature video production,
- Substantial experience shooting and editing to a high standard under tight deadlines,
- Have an understanding of what makes a video popular online, both in terms of story idea and editing techniques,
- Experience finding and covering feature stories on a range of issues across the US,
- Passion for news and current affairs and an imaginative approach to story-telling,
- Knowledge of using social media to record, publish and promote video content.,
- A track record of finding stories and generating new ways of covering them,
- A keen sense of the needs and interests of the Guardian's US audience,
- Experience in training basic video production, editing and presenting.
Other required skills include:
- Excellent filming ability and technical proficiency with a range of camera systems,
- Strong editing ability, particularly with Final Cut Pro,
- Knowledge and confidence in sound recording and basic lighting,
- Excellent time management skills,
- The ability to work flexibly, independently and collaboratively,
- Ability to generate idea and creatively and efficiently execute them,
- Sound editorial judgement and production skills.
This position is ideal for a video journalist who has a deep awareness of the latest developments in video technology and trends in video journalism, can use financial and technical resources efficiently, within works well under pressure and is passionate about Guardian's company vision and values.
To apply, please send a cover letter stating your salary requirements with your resume no later than November 29, 2013.
Guardian News & Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


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BWW Reviews: Terese Genecco's New 'Live from the Iridium NYC' CD - A Sensational Homage to the Swingin' Nightclub Greats
It may be 2012, but listening to Terese Genecco's latest standout CD, "Live from the Iridium NYC," will transport you back to the 1950s and '60s, a time when the great nightclub singers would make an audience swing and sway while delivering some of the greatest pop, jazz, blues, and Broadway standards their way. Genecco, with sensational support from her 8-piece "Little Big Band," is a ball of entertaining energy and charisma who conjures up memories of Frank, Dean, Sammy, and the classic lounge singers from Mel Torme to Marilyn Maye, yet Terese makes musical magic with a powerful and distinctive vocal style all her own.
Genecco recently celebrated the third anniversary of her monthly two-sets-per-show gig (reviewed here) at the Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway (at 51st Street), and this CD features 12 of the 70 numbers Terese and her A-list band members have wailed away on for over 70 shows. Genecco "Live" gets off to a rocking start with "A Lot of Livin' to Do," from the musical Bye, Bye, Birdie, and celebrates Genecco's love and infinity for Elvis, even if the song was written for a faux Presley. She follows with an up-tempo version of Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love" (Sinatra did it as a ballad), and then goes into "Rat Pack" mode with her take on "Ain't That a Kick in the Head," which Dean Martin delivered in the film Ocean's 11.
One mark of a great singer/entertainer is the ability to turn an original song into a hit and Genecco clearly accomplishes that on Bill Zeffiro's homage to a swinging Sinatra, "Universal Truth (Schmuck in Love)." On "You're My Thrill," she takes a song that Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday, and even Diana Krall sung as ballads and swings it for all it's worth. And while Genecco sings the phrase "Fa Subito" on "It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Stasera)" from The Pink Panther, her vocal and trombonist Mark Miller's arrangement is more like "Fab-U-Lito." But the highlight of the entire CD has to be Daniel Fabricant's arrangement of Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen's "Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home," a Sammy Davis, Jr. classic that would have had The Candy Man genuflecting at Genecco's tour de force rendition. In fact, most of the arrangements here—including Genecco's on "The Thrill is Gone"— are top notch. The lone exception is the ambitious, but uneven arrangement of "Frankie & Johnny," a classic narrative number about the guy who done her wrong, but where the overpowering band sound done the lyrical story line wrong.


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Wärtsilä Inks Prestige Contract
Wärtsilä signs long-term service agreement for six vessels; pro-active approach from both companies
Wärtsilä has signed a five-year service agreement with U.S.-based Prestige Cruise Holdings Inc. (Prestige), the parent company of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises.
The long-term service agreement covers six vessels, a total of 27 Wärtsilä engines, and has the option to include further vessels in the future. The agreement facilitates the projection of costs associated with the maintenance of Prestige's cruise fleet, while also minimizing the downtime during routine maintenance and overhauls, the company said.
The agreement provides a broad scope of services, including maintenance planning, spare parts supply, training, technical surveys, condition monitoring, and workshop services.


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July 26, 2000
It didn't come wrapped in fancy packaging, but Elsie Coignet says the gift her coworkers gave her was one of the most beautiful she'd ever received. Coignet's present was eight weeks of vacation time donated from colleagues who work with her at Tulane.
A legal secretary in the associate university counsel's office at the health sciences center, Coignet found herself in need of extra leave time to care for her husband, Linus Coignet, former associate general counsel at Tulane, after he fell and injured himself this spring. Linus, who also suffers from the degenerative disease multiple sclerosis, has been on disability leave from the university for the past few years.
"I'm overwhelmed," says Elsie after learning about her coworkers' donations. "I know how valuable vacation time is."
Through a program started last year on a suggestion from the Tulane Staff Advisory Council, the human resources office allows Tulane staff members to donate vacation time to a general pool or to a specific person.
"I am astounded by the success of the program," says the program's administrator, Frank Currie, director of employee relations and staff development. "The unselfish generosity of our staff members never ceases to amaze me."
In the past year, more than 100 staff members have donated time to the program, Currie says, benefiting about 50 staffers who needed the extra time due to their own medical emergency or that of an immediate family member.
In Coignet's case, Peggy Williams, administrative secretary in the health sciences center's public relations office, donated two weeks of her own time when she learned that Coignet had almost exhausted her own accumulated sick and vacation leave caring for her husband because of his illness over the years.
After his recent fall, Linus required almost constant attention and Williams says she wanted to make sure that Elsie had the time off from work to properly care for him.
"I wanted to help out," Williams says. "We're all supposed to be brothers and sisters in this world."
She started a campaign for donated vacation time from friends and acquaintances of the Coignets. Williams' goal was to collect enough time to allow Coignet to augment her own vacation and sick leave and take a total of 12 weeks of leave, which is the amount of time off allowed under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
"I told her, 'You don't worry, we'll have those weeks for you,'" Williams says. Gathering donated time from Coignet's colleagues proved a fairly easy task, Williams adds. All she needed to do was describe the family's predicament to coworkers and the hours came pouring in. "I knew that if they knew what she was going through, they would give some time, even if they only had one day to donate," she says.
Bell Nelson, desk dispatcher in the health sciences center's public safety office, says she donated a week of vacation time without a second thought.
"It wasn't hard for me to give anything to Elsie and Linus," Nelson says. "They are both so sweet and always have a pleasant attitude toward everybody. If anyone deserves it, they do."
Germaine Nash, lead systems programmer in the health sciences center's data systems office, Tim Riley, manager of data systems, and Mary Smith, associate vice president of the equal opportunity office, also donated vacation time.
"I can take my vacation another time," says Smith, who donated two weeks. "I felt Elsie and Linus needed it more than I do right now."
Currie says staff members are more likely to donate to a specific person rather than the general pool. He adds that the university reviews the program annually to determine its cost to the institution. From Elsie Coignet's standpoint, the program is a valuable benefit to Tulane employees. "Words cannot express how grateful I am," she says. "Sometimes you feel you're so alone in these situations, and now I know I'm not alone."
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Frequent mobile phone users are at higher risk for certain brain cancers, says French study
Frequent mobile phone users are at a higher risk of developing certain types of brain cancer, according to a multi-year study by French scientists published in the British journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Based on a study carried from 2004 to 2006 in four areas of France, the group of 11 scientists concluded that there was a "positive association" between heavy mobile phone use and glioma and meningioma brain tumors.
Heavy use was defined as using the mobile phone for more than 15 hours per month over a five-year period. People who were frequent users had between two and three times greater risk of developing these cancers compared with people who rarely used their phones, according to a report about the study in The Guardian newspaper.
Surprisingly, the study found that the cancer occurred on the opposite side of the brain from where the cell phone was normally used. "It is difficult to define a level of risk, if any, especially as mobile phone technology is constantly evolving," the newspaper quotes the study as saying.
The study revives a long-running debate about whether cellphone use increases the risk of brain cancer--a debate that dates from the early days of cellphone use. More recently, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, also known as IARC, said in 2011 that radiofrequency fields used by cellphones might be linked to glioma (.pdf).
"Given the potential consequences for public health of this classification and findings it is important that additional research be conducted into the long term, heavy use of mobile phones. Pending the availability of such information, it is important to take pragmatic measures to reduce exposure such as hands‐free devices or texting," observes IARC Director Christopher Wild.
However, an international study called Interphone published in 2010 found no increased risk for glioma and meningioma from heavy cellphone use, according to the National Cancer Institute. The study examined 5,000 brain tumor patients and health controls in 13 countries.
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- see the French study's abstract
- read The Guardian report
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Here are a few photos from today. The last home game is a doubleheader against Missouri on Wednesday. I am not sure if I can make that one..and if not, I had a great time at the games this year. The girls have a lot of fun and play the game hard and it was a pleasure to watch them. We lose three important seniors but there are a lot of freshmen and sophomores on the team.
Kristy Olsen waiting for a fly ball that she made the catch on.
Another catch by Kristy, who is a senior.
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Here is a sequence of a HR by Alex Johnson in the second and begin greeted at the plate by the team.
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Great job as always Wesley! Thanks for continuing to share your shots with us.
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Please mark Donation for PGF, an email confirming your transfer would help our Treasurer. Thank you!
We expected that 2010 would be a very difficult year for the Pattaya Pride's fundraising activities and unfortunately we were right. In fact we experienced the lowest level of fund raising since the festivals inception in 2001.
NOW, more than ever, we need YOUR support to continue the good work.
In 2009, in anticipation of difficult times ahead, we changed the membership scheme to replace it with voluntary advertising on the Pattaya Pride website. At the same time the actual cost for members/advertisers was reduced. We have decided to continue this through 2011 and for as little as 5,000 Thai Baht (170 USD) you can advertise on our website complete with a link to your own website.
We are always happy to hear of events being held in aid of Pattaya Pride. Your event can be held at any time of year and we would appreciate the following:
1. Prior notification of the date and type of event to Pattaya Pride to ensure that there are no competing or conflicting events.
2. Monies received for Pattaya Pride must be paid to the Pattaya Pride treasurer within 7 days of the event
3. All publicity should include the phrase "proceeds in support of Pattaya Pride charities". The Pattaya Pride logo can be used in such advertising and we ask that the Pattaya Pride website is also shown "www.pattayapride.com".
Please note that the Pattaya Pride logo CANNOT be used for any purpose other than fund raising for the Pattaya Pride or advertising events to raise funds for Pattaya Pride.
When arranging your event contact either Jim Lumsden (081 910 0015) or Glen Campbell (085 805 7003) who are this year's event co-ordinators
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The concept behind Zlata is fairly simple. You get a blonde, blue-eyed babe and make her pose in a variety of kinky and cool outfits and watch her contort her body into all kinds of unlikely positions. When you see what this woman can do with her incredibly sexy body, the fact that she doesn't take it all off won't even matter. You see, Zlata is a contortionist who can pretty much bend her body any way she likes. She does way more than just the splits to keep you interested, though.
Zlata is a sleek site with a stylish design that is befitting of the high-quality videos and photo shoots they produce. There is an archive section that is frequently updated with original vids and pics, and additional content can be found by clicking on the updates" link.
There are 77 downloadable videos, each one lasting around 12 minutes and featuring this blonde babe showing off her body in some incredible poses. I checked out Zlata doing some yoga in her bra and panties and when she started wrapping her legs behind her ears I felt my chakras all align at once. You can save the movies as Full HD Windows Media files. There were AVI files at one point, but they have been removed.
You can also marvel at this babe and the things she does with her body in 190 sets of high-res pictures. There is an average of 185 pics per set and there is quite a bit of variety with really kinky and hot outfits, like latex catsuits and pantyhose as well as more zany stuff.
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Villa Los Tajos
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The family-oriented Villa Los Tajos stands against a wonderful backdrop of the Andalucian hills, which are laced with the white villages that the region is so famous for. With such a stunning setting, relaxing at this pretty retreat is bound to come easily.
Inside, the accommodation is light and spacious, with two comfortable sitting rooms - a layout perfect for families with older children who want their own space. The smart kitchen is well-equipped with appliances and the villa has an array of other modern comforts, including satellite TV and a CD player. The pretty pool terrace provides plentiful space for lounging in the sun and letting the surrounding tranquillity lull you to sleep, and offers the rare pleasure of a small and shallow section where the little ones can splash about safely. The pool is generously proportioned to please keen swimmers and there are lots of perches around for just sitting over drinks and admiring the views. A built-in barbecue is provided for when you want to eat outside too.
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I was walking past the place that used to be FL's former father-in-law's restaurant today, and got to thinking about the price Floyd paid for his actions. He lost a lot. some of it he deserved, some of it not.
I sense a lot of animosity still out there for Floyd. in my opinion, the guy made some stupid mistakes, covered it up, and paid a really big price for it.
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Democrats Heckled Bush During 2005 SOTU Speech
The MSM narrative over the next few days will focus on how despicable the Republicans are for heckling Obama during his healthcare speech before Congress (although it was only one Congressman, who immediately apologized). What they won't tell you is that a number of Democrats heckled Bush during his 2005 State Of The Union address, in a remarkably similar context: Social Security. Time Magazine, 2005 | Read More »


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Until recently my bikes have always been yard sale fix ups or saved from the scrap pile bikes. I have a surly long haul trucker now and a surly steamroller set up as a single speed. both are far better bikes than I have ever had. I have shed 3 of the 4 older bikes I had. the problem is the last old bike . I have an old raleigh C-30 hybrid I believe it is a first year of that model bike 1993 the thing looks rough I posted pictures on here and every one says it isn't worth working on . I had it looked at by a bike shop and they say it is solid bike. I have upgraded the shifters back wheel was replaced a few years back just before I quit riding new BB bearings and tires a couple years ago again no milage on them cromoly steel frame it is just a neat riding old bike that has carried me many miles
My intention was to sell it this spring I have did Craigslist listing twice just can't push the post button I don't need it, it is ugly as sin. But it still gets me places I have rode it about 30 miles in the past couple of months I just can't seem to want to sell what do you think ? sell or let it hang around
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Charles and Lillian Menige celebrate 71st wedding anniversary
Charles and Lillian Menige of Rehoboth Beach celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary June 27. The couple married at St. Phillip Neari Parish in Philadelphia.
Charles Menige is a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II and a member of the Midway Lions Club. Lillian Menige is a longtime hospital volunteer at Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia and Beebe Medical Center in Lewes.
They have two children, Linda Hrynko, whose husband was the late Edward Hrynko of Philadelphia and Lewes, and Mame, wife of Dave Herbert of Lewes. Grandchildren are Charlotte Herbert Papaleo and her husband Harry Papaleo of Rehoboth Beach, David and Douglas Herbert, Heather Hrynko, and Melissa Hrynko-Wolfe and husband Mike Wolfe. Great-grandchildren are Lilliana Hrynko and Brandon and Chase Herbert Mears.


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Yesterday I found out a bad piece of news from here http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/sql-certification.aspx
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In March 2014, the MCSE: Data Platform (464/465) and MCSE: Business Intelligence (466/467) exams will be appropriately updated with SQL Server 2014 topics. The exam numbers will remain the same.
At least one month prior to the update, details on the original and revised exam objectives will be made available for review in the Skills measured section of each exam detail webpage.
Does anyone know more details about this? I'm especially interested in the exact date when 465 will be available in its current format.
AFAIK this is the first time exam content is upgraded while exam numbers remain the same. This catches me on the wrong foot because I already took 464 and was planning to get my MCSE for SQL Server 2012 by also taking 465. Unfortunately, it's currently undefined what happens to my progress if I delay this exam until May as I was planning because 465 with SQL Server 2012 content will no longer be available by that time.
P.S: I used the live chat feature from Microsoft's website and was unable to find more details from them. So currently I have to assume the worst case scenario, which means 465 will be upgraded on March 1st.
I've taken MCSE: Data Platform (464) during first week of May and I can confirm there were number of questions based on SQL Server 2014 and SQL Azure.
Sometime around Apr 1st Microsoft updated the info on the respective exam pages stating that SQL Server 2014 content will be introduced beginning with Apr 24th.


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Students appear in large numbers for Gandhi Vichar Sanskar Pariksha
How old was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi when his father had to leave Porbandar for Rajkot?
Who advised Gandhiji to start a small ashram in Kochrab?
How many policemen died in the Chauri Chaura incident?
Who gave Urdu lessons to Gandhiji?
These questions are not from a history examination paper. Whats common in all these questions is Mahatma Gandhi. Questions like these and others related to Gandhijis life are being answered by various school and college students across the state for the past five years.
Five years ago, when Jalgaon-based Gandhi Research Foundation (GRF) launched Gandhi Vichar Sanskar Pariksha (GVSP), an examination on Gandhian ideologies, it was purely on a trial basis. For two years prior to the launch of GVSP, the GRF team visited each and every school and college in Jalgaon district to convince officials regarding the exam. In 2007, the exam was attempted by 3,876 students at various schools and colleges in Jalgaon. There was a common syllabus, just one book called Sankshipt Atmakatha, a small autobiography written by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The positive response inspired GRF to take the exam to two more districts Dhule and Nandurbar in 2008. Last year, 79,741 students from 961 schools and colleges across the state as well as Belgaum district in Karnataka wrote GVSP. In Pune, too, the numbers are impressive. While 857 students appeared for the exam in 2010, the figure reached 5,766 in 2012.
Some of the Pune schools in which the exam was conducted include Dr Kalmadi Shamrao High School, New English School, J N Petit High School, Sant Kriprin Home Kanya Shala, Raosaheb Patwardhan Vidyalaya and Jr College, Lady Tahenum Urdu High School, Mahatma Jotiba Phule Mulinchi Prshala, Chandmal T. Bora Mahavidyalaya, S S Hakim Ajmal Khan Urdu High School, Priyadarshani Madh Shala, Priyadarshani Madh Shala and Dr Vasantdada Patil Madh Vidyaniketan.
Sumedha Suresh Oak, principal, Modern High School, Shivajinagar, says such exams should be conducted in every school as the principles and ideologies of Mahatma Gandhi are important and helpful in inculcating good values in the new generation.
Uday Mahajan, co-ordinator, GRF, said the primary aim of GVSP was to create awareness on Gandhian principles and thoughts. The examination is conducted on the basis of the course material which is provided by GRF at subsidised rates to secondary schools, higher secondary schools and universities for studies. The course material, which differs for each class, includes books such as Bapu Mazi Aai, Mazi Jeevan Katha, Gandhi Katha, Gandhiginche Jeevan Tyanchyah Shbdat, Gandhi Ganga, Vidhayak Karyakram, Charitry Ani Rashtriya Nirman, Mazi Jeevan Katha, Arogyachi killi, Hind Swaraj, Maza Swapnancha Bharat, An Autobiography: The Story of my Experiments With Truth and so on. The exams for schools and colleges are conducted in October. The results are out in around 10 days, adds Mahajan.
The first three students from each class from each district are awarded medals. GRF also distributes certificates to students and the teacher-coordinator for their participation and support.
Special prizes (Trophy) are awarded to first three schools/colleges who enroll maximum number of students from the state. The examination fee is nominal and ranges from Rs 15-30, which includes the cost of the books too.
Interestingly, since 2011, the examination was conducted in several prisons too such as the district prisons of Jalgaon, Dhule, Wardha, Yawatmal, Akola and Buldhana and also at Ratnagiri Special Prison and Nashik Road Central Prison. Here, GVSP is conducted between November and January, informs Mahajan.
From next year, GRF is also planning to introduce online examination for GVSP.


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Lawmakers fighting for stricter cell phone laws
Under the current law-- you can only get pulled over for talking on the phone if you're doing something else illegal, for example speeding.
But state leaders are looking to make it a primary offense.
Last year, a bill passed making texting and driving a primary offense.
A recent survey found that more than 75% of the participants texted while driving. The focus group of the study will surprise you! Find out who the group taking the study was here .


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Scripps Health faces change, challenges
Uncertainty and unprecedented change.
Those are the terms chosen by Scripps Health Chief Executive Chris Van Gorder to describe today's medical industry.
The era has been brought on largely through the rising cost of health care, serving an aging population, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's 2010 overhaul of the health insurance industry.
How that law ends up affecting the industry will become more clear next year, when some of its major initiatives kick in. Hospitals will face many of the changes.
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At the same time, Scripps Health must continue to budget for unfunded mandates at a time when government reimbursements are being reduced. One in particular is a California law requiring hospital systems to make sure that all facilities can withstand an earthquake by 2030. The law has been repeatedly delayed, but Van Gorder said Scripps must evaluate its long-term plans each year.
In the meantime, he oversees a hospital system that with 13,500 workers is San Diego's second-largest nongovernment employer. The system has five hospitals on five campuses, and about 10 other clinics and facilities.
"I often describe our organization as a little bit like a city," Van Gorder said. "There's a job for everybody in health care. We have engineers, we have plumbers, we have carpenters, we have reporters, we have marketing experts, of course we have nurses and physical therapists, and we have gardeners."
Van Gorder talked with the U-T about the business climate in the health care industry and some of the hospital system's plans.
Affordable Care Act
Van Gorder said health care is the nation's No. 1 expense, with a large part of that being paid by Medicare and Medicaid. But the reimbursements to Scripps for those patients are going to shrink by $52 million over the next five years, Van Gorder said. That's going to make the health care system adjust how it operates, because it will have less money generated from hospitals in North County, which fund hospitals in South County, where fewer patients have insurance.
"It's often said that the only industry that's regulated more than health care is nuclear power, and I'm not convinced any longer that's the case," Van Gorder said. "After the ACA, I think we are the most heavily regulated industry there is now in the United States — a lot of requirements and mandates and costs."
Van Gorder said each time new regulations are added, the health care system hires more experts to interpret them. The ACA is no exception, he said.
Economic downturns
Van Gorder said that health care may be recession-resistant, but it's not recession proof. That's because not all health care is an emergency, and government reimbursements are declining. Elective procedures can be put on hold as costs are shifted to beneficiaries, employers and others in co-pays or deductibles.
Van Gorder said it's illegal to economically entice patients to come to Scripps, so it uses marketing and educational programs to relay messages about the quality of health care provided. Van Gorder said the system probably spends less money in marketing than other hospital systems, but it does communicate to educate the public about services offered.
"The community doesn't like hospitals competing against each other, and yet the law requires us to compete. We're subject to antitrust regulations just like any other business," Van Gorder said. "We compete fiercely at times, and we also collaborate fiercely at times. It's kind of an odd business in that way."
Van Gorder said Scripps will advertise to educate the public about a new proton beam radiation treatment center, scheduled to open in the fall.


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I'm trying to write a zimlet that reads contacts (in vcf form) from a local server and adds them to the Zimbra address book.
I read the documentation and didn't find it helpful in this respect.
Can you help me? Or does anybody know any existing Zimlets that do this or something similar?
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Draw the Circle
On 4/24 Walking with angels wrote: Why do I struggle so much with prayer? I feel guilty laying all my troubles on God, I mean he has wars and real problems to deal with not my woe me's. Drawing the circle by Mark Batterson is a book that I want to read through again and again. Its the daily reminder, the daily words of wisdom ... Drawing the circle - a challenge of prayer
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On 1/24 Walking with angels wrote: I dived into this book with trepidation as I'm not one to read romantic fiction, I often find them wishy washy and simply for me boring but as the blurb had me interested I decided to step outside my normal type. Yet this was so different, straight away I was caught up in the story. My heart was beating ... A Beautiful love story
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The Noah Baumbach Fanclub was likely pretty disheartened this year. "While We're Young" had casting rumors buzzing around it, but soon went quiet (to make matters worse, he states here that it likely won't go for awhile) and his pilot for Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" was ultimately not picked up by HBO.
But then something funny happened. Buried in the schedule for Telluride and TIFF was "Frances Ha," a brand-new feature from the "Greenberg" director, something shot on the sly with Greta Gerwig. Even better? The movie received mostly high marks and extremely positive praise. "Frances Ha" features Gerwig as the titular character, a 20-something Brooklynite with an unhealthy dependent relationship with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner). But when the dynamic duo split after Sophie acquires the Tribeca apartment of her dreams, Frances finds herself unmoored in the Big Apple -- her dance company apprenticeship seems to be leading nowhere, money is severely lacking, and she has little idea what direction to take in her life. We caught it in Colorado and remarked that it was "loose, limber and driven by a fierce energy," and not to mention "leagues more rich and emotionally layered than the average arrested development dilemma that seems to characterize 20/30-something comedies of late," an important note for those skeptic of the brief plot synopsis.
After a press screening this week at the New York Film Festival, Noah Baumbach and actors Greta Gerwig and Mickey Sumner took to the stage to talk more about their newest endeavor. We've compiled a greatest hits of the conversation, which you can check out below. "Frances Ha" has been picked up by IFC Films, but a release date has yet to be declared -- New Yorkers, on the other hand, can check out its three festival dates right here.
Aside from catching everyone off-guard with its under-the-radar production (more on that below), Baumbach's new film is also a much tinier thing compared to his higher-budgeted outings with stars, and the filmmaker describes working this way as having another "first film. "It was about finding a way to approach a movie in a new way. I felt that if I was gonna do something differently, not with a studio, I wanted to reinvent how I made movies a little bit. In some ways it was less about the budget and more about the philosophy of shooting," described the director.
He elaborated on his mindset, which he compares to a rather legendary musician. "It felt something like the record Paul McCartney made after The Beatles. It was done in his basement, but they were really big songs and at the same time very intimate, sometimes done with his wife. There's this tradition of pop records made that way. So I was thinking -- what's the movie version of that? What's something where, with a small group of people, you could make something in some ways homemade but in other ways like a great pop album." Thrilled with the outcome, he added, "I do feel that in this movie, out of all of them, the end product is the closest to the abstract vision in my head. That doesn't mean I think it's necessarily better, but it is what it is." And as for why "Frances Ha" was so on the downlow? "We didn't really do it any differently than the other ones, but I guess… nobody really asked," he laughed. "I would've told them in that case!"
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Continuing with his new work method and shaking things up even more, both Baumbach and Gerwig decided not to dole out the entire script to the cast, instead using the Woody Allen Way™ by only giving participants the pages that included them. Mickey Sumner exclaimed that she didn't know what was going on until she saw it projected on the silver screen. "But we shot mostly chronologically, so I didn't really need to know what was going to happen. To be honest it was refreshing, liberating not to have to freak out what we were going to shoot next week, it really allowed me to focus on the day." Baumbach agreed with her answer and reasoned, "As good as an actor is, how can they not think where a certain scene falls in the movie? Particularly one towards the end or near a turning point in the movie. In that case, everyone starts swinging for the fences suddenly. Maybe that's what you want the audience to feel, but you don't want the characters to feel that."


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2014 is expected to continue to be an important year for content marketing. Budgets and content production are increasing, strategies are becoming more targeted and effective and quality continues is a top concern.
Read this: 3 Secret Ingredient to Master the Short Form Content Marketing Sauce
Smart content marketers know one of the most important components of a strong marketing strategy is keeping up with the times. But this can be difficult when methods frequently change and research time is limited.
The goal of this post is to provide a source of reference to help marketers understand the current state of content marketing, learn about its future growth and leverage this knowledge in an effort to make better decisions.
The Best Content Marketing Resources
A simple Google search for "content marketing" or "content marketing resources" will return with a wealth of websites and articles. But how do you select the best and most reliable sources from this vast list?
- Content Marketing Institute: Also known as the king of all things content marketing. CMI provides how-to guidance, advice, blog articles and an active discussion community. (Tip: Click the link and scroll to the "If you are new to the site" section for great introductions on what CMI offers.) The bottom line: if you have a question about content marketing, CMI will answer it for you.
- eMarketer: As an industry-leading digital marketing research firm, eMarketer publishes three new articles a day. It aggregates data from thousands of global sources to answer questions about content marketing, consumer behavior, metrics, ad spending and more. It's respected and trusted by companies in every industry, making it the perfect reliable resource to learn about trends and topics of interest.
- KISSmetrics: If you're looking for a blog about analytics, marketing and testing, KISSmetric is your source. For example. the "44 Must Read Resources on Content Marketing" article presents numerous resources for content marketing ideas, beginners' information, tips and tricks, ROI, content sharing and tools. Blogs are published often and cover topics especially relevant to content marketers looking for general information.
- Marketo: Marketo is a marketing automation software firm with extensive blog articles and downloadable how-to guides for content marketing, inbound marketing, lead management, and more.
- Kapost: Kapost provides content marketing consultation services in addition to handy resources like The Complete Guide to Building Your Content Marketing Workflow.
The Next Step: Explore!
Again, the most important thing to remember when formulating content marketing strategy is that things change, and they change often. Marketers should be sure to make a habit of checking industry news daily. The resources above are a great start, but don't stop there. Keep exploring!
What are your favorite content marketing resources? Let us know in the comments below!


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May 27, 2016
Giant waves crashed onto the shores of Sri Lanka, destroyed entire villages and killed thousands of people. But wildlife officials say they have not found any carcasses. Animals escaped to higher ground.
The Yala National Park is on the southeast coast, and it's home to hundreds of animals, including elephants.
Dr. Patricia O'Hardley worked as an associate professor of veterinary medicine at Michigan State University. She says elephants are able to sense sound waves. And while experts believe animals do have a heightened sense for danger, it is not proven.
Other countries hit by the Tsunami have reported dead domestic animals found.
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Zombie Survival Challenge
Learn How to Survive a Zombie Attack in Lower Haight This Week
By Kristin Smith on July 05, 2011 10:57 AM
Let's face it, we live in a dangerous city. We have to contend with earthquakes, possible tsunamis, and those freaky liquifaction zones. Through the NERT program, the San Francisco Fire Department is doing a great job training us on what to do when disaster strikes. But there's one thing they haven't prepared us for: Zombies.
Fear not, citizens of San Francisco, help is on the way. This Thursday, you can learn disaster survival skills (like building an emergency kit and finding safe drinking water), but you'll also learn how to stab the undead through the heart. Did I mention it's a game, with prizes, and there's a party afterwards?


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Robinson Crusoe and his friend Friday are back in their greatest adventure yet in Robinson Crusoe and the Cursed Pirates. After escaping the inhabited island, Robinson Crusoe sets sail for Brazil. Four weeks later, however, he and Friday encounter an uncharted land mass in the middle of the ocean.
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Justice Antonin Scalia will have to pay up after losing a bet to Obama administration adviser Zeke Emanuel on whether health care reform would pass.
The two made a wager on the matter at a Massachusetts fundraiser in January, just after the election of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.).
Emanuel, an OMB official and the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, wrote in an e-mail to administration officials: "Health care reform will get me the enjoyment of having Justice Scalia take me out to the restaurant of my choice and have to pay -- leading option is Komi."
Via Mike Allen's Politico Playbook comes Emanuel's e-mail on his bet with the Supreme Court justice:
On Jan. 22 -- just 3 days after the Massachusetts disaster -- we were at a fundraiser for Amherst College and we bet a dinner whether health care reform would pass. (Truth be told, initially he was reluctant to bet dinner, $5 was his limit, but after I caught him in a contradiction he agreed to dinner.) I guess that demonstrates either my stupidity or the firmness of my conviction and faith in the team. So health care reform will get me the enjoyment of having Justice Scalia take me out to the restaurant of my choice and have to pay -- leading option is Komi. And I will be sure the meal violates every single recommendation for a healthy diet except excellent red wine!!! Thank you all for making my dinner possible!!!
If the pair choose the northwest Washington culinary mecca, Komi, Scalia will have to fork over more than $100 per person for the restaurant's multi-course tasting menu.