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When I arrive on CBS Corp.'s televsion City lot in Los Angeles, I already start to feel the excitement of the entertainment industry. And, shall I admit it? I'm a little wide-eyed and star-stuck that I get to spend a day immersed in the entertainment industry. From the outside, this industry seems so glamorous. But I have a feeling a lot goes on behind the scenes -- with HR as a major player -- and that it only looks that way.
Susan Kayl, director of human resources for CBS in Los Angeles, has given me great directions. However, when I arrive, I still go to the wrong door. The receptionist tells me to go back to the artists' entrance -- the first door I passed -- where I'll find the HR office. I fancy myself a huge TV star as I walk through the double doors and sign in at the security desk. But the feeling quickly fades as I stroll down the hall, where posters of the many CBS television shows, past and present, grace the walls. Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy, Whoopi Goldberg of Hollywood Squares, and Bob Barker of The Price Is Right -- I begin to get the feeling of TV nostalgia blended with a sense of modern show biz.
I take a left, and Henry Nigos at the HR reception desk greets me with a warm smile and lets Kayl know I've arrived. As I wait a few moments, I catch a glimpse of the Martha Stewart Living show on TV in the lounge area. "Of course," I think to myself. "This is one workplace where TV-watching isn't only allowed, it's encouraged."
9:12 a.m.
Susan Kayl greets me with a smile and a handshake. She ushers me into her office and we go over the day's schedule. We have time for only a couple of questions before going to our first meeting of the day.
I find out that the CBS headquarters are in New York City and this Los Angeles office is the other of its two main sites; but its affiliate television and radio stations are located throughout the United States. The company employs approximately 13,000 people.
Kayl is second in command of human resources for CBS on the West Coast, and reports to Lynn Heymont, vice president of HR, West Coast. In total, there are nine in the department providing HR services to approximately 2,600 employees.
"Lynn, who came from Sony Pictures Entertainment [also in Los Angeles] brought me in last year to assist her in reinventing the HR function here," explains Kayl.
The HR West Coast department was not unlike other traditional HR departments -- more transactional in function rather than operating as a strategic business partner to the organization. Kayl, a generalist whose background is in organization development, training, and change management, took this opportunity because she liked the idea of helping to create an HR department for the 21st century.
Kayl manages the recruitment function and is also involved in organizational redesign, employee relations, and compensation with Heymont. Since she's been at CBS, she's been working hard to show the hiring managers that HR can and will help them with their staffing needs. Previously, most hiring managers were "doing their own thing," says Kayl.
Now, to her credit, they're increasingly turning to her for help with staffing. Kayl and her team have streamlined the process down to a science with a total proactive recruitment strategy, utilizing the Internet and community outreach network resources.
9:35 a.m.
We're off to a scheduling meeting upstairs. We walk through some long corridors to an elevator and ride up to the top level (about three floors). Kayl explains to me that since she started with CBS a year ago, she's been going to this meeting every Tuesday -- a move that's helped her build credibility for her department and her own standing within the company as a can-do manager.
This is Charles Cappleman's meeting. Cappleman ("Cappy") is the senior vice president of operations for CBS Television City. After people grab coffee and bagels, the meeting gets started.
Represented at the meeting are execs from programming production, technical operations, client relations, facilities, stage operations, and financial planning. They begin by discussing show schedules and how that affects facilities and operations. For example, The Young and the Restless is making up some scenes for the week, which they missed last week, and The Price Is Right crew is off for the week.
They discuss the set and lighting and shooting schedule for the $64,000 Question show and how they'll have to double-check whether the New York City headquarters has arranged for a different 800-number to be listed for the show in each time zone, since viewers will be able to call in during portions of the broadcast. The MIS manager talks about remodeling one space and wonders if it will affect anyone. David Strouse, the director of financial planning, talks about financials. Last up is Kayl.
"The remodeling [of the office space] in HR is done," she says. "It looks great! It's bright and modern, and there's a much better utilization of space. It's a great place for applicants now to come."
She goes on to talk about the upcoming blood drive and discusses a sexual harassment video that everyone in the company will be viewing. At 11:05 a.m., the operations meeting ends and we head downstairs.
11:10 a.m.
Back at her office, Kayl begins returning phone calls. The first call concerns a candidate search. "I just wanted to let you know that we're on it. We have three excellent candidates to present to you," she says to the person.
After the first call, Kayl returns a call from HR's affirmative-action plan outsource vendor. She explains that they review their plan yearly, and set goals that are in alignment with the organization's diversity initiatives. She places another call about an employee who's been let go from the company, and the final one is to someone about a sexual harassment video that they're planning to show to the entire workforce. Shortly, the calls are finished, and we head to Cappy's office upstairs.
11:30 a.m.
Cappy has consented to give us a tour of the facility. We meet in his office, which overlooks the very busy Beverly Boulevard. He begins by telling us about the new high-definition television. Many CBS shows are now being filmed and broadcast with this new technology. He also shows us a video that chronicles the history of the CBS studios, and the many shows and stars that have been filmed there over the years and at the present time. Next, he takes us on a tour, for a rare glimpse of the backstage production facilities. We visit several studios. At one studio, sure enough, the red light is on outside. Cappy turns to us, making the shhhhh gesture with his hand, and we enter the studio on tiptoe. They're filming a scene for an upcoming The Young and the Restless. Kayl later explains that her office doesn't staff talent for the TV shows or productions. They fill only staff positions.
I ask Cappy how long he's been with CBS. "Forty-seven years," he says proudly. "And this wasn't even my first job." Kayl says there are many CBS workers who've been here for many years. It's a great mix of new faces and long-term employees. Thre is a group called "FROGS," an active organization of retired CBSers who sometimes hold luncheons on-site at CBS.
Our last stop on the tour is to see one of the stages built when the facility was first erected. Cappy tells a story about how one of his first jobs as stage manager for CBS in 1952 was to ensure that Judy Garland was on stage on time for a live performance. It was nerve-racking for him, because she took her cue just before the curtain opened and the show went live. It was a great work story. I get all starry-eyed again.
I come back to reality as Kayl and I hop in her car and drive to Rosti, a nearby Tuscan restaurant. At lunch, we have a lot to talk about. She has a 28-mile commute by car (one way). She usually gets up at 4:45 a.m. with her husband, and works out before coming to work, usually arriving by 8:15 a.m. After hearing about her background, I ask Kayl what her biggest challenges in HR are right now.
"We've had a big push on recruitment since last November," she says.
When I ask why, she responds that CBS is committed to having a workforce that reflects the racial and ethnic mix of the diverse Los Angeles community. So they're pushing information about job openings and career opportunities at CBS out to community outreach organizations and local colleges and universities, in addition to attending local job fairs.
She also talks about the merger of CBS and Viacom. Viacom acquired CBS on May 4 -- a turnaround of sorts because CBS owned Viacom and now the shoe is on the other foot, you might say. "We are excited about the merger and the opportunities it will bring in the future," says Kayl. The acquisition is the largest media merger to date.
"Once the actual sale happens, the real work is going to be the transition piece of it," says Kayl. Before joining CBS, Kayl was with Blue Shield of California and had been the head of HR when the firm went through a merger. That experience will help her during the upcoming transition of CBS and Viacom.
2:30 p.m.
After lunch, Kayl heads into the HR conference room for an update meeting with five HR staff members who are involved in recruitment. "The goal is to have our HR team have a wide range of generalist skills," says Kayl. The CBS HR department was composed of human resource specialists -- and there was little crossover of skill sets. Next, Norah Eshelman, HR assistant, discusses checking references for some candidates for such positions as guest relations and technical operations. Each person updates the group on interviewees and job-placement status.
At one point, Lyn Sereno, an HR administrator, gives thanks to another HR administrator, a pat on the back and a little cheer for a new hire that just took place. The group discusses the job fairs they'll be attending through the month of May and the summer internship program. Kayl suggests that the director of placement, Carol Wallock, and she get together to talk about the summer internship program and the job fairs that the recruitment team will attend through the end of the year.
3:22 p.m.
Kayl returns to her office in order to make more phone calls.
3:40 p.m.
Kayl meets with Wallock in Kayl's office.
"The job fairs are a major push," says Kayl. "We see it as a vehicle, not only for diversity initiatives, but really where the talent is." She explains that there used to be a time when people were fighting to get into CBS. They came in droves and were turned away.
"It's a very different world now," she says. "We've got competition with the other networks and the other studios that have networks. We also have to compete with the dot-coms giving out huge stock options."
Kayl explains that years ago, CBS had rolled out two stock option programs, Fund the Future and Share the Vision. They've had to become flexible and creative with job offers for some categories that are difficult to fill, such as IT and finance. Kayl and Wallock further discuss their recruitment strategy.
4:20 p.m.
Kayl spends the rest of the day making phone calls, and doing e-mail and paperwork. She heads out the door at 5:56 p.m.
Organization: CBS Television Studios
Responsibility: Recruitment, employee relations, compensation, and organizational redesign for the West Coast site
Headquarters: New York City, with a site in Los Angeles (Television City), as well as affiliates all over the United States
Employees: Approximately 13,000 total, with 2,600 on the West Coast site
HR Staff: There are nine people on the HR staff at Television City
HR Challenges:
You should know: No celebrities have to pass a screen test with HR. Human resources is not the casting office, and it fills the studio's staff positions. Many CBS staffmembers have had a long history with the studio, and hold luncheons onsite at the studio.


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Forced by Katrina's mounting flood waters, a long-married New Orleans couple takes refuge in the attic of their home in John Biguent's "Rising Water."
Forced by Katrina's mounting flood waters, a long-married New Orleans couple takes refuge in the attic of their home in John Biguent's "Rising Water." In its Garden State premiere, the well-structured two-hander recalls incidents in the weathered lives of desperate survivors, and, although many questions remain unanswered, the piece offers an appealing and often compelling grasp of storytelling.In an attic crowded with memories, Sug (Jim Ligon) assures his wife Camille (Beverly Sheehan) there's "no way a storm could breach a levee." Meanwhile, the discovery of a marriage gown causes them to remember a rainy wedding day, and old Mardi Gras costumes remind them of a drunken holiday celebration. Sug tells a chilling ghost story in which the images of a sea captain's deceased wife and daughter rise from the ocean floor, and another in which a father and son are trapped in a mosquito-infested swamp. But, as intriguing as these old tales are, they distract from the threatening matters at hand. There are brief references to a deceased daughter, an estranged son and an abusive long-ago incident in their marriage, all of which are never fully explained. As the waters begin to splash into the attic, Sug dismantles a vent in the rooftop which Camille manages to squeeze through. It appears, however, that the opening may be too tight to accommodate Sug's beefy frame. Performances by Sheehan and Ligon are executed with spunk and clarity. Sheehan gives a subtle account of a mate who has harbored a few regrets through the years, while Ligon is blustery and garrulous. Playwrights Theater a.d. John Pietrowski's staging offers some well-paced suspense, instilling a foreboding atmosphere with the rising of the moon and the ominous sound of silence. Making keen use of the theater's confined playing space, Drew Francis' set design displays the shingled roof of a modest clapboard home that revolves to reveal a cluttered attic interior.
Rising Water
Playwrights Theater, Madison, N.J.; 115 seats; $30 top
A Playwrights Theater presentation of a play in one act by John Biguenet. Directed by John Pietrowski.
Set, Drew Francis; costumes, Holly Budd; lighting, John Wade, Cory Ryan Frank; sound, Jeff Knapp; production stage manager, Danielle Constance. Opened Oct. 10, 2008. Reviewed Oct. 11. Runs through Oct. 26. Running time 1 HOUR, 30 MIN.
Camille - Beverly Sheehan Sug - Jim Ligon

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From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-17 07:51:48
On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> With the libc0.1 fix (and another small patch for Debian which I'll
> send soon)
> both the kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 packages build fine.
> However, on my systems, both i386 and amd64 still segfault. I'm using
> the openmpi Debian packages, version 1.2.3-3.
> I'll try the stock tarballs soon, and/or wait for 1.2.4 to see if the
> bug is already fixed there...
FWIW, if you've got the cycles, try a 1.2 branch nightly tarball
(i.e., they're what will eventually become 1.2.4):
That way, if there's still a problem, we potentially still have [a
little] time to fix it before 1.2.4.
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems


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Title: "Gulf Crisis: Chronology for June, July 1991." Chronological listing of key facts and events in the Persian Gulf crisis from June 5 to August 2. (910802)
Translated Title: Crisis del Golfo: Chronologia de Junio y Julio de 1991. (910802)
Date: 19910802
(The following is an update of the chronology of key facts and events in the Persian Gulf crisis.)
June 5
-- Iraq has systematically diverted substantial quantities of World Food Program (WFP) food shipments into the Ministry of Trade's regular food ration system, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater says in a special White House statement. "This is another cynical example of Saddam's disregard for vulnerable groups of women and children in favor of actions designed to buttress his regime's standing," Fitzwater says. The WFP limits distribution of stocks in the country until the problem is adequately solved.
June 7
-- The first group of weapons experts to oversee the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons is scheduled to arrive in Baghdad June 9, the U.N. announces.
The U. N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) overseeing Iraq's disarmament estimates that Iraq has about 600 tons of chemical weapons, and says it has "indication from some governments that there are more chemical weapons than Iraq has disclosed." UNSCOM inspections will seek to determine whether Iraq has any biological weapons-related items that should be destroyed.
June 8
-- The government of Kuwaiti announces that martial law will end on June 25. Kuwait's minister of Justice says that all court cases will be considered by the regular court system after June 25.
-- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) assumes responsibility for the management of the Operation Provide Comfort, the allied program to assist Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq. UNHCR will also coordinate the role of the non-governmental and private
GE 2 POL504 voluntary organizations providing food distribution, water, health care, shelter and social services to Iraqi refugees and displaced persons.
June 10
-- U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait Edward Gnehm applauds Kuwait's "incredible achievements" in rebuilding since its liberation from Iraqi occupation. Gnehm also calls on Kuwaitis to "champion justice and firmness for all people living in Kuwait in the same way the entire world stood for those principles for Kuwaitis."
June 11
-- Iraq's compliance with U.N Security Council resolution 687 ending the war has been "far less than even adequate, satisfactory compliance," consequently, trade sanctions against Baghdad are likely to remain in place, says U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Alexander Watson, following a two-hour U.N. Security Council review meeting. UNSEC resolution 687 establishes a timetable for Iraq to meet each requirement, and calls for the first review of Baghdad's compliance in 60 days. The resolution calls for a gradual lifting of the economic embargo as Iraq complies.
June 12
-- U.N. Secretary General Perez de Cuellar chairs a pledging conference in Geneva to raise funds for the Iraq/Kuwait, Iraq/Turkey and Iraq/Iran border programs. The United Nations says that its emergency aid programs for Iraq, Kuwait, Iran and Turkey are more than 240 million dollars in debt and seriously in need of funds for food and to support the U.N. guards in Kurdish cities.
June 13
-- U.S. Ambassador Alexander Watson tells the U.N. Security Council that 50 percent of Iraq's oil revenues should be set aside to pay compensation for gulf war damages. Watson says that the U.S. feels Perez de Cuellar's recommendation of 30 percent is "a little too low." U.N mandatory sanctions against Iraqi oil are still in place, however, and no Iraqi oil sales are expected in the near future.
June 14
-- U.N. Assistant Secretary General Richard Foran says Kuwait will be receiving the first major shipment of its property looted by Iraq in about two weeks: 3,216 gold bricks, in a transfer in Arar, Saudi Arabia, 60 km. south of the Iraqi border and 400 km west of Kuwait. Foran says there is no evidence so far that any of the Kuwait Museum pieces are now on the international art market.
June 17
-- The United States will continue vigorously to encourage the United Nations to implement the provisions of U.N. Security Council Resolution 687, which calls for a continuing embargo on military equipment to Iraq, and international supervision of the destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles with ranges over 150 kilometers, Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly tells the U.S. Congress.
-- It is important that the IAEA and UNSCOM inspection teams use "to maximum effect" their authority to carry out "short-notice, suspect-site inspections" to assure the elimination of Iraq's nuclear capability, says State Department Deputy Spokesman Richard Boucher. Ambassador Rolf Ekeus of Sweden is executive chairman of UNSCOM and Dr. Robert L. Gallucci of the U.S. is deputy executive chairman. Disarmament experts from 19 other nations serve on the commission.
-- U.N. officials confirm that about 10 officials and weapons experts from the IAEA and UNSCOM are scheduled to return to Iraq to investigate reports of additional nuclear weapons-grade uranium sites.
The group seeks to investigate assertions by an Iraqi scientist who defected to U.S. troops in northern Iraq that the Iraqi regime has been trying to manufacture weapons-grade uranium for use in nuclear weapons and has four secret installations that survived allied bombing during the war.
-- The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts U.N. resolution 699 which approves the Secretary General's plan for the IAEA and the UNSCOM to carry out the destruction of Iraq's weapons.
-- The U.N. Security Council in a separate action, also adopts resolution 700 reaffirming the arms embargo against Iraq. The embargo covers all forms of conventional weapons and military equipment; chemical and biological weapons and their components; all ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometers, and nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons usable material or components. The council asks all countries to monitor arms shipments and impose penalties for violations.
June 20
-- State Department Deputy Spokesman Richard Boucher reiterates U.S. concerns about the need for due process in the continuing series of martial law court trials in Kuwait. "We're consistently stressed to the government of Kuwait...the importance of respect for human rights and principles of due process and we have continued to do that during the course of the current trials," Boucher says.
June 21
-- The U.S. Treasury Department adds seven persons to its list identifying front companies as agents of Iraq, as a part of an ongoing Treasury investigation to uncover and neutralize Iraq's worldwide procurement and financial network. They are: Ali Hassan Al-Majid, Saddam's paternal first cousin and Iraq's Minister of the Interior; Hussein Kanel Al-Majid, Saddam's son-in-law who heads Iraq's Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization; Barzan Ibrahim Hassan Al-Takriti, Saddam's half-brother who acts as Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations in Geneva; Sabawi Ibrahim Al-Takriti, Saddam's half-brother and Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service; Watban Al- Takriti, Saddam's half-brother who serves as an official in Iraq's Presidential Palace; Udai Saddam Hussein, Saddam's eldest son; and Latif Nusayyif Jaasim, a member of the Revolutionary Command Council and former Minister of Culture and Information of the Government of Iraq.
-- A majority of the Security Council's 15 members agree that the trade sanctions against Iraq will not be lifted, but keeping Iraqi trade sanctions in place was not meant to hurt Iraqi civilians, says U.S. Ambassador Alexander Watson.
"Conditions in Iraq may be difficult for a whole lot of reasons...which have to do with the behavior of the Iraqi government," Watson says.
June 24
-- The United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) team sent to Iraq to destroy chemical weapons, issues a statement on the results of its first inspection in Iraq at the Muthanna State Establishment. They report that Iraqi representatives told the team that the site has been used for the production of the herbicides Propanil and Dalapon and for research on the nerve agents Soman and VX, but that no large-scale production of the nerve agents has been undertaken. The report concludes that the visit was "only an initial exploratory inspection" and that it was not possible to come to any conclusion as to the veracity of
GE 5 POL504 the overall Iraqi declaration concerning the Muthanna State Establishment.
June 25
-- The Kuwaiti government announces the end of martial law.
June 26
-- The United States accuses Iraq of deliberately deceiving the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about its nuclear weapons program, and denounces Baghdad for blocking a surprise inspection of a military site suspected of containing nuclear materials. The United States "is deeply concerned by the Iraqi regime's flouting of its obligations under U.N. Security Council Resolution 687," says State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler in a special statement.
-- Iraq has denied necessary access by the United Nations special commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq to verify and account for Iraq's nuclear material and weapons of mass destruction, Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly tells Congress. Iraqis prevented access to sites "where suspicious activity was underway," Kelly says. " We're not going to have to take no for an answer....We are very determined to see these resolutions carried out in their entirety. We are going to urge that the U.N. take strong action against Iraq because this kind of violation of the Security Council resolutions ...is unacceptable."
-- The U.N. Security Council holds formal and informal sessions "to express deep dismay at Iraq's attempt to conceal the extent of its nuclear weapons related program." The Council instructs its current president, the representative of the Ivory Coast, Jean-Jacques Bechio, to meet with Iraq's permanent representative to demand "new written assurances that Iraq will comply with resolution 687." The Council president is instructed to indicate that the Security Council insists that Iraq make available immediately to the Special Committee that equipment which was removed from the site in Iraq.
June 27
-- Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Mack summons the head of Iraq's interests section in Washington to the State Department to warn that Baghdad must strictly adhere to provisions of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 regarding inspections of its nuclear facilities.
June 28
-- The United States says warning shots were fired June 28 at inspection teams as Iraqi authorities prevented a surprise inspection of a military facility for the second time in a week. Denouncing Iraq's "total disregard" for a United Nations resolution 687 requiring unimpeded access to suspected nuclear sites, State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler, characterizes Iraq's behavior as "an unambiguous and flagrant breach of U.N. Security Council resolution 687."
-- President Bush in a statement from Kennebunkport, Maine asserts that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein must comply with United Nations resolutions. "I want to see full implementation of those U.N. resolutions -- and so does everybody else," the president says.
-- The U.N. Security Council decides to send a special mission to Baghdad to discuss with Iraqi authorities the latest clash between the Iraqi military and a U.N. team trying to inspect uranium enrichment material believed moved to a second Iraqi facility. According to Rolf Ekeus, the Swedish diplomat who heads a special U.N. commission, the team was once again denied entry to the Al Falluja facility early in the morning of June 28. The event marks the second time within a week that Iraq has violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 687.
June 30
-- A U.N. mission including Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, executive chairman of UNSCOM; Hans Blix, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency; and Yasushi Akashi U.N. undersecretary general for information leaves for Iraq.
July 5
-- The U.S. plans extensive diplomatic consultations on Iraq's continued defiance concerning international nuclear inspections, says White House deputy press secretary Roman Popadiuk.
July 9
-- The United States demands full disclosure of Iraqi nuclear activities and immediate access to Iraqi facilities by United Nations inspectors. State Department spokesman
GE 7 POL504 Margaret Tutwiler says the government of Iraq, in a 29-page letter addressed to U.N. Secretary General Perez de Cuellar, acknowledges that Iraq hid equipment from the U.N./IAEA for certain 'national security reasons' but it maintains that its program is for peaceful purposes only. Statements Iraq makes about the extent of its capabilities do not comport with U.S. scientific data about Iraq's program, says Tutwiler. "We find that totally unacceptable," she says, pointing out that Iraq accepted Security council resolution 687 and agreed to implement it in full.
-- Defense Department spokesman Pete Williams says of the nearly half million refugees who fled at the height of the crisis, "only about 9,500 remain in the U.N. camp at Zakhu." He says the U.S. military's humanitarian mission in northern Iraq "has been pretty well completed."
-- The five permanent United Nations Security Council representatives meeting in Paris on arms transfers and non- proliferation, call for a weapons-of-mass-destruction-free- zone in the Middle East. The United States, the United Kingdom, China, France and the Soviet Union say the Middle East is a primary area of tension, and agree to meet in September to develop consultation and information exchanges concerning arms transfers to the region.
July 11
-- The government of Iraq is "fully liable" under both existing international law and U.N. Security Council Resolution 687 for "wanton" environmental damage caused during its occupation of Kuwait, U.S. State Department legal adviser Michael J. Matheson tells the Congress.
July 12
-- Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams says allied forces departing from northern Iraq have warned Baghdad against breaching the peace again in the region. Williams says that Iraqi officials have been informed of specific coalition demands: Iraqi aircraft are not to fly north of the 36th parallel, and the Iraqi army, special policy and military border guards must remain outside the security zone.
-- The five permanent members of the Security council warn Iraq to give a full accounting of all its nuclear weapons material in the next two weeks or face serious consequences. Western diplomats will not revel details of the private meeting between the five ambassadors and Iraqi Ambassador Abul Amir Al-Anbari. The five give Baghdad until
GE 8 POL504 July 25 to cooperate fully with the U.N. teams in the country.
-- Kurdish rebel leader Jalal Talabani meets with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and says their talk has cleared some obstacles to a Kurdish autonomy agreement. But Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, says outstanding issues still remain with Iraq, including the size of the future autonomous Kurdish area, and provisions in a multiparty law allowing Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party alone to campaign within armed forces and security zones.
July 15
-- The basic humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people can be met within the existing U.N. Security Council sanctions, says State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, but he said the U.S. thinks that any mechanism developed to provide essential supplies to the Iraqi people "must include strict control and close monitoring." Boucher says since March 22, shipments of over 1.1 million tons of food (for Iraq) have been reported amounting to one ton for every 18 Iraqis. The U.S. is "closely consulting with members of the Security Council and our coalition partners."
-- The U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) reports that it has found another large multi-billion dollar uranium enrichment plant which Baghdad omitted from its declarations to the U.N. Security Council. They report that there are still discrepancies between what Iraq has declared and what the experts are finding as they inspect facilities around the country. The team says the type of facilities seen so far are not practical for peaceful atomic energy uses.
-- UNSCOM confirms reports that it received documents from Iraq filed July 18 admitting that Baghdad also has been building a "super gun." Iraq had denied having such a gun as recently as May. The commission is trying to determine if the weapon was intended for chemical, biological or nuclear use, say diplomats speaking on background.
July 18
-- Assistant Secretary of State John Bolton, testifying to the Congress on a proposal to unfreeze Iraqi assets and turn them over to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), says the U.S. is sympathetic to the needs of the Iraqi people and the intentions of the proposal, but says "the first initiative must come from Baghdad. They have shown no such humanitarian indications."
-- U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering, sharply denouncing Iraq's violations of the cease-fire agreement that ended the war, tells the Congress that any provision of aid to Iraqi citizens must be strictly controlled and supervised by the international community.
July 19
-- UNSCOM says "much work needs to be done" to establish the full extent of Baghdad's program, and a third of nuclear experts and IAEA officials is now viewing sites and collecting data in Iraq.
-- United Nations guards on duty in northern Iraq report clashes between Kurds and Iraqi forces. Preliminary information received by the office of Executive Delegate Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan in Geneva indicate casualties between 50 and 500; the number of wounded is undetermined.
July 23
-- The governing council of the U.N. Compensation Commission, composed of representatives of the current 15 members of the U.N Security Council, holds its first session in Geneva to establish guidelines for the presenting and evaluating claims resulting from Iraq's occupation of Kuwait.
July 24
-- Fausto Pocar, human rights expert from Italy, and chairman of the U.N. Human Rights Committee meeting in Geneva, criticizes Iraq for "unsatisfactory" answers to questions about its compliance with international human rights standards says that the committee "had not been satisfied at all" with Iraq's answers to questions about its actions surrounding the invasion of Kuwait. In some cases the answers had been "nonexistent," he said.
July 25
-- The deadline set by the five permanent members of the Security Council for Iraq's full disclosure of its nuclear program passes quietly with diplomats still dissatisfied with Baghdad's response.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), declaring that Iraq not only did not disclose the full extent of its
* PAGE 10 PAGE 10 POL504 nuclear program as required by the council's cease-fire resolution, but also committed material breaches of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, plans a fourth inspection of Iraq's facilities. British Ambassador Hannay, noting "We are all considering very carefully where to go from here and that is a matter of concern for the council in days ahead," says "One way or another, Iraq's nuclear program is going to be removed."
Defense Department spokesman Pete Williams, says while "talk of military action was never linked specifically to the July 25 deadline...we continue to be prepared to undertake military action if we get that order."
July 26
-- President Bush notifies the Congress that he has extended executive orders August 2 and 9, 1990 declaring a complete embargo on trade with Iraq.
The president says the Iraqi regime "has continued to violate basic human rights by repressing the Iraqi civilian population and depriving it of humanitarian assistance, and by failing to comply fully with binding United Nations Security Council resolutions. The United States will continue to apply economic sanctions to deter Iraq from threatening the peace and stability of the region."
July 30
-- U.N. officials confirm that Kuwait will begin receiving the gold, banknotes and currency stolen by Iraq during the occupation on August 5.
The transfer of 3,216 gold bars will be supervised by the United Nations in the town of Ar'ar, Saudi Arabia, 60 kilometers south of the Iraqi border and 400 kilometers west of Kuwait. Hans Glittenberg, administration chief of the U.N.'s Vienna office, will oversee the transfer; two gold experts from the National Bank of Austria will take part.
-- UNSCOM inspectors say Iraq has 46,000 chemical weapons in its arsenal -- four times the number originally declared. Baghdad originally claimed in its report to the U.N Security council that it had about 11,100 agent filled munitions weapons and 1,000 tons of bulk agent and bulk precursor materials.
"Members of the council were struck by the new figures on chemical weapons which were given to them for the first
* PAGE 11 PAGE 11 POL504 time and the size of the stockpile," U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering says.
Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, UNSCOM chairman, says that investigators were surprised at the "size and the magnitude of the chemical weapons and the facilities" they found during their first inspection visit to a 25-square-mile site near Samarra in mid-June. As a result of the disclosures, Ekeus says, the special commission will be carrying out "a large and complex inspection program" with "five inspections in a row."
One team of 70 chemical weapons experts is scheduled to go to Iraq in September for six to eight weeks. Two other missions to different sites are also being scheduled for August.
-- Hans Blix, IAEA director general, reporting to the Security Council on the results of the third inspection of Iraq's nuclear facilities, an upcoming visit to look for biological weapons sites, and plans to monitor Iraq's long-range compliance with the cease-fire requirement, says that the full extent of Iraq's nuclear capability is unknown and the IAEA does not yet have an inventory of all nuclear material in the country.
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I have stumbled across a rather simple OCaml problem, but I can't seem to find an elegant solution. I'm working with functors that are applied to relatively simple modules (they usually define a type and a few functions on that type) and extend those simple modules by adding additional more complex functions, types and modules. A simplified version would be:
module type SIMPLE = sig
type t
val to_string : t -> string
val of_string : string -> t
module Complex = functor (S:SIMPLE) -> struct
include S
let write db id t = db # write id (S.to_string t)
let read db id = db # read id |> BatOption.map S.of_string
There is no need to give the simple module a name because all its functionality is present in the extended module, and the functions in the simple module are generated by camlp4 based on the type. The idiomatic use of these functors is:
module Int = Complex(struct
type t = int
The problem appears when I'm working with records:
module Point2D = Complex(struct
type t = { x : int ; y : int }
let (Some location) = Point2D.read db "location"
There seems to be no simple way of accessing the
x and
y fields defined above from outside the
Point2D module, such as
location.x or
location.Point2D.x. How can I achieve this?
EDIT: as requested, here's a complete minimal example that displays the issue:
module type TYPE = sig
type t
val default : t
module Make = functor(Arg : TYPE) -> struct
include Arg
let get = function None -> default | Some x -> (x : t)
module Made = Make(struct
type t = {a : int}
let default = { a = 0 } (* <-- Generated by camlp4 based on type t above *)
let _ = (Made.get None).a (* <-- ERROR *)


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Breast Cancer Claims Sesame Street Startoddler-times
Sesame Street's Gordon has lost his little sister to a battle with breast cancer. Alaina Reed Hall died last week at sixty-three.
Unless you've been watching the older Sesame Streets with your kids, they probably don't remember Olivia, who showed up in 1976 as Roscoe Orman's character's little sister.
But Hall was the one who taught many parents how to count and recite the ABCs. She was one of the faces that enhanced the rich multiculturalism Sesame Street has always stood for – even when people of color were few and far between in major television programming.
She was on air until 1988 before moving on to other acting gigs. Her battle with breast cancer was a public one, with her participation this year in Breast Cancer Examined: An African-American Perspective. The official cause of death has reportedly not yet been confirmed.
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How about a little Southern comfort to warm you up on this chilly January day. The kind folks at Bravo have blessed us with the announcement of an all-new reality series, Southern Charm, revolving around the exclusive world of the upper-class in Charleston, South Carolina, and by the looks of the trailer, theres lots of scandal and intrigue in store!
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The cable network describes the series as, such: "Southern bachelors who suffer from Peter Pan Syndrome' by refusing to settle down; and the women in their lives who challenge them to grow up." Ha! Sounds like every reality star man weve ever encountered. Though were excited to see these ladies try to reign in their fellas.
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Thank you for your reply Richard, perhaps his fans are over enthusiastic in relation to Lewis, nothing to get under your skin as such I would have thought. I have yet to see anyone who regards him as the second coming in F1 though. Nevertheless this is your opinion which you are rightly able and should express and as you rightly say he is not perfect however neither is anyone in this world. There is always a flaw in every human being in all walks of life no matter what they do. As always Richard, cheers mate and thank you for your exchange of views.


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Earned four varsity letters…appeared in 128 games, second-most in school history…totaled 376 points, 233 rebounds, 61 assists, 47 steals and 27 blocks…scored in double figures seven times.
SENIOR (2013-14): Appeared in all 34 games…averaged 1.9 ppg, 0.9 rpg in 8.6 mpg…tallied 13 assists, seven steals and one block…went perfect 5-for-5 at free throw line…scored five points against West Virginia in Rainbow Wahine Classic in Honolulu…scored six points and dished out two assists at BYU…hit a three and grabbed two boards in win at No. 10/10 Nebraska…scored six points in win over Cal State Northridge and six points at Dayton…had four points and three rebounds against UC Riverside…scored seven points in win over Washington…grabbed four rebounds and dished out three assists in win at Washington…scored season-high eight points against No. 23/22 California…notched four points and two assists in home win over Oregon on senior night…grabbed a rebound at Montana in opening round of WNIT.
JUNIOR (2012-13): Appeared in 30 games, made 16 starts…averaged 2.2 ppg and 1.5 rpg…totaled 13 assists, 10 steals and nine blocks…started the first 16 games of the season…scored eight points in season-opener at Minnesota…had seven points and three rebounds against South Dakota State…scored a season-high 11 points after hitting three 3-pointers and grabbing five rebounds at Fresno State…had four points and two steals in win at Gonzaga…hit a three and blocked two shots against Arizona…scored four points and grabbed a season-high seven rebounds in win over Arizona State…scored four points at No. 14 UCLA…hit a three against Washington…had four points and two blocks against No. 4 Stanford.
SOPHOMORE (2011-12): Appeared in all 33 games, made 12 starts…averaged 5.6 ppg and 3.1 rpg in 19.7 mpg…third on team in blocks with 10…started eight of final nine games…finished with 24 assists and 16 steals…posted six double-figure games, all in Pac-12 Conference play…in conference play; tied for second on team with 7.4 ppg and added 3.7 rpg…knocked down a three in 12 straight games (Jan. 28-Mar. 8)...played limited minutes in first half of season before taking over a starting role in mid-January…recorded two points, two steals and four assists in the win at Wisconsin…scored six points, recorded five rebounds and made two steals in the win over Prairie View A&M at the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands…scored seven points and grabbed four boards in the win over San Diego State…came off the bench and erupted for a career-high 18 points in the win over Utah…scored nine points against Colorado…had five rebounds at No. 4 Stanford…scored eight points at USC and at UCLA…scored 10 points and grabbed seven boards against Oregon…scored 14 points at Arizona…had seven points and grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds at Arizona State…knocked down three 3-pointers and finished with 15 points and six rebounds at Washington…had seven points, five rebounds and three steals in home win over UCLA…scored 17 points and had eight boards against USC…scored 17 points and had six rebounds in opening round win over Oregon State at Pac-12 Tournament…recorded nine points, five rebounds and two steals in the quarterfinal round win over USC at the Pac-12 Tournament.
FRESHMAN (2010-11): Appeared in all 31 games, setting a WSU freshman single-season record for games played...made three starts...averaged 2.1 ppg, 1.8 rpg and 11.2 mpg...recorded 11 assists, 14 steals and seven blocks...started and played 14 minutes in the season-opener at Saint Mary's...started, played 18 minutes, scored three points and grabbed four rebounds at UC Davis...set season-highs of 24 minutes, seven points, seven rebounds and three blocks in win against Nevada...started and made a season-high three steals against USC...notched six points in the win at Oregon State...hit a pair of 3-pointers and matched season-high of seven points against Washington...made two three's to finish with six points at UCLA.
Four-year letterwinner for head coach Lisa Johnson...two-year team captain and three-year team most valuable player scored 1,470 points, pulled down 1,100 rebounds and recorded 192 assists, 179 steals and 392 blocks during her career with the Eagles...FRESHMAN year received the Mack C. Moxley Hustle Award and finished in first place at the WRPA Hot Spot Competition...recorded 76 blocks on the season, breaking Elma's previous record by 20...SOPHOMORE year was named Evergreen Conference Most Valuable Player and was named first-team all-league...honorable mention all-state...broke her blocks record with 129, including a single-game record of 12...led Eagles to a sixth-place finish at the state tournament, where she received the WIAA Sportsmanship Award...JUNIOR year was named Evergreen Conference co-Most Valuable Player and Defensive Player of the Year...first-team all-league and honorable mention all-state...led Elma to a fourth-place finish at state, where she received a second-straight WIAA Sportsmanship Award...Seattle Times Athlete of the Week...set school's single-game rebounding mark (23)...recorded 118 blocks...SENIOR year named Evergreen Conference Most Valuable Player and Defensive Player of the Year...first-team Tacoma News Tribune All-Area and first-team Seattle Times All-State (all-classification)...also named Elma High School Athlete of the Year and was a McDonald's All-America nominee...also lettered four times in track and field, twice in volleyball and once in soccer...in her debut track and field season, was voted top freshman and most inspirational as she placed ninth at the state meet in the triple jump...sophomore year won both the district and state championships in the triple jump, and finished second at districts and sixth at state in the long jump...named first-team all-league and most outstanding girls' athlete...junior year won a second-straight triple jump state title...placed fourth at the state meet in the long jump...holds Elma's record in the triple jump (37 feet, 9.5 inches)...named team's most valuable player in volleyball as a junior, and was named second-team all-league both her junior and senior seasons...Honor Society member received the Claude A. Dailey Award for outstanding student-athletes and the US Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award.
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LASD and Bullis Charter School approve facilities agreement
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Bullis Charter School will receive an additional classroom on its campus this fall in exchange for its approval of the Los Altos School District's request to extend the deadline for the district's annual facilities offer.
Proposition 39, passed in 2000, mandates that school districts provide "reasonably equivalent space" for charter school students who reside within district boundaries. The school district allots the charter school space on the Egan Junior High School site on West Portola Avenue.
The deadline extension allows the district time to amend the facilities allotment based on the governor's May revision of the school budget. After the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees passed the proposal with a 3-2 vote Sept. 28, the charter school board of directors ratified it 5-0 (two members were absent) Oct. 4.
The joint agreement is a symbolic step forward in improving the relationship between the district and the charter school.
Several members from both boards said they hope the agreement is a stepping stone in rebuilding their relationship, which has been fraught for years with controversy and litigation. The charter school is currently appealing a legal decision that the district won last year involving facilities.


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Is cost-benefit analysis really beneficial?
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For example, essential for evaluation of health and environmental protection, consider this exploitation of cost-benefit analysis in the US. John Graham, formerly head of the Harvard Centre for Risk Analysis, was the Bush administration's cost-benefit analysis "czar." He was assigned to test regulations proposed by federal agencies just to be sure that the costs do not exceed the benefits. Graham had often suggested federal agencies to make revisions or do additional analyses, when he decided that the proposed rules would not pass a cost-benefit test. Naturally, the end result has been a slowing-down and waning of environmental protection. When cost-benefit analysis is so sound and easy, then why shouldn't we check that the benefits exceed the costs before adopting a new regulation?
The first step in a CBA is to calculate the costs of a public policy. The costs of protecting human health and the environment through the use of pollution control devices and other approaches could be measured in rupees or dollars. Thus, at least in theory, the cost side of cost-benefit analysis is relatively straightforward. (In practice, it is not that simple, and often costs are dramatically overstated in advance of regulation).
More problematic, however, is the second step in the analysis: monetising the benefits achieved by the regulation. Since there are no natural prices for a healthy environment, CBA requires the creation of artificial ones. Economists create artificial prices for health and environmental benefits by studying what people would be willing to pay for them. One popular method, called "contingent valuation," is essentially a form of opinion poll. Researchers ask a cross-section of the affected population how much they would be willing to pay to preserve or protect something that can't be bought in a store.
An alternative method of attaching prices to unpriced things infers what people are willing to pay from observation of their behaviour in other markets. To assign a dollar value to risks to human life, for example, economists usually calculate the extra wage that is paid to some workers who accept more risky jobs. If workers understand the risk and voluntarily accept a more dangerous job, then they are implicitly setting a price on risk by accepting the increased risk of death in exchange for increased wages. What does this indirect inference about wages say about the value of a life? A common estimate in recent cost-benefit analyses is that avoiding a risk that would lead, on average, to one death is worth roughly $6.3 million. Finally, costs and benefits of a policy frequently occur at different times. Often, costs are incurred in the near future to prevent harm in the more remote future. When the analysis spans a number of years, future costs and benefits are discounted, or treated as equivalent to smaller amounts of money in today's rupees or dollars.
Moving beyond the comforts of an easy theory, it can be shown that CBA of regulations fails on a number of grounds. First, cost-benefit analysis cannot produce more efficient decisions because the process of reducing life, health, and the natural world to monetary values is inherently flawed.
Efforts to value life illustrate the basic problems. CBA implicitly equates the risk of death with death itself, when in fact they are quite different and should be accounted for separately in considering the benefits of regulatory actions. CBA also ignores the fact that citizens are concerned about risks to their families and others as well as themselves, ignores the fact that market decisions are often very different from political decisions, and ignores the incomparability of many different types of risks to human life.
Secondly, use of discounting systematically downgrades the importance of environmental regulation. While discounting makes sense in comparing alternative financial investments, it cannot reasonably be used to make a choice between preventing harms to present generations and preventing similar harms to future generations. Nor can discounting reasonably be used even to make a choice between harms to the present generation; choosing between preventing an automobile fatality and a cancer death does not turn on prevailing rates of return on financial investments. In addition, discounting tends to trivialise long-term environmental risks, minimising the very real threat our society faces from potential catastrophes and environmental harms, such as those posed by global warming and nuclear waste. Significantly, all of the studies suggesting that regulation kills people because it is so expensive employed discounting, which caused regulatory benefits to appear to shrink and regulatory costs to grow.
Thirdly, cost-benefit analysis ignores the question of who suffers as a result of environmental problems and, therefore, threatens to reinforce existing patterns of economic and social inequality. In fact, poor countries, communities, and individuals are likely to express less "willingness to pay" to avoid environmental harms, simply because they have fewer resources. Therefore, cost-benefit analysis would justify imposing greater environmental burdens on them than on their wealthier counterparts. With this kind of analysis, the poor get poorer.
Finally, cost-benefit analysis fails to produce the greater objectivity and transparency promised by its proponents. It rests on a series of assumptions and value judgments that cannot remotely be described as objective. A popular old joke describes economists as seeing something working in practice, and asking whether it is possible in theory. As researchers rightly point out, in this case, the joke is being told in reverse: having established that CBA of environmental protection is impossible in theory, its advocates have set out to see if it works in practice.
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Maxine Conroy, 92, of Independence, Missouri formerly of St. Joseph, Missouri passed away at a health care center in Independence, Missouri on Sunday, July 27, 2014.
Maxine was born on December 15, 1921 in Platte City, Missouri to Walter and Nellie (Cluck) Seever. She was a homemaker and had worked for Whitaker Cable. She was a member of St. Mark Catholic Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband Harold P. Conroy in 2011. She was also preceded by her parents; brother, Hayden Seever; and great-great-granddaughter, Kennedy Hope Butrum.
Maxine is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Walter and Helen Thornton; step-son, Danny (Sandra) Conroy; three randchildren, Vicki (David) Shewmaker, Tim (Joyce) Thornton, Heather Thornton (Randy Adams); and four great-grandchildren.
Mass of Christian Burial 10am Friday at the Horigan Chapel at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8pm at Heaton-Bowman-Smith & Sidenfaden Chapel. Parish Rosary 7pm Thursday. Interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
The family would like to thank Carmel Hill Health Care and Catholic Community Hospice for your loving care of Maxine.
The family suggests memorial contributions to Northwest Missouri Alzheimer's Association.
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"First Class! Excellently and skillfully managed by Alternative Occasions, under your professional direction. We both thoroughly enjoyed the party, which helped us forget we are now another year older! Everybody has complimented us on the success of our evening at Floridita; the décor, the food and entertainment …We could not have done it without your support and dedication. Your hard work, long hours and the detail, totally paid off. As usual, we did not have to worry about anything, other than enjoying ourselves."
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- BlackBerry cancels device launches, rising inventory costs hurtNew BlackBerry 10.2.1 OS allows users to natively install Android apps from third party10 reasons why it makes good sense to update to the BlackBerry 10.2.1BlackBerry Z3 budget phone headed for India, price to be around Rs 11,000
As part of its efforts to regain lost ground, Canadian handset maker BlackBerry is set to launch its latest 'Z3' smartphone in India next week that is likely to be priced below Rs 12,000 to take head on the likes of Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Microsoft Devices and Micromax.
Launched in Indonesia earlier this year, the full touch screen device was priced at IDR 2,199,000 (USD 190 or Rs 11,500) and is the most affordable device powered by the latest BlackBerry 10 operating system.
According to the invite sent by the firm, BlackBerry will unveil the "next generation BlackBerry 10 devices" on June 25.
Over the last few weeks, handset makers have launched a slew of devices, priced below Rs 12,000 (sub-USD 200) to tap the booming smartphone market in India.
According to International Data Corporation, smartphone sales in India grew almost three-fold to over 44 million in 2013, buoyed by affordable devices made by local firms like Micromax and Karbonn.
In the first quarter of 2014, 17.59 million smartphones were shipped in India compared with 6.14 million in the same period of 2013. Samsung was the market leader (35 per cent share) in Q1, followed by Micromax (15 per cent), Karbonn (10 per cent), LAVA (6 per cent) and Nokia (4 per cent).
This would be an important launch for the ailing smartphone maker that has been facing stiff competition globally from Apple and Samsung. It was has undertaken a series of measurements including sale of real estate and outsourcing its manufacturing contract to Foxconn.
The Z3 is the first phone manufactured by Foxconn.
During its Indonesia Z3 launch, BlackBerry had said it would gradually introduce the Z3 in six other countries including the Philippines, India, Vietnam and Malaysia.
Popular especially among the youth for its Curve range of devices and messaging app BBM, India was a strong market for the Waterloo-based firm. It had a 12.1 per cent share of the smartphone market during January-June 2012 period.
However, the firm saw its share fall as devices powered by Google's Android OS and Apple iPhones gained strong traction in the market and despite launching its BlackBerry 10 OS, it has so far failed to re-gain foothold in the market.
While analysts suggest that pricing could be a major issue, the Z3 ,with its features and affordable pricing, could play a crucial role in reviving the fortune of the firm, they added.
The Z3 features 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor, 1.5 GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory (expandable upto 32 GB) and 5MP rear camera.


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Your eye works a lot like a camera. Light rays focus through your lens onto the retina, a layer of light-sensitive cells at the back of the eye. Similar to photographic film, the retina allows the image to be "seen" by the brain.
Over time, the lens of our eye can become cloudy, preventing light rays from passing clearly through the lens. The loss of transparency may be so mild that vision is barely affected, or it can be so severe that no shapes or movements are seen--only light and dark. When the lens becomes cloudy enough to obstruct vision to any significant degree, it is called a cataract. Eyeglasses or contact lenses can usually correct slight refractive errors caused by early cataracts, but they cannot sharpen your vision if a severe cataract is present.
The most common cause of cataract is aging. Other causes include trauma, medications such as steroids, systemic diseases such as diabetes, and prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light. Occasionally, babies are born with a cataract.
Cataracts typically develop slowly and progressively, causing a gradual and painless decrease in vision. Other changes you might experience include blurry vision; glare, particularly at night; frequent changes in your eyeglass prescription; a decrease in color intensity; a yellowing of images; and in rare cases, double vision.
As the eye's natural lens gets harder, farsighted (presbyopic) people, who have difficulty focusing up close, can experience improved near vision and become less dependent on reading glasses. However, nearsighted (myopic) people become more nearsighted, causing a worsening in their distance vision. Some kinds of cataracts affect distance vision more than reading vision. Others affect reading vision more than distance vision.
Reducing your exposure to ultraviolet light by wearing a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses may reduce your risk for developing a cataract, but once one has developed, there is no cure except to have the cataract surgically removed.
With a routine, outpatient surgical procedure, an ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) can remove the cataract, making either a small incision (phacoemulsification) or a larger incision (extracapsular extraction). Usually, a synthetic intraocular lens (IOL) is inserted at the time of cataract extraction to replace the focusing power of the natural lens. IOLs can be monovision (fixed-focus for a preset distance) or multifocal, which allows focused vision at many distances. The time to have cataract surgery is when the cataract is affecting your vision enough to interfere with your normal lifestyle.
Cataract surgery is a very successful operation. One and a half million people have this procedure every year in the United States, and 95% have a successful result. As with any surgical procedure, complications can occur during or after surgery, and some are severe enough to limit vision. But in most cases, vision, as well as quality of life, improves.
An intraocular lens (IOL) is a tiny, lightweight, clear plastic or silicone disc placed in the eye during cataract surgery. An IOL replaces the focusing power of the eye's natural lens.
Your eye's natural lens plays an important role in focusing images on the retina. When a cataract develops, the lens loses its clarity. Light rays cannot focus clearly, and the image you see is blurry. Eyeglasses or contact lenses usually can correct slight refractive errors caused by early cataracts, but they cannot sharpen your vision if an advanced cataract is present.
The only treatment for a severe cataract is to remove the eye's natural lens and replace it with an IOL. Intraocular lenses offer many advantages. Unlike contact lenses, which must be removed, cleaned, and reinserted, the IOL remains in the eye after surgery.
An IOL may be implanted either in front of or behind the iris. Behind the iris is the most frequent placement site. IOLs can be made of hard plastic, soft plastic, or soft silicone. Soft, foldable lenses can be inserted through a small incision, which shortens recovery time following surgery
The rapid evolution of IOL designs, materials, and implant techniques has made them a safe and practical way to restore normal vision after cataract surgery.
When you have a cataract, the lens of your eye becomes cloudy. Light cannot pass through the lens easily, and your vision becomes blurred. During cataract surgery, the ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) removes the cloudy, natural lens and replaces it with a clear, artificial lens called an intraocular lens (IOL). The IOL helps your eye regain its focusing ability and allows you to see clearly again.
The most common type of IOL is the monofocal or fixed-focus IOL. The monofocal lens helps you attain clearer vision at one distance. Note that eyeglasses and contact lenses are still required in order for you to see clearly at all ranges of distance.
Another type of IOL is the multifocal IOL. The multifocal lens has several rings of different powers built into the lens. The part of the ring you look through will determine if you can see clearly at far, near, or intermediate distances. There are 2 brands of approved multifocal lenses available:
TECNIS MULTIFOCALwww.tecnismultifocal.com
A third type of IOL is the accommodative IOL. The accommodative lens has a hinge designed to work with your eye muscles, allowing the lens to move forward as the eye focuses on near objects and backward as the eye focuses on distant objects. This movement allows you to focus clearly at different distances.
TECNIS MULTIFOCALwww.tecnismultifocal.com
A third type of IOL is the accommodative IOL. The accommodative lens has a hinge designed to work with your eye muscles, allowing the lens to move forward as the eye focuses on near objects and backward as the eye focuses on distant objects. This movement allows you to focus clearly at different distances.
Implanting an IOL takes about 20 minutes and is an outpatient procedure. In addition to a preoperative eye exam, your eye surgeon will take some measurements of your eyes and will give you topical or local anesthesia. The surgeon makes a few small incisions close to the edge of the cornea and then inserts a small, ultrasound instrument to break up the center of the eye's natural lens. The lens is then vacuumed out through one of the incisions. The surgeon folds and inserts the IOL through the same incision. These incisions are usually self-sealing, requiring no stitches. Once implanted, a multifocal or accommodative IOL allows you to focus on near or distant objects.
Risks associated with implanting IOLs include overcorrection or under-correction, infection, increased floaters, retinal detachment, dislocation of the implant, halos, glare, dry eye, decreased contrast sensitivity, clouding of a portion of the IOL, and loss of vision.
If you are going to have cataract surgery, you and your ophthalmologist should discuss which IOL may be best for your vision needs.
A posterior capsulotomy is a laser procedure that sometimes is necessary after cataract surgery.
During cataract surgery, part of the front (anterior) capsule of the eye's natural lens is removed to gain access to and remove the lens. The clear, back (posterior) capsule remains intact and supports an intraocular lens (IOL), a plastic or silicone disc that is implanted in the eye and replaces the natural lens. As long as that capsule stays clear, you will experience good vision. But in 10% to 30% of cases, the posterior capsule loses its clarity.
When this happens, the ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) can create an opening in the capsule using a laser in order to restore normal vision. This procedure is called a posterior capsulotomy.
Before the laser procedure, the ophthalmologist does a thorough ophthalmic examination to make sure there is no other reason for vision loss.
The posterior capsulotomy is painless and takes approximately five minutes. Eye pressure is measured 30 minutes after the operation to make sure it is not elevated, and anti-inflammatory medicated eyedrops are usually prescribed for three days following the procedure. Vision usually improves within hours. Potential but rare complications following laser posterior capsulotomy are increased intraocular pressure and retinal detachment.


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We're not talking antiquated game manuals or text-filled pop-up windows--Fan tricked the PvZ fans into learning the game's complex systems. (Get to the end of the game, and you'll agree that they're complex.) "We strive to make it not feel like a tutorial at all," Fan said, according to Gamasutra. "I go out of my way to never call any sections of my game the tutorial... humans like learning and leaning is inherently fun, but sometimes we have to trick them."
According to Fan, when the tutorial becomes the game, then casual players have no problem learning where and when to best plant sunflowers or what plants to use at night. Fan said that it's key to have players do rather than read. "The best way for a player to learn is to actually perform actions in the game," Fan said. "The player learns all of this by simply playing the game, and we didn't have to tell them any of it."
Fan went into great detail, listing 10 ways for fellow game makers to successfully teach players without them knowing it. Finally, the designer revealed why he went with plants and zombies as the game's main characters. Plants are inherently rooted, and zombies move slowly--both are common knowledge to even non-gamers. Well, it also made for comedy gold.
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WASHINGTON — A man was killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 70 in Maryland, near the Pennsylvania border, on Sunday night.
The Maryland State Police say that the crash happened on Interstate 70 eastbound, west of the one-mile marker, at about 8:30 p.m.
Larry Martz, of Pennsylvania, was driving west in the eastbound lanes, and collided head-on with vehicle driven by Brian Chatfield, 27, from North Carolina, the police say. Martz was flown to a hospital, where he died. Chatfield and two passengers — Clarence Hobbs, 44, of Newark, Del., and Joshua Walls, 25, from Baltimore — suffered minor injuries; the police say they were treated at the scene and released.
The road was closed for about three hours.
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I run a website with local content. Currently, users land on the front page and then click through to their relevant area. This front page has no other function, but it is PR4 and has strong search visibility.
For example, the structure is similar to this:
The landing page is just a list of links to those sub pages. The sub pages all follow a single structure, but have localized content.
All pages are all PR4, but the front page has stronger search visibility than the sub pages.
I am wanting to make my users' lives easier by automatically redirecting them to relevant content, but I don't want this to affect my search positioning.
I see options as:
1. Leave it as it is — it's working, so don't change it.
2. Use a geographic based redirect to take users directly to relevant content or to show geographically relevant content on the front page.
3. Allow users to save their location using a cookie.
The second option seems like the most user friendly, but it means removing pages that are currently indexed and attracting users.
I am hoping someone has had a similar issue and has results to share.
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I am a dedicated, energetic user experience designer and front end developer. I have a passion for digital design, great user experiences and the technology and methods that drive them.
As a designer for the Indianapolis Star, a regional paper owned by Gannett, I helped to release several award winning sites, including IndyMoms.com, one of the web's first social networking applications for moms. Later, as the Front End Developer for Vivaty, Inc. I helped to build one of the first fully browser based 3d social applications. Vivaty was a new breed of virtual world and sought to set a new standard for immersive online experiences.
I was then given the opportunity to join Circle of Moms as a User Interface Developer. I've worked hard building a more cohesive, simple and endearing experience for moms that allows them to ask questions and share answers to the most pressing issues mothers face. Circle of Moms is perfectly suited as an advertising vehicle with every major brand seeking to engage mothers while in 'mom mode.' I helped to solidify and empower the advertising business through the skillful use of interaction design, simultaneously providing an experience that drove deeper brand integration for advertisers and a consistent and dedicated base of online users.


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For Old Globe leader, a wider stage
Artistic director Edelstein is eager to connect theater with community
It's a simple equation: Theaters produce plays. The artistic directors of those theaters generally choose the plays that get produced. So, when a major regional theater picks a new artistic director, the first question on everyone's mind is: What plays is he going to pick?
Except that it's not the first question on Barry Edelstein's mind.
"I find myself thinking much more about the life of the institution than I do about the specific plays we're going to do," says Edelstein, who is just now getting settled into his new job as artistic chief of the Old Globe Theatre.
"People keep asking me, what are you going to do? Well, look, we're going to do Shakespeare outdoors — of course we're going to do that. We've been doing it since 1935. We're going to do classics inside the Globe; that's what (founding director) Craig Noel figured out people wanted to see, and they've been wanting to see it since the 1950s. Of course I'm going to do that — I'm not an idiot.
"But what I find myself thinking about is, how can the institution become more meaningful to the life of the city, above and beyond the fun, vibrant plays we put on?"
Let's dispense with that first question anyway: Edelstein doesn't know yet exactly what plays he's going to bring in for his first season. No surprise there, really: Programming the huge breadth of work that goes up on the theater's three stages is a complex and delicate art that takes longer than the scant few months Edelstein has had here.
He will allow that the Globe's next season (programming already has been announced through summer) will include at least one world premiere of a new American play, and at least one small-scale musical in the arena-style White Theatre. He also plans to commission a new translation of an 18th-century German classic.
Beyond that, the New Jersey native and former Rhodes scholar is trying to take the temperature of San Diego and figure out how to make the Globe a bigger part of residents' lives — both for those who already attend shows and those who have had little contact with the theater.
Bard outside the box
In his previous job, as head of the Shakespeare Initiative at New York's esteemed Public Theater, Edelstein not only oversaw the popular Shakespeare in the Park series but launched the theater's Mobile Unit, which took the Bard's works out to homeless shelters, prisons and youth centers. He's already looking to do something similar in San Diego.
"We're about to have our first meeting on this touring Shakespeare idea that I mentioned," says Edelstein, chatting in a Globe conference room on another busy day of speeches and strategizing. "We're starting to really put flesh on the bones of that idea, and figure out how we're going to fund it, where we're going to go.
"To me it's the theater saying to the community, look, we belong to you. We are the property of the entire city. And if you live in a circumstance where you can't get here all that easily, or you can't afford our tickets, that doesn't mean we don't belong to you. We have to find a way to do that. It's as fun for me to be thinking about that as it is to think about what plays I should direct."
Edelstein won't actually be directing any shows himself next season, but his track record in that area includes scores of productions at the Public, off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company (where he was artistic director from 1998 to 2003) and elsewhere. He has directed Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare and Uma Thurman in Molière, and in 2002 he commissioned and directed the world premiere of Steve Martin's "The Underpants," adapted from a 1910 farce by Carl Sternheim.


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Francis Ford Coppola Presents Rosso & Bianco
I love finding new inexpensive wines and today there are more than ever to choose from. Francis Ford Coppola not only has a line of wines that are the upper end of the pricechart but also a wonderful line that are at the less expensive end of the spectrum. However, less expensive does not equal less perfection. It's a line inspired by the wine making of his uncles in the New York city basement while he was growing up. It has a very simple taste and goes well with anything. I prefer the Rosso almost all the time.
Fresh, scintillating, and aromatic, the Sofia Sparkling Blanc e Blanc made from Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, and Muscat is a truly delightfulwine; excellent as a pleasure all by itself. Not to mention it comes with mini straws!Tags: wine, pink, cheap, champagne, white wines, alcohol, air, drinking, sparkling winesAdded 5 Years Ago from Bevmo
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I'm a hot sauce enthusiast. If it tingles and burns, I'll eat it. So naturally I'm excited to hear Francis Ford Coppola has put out a line of hot sauce. Can't wait to put it to the test.
Both films, Dracula (1992) and Frankenstein (1994), would make great Halloween movies. Even though Halloween was here a week ago, I would still watch Halloween movies a bit longer.Tags: dvd, Anthony Hopkins, Robert De Niro, Keanu Reeves, 1990s, frankenstein, Mary Shelley, halloween movies, francis ford coppolaAdded 8 Years Ago from Barnes & Noble
This is a perfect summery Rose, suitable for drinking on a warm afternoon. It's a refreshing, light taste and there are sweet notes of cherry and light fruit.Tags: wine, pinot noir, alcohol, rose, sofia, francis ford coppola, rose wine, carneros, perfettoAdded 8 Years Ago from Klwines
Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony... Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Taking place on Mishima's last day, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's life as well as by gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works. With its rich cinematography by John Bailey, exquisite sets and costumes by Eiko Ishioka, and unforgettable, highly influential score by Philip Glass, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a tribute to its subject and a bold, investigative work of art in its own right.Tags: movies, film, DVD, George Lucas, francis ford coppola, art school, Yukio Mishima, Eiko IshiokaAdded 8 Years Ago from Criterion


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|Information about the vessel may be found at IMO 9010345.
A ship can change her name and flag state through time, but the IMO number remains the same through the hull's entire lifetime. Therefore, it's useful to identify a ship through her IMO number.
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