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|The Islamic University of Madinah Al-Munawwarah (IUM) is a unique Islamic educational institution that caters to Muslim students from all over the world. Set up in 1961, it has five colleges, for Shari'ah (Islamic Law); the Holy Qur'an (textual studies of the Holy Book); Da'wah and Usul Al-Din (propagation and theology); Hadith (Islamic traditions); and the Arabic language. Currently more than 3,000 students are enrolled, about 450 of whom are foreign students drawn from more than 70 countries.
Unlike other Islamic universities that have diversified into secular programs such as medicine and engineering, the IUM has continued to focus all its resources on religious affairs. Its main aim is to convey the message of Islam to the world at large. Its other objectives are to inculcate a true Islamic spirit in its students, urging the individual and the community to practice Islam in daily life and worship God alone; to follow the noble examples of the Prophet Muhammad with utmost sincerity and devotion; to impart religious education to students who come from different parts of the world; to seek the cooperation of highly qualified scholars specialized in various Islamic and Arabic disciplines; to collect, verify, and publish works on Islamic heritage; and to maintain academic and cultural ties with other universities and scientific institutions worldwide that serve the cause of Islam and realize its objectives.
The University Council, chaired by the Minister of Higher Education, publishes research reports and other studies; awards scientific degrees, diplomas and certificates to university graduates; awards honorary doctorates following the suggestion of the concerned college council; recommends regulations to decide on the academic calendar and vacation time, subsidies for students, and approval for the university's final accounts; and reviews issues brought up by University President Dr. Saleh Ibn Abdullah Al-Obud or other members of the Council.
The Scientific Council implements the University Council's policies in preparing scientific research, undertaking translation, writing papers, and collecting Islamic heritage. It promotes relations in other research centers outside the university and cooperates with them, and holds conferences and seminars with local, regional and international participation. The university has a vice president for post-graduate studies and scientific research, who is appointed by a resolution of the Supreme Council of Higher Education for a three-year term, which is renewable.
Tens of thousands of students from Saudi Arabia and more tha 70 other countries have graduated from the university over the past four decades.
Like other universities in Saudi Arabia, the IUM is equipped with the latest administrative, educational and research facilities. A data center set up in 1991 prepares the university's development plan and introduces the computer system to the educational and administrative departments of the university. It also coordinates with government agencies as well as with other computer systems in the universities.
An important center at the university is that specializing in the Sunnah and Sira (the Prophet's traditions and biography). This center is currently preparing an encyclopedia on the Hadith (sayings of the Prophet), besides undertaking various projects in related fields. It has also published translations of the Sunnah and Sira in a number of languages.
The Islamic heritage center was founded in 1983 to conduct research in the fields of scientific, Islamic and Arabic studies, and to publish a scientific magazine. It also publishes periodicals and booklets on the issues facing Islamic society; promotes Islamic heritage; responds to media reports on Islam and Muslims around the world; cooperates with other organizations and institutions working in the field of scientific research inside and outside the Kingdom; maintains contact with leading Islamic personalities; and collects manuscripts, documents and information on Islam.
The university employs a rigorous procedure for selecting only the brightest and most promising students for admission into its programs. Although the majority of students gaining admission to the university have completed high school studies in the Kingdom and abroad, some are graduates of the IUM's own secondary school. The university also runs an intermediate institute. Like the university itself, both schools are open to students from other countries as well as Saudi Arabia. Currently there are more than 100 students from 16 countries besides Saudi Arabia studying at the two schools. Furthermore, there are two other intermediate institutes, one in Madinah and one in Makkah, that are affiliated with the IUM. In addition, there is a center for teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers, that helps students qualify for admission to the university.
Worthy of note is the university's Deanship of Service to Society. Graduates of this program are qualified to serve on Islamic delegations or as teachers and lecturers for teaching Arabic and Islamic culture in Muslim countries around the world. Graduates are also qualified to lead prayers inside and outside the Kingdom, and hold seminars and lectures. This deanship also distributes books and printed material in schools and institutions inside and outside the Kingdom. For outstanding students from overseas, the University offers a wide range of generous benefits, including travel between their home countries and the Kingdom, and while studying, free accommodation, textbooks and transportation, in addition to the regular monthly stipend that all students in the Kingdom receive.
The Islamic University of Madinah represents a shining example of the Kingdom's service to Islam and Islamic studies and has been serving as a center of Islamic studies throughout the world, presenting Islam in its pristine purity.


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TUNISIA Protesters have thrown tomatoes and stones at Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki in Sidi Bouzid, where the Arab Spring started exactly two years ago.
Mr Marzouki was swiftly evacuated by security officers, disrupting his rally to mark the anniversary.
Protesters invaded the square where Mr Marzouki had addressed a crowd of about 5,000 people, AFP news agency reports.
They threw tomatoes and stones, forcing security officers to evacuate him and parliamentary Speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar.
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The Republican governor of Utah, Jon Huntsman, backs a proposal that would give same-sex couples the right to civil unions in the state.
A spokeswoman said Monday that Huntsman backs legalizing civil unions, as well as the Common Ground Initiative, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The initiative is a package of legislation on gay rights that is now two bills, down from four.
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greetings...I'm a lifetime rider & recent transplant to Manhattan. Lots of saddle time on road & off in many amazing locales. W/the move to NY I sadly don't have time for much beyond my daily commute and some weekend warrior road rides. My trusty surly steamroller fixie painted theft-resistant pink serves me well in nutzo midtown traffic. Other faithful friends include Trek 5900, Litespeed Appalachian cyclocross, Agave custom mtb.
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Wet paint and white clothes? Sounds messy.
Saturday evening's celebration of art, wine, food and community at Sonoma's freshly redesigned Ramekins culinary school, events venue and inn was anything but.
The Wet Paint gala, a sold-out summer solstice benefit for the exhibitions and education programs of the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, was equally tasteful and tasty.
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It was 5ish when the first guests arrived to savor a sparkling wine by John Charles Boisset, a signature cocktail or Sonoma Valley varietal, and a stroll of Ramekins' inviting and choicely kept grounds.
Chefs prepared and served delectables there, out of doors. Accomplished artists, serious connoisseurs of art and everyone in between visited while perusing the treasures of the silent auction.
As the evening cooled, everyone moved inside for a lavish sit-down meal orchestrated by chef Doug MacFarland. Following a brief, live auction that boasted artworks by William T.
Wiley and Douglas Fenn Wilson — and a romantic getaway to France for two — was a Fund a Dream appeal to grow the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and its mission.
Guests who had arrived in their best, dawnof- summer white left splashed in color, as their donations of support and of visions for the future of the museum brought adornment with scarves and ribbons.


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Dan Neil Barnes, Stained-Glass Artist
Growing up in a family of builders and craftsmen, Dan Barnes experienced firsthand the satisfaction of creating something from an idea or inspiration. Henderson County served as the backdrop for his education in art and craftsmanship as he worked alongside his father and uncles. He graduated from high school in 1976, receiving the senior superlative of Most Artistic in his class.
Dan earned his bachelors degree in human environmental design from the University of Kentucky, studying under Arturo Sandoval, Miles Weiner, and John Tuska. The love of creating his own designs led him to open his own business in 1986.
Since then, Dan has earned an outstanding reputation in the design community for his design flair and for the top-quality craftsmanship seen in his upholstery and furniture design business. His upholstered pieces have been featured in several interior design shows.
In the late 1990s, Dan says, he received a new lease on life when he discovered a new challenge in stained glassnot the traditional Tiffany-style lamps, but true mixed media. He uses his artistic abilities in wood craftsmanship and treated metals along with unique lighting to create functional pieces of art.
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A Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday, to the effect that non-payment of dues against a foreign exchange derivatives contract by a company will qualify as wilful default, will arm banks with greater powers to deal with such cases. In 2008, several companies posted losses on derivatives contracts and dragged banks to court claiming these had been mis-sold to them.
Companies had argued that since a derivatives contract was not a loan, they could not be categorised as wilful defaulters even if there were outstandings against such contracts.
However, a bench headed by Justice AK Patnaik upheld a similar ruling by the Bombay High Court in August 2011, setting aside the Calcutta HCs order of September 2009 which said a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circular, issued in 2010, was not applicable to forex derivatives.
Bankers are relieved that they can now take steps to recover their dues, said Dipak Gupta, joint MD, Kotak Mahindra Bank. The ruling clarifies that a wilful default is not just on a loan but also on a derivatives product.
Added Ashish Parthasarathy, head of treasury at HDFC Bank, It is a payment obligation towards a bank whether its loan or a derivative, which is what the court has ruled.
Senior counsel Bhaskar Gupta said: The order implies that the companies will be forced to pay up.
The SC order related to three different petitions challenging the contrary findings of high courts.
Kotak Mahindra Bank had challenged the Calcutta HCs judgment while Emcure Pharmaceuticals and Finolex Industries, the two companies classified as willful defaulters by their lender banks, appealed against the Bombay HC order.
If the banks did not have any procedural lapse and presented scenario analyses to clients, then ethically, clients should pay up, said KN Dey, director, Basix Forex & Financial Solutions.
Several of the cases have already been sorted out between banks and their customers. For instance, Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals, which had entered into derivatives contracts, one of them in Swiss Francs, ultimately paid Axis Bank Rs 25 crore in an out-of-court settlement. Sundaram Brake Linings also resolved the issue through an out-of court settlement. In 2009, after Finolex Industries refused to pay Deutsche Bank, the bank approached the Debt Recovery Tribunal DRT alleging it was a willful defaulter. ICICI Bank had declared Emcure Pharmaceuticals a willful defaulter for not paying up on a derivatives deal. In the Calcutta HC, Hindustan National Glass had challenged Kotak Mahindra Banks decision declaring


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Throughout the centuries the people of Võru have somehow managed to hang on to their own language – a language that is a bit different, and for which they are well-known and admired by a lot of people. It is, after all, a remarkable asset. Võru folk themselves are a bit different too: they are more outspoken, for a start, but more open and good-tempered too; sometimes naïve, perhaps, and occasionally helpless in the face of the world's greed and duplicity. The people here value their own culture and traditions and are proud of the fact that they are just that little bit different. Read on...


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My husband, Ian Parker, and I love gardening together at our west-end Toronto home. He contributes much of the vision, keeps me company while I work and occasionally does a last-minute nursery run when we're low on soil or mulch.
I'm the one who does the dirty work. I do the planting and the pruning, the weeding and the watering, coaxing our greenery into something close to splendour.
Our roles are well-defined out of necessity. Ian is quadriplegic; he can't walk or use his hands well, and he uses a power wheelchair. Needless to say, Ian doesn't do shovels. But he's as much a part of the growth of our garden as I am, and he can admire an azalea or delight in a delphinium with the best of 'em.
Ian is not alone, of course; people across the country contend with physical disabilities, from slight to significant. But that doesn't mean they must throw in the trowel. Like most leisure activities, gardening can be easily adapted for many types of physical challenges. Often, all that's required is a little thinking outside the flower box.
That kind of plotting has become second nature for my colleague Barbara Florio Graham, who lives alone on a pretty cul-de-sac in Gatineau, Quebec. She can't bend over or walk unassisted, but she's devoted to her garden. The solution? Barbara's garden is close to maintenance-free. Rather than fuss with exotic plants, she grows hardy native perennials such as trilliums and Virginia creeper; lovely wildflowers like Queen Anne's lace and violets roam where they will. Spring bulbs have similarly spread themselves, popping up reliably every season.
Barbara hires a handyman once a week to cut back ivy or do any hard raking that's required. But the list of chores isn't usually long. Drip hoses laid through her beds ensure watering is as easy as turning on a tap. And there's no lawn mower in sight: she's had every blade of grass—from both her front yard and back—replaced with plants, shrubs, river stone or gravel.
Her innovation has paid off. "I spend a lot of time looking out the window," says Barbara, who works from home. "I find it very soothing and calming and therapeutic."
Ian enjoys our view, too, but for him there's nothing like getting up-close-and-personal with the perennials to follow their progress, to welcome new buds, to enjoy textures and smells. So for someone who uses a mobility aid to get around, properly planned garden paths are important. Accessible paths should at a minimum meet the industry standard of 90 centimetres wide, and should slope gently (only 15 to 20 centimetres of length for every centimetre of height). The paths should also be well maintained: don't let fallen branches lie or allow vines to creep across unclipped. Wheelchairs and walkers don't mix well with steps and uneven surfaces. Paths that are paved or made of compacted earth or crushed stone are infinitely easier.


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Sahara group has reached an agreement with a foreign party to sell its three luxurious hotels in London and New York and a reputed foreign bank has also agreed to grant bank guarantee for Rs 5,000 crore, its chief Subrata Roy today told the Supreme Court which granted him 15 more working days to complete the process.
Roy, who has been in jail for over five months, said that he cannot reveal the name of the party and the bank, saying that their confidentiality has to be protected till the deal is signed.
Pleading for more time to raise around Rs 7,000 to get bail, advocate S Ganesh, appearing for him, submitted that no one is more anxious than him to get out of jail to revive his business which is on the verge of collapse.
"An in principle agreement has been reached with a foreign party for the sale of the three hotel properties and in fact a draft memorandum of agreement has also been drawn up in this regard.
"Further the applicants have also managed to obtain the in-principle approval of a foreign bank for the grant of a bank guarantee for the amount of US$ 850 million equivalent to Rs 5,000 crore through a tie-up with an Indian Scheduled Bank," he told a bench headed by Justice T S Thakur.
The bench, after hearing his plea, agreed to grant him 15 days more time but made it clear that no further time extension will be granted to him to use the conference room in Tihar jail complex for holding consultations with the potential buyers of his properties.
"It is necessary to carry out further negotiations for the purpose of working out the numerous details relating to such highly intricate complex and high value transaction," Sahara said in his application seeking more time.
Roy put his hotels Dream Downtown and The Plaza in New York and Grosvenor House in London on block to sell and he submitted that he is getting price more than their market value from a foreign buyer.
The apex court had on August 1 allowed Roy and two directors of his group to use the conference room in Tihar jail complex for 10 days from August 5 to hold negotiations with potential buyers.
Roy, 65, who has been in jail for the past five months, had pleaded that he was committed to follow apex court's


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A simple and inexpensive motherboard for the enthusiast or the first time builder, the MSI K9MM-V is a great starting point for anyone wanting to build a system or upgrade their motherboard. Designed with the small form factor case in mind, this motherboard will fit into most smaller desktop systems. Equipped with an AMD socket AM2, suitable for Athlon 64 processors, including the X2 and FX series, the K9MM-V is more than capable of handling anything you may want to run.
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Still a great board
This review is from: MSI K9MM-V AM2 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros: Solid board once you figure out a couple of kinks
Cons: Noisy On-board audio (could be from PS)
Other Thoughts: I have this board running in my media center via XBMC. It's been solid for years since I've built it. I thought I'd come and give my old review an update.
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This review is from: MSI K9MM-V AM2 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros: Decent if you plan to use without a newer AGP 1.5v 8x card.
Cons: MB is setup for a 1.5v slotted AGP card. However I could only get older dual slotted (1.5 & 3.3v) cards to work in the slot. I have an Powercolor HD3850 and it will boot up initially, but if you reboot/shutdown & restart - the MB will not post. Using 1.7 BIOS. Does not matter what setting you change. MSI would not troubleshoot and said to refer to their list of 12 cards for the ones that work.
Other Thoughts: Their support response time was very prompt. But their actual support service was very very poor. I mean they basically said if it is not on their support list then you are OOL. If you look on the list you will see 1.5v slotted AGP cards. What is the point in having standard specsifications anymore?
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Return Of The Penguin.....
This review is from: MSI K9MM-V AM2 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros: The price and design. You can keep your AGP video card and step up to the dual core spectrum. You'll be covered if the board gives you any problems - you got it from Newegg!
Cons: Only one ide slot, the usb coding and haphazzard bios functionality.
Other Thoughts: All other aspects considered, this MB enabled me to build my first dual-core machine. Against a great deal of odds, I succeeded and that in itself makes me feel great. I read all the reviews first, then proceeded to build the board with only the bare requirements before loading my OS. This worked fine, then as I added each card (video, 1394, etc., etc.) I went back in and checked the bios and made necessary adjustments to the setting. The 'Halt On Errors' was the trickiest setting to over come and I'm still dealing with it when I forget to use my keyboard if the application ask me to load something from a disk. My system has an AMD 5600+ CPU, 500 GB SATA HDD, 2 GB DDR800 RAM with an Ati Radeon X1550 video card and a 1394 firewire card. It enables me to produce great DVDs.
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A Great Budget Board !!!
This review is from: MSI K9MM-V AM2 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros: It's a Solid little Board With a verry user friendly BIOS that has a lot of options for those that don't know too much. Super Easy to set up and everything worked right out of the box(Memeory, CPU etc...) Easy and forgiving to mount. There are also tons of AGP settings which pull a lot of preformance out of an AGP card
Cons: I would have to say one con would be that the heatsink mount kinda sucks it is a bit hard to mount it but once it's on it's solid.
Other Thoughts: I like the board, I got it cuz my system was dying and I needed something that ran a Dual-core and an AGP card cuz I didn't have money for a new Video card. The over view on newegg's site and Msi's site say that it runs an FX and the book it comes with say's on the cover "Designed for FX/X2 Processor's" Yet on MSI's Site it says the FX-62 won't work....But mine is doing just fine and it hase been on for about 3 days and I have been trying to stress it a little to see if anything is going to happen, Nothing so far. Also it list's on MSI's site the supported memory and my G.skill isn't there but it seems to be running that fine as-well. So 40 a $50 board I would say get it !
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worked great...........
This review is from: MSI K9MM-V AM2 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros: every thing went smoothly, fired up first time, installed a althlon x2 4000+ and it picked it up properly as well as the gig of xms i put in it, has onboard video, and everything worked great until u read the cons.
Cons: installed all drivers and everything was smooth as silk, almost too smooth if u know what i mean, when i put my ati x800 card in that was working 5 mins b4 i put it in this system, nothing happened. the board refused to post.ok so i tryed 6 other cards, and got the same results. after some inspection, i found out that the agp slot was missing a pin in the slot!!
Other Thoughts: i rma'ed this board the other one should be here soon, so ill repost with the updates.
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Don't Waste Your Money!
This review is from: MSI K9MM-V AM2 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros: Low price
Cons: Ordered two separate boards and couldn't get either one to work in my new system. I've built countless other systems and this is the first time I've ever gotten 2 bad boards from the same manufacturer.
Other Thoughts: MSI tech support was useless. They did not answer my questions and were no help at all. I would not buy another product of theirs ever again.
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Pros: Mobo looked promising.
Cons: Until the mobo wouldn't power on. DOA. My Atx Msi KNeo8 mobo with a 3400+ failed and I ordered a 4000+ and this Msi as a replacement. Guess I am never going to order from MSI again! Had everything I ordered RMA'ed and returned, got a intel setup instead.
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This review is from: MSI K9MM-V AM2 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros: Works perfectly with the AMD 6400 windsor and the Adata ddr2 800 I purchased with it. Surprisingly I didn't even need to upgrade the bios to install the cpu. It even works with the AGP sapphire raedon hd 3850. Overall installation of Windows XP64 went smooth and there was no real driver issues. It's a decent inexpensive board for anyone trying to salvage an agp card.
Cons: Only 1 ide port. Only 3 PCI slots and you can't really use one of the slots because it's too close to the fan on your video card in your agp slot. The board only supports 2 gigs of ram.
Other Thoughts: My p4 system that I was trying to squeeze another year out of died, so I got stuck with an agp raedon 3850. This motherboard provided a great inexpensive solution to my problem. Otherwise I would have just bought a new motherboard and gotten a pci express video card.
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AMD since 8/30/2007
This review is from: MSI K9MM-V AM2 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Pros: Easy to setup. I purchased it 8/30/2007 and it has run solid. Never any problems. This board is what it is. An inexpensive AMD board that will support a 5600+ cpu with a simple bios update. Only overclocks FSB approx 9 to 10 percent.
Cons: Would be better if it had 4 SATA ports and 4 PCI slots. But, you know the number of each when you purchase it. Memeory voltage is 2.0 max. Use kingston memeory.
Other Thoughts: This really is a good board and I would definitely purchase it again. I'm running a 4400 at 4800 mhz. BFG 7800GT video card. 2 gig HyperX kingston ram. Audigy gamer sound card.
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worst board I ever hade
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Pros: not any
Cons: so far I have not got anything to work on this board.worst Bios I ever seen.I have a pcchips and thought it was cheap but its wonderful compared to this board.
Other Thoughts: I hade alot of motherboards some are Lemons BUT they did work some what Just crashed alot.im stuck with something that Just will not work and I will never ever buy another MSI motherboad. im going to order a good ASUS from newegg.one very good thing about newegg you can send it back it don't work.
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Some sad news on the MidPoint front. Chicago "Chamber Pop" band The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir were involved in a serious highway accident on the way to their MPMF show last night at the Contemporary Arts Center. The Seedy Seeds, playing to a packed room in the slot right before SYGC's, said a few words about the accident during their set (and played a little longer, to the disappointment of no one) and the news has hit the media in the Bloodshot recording artist's hometown.
The band's van blew a tire on I-65 in Indiana and reportedly rolled over several times.
Anyone interested in helping the band members out with what are sure to be costly medical bills, the band's label has set up a site for donations. Go here to help them out.
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Autonomous Vehicles Introduction The modern automobile has undergone significant changes since theneighborhood mechanic was able to make most of its repairs with a wrench Today the advent of computer technology has made many of a car\'s functionsautonomous through the use of computer chips and circuit boards Autonomyis defined as the car making driving decisions without intervention of ahuman and some of the functions that it already exists in include cruisecontrol antilock brake systems lane change warnings and obstacleavoidance systems zg ner Stiller
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An autonomous vehicle that makesa mistake on a high-speed freeway or at a busy intersection can cause amulti-vehicle pile-up or pedestrian death or injury, for example.Moreover, although autonomous vehicles are designed and tested to be safeunder what are deemed "normal operating conditions," there can be"unforeseen mechanical failures" that can result in "close calls," there isa low tolerance for such errors (Dresner & Stone). Technology Requirements Technology requirements for an autonomous vehicle such as Boss includethe capability to mount numerous sensors and computer modules as well as acomplex onboard software system. This means that-like Boss-any autonomousvehicle would need to be built from the ground up in a design appropriatefor these requirements, as retrofitting an existing vehicle would belaborious, if not impossible. Inaddition, there are bound to be situations that these vehicles are notprepared to handle. Autonomous vehicles may be usableby criminals but they are no more to blame for crime than any other toolthat a criminal might use, like the telephone or the Internet. Can the owner of an autonomous vehicle go to jail forvehicular homicide if his vehicle causes a fatal collision? Autonomyis defined as "the car making driving decisions without intervention of ahuman," and some of the functions that it already exists in include cruisecontrol, antilock brake systems, lane change warnings, and obstacleavoidance systems (Özgüner, Stiller, & Redmill 397). "Autonomous ||driving in traffic: boss and the Urban Challenge." AI Magazine, 3 .2 (Sum||2 9), 17-28. 2. 4. The software architecture must be capable ofgenerating "route-level planning, context-sensitive local decision making,and sophisticated motion planning to produce safe, intelligent actions forthe vehicle" (Ferguson, Baker, Likhachev, & Dolan). Introduction The modern automobile has undergone significant changes since theneighborhood mechanic was able to make most of its repairs with a wrench.Today, the advent of computer technology has made many of a car's functionsautonomous through the use of computer chips and circuit boards. If a driverless vehicle and another vehicle vie forthe same parking spot, will the driverless vehicle be able to recognizethis and back off? According to Lin, Bekey, and Abney(84), "Some technologists have suggested that, by 2 29, robots will demandequal treatment before the law with humans-and believe that this demandwill be granted." 5. Thispaper will examine the state of autonomous vehicles today and provide aglimpse of what may await in the future concerning this technology. Like any other manmade device, an autonomous vehicle is subject toerrors and failures. Scribd.
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Reading this in my 40s, I have the knowledge and experience to appreciate the political and social satire that had to be force-fed to me in high school. It's eerie how well Orwell predicted all the horrible policies of Chairman Mao in this book. When they say that those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it – they aren't just talking about summer school.
George Orwell
Animal Farm:
A Fairy Story
Penguin, Paperback [2008].
8vo. viii+95 pp. "A Note on the Text" by Peter Davison [v-viii].
First published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1945.
Published in Penguin Books, 1951.
This text first published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in the Complete Works of George Orwell series, 1987.
Published in Penguin Books with a new Note on the Text, 1989.
This edition published, 2008.
This charming little book is Orwell's greatest masterpiece of fiction. It explores pretty much the same major themes as 1984, but it's three times shorter and far more amusing. At least, it would have been amusing if everything in it – and I mean every single thing – had not happened in human form. This is what makes it tragic.
Animal Farm is a scorching satire of the Russian Revolution in particular and totalitarianism in general. It is so ingeniously crafted and so superbly written, so easy to read and so entertaining, that some people are quite taken in by it. (One publisher reportedly refused to publish the book in Britain and America because he thought there was no market for children books!) Don't you believe it! This satire is far smarter and far subtler than it looks. Every characteristic feature of totalitarian dictatorship is included here, from the hideous propaganda that perverts past and present to the threats of violence that easily turn into a reign of terror, not to mention quite a few references to real events (e.g. the Stalin-Hitler non-aggression pact). Perhaps the most depressing take-home message is that such totalitarian governments cannot be achieved without the active cooperation of dumb and meek masses. What could symbolise them better than a bunch of sheep bleating propaganda slogans? What could symbolise better the zealous party supporter who has not the brains for more than Boxer? And who can read the passage in which he is taken away and fail to be moved? Unless your historical education has been very badly neglected or you are completely deficient in empathy, you ought to find these hundred pages or so uncommonly disturbing.
Orwell's message is quite unambiguous. Bloody revolutions in the name of the people sooner or later turn into something at least as bad, probably worse, than the old regime they purported to overthrow. What, in the end, is the difference between the pigs and the humans? They look and sound absolutely alike! "I meant the moral to be", Orwell is quoted by Mr Davison, "that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job." Orwell goes on to describe such revolutions as "violent conspiratorial" and their leaders as "unconsciously power-hungry". These are perceptive remarks. The worst about such revolutions is that they do start with the best intentions. But as soon as the milk and the apples are reserved for a limited number of privileged leaders, they – the leaders – have become quite consciously power-hungry. From this point on, it's only a matter of time the leaders to become more equal than the rest and all undesirable elements who disagree to be eliminated. If only the masses would know it!
It's a shame to write a long review of so short a book. And it's not necessary. Unless, I repeat, you are tremendously callous or historically ignorant, the work speaks eloquently for itself. (Even if you completely miss the point, you can still enjoy it as a children book. Nobody can take that consolation away from you.) Granted that today its message is less topical than it must have been in the 1940s, it remains relevant. History may not repeat itself, but we are very fond of repeating its mistakes.
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A wonderful short read! Everyone should read this along with 1984.
While this book was, of course, meant for readers in a time passed, I still enjoyed it immensely. With each new chapter and each new event in the animal's lives, I found myself growing more and more horrified. It really goes to show you how easily the public can be manipulated into thinking that their leaders are doing what's best for everyone while only living to serve themselves. This was a thought provoking book as well and if you've an interest in politics, history, or the dystopian genre, I think you'd enjoy this book.
I can't believe I made it through High School and college without reading this one. Glad I finally did - quite a good message for today (especially in this political climate), don't you think?
This little book, about as long as Candide, may fairly be compared with it as a searching commentary on the dominant philosophy of the age.
Animal Farm is a very politcal novel that tells a story about a farm and the way it's run but the story of the animals the way the run the farm represents the 2nd world war and the politics behind it, this technique is known as an allegory. Old Major (a wise old pig) gives the animals a lecture about how unfairly they're treated by the humans. the animals do all the work and don't get any profit, everyone works so hard and don't even get enough food to satisfy their hunger each day, they've had enough. the animals decide to stand up to their rights, and run the farm in a way that is progressive and to shut down the humans and agree that all the animals should be treated fairly. this does not last long when the pigs start to take control of things. they assume that because they're smarter they should have more rites. The start to take advantage of their intelligence by giving themselves more rites and modifying the laws that the animals agreed to live by. while this happens alot more events occur, the animals complete the windmill but then it gets knocked down during war, this reoccurs a number of times, the farm has lost animals due to war but one of the most significate loss' was the death of Boxer who sadly gets taken away then killed by humans. alot of other major events occur that all contribute to the main theme of the novel. Animal Farm was unique from any novel i've read but I did not enjoy it but using an allegory to represent an event that is a big part of history did impress me and they way George Orwell executed it was fantastic.
With an unusually piercing blare of trumpets from the Book-of-the-Month Club, whose co-selection for September it is, and with a resounding ruffle of publicity drums, an odd little book is published today.. There is nothing so startlingly brilliant about this quite elementary fable, it seems to me, to justify a tempest in anything larger than a teacup.
'Animal Farm' may be taken as the most compact and witty expression of the left-wing British reaction to Soviet Communism... [Orwell] writes absolutely without coyness or whimsicality and with such gravity and charm that 'Animal Farm' becomes an independent creation, standing quite apart from the object of its comment. The qualities of pathos in the tale of the betrayal of the animals -- in the account, for example, of Boxer, the faithful horse -- would compel the attention of persons who never heard of the Russian Revolution.''
George Orwell, a talented leftist writer, has emerged as one of Britain's best satirists. Britons, chuckling at his new book, Animal Farm, a 92-page laugh-and thought-provoking satire on Communism and the Soviet Union, are calling its author the most brilliant political satirist since Swift.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0451526341, Mass Market Paperback)Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson
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- Los Feliz, Motorino and SD26
- A Voce Columbus, Le Souk Harem and Su Casa
- Bia Garden; Picnick, Smoked; and Trattoria Cinque
Bark Hot Dogs
474 Bergen St., 718-789-1939, Park Slope, Brooklyn
A $4 (or more) hot dog is not something all New Yorkers can stomach, but when the meat is from an upstanding sausage maker and pickles and oak-barrel-aged sauerkraut are made in-house, well, that adds up. Chef-partners Joshua Sharkey (Café Gray) and Brandon Gillis (Franny's) also went to the trouble of sourcing heirloom beans, quality smoked bacon and cool salt and pepper grinders with theft-protective "stealing is for losers" labels. Tempura-light onion rings and killer milk shakes are other lures. The knotty-pine setting is appealing, with schoolroom lab stools set around communal tables. On your way out is a busing station for compost (both food and its packaging) as well as free biscuits for your pooch.
Kolache Mama
45 E. 45th St., 212-922-1856, Midtown East, Manhattan
Along the lines of Hot Pockets and pigs in a blanket are kolaches, the Czech contribution to the genre. In the old country, the kolache [kuh-lah-chee] is a sweet pastry with fruit and cheese fillings, but American-Czech communities across America have repurposed it to also include savory meats and vegetables. Kolache Mama, a grab-and-go spot located outside the Roosevelt Hotel and convenient to Grand Central Terminal, has 26 varieties. Trays of fresh-baked kolaches are laid out like so many colorful doughnuts, divided into the categories "meatie mama" (crowned with corned beef or jalapeño-cheddar sausage), "veggie mama" (baby spinach, feta and olives) and "sweetie mama" (baked apple with caramel custard, chocolate ganache).
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93 E. 7th St., 212-387-8487, East Village, Manhattan
Lobster rolls are a serious matter here, where the fresh-from-Maine claws are meticulously stuffed into split-top rolls. There's no filler, just a bit of mayo and butter (which are optional), so prices are very fair for what you get ($8 for 2 ounces, $14 for 4 ounces). While in line in the small, boxy space, observe the driftwood-framed beach scene, lobsterman gear and the beleaguered cashier sincerely repeat, "I'm sorry about that" to customers taxed by the longish wait. For true lobster lovers, it's worth it, though you'll have to fight for one of the eight stools or eat it on the street. Luke (Holden), by the way, is a 25-year-old Maine lobsterman turned banker who also hauls in treats like thumb-size empress crab claws and sweet shrimp.
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19 Kenmare St., 212-966-1810, Little Italy, Manhattan
For New York history buffs, it was hard to see Little Charlie's Clam Bar go after so many years (1926–2007). An Australian restaurateur, Danae Cappelletto, has succeeded in carving out a fresh identity for it, however, etching a new name on the travertine stone facade. The glamorous, modern surroundings bear no trace of its predecessor, notoriously used for high-level Mafia meetings. The executive chef is Manuel "Memo" Treviño, whose years as a sous chef at Babbo helped pave the way for creating his own Italian-inspired menu. Look for fagottini stuffed with spinach and truffled sheep milk ricotta; local fluke with shaved fennel, pine nuts and orange butter; and grilled rack of lamb with olive oil crushed potatoes. In a nod to the past, there's also Little Charlie's linguine, with pancetta, cockles and fire-roasted tomato sauce.


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Although Dutch conglomerate Philips (NYSE:PHG) has bounced off the late 2008/early 2009 bottom in the stock, it has been many years since Philips was really a credible candidate for a long-term investor. Once an unquestioned leader in lighting and a strong competitor in consumer electronics, Philips has fallen victim to the bloat and malaise that seems to affect almost every conglomerate sooner or later. The question for investors now, though, is how long they are willing to wait for real signs of a new way of doing business at this company.
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Weak Guidance Hamstrings the Stock
Philips surprised the market by preannouncing a disappointing second quarter. Management was sparse on details, but sales in the core lighting business only grew in the low single digits, while sales in consumer electronics have fallen from last year's level on weakness in Europe and a restructuring of the TV business.
Oddly, the company said nothing about the health care business, which is a substantial factor in sales and profits. That said, based on the performance at competitors like General Electric (NYSE:GE), Siemens (NYSE:SI), Varian (NYSE:VAR), Hologic (Nasdaq:HOLX) and ZOLL (Nasdaq:ZOLL), it would seem credible that Philips had a good, but probably not spectacular, quarter.
All in all, then, it is hard to forecast just what sort of numbers Philips might report. That may be part of the reason behind the harsh reaction in the stock market (which sent the stock down 10% after the announcement). More to the point, it's an incredibly sloppy move on the part of management to basically yell "Fire!" without following up with details.
Can Philips Make These Assets Work?
If Philips wants to enjoy a turnaround comparable to that of Siemens, the company has some work to do. Lighting, for instance, has turned into a tough business as the transition to LED has not quite worked out as expected for Philips, Siemens, General Electric or Cree (Nasdaq:CREE). While Philips continues to spend large sums of money in R&D, its large conglomerate rivals seem to be more focused on stripping costs out of existing technology. (For related reading into R&D, see Buying Into Corporate Research & Development (R&D).) It is also worth noting that Siemens is looking to spin off Osram - not exactly a vote of confidence for the lighting market.
If maintaining profitable leadership in lighting has proven difficult, consumer electronics risks becoming an albatross. More and more, Philips seems to find it hard to compete with Asian rivals like Samsung, LG, Funai, Sharpe, Sony (NYSE:SNE) and Techtronic (Nasdaq:TTNDY). Philips has a great history here, including being on the leading edge of technologies like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray, and growth in areas like Personal Care has been solid, but the overall business has struggled to hold up against rivals with better cost structures.
Waiting For the Real Restructuring
Siemens was once in a position not all that dissimilar to Philips and plenty of investors wrote it off as hopeless. Fortunately for the company, they tapped the right people for senior management, made some tough choices, and started demanding better performance from their units. The result has been a very solid market performance in recent years.
This could happen for Philips too, but the emphasis has to be on "could" at this point. Philips hired a CEO (van Houten) with a reputation as a restructuring specialist, but there have been rather few details about whether Philips is going to get its house in order. More than anything, the company needs to balance the brand rewards of being a technology and innovation leader with the economic realities of returns on capital. This will entail more than just firing people and looking to wring costs of the system; if Philips does not lay out a vision to fundamentally transform its operating philosophy, there is no reason to own the stock other than as a value trade.
The Bottom Line
Absent that new vision for the company, there is no compelling reason to own Philips stock today. The company is cheap relative to its prospects, but there has to be serious doubt in the mind of rational investors about whether the company can realize the value of those prospects. For now, then, Philips is a wait-and-see and a ripe candidate for a solid turnaround plan.
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While coding I find that often it is needed to copy several parts of the code from one place to another (no, it is not copy/paste anti-pattern) and you end up switching back and forth between files.
Does anyone know any good windows-wide software (or Eclipse plugin) that can handle multiple copy/paste? So I can copy several different things at the same time and paste them in any order.
I tried couple but they didn't feel as natural as Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V.


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Sgt. Jonathan Ferguson was last seen in the early hours of February 14th at an IHOP Restaurant that was about 6 miles from the base where he is stationed in Yuma, AZ.
Witnesses who last saw Ferguson at IHOP told investigators he left on foot, saying he was headed back to the base.
On Friday, over 80 local Marines joined federal, state and military law enforcement authorities to help conduct an extended ground search for Ferguson in the northwest part of town. Agents from the Yuma Sector Border Patrol with a canine searched an area that morning from the Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge to the West Wetlands, where they thought Ferguson might be. Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigators, the Yuma County Sheriff's Office and several other government agencies are working together to find the missing Marine. NCIS investigators have reported Ferguson's disappearance as a "missing person" case and stated they are working diligently to seek out more details that might bring them closer to finding him.
I contacted Sgt. Ferguson's family in West Monroe, LA. His sister, Amie Diel, said that her brother was with an unknown woman at the IHOP and that she told investigators Ferguson left on foot alone and that she left in her vehicle that morning. Family members have not been able to speak to this woman and investigators will not reveal her name to the family or the public.
Ferguson's phone pinged later that evening in an area that was about 10 miles in the opposite direction of the base, which is what led investigators to the wooded area that was searched. So far, no sign of the Marine.
Ferguson, 22, is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, with dark hair, a slim build and wears glasses.
Investigators urge local citizens to call 928-269-2305 if they have any information about Ferguson's location.


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May 26, 2016
Democratic candidate for state Senate District 32, Clark Adams, formally announced his candidacy Monday at the Lauderdale County Courthouse.
Adams, of DeKalb, has lived almost his entire life in Kemper County.
He said he's running for the Senate, he said, with hopes of working for the welfare of all residents. he said it's time to get rid of selfish politics.
"Our part of District 32, we have been suffering for economic development as well as education," said Adams. "And it's time to make some changes. We need to make some changed in this millennium and so it will be better for the next generation."
Adams served 12 years as the city auditor for DeKalb.
He faces the incumbent, state Sen. Sampson Jackson, in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
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The list of nominees who had their Oscar chances revoked is a small field, with the best known case perhaps being Nino Rota getting disqualified in 1972 for Best Original Score for "The Godfather" when it was discovered that part of his composition was previously used in the 1958 film "Fortunella." (Though while he technically was never officially nominated, the music branch held a revote for the Oscar nominations and he missed out). And, despite the sad turn of events, out-of-nowhere nominee "Alone Yet Not Alone" will be a part of history.
Yesterday, the Academy revoked the nomination the Best Song nomination for the faith-based film, that had surprised pretty much everyone when it was revealed to be among the five Oscar contenders in the category. But it seems that the song's writer, Bruce Broughton, broke some rules when campaigning for the song (which shares the same name as the title of the movie) with the Academy revealing in a statement (via THR) that he "had emailed [some of the other 239] members of the branch to make them aware of his submission during the nominations voting period," which is a big no no.
For his part, Broughton is understandably "devastated" but the news, while other nominees who were left out of the top five are upset the Academy won't be slotting in a replacement. So, adjust your ballots and call your bookies because the category now looks like this:
• "Happy" from Despicable Me 2
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
• "Let It Go" from Frozen
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
• "The Moon Song" from Her
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
• "Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Music by U2 (credited as Paul Hewson a.k.a. Bono, Dave Evans a.k.a. The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson)
But, in case you want to know what it sounded like, you can check out a video for "Alone Yet Not Alone" below.


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By 2010, one-third of companies plan to upgrade or otherwise make changes to their talent systems to better aid succession planning. Another one-third of companies want to improve recruiting processes, while 29 percent aim to bolster their in-house learning functions.
The research is part of Watson Wyatt's 2007 HR Technology Trends report, a biennual survey that was released in October 2007. It compiled responses from 182 large U.S. corporations.
Those are dramatic increases from Watson Wyatt's previous survey on talent management in 2005. Tight labor markets and the looming retirements of older workers have fueled interest in talent management, a term for an integrated approach to managing various human resources processes, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, leadership development and workforce planning.
"The overall number of companies who are looking to change or switch their systems was a bit of a surprise. System investments are not something companies take lightly," says Brian Wilkerson, who heads Watson Wyatt's national practice for talent management.
Wilkerson says firms are trying to make better use of the reams of data they already collect on employee skill levels and competencies. Rather than relying on instinct when mapping out succession plans, organizations realize they need more objective data to pinpoint skill gaps and orchestrate appropriate training.
"What's happened during the last 24 months is that more HR organizations are trying to be more strategic and data-driven" regarding promotions and leadership decisions, Wilkerson says.
For instance: Learning management systems let organizations track participation rates, class enrollment, attendance, course completion and test scores. But many companies, particularly large ones, remain frustrated that they can't go beyond such transactional data to gain meaningful insight into both skill levels and skill gaps.
That points up the need for companies to better consolidate data from various networks, including learning management systems and enterprise resource planning systems, Wilkerson says.
Seagate Technology, which makes computer drives and storage products, uses a talent management process to bring together four important elements: workforce planning, the alignment of work teams with company goals, skills development and the evaluation of team and team leader effectiveness, says Marquam Piros, Seagate's senior director of performance and learning management.
In addition, about 95 percent of Seagate's 18,000 employees have created individual development plans that are based on their understanding of how their skills directly support company objectives.
Piros says Seagate demonstrates its commitment to employee learning with a corporate "people goal" that is designed to improve retention of more "world-class talent."
Heidi Spirgi, president Knowledge Infusion, a Minneapolis-based management consulting firm, sees a trend away from external hiring and toward greater emphasis on developing current employees. As part of this evolution, HR organizations are beginning to assess the training requirements needed to retain people in key positions, such as jobs that require lots of direct interaction with customers or other positions that generate revenue.
Companies also are asking themselves how they can best manage their broad-based pools of talent for succession management, Spirgi says.
Some companies are doubtless thinking about succession planning, but not all of them. Boston-based research firm Aberdeen Group says only 48 percent of companies are pursuing succession planning. Of those that have implemented such strategies, 84 percent have been able to increase the percentage of vacancies that are filled by internal candidates.
But in an echo of Watson Wyatt's findings, Aberdeen says that the chief impediment of talent management systems in this process is their inability to share data with other systems and to provide snapshots of an individual's talent and learning needs. Organizations might have internal candidates who, given the right development, could fill key positions, but they will go unrecognized.


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How do you discipline a 2 year old to go to bed???
My 2 year old has a bed time of 8:00pm, most night its around 10 before he will stay in bed. I've tried spanking him, but its not working. How do you get them to understand they need to stay in bed.
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Put a baby gate on their door. Agree follow a routine n do the same thing every night t same time. I start at 6 with dinner, then bath, then read books , then night night time. I put him in bed awake n I have to tape his light down or he turns it on. He some times stays awake n plays in his room but then by 730 the latest he is out. During the night he self soothes by hitting his music box n never gets up out if bed. It is hard at first but eventually they learn you are not giving in even if they cry that they have togoto sleep.posted 12/28/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
First make sure no naps after 5pm, try to stick to a routine of a bath or a story before bed. Also when he gets out of bed or cries don't say anything just put him back in bed and close the door. Keep doing this without saying anything and he'll learn that he isn't going to get his way and he'll soon start falling asleep on his own. It takes time but you have to stick to a routine and avoid talking to him when he gets out of bed. You say goodnight once after that if he gets out of bed you don't say anything just put him back in bed, shut the door and walk away. It took me a couple weeks but both my kids go to bed at 8pm and they say goodnight I love you and they're out. Give it time.posted 02/19/2011 by brittanyb_888
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Emile W. (Sammy) Guerra was called Home into the loving arms of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Thursday, November 22, 2012 at the age of 86.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 58 years, Dorothy Miller Guerra; his sons, James P. Friedman (Carol), Wayne A. Guerra (Amy); his daughters, Connie G. Banks (Jack), Gail G. Couvillion (Barry) and Janelle G. Capitano (Tommy). He leaves behind his loving grandchildren: Jenny Colombo, Laurie Whipp, Joelle Scully, Melanie Rogers, B.J. Couvillion, James Friedman, Jr., Jeff Banks, Shane Guerra, Brandon Couvillion, Trey Capitano and Travis Capitano. He was blessed to have been the great grandfather of Josie, Emily, Wyatt, Braeden, James, Caleb, Carsyn, Collin, Brooks, Jackson, Micah, Corinne, Madison and Annalise. He is also survived by a niece and two nephews.
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Any have experience using these carbon components? I don't want to waste my money if they're going to break in a week.
Trying to shave weight off my commuter roads bike.
Any have experience using these carbon components? I don't want to waste my money if they're going to break in a week.
Trying to shave weight off my commuter roads bike.
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In general, carbon posts are quite fine for heavier riders, although extension length, rider weight, riding style, road conditions, and seat post construction will all be factors.
For example, a 250lb mountain biker would be wise to avoid an MCFK carbon post at full extension (it's rated to a rider max of about 187lb anyway), but a 200lb rider on a Ritchey WCS carbon post at half-extension would be extremely secure for road riding.
I myself prefer titanium posts and lots of extension, but I do ride an FSA SL-K 350mm post at about 90% extension under my 215 pound (okay, okay, 219lbs last time I checked) mass for the road.
Which kind of brings up the subject of feel that sstorkel mentioned. I can tell; if you run really short extension you may not. If your roads are super smooth, you may not. If you're just not in tune with your bike and body, you may not. There are certainly performances differences, however, measurable ones, such as Velonews reported on back in '12: From the pages of Velo: Getting the most from your post - VeloNews.com
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Not all carbon seat posts are made equally, meaning, I have had big problems with some of the older Easton post and also with the Ritchey one bolt clamp design. If you go with carbon, look for one that isn't super light! I was under 200 lbs. when I had the seat post failures. The FSA SL-K is bullet proof, but is quite a bit heavier than the Easton and Ritchey post. The only thing I look for in a carbon post is some added flex to smooth out a ride, not the weight savings (anymore). Perhaps stick with a light weight aluminum post?
Good luck, Mike
Nothing wrong with good carbon, but there's also a lot of cheaply-made crap. Personally, I'd trust metal more, and pay less...there's a lot of perfectly decent and reliable aluminum posts out there that don't weigh all that much more.
Good seats don't weigh that much, either...get whatever fits your butt, and don't sweat a few grams.
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I've used a FSA carbon post and now a specialized carbon post... I can think of a lot of places to shave weight off a bike before the post, that's for sure.
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I have a Specialized Sectuer that came with a carbon post. Haven't had any issues with it at 300+ lbs.
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I have agonized over weight just with steel - It would seem that 220# is about the max number for bike weight unless your going ChroMo - But I have seen many over 250# guys on Carbon and yes the frames did sound funny but maybe that's normal - If you get down to about 220# a whole nuther world opens up for bike frame options - Till then its best to stay with steel or high quality aluminium...
I have got an SLX PX-10 that I am afraid to ride at 240# cause I am one of those guys who doesn't like to break his toys... Or anything else...
I'm 240, I was 220 but the holidays kicked my but and I've been off the wagon ever since. I can easily get back down there, I used to weight 300, so losing twenty pounds is easy Lmfao.
I'm on a Giant Rapid frame with chromo fork. The fork is going to go, along with the chromo stem. My seatpost is a Forte aluminum from performance cycling. I love the frame, it's basically the same geometry as the Defy, especially since is swapped out the original flat bar for a drop bar and brifters.
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I have a Nashbar carbon seat post. If it breaks you send it back....no questions asked (I have not had any issues and usually start the season at 240 and get down about 225 by August) .
If your doing it for weight skip it. If you just want a subtle improvement in comfort...I would recommend it.
Seatpost broke on me once. Next thing I knew, there was a crowd standing around me with EMTs putting me into the ambulance. 30 years later, I still deal with the pain.
Buyer beware.
I have a campy chorus carbon seatpost on my carbon frame. It works fine. only thing is I can't put a seat post mounted rear rack for my trunk bag. So I use a handlebar bag.
I don't do vintage, I bought them new, rode them, kept them. Now they are just old bikes
I'm right on 200#... I just put on a Zipp setback carbon post because the vibration dampening of that particular model scored quite highly in a few online reviews versus others... That in combination with my Selle Italia Superflow SLR is a pretty good combo for distance riding... I do miss my Fizik Kurve though; fantastic perch but it had cracked...
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In his very first Nation dispatch, Graham reported from the territories on Arafat's plummeting popularity and human rights abuses, as well as his shameful concessions in the Cairo security accords.
Two brilliant nominees, The Gatekeepers and 5 Broken Cameras, along with other recent documentaries, have deepened our understanding of the conflict.
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It's time to end the stranglehold of this pernicious lobby.
With its unprovoked attack on the Freedom Flotilla, Israel has only fueled the world movement to end the Gaza blockade.
Like its predecessors, the so-called Goldstone report is devastating in its critique of Israeli actions.
Mention boycott in a discussion of Israel, and chances are you'll find yourself the butt of vicious attacks. Israeli professor Neve Gordon elicited just such denunciations when he published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times last Thursday in support of the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
How would you feel if you found out that an American school, paid for with your tax dollars, was bombed and completely destroyed by a US ally? This happened in Gaza just a few months ago, during Israel's now-infamous Operation Cast Lead.
I've been touring Gaza for the past three days as part of a Code Pink delegation, and the concrete rubble and twisted rebar of the American International School in Gaza is just one of the many horrifying images we've seen on this trip. The school, which taught American progressive values to Palestinian kids in grades K-12, was bombed by US-supplied Israeli F-16s in early January. The Israelis claimed, without supplying evidence, that Hamas fighters had fired rockets from the school. Now several hundred kids have not only lost the school they dearly loved; they have been given a very different lesson in American values, one no doubt unintended by the school's founders and teachers.
The people of Gaza suffered immensely from the Israeli assault, which not only killed some 1,400 and injured 5,000 but destroyed or heavily damaged mosques, schools, hospitals, universities, and industrial and other business establishments, in addition to thousands of private homes. Dr. Marwan Sultan, who practices at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, told me his hospital was so damaged they had to send all patients to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City--which was itself damaged. The bombing of one school in Beit Lahiya killed about forty kids and injured a hundred, Sultan told me. He saw scenes of death and mutilation that still give him nightmares. Thousands are living in tent cities all over the Strip, and the entire population of Gaza is being strangled to this day by a blockade that is choking off any possibility of reconstruction or recovery.
It is an assumption almost universally acknowledged among the liberal American intelligentsia that while the Israeli occupation is repressive and abhorrent, Israel itself is an open, fully democratic state with a lively, argumentative and very free press.
Perish the thought. After spending three months in Israel on a fellowship, I can say that nearly every member of the liberal Israeli intelligentsia I've talked to says something quite different: that their country's media are seriously diseased, failing to provide the minimal level of fair reporting and serious critical inquiry that are crucial pillars of an open society.
Americans who don't read Hebrew or watch Israeli television news may get a skewed view of the spectrum, assuming that Ha'aretz, the smaller-circulation daily read mostly by intellectuals and the political classes--and foreigners, who devour its English-language edition online--is representative, and that critical columnists and reporters like Gideon Levy, Akiva Eldar and Amira Hass are sprinkled throughout the Israeli media. It isn't, and they aren't. The larger-circulation dailies Yediot and Ma'ariv, as well as the Jerusalem Post and television news, are tilted much more to the right--just like the mainstream US media, which certainly have nothing to teach Israel in this regard.
In the days leading up to Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, Yisrael Beiteinu, the far-right party led by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, announced that it would seek a bill in the Knesset banning Palestinian citizens of Israel--now 20 percent of the population--from commemorating the anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), their way of marking the founding of Israel, which involved the expulsion or flight of some 750,000 Palestinians.
Thousands of Palestinians--in the occupied territories, in Israel and in refugee camps all over the Arab world--ignored Yisrael Beiteinu's bluster and turned out for Nakba Day rallies, insisting on the right of refugees to return to their homes, a demand that is anathema to the overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews. In a speech in the stadium at the northern Israeli city of Kafr Kana, Raed Salah, the chairman of the northern branch of Israel's Islamic Movement, declared, "We are the ones who will remain on our land; it is the occupation that will soon disappear." Speaking of the occupation, former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to seek a peace deal with the Palestinians in the territories as soon as possible, as any delay would bring about a binational state, which she called "a strategic threat, no less menacing than any other threat."
The fact is that even aside from the occupation, Israel is already a binational state--increasingly, a multicultural state--albeit one that is dominated by one ethnic/religious group. What if, instead of talking past one another, Jews and Palestinians were to take a step toward admitting this reality by acknowledging the other's historical narrative and trying to live together? It turns out that some are doing this, and in very interesting ways. I recently attended the sixth annual "Independence Day/Nakba Day" gathering near the northern city of Haifa, a two-day workshop organized by Arabs and Jews "designed to respect and commemorate the pain and loss on both sides." Sponsored this year by Beyond Words, a nonprofit organization that empowers Arab and Jewish women to work for social change and peace, the event featured a history lecture, recollections of the 1948 expulsion from Ramle by a Palestinian who experienced it and of the Holocaust by a survivor, personal testimonies of loss in a common grieving ritual, and breakout workshops, as well as music, dance and prayer.


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This week's cover story in The Memphis News puts West and her role with Memphis Heritage in the context of several recent high-profile development battles. West and her group lately seem to be on a roll, with their opposition forcing Chick-fil-A to preserve the wall of an older building where the restaurant built a Midtown restaurant; rebuffing a grocery store-themed redevelopment of Overton Square; and preventing a drug store from redeveloping a church building at the intersection of Union and Cooper.
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