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Unguka Bank
Unguka Bank is a dynamic microfinance bank that was founded by a group of local university students in 2005. Unguka serves more than 30,000 clients and employs about 200 people. In 2011, it turned from a microfinance institution into a microfinance bank, thanks to which it could start offering a wider range of deposit taking products. Unguka currently operates through 14 outlets (8 branches and 6 satellite offices), covering an important part of the northwest region and the capital Kigali.
The bank's key strengths include a well-recognized brand name together with a strong focus on customer care, a strong Management Information System (MIS), a committed and experienced management team and committed employees, who have been working for many years now for Unguka Bank, a number of them also being shareholders in the bank.


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|Darci Kistler; Stacey Calvert; Albert Evans; Diana White; Michael Byars; Tom Gold; Yvonne Borree; James Fayette; Wendy Whelan; Damian Woetzel; Gordon Boelzner
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George Balanchine; Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; Rouben Ter-Arutunian; Barbara Karinska; Ronald Bates; Mark Stanley; Jay Millard; E T A Hoffmann; George Balanchine Trust.; New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
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|Recording made possible by the cooperation of New York City Ballet, The George Balanchine Trust, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
|[Scenario] based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale The nutcracker and the mouse king ; scenery, Rouben Ter-Arutunian ; costumes, Karinska ; original lighting, Ronald Bates ; lighting, Mark Stanley.
|Performed by New York City Ballet: Darci Kistler (the sugarplum fairy) ; Damian Woetzel (her cavalier) ; Petra Linnell Hoerrner (the little princess) ; Andrei Vitoptov (the little prince) ; children's ensemble (angels) ; Stacey Calvert and Albert Evans, with Samantha Allen, Wendy Drapala, Amanda Edge, Miranda Weese, Sant'gria Bello, Andrew Robertson, Jian Wang, and Robert Wersinger (hot chocolate) ; Diana White (coffee) ; Michael Byars with Inmaculada Velez and Elizabeth Walker (tea) ; Tom Gold with children's ensemble (candy canes) ; Yvonne Borree with Jennifer Fuchs, Isabel Kimmel, Andrea Long, and Jennifer Tinsely (marzipan shepherdesses) ; James Fayette with children's ensemble (Mother Ginger and her polichinelles) ; Wendy Whelan (dewdrop) ; Jenifer Ringer and Kathleen Tracey, with Jade Adams, Aura Dixon, Michele Gifford, Dana Hanson, Lydia Harmsen, Heather Hawk, Dena Kinstlinger, Margo Krody, Janey McGeary, Santhe Tsetsilas, Pascale van Kipnis, and Melissa Walter (flowers).
Conductor: Gordon Boelzner.
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|Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on May 16, 1993 (matinee), during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Wide shot version ; for close shot, see *MGZIC 9-4286B.
|1 videocassette (47 min.) : sound, color NTSC ; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
|[presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.
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Rogers, Paul, Titterington, Leigh and Davies, Michelle (2009) Attributions of Blame and Credibility in a Hypothetical Child Sexual Abuse Case: Roles of victim disability, victim resistance and respondent gender. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 56 (3). pp. 205-228. ISSN 1034-912X
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Simon Cowell has extended an invitation to David Bowie for the role of the next X Factor judge.
Cowell is hiring once again, after it was revealed today that Tulisa will be replaced in a bid to raise viewing figures up from last year. Both Robbie Williams and Sharon Osborne are said to be on Cowell's radar, but in an interview with the Daily Mail, the owner of Syco Records has stated that he has sent an invitation out to Bowie, too.
"I think if I could have anyone on the X Factor it would be David Bowie", he said. "It's no secret I've asked him, and he hasn't said yes yet, but I'll keep extending the invitation."
When asked why he'd want Bowie on the judging panel, Cowell responded: "He's a legend. He's a great songwriter, he has massive influence on music today and he's 100 per cent credible. I'm a fan. Not just of his music but of him, the man. He's cool. Most of us aren't. Bowie is."
I'm sure Bowie feels validated by Cowell stating that he's a credible artist.
Meanwhile, Tulisa is probably going to have to have a little sit down and a think about where her career's going next, as her sacking from the X Factor panel for reportedly being "subdued" in last year's show follows the failure of her debut solo album, which peaked at just #35 in the charts despite Tulisa's omnipresence on national TV for a seemingly infinite number of months.
Oh, and in relation to the main story of this article, no, of course Bowie won't be judging X Factor, you idiot.
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Estes Park, Colorado: The Shining Hotel - TV MiniseriesThe hotel offers ghost tours, and the gift shop sells keys to room 217. Stephen King stayed here and later wrote "The Shining." Appeared in the TV miniseries.
The Stanley Hotel
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- The Stanley Hotel. In town. On US 34 just north of its intersection with US 36.
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This is a beautiful place. I had no clue this was where "Dumb & Dumber" was filmed. The decor of the place is very elegant. They have a gift shop and offer tours.[Mallory Billings, 03/13/2015]
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Stay in room 217! It is the room in which Stephen King stayed, resulting in the conception of "The Shining." Best to book early and request the room. I didn't get to stay in 217, but the people staying in it invited us in for a look.[William Cope, 03/25/2013]
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Stunning place to visit. Stayed in the hotel for a few nights. I went to the Stanley a couple years ago to meet the guys from TAPS/Ghost Hunters. Wonderful views from the beautiful porch. Cool Stanley Steamer in the lobby. Loved the Stanley Hotel doll house they had on the lower floor.
They do seem to be very proud of their ties to Stephen King and The Shining. They have a channel on their hotel cable that plays The Shining 24 hours a day. No one seems to mention the strange pet cemetery on the grounds. Many neat rock formations to walk around and climb on. Would love to go back.[Andrea Hughes, 08/13/2012]
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Went there today, was well worth the trip. It's $15 for the ghost tour. In room 401 my camera quit working in the closet (only possible paranormal activity I experienced). Worked fine everywhere else. Apparently a child named Matthew is said to haunt the room. The bar has The Shining beer you can purchase (3 for $12), plus there's lots of other cool stuff.[Shellye, 04/28/2010]
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Make Excel Stop Shooting Blanks
Sometimes when I print an Excel sheet, I end up with 10 to 12 blank pages following it. Any suggestions?
Richard Manganel
It's always a good idea to choose File | Print Preview before launching an Excel print job. This gives you a chance to head off a flurry of blank sheets from the printer. And if it shows that your data is just a fraction too wide to fit on one page, you can go back and tweak the formatting before printing.
When Print Preview shows that the current print job includes useless blank pages, try resetting the print area. Select File | Print Area | Clear Print Area from the menu and then check Print Preview again. If that doesn't help, it probably means that there is a stray cell somewhere with data in it. Even a space is enough to make Excel print those extra pages. One solution is to highlight the actual data and choose File | Print Area | Set Print Area from the menu. That will force Excel to print the specified area and nothing more. However, rows and columns added in the future may fall outside of that print area, yielding an incomplete printout. A better solution is to transfer the data to a fresh new worksheet. Select Worksheet from the Insert menu in order to create a new sheet. Copy only the desired data from the old sheet to the new. Then delete the old sheet. That should put an end to your print area problems.


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Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client provided by Yahoo!. It is provided free of charge and anyone can download and use it.
1Open your browser and go to http://messenger.yahoo.com
2Click at 'Get It Now' button
3Now you are at the download page, click 'Get Started'
4If you are asked 'Do you want to run or save this file?', choose 'Run'.
5After the download has completed, the installation dialog pops up. Click 'Next'.
6Choose the products you wish to install. By default it will install Yahoo Messenger with Voice, Yahoo! Toolbar with Anti-Spy and Pop-Up Blocker, sets up Yahoo! Extras for Internet Explorer, making Yahoo! your default search engine for Internet Explorer, and make your default home page to www.yahoo.com. Click 'Next'.
7Click the checkbox if you accept the License Agreement and Terms (you have to check it to proceed). Click 'Next'.
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It's Michigan week, and our guy Joe is back to offer up a framed print of the iconic Woody Hayes in the snow from his virtual Buckeye store (click the photo to the right to see the actual product). After all, the man is ½ of the pair that still define the importance of the rivalry to this day.
Just like every other contest we run around these parts, the commenter that offers up a score prediction closest to the final score will take this bad boy home. And you'll mount it right above your bed like any upstanding Buckeye would do.
This marks the fourth contest Joe has sponsored this season, so the least we can do is advise you to hit him up for any Buckeye gear you have in mind for family or friends this holiday season.
The fine print...
- Must be 18 years-old or older.
- One entry/comment per person.
- Your entry/comment must include a valid email address.
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Rob Rasmussen has had an education.
Oh, he knew it was possible he would be able to achieve academic excellence by attending UCLA. But his real education has come on the pitcher's mound.
The left-handed junior from Pasadena Poly has become the Sunday pitcher for the Bruins. That means he gets the final say in the Bruins' three-game series.
He was perfect in the role until Sunday when 17th-ranked Arizona State got to him in the fourth inning of the Wildcats' 6-4 victory.
Rasmussen is 6-1 in his Sunday starts with a 2.85 ERA. The Bruins are ranked fifth in the nation.
"It's about getting ahead in the count," he said. "It's about the difference between being ahead 0-1 and being down 1-0."
Actually, it's about the fastball, Bruins coach John Savage said.
"He's had control of it and that is the difference," Savage said.
Rasmussen throws his fastball between 90 and 93 mph. He has been consistent in finding the inside corner, and that has allowed him to throw a slider, changeup and curve just as effectively.
"With the way I've been throwing my fastball," the 21-year-old said, "the more I can go to the slider or curve for strikeouts. That's because they cannot wait on the fastball."
He has struck out 72 batters this season in
53 2/3 innings and has given up 45 hits and 21 walks. Teams have a .224 batting average against him.
"Having command of my pitching has given me confidence," he said. "But then our bats have really stepped up for us."
The Bruins began the season with 22 consecutive victories. The streak ended with an 8-4 loss to Stanford.
Rasmussen then gave the Bruins a series-closing 7-5 victory. He gave up four hits in six innings.
"He has a role that is important to us," Savage said. "When you play a three-game series in conference, the series comes down to the Sunday pitcher. We were 0-1 against Stanford and he got us the win.
"We were 1-1 against Oregon State and he got us the win. We were 0-2 against Oregon and he kept us from being swept. You need to have a strong Sunday pitcher. It's a huge role and he has done the job this year."
Savage has given him the mental edge to be pitching at this level, the Arcadia resident said.
"His expertise has made me understand how important the numbers are," Rasmussen said. "I've learned what I need to do in situations."
Rasmussen admitted that was not the case when he pitched for Pasadena Poly.
He certainly knew he was getting an education that could take him to any college. But as much of an academic education he could get, it was not the same on the baseball field.
Rasmussen went 12-0 with a 0.33 ERA in 2007 and helped the Panthers to a 24-2 record and CIF-Southern Section semifinal playoff berth, but it was in one of the CIF's smaller divisions.
He told several Major League Baseball teams he definitely was going to UCLA. He was selected in the 27th round by the Dodgers.
"There was no way I was ready for the pros," he said. "I'm so happy I went to UCLA."
But going from Poly, with a student population of no more than 850 students for all 13 grades, to a school with more than 26,000 students is a huge step.
Going from a baseball program that regularly faced Flintridge Prep and Rio Hondo Prep to a program that regularly plays top-ranked Arizona State and five other Pac-10 teams currently ranked in the nation's Top 25 also is a huge step.
"It was a big adjustment, but fortunately I have 30 to 35 people who immediately accepted me as their best friend," Rasmussen said of his teammates. "Working out with them and studying with them helped in my transition."
Fortunately, he had the Poly education to help guide him through those early, difficult years. In his college debut, he broke his left toe when it was struck by a line drive in the third inning. He was out for 10 weeks before returning. He pitched only
17 2/3 innings that season.
He spent most of last year in the bullpen but did make six starts. He was 4-2 with a 6.45 ERA.
However, all that baseball education came to fruition at last summer's Cape Cod League, Savage said.
"You could see how comfortable he was out there," Savage said.
He went 4-0 in the league with a 1.80 ERA and earned the starting role in the league's all-star game.
"I feel more polished and I understand the mental and physical side of the game better," he said.
So if a major league team selects him in the draft this season? Rasmussen said he has only two more quarters remaining to complete his economics degree, so if the offer is right ...
But first, there is the issue of the Pac-10 title and a potential berth in one of the NCAA Division I regionals.
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This was the year that Prince William and Catherine Middleton not only took over the titles of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, but also seized the moniker of 'Most Favourite Royals Ever'
To say that Will and Kate caused a craze this year is an understatement. For avid royal fans, the spell cast over them by the royal couple is stronger than Bieber Fever.
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Even riderless horses hurried to Westminster Abbey.
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Royal watchers also had the chance to spot elusive celebs arriving for the wedding. Here are the often-heard, rarely-seen species of Beckhams. Both male and female versions of species were present for the wedding.
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Also on display in the procession of guests were an unbelievable number of ugly hats that go by the euphemism "fascinators."
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But none were as stunningly curious as Princess Beatrice's choice. Is it an octopus? A door knocker? An abstract rendition of female reproductive organs? The world will never know.
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Speaking of hats, there was a lot of betting surrounding the Queen's choice of chapeau.
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The winner is yellow!
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No gambler saw this Royal Wedding scandal coming. Kate's sister, Pippa, made headlines for her curve-hugging maid-of-honour dress. While you're not supposed to outshine the bride, Pippa certainly set more tongues wagging and started a plastic surgery trend: The Pippa Middleton butt.
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The secondary Pippa scandal turned out to be nothing more than royal watchers' wishful thinking. Despite rumours, Prince Harry and Pippa did not become an item after the wedding.
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But once the walk down the aisle began, the Pippa talk stopped as all eyes were fixed on the bride and groom.
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Even with the spectacle and splendour of the young couple's wedding, though, no one could forget Diana.
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And before fans could finish their first pot of tea, the couple were married and kissing, politely. And everyone was happy.
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Well not everyone. This little bridesmaid, three-year-old Grace Van Cutsem, put on her best grumpy face for the cameras and crowds.
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Grace's grumpiness seemed to be infectious. Just ask the Duchess of Kent.
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But that didn't get the newlyweds down because their journey as husband and wife was just beginning and they knew life was about to change dramatically.
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Starting with having several creepy dolls made of them, most of which had freakishly large heads and nearly no resemblance to the handsome couple.
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That's better.
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The PEZ were even better.
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But the Canadian $200 coin really missed the mark. Exactly who are those people supposed to be?
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And because the royal wedding, apparently, didn't make enough money, the royal family put together an official Royal Wedding exhibition in Buckingham Palace.
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Visitors could line up for hours to see such exciting things as the first cut in the wedding cake. Look, but don't touch. And don't even think about eating it.
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Even though the craziness over the wedding continued for fans, the Duke and Duchess returned to their normal royal lives, doing things like sporting cool-dude sunglasses at tennis matches.
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And travelling to exotic places, like Canada.
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During their royal visit, Will and Kate got a full rundown of every Canadian cultural stereotype, starting with Anne of Green Gables.
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Of course there was hockey.
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And who could forget cowboy hats, the physical embodiment of the Calgary Stampede. All that was missing were gratuitous photos with Mounties holding beavers.
(Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press)
Beyond touring foreign countries and indulging in stereotypes, the royal couple made to time to mingle with a lot of people, like sick children.
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And Hollywood.
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Since then, Will and Kate have laid low. Every royal watcher is hoping that's because the couple is taking time to make a new royal family member, 'cause the only thing more captivating than a royal wedding is a royal pregnancy.
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WILTSHIRE Police are holding crime prevention sessions in Swindon following a spike in burglaries.
Since July 31 there have been seven residential burglaries in Stratton and three in Highworth – considerably more than normal for these areas.
It is thought that due to the warm weather, more people are leaving doors and windows open creating more opportunities for burglars to gain access to homes.
There have been several incidents whereby offenders have used garden furniture to climb to upstairs windows left ajar.
Wiltshire Police, in association with Swindon Borough Council and the Bobby Van are holding two crime preventions sessions to arm members of the public with the information they need to stop them becoming victims of burglary.
These sessions will be held on Wednesday between 10am – 12noon at the Grange Drive Community Centre, Stratton and 1pm – 3pm outside the parade of shops Beechcroft Road, Upper Stratton.
If you are unable to make this event you can call 101 to speak to a Crime Prevention Officer who will be happy to talk to you or to speak to your local Neighbourhood Policing Team on your behalf.
Crime prevention advice:
Remember, if your front and back doors are not secure, neither is your home.
* Make sure the doors and frames are strong and in good condition.
* Fit back and front doors with a five-lever mortice deadlock – and use it.
* Fit all exterior doors – top and bottom – with bolts. Remember to fit all security devices with strong screws or bolts.
*Glass panels on or around the door are especially vulnerable, so replace them with laminated glass.
*Get specialist advice from a Master Locksmith on fitting locks to patio doors.
*Fit both French doors, top and bottom, with a security mortice lock and mortice bolt.
A third of burglars enter properties via back windows.
* Easily visible locks may deter some thieves, because a window lock forces the thief to break the glass and risk attracting attention. DIY shops sell inexpensive key-operated locks to fit all kinds of window.
* Fit key-operated window locks to all downstairs windows and that easily accessible upstairs window, eg. Those above a flat roof or by a drainpipe.
* Even small windows such as skylights or bathroom fanlights need locks – a thief can get through any gap larger than a human head.
* Remember to remove keys from locked windows and to keep them out of sight in a safe place but ensure you have a fire escape route planned.
Visible burglar alarms make burglars think twice.
Lights on in the house need to give the impression that someone is in, so leaving only a hall or landing light on is not good enough – after all, how many of us spend our evenings sitting on the stairs?
* Usually a living room and a bedroom light on timer switch will give a good impression of occupancy.
* Curtains need to be closed so that lights coming on do not make it easier to see what is available to steal in a room that evidently has no occupants.
Often full of expensive tools ideal for breaking into the rest of the house – and often left unlocked.
*Never leave a garage or garden shed unlocked, especially if it has a connecting door to the house – a thief could get in and work on the inner door in privacy.
* Fit shed and garage doors with a strong padlock and make sure that they are solid enough not to be kicked in.


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Beautiful Ethnic Necklace!!
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What a Wonderful way to say how much I love you this Holiday Season. Get your loved one this Beautiful Set this year and show your love with unique, one of a kind couples set. This set has a Silver Ring with a simple design on... What a Wonderful way to say how much I love you this Holiday Season. Get your loved one this Beautiful Set this year and show your love with unique, one of a kind couples set. This set has a Silver Ring with a simple design on the side for Him featuring a Green Quartz stone, and a Silver Necklace for Her Featuring 2 intertwined crossed branches united with the same Green Quartz Stone. The Silver Green Quartz Ring has a wide band and is heavy gauge. Featuring a 13 x 18 mm Genuine Green Quartz Cabochon Stone. The band is a very sturdy thick gauge metal. Ring is adjustable from size 8 - 11. Since it is such a heavy gauge ring it must be sized with a Ring Mandrel. Please send me Ring size so I can make sure it is properly adjusted. The Ring Setting itself is new yet old. It is Brand new from the 1960s -1970s. The Silver Crossed Branch Green Quartz Necklace has a 13 x 18 mm Green Quartz cabochon Stone. The pendant is a metal casting. The chain is 18" long, and with pendant hangs at approx. 20" long. As with the ring this necklace is also new yet old. Brand new from the 1960s - 1970s. Find more Necklaces listed: http://www.etsy.com/shop/leighswiccanboutique?section_id=6978558 Or visit my Vintage shop at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/mandileighs ¨¨¨°º©©º°¨¨¨¨¨¨°º©©º°¨¨¨¨¨¨°º©©º°¨¨¨¨¨°º©©º°¨¨¨¨¨¨°º©©º°¨¨¨°º©©º°¨¨¨¨¨¨°º©©º°¨¨¨¨¨¨°º©¨¨¨ Metaphysical Properties: Green Quartz: In addition to the generic healing, and Energy properties of the powerful Crystal Quartz, the Green Quartz variety, also known as Prasiolite, opens and stabilises the heart chakra. It promotes an intuitive capability which is coupled with love. Green Quartz is a stone of tranformative energies. It transmutes negative energy to positive without releasing it to the atmosphere.
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New Dario Argento Trailer Online
Adrien Brody stars in Giallo
Are you a horror fan? Are you tired of sequels and remakes? Then you need a dose of Dario Argento, who may be covering familiar ground but is at least doing so with original scripts. Check out the trailer for Giallo here.
As you'll see, it's an English-language Italian serial killer thriller, with Brody as police inspector Enzo Avolfi: an Italian-American, judging by the accent. Emmanuelle Seigner (The Ninth Gate) also stars.
We don't want to hear the words "torture porn": Argento is an auteur, all right? And Giallo, as well as being the title of the film, is also the genre (crime thrillers with a lot of really bloody murders, named from the yellow covers of the novels that inspired them) that Argento helped popularise. So if it is torture porn, it's self-referential postmodern torture porn. So that's alright then. That said, we can't exactly vouch for this just yet, if this entry into the Empire blog is anything to go by.
Giallo premiered at Edinburgh last month, and will also screen at Frightfest in August.


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The Adelaide Thunderbirds became the first team to notch seven wins in the trans-Tasman netball league season as they held off a much-improved West Coast Fever to claim a 49-47 victory in Perth on Sunday.
The last time the two teams met, on April 14 in Adelaide, the Thunderbirds hammered the Fever by 26 goals.
But they were forced to battle a late comeback this time before the sixth-placed Fever fell to a 3-5 record.
The Thunderbirds led by five goals at halftime and by seven after the third quarter before the Fever made a late push that came up just short.
Fever coach Norma Plummer was happy with her side's effort but was frustrated by Adelaide's stalling tactics.
"It's still a loss which is a little bit unfortunate but I'm very proud of the way we stepped up," Plummer said.
"There was plenty of stalling in the game. The umpires... were very lax. It was good play from the Thunderbirds, it's up to the umpires to stamp it out."
The Thunderbirds attackers were given a torrid time by the Fever's English defender Eboni Beckford-Chambers but Carla Borrego finished with 29 goals from 39 attempts and Erin Bell 20 from 28.
Caitlin Bassett hit 35 from 39 for the Fever and veteran Catherine Cox 12 of 16.
Thunderbirds coach Jane Woodlands-Thompson was pleased with her team's ability to grind out the win but was concerned by some of the contact.
"We've come off four really tough matches and we knew that the Fever grow another leg at home," Woodlands-Thompson said.
"There was a lot of arm grabbing out there that I don't really like to see come into the game, but I thought the umpires controlled it well. It just detracts from the spectacle a little bit."
The Thunderbirds (7-1) sit on top of the ladder but have played one game more than the Melbourne Vixens and Queensland Firebirds who both have 6-1 records.
With the evenness of the top-three teams and the significance of home-court advantage, Woodlands-Thompson knows how important it is to assert their dominance over the teams below them on the ladder.
"We learned that lesson last year when we went over to play the Pulse and lost by a goal when we were ranked top and they were seventh or eighth," Woodlands-Thompson said.
"We finished fourth and if we won that, we would have been top. It's going to be tight again and our percentage isn't looking that great because we keep winning by one or two goals.


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By Alice Barrett
PHOTOGRAPHER Gemma Dawks has snapped up three prestigious awards.
Minchinhampton mother-of-two Gemma has received three international awards from The Guild of Professional Photographers.
This is in addition to a further 35 awards she won throughout last year in the guild's monthly competitions.
A still-life and fine art photographer, Gemma won two top 10 awards and also became a member of The Photographers Bar – a unique distinction awarded to very few photographers who have successfully had images assessed by the guild.
Photographers had to submit several images a month for assessment over the course of a year.
Gemma said: "I am absolutely thrilled to have received these awards.
"After a lifelong passion for photography I started my professional journey at the end of 2012 and despite all the hard work I never imagined that a year on I would be winning international awards.
"I consider my work to be as much art as photography and after I've taken the image the magic really starts to happen as I begin adding light and depth and bringing in texture and detail in processing.
"My mouse is my paintbrush and my monitor my canvas."
It is no surprise that Gemma has found her way to still-life and fine art photography having grown up in Tetbury surrounded by fine art in her mother's gallery.
She was also influenced by her grandfather, Ben Maile, an internationally renowned artist.
Gemma prints all her own work from her home in Minchinhampton, where she lives with her husband and two young children.
This year she hopes to gain qualification with the guild and extend her range of floral and still life fine art photography and even expand into fine art portraiture.
Her prints and canvases are available to buy at the monthly craft and gift market in Tetbury and on her website at gemmadawksphotography.com
The guild is a photographic body founded in 1988.


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The producer/hip-hop artist has just premiered his new music video for his latest single taken from the upcoming album "Not 4 Sale".
Preparing to release his new LP "Not 4 Sale", producer and hip-hop singer Kardinal Offishall has just premiered a new music video via his official MySpace page on July 1, in a bid to promote the upcoming album. The new clip was labeled the official street video for the singer's latest single "Burnt".
Just like on the song, on the clip Kardinal was also accompanied by Lindo P and also few other friends. In most of the scenes on the video, the singer was seen rapping on the streets and a bar. The clip ends with what looks to be the cover of the producer/singer's new record.
"Burnt" reportedly will be one the songs on Kardinal's new record, that is being scheduled to drop on August 5. Before releasing the new single, the hip-hop singer has already spawned another song titled "Dangerous" featuring Akon, which is currently placed at #24 on the Billboard 100 chart.
Meanwhile, beside working with Akon and Lindo, the singer has also confirmed that other famous names will also be featured on it. Some of the musicians that are teaming with Kardinal on "Not 4 Sale", are T-Pain, Estelle, The-Dream and The Pussycat Dolls.
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A Woodbury woman accused of molesting a juvenile boy pleaded guilty Monday to one count of criminal sexual conduct.
Stephanie Ann Stewart, 21, pleaded guilty to fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct, as part of a plea agreement.
Washington County prosecutors accused Stewart of engaging in sexual contact with a teenage boy between the age of 13 and 15. Woodbury police were alerted to the case in April 2010 by social services following an anonymous report.
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If you are working with SAP technology the most anticipated event every year is the SAP TechEd. It is a big get-together of SAP professionals to learn about new SAP and SAP Partner technologies as well as sharing ideas (and have an exciting demo jam and party). This year SAP has four TechEds around the world:
Vienna: September, 21-23
Boston: September, 27-30
Bangalore: October, 5-7
Tokyo: October, 26-27
Adobe will have a significant presence at the TechEd in Vienna and in Boston. It will be a great opportunity for attendees to learn more about Interactive Forms based on Adobe software and for me to talk to SAP developers using Adobe technology and also further evangelize our Interactive Forms story. If you are attending SAP TechEd please ensure to stop by one or more of the Interactive Forms presentations and hands-on sessions:
Interactive Forms Based on Adobe Software – Overview and Customer Experiences: Vienna, Boston
Business Task Management – Overview: Vienna, Boston
Scenarios with Interactive Forms in Web Dynpro: Vienna, Boston
Creating PDF-Based Forms for Printing with Interactive Forms Based on Adobe Software: Vienna, Boston
There is also the possibility to meet and discuss in a less formal setting. Stop by our booth and look at the latest improvements of designing forms integrated in SAP development environments. I think especially our new table wizard is a great new Designer enhancement. Finally, I also offer a Birds of a Feather meeting on Interactive Forms. You can sign up through the SAP TechEd Wiki for Vienna or Boston.
If you are attending SAP TechEd write a little comment. I am interested if anyone out of the SAP community reads this Blog. For those who are interested, but not able to attend I will post updates live from TechEd to this Blog.


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Hyderabad: Computer services company Mahindra Satyam on Thursday reported a 74% decline in net profit for the quarter ended 31 December after paying $68 million (Rs.294 crore charge on the balance sheet) to settle claims by Aberdeen Asset Management Plc.
Net profit fell to Rs.80 crore in the three months ended 31 December from Rs.308.43 crore in the year-ago period, said the company. Revenue increased 12.9% to Rs.1,940 crore.
"With the settlement of the Aberdeen suit, the external litigation issues now stand concluded, freeing us to focus even more on the business-ready solutions for our customers," chairman Vineet Nayyar said in a statement.
Mahindra Satyam said in December that it entered into an agreement to settle claims brought in a London court by Aberdeen Global and 22 other funds managed by Aberdeen Asset Management and its units. The claims included allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation said to have been made by the former management of Satyam Computer Services Ltd in London and relied upon by the claimants' investment manager and communicated in meetings said to have taken place in London. Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services was rebranded Mahindra Satyam after it was bought by Tech Mahindra Ltd in an auction overseen by government-appointed directors in April 2009. In January of that year, Satyam plunged into a crisis after founder chairman B. Ramalinga Raju confessed to having misstated accounts to the tune of Rs.7,136 crore, triggering India's biggest corporate fraud investigation.
Mahindra Satyam, which still trades on stock exchanges as Satyam Computer Services, and Tech Mahindra have announced that they would merge their operations—a proposal cleared by the Competition Commission of India, BSE, NSE and the Bombay high court. It is still pending in the high court of Andhra Pradesh, which has clubbed the merger petition with two separate petitions—one challenging the merger swap ratio and the other filed by 37 companies that are claiming Rs.1,230 crore lent to Satyam Computer during the time Raju was heading the company.
Nayyar said the merger was in the "penultimate stage" and expressed confidence that the firms will operate as a combined entity in the near future. "In fact, de facto, we are already doing that. We have made very good progress in terms of integration at multiple fronts like system consolidation, process and policy alignment. Our joint go-to market models are evolving with our customers needs. All in all, in terms of various litigations pertaining to the merger, we remain optimistic about the final outcome," Nayyar said.
Income from Mahindra Satyam's biggest market, North America was relatively lower compared to the previous quarter while the European market saw a "leap" in revenues, according to chief executive officer (CEO) C.P. Gurnani. "The indication here is that it is not that Europe has rebounded completely. It just tells you that the cycles of this business in US is that typically most of the large customers tend to take a forced shut down during this period. Many of our large customers have decided that this is the time they would declare a kind of a holiday," Gurnani said.
North America accounted for 54% of Mahindra Satyam's revenue while the European Union contributed 24% to the income. The management said the trend will continue.
Nayyar said the global economy is showing "some positive signs" but advised that customers are going to be cautiously optimistic.
"These measures have supported modest pick up in growth but full recovery will be a long and slow process especially in the euro zone. As we go ahead we expect our customers to be cautiously optimistic...Our expectations are that our customers will invest more in technology this year compared to last year," Nayyar said. "Decision making cycles would continue to be prolonged as in 2012 as customers closely monitor the market before committing spends."
"Operationally, the results look good," said Ankita Somani, IT and telecom analyst at Mumbai-based Angel Broking Ltd. "On the revenue, operating margin front and all other parameters, the results were higher than our expectations. The only disappointment came in the bottomline but that is fine as all outstanding litigation overseas has been resolved," she said.
Satyam Computer shares fell 2.32% to Rs.119.90 on a day the BSE's benchmark Sensex declined 0.55% to 19,894.98 points.
The company had cash reserves of Rs.3,311 crore on its books at the end of December, which CEO Gurnani said would be utilized to make strategic acquisitions for the firm in engineering services, BFSI, or banking, financial services and insurance, and healthcare space. "We are not shy of looking at an acquisition… M&A (merger and acquisition) is part of my strategy and it will consume some cash," Gurnani said. "I have already indicated there will be more in Europe, there will be more in Australia," Gurnani said.


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Preparing for a Pandemic, State Health Departments Struggle With Rationing Decisions
This story was co-published with the New York Times.
New York state health officials recently laid out this wrenching scenario for a small group of medical professionals from New York-Presbyterian Hospital:
A 32-year-old man with cystic fibrosis is rushed to the hospital with appendicitis in the midst of a worsening pandemic caused by the H1N1 flu virus, which has mutated into a more deadly form. The man is awaiting a lung transplant and brought with him the mechanical ventilator that helps him breathe.
- New York State: "Allocation of Ventilators in an Influenza Pandemic"
- Public Comment on Draft Plan for Ventilator Allocation in New York During Flu Pandemic
- In Flu Pandemic, Florida's Hospitals May Exclude Certain Patients by Sheri Fink, October 16, 2009
- Key Panel Presses for Clearer Guidance on Who Gets Scarce Resources in Major Medical Disasters by Charles Ornstein and Sheri Fink, September 24, 2009
- Flu Nightmare: In Severe Pandemic, Officials Ponder Disconnecting Ventilators From Some Patients by Sheri Fink, September 23, 2009
New York's governor has declared a state of emergency and hospitals are following the state's pandemic ventilator allocation plan -- actual guidelines drafted in 2007 that are now being revisited. The plan aims to direct ventilators to those with the best chances of survival in a severe, 1918-like flu pandemic where tens of thousands develop life-threatening pneumonia.
Because the man's end-stage lung disease caused by his cystic fibrosis is among a list of medical conditions associated with high mortality, the guidelines would bar the man from using a ventilator in a hospital, even though he is, unlike many with his illness, stable, in good condition, and not close to death. If the hospital admits him, the guidelines call for the machine that keeps him alive to be given to someone else.
Would doctors and nurses follow such rules? Should they?
In recent years, officials in a host of states and localities, as well as the federal Veterans Health Administration, have been quietly addressing one of medicine's most troubling questions: Who should get a chance to survive when the number of severely ill people far exceeds the resources needed to treat them all?
The draft plans vary. In some states, patients with Do Not Resuscitate orders, the elderly, those requiring dialysis, or those with severe neurological impairment would be refused ventilators, or admission to hospitals. Utah divides epidemics into phases. Initially, hospitals would apply triage rules to residents of mental institutions, nursing homes, prisons and facilities for the "handicapped." If an epidemic worsened, the rules would apply to the general population.
Federal officials say the possibility that America's already crowded intensive care units would be overwhelmed in the coming weeks by flu patients is small but they remain vigilant.
The triage plans have attracted little publicity. New York, for example, released its draft guidelines in 2007, offered a 45-day comment period, and has made no changes since. The Health Department made 90 pages of public comments public this week only after receiving a request under the state's public records laws.
Mary Buckley-Davis, a respiratory therapist with 30 years experience, wrote to officials in 2007 that "there will be rioting in the streets" if hospitals begin disconnecting ventilators. "There won't be enough public relations spin or appropriate media coverage in the world" to calm the family of a patient "terminally weaned" from a ventilator, she said.
State and federal officials defend formal rationing as the last in a series of steps that would be taken to stretch scarce resources and provide the best outcome for the public. They say it is better to plan for such decisions than leave them to besieged health workers battling a crisis.
"You change your perspective from thinking about the individual patient to thinking about the community of patients," said Rear Adm. Ann Knebel of the Department of Health and Human Services.
But some health professionals question whether the draft guidelines are fair, effective, ethical, and even remotely feasible.
Most existing triage plans were designed for handling mass casualties. They sort injured victims into priority categories based on the urgency of their medical needs and their potential for survival given available resources. Much of the controversy over the state plans focuses on two additional features.
These are "exclusion criteria," which bar certain categories of patients from standard hospital treatments in a severe health disaster, and "minimum qualifications for survival," which limit the resources used for each patient. Once that limit is reached, patients who are not improving would be removed from essential treatment in favor of those with better chances.
A version of these concepts was outlined in a post-9/11 medical journal article that suggested ways to handle victims of a large-scale bioterrorist event. The author, Dr. Frederick Burkle Jr., said he based his ideas in part on his experiences as a triage officer in Vietnam and the gulf war and on a cold war-era British plan for coping with a nuclear strike. Dr. Burkle said that during the gulf war he once instructed surgeons to halt an operation and work on another patient who was more likely to survive. Surgeons later returned to the first patient.
Dr. Burkle's ideas were key aspects of guidelines Ontario authorities drew up after SARS to plan for avian flu and other pandemics. This approach and one by a team of Minnesota doctors were modified by groups developing similar guidelines in the United States.
There were important distinctions. Dr. Burkle's original paper did not anticipate withdrawing care from patients and stressed the need to reassess the level of supplies "sometimes on a daily or hourly basis" in a fluid effort to provide the best possible care.
Some states' triage guidelines are rigid, with a single set of criteria intended to apply throughout the severe phase of a pandemic. That disturbs Dr. Burkle. "I have said to my wife, I think I developed a monster here," he said.
Recent research highlights the problem of a one-size-fits-all approach to triage. Many state pandemic plans call for hospitals to remove patients from ventilators if they are not improving after two to five days. Studies show that people severely ill with H1N1 flu generally need a week to two weeks on ventilators to recover.
There is also controversy over what values and ethical principles should guide triage decisions, how to engage the public, and whether withdrawing life support in the hospital and withholding it at the hospital door are distinct.
Normally, removing viable patients from life support against their or their families' will would be considered murder. The New York-Presbyterian Hospital employees who participated in the recent exercise said they would not comply unless given legal protection.
They also never figured out what to do with that hypothetical patient who had his own ventilator, said Dr. Kenneth Prager, a pulmonologist and ethicist. "The issue of removing patients from ventilators," he said, "was so overwhelming that it precluded discussion of further case scenarios."
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Please note that in the 1955 polio epidemic in Boston, an acute shortage of ventilators ("iron lungs") developed. These machines were directed to those patients with bulbar paralysis who needed them the most. The other patients, mostly children, were not abandoned to die, but were supported by heroic "inhalation therapists" or anesthesiologists who manually squeezed bags ("AMBUs") for hours. This would be made easier today, as the techniques and equipment are much simpler, and there are many trained staff who would gladly do the job for as long as it takes in a pandemic. Medical care with non-unlimited resources always means triage, and one must foresee cases where a similar ventilator shortage could occur, but the resources of medical personnel are more extensive than these plans imagine.
Hubby and I have already been "shut out" on getting the vaccine in this city in South Dakota. When doses arrived at our state capital…one hospital here took and controlled all doses…we asked at his doctor and clinic, my doctor and clinic and then called a hospital and were told, "not available yet for greater/broader public"..Consequently; I WILL NOT teach (substitute) in the schools without it..we had regular flu shot administered on Sept 10…I have a kidney/heart disability (but am mobile and active when I can be) and he is due to go back to work on a military base OR redeploy as contractor to Afghanistan…we are both shut out? Yet, we can pay for it and want it> What does this tell us? Also; we do know that in this city; immigrants got the shots for their families and kids before the citizenry…yup, this is true. I'm figuring as taxpayers, we had the right to request it…Go figure.
I'm disabled by illness. The guidelines scare me more than the illnesses: the one(s) I have and the H1N1 - but I appreciate knowing what the guidelines are.
There is both ignorance and bias in the medical profession on/about certain illnesses and "survivability".
The NYTimes had an op ed piece by Hillary Johnson on Oct.21, 2009 stating it's time to end the "chronic denial" about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME as a serious illness. It was a response to the coverage of finding a retrovirus in more than half the people with CFS, in a recent study; the same retrovirus as found in men with prostate cancer and people with leukemia. I also have allergic asthma, adult diagnosis (a family genetic illness, so feared in my family that it was hardly mentioned as the cause of my grandfather's death at age 38).
I fear that severely disabled people, who may not have severe illnesses (there are severely disabled healthy people: e.g. born with birth defects or survivors of car crashes. "Triage" means the judgment of how many individuals in the plan? I've seen "bad" (wrong) calls in the Emergency Room (on two others, not me). I suggest people look at Not Dead Yet's website,
http://www.notdeadyet.org for Stephen Drake's blog entries.
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As the 3G iPhone Saga continues to unfold, I find myself wondering less "who's in charge" and more "is anyone in charge?"
With 3rd party iPhone applications now all the rage, one group that's emerging are offerings from VoIP providers. Those would be the guys who want you to make a VoIP call instead of a call over AT&T's 3G cell network, which is the only US network where iPhone currently works.
AT&T isn't too worried though, according to Dan Frommer at "Silicon Valley Insider." One reason, he says, is that Apple will only approve iPhone apps that make VoIP calls over a Wi-Fi connection, not over the cell network. (Frommer may not be correct, though: more on this in a moment.)
Interesting model: instead of hunting for an old payphone to make a call, you have to hunt for a Wi-Fi access point to make a call.
The main reason for AT&T's equilibrium, Frommer says, is that it's already locked iPhone users into 2-year service plans with bundles of the domestic calling minutes you're already planning to use. "The worst that could happen: You bump your calling plan down to a cheaper one," Frommer writes.
I think he meant "the best that could happen." Frommer doesn't seem to think such a change is a big deal, but I'd really be interested in seeing if anything like that actually happens: users opting for minimum plans because 1) they do plan to make VoIP calls and 2)they want the iPhone mainly for mobile Web surfing and related stuff -- data.
Frommer only names the Truphone application as available on Apples App Store for iPhone. But Robert Poe, writing for VoIP News, lists serveral more (though one is awaiting Apple approval and a second is in beta), and takes note of the tradeoffs that the applications impose.
On Poe's list are: 8x8, Inc.'s Packet8, JAJAH's JAJAH.Mobile Web and iCall's beta iCall for the iPhone application.
Poe has a trove of information -- Truphone in iPhone works only over Wi-Fi, not over celluar as does its recently introduced Truphone Anywhere; Packet8 does use the cellular net, but the call is set up through an awkward back and forth via a Web portal because Apple doesn't let 3rd parties access the iPhone Dialer directly; and JAJAH, still awaiting Apple's clearance to be posted on AppStore, promises multiple connection options.
iCall will be able to move voice call seamlessly between cellular and Wi-Fi networks.
And speaking of Wi-Fi...AT&T claims one of the world's biggest Wi-Fi networks (through various partners) and has promised to offer free Wi-Fi service to iPhone users (given the price of the service plans the word "sop" comes to mind).
But AT&T won't say when. CRN's Jennifer Lawinski picked up on the fact that AT&T posted on its Website today (7-18-08) an announcement that "now" iPhone users could have free Wi-Fi access.
But within hours the posting had been removed and a spokesman was quoted as saying the company was not announcing the service. Even as he also said the company recognized it was a "real differentiator for AT&T."
Not if no one can use it.....
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AvePoint is a global technology company and proven software leader. Since 2001, AvePoint has become the world's largest provider of enterprise-class governance, compliance, and management solutions for social enterprise collaboration platforms, helping more than 10,000 customers. AvePoint, Inc. is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with wholly owned operational centers in the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, and China. AvePoint is a Depth Managed Microsoft Gold Certified Application Development Partner and Gold Certified Collaboration and Content Partner, as well as a US Government GSA provider via strategic partnerships.
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The Strategic Consultant serves as the key technical consultant/architect on services engagements with our clients. The ideal candidate must be able to provide clients with best practices recommendations on SharePoint Intranet implementations using the 2013 and/or 2010 platforms. The Strategic Consultant will evaluate, manage and participate in SharePoint consulting engagements as the technical lead, representing the technical delivery team. The ideal candidate should have a solid technical background in the SharePoint platform and surrounding Microsoft technologies, software development and experience in solution selling and architecting enterprise line of business applications. Finally, the candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in architectural design and development with a focus on planning, deploying or supporting enterprise-level SharePoint programs.
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Archive for August, 2011
FAQ: Balance Druids & Dragonwrath
by Sunfyre on Aug.29, 2011, under General
I've sat down with Pixelkiller @ Burning Legion and he's shared with me all the frequently asked questions I've had about how Dragonwrath works with balance druids.
For ease of reference, I've placed the FAQ as a guide. It can be located here.
4.2 Hotfix: Starfall
by Sunfyre on Aug.29, 2011, under General
A host of small hotfixes have been applied to live, with only one pertaining to balance druids. (I was hoping for a 2T12 buff!)
- Starfall should no longer hit enemies with whom the player is not in combat in Grim Batol or the Firelands.
I was aware this was an issue in Grim Batol, but not Firelands. They've yet to fix the previously hotfixed (but never actually hotfixed) problem where Starfall attacks CC'd targets.
EDIT: After looking at the patch notes a bit more, I re-read this:
- The Feral druid 4-piece tier-12 set bonus should now interact properly with Primal Madness and Euphoria.
I'm guessing they were referring to the Balance druid 4-piece tier-12 set bonus when they mentioned Euphoria.
New Guides Added: T12 BiS, Haste Breakpoints
by Sunfyre on Aug.29, 2011, under General
I've made a few new Moonkin Guides:
4.2 Tier 12 Best in Slot, and Haste Breakpoints.
Credit for Haste Breakpoints goes to Graylo, as I'm just reproducing his work in an easier to reach place.
BalancePowerTracker fixed For 4T12
by Sunfyre on Aug.29, 2011, under General
An update to BalancePowerTracker has been released that addresses the issue of the stealth fix to 4T12 and Euphoria.
4.2.2 to be released this week
by Sunfyre on Aug.28, 2011, under General
MMO-Champion is reporting that 4.2.2 will be released to live servers this week. There is nothing major in this update except for tooltip changes (to reflect previous hotfixes), such as the mastery nerf to [item]68982[/item]. Do not get too excited, Void Storage and Transmogrification aren't arriving until 4.3.
Gripe of the Week: Custom Lag Tolerance
by Sunfyre on Aug.28, 2011, under Gripe of the Week
I was trying to troubleshoot my DPS late last night and figure out why it was so much lower then others who were comparably geared.
This led me to the 'Custom Lag Tolerance' setting under 'Interface Options | Combat'. If you recall, this was supposed to be Blizzard's "response" to the /stopcasting macros of 3.0. I had mine set, as the tooltip suggests, to my general lag to the server, which is 50ms.
Once I disabled the custom lag tolerance (which reverts it to 400ms), my DPS went up by over 10% overall. Custom lag tolerance defines how soon before a GCD expires can you queue the next spell available. The problem with it being that you can't "pre-cast" spells, so you have to cast them in real-time as your GCD becomes available. This would cause DPS losses whenever I would rotate spells (like applying DoTs and starting a cycle after each Eclipse proc). This also wouldn't allow me to "pre-cast" Treants during a hardcast, I'd have to wait for the GCD to become available before I could drop them.
I don't know why it took me so long to finally turn this off, but I'm glad I did.
Interesting Eclipse Changes…
by Sunfyre on Aug.27, 2011, under General
Playing around on live, it looks like a few changes have been made to Eclipse:
- The 4 piece bonus from Tier 12 is now applied BEFORE Euphoria. This means you can get 50 energy Starfires.
This is causing 'predict energy' in Balance Power Tracker to not fire properly if you have 4pc T12. If you have both, I suggest you turn off 'forsee energy' for now.
Pro Tip of the Day: Moonwell Chalice
by Sunfyre on Aug.26, 2011, under General
As we all know, Moonwell Chalice isn't exactly the best trinket for moonkin.
That being said, the buff it provides, still persists even if you remove the trinket. You can use the trinket in a pre-pot macro before you equip your other trinket, like the Necromantic Focus (which has no internal cooldown). It's best to replace the Focus with it and not a trinket like the DMC: Volcano, because the Volcano will trigger an ICD when you equip it.
Perseverence: Why I don't like it
by Sunfyre on Aug.26, 2011, under General
I've had a few people ask me recently why I don't pick up 'Perseverence' in the resto tree. Here's my reasoning why. If I'm totally off base, feel free to correct me.
With the change to Moonkin Form, we receive between 25% and 30% magic damage reduction as it is.
There is pretty much two types of fights where we take magic damage in Firelands:
Massive Raid Damage – In this case, you're generally stacked up, there is raid cooldowns going out, and raid healing like crazy. If I die due to lack of 6% additional magic reduction, there will most likely be plenty dead before me who don't have the 15% reduction I get from Moonkin Form. In this case, it's already a wipe.
You Stepped In Fire And Deserve To Be Dead – See title.
Either way, I really can't justify sinking 3 points into it.
Question of the Week: Transmogrification
by Sunfyre on Aug.21, 2011, under General
I'm sure you've heard of transmogrification by now. What gear or tier set do you plan on showing off?


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Kourtney Kardashian's Gift Registry For Baby Girl Penelope (PHOTOS)
Already parents to dapperly-dressed son Mason Disick, 2, the eldest Kardashian sister and beau Scott Disick welcomed Penelope Scotland Disick on July 9, 2012.
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Before giving birth earlier this month, Kardashian, 33, spent a May day scanning the shelves of high-end L.A. baby boutique, Bel-Bambini.
The now mother-of-two registered for a slew of everyday items, like rubber duckies, natural-feel baby bottles, and feeding-time utensils.
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Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Hubbard, George Edgar
Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Hubbard, George Edgar
Hubbard, George Edgar Interviewee.;Masters, David Interviewer.
[Gloucester, Mass] : Sawyer Free Library
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Linda Brayton and David Masters, principal oral historians.;Interviewer: David Masters (4/20/1978).
TRACKS: CD56: 1. Born in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia in 1892, early life in Nova Scotia -- 2. Social security in Canada -- 3. French background -- 4. Dory trawling 1909-1930 -- 5. Sail fishing, methods of predicting the weather, the weather glass (a demonstration) -- 6. Fishing for the armed services -- 7. Fishing off Sable Island -- 8. Bad storms -- 9. Tankers, South Shore Lightship -- 10. The Global Hope grounded off Salem -- 11. The Can Do and the great storm of Feb., 1978 -- 12. Southeaster remembered -- CD57: 1. Southeaster (contd.) -- 2. Born too early (re: fish prices) -- 3. Maritime unions -- 4. It's fun to fish now, but not in my time -- 5. Fishing overkill off Sable Island and Grand Banks -- 6. Weather glass -- 7. No old Gloucester vessels preserved in Gloucester.
The following names and terms were used in this interview: Tusket, Nova Scotia, Robert and Richard Wharton, Corsair, Cshes Ledge, Swell,, Sable Island, Mother boat, Breath of wind, South Shore Lightship, The Georgianna, Thatcher's Island, Whitehead Harbor, The Imperator, Groaner, Grand Banks, The Adventure, Curcuru, Jeff Thomas.
Originally issued on sound cassettes and transferred to compact discs.
Oral history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Ann.
Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- History -- Anecdotes.;Ann, Cape (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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Hubbard, George Edgar Interviewee.;Masters, David Interviewer., "Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Hubbard, George Edgar," in NOBLE Digital Heritage, Item #7641, http://heritage.noblenet.org/items/show/7641 (accessed August 23, 2017).


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TEENAGE soccer starlets in Gloucestershire are being given golden opportunities to demonstrate they can cut the mustard on the county stage.
Gloucestershire FA are again entering U16s and U18s boys teams into next season's South and West Counties Youth Championship and are holding trials in order to give ambitious youngsters every chance of making the grade.
U18s trial sessions take place on the 3G surface at the GFA's Oaklands Park premises in Almondsbury on Sunday, August 17 at 5.30pm, while the county's U16s hopefuls will be put through their paces at the same venue on Thursday, September 18 between 8pm and 10pm.
Chairman of the GFA's county match committee, Sue Henson-Green, said: "Anyone who feels they have a chance of playing at county level, from schools, colleges or clubs, can take part and coaches who feel their boys are up to the task can put them forward."
Anyone wishing to take part in either of the trials can contact Laura Faulkner on 01454 615888 (select option 4) or email her at email@example.com
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WhatsApp rejected $10 billion from Google; did Facebook get a bargain?
0. phoneArena posted on 20 Feb 2014, 08:23
Now that WhatsApp has agreed to be bought out by Facebook for a staggering $19 billion, it is time to sit back and reflect on the deal. First of all, in the light of a brand new day comes an interesting story. Apparently, Google also had eyes for the messaging app, and offered $10 billion for the company. But that offer was rejected. One, the price wasn't high enough, and two, that deal did not offer WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum a board seat. Facebook's bid did...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. papss (unregistered)
Although I don't like the idea of anyone buying whatsapp I'm glad they went with FB instead.
6. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
why? so you have all of the Facebook annoyances?
14. papss (unregistered)
See I'm used to Facebook annoyances since I use WP lol.. I like FB massager and whatsapp but I hope they don't gut the patents from whatsapp and let them do their thing.
18. magnanimus (Posts: 562; Member since: 29 Mar 2013)
I would prefer if google had got it. Have a little flashback into previous google purchases. When they purchased Motorola it gave us the Moto X. When they purchased android, see what it is now (Even tho you wouldn't like to admit, android is pretty successful). I trust in google to bring something good out of whatsapp more than facebbok. (Mainly because it will be integrated into google services which can be used on any mobile platform be in Windows, iOS or Android)
20. papss (unregistered)
Did you forget about what google did with Moto? Sure some great phones but they gutted them and then sold them to someone else.. Not at all being a fanboy but that doesn't bod well with me.
we should wait and see what FB does with them before hating on them is all I'm saying. I'm about done with all three mobile os companies buying up all the companies.
23. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
I don't know, while I think whatsassp is a great popular application is lacking so much, viber is much more complete, but Facebook keeps everything mostly the same, id rather have MS buy it and merge whatsaapp and skype into a single all in one instant messaging and video chat app, maybe with enough time will get that but honestly only good thing about whatsapp is userbase
7. LiyanaBG (Posts: 381; Member since: 07 Nov 2013)
i deleted whatsapp because facebook bought it. and i use viber now.
9. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
I like viber overall, (at least has added more functionality than whatsapp, but it doesn't have enough friends so I'd stick with what's app
10. kamen (Posts: 96; Member since: 18 Jul 2011)
Just do not forget to delete your account as I did :)
16. tech-blast (Posts: 19; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
viber doesn't save your message history which whatsapp does.
22. Whateverman (Posts: 3284; Member since: 17 May 2009)
I can understand that given the tention between Google and Microsoft. You never know what Google will do when I comes to supporting WP and vise versa, so this is good news for both sets of users.
I was hoping Google would buy it because they could use a little help improving Hangouts messaging.
2. XperiaFanZone (Posts: 2226; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
Google should have bought it or Microsoft if any company would.
And the founder got rejected for a job at Facebook in 2009. Just saying.
3. Kyokado (Posts: 115; Member since: 11 Jul 2013)
Phonearena should acquire evleaks. :)
4. kushki (Posts: 49; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
Better fb thn scroogle...
5. papss (unregistered)
Stop man... No reason to start a war of OS here.
8. axllebeer (Posts: 271; Member since: 05 Apr 2011)
Eh, I. Really don't know how I feel about this. Wish I could look a year ahead and see what all they are going to do with it.
11. RebelwithoutaClue (Posts: 3583; Member since: 05 Apr 2013)
I will switch as well, don't like FB at all and installed viber today. I like it so far.
12. Dude2014 (Posts: 448; Member since: 12 Feb 2014)
In Asian countries, weChat is number one messager so far.
13. Dude2014 (Posts: 448; Member since: 12 Feb 2014)
17. Kyokado (Posts: 115; Member since: 11 Jul 2013)
BS. I live in sg. Whatsapp. Still top.
19. saiki4116 (Posts: 405; Member since: 31 Mar 2011)
Defintely not in India, Even after so much of marketing done by Wechat with BollyWood FilmStars
21. Kyokado (Posts: 115; Member since: 11 Jul 2013)
Then whats top in indian?
26. checkmymike (Posts: 172; Member since: 28 Dec 2011)
In philippines, its viber.
15. alumoyo (Posts: 369; Member since: 26 Aug 2013)
I complained a lot this morning, but in hindsight, it COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE. Google would have DEFINITELY used its as a way to try and force us to use Google+ and Hangouts more. And facebook bought Instagram A WHILE ago - they haven't really messed with that in any bad way. Its actually gotten a bit BETTER.
27. kanagadeepan (Posts: 981; Member since: 24 Jan 2012)
Actually FB dont know what to do with Instagram.. Even their owner Mark, don't know what to do with the money.
24. AfterShock (Posts: 3698; Member since: 02 Nov 2012)
It died with the news of it being sold imo.


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Great for seeing Hawaii
Destination: Hawaii
Embarkation: Honolulu
The ship is nice in size. We were fortunate to have a large balcony and used it a lot.
I found the staff to be for the most part courteous and helpful. The food was exactly what you expect. There is great, good and bad but honestly doable. We pretty much tried to eat In different venues. Both the Liberty and Skyline were okay but a little slow in the morning(which is not a big deal if you have the time) but for dinner great, the buffet and snack areas good enough. We did not eat at the restaurants that charge a surcharge because I could not get anyone who had felt it was worth the up charge.
We decided to by the soft drink package which turned to be big mistake and I feel like I gave the ship free money. The waitress gave me misinformation and truthfully it was work just to get a soft drink (only one place after a certain time etc.,serving consisted of 90% ice and small cups)and gave up. More I have to be honest -unless you tip them over the top they will serve you after they have no alcohol orders. It was easier to get ice tea or juice. Do what everyone else did. They brought their own at each port(I was told that this was not permitted. Alcohol costs are what you should expect.
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I don't mean to offend the composer of this article, but I doubt that there was much point in referencing a character that obviously does not matter. Admittedly I had tried to comprehend just who Moody was talking about when I first saw the Goblet of Fire film. I had thought that it was some sort of foreshadowing for the Order of the Phoenix film that succeeded it. However, this proved incorrect; there wasn't even a mention of the name 'Sturgis Podmore', the man Imperiused into touching Harry's prophecy, (which is who I thought the Unidentified boy might relate to) in the fifth film. This mere mention of Moody's/Barty Crouch Junior's is totally irrelevant.--Yin&Yang 09:06, October 6, 2009 (UTC)
- No offense taken; you were, after all, just expressing your opinion. However, I respectfully disagree. While you are correct that this character obviously does not matter, he is still a character, albeit a minor one, and therefore is part of the Harry Potter universe. This Wiki makes references to dozens of minor characters; Gordon, Madam Marsh, Poliakoff, and Fubster among them, and many more unidentified characters, Unidentified Beauxbatons boy, Unidentified Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures member, Unidentified Death Eater at the Astronomy Tower, Unidentified bookseller, etc., etc. --Parodist 11:28, October 6, 2009 (UTC)
I suppose you're right about that. One thing I have to add though is that most of the characters in any particular film, are extras. Only a select few are "minor" characters and even fewer are the "main/major" characters. Names of unidentified characters that appear on screen are really just there to fill a void and usually have no direct impact on the plot of the story. The Harry Potter film franchise is no different. I understand that fans, including myself, sometimes stop and wonder who each character in a film is and more importantly, who they relate to in the books; and so the creation of webpages like this one is inevitable. I think that what needs to be added to said pages is a small sentence explaining that they are not necessarily meant to be given much attention and therefore accept them as irrelevant. Your thoughts?--Yin&Yang 01:35, October 7, 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I definately agree with what you said about minor characters and extras, but I'm still thinking over the sentence at the bottom calling them "irrelevant." I would think that the fact they are not meant to be given much attention would be implied by the fact that the article is so short, and that it contains no mention to his connection to any other characters in the franchise. --Parodist 11:28, October 7, 2009 (UTC)
- There is no need to mark pages on minor, or mentioned only characters, as irrelevant. This is a comprehensive encyclopaedia, working towards the recording of all information pertaining to the Harry Potter Universe, regardless of its place in the overall story. To mark pages as you suggest would detract from the quality of the article, and go against the "in-universe" policy of this wiki. Therefore, any such additions will be removed. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 12:29, October 7, 2009 (UTC)
Allow me to just clear something up . When I said that these pages ought to be marked with a sentence explaining its lack of relevance to a story, I didn't mean to literally use the word 'irrelevant' on the page. Sorry if that mislead any of you - that was a bad choice of words. What I meant was that maybe a small dot-point could be added to the 'Notes' section of the pages that states something along the lines of this: "Considering this character's brief mentioning/appearance in the Harry Potter and the (...) film/book, little else is known regarding them. Therefore, they do not affect the plot of the storyline to a considerable extent if at all." Parodist, I agree with you on the fact that the shortness in page length signifies the character's lack of involvement in the text, but I also think that it implies incompleteness on behalf of the Wiki community. I for one, would much prefer these characters to have a more substantial page length but seeing as that is impossible due to a lack of information, I think we need to justify ourselves. I would just feel more comfortable if there was a line on these sorts of pages to explain the lack of information. Does that make more sense?--Yin&Yang 08:12, October 8, 2009 (UTC)
- Allow me to reiterate; addition of any such text like you suggest will be removed. We are an inclusive encyclopaedia. While there are some limits to what we feel need to be created, anything mentioned inside Canonical works deserves its own article free of such statements. We are not Wikipedia with strict notability guidelines governing just who gets an article and who doesn't. Qualifiers on the state or relevance of the character/object/location/etc to the overall storyline is not necessary. We record information. We do not comment on it. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 09:56, October 8, 2009 (UTC)
Yes, Cavalier One, I appreciate that. Even though it is clear that my suggestion will not be taken into consideration, I must insist that there are many pages within this wiki that hint bias or at least an opinion that would count as "commentation". Therefore, saying that all the pages are purely factual is incorrect. Note that I am not criticising the editors or composers of this wiki, I am just expressing details that I have noticed.--Yin&Yang 06:24, October 9, 2009 (UTC)
According to the infobox he died before 1995. This isn't entirely accurate. We don't know that he is dead, only that he never came out of the department of mysteries. He probably is dead, but since Crouch only said that he never came out, the article should be changed to reflect that.Icecreamdif 22:31, October 11, 2010 (UTC)
- I've decided to be bold and fix it. ProfessorTofty (talk) 00:17, October 10, 2012 (UTC)
Barty Crouch
Oh. Not meaning to be conspiratorial, but I always assumed Barty Jr. (disguises as Moody).was making a reference to his own trial where he was no more than a boy - 'the last boy who went into the DoM and never came out' was him! The Ministry's summer internships are completely unrelated to the DoM (I doubt they'd let underage wizards into the most secure and secretive place in the Ministry.) This is why Crouch Sr. reacts to the comment so visibly - apart from recognising David Tennant's improvised flicky-tonguey thingy.
Does anyone think the same??? Or am I just drawing connections where there are none?
- Traskold -
Is there proof this character actually exists?
This could just have been a flippant remark to unnerve his father while keeping an eye on him and Harry. We don't know what Crouch Sr. was going to say because he abuptly ended the conversation when he recognized his son's facail tick. Tjb173 (talk) 01:56, March 3, 2014 (UTC)