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Tyler Perry, known for his controversial portrayal of African American stereotypes in his Madea franchise, is moving back to his alternative writing and directing style. "Good Deeds" is a romantic drama involving the seemingly simple life of Wesley Deeds and the fundamental life choices he eventually has to make. The basic elements for storytelling are present. However, the narrative-laced dialogue that permeates the story is both unrealistic and distracting.
Deeds, the film's protagonist, is the president of a San Franciscan financial firm. Deeds, played by Tyler Perry, was groomed by his parents to take over his father's company. Through his privileged childhood and his own hard work, Deeds became a successful, organized, and highly educated president of the company.
Wesley Deeds is kind hearted, is engaged to be married and lives a good life. However, when Deeds crosses paths with a down-on-her-luck janitor working for his company, he soon discovers a new purpose in life.
Wesley's brother, Walter, acts out in stark contrast to Wesley. Throughout the film, Walter seemed excessively aggressive towards other characters. Even as a former drug addict, his behavior came across as poorly executed. Using obvious extremes to convey messages to the audience is Tyler Perry's greatest flaw. This laziness in storytelling continues throughout the picture.
This excessive control over what should make audiences feel angry or satisfied is only made worse by the film's lackluster narrative. Like productions made for the stage or made for a television mini-series, most of the dialogue between characters needlessly conveys the context behind a situation to the audience.
I stopped counting how many instances Perry used to narrate the story through character dialogue. Perry fails to challenge moviegoers when he needlessly frames e story through this method. There are no surprises, only fulfilled expectations.
On a different note, scenes containing financial dialogue came across as overly generic. The language took away from the believability of Wesley Deeds' position as president. Phrases like "things are looking up", "I've taken a look at your numbers" and "those numbers look good" came out of the financial head's mouth on multiple occasions.
Undoubtedly, fans of Perry's romantic works will regard "Good Deeds" as something of a bull's-eye. For most moviegoers however, this film will come across as a predictable, sub-par dramatic romance that falls far short of the value of a dollar. Interested parties would do well to steer clear of the theatrical release. Consider giving Deeds your time in another two years or so; once it reaches deep cable television and little else is worth watching.


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What do you use to clean fiberglass shower doors? There are many articles on what to use to clean the lime from shower doors. I worked on them yesterday and with a lot of elbow grease, CLR, a gel mildew cleaner and a bucket of dish soap I was able to get some of it off the doors. There is still etching on the doors. The posts reference glass shower doors. Does this apply to the plastic (or fiberglass doors)? Do you need to take a different approach for fiberglass?
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Spray down with Fantastik (or other spray cleaner of your choice), let sit for 10 minutes, then use one of those acrylic scrubby dish sponges to scrub/clean off the residue. It always works for me. Lots of rinsing with the shower hose. If no hose, spash clean warm water to rinse. Glass doors are a pain to clean. I prefer the shower curtain to the glass doors.
I have used a simple tip for years. It's a huge time saver, and sweet on the pocket book. Dollar General, Family Dollar, what ever is in your area carries toilet bowl cleaner, the 'shake before using' kind. I usually buy sno-bowl because it foams, but thats me.
Squirt the bowl cleaner, starting at the top of the door, working downward. It doesn't have to cover the whole door. Rinse your toilet brush in hot water, leaving its somewhat wet. Scatter the extra water from the brush onto the door and gently spread cleaner over entire surface area. Rinse with damp cloth and water or spray bottle of water and dry cloth, whatever you prefer.
**bonus tip** after the scum is removed, a quick drying with the towel you dry off with comng out of the shower will keep it from getting scummy again.
Wet your shower walls, just rub a plain Bounce Fabric Softener Sheet over it. The scum comes right off, took about six the first time, after that it is a breeze. (Hint came from Resort Housekeeper.)
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The ANC has resolved that there should be a single police service, President Jacob Zuma said in Midrand, Johannesburg on Friday.
All security services would be under the control of the SA Police Service (SAPS), Zuma, who is also African National Congress president, said in his closing address at the party's national policy conference.
This was one of the resolutions taken during commissions on the ANC's policy discussion document on "Peace and Stability".
Delegates also resolved that street committees would be set up.
"Street committees should be established and controlled by the ANC," said Zuma.
The four-day policy conference also reaffirmed the separation of powers.
"The branches of the state are equal parties entrusted with distinct Constitutional powers," he said.
"No branch is superior to others."
Zuma said the executive, legislature and judiciary should work together.
Recommendations made at the ANC's policy conference will be taken to the party's national elective conference in December, where they will be adopted. - Sapa


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PictureSync is a tool to upload photos to one or more websites for picture sharing. It comes with a bunch of predefined sites like Flickr and Ipernity to upload your photos too. A special feature called "Rules" will help you to automate certain task on your pictures like tagging.
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Bank of Japan policymakers have raised concerns about the nation's slowing exports, with some citing "structural factors" that might not be addressed in the near term, according to the minutes of their meeting released Friday.
The central bank's nine-member Policy Board agreed that exports "had leveled off more or less" but expects them to "increase moderately, mainly against the background of the recovery in overseas economies," the minutes of the June 12 to 13 meeting said.
But looking into why exports lack momentum, a few members "pointed to the possibility that structural factors . . . could be influencing exports to a larger degree than had been expected."
The factors they cited included the weakening global competitiveness of Japanese firms and manufacturers' decision to shift production centers abroad due to the yen's appreciation during the global financial crisis that started in 2008 before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in late 2012 and weakened it with radical monetary policy and traditional fiscal stimulus.
A stronger yen erodes the value of Japanese exporters' overseas profits when converted into the home currency. Companies have been increasingly seeking cheaper labor costs abroad, prompting transfers of manufacturing centers.
Referring to the destinations for Japanese exports, some BOJ policymakers expressed concern about "sluggishness in emerging economies," particularly in Southeast Asia.
On Japan's economy, the board members agreed that the labor market has continued to improve as marked by the steadily falling unemployment rate. One member "pointed out that wage increase movements were spreading even to small firms," the minutes said.
The BOJ hopes that widespread wage hikes will help push companies to raise prices so the central bank can achieve its inflation target of 2 percent as it tries to help stamp out chronic deflation.
At the June meeting, the BOJ kept its unconvential monetary policy steady, continuing the aggressive easing launched in April 2013 in which it purchases massive amounts of Japanese government bonds and other financial assets from banks and tries to double the nation's monetary base to encourage lending as it strives to reach its inflation goal in or around fiscal 2015.


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Pioneer Editorial: Serious idea for play area
Let's start with this: There's a lot of great causes out there.
Almost daily, we are faced with requests for our time and money to help various groups and organizations here in our area, nationally and even internationally. Most are noble goals and we hope you're able to do all that you can.
But let's be honest. When causes are local, and have a direct impact on people and places in our area, they resonate more. Think local Relay for Life events that help in the fight against cancer, or the multitude of arts-related fundraisers that benefit our community in the short and the long run.
Add another to the list.
A local group kicked off its fundraising campaign Saturday to build an all-inclusive playground at Paul Bunyan Park. In case you missed Saturday's Pioneer, an inclusive playground is one that is designed so children with disabilities, as well as able-bodied youngsters, have access to the playground equipment.
That lack of access long has been a problem locally and nationwide and needs to be corrected. But building a playground from scratch isn't cheap. The price tag for this type of playground is $450,000. Fundraisers hope to hit that mark through contributions and grants and build the playground in 2015.
It can be done.
In Grand Forks, N.D., Ali's Boundless Playground, an all-inclusive site, opened in 2009 after a several-year fundraising campaign. A campaign that was led by — not just inspired by — one Ali Karpenko, a then 15-year-old high school student with spina bifida.
Ali's passion and advocacy for the project helped raise the remaining $200,000 and the first all-inclusive playground in North Dakota opened to rave reviews that August and continues to be an asset to the Greater Grand Forks community.
We have that same chance here.
The Bemidji all-inclusive playground is designed by Shane's Inspiration, a California-based group that has built more than 40 inclusive playgrounds in the United States and the world, Pioneer reporter John Hageman wrote Saturday. According to the group's website, the Bemidji playground would be its first in Minnesota.
Courtney Aitken Gifford, one of the members of the Paul Bunyan Inclusive Playground Committee, told Hageman for Saturday's article: "There are a lot of good people in Bemidji."
We can prove her right.
Donations for the Paul Bunyan Inclusive Playground can be made online at the Northwest Minnesota Foundation's website. The NMF is serving as the fiscal agent for the project. Donations also can be mailed to the foundation at Northwest Minnesota Foundation, 201 Third St. NW, Bemidji, MN, 56601.


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Sexton: 'Talking about making history is not going to win you the game'
Jonathan Sexton urges Lions to keep focus as he tells Conor George how tourists must 'attack more' to ride out Wallaby backlash
JONATHAN SEXTON can inspire with his words. This we know from the tales that have leaked from inside the Leinster and Ireland dressing-rooms over the years.
There's the now famous call to arms at half-time of Leinster's 2011 Heineken Cup final against Northampton, when his words galvanised the side and led to a second-half resurgence that yielded a second title.
More importantly, Sexton inspires by his deeds on the pitch. It's to him the Lions will look for leadership and guidance in today's potentially decisive second Test, for he is the conductor of the orchestra.
If Sexton plays well, his team invariably plays well.
Indeed, according to former Wallaby great Stephen Larkham, Sexton was the main reason for the Lions' victory last weekend.
"He controls the game exceptionally well and is dangerous in attack," said World Cup-winning out-half Larkham.
"He has also stepped up defensively. His game last week was key to their victory."
It's not a responsibility Sexton takes lightly. He will call the Lions' plays this morning.
It is he who will direct their challenge and, by the nature of the out-half's responsibilities, he is first in line for praise or for criticism, whichever is appropriate.
"When you're an out-half you have to make a decision for the team," said Sexton.
"Sometimes you might have a situation where it's five on three in your favour but because you're inside your own half or because of the score at the time the best thing is to get rid of the ball.
"That's part and parcel of the position, making those decisions. It's a hard position to play. Making those decisions does get a little easier the more experienced you get, but they're never easy at the same time."
Sexton will seek to inspire by his actions today.
Indeed, yesterday he left no one in any doubt – the time for talking is over... it's time for action.
"Throughout the day, before the game, I'll talk when I have to. I'll have a word with certain players to make sure they know the plays and know their roles," he said.
"But talking about making history is not going to win you the game. It's about executing the moves, the game plan, being good in defence and stopping their moves."
The reference to the potential for the 2013 Lions to make history is one that has followed them all week. Every conversation the players have had outside of their own company has been about the fact that it's 16 years since the Lions won.
Sexton acknowledged that is something that drives them, but he is also mindful of not getting caught up in the prospect of doing so.
"As a player you want to be remembered when you hang up the boots and be talked about in years to come, and this is our chance on a Lions scale," said Sexton.
"There's not many who have done it and it's a chance to put yourself into the history books.
"A lot of people have done it at club level, have done it at Grand Slam level, but none of us here have done it with the Lions.
"It'll be a pretty special dressing-room if we can do the business and we'll forever be remembered for it.
"But you have to park that responsibility and treat this like any other game, albeit with bigger rewards, or you get caught up in it too much."
The added pressure for Sexton this weekend is his lack of game time alongside new scrum-half partner Ben Youngs – "we played a little at the end of the Reds game" – but the Irish pivot is confident they will gel without issue today.
"We've had the week together. He's different to Mike (Phillips) as a player but they have similarities too. He is quick, has a good break, is a good passer.
"It's the nature of these tours, you don't always get a lot of time to build relationships but we're on the same wavelength."
Sexton admits to waking up yesterday morning to a flurry of butterflies, which is a good sign for him before big games – "you only get this feeling before the big games. This is a massive one" – and over the years he has learned to control them and use them to his advantage.
He maintained that it's only with a few hours to go to kick-off today that he'll be conscious of them again, and by then he'll have enough to occupy his mind and attention – not least how to keep a tight control on the returning Tommy Bowe.
"Tommy will be constantly calling plays on himself in the game!" chuckled Sexton. "I'll have to control him a little bit!
"I'm delighted he's back. It's pretty phenomenal. He was down when he thought his tour was over and it was a shame because he was in unbelievable form.
"He'll bring a lot to us in terms of his ability in the air, his strike running, and his work-rate off the ball is brilliant.
"He's made for the ball, which is great with wingers. You want them to be in your ear looking for it all the time ... which Tommy does!"
Sexton will be on the Australians' radar this morning, just as James O'Connor will be on the Lions' – "I thought he did well last week. He's a threat with ball in hand," said Sexton – and the Dubliner revealed that there is more to come from him and the Lions.
"We weren't able to fully execute our game plan last week," he said. "We didn't show too much to be truthful because of how the game went.
"We'll look to attack them more this weekend. This is going to be a step up again from last week in every sense and we have to be prepared for that.
"Australia are going to throw everything at us and with the players they have it's important to keep them in their own half for as long as possible.
"We didn't gloss over our mistakes because we won. Had Kurtley Beale's kick at the end gone over we'd be in a very different place and we're very conscious of that.
"We have a chance to do things on our terms this weekend. We know Australia are going to be better. It's up to us to be better too."
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Food Insecurity, Food Storage, and Obesity
Although individuals with poor food security might be expected to have reduced food intake, and therefore a lower likelihood of being overweight, some empirical evidence has indicated that overweight status is actually more prevalent among the food insecure. As obesity is associated with excessive energy intake, and hunger reflects an inadequate food supply, such observations would appear to be paradoxical. We develop an economic model that shows that this apparently paradoxical result is consistent with rational behavior regarding food availability risk and the effectiveness of food storage options. The amount of internal storage increases as the variance of food productivity in the second period increases, which is consistent with the empirical observation of a positive relationship between food insecurity and the incidence of overweight.
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Chanel Reigns Supreme In The Fashion Film Game With This Dreamy Video
Say what you will about (kooky/krazy/kreepy) Karl Lagerfeld, but when it comes to his creative directorial role at Chanel, the man is aces. Filmmaker Trevor Undi took Karl's vision and interpreted it into this hypnotic 2 and a half-minute video comprised of clips from the French fashion house's Paris-Édimbourg Métiers d'Art 2012/13 runway show, which took place in a castle in the Scottish highlands. Never before have runway-side iPhone photographers looked so, well, otherworldly. [Vimeo]


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The collector
I like to collect things. I've always been a collector. When I was a kid, other kids were collecting baseball cards and barbie dolls. Me, I collected spoons. Weird? Yeah, well it probably is. But we were a family that traveled a lot. By car. All over the country and Canada. I've been everywhere. To commemorate my travels, I got one of the little collector's spoons, which I displayed in a couple of spoon racks. I liked this collection a lot, but it wasn't really interactive or anything. When I was older, like after grad school, I found that my darling mother, better known as "the Evil One" gave my collection to my niece. I wasn't thrilled, but what can you do. She was a kid, she liked the spoons, and now she has them. Except now she's out of college and I don't know what will happen to my spoons.
From spoons, I got into postcard collecting. Only I was very specific. I only collected postcards that were sent to me. And I only collected tacky postcards. No pretty scenery for this girl. I liked Jackalopes and deer driving cars while the hunter was strapped to the hood. The tackier the better. I used to beg people to send me tacky cards from wherever they were going. I have a spectacular collection of the bizarre postcard, if I do sy so myself. I started this collection in college, and by the time I lost interest in it, I had thousands and thousands of postcards crammed into shoe boxes. I still have them. I still look at them occasionally, reading the back of the cards and trying to remember who the people were that sent me all those cards so many years ago. I've forgotten so many of them.
Next was my shell collection. I started that in high school, but after really geared up after college. I traveled quite a bit, and my shells are from many places. The best shell collecting was the caribbean, where the Evil One lived in the winter. I got some fabulous corals, and may shells. Those reside down in my basement in a box, carefully wrapped up. I love them a lot and wish I had a place to display them. Alas, not in my little house. There simply isn't enough space.
In between these major collections, I found myself collecting pins. I started small, with many of the political pins from elections in the 60's through to the 80's, when pins stopped being such a big giveaway item. In addition, I got many of the best punk pins in the 80's. Hundreds of them. I have them all tucked away on a large bulletin board...also in the basement. I've always had them in my kitchen on the wall, but there are no walls in my current kitchen. So they remain downstairs until the Boy finds them and absconds with them.
Now, my last collection brings me to the point of this post. Did you know that Queen Elizabeth is coming to visit? If you've never seen her, even if you think the monarchy is insane, ridiculous, and a waste of money... go and see her if you can. It's a huge thing to actually see the Queen. I've seen her twice, once in London where she waved to me (I have pictures...it's true!) and once in Boston when she came for the bicentennial. Both times were a complete thrill for me.
My grandmother (z"l) was British, my kids dad is British, I'm a ridiculous anglophile, and even when I lived in Britain, I still loved it. My grandmother, when she was a little girl, saw Queen Victoria. It was something she spoke of her entire life. My sister had a Queen Victoria doll that we were not allowed to play with. I can remember sneaking in a touch or two, knowing how valuable it was. From the time I was a teeny girl, I wanted to see the Queen. Elizabeth was coronated right before I was born. She is still Queen, 54 years later. I've gotten to see her twice, I hope I will be able to see her again, this time with my children. It is like carrying on a family tradition.
Anyhow, this brings me to my last, but favorite collection. British royal commeratives. They're hard to get in this country, but my collection was started in the early 80's by my now ex-FIL. He also collected them, and had an amazing collection of hundreds of pieces scattered through his home. I would look at them longingly. I don't even know why I like them, I just do. So I started adding to my collection carefully, one piece at a time. All of a sudden, I had a decent sized collection, and they give me an inordinate amount of pleasure.
I think collecting is a great thing for people to get into. My son collects baseball cards and his collection is growing from the mundane to a very well cataloged collection that is becoming somewhat valuable. He's got some great rookie cards.
My daughter collects Dala Horses, which was started with a Dala Horse I got as a kid. She's got quite a few now, although they are way too expensive to build a big collection right now. But she's got the foundation for a decent collection.
What about you? What do you collect, how did you get started, and what does your collection mean to you?
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A weekly examination of the Patriots' ESPN.com Power Ranking:
Preseason: 6 | Last Week: 8 | ESPN.com Power Ranking since 2002
Despite a 27-17 win over the Dolphins, the Patriots drop one spot to No. 9 this week. They were leapfrogged by the Packers, who were in the No. 9 spot last week but posted a convincing road win over the Vikings on Sunday night.
Fair enough.
At times this season, the Patriots have looked like a top-10 team in the Power Rankings. Other times, they've looked like a bottom-tier club.
That has made them a bit of a trick-or-treat type team (see what I did there?), but the most important thing for them is that they've made the plays in the critical situations to post a 6-2 record. While there are lingering questions -- can the defense absorb key injury losses, will the offense get on track -- the Patriots' ability to keep stringing together wins remains impressive.
This week serves as a reminder of that as they entertain the 2-5 Steelers on Sunday.
One of the NFL's best franchises in recent years in terms of consistency, it has been a tough start to the season for the Steelers, who rank No. 27 and are coming off a loss at Oakland.


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If you actually follow these dumb sex tips, then you deserve the confused stare or slap upside the head you're going to get. These tips, found on the Internet, are 100 percent dumb.
The Internet is a great place to find directions, recipes, or funny photos of cats. It is not a suitable place to find serious medical diagnoses, thoughtful political opinions, or advice on how to spice up your love life. Seriously, one of the dumb sex tips we found involved placing a donut on a part of the body that doesn't need to have a donut placed around it. Another sex tip suggests playing the unsexy game "Do you have prostate cancer"?
This list gives you one piece of totally responsible sex advice, and then 13 tips that are guarunteed to keep you from ever having to seek out sex tips again. Read more…


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Business aviation activity is picking up in Thailand, with the Southeast Asian country enjoying a period of relative political stability after the recent general election. According to Bangkok-based bizav services group MJets, traffic levels at the capital's Don Mueang Airport are about 20 percent higher than in 2010, with its FBO handling an average of 50 movements each month.
MJets, which is part of the Thai hospitality and leisure group Minor International, took over an exclusive five-year handling license at Don Mueang's executive terminal in March 2010. In the first few months, when Thailand was gripped by violent political protests, the new FBO was receiving only 20-some aircraft each month, although this traffic started to recover in the latter months of last year.
According to MJets managing director Jaiyavat Navaraj, Don Mueang is now receiving a healthy mix of traffic including corporate aircraft, private and charter flights as well as technical stops and medical evacuations. Flights are arriving from across the globe, including operators from the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Macau, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Australia, Japan and Korea. Several aircraft, including a Cessna Citation X, a Citation CJ3, a Bombardier Challenger 604 and a Piper Malibu are based at the facility.
By contrast, claimed Navaraj, Bangkok's main Suvarnabhumi International Airport now receives only a handful of business aircraft each month, accounting for no more than 5 percent of bizav movements into the city. Nonetheless, MJets does have a satellite handling operation at this airport.
At Don Mueang, which used to be Bangkok's main airport, there is a dedicated business aviation ramp that can accommodate about 20 aircraft at a time. MJets's own hangars can take about eight midsize aircraft.
When MJets was awarded the exclusive handling license at Don Mueang last year some handling and flight-planning groups protested that the decision by the government-backed Airports of Thailand company had created an unhealthy monopoly. But 18 months into the license, Navaraj insisted that there is simply insufficient traffic at the airport to support more than one handling provider.
"With one FBO at the moment, it is already difficult to break even within the next four years," he told AIN. "Having more than one FBO in a small market will only affect the business sustainability and eventually dilute the quality of services." He pointed out that at the far busier Hong Kong International Airport there is also only one handling provider, and added that there have been no increases in MJets's handling fees since it took over the license.
So far this year, MJets estimates that business aviation flying throughout Thailand is about 30 percent up on 2010. The company has handling bases at the southern resort of Phuket and the northern city of Chiang Mai, and can provide support at other airports by arrangement. It has ambitions to open FBOs in other business and tourism centers around Asia.
MJets also is active in aircraft maintenance. It is a Cessna-authorized service center (as well as a sales representative for the OEM in Thailand) and holds Thai Part 145 approval, and is in the process of applying for the equivalent FAA paperwork. The firm's Don Mueang facility can provide line and base maintenance, including heavy maintenance checks, avionics support and cabin interior refurbishments.
In the charter market, MJets operates its own Citation X and CJ3, as well as a Piper PA-46 Malibu pressurized piston single. According to Navaraj, demand for charter has risen by about 25 percent over the past 12 months, including requests for longer flights to the Middle East, Australia and Europe.
In September, Florian Preuss was appointed as the new general manager of MJets. The 37-year-old German has extensive airline experience with British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Etihad Airways, and he also holds a pilot's license.


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No matter what kind of job you're after, you will be asked to talk about yourself in the interview. This allows the company to evaluate whether your professional and personal qualifications are suited to the job.
This is your opportunity to make a positive impression. It's important that you spend the time talking about your qualifications and present yourself in a positive light.
Avoid repetition and practise
This should only take a few minutes, so you must be prepared to talk about yourself and your background without trying to say too much. It's a very good idea to write down a few keywords and follow the points you've thought about in advance. This will help you to avoid repetition and include all of the important details.
Always remember to practise what you want to say. You may want to ask someone you know – your spouse, partner or a friend – if they'll listen to what you intend to say. This will let you practise your presentation and assess how it sounds.
If you have not prepared in advance, the chances are that, after the interview, you will be left thinking, e.g. "I didn't get to mention my strengths."
Use the template below for your preparations
A little bit about your personal life:
- Age, marital status, where you live
Work experience
- Your education and training
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Time to get hired
'Time to get hired' is a step-by-step booklet that helps you to understand what it takes to land a new job through alternative channels that applying as a response to a job ad.
- Which companies have you worked for?
Your qualifications for this job
- Professional qualifications for the job
- Personal qualities in relation to job
When you talk about yourself and your background, talk about the positives in terms of work experience, professional skills and human qualities.
Leave out stories about your former boss treating you badly, etc. Or that because of the heavy workload and poor working environment you were off sick for a prolonged period.
All of this may well be true and be a part of your background, but keep your eyes on the goal. Talk about your qualifications for this job. You don't want your prospective future boss to sit there thinking, "I don't want him/her talking like that about me some day!"
After your presentation, the company will usually ask you some questions.
If you are only being interviewed by a department head, the questions will largely be work-related (e.g. "How many years' experience do you have in a particular area?", "How long did your previous job last?") and about whether you have experience with particular types of work.
Questions to expect from a head of department:
- What do you know about our company?
- Why do you want to work for us?
- What can you bring to the table that others can't?
- What do you think is the most and least attractive aspect of the job?
- Why should we take you on?
- What aspects of a job are most important to you?
- What do you think the job will consist of?
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- What are your pay expectations?
- How flexible are you?
If an HR officer is present, be prepared for some "softer" and broader questions as they judge whether you're the right person in relation to the job, the staff and the company.
Questions to expect from an HR officer:
- Who are you?
- What are your strengths/ weaknesses?
- Would you mind taking a test?
- Were you sacked from your last job? Why?
- What do you understand by a good working relationship?
- What do you think of your current boss?
- What would your former colleagues say about you?
- How is your financial situation?
- How many sick days have you had in the last year?
- Are you willing to take further training?
- What do you do in your spare time?
We recommend that you prepare your answers to these questions in advance. If you are asked an uncomfortable question, it's best to avoid having to think of an answer during the actual interview. You risk being unable to explain yourself properly. You don't want to walk away thinking that you didn't make the right impression.
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The Toronto stock market was lower for a third day ahead of the holiday weekend despite data showing solid job creation in Canada last month.
The S&P/TSX composite index was down 24.29 points to 12,154.37 as a disappointing Spanish government bond auction put the European debt crisis back on centre stage.
Statistics Canada reported that the economy created 82,000 jobs in March, far higher than the approximately 10,000 jobs that economists had expected.
Also, the jobless rate fell to 7.2 per cent from 7.4 per cent in February.
The Canadian dollar was up 0.51 of a cent to 100.87 cents US following the jobs data.
The TSX Venture Exchange fell 10.13 points to 1,489.01.
U.S. markets were generally little changed as traders reduced their exposure ahead of the U.S. non-farm payrolls report for March, which is being released Good Friday morning when markets will be closed.
"There's just not a lot of people that want to take a lot of risk at this point," said Mark Bayko, portfolio adviser, U.S. and International Equities at RBC Dominion Securities.
"A lot of people are happy to stay on the sidelines and see what happens over the next few days."
Economists expect job creation to come in around 210,000, which would be the fourth month in a row that the economy has turned out more than 200,000 jobs.
Ahead of that data, the U.S. Labour Department reported Thursday that the number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell to a four-year low last week.
Weekly applications dropped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 357,000, the fewest since April 2008.
The Dow Jones industrials gained 10.41 points to 13,085.16.
The Nasdaq composite index was up 11.73 points to 3,079.82 and the S&P 500 index added 2.43 points to 1,401.39.
The TSX registered a steep, triple-digit loss on Wednesday after Spain's bond yields advanced in the wake of a disappointing set of bond auctions.
Spain has become the latest point of concern in Europe's debt crisis as investors are concerned over the ability of the government to push through its big austerity program at a time when its economy is heading for a return to recession and unemployment is running at around 23 per cent. The yield on the country's 10-year bond pushed up a further 0.07 percentage point to 5.73 per cent Thursday.
Countries such as Italy and Spain were faced with sharply higher bond yields late last year as investors lacked confidence in their governments to cut deficits and demanded higher premiums for rolling over debt.
The problem receded in December after the European Central Bank made large amounts of money available to eurozone banks at very low interest rates, which in turn was used to buy up government bonds in a program known as long-term refinancing operations (LTROs).
"During that time frame, a lot of the debt auctions were going reasonably well and you saw yields starting to come down as there was clearly enough demand for government debt and all signs were pointing in the right direction," Bayko said.
However, the LTRO facility expired at the end of March.
The Spanish bond auction was "one of the first major auctions post the ECB's LTRO and it didn't go very well," he said.
"All of a sudden now, the concerns are creeping back in on the European front."
Europe has weighed on markets for most of this week after purchasing managers data indicated the eurozone is facing recession.
Buying sentiment has also chilled this week because of greatly reduced expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will embark on more stimulus to help the American economic recovery.
Commodity prices and resource stocks recovered some of the losses incurred this week but the gold sector was down 0.6 per cent while bullion gained $18 to US$1,632.10 an ounce. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) faded 54 cents to C$40.62 while Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) declined 44 cents to $40.54.
The financial sector was down 0.46 per cent as National Bank (TSX:NA) dropped 80 cents to $78.65 and TD Bank (TSX:TD) gave back 52 cents to $83.18.
The telecom sector lost 0.45 per cent as Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) eased 36 cents to $39.57.
Tech stocks were also weak, with Celestica Inc. (TSX:CLS) off nine cents at $9.39.
The May crude contract was up $1.29 to US$102.76 after demand concerns drove prices down almost $4 earlier this week. The energy sector was ahead 0.22 per cent with Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) down 15 cents at C$31.11 and Talisman Energy (TSX:TLM) ahead 10 cents to $12.65.
Copper was up two cents to US$3.81 a pound after sliding 13 cents on Wednesday, helping the base metals sector rise 3.53 per cent after it sustained bruising losses the previous few days. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) was up 63 cents at C$36.30 and First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) climbed $1.61 to $19.99.
European bourses were mixed with London's FTSE 100 index up 0.27 per cent, Frankfurt's DAX down 0.17 per cent and the Paris CAC 40 off 0.05 per cent.
On the corporate front, Harry Winston Diamond Corp. (TSX:HW) shares were down 39 cents to $14.12 after it reported consolidated fourth-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders of US$16.6 million or 19 cents per diluted share, compared with US$13.7 million or 16 cents in the prior-year period. Consolidated sales for the three months ended Jan. 31 were US$216 million, up from US$215.4 million.
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- Road-building is a national disgrace. It's corrupt -- Mayor Daley's closest buddies in Chicago are the road-builders who finance his campaigns in return for enormous contracts -- and thus the quality of our roads intentionally stink, wearing down our cars and lowering our gas mileage. They're supposed to fall apart because that puts more money in campaign donors' pockets. Roads in
- The more densely populated the country gets, the harder it is to build infrastructure because of Not In My Backyardism, which increases with the number of backyards. There will never be another freeway built in
- Compared to 1950, it takes forever to build anything these days, largely because of environmentalism, but every activist has his hand out too. To finish the Century Freeway to LAX, for example, CalTrans had to payoff hundreds of "community" organizations, including an AIDS group in
- The simplest way to slow the worsening of the population-to-infrastructure ratio is to cut back on immigration, just as it's also the simplest way to lessen the increasing stress on other problem spots, such as public schools, inequality, and health insurance. Instead, what we constantly hear is: "Oh, no, all we have to do is fix the public schools [inequality] [health care] [or various other problems that we have no likelihood of ever coming up with a magic bullet fix for].
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Nokia recently unveiled a new feature phone at MWC 2013, on the very first day of its commencement – along with 3 other devices. Nokia 301 has a 3.2 megapixel camera with surprising features like Panorama, 3G enabled, optional dual SIM support and vibrant colors. Yes, for the first time, you can shoot a panorama picture using a entry-level series 40 mobile phone. Let's take a closer look at the specifications of Nokia 301, its features and a few other details.
Well, nothing fancy here – just a normal phone with a 2.4-inch display and an alphanumeric keypad. Though, the back-side looks really cool as it's similar to the design we see on high-end Lumia smartphones, like Lumia 920 and 900. It weighs just 100.5 grams and the thickness measures 12.5 mm. The LCD display provides a resolution up to 320 x 240 (QVGA) 18-bit HighColor with 4:3 aspect ratio and 166 ppi density.
You can say it tastes a bit like high-end lumia smartphones. A few of the design and camera features are inspired from them. It has a 3.2 MP camera sensor with ability to capture images up to 2048 x 1536 pixels resolution and 3x digital zoom. There is no flash though. Apart from the normal image mode, you can utilize 4 other modes namely, Panorama, Sequence, Self-timer and video.
One unique and impressive thing when you take your own photo is, it tells you (literally) how to position your face to fit it properly in the frame using voice prompts. Once you're done with taking a photograph, you can easily share to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, etc. or send it directly to your friend's phone using the Slam technology.
Software and Apps
Although it's a feature phone with Series 40 interface, but it still provides some decent and useful apps. To name a few, there is Facebook (including chat), Whatsapp, eBuddy, lite version of email app, Dictionary and Twitter preloaded. You can sync your contacts, calendar and emails easily. The built-in Nokia Xpress browser provides up to 90% data compression and thus, better internet experience.
Hardware and Connectivity
Let's talk about storage memory first. Of course, there is internal memory available – with 64 MB of RAM. It supports microSD card up to 32 GB as well. It comes with Bluetooth v3.0 – which provides faster file transfer speed. A couple of great things about it is – 3.5G technology and amazing battery backup.
3.5G connectivity provides high-speed internet experience, combined with video streaming ability – you can watch videos on YouTube and other sites without buffering (depends on your data plan too). It packs a 1200 mAh battery, which provides stunning standby time of up to 39 days on 3G (single SIM version) and talk-time of 6 hours on 3G and 20 hours on 2G.
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|100.5 grams
|2.4-inch LCD (166 ppi)
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|QVGA (320 x 240)
|Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, Micro USB, GSM/3.5G
|1200 mAh
|up to 20 hours (2G) | 6 hours (3G)
|up to 37 days (2G) | 39 days (3G)
|Expandable Storage
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|Contacts Storage
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|3.2 MP with Fixed Focus
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It will be available in five colors, Cyan, Black, White, Magenta and Yellow, starting 2nd quarter of year 2013. The price will be around 65 Euro (85 USD/5,400 INR) based on the announcement. We'll let you know when the official retail price will be disclosed.


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(SPOILER) IDW editor and writer Mariah Huenher talks about Angel #37. The issue comes out today.
I'm glad they're bringing back Wolfram & Hart and placing such emphasis on Angel's connection to Connor. And I can't help but wish that Mariah Huenher had been writing on Angel since ATF ended; I might have continued reading if she had. She makes this final arc sound so damn awesome.
So does the interaview, as it seems, basically confirm who died? *stays vague to avoid spoiler issues*
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Romney, Obama converse over chili
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney met with President Obama at the White House on Thursday for a one-on-one lunch.
Romney stepped out of the passenger side of a dark SUV and into the West Wing at 12:29 p.m. After a lunch that included white turkey chili and a Southwest chicken salad, Romney departed about 70 minutes later.
Romney congratulated Obama and wished him well in his second term, according to a White House read-out of the lunch.
"The focus of their discussion was on America's leadership in the world and the importance of maintaining that leadership position in the future," the White House said in a statement. "They pledged to stay in touch, particularly if opportunities to work together on shared interests arise in the future."
White House spokesman Jay Carney declined appeals from reporters to open the Obama-Romney lunch to the media for photos and video, as is commonly done for the president's high-profile meetings.
"Each man wanted to have a private conversation," Carney said. "They did not want to turn it into a press event."
Obama met with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., after beating him in the 2008 presidential election. Reporters were allowed to take photographs of the two leaders meeting.
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After 36 years from her last release, the 42-year-old actress reveals that she has worked on her new jazz album although admitting that she has decide the name of the record yet.
"The Breakfast Club" star Molly Ringwald has recorded a new jazz album - 36 years after her last release. The 42-year-old actress recorded her debut, "I Wanna Be Loved by You", when she was just six and she completed work on her follow-up on Saturday night, March 6 - hours before she took the stage at the Oscars for a touching tribute to moviemaker John Hughes.
She tells WENN, "I'm really excited about it. I haven't come up with a name yet but it's with my quintet that I've been performing with a lot in the Los Angeles area." The actress is also branching out as a writer - she'll be releasing a new book, "Getting the Pretty Back", about motherhood, diet and turning 40, in May.
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|Reviews for The Invisible Spy
| Foreverglfan88 chapter 7 . 5/19/2014
That was great! It was a unique story, I thought it was really cool the way Fat Louie and the mice worked with Joseph. Great job!
| tengland2 chapter 7 . 11/24/2012
Joseph will always find out things about her one way or another. Both are now happy with their world as it is for the moment. Nicely done.
| Shakayla chapter 5 . 11/16/2012
Glad they found the culprit. Tho I can't imagine our Queen calling a trade partner stupid, I am looking forward to what happens next between our Queen and her Head of Security. I think Fat Louie deseves some salmon tonight! :-)
| tengland2 chapter 6 . 11/16/2012
Can't blame Clarisse for not liking mice. Always had problems getting rid of the presents my cats over the years have brought home.
Sweet of Olivia to leave to chocolates. Those two never were a secret among the palace staff, they were just accepted for their relationship being private. The staff kept it that way.
| tengland2 chapter 5 . 11/14/2012
Got to love Louie.
| tengland2 chapter 4 . 11/8/2012
Glad J finally giving women a try on his staff, getting a different prospective. Slapping C's bottom, giving time I'm sure she has plans for him doing that while both on duty. (good plans for his punishment). Don't know why Mia would be looking for her cat, while she should be working. Granted I've wondered about mine, but not enough to say it out loud at work. Loved the "What is this a convention?" comment.
| Shakayla chapter 4 . 11/8/2012
Louie was anxious. It was taking too long to find one little mouse. If he had thumbs and drank tea, he'd be on the second kettle by now. - ROFL! Loved that line as well as Sandi's comment about the convention.
You just can't trust those delegates from Spain, I tell you - they are always causing trouble for Genovia! I like the idea of some women being in the security detail as well.
Looking forward to finding the culprit and to what happens tonight in the Queen's suite!
| BabyBlue07 chapter 3 . 11/6/2012
Hi! Love the different POV. Fat Louie MUST find that SPY. It's scaring Clarisse.. Poor Clarissse. At least, she has her knight in shining armor, Joseph. :')
I'm now wondering whether the reall Fat Louie 'talks' that way! LOL.
More please. :)
| tengland2 chapter 3 . 11/1/2012
Loved the "tail in a knot". Things they do together for their Queen. Really enjoying this. More soon, please
| MishkaPoof chapter 3 . 11/1/2012
Oh, this is really rather cute! I'm fascinated by this POV thus far, so I really hope you continue - and soon! Yay! :)
| Shakayla chapter 2 . 10/31/2012
My favorite line... "A final kiss and he was gone, from her bed but never from her heart." *happy sighs* :)
| LoveJulie35 chapter 2 . 10/30/2012
Great story. Different but good. Update Soon.
| tengland2 chapter 2 . 10/30/2012
Love that cat, if it were a mouse, where was he. Now he's got to go see "a rat about a man". Worth a laugh and a smile. J ever so quick to respond. Like to hear that explination to Shades, his boss's boss sreaming over a mouse. This is so much fun to read.
| missmillie13 chapter 1 . 10/29/2012
The POV of your story is so different... but it's also so interesting! I really liked your writing and I'm curious about what come next :) Keep writing!
| Shakayla chapter 1 . 10/28/2012
Loved the minor changes you made and adore seeing things from Louie's perspective. Am a little nervous about that scream and anxious to make sure everyone is safe! Nicely done LOV


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Flarf, Arf, Arf, Arf! (Part 1)
Kenneth Goldsmith has argued (in his essay at Harriet) that, for the avant-garde of the new millennium, Flarf constitutes a Dionysian aesthetic, whereas Conceptualism constitutes an Apollonian aesthetic (both of which respond with urgency to the technologies of the digital economy). During the panel entitled "Flarf and Conceptual Poetry" at the AWP Conference in Denver, I have striven to discuss this contrast between the two avant-garde movements, doing so by using the aesthetic technique of Conceptualism, plagiarizing Goldsmith, reciting his essay, verbatim (because it already says almost everything that I might wish to say)—however, I have chosen to perform this act of plagiarism by using the aesthetic technique of Flarf (inputting, successively, each sentence of the essay into Google with a constraining search-string so as to limit my results, after which I record the highlighted expressions in the order of their appearance, thereafter making grammatical adjustments for the sake of coherence). Here are the first third of my results from this exercise:
We are not high on LSD anymore—so we need to start making sense. If life is fair, then Elvis must be alive—and all his impersonators must be dead. An imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. An inventor, however, does his work, because it is natural to him, and so it has a charm. It has the charm of a child, yet it is better than the old standby of "Holy cow!" because nobody says "Holy smokes!" anymore. It is forgotten. It is undiscovered. We imagine that a bottle of cleaning fluid must be totally fucking clean on the inside. We imagine that, when a man is anxious to stick out a glad hand in kindness, he probably has something up his sleeve. It is possible that the universe exists only for me—and if so, it sure is going well, I must admit. If I jump into my time-machine, then I can easily go back to the twelfth century and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophecy for a few days, while I take in dinner and a movie. We know that there is a good reason why nobody studies History—it just teaches you too much. My song is copyrighted in America, under the Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singing my song without my permission is a mighty good friend of mine, because "I don't give a darn." If you say, "I love you," then you have already fallen in love with language itself—which is already a form of infidelity. I scream: "It's just passion—I ain't angry at culture; I ain't angry at fashion!" I write a script, and I give it to a guy who reads scripts, and he reads it, and he says that he really likes it, but he thinks that I need to rewrite it—so I say: "Fuck you, I'll just make a copy." I mean, the word "pre-heated" is a meaningless fucking term!—kind of like "pre-recorded," as in, "this program has been pre-recorded," to which I say: "well, of course it has been pre-recorded!—because, when else are you going to record it, afterwards?" I mean: "that's the whole purpose of recording; to do it beforehand!—otherwise, it doesn't really work, does it?" I mean: "English is the best language of all—but in the hands of others, it becomes like the scene in Fantasia, when Mickey Mouse gets the wand." I steal the letter M, because the letter M seems like it must weigh the most—and now, I have a gold M, so I ask a guy if he wants to buy a gold M, and he says: "No, what the fuck do I want a gold M for?"—to which I ask: "Well, what about a gold W?"
Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök has created artificial...


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Cunard First Timers - Superb!!: Queen Mary 2 (QM2) Cruise Review by Highseaslife
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Cunard First Timers - Superb!!
Destination: Transatlantic
Embarkation: Southampton
Booked Princess Grill but on day of embarkation we were upgraded to a Queens Grill suite on Deck 9 midships - delighted of course! The cabin was spacious with a walk in closet and very good sized bathroom with whirlpool bath. Well stocked fridge with soft drinks, water, beers etc all complimentary. In addition we were offered 2 bottles of alcohol in cabin, again free of charge. Fruit, nibbles replenished daily.
Queens Grill dining perfect, very high standard of food and our waiters were just fantastic, very relaxed, friendly and efficient!! In fact all the Cunard staff were brilliant and we found the atmosphere extemely pleasant and welcoming.
Seperate QG lounge for pre-dinner drinks and concierge lounge on our Deck which we visited daily for coffee and to read newpapers. Again a relaxing experience. More
Fantastic entertainment every night including 3 Balls, shows, dancing, guest soprano and the icing on the cake was the songwrting experience with Squeeze founder Chris Gifford and his musicians and not forgetting Roger Daltrey who sang with the band culminating with a marvellous jam session on the last night of the cruise in the Golden Lion Pub!! Not a fan of the Who myself but his performance changed my mind immediately!!
Formal nights were as they should be, very formal with most cruisers donning their best bib and tucker ie dressed to the nines! I was thrilled to be able to wear my long gowns and felt glamorous! Previous cruises with Celebrity saw dress standards slip, not so with Cunard.
My husband went to several lectures which he found informative and enjoyable, I retreated to the Spa which proved rather expensive but worth it.
Overall a perfect cruise and one that we will repeat in the not too distant future sailing the other way around from New York to UK.
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3 Ways to Protect Curly Hair While Sleeping
2. "The Pineapple"
Preserve twist outs and coiled curls by donning a "pineapple" before bed. This protective hairstyle is the easiest way to keep your curls bouncy and frizz-free for the next day.
Step 1: Turn your head upside down. Don't gather your hair on top of your head—you risk breaking up your ringlets.
Step 2: Create a genie-like ponytail at the very top of your head and secure with a hair tie. You want to loosely secure your ringlets, so don't secure it too tightly.
Step 3: Sleep on your back. If you don't have a satin pillowcase, use a satin sleep cap to safeguard your ringlets.
Step 4: Release your curls in the morning and style as usual. You will notice less frizz and damage to your tresses.
VV Tip: Feeling lazy? Rock your pineapple as a hairstyle the next day. The style is funky and looks amazing with full curls.
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PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen has broken days of silence on last Sunday's disputed national elections, saying he welcomes an international investigation into allegations of massive electoral fraud.
But Mr Hun Sen said his support for an inquiry would depend on approval by the National Election Commission, a government-appointed body that has close ties to his administration.
The commission has been widely criticised for its conduct of the election, including failing to address voter registration problems.
Speaking after the country's key opposition party declared it had actually won a majority of seats, Mr Hun Sen told reporters he would support the investigation "for the sake of free and fair elections."
Human rights groups, the United States and the European Union earlier backed a call by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for an investigation that would include representatives of Mr Hun Sen's party, the opposition, the National Election Commission, civil groups and the United Nations.
Opposition spokesman Yim Sovann said that based on reports from party workers and election observers his party had won at least 63 of parliament's 123 seats, giving it a majority of seats and the right to rule.
But Mr Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) has claimed it won 68 seats to the opposition's 55 in provisional counting.
The election commission has said final results will not be released until mid-August.
Mr Hun Sen, Asia's longest serving leader, appeared in public for the first time to open a bridge, dispelling rumours that spread through social media he had fled the country.
"I will not leave the country when my people are suffering," he said.
Mr Hun Sen's conciliatory tone surprised many diplomats and observers here who feared he would orchestrate a crackdown on opposition figures as he had done after several previous elections.
He said he would send two of his close party colleagues to hold talks with opposition leaders, including Sam Rainsy whose return from exile on July 19 reinvigorated opposition campaigning.
"I appeal to all of you to help us protect the victory," said Rainsy.
Mr Rainsy has threatened to hold nation-wide protest rallies unless claims of voter irregularities and intimidation are not independently investigated.
The opposition could boycott parliament, depriving Mr Hun Sen of a quorum to form a new government.
Mr Rainsy, a French-educated former banker, has urged his supporters to remain calm during the political impasse.
"It is a tremendous moment in our history that despite the large-scale thefts of votes, our party still won the election," he told a crowd of supporters.
"I appeal to all of you to help us protect the victory."
The election result indicates that a new generation of young Cambodians swung away from Mr Hun Sen's party for the first time in a decade in a backlash against corruption, land grabbing and crony patronage politics.


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Fat? Broke? Try Losing Pounds on the '99-Cent Diet'
Need to lose weight? Lots of weight? But you don't have the money for one of the expensive diet plans that charge hundreds of dollars for food. You only have about a dollar a day?
That was Papa Joe's problem. His solution to that problem was so effective, he lost tons of weight and started a new career as a wellness expert. All for only 99 cents a day!
Prevention Magazine online found out the secret to his success and they even include some sample recipes for you to try…for only 99 cents a day!
Musician and clothing designer Papa Joe Aviance was 450 pounds so he made a major life change and is now 250 pounds lighter. It's all thanks to the "99-cent diet".
To start, he threw away everything in his kitchen—cookies, candy, sodas. He decided he was only going to drink water or unsweetened iced tea and no more fast food. At that point, he'd been drinking a two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew every day.
But there was a problem–he was broke. So he grabbed his dance music and tennis shoes, and started walking.
At first, his walks were short—to the end of his block and back to grab. The first time around the block, he couldn't even do it. But he kept at it. Soon he was walking a few miles every day.
He also checked out the 99-Cent Store and was surprised to find that the store had plenty of healthy foods to choose from. He spent no more than $50 a week on food. Within three to four weeks, Aviance started to see changes. Within 3 months, he needed a new wardrobe.
Within 18 months, Aviance lost 250 pounds and a visit to his doctor confirmed that he was no longer at risk for diabetes, elevated cholesterol, or high blood pressure.
Today, Aviance is a health and wellness expert touring the country to inspire obese children and adults to start moving.
There is so much priceless common sense included in Papa Joe's diet, even if you don't take the 99-cents a day approach. Good luck and good losing!


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Your question came to me just as Christians around the world were preparing to celebrate Good Friday and Easter - two events that remind us once again who Jesus Christ was and why we need to believe in Him.
Let me explain; Jesus Christ (the Bible tells us) wasn't just another human being; He wasn't even just a great religious leader. The Bible tells us that He was God in human flesh - fully man, but also fully God. This may be hard for us to understand - but it's still true: God entered this world and walked among us in the person of Jesus Christ. Do you want to know what God is like? Look at Jesus Christ, for He was God in human flesh.
But why did Christ come? He came for one reason: to bring us back to God. We were created to walk with God and enjoy His presence forever. But we have sinned - and because of that, we are separated from God and deserve only His judgment. But God still loves us, and Christ came to erase the barrier of sin that stands between us and God. He did this by dying on the cross as the final and complete sacrifice for our sin. We need forgiveness - and Christ made this possible by His death and resurrection.
The Bible says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). Now God offers us the gift of eternal life through Christ - and it can be yours, as you open your heart and life to Him and trust Him alone for your salvation.


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You know the drill. An elected Democrat gets in trouble with the law, and the party label might as well be in the witness protection program when it comes to some reporters at the AP. Now, in this particular case the infraction is minor --a traffic violation bearing a $75 fine -- but all the same writer Carla K. Johnson left out a Chicago congressman's party label in her November 23 story:
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois congressman said he was a victim of racial profiling when police gave him a traffic ticket alleging he swerved over the center line.
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, who is black, said he will go to traffic court to challenge the $75 ticket given to him early Monday by two white officers.
"I'm not one of these people who cry racism," Davis told The Associated Press on Friday. "I'm a person who believes in hard work and follows the rules."
Yet oddly enough a November 22 blurb by the AP announced Davis's party affiliation in the lead paragraph. Likewise, Davis's hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune, mentioned his party affiliation in the second paragraph of a November 22 story.


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I just wanted to give a special thank you to Sarona Mynhardt for taking her White Rock Ad Libitum Concert Choir to Carnegie Hall in New York on April 10 (Children to perform in NYC, Feb. 6).
The choir was invited by the great conductor, Henry Leck.
This was an amazing experience for these young girls and will be fondly remembered for the rest of their lives.
Thank you, Sarona, for your enthusiasm, dedication and mentoring of these grateful girls.
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Microsoft, NBC In Big Advertising Push
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said Thursday afternoon that the two companies are in a digital marketing deal, where Microsoft will promote NBC's fall 2010 program lineup on MSN, Xbox, Windows Mobile, and Bing. Financial details of the advertising campaign was not announced. Microsoft said the deal will also include original, branded entertainment content from NBC shows, integration with Bing Visual Search, mobile, in-game advertising, and more. The campaign will only run in the U.S.
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Performance measurement of construction firms in developing countries
Many large contractors in Vietnam are lacking an effective method to measure their performance and identify weaknesses and threats. The integration of the balanced scorecard (BSC) and strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats (SWOT) matrix is described to evaluate the strategic performance of large contractors in Vietnam. The AnGiang Construction Company (ACC) was used as an example to validate the approach. The BSC-oriented SWOT matrix is developed to formulate the short- and long-term strategies of ACC. The benchmarking approach was adapted to evaluate the ACC's performance and expose its competitors' best practices for improvement. The results indicated that only the financial perspective is at a poor level on the performance scale whereas the customer, learning and growth, and internal process perspectives are at a moderate level on the performance scale. The effective evaluation matrix uncovered 11 effective solutions that could be grouped under four categories: (1) innovating organizational structure; (2) effectively managing processes at construction sites; (3) stepping up cost control; and (4) improving equipment management. The findings may benefit not only Vietnamese construction firms but also firms in other developing countries to identify their strategies, quantify the strategic performance, and improve their competitive advantages.
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Because stage 1 kidney cancer hasn't yet spread throughout the body, treatment options usually focus on localized treatment. The most common treatment for stage 1 kidney cancer is surgery. Since tumors caused by stage 1 cancer are usually still small, doctors may perform a partial nephrectomy. This type of surgery involves removing only the tumor and a small part of the surrounding tissue. In some cases, doctors may perform a simple nephrectomy, which involves removing the entire kidney. Generally, stage 1 kidney cancer doesn't require the removal of any lymph nodes or the adrenal glands since it hasn't yet spread.
If surgery is too risky, doctors may perform other procedures, including arterial embolization, which involves blocking the blood flow to your kidney in order to shrink the tumor. Other treatment options, like cryoablation (using a needle to freeze cancer cells) or radiofrequency ablation (using an electric current through a needle to kill cancer cells), may be recommended. Talk with your doctor to determine what treatment options are best for you.


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Canning Preserving & Jelly Making Made Easy By Using A "Wear-Ever" Aluminum Roaster And A "Wear-Ever" Preserving Kettle
The front panel is black and white with the Wear-Ever trademark, a small boy in britches eating from a kettle with a large spoon. The title and picture are framed by a garland of fruit. The back panel is plain with a frame of pots and pans with the trademark in all four corners. In the bottom center is 1780. The principles of preserving foods, utensils needed, selection of food, instructions for canning, preserving, jelly making, marmalades, and recipes. The superiority of "Wear-Ever" aluminum utensils is included and it ends with a list of don'ts. Each page has a banner top and bottom and they are all different. The back end page has a drawing of jars in a pan. The printer's name is at the bottom.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Printer: Eddy Press Co. (Cumberland, Md.)
Brand Name: Wear-Ever Aluminum Cookery
Publisher: Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. (New Kensington, Pa. ; East St. Louis, Ill. ; Oakland, Calif.)
1901 (ca.)
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15.9 x 8.9 cm
Language: English
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Citation: Canning Preserving & Jelly Making Made Easy By Using A "Wear-Ever" Aluminum Roaster And A "Wear-Ever" Preserving Kettle. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=3443


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By HANNAH JOHNSON – Stillwater Gazette
Schools across the St. Croix Valley will have new start and dismissal times next fall.
The Independent School District 834 Board approved a proposal Thursday night that eliminates seven district bus routes, dropping the number of routes from 71 to 64. School administrators said reducing bus routes should save the district almost $300,000 next school year in transportation costs.
The board reviewed the draft of proposed new start and dismissal times for next year at its March 22 meeting. Since then, the district posted the draft online to for feedback from parents and community members on the new three-tiered system.
No parents or community members spoke during the open forum.
The first tier includes the Stillwater Area High School, Stillwater and Oak-Land Junior highs and St. Croix Valley Alternative Learning Center. This tier's new hours are 7:40 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. for SAHS and 7:50 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for SJHS and OLJR. These schools begin five to 10 minutes earlier than the previous schedule. The St. Croix Valley ALC starts five minutes later during its second start time of the day.
The second tier includes all ISD 834 elementary schools. These schools begin either at 8:40 a.m. or 8:45 a.m. and end at 3:10 p.m. or 3:15 p.m. In most schools, this is a change of 15 minutes or less, but some elementary schools will start as much as 40 minutes later (Andersen, Lily Lake) or 25 to 20 minutes earlier (Marine, Lake Elmo).
The final tier are non-ISD 834 schools, including New Heights School, St. Croix Catholic, Salem Lutheran, Valley Crossing and St. Croix Preparatory Academy. Each of these schools will have start times ranging from 9:05 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and end between 3:40 p.m. and 4 p.m. depending on the school.
"I appreciate the public's concern about start times," said board member Tom Lehmann. "I think we've honed this to the best it's going to get and for a savings of $300,000 I think it can't get much better than that."
The action passed 7-0.
The board also unanimously approved a 2012-2013 academic calendar. The biggest change in the new calendar compared to the current year is there will be no late starts next year. Instead, there will be two less student instructional days for teachers to have professional development days. This does not mean there are less student instructional days than what's required by state law.
The new transportation schedule and the 2012-2013 academic calendar will be on the district website for review at www.stillwater.k12.mn.us


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Bacon Caesar Salad Recipe
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Family and friends always say my Caesar salad rivals any restaurant version. The addition of bacon lends a slightly smoky flavor and makes it unique.—Sharon Tipton, Orlando, Florida
Featured In: Restaurant Recipes You Can Make at Home
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- 2 cups cubed day-old bread
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, sliced
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1-1/2 teaspoons anchovy paste
- Dash pepper
- 1 large bunch romaine, torn
- 4 Jones Dairy Farm Dry-Aged Bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
- 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- In a large skillet, cook bread cubes in oil over medium heat for 4-5 minutes or until golden brown, stirring frequently. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Remove to paper towels; cool.
- For dressing, in a small bowl, whisk the oil, lemon juice, mustard, garlic, anchovy paste and pepper. In a serving bowl, combine romaine and bacon. Drizzle with dressing; toss to coat. Sprinkle with croutons and cheese. Yield: 12 servings (3/4 cup each).
To Make Ahead: Prepare the croutons a few days before. Store in an airtight container.
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The Indiana Integrated Resource Management Program's 10th annual field day will be an opportunity for producers to learn how small changes in farm management practices can improve production.
The Aug. 8 event will be 2-5:30 p.m. at Brooks Farm Inc., 2375 East state Route 16, Monon. It's free and open to the public, but an optional catered dinner will follow for $10.
Integrated Resource Management, or IRM, is about stepping back and looking at the bigger picture of farming, said Mark Hilton, clinical professor in the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine. It focuses on more effective animal care, financial decisions and most appropriate farmland use.
"Fundamentally, IRM examines how producers can better position themselves for success," he said. "The top producers are not satisfied with where they are. They are looking forward to the next year, and the next year. And they're asking hard questions."
Hilton said the Brooks farm is a prime example of how improvements grounded in these principles can boost production and promote animal wellness. The farm, which has participated in IRM since the early 1990s, shows how gradual changes can improve the success and productivity of an operation.
Purdue veterinary medicine experts, and Natural Resources Conservation Service experts will give presentations about the drought situation, pasture management and heterosis (breeding for better performance) in cattle.
Attendees will be able to visit with the experts about questions specific to individual operations. They also will have the chance to talk with other farmers about what's working on other farms.
Participants should register ahead of time to the Purdue Large Animal Hospital at 765-494-8548. Payment for the dinner is due at the time of registration.


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Titled, "Channeling your inner Goldstein: Obama's Renewable Two-Minute Hate Fest", this glorious rant on PJTV under Roger's Rules compares Obama's administration favorable with Orwell's 1984.
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Egypt faced an internet and mobile-phone blackout on Friday, as authorities attempted to restrict communication between anti-government protesters and the watching world.
Vodafone confirmed that it had been asked by the Egyptian government to "suspend services in selected areas" and that Egyptian legislation meant it was "obliged to comply". Read more