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Five questions: San Francisco Giants
The good news about the 2008 Giants was that they weren't as rotten as they plausibly could have been. The bad news was that, performing entirely as well as could possibly have been expected, they plodded to a 72-90 finish.
What, then, are the aching questions facing this stuck-in-second-gear outfit at the dawn of 2009?
How good is Pablo Sandoval, really?
A .280 GPA in a quarter-season's worth of play isn't typically the sort of performance that gets everyone talking about a team's dynamite new offensive star. But let's remember these are the Giants we're dealing with here, who tied for 14th in the NL with a team GPA of .240. Anybody who can hit even a little bit better than average is big news in these parts.
And when that ability is presented in the package of a 22-year-old switch-hitter who has, at least ostensibly, the capacity to play both third base and catcher, well, hey, Giants' fans may be forgiven for making a fuss.
Thus in Sandoval's first full big league season, all eyes will be upon him. The first issue is whether he can handle third base on an ongoing basis. His natural position is catcher—at 5-foot-11, 245, that's pretty obvious—but he's blocked there by Bengie Molina in the immediate term, and quite possibly by Buster Posey down the road.
The second issue is what sort of hitter Sandoval will turn out to be over the long haul. His batting average is going to be good, but it surely won't stay in the .340 range he flashed over the final month-and-a-half of 2008. Thus he'll need to develop enough power to compensate for his utter absence of strike zone discipline.
If Sandoval proves unable to make it at third base, the only other place to put him will be first base. And while a GPA of .280 would be pretty good at third base, and darn good at catcher, it would be below average at first base.
Speaking of first base, who the heck's going to play there, anyway?
The leading candidate is 25-year-old Travis Ishikawa, also entering his first full season in the majors. The good news about Ishikawa is that in 2008 he bounced back from a two-year minor league funk to hit the best he ever had. The bad news is that the better-than-ever Ishikawa produced a GPA of just .257 in his 104 big league plate appearances. He's going to have to generate yet another significant improvement to be a serious first baseman.
If it doesn't turn out to be Ishikawa or Sandoval at first base for the Giants, the other two aspirants are sophomore John Bowker and veteran utilityman Rich Aurilia, who platooned at the position over the balance of 2008, and neither of whom—you guessed it—hit even as well as Ishikawa.
In other words, unless something very pleasantly surprising occurs, the 2009 Giants will once again yield feeble offense from their crew at first base.
And for that matter, who the heck's going to play second base?
Twenty-four-year-old Emmanuel Burriss and 27-year-old Kevin Frandsen have battled it out for the job all spring. Neither has yet played as a first-stringer in the majors, and neither has star potential, but both seem reasonably competent, and for whatever it's worth, both have enjoyed good springs.
Of the two, Burriss has by far the better speed, and probably will provide more on-base ability. But he has precious little power. Frandsen has a bit of pop, and is better on the DP pivot, but he's coming off of a season lost to a ruptured Achilles tendon, and was never the stuff of which pennant dreams are made, anyway.
Burriss appears to have gained the inside track. If neither he nor Frandsen emerges as the regular, next in line would be 27-year-old utilityman Eugenio Velez, who's even faster than Burriss, but the rest of his game is questionable. A long shot is 25-year-old Jesus Guzman, a career minor leaguer with an intriguing bat but highly dubious defensive chops.
Whither Barry Zito?
As he enters the third season of his mammoth 7-year, $126 million contract, Zito stands at a miserable crossroads. Either he stabilizes, and manages to contribute as a moderately acceptable starter for at least some significant portion of the deal, or he continues his downward spiral, and fully realizes the potential he's threatening as one of the most colossal free agent busts of all time.
Realistically, there is no third path of regaining his status as one of the better starters in the game, and validating the Giants' choice of signing him to this contract. It's all too vividly clear that'll never happen.
The stabilize-versus-bust verdict effectively rests on the question of which Zito is it that the Giants can expect going forward: the Zito of the second halves of 2007 and 2008, or the Zito of the first halves? His combined post-All Star break record in both seasons has been a respectable 11-9 with a 4.34 ERA and a WHIP of 1.30. But getting there has been a disaster: Zito's first-half record with the Giants has been 10-21 with a 5.27 ERA and a WHIP of 1.62.
Overall Zito's trendline is ominous: in his final three seasons before coming to the Giants, he'd surrendered 0.55 walks per strikeout. That figure rose slightly to 0.63 in 2007, and alarmingly jumped to 0.85 in '08. Unless Zito arrests or reverses that momentum, his capacity to even hang onto a rotation spot will evaporate.
And there are five full years left on his contract.
So, just where are we here in the success cycle?
It's plain that the Giants are in a rebuilding phase, of some sort. They certainly claim to be, anyway. Ever since declining to re-sign Barry Bonds following the 2007 season, they've issued all the predictable utterances about "turning the page" and "starting fresh" and "giving these kids a chance to play," yadda yadda yadda.
And it is the case that the roster has generally gotten more youthful, and that a couple of the Giants' youngest players (starting pitchers Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain) are legitimately terrific talents. But alongside the opening up of three-quarters of the infield to a youth movement, GM Brian Sabean has signed 33-year-old Edgar Renteria as a stopgap shortstop, probably just as the veteran begins his decline. And in the outfield, Sabean had already locked in over-30 nothing-specials Aaron Rowand and Randy Winn to lucrative long-term deals, blocking Nate Schierholtz, one of the few system-produced young position players who might be worth a serious chance.
All in all it's apparent that Sabean doesn't have a coherent master plan; basically he seems to be riding the Lincecum-Cain horse and crossing his fingers. To be sure, the Giants play in the one division in MLB in which if everything falls into place and they play .500-ish ball into the final couple of months, anything can happen. But this sort of "it could be worse" reality doesn't exactly inspire confidence, either for this year or the long run. The fact that a blind squirrel might find an acorn doesn't mean he's likely to so, or deserving of credit if he does; as has been observed elsewhere, "hope is not a strategy."
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If you think things are bad in Vegas, look at Detroit. Crime is up, whole neighborhoods are deserted and the suburb of Hamtramck is so broke it asked for permission to file for bankruptcy this month. The state said no. Nearby, a movement has started to reclaim abandoned blocks and make them into something beautiful. Power House Productions, a Detroit-based nonprofit, has teamed up with Juxtapoz magazine on the occasion of its 15th anniversary and begun buying up abandoned houses, rehabbing them and inviting artists to come along for the ride.
"They wanted to re-imagine the neighborhoods in a different light," Juxtapoz managing editor Evan Pricco says. "I think a lot of people who are creative saw the recession as an opportunity to re-imagine how a neighborhood could be built." Among those rolling up their sleeves and seizing the opportunity are artists-in-residence like LA-based graffiti master RETNA and sculptor Ben Wolf. "We wanted them to embed themselves in the community—paint in the houses, build sculptures around the neighborhood, do as much public and in the homes art as they could possibly do." Pricco says.
Just a couple thousand miles southwest, there are other neighborhoods where the empty houses outnumber the inhabited ones. They're made of stucco, not wood, but Las Vegas' empty subdivisions would make a fabulous canvas for artists with an eye to adding some color amid the beige and some chaos to the Valley's overwhelming architectural order. "There's definitely some interesting potential in that," Pricco says of Southern Nevada's suburban sprawl. "Maybe for our 20th anniversary."

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Desperate to find her place in the world, Sara Beth dreams of applying for the Miss Wrangler Montana competition that tours with the rodeo circuit.
Riding horses has become her anchor until a near fatal accident takes more from her than she'd ever willingly sacrifice.
Determined to prove his business training, Johnny seeks out the Rourke family to call in an old favor. When he embroils himself in Sara Beth's life, he has to prove they're nothing more than friends.
Seeking independence, both Sara Beth and Johnny lean on each other more and more, until love threatens their friendship. Will they seek out each other or be confused by their dreams?
Can either of them leave their past and embrace their future?
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Lauren Silberman became the first female participant to compete in an NFL regional scouting combine on Sunday. Unfortunately, her tryout was both short and underwhelming.
Silberman, who was one of 38 kickers to take part in the combine at the New York Jets' facility, kicked only twice. Both attempts were kickoffs and only one actually crossed the midfield line. In fact, her two kicks combined to travel a total of just 30 yards.
She called it quits early after claiming she aggravated a quad injury she suffered during practice the week before.
Katie Hnida, the first woman to score a point in a Division I football game, believes Silberman's showing may have actually done more bad than good in regards to other females hoping to pursue the sport.
"Her performance does not have to do with her gender. It has to do with her experience and her preparation," Hnida, a former kicker for Colorado and New Mexico, told USA TODAY Sports by phone. "Unfortunately, what's going to happen now is she's going to be looked at (as inferior) because she was female.
"But she was terrible."
Video of one of Silberman's kicks can be seen at the end of this post.
Hnida is currently recovering from a blood clot that has put her Arena League career on hold.
Three kickers who tried out along with Silberman said she asked them how to approach the ball on the kick.
Silberman didn't take any warm-up kicks before the tryout, citing the fact that she was nursing an injury. Hnida doesn't buy her claim.
"I also find it curious she didn't warm up. You never go in kicking cold," Hnida said. "There's a reason why the kickers are the first people out there. It takes us a while to warm up."
Some now fear that females may have an even harder path to receive a fair shake on the football field, including Hnida.
"It is disappointing," Hnida said. "I hoped she would go out and do justice for an NFL tryout, because there are lots of people who have dreamed of going to the NFL. It should be something serious."
Silberman played soccer at the University of Wisconsin before attending MIT for her Master's degree. It was there at MIT in which she wrote a thesis about how video games help athletes enhance their own performance. She then took her thesis one step further when she founded a consulting company that helps athletes use video games to train.
Although her performance on Sunday was less than stellar, at least she had the courage to put herself out there.
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Best of Our Blogs: October 19, 2012
Mindfulness is such the buzz word these days. The proof is in this week's post. Why are people so in need of being mindful? Is being present really all that hard?
My logical mind says, "It's not." But remind me that the next time I'm driving, meditating or multitasking. Maybe we're drawn to words like "mindfulness" because somewhere in-between dropping off our dry cleaning and picking up our kids, there is a voice that calls us to stop and listen. Sometimes the pain of silence and the worries that creep in feel intolerable. That's what makes paying attention so heartbreakingly difficult.
But being mindful isn't just about being quiet or even still. It's about being conscience and aware of this moment. Doing so puts us in a better place to make decisions, to gain a greater understanding of things like addiction, ADHD, parenting and even mindfulness itself. The more aware we are, the more able we are to meet any challenge we face by facing it consciously.
You may feel afraid, intimidated or incapable of dealing with your fears. That's why you hide from them by keeping busy or focusing on other people's problems. But being conscious will give you a surprising amount of courage-courage you didn't think you had. The first step in the process is being present right here, right now. If you're ready to take the next step, these posts will help get you there.
Men vs. Women: Does Gender Matter in Addiction Recovery?
(Addiction Recovery) – When it comes to gender and addiction who has it better? Men or women? Taking a "Battle of the Sexes" approach, this post covers areas like prevalence, risk factors and response to treatment and how gender plays a part in each.
Where Mindfulness Fails
(Guideposts to Happiness) – Is Western mindfulness instruction derivative, a watered down version of its Eastern metaphysical origins? And is that such a bad thing? Blogger Will Meecham analyzes, criticizes and investigates the missing piece in today's mindfulness techniques.
Mindful Parenting vs. Attachment Parenting
(Mindful Parenting) – Is mindful parenting the same thing as attachment parenting? Learn the differences between them and find out what kind of parent you are. You might just discover your best parenting style here.
A 2-Minute Practice to Get You in the Mindful Mood (Video)
(Mindfulness & Psychotherapy) – Feeling disconnected? In two minutes of watching this video, you'll feel focused, aware and reconnected.
ADHD Awareness Week: Take the Survey Question!
(ADHD from A to Zoë) – In celebration of ADHD Awareness Week Zoë asks, "Who is the most important person that needs to know about ADHD?" You'll be surprised by the answer.
Uyemura, B. (2012). Best of Our Blogs: October 19, 2012. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 24, 2017, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/10/19/best-of-our-blogs-october-19-2012/


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Q: I have a tablet computer that uses the Android operating system. I've noticed that when applications such as Skype are updated they ask for permission to do things that seem increasingly invasive, which is worrisome.
In particular, these apps ask for permission to write data to or delete data from the tablet's SD (Secure Digital) memory card, to make calls without my permission in ways that can expose my tablet to malicious software, and to access my contacts without my knowledge or permission.
What exposure to harm do these updates pose, and why would any user agree to these things?
A: While malicious software is always a threat, Skype's lawyers certainly believe in full disclosure. The company warns that the application could allow malware to run up your phone bill, steal your information or erase your data. That doesn't mean it's likely.
The truth is, the access Skype wants to your tablet is essential for the application to work as a smart video phone.
For example, Skype can disable the keylock and password security on your phone, but that's what any smartphone does to answer an incoming call. Skype also has access to your tablet's SD memory card, but it has to store data somewhere. In addition, Skype has the ability to call phone numbers, via the Internet, without your intervention, which is the same thing that happens on a smartphone when you click a contact's name and then phone number.
I'd be more worried about the U.S. government monitoring Skype calls than about Skype monitoring your tablet computer.
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Is the "chain reaction" in ETFs behind the recent explosion in closed-end fund discounts? Out of all the traders spooked by October's market mayhem, those that deal in closed-end funds, or CEFs, may have felt their pulses quicken the most. According to Lipper, the median discount for all CEFs plummeted 42% from 4.8% at the start of the month to a six-month low of 6.8% on Oct. 21. CEFs typically trade in relation to, but independent of, their underlying net asset values, or NAVs. That means that unlike open-end mutual funds, shares of closed-end funds can trade at premiums or discounts to their underlying NAVs, a feature many traders find attractive. After bottoming out in late October, discounts have significantly narrowed as equity markets have rallied. As of Nov. 4, the average discount climbed back to 5.7%. However, the shock was still fresh enough for veteran CEF specialist Thomas Herzfeld to detail his seven reasons for the drastic widening of discounts in his latest newsletter. "We have been giving a lot of thought as to why discounts became so stretched recently and there are a number of reasons, some apply to all groups, while others are more focused," writes Herzfeld. While explanations one through six are fairly straightforward -- a glut of funds, a rash of new issues, the shareholder unfriendly Citigroup ( C)/ Legg Mason ( LM) deal, Refco's collapse, early tax-selling, rising interest rates and a slumping stock market -- item number seven deals with exchange-traded funds and is somewhat surprising. Herzfeld blames sagging closed-end fund prices on "competition from ETFs, whose growth is beginning to look like a chain reaction." ETFs also represent a basket of stocks and trade freely on an exchange, but they typically track an index and aren't actively managed. And unlike closed-end shares, where the premiums and discounts can be steep, market specialists and institutions tend to keep ETF shares as close to the NAVs as possible.
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Today's feature videos bring us the starting wave of election year humor, a softer look at Super Mario's nemesis Bowser and Pick a Dick, coming to a dot com near you! Probably… actually probably already exists.
StupidVideos – Anchorwoman's Sausage Promotion Problem (link)
Hot Dog! I love news fails! So for starters, this is great, especially if you're entering the sausage companion, cause you can have this news lady judge your sausage! Yay. Secondly, Peter Pepper picked a what? That's right.
Atom Films – Key And Peele Know What's REALLY On Obama's Mind (link)
Yep, it's an election year. So get ready for tons more of this kind of stuff gacing our pages here on crave (and on all the video big shots)
College Humor – Jake and Amir: Traffic (link)
Jake and Amir return with the hate hate relationship, as they are once again stuck together for while stuck in traffice. Talk about a sketch that doesn't go anywhere.
Dorkly – Bowser's Marital Problems (link)
I can't be sure but Bowser's wife sounds exactly like Mila Kunis to me… and once I recognized that, I had all sorts of inappropriate thoughts about what I'd do to her taunt, spiket, turtle shell, as she screams out for me to pull her horns. Which is apparently cool, now that she's single!
UCB Comedy – Jim-A-Day Calendar: Feb 7, 2012 (link)
Good lord, somebody please go on to the UCB page and tell them to stop featuring these every damn day.
Funny Or Die – Arcade Daze (link)
Holy God. This just happened. Also can I point out the weird moment that happens at 1:16 specifically? Cause, that's fine. I'm sure that's all.. um.. "straight up" normal stuff. What's this song "really" about… 😉
That's what's funny on the world of the web today.
Now go forth and go judge your own sausage!
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Most recently, new NBC Entertainment Co-Chair Ben Silverman came out of the gate, handing some of the content's creative process -- and responsibility -- to advertisers. "The business is changing," he said. "If our creative partners want to execute programming at the level we've been funding it, we're going to have to bring advertisers into the fold."
If there's any doubt about what that means, his frankness is refreshing: "If you're making broadcast television, you better get the joke: We get financed by advertising."
My take? If, as Silverman notes, TV gets financed by advertising, then we should also recognize that advertising gets financed by TV viewers -- and it's time to give something back!
Actually, another NBC executive, former President Neil Braun, nailed it over six years ago, in an interview with Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes," when he was discussing a then-newfangled device called TiVo:
Neil Braun:You are going to have to create a much more compelling reason for an end user not to zap forward than currently exists.
Mike Wallace:What's that going to be? Have you figured that out?
Braun:Spend your time watching my commercial and something good will happen. That's what people are going to have to say.
Wallace:Like, for instance?
Braun: Win a million dollars, get a discount. They're going to have to have a proposition that immediately conveys value of some sort-entertainment value, economic value, some kind of value to the viewer.
I think Braun was right; and as reprehensible as it may sound to some of you, rewarding viewers for their time and verified attention to commercials is a business model whose time has come.
This new category of advertising - "reactive advertising" - evolved from two other proven reactive TV categories. Shows like "American Idol" represent the latest generation of reactive content, while Home Shopping Network blazed the trails of reactive commerce several decades ago, spawning dozens of other reactive commerce channels.
The key to reactive mass media is that the stimulation is notinteractive -- it's the same ad, show, or offer being broadcast to each viewer. There's no set top box software or bandwidth constraints to get the reactive ads out to the mass audience. It's the mass-media-delivered call to action that gets the reactive process going -- and the possibilities are truly endless.
Primitive? Perhaps. Inexpensive? Absolutely. Effective? You bet.
It's actually pretty easy. Start an ad pod (or TV program) with an invitation to viewers to pay attention to the commercials (the "Alert"); at the end of the ad pod (or program), ask the audience a question about one or more of the commercials. Give them a Web site and a brief, defined period of time to prove they've paid attention.
Then, use a second network -- like phones, the mail, or ideally, the Internet -- to capture responses. While you're at it, why not start an interactive exchange of ideas and commerce?
So tell me, what's wrong with rewarding viewers for proving they've paid attention, especially if you can get a tidbit of information from them that could help make your products -- or ads -- better? It's really not that foreign an idea. Have you ever received money in the mail for filling in a survey? Are you too busy to fill in a questionnaire unless it's made worth your while?
Hell, last I checked, even Nielsen pays people to prove they watch TV. The bottom line -- if the entire TV industry is based on the actions of a monetized minority of Americans, what's wrong with including the rest of us?
Next post, I'll share with you some research I've conducted to explain how and why reactive advertising works incredibly well. Until then, I want to hear what YOU think. Can reactive advertising save TV, or does "paying attention" (even if additional information is collected in the process) forever cheapen the relationship between advertiser and viewer?


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Personal issue timer for JIRA®
When you start work on some issue, all you need is click on "Start timer" button and forgot about it. But when you want some coffee or have some important business call(or call from your mom) just don't forgot to press "Stop timer" and do your stuff. At end of a day you will have a perfect timing for all issues you do. When you don't need some timer anymore, log your work or press "Drop timer" button and timer will be deleted.
As describer up, you can start timer for any issue you can see. Even if you don't have any edit permission for this issue. This helps you to track time when you help your teammates. And you can log this time later, when you will have edit permission.
When you need to switch fast from current task to new one, open new task page and start timer for this task. Previous active timer will be stopped automatically. When you finish urgent task just switch to previous task, click Start timer button and move on from paused state. At once you can have only one active timer.
When you log time spent for task in any way, your personal timer for this task will be deleted automatically. That helps you to see time for last unlogged interval only and free you from any time calculating ever.
If you don't need timer for issue, press "Drop timer" button manually and confirm, that you want remove current timer value. IMPORTANT. "Drop timer" will not call any time logging actions in JIRA®. It just drop current timer data from system.
From any JIRA® page you will have access to list of all your personal existing timers. Timers dropdown menu in JIRA® navigation bar will helps you for that. This menu contains all your personal existing timers with values. Currently active timer will have a green background. Else you can see there link with total number of existing counters, that forwards you to your JIRA® homepage, and "Clear all my timers" link, that will immediately drop all your timers data. IMPORTANT. "Clear all my timers" link simply call "Drop timer" action for ALL user timers, so any logging actions will be NOT called.
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- APOL's debt-to-equity ratio is very low at 0.08 and is currently below that of the industry average, implying that there has been very successful management of debt levels. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.45, which illustrates the ability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- The revenue fell significantly faster than the industry average of 25.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 15.6%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- APOLLO GROUP INC's earnings per share declined by 36.0% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. Earnings per share have declined over the last two years. We anticipate that this should continue in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, APOLLO GROUP INC reported lower earnings of $3.19 versus $4.02 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 13.8% in earnings ($2.75 versus $3.19).
- The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the Diversified Consumer Services industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 40.3% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $134.03 million to $79.95 million.
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Lawrence, your interest in this region goes back many years. What brought you to the subject of Al-Qaeda, and why have you devoted so much time and energy to it?
I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years. It was actually alternative service for me. I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. I didn't know anything about the Middle East. I flew to Cairo and I got there at midnight and the next morning, I taught my first class. So that was my initiation. And I really enjoyed my time. I was very involved in the lives of my students. And so when 9/11 came along and this culture that I had such a feeling of fondness for had attacked the culture I lived in, it was really upsetting to me. Every American was upset, but there was a side of this tragedy that was particularly personal to me.
You turned your interest into a acclaimed book called "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11." What prompted you to then create a theater piece as well?
After the book came out, a lot of people were asking me how these experiences had affected me personally. The play was a way of dealing with the emotions and experiences, and explaining to people what it would be like if you were an American citizen, like me, who went to try to find out who these people are and why they attacked America. That's sort of the reporter's role. I never had the experience as a reporter before this of having such a difficult time separating my personal feelings from my professional obligation.
Alex, what sparked you to want to work with Larry to turn his play into a movie?
Well, I had never been a kind of Middle Eastern expert. After 9/11, like everybody, I became much more aware. And I had done a film called 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' which was in its own way about Iraq and Afghanistan, but in a fundamental way it was actually about a kind of change in the American character. I had heard about Larry's play, I had certainly read the book, and I was a huge fan. I loved the play because it was kind of the flip side of what I had done in 'Taxi to the Dark Side.' Larry's play was a journey of an individual going to the Middle East to find out more about it, and the people who lived there. And for me, that was very compelling because it taught us a lot in a very condensed space about the Middle East, but also did so through the journey of one individual. And I always think that that's a more interesting way of going about it. It was in the great tradition of storytelling because it was at once so educational and so personal. So I thought it would make a great film.


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North Korea Vows No Change Despite New Leadership
North Korea is entering a new era of leadership by "solemnly and confidently" declaring that rival South Korea and other nations shouldn't expect any change.
North Korea has ended 11 days of official mourning for leader Kim Jong Il. His son Kim Jong Un has been declared supreme leader of the ruling party and military.
Pyongyang's National Defense Commission said in a statement Friday that the North will never deal with the "traitor group" led by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. It says the North will unite around leader Kim Jong Un.
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"X Factor" season finale was last night and the first winner was Melanie Amaro, who won a $5 million recording contract and will also be featured in a Pepsi commercial. Melanie thanked everyone and said this is something she has dreamed about her whole life.
Are you happy she won? I haven't watched the show since the first couple of weeks so I don't know anything about her. If you missed the finale last night, you can watch a recap after the jump. "X Factor" will return sometime next year.


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My daily life is very unremarkable. My current job is very dull, going to the gym is repetitive, and coming home does not hold much excitement either. So ,when something remarkable happens, then you have to decide whether you want to pass it by or jump in.
It so happened that on one of those unremarkable days I left the gym early because "I was not feeling the need to workout." On my way home, I came to an accident that probably just happened a few minutes before I arrived. Cars were steaming and one was on fire (a small fire that was put out), car parts were strewn across the 4 lane road and a few people were on their cell phones while one or two ran over to the car that was in the middle of the road.
Like myself, many people pulled off to the side of the road and waited. I was not sure what I was waiting for… I decided after a few moments that I would just drive by because it seemed that a number of people "appeared" to be stopping to help. Just to interject a little social psychology, the thought that when multiple people witness an incident, each person expects that the next individual would do something ie. call the cops, go to help etc is called the bystander effect. This phrase came from the Kitty Genovese murder that happened in the 60's in which people heard her cries for help but no one called 911 because each person assumed his/her neighbour already called. Here I was looking at a recent accident and implementing the bystander effect – 'surely someone else will stop to help these people so I don't have to.'
Most of us know the parable of the good Samaritan. Most of us know that a few people stopped, gawked and walked by because they did not think it was their job to get involved. I understand quite well the feeling of not wanting to get involved – frankly it disrupts my day, it can be very time-consuming, and then again you never know what you may get into.
That day, which was quickly turning into a dark evening as well as the fact that I was feeling tired and wanted to get home before it was dark (I hate driving at night), I decided that walking by was not the right thing to do. I decided to play the role of the good Samaritan along with a few other people. The decision became clear when at the moment I realized that most people actually stopped to gawk but never left their cars (bystander effect) and the other car involved in the accident had a person trapped inside. I just could not pass by; I needed to become involved.
Needless to say that once I got to the car with a 60 yr old woman with multicolored hair who was trapped and in pain, the issues of driving at night, feeling too tired or loss of personal time was not an issue. It was all about this woman who needed the help of strangers and few of us answered her call. It was quite moving to see the support that people can give to each other in times of crisis.
I really can't say that I made a difference at the scene when I suggested that they use her blanket to cover her or when I decided to put her glasses back on her face because I thought she might need to see (I wear glasses so I understood the importance of seeing). I acknowledge that my role was very insignificant; however, I would do it all over again because for that moment in time, someone else needed my support and full attention. It was not all about me and my needs.
I received no medals of commendations or pats on the back or anything such things (except for a few Facebook friends' kind words); I slipped away from the scene when I was sure she was in good hands with the first responders. Choosing to become involved in someone else's life is a risky venture. In this day and age, being a good Samaritan can get you killed and sometimes by the person you are trying to help. Thank God, that in this case, multicoloured-hair grandmother (who looked a lot younger than her age of 60) did not appear to suffer any life threatening injuries and everyone who stopped to help did not meet with any harm. All in all, it was a good moment to choose to be a good Samaritan.


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Philippine inventor, Ismael Aviso, presents his Motionless Electric Generator (MEG), reporting that it has been powering around 800 Watts of resistive light bulbs while the battery voltage drops very little, which powers the circuit involved in harnessing this radiant energy from the surroundings.
Ismael Aviso's solid state generator. More photos are posted on the correspondence page.
On March 1st, I conducted an interview with Ismael Aviso about his MEG as part of the Free Energy Now series. Karl Palsness contributed to the interview as well.
by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
We've been doing a lot of reporting lately about the Filipino inventor, Ismael Aviso and his dedicated team, who have a small stripped-down electric car that runs on a single 12-Volt battery that their on-board power system seems to keep topped off at 13 Volts. It's not a robust system yet, but early indications are very promising. The DC motor than runs his vehicle was recently verified by the Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) to run at 133% efficiency when hooked up to Aviso's on-board system. I spoke this morning with George Colorado who headed up the DOE team, and I'll be reporting his corroborative comments later once their official report is released hopefully next week, having been delayed.
When fully developed, we're talking about a system here that could enable electric cars to run indefinitely without having to be recharged because the energy is being harvested from the surrounding as the vehicle goes down the road. And that same technology could be configured to power a home or business — continuously, reliably, and cheaply. We're talking an energy revolution that could provide much-needed morale and economic boost to prevent the world from spinning into the toilet of civil self-destruction.
And this isn't the only such free energy technology that is holding out such amazing hope at this very scary time in world history. There are several others likewise emerging that are looking very good.
Aviso actually has three different, related technologies that he's been working on, that involve the same basic principles that were put to use in the system verified by the Philippine DOE. Another is a "repelling force" that he hopes to configure into an electronic piston arrangement that he thinks could be scaled up to produce power many megawatts of power from a single generator.
The other is what he calls a "MEG", which stands for Motionless Electronic Generator, that he's been working on for a little over a year. It is a solid state system, meaning there are no moving parts. Yesterday, in the story about the headlines Aviso is inspiring, I mentioned that he had reported getting 800 Watts from his MEG system, while the battery that is involved in the array barely dropped in voltage.
In the past few days I've been receiving a series of emails from Aviso about this MEG producing quite a bit of power. First it was 100 Watts while the battery barely went down. Then is was 800 Watts, powering a resistive light bulb array, with the battery going down various small amounts, sometimes seeming to not even diminish at all.
This development puts a whole new realm of hope in the Aviso saga. Development of the MEG makes things so much more simple. Solid state devices are much easier and cheaper to produce than anything that involves moving parts. Put simply, a solid state free energy generator is like a high-power solar panel that is always on — or which gives you as much electricity as you need, when you need it, regardless of whether the sun is shining.
In preparation for this story, yesterday morning (my time; it was like 2 am his time [but he was okay with doing it then, having called me first]) I did a recorded interview with him, and I had Karl Palsness on the line with me. Karl has been researching overunity electromagnetic systems full-time since 2002, so he was able to provide some helpful questions. The interview was quite technical, and the connection wasn't that great; but those of you who are deeply into this type of research, doing work in this area yourself, will find the interview to be well worth a listen.
[March 3 am update] Here's a brief video showing the set-up. He didn't do a walk-around inasmuch as the circuitry is exposed, without a "black box" to conceal it.
"MEG BREAKTHROUGH" March 3 3pm (Philippines)
MEG with resistive load equivalent of 1,000watts. The bulbs are 2,000 watts, 220v, 20 pieces, but the volts across the bulb terminal was 110v only.
Running more than 2 hours now . Start at 270 v after two hours still at 270v. Measurement made while the MEG running, not a OFF condition. The Battery 21pcs. x 12v = 6000 watts.
Battery will be replace by a converter to reduce the number of the Battery down to 1 set of 12Volts
If I understand correctly, this system involves the following components. First, using his low-impedance (very few windings) Tesla-like coil (antenna), he ties into a local cell tower frequency in the range of 700 Megahertz. He then dumps the low energy from those frequencies into an array of capacitors at a high frequency. As he shorts out those capacitors at a high frequency in a cascading way, it creates a big vibration or resonance. That is where the radiant energy shows up — in the tradition of Tesla.
Aviso also described something he came up with recently in that array that Karl worded as mimicking an inductive collapse (which Aviso was calling "an imitation of back EMF", but Karl says is more accurate to call "inductive collapse"). It is that process that attracts energy from the surroundings in copious amounts. That is where the "free energy" shows up. It's also brutal on regular measurement equipment such as clamp-on meters, destroying their ability to measure amperage due to the intense spikes that show up.
The battery is merely a medium for controlling the circuitry involved in opening and closing the high-frequency gates in the capacitors and in the transistors that Aviso engineered (to handle the intense spikes), as described in the interview I had with him last week.
Those transistors will be a key component of any kits that Aviso comes up with when he starts making this technology available.
One of the technical questions people will want to see addressed in this set-up is what the voltage drop in the battery would be if no MEG were in place, and the battery was merely powering the bulbs at the same rate. The rough answer to that question is that the battery would drop from 12.8 to 12.1 volts, powering the 800 Watts for 4 hours. This is an answer he got directly from the Motolite company, giving them the specific information. Meanwhile, he had measured a drop of only 0.1 volts, down to 12.7 volts in that period of time.
So all indications are very positive at this time.
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This story is also published at BeforeItsNews.
What You Can Do
- Donate to Ismael Aviso R&D while he is waiting for his funding to come in.
- Pass this on to your friends and favorite news sources.
- Join one of the Aviso forums we've launched.
- We at PES Network are also in a pinch right now. Donations would be greatly appreciated; but if you have to choose one or the other, send your donation to Ismael.
- Subscribe to our newsletter to stay abreast of the latest, greatest developments in the free energy sector.
- Let professionals in the renewable energy sector know about the promise of this technology.
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Cannot decide which is best for my condition.
I am a 63 year old female (64 on 9/30/06)stomach cancer survivor (Cancer discovery early 7/00 w/70% of stomach removed 7/6/00, no radiation or chemotherapy.
Menopause started at 50 (1992), started HR Estradiol at 52 (1994)and quit at 59 (6/02. My OB/GYN first introduced Evista on 8/13/02 which I posponed taking, as I have always feared side effects to my stomach which I consider very sensitive since my surgery. I started Evista at 63 (2/05)as advised by my Orthopedic surgeon after I broke my right wrist.
I stopped taking Evista 8/10/06 when I read that it can cause blood clots. I then asked my Rheumatologist who recommended Boniva. After reading the side effects - May cause: ulcers in stomach or esophagus,heartburn, diarrhea, dyspepsia (upset stomach).
I was suppose to start Boniva on 9/1/06. However, I am so confused as to what I should take. I have to take something very soon since my right hip is just below Osteopenia border line into Osteoporosis and my left hip is on the Osteopenia bottom side of the border line
What is your recommendation and rationale?
An intravenous version of Boniva was just approved. You might check with your physician about that option. There may be a center where you could obtain that therapy.
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Please Give
Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt star in indie comedy
Kate is the central character, though not the only
major one, in Please Give, a smartly
written film from indie director Nicole Holofcener. An amusing scenario of
contemporary ethical uncertainty in the always picturesque setting of Manhattan, Please Give tries to negotiate between
the moral poles of altruism and selfishness. A sharp businesswoman, Kate feels
guilty, as if she's robbing graves for her boutique. She presses $20 bills into
the hands of the homeless who begin to camp around her condo. But her good
intentions are often steppingstones to embarrassment. When she offers her
carryout to a black man on the sidewalk, she never guesses that he's the patron
of an expensive, trendy restaurant waiting outside for a table.
Kate's husband and business partner, Alex (Oliver
Platt), is in mid-life crisis and lurches into an affair with the coldhearted,
unkind granddaughter (Amanda Peet) of their senescent neighbor lady. That aged
woman (Ann Guilbert), stubbornly clinging to life, has lost all self-censorship
and discretion. Fortunately, her other granddaughter, Rebecca (Rebecca Hall),
is compassionate if narrowly focused. Kate's acne-infected, iPod-wired teenager
(Sarah Steele) is in revolt against her mother's verbal evasions and show of
concern for the less fortunate. "No one ever says the truth!" she says in
Please Give's weakness is its assumption of a widespread aversion against dealers in collectibles who turn over their discoveries for profit. Kate's professional guilt doesn't ring true, unless it echoes unease over the materialism of people unable to define themselves beyond the things they own. Along with finding droll humor in everyday people and situations, Please Give excels for its fully rounded characters, people who fall short while trying to do the right thing and occasionally do something right without even caring.


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In addition to a full-service spa, Hotel Baltvilla features a marina and a health club. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
This 4-star property offers access to a business center and meeting rooms. This business-friendly hotel also offers a sauna, spa services, and a terrace. Guests can use the health club at a partner property. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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I'm looking into becoming a birth doula and I like what I've heard about BAI the most. I was wondering if anyone has more info on the actual course. I also noticed on the recommended reading list, it is recommended you read the second edition of one of the books although a third has been out for a few years. It just seemed strange to me. Thanks in advance for any info!
I love the program. The birth list on the site may be out of date, but the one is the course is newer, you can read the newer addition, I did for one.
Another BAI student here! I would bet you anything that it was simply missed the last time the sample list was edited. The last I knew the entire list was not actual published. It is probably current, and if it's not you can send an email to Demetria. She will probably tell you to read the newest version...unless there is a specific reason that the older version is on there.
I an studying with BAI as well. I love it. I live in Wy so am doing the online course work. You can print out the entire class and go at your own pace. We have facebook pages and everyone is more than willing to help you.
I believe the current list ( that you see online) is out of date. There have been some changes made to the whole book list. =)
Email Demetria Clark and she can answer all your questions. =)
I attended a doula workshop locally this past May. Loved it! My trainer was awesome and the other women there were wonderful. I am very impressed with the quality and rigor of the BAI certification program as well. Definitely contact Demetria with specific questions. :-)
Thanks for the info, everyone! I may email Demetria once the new year arrives. As for the books, I just wanted to make sure that the list not being up to date didn't mean that BAI wasn't still up and going strong.
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Bachelor of Laws
Graduate entry
About this course
The graduate entry Bachelor of Laws (LLB) is a three-year degree which meets the requirements for admission as a lawyer throughout Australia. Whatever their field of interest, the LLB will equip students with the intellectual, critical and practical skills needed in the professional practice of law.
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Students who intend to practise law outside Australia should check with the relevant country's admission body to confirm their admission requirements.
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Honours is embedded in the Bachelor of Laws degree and requires the completion of two specified Law units in addition to a high academic achievement overall.
Assessment methods
The assessment methods used in this course vary from unit to unit. They may include research proposals, research essays, reports, oral and written presentations, case studies, online and class participation, and examinations. The weighting of assessment marks between assignments and examinations also varies.
Teaching methods
On-campus students experience a variety of teaching approaches including face-to-face lectures and tutorials. Some units offer online activities, classes, pre-recorded and/or live lectures. The method of teaching may vary from unit to unit.
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Attendance at an on-campus workshop for the unit Professional Conduct is a requirement of the Bachelor of Laws for both on-campus and distance education students. During the workshop students meet key representatives of the legal profession who address issues of contemporary legal practice and professional conduct. For more information, go to law workshops.
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Credit may be awarded to a student for formal learning (gained through full or partial achievement of an accredited qualification or course) or non-formal learning (that takes place through a non-accredited course or program of learning) completed at Southern Cross University or in other learning settings in Australia and/or overseas.
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The academic skills development team supports student learning by offering online and on-campus academic skills workshops, email, phone, and one-on-one support.
The School of Law and Justice resident tutor assists first year students who experience difficulties in understanding their study tasks and/or adapting to tertiary study.
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Southern Cross University provides students with modern well equipped teaching spaces such as lecture theatres, classrooms, and studios or laboratories tailored to meet the needs of specific study disciplines. Contemporary audiovisual equipment is standard in most teaching venues, and students have access to computer labs for individual study purposes.
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To be eligible for the award of Bachelor of Laws - Graduate Entry a candidate shall successfully complete the equivalent of twenty-four (24) units, comprising:
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Plans for 'significant' development in Newton Poppleford
PUBLISHED: 07:00 25 February 2013
Newton Poppleford will see its 'most significant addition' in recent years if an application for housing and community facilities is approved.
Plans for 42 homes, a doctors' surgery and a village hall on land at King Alfred Way have been submitted by land owners Clinton Devon Estates (CDE).
The properties will exceed the 40-house target for Newton Poppleford in the draft Local Plan, while the community offerings will meet residents' needs, as identified in last year's parish plan.
Leigh Rix, the head of property and land at CDE, said: "Our proposals for Newton Poppleford have been carefully designed to benefit the existing community as much as the new families and individuals who move to the village."
Accommodation is set to be formed of a mix of apartments and two- to five-bedroom houses, with a proportion of affordable housing.
CDE say they are in preliminary talks with the Ottery St Mary-based Coleridge Medical Centre to locate a new branch on the site.
The designs for the village hall include space for a badminton court, indoor bowls, a function room and a garden.
Environmental concerns for the 2.4 hectare site, which is currently used as open grazing, include retaining existing hedgerows and enhancing it with more diverse native species of hedgling.
The proposals are expected to be considered by East Devon District Council planners later this spring.


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September 14, 2011. An unforgettable day for men all over the world. No national tragedy had struck, nobody landed on Mars, and Snooki was still a paid author. This date will stick in the hearts and minds of millions for an entirely different reason "" nude photos of actress Scarlett Johansson made their way onto the internet.
The FBI is currently investigating the situation and attributing the scandal to a hacker who illegally nabbed the digital images from Johansson's phone. Lead detective Ned Avery has already been tirelessly examining the evidence for over 48 hours.
"If you look right in the center of the photo, you can see Scarlett's buttocks clearly visible from the reflection in the bathroom mirror," Avery explained. "Her perfect, round, beautiful posterior region is prominently displayed right there for all to see." Avery then sat down and, opening his briefcase, pulled out what appeared to be a larger, blown up version of the image.
"It looks like she just got out of the shower or something, because she's completely nude and holding a towel in front of her. She was probably washing her naked, smooth, soapy body just minutes before the picture was taken." Yet this wasn't the only leaked picture of the actress. A second photo, featuring a topless Johansson lying on her bed, made its rounds online as well.
"If you look at her breasts, you'll notice she's naked in this picture too," continued Avery, unrolling a 24′ x 36′ poster-sized magnification of the image. "She's got this sexy, seductive look on her face like "Ooh, yea, I'm a naughty girl aren't I?' Such a shame some cyber-criminal had to invade her privacy like that. And did I mention her nipples are totally visible?"
As of press time, the FBI is currently looking into a few leads as to who is responsible for leaking the photos, but have made no arrests. "I'm going to have to continue to vigorously study these photos if I'm going to identify the hacker," Avery concluded.
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NEW PORT RICHEY — Latino music will be in the spotlight tonight at Chasco Fiesta in Sims Park, as the event celebrates Noche Latina (Latin Night) with Sol Caribe and Point 6 bands. The Native American Festival, carnival and food vendors will continue through Sunday, when Chasco ends.
Today's schedule
5 to 9 p.m.: Native American Festival vendors open
5 to 10 p.m.: Chasco Carnival
6 to 10 p.m.: Noche Latina (Latin Night) with Sol Caribe and Point 6 bands
In the Native American performance arena by the Cotee River:
6:30 p.m.: Ron Colombe, Native American poetry
7 p.m.: Robin Jumper, Cherokee history
7:30 p.m.: Katrina Big Mountain, women's Plains Indians history
8 p.m.: Paige Burgess, Kiowa/Comanche Southern Plains history
8:30 p.m.: Native American dancers
Wednesday's schedule
5 to 9 p.m.: Native American Festival vendors, speakers and dancers the same as today (see above)
6 to 10 p.m.: Dancing Under the Stars, Joe Walsh & the Serenaders band with Don Bailey; Tap N Dolls senior tap dancers; dance competition among members of the audience
For details, see the Chasco Fiesta booklet in the March 18 edition of the Pasco Times or visit chascofiesta.com.


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Facing Life After Alexander's; Retail Workers Look to the Future With Hope and Fear
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO,
Published: June 25, 1992
VALLEY STREAM, L.I., June 23— The employees of Alexander's department store gathered for their farewell supper around the long narrow tables at Tony Roma's, a mile down the road from the discount store where many of them had worked since it opened in 1967. Over spareribs and potatoes, they exchanged hugs and phone numbers, and a certain grim view of the future.
There was Maureen Murphy, 41 years old and single, who had started working in the store before Christmas 25 years ago and never left. Now, she feared more than anything losing her home in Rosedale, Queens, just seven years shy of paying off the mortgage.
There was Ronald Alexander, 29, who laughed with the long-haired beauty from the camera department and wondered whether they would still be together in six months. He'd worked in Alexander's during high school, traveled to Germany with the Army, and came back to a job in the stockroom.
Alexander's has not announced when its 11 stores will close, but the death of the 65-year-old department-store chain is hurling 5,600 employees into an unwelcome job market in a field hit hard by an unforgiving recession. Impact on the Retail Industry
While talk of unemployment often focuses on the loss of factory jobs, the recession has had an even greater impact on the wholesale and retail industry. Since 1988, according to the State Labor Department, New York City and the surrounding counties have lost more than 171,000 jobs in the wholesale and retail industry, falling to 890,000 from 1,061,600.
"It's the No. 1 source of decline during the past several years," said Samuel M. Ehrenhalt, New York regional commissioner at the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. "We've never seen a recession take this kind of a toll in the service industry."
Retailing tends to employ a large number of workers at either end of the age spectrum. The older workers at Alexander's, many of them part timers, are too young to retire but fear no one will hire them. They are terrified of losing severance pay, pensions and other benefits they had counted on to ease them into retirement.
The young, for whom unemployment is now at its highest level in 25 years, also wonder if they will be able to find jobs, even if they try new fields, though some are excited about the challenge.
"The employees of Alexander's are going to be competing in a labor market that is very difficult for new entries," said Mitchell Moss, director of New York University's Urban Research Center. Statewide, unemployment last month was 7.9 percent. "There could be no worse time to add to the labor supply than right now," Mr. Moss said.
If they are entering a job market that is all but lifeless, the employees at Valley Stream are leaving a store that each day descends further from the tidy divisions they once tended into retail hell.
Scrawled signs announce that the third and fourth floors are closed to customers. The second floor is a grab bag of appliances scattered around the escalator. The first floor is mayhem: women's skirts and artificial flowers in the men's department, patio umbrellas in lingerie, boxes torn open and the parts of lamps and fans strewn about, stuffed animals with the eyes pulled out.
"I still can't believe that it's gone," Ms. Murphy said. "I walk through the store devastated. Customers just come in to say goodbye, not even to buy things."
When Ms. Murphy began at Alexander's, she was a high school student of 16 picking up extra cash around Christmas. Her supervisor, pleased with her work, recommended that she stay on. She never left.
She progressed swiftly at Alexander's to become manager of the women's dress department before she was 20. "It's like a family-oriented type of store," she said, and glanced at her co-workers, laughing and putting their arms around one another's shoulders at the dinner tables. "You see how it is."
A trim woman in a button-down shirt and pants, short hair brushed back in a no-nonsense cut, Ms. Murphy has so far gone on two job interviews: tense encounters relieved only by the sympathy of the recruiters. "They know the situation with Alexander's, that it wasn't your fault," she said.
Ms. Murphy and other employees began to suspect the store would go bankrupt after Christmas, when the receiving department screeched to a standstill. But they thought bankruptcy would be a gentler matter, involving the closing of a few stores or a reorganization of the company's debt. None expected the entire chain to fall. In a sense, Mr. Moss of N.Y.U. said, Alexander's was the retail equivalent of the post office, offering flexibility, opportunities to advance within the company and above all, job security.
Ms. Murphy now worries about paying her bills and making her mortgage, but she hopes to avoid taking a job in desperation. For her, strength came in what she remembers as, simply, "the call," from her older brother in Pennsylvania.
"He said everything right: 'I'm here. Whatever you need, don't worry,' " Ms. Murphy remembered. " 'Sometimes things work out for the best.' "
She is thinking of leaving the retail trade, which no longer offers the security it once did, and considers retraining for a career in medicine, an avocation until now. At the Rosedale Volunteer Ambulance Corps, she is known as Lieutenant Murphy.


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Help naming female.
The character I need to name is a 21-year-old female guitarist in a famous rock band. She is also a burlesque dancer and alternative model on the side. She is very sweet, kind-hearted, shy, and polite. Physically, she is quite short for her age, she has red hair, corset piercings on her back, a garter tattoo on her thigh, dark brown eyes and pale skin. I really don't know what I should name her. And I need a stage name and a real name so please help! Thanks.
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For her actual name, I'd suggest you play off her sweet, docile nature with a less intimidating name and for her stage name, something involving her wilder side, maybe something to do with her red hair.
For her actual name maybe Ellie/Elle, Lily, Tia, Molly, Maia etc.
I'm not sure about her stage name, but maybe try looking through famous burlesque dancers' or performers' stage names and play around with those and some other words you like the sound of or fit your character.
Some words/names you could play around with are Rose, Scarlet, Poppy, Ginger, Amber, Cherry etc.
Hope this is helpful!
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One of the strong indications that the Muslims are one Ummah is the existence of Ramadan, a month full of blessings. In this noble month, we can see the Muslim ummah striving in carrying out acts of worship and congregational prayer in mosques and musollas. Reading the Qur'an to win the pleasure of Allah.This proves that the Muslim ummah can unite and are able to be united under one faith (taqwa).
The tragic problems that happen to the body of this ummah are not naturally occurring. Muslims ummah are one ummah but political factors i.e. the existence of nationalism since the early 20th century amongst the ummah has been a prime cause of the Muslims disunity in the form of nation states with their nationalism.
What is the impact and how is it resolved? See the reminder in this video.


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The T-Mobile G2 Previewby Vivek Gowri on October 7, 2010 12:29 PM EST
Oh yes, and now we get to the real stuff. Benchmarks! Let's start with the CPU benchmarks to see how the 800 MHz 2nd gen Snapdragon matches up with the older 1 GHz parts. All of them implement the same Scorpion architecture, except that the MSM7230 is manufactured on a 45nm process as opposed to 65nm for the QSD8x50. Simple colour coding scheme going on in the graphs here: red for the G2, green for the 1st generation Snapdragon phones, blue for anything running TI OMAP 3 underhood, gold for the Hummingbird Galaxy S devices, black for the iPhone 4, and purple for the Marvell PXA930-running BlackBerry Torch.
The SunSpider Javascript benchmark is very quick on the G2. While the Froyo Nexus One remains the fastest on most of these benchmarks, the G2 is definitely getting there, probably due to the untouched Android build it's running. So even with a slower clockspeed, the G2 has a better score on the JS benchmark than the NinjaBlur-equipped Droid 2 and the Sense UI-equipped EVO 4G.
Rightware's BrowserMark puts the G2 right between the Droid 2, the Fascinate, and the iPhone 4, and about 20% slower than the Nexus One. Given the 20% reduction in clock speed, this is pretty understandable.
The G2's Linpack score is about 25% lower than the Nexus One and EVO 4G, but significantly higher than the Droid 2's score, potentially due to the higher throughput SIMD FP units in Qualcomm's CPU.
But the really interesting benchmarks are the graphics benchmarks. We'll start with Neocore, which is Qualcomm's benchmark to show off the capabilities of the Adreno GPU.
The score is quite good, at more than double the Nexus One's. The benchmark is capped at roughly 60 fps which is why we see no real difference between the Adreno 205 and the PowerVR SGX 540. For a measurable performance difference we turn to our old favorite: Quake 3.
In a neutral gaming benchmark like the Quake III Arena demo, we can really get a feel for how fast Adreno 205 is. And though nothing on the market can touch the SGX 540, the Adreno 205 basically runs rings around the Adreno 200 in the EVO and Nexus One and even outpaces the SGX 530 in the Droid 2 and Droid X. So while the Adreno 205 isn't world beating, it brings about a huge change by making the the 2nd generation Snapdragon SoC competitive as far as GPU performance goes. Qualcomm no longer comes with a GPU performance tradeoff.
The G2 comes with a pretty small battery, a removable 4.81 Wh (1300 mAh) Li-ion affair that can be easily accessed and replaced. The Nexus One came with a 5.18 Wh battery, the Droid 2 had 5.2 Wh capacity on tap, the Droid X had a 5.6 Wh unit, and the EVO used a 5.5 Wh battery. So naturally, with a lower capacity battery, the G2 comes with less battery runtime too. Thus far we've only had the time to run the 3G web browsing battery life test, and the G2 is way down at the very bottom of our charts, matching the Palm Pre Plus in battery life (which has a 1150 mAh battery). It's not too bad, it's on par with the Nexus One for minutes-per-Wh efficiency, but 3.5 hours of 3G web browsing is still not very good.
Update: We're adding battery life tests as we go, so here's the WiFi browsing test. Again, it's almost at the bottom, again it's about on par with the Nexus One on an efficiency level. It's a small battery, so when compared to phones that have 10-20% more battery capacity, it does look quite poor. What does seem to be consistent though is that the OMAP 3 phones are more power efficient, even on a per-Wh basis.
But given the 3G speeds the G2 is pulling, maybe we should give it a pass. T-Mobile's HSPA+ network is FAST, even in areas of Seattle that have rather poor signal coverage. On average, I'm pulling around 5.5 Mbps downstream and anywhere between 1 and 1.5 Mbps upstream. Interestingly, this is signifcantly faster than the speeds I saw out of Sprint's WiMAX 4G network on the EVO when I had it in June. While I can't vouch for areas that don't have T-Mobile's HSPA+ network enabled yet, the areas that do should see the G2 fly. It's T-Mobile's first HSPA+ device, so it should be able to utilise the full potential of the faster network.
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alephxero - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkWhich port of Quake 3 is it that you used in the test? Reply
vol7ron - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkCould you also include the G1 "Physical Comparsion" statistisics for comparison? Reply
crazzeto - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkThe last time I was dissapointed by an HTC device. The Verizon Wireless VX6800 wasn't very good, honestly it felt cheap from the get go. I did eventually have a partial fail of the slider hardware (half of it came off, for no apparent reason).
More recent HTC devices seem better perhaps, but the VX6800 convinced me to go Motorola for my droid and honestly, I'm incredibly glad I did! Reply
Dark Legion - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkWhy isn't the droid incredible running 2.2? The benchmarks make it look a lot worse when it should be on par with the evo and n1. Reply
fausto412 - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linki guess i can blame the iphone reviews for opening the gate,.
is pc hardware that dead these days?
can we get an update on HTPC building and cable card compatibility? would like to learn more about that.
what about new monitor technology and how it compares to the old TN technology?
what about a high end gaming mouse review and round up that takes into accounts software support included and new features? g9x, cyborg, g500.
there is stuff to cover in pc realm. can get get back it? Reply
metafor - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkThe phone market is exploding while the PC market isn't seeing much growth. There also really haven't been much in the way of innovation on the PC side for quite a while now. Reply
Myrandex - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkThe keyboard is surprisingly familiar to the Touch Pro 2's (superior to every other keybaord I've tried) keyboard, I do feel the need that with the space of such a large screen, another row of keys would have been nice to get a dedicated row of number keys across the top.
The hinging mechanism is definitely interesting though!
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NguyenAdam - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkIs this phone SIM free? I would love to use it on AT&T. Reply
Roland00 - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkif you do so the phone will just reload the OS from an included rom chip. Is this true? Reply
phoenix79 - Thursday, October 07, 2010 - linkAm I the only one that's noticing some pretty blatant errors in this article? First is the virtual keyboard, mine came with Swype installed alongside the stock one and enabled by default. As for the 2GB of memory, 5 minutes of googling and you would find out that the phones physically have a 4GB chip in them, this has been known for days.
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Despite recent concerns of increased cardiac events during concomitant use, using proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and antiplatelet drugs (thienopyridines) together may be appropriate treatment for patients with cardiovascular disease who are also at high risk of upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, according to a joint Expert Consensus Document released by the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Heart Association. The document was published online Nov. 8 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Neena S. Abraham, M.D., of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, chaired the writing committee for the document, which was published to lessen physicians' confusion when faced with managing patients who might benefit from antiplatelet therapy, yet who might also develop GI bleeding.
According to the consensus statement, a recently published randomized trial of 3,761 patients with cardiovascular disease showed a 56 percent decrease in GI bleeding, with no significant difference in the incidence of cardiac events among the patients who were randomized to concomitant use of clopidogrel and a PPI, compared with patients randomized to clopidogrel alone.
"Advanced age; concomitant use of warfarin, steroids, or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; or H pylori infection all raise the risk of GI bleeding with antiplatelet therapy," the authors write. "The risk reduction with PPIs is substantial in patients with risk factors for GI bleeding and may outweigh any potential reduction in the cardiovascular efficacy of antiplatelet treatment because of a drug-drug interaction."
Several of the committee members disclosed financial relationships with the pharmaceutical and/or medical device industries.
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I know there are alot of threads on here, but I am just having a persistant problem.
I have installed
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El día 08 abr 2003, Andreas Tille escribía: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > > Put a little page saying: > > "Puede encontrar este documento en http://...." > > > > in the older location and you're done. As CVS directories can be > > really removed, there is no problem on having that redirect left. > Are you able to do this. I really do not want to fiddle around in the > Spanish part of CVS. The webpage or the whole translation of the talk? If the former, I'll resend this to an appropiate list. If the latter, no. :) I don't have any free time currently. Only some bits in the whole day -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo email@example.com
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