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by Vicki Dihle, certified physician assistant
Colds are the most frequent human illnesses — hence the name "common cold." During the first two years of life, most children will develop at least eight to 10 of these viral upper-respiratory infections.
In most cases, a cold requires no treatment. Once symptoms occur, such as a fever, a runny nose, a sore throat, coughing or sneezing, a cold often peaks in two to three days and resolves in 10 to 14.
The most practical way to prevent colds is to minimize your child's exposure to public settings, help her avoid close contact with others who have symptoms and frequently wash your hands as well as your baby's.
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Watch a video clip of the 1963 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Maria Goeppert Mayer, receiving her Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 1963.
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1. -- U.S. stock futures rose and European stocks gained after a potential cease-fire was announced in eastern Ukraine.
Asian stocks finished Wednesday's session mostly higher. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.4%.
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2. -- The economic calendar in the U.S. on Wednesday includes factory orders for July at 10 a.m. EDT and the Federal Reserve's "Beige Book" for September at 2 p.m.
3. -- U.S. stocks on Tuesday ended mixed. Investors returned from the U.S. Labor Day weekend largely indecisive about their positioning, despite a trio of good U.S. economic reports.
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4. -- CVS (CVS) , the nation's second-largest drugstore chain, is changing its name and stopping the sale of tobacco nearly a month sooner than planned.
CVS Caremark will now be known as CVS Health. The signs on its roughly 7,700 drugstores won't change, so the name change may not register with shoppers.
CVS said earlier this year that it would stop selling tobacco products on Oct. 1. But CEO Larry Merlo said CVS moved up its quit date nearly a month because CVS got ready for the move sooner than it anticipated, not because its distribution centers had already run out of tobacco.
5. -- Automakers such as General Motors (GM) and Ford (F) are expected to release sales for August throughout the day.
Car sales for August are expected to be flat compared with the same month a year earlier, partially because August will have 27 sales days this year, compared with 28 sales days in 2013.
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Emma Stone is stuck in the '90s… but in the cutest way possible.
The "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" star adorably went all fangirl over the Spice Girls this week when — during an interview in Australia, where she's promoting her film with beau/co-star Andrew Garfield — she was surprised by a videotaped message from Scary Spice herself: Melanie Brown. Not only did the 25-year-old actress tear up with excitement, but she also burst into a cover of the girl group's "Wannabe."
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"Oh my God — is Mel B talking to me?" the redhead squealed as the message played. "I'm so excited. I'm legitimately crying. I'm the biggest Spice Girls fan ever."
In the clip, Brown thanked Stone for her fandom, but called her out for previously having said that Baby Spice was her favorite member in the group. As a "punishment," Brown instructed Stone, who has said she cut her hair to look like Emma Bunton in the '90s, to sing a Spice Girls tune.
Stone — who has also said she dressed like the Spice Girls growing up with bell-bottoms, platform Sketchers, and a lot of peace signs — picked the 1996 hit "Wannabe. However, like many, she was fuzzy on some of the lyrics, making her rendition even more endearing.
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Chapel Hill, N.C. — Chapel Hill police are searching for a 21-year-old man in connection with a shooting at the Time Out Restaurant on Franklin Street early Tuesday.
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Based on United States National Nutrient Database, rice has the biggest calorie compared to other staple food like potato, wheat, and cassava. It means, rice will make you fat easier and faster. Moreover, A study in 2012 shows that consumption of rice can increase your diabetes risk. However, most of us eat rice daily as staple foods.
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15 New Titles Added to Growing NEOGEO X Game Library.
Los Angeles, CA - June 25, 2013 - Tommo Inc., in partnership with SNK PLAYMORE, today announced that NEOGEO X Classics: Volumes 1-5, and the NEOGEO X Mega Pack: Volume 1, made exclusively for use with the NEOGEO X Handheld entertainment system, are now available across North America.
Each Volume of the NEOGEO X Classics comes with one Game Card packed with 3 legendary titles from the NEOGEO library. The NEOGEO X Mega Pack: Volume 1 comes with ALL 15 titles from NEOGEO Classics: Volumes 1-5 on one Game Card, and comes packed in a hard, "clam shell" collector case, with bonus sticker sheets and information booklet. The NEOGEO X Mega Pack: Volume 1 is the perfect way for fans to instantly grow their NEOGEO X game library from the 20 pre-loaded titles, to all 35 currently available titles. Tommo will also be including the ROCKET CABLE, High-speed Charging Travel Cable, at no additional cost, with the Classics: Volumes 1-5 and Mega Pack: Volume 1.
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Size and features may or may not be able to off set the price for some fans
[Update: Art Storm has posted official images mirrored in the gallery. Art Storm is handling sales of the figure.]
Back in August we got an early look at Takara Tomy and Action Toys' new non-transforming Ultimetal Optimus Prime and now a few months later we're getting a better look at some of his features. Thanks to Dengeki Hobby magazine scans we can see just how extensive the removable armor of this 17 inch figure is. Armor from his arms, legs, body, hips, and legs can be removed to expose all of Prime's inner workings. Even his gun has removable parts. Plus he includes his signature Energon ax and Matrix. He also has a great range of articulation including double elbow joints and individually jointed fingers.
Then there's the less obvious stuff like the heavy use of metal parts (it is called "Ultimetal" after all), the lights and sounds controlled via remote, and the mouth plate that moves when he talks. Unfortunately this much figure doesn't come cheap. He's priced at ¥78,000 which more or less makes Prime the Transformers equivalent to a high end doll.
As far as release dates go all I've got is that he'll be out in 2014. I would think that now that we have some official images through magazines we should be seeing pre-orders appear soon. He's out of my budget, but that doesn't mean I don't want one.
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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
it's great
it's a little bit like gracious winter but not as good. it sounds like a song that would play at the end of a great war where only one remains. it gives me the picture of the last soldier walking through a field of bodies.
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Beautifully Sad
It sounds so beautiful, reminds me of samurai X.
Very good song
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peace is there for one reason...
to be broken with violence! thats why im giving this a good rating :3 without peace there is no violence and without violence no games and anime's!
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Awsome lulliby
Man this is a pretty cool song infact it brought me memories of the good times when I was young. The song is also pretty sad but overall best song I've heard in a long time. Keep up the good work love it man!
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Pretty cool
Pretty cool, but like someone before me said, it sounds more sad than peaceful... Well, I guess that could be the same thing. This is the kind of song I'd expect to play after some huge battle with lots of bloodshed, but then there's finally peaceful times... but at a great cost.
I suppose it's not entirely misplaced in it's title, as it wasn't meant to be peaceful to be honest.
The original idea was for a desolate village, desolate in the meaning that it was barren, devastated, forsaken and deprived of life. As you said, perhaps indeed after a huge battle?
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Colors Swathi now Swathi Reddy! - Tv9
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Karthikeya is the latest Telugu movie and it is a thriller directed by debutant Chandoo Mondeti while it is produced by Venkat Srinivas boggaram under Magnus Cine Prime and Shiruvuri Rajesh Varma is the present of this movie . The music of the film is scored by Sekhar Chandra while it is simultaneously shot in Telugu and Tamil. The movie has become successful and Colours Swathi wanted to continue her surname Reddy in forth coming projects . . . .


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Universe is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yūsaku
Tawara Yūsaku (1932-2004) was a contemporary Japanese artist who created unique, amazingly energized images based on his belief that all existence is composed of the impermanent bunching together of vibrating waves of energy—what he termed "hadō" (ha-doh; literally wave-movement). Working primarily in ink on paper and strongly influenced by Buddhist thought, Tawara's paintings are constructed from countless strokes and dots, imparting to the works an intensity of content that fills them with monumental energy. John Teramoto, IMA curator of Asian Art, introduces the work, life and beliefs of Tawara Yūsaku, on the opening night of the first large-scale exhibition of Tawara's works (77 in all) anywhere. Tour the the exhibition immediately following the talk.
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Recognized in Japan as a connoisseur, collector and proprietor of a famous folk art shop in Tokyo, Tawara Yusaku returned to painting late in life and had a single show in London before his death in 2004. Universe is Flux is the first examination of his accomplishments within the context of Asian and contemporary painting. The essays by IMA Curator of Asian Art John Teramoto, Stephen Addiss and David Rosand draw on conversations with the artist and notes that he left behind. They discuss how Tawara's unique methods express his view of art and the universe at large. The essays also examine the work in the context of traditional Japanese and Chinese ink and literati painting, and focus on Tawara's "Thinking of Leonardo da Vinci" series. Purchase the catalogue from our Museum Store.


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Plugin CSS file screws display on different browsers
Hi all,
It seems that the CSS of wp-members screws up its display on different browsers.
When registering a new user, using Chrome (on a Mac) there is not enough space visible to enter anything.
In Firefox it works fine.
I had a friend look at this. Here's his answer:
The problem stems from the fact that the designer decided to set the height of the input box and add internal padding to it.
The plugin has its own css file. Here
He has added 10 pixels of internal padding on line 173.
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#wpmem_reg .div_textarea textarea, #wpmem_reg .textbox, #wpmem_login .textbox, #wpmem_reg .username, #wpmem_login .username, #wpmem_reg .password, #wpmem_login .password {
display: block;
font: inherit;
padding: 10px;
width: 95%;
He then sets the height of the input box to 24 pixels.
In Chrome, this means that 20 of the 24 pixels in the height are used up by the padding. So we only see 4 pixels worth of text.
In Firefox, they set the box to 24 pixels high AND add 10 pixels of padding at the top and the bottom. Which is why it works there.
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#wpmem_reg .dropdown, #wpmem_reg .textbox, #wpmem_login .textbox, #wpmem_reg .username, #wpmem_login .username, #wpmem_reg .password, #wpmem_login .password {
height: 24px;
Simply removing the height, solves the problem.
BUT, it creates a new problem. They also specified a different height for the label ( the text on the left of the input box ) See below.
This causes a problem with firefox and stops the label and input box lining up correctly.
Again the solution is just remove the height declaration.
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#wpmem_reg label.text, #wpmem_reg label.checkbox, #wpmem_reg label.textarea, #wpmem_reg label.select, #wpmem_login label {
display: block;
float: left;
height: 26px;
width: 30%;
Caveat: I have no idea what the implications of removing the height are on other browsers, mobile devices etc, bet generally it's better just to let them figure out layouts in their own way. So removing something rigid like a height setting isn't something so bad.
I think your best strategy for the moment is to remove the height declarations in the CSS as a short term fix, contact the plugin developer about the problem and then us their updated CSS as the long term fix.
So, if this is correct, could the developer look into this and provide a fix?
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beg, borrow, or steal
To acquire or accomplish something by any means necessary or available. I don't care if you have to beg, borrow, or steal to get it, I want that car and I want it now! I'm in such a jam, I can't even beg, borrow, or steal the money I need to pay my rent this month.
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borrowed time
An uncertain length of time that may end soon or suddenly, bringing any activity, situation, or fortunes associated with it to an end as well. Usually refers to the final period of one's life, in the form "living on borrowed time." In the scope of the planet's history, human existence is a tiny blip and unlikely to last forever—just borrowed time, really. Accidents and disease can strike so unexpectedly that it feels like we're all living on borrowed time.
exist on borrowed time
To live or exist in a temporary and/or tenuous position, which may come to an end suddenly and abruptly. The small aboriginal population has been existing on borrowed time since the invaders began colonizing their land. Accidents and disease can strike so unexpectedly that it feels like we're all existing on borrowed time.
borrow from (someone or something)
1. Literally, to use something that belongs to another person, with the intent to return it later. A noun can be used between "borrow" and "from." Because I found a date to the dance at the last minute, I just borrowed a dress and shoes from my sister. I ran out of art supplies so I had to start borrowing from Steve.
2. Of a work of some kind, to use elements from something else. That movie may be a comedy, but its plot borrows from crime films of the 1940s.
See also: borrow
borrow trouble
To do something that is unnecessary and likely to cause problems later. That kid isn't bullying you, so if you tattle on him to the teacher, you're definitely borrowing trouble.
borrow something
Euph. to steal something. The bank robber borrowed a car to drive out of state. I discovered that my office mate had been borrowing money out of my wallet when I wasn't looking.
borrow something from someone
to request and receive the use of something from someone. Can I borrow a hammer from you? Sorry, this hammer was borrowed from my father.
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borrow trouble
Fig. to worry needlessly; to make trouble for oneself. Worrying too much about death is just borrowing trouble. Do not get involved with politics. That's borrowing trouble.
live on borrowed time
Fig. to exist only because of good fortune; to live on when death was expected. The doctors told him he was living on borrowed time. You are living on borrowed time, so make the best of it.
on borrowed time
not likely to be active or working much longer Sales were down by a whole lot, putting the company on borrowed time. I think our hot water heater is on borrowed time.
Usage notes: often used in the form living on borrowed time (not likely to live very long): He knew he was living on borrowed time after two heart attacks.
living on borrowed time
if someone is living on borrowed time, they are not expected to live much longer I've got cancer - I'm living on borrowed time.See hell on earth
beg, borrow, or steal
Obtain by any possible means, as in You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal tickets to the Olympics. This term is often used in the negative, to describe something that cannot be obtained; Chaucer used it in The Tale of the Man of Law. [Late 1300s]
See also: steal
borrow trouble
Go out of one's way to do something that may be harmful, as in Just sign the will-telling her about it ahead of time is borrowing trouble. [Mid-1800s] Also see ask for, def. 2.
on borrowed time, live
Outlive reasonable expectations, as in Our twenty-year-old car is living on borrowed time, or The vet said our dog is living on borrowed time. This expression alludes to time borrowed from death. [Late 1800s]
borrow trouble
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Im 5'6 130 pounds. I needed a tt to get rid of the extra skin from kids. Now my stomach/flanks appear larger than before.My right side has a dog ear but I have swelling on both. I can not fit in any of my jeans and I have not gained weight. At times my stomach and belly button are swole. If I wear a girdle throughout the day, my belly button looks smaller but within a few hrs it looks big again.Before tt my waist,was at a 31.Its now 35. What is causing this muffin top/swelling 1yr post op?
Swollen Flanks / Newly Acquired Muffin Top 1 Year After Full Tummy Tuck
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Muffin top treatment
Congratulations on what you've accomplished and thank you for the question.
Treatment of the stubborn muffin top involves excision (lipectomy) of excess skin and adipose tissue. Liposuction surgery alone will potentially leave you with loose skin and an unsatisfactory result.
Although not relevant in your case, patients who are undergoing a standard tummy tuck procedure should be aware however that often an "extended" tummy tuck is necessary to treat the muffin top area. This extended tummy tuck procedure involves flank and back skin and adipose tissue excision as well as liposuction surgery. If liposuction alone is done the patient may still end up with the muffin top and require further surgery to improve the waistline in the future.
Make sure you're working with a well experienced board-certified plastic surgeon.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_tummytuck.htm
Results after tummy tuck
It would be nice to see if your before and after photos. However, in their absence I can see the areas of you concern. Do you know if you had liposuction at the time of your abdominoplasty? I feel that it is essential to contour the abdomen and flanks with liposuction at the same time as a tummy tuck. If you did not then you could consider it. Go and discuss this with your PS and explore your choices.
Learn more: http://www.sacs-sa.com
Changes after Tummy Tuck / Abdominoplasty
It would be best if you could post before and after pictures. Also, you do not give any information about weight gain from before, after and a year after your surgery. One of the most common reasons for changes after plastic surgery is weight gain. Plastic surgery does not prevent you from gaining weight. In fact, many patients are so happy and impressed with how easy their procedure was that they go back to their bad habits of over eating and lack of exercise after surgery with the expectation that they can always have another surgery. I am not sure if that is the case in your situation. At this point, you may benefit from aggressive liposuction of your anterior abdomen and flanks to help improve your contour.
Good Luck.
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Would you shoot an attacker with a tazer?
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yes..i would if i felt it would stop the attacker from doing harm..also depends on how many volts etc. If it was a 14 year old teen trying to mug me with a knife or something..i would just taze him..and not shoot him.
Friend, that 14 year old can cut you six ways from next week before you can even think about it. And never, EVER think that just because a kid is an obvious kid that they won't do you harm.
I've arrested kids that were gang affiliated that were wearing body armor and carrying firearms.
As for the Taser question, a Taser does one thing very well--it will totally lock up your muscles as long as the current is flowing. The only way you will defend against a Taser AFTER you are hit is if you don't get hit with both probes.
Moreover, the only real difference between the X26 LE Taser and the others marketed by the same company is the length of the leads. The LE leads are much longer.
A Taser pointing at you is no joke--it is meant to put you DOWN, RIGHT NOW, and to take you out of the fight. If a person who is not an LEO is pointing a Taser at you, it is not to invite you over for tea and crumpets.
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- I have four level 70's. This feels very strange.
- Annorah is 4 primal shadow and 2.5 primal life away from all of the materials for her shadow resistance raid set.
- I think I'm going to install Diablo 2 – Lord of Destruction again, just for old time's sake. From looking at the new Diablo 3 stuff, it won't be cutting edge gaming, but the lore and the game are just So. Much. Fun.
- Buying Aelflaed the epic flyer (my second one) immediately on her hitting 70 was a little strange, but I saved the cost of the regular gryphon, and she's already started making money on herbs.
- 375 Alchemy was ridiculously easy to hit.
- I'm already tired of the WoW Worldwide Invitational stuff. Sorry if that makes me a bad blogger. I may do a recap at the very bitter end, after all the hype, but for now, I'm kind of sick of it.
- I realize that I talked about Diablo 3 at the beginning of this list, which probably makes me mildly hypocritical.
- Farming primals with a Zapthrottle Mote Extractor is decidedly better at 2am server (4am my time) but I'm not sure I'm physically up for doing that more than once in a great while.
- Last night, 10 paladins went to Karazhan, and it was TOTALLY AWESOME. More on that later, when I'm not feeling hungover from being awake until 4am.
- Feeling hungover really sucks, particularly since I didn't have anything alcoholic to drink.
- Before I logged out last night, less than a day after my marathon grind to 70, with Aelflaed still in quest blues and reputation gear, I looked over my character sheet and thought "Hmm… I really should spend some time with Laisrean and get her to 40 or 50…" I think I have a disease.
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text: World 30 August 2013 Syria: Ed Miliband has had a lucky escape Cameron's decision to take intervention off the table means Miliband will never have to decide whether to support military action. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Until last night's extraordinary defeat of the government (the last time a prime minister lost a vote over an issue of peace and war was in 1782), Ed Miliband was facing one of the most politically dangerous decisions of his leadership. Having wisely refused to either rule in or rule out the use of military action against Syria until after the UN weapons inspectors had reported, he would eventually have had to come off the fence. Either position would have been fraught with risk. Had he supported intervention (as seemed most likely), he would have faced a significant Labour rebellion with further frontbench resignations (shadow transport minister Jim Fitzpatrick stood down in advance of last night's vote). Had he opposed it, he would have run the risk of being confounded by a successful operation. Last night's parliamentary vote means he will now never have to decide. While there remains a hypothetical majority for military action (Labour's amendment would have passed had the Tories swallowed their pride and supported or abstained), David Cameron's decision to unambigously rule out intervention means it will never be tested. After Miliband asked him to reassure MPs that he would not use the royal prerogative to approve military action, he replied: It is very clear tonight that while the House has not passed a motion, it is clear to me that the British parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action. I get that and the government will act accordingly. Miliband could have responded by promising to 'work with the Prime Minister' (as Labour List's Mark Ferguson suggests) to secure a majority for Labour's stance: that military action should remain an option if "compelling evidence" is provided that the Assad regime was responsible for the Ghouta massacre. But in his post-vote interview with Sky News he instead chose to second Cameron's decision to take intervention off the table. He said: Military intervention is now off the agenda for Britain. There would have been nothing worse than intervention without full international support. Faced with a hostile PLP and a hostile public (just 22% supported military action), Miliband took the escape route offered to him by Cameron. While some interventionists will despair at the apparent lack of principle involved, his political logic was impeccable. "When you decide, you divide" said Blair upon Thatcher's death. Miliband's great fortune is that he will never have to do so. Update: In his latest remarks on Syria, Miliband has made it even clearer that, for him, military intervention is no longer an option. He said: There are other routes than military means to actually help the people of Syria. I don't think the Government should wash its hands of this issue. I think all of the focus of the Prime Minister and the Government in the coming days needs to be working with our allies to find other ways to press President Assad, to take action with our allies to put the diplomatic, political and other pressure that needs to be put on the Government there. We need the peace talks to get going. So there are other things the Government should be doing. › Laurie Penny on gender: Society needs to get over its harmful obsession with labelling us all girls or boys Ed Miliband leaves Parliament with an advisor on August 29, 2013. Photograph: Getty Images. George Eaton is political editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles No, Virgin Trains East Coast, I will not bid for the "luxury" of first class Here's something the political class has completely missed about Brexit Trump's ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is the new darling of the neocons Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon said that the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had reached consensus over the Sindh local government ordinance on Thursday night.
He said that Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan was expected to sign and promulgate the Ordinance later tonight, adding that the name of the ordinance will be Sindh People's Metropolitan Ordinance 2012.
According to sources, the ordinance is to be enforced in five major districts of Sindh namely Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana and Mirpurkhas, where roles of Mayor and Deputy Mayor will be enforced. The remaining districts will be expected to have District Counselors.
The consensus was after a long period of negotiations and deliberations that had continued to this day.
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The UK's Children's Investment Fund Management has emerged as the second-biggest shareholder in QR National after the Queensland government, with an indicative stake of about 6 per cent.
It is followed by First State Investments with 5.1 per cent and HSBC.
QR National's shares are expected to be flat or slightly higher when the railroad group's stock starts trading on the Australian Securities Exchange at midday on Monday.
If shares in the $6.2 billion float, which have been priced at $2.55, fall in early trading, one of the investment banks advising QR National can step in and buy shares at $2.55 to prop up the price.
The so-called "greenshoe" option (named after US's Green Shoe Manufacturing Company, which issued extra shares after listing in 1960) was disclosed in QR National's prospectus as a means of "stabilising" the company's share price in the first 30 days of trading.
Goldman Sachs, one of QR National's joint lead managers, can buy up to 10 per cent of the shares sold by the Queensland government in the float (equivalent to 6 per cent of the total company).
The Queensland government is starting off with a 33.7 percent stake in QR National, giving it room to increase its stake to 40 per cent (the maximum possible it can hold) if it exercises the greenshoe option and increases the number of shares issued by 6 per cent.
Fund managers say the greenshoe option will provide a smooth start to the float, with shares expected to trade between $2.55 and $2.60 after opening.
An unusually low level of Australian fund managers bought stock in the float, with local institutions buying just one-fifth of the $4.05 billion in shares sold by the Queensland government.
Many fund managers argue the float has been overpriced, and say they will try to pick up shares more cheaply if they trade lower after the stock opens.
Other joint lead managers are Credit Suisse, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland and Merrill Lynch.
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On this site you can find information and documents on many of the legal initiatives that have been brought under various legal theories in national and international forums.
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Progress has been made: we have international agreements; more resources for scientific research, leading to stronger evidence; some policy advances; a change in industry rhetoric; and a certain increase in public awareness. But all this falls far short of what is needed. At the heart of the problem is the production and use of fossil fuel; and the continuing problems of deforestation and land degradation.
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On the exact calculation of the fill rate in a periodic review inventory policy under discrete demand patterns
The primary goal of this paper is the development of a generalized method to compute the fill rate for any discrete demand distribution in a periodic review policy. The fill rate is defined as the fraction of demand that is satisfied directly from shelf. In the majority of related work, this service metric is computed by using what is known as the traditional approximation, which calculates the fill rate as the complement of the quotient between the expected unfulfilled demand and the expected demand per replenishment cycle, instead of focusing on the expected fraction of fulfilled demand. This paper shows the systematic underestimation of the fill rate when the traditional approximation is used, and revises both the foundations of the traditional approach and the definition of fill rate itself. As a result, this paper presents the following main contributions: (i) a new exact procedure to compute the traditional approximation for any discrete demand distribution; (ii) a more suitable definition of the fill rate in order to ignore those cycles without demand; and (iii) a new standard procedure to compute the fill rate that outperforms previous approaches, especially when the probability of zero demand is substantial. This paper focuses on the traditional periodic review, order up to level system under any uncorrelated, discrete and stationary demand pattern for the lost sales scenario.
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Analysts often presume that the users of the findings and results from their analytics-based studies will immediately understand and appreciate their impressive work. They may be wrong. The analysis may be too complex or is not answering the question the user is seeking. How can analysts focus more on people than the technology they have mastered?
Have you ever noticed how we often get things backward? At a dinner restaurant some order their entrée before their appetizer. During a job interview some employers are biased with their first impressions of the candidate, such as by their clothing attire, before learning the skills and competencies of the individual.
Please allow me provide some background before I make my case as to why some less experienced "data scientists" get things backward. Then I will explain why.
What we learn from the military
I recently had a stimulating meeting in Washington DC with Larry Carr, a retired US Air Force jet pilot with a systems engineering background. Larry specializes in the design of systems that interface humans with technology for NTVI in Falls Church, Virginia.
An observation that Larry described to me was provocative. He said that design engineers often put a technology's capabilities first, and subsequently consider how a human will use it. Carr's point was that the "human-machine" interface is sub-optimized when you do not first think about people before the machine. He referenced examples of jets that were designed beyond the capability of a pilot to fly the jet. Hence, my title of equip the man, not man the equipment.
Analytics and the human factor -- people
I confess. I am analytical. When I was a kid I was into numbers. In elementary and high school I loved math. My university degree was in operations research. Those of you who are aware of me know of my pride and joy to be honored to be in the Cooperstown, New York Baseball Hall of Fame for programming the oldest computer baseball game. But now at age 64 and recently retired from SAS, the large analytics and business intelligence software vendor, I have some reflections and hindsight about analysts and how some analysts relate to people.
All analysts are nor geeks
Larry Carr's observation to me was salient. If an analyst's test hypothesis is too obscure or too complex for those who are to learn from the test's outcome, then there will be insufficient buy-in to and acceptance of its findings.
For example, a business analyst in a bank may have developed an elegant equation to measure "customer lifetime value (CLV)" of the future potential profit level for individual customers using a discounted cash flow (DCF) equation with dozens of variables. Examples of variables are the forecasted customer demand volume, product unit costs, and the survival retention time length of the customer with the bank. The analyst's purpose may be to provide the marketing team responsible for higher profit lift from customers with a rank-ordered list of the most to least CLV customers.
What is the analyst's implied point? It is for marketing to focus on and target the highest CLV customers. Wrong! It should be to determine which incremental offer, deal, or discount will generate the relatively highest incremental profit from any customer. That may come from customers who are ranked low in their baseline CLV because the offer or deal may result in a greater profit lift the ranked high.
The bank's goal is to maximize the enterprise's profit and not to sub-optimize by focusing on the illusion that the already most profitable customers are the path to maximizing future profits.
Will analysts get intoxicated with technology?
If you have not learned a little about in-memory microchip technology, I suggest that you do. It is a game changer. An analyst's scenario test of large amounts of "Big Data" (e.g., a million products sold to 500,000 customers through five distribution channels) used to require hours of computer time to run the test. With in-memory technology, now it takes minutes and seconds. What does this mean? It means that analysts no longer have to carefully "frame the problem" to minimize the number of their time-consuming tests -- their what-if scenarios. They can now fail quickly and often and not feel embarrassed. Trial and error can now become an accepted and superior way to achieve findings to gain insights.
But will some analysts continue to get things backwards? Will they pursue attempting to solve the wrong problem? For example for CFOs, will the analyst fiddle with economic value added (EVA) equations and DuPont decompositions models of the elements of income statements and balance sheet general ledger accounts? Or will analysts go to the primary source of shareholder wealth creation -- view each customer as an investment in a portfolio to maximize the profit lift from each customer?
Analysts need to equip the man before manning the equipment. Consider who must be convinced to use the results from applying analytics. Get their buy-in. Then take them deeper to solve even more complex problems or pursue unimaginable opportunities.


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Justice, justice, where art thou? The wheels of justice in 2013 have been greased with wealth, dirty politics and lack of concern. What will 2014 bring?
In Texas, a wealthy 16-year-old goes free while drunk driving kills four people. His excuse, he did not know better. What happened to other court rulings? Drunk or sober, you are responsible for your actions. Wealth, justice, plain and simple.
The Maryville, Mo., ruling stinks of political injustice. Statutory rape laws are about sex, with an underaged child — consent or not. The young man admitted having sex with a 13-year-old. The then 17-year-old gets his hands slapped — why? This case stunk so bad it made national coverage. And more injustice, the victim was at fault for reporting the rape. Concern for your fellow human being?
Franklin County has had its share of unequal justice. First, how can any judge give probation to a drug maker? Especially in a child situation. Maybe a civil suit by the parents evolved.
About a year ago, a Good Samaritan stopped to help another driver. An uninsured driver, driving not his car, hit the Samaritan's car, driving on the wrong side of the road. Also, he nearly hit a woman nearby. So why is the prosecuting attorney dragging his feet?
There also was a stolen car incident in St. Clair. The police, as far as I know, never issued a stolen car bulletin. That is S.O.P. Also, that car or its clone recently appeared in a Craig's listing.


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Ultimately, though, Spoiled Rotten America is an insightful, and surprisingly heartfelt, plea for us to notice what's best and worst about ourselves. "The American pendulum only swings to extremes," he says. "The news is on all day, but we know less and less; everyone has a phone but nothing to say. It's all or nothing, and the world is going to Hell in a hand basket. What better time for a collection of comic essays?"
What better time indeed.
©2006 Larry Miller; (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers
"Larry Miller -- The quickening"
A funny listen. I would have given this one 5 stars, except for Mr. Miller's obsession with "the quickening." It was a real drawback to this book.
"Humour Is Relative"
CPR. I wanted to like this. I will give anyone who tries to make me laugh a hall-pass, a mulligan and a get out of jail card. But this book just did not do it for me. I probably like my humour sharper and edgier normally although Bob Newhart's book is one of my favourites and he is not exactly Lenny Bruce. I just found the humour in this border-line uncomfortable, like listening to you stuffy head-master trying to be witty.
Something funnier
He sounds like Bill Maher but with a script written by Bill Cosby.
The fact that I did not enjoy it probably says more about me than the book.
"Great stories"
I love Larry's stories. He makes you feel like you are living it with him. The bathroom story is the best. It had me in tears. Not to read when you're trying to go to sleep.
"Classic Larry Miller"
If you are a Larry Miller fan, you'll love this. His observations and sense of timing are spot on. Underneath the humor, there's a fair amount of truth. I only wish it was longer. Hey Larry, can you say "Spoiled Rotten America - the Quickening"?
"Spoiled Rotten America"
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Durban - Eight years after being arrested along with his parents for the murder of his uncle, a KwaDukuza man has been let off the hook in an important judgment which re-states the principles of convictions under common purpose.
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has set aside Beenesh Dewnath's conviction for murder and 15-year prison sentence, the judges saying he may have been embroiled in the bitter rivalry between the two families and "while there may be a suspicion that he was in cahoots with his parents, he cannot be convicted on suspicion alone".
Dewnath was 27 in June 2006 when he was arrested along with his parents, Dewnath and Nirmalah Ramkisson, for the murder of Dewnath senior's brother and rival businessman Jairam Ramkisson and the attempted murder of his wife Shashika Ramkisson.
Jairam was shot and killed outside his takeaway. Shashika was shot in the neck, but survived.
Evidence in the sensational trial was that the two brothers hated each other and a key State witness, who pleaded guilty to committing the crime and was sentenced to life imprisonment, claimed to have been hired by Dewnath and his parents.
Judge Jan Combrink convicted all three, sentencing Dewnath Ramkisson to life imprisonment, his wife to 18 years and his son to 15 years in September 2009.
The three all appealed to the provincial division sitting in Pietermaritzburg, but were turned down. Dewnath then petitioned the SCA which granted him special leave to appeal.
In the judgment, penned by acting Judge Constance Mocumie (with four judges concurring), she said the main evidence in the trial had come from William Sithole who testified as an accomplice witness.
He told how he had been brought into contact with the family through co-accused Jabulani Mkhize who had been recruited by Dewnath Ramkisson to kill his brother.
Mkhize had taken him to the family business, a fish shop adjacent to the deceased's business.
Sithole wanted R35 000 to carry out the killing, but Dewnath Ramkisson offered only R15 000.
At some point, Ramkisson brought his wife (Nirmalah) and son into the room to help mediate.
Sithole alleged Dewnath said: "But why are you asking for so much money? The person that we are asking you to kill is absolutely worthless.
"I would understand if he was a member of the taxi business. If I wasn't involved in the police, with the police, I would kill him myself."
He then left the room.
Negotiations failed that day and Sithole left without agreement having been reached.
The judge said there was no evidence regarding further discussions or negotiations or that Dewnath was privy to anything further.
A few days later, Sithole shot Jairam Ramkisson as he was locking up his shop.
The judge said the main attack on conviction was that it had been based on common purpose when there was insufficient evidence the words he had uttered proved he had actively associated himself with his parents' plan.
She agreed that apart from the evidence he walked in from the front to the back of the shop and uttered the "vengeful words", the State had not proved any form of active participation and "mere approval" of the plan did not suffice.
"As morally reprehensible as it is that he wished his uncle dead or even thought of killing him himself, what he said does not amount to active association.
"His participation was removed from the active execution of the plan and, it can at best, be regarded as evidence that he had some knowledge of it."
Dewnath's attorney, Anand Nepaul, who handled the appeal, described the judgment as an important reminder of the legal requirements for common purpose convictions.
"One of the appeal judges pointed out that this was introduced into our law at a time of political violence when identification of individual perpetrators was difficult in mob attacks.
"It is not appropriate to use it in these sorts of cases where the State, on the evidence, cannot prove co-perpetration or conspiracy," he said.
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The 5-foot-11, 190-pound senior ranked third on the team with 60 tackles this fall and was part of a defense that lifted Anclote to its first playoff appearance. He added eight pancake blocks on offense to go with a sack and a fumble recovery.
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Peixe Urbano Buys Online Reservation Company Zuppa
Brazilian group buying site Peixe Urbano has purchased Zuppa, an online reservation service in Brazil. It's an important step in Peixe Urbano's development from a mere Groupon-clone, to a multi-service company connecting users with experiential small businesses throughout Latin America.
Zuppa currently operates in 17 cities across Brazil. It's sort of like a mash up between Yelp and OpenTable, allowing users to reserve a table for free, search restaurants across a variety of metrics, and read reviews. It also offers software to help merchants manage reservations and run their businesses.
It's a natural fit, since Peixe Urbano focuses on experiential deals like restaurants, beauty treatments, hotel stays and travel packages. Groupon's Brazilian arm is increasingly focusing on goods-- an area that Peixe Urbano is wary of getting into.
I spoke with co-founder Alex Tabor when he was in town to pick up the company's Crunchie for Best International Company. "We focus on exploring the city," he said. "Products are a big opportunity, but there are a lot of issues with inventory. We try to avoid it."
We talked about what types of deals work and which ones don't, and I asked Tabor if there were certain service businesses who wanted to use Peixe Urbano that they'd turned down. "Funeral homes," he said. "We focus on getting merchants repeat business, so we have a very low attrition rate of advertisers." Yeah, I guess that's not a category where you want a lot of repeat business...
While Groupon clones exploded in Latin America in the last two years-- like every other place on earth-- there's been a sharp winnowing since, according to Tabor. "More than half of them are dead now," he says.
Zuppa has a much smaller footprint than Peixe Urbano, which operates in more than 100 cities across Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Chile. The team will have to invest a lot of resources to scale Zuppa for this to be a broad fit across the two business lines.
And as both Yelp and OpenTable can attest: These are not easy businesses to build and scale. They require a lot of pounding the pavement and building mini-network effects in each city. But it would be considerably easier for Zuppa to enter new markets where Peixe Urbano already has those merchant relationships.
In the US, we tend to write companies like Zuppa and Peixe Urbano off as copy cats, but this deal is a good example of how a similar idea can evolve differently in younger markets where decades of Web development is happening all at once.
OpenTable, Yelp and Groupon all represent different eras of the Web, so rather than join up, they awkwardly overlap and compete with each other. Really, as a consumer you need all three. OpenTable has never been able to equal Yelp's reviews or personality. And I've long wished Yelp would get more into reservations and have better search functionality. Meanwhile, Yelp has had mixed results on offering daily deals.
Not only does a consumer need three apps to find restaurant, make a reservation and get a deal, but its a nightmare for time-pressed, over-taxed restauranteurs. They buy software for OpenTable, and agonize over whether they should advertise on Yelp or offer Groupons.
But because these categories and ideas are all developing at the same time in a market like Brazil, a tie-up like this one is natural. And you could see a way that the OpenTable equivalent could evolve to include reservations for hair appointments and spas, not just restaurants since Peixe Urbano's sales people are already calling on those kinds of companies too. Frankly, it makes me a little jealous as a consumer.
Peixe Urbano is well-funded by Benchmark, General Atlantic, Tiger Global Management, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, T. Rowe Price Associates and Monashees Capital-- the top Internet venture firm in Brazil in my experience. There are some deep pockets around the table. I'd expect more deals like these in Peixe Urbano's future.
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Visiting the Palace of Fine Arts is like stepping into a postcard. The instantly familiar San Francisco staple inspires awe with a mélange of nature cradling Roman and Greek architecture so astounding that a miniature replica of it resides at Disney California Adventure. Scenic walkways and reflecting lagoons where migrating waterfowl check their hairdos lead to the main structure—a fictional ruin originally devised for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition. It was such a standout hit that a preservation league formed mid-fair to spare it when the other attractions were demolished. Yet that structure wasn't designed to stand the test of time, and soon enough its walls crumbled. A mid-'60s reconstruction restored it to its former glory, and when it was finished it became home to the Exploratorium interactive museum before becoming the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in 1970.


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South Carolina's basketball team is almost complete.
Guard Ramon Galloway said on Sunday that he was cleared to begin classes at USC today, meaning three of the Gamecocks' four signees are on campus. The fourth, junior-college transfer Johndre Jefferson, is completing two classes at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College and said he anticipates no problems toward enrolling for the fall semester.
Galloway, the 6-foot-3 guard out of Dwyer (Fla.) High School, was in his native Philadelphia on Sunday evening. He said he was planning on flying to Columbia on Monday and getting acclimated to school before classes began for the Summer II session today.
"I think we're going to be awesome," Galloway said, predicting the Gamecocks' success in 2009-10. "I can't wait to get out on the floor."
Galloway seems to be an integral part of the Gamecocks for this year and beyond. It seems natural to think he can step right into the spot vacated by Zam Fredrick, working with Devan Downey as USC's starting backcourt.
Galloway can learn beside Downey for a season, helping spell him at the point, and be ready for the next year, when Downey will be gone. The rookie has the ability to play both guard positions -- it's just a matter of getting him time at each spot when the balls roll out, and also seeing if he's good enough to rise past Brandis Raley-Ross to play right away.
"Ramon is actually a guy that's kind of just a player," coach Darrin Horn said at his mid-summer update. "He's a guy that will play at the point some and just sort of an all-purpose guy."
Galloway was as excited as the home folks when he heard Downey and Dominique Archie were returning for their senior years. Not only does it promote hopes of USC improving on its 21-win season, but it eases the burden on Galloway, a true freshman, trying to replace Downey right away.
"I was real happy when I heard that," Galloway said. "It's a chance for me to learn beside one of the best players in the country and learn the system."
The sentiment was also expressed by Jefferson, who's finishing his transfer requirements near his hometown of Santee. He still gets in some basketball, driving to Columbia to play pickup with some members of the team, and expects to be on campus in August.
"I feel like we're going to be real good," he said. "I feel we can compete at a high level. I think we can get to the tournament."
Jefferson was complimentary of Lakeem Jackson and Steve Spinella, the two Summer I enrollees who he's gotten to know. Playing pickup has given him an early insight to what they'll bring to the floor.
"Spinella, he can flat-out shoot it," Jefferson said. "He can get it in from anywhere. Lakeem is just an all-around player. He can drive, he can penetrate, he can stop and shoot, everything."
With Galloway joining the fray, the competition should be ratcheted. Championships can be won in the summer, as the motto says, and the four newest Gamecocks seem to be taking that seriously.
"It's going to be a fun year," Galloway said. "It's something I've always dreamed about, playing college ball, and I can't wait to do it."