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[Shabelle] in a further sign of return of hope and booming trade in a city not long time dubbed the world´s most dangerous city, a banana export company has been launched in Mogadishu Somalia´s capital city today.
The founders of the new company, Fruit Som say that their plan is to be an umbrella for all Somali farmers so that it can export Somalia´s banana to the outside world.
Sheikh Osman, chairman of Fruit Som company who spoke at the launching ceremony of the company said that the company would bring all Somali farmers particularly those who grow banana under one umbrella.
Shiekh Ali Wajis, who is a member of the group founding this new company also spoke there, telling Somalia lacked such business activity for a long time.
Somalia grows one of the best quality bananas in the world but the production and export of the banana which was earning hard currency for the Somali economy, halted after the descended into wars and lawlessness.
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In order to avoid falling asleep during this game, I took notes. I'll just write on here the notes I took and then I'll elaborate on them.
"Ronnie Brewer airball" Yeah that was disgusting.
"Steve 'Swaggy P' Novak" Novak was playing exactly like Nick Young of the Sixers tonight. He took a gross three off a dribble, but then hit one off the dribble a few possessions later. Novak expanding his game is a good thing, but I hope he doesn't try and do too much. Novak's role is not one of scoring, it is one of shooting. Novak dribbling too much and forcing shots is not good for anybody. Ultimately he'll be fine. I think he is probably taking some shots he wouldn't take in games that matter.
"Kurt just punched that guy in the balls" Yes, yes he did. Late in the first quarter, Maalik Wayns drove for a transition layup. Kurt Thomas, who had a 40 foot lead on Wayns, proceeded to punch him in the crotch area as Wayns completed the and-1. Thomas also had 3 fouls in 6 first half minutes.
"Iso Melo x 1000″ So the Knicks isolated Melo a bunch tonight. You'll see a good amount of iso-Melo during the season, especially with Amar'e out. The Knicks clearly didn't use much of the playbook in this game, so they just gave Melo a million touches.
" Thattababe Flight" I think I wrote this because Flight White hit a runner or something.
"Wayns just got pooped on by Copeland" Wayns tried to take a charge from Copeland and was obliterated by Copeland's crotch. He left the game.
"Prigioni impressive on defense" A technician on defense, Prig Daddy (credit to Jared Dubin) was good on defense in the first half. He stole an inbounds pass and put some nice ball pressure on the Sixers guards in the halfcourt.
"Prigioni smooth passer" Prig Daddy is also a technician passing the ball. I love his two handed bounce passes in particular. Prigs made some great passes to guys coming off screens as well as in the pick and roll. Another strong showing for him.
"Felton airball" What is up with all the airballs tonight?
"Jason Kidd missed wide open 3. Sigh…"
"Jason Kidd bad pass. Sigh…"
"Knicks suck" <– This was true for most of this game. The Knicks didn't defend well and they were sloppy and ineffective for most the game on offense.
"Woah! Kidd hit a 3!" This will always be surprising.
"The Knicks be Iso-ing Melo again"
"WTF Novak" After he missed two shots to open up the 4th
"WTF Melo!" After a Melo missed shot and technical foul and then a missed layup on the next possession.
So here are some of my thoughts on the game:
- I'm not worried about Novak's terrible 2/9 night shooting the ball. It killed the Knicks in this game, but I think he'll be fine moving forward.
- Ray Felton hit 5 three's tonight, but don't expect that consistently. A career 32% shooter from downtown, Felton likely won't shoot a high percentage of 3's. He never has and that isn't his strength as a player. However, he will get a lot of open looks from three. We know teams are going to double Carmelo Anthony quite a bit which will give Felton open spot up opportunities. That is what happened tonight and Felton capitalized on it.
- As many noted on twitter, Ronnie Brewer looked quite big in his first game as a Knick. He needs to drop some of that weight as he looked way off tonight. He wasn't all that quick and clearly didn't have his legs under him. Part of that is the added weight he appears to have on his frame and part of that is the fact that he probably isn't in basketball shape. Brewer won't add anything offensively, so he needs to be up on his game defensively. If he's not, he is basically useless.
- Flight White gives strong effort on defense. He doesn't seem to be a great defender, but he gives consistent effort. I like that about him. His offense has yet to come around though, as he missed two open three's tonight.
- The Knicks got out-rebounded 41-38 on the game. Expect that to be a trend all season, especially with Carmelo Anthony at the 4. This was not a good rebounding team last year and likely won't be a good one this season.
- Copeland looked good on offense, showing off some sweet post moves and a nice outside jumper. He scored 15 points, but was a -14 on the night.
- Kurt Thomas and Jason Kidd looked mighty old and ineffective tonight. Not a good sign.
- It is amazing how much the Knicks will really be relying on JR Smith. New York sorely missed a second bonafide offensive option tonight. With Amar'e Stoudemire out with his
bulging dickknee injury, the Knicks will have to really be on their game offensively to win games. New York is not an offensive juggernaut. They need JR Smith, make no mistake about it.
- Tyson and Prigioni are just two cool dudes. Thats all I have to say about that.
- Note: I'm watching Repo Games while writing this. The guy asks people trivia questions to determine whether their vehicles will be repossessed or not. He asked "What continent are Italy and France on?" After 5 minutes of deliberation, the two people playing the game answered with "East." … I pray for America sometimes.
- Also, Melo is 2/15 from downtown in the last two pre-season games he has played in. I've written on here that he should shoot fewer threes this season. You can't take anything from two games, especially two preseason games, but it is something to keep an eye on.
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Target has confirmed that as many as 40 million credit and debit card accounts may be at risk of a data breech.
Customers who made purchases by swiping their cards at stores across the U.S. between November 27 and December 15 may have had their accounts exposed. The stolen data includes credit and debit card numbers, customer names, card expiration dates and the three-digit security numbers on the back of cards required to finalize many purchases. Target says the data breech did not include online purchases.


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HAVELOCK � Madison Rising, a nationally-known musical act, is scheduled to headline National Night Out tonight in Havelock.
HAVELOCK � Madison Rising, a nationally-known musical act, is scheduled to headline National Night Out tonight in Havelock.
The band promotes patriotism and personal responsibility with its hard-rock style of music, according to Lt. Brian Woods, of the Havelock Police Department.
�This is the first year that we�ve tried to bring in a bigger band,� Woods said. �It�s the first time the group has ever performed in Havelock.�
He said he hoped the band would attract younger members of the community to attend the event.
�We are hoping with their genre of music we will draw some young folks, particularly some of the younger military members, who we hope will come out,� Woods said.
National Night Out is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at Walter B. Jones Park in Havelock. An opening ceremony is set for 5:30 p.m., followed by music from the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Band. Madison Rising is scheduled to take the stage at 6:30 p.m.
�It�s a very popular event,� Woods said of National Night Out. �We�re able to build this partnership with the community. We�ve all bought into it to try to make Havelock a safer place to live. We just want to strengthen our community.�
National Night Out is designed to be a community event that promotes safety. It also carries an anti-crime message.
�It�s an opportunity for our citizens and citizens from the area to meet our local police officers and understand why we do what we do,� Woods said. �It�s a good opportunity for us to have some interaction with their neighbors. We hope to bring the community out so we can continue to build partnerships.�
Havelock Police Chief G. Wayne Cyrus said residents are crucial to keeping the city safe and free from crime.
�We feel that if we build a strong relationship with the community, together we can accomplish anything,� he said.
Havelock has partnered with Cherry Point air station for the 17th annual event, with the city�s Community Emergency Response Team as well as the N.C. Marine Fisheries Office and N.C. Highway Patrol participating.
The event will include displays and information from the Cherry Point and Havelock fire departments, including fire and rescue trucks.
The event will also feature a police dog demonstration.
About 40 booths will be set up, and there will be bounce houses for children.
There is no admission, and there will be free pizza, hot dogs, cotton candy and refreshments while supplies last.
For more information on National Night Out, call Woods at the Havelock Police Department at 447-3212.


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Dani Kuepper is the Artistic Director of Danceworks, the resident contemporary dance company of Danceworks, Inc. She joined DPC in 1998 and has since choreographed more than 25 dances for the company, as well as several evening length works. In addition to her commitment to DPC, Dani has done a wide variety of community work on Danceworks' behalf over the past ten year, including the development of the dance component of Danceworks' Intergenerational Multi-Arts Project (IMAP). Dani received both her BFA and MFA from UW-Milwaukee, where she has been an adjunct faculty member of the UWM dance department since 1999. As an undergraduate at UWM, Dani performed the solo, Mrs. Schultz, at the national American College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Dani has choreographed extensively in the Milwaukee community and has enjoyed collaborations with Present Music, First Stage Children's Theater, Milwaukee Art Museum, Next Actors (Theatre for Youth Training Program), Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Your Mother Dances, and several members of the UWM Dance Department faculty – Ed Burgess, Janet Lilly, Simone Ferro, Luc Vanier and Elizabeth Johnson. Dani was honored in 2009 as a "Forty Under 40" recipient by the Business Journal of Milwaukee and also received the UWM Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award for non-tenure track in instructors in 2010.


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That is the event page.
Based on Channel 4's flagship daytime TV quiz show, this will be a chance to partake in a real life Countdown tournament, in a rural setting. We'll have consonants, we'll have vowels, we'll have numbers. We may not have Rachel Riley to dispense them, but we'll certainly have the equally glamorous Sean Lonergan who will be co-hosting with myself, Eoin Jackson.
Anyone at all! Having an interest in anagramming, word games, or puzzles would certainly make it more fun for you, but that is not a requirement. The event caters for all abilities. Some players will be very skilled, but many will be beginners. There will be prizes on offer at each ability level... so whether you are expert, intermediate or novice, there is a chance of coming away with a prize.
The event will be held in the Carbally Community Centre in Ballymacaw, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, Ireland. (At the heart of the sunny South East. ) The Community Centre is located a 5 minute walk from a beach and around a 7 minute walk from the two local pubs, Dowers and Whites. The venue is very spacious, and contains kitchen facilities.
It kicks off at 10:30am, and will be conducted using the Bristol-style classroom format. Everyone gets to see the same sets of letters and numbers, and to play them at the same time. Each person will have a direct opponent assigned. These match-ups will be drawn at random just before the start of each game. Everyone is guaranteed at least 6 games during the day. The results of the early matches will determine the composition of the different quarter final groupings. The top 8 (sorted by number of wins, then number of points) will contest the quarter final group from which the event winner will come. The final game to determine the event winner will be the only game that won't be done in the classroom-style setting. It will be a stand-alone match, and everyone will be welcome to stick around and spectate if they so wish.
After dinner, we'll stroll down to Whites for a few games of pool, followed by an evening of music. Can't bate the oul singsong!
Once again the aim is to make this as cheap as possible while still covering costs. This year there are two price plans:-
~PLAN #1 [FULL PACKAGE]:- €35 [or £31 in GBP] …includes the event, accommodation, and up to 4 meals during your stay.
~PLAN #2 [EVENT ONLY]:- €15 [or £13 in GBP] …includes the event and up to 2 meals.
I would expect that many of those travelling to Waterford for this would want to avail of the cheap / virtually free accommodation. So, for your €35 you are getting 2 nights accommodation in a house available specially for Co:Wat guests, the event, breakfast, lunch and dinner on the Saturday, and also breakfast on Sunday.
€15 is the price available for Waterford natives, or anyone else who has their own accommodation sorted. The price includes the event, and meals (lunch and dinner) on Saturday.
Other items that are provided throughout, free of charge, include:- 1. Pens and paper to use; 2. Coffees, teas, and some soft drinks; 3. Snacks, 4. Possibly a 'hangover' event on the Sunday (depending on demand).
(We are hoping all of this will be doable without operating at a loss financially. Depending on numbers, it is possible.)
We can only guarantee proper beds to the first 5 people who apply, and need a place to sleep, thereafter, we're talking camp beds, air mattresses, and if the number sleeping exceeds 10, there will be camping accommodation on site to cater for that possibility.
The venue cannot cater for more than 50 people at the event in total. (I will keep this event page updated with what the numbers currently stand at… though we don't expect to reach capacity, so no need to worry.)
To book your place at Co:Wat?! send the payment to Eoin Jackson via paypal at the address firstname.lastname@example.com. (please remember to select 'payment to friends & family') Alternatively make out a cheque to Eoin Jackson and send it on to 33 Shanakiel, Coxtown, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.
FLIGHTS, TRAVEL, etc.
If you are coming form overseas, the best options are to fly into Cork or Dublin. Both of these are approx a 90min drive from Waterford. Bus and train would be available to the city, and we can arrange a lift to the venue from there (for free, obviously). For anyone who would rather take the Ferry. There are regular sailings into Rosslare harbour from Pembroke and Fishguard in Wales. (Rosslare is a 60min drive from Dunmore East.)
For anyone travelling within Ireland, if you can make it to Waterford, we can provide a lift to the venue for you. If you are using Sat Nav, "Carbally Community Centre, Ballymacaw" should work fine.
[More details to go here as they come available.]
Eoin Jackson* (host)
Seán Lonergan* (host)
#1. James Robinson*
#2. Michelle Jackson*
#3. Kevin Jackson*
#4. Fionnuala Knox
#5. Hazel Drury*
There are others who aren't fully confirmed as yet.
This will be updated as more people commit to signing up.
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Just a little bit of score info for those of you not in the know, I'm sure Eoin will do more details later.
In the semi-finals, both the game between Eddy Byrne and Mark Murray & myself and Hazel Drury went to a crucial, and while mine and Hazel's resulted in Hazel winning 81-75, as neither of us got it, Mark solved his to win 104-100.
In the 3rd place play-off, Eddy guaranteed an Irish 1-2-3 by defeating me 118-100.
In the final, which started great for Mark early doors, the killer move came in R10, when Hazel spotted RUTILATED to bag herself 18 points, and maintain a double-figure lead that she wouldn't relinquish, ending with a final score of 92-79.
Which makes HAZEL DRURY the first woman to win a FOCAL-affiliated CO-event
In the semi-finals, both the game between Eddy Byrne and Mark Murray & myself and Hazel Drury went to a crucial, and while mine and Hazel's resulted in Hazel winning 81-75, as neither of us got it, Mark solved his to win 104-100.
In the 3rd place play-off, Eddy guaranteed an Irish 1-2-3 by defeating me 118-100.
In the final, which started great for Mark early doors, the killer move came in R10, when Hazel spotted RUTILATED to bag herself 18 points, and maintain a double-figure lead that she wouldn't relinquish, ending with a final score of 92-79.
Which makes HAZEL DRURY the first woman to win a FOCAL-affiliated CO-event
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(almost) real-time social media at Automation Fair
(almost) real-time social media
We wanted our social media strategy for this year's Automation Fair to be (almost) real-time; we wanted you to feel like you were attending the event as it unfolded.
Additionally, if you were at the event and weren't able to see everything, then we wanted you to be able to catch-up on things you may have missed. So if you didn't make it to our booth on the first day, then you could see a preview of what we had to offer to make sure you visited the second day.
Essentially, this is how we accomplished our goal:
- We had a team live at the event in Chicago, and we also had a team back here in San Jose (2 hours behind Chicago)
- The team in Chicago would take as many pictures and videos as their schedule permitted while live on the Automation floor. They would then immediately transfer those files back to the team in San Jose.
- The team in San Jose feverishly compiled those files, and then used them to create videos and blogs which we uploaded ASAP. It took about 2 hours to create, edit and upload each video. The videos were uploaded to our Manufacturing YouTube channel.
- Also, while this compilation and editing was being done, the images and updates we received from our Chicago team were immediately posted on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and LinkedIn.
- Once the videos and blogs were posted, we used all available social media amplification channels to disseminate our content.
During the 2 day event, we posted 4 videos and 6 blogs, all of which could have been viewed and read while you were still at Automation Fair.
The 4 'live' videos we created were very successful: they received over 3180 views!
We had a lot of fun, and we hope that we were able to bring Automation Fair to you in (almost) real-time.
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Tonight and tomorrow - although tonight looks cloudy in london and last night was a big full moon...
Tonight and tomorrow - although tonight looks cloudy in london and last night was a big full moon...
Sufi , your thoughtful gentle , sometimes reflective posts have always been a good side of Dissensus.
The moon was rising big and orange over this side o' the pond last night too ,
then a big orange blast of flame over on the Williamsburg/Greenpoint Brooklyn waterfront ,
right in front of the Oil tanks.
No stars to be seen but trailers of black stuff tendriling down from whatever it was that blew.
Nice and chilly here last night .
Will look for those stars tonight
thank you for the heads up
i read that the trick is to wait until the sun sets, just before the moon rises high enough to cast its full glare
supposedly 2007 will be better because it will be a new moon around the time of peak showers
up again my lovelies wednesday night in sha allah
Everyone's favourite meteor shower.
nice one
will keep an eye
This AM we could see the stars ( not so clear thanks to city lights ),
caught two shooting stars right out of Orion's shoulder.
Necks got tired looking almost straight up !
Should be tomorrow AM as well ...
green comet here we go
this also made me say wow - how the stars got their names
they are back again, large as life and twice as natcheral.
amazingly bright last night, even from smoky London, and should be good tonight too, if it stays clear, apparently it's a specially good year
and you can also wave to the ISS (passing from W at 10.22PM)
What time do they switch them on Sufi? I'll go up onto Blackheath and watch it
i think they are all night,
i just remembered when i was going to bed about 1, and sat out for 10 minutes and saw 2 - i never seen shooting stars as bright


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Affirmations for January
1) I am living my full potential.
2) I always succeed because I meet resistance with persistence.
3) I love change and easily adjust myself to new situations.
JANUARY is often the time of year when we set new goals (or renew old ones) to improve ourselves. Regardless of the goal – whether it be to exercise more, eat more nutritious foods, take up a new hobby, or learn new strategies for anger management and stress reduction – affirmations are a tool that can help you achieve success with greater ease. The first affirmation – I am living my full potential – helps set the subconscious stage for the achievement of any personal goal. The second affirmation – I always succeed because I meet resistance with persistence – is useful in combating moments of temptation to abandon the goal. The third affirmation – I love change and easily adjust myself to new situations – is particularly helpful when your goal involves stretching yourself out of your comfort zone. All of them, however, will help you when used with consistency.
What is an affirmation and how does it work?
An affirmation is simply a statement, positive or negative, repeated aloud or mentally, about a perceived truth about oneself. For example, when you say to yourself, "I feel good," that is an affirmation of your wellness and you are riding the proverbial train of thought that brings a good mood and other good-feeling thoughts. A bolstered sense of self confidence infuses your conversations, actions, and energy level for as long as you're riding that train. Similarly, when you say to yourself, "I'm so stupid," you're affirming feelings of inadequacy, and you ride the train to more thoughts that feel just as bad. Just as if anyone else had told you that you're stupid, your step loses pep and your mood is depressed. Perhaps I'm so stupid, leads to, I'm such a loser, or Why do I always do this? You ride that train for a while and pretty soon you're not trying as hard or caring as much about things.
A deeper look shows that our self-talk, or our inner dialogue, is a stream of affirmations. It's important to be mindful of this considering our state of mind has a tremendous and intimate influence on our quality of life, including our own sense of identity and how we conduct ourselves. When we talk about "using affirmations," we're talking about intentionally choosing positive, self-affirming thoughts while training the mind into healthy habits.
A set of core beliefs, both positive and negative, inform our thoughts and therefore, our life experience. Good news: a belief is simply a thought you keep thinking over and over again. In other words, a habitual thought. Great news: habits can be changed! Grab the reigns of life and replace self-sabotaging core beliefs with an empowering new inner truth.
How to use affirmations for personal growth and spiritual development
In order to be effective the way we intend here, affirmations must be positive, present tense, personal, specific, and used consistently. That last point is very important. Select your affirmation and repeat it over and over for some time. Three to five minutes perhaps. Or, you can repeat them just 10 or 15 times, several times throughout the day.
There are endless ways to work with affirmations and incorporate them into your daily routine. You could write them on post-it notes and stick them on mirrors, walls, or windows. Post them any place you see every day such as the bathroom mirror, your desk at work, your computer monitor at home, the wall next to your closet, etc. Physically writing the statement over and over, also enhances its effectiveness. If you're already in the habit of writing every day, set aside five minutes for this practice.
Singing your affirmations is a good way to keep things interesting and it also helps the mind accept a shift in perspective with greater ease. You could also accomplish this by varying the way you say the statement a little bit each time, using different adjectives or switching the order of the words. Perhaps play around with the tone of your voice, adding enthusiasm and joy. Get your emotions involved. An easy way to personally engage with the statement (and also add a lot of power to it) is by including your name. For example," I am intelligent" becomes, "Gina Marie, you are very intelligent." If you really want to pack a lot of power into your affirmations, look yourself in the eye in the mirror while you repeat them aloud.
Another way to enhance an affirmation is to add the powerful element of touch. Let's say you want to rid yourself of a negative core belief – "I'm worthless." First, take a moment to tune into your body. Which area of your body physically feels the most disturbed when you tell yourself that you are worthless? That's the spot you should place your hand when you repeat your affirmation – "I am worthy."
Although affirmations can be practiced any time of day and can be used many times throughout the day, it's most advisable to do this in the beginning segments of your day. Making this a part of your daily routine (like brushing your teeth and getting dressed) is the best way to ensure consistency. I like to post affirmations on the dashboard of my car as a reminder to repeat them while I drive to work. To keep it fun and engaging, and to ensure I do it long enough so that the practice is effective, I don't stop until I've driven through a certain number of traffic lights. Sometimes I feel embarrassed when talking to myself at a red light, but I get through it by assuming that anyone watching from a neighboring vehicle will assume I'm talking on the phone or singing along to the radio.
Now a cautionary note: When you first begin using a particular affirmation, it may feel like a lie. Don't worry, it's alright. In fact it's typical. Let's say George is down in the dumps, feeling bad about himself. He may feel like a liar when he looks into the mirror and confidently says, "George, you're awesome!" He might feel foolish and assume the process can't work, never to use the affirmation again. George mustn't despair, though. The level of the mind we're working with doesn't know the difference between what is real and what is imaginary; a factor that makes this process viable. Over time the affirming statement becomes the present truth and feelings of discord go away.
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text: i don't know if you know or not because she's not really a Bar None type of gal, but there's this girl singer called Selena Gomez. You might remember her from when she made an appearance her in Spring Breakers where she played a good girl going bad. If you missed that one, though, no big deal because all you have to do is look at her life. She's pulling that same shit there.


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Master Boot Record
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The Master Boot Record (MBR) is the first 512 bytes of a storage device. The MBR is not a partition; it is reserved for the operating system's bootloader and the storage device's partition table. A newer alternative to MBR is the GUID Partition Table, which is part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface specification.
Boot process
Booting is a multi-stage process. Most PCs today initialize system devices with firmware called the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), which is typically stored in a dedicated ROM chip on the system board. After system devices have been initialized, the BIOS looks for the bootloader on the MBR of the first recognized storage device (hard disk drive, solid state drive, CD/DVD drive, USB drive...) or the first partition of the device. It then executes that program. The bootloader reads the partition table, and is then capable of loading the operating system(s). Common GNU/Linux bootloaders include GRUB and Syslinux.
The MBR consists of a short piece of assembly code (the initial bootloader – 446 bytes), a partition table for the 4 primary partitions (16 bytes each) and a sentinel (0xAA55).
The "Conventional" Windows/DOS MBR bootloader code will check the partition table for one and only one active partition, read X sectors from this partition and then transfer control to the operating system. The Windows/DOS bootloader can not boot an Arch Linux partition because it is not designed to load the Linux kernel, and it can only cater for an active, primary partition (which GRUB safely ignores).
The GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is the de facto standard bootloader for GNU/Linux, and users are recommended to install it on the MBR to allow booting from any partition, whether it be primary or logical.
Backup and restoration
Because the MBR is located on the disk it can be backed up and later recovered.
To backup the MBR:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/path/mbr-backup bs=512 count=1
Restore the MBR:
dd if=/path/mbr-backup of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
To erase the MBR (may be useful if you have to do a full reinstall of another operating system) only the first 446 bytes are zeroed because the rest of the data contains the partition table:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1
Restoring a Windows boot record
By convention (and for ease of installation), Windows is usually installed on the first partition and installs its partition table and reference to its bootloader to the first sector of that partition. If you accidentally install a bootloader like GRUB to the Windows partition or damage the boot record in some other way, you will need to use a utility to repair it. Microsoft includes a boot sector fix utility
FIXBOOT and an MBR fix utility called
FIXMBR on their recovery discs, or sometimes on their install discs. Using this method, you can fix the reference on the boot sector of the first partition to the bootloader file and fix the reference on the MBR to the first partition, respectively. After doing this you will have to reinstall GRUB to the MBR as was originally intended (that is, the GRUB bootloader can be assigned to chainload the Windows bootloader).
If you wish to revert back to using Windows, you can use the
FIXBOOT command which chains from the MBR to the boot sector of the first partition to restore normal, automatic loading of the Windows operating system.
Of note, there is a Linux utility called
ms-sys (package ms-sysAUR in AUR) that can install MBR's. However, this utility is only currently capable of writing new MBRs (all OS's and file systems supported) and boot sectors (a.k.a. boot record; equivalent to using
FIXBOOT) for FAT file systems. Most LiveCDs do not have this utility by default, so it will need to be installed first, or you can look at a rescue CD that does have it, such as Parted Magic.
First, write the partition info (table) again by:
ms-sys --partition /dev/sda1
Next, write a Windows 2000/XP/2003 MBR:
ms-sys --mbr /dev/sda # Read options for different versions
Then, write the new boot sector (boot record):
ms-sys -(1-6) # Read options to discover the correct FAT record type
ms-sys can also write Windows 98, ME, Vista, and 7 MBRs as well, see
ms-sys -h.


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Flash flood warnings for large part of Illinois
CHICAGO (AP) _ Flash flood warnings are in effect for parts of northern, central and eastern Illinois as slow-moving thunderstorms unleash torrential downpours.
According to the National Weather Service, around 3 inches of rain has already fallen across the Chicago area as of early Saturday morning. Another inch was expected. There are reports of standing water on roads and highways.
The flash flood warnings are for all or parts of Champaign, Cook, Ford, Livingston, McLean and Will counties.
Forecasters are also warning of frequent cloud-to-ground lightning strikes and isolated damaging wind gusts topping 60 mph in some areas.
In central Illinois, the weather service is warning that flooding will continue along the Illinois River from Havana and points downstream into next week.
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The new EchoSystem 4 from Echo360 is looking to add another important tool to universities that want to build and utilize a virtual, paperless classroom environment. It should be a welcome tool for students everywhere (until they realize it'll make cutting class obsolete).
The new software platform records and relays the classroom experience in HD to iPads, Android tablets, laptops, and desktops. The system requires compatible hardware and simulates attending and participating in the classroom by allowing real-time collaboration through question submission, polling, and commenting while watching the recorded lecture. By taking the classroom mobile, EchoSystem 4 could enable students of any age to take classes from their dorm rooms, roofs, treehouses, or across the country.
According to Echo360, "The new software and live-enabled hardware solution liberates the learning experience from the confines of the classroom with mobility, collaboration, and video quality enhancements while simultaneously reducing the operational costs associated with large-scale blended learning implementations."
While it's not a live classroom relay, EchoSystem was designed for the Apple iPad using HTML5. The EchoPlayer for iPad displays course visuals, scene-based navigation, and institutional branding through watermarking. EchoSystem 4.0 also employs Android's streaming while preventing the download of instructor intellectual property.
Students can participate in online study groups through their computers and tablets. Bookmarks, online note-taking and "asynchronous discussions" allow students to engage in peer-to-peer conversations while asking questions of their instructors. The platform's EchoCenter displays a playlist of lectures and supplemental recordings that let students identify and launch multimedia course content on demand.
While it's not the only remote lecture software platform out there--and far from being the only technology entering classrooms--Echo360 reps are stressing its compatibility with tablets as a step forward in the effort to create a greener, paperless campus free of bound books, presentation printouts, and notebooks.
The pricing on the Echo360 system runs as low as $1,500 per classroom for a software site license. The "Safecapture HD appliance"--which records, stores, and uploads the lecture so students can access it from their computers--sells for $2,995 each. A larger, 40,000-plus student state school will invest more into EchoSystem 4 than a 7,500-student private institution. Would-be customers need to contact company reps directly.
Update, January 20 at 5:30 p.m. PT: We added more price information.


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Golf will build on last year's experience
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Sophomores and juniors coming out for the Goessel High School golf team this year will have little experience in competition.
"We only have three returning letter-winners from last season," coach Chad Lindeman said. "Our junior varsity players only played in two events because weather cancelled many JV events last year."
Seniors Reece Hiebert and Zach Showalter, along with junior Lucas Hiebert will be the core group of the varsity golf team. Last year, these three players scored in the upper 90's and close to 100. With more experience and a desire to improve, strides could be made to lower those scores.
Even those with little experience will have a chance at seeing some action at the varsity level. By the end of the season, Lindeman will put together a group of six players that will represent the Bluebirds at the regional golf tournament on May 19.
The Bluebirds begin the season at Herington on April 8.


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PRS Guitars Debuts the Starla Stoptail
The all new Starla Stoptail has the same retro-inspired vibe as its predecessor with one noticeable difference: it features a two-piece, adjustable stoptail bridge that dramatically alters the look and feel of the original Bigsby fitted Starla model while bringing out more of a mid-range woodiness in the tone. Exclusive double-screw Starla Treble and Bass Pickups are currently standard on all models in the Starla series and offer a bright high-end bark that allows these guitars to cut through the mix.
The Starla Stoptail's solid mahogany body is accented with a 24½" scale rosewood fingerboard, a solid mahogany neck and dot inlays or optional bird inlays. Proprietary Alnico magnets incorporated into the pickup design contribute to the guitar's unique clean and crisp sound but are also capable of rich harmonic overtones when driven.
Other features include a uniquely shaped black plastic pick guard, tone and volume pots and a three-way pickup selector. Color options include Vintage Cherry, Vintage Mahogany, Vintage Orange and Black as well as the new metallic colors including Gold Sparkle, Silver Sparkle and the new metallic Hot Hues colors Twilight, Catalina Dream, and Sinful Cinnamon. Starla Stoptail models are currently shipping to authorized PRS dealers around the world.
"The Starla is inspiring to customers and to PRS employees. We wanted to open the door to players who might shy away from the tremolo version," said PRS Sales Manager Rick Hodgson.
The Starla model featuring the Bigsby tremolo bridge was originally unveiled as part of the Experience PRS 2008 open house event. Similar in spirit to the double cutaway Mira model introduced at Experience PRS 2007, the single cutaway Starla and Starla Stoptail have many vintage themed appointments.
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How can disaster risk reduction help save lives?
Q: How can disaster risk reduction help save lives?
A: Emergencies can happen in any country, at any time. When disaster strikes, it can seriously disrupt the functioning of a community and people will depend on help from the outside. But a lot can be done to prevent and reduce the effects of disasters as well as to strengthen the response of communities at risk.
Countries with well-developed health systems and a well-trained, well-equipped health workforce in communities are much better prepared for disasters. When a community is well-prepared, many lives can be saved in the first hours after an emergency before external help arrives. The people in the community know local risks and their own needs best.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
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The recovery of ancient manuscripts showed the humanists how the Greeks and Romans employed mathematics to give structure to their art. The relationship between these two studies is most evident in architecture, where numerical ratios were used in building design.
A ratio is nothing more than a relationship between two quantities. For example, a building that is 100 feet wide and 50 feet tall has a ratio between its width and its height of 2:1 (100:50 = 2:1).Proportions in Architecture
One of the most interesting proportions used by Renaissance artists, the golden mean, had also been used by the ancient Greeks in art and architecture. Often found in nature in the shape of a leaf or the spiral of a shell, the golden mean is thought to add harmonious composition to buildings and other structures.
The humanists also used the writings of Vitruvius, a Roman architect, to guide them in their architectural designs. Vitruvius extolled the virtues of proportion and symmetry in architecture, and he explained how the human body represented the beauty of proportion in nature.
Renaissance architects, especially those in Italy, also went to the ruins of ancient buildings to measure them and learn how proportion and symmetry were applied in real structures. The result of these studies was a new philosophy of beauty in building. Gothic spires and decorations imitating movement towards heaven were replaced by elegant symmetry demonstrating the intellect of man.
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Old Testament fury has rarely come to such spectacularly fearsome life as it does in Noah, an audacious adaptation of one of the best-known but still-enigmatic chapters of the Bible. Be warned: Anyone familiar with the 500-year-old man and his ark might need to check some of the most cherished visualizations of him at the theater door.
Old Testament fury has rarely come to such spectacularly fearsome life as it does in Noah, an audacious adaptation of one of the best-known but still-enigmatic chapters of the Bible.
Be warned: Anyone familiar with the 500-year-old man and his ark might need to check some of the most cherished visualizations of him at the theater door.
No cozy two-by-two images of beatific giraffes grace Noah.
Like any other good artist, director Darren Aronofsky has avoided predictable, literalistic retellings of beloved Sunday-school stories.
He has inserted new characters, brought parenthetical figures to the fore and made one of the most enduring and universal myths his own.
The result is a movie that is deeply respectful of its source material but also at times startlingly revisionist � a go-for-broke throwback to Hollywood biblical epics of yore that combines grandeur and grace as well as a generous dollop of goofy overstatement.
Appropriately, Aronofsky starts at the beginning � and, after a brief prologue revisiting Adam and Eve, original sin and the fatal rivalry between Cain and Abel � catches up with Noah as a boy who, by virtue of his lineage and an enchanted snakeskin bestowed on him by his father, is clearly destined for greater things.
Conceived and staged like a conventional superhero origin story, Noah then finds the grown-up protagonist � played by a solemn, haunted-looking Russell Crowe � living in Canaan alongside his wife, Naameh (Jennifer Connelly); and their sons, Ham, Shem and eventually Japheth.
Canaan is a desolate world of arid deserts, ruthless tribal warfare and dead cities, but also supernatural wonders.
When Noah begins to experience visions of the apocalyptic flood to come, Aronofsky choreographs them not as words-from-on-high messages from the divine but as terrifying unconscious visions.
Fans of the filmmaker�s work � such as Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and Black Swan � won�t be surprised to learn that he is at his best with these fantastic, mystically inclined sequences.
He is just as evocatively expressive with the most technically challenging set pieces of the story: the arduous construction of the enormous ark (produced according to biblical proportions, down to the last cubit); the arrival of the animals; and the annihilating flood, which Aronofsky stages as an awesome cascade of rainstorms, geysers and terrifying waves.
Through it all, Crowe and Connelly deliver impressively grounded, powerful performances � with Crowe playing Noah first as a humble, divinely inspired servant and, eventually, as a wild-eyed zealot, and Connelly brimming with earthy rectitude.
One of the most delightful reshufflings is a central role for Noah�s ancient forebear, Methusela, played by Anthony Hopkins in a mischievous and altogether-convincing turn as a white-haired figure of mystical, oracular wisdom.
So much of Noah is so good � and so impressively executed � that, when discordant notes are sounded, they do so with clanging dissonance.
Taking ill-advised pages from both 1950s animator Ray Harryhausen and the modern big-studio predilection for comic-book movies and young-adult romances, Aronofsky creates characters and storylines that seem wildly out of place � not because they don�t appear in Scripture but because they�re so at odds with the often brilliant aesthetic language that animates the rest of the film.
(We�ll chalk up Noah�s surprisingly sophisticated wardrobe of primitive-chic leathers and open-work knits to artistic license.)
The most distracting of Aronofsky�s creations, by far, are the Watchers � fallen angels who roam the broken world like mournful, stiff-jointed behemoths, seemingly hewn from desert stone and resembling Rock �em Sock �em Robots when pressed into heavy-duty smiting.
Every action film nowadays seems to end up copying Transformers, and, sadly, Noah is no different � especially with the final, grandiose showdown between the Watchers and the oncoming forces of evil.


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I woke up refreshed after a solid night's sleep and set up my plan for the day: probate office, register of deeds, town library, and a walk about town.
St Croix County Probate Office
After learning about Sam and Joe's guardian, Silas Staples, I was hoping there would be some early probate and/or guardianship records. It turned out to be a VERY quick visit since, unfortunately, the office didn't have any records from 1859.
St Croix County Register of Deeds
I'm not sure what I was expecting as I walked into the Clerk and Records office, but I ended up getting more than I bargained for! A while back ago I found a deed for 80 acres of land Samuel Sturtevant, Sr. purchased just south east of Hudson in 1856. I figured I would find a record of the sale of this land and maybe another lot in the town of Hudson, pretty-straight-forward land record research I though. However, what I actually found took me on a six hour research frenzy trying to figure out the buying and selling of multiple properties in and around Hudson.
I made two significant finds at the deed office.
One: The Sturtevants arrived in Hudson about two years earlier than I thought! Sometime in 1853. Joe would have been only 2 years old. One land sale states Jemima Sturtevant, "recently of Broome County, New York." (1) Wow, New York! I know Joe's mom, Jemima, was born in Sullivan County, New York, but the last I found a trace of the family was in a 1851 Boston city directory so I always assumed they traveled from Boston to Hudson. Now I have another new direction to go for research. I wonder if the Sturtevants spent some time with Jemima's family prior to moving west?
Two: The other documents of interest had to do with the purchase and sale of the 160 acres of property father Samuel bought for his sons Samuel Jr. and Joseph. In November 1854, Samuel purchased the land near is now on the east side of state highway 35 along Glover Road about half way between Hudson and River Falls. (2) There were additional land purchases near the area called Glover's Corner (near the train stop of Glover Station) so it makes me think Samuel, Sr. was positioning the family near an area that had potential growth in the future.
After Samuel Sr. died in 1859, Samuel and Joe's legal guardian, Silas Staples, worked on the boys' behalf to sell the land shortly after their father's death, but it took several more years. Nearly ten years after the father's initial $400 purchase Silas sold the 160 acres for $1200 (about $22,000 in today's dollars) (3) It is not known if the money was held in some kind of trust for the boys or if the money was eventually transfered to their mother, Jemima for the family's living expenses.
Hudson Library
After collecting as many land records as possible I made my way over to the library, but I really needed to grab a late lunch. It was nearly four o'clock and I was starving! I found a nifty German restaurant on Second Street, the Winzer Stube. Some proper German food and a nice cold pilsner sounded like a perfect treat. The beer menu met with my approval and the Rinder Rouladen "Mutters Rezept" was a must! "Mom's Recipe" for the beef rolls with spätzle and cabbage was almost as good as my own mom's recipe.
Feeling more relaxed and pleasantly full I headed over to the library to see what thier Local History Room had to offer. Luckily one of the genealogical society volunteers was still there to help me get started. She pointed me in the right directions and suggest quite a few books. Since it was so late in the day I didn't spend much time really reading anything. I figured I would just read through everything later that night. I went into a copying frenzy of all the books and newspapers that had any kind of relevance. I took photos of anything that was too big to copy, such as some great early maps of Hudson!
There were some wonderful old maps around St. Croix County and combined with my morning property research I was able to zero in on the properties Samuel and Jemima purchased in town. It's not known if they lived on either of the lots and they did not own the properties very long. It appears they sold the lots just prior to moving to Sauk Rapids, Minnesota in 1856. No structures of this era survive along these streets today.
The library also had a great collection of newspaper issues that focued entirely on the town's early history. These papers reprinted various letters, portions of books, old articles, and memoirs. A wonderful find to get a sense of what life was like on this little river town in the mid 1800s. The library didn't have many photographs, but I was told to check in at the office of local paper, the Hudson Star-Observer, they supposedly have a good photo archive. I'll have to visit the paper later, no time to get there today.
One major event that I found out about was the large fire that occured in May 19, 1866. The fire destroyed many homes in the center of town and nearly all of Hudson's small commercial district. As with most young frontier towns, buildings were constructed cheaply and quickly using timber. Not always a safe combination with the live-flame lighting and heating sources used during the era. Few early structures still survive to this day. The only building in the business district that survived was the brick harness and leather shop on Walnut Street between First and Second Streets.
It has been difficult for me to track the Sturtevants in Hudson since there are only a handful of sources I have found from the 1860s. I know the family moved from Sauk Rapids, Minnesota back to Hudson around 1858/1859 since Jemima is listed in the May 7, 1859 Hudson Chronicle business directory as having a millinery and dressmaking shop above the Post Office. The Local History Room volunteer told me that the Post Office was most likely located on the southeast corner of 1st and Buckeye at this time. Joe's brother Samuel enlisted into Company G of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry in December 1863 while living in Hudson and he came back on a medical furlough for several months beginning in September 1864. (4) I am not entirely sure the family was still living in Hudson at the time of the fire, but one final, well-timed detail makes me believe they were ousted by the disaster. The 1867 St. Paul, Minnesota city directory lists Jemima and Joe for the first time living and working in the heart of the city so they must have moved across the river sometime the previous year. (5)
Walk-about Hudson
After a couple of intense hours at the library gathering everything I could locate, I decided to stratch my legs and took a pleasant walk around town as the sun was getting low in the sky. I wanted to get a view of town from the water so I walked about half-way across the former levee road to get a few shots. This road was for many years the area's main connection across the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Today only bicycles and foot traffic are allowed.
I also wanted to see the area where Samuel's grocery store was located. Newspaper advertisements place his store "nearly opposite the American House, 1st street."(6) The Local History Room volunteer at the library told me the American House was located where the old train depot now stands on the southeast corner of 1st and Commercial Streets. I haven't found any details yet to indicate exactly which "opposite" direction the grocery store stood. Maybe on another trip I will have more time to uncover some more clues on the actual location.
After my whirlwind day of record-gathering I packed it in, got dinner and made plans to take a road trip over to Minnesota for the next day.
(1) St. Croix County, Wisconisn, Deeds, B:140, Lorenzon and Sarah E. Hender to Jemima Sturtevant, warranty deed, 21 Dec 1853; Register of Deeds, Hudson.
(2) St. Croix County, Wisconisn, Deeds, H:300, Byron Brown to Samuel A Sturtevant Junior and Joseph B. Sturtevant, warranty deed, 20 Nov 1854; Register of Deeds, Hudson.
(3) St. Croix County, Wisconisn, Deeds, P:390, Silas Staples for Samuel and Joseph Sturtevant to James Chinnock, warranty deed, 23 May 1863; Register of Deeds, Hudson.
(4) Compiled service record, Samuel A. Sturtevant, Pvt., Co. G, 4th Wisconsin Cavalary; Carded Records, Volunteer Organizations, Civil War; Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s–1917, Record Group 94; Na- tional Archives, Washington, D.C. ; Additional evidence in the matter of the Original Invalid Pension claim, W. P Knowles, 31 Mar 1800, in Samuel A. Sturtevant claim (Pvt., Co. G, 4th Wis. Cav, Civil War), pension Inv. no. 270,484, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications, 1861–1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
(5) St. Paul Directory for 1867, vol 3. (St. Paul, MN: Bailey & Wolfe Publishers, 1867) 83, 211.
(6) "Hudson Market," Hudson North Star, 2 April 1856, p3 c6.


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The Gathering – Gemmayzeh
Three restaurants: Italian, Wine Bar and Steakhouse Gathered Around a Lovely Courtyard
Review by Souad
The Gathering is an original concept gathering three different restaurants around a lovely courtyard. An Italian restaurant, a butcher steakhouse and a wine bar are hosted in three old Lebanese houses splendidly renovated. The places are cozy with small rooms and stone carved walls. Each restaurant can host up to 35 guests. The common terrace is very tempting especially for a lunch under a blue sky.
The Gathering defends environmental causes: most the ingredients are organic coming from the Lebanese farms and the restaurants sort their waste and send them to recycling firms. No reservations are accepted at the restaurant (first arrived, first served).
We tried the Italian gathering, the cuisine was delicious, the service was friendly and professional and the bill was affordable. We haven't tried the Americanized steakhouse nor the wine bar yet, but we are tempted to do it.
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Three restaurants with three menu: Italian (starters, pizza, pasta, meat plates…), Wine bar (cheese platters…) and Americanized steakhouse
Suitable for vegetarians. Serves alcohol.
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Smoke-free restaurant. Has a terrace. Recommended for families, friends and romantic diners.
Pasteur Street, Gemmayzeh. Pasteur st. is parallel to Gouraud st, highway side. The restaurant is almost over Charles Helou station.
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Oct 2, 2012 at 00:16The place is so charming. Every thursday we (a group of 6) go for the wine presentation at the upper floor. Louis the oenologue is just amazing, patient and very informative. Every week he explains about a new region, the wine produced, its characteristics, the vineyards...etc. We try the wine related to the presentation and we enjoy the good Gouda, charcuterie and pizza they offer along the wine. After the "degustation" we go to the yard for dinner, and we have been impressed everytime by the courteousy of the waiters and friendliness. The food is far from being described...simply succulent. Two thumbs up for the concept and the whole experience.
Sep 2, 2012 at 19:23I would definitely not recommend this restaurant. As much as I liked the concept of having 3 different settings or different cuisines, with a shared terrace, however many factors affected our dinner experience negatively. The service was NIL, with very bad attitude from the waiters in addition to the manager who was not helpful at all. We sat in the steakhouse section on the balcony, where it was extremely hot and humid and I am pregnant. we begged to have the airconditioning on or a fan, all they kept saying was they don't have, and since we are a big group there is no place to accomodate us inside where they had the airconditioning on. At the end of the night when new waiters took over, they turned on the AC and we found out that they had airconditioning but they were not turning it on (for reasons we could not tell). We were given the menues of the steak house and then they gave us the italian restaurant menues. after selecting what we would like to eat and after we chose amixture of main dishes form the steakhouse and the italian restaurant, the waiters inform us that we cannot order from the italian restaurant. After a huge debate, the manager allowed us to order appetizers ONLY from the italian restaurant which after another debate they allowed us to add Pizza. This was very strange, since if we can order appetizers and pizze why nnot order pasta too in addition to the rest of the order from the steakhouse restaurant. The whole experience was a disaster and I would NEVER visit the place again. The minimum basic is to have a decent service which was not provided.
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Phone Number: 01 566 196
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Mon - Sun: 12:00 pm till 12:00 am
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Pasteur Street, Gemmayzeh. Pasteur st. is parallel to Gouraud st, highway side. The restaurant is almost over Charles Helou station.
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The science of robotics has suffered from the inability of researchers to replicate each other's results. Replicating results begins by being able to run demonstrations in different laboratories, often on different hardware. The JSK lab at the University of Tokyo and Willow Garage have recent had some success in this area.
In March, Professors Inaba, Okada and four students visited Willow Garage to create demos on PR2 robots combining their infrastructure with ROS. At ICRA in May, Ken Conley from Willow Garage worked with the JSK team to bring ROS and those same demonstrations up on an HRP2-V robot from Kawada industries. The HRP2-V combines the torso of an HRP2 walking humanoid with an omni-directional wheeled base, producing a platform that is similar in structure to the PR2, but with different sensor configuration, different kinematics, etc...
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TORONTO -- One of BlackBerry's largest shareholders has made a multibillion-dollar offer for the troubled smartphone maker hinged on several conditions that make the outcome anything but certain.
A letter of intent to acquire the Waterloo, Ont.,-based company in a deal that values the company at US$4.7 billion is being led by Canadian investment firm Fairfax Financial (TSX:FFH) and includes a consortium of others who have not been identified.
But it's only a tentative agreement to take the company private that could be sidelined by a variety of factors, and that has some analysts concerned.
"They're just trying to buy themselves some more time here,'' said MKM Partners analyst Mike Genovese. "This does not read like an actual deal; this is an announcement to stem the bleeding and buy some time.''
It's "crazy that they would do a letter of intent before doing due diligence,'' added Genovese.
At first glance, the move by Fairfax, which owns about 10 per cent of BlackBerry common shares, may seem like a vote of confidence in the company's future.
But the letter of intent, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, outlines various ways that Fairfax could exit the deal with a hefty payout, or step away if it deems the transaction unattractive.
Fairfax could back out if it's not satisfied with its due diligence on BlackBerry's finances or if it doesn't receive the financial backing it needs, according to the public release.
And, under the agreement, Fairfax would benefit from break fees associated with other bidders who might emerge in the coming months with a better deal, or from a transaction that materializes within six months after the due diligence wraps up in early November.
"We have devoted substantial time, resources and energy to studying the company,'' writes Fairfax president Paul Rivett in a letter to BlackBerry's special committee formed to look at its strategic options.
"We believe our offer provides and extremely compelling combination of attractive and certain value for shareholders.''
In the meantime, what the announcement has done is slow the dramatic decline in BlackBerry's stock price, which tumbled 16 per cent on Friday when the company announced it anticipated a near billion-dollar loss for the second quarter on poor sales of its handsets.
The share decline continued on Monday until the BlackBerry-Fairfax pact was announced, which helped the company's
stock (TSX:BB) end flat on the Toronto Stock Exchange at $9.08, and ahead 9.5 cents to US$8.82 on the Nasdaq where it trade under the
symbol (Nasdaq:BBRY).
Analyst Troy Crandall of Montreal investment firm MacDougall, MacDougall and MacTier said the tentative deal is positive for shareholders because "it relieves the uncertainty and volatility.''
"It's far from a done deal,'' the Montreal-based analyst added.
BlackBerry has been struggling to maintain a hold on both its business users and average consumers. Both have turned increasingly to competitors like Apple's iPhone, which posted record sales of its latest devices over the weekend. The iPhone has also become an increasingly popular phone for business users.
"If there's one thing we've learned from the last five years and the smartphone wars, is that bring your own device to work is a very powerful force,'' Crandall said.
"If you get the hearts and minds of consumers, it follows through to enterprise.''
And perhaps that's the biggest question for both Fairfax and BlackBerry: who really wants to buy a BlackBerry device after the company has consistently fallen behind in technological developments and in its financial results?
Chief executive Thorsten Heins is partway through a three-stage plan intended to return BlackBerry to profitability, although the latest financial figure are unlikely to encourage much optimism in that effort. The company has also announced it will cut about 40 per cent of its global workforce, or 4,500 jobs, as a way to save money.
Fairfax chairman and chief executive Prem Watsa says he considers his proposed transaction a new life for the company.
"We believe this transaction will open an exciting new private chapter for BlackBerry, its customers, carriers and employees,'' he said in a statement.
"We can deliver immediate value to shareholders, while we continue the execution of a long-term strategy in a private company with a focus on delivering superior and secure enterprise solutions to BlackBerry customers around the world.''
Watsa is often called the Warren Buffet of Canada for his gutsy investment strategy that has frequently paid off. He is a longtime BlackBerry supporter who has insisted that the company is vastly undervalued.
But it's debatable how many others share that optimism even though Watsa's announcement included a consortium of investors who decided to keep their names out of the headlines.
Canadian pension plans are some of the likeliest partners in this agreement, although none of them were willing to confirm their involvement.
Both the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Alberta Investment Management Corp. declined to comment, as did the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
Other potential Canadian partners include the Alberta Investment Management Corp. and the Ontario Municipal Employees' Retirement System.
The secret consortium is expected to complete its due diligence by Nov. 4. Until then, BlackBerry is allowed to actively solicit and evaluate rival offers, although the company has been shopping itself to prospective buyers in some ways since before the launch of its smartphones last January. Nothing has materialized yet.
A best-case scenario would be that BlackBerry benefits from Fairfax setting a starting bid price of $9 per share, which could theoretically bring out any bidders lurking the shadows.
If that happens, Fairfax would reap the rewards from a break fee of at least 30 cents per share, or about $157 million, if Blackberry signs a deal with another buyer under certain circumstances. The amount increases to 50 cents per share, or about $262 million, if BlackBerry signs a definitive agreement with the Fairfax consortium and then finds another buyer.
The New York Times reported on the weekend, citing sources, that BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis, who stepped down as co-chief executive in 2011, has approached two U.S. private equity firms about making a possible bid.
"The special committee is seeking the best available outcome for the company's constituents, including for shareholders,'' BlackBerry chairwoman Barbara Stymiest said.
BlackBerry shares have lost more than half of their value since January, before the launch of its latest line of smartphones on the BlackBerry 10 operating system. The phones have widely been considered a dud, especially in the crucial U.S. marketplace.
On Friday, the company said it plans a writedown of up to $960 million in the second quarter, primarily from poor sales of its BlackBerry Z10 touchscreen smartphones. It will also book a $72-million restructuring charge related to changes in its operations, which include previous layoffs.
BlackBerry also expects to post a loss of between US$950 million and US$995 million for the fiscal second-quarter as it projects US$1.6 billion in sales, far short of analyst expectations of about US$3 billion.
During the weekend, the company failed to successfully launch its BlackBerry Messenger service on other smartphone devices. The plan was to make it available for both Apple's iPhones and Android devices, but a technical glitch with a leaked version of the program sidelined the Android launch for an undetermined amount of time.
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Our monthly bills right now, taken as a whole, are lower than they've been at any point in our married lives.
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In a lot of ways, it required us to change who we are. I don't have the motivation any more to spend money in the way I did a decade ago. It's not something I even want to return to, and Sarah feels almost exactly the same way.
Now, though, there's no clear path for us to follow. We've reached the point in our financial journey where th advice begins to diverge heavily.
Some people say that when you have a good foundation, you should "live a little" and do things like travel or own a nice car. Others suggest investing aggressively so you can move towards a life where you no longer have to work for a living. Some point toward entrepreneurship. Others simply say to keep things nice and steady until opportunity knocks.
As different as those paths seem, there are a few fundamental things they all agree on.
First, you need a goal. Without a goal, you're going to simply spin in place and, as the saying goes, the devil finds work for idle hands to do. The multitude of ideas above are all goals, they're just different ones that require a different path to get there.
Second, you need communication. Sarah and I have no interest in going down different roads at this point. We've travelled this far together and we want to keep going together, wherever that path may lead. However, left to our own devices, we would have somewhat different visions for that path. Without communication and discussion – a great deal of it, actually – we could easily find ourselves going in different directions at this point.
The fundamental question is whether I want to be setting my goals or our goals. I'd far rather set our goals, even if that doesn't mean having things perfectly my way. We agree on a lot of things, and the value of resolving the other parts together is much greater than what we would get out of addressing them separately and drifting apart.
So, what do we want? What's next for us?
We're establishing a list of things for the future that we both agree on. This is in addition to our dream home. We both want to travel a significant amount with our children when they're older and can appreciate it and grow from it. We both want to increase our giving to charity. We both want to retire as early as we can so we can focus our energy on charitable work.
These are the things we want from our lives. They're simple things. They are what makes us happy.
We're not going to move until we can build our dream home out of pocket. We are not going to return to indebtedness again. If that means slow progress toward the house we want to someday build, so be it. Debt introduced an incredible amount of stress to our lives, and there's no material thing that's worth bringing that back into our lives.
The same holds true for any of our other plans. We're not going to do anything that leads us anywhere close to debt ever again for any non-essential reason.
We have a home.
We have what we need.
We have no debts.
Most importantly, we have each other.
Everything else will follow.


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