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Adult Resilience Measure - Revised (ARM-R)
The ARM-R is a 17-item questionnaire to measure the resilience resources of adults aged 18 or older. Its development is linked to the CYRM above.
The Res-360 identifies the risks that confront children and youth in the communities in which your program is based, as well as the resources that help them manage these risks. The Res-360 not only consults children and youth themselves about these risks and resources, but also consults their primary caregivers and your program's frontline staff and management. This tool thereby shows the similarities and differences in the perception of risks and resources between several of your program's stakeholders.
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Service Use Satisfaction Questionnaire (SUSQ)
The SUSQ is a nine-question survey. The first six questions assess a participant's experience of the program, and the final three questions assess his or her experience with staff. The participants answer the questions on a scale of one to five, ranging from "Completely Disagree" to "Completely Agree." The more satisfied a participant is with the program and staff, the higher their score will be.
Outcome Alignment Measure
The Outcome Alignment Measure is a self-assessment tool that measures how youth perceive problems related to the program's objectives and how this perception changes over time.
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Intel announced yesterday that its Classmate PC is "shipping in volume" to both Mexico and Brazil. Designed for the education market in emerging countries, the Intel Classmate PC is a fully-functional, low-budget laptop capable of running both the Windows and Linux operating systems. Earlier this month, Intel delivered 30 Classmate PC prototype units to Brazil's Ministry of Education and delivered one to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil.
Although Intel claims to be the "first to ship in volume to emerging markets," the company has not specified the precise number of units heading out. It is likely that Intel refers to a shipment of 800 units that was initially expected to take place early next month for a large-scale pilot program in South America. With that in mind, Intel's claim of being first to ship in volume can be qualified: this isn't a full product launch. The competing One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has already shipped well over 2,500 XO laptops.
Intel plans to conduct additional pilot programs in over 25 countries, including China, India, Turkey, Thailand, Chile, and Pakistan. The Classmate PC is part of Intel's World Ahead program, which includes numerous initiatives to bring low-cost computing and technology education to emerging markets throughout the world. Intel plans to leverage its existing World Ahead teacher training programs to help teachers incorporate the Classmate PC technology into their curriculum. According to Intel, the Classmate PC program will involve local PC manufacturers, software developers, and government agencies within the countries that adopt the systems.
Intel is one of several organizations working to bring affordable education computing to developing countries. In particular, Intel competes with the One Laptop Per Child project, which plans to distribute its Linux-based XO mobile computers for approximately $140 each. With superior processing power, the Classmate PC was initially expected to sell for $200 per unit, but the price has steadily climbed and could reach between $250 and $400 at the official launch.


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Two weeks ago I asked people to talk about why they had given up Facebook or Twitter for Lent (or for a "fast"). I want to thank those of you who responded and shared. You've convinced me that there is something here very much worth investigating. Toward that end I'd like to think out loud for a few posts about the spirituality of iPhones, mobile computing, and Web 2.0 generally.
I'd like to start by revisiting what William Stringfellow said about iPhones.
Of course, William Stringfellow died in 1985 so he couldn't have said much about iPhones. Still, I'd like to use Stringfellow's analysis of "the powers" to frame how we approach the spirituality of iPhones and Web 2.0 social computing.
To start, Stringfellow describes "the spiritual forces" we battle against like this:
According to the Bible, the principalities are legion in species, number, variety and name. They are designated by such multifarious titles as powers, virtues, thrones, authorities, dominions, demons, princes, strongholds, lords, angels, gods, elements, spirits…What, you might ask, makes these things "spiritual powers," objects of idolatry and spiritual enslavement? Stringfellow answers:
And if some of these seem quaint, transposed into contemporary language they lose quaintness and the principalities become recognizable and all too familiar: they include all institutions, all ideologies, all images, all movements, all causes, all corporations, all bureaucracies, all traditions, all methods and routines, all conglomerates, all races, all nations, all idols. Thus, the Pentagon or the Ford Motor Company or Harvard University or the Hudson Institute or Consolidated Edison or the Diners Club or the Olympics or the Methodist Church or the Teamsters Union are principalities. So are capitalism, Maoism, humanism, Mormonism, astrology, the Puritan work ethic, science and scientism, white supremacy, patriotism, plus many, many more—sports, sex, any profession or discipline, technology, money, the family—beyond any prospect of full enumeration. The principalities and powers are legion.
People are veritably besieged, on all sides, at every moment simultaneously by these claims and strivings of the various powers each seeking to dominate, usurp, or take a person's time, attention, abilities, effort; each grasping at life itself; each demanding idolatrous service and loyalty. In such a tumult it becomes very difficult for a human being even to identify the idols that would possess him or her…I'd like to point out how Stringfellow mentions technology in his list of spiritual powers. And his description of the powers--things that "dominate, usurp, or take a person's time, attention, abilities, and effort; each grasping at life itself; each demanding idolatrous service and loyalty"-- seems to apply to what we are seeing emerge with iPhones. Consider the following:
A recent study conducted by Tanya Luhrmann at Stanford University found that many college students report being "addicted" to the their iPhones. From Luhrmann's summary of her findings:
The iPhone is an identity. People spoke about their phone as if it were part of their body, and even more a part of their mind, with a weird entanglement of Big Brother anxieties over security — "If someone stole my phone, they could just get in everywhere and retrace my steps everywhere" — and an emotional sense that their phone was who they were. Some people said that without their phone they felt disconnected from the world around them, fuzzy-headed, helpless and incompetent ("I would feel lost without it")...This seems to jibe with Stringfellow's description of a spiritual power. And it explains why many Christians are expressing concerns about their experiences with iPhones and Web 2.0. Consider some of the things you all reported in the comments to my prior post:
The iPhone is alive. People patted their phones. They caressed them and cleaned them and obsessed about where to carry them so that the phone would not get scratched...
People also worried about not being "good" with their iPhone, not using it to its full potential. They had a sense that there was a competent iPhone user ideal, and they worried about not measuring up...
Users see it as addictive: "It's sort of like booze or something." More bluntly: "It's a drug."
I felt guilty about all the times I disappeared from reality to converse with virtual friends.Something, spiritually speaking, seems to be going on here. So I think it correct and helpful to see the iPhone (and what it represents) as a spiritual power we have to "do battle with."
...it consumed so much of my time...
It's possible that I have an actual psychological addiction to Facebook...The sort of thinking that leads me to perpetual page refreshing seems eerily akin to the behaviour of rats who want another seratonin shot and keep pumping that pedal...
So much of what I posted on Facebook was worded in order to see how many people would 'like' my comments. It's just another way in which I am programmed to worry about what other people think and addicted to their praise.
I felt that God was asking me to give it up.
...postings would leave me angry. That made it impossible to simply log on for fun. The anger, I soon found, was not good for my soul.
I gave up facebook because I felt that it was distracting me from God's primary callings on my life, and I realized that I was not being a good steward of my time.
My reason [for giving up Facebook] was to not get "sucked in" during work or free time, lost in the news feed of others.
[Facebook] had become part of my habit to a degree I was uncomfortable with. Whenever I was bored I'd just click the icon on my bookmark bar or the app on my phone for a minute of mindless scrolling and reading about things that (for the most part) don't really matter.
It's a tool with the potential to suck out your soul...
I gave up having online debates/discussions/arguments about politics and religion.
I feel like Facebook was allowing me to be "friends" without being actually friendly, a key temptation for an introvert such as myself. Second, I found myself comparing my life to the exciting lives posted by others, and coming up lacking (in my mind)...
I would say that my reasons [for fasting from Facebook] had to do with sensitivity vs. stimulation. Our culture is addicted to stimulation (Kurt Cobaine- "here we are now, entertain me"). However, the more stimulated one gets, on movies, gadgets, music, etc. the less sensitive they become.
For me, this was about my growing insecurity that was in a lot of ways fueled by the time I spent on Facebook.
Facebook is something of a monster, chewing up increasing amounts of time as the number of friends grows larger and larger and the need to post every thought, photo and comment feels greater and greater.
To be clear, I don't want to say the iPhone is a demonic power. Only that it is a fallen power, as are all powers in this world. So my goal here isn't to engage in some sort of nostalgic Luddite handwringing. As many of you pointed out in the comments to my last post, Web 2.0 and Facebook are regularly found to be great goods.
So the goal here, quoting Stringfellow, is to learn how to "live humanely in the midst of the Fall." That's the question I want to think about. How to live humanely with the iPhone as a spiritual power in the midst of the Fall.


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As lead planner at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Alexander Garvin may have a better idea than anyone else about what the World Trade Center site will look like. So there were loud gasps when, dressed in his characteristic bow tie, he stepped up to give the keynote speech at the annual meeting last week of the New York chapter of the American Planning Association, and he said that he was not going to talk about rebuilding Lower Manhattan.
Instead, armed with color slides, he talked about the Eiffel Tower in Paris and a mall in Minneapolis (the IDS Center), Penn Center in Philadelphia and a mall in Santa Monica. He talked, in other words, about projects that he thinks have changed whole cities, for better or for worse -- and, in the process, sometimes changed the world as well.
That is what Garvin, the development corporation's vice president for planning, design and development, clearly hopes will happen on the site of the World Trade Center. "We have a chance to start all over again," Garvin said when he was first hired a few months ago. "Things are possible at the moment that have not been possible in my lifetime."
Garvin, 61 years old, has spent his entire life as a resident of the Upper East Side, and more than half of it teaching at Yale University, which he attended as an undergraduate and where he also attained a masters in both architecture and urban studies. He has been a real estate developer, a private architect, and a public official as well, serving as a deputy housing commissioner during the 1970s and as a member of the New York City Planning Commission since 1995. Garvin is a planner on the committee to bring the Summer Olympics to New York in 2012, where he works closely with another rebuilding insider, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Daniel Doctoroff.
If he spoke only briefly about lower Manhattan at the end of his slide show for his fellow planners, it was not because he has no ideas; quite the contrary. Garvin has said that his inspiration for the rebuilding project is Daniel Burnham, the planner who designed much of Chicago in the early 1900s and believed that big ideas are the only ones to succeed.
Already, he led the corporation's planning team as it developed an April blueprint for the site, suggesting building a transportation hub linking PATH, subway, and future regional rail service and moving West Street underground to connect the Financial District with Battery Park city.
In his best known book, The American City: What Works, What Doesn't, first published in 1996, Garvin gives a nearly 500-page critique of the ways that cities have failed and succeeded in planning their futures. In the book, he gives as one case study Battery Park City, celebrating the developers' decision to blend the project with the rest of the city by following the pattern of existing streets and extending waterfront views.
Throughout his book, Garvin maintains that it is vital for a project to benefit the surrounding community by drawing private businesses and investors to the area. This philosophy is likely to guide him in plans for rebuilding New York, as he works to revitalize the area's business core. "We have to regain for lower Manhattan a role that has slowly leaking away for two-thirds of a century," said Garvin. "Most important, it has to be something that will generate a wide-spread and sustained reaction by the private market." In The American City, Garvin presents six basic ingredients for project success: market, location, design, financing, entrepreneurship and time.
Market: A specific group of people must want the goods and services involved in an urban planning project, and be willing and able to pay for them, even if there are other alternatives, he explains.
Location: A planning site's physical characteristics, such as a beautiful view or historic value, as well as its proximity to other areas, are also very important to its success.
Design: Design, Garvin says, doesn't just mean architectural style, but the ways that an area is accommodating and attractive to visitors, homeowners, or retailers. He describes Ghirardelli Square, in San Francisco, as an example of remarkably successful design, as it capitalizes on its panoramic views and brings people into the various businesses on the square.
Financing: Garvin warns that financing for further development is key to a project's success. A revitalization plan in the Bronx's Mott Haven neighborhood failed because no further funding was available.
Entrepreneurship: A plan also cannot simply follow a formula, but needs an entrepreneur, who can supply the extra energy and vision to bring everything forward.
Time: Finally, Garvin details three different moments of time that need to be considered when planning an urban project: the time that an individual person takes to pass through an area, what happens on the site 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and what will remain important over a long period of time, for decades to come.
Garvin's other central philosophy, outlined in The American City, maintains that public input is vital to any urban planning process. He writes, "we also need a better understanding of how effective planning is translated into a better quality of life. It is not accomplished by planners operating in a vacuum." This will be tested as the rebuilding process continues, because all of New York is very invested, in many different ways, in what will be built in Lower Manhattan.
Because Garvin's influence over what is built in Lower Manhattan is considerable, he has been under public scrutiny ever since he was appointed. Garvin's enthusiastic support for the selection of architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle as the planning consultant to work on downtown's redevelopment provoked a minor controversy last month. After the New York Times ran an article reporting that Garvin gave every firm but Beyer Blinder Belle much lower scores than the other members of the selection committee, the panel re-evaluated the top two firms, ultimately choosing Beyer Blinder Belle.
At Yale's School of Architecture, Garvin teaches a popular undergraduate course called "Study of the City." A major part of the class is a month-long role playing game, where Garvin assigns a fictional development project. Students playing planners, developers, bank lenders, retailers and public officials take on actual development decisions. They are graded on how well they are able to justify the choices they make.
As the public closely watches Garvin in the upcoming months and years of rebuilding, what marks will he receive?
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JERUSALEM – Intimidation by members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party forced a Catholic church in Gaza to hold a memorial service yesterday for the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, according to sources in Gaza's Christian leadership.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for their safety, said Catholics now fears retaliation from Hamas, Fatah's rival, after holding yesterday's ceremony commemorating the third anniversary of Arafat's death.
"The church was obliged to hold the event for Arafat after Christian leaders participated in a Hamas event 10 days ago," said a Christian source close to the church. "Now we fear Christians may be casualties of the escalating violence. We may be caught in the crosshairs, and we're afraid of retaliation."
The Arafat memorial was held at Gaza City's Holy Family Church. Manuel Musallam, the parish's priest was quoted by participants calling Arafat's death "a great loss for the Palestinian people."
"Arafat was a great and very courageous leader," stated Musallam, according to memorial participants speaking to WND. "We miss this great person who was the first to bring hopes of freedom and independence to the Palestinians. We call on the Palestinian leadership to follow Arafat's road to end the suffering of Palestinian people."
The church event was part of larger, three-day memorial services held throughout the Gaza Strip and West Bank, with events in Gaza setting off the worst factional clashes between Fatah and Hamas in months.
Hamas gunmen Monday reportedly opened fire at a massive Fatah rally in Gaza that had over 250,000 participants in the largest show of Fatah strength in Gaza since Hamas took over the territory in June. Seven Palestinians – all reportedly Fatah supporters – were killed in the clashes, according to news reports. Some 85 more were wounded in the violence, three of whom are said to be in serious condition.
The church memorial was the second time in recent days Christian leaders in the Gaza Strip said they were intimidated into showing support for the Palestinian leadership.
Earlier this month, WND reported Christian leaders in the Gaza Strip were intimidated into attending and expressing support for a speech in which the territory's Hamas leader urged the worldwide spread of Islam, according to sources in Gaza's Christian community.
Artinious Alexious, priest of Gaza's Greek Orthodox Church, and Emanuel Salum, a Catholic leader in Gaza, were at a major speech 10 days ago by Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Hamas government in Gaza and deposed prime minister of the previously Hamas-run Palestinian Authority.
Also present were hundreds of gunmen, including members of a group, Jihadia Salafiya, suspected of carrying out anti-Christian attacks in Gaza such as the lobbing of grenades last September at Alexious' church.
Hamas banned most international media from covering the event, only allowing entry to journalists accredited by the terror group.
A major theme of Haniyeh's speech was the spread of Islamic values throughout the world, according to reporters in attendance.
The reporters present said at one point during his speech, Haniyeh spoke about the "excellent" situation for Christians living under Hamas rule in Gaza.
He pointed to the two Christian leaders in attendance, at which point to two raised their hands and nodded in agreement, witnesses told WND.
According to sources in Gaza's Christian community speaking on condition of anonymity, Alexious and Salum were intimidated into attending the Hamas speech. The sources said in the weeks prior to the event, Haniyeh's office repeatedly called the Christian leaders to request they free their schedules to assist the Hamas rally.
"The priests thought it was a diplomatic way to threaten them and put pressure on them," said one source.
"After discussions within the Christian community leadership it was decided it would be dangerous not to assist in the meeting even though it would be very strange to see priests assisting in a meeting about the spread of Islam," the source said.
Hamas in June seized complete control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah amid widespread fears it would impose hard-line Islamic rule in the territory and that life for Christians might deteriorate.
About 3,000 Christians live in the Gaza Strip, which has a population of over 1 million.
There have been a slew of recent alleged anti-Christian attacks in Gaza, including the murder last month of a Christian bookstore owner whose beaten, bullet-ridden body was found after his shop repeatedly had been targeted by Islamists. Rami Ayyad, who managed the only Christian bookstore in Gaza, also had been threatened a number of times by local Islamist groups.


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One option would have been to take advantage of her beauty to attract a high quality husband - a man who would have loved her, been loyal to her and who would have had the character to be a good husband and father. The type of man she could have successfully formed a family with.
This option would have allowed her to have children and to have devoted her youthful beauty and fertility to her husband, so that he would have bonded strongly with her and wanted to be with her even when her beauty faded and her fertility was lost. It would also have allowed her to pass on a culture of family life to her own children, so that she might have later on enjoyed being a grandmother whilst still at an active age.
But Sami Lukis did not take this option. She did the modern girl thing instead. She by no means rejected marriage and motherhood, but she decided to defer it to the last moment:
I always knew I wanted a baby. It just wasn't a priority until my late 30s.
So what did she do in the meantime? She had a string of relationships with unsuitable men:
She said, however, that given her time again she would not have wasted so many years on relationships that she didn't think were leading to children.
And what is her plan now? She is going to attempt to do IVF as a single woman, make a TV show about it ("Sami's baby") and try to find a husband afterward:
I have the rest of my life to meet Mr Right, but I only have limited time to have a baby.
So if she does manage to have a baby (not guaranteed at age 41 even with IVF), the child won't know its biological father. And her future husband (if there is one), won't get much at all of what men used to get out of marriage - no children, no youthful feminine beauty and passion - he will have been put last on the modern girl list of things to do and he will end up working to bring up a sperm donor's baby.
I can understand Sami Lukis's overwhelming desire to have a child:
Lukis...is worried she might have left her attempt to have a baby too late. "As a woman you have this amazing opportunity to have children, to have that mother/child bond our bodies are created this way," she said. "I don't want to miss out on being a mum, it's a basic instinct."
But we somehow have to get through to women like Sami Lukis that the modern girl option is no way to go about securing her future.
It also raises the moral question of whether single women should be accessing IVF to deliberately create fatherless families. Doesn't this send the message that the government doesn't think fathers are necessary to family life, but are at best some sort of optional enhancement?
Herald Sun columnist Susie O'Brien took on this moral issue. In response to reports that 500 single women have used IVF treatments in Victoria in the past year alone, she asked the question:
Do we really need biological fathers?
Her initial answer seems straightforward and clear:
Yes, absolutely.
But she just can't follow through consistently with this answer. She's in an impossible position. She doesn't want to give up on the idea of men being necessary to family life. But she also wants to give her blessing to lesbian couples and single women having children without men. So she refuses to admit that there is any contradiction in her position:
It is possible to passionately support the right of dads in our society, and still support the right of single women and same-sex couples to have kids.
And how does Susie uphold the "right of dads"? She claims that a "father figure" such as a family friend can "do the job just as well" as a biological father. And she writes:
You just have to accept that these days there are lots of different kinds of fathers.
And she then goes on to declare:
The exact permutations of who lives with who, who's married to whom and what their biological origins might be don't really matter to me.
Well, there you have it. She's gone from her initial position of fathers mattering "absolutely" to the idea that whether there's a father around or not doesn't "really matter".
And to underline this point she then finishes her column by quoting Sami Lukis to the effect that her child will be loved, father or not. Susie O'Brien thinks this is the key thing:
And in the end isn't that the only thing that really matters?
So why then did she say at the start that fathers matter absolutely? Perhaps because she doesn't want to put her own husband in the unnecessary category. Perhaps because she recognises at some level the implications of what she is arguing and is reluctant to spell them out too clearly.
Let me say here that Susie O'Brien couldn't be more wrong. If men were to believe the kinds of things she is arguing, then it would be all over for Western society. A society can only exist at a high level if men believe that their role within a family is a distinct and necessary one.
The answer to the Sami Lukis problem is not to declare fathers optional within family life. It's to give priority to family formation at the right time in life.


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R.J. Furuli wrote:K.W. Randolph wrote:Did you catch on that the pronunciation of יה could very well have been "Ya-ho", already a way of avoiding the pronunciation of the name יהוה and transliterated at ιαω? In other words, that the evidence that you presented already shows an avoidance to pronouncing the Tetragrammaton? The lack of the "h" and "w" sounds in Greek muddies the waters.
The form yah only occurs 49 times in the Tanakh, mostly in poetic texts. it also occurs together with yhwh (Isaiah 26:4) and therefore cannot be a substitute.
I agree with you that יה cannot be taken as a substitute for יהוה, however most of the uses of יה is in the phrase הללו יה where the common practice is to take יה as a substitute for יהוה. I disagree with that common practice, but it is a common practice nonetheless.
You are speculating absent of evidence that in post-Biblical DSS Hebrew that readers didn't substitute יה or even אדני for when they read יהוה orally in a text.
R.J. Furuli wrote:Are there any extant Greek mms of the New Testament that has the Hebrew characters in quotations of Tanakh passages that contain the Tetragrammaton? Or have the transliteration of יה as ιαω? The Greek New Testament was written for a mixed audience that contained both Jews, mainly diaspora Jews many of whom knew not Hebrew, and non-Jews who never learned Hebrew, why would the writers of the New Testament not follow a practice that may have been already widespread in the vocalization of Greek?
The oldest manuscript with kurios is from the fourth century CE. The oldest NT and LXX manuscripts are dated in the last part of the second century CE. They have the nomina sacra ks and ths in quotations from the Tanakh.
Both LXX and NT, or LXX alone?
R.J. Furuli wrote: These arepresent emendations of the original texts. We know that the original LXX had tetragrams or iao. But we cannot know which words in the original NT manuscripts tht were emended.
You know from actual manuscripts, or speculation? And where manuscripts had the tetragrammaton, how were they pronounced?
R.J. Furuli wrote:I would like to stress that there is no manuscipt evidence that the original NT manuscripts contained kurios. And there is no manuscript evidence that they contained yhwh or iao. But the pattern of the LXX emendations make the last alternative more likely.
Sorry, but I need actual texts, extent manuscripts, Absent actual manuscripts, this appears to be speculation.
R.J. Furuli wrote:My basic point from the beginning, was that there is no evidence that 'adonai we used as a substitute until the second part of the first century CE. So, the "widespread practice" that you mention is nonexistent.
But you don't have evidence that it wasn't an oral widespread practice before then. Further, ιαω is evidence that יה was being substituted for יהוה when the Hebrew text was read aloud.
R.J. Furuli wrote:Best regards,
Rolf J. Furuli
We have from later sources that אדני was being said when readers encountered the name יהוה, but how soon did that practice arise? Any answer by necessity will be speculation because we're dealing with something that was oral and not written down.
Because we're dealing with something where we don't have proof either way, what use is there to argue?
All the best, Karl W. Randolph.


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When your application will be viewed by users in multiple countries, you can configure your JSF page or application to use different locales so that it displays the correct language for the language setting of a user's browser. For example, if you know your page will be viewed in Italy, you can localize your page so that when a user's browser is set to use the Italian language, text strings in the browser page appear in Italian.
Additionally, locale selection applies special formatting considerations applicable to the selected locale. For example, whether information is typically viewed from left to right or right to left, how numbers are depicted (such as monetary information), and the like.
When you develop a multi-language portal:
Make use of the inherent multi-language support in Oracle WebCenter Portal: Services. For more information, see Section 71.1, "Language Support in ADF Faces Components."
Put all resources in resource bundles, provide alternate-language resource bundles, and code your application to respond to users' language selection. For more information, see Section 71.2, "Using Resource Bundles to Support Multiple Languages."
Make sure your database character set supports all required languages.
For more information, see "Choosing a Character Set" in the Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide.
Use number, date, and time formatting that supports all required locales.
For more information, see "Setting Up a Globalization Support Environment" in the Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide.
Use linguistic sort parameters to get the correct sort ordering for locale.
For example, the same characters have different sort ordering in French and Canadian-French.
For more information, see "Linguistic Sorting and String Searching" in the Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide.
Write web pages that correctly render left to right or right to left (for example, if Arabic languages must be supported).
For more guidelines on globalization, see "Internationalizing and Localizing Pages" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Web User Interface Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework or the Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide.
Some ADF Faces components include text that is part of the component, for example the
af:table component uses the resource string
af_table.LABEL_FETCHING for the message text that is displayed in the browser while the table is fetching data during the initial load of data or while the table is being scrolled. Oracle JDeveloper provides translations of these text resources into 28 languages. Therefore, when using the supplied components, you do not need to perform additional steps to translate the text in the components.
For any text you add to a component, for example if you define the label of an
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<locale-config> element to define default and support locales in the application's faces-config.xml file. You must also add a
<resource-bundle> element to your application's faces-config.xml file to make the resource bundles available to all the pages in your application. Once you have configured and registered a resource bundle, the Expression Language (EL) editor displays the key from the bundle, making it easier to reference the bundle in application pages.
To simplify the process of creating text resources for text you add to ADF components, JDeveloper supports automatic resource bundle synchronization for any translatable string in the visual editor. When you edit components directly in the visual editor or in the Property Inspector, text resources are automatically created in the base resource bundle.
For more information on automatic resource bundles, see "Using Automatic Resource Bundle Integration in JDeveloper" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Web User Interface Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.
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Grow up, liberals. Sarah Palin gave a 15-minute introduction to Michael Reagan at some event last week, and the HuffPo has discovered that some of the words she used belong to Newt Gingrich!
So you can go through her terrible speech and read some old Gingrich op-ed and painstakingly find every sentence or phrase that rings similar, if you want, and cry "plagiarism!" But we gave up on that once we read this bit of Palin's speech: "Recently, Newt Gingrich, he had written a good article about Reagan...." She then goes on to summarize many of the things Newt Gingrich wrote about Ronald Reagan.
So, yes, it is not by any standard a very good speech, and it is quite lazy, but to call it "plagiarism" is bullshit.


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Reserve Bank eyes tools to help prevent booms and busts that devastate household and bank balance sheets.
The Reserve Bank is looking to add the regulation of loan-to-value ratios in the mortgage market to its medicine cabinet.
But it had another go last week at stomping on the idea, which seems to have taken root in some quarters, that it would be some kind of new wonder drug, which will allow it to deal to a feverish housing market while the rest of the economy enjoys low interest rates and less pressure on the exchange rate.
It might help. It might mean interest rates do not have to work as hard as they otherwise would.
But it is not a mechanism to quarantine the housing market from the rest of the economy and enable us to have one monetary policy for it and another for the tradeable sector.
Evidence is mounting that the housing market is heating up, especially in Auckland.
On Friday the Real Estate Institute reported that its housing price index had risen 14.4 per cent over the past year in Auckland, to a new high.
And the explanation that that just reflects a lack of vendors is wearing thin. Turnover in Auckland last month was just 8 per cent lower than the average October in the boom years 2003 to 2007 inclusive.
The Reserve Bank in the Financial Stability Report it released last week said that credit conditions in the residential mortgage market seemed to have been relaxed somewhat over the past year.
"Discussions with banks suggest that high loan-to-value ratio (LVR) loans are now beginning to form a significantly larger share of new mortgage lending than has been the case for most of the period since the financial crisis," it said.
"However, with households still relatively indebted and house prices remaining overvalued on some metrics, banks will need to remain alert to the risks associated with a marked acceleration in credit growth to the household sector."
Ten years ago the ratio of households' housing debt to disposable income was 100 per cent. By 2009 it had climbed to more than 140 per cent. It has eased to 130 per cent, but remains high by historical standards.
Ten years ago the house price to income multiple was 3.3 times. It climbed to more than five times income during 2006 and 2007. It has come back to 4.5 times but, again, is stretched by historical standards.
From such a starting point anything like a repeat of the housing boom of the mid-2000s invites calamity, in the form of a subsequent bust that would devastate household and bank balance sheets and trigger the kind of slump which a number of Northern Hemisphere countries are struggling to escape from.
Hence the focus on the part of the Reserve Bank and its regulatory peers offshore in developing and refining "macro-prudential tools".
These are intended to reduce the risk to the stability of the financial system arising from rapid credit growth of the kind associated with asset booms.
LVR regulation is one of four macro-prudential instruments at various stages of readiness.
From the start of 2014 the Reserve Bank will be able to require banks, with 12 months' notice, to hold a "counter-cyclical capital buffer" - additional equity which will raise the cost of lending during times of rapid credit growth as well as providing a cushion against losses during times of financial distress.
It can also adjust the core funding ratio, which requires banks to source most of their funding from retail deposit and longer-term wholesale sources.
This is primarily intended to mitigate the "rollover risk" starkly evident during the global financial crisis when short-term wholesale funding markets froze, but it also provides a mechanism for raising and lowering banks' cost of funds and thereby influencing the credit cycle.
The Reserve Bank could temporarily raise the risk-weighting attached to particular kinds of loans, such as residential or farm mortgages, so that banks have to hold more capital against those parts of their loan books.
While LVR regulation is used in a number of countries overseas, there are always differences which make a difference between those economies and ours.
There is a risk that would-be borrowers will bypass regulated New Zealand banks in favour of other sources of finance.
An obvious potential drawback with LVR regulation is that it could make it even harder for first-home buyers to get on to the housing ladder.
In that context it is telling that Governor Graeme Wheeler, when discussing LVRs last week, twice made the point that countries which use it typically provide some kind of exemption or relief for first-home buyers. It tends to be targeted at people who are trading up or buying investment properties, he said.
If a similar exemption applied in New Zealand's case it would, of course, limit the effectiveness of LVR regulation.
The tricky part is knowing when the use of such tools would be appropriate.
Work continues, the bank says, on developing a set of reliable indicators to capture both warning signs of rising imbalances and timely indicators of realised stress.
There are also issues of accountability and governance about the use of such interventions, which are being thrashed out with the Minister of Finance and the Treasury. They need to get on with that.
Spurred by low interest rates, growth in mortgage lending has been accelerating since the start of the year, though at an annual pace of 2.5 per cent it is subdued compared with the double-digit increases we saw between 2003 and 2007.
With double digit house price inflation in New Zealand's largest city, on top of the particular challenges of the second largest, Christchurch, momentum is clearly building. But Wheeler said: "At the current state of the housing market, even if we had the ability to use that instrument [LVRs] we would not seek to use [it] at the current time."
The bank was also at pains to stress, as it has before, that macro-prudential tools are intended to strengthen the resilience of the banking system, not to be an instrument of monetary policy.
The bank has two statutory tasks, price stability and financial stability, and macro-prudential policy would be targeted at the latter. Nevertheless the causality works in both directions.
Moves to moderate the effects of the cycle on bank and household balance sheets are likely also to dampen the cycle itself, reducing inflation pressure and with it how high interest rates have to go and the risk of collateral damage via the exchange rate.
LVR regulation, in short, falls into the category of "mates" that monetary policy needs, like fiscal policy, tax policy and competition policy.
It is not a substitute for the official cash rate.


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Bystanders helped capture a violent robber after he allegedly forced a woman into her Bronx apartment, bound her hands and feet, and took off with cash and valuables, police say.
The victim was walking into her apartment in Bedford Park Friday evening when the suspect pushed her inside and duct-taped her hands and feet, according to police. He ransacked the place and took off with money, jewelry and a cellphone.
"He just pushed her inside, threw her on her bed, tied her arms, her legs. Took her belongings, put a fake gun to her head, said he was going to kill her," said Katheria Gines, the building superintendent who spoke to the victim immediately after the attack.
As the suspect ran out of the apartment, the victim rushed to the window and called for help, police said. Bystanders outside the building were able to catch the suspect as he came out of the building and held him for police.
Video shows several men pinning the suspect against a car as a crowd barricaded the suspect. The apparent victim is also seen yelling for help, with her hands still taped.
The accused robber "tried to resist, but there's about six guys holding him down, so when the cops came, they got him right there," said Gines, who was outside the building and watched as the suspect got caught.
Witnesses said the suspect pleaded for them to let him go if he returned the stolen items, but the good Samaritans wouldn't budge.
"Everybody held him down until the cops came and took him in, and he had all her belongings in a bookbag, in his pockets," said Gines.
The 29-year-old suspect, identified as Bruce Lee, had an imitation pistol, police said. He's facing charges including robbery, harassment and unlawful imprisonment. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.


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Many third-party distributors are now providing versions of Django integrated with their package-management systems. These can make installation and upgrading much easier for users of Django since the integration includes the ability to automatically install dependencies (like database adapters) that Django requires.
Typically, these packages are based on the latest stable release of Django, so if you want to use the development version of Django you'll need to follow the instructions for installing the development version from our Subversion repository.
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There are two options:
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- To add the package:
pkg_add -r py26-django
For recent changes http://www.freshports.org/www/py-django/
There are two options:
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pkg_add py-django
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For recent changes http://openports.se/www/py-django
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The Debian package is named python-django and can be installed using the following command with root privileges.
aptitude install python-django
all Debian releases, see Debian Reference • Chapter 6 – Debian package management for instructions
A Django package is available for openSUSE Linux in the openSUSE Build Service. The current package can be installed by subscribing to the devel:languages:python project and typing 'zypper install python-django'. Alternatively, you can use a one-click-install link.
RPM Based Distributions
While the Django documentation recommends starting a Django project outside of the web server's document root (e.g. /var/www), SELinux does not allow web servers such as Apache access outside of their document roots. See also: SELinux - Highly Secured Web Hosting for Python-based Web Applications.
all Ubuntu releases, see also Ubuntu documentation on "Adding and Removing Software"
Mac OS X
Django can be installed via the Mac
Ports system:
- Python 2.4:
sudo port install py-django
- Python 2.5:
sudo port install py25-django
- Python 2.6:
sudo port install py26-django
Please note that
django-admin.py is renamed according to the Python
version you installed it for (
django-admin-2.5.py if you
installed py25-django).
To enable bash completion install the
bash_completion variant (
sudo port install py25-django +bash_completion).
To avoid a command not found issue with Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and various other OSX (Django installed using MacPorts) here a tip that might help. There might be a $PATH issue. Adding the proper PATH to ~/.Profile: export PATH=/opt/local/bin:opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin:$PATH should help. NB Could be that one needs to change the Python version in the PATH.


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|2005-12-20, 12:05
|Link #21
Wow, 13-14 years old? I guess they look so old because the mangaka wanted to emphasise the shift in time.
Everything seemed fine in this episode, but I really hope they don't downplay the drama element, which the manga apparently does. The next episode looks promising in that aspect, though.
Btw, did anyone else think at first that Komori's friend was one of his generic team members from season 1?
|2005-12-20, 12:44
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again whats with the weird numbers for the subs.. isnt that supposed to be ep1, of 2nd season, not 27 its odd when all the raws, say 2nd seaons ep01, ep02 and what not
about the ages, i think they might be a little older, around 15-16, they said they 3 years in junior high so thats 9th grade... which makes sense.. since little league can only played by 11-12 year olds... as the offical little league rules...
|2005-12-20, 12:53
|Link #23
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Well it's the same show, not another act like for Full Metal Panic.
Do they rename by season for anime like Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Dragon Ball ? But you're all free to rename the file if you want, i don't even get why it's an issue for you guys.
And next episode is gonna be labelled 28 sorry ^__^
|2005-12-20, 12:56
|Link #24
Since MJN subbed the first series I assume they just wanted to keep it correlative, their choice. If any other groups that are subbing it they'll probably use the "season 2 01" naming since they didn't do the first season. Not a big deal
And Komori's friend does look like one of the "other" members of the Dolphins, not sure if he actually is though...
|2005-12-20, 12:56
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Gorou was 9 when he joined the Dolphins. By the end of the season he was 10. Fast forward 4 years from the end, and he is now 14 years old. If this were taking place in the US, they would be entering high school, but since this is Japan, they are just starting their final year of middle school.
And yeah, Komori's Vice-Captain Oobayashi does bear a certain resemblance to Tanabe from the Dolphins. They are both really tall for their age, have the same head shape and haircut, and even play the same position at first base. The facial features are different, though.
|2005-12-20, 14:18
|Link #26
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I guess I should of expected this to start like the 2nd part of season 1 did. With the team not having enough players and people bullying around Komori.
|2005-12-23, 14:27
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Location: Portugal
Is Major being subbed by another group ('Gokuraku' or 'GPC') apart from MJN or is MJN & GCP doing it together?
I ask this because the Major 28 v2's link directs to a.scarywater.net/mjn, and in there we can find the torrents for Major's episodes from MJN and GPC separately. But considering GPC is in MJN's site I thought it was a co-production, like I've seen with other fansubbers.
If it's not a co-production, however, I was wondering if you could tell me with is better, MJN or GPC version? ^^
|2005-12-27, 22:36
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|2006-01-04, 01:53
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Baseball owns and so does Major. I've been wanting a good baseball show for years now, P9 was sorta entertaining but was still eh, especially in the baseball bits. Major fits the bill perfect. There are something like a gazillion volumes of Major Manga, so hopefully NHK will continue on for at least a few more seasons.
Yay shimizu
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Despite Methane Emissions Upstream, Natural Gas Is Cleaner than Coal on a Life-Cycle Basis
New study concludes that natural gas offers greenhouse gas advantages over coal despite higher EPA estimates of methane emissions from natural gas systems.
Washington, D.C.-Over its full cycle of production, distribution, and use, natural gas emits just over half as many greenhouse gas emissions as coal does for equivalent energy output, according to a new study from the Worldwatch Institute and the Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors. The analysis clarifies the role of methane releases in the calculation of comparative emissions between the two fossil fuels and explores how the growing share of natural gas production from shale formations could change that fuel's footprint.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated its methodology for estimating methane emissions from natural gas systems, generating concern that the new, higher methane figures could minimize the greenhouse gas advantage that natural gas is seen widely to have over coal.
Applying the EPA's new estimates, the life-cycle greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas-fired electricity increased roughly 11 percent, according to the study. "Despite a substantial increase in the methane assumed to be emitted during natural gas production, we found that U.S. natural gas-fired electricity generation still released 47 percent fewer greenhouse gases than coal from source to use," said Saya Kitasei, a Worldwatch Institute Sustainable Energy Fellow and one of the contributing writers.
The authors stress that although methane emitted during natural gas production might not make natural gas-fired electricity dirtier than coal, it can and must be mitigated immediately. "In addition to being a potent greenhouse gas, methane is a valuable energy source that natural gas producers should be capturing for sale," said Kitasei. "Because some of the same technologies that prevent methane from entering the atmosphere also reduce emissions of smog-forming compounds, tackling methane emissions is a win-win-win proposition."
The study points out that regulatory and technological tools to reduce methane emissions are being demonstrated in some U.S. states and by some companies. Although reducing methane emissions has been largely voluntary to date in the United States, new EPA rules could require the natural gas industry to measure and report its greenhouse gas emissions and to use control technologies that will significantly reduce associated methane emissions as early as 2012.
Further highlights from the study:
- The EPA's recent upward revisions of methane emissions from natural gas are related largely to the production share of the gas value chain, especially during the unloading of liquids and (in the case of hydraulically fractured wells) during flowback.
- The life-cycle greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas is lower than coal under all "global warming potentials" tested, with the smallest difference calculated using a GWP of 105, where the emissions are 27 percent less than those of coal-fired generation.
- Methane emissions during natural gas production, processing, transport, storage, and distribution can be mitigated now at moderately low cost using existing technologies and best practices. Such capture potential presents a commercial and investment opportunity that would further improve the life-cycle greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas.
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FSBO (pronounced fizz-bo), or For Sale By Owner, is a way of selling your home without the use of a professional real estate agent or broker. The idea behind FSBO is that by selling your home yourself, you save the approximate 6% that would be the agents' commission.
6% may not sound like a lot, but it can add up, especially on more expensive homes. But before you run off and decide to sell your home FSBO, you must remember that to get a savings like that, there must be a cost. So what's the catch? Selling FSBO is hard. A lot harder.
Only about 10% of sellers that decide to do FSBO are successful at it. And not all of them end up saving themselves money. FSBO sellers often end up accepting a lower price for their home than they would with an agent.
There are of course other issues as well. Can you afford to make selling your home your full-time job? Because for a lot of FSBO sellers, that's exactly what it is. Do you have the time and capital to spend on the marketing, advertising, inspections, paperwork, phone calls, showings, and problems that come up when any home is sold?
Selling with a professional agent also has other advantages. An agent can get your home listed on the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) and other popular websites where not only homebuyers but also other agents can easily find it. Professional real estate agents also have an extensive network that allows them to more easily find a buyer.
So before you decide to sell your home yourself, thoughtfully consider just how much time and effort you can spare for selling your home, as well as how important it is that your home sell sooner rather than later.
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Writers' Choices: Grammar for Effective Writing is based on the principle that many of the tools writers use to make and convey meaning are grammatical; they are the tools of syntax with which we build sentences.
Intended for college and advanced high school students as well as for teachers who want to strengthen their own knowledge of English grammar, the book
- covers English syntax from parts or speech, verb forms, and basic sentence pattern to dependent clauses, verbal phrases, absolute constructions, and parallelism and coordination
- combines syntax with sentence rhetoric in every chapter
- shows how syntactic choices can have rhetorical effects
- uses sentence diagramming to make sentence analysis visible
- uses sentence combining to show how sentences are put together
- includes practice with using sentence structures effectively within paragraphs
- features creative exercises with varied, culturally diverse content
- invites students to create scores of correct sentences rather than to fix incorrect ones
- supplies sample tests, a glossary, a review of common surface problems, an index, and exercise answer keys.
Available from XanEdu through their on-line catalog.
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A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center, in collaboration with Winston & Strawn LLP, can proceed with a federal lawsuit that challenges the U.S. government's use of immigration detainers, a key tool in the Secure Communities enforcement program which has resulted in record levels of immigration detention and deportation under the Obama administration.
The Honorable John Z. Lee of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois found that the two plaintiffs—including a U.S. citizen—can sue the government even though it lifted their detainers soon after they filed the lawsuit. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issues detainers to instruct local police to continue to detain individuals after the local police's authority has expired, until DHS officers arrive to take the individuals into custody. The plaintiffs are representatives of a possible class action consisting of thousands of individuals subjected to immigration detainers.
"This is an important ruling that overcomes a significant obstacle that advocates around the nation have faced as we try to hold the government accountable for its unconstitutional use of immigration detainers," said NIJC National Litigation Coordinator Mark Fleming. "The government cannot simply cancel wrongful detainers in order to duck legal action that challenges this practice."
One of the lawsuit's lead plaintiffs is Jose Jimenez Moreno, a 34-year-old U.S. citizen who was subject to an immigration detainer for months at a county jail in Winnebago County, Illinois. DHS lifted the detainer in August 2011, after Jimenez Moreno filed the federal lawsuit. Two additional U.S. citizen plaintiffs have sought to intervene in the case, one of whom alleges he spent nearly a year in a maximum security prison due to an immigration detainer.
NIJC argues that the detainers violate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments because 1) DHS fails to establish probable cause before issuing the detainers, 2) does not notify individuals that detainers have been issued against them, and 3) provides no means by which individuals can challenge their extended detention. Additionally, DHS's use of detainers violates the 10th Amendment because it requires state and local governments to implement federal law.
Detainers have become an important immigration enforcement tool for DHS, allowing it to vastly increase deportations while passing the cost on to local law enforcement agencies. Under the Secure Communities program, when local police make an arrest, they must send fingerprint information to a federal immigration database, which frequently triggers detainer requests. According to data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, DHS issued about 271,000 immigration detainers in fiscal year 2009 and more than 201,000 detainers through the first 11 months of fiscal year 2010.


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This factsheet addresses the particular issues facing the building surveying business.
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect on 25 May 2018. It changes, updates and extends the scope of data protection law across the whole of the EU. There are many helpful guides as to the general requirements, including those provided by country regulators.
These factsheets have been developed by DLA Piper in collaboration with RICS to give professionals more insight into the specific ways in which GDPR will impact their business.
This factsheet addresses the particular issues facing the building surveying business. We have a range of other factsheets tailored to the business needs of other professionals, which you can access here.
The main areas for firms and individual professionals to address can be summarised as follows:
You must be clear with your clients, marketing prospects, sub-contractors and employees about:
You must have clear, updated notices for all the relevant groups of people whose data you use. These notices must be easily found and always available and you must notify people appropriately of the existence of these notices (e.g. on your website, with your terms and conditions, at a sensible stage in any online purchasing process, and embedded in your HR recruitment processes).
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August 18, 2016: Dr. Fawal travelled to London to present a lecture entitled "MGB in the awake patient: Is it feasible?" in MGBCON 2016 on Friday August 19 at 2:00 P.M.
MGBCON 2016 Message:
On behalf of the International MGB/OAGB Club , it is our pleasure and honor to invite you to the MGBCON 2016, International MGB/OAGB Consensus Conference, an annual meeting of the MGB/OAGB experts.
This time, we will be meeting in London, the most happening city of United Kingdom.
MGB/OAGB is becoming more and more popular bariatric and metabolic surgery procedure throughout the world.The inquest to become familier with the technique and outcomes of the procedure is growing.
This will be an endeavour to quench the thirst of getting knowledge about the MGB/OAGB .All the MGB experts will be coming under one roof to formulate the guidelines and standardize the MGB/OAGB on the issues like length of the bypass limb, size and length of the gastric pouch etc.We will also be writing consensus report on the technique, results, complications and the nutritional aspects of this procedure. This will be a great chance for the MGB/OAGB surgeons and the surgeons interested in the procedure to pitch their views about the procedure and to be a part of this historic event.
Looking forward to a great scientific event packed with talks, discussions, debates and expert forums wherein the experts will be sharing their experiences, the tips and traps and with the ways of dealing with the complications in the best possible manner.


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U.S.-EU Trade Talks Aim at Barriers, Not Tariffs
Economic Gains Expected From Removing Regulations—if the Two Sides Can Agree
BRUSSELS—Negotiators seeking a new trade deal between the U.S. and Europe are aiming to chip away at regulations that limit trans-Atlantic trade. Standing in their way are fundamental differences between how the European Union and the U.S. approach regulation.
The EU and the U.S. will hold a second round of talks over five days starting on Monday. Roughly 50 U.S. officials are expected to travel to Brussels, half of whom aren't from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which is leading the U.S. position in the talks,...


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State government has been a little less delinquent in paying bills in recent months. But the reprieve agencies across the state got as the state paid down some of its past-due bills this spring won't last long, Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka warns.
Editor's Note: This is the latest installment in the Deadbeat Illinois series, where reporters from GateHouse Illinois newsrooms examine the real-world effects of the state's failure to pay its bills. Each Monday, we share the stories of those affected. See more on the Deadbeat Illinois Facebook page.
ROCKFORD — State government has been a little less delinquent in paying bills in recent months.
But the reprieve agencies across the state got as the state paid down some of its past-due bills this spring won't last long, Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka warns.
"We've been fairly fortunate in recent months," said Mike Bacon, administrator of the Winnebago County Health Department. "We were, prior to April, somewhere in the range of six months in arrears."
A stronger-than-expected tax season helped the state temporarily reduce its bill backlog. The comptroller's office called it an "April surprise" when it got $1.3 billion more than anticipated in revenue as taxpayers accelerated payments to take advantage of 2012 federal tax rates.
But that money was spent before it ever reached the state's coffers.
"As soon as the money comes in, our office is using those dollars to pay down our backlog," said Brad Hahn, spokesman for the comptroller's office.
That surprise revenue helped reduce the bill backlog from $8.5 billion at the start of April to about $6.3 billion today. It helped the state cut the wait time for bill payments down from about six months to one month.
Topinka "has said this repeatedly: Illinois is the only state in the nation where $6 billion in unpaid bills sounds like real progress and where a month of payment delays is something to celebrate," Hahn said. "The reality is that even with that extra revenue, we still owe schools, hospitals, not-for-profits and private businesses in every part of the state."
The comptroller's office expects the bill backlog to increase in the coming months, up to about $7.5 billion by August.
"It will continue to rise throughout the fall," Hahn said. "The unexpected tax revenue was helpful in bringing some relief to vendors, but we still have a long way to go. That revenue did nothing to address the long-term financial challenges that the state has."
Six months in delays in Medicaid payments caused the Winnebago health department to dip into its cash reserves to pay bills. The agency had to cover roughly $200,000 to $300,000 in expenses as it waited for the state, Bacon said. Still, he added, the delayed state payments never forced the health department to delay its own bill payments, borrow money or dip into the county's general fund reserves to cover the cost of paying bills.
"We've come very close to that situation, but thus far haven't had to do that," Bacon said.
A similar situation has played out in neighboring Boone County. Cynthia Frank, administrator with the Boone County Health Department, said state payments are catching up in their office, too. Backlogs that used to stretch back six months are now averaging around three months.
"And (the state's) given us copies of what to expect and when to expect it," she said.
The payment delays from the state haven't affected programs or services offered by the health department, but Frank said they've had to dip into reserve funding to cover bills in the interim.
The state's delayed payments aren't the biggest concerns for area health departments. Continued cuts in funding at both the state and federal levels have Bacon worried.
In 2011, the Winnebago County Health Department slashed 22 jobs through layoffs, retirements and hiring freezes because it lost about $1.6 million in federal and state funding.
"The impact of (federal) sequestration is just at the very outset of being felt," Bacon said. "We're all hopeful that it isn't the non-defense, discretionary category of spending that's going to bear the brunt of making up the debt."
Bacon said preventive public health programs are vital because they can help reduce the growing cost of health care.
"Rather than focus on treating folks when they become ill, we have to focus on how we keep people well," Bacon said. "When we're successful in that, health-care costs go down ... And, of course, most importantly, people live longer, healthier, happier lives."
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7 Moves for Jiggle-Free Arms
Nick Cardillicchio
Beat Arm Jiggle in 20 Minutes
Good news: You don't have to pump major iron to beat dreaded arm jiggle. To help you get sleek, sculpted arms in time for tank-top season, we asked Michael Olajide, co-owner of Aerospace HPC studio in New York City, for a routine that's low on equipment and big on benefits. And it takes just 20 minutes!
This seven-move workout, based on Olajide's Aerosculpt class, requires nothing more than your own body weight, a jump rope, and a set of 1- to 2-pound hand weights. Begin by skipping rope, which helps tire out your arm muscles. "This way, you won't need to lift much weight to achieve results," explains Olajide. Instead of counting reps, you'll count seconds for an easy-to-follow routine that blasts fat as it sculpts muscle.
Do each move in order without rest for 60 seconds (or until your muscles are exhausted), then repeat twice more. Done three times per week, this routine will sculpt your arms from your shoulders to your fingertips in less than a month!
Nick Cardillicchio
1. Aerocross
Fitness Focus: Shoulders
- Hold a jump rope with an end in each hand, palms facing forward.
- Begin skipping, hopping up just enough to allow the rope to pass beneath your feet.
- Once you've got the rhythm, slowly extend your arms out from your sides as far as possible as you skip.
- The goal is to make big circles with your arms so you feel as if you're rowing a boat backward.
- Continue skipping for 60 seconds.
Nick Cardillicchio
2. Aerolean Push-Up
Fitness Focus: Chest, shoulders, triceps
- Come into push-up position with feet together and hands spaced wider than shoulder-width apart, fingers pointing out to the sides.
- Bend your right elbow so you tilt to the right.
- Return to center and repeat with the left arm; alternate for 60 seconds, or until fatigued.
- If this move is hard at first, keep your knees on the floor.
Nick Cardillicchio
3. Wrist Rotation
Fitness Focus: Shoulders, lower arms
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and a 1- to 2-pound dumbbell in each hand, arms extended in front of you at shoulder height, palms down.
- Quickly rotate your wrists inward as far as possible, then outward.
- Continue alternating for 60 seconds.
Nick Cardillicchio
4. Floor Pull-Up
Fitness Focus: Back, biceps
- Lie flat on the floor with your head and shoulders underneath a high, sturdy table.
- Grasp the table edge with both hands, palms shoulder-distance apart and facing in.
- Pull yourself up off the floor as high as you can, keeping your abs tight and your neck straight.
- Pause for 1 second, then lower yourself back down.
- Repeat for 60 seconds, or as long as you can.
- If you don't have a table available, lay a broom handle or pole across two chairs placed a few feet apart.
Nick Cardillicchio
5. One-Arm Triceps Dip
Fitness Focus: Triceps
- Sit on the floor with your legs and feet pressed together, knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
- Place your hands about a foot behind your butt, palms shoulder-distance apart, fingers pointing toward your butt. Straighten your arms to raise your butt off the floor.
- Bend your left elbow and lower your butt as close to the floor as possible without actually touching it.
- Straighten your left arm; repeat, this time bending right arm.
- Alternate sides for 60 seconds.
- To make the move a little easier, try spreading your legs up to 2 feet apart.
Nick Cardillicchio
6. Weighted Punch
Fitness Focus: Shoulders, biceps
- Stand with feet hip-width apart, holding a 1- to 2-pound weight in each hand, fists in front of your face, palms facing each other.
- Without moving your left fist, punch your right fist up as high as possible without locking your elbow.
- Quickly pull right fist back to starting position as you simultaneously punch your left fist upward.
- Continue alternating for 60 seconds; start slowly and gradually increase speed until you're moving as fast as you can.
Nick Cardillicchio
7. The Aerobox
Fitness Focus: Shoulders
- Stand holding a 1- to 2-pound weight in each hand.
- Bring fists in front of face, palms facing each other.
- Step left foot 6 inches forward and right foot 6 inches back.
- Punch with left fist, then right. Start slowly, speeding up until you're going as fast as you can.
- Repeat for 60 seconds.
- Switch feet and repeat.
Quick Moves to Boost Results
Sculpting sexy arms requires gripping weights, which can strain the forearm muscles. Stay safe with this mini routine:
The Strengthener
- Wrap a thick rubber band around your left hand at the knuckles.
- Spread your fingers apart as far as you can and hold 4 to 5 seconds.
- Repeat 8 times, then switch hands.
The Stretch
- Extend your left arm in front of you, palm facing down.
- Grasp your fingers with your right hand and pull your left hand back as far as is comfortable.
- Keeping arm extended in front of you, lower your left hand so that your fingers are pointing to the floor.
- Place your right hand on top and gently stretch your left hand downward.
- Do both moves several times; repeat on opposite arm.
The Arm Sculpter That Sheds Pounds
Go sleeveless with confidence with these three twists on jumping rope. Do two minutes of each variation before moving to the next, then repeat the cycle two or three times.
1. Lateral Hop
Works: Inner and outer thighs; strengthens ankles
- As the rope nears your toes, hop to left with feet together.
- Land on the balls of your feet, then hop back to center.
- Do 2 regular turns, then jump to the right; repeat shuffle.
2. Jumping Jack
Strengthens: Hips
- Spread your feet about shoulder-width apart as the rope passes underneath you.
- When it comes around again, jump up and draw your legs together so your feet are almost touching as the rope passes beneath you.
- Do a few regular skips, then repeat the variation.
3. Double Skip
Burns: Extra calories — by forcing legs to work harder
- Jump once when the rope passes under your feet, then quickly take another hop while the rope is circling above your head.
Nick Cardillicchio
Mistake-Proof Your Workout
Poor form can sabotage your arm-toning routine by allowing other muscle groups to do all the work. See if you're cheating yourself out of results during these common arm exercises:
The Move: Biceps curl
The Cheat: Bending forward or backward at the waist makes it easy for momentum to take over.
Fix It: Do the move with your back against a wall.
The Move: Standing shoulder press
The Cheat: Many people bend their knees too much, then stand up to give themselves added power when pressing the weights overhead.
Fix It: Do the move seated instead.
The Move: Triceps push-down
The Cheat: If you draw your elbows behind you as you press the bar down, it shifts the effort off the triceps and onto the shoulders and lower chest muscles.
Fix It: Pin your elbows to your sides to prevent them from swaying back.


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It's snow time!
June marks the start of winter – shorter days, colder mornings, higher power bills. Hooray! Thankfully it's also the month most New Zealand ski fields open
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In the South Island, the Southern Alps have more than 13 different fields within a day's drive of each other. A smorgasbord for powder junkies.
Large and established ski fields like Mt Hutt near Christchurch and Treble Cone near Wanaka are world-famous for their diverse terrain and great facilities. But a couple of smaller club fields offer a rootsier experience for the snow connoisseur.
In the south – Rainbow Ski Area
Rainbow Ski Area rental supervisor Jake Parker has become a familiar face to many Marlborough skiers. Photo courtesy of The Marlborough Express.
Rainbow Ski Area is an easy drive from the Picton Cook Strait ferry terminal and regarded as one of the best value options in the country. It's a relatively small field with mainly easy to intermediate terrain, perfect for beginners and families.
Rainbow is a good place to escape the glamour and clamour of the larger fields. This is where you're most likely to catch a glimpse of a quintessentially Kiwi phenomena: a farmer skiing in their swandris. You'll also enjoy the spectacular views of Nelson Lakes National Park, with its extensive beech forest and picturesque Lake Rotoiti.
In the north – Manganui, Taranaki
In the North Island the largest and most popular ski fields are Whakapapa and Turoa – both on the iconic Mt Ruapehu. They're the closest reliable snow options to Auckland and Wellington so they tend to get crowded when conditions are good.
For something a little different – and quieter – head west to the conical peak of Mt Taranaki. The Manganui Ski Area is 54km from New Plymouth, which is about a four-hour drive from the Cook Strait ferry terminal in Wellington.
Manganui is a slightly more challenging proposition than Rainbow, with 65% of runs classified as advanced, but there is plenty of beginner-friendly terrain too. They don't offer lessons or equipment hire, but you can rent gear in New Plymouth.
With a mix of nutcrackers, rope tows and t-bars, don't expect high-speed quads or gondolas. This is skiing (or boarding) the old-fashioned way. Simple, affordable and a whole heap of old-school fun.
Mt Taranaki towers over a district renowned for its gorgeous scenery and wild coastline so the views on clear days are jaw dropping.
The cold southerly fronts that sweep over New Zealand from the Roaring Forties at this time of year make life tough for commuters and farmers but if you're a skier or snowboarder, you'll love them for their promised load of white stuff.


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I thought i would put a comparative list of every other States requirements for small scale prospecting / fossicking in Australia. Australia and NZ are the only places that use Fossicking as the term used for prospecting. And, in reality fossicking is more akin to looking for man made relics. Than Gold and other geo elements.
Fees and conditions will change from year to year at the discretion of each state and territories mines director.
This is a snapshot of how Australia is travelling and Tasmania's position in it all, price wise. Qld has been seasonally adjusted (plundered) as well, by the look of it and tops even Tasmania for price today!
However, every other Australian State and Territory. Except Tasmania. Enjoy the use of a sluice box. As they should. Its interesting to note R.Bottrill (2010) Alluvial gold in Tasmania 11.
Web source : http://www.mrt.tas.gov.au/mrtdoc/dominf ... MR11_2.pdf
Has a sluice box getting used, bang smack on the front cover! Will MRT ever acknowledge they have a major communication issue?
fees are in increasing order.
South Australia. FREE. and, you can claim up to 250 hectares if you want to peg a mining lease..
http://www.minerals.dmitre.sa.gov.au/li ... fossicking
http://www.resources.nsw.gov.au/__data/ ... -Wales.PDF
Victoria. Two year Miner's Right - $31.30 - (Ave $16.65 p/a).Ten year Miner's Right - $87.70 ($8.77 p/a)
http://www.energyandresources.vic.gov.a ... fossicking
http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/documents/1322 ... Rights.pdf
Tasmania. Year $29.30
http://www.mrt.tas.gov.au/pls/portal/do ... RDA_P1.PDF
QLD $7.05 a month or $44.75 yearly or $59.90 Family
it would cost me $234.40 to get a licence for my family of 8 in Tasmania. So i called. My agency why not. MRT seemed happy if i took my kids with me for free. Thankfully. It did take 3 people to say yes though. so can understand why they need to increase fees so substantially in order to waste it as fast as they can. Thank god for royalties huh. all the education programs and remediation work and employment opportunities that vast sum of money has funded. is where exactly?
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