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Posts archive for April, 2012
Behavioural Change – turning Intention into Action
April 18, 2012
Think back to 1st January 2012 and the New Year resolutions you made. How many have you achieved or kept up?
Like many you probably started the New year with the best of intentions, to achieve some goals, kick some old habits, action new habits….. Now nearly 4 months on, how are you doing……..have you achieved your goals? Are you successfully enjoying new habits? Or, have you found yourself making excuses for not turning intention into action. Typical excuses I hear when coaching clients are 'I don't have the time', 'I've other things on my mind', 'I feel awkward/uncomfortable', 'it's too hard', 'I'm too busy….', etc. You are not alone, behavioural change takes time and commitment – research suggests it can take anything from 3 weeks to 3 months, depending on different factors which might include how ingrained old habits are, complexity of the new habit/behavioural change, how committed you are and how frequently you practice.
Prochaska and DiClimente's Transtheorectical model of behavioural change describes behavioural change as a five stage process that to turn intention into action and sustainable change.
Stage 1 Precontemplation: This is when you are not aware of the need to change, or you may have unsuccessfully tried to change. You might not know what you could change, or you've become comfortable with how you are, or you might be scared of change. At this stage you are likely to resist offers of help or even ignore/be blind to information that suggests you would benefit from changing!
Stage 2 Contemplation: You've become aware of the need to change and are intending to change in next six months, but haven't yet thought about how to do it or committed to action. You are open to information, however might procrastinate or become stuck as you weigh up the pros and cons of changing.
Stage 3 Preparation: You are actively open to change and consciously thinking about your options and planning action within the next month, including how to overcome barriers to action. This is a good time to enlist help and support.
Stage 4 Action: At this stage you are going for it, change is happening and old habits are dying or have died! At this stage it is critical you have planned for overcoming any barriers to change and to be watchful for relapsing back into the old behaviours and habits. This is a time when you will benefit from help and support.
Stage 5 Maintenance: The new habits and behaviours are automatic, you've been confidently and successfully doing things differently for a while – you are now in the maintenance stage. You still need to be aware of situations that might trigger a relapse, and if you do relapse it's important to re-visit what has worked for you and how you achieved change. Again this is a time when you can benefit from support to maintain progress.
So thinking back to those New Year resolutions for 2012, what stage are you at? The very action of setting New Year resolutions suggests you've at least reached contemplation. What about the preparation to move you to action? Congratulations if you are at the Action stage and are moving to maintenance? Or, are you struggling to move through the stages, finding yourself procrastinating, feeling stuck, coming up against barriers (real or perceived). If so you might find some of the following questions useful: 'How would I like to be?' 'What needs to happen for me to move forward?''What is happening already?', 'what resources do I have' 'what are the different ways I can achieve [insert your resolution or goal]?
All the best in moving to the next stage.


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Two former apprentices from South Yorkshire who have forged top careers in the steel industry are urging school-leavers in the area to grasp the opportunity to earn while they learn.
Marking National Apprenticeship Week this week (March 5-9), Ryan Stancill and Cathy Bell from Liberty Speciality Steels in Rotherham and Stocksbridge called upon youngsters to seriously consider an apprenticeship as the way to kick start a successful career.
Ryan, 27, from Dinnington, originally opted to train in mechanical engineering because of his passion for motor sports and now looks after the huge furnaces and the raw materials department at Rotherham, while Cathy, 46, from Wickersley, who was interested in science at school is now involved at the leading edge of Liberty's drive to develop new products at Stocksbridge. She also leads the team responsible for implementing new business at the company.
Both signed up for steel industry apprenticeships straight from school but once they'd finished their training they were sponsored by their employer to go to university part-time while they continued in their jobs. Both are now in senior roles and say an apprenticeship was exactly the right choice for them.
Liberty is currently seeking to recruit another 20 young people to follow in their footsteps and join this year's apprentice training programme.
Said Ryan: "I always enjoyed hands-on work, so I knew an apprenticeship in engineering would be perfect for me. My interest in motor-racing involved a lot of mechanical work so I thought why not get paid for doing something I enjoy. I really valued the way experienced craftsmen took time to teach me all they knew, and I made some great friends through the programme also."
Ryan, who is now a section engineer responsible for Liberty's huge furnaces and raw materials department at Rotherham, has just started a master's degree and is working to become a chartered Mechanical Engineer with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
Cathy has steadily built upon her initial apprenticeship, qualifying as a professional metallurgist and is now a product development manager working on new kinds of steel products or improving existing products.
"It was very daunting at first because I was using very complex equipment and needed to build my confidence, but I became fascinated by the science of metals and wanted to learn more. I have never regretted becoming an apprentice because I achieved something huge in my first few after leaving school," she said.
Both said their steel industry apprenticeship not only offered them a broad array of different career opportunities within the sector itself but gave them an extensive range of core management and problem-solving skills that they could take into any other career path.
Liberty is one of the biggest employers of apprentices in the area and even runs a special training school inside its Stockbridge works in partnership with Sheffield College, where around 25 young apprentices are currently under training.
Said Tony Goddard, training delivery manager at Liberty Speciality Steels: "Apprenticeships are an excellent route for ambitious young people who want to get involved in the workplace straight from school and build their skills in a very practical way. As Ryan and Cathy have shown, becoming an apprentice gives you a real job from day one and sets you on the path to real career success."
For details of current apprenticeship opportunities at Liberty click on: http://www.libertyhousegroup.com/careers/apprenticeships/ or http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/apprenticeship/vacancies/%20
Further information from:
Eoghan Mortell
+44 7977 555116
Lois Brearley (iNHouse Communications
+ 44 207 240 7338

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Braid Or Tape
Posted 19 January 2005 - 01:12 PM
I've decided to build a small test track first, then attempt something bigger.
Which is the best way to go? Tape or Braid.
Posted 19 January 2005 - 02:22 PM
I'm no expert but if I build a routed track then I will be using braid.
Posted 19 January 2005 - 02:37 PM
I have been reserching routed track building for about a year now and were to use copper tape or braid. The copper tape I think does not sit flat on corners and will lift in very hot day if your track is in a garge like my is, for me its copper braid at $1.16 plus tax a meter will do me. I have just finish a test track which will be my skid oval to test differant paint sufaces and tires before I start my new four lane track which will be around 24 meter lane lenght.
Regards Bo
Posted 19 January 2005 - 02:56 PM
If I can get hold of some I'd love to have a crack at a routed track.
Posted 19 January 2005 - 03:50 PM
I got the braid from Hartland Cables 18-20 railway rd Meadowbank NSW Ph 029807 6155 and speak to Paul ot terry, very heplful guys. The part number for the braid I have used is HBB005 it is 4.70MM wide and will handle 20Amps each.
Regards Bo
Posted 19 January 2005 - 03:59 PM
I have heard of this mob and they seem to be the place to go.
Are you having much luck with the paint types. I know Ged used a roof sealant for his track.
Posted 19 January 2005 - 04:25 PM
Regards Bo
Posted 19 January 2005 - 07:30 PM
NEVER again down here in Croweater Country and under a carport the weather affects it too much so much so that i have not used my track for nearly a month and a half,i am about to sell my track and build one from Artin track as i have found that just as good to drive on.
If i build another routed track it will definately be braid,take it from me it,s not worth the chance that it will be okay for you it is definately cheaper but never worth it in the long run.
I used a roof paint manufactured down here, called Solver this is great with some cars which do not have heaps of straight out power,ie Artin cars can lap faster than a Scaley Commodore,so paint is a very important part of the finished product
many of the pro tracks down here use Blackboard Paint with excellent results.
Posted 19 January 2005 - 08:11 PM
cheers gene
Posted 19 January 2005 - 08:30 PM
One of the tracks that I race on has tape. He has had no issues with it lifting (its in a steel garage) but he is having all kinds of issues with power supply.
I think its personal preference. I just dont like the way particular members on a particular forum badger you into thinking that braid is a waste of money.
Smoggy, what Solver variety did you use? Most of the guys down south (of Adelaide)use ferrador, made by Dulux. I went into Solver and they had no idea what I was talking about.
Posted 20 January 2005 - 02:36 PM
Hoffy I think you might find that if you walk into a dulux store and ask them about ferrador they will give you a blank look to. To best of my knowledge you can only get ferrador in SA from the dulux mile end store/trade centre.
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Posted 20 January 2005 - 03:35 PM
Ferrodor paint is abrasive used to be used a lot when COX cars were still on sale! It used to wear out Cox tyres! No days almost any semmi gloss enamel paint will work fine. We mainly have used Dulux sati or semi gloss paint but one guy has just left his track undercoat gray and that works fine.
Posted 21 January 2005 - 10:42 AM
The thing that I like most about this finish is that you don't get a large change in grip levels when the tyres of the car go from painted surface to running on the braid itself. As the car slides through the corners, on say a high grip track surface like Ninco, and the inside wheel rides up onto the rail, nearly all the drive is transfered to the outside wheel, which often causes a tendancy toward snap-oversteer. Not helpful for novices or people with tired old reflexes.
Dulux do still make Ferodor. It's availalbe through your local Dulux trade centre and is listed as a paint for bridges and other outdoor metal structures. It too is a good paint for the surface. It tends to buff the tyres on the cars and offers a bit extra grip particularly on low speed tracks. I have resisted the temptation to re-paint our track with it, (despite constant encouragement from a couple of friends), mainly because it is pretty hard on paintwork. If you roll a car over on a fast track this might mean grinding through the paint and back to the bare bodyshell in one race meeting, (if you crash as often as I do).
As for braid or tape, I have found over the years that tape is quick and easy to use but has a tendancy to be higher maintainence, particularly in warmer climates. The inside edge of the outer tape also tends to get pulled up by the cars in corners, as tape sits on the surface rather than being recessed into it. Braid, whilst more work to lay initially, is very low maintainence. Our track is layed with braid and it has never given us any cause for concern. There is a handy booklet produced by Parma about building your own track and this is a good place to start.
Hope this helps,
Rob E.
Posted 21 January 2005 - 06:36 PM
Posted 13 April 2005 - 10:01 PM
it never has lifted during the times when it was with me.
the track i go to at willoughby has stick -on tape.it tends to lift mostly in the corners. i think oscar has sold the track to a bloke from newcastle area.
i repainted the surface of my track with marine deck paint. if only i didn't sell it...........
the track is so good that there is so little difference between running rubber and sponge tyres.
Posted 14 April 2005 - 08:37 AM
i was going to use tape on my track but am having second thoughts my track is going to be stored outside under a pergola, and while i will put a cloth over it will still cop a bit of temperture changes.
what if there where expansion joins in the copper tape? (sort of like what they do with train tracks.)
what kind of glue is used to hold down the braid or does it come with sticky on one side?
do you guys paint the entire track then stick down the tape, or tape onto bare MDF then paint around it?
Ren's 3 lane routed track with analogue pits and 2 car sudden death.
Posted 14 April 2005 - 01:10 PM
Posted 14 April 2005 - 10:13 PM
Posted 07 July 2007 - 10:54 AM
Just wondering what ferador (spelling?) is actually used for normally? is that blackboard paint? or is it something completely different?
I'm in planning on a routed track myself, and opting to go with braid, however i have been trying to find alternate solutions, to the point of even using long lengths of 5-mm copper tubing, so it would form and sit nicely into a groove and be a lot harder wearing. (copper tubing of various diameters from plumbing or supplies etc).
I also considered running something thinner like maybe 2-3mm solid copper wire, but wonder how many problems i would have with the braid-pickups making contact (although my experience with AFX track that using only 1mm rails works great).
I realise the copper tubing or wire would be somewhat more expensive, but it would basically never need maintenance compared to braid and especially copper-foil.
Regarding braid, would it be better to use a tinned braid rather than plain copper? avoiding corrosion etc?
I have several 100's meters of Video coax cable (broadcast use) that i can strip the outer coating easily, but the braid is tinned....i'm also considering just leaving the inner core inside, so it'd be a solid round length of braid that would fit nicely into the routs, just like tubing would.
Thoughts anyone ????
Thanx in advance,
Posted 07 July 2007 - 11:14 AM
You should be able to by braid cheaper than copper tube and a lot less work. The idea of using Coax shield is not new. I raced on a track years ago there this had been used,the guy was an installer so had plenty.I looked at it for my track but was just too lazy to strip it all. I would remove the inner so the braid will lay flat and about 6mm wide. Tinned or copper does not make any difference. Peter at Mobile Raceways can supply tinned braid at a good price so check with him before you start.
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Antoina Chapman had begun to make plans to go to church on Sunday, accompanied by her youngest brother Anderson Orlando Andy Ragga Grandison.
The 49-year-old Grandison was planning to reform his life and his sister was holding his hands and encouraging him.
A drug addict for nearly 15 years, he had promised his 54-year-old sister that he wanted to change and it was meant to be a celebratory event for the Watermill Place, Bayville, St Michael family.
However, tragedy struck Thursday night as the renowned "life of the party" became Barbados' 11th road fatality for the year, topping the ten recorded for all of last year.
The youngest among seven siblings, Grandison was making his way to his sister's home for dinner when his bicycle collided with a car driven by 39-year-old Joe-Anne Roberts along Culloden Road, St Michael.
Grandison died at the scene, having suffered a broken neck among other injuries.
Chapman last saw her brother the previous night. They had walked together across the Bayville pasture to his childhood home in Chelston Avenue.
It was during that walk that Grandison promised to turn his life around.
"He walked with me and said he would come to church on Sunday. He said he bring a pants and shirt down here and he want me to wash it and press it for him; that he is coming to church on Sunday.
"That was the last time I spoke to my brother," a teary-eyed Chapman told Barbados TODAY in the presence of her daughter Alecia Chapman and niece Marie-Anne Davis.
Chapman's face betrayed her pain and she openly wept as she recalled her brother's desire to go into farming if he were able to break his drug habit.
"He said, 'I'm going to change my life because I'm not smoking any more dope. If I get any fruit trees and I can get money, I would get money to keep in my pocket.'"
Aside from the drug problem, Chapman told Barbados TODAY everyone liked her youngest brother –– who she described as a jovial and humorous character –– and very few had anything negative to say about him.
"He is a very loving man and he loved his family, he loved to crack jokes and even if you vex, he would say or do something to make you laugh. You have to laugh, you can't be mad."
Raised in New York by his father David Grandison from the age of eleven, Ragga led a fulfilling life, working at the Government printery and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
But he would fall victim to illegal drugs, becoming addicted to cocaine. However, this did nothing to get in the way of the relationship which the father of one enjoyed with his family and relatives.
He was close to his niece Marie-Anne Davis, with whom he shared the same birthday, and who broke down as the reality struck home that Grandison had died. Still in disbelief, Davis said not once did she ever think her uncle would become a road accident statistic.
"He didn't deserve to die the way how he died," Davis cried. "My uncle wasn't bad, he just had a drug problem."
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Sunday, November 27, 1994
Columbus Dispatch profiles Richard Grayson in "Bookends" Column
The Columbus Dispatch today (Sunday, November 27, 1994) features a Bookends column by Dispatch book critic George Myers Jr. on Richard Grayson. The arts section page one teaser for the article: "Fiction writer Richard Grayson finds a second career -- one with more notability -- by lampooning the press and the nation's fascination with celebrity."
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Saturday, November 12, 1994
Richard Grayson column in Orlando Sentinel: "Nothing Like a Matinee on Sundays"
Richard Grayson has a column in the Orlando Sentinel today (Saturday, November 12, 1994): "Nothing Like a Matinee on Sundays."
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Thursday, November 3, 1994
Florida Dollar Stretcher, African-American newspaper, endorses Richard Grayson for Congress
The African-American newspaper The Florida Dollar Stretcher today (Thursday, November 3, 1994) endorsed Richard Grayson for Congress. Grayson is running as a write-in candidate in Florida's Ninth Congressional District.
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Clustering IBM® Mobile Portal Accelerator(MPA) 7.0
This article is titled as Clustering IBM® Mobile Portal Accelerator ® (hereafter referred to as MPA). It demonstrates the comprehensive step-by-step description to build Vertical/Horizontal cluster for the MPA 7.0 on AIX with DB2 as the database on an existing Portal cluster. It's targeted for testers and customers who are interested in building scalable/High availability solutions on MPA. It is presumed that the reader of the article has a basic understanding of the IBM® WebSphere Portal ® and WebSphere Portal Clustering.
IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator (formerly IBM WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable) software is increasingly becoming the key component in many industries like telecommunications, banking, finance, insurance and retail. It extends the capabilities of the IBM WebSphere Portal product to an almost limitless range of mobile devices. It provides Web contents, services and applications to mobile devices while maintaining the benefits and advantages of a portal Web site. These benefits include:
· On-screen application integration
· Single sign-on
· Separation of logic, layout, and branding
· Administration using a powerful and easy to use graphical user interface
MPA is an extension of WebSphere Portal and it is assumed that, the reader already has a working portal cluster
See the detailed system requirements document at the following URL:
Variable names used in the document
This section lists the variable names and their associated directory paths
was_root - /usr/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer (default path used while installation)
wp_profile_root - /usr/IBM/WebSphere/wp_profile (default path used while installation)
wp_root - /usr/IBM/WebSphere/PortalServer (default path used while installation)
db_root - Value specified for the home directory selected during DB2 installation.
db2instance - DB2® instance user.
Installing MPA on Clustered Environment
This section of the article covers setting up the environment for MPA cluster by using existing WebSphere Portal cluster as mentioned above in pre-requisites. It covers the steps for preparing WebSphere Portal for Server (MCS), Preparing DB2 for MCS, Installing MCS application and finally installing the Mobile Portal Accelerator.
Preparing the WebSphere Portal for MCS
Before you begin installing MPA cluster on existing WebSphere Portal Server cluster, make sure its up and running with no errors/issues.
In order to ensure you have WebSphere Portal running with no errors/exceptions, open the WebSphere Portal Admin page using the browser and login as the Portal admin user and view pages and look into following logs to confirm same.
· <wp_profile_root /logs/WebSphere_Portal/SystemOut.log
· <wp_profile_root /logs/WebSphere_Portal/SystemErr.log
The following APAR's must be installed in WebSphere Portal 22.214.171.124 before you begin the process of installing the Mobile Portal Accelerator:* PM21400* PM21490* PM21540Creating the MPA install image
Unpack the file wp.mobile.zip which is used to create Multi-Channel Server (MCS) and Mobile Portal Accelerator install images on your WebSphere Portal server. Use an archive utility to unzip wp.mobile.zip to the /tmp directory. Install MCS and Mobile Portal Accelerator images as a ConfigEngine assembly using the following command:
./ConfigEngine.sh -install -assemblyIudd sdd.xml -assemblyRoot /tmp/wp.mobile -installLocation /IBM/WebSphere -offeringName PortalServer
Preparing the DB2 database for MCS
MCS requires a separate and distinct database other than the existing databases for WebSphere Portal. The database can reside on the same machine where the cluster node is created or it can reside on a remote machine. Perform the following steps to create and configure the db
su - db2instance_userID
db2 create db mcs using codeset UTF-8 territory us
db2 update db cfg for mcs using logfilsiz 10000 logprimary 10 logsecond 10
db2 connect to mcs user db2instance_userID using db2instance_password
db2 -tf create_vm_tables.sql
Perform the following steps to install MCS on WebSphere Portal server.
db_root/ db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc.jar (for DB2 version 9.1 (with fix pack 5) or 9.5 (with fix pack 3))
db_root/ db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc4.jar (for DB2 version 9.7 )
db_root/ db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc_license_cu.jar
Note: Later in this procedure, you will add these files to the CLASSPATH environment variable and to the JDBC_DRIVER parameter in the ImportPolicies.sh shell script.
Example entries follow.
db_root/ db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc.jar (for DB2 version 9.1 (with fix pack 5) or 9.5 (with fix pack 3))
db_root/ db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc4.jar (for DB2 version 9.7 )
db_root/ db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc_license_cu.jar
Follow the same step for all the WebSphere Portal servers in the portal cluster.
. setupCmdLine.sh
Note: There is a space between the period (.) and the rest of the command.
./ConfigEngine.sh init mcs-deploy-mcs -DMcsRepositoryType=odbc
-DMcsDbVendor=db_vendor -DMcsDbHost=hostname -DMcsDbPort=port_number -DMcsDbSource=db_name -DMcsDbUser=db2instance
-DMcsDbPassword=db2instance_password -DMcsProject=mobile-portal
· db_vendor: "db2-type4" for DB2
· hostname: the fully qualified host name of the database server.
· port_number: the port number used by the JDBC applet ("net") driver on the database server for the MCS database. Use "50000" unless another application (including another database instance) is already using that port.
· db_name: the name of the Multi-Channel Server database
· db2instance: the user ID of the DB2 instance user.
· db2instance_password: the DB2 instance password for the MCS database
· mobile-portal must be the project name for installing MCS which will be "mobile-portal"
Note: Make sure CLASSPATH environment variables contain the DB2 specific jars i.e. db_root/db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc.jar (for DB2 version 9.1 fix pack5) or 9.5fix pack3)
db_root/ db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc4.jar (for DB2 version 9.7)
db_root/ db2instance /sqllib/java/db2jcc_license_cu.jar
for version 9.1 (with fix pack 5) or 9.5 (with fix pack 3)
for version 9.7
./ConfigEngine.sh init mcs-import-devices -DMcsProject=mobile-portal
Note: It should be "mobile-portal" as project name as it is the root project for MPA.
./ConfigEngine.sh init mcs-config-cluster-secondary-node -DMcsRepositoryType=odbc
-DMcsDbVendor=db_vendor -DMcsDbHost=hostname -DMcsDbPort=port_number
-DMcsDbSource=db_name -DMcsDbUser=db2instance
-DmcsDbPassword=db2instance_password -DMcsProject=mobile-portal
Note: Use the same parameter values which are used to in the above step 5
Note: Don't run the mcs-import-device on secondary node as the MCS data is already imported to the database in step 7.
10. Login to Deployment Manager Admin Console and click Full Resynchronize for both cluster members/nodes.
. setupCmdLine.sh
./ConfigEngine.sh mwp-config-cluster-primary-node
./ConfigEngine.sh mwp-import-policies
./ConfigEngine.sh mwp-import-portlet-policies
./ConfigEngine.sh mwp-config-cluster-secondary-node
./ConfigEngine.sh mwp-config-vertical-cluster-secondary-node
For example, if vertical cluster has three instances (WP01, WP02 and WP03), run the following commands: ./ConfigEngine.sh mwp-config-vertical-cluster-secondary-node -DServerName=WP02
./ConfigEngine.sh mwp-config-vertical-cluster-secondary-node -DServerName=WP03
Note: Importing aggregator policies and portlet policies (step 3&4 above) is not required for secondary nodes.
./ConfigEngine.sh mwp-config-cluster-all
./ConfigEngine.sh activate-portlets
· In the Integrated Solutions Console, click Applications > Application Types > WebSphere enterprise applications > MPATheme > Manage modules. A list of mappings is displayed.
· In the Clusters and servers list, select Portal Cluster and the HTTP server (which is added as an unmanaged node). Use the Ctrl key to select multiple targets.
· Click Apply.
· Save the configuration changes.
· Restart the HTTP server.
Verifying MPA cluster
Login to mobile portal using a browser and if the user succeeds in viewing Manage mobile page under Administration, as shown in Figure1,the MPA installation has gone fine.
Figure 1. Mobile portal administration page in portal
One can access the same portal url from any mobile, the mobile portal login page should look like below Figure 2:
Figure 2. Mobile portal login page when portal accessed through mobile or mobile simulator
This article demonstrates how to build a MPA cluster using Multi Channel Server and Mobile WebSphere Portal components to build High availability and Scalability solution.
· More about Mobile Portal Accelerator 7 product and purposes (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/mpadoc/v7r0m0/index.jsp)
· Visit the Multi-Channel Server Information Center to learn more about MCS. (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/mpadoc/v7r0m0/topic/com.volantis.mcs.eclipse.doc/mcs/mcs_help.html


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Jusssssst squeezing in by the end of the month by the skins of my teeth, here's a new Quickie animation (one knocked up in hours so don't expect too much in other words). It's short, simple and in poor taste (you have been warned) so check out our new friend BD Bear....
Monday, 31 August 2009
Fancy a Quickie?
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Thursday, 6 August 2009
Lovebytes Episode 5: the Chuckinator
Our new animation is here! The fifth (and possibly final) installment in the Lovebytes series, this features a new interpretation of the character of The Chuckinator as seen in the Big Brother animation. Watch it here or click here to get the podcast version. If you already subscribed to the podcast it should download automatically next time you log in to itunes/your podcatcher software of choice.
More animations
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Labels: animations, podcasts (MPZTV), site news
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
The State Of Things.
Just checking in to let you know where 'things' are 'at'. Well I've got numerous things in the works, and one animation is so close you can taste it. And it tastes of chicken. Mmmmmmm. So that should be hitting within days. After that I will be doing on another musical promo, plus several other things that I don't feel ready to reveal yet... but watch this space. Plus plenty of the usual nonsense will be coming your way too.
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Featured Recipe: Fruit Bruschetta
Are you looking for some signs of spring? This fresh fruit bruschetta by Rhodes blogger Tiffany is sure to brighten things up at your home! Click here to read the full article...
Since the weather has not been cooperating in Utah, I decided it was time to bring Spring to my home with fresh fruit! I asked my sweet niece Avery to help me with this delicious recipe, because my children are all of the Canine persuasion.
This recipe is super easy, and perfect for an after school snack.
6 Rhodes Warm-N-Serv™ Crusty Rolls, thawed
2 tablespoons butter, melted
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
fresh diced, strawberries, pineapple & kiwi
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
All you need is to grab a bag of Rhodes Crusty Rolls and set them out on the counter to thaw. The great thing about these rolls is that they are already partially baked, so there is no rise time.
After the rolls thawed (about 30 min) I cut them into 4 pieces each. I did cut off the tiniest bit off the end of each roll, so they would sit flat on my baking sheet.
Avery brushed each roll piece with melted butter.
Then she sprinkled (I use this term loosely) them with the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Next we put them in our pre-heated 400° F oven for 5-10 minutes. Remember, the longer you bake them, the crispier they will become.
While the rolls were baking, we diced up (and taste tested) some fresh kiwi, pineapple and strawberries.
Isn't that just pretty?
Mix the fruit together, and set aside. We had a separate mixture for Avery, because she doesn't like Kiwi.
We pulled the rolls out of the oven, and placed them on a cooling rack. You will notice I put wax-paper under the rack for easy clean-up.
While the rolls were cooling I zested 1 lemon and then juiced it. If you're not familiar with what zesting a lemon means, it's just grating off the outer portion of the peel. You can get a fancy doo-dad like in the picture, or a small grater works just fine too.
Avery mixed sour cream, honey, and the lemon zest and juice to make a yummy citrus topping for our bruschetta.
All we have left is assembly. Put one tablespoon of fruit mixture on each bruschetta, and then drizzle on the citrus topping. You will notice from the photo that the wax paper was a great idea!
Now just eat and enjoy a delicious snack with your family!
I think that's a thumb's up from Avery. This was definitely fast and easy, yet pretty and delicious too. I think you'll want to try this recipe soon!
Fruit BruschettaServings: | Skills: Beginning | Prep Time: 20 min (not including thaw time) | Bake Time: 10 min
Celebrate Spring with this easy to make Fruit Bruschetta, delicious and bursting with flavor.Fruit Bruschetta
6 Rhodes Warm-N-Serv® Artisan French Rolls, thawed
2 tablespoons butter, melted
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
fresh diced, strawberries, pineapple & kiwi
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Slice crusty rolls into 1/2-inch thick slices. Place on a baking sheet and brush with melted butter.
Combine sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over slices.
Bake at 400°F 5-10 minutes or until edges are toasted. Set aside to cool.
Place strawberries, pineapple and kiwi in a bowl and toss gently to combine. Place about 1 tablespoon fruit mixture on top of each toasted roll slice.
Combine sour cream, honey, lemon zest and lemon juice and mix well. Drizzle over fruit.


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If you need help with your Diana Initiative 2019 soldering projects, check here for help.
Featuring multiple speaker tracks, fully expanded villages and hands-on workshops, and a women-led Capture the Flag event.
Our mission is to:
Encourage diversity and support women who want to pursue careers in information security,
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Help change workplace cultures.
Thank you to everyone who supported and attended our 2019 event! We're currently busy planning for 2020; updates will be made when ready. Keep up with the Diana Initiative spirit [through Twitter] until then.
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We are known for our quality and variety of speakers, carefully chosen each year. And thanks to our larger venue, we have room and time enough for nearly 60 different talks and workshops. Because of this, we are proud to feature a multitude of first-time event speakers, in a safe and supportive environment.See who presented with us for 2019 >>


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BCBG Max Azria vs Topshop
At Spring Ready-to-Wear 2009 fashion show trendy playsuit available at their shops for BCBG Max Azria offered a nice dark blue playsuist with $288 price, sandals cost $325 and clutch — $358! While at Topshop you can find a similar one for a less money, just for $90:
To complete the look you need a red clutch and high-heeled sandals!
At Topshop red clutch is available only for $48:
and sandals for $125 and for $135
Enjoy your playsuits!
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Falcons re-sign defensive end Derrick Shelby to 1-year deal
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons have re-signed defensive end Derrick Shelby to a one-year contract.
The Falcons released the 29-year-old Shelby on March 2.
Shelby signed a four-year, $18 million deal, with $7.5 million guaranteed, with Atlanta in 2016 after spending his first four seasons in Miami. The details of his new deal were not immediately available.
Shelby played in 16 games in 2017 and had 30 tackles with one sack. He has 10 career sacks in six seasons.
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Liverpool signing Roberto Firmino has set his sights on capturing the Premier League title ahead of a move from Hoffenheim.
Brazilian playmaker Firmino, who scored seven goals and registered 10 assists in the Bundesliga last term, is on international duty at the Copa America tournament in Chile yet was confirmed as a Liverpool player earlier in June for a fee believed to be in the region of £29m ($32m), according to the BBC.
Brendan Rodgers's side endured a frustrating 2014-15 campaign, failing to retain their place in the top four following Luis Suarez's move to Barcelona, losing two domestic cup semi-finals and ending the season with a hugely demoralising 6-1 drubbing at the hands of Stoke City.
Such failures appear to have galvanised the club into making swift changes early on this summer, with the under-pressure Rodgers acting quickly and decisively to reshape his squad by completing deals for Burnley striker Danny Ings, experienced midfielder James Milner, Bolton goalkeeper Adam Bogdan and highly rated Charlton defender Joe Gomez.
Firmino, set to sign a five-year deal subject to a routine medical, is the secod most expensive signing ever made by Liverpool, behind Andy Carroll, and the 23-year-old has since spoken of his desire to compete for regular silverware at Anfield.
"It is time to leave Hoffenheim for a bigger club to fight for titles, but for now I am concentrated on the Copa," he told German sports magazine Kicker as relayed by ESPN.
Emre Can pleased with the new signing
Unsurprisingly, the impending arrival of Firmino appears to have boosted the spirits of Liverpool's current squad, with midfielder Emre Can expressing his joy at the transfer. He said: "I am looking forward to playing with him. He will help us greatly with his qualities."
Despite the considerable outlay to bring in Firmino, it seems Liverpool are hoping to strengthen further still during the upcoming transfer window.
PA Sport suggests Sevilla striker Carlos Bacca and Zenit St Petersburg's Salomon Rondon remain in their sights. However, a move for Christian Benteke is now unlikely after the club appeared to baulk at his £32.5m release clause.
One deal that does appear to be progressing quickly, though, is England right-back Nathaniel Clyne moving to Merseyside.
According to the Liverpool Echo, Southampton have accepted an improved £12.5m offer for the player who has been given permission to discuss personal terms.
ESPN reported earlier in June that Manchester United had reignited their pursuit of Clyne after Dani Alves agreed to extend his contract at Barcelona, yet it appears they are set to miss out on another right-back.


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IMDb Rating: 5.9/10
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Simon Kinberg
Release Date: 7 June 2019
Star Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
Movie Story: Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix. Now the X-Men will have to decide if the life of a team member is worth more than all the people living in the world.
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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by colchiro, Sep 22, 2011.
LauncherPro Forum • View topic - webOS card emulation
Yes and no.
Yes because it's awesome, no because I am not sure how it would work with widgets (I am a big fan of widgets).
Still would like to see it and play with it.
You're missing the point. If you have an Android device, just press and hold the "home" button and you'll get an icon for every app that's been opened since your last reboot.
Take that same concept and instead show bigger screenshots for those apps (maybe just the last 5 or so) and let the user scroll thru them. Not too hard to switch to that app with a touch or remove it from the list or actually terminate it with a "toss".
No icons or widgets were harmed during this emulation. They're still on your regular screens.
oh then I am all for it, thank you for explaining it 'old wise one'
I freakin' love the card system in WebOS.
Just like I thought the window shade concept was almost the perfect way to handle notifications on phones when Android introduced it, I think the card system is almost the perfect way to handle multitasking on tablets.
All for it. Best feature of the touchpad. This is what drives me to use the touchpad over the iPad.
Unfortunately I doubt they'll do it. I see this feature has been requested before.
Perfect Task Switcher shows some potential but seems to need some work.
I am in love with WebOs; it has a lot of hiccups... but, Android could learn a lot from the user experience found in the WebOs experience. I still find myself using my android phone like I use my Hp Touchpad's WebOs...


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Hope all is well?!...Time just keeps flying on by, doesn't it?! ;)
Just a short and sweet post today.
I'm up on A Jillian Vance Design blog and would love for you to swing on by! Here's a little peek of my card.
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What does loving someone feel like?
I asked myself this. Again and again. I was younger, not much younger, and I hadn't yet felt what my heart was capable of. I have learned something since then. It was accidental learning; it was unlessoned learning, it seems like it is a knowledge which landed on me suddenly and from somewhere else.
I'm glad it did. I'm better for it. I never wanted to spend the rest of my life wrapped in the skills I had acquired hiding from pain and abuse. They came in handy as I sat cross-legged in the backyard with my brother listening to police sirens blare by our front door. I became skilled at receding, at ignoring, at crying without caring I was crying, at feeling merciless, a merciless daughter refusing to blame a father, refusing to hate a mother, refusing to feel for fear of feeling the wrong things. I was skilled at saving my pain up until the right moment, so I was never crippled, so I could always succeed, or appear to succeed. I was skilled at surviving. Watching my brother just barely survive. I could turn my love for my father off as if it were tied to a switch because doing so helped me turn off the self-doubt and the self-hatred which he insisted I keep. And I am skilled today, at rerouting my own emotions, as if my neural pathways are railway tracks. It is so simple for me to pull a lever and welcome anger instead of sadness. Apathy instead of heartbreak. I am still skilled at that. There is a process for it. I wonder if the process is unique to me, or how many others can understand it. It is like a wave; it starts in the back of my head, and then moves forward to where my forehead is. This stops the crying. The wave moves down my neck, easing the tightness, and into my chest, easing my lungs. This stops the feeling. The process only takes two to three seconds. And then I talk and my voice is normal and clear; and then I walk and my hands are not shaking; and then I can choose exactly when to reverse the process and pay the price for doing it.
I believe that during the worst of it all I went months at a time washed out like this. I thought it was funny how easy it was to exist in this state, and I congratulated myself on it. I thought my face looked funny in the mirror, a hard line at my lips and even, unblinking eyes.
I had a recurring desire to scream my lungs out. But I could never find the right place. If I screamed in the streets the lights in the houses would turn on and someone would call the police. If I screamed in a field a jogger would try to save me and stop me. If I screamed in my house, in my school, in a restaurant, I would never get away with it. Sometimes I tried- they were silent screams filled with air. My fists would ball and my mouth would widen until my jaw popped and wouldn't un-pop, and the veins in my neck would bulge over the sound of a whisper. Other times I indulged in half-formed, nervous screams which could be muffled by my pillow. I didn't want to be found out. I only allowed myself one or two good shrieks, grinded out between my teeth; toes curling. And there was the one time I guess I left my body. The screams left my mouth without my permission, without my command. My aunt was in the car with me. She must have been afraid. But I only felt regret, afterwards, that my consciousness had returned and stopped me from continuing.
But I'll tell you something. I found victory, years after that. I used my body to carry me across a spit of land onto the point of an island; step after step along the caldera, until I reached a small white church on the top of a hill. And in front of this church was a ledge and I climbed that ledge. And there was no one around; no one around for a mile, and more perfectly there was a strong wind which battered my body and made me fear for my life on the ledge above the water. And I stood there- I stood my ground against that wind while the sun was setting and turning my vision orange, wind, hair covering my eyes, turning my vision black, and I finally did scream my lungs out.
I screamed and whooped and shrieked and was not afraid that someone would hear me. I heard me. And it was a sound I had been wanting to release for almost my whole life. No one could take it away from me. Only the wind; which did, it swept the sound far out over the sea seconds after it passed through my ears. And I thank the wind for letting me hear every decibel, and for being wise enough to know they shouldn't be allowed to linger. Below me I could see a town called Oia, and I screamed and screamed and wanted them to be afraid, wanted them to believe there was a banshee in their hills by their church far above their houses, wanted someone to turn from their work to listen for a still second, wondering if they had heard something in the air. I wanted the cars winding by the coast on the other side of the point to hear me and know they could do nothing to reach me.
And I'll tell you something else. I found victory, a year before that, over my heartlessness. I fell in love for the first time. And that love was a physical feeling too, but unlike a wave. Like a dust, a light, a shimmering cloud of spores or particles. It is a different process. It starts somewhere near my ribcage and proceeds to fill my whole chest like a vessel. And then it collects, until it forms its own vortex, as in a wind tunnel, which grips my heart and pulls it towards my lover. And that's what loving someone feels like, physically feels like, which I regard when I look in the mirror, and see my rounded lips and kind eyes smiling back at me.
My old skills are vestiges of a life before love; and I use them without meaning to in the same way that people check their doorsteps for dead people. And I hate the wave and how easy it is to feel everything being washed away. It is so much easier to live with resentment than disappointment. But now every time I turn my feelings off I am more and more afraid I will get stuck that way, or perhaps, the worst fear of all, that this is my natural state and that love is the learned behavior. But I know which one I pored over and cultivated. I know which one I practiced over and over it again. It makes it harder to get rid of. But now I know what the alternative is- now I've finally felt it. Unlearning this will be difficult. But I'm in luck. Unfeeling my love can only ever be impossible. /


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Heat Maps
Click on "Hostspot Location" on the left column, and then click on "Heat Maps".
Click on each tab on top of the map to establish the dates you want the heat map to display (year, month, day, hour).
On the left column you can select if you want the heat map to only show clients, workers or all.
The icon on the left corner, allows you to choose if you want an indoor, street or satellite view.
To facilitate visual comprehension of your heat map, use your mouse to zoom-in or zoom-out with the + and – signs, or click and drag to move towards any direction.
Click on "Hostspot Location" and then click on "Zones". On the top right corner select the venue you wish to see in detail. If you wish to add a zone, click on "New Zone".
For your new zone, select a Floor, name your Zone and click "Save"
Once you have all the zones you need, click on any one to analyze.
Below, you will see the areas you have delimited within your venue. For each one, click on Stats on the right to obtain the information.
On the top middle part of your page you can choose the dates you need. You may select different options of information you wish the graph to draw (Visits per day, Avg. time/visit, Total time per zone).
Under the graph, you can click on the different options to compare your results.
Also try dragging your mouse on top of the graph to obtain information.


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VCU scored early and often in game two on its way to a 19-1 victory against Virginia State. The Rams, who plated runs in every inning but the sixth, improve to 27-20-1, while the Trojans slip to 25-24 on the season.
Junior Joe Van Meter went 4-for-4 with eight RBI, including a pair of doubles, two homers and three runs scored in the nightcap. Gonzalez finished 3-for-3 with four runs and a RBI, while senior M.L. Morgan (right) went 3-for-5 and scored two runs.
Freshman Ryan Farrar tossed four shutout innings with four strikeouts and collected his third win of the season for the Rams. Classmate Brennan Huelse and Van Meter each tossed a scoreless inning in relief.
The Black & Gold plated three runs on just one hit and set the tone early in the bottom of the first. Senior Matt Leskiw and Van Meter walked, and Gonzalez was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out. Junior John Lenherr put the Rams on top with a RBI ground out before Gonzalez stole home and sophomore Brent Mikionis doubled off the left field wall to put VCU ahead, 3-0.
The Rams sent 10 batters to the plate and scored four more runs in the second. Van Meter, who hit his sixth home run of the season, and Kime each drove in two runs apiece, while Leskiw and Gonzalez both collected a RBI.
VCU added two more runs in the third and batted around for the second time in the fourth to go on top 16-0.
Van Meter, whose eight RBI were one shy of tying the program's single-game record, hit his second home run of the day in the fifth and extended VCU's lead to 19-0 before former Ram Shawn McEnhimer's RBI groundout in the sixth put Virginia State on the board.
VCU will resume Colonial Athletic Association play with a three-game series at George Mason University beginning Friday, May 14 at 3 p.m.


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Update: While the Featured Apps section is still broken, Apple appears to have fixed the App Store bug for pre-iOS 4 devices.
Is this the beginning of the end for old iOS devices? If you're still using one of Apple's older models, you might not have the latest hardware or software platform, but you still expect that you can download most apps. However, owners of devices that are still on iOS 3.1.3 or earlier are reporting that App Store apps will no longer install or update.
The bug appears to be universal and has something to do with the App Store. An Apple support thread is filling up with complaints from frustrated customers who have been getting the run-around from Apple. The most common response is along the lines of "you have reached a customer support agent and we don't handle technical issues. Refer to these support pages for help." Apple is brilliant at referring you to simple instructions for problems that you can solve, but when they screw something up, it's difficult to get through.
The first question is whether this was an intentional move to force owners of older devices to upgrade. As Apple has yet to officially respond, we can't say for sure. It's more likely that it related to a security update that Apple didn't bother applying to pre-iOS 4 firmware. If this is the case, then it isn't quite a case of blocking older devices, but it's close; failing to test App Store updates on older devices is nearly the same thing.
Does Apple have an obligation to fix this bug? It's understandable that it wouldn't want to support three (or more) year-old devices, but the App Store is the central hub of everything you do on your old iPhone and iPod touch. Look on Craigslist or eBay and you'll see many an iPhone 3G, original iPhone, and early iPod touch floating around. If you cut off App Store access, you're rendering some of those devices almost useless.
In addition to owners of older devices, the issue is also snubbing developers. While the percentage of devices on pre-iOS 4 firmware is relatively low, it still represents a significant amount of money that devs won't be seeing.
If you're having the issue, you can try flooding Apple's support pages and hope something sticks. Now that the issue is making headlines, though, it's likely that Apple is aware. That doesn't necessarily mean they'll do anything about it, but it's possible.
One solution does exist: sideload the apps through iTunes. You would, of course, have to get the apps from the iTunes Store, then sync them onto your device. It's a clunky solution that is positively un-Apple-like, but it works.
While you'd have much to gain by upgrading to a new device, we wouldn't recommend that response to this issue. Wouldn't you prefer your hardware upgrades to be a matter of choice, rather than necessity?
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Western Islamists Scare the Hell Out of Syrian Refugees
WIB politics November 10, 2016 War Is Boring 0
They just risked death to escape from extremists
by KEVIN KNODELL
During his campaign, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump talked up the threat of Syrian refugees turning out to be terrorists in disguise. On top of that, the Republican candidate called for complete ban on Muslims entering the United States "until we can figure out what's going on."
As the world faces the largest refugee crisis in human history, many Americans and Europeans look at the outside world with fear. But many of those fleeing Syria are just as afraid of hard-line Islamists.
After risking death to escape from extremists, refugees arrived in their new homes only to find the same sort of radicals already recruiting Muslims. After getting caught in the crossfire across the political spectrum, many refugees worry if there's any realistic way to get away from radical ideologies.
In October 2016, Syrian refugee Hani Salam told Reuters he went to a Mosque in the city of Cologne. He found the congregation was full of beards and clothes that reminded him of Jaish Al Islam, the Islamist militant group that took over his hometown near Damascus and drove him to flee.
"Good Muslims grow beards, not moustaches," one of the Mosque-goers allegedly told Salam, in apparent disapproval for the refugee's facial hair. "Everything about this mosque made me feel uneasy," Salam said.
There are good reasons for Salam's concerns. Short on sources of funding, some Arab mosques in Germany have turned to wealthy Saudi financiers who in turn want to advance strict Salafist interpretations of Islam.
"The message is clear and is directed at us Muslims: 'Don't you dare interpret your religion. Take the Koran word for word.' It's a problem," Abed Al Hafian explained to Reuters about going to a Mosque in Berlin. He stressed that he'd never heard these sorts of messages back in Syria before the conflict.
Many Syrian refugees reluctantly attended Arab mosques in Germany out of a desire to worship in their own language. A large number of German mosques serve members of Turkish community in their native tongue.
In spite of the language problem, many Syrians are now opting to join the Turkish congregations. The new arrivals say these mosques don't try to control them or promote radicalism.
At the same time, German law enforcement and intelligence agencies are watching Salafist mosques that might target refugees for recruitment. This added scrutiny provokes other fears among refugees and their hosts.
In October 2016, three Syrians subdued fellow refugee Jaber Al Bakr when they learned he was a terror suspect and turned him over to German police offices. "I was so angry at him," one of the refugees told a local TV station. "I won't accept such a thing — especially here in Germany, the country that opened its door to us."
Al Bakr committed suicide while in custody in the city of Leipzig. We don't know whether foreign terrorists pushed Al Bakr to act. His friends and relatives in Germany accused ultra-conservative imams in Berlin of brainwashing him.
In July 2016, another Syrian refugee, Mohammed Daleel blew himself up at a music festival in Ansbach. The bomber only succeeded in killing himself, but the attack did injure another 15 people. Though Daleel left behind a video declaring his allegiance to Islamic State, it's not clear what, if any connection he had to the terrorist group.
Of course, Islamic State does see a benefits from feeding Western fears of refugees as it plays well into their stated strategy of "destroying the gray zone." But these displaced persons aren't actually the most attractive terrorist recruits for terror networks.
Terrorist screeds repeatedly denounce them as apostates — not true Muslims — and cowards for fleeing. Instead, in Europe, Islamic State appears to focus resources on recruiting western citizens with ties to crime.
Compared to refugees, westerners with European passports draw less attention and can move around with ease. And planning attacks is easier if you already know your way around a specific city or region.
Those with ties to the criminal underworld in theory already have the skills and connections to get funds, gather supplies and evade authorities. BuzzFeed journalist Mitch Prothero interviewed several European criminal investigators about their hunt for elusive Islamic State cells.
Prothero found these police officers were less concerned with refugees than with career criminals. Unlike recent arrivals, these individuals could already navigate the regional black markets, acquire weapons from Eastern European gun runners and were more comfortable with violence.
These gangsters regularly defy stereotypes about Islamist radicals. They're the sorts of Muslims who go to nightclubs, drink alcohol, use drugs and very much enjoy pursuing forbidden sexual pleasures outside of marriage.
Many of these would-be terrorists rationalize their vices under the notion that martyrdom will give them a clean slate. They typically absorb radical ideas through internet propaganda or from friends rather than through their local mosques.
For some, that leads them to Syria — moving against the wave of refugees trying to flee. Many of these western jihadists have actually helped fuel the refugee crisis.
It's ironic that many refugees have fled their countries only to run into the same kinds of people that drove them out. In October 2016, the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence at King's College London released a report detailing this "gangster jihad" in Europe.
The study "challenges long-held assumptions about radicalization, recruitment, and how to counter terrorism," the researchers wrote in a statement. "Criminal and terrorist groups have come to recruit from the same pool of people, creating (often unintended) synergies."
But in the United States, Islamist extremist groups have approached recruitment much differently. In part, that's because American Muslims have had a very different experience than European Muslims.
Despite post 9/11 anxieties, Muslims in the United States have in general integrated much more seamlessly into American society than in Europe. It helps that on average American Muslims tend to have reasonably high levels of education and live comfortably middle class lives.
That's not to say that there aren't radical elements. Rather than focusing on criminals as in Europe, in the United States terror recruiters seem to focus on socially isolated loners and misfits — but ones with clean criminal records.
Al Qaeda and Islamic State have argue that any recruits can take advantage of America's tradition of legal gun ownership. American jihadists don't need to rely on the black market arms networks their European counterparts rely on.
Much like in Europe, in the United States, recruiters tend to use social media and internet propaganda to influence potential followers. Islamic terrorist groups have repeatedly sought out American-born and other English-speaking spokesmen to speak directly to prospective American audiences.
Perhaps the most influential of these was Anwar Al Awlaki, who rose to become a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda's branch's in Yemen. The New Mexico-native actively corresponded with future bombers and gunmen, including Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hassan.
In 2011, the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency killed Awlaki in a drone strike. Al Qaeda and other groups continued to share his English-language rants and sermons.
Even in death, Awlaki has a central figure in the radicalization of western jihadists, perhaps most notably Orlando shooter Omar Mateen. After learning of Mateen's fascination with the radical cleric in 2014, Florida entrepreneur Mohamed Malik alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
With no evidence that Mateen was planning an actual terrorist attack, agents abandoned their investigation. Two years later, the security guard killed nearly 50 people in the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
Awlaki's propaganda came up again during an investigation into a group of Somali American youths who tried to sign up with Islamic State in Syria convicted this year. Abdirizak Warsame, the leader of the cell, told authorities he began watching the English-language videos because he couldn't understand the sermons at his own mosque where Imam's spoke their native language.
Warsame, now in Federal Custody, told CBS news in October that his parents would never have approved of his deep dive into Awlaki's world had they known what he was doing on his computer.
That's why many Muslims, both in the West and in predominantly Muslim countries, advocate "counter-messaging" as a central focus of anti-extremism efforts.
Maajid Nawaz, a controversial former British Islamist, radio personality and head of the counter-extremism think-tank Quilliam, has stressed that while military and law enforcement have a role to play there's a need for community efforts that promote pluralism and reject extremist ideology.
Nawaz has been critical of what he sees as a cabal of European Islamists who have driven a wedge through communities and spread pro-jihadist propaganda. In particular he feuded frequently with Anjem Chaudry.
It was a deeply bitter — and personal — feud. In the 1990s, the two had spent time together as radical comrades. In September 2016, a British court found Chaundry guilty of supporting Islamic State.
In addition, Nawaz courted controversy for criticizing fellow British liberals for not taking a stronger stance against Islamists. He's accused several of political correctness and challenged the common refrain that "terrorism has nothing to do with Islam" as a way of shutting down conversations.
That notion, he argued was akin to saying "Christianity had nothing to do with the Crusades." In turn, Nawaz has recruited other former radicals who he believes understand the draw of the ideology and can work to counter it — and perhaps draw some of those already radicalized back from the brink.
In the United States, Somali immigrant Mohamed Amin is becoming a different sort of voice in counter-extremism. The meek Gas Station manager in Minnesota fled violence in Somalia during the 1990s.
Though he might seem an unlikely leader, Amin invested his own money into producing an online cartoon series called Average Mohamed. It's aimed at children in their early to mid-teens to stop radicalism from taking hold.
Some commenters see the cartoons as painfully simple. Others have praised the animated shorts for their simplicity and argue that it's successfully reaching younger American Muslims — particularly in Minnesota's growing Somali community.
Still, wherever they live, anti-extremist Muslim activists face unique challenges. They're often critical of literalist interpretations of their faith and sometimes run afoul of more conservative Muslims. In particular, jihadists view them as apostates who need to die.
On the other hand, Western politicians and activists from the extreme right and left of the political spectrum often vilify them as either "closet jihadists" or anti-Islamic radicals. For instance, the Southern Poverty Law Center recently released a report that named Nawaz — a practicing Muslim — as an "anti-Muslim extremist."
The public advocacy group's case included the fact that he once tweeted a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in solidarity with free speech campaigners. "Many Muslims" consider that blasphemous, the review explained.
Nawaz criticized the arguments as similar to the intellectual arguments of hard-line Islamists. "I'm the one who's a Muslim in this!" he told The Atlantic. "I'm listed there with people such as Pam Geller? It's unbelievable."
Many Muslims and anti-extremism experts came to Nawaz's defense. Even several of Nawaz's harshest critics condemned the report and called on the Southern Poverty Law Center to reconsider. However, the organization stood firm and insisted it would neither retract the report nor apologize to Nawaz.
Regardless, for refugees fleeing tyrants and extremists to start new lives, running into the same ideologies they fled from is a worrying omen. What's clear is that whether in the digital or real world walls and bans won't keep out dangerous ideas.


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Thai green curry and broccoli soup
1 large head broccoli
2 tablespoons Thai green curry paste
2 1/2 cups chicken stock
2 potatoes, peeled, chopped
400ml can coconut milk
150g dried rice stick noodles
2 tablespoons lime juice
Fresh coriander leaves and sliced green onion, to serve
Remove stems from broccoli and thinly slice. Cut broccoli into small florets.
Heat a large heavy-based saucepan over medium-high heat. Add curry paste. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until fragrant. Gradually stir in stock until combined. Add 2 cups cold water, potato, broccoli stems and 1/2 the broccoli florets. Cover. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Simmer for 10 to 12 minutes or until potato is tender.
Blend or process until smooth. Return to pan over medium heat. Add remaining broccoli, coconut milk and noodles. Season with salt and pepper. Simmer, uncovered, until noodles are tender. Stir in lime juice.
Serve soup topped with coriander and green onion.
Spicy black bean and corn soup with chilli
20g (1 cup) dried black beans, rinsed, drained
2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
1 large brown onion, finely chopped
2 celery sticks, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons sweet paprika
1/2 teaspoon Chilli Flakes
400g can crushed tomatoes
1.25L (5 cups) water
300g sweet potato, peeled, chopped
1 large sweet corn cob, kernels removed
2 tablespoons fresh coriander leaves, chopped
1 long fresh green chilli, deseeded, finely chopped
Lime wedges, to serve
Place black beans in a large saucepan. Cover with enough cold water to come 5cm above beans. Bring to the boil over medium high heat. Cook for 10 minutes. Drain well.
Meanwhile, heat oil in a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Cook onion and celery, stirring, for 5 minutes or until soft. Add garlic, cumin, paprika and chilli. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until aromatic.
Place onion mixture, beans, tomato and water in a large (6L) slow cooker. Cover. Cook on low for 7 hours. Add sweet potato and corn. Cover. Cook for a further 1 hour or until potato is tender and soup is thick. Season.
Combine coriander and green chilli in a bowl. Divide soup among bowls. Top with coriander mixture. Serve with lime.
African vegetable stew with sweet potato and peanuts
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 large brown onion, thinly sliced
2 celery sticks, finely chopped
1 large carrot, peeled, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tablespoon curry powder
800g sweet potato, peeled, cut into 2cm pieces
400g can no-added-salt diced tomatoes
250ml (1 cup) water
185ml (3/4 cup) light coconut milk
1/2 teaspoon caster sugar
40g (1/4 cup) roasted unsalted peanuts
1 bunch spinach, trimmed, leaves coarsely chopped
2 cups steamed Basmati Rice, to serve
Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion, celery and carrot and stir for 6-7 minutes or until soft. Add the garlic and curry powder and stir for 1-2 minutes or until aromatic. Add the sweet potato. Stir until combined.
Stir in tomato, water and coconut milk. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Simmer, partially covered, for 20 minutes or until sweet potato is just tender. Stir in sugar and half the peanuts. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 3-4 minutes to develop the flavours.
Stir in the spinach. Cook for 1-2 minutes or until the spinach just wilts. Divide the stew and rice among bowls. Top with remaining peanuts.
Beef, mushroom and caramelised onion pie
60ml (1/4 cup) olive oil
700g lean beef mince
2 large brown onions, halved, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
200g pkt sliced brown mushrooms
1 large zucchini, cut into 1cm pieces
2 tablespoons plain flour
375ml (1 1/2 cups) beef stock
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 sheet puff pastry, partially thawed
1 egg, lightly whisked
Preheat oven to 220C/200C fan forced. Heat 2 tsp of the oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat. Add mince. Cook, stirring, for 3-4 minutes or until browned. Transfer to bowl.
Heat 2 tbs of remaining oil in pan over medium heat. Add onion. Season. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 6 minutes or until soft. Add sugar and vinegar. Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until caramelised. Transfer to a bowl.
Heat remaining oil in pan over medium-high heat. Add mushroom and zucchini. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 3 minutes or until soft. Return mince and onion mixture to pan. Sprinkle with flour. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Slowly add stock, stirring constantly until smooth. Stir in Worcestershire sauce. Bring to boil. Simmer for 2 minutes or until thickened slightly. Transfer to a 2L (8 cup) baking dish. Top with pastry. Brush with egg. Cut a small slit in centre of pastry. Bake for 25 minutes or until puffed and golden.
30-minute beef bourguignon
8 spring onion
2 tablespoons olive oil
20g unsalted butter
500g beef eye fillet, cut into 4cm pieces
4 thick slices flat pancetta, rind removed, chopped
250g small brown mushrooms
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 bay leaves
2 fresh thyme sprigs, leaves chopped
2 teaspoons tomato paste
2 teaspoons plain flour
1/2 cup (125ml) red wine
1 1/2 cups (375ml) beef stock
Mashed potato and wild rocket, to serve
Fill a saucepan with water and bring to the boil over high heat. Blanch the eschalots for 5 minutes or until just tender, then drain and set aside.
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large deep frypan over medium-high heat. Cook the eschalots, turning, for 2-3 minutes until golden. Remove from pan and set aside.
Add the butter and remaining 1 tablespoon oil to the pan. Add the beef, in batches and cook, turning, for 3-4 minutes until browned all over. Remove from pan and set aside.
Reduce heat to medium, add the pancetta, mushrooms, garlic, bay leaves and thyme, and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes. Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring, for 1 minute, then add the flour and cook for a further 1 minute or until combined. Stir in the wine and cook for 2 minutes or until slightly thickened. Add the stock, whisking to combine, then return the eschalots to the pan. Cook for 6-8 minutes until slightly reduced and thickened. Return the beef to the pan and simmer for a further 2 minutes or until warmed through.
Serve with mashed potato and garnished with rocket leaves.
Teacup berry crumble
600g mixed frozen berries
1/3 cup caster sugar
vanilla ice-cream or cream, to serve
Crumble topping
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup self-raising flour
1/3 cup rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
60g butter, chopped
Preheat oven to 180°C. Lightly grease four 1-cup capacity ovenproof teacups or ramekins.
Make crumble topping Combine sugar, flour, oats and cinnamon in a bowl. Rub in butter until combined.
Combine berries and sugar in a bowl. Divide berry mixture between teacups. Top evenly with crumble mixture. Place on a baking tray and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until crumble is golden. Serve with ice-cream.
Mulled Wine
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
4 whole cloves
4 thick strips orange rind
1 vanilla bean, halved lengthways
750ml bottle red wine
2 tablespoons orange liqueur (optional – Orange liqueurs include Grand Marnier, Cointreau and triple sec.)
Combine 1 cup cold water, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, orange rind and vanilla bean in a medium saucepan over low heat. Cook, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to medium-high. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Simmer for 5 minutes or until fragrant.
Add wine. Increase heat to medium-high. Bring to the boil. Remove from heat. Stir in liqueur (if using). Strain into heatproof glasses. Serve.
~ All recipes courtesy Taste.au


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Monday, September 8, 2014
Child Car Seat Safety Tips
Car Seat Safety Tips
When installing a child safety seat into a vehicle, press all of your body weight onto the safety seat, then tighten the seat belt. Once the seat belt is fastened and the safety seat is installed, shake the safety seat to make sure it does not move more than an inch in any direction. Give the seat belt a firm pull every time you're about to place your child in the safety seat to make sure the seat belt is still securely fastened.
Some vehicles require locking clips to safely install a safety seat in the vehicle. Your owner's manual will inform you if one should be used. The locking clip should be placed ½ inch from the seat belt latch.
The absolute safest place for a child's safety seat to be installed is in the back of the vehicle, away from any active airbags. All children under 20 pounds, despite their age, must face backwards. The seat should be secured at a 45 degree angle in the back seat. You can roll towels tightly and place them underneath the safety seats base to achieve this angle.
Tether straps should be used when using a forward facing safety seat. Most vehicles come standard with tether anchorage points. The tether straps are attached in the back of the child's safety seat. Attach the tether straps to the tether anchorage points in the back of the vehicle, as stated in the vehicle's owner's manual. Tighten the tethers until the safety seat is snug against the car seat.
To make sure your child is secured safely in the safety seat, you're going to want to check the safety seat's harness. If your child is facing forward in the car, the harness straps should either meet the child's shoulders or be no more than an inch above the shoulders.
If your child is facing the back of the vehicle, the safety seat's harness should also meet or be no more than an inch below the child's shoulders.
The safety harness should be tight enough to only allow one finger between the harness and the child's chest. The harness should never contain a twist and should always lie flat. The chest clips should be securely fastened at the child's armpit level.
Children under the age of 8 are required to ride in booster seats. In order for an adult seat belt to work effectively on a child, a booster seat is required. The shoulder belt should not be on the child's neck or face, but firmly across their chest. The lap belt should go across the child's hips and not the legs or abdomen.
Now that you have learned a few tips to safely install your child's safety seat, you can drive confidently knowing you have done everything you can to properly protect your child in case of an accident.
If you're still concerned, many local fire departments and police departments offer free training for properly installing car seats and will often check to ensure it's installed correctly.
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Parrotia persica
Persian ironwood
Outstanding Qualities
This durable tree is beautiful in every season, as its foliage, branch structure and bark are all exceptional. Its leaves are oval shaped with somewhat scalloped edges. They emerge green edged with burgundy, maturing to mid green in summer. In late August, they begin their sensational autumn display, turning bronze, then crimson, followed by orange and finishing brilliant gold. This show goes on into October. Its branching habit is irregular, providing an eye-catching change from most shrubs and trees. In winter, when its exfoliating grey-and-tan bark is revealed, this picturesque tree makes a dramatic feature. Its tiny, spidery, red flowers are produced in late winter and early spring, before the leaves. Although it is related to witchhazels, its flowers are not fragrant. Underplant it with epimediums, Helleborus x hybridus and any spring-flowering bulbs. Its autumn foliage can be complemented with Actaea simplex [Atropurpurea Group] 'Brunette', Aster lateriflorus 'Prince', Crocosmia 'Lucifer', Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy', Penstemon 'Black Bird' and Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty'.
Colors & Combos
Great Color Contrasts: gold, silver, burgundy
Great Color Partners: dark green, blue
Culture NotesThis durable tree will grow well in full sun to dappled shade. The fall color is best with more sun. It will grow best in well-drained soil, but it is tolerant of moist sites, sand and clay. Once established it is drought tolerant. Little pruning is needed to maintain its shape, only remove dead, broken or poorly formed limbs.
© Richie Steffen / Great Plant Picks
Quick Facts
Plant Type: tree
Foliage Type: deciduous
Plant Height: 15 ft. 0 in. (4.57 m.)
Plant Width/Spread: 15 ft. 0 in. (4.57 m.)
Hardiness: USDA Zones 5 to 8
Flower Color: red
Sun/Light Exposure: full sun or light to dappled shade
Water Requirements: drought tolerant when established


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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child develops an understanding of the number of planes on a given 3-D shape by dropping the shape into the correct bucket.
Your child will learn to identify a variety of geometrical shapes including square, cube, and sphere by collecting items in this side-scrolling game.
Your child watches a clip from Earth to Luna in which she learns about bubbles and why they are round.
Your child develops spatial reasoning and logical thinking skills by visualizing the 2-dimensional view of a 3-dimensional object.
Your child develops shape and color recognition as well as literacy skills by decorating the gingerbread man and following along with the short story.
Your child develops their spatial awareness and counting skills by counting cubes.
Your child develops logic and spatial reasoning as they try to untangle different 3D shapes and make sure the lines do not overlap.
Your child develops an understanding of geometry vocabulary by answering multiple choice questions in the correct order resulting in increasing the odds of the batter hitting the pitch.
Zoodles 11.8.7 Copyright (c) 2014 Inquisitive Minds, Inc. All rights reserved.


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Have you ever needed to drink as much caffeine as possible? If so, then you should really try caffeine in matcha. If you don't know what it is, then prepare yourself because this information is about to blow your mind.
A while ago, Graham Fortgang was working about sixty hours per week as a real estate agent. He constantly felt tired but he really needed to work a whole lot in order to get his business going. That's when he tried Matcha, a green tea which comes from crushed leaves. This Japanese beverage gives you a whole lot of energy and, at the same time, you feel calm. The thing is that matcha is associated with a thirty-minute tea ceremony which sometimes when you don't have time, it's impossible to do. However, a Matcha Bar has opened in Brooklyn and it's entirely dedicated to it. The substance is really good for you since it doesn't alter your senses but it helps the release of dopamine, which makes you feel calm and, at the same time, energetic. This drink has about 50 milligrams of caffeine.
Matcha comes in powder and it's been going on since the twelfth century. Today, it's being imported to America from farms located in Nishio, Japan


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Middle of the day. Top of the line.
Flavor for the family table.
The perfect way to start the day.
At Farm Promise® we believe in pure, uncomplicated flavor. Our pork is raised in humane and ethical environment and never treated with antibiotics or growth promotants. All of this is why we're confident when we say Farm Promise pork is some of the most delicious pork you'll ever put on your table, and something you can truly feel good about.


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Central North Carolina Chapter of NATCAPLYME website
The Central North Carolina Chapter of the National Capital Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Association is led by John Lee McLean and his wife Barbara in Matthews NC. They have monthly support group meetings on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 1 to 4pm. Find out location of this support group meeting by going to the NATCAPLYME website listed above.
The Central NC Chapter is devoted to support, education and awareness. Educational outreach to surrounding communities is an important goal for this chapter of NATCAPLYME. John and his wife are welcoming to anyone who has been affected by Lyme Disease or just wants to learn more are welcome to attend the support group meetings.
John Lee can be reached at email@example.com.
Stay tuned for more information regarding NATCAPLYME's efforts for advocacy in Lyme Disease Awareness Month.


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TRIPOLI, Lebanon — At least three car bombs exploded in Damascus on Thursday, including a powerful blast near the downtown headquarters of President Bashar al-Assad's governing party and the Russian Embassy that witnesses said shook the neighborhood like an earthquake.
Antigovernment activists described the bombings as some of the worst to hit the city in the nearly two-year-old conflict, and they said at least 72 people had been killed, mostly civilians.
Witnesses, including people who had been living near the party headquarters in the Mazraa district, said the bombings were eroding what little confidence they had left that Mr. Assad's forces could preserve at least some semblance of normalcy in Damascus, the Syrian capital, where armed insurgents have attacked with increasing brazenness.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The main umbrella opposition group seeking to depose Mr. Assad condemned the bombings as it convened a meeting in Cairo. It was unclear whether the blasts had been timed to the meeting.
Syria's state-run SANA news agency described the blasts as the work of armed terrorist groups, its standard terminology for the insurgency. SANA said that the victims included children and students and that hundreds of people had been wounded. It said the Foreign Ministry had sent letters to Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, and the Security Council, urging that the body "adopt a firm stance which proves its commitment to combating terrorism regardless of its timing or place."
Asked about the bombings, Martin Nesirky, Mr. Ban's spokesman at the United Nations, described them as appalling attacks that underscored "the need to end the violence and move onto a political track." The United Nations and Arab League also announced that Lakhdar Brahimi, their special Syria peace envoy whose mandate was due to expire on Friday, will remain in that position at least through the end of 2013.
Some witnesses contacted in Damascus reported insurgent attacks and explosions elsewhere in the city on Thursday, including mortar rounds aimed at the Defense Ministry's headquarters, central Umayyad Square and a park in a heavily protected affluent neighborhood, Abu Roumana. This week, insurgent fighters lobbed mortar rounds that damaged one of the presidential palaces and killed a soccer player practicing inside a stadium.
"It is the first time to feel we are living in a war condition," said a 30-year-old Mazraa resident named Anas, who lives with his family in a house behind the headquarters of Mr. Assad's Baath Party. "Today I saw what was happening in Baghdad in my city, Damascus. This is not the Damascus I know."
He said the Mazraa bombing "was similar to an earthquake — my house's windows were broken."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad group based in Britain that has a network of contacts in Syria, reported that at least 59 people had been killed by the Mazraa bomb, which the group described as a booby-trapped car next to a military checkpoint. It said that at least 16 of the dead were members of the security forces.
At least 13 other people in Damascus were killed, 10 of them in the security forces, in two other car bombings near checkpoints in the Barzeh district, in the northeast part of the capital, the group said.
Syrian rebels have been entrenched for months in suburbs south and east of Damascus, but they have been unable to push far into the center, although they have hit the area before with occasional mortar shells and increasingly frequent car bombs.
Such indiscriminate attacks have risked killing passers-by, exposing the rebels to accusations that they are careless with civilian life and property. Many Damascus residents have remained undecided in the civil war and fear that their ancient city will be ravaged like Aleppo and other urban centers to the north. At the same time, the government has decimated pro-rebel suburbs with airstrikes and artillery, leaving vast areas depopulated and traumatized.
Some outside experts speculated that the bombings on Thursday had been carried out by the more militant extremists among the rebels to weaken the government's argument that it offers security, at least to the middle- and upper-income neighborhoods of Damascus.
"The opposition will have to go in and mess that up if they want people to leave the regime," said Joshua M. Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of the blog Syria Comment, which has tracked the conflict. "Messing up Damascus and forcing the city people to take sides is the name of the game."
The National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the main Syrian umbrella group for the opposition, denounced the car bombings and other mayhem that killed civilians in Damascus on Thursday, saying in a statement that it "holds the Assad regime responsible for them."
The group issued the statement as it was meeting in Cairo to talk about a negotiated settlement to the conflict, which has claimed an estimated 70,000 lives since it began as a nonviolent uprising against Mr. Assad in March 2011.
The meeting focused mainly on recent proposals by the coalition's leader, Sheik Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib, to talk with representatives of the Assad government. Those proposals have been criticized by some of Mr. Khatib's colleagues, who contend that they have only emboldened Mr. Assad.
Participants at the Cairo meeting made it clear that at least so far, Mr. Khatib was speaking for himself.
"Per his own words it is not a formal initiative," said Yaser Tabbara, a legal adviser to the coalition. "It is an idea he had, and now he is seeking some sort of a sanction for it, through the general assembly of the coalition."
Mr. Tabbara added, "It is no secret to anyone that the fact that Sheik Khatib took this unilateral initiative or unilateral approach was a problem."
Some members of the coalition said the dispute remained largely theoretical. No one believes that officials of Mr. Assad's government will talk with the armed opposition about any political solution other than the opposition's complete surrender, several said.
Monzer Makhous, the coalition's representative in Paris, who was attending the Cairo meeting, said he believed that the intended audience for Mr. Khatib's overtures for talks was not the Assad government, but its Russian backers. The Russians have blocked United Nations actions against Mr. Assad and have consistently accused the opposition of refusing to negotiate.
Mr. Makhous said American and other Western officials had encouraged Mr. Khatib to appear open to talks primarily as a tactic to try to soften the Russian resistance to international action.
French and American diplomats told the Syrian coalition that this was "very important," Mr. Makhous said. "It is to try to make some movement in the international scene."


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WELCOME TO KEINS College of Education
The Keins College of Education for Women is managed by 'Ken-a-z Educational and Industrial Society (abbreviated as KEINS). Keins kindergarten, the fore runner of Keins group of institutions was established in 1979. The society was established in 1984 and the kindergarten was upgraded into Keins Matric. Hr. Sec. School. The school and keins T.T.I were managed by the society. Keins College of Education was established in the year 2006 -2007 in a building of 2420 sq. m. Yearly intake of the college is 100 students. The primary aim of the college is to up lift the life of girl students from rural area, in and around Vallioor.
Courses Offered
- Tamil Education
- English Education
- Mathematics Education
- Physical Science Education
- Biological Science Education
- Computer science Education
- History Education
- Commerce Education
- Economics Education
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- Physical Education - Fitness centre
- Herbal Gardern
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The Stellar and Grammy Award Niminee, Deitrick Haddon has given music lovers (Gospel and secular alike) countless hits by way of his annointed ministry. Haddon has always been ahead of his time and now consumers can experience another first from this blessed artist, Just The Hits! The greatest hits of Deitrick Haddon are featured on a digitally re-mastered CD along with his greatest videos on DVD, in one specially priced two-disc set! As an added bonus, Just The Hits contains unreleased bonus tracks. Consumers will be able to enjoy this extraordinary audio and video collection in one package for the fantastic price of Ksh. 795! The album features award-winning songs such as Chain Breaker, Are You Ready and This is the Day. This is a must have collection for current and new Deitrick Haddon fans!
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Formatting variables and typeface variations of dot-matrix print and their effect on reading comprehension and reading speed
Holmes, James A.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether three typeface variations of dot matrix print [single density, dual density, and photocopied dot matrix type] and two formatting variations [fully justified and left justified] had any effect on the reading rates or reading comprehension of college students when compared to the same typewritten material. A pretest/posttest design with experimental and control groups utilized the Cloze Reading Test and the Nelson Denny Reading Test to measure reading comprehension and reading rates respectively to college students [N= 240]. Subjects were randomly assigned to the groups to test the effects of the six treatment levels and two control groups of the independent variables [typefaces and type formatting] on the dependent variables [reading comprehension and reading rates. Four test sessions were used to collect the data and answer the research question: Do either of the three typeface variations of dot matrix print or the two formatting variables have any effect on reading comprehension or reading rates of the subjects when compared to typewriter type? A factorial analysis of covariance [p. < .05] was used to analyze reading comprehension; and a two way analysis of variance [p. < .05] was used to analyze reading rates. The findings indicated that typefaces or formatting made no significant difference in the reading rate or reading comprehension scores of the subjects tested.
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Why get custom hand-built wheels?
- Hand-built wheels can be rebuilt and repaired much more easily than machine-built wheels
- A good set of wheels will improve the quality of your ride and improve your bike's performance
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The GWR 3252 class, better known as the Duke class, were a series of Great Western locomotives of the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, built between 1895 and 1899 for passenger work in Devon and Cornwall. All of the Duke class engines were scrapped, and none survive to this day. Only the Earl of Berkeley, a member of the GWR 3200 Dukedog Class, or Earl Class, a cousin class of the GWR 3252 class, is preserved today.
The Dukes were the type of Great Western Engines that Duck described to Peter Sam, telling him how all of them had been scrapped. Peter Sam misunderstood the statement and thought the Duke of Sodor had been scrapped.
The Railway Series
- Very Old Engines - Duck and Dukes (mentioned)
- Duke the Lost Engine - Bulldog (mentioned)
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