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With the extensive popularity and growth of Droid applications and abilities a highly expansive market called ?m-commerce? may soon overshadow standard online transactions. The online sales vertical will most likely change substantially over the next couple of years given the highly competitive nature of successful smart phone technologies. It?s a common thought by the majority of analysts who constantly study economic statistics that a great deal of the online sales industry will probably be up for grabs and is expected to create record levels of revenue worldwide in the coming years. One of the reasons for this very probable move to mobile sales is consumers have already bolstered figures in Smartphone purchases when compared to e-commerce stats. Also m-commerce customers are enjoying a new sense of control over their app shopping habits that?s unparalleled to standard online shopping. So far the data suggests that total web sales will account for over fifty percent of all revenue sold by online stores. Per The Herald, mobile sales revenue in the next two years will reach eighteen billion just here in the U.S. and one hundred and nineteen billion worldwide thereafter.
It is obvious that online stores are conscious of this growing trend since smart phone web site development has increased dramatically during the past few months. A more common new trend is many people refuse to recommend retailers with inadequate mobile sites. It?s just another monitoring figure of the way the online sales segment is evolving. The businesses most negatively impacted are mom and pop locations that are already seeing a huge drop in sales. Many of the traditional local companies are seeing an all too common type of customer now known as ?show-roomers.? These people like to travel to the stores to preview products and then later order them online, as they are used to getting lower prices. One of the biggest elements adding to these e-commerce trends is price competition. Now mobile commerce is allowing shoppers to have a greater amount of power with their newly acquired technology. Consumers are no longer strapped to PCs and laptops, often at their house or office. Many readers have seen going sargeknives.com as a reliable site. The trend has created a convenience that has become imperative in our speed of light lifestyle of ever increasing technical innovation. It is strongly suggested to owners of all retail shops to be proactive in being ready for the changing trends in this highly competitive universe of e-commerce.
Today?s online buyer typically receives an e-mail confirmation as soon as the sale is finished. The only setback was web-based buyers were required to have access to the Cyber-World and a method of payment. Privacy of the buyer?s personal data is a major issue for most website shoppers. Internet-savvy customers are drawn to web-based purchasing because of the convenience of 24-hour shopping and because of the better selection as well as the competitive pricing. ?e-Business? is a form of electronic commerce where consumers purchase items from a business over the web at the touch of a button. A web-based buyer?s expectations are not identical but must be tailored to their lifestyle.
It is imperative that the online vendor communicates to the shopper that a real company focuses on their needs. Many websites may not allow overseas orders. Internet sellers might require both the customer?s billing address and shipping address to be verifiable, but other Internet shops permit customers from any location to forward what they buy to anyone they choose. The most important factors determining whether buyer?s comeback to a website is the presence of user-friendly features and the company?s privacy policy. A successful eShop is not only an attractive looking website but a web-based shopping center with dynamic bells and whistles.
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Ciara?s last single, the 2 Chainz-assisted uptempo banger ?Sweat,? failed to make much of an impact, but the Atlanta-based songbird is still a former Billboard Woman of the Year with eight Top 10 singles and a host of Grammys under her belt. Given that pedigree, CiCi?s more than deserving of the benefit of the doubt as she readies her upcoming fifth studio album, One Woman Army, set for a December 4 release ? and she dropped all the details about the upcoming release.
In a press release earlier today, Ciara?s label Epic Records teased the litany of producers with whom she collaborated (some major names like Rodney ?Darkchild? Jerkins, The Underdogs, Jermaine Dupri and Josh Abraham), as well as info about the intended next two singles: ?Sorry,? the first single, which is set to premiere on 106 and Park on September 13, and?another single, ?Got Me Good? (described as ?trademark Ciara? with ?undeniable beats and fierce vocal work?) planned for an October 8 release.
As for ?Sweat?? There?s no mention of it anywhere in the press release ? a conspicuous absence. Then again, since?One Woman Army is described as ?a deeply personal record,? it?s possible that ?Sweat? didn?t align with CiCi?s desire to show off her more vulnerable side. Be on the lookout for ?Sorry? when it premieres September 13.
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President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in one of 2012's most crucial swing states, according to a new poll. Obama leads the Republican nominee 45 percent to 50 percent in Ohio, according to the latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling. The survey also found that Ohioans believe Democrats had the better national convention. The 5-point lead in the latest PPP poll is an improvement for Obama, but still well within the margin of error -- in its August poll of the state, the president held at 3-point lead over Romney, holding steady from July. ...
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Princeton University
A groundbreaking survey of Pakistanis has found stronger support for militant groups among the middle class than the poor. The finding by a team including Princeton researchers challenges the conventional wisdom about links between economic status and views on militants that has helped shaped American foreign-aid policies since 2001.
The nationally representative survey of 6,000 Pakistani adults, conducted in the spring of 2009, also found that Pakistanis in general held militant groups in low regard. And, when the survey results were analyzed along with data that identified the sites of violent attacks, researchers saw evidence that support for the militant groups was reduced by residents' direct exposure to militants' violent actions.
The survey and its potential implications for the way American foreign aid is distributed are described in an article published online in July by the American Journal of Political Science. The authors are Princeton graduate student Graeme Blair; C. Christine Fair, assistant professor, Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University; Neil Malhotra, associate professor, Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; and Jacob Shapiro, assistant professor of politics and international affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Expectations that poorer people are more susceptible to the appeals of violent groups have contributed to U.S. policies that focus on using aid to reduce poverty as a way to combat militant violence. But the survey found that the poor in Pakistan were substantially more negative toward militant groups than their middle class countrymen. By one measure, poor Pakistanis were up to 23 times more negative about militants than their middle-class counterparts.
"Giving development aid may be effective in improving peoples' livelihoods and making them better off in monetary ways, but it is not going to be effective in changing their minds because the poor in Pakistan are not the people whose minds we need to change," said Blair, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics. "They already really dislike the militant groups."
David Laitin, the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford who wasn't involved with the research, said it represents an advance in scholarship on the topic.
"This paper takes one more careful step toward understanding the relationship of poverty and terror, much of it moved forward by Princeton scholars. Alan Krueger, now chairman of the [White House Council of Economic Advisers], revealed that suicide bombers came from the richer elements in countries with terrorist organizations," Laitin said. "Professor Shapiro, in an earlier paper, demonstrated that Iraqi insurgents were recruited more successfully from the employed than the unemployed. And this paper pushes us further, showing that the absolutely impoverished in Pakistan are less likely to support terrorist cells.
"Poverty is bad enough, these Princeton scholars show us, but the poor aren't willing accomplices to terror." The survey, which the journal article describes as "arguably the first valid, national measurement of attitudes toward militant groups in Pakistan," used a novel technique to measure support for four militant groups: Kashmiri tanzeems (or organizations), the Afghan Taliban, al-Qaida and sectarian tanzeems.
Participants were visited, normally at their homes, by survey teams between April 21, 2009, and May 25, 2009. In keeping with cultural norms of the area, participants were surveyed by a member of their own sex.
Participants weren't asked directly about support for the groups which could have been dangerous for those conducting the survey and could have skewed results.
Instead, some participants were asked their level of support for four policies such as universal polio vaccination across Pakistan. When other participants were asked about their support for the same policies, the survey takers noted that one of the militant groups supported each policy.
From the difference in responses, researchers estimated support for the groups themselves.
"At the time we were in the field, the subject of militancy was a tense one in Pakistan," Shapiro said. "So asking people directly how they felt about specific organizations, lots of people wouldn't tell you how they felt. The estimate of support you would draw if you asked people directly would be biased."
The researchers later compared the locations where the survey was conducted with areas where political violence had been reported, using data they collected on 27,570 incidents of such violence. The researchers found that dislike of militant groups was stronger among the urban poor living in areas affected by militant violence in the year before the survey.
"Our interpretation of the fact that the urban poor in Pakistan are the most negative toward militant groups suggests to us that these are the people who are most affected when a bomb goes off," Shapiro said. "The average upper-middle class family in Pakistan doesn't go to the market for itself, isn't out in exposed public spaces that much and its income isn't extremely vulnerable to short-term disruptions. But of the urban poor, all of that is true."
Shapiro said that a similar survey undertaken in the winter and spring of 2012 and overseen by many of the same researchers indicates that militancy has become an even more sensitive topic in Pakistan than it was when the original survey was taken, though it is too early to know how support levels for militant groups has changed.
"We know now that poor Pakistanis are more negative towards militants than others," Shapiro said. "Now we want to understand exactly why, and the new survey is designed to help get at that."
The results of the 2009 survey are part of a growing body of research that calls into question a direct link between economics and violence, Shapiro said.
"There are a ton of wonderful reasons to give money to Pakistan and try to support economic growth there and in lots of other places," Shapiro said. "But when we premise it on what I think is an incorrect notion that doing so is going to change people's political views, we're distorting how we spend the money. Foreign aid is scarce and powerful and should be spent on making people's lives better."
And over the past several years, Shapiro said, the U.S. government has begun rethinking how it directs development spending, focusing more on how aid programs can address specific grievances that are motivating people to support militant groups.
Another potential area to focus aid is on helping residents understand the consequences of militant violence, Shapiro said. That includes helping middle-class and upper-class Pakistanis understand the extent to which their country's underperformance economically compared with its peers is a consequence of the presence of militant organizations, he said.
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The survey in Pakistan and related data collection on violence was supported by the International Growth Center, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Department of Homeland Security through the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.
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Contact: Michael Hotchkiss
mh14@princeton.edu
609-258-9522
Princeton University
A groundbreaking survey of Pakistanis has found stronger support for militant groups among the middle class than the poor. The finding by a team including Princeton researchers challenges the conventional wisdom about links between economic status and views on militants that has helped shaped American foreign-aid policies since 2001.
The nationally representative survey of 6,000 Pakistani adults, conducted in the spring of 2009, also found that Pakistanis in general held militant groups in low regard. And, when the survey results were analyzed along with data that identified the sites of violent attacks, researchers saw evidence that support for the militant groups was reduced by residents' direct exposure to militants' violent actions.
The survey and its potential implications for the way American foreign aid is distributed are described in an article published online in July by the American Journal of Political Science. The authors are Princeton graduate student Graeme Blair; C. Christine Fair, assistant professor, Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University; Neil Malhotra, associate professor, Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; and Jacob Shapiro, assistant professor of politics and international affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Expectations that poorer people are more susceptible to the appeals of violent groups have contributed to U.S. policies that focus on using aid to reduce poverty as a way to combat militant violence. But the survey found that the poor in Pakistan were substantially more negative toward militant groups than their middle class countrymen. By one measure, poor Pakistanis were up to 23 times more negative about militants than their middle-class counterparts.
"Giving development aid may be effective in improving peoples' livelihoods and making them better off in monetary ways, but it is not going to be effective in changing their minds because the poor in Pakistan are not the people whose minds we need to change," said Blair, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics. "They already really dislike the militant groups."
David Laitin, the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford who wasn't involved with the research, said it represents an advance in scholarship on the topic.
"This paper takes one more careful step toward understanding the relationship of poverty and terror, much of it moved forward by Princeton scholars. Alan Krueger, now chairman of the [White House Council of Economic Advisers], revealed that suicide bombers came from the richer elements in countries with terrorist organizations," Laitin said. "Professor Shapiro, in an earlier paper, demonstrated that Iraqi insurgents were recruited more successfully from the employed than the unemployed. And this paper pushes us further, showing that the absolutely impoverished in Pakistan are less likely to support terrorist cells.
"Poverty is bad enough, these Princeton scholars show us, but the poor aren't willing accomplices to terror." The survey, which the journal article describes as "arguably the first valid, national measurement of attitudes toward militant groups in Pakistan," used a novel technique to measure support for four militant groups: Kashmiri tanzeems (or organizations), the Afghan Taliban, al-Qaida and sectarian tanzeems.
Participants were visited, normally at their homes, by survey teams between April 21, 2009, and May 25, 2009. In keeping with cultural norms of the area, participants were surveyed by a member of their own sex.
Participants weren't asked directly about support for the groups which could have been dangerous for those conducting the survey and could have skewed results.
Instead, some participants were asked their level of support for four policies such as universal polio vaccination across Pakistan. When other participants were asked about their support for the same policies, the survey takers noted that one of the militant groups supported each policy.
From the difference in responses, researchers estimated support for the groups themselves.
"At the time we were in the field, the subject of militancy was a tense one in Pakistan," Shapiro said. "So asking people directly how they felt about specific organizations, lots of people wouldn't tell you how they felt. The estimate of support you would draw if you asked people directly would be biased."
The researchers later compared the locations where the survey was conducted with areas where political violence had been reported, using data they collected on 27,570 incidents of such violence. The researchers found that dislike of militant groups was stronger among the urban poor living in areas affected by militant violence in the year before the survey.
"Our interpretation of the fact that the urban poor in Pakistan are the most negative toward militant groups suggests to us that these are the people who are most affected when a bomb goes off," Shapiro said. "The average upper-middle class family in Pakistan doesn't go to the market for itself, isn't out in exposed public spaces that much and its income isn't extremely vulnerable to short-term disruptions. But of the urban poor, all of that is true."
Shapiro said that a similar survey undertaken in the winter and spring of 2012 and overseen by many of the same researchers indicates that militancy has become an even more sensitive topic in Pakistan than it was when the original survey was taken, though it is too early to know how support levels for militant groups has changed.
"We know now that poor Pakistanis are more negative towards militants than others," Shapiro said. "Now we want to understand exactly why, and the new survey is designed to help get at that."
The results of the 2009 survey are part of a growing body of research that calls into question a direct link between economics and violence, Shapiro said.
"There are a ton of wonderful reasons to give money to Pakistan and try to support economic growth there and in lots of other places," Shapiro said. "But when we premise it on what I think is an incorrect notion that doing so is going to change people's political views, we're distorting how we spend the money. Foreign aid is scarce and powerful and should be spent on making people's lives better."
And over the past several years, Shapiro said, the U.S. government has begun rethinking how it directs development spending, focusing more on how aid programs can address specific grievances that are motivating people to support militant groups.
Another potential area to focus aid is on helping residents understand the consequences of militant violence, Shapiro said. That includes helping middle-class and upper-class Pakistanis understand the extent to which their country's underperformance economically compared with its peers is a consequence of the presence of militant organizations, he said.
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The survey in Pakistan and related data collection on violence was supported by the International Growth Center, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Department of Homeland Security through the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/pu-sss091112.php
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Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Bethesda, MD - The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) wrote to all members of the House of Representatives expressing its opposition to the Government Spending Accountability (GSA) Act (HR 4631). While strongly supporting the bill's goal and the desire to ensure that federal agencies are using their resources responsibly and efficiently, FASEB urged Representatives to oppose the bill in its current form. FASEB President Judith S. Bond PhD expressed concern that, "if adopted, HR 4631 would impede the professional development of government scientists, hamper the ability of research agency staff to monitor scientific developments and make appropriate funding decisions based on new research, and reduce communication among researchers."
In addition, she pointed out that "this bill would also place new restrictions on the ability of federal agencies to support conferences aimed at advancing the national research agenda."
The FASEB letter states that it is important for federal agencies to have the capacity to provide support for a variety of scientific meetings and conferences. Many volunteer-led organizations serving patients, the public, and the research community administer multiple conferences per year. Dr. Bond emphasized the value of these meetings to the government and the public. "These conferences facilitate the public dissemination of research findings and support the training and professional development of the next generation of scientists. By partnering with private organizations, federal agencies are able to reach broader audiences at a lower cost while promoting the public private partnership that has been a key part of the successful research enterprise."
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FASEB is composed of 26 societies with more than 100,000 members, making it the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States. Celebrating 100 Years of Advancing the Life Sciences in 2012, FASEB is rededicating its efforts to advance health and well-being by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to our member societies and collaborative advocacy.
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Contact: Lawrence Green
lgreen@faseb.org
301-634-7335
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Bethesda, MD - The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) wrote to all members of the House of Representatives expressing its opposition to the Government Spending Accountability (GSA) Act (HR 4631). While strongly supporting the bill's goal and the desire to ensure that federal agencies are using their resources responsibly and efficiently, FASEB urged Representatives to oppose the bill in its current form. FASEB President Judith S. Bond PhD expressed concern that, "if adopted, HR 4631 would impede the professional development of government scientists, hamper the ability of research agency staff to monitor scientific developments and make appropriate funding decisions based on new research, and reduce communication among researchers."
In addition, she pointed out that "this bill would also place new restrictions on the ability of federal agencies to support conferences aimed at advancing the national research agenda."
The FASEB letter states that it is important for federal agencies to have the capacity to provide support for a variety of scientific meetings and conferences. Many volunteer-led organizations serving patients, the public, and the research community administer multiple conferences per year. Dr. Bond emphasized the value of these meetings to the government and the public. "These conferences facilitate the public dissemination of research findings and support the training and professional development of the next generation of scientists. By partnering with private organizations, federal agencies are able to reach broader audiences at a lower cost while promoting the public private partnership that has been a key part of the successful research enterprise."
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FASEB is composed of 26 societies with more than 100,000 members, making it the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States. Celebrating 100 Years of Advancing the Life Sciences in 2012, FASEB is rededicating its efforts to advance health and well-being by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to our member societies and collaborative advocacy.
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/foas-fot091012.php
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Some individuals are blessed with time and money in their hands. These people get to travel anywhere they like if they can. This type of person even lucky to never experience one undesirable scenario whilst traveling. Others, on the other hand, could get unlucky possibly on their initially trip out of your country. Thanks a lot to a travel insurance con, the aftertaste of their vacation is usually a bitter a single.
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Members of the Chicago Teachers Union distribute strike signage at the Chicago Teachers Union strike headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in Chicago. The union has vowed to strike on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, should it fail to reach an agreement over teachers' contracts with Chicago Public Schools by that date. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union distribute strike signage at the Chicago Teachers Union strike headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in Chicago. The union has vowed to strike on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, should it fail to reach an agreement over teachers' contracts with Chicago Public Schools by that date. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)
Teachers respond enthusiastically to passing drivers honking their horns in support as they distribute strike signage at the Chicago Teachers Union strike headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in Chicago. The union has vowed to strike on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, should it fail to reach an agreement over teachers' contracts with Chicago Public Schools by that date. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)
Eight-year-old TaliSol Medina, left, a third-grader from Galileo School, puts the finishing touches on a pro-teachers poster for the Pilsen Alliance community group in front of the Chicago Teachers Union strike headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in Chicago. The union has vowed to strike on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 if an agreement over teachers' contracts is not reached with Chicago Public Schools by Monday. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)
Hundreds of signs saying "On Strike" lay stockpiled in a store room of the Chicago Teachers Union strike headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in Chicago. The union has vowed to strike on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 if an agreement over teachers' contracts is not reached with Chicago Public Schools by Monday. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)
CHICAGO (AP) ? With Chicago teachers poised to go on strike for the first time in a quarter century, parents spent Sunday worrying about how much their children's education might suffer and where their kids will go while they're at work.
Teachers said they would walk off the job Monday if no deal was reached with the nation's third-largest district by midnight on issues such as pay, job security and evaluations. Parents have been waiting nervously for word of progress as city and union officials send messages that are discouraging one day and encouraging the next.
School officials have said they would open more than 140 schools between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. if there is a strike so that children can eat lunch and breakfast in a district where most of the 400,000 students receive free meals.
"They're going to lose learning time," said Beatriz Fierro, whose daughter is in the fifth grade on the city's southwest side. "And if the whole afternoon they're going to be free, it's bad. Of course you're worried."
Working parents such as Eric Ferrer said opening buildings for four hours won't help them much because they have to be at work all day. Ferrer, a cook, said his children can stay home Monday with his wife, who works in a store. But if a strike went more than one day, they would have a problem ? one that he sees no way to solve.
"My wife is off tomorrow (so) we can keep them at home," said Ferrer, as he sat in a McDonald's restaurant on the city's Southwest Side with his wife and their 8-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. "She works the next day (and) so do I," he said.
Chicago Public Schools has offered teachers a four-year contract with raises of 2 percent a year. The union says that's unacceptable, especially after Mayor Rahm Emanuel last year canceled a previously negotiated 4 percent raise, citing budget problems.
The union is also concerned about raises based on teacher experience and education; new evaluations; health benefits; and how a longer school day for students is being implemented.
Parent Silvia Flores, who works as a housekeeper, said she's lined up a neighbor to watch her 6-year-old son between 12:30 p.m. and the late afternoon when she gets off work. But she still doesn't like it.
"I appreciate it, but he's going to be just watching TV, not learning," she said. "I don't want that because he's going to get behind (in his studies)."
Other parents said that even if they could drop their children off for four hours and pick them up, they might not because they don't know who will be watching them.
The district won't open every school, so some students would have to go to unfamiliar buildings. Plans also call for children to be supervised by non-union workers and central office employees. And all that change is coming just a week into the school year, when children, particularly the younger ones, may still be a little bit scared about leaving home all day.
"I'm not going to stick my kids in a place with strangers they don't know and with (employees) I don't know," said Doug Danby, a real estate developer. "I'm going to be dragging them to construction sites."
Beth Starrett, a single mother, had similar concerns, though she said she hadn't made up her mind about whether she would send her 8-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter to the elementary school down the block from their home in the city's Pilsen neighborhood.
She said her children know a strike is possible because their teachers have talked about it, and her son, like many in the city, was sent home with a packet of homework to do if there was no school. Since she works nights, she figured her children could do their work at home during the day.
But she expressed frustration that despite Emanuel's talk about children getting a better education because of the longer school day he pushed through earlier this year, the only schooling her children might get for a while would come from that packet.
"They got a longer school day for this?" she asked.
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Webclip #2 - Hobbies by Mastodon
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Ahmed Faruk Uslu's Video Resume, Video CV, Goruntulu ozgecmis, Education, Skills, Abilities, Internships, Related Experiences, Affiliations, Memberships, Interests, Hobbies, Refferences... Industrial Engineer, Endustri Muhendisi, Tobb ETU, Career Plannig, jop search,
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http://www.WatchMojo.com Video on How to Scrapbook
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http://www.WatchMojo.com Video on What you need to Scrapbook
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A quick Flair Compliation
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Granamedia is on the air with episode #004. Coming up, new wonders in robotics. And grab the kids because it's another fun time with Geeko the Clown! Produced by GRANAMEDIA A/Videos.
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http:www.WatchMojo.com video on how to create jewelry for women.
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How to Make a Birthday Card Part 2
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How to Make a Birthday Card Part 1
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International pop artist Natasha Bedingfield has joined forces with The Sims 2 FreeTime to record her hit single "Pocketful of Sunshine" in Simlish. This music video was filmed using The Sims 2 and its Expansion Packs.
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More pictures of Frasiers Hill I took with my Canon EOS 350D Digital Camera all photos are taken by me in Malaysia. this is part 3 of 4.
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