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Again I am combining 3 days worth of travel into one blog post, as for us the "South East Asia Adventure" part of the trip ended on Day 39 in Siem Reap, and we were not planning to do a lot on these 3 days, except attend the Grand Prix practice in Singapore. So we planned to do very little and not take a lot of photos.
Wednesday 13 September, fine, thunderstorm 34°
We had a bit of a sleep in ( compared to the previous 3 mornings ) and got up at 7:30am. In another first we managed to make use of the breakfast that was included in our room rate at the hotel, and it was nice. We went up to our room, packed and checked out at 9:30am.
Dom arrived and took us to the airport, via the western suburbs of Siem Reap; there is a lot of new building work going on in Siem Reap and the area between the old town and the airport is no exception.
We arrived at the airport at 10am, and because our check in wasn't open we grabbed a Starbucks drink in their outdoor seating area, then checked in at about 10:15am and through to the waiting lounge. Siem Reap airport is a single level affair with no airbridges but is new and very cool. We walked out and got on our AirAsia plane at 11:15am and took off at 11:45am ( early again ). The flight was a little bumpy but not too bad, and we landed at Don Mueng Airport in Bangkok at 12:45pm.
During the flight their was an announcement that someone had stolen a headrest cover and if it wasn't returned then the security would be called when we landed and everyone would be searched. So when the headrest was still missing when we landed ( apparently airlines ' lose ' lots of items off planes, including lifejackets, pieces of uniforms, and even the handsets that they use to make cabin announcements! ) the security arrived and we were allowed to leave the plane one row at a time, and had our bags searched on the way out. We were near the front of the plane so I don't know if they found the thief or not.
Anyway we walked through to immigration and cleared through quite quickly ( compared to our first experience of Thai Immigration 5 weeks ago ), grabbed our bags and then went to arrange a taxi to our hotel ( a private car hire B700 / NZ$28 +we had to pay the driver for the toll road ( B70 )) . We drew some Thai Baht from the money machine, and due to confusion over the currency conversion rate we managed to draw B20,000 / NZ$800, which was a bit more than we needed. We grabbed some packaged sandwiches for our lunch, and ate them on the ride to the hotel.
It seemed a bit surreal to be back in land of motorways, tall buildings and noise after the last few days spent in the quiet, green jungle of Cambodia, but it is a necessary change.
Our car screamed down the motorway, battled the traffic, and eventually found the street / alley that our hotel was on, but by this stage our driver was in no mood to fight the traffic anymore, and effectively told us to get out and walk the last 100 metres to our hotel ( Pratunam Pavilion ) which was located near the end of a very narrow ally with market stalls on either side. We checked in at 2pm and went up to our room. The hotel and room were nothing flash, we had booked it more for it's location within walking distance of Ratchaparop Station, on the line to the Suvarnabhumi Airport, than for it's quality. But as usual it had wifi, airconditioning and included breakfast and was only NZ$50.
We went out for a walk through the alleys around the hotel, and sorted out the route to the train station ( the street our hotel was on got narrow near the train line, then appeared to be a corridor through someones house, but popped out on a road next to the train tracks which led directly to the station.
We headed back to the main road ( Phetchaburi Road ) then went into a mall, which was mainly tech shops, but Liz managed to find a pharmacy with a sale on lipsticks, so she was happy while I wandered the 4 floors of camera and computer shops.
As we were thinking about leaving the heavens opened and there was another thunderstorm passing through, so we grabbed a drink and watched the rain out the window. After about 45 minutes the rain eased off and we walked to the neighbouring mall, then we ventured out onto the street in the rain and walked around the corner, and across the canal to Central World ( we had visited here on our first pass through Bangkok, which felt like a lifetime ago, but was only 5 weeks ).
We walked around the mall, again it felt strange to be in a big western style mall, but it also felt normal. We left after buying a few bits and pieces at 5pm and walked back to the hotel in the sunshine. We chilled out in the room, then went downstairs to the hotel restaurant for tea, then back to the room.
Wednesday 14 September, fine, 32°
We surfaced at 7:30am, after both not having great sleeps. The hotel seems to be full of people that like to wander the corridors late at night talking, and slamming doors. This is the first time we have suffered from having a noisy hotel ( another bonus of travelling in the off season I guess ). We headed up to the top floor for breakfast which again was quite busy, then back down to our room to pack.
We left the hotel at 9:15am, walked through to the train station and caught the airport train. We arrived at the airport at 10am. We headed up to the check in hall and checked in with Singapore Airlines, through immigration and customs, and then into the shopping mall that is the departures area. We grabbed a drink then headed downstairs to our gate, and in another change to the norm our tickets were scanned as we went into the gate lounge, so they didn't need to be scanned as we got onto the plane.
We boarded at 11:45am and took off at 12:30pm for Singapore, again it was a bumpy flight with thunderstorms around and we landed at 3:30pm local time ( Bangkok time + 1hr ), off the plane, did immigration etc then down to the MRT station. We bought a 3 day tourist pass ( S$30 ea (including a S$10 deposit for the card ) / NZ$30 ), jumped on the MRT, changed at Tanah Merah and then got off at Lavendar, and walked the couple of hundred metres to our hotel ( Hotel Boss, a/c, wifi but no breakfast ) at 5pm. Checked in and up to our very modern room with a view out to the north.
We went for a walk around the area, walked through a little outlier of Little India (or Little, Little India as I call it ), passed the Masjid Sultan mosque then down through the little streets with colourful murals, and then headed west to Bugis MRT station. Caught the train to Bayfront at the Marina Bay Sands, and walked through to Gardens by the Bay and to the Supertrees. Then we waited for the sunset and for the lights in the trees at 7pm. We stayed unti about 7:45pm then walked back across the bridge through the MBS and then down to the Casino at 8pm. We made the usual donation to the tax coffers of Singapore, then headed to the basement of the MBS Shoppes for tea at the foodcourt. Walked the length of the Shoppes to the MRT and then back to Lavendar to our Hotel at 9pm.
Friday 15th September, cloudy, rain, fine, 30°
We got up at 7:30am to the sound of thunder rolling around, then went out to a cafe ( Tolidos Espresso Nook ) near our hotel for breakfast. then back to the hotel at 10am. Grabbed our gear for watching the Grand Prix then walked to the Suntec Centre where there was a ticket collection place for our GP tickets, but when we got there we were told we had to pick them up at the main collection venue at the Raffles Centre. So we walked through the streets, skirting the GP track and barricades. As we got near the Raffles Centre the heavens opened and the rain started. We managed to get inside the building and up to the conference centre to pick up our tickets.
We walked to the Raffles Hotel for a look around ( most of it is closed for renovations ) and then headed downstairs to the foodcourt in the Raffles Centre to grab some lunch. Back upstairs and out to the GP entry gates ( still raining, and the first time we have actually used our jackets that we have been carrying for 6 weeks ) and into the GP track at 2pm. We walked through the middle of the track, bought a cap and a programme, and went to our seats in the Esplanade Waterfront Grandstand ( S$128ea ) next to Marina Bay. We grabbed some drinks and settled in to watch the practice day; Ferrari's, Porshe's then the F1 cars. Thankfully the rain stopped and the sun came out.
We grabbed some dinner at the nearby tent foodcourt at 6pm ( S$8 for a beer! ), then back to our seats to watch the Ferrari qualifying and the F1 Free Practice 2. Lots of fun to watch. We left the grandstand at 10pm, walked back through the main part of the infield, watched a bit of One Republic on the Pedang Stage then headed to the City Hall MRT and back to Lavendar Station and our hotel at 11pm.
Saturday 16 Sept, cloudy, thunderstorms, fine, 31°
Slept in until 8:30am, walked down to the local McDonalds for breakfast at 9:30am then back to the hotel to pack for the last time. We checked out at 10:45am and left our bags at the hotel. We walked to Lavendar station and caught the train to Somerset Station on Orchard Road, went to Starbucks for a drink, then I stayed there to catch up on admin and blogs ( using the free wifi ) and Liz went off shopping.
After a couple of hours we walked up behind Orchard Road, through Emerald Place, with it's 2 storey terraced housing, then back to Somerset Station. We jumped on the MRT and headed out to Bashan then the circle line to Marina Bay Sands, and then back to the hotel at 4:30pm
We grabbed a coffee in the hotel lobby and then grabbed our bags at 5:45pm, walked to Lavendar and MRT to Changi Airport, arrived at 6:30pm. We checked in etc then through immigration ( no customs / bag searches until the gate lounge ). We walked around the departure mall, tea at Burger King then through to our gate at 8:00pm, onto the plane at 8:45pm. We managed to score seats immediately behind the bulkhead in the middle of the plane, with loads of legroom. We took off late at 9:55pm and had a slightly bumpy flight back to Auckland, arrived at 10:30am.
Through customs etc and then we grabbed the bus to the domestic terminal, got a drink, got on our plane to Napier at 1:15pm, landed at 2:15pm, and then a taxi home.
So that is it 6 weeks, 6 countries, 6 flights, 8 buses, 3 trains, 2 boats, and many miles walked.
The lasting memory is of the people we met along the way; so happy and helpful. And overall we were surprised how easy the trip was, given that we had not booked anything between our stays in Bangkok until we landed in Asia.
Time to start saving to go back again...


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101 Things to Do with Craters #2/
Terrain Making – I finally had a chance to get back to the series I started a few weeks ago. As I mentioned then I have a mold I made for craters back when they were a thing needed for Warhammer 40K. As such i don't want it to go to waste so I'm working on various terrain sets that use some or all of the crater to create unique items from a common mold.
The set I'm working on now is a themed board that uses the colors I typically use for a desert set combined with some plastic plants to make a jungle-esque set of terrain. I'm planning on redoing my main 4'x6' board and as such I want to make most of my new terrain sets in colors that will match what I have planned. This will hopefully make it so I don't feel obligated to do a new board base every time I make a new set of terrain.
Anyway after constructing the rocky sections using my craters and insulation foam I glued them down to some 1/4" MDF shapes. I find using this for terrain is very sturdy and it's easy to cut. It does take a bit more work as you need to sand the edges to get a good transition but in the end this is worth the work.
After gluing everything down I coated it with thinned down wood glue and covered it with my mixture of sand, kitty litter and various broken bits of plaster. I allowed this to dry for a few hours in the sun.
While that was drying a made a quick trip to Home Depot and had them color match the hobby colors I use for my miniature bases in a flat latex paint. A quart of each should last me through several sets of terrain so it's well worth the investment. I've also found that premium house paint stands up to the rigors of game play for terrain sets better than craft paint.
I based coated everything with my brown and then went back in to dry brush with the sandstone color. At first blush these look pretty good. I then went into the pools and painted them with a bright green. I plan on making these slim/acid pools to bring in some more color to the set as well as giving it a slightly other-worldly appearance.
UP NEXT: Apply a wash of brown ink to get the color to match my bases better and to do more detail work on the slime pools. Then glue down the vegetation.

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San Francisco (CA) – TG Daily had the chance to sit down with Mr. Banias himself, Mooly Eden, for a face-to-face interview at IDF 2007. And Eden took the opportunity to explain why he believes that Intel has the edge right now – and why he believes Intel will keep it. Of course, that brought AMD into the discussion as well and Eden wasn't shy commenting on AMD's outlook.
Mooly Eden is a unique character at Intel. While he is into serious business – he is vice president and general manager of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group and credited with leading the development of the Banias processor, Intel's turnaround product – he isn't the typical manager you would expect in this position. It is as much pleasure to talk with him about your last vacation as about his everyday work.
Of course, we are looking forward to talking to him everytime we have the opportunity to, as we know that we get straightforward answers without having to try to rephrase the question a few times. We were not disappointed this time either.
TG Daily's Rick Hodgin sat down with Eden and talked about the upcoming Penryn processor, Silverthorne and Moorestown, Intel's relationship to its partners, future clockless processors as well as Intel's take on AMD's competitive situation.
Read all stories from TG Daily in our IDF Fall 2007 Wrap-up.
TG Daily: There is a lot of talk about performance at this IDF, especially when it comes to Penryn and all the talk about processors these days is quad-core. So, simply asked, does a quad-core processor in a notebook make sense?
Mooly Eden: Yes.
TG Daily: Why's that?
Mooly Eden: Because I'm going to do it next year in the second half. So definitely, I'm not going to say anything that doesn't make sense. [laughter] When I was asked if I believe quad-core will go to mainstream, I answered "no." But there are two categories that might require quad-core. One category is gaming. No matter how much performance we give them, it's not going to be enough. And some of the games are already so much threaded, such as Microsoft's Flight Simulator; you put four cores to the task and you will get much better performance. The other one is mobile workstations. [This market] needs the performance and it needs the mobility.
For these two categories, we are going to develop a quad-core for mobile and we are going to introduce it in the second half of 2008. Can OEMs take it down to mainstream, if you build the right product? Yes, they definitely can. But, [for the mainstream] I don't believe there are enough applications to take advantage of four cores. Four cores will also consume more power and more power will hurt the battery life. So, if I hurt your battery life, I'd better give you something in exchange.
When the software and usage will be there, I believe [the quad-core] might go [into the mainstream]. But if you ask me if it will be 2009 or 2010? You'll see mobile with quad core, you'll see some people trying to get a Halo. But mainstream in general? I doubt it, at this stage.
TG Daily: That answer surprises me. Don't we always want more and isn't it the indication that we will be getting more and more cores in any of our computers?
Mooly Eden: Well, we can [put four cores in a notebook]. There's nothing preventing me from doing that. What I will eventually do is that I will fulfill the request from the OEMs. But if somebody asked me as an expert: "Mooly, does it make sense?" I will answer: "No."
And, by the way, I was very unpopular two and a half years ago when I introduced [the 32-bit] Core Duo. People asked me then : "Do you need 64-bit?" And I told them: "64-bit is a marketing hype … by my competitors. A very good one."
They wondered if I were crazy for not having a 64-bit Core Duo. But there are many things I don't have. I said, "guys, there's no software for 64-bit." I didn't want 64-bit on Yonah. It did not make sense. Many were criticizing us until Steve Jobs gave up on the PowerPC architecture and went to Yonah. He went from 64-bit to 32-bit since he appreciated the performance and battery life more than 64-bit, because he knew that nobody was using it.
Moving forward, I believe 64-bit will start ramping. It's the same thing with quad-core. We'll have the technology, we'll take it down there when we need to.
Read on the next page: Goals for Penryn, the fate of the desktop processor and future clockless processors
TG Daily: What are your goals for the successor of the current Core 2 Duo, the 45 nm Penryn?
Mooly Eden: I want to ramp it very, very fast. It's a great product. If you think about it, it's 420 million transistors. It's got 6 MB of cache.
The interesting thing about Penryn is that when we start designing a product, we are trying to look at several factors. What is the transistor budget? What is the evolution? And where is my competition going to be? Then I'm trying to define something which I call "landing zone." This is the budget, this is the number of transistors, this is the frequency, this is the performance in F-SPEC and everything. And we start designing the product.
Penryn was [originally] designed to compete with [AMD's] Barcelona in notebooks. The minute we found out Barcelona's competitive data, we were wondering whether they were actually going to stay with their old technology [for notebooks]. And yes, their [upcoming notebook processor] Griffin [turned out to be based] on their old architecture. I believe we are going to open a huge gap next year. Probably much bigger than in previous years.
So, my objective is to ramp and win as fast as possible. We will do it very, very fast simply to open a huge gap over our competition. You will not hear the word "performance" any more from our competitor, because they will not be able to compete. They will tell you stories about many, many other things. But I intend to get that huge advantage on performance and power efficient performance. [Users] do not yet understand the following: Performance gives you much better responsiveness. If you've got great performance and you give me a task, then I'll do the task, I'll finish it early, and I'll go to sleep.
Do you know the optimal situation for a notebook?
TG Daily: Sleep?
Mooly Eden: Yes, sleep mode. So, we designed the microprocessor to be in a sleep mode – a good microprocessor sleeps all the time. You speculatively know when to wake it up, you do the work and go to sleep again. So, with more performance, if you want to download a 60 minute song and compress it and put it into output, I'll do it much faster than anybody else. But, not less important, not only will I do it faster, I'll go much faster to sleep so I'll save battery life.
So I believe simply we'll try to ramp Penryn as fast as possible because it gives us a huge competitive edge and we are proud of it. We've got the capacity. We've got the 45nm. And we've got a stellar microprocessor. It's a nice puppy.
TG Daily: So, with so much more performance in the notebook space and notebooks, according to your CEO, approaching a market share of 50% in 2009, the obvious question is whether the desktop processor will become less important or whether it may die, at least from a development perspective?
Mooly Eden: Let's put it like this. The world for me is very simple. There's two categories. There is mobile, and there are desktops that are going to be mobile. Not that I'm opinionated on this area, but there's little use for a desktop for people who do not need it. However, the ability to question it would've been much more relevant five years ago than now, because if you look at Core – the Core architecture in desktop and mobile are using the same core micro architecture.
So, yes, the desktop will be replaced by mobile solutions, especially in the living room. In the "all-in-one," and in all kinds of sexy form factors. Power still matters. Think about an environment where you don't want the fan to work, because it's noisy. It disturbs you in the living room. In cases like this, I believe it will overtake the desktop CPU. Overall you can see the trend both in desktop and mobile for low power consumption.
I believe mobile percentage will ramp, but there will still be place for desktop, because desktop, by definition and by nature, will be a more affordable solution. And you still have emerging economies which is still important [for desktop processors].
TG Daily: One key component about the whole power issue is clock speed. We have had recent discussions with Jerry Bautista, who heads up your Tera-Scale project, on clock-less CPUs. Is there any research done at Intel on this topic?
Mooly Eden: Definitely. First of all, I agree with you that the clock network can consume a lot of power. But for that reason, we've got something that is hugely extensive, "clock gating." What we are doing is we are looking at the state of the microprocessor and whenever you do not use it, you stop the clock. You gate it. You will see a very complicated clock gating on the CPU and speculatively we try to stop clock on many systems. Let me give you an example. If you tried to get some data from the cache, and the data is not available and you cannot do some speculative execution, you have to wait for data. The whole CPU is going to be doing nothing, so why do you need to clock the execution units?
So, you've got massive clock gating. And we are working on it, and we are developing it, and we improve it as we speak. If you speak about something which is revolutionary, such as an asynchronous microprocessor, which means it's not the clock that is everything, but rather what it is working with what it is finishing and sending, it will be a very complicated design. But for the near future, the next-generation microprocessor will still be a synchronous microprocessor with clock gating and power down features.
Read on the next page: Mobile Internet Devices, UMPCs, Moorestown, Silverthorne and the $100 laptop
TG Daily: I have to admit, the most interesting device we have seen so far at IDF was not Penryn, but an iPhone-like Mobile Internet Device (MID) that was showing during one of the keynotes. But there wasn't much detail besides the fact that it is base don a new platform called Moorestown. What is the idea behind this product?
Mooly Eden: With respect to this category I can tell you two things. First of all, it's a fascinating category. We believe it's going to be huge. First, in our opinion, the real usage that everybody wants is Internet connectivity, so Internet is the usage model [of the device]. Second, if you want to get a great experience surfing the Internet, you need an IA-32 Intel architecture, because the Internet is written around it. If you were to use an ARM [processor] or something similar, there will be many things you are not going to be able to see.
Another assumption, number three, is the development of the ecosystem of the world. People want to have this Internet. Always on, always connected to every place, which means we are speaking about miniaturization.
And assumption four, in order to make it grow very fast, you need to make it available at consumer affordable prices.
TG Daily: Are there any details you can provide on Moorestown? What are the differences between Moorestown and Menlow, which will be the first-generation MID platform?
Mooly Eden: The main difference between Moorestown and Menlow is that I believe it's just the next generation of what makes sense. There will be much more integration, much more functionality, a much lower power envelope. When you are trying to reach what you know, you do it in steps. [Moorestown] is just more optimized for the sigma that you want to do, which inevitably results in smaller form factor in the same destination as the predecessor. It's going to be a slick device.
TG Daily: We have been wondering at TG Daily, is the MID what the UMPC should've been in the first place?
Mooly Eden: I believe all of it was evangelism. We look at new opportunities as we learned, as we looked at it. When we start developing this stuff, and a lot of it, by the way, is the same, we'll find out that, when we start talking about UMPC [ultra-mobile PC], the market is not huge. But we thought it was a market we needed to serve.
When we started working with it and we went to the customer, we discovered that there's a huge opportunity: The MID – with IA-32, very low power, carry-on-you, etcetera, etcetera. We learned that this market is bigger, but learning is part of the crusade. Before you start walking you don't know it. I believe we have started walking now.
TG Daily: Before Moorestown, we will see Silverthorne MIDs. Silverthorne, however is expected to make it into many other device, perhaps into the $100 laptop?
Mooly Eden: You are more aggressive than anybody else that I heard about, even Negroponte. You are asking me about OLPC or $100 notebook?
TG Daily: Let's take both.
Mooly Eden: I will not refer to $100 or $199. At the end of the day, the decision is done by the OEM who sells it. So you know that Asus got the eePC. Negroponte has got the OLPC. And you know that we are part of the board [of OLPC], right?
TG Daily: Yes, we have heard about that.
Mooly Eden: What is important is that the Silverthorne architecture and characteristics are such that should enable it to go and compete in a very low entry-level product because of two reasons. First, the cost structure is low enough so we'll be able to price it in order to compete. You can't come up with a $200 CPU for a $199 device. On the other side, the power consumption needs to be low enough so that it can fit into places without a fan, to enable an overall low-cost system.
On the MID, if you want to ramp this category, it's a consumer play. Consumer play is not $699. Consumer play is $199, $299. It's all kind of things, which are cost-affordable. We need to be able to be competitive there, which means that the cost structure should fit such a point. So, if you ask me if it's $100 or $199, I cannot tell you. It's not my decision, but are we priced, or are we designed in such a way to arrive at the right place? Yes. It's a totally different "landing zone" than the mainstream microprocessor, the Core 2 Duo family.
Read on the next page: Relationships with OEMs, the pressure on AMD and Eden's take on the Fusion processor
TG Daily: AMD is known for having close relationships with its partners. How close is Intel's relationship with its OEMs these days?
Mooly Eden: Very close. In the end, it's my decision. It's Intel's decision. But we speak with the OEMs, we speak with the ecosystem. If you speak [with OEMs] the year before introduction, it's so relevant to execution that you cannot change the product anymore. But if you speak about the earliest change, we've got something that is called strategic move. We've got periodic strategic engagements where we show them the direction we want to take.
We cannot always do what they want, because many times we can go to two OEM and we get contradicting input. But we do solicit their feedback, because they're close to the market and we want to win their business. But, at the end of the day, it's our decision. And you need to bat. You need to make your decision and execute.
TG Daily: With regards to AMD, their product base, and where they're going to be in a year. Do you have any breathing room? Do you look at things differently now?
Mooly Eden: Do I have breathing room? You should ask whether they've got any breathing room. Based on the execution lately, I believe they probably have got their issue right now to deal with. If I look at the mobile space, I believe we have the luxury of being a company that can afford to have a dedicated team to deal with the mobile challenge probably four years before anybody else in the market.
If we look at Banias, or Pentium-M, or if we look at Core 2 Duo, it's not that our engineers are better than other engineers in the world. More important is that we identified the challenge of the power war. We understood that taking the desktop CPU and stretching it isn't optimal. And we had the luxury of having two very good design teams working in parallel. Which, by the way, we continue to do with the tick-tock model.
We did the Core 2 Duo. At the same time, our partners from Oregon were working on the Nehalem. Now the guys on Nehalem are going to start ramping. I don't know how many companies can do that.
The other thing that might not be fair, but I never claimed to be fair, I've got the luxury of the technology [45 nm], at least one year before my competition. As a result, the transistor budget, leakage, etc., definitely gives me an advantage. There's no way anybody in the industry can come up with 420 million transistors. Nobody can come out with 6 MB cache. Nobody can do it, simply because it would not be economic. And I believe the tools that we get for our design [45 nm] puts us in a very good position and I'm proud of that.
TG Daily: What is your take on AMD's opportunity with Fusion?
Mooly Eden: There's nothing special about Fusion. The next Fusion, or the next CPU that has CPU + chipset, integrated graphics on the same chipset was mine. It was Timna, which we developed back in 1997 or so. It was a great product, but it eventually it didn't make it to market. Overall, the idea of integration is the right idea. If you do integration, you can save power because you don't need the I/O buffer. If I put it on the same chip, you can save space. It looks like AMD will be going towards a Multi-Chip Package and integration. It's not magic. Can it be done? Yes. Does it provide a smaller footprint? Yes. Would it use less power? Yes. Is it the revolution? No. I believe that going into this direction is the right direction for everybody to go. Eventually it will be an evolution.
TG Daily: So, Intel will not jump on this idea right away?
Mooly Eden: I doubt that [Fusion] is going to change the position of the market and the overall ecosystem. But is it the right trend for technology trend in mobile space? Yes. Is it a risk? Yes.
Here's an example. If you integrate memory controller and graphics that was the problem in Timna you need to gamble which memory technology you go with. You gamble the wrong memory technology and you've got too much premium and you might pay a penalty for that. But overall, I believe that going in this direction is the right direction.
TG Daily: On that point, is this a real, formal type of validation that what AMD chose to do a few years ago in their designs is now what you're accepting and adopting, is that saying that they were right?
Mooly Eden: With respect to Fusion?
TG Daily: Well, there is more than just Fusion, right? There's the on-die memory controller, multi-point …
Mooly Eden: No. Definitely not. Because people are looking at the vendor. What you need to do is to derive. It's not a good repeater. I had the memory controller on Timna before they had their memory controller their design. So, the technology was there. By the way, the mistake in Timna was that we gambled on RDRAM.
And at the end of the day, we are arguing about many, many things. But, you can do the measurement, and you can see who's got the better performer, the better product and lower power. I am willing to take Penryn on any benchmark that anybody wants. Whether it be F-SPEC, I-SPEC, PC Mark, SysMark – whatever you want. Open the kimono and do the testing. I believe our product is superior to their product. That is what matters for me.
TG Daily: Thank you for the interview!
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What does the murder of a 24-year-old woman, found with blows to her body and a bullet in her forehead in Mexico, have to do with Canada's immigration system? To refugee advocates it represents the system's fundamental failure to uphold the rights of asylum seekers: the 24-year-old victim and her mother and sister had twice sought refuge in Canada from the druglords who are believed to have killed her upon her deportation.
Immigrant rights activists are concerned by a pattern of tighter controls, increased deportations and inflammatory anti-immigrant posturing over the past year that further erodes the myth of benevolence in Canada's immigration policy. According to figures obtained by the Canadian Press, deportations from Canada have skyrocketed 50 per cent over the last decade, with approximately 13,000 deportations annually. By August of 2009, over 9,000 people had already been deported this year. In October, executive director of the Canadian Council of Refugees Janet Dench told the Globe and Mail, "This totally contradicts people who continue to say in the media that claimants are never deported from Canada. The reality is that this is a daily business, a daily experience that claimants are very routinely removed from Canada."
The growing difficulty asylum seekers face in Canada is evident in a series of recent immigration changes. Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney's annual report shows a decreasing "target" of 11,000 people in the number of accepted asylum seekers and sponsored family members. Parliament's citizenship and immigration committee recently voted six to five to establish a refugee appeal division, with all five oppositional votes cast by Conservative MPs. Kenney has imposed visa requirements targeting refugee claimants from Mexico and the Czech Republic by suggesting they are "system-abusers," while announcing a biometric plan for all visa holders. In April 2009, Kenney oversaw the largest immigration raid in recent Canadian history, during which Canadian Border Services Agency officers stormed farms, factories and homes to detain over 100 non-status workers in Ontario. Kenney has justified the current month-long detention of 76 Tamil asylum seekers in B.C. by suggesting they are possible security threats.
As successful refugee claims have fallen, temporary worker programs have proliferated across the country. More people are now admitted to Canada under Temporary Employment Authorizations than as permanent residents. In B.C., the number of migrant workers has doubled over the past five years, spurred on by a construction boom, the upcoming 2010 Olympics, trans-provincial transport of the Alberta tar sands, and exponential growth in the mining industry.
In October 2009, the federal government proposed major changes to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Although the government asserts that these revisions "strengthen protection for temporary foreign workers," migrant rights activists say these changes will work against the interests of those whom they purport to protect and have organized a national day of action for migrant workers on December 2. One regulation limits most workers to a term of four years, after which a six-year ban will be imposed before workers can return to Canada.
According to Chris Ramsaroop, a member of Justicia for Migrant Workers, Canada's increasing shift to temporary worker programs has far-reaching negative impacts. Based on a decade of work with migrant workers in Ontario's agricultural sector, he explains that exploitative conditions are endemic to such programs: long hours, low pay, lack of basic health and safety standards, denial of basic entitlements such as unemployment benefits and social assistance, and constant fear of deportation by employers.
Under the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement, the governments of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are eager to increase their reliance on temporary worker programs. Citing labour flexibility, the U.S government has pointed to Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program as the model to implement.
Ramsaroop remarks that although the rapid expansion of temporary worker programs is a recent development, "Canada's reliance on indentured, exploited, and racialized workers is nothing new. We have historically built labour forces where some workers are provided with rights while many are not."
For groups like Justicia for Migrant Workers and No One Is Illegal, the ballooning numbers of temporary workers alongside the plummeting numbers of permanent residents and refugees is no coincidence. "It is not in the Canadian state's or Canadian corporate interests to deport all racialized migrants; it needs a pool of labour that is hyper-exploitable," states Harjap Grewal, a long-time migrant justice activist. "Migrant worker programs, in contrast to permanent residents, legalize the foreign-ness of people of colour. By decreasing the number of permanent residents Canada can uphold the ideology of White Canada, while ensuring that their role in the economy as cheap labour is filled by migrant workers who are as expendable as tissue paper."
Grewal's accusation of mounting government racism towards immigrants has been echoed by advocates across the country, especially during Minister Kenney's reign. Kenney has made a series of inflammatory comments including that Canada needs to get tough on immigrants who do not speak English or French, that he will not tolerate immigrants who do not integrate, and that multiculturalism doesn't mean "anything goes."
Not one to limit himself to empty rhetoric, Kenney introduced a new citizenship guide in November. According to "Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship," the obligations of citizenship include getting a job and not engaging in barbaric cultural practices such as spousal abuse, genital mutilation or honour killings. The latter section is accompanied by an image of a woman wearing a hijab.
"This jargon is fundamentally rooted in racist ideologies," says Nassim Elbardouh of No One Is Illegal Vancouver. "Kenney is appealing to public fears of immigrants by casting them as un-Canadian and relying on Hollywood stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims, rather than a systemic and universal analysis of gender violence." Elbardouh contends that despite its political expediency, Canadian authorities' have actually failed to address women's issues; for example their lack of response to the alarming numbers of murdered and missing women, disproportionately Indigenous.
Notably omitted from the Guidebook's section on equality is any mention of the rights of lesbian, gay and trans people. Pivotal moments in Canadian immigration history - such as the Komagata Maru ship incident where 376 Indian migrants were denied entry - are also glaringly missing. Kenney's response to such criticisms has been that owing to space constraints, not everything could be included.
The guide does manage to make ample room for Canada's military history in the "Defending Canada" section, including a recruitment advertisement: "serving in the regular Canadian Forces is a noble way to contribute to Canada and makes an excellent career choice." For activists like Sarah Bjorknas with the War Resisters campaign, this emphasis on militarization in the guidebook links domestic immigration policies to aggressive foreign policies. According to Bjorknas, "The existing biases of the Conservative Party towards wars and occupations has encouraged Kenney to politically influence immigration policy and further an atmosphere of fearful jingoism both at home and abroad."
As examples of the ways in which Canada's foreign policy is influencing immigration policy, she notes Kenney's labelling of Iraq war resisters as bogus refugee claimants, the barring of British Member of Parliament George Galloway because of his opposition to Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Kenney's cutting of language-training funding to the Canadian Arab Federation due to the organization's involvement in pro-Palestinian efforts. "That Prime Minister Harper does not appear to put any restraints on Kenney's public commentary tells us that he is free to spread the party line on what Canada's role in the world should be," adds Bjorknas.
Outraged by this fundamental realignment in Canadian immigration policy, activists across the country have been mounting campaigns to counter the message of Jason Kenney with their own message: Deport Jason Kenney! Status for All!
Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and researcher based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. She has been involved in the migrant justice movement for a decade.
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Lincoln is a town in the Selwyn District, in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. The town is located on the Canterbury Plains to the west of Banks Peninsula, 22 kilometres southwest of Christchurch. The town has a population of 6,100 (June 2018),[1] making it the second largest town in the Selwyn District behind nearby Rolleston.
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Lincoln is a satellite town of Christchurch; at the 2006 Census, 53% of employed Lincoln residents worked in the city.[2] The town is home to Lincoln University, the oldest agricultural tertiary institution in the Southern Hemisphere and the smallest of New Zealand's eight universities.
In 1862 James Edward FitzGerald of 'The Springs' subdivided some of his freehold land for the new township of Lincoln, named after the Earl of Lincoln, a foundation member of the Canterbury Association and from 1851 a member of the management committee. The site of Lincoln on the L1 River would allow for a flour mill to be built to service the growing farming district. Lincoln was laid out in a grid layout and FitzGerald named the four belts North, East, South and West and the cross streets after his own children Robert, Maurice and William. The main streets James, Edward and Gerald were names after himself.
The new township steadily grew and by 1873 Lincoln had a post office, butcher, brewers, a baker and confectioner, a storekeeper who had a hotel, a wheelwright and a carpenter, and a blacksmith. The peaceful quality of Lincoln changed with the arrival of the railway line in 1875 and the opening of the Little River line in 1886.[3]
On 26 April 1875, a branch line railway was opened to Lincoln from a junction with the Main South Line in Hornby. This line became the Southbridge Branch. Within a few years, Lincoln became a junction itself, with the Little River Branch diverging from the Southbridge Branch in Lincoln. This branch opened to Birdling's Flat on 16 May 1882 and Little River itself on 11 March 1886. On 30 June 1962, Lincoln became a railway terminus when the Little River Branch and the Lincoln-Southbridge section of the Southbridge Branch were both closed. The railway did not last much longer in Lincoln, closing on 1 December 1967. Today, the Little River Rail Trail is being established along the railway's old route. The Prebbleton to Lincoln leg of the route was opened on 30 November 2006. The trail is used extensively for recreation.
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Lincoln has three schools, two primary and one secondary.
- Lincoln Primary School is a state full primary (Year 1–8) school. It was established in 1866 and has a roll of 634 students as of March 2019.[4]
- Lincoln High School is a state secondary (Year 9–13) school. It was established in 1959 and has a roll of 1451 students as of March 2019.[4]
- Ararira Springs Primary School is a state full primary (Year 1–8) school. It opened in 2019 and has a roll of 103 students as of March 2019.[4]
Ararira Springs Primary School is the second primary school for the town. It was tentatively named Lincoln South School and open in February 2019.[5]
Lincoln is the site of Lincoln University. As well as the university, there are a number of other research facilities in Lincoln, including AgResearch, Institute for Plant and Food Research, FAR (Foundation for Arable Research), and Landcare Research. The High Performance Cricket training centre is also based at Lincoln University. Over 400 people are employed at these organisations making Lincoln a busy little country village.
Lincoln also has a maternity hospital, kindergarten and golf course.
Lincoln also hosts the first New Zealand supermarket to have wind turbines generating some of its power: Lincoln New World. The supermarket was built with a number of sustainable initiatives in keeping with the Enviro town it is servicing.[6]
- ^ a b "Subnational Population Estimates: At 30 June 2018 (provisional)". Statistics New Zealand. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018. For urban areas, "Subnational population estimates (UA, AU), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996, 2001, 2006-18 (2017 boundaries)". Statistics New Zealand. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Commuting patterns in Christchurch -- Commuting patterns in New Zealand, 1996-2006". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ Singleton, George (2007). Ellesmere, The Jewel in the Canterbury Crown. Selwyn District Council. pp. 295–298. ISBN 978-0-473-11875-4.
- ^ a b c "Directory of Schools - as at 3 April 2019". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- ^ Parata, Hekia (3 March 2017). "Three new primary schools to open in 2019". New Zealand Government. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ Greenhill, Marc (10 September 2009). "New Zealand's first wind powered supermarket". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 3 October 2014.


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Biographical Landmarks
- 1958 – Born in Romania
- 1964 – Moved to Israel with his family and settled in Tel Aviv
- 1977 – Relocated to the Arava to found Kibbutz Samar
- 1987 – Starting work as a press photographer, for the Hadashot and for Hamishamar daily newspapers.
- 1993 – Completed photographic studies at the Ramat Hasharon Academy
- 1994 – Taught photography at the Maaleh Shaharut High School, in the Southern Arava
One-Man Exhibitions
- 1995 – This Is The Time – KIdmat Eden Gallery, curator – Dina Miller
- 1996 – Photographs – Artifus Gallery, Florentine, Tel Aviv
- 1997 – Praying – Pe'er Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 1997 – Objects, from Hand Photography – Leonardo Da Vinci Gallery
- 1999 – Everything Is Open – Hakibbutz Gallery, curator – Tali Tamir
- 2003 – Screensaver – Lien 20 Gallery, curator – Mihal Hakham
- 2004 – In Movement – Hamisrad Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator – Rahel Sukman, guest curator – Dana Liters
- 2005 – Hand Photography – Photography Gallery, Beit Gabriel
- 2008 – One-Off Exhibition – Kibbutz Samar
- 2010 - "INs and OUTs", personal exhibition. Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv. 26.05 – 16.08.2010
Group Shows
- 1993 – Five Photographers – Hakibbutz Gallery, curator – David Collett
- 1993 – Academy Graduates – Bograshov Gallery, curator – Simha Sherman1996 – Yitzhak Rabin Press Photographs – Ramat Gan Museum, curator -Meir Ahornsson
- 1997 – Photo Jonah – Ramat Gan Museum, curators – Meir Aharonson and Roni SOmek
- 1998 – Women in the World of Reality – Limbus Gallery, curator – Ofer Ze'evi
- 2002 – Center for Artistic Photography – Chelsea, New York
- 2003 – Do It To Yourself – Time for Art, curator – Gidon Efrat
- 2007 – The Desert Book – Hakibbutz Gallery, curator – Yanov Shapira
Digi about his photography:
The photographic medium is locked into a single moment.
The photographed image serves as an object which is individually connected to the juncture in the working time when the photograph is printed, in other words the time lapse between the moment the photograph is taken and the creation of the final image is the active photographic time – in terms of time, space and expanse.
Awareness and expertise comprise the work basis of control of originality and randomness.
These media exist in the creative space.
The connection between, or between some of them, is expressed in the two-dimensional frame of the photograph.
The photograph is a meeting point between the control of the time of the photographed image and the final result.
The final image is a direct result of my mental personal and environmental state, irrespective of the original photograph – in other words, the dialogue time that elapses between the moment the photograph is taken and the printing of the photograph.
The printing process is a direct offshoot of the image.
It is not produced by means of the accepted process, rather it uses personal tools, and changes the accepted rules of printing.
The process also takes longer than usual, and can last several hours.
The choice of the image by the artist offers an infinite working domain which connects with reality.


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J.P. Morgan suggests investors should continue to rotate from domestic emerging market companies and into EM exporters.
UK-based J.P. Morgan equity strategy analysts Mislav Matejka, Emmanuel Cau and Prabhav Bhadani write that "There is a sense that emerging markets are quickly becoming a new "consensus" trade, but we think that this rotation has much more to go"
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Emerging market valuations are still the cheapest in 10 years relative to developed markets, having unwound all the rerating seen during the 2004-2008 supercycle. Our emerging markets equity strategist Adrian Mowat is the most positive on Taiwan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Greece and Turkey within emerging markets. ...
... Longer term, we advise a continued rotation out of [European] domestic plays into exporters, and out of the developed markets into emerging markets exposure. This should not just be confined to miners and tech, which we upgraded in May to overweight, but also to autos and capital goods. The area we would be adding to foremost in this weakness is DAX – the cheapest market in Europe at 11.9x P/E, beneficiary of a falling Euro and of a pickup in Chinese and U.S. activity.
From JPM, here is a shortened list of exporters, with EU and U.S-traded tickers. Sector affiliation also is included, and ranking based on exposure to emerging markets:
- Fresnillo (FRES and FNLPF) Materials 100%
- Randgold Resources (RRS and GOLD) Materials 100%
- Anglo American (AAL and AAUKY) Materials 91%
- Standard Chartered (STAN and SCBFF) Financials 88%
- Tullow Oil (TLW and TUWOY) Energy 85%
- SabMiller (SAB and SBMRY) Staples 81%
- Millicom International (MIC and MIICF) Telecom 77%
- ASML Holding (ASML) IT 76%
- Old Mutual (OML and ODMUF) Financials 68%
- Jeronimo Martins (JMT and JRONY) Staples 65%


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We recently mentioned about it being banned In Australia, which is still the case so to speak but for those of you who haven't got any nice friends to gift you the game, there is now another option… gamersgate.
1. All you need to do is signup or login to gamersgate.co.uk
2. Then click on this link or search in google for The Haunted Hells Reach gamersgate.
3. Purchase a copy of the game and with the code they give you, use it to download it straight from steam.
Thanks to Bleh for this one, it's confirmed it works, any problems let us know.
*Update: We been told the same thing is also possible via amazon!
*Update 2: We can now confirm it was never banned in Ireland!


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Hello dear friends, Olive here!
Sorry it's been some time since I've been in touch, but it's been a frantically busy monsoon here at Animal Tracks, especially because of our involvement in the huge success of Mission Rabies throughout September. Over 60,000 dogs were vaccinated throughout selected rabies hot spots in India, including here in Goa an incredible 6000 plus - myself included - and of course all the other Animal Tracks permanent residents.
During the monsoon from my duty position on the bench near the reception I witnessed an old dog arrive as an outpatient and by the sorry look of him we all thought his time was up. But how wrong we were...
One day in early August while the monsoon raged and the rain barely stopped all day and night, a mangy old dog close to death's door came staggering from the cliff top in hope that the people he saw in the distance might be the ones to save him. His coat was drenched and filthy and sticking to his sides, showing every rib on his emaciated body. His skin had erupted into painful infected sores and evidence of an old sickness, probably distemper had left him with a head twitch, lolling tongue and unstable gait.
His rescuers were IAR volunteers out surveying the terrain and stray dog population for the forthcoming rabies vaccination campaign. Maybe the dog instinctively knew that out of all the people he might have dared to approach they could be the ones who would help. Around his skinny neck he wore a faded old flea collar which would have once cost a considerable amount of money: someone at some stage in his life must have cared enough for him to give him this. What sad misfortune had led him now to be so lost, alone and hungry?
Trusting these people, he followed them to a nearby cafe where they had a friend Mira who they knew would provide shelter for them all and where the dog could rest a while and get dry. Mira covered him in an old sack and offered bread and milk. But he was too exhausted to eat and just lay beneath the covers unable to stop shivering.
As night fell and the storm still raged the animal rescue volunteers knew that to take him to Animal Tracks centre so late in the day and admit him to a kennel would be even more trauma for the poor old guy, so they made a call to another friend. Savio runs a popular beach road bar and restaurant, Tin Tin's, and feeds and cares for many local strays, some of whom have become semi-permanent residents on the premises. Without hesitation or even seeing him Savio agreed to let the old boy stay a while providing he did not upset the balance with the other dogs. The old dog spent his first night for a long, long while in a warm, dry and safe place with plenty of food.
He had been probably been as close to death as an ancient old boy could have been, but a twist of fate had decided this was not to be his time.
The following morning is when Savio decided the dog should have a name, Jim Beam or JB for short. Jim had rested and eaten and looked a little better but sadly the other dogs were not so happy to have him there - probably because Jim was quite defensive, had a lot to say for himself and his loud vocalizing was causing some disturbance!
The rescuers came to visit with a friend, also a long term supporter of IAR Goa and she was instantly was touched by the plight of old Jim. She saw beyond the surface that Jim was indeed a beautiful soul with whom she made a deep and instant connection. Carol decided that although her house was full of many other IAR rescue cats and dogs she had the space and could offer Jim a temporary sanctuary whilst his future was decided and his condition improved. So Carol became Jim's official IAR foster carer. With help from her friend Savita and of course from IAR, the team set about the task of bringing Jim back from the brink.
His condition was assessed by the IAR medical team and his sores and wounds treated, then a heavy schedule of medication and supplements was prescribed. But old Jim Beam proved an easy and grateful patient and happily succumbed to regular baths with medicated skin healing shampoo and obligingly ate his tablets concealed in the regular small nutritious meals of the finest foods a dog could ever dream of.
It wasn't long at all before Jim was looking heaps better and had established himself in the home and more poignantly the heart of Carol....it was decided by the two of them that for the remainder of his days, however long or short that may be, Jim would become a welcome part of Carol's permanent animal family. Carol is not a passing tourist but has a permanent secure home here in Goa and can therefore offer long term stability and commitment which most other foreigners cannot.
To add icing to Jim's already unbelievable cake a tiny orphaned rescue pup that Carol has successfully reared from just a few weeks old has also now been permanently adopted as Jim's official canine companion. Poppy and Jim at opposite ends of life's journey have struck up a lovely friendship, each learning from the other and together basking in the glow of a wonderful home where they need never worry or be hungry and frightened again.
Good, genuine short term foster carers are a vital part of IAR Goa's volunteer programme. Offering one on one care to a young or recovering animal alleviates the pressure from the busy centre and IAR staff and prepares an animal for its eventual release or rehoming. If anyone visiting Goa long or short time can offer this help, the rewards will be immeasurable. This would be a much better option for an animal or a person than the disturbing practice often adopted by some temporary visitors who consider themselves animal lovers, of taking in a pet and then abandoning it or thoughtlessly dumping it at IAR when the time comes to leave.
Animal Tracks is not a sanctuary for abandoned companion animals, the centre's purpose is to rescue, sterilise, vaccinate, rehabilitate and release as many animals as possible. With the help of genuine foster carers and volunteers there could be so many more needy souls who get a second chance at life.
But rarely are a couple of dogs as fortunate or as lucky as Jim Beam and his little friend Poppy, who gently carved out a forever future for themselves with a wonderful lady in the best home imaginable.
Now isn't that the best of happy endings!
Bye for now,
Olive x
Thursday, 24 October 2013
And then there was Jim...
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Big Brother 12: Monday Morning, July 19th
Happy PoV Ceremony Day, BB Lovers! Anyone for some live feeds drama? ;) How 'bout empty promises and deal making?
Andrew's already up, and it shouldn't be too much longer til BB wakes the rest of the houseguests. They've got a big day ahead, what with the Power of Veto Ceremony today, any last minute wrangling and followup drama...
8:15am BBT
While the rest of the house is still sleeping, Andrew gets up to do his morning prayers.
What makes this day different from all other days? On this day, Andrew has opted to pray in the backyard, instead of up on the HoH landing.
All in all, a much nicer selection, I'd say.
8:30am BBT
Andrew's just finished up his prayers, and he heads back into the house. He does a bit of quiet tidying in the kitchen... emptying the full rubbish bin, carrying it to the Storage Room and putting in a new liner. He returns, washes his hands, and prepares himself some cereal. He's deep in thought about the events to come today. Can't blame him!
8:54am BBT - After washing up & brushing his teeth, Andrew returns to bed, telling whoever's listening that they better not be waking everyone else up at 9, because he's going back to bed now.
***Sounds like a tempting cue for wake up music. ;)
8:59am BBT -BRB Screen
Wakey, Wakey Houseguests!! It's time to get up and entertain the live feed viewers!!
9:05am BBT
They're up! And they're a haggard lookin' bunch this morning!
HoH Room
9:14am BBT
Rachel & Kathy
Rachel: aka, a lot of sh*t went down last night, and we need to get it, DR, just so we can put it on tv.
9:15am BBT
Monet & Lane
Monet: We'll argue in public? I'm not fighting anything...
Lane: We'll go to the lake.
Monet: That's perfect. I can drown you.
Lane: You couldn't drown this. I started swimming in 4th grade.
Monet: I'm sure I started earlier.
Lane: I'm gonna walk outta here with no towel, come stand next to you and brush my teeth.
Monet: It would blind me.
Lane: I'm sure it would. I bet your friends would like me.
Hayden enters the bathroom to brush his teeth. He's amused by the banter.
Monet: They'd hate you.
Lane: They'd love me. I have the aura of like. Would you hate me if I came out of the shower like this?
Monet: Would the towel be long enough?
Lane: Heard That!
***Is this another Lane flirt kiss of death? First Annie, now Monet?
9:30am BBT
Cabana Room
Hayden, Enzo, Kristen
Kristen brings her breakfast into the Cabana Room to join the boys... BB immediately calls Hayden to go change his batteries, leaving her in there with the silent lump of Enzo.
Hayden returns quickly, and they share a silent smile.. Kristen finishes her yogurt and granola and lies down in the cabana room. Enzo's between them.
9:35am BBT
Meanwhile, outside in the back yard, Matt's just finished 30 minutes on the elliptical.
Lane's having breakfast. Brendon & Britney are seemingly passed out on the couch, until BB calls Brendon in for a DR session, and Britney sits up to chat with Lane and Monet. Chatter between Lane & Britney about the temperature in the Have Not room, then about working out, tanning..
Monet's deep in thought.
9:42am BBT
Monet's complaining that Kathy's trying to be nice to her.
Britney: Kathy's a strange little creature. She definitely has the mood swings.
Both proceed to bash Kathy a bit to Lane. Andrew comes outside. Talk turns to Disney... and the new Harry Potter world.
9:45am BBT
Britney wants to get a gun when she gets out of the house, and she asks Lane for his advice. He advises her to not get a gun. Andrew seconds it. She persists. So does he.
Britney: Would you just answer the question?! What's definitely gonna kill someone? Lane, I thought you would be educated on this subject.
Lane: I am educated. Well enough to know you should not have a gun.
***How much am I loving Lane right this moment? Heaps!
10:05am BBT
HoH Room
Brendon & Rachel
A little game talk.. a lot of smooching. They're getting better at it too.
10:13am BBT -
Feeds 1 & 2
Brendon whispers what he wants to do to her... Rachel reacts...
..and they take it under the covers.. LOTS of movement going on..
Rachel: mm hmm.. ooohh..
Lots of heavy feminine breathing for several minutes.. some giggles from Rachel.. quite a lot of movement.
Rachel: People are probably gonna think we're getting frisky.
Brendon: No they wont... A little private making out is ok..
They come out from under the covers for a minute.. then back under and more giggles.. and back out...
10:22am BBT
***Do I need to transcribe moaning?
We check in on Kathy fixing her hair in the downstairs mirror.. Then back upstairs to the love nest.
They look like they're in joyously happy afterglow... and then they head back for more.
10:31am BBT
BB: Rachel. please go to the Diary Room.
***and that's the end of that.
Brendon: Can you hand me my shorts?
She tosses them.
Brendon: Sorry I got your hair all messed up.
10:33am BBT
Andrew & Kathy
Kathy tells him he's not going up on the block (Oh, really?)... and that he has a lot more friends than he thinks he does.
10:44am BBT
Monet's putting on makeup...
10:47am BBT
Kathy, Lane & Britney
Kathy: You look nice.
Britney: Thank you.
***Expecting to hear later about how Kathy dared to pay her a polite compliment.
Lane & Britney are talking golf. Or, rather, Lane is trying to, and Britney's being a big snot.
10:50am BBT
Also in the backyard are Brendon and Ragan.. Both working out and chatting with each other.
Brendon: How'd you sleep last night? Man, I had some crazy dreams, and they were all related to Big Brother.
Ragan: I had the craziest dreams. I was on Survivor.. and there were crazy challenges...
Brendon's not familiar with the show at all, and Ragan explains how physical their challenges are, how many people get hurt, and how aggressive the players are towards each other during the comps...
Ragan: Ugh.. I don't wanna even start abs right now.
And he does, immediately.
Brendon: What time do you think PoV is?
Ragan: Probably like 1 or 2? DO you remember what time it was last week?
Brendon: I think it was like, late morning, or early early afternoon. I just remember I had my stuff on to go workout.
Ragan: And that's when it started?
Brendon: Yeah.
11:05am BBT
Backyard - Couch
Matt, Kathy, Britney & Monet
Chatter about makeup, braces and jacked up teeth...
11:07am BBT
Lane, Brendon & Andrew
Post workout feeding... Andrew's having some pineapple. Brendon's figuring out what to eat.
Ragan enters.
Ragan: I was just thinking. Isn't it weird that they give us white shoes to compete in? With how dirty we get? These are the big things going on in my brain in the Big Brother house.
Andrew: Yeah, we don't care about the Veto. Just the shoes.
Lane mentions that Rachel's in the DR, and next to be called in will likely be Britney, then they'll be locked down outside, then the PoV ceremony. Andrew rushes to go have a shower before the lockdown.
Backyard Couch
Matt, Britney, Monet
Matt speaks their language. Who knew he was fluent in Mean Girl?
Matt: Does Kathy not get to play in the HoH this week, since she was HoH along with them? I mean, that's the rules of the game.
Britney and Monet laugh. Talk turns to Kohl's sales. Matt plays right along.
Matt: My one pair of shorts that matched everything got destroyed in the mayonnaise challenge. That's why I'm constantly mis-matched now.
Monet: You'd think they'd tell us.
Matt: I even asked, and they said it wouldn't be a big deal.
Talk turns to comps that take forever - the individual comps - like Morph...
11:19am BBT
Rachel & Ragan
They're talking about potential comps... specifically types of endurance comps..
BB: Britney, please come to the Diary Room
Rachel: Here we go.
Ragan: Here we go.
Meanwhile, on the couch, Matt & Monet are being snarky about the relationship between Brendon & Rachel.
Monet: I just hope that Andrew goes up. I have to pee.
BB: Houseguests, this is a lockdown. Please go outside and close the sliding glass door (so we can film Britney staring at the memory wall before the PoV Ceremony).
The HGs start making their way out to the backyard. For some this is easier than others. Andrew's just getting out of the shower.
Orthodox tushy at 11:25 on Feed 1 in the Orange Room. I'm not posting it.
11:28am BBT
Backyard - Couch
All the HGs are assembled, waiting on the PoV Ceremony. Doubtless, BB will soon tell them to quiet down a bit... Ragan's on a chaise lounge. Everyone else is on or near the couches, until Brendon asks Rachel if she'd like to join him over by Ragan.
They both walk away from the couch area, and we can hear Enzo saying about Brendon, "Toast.. Toast."
Enzo: You think Britney's gonna use the Power of Veto on herself?
Monet: (laughs) I think there's a pretty good chance of that.
11:31am BBT - BRB Screen.
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Hi Dudley, Dudley Mills wrote: > ... the patents anticipated key aspects of the Semantic Web. I sincerely hope you're not going to put this community in the position of having to burn time, effort and money proving the lengthy and well known heritage that lead to what we've lately called the "Semantic Web". As most people in this community know, the design of the Semantic Web has been part of the Web project throughout it's history, while drawing on work that long precedes the Web itself. > I wrote and filed those patents because I wanted something like the > Sematic Web to evolve sooner rather than later. The patents mouldered > for 10 years until I was approached recently by Ocean Tomo > (http://www.oceantomo.com/index.html) who offered to auction them > (http://www.oceantomoauctions.com/OTA_Catalogue_Lot.asp?eventid=42008&Lot=16 > <http://www.oceantomoauctions.com/OTA_Catalogue_Lot.asp?eventid=42008&Lot=16>). > > > Who gets to own the patents is now out of my hands. However, I'd like > them to go to a good home if I can find one. Those two statements don't fit very well together. Your messages to this list give a general impression unfortunately close to "hey, SemWeb believers ... make sure you're the highest bidder, in case this material (which underpins your work) falls into less-good hands". This is I hope far from your intent, but I hope you can understand that the community might naturally interpret your initiative that way. Consequently, I'd be grateful if you could refrain from using this list to advertise your patent auction. And to other list members, I repeat my advise from 2002 on www-rdf-interest ([1]): let's find other topics to talk about. We should close this topic immediately. Those who wish to continue it know each other's email addresses and can find other fora. Many thanks, Dan SW Interest Group chair [1]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2002Jan/0076.html -- http://danbri.org/Received on Saturday, 19 January 2008 12:34:07 UTC
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