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God of the Place
Pundalik stood at the door of the puja room and gazed at the incense-filled interior with disgust. It wasn't the deity that vexed him, nor the steel tray that held the oil, turmeric and other items of his daily devotion. It was just that the whole space now sickened him. The agreeable perfume of the agarbatti sticks wafted to him as it usually did, and yet this morning he pinched his nose tightly. And another orifice, other than his nose, greatly troubled him.
It had all started with Shenoi-mam's visit to the house. Shenoi was a friend of Umesh, Pundalik's office peon. Umesh may have been just a peon, but being about twenty years older to Pundalik, he insisted on advising him on everything under the sun.
'Shenoi-mam is an expert on Vastu-shastra,' beamed Umesh. 'He checked my house and said everything is fine. So I brought him to check your house. You don't have to pay him, anh, it's my gift to you.'
Pundalik had nodded nonchalantly, as he did to all of Umesh's advice. He had heard of Vastu-shastra, the science of planning rooms and spaces and stuff. But that was of use only to architects building new houses, not to him. This house had been built by his father, who had surely done whatever had to be done. Inheriting the house had saved him the cost of building a new house, Pundalik mused. God bless Baba's soul.
'Hey, Prashanti,' he called out to his wife. 'Just clean up the rooms, okay, Shenoi-mam wants to see the house.'
Prashanti dutifully put the house in order and excused herself to go to the market. Pundalik led Shenoi-mam and Umesh through the house, not without some pride. The vastu expert strolled through the dining area and the kitchen with his hands behind his bent back, nodding like a bird whenever he entered a door. He also made sharp sniffing sounds— 'knff knff'—with his nose when he peered at the corners of the kitchen, as though his nose was a sensing tool to detect bad vastu. An occasional scratch of his bald head also seemed to be part of his investigatory technique.
When he walked into Pundalik's bedroom and surveyed the windows and the orientation of the bed, Pundalik too looked at the sheets hoping there were no stains visible.
As Shenoi-mam approached the puja room he stopped and shook his head. 'Knff, knff!" he snorted in dismay.
'What is the problem?' asked Pundalik.
'This is your puja room?' Shenoi-mam asked with a frown on his face. 'The toilet should be here.'
Pundalik stared at him in stunned silence. Umesh had also heard the shocking pronouncement and came forward, nudging Pundalik aside, as though to take charge of the situation.
'And where should the puja room actually be?' queried Umesh.
Shenoi-mam scurried across to the kitchen, clucking and sniffing. His radar seemed to direct him to the narrow passage between the two bedrooms and he stopped at the little door at the end of this corridor.
'Here! The puja room should be here.'
'But that's the toilet!' exclaimed Umesh. Pundalik had followed the vastu man across the passage with panic in his heart and now he was simply speechless with horror.
'Shee, shee, what have you people done! You are making dirty in the place of worship and praying in the toilet?' Shenoi-mam shook his head with finality and went back to the living room.
'What can be done about this now?' asked Umesh, looking at his devastated office colleague with great sympathy and a 'thank-God-I-brought-Shenoi-mam-to-check-this' look.
'God must be given his right place,' insisted the expert. 'Do you have children?' he asked. When Pundalik shook his head, Shenoi nodded, having thus easily proved God's displeasure.
'You have to change their places,' he said, and then leaned forward with a look of compassion. 'Or else you have to do a yagna to please God to allow this reversal. It will cost fifty thousand rupees. It is costly because, you see, God has to be convinced to move to the new place.'
'Shenoi-mam, pardon for asking,' said Pundalik in a tremulous voice. 'But where is God now? In the toilet or in the puja room?'
'You have to ask this?' rebuked the vastu guru. 'He is in your toilet, I told you. That is his holy space, which you are fouling every morning.'
'Don't worry, don't worry,' assured Umesh, looking at Pundalik's crestfallen face. 'We will do something to correct it, Pundalik-bab, I will get Mariano the contractor to quote for the changes and the repair work.'
Mariano the contractor squeezed his bulk through the toilet door and turned on the tap. He peered at its running stream and closed it. Then he yanked at the flush knob of the toilet and carefully listened to the gurgling sound of water.
'There's nothing wrong with the toilet,' he declared to a worried Pundalik. 'Why you want to change it?'
Pundalik explained his predicament to Mariano, without mentioning what Shenoi-mam's remedy would cost. Hopefully the contractor's switching work would cost less.
Mariano shook his head with a baffled look. Then his brow cleared and he took on a wise demeanour.
'Arre, Pundalik baba, God is everywhere. That is what they told us in our catechism class at church, when we were small.'
He sat heavily on the toilet seat which creaked under his weight.
'God is in this toilet, yes, but he is also in your puja room.' He casually squeezed the handle of the new jet spray that Pundalik had recently installed and directed the stream of water at his bare calloused feet.
'He is everywhere,' he declared again. 'He is inside you and me. He is in our heart,' he rose to his feet with an effort and leaned towards Pundalik with a conspiratorial smile. 'And have you realised, Pundalik baba, he is even in our arse!'
Pundalik flinched at this sacrilege and shook his head. 'How much will it cost to make this a puja room and shift the toilet there?' he asked.
Mariano scratched his head and rolled his eyes upwards as he did the math.
'Sixty-five thousand rupees,' he said. 'What about the kitchen, did the vastu fellow tell you to change the kitchen platform? That will be another twenty thousand.'
Mariano had come to the house six days ago, when Prashanti was away at her mother's house, so she did not suspect anything. She simply musn't know, Pundalik had decided. At least he could go to the office toilet to relieve himself, which is what he had been doing for the last five days. He had simply not been able to 'make dirty' the rightful place of God in his house. And what was worse, he had not been able to pray at the puja room either.
He pinched his nose at the smell he perceived coming from the puja room and turned away. God could wait. He was not going to pray in the wrong place. If Prashanti came to know, she would have to go back to her mother's house. Where would she go for toilet? To the neighbour's house? What reason would she give them?
It was not easy even for Pundalik to shift to the office toilet. He went to the office half an hour earlier, so that no one would see him. He sensed that Umesh knew. The peon would look at him with great pity, as though understanding his plight. Pundalik missed the early morning beedi that he would enjoy in his home toilet. The thought of the hundreds of people who must be using the office toilet also revolted him. So though it was a European style waste closet, he would clamber up and perch his sandalled feet on either side of the toilet seat, so that no part of him touched the commode.
He also missed his jet spray, which he had gotten quite used to of late. That gentle massage, that warm water stream … by contrast, the cold water of the office toilet always made him jump with shock.
'Mariano has quoted sixty-five thousand,' he informed Umesh. 'That's more expensive than Shenoi-mam's puja. Can we ask some other Vastu fellow for his opinion? Like how we ask doctors?'
A few months back, when Pundalik had great pains while passing water, he had consulted six doctors, one after the other. Each of them had told him he had a kidney stone. Each had quoted around thirty thousand rupees to remove it by putting a tube inside him and breaking the stone. Eventually, after drinking several gallons of water, the stone had popped out by itself and the pain subsided. The bill of the six doctors had come to two thousand rupees only, so he had clearly saved a lot of money.
'Yes, why not,' agreed Umesh. 'Tomorrow I will get another Vastu expert from the market or the temple.'
'Yes, there is a problem,' said the plump young Hindu priest from the local temple, who doubled up as a Vastu expert. He had asked for his fees in advance, a princely one thousand rupees. Pundalik winced as he paid, inwardly cursing Umesh and Shenoi-mama, who had gifted him this wretched problem for free, in the first place.
The vastu-expert-cum-priest had walked briskly through the house, pausing a while in Pundalik's bedroom to gaze at the bed. He also strolled around the house, looking at the trees. He gazed into the well, looked at his reflection and instinctively brushed his wavy hair with his hand.
'But, you see, the plot is sloping in the forward direction, and there is a peepal tree in the eastern corner and a banyan tree in the northern corner. So all this neutralises the problem of the toilet and the puja room.' The young man finished his diagnosis with clinical efficiency.
'I have to go,' he excused himself. 'A builder has called me to decide if the paddy field where he is putting up a building is cursed or not. I hope God gives him the blessing of the petals today.'
'But, bhat-ji, where is God in my house now?' Pundalik asked anxiously.
The young man looked at the house up and down for a moment. 'God is somewhere between the toilet and the puja room,' he said, and left.
Pundalik was not satisfied. He paced up and down between the peepal tree and the banyan tree every evening now. He thanked his father for having planted the right trees in the right places, but having a God who was neither here nor there was not good. He envied Mariano, whose God was everywhere, even oozing out of all his orifices. Pundalik did not believe in that. God had a place. Otherwise why would they call him Zagyavoilo Dev, the God of the Place? Lord, give me a sign, tell me where you are, moaned Pundalik. Are you in the puja room or in the toilet, just let me know somehow!
He worried about Prashanti, sinning every day, without knowing it. Perhaps this was indeed why they could not have children. Lord, forgive us, he murmured, as he raised his eyes upwards. The sky was clear, a fact that reminded him to call Chari the carpenter to do the annual removing and refitting of the roof tiles of the house. They were still the old style country tiles that his father had fitted. Other houses had switched to Mangalore tiles long back. But Pundalik had calculated that he could save money by maintaining these country tiles instead of buying new Mangalore tiles, just as he had saved money when treating his kidney stone.
It was on the morning of the ninth day, that it happened. Pundalik was standing at the door of his puja room, which was lit by a surreal light through the partly opened roof. He was struggling to say some token prayers with a pinched nose as of late, when there was a loud crash in front of him. He jumped in alarm and instinctively ducked out of the way. After the noise had subsided he peeped into the puja room. A coconut from an overhanging tree had fallen through the open roof and, narrowly missing the idols of the deities, had come to rest in a corner.
Pundalik picked up the coconut and stared at it. How did this coconut fall here, he wondered. That tree had been leaning over this part of the house for years now, but the plucker had always skilfully taken off the nuts well in time, to avoid them falling on the roof. He made a mental note to rebuke the plucker.
Then he looked closer at the coconut. Was it his imagination, or was that the familiar trunk of Lord Ganapati? O Lord Ganesha, remover of obstacles! It was usually during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival that the local newspapers would report of some villager finding a coconut or brinjal or papaya, or even a tomato that was coincidentally shaped like Lord Ganesha's elephant head, with a prominent trunk-like protuberance in the said fruit or vegetable. And this fallen coconut clearly resembled Ganesha's head! Why had it fallen at this time of the year? What did this mean?
Just then he heard Prashanti cursing loudly in the kitchen. He went running to her.
'What happened?' he asked her.
'Stupid crow! I was sitting in the toilet and some damned bird's shit fell on my head, through those open roof tiles.' She wiped the bird droppings from her hair with a wet towel, swearing all the time.
'Don't worry,' said Pundalik, secretly upset that his wife had been swearing in the toilet. 'It's a good sign. Don't they say, if a crow shits on your head, you will get some good money one of these days?'
Good sign! Suddenly it all dawned upon Pundalik. This was it! God had dropped a blessed coconut nearly on his head in his puja room. And he had sent a bird to relieve itself on his wife in the toilet. That meant that everything was exactly as God wanted it!
'God is in the puja room,' he gave the good news to Umesh at the office three days later, a Sunday and two public holidays having come in between. 'And the crow shit also brought us something good.'
Pundalik blushed slightly as he gave the even better news to his peon and adviser. 'Prashanti says it has been four days since she missed her … you know…'
Umesh broke into a broad smile, as though he was the grandfather to be, and hugged Pundalik.
The familiar old ceramic felt warm and cool at the same time to his buttocks. What a relief not to do anymore acrobatic balancing acts, he thought. He lit up a beedi and felt the aromatic smoke rise in the air. He took a deep drag of his beedi, closed his eyes and murmured a thankful prayer as he fell into a state of meditative bliss.


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Nintendo shares have risen by around 20% since the launch of the Nintendo Switch last month. Sales of the console have broken records for the company, encouraging investors to purchase Nintendo stock.
Earlier today, Nintendo shares were around the $30, having risen by around 5.4% this week alone. In a note sent to would-be Nintendo investors, Atul Goyal, an analyst at Jefferies Equity Research, said that Nintendo shares could even reach as much as $43 by the year's end.
In addition to offering a prediction on the price of Nintendo shares, Goyal also offered some thoughts on the growing games line-up for the system. With the console's ongoing success, says the analyst, the Nintendo Switch will surely be able to attract more third-party publishers in the future.
It should be noted that while the company has already confirmed a large pool of third-party partners, not all of them have announced games for the platform, nor have they stated that their major releases will get Switch ports. Red Dead Redemption 2 may not get a port, for example, as it's said that the companies behind the game don't think it's worth it. But clearly as the Switch user base grows in size, third parties will think again, which will in turn help Nintendo sell even more consoles.
Goyal also says that the console's "solid" first party line-up throughout the year is also a factor. Multiplayer sequel Splatoon 2 and new IP ARMS have already garnered significant interest while the reviews for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (a Switch exclusive version of the game) also suggest that it could be a hit. Provided that all of these games stick the landing, and Nintendo could have itself a giant list of system sellers.
While Goyal is just one analyst, Nintendo does have plenty of reasons to celebrate given how dire the company's finances looked just a year or two ago. With sales of the Wii U having practically ground to a halt and with the company then having not entered the mobile games market, many were concerned about Nintendo and unsure of how it could get itself back on track. There were even doubts that the Switch could appeal to disillusioned gamers who weren't interested in the Wii U.
Nintendo has so far managed to prove naysayers wrong, though, and the company will now be doing everything in its power to make sure this good run continues.
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Erin Bartram: Several years ago, when I was a grad student teaching at UConn, my roommate commented on how much work I put into writing lectures. She had done her undergraduate work at UConn, so she wasn't unfamiliar with college courses, or even this specific university. I asked her what she meant, and she said "I guess I never thought about it before. I thought professors just got up and talked from what was in their head when they lectured."
The work that goes into conceptualizing, planning, and writing the material for a course is largely invisible to the students in the classroom, let alone the general public, and that invisibility matters.
So today we're going to chat about how academics, specifically historians, do this work, and how the invisibility of the work itself enables exploitation which leads to bad learning experiences.
Chris Bouton: Your anecdote speaks to a very common experience from students. They tend to only think of lecture as a pretty straightforward endeavor. Step 1. Professor provides information. Step 2. Student writes it down. 3. ?????
When in fact, regurgitation of information is a basic skill that isn't particularly useful in and of itself. Especially in a history classroom. When we have higher goals than just handing out info and having it given back to us. At their most fundamental, lectures are arguments.
Erin:: That's why it's important that we don't think of lecturing itself as regurgitation either
They are themselves sub-arguments of the larger argument of the course, which I think is where we start when planning a course.
Chris: If we're approaching a course from a macro-perspective, then we start with key themes or arguments. For example, what does freedom mean in American history and how does it change over time? Who defines it, who gets it, and who doesn't?
Erin:: Let's start a few steps back from there, even – how do professors get to teach the classes they teach?
Chris: We're going real macro now.
Erin: I mean, I think it matters because it's important to know that we don't just say "I'm going to teach this thing that I'm a specialist in this semester" and that's what happens
Chris: Absolutely.
Erin:: All courses that are taught have to be approved and in the course catalog – the listing of all the courses that can be taught at the university. Getting a course approved means a professor has to design it, explain its purpose, its objectives, what need it fills in the department and the college, think about who will take it and why, and then get it approved by several layers of bureaucracy, both within the department and at higher levels.
Getting a new course approved is a lot of work, but once a course is in the catalog, it can be taught at any time, but even so, what gets taught when is a thing department think carefully about (or should)
Chris: Some courses are permanent features of the course catalog, they're offered every semester and taught by different members of the faculty: American History (generally split into 2 courses with a division occurring somewhere around the Civil War/Reconstruction period), Western Civilization etc.
These are introductory courses that fulfill university distribution requirements. Then once you take those courses, generally you can take higher level courses that are more specialized in their focus and are taught by specific faculty and are related to that faculty's historical specialty.
Erin: Those courses often fill general education requirements, which means lots of students will take them, which means they fill up and justify their existence. There's nothing inherently useful about them, and many historians say there's actually little useful about them.
Chris: From a departmental teaching perspective, they're the least appealing classes so the most accomplished faculty rarely teach them.
Erin: Some universities won't have prerequisites for upper division history courses, though, which contributes to how faculty teach those courses. That's the situation I'm in at my position – I can teach a 300 level course on the Civil War, but you don't have to have taken college-level US history to enroll.
That shaped how I planned the course – what stuff that they might have learned in a 100 level course did I need to teach in this course?
Chris: The teaching responsibility then falls on the rest of the faculty. Generally meaning graduate students or adjuncts.
Erin: The reason introductory courses are often considered least appealing? They're the hardest to teach. They require professors to master huge amounts of content and, from that, make a big argument without actually teaching all the content itself.
Chris: You have to cover several hundred years of history in 14 weeks, teach some kind of historical thinking, and design assignments that take into account the vastly different types of students you'll find in the class.
If you don't care about teaching, you don't have to do these things. You can just lecture, assign 2 multiple choice tests and a paper.
We're talking about the difficulties of making a good class
Erin:: Even if you just lecture…that's still a ton of work
Chris: True, but you only have to do it once and then never change it. I'm just trying to suggest that the good teachers put a lot of work in on top of that.
Erin: Yes. You can never revise it at all, in response to either new scholarship or students not understanding stuff
Thinking about that first step, though, when you're writing a class for the first time: once you've got a sense of the argument you're making with the class, you have to figure out how to make it. Each topic you cover, lecture you write, and document you assign relates to the others and to the broader course.
You can think of it like inviting people to a wedding. Like, if we invite this person, then we have to invite that family, but if we invite them, what about this other person.
Chris: Right, you've started with the broader theme, taking my meaning of freedom as an example. And say the class is the first half of the U.S. survey. Then you have to think about the big moments of the first half of that survey, Colonization, the Revolution, Civil War etc. and how do they fit in? Then think about different groups or social trends–the experience of the poor, women, the enslaved etc. How do they fit into this theme?
Erin: This also means you don't always teach everything in chronological order, despite it being a history class.
Chris: Yes, chronological order is flexible and it also means that you won't touch every subject. Teaching a survey is about triage. Figuring what is absolutely essential and starting with that.
Erin: For instance, I don't teach European colonialism in the first half of the US survey in a strictly chronological way. We do Barbados and the Chesapeake and New Netherlands and Canada and Mexico separately.
Chris: And by approaching the subject thematically, you've set up a basis for comparison.
Erin: I do the same with the 19th century, and I think lots of us do. It means things like the Missouri Compromise might show up "later" than you'd think, but that's only because of how the material is arranged. It then provides us with the opportunity to do comparison work in discussion, rearranging the material and putting it together in new combinations.
And this is why lectures/lessons/documents have to be so carefully plotted: you're setting up ideas and connections that will bear further fruit weeks and months later
Chris: You're constructing something from the ground up, trying to make sure all the pieces fit together.
Erin:: And the hardest stuff to write, honestly, is the stuff you're a specialist in. The idea that I could get up and just wing a 50 minute lecture on the Jacksonian period or women's history or Catholic history…
Chris: Oh God yes. Teaching World History or Western civ was much easier. Without the insane depth of knowledge in those areas, it's easier to focus on the broader themes that you're trying to get across. Okay, I've got 50 minutes on the Meiji Restoration, guess I better figure out exactly what I want out of it.
Erin: And when we do this, we're not just accumulating facts, or drawing on reserves of facts. We're trying to weigh and synthesize arguments from dozens of books and articles we've read. Historians read hundreds of books and then have written/oral examinations on them at the end of their first few years of doctoral study, and most of us start teaching on our own after that. I'm quite sure I'd have done better on my comps if I'd done them after I'd been teaching.
Like, having to synthesize Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious Patriarchs for a 100 level class made me understand that book way more. I had to really figure out what I thought about the Revolution – ideological or economic – when I had to teach it.
Chris: Teaching puts these subjects into sharp focus and forces you to take a position on them in a way that comps don't, even though that's the point of comps. I don't think comps are particularly effective at that, but that's a subject for another day.
Erin: So, there's one thing that I think is important here. We've talked about the increasing reliance on part-time/adjunct labor in academia, and that fact intersects with this conversation in two ways.
Adjuncts are often hired last minute. Like, the weekend before. Even full-time non-tenure track faculty, being at the bottom of the ladder and with fewer protections, can have their course schedule switched at the last minute.
All of the work we've talked about here, if you're going to do it and do it well, takes HOURS and needs considered thought and time.
Chris: In CT, I was hired to teach a US-II survey in late December for a class that began in late January.
Having never taught US-II, I threw myself into course prep, outlining, writing lectures, selecting primary documents etc.
A few days before the semester started I found out that the class was cancelled because it didn't have enough people in it.
Erin:: And that gets us to the second point: whether the class happens or doesn't happen (ugh), adjuncts don't get paid for the hours they spend designing and revising classes.
Chris: I didn't get paid for a single minute of that course prep and that was time I could have spent on my dissertation.
Erin: You can see here the ways that this is exploitative and bad for students.
Either adjuncts do massive amounts of unpaid work (provided they even have the time/opportunity to do so) to make the course good or they don't and students get a crummy learning experience.
Chris: And even if they put in the good work and make connections with students, there's no guarantee they'll be invited back the next semester.
Students naturally specialize in certain professors, but that's impossible to do when you're talking about adjuncts, so the students are missing out.
Erin: And if students are interested in your field, and might become majors, they don't bother because they don't know that you – and your (theoretical) specialty upper division classes – will even be there.
Chris: History departments complain about declining enrollments while they rely on adjuncts and grad students to handle more and more of the course load, 71% of all classes are taught by non-tenure track faculty, you don't think those things are connected?
Erin: And we're not just "I reckon"-ing over this. I have had students say this to me explicitly.
Chris: And it doesn't take much searching to find evidence of this from articles in the Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed. So there's a problem here that compounds itself.
Erin: And that's how courses are made, boys and girls!


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[May 10] Updated with information on the retailers that put up pre-order pages for the Samsung Galaxy S3, as well as the Australian carriers that have put-up registration pages for information on the S3.
While European, Asian, and North American technology lovers are already getting their budgets straight and making plans for the Samsung Galaxy S3, Australians don't have much to be excited for, at least at for now. In an exclusive statement given to the guys at gizmodo.au, Samsung Australia said that there are no plans to make any announcements right now about the phone's availability in "the land down under".
The full statement reads as follows: "Samsung Electronics Australia is pleased there is continued interest about our GALAXY range in Australia, but we have no plans to make any announcements at this time."
While it's pretty difficult to make any safe assumptions based on this short statement, there could only be three possible reasons why Samsung Australia is reluctant to talk about the Galaxy S3's availability.
First off, Sammy's new flagship phone might never come to Aussie tech users, which is the worst-case scenario, but also the least credible. Compared to the US or China, the Australian market might not be a gold mine for Samsung or other smartphone manufacturers, but is still has more potential than several European countries where we are sure that the S3 will be sold.
We remember seeing the Galaxy S2 put up for sale in "exotic" places like Uganda, Yemen, or Lebanon. Also, we've been hearing people in the business saying that Samsung intends to expand in new markets, so there's absolutely no way the S3 won't come to Australia.
The second and most likely reason behind Samsung's statement is that the company simply doesn't know yet when it will be able to offer the phone in Australia. The negotiations between the three major mobile carriers there (Telstra Mobile, Optus, and Vodafone) and Sammy might not be finalized. The Galaxy S3 will definitely come to at least some of these major Australian networks.
Finally, this whole mystery might just be a marketing scheme to build up even more hype around the phone. Last year, the Galaxy S2 was released in Australia way before Canada and the US, and around the same time it arrived in Asia. The S3 has already been confirmed as hitting Asia right after Europe (sometime before June 15) and the flagship phone could well be launched in Australia at the same time.
Just because Samsung tells us today that they have no plans to make announcements at this time it doesn't mean that they won't make an announcement tomorrow or next week, now does it?
All in all, while we are certainly disappointed that we are not able to report clear things about the Galaxy S3′ release date in Australia. Our advice for all Aussie tech users reading us now would be to have a little patience. I know it's hard, but until we know something for sure, there's no reason to panic!
[Update May 10] Australian carriers have put up registration pages to let you know when the Galaxy S3 (or at least any new phone) will be available down-under. Here's a roundup:
Note that the carriers have been careful to keep it as generic as possible, so they don't mention the Galaxy S3 anywhere.
Also, if you are willing to pay for an imported Galaxy S3, you might get one from one of the Australian online retailers that put it up for pre-order. So far, we have the following on the list:


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The Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture was established by the Director-General in accordance with Article VI.4 of the FAO Constitution and Rule XXXV of the General Rules of the Organization, for a period of four years as of 1 January 2000. Its Terms of Reference, to raise public awareness and advise the Director-General on ethical issues in food and agriculture, are provided in Annex 1.
The Director-General appointed eight eminent experts from different scientific and other disciplines to serve on the Panel in their personal capacity for four years. The members of the Panel are Mr Francisco J. Ayala from the United States, Ms Chen Chunming from China, Mr Asbjørn Eide from Norway, Ms Noëlle Lenoir from France, Mr Mohammed Noor Salleh from Malaysia, Mr Mohammed Rami from Morocco, Ms Lydia Margarita Tablada Romero from Cuba and Mr Melaku Worede from Ethiopia. A summary biography for each Panel member is contained in Annex 2.
The Panel held its first session at FAO headquarters in Rome from 26-28 September 2000. The Director-General had requested Mr Asbjørn Eide to serve as Chair of the first session. At the end of that session, the Panel requested Mr Eide to continue to function as Chair for the four-year duration of the Panel.
The Panel adopted the draft agenda with the understanding that slight revisions could be made during the session. It discussed three main themes: i) the basic ethical concerns flowing from its Terms of Reference; ii) ethical issues in food and agriculture; and iii) biotechnologies and genetically modified organisms in relation to the consumer, food safety and the environment.1 Future work was also discussed. The Agenda of the Panel's first session is provided in Annex 3.
1 The secretariat provided the Panel with draft versions of the FAO Ethics Series Nos 1 and 2, entitled Ethical issues in food and agricultureand Genetically modified organisms, consumers, food safety and the environment.


text: In the Bight 22 Report post Posted May 1 Hello! I hope this is the best place to post. I've been reading these boards for the last few weeks and am so impressed by the level of knowledge and experience shared here. My son is in 9 years old and in 4th grade, but is behind where he should be in most subjects. He has ADHD and has also been diagnosed with ASD. We're seeking a second opinion on the ASD diagnosis, along with a full evaluation for other behavioural and learning disabilities, but can't get in until October. He was evaluated through the school system last year and wasn't diagnosed with any learning disabilities. He has been in public school up until now, but has been going for partial days since December, taking English language arts and math at school and everything else at home. As of this week, I'm officially homeschooling full time. I've been doing some extra math with him at home (Math-U-See), which has been going well so I plan to continue with that. Language arts is where I'm really at a loss and could use some direction. I've been afraid of doing it "wrong" or messing up what he's been learning at school. We haven't done anything at home with him except what his teachers have sent home (reading books at his level and some comprehension worksheets) and reading to him. He loves being read to, his listening comprehension is great, and he never has any trouble answering comprehension questions about what he reads. His actual reading doesn't seem to have improved this year and his teacher's evaluation says his reading is at Level K, which is 2nd grade level. He's done very little writing because he is so resistant at school. I don't believe he's worked on much spelling or grammar at school, and we haven't done any at home. I've spent some time reading through language arts-related threads, but I have to admit that most here on the Learning Challenges board have gone way over my head. From some of the other threads, it seems like most people use multiple programs to cover the different aspects of language arts? I'm having trouble figuring out what that should look like for my son and which programs would be best for him, so could really use some help. Reading/phonics is definitely going to be our major focus, but there are so many programs to choose from – I'm not sure whether to be looking at the $$$ special needs reading programs, ones that are recommended for kids with learning disabilities, etc. Can you recommend what type of program would be best or a specific program to start with? In terms of the other areas of language arts, what should we focus on? I'm not requiring him to read or write in other subjects, so I would like for us to work up to about an hour of language arts per day. He works hard and can focus when he's set up for success, so I do expect that he'll make more progress at home than he has at school, I'm just really not sure where to focus our energy. For example, should I choose a writing program and scribe for him so he can learn how to compose paragraphs? Or is that something we wait on until he can write independently? I really appreciate any advice or resources you can share about what language arts should look like, and any specific program recommendations are very welcome. Thank you! Beth 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Felicity's grand daughter Emily, her family drowned, goes to the hamlet of Alderpoint on the Eel Riverwas where she's reluctantly coerced – largely by the five diabolically red-haired MacCullum males – into teaching their tiny school. Untrained and unwilling, she faced fifteen assorted hellions: particularly wicked Robbie, and the judgmental Archie. Cindy-Lou wept, Calvin wet himself, Willie lied and Erma-Jean argued. Worse, the school itself seemed to gloom at her even in the hot California sunlight. But the realistic Emily would have jeered the notion that it could be haunted.
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Hello Angels!
Bottle recycle ?? Yes you heard it right 🙂 Yesterday was quick craft day! I had these empty shampoo and conditioner bottle lying around for quite a while and have been thinking about making something out of it. I sat searching for bottle recycle crafts and i had like loads of inspiration projects! In fact I never knew so much could be done with waste bottles!
The bottles i had were wierd shaped in the sense look at the pic below! So i had no option but to make a pen holder out of it 🙂
Materials required to make shampoo bottle recycle craft : pen holder
- Waste shampoo bottle
- Sharp knife
- Nail file or any file/sand paper etc
- Washi tape (optional)
- Ribbons & embellishments ( optional)
Instructions for bottle recycle craft : pen holder
- Cut out your bottle into half the size with the help of your knife. Shampoo bottles are quite harder when compared to water bottles so they are quite strong and sturdy but at the same time quite a work to cut out.
- My bottle was kinda flat shaped so I decided to make a chair shape cutout so as to balance the weight of the pens once it is put into use. And also, I had in mind that once i get bored of this pen holder, i could put a hole on it to hang it somewhere as a random holder 😛
- The cut out was so random shaped but i used my foot file (:D) to smoothen out and create a better shape at the cut edges.
- Now your bottle recycle pen stand is ready! So easy ! All you have to do is CUT!!
- My bottle recycle pen stand was just way too pink for my husband to handle so I did some washi tape and ribbon works to give it a non-pinky look :)!
- I just loved how so well the washi tape hid all those rough edged that I had filed out!
Here is how my bottle recycled pen holder came out at the end 🙂
Another view 🙂
Here are more bottle recycle crafts ( pen holders) that i loved so much and im definitely trying it out some time.
So are you inspired to collect your bottles to head up for mission bottle recycle craft??
If you are, do consider sharing my post and also, leave your valuable comments and suggestion!
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
xoxo Angela


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نوع مقاله: علمی - پژوهشی
1 دانشیار گروه اقتصاد دانشگاه بوعلی سینا
2 دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد علوم اقتصادی دانشگاه بوعلی سینا
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Exports as the engine of the economy plays a role in global markets, because export take advantage of global markets to provide manufacturing firms and lift market restrictions on domestic manufacturing firms and the use of economies of scale. So the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of innovation on exports of selected developing and developed countries over the period 2007-2012 using panel data approach and by estimating Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) for a system of simultaneous equations. According to the general export equation estimations indicate that in developing countries, Global Innovation Index and GDP coefficients are positive and significant and the coefficients of governance and accumulation of FDI inflows is positive and meaningless and in developed countries, coefficients of accumulation of FDI inflows , Global Innovation Index, GDP and governance is significantly positive. However, the indirect effects of innovation on exports indicate that indirect effects such as direct effects of both developing countries and developed countries are positive. It is noteworthy that a significant portion of GII effects on export in developed countries is applied by indirect mechanism (the channels of GDP, FDI and governance index) but in developing countries, the reverse situation is observed .
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But seriously, this guy rules. Just another verification that Iceland is one of the best places on the planet. One day I will get there!
How is Toronto stuck with Rob Ford – the butt of every joke for comedians around the world – when other cool cities get someone this amazing? If by some dreadful twist of events, Robby wins another term, I might have to move to Reykjavik. Amazing music, scenic city, cool mayor. What more could you ask for? Sadly he is leaving office in the spring, but I have a feeling his replacement will be just as awesome.
Thanks to the lovely people at Matchstick and my favourite brand of whisky, Canadian Club, I was flown out to BC in July to shoot a video at Rock The Shores (see it below!). Yes, the wish I wrote on the contact section of my About page, half jokingly stating my dream of being sent around the world to cover music festivals, actually (briefly) came true.
They approached me a month earlier, with an option of going to either BC or PEI for the music festivals happening in these locations, and while I'd never been to either province (most of my travel time has been spent in the States) the lineup at Rock The Shores was stronger, and it's much easier for me to get to PEI than to BC – so it was a fairly obvious choice.
It had literally been over 5 years since I'd last been on a plane, and that last time was my first flight ever, so I was nervous but excited to finally be flying again. If I wasn't saddled with student loans, I would travel constantly. All I remembered about flying was how much I enjoyed being able to see the world from that height – to see the real life version of the map take shape right before my eyes, and see the clouds up close. And that, surprisingly enough, I didn't find it scary at all. This time around, the view was even better because flying into BC is incredibly beautiful – the mountains and the ocean make for a scenic landing.
Unfortunately, it seems my sinuses have become an issue since that last time, because I endured something horribly hellish, called aerosinusitis, when the plane landed. Look it up. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Luckily it was only so painful that it brought me to tears on the way BACK to Toronto, so my stay in Victoria wasn't ruined. I am slightly terrified of flying again because the pain was so crushing it hurt to even BLINK for a day after landing.
When I arrived in Victoria, we went straight to the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Hotel. As you can imagine, it was the nicest hotel I've ever been to in my life. Canadian Club also had a package full of the mixed and ready drinks and beach necessities waiting for us. FYI, you can win one of these Canadian Club beach kits through their Facebook page. Upon arriving we also met fellow blogger Randa, of The Unprecedented. Hanging out with her, along with her friend Jordan, was a true highlight of the entire trip.
To get the chance to stay right on the ocean, and wake up to this sight every morning, is something I'll never forget. I am a water person by nature (water signs ftw) so this is my paradise. I have to thank Tourism Victoria for upgrading me to one of the rooms with a view, and for providing me with attraction passes to experience the city. As we were only there for under 3 days we didn't get to do too much, but the Zipline experience through the mountains and forest was one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life. I almost backed out after the test line, but there was an 8 year old boy doing it fearlessly, so the shame factor was too high. Now I want to try every 'extreme' activity I can. Just like with tattoos, the adrenaline rush is addicting.
Victoria itself feels like a rather small city, but it remains charming and interesting – something small-town Ontario just is not. It is so gorgeous there that you would be foolish to stay inside any more than necessary. It's also the most walkable city I've ever been to. Walking around the harbor is quick and incredibly beautiful – but if you want to take a boat taxi to get somewhere super quick (or just to enjoy a boat for a few minutes) you can do that too for 5$.
The buildings are beautifully designed and carry the charm that comes from being one of the oldest cities in Canada. When comparing to other cities I've been to, it reminded me most of New Orleans in terms of architecture, size, and friendliness of the locals (they are quite different cities in most other ways, though, heh).
I will be quick to note that I think Ontario is a beautiful province. We have all kinds of natural beauty here, including one of the wonders of the world, but BC wins overall, because – look at that park. It was like a mini paradise within the city. Add in the ocean, mountains, and the insane variety of trees – and our lakes and maples just don't quite reach this level.
Now for the reason I was sent there in the first place, to attend their big music festival, Rock The Shores, and finally, FINALLY, see Weezer live.
As someone who's been to festivals in Toronto, Tennessee and Montreal, I was curious to see how they treat media out there. The nice thing about this festival was that they treated media (almost) the same as anyone working the festival + the performers. We got to hang out backstage and drink – which is unlike ANY media experience I've had at any other festival. HUGE points, to say the least. And it wasn't even just shitty beers – they had my beloved Canadian Club Rye & Coke/Gingers, as well as a variety of cider, wine and beers! Um, as someone who's been paying up to ELEVEN dollars to have a drink at a festival (looking at you, Edgefest……) this was joyous.
Sadly though, they didn't treat media so great when it came time to see the actual bands. Having just come from TURF where media were given VIP access and could therefore stay in the pit the entire day to really experience the show, it was fucking shitty to only be allowed in the pit for 3 songs. I know this is industry standard – fair enough – but their rules were very, very unclear and it made the festival look incredibly unprofessional.
Randa had attended the first day (we skipped out to spend a day seeing the city) and she was allowed to sit in the pit divide for the whole show – so we went there expecting that again, but instead when we tried to come back in they sent us out of the entire backstage/pit area and made us walk all the way around the ENTIRE over-packed RTS grounds in order to get backstage again. Sometimes security guards are just bullies. One, upon looking at my Ontario ID, even said "Onterrible." I know Ontario and BC have a NYC/LA style rivalry, but I wasn't expecting that.
So basically we caught the first 3 songs of each band and then had to sit backstage and listen, unable to see anything, if we wanted to keep drinking without waiting in line for hours and paying 11$.
We got there just in time for Awolnation, a band I had been curious about because "Sail" is such a fantastic song, but didn't know what to expect beyond that. It's fair to say I was shocked when a long haired skinny blonde California surfer dude type came out onstage. I was definitely expecting someone more like Cee Lo Green. It's also fair to say "Sail" itself is a misleading song, definitely not representative of the rest of their work. After seeing this show and listening to the album, it stands alone as the only song I care to listen to.
This was also my first time seeing Mother Mother, and while the lead singer's goofy look was enough to turn me off at first, the sheer talent they possess as a group, and the insane love the crowd had for them, easily pulled me in. This is a local band that has had national success, so they go crazy for them out there. Seeing them here in Toronto at Edgefest was disappointing by comparison, not because they weren't giving it their all, but because the crowd was so different/boring.
I've seen Sam Roberts a handful of times now, and he always gives a great, high energy, entertaining show. There's really not much more I can say about him. I think he is a definitive CanRock artist, and it was interesting to see an Aussie we were hanging with watch him perform, because it gave me such a reminder about how specific this sound is to Canadians. It's rare a sound like Sam's will ever break out of Canada, because it is so authentically Canadian.
Last but not least, was the main reason I was excited for this trip. Like probably all of you, I've been a Weezer fan since I was a little kid hearing my friends older brothers obsessively play the Blue Album. Along with Green Day's Dookie, it was my first favourite album. This helps wipe away the shame that, just years later, I became a preteen, and therefore became obsessed with the Backstreet Boys and every other boy band except N'sync. At least I started with relatively good taste, right?
Anyhow, the ongoing joke that Weezer shit the bed after Pinkerton is one I embraced fully, because, give or take an album's worth of songs, it's kinda true. That meant I stopped paying attention to them in high school, and have never made the effort to see them live, for fear of hearing a full set of songs from Raditude or Hurley. So, when I got this chance to see them, I was happy to embrace the childhood nostalgia and finally see how they are live, headlining a festival. Especially when I heard that they would be playing the Blue Album in full in Toronto the night before. They had to be doing it in Victoria too, right?!
Well, not quite. But, they certainly did play a ton of Blue songs, and surprisingly, Rivers was in a great mood, and it was the perfect way to end the night. At this point we were happy to give up our free drink access to be able to see the entire set.
Finally, the real reason I was there, was to shoot a video of my experience, so check it out!
Bob Dylan's 72nd birthday was yesterday, and yet again (remember this?) people have come up with a creative way to celebrate it and honour my favourite lyricist. This time it's the good people at Slate, who created this interactive map that shows every place he has ever wrote about in a song – complete with the lyrics featuring the location, along with the song name and album it was featured on. Just click on each location dot on the map for that info.
No Canadian mentions, but to me, "Girl From The North Country" has always been about a Canadian girl.
I've always wanted to visit so many of these places purely because Bob mentioned them in a song. There's gotta be some obsessive rich fans who are gonna take this map as a guide to do a Dylan inspired tour of the world (you know I would if I could).
As always, one of my goals this year is to travel more (hoping to get outside North America this time!) and this incredible photo spread I came across on Pinterest is very inspiring. Please, take me to all of these places. The use of graphic design on these beautiful photos is perfection. I wish I had the skills to make the photos I post here so pretty (another goal, perhaps!).
Where are you planning on traveling to this year? January and February make me long to be anywhere but Canada. Where is the nicest place to visit during these crappy months? I'm in desperate need of reminders of warmer places, so do tell.
Rarely do I think Canadian tourism boards market this country to tourists successfully. Canada on screen can seem like a whole lot of flatlands and nothingness if not handled with care, so when this video popped up last week I was pretty excited. Not only is it not boring, but they asked one of my favourite Canadian bands – Yukon Blonde (who I filmed/interviewed this summer, check that video out if you missed it) to write a song for it.
What's fun is they actually rewrote their best song off their latest album, "My Girl," for it, changing it to "My Home," and even singing parts in French.
What's even cooler is that this video is a compilation of footage shot by a whole bunch of Canadians, showing off all the great things we love about the country (seasons, food, adventures, animals, cities, beaches, mountains, sports, art, etc) – rather than what some marketing firm thinks tourists would like about the country – so it actually shows you why it's fun to live here/come here.
Watching it filled me with pride (despite knowing there's nothing stupider than being proud of something as arbitrary and out of your control as where you were born, thanks George!) and made me want to travel around Canada and do and see all these things that I'm so lucky I have the privilege of experiencing all the time just because I was lucky enough to be born here. I've always wanted to move south for the warm weather, but when I see Canada like this I realize just how much I would be giving up.
The concept of Canada explored by Canadians is spot on. Not only did they make an interesting, much more shareable video than usual, but they made it for free! Super smart idea, kudos to whoever came up with this social media winner:


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In an interesting recent case, the Regional Court of Cologne (LG Köln) had to decide what constitutes a so-called official work (LG Köln, Urteil vom 07.07.2010 – 28 O 721/09).
That certainly seems clear enough, but the case at hand shows that there may be difficulties involved: Claimant was an attorney; defendant operated a website with reports on legal disputes. Claimant, acting for one of his clients, sought a preliminary injunction (PI) against defendant from a court in Berlin. The court granted the PI, stating:
"The preliminary injunction had to be granted for the reasons set out in the attached motion for the preliminary injunction including the appendices thereto."
Subsequently, defendant published claimant's brief on his website, as part of an article about his objection proceedings against the PI. Claimant sued for copyright infringement, so the LG Köln had to decide whether in this context the attorney's brief was part of an official work for the purposes of section 5(1) UrhG.
I believe the court struck a fair balance of interests, given that the publication of the PI would be quite pointless if it were not permitted to publish the motion for the PI as well. Also, I like my PIs super fast and do not think judges should be made to paraphrase the arguments submitted in an attorney's brief if they happen to agree with them. Do readers feel the same way, or do you think that's just promoting laziness?


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I haven't posted on here for a few months because there's been a lot going on.
I mentioned the Mad Hatter's Tea Party on here before, and said that my Mum and I were going to host a stall with all our proceeds going to charity (Cancer Research UK).
My family and I went to Mad Hatter's on 8 June with a stall full of baby dresses, cardis, hats and blankets as well as earrings, bookmarks and a few kittens. We had an amazing day with lots of support and lots of money being raised.
(Photograph by Tigerfly Photography)
There is still some stock left over and I'd still like to sell it on for charity, so I've taken advantage of eBay's selling for charity feature, and listed some of the spare stock on there (I may not list it all this month, as I'd also like to take advantage of the 20 free listings per month).
Please, please, please take a look at what I'm selling on there, if it isn't appropriate for you, maybe you could share it with someone you know.
I'd really like to raise as much as possible for Cancer Research UK. It has always been a charity close to my heart as many people in my extended family have been affected by cancer. I think I've mentioned on here before about my Mum's struggle with the disease too.
Sadly Mum never made it to Mad Hatter's as she was taken from the world far too soon, on 6 June, aged just 43. So now, more than ever I want to keep fundraising for Cancer Research, so that no-one else has to struggle the way she did, and the way my family does!
With Race for Life happening around the country most weekends at the moment, let's all tell cancer to jog on!


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A physics-based puzzle platformer about a girl named June as she climbs a tower filled with perplexing puzzles. Push your abilities of reasoning and logic to the limit as you mix-and-match a variety of unique tools to overcome a series of increasingly intricate challenges.
This game is absolutely amazing. The storyline isn't that interesting but the puzzles are absolutely amazingly well made. The mechanics are simple, innovative and fun. The player movement is a bit different but was easy to adjust to.
Basically it's a puzzle game like portal but in a 2d side-on environment.
I especially like the level design. The puzzles are challenging, but never unfair. And no ninja skills are required, which is cool.
well thought puzzles and subtle humour. a very nice game
This was the game that inspired me to get the Debut Bundle 3, and also the game that made me not regret it. Perfect puzzle difficulty; challenging, but I was able to complete the game without consulting the internet. Some great design decisions - full aim prediction and minimal tricky jumping/timing events keeps the focus on the "puzzle" over the "platform", where it belongs in a game like this. Plus the ability to zoom out to see more of the puzzle. In the same way as Portal, the length was the perfect balance of "aw, it's over" and "phew, it's over!"
I played the original Logi-Gun years ago as a kid.. I was so surprised to find out it's been remade o_o The dev certainly didn't forget how to make great puzzles, it's just as good as the original if not better. Highly recommended.
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STM London is just around the corner. It's 3 weeks away and it's about time I post about it. I know, I know others already beat me to it but this isn't a race and I've been busy growing my team since learning a whole lot of great stuff at ASW.
I'm sure you heard the term there are those who keep on learning, and those who take action. Well I like to take action, so my blogging has suffered because I was busy doing just that [getting shit done]. Anyway, with ASW in the past, and STM London being right around the corner I have to tell you about this event.
STM is one of the best affiliate marketing forums on the internet, and last year they tried something that exploded – their very own meet up. Last year they took over Bangkok for a few days, and now it's time to conquer London. This is going to be the biggest and baddest affiliate meet up yet. Forget ASW which has all kinds of folks, STM London is all about affiliate marketing and the biggest and most bad ass names in the industry are coming together for a few days to play hard, drink harder, and share some of the best knowledge you will ever hear.
In case you are thinking to yourself, that's great but I have no money for an event. I am pleased to share that this event is absolutely free as long as you are a member on STM. Sure you will have to buy yourself an airplane ticket (you can get real cheap ones over at kayak.com) and you will have to dish out some cash for a hotel or airbnb, but let me tell you this cash will be the very best investment you will ever make in your life.
Let me tell you a story, there once was a time when I used to wake up everyday at 6AM so I could catch the 6:30AM train to downtown so I could arrive at work by 7:45AM. I used to get up, go to work, then train it home, eat dinner, watch some tv, and do it all over again. All for a measly 40,000$ per year. Fast forward to today where I don't get up at 6AM, where I don't have to slave away everyday for my boss and give them 14 hours of my day in exchange for low $xxx per day. Today where I am the boss, I work as little or as much as I want and can earn what I used to earn in a month, in as little as a day.
Yup, that's affiliate marketing. And you can live this reality too; it isn't a dream. All you need is connections, knowing the right people, and knowing what's hot. So do your self a favor, get an account on STM if you haven't yet. RSVP to this event, and change your life for the better. You deserve it. It will be the best investment decision your family will be proud of!
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Thanks to BlackTrax for doing a spectacular job on rewiring my car and installing the STACK display on the car. Now I'll never need any keys as it works just like my Kart with an awesome push button start.
I was able to take it out for our last WordUp! which happened last weekend in Sonoma. Real fun event with a fun course for all to enjoy. Here's some photos of the setup and a short video of how the course was setup while I was testing it out in the morning. The video..
A shot from infineon 3 days ago. The rear flattens out as you go fasterrr… It was the first time I ran this setup at Infineon and didnt get used to it til the weekend at Sonoma. More tires on the ground means you need to push it a bit farther. Hopefully the infineon course gets set up to use the entire track next time.