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Monday 3 August 2015
Episode 2314
Crafty Lucas makes use of those he harmed in the past to help secure his future. Pretty makes a discovery and creates havoc all around her. A slow moving neighbour causes Lindiwe to ask a favour of another neighbor.
Tuesday 4 August 2015
Episode 2315
Lucas is given news which will change his future completely, and which will irrevocably alter the lives of both his loved ones and his enemies. Gloria is excited when she learns the truth, but is unaware of her daughter's plan. A surprise is revealed which brings a family closer to one another.
Wednesday 5 August 2015
Episode 2316
Lucas receives an award and a phone call from someone who is supposed to be dead. Gloria discovers two secrets, which is bad news for a member of her household. A jealous neighbour is determined not to be outshone.
Thursday 6 August 2015
Episode 2317
The day Lucas has been dreaming of arrives, but he has a rude awakening when an ally plays hardball with him. Gontse misinterprets something she overhears which could result in her making a rash decision. Kitso is offered an exciting opportunity.
Friday 7 August 2015
Episode 2318
Lucas manipulates someone into a corner but realises he has created a new problem for himself by doing so. Gontse tells a terrible lie which has her mother believing things will be alright. Lerumo is thrilled to receive an offer which he knows his wife would not be happy about.
Monday 10 August 2015
Episode 2319
Eddie finds himself being blackmailed by an old adversary who threatens someone close to him. Gloria and Ndumiso fear they may be too late to stop Gontse from doing something which will destroy them. Anzani and Lerumo are unknowingly set on a collision course with one another.
Tuesday 11 August 2015
Episode 2320
Thembeka decides to make a false accusation in order to get her own back and Eddie makes an uncharacteristic threat. Gontse reverses a life changing decision, but Ndumiso's relief is tempered by disappointment. Anzani is ordered to go on a mission which she does not believe in.
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Episode 2321
Thembeka manages to resolve a major problem but another one presents itself in the form of the arrival of someone from the past. Ndumiso leaps to an assumption which is just as quickly shot down. Anzani and Lerumo discover they are unwitting collaborators.
Thursday 13 August 2015
Episode 2322
Lucas organises a job for someone at Safe 'n Clean and tasks them with duties which have little to do with safety or cleanliness. Ndumiso overhears something which devastates him. Thembeka turns a situation to her advantage while Anzani receives good news.
Friday 14 August 2015
Episode 2323
Dintle is thrilled when she learns of a past situation which she knows she will be able to use against an enemy. Gontse worries about something that never happened and Ndumiso tells Hloni something which isn't true. Anzani makes a decision which Lerumo worries will be very upsetting for someone close to her.
Monday 17 August 2015
Episode 2324
Twice in one day, Thembeka is greeted by sights which make her blood run cold. Gontse ignores a friend's advice and approaches someone she should not be bothering with. An acrimonious and hurtful argument flares up between two people who are close.
Tuesday 18 August 2015
Episode 2325
Stokkies picks up some information which he thinks will be of use to Lucas. In a moment of panic, Ndumiso utters a truth which is not heard by the person for whom it is intended. Some well-meaning friends unwittingly cause Lerumo to feel very insecure.
Wednesday 19 August 2015
Episode 2326
Eddie is driven nearly mad when he cannot discern whether he is being toyed with or being told the truth. Gontse decides to reach out but the demon drink gets in the way of her plans. Lerumo sees something which makes him realize he may not know his wife as well as he thought he did.
Thursday 20 August 2015
Episode 2327
Maletsatsi issues an invitation which has Eddie seeing red as the green-eyed monster takes hold of him. Frustrations boil over in Soweto, resulting in true feelings finally being expressed. Lerumo decides to organise a wonderful but expensive surprise.
Friday 21 August 2015
Episode 2328
Maletsatsi denies feelings which have been bubbling under the surface for years. Two people decide to give a relationship a trial run but to keep it a secret from everyone else. Lerumo's plans are sabotaged by someone who wants to prove a point.
Monday 24 August 2015
Episode 2329
Eddie is not convinced by his wife's efforts to pacify him, which only serves to heighten the suspicions of someone close to her. Gloria makes a shocking discovery which leads to her making some harsh demands. Lerumo believes that a bit of rethinking will solve all his problems.
Tuesday 25 August 2015
Episode 2330
Maletsatsi is thrown into torment and confusion by an astonishing declaration. Gontse reaches out to a family member for support and sows the seeds of discord in her home. Some strange behaviour in the newsroom arouses suspicions.
Wednesday 26 August 2015
Episode 2331
Maletsatsi's life becomes more and more complicated as she finds herself acting against her principles and beliefs. Abel has some advice for Ndumiso which is bound to infuriate Gloria. Lerumo is determined to mend bridges on someone else's behalf.
Thursday 27 August 2015
Episode 2332
A bitter confrontation leads to a married couple spending the night apart in anger. Gontse puts her foot down and issues instructions which will affect a lot of lives. Anzani agrees to do someone a favour but does not realize she is being tricked.
Friday 28 August 2015
Episode 2333
Maletsatsi is shocked to realize that she may have been behaving inappropriately without realizing it. Ndumiso believes he has done what was requested of him and is stunned when he finds out it is not good enough. Gloria reveals that she has a hidden agenda.
Monday 31 August 2015
Episode 2334
Unaware that she has been lied to and deceived, Maletsatsi surrenders and leaps across a moral line. Ndumiso is very unhappy about a suggestion which could solve all his problems. A wonderful surprise is over shadowed for Anzani by a concern of someone close to her.
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12 years ago I bought a fat quarter set. It was bright, obnoxious and I had NO clue what to do with it.
12 years ago I brought home this fat quarter set and decided to make something with it. Using a book, I sewed and cut and pieced and made a few squares of mismatched colors.
It was a mess. But I loved it anyway.
Then, I put it away with all my quilting things and forgot about it.
That was 12 years ago. And last night, I officially finished it.
This little project was probably my longest lasting UFO (unfinished object) and I really didn't know what I was doing when I started it. Most of the blocks are crooked or wrongly pieced together. Even so, it's got a sweet spot in my heart as my first attempt to piece a quilt together.
To me it's beautiful and bright. It signifies for me my humble beginnings and also shows me where I need to improve and also how far I've come. It's small so it's not going on a bed nor will it be used as a blanket but I hope to hang it from my wall as a simple reminder of what I can do.
Now for pictures. I realized that I wanted this one done SO BAD that I didn't take the time to really slow down and do things right. My binding is atrocious! So look away!
My big take away from this whole process is I need to learn how to bind. I mean, I know how to do it, but I think I need to learn over again. I'm not doing a good job of it and I could definitely use some tips and improvement there. In the past I've been proud of my mitered corners but I won't be flaunting them today. They are just awful and I'm not sure what I did wrong but it's definitely something I acknowledge as a weakness in my sewing and something that needs to be improved.
Yikes! As you can see, some MAJOR improvement is needed in the binding department. It's very inconsistent and that bugs me… A LOT!
Even with all it's flaws I still love it. It's been nicknamed the Old Yeller project because it's a hot mess and should have been put down instead of completed, or at least that's what my husband thinks! He saw this "thing" while I was finishing it up last week and after I had pointed out all my mistakes, he asked me why I was still working on it. When I explained that I just needed to finish it he said to me that not everything needs to be completed. Some things I can "old yeller" and put down. HAHA! What a ham…
Here is my little man all ready for school this morning. He did his own hair and dressed himself all nice with a collared shirt because he's getting an award. We don't know for what so I'm excited to see what he receives today.
He very nicely modeled my finished project before taking off.
I adore that black and rainbow polka dotted fabric. I may need to do a whole project focused around just that.
Well I'm off to take a shower and get ready for the award ceremony. Here on the west coast it's only 9:00am and I've walked the monster man to school, went on a 3.5 mile run and now this post is wrapping up. Feeling pretty accomplished so far!
After the awards ceremony, I'm heading over to my mom's house to visit, make some body butter and also to record our very first crafty podcast. We don't have a title yet but we're hoping to create a reoccurring podcast about hobbies and crafts that I can post here!


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A couple of months back my 14 year old son, Conor, came home from Scouts with information about a bus trip to the WWI battlefields of The Somme and Flanders. Now those of you who know me know that I am a highly social animal. However, on this occasion, I didn't fancy a four day trip with a group of adults (and children) who I didn't know. Nothing against them , I just didn't fancy it.
So my wife suggested Conor and I go on our own in Sheldon (our 28 year old VW campervan). The main reasons for us going were threefold: 1. Conor was studying WWI in his history lessons, 2. I felt a need to explore this history further, and 3. my eldest son was busy revising for A-levels, so it would be good to give him a week's "clear water" with no distractions in the house.
And so the die was cast.
Not knowing anything about the geography of WWI I turned to that fount of all knowledge, Facebook, to ask my friends if any of them had any advice/experience. Turns out rather a lot of them had! I received useful input from a number of friends who suggested areas to camp and places to visit. Some even lent me books and tour guides to help with my planning. It became evident that there was too much to do/see in the time we had, so I focussed on four things I felt we absolutely must visit. Mametz Wood, Lochnagar Crater, Menin Gate and Hedd Wyn's grave.
The first and last of these have a particular Welsh resonance which I will come to later. Lochnagar Crater, in La Boiselle, is one of the largest man-made craters in existence and was created by the detonation of explosives packed into tunnels beneath the German frontline. Having read "Birdsong" I felt we had to witness the aftermath of mine warfare. The Menin Gate is in the ancient walls of the Belgian city of Ieper (better known by its French name of Ypres) and is a monument to thousands of men for whom there is no grave.
As Conor attends a Welsh-medium high school, where all lessons are conducted through the medium of Welsh, I wanted him to view WWI through the lens of Welsh regiments and individuals. Mametz Wood was the scene of bitter fighting and heavy loss by 38th Welsh Division and Hedd Wyn was the bardic name of Ellis Evans, a farmer's son from Trawsfynydd who was a celebrated poet.
So, with Sheldon set for camping (and having had a new handbrake cable and brake cylinders fitted), we hit the road on the Tuesday after the half term Bank Holiday. Bound for Dover.
An uneventful drive and a flat-calm Channel crossing put us in Calais with another two hour trip to reach The Somme. Conor proved to be an effective navigator as I concentrated on not hitting oncoming traffic head-on.
I was a little nervous as I didn't know what the Camping Bellevue campsite was like (it was the only one anywhere near Albert, which is where we wanted to be) but it turned out to be set in beautiful countryside in a protected natural environment. As we approached the village of Authuille (where the camp site was situated) the roads became narrower and the number of vehicles for me to hit became fewer. We began to see enormous monuments through the trees and across the rolling farmland. The kind of monuments one would expect to see in inner city London, not in a national park. The closest village to Authuille was Thiepval, a name I remember from reading about WWI battles. But we pushed on and arrived at Camping Bellevue with enough time to set up camp and cook a pasta supper.
The owner was a jolly farmer who spoke not a word of English but seemed not to mind our appallingly bad knowledge of French. We communicated effectively enough for him to tell us that we were in a special environment for wildlife and that we would see many sites the next day. The camp site lived up to its name as we had clear views across the river Ancre to the woodland beyond and the only sound we could hear was that of birdsong, including a cuckoo in the distance (funny how cuckoos are always in the distance and never close up).
So ended day one of our adventure.
We were right in the middle of The Somme.
Next morning we packed up, bade the farmer a sincere "merci" and drove out of the campsite. As soon as we turned onto the road we saw a sign for "Authuille Military Cemetery" so we turned off the road again and parked up. The cemetery was on a hillside that dropped down to the river Ancre.
One of the comments in the visitor book (which every cemetery has in an alcove at the entrance, together with a map showing all the names of those interred within), said that it was the most beautiful cemetery they had visited. And so it turned out for us. The regimented ranks of white headstones, neatly mown grass, perennial plants and overhanging trees made it feel more like a park than a place where lay the broken bodies of three hundred men. Men who faced unimaginable horror.
As we were to find throughout our trip, this juxtaposition of peace and violence permeates everything here. It is at the same time unsettling and reassuring, sad yet uplifting.
It wasn't just British Nationals who died here
We jumped back into Sheldon and headed off for the Thiepval Memorial which was about a mile away. It was huge. It would not have been out of place in the heart of a major city.
So here, in a clearing in a small wood, with gently rolling arable farmland all around, it had great presence. The base, upon which stood a tall tower, was approximately 30 feet high and, as we walked towards it, seemed clad in plain white limestone. As we got closer we began to see that every square inch of this seemingly blank canvas was incised with the names of 78,000 men who died in Somme battles but for whom there is no grave.
78,000 men blown to pieces and/or buried beneath the cloying mud until farmers or builders uncover them in future years. That is equivalent to the population of the City of Bath just wiped off the face of the earth. It was a powerful symbol and we spent some time quietly walking under and around it.
From here we drove to La Boiselle, again very close by, to visit the Lochnagar Crater. This is an enormous crater which was created when British miners detonated thousands of pounds of explosives directly beneath German lines. It's difficult to explain the size of it, but imagine watching a news report about a truck bomb in somewhere like Iraq and seeing the crater that makes. Imagine something a hundred times bigger and you might be close to Lochnagar Crater.
I wanted us to see this as I have read "Birdsong" and found it to be the most upsetting, claustrophobic, yet compelling of novels. In front of us was an example of exactly the kind of mine warfare that Sebastian Faulkes so graphically described. The geology here is basically chalk and flint. Everywhere, on the farmland around, are flint nodules set in the crumbly light brown and white soil. I picked up a small nodule to take home as a reminder. Something solid as a stimulus to memory. I guess that's the purpose of memorials.
On our way to our final destination of the day, Mametz Wood, we happened upon a sign to the Canadian Cemetery at Sunken Road. Intrigued we turned down what was a rutted, unmetalled, farm track. Sheldon's suspension was sorely tested but, after 300 yards, we came to two separate walled cemeteries which seemed to float above the green wheat fields in which they sat.
This is the way of war cemeteries, we found. I guess the logistics of collecting bodies and bringing them to one huge cemetery are too difficult, so they erect them where the soldiers fell. Even if it means that they are cheek by jowl with productive farmland. The past is never far away from the present in The Somme.
I took one or two photographs to share with my Canadian cousins and we then retraced our bouncy steps to the road. Onwards to Mametz Wood…
Our last stop for the day, before the hour's drive north to Ieper, Mametz was the largest wood in The Somme. Given its position on a slight ridge, and the cover it provided its German occupiers, it was a key strategic target for the British during the first Battle of The Somme.
Between the 7th and 10th July 1916 the 38th Welsh Division fought to take the wood. Thinking they were up against poorly-trained conscripts the Welsh advanced across the low ground. Unfortunately for them the wood was held by battle-hardened German troops who opened fire from the front and sides. From what I have read it sounded like the archetypal mowing down of troops in a pointless assault. The British Army generals accused the Welsh of cowardice in retreating after early failures to take the objective. By the time the wood was taken 4000 men lay dead or wounded. One battalion (14th Swansea Battalion) entered the wood with 676 men but lost 400 killed or wounded.
The poet Robert Graves fought in the battle and later wrote of the aftermath: "It was full of dead Prussian Guards, big men, and dead Royal Welch Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers, little men. Not a single tree in the wood remained unbroken".
The excellent publication "Call Them To Remembrance" by Gwyn Prescott is an account of the Welsh rugby internationals who died in WWI. Some of them met their grisly end in Mametz Wood. It is an imprint of Welsh Academic Press and well worth a read.
We stood at the base of the monument to the fallen and looked across the low ground to the wood and decided to see if we could access it.
Crossing the killing fields, now yet another blanket of dark green wheat, we entered the wood. We could just make out the pockmarked surface of the ground underneath its shroud of bramble and ivy. Strikingly, in amongst the tall trees, we began to see individual wreaths, red dragons and flags placed amongst the vegetation and some even nailed to the trees themselves. This place obviously has strong resonances for family members to this day. It was an inspiring thing to see.
And so on to an hour and a half's raucous thrum of Sheldon's diesel engine as we headed northwards to Ieper (Ypres) for our next two nights stay. We were heading to Flanders with only three set targets. Find the poet Hedd Wyn's grave, visit the In Flanders Fields museum and witness the Menin Gate ceremony…
We arrived in good time at the Camping Jeugsdtation which is a very well organised (perhaps too well organised…) campsite a 10 minute walk from the Centre of Ieper. I highly recommend it but book ahead!
After a nice meal in a restaurant in the main square of Ieper, within sight of the Menin Gate, we returned to our trusty steed/kitchen/bedroom and settled down for the night, wondering what the next day would bring.
I'd decided that, for the morning of our last full day, we would first visit the In Flanders Fields Museum. I felt that it might better inform our understanding of what happened, where, and when. I was not to be disappointed. At the ticket desk we were each given a white rubber wrist band with a red poppy shape looking like the face of a watch. We had to scan this device across a reader and then use a keyboard and touchscreen to enter our names, ages and home addresses. This subsequently allowed us to unlock personally-specific information in some of the displays. It was a clever bit of tech and it really drew one in to the whole experience.
The museum had a dark feel to it, in lighting and decorative terms. Understandable, given the subject matter. Excellent interactive panels, maps and videos oriented us in the landscape. Superb collections of objects helped explain the pre-war social history of the area and the terrible events that followed.
All in all it was one of the best arranged and interpreted museums I have ever visited (and I have worked in museums for over 20 years). However, halfway through I came across a small display of trench warfare hand-to-hand combat weapons (within a wider display of trench warfare and life). There were clubs and maces better suited to a mediaeval exhibition, daggers and stilettos of every description and, critically for me, a knuckleduster with a 3 inch stiletto blade pointing straight out of it. This case, and this object in particular, pushed me over the edge. I really couldn't take any more. It was the realisation that someone actually used this fist-held device and simultaneously punched and stabbed other human beings in order to not be killed himself. This brought home to me the close-up brutality of the whole war.
This is not a negative comment on the museum. Far from it. It told the story of the Great War very sensitively and I recommend it to anyone. But the relentless presentation of objects of death and destruction was too much. So I made an excuse to Conor and we left. Illuminated but immeasurably saddened.
Our final target for the day was Hedd Wyn's grave. Hedd Wyn (Blessed Peace) was the bardic name adopted by Ellis Humphrey Evans, a farmer's son from Trawsfynydd in North Wales. He was a poet. He went, reluctantly (to avoid his younger brother being conscripted), to war and is now better known as a war poet.
After his basic training he returned home for furlough. It was during this time that he wrote an "awdl" (a long, ornate poem in an ancient tradition) called "Yr Arwr" (The Hero) as his entry for the National Eisteddfod of 1917. He entered it under the nom de plume "Fleur de Lys".
At the Eisteddfod the Archdruid called out three times for Fleur de Lys to make himself known. He was then told that Hedd Wyn had died six weeks earlier in an attack on Pilckem Ridge, near Langemark just north of Ieper. The bard's prize Chair was draped in a black sheet and taken, in that state, to his family's farm. The 1917 Eisteddfod was forever known as "Eisteddfod y Gadair Ddu" (The Eisteddfod of the Black Chair). As the Archdruid put it "The festival in tears and the poet in his grave".
In the late 1990s a Welsh language film "Hedd Wyn" became the first British film ever to be nominated for a foreign language Oscar. Conor and I watched it on Youtube (where it is in four parts) before leaving for our trip. I'm glad we did so as it was a good film and very moving.
Whilst the staff at the museum were helpful and told us where to find his grave, they gave us completely the wrong cemetery name! This threw us off for a while until, at Cement House Cemetery, we asked two local workers who were tending the graves. With their help we discovered that the grave was in Artillery Wood Cemetery, not far away. I asked these guys how many cemeteries their team looked after. "In this area?" they said (approx 16sq mile) "150".
On finding Artillery Wood Cemetery we quickly identified Hedd Wyn's grave, thanks to the cemetery map held within a bronze box at the entrance. It was clear, from the signatures and comments in the book of condolence, that we were not the first Welsh family to make a pilgrimage to the poet's grave.
As we did not have familial links to the Great War I decided that we would pay special respects at Hedd Wyn's grave, so I read out one of his poems "Rhyfel" ("War") which I reproduce below. I intended writing the last line (which is translated into English below) in the book of condolence but more than one visitor had beaten me to it. So I simply wrote "Bachgen Trawsfynydd. Arwr Gymru".
Gwae fi fy myw mewn oes mor ddreng,
A Duw ar drai ar orwel pell;
O'i ôl mae dyn, yn deyrn a gwreng,
Yn codi ei awdurdod hell.
Pan deimlodd fyned ymaith Dduw
Cyfododd gledd i ladd ei frawd;
Mae sŵn yr ymladd ar ein clyw,
A'i gysgod ar fythynnod tlawd.
Mae'r hen delynau genid gynt
Ynghrog ar gangau'r helyg draw,
A gwaedd y bechgyn lond y gwynt,
A'u gwaed yn gymysg efo'r glaw.
The shriek of boys is on the wind,
Their blood is blended in the rain.
Respect paid, we returned to Ieper for the ceremony at the Menin Gate.
Opened in 1927, the Menin Gate sits on the site of an ancient gate into the walled city of Ieper. The Gate is a monument to over 54,000 men who died in the battles of the Ypres Salient and for whom there is no grave. The total figure was 90,000 but there wasn't enough room on the monument for all the names, so the rest are on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing. A total of 300,000 men died in these battles.
Buglers from the local Fire Brigade have played The Last Post at the Gate every evening since 1927 at 8pm. Conor and I joined a large crowd to witness this.
As the buglers played and the crowd observed a minute's silence, I looked at the thousands of names carved into the limestone above and around me. It was too much to take in so my gaze stopped at the name of one Private Agate of the Australian Artillery. As the silence continued I tried to imagine Private Agate. What did he do before the war? When was he killed? How did he die? Does his family ever visit this place? In thinking about the one, I hope I thought of the many.
The ceremony ended and Conor and I headed back to Sheldon for our final evening in Belgium.
The whole trip was emotionally draining. I do not regret going but I'm glad we only spent a short time there.
As we drove into the port of Calais we had a modern reminder of how conflict can effect ordinary people. To the right of the elevated road that took us through the controlled area there are sand dunes. In those dunes were many tents and makeshift tarpaulin-covered shacks filled with illegal immigrants desperate to cross to the UK. Displaced people wanting to survive and make a new life for themselves. No doubt the four years of WWI created similar tides of the dispossessed. This became a final codicil to our journey and simply added to my melancholy.
I was glad to return home to my safe, stable, peaceful, loving home for which I will never be complacent….


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James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books specifically for young readers. James is a founding partner of Booktrust's Children's Reading Fund in the UK. In 2010, he was voted Author of the Year at the Children's Choice Book Awards in New York.


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Hawkesbury Brewing – Pacific Ale
Brewery: Hawkesbury Brewing in Brooklyn, NSW Style: Pacific Ale ABV: 4.2% IBUs: 18 RateBeer: No rating yet Pour: Slight mandarin tinged yellow colour. Small hard on pour. Crisp, clean ale with a slight fruit hop bitterness. I still say Stone & Wood own the pacific ale style and this is closer to a hoppy summer ale. Good beer to have after a busy Saturday morning running around taking the kids to … Continue reading Hawkesbury Brewing – Pacific Ale


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New (EMEA) Research on the adoption of Thin Client
The Register has published the results of a survey of IT Professionals on their use of Thin Clients. The survey was sponsored by Dell.
With conversations around end user computing dominated by highly desirable mobile technology, it's easy to overlook the potential of thin client hardware. Deployed in the right way to the right types of user, however, far from being the compromise option, thin client devices can enhance the user's overall experience. While the majority see a role for such technology, legacy perceptions can be an impediment to adoption.
The virtualisation option, and particularly the use of hardware-based thin clients in that context, was the subject of a recent Reg reader survey. From this we learned that over their many years of existence, thin client devices have found their place in many environments.
Relevant types of users and use cases called out in relation to this (in respondents' own words) include:
"Office administration staff."
"Operational and managerial staff using office or web based applications."
"General business users, help desk or call centre agents, and anyone else who needs a moderate and consistent set of applications."
The theme coming through here is the acknowledged role of thin clients in meeting the needs of employees with relatively undemanding application requirements. For users who spend most of their time accessing server or cloud based business applications, or performing lightweight tasks with Microsoft Office (email, word processing, etc), there's a good case for virtualising and centralising their Windows environment.
Apart from the management and support benefits of reducing complexity on the user's desk, doing away with the local "C: Drive" as part of the centralisation process also removes a security headache. With this in mind, it's not surprising to see users who frequently access sensitive or valuable data being identified as potential targets for thin client deployments. Examples here include:
"Senior management."
"Admin staff using sensitive data."
"Software development contractors so the source doesn't leave the organisation's core servers."
Then sticking with the theme of risk management, another potential benefit comes to the fore:
"Thin clients in a DR scenario."
What this comment is getting at is that it's a lot quicker and easier to get users up and running again if their desktops reside on a server independently of physical devices.
More at the source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/28/ffd_thin_client_study_results/
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My Bonus Bag, Lucky Me
I love that both bags that I received were completely different and I love them both. I think the tissue holder is such a handy little item and want to make one now too.
How awesome is the personalised label!! Very, very cool ;-)
Thank you SO much Emma!!
Whoops, I didn't put a card in for the person I sewed for, now I know for next time. Here is the cute card Emma popped in with my bag.
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Vik, the bag is beautiful. Such a nice gift.ReplyDelete
Glad you liked it.ReplyDelete
And I wanted to do something for you as I really appricate you stocking up on the fabrics for me.
Thank you so much.......
How beautiful is that bag :) Em you are incredibly talented! Gorgoeus little "ewe" note too ... Vik, enjoy your snazzy bags :)ReplyDelete
Lucky you, two new bags! And the one Emma sent is made of such lovely fabric!ReplyDelete
What a great bag!ReplyDelete
Is this through your bag swap?
Lynda, the black and red bag from Chris is my *official* swap bag. The bird bag from Emma is an *on the side* thank you bag, aren't I just so lucky :-)ReplyDelete
We are very lucky aren't we - Emma made a great job of our bright bags didn't she.ReplyDelete
The red and balck one Chris made is also fantastic. I remeber her sneak-peaking those fabrics and I'm seroiusly considering tracking down both her fabric and the pattern too.
Lucky lucky you!
Becanne the bag Chris made was called "The Everything Bag" and there is a free tute for it at bluebirdbaby.typepad.com so now you just need the fabric :-)ReplyDelete
oh I just love the material, what a gorgeous bag!ReplyDelete


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Wednesday, 31 October 2007
Picture of the Day
No, it's not what you think. Apparently, this sign in Boston (USA) refers to boats :)
*via Queerty (via The Times)
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Two newspaper editors to be prosecuted for disturbing the peace
After being freed the next day, the two journalists learned at a press conference given by the police that they are to be prosecuted under articles 258 and 316 of the criminal code for "disturbing the peace" and "violence against an official." The charges carry a maximum sentence of a month in prison and a fine equivalent to 50 times the minimum monthly wage.
"We call on the Armenian authorities to drop the charges against Pashinian and Matevossian and to show more tolerance towards opposition journalists," Reporters Without Borders said.
According to the Yerevan Press Club, the police confiscated the camera of photographer David Jalalian of the newspaper Haik when he went to the police station where the opposition members were being held. The camera was finally returned but some of his photos had been deleted by the police.
Monday, 29 October 2007
Woman President for Armenia?
Saturday, 27 October 2007
Ter-Petrosyan's comeback
Number-wise, the rally could be considered a success. Even if it's 10 000, it is still good, taking into account apathy of population and all sorts of efforts by current administration against the rally and Levon & co. Based on various sources and friends' impressions who attended the rally, atmosphere-wise it was also a successful day for Levon. There was optimism and good energy around during that rally.
His tone was calmer and speech - more solid than the one on 21st September, when he first declared his presidential intentions. He looked very arrogant on the 21st.
In fact, if I were to meet Levon, I would say to him: "Do not be arrogant. It does not suit you." You were first elected as people's president. You were 'one of us' – well, at least that's how the majority perceived you. However, in few years you became arrogant, kind of self-isolated and intolerant to dissent voice. I quite like the fact that you were holding meetings with various political parties, even those that you shut down during your term of presidency. However, I'd like to get assurances that the practice of political dialogue will continue if you were to be elected as President.
You keep criticising current administration for their inability to solve Karabakh problem. Fair enough. However, your plan was not any better. You rightly repeated that under any solution Karabakh cannot be a part of Azerbaijan again. But you supported a plan that did not give any clear indication as to what will happen to Karabakh status. Karabakh is one of the key issues and you have to spell out more clearly your vision.
When you criticise current regime of being corrupt, you are becoming a very easy target to counter-claims. Unless you come clean for the past, it won't be easy for you to re-gain electorate's trust and move forward to present and future. There were lots of speculations before the rally that you may acknowledge your mistakes and say "Sorry" to people who trusted you and then felt betrayed by you. Your vague 'apology' during infamous forced resignation speech in 1998 is not enough. May be yesterday was not a right time to do so, but you have to do it in coming months... People won't forget your mistakes, but they will appreciate your frankness.
To be honest, while I am glad that it seems we are to witness an exciting presidential campaign, there is something inside me that makes me feel worry. Call it intuition or whatever, I have those weird feelings that something bad may happen. Too much is at stake to those who are in power now if they to lose it via democratic elections. On the other hand, Levon came out to win, and any other outcome will not be 'acceptable' to his supporters. I hope nothing bad will happen, I really do. I hope we won't witness violence and blood. I feel unease... I want to get rid of these feelings, but I do not know yet how...
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Condoleezza Rice Confronted by "Blood-Stained" Anti-war Activist
Anti-war protestor Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz of the Code Pink organization was detained on Wednesday after confronting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a congressional hearing.
As Rice approached the podium, Farooz placed blood-colored hands in her face and shouted "war criminal" before being escorted form the chamber along with several other activists.
Reuters reports: "Capitol Police said later five people were arrested, including Ali-Fairooz, who was charged with disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer. She was also charged with defacing government property for smearing the red paint from her hands on the hallway wall outside the hearing room. The other four protesters faced disorderly conduct charges."
Halloween, of course, is next week, but in the Bush administration it's scary all year.
* X-posted from Towleroad
... And now read Onnik Krikorian's post Condoleezza Rice: Drop Armenian Genocide Bill
Sunday, 21 October 2007
The power and value of Armenian capital
"International experts assess the Armenian capital, the combined Armenian capital of the world to be equal to $100 billion. When I told about this to a group of Armenian businessmen in Moscow, they smiled, these Armenian businessmen in Moscow smiled after hearing this figure, and said this much money they had themselves. (Laughter). I told about this to [...] a prominent businessman in the United States and the United Kingdom, and he said it's not true, it should be at least $300 billion.
Let it be not $300, not $200, let it be $100, OK? If we could attract at least 1% of these resources every year to Armenia, then within a short period of time there will remain no social problems in Armenia."
Armenian PM Serj Sargsyan, speaking to LA Times editorial board
P.S. He needs money, he needs investments. Fair enough. If we could attract at least 1% of these resources every year to Armenia, conditional to democracy and human rights, then within a short period of time...
Thursday, 18 October 2007
Telegraph: The Armenian Genocide (more than a book review)
"Akçam – who obtained political asylum in Germany in the 1970s after receiving a 10-year prison sentence for involvement in a student journal, and now teaches in America – has sought out documents from around the world. He has hunted down the memoirs of foreign missionaries and ambassadors and the telegrams sent by the perpetrators to make a solid case for the genocide having been planned and orchestrated by the Turkish Nationalist party."
"We in the West must face our own responsibility. We read how, after 1920, the British abandoned their demand for the war criminals to be punished, and many of those responsible found their way straight back into the "new" Turkish government."
Related and worth reading
Salon - Genocide: An inconvenient truth
Time magazine - The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is the Best Policy
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Naked saviour
Armenian Genocide resolution "unlikely"
No other source of information confirmed this yet, but it seems likely to be true...
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: "According to Congressional and Bush administration sources, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now unlikely to bring a resolution which would label the deaths of Armenians in a conflict more than 90 years ago as "genocide".
Pelosi, as recently as Sunday on "This Week", has repeatedly said she would call the controversial but nonbinding resolution for a vote despite the opposition of the Bush administration and warnings that it could damage U.S. relations with Turkey.
President Bush called Speaker Pelosi on Monday night and asked her to pull the bill. But Congressional sources say that Pelosi is telling House members that she will not bring the bill to the floor without majority support.
At least seven House members have withdrawn as co-sponsors of the bill and several more are expected to follow. Key Pelosi ally Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., is also lobbying against a vote.
Key House members continue to canvass members but don't expect a vote this year."
Nancy Pelosi: earlier statements (AP)
"I've been in Congress for 20 years, and for 20 years people have been saying the same thing" about the timing being bad, she said. Turkey was seen as having a strategic location in the Cold War as well as the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the current Iraq war.
"Why do it now? Because there's never a good time and all of us in the Democratic leadership have supported" it, she said.
"It is a statement made by 23 other countries. We would be the 24th country to make this statement. Genocide still exists, and we saw it in Rwanda; we see it now in Darfur," she told ABC's "This Week" in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"Some of the things that are harmful to our troops relate to values -- Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, torture. All of those [are] issues about who we are as a country," Pelosi said. "And I think that our troops are well-served when we declare who we are as a country and increase the respect that people have for us as a nation."
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Larry Gagosian - 2nd most powerful man in art world in 2007
2007 Art Review Power 100
Monday, 15 October 2007
Hate for free ;)
"Hatebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE."
Now you can "upload blackmail material or publish lies, get the latest gossip from your enemies and friends, post photos and videos on your hate profile, get hate points for disturbing people who live, study or work around you". And all these – for free! As they say, "Everybody loves to HATE". Do not say I did not warn you ;) x
*via TechCrunch: "A well-executed Facebook parody site called Hatebook has stepped in to provide (temporary) misanthropes with a place to air grievances about everything they hate. Hatebook looks and functions much like Facebook, except with an evil twist for everything. The color scheme is hellish red, profiles include a section called "Why I'm Better Than You!", and members can create "Hate Albums" that consist of photos and descriptions of things they hate."
"But don't play around with Hatebook too much if you are concerned about privacy, because all messages ("junkmail") are viewable by all other users, and there are no privacy controls."
However, "With the development of the Facebook platform, we are even seeing these efforts made within Facebook itself , with the Enemybook app. Why hate outside of Facebook, when you can hate within it?" – asks Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch.
*image via TechCrunch
Sunday, 14 October 2007
Ads of the past
Saturday, 13 October 2007
SOAD's "Screamers" at front-line of Armenian Genocide recognition campaign
via LA Times
Genocide: Why It Matters
CBS News reported Wednesday on a documentary called Screamers which follows the Grammy-award winning band System of a Down in its campaign to raise awareness of the Armenian Genocide.
Serj Tankian, lead singer of System of a Down told CBS about how his grandfather's father and uncles were taken away to labor camps and never seen again. "We're all lucky to be here," he said of the band. "We all know the truth of what it means to feel genocide on your skin. ... It makes it easier for us to empathize with other injustice around the world."
A video from CBS's Early Show with Serj Tankian, broadcast on October 10, 2007, is available here
via The Raw Story
According to the European Armenian Federation , the film "Screamers", co-produced by BBC, is to be screened also in European Parliament. This event will be a tribute to Hrant Drink, Armenian journalist in Turkey, who in January 2007 was assassinated in Istanbul because he advocated for his country's recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
The European Armenian Federation announced that 29 countries will be represented in the Second Convention of European Armenians to be held in European Parliament, Brussels, 15-16 October 2007.
Friday, 12 October 2007
Hrant Dink's son sentenced for father's speech
Apparently, I was overly 'optimistic' in my last post in support to Agos newspaper, speculating that Turkish court will not press charges. Why? Yes, yes, Turkey's 'European aspirations'... I wonder what EU's reaction will be? Or is this also "not right time"? It never is, isn't it?
"It's a judicial scandal", says Ozlem Dalkiran, who followed the trial for the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, a European human rights group.
BBC's Sarah Rainsford has more...
Reporters Without Borders today voiced "outrage" at a one-year [suspended] prison sentence against the son of murdered journalist Hrant Dink, Arat Dink, editor-in-chief of the weekly Agos, and his editor Serkis Seropyan, using the same law under which his father had been prosecuted.
A court in the Sisli district of Istanbul found Arat Dink and Serkis Seropyan guilty of "insulting Turkish identity" for publishing an interview in Agos which Hrant Dink gave to Reuters in 2006 in which he termed as genocide the massacres of Armenians from 1915-17, remarks for which Hrant Dink was prosecuted at the time. [and later murdered]
At one of the hearings, Arat Dink repeated his father's words, saying: "If someone keeps asking me, '[...] tell me, was it a genocide, how would you describe it?', then I cannot deny myself. I cannot deny my history and identity. I said the same thing before and it made the front pages in Turkish newspapers, but no trial was opened. Because at that time there was no operation going on to show me my place..."
Seropyan had said: "I appear as the newspaper owner. If we needed to collect signatures against 301, I would do the same thing again today."
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Despite pressures and despite Bush, US Foreign Affairs Committee approved Armenian Genocide bill
House speaker Nancy Pelosi re-affirmed her support for the resolution that recognises Armenian Genocide.
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Democrats plan to bring an Armenian Genocide resolution to the House floor before they leave on Nov. 16 for the Thanksgiving recess.
According to Jewish sources, seven of eight Jewish members on a U.S. Congressional Committee voted for a resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide. The only Jewish member to vote against was Robert Wexler, who cited among other reasons Turkey's close relationship with Israel. Others cited Holocaust remembrance as a reason for their votes. Jewish congressmen who supported the resolution included the Committee chairman Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress.
In an interview with BBC news channel, Hratche Koundarjian of the Aegis Trust, a Genocide prevention organisation based in the UK, said that after the final Congressional approval, Britain will remain the last major Western power to yet acknowledge Armenian Genocide as such. He expressed hope that British parliament will follow suit.
Not that there is need to prove, but still... 'classic' Bush:
George W. Bush, Man of Principle
February 19, 2000:
The twentieth century was marred by wars of unimaginable brutality, mass murder and genocide. History records that the Armenians were the first people of the last century to have endured these cruelties. The Armenians were subjected to a genocidal campaign that defies comprehension and commands all decent people to remember and acknowledge the facts and lessons of an awful crime in a century of bloody crimes against humanity. If elected President, I would ensure that our nation properly recognizes the tragic suffering of the Armenian people.
October 10, 2007:
I urge members to oppose the Armenian genocide resolution now being considered by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915. This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings, and its passage would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in NATO and in the global war on terror.
Serj Tankian - Saving Us
Director: Kevin Estrada
This is the 3rd single and music video from "Elect the Dead" solo album of Serj which will be released 23 October.
1st single and music video "The Unthinking Majority" - here
2nd single and music video "Empty Walls" - here
Call to Support Agos Newspaper
The trial of Arat Dink and Sarkis Seropyan under Article 301 continues on 11 October
Amazingly, even after his murder, Hrant Dink (via his son) and Agos newspaper are still being 'tried' in Turkey under the now infamous article 301. Precisely the same article they were accused of campaigning against. An article which is now a world-wide symbol of state-level oppression of freedom of expression. I do not expect any real charges as a result of these proceedings. It would be too much for survival of Turkey's 'European aspirations' image, which is being badly damaged by the only fact of this trial.
Via Turkish press freedom network Bianet:
The Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism Initiative (DurDe) [Turkey based] has called on people to support the Agos newspaper on 11 October, when its editor Arat Dink (the son of murdered journalist Hrant Dink) and licence holder Sarkis Seropyan attend a hearing at their continuing trial at a penal court in Sisli, central Istanbul.
The trial concerns news items on Hrant Dink's recognition of an "Armenian genocide" and a campaign opposing Article 301, precisely the Article they are being tried under.
[inverted commas, as in original - I suppose, they were afraid of being tried under the same 'offence', if put Armenian Genocide without that punctuation business. On the other hand, it is no longer unusual to see in Turkish press non-comma references to the Genocide. Still, inverted commas in relation to Armenian Genocide are BBC website's official policy, although over the last week or so I noticed (formal or informal) loosening of that policy.]
Condemnation of Article 301 and Hrant Dink murder trial
In a press statement, DurDe stated that Article 301 needed to be abolished, the murder of Hrant Dink needed to be solved, and racists needed to be brought to justice. The second hearing in the Hrant Dink murder case, which took place on 1 October, was called "shameful".
"The court has not given permission to investigate the police officer who took part in the planning of a murder and whose telephone conversation has been listened to by the whole of Turkey. A police officer who said about Hrant, 'If he's snuffed it, he's snuffed it' is now working next to the former Trabzon Chief of Police. Both have been protected and rewarded."
[A similar statement was issued earlier by Reporters Without Borders. What is important here is that the call is coming from within Turkey's civil society.]
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Sksela - youth movement in Armenia
*news on release of this documentary via tirami su; video by Seda Grigoryan via ditord
Friday, 5 October 2007
Reporters sans frontières - coffins in Paris for slain Russian journalists; cover-up attempt in Istanbul at Dink's murder trial
Eighteen coffins line Paris human rights plaza in homage to slain Russian journalists on first anniversary of Politkovskaya murder
Reporters Without Borders staged a ceremony today at the Trocadero human rights plaza in Paris to mark the first anniversary of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow, displaying photos of Vladimir Putin and Politkovskaya alongside 18 coffins representing the 18 journalists killed in connection with their work in Russia since Putin became president in March 2000. Putin's photo was embellished with the insignia of his French Legion of Honour award. More...
Call for all relevant evidence to be incorporated into Hrant Dink murder file
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by reports of the disappearance of evidence in the investigation into the murder of Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink. The second hearing in the trial of Dink's alleged murderers was held before a court in the Istanbul district of Besikta on 1 October.
The press freedom organisation also regrets that the trial judge rejected its request to be formally registered as a civil party in the case on the grounds that it was not directly affected by the murder of Dink, who was gunned down outside the Istanbul office of his newspaper, Agos, on 19 January. More...
*picture by AFP
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Global Day of Action for Burma
If you are in London:
London March and Rally
Assemble at Tate Britain at 11.00am, nearest tube Pimlico.
March to Trafalgar Square for a rally at 12.45pm.
For worldwide locations:
*via Rhiannon (tablaqueen)
also The Armenian Observer Blog
Monday, 1 October 2007
Staying in power 'our' way
Slightly different phenomenon of 'exchange in power' (= staying in power even after my terms of presidency passed) is developing in countries with certainly higher level of democracy.
Not a long time ago there were intense speculations that after current Prime Minister Serj Sargsyan become a new President of Armenia, current President Robert Kocharyan may be appointed as his Prime Minister. This was neither denied nor confirmed by Kocharyan who kept saying that he would not be the youngest pensioner of Armenia. This scenario seem less realistic now, taking into account changing political situation. To be honest, I completely forgot about it until today...
Reading today's news: Russia's current President Putin did not exclude the possibility of becoming a future Prime Minister of Russia.
It was hard to imagine that President Kocharyan would feel comfortable working as Prime Minister under Serj Sargsyan; even harder (much harder!) to imagine that President Putin would work under anyone else's presidency, however loyal that anyone may be. There are various speculations as to the reasons of these announcements... We have to wait and see, or speculate further...


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Three against Two at Senate Hearing on gun violence
"My problem with background checks is you're never going to get criminals to go through universal background checks," Wayne LaPierre, CEO and chief lobbyist for the NRA, said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, the first since President Barack Obama laid out new measures to curb gun crime. "None of it makes any sense in the real world."
"Mr. LaPierre, that's the point. The criminals won't go to purchase the guns because there'll be a background check. We'll stop them from original purchase. You missed that point completely. It's basic." Senator Dick Durbin (D.IL)
The shooting death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton came up in a U.S. Senate hearing and a White House press briefing Wednesday.
"She was an honor student and a majorette," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois. Performing at inaugural events last week "was the highlight of her young, 15-year-old life," he said.
"I bet there are people on our side that can't believe Obama won because everyone they know voted against him," Graham said. "The point is that we have different perspectives on this."
"Thank you for inviting me here today. This is an important conversation for our children, for our communities, for Democrats and Republicans. Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard but the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you. Thank you."
GRAHAM: Well I hope your right, but I can tell people throughout this land, because of the fiscal state of affairs we have, there will be less [SIC] police officers, not more, over the next decade. Response time are gonna be less, not more. So, Captain Kelly, I really do want to get guns out of the hands of the wrong people. I honest to god believe that if we arbitrarily "say nobody in this country can own a 10-round magazine in the future, the people who own them are the kind of people we're trying to combat to begin with." There can be a situation where a mother runs out of bullets because of something we do here.
"Young women are speaking out as to why AR-15 weapons are their weapons of choice," said Trotter. "The peace of mind that she has knowing that she has a scary-looking gun gives her more courage when she's fighting hardened, violent criminals."
At this moment you have an outraged public against the gun profiteers and the gutless politicians. I believe in the end the people will win.
Today's Must Read
Growing up around guns and owning them as an adult affords a person memories and experiences that strangers to guns may have trouble understanding. The divide is phenomenological, not political (or not political until it gets to be), like the gulf between those who've had sex and those who haven't or those who smoke and those who've never lit up. Pulling a trigger and being prepared to do so cuts patterns in the self. Depending on the nature of your social life, which time around guns can shape and color in ways that I'll describe, you might forget that these patterns are even there, because you're surrounded by people who share them—until someone or some event challenges you to answer for your thinking.


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TherapeuticsMD (TXMD) Breathtaking Hormone Therapy; Ocean Rig UDW (ORIG) Surpasses Estimates
Shares of TherapeuticsMD, Inc. (NYSEMKT:TXMD) climbed more than 40% to touch a new 52-week high in after-hours trading Monday as the company reported top-line data from a late-stage trial evaluating its TX-004HR at different doses versus placebo for the treatment of moderate-to-severe dyspareunia – a painful sexual intercourse – in postmenopausal women with vulvar and vaginal atrophy
TXMD stock closed the regular session at $6.53, down $0.34 (or -4.95%), with a total volume of 1,897,328 shares traded during the day, increased activity versus its average volume (3m) of 1,108,260
TherapeuticsMD, an innovative women's healthcare company, has 177.80M Shares Outstanding. At close on Monday, TherapeuticsMD had a Market Capitalization of $1.16B and TXMD stock 52-week range was between $3.44 and $8.83 per share
The price of Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (Nasdaq:ORIG) stock soared over 17% in the extended session Monday after the company delivered a solid quarter in its financial results with profit numbers that exceeded projections from analysts.
For the third quarter 2015, Ocean Rig posted revenues of $437.2 million and net income (excluding non-recurring items) of $86.2 million, or $0.58 per diluted share, surpassing the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of $0.42 earnings per share for the period
ORIG stock touched a new 52-week low of $1.42 in intraday trading to finally close at $1.51, down $0.22 (or -12.72%), and 2,417,735 of its shares exchanged hands during the day
Ocean Rig UDW, an international contractor of offshore deepwater drilling services, has 160.89M Shares Outstanding, Market Capitalization (intraday) of $242.94M and ORIG stock one-year range is from $1.42 to $10.00 per share
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The restart button worked. After a much-needed two-week rest from running, I am relishing my runs again.
A rest period did not mean I was doing nothing towards my fitness. I still enjoyed other activities like spin, weight training and even skiing. However, not running was bringing me down. I started to feel lazy. I hate feeling lazy. I had to constantly remind myself that proper rest is not the same as being lazy. It is all part of the training. Like when you need a great vacation after a long period of hard work, not just the break of the weekend.
On Saturday I looked forward to my first morning run with excitement. I didn't have a plan for distance or course. I just went for a run. Spring air could be felt on the kiss of a cool breeze with the temperature at +46 degrees. I didn't look at my watch. I didn't try to go fast or pace to other runners. I just ran wherever my legs and heart felt like going.
I ran the hilly streets near my house and over to the park for a loop around the lake. I did a second loop without realizing. I forgot I was running. I saw a path for a hill and suddenly was halfway up the incline. I saw a road I hadn't run in a while and pranced on over to run it without giving a second thought about the distance, gradation and terrain.
My mind was clear and relaxed. My legs had a spring again. I could hear the inspiring musings of the infamous painter Bob Ross from the PBS television show The Joy of Painting calmly reminding me that it's my world. I can do whatever I want in it.
Moving in a peaceful flow my mind started to paraphrase Bob Ross's popular quotes to running: "The road is your canvas. It's your world, run wherever you want. In running you have unlimited power. See a happy little tree or a titanium white cloud floating by in the sky."
Reflecting on The Joy of Painting lead me to think about the art of running. I was reminded of the philosophical phrase- Does life imitate art or art imitate life? Is there any separation between running and life or are they mirror images of each other? Sometimes life is reflected in the run and other times the run is reflected in life. Or does everything come from the root of life? A deep philosophical question to ponder during a run! (And one that has been poetically expressed in the works of Oscar Wilde.)
If I have a great run, my day is always better. If I have a lousy run, my day is never quite balanced. If I'm under a lot of stress or pressure from life, my run can sometimes imitate that sentiment causing me to drag my feet and have a tough run while other times it helps me to process and cope with stress.
When I finally got back home I had run 8 beautiful, easy miles. I felt amazing and the runner's high stuck with me throughout the entire day. To me, life is always better after a run.


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Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Ticks and Blood Cells Haven't Evolved in "20 Million Years," Amber Discovery Suggests
Joel Kontinen
Some animals change over time. Others don't.
Most of the creatures buried in amber show little or no change in "tens of millions of years".
Examples include insects such as ants (see an image here; the text is in Finnish), beetles and spiders,things like bird feathers and even flowers.
A new paper by Emeritus Professor George Poinar, Jr. published in the Journal of Medical Entomology adds to the list.
Science Daily attempts to reconstruct what happened:
"Two monkeys grooming each other about 20-30 million years ago may have helped produce a remarkable new find - the first fossilized red blood cells from a mammal, preserved so perfectly in amber that they appear to have been prepared for display in a laboratory."
Discovered in the Dominican Republic, the amber also held a tick and the parasite Babesia microti that still makes life uncomfortable for humans and animals.
"Two small holes in the back of a blood-engorged tick, which allowed blood to ooze out just as the tick became stuck in tree sap that later fossilized into amber, provide a brief glimpse of life in a tropical jungle millions of years ago."
Nothing much new under the sun, it seems. While the dates are inflated, the discovery shows that life in the fallen world has its disadvantages.
Oregon State University. 2017. Monkey business produces rare preserved blood in amber fossils. Science Daily. (3 April).
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"You gotta be really smart to play dumb, and we've done a really good job at it," says Honor Titus, the heroic lead singer of newly crowned punk kings Cerebral Ballzy. Tucked inside the lower level of a self-built bunk bed in his cluttered Brooklyn bedroom—a tiny sweatbox covered with posters and black wall markings—the 22-year-old musician lights a cigarette and exhales deeply.
If onstage he's driving at 100 miles per hour, here, in his private sanctum, he's thoughtfully idle. It's been a whirlwind few months for Titus since his band released their self-titled debut album last summer and began touring Europe in its support—an experience he compares, with more than a bit of knowing hubris, to Beatlemania.
Cerebral Ballzy first charged the punk scene in 2010 with their thrashing, seven-minute debut EP, You're Idle, and were almost immediately embraced by Brooklyn's angry, unhinged teens—in part because Cerebral Ballzy's five members had been Brooklyn's angry, unhinged teens. Rather than scream anarchy at society's bigger picture, however, they took aim at the joys of youth: beer, pizza, and skating. Their sound was puerile, raw, and sweaty, 1980s punk dragged, kicking and screaming, into the seething present. With tracks like "Insufficient Fare" and "Drug Myself Dumb," not to mention Titus' penchant for vomiting onstage (or playing sets naked), their act was neither serious nor smart, a lowbrow code they wholly embrace. "When we started this band, we weren't concerned with the tunes we were writing," Titus says. "It was the opposite of strategic—it literally just happened. We purposely avoided political messages. I wanted it to be about pizza and puke, and it's done wonders."
In an age of Occupy movements, prolonged recessions, and an enduringly frustrating political landscape, Ballzy found genuine success in the relatable simplicity of youth. Who hasn't gotten drunk and vomited? Who doesn't love pizza? Their live performances—wild exercises in what Titus calls "debauched ridiculousness"—are like anarchic oases at which audience members, if only for a short time, can indulge their carnal instincts without the presence of a consequential wet blanket. "People need something brash," Titus says. "They need something to hold on to, something to go home with, something's that immediate. The only thing that's really immediate these days is double-clicking a fucking song. People sit at computers all day and tweet and 'check in'—there's no human interaction, no accountability, and no face to the words. I think that people are really becoming fed up with it. They're getting cabin fever."
Titus is very much a part of that lost generation. Returning from high school in North Carolina, he studied advertising at New York's Pace University before promptly dropping out, made a "shit-ton" of money in an agency on Madison Avenue, and then dropped out of that, too. "What was the point?" he asks. Getting back to his punk passions—and his Brooklyn roots—he formed Cerebral Ballzy at the age of 19, traveling to the hot, lascivious streets of Madrid to write the band's eponymous debut album.
In addition to being a pleasantly distasteful bit of wordplay, coined when a fellow band member was "ballsy" enough to pick up a pizza slice that he'd dropped onto the subway tracks, Cerebral Ballzy is, according to Titus, "about the pinnacle of man, whoever he may be—Zeus, a conqueror, a conquistador. They were cerebral and ballsy. I think people are becoming way too cerebral and not ballsy enough."
While touring, the band's European fans feverishly took up Titus' call to balls, but now that he's returned home, he's in the mood for something more: an evolution of the revolution. "A killer live show is something that we'll always have," he says. "But now I think that we can actually write killer tunes and big songs and still maintain that sense of human emotion. I don't want to be a show band, so we're going to write a record that doesn't make us one."
Titus absentmindedly ashes the cigarette he's been smoking onto his bedroom floor, and after a brief pause, adds, "Rather than bring in a four-day-old pizza slice, next album, we'll have leftover steak."
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May 27, 2016 Federal Judge Michael P. Shea granted Attorney Ward's Motion for Additional Time to respond to the child rape case. Greer's Attorney claimed in his motion that he needed additional time to "explore insurance coverage of the new defendants."
Attorney Ward also filed documents notifying the court that he will be representing all of the non-profit entities, which list Greer and others as officers. Ward's representation of the non-profit entities may not be for very long. There is a conflict of interest for Attorney Ward to represent Rabbi Greer and represent the interests of the non-profit entities at the same time. The non-profits will say Rabbi Greer is the sole culpable party and they had no knowledge that he was raping Mirlis in the buildings. They cannot be liable for whatever Greer did to Mirlis. Ward cannot make claims against Greer on behalf of the non-profits and defend Greer at the same time.
The attorney for Mirlis will probably file a motion to disqualify Attorney Ward from representing both Greer and the non-profit entities. If the insurance company agrees to defend the claim on behalf of the non-profit entities, the insurance company will hire insurance attorneys to represent the interests of the non-profits. The insurance company wouldn't hire Ward to continue to defend the non-profits.
It takes time for an insurance company to review and process a claim such as this and decide whether to accept the claim. The insurance company will review the case and their policy, and determine whether they believe they have a duty to defend the non-profits. Insurance companies usually do not have a problem paying for an attorney to defend, but they may balk at paying out on a verdict. They usually issue a "reservation of rights" letter to the policy holder in which they assert that they do not believe they are liable to pay out on a claim based to the terms of the policy. They "reserve their rights" to deny the claim, even though they are paying for the defense. If they refuse to pay out on a verdict, Rabbi Greer could sue his insurance company and claim that his insurance policy requires the company to pay Mirlis.
If the insurance companies defend the non-profits and end up settling the case and paying Mirlis, it will be justice unserved. Greer will still be a free man, free to molest other children. New Haven has a very high crime rate and Rabbi Greer would not be at the top of the police radar. New Haven is safer than only 6% of all the cities in America. New Haven is ranked on the top ten list of most violent small cities in America .


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remembering Rule #6...
...which leads to...
choosing Joy
and Love
and Goodness
a clean kitchen floor before 8:51 a.m.
a popsicle within the first three minutes of waking up
(I can only akin it to an especially fine cup of tea)
dances and a curtsy in a frufru skirt
bike rides (solo) through the neighborhood
walking adventures though the neighborhood
with a whip and a light saber
plans for a sleepover with cousins
leaf chromatography
world of goo
a list for Santa
animated hero classics: Benjamin Franklin
* * *
and I dunno what else.
I'm thinking something
that looks and feels like
a book
and clean sheets.
we'll see you tomorrow.


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Getting perspective
July 02, 2008
Unlike most role playing games which feature your character as the star of the screen, Fallout 3 is played from a first-person perspective like a shooter.
Bethesda's Pete Hines says the first-person viewpoint was chosen because "we felt this was the best way to really immerse the player in this world. You can get up close to all these iconic elements from the original game."
You can play in third-person as well, but it will be very difficult. "We have this new over-the-should third-person camera," enthuses Hines, "and it is kinda cool seeing yourself walking around in the vault jumpsuit."
In addition to the real-time combat, the game has a system called V.A.T.S. - Vault-tec Assisted Targeting System, which even the most adept first-person shooting fans are likely to want to make full use of.
Triggering VATS instantly pauses the action and lets you target specific areas of the enemy such as limbs or the head, queuing multiple moves.
Your choices cost action points, and each point on the enemy's body displays a percentage likelihood of damage from your strike based on your skill with that particular weapon.
Once selected, your assault is played back using cinematic camera angles, often showcasing gory dismemberment in graphic, slow-motion detail.
VATS adds an important tactical element to the combat. You can cripple an opponent's limbs (handy for immobilising an opponent with a melee weapon, for example) target the weapon they are holding, or try killing them with a clean headshot. You can even use it to shoot grenades that are hurled at you.
Hines says Bethesda is currently balancing the VATS system so it is not too powerful.
At present, you can obviously try to cheat and run up to creatures and then use VATS to increase your chances of a successful strike, but they will do plenty of damage while you are charging towards them, which should be enough of a deterrent.
Hines believes VATS really adds to the game's dramatic tension.
"I've got enough ammo and health packs to keep myself alive, but in the game all that stuff is fairly hard to come by, so we really want to play up that idea like you're down to your last clip of ammo, you're low on health, you queue up some moves in VATS, and you're like: 'Please, God, let this guy die with this shot...'"
During focus testing sessions, most Fallout 3 players have used a combination of both real-time and VATS combat, keeping VATS for encounters with more difficult enemies.
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- DexX
- July 02, 2008
Interesting... how does this compare with Mass Effect?
- InstinctSage
- July 02, 2008
I've yet to see an RPG played in First Person Perspective that does skill rolls for hits and doesn't play like crap.
Then again, the last one I tried was Bloodlines. Hopefully someone's worked out how to make it work.
Note: Bloodlines wasn't a bad game, I just found the hit and miss nature of firearms due to their skill based nature very poor.
Double Note: While I really enjoyed Deus Ex's take on skill based firearms ability, I found it frustrating that you had to sneak up to within a few feet of an enemy and hold still for 5 seconds to guarantee a head shot. Impossible when there are 2 guards to pop quickly, even if they're chatting right next to one another. When you've chucked your skill points into 'stealth', you can't really afford to be bolstering weapons, at least not until later.
- Migwelion
- July 02, 2008
I just hope you can still target people in the eyes. Nothing says Fallout better than a well armed boss running into the corner blinded after one lucky shot, I'd love to see that in 3D.
- Awesome Wells
- July 02, 2008
The only thing I really need to hear from Bethesda to make this a must-buy is that they are ditching the AWFUL levelling system that very nearly ruined Oblivion.
- Anthony
- July 02, 2008
@InstinctSage on July 2, 2008 11:28 AM
Out of curiousity, would you say that it 'plays like crap' because it's a bad mechanic, or it just feels unresponsive because you're use to the swiftness and freedom of FPS aiming?
I didn't mind the Deus Ex's way of doing things, but then again I'm not a big fan of FPS', so I was thinking more from the "Adding points to sniping weapons actually makes a diffrence, yay for useful stats".
- Mr Ak
- July 02, 2008
meh, I'll miss those great event descriptions - "You shoot A in the eyes. A draws one last breath and weeps for his mother." (That's not a real one, it's been a few years.)
- Starr
- July 02, 2008
"A draws one last breath and weeps for his mother."
An apt description of the feelings of all those that did not win a PS3 for their Your Turn contributions!
- DexX
- July 02, 2008
In the realm of pen-and-paper roleplaying, Warhammer (medieval one, not SF one) had some hilarious critical hit descriptions. It's a great combat system - you don't die when you get to zero health, it just makes critical hits far more likely.
You have to be a fan of a system that asks you to roll a d12 for a clock-face direction and 2d6 for the distance in feet that the severed head flies...
- peter bayliss
- July 02, 2008
@ Mr AK
Actually that one sounds likes its from Liberty Crime Squad.
- InstinctSage
- July 02, 2008
@ Anthony
I personally think it's a bad game mechanic. Simply increasing the cone of fire serves to simulate inaccuracy in a similar way to scope sway on long range weapons. The difference is that there's no way for a player to combat the effect themselves. With scope sway you can make those really long shots if you're patient and work for it. With an arbitrary cone of fire, even one that reduces so long as you're standing still, maybe crouching, the player really has no recourse. You're forced to upgrade if you're ever going to use the weapon to any great degree.
With a system like erratic recoil you can do your best to deal with it and control it. You'll never be as effective as if you had the skill upgraded, though, and that's the point. In that way it's similar to scope sway, and it's just one way of adjusting the difficulty of using weapons in a way that doesn't make the gun near unusable. You can also make weapons deteriorate faster (If deterioration is an issue), or increase factors for jams and other critical failures through mishandling.
Having guns that are simply inaccurate is just frustrating. The sub machine gun in Deus Ex was almost hilarious if you didn't have at least a high skill.
- Mr Ak
- July 02, 2008
@ Peter Bayliss
Liberty crime squad - is that the old ASCII-graphics game? You could pick up people with dodgy pick-up and then turn them into revolutionaries?
Great game.
"this is the first date with the judge
do you
a)take them to the movies
b)buy them a cheap dinner
c)buy them an expensive dinner
d)say screw it and kidnap the bitch instead."
(bitch being used for both men and women)
- ManT
- July 02, 2008
@ InstinctSage
You do realise Deus Ex isn't a FPS right? It doesn't play like Doom and you aren't supposed to be good at everything.
You seem to come from the school of thought that all versions of a character need be uber at everything? Play Bioshock if you feel this way and steer clear of System Shock 2.
If you want to be good at something put points into it or just don't play these types of games that have a small amount of depth (something that is quite rare these days when everything is pitched at the casual gamer).
- Infinitum
- July 02, 2008
Couldn't agree more. Once you've upgraded your skill the exact same weapon is magically accurate. It really interferes with immersion (i.e. pisses me off) when mechanics like that are used. Similarly I'm disappointed when basic enemies on harder difficulty levels simply have more hit points. Make them more numerous, faster, more aggressive or more accurate with their weapons. A head shot should still kill a basic foot soldier no matter what.
I don't mind the idea of V.A.T.S. because it takes actual control of the shot away from you. The tactics in your use of action points and reliance on good use of your chosen skills is less FPS and more RPG*.
*term used loosely
- Lith
- July 02, 2008
I'm quite keen for Fallout, but aren't we still a good 3 or 4 months away from release? If so, please stop torturing me like this. It's cruel.
- peter bayliss
- July 02, 2008
@ Mr Ak
Yep, that's the one, though its not that old (2002). Still be worked on as an open source project too. I always loved when one of my guys went to court, only to get one of my sleeper judges, acquitted for murder again =)
Another great game made by those guys is WW1 Medic, would love to get into dwarf fortress, but don't have the time to learn its complexity =(
- InstinctSage
- July 02, 2008
@ ManT
Funny you should steer me clear of System Shock 2... Effects of increasing weapons skill:
-Access to better weapons (Pistol,shotgun, assault rifle for standard, for e.g.)
-Reduced Recoil
-Less/Slower weapon degradation.
I was actually going to reference SS2 as an example of a skill system that works well, but I snipped it from the comment so I didn't waffle too much.
I don't want a skill system that results in a player maxing out everything no matter what order they throw their points around. What I was saying was a skill system that just nerfs the player's input reduces the skill of the player, not the character.
- Falooza
- July 02, 2008
Posted by: Lith on July 2, 2008 2:13 PM
I've heard that release will be around September-October.
Jason is being very cruel :b
- Joka
- July 02, 2008
"You can play in third-person as well, but it will be very difficult."
Then why implement it?
From a personal view, I hated Morrowind because of not only the way combat played out, but the fact it was full-screen. The same reason I won't play Oblivion and now it looks like I won't be playing this.
I just don't see the point with RPGs myself, mainly because I'm a traditionalist.
- karl
- July 02, 2008
I've said it here before and I'll say it again; Dues Ex is one of my favourite games of all time. If fallout 3 is similar, I'll be in heaven! Haven't played anything like it since, and thats coming onto 8 years!!
Haven't been interested in Fallout whatsoever until right now i find myself very excited.
- Sam
- July 02, 2008
One rpg that seems to combine rpg and shooting element was Mass Effect. It looks like one but didn't play like one. I tried playing MassEffect like a shooter but didn't really enjoy it. I think all those dice rolling in the background just make the shooting element seems rather sub-standard and frustrating.
- InstinctSage
- July 03, 2008
I should probably point out that I loved Deus Ex to bits also and played through 3 or 4 times.
It's only in retrospect I can pick at its meagre faults like the cone of fire experience thing, and the difficulty scale resorting to stronger enemies + weaker you = hard difficulty.
Also, a really minor thing always got on my nerves. I used to love throwing gas grenades into a group of guards on patrol, then while they were all coughing and rubbing their eyes I'd duck out from around the corner and tranq dart them. Except, even from 20 metres away ducking out from a crate in the dark, it seemed like as soon as I hit one of them, they'd go "oof!" then forget they were in the middle of a gas cloud and spot me, firing a shot off right away before returning to coughing and spluttering. Far too many times it pegged me right in the chest or head, too.
- Shadowblade
- July 03, 2008
Seriously Jason, what's up with these Fallout Screenplays? Not that I mind, because I have been waiting *very* impatiently for this game! Especially considering the amount of hours Oblivion consumed + amount of hours Fallout consumed = I don't know what, but don't expect me to crawl out of home anytime soon!
So is there any definite release date for this one yet???
- jankons
- July 04, 2008
Are you actually comparing this game to mass effect??? you must be sick r u sick??? THIS GAME BEATS GTA4, MGS4, GearsOW, GodOW. This game beats everything. The only thing you can compare this with is Oblivion which is also made by bethesda.
- wtf man
- July 04, 2008
um I want to know do you to take turns attacking or do you just shoot till they find where you are hidding
- Lou
- July 06, 2008
All you Deus Ex fans!
Just in case you didn't know, Deus Ex 3 has been in developement for about a year now... And the next Thief installment is rumoured to to be in development too!
- Anthony
- July 07, 2008
Only problem with another Theif game is that Looking Glass studios is long dead and buried.
It may still turn out decent, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
- InstinctSage
- July 07, 2008
And neither of the creative heads behind Deus Ex is involved with the third installment of that series, either.
Still, it'll be interesting to see how they go, and if we'll even see them next year.
- anonymous
- July 10, 2008
It appears Fallout 3 has been refused classification.
Only kids play them right?
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Seeing the Milky Way Uluru
Uluru is without a doubt one of Australia's most recognizable landmarks. Set in the dusty orange outback and boasting a rich cultural history, it draws in millions of visitors every year.
By day, it is a haven of local heritage, where local Aboriginal tribes share their performances, art, and stories with visitors, and native wildlife frolics amongst the tufts of greenery in the sprawling landscape.
The scenery really is a sight to behold, and at night it becomes even more impressive.
As darkness falls, the clear blue Australian sky turns an inky black and the Milky Way appears in all its glory. Because Uluru is located so far away from any civilization and urban scenes, it promises an unrivalled star gazing opportunity like nowhere else in the country (and maybe even the world).
The huge rusty monolith sitting below the blur of stars and solar system is a memorable scene and one that you'll remember forever.
With no artificial light in the outback that can interfere with the night sky, you get to see the Milky Way in the clearest way possible. And, thanks to Uluru's location in the Southern hemisphere, you can also catch a glimpse of some of the area's sky objects that can be found in this part of the world, like the Magellanic clouds and the famous Southern Cross constellation.
The Milky Way
Here, where there is no light pollution, the Milky Way boasts enough power that you can see it even when the moon is shining at its brightest. And, what's more, the moonset looks just like the sunset because of the hazy blur of the Milky Way.
It is fascinating to see the centre of our galaxy sitting snug above one of the world's most prolific monuments. Once it has settled there, the Magellanic Clouds come out to play, which is why it takes on a hazy glow.
Luckily, the constellation is visible throughout the night, so you can marvel at its beauty for hours on end. And, because of the lack of light pollution, the clouds go unnoticed, giving you the perfect opportunity to appreciate how far away from civilization you are.
To end the experience, wait for the sun to rise over Uluru. The moment the landscape changes from inky black to vibrant pinks, oranges, and reds is a magical moment. It marks the start of a new day, and the chance to learn more about this special part of Australia.
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