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Ban the #Region
Just in case you didn't know, you don't need to use the #region designator any more to collapse code. When you use the #region indicator, you create a region for everyone you share your code with, and some people hate having regions in their files. I'm one of them.
If I'm looking at a code file that's long enough to require regions, I'd rather not look at it at all. Even "in the real world," files should contain a single class, classes should follow the single responsibility principle, and methods should be short. If your code doesn't look like that and you use regions to attempt to make your code remotely readable, that's sinful enough, but to force those regions onto your fellow developers is just downright morbid.
How do you get away from them you ask? Simple. You just highlight code that you want to group and hit CTRL + M, CTRL + H (or the alternative mouse longcut of going to Edit | Outlining | Hide Selection). The code collapses just like a regions, but here's the kicker – it's only hidden for you! The change is saved in your .suo solution file which is for you only (never check this into source control), and now you can go ahead and collapse what you will and leave your fellows free to work how they will.
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Hoya Variable ND Filter - 58mm
Variable ND (Neutral Density) Filters have been around now for well over a decade. When they originally came out we were super excited. The notion of buying just one ND filter that covers a wide range of FStops is of course brilliant. It is arguable that the image quality is diminished from a Hoya ProND Filter (which covers just one stop down of say ND32 (5 stops) or ND64 (6 stops) so please bear that in mind in your buying decision.
PLEASE NOTE. If you turn the Variable ND filter to the extremities, you can expect to get a cross effect. Back the filter off a bit and live with it as it is.
We are Hoya Aust resellers. Buying your Variable ND filter from us is a guaranteeing genuine Hoya product.
The Hoya Variable Neutral Density Filter uses two polarising layers to reduce light entering the lens, reducing between 1.5 and 9 stops as the filter is rotated. These are perfect people who love shooting wide apertures out in the sun, and you won't need to worry about taking numerous ND filters with you.
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I used this filter to take photo's of the solar eclipse that happened in Cairns, QLD, in November and they came up wonderful. While it's expensive even on sale it is better than buying multiple single filters that don't change. So while it's an expensive investment its worth every cent.
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Comikets and ComiCons continue to escalate the chance of you bumping into someone dressed like a slime from Dragon Quest gets bigger and bigger. And hey, if you see someone dressed in shiny armor with a huge-ass sword or a half-naked goddess with her pet camel, you might just want to take a photo.
But hold your horses, Leibovitz: before you start snapping away at a bunch of guys dressed like dragon balls, there's a code of conduct that you should adhere to. You wouldn't want to tick her off at all by being all rude with your photography now would you?
This is a list of rules suggested and supported by the cosplay community as a whole. That's not to say there aren't exceptions to the rules, but by following them you can ensure yourself a pleasant experience.
■ The following are the basics you should know before considering pointing a camera:
"You must take photos. No video!"
"Cosplayers aren't professional models so taking photos of them is a whole other kettle of fish."
They aren't being paid like Mickey at Disneyland, they civilians too, so treat it like you would taking someone's picture on the street.
"Usually you'll need a permit to take pictures."
Many events provide special permits that allow you to take photos, even if you're only using a mobile phone camera.
"During events some areas don't allow photos."
Areas where photos aren't allowed are usually marked off with signs, keep an eye open for them.
■ Okay, so you got your camera and your permit. You spot a transvestite street fighter and approach him/her for a photo. Remember:
"You need their permission to take their photo."
Remember, behind the Darth Nihilus mask they are just regular people, so ask for their photo like they were.
"If they're doing something or talking to someone, wait till they're finished."
They don't go to where you work and knock the d… nevermind.
"Remember that permit you need? Keep it attached to your camera at all times."
"If they say no, just let it be."
Sometimes they just aren't in the mood. Don't necessarily take it personally, unless you were being a dick.
■ Now, you got Chinese Mario with a machine gun to agree to a photo. What do you need to know?
"Don't take photos from behind."
You might get mistaken for some pervert trying to catch some underwear shots.
"They don't like to be bossed around or treated like a mannequin."
It's okay if you have a pose in mind, but keep it tasteful and ask politely.
"Don't be a time burglar."
They probably didn't come to the event to spend all day with you. Take too much time and other cosplayers or event staff may intervene on their behalf.
■ Finally you got the shot you wanted of assorted Final Fantasy characters together. Finished?
"If you want to post those photos online, make sure you get their permission."
Otherwise, you might get a call from a lawyer dressed as Majin Buu.
"If you think your photo's really good, why not give them a copy?"
What a nice way to say "thanks for your time?"
So there you go. If you followed these easy rules which basically amounts to treating them like people instead of your own personal playthings, then you'll have no problems – unless you were actually taking a photo of a Colonel Sanders statue. In that case you wasted your time.
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I picked this up and I'm excited!
Shadows Beneath by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette-Kowal, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler
I picked this up and I'm excited!
Shadows Beneath by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette-Kowal, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler
I'm still alive and writing!
The workshop which started in January has been a surprising amount of effort (In a good way!) and between that and my own writing efforts, I haven't been updating this blog as much as I'd like. I will miss it (and the folks in it) when it ends.
Thankfully I'm up at Stupid O' Clock this morning and the munchkin is fast asleep and I'm in a procrastinating mood (I should be working on either my outline or my assignment). It's a perfect time to write an update!
So what's going on?
Read on!
I like to blog about writing. I like to read about writing. In general, I like writing.
This isn't about writing.
Well, not directly.
It's about something writers have to do. Writers should read.
I've been pretty out of it because of work and various other things going on. Today I resolved to get back into the flow, and I see this (stolen from John Scalzi).
I'll post more later but right now I wanted to mark the passing of a master. Anne McCaffrey's Pern was the very first world I delved into when I was a child.
My parents, perhaps realizing I was a big reader, signed me up for the Science Fiction book club and I still remember the day they surprised me with the (to my child eyes) HUGE box of books! All Sci-fi and fantasy and all for me to read. Thus began a lifelong love affair with science fiction, reading and books that has led all the way to today where I want to write, own too many (yet not enough) books (readers will know what I mean).
In that box, one of the books (among MANY classics, I have no idea how my parents chose those books but their selection could not have been better) was Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern Omnibus edition and while my memory is a little sketchy, I believe it may have been the first book out of that box that I read (by virtue of being the biggest). I was instantly in love with Pern's dragons and the adventures of F'lar, F'nor and Lessa both against the threat of thread and other things. I never really continued the series but I've always had a soft spot for Pern and dragons since then.
RIP Ms McCaffrey and thank you for the great stories.
I'm overdue on re-reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I wanted to write a little update on everything.
Things are progressing apace. I'm almost done my second pass through Revenant. I'm hoping to get to some writing on that soon. I really want to be able to send it out this year.
Outside of editting, I was hit by a great idea for a short story that I'm calling "The Hunter". I've started working on that a bit. In my head, as I play with it, I'm enjoying the fact that it can work equally well as a fantasy or as science fiction. I might write both for giggles and bits.
The big news is that I've signed up for a Writer's Workshop at The Thomas More Institute here in town. It's a small group, led by published authors and it turns out I already have one of the class book assignments on my Kindle app (I don't know if they'll insist I buy a physical copy, we'll see). The price isn't too expensive and from the curriculum I think I will get a lot out of it.
The only thing not really working right now is that I'm not keeping up my word count. I'm still writing daily, but there's been more than a few 300 word days. This will change.
Reading wise, I've been rather voracious. I've gone through Southern Gods by John Horner Jacods, the Matt Richter novels by Tim Waggoner (just finished Dark War) and On Writing (which I start over and over and never finish, this time I finished it).
I'm not much for reviews, but for what it's worth, I highly recommend the Matt Richter novels (Nekropolis, Dead Streets and Dark War). They are light, well written and well paced and the setting is well thought out and interesting. Southern Gods was also very well written and I liked the idea of a story set in the post WWII south, but it was "sold" to me as an exploration of blues legends, kind of a delta blues fantasy/horror story which I thought would be neat. It turns out it really isn't like that and while it was still good, I was slightly disappointed and the ending scenes were a little too gory for my tastes.
Last night I hit the 40K mark (woohoo!) and I also finished reading "Full Share" from Nathan Lowell. What a great series! I highly recommend it.
Now I'm a bit at a loss as to what I want to read next. I have a lengthy pile of new books as well as old favorites on deck (both on my Kindle app and in paperback). I'm just wondering what's more conducive to writing? Is it better to re-read an old favorite that inspired you to write, a classic that dazzles with brilliant prose or would it be better to take a chance on something you haven't read before?
What do you guys out there think?
Some of what's on the "to read" pile below.


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New Sony software upgrade, including Android 4.4; KitKat, rolls for Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR and Xperia Tablet Z
It has been a while coming (not helped by a few software issues along the way that delayed its roll out) but KitKat is now coming to most of the Xperia smartphones released in 2013 not already updated.
But if you can't wait for the OTA update, pop along to Xda-developers where you can already down an unbranded FTF (10.5.A.0.230) for the Xperia Z (C6603) right away.
PC and Mac users can then flash the firmware in a matter of minutes using Flashtool. (Remember to de-select Wipe data if you want to keep all your existing data!)
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1 Timothy 1:1-20 (1 Timothy 1:1-20)Mike Bucher, 09/17/2017
Part of the Exposition of 1 Timothy series, preached at a Sunday Morning service.
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1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; 2Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. 3As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 4Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. 5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 6From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 7Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. 8But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. 12And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; 13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 15This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. 16Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. 17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. 18This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; 19Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: 20Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. (KJV)


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- Metal works
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Tosa cutlery Tosa uchihamono
Blades forged by traditional artisans
The quality of years of experience
What is Tosa cutlery ?
Tosa Uchihamono are hammer-forged blades produced in an area covering the eastern to central part of Kochi Prefecture, including Ino Town and the cities of Kami, Nankoku, Tosa, and Susaki. Kochi Prefecture was once known as Tosa Province, giving rise to the name of Tosa Uchihamono, but only blades made by following the traditional process can claim to be authentic Tosa Uchihamono.
They are distinguished by free-forging in which shapes are formed by much painstaking hammering and flattening of cherry-red metal. These artisans practicing free-forging can make any size or shape of blade; in essence, they are bespoke blade makers capable of producing a wide variety of bladed-articles in small production runs. As they may be required to make any item ranging from small kitchen knives to full-size forestry saws, artisans spend many years developing their skills. In addition, originally Tosa Uchihamono evolved from practical tools used in forestry and agriculture; therefore, they are renowned for not only their sharpness, but also durability and easy care. The main product range includes kitchen knives, sickles, hatchets, axes, and hoes.
Kochi Prefecture, once Tosa Province, is blessed with an abundance of forests and good quality wood, and from olden times, the region has made the hammer-forged blades needed for tree felling. In 1306, the late Kamakura period, a group of artisans practicing the sword-making skills of Gorozaemon Yoshimitsu moved to Tosa from Yamato Province (present Nara Prefecture) and flourished, particularly in the Warring States period (1467-1568) when they supplied weapons and swords. Over time, the newly introduced sword-making techniques spread to those artisans in the province already making hammer-forged blades for agriculture and forestry; historical documents of 1590 record 399 blacksmiths in Tosa Province. But the full-scale development of Tosa Uchihamono only started in 1621, the early Edo period, when the Tosa domain experiencing economic hardship embarked on the development of new rice fields and the practical use of its forest resources; this revival of the local economy created an increased demand for hammer-forged blades in agriculture and forestry leading to a dramatic improvement of production volume and the quality of blades. The patient trial and error of local blacksmiths at that time gave birth to the Tosa Uchihamono techniques still used today. This tradition, continued from the Edo period, has been passed down through the generations until the present day where artisans are still continuing to develop their craft.
General Production Process
- 1. Splitting Charcoal
Charcoal is split to an appropriate size, but equally important is to ensure the charcoal pieces are of a uniform size to allow accurate control of the fire by feeding air from a bellows to a hokubo furnace; the aim is to maintain a temperature high enough to work steel and iron. It is said to master the skill of splitting charcoal takes three years.
- 2. Preparing Steel and Iron
Tosa Uchihamono is distinguished by a metal inserting process. Firstly, a length of steel for the blade edge is prepared and then a long groove is made along the thin edge of an iron strip and the steel strip is inserted into the groove and lightly hammered. Boric acid is applied as an adhesive and the iron with steel is put into the fire.
- 3. Forge Welding
After heating in the hokubo furnace, it is hammered to weld the two metals together. Sandwiching hard steel between soft iron prevents the steel from breaking. Recently, some production centers use a ready-made combination of steel and iron.
- 4. Forging and Shaping
The welded blade is heated until red-hot and placed on a kanadoko (anvil), where the blade is beaten into shape by using a belt hammer. Kanadoko is a stand used for hammering, and the belt hammer is a belt-type high-speed rotary machine hammer developed in the early years of the Showa period (1926-1989), which has significantly helped increase production volume. After belt-hammering, the shapes of the detailed parts are adjusted with a traditional hammer. This style of hammer work is known as "free-forging" and requires much experience and skill.
- 5. Rough Grinding
The forged blade is ground using a high-speed rotary grinder to create a well-balanced shape.
- 6. Mud Coating
The blade is evenly coated with mud to ensure good quenching.
- 7. Quenching and Tempering
Quenching is an important task that determines the hardness of the blade. After heating the blade in the hardening furnace at 770 to 800°C, it is quenched and hardened by quickly plunging into water.
A hard blade is brittle and will snap; the next process, tempering, imparts durability and toughness to the metal. In a low-temperature tempering furnace at about 170°C and using heated fuel oil, time is taken to slowly bring the blade to heat. It is then removed and allowed to naturally cool.
- 8. Removing Distortion
Any distortion resulting from the quenching and tempering is removed by painstaking hammering of the face and back of the blade.
- 9. Blade Edging and Finishing
Finally, the blade is ground to a sharp edge. It is carefully taken from rough and semi-finish down to fine-grinding.
Generally in the blade-making industry, division of labor is becoming more common; in contrast, Tosa Uchihamono are made by one artisan following a time-honored process, resulting in a greater appreciation of an article made by an artisan using traditional skills.
Where to Buy & More Information
Kochi Jibasan Center
ClosedSaturdays, Sundays, national holidays, around the New Year
Business Hours9am to 5pm
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This post was originally published on August 27, 2009. It was substantially revised and reposted on September 1, 2014.
Ashley and Ashton have been wildly popular in recent decades. Now another Ash- name seems poised for popularity.
Thanks to Photoquilty for suggesting Asher as our Baby Name of the Day.
Ashley, Ashton, and Asher share a syllable, but they aren't related. The first two are Old English place names-turned-surnames.
Asher has his roots in the Old Testament.
He's one of Jacob's dozen sons, and founder of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Asher has a long history of use among Jewish families.
The meaning of his name is so appealing. It comes from the Hebrew osier – happiness. He's an upbeat name for a child, a brother for Felix.
The Tribe of Asher was fortunate, too – according to some accounts, the land they were assigned was fertile and prosperous. It's symbol in the artwork above is the olive tree – top left. Archeologists haven't quite pinned down where the Asherites settled, but a reference to Aseru on an Egyptian monument hints at some possibilities.
There are other possible origins for the name – Ashur, the Father of the Gods in Assyrian lore, or maybe Asherah, an ancient Semitic mother goddess.
Asher was one of many Old Testament names that caught on during the Protestant Reformation, and notable men have worn it in American history since early days:
- Asher Levy and two dozen Jewish settlers came to New Amsterdam from Brazil back in 1654.
- Early nineteenth century architect Asher Benjamin helped define the look of New England.
- Painter Asher Durand was a close friend of Thomas Cole – considered the founder of the nineteenth century Hudson River School – and also an early leader in the movement.
- Nineteenth century politician Asher Robbins served in the US Senate from Rhode Island.
Much like the mega-popular Jacob, the name remained in use in Jewish circles. Asher Ginsberg – better known by his penname Ahad Ha'am – wrote widely in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of the need for a Jewish home in Palestine.
In 1972, Chaim Potok penned My Name is Asher Lev, about the struggles of an artistic boy born into a Hassidic Jewish family in 1940s Brooklyn. Potok himself is said to have identified strongly with Asher.
Asher is worn as a middle name by 80s Brat Packer actor Judd Nelson and legendary playwright Arthur Miller.
From 1880 through the 1990s, Asher occasionally appeared in the US Top 1000 and was in sparing use.
With our affection for A names, and rising interest in ends-with-r possibilities for sons, Asher has gone mainstream in recent years. By 2008, Asher ranked #206, and in 2013, he was poised just outside the Top 1000 at #104.
He's at home with Jacob and Noah, but Asher has another source of appeal – Lois Lowry's 1993 novel The Giver.
In The Giver's dystopian world, memory and individuality are nearly erased. It's been widely read ever since, and an August 2014 big screen adaptation could boost several of the name – Jonas, Rosemary, Fiona, and Asher – a friend of Jonas.
It could be just enough to take Asher from outside the Top 100 to much higher. Who knows? With so many Biblical boys holding the #1 spot in recent years, Asher could definitely be one to watch.
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Even though a great variety of materials are used for countertops for kitchens, bathrooms or journal tables, marble is often considered as the most elegant classic version. A marble countertop not only has a beautiful appearance, but in many respects it is an excellent hard material which when properly cared is sure to serve you not for years but even for decades. The understanding of advantages along with disadvantages of the material is undoubtedly important for decision taking on buying and installation. Despite of its high density, marble is rather soft and vulnerable to colouring and scratching. On the other hand, being duly used and cared a marble countertop will serve for many years in good conditions and can be handed down to future generations.
In spite of the fact that kitchen countertops of artificial stone and granite at present time are enjoing their popularity, a marble countertop still has been considered as peak of luxury.
When it comes to select one or another material for a countertop, then granite and marble are at the top of the list, although the real difference between them lies in their appearance. The price of such countertops depends to a large extent on the place of stone origin and quality of its working. Such a choice of one or another countertop depends also on personal preferences and an interior. Each stone has a porous structure, therefore usually they are polished and covered with special protective means to prevent stains on the surface. This is especially important in a kitchen space where some colouring liquides such as juice or wine can most probably get onto the stone plate.
The advantages of marble countertops
- Beauty without any doubt is the main advantage of marble. Hardly something else can be compared with it. A marble countertop, whether it is a dining table, coffee table or a working surface in the kitchen, will perfectly well complete practically any interior.
- Marble features the high strength, especially when duly cared. With proper care it can for sure outlast any other item of furniture in your home.
- Marble countertops really will never go out of fashion. Respectively, such popularity enables to avoid some additional expences, as there is no necessity to purchase a new countertop. At the very outside you can only change wooden fronts in your kitchen or the table base.
- Marble countertops are available in a lot of beautiful shades. Besides, the tables with such countertops are produced in a great variety of styles, that is in traditional, antique, modern and ultra-modern; all this helps easily find an ideal version for your home.
- Not properly cared countertops can always be restored with the help of professional masters.


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ABC Music Golden Guitar 2019 Winners
The Australian music industry celebrated the 47
With the release of their sophomore album, Yearlings, sophisticated indie/pop outfit Dead Letter Chorus have marked a compelling stage in their evolution. On a sonic journey they'll take you, via a sound honed over three releases now, to a musical space they've made their own. It's a space they've been aiming for since their inception in 2007 and a space they may soon leave.
Yearlings is a raw song cycle detailing the highs and lows of a love affair, exploring familiar territory with profound insight. New love, contentment, rot, ruin, hope and all of their satellite emotions delicately weave and wind throughout this collection of sublime vignettes.
Musically complex yet approachable, Yearlings is as intricately-honed as it is compelling. Sweeping, cohesive and eloquent, the album completes the picture that singles 'Covered By Snow', 'Run Wild' and 'Yellow House' slyly hinted at but saved as a surprise.
Recorded between May 2010 and January this year with Canadian producer Les Cooper, Yearlings is indeed the mark of a band moving forward. The result is as Cameron Potts says; Yearlings is succinct, it's tight and more accurate, a band evolving. "With this album we really wanted to expose the core elements of the songs, the bare melodies that hold a song together," Potts expands. "At times we've fleshed them out with alternate melodies or polyphonic passages, other times we've left them bare. We've also begun to embrace technology with a wider scope whilst trying to create sounds in a different way. For instance, some of the electric guitars were recorded with a microphone on the actual guitar, in essence picking up the 'acoustic' sound of the electric guitar."
Underpinned for the most part by the sublime vocal harmonising of Cameron Potts and Gabby Huber, Yearlings stretches luxuriously from the slow-build of opener, 'Covered By Snow', which evokes comparison to Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion set to a heart-thumping beat, by way of the lusciously evocative 'All Mine', through to the sparse and tender 'Gently Weeping', showcasing the band's more introspective side. Added to this is the bouncy pop of 'Run Wild', the almost orchestral balladering of 'I Belong With You' and the challenging and surprisingly epic, 'The Poet and the Thief'. This is a record which sees Dead Letter Chorus nail it dead on.
And so, with Yearlings safely under their collective belt, not to mention a burgeoning fanbase both here and in Canada courtesy of smart touring and various festival appearances, Dead Letter Chorus are poised to move even further ahead of the curve.
Yearlings will be released on Friday the 26th of August through ABC Music and Universal Music.
The Australian music industry celebrated the 47
Justine Clarke has won the award for Best Children's Album at the 2018 ARIA Awards, held at The Star on Wednesday, November 28.
At a ceremony on Tuesday 10 October at the Art Gallery of NSW, ABC Classics & Jazz were announced winners of the 2017 ARIA Awards for Best Classical, Best Jazz, Best Original Soundtrack and Bes
When Erin Helyard came to ABC Classics to record his new solo harpsichord album, we immediately took to Australian harpsichord maker Carey Beebe to find the perfect instrument for the task.
Mojo Juju Celebrates the Release of Pulsing New Single
'Think Twice' with a String of Live Dates through August/September
ONE TO WATCH! CAITLYN SHADBOLT TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM 'SONGS ON MY SLEEVE' OUT MAY 26th
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Most of us would readily agree that there isn't anything funny about dying but the fact of the matter is, there have been many funny people who have died. Some of them go to their grave kicking and screaming but others decide to give the world a little going away present. They do so on their tombstone and when they do it, they often do it in style.
A tombstone is a memorial for those who have died and it is something that is truly for the living. If you have ever spent time going through an old graveyard and looking at some of the tombstones, you will see that many of them have been etched in history and unfortunately, they may have been long forgotten. That isn't the case with these tombstones and through these 30 brilliant monuments, you will see that humor is alive and living, even though those that it represents are not.
Humor is something that many of us appreciate and in the case of these tombstones, it is also something that is timeless. The epitaphs that are on the stones show that a sense of humor really lives forever. In fact, as you go down through these images, it might just spark a little something in you and you may be interested in leaving something to future generations that will help to put a smile on their face in a little place in the world that often is the source of such sadness.
1. Gay veteran
2. Please step aside
3. Imagine seeing this
4. Dream big
5. Life is funny
6. Interesting
7. In case you've ever wondered
8. A fudge recipe
9. How unusual
10. Parking at a premium
11. I miss this guy
12. At least he's polite
13. Strongman
14. A final funny
15. Finally getting some sleep
16. It's all about the wording
17. No one asked me
18. The cat lady
19. Now they know
20. Poetic
21. She loved the phone
22. Funny butt
23. Call it like you see it
24. They found her cookie recipe
25. Burger and fries
26. He had his own language
27. Aint that life
28. Interesting thought
29. Let 'er rip
30. Whatever
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When I think about my favorite folks in the emerging church conversation, one of them is certainly Tony Jones, one of the movement's founders. It was Tony's book The New Christians that first introduced me to the idea of church as a wiki, which has been a transformational notion for me. So I was excited to download his latest book, The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement, which is (gasp!) actually a digitally published version of his doctoral dissertation. It's certainly his most academic book yet, but people who are interested in the maturation of Emergent should read it. (And all of us should of course congratulate Doctah Jones on his newly minted Princeton PhD.)
Because Tony is such an innovative thinker, it's going to take two days to post our conversation. I've divided it into today's post, which deals with the content and argument of this latest book. Then tomorrow's interview will feature Tony talking about the decision to self-publish and the learning curve of getting his book ready for prime time on the Kindle, the Nook, etc. He's a real maverick when it comes to the digital future, and has thought carefully about where publishing is and where it's going. –JKR
What do you mean by "The Church is Flat"?
The title is a bit of wishful thinking. It's a predictive statement, rather than a descriptive statement. The dissertation itself was titled something like the subtitle is, about the relational ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement (ECM).
I'm kind of hyperbolizing what the Emerging Church is up to. I'm also hoping that the church in general will flatten its structure in coming days, that it will become more and more egalitarian and less hierarchical. The core of my message in this book is similar to what I've been speaking and writing about for a few years now, which is that I want people to lay claim to the hermeneutical authority that they've been given by God. I think that laypeople tend to be quick to abdicate that and clergy are quick to pick it up and take it. That's a major problem in the church.
What's your 50-word description of the book when you meet new people at Minnesota potlucks?
My elevator pitch is that the ECM has been innovating some radical ecclesial practices in the last ten years, but the movement is not theologically sophisticated enough. Jürgen Moltmann has been writing about radical ecclesial communities for the last forty years, but his ecclesiology has not been grounded enough in real, actual communities of faith. My book is about bringing those two things together so they can greet one another with a holy kiss.
What did you want to add to the literature on Emergent?
I wanted to add a book from someone who is a participant observer, to write a book that is honest about the shortcomings of the movement, and a book that would lend some academic credibility to the movement.
What do you identify as the shortcomings of the ECM?
In chapters 4 and 5, that's where I land the plane. The reader has suffered through the literature review and the definition of terms in those early chapters. Later in the book, I argue that the ECM has done some cool stuff ecclesially, but that's been basically these leaders intuiting their way into the practices. The practices didn't come out of robust theological reflection, and what worries me is that if they lack a sophisticated theological framework, they will come and go. I want to provoke other leaders in the movement to do more theological background work, the deep work that one needs to do. For instance, late in the book, I point out that a thoroughgoing trait across the movement is the lack of any kind of sacred/secular divide – the traditional view that there is sacred place and secular space, or sacred practices and secular practices. I think this has to do with the theology of panentheism, which Moltmann as well as others have developed – the idea that there is no aspect of creation that is lacking in God.
How did you find the eight Emerging Churches that you profile in the book?
I found them through my network of people I knew who were part of the movement. My methodology in that regard was not super-scientific, but it was somewhat scientific. I ended up not writing about two of the churches, because as time passed I felt they ultimately had passed out of identifying themselves as Emergent. So I didn't really go 8 for 8.
As one of the founders and leaders of the Emergent movement, how did you navigate the insider/outsider status of studying this topic as an academic?
I tried to be deliberate in the way that I talked to people when I was at the churches. There are certain ways, when you are doing phenomenological research in the social sciences, to bracket out your own biases and presuppositions. So I was pretty careful. Some people even knew who I was, and I just had to make it clear that I could handle whatever they said, that I didn't have a vested interest in the success or failure of their churches. I found people in the movement to be extremely open with me, so I didn't have to do any apologizing for who I was.


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AltCom starts tomorrow. What is AltCom again? A Q&A with the fest's founder
AltCom, the Alternative Comedy Festival, begins tomorrow, with two shows this weekend at the Somerville Theatre just outside of Boston. Earlier this week, I exchanged notes with headliner Emo Philips about the fest. Now it's time to check in with the festival's founder/organizer, Brian Joyce, to find out what this is all about, exactly. I saw Joyce last weekend at The Comedy Studio in Cambridge, but our informal chat and the environment (Celtics and Red Sox games on the tube competing with dancers and drinkers for our attention) proved unconducive for typing on a computer. An online Q&A worked much better. And here it is! Actually, before we begin, know that Brian Joyce also performs as a stand-up, has worked over in Ireland where they like his heritage, and has worked here in the States (I saw him open for Doug Stanhope two years ago). OK. Ready? Continue reading… 1) You said Davis Square is really the only place you could imagine holding your festival? Why is that? I was looking for a small, centralized area where no event like this had existed before. An area with lots of energy, good bars and cafes, a tight-knit community of locals, and most importantly, several venues that are suitable for stand-up comedy. It's these things that lend the "festival" atmosphere to the event. Davis Square is perfect because it has all...Read More


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Busy week ahead. Of all things: I'm headed back to Alaska for #ArcticCouncil meeting. (Second trip in as many weeks.) I am going to experiment with multiple topic col, audio post #fairbanksfour #nativevote16
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Take a look at this story that speculates about Digg's plans in relation to the recent bannings. I submitted it to Digg and was tracking it on biggboard.brainnovate.com:
My Story Submission 2 Minutes Later is gone:
I had been watching the story (highlighted in yellow) rise for hours until it starting placing at the top of the Tech Industry and Technology categories' Hot and Most Dugg when suddenly the story dropped off completely. I checked the Digg site to make sure it wasn't just an issue with DiggBoard (great tool by the way) but it had lost all popularity.
Did I just get a visit from the Digg Bury Brigade?


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React is a front-end library developed by Facebook. It is used for handling the view layer for web and mobile apps. ReactJS allows us to create reusable UI components. It is currently one of the most popular JavaScript libraries and has a strong foundation and large community behind it.
This online training will help JavaScript developers who look ahead to deal with ReactJS for the first time. We will try to introduce every concept by showing simple code examples that can be easily understood. After finishing all the chapters, you will feel confident working with ReactJS. As a bonus we will introduce additional elements that work well with ReactJS to help you learn the best practices and follow the modern JavaScript trends.
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iFyber provides our clients relevant experimental models and methods to test their products. We have a suite of methods for specifically understanding both planktonic (free floating) bacteria and bacteria organized into biofilms (complex microbial communities where microbes exist in a protective matrix that attaches to living and non-living surfaces.)
We focus on determining efficacy of new technologies (such as antibiotics, biocides, nanomaterials, coated medical devices, or coated natural tissue matrices) by providing a range of assays that can be tailored to the application providing relevant data for our clients.
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Sunglo Home Health Services patients were affected by the recent breach as laptop containing sensitive data was stolen from the Harlingen, Texas-based facility. According to the reports, the burglar broke into a van in the Sunglo parking lot and drove away after filling the vehicle with various tools and gear.
It happened that he returned and broke into the Sunglo building by breaking a window with a fire extinguisher and stole computer that held patients' Social Security numbers and personal information, including PHI.
The numbers of affected patients are not known which also include elderly and disabled persons. Sunglo drives patients across the Valley in the vans, which are kept in a parking lot at the Harlingen corporate office.
"We're just worried about the safety of the patients themselves because of the information. We had to contact local police to see what we could do," Means told.
The potential suspect is behind the bar. Harlingen police arrested Matthew de la Cruz based on surveillance camera footage. The security aspect of the laptop was not known including the status of encryption.
"It leaves you uneasy, just something that was there that you can't recover, it's an uneasy feeling," Means told Action 4. "We don't really want this to happen again."
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n International Journal for Religious Freedom - Dissident for Life : Alexander Ogorodnikov and the struggle for religious freedom in Russia, Koenraad De Wolf : book review
In the preface to the book, a friend of the Russian human rights activist Alexander Ogorodnikov Lord David Alton says that the life story of this man is a testimony of his exceptional courage and self-sacrifice, and that it is our responsibility to share it with all the future generations. The author of the book looked at that task as his mission. He wrote a truly heroic saga about a man who not only fought the Soviet regime but also defended other people.
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BitShares has an advanced referral program built directly into its software. Financial networks derive their value primarily from their network effect: more people on the same network increases the value of that network for everyone. BitShares capitalizes on this in a fully transparent and automated way, by rewarding those who refer new users for membership.
Promoting Infrastructure Development
The BitShares Referral Program is designed to promote infrastructure development. Decentralized financial networks depend upon their business partners to build an ecosystem of businesses, such as: exchanges, merchant services, hosted wallets, lightweight wallets and block explorers. With the BitShares referral program, merchants can now earn more by advertising their support for the BitShares platform. While other platforms primarily promise lower fees, BitShares offers merchants an ongoing revenue stream.
Free market competition results in many different hosted wallet providers competing to acquire new users. Each of these providers has a financial incentive to advertise their wallets by traditional means, which in turn increases the network effect for the BitShares ecosystem.
Background - PayPal's Referral System
Bootstrapping a new financial network is very hard, and often becomes a chicken-and-egg problem. It is difficult to attract new users, because new users will only join if other users are already members.
To overcome this problem, we looked at how companies like PayPal reached critical mass.
PayPal's big challenge was to get new customers. They tried advertising. It was too expensive. They tried Business Development (BD) deals with big banks. Bureaucratic hilarity ensued. The PayPal team reached an important conclusion: BD didn't work. They needed organic, viral growth. They needed to give people money.
So that's what they did. New customers got $10 for signing up, and existing ones got $10 for referrals. Growth went exponential, and PayPal wound up paying $20 for each new customer. It felt like things were working and not working at the same time; 7 to 10% daily growth and 100 million users was good. No revenues and an exponentially growing cost structure were not. Things felt a little unstable. PayPal needed buzz so it could raise more capital and continue on.
Giving people money is both expensive and potentially unsustainable, but it works.
Cost of Customer Acquisition vs Lifetime Value of Customer
BitShares recognizes that a sustainable system must be able to cover all operating expenses from cash flow. In the article "Startup Killer: The Cost of Customer Acquisition", David Skok shared the lessons he learned after watching many failed startups.
However, after closely watching several hundred startups that have failed, I observed that a very large number of these had solved the product/market fit problem, but still failed because they had not found a way to acquire customers at a low enough cost.
A well-balanced business model must have a cost of user acquisition that is much lower than its ability to monetize its customers.
In the case of BitShares, this means setting transaction fees that are high enough to cover all costs, including the cost of customer acquisition, while still being low enough to compete against real competitors. Most cryptocurrency networks barely charge enough in transaction fees to cover the cost of running the network. They attempt to attract users with low fees. While low fees are important, undervaluing the service provided is counterproductive. For this reason, BitShares charges a price that is much higher than competing cryptocurrencies but much lower than traditional exchanges and payment networks like Dwolla or PayPal.
To ensure the cost of customer acquisition is sustainable, the BitShares referral system is designed to always pay out a percentage of actual profits. BitShares allows the users to draw their own conclusions about the Life Time Value (LTV) of each customer they refer, after educating them about the LTV of customers for similar businesses. We believe that the BitShares network can offer each referrer an average value of $80 per member they sign up, or $40 if they go through an affiliate. Realizing this value over time is possible based on the actual usage of the customers. Even if a customer thinks we are overestimating by a factor of 4, BitShares still offers a larger incentive than PayPal did.
BitShares is aim is viral growth, with game-changing, industry-leading incentives.


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San Pedro celebrates 8th Edition of the Belize International Film Festival
Monday, July 15th, 2013
It was a night of stars indeed, as the 8th Edition of the Belize International Film Festival (BIFF) came to San Pedro Town on Saturday July 13th for the screening of Cuban musical, Hopelessly Together. Since its inception in 2005, the BIFF has been growing in size and popularity and is a well-attended event throughout the country. The carpet was rolled out at Paradise Theater as many islanders and visitors alike made their way to enjoy the heart felt film directed by Jorge Sánchez. It was an exquisite take on love, racism, and double standards. The crowd enjoyed the film to the end, laughing at the comedic styles and enjoying the great musical numbers. "Irremediablemente Juntos – "Hopelessly Together," is no doubt a film you wouldn't afford to miss," said Horacio Guerrero, Festival Coordinator. "It was an entertaining film that bluntly sheds light to universal taboo issues that are faced by many societies today and even more so in small countries like ours."
The night was still young after the screening, so it was time for the grand Masquerade Party. Masked party lovers flocked to Caprice Bar and Grill where DJ Chabo rocked the house with the latest in party music. Wait staff circulated delicious appetizers, for those in attendance. Guests flaunted their gorgeous masks on the dance floor. Posed for photos and enjoyed a fabulous evening of fun.
This year BIFF showcased 54 submissions from all over the world, these submissions included 10 Feature Length Narrative, 6 Feature Length Documentary, 14 Short Narrative, 9 Short Documentary, and 15 Music Video. Among the submissions was a documentary video short called "Roots in the Sea" produced by Michael Desabrias that was a tribute to the life of Lionel "Chocolate" Heredia and his fight to protect the magnificent manatees. Other Belizean films included Maroons: Africans on the Move, Jumbie in the Juke Box, Belize Turtle Watch Project, and Jurassic Attack.
BIFF strives to bring together filmmakers and writers from throughout the world, not only to present the Belizean audience with fresh and new films and features but also to help promote and expose Belizean films and aspiring filmmakers here in the country to a wider audience. BIFF ended on Monday, July 15th with the award and closing ceremony at the Belize House of Culture.
Festival Coordinators thank all sponsors and the public who made the BIFF a success.
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Belle Époque has represented the brilliant lifestyle in the great European capitals, art, wellness and the revolution of female beauty with the abandonment of rigid styles in favor of a fashion made of more fluid lines and lighter silhouettes. The story of the Maison CHD, Cerella Hair Design, is the story of a family dedicated to the beauty of women for three generations. Among the many awards received, the most important are the 1972 Champion du Monde at the Compétition Mondial des Coiffure de Paris, the admission to the International Coiffure pour Dames and the Haute Coiffure Française. Giuseppe and Ciro Cerella are the soul of CHD, two brothers with the obsession for female beauty and aesthetics.
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If your into anime and manga, and even cosplay, then you probably have tons of homemade wigs laying around.
Check out this step-by-step video tutorial on how to make a wig stand for them all! This is totally easy and inexpensive! So, cosplay in style, or at least keep all of your cosplay wigs looking good on stands.


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Are you looking for a new challenge to do to support charities?
Age UK Lancashire is inviting people to join its 25-mile canoe challenge along the Lancaster canal, to help raise much needed funds for the charity.
Participants will begin the challenge in Preston and make their way north along the Lancaster canal, completing the 25 mile course in Lancaster.
The event takes place on Saturday, March 30.
People wishing to sign up to the event are encouraged to do so as soon as possible due the limited spaces available. The canoes seat two people. You will require a minimum of two people in your team and teams of more than two are accepted.
There is a free training session on Saturday, March 16, where we will help people to get the hang of it ready for challenge day.
The event is free to enter and all equipment is provided. Each participant is asked to raise a minimum of £125 per person for the charity.
All of the money raised stays in Lancashire and goes directly towards helping the charity provide support and services to older people across the county.
For full details of the event and a registration form can be found in the fund-raising section of their website www.ageuklancs.org.uk or by contacting David Ward on 01257 444410 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Meanwhile, children's charity the NSPCC is offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to trek through the Transylvanian Alps with I'm a Celebrity winner Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty, who hails from Blackburn.
Over the course of five days Team NSPCC, led by Foggy, will trek through forests and alpine meadows, up to the rugged rocky peaks of the Carpathian mountains.
Foggy said: "This is my fourth trek for NSPCC, and I'm really looking forward to taking on this new challenge.
"In the past I've had an amazing time with my team mates, and I know there's nothing better than settling down to camp at night knowing how much you've achieved that day.
"It's not just the miles you trek either, it's knowing that every step you take is helping a child live a better, safer, happier life."
There are some places left, but these are going quickly.
Anyone signing up throughout January can receive 10 per cent off their registration fee by using the code BELIEVE2019


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Time's Barren, Stormy Flow
Matthew Arnold
In this fair stranger's eyes of grey
Thine eyes, my love, I see.
I shudder: for the passing day
Had borne me far from thee.
This is the curse of life: that not
A nobler calmer train
Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot
Our passions from our brain;
But each day brings its petty dust
Our soon-chok'd souls to fill,
And we forget because we must,
And not because we will.
I struggle towards the light; and ye,
Once-long'd-for storms of love!
If with the light ye cannot be,
I bear that ye remove.
I struggle towards the light; but oh,
While yet the night is chill,
Upon Time's barren, stormy flow,
Stay with me, Marguerite, still!
Dead to Hopes of Future Joy
The River
Matthew Arnold
Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat
Under the rustling poplars' shade;
Silent the swans beside us float
None speaks, none heeds—ah, turn thy head.
Let those arch eyes now softly shine,
That mocking mouth grow sweetly bland:
Ah, let them rest, those eyes, on mine;
On mine let rest that lovely hand.
My pent-up tears oppress my brain,
My heart is swoln with love unsaid:
Ah, let me weep, and tell my pain,
And on thy shoulder rest my head.
Before I die, before the soul,
Which now is mine, must re-attain
Immunity from my control,
And wander round the world again:
Before this teas'd o'erlabour'd heart
For ever leaves its vain employ,
Dead to its deep habitual smart,
And dead to hopes of future joy.
A Summer's Night
A Summer's Night
Matthew Arnold
In the deserted, moon-blanched street,
How lonely rings the echo of my feet!
Those windows, which I gaze at, frown,
Silent and white, unopening down,
Repellent as the world,–but see,
A break between the housetops shows
The moon! and lost behind her, fading dim
Into the dewy dark obscurity
Down at the far horizon's rim,
Doth a whole tract of heaven disclose!
And to my mind the thought
Is on a sudden brought
Of a past night, and a far different scene:
Headlands stood out into the moonlit deep
As clearly as at noon;
The spring-tide's brimming flow
Heaved dazzlingly between;
Houses, with long wide sweep,
Girdled the glistening bay;
Behind, through the soft air,
The blue haze-cradled mountains spread away.
That night was far more fair–
But the same restless pacings to and fro,
And the same vainly throbbing heart was there,
And the same bright, calm moon.
And the calm moonlight seems to say:–
Hast thou then still the old unquiet breast,
Which neither deadens into rest,
Nor ever feels the fiery glow
That whirls the spirit from itself away,
But fluctuates to and fro,
Never by passion quite possessed
And never quite benumbed by the world's sway?–
And I, I know not if to pray
Still to be what I am, or yield, and be
Like all the other men I see.
For most men in a brazen prison live,
Where, in the sun's hot eye,
With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly
Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give,
Dreaming of naught beyond their prison wall.
And as, year after year,
Fresh products of their barren labor fall
From their tired hands, and rest
Never yet comes more near,
Gloom settles slowly down over their breast.
And while they try to stem
The waves of mournful thought by which they are prest,
Death in their prison reaches them,
Unfreed, having seen nothing, still unblest
And the rest, a few,
Escape their prison and depart
On the wide ocean of life anew.
There the freed prisoner, where'er his heart
Listeth will sail;
Nor doth he know how there prevail,
Despotic on that sea.
Trade-winds which cross it from eternity:
Awhile he holds some false way, undebarred
By thwarting signs, and braves
The freshening wind and blackening waves.
And then the tempest strikes him; and between
The lightning bursts is seen
Only a driving wreck,
And the pale master on his spar-strewn deck
With anguished face and flying hair
Grasping the rudder hard,
Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false, impossible shore.
And sterner comes the roar
Of sea and wind, and through the deepening gloom
Fainter and fainter wreck and helmsman loom,
And he too disappears, and comes no more.
Is there no life, but these alone?
Madman or slave, must man be one?
Plainness and clearness without shadow of stain!
Clearness divine!
Ye heavens, whose pure dark regions have no sign
Of languor, though so calm, and though so great
Are yet untroubled and unpassionate;
Who, though so noble, share in the world's toil,
And, though so tasked, keep free from dust and soil!
I will not say that your mild deeps retain
A tinge, it may be, of their silent pain
Who have longed deeply once, and longed in vain–
But I will rather say that you remain
A world above man's head, to let him see
How boundless might his soul's horizons be,
How vast, yet of what clear transparency!
How it were good to live there, and breathe free;
How fair a lot to fill
Is left to each man still!
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New Delhi. All rumors and criticism about CBI working under pressure and interference from the union ministers were laid to rest today when it was known that top CBI officers didn't wait for any green signal from any cabinet minister to choose papers for printing their reports.
"No one told us which brand and type of paper should be used. In fact, we decided to use A4-size paper even though the default setting in our printer is that of letter-size," CBI Director Ranjit Sinha claimed.
The CBI Director revealed that choice of paper was not apolitical and this independent act by the CBI couldn't be dismissed as being a trivial one, such as giving clean chits.
"Dude, only you reported that Rahul Gandhi was fond of making paper boats," Sinha pointed out to this Faking News reporter, "Since then, everyone in the government has been ordered to use paper that are easily folded and turned into paper boats or planes. But we acted independently and chose the size and type of paper all by ourselves."
Sinha was responding to criticisms over CBI sharing the status report on Coal Scam with the PMO and two union ministers.
"In the age of social media, we shouldn't feel bad over sharing," the CBI Director justified the act, while reiterating that the investigating agency was fully independent.
"Furthermore, everyone knows that the Law Minister only checked for grammatical errors, and it was needed because of MS Office suite had started malfunctioning and Shift+F7 was not working," Sinha revealed and claimed that the act by CBI was totally a 'digital' and 'social' one.
"Prime Minister doesn't speak much, but he 'likes' all our activities on Facebook," Sinha further revealed, "To reciprocate, we are planning to re-tweet what PMO tweets."
Sinha refused to deny or confirm that his last statement (about re-tweeting) was about reports on various scams.


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A RACIST thug who was once jailed for posting razor blades to Jewish families is standing for election in Liverpool.
Joseph Owens, who has also been jailed for carrying weapons, is one of five BNP candidates fighting seats in Merseyside at next month's local elections.
Owens, from Norris Green, is the only member of the far-right party standing in Liverpool after the BNP's three candidates were overwhelmingly rejected in last year's elections.
Two representatives of the party are standing in Halton, Andrew Taylor, of Road, Widnes, contesting Appleton ward, and Anthony Watts, of Lodge Lane, Runcorn, is contesting Castlefields.
In Wirral, John Edwards, of Laurence Deacon Court, Birkenhead, is standing for the BNP in Tranmere ward, and in Knowsley Gary Aronsson is fighting Kirkby's Whitefield ward.
Mr Owens, the party's regional organiser, is also the minder of party leader Nick Griffin.


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|President Hu Jintao reviewing the PLA soldiers in Hong Kong
We were more than a little surprised to see him in an open-top car and the rows of missiles, helicopters, armoured cars and infantry vehicles as well as tanks and mobile launchers.
Did we have all these weapons and military gear in Hong Kong and never knew about it?
His driven inspection was eerily similar to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, dressed in his sombre dark Mandarin jacket and microphones lined up as he greeted the soldiers.
Then today things got interesting when Hu visited the cruise ship terminal being built at Kai Tak.
As the Chinese president walked by, an Apple Daily reporter shouted, "President Hu, the people of Hong Kong want the truth behind June 4 to be revealed, do you know this?"
Hu heard the question and turned to the journalist but continued walking away.
So much for his personal pledge when he arrived of "... I hope to walk more, see more and personally feel the development of Hong Kong, and to understand the life and expectations of Hong Kong people".
The reporter was immediately detained and questioned for 15 minutes.
"He told me that my yelling was breaking the rules," the reporter said.
Journalists shout questions at American President Barack Obama and other heads of state all the time.
Obviously Hu is in another class of his own.
And then tonight there was a big musical bash held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, just steps away from his room at the Grand Hyatt.
Practically all the big stars were there including pianist Lang Lang, opera singer Warren Mok, Cantopop stars Kelly Chan Wai-lam, Jacky Cheung Hok-yau and oldie stars like Sally Yeh Yip Sin-man and Kenny Bee who even brought his young and lively daughter Chung Yi to sing with him on stage. She looks gorgeous and didn't seem to have any stage fright at all.
However most notably absent was Jackie Chan, a perennial at these events, and it was interesting to see CoCo Lee singing her heart out as she's better known in Taiwan than Hong Kong even though she was born here. Perhaps she's keen on conquering the mainland market?
Nevertheless, there were six hosts of the show, two from the mainland and it was so obvious from their appearance and presentation that they were from China. They had no clue what the Cantonese hosts were saying and smiled politely.
What was also interesting about the many acts, particularly the ones involving young people, was that it was pretty much inclusive. There were people of all shapes and sizes on stage -- something that would have been unheard of in China where a performance in front of state leaders would ensure everyone looked uniformly good.
Instead there were overweight people mingled with others, singing and dancing. That was pretty cool to see.
At the very end, perhaps at his request? Hu was invited on stage to shake hands with every performer standing in the front row. He made sure he had a few words with Cheung and Chan, and put his hand on the cheek of Kenny Bee's daughter.
Organizers made sure this celebration would not be ruined and for the most part it was picture perfect.
As for tomorrow with a massive protest rally planned barring adverse weather, things may not look as rosy.


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Amarnath cave is located in a narrow gorge on the
farther end of Lidder valley at 3,888 m above sea level. The cave is 45 km
from Pahalgam and 141 km from Srinagar. The trek begins in July-August.
Despite being an extremely difficult trek, millions of devotees come to
pay homage to Shiva in one of his Himalayan abodes.
The yatra, in its present religious form, commences with the ceremony of "Chari
Mubarak," at the Dashnami temple, Akhara, Srinagar. After the prayers, the
yatri acquires a sort of walking stick. It has both physical and religious
significance: physically, it helps the yatri in steadying himself on a
snow covered slippery path; spiritually it reminds him of his resolve at
the temple at times when his faith begins to waver in the face of a long
and arduous journey. Nowadays people travel to Pahalgam first and then
undertake the onward journey of 45 km on foot, in batches. Overnight halts
are in encampments that are set up at fixed distances and give the
appearance of a military site. The return trek has to be covered in five
days with night halts at Chandanwari, Wawjan and Panchtarni. The distance
of 12.8 km from Pahalgam to Chandanwari is completed in five to six hours
with the first night halt at Chandanwari. The trail is along thick and
green woodlands of breathtaking beauty. The playful stream of Lidder
meanders and dances alongside, showing its sparkling white foam with the
pride and purity of a maiden descending directly from the lap of the
perennial Himalayas. One main attraction of this trail is the bridge on
the river Lidder, which is covered with snow even when the surroundings
are bereft of snow.
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From Chandanwari, there begins a steep ascent to Pishu Ghati (3,171
meters), reminding the yatris that the path to salvation involves
superhuman struggle and stamina. A feeling of having reached an ethereal
destination overwhelms yatris when they reach Seshnag (3,570 meters) so
striking is the beauty, the ambience and the very colour of this great
lake. Seshnag symbolizes the cosmic ocean in which Lord Vishnu, the
preserver of this universe, moves, reclining on a seven-headed mythical
snake. The second night halt is at Wawjan overlooking the deep waters of
Sheshnag Lake and the glaciers beyond it.
The third and the last camp en route to the cave is at Panchtarni. This 13
km trek gains height at 4,600 m and then descends to the green meadows of
Panchtarni. The cave is 6 km from here. There are long queues waiting to
enter the cave for a darshan before returning to Panchtarni. The return
journey takes two more days.
There are few precautions which have to be taken on this yatra. Children
below 12 years and infirms are not allowed. It is imperative that one is
adequately equipped against the cold in the high altitude. It is important
to be aware of high altitude sickness and take basic precautions to
prevent it. There are ponies available to carry provisions and personal
Managing this yatra is a mammoth task and requires planning and
coordination. The committee managing the shrine keeps maintains the route,
ensuring that it is free of boulders and snow, in co-operation with
military and civil authorities. More recently, there have been incidents
of terrorists having tried to disrupt the yatra, and there is heavy armed
protection provided to the yatris. A yatra-officer is appointed to conduct
the pilgrimage.
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A new research conducted by UK telecommunications leader BT unveils that one in three people in UK are 'overwhelmed' by the technology they use in day to day basis.
Based on the research, which was conducted by the University of Cambridge, users get overwhelmed by the communications technology, social networking, such as Facebook, texting and email.
The study, which included inputs from 1,269 individuals, showed that individuals who felt overpowered by the technology are also significantly less pleased with their day-to-day lives on the whole. Consumers who are in charge of their usage of communication system are much happier with their lives.
"Essentially, the study uncovered that technology is not really the issue. Comparing it to food. To remain healthy, you have to have a well balanced diet. This is also true in relation to employing technology; you have to look for a balance which fits your life-style," said Gavin Patterson, chief executive of BT Retail.
BT pointed out that 65 % of the individuals that were questioned prefer to have face-to-face correspondence with their friends and family whilst 36% adults take actions to lower their use of communication technologies.
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I loved the red balloon project that I started late last year in Paris. Continuing the red balloon project in the winter/spring had its challenges because there were very few days where the weather was not windy/rainy/too cold. I was able to get out for a little bit with the balloons to continue the series. It still amazes me how the simple object of a red balloon can bring so much joy to people's faces.
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This is our second part about this issue. Hereby we gif a tip about the question: How do I know if a shop selling original sneakers?
You can view a list here with links to blogs that we place on tips about buying sneakers.
Tip 2:
Does the (web)shop sells next to brands like Nike and Adidas also the brands such as Gucci and Dolce & Gabanna (D&G)? Then it is probably imitation shoes.
The Lacoste brand is an exception. Lacoste is sold in stores where fashion brands are also sold.
A number of large store(chain)s are also an exception, as De Bijenkorf (The Netherlands).
As we have discussed in the first section brands gives accounts to retailers. The sports brands are always inclined to not give an account to retailers that sell fashion brands, because fashion brands don't fit in the sports sector. This is also the case with fashion brands: the fashion brands do not find it appropriate to include fashion brands in a range that also consists of sports brands.


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