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Oh how you make me wish I taught Kindergarten!
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Helping Teachers Get OrganizedWhat wonderful things you do! You inspire me to be a better teacher so THANK YOU!
I shared 2 penguin digraph *freebies* yesterday and a note about my Penguin on the Shelf that is coming to visit on Monday. I would LOVE for you to come check them out! =)
Heather's HeartLooks great! I would love to be a kid in your class! =)
First Grade Blue SKiesWOW ! 8-4!!! I can't believe it! Such a long day! I go from 8-2!
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SandraI LOVE your penguin unit! It's probably my favorite of all of your units. Thank you for sharing your talents with the teaching world!
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Learning with a Happy HeartLove your plans! =) I have a question! I would love to do a penguin unit, but wasn't sure what state standards I could use to go with the unit... what standards do you post with it?! I was just curious! Thanks so much for sharing your ideas! You are truly wonderful!
Under the Alphabet Treeawesome! i always like to see others' plans...it's interesting to see how different they all are. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to more!
The Teachers' Cauldron- Anonymous8:07 PM, January 07, 2012
I love the unit!! I am having a hard time seeing it and I can't resize it. Could you e-mail me the lesson plan? I am a teacher in Atlanta and we have bought so many of your units on teachers pay teachers. WE LOVE YOUR CREATIVITY!!!
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email@example.com Thanks for sharing your schedule. I may have to purchase your penguin unit. I like how your whole day is tied into one theme. I usually would start Snowflake and snow units when we returned from Christmas break in Jan, but we're having unseasonably warm weather with no snow so it just seems wrong!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your plans! Your school day seems so long! I look forward to seeing more of your plans. :)
Tales of a TeacheristaThanks SO much for posting your plans!!! I LOVE seeing other people's plans to see how they plan and fit things in. Sometimes I wonder how people fit soooo much into their daily schedules! Well, adding an hour and 15 minutes onto my schedule would do it!!! Jeeze! 8-4!? That's a LONG day-but would definitely be nice for scheduling!;)
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Thanks again!!- Anonymous10:29 PM, January 07, 2012
Thanks so much for sharing! I thought I had it bad having students arrive at 7:20AM, but we dismiss at 2:30PM...so, it is nice to see that the grass isn't always greener...I'll keep my early schedule and be happy! I too love to see what others are doing.
ReplyDelete Wow - that is a LONG day..... You have a terrific site here!
Kindergarten LifestyleFirst of all... I LOVEEEE YOUR BLOG!! I enjoyed checking out your schedule. I noticed that your schedule does not include a time for developmental centers. I struggle with this. I think the kids need this time.. but there doesn't seem to be time in our schedules for it anymore. Any thoughts??
ReplyDeleteWow. It must be nice to get to do your plans however you want! Love the penguin fair shares! Do y'all not have a reading series? I would love to get to teach this way, but unfortunately, TAP tells me I can't. :( Thank you for inspiring me to try and work around my limitations! I also love that your kids stagger in... that must make it so nice in the mornings!
ReplyDelete- Sharon Mittelsteadt2:51 PM, January 08, 2012
Hi, Deanna, I purchased this unit last year and love it. I teach grade one and find the activities appropriate and fun. Thank you for the effort to post your daily plans. I will work one week behind you and look forward to this so much! Sharon M. Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
ReplyDelete I absolutely LOVE your blog!!! Yours was one of the first blogs that I saw and I never thought that I'd ever be a blogger. Now, 3 months later, I have my own blog and have opened my TPT store. I aspire to have as many followers as you! Thanks for sharing your great ideas with us teachers.
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Our Sweet SuccessI LOVE your blog. Your units are awesome and has certainly got me out of a slump. I have a question regarding your readers workshop...one of your activities was to teach if what they read sounds right? Can you give some suggestions as to how you do this? Do you use big books and change the words? Any tips would be great.
ReplyDelete- Colleen9:03 AM, February 11, 2012
I am sooo excited because I finally get to teach your incredible penguin lessons! We are introducing our new story for this week called "If You Could Go To Antarctica" and this is going to fit perfectly into what I have already planned! Thanks Deanna!


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Of late, the Hampton Roads area of Virginia has become notable for producing such artists as Missy Elliot, Timbaland, the Clipse, N.E.R.D., and the Neptunes… and before that, it was notable for being the site of Teddy Riley's Future recording studio.
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As noted in their bio, Astropop 3 have been "persistently trudging through the dingy dive bars of the underground music scene in Hampton Roads, performing their own mixed bag of original music, and relentlessly promoting themselves." Over the course of a career that began in 1995, the band has continued to be fiercely independent, however, clawing their way up the ladder of success on their own terms.
After several cassette releases (some under the moniker Our Starblazers), Astropop 3 formed their own label, Planting Seeds Records, and released their self-titled debut CD in 1998. Since then, they're scored inclusion on a CMJ Certain Damage compilation, appeared alongside acts such as Alkaline Trio and the Smoking Popes on various other discs, and, in 2001, released their sophomore effort, Eclipsing Binary Star. In fact, two songs from the album, "Revenge" and "Same Old Story", could be heard on MTV's The Real World and Road Rules.
Now, in 2004, Planting Seeds has distribution through Parasol Records and their releases can be purchased through Amazon.com, which means that Allies and Stepping Stones, Astropop 3's latest release, may well be positioned to be the group's breakthrough album.
Astropop 3's general musical style hasn't changed dramatically over the course of their career. Frontman / songwriter Dan Villanueva has always worn his influences on his sleeve: a bit of '60s British pop, rather a lot of late '80s / early '90s British pop, and, as of late, a fair amount of today's rock / emo sound. What has changed, however, is the sound of the band's albums.
Villanueva co-produced Allies and Stepping Stones with Brad Rosenberg, and it's remarkable how much more crisp and clear the album sounds when compared to its predecessor. Admittedly, some of the light, breezy charm of the last album is lost with this slightly harder-edged release (there is no "Lost in a Dream" here), but the songwriting is as strong as ever.
Villanueva has clearly learned much from reading the lyrics from his Smiths albums. "Fade on Your Own" contains the very Morrissey-like couplet, "And if it hurts just like before / Our condolences once more / After settling the score / We're still bored". Still, he isn't permanently lost in melancholy; the album opener, "Forget Tomorrow", gently reminds, "No regrets / Don't forget / Tomorrow hasn't happened yet".
While occasional vocalist (though full-fledged band member) Angelique Everett doesn't seem to get as much opportunity to shine on this album, the jangly "Bubble Gum Breakup" is certainly the perfect spotlight. "Fade on Your Own", her other moment in the sun, is also fine, but it's "Breakup" where she best shows the goods.
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I have written recently about the secularization of the American public. As surveys from the Pew Research Center has shown, less people in this country are claiming an affiliation with any established religion as time passes. Now at least 20% (1 out of every 5 people) of the population in the United States say they have no religious affiliation -- and among the younger generation, that figure rises to more than 30% (or about 1 out of every 3 young people).
In fact, each generation, from the "greatest generation" to the "baby boomers" to the "gen Xers" to the "millennials", has shown less religious affiliation than the preceding generation. This is a definite trend that has been going on for quite a while in this country -- and there is no reason to believe it will change. This country is becoming less religious.
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Meanwhile, only 46% of those between 30 & 49 think it's a bad thing, while only 33% of those between 18 & 29 consider it to be a bad trend. This tells me that in the future, those bothered by this trend away from religion will be an even smaller minority. Hopefully, that will also mean there will be much less pressure to inject religion into our government and public life -- which would be a good thing. This country was created to have a secular government guaranteeing religious freedom -- not a religious government denying freedom of belief.


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Defra's chief scientist has launched a thinly veiled attack on opponents of the Government's highly controversial badger cull – saying they have failed to come up with any effective alternatives.
In a letter to The Independent Professor Ian Boyd says it is crucial to reverse the rapid spread of tuberculosis through cattle, in part by culling the badgers that help spread the disease. He takes issue with critics of the culling programme, which officially commences on Saturday, arguing that "scientific research does support the decision to cull badgers".
"TB is relentlessly spreading through the countryside and we need to use the tools available to us," he writes. "Those who do not want culling need to be clear about how they would tackle the disease. The currently available injectable badger vaccine is not a viable method of widespread control in England, and there is less evidence it is effective at reducing TB in cattle than exists for culling."
Although the trial badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset can begin today, it is up to the culling companies to decide on the timing and they are not expected to proceed for at least a fortnight.
Once they start, the trials must be concluded within six weeks, during which a total of about 5,000 badgers, or 70 per cent of the population in the cull zones, must be killed.
Many scientists argue the cull will make matters worse, increasing movement of infected animals, as fleeing badgers take disease to new areas and vacated areas are colonised by animals from elsewhere.
Animal rights activists are targeting farmers and marksmen involved in the cull and planning to locate and disrupt the secret night-time shoots, in some cases by using vuvuzelas and bright torches to frighten badgers away.
Peter Jones, president of the British Veterinary Association, which supports the cull, called on protesters not to disrupt the culls. "We understand this is a highly emotional issue, but we must be able to gather evidence to enable future policy decisions to be based on science," he said.


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Dreamstime has been the worst for me so far but that is probably because they rejected a lot of my photos and I am now very selective with my uploads. I am starting to get more downloads with them.I am surprised that BigStock is the worst for so many people. They are now my third best site, behind SS and IS.
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An apparatus resembling a Jacquard for weaving small figures (usually about 12 - 16 threads, seldom more than 36 - 40 threads).
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Liz Cheney's SRLC Gaffe
Liz Cheney opened the Southern Republican Leadership Conference last night with an all-out assault on the Obama administration, singling out the president's handling of foreign policy—a three pronged approach, she said, of "apologize for America, abandon our allies, and appease our enemies"—for particular rebuke. Nothing new there. What was interesting is that she took particular issue with the administration's treatment of Hamid Karzai, whose conduct recently could certainly be described as antagonistic. But what's wrong with the following statement in her prepared remarks (that is, beyond Cheney's overheated rhetoric)? Answer below the fold.
Afghan President Karzai, whose support we need if we are going to succeed in Afghanistan, is being treated to an especially dangerous and juvenile display from this White House. They dress him down publicly almost daily and refuse to even say that he is an ally. There is a saying in the Arab world: "It is more dangerous to be America's friend than to be her enemy." In the age of Obama, that is proving true.
Figure it out? Afghanistan is not an "Arab" country. Presumably Cheney knows this, since during her stint as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, her portfolio included much of the "Arab world." (H/T Justin Elliott.)


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Reducing Energy Usage with Wire EDM
Wire EDM machines are, by nature, fairly large users of energy, due to the fact that they employ electrical spark erosion. This requires a generator/power supply to convert the standard three-phase current into cutting pulses, and to run all the servo drive and pump motors to support the process. Ten or 15 years ago, many EDM machines used DC-type power supplies to generate the sparkand many of these machines are still in operation today.
Wire EDM uses a very high-ignition pulse to encourage ionization of dielectric water, which then creates the cutting pulse. The energy required to kick off that spark is actually too much for the remainder of the cutting spark, and the excess energy is filtered off through a bank of resistorsa process that produces excess heat that a shop must counter with air conditioning.
Older machines use a fluid system that has three pumps: one for filtering the water, a small one for cycling the resin system and a large pump for the main high-pressure system. The filter pump runs all the time and the main pump runs at the same speed whether it is cutting or sitting idleso the fluid is constantly circulating to maintain thermal stability. This becomes a significant drain on energy.
Todays machines are more environmentally friendlyhaving evolved in many areas to dramatically reduce their energy footprint. Digital anti-electrolysis generators do a better job of shaping the cutting pulse and reducing the ions generated in the water; this reduces the load on the DI resin systemallowing it to last up to three times longer. Some systems use a power regeneration circuit, which stores the over-current to create the next ignition pulse. This eliminates the bank of resistors found on the old DC generatorand the heat they producefor decreased energy usage.
New fluid systems have more pumps that are designed specifically for various functions, and therefore run less often. The main pump is now an inverter-type unit that changes speed to control water volume and pressure and only pushes water to the cutting heads when the machine is running. Separate, smaller pumps now manage the fluid circulation systemrunning water through the chiller and the machine to maintain thermal stability at a much lower cost. The machine can also operate in a cost save mode that reduces wire consumption and puts the machine to sleep after the job is complete; in this sleep mode, the energy usage is equal to that of a 100-watt light bulb.
The other areas of power consumption on a wire EDM are the axes drive motors and the wire drive/tensioning system. While these are not quite as significant as the power supply and pump motors, refinements over the years have improved function and efficiency. Powder magnetic brakes are now DC motors and analog DC servo motors are now digital AC servo systems that use a fraction of the energy to operate. Todays machines consume about 30 percent less energy than older machines.


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Well, I was going to get something done, but instead I wound up watching
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haven't seen it, well, um... Let's just say it's that rare kind of stupid bad
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LinuxPlanet has a good
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I see Stephen's been updating his page again. And, it'd appear, leading a far more interesting life than I. Go figure. ;)
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/// Miley's Moves Seduce 10 Million Viewers for the VMAs, Up 47 Percent in the Demo
Sneer all you want at Miley's crotch-thrusting antics with Robin Thicke (for the four of you who weren't watching, see the entire Ron English -ish fever dream below)—the VMA's were outrageous enough to nab 10.1 million total viewers and a 7.8 rating among people 12-34 (the network's target demo). It's especially good news considering the heavily sponsored program's dismal performance in 2012 , though it has a ways to go before it reaches the record-breaking heights of the year before. MTV also broke a social media record while they were at it—during the Cyrus/Thicke performance, Twitter clocked 306,000 Miley/Robin-related tweets per minute, passing the previous Twittered TV record holder, Beyonc


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What it made us think of: How to reference cars without using children's bed sheets (1966's Grand Prix was the inspiration for this sleek collection)
What we liked: Dresses with racing stripes, harness bags, photo manipulation prints, speedometer print
What we didn't: Sheer dresses, fishnet dress, overly minimal clothes
Unsure About: Pictures of cars and race spectators. It was kind of quirky without taking over the look so I might be OK with it.
Who: Dries Van Noten
What it made us think of: Classic Cristobal Balenciaga shapes walking past a projector of showing stunning photographs from around the world.
What we liked: Prints, textures, 1950's couture shapes, jackets, pants, shoes
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What it made us think of: How to steal from your boyfriend's closest/How to dress using random fabric decor items
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Airdate | December 15, 1997 |
Production Number | 111 |
Writer(s) | Kari Lizer |
Director(s) | Scott McGinnis |
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Honey, You're Living in the Past is the eleventh episode of the first season of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and the eleventh episode overall.
Guest Stars: David Le Reaney (Mr. Patterson), Marcy Goldberg (Joan), Douglas MacLeod (Lawyer), Owen Connolly, Jr. (Awkward Boy), Edie Tusor (Female Official), Jesse Moss (Howard Phillips), Helen Farmer (Kashmir), L. Harvey Gold (Judge), Jewel Staite (Tiara Vanhorn), Frank Takacs (Security Guard), Valerie Pearson (Ms. Rutfield)
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Wow your kayaking experience was fantastic
This ones for you Matt
Trip Start
Apr 16, 2010
Trip End
Aug 22, 2010
We arrived in the evening so booked our kayak tour for the following day and parked the campervan up for a night in the wild. It was a chilly night, made bearable with lots of thermal layers, two duvets, a hot water bottle and an incredible view of the stars…millions of them!
The following morning we arrived early to meet our kayaking guide, Rosco. Rosco was clearly passionate about his job and really loved the wildlife to, this really added to the day as he was clearly as excited as we were, when after only 20 minutes we were fortunate to encounter dolphins swimming around us, right under our boat. It was fantastic to see them so close, they seemed really inquisitive of us and spent a good 15 minutes swimming playfully around us, what a start to the day! We certainly new at this moment that we had chosen this right way to see the Sound, with the fjords and snow capped mountains towering above us, the wildlife right next to us and the sun shining, we new we were in a special place. Our next wildlife sighting was a greedy seal viciously attacking a huge octopus, it was jumping up and slapping it against the water, the poor octopus actually attached itself to one of our boats in a bid to get away but that wasn't stopping the seal! Apparently this type of behaviour is quite unusual for a seal.
After 5 hours of paddling (hope you're impressed Matt) we headed back to get warm and dry. We were surprised to hear off Roscoe that most people don't run the kayak tours in winter due to the cold conditions, however apparently this is the best time for seeing the wildlife and the water is actually clearer. With the right thermal gear and the help of some poggies (loved them Matt) and a good paddling pace, we were easily warm enough!
The rest if the evening consisted of fajitas under the stars for tea and a very early bed time…6.30pm!


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OK, it's time to get serious about The Soul Mirror. For a couple of weeks, in between life and the short story, I've been dabbling with a couple of opening chapters that I wrote WAY a long time ago when I was first developing the proposal for the series. Originally I had thought I might begin the series with this piece of the story. But it turned out there was too much backstory...and so I developed that into The Spirit Lens. But, of course, now that I'm back to these chapters, they don't quite fit anymore. Not so much that the story left them behind
- the narrator is the same person I had envisioned (her name is Anne and she is 21).
- the place she finds herself in chapter one is the same (a graveside in a ravine).
- her "life predicament" is the same (that is, she is very much alone, because her family is scattered to the four winds: one dead, one missing, one held hostage, one confined because of madness. Whew!)
but because...
...the circumstances that underlie all of this are much richer (a euphemisn for more complicated!) I know about spectres, hauntings, pendulums, religious beliefs (or lack thereof), the illicit practice called "transference," and who the bad guys really are. I know the circumstances of her family's dissolution. And I know Portier.
Portier started out as a "device" - a surrogate observer to tell us the story of The Spirit Lens. As seems to happen with me (see Seyonne!) my narrative observers take on an importance of their own in the story. So the first thing I have to do is decide whether I'm going to time share the narrative duties. Which means I have to do a lot of thinking about the coming story... I HATE that.
There are some other reasons I have to give more careful advance thought to a sequel story...
So I've written an eight-page list, including
More later on how it works out!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Beginning Again
8 comments:
- Deb S said...
Whew! is right. So many threads, but you are a master weaver.
- March 26, 2009 at 7:29 AM
- Sarah said...
"Which means I have to do a lot of thinking about the coming story... I HATE that."
I don't believe you. That's what makes creating stories fun! :-) - March 27, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- carolwriter said...
Well, OK, I love thinking about the coming story, but I don't like planning it.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:17 AM
- Andy said...
Isn't "incidents that have to happen" confining? I mean, like our characters, we are decision-making entities; and decisions are driven by conflict and conflict is good. A decision - to act or not, to pursue one goal versus another - may lead to any number of different incidents within the framework set by the first book.
- March 31, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- carolwriter said...
Andy, yes, of course, I want all of the incidents in my books to be realistically driven by character and conflict. But I also know the skeleton of the plot and approximately where I want the book to end. This mandates certain incidents, such as
- character A meets character B
- a particular trauma happens to character C
- the nature of the deeper conspiracy is revealed to character B and therefore to the reader
It is my task as a writer to make sure that these plot points are woven seamlessly into the web of character, setting, and conflict. Yes, they can be manifested as varying incidents, eg. does character A meet character B in the midst of a battle or on a street corner? And I must always question such assumptions. (What happens if character A and B never meet?) But by this time I know that certain things must happen. - March 31, 2009 at 7:25 PM
- Silver Hawke said...
Wow, really viewing all the 'STUFF' that goes into writing these books looks excessively complicated. I suppose this is but a brief and very complex version of what goes on in your mind while you write XD
I'm surprised you really made a list about the 'what's to happen' and such. I find it hard to follow a beaten path I make for myself as the characters grow in the story they defy me and go off on their own ways.
As a person who has only recently found your writing and hunted down a copy of every book you have written for her library, I am forced to sit and clap my hands in ecstatic glee over the knowledge that you have a new book on the way! - April 3, 2009 at 5:44 AM
- carolwriter said...
The reason "characters go their own way" is that you've made them into real people with a real inner life that drives their choices and actions. That's good. But the author's idea of a story has merit as well - "what would happen if--?" So in order to get those characters to get themselves into that situation, you have to do some hard thinking. You have to figure out what could possibly make him or her do such a thing. Example: I knew the idea I wanted to explore in Revelation - no spoilers here! - and I had a hero who would never in a million years do the thing I wanted to explore - so I had to figure out the chain of circumstances that would drive him to it. Ditto in Daughter of Ancients...and actually, in all the books, come to think of it.
- April 3, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- Silver Hawke said...
Yeh, that does make perfect sense! And no worries, I've read the Rhi-Kirah (hope I spelled that correctly) trilogy, and just started on Flesh and Spirit. That is very interesting and I'll keep that in mind! Seriously can't wait to see the new book though <3
- April 3, 2009 at 1:52 PM


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Before it grew too big to lift, the hospital could have moved to a better neighborhood or invested in its neighbors. Instead it pushed out handymen and cleaning ladies and street hawkers like my uncles Read the rest of this entry »
Disproving Angels
June 10, 2008 in 299 Words, Entertainment, Family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, How-To, Humor, Literature, novels, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Short stories, Stories, Technology, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Dialogue, Doubt, Faith, Hope, language, Rhetoric, Science, Technology | 8 comments
—So, what are we looking at here?
—You tell me.
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—Charlie says it's the soul.
—He also thinks gluons are guardian angels.
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The next day, I understood French. Standing by the curb in my bathrobe and slippers on a frosty morning, looking for the paper in the shrubs, I saw the sparkling blades of grass and heard the crystals crunch beneath my feet in a suburb of a suburb of New York City—all right, Jersey— Read the rest of this entry »
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When I've finished writing my dictionary, things will be different in this world among English-speaking people and between you and me. When we first learned them, words were something hefty we could thrump with our knuckles the way we test a melon. Read the rest of this entry »
Something Like Mercy
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The box is richly padded and, for one who won't be stirring, roomy. I should have lived as comfortably, in darkness as conducive to long remembering. This is no way to begin. I am paper and bone in a box under earth as blunt as a clod. My words should be simple as sand. Read the rest of this entry »
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In her club are several who, while waiting for new hearts, have been revived half a dozen times. She herself has visited and been brought back repeatedly from the dead. Read the rest of this entry »


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Instead of bringing the public and the private into illuminating proximity, the two- pronged approach here simply confused the issue. Counter- productively, you began to feel that the hospitalised hero's prickly antagonism towards authority was less a matter of principle than of Oedipal reflex-action.
One virtue of Kramer's play is that it increases your respect for that classic American family drama in which the psychological and social are seamlessly enmeshed, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. That nexus comes across even when, like Matthew Warchus in this fine revival, a director chooses to give little impression of an oppressive society out to destroy the individual. There would have been a great deal of scope for this on the Playhouse's wide, open stage. But Warchus, the programme reveals, wants to present Willie Loman as the embodiment rather than the victim of the American dream.
In practice, however, this distinction proves academic. Ken Stott's excellent performance proves it's quite possible to be both. With his sloping shoulders, supplicant curved-back dumpiness and dark kiss-curl, there's something touchingly penguin-like about his fagged-out demeanour. But there is also a blackmailing avidity about the way he raises his beaky profile waiting for his sons to feed him with false hopes. His speech has the sound of an unenthusiastic sales pitch infected with a disastrous hint of desperation. You feel he is drowning in an ethos it is too late for him to stop peddling.
With suggestive economy (a translucent curtain; free- standing door-frames), Warchus directs the flashbacks so that they have a disarmingly invasive, hallucinatory quality. Capturing just the right degree of overbearing, idealised unreality, Willie's successful brother Ben comes and goes through a receding vista of fluorescently-lit frames. By the time Willie takes the same route to suicide, it has become a stark black road.
Ellie Haddington, with hoarse fervour, makes a most moving Mrs Loman, a persuasive advocate for her husband. Jude Law gives a fine edge of callow calculation to the collusive son, Happy, and as Biff, James Purefoy has the hunched misery of the golden boy who failed, even if he can't make the hotel scene ring wholly true. It's a compelling account, sensitively projecting the play's bitter lyricism. But I could have done without the snow during the funeral.
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The Bulldoggs, however, are still hoping to be able to move into second place and host a first-round state playoff series in coming weeks. For coach Brian Smith, the focus for his team will be to simply take care of their own business.
"We need to win our final two region games and then see where things stack up," Smith said after Monday's 7-2 win against region foe Apalachee. "We aren't mathematically out of second place."


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lens privacy feature does not work on all lenses
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
| Ayatana Design |
Unassigned | ||
| Unity |
Fix Released
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| unity (Ubuntu) |
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| unity-lens-github (Ubuntu) |
Chris Wayne |
Bug Description
In the system settings privacy area check the box to not return results from internet searches
Install unity-lens-github from the extras repo
Observe a fully functional github searching lens.
By default lenses don't do anything with the privacy flag. They have to be specially coded to look for it, and it is undocumented. There are lenses getting into the distribution that don't respect the flag.
Maybe the ARB should check lenses observe the setting before allowing them into extras.
Maybe the setting should be replaced with a more functional alternative that doesn't require lenses to be modified - so it won't send them global-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.10.0-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
Date: Fri Dec 7 23:02:08 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-01 (220 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120421)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-21 (169 days ago)
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Alan Bell (alanbell) wrote : | #1 |
Changed in unity-lens-github (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Chris Wayne (cwayne18) |
Chris Wayne (cwayne18) wrote : | #2 |
I could easily make the lens do nothing if the dconf key com/canonical/
Changed in unity-lens-github (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Adolfo Jayme (fitojb) wrote : | #3 |
The fix should not require extra work from third-party developers.
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Alan Bell (alanbell) wrote : | #4 |
That is a very fair question and I have no idea what the answer is to it. I think the way the flag is worded a user would have an expectation that remote searching lenses would stop working - especially as it does currently apply to the default lenses when searching in the home lens or in the specific lens, and other lenses such as the loco portal lens stop working when the flag is set. Maybe we could get some design input as to what the expected behaviour should be.
Michael Hall (mhall119) wrote : | #5 |
Adolfo, that is not possible, lenses and scopes are independent processes that can perform whatever actions they want. There is no way for the Dash code to restrict their access to the network.
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Chris Wayne (cwayne18) wrote : | #6 |
Pushed the fix to scopes-
Changed in unity-lens-github (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) wrote : | #7 |
@Michael Hall:
Perhaps it should be a requirement that lenses and scopes have a string that checks Privacy setting to see if it is disabled and if it is then nothing over the wire. This seems like a reasonable requirement that the Development Community can offer as a specification or best practice and if its not followed it would have no chance of being shipped as a default lenses/scope?
Alan Bell (alanbell) wrote : | #8 |
the setting has changed in 13.10, it is now a declarative part of the .scope file. Online searching lenses have to declare themselves as being online lenses by using the RemoteContent=true flag in the .scope file. If that is set then those lenses won't be queried when the privacy flag is set. This is now documented in the tutorial.
Please note that the default is false which is bug 1250134 so that a lens author who does not include that line will automatically be assumed to be a local lens and will be queried when the flag is set to local results only - so by default online lenses will still ignore the flag - but it is now declarative and external to the code of the lens, so this bug is fixed in Saucy.
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |


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Cyber-Aggression and Its Discontents
All of the ãfour horsemenã of cyber-aggression ã cyber-war, cyber-terrorism, cyber-crime and cyber-espionage ã are serious. Not all are urgent
The age of cyber-warfare is upon us. So say the soothsayers. Their voices are many, varied and urgent. They range from presidents and security chiefs, to principals of private sector security firms. US President Obama, writing in the Wall Street Journal on July 19th, 2012, called the cyber-threat ãone of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face.ã Also in July 2012, Keith Alexander, the Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), labelled cyber-espionage the cause of the ãgreatest transfer of wealth in history,ã citing data on cyber-attacks against US companies that have siphoned off vast quantities of intellectual property and industrial information. General Alexander also mused about the militarization of cyber-attacks, which he regards as an inevitable development that poses challenges greater than those that Cold War nuclear deterrence strategies were designed to meet.
Jonathan Evans, the Director General of the British Security Service (MI5), has also lent his voice to the chorus, noting that cyber-security rivalled terrorism as a key security challenge facing the UK. According to him, ãthe extent of what is going on is astonishing ã with industrial scale processes involving many thousands of people lying behind both state-sponsored cyber-espionage and organized cyber-crime.ã
A multiplicity of studies from private sector IT security firms documents the firmsã own struggles with cyber-attacks. Recently, for example, a Dell security unit reported on a year-long study of the cyber-espionage threat, calling its findings ãdisturbing.ã The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit found more than 200 unique ãfamiliesã of custom malware used in cyber-espionage campaigns, and more than 1,100 Internet domain names registered and used by cyber-espionage actors for hosting malware or for spearphishing. The industry acronym for this activity is telling: APT, or Advanced Persistent Threat.
Of course, our demonstrated instinct is to rush collectively to the trenches and the cyber-shelters, beef up resources, promulgate cyber-security strategies, harden systems, pump vast amounts of hard currency into the effort to stem the threat, and finger alleged perpetrators in an escalating war of words. The NSA has estimated that, in 2011 alone, one trillion dollars was spent globally on dealing with cyber-espionage and cyber-crime. And in a sign of where all of this might be heading, a report prepared for the US Congress by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, issued in October 2011, openly named China as the worldãs most active and persistent perpetrator of economic spying against the US. However, before we decide that the sky is falling, and that we have seen the enemy, some clarity ought to be brought to the definitional morass in which the debate on what we may call ãcyber-aggressionã finds itself. In other words, in order to understand the nature and scale of the threat ã present and future ã we first need to be a lot plainer about what it is that we are talking about.
Cyber-aggression can take various shapes ã each determined by the actors involved, the methodologies used, the intended target and the anticipated outcome. Four types of cyber-aggression ã the four ãcyber horsemen,ã as it were ã grab our attention: cyber-warfare, cyber-terrorism, cyber-espionage and cyber-crime. Though they are often depicted, Durer-like, as riding in a tight pack, it is important to distinguish between these in order to decide on priorities, and to outline appropriate policy options. Apocalyptic language and, worse still, linguistic drift from discussions of one type of cyber-aggression to another are unhelpful in the extreme.
Of the four cyber horsemen, two constitute, at best, future threats: cyber-war and cyber-terrorism. Both are hyped, but they are both over-the-horizon dangers. Cyber-war means the deliberate use by state or non-state entities of cyber instruments as a military weapon in order to advance a campaign of military aggression in the international system. Proponents of the cyber-war threat might argue that it has already arrived, and point to cyber-attacks that coincided with Russian aggression against Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008. Still, even these examples, for which we lack compelling evidence, do not quite meet the definition.
There is good reason to think that cyber-war might remain a futuristic threat. We have Clausewitzãs famous dictum ã war as the continuation of politics by other means ã to thank for this. Short of all-out war designed to cripple and destroy an adversary at all costs, it is hard to see cyber-warfare as securing any lasting political or grand strategic objective. It also remains hard to see cyber-warfare as likely to succeed in completely crippling the electronic nervous system of a target.
Even if we grant cyber-warfare a possible status as the nuclear weapon of the future ã capable of doing existential damage ã this begs the question of whether, like nuclear weapons systems, it will eventually become an unusable instrument of war ã too destructive in its unleashing to match any war-related goal, and subject to a strong deterrence calculation along the lines of the Cold War logic of mutually assured destruction.
If all-out cyber-warfare looks unlikely, it is less hard to see a role for ãlimitedã cyber-warfare. And yet even this presumes state-on-state conflict, and raises inevitable concerns about climbing undesirable escalatory ladders once the cyber weapon is deployed. For now, we should consider cyber-warfare not as a current threat, but as a form of military R&D that has run ahead of the laws of war and floats free of military doctrine. As military R&D, it is relatively harmless, but it needs to be brought back to Earth in terms of efforts to figure out how it fits into the laws of war, and how it advances military doctrine ã especially with regard to political/strategic objectives. Some hard thinking also needs to be done on costs and the relative advantage of pushing cash into cyber-warfare capabilities, as opposed to other military instruments.
Like cyber-war, cyber-terrorism is very much on the national security agenda, as well as on the minds of the global community of ãsecuricrats.ã And like cyber-war, it is a future threat ã if a threat at all. The question of what we mean by cyber-terrorism is pertinent, as the definitional envelope is sometimes stretched to cover the ways in which terrorist organizations use the Internet and electronic communications in order to build up their capacity and image through propaganda, recruitment, fundraising, cell formation and even virtual training. This use of the cyber realm is distinguishable from its deployment as a weapon of direct attack to damage the capacities of an enemy, and to create ãterror.ã Cyber-terrorism should be used only to refer to the use of cyber-weapons for terrorist strikes, not capacity building. For now, there has been surprisingly little indication of any such offensive activity. This may reflect a lack of terrorist capacity, knowledge of the enemy, or will, or some combination of all of these. It may just be that the cyber-attack ill suits the intended psychological shock effects of terrorism. It may be that a cyber-attack is harder than it looks for non-state actors. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that cyber-terrorism will become a reality in the future ã not least because terrorist groups are not hindered by some of the constraining calculations that should deter state actors from any massive, doctrinal use of the cyber weapon. But capacities to deal with any future cyber-terrorist attacks will arrive as a by-product of efforts targeted at more clear and present dangers.
Unlike cyber-war and cyber-terrorism, cyber-espionage and cyber-crime are just such clear and present dangers. They are easily conflated as threats. Cyber-crime is driven by the profit motive, largely targets the private sector ã to wit, intellectual property, commercial secrets and useful private data ã and, as best as we can tell, is rarely a state enterprise. There is no denying the damage that it can do. The first question is: who is the sheriff? Is it the state, in an expanded version of its ãnight watchmanã role? Or is it really the private sector itself, with its huge stake in securing proprietary information, and its obligations to protect the privacy of customers with whom it interacts? Many commentators would like to see the state strap on its star and gun belt in order to clean up the town. But there may well be more wisdom in seeing efforts at preventing cyber-crime left predominantly in the hands of the private sector, with a modicum of state regulation of standards of protection in critical sectors (banking, health care, critical infrastructure) and some partnership arrangements between state intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies in order to assist the private sector in keeping up with the latest global trends in technology and cyber-attacks. Not only should the private sector bear the brunt of protecting its own data and its networked proliferation, but the private sector may actually be better than the state at doing the job. At the very least, the private sector needs to understand that if it is currently not good at data protection, then it had better get up to speed fast, because there will be no other real sheriff in town.
If cyber-crime prevention, under this model, seems to leave the state at the margins, then there remain two distinct and important functions that states can play. One is to maintain in their intelligence systems a collection and analytical capacity in order to give themselves strategic-level knowledge of trends in cyber-crime, and to keep tabs on the development of any worrying ãcyber-crimeã states ã that is, states that might be contributing to the advent of cyber-crime either through lax internal controls, poor law enforcement, or deliberate collaboration with criminal elements. The other role for states is to work with the international community in order to monitor trends in cyber-crime, help create norms, and explore the prospects for the development of an international law on the worst forms of cyber-crime.
What of cyber-espionage? Here the role of the state is different, and indeed much larger. Cyber-espionage involves both the realms of state offensive and defensive action. On the defensive end ã or cyber-counter-espionage ã the state is confronted with the age-old problem of protecting secrets in the face of a new version of the espionage threat. This version posits a virtual and often very stealthy agent nosing its way into sensitive data, and capable of siphoning off vast quantities of material ã well beyond the dreams of Minox-toting agents from the Cold War era. But if the cyber version of the threat is new and potent, it remains the case that the traditional security requirements are still operable. In other words, there remains a need for adequate security vetting of personnel with access to sensitive data, for robust measures to protect physical and virtual data from unauthorized access and usage, for a culture of security consciousness, and for proactive capabilities to anticipate threats and to detect and follow intrusions ã if possible, to trace them to their point of origin. This may be a tall order in a world of cyber-communications and ãbig dataã storage, but there is something reassuring about the fact that cyber-counter-espionage is merely a variant on past practices, for which many national intelligence and law enforcement systems have plenty of stored experience.
If cyber-counter-espionage is a variant of the past, then the same can surely be said of the offensive use of cyber-espionage against foreign targets. Cyber ãIntã (CYBERINT) has entered the pantheon of other, long-established intelligence collection methodologies, taking its place alongside HUMINT (human intelligence), SIGINT (signals intelligence), IMINT (imagery intelligence) and OSINT (open source intelligence). CYBERINT bears closest resemblance to SIGINT, and for many intelligence systems, established SIGINT agencies will find themselves extending their work into the cyber-espionage field with an attendant shift in operational focus from identifying and penetrating communications networks, to identifying and penetrating key command-and-control computer arrays, key computer work stations hosting valuable data, and critical data storage sites. Cyber-espionage, for all the hype, is really just an extension and adaptation of an intelligence methodology that has been around since WW1.
The key difference between traditional SIGINT operations and the new world of CYBERINT is that there now exists the prospect ã and maybe the reality ã of the outsourcing of cyber-espionage to private sector actors and patriotic hacker groups. This might have been a feature of the conduct of the aforementioned cyber-operations by Russia in 2007 and 2008, and seems to be part of the modus operandi of Chinese cyber-espionage, where we appear to see the emergence of a Chinese military-cyber complex involving a murky partnership between the Chinese military, the Chinese academic sector and organized private groups. If true in either or both the Russian and Chinese cases, then it manifestly extends the reach of cyber-espionage, adds to the potency of states that have the capacity to construct such public-private ãcomplexes,ã and deepens the problem of attributing cyber-espionage attacks to their source. Still, it does not fundamentally affect cyber-counter-espionage.
As noted, one of the principal characteristics of successful cyber-espionage operations is the ability to acquire ã potentially invisibly ã quantities of sensitive data on an unprecedented scale ã what Jonathan Evans, the MI5 director, referred to as ãindustrial-scaleã processes. Of course, the siphoning off of ãbig dataã also requires an ability to sort, search, filter and make sense of vast data pools. Search engines will be of some assistance, but the question that ãindustrial scaleã cyber-espionage raises is whether the state or other actors involved will have the capacity to sort wheat from chaff, or find the needle not in an information haystack, but in an information mountain. Cyber-espionage therefore brings to the fore a key challenge for intelligence systems ã noted long ago by the late Roberta Wohlstetter in her pioneering study of the Pearl Harbor intelligence failure: the need to identify true signals against the background noise of false, misleading and irrelevant information.
If CYBERINT is but a new tool in an old intelligence tool box ã rather than a revolutionary espionage instrument ã there nevertheless remains a way in which cyber-aggression has fundamentally changed the global espionage equation. This has less to do with intelligence acquisition, and more with the use of cyber-intrusion tools by spy agencies in an action mode ã what during the Cold War was called ãcovert operations.ã In the past, covert operations run by intelligence services were designed to disrupt and ultimately overturn the political regimes of vulnerable states deemed to be unfriendly or adversarial in a global contest for influence. Consider Iran, Guatemala, Cuba and Chile ã to name only some of the US-inspired operations. (The Soviets had their share, as well.) Cyber-covert operations may share some of the characteristics of conventional Cold War efforts, including relative cheapness, quickness, bloodlessness and the all-important element of leadership plausible deniability. Yet the capacities of cyber-covert operations truly outstrip those of the past. The potential to cause vital damage to selected aspects of the economic or military-industrial capabilities of a foreign adversary, as demonstrated by first-generation efforts like the Stuxnet and Flame viruses targeting Iranian nuclear infrastructure, is out of scale with all past capacities for sabotage ã while still retaining the veil of plausible deniability, and allowing for escalatory ceilings short of all-out war.
If the age of cyber-covert operations is now upon us ã and it likely is ã then we need to start devoting a lot more thought to the limits on its use, its impacts (recalling that nearly all Cold War era covert operations ended in long-term failure), its proliferation, as well as on playing defence. It would be one more terrible irony of history if, while recognizing the arrival of the new age of cyber-covert ops, we failed to appreciate the still relevant lessons of the Cold War past. The three main faults of the historical use of covert operations were its reliance on distorted assessments of the dangers posed by internal developments in foreign states, an exaggerated sense of the prospects for plausible deniability (the veil was always torn off relatively quickly), and a lack of care about long-term outcomes. To this list we should add the absence of any moral compass in the deployment of covert operations. It would behoove the global community to recognize and try to avoid these mistakes.
Hanging over all current debates on cyber-aggression and the threats posed by our four cyber horsemen is the assumption that the offence has, and will always have, the upper hand over the defence. To borrow from history, and in particular from the history of SIGINT operations, the more likely scenario is one of a constant cycle of change from offensive to defensive superiority, and then back again. Where any actor ends up in the cycle will depend on technological innovation and capacity. But it would be wrong to assume that the race has already been won.
For the present, the offence does seem to have the decided upper hand, and the defence has been slow to mobilize. We can also spot the current leaders in the world of cyber-espionage: Russia and China are on top. Both are frequently identified perpetrators ã even if we know relatively little about their systems of cyber-spying. That Russia and China should, at present, top the list of cyber-superpowers is far from surprising. Both possess the technological know-how to engage in cyber-aggression. Both possess authoritarian political systems that remove some of the constraints on the untrammelled use of the cyber weapon. Perhaps most interestingly, both are adapting their traditional intelligence gathering techniques to the cyber age. Their traditional reliance on mass espionage activities using human agents to collect as much information as possible is easily transferable to the age of the cyber-spy. At the same time, what we know of their espionage history suggests that neither state was very capable of utilizing the information that their spy agencies collected. It is not far-fetched to presume that a historical inability on the part of authoritarian regimes to use intelligence well has also been transferred into the cyber age.
If Russia and China currently stand at the pinnacle of the league table of global cyber-spies, what about the league table for cyber-covert operations? Here the US and Israel appear to lead, driven by a combination of technological capacity, experience with covert operations, and indeed need ã with particular focus on covert cyber-efforts to slow down the progress of the Iran nuclear programme.
Whither cyber-aggression in the next decade or two? Criminologists can place their bets on organized crime groups and their propensity for cyber-crime. The worldãs leading militaries will do their R&D on cyber-war. Terrorist groups might start to explore cyber-terrorism. When it comes to cyber-espionage and cyber-covert operations, some of the building blocks for long-term success will include: long-term investments by the state in proportional, risk-based defence; a strong private sector capable of defending itself; superior education and knowledge-building sectors; pre-existing and strong intelligence systems and cultures; and maybe even democratic political structures.
The history of modern intelligence tells us that, broadly, democratic polities are much better placed to use intelligence well as compared to authoritarian polities. The same will probably hold true for the cyber age. Democracies will also have a much greater stake in the idea of keeping the global Internet alive, healthy and open. While this creates opportunities for adversarial cyber-spies and covert operators, it also creates the knowledge base and incentives for democratic societies to ultimately emerge as cyber age winners ã better at defence, and selectively better at offence.
Wesley Wark is Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and also Visiting Research Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.
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French oilfield services firm Technip announced Wednesday that it has been awarded an EPIC (engineering, procurement, installation and construction) contract for the Gannet F Reinstatement project in the North Sea.
The contract – awarded by Shell UK – involves the replacement of the Gannet F flow line at the Gannet Alpha Platform, which is located approximately 110 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It covers the fabrication and the laying of a 7.5-mile pipe-in-pipe, installation of a 4.5-inch gas lift pipeline and the trenching and installation of a 7.5-mile umbilical.
Technip said its operating center in Aberdeen, Scotland will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2013. The company's spoolbase in Evanton, Scotland, will fabricate the pipe-in-pipe and DUCO, Technip's wholly-owned subsidiary in Newcastle, England, will manufacture the umbilical.
Technip's pipelay vessel, Apache II, will be used for the offshore campaign.
Technip UK Managing Director Bill Morrice commented in a company statement:
"We are delighted to have been awarded this contract which strengthens our relationship with Shell UK. Our vast experience in providing cost-effective and efficient pipe-in-pipe solutions for our clients will help us execute this project safely and effectively. We look forward to supporting Shell to maximize production from the Gannet field."


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If the ASUS Eee 900 basically amounted to a larger-screened version of the 7-inch original, then the Eee 901 marks its graduation into a distinct model. Packing Intel's latest 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, in place of the 900's Celeron 900MHz, ASUS could reasonably have left the rest of the notebook the same and simply added a little to the price. Thankfully they've subjected the 901 to a mild degree of fettling, tweaking case and controls and making for a markedly more attractive proposition. ASUS sent over the Windows version of the 901; check out what exactly impressed us after the cut.
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I`m 19 and I don`t get many pimples but when I do and the eventually go away, but they leave red marks behind. I was wondering how I would be able to get the red marks to disappear and have my skin color return to its natural color?
Your inquiry about your pimples indicates that you do have acne and that may persist into your mid-20`s; and in some individuals occasional pustules occur throughout reproductive life. The inflammatory lesion produces damage to the tissues around the follicles in which they occur. When the pimple leaves it leaves behind a scar and that is the red mark that you see. It takes from four to six months for that red lesion to return to normal color. The only way to change that color is to cover it with a nonsensitizing mild cosmetic. There are several available. I would suggest that you might check with your cosmetic counter and ask for a skin color matched cosmetic that can be waterproofed so that you will not be embarrased should you get caught in the rain, etc. It would seem to me that the most appropriate way to move in this case is to have your acne evaluated by your dermatologist so that he/she might help prevent future lesions and thus prevent future red marks and/or small pitted scars.
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