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Anyone know wher I can rent a dethatcher for a day?
Anyone know wher I can rent a dethatcher for a day?
Check a local Home Depot..
Rentals unlimited. Only certain Home Depots have tool rental. The West Frederick store is the closest to you Forest.........Gary
Thanks Gary
3 neighborhood kids and some good rakes (does a better job then a commercial detatcher anyways)
Neighborhood kids around here would rather steal than work.
You can buy a dethatching blade for a lawnmower. http://www.acehardware.com/product/i...LAID=109333035
Thanks Chuck, sounds like a great idea.
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Well, I'm back from vacation and in Tucson, after a few weeks in Austin and Ft Myers to see the folks. My mom in Austin saw the baby for the first time, and so did her dad in Florida. Her dad in fact, got to relive an experience he last had many years ago: changing a diaper. Florida was nice and warm. We even got to spend a day at the beach, which started out with a few people but was completely packed by the time we left. We also drove down to Marco Island to visit my old friend Tom and see their new baby Grace (and their new house).
In any case, back to the topic...
I recently got my first glimpse of practical IPTV in action in the form of Russian TV channels that you can watch over the Internet. Both were streamed down from other countries: Russia and Canada. Considering that I have a very common cable modem set up here, the quality of the picture was amazing. On my big screen TV, one of the streamed video came down at 640x480 size (I'm guessing) as a media player in the web browser. Completely clear, no jitters, no lost data or any kind of performance issues. The other IPTV service was from a site in Canada I believe and that was an even larger picture, 4:3 proportion but taking the full height of my 46" TV. The wonder was that this looked even better than some of my local (non-digital, non-HD) cable channels.
I'd have to see it again during busy net times like Monday morning to see if there are lags, dropped packets, etc., but I think I'm pretty sold on IPTV. YouTube is complete rubbish compared to this. If the two were cities, YouTube would be like Dhaka (overpopulated and a complete mess), compared to the Singapore quality of these IPTV stations. Now if they only had more stuff worth watching than Russian news and TV shows. I'm sure I'll have to hunt around.
The Consumer Electronics Show is also underway in Las Vegas this week and according to CNet, IPTV is one of the lead topics, with speakers like Bill Gates, Bob Iger (Disney), and Leslie Moonves (CBS) all on it. I wonder how much longer it will be before IPTV streaming through a media device like the SlingBox--letting me combine not just my own AV sources at home, but also those from the net--becomes a reality?
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Community and social computing
Russian IPTV beats my cable box
Tim O'Reilly on future of Web 2.0/Internet
I listened to our pre-release version of the 40-minute podcast interview with Tim O'Reilly, recorded by our editor Scott Laningham recently. It starts out as a backgrounder for how O'Reilly & Associates got started but moves quickly into the nature of participation, how the Internet and the web is the medium for new business, and the participatory nature of the net (what is now referred to as Web 2.0). Tim agrees with the other Tim (Sir Tim Berners-Lee) that really the term web 2.0 only serves to clarify the aspect first initiated with the Internet: network effects.
It's available on dW Radio and definitely worth listening to. I'll probably make it a supplementary piece for our MIS students to listen to for the class.
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SecondLife, playability, Nintendo Wii and the Age of Conan
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Eric Sniff and I were having a conversation on MMORPGs today starting with Age of Conan and eventually ending at SecondLife.
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (AoC) is an upcoming MMORPG that is based on the character and fantasy world created by Robert E Howard back in 1929. They are doing several things fairly interesting with this MMORPG starting with how you get into the game: you start off isolated in single-player mode within a fixed area playing until you develop your character to a certain degree and generally become familiar with the controls. It then transitions into the multiplayer world alongside everyone else. It solves a common current issue of game development and getting started on multiplayer games (dealing with noobs). The game is visually gorgeous, on par or perhaps better than Oblivion, one of the top single-player games of 2006.
One interesting aspect of the game is that rather than fixed predetermined attacks ('press this button for "slash"'), it is much more analog allowing more realistic combat. This means you actually have to direct the sword where to hit. This exact same feature is what I liked about another game available for the Nintendo Wii, Red Steel. (ok so I really do like swordfighting, and not just in real life)
The Wii itself is raising a new phenomenon in game, that of 3D motion-sensitive game controllers, where you have to move the controller around to perform an action, rather than simply a joystick or by pressing buttons. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk is changing how people play games rather than what they play. For example, if you're playing tennis, you have to wave the Remote around like a bat. Just look at what everyone is doing with it: tennis, bowling, fishing, swordfighting, etc.) It's only starting out and there's not a huge selection of games, but I for one am excited that this new direction is succeeding. Rather than playing an ever increasing war of more complex systems--not that I mind the improvements in graphics--Nintendo came up with real outside-the-box innovation. Now if it will only spread to PCs and other consoles.
This kind of playability got us talking about other issues of MMORPGs. This introduces even more information about each player's movements that have to be conveyed across the network to other players. It would be interesting if it strikes a good balance between playability and performance with this level of complexity. Some of it lies in the problem of managing servers... I'll come back to that.
Where most MMORPGs require a lot of work in development is filling out the world. SecondLife which is not a game in particular but still a MMO system solves this by letting users develop the world. That however results in a wide variety in the environment from the well-made to the random garbage and litter. But the question remains: can you design an MMO where the game is networked and functions peer-to-peer style, rather than a multi-server based system run by a company like most MMORPGs.
With most true peer-to-peer systems, each client itself is smart enough to provide the application environment and only the peers that interact exchange traffic, rather than a more centralized system of servers (even if distributed). Games like AoC have the capability to display everything in one user's direct view in 3D, but it works well when all that data is local on the drive. If new data was available (new buildings, environment features, etc.) in each peer, they would need to be transferred to other peers that interact with them, and in a 3D world, that may be a lot of data.
SecondLife does a slightly different model I believe (I only understand the server system on a basic level), where each island is a server and all avatars on that island are essentially on the same server. When you move off an island by walking, flying or teleporting, it transfers the avatar object to the other island. This can be slow in redrawing all the details when receiving the data a bit at a time. This isn't bad or incorrect, it is a matter of complexity and traffic.
Who knows? The net certainly has grown by a billion percent since the old days of text muds with a max of 3000 simultaneous players. Game development has reached magnitudes of greater sophistication. MMORPG players today simply demand a lot more and there are a lot more of them. They're certainly taking over or replacing other forms of entertainment (in terms of dollars).
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Guide to the Gamer generation for managers
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I picked up a copy of The Kids are Alright by John Beck and Mitchell Wade at the airport a few weeks ago. The subtitle How the Gamer Generation is is changing the Workplace is very apt. It is a sort of business-oriented sociological report on the behaviors, interests and incentives of this particular generation.
This is probably a must-read for all current managers and those who simply don't consider themselves as part of this generation. What is this generation you say? It's a cohort/generation that probably started around the early 1980s up until the current block of 10-year olds. They generally consider anyone over 34 or 35 to most likely not be part of this generation. I'm in that generation myself although I'm just about exactly at the cut off point.
This is one of those books that talks about the implicit life lessons that influenced those in this generation, even if they were not heavily into game playing. It is very likely that those in this generation were surrounded by this and the closer you get to the current time, the less likely that they know a world where video/computer games were not commonplace. The preface lists 7 Habits of Highly Typical Gamers which seem quite relevant to the behaviors I've experienced amongst others in this generation. I'd even put it as something to think about when designing or delivering products and services.
The book appears quite on the point but almost dates itself, not because of time necessarily but because it was likely written at the turning point in the game industry: the rise of MOGs (for the non-gamer generation folks: multiplayer online games). At one point of the book, it talks about how gamers are tuned into solely individual experiences, in that the game-world exists solely for them.
While this is/was case for single-player games, recent years have shown that multiplayer games can become successful, recurring sources of revenue. While single-player games are still the vast majority, many leading games now are either designed solely, or have special modes, for squad (4-6 players), team vs team (16-32 players), or massive-players (up to hundreds of thousands simultaneously).
Most WoW players today probably won't even understand that even ten years ago, even squad-team games were not worth their development time. I recall in 1996 trying to convince a VC and game developers to consider creating multiplayer games. Most just shrugged or plain laughed at the idea. Thank goodness for a reversal on that. (For me, it does suck to be way too early to a party and no one's there).
Anyway, MOGs may change the rules for gamers once again. One key point in this book is that because it's a world customized for your experience, it does not emphasize the more-challenging issues of building social connections within games. Even when players get together to play a game, with SP games, it was mostly a solitary experience. With MMOGs, players once more are faced with social relationships and often with total strangers from other locations, and with much larger crowds and changing people. On top of that technology has evolved so that it is even simpler to interact: actual live audio conversations rather than typing a lot of text, greater bandwidth and better computing power for richer environments, and even social networking sites for recording/blogging events, etc.
It's my belief that games are so much better these days for their multiplayer aspect. For myself, I started on MMOGs back in the text-based MUD days around 1990 or so, so I'm pretty ingrained into this from an early date. So when I play a top-10 single-player game like Oblivion, even with one of the richest environments, most detailed graphics and storyline, open ended gameplay, and a reactive environment, it still feels a little dull because of the lack of other real human players.
In any case, I'd be curious to see a followup to this book in another 4 years examining how MOGs have affected the gamer generation. Let's face it, after a certain point, you can't really call it a separate generation because games are likely going to be here from now on.
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a guide to understanding communities for the non-gamer generation
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In the last post, I introduced the book The kids are alright that talks about ethics, interests, and motivations of the gamer generation as it is starting to enter the workplace. The post was getting long so I left out this bit.
To me the idea of SecondLife was only a dream back in 1992, when text-based MMOGs were available. Even then, there were many MUDs, MOOs, etc. where players eventually got bored of playing the hack-n-slash life and switched more to socializing and creating. The lands I created in lpmud using a derivative of the C programming language inside the game is a similar notion to Lindenscript in SL now. Of course, with a text-basis, you did not have the sheer coolness of a 3D world. But that came back to bite me when I tried SL programming. While I can do the programming, I'm pretty lousy & slow with 3D graphics. That and my lack of time just made me give up (too easily I'm afraid).
My own scripting woes aside, it's the change from game-playing to game-making that made those programmable MUDs really fun. I don't want to say it's a bit of growing up but for me it was a switch from entertainment to using my skills. Not everyone wants to do that and even those who didn't want to play but still returned to the game to socialize points to the need for a different kind of environment: the same that SecondLife is suited for.
What's more, by taking the game aspect out of SL, it allows those of the non-gamer generation (per that book) to relate even better. My guess on what sold companies on getting involved in SL is not just the 3D factor, the programmability, the multi-user environment, etc., but because it is a transition environment between the two generations. Gamer-gen folks can work on this and still explain to their non-gamer gen bosses and seniors that it's okay because "It's not a game." That may sound silly, but the reality is that the non-gamer gens generally still consider games a waste of time, so anything that suggests that it is a game is most likely not worth the attention, and that the gamer employees are probably slacking off.
I bring this up because it is not limited to SL and the like, but even to other community & web 2.0 services. This same parallel exists in situation when a developer becomes an active member of a discussion forum, a chat, a wiki or are blogging . One common first assumption is that they are slacking off, rather than the reality that they may be building better relations than what you pay loads of money to communications, marketing and PR departments for, or even make the right connections to help them in their work.
Very often they are asked to justify themselves spending their time in such activities, in terms of some sort of results: solutions, work products, clientelle, etc. The difficulty lies in the fact that the benefits that they get from communities is building social capital, which itself is an intangible and variable product. You'll find dozens of books that all talk about the value of social capital in business, but it is still hard to measure and compare. But then again some folks have figured out (somewhat) complex ways of determining other intangibles like productivity, loyalty, coolness, etc., so I think there is hope yet for some form of measure.
After all, if we are fixated on results-driven and measured processes for everything, we would definitely need a way to describe that. Enough for now, I'll gab about some ways of measuring this in other posts.
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"Live" online services build relationships faster, but text still rules
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Frank wrote:
"I have recently entered SecondLife, out of curiosity of this new medium. Many people consider it nothing more than a 3D chatting/dating environment. IBM is not even taking communities on dW seriously, such as the discussion forum community. Why should IBM then be interested in this 3D virtual world of chatting/dating? Graphics are far less then the (2D) websites, information is much harder to publish or to find. Everybody is already hating spam mails and ads on websites. What does make SL so special for IBM??? Or are we going to sit (our avatar) in virtual classrooms or meeting rooms? Why not simply use IM (instant messaging, like Sametime), netmeeting, webcams, Skype, phones and other real-life interaction/communication mediums."
This is only my dime-store psychology at work: I think one big advantage over SL is that it takes into account that most humans are visual animals. If you can see something moving around and doing things, then it is probably "real". However, when it's a post left by someone that doesn't give an indication of who that person is, what else they are doing, etc., it is much more easy to ignore them.
When just read the information on a community site and ignore the actual person who writes it (happens very often), it becomes only a piece of data, and you evaluate it in terms of the value of the data, rather than the value of the person. Unless you are a frequent reader of that site, you may not pick up on names; people tend to ignore or forget names unless something really sticks out about the person, and online with aliases, nicknames, etc. it is easier to ignore them. The first impression is that you may not know who this person is; if you have an opinion about them, you still don't really know what others think about them. Unless you really spend the time (very rare) to get to know a specific person, you essentially take the interaction for the face worth of the data they provide.
What I'm talking about here is the underlying social capital of trust. It is more difficult to trust an unknown source especially with little background, little peripheral knowledge around that person, limited ways of finding out what else they know or have contributed, little understanding of their relationships with others, limited or disjointed contact with the person, etc. This overall potential but disjointed relationship is hampered by the fact that most online community services are not live. This also sort of explains why some live services are even more successful: instant messaging, online chatrooms, MMOGs, videoconferencing, and secondlife.
Of course, when I say "live" in the online world, I mean it only in thecontext of direct communication within a given session rather thannecessarily an actual face-to-face. With a live service, you can (or at least attempt to) directly communicate with the other person, rather than build up a relationship through separate deferred messages back and forth via email, postings, comments, etc. The more live you get the better your chances for building a connection with the other person and probably faster too.
On the other hand, most people do not have the time to build many relationships and a live meeting takes up direct individual time, and will probably require a number of sessions before such communication becomes any form of a relationship. This is the classic battle between the need to develop relationships and the need to preserve our own time. It's also why deferred communications through postings, etc., counts as the next best thing. And hence we start with basic communication services like discussion forums (focused purely on deferred messages to a group).
What is needed however, is to try to flesh out the deferred interactions, or bring in more aspects of "live-ness". A step up is a blog, which is still deferred but may give you agreater understading about the person (blogger) based on their thoughtsand writings. To get more information about the person, they should have a profile that describes their background. Another direction is a wiki: while deferred, it allows people to change the content in a pseudo-live way, rewriting each others material as they care to. Another really helpful tool is a peer-to-peer rating system, so you can understand what people think of the person's contribution in their various engagements around the community. Finally, having actual live online services that they can attend on occassion or on demand, fills it out.
All these combine to give a once anonymous other person, a greater depth and personality, and a basis to consider whether this person, not just their knowledge, is worth making a connection with.
I'm not sure I answered Franks question, but this "live-ness" is part of it. Add on top of it, the ability to create, and enrich the environment with more tools and "feathering" to make it an appealing environment to communicate, gives Secondlife a much greater depth in terms of community building.
But, what Frank points out, and what I indicated about time-restrictions of live activities, remains true. Most information is and probably will always be in text. So, no matter how fancy a visual environment you have, without text content, it may lack sufficient information to learn from others. In other words, secondlife may never truly replace the web, since deferred communications ("do it on my time, not yours") and text ("easy to create info") is still the primary choice.
Sorry to say to all those who dream of living in the Matrix, but when it comes to gathering information, you'll still need the realm of text (until we evolve enough to dispose of text entirely). You can talk to people, and interact as much as you want, but the most common way may still be in reading the information.
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Mobility dreaming
I've been looking into ways of staying mobile with less the burdens of hercules upon my back, a.k.a. my ThinkPad. I use the laptop often enough that I carry two 9-cell batteries plus a drive bay battery which I can drain in a single day. I don't like carrying the power connector because that is rarely possible to use where I go.
So the search has been around a smaller or lighter form factor that can still do all my work. As with the dreams of any child, I want it all: powerful enough to run ten applications, high-speed network access, usable keyboard and mouse/trackpoint, a good docking solution at my desktop, long running and replaceable batteries, and decent graphics/video quality.
I've been looking at the new category of Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs), a smaller form factor for PCs that still run a full desktop system. These tend to be be about the size of a thick paperback book and range around 2 pounds. The screens are small by even the ultralight laptop category, but the idea is not for many hours of laptop use. Most of my research was easily facilitated by Dynamism.com, which sells any of these models and other mobile devices.
(Image: courtesy Sony.com)
The only one I have seen first hand is the Sony UX series,which are quite decent with a good video screen, which, from this imagefrom the Sony site. is certainly bigger than their PSP (probably 50-75%more screen at 4.5inches) yet still usable in two hand mode. Thekeyboard is below the slide out screen, with chiclet-like keys. It onlyhas Wifi/WLAN, and no WWAN options, a 1.2GHz Centrino processor. Thelarge capacity battery claims up to 9.5 hrs of life. It even has not one but two video cameras (0.5MP and 1.3MP).
The first new one I've read about is the Samsung Q1 just recently released which is a tablet UMPC only and requires a separate USB keyboard. There's a virtual keyboard. The larger 7" screen belies the fact that there is only a 900MHz Celeron M or a 1 GHz Pentium M in it and the graphics rez is lower.
(Image: courtesy Dynamism.com)
The real winner in my book is the newly announced OQO 02, from a relatively unknown company but a system that is relatively more powerful than the others. The 5" screen is partway between the two others, and while the screen rez is 800x480 (with zoom/pan up to 1200x720), what's really interesting is that it can output up to 1920x1200 over and external HDMI/DVI connection, even . This is awesome for a desktop replacement. The 1.5 GHz VIA C7M is a cpu I'm not familiar with but I'm guessing it is a variant on the Celeron. Like the others it can have 1GB of RAM but no separate video RAM. Max battery claim is 6hrs, which is good enough. Best of all it has an optional WWAN using Sprint's mobile broadband EVDO Rev A service, meaning access anywhere on the Sprint EVDO network (with the right unlimited plan of course at around $60) at 400-700Kbps. Of course, there's still Wifi and Ethernet too.
(Image: courtesy Dynamism.com)
I think the OQO trumps the others, but they are all fairly good. I don't know how useful the small keypads but I have managed to write an entire article over my Treo before. The question is if it is still practical on more regular mobile use: lots of email, make powerpoints, lots of reading (on the small screen); or would I still need a full USB keyboard to go with it, just to make it less burdensome.
The price for any of these is not cheap: ranging around $2k. For that price, I could get a well set up lightweight convertible/tablet PC with a larger 12" screen. This makes me wonder if the form factor is really that much of a saver. I certainly can't put it in my pants pocket, although a larger jacket pocket may work. I don't fly significantly but when I do travel for work, I do tend to have the laptop out (2+ hr flights); which is a real pain. What is heavy these days is carrying about 12lbs of laptop gear (at minimum) plus additional dead-tree material of 1-5 lbs, almost every other day, and walking a lot. (The walking is good exercise but carrying a heavy laptop bag is not for me or my back.)
Sometimes I wish I'd stuck to my old job as an independent product reviewer and writer, with the bennys of getting to take one of these for a spin (and getting paid for it). Oh well...
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Snowing in Tucson!!
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It's SNOWING in Tucson right now! Off for fun... photos soon.
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Still Snow in Tucson
As I woke up this morning, there was more snow all around. Last night's snowing stopped after about an hour and melted but we got fresh snow early in the morning. Everything is till clouded over to the point that we can only see a mile away. Snow here happens maybe twice a decade but I've only seen this much snow in town once before. It's nothing by Minnesota standards but here it's probably the most snow in town in two decades.
Baby's first snow (okay, I 'm having more fun than he seems to be there :)
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to make changes to someone's personal Facebook pages without their knowledge or permission
'He forgets to logout, so every time she goes onto the website it automatically goes to his page and she "frapes" or facebook rapes him.'Stuff.co.nz1st June 2011
'Best frape ever … One of the boys at uni left his facebook on when he went home on Friday and I changed his name to 'Mary-Anne Widdleberry' … Also changed his birthday to the day after the frape. Score.'Drowned in Sound17th May 2010
If you're a carefree aficionado of Facebook who's in the habit of logging into their account and then getting up to grab a coffee or run a quick errand, perhaps you should be a bit more vigilant. The moment you turn your back on the keyboard could be just the opportunity for someone to frape you …
the classic victim of frape is a regular Facebook user who is careless about logging out of their account … thus giving another person unlimited access to personal pages
The word frape (plural frapes) is a new term sweeping the online community for the action of making changes to a person's Facebook pages without their knowledge or consent, usually as a kind of light-hearted practical joke. Frape can be used as a transitive verb with the person targeted as the direct object (often in the passive as in e.g. I got/was fraped), or as a noun used in both countable and uncountable senses to refer to the activity or an instance of it. There's also some evidence for the terms fraper and frapist in reference to perpetrators.
The classic victim of frape is a regular Facebook user who is careless about logging out of their account when they leave their computer or other electronic device unattended, thus giving another person unlimited access to personal pages which they can then edit in whatever humiliating way takes their fancy. Typical examples of fraping include changing a person's profile picture, interests, status, or even their sexuality – with unrestricted access to an account then anything has the potential to be sabotaged for the sake of a few laughs.
Often paraphrased as Facebook rape, and with an obvious phonetic mimicry of the word rape, the term frape has, unsurprisingly, provoked mixed reactions. Some people find it a really offensive way to characterize an activity which could so easily have been described in other ways, and, at worst, argue that it in some way trivializes the horrific crime of rape. At the other end of the spectrum, it is precisely this word's 'shock-value' which has of course enabled it to gain currency, an example of a once-heard-unlikely-to-be-forgotten bit of linguistic creativity.
The word frape is a blend of Facebook and rape which has been used in the domain of social networking for the last couple of years or so. It could be argued that its morphological connection and phonetic similarity with the word rape might relate to the linguistic concept of hyperbole – a deliberate and obvious use of exaggerated language for effect.
Though undoubtedly distasteful to some ears, the word rape appears to be taking on a more neutral meaning in 21st-century teen-speak, where if someone is raped, they are totally beaten or defeated by something. In fact, this usage represents a move in the direction of an older meaning of the word rape. Derived from the Latin word rapere ('seize'), rape originally meant to seize or destroy property, and it took a couple of hundred years before the sense connected with sexual violation really took hold. Though this meaning has until recently eclipsed all others, most native speaker dictionaries still record a sense for the verb rape along the lines of 'spoil or destroy'.
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on the game…
The game was difficult because Swansea played well. It was also decided by some strange decisions from the referee, who gave a penalty that was complete imagination.
From then on I thought there were some odd turning points, like when we came back to 2-2 and made a defensive mistake straight away. It looked similar to Fulham to me, the lack of appreciation for the ball. Our defensive performance was not good enough and that's why we lost the game.
When we got back to 2-2 I thought we could win the game because I thought we could be dangerous. The keeper kept them in the game after too and made some great saves.
I think we also missed some unbelievable chances that are very difficult to understand and explain. But apart from that, well done to Swansea, they played well and deserved the win.
on defensive frailties…
Coincidences are always against us and it is difficult to understand what is going on. I don't know, I feel we are a bit too nervous. We cannot panic every time they have the ball in the final third of the pitch. We have to show more composure and ambition. I think we panicked a bit too quickly today.
It is always a concern but on the other hand there is a good spirit in the side and a desire to do well. But we have dropped six points in a row now that we should not have.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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All silicone couplers and larger pieces of pipe are $6 each. T-Bolts are $2. Prices do not include shipping. I would be glad to make deals for multiple pieces. Feel free to ask for pics or measurements of anything. PM, call, or text me. Mike. 719-650-2259


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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
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hi there Erica,
learning disabilities...i have cognitive issues and some of my cerebellun was removed - so i have memory loss and balance issues as well. i had a brain injury back in 2004 which left me disabled. i had to learn how to read again - not fun at age 27. if intrested in my zines "Damaged Mentality", check out my page. thx!


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Spring's Hottest Must-Haves!
Nevada, @bebezeva, bebezeva.wordpress.com
Who's your favorite fashion blogger?
My favorite fashion blogger is Olivia Lopez of lustforlife.com. She's a Californian known for her luxurious black locks, oversize sunglasses, and bohemian energy.
Why do you love that blog?
I love Olivia's blog because her photographs are breathtaking. It's as if her outfits are each individual works of art. Be it a romantic lace ensemble or a denim and leather rock-chic getup, her attire is exceptional. Much of my inspiration stems from her calculated color schemes and brilliant pattern pairings. She's truly a West Coast style goddess!
What's one tip you would give aspiring fashionistas?
The best advice I can give aspiring fashionistas is to experiment with new styles in an effort to build security and elevated esteem. It's important to listen to feedback from friends, but it's even more important to establish a stylistic self-image that satisfies the self, not solely the expectations of a community. Start small and work up; eventually one's fashion presence will be well-known and influential. The best outfit of them all is confidence, so get comfortable!
What's one piece of clothing every girl should have in her closet?
Every girl should have a fitted black jacket. A blazer, a peacoat, a leather jacket — anything works. Black is slimming, timeless, and extremely practical. Girls need one apparel piece that compliments every outfit.
How would you describe your personal fashion style?
My personal fashion style is an amalgam of contemporary styles with a vintage interpretation. My favorite themes are free-spirited flower child, neo-Gothic teen witch, and sophisticated beatnik. I like to put an ironic spin on most of my ensembles, like a flapper with an Elizabethan twist.
Who is your celebrity style icon?
My celebrity style icons include Mary-Kate Olsen, for her garage-grunge fashion revival, and Pixie Geldof for her androgynous-chic personal brand.
What made you start your own blog?
I've had multiple blogs over the years, but I decided to invest my time in a fashion-specific blog a few months ago. I wanted to express the inspiration behind my outfits so that people could better connect with my aesthetic vision. It's still a newborn blog, but I hope that it will eventually attract more readers who can relate with my style and influence.
California, lustforlife.com
Who's your favorite fashion blogger?
Nicole Warne from garypeppervintage.blogspot.com.
Why do you love that blog?
I love this blog because [Nicole's] style is so classic and effortless. Not to mention gorgeous as well! All her outfits are timeless. Everything from the pastel tone pumps to the feminine and structured blazers with the scalloped shorts take is so chic and not so imposingly trendy. It seems as if her closet is filled with articles of clothing that you won't only love tomorrow, but in five years time as well.
What's one tip you would give aspiring fashionistas?
Be your own muse!
What's one piece of clothing every girl should have in her closet?
Shoes are my vice, so I would say invest in designer shoes. They never depreciate!
How would you describe your personal fashion style?
Euro-Californian chic. I was raised in a Western-European household environment, but my immediate environment since I was 6 has been the palm tree backdrop of multiple Southern California cities! I'm a trench coat, knee-high, and beret girl one day, and a cutoffs and RVCA romper the next.
Who is your celebrity style icon?
I love Lily Donaldson, Charlotte Kemp, and Olivia Palermo's style.
What made you start your own blog?
I've been blogging since the sixth grade — through means of Xanga, LiveJournal, then finally Blogger. So I made a Blogger because my older sister had one, and transitioned to my current blog since 2006. The rest is history!
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Freshman Jeremy Noble (Orangeville, Ontario) scored the game-winner in the fourth overtime as the No. 16/19 University of Denver men's lacrosse team topped Sacred Heart 13-12 in a Saturday afternoon thriller.
DU moves to 5-2 with the win. Sacred Heart slides to 3-3.
"It certainly wasn't one of our best games," said head coach Bill Tierney. "Sacred Heart out-played us in that fourth quarter, scoring five in the final eight minutes of play to tie the game and force overtime. We did not play disciplined Pioneer lacrosse and it almost cost us the game. Sacred Heart played with great emotion and really took us out of our game. We have a lot of work to do if we expect to be an NCAA Tournament team."
Juniors Mark Matthews (Oshawa, Ontario) and Alex Demopoulos (Canton, Conn.) led Denver with five points each. Sophomore Eric Law (Centennial, Colo.) added three goals and an assist for the Pioneers.
Redshirt-junior Brendan DeBlois (Narragansett, R.I.) caused three turnovers and sophomore Chase Carraro (Louisville, Ky.) snagged seven ground balls for Denver, while finishing 20-of-32 on face-offs. Freshman goalie Jamie Faus (Lakeville, Conn.) made 15 saves, recording his fourth win of the season, while Noble led the Pioneers with 11 ground balls.
Law scored twice in the first quarter, but Denver trailed 3-2 at the end of one. The Pioneers got goals from Law, Demopoulos, Matthews, senior Andrew Lay (Denver, Colo.) and another one from Demopoulos during a 5-2 second quarter. The Pioneers outshot Sacred Heart 16-9 in the second quarter and took a 7-5 lead into intermission.
Denver got goals from Matthews, senior Todd Baxter (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Demopoulos in the third quarter and led 10-7 going into the final fifteen.
Noble and Baxter scored goals for the Pioneers to open the fourth quarter, but Sacred Heart went on a 5-0 run to end the quarter and force overtime.
After three scoreless overtimes, Noble netted the game winner with 3:21 to play in the fourth OT.
Bryan Badolato led Sacred Heart with four goals. Alex Miller had two goals and an assist and Zach Frank made 21 saves in the loss.
Denver outshot Sacred Heart 48-45 and had a 56-44 ground ball advantage. Denver won 20-of-32 face-offs and cleared 24-of-29 attempts. Sacred Heart was 26-of-32 on clearing attempts.
The Pioneers return to Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium to host Air Force Saturday, March 26 at 1 p.m. MT. Fans can watch the game live on Pioneer Vision or follow the action on Live Stats and CoverItLive, both available at DenverPioneers.com.


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Policy and planning
Our management of fisheries is focused on securing fisheries for the long term while generating economic and social benefits for our communities. We aim to secure, share and grow our fisheries resources in an ecologically sustainable way for now and the future.
We conduct research across Victoria to monitor fish stocks and fish habitat. We also promote the state's fisheries resources and industries, working with recreational fishers, industry and the broader community.
Listening to our stakeholders
We have a number of channels for gaining feedback on fisheries management issues.


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While on the market for one, I made tons of research (for months) and decided on a Glock. After I handled it though, I knew I cannot buy it because it doesn't fit my hands well. It is too "blocky" for me.
Went back to the drawing board and narrowed my choice to 5 but eventually became 7. Of those, XDM came on top (cost, fit, recommendations, looks, etc. considered). Just placed my order in yesterday after waiting a week after deciding to see if my choice will change but it didn't. It was tough and wanted 2 weeks cool off time before buying but I gave in.
The contenders were:
Walther P99 (eliminated since I cannot find one to hold or test)
Sig P226/229
FN FNP9 (eliminated since I cannot find one to hold or test)
Beretta PX4
Springfield XD/XDM
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Last week, opponents of sound wolf management held a national wolf rally in Washington, D.C. to build support around their radical idea that wolves should be re-listed as an endangered species. One rally speaker even went to far as to tell the lightly gathered crowd that wolves pose no threat to wildlife. The speaker also asserted that unmanaged wolves have had little negative impact on big game populations in the the Northern Rockies and Western Great Lakes.
Anyone that has spent time in the back country understands the serious negative consequences unmanaged wolves have had on other wildlife populations. Tags are being drastically cut in many areas, some hunting units are even closing due to inability of states to regulate wolf predation on elk, moose, deer.
It is time that dedicated outdoorsman stand up. Your voice is vital to help ensure that our way of life and outdoor heritage is protected and preserved for future generations. Please take 60 seconds and send this fully editable letter to both your U.S. Senators and member of Congress today! Simply click here: http://capwiz.com/biggameforever/issues ... ake+Action
If you're not a member of Big Game Forever now is your chance to do so. It's as simple as 1, 2, 3! Simply visit http://biggameforever.org/how-you-can-help.php and sign up today and join with thousands of other outdoorsman who share your passion to support wildlife conservation.
Thank you for defending our outdoor heritage,
Ryan Benson
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The 2012 UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship in Antalya, Turkey, ended with a new name on the trophy – having begun without the most successful side in the tournament's history, four-time winners Germany. Fittingly, the team that knocked the holders out in qualifying went on to claim the title, with Sweden overcoming Spain in a tense final courtesy of Malin Diaz's extra-time clincher.
Triumphant coach Calle Barrling spoke to UEFA.com about the key ingredients in his side's campaign, saying: "I think we kept our minds fresh tactically. We were very brave, even when they [Spain] tried to take control of the game and push us hard. We had to defend very well and when we went forward we kept the ball."
To watch the full interview, including reaction from Spain coach Ángel Vilda, click on the video box above.
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'Stewart, a Niagara Falls, Ont., native who played four seasons with the Golden Griffins, has been working under Savard as an assistant coach. He started the season as a video coordinator. The Blackhawks expanded his role when Savard, a former assistant, took over for fired coach Trent Yawney on Nov. 29.'
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Try it.
I've changes springs on my 40VE and never had a light strike issue. In fact I tool a few coils off a Wolff spring and it worked great. Put over 2000 rounds through it that way and it never didn't fire. I might have been an unusal case but It worked. Did the same with my Glocks.


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March 30th, 2012
The sun has definitely got his hat on and it is beginning to feel very summery indeed. What does this mean for us girls? Time to bare those arms, legs and décolletage. If your body is going to be seeing the light of day, there is probably some serious maintenance to be done, and that starts with exercise.
If keeping fit has fallen off your priority list whilst winter was with us, that's fair enough. Winter is about covering up and comfort food, who feels like venturing out to burn calories when it is freezing? Spring is the perfect time to get in shape and outdoors is the way to go. In these times of recession, how many pursuits are free and make you look gorgeous and feel healthier? Exercise is a great way to connect with others too. In the digital age, social media has become a huge part of our lives, so sometimes the simple act of taking part in a activity with a group of people in the real world seems to happen less regularly. Think back to when you were a kid, you were always doing things in groups and taking part in team activities, like dancing, netball, hockey and athletics and you were probably much more content because of it.
If you are looking for a gentle introduction to a team sport, you could give netball a go. Back to Netball is a scheme currently being run by England Netball and supported by Freya. In fact Freya Active has been awarded "Official Sports Bra Supplier" to the England Netball Squad. Back to Netball is all about encouraging women over the age of sixteen to get back into netball even if you haven't played since you were at school. Sessions are available all over the county; do take a moment to have a look at their new campaign on the website 'Back To Netball'. You can enter your postcode in the session finder and find your nearest class. The sessions are for all ability levels, and there is a coach on hand to cover basic skills development and court play. But this isn't just about tabards and getting sweaty, this is about meeting new friends, having fun and getting fit, without even realising it.
The one big difference between playing when you were at school and now is, the amazing sports bras that are available from Bravissimo. The Freya Active Underwired by Freya provides a truly comfortable fit and amazing support, you can jump up and down as much as you like and the only thing that will be bouncing is the ball. So ladies why not sign up this weekend.


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Field recording symposium at the British Library
On 15th-16th February the British Library will be holding a two day symposium that seeks to open up and explore the practice, art and craft of field recording through a series of panel presentations, listening sessions and screenings. Starting from the early days of field recording, 'In the Field' aims to relate the multitude of contemporary field recording practices to their historical precedents and investigate issues in contemporary practices. These include: How field recordings are distributed to and heard by an audience; Recording the unheard; Mapping the urban; and questioning the extended nature of the field in a digital networked landscape.
A varied group of practising field recordists have been invited to speak at the conference, including the society's very own Simon Elliott! Other speakers include:
Chris Watson (www.chriswatson.net)
Jana Winderen (www.janawinderen.com)
Mark Peter Wright (http://mpwright.wordpress.com/)
Felicity Ford (www.thedomesticsoundscape.com)
This is a joint venture between the wildlife sound section of the British Library and CRiSAP (part of the London College of Communication, University of the Arts) and is part of the Sounds of Europe project.
Tickets are priced at £25/£15 conc for the full two days and £15/£10 for one day. Everyone with an interest in field recording, whether professional or personal, is welcome to attend. Full details can be found at www.inthefield.org.uk
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Investors offer about $38.8 billion in Greek debt buyback: source
By George Georgiopoulos
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece is set to purchase back about half of its debt owned by private investors, broadly succeeding in a bond buyback that is key to the country's international bailout, a Greek government official said on Saturday.
Greek and foreign bondholders offered the targeted 30 billion euros ($38.8 billion) in the deal, which is central to efforts by Greece's euro zone and International Monetary Fund lenders to cut its debt to manageable levels.
"The buyback went well in broad terms. The amount offered by investors was within the range expected, about 30 billion euros," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. He did not provide more details.
No formal announcement is expected before Monday, another official told Reuters.
The buyback accounts for about half of a broader, 40-billion euro EU/IMF debt relief package for Athens agreed in November. The package broadly doubles the average maturity of its rescue loans to almost 30 years and cuts its interest rates by one percentage point to a level far below 1 percent.
Under its terms, Athens will spend up to 10 billion euros of borrowed money to buy back bonds with a nominal value of about 30 billion euros. This is nearly half the 63 billion euros of Greek debt held by private investors eligible for the plan.
Since the bonds are to be bought far below their nominal value, the country's net debt burden would fall by about 20 billion euros.
A successful buyback will ensure that the IMF, which contributes about a third of Greece's bailout loans, will stay on board of the rescue. It would also unlock the payment of 34.4 billion euros of aid later this month. Continued...


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I'll tackle 2 of your question.
First most autoloading pistols that are for carry have the mag release near the trigger for ease of mag changes if maintained yes they are reliable.
Second life expectancy of a pistol varies by quality and model, and usage.
You must maintain your firearm for best results but you can not expect a least cost to last as long as the better quality higher priced ones.


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By Mo Khan
Arsenal came from two goals down to salvage a point against
Crystal Palace at Underhill on Monday night.
In an action-packed second half, debutant Giorgos Efrem had a
hand in both goals for Neil Banfield's side, poaching the first
before winning the penalty from which Danish striker Nicklas
Bendtner scored the equaliser.
The visitors had raced into a two-goal lead early into the
second period with a brace from Lewis Grabban, as former Gunner
Tommy Black returned to his old stomping ground.
Banfield fielded a very young side with the Arsenal first team
in Champions League action on Wednesday evening. He handed a full
Reserve debut to 16-year-old Cypriot youth international Efrem on
the right side of midfield.
Fabrice Muamba was drafted into central defence in place of Sol
Campbell and Sebastian Larsson was back in midfield to claim the
captain's armband. Anthony Stokes partnered Bendtner in attack
with Arturo Lupoli not involved. Ryan Garry missed out with a small
knock but should be back "by the end of the week"
according to Banfield.
It was a tale of two false starts for Arsenal - one at the
beginning of each half. First, the Gunners were forced to start the
game twice after Bendtner played the ball back straight from
kick-off. The second was far more costly for the hosts, as a
temporary lapse in concentration immediately after the break
allowed Palace to establish a two-goal cushion.
The visitors started the brighter, with Black looking to impress
against his former employers and Tyrone Berry causing Arsenal
problems in the early exchanges. But the Arsenal rearguard trapped
the Palace forward time and again as the offsides mounted for the
South London outfit.
The first shot on goal was not until the quarter-hour mark
however, as Black fired a free-kick straight at Vito Mannone in the
Arsenal goal.
The Gunners then produced a lovely move which saw Patrick Cregg
exchange passes with Larsson before finding Ryan Smith on the left.
His whipped cross was just intercepted by David Wilkinson in the
Palace goal as Bendtner looked to pounce.
But real clear-cut chances were few and far between in a tight -
and sometimes scrappy - first half. Larsson was booked for a foul
on Black before Stokes had Arsenal's chance of the half.
A long ball forward was delicately flicked on first-time by
Bendtner, into the path of Stokes, but the ball wouldn't come
down for the Republic of Ireland youth international and his
attempted lob was smothered by the onrushing Wilkinson.
The first half drew to a close with Palace's Berry firing a
shot just past the post from the right.
And the visitors began the second period as they had ended the
first - on the attack. Just a minute in and Black found himself
with time and space on the left of the Arsenal box. He picked out
Grabban, and the young striker tucked his shot inside the near-post
past a helpless Mannone.
Sean Kelly then saw yellow for a trip on Berry, before Palace
doubled their advantage. Black swung in a corner, Marco Reich
flicked the ball on at the near post and Grabban rose to head his,
and his side's, second goal.
The visitors looked menacing and likely to increase their
advantage but, after weathering the storm, Arsenal came storming
back. Banfield swapped Smith and Stokes in an astute tactical
change to provide Arsenal with more pace up front.
Larsson and Cregg combined before Bendtner attacked from the
left. His powerful run to the by-line culminated in a low cross
across the six-yard box and there was Efrem to tap in on his
Palace were wobbling now, but it was an Arsenal player who was
tumbled over. Efrem, full of confidence after his goal, found
himself on the left. As he surged into the box he was upended by
The referee immediately signalled for a spot-kick and Bendtner
stepped up to claim his fifth goal this season, side-footing into
the bottom-right corner of the net.
There were chances at both ends after that, Cregg shot over, a
great cross from Efrem just evaded Bendtner and the outstanding
Matthew Connolly cleared from under his own bar with almost the
last kick of the game.
The future looks bright for both these London sides.
Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.


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Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize Winners
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford, in Loraine, Ohio, and worked as an editor at Random House, a critic, and a public lecturer. She made her debut as a novelist in 1970 with The Bluest Eye, and has written nine novels overall. Her other works include children's books, plays, short fiction, and non-fiction. She has won many awards, including the American Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and, of course, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction for Song of Solomon in 1977.
Ursula LeGuin
Ursula LeGuin was born in Berkeley, California. She writes both poetry and prose in various modes, including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young children's books, screenplays, essays, verbal text for musicians, and voice texts. She has published seven books of poetry, twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, and four volumes of translation. A few of the awards she has won for her prolific work include the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the National Book Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction for Always Coming Home in 1985.
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles, but was raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Patchett sold her first story to the Paris Review before she graduated from college. In 1992 she released her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, which was named a New York Times Notable Book for the year. Patchett's second novel, Taft, won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction in 1994. She wrote two more novels after Taft, most notably Bel Canto, which went on to win both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize.
Saher Alam
Saher Alam was born in Lucknow, India and moved to the United States when she was five. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. Alam also held a Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction at Emory University from 1998 to 2000, and her short stories have been featured in the anthology Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999, as well as the journals Literary Imagination and Five Chapters. Her debut novel, The Groom To Have Been, won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction in 2008.
Linda LeGarde Grover
Linda LeGarde Grover is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe and an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. The Dance Boots, her debut story collection, was co-winner of the 2009 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the coauthor of A Childhood in Minnesota: Exploring the Lives of Ojibwe and Immigrant Families 1880–1920, and the author of a poetry chapbook, The Indian at Indian School. She is the winner of the 2011 Kafka Prize for Fiction for The Dance Boots.


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You really want to teach at the JINGDEZHEN University.
Think twice before doing the jump, it might be your last move in China. Teaching there was like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.
I am French, Teacher at the JINGDEZHEN University during the first semester 2013.
As you might know, Jingdezhen has already a bad reputation. Read first this post.
I will write my warning as a supplement of this one.
Before everything, I respect the students more than you can imagine, but I would never recommend JINGDEZHEN to anyone that I am friends with.
I will start just by giving few elements to describe the context, the atmosphere.
It's Sunday morning you are in your bed. Like every day you are awakened by a loud noise at 6 AM. Your apartment is located in the middle of the campus and the activity around starts at 6 AM every day even the Sunday.
It's only 6 am, so you decide to stay in your bed. Why? Because it's Sunday damn and you have nothing to do. But after a couple of hours you realize that this idea was wrong.
The phone rings. You hear some words from a voice you know, it takes one second to understand that the voice comes from one lady working at the foreign office. She says: "You have class today. The students are waiting for you. You must go there immediately".
Without a shower, without any breakfast, without questioning, you got dressed and ran to the classroom.
Fortunately you had one lesson prepared in advance.
So during 2 hours, dirty, you give this lesson to 55 students completely dumbfounded. You give this lesson with a feeling of humiliation.
At the end of the day during a meeting with the foreign office team you complained strongly about this situation. But the answer you've got from the person in charge of the communication with the teachers is: "I told you that this Sunday was working date". I didn't say anything…I am not used to deal with dishonest people. Because of the holidays the University has changed the schedule of the week without letting me know.
Problems start for you when you become very popular with students. JINGDEZHEN doesn't like popular teachers because popular teachers "have too much influence on students."
The result: you are given more hours to teach.
When you ask the management: "All the teachers have signed the same contract! Why does my week workload has 4 more hours than others teachers? We have the same salary!"
The answer is "This is our decision. You have nothing to say. Based on the contract you have signed we can give you 8 hours more than others. With only 4 hours more you should feel lucky.
I was in good terms with the JINGDEZHEN foreign office of the University until the day I received an email from a Chinese recruiter.
This is his email:
"Heze University wanted to hire you, but they called Jingdezhen University, Jiangxi Province. We were all told that your name is blocked in China Foreign Experts Bureau. No Schools can help you get a new working visa and a new foreign expert card in China Foreign Experts Bureau. It is a dead reason for you."
I've asked confirmation to the University and surprise, for the first time, I didn't have any answer from them. So I decided to write this warning:
My intention here was to warn any teachers to stay well away from JINGDEZHEN.
I am convinced that JINGDEZHEN put systematically foreign teachers on the Teacher National blacklist at the end of the year for one reason or another.
Whether you finish your contract or not you will be blacklisted. No matter how good teacher you are!!!! I suppose that Teachers are put, most of the time, in the "trouble maker" category.
http://www.chinaforeignteachersunion.co ... tains.html
So, if your intention is to work in China for more than 1 year, do not start with JINGDEZHEN University. If you just want to have one experience in China and then leave, you will be ok with them.
From what I have heard, all the former teachers who had worked at the JINGDEZHEN University left China after the JINGDEZHEN experience.
Maybe without knowing that they are now on the Teacher national blacklist!!!!!


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Well, how do you fare compared to the Zeitgeist?
Chat up your fellow wooters and let us know how lame this poll was or what obvious choices we missed.
For example: Was this poll a) STUPID, b) DUMB, c) POINTLESS or d) ALL OF THE ABOVE?
Paw-paw. Grandbaby's first words. Love that kid...
My son was Mama. My daughter was BaBa at around 5-6 months old. I have video of her around 6 months old asking "where baba?" over and over again until I handed it to her. She was way early on everything while my son was a watcher. He's conservative and she's dangerous!
My daughter's first word was Hi, and then followed by Dada.
I Don't have a kid, but my nephew's (Cousin's son. Extended family's a bit of a pain.) first word was "Woot"
Not lying there. Granted, the mom and dad were debating if that was a real word or not.
our little girl said hi first. then hat and dada. took forever for her to say mama.
Ha! I love that "No!" was a choice. My daughter's first word, and if am not mistaken, first thought, was NO. Hee! She's gonna drive me nuts, but I'm okay with it.
My kiddos first word was bye-bye, with the hand/arm motion and all!
As an owner/operator of a martial arts school, I am proud to say that my daughter's first word was... "NINJA"
I learned very early on to watch what I say when driving after my (then) infant daughter repeated me...
While "da-da" was not first word, I am pretty sure if one were keeping count, "no" was the first word to pass the 100, 500, and 1,000 usage milestones.
Uh Oh. And yes, spoken in correct context.
The other 2 said Dada first. ingrates.
My little girl said "what's that?", dada and "Hi"
ki ka (kitty cat)
Pork Chop.
No lie.
Who remembers these things? Aren't there more important things in life? :-P
mheeren wrote:ki ka (kitty cat)
What we consider to be our son's first word (a word that he said in connection with a meaning, not just a noise) was "kitty". He was in his high chair and looked out the window, pointed, and said "kitty!" (without the 't' sound, so it was more like "ki-iy", but we knew what he meant)
Steelwells wrote:Pork Chop.
No lie.
That's great! Makes me look forward to hearing my sons first words (although one day I am going to regret saying that!)
Go! directed at the dog.
That was the first real in context word although she's been making sounds "da-da" "buh-buh" ... that one might consider words for a while.
Our daughter's first word was "hello".
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Daughter made up a word to nurse.
One of her first words was shoes.
She always wanted to visit the grandparents, but she was really visiting her aunts shoes!
Aunt moved out. She lost interest in visiting the grandparents.
MGilg wrote:I learned very early on to watch what I say when driving after my (then) infant daughter repeated me...
My daughter called the ducks the f..ks.
Made going to the duck pond interesting!
"Uh oh." He was 7 or 8 months old and he would throw things off his high chair then look down at them and say "Uh oh!"


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Rove accuses Obama of engaging "intimidation" tactics like "a Third World dictator"
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From Karl Rove's April 29 Wall Street Journal column:
Before his health-care bill passed, Mr. Obama sent a tough letter to health-insurance CEOs and then castigated them 22 times in a follow-up prime-time televised speech. This is behavior worthy of a Third World dictator-not the head of a vibrant democracy.
But it is the president's intimidation that is most troubling. Mr. Obama has the disturbing tendency to question the motives of those who disagree with him, often making them the objects of ad hominem attacks. His motives, on the other hand, are pure.
Mr. Obama often makes it seem illegitimate to challenge his views, and he isn't content to argue issues on the merits. Instead, he wants to make opponents into pariahs. And it's not just business executives who are on the receiving end. We've also seen this pattern with the administration's attacks on the tea party movement and those who attended town-hall meetings last summer on health care.
This is a bad habit-and a dangerous one. The presidency is a very powerful office, and presidents need to be careful not to use it to silence dissenting voices.
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So today I hit a block in my practice.
And although I have tried to stay away from the commentaries and focus solely on the suttas I think it's time I go forth into the disciples writings.
This may be a good post to make a sticky if everyone can put down books they think are great as well as a brief introduction to why they are so good.
Pa Auk Sayadaw and his work "Knowing and Seeing". A text that details samatha (deep access concentration and the jhanas) as well as a variety of vipassana techniques. Considered the prized text of the Pa Auk Forest Monastery in southern Burma.
Sayadaw U Pandita and his two famous works "The Meaning of Satipatthana" & "The Practical Way To Nibbana". These two books deal thorougly with how this student of mahasi intrepets Satipatthana Sutta and it's practice in vipassana meditation.
Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization, by Analayo (Bhikkhu Anālayo completed Ph.D. thesis on the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta)
A student of varying schools whos intrest is noted as lying in the compartive studies of early buddhism.
Buddhaghosa and his magnum opus "Visuddhimagga" which is the 'great treatise' on Theravada Buddhist doctrine.
Please only include large texts of standings such as these. Modern and Classic texts are okay as long as they come from a highly "academic" or "advanced" position.
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(The books can range all topics related to dhamma). And all orthodox schools/teachers are accepted.
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For those hanging Par30 or Par38 bulbs (21-36w) over their tank, how much shimmer are you seeing? At what height does the shimmer diminish or disappear? I likes me some shimmer (MH lighting over a reef is one of the memories that brought me back to the hobby) and it's one of the reasons I've been planning to use these bulbs.
However if it can't be had (the shimmer, that is) at the height I'll need to hang my pendants for good coverage (roughly 32 inches over the substrate on an 18" tall tank) I might just as well plug in a Finnex Ray 2 and call it a day. Those seem like great units, but with such a diffuse coverage of 1w emitters, don't have the point source output that will satisfy a shimmer-head. Or so it seems.
My lights are about 16" above my tank and I have some shimmer. I don't have the surface turbulence that most reef tanks do so the effect is less of course. I've never had a reason to have the lights higher so I can't tell you when you might lose the effect.
If you decide on the Finnex Ray 2 instead, I think you will be very happy.
That's great to hear. I was hoping you would post as your lighting setup inspired my plan for a pair of hanging pendants. I'm planning to use two of these fixtures, but I'm thinking about drilling some ventilation as I'm concerned about heat build-up shortening the life of the emitters.
At one point I thought about the classic 50's pool hall light fixture with 3 glass green shades. That just wouldn't look right in our living room, so I went with the IKEA shades.
No fixed boxes here, these pendants will hang from ceiling track using 110v pendant converters to light a 24" long tank. The pendant height will remain adjustable, at least until I get it dialed in and cut cords to length. The bulbs I'm looking at feature 5300k 60 degree Cree emitters, in either a 21W PAR30 or 36W PAR38 configuration. An inline dimmer and wall switch timer will control intensity and duration.
Regarding the tank itself, I'm still vacillating between the 17g "60p knockoff" from Mr. Aqua, and their larger 33g tank which has the downside of being nearly 18" deep front to back. The larger tank is a better fit for the stand I'm modifying, and a better fit in many other ways as well. So I'll probably just deal with a slightly dimmer front and back than could be had with the 12" deep (f to b) 17 gallon version. In other words, the bulbs probably don't have enough spread to cover 18" front to back, but I hope I can work around that.
Frankly, I'm flying by the seat of my pants to set up a tank over a 3-4 period based on whatever I think I've read, so I expect to make some mistakes. I'm just trying to prevent really expensive mistakes...
My apologies I confused you with another member that had 30degree PAR38s.
Your 60degrees may be closer. Maybe start @ 8". Of course before your start cutting the cord.
If you are able to get Dimmable Bulbs it's worth the extra $. HomeDepot has Dimmer switches for LEDs.
Sounds like you are good to go. Back when I did mine I could not find pendant converters for the Track I bought. I bought two pendants then swapped in the IKEA cords.
No worries, thanks for the tips. At the moment, I am much more comfortable with the equipment side of the equation than I am with stewarding the amazing life forms all this stuff is designed to support. We'll see what happens next month. I can see from not only your tank but also your other projects that you're a true green (and maybe occasionally brown?) thumb. :wink:
Thanks, if I have any success I credit doing my research and keeping it simple. It's not rocket science, we keep aquatic weeds and bait fish that come from 3rd world drainage ditches, fertilized with water buffalo dung. :smile:
Also, I've posted more than once, it's a system, don't fixate on 'parts',
look at how they interact.
Micro managing may be the worst roadblock on the path to Aqua-happiness.
Best of luck on your new tank, Pm me when you get a journal up.
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Can some one tell me what the "chest slot" measurements are? Thanks - Tim Allen
Are you using Shackman's lights? If so, I can provide the estimated dimensions.
Planning on it, hit me up with those dimensions,thanks. -Tim
try this thread too :)
Thanks max
i measured out the dimensions from that thread max (Top slot is 1/8" tall
Bottom slot is 1/4" tall
Slots are 1/4" apart.
Slots are same length; 1 5/8" long) It doesnt look right, 1.5/8 it way to short for the length, am i wrong here?
My slots are 1-13/16" long (or a notch past 1-7/8"). The last digit on the display is supposed to be partially obstructed.
Yeah, I'd go with what BobaFettish says...his armor looks great!
Thanks Max.
OK, I think I originally went with the info in the thread that Max posted the link too, but had to modify the dimensions slightly. Here is what I came up with"
Height of the top slot is between 3/16" and 1/4".
Space between the top slot and the bottom slot is between 1/4" to 5/16".
Height of the bottom slot is 5/16".
Width of both slots is 1-13/16".
These dimensions work well with my set of ShackMan lights.
Thanks man, yeh those looks way more accurate now. Thanks again.
kinda sorta belongs in here, but after doing a ton of high mobility acting, i started to have trouble getting my lights (shackman) to STAY PUT...any suggestions on if soem one made a shelf system, or somehtign of that sort. I had a hols cut in my vest to accomidate the various electronic components...that helped but it slips down after a while.
a little help?
Try duck taping the actual out line of the lights to the back of the chest armor and and maybe some velcro on the back of the lights that attach to the vest...so its connected in 2 ways, (armor to lights,lights to vest)
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The importance of colour
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High School: A 2011 graduate of Montemayor Sagrado Corazon…Played for Wilmar Zapata…Won six open tournaments in cities of Colombia, while pacing second in four others…Earned several top-five finishes at national tournaments…Ranked No. 1 in the state rankings and seventh in the Colombian Federation Junior Golf Rankings…Finished 30th at the Optimist Junior International held in West Palm Beach, Fla., in August, 2010.
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