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Scimitar Clock #12
It is with great regret that due to current climate Bairnsdale Clocks will be closing permanently to the public at 5pm TODAY Friday 27th March 2020.
Patrons who need to collect repairs or have a warranty issue will need to contact us via by message through facebook.
If your clock/watch is still undergoing repair we will contact you with further instructions apon completion.
Online sales through the website are available where purchases can be posted.
Sales of stock will continue on Ebay. Follow 'bairnsdaleclocks' and 'brighteyes2003' for the latest auctions.
Trevor and Di are local people and would like to assure all their patrons that all repairs are safe and owners details recorded. Our aim is to have all repairs happily reunited with their owners.
We thank you for your patronage over the years.
Best wishes Trevor & Di.
Trevor's a time keeping winner
Trevor Herbstreit has repaired, designed and made some extremely special timepieces over the years.
The results are rewarding in themselves. But to be recognised internationally at one of the biggest time craft competitions in the world is a true honour and Trevor couldn't be happier with his achievement.
Owner operator of Bairnsdale Clocks, in Dalmahoy Street, Bairnsdale, Trevor has been repairing clocks for nearly 30 years, beginning in the industry with Bairnsdale Clocks when it was owned by David Raeburn and located at the top end of Bairnsdale. He's been making clocks for about 20 years.
"I'd been working with antique clocks, and repairing clocks, for years and I got to the point where I became more interested in actually making them," Trevor said.
His creations are unique, all the working parts made by him.
"When I first started making clocks I would take parts from other clocks, but then once I got the special machinery I started to make them all," he said.
Trevor said a lot of his skill is self taught, and there is a lot of trial and error to get a timepiece just right.
"There only has to be a small thing not quite right, like a screw that's a little too tight or loose, and it can really affect the workings," he said.
A clock he has dubbed the Scimitar Skeleton Clock due to the resemblance of the pendulum shape to the curved blade sabre originating in the Middle East, took around two and a half years to make, and while he doubts he would ever get back the value of the time and money sunk into it, the piece did reward him with a first place and a highly commended at the 2018 Crafts Competition, which was held last July in York, Pennsylvania (USA).
"It took me around two and a half years, in between the other jobs at work," Trevor said.
"It's a prototype and I've since made two more using different wood, but the design is the same."
And these only took about a year each to make.
"When I was cutting the pieces for the first clock I made a couple of some of them, so that saved time with the second and third ones," he said.
Among the woods Trevor has used are apricot tree, Dargo walnut, Queensland walnut and red gum for the cases.
While the competition was held in the US, it was fortunate that Trevor did not have to consider transporting the large clock overseas to be a part of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors' (NAWCC) Horological Craft Contest. (Horology is the study of the measurement of time).
"I sent a heap of pictures of me making the clock, of the pieces and the final piece. And a video to show that it worked," he said.
He entered his Scimitar clock in two of the possible 27 classes of the competition and found success in both.
"In the single-train clock movement – metal, it received an honourable mention, and then in the experimental timepiece designs I won first place," Trevor said.
It was the first time he had entered a NAWCC contest.
"Sometimes there'll be Australian regional competitions but this is the first international one I' ve entered," he said.
"I don't know if the NAWCC is the biggest, but it's certainly one of the biggest competitions in the world."
Entries were received from across America, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, so to come away with a win is quite a thrill for Trevor, whose passion is evident as he speaks of clock making.
In his report on the 2018 contest and his description of the scimitar clock, William 'Bill' Slough wrote in NAWCC's journal, Watch & Clock Bulletin, "As a completed item mounted in its finely crafted, yet simplistically designed case, it is apparent that it would display well in homes or businesses of many genres including public spaces. Its pleasing forms and gentle motion mesmerise those who gaze upon it".
The weight of the scimitar clock, which is about two-and-a-half kilos, is wound about once a week, and while the straighter the pendulum the more accurate a clock generally is, Trevor says the curved scimitar pendulum has had little effect.
"They are quite accurate, perhaps only losing a minute a week," he said.
"They're not precision pieces. They're functional, but my main aim is that they are aesthetically pleasing."
Both decorative and practical, dotting the scimitar clock are spots of haematite.
"It works as dust covers for the little movements.
"If I didn't cover them dust could get in and cause problems, so the haematite fixes that, and it looks nice," Trevor said.
"I might try some other gem or precious stone, maybe opal, in the next one. But if acustomer orders one they could pretty much have whatever they like."
Other clocks Trevor has made over the years are proudly displayed in cabinets in the Dalmahoy Street shopfront.
"I make all the parts; the wheels, the gears" he said.
"I use an old pantograph, not CNC (computer numerical control), which they tend to use these days.
"It' s not quality. Modern machinery, but it' s good.
"There's a lot of prototyping. Things have to work and also look right. I roughly cut it out in MDF and play around with what looks best and then go from there to cut out all the brass pieces.
Asked what would be his favourite part of clock making Trevor laughs and says, "it's definitely not polishing!"
"There are a lot of parts and it's very time consuming," he said.
"You have to be patient. It's the sort of thing where I'll do a bit and then put it aside and come back to it later. But it's got to be done."
The hundreds of hours that go into each of Trevor's pieces result in timepieces that are exquisite and a joy to view.
Visit Bairnsdale Clocks to see Trevor' s award-winning scimitar skeleton clocks and many of his other pieces along with antique beauties and repairs.
Now's the time to bring in your clocks, watches & barometers in for a free quote, or ring us to arrange collection.
NOT JUST CLOCKS. We also have Jewellery & watches, Vintage gifts & other interesting trinkets.
Your one stop shop for all your STEAMPUNK supplies!
New Retro Clock Collection. Large & small. Metal & porcelain. Heaps to choose from. All fitted with new mechanisms.


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our twenty-first guest blogger
Ellie G from Less Cake {More Frosting}
{Handmade Ornament No.21}Welcome…Ellie!
Hello all you Under the Table and Dreaming readers. I CANNOT believe that I have been given this awesome opportunity! WOW! I kind of thought maybe Stephanie Lynn asked me on accident. It was kind of a dreamy thing. I love this blog and Stephanie Lynn, and have loved linking up with many of her Sunday Showcase parties. What a trip!
Anyway, my name is Ellie G, and I blog over at the little place I like to call Less Cake {more frosting}. Where we love to eat, talk, drink Diet Coke, make some cool stuff, and where I admit that once I bought a tube of Cake Mate frosting and actually just ate it. {wait….maybe I haven't admitted that before. WOW! I think I just let out a dirty little secret. WHEW! That felt kind of good!}
{this is where I pause and admit to being a tiny bit crazy about things matching. And/or stylish Christmas decor. And also admit that the noodle picture frame that my son brought home from school as an ornament gets lovingly tucked into the BACK of the tree. There. I said it.}
I have been looking for things that would match his room, be small enough to fit on the tree, and that are super cheap. No dice. (apparently baby blue and orange aren't popular Christmas colors!)
This idea is so simple it's almost not worth sharing.
On the other hand….
It is so cheap, so customizable, so cool….
These little tiny glass beauties were on sale 50% off. They could not be sweeter. (or more perfect for a tiny tree)
It's so much easier to find paint to match your decor. This orange is perfect. One quick squirt, and then roll it around until it covers the interior. (my 8 year old helped with these, and did an awesome job!! Great thing to do together!)
I let them dry overnight. And you should probably have them dry on a paper towel. There might be some paint seeping out. I may know this from experience. Just sayin'. It's so simple and easy (and cheap) we threw these together in about 1/2 hour. And they match TO PERFECTION!) Just think….ANY COLOR! ANY COLOR! I love it! The possibilities are endless. Start thinking outside the "red and green" box!
Throw them on the tree with some really inexpensive picks in fun colors (this was actually only one pick I found in a floral department and snipped apart) and you have a designer tree. This entire tree (tree, and decorations) was under $10. NOT KIDDING!
Now I'm off to make some pink and brown ones for my daughter's room.
And some hot pink and teal ones for my neighbor gifts….
and some red ones to go in a bowl on my table….
Thanks again Stephanie Lynn for having an OUTSTANDING blog, for hosting such a great event, and for accidentally including me!
YEE HAW!! (and happy holidays!!)
Thank you Ellie! Your ornaments open up a world of possibilities; I think I want to re-decorate all my trees now! I love the orange and blue on the white tree…simply beautiful and way cool for your little guys room!
So you want to see just where that fabulous tree is going to go? Check out this super cool room Ellie put together for her son {here}. I'm totally lovin' the color combinations and the tree is going to be a pretty awesome addition!
Here are a few of my other favorites you can find over at Ellie's: Keep track of holiday gifts with this Holiday Gift Book; Some fantastic printables like this Vacation To-do List; Dress up a plain boring baby wipes container with this adorable Baby Wipes Band; Make yummy Candy Popcorn; or how about this super cute gift idea – Handmade Caramels Lunch Box.
To take a peek at the last twenty ornaments simply click the button above! I hope you'll be inspired and join us this Sunday to link up your own handmade ornament creations ~ Enjoy!

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Best Utilize Your Tax Refund – Part 2
Welcome to the 2nd part of the latest series on www.JosephSangl.com – "Best Utilize Your Tax Refund"
Step 1 Before You Spend It, Plan It
It is exceedingly important to have a plan for the refund money BEFORE you ever receive the money!
Step 2 Purchase Financial Freedom
There are really three broad categories of things you can do with your tax refund money.
(1) Give It Away, (2) Save It, (3) Spend It
FIRST: Fill your Emergency Buffer Fund
Do you have money saved for emergencies? You need at least $1,000 for your Emergency Buffer Fund! If you own a house or have children, you need at least $2,500!
How would it feel to have at least $1,000 JUST SITTING THERE in your bank account? I remember the day that we had $1,000 in the bank – and I did not have to mail it out to a creditor!!!
If you do not have an Emergency Buffer Fund, use your tax refund to fill it up!
SECOND: Fund your KNOWN, UPCOMING Non-Monthly Expenses for the year!
One of the biggest reasons people fall off of the "I'm Going To Achieve Debt-Freedom" wagon is because of Known, Upcoming Non-Monthly Expenses! These are expenses that we KNOW are going to happen. Known, Upcoming Non-Monthly Expenses like Christmas, vacations, property taxes, building fund pledges, quarterly insurance premiums, annual health club membership fees, annual golf club dues, and homeowner's association fees. If you have not saved for these expenses, they will completely derail your financial plan!
It is AWESOME to have money saved up in advance for vacation and Christmas!
THIRD: Eliminate Debt!
DON'T skip ahead to this step! Make sure that you have the previous two items in place first! Too many people race past the previous two options and use their $3,000 tax refund to pay off $3,000 of a $5,000 credit card. They have no Emergency Buffer Fund, they haven't saved for Known, Upcoming Non-Monthly Expenses, and now they have just spent all of that money on a credit card.
Even if the $3,000 paid off the credit card, it is still not worth it if one does not have the first and second items in place! Think about it this way. If the $3,000 credit card had a monthly payment of $100, how long will it take to get that $3,000 back into the bank? THIRTY MONTHS! Not worth it.
BUT, if you have taken care of the Emergency Buffer Fund and have saved for your Known, Upcoming Non-Monthly Expenses, it is time to attack the debt! Pull up the [download#4#nohits] and calculate your own Debt Freedom Date! Make some debts leave your life!!!
In the next installment of this series, we will review the FUN options that one has when they have already completed the FIRST, SECOND, and THIRD items!
Read the rest of the "Best Utilize Your Tax Refund" series
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Joe, can't you use a little bit of your tax return for "blow money"??? Don't be a budget Nazi! Right?


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At least four bullets were fired from a gun into the windows of Volusia County's Republican Party headquarters Sunday night or early Monday morning, and the party's chairman blamed Democrats for the vandalism.
SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. — At least four bullets were fired from a gun into the windows of Volusia County's Republican Party headquarters Sunday night or early Monday morning, and the party's chairman blamed Democrats for the vandalism.
"I'm looking at the busted window that some nice Democrat did," said Republican Party Chairman Tony Ledbetter on Monday. "Republicans don't have any beef about what we are doing. It's the Democrats."
Ledbetter was slightly distracted from an interview when he spotted a hole in the glass.
"Is that a bullet hole?" Ledbetter asked volunteers, who found the broken windows and bullets around 9 a.m. Monday. "They actually used a gun, too."
South Daytona Police Capt. Mark Cheatham said Monday that his agency is investigating the shooting that left shattered glass and fallen campaign posters that littered the sidewalk outside 2841 S. Nova Road — the Nova Fountain — strip mall near Reed Canal Park. Police did not have any witnesses or suspects.
Increased police patrols have been ordered for the area of the GOP headquarters in South Daytona. Investigators are also trying see if anyone in or near the strip mall had video, as they have not been able to find a witness to the incident.
"The bullets entered low and then went high inside the office, making us think they were fired from a car, but it's something we are looking at," said Cheatham, who didn't anticipate any other agencies becoming involved in the investigation.
Inside, volunteers pointed to bullet holes in the walls and ceiling.
Ledbetter said he has been a political activist for 40 years and that it's the first time he's seen a party office shot up.
"It's a small strip center and no other business was vandalized, so it was obviously politically motivated," Ledbetter said, blaming the political climate.
"In 2018, this is a much tougher election cycle because this is not adversaries, this is not just Democrats and Republicans fighting about election day." Ledbetter said. "This is sick people that who want to come out and bust windows and shoot bullet holes in my windows. It's crazy."
Ledbetter said he was the last to leave the GOP headquarters at 4 p.m. Sunday, and workers in the adjacent businesses, including an e-cigarette store, a restaurant and a massage business, had closed by 10 p.m. No one heard shots fired, and there were no injuries.
South Daytona police Capt. Mark Cheatham said the shooting incident happened between 4 p.m. Sunday and Monday morning.
"At this point we can confirm that at least four rounds were fired into the building," Cheatham said.
State Rep. Tom Leek, an Ormond Beach Republican whose name graced a sign beneath the window that was damaged, reacted strongly Monday against the political environment in which the vandalism occurred.
"The state of our political discourse in America is an embarrassment to all parties and those involved in the political process," Leek said in a statement. "Neither Democrats nor Republicans own the high ground on this issue. Sooner or later, both parties are going to have to stop suffering idiots within their own party, and cast them out on their own."
Jewel Dickson, the Volusia Democratic Party chair, said Monday that political organizations have been reviewing security measures and taking precautions this year.
"Our reaction is it's appalling," she said of the vandalism targeting Republicans. "It's a sign of things going wrong. I would not be quick to blame a Democrat for doing that. It could be anybody angry."
Republican Gov. Rick Scott also reacted to the incident.
"Glad everyone at the Volusia County Republican headquarters is okay and that no one was inside when the shooting happened. Violence of any kind does not belong in our state and I appreciate law enforcement's quick response to keep these Floridians safe," Scott tweeted.
Locally, State Rep. Patrick Henry weighed in with an emailed statement: "After one of the deadliest and most violent weeks in America, I'm disheartened and angry to learn that shots were fired at a Republican Party office in my district."
Henry, a Daytona Beach Democrat, also asked those who may have information on the shooting incident to contact law enforcement. "Your party affiliation should never make you a target of gun violence."
The Florida League of Women Voters and the Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence said things must change, that "lives are counting on it."
"The hatred that is consuming our state and country helps no one and hurts us all," the organization wrote. "We call on all Floridians to join us in our condemnation of these acts and commit to a renewed effort to maintain the peace of our communities."
The shooting comes on the heels of politically motivated violent acts, including the South Florida man who federal agents say sent more than a dozen bombs to a CNN office and to Democratic leaders across the country and the anti-Semitic shootings at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Eleven people were killed in the shooting in Pittsburgh, and six others, including police officers, were shot in the apparent hate crime.
Hate crimes, a designation that would elevate the seriousness of a charge, do not involve those in Florida who may be targeted for their political affiliation.
The shooting of the Republican offices left nearby workers worried and scared. Samantha Simmons, at the nearby e-cigarette store, said "it's nerve-racking."
"You hear about the whole bombings and the person is from Florida. Now there is an attack on the Republican office; makes me wonder if someone is trying to get payback," Simmons said. "It's insane. You don't fight fire with fire. We are Americans; we are not supposed to be against each other."
Patricio G. Balona is a reporter for The Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal. Staff writer Mark Harper contributed to this story.


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Thrillers and Suspense
June 2018
Recent Releases
Our Kind of Cruelty
Araminta Hall
Mike, who changed everything about himself to make his girlfriend Verity happy, and Verity herself, who's marrying someone else.
What it's about:
Convinced that Verity's wedding is just part of a twisted game they used to play called The Crave, Mike knows he must stop the wedding at all costs.
Why you might like it:
A tangled, twisted tale, this disturbing psychological suspense novel is as much about sexual politics as it is about obsession and manipulation.
Paper Ghosts: A Novel of Suspense
Julia Heaberlin
What it's about:
The unnamed narrator of this twisty psychological suspense novel is convinced that Carl Feldman, a photographer now living in an assisted care facility due to dementia, murdered her sister. To find out if she's right, she poses as his daughter to take him on a cross-country drive to all the places where she believes he killed other young women.
Got questions?
We do too. Does Carl
have dementia? Is he physically as weak as he seems? Who, exactly, is manipulating whom?
The Perfect Mother
Aimee Molloy
What happens:
Exhausted single mom Winnie leaves her son in the care of another family's nanny while she and the rest of a new-mothers support group hits a trendy Brooklyn bar -- never expecting that her son will disappear.
Read it for:
flawed and realistic characters dealing with new parenthood; a nail-biting investigation by the mothers themselves; plenty of devious twists.
Book buzz:
The Perfect Mother
is already being adapted for the screen by actress Kerry Washington.
Our Little Secret
Roz Nay
What it's about:
Back in high school, Angela and HP dated; 15 years later, she's living with him and his wife, Saskia. Right now, though, she's being interrogated by the police, for Saskia is missing.
Why you might like it:
With an unreliable narrator and enough tangled emotions to keep fans of Ruth Ware or Paula Hawkins happy, this debut features strong characterizations and enticing plot twists.
Reviewers say:
"sneaky-smart [and] charismatic" (
Focus on: Killer First Lines
The Prisoner
Alex Berenson
Killer first line:
"The horses knew." From there, the tension builds inexorably -- the Turkish geldings are being prepped to make a dangerous border crossing into Syria, where they'll be used to smuggle out an Islamic State bureaucrat important to the CIA.
Why you might like it:
This 11th entry in a fast-paced yet well-researched spy series has stalwart John Wells trying to unearth a CIA mole -- from inside a Bulgarian prison, where he's disguised as an al-Qaida jihadi.
Little Black Lies
Sharon Bolton
Killer first line:
"I've been wondering if I have what it takes to kill." Two sentences later, you'll be chilled by where this line of questioning goes.
What it's about:
In the Falkland Islands, children have been going missing, and suspicion has fallen on Catrin Quinn, whose two young sons were killed in an accident not long ago.
Why you might like it:
With a compelling story line, complex characters, and an unusual, desolate setting, this tale is "mesmerizing" (
Publishers Weekly
Orphan X
Gregg Hurwitz
Killer first line:
"After picking up a set of pistol suppressors from a nine-fingered armorer in Las Vegas, Evan Smoak headed for home in his Ford pickup, doing his best not to let the knife wound distract him."
Why you might like it:
Doses of humor and plenty of authentic details round out this fast-paced and adrenaline-pumping series debut (followed by
The Nowhere Man
), which stars a man trained since childhood as an elite assassin (now working
pro bono
for those in need
) -- who has now become the target of someone with similar skills.
I See You
Clare Mackintosh
Killer first line:
"The man behind me is standing close enough to moisten the skin on my neck with his breath." If that doesn't make you feel creeped out and claustrophobic, we don't know what will.
What it's about:
Told from three viewpoints, this disturbing novel relates the story of a suburban mom who discovers that her face is being used to advertise for a dating website -- and that the previous "models" have been the victims of violent crimes.
Be warned:
You'll never look at your familiar routines the same way again.
Ring of Fire
Brad Taylor
Killer first line:
"Dexter Worthington didn't set out to murder anyone."
What it's about:
In this 11th thriller starring Pike Logan and the covert counter-terrorism taskforce he works with, they're racing against time to stop multiple catastrophic events across the U.S.
Why you might like it:
With its ripped-from-the-headlines plot centering on modern terrorism, this fast-paced tale fairly pulses with authenticity -- author Brad Taylor spent more than 20 years in the military.
Contact your librarian for more great books!
McArthur Library
270 Main Street
Biddeford ME 04005
207 284 4181


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This is the old United Nations University website. Visit the new site at http://unu.edu
Technology transfer to develop food and agricultural products, conservation, and processing industries
Conservation and the processing of food and agricultural products have an important role to play in transforming predominantly agricultural economies into mixed agroindustrial economies. A well co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary agroindustry would stimulate agricultural production, prevent post-harvest losses during storage, handling, processing, and distribution, and ensure better utilization of the products. The agro-industries would provide additional employment, create new opportunities for investment, and raise income levels, especially in the rural areas, and would increase the export of finished products instead of raw materials, thus helping to achieve a better balance of trade between the developing and advanced countries.
Although agriculture is said to provide livelihood for 70- 90 per cent of the populations in the developing countries, it has reached the saturation point as an employment resource in many of them. There is an urgent need to find alternative employment especially in rural areas. One of the most effective means of achieving this is to establish conservation and processing industries based on appropriate technologies. For this, it is necessary to develop national competence through the training of manpower and the establishment of suitable institutions to help in the selection and transfer of appropriate technologies, as well as for servicing and developing them further. Absence of such competence has been a major constraint to self-reliant development.
Most of the developing countries of Asia and the Far East are located in the tropics. Their conservation and processing problems are almost the same. The exchange of experience among them through a well co-ordinated programme of technical co-operation would prove beneficial to all of them. Such a programme would necessitate the creation of a mechanism to ensure the better utilization of national institutions. The competent institutions in a region should first be identified for purposes of co-ordinating efforts for the selection and transfer of technologies and for the training of manpower to develop the required national competence which will lead to the creation of a network of institutions within the region.
The long-term objective is an effort towards achieving self- sufficiency in food and increasing the self-reliance of the developing countries of Asia and the Far East. Towards this, steps have to be taken to:
(a) develop technical co-operation among the developing countries (TCDC) of Asia;
(b) establish a system of inter-country co-operation that will help to optimize the resources, minimize duplication, and make better use of the institutional infrastructure; and
(c) develop a programme of building manpower resources required for technology transfer, research, development, plant operation, management, marketing, and distribution.
A Technical Consultation to discuss some of these topics was arranged by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), India, an associated institution of the UN University, 7-15 August 1978. This was an opportunity to bring together scientists and technologists of the countries of the region to consult, discuss, exchange ideas, and decide about their specific requirements in the field of development of agro-industries.
Representatives from the following countries were present: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, and Thailand. Pakistan and Sri Lanka were unable to send representatives, although their Country Status Reports on agro-industries were available for discussion. Representatives of some R-and-D institutions in India, Nigeria, and Mexico were present by invitation. Representatives from UNIDO, UNDP, UNU, and ESCAP also attended. In all, 40 persons participated in the Consultation.
Following the presentation of the Status Reports on food and agricultural-products industries in the participating countries (prepared by special consultants appointed for each country by the FAO), and detailed discussions of them, the meeting divided into several small panels to identify priority needs. The other topics discussed were priority areas of agro-industrial development for each country, national infrastructures for technology transfer, and regional mechanisms for co-operation.
While varying degrees of national competence existed in many countries, the consensus was that these capabilities need to be strengthened further. The transplantation of foreign technologies had helped in the early stages to achieve industrialization at a faster rate, but in the long run this was not found satisfactory in many cases because of the inappropriateness and/or obsolescence of such technologies. Also, there were other difficulties in such transplantings, e.g., irrelevance to the exact national requirements; secrecy and restrictive clauses in technical agreements; inability to effect horizontal transfer in order to build similar industries by other entrepreneurs; limitation of skilled manpower; and even higher costs of production in many cases.
It emerged that there was no alternative to genuine technology transfer for developing indigenously owned industries. This type of transfer could include a package of services consisting of details about the technology, the engineering component, manpower training, quality assurance, and process guarantees. There was a general consensus that! greater recognition should be given to the development of agro-based industries by all the countries in the region. The necessity to identify subsector priorities was stressed so that the limited resources available can be used most effectively. There was found to be an uneven development of different components of the infrastructure which resulted in considerable food losses in terms of waste of resources and spoilage. In many cases where a sound industry had been built up on the basis of transplanted rather than transferred technologies, it was found necessary to develop and improve these technologies further. In several cases, the R-and-D infrastructure had not been built on a foundation of real problem identification and project planning aimed at solving economic and social problems, but had merely extended the technical components operating in advanced countries.
Many of the countries in the region had institutional infrastructures developed to different degrees. However, they need to be strengthened and at least a minimum degree of competence must be developed in this vital area to assess and utilize technologies even if they are imported.
In many cases, the infrastructure was not adequate to cover most of the subsectors. Several countries had, however, developed specialized technological competence in particular subsectors.
There appeared to be an urgent need to survey all the facilities so that they could play an effective role in the overall effort for technology transfer in the region.
The need was recognized for an integrated approach to building agro-industries and developing institutional infrastructure.
The common constraints reported in the countries of the region were inadequate know-how; shortage of the desired quality of raw material for the processing industries; shortage of trained manpower; limited machine-building capability; underdeveloped supporting industries; inadequate institutional infrastructure; shortage of financial resources; limitation of management competence, and need for greater awareness to support R-and-D.
The priority areas for further development were examined, and a tabulated list for ready reference was compiled, for the following subsectors: food-grain conservation and processing; fruit and vegetable products conservation and processing; oil-seed crops processing; starch and sugar industry; spices and essential-oil industry; non-alcoholic stimulant foods: fermented foods; animal-food processing; hides, skins, and animal products; natural fibre industry; machinery and equipment; and training of manpower for technology transfer.
Creation of a regional mechanism was recommended, in the form of a network of institutions with a co-ordinating secretariat and adequate facilities. Subsector mechanisms could be located in institutions having competence in respective areas of specialization. The network should give attention to preparing viable technology and manpower development.
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"She's been imprisoned by Twilight and this is her breakout," says Rupert Sanders, the British director making his first feature with Snow White and the Huntsman. "Kristen's very talented and she's got a huge career ahead of her where she will constantly surprise people."
As one of the few successful child actors to transition without a hitch into adult roles, Stewart feels like a familiar screen fixture despite being merely 22 years old. She was just 17 when she was cast as Bella Swan, the chaste teenage girl who falls in love with Robert Pattinson's brooding vampire in 2008′s Twilight. That overwrought franchise finally ends this November, and it appears that while she's grateful for the exposure, Stewart is ready for the next phase of her career.
'I'm not trying to distance myself from Twilight, but there are several films coming out this year that are going to compound the sense of change," Stewart says. "I've done things that are far and away from anything I could imagine, and right now I'm bursting with emotions and questions.'
'Our take on the whole idea of a fairytale is very elemental," says Sanders, a graduate of television commercials, who delivered the film on a painfully tight schedule to meet the studio's pre-ordained release date. "But the fact that we've got two strong women playing masculine roles is very modern, and that's part of what excited me.'
'I think that the reason the story has never been irrelevant is that it's so fundamental: you have to have heart," Stewart says. "I've met so many people who've become so ugly, people that I thought were really beautiful, because they don't come from anywhere apart from the purely superficial. What they do doesn't work and it doesn't move you. Women can see that, and they can sense it.'
'Sometimes you have qualities that you don't know about until you meet someone, or read something, or hear about a story and you realise, 'Wow, that's scary and it speaks to me, I should do that,"' Stewart says. "Rupert presented a world I wanted to live in and so I believed in the cause.'
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While the AL East graph showed some team-to-team consistency (save possibly the Rays), the AL Central graph shows a mess. The Twins have been an underdog, spending more than the league average only once, in 2010 . This is especially impressive considering they were almost contracted into oblivion. The AL Central is the lowest-spending division on average, with the White Sox being the only team to average above the major league average during the ten-year period.


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Homemade Dairy-Free Sour Cream (nut-free, soy-free, vegan)
Do you ever crave that rich, creamy taste of sour cream but are sensitive to dairy products? I created a very simple replacement for sour cream that can be dolloped over baked potatoes or yams, spooned over beans and rice, added to tacos, used to make a layered taco salad, or used to make no-bake "cheesecakes"!! Seriously, where can't you add a spoonful of this rich dairy-free sour cream?
This recipe can actually be found in my brand new, completely revised Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook. I created a whole new chapter entitled "Get Cultured!" full of healthy cultured foods like this one. Think Live Hot Pepper Relish, Pickled Basil Beets, Kombucha (with flavor variations), Coconut Milk Yogurt, and so much more! I just couldn't wait to share this recipe with you so I decided to post it today. If you are interested, the new book releases on April 29th, 2014, and is available for preorder now!
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California's teachers and students are counting the days to the end of school. But instead of wasting these final moments of the school year, why not make some time in class for a special California geography lesson?
This would be the perfect week for it.
The newspapers are about to be full of maps of different regions of the state -- draft maps that are supposed to be produced by Friday by the much-touted California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is drawing new districts for the state Assembly, the state Senate and Congress.
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Redistricting supporters have claimed that this redrawing of districts will remake California's politics by creating more political competition -- and more moderates willing to compromise.
That's total bunk.
The public has grown more partisan, and Californians have sorted themselves into like-minded communities, so there's really no way for the commission to create many more competitive districts. (What's more, the commission isn't permitted to look at party data--so creating competition between the parties is pretty much off the table).
But the maps the commission produces -- which are likely to start great debate and public comment, in advance of final maps in August -- do offer an opportunity for Californians to study their own geography.
And maybe to rethink how we organize ourselves.
Take in the maps and look at how California has seven big regions that are larger than many states, with their own economies.
If California were a country, it'd be the 35th largest country in the world. The 34 countries larger than us all have regional governance -- but our regions aren't represented.
And our legislature, the country's smallest on a per-capita basis, doesn't match our size, since the number of districts hasn't been increased since 1879.
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Redistricting won't do a thing to solve these problems -- or any of California's problems for that matter.
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"That's something we hadn't done much in the past," player development director Buddy Bell noted. "Before I got here, most of the players we took were more from the college level. But by design we wanted to get higher-ceiling guys out of high school who we could project."
BTW, here's the article's secondary title: "Mitchell, Phegley, Thompson on fast track to Major Leagues"
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"That's the biggest selfie stick I've ever seen" says the voice. I lift my head toward the rear of a large delivery vehicle, where a man stands on a raised platform above the street level, we both look up at the camera and laugh in agreement. I am walking up Grafton street for the fourth time in the last half hour, pushing a bike with a six metre telescopic pole, atop of which a small video camera is mounted, recording our every move. The camera at this moment in time plunges myself and all others into a visual archive of the city, an archive which maps urban form and encounters. It also paints us into a world of surveillance, within a medium which transfigures between artifice and archive.
The 'View of the City' challenges our definition of what visual archive is? What does it do? What is it's purpose? And what new information and interpretation can we disseminate from the practice? These are questions that I have tried to figure out on my time during these looping peregrinations through, and circumambulations of, this primary route. The project for me was primarily concerned with our experiences and encounters in the city which could be effectively expressed through visual media. The process of walking allows one to reflect on the purpose of this visual practice.
"A walk has a continuous linear narrative, which becomes a picaresque adventure filled with multiple diversions and encounters, the people and objects you encounter become a vignette within a picaresque story." [1]
You walk as think your way through Grafton Street, and by doing so it allows you to absorb the narratives of street life, its cathartic and experiential. This translocation gives a compendious understanding of Grafton st. providing you are willing to fully engage with an active observation of the city. Through this lens the street reveals its diverse oeuvre. A theory which may seem somewhat laconic, but one which is made possible by viewing a blinding familiar street with a new pair of eyes. The 'View of the City' offers the viewer a simultaneous reading of the non standard 'obtuse' viewing planes of the city. This visual representation traces the things which are fugitive and subaltern to the user whom has an 'a priori' understanding of this embodied local route through the city. The moving image in this sense has the power to illuminate the things which move below the surface and light, to un-nest a series of frameworks and entangled conditions and to reveal a series of realities constructed within realities [2], All of which enable us to produce new knowledge of the city street.
The challenge for the project reveals itself in a simple question, How can this information be disseminated to understand and inform our shaping of urban forms and public spaces? To which my riposte would be; What can we truly learn about the city through visual practice? My pathway along this project has informed my judgement on how photography and visual media has the deeply embedded ability to aid the research and justification of the reality of city life, how the capturing of the dynamic flux and flow of a people in constant movement form the evidential nature of the urban condition and in time the urban archive [3].
The camera become the an apparatus which can provide us with a mode of justification. The camera which we used had an effect upon our methodology of working, in the sense that its small size does not encourage close contact encounters through the intrigue of the public, which is opposed to the group who were doing the portraiture photography on O'Connell street. The increasing availability of inexpensive recording equipment provides us with an opportunity to constantly create and archive. An opportunity which companies like Google have used to create large scale street-scape representations of every major town known. Vast amounts of data, pieced to together to form coherent imagery. Imagery with no framing, no analysis, no awareness of social practice or ritual, no knowledge of its history, it renders it as pointless data in terms of the the visual archive of the city as a digital archaeology. The project aims to tell you about proximity and connectedness of the city, it aims to understand our awareness of the city as a series of linkages across a uniform ground surface which we are all connected to,
The urban visual archive and 'The View of the City' is a process of capturing the city at a moment in time, through which we can revisit and recover the knowledge and lives of the previous societies who ingrained their mark on this street during this moment. The visual archive is a layered series of elements, moving from the physical capturing of light through a camera to capture the raw information, to the condition and meanings which can then be associated to it and finally to its purpose, how will this visual representation be interpreted in the future, will it be used as evidence for change, or as an understanding of the ethics and politics of the time? [4] The Urban Reform Photographers of New York in the early 20th century relied on this visual urban archive as a medium to influence change. The wanted to use the image as a way to articulate meaning. Jacob Riis [5] a police reporter and photographer documented the working and living conditions of the poor in the city, building up an archive of photos which were embedded in meaning and emotion, a commonality of many being rubble, laundry, vandalism, social segregation and isolation. He used the evidential nature of the conditions of the city to propel change in policy and law, for better housing, social facilities and quality public spaces for a people left behind. But, this theory is conceited, by the fact that it was later revealed that many of Riis photographs were in fact staged. Therefore visual representation can be left open to the construction of artifice, which effectively removes the authenticity of meaning attached to it.
The 'View of the City' cant be read as unfettered evidence of past realities of the daily lives of the early 21st century homo-urbanus, but can only be understood as a visual representation which is embedded in its own entangled history, just as we all are [6]. The ulterior visual representation of the street-scape is only real as a moving image. It moves along the boundaries between documentation and art. It is a hybrid form of visual representation which can be read as a performance art piece, whereby the people within it are vignettes acting out their picaresque journey, or they become the subjects of documentation through visual sociology, where we can attach meaning to them as individuals.
"The lens, the so-called impartial eye, actually permits every possible distortion of reality: the character of the image is determined by the photographer's point of view and the demands of his patrons. The importance of photography does not rest primarily in its potential as an art form, but rater in its ability to shape our ideas, to influence our behaviour, and to define our society" [7]
"The lens, the so-called impartial eye, actually permits every possible distortion of reality: the character of the image is determined by the photographer's point of view and the demands of his patrons. The importance of photography does not rest primarily in its potential as an art form, but rater in its ability to shape our ideas, to influence our behaviour, and to define our society" [7]
Which ever way the project is viewed or interpreted at a later stage, it has the ability to serve as a "repository of the collective memory of its inhabitants, mnemonic to their knowledge of previous eras, and a source of ideas about their social identity [8]". I think the act of 'remembrance' is of great importance to this project, for the reason that, 'all we love, we leave behind'. Beyond metaphor this phrase represents our innate understanding that the present dissolves into the past and that the memories of these spaces become de-saturated and sentimentalised. The act of creating the visual archive of the city is a continuous process. We capture, we catalogue, we preserve, we move on. The French historian Pierre Nora [9] explains that memory becomes so much more important if the future does not offer progress. From this we can understand the importance of the visual archive as an interdisciplinary movement, one which can take the work of photographers, architects, sociologists, anthropologists and urbanists to use visual practice as a mode for change, a change which can inform and orientate the way we shape our cities, the way we populate our public spaces and the ways in which we encounter the urban realm.
Is this view of the city useful? Maybe not, but this film promotes debate on how urban visual practice engages and shapes our understanding of public life and public space. The success of the project as an exhibition will only be determined by the engagement of the viewer, or their willingness to look up, and participate in this new obtuse view of the city. The front entrance hall of the building is essential to its spectacle, The initial idea of the installation was to resemble a camera obscura, whereby the functioning of the room as a proto-camera. This would have been a powerful visual expression of the city, as "seeing the unreal created in the real environment is an intense aesthetic experience" [10]. The exhibition had its failings in other areas which need to be addressed, the use of sound would have enhanced the experiential qualities of a 'synaesthesia' for the viewer. By viewing people drift in and out of scene and hearing only parts of their conversations, it places the viewer back into the time-frame at the moment of capture. I believe that this exhibition could be developed further to enhance the experience of viewing these obtuse views. To craft a more immersive experience which concisely expresses the importance of the city as visual archive.
Kevin O'Brien
[1] Self,Will - excerpt from 'In Confidence' interview - United Kingdom: Sky Arts - 2009 - TV Series
[2] Halliday, Paul et al - excerpt from TATE modern 'Urban Encounters - Routes and transitions - United Kingdom: Tate Modern - 2013 - Annual Conference
[3] Halliday, Paul et al - excerpt from TATE modern 'Urban Encounters - Routes and transitions - United Kingdom: Tate Modern - 2013 - Annual Conference
[4] Halliday, Paul et al - excerpt from TATE modern 'Urban Encounters - Routes and transitions - United Kingdom: Tate Modern - 2013 - Annual Conference
[5] Riis, Jacob - How the Other Half Live: Studies among the Tenements of New York - New York: Charles Scribner's Sons - 1890
[6] Halliday, Paul et al - excerpt from TATE modern 'Urban Encounters - Routes and transitions - United Kingdom: Tate Modern - 2013 - Annual Conference
[7] Zox-Weaver, Annalisa - "Quote from Gisele Freund." Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography - United Kingdom: Routledge; 1st edition - 2005
[7] Zox-Weaver, Annalisa - "Quote from Gisele Freund." Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography - United Kingdom: Routledge; 1st edition - 2005
[8] Walsham, Alexandra - The Reformation of the Landscape; Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland - United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2011,
[9] Nora, Pierre - Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire - U.S.A: University of California Press - Representations - No. 26, Special Issue: Memory and Counter-Memory (Spring, 1989), pp. 7-24
[10] Scott Brown, Denise - A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays, 1953–1984, (with Robert Venturi), New York: Harper & Row, 1984


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I used to think I would like to be a street cleaner. It still strikes me as, potentially, a very contemplative work, like the mat weaving of the desert monks, a life solitary yet socially useful. Few people notice a man sweeping the streets except for the instant they pass him by (I have never seen a woman street cleaner).
Yet if he is in the presence of God, peaceful in himself – 'mindful' in secular language – then he is raising the consciousness of the stressed crowds streaming irritably and competitively around him. He can love them with that mysterious, intimate love, the compassion we have for strangers, whenever we are in touch with our true selves and free from all the roles we act in.
Such a street cleaner would be a form of sannyasa, a true monk who has stepped into an acosmic order of existence, flourishing in unselfish freedom outside all social hierarchies. He is not at the top, middle or bottom of the class system, neither rich nor poor, honoured nor dishonoured by society, discovering the happiness that does not consist in the satisfaction of our desires.
Needless to say this is a little romantic. No doubt there are some street sweepers who live in this state– especially the dwindling few who still use brooms rather than the aggressive mechanised tanks that seem to pollute more than they clean. But the odds are that most of them are unhappily doing a job that is understandably seen as pretty low in the pecking order, infinitely far from those who get invited onto the royal barge, and excluded even from the ranks of the happy families waving flags on the riverbank.
Last month I meditated with a group of homeless people who meet weekly with their passionate street priest, a young woman who has a mild antipathy to church buildings but loves to pray and worship with these marginal people. Some might actually have been street cleaners, others looked as if they could not hold down any job. They are a mixed bunch. Some have fallen from the heights of social respectability, even positions of honour. They have an air of wise sadness, of having discovered something precious at great cost. Others are mentally ill struggling to assert themselves or giving up the attempt after many failures. Some are humble. Others have that desperate pride that reacts against repeated rejection. Ordinary social tones of voice and exchange seem very alien with them.
Our full half-hour meditation was unexpectedly still and silent. Clearly, as individuals and especially finding themselves as part of a trusting group, they were open to a profound level of prayer that the 'learned and clever' as Jesus called them only preach or lecture about. They were an answer to the question people often ask- 'what makes meditation Christian?'
The bishop dropped in and spoke about how this group of street contemplatives were an inspiration and challenge to his whole administration. The canon pastor who had been hired to increase the Sunday congregation used to despair when he came to work and found the homeless sprawled on the cathedral steps. How could he get nice people in to church past people like them? But now he saw that they were the congregation. Their unconventional but sincere hunger to grow spiritually, their faith-filled way of dealing with hardship and their disarming directness uncluttered by the usual pieties of religion made them a model for others to follow. I had never heard the first Beatitude better described.
The poor you will always have with you, Jesus warned. Or was it also, strangely a promise? The marginal are a reminder to everyone that humanity is a family. Even the black sheep, the dropouts, the handicapped, the unemployable, those chronically down on their luck are brothers and sisters to the glitterati and those who may drop a few million but will never feel the pinch of the era of austerity we are entering. The conscious link between these extremes of society – from the most adored monarch to the lowliest subject – is the true test of a civilisation.
To ignore or suspend the human value of the economically disposable is to undermine the foundation of justice on which society rests. To see the beauty that shines in their superficial unloveliness, the intelligence in their social disabilities, the spirit in their earthiness is to see the way out of the crisis under which the order of the world is presently buckling. Any new order has to be built on this insight and then protected from the corruption that would quickly attack it again. The silence of the homeless meditators taught me how central and fundamental the contemplative experience is to sustainable development and human community. Perhaps the whole church in its own rapidly increasing marginality may be learning this too.
Laurence Freeman OSB
The World Community for Christian Meditation, of which Laurence Freeman OSB is director, has recently opened a new outreach program – "Meditatio" (www.wccmmeditatio.org)


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Candy Corn
Candy corn was originally created by Czechoslovakia during a bet with Canada. Those frisky Czechs were feeling cocky and bet that Americans were so stupid that they could sell them a "fusion of a vegetable and candy," and turn a profit. Naturally, Canada laughed and accepted this bet. The terms of this bet were as such: If Canada wins, Czechoslovakia was to change its' name to Rhode Island Jr., and If Czechoslovakia wins, Canada was to create a law that required all Canadians to throw the word 'eh' on the end of every sentence. Candy corn was then invented and due to a high amount of idiots in America, the Czechs won.
All of the candy corn ever made was made in 1914. Every year after Halloween, since candy corn tastes like shit and so much is thrown out, is collected by the candy corn company and is resold each year.
The Candy Itself[edit]
Candy corn was almost unapproved by the FDA because of it secondary use as a mild hallucinogen. But then, after doing repeated taste tests they decided they would allow it because "nobody is going to eat this crap anyways." The product is made up of three parts; The yellow, the orange, and the white.
The yellow part is supposedly the "corn" part of the mixture. Critics argue its credibility as corn, due the fact that it is not a vegetable and made of what, upon tasting, appears to be cardboard. Some ingredients are:
- Piss
- Ground up Asian children
- Anything else yellow that's disgusting
The orange part is widely recognized as the worst part, mostly because it comprises the bulk of the epitome of hell (candy corn). This part is rumored to be made of porta potty remnants and used paper mache. Famous things also made of the orange part are:
- The outer layers of Gobstoppers
- Agent Orange
- Testicles
- Geometry
- Those annoying pricker things on bushes
- Evil glob-warriors for Donald Trump's army
and holly haywoods pubes
The white part is the part that creates mild hallucinations. People eating excessive amounts of the white part have been known to:
- Spend their paycheck on lotto scratchers
- Convert to Scientology
- Watch American Idol
- Buy the PS3
- Spontaneously combust
- Be a fan of the Red Wings
- Invent Kitten Huffing
- Simply walk into Mordor


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Year Built1990
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Dancing our way to Coventry!
We have been working in partnership with the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum to bring to Coventry the world famous Edgar Degas masterpiece Two Dancers on a stage. In this exclusive display, see Edgar Degas' painting Two dancers on a stage alongside three of his related works.
Coinciding with the display of artworks, the History Center in Coventry is showcasing a selection of items from the Herbert's collection relating to the Courtaulds company and their links with Coventry.
Coventry played a key role in the success of the Courtauld company. In 1905 the company built its first viscose plant in Coventry, employing thousands of people. The wealth generated enabled Samuel Courtauld to develop his magnificent collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, which form the basis of The Courtauld Gallery collection.
The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum have taken the industrial heritage of the Courtauld textile factories as a starting point and celebrated Samuel Courtauld's belief that great art should be made as widely available as possible.
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Haverhill is a town in Grafton county, New Hampshire. It was formed in 1763 and has gone by the following other name/s: Lower Coos. For more information, contact the county at 2975 Dartmouth College Hwy., N. Haverhill 03774. On the attached map, Haverhill is shown as 14 in Grafton.
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Welcome to the great nation of Holland. Where the tulips grow the windmills turn the breakfast is chocolaty the people industrious and the sea tries to drown it all.
I hope this will clear things up for you guys
I'm sure their marketing department only wanted to add Bruce Lee to their commercial. And they were right for doing so. Bruce Lee adds at least 241,7% of extra awesomeness to any ad campaign.
Although I do supposed they could have just hired a Canadian to pronounce it, eh? ^^
Steams holiday sale has started. Get your stockings ready and be prepared to make your wallets cry, because the season of great spending has arrived!
Or has it?
As the number of games in my Steam profile has risen well beyond 600, my lust for new games seems to have subsided. There are a ton of games I still haven't played, and a lot of games I haven't finished playing yet. Why would I want to buy any more games?
Just when you though it was safe to walk across the street, this happens
Love the part where he knocks on the door, walks by the window, and then the people come out the house to see what's going on ^^
GLUED is a short film about a mother who tries to deal with her video game addicted son. He's so addicted at some point he tries to control real life objects with a joystick. Although at the end I'm not exactly sure which one of the two is more crazy
Watch and have fun


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In the land of milk and honey, feelings run pretty strong when it comes to the price of cottage cheese.
Surrendering to a two-week online campaign, the Israeli dairy companies that control the cheese market announced they were cutting prices by 25 percent.
The victory was a rare instance of consumers banding together through social media to force powerful companies to reduce the price of a product.
Israel's relatively small size and its tech-savvy and media-aware population enabled the protest to spread quickly. More than 105,000 people joined the Facebook group vowing to boycott cottage cheese until prices dropped. The campaign touched a nerve among Israelis concerned about rising prices and eroding salaries.
Spooked by the outrage, the three main Israeli dairy companies that control the market agreed to lower the price of a half-pound (250 gram) container to 5.90 shekels ($1.75) after it had risen to close to 8 shekels ($2.30).
"Something happened here, and it changes the rules of the game in the market," Arik Shor, a top executive at the Tnuva dairy cooperative, told Israel Radio. "We are studying it and will draw conclusions — it is an event that goes far beyond cottage."
Tnuva was first to bow to the pressure. The two smaller dairies, Strauss and Tara, followed suit.
Cottage cheese was recently voted by Israelis to be their most "Israeli" food, surpassing even the region's own falafel. The dairy product can be found in nearly every refrigerator, and the sudden price increase became a symbol of the rising cost of living in Israel.
The protest has sparked hope it will spread to gasoline, which is now over $8 a gallon ($2 a liter), electricity and other food products that also have recently skyrocketed in price.
Protest organizers say they will be moving on to other overpriced products, and consumers have expressed hope the precedent will help them target Israel's pricey real estate and automobile markets.
It also has highlighted the power of social media, with some even comparing it to the revolutions elsewhere in the Middle East.
"True, this is not Tahrir Square yet, the cottage cheese rebellion did not require us to take any real action, just to press 'like' and skip the cottage cheese shelf in the supermarket," columnist Ben Caspit wrote in the Maariv daily, referring to the Egyptian uprising. "This was inaction, not action, and it demanded no real sacrifice."
Still, Israeli newspapers on Thursday lauded the success, carrying headlines that declared: "We Won," ''Cottage Cheese Victory" and "The Israel Consumer Has Had His Say."
Experts say social networking can be a powerful tool for consumers.
"It illustrates the shifting power dynamic in the world. Social media is enabling ordinary people not only to express themselves but also to organize themselves quickly," said Andrew Nachison, a U.S.-based analyst at We Media, a digital research agency.
Ayelet Noff, founder of Blonde 2.0, an Israeli social media agency, said the protest marked a turning point in the way companies deal with crisis management in the digital age. Noff said her company has been working recently with Strauss on a global strategy campaign but did not provide consulting over the cottage cheese crisis.
"This is the first time that consumers said, 'No more! We are not going to deal with this,' and created a change," she said. "I don't think that people really realized until now that this is something that they could actually have an influence over. I think that now that consumers realize that Facebook is such a powerful force, they will use it more."
The problem is that in a market as small as Israel's, with 7.7 million people, sometimes there are no alternatives. In the case of cottage cheese, there are three different brands, but they are dominated by the huge Tnuva conglomerate.
The Facebook page of the cottage cheese boycott identifies organizers as regular Israelis who "work for a living, are raising families and breaking under of the weight of the cost of living in Israel."
"The goal is to change our consumer culture," Itzik Elrov, the Facebook group creator, told Israel Radio. "We can mark down a small V (for victory), but there is still a long way to go."


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Have you heard the story about how I once got fired from my job at an Ice cream parlour located on Margate seafront? Well I'll tell you. I used to work from time to time in this little Ice cream outlet where I was by myself, bored silly...until I had a mad rush of customers from time to time. On cold days you can imagine how redundant and bored I felt. Well it was days like this that led to my downfall and ultimately got me fired. What would you do to occupy yourself, surrounded only by ice cream in various flavours (approximately 10, my favourite was mint choc chip), a whippy machine, boxes of cones and....flakes. It was the flakes that got me. I used to eat so many and to cut a long story short my employer didn't like my flake consumption and and the end of one weekend politely asked me not to come in the following weekend. Sad times indeed.
Moving back to the subject of menswear, I've not been a fan of the BBC range of clothing or the IceCream trainers but I have stumbled across the above during a recent visit to Kanye's blog. BBC/Ice Cream has just released the new Diamonds and Dollar shoe that looks like a hybrid between a boat shoe and a classic sneaker....The shoe features the notorious BBC/Ice Cream Diamonds and Dollars print printed all over the denim upper of the shoe. The White laces and White outsole give the shoe a classic look mixed with the denim Blue. It doesn't come with a flake though....What do you think?


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I'm here again. Since the beginning of my UGP gameplay videos series on youtube (Youtube UGP channel), i never did a comparison between Ubuntu, Windows and another linux distro. So i decided, now, to do this. The reason of the long time between this and the last post, is that i had to install also Windows 7 (such a weird experience...) and Chakra (Arch Linux). Why Chakra? Simple. Because Chakra seems to perform better in playing games. Thanks to Jeff for his benchmarks that made me do this choice! (http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/09/best-linux-distro-for-3d-performance.html). Are you ready? Let's start with a beautiful game from Lionhead Studios... Black & White 2!
A hard choice!
The first thing to ask yourself is: which program should i use for this game? I have the answer. Let's take a look to all the differences between Crossover Games, PlayOnLinux and GameTree Linux.
Black & White 2 on GameTree Linux:
Unfortunately (really?) our game will never install using Gametree Linux, neither you can install it with another program and try to run it under GameTree Linux. Don't waste your time, the game just doesn't work on it (shame on Transgaming!).
Black & White 2 on Crossover Games (10.1 version):
Now we're talking seriously. The game works very well with Crossover Games, either the installation and the running. It can be also patched to the latest official patch (v1.2), but it needs a noDVD crack. There's only a little mouse lag bug, which is a bit annoying. To avoid this, follow the steps described below. So:
- Can be patched to 1.2 version (and it's also suggested).
- Needs a noDVD crack.
- Mouse lag bug (to avoid this, open Crossover Games, go into Black & White 2 bottle, run command, type "regedit" and click ok. Then, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine -> DirectInput (if it doesn't exists, create it) -> Create new string "MouseWarpOverride" and set it to "disable").
As this said, i played about six maps and i never encountered a crash, a problem... Nothing! The game just runs well!
Black & White 2 on PlayOnLinux (1.3.24 wine version):
Alright. It's almost the same as Crossover Games, but there's no mouse lag bug. Cool, huh? Check your wine version because with older versions of wine you could encounter several graphical glitches. The newest versions of wine (use 1.3.24 to be sure) do not show those graphical glitches. So:
- Can be patched to 1.2 version (and it's also suggested).
- Needs a noDVD crack.
The game works better than Crossover, because of a little FPS boost (continue reading for further details).
Talking about performances...
First of all, my hardware:
agp_aperture_size: 256
cpu: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
cpu_ghz: 2.40
distro: Ubuntu 11.04 natty
kernel: 2.6.38-10-generic
machine_bitness: 64
memory: 2007
soundcard: NVidia CK804 with ALC850 at irq 22
soundcard_driver: ALSA Version 1.0.23
videocard_direct: True
videocard_driver_version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 275.09.07
videocard_manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
videocard_ram: 256
videocard_type: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2
x_version: X.Org X Server 1.10.1
I think i made a great job for you all. I installed three operative systems on my PC only for making some performance comparisons. I used a loooooooot of my free time, but the results are, honestly, very good. What did i do? I played the game with various combinations of graphic options, in various operative systems, in various in-game situations, tracking the FPS (Frames Per Second). So i took each result and i put it in a graph. The game has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit (with no Compiz), on Chakra 2011.04-r2 (with no graphical effects) and on Windows 7 64-bit. Let's go:
Analyzing these results, my conclusions are that in every single situation (max details-min load, min details-min load, max details-max load, min details-max load), Windows can handle the game better than the other 2 OS, and that's obvious. But, there are 2 relevant things: the first one is that at the highest load (blue and red in the graph), even Windows does low FPS (still playable, though) so i suppose it's caused by a combination of my hardware and a bad scalability of the game; the second thing is that, talking about linux, Chakra does always better than Ubuntu, especially at mininum details (red and green).
It seems that the game works better on wine, providing 15-20% more FPS than Crossover.
Conclusion: use PlayOnLinux/Wine.
The following process works with both Crossover and PlayOnLinux. It works like a simple installation process:
Now type your cd-key, then:
The installation process takes about 5 minutes. The next step is to install patch 1.1 and patch 1.2 (in this order):
Be careful: apply the patches BEFORE playing the game for the first time, since savegames with the original version of the game do not work with newest patches (1.1 and 1.2).
This process takes about 30-40 seconds. And so it is for the second patch.
Now, you have to do 2 things before running the game:
1) Apply a noDVD crack (obviously for 1.2 version).
2) Download this DLL (d3dx9_25.dll) from this link (http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?d3dx9_25) and extract it to the main folder of the game.
Now just run the shortcut in your PlayOnLinux GUI or just run white.exe!
Well... I suppose pictures speak better than words.
Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment if you got some problems or if you just wanna ask me a question. I will always answer you!


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text: Rockford was once one of the wealthiest communities in the U.S., buoyed by the automakers and a host of other manufacturers. But its businesses were undone by globalization, leaving behind a community with high unemployment and failing schools. Today, people in Rockford want to reverse that slide in the face of the toughest economic headwinds in a generation. They see hope in an Obama administration that could provide funding for long-overdue infrastructure upgrades, promote aid to urban areas and help communities tackle entrenched problems like crime. Rockford's controversial mayor is up for re-election and the town is trying to secure a piece of the economic stimulus package while families struggle to hold onto jobs and pay college tuition. Journal reporters Douglas Belkin, Amy Merrick and Roger Thurow track the citizens of Rockford as they pursue their goals in the midst of a faltering U.S. economy and a new presidential administration.