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In this guide to relationship we'll learn about: what we mean by relationships; limits; how you should be treated; romance; trust; and break ups.
What did you learn about relationships at school or at home? Not a lot I bet. I think most of us learn about relationships from doing them. From seeing other people and their relationships and also from discussing relationships with each other.
Short version
Learn from one kind of relationship, like a friend, to help you with another, like a bae. Consent and limits are really important. To try to be clear and honest about what you want and what you can give. Don't try to neg people into giving you what you want. You should feel part of a team, like someone who is your best friend.
It's actually okay to argue so long as you don't try to hurt each other. Be careful about doing everything with just one person. Remember that you have a relationship with yourself. Lastly remember that there are often good reasons why relationships should end. We see being in a relationship as being better than single, well it's not. It's certainly better to be single than be in a bad relationship.
That's the summary, read on for that deep dive content.
What are relationships?
Treat 'em mean, they should dump you
Argue, but do it properly
There's a U in couple
Be fair
Break Ups
If you're not in a relationship and want to be, here's my advice on how to get a girlfriend / boyfriend / themfriend.
What are relationships?
Lots of people worry about the word 'relationship' because it sounds heavy. Hook ups, FWBs, seeing each other, dating, going out, boy/girlfriend, engaged, partnered, married are all relationships, just different types. Going even further than that: friends, family, classmates, teammates, colleagues are all relationships too. How we feel about ourselves is also a relationship: I mean, even having a pet is a relationship.
The point is that there is a lot in common with all different kinds of relationships. So you could learn about what works for you in one relationship when you are having problems with another one. If you're going out with someone who puts you down all the time you could ask yourself 'if this was a mate, would that be okay?' They are just different kinds of relationships and there is more than one kind of love. Thinking about your own relationships this way then you can make your own guide to relationships to work out what works for you.
Set and respect people's limits
Pressuring or forcing your partner to go beyond their sexual limits is VERY BAD. As is pressuring or forcing someone into being a parent, or get married, or to say they love you. If someone is pressuring you into going beyond your limits then you could maybe dump them.
Consent is just as important in relationships as it is in sex. So as well as setting limits and respecting other people's limits. You should try to make it consensual where there aren't clear limits. For example, give people options about what they would like to do. Make this more than just an option of 'shall we do this or not do this'. Also keep paying attention to how the other person is feeling and check in with them to make sure. There are lots of reasons why people find it hard to state what their limits are in relationships. For an example read power in relationships.
Treat them nice, not mean
You've heard the expression, 'treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen'? WRONG! Dating and relationships aren't a battle, or a 'game'. Other guide to relationships are like that, but they are wrong. Be like a really good mate. Encourage rather than make them feel small. Be generous with your time and resources. Support them. Work together as a team. You should expect to feel this in return too.
However, it is also possible to be a bit much sometimes. Some people like someone to be there for them a lot, others like a bit of distance. That doesn't mean that you should just play it cool all the time just in case, but it does mean that you should probably have a conversation about it. It can be hard chatting about relationships (and I've got that advice about how you can talk about talking). One thing that might help is my relationship venn diagrams idea — so that you can work out how much you should share in a relationship.
Arguments are useful if you do them properly
Arguments can be well upsetting, particularly if you are in a new relationship and haven't had one before. It can be scary because it might make you think that the relationship isn't meant to be. This means that people often try to avoid arguments but that is a bad idea. Being able to say that you are unhappy with someone, and to be able to hear that they are unhappy with you, is an important part of relationships. Relationships can improve hugely after an argument (and why people feel closer afterwards). So long as you both really listen to each other and agree a course of action afterwards.
So good arguing isn't about winning and losing, it's about communicating. About what's wrong and what's upsetting you and listening to what your partner is saying to you. This is easier said than done. There's a difference between having an argument and a row (a yell, not a row as in rowing a boat). Rowing can be an important way of telling people that you are pissed off and that they should take you seriously. However, it's hard to be clear when you are rowing and it's really hard to listen to other people (which is an essential bit).
Noticing feelings
So try to notice your feelings when you are in the middle of an argument and own them. If you notice that you are angry then you should just say to yourself, 'I'm angry'. The other person can then tell you what their feelings are and you can then talk about how you are going to do this. For example, it might be a good idea to have a time out so that you can calm down. This is especially a good idea if anger is danger of turning into aggression. Then you can talk about how you are going to have the argument (rather than have a row).
(Here's more about emotions and how to feel them)
One way to do this is to spend 5 minutes listening to your partner, giving them enough time and space to clarify what it is that is annoying them, then summarise what they just said to prove you were listening. Then change around so the other gets their say. That way stuff gets sorted. You could also try having a text exchange, or putting it all in a google doc and getting them to respond (which is very trendy and really works). If things are super difficult you could try and find someone who could be a go between: someone who knows you both equally and who can step in and help you communicate. If you do this you should really do something nice for them afterwards, because that is a hard job.
Relationships don't have to be romantic (or extravagant)
So not everyone likes doing romance or even romantic relationships (just like there are asexual folk there are also aromantic folk). If you really want to do romantic relationships and do romantic things then that can be nice. However, it's important to do be consensual and be romantic with someone rather than at someone. Some people like big romantic gestures, some people like surprises, some people really really don't like either. So, again, try to talk about what kind of romance you might both be up for.
You don't need loads of cash to do lovely romantic things. Long walks, picnics in the park, random museum trips, joint selfies, swapping jumpers so you smell each other when they aren't around, making them playlists (or mixtapes if you are 43) and cards, candle-lit KFC (shout out to Morley's though). I've got a few more ideas for how to be romantic on a budget (which I pull out whenever it's Valentine's Day).
However being romantic is also about just being there with them, giving people your undivided attention. Not looking at your phone all the time. Being able to be vulnerable with someone. Looking into someone's eyes for ages and feeling all tingly and smiley.
Being on the same page
If one person really wants all of this romantic stuff and the other just wants to shag, it might be a sign you aren't on the same page. However, being romantic and sexual are not the same thing anyway. Some people want sexual relationships without romance, some people want romantic relationships without sex. We can also have super romantic times with our mates – and sometimes we should put mates before dates. You might also want to think about why people have romantic relationships and think about what you want from them too. Remember this is just a brief guide to relationships, click these links to learn more!
There's a 'U' in couple: remember yourself
Make sure you still spend time doing you and also tending to your other relationships. I think all relationships need a bit of distance for them to work but how much of this is up to you. Some people like to feel close and part of a double act: you know those couples who are always referred to jointly rather than separately. That can feel nice, but other people can feel like that's too much. Again, the relationship venn diagrams will help you here.
It's often a sign of a bad or unhealthy relationship if one person isn't happy about the other person having their own friends, their own interests and their own plans for their future.
It's important to stick to your own game plan about what you have planned for your future. This is because a) relationships often end and b) it makes your relationship stronger if you grow as individuals too. If you're in a relationship and the other person is very controlling and doesn't let you have any life outside of the relationship then it might be a good time to think about whether it is an abusive relationship or not.
Be fair to each other, you and everyone else
Everyone has their own ideas about what's acceptable in a relationship, but I think it's important to be fair to each other. It's a good idea to talk about this so that you both know what to expect from each other. For instance, is it ok to see other people? If so, is there a limit on this? Is this fair for both people? (Like, if it's ok for one person to have other sex or romantic relationships can the other?)
Also make your own rules together about how decisions are made in the relationship that affect you. Eg "Why did you say we were going out on Saturday without asking me first?" This all comes back to consent again. Don't assume that someone is up for a thing because they've done it before. Give people lots of options. Give people an out from doing a thing if you feel like they don't want to.
Trust is absolutely essential
Lots of people think that trust is the most important element of a good relationship, but what does trust mean?
For some people this means 100% honesty. Other people think other things are more important, like: can you trust that they aren't going to hurt you? Can you trust that they would do the right thing about safer sex? Do you believe what they say? Are you able to be fair, and listen to each other, and try to care for each other? If you both follow the advice on here then you might build trust with each other, but it's up to you to figure out when you can trust someone. How do you do know?
If someone has had difficult times in relationships with other people in the past then it may be difficult for them to trust other people. If you're in a situation of you trusting someone more than they can trust you then you may have to be a little more patient. However, if you're in a situation of finding trusting people very difficult then you might have to think about what kind of relationship might actually be right for you right now.
Read more about trust in relationships
All relationships end and break ups don't always have to suck
*** spoiler***
All relationships end, either through someone dying or a break up. Even if you follow this guide to relationships, it will end.
However a relationship ends it's important to remember that they can suck for both of you. I think that it's good to be as good and nice as you can about a break-up. For more about this visit my post about breaking up. If you are sure that the relationship has to end: be clear, be honest and avoid giving mixed messages. If you're having big thoughts about your relationship then perhaps give yourselves a relationships check up by looking at the relationships graph.
Okay so this sounds weird, but I think that it might be a good idea to talk about how you might want to break up. Like, do you want to have these conversations in person or via text? Do you need someone else to intervene and help you break up (who might be able to help collect stuff or relay messages)? How do you tell people about it? Are you going to follow each other on social media? Do you want to have contact or do you want to have a break for a bit? It's likely that the reason you're breaking up is that you can't have these conversations, so that might not work.
How to stick the landing
The best break ups are when people can recognise that their relationship can't give them what they need and they both agree. Sometimes these kinds of break ups feel more like a change in the relationship rather than an ending. In those cases it might be that it changes to a different kind of relationship: like going from a romantic relationship to a friendship. That can still be really difficult to do, and it's not cool to just be 'let's be friends' if you're not going to be friends. Perhaps you could be more honest and say 'I don't know how things are going to be between us, so let's see how we feel.' Or 'I can't promise to be friends because we're both changing and growing all the time and I don't know.'
But if your partner was dangerous, nasty, controlling, deliberately made you feel like total shit or was generally awful: be as bad and as loud as you like and just get out. If you don't know how you will ever get over them, I've got that advice for you too.
If you're a teacher or a sex educator, thanks for reading but why not check out my teaching resources like Love, Innit that are designed for you. There are also free RSE resources which I worked on at DO…. These will help young people to make their own guide to relationships.
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Notes on Campania
Generations of travelers have flocked to Campania to visit some of Italy's most iconic and unforgettable sights. These happen to be centered within a fairly small radius around the bustling, anarchic city of Naples, making it possible to see it all in about a week.
The classic Campania tour uses the incredible beautiful Sorrento peninsula as a point of departure, so that tourists in their spare time can relax in virtually car-free, postcard pretty villages like Amalfi, Sorrento and Positano; stroll among fragrant lemon groves; and rest their eyes on magnificent views of the sea and the dramatic coastline.
Enticing Daytrips
In just five daytrips, you can go island hopping to magical places like Ischias, Procida, Capri and Li Galli with the cute dolphin shaped island Gallo Lungo. Visit the archaeological sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Spend a day at the royal palace in Caserta. Climb Mount Vesuvius that is considered one of the most dangerous vulcanos in the world due to its proximity to a modern metropolis. And explore the rich museums and charming chaos of Naples, where you can still get lost in a narrow alley beneath washing lines while humming the tune from Lady and the Tramp. That's Amore.
Cilento National Park
The Cilento peninsula further south is like Sorrento minus 20 percent in terms of beauty and poshness. The beaches are bigger and better, however, and the few villages on the coast make a fantastic place for a relaxing family holiday in the sun. Major sights in this area include the ancient ruins in Paestum and Velia along with Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park. The whole area has been granted UNESCO World Heritage status for an outstanding cultural landscape.
The Hinterlands
With such a line-up of world famous tourist attractions, it's hardly surprising that few travelers bother to visit the hinterlands and other provincial capitals like Salerno, Caserta, Avellino and Benevento. They simply don't compare to the highlights mentioned above. Still, each province offers interesting discoveries and rewards for people who like to go their own ways.
Here are our notes on notes on Campania Italy with suggestions of what to see, do and eat in the area around Naples.
Pasta with friggitelli
Pasta with friggitelli aka Padrón peppers is a fast and tasty dish originating in Campania.


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From the just-for-fun department, here is a photo gallery featuring Brooklyn, N.Y., in the summer of 1974. It's a collection of beautiful and nostalgic vintage photos by photographer Danny Lyon, who spent two months snapping pictures of the everyday life in the borough.
Three boys and " A Train" graffiti in Brooklyn's Lynch Park. Image by Danny Lyon / National Archives and Records Administration
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" The emotive is just one small bit in the complex orchestration of a painting. " Ed V
On this page are a few from the series:
Untitled Portrait With...
Each are 18x24 inches and oil on canvas.
There are well over fifty of these ranging from 2009 to 2023.
I enjoyed figuring these paintings out, composing and struggling with each of them.
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Since I first heard it, I've been fascinated by that story that goes "Once there was an old man who live in a village. He had one horse, and one son. One night, the horse ran away, and everyone said "Oh, bad luck."
But the old man said 'maybe so, maybe not."
The next week, the horse returned, bringing with it another, wild, horse. "Oh, what good luck," said the villagers.
But the old man said, 'maybe so, maybe not."
The son mounted the new horse in order to tame her, but he was thrown off, and broke his leg. "Bad luck."
"Maybe so, maybe not."
But then the land went to war, and the king of the land sent his men to conscript all the able-bodied young men from the villages. However, the old man's son, because of his broken leg, did not have to go to battle. "Good luck."
"Maybe so, maybe not"
I have an ongoing dialogue with myself about the nature of the universe in this way.
Perhaps I am supposed to gather from this story that there is no good luck or back luck.
On optimistic days, I believe that everything works out in the universe, that every piece of bad luck can be somehow redefined as good luck in the context of later events. I discuss this to some length in one of the essays I wrote in my thesis project about cancer. If I hadn't gotten cancer, I wouldn't have taken the emotional risk to say to the world that I wanted to be a writer, etc…
But sometimes I am tempted to want to define things in terms of positive and negative--to believe that life, like movies, somehow has a happy on unhappy ending. I want to play the story all the way out—to see how, at the end, things fall-one way or the other, and to think that at some point I will know if my decisions were right or wrong in that context.
This is the kind of thinking that can drive a person crazy. I got into USC Screenwriting: good luck. But if spend all my money and have to live on the street: bad luck. But if it gives me great insight and I write the great American novel about living on the street: good luck. But if the stress of adapting the book into a movie that bombs, despite having Cate Blanchett in the title role makes me sick and I die: Bad luck.
So ultimately, it was bad luck. So where was my mistake? Was it that December night when I sent off my application, or the May day I sent in my acceptance? Or any of infinite other points between then my ultimate death? Was there some sign or portent I should have seen, that would have kept me from following the wrong path?
The same thing has happened of late with my upcoming trip to the Sundance Film Festival.
I am not someone who hates to travel, who hates a party or an event. More, I am a person who strongly dislikes preparing for these things. I hate trying to predict what I should pack, or wear, or bring. Rather I like the comfort and relative predictability of home.
But when a student organization sent a message saying they were organizing accommodations for students, for just $300 for four nights I thought, "I should do this. It's cheap, it's a good way to meet students from other departments, once I graduate, I'll either be working or very poor…so I should do it…shouldn't I? Maybe this email is a sign I should do it.
"Yes," said my friends. "Yes," said my husband. "Yes," said the friendly human resources woman at my internship."
"No," said my student mentor, "you don't want to miss the first days of class."
What? I consulted a calendar. Indeed, the dates included two of the first days of class. And, like many childhood over-achievers, I love going to class, and of course want my teachers to love me and think I'm good. Plus I'd heard my Friday teacher is pretty hard core. So that was the end of the plan for me. I let the deadline go by.
Then I ran into the "hard-core" teacher. I introduced myself as a future student, and mentioned, jokingly, that I had foregone Sundance so that I wouldn't miss his class.
He said "AWWW—your should have gone to Sundance!" and went on to explain that this was expected among the teachers, and that now was the time to get this sort of experience.
Oh no…had I made the wrong decision? Was the random meeting with the teacher a sign I should go?
I decided to email the organizer and ask if I could still get him a check, and if he said yes, then I was meant to go. As I was doing this, I asked Christine, a friend who was over at the house, if she wanted to go.
"Yeah—that would be so fun!"
So I added a paragraph pleading for her as well, and sent it off.
The reply came back, "Sure, just bring a check to my house before noon tomorrow."
It was a sign from the universe.
Maybe, or maybe not.


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- Identifying you or verifying your authority to act on behalf of a customer; telling you about other products or services that may be of interest to you, or running competitions and other promotions (this can be via email, telephone, SMS, mail or any other electronic means including via social networking forums), unless you tell us not to
- Assisting in arrangement with other organisations in relation to a product or service we make available to you; allowing us to run our business and perform administrative and operational task, such as
- Training staff; developing and marketing products and services; risk management; systems development and testing, including our websites and other online channels; undertaking planning, research and statistical analysis
- Preventing or investigating any fraud or crime, or any suspected fraud or crime; as required by law, regulation or codes binding us; and for any purpose for which you have given your consent
How do we use your credit information?
In addition to the ways for using personal information mentioned above, we may also use your credit information to:
enable a mortgage insurer or title insurer to access the risk of providing insurance to us or to address our contractual arrangements with the insurer; access whether to accept a guarantor being unable to meet their obligations; consider hardship requests and assess whether to securitise loans and arrange the securitising of loans
Can we use your information for marketing our products and services?
We may use or disclose your personal information to let you know about products and services we offer that might better serve your financial needs, or running competitions or promotions and other opportunities in which you may be interested.
We may conduct these marketing activities via email, telephone, SMS, mail, or any other electronic means. We may also market our products to you through third party channels (such as social networking sites). We will always let you know that you can opt out from receiving third party or program marketing offers. Where we market to prospective customers, we are happy to let them know we have obtained their information and will provide easy to follow opt-outs.
Yes, You Can Opt-Out
You can let us know at any time if you no longer wish to receive direct marketing offers from us. We will process your request as soon as possible.
Who do we share your personal information with?
To make sure we can meet you specific needs and for the purposes described in 'how we use your personal information'. We sometimes need to share your personal information with others. We may share your information with other organisations for any purposes for which we use your information.
Sharing at your request We may need to share your personal information with:
Your representative or any person acting on your behalf (for example, financial advisers, lawyers, settlements agents, accountants, executors, administers, trustees, guardians, brokers or auditors); and your referee such as your employer (to confirm details about you).
Sharing with Credit Reporting bodies We may disclose information about you to a credit reporting body if you apply for a credit or you have obtained credit from us or if you guarantee or are considering guaranteeing the obligations of another person to us or you are a director of a company that is a loan applicant or borrower or guarantor. When we give your information to a credit reporting body, it may be included in reports that the credit reporting body gives other organisations (such as other lenders) to help them assess your credit worthiness.
Some of the information may reflect adversely on your credit worthiness, for example, if you fail to make payments or commit a serious credit infringement (like obtaining credit by fraud). That sort of information may affect your ability to get credit from other lenders.
Sharing with third parties We may share your personal information with third parties, including:
- Those involved in providing, managing or administering your product or service
- Authorised representatives who sell products or services on our behalf
- Superannuation and managed funds organisations, and their advisers; medical professionals, medical facilities or health authorities who verify any health information you may provide; valuers, insurers (including lenders' mortgage and title insures) , re- insures, claim assessors and investigators; brokers or referees who refer your application or business to us; loyalty programme partners
- Other financial institutions, such as banks
- Organisations involved in debt collecting, including purchasers of debt; fraud reporting agencies (including organisations that assist with fraud investigations and organisations established to identify, investigate and/or prevent any fraud, suspected fraud, crime, suspected crime, or misconduct or of a serious nature ): real estate agents; government or regulatory bodies ( including ASIC and the Australian Tax Office) as required or authorised by law (in some instances these bodies may share it with relevant foreign authorities); our accountants, auditors or lawyers and external advisers
- Rating agenises to extent necessary to allow the rating agency to rate particular investments; any party involved in securitising your facility, including re-insurers and underwriters, loan services, trust managers, trustees and security trustees; guarantors and prospective guarantors of your facility; organisations that maintain, review and develop our business systems, procedures and technology infrastructure, including testing or upgrading our computer systems; organisations that participate with us in payments systems including merchants, payment organisations and organisations that produce cards, cheque books or statements for us; our joint venture partners that conduct business with us; organisations involved in a corporate re-organisation or transfer of Group assets or business; organisations that assist with our product planning, research and development; mailing houses and telemarketing agencies who assist us to communicate with you; other organisations involved in our normal business practices, including our agents and contractors; and where you're given your consent
How do you access your personal information?
How you can generally access your information
We'll always give you access to your personal information unless there are certain legal reasons why we can't. You can ask us in writing to access your personal information that we hold. In some cases we may be able to deal with your request over the phone.
We will give you access to your information in the form you want it where it's reasonable and practical. We may charge you a small fee to cover our costs when giving you access, but we'll always check with you first.
We're not always required to give you access to your personal information. Some of the situations where we don't have to give you access include when:
- We believe there is a threat to life or public safety
- There is unreasonable impact on others
- The request is frivolous
- The information wouldn't be ordinarily accessible because of legal proceedings
- It would prejudice negotiations with you
- It would be unlawful
- It would jeopardise taking action against serious misconduct
- It would be likely to harm the activities of an enforcement body (e.g. the police)
- It would harm the confidentiality of our commercial information
In relation to credit eligibility information, the expectations may differ.
If we can't provide your information in the way you've requested, we will tell you why in writing. If you have any concerns, you can complain. See 'contact us'.
How to access your credit eligibility information.
Where you request access to credit information about you that we've obtained from credit reporting bodies (or based on that information), you have been following additional rights.
We must:
Provide you access to the information within 30 days (unless unusual circumstances apply); make information clear and assessable; and ask you to check with credit reporting bodies what information they hold about you.
These ensure it is accurate and up-to-date
We are not required to give you access to this information if:
- It would be unlawful
- Or it would be likely you harm activities of an enforcement body (e.g. the police)
- We may also restrict what we give you if it would harm the confidentiality of our commercial information
If we refuse to give access to any credit eligibility information, we will tell you why in writing. If you have any concerns, you can complain to our external dispute resolution scheme or the Office of the Australia Information Commissioner
How do you correct your personal information?
Contact us if you think there is something wrong with the information we hold about you and we'll try to correct it if it's:
- Inaccurate
- Out of date
- Incomplete
- Irrelevant
- Misleading
If you are worried that we have given incorrect information to others, you can ask us to tell them about the correction, we'll try where we can – if we can't, then we'll let you know in writing.
What additional things do we have to correct your credit information?
If you ask us to correct credit information to be corrected credit information, we will help you with this in the following way.
Helping you manage corrections
Whether we made the mistake or someone else made it, we are required to help you ask for the information to be corrected. So we can do this, we might need to talk others. However, the most efficient way for you to make correction request is to send it to the organisation which made the mistake.
Where we correct information
If we're able to correct the information, we'll let you know within five business days of deciding to do this. We'll also let relevant third parties know as well as any others you tell us about. If there are any instances where we can't do this, then we'll let you know in writing
Where we can't correct information
If we can't make corrections within 30 day time frame or the agreed time frame, we must:
Let you know about the delay, the reasons for it and when we expect to resolve the matter; ask you to agree in writing to give us more time; and let you know you can complain to our external dispute resolution scheme or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
How do you make a complaint?
How do you generally make a complaint? If you have a complaint about how we handle your personal information, we want to hear from you
You can contact us by using the details below
The Manager
Synergy Home Loans Suite 5, QV Centre 7 High Street
Launceston Tas 7250
Telephone 03 63317474
We are committed to resolving your complaint and doing the right thing by our customers. Most complaints are resolved quickly, and you should hear from us within five business days.
Need more help?
If you still feel your issue hasn't been resolved to your satisfaction, then you can raise your concern with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner:
Online: www.oaic.gov.au/priavcy
Phone: 1300 363 992 1300 363 992
Fax: +61 2 0284 9666
Mail: GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001 or GPO Box Canberra ACT 2601
What additional things do we have to do to manage your complaints about credit information?
If your complaint relates to how we handled your access and correction requests you may take your complaint directly to our external dispute resolution scheme or the Office of Australian Information Commissioner. You are not required to let us try to fix it first.
For all other complaints relating to credit information
If you make a complaint about things (other than access request or correction request) in relation to your credit information, we will let you know how we will deal with it within seven days.
Ask for more time to rectify your complaint
If we can't resolve your complaint within 30 days, we'll let you know why and how long we think it will take. We will also ask you for an extension of time to fix the matter. If you have any concerns, you may complain to our external dispute resolution scheme or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Letting you know about our decision
We'll let you know about our decision within 30 days or any longer agreed time frame. If you have any concerns, you may complain to our external dispute resolution scheme or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Contact details for Credit Reporting Bodies
As outlined above, if you apply for credit or have a credit facility with us, we may give your personal information to one or more credit reporting bodies. The contact details of the credit reporting bodies we may use are outlined below. Each credit reporting body has a credit reporting policy about how they handle your information. You can obtain copies of these policies at their websites.
Veda Advantage Business Information Services Ltd
Veda Advantage's credit reporting policy is set out at http://www.veda.com.au/privacy
Mail: Attention: Public Access Division Veda Advantage PO Box 966 North Sydney NSW 2059
Dun & Bradstreet Australia
Online: www.checkyourcredit.com.au
Dunn and Bradstreet's credit reporting policy is set out at http://dnb.com.au/Header/About_Us/Leagal/Privacy_policy/index.aspx
Phone: 1300 734 806 1300 734 806
Mail: Attention Public Access Centre Dun & Bradstreet Australia PO Box 7405 St Kilda Rd VIC 3004
Contact credit reporting bodies if you think you have been a victim of fraud
If you believe you have been likely to be a victim of fraud (including identity fraud), you can request a credit reporting body not to use or disclose the information they hold about you. If you do this, the credit reporting body mustn't use or disclose the information during an initial 21 day period without your consent (unless the use or disclose is required by law.) This is known as a ban period.
If, after the initial 21 day ban period, the credit reporting body believes on reasonable grounds that you continue to be or are a likely to be a victim of fraud, the credit reporting body must extend the ban period as they think reasonable in the circumstances. The credit reporting body must give you a written notice of the extension.
Contact credit reporting bodies if you don't want your information used by them for direct marketing/pre screening purposes
Credit reporting bodies can use the personal information about you that they collect for a pre-scanning assessment at the request of a credit provider unless you ask them not to. A pre screening assessment is an assessment of individuals to see if they satisfy particular eligibility requirements of a credit provider to receive direct marketing. You have the right to contact a credit reporting body to say that you don't want your information used in pre scanning assessments. If you do this, the credit reporting body must not use your information for this purpose.
What if you want to interact with us anonymously or use a pseudonym?
If you have general enquiry type questions, you can choose to do this anonymously or use a pseudonym. We might not always be able to interact with you this way however as we are often governed by strict regulations that require us to know who we are dealing with. In general, we won't be able to deal with you anonymously or where you are using a pseudonym when it is impractical or we are required authorised by law or a court/tribunal order to deal with you personally.
What do we do with government-related identifiers?
In certain circumstances we may be required to collect government-related identifiers such as your tax file number. We will not use or disclose this information unless we are authorised by law.
Contact us
Your Privacy is very important. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about our privacy policies and procedures.
You can contact us by using the details below:
The Manager, Amanah Islamic Finance,
133 Sydney Rd Coburg Vic 3059
Tel: 1300 262 624
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This policy may change. We will let you know of any changes to this policy by posting a notification on our website.
The information contained on this page and on this website is general information only and should not be relied on as specific advice for your particular circumstances or as a substitute for professional advice.


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Finally, divine intervention has set in and the next installment of the Street Fighter franchise is here!! I have to admit, I have been watching this game in development for close to 2 years now, and I had very high expectations. Let me say this, this game is on FIRE! Hot. Hot. Hot. Capcom must have made a deal with the devil or something because there last few games of late and forthcoming seem just flawless and literally too good to be true (ex. Resident Evil 5, Dark Void, etc.).
Visually stunning. The intro runs maybe close to 5 minutes long and you don't even notice because you're just hypnotized and in disbelief that humans actually created this masterpiece (the alt' being cylons of course)! Gameplay graphics stay true to the watercolor styling at some points we've seen in the promos, and at others times the characters can seem "blocky/polygonal" (think ol' school Virtua Fighter) during character intros right before a match begins. Most of the characters when playing in Arcade mode have an additional animated mini movie clip before the match even starts. This mini clip sets up why your chosen fighter decided to enter the tournament. This was a pleasant surprise and fans of the SF anime movies will eat it up. It seems as if there will be a some other SF anime movie coming out soon separate than the one included in the collectors edition (for example, you'll notice Abel's movie clip is not taken from the dvd in the collector's edition). All in all, when you look at the character designs, the new backgrounds, even the drawn in animated facial expressions as fighters get knocked around, I can't fault this game at all on anything graphically.
It's a fighting game. I personally don't care too much if fighting games have plots or not, but I guess when playing through the Arcade mode it has to have "something" per character. As mentioned above, it appears each warrior was given a mini-clip of background story bringing them back to fight once more. I like it. Short, to the point, and I was able to turn off the subtitles (I loathe subtitles in games). It's good enough, we'll leave it at that.
Spot on controls. Somehow I found it difficult to perform certain basic moves like Ken's fireball when they released the HD ReMix, but here with SFIV it seems the controls are a bit more forgiving. Hurricane kicks, no problem. Abel's Ultra Super, piece of cake. In short, yes even if you were never able to pull off some of the special moves in other iterations of the SF series..you probably be able to here.
On the Average setting (in Arcade Mode), it's pretty tough to beat some characters. I found the most frustrating to beat, C.Viper and Sagat. There were times I couldn't even get one hit off these guys and I'm an experienced SF player. With that said, I'm going to go off on a limb here and say most likely I will never choose the Hard setting..for I have already flung my controller across the room just on the Average setting alone. So long the days of Chun Li being the cheese queen, the throne is now bestowed by Ms. Crimson Viper. Take your bow Ms. Viper, take_your_bow…
Sound wise, incredible…sometimes too loud, but depends on your surround system possibly [grin].
So far, this may be the only fault I find with this otherwise stellar game. In every attempt where I purposely try to find others to play with, I can't. I'm constantly rejected due to a party being full or for some random reason where the reason given is rather vague. However, if I turn on the network mode..then try to play the regular Arcade mode, I'm constantly interrupted with requests!! Where were these people just a few minutes ago?!! I don't particularly remember being able to reject a match during Arcade Network mode either. Weird, as it seems unbalanced in that sense to me.
- Flawless gameplay and graphics.
- Stays true to the Street Fighter legacy.
- Love the new characters, it all fits.
- Level of difficulty can be inconsistent at times which can lead utter frustration.
- Online random match ups are hard to come by (in my opinion).
Feed Your Console gives Street Fighter IV: 9/10
Developer: Capcom
Genre: 2D, 3D Fighting


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1 Samuel 11-13
1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this [condition] will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel.
3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if [there be] no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by [that time] the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed [it] to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.
11 And it was [so] on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who [is] he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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1 Samuel 12
1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
3 Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
5 And he said unto them, The LORD [is] witness against you, and his anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.
6 And Samuel said unto the people, [It is] the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
9 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.
13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, [and] whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:
15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your fathers.
16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.
17 [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.
20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
21 And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.
22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you.
25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
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1 Samuel 13
1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
2 Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that [was] in Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
4 And all Israel heard say [that] Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and [that] Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
7 And [some of] the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he [was] yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and [that] thou camest not within the days appointed, and [that] the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.
15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people [that were] present with him, about six hundred men.
16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that were] present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way [that leadeth to] Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
18 And another company turned the way [to] Bethhoron: and another company turned [to] the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or spears:
20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.


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Competitors, Judges Chosen for 2016 NY Bull Burger Battle
Mahopac, NY — With more than a dozen handpicked competitors confirmed and a top-notch panel of judges eager to find the winning creation, preparations are nearly complete for the 2016 New York Bull Burger Battle at Best in Backyards.
Scheduled for Saturday, June 18, the third annual New York Bull Burger Battle is an official qualifying event for the 2016 World Food Championships. It is the second Bull Burger Battle of 2016, with the first having taken place in Baton Rouge earlier this month and the others slated for Chicago, San Diego and Indianapolis.
Activities for the Mahopac event will begin at about 10:30 a.m., shortly before the first group of competitors fires up their grills. Attendees will have the chance to enter to win a Bel Air Grill, valued at $499, and they will also have the opportunity to sample food cooked on a premier Bull BBQ grill cart. Live radio entertainment will be provided by 100.7 WHUD. There will also be plenty to do for the kids, who are encouraged to get their faces painted or have a balloon twisted, and to play on the swing sets and trampolines on display.
"We're so excited to host this incredible event for the third consecutive year," said Rolf Zimmermann, vice president of sales for Best in Backyards and Eastern Jungle Gym. "Each year the competition grows a bit fiercer, and each year we see larger crowds come out for a day of family fun."
The highlight of the event will take place sometime around 3 p.m. when the winner is announced, after the judges score each burger for appearance, execution and taste. This year's judging panel is made up of Chef Michael Schmutzer, president of the Chefs Association of Westchester and Lower Connecticut; John Turiano, an editor at Today Media's Westchester Magazine, whose favorite assignments involve food; and Kansas City Barbecue Society certified judges Dave Prosser and Ben Ronne.
The judges will have their work cut out for them, with winners from past years and formidable newcomers alike hopeful to be named Burger Champion. The list of competitors is as follows:
- Admir Alibasic of Bronx, NY
- Craig Bellomo of Floral Park, NY
- David Conti of Seymour, CT
- Skip Day of Wantagh, NY — 2014 New York Bull Burger Battle Champion
- Robert Ericsson of Sicklerville, NJ
- Greg Friedman of Mount Kisco, NY
- Kelvin Dickens of Coram, NY
- Dan Herman of Bellmore, NY
- Christopher Holihan of Mahopac, NY
- Rocky Julianelle of East Haven, CT
- Eugene Philbin of Pittston, PA
- Dana Reed of Bergen County, NJ
- Joe Saccente of Shrub Oak, NY — 2015 New York Bull Burger Battle Champion
- Ray Sheehan of Neptune, NJ
Event Details:
Where — Best in Backyards: 119 Route 6, Mahopac, NY 10541
When — Saturday, June 18 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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As the ASCII inspired, roguelike dungeon crawler Brut@l approaches its PlayStation 4 release date, developer Stormcloud Games is revealing some new information about how co-op works. Specifically, does the loot drop for each player individually, or is it communal? Can a downed buddy be revived? And perhaps the most important question of all, can I throw a potion at my friend's head to heal him or her?
In the PS Blog post, producer Richard Wood answers all of these hot burning questions. Loot is not instanced per player so whatever drops is fair game. As the game supports local co-op only, though, presumably you and your buddy won't be fighting too much over who gets what. You're also free to drop items at any time for your friend, or even throw them at him or her. This sharing extends beyond just loot, too. When a player revives another player, the player that is doing the reviving shares their life with the player getting revived. So, if player one has 50 HP and revives player two, both will have 25 HP.
There's still no announced release date for Brut@l, but it should be arriving any day now for the PC and PlayStation 4.
Source: Blog.eu.playstation.com


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text: On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:09 PM, <dpreed at reed.com> wrote: > I understand this. In the end of the day, however, *regression tests* > matter, as well as tests to verify that new functionality actually works. > The problems with developing global test suites, particularly when dealing with embedded hardware, are manyfold. I certainly would like to have a full test suite that I could run on any router rather than the ad-hoc collection of tests I run now. One of the problems we have is that we are testing for new problems, and by definition, you don't know what those are, and after you fix it, you need to develop a viable test. I can think hundreds of things fixed in the past year that I'd like to test for, not just on this hardware, or this software, but over the internet, E2E. Example: in june of last year, there was a 10 year old bug in how ECN enabled packets were prioritized by the *default* pfifo_fast qdisc. I'll argue that this has skewed every study published about it in the last decade as well, and all that data and academic papers need to be reanalyzed - or preferably, thrown out, and we need to start over. The harder problem than writing the tests are: 1) Which problems are important? What tests are valid? What is repeatable? 2) Who will write the test? 3) How can the test be deployed? 4) How often does it need to run? 5) How can the data be analyzed? 6) How does that work get paid for? I am happy that I have ONE ECN related study to rely on from steve bauer at MIT. I'd love to have more, and one of my other projects (thumbgps) is going to give us a baseline for investigating a bunch of similar issues. I'm happy to have a solution emerging to problems 3 and 4 above. 1,2,5 and 6 remain unsolved. > I've managed projects with 200 daily "committers". Unless those committers > get immediate feedback on what they break (accidentally) and design the > tests for their new functionality so that others don't break what they > carefully craft, projects go south and never recover. If I need to establish cred here, I've been a part of projects with far more committers and managed up to about 70 staff myself. When working with the open source community, which is mostly volunteers, there is no way to be dictatorial. Consensus needs to sought. Needed stuff that nobody wants to do has to get paid for. The linux kernel - which is at best, 1/10th of the overall code base in openwrt - goes through about 10,000 changesets every quarter. The 3.2 development cycle had nearly 1300 committers. http://lwn.net/Articles/472852/ They all have their own processes for quality control, and somehow manage to produce a usable system on a reliable basis. And that's just the kernel portion of the problem! A better word for the kind of work that goes on in developing an OS like a redhat or openwrt is 'packaging'. You don't actually have conventional 'developers', packagers are rather different catagory of developer, skilled in make, cross-compilation techniques, and many have a good familiarity with architecture-level issues (like endianness and bit size and innards of a given architecture like arm or mips). They are capable of basic coding in dozens of languages, all on the same day, but are only highly skilled in one or two, at best. in this way they tend to be something of a hybrid between sysadmin and developer. And they do care, a lot, about the quality of the engineering, and try to push patches back to the developer, and make sysadmins (and users) lives easier. Packagers do have standards for quality control, and do test on their own platforms, but: as the potential test matrix has several thousand permutations, having a tool like a buildbot that tries to give at least some wider coverage to the most common combinations, and leverages technology to give them adaquate feedback to iteratively get it right. Like anything else, it can always be done better. In an ideal world, a packager could do a test commit, get it built against all those permutations, have run for 24 hours, exaustively checking all the in-built functionality, have it's memory and cpu use analyzed, and get the result back a few seconds later. Aside from needing Dr Who to help out on parts of that, it's hard, expensive, and something of a tragedy of the commons - somebody has to pay for all that infrastructure, electricity, and testing for everyone to benefit. The gradually improving recent buildbot-disaster is a case-in-point. It was working. A bunch of machines died over time. Nobody was paying attention. It became a disaster. We fixed it with bailing wire, scotch tape and stolen resources. I'd certainly love it if we had budget to where doing the logical thing - build everything, all the time - was practical. Same goes for developing regression tests, having racks of hardware that can be reburnt and re-tested every day, This sort of pattern repeats in nearly every low budget project (volunteer or corporate sponsored), but unfortunately Elon doesn't hang out with us, and isn't going to fly in with the liquid oxygen. As for regression testing, regressions against what? (the answer is too large to fit in the margins of this email) Certainly multiple companies make wireless test suites (one has been actively helping out, actually), there are dozens of benchmark suites, there are zillions of subcomponent tests... and in this market, razor thin margins on the vendors side, as well as the ISPs. Now, I like to think that our governments and society are waking up to the chaos that can ensue if the internet goes down, corps are realizing that ipv4 can't last forever and ipv6 has to be made deployable e2e, and maybe there's a shift in thinking that making the Internet just work is a civil engineering job that *has* to be done right ( http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4213 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4196 )... but at the end of the day we just have to do the best engineering we can with the resources available. > You don't have that rate of committers here, but it's not really an excuse > to say - Well, in some ways we do. Adding in a new kernel requires depending on a multitude of other people on having got it right. Same goes for the other thousand packages. It has taken a year and a ton of effort (from multiple volunteers) to get from where the cerowrt kernel lagged the mainline kernel by 3 versions, down to where it is only going to lag by 1. That effort was necessarily if we wanted to be able to do work on both x86 and a router simultaneously while investigating bufferbloat, security, and ipv6, and be able to move forward (And back and forth) with a minimum of backporting. That portion of the effort has eaten more of my time this year than I care to think about. At the time we started hacking on cerowrt, most commercial embedded products were based on 5 year old kernels, or older, due to how difficult it is to track the mainline, and a perceived lack of demand from consumers for new stuff, despite the ISPs increasing frustration with what's being shipped today not meeting their needs or expectations. We are trying to change that - in part by listening to the screams of ISPs like comcast - but in also trying out new technologies such as fixes for bufferbloat, ipv6, radical concepts like ccnx and openhip - to be geek and early adoptor attractors - to get more of the needed work done. Still, an effort well beyond the original scope of the "wide" project seems needed to get ipv6 rolled out. The theoretical breakthroughs required to fix bufferbloat seem almost trivial in comparison. > "we have to jam in code without testing it because we don't have a > discipline of testing and it's a waste of time". It's a matter of having enough distributed testing. > 50% of what a developer should be doing (if not more) is making sure that > they don't break more than they improve. so try 'packaging' rather than developing, and wrap your head around the test matrix problem. > > > > I realize this is tough, not fun, and sometimes very frustrating. But cool > "new stuff" is far less important than keeping stuff stable. This is a classic tension. I note that we're trying to fix the internet here, before *it's* stability goes unstable. So a great deal of change and r&d is needed, and yes, it needs to be managed well, but stability only qualifies as a goal in limited ways. > I'm not trying to be negative - this is stuff I learned at huge personal > cost in very high stress environments where people were literally screaming > at me every hour of every day. I have been in those too. I would say that the amount of stress I've put myself under, trying to ship something by the end of this month - compares closely. Personally I would like to like to offload about 95% of what I currently do, so I could focus on what's truly important. I'm glad we have more and more volunteers, self identifying problems, leaping forward and going out on their own, to go fix them. Still the seat I wish I was sitting in now, with resources I wish I could command, is Bob Taylor, circa 1968 or so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_%28computer_scientist%29 He's always been a real inspiration to me. > The cerowrt/bufferbloat stuff is worth doing, and it's worth doing right - > I'm a fan. THX! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Dave Taht" <dave.taht at gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:50pm > To: dpreed at reed.com > Cc: cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net > Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Cero-state this week and last > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:33 PM, <dpreed at reed.com> wrote: >> A small suggestion. >> >> >> >> Create a regression test suite, and require contributors to *pass* the >> test >> with each submitted patch set. > > A linear complete build of openwrt takes 17 hours on good hardware. > It's hard to build in parallel. > > A parallel full build is about 3 hours but requires a bit of monitoring > > Incremental package builds are measured in minutes, however... > >> Be damned politically incorrect about checkins that don't meet this >> criterion - eliminate >> the right to check in code for anyone who contributes something that >> breaks >> functionality. > > The number of core committers is quite low, too low, at present. > However the key problem here is that > the matrix of potential breakage is far larger than any one contribute > can deal with. > > There are: > > 20 + fairly different cpu architectures * > 150+ platforms * > 3 different libcs * > 3 different (generation) toolchains * > 5-6 different kernels > > That matrix alone is hardly concievable to deal with. In there are > arches that are genuinely weird (avr anyone), arches that have > arbitrary endian, arches that are 32 bit and 64 bit... > > Add in well over a thousand software packages (everything from Apache > to zile), and you have an idea of how much code has dependencies on > other code... > > For example, the breakage yesterday (or was it the day before) was in > a minor update to libtool, as best as I recall. It broke 3 packages > that cerowrt has available as options. > > I'm looking forward, very much, to seeing the buildbot produce a > known, good build, that I can layer my mere 67 patches and two dozen > packages on top of without having to think too much. > >> Every project leader discovers this. > > Cerowrt is an incredibly tiny superset of the openwrt project. I help > out where I can. > >> Programmers are *lazy* and refuse to >> check their inputs unless you shame them into compliance. > > Volunteer programmers are not lazy. > > They do, however, have limited resources, and prefer to make progress > rather than make things perfect. Difficult to pass check-in tests > impeed progress. > > The fact that you or I can build an entire OS, in a matter of hours, > today, and have it work, most often buffuddles me. This is 10s of > millions of lines of code, all perfect, most of the time. > > It used to take 500+ people to engineer an os in 1992, and 4 days to > build. I consider this progress. > > There are all sorts of processes in place, some can certainly be > improved. For example, discussed last week was methods for dealing > with and approving the backlog of submitted patches by other > volunteers. > > It mostly just needs more eyeballs. And testing. There's a lot of good > stuff piled up. > > http://patchwork.openwrt.org/project/openwrt/list/ >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Dave Taht" <dave.taht at gmail.com> >> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:27pm >> To: cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net >> Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] Cero-state this week and last >> >> I attended the ietf conference in Paris (virtually), particularly ccrg >> and homenet. >> >> I do encourage folk to pay attention to homenet if possible, as laying >> out what home networks will look like in the next 10 years is proving >> to be a hairball. >> ccrg was productive. >> >> Some news: >> >> I have been spending time fixing some infrastructural problems. >> >> 1) After be-ing blindsided by more continuous integration problems in >> the last month than in the last 5, I found out that one of the root >> causes was that the openwrt build cluster had declined in size from 8 >> boxes to 1(!!), and time between successful automated builds was in >> some cases over a month. >> >> The risk of going 1 to 0 build slaves seemed untenable. So I sprang >> into action, scammed two boxes and travis has tossed them into the >> cluster. Someone else volunteered a box. >> >> I am a huge proponent of continuous integration on complex projects. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration >> >> Building all the components of an OS like openwrt correctly, all the >> time, with the dozens of developers involved, with a minimum delta >> between commit, breakage, and fix, is really key to simplifying the >> relatively simple task we face in bufferbloat.net of merely layering >> on components and fixes improving the state of the art in networking. >> >> The tgrid is still looking quite bad at the moment. >> >> http://buildbot.openwrt.org:8010/tgrid >> >> There's still a huge backlog of breakage. >> >> But I hope it gets better. Certainly building a full cluster of build >> boxes or vms (openwrt at HOME!!) would help a lot more. >> >> If anyone would like to help hardware wise, or learn more about how to >> manage a build cluster using buildbot, please contact travis >> <thepeople AT openwrt.org> >> >> 2) Bloatlab #1 has been completely rewired and rebuilt and most of >> the routers in there reflashed to Cerowrt-3.3.1-2 or later. They >> survived some serious network abuse over the last couple days >> (ironically the only router that crashed was the last rc6 box I had in >> the mix - and not due to a network fault! I ran it out of flash with a >> logging tool). >> >> To deal with the complexity in there (there's also a sub-lab for some >> sdnat and PCP testing), I ended up with a new ipv6 /48 and some better >> ways to route that I'll write up soon. >> >> 3) I did finally got back to fully working builds for the ar71xx >> (cerowrt) architecture a few days ago. I also have a working 3.3.1 >> kernel for the x86_64 build I use to test the server side. >> (bufferbloat is NOT just a router problem. Fixing all sides of a >> connection helps a lot). That + a new iproute2 + the debloat script >> and YOU TOO can experience orders of magnitude less latency.... >> >> http://europa.lab.bufferbloat.net/debloat/ has that 3.3.1 kernel for >> x86_64 >> >> Most of the past week has been backwards rather than forwards, but it >> was negative in a good way, mostly. >> >> I'm sorry it's been three weeks without a viable build for others to test. >> >> 4) today's build: http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~cero1/3.3/3.3.1-4/ >> >> + Linux 3.3.1 (this is missing the sfq patch I liked, but it's good >> enough) >> + Working wifi is back >> + No more fiddling with ethtool tx rings (up to 64 from 2. BQL does >> this job better) >> + TCP CUBIC is now the default (no longer westwood) >> after 15+ years of misplaced faith in delay based tcp for wireless, >> I've collected enough data to convince me the cubic wins. all the >> time. >> + alttcp enabled (making it easy to switch) >> + latest netperf from svn (yea! remotely changable diffserv settings >> for a test tool!) >> >> - still horrible dependencies on time. You pretty much have to get on >> it and do a rndc validation disable multiple times, restart ntp >> multiple times, killall named multiple times to get anywhere if you >> want to get dns inside of 10 minutes. >> >> At this point sometimes I just turn off named in /etc/xinetd.d/named >> and turn on port 53 for dnsmasq... but >> usually after flashing it the first time, wait 10 minutes (let it >> clean flash), reboot, wait another 10, then it works. Drives me >> crazy... Once it's up and has valid time and is working, dnssec works >> great but.... >> >> + way cool new stuff in dnsmasq for ra and AAAA records >> - huge dependency on keeping bind in there >> - aqm-scripts. I have not succeed in making hfsc work right. Period. >> + HTB (vs hfsc) is proving far more tractable. SFQRED is scaling >> better than I'd dreamed. Maybe eric dreamed this big, I didn't. >> - http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/352 >> + Added some essential randomness back into the entropy pool >> - hostapd really acts up at high rates with the hack in there for more >> entroy (From the openwrt mainline) >> + named caching the roots idea discarded in favor of classic '.' >> >> >> -- >> Dave Täht >> SKYPE: davetaht >> US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 >> http://www.bufferbloat.net >> _______________________________________________ >> Cerowrt-devel mailing list >> Cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel > > > > -- > Dave Täht > SKYPE: davetaht > US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 > http://www.bufferbloat.net -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://www.bufferbloat.net


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Sinha, Dipendra (2009): The energy consumption-GDP nexus: Panel data evidence from 88 countries.
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This paper uses panel data from 88 countries to examine the relationship between per capita GDP and per capita energy consumption. The results show that per capita GDP and per capita energy consumption are cointegrated. Also, there is a two-way short-run, long-run and strong causality between the growth of GDP and growth of energy consumption. These results are in contrast to almost all other existing studies.
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A paper ballerina box, how cute is that. Simple too!
Here is the box closed, the ribbon just ties into a bow ontop
Here it is with the top lid opened to reveal the ballerina.
Here it is with the middle lid opened to reveal the inside of the box. Perfect for holding a small gift, treats for a party or just a little girls or boys treasures.
Instructions and Template
To make the box you will need 1 piece of cardstock or heavier patterend paper. I used Best Creation Ballerina Princeses.
1) Cut a piece 5" by 11"
2) Make fold lines (score) vertically at 3", 4", 7" 8"
3) Make fold lines (score) horizontally at 1" from the top and bottom.
5) Make a cut at each of the vertical fold lines just to the 1" fold line.
Now you are ready to fold it into a box.
Pre-fold all the fold lines first, this will make it much easier to fold into the box shape.
Start with the bottom base and fold the sides up and adhere the flaps to the inside.
Attach two pieces of ribbon to the inside of the box, so that the ribbon can be
used to tie it up at the end.
Then fold the middle lid and tuck the flaps in. Do not adhere them as this lid will open.
Once the box is assembled, then its time to decorate!
I used paper and embellishments from Best Creation
The cute ballerina is a sticker from that line.
This is a great template for a box, it is fast becoming one of my favourite.
My dd, with a bit of help, made an easter one with bit of chocolate in it for her teacher.
"A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid."
J.R.R. Tolkien


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Friday, September 25, 2015
The Word for Today
I didn't know how much I'd need them until later in the day. Ask me and I'll tell you the story. In fact, I'd really like to do that. Message me, text or call me whenever you read this, whether it's tonight, tomorrow, next week or next year. Thanks.
It's so good to know the Word of God. Every Day. And it's good to share the ways that God's Word blesses so we can grow in faith.
Peace to you in Jesus' name.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Chrys Fey's Seismic Crimes Tour: Character Interview & #Giveaway
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Don't lose the stun gun sounds like an excellent tip, indeed. Looking forward to reading this story! Congrats, Chrys!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a great book. And that was a fun interview. Congrats to Chrys on her new book!ReplyDelete
Sounds like our kind of New Year's Eve, except that bedroom stuff happens long before midnight, because after that, I'm asleep.ReplyDelete
Your character flirted with you - LOL! Love the exchange.ReplyDelete
Fun interview! Donovan and Beth sound like an awesome couple. :-)ReplyDelete
Congrats Chrys! Donovan definitely seems like the flirty type. :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for having me on your blog, Christine! I love being here. :)ReplyDelete
@Natalie, I'm glad you enjoyed the interview. :)ReplyDelete
@Alex, LOL!
@L. Diane, yes, yes, he did. :P
@Misha, I love them together.
@Libby, he just likes to tease, especially Beth.
Some fun lines in the book, but it also keeps you wondering what's going to happen next.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 23, 2016 at 11:55 AM
Ha, ha, fun post! I'm looking forward to reading the book.ReplyDelete
Ooh, fun bedroom stuff! You mean pillow fights, right? Or eating snacks in bed? Yeah, I love that too.ReplyDelete
Lol, awesome interview...loved the banter:)ReplyDelete
"Don't lose the stun gun!" Ha! I loved that.ReplyDelete
@C Lee and Lori, thank you!ReplyDelete
@Beer, ha! I could possibly mean those things. ;)
@Mark, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@H.R., it's good advice.
Love the character interview, great job. Wonderful to see your tour doing so well!ReplyDelete
I'll be back to full blogging soon, we'll arrange something!
Love this interview!!!ReplyDelete
Go, Chrys!
- AnonymousMay 23, 2016 at 8:16 PM
Fun interview, but I have a follow up question. Where in Michigan did they go? I have to ask since I live there. =PReplyDelete
Don't lose the stun gun. Don't push the red button. These sorts of things sound like good advice to me.ReplyDelete
@Yolanda, I'd love to be on your blog! Thank you.ReplyDelete
@Tyrean, thank you!
@Patricia, well I don't actually say what city/town they go to in Michigan, but I imagined it to be around Bay City where my family is.
@Shannon, very good advice. ;)
Love the characters. What a hoot. ;-)ReplyDelete
Anna from elements of emaginette
Great idea! I need to do this sort of thing.ReplyDelete
@Anna, glad you like them. :)ReplyDelete
@Stephanie, character interviews are a blast!