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A voter's choice of party or candidate is akin to a boss assessing the performance of his employees. Whoever that scores the highest marks will get more votes from the voters.
For the past five years, both the ruling and opposition alliances have been performing below public expectations.
BN is at the helm of the federal administration and has the most powers in hand. As such, voters naturally have much higher expectations from them as power comes with responsibility.
In the 2013 general elections, BN was using the 1Malaysia concept and national transformation agenda as chips to win broader voter support, but these are no longer convincing today.
BN leaders always claim that the country's economy has improved vastly, including impressive GDP growth, a stronger ringgit, an equity market at three-year high, relatively low inflation and jobless rates. However, the public do not seem to feel the euphoria. Instead, market sentiment which has taken a beating since the introduction of GST in April 2015, has yet to recover.
Ringgit's recent strength has stemmed from higher international oil prices and a relatively lethargic US dollar, not because of any stimulus package by the government.
By the way, the drastic fall of the local currency in previous years has remarkably debilitated the health of the national economy.
The plummeting consumer sentiment has sent a chill across many industries, culminating in shop closures, declining vehicle sales and a stagnant real estate market.
As if that is not enough, goods prices have gone through the roof with the December CPI expanding at 3.5%, a 0.1 percentage higher than the previous month.
Luckily we have been able to jump on China's "One Belt One Road" bandwagon. Alibaba is giving us a lift in developing our digital economy, while Chinese Ambassador Bai Tian announced that his country would purchase unlimited quantities of Malaysian palm oil.
That said, the economic effects of Chinese investments will need time to manifest. As such, BN may not win the hearts of voters by chanting its economic achievements alone.
The benchmark verdict by the Federal Court over the conversion of Indira Gandhi's children is a manifestation of judicial independence, but at the same time, it also reflects the fact the ruling coalition has indeed done too little on this matter.
Last August, the government withdrew the critical Section 88A on the last minute from the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) (Amendment) Bill 2017, reneging on its earlier promises.
After GE13, BN leaders said the government would introduce a "national reconciliation" measure, abandon extreme and unhealthy race elements and set up a National Unity Consultative Council (MKPN) while drawing up a national reconciliation blueprint.
Unfortunately, national reconciliation has since taken the back seat following a string of racially controversial incidents and the introduction of bumi empowerment economic policy, among other things.
Muslim organization have differing views over the Federal Court ruling, and it is therefore unlikely for the government to reintroduce Section 88A to the Law Reform Bill.
The BN government has also launched seven National Key Results Areas (NKRAs) in a bid to lower crime rate, battle corruption, improve public transportation system, provide quality education opportunities, improve the living standards of low-income families, enhance rural infrastructure and lessen the financial burden of the people.
The government has performed somewhat acceptably in reinforcing urban public transport and rural amenities, including the Klang Valley MRT system and Pan-Borneo Highway. Nothing much elsewhere.
For example, the head of Perlis irrigation and drainage department allegedly received 10% commission from contractors, and poor job execution could be the reason for perennial floods in the state.
According to Australian media reports, the former Felda leadership was the culprit behind massive property investment losses in that country. No follow-up reports on this matter to this day.
With corruption still rampant and serious, it is impossible for the BN to try to woo voters by bragging about its corruption-busting successes.
Perhaps TN50 could win the hearts of some young voters, but again this whole thing is nothing more than a conceptual plan without any substantial policies or strategies to bring it to fruition.
The country has seen little progress in the last few years. According to the EIU's 2017 democracy report, Malaysia was categorized as a "flawed democracy" and was ranked a pathetic 142nd in electoral integrity out of 158 countries and territories worldwide.
Summing up BN's performance over the past five years, it has done reasonably well in infrastructure development but has made practically zero progress in policy adjustments, putting the overall grade at an "F".


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Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode let's take a look at spring-loaded folders. So spring-loaded folders is a term you have heard, but maybe you haven't actually tried to use them, or maybe you've been using them all along and you haven't even realized it. The idea is that you can drag and drop something onto a folder that's not even present on the screen at the time you start the drag. You can drag over a folder and wait about a second and the folder will open automatically -- will spring open and then you can put the file inside of that. As a manner of fact, you can actually navigate your entire file system, pretty much using spring-loaded folders, so it means you can drag and drop something without having to set everything up first, getting the right folder open on the right part of the screen to complete the action. So let me show ya a simple example. I've got a finder window open here and it's set to column view which is what I prefer. I've got a photo here and I wanna put it into a folder I can't even see right now. I can start the drag and bring it up into the window here, and I can drop it right here into my documents folder. But I can also hover over a folder - say my project - and it'll open it up and you can see now it appears here and I can drop it there. I can continue and drop it, drag it over here and now it opens that up over here, and it opens that up and I can drop it all the way down in there inside that folder in the media folder in the photos folder. I've dropped it in there which just one action without having to go to this photos folder first. And this also works perfectly fine in other views like the icon view. I can drag over to my projects, and media, and then photos and drop it in there. I can even use the side bar for it so I can save you looking at all my files and I can drag over to MacMost and then into documents and then continue on down and drop it in. And they've got a few options if you go to finder preferences you could see that you've got the ability to turn on and off spring loaded folders and set the delay amount so you can set it very short or very long. Um, let's change it to very long and then we can see here ah, that we could use the spacebar to speed things up a bit so I can go into my project and wait and it'll go in. Ah, and in my media and you can see how it takes about a second to operate. But if I use the spacebar go over and immediately jump into the folder. So spring-loaded folders is just a simple part of Mac OS X, once you realize it's there and you start using it, it just becomes very natural. You can use it to drag files and folders around, and just make navigating the finder much easier. Till next time, this is Gary with MacMost Now.


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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Fun Day! Sunny Day!
That's Mount Rainier in the background
Trev and Sarah on the 'tube!
I've also got the Life's a Picnic Mini Album kits up. They will be ready to ship on Monday. The patterns are also up for PRE-ORDER. They will ship via email on Tuesday, the 27th.
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Laura, are you going to post a preview to this on U Tube? I know you previewed it on friday and again on saturday but friday I got kicked off and saturday I couldn't be there. You stopped recording both days before you previewed. I love it just from the outside but would love to see it on the inside.ReplyDelete
Hope you know I am not complaining but I love, love, love your work and this is one I thought I would just love to buy the kit and not worry about having to cut my own chipboard or find just the right embellishments.
I am doing a video in the morning...too pooped tonight!!ReplyDelete
Looks like you had a super day Laura with your family! Enjoyed your classes this weekend:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2010 at 8:19 AM
This looks great, Laura! Can't wait to see the video! You always amaze me with the album ideas you come up with!ReplyDelete
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Oh wow you had a fabulous time with the children, beautiful area love those green fir treesReplyDelete
The picnic album looks great!
I want them all!lol
Looks like a wonderful family day at the lake! Beautiful scenery, happy children! What more could a person want? Some of our best times with the kids through the years were days spent on the water! ENJOY!! They grow up SOO very fast!!ReplyDelete
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Sweet home, Chicago. Where the politicians are ethical, taxes make sense and practically all decisions are made for the good of its citizens.
Nothing could remind us of this more than the innovative and completely-unique idea to upgrade the CTA's fare system to the much-lauded Ventra, outsourced to a private company that has provided excellent customer service and transparency thus far. But the transition to the CTA's latest great initiative is just one of many our civic agencies has executed in recent history. Let's take a look back at some of the more notable ones.
Parking meters
The deal that led to Chicago's new parking meters is second only to the seamless transition to Ventra when it comes to ranking the popularity of a citywide rollout. For the uninformed, Chicago's parking meters were once dilapidated pieces of equipment that were more reliable acting as bike racks than they were for validating parking. Under the leadership of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, a deal was brokered to privatize the operation under contract for something like 99-plus years. The deal cost the city absolutely zero dollars, and much like Ventra, remains a scarce example of a move made by city government that garnered no negative press, public backlash or political fallout.
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Mayor Emanuel wants Chicago to be one of the premiere bike-friendly cities in the world, and he's well on his way to achieving that. Out of 5,900-plus miles of streets and alleys in Chicago, our bike-friendly city already has--as of July, according to the Active Transportation Alliance--12.3 miles of protected bike lanes (you know, the only bike lanes that really protect bikers)! That's a literal biking paradise. And there's more coming. It's true. All you have to do is visit the city site http://chicagocompletestreets.org/your-streets/bikeways/ and find that the 2013--THAT'S THIS YEAR---projects are coming soon. And it's only October! -Brian Moore
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Sure, there are plenty of things you COULD say are dominated by bureaucracy, red tape and general systemic failure in Chicago, but anything having to do with vehicle registration is not one of them. Case in point: the legend of Herbert Pulgar and the 2012 City Sticker Design Contest. Young Pulgar crafted an image so beautiful, so utterly poetic, that the City decided it was worthy of being associated with a piece of plastic film you pay entirely too much for. The winning design was so successful, in fact, the city decided it could not be trumped, yanked all stickers sold with the design on it, declared a redo, then ended the contest indefinitely. Absolutely anyone who says the competition died because the design included gang symbols similar to those used by the Maniac Latin Disciples is completely mistaken and a fool.
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Ah, the Circle Line. A totally unnecessary project that would have connected outlying CTA stations. Who has ever needed to get from one line to another north, south or west of downtown, right? The last public meeting for this project was in 2009, the idea first floated in 2002, but it could absolutely still happen. Why not have a Circle in addition to a Loop?
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Billed as a fast way to get from downtown to O'Hare, the Mayor Daley-backed project is still in the "ideas phase," as we're calling it, after more than $200 million was spent. One local reporter recently toured the site and called it "one of the world's biggest unfinished basements." Looking forward to seeing the city cut the ribbon on this one in 2052. (In the meantime, if you're looking for a fast Blue Line ride that makes few stops you can just board the Ghost Train.)
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I'm going to let you in on a Broadway secret. It's supposed to be a surprise for Sunday's telecast, so I'm asking you to keep it between ourselves.
A special Tony honor will be presented to . . . Mayor Bloomberg.
I'm told the mayor will appear on the telecast to accept his honor. Given his propensity to nanny us into good behavior, maybe he'll dress up like Mary Poppins.
This is the second time the Tonys have honored a New York City mayor. John Lindsay got a special Tony Award in 1973 because, as mayor, he advocated building new theaters, including Lincoln Center. Never mind that he also ran the city into the ground: He loved to attend first nights, and his friends included a number of showbiz people.
But Abe Beame, who was close to the Shuberts, didn't get one. And Ed Koch certainly didn't get one — he was hated by the theater world for tearing down the Helen Hayes and the Morosco theaters to make way for the Marriott Marquis.
Rudy Giuliani deserved one — for cleaning up 42nd Street and rallying the city after the attack on the World Trade Center. But he was "controversial" and "divisive," so he didn't get one either.
So why Bloomberg?
I hear City Hall made the case to the Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, the two organizations that run the Tonys, that, under Mayor Mike, tourism has hit record levels — 52 million visitors this past year alone, many of them taking in a Broadway show.
Bloomberg's City Hall supporters thought it would be nice if Broadway acknowledged this by giving the mayor his very own Tony Award.
But the League and the Wing weren't willing to go that far. A Tony honor, OK — but not an actual Tony Award.
"He didn't get enough votes to get a special Tony Award," says a member of the administration committee. "But we had to do something. We can't just reject the mayor. So we gave him a Tony honor instead."
"A Tony Award is for someone in the theater — not a politician," says another Tony source.
There's still some grumbling about honoring the mayor. Some producers and theater owners object to those bike and pedestrian lanes he laid out all over Times Square. It's made traffic a nightmare, and many of Broadway's patrons drive in from the suburbs.
"I think the mayor has been great for the city, but every time I get hit by a bike, I want to vote him out of office," says a veteran producer.
"Times Square is all tangled up," says another.
Broadway also fought the mayor on his plan to build a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan. Taking the lead was Gerald Schoenfeld, the late chairman of the Shubert Organization. He argued that stadium traffic on game days would make it impossible for theatergoers to get into the city in a reasonable amount of time. The stadium would, in effect, cut into Broadway's business. Schoenfeld and others aligned against the project and won the battle. Funding for the stadium was voted down in 2005.
Still, tourism is the bread-and-butter of Broadway these days, and there's no question that the Mayor has maintained New York City's status as one of the great tourist destinations in the world.
So for that, Broadway will give him a little salute on Sunday night. But as I said, it's meant to be a surprise.
Mum's the word!
BY the way, the mayor appeared at the luncheon for Tony nominees last week. He extolled his friend Bette Midler for her tree-planting initiative. She hopes to plant 1 million trees by 2017. That's all well and good, but the acknowledgment was a little awkward, since Midler and her play — "I'll Eat You Last" — were ignored by the Tonys.
"That's some good advance work!" snickered a source.


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- ncsteph said...
dude, that is a really smart study habit! if I ever have to do comps... I'm stealing that idea. sorry the stacks are so thick, tho - I am sure that's what you were showing us... LOVE YOU!
- 4/04/2008 3:41 am
- Teacher Lady said...
Welcome to my life of studying recipe cards on the bus. At least if people read over your shoulder they won't get scared by the symbology.
- 4/04/2008 11:21 am
- Queen of West Procrastination said...
Oh, I've been part of that world for a while. It's just that now it's not German words with English on the back. "Why are you looking at a card that says 'radio station' on it?"
- 4/04/2008 11:25 am
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"There are very few things that beat saunas in the winter," says Boris Bernadsky. "One of them is playing go in the sauna in the winter." That's why he's hosting an unusual go Meet-Up this Saturday at the King's Spa, a Korean style bathhouse in Palisades Park, NJ. Here's a link for a discount entrance fee. "The spa has a space separated by gender where the bathing occurs and a coed area where there are many dry sauna and activity areas, including go boards," says Bernadsky. "I will bring two more just in case." The spa provides clothing for the coed area. There is also a restaurant, and for $10 extra you get a blanket and can spend the night on a lazyboy — the go event runs from 5p Saturday through 8a Sunday — although as Berndsky notes, playing all night "is not mandatory. Anyway it will be fun!"
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) --New Fresno State Head Football Coach Jeff Tedford met with local reporters Tuesday night after his first-ever radio show in Northeast Fresno.
Action News Sports Director Tommy Tran has more on Tedford's thoughts on letting the entire Bulldog coaching staff go, his impression of the program from inside and outside Bulldog Stadium.
And where he's looking for immediate help on the recruiting trail as he looks to rebuild after a program-worst 1-11 season on the football field.


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Michael Bonnabel
Michael Bonnabel recently appeared as Brother Martin in the Theatre 40 Spotlight production of "Incorruptible." Previously, he was seen in Georges Feydeau's Paradise Hotel at the Meta Theater. Prior to that, he tripped the light fantastic in the highly successful Calendar Girl Competition at the Bootleg theater.
Other appearances include Route 99's Orange Star Dinner Show at The Evidence Room where he also appeared in Peace Squad Goes 99, the Long Beach Opera Company productions No Mozart and The Threepenny Opera, Los Angeles Premiere Floyd Collins at West Coast Ensemble, as Frank Parsons in The Manor at Greystone Mansion, and Ken Roht's Growing with Ghosts at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts.
Theatre 40 other appearances include On the Verge, On Borrowed Time, Twelfth Night, The Real Inspector Hound, Someone Waiting and Substance of Fire.
TV and film appearances include Prairie Fever, General Hospital, Party of Five, Julianna Lavin's Live Nude Girls and The Linquini Incident with David Bowie.
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Patek Philippe's Chiming Jump Hour watch was unveiled for the 175th anniversary celebrations and combines a complex jumping indication for the hours, minutes and seconds, plus a striking mechanism.
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Hey! Your shoe's untied!
Another happy page! As you can see, it's not a dress up page-exactly....but one is in the planning process. I really need to stop looking at more great ideas and then I could get the pages done I originally planned to make.
For this page, I totally borrowed the idea from this blog http://craftychiclyric.blogspot.com/2009/07/girls-quiet-book.html. (minus the converse star- I'm not a complete pirate!)
I have also seen on several blogs pages dedicated to seasons, and am in the process of doing the four seasons. More on that hopefully tomorrow.


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You might wonder why Smartlife is covering entertainment, but let's be honest: your leisure time is valuable. And, by our standards, watching bad movies isn't a valued use of anyone's time (unless you get paid to forewarn others). Our advice: if you're going to spend 100-plus minutes of your life screen gazing (again and again), pick out flicks actually worth viewing and steer clear of those that aren't. Good movies can do more than just entertain you — they can actually improve your mental health and, by extension, your productivity.
The Internet was intended to give access to infinite information, and it succeeded…kinda. Unfortunately the original designers forgot to specify useful information in the original specs and we've spent the last decade or so trying to discern whether information is fact, fiction, fantasy, functional, fatuous, and, well, you get the idea. And if it's hard discerning facts, it's even more complicated with things like movies that inhabit the realm of subjectivity. And online, subjectivity can quickly move-in next door to absurdity when you realize there are actually people out there who honestly believe Pokemon is a masterpiece of storytelling.
You need trusted sources, but almost everyone online lacks your proclivities — so one can't wholly rely on a single critic. But what about 250 trusted critics using the same exact rating system — can you rely on their aggregate opinion? According to the principles of crowdsourcing and its wisdom-of-the-few corollary, you absolutely can — and should. And that's what makes Rotten Tomatoes the most reliable source of online movie reviews for filtering out the virtually limitless entertainment choices.
At the core of the site is the Tomatometer (T-Meter), a composite-based scoring system that aggregates the multitude of movie critics who make their money by telling you what to watch in your spare time. Instead of drowning you in data, the T-Meter measures the percentage of positive reviews from approved sources — a mix of professional and amateur critics — and presents you a clear binary tomato-based disposition: "fresh" (60% or higher) or "rotten" (less than 60%). Ultimately, you can tell the good from the bad with a quick glance.
Instead of relying one "expert's" review, every movie page shows samples from all the T-Meter critic reviews on file. You can pick up a pretty good impression of the movie from its convergence or diversity of opinion. If you find that your predilections are continually in the minority, you can choose T-Meter critics whom you agree with and over time your selections will build a trend that will align your Weird Science / Eraserhead / Flash Gordon obsession with kindred spirits.
For those with even less time, there's another simple way to sift cinema via the "Certified Fresh" icon. This designation is awarded to those who score at least 75% AND have over 40 certified reviews. However, this doesn't guarantee it will be liked by you, but it does pick out the best while preventing a few freakish or fixed reviews from spoofing the system.
Of course, averaging everyone might make for safe bets, but you'll never find fan favorites: pure gem of the '80s raditude, Gymkata, scores 0%! This is where the RT community comes in. If you want to recruit your own "Ultra Action Movie Recommendation Force," you can search for some films that you know you love and see who else agrees. Add these people to your "My Friends" tab, then see what they and only they think about the newest releases, related films, or recommendations.
You can save even more time by syncing up Rotten Tomatoes with Netflix, Amazon, or the iTunes store. No more studying the cinema signs, trying to find the least-worst abomination for your one night out: boot up the Tomato Picker and you search out the absolute best movies for you, then alt-tab over to your order window — or even buy the movies online. Never again will you sign over two hours of your life with "that looks okay, I guess." (The very attitude that keeps Seth Rogan on our screens.)
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Career advice from a Nobel laureate? Economist Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts of Technology usually spends his time researching topics like public debt, taxation, and market imperfections (for which he won the 2010 Nobel), but he took some time out to talk about how students should shape their work life. Here are excerpts:
1. Which career is right for students in this challenging economy?
Mr. Peter: First, find something you are genuinely interested in. Pay attention to the projections of what areas will have jobs but, in my view, finding a job that you enjoy is going to matter more in the long haul than moderate differences in level of pay. Finally, think of your career as an experiment. Always evaluate what is happening, how you are interacting with other people, and how you are interacting with the work. Think about whether you can learn something that you can do better. Experiment and try different things.
2. How did you realize that economics was the field for you?
Peter: It is important to recognize that whatever you start out of college is only just a start. It is generally not something that will last a lifetime right away.
I had nothing to do with economics as a child. I had no exposure to economics whatsoever. I loved being at college because it was so much more interesting and challenging then high school had been. I started out with engineering, but I didn't like that so I became a math major. I had no idea what a mathematician does on a daily basis. I just became a math major because it was a subject I liked the best and did the best in. Going to grad school was a no-brainer. In part, I liked academics. Also, if I hadn't gone to grad school I would have been drafted. I started grad school in math, not economics. I took both and decided which was a better fit.
3. How should students prepare for careers when the relevant skills are constantly changing?
Peter: Think of the education process for some radically new thing coming down the road a few years from now. You don't know what that thing is. You can't possibly prepare directly for that thing. What you can do is build your educational foundation, your ability to learn new things. For me, in my own career, I developed a mathematical foundation that let me pursue many different questions in economics. The fact that I studied a great deal of math gave me a level of comfort with all different subjects within economics. When new things come along I can learn them more quickly with a background in math. If one is interested in an area, one can ask what are the foundation blocks that I ought to master so that I can more easily learn new things in that area.
4. What change over the course of your career have you found particularly shocking?
Peter: The thing that has continually stunned me is the degree to which the Internet has changed so much of life and work. If you grew up with the Internet, you won't be astonished, but the changes that have been made are enormous. In the '60s, I had a big delay in one of my important papers because my coauthor was in England and I was in Kenya, and we had to mail drafts of the paper back and forth. In contrast, I am now writing a book with Nicholas Barr at LSE [the London School of Economics] and we are e-mailing paragraphs back and forth and taking advantage of the difference in time zones to get more work done. Things that used to take years can now happen so quickly. However, there is a trade-off to the Internet as well. It is becoming increasingly difficult to focus on one thing for the time it takes to truly master something.
5. What's the relationship between happiness and success?
Peter: I'm wary of using the term happiness. Instead, try to focus on doing work that you enjoy and that you believe makes a difference. You'll do better work and achieve more success if you focus on doing work that you think matters. For example, in my own career I've focused on Social Security, in part because of how much Social Security affects and matters to people. I then feel that my work matters and that then drives me to succeed.


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When you take a moment to think about it, citrus probably plays a larger role in your daily life than you realize. Your backyard oranges become fresh-squeezed orange juice at breakfast. That perfect lime from your local grocer adds zest to your family's favorite fish taco recipe. And you love the smell of orange blossoms that fill the California springtime air.
Now imagine if you walked out to your backyard and those oranges weren't there. Or visited your local grocer and found no California oranges, grapefruit, lemons or limes in the produce section. Imagine if you could never enjoy the springtime scent of orange blossoms again.
While this seems unimaginable, it could become a reality if we don't work together to stop the spread of a tiny bug that causes a huge problem.
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Citrus Matters to California
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(Reuters) - Argentine Emiliano Grillo made a perfect start to his career as a PGA Tour member when he beat American Kevin Na in a playoff at the Frys.com Open in northern California on Sunday.
After missing a three-footer that would have won it at the first extra hole, Grillo made amends at the next, the par-five 18th, with an eight-foot birdie to edge Na at the Silverado Resort in Napa.
A day after almost hitting Rory McIlroy with his drive at the reachable par-four 17th, Grillo became the sixth Argentine player to win on the American circuit, joining Roberto de Vicenzo, Jose Coceres, Angel Cabrera, Andres Romero and Fabian Gomez.
It is the second successive victory for the 23-year-old, who won the Web.com Tour Championship on the secondary circuit two weeks ago.
Grillo sank a 25-foot birdie at the final regulation hole to earn a spot in the playoff, but almost threw away the first event on the 2015-16 PGA Tour season when he lipped out his short putt that would have won it at the first extra hole.
The putt was eerily similar to one he missed at the 72nd hole that would have won the Puerto Rico Open in March, though Grillo claimed that this time he did not hit a bad putt.
"The difference is I hit this one good," he said in a greenside interview. "I don't know what happened (but) I stayed positive. This is awesome."
After Na made a mess of the second extra hole, Grillo had the luxury of two-putting for victory, but he needed only one, ensuring he would be remembered for more than being the guy who nearly hit McIlroy.
Earlier, Grillo (69) and Na (70) finished at 15-under-par 273, one stroke ahead of Americans Jason Bohn and Justin Thomas and South African Tyrone Van Aswegen.
Bohn held the sole lead with three holes left, but chunked a pitch shot at the par-five 16th and made bogey.
Van Aswegen barely made his tee time after waking up dizzy and going to hospital in an ambulance.
"I was not in good shape," he told Golf Channel. "They filled me with two bags of fluid and said I had severe dehydration and vertigo.
"If you go to the ER (emergency room), nothing's quick. I was trying to speed them along. I was still in the hospital bed an hour before the tee time. Thank goodness there was a slight fog delay."
Overnight leader Brendan Steele plunged out of contention with five bogeys in a six-hole stretch on the back nine. He shot 76 to tie for 17th on 10-under, one stroke better than McIlroy (69).
Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Greg Stutchbury


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I was at a restaurant with Madame Persolaise and I ordered a non-alcoholic cocktail called a Green Envy, purely on the basis that I liked the name. It arrived in due course: a clear, emerald liquid in a tall glass, topped with a slice of lime. I took a sip and somewhere, hidden behind a pleasant citrusy sweetness, was a very familiar flavour. Slightly earthy, slightly woody, I knew that I knew what it was, but each time I thought I was about to pin it down, the sweetness reappeared to conceal it. 'An odd flavour,' I thought to myself, 'almost like... almost like drinking a perfume...'
At the end of the meal, I asked our waiter what was in the drink and everything clicked into place when he said, "Khus syrup." That's exactly what it was: a gentle, clean, transparent vetivert, cunningly hidden in my mocktail. Shame on me for not recognising it!
What's even more interesting is that you can buy the stuff in shops, bottled as a cordial. Perhaps I ought to import it into the UK and give Ribena a run for its money...?


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The biggest event this week is the approach of Ramadan and the moment when the tiny sliver of moon is sighted to herald the start of the Holy month.The four weeks of Ramadan are observed by fasting during daylight hours and eschewing sexual intercourse and smoking. Exempt are pregnant or breastfeeding women, small children, those travelling and the sick and elderly. Helen Ranger reports
The aim of Ramadan is to remind Muslims of their commitment to God and as a spiritual purification. I don't hear any moans, and people seem pleased to take part and of course have great support from the entire community. It's also the time to wear traditional clothes; the djellabas are beautifully embroidered and the pointy-toed babouches new and shiny.
Fez may be the spiritual capital of Morocco, but it's also the home of b'stilla, an extremely thin pastry that makes strudel or phyllo pastry look positively leaden. There's a large plastic bowl of mixture, and men are making the pastry. They take a fistful and roll it onto a griddle with the heel of the hand, as thin as can be. It takes but seconds to cook, and is then whipped off, added to the pile of sheets, and oiled with a pastry brush.
Housewives cram around the pastry cooks and haggle for sheets of the wafer-thin delicacy. They fashion sweetmeats from it, or make the famous b'stilla pies that contain pigeon meat and almonds and are dusted with icing sugar and cinnamon. It's the taste of Fez — sweet yet savoury — and definitely worth trying. B'stilla is always available; it's just that at this time of year it's doubly valued.
Alcohol is forbidden during Ramadan; bottle stores close a few days beforehand, and stay closed for a few days after Eid. If you're a foreigner and really desperate, you can show your passport to a retailer, or go to an upmarket hotel to drink at the bar. Of course, alcohol is forbidden anyway for Muslims, but somehow Morocco has a thriving wine industry and it's common for people to drink alcohol — except during Ramadan.
Breaking the fast
The fast is broken each evening in homes and cafés across the country as soon as the sun sets. The iftar, or f'touh food differs little from place to place. There's always harira soup, a delicious concoction of vegetable or lamb stock with tomato paste, chick peas, small pasta, lentils, rice, red pepper, fresh coriander and perhaps some lamb or chicken. It's served with dates and some honey-drenched pastries, delicious pancake-type breads, some stuffed with egg and onion, bread, fruit or vegetable juice, hardboiled eggs with salt and cumin and afterwards, mint tea.
Later in the evening, between 10pm and midnight, supper is served. Here's the meal that the women have spent their day preparing — in between watching Egyptian soaps — from b'stilla to couscous to tagines resplendent with the wide range of fresh vegetables available in the markets.
For more information on Ramadan visit here: MOROCCO IN RAMADAN
Also check out Anita's Feast - Sweet countdown to Ramadan
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|Ellie Bennett
1. You've started a blog writing about portraits of Jane Austen, Ellie. When did you first become interested in Jane Austen and what was it about her image that interested you?
I've enjoyed reading Jane Austen since I was a teenager, but my interest in her image and portraits really began when I watched the BBC documentary The Unseen Portrait, screened on Boxing Day in 2011, about the portrait now owned by Dr Paula Byrne. I found the programme fascinating and I was immediately hooked!
2. You've been researching into two portraits which I find particularly interesting: the Rice Portrait and Paula Byrne's portrait that was bought for her at auction. Can you tell us a little about what new information you have unearthed on these pictures and what you found most fascinating in your own research?
Both of these portraits are so interesting and I have found out plenty of new information about both of them - information which was previously unknown. With regard to the Rice Portrait, I have researched the identity of Eliza Hall who was given the portrait early in its history. I was curious as to why she was given the picture and was amazed to discover that her aunt was married to Sir Henry Hawley of Leybourne Grange for forty years. The Hawley daughters were known to Jane and are mentioned in her letters; two of them married into the Bridges family, also close friends of the Austens.
|The Rice portrait of Jane Austen
I have also discovered a great deal about Ozias Humphry and his connections to the Tonbridge and Sevenoaks branches of the Austen family - it was a surprise to discover how many links there were between them. Humphry's brother William, vicar at Seal, was well-known to the Austens and Ozias Humphry spent a lot of time there. The evidence is now steadily mounting that he was the artist responsible for the Rice Portrait.
The other big surprise with this portrait was to discover how fraught the history of it has been. When I began my research I had no idea what a thorny subject the image of Austen has become. I discovered that the case for the dress being dated to after 1800 is very far from being proven and that the National Portrait Gallery have not been as objective as they should have been. Having looked at the evidence in depth I do believe that the Rice Portrait is indeed a portrait of Jane Austen in her teenage years, painted by Ozias Humphry. I am sure that one day, and hopefully soon, it will be accepted as such. It will not be the National Portrait Gallery's finest hour.
|Paula Byrne's portrait of Jane Austen
The Byrne Portrait is an intriguing newcomer to the story. I researched the Smedley family who were identified by Dr Byrne as being occupants of the house whose view would have corresponded to the one in the portrait and found many links with Jane Austen. To name just a couple, Rev. Edward Smedley was a friend of Maria Edgeworth and was the curate at the church in Piccadilly which Jane attended when in London. His brother Henry Smedley was a good friend of artist and engraver J T Smith and I believe it was probably Henry Smedley who drew the portrait. Furthermore Edward Smedley always spelled Jane's name as Austin with an "i" - just like the name on the back of the portrait and his handwriting looks remarkably similar.
The other fascinating information I discovered relates to the provenance of this portrait. It turned up in the possessions of Sir John Galway Foster and he had apparently acquired it from his ex-governess and lifelong friend Helen Carruthers. No-one knew how she came by it. I believe she was given the portrait by Foster's solicitors - Miss Carruthers acted as John Foster's personal secretary while he was abroad - who were Guy Cholmeley and Philip Frere. Cholmeley was a descendant of the family of Jane's aunt Jane Leigh-Perrot and Frere was a descendant of a family related by marriage to Edward Smedley's daughter Elizabeth Hart. Two earlier partners in the firm were also brothers-in-law to Catherine Austen, the niece of Colonel Thomas Austen who had given away the Rice Portrait.
I believe the portrait ended up in the offices of these solicitors until the 1940s when they undertook a modernisation and gave the portrait to Miss Helen Carruthers.
3. Do you think we have a satisfactory likeness of Jane amongst all the images we have of her, and if you could choose one to take home, which one would that be and why?
We have at least five possible likenesses of Jane Austen - they are the sketch by her sister Cassandra, the Rice Portrait, the Byrne Portrait, the portrait in Rev. James Stanier Clarke's friendship book and the silhouette owned by the National Portrait Gallery which they claim to be Jane Austen. (There is also, of course, the portrait of Jane Austen sitting with her back to us - but I am discounting this because as a possible likeness it is not much help to us!) I am doubtful about the latter two portraits - the Stanier Clarke painting and the silhouette, but the Cassandra sketch, the Rice Portrait and the Byrne Portrait are all, I believe, portraits of Jane Austen drawn from life.
I love all three portraits - the Cassandra portrait for showing us rebellious Jane, the Rice Portrait for showing us the self-confident, slightly impudent, youthful Jane and the Byrne Portrait for showing us the older, mature Jane, as a poised and established author.
I would dearly love to own any one of them but if I had to choose one I would take the Rice Portrait of Jane Austen as a young girl, so full of promise and confidence. Her sense of fun shines through in this picture - I can easily imagine that the characters which would one day enchant us so much are already being formed in her head. It is a beautiful, exuberant portrait.
4. I believe you're writing a book on the subject - please tell us about it and when it will be published.
I am writing a book about the Austen family and about the five portraits of Jane Austen I have mentioned here, each of which is a fascinating story in its own right. I examine the background and the evidence for each portrait - and some of my findings are surprising. The book investigates the manipulation of Austen's image which accompanied the creation of the myth of "Aunt Jane" and examines some of the less well-known aspects of Austen and her family - a family which was far more worldly and interesting than we are often led to believe.
I hope to have my book published next year - but I am continually making new discoveries and having to update it!
If you would like to read more about my research you can find my blog here: http://janeaustenportraits.blogspot.co.uk
Thank you very much for visiting, Ellie! I hope you'll visit Ellie's blog-it really is full of excellent material on the portraits as well as the Austen family and their connections.


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Costumes at the Sri Lankan perahera carnival
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great pictures with a great festival. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing
What a bunch of good looking people in wonderful costumes. It was worth the delay.ReplyDelete
Everybody seems to have much fun. You too I think, your pics are showing it.
Such wonderful images! The colours of the costumes are marvellous. How lucky you are to get to see these national events in person!ReplyDelete
It's wonderful! Beautiful vibrant colorful spectacle, it was worth the wait to enjoy this! Kisses.ReplyDelete
The splash of color is just breathtaking, it must be an amazing event to attend!!ReplyDelete
he colour and the costumes are incredible. I can hardly believe it religious! xReplyDelete
I am always so inspired by the beautiful pictures you post. What an amazing experience. Thank you for sharing this with us.ReplyDelete
So colorful! And lots of jewelry too :)! Thank you for your post! I've never heard about this religious holiday before.ReplyDelete
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200 was a real hard graft, says Pietersen
England's man of the moment Kevin Pietersen termed his double century as one of his best knocks in trying conditions.
"It's (my innings) is something to be proud of. Having gone in to bat on such a wicket, and having to face MS Dhoni [in jest] as well for half an hour, it's right up with all the hundreds I have scored."
Asked about the course of the match, he said the ball will seam and swing and put the Indians in a spot of bother.
"History tells us that getting a result at the Lord's is quite difficult. But the wicket we have at the moment is aiding seam and swing and we all know swing is alien to Indian batting," Pietersen stated, in a matter-of-fact tone after striking a brilliant 202 and powering his team to a massive total of 474 for 8 declared.
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'I would love to have 10,000 runs'
Emboldened with his success, he revealed his ambition to enter the 10,000 Test runs club now that he has completed 6,000 runs.
"I would love to have (10,000 runs). I love to set goals for myself and, hopefully, I would reach there if I bat this way."
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This is Pietersen's 18th century in his 75th Test, but, quite uncharacteristically, he never had to graft in the manner he did at Lord's over the last two days.
"The conditions were very difficult and they bowled very well. Sometimes you were playing and missing by couple of inches. It was a real hard graft. It made you wonder if India were batting yesterday where they must have been."
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'Trott was magnificent again'
Pietersen also gave credit to Cook, Strauss and Trott for consuming a lot of overs.
"Credit to the first three batsmen for they ate up a lot of balls. Trott was magnificent again and Strauss batted for 80 balls, which was great under the circumstances.
"When it's seaming and swinging you try to get overs in the other bowlers. They did a great job for men like Prior and Swann to take advantage of what's been created a day before. Bell also batted beautifully."
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Pietersen had two moments of anxiety -- one, when he was on
49 and Rahul Dravid appeared to have caught a chance at leg slip before replays ruled it in his favour.
The second arrived when he was on 73 and umpire Billy Bowden gave him out caught behind off Dhoni, only for the Decision Review System (DRS) to come to his aid.
"I was on 49 when Rahul used the technology. He wasn't sure. He is a fantastic servant of the game, a true Indian legend. I have played with him in IPL for 2-3 years and there is no way he would have claimed a catch when he knew it wasn't out.
"As for the second chance, I had to review it. I can't get out to Dhoni. Having said so it was difficult to see him through. He was moving it both ways and it was nipping around. He is a talented man."
Image: Johnathan Trott
'PK is a fantastic guy'
Another Indian for whom Pietersen has only admiration and affection was Praveen Kumar.
"I captained him for a year in the IPL. He is fantastic and a very skillful bowler. If there is anyone in the Indian team I would be happy to have got five wickets, it would be PK. He is a fantastic guy."
Pietersen revealed that England had decided in advance to give the Indians half an hour of batting on Friday evening.
"We wanted to bowl for half an hour at Indians. I kept passing messages to Strauss that if he really wanted to pull us out (declare) now, there are no dramas. My 200 wasn't important -- I had scored quite a few runs already. Team is more important and not a 200 in a Test match."
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Pietersen took a dig at his critics who have been terming his form as none too great in recent times.
"It's been only six matches that I haven't scored a century. I got a 85 against Sri Lanka in 100 balls.
"You do go through good patches and bad patches. As long as you are true to yourself and continue to do hard work, you have to be rewarded."
Image: Praveen Kumar
'I don't think Harbhajan bowled badly'
He returned to speak about the Indians and Sachin Tendulkar around whom there is huge expectation of getting his 100th international century.
"There are a lot of great cricketers who haven't done well at Lord's -- Warne, Ponting for example. We would try and make sure Sachin doesn't get a hundred."
- Of Dravid's 'lucky' debut and an elusive hundred
He also didn't find fault with Harbhajan Singh's bowling -- who went wicketless but conceded over 150 runs in England's innings.
"Harbhajan bowled very well. Harbhajan, on that wicket which was friendly to seamers, tied it down. On occasions, even I found it very hard to score. I don't think he bowled badly," he concluded.
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Orange Goblin: Back From The Abyss (Candlelight Records)
Britain's premier stoner rockers Orange Goblin are back with their eighth album which come two years after their last (and possibly best) album Eulogy For The Dammed. It was this album that got them big headlining tours and major support tours. Back From The Abyss continues this upward path with another album chock full of massive riffs that beat you into submission, the rhythm section of Chris Turner and Martyn Milard pulverises like a sledgehammer with some skull rattling bass from Milland and some powerful percussion from Turner. This style of big, beefy stoner rock has always been Goblin's forte and Joe Hoare once again is a human riff machine from the (unsurprisingly) Sabbath-like Sabbath Hex to the Motorhead punk metal snarl of The Devil's Whip he peels off riff after riff with ease, getting head banging and fists pumping. The three men provide the perfect musical backing for mountainous roar of Ben Ward who bellows over all of the songs as usual leading this chugging biker rock with his shouts and providing the perfect foghorn for navigating the stoner haze. The great songwriting from the previous records is still there; Demon Blues is a good old possession song, Heavy Lies The Crown is an awesome old school metal track with some nice changes of pace throughout, Into The Arms Of Morpheus is classic Sabbath doom with its slow leviathan riffs and even a cheeky reference to Beyond The Wall Of Sleep. Back From The Abyss is yet another very strong album full of huge rock riffs, stoner metal stomping, see the penultimate track Blood Of Them also a keen ear for mixing melody and aggression. Another cracking release from the Goblin! 8/10
Evergrey: Hymns For The Broken (AFM Records)
Sweden's Evergrey have always been put into the progressive or power metal category and this is due to their melodic songs played with technical virtuosity. With most power metal band their songs are upbeat and cheery, something that Evergrey do not do, their songs are dark, emotive, haunting and most of all very heavy. Much of this comes from Tom S Englund who is the driving force behind the band writing most of the songs as well being providing guitars and his unmistakeable croon meaning that their are few bands that can match Evergrey for sheer musical power. Englund was also the reason why the band have taken a short three year hiatus while he worked through some personal issues but he has done what musicians always do and found solace in music channelling his problems into his song writing. So what of their ninth album does it stand up to previous releases? Well as the intro subsides into the anthemic, Gothic, symphonic King Of Errors you know that Evergrey are back with a vengeance, it is big, ballsy and full of heaviness touched with melody. This turns into the modern sounding A New Dawn which has some great soloing in it. From the heaviness we move into the emotional Make A Change which has an electronic back beat from keyboardist Rikard Zander. He also provides some of the show stopping orchestral tracks on the simply awesome Archaic Rage which has piano, choirs, chunky guitars and Englund's fantastic voice, he really is in a league of his own. The song then ramps up the tempo and it means that Englund and Henrik Danhage can show off their guitar prowess over Johan Niemann's throbbing bass and Jonas Ekdahl's superb drumming. Evergrey have always excelled at concept albums and Hymns For The Broken is a concept album full of songs about rebellion and fighting against tyranny in all its forms however it is so much more than that, they have never been afraid to tackle subjects that are close to them as the album has a real emotional depth as Englund has drawn creativity from the negativity surrounding their hiatus. The songs on here show how talented the band are, from the anthemic guaranteed single Barricades, through the ballad of Black Undertow and the galloping metal of The Fire which is far from conventional with child choirs and electronic backing, before the epoch of the album is the amazing double whammy of The Grand Collapse and The Aftermath which are a suitably phenomenal ending to this monumental record. This ninth album is all of the things Evergrey strive to be, progressive, melodic, modern, emotive and down right brilliant, I've always liked Evergrey a lot for their complex, dark and heavy music, but I can honestly say I am in love with this album, it is probably the best they have ever released, It's technical precise, fiercely melodic, impassioned and pretty much perfect album. 10/10
Eden Circus: Marula (Lifeforce Records)
Eden Circus are Swedish by way of Hamburg, the band were merely a collection musicians setting about with no fixed sound in mind, focussing on creating music not on touring or even releasing anything. Here then four years after the bands inception is their debut and it is something of a revelation, it's a strong confident record that blurs boundaries and genres, the Tool-like Devoid Of Purpose kicks things off with progressive percussion from Michael Reinke, understated but undulating bass of Sebastian Scheewe, jangling guitars from Andreas Höfler and Nils Finkeisen the melodic, half hushed vocals of Siegmar Pohl. The band come from the new school of progressive music with elements similar to Porcupine Tree and frequent collaborators Opeth, see the majestic 5 minute plus Comfort which even has some growls from Pohl. There is also nods to the dark melancholy of Katatonia and Anathema, the jarring quirkiness of Tool and the ambient light and shade of Deftones. As you would think with these sort of influences to their sound, this is not an easy record, it does not give you instant gratification like the Goblin record, it is slow burning grower with only repeated listens revealing every nuance, a guitar riff here, a bass lick there, a drum fill bridging the gap. Steve Wilson's legacy rears it's head on 101 which dabbles with ambience, dynamics and does sound like Porcupine Tree fronted by Maynard James Keenan, which is no bad thing. A rich and diverse album full of sonic experimentation, fantastic song writing, expansive and technical songs. If this is their debut then it bodes well for their career as it is a fantastic piece of music. 9/10


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A couple of days ago we reported that photos of the upcoming Blackberry 10 phone that will be handed out to developers has been spotted. Now it looks like more photos of higher quality have emerged and to be honest the device does look pretty sleek. For those who might have missed the news, RIM will be giving out Blackberry 10 developer phones to some Blackberry 10 developers and will be sent out to Orlando next week. The phone will be used to test and to create apps for RIM's Blackberry 10 platform and will be revealed at the Blackberry Jam and Blackberry World.
It should be noted that this particular phone is for developers to test their apps on, and it should not be taken as an indication of what RIM's upcoming Blackberry 10 devices will look like. Assuming the rumors are to be believed, we should be able to catch a glimpse of RIM's first commercially available Blackberry 10 handset come August. Head on down to the source link below for the rest of the photos.
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