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The following image represents the flakes that Pelcin made from 1/2-inch thick glass cores with an external platform angle (EPA) of 55 degrees and angle of blow (AOB) of 70 degrees. (A detailed description of this core is located on the FEA page.) I selected this data to make my first FEA replication attempts because it represented the largest number of flakes created for a single set of conditions. This data is the same flakes indicated as the yellow diamonds in the image on the page describing Pelcin's Research.
Notice there is a very good, almost linear, correlation between flake mass and theoretical platform thickness (TPT) up to a TPT of about 23 millimeters. These are the energy-rich flakes. Above this value the mass values begin to flatten out and then rapidly drop (transition) around 27 millimeters to the energy-poor flake correlation. The reader should remember that these flakes, represented by the blue diamonds, were real flakes created by a dropping a 45 gram steel ball from a height of 125 centimeters. They were not created by the FEA software. As I wrote on the page about Pelcin's research, when I first saw this transition from energy-rich to energy-poor in the real data I was surprised. I did not expect it and at that time I could not explain it. However, I believed that if I could replicate these flakes along with the transition with the FEA model, then I would know why the transition was occurring.
After many months and many hours per day, I finally discovered how to replicate the flakes for this set of conditions, 55 degree EPA and 70 degree AOB. As I predicted, I now understand why the transition is occurring and I plan to share this with the reader. However, I want to postpone the explanation of the transition and first look at the replication results.
The red diamonds marked #1 through #4 indicate the flakes I created with the FEA software. These four FEA flakes are depicted next for the reader to get an appreciation for the difference.1
If the reader was asked to arrange the flakes into two groups, I am sure they would put #1, #2 and #3 in one group and #4 in the other group. Flakes #1 through #3 are long and narrow and get proportionally larger as the TPT gets thicker. However, flake #4 is definitely different. It is much shorter, thicker and does not have the mass of a flake with a similar TPT from the first group. Another way of describing the two flake groups is that #1 through #3 have the center of mass located away from the platform and #4 has it closer to the platform. So which group would make the best biface thinning flakes? Which group would be most desirable to turn the edge angle without removing significant mass? Obviously, the answers are energy-rich flakes and energy-poor flakes.2
To understand the mechanics of the formation of these flakes, I will begin with the concept of deflection (strain). When a force is applied against the platform, e.g. at 6 millimeters, the core is deflected. If the deflection is small and below the failure limit, the core will return to its original shape when the force is removed. This is identical to bending a paper clip. When the force is applied at a different location, e.g. 15-mm, the core will deflect to a different shape, but it again will return to its original shape if it is not deflected passed the failure limit. However, if the deflection is so large that the core cracks, then it will obviously never return to its original shape.
When the force is applied against the platform and the core is deflected, there is potential energy stored in the core. The more it is deflected the more potential energy is stored. When the force is removed, the core gives up that potential energy and returns to its original shape. If the force is applied at different location, the core will deflect differently and the amount of stored potential energy is different.
Realistically, to apply a force it must be done by way of an object and this object also deflects. Consider two pool balls. When one pool ball hits another, there is an instance when both balls deflect and potential energy is stored in both. This potential energy comes from the conversion of the kinetic energy of the moving ball. Then the balls convert their potential energy back into kinetic energy by returning to their original shape. When this happens the two balls move apart.
In most of Pelcin's research the object was a steel ball that applied the force to the core. So, the impact of the steel ball against the glass core caused both the glass core and the steel ball to deflect. The deflections are not in the same ratio as two identical pool balls because the steel ball and glass core are different materials and different shapes. However, both do deflect and there is an instant before they return to their original shape. If the glass core doesn't crack then the steel ball bounces off the core.
If enough potential energy is added to permanently deform the core, a crack (start of the flake) is initiated. It is at this instance that the difference between a energy-poor flake (Flake #4) and a energy-rich flake (Flake #3) occurs. I want to first describe the energy-poor flake because it is easier to explain.
When the energy-poor flake (Flake #4) first begins to crack, the core gives up some of its potential energy the steel ball has imparted to it. At this instance, the crack stops because there is not enough potential energy to continue to separate the rock. (Hence, the name is energy-poor.) When the steel ball rebounds (return to its original shape) it applies more force and the crack is continued. As the crack continues downward the lateral (horizontal component) force from the right is being amplified by the propagating of the crack (cantilever beam effect). Ultimately, the amplified lateral force (bending moment) changes the direction of the crack towards the edge and breaks the flake out.3
When the energy-rich flake (Flake #3) begins to crack, it does not stop and wait for the ball to help it. This flake cracks on its own because of the abundance of stored potential energy. (Its name is energy-rich.) This is similar to the crack that results from putting hot water on a frozen windshield. The crack occurs so rapidly that the ball does not have time to rebound before the crack finishes it downward travel.4 The crack stops its downward movement when the potential energy released per millimeter of crack length drops below the value to separate the glass. When the ball finally rebounds its lateral force immediately pushes the flake out, as it did with the energy-poor flake. The important point here is that the energy-rich flake crack is so fast that it reaches its total length before the ball pushes it out. This length is always longer than a energy-poor flake because there is no lateral (horizontal) force to break it out prematurely. Hence, it is a more massive flake.
If the reader is a knapper you are aware of the sound a good flake makes when it is created. To me this sound is a "snap". I believe that this "snap" is associated with energy-rich flakes as they are releasing their potential energy. I don't believe the energy-poor flake makes this type of sound. I would be interested in any knapper's comments on this speculation. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
At this point I want to remind the reader that all the flakes (energy-rich and energy-poor) discussed on this page were made from glass cores with an EPA of 55 degrees, AOB of 70 degrees, and 45-gram ball dropped from 125 centimeters. The only thing that was varied was the location of the blow (contact point of ball and glass). When the ball was dropped near the edge of the core (small TPT) it was able to store enough energy in the core to create a energy-rich flake. As the location of the blow was moved toward the center of the core, more energy was required to create the energy-rich flakes because the flakes were getting larger. Finally, a distance (TPT) was reach where the core stopped yielding energy-rich flakes and started yielding energy-poor flakes. Continually increasing the TPT even more ultimately resulted in the ball bouncing off the core. At this TPT, the core required more energy to make a energy-poor flake than the ball conveyed.
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#1 The reader may have noticed that the masses of the FEA produced flakes tend to be higher than an average regression line through the real glass flakes. This disturbed me for a time until my son (William Baker) who is a mechanical engineer pointed out that ceramic materials (glass is one) tend to fail at values less than their know strength. This happens, "because the tensile properties of ceramics depend so critically on the size and geometry of the ever present flaws, there is considerable scatter in the values for the strength determined from a tensile, bending, or fatigue test" (Askeland 1994:436). The FEA model does not have any flaws in it. It will produce the biggest flake every time. On the other hand, Pelcin's real world flakes suffer from the properties of ceramics as do all flakes from either the archaeological record or the modern knapper. I found it very substantiating that Pelcin was aware of this real world problem as he conducted his research and that I, with the aid of my son, arrived at the same conclusion independently.
#2 The missing rectangular, lower right hand corner in all four images is where the core was clamped to the table so it was not part of the core under stress. Therefore, I eliminated it from the FEA model to reduce the number of nodes and elements to analyze.
#3 When I first began the FEA replication work, I had the full force that represented the ball attached to the core all the time the crack was occurring. This is the mechanics for creating the energy-poor flakes. Since I was trying to replicate the energy-rich flakes with the small TPT, the flakes would always be too short and lacked the mass. I tried tweaking the glass properties every way I could think of, yet nothing would work. I finally realized that the lateral force was breaking the flake out too soon. So I development a method to reduce the force as the crack propagated. I did this with springs that restrained the force with deflection and I began to successfully replicate the energy-rich flakes. When I finally attempted replicating a energy-poor flake, my results were now too long and massive. Then I remembered I had tweaked the glass properties early on in the research to replicate the energy-rich flakes (which had only help a little). So I returned to the published glass properties and I was able to create energy-poor flakes with the correct mass. Strange is the path of research.
#4 The speed of the energy-poor flake is equal to the rebound speed of the steel ball and the glass core. I do not know what this value is. I do know Crabtree (1968:474) made Mesoamerican blades in the energy-poor mode and his propagation speed were 125 meters per second assuming a 10 centermeter blade. Hutchings (1997:50) reported minimum velocities of 118 and 152 meter per second for metal and antler pressure flaking. It is possible steel balls could create energy-poor speeds as high as 200 meters per second, but I believe this would be the upper limit.


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Peter the 'Rock': his story in the Bible
Peter was a Galilean fisherman who lived on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (see top right of map) with his wife, his brother Andrew and his mother-in-law.
People at the time worked as a family unit, so the men and women of Peter's family worked together to catch and preserve/dry fish for export to the surrounding towns.
This particular family was probably in partnership with Zebedee and his sons, James and John (Matthew 4:21).
Like his father and brother Andrew, Simon Peter was a fisherman by trade, working on the Lake of Galilee. His family seems to have been caught up in the revival movement led by John the Baptist.
Peter met Jesus at
Bethany through his brother Andrew, and was immediately impressed. Jesus called
him 'Peter', the rock - an odd choice of name since Peter seems to have been
passionate and impulsive rather than rock-like. Note: Jesus actually
called Peter 'Cephras', which is the Aramaic equivalent of 'Petros', a rock.
Jesus Calls the Disciples, Duccio
Jesus heals the mother-in-law of Peter
It is hardly surprising that Peter was bowled over by Jesus. When he had only known Jesus a short time, Peter witnessed first-hand an unforgettable healing. His wife's mother was ill with a fever, apparently bad enough to cause concern. Jesus went to her, took her by the hand and lifted her up. The fever vanished immediately. Not only was she cured - she was strong enough to get up and cook for the visitors to her house, and serve up the sabbath meal after the synagogue service. A doughty woman indeed.
Gospel reference: Mark 1:29-31. See Bible Texts for St Peter
Jesus heals the mother-in-law of Peter, Rembrandt van Rijn
Peter was
with Jesus all through the three years of Jesus' travelling ministry - rock-like
in his steadfast loyalty. He witnessed all the major events of this
extradordinary time. For example, one night Jesus was on the shore while the disciples, including Peter, were out on the Lake of Galilee. The weather was stormy, the water rough. Suddenly the men in the boat saw a figure walking towards them over the water. It was Jesus.
Jesus Walks on Water, artist unknown
Peter at the Transfiguration of Jesus
This was a momentous event in Jesus' life. Peter had just proclaimed his belief that Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah.
Jesus, Peter, James and John became separated from the others and went up onto the flat summit of a mountain. Something happened there that the disciples tried haltingly to explain to the others later on: Jesus had been transformed, and at the same time the figures of Moses (the Law) and Elijah (the Prophets) appeared talking with him.
They experienced something like a voice that came from nowhere and everywhere, telling them that Jesus was the Son of God, chosen by God and now revealed to them.
Peter, always enthusiastic, wanted to put up tents or bowers, but Jesus gently restrained him. Peter and the other disciples did not understand what all this meant until after the Resurrection.
Read the story at Bible texts for Peter
The Transfiguration, Fra Angelico
Transfiguration, unknown artist
At the Last Supper, Jesus washed the feet of each of his disciples. Peter objected to having his feet washed by someone he venerated, but Jesus
Christ Washing the Feet of St Peter, Ford Madox Brown
The Last Supper, Jacopo Bassano. Peter sits at Jesus' right hand
Peter and Jesus in the film 'Passion of the Christ'
Peter was with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane just before his death. When the soldiers tried to arrest Jesus, Peter unsheathed his sword and swung it at the head of one of them, a slave of the High Priest called Malchus. He missed, but cut off the ear of the unfortunate man.
The Arrest of Jesus, Fra Angelico
Peter Smites the Ear of Malchus, James Tissot
Peter Denies Jesus
After Jesus' arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was taken to the house of Caiphas the High Priest. This was an official residence with an open central courtyard. Peter was there, waiting outside while Jesus was being questioned.
Saint Peter's Denial, Antoine/Louis Le Nain
The Denial of St Peter, Gerrit van Honthorst
The Third Denial of Peter, Caravaggio
When Mary Magdalene burst into the room where the disciples huddled, and announced that Jesus had risen from the dead, Peter and the much younger John did not hesitate. They took off running as fast as they could towards the tomb. John outpaced Peter and arrived first. But as soon as Peter arrived, he went straight into the tomb, alone. There was no-one there - just a cloth lying where the body of Jesus had been. See more about this at Running to the Tomb.
Peter and John running to the tomb of Christ, by Eugene Burnand
Peter is imprisoned, and escapes
Pentacost, Peter began a whole new phase of his life. Inspired, he began telling
anyone who would listen about Jesus of Nazareth. He was, in effect, the father
of early Christianity. It was not an easy path. The early Christians were hunted and imprisoned by Herod Agrippa I, grandson of Herod the Great (who slaughtered the Innocents at the time of the birth of Jesus).
St Peter in Prison, Rembrandt
The Liberation of St Peter, Gerrit van Honthorst (click image to enlarge)
The Liberation of St Peter, Raphael
There is no description of St Peter's death in the New Testament, but traditionally he is supposed to have died in Rome during the persecution begun by the Emperor Nero. It was said he was crucified, like Jesus, but upside down.
The Crucifixion of St Peter, Caravaggio
The central events of St Peter's life
show a man of simplicity and faith. He suffered from a common human ailment: he wanted to do and be good, but was not always able to live up to his goals. Jesus loved and forgave him, because whenever Peter fell, he got up and tried again.
Bible Study Guide: Jesus Christ: the story of Jesus' disciple and apostle Simon Peter, called the Rock
Copyright 2012 Elizabeth Fletcher

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Connected vehicles filled with communication technologies offer an unprecedented opportunity to achieve the European Union's dream of an integrated multi-modal transport system, according to EU policymakers and industry experts.
MEPs and interest groups took stock of the Union's transport policy at a European Parliament public hearing on Tuesday (17 March).
Wim van de Camp, a Dutch legislator from the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), presented a report reviewing the implementation of a transport white paper and policy roadmap, adopted by the European Commission in 2011.
The roadmap contained 40 initiatives for the next decade that are expected to dramatically reduce Europe's dependence on imported oil and cut carbon emissions in transport by 60% by 2050.
"The objective for the next decade is to create a genuine single European transport area […], easing the process of integration and the emergence of multinational and multimodal operators," van de Camp said in his report.
The MEP hailed the progress made so far but stressed that a lot remained to be achieved.
The decarbonisation of transport, including legislation on charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, was still pending, he said. The same goes for the harmonisation of social conditions for workers in the road haulage sector.
Technology "game changer"
Major changes are expected with the further opening of the European transport market, the Dutch MEP said. With ongoing investments in greener cars, better roads and infrastructure, the challenge is to "adapt to innovation and new market needs", he claimed.
According to the International Road Transport Union's Michael Nielsen, lawmakers and industry should put in place forward-thinking policies, "as it is not sure if we will drive the same vehicles in 2030".
Using technologies to find a parking space or choosing an optimal route will make the industry much more efficient and safer, Nielsen predicted.
Hermann Meyer from ERTICO-ITS Europe, a public-private organisation involved in the production of intelligent transport systems (ITS), said that implementing information and communication technologies to transport will be "a game changer".
"ITS will help integrate different modes of transport so that we have one common transport system, which serves the traveler and logistics operations," said Meyer.
According to Meyer, the European Commission estimated that with ITS in place, fatalities will be reduced by 30% and road congestion by 15% by 2020. The same research predicts that ITS will turn into a business worth €28 billion in five years.
What are Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)?
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) aim to provide services related to different modes of transport and traffic management. It supports the industry in collecting, exchanging, and processing data, said Meyer.
For example, ITS could offer timely information about where to catch a bus, facilitate the booking of a ticket, or use the necessary information to computerise the driving of a car.
"Such services can make transport safer, more efficient and comfortable," said Mayer.
A lot of data is available out there, but not exchanged, according to Meyer. If used correctly and in accordance with data protection rules, it "will empower the traffic management to provide better services for drivers".
In order to make the most out of these innovations, Meyer said the Commission should propose a common European strategy. Adequate policy initiatives, a good infrastructure and member states' political will are crucial for the success of ITS deployment, he said.
A right framework
Any new rules, however, should be clear, simple, and uniformly interpreted, according to Nielsen. The EU should also ensure adequate enforcement of such rules, allowing a level playing field.
"If these market conditions are not fixed in the future, no matter how innovative we are, we will not be efficient. We need to fix how we are operating today in order to ensure we operate more effectively in the future," Nielsen said.
Van de Camp's report echoes the same ideas, but doubted if the EU could achieve an integrated transport policy.
"Mutually complementary action will be needed at national, regional and local levels of government as well as by citizens and industry themselves," van de Camp said.
"[The Commission's White Paper] demonstrates that the work has only started, and the major efforts needed to transform the EU transport system lie ahead of us," he said.
Intelligent transport systems (ITS) involve applying information and communication technologies to all modes of transport (road, rail, air and water), both passenger and freight.
This includes technologies such as computers, satellites, electronic tags and sensors.
Examples of such services include GPS navigation systems, traffic information and journey-time estimations received from car radios while on motorways, as well as real-time arrival information at bus stations.
A new legal framework (Directive 2010/40/EU ) was adopted in 2010 to deploy faster these innovative transport technologies across Europe.
Under this law, the European Commission had to adopt specifications to address the compatibility, interoperability and continuity of ITS solutions across the EU.
The first priorities are traffic and travel information, the eCall emergency system and intelligent truck parking.
- 24 April 2015: European Commission ITS Conference 2015 on "A Digital Strategy for Mobility: from capacity to connectivity"
- 11 June 2015: EU Transport ministers meeting
Further Reading
European Parliament
- Transport Committee's report on the White Paper on Transport
- Hearing programme and background
European Commission
Intelligent transport systems Action Plan and Directive


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Devouring the pangolin
John Sutherland
- The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton
Faber, 393 pp, £25.00, September 1990, ISBN 0 571 14423 3
Robert Darnton's reputation was founded on his monumental The Business of Enlightenment (1979). In this study of 'the life-cycle of a single book' Darnton tracked the creation, manufacture, distribution and reception of the fourth edition of Diderot's Encyclopédie, 1775-1800. His account drew on the archive of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel, on the Franco-Swiss border. Using this material with great skill, Darnton was able to narrate what was involved in making and importing (sometimes smuggling) a subversive book into France in the Revolutionary era. He expertly digested the technicalities of the 18th-century printing trade, the historical-political background, and summarised a wealth of information into graph and tabular form. What kept the book from the fatal dryness of most economic history was the author's gift for animating detail. At every point, Darnton seemed able to extract a human interest angle from his manuscript sources. He had, as reviewers noted, a novelist's eye and a novelist's power of evocation. Noting the prim engravings of the printing shop to be found in the Encyclopédie itself, Darnton observed that
real printing shops were dirty, loud and unruly – and so were real printers. The presses creaked and groaned. The ink balls, filled with wool soaked in urine, gave off a fierce stench. And the men waded about in filthy paper, swilling wine, banging their composing sticks against the type cases for the sheer joy of making noise, bellowing and brawling as opportunities arose, and tormenting the apprentices with practical jokes.
One of the revelations in the present collection is that Darnton began his career not as an academic historian but as a crime reporter on the New York Times. The training stuck. He retains the newshound's trick of grabbing the reader. I wonder, too, how much the above description owes to the pre-computerised New York Times newsroom.
The Business of Enlightenment is the most satisfying study that the new specialism of publishing history has produced. But as a model for others it poses difficulties. Booktrade materials are mostly very boring. Very few books are as obviously historically significant as Diderot's was in the late 18th century, nor do they have as excitingly subversive careers. The average book is an article of commerce. Moreover, there are dauntingly many of these articles of commerce – 50,000 new titles a year, half a million titles in print, ten million or more stored in the copyright libraries. Even following the career of a single edition of a single book, as Darnton did, required a huge investment of scholarly time: 14 years as he reckoned. Most academics want a quicker return than this. As careers are rewarded nowadays, they need a quicker return.
In the abstract, and given a degree of teamwork, the task of writing a comprehensive history of the national book – English, French or whatever – is well within the realm of possibility. As a task, it would be rather less onerous than star-mapping or the human genome project (which will require identifying three billion base pairs, at $1 a shot). But the sponsorship for the task is not there. Publishing History has no departmental or disciplinary home in the academic enterprise. Bibliography, History and Literature all own an interest; none will pick up the bills. State-sponsored centres of the book (such as that projected at the new British Library) will help, but they will be at best places where the work can be done rather than paying patrons.
As long ago as 1959, William Charvat came to the reluctant conclusion that a comprehensive history of publishing was a mirage. What we would have to live with was a provisional and largely intuitive sense of the big picture, together with detailed accounts of the manufacture, distribution and reception of the handful of great works that compose the current literary canon. Publishing History, that is, would have to make the same compromise as departments of English which select fifty or so texts from the millions available and label them 'literature'. Higher educational syllabuses are no more a generic account of literature than a Desert Island Discs selection is a history of music. But we live quite happily with the compromise.
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family genealogy-Bunting
12:35AM BST - Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Contributed by: Geoffrey E Dixon-Hamilton
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I am researching my family genealogy and record that one of my relations was Mary Bunting who married one of my relationsJohn Temple, b. 1827. killed in an accident from a falling barrel.Wells-next-the-sea.
I am also aware of a Bunting k. i. a. WW IWells war memorial but not sure if related. Mary and JOHN had two siblings, Mary Ann 1853, Martha 1855.
My other relations in the Wells area were the siblings of Robert and William Temple. William was Wells harbour master 1878. See 2011harbour brochure, p.53.
Would appreciate any further info on Mary Bunting. Mary remarriedafter John's untimely death, Jonas Sanford, in 1877. Wells parish.
Current relations James & Jane Temple of Morston - The Anchor inn.
I am based in Northampton.
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Yours respectfully
Geoffrey E. Dixon-Hamilton
( orig. p-gggg-gf Robert Temple of Barton, 1752-1839.
sloop owner. master mariner, waterman.
as were his sons and their sons.
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Aside from having the coolest name for a moon ever, Hyperion is known for its potato-like shape and a surface that looks — and even acts — like a sponge. But as the Cassini spacecraft discovered back in 2005, this Saturnian moon also packs an unexpected punch.
The image above was captured by Cassini at a distance of 38,500 miles (62,000 km) on September 26, 2005, during a flyby. The ESA just released this refined, false-color perspective of the moon in which its surface features were enhanced by toning down its natural redness.
Hyperion, a conglomeration of water ice and rock that's 255 miles (410 km) at its widest, is one of the largest irregularly shaped objects in the Solar System. Its low density gives it that "bubbly" appearance and highly porous nature.
Interestingly, Hyperion is a charged natural object, much like our own Moon. When Cassini swung by, it unleashed a burst of charged particles, delivering a rather significant 200-volt electric shock. The ESA says that, "Hyperion's surface becomes electrostatically charged as it is bathed in charged particles – both those constantly streaming out into space from the Sun and those trapped within the magnetic field of the moon's host planet, Saturn."
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I don't know what I am gonna call the dish that I just made. According to the recipe, it is called beef brisket. But honestly I have no idea what beef brisket is, let alone seen one. The meat that I am using is what I call stew meat. It may well be beef brisket, I don't know. Due to my bad command of Dutch, I generally leave the the grocery and marketing to experts and I just use whatever meat I can find in my freezer.
A quick check on the ever-so-trusty wikipedia, revealed that beef brisket is a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest. It is called 牛腩 (niu nan) in Chinese. Ah, does it sound a bell now? At least for Chinese readers. :)
Now no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't manage a nice shot out of it. Photos of beef stew are generally quite a challenge, based on what I learnt from my experiment on flemish beef stew, it seems easier to make a delicious dish than to make the (damned) photo look (damned) good. I admit that my photography skills still have a lot of room for improvement, but it is really difficult to snap pictures, capture the right angle with the right lighting and the right background, when the clock is ticking, the food is nearly burnt, the baby is screaming his head off and the rest of the family are all hungry.
That explains my lack of professionalism on the photography....hehehe. It has to be chop chop, take-1-shot-and-it-is-final, cos my hubby would say "Hey can you stop taking photos, I am hungry". And the baby will mumble "mum mum mum", either he is calling me mum or he is indicating that he is hungry too.
Anyway, back to this recipe. It is adapted from Leong Yee Soo's "Best of Singapore Cooking" cookbook (again). To tell the truth, I don't own the cookbook yet, but when I was back in Singapore in February, I borrowed this best-selling cookbook from the library and I managed to jot down a few good recipes. But the good news is, I am gonna be the happy owner of this famous cookbook very soon. A friend of mine will bring the book along (plus many other cookbooks) when she visits me in a few weeks time. Yippee! More Singapore recipes to come. :)
I love my flemish beef stew recipe, but this recipe is equally good, everybody should give it a try. :p
Chinese Beef Brisket with Ginger and Soya Sauce
Ingredients A
1 tbsp ginger juice
2 tbsp light soya sauce
3 tbsp dark soya sauce
1/2 tsp pepper
Ingredients B
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1.5-2 tbsp rice vinegar
Ingredients C (optional)
1 tbsp cornflour
3 tbsp water
Ingredients D
1 tbsp sugar
6 slices ginger
Ingredients E
4 cloves garlic, bashed
4 shallots, halved
Ingredients F
1/4 tsp or 2 segments of star anise
1 stalk lemon grass, bruised
1 inch cinnamon bark
Other Ingredients
600g beef brisket, cut into pieces
2 tbsp lard or oil
300ml hot water
1. Marinate beef in A for 1 hour.
2. Mix B and C in separate bowls.
3. Heat lard/oil in a saucepan and brown D. Add E to fry for 1 min. Then add F, marinated beef and B. Stir fry and cook over high heat for 10 min. Add 300ml hot water and let boil for 10 min.
4. Transfer dish to a earthern claypot or a heavy-bottomed pot. Bring back to heat and simmer til meat is tender (about 1.5 - 2 hours).
5. (Optional) Thicken gravy with C and stir well. (I personally don't like to thicken the gravy, but prefer the stewed beef to fully absorb the sauce).
6. (Optional) To serve, place whole pieces of lettuce on large serving plate. Arrange beef on lettuce and serve hot.


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In a couple of days time I'll be boarding a bus as I travel down the highway through the night to Melbourne town
I'm off to attend Impact 7 - international printmakers (and etc) conference at Monash Uni....
oooo excitement
I'm staying with a fellow survivor of the Monash MVA (thanks so much A)
I'm still working out my itinerary will be - but I DO know that I'll be catching up with old friends and (ooooo excitement) meeting old bloggy friends for the very first time (and if you've visited Sara's blog today you'll notice how we are saying all the same things right now.... including THANKS RANSW for the grant to let me/us go to Impact!)
Of course right at the last minute I decided to make some new 'things' to take with me (face palm!!!! why do I do this to myself!!!)
I'll share more pics and details of these in a later post...
I've created a very rough-n-ready photocopied (and hand worked) zine-as-promo (printed on recycled paper)
On Tuesday I'm presenting my work as part of Impact's 'open portfolio' (I'll be in Room E2.11, Building E - 12.30 - 3.30pm)
I don't know if I'll have enough energy to get through everything on my swelling 'to-do' list as the conference has many juicy offerings - and I'm hoping to check out a few things in the city as well.... ahhhhh well - at least I can rest up after I board the bus early Friday evening for the long journey home (I'm due to arrive back in Cobargo at 4am)
oh I almost forgot - the other day I found a newish app to help post to blogger from a iOS device.....
yeeee harrr! (so keep your eyes peeled here and at the BAO blog for a melbourne pic or two next week as I blog on the go)


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Drama The Flower in Prison Information
- Drama Title: The Flower in Prison
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- Status: Completed
- Genre: Historical, melodrama, legal
- Country: Korean
- Published Date: 2016
- Total Episodes: 51
- Summary:
The drama depicts the efforts by the main character, Lee Seo Won (Jin Se Yun) born in prison, who helps people unfairly accused, using Waeji-bu, the private litigation system in Joseon.
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The drama depicts the efforts by the main character, Lee Seo Won (Jin Se Yun) born in prison, who helps people unfairly accused, using Waeji-bu, the private litigation system in Joseon.
n 1937, the Japanese cavalry raging in the land of China. When underground party members Xiajiahe with radio access to occupied zone in Dalian, went to a traffic stop fittings, accidents met when the first girlfriend Wang flowers, Wang spent the husband唐全礼mistakenly thought the two Jiuqingfuran, disrupting Xiajiahe plan, they both were arrested prison, jail before Xiajiahe stations will be entrusted to the king a large flower. For flower Qingqi Wang rescued two possessions, but the husband has died unjustly, saved only Xiajiahe. Xiajiahe stereotype of King sleepwalk to radio stations with large flower Dalian, leads to crises,
At nights, prisoners leave the prison to commit perfect crimes. Ik-Ho is an inmate who wields king like power in the prison. Yoo-Gun is a new inmate charged with hit-and-run, destruction of evidence and bribery. He is an ex-detective with...
Moon Ok (Na Moon-Hee) was a musical professor at a university, but is now on death row for committing a crime caused by the abuse of her husband and mother-in-law. In prison she meets a young lady named Jeong-hye (Kim Yunjin) who killed her husband because of physical abuse. At the time of her arrest, Jeong-hye was pregnant and the baby was eventually born in prison. Now 18 months later, Jeong-hye's baby must be given up for adoption. To spend one day with her baby outside of prison, Jeong-hye forms a prison choir group. Moon Ok becomes the conductor for this choir. The inmates and prison officers are soon touched by the music produced by this group. "Harmony" provides for a unique human drama set within the world of a female prison.
Soo In, Bok Nyeo, Poong Geum, and Mi Oh were cellmates in an all-women's prison. Though they all came from different backgrounds and had their own reasons for being in jail, they were able to come together as friends through bakery lessons offered by the prison. As they grow closer and become more talented bakers, they make plans together for life after prison: top open their own bakery.
Two very moving tales that both revolve around the common theme of love. For anyone who has ever felt the passion and heartbreak of love, these stories will move your heart. "To Each a Flower" is a 2011 Chinese Web short film.


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Wishing you all happy holidays - I hope you have a great couple of days spent with family. The time has just flown away, so I hope you have all your preparations done and can enjoy this joyous time. Would have been nice to see a bit of snow, but London is very mild this year... My family are all in Denmark, and my husband will be working tomorrow, so I'll be cozying up in front of the tv with Gone With the Wind, which I watch every year.
This will also be the last christmas post this year - all month have been dedicated to christmas decor, ideas etc. here on the blog. Soon it's time to get ready to bring in the new year and think about doing some decor changes and finding new ideas and trends.
Happy Holidays from A Touch Of Luxe


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LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch on Thursday declared war against "enemies" who have accused his pay-TV operation of sabotaging its rivals, denouncing them as "toffs and right wingers" stuck in the last century.
Reports by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Financial Review newspaper this week said that News Corp's pay-TV smartcard security unit, NDS, had promoted piracy attacks on rivals, including in the United States.
NDS and News Corp had already denied the claims, but on Thursday the media empire mounted a fight back as a corruption scandal that has plagued its British newspapers began to encroach on its far more lucrative pay-TV business.
"Seems every competitor and enemy piling on with lies and libels. So bad, easy to hit back hard, which preparing," News Corp Chief Executive Murdoch, 81, tweeted.
News Corp, whose global media interests stretch from movies to newspapers that can make or break political careers, has endured an onslaught of negative press since a phone-hacking scandal at its News of the World tabloid blew up last year.
At its height last July, Murdoch told British parliamentarians: "This is the humblest day of my life," after meeting the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone News of the World journalists had hacked.
On Thursday, it appeared that Murdoch had had enough of apologizing. "Enemies many different agendas, but worst old toffs and right wingers who still want last century's status quo with their monopolies," he tweeted.
For an avowed republican such as Murdoch, describing someone as an upper class "toff" is a damning insult - although he is now seen by many in Britain as part of the establishment.
The BBC has a long history of ideological clashes with BSkyB, which is 39 percent owned by News Corp, and both Rupert and his son James Murdoch have publicly attacked the British public service broadcaster over the years.
The Australian Financial Review is owned by Fairfax Media, the main rival to Murdoch's News Ltd newspaper group in Australia.
On Friday, an alleged target of the attacks, Australia's second-largest pay-TV provider, Austar United Communications, said there were no signs of any conspiracy.
Austar, about to be taken over by larger rival Foxtel which is part-owned by News Corp in a $2 billion deal, said there was a piracy issue over a decade ago across the whole industry.
"In Australia, we've had over 150 prosecutions subsequent to improvements in the copyright laws," Austar Chief Executive John Porter told Australian radio. "I've never once heard the name of NDS or News Corp in those investigations or prosecutions,"
Shareholders in Austar vote on Friday on the Foxtel takeover, which still needs regulatory approval.
In a letter sent to the Australian Financial Review by NDS on Thursday, the company's executive chairman, Abe Peled, accused the newspaper of mischaracterizing NDS.
"You repeatedly mischaracterize communications about third party pirate devices to suggest that NDS was responsible for those devices," Peled wrote."You further mischaracterize NDS emails to suggest that NDS encouraged piracy of competitor systems while ignoring evidence that NDS was responsible for bringing to justice the sources of that piracy."
Richard Levick, a public-relations expert, expressed sympathy for Murdoch although he would have advised a more measured response.
"He's going to back to the old tools here, going on the attack, going for blustery headlines," he told Reuters. "I understand the natural inclination to do that and I have some personal sympathy with him."
Murdoch's British newspapers, relatively subdued since the phone-hacking scandal emerged, have gone back on the offensive.
The Sunday Times mounted a sting operation in which reporters posing as financiers were promised exclusive access to Prime Minister David Cameron in exchange for donations of 250,000 pounds ($400,000) a year.
That led to the resignation of a fundraiser from the ruling Conservative party, forced Cameron to disclose details of guests at his apartment, and sparked a discussion on party funding.
The Sun tabloid seized on an obscure tax the government planned to impose for the 2012 budget on hot pies, seen as a staple of a working-class diet, and offering readers a free pie.
A week later, Cameron, his finance minister and the opposition leader were still vying to be seen as the most avid pie-eater at every photo opportunity.
The latest allegations bring the crisis closer to Murdoch's son James, who sits on the board of NDS, which News Corp and co-owner private equity firm Permira agreed to sell for $5 billion to Cisco this month.
The younger Murdoch, who is also chairman and ex-CEO of BSkyB, has been criticized for not uncovering the scale of phone-hacking at the News of the World, though he had not yet joined the newspaper operation when the hacking took place.
He has since moved to New York after being promoted within News Corp to deputy chief operating officer, and has severed all ties with the British newspapers. His focus is now the company's international pay-TV operations, where he made his career.
Chase Carey, News Corp's COO and James Murdoch's immediate boss, on Wednesday condemned the BBC documentary.
"The BBC's Panorama program was a gross misrepresentation of NDS's role as a high quality and leading provider of technology and services to the pay-TV industry, as are many of the other press accounts that have piled on - if not exaggerated - the BBC's inaccurate claims," he wrote.
NDS has complained that it was not asked for its side of the story before Monday's Panorama program, which said NDS had leaked secret codes that allowed rampant pirating of BSkyB rival ITV Digital, which went bust in 2002.
On Thursday, NDS's Peled published a letter accusing Panorama of using manipulated emails to support its allegations.
The BBC said the emails shown in the program "were not manipulated, as NDS claims, and nothing in the correspondence undermines the evidence presented in the program".
Also this week, the Australian Financial Review published a story saying that NDS had allowed piracy to thrive at its client U.S. satellite broadcaster DirecTV, which Murdoch had ambitions to buy.
It reported, on the basis of a four-year investigation, that NDS ran a secret unit in the mid-1990s to sabotage competitors.
"We are not motivated in any way by any desire to damage any financial rival to the company that runs the Financial Review," the AFR's Editor-in-Chief, Michael Stutchbury, told Reuters.
"We are simply following the story and publishing what we have uncovered."
None of the evidence presented by Panorama and the AFR this week suggests that the Murdochs or any other News Corp executives were aware at the alleged practices at NDS.
NDS has won several court cases brought by rivals accusing it of promoting piracy, while others have been dropped - in one case because News Corp bought a subsidiary from the rival, Vivendi, which at the time was struggling with debt.
News Corp made $3.8 billion in revenues and $232 million in operating profit from satellite TV in its last fiscal year. It does not detail financial results for its newspapers but its British titles bring in less than 3 percent of group profit.
($1 = 0.6309 British pounds)
Additional reporting by Sakthi Prasad, James Grubel and Victoria Thieberger; Editing by Ed Davies, Will Waterman, Mark Potter and Ron Popeski


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|Who can buy Crop King Seeds?
|We ship to all countries. Canadian customers receive seeds in our original packaging. Customers from all other countries receive seeds inside random objects such as pens, flashlights, birthday cards and other items. Anyone can buy our seeds as long as they are over 19 years of age. Only authentic Crop King Seeds are found inside our famous packaging. Be careful of knock-offs.
|How do we package and ship your Crop King Seeds?
|Crop King Seeds come in special packaging that is sealed for freshness. All of our orders are shipped discreetly and with complete privacy.
|Can you have seeds delivered without the authentic packaging?
|Authentic Crop King Seeds packaging can only be sent to Canadian customers. We are unable to send empty packaging separately to other countries.
|What is the price of shipping? And what are approximate delivery times?
|You have two options for shipping:
A. $10 Regular Shipping
Canada: 2 – 7 business days depending on your area. Remote areas are up to 7 days. Large cities and cities closer to Vancouver can be 2 – 5 days.
USA: Up to 2 weeks.
International: All countries except Australia and New Zealand are required to pay $30.00 shipping. Australia and New Zealand can take up to 3 weeks. We will not be responsible for seized merchandise to Australia or New Zealand.
B. $30 or $60 Express Registered with Tracking
Importing seeds to some countries can be difficult. Approximately 5% of our orders are seized. Choosing the $30 or $60 Express shipping option guarantees delivery of your order; in case of seizure by customs we will reship. Only $10 Regular shipping fee applies to Australia and New Zealand.
NOTE: Regular parcel shipments within Canada can take 5-10 days to be delivered. Express shipments take 2-5 days for delivery, and come with a free grinder.
|Which payment methods are accepted?
|We accept US and Canadian dollars, Visa, Mastercard and Bitcoin. We accept Interac E-Transfers for Canadians Only. Our mailing address is provided upon check-out.
|What currency is used to purchase seeds?
|The prices for our seeds displayed are in US dollars. If you are a Canadian customer you are charged the amount displayed in Canadian dollars. Since we are a global company we choose to process in US dollars for all orders outside Canada.
|How do you know we wont keep your money and not send your seeds?
|We have spent 6 years building our company and the seed business is all about word-of-mouth referrals. We have no interest in keeping your money. We will make more money by ensuring you are delivered a quality product, so you can tell your friends and family.
|Where is Crop King Seeds located and is our privacy guaranteed?
|Our main office is in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the West coast of Canada. We do not keep a record of your credit card number on file. We do not sell email addresses either.
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|We are always looking for new retail distributors for Crop King Seeds. You will find that your customers will come back to buy more packs directly from you. Contact us with information about your store and why you would like to be a distributor.
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|Yes, Crop King Seeds are sold in many retail and online stores. Please look through our list of stores provided in the website banner to find a retail location closest to you.
|What is the best method to germinate Crop King Seeds?
|The best method for germinating seeds is the cup of water & paper towel method. For detailed instructions, See the germination page on this website to learn how to germinate Crop King Seeds.
|What is the Crop King Guarantee?
|At Crop King Seeds we stand by our product. Our seeds are inspected, tested and handpicked to be mature and viable. Each strain differs somewhat in size, shape and colour. Some seeds such as White Widow will actually be paler in appearance, or "white", which is completely normal. An immature seed is green in colour or has a husk still attached to it.
|The guarantee is for germination only and does not extend to growing in your choice of medium such as soil.
|Can a feminized seed turn out to be male or hermaphrodite?
|Yes, in rare circumstances this can happen. On average it is about 1 in 1000. This is caused by stress during the germination process. Always watch your plants carefully for characteristics of hermaphrodism. If you do begin to see such traits, move the plant to another room or dispose of it immediately to ensure you do not seed out your own plants or those of your neighbours.


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PA-21-2012 PROCLAMATION RE: SHELLFISH POLLUTED AREA Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation of Laura Gerald, M.D., M.P.H., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that the following shellfish area temporary closures will take effect immediately: No person shall take or attempt to take any oysters, clams or mussels or possess, sell or offer for sale any oysters, clams or mussels taken from the following polluted areas: BRUNSWICK COUNTY All those waters between Southport and the South Carolina state line, to include Lockwoods Folly River and Shallotte River. GENERAL INFORMATION:
A. This proclamation is issued under the authority of N.C.G.S. 113-170.4; 113-170.5; 113-182; 113-221.1; 143B-289.52 and N.C. Marine Fisheries Rules 15A NCAC 03H . 0103 and 03K .0101. B. It is unlawful to violate the provisions of any proclamation issued by the N.C. Fisheries Director under his delegated authority pursuant to N.C. Marine Fisheries Rule 15A NCAC 03H .0103. C. These temporary closures are due to heavy rainfall and resultant runoff.
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Battling Bullies
By Laura D. Egodigwe
When she was in third grade, some of the girls in her class called her names because she wore glasses.
The situation was so bad, Assata didn't want to go to school. "I used to ask, 'Mommy, why do I have to go?'" Assata says.
Assata was being bullied. Bullying is a constant problem in U.S. schools. At least one third of children in the fourth to eighth grades say they have been bullied, according to recent studies. Sometimes kids miss school to avoid bullies.
There are ways to stop bullies. But kids don't always do the most important thingtalk about it. Getting a teacher, parent, or other responsible adult involved is very important.
Assata told her mom and her teachers about her bullies. And her teachers kept an eye out for her.
The bullying finally stopped after Assata's tormentors got suspended from school for throwing food at her in the school cafeteria. That was four years ago, but Assata still feels bad when she thinks about the experience.
"I felt a little better because they got suspended, but I still felt hurt," Assata says.
A Lasting Pain
Being bulliedeven for a short whilecan leave scars that last a long time. Bullying is not just calling someone names. It can include threats or spreading rumors about someone, as well as hurting someone physically. Bullying is even going high-tech. Cyberbulliespeople who harass others over the Internetare putting a new spin on an old problem.
Miss America 2003, Erika Harold, was tormented by bullies she faced in school. So when she became Miss America, she made a decision. During her year in office, she would make putting a stop to bullying and youth violence her mission.
"The harassment had a negative impact upon my sense of confidence and optimism," Harold recalls. When she was in ninth grade, bullies made her life so miserable that she had to change schools. They called her names. They vandalized her family's home. Bullies even threatened her life.
Harold spent her year as Miss America visiting school kids around the country to talk about the problem. She says victims of bullies must understand that they are not to blame. "I made a conscious choice to define myself on my own terms," Harold says, "and refused to allow the words and actions of others to limit me."
Speak Out
Bullying is a serious issue that affects both the bully and the victim. Kids may become bullies either because they feel bad about themselves, or because they have been the victims of other bullies. In a posting on a Web site about bullying, a former bully says he picked on other kids because he was scared that he would be picked on first.
"Every bully has something [about which] they don't want to be made fun of," he wrote, "so they make fun of you so [that] no one will find out."
Whatever their reasons, experts say that bullies can and must be stopped. Kids can take an active role in making bullying unattractive.
If you see another person being teased, harassed, or bullied, speak out and report it, says Dr. Pamela Riley, executive director of Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE).
"So often it's not just the bullies, it's the bystanders that let [the bullying] go on and do not show displeasure to the bully," says Riley. "They should tell someone [and] stand up for kids who are being bullied or teased."
Kids need to "show bullies that they're not heroes," Riley says.
This article is reprinted from Scholastic News Senior Edition, September 15, 2003.


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Souley Vegan Reopens in Jack London Square
Souley Vegan reopened on Friday, July 24th in its new restaurant location in Oakland's Jack London Square. It was previously located on 13th Street in Oakland, closed last fall for remodelling, and never re-opened. Many in the veg community are happy to see the return of vegan soul food.
Souley Vegan continues to sell its fare at Farmer's Markets throughout the bay area, including the Lake Merritt Farmer's Market and the relatively new Farmer's Market in the Metreon complex in San Francisco.
Thanks to Bob for sharing the official word of their long anticipated opening.
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In 2008, there were 2.03 million people in employment. By 2016, total employment is expected to be 77,000 lower than in 2008, recovering from a low of 1.7 million in 2010. In 2008, one quarter of employment was in the market services sector (finance, business services, hotels and other), just under one fifth in health and education, 14% in distribution (retail, wholesale and motor) and 13% in construction. By 2016, the sectoral distribution of employment will change somewhat. Traditional manufacturing is expected to lose 2 percentage points of its share and account for 5% of total employment by 2015. Construction is expected to account for 10% of employment in 2015 compared to 13% in 2008; agriculture for 4% compared to 6%. An increase in share is expected to be observed in market services, high tech manufacturing and transport and communications.
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Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.
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Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.
When they lose their sense of awe,
people turn to religion.
When they no longer trust themselves,
they begin to depend upon authority.
Therefore the Master steps back
so that people won't be confused.
He teaches without a teaching,
so that people will have nothing to learn.
The Tao is always at ease.
It overcomes without competing,
answers without speaking a word,
arrives without being summoned,
accomplishes without a plan.
Its net covers the whole universe.
And though its meshes are wide,
it doesn't let a thing slip through.
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you aren't afraid of dying,
there is nothing you can't achieve.
Trying to control the future
is like trying to take the master carpenter's place.
When you handle the master carpenter's tools,
chances are that you'll cut your hand.
When taxes are too high,
people go hungry.
When the government is too intrusive,
people lose their spirit.
Act for the people's benefit.
Trust them; leave them alone.
Men are born soft and supple;
dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plats are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail.
As it acts in the world, the Tao
is like the bending of a bow.
The top is bent downward;
the bottom is bent up.
It adjusts excess and deficiency
so that there is perfect balance.
It takes from what is too much
and give to what isn't enough.
Those who try to control,
who use force to protect their power,
go against the direction of the Tao.
They take from those who don't have enough
and give to those who have far too much.
The Master can keep giving
because there is no end to her wealth.
She acts without expectation,
succeeds without taking credit,
and doesn't think that she is better
than anyone else.
Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.
The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.
Therefore the Master remains
serene in the midst of sorrow.
Evil cannot enter his heart.
Because he has given up helping,
he is people's greatest help.
True words seem paradoxical.
Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.
Therefore the Master
fulfills her own obligations
and corrects her own mistakes.
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others.
The more he gives to others,
the wealthier he is.
The Tao nourishes by not forcing.
By not dominating, the Master leads.
If a country is governed wisely,
its inhabitants will be content.
They enjoy the labor of their hands
and don't waste time inventing
labor-saving machines.
Since they dearly love their homes,
they aren't interested in travel.
There may be a few wagons and boats,
but these don't go anywhere.
There may be an arsenal of weapons,
but nobody ever uses them.
People enjoy their food,
take pleasure in being with their families,
spend weekends working in their gardens,
delight in the doings of the neighborhood.
And even though the next country is so close
that people can hear its roosters crowing and its dogs barking,
they are content to die of old age
without ever having gone to see it


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Your Raspberry Pi doesn't come with an operating system. This is not a weakness, however, rather a feature that means you can choose from a wide of OSs, each of which can be flashed to an SD card (or microSD card for the Raspberry Pi B+ The Raspberry Pi B+ Is Here. What's Changed? The Raspberry Pi B+ Is Here. What's Changed? Read More ) in a few simple steps. Here's how to get a new OS installed and running on your Pi – and how to clone your perfect setup for quick disaster recovery.
Operating systems such as the recommended Raspbian Optimize The Power Of Your Raspberry Pi With Raspbian Optimize The Power Of Your Raspberry Pi With Raspbian As befits a man with too much tech on his hands, I've been playing with my Raspberry Pi recently, configuring the device so that it works to its fullest potential. It continues to run as... Read More , ArchLinux, Risc OS and even Android come ready to run on your Raspberry Pi. I'll show you the two main ways add an operating system – and once you've got your Pi setup how you want it, we'll look at how to clone the card so that it can be restored following errors (or for temporary reuse of your SD card).
The following tutorials assume that you have a basic Raspberry Pi package What Is The True Cost Of Running a Raspberry Pi? What Is The True Cost Of Running a Raspberry Pi? The Raspberry Pi - a small, compact and versatile computer, capable of processing HDMI and MPEG-2 being the central component of any number of weekend projects from retro gaming stations and media centres to smart... Read More and Windows to manage your SD card writing and cloning.
Flash An OS To SD And Boot Your Raspberry Pi
Whichever operating system you download for your Raspberry Pi, the process of writing it to an SD card is the same. However, there are some differences in SD card writing between desktop operating systems. You'll also need to ensure that your card is blank and formatted, and at least 2 GB.
For Windows users (and also those of you with Mac OS X) the tool of choice for writing a Raspberry Pi OS image to SD card is SD Formatter, from the SD Association. With the card inserted into your computer's card reader, and ensuring you have the correct Drive letter selected in the drop down menu, open the Option menu and select Full (Erase) and On. This ensures that the full capacity of the storage card will be available.
Click OK, then Format to begin.
To write the disk image, use Win32DiskImager, available from Sourceforge. You may need to run with administrator privileges. Select the correct drive letter for your SD card, browse to the image file and click Write to commence the process. Win32DiskImager will inform you when the data has been written.
If writing the disk image seems too much hassle or is beyond your abilities, it is possible to purchase SD cards with Raspbian pre-installed.
Booting Raspbian For The First Time
With Raspbian installed, you'll need to login with the following credentials:
Username: pi
Password: raspberry
For other operating systems, check the documentation to find the default login credentials.
Remember that the password will not be displayed as you type it; there are no Windows-style * symbols representing the letters. Instead, it will appear that you haven't entered a password. This is a security feature in Linux to prevent people guessing the length of your passphrase. Just type the password regardless.
In Raspbian, you can change your password by running
sudo raspi-config
And selecting the Change Password option.
Install Raspbian, XBMC, Risc OS, OpenElec & ArchLinux Easily With NOOBS
For a simpler, more streamlined install of the more popular Raspberry Pi distros such as Raspbian, ArchLinux, XBMC and OpenElec media centres, as well as Risc OS and Pidora – you can employ NOOBS, the New Out Of Box Software installation system.
NOOBS is available from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads and doesn't require "writing" to SD card in the way Raspbian and other Pi operating systems are. You will need a card greater than 4GB and should use the SD Formatter tool to format (Full Erase On, Format Size Adjustment On). When downloading NOOBS, note that offline and online installers are available, differing in size; the smaller download will require that your Raspberry Pi is connected to the Internet via Ethernet.
A keyboard and/or mouse will be required to install an OS with NOOBS, as will a HDMI display.
With the Raspberry Pi booted into the NOOBS interface, you can choose your operating system(s). Our full guide to NOOBS includes everything you need to know How NOOBS For Raspberry Pi Can Help First Time Users How NOOBS For Raspberry Pi Can Help First Time Users There is something about the Raspberry Pi that might just put people off: until now, setting it up has not been particularly user friendly. NOOBS aims to change that! Read More about this method of setting up a Raspberry Pi OS.
Perfecting Your Raspberry Pi OS
Different Raspberry Pi projects require a varying amount of software; it really all depends on what you're planning to do.
For instance, if you want to use your Raspberry Pi as a media centre The Easiest Raspberry Pi Media Centre, With RasPlex The Easiest Raspberry Pi Media Centre, With RasPlex Read More , then you might use NOOBS to install XBMC or (the better option, in my opinion) OpenElec.
With this done, you will then need to install various updates from within the media centre software (much as you would if you had installed Raspbian). There may be other applications that you need, add-ins for the media centre such as Vimeo or YouTube, perhaps the TED Talk channel, etc.
As with any computer system, installing the operating system is only the first step. Updates, optional software and other tools will also need to be added before you're happy that the Raspberry Pi is ready for its intended use. The same process would be followed if you were configuring your Pi as a wireless print server Make Your Own Wireless Printer With A Raspberry Pi Make Your Own Wireless Printer With A Raspberry Pi Fewer cables, flexibility about where you can put your printer – wireless printing is a win-win. Unless you have an older printer. Raspberry Pi to the rescue! Read More , perhaps, or even webserver Host Your Own Website On Your Raspberry Pi Host Your Own Website On Your Raspberry Pi Need to run a website but can't afford the hosting costs? One way around this is with the low-powered Raspberry Pi, which is more than capable of running basic web server software. Read More .
Once this is done, you should have your Raspberry Pi installation perfected.
Disaster Management: Cloning The OS
The point at which you're happy with the installed OS is precisely when you should make a clone of it. This is a full backup image of the SD card saved to your hard disk drive (or second SD card) that can be easily flashed should you run into trouble.
Windows users can again employ Win32DiskImager here, ensuring that the perfected Raspberry Pi SD card is inserted in your Windows card reader before launching the utility.
Find the Image File field, and browse to the folder where you will be saving your SD card image; in the Device box, select the drive letter of the SD card, and after confirming both are correct, click Read to begin the cloning, following any on-screen instructions. Give the process time to complete before proceeding.
Should you need to revert the SD card back to its "perfect" state later on, you'll need to remove all partitions (WIN+R to launch Disk Management, right-click the SD card and select Delete) before restoring the image. You might also reformat using SD Formatter, as explained above.
Again using Win32DiskImager, browse for the image file, set the Device drive letter and then click Write. Once the process is complete, your SD card will be reverted to the "perfect" configuration you worked on earlier, and your Raspberry Pi should be ready to put to use once more.
Find out more in our comprehensive explanation of cloning your Raspberry Pi SD card Easily Clone Your SD Card For Trouble-free Raspberry Pi Computing Easily Clone Your SD Card For Trouble-free Raspberry Pi Computing Whether you have one SD card or several, one thing that you will need is the ability to back up your cards to avoid the problems that occur when your Raspberry Pi fails to boot. Read More .
Conclusion: Make The SD Card Work For You
One thing is clear about the Raspberry Pi: it relies on the SD card to on extent or another. As such, understanding how to use this type of media with the little computer is vital.
Writing an operating system to SD card is the Raspberry Pi equivalent of installing an operating system. As you'll have noticed, it's much quicker than installing Windows to a HDD, and with NOOBS doing the hard work, even simpler!
We can't underline enough how important it is to make an image of your SD card. With the various ways in which you can find your Pi not working correctly 3 Reasons Why Your Raspberry Pi Doesn't Work Properly 3 Reasons Why Your Raspberry Pi Doesn't Work Properly I've been living with the Raspberry Pi for several months now, and have found this astonishing little computer to be even more amazing than expected. Despite its diminutive dimensions, the Raspberry Pi is as fruity... Read More , having a quick restore file saved to a HDD is really quite important.
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The museum includes four galleries plus a performance space, lobby, and gift shop. Exhibits range from sets of popular music videos, to 8-bit animations, to graffiti, to multi-sensory sound and video projects. The architecture of the building itself is even art. Galleries are expressed as if they had been carved from a single block of concrete and are floating over the lobby space. The stairwells are zig zagged and create an illusion of the mind. CAC is also open late on Monday nights until 9:00pm and has free admission after 5:00pm, a great opportunity to check the place out if you've never been.
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Gov Okowa Meets With Knox Power Solutions Limited
Delta State Governor Sen Ifeanyi Okowa today received Knox Power Solutions Limited Led by General Chris A. Garuba (rtd) Mni CON CFR Executive Chairman.
The Knox Power Solutions Ltd (Knox) accrodign to the Chairman General Chris A. Garuba is a well structured power generation, transmission, distribution, engineering, and turnkey power engineering solutions provider.
To help fast track the plan of the FGN to resuscitate the once moribund Power Sector and increase power generation capacity from its current low 4,000 MW to 40,000 MW in 10 years.
It is a wholly owned indigenous company under the chairmanship of General Chris a. Garuba (rtd) mni CON CFR
Othe members include the Vice Chairmen of the Knox Power Solutions Limited Adjeirho Mohammed Oyibo , Mr Emmanuel Iwodi Project Director , Mr Enioma Kpokpo GE Power Project Director , Mrs Joyce Wigue, Director of Government and Public Affairs GE, Mr Samuel Shi, Project Manager Powerchina Group .
The State Commissioner for Power and Energy Hon Newworld Safugar, Commissioner for Justice, Attorney-General Hon Peter Mrakpor, Chief of Staff Hon Tan Brisibe were present during the Meeting.


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- If someone moves from a money market fund yielding 0.11% into a bond fund yielding 2.52%, he or she would pick up 2.41 percentage points in current yield. On a $10,000 investment, that equates to $241 a year, assuming interest rates remain steady.
- If rates were to increase by, say, 4 percentage points to 6.52%, the impact to a bond fund with an average duration of 4.3 years means the share price would drop by 17.2% (for a total drop in account balance of $1,720 on the $10,000 investment), all else equal.
In 2009 Vanguard's TIPS fund, VIPSX, gained 10.8%
In 2009 Vanguard's GNMA fund, VFIIX, gained 5.3%
As of yesterday (10/6/10)
VIPSX is up 9.05% YTD
VFIIX is up 7.08% YTD
I dumped my Vanguard GNMA (VFIIX) fund almost 2 yrs ago in my Vanguard ROTH and bought the TIPS fund VIPSX. Total gain as of yesterday for VIPSX was 22.5%!
The REIT index fund at Vanguard, part of my core portfolios recommended for conservative and aggressive investors, is up 22.55% YTD! It gained 29.6% in 2009 but lost 38% in 2008 so it is volatile.
Also make sure you read Vanguard Lowers Admiral Shares Minimum to $10,000
- Vanguard has reduced the minimum amount required to qualify for Admiral™ Shares to $10,000 for most of our broad-market index funds and $50,000 for actively managed funds, down from the previous $100,000 minimum.
- Admiral Shares cost significantly less than traditional fund shares, and their expense ratios are among the lowest in the mutual fund marketplace.


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Here's a little London itinerary I wrote for Fathom - it's essentially where I'd take you if it was your first visit to London; as opposed to where I'd take your granny or your annoying little brother.
Read it here.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Posted by Claire at Monday, November 14, 2011
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- Bombay Beauty said...
very nice tour. was thinking of london yesterday as i happened upon a local market near me that reminded me of some of the smaller, neighborhood markets in london. it was a stretch of the imagination to be sure. but some stretching is good for the mind. xo bb
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- Milly said...
Really enjoyed reading your piece, as a Londoner, it's always nice to read about what other people recommend. The tea at the St John Hotel sounds smashing!x
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- Tiffany said...
This is totally perfect timing. yessss!
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Today we'll be looking at some baseball cards featuring one of the forgotten Royals. His name is Luis Manuel de los Santos Martinez, and despite being a second-round draft pick in 1984 and one of the top minor league hitters for several years, he never really got much of a chance with Kansas City.
De los Santos was born in the Dominican Republic but grew up in Queens with ten other siblings. He was a tall, lanky first basemen who hit a lot but didn't have much power. He still managed to rack up the RBI, maintain a healthy average, make several minor-league all-star teams, and win the 1988 American Association MVP.
So why don't most Royals fans know who he is? Well, DeLo only played in two short stints with the big-league club in 1988 and 1989, managing a little over 100 at-bats total. His average wasn't great and he didn't hit a home run, but he was still just 22 years old and one of the top players in AAA. In 1988, USA Today ran a piece on DeLo comparing him to Don Mattingly. In 1989, he had a brief moment of glory when his two-RBI hit beat Tommy John in New York against the Yankees. But he didn't get called up at all in 1990, and the Royals released him in April of 1991.
To be fair, the Royals had a good first baseman in DeLo's prime years: future Hall of Famer George Brett. But they also had a lot of other shit first basemen on the big league roster during these years, including Bill Buckner, Steve Balboni, Pat Tabler, and Todd Benzinger (who was the starter in 1991 when de los Santos was released). DeLo could also play third, but Kevin Seitzer was firmly entrenched there. His basic problem was that he wasn't a power hitter at a time when his positions were increasingly determined by home run totals.
Luis de los Santos would play a little bit in 1991 for the Tigers, bounce around their minor league system for a couple of years, then head off into the world. He played for teams in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Mexico, and Italy over the next decade. He came back to the States in 2002 and ended his professional dream with the Rochester Red Wings, Baltimore's AAA affiliate.
"Thanks," you're probably saying, "for making me read 400 words on some loser who has the same number of major league home runs as I do. Very educational. But none of this is funny. Make with the comedy bits."
This is where DeLo's baseball cards come into play.
See, despite all that stuff up there, I didn't know de los Santos any better than you before I did the research.
In fact, I'll tell you why he made a lasting impression on me as a youngster:
When I was a kid, my older siblings subjected me to a lot of stuff I shouldn't have been seeing: Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Small Wonder, you name it. If it was scary or gory or gross or playing on KZKC Channel 62, we were watching it.
And Luis de los Santos was scarier than Michael Myers, Jason, Freddy, Pinhead, and Vicki combined. DeLo looked like a surlier version of doomed character actor Rick Aviles, probably best known as Willie Lopez in the hit film Ghost. I saw DeLo in games on TV some, sure, but he really made this disturbing impression on me with his baseball cards.
Here, have a look at this dude's scowl, his thousand-yard stare, his creepy molestache, and tell me he wouldn't frighten a 1980s pre-pubescent surbanite:
1986 Jennings Southern League All-Stars #9:
1988 ProCards Triple A All-Stars #30:
1989 Fleer #646:
1989 Upper Deck #12:
1989 Fleer Update #37:
1990 CMC Triple A All-Stars #2:
For years, I had nightmares about DeLo slowly murdering me with a Louisville Slugger: his furrowed brow, his clenched jaw, and his jheri curl spattered red with my blood, brains, and entrails.
But hey, apparently he was a pretty good baseball player, too, who just never got his shot.
Go Royals! You're the Best!


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"A return to sex," described Adam Andrascik backstage. "It's about precision, not minimalism, simplicity through subtraction." Dresses cut on the bias were light and spun around the body, while knitted dresses in black and white variations accentuated the silhouette to neat effect; bandeaus brought new life to shirt dresses. [CONTINUE READING...]
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We clear out by Friday night, so those high school football games will most likely get in without any precipitation, but the winds could still be an issue. The clearing continues on Saturday as we are left with slightly cooler temperatures, still in the mid-60's, and partly sunny skies. Sunday, we cool off more, with highs in the mid-50's and more mostly sunny skies. Overnight Sunday into Monday, we'll drop into the mid-30's. Partly sunny skies will prevail on Monday, still with temperatures in the lower 50's. We tick up slightly for Tuesday, with highs in the upper 50's with more mostly sunny skies. For Wednesday, we'll start out with partly sunny skies and highs in the mid-60's but by the evening, we'll start to see clouds in the increase. Thursday, we'll have mostly cloudy conditions with a few showers moving through the area. Remaining warm, however, with highs in the mid- to upper 60's.
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I've found out that this takes much time and it's hard to sort of the important things out of everything you would want to cover and not going into any depth. But three parts where promised so here's what have had time to write. The events will be dated around 2004-2006.
In the end of January 2005 "s10_74L2" a was finished, the release build of Solaris 10, which still is the active and supported major version. It had several features that changed the way we work with Unix systems. It was also the larges update to Solaris since the move to SVR4 in 2.0. The main focus was on performance but there where also huge improvements in virtualization, fault management and observability.
Previous Solaris releases was sometimes bashed with names such as "slowlaris", especially when run on workstation class machines. Solaris had overhead that needed to be removed and other operating systems did some things faster. The slogan "if another OS is faster, it is a Solaris bug" was used during development and it payed of making Solaris 10 substantially faster than in predecessors. One thing developed to improve performance was a library for microbenchmarking of system calls, libmicro. With performance data on every system call the ones which where slow could be fixed and compared to other operating systems. Another area of improvement was the networking stack, much of this was delivered by two projects, FireEngine for better TCP performance and Yosemite (in update 2) which did the same for UDP.
Solaris 10 was also the first release to contain light weight virtualization in the form of Solaris zones for both security and workload separation. While the initial release had several flaws when upgrading, it was fixed and many more features added in subsequent update releases.
DTrace, Service Management Facility and Fault Manager Daemon was other important additions, especially DTrace which really was, and still is, groundbreaking for debugging and performance tuning. ZFS which was much needed solution for an own modern volume manager and filesystem for Solaris was often mentioned as a major feature long before Solaris 10 was released, for example in the "Ten moves ahead" campaign. But ZFS was not released until over a year later with the second update, Solaris 10 6/06.
All this was crucial for Solaris to survive the competition and Solaris 10 delivered, albeit with somewhat slow adaptation in the beginning due to the large amount of changes. Without all the work put into this release Solaris would probably have lost it's competitive edge and faded away. The improved performance was required for Solaris to continue to be a competitive OS, the improved security and virtualization where needed additions, but what made most impact was probably DTrace and ZFS which both broke new ground.
Something worth a notice is that Oracle did chose Solaris 10 as it's preferred open source 64-bit developer platform in November 2006. So even if the bounds between Sun and Oracle had been stronger, it did still exist.
2005 was not only the year Solaris 10 was released, it was also the year it became free and open, Solaris 10 was made available freely for download and the source was released. As discussed in the first part, this might have been a bit late, especially the free for use bit, the source was probably even harder to rush, but giving people a chance to test Solaris for free should have been given long before Solaris 10, at least on the X86 side.
On the hardware side the dual-core UltraSPARC IV "Jaguar" was in the heart of most SPARC servers shipped. Sun and Fujitsu formed a partnership to develop future SPARC64 systems together. This resulted in Sun canceling it's own UltraSPARC V processor "Millennium" and shifted its focus on developing Chip MultiThreading processors with technology acquired when buying Aftra Websystems. The first CMT processor was released in November 2005, the UltraSPARC T1 with 8 cores and 4 hardware threads per core. Sun also hinted on a much more advanced CMT processor that was under development, named Rock, or the UltraSPARC RK, which would include features such as transactional memory and higher thread performance than the T1. The Fujitsu partnership helped Sun a lot, both by ending the head-on competition with Fujitsu and by giving Sun the CPU they needed for single thread performance while developing it's own line of CMT processors.
In the X86 space Sun bought Kealia which was started by one of the Sun founders, Andy Bechtolsheim. Kealia focused on developing 64-bit AMD opteron servers and became the foundation for the next generation of X86 servers including the 4 unit, 48 disk storage server x4500 "Thumper".
To summarize, Sun spent lots of resources on making Solaris more competitive and making if free, forming a alliance which cut the R&D spending on current SPARC systems while developing the next generation of system based on CMT. This was also the time when the real commitment to X86 servers began, with Kealia.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's father Krishnaraj Rai passes away
Mumbai: Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's father Krishnaraj Rai passed away on Saturday at a suburban hospital here due to health issues.
#Visuals of last rites ceremony of Krishnaraj Rai (father of Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) who passed away in Mumbai,earlier today pic.twitter.com/dPIr2gIh16
— ANI (@ANI_news) March 18, 2017
He was hospitalised a few weeks ago and was later shifted to the ICU.
"Aishwarya's father Krishnaraj Rai passed away at the Lilavati Hospital in suburban Bandra," the publicist of the actress told PTI.
Krishnaraj Rai is survived by wife Vrinda, son Aditya and daughter Aishwarya.
Updated Date: Mar 18, 2017 22:40:57 IST