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Family and friends
Even if the world rejects me i know i can still come back to my family and frriends with open arms and they would accept me.
i might crack boring jokes that might make others frown or even get angry at me, but when i tell you these same jokes you smile and laugh out loudly and you laugh out from you heart not because my jokes are funny but because you think am lovely, am wonderful and this makes you laugh.
When others think am surely going to fail and am definitely going to fall you still believe in me, even when i don't believe in myself you have faith in me, little wonder why you are my family and friends.
People see me from the outside no wonder they judge me freely, condemn me with no second thoughts and don't really give a damn about my feelings, emotions and even my point of view and at best all they can show me is sympathy. But you guys see me from the inside. You guys can understand and relate to me from a heart to heart level. You guys show me empathy. You give me a pat on my back and prove to me that truly you see the world from inside my shoes.
The world might be such a harsh place and we all know life is truly unfair but with true friends, family and loved ones i and also you have a very good reason to keep on going and keep on struggling. Keep on fighting the good fight.
Most times i might be a misfit, people reject me because of my looks, my skin colour, my style of dressing, my accent, my I.Q, my believes, my character and attitude towards life, my bank account but you choose to accept me and look above worldly virtues and temporary status not because am worth it but because you truly love me.
People are mostly here for the good times and merry moments, but i can beat my chest and say you would be here during the bad times. How do i know this, it's because you've been through shit with me before times without number.
When i am in need i know where to stretch out my hands to. When i am lonely i know where to find quality company. When i am sad and frustrated i know where to go and find laughter and joy. When i need advice and an honest opinion about my habits, characters and actions i know those who would give me their voice without bullshit pretence and no sugar-coated words that might please me now but would lead me to my death later.
Family are not only those who are share the same blood with you or those who have the same biological traits with you. Friends are not those who you hang out with, eat with, attend the same school or church with. And loved ones are not those you are in a relationship with and those who say i love you and things like that. In the world we live in today there are very few good people and few good men but naturally we all can detect fakeness, fake love and pretence. Even the dumbest of us can point out our true friends when we give it a little time.
What do you think about this piece It's a wonderful thing to have read this long post and i know you will leave your comments in the comment box. Thank you.
Related poetry
Why you need people and the impact of other's on our lives
The road to his bed, poetry about ladies and their misdoings
Black man's mentality poetry about blacks and wrong things they are doing


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What exactly is Motorola U9 phone unlocking ?
The majority of Networks Service providers lock their Motorola phones to their network, preventing you from making use of your phone on various other networks. Essentially , they want to keep your business as the phone is only going to work only on their Network. Motorola Phone unlocking is a method of taking out the Network lock from the Motorola phone. Motorola U9 Unlocking can be carried out by a choice between purchasing an unlock code that is calculated from your Motorola U9 unique IMEI number or by downloading unlocking software program to unlock your Motorola phone directly. Note: An un-locked 2G phone will never accept a 3G simcard. Nonetheless an un-locked 3G phone can accept and work with a 2G handset. 3G handsets have reverse compatibility which enables those to recognize and work with a 2G simcard Nonetheless, an unlocked 2G phone cannot recognise the newer 3G/4G sim card technology.
Is Motorola U9 unlocking illegal?
In the united kingdom unlocking your Motorola U9 phone is absolutely legal however unblocking a Motorola U9 phone that was reported lost or stolen is illegal. In the US as outlined by a ruling on the 28th October 2012 , means that it is illegal to unlock phones bought ninety days after this date without the carrier's permission. In other words, users may unlock phones they already own, and also phones purchased before January 29 , 2013 , nevertheless phones bought after this point may only be un-locked with the carrier's agreement. For additional country legislation go to this web-site:
How do I check to see if my Motorola U9 phone is locked ?
The most simple way to check if your Motorola U9 phone is locked is to stick in a SIM card from another service provider and check out if the phone will accept it. In the event that your Motorola U9 phone is locked then you will typically see an error message of some type. These particular messages differ based on your handset manufacturer. Listed below are some examples ;
- "Enter restriction code" or "SIM card rejected"
- "Enter special code" or "Enter Subsidy code"
- "Enter Correct SIM"
- "Incorrect SIM"
- "Invalid Network SIM…Enter Code"
- "Invalid SIM"
- "Phone disabled ! NETWORK LOCK"
- "Invalid Network SIM"
If you do not have access to a SIM card from another carrier in that case there exists a much less scientific technique to use to check if your Motorola U9 phone is locked. Simply just look to check if your service provider has placed their logo on your Motorola U9 phone some-where. Just to illustrate in britain orange always lock their handsets and they usually "badge" their Motorola U9 handsets with their own Orange logo possibly on the front or the back of the Motorola U9 phone.
Motorola U9 PUK Codes
PUK is short for Personalized unblocking Code. You should enter it if you have typed your personal pin code wrong. This works like a security feature on your Motorola U9 phone. If you do not have your PUK code , you should get in touch with your Network provider whom will supply the PUK code after several security checks.
How to Unlock your Motorola U9 Phone
There are a number of methods to get your Motorola U9 Phone unlocked;
Motorola U9 Unlocking by Unlock Code using your IMEI number:
Unlock your Motorola U9 by unlock Code is substantially the most simple method to unlock your Motorola U9 handset. You can just simply purchase your Motorola U9 unlock code from a web site which will then e-mail your Motorola U9 unlock code to you you now simply insert the Motorola U9 unlock code into your phone. Straightforward as that and most site will certainly send you the code within a day or so and some are prompt. You can even obtain the Motorola U9 unlock code from your service provider.
Motorola U9 Unlocking via Motorola U9 Unlock Software
In the event that you're technically knowledgeable and are feeling adventurous , an increasingly popular option to unlock your Motorola U9 phone using Motorola U9 Unlock software. To unlock your Motorola U9 phone via Motorola U9 unlocking software , you need a Motorola U9 data Cable to connect your Motorola U9 phone to your PC in-order to enable the software to unlock your Motorola U9 . The cable that is provided with the Motorola U9 phone will work generally but for selected phones , you may need a Motorola U9 unlocking cable
Where can I get my Motorola U9 Phone Unlocked?
Here a number of websites that you can get you Motorola U9 phone unlocked;
Click here to order your unlock code today.
Will unlocking my Motorola U9 void the warranty ?
In cases where the carrier who locked the Motorola U9 phone agrees as well as supplies you with the code to unlock your Motorola U9 then is entirely acceptable and will not have an impact on your warranty. If however you unlock the Motorola U9 by any other method you will completely void the warranty and void any potential the help of the service provider or manufacture.

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Tuesday, May 14, 1996
Learn to grow
Your goals are important because of the person you become in achieving them. Attainment of your goals is always nice, but even better is the growth that you experience along the way.
Look at the goals that you have set for yourself and ask yourself: what kind of person must I become in order to reach these goals? What skills, values, character traits, knowledge and disciplines must I develop in order to accomplish these things?
Life is a never-ending growth process, and without growth there is no life. Your goals and dreams will point you in the direction of the growth that you need for your own life to be filled with accomplishment.
Ralph MarstonPerfection Take Inventory
Copyright ©1996 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. All Rights Reserved. The Daily Motivator is provided for your personal, non-commercial use only. Other than personal sharing, please do not re-distribute without permission.


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Kerry's no Churchill
Just sitting down with a nice cup of English Breakfast tea and getting set for a pleasant day of surfing, blogging, commenting and otherwise having fun -- and what am I faced with -- the gloomy visage of doom in the personage of that skull-faced purveyor of defeat, John F. Kerry.
I'm watching Kerry now -- attempting to upstage Bush's upcoming UN speech -- and I'm once again speechless with horror at the lowness and duplicity of this man.
Nothing but a recitation of doom, gloom, depression and defeatism. Now there's a Commander in Chief you want in wartime. Can we imagine Roosevelt or Churchill talking this way during WWII? Normally I am amused and bemused by these ridiculous goings-on of the dems -- but this makes my blood boil. I mean what is he talking about?? Children wading through garbage to go to school?? The president has made catastrophic decisions. We are doomed!! The sky is falling!! -- The president lied!!
As I continue to try to keep my attention on what he is saying what I'm hearing is curdling my blood. These rabid partisans can only cheer America's failure -- a recitation of gloom and doom -- nothing makes them happier than to know that everything is in shambles and a complete catastrophe for our country. And these are patriots? These people get giddy only on defeat and bitterness.
So Kerry -- what's your plan? Hmmm? Oh -- here he goes -- bring in our allies -- wow -- slapping myself on the forehead -- why didn't GWB think of that??
And now? He's talking about Haliburton!!! OK -- calm down, Aussie -- if my reaction is anything to go by then Americans all over the country are going to be completely disgusted by this shameless display of lies, distortions and accusations.


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You have the platform, the budget and the deadline. You're all set to implement your learning technology. Now you just need one thing – a team to do it all. But what should the team do? Who should it involve? Should every member be committed to it full-time? And what can you do if – as with many implementation – the team consists of just one or two people?
In this LSG webinar, Learning Technologies chairman Donald H Taylor draws on his book Implementing Learning Technologies in the Workplace, the associated course, and other research to explore the crucial role of the team in putting a learning technology implementation to work.
If you have just bought, or are about to buy, a learning technology system of any sort, attend this webinar to learn how to assemble the best team to implement it.
Click here for a recording of the webinar.
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By default, virtual machines don't support Hot Add (add RAM) and Hot Plug (add vCPU). You need to enable this capability on a per-VM basis in order to use it. To do so, you must first shut down the virtual machine since you can't modify these settings while it's running. Then, open the virtual machine's properties, navigate to the Options tab and choose the Memory/CPU Hotplug option in the Advanced section. At the right-hand side of the window, note that there are two section – one for memory and one for CPU. Choose the options you like and then click OK. After this setting is changed, you can restart the VM.
Now, when you look at the VM details, notice that you're provided with the maximum hot-add memory for the VM. In this case, that's 64 GB.
When I look at the system properties for the VM, here's what I see: 4 GB of RAM and 2 processors.
While the VM is running, I'm going to increase this to 6 GB of RAM and 3 processors.
Without a reboot, here is what I now see in the system properties.
And he's a look at the Task Manager showing 3 CPUs and 6 GB of RAM
If you've successfully hot added RAM or CPU to a running virtual machine, respond to this posting (or, leave a response to my forum posting) with your operating system, edition (standard, enterprise, etc), service pack level/kernel version, and architecture (32/64-bit). If enough people respond, I'll compile all of the results into a usable format and republish it.
$VMHost = Get-VMHost 'Server01' | Get-View $VMHost.Hardware.BiosInfo
This will give you results along the lines:
BiosVersion ReleaseDate DynamicType DynamicProperty
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2.5.0 12/09/2008 00:00:00
What is VMware HA?
As per VMware Definition,
VMware® High Availability (HA) provides easy to use, cost effective high availability for applications running in virtual machines. In the event of server failure, affected virtual machines are automatically restarted on other production servers with spare capacity
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What is AAM in HA?
AAM is the Legato automated availability management. Prior to vSphere 4.1, VMware's HA is actually re engineered to work with VM's with the help of Legato's Automated Availability Manager (AAM) software. VMware's vCenter agent (vpxa) interfaces with the VMware HA agent which acts as an intermediary to the AAM software. From vSphere 5.0, it uses an agent called "FDM" (Fault Domain Manager).
What are pre-requites for HA to work?
1.Shared storage for the VMs running in HA cluster
2.Essentials plus, standard, Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus Licensing
3.Create VMHA enabled Cluster
4.Management network redundancy to avoid frequent isolation response in case of temporary network issues (preferred not a requirement)
What is maximum number of primary HA hosts in vSphere 4.1?
Maximum number of primary HA host is 5. VMware HA cluster chooses the first 5 hosts that joins the cluster as primary nodes and all others hosts are automatically selected as secondary nodes.
How to see the list of Primary nodes in HA cluster?
View the log file named "aam_config_util_listnodes.log" under /var/log/vmware/aam using the below command
cat /var/log/vmware/aam/aam_config_util_listnodes.log
What is the command to restart /Start/Stop HA agent in the ESX host?
service vmware–aam restart
service vmware–aam stop
service vmware–aam start
Where to located HA related logs in case of troubleshooting?
What the basic troubleshooting steps in case of HA agent install failed on hosts in HA cluster?
Below steps are are taken from my blog posts Troubleshooting HA
1. Check for some network issues
2. Check the DNS is configured properly
3. Check the vmware HA agent status in ESX host by using below commands
service vmware–aam status
4. Check the networks are properly configured and named exactly as other hosts in the cluster. otherwise, you will get the below errors while installing or reconfiguring HA agent.
5. Check HA related ports are open in firewall to allow for the communication
Incoming port: TCP/UDP 8042-8045
Outgoing port: TCP/UDP 2050-2250
6. First try to restart /stop/start the vmware HA agent on the affected host using the below commands. In addition u can also try to restart vpxa and management agent in the Host.
service vmware–aam restart
service vmware–aam stop
service vmware–aam start
7. Right Click the affected host and click on "Reconfigure for VMWare HA" to re-install the HA agent that particular host.
8. Remove the affected host from the cluster. Removing ESX host from the cluster will not be allowed untill that host is put into maintenance mode.
9.Alternative solution for 3 step is, Goto cluster settings and uncheck the vmware HA in to turnoff the HA in that cluster and re-enable the vmware HA to get the agent installed.
10. For further troubleshooting , review the HA logs under /Var/log/vmware/aam directory.
What is the maximum number of hosts per HA cluster?
Maximum number of hosts in the HA cluster is 32
What is Host Isolation?
VMware HA has a mechanism to detect a host is isolated from rest of hosts in the cluster. When the ESX host loses its ability to exchange heartbeat via management network between the other hosts in the HA cluster, that ESX host will be considered as a Isolated.
How Host Isolation is detected?
In HA cluster, ESX hosts uses heartbeats to communicate among other hosts in the cluster.By default, Heartbeat will be sent every 1 second.
If a ESX host in the cluster didn't received heartbeat for for 13 seconds from any other hosts in the cluster, The host considered it as isolated and host will ping the configured isolation address(default gateway by default). If the ping fails, VMware HA will execute the Host isolation response
What are the different types isolation response available in HA?
Power off – All the VMs are powered off , when the HA detects that the network isolation occurs
Shut down – All VMs running on that host are shut down with the help of VMware Tools, when the HA detects that the network isolation occurs.If the shutdown via VMWare tools not happened within 5 minutes, VM's power off operation will be executed. This behavior can be changed with the help of HA advanced options. Please refer my Post on HA Advanced configuration
Leave powered on – The VM's state remain powered on or remain unchanged, when the HA detects that the network isolation occurs.
How to add additional isolation address for redundancy?
By default, VMWare HA use to ping default gateway as the isolation address if it stops receiving heartbeat.We can add an additional values in case if we are using redundant service console both belongs to different subnet.Let's say we can add the default gateway of SC1 as first value and gateway of SC2 as the additional one using the below value
1. Right Click your HA cluster
2. Goto to advanced options of HA
3. Add the line "das.isolationaddress1 = 192.168.0.1″
4. Add the line "das.isolationaddress2 = 192.168.1.1″ as the additional isolation address
To know more about the Advanced HA Options
What is HA Admission control?
As per "VMware Availability Guide",
VCenter Server uses admission control to ensure that sufficient resources are available in a cluster to provide failover protection and to ensure that virtual machine resource reservations are respected.
What are the 2 types of settings available for admission control?
Enable: Do not power on VMs that violate availability constraints
Disable: Power on VMs that violate availability constraints
What are the different types of Admission control policy available with VMware HA?
There are 3 different types of Admission control policy available.
Host failures cluster tolerates
Percentage of cluster resources reserved as fail over spare capacity
Specify a fail over host
How the Host Failures cluster tolerates admission control policy works?
Select the maximum number of host failures that you can afford for or to guarantee fail over. Prior vSphere 4.1, Minimum is 1 and the maximum is 4.
In the Host Failures cluster tolerates admission control policy , we can define the specific number of hosts that can fail in the cluster and also it ensures that the sufficient resources remain to fail over all the virtual machines from that failed hosts to the other hosts in cluster. VMware High Availability(HA) uses a mechanism called slots to calculate both the available and required resources in the cluster for a failing over virtual machines from a failed host to other hosts in the cluster.
What is SLOT?
As per VMWare's Definition,
"A slot is a logical representation of the memory and CPU resources that satisfy the requirements for any powered-on virtual machine in the cluster."
If you have configured reservations at VM level, It influence the HA slot calculation. Highest memory reservation and highest CPU reservation of the VM in your cluster determines the slot size for the cluster.
How the HA Slots are Calculated?
I have written a post about how the HA slots are calculated.
How to Check the HA Slot information from vSphere Client?
Click on Cluster Summary Tab and Click on "Advanced Runtime Info" to see the the detailed HA slots information.
What is use of Host Monitoring status in HA cluster?
Let's take an example, you are performing network maintenance activity on your switches which connects your one of th ESX host in HA cluster.
what will happen if the switch connected to the ESX host in HA cluster is down?
It will not receive heartbeat and also ping to the isolation address also failed. so, host will think itself as isolated and HA will initiate the reboot of virtual machines on the host to other hosts in the cluster. Why do you need this unwanted situation while performing scheduled maintenance window.
To avoid the above situation when performing scheduled activity which may cause ESX host to isolate, remove the check box in " Enable Host Monitoring" until you are done with the network maintenance activity.
How to Manually define the HA Slot size?
By default, HA slot size is determined by the Virtual machine Highest CPU and memory reservation. If no reservation is specified at the VM level, default slot size of 256 MHZ for CPU and 0 MB + memory overhead for RAM will be taken as slot size. We can control the HA slot size manually by using the following values.
There are 4 options we can configure at HA advanced options related to slot size
das.slotMemInMB – Maximum Bound value for HA memory slot size
das.slotCpuInMHz – Maximum Bound value for HA CPU slot Size
das.vmMemoryMinMB – Minimum Bound value for HA memory slot size
das.vmCpuMinMHz – Minimum Bound value for HA CPU slot size
For More HA related Advanced options, Please refer my blog post
How the "Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity" admission control policy works?
In the Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity admission control policy, We can define the specific percentage of total cluster resources are reserved for failover.In contrast to the "Host Failures cluster tolerates admission control policy", It will not use slots. Instead This policy calculates the in the way below
1.It calculates the Total resource requirement for all Powered-on Virtual Machines in the cluster and also calculates the total resource available in host for virtual machines.
2.It calculates the current CPU and Memory Failover capacity for the capacity.
3.If the current CPU and Memory Failover capacity for the cluster < configured failover capacity (ex 25 %)
4.Admission control will not allow to power on the virtual machine which violates the availability constraints.
How the "Specify a failover host" admission control policy works?
In the Specify a failover host" admission control policy, We can define a specific host as a dedicated failover host. When isolation response is detected, HA attempts to restart the virtual machines on the specified failover host.In this Approach, dedicated failover hist will be sitting idle without actively involving or not participating in DRS load balancing.DRS will not migrate or power on placement of virtual machines on the defined failover host.
What is VM Monitoring status?
HA will usually monitors ESX hosts and reboot the virtual machine in the failed hosts in the other host in the cluster in case of host isolation but i need the HA to monitors for Virtual machine failures also. here the feature called VM monitoring status as part of HA settings.VM monitoring restarts the virtual machine if the vmware tools heartbeat didn't received with the specified time using Monitoring sensitivity.
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Thanks For Reading!!! All the Best…
vSphere HA is an high availability solution from VMware which enables reduction of down time on virtual machines. vSphere High Availability provides availability at virtual machine level, Guest operating system and applications.
High availability is achieved in different ways for various components of virtual infrastructure:
1.Networking : NIC Teaming, Multiple Kernel port groups
2.Storage: Multipathing
3.Viratual Machines : Vmotion, High Availability, FT
vSphere HA leverages multiple Esxi Hosts configured as a cluster to provide rapid recovery from outages and cost effective high Availability for applications running in virtual machines.
vSphere High Availability protects application availability in the following ways:
Advantages of using vmware High Availability over traditional failover solutions:
1. Requirements for enable High Availability:
Types of heart beating used to with High Availability
2. Working of High Availability
Once we enable vmware High Availability on the cluster, the hosts which are part of the cluster and virtual machines on them are protected by High Availability.once hosts added one of the hosts is elected as master hosts and rest as slaves, master hosts, monitors other slave hosts and virtual machines and in case of any network issue, virtual machines guest operating system issues, the virtual machines are either moved to another hosts or restated respectively.
Host with highest number of data stores is elected as master, Master host has the below roles and responsibilities.
If a master host is unable to communicate directly with the agent on a slave host, the slave host does not respond to ICMP pings, and the agent is not issuing Heartbeats it is considered to have failed. The host's virtual machines are restarted on alternate hosts.If such a slave host is exchanging heartbeats with a datastore, the master host assumes that it is in a network partition or network isolated and so continues to monitor the host and its virtual machines.
Once HA is enabled, in the selected datastores, an auto generated file is created with list of protected virtual machines (powered on Virtual machines in High Availability enabled cluster), so that master hosts knows which virtual machines needs to be restated /migrated when High Availability triggers.
3. Types of host Failures:
There are 3 types of host failures They are:
The master host monitors the liveness of the slave hosts in the cluster. This communication is done through the exchange of network heartbeats every second. when the master host stops receiving these heartbeats from a slave host, it checks for host liveness before declaring the host to have failed. The liveness check that the master host performs is to determine whether the slave host is exchanging heartbeats with one of the datastores. Also, the master host checks weather the host responds to ICMP pings sent to its management IP addresses.
If master host is unable to communicate directly with the agent on a slave host, the slave host does not respond to ICMP pings, and the agent is not issuing heartbeats it is considered to have failed. The host's virtual machines are restarted on alternate hosts. If such a slave host is exchanging heartbeats with a datastore, the master assumes that it is in a network partition or network isolated and so continues to monitor the host and its virtual machines.
Host Network isolation occurs when a host is still running, but it can no longer observe traffic from vSphere High Availability agents on the management network. If a host stops observing this traffic, it attempts to ping the cluster isolation addresses. If this also fails, the host declares itself as isolated from the network.
The master host monitors the virtual machines that are running on an isolated host and if it observes that they power off, and the master host is responsible for the virtual machines, it restart them.


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As I awoke this morning the smell of burning embers crept into my nostrils as I took my first early morning breath of the day. I gazed up into the morning sky and the smoky haze was everywhere, darkening the skys and blocking out the usually blue sky and bright white puffy clouds of the dawn.
Fires are breaking out everywhere all over the Province and the smoke from these fires is starting to darken the Vancouver skies. The smell of smoke is everywhere and it comes and goes as the shift of the daily winds ebb and flow.
What is happening to our world? There have never been fires so intense. There has never been such weird days of extreme heat then the next of a sudden drop of temperature and then a crazy rain. Is the planet out of control. Have we crossed the threshold into unknown territory? It just maybe so.
The planet is reeling and reacting to the forces that are trying to destroy it. Who are these forces? They are not aliens brothers and sisters. It is you. Human Beings. The Polar Caps are melting. Did you know that just the other day a huge chunk of ice fell into the ocean, well broke off anyways. It was already in the ocean. It won't cause a sea rise but it is going to reap havoc on ships traveling the ocean in that area. After all no one wants to run into an ice berg. Remember the titanic.
The world is changing and it is changing fast. Just the other day I read an article that said we might be on the verge of changing the aging gene in our body's to live longer than we ever dreamed possible and this could be happening in our lifetime. Amazing.
So what does this mean for the planet we live on. It means more strain on the resources and animals who live here. As if they are not already under threat.
Human beings need to change the way they do business and economics and they have to do it fast. They have to give up the fossil fuel ways of yesterday and move on to the unlimited resources of the universe and they have to do it now. There is no more time.


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Today's post is on Orly Faint of Heart which is from the new Orly Cool Romance Collection. K's previously shown you Steel your Heart and Robo Romance.
The colour was perfect for me. It's a gorgeous dirty beige/grey that is my favourite type of colour to see me through the summer - I'm just obsessed with these types of colour. I was really impressed with the polish, which applies easily and produces a lovely end result, with two coats. I'm also really impressed with the handle on the brush. It's rubber which means that it's much less likely to slip out of your hands whilst applying.
I'm actually in love with the whole collection and now need to get You're Blushing and Artificial Sweetener
These are priced at £9.25 for 18ml at http://www.lookfantastic.com/ and £13 at www.boots.com for the 5.3ml Mani Mini Trio. They're also £5 for the mini's in Boots.


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he's in the Wu, so can't go too wrong. His solo material isn't the strongest, but I think his new stuff is better than some of his old stuff. I'd definitely go rather than later on think 'I wish I'd seen Ghostface before he retired/died/turned-to-jesus'.
Do it!
go for it
a good MC well get things going live it's kinda what they do so I'm sure a legend like that will be well up to the job.
Do you like his records? read gig reviews, check live footage on youtube....blah blah blah
i really like the albums, aye.
Plus DJ Vadim's supporting, but i seem to recall reading somewhere he wasn't too hot live. Just getting some DiS input
Like all Hip-Hop live shows it totally depends
on the sound, who he brings as hype men, how much actual rapping he can be bothered do, setlist... Basically if he's up for it has potential to be amazing.


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Teacher of Business Studies and Economics (This role may be suitable for a part time position), Stanmore, Middlesex
Closing date:
Start date: September 2018
Contract type: Part Time / Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
Suitable for NQTs: Yes
SALARY MPS 1 / UPS 3 plus outer London allowance
START DATE September 2018
LOCATION: Stanmore
CONTRACT TYPE FTE 1.0000 (This role may be suitable for a part time position)
CONTRACT TERM Permanent
CLOSING DATE 12 pm, 20th June 2018
For September 2018, we are looking to appoint a Business Studies Teacher to join the business studies department within the a highly successful Numeracy faculty.
The successful candidate will not only be passionate about their subject, and have exceptional subject knowledge, but also have a passion and drive to deliver and engage students in their studying of Business Studies from Key stage 3 to A level. The outstanding behaviour of our students truly gives you the opportunity to teach your subject and deliver exciting and engaging lessons.
The school has now moved to its new £25-million-pound building located in Stanmore, Wemborough Road HA7 2EQ. you will be able to teach in facilities that are up to date and at the cutting edge of technology. You will have your own classroom space dedicated to your subject enabling you to develop the very best teaching and learning practices. There are a full range of other facilities including; state of the art sports grounds and hall, performing arts suite and fantastic teaching rooms.
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Friday April 28, 2017
The key to working with children is to challenge them with high demands and complex ideas, says One of Canada's most respected orchestral conductor, who will bring that strategy to Moncton this weekend.
"If you challenge young people, and really push them, they respond better than if you dumb it down,"said Alexander Shelley, conductor for the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa."You can talk about really complex things and they really get it. There is no need to patronize kids."
Shelley and his orchestra will arrive in Moncton on Friday, ready to work with 240 young musicians from the Sistema program. The professional musicians will work in small groups with Sistema performers and on Saturday at 7 p.m., all the musicians will come together for a free show at the Wesleyan Celebration Centre.
Sistema is a province-wide music program, wherein underprivileged kids learn to play instruments and work in an orchestral setting under the instruction of professional teaching artists.
"Our whole purpose is to engage kids who would otherwise be left out," said Ken MacLeod, CEO of the program. "Talent is universally distributed, but opportunity isn't.
"Kids who would never have enough money to play an instrument are performing at a really high level, because they have access to great teachers and tools."
There are eight Sistema groups across the province, working with 850 kids for three hours after school, five days a week. This weekend, 240 young musicians will be split into three groups, featuring musicians from Tobique First Nation, Richibucto, Saint John and Moncton.
"This is a really fine example of exposing our kids to top talent, and in doing so inspiring them to achieve at a higher level," MacLeod said.
Shelley, who was in Moncton last year to work with the young musicians, said Sistema is a "wonderful thing for young people."
"I'm delighted we can do something to support it when we are in town," he said, noting that he is looking forward to challenging the musicians by getting them to bring more emotion and feeling into the way they perform.
On stage, the Sistema musicians will perform alongside the National Arts Centre musicians, and the show will conclude with the NACO musicians going solo. Together, they will perform orchestral classics like"Russian Dance" by Tchaikovsky, and "Ode to Joy" and "Symphony No. 1."by Beethoven.
Sistema students are gearing up for a free show this Saturday at the Wesleyan Celebration Centre.
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"It's lively music people will recognize," MacLeod said. "It's really going to be a special performance."
Paris Fisher, a 13-year-old double bass player with the Sistema program, said she is "honoured" to get to play with professional musicians from the nation's capital. The sentiment was shared by 10-year-old flutist Jada Nguyen, who said she is excited to "learn new techniques, new skills, and just really improve my sound."
Nguyen said the music the orchestras will be playing poses a challenge, but not an insurmountable one.
"It's like a test you studied hard for," she said. "It's the sort of challenging where you know what you are doing most of the time. There are always little mistakes."
Nicola Bertin, an 11-year-old viola player, said he is excited to see a "full house at the Wesleyan."
"It's not my first show, but it will be really neat to see everyone there."
While the kids are excited to perform, they said the program is about more than just music.
"Before my first concert, I hated going in front of people," Nguyen said. "Now I like it."
Fisher said that when she joined the program more than five years ago, she was very shy.
"Sistema taught me a lot of social skills," she said."You also make a lot of friends."
"It's lively music people will recognize." (KEN MACLEOD)


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Cincinnati�According to research by Gabrielle de Courten-Myers, MD,
study author and associate professor of neuropathology at the
University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine, distinct
gender-specific differences have been found during microscopic
examination of the human brain. "Men's and women's brains are
distinctly different," says de Courten-Myers. "While men have more
neurons in the cerebral cortex, the brain's outer layer, women have
more neuropil, which contains the structures needed for cell-to-cell
The UC study showing these gender-specific
differences was presented during the American Academy of Neurology's
51st Annual Meeting April 17-24 in Toronto. "The cerebral cortex is
responsible for voluntary movements, perception of sensory input, and
highly complex functions such as memory, learning, reasoning, and
language," says de Courten-Myers. "Males possess more numerous, tightly
packed nerve cells (neurons) than females. Neurons send and receive
electrical signals that influence many functions of the body and create
thoughts and feelings. Females tend to have more neuropil, the
fibrillar tissue between nerve cell bodies which contains the synapses,
dendrites, and axons that enable neurons to communicate with many other
nerve cells."
This research may explain previous findings that
women are more prone to dementia than men. Although a man and woman may
lose the same number of neurons due to a disease, the woman's
functional loss may be greater because the cells lost are more densely
connected with other neurons. "Conversely, in males, the reserve of
neurons may be greater, which could prevent some of the functional
losses," says de Courten-Myers. Although these gender-specific
variations cause tangible differences in how the brain functions, one
type is not better or worse than the other. "It seems reasonable to
assume that specific functions may benefit from the presence of more
cells while others may be enhanced by a larger number of connections
between them. A better understanding of these issues may potentially
affect a wide spectrum of human activities such as health care,
psychology, and teaching."
The researchers measured the cortex
thickness and counted nerve cells from various sites within the healthy
brains of 17 deceased subjects (ten males and seven females). The
recognition of gender-specific ways of thinking and feeling is rendered
more credible given these established differences and could prove
beneficial in enhancing interpersonal relationships. "However, the
interpretation of the data also has the potential for abuse and harm if
either gender would seek to construct evidence for superiority of the
male or female brain from these findings," she adds.


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I'm going to be doing some traveling in the next few weeks, starting with visiting some friends in Fernandina Beach, which is apparently a small town near Jacksonville. I don't know how small it is, but if anyone is familiar with any good places to eat, I'd appreciate the heads-up. Nothing expensive, but just nice, local, affordable, good restaurants would be fine.
After that, I'm visiting the University of South Florida in Tampa, where I'll be starting a Masters program in January. I am doing the majority of the classes online, via distance learning, so I'm not moving to the area -- I'd just like to know if there is anything good near the USF campus for my rare trips out there. I don't know Tampa very well at all, but I doubt I'll go as far as Ybor City for a meal (unless it's extremely close to USF). Again, I'm looking for any local joints, college-type places, low prices, big portions, good quality, any style.
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Southeast Asian payment services company 2C2P has joined with Diners Club International in a deal which will see 2C2P become a global acquirer for all cards running on the Discover Global Network.
2C2P merchants can tap Diners Club International, Discover, and other network cards as an additional payment method.
2C2P will now provide merchants with single-source payment services for acceptance of Discover Global Network, which includes Discover in the United States, Diners Club International and its affiliate cards BC Global (South Korea), Elo Card (Brazil) and RuPay (India).
"With the rise in global online retail and tourism, this agreement opens up key international travel and entertainment markets such as Asia, Europe, and the U.S. to our Southeast Asian merchants," 2C2P founder and group CEO Aung Kyaw Moe said. "Cardholders from Discover Global Network can now enjoy payments access to the region's travel, transport, tourism, retail and e-commerce brands."
Discover Global Network vice president Ricardo Leite said the move is a natural one for his company.
"Discover Global Network continues to increase our merchant acceptance footprint in Southeast Asia through working with companies such as 2C2P because this region has an increasing number of Discover Global Network cardholders as a result of our Diners Club and RuPay networks."


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Proud of the past but not stuck in it, Rutland is the rural county looking to the future. We're succeeding because we know how to turn being small to our advantage. We keep things simple and democratic with the right leaders to take Rutland social care from strength to strength.
The changes are already underway. Last year we embarked on the People First review to help us plan for major issues such as council funding cuts, the integration of health and social services and the new Care Act. With the results we've already signed off on wide-reaching plans that will change how council services are delivered.
This is Rutland, home to a proud heritage and a promising future. Read the full People First report here.
Current roles we are recruiting for
In 2014-2016, staff received a pay increase of at least 2.2% - above national inflation. Working for Rutland your pay is aligned to the National Joint Council (NJC) pay scales, which means that annual increments are paid on April 1stuntil you reach the top of your job grade.
You will have generous annual leave beyond the statutory minimum. Our leave entitlements start at 24 days in addition to bank holidays and you can expect a further five days once you have completed five years' service. Rutland has a range of excellent flexible working arrangements – achieving a work life balance is very important to us.
Maternity and paternity leave are competitive and we offer time out for compassionate leave, religious beliefs, public duties, work in the community, and career breaks. Essentially, we try to ensure your responsibilities, commitments and dreams outside of work are supported. We even offer pool cars when you need to travel for council business.
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_________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents * Access Points * Walkthrough * Problems _________________________________________________________________ Access Points * Bridge (dead end) * Probe Room * Capt. Quarters (sealed) * Lounge (sealed) * Airlock (initially sealed) _________________________________________________________________ Walkthrough PROBE #1 Enter Capt. Quarters. Link to the Data Storage Unit (Captain Jack Reynolds Personal Log) to get the captain's access code "Harry and Betty arrived home and dwelled happily ever after" (HABAHADHEA). Return to the Shuttle via Reverse View and then enter the Bridge. Link to the helm control station and enter the captain's access code to remove the command lock. Identify the coordinates of the alien vessel (red circle): 160,112,12. Link to the weapons control station and enter coordinates 16011212E and Fire to destroy the alien ship. Note: Firing weapons on the Shuttle coordinates 150,110,10 causes Director Player 4.0 error: script error: Cast member not found "dead.1" from which the Continue button causes the game to hang. Return to the Shuttle via Reverse View and then enter the Probe Room by using Torch mode on the spacecraft hull. Head for the crane control pod in the shuttle bay. Link to the crane control unit and activate the anti-grav cargo crane to reposition the shuttle and unblock its entry. Go to the Lobby and get the message from the alien. Reverse view and enter the Shuttle. Link to the portable data unit (Prof. Norma Miller personal recorder). From message #2, download the Phase Viewer. The game is more interesting with the computer sidekick, so give priority to the search for that... Exit the Shuttle and head for the security foyer off the main hall (via the restaurant foyer or one of the other exits from the main hall). Bear left to the library and link to the database computer terminal. Complete the dialog with the AI and download its program. You can now get comments from the AI whenever the question mark icon lights up. Return to the main hall and head left into the swimming pool. Go up into the utility ducts. Reverse view and proceed through the utility ducts to the (Baron's) quarters on Level 1. Move forward to the hallway, then reverse view back into the Baron's quarters. Link to the data storage unit on the brown fireplace shelf (personal log of Roland Carson, Baron of Sombury). Note the reference to nine-ball pool in message #5. Reverse view and go right towards the cargo deck. Enter the cargo deck after solving the riddle: Seperated (sic) by an icy wall, We cannot touch, Though you reach your left hand, For my right, How I would love to talk with you, But though you open your mouth, I hear only my words... What are you? Answer: MIRROR Go to the ladder and down to the airlock. Reverse view and scan the maintenance bulletin. Note the elevator access code: HEADACHE. Go back up the ladder and exit the cargo deck. Proceed down the hallway to the elevator. Link to the elevator control unit and enter the access code for Level 3. Go left, then left again into Prof. Norma Miller's quarters. Link to the data storage unit (Prof. Norma Miller personal log). From message #7, download the alien translation algorithm. Return to the elevator and take it down to Level 2. Head for the nightclub off the main hall. For entry, solve the riddle: I am two-thirds of one hundred, and three fourths of one thousand. I mean nothing to a miser and grief to a student. What am I? Answer: ZERO Enter the pool hall to the right of the nightclub. Scan the right rear pool table. Click on the individual balls and note that the only ones not needed for nine-ball are 15 and 12. Link to the general purpose computer unit on the back wall. Enter the code 1512, followed by E for Enter. Read the Baron's message and note the telescope reference. Return to the Baron's quarters on Level 1 via the elevator or utility ducts. Link to the digital imaging telescope. Note that telescope position preset #1 is the chessboard. Scan the chess table and note that the white rook has been (illegally) moved to the third file (row). A similarly shaped and colored object in the Baron's quarters is his fireplace -- zoom in on it. Scan the third brick from the right in the third row from the bottom to reveal the hidden portable data device. Link to it to disclose the riddle: The hand of the dead man has five fingers, only one points to the artifact. As your AI companion points out, the answer to this riddle is an aces-and-eights poker hand. Head for the poker room off the nightclub on Level 2. Scan the poker table and click on the poker hands until the aces-and-eights hand is found. Note that the fifth card in this hand is the King of Clubs. Head left across the main hall to the bank. Note the King picture on the wall. Link to the data storage unit on the table and click on Panel Access. Link to the code key panel on the wall. Enter CLUBS, followed by E for Enter. Watch the alien steal the artifact. Head for the kitchen across the main hall. Use torch mode on the two cups on the center counter. Probe #1 is damaged. Switch to PROBE #2 Enter the ship via the probe room or the airlock (torch required). Enter the utility ducts and head for the kitchen. Enter the kitchen (two mouse clicks required) and torch the alien. Link to the artifact on its back to bring it into your possession. Return to the utility ducts. Probe #2 is damaged. Switch to PROBE #3 Enter the ship via the probe room. Head for the Level 2 lobby. Enter the lifeboat station after solving the riddle: This Postman does not dress in blue, Though is the stuff he travels through, From an old salt's hand on a desert isle, His one last hope, his one last smile... Answer: BOTTLE Continue on to the Engineering foyer. Link to the computer core door and enter the captain's access code. Link to the portable computer device to bring it into your possession. This computer device must be returned to the Shuttle in order to successfully complete the game. Note that this probe cannot carry anything else, such as the artifact, so return to the Shuttle via the probe room and switch to PROBE #4 Enter the ship via the airlock or the probe room. Enter the utility ducts and head for Engineering. Link to the artifact on Probe #2. Click on the artifact icon and your AI companion will tell you the artifact needs to be recharged with "pingorium" energy. Go to Level 3 via the elevator (HEADACHE). Enter the smoking lounge across the hall from the elevator. Use torch mode on the ashtray. Using the translator, you can determine that you've tempted the alien out of the smoking lounge. Reverse view to the hallway, turn left to the ballroom, reverse view again, and link to the Level 3 emergency control. Turn the emergency force-field on to trap the (invisible) alien from the smoking lounge. Reverse view and move up to the chandelier. Use the torch on the chandelier to destroy the (invisible) alien in the ballroom. Continue straight ahead into the hallway. Click on the artifact icon to enter the aliens' dimension. Be careful when clicking to remove the AI text as you don't want to move forward into the alien boarding craft. Reverse view and pass through the ballroom (alien killed by chandelier) and hallway (alien trapped by force-field) into the smoking lounge. For the endgame sequence, torch the alien explosive device. Final score: 2350/2950. No idea where the other 600 points are since all tasks seemed to have been accomplished. _________________________________________________________________ Problems * Game is very limited in scope and interface quality in comparison to comparably-priced competition. * Many AI comments are logically out of sequence. * Movement interface needs work. Too often it's necessary to move forward and then reverse the view in order to access something. Examples of this are moving from the Promenade to the Security Foyer, from the Nightclub to the Promenade, or from the Level 1 Elevator to the Baron's Quarters. * No warning about overwriting previously-saved games. * Have to respecify drive letter and directory for saved games every time the program is restarted. The default save-game drive is the CD-ROM, which is often difficult to write to ;) * Annoying noises when POV is in Bridge or during access point decision. Are those supposed to be radio voices? * Very small playing screen. * Less-than-inspiring riddles. * Music cuts out suddenly in places, most noticeably after the endgame sequence.
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Pedestrian Level Winds: A Brief Reviewby Frank H. Durgin, (M.ASCE), Assoc. Dir.; Wright Brothers Memorial Wind Tunnel, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, Mass. 02139,
Alfred W. Chock, Engr.; Cygna Energy Services, Boston, Mass.,
Serial Information: Journal of the Structural Division, 1982, Vol. 108, Issue 8, Pg. 1751-1761
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The use of analytical and wind tunnel techniques and their limitation for making estimates of pedestrian level winds on or around a building site is reviewed. Some examples of solutions to wind problems both with and without wind tunnel studies are given.
Subject Headings: Pedestrians | Wind engineering | Wind tunnel | Tunnels | Site investigation
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Monday, May 7, 2007
Against Binary Thinking: How to Write X Number of Pages on Any Topic
As you progress in your college career, and sometimes even as you progress through just one term of that college career, it's likely that you'll be asked to write longer papers. Many students, when first confronted with the challenge of writing a paper longer than what they've written before, think: "But that is not possible to do. It is already difficult for me to write a paper that last X number of pages. Now that I am being asked to write a paper that is X+more, certainly it cannot be done."
Now, obviously that's not true. If there's one thing you learn in college, it's that a lot of people write, like, whole books on, like, just one thing! All sorts of people do this! The bookstore is full of these whole books that are just about specific stuff!
How. Do. They. Doooo. It?
One strategy for strengthening the content of your writing, as well as for giving yourself options for writing longer papers of more depth, is to ask yourself at what point you are defaulting to binary thinking. Then, when you find that point: don't let yourself think that simply.
Binary thinking is essentially thinking that sees no shades of gray on a certain topic--it is the belief that something is either black or white. The world we live in is rarely this simple, but we often like to think about the world as if it is that simple, because that makes our thinking easier.
Example: If I decide to use binary thinking about fruit, then I don't have much to say about fruit. If you ask me if apples are good, I say, "Yep. Good." I could maybe describe why I think apples are good, but it seems unnecessary. Types of fruit, my binary thinking decides, are either "good" or "bad." Apples = good. Oranges = bad. Bananas = good. Kiwi = bad. And so forth.
That might seem like a silly example, but experts on fruit or on nutrition could certainly evaluate the qualities of fruit for many pages, in any number of ways, because they do not engage in binary thinking about fruit. To them, apples have certain qualities of taste, they have certain kinds of nutritional content, they are grown in certain ways and in certain places, etc. All of these factors are open to description, interpretation, and evaluation. Even writing about apples alone, if one isn't just going to try and immediately label them as "good" or "bad," could go on for many, many pages.
In college, you are often asked to write in response to the ideas of some kind of authority--your professor, perhaps, or whoever wrote your textbook, or whichever major historical figure you're studying. If you're asked to write about Ghandi, for instance, and you are engaging in binary thinking, then it's hard to write, because all you think is, "Well, Ghandi was good. Everyone knows that. What am I supposed to write? Just how what he did was good?"
Every person, theory, or event has complexities that can be explored, though, if you are willing to engage in complex thinking. If you don't just want to write about how Ghandi was good, that doesn't mean your only other option is to kind of crazily and desperately try to write about how he was "bad." It means you might describe his beliefs and his actions, and interpret how he came to those beliefs and why he might have taken those actions, and then evaluate the effectiveness of various beliefs and actions, and how they changed over the years, and why they changed over the years...and now the pages are stacking up. You can write a much longer paper on Ghandi that way than you can if you interpret your topic as "Ghandi: Good or Bad?"
Good or bad, all or none, cool or crap...binary thinking. Avoid it, and your writing will be stronger, more interesting, and more engaging. And you'll be able to write X number of pages on any topic, regardless of what X is.
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- Vanth said...
Gandhi, not Ghandi. :P
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The makers of last year's hallucinogenic forest-exploring PSN game Datura have made a PC benchmarking tool that tells you how good your PC is - featuring gigantic cats with laser eyes destroying a city to dubstep.
Eurogamer quotes Datura director Michal "Bonzaj" Staniszewski saying the the Catzilla benchmarking tool is an "exercise before future challenges" - though it seems he's learned something about game design from how popular this video has been. "It just brings so much fun to people. I will remember that when designing our next game."
You can download the beta version of the Catzilla benchmarking tool from the official website. It will analyse your computer for HD movie-watching and gaming performance, and even suggest which parts of your hardware might benefit from an upgrade, and how to optimise performance.
Thanks, Eurogamer.
Keza MacDonald is in charge of IGN's games coverage in the UK and is heartbroken that her landlord won't let her have a cat - not even a normal one, let alone a giant one with laser eyes. You can follow her on IGN and Twitter.


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Malong pleads with international agency to prevail on Kiir to allow him to leave.
The under siege former South Sudan Chief of General Staff, Gen Paul Malong, is seeking political asylum.
In a letter to various international agencies dated November 8, 2017, Gen Malong pleaded that the Juba administration be prevailed upon to allow him safe exit to Uganda.
He said he should be allowed to leave Juba with his bodyguards, to seek shelter in any UN camp in neighbouring Uganda.
"I should be allowed together with my guards to seek shelter and asylum at any UN camp in order to preserve my life and those around me," the letter reads.
Gen Malong also urged the South Sudan government to unconditionally release all his loyalists who escorted him to Yirol and were currently being detained by the National Security Service (NSS) in Juba.
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The former powerful military commander claimed that President Salva Kiir's order dated November 3 had a sole effect of endangering both his life and the lives of his bodyguards, adding that it could also heighten tensions countrywide.
The letter ordered troops deployment at strategic locations in Juba, including around Gen Malong's residence.
"Mindful of the urgent need to preserve peace and security in the Republic of South Sudan and appreciative of the ongoing efforts to find peaceful and amicable solution to the crisis, my conditions must be met," Gen Malong warned.
However, the South Sudan Army spokesman, Brigadier General Lul Rual Koang, urged the residents of Juba to remain calm, saying the massive troops deployment last week was for security reasons.
General Malong was sacked last May and placed under house arrest after he was intercepted in Yirol town as he attempted to escape from Juba.


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Then in 1970 he formally abolished the Guards and the papal court.Paul VI - The First Modern Pope (1993)
Nearly eight out of ten want the practice to be abolished.Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I suggest the opposite: abolish the honours system altogether.Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Its first act was to abolish the death penalty.Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The death penalty was abolished in Hungary shortly after.Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners.Times, Sunday Times (2016)
When the death penalty was abolished we were promised that'life' would mean life imprisonment.Times, Sunday Times (2011)
And that begins with abolishing the loan system.Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Inside View understands the game's world governing body will abolish the licence system for agents within weeks.The Sun (2009)
Britain abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 and phased it out for rarer crimes including piracy and high treason over the next 33 years.Times, Sunday Times (2015)
That is why we announced plans to abolish practice boundaries two years ago.Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The death penalty has been abolished in Hong Kong.Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The effect of the judgment is not to abolish the present system.Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The first and most important task of the new administrative system is to abolish the dictatorship of the producer and to overcome the deficits of our economy.Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy (1990)
The honours system should be abolished in its present form and a revising chamber should be manned only by the elected.Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The move came as a sign that Tokyo will not bow to international pressure to abolish the death penalty.Times, Sunday Times (2013)
These animals should think themselves lucky we abolished the death penalty.The Sun (2013)
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Jennings family supports Schar Center with generous gift
The new convocation center will provide a preeminent facility for Phoenix athletics and university events.
One of Elon's most generous families has made a major gift to the Schar Center to help provide a new gathering space for the university community. To date, alumni, parents and friends have contributed $20 million toward the $24 million goal for the convocation center.
Elon is grateful to members of the Jennings family, including Trustee Emeritus Maurice Jennings Sr. '57, Trustee Maurice "Burney" Jennings Jr. '87 and his wife, Dina Blake Jennings '87, and Fran Jennings Teter and her husband, Chris Teter, for their loyal support of the university. The Teters are parents of Tricia '13 and Gordon, an Elon junior.
"The Jennings family has been a vital part of the Elon community for more than 50 years," said President Leo M. Lambert. "Their support of premier facilities like the Schar Center will add vibrancy to the student experience and help propel Elon to new levels of national distinction."
Burney Jennings, chief executive officer of the North Carolina-based Biscuitville restaurant chain, said his family was honored to support the Schar Center. Dina is a member of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business Board of Advisors. The couple's daughter, Bailey, is an Elon student.
"This is a facility that Elon has needed for many years, and we wanted to come together as a family and support it," Jennings said. "I think Elon is a positive force for the students, the community and all stakeholders. I feel really good about the progress we've made and that our future is very, very bright."
"I know how important it is to have a place like the Schar Center where the entire Elon community can gather indoors," Fran Teter said. "It is going to benefit the entire student body and the surrounding community and give Elon even more exposure."
The 160,000-square-foot Schar Center will meet a longstanding need for a large gathering space to host convocations, national and international performers, and athletic events. The more than 5,000-seat arena will serve as the new home for Elon's basketball and volleyball programs. The Schar Center will be located on approximately 20 acres adjacent to Elon's athletics facilities. In recognition of their gift, one of the two video boards in the Schar Center will be named in honor of the Jennings family, whose Elon roots run deep.
Clyde W. Gordon Sr., grandfather of Burney Jennings and Fran Teter, graduated from Elon in 1926 and served as a trustee at the institution. Maurice Jennings Sr. also served as an Elon trustee and helped lead important campus initiatives, including fundraising campaigns for the Center for the Arts and the Elon University School of Law. He founded Biscuitville Inc. in 1975 and led the company for more than 20 years before turning over leadership to his son, Burney Jennings. Maurice and his late wife, Linda, along with Burney and Dina Jennings were founding donors to the School of Law and early advocates for its location in Greensboro. Together they made a gift to endow the Jennings Professor of Law to support the school's mission of enhancing civic engagement and leadership in the legal profession. Fran and Chris Teter have endowed the Teter Family Scholarship to assist students with financial need.


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"This is our first time playing in the CAF Champions League and we've resolved to make the most this opportunity. We are preparing ahead of the first round encounter with Al-Merrikh of Sudan. We've seen and heard so much about them,".
"They are definitely a good side. They made the last four in the same competition last season and we heard that they are currently in Egypt to prepare for this match against us on Sunday.
"Physically and psychologically we are prepared though we know we've got to play at our best in each match because we have to beat the best to merge the best on the continent.".
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Livermore has a love affair with Zinfandel. When the first Livermore vineyards were planted in the 1880s, Zinfandel found a home in almost all of them. This widespread planting of the cultivar occurred despite admonitions from the leading wine experts not to. The top wine experts of the day believed Zinfandel produced an inferior wine, and that Livermore Valley should stick to the planting of the Bordeaux cultivars.
Local winemaker Adrien Chauché was one of many in Livermore who didn't listen to the experts. He took the risk in 1884 and planted Zinfandel at his newly established Mont-Rouge Winery. Chauché, an immigrant Frenchman, felt an attraction to Zinfandel. To Chaucé and others in Livermore Valley, Zinfandel represented the spirit of early California.
Chauché's belief in this underdog varietal paid off. Five years after planting, Mont-Rouge Zinfandel earned a coveted gold medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition, the European judges perceiving something special in the rustic elegance of Livermore Zinfandel, an American wine for a new age. This victory was a step towards Chauché's goal to make wines that 'would in the course of time sell on their name as well as merit.'
Only a few years after his victory in Paris, Adrien passed away, leaving his dream in the capable hands of his brother-in-law, Charles Bon. Charles continued developing the vineyard and the wine. But Charles, too, was to die early. Mont-Rouge was taken over by Adrien's sister, the widow Bon, who was determined like her brother to see the Mont-Rouge name reclaim center stage. It was through her strength of will and natural talent that Zinfandel survived; her Mont-Rouge Zinfandel won gold at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition. Though perhaps not the earliest woman winemaker in California, she may have been the first to receive a gold medal at an international competition.
Prohibition threatened Zinfandel, but repeal was its death knell. Maynard Amerine and Albert Winkler, Davis professors, fought long and hard against the replanting of Zinfandel in post-prohibition California. In their pioneering 1944 paper, which established the winegrowing climate zones of California, they expressed the opinion that no climate zone was suitable for the growing of Zinfandel.
But the winegrowers of Livermore Valley again paid no attention to these experts. And though, by 1975, Zinfandel had almost vanished from our state[1], in Livermore it reigned supreme as our most widely planted varietal. Today, Zinfandel still ranks third among the Livermore plantings, behind only Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. Livermore has always had a Zinfandel, and always will. It is a remarkable love affair that has survived 135 years and shows no sign of ending.
[1] Sutter Home Winery is largely credited with saving Zinfandel in 1975 by its introduction of White Zinfandel. Though wildly popular, White Zinfandel has done little to enhance the reputation of the cultivar.


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When I first started the show, I thought that it was decent, but didn't expect it to be a major hit for the network, nor did I expect it to win just about every award that it is nominated for. I have since grown to enjoy the programme. The thing that troubles me most is that they bring Paul back as some Buddhist monk-type with a ponytail that starts at the back of his skull, and they write him off just as quickly! What the heck, man! I know that they cut him because of budget issues (there was a major story about it, hence why almost every week they cut players or relegated them to guest stars) and his character didn't have chemistry with Don, but I would love to see him in the coming season.
They let Peggy go, and I can only hope that she will return somewhere, even if she winds up humping Don at some point. They brought back Ken Cosgrove, just to piss off Pete, but no one calls Salvatore? I get that in the show he was stymied by the fact that by the mid sixties the ad companies where going to cheaper and easier photography for their ads, thus killing the art department, but I always felt that he and the other seconds had great chemistry, but what do I know, I'm just a fan.
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Thursday, 9 February 2012
plans for today
I had a wonderful...and long sleep last night, and, when I woke up I was ready with plans to work on the wedding quilt.
HOWEVER .... while I was out with the dogs I got thinking about this months project. When James came for tea yesterday he made a comment about Sally hating bugs. Now , I may have mentioned (cough!!) that she is in Australia!! Her biggest concern, before she went , was spiders NOW she is there she has developed a HATRED of bugs...specifically cockroaches....so
This bag is what I made today...
The bugs are outside
AND inside...
They have antenna that MOVE...
AND I used VIOLET .....come on its me ....there has to be some GREEN
It was great fun to make ....and soon will be winging its way to her xx
Keep smiling
Diane xx
10 comments:
- Josie said...
Am I missing something here.... Sally HATES bugs so you are sending her a bug bag. Was she a difficult child by chance? :o)
- 9 February 2012 at 20:12
- CRAFTY WOMBLE said...
Wah green only lasted a month and I missed the end (I have pinned you to my bloglist now!). I like your insects a lot hope they are appreciated at the other end - at least they are big enough they should be able to frighten off any real bugs :) I am plotting making myself a mini quilt along the idea of the pouch I made with NO PINK.........
- 9 February 2012 at 21:09
- quiltmania said...
You are just so mean! LOL!
- 9 February 2012 at 21:26
- Diane-crewe said...
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- 9 February 2012 at 22:24
- Richard Healey said...
I love the bug bag. My little girl keeps telling me I should make her a bag. Wonder if she wants it full of bugs?
Make sure you stop by and put your guess in my quilt givaway by guessing my babys B-day or Birth Weight.
- 9 February 2012 at 22:25
- Mina said...
Love the bugs. Did you make that from a pattern?
- 10 February 2012 at 01:52
- KOcanQuilt said...
Can't believe you did that! If she hates bugs....
It will be a good laugh, if nothing else! They really are amazing in design.
- 10 February 2012 at 05:11
- Annabelle said...
The bugs are creepy! How nice to have a man follower! xx
- 10 February 2012 at 10:52
- Maggi said...
You are so naughty. It's a lovely bag though.
- 10 February 2012 at 17:45
- Sarah Lou said...
Very creepy crawlies there! I think the antenna are the best part bit.
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I have a lovely book about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life. It contains snippets of her letters to friends and, of course, the romance by letter with Robert Browning. Authored by Joanna Richardson, it is a lovely slim book (at least my Folio Society version is…) that takes you through her sad childhood, that amazing transformation in her 30's when she met Robert, all the way through to her death.
It is an incredible story, really. And their letters are full of that language of love, emoted by the amazing words they were mutually gifted with. Here's a snippet of her work – just a piece of a longer work and yet it can stand on its own. So well did she compose…Happy Birthday, m'dear!
My Heart And I
You see we're tired, my heart and I.
We dealt with books, we trusted men,
And in our own blood drenched the pen,
As if such colours could not fly.
We walked too straight for fortune's end,
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Question: sexual problems & thyroid issue?
|lightpanther - Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:34 pm
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I have a very serious problem in my sexual life which seems to be that my libido has dropped through the floor in the last few years (I am 41). I have had testosterone tests done (both free and bound) although both were within normal ranges. The doctor offered me testosterone supplement for a month anyway "to see if it had an effect". I don't seem to have noticed one so far.
I was also tested for thyroid levels, and it was found that I was *slightly* overactive (??). Is there any way this could be causing this problem? Where or how do I look now to resolve this? It was disappointing that testosterone levels were "normal" as it seems that it must be something physical and I cannot account for this loss of libido. I also have had symptoms of unusual tiredness for a few years...lack of energy etc, but again, nothing solid was found. Any help possible beyond what has already been done?
|Dr. Shank - Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:06 pm
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Dear lightpanther:
You say that you have lost your libido. For the purposes of this response, I assume that you mean that you have lost your sexual appetite, rather than just your ability to achieve and maintain erections or to ejaculate.
You seem to be describing a gradual onset, which traditionally has been thought to favor a physical cause, but can also be seen in relational problems and psychiatric disease. Since you characterize the problem as "serious," I assume that it is not due to relationship problems, although you may be implying that it is causing such problems. Male sexual appetite is much more resiliant than the female sexual appetite, and its loss is a strong predictor of a physical or drug-related cause. Furthermore, it is now recognized that nearly all male sexual problmes have a physical basis.
Let me give your physician a great deal of credit for checking your testosterone levels. Without more information, however, I would not be ready to conclude that your problem is not related to testosterone. In the first place, every lab that I have ever seen has highly unrealistic reference ranges for testosterone, because they were not derived from samples from known healthy individuals. Changes in proteins in the blood that bind testosterone (such as "sex hormone binding globulin") can have large effects on the amount of testosterone that is readily available to have an effect (the "free testosterone"), so I commend your physician for being (unusually) savy enough to also obtain a 'free testosterone" level. Unfortunately, problems with reference ranges are even more severe with this test, and it takes a lot of experience with the specific laboratory and the specific test that was done at that laboratory to properly interpret the results. As a rule-of-thumb, however, at your age the free testosterone level should probably be between 2/3 and 4/3 of the midpoint of the lab's reference range (In other words, take the average of the "high" and "low" reference values, then multiply it by 2/3 to get the approximate true lower limit and multiply it by 4/3 to get the approximate true upper limit.). The fact that you did not respond to testosterone replacement therapy does not necessarily mean that you were not deficient, either; I cannot stress enough that the changes in testosterone levels with any given dose of testosterone are extremely (!) variable.
Having said that, I would like to take up you next point, that your thyroid was slightly overactive. This was also a good thought on the part of your physician. However, I have learned to take non endocrinologists' interpretation of thyroid function tests cautiously, because an elevated level of thyroid stimulating hormone (or TSH, which does exactly what its name suggests) is often interpreted as "high thyroid." Laboratory diagnosis of hyperthyroidism should be based upon elevated free T4 or free T3 associated (with extremely rare exceptions) with a low TSH. If total T4 or total TSH were measured instead of free levels, a major abnormality could appear "slight." An old test for estimating free T4, the free thyroxine index (FTI or "T7") is still occasionally used and causes no end of confusion, because a measurement that is used internally by the lab (T3 resin uptake or T3RU) soley to calculate the index is inappropriately reported by the lab, and then mistaken for a measure of T3 (Believe me, you do not want to know the story behind THAT measure--it is very complicated and extremely confusiing!). Every laboratory reference range for thyroid function tests that I know about is wrong, for the same reasons as for testosterone measurements. In additon, they ignore the recommendations of the American Thyroid Association, the Endocrine Society, and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Fortunately, however, most laboratory's results seem to be comparable, even if their reference ranges are widely discrepant. In answer to your question, yes, abnormal thyroid function could cause problems with sexual function, but they are less likely to cause problems with sexual appetite (at least in men). Either too much or too little thyroid hormones can casue the fatigue that you describe.
You did not mention a prolactin level, which should be automatically included in the workup of any sexual dysfunction. If this has not been done, be sure that your physician orders it. Elevated levels can cause sexual problems in their own right, and not (as is commonly believed) only because they sometimes reduce testosterone levels. However, so long as the testosterone levels are normal, it is more likely to cause problems with sexual function than with sexual appetite.
A large number of medications can interfer with sexual function, and some of them can also cause loss of sexual appetite. Certain antidepressants are among the worst offenders. Spironolactone (Aldactone) and cimetadine (Tagamet) do not reduce the levels of testosterone, but do block the effect of testosterone. A careful review of all of your medications should be part of the evaluation.
Sepression itself can cause a loss of sexual appetite and function, but depressed people usually do not complain about their lack of sexual appetite.
Most people know that sleep apnea syndrome can cause fatigue, but it is less well appreciated that it can cause sexual dysfunction. Apart from the resulting fatigue, however, I am not aware of it causing a loss of sexual appetite, and, unlike women, men seldom let anything less than a profound degree of fatigue get in the way of their sex lives.
Somatotropin ("growth hormone" in children) is the main adult pituitary hormone. In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that this plays important roles throughout the body. Deficiencies can result from head trauma, pitutary gland tumors or surgeries, radiation treatment to the head and neck, and a variety of other causes. Nost of us were trained during the days when "everyone knew" that somatotropin had no role in adults, because "adults don't need to grow." Most endocrinologists still have either not yet accepted its importance or use outmoded criteria for diagnosing a deficiency (I do not want to overwhelm you with a history of how these criteria came about, but the original reasons are no longer valid.). Suffice it to say that sexual dysfunction (incuding loss of sexual appetite) and fatigue are often prominent features of a deficiency, but they are seldom the only ones. The only advise that I can offer is to seek out an endocrinologist with a strong interest in this area, if no other cause can be identified.
Significant liver disease may also cause male sexual dysfunction, at least partilaly because of increased build-up of estrogen.
Excessive alcohol use with or without significant liver disease, can cause low testosterone levels by a variety of mechanisms, but sexual dysfunction may result even with normal testosterone levels. Commonly, this is associated with a lack of sexual appetite, even with normal testosterone levels.
Heart disease has been reported to reduce sexual appetite, but this is controversial (The connection between atherosclerosis ("hardening of the arteries") and sexual function is not controversial, however.).
Advanced kidney disease may be associated with a loss of sexual appetite and/or function.
Neuropathy (such as from diabetes, alcohol abuse, or B12 deficiency) is a major cause of problems with sexual function. It is less likely to cause a lack of sexual appetite, however, except indirectly (as a result of a lack of sensation).
Very often, I find that there is more than one cause of the sexual problem, and treating just one of them is not effective.
If you have not yet seen an endocrinologist, I would suggest that you do so.
I hope that this is helpful to you.
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