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Thursday, January 27, 2005
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Summer time: streets, clubs & trains in Chicago.
We had spent close to an hour and a half looking for a parking spot for the two cars...the Chicago Bears were having a home game & that's a big thing in the city of Chicago. There was just so much going on in town with people all over and lots of cars everywhere. Honestly, you would be forgiven to think that everybody and their momma were in town for the game or for a hang out that day; so it was near impossible to find an empty spot to fit a car anywhere!
Together with 9 other friends we had driven a fast-paced four hours from Ypsilanti, MI in the two cars to the Windy City for a hang out and loads of fun but little did we know that we would also be taking an unwarranted night tour of the city after having partied the night away at a concert at The Wildhare, popularly referred to as...[story continues when you click the comment section. I did this to shorten it on this front page]...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
"Dinner Rush" a French language review
This "Dinner Rush" movie poster courtesy of http://www.moviegoods.com/
Okay, please bear with me incase you don't speak French but I just had to get this review for a movie I watched on Sunday done. It's a great English language movie & I encourage everyone to make time to watch it. I will rewrite this in English soon.
Felt I should do this review also as a tribute to this beautiful language that has opened so many doors for me; and to think that I have been speaking it for over 18 years... how fast time flies,lol!?
Anyway, Some things just sound much, much better when expressed in some tongues:) Here we go…
Dimanche dernier j'ai vu un très bon filme sur IFC (Independent Film Channel, 550 sur Direct Tv). "Dinner Rush", le filme du cinéaste Bob Giraldi avec Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Kirk Acevedo, Mike McGlone ,Vivian Wu (liste complète des personnages) est sans doute…chouette et un must!
Il s'agit de Louis (Danny Aiello), un propriétaire d'un bistrot élégant et classieux dans le quartier New Yorkais de TriBeCa, qui se fait taquiner par deux gangstars nommés Black et Blue. Ces deux derniers avaient fusillé son partenaire de business et ils ont maintenant comme but de lui arracher son business à cause des dettes issuant de leurs rapports financiers avec l'incontrolable fils Duncan, ici incarné par Kirk Acevedo...[clicquez "comments" pour en savoir davantage. Je fais cela pour ne pas remplir la page, merci!:)]
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Native-American Pow-Wow
I met this very enthousiastic Native-American gentleman during the last Pow-Wow in Kent and we got to learn a lot from each other.
I edited this photo at around 11am today. The original photo I took was all clear, sharp & with a similar color spectrum but today I decided to play around with it & add a few touches here & there to create the impression of looking at him through a 'mirage' or a very powerful lens.
Click the photo for greater details.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Panoramic in Charlotte: "comic book" effect
Here is a photo I just finished working on to give it that feel of a comic book image.
This particular photo I took while visting Charlotte, N. Carolina with friends from Maryland (what's up A+ & Cl!?). At this moment I was inside the car at the intersection of 3rd Street and South Poplar Street. I've loved using and working with panoramic images long before my photography went digital. I should be working on a couple more shortly & I will have them up here very soon.
If you click on the photo you will get a bigger, better image on which you can view the 'comic book effect' I applied to give it that little extra touch. More to come shortly.
Free your mind:)!
Here is another photo I worked on to bring out the impression of it being a painting of sorts.
This I took by the lake located some five mins drive from home. I like coming here with friends in the summer. The place has a certain unique freshness to it all year round. I should be posting a winter photo with all the snow frozen on the lake.
Sunday, January 16, 2005
dec 27th 3/3
I loved this photo so much I had to add it to my favorites section. Am glad the
owner got back to me with info on how she put this image together (from 3 photos!). N
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hotoshop rocks. Me thinks I'll invest in it:)
Plz click on image for a better view...
dec 27th 3/3
Originally uploaded by sita puddin pie.
Thailand: New Year's 2yrs ago
Thailand: New Year's 2yrs ago
Originally uploaded by akiey.
Wonderful photo I received from a good friend that lived & worked in Thailand for a couple of years...now based in Johannesburg, S.Africa.
Merci infiniment Isabelle, et passe mes souhaits à ta belle famille!
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Time format..figured out?
It's 7.30 pm, Sunday Jan 9/'05:
I most probably figured out the problem I had with the posting time. I republished this blog after fixing the regional time zone settings to -5EST. For some silly reason it was stuck on -8hrs California/Vancouver time which I found to be a very big inconvenience since many posts would appear to be hours old when the're probably hotter than breaking news. Ok, now that tha's done (I better test it again b4 I get all excited), am about ready to send out an invite to all y'all to come blog with me. Laterz!
I most probably figured out the problem I had with the posting time. I republished this blog after fixing the regional time zone settings to -5EST. For some silly reason it was stuck on -8hrs California/Vancouver time which I found to be a very big inconvenience since many posts would appear to be hours old when the're probably hotter than breaking news. Ok, now that tha's done (I better test it again b4 I get all excited), am about ready to send out an invite to all y'all to come blog with me. Laterz!
Trying to correct posting time
I have been trying out the different settings to see how this new blog tool works and all has been fine except for this time setting tool.
It seems to be one hour behind and that really pisses me off (urrgh!). I don't want you guys to have problems while posting so I will work on it for another 20mins. If it fails I'll just roll into bed.
Ok, here we go again!


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It is unfortunate to know that Malayalam Unicode still continues to be a mystery! Every now and then, I am consulted by various agencies/vendors on how to resolve rendering issues with Malayalam Unicode text.
I am fed up of sending explanatory mails to many. A 'Post DTP 'task which should ideally take one hour is extended till 10 hours due to misunderstanding of Malayalam Unicode.
Please read the following. It will help vendors to reduce the time spend of resolving rendering issues related to Malayalam. It will help localizers and translators to avoid supplying non-compatible text to their agencies.
Old Malayalam Unicode fonts which we used were depending on joiners heavily. Major role of these joiners were to render chillaksharas properly. Unfortunately, joiners are considered to be 'format control characters' by majority of the applications.
At the time of processing (for example, cleaning of files from Wordfast or Trados), these joiners will be stripped by the application and chillakshara will not be chillakshara no longer.
Due to this situation, Malayalam community (mainly Cibu, Kevin and all) pushed for separate code points for chillakshara so that dependency on joiners can be removed. This was allowed by Unicode Consortium with their 5.1 standard release.
Based on this standard, many fonts were developed. Even Microsoft also released a new Kartika (Malayalam default Unicode font in Windows Operating systems) font as per 5.1 standards.
Without knowing these developments, vendors continue to ask translators and localizers to supply the content in 'Arial Unicode MS' (a font which was abandoned by Microsoft) which does not have Malayalam support.
Without knowing the existence of input tools and fonts which support latest Unicode standards, translators and localizers still continue to supply the content in old standard which depends on joiners heavily.
Solution is only this – Vendors, translators and localizers should upgrade themselves to use input tools and fonts which employ latest Unicode standards.
What I do – I use Mozhi transliteration input tool and AnjaliNewLipi Unicode font. The result is wonderful. No more complaints from vendors and my reviewers.
I highly recommend everybody in the industry to try the same and see the result.

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This weblog is about technology and society, the relationship between people and knowledge technology. "The attributes of a media ecosystem within organisations cumulatively construct in the direction of atranscendence of time, area, distance, and social interplay. When technology is offered to kids too early, during human developmental years, it creates a problem.
As such, it was a part of a unbroken reaction in thehuman and social sciences against the unwell-considered and over-optimistic use of quantitative and statistical strategies. Maybe the media and its technologies will assist us reach amicable compromises and tolerance in making an attempt to grasp every others actuality, maybe not.
This brings us to the methodological conclusion that with the intention to know an object in reality, one must embrace, examine all its elements, all the immediate and mediate connections. The notion of technology being in the driver's seat turns into absurd once we can drive the Web any time we would like, by importing a brand new web page to our Website.
Given right now's applied sciences, this African culture is adaptable and the technology prepared-made for us to launch our Culture into the Twenty-first Century. Moreover, applied sciences enable choice and diversity in instructing which promotes optimistic growth in students.
The 'Battle On Terror', the 'Battle on Medicine', The 'War in opposition to Islamic Extrmesms', The 'Struggle towards Irag', 'Battle towards Afghanisan', The 'Civil Struggle in Syria'; the rise in the far proper components in Germany, France and all through Europe; the withdrawal of Obama from these areas of conflict; his makes an attempt of closing down Guantanamo Prison; his instituting Preseidential decreee to get to help the American people, with Health, immigration, building ties with Cuba, and dealing on disarming the militarized police, and plenty of other things, the confluence of these have given rise to the current-day social miasma we are witnessing day by day.


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A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action, causing the ball to spin from right to left in the cricket pitch, at the point of delivery. When the ball bounces, the spin causes the ball to deviate sharply from right to left, that is, away from the leg side of a right-handed batsman.
- The top joints of the index and middle fingers are across the seam, with the ball resting between a bent third finger and the thumb.
- As you release the ball, straighten the fingers and much of the work on the ball will be done by the third finger, turning the ball anti-clockwise.
- Flick the wrist so that the palm of the hand finishes facing downwards.
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Saddled with broken ribs, bruises and welts, an uncaring mother, the anguish of lingering sexual abuse, Beth Brown should have ceased to exist long ago. Yet, now, as an adult, she not only prospers in the heart of Kansas City, she also starts to relish the company of dear friends and manages to preserve herself to see the day she is reunited with the long lost love of her life.
In Love Me Back by Cheryl A. Baisden, we stumble upon the gut-wrenching tale of a small town girl who, bursting with love for all that breathes and exists, perseveres despite the forms of ignominy thrown her way.
Its triumphant description of a healing retreat within nature's deep reserve, unyielding good will, and the all-overpowering conquest of sincere love invites a second look at all the travails of our tired, inspiration-strapped world.
As required by FTC, I received a complimentary copy of Love Me Back by Cheryl A. Baisden as a member of the Dorrance Publishing Book Review Team. Visit dorrancebookstore.com to learn how you can become a member of the Book Review Team.
This is a confusing book. Written as a fiction story I suspect it is really the authors own memoir, to a large degree and would have been more effective written as a memoir. In fact, I would have liked it to have been split into three separate memoir books, each covering a distinct time period in her life - much like Dave Pelzer did in his memoirs (A Child called it, The Lost Boy and A Man named Dave).
The story itself had a lot of potential but it was not well written. It jumped from one story straight into a new one almost without even starting a new sentence. It felt more like a set of random thoughts and scenarios that someone had written down with the intention of writing it in full later to turn into a book. It reminded me of the way I tell a story, jumping to the next happening before I have actually fully explained the part I am telling - and that is one of the many reasons why I could never be a successful author.
This combined with the many grammatical and typing errors throughout the book made it quite a difficult book to read, despite being only 84 pages long. I found myself having to re-read parts to work out what the author was trying to tell me.
The publisher needs to get some better Proof Readers and Editors in to improve their product. I don't proclaim to be brain of Britain or, indeed, very good at grammar but some of the mistakes were unforgivable. For Example, referring to having "Post Dramatic Stress Disorder"! Come on, is this a new disorder for actors or something, I assume you mean "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" hence the use of the acronym PTSD! Another example "It don't get any better than this". Ok they could have just been trying to reflect the way the character actually speaks but, for me, this grammatical error just made me throw my hands up in horror.
A shame as the author clearly has a good story to tell but has been let down by her editors, proof readers and whoever else helped her publish this book.
2 out of 5 from me on this one and only because I actually feel sorry for the author.


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February 17, 2014
An amazing force of Will
No matter what is going on, what challenges I must face, what difficult decisions I must make, how my body feels or what specifically my mind is thinking about, this Will, this rising force from deep inside of me, never fails to emerge.
What is it though? Where is it coming from? Am I different from other people? Many people seem to think so, assuming that they are just "cut out differently" or that I cannot possibly have the same issues or problems that they do.
Why is it that I don't know the meaning of the words "boring", "ordinary", "pointless"? The funniest part of it all is that it is all so simple, so extraordinary simple! Yet "normal" understanding cannot conceive it...
I have two large plants on my balcony, which have been through a lot with me. Moving from house to house, changing climates, surroundings, conditions, they are still growing, still thriving, as if nothing is bothering them, nothing is affecting their Will. They have been turned over by strong winds, tossed by careless people and squashed in moving trucks, they have been dehydrated at times when I haven't been well but still, they grow, still they attempt to be all they are meant to be.
Going out and greeting my trees in the morning, or whenever I take a break during the day, I realize that my plants don't need rituals, timetables or academic knowledge to grow. I communicate with them, not in words, not in repeated rituals of set movements, I don't even do anything as a goal; so that they will grow and bear fruit or beauty "for me". I listen, I feel, because trees "speak", they tell me what they need, what they don't like. I can feel their Will, deep inside of me, unmistakeable and decoded in clear images and emotions that transcend normal thinking.
I see them! I touch them with my heart, where feelings have no matching words; I thank them for being so beautiful, for hanging on, despite the difficulties. My heart rejoices with each tiny, new leaf that appears, seemingly out of nowhere, on a bright sunny day. "Hi, little one, welcome to the world"! And I can feel the response, I can "see" the gratitude of recognition and the connection, which is beyond any evidence that normal eyes can see.
I remember once, when I had the opportunity to live in a house with a garden, I learned so much, but not from people. The learning came from trees, nature and my own Self.
I never liked raking the leaves from the garden. People advised me to do so, "otherwise the grass would turn yellow and dry up". But that grass was not a natural addend to the environment. And the falling leaves were so beautiful, forming an irreplaceable carpet of unique design and color. And the little weeds, growing around plants and trees, with little flowers popping out here and there...I didn't like plucking them all out.
Are we so totally different from the rest of the world; nature and I? What do people really mean by "natural surroundings"? It all became very clear to me... The word "natural" has lost most of its initial and true meaning...
No, I didn't know all the names of the plants and the trees, and I cannot remember all the people's names, who I meet. But a name doesn't make a person nor does science make a tree. And trees don't like to have ornaments hanging from them, little artificial lights changing their beauty and their purpose. Yet, people don't understand the language of nature in societies. They understand their own image, which they fearfully attempt to defend and decorate.
Soon I will have to leave my plants. Like them, I have been traveling, serving the essence of who I Am... I suppose like everyone does too! Yet is seems that people rush by and don't have time to appreciate the wonders of their own essence, all the wisdom they hold in their own self. How can they really SEE nature before that? Thy don't realize its existence, its great desire to live, thrive and serve. They don't even realize their own existence, their own core desire to live, thrive and serve. Yet nature still continues to do so and so do we. Why?
Because that is what we are meant to do. Because it is the blueprint of nature and people, who are part of nature but have forgotten it. Because it is written in the trees' code of creation, in their little seed, which turned into these beautiful trees, now standing gracefully on my balcony.
Just imagine… All they needed was for one person to plant the seed, to nurture it as it grew, another to sell it or pass it on to a new "owner" and yet another to watch it grow, to care enough so that no matter what, he would continue to nourish and care for it. That's just three or four people out of millions. And yet they became trees, they produced fruits, they blossomed and still do. Even in the city, which they were not used to. Even within all the pollution, the noise and the busy passers-by. And most of the trees of the Earth still grow and thrive, even with no help from Man...
An amazing force of Will! It comes from all that we have forgotten to do: pay attention. Yet, this kind of attention is not found in schools, in normal institutions or systems of society. These types of feelings are not recognized or felt in normal living. Only, "normal living" is a slow death sentence, which hangs over most people, still ignorant of its existence. And yet, they continue to support all this as "normal". An artificial type of living, leading to nowhere...
Yet, I'll find someone to care for my trees - because I know that they are not "mine" - and who will hopefully plant them in a piece of land where they will join other trees and thrive with them, probably remembering where they came from, who carried them and watered them, spoke to them and encouraged them to hold on, as I move on to where I am meant to travel next....
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It's the best time of the whole month! Time to pick up your awesome April club wines and beers. Join us this Friday night to pick up your beautiful wines from Huellas Reserve in the Maule Valley of Chile!
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Where did Browse Project Folder Go?
There was a button (...) to open the folder of the project right next to "Inspect Article". Where did it go? It was very useful..
Official Answer
SCM Posted 1 year ago
Should be fixed in 188.8.131.52, at least you will be able to resize the column.
spiritfly Posted 1 year ago
Yes I'm using SCM on a HiDPI monitor, but never had this issue until a while ago. It is true, SCM is not properly displayed with scaling settings, but never had any functionalities missing up until now. Please try to fix scaling issues.
Resizing the column doesn't help, tried everything, the button does not show up.
SCM Posted 1 year ago
I recently moved SCM to new version of UI controls this may have caused some problems.
Ill check it in hi DP for you


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Petition for Writ of Certiorari
Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit No. 94-2483
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ] Appeal from the United ] States District Court for Plaintiff Appelee, ] the Northern District of ] Illinois, Eastern v. ] Division. ] MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ] No. 88 CR 204 ] Defendant Appellant, ] Harry D. Leinenweber, ] Judge. ]
Now comes Defendant-Appellant, Michael Williams, and requests that this Court review the above-styled matter pursuant to Part III, Rule 10.1(c),Supreme Court Rules, raising a novel issue heretofore undecided by this Court for the following reasons:
Questions Presented
1. Are the existing rules and procedures by which a criminal proceeding is documented, prosecuted, decided, and recorded vulnerable to corruption through the concerted actions of law enforcement officers, court-appointed counsel, and magistrates in such a manner as to deprive law-abiding citizens of the right of due process under the 14th Amendment?
2. If so, was the defendant in this case the victim of such corruption, requiring that his conviction be overturned?
The right of citizens to due process under the 14th Amendment is generally assumed to be assured through the separation of powers. Thus, warrants may not issue at the behest of the executive department enforcing a law unless a neutral magistrate is assured that probable cause exists for such a warrant. Similarly, once arrested, all defendants are assured at least minimally competent counsel when the neutral court appoints a defense attorney for those who cannot otherwise afford one. However, when it so happens that a powerful member of the executive branch takes offense at the political activities of a particular citizen, and that officer has the loyalty and allegiance of a certain judge, together with a network of federal law enforcement officers, the following scenario becomes possible.
1) The officer purports to investigate the citizen, and swears out an affidavit attesting to probable cause of the existence of a crime.
2) The magistrate issues an arrest warrant
3) The citizen's files are seized and destroyed
4) The citizen is charged with mail fraud or wire fraud.
5) Hand-picked court appointed counsel urges a plea bargain on bogus terms.
6) The citizen, mislead by his own attorney, enters a guilty plea.
7) Sentence is imposed, and the citizen's property is forfeited.
If such a sequence of events ever did occur, it would certainly become possible for the court which permitted such a perversion to seal its own records and purge any evidence of the collusion from hearing transcripts, thus eliminating the possibility of reversal on appeal.
Under the foregoing circumstances, cases following a similar scenario would appear to the overseeing courts to be fully in order, while in fact justice was never served.
The Defendant-Appellant now alleges that such cases arise with alarming and increasing frequency, and that he, in particular, was the victim of such a scheme imperfectly reflected in the records of the above-styled cases.
The Defendant-Appellant contends that as a result of his friendship with and support for former Senator Gary Hart, and investigative efforts on his part, he became privy to facts, documents, and other materials which, if publicized, would have been embarrassing to the sitting vice president and presidential candidate George Bush. The information related to little-known facts about covert activities in support of the Contra rebels of Central America, smuggling of arms and drugs under cover of the C.I.A. and an apparent attempt on the life of Senators Hart and Cohen.
In order to prevent the defendant from coming forward with this information, the defendant was charged as a co-conspirator in a scheme in which his corporation failed to pay for computer paper. None of the co-conspirators was ever arraigned or charged with anything.
Agent Lloyd of the Chicago bureau of the FBI and Judge Leinenweber of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, and husband of a Reagan cabinet member, all of whom were fiercely loyal to the vice president, proceeded to orchestrate the scheme. With his accounts frozen, the defendant had no choice but to accept court-appointed counsel, William Stephens, a relative of the Supreme Court justice and friend of the administration.
Subjected to such an array of law enforcement professionals, attorneys, and judges, the defendant experienced the maximum penalties allowed by law.
Wherefore, the defendant asks that this Honorable Court scrutinize the record below, including numerous affidavits and petitions filed by the defendant, taking judicial notice of the fact that the defendant never received
1) an inventory of the items seized until January 1996 the inventory
being flagrantly defective
Further, the defendant respectfully requests that this Court vacate the decisions of the courts below.
Submitted by Defendant-Appellant Michael Williams Postach 20 CH-3112 Allmendingen bei Bern Switzerland Switzerland pro se
Certificate of Service
I, Michael Williams, the Defendant-Appellant in the present case, hereby certify that I have served two copies of the foregoing brief upon counsel for Appelee United States of America by causing the same delivered by Express Mail to James B. Burns, United States Attorney, or Carol A. Davilo, Assistant United States Attorney, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604, USA, costs prepaid, this __ day of April, 1996.
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who needs a qwerty keyboard when u can have this!
i really dont know whats wrong with all this lg touchscreen phones, viwety,prada and this one all have gliches with smoothnes when you work with him, the responding times are slow when you click on somthing and the animation when you go from function to function is all glichy doesent want to load the hole page nice and in flash it load part by part really slow
no qwerty keybord? are you sure about that, if this dont come with qwerty keyboard then im off the buying list for sure.
Why do people keep complaining about short battery life? 400 h of standby sounds great to me, I'm not making too big of a deal about the 4 h talk time =\
Does the talk time usage include using all other functionalities such as working and playing games?
LG we break the laws of physic mass energy relationship if this phone be manufacture.we are waiting.LG good thinking.it seems LG has employed new designers lately.
does this phone have voip.pls someone tell me.love this phone.LG KEEP IT UP.
producing more of this design will run down market for other mobile phone manufactures.LG HAS DISCOVERED the mistry between design and weight
i so much love the design and the features of this phone.i would have love to give it a name like JAMES BOND KS20.this is the best ever. LG keep your good work going. Nigerian are in love with this phone.
this one is mine, let it come as soon as possible. poor HTC, O2, and ........
This phone is just amazing!! it;s Korean company you should buy it. You will never regret!! Also Samsung mobiles phones are just grate as LG. Believe me!!
It's brilliant! Has all you need and the form factor. So what if the battery doesn't last very long, it'll be fun, fun, fun...
Can I have one now, thank you very much?
oh my god !! super design !! and with win mobile 6 !! its the greatest of them all !!
does this phone have voip(voice over internet protocol).if yes pls tell us.
anybody know? does it support how many MB of MicroSD memory?
Thanks very much.
For me. this one I like it very much. No GPS never mind. but I need big memory. for my documents, music.
it would have been the best phone in the whole wide world if only the latest technology called UMA UNLICENT MOBILE ACCESS was included in place of wifi only.LG U ARE DOING GREAT.


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Negotiations, Able Archer Films. Kitty plays Pro Brexit MP Janet Leigh-Mallory in this docu-satire web series set in the Department for Exiting the EU.
Everything Stops For Tea, Secret Platform Theatre. Recommissioned for Wandsworth Festival. Kitty co wrote and performed in this immersive, interactive housewarming party; a cosy sharing of stories, tea and biscuits. Blurring the boundary between theatre and real life this quirky, light-hearted theatrical experience is shaped in the moment by the audience who say: "You made a normal afternoon exceptional." "Reminded me of Punchdrunk. I am the involved spectator" .
The Worst Witch, CBBC, Netflix, ZDF. Kitty plays Miss Darkside, the formidably scary teacher, in CBBC's much acclaimed adaptation of Jill Murphy's classic spellbinding books.
DJ's, Ursus Films. Kitty plays high-flying music agent June in this short film exposing what lies beneath the glitz and glamour of the music industry. Directed by Eric Buisson, DJ's has been selected for many film festivals. Behind the scenes interviews here.
Yarning, a new play by Trevor Pitt performed at mac, Birmingham. Kitty played Betty, a Cumbrian shepherdess spinning yarns about life, survival and knitting. Kitty was also part of the writing/script development team weaving the play from verbatim material. "As intricately crafted as a Fair Isle sweater the stories make their patterns row by row, stitch by stitch" Audience feedback
Peep Show, Channel 4, Objective Productions. In the series finale Kitty played Baker, the bank's head honcho, who arrived to seal Mark's fate. "And so began the downward spiral….The approaching riptide of tragicomic finality…" Den of Geek
Ballot Monkeys, Channel 4, Hat Trick Productions, written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered, Drop the Dead Donkey). Kitty plays Green Party activist Angela in this political comedy written, shot and edited close to the wire to keep it topical. "Its cast is rammed with talent. The characters – who, on most other shows, would be simple joke–delivery systems – are all distinct and well–rounded. Hamilton and Jenkins are masters of the form." The Guardian
Itch, Seven Hills Films. In this psychological horror, Kitty plays the mysterious benefactor in a short film where secrets and innermost fears become reality. Released 2016.
Rick And Rat Go To Thailand, Peninsula Films Kitty plays gullible Mum Julie Sullivan in this improvised TV comedy for a new youth entertainment channel. Rick and Rat is directed by Julian Knott, the film and television music composer, best known for scoring the Wallace and Gromit films.


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Several days ride from Balic, the group makes it to Grak's pool. The group rides on a cart with an inix pulling it, a driver from Balic is driving the cart. Chunkra is along for the ride. The mountains rise to the north and west … the group instructs Chunkra to take the cart and meet up at Alturak. They split up to continue on foot into the mountains. The terrain is lowland rolling foothills, not too rocky at first. Early evening approaches and the group comes across an area covered with tree-like plants, entering the upper foothills, still approximately 1 day away from the mountains. While T'kkyl is on watch, he takes a tinkle and the group is surprised by chicken looking vampire hobbits (anakores and hejkin).
Another day of travel after the encounter, the characters see the mouth of a cave entrance where they assume the oracle resides. The mountains are less impressive, have less height/girth than the Ringing Mountains near Tyr that the companions are accustom, with their peaks burning in the sun rather than the ringing with peaks obscured by clouds of mist from the northern forests.
Cave entrance feels like light is being "absorbed", light only extends 5 feet from the companions and dim light for a further. 30 feet to the right there is a straight drop down. THe group turns around, the path narrows past the entrance to 5, which B realizes was broken open and patched in some ancient time, the hallway opens again to approximately 15 feet a short while later. Walls are rough, ground is still relatively flat, there is a bend to the right. They encounter a "Y" shape split.
T'ykkl knows of an oracle, "Temple of Delphi" kind of situation, ancient. He's sure that the oracle will be deep within the mountain. The party turns right and encounters another split, they know the path meets up again shortly ahead. They continue on the right and another junction before them with hard split. The path here is narrow, about 5 feet. The dwarf feels warmth to the right. They proceed to the right and there is a 4 way junction. The warmth is clearly in front of them, with some mild warmth to the right. The path lowers slightly in front and right. The group proceeds to the right, after about 30 feet the floor slopes gently about 15 feet downward and there is a bridge above. T'ykkl decides to jump up to the bridge. On the right he sees a cave-in. On the left he feels more warmth. The group decides to climb a rope up. They fail miserably but finally succeed.
They proceed forward. After a short time, the hallway widens into a cavern. There is a sulfur smell and there is some old bat guano along the floor. They group continues to the right along the wall to about "3 o'clock" having entered from "9 o'clock". There is another opening to the right and they can see light and high heat emanating from the opening. They continue along the wall and find a small room adjacent with a broken alter inside. The script is not something that B can recognize. It was a humanoid structure, whatever sat atop is gone, the alter is rubble. After some careful study, there are markings on the alter that seem to reflect some connection to the rubbing of the sundial.
The group decides to go into the light/heat hallway and the path curves to the right. The heat is intensifying greatly. There is an opening to the right, the straight path is immensely hot. The path to the right has a 10 foot drop straight down. They proceed ahead and there is a lake of lava in front of them. Molten rock blocks their path. There is an island approximately 15 feet in front of them, on the other side of the lake. There is a path on the left curve. The group turns around and drops down the 10 foot drop. It's clear this is a much larger open space and the floor is clearly not natural. They listen for signs of life but hear nothing.
They follow along to the right and … [encounter] There are spires that appear to have burst or erupted from the floor.
The Obsidian Oracle emerges from the portal.
"Imix, one of the elemental princes fought Pelor over the sun and imprisioned Pelor, one of the old gods. Use the dial to open a gateway to Pelor's prision. His prision is on the sun. While freeing Pelor could turn some of the balance in this world, you must find artifacts and other evidence of lost gods of this world."
"Balderdash is a servant of Pelor. The primordials have held this world in servitude for too long. Find the missing pieces of the "sun dial", they are spread around the world. One is in the City of Bodach, the city of the dead. This is a powerful undead city, it is not impossible to get in. Find a way to disguise your "life." There are items one can use to disguise yourself. Bodach use a mobile fortress of bone, a giant lizard. Getting onto this fortress may be a good way to gain access to the city."
"You friend did fight valiantly, I may be able to bring him back as something … different. I would need blood of something the same race, works best." Balderdash offers his own blood, the oracle slices Balderdash's hand using his own body having formed a knife shape.
"Dwarf blood and Thrikreen don't mix well being on opposite sides of the arthasian species. Bugs are arcane creations from the Dawn War. Dwarves are more natural. He may not remember you at all. He may not even remember that he was a Thrikreen."
"I am a shard mind, one who is uncommon in this world. We are actually gatekeepers who protect all parts of this world from the Far Realm. There are actually parts of the Far Realm within this idol."
"You are not just average people, while you do have a long journey ahead of you, the odds are not insurmountable."
The portal leads outside of Alturak — Chunkra is nearby the portal having honed into the companions using the crystal around his neck.


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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
All Star recap
Damn you, Zinidine Zidane. You broke my heart. You might ask, why are you, a god-fearing, patriotic American rooting for the French, Mr. Cat? Well, I have 4 reasons for you:
- I live in
New Jersey
- Guidos.
- Italian flags
- Techno music.
Put them all together and you have my Sunday night.
Right up there with Zidane in the world of shitty, jerk-faced athletes is Trevor Hoffman, who cost the Metropolitans homefield advantage in the World Series tonight – as well as David Allen Wright and Carlos Beltran co-MVP awards.
David Allen Wright was well on his way to a Jordanesque triple crown – MVPS in the regular season, the All Star Game and the Series. Damn you, Trevor Hoffman, damn you! Bon Scott is rolling in his grave.
But it was tremendous to see all stars from both leagues wearing mini-Terrible Towels on their arms in honor of the Five Time World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, was it not?


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Call to Action: Please call your Senators to be heard. The tax plan will add $1.6 trillion to the deficit. Ron Johnson's number in DC: 202-224-5323. Give his office a call to let him know you want tax reform that helps working people like you and me, and middle class families. Call 202-224-5603 to thank […]Read More
Milwaukee Area Labor Council Delegate Meeting Wednesday, October 4th at 6:30pm Special Guest: Professor Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains About the book: "The malevolent incompetence of the Trump White House packs a certain entertainment value, but it is also a distraction; a bumbling misdirection in a long confidence game. At stake, as historian […]Read More
Please support this important event at the Milwaukee County Courthouse on May 25 at 1:30. Making Change at Walmart has launched a 2017 Expose Walmart Tour leading up to Walmart's June 2nd shareholders meeting in Fayetteville. The Tour will make a stop in Milwaukee on May 25th as part of 22 states and over 30 […]Read More


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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) ushered in new leadership for the upcoming term on September 20, 2017. Capt. Christopher Turner steps into the role of president with twenty years' of experience in law enforcement. Turner currently manages the Kansas Highway Patrol's Motor Carrier Safety Assistance program (MCSAP), motor carrier inspectors fixed/mobile weight enforcement, and crash reconstruction teams.
Capt. Scott Carnegie of the Mississippi Highway Patrol serves as the new vice president with 24 years of previous service. Sgt. John Samis of the Delaware State Police for 24 years is the new CVSA secretary. The board of directors will be made up of the three most recent presidents able to serve: Sgt. Tom Fuller of the New York State Police and Deputy Chief Mark Savage of the Colorado State Patrol will serve as past presidents.
The news was announced at the CVSA Annual Conference and Exhibition, in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada to over 300 government officials, enforcement, and industry members supporting the group's mission to improve commercial motor vehicle safety and uniformity throughout North America. Next year's Conference and Exhibition will take place Sept. 23-27, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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City of Roswell Employee Wellness Center Ribbon Cutting
Last Thursday we celebrated at the ribbon-cutting of the City of Roswell Employee Wellness Center. The facility is open exclusively to city employees and offers a fitness center, gymnasium, and clinic.
City staff can maintain a healthy lifestyle at the fitness center, where we were told a group from City Hall visits on their lunch break once a week. If they do fall victim to a cold or ailment, they can see the onsite Physician to get them well again!
Congratulations to the City of Roswell! This is an awesome benefit to offer to our city's staff.


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a commitment to academic excellence
J. Hancock, Principal G. Olsen, Assistant Principal B. Smilanich, Assistant Principal/IB Coordinator G. Haydey, Counselor and Administrative Support
Lillian Osborne High School
2019 Leger Road NW• Edmonton, Alberta • T6R 0R9 Tel: 780–391–2450 • Fax: 780–391–2470 http://lillianosborne.epsb.ca/ What is the International Baccalaureate Programme? The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is a rigorous preuniversity course of studies, which meets the needs of highly motivated secondary school students. Designed as a comprehensive two-year curriculum that allows its graduates to fulfil requirements of various national education systems, the diploma model is based on the pattern of no single country but incorporates the best elements of many. The curriculum is displayed in the shape of a hexagon with six academic areas surrounding the core. Subjects are studied concurrently and students are exposed to the two great traditions of learning --- the humanities and the sciences. Students are required to take one subject from each of the six subject areas which are illustrated on the hexagon. This course selection results in a balance of the arts and the sciences:
Distribution requirements ensure that the science-oriented student is challenged to learn a foreign language and that the natural linguist becomes familiar with laboratory procedures. While overall balance is maintained, flexibility in choosing higher level concentrations allows the student to pursue areas of personal interest and to meet specific requirements for university entrance.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Requirements: 1. Three higher level (HL) and three standard level (SL) courses 2. Theory of Knowledge course, delivered over two years 3. A self - directed research paper (Extended Essay) no longer than 4,000 words 4. Reflection upon Creativity, Action, and Service in Grades 11 and 12. 5. The classic IB Full Diploma includes English, History, an International Language, Mathematics, a Science, and a Fine Arts Course (students can also choose to take a second Science or a second International Language instead of a Fine Arts course)
Sample Timetable: Grade 10 Lillian Osborne Pre-IB English 10-1 pIB Int. Language 10 pIB Social Studies 10-1 pIB Science 10 pIB Mathematics 10 pIB Mathematics 20 pIB Phys Ed 10 pIB (3) CALM 20 (3) Film Studies 10 pIB Grade 11 IB Diploma English 20-1 IB World Literature 21 IB (3) Int. Language 20 IB Social Studies 20-1(His) IB Biology 20 IB Biology 35 IB Chem 20 IB or a Fine Art Mathematics 30 IB Theory of Knowledge Grade 12 IB Diploma English 30-1 IB Int. Language 30 IB Social Studies 30-1 (His) IB World History 30 IB (3) Biology 30 IB or Physics30IB Chem 30 IB or a Fine Art Mathematics 31 IB Theory of Knowledge (3) Option (5)
NOTE: Students who choose to pursue two IB sciences can also take a third science in the regular programme within the grade 11 and 12 timetable OR in summer school.
What does the International Baccalaureate Programme offer? It is a direct path to University, and is the best possible preparation that one can receive to develop the skills necessary to achieve success there. International Baccalaureate (IB) is an academic programme that gives students more opportunities to develop critical thinking skills than any other honors programme. IB students say that they value the dynamic classroom environment, individual instruction, challenging curriculum, dedicated teachers and the opportunity to develop selfconfidence. Evaluation: Students are awarded Alberta Education marks for their achievement in IB courses during the programme. In Grade 12, students write their IB examinations in May and their Alberta Diploma examinations in June. Most Universities (including the University of Alberta) will accept the higher of these two grades to meet admission requirements. Many Universities will offer at least conditional admission on the basis of teacher generated IB predicted grades; the University of Alberta now offers "outright admission based on predicted grades" for Diploma candidates—even before the Alberta Diploma exams are written! IB grades are based on teacher and student-generated internal assessment as well as externally assessed IB examinations. This gives a better reflection of a student's abilities than an examination only approach to assessment. Students in IB Math write the Mathematics 30 Alberta Diploma exam in grade 11. Instead of going into Mathematics 31 for their grade 12, some students may choose to take the Math Studies (SL) IB programme, in which they review much of Mathematics 30 again, providing the best possible opportunity to achieve academic success when they write their Diploma examination again. Each IB course is marked on a 7 point scale (all full diploma students take 6 of these classes to earn up to 42 points). There are also 3 bonus points available for the Extended Essay and the Theory of Knowledge course, which produce a mark out of 45 points. To earn an IB Diploma, students must score at least 24 points out of a possible 45 so a student need not be an "expert" in all of the disciplines taken.
University Recognition: Most Universities in Canada and the United States actively recruit IB graduates. Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, and U of T, to name a few, recognize the IB credentials for advanced placement or transfer credit. Each of the 3,500 universities and colleges in North America has its own admission policy, so recognition of IB courses should not be taken for granted. Contact your University of choice for specific information; visit the IBO public website at http://www.ibo.org (click on "where we work" then "country information" then "find IB in Canada" then "diploma recognition" policies); or visit http://www.ibo.org/ibna/recognition/slideh.cfm for a comparative grid of Canadian University Policies University of Alberta: • • • IB students receive Advanced Standing (credit or placement) in approved courses for an IB grade of 6 or 7. Students who earn the IB Diploma are granted early and unconditional admission based on IB predicted grades. IB Diploma students also receive very strong consideration for admission into limited enrolment faculties and for U of A scholarship competitions. IB Diploma students will be granted advance credit for the Theory of Knowledge Course with three units of course weight in an open elective at the 100 level. For more information about IB recognition at the U of A please visit www.registrar.ualberta.ca/IB
University of Calgary: • • • IB Diploma is recognized as an admission credential The highest mark (IB or provincial mark) is used for admission and award calculations IB Diploma students automatically get a full year of advanced credit (specific credits vary for HL and SL courses and not all advanced credits will be applicable to all degrees) Top admission and registration priority Automatic acceptance into top level (platinum) of Scholars' advantage programmeme Guaranteed Residence Room IB Advisors 20 scholarships exclusively for IB Diploma Holders - $3500 plus For more information about IB recognition at the U of C please visit www.ucalgary.ca/ib/diploma.html
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Study finds IB Diploma graduates well prepared to succeed in college
IB Diploma Programmeme highly aligned with US college readiness standards
The Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) announced today the results from their report "International Baccalaureate Standards Development and Alignment Project."
The report, which analyzes the alignment of the IB Diploma Programme standards and the Knowledge and Skills for University Success (KSUS) college-ready standards, found IB standards to be "highly aligned with the KSUS standards." In particular, the key cognitive strategies emphasized in the Diploma—critical thinking skills, intellectual inquisitiveness and interpretation—were found to be fully aligned with the expectations of university faculty. The study, led by David Conley, confirmed that IB Diploma Programme standards demonstrate a very high degree of alignment with the KSUS standards in all subject areas. In math, complete alignment was found between the IB Diploma's mathematical studies and the KSUS' algebra, trigonometry and statistics standards. In science, the 47 IB chemistry standards, 19 biology standards and the concepts of environmental science embedded in all three IB science courses aligned completely with KSUS. Data on university graduation rates of IB diploma holders shows that the vast majority (more than 80%) graduate from university within six years. "In many ways, the findings from EPIC's study confirm that the Diploma Programme is achieving one of its major objectives, preparing all students for university," said Beth Brock, IB's Global Head of Policy and Research. "Students that complete the programme have a strong foundation not only in academic skills but also in other areas, such as critical-thinking, problem-solving, research, writing and communication that are so vital to success in university and the 21st century world." "What is perhaps most notable about our findings is the degree to which IB standards were found to be related to the kinds of key cognitive strategies that our previous research points to as being so important for success in colleges and universities," added David Conley, CEO of EPIC. "We have learned that it's not enough for students to study content in isolation; they must use their content knowledge to solve problems, make conjectures and inferences, and think deeply about the big questions of the disciplines. The IB standards seem to be particularly well suited to achieving these aims." The goal of the project was to develop a set of standards that represented the knowledge and skills students learn in the curriculum of the IB Diploma Programme by reviewing course documents for Language A1, Theory of Knowledge, Extended Essay, Math Studies, Math SL, Math HL, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The study utilized a criterion-based expert judgment decision-making model that employed successive reviews by experts to reach findings on the relationship of the IB standards to the Knowledge and Skills for University Success. Founded in 1968, the IB works with 2,668 schools in 137 countries to develop and offer three challenging programmes to over 725,000 students aged 3 to 19 years. The IB encourages students to be active learners, well-rounded individuals and engaged world citizens. It also serves in an educational advisory capacity to other educational organizations. To learn more about the IB, please visit: www.ibo.org To view the executive summary and the full report, please visit: www.epiconline.org/ib/


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ANDOVER, Mass. (CBS.MW) -- Shares of PictureTel jumped more than 29 percent Monday following news that the visual and audio software developer licensed its voice conferencing technologies to Microsoft.
A ratings upgrade from First Security Van Kasper also apparently contributed to the positive tone for PictureTel (PCTL), whose shares climbed 15/16 to close at 4 1/8. Shares of software giant Microsoft (MSFT) gained 1 13/16 to 79 1/2.
Under the terms of the companies' agreement, PictureTel will license its IDEC-II technology to Microsoft. Users of Windows-based personal computers with Web connectivity will be able to talk without the need for special speakerphones.
Additionally, the Andover, Mass.-based PictureTel will license IDEC-II components to third parties, enabling the integration of the technology into other products like soundcards, wireless telephones and various multimedia devices.
"The convergence of the various technologies -- voice, data and video -- will impact all business users moving forward and will further enhance the PC's positioning as the total communications appliance," said Harish Naidu, general manager of Microsoft's digital media division.
'Limited downside risk,' with caveat
Separately, First Security Van Kasper analyst David Karson upgraded the company's stock to a "hold" from a "sell" rating, emphasizing that there is "limited downside risk."
In a research note, Karson said with the recent hirings of "turnaround experts" Lewis Jaffe and Ralph Takala as, respectively, its new president and CFO, a restructuring is about to take place.
Jaffe and Takala "will bring out the meat cleaver" and cut out between 25 percent and 50 percent of PictureTel's work force, given the depths of the company's problems, Karson said.
PictureTel is currently fighting a structural change in the industry, which has chosen set-top appliances as the "dominant form factor for the conference room," said Karson. In this light, he believes the company's PC-based strategy is "flawed."


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Hey shadow! What's up?
My pup is such a silly boy.
Another busy, productive week. I'm exhausted! But ready for a big hike tomorrow with friends.
What are your fabulous plans for the weekend? Or maybe you are just going to lay low and recharge. Either way, hope it's a good one.
See you next week.


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What's On on Romney Marsh
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Events August 2018
Time: RMVC opening hours 10.00am to 16.00
Photographic Exhibition - Blackbox Images
A fantastic photographic exhibition by local photographer Peter Francis with theme based on the Romney Marsh area entitled "Sky - Sea - Beach - Land". Over 50 large size photographs plus 4 spectacular framed images, all photos can be ordered at the RMVC with or without frames.
The Visitor Centre has free parking plus additional nature walks and local produce for sale
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Time: 10.30am - 4.30pm daily
Romney Marsh Art Society 60th Exhibition
Time: 11am to 12.30pm
The Seaside Singers - Summer Sing-a-long
Back by popular demand the superb sounding ladies of the New Romney Seaside Singers will be performing their summer show here for you all to enjoy. Everyone welcome and FREE entry.
Time: Fri 5-12 Sat 12-12 Sun 12-11
Cinque Ports Arms Summer Festival
Time: 10.30 - 12.30
Newchurch Summer Country Market
Monthly Coffee Morning - arguably the best cakes on the Marsh!! - supplemented by local crafts and produce stalls this month
Time: 11am to 12.30pm
Emma Lou's Dance Troupe
The fabulous youngsters of the Multi award winning Emma Lou's Dance Troupe will be preforming here for you all on Thursday 9th August from 11am to 12.30pm. So why not Pop along and be thoroughly entertained by these wonderful young dancers. FREE Entry for all.
Time: Various
Day of Syn
Pageant and Fete over the three days of Day August Bank Holiday 2018. See Day of Syn for more information.
Time: 10am to 4pm
Dymchurch Fire Station Open Day
Join in the fun at Dymchurch family open day this Saturday 25 August between 10am and 4pm and find out if you could become an on-call firefighter.


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Who can not fall in love with the beautiful songs of Faun Fables....
Faun Fables, created by Dawn McCarthy, is the most wonderful combination ever made between theater, music and storytelling.
It is hard to discribe the songs as the experience is one which has to be experienced. Thus I advice you to visit the website of Faun Fables and hear for yourself.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Faun Fables - Songtelling
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Ernest R. Goddard Jr., a retired welder and steamfitter and lifelong Annapolis resident, died of heart failure Feb. 28 at his home. He was 92.
He was a graduate of St. Mary's High School in Annapolis and worked at the Trumpy Yacht Yard before becoming a member of what became Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 486. He was a steamfitter and welder for 40 years, spending many years of his career at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipyard.
He was a member of the Severna Park Elks Club, Annapolis Moose and Eastport Democratic Club.
He was a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Annapolis.
Mr. Goddard enjoyed fishing, crabbing, vegetable gardening and caring for his fruit trees.
His wife of 65 years, the former Johanna Macek, died in 2004.
Services were held Friday.
Surviving are a son, Ernest R. Goddard III of New Orleans; a daughter, Joan M. Barksdale of Annapolis; a brother, John Goddard of Annapolis; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.


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29 Jul 2013
The Panel with Mai Chen and Catherine Robertson (Part 1
Topics - The Labour party wants to bar non-residents from buying existing houses, flats or apartments. Under a new policy, buyers from overseas would be allowed to buy a house in New Zealand only if they moved here permanently. The daily snapper catch for recreational fishers in Auckland and the top of the North Island could be dramatically reduced - from nine fish to three.


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The 20 most important football clubs in the world
Champions League, G14, blah blah blah.
The guy behind 200% (usually a good read) has come up with his list of the "20 most important clubs in the world". There's a few that aren't that surprising - Ajax, Boca Juniors - but a load that are (New York Cosmos, Enfield Town etc.) Full list and reasons at http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=1219
So, who would be in your "most important clubs in the world" list?
There are some slightly strange ones, but it's good to see a bit of thought's gone into it. It surprises me a bit that Corithian FC aren't mentioned given the direction he's gone in.
I clicked on the link.
I saw that Sheffield FC are first.
I drove to this guys house, and burnt it down.
One day, Sheffield FC will fuck off. Until that day, I will NOT be happy.
On the plus side
he didn't list FCUM!
There are many pluses and minuses on that list.
One plus is that I reckon in about 25 posts time, a Liverpool fan will appear on here going WHY AREN'T WE IN THERE WE'RE THE BESTEST TEAM IN THE WORLD EVER!!!. That's always fun.
I don't know. It seems a touch ridiculous as a concept, this, and I think I agree with KiK's first point up there ^. Ah well, it encourages debate. And I like debate. And lists. For the record, my Twenty Most Important Football Clubs In The World are the twenty clubs in the Unibond League Division One (South). Apart from Sheffield FC.
It's almost entirely unjust.
But when your team is in the same league and sees games repeatedly cancelled not for bad weather, or illness, or international call-ups, but simply because they had to arrange a high-profile friendly against Milan or Pele Rovers or Boca Juniors or something, it starts to grate.
Irrational hatred of football teams is where I'm a world leader.
Although AFC Ajax is one of most important football clubs in the world
he is wrong when listing the players who supposedly came up through the youth system. Only Johann Cruyff was product of the youth academy, all the others came from other clubs (they all joined Ajax at a relatively young age, between 19 and 21).
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It doesn't do any of us any harm to occasionally remind ourselves of the sheer blustering pomposity of the biggest clubs in football. Tonight's ambassadors for "giving the fans what they want" (as ever, a thin mask for "making more money for ourselves") are Milan, who had some very important opinions to give on the subject of a European Superleague. ""I still believe a European league will be an unavoidable step, though it may take more time than expected," said the Milan director Umberto Gandini. "Between the 50 most important continental clubs, none would give up playing in their respective countries".
Disregarding the increasingly popular opinion that perhaps the "most important" clubs should perhaps be expelled from all other competitions, packed onto a space shuttle with anyone that likes the idea of Milan playing Manchester United every week for the rest of eternity and sent to Jupiter so that they can get on with it there without inflicting it upon the rest of us, the use of the phrase "most important" which is the giveaway. The winding up of G14 and subsequent inclusion of the biggest clubs into the European Clubs Association was supposed to put an end to all of this, but it was simplistic to assume that the more atavistic tendencies of the biggest clubs would vanish merely because Michel Platini invited them for tea and biscuits at UEFA's top table.
However… "most important"? I beg to differ. Even if you don't necessarily believe in the "all creatures great and small" view of the world, this idea that (with all due deference to George Orwell) all football clubs are created equal, but some are more equal than others is a pretty repugnant one. So, with tongue planted firmly in cheek (before anyone starts complaining), here are the real twenty most important clubs in the history of world football. And Milan aren't even on it. After all, Milan aren't even Inter's biggest rivals. As any Milanese football afficianado will tell you, Inter's true local derby is the Derby D'Italia, played against Juventus. Five years without a Scudetto seems to be affecting the judgement of those running the Rossoneri.
1. Sheffield FC: The oldest football club in the world. They may not have won anything of note since the FA Amateur Cup in 1904, but Sheffield FC are the only club in the world besides Real Madrid to have been awarded the FIFA Order of Merit. Other winners of this award include Nelson Mandela, Henry Kissinger and the Uruguay Football Association.
2. Queens Park FC: The Glasgow amateur club remain the only side ever to have reached the finals of both the English and Scottish FA Cups, and were ten times winners of the Scottish FA Cup. Their passing style of football revolutionised the way that football was played worldwide, and their home stadium, Hampden Park, was the biggest football stadium in the world until the Maracana was built for the 1950 World Cup.
3. Darwen FC: When this unassuming club from Lancashire signed two players, Fergie Suter and James Love, from Partick Thistle in 1879, they became the first English club to pay their players. The days of the amateur gentlemen were numbered and professionalism had arrived. Within ten years, all of the best clubs paid their players.
4. Preston North End FC: "The Invincibles". The first winners of the Football League went their entire season unbeaten in 1888/89 (a record that wouldn't be equalled until Arsenal managed it in 2004), and won the FA Cup into the bargain. The year before, they had set another record, beating Hyde 26-0 in the FA Cup, a record which does survive to this day.
5. U.S. Pro Vercelli Calcio: Italy's oldest club, U.S. Pro Vercelli Calcio were founded in 1892. They won the Italian championship five times in six years between 1908 and 1914, and were also the club of Silvio Piola, widely credited as the inventor of the bicycle kick. One of their current players, curiously, is the former Italian international and Serie A stalwart, Maurizio Ganz. They play in the fourth division of Italian football.
6. Sport Club Rio Grande: Sport Club Rio Grande are the oldest club in Brazil, and one of the oldest in the whole of South America. They may have only won two regional championships in their 109 year history, but they were instrumental in the development of the game in the country that is now commonly regarded as its natural home.
7. Exeter City: Exeter's footnote in the history of football is a very significant one. They were one of the first English clubs to go on a high profile trip abroad when they toured South America in 1914. One of their matches on this tour was played at the Laranjeiras Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, and was the first ever match played by the Brazilian national side, who won 2-0.
8. Torino: The Superga air crash in 1949 immortalised the Torino side known as "Il Grande Torino". They won five successive league championships and are still held up as possibly the greatest Italian club side of all time. They regularly made up eight of the eleven places in the Italian national team and were also one of the first sides in the world to play a 4-4-2 formation, which is to this day the most commonplace team formation in the world.
9. Wolverhampton Wanderers: In the early 1950s, during the nascent days of floodlit football, Wolves were innovators in taking on all-comers in a series of friendly matches. After beating Honved, Racing Club of Argentina, Rangers , Real Madrid and Spartak Moscow, their manager Stan Cullis declared them to be the "champions of the world", a statement that riled French journalist Gabriel Hanot so much that he led a campaign for a floodlit, pan-European cup competition. By 1955, the European Cup was born.
10. Real Madrid: No team has ever dominated European football the way that Real Madrid did in the first years of the European Cup. Winners of the competition nine times (including the first five years in a row), they were also involved in possibly the greatest European match of all time, a 7-3 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt in front of a 130,000 crowd at Hampden Park in 1950. They've also won the Spanish championship a record thirty-one times.
11. AFC Ajax: The sudden explosion of Dutch football in the late 1960s again changed the way that the game was played worldwide. They were possibly the first club to properly introduce an academy system, bringing through Johann Cruyff, Johann Neeskens, Arie Haan and Ruud Krol at the same time, and winning the European Cup for three consecutive seasons at the same time. No other country has had such a rapid rise up the football ladder as the Netherlands did in the early 1970s and stayed there, and no other club had as much of an influence in that sudden explosion of talent as AFC Ajax.
12. New York Cosmos: Later dismissed as a gimmick, New York Cosmos were actually phenomenally successful during the late 1970s, and laid a considerable amount of the groundwork for the success that Major League Soccer has had in starting to embed itself into the national conciousness over the last twelve years or so. Football: the final frontier, indeed.
13. Al Ahly: Africa's biggest side, Al Ahly (from Cairo) are said to have fifty million supporters in Egypt. They have been the champions of Africa three times in the last four years and, if FIFA ever gets around to bringing in a meaningful world club championship, they will be arguably the only African side capable of launching a serious bid to be the world champions.
14. Penarol: Supported by forty-five per cent of the entire population of Uruguay, Penarol are one of South America's most successful teams, having one the Copa Libertadores five times and the champions of Uruguay forty-six times. Along with Montevideo rivals Nacional, they provided the backbone of the Uruguay teams that won the World Cup in 1930 and 1950.
15. Benfica: Benfica have fourteen million supporters worldwide and, with 160,000 members, are recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the largest registered supporters club in the world. In terms of their importance, well, Benfica gave European football one of its first black superstars in Eusebio, and they were also the club which broke Real Madrid's stranglehold on the European Cup, winning it in 1961 and 1962.
16. Flamengo: With an estimated thirty-five million supporters, Flamengo are (somewhat inexplicably, considering their comparative lack of success) Brazil's most popular club. They may have been a basket case both on and off the pitch, but they make this list because their alumni is little short of a who's who of Brazilian football. Socrates, Junior, Zico, Garrincha, Alair, Romario and Bebeto are just a few of the players to have worn the Flamengo shirt.
17. Boca Juniors: Twenty-four Argentine championships and six times the champions of South America, Boca are arguably South America's biggest club. They also gave the world Diego Maradona - possibly the greatest footballer of all time.
18. Kazhima Antlers: The youngest club on this list, Kashima Antlers have been the biggest success story in the short history of The J-League, which has established Japan as a potential force in the international game. Kashima have won six of the fifteen J-League championships since the competition's formation and are, on a global scale, one of Asia's most famous clubs.
19. Olympique de Marseille: Although their most successful years were blighted by fraud and financial irregularity, OM remain, in a country that has a curiously ambivalent attitude towards club football, an institution. With an average home crowd of over 50,000 and a list of former player list that includes Chris Waddle, Marcel Desailly and Claude Makelele, OM's eight Championnat wins starts to look somewhat perplexingly light.
20. Enfield Town: You may have expected me to put AFC Wimbledon or FC United of Manchester in here, but Enfield Town are the grandfathers of the movement that uses supporters trusts for fans to create their own destinies and break free of the madness of some football clubs. Infuriated by a chairman that sold their ground and squandered the money, Enfield Town were formed by supporters of the former non-league giants, Enfield FC. They recently reached an agreement to move back into a renovated stadium near their old home, after eight years away.
cheers :) interesting read
got no idea why AFC DrownedInSound aren't there. Surely the first team of any kind to bring fringe-heavy indie kids with a passion for early nineties Premier League together in the name of FITBA
Missing fact
Queens Park FC = Amateurs.
where the fuck did they even find the time?!
true fact:
my great uncle played for bon accord. Before that match though.
1st comment:
As important as a fourth division Italian club is that hasn't won a title in 95 years (despite their importance of being Italy's first club) and the bicycle kick is to the game, I would argue for another club as its replacement: Liverpool FC.
Qualifications (good and bad)
England's most successful football club and most trophies in English football (5 European Cup titles, 3 UEFA Cup titles, 18 league titles, 7 FA Cup titles)
5 league tiles in 7 years (1940-1947) and 4 European cups in 8 years (1977-1984)
5 year ban of English clubs from UEFA competition due to involvement in Heysel Stadium disaster, one of the worst cases of hooliganism in world football
Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, whose 96 deaths led to the removal of standing terraces and stand barriers from English football stadiums
I didn't write this,
I just found it funny that after the "INJUSTICE THAT LIVERPOOL AREN'T THERE" mention, the first comment on that list was the one I posted.
i know you didnae :)
made me laugh too. Also justifies bamos's comment up there ^^^^^^
Brilliant. Liverpool fans are the most reliable in the country.
Actually, I didn't know about Enfield Town and the stadium
That's great news for them.... Enough to give us a glimmer of hope.
Not really.
I was thinking of Tonbridge Angels.
I'm not sure but I'd probably...
...replace Boca with River, Real with Barca and include Chelsea, Brentford, Bologna and Celta Vigo.
The biggest clubs
Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Boca Juniors (Argentina) are the biggest clubs of the South America and two of the biggest clubs of the world. You can compare them only with Real Madrid, Milan, Manchester United, Liverpool and Barcelona.
The biggest clubs of each country (taking into account recent inquiries that gave points to the clubs according to five principal factors for call the greatness of a club: titles, financial receipts, inheritance, infrastructure and fan base in his country (without counting the 'sympathizers' around the world)):
England: 1 - Manchester United and Liverpool , 2 - Arsenal and 3 - Chelsea.
Italy: 1 - Milan, 2 - Juventus and 3 - Internazionale.
Spain: 1 - Real Madrid, 2 - Barcelona and 3 - Atletico.
Brazil: 1 - Sao Paulo, 2 - Flamengo and 3 - Corinthians.
Argentina: 1 - Boca Juniors, 2 - River Plate and 3 - Independiente.
Uruguay: 1 - Penarol, 2 - Nacional and 3 - Defensor.
France: 1 - Olympique, 2 - Lyon and 3 - PSG.
Portugal: 1 - Porto, 2 - Benfica and 3 - Sporting.
Netherlands: 1 - Ajax, 2 - Feyenoord and 3 - PSV.
Germany: 1 - Bayern, 2 - Borussia and 3 - Hamburgo.
Mexico: 1 - America, 2 - Chivas Guadalajara and 3 - Cruz Azul.
Chile: 1 - Colo-Colo, 2 - Universidad Chile and 3 - Universidad Catolica.
World: 1 - Real Madrid, 2 - Milan, 3 - Sao Paulo, 4 - Boca Juniors, 5 - Liverpool and Manchester United, 7 - Barcelona, 8 - Juventus, 9 - Bayern and 10 - Internazionale.
Alex Schneider
financial reciepts?
does this take into accoutn debt?
'mon the queens park
West Auckland FC
won the first world cup by accident
then bankrupted themselves defending it the next year beating Juventus in the final


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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Easter/Mall Adventures
At MOPS this week, our speaker spoke about how Easter is not all about bunnies and chocolate and gave lots of ideas for traditions to establish in our families that help to celebrate the real meaning of Easter. I agree completely and I want to make an effort to establish Easter traditions that are about Christ's resurrection and the true meaning of Easter. So I'm wondering...do I ditch the Easter bunny? I love doing baskets, egg hunts, new spring clothes, chocolate (of course), dying Easter eggs, the Easter bunny, etc. but I'm wondering if I should scale back on that stuff to allow us time to celebrate the true meaning of Easter. I think this year I am going to have a week-long Easter celebration (the religious part of it)...then have the Easter bunny come Saturday morning, and then reserve Sunday to focus on the real Easter. I'd like to do resurrection eggs, make the hallow empty tomb cookes, make a traditional Easter dinner, have an Easter FHE about Christ being resurrected, and more. So I'm throwing out this question to any of you who may be reading...What kinds of Easter traditions do each of you have that teach the real reason of Easter? Please share....
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Your kids are just too adorable, Julie! I honestly want to reach across the screen and kiss their cheeks!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
You know that I LOVE holidays, so I understand your "dilemma." I'll tell you what we do and I can't wait to get new ideas from your friends.
We do tons and tons of Egg Hunts, wherever we can find them – city, church, neighborhood, school, etc. Love them. The kids love them. Good times are had by all. We also decorate eggs, read fun books, decorate the house, wear holiday-ish clothes, visit the Bunny at the mall, etc.
But my kids don't think the Easter Bunny actually brings them stuff. I've always said, "For real, do you think a giant bunny is jumping around bringing toys to people? That's silly. It's just a fun story that we tell and enjoy. It's like the Tooth Fairy." I know, I'm mean, but I hate lying to kids. It's fun to pretend that those things are happening, but I like them knowing that we're just pretending. Like when the leprechauns destroyed the playroom last week, colored their pancake batter and applesauce green, and left their gold coins behind. The kids knew that it was just me, but they played along. We all had fun. The whole Santa story makes me nervous, but Don won't budge on that one. Anyways, on Easter morning when they open their basket, they know it's from us.
To add the religious element, we have TONS of religious Easter books in our seasonal book basket downstairs and we read one a night up until Easter Sunday. We also have an "Easter Can" with the symbols of Easter in it and scriptures that relate to each item. We take out one a day of those as well. And on Easter morning, we wake them up early, drive to a quiet place and watch the sunrise. While we're there, we read the story of the Resurrection. Then we go home for a yummy breakfast.
Last year, Don and I made these wooden plaques for each one with vinyl lettering that said, "I am a child of God" on them. We put those in their baskets along with a Bible coloring book and candy. I think we'll start doing from now on too, instead of more secular toys. I have a friend who lets her kids do their baskets on Easter Saturday so that they can completely separate the religious from the secular. Maybe we'll try that. I thought it was smart.
So that's it. A little bit of both, but we try to separate them from each other. One is a secular fun thing to do. One is a remembrance of a sacred, religious event that is the crux of who we are and will become. I think it's fine to do both.
For FHE the week of Easter we always do an easter egg hunt with the plastic eggs, inside the eggs I put characteristics of Christ. As we find the eggs we talk about Christ and the real reason for Easter.ReplyDelete
I love the mall. The kids all really love the play place. I'm so glad they disinfect everything every night. Last time we were there with Ky and Nora, Jerome assured me that they do. (Followed by a roll of his eyes. What does that mean?)ReplyDelete


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You open up your child's school folder to find yet another note from the teacher saying your child is being disruptive or not listening in class. You have already taken away his favorite video games and made him skip out on a birthday party, but his behavior in class hasn't changed.
What should you do?
Find out why your child is being disruptive
"The first thing I always seek to help parents do is to understand the function of their child's disruptive behavior. Most children are not motivated by a desire to behave badly; often times, they can't help it!" says child psychologist Dr. Linda Smith.
She says that parents need to make sure they are not blaming their child for behaviors that may be impulsive; however, they do need to provide enough structure and communication to the child so they know that bad behavior is unacceptable.
Start by figuring out why your child is acting out. "Children may be disruptive in class for a wide variety of reasons," says Dr. Smith. "Is your child bright, but bored by the material in class? Is she near a rambunctious friend that encourages loud behavior? Or perhaps the disruption tends to happen when the material is overwhelming for your child, such as during math class or wordy reading tasks? Depending on the root of the behavior, the course of action varies. Moving a seat, or providing a little extra support in math, for instance, can curb these behaviors quickly by getting to the root of the problem."
Concrete tips for your future model student
Once you get to the root of the problem, the issue may resolve, such as getting them away from the rambunctious friend or getting your child some extra tutoring. Having a good relationship with your child's teacher is so important as you can both figure out if perhaps your child is bored and needs to be in a more advanced class or is behind and needs some extra tutoring to catch up.
It also helps to provide your child with some concrete tips to help them control their behavior on their own.
^ One great idea is to have your child find a boy or girl in the class who is usually doing the right thing — and then model his or her behavior! "There are usually one or more students that are attentive and on task most of the time. When in doubt, copy her!" says Dr. Smith. "If she has her math book out, take yours out. If she is sitting quietly and waiting, sit quietly and wait!"
^Is your child having a hard time blurting out answers in class, instead of patiently waiting for his turn? Dr. Smith says to give him this suggestion: "Before you say something out loud in class, say it in your head twice and make sure it sounds OK! Think to yourself, how will this sound to my teacher?"
^Many children have difficulty sitting for a period of time. "For kids who get the wiggles when sitting still too long, work out a plan with their teacher for frequent short breaks, such as throwing something out or putting something away," she says. "Movement helps!"
^Parenting expert and Kinsights co-founder Jennifer Chung says it is also a good idea to practice taking turns and following directions at home. "Make following rules and directions fun! Board or card games are a great way to teach children that following directions makes things more fun for everyone, and this works for young kids (Chutes and Ladders is a good one) and older kids (card games like Uno). Games can reinforce the idea that following directions, waiting for your turn and teaching others are important skills."
^Positive reinforcement also helps, says Chung. "Reward and highlight times that your child is cooperative and attentive — sometimes kids get a lot of attention for being disruptive (which can encourage more of the same behavior), so it's important to provide ongoing acknowledgement for good behavior," she says.
When should you consider professional help?
"If a child's behaviors are getting in the way of his or her ability to learn or make friends, then parents should seek a professional opinion," says Dr. Smith.
"A psychologist can do a thorough assessment of your child's cognitive strengths and weaknesses, including his ability to plan behaviors, curb impulsivity and attend to information presented in different forms. A classroom observation may also help determine any external triggers to disruptive behaviors. A behavior plan and a few school accommodations are often enough support for children who talk out and act out during school," says Dr. Smith.
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