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About IshmaelDS
doh *she not he. :(
"The Court concludes that an award of $1.5 million for stealing and distributing 24 songs for personal use is appalling." I would just like to point out that the judge did make one mistake in his write up. The plaintiff didn't steal anything, he infringed on copyrights.
Because you DID miss it.
from CommonSense's post above yours
" to this cool new thing that interests him, and point out that even though it was done before, the creator of this particular project had no previous knowledge of the other projects. It's a clear example of independent invention, and that is all. Time between inventions matter as much as the distance between inventors, which should be not at all."
No one missed where he said it had already been invented before, all Mike is saying is that they did it both independently.
or maybe they did and they just are putting in the contract (albeit in a bad way) that you are only going to get one public IP.
They didn't hack the developers servers, they gained access to a journalists steam account.
Really, that would be annoying? My wife has done it and annoyed a lot of her friends cause they can't tag her. Is it possible you turned it off only for some certain subset of your friends list?
You know you can turn off the ability of others to tag you in photos right?
I was going to post the same thing. I have groups for different subject matter, like religious debates that I know make some people uncomfortable, tech talk that makes others eyes glaze over, etc. I have hope for Google+ and would love an invite as I'm a current user of Buzz(though not many of my friends use it) and was hoping that it would take off as I go there all the time to check my mail anyway.
I haven't seen the group but the only thing I can think of that would be reasonable would be if the group was implicating that it was PART of NPR otherwise your absolutely correct hobo.
If you didn't catch it last night the John Stewart had a great opening piece on this exact issue. Essentially saying the same thing in regards to the hyperbolic discourse.
Flew out of SLC recently and it was the naked scanner or the full grope. No choice, no random, you either flash someone or get molested.
"I'll grant that police may use such phrases in certain situations for classification that may have validity "in the trade" as it were,"
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make.
"but I'd contend that classification is very definitely not the primary intent in most cases when it is used in a news article or political speech. Education isn't going to sort that out for you.
News is entertainment and emotions get better ratings than dry fact and politics is a popularity contest and emotions are a very good way of tugging the electorate around."
That part I'm not debating other than to say I think that is what we need to change, will it be easy, no, but I do think it is necessary to make the fight.
Okay, all very good points.
"Both would fall under the artificial bucket "street crime" though, and how is it important to seperate a mugging on the street from a mugging where, for example, the victim is attacked in their own home to the same result?" In this scenario one would probably have home invasion as the charge rather than mugging, unless, it was over the internet that the "mugging" happened. Then it wouldn't be street crime, it wouldn't be a home invasion, it would be a cyber-mugging, in which case your both describing the severity of the crime, as well as the method. While it was wrong, you could argue convincingly i would think that it was less wrong then breaking into someones home and stealing from them, as the personal violation would probably feel considerably less.
As to your other points I have no doubt that there is a certain emotive content to the word, but like I said before we need to educate that away, not stop using it.
That's pretty circular logic. You stated something so therefore what you stated is right? You are incorrect and I'm showing why you are, just like we should be doing with these reporters and politicians that are incorrect. Wow, look at that, my logic isn't even circular.
I never suggested it should be used to downplay or up the severity of the crime. It is useful however to limit the type of crime we are talking about. If I go punch a guy in the face and steal his wallet that's a violent crime. If I just steal his wallet that's a non-violent crime. I think it's valuable to know that difference and report on it as violent vs non-violent. It makes it easier for the public to understand what happened, that however doesn't mean it should be abused. Like I said I don't agree with a lot of what is reported with the term "cyber-crime" that doesn't mean it's not a valuable label, it just means we need to educate reporters and politicians. That takes time, any new type of crime is always over-reported at first, and with the advent of the 24-hr news media it's that much worse.
I don't particularly care for the term cyber-crime either, but we use other words to describe crime all the time. There is violent crime, street-crime, drug-crime, gun-crime, etc. Cyber-crime is just another definition to limit the type of crime that is being talked about. Do some people get it wrong and use it to describe just about anything that had a computer involved at all? absolutely and those people need to be corrected. That doesn't however mean that the term shouldn't exist.
Just thought I would let you know when your going on about how you can't secure Windows you might want to link to a story that actually has a compromised windows server. From the article "In just one of the many ironies in this story, the compromised server inside of Microsoft appears to have been running Linux, not one of Microsoft's server technologies. "
I also have to contend that you can secure Windows, it just isn't done for the majority of consumers out there.
Completely off topic here but thanks for the Marcus Ranum info. Hadn't read his stuff. Looks good.
From the third article linked in the storie.
"Australian Sex Party leader Fiona Patten said the measure amounted to an invasion of privacy, and warned that many tourists and even Australians would not know what pornography was illegal.
"They are still totally confusing," she said of the arrival cards.
"What is illegal to import to our country is not necessarily illegal to possess," she added."
Not sure they would be guilty, wouldn't their manager be part of the band? (In a legal sense) It would be the same for corporations that run facebook pages, the person updating it is (hopefully) a member of the organization.


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You were and have been and still are love of my life, even though you are to the rest of the world nothing but a dead dog. Isn't that funny that my soul mate turned out to be an animal? It makes sense. I am just an animal too. Frankly, I think you got the short end of the soulmate stick. You could have done much better than me, although you wouldn't have found anyone who could have loved you more. I loved you more than anything. I love you still. More than words can express.
I wanted to say hello to you, and let you know that three years on after your death, I think of you always. You reside in my mind, where there is a window in my soul, the sun of my heart shining into it, and you lay right in the warmest spot, your long body stretching in the heat, no pain in your hips.
I look for you in the morning, every day, my hand reaching instinctively over on the side of the bed, where you once lay beside me, knowing I couldn't leave the bed without waking you, why you selected that spot when you first came and stayed there for your entire dog life. Of course, you're never there, and its been three years but I forget, and every morning I reach for nothing, my futile reach. If only my arms were long enough to reach you where you are now. I will continue reach for you, morningtime groggy grabbing at nothing, until finally in death I will find you once more. There will come a morning where I will not wake, and that is the day we will meet again.
Bronwyn and Gudrun, your dog siblings, do well in your absence. I can't tell if they miss you, but my grief clouds everything. All I do is miss you. Yesterday Bronwyn got down to that space under the house where you kept all your secret toys, your beloved tennis balls, your big bitey rubber tire. I hadn't been down there since your death. Your daddy and I couldn't go down there. It hurt too badly to clean it out. It hurt too much to admit you were not returning to us. We left it. we pretended it didn't exist, then pretended silently that you were coming back. That was the only way to cope with your loss, to tell lies to ourselves. The inestimable loss of you, it took nearly all of what we had inside to get by, to get through it. You were our son. You will always be.
I went down to help Bronwyn climb back up, as she's not nearly as nimble as you were, and can't come up on her own. I saw all your precious tennis balls you had stored down there, muddy little green treasures, packed into the crawl space as if it were your tomb, as if you were a grand Egyptian king, your pleasures neatly laid out for you alongside your sarcophagus, so you might have them in the afterlife. I think I might move your ashes down there, to reunite you with your things, but that would mean I would have to move them from your old bed, and I can't bear to part with them. Not yet my love. Not yet my Ralph.

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Few enterprise IT transformations can match the importance of today's long migration from on-premises, client-server computing to cloud computing. This week at Oracle's mammoth OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle will make it abundantly clear that it intends to become a leader in all three flavors of cloud -- not only SaaS, where the company has already demonstrated strength, but also in PaaS and IaaS, where Oracle is a new player.
Last Friday, in advance of OpenWorld, IDG chief content officer John Gallant and InfoWorld editor in chief Eric Knorr interviewed Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd to get his take on Oracle's cloud growth strategy, its new cloud initiatives, and Hurd's take on what customers want from the cloud. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
John Gallant: You had your Q1 earnings announcement yesterday, and obviously, there are a lot of people focused on the specific numbers around PaaS and SaaS and other things. I wonder if you could give a progress report on the transition to the cloud, one that's more focused on things that would be meaningful for an IT audience than the financial audience.
Mark Hurd: First the numbers we produced yesterday were, I think, astounding. We grew 82 percent in our cloud, SaaS, PaaS revenues. We had over 40 percent growth in our bookings number, which was following up on a year ago when we had 166 percent growth in our bookings number.
All these numbers sort of blur together, but I think the theme is they're really big. They're exciting, and now our numbers are meaningful. We passed the $800 million mark in absolute revenue in the quarter. You can do the math with our bookings. Take the Q1 bookings, and over time that will provision into the base as well. It is a large business that is getting bigger.
What's interesting is that as our business has gotten bigger, our growth rate has actually gotten bigger. I announced yesterday this was our seventh consecutive organic growth rate increase so this is just a long time of getting bigger. If Amazon is at 58 or 59 [percent], we're at 82, [Microsoft] Azure is slower than Amazon.
I think it's a testimony to a few things. Certainly one of them is the way customers now want to buy. I think that part of this is Oracle; part of this is the market. For us, we're building great products. I think that's the best, most obvious reason why you see the numbers you do, but in addition to that, it's what customers want to buy, the way they want to buy it. I think that's probably just as important as anything we're doing here.
Eric Knorr: I would imagine most of that cloud growth has been driven by SaaS at this point.
MH: Both. It's SaaS and PaaS.
EK: In the earnings release, Larry Ellison talked about your next-generation infrastructure-as-a-service offering and saying that Oracle will deliver twice the compute, twice the memory, four times the storage, 10 times more I/O at a 20 percent lower price than Amazon Web Services. How will you do that?
MH: A couple things. One is relative to somebody like Amazon, we actually own the entire stack, so we get the opportunity to bring in best-of-breed components but also to optimize them as an integrated system. We have a very large advantage in terms of the depth of our knowledge and our technology at each layer of the stack.
EK: By that you mean the hardware as well. Right?
MH: Really inside the hardware at the silicon layer -- the way we deal with silicon; the security in the silicon, the performance of the silicon. You really drive that and align that directly to the operating system or opportunity to be the leader in operating system technology, the ability to integrate that into Flash, the interrelationship not just into compute but storage as well. Obviously, our knowledge of database systems, authoring languages, Java. We have a tremendous stack that most people don't. Most people are bringing in open source tools they didn't build, tools they certainly didn't optimize.
Second, we get the benefit of having run datacenters in SaaS and PaaS. We get the benefit of the next generation of datacenters, to Larry's point. There is an advantage sometimes to being able to do something better than people did it the first time. That combination of our technology, our depth of knowledge -- we bring to this a lot of weapons to the fight.
EK: One of the things about IaaS is that it demands a huge investment in infrastructure, in building out the datacenter capacity to be able to compete. What kind of investment plans do you have to compete in IaaS?
MH: We have made a lot of investments. Today, we're in 20-plus global datacenters. I've trotted around the world announcing datacenters over the last couple of years as we've opened them up and brought technology and capability to the market. Our capex has been significant. We continue to invest, but again, remember we get to invest against our cost base as opposed to somebody's price base, so it's a big advantage.
For example, if you're Amazon, you're going to buy virtually everything. You own nothing. When we buy an operating system it's free. When we get a database, whether it's MySQL, whether it's the Oracle database, it's free. When we get Exadata, it has a few components that we bring in and we buy it at cost. Our capex will never match the capex that you'll see from somebody else because it doesn't have to.
EK: Can you give anything rough in terms of capex numbers?
MH: No. We won't do that. We've never really done that over the past several years, although you can see in our balance [sheet] over the past couple or three years the billions of dollars of capex that we've invested. I'm not going to give you a forward-looking capex, but in terms of backward, it's all out in the public domain how much capex.
EK: But to be clear, you do plan to own and operate that infrastructure. You're not going to be partnering with others to provide that globally?
MH: When you say partnering, we do a combination of [colocation] as well as our own, so we have a mix, depending on whether it's a SaaS capability, PaaS capability, or infrastructure capability.
JG: I want to explore this again from the perspective of a CIO and make sure we understand your strategy in that IaaS market. One, is what you're doing make that more enterprise ready than perhaps the other IaaS offerings out there? The other is, I guess philosophically, why be in the market at all? It's a price-driven market. It's going to be brutal competition in that market over time. We're already seeing some of that. Why does Oracle need to be in that rather than simply competing in the SaaS and PaaS world, which are much higher-value worlds?
MH: It's what customers want. [But] I like the crux of your question. If you take a step back and look strategically, what's happened in the market? The market has historically been there's a trillion worth of spend in IT. Half of it is consumer, half of it is spent by enterprise. That's everything to me that's not a consumer. The half that's enterprise has not grown much.
When you look at the problems, you actually look at cloud as an economic issue, not just a technical issue. The problem you have is that most CEOs are going against a market with 2 percent GDP growth, 1 percent S&P 500 growth, so there's not a lot of revenue growth. The only way to get revenue growth is to steal market share from somebody.
Most CEOs are doing two things at the same time. They're cutting expenses. When you see S&P up 5 percent and revenue growth up 1 percent it tells you something real quick. They're cutting expenses. They're cutting expenses at the same time as they're trying to steal market share. When you try to align an IT strategy against those two initiatives, you tell the CIO: Get me systems focused on better understanding customers, better understanding the market, and cut the damn expenses.
Now most CIOs are sitting with a hand of 85 percent of their spending spent to keep the trains running, so they don't have tons of flexibility. At the same time, some CEO or the board of directors tells the CIO: Hey, secure this infrastructure so that nobody hacks me. And the guy says: OK, I'll spend some more money on security or get a consultant. That's all coming out of my [remaining] 15 percent.
At the same time, if you're in a bank or you're in pharma, there's a bunch of compliance guys that run around saying I want you to do a Monte Carlo simulation. That all comes out of these innovation dollars. The CIO has a complex environment.
Remember what all of us, starting with Silicon Valley, have done to CIOs. We sold them piece parts for the last 25 years, and they've assembled them, and they've put big IT staffs in place and created very complicated configurations, all chasing procurement benefits, and what they've created is this very complex, kludgy environment. I tell you all of that, John, against a backdrop of a really complicated, expensive IT environment that isn't providing tons of new innovation. At the same time, the consumer is innovating like crazy on the other end. Many of our customers who are B2C are really, really stressed.
That's why cloud is an irresistible force. This isn't just a technically better mousetrap. This is an economically better mousetrap. Cloud simply costs less money. It costs less money at the same time it's giving you an innovation engine that isn't built on your IT budget. It's built on Oracle's R&D budget.
At the same time, it's more secure and it's simpler. The simple gets back to the core of your question, which is I'm going to do SaaS in the Oracle environment. I like Oracle's tools. I like Java. I like Oracle Linux. I like the Oracle database. But, you know, Oracle doesn't want to provide infrastructure because they don't like the margins, so I'll take all that stuff and use Amazon for bare metal, then I'll interrelate the workloads between Amazon and back to the Oracle cloud, and somehow I'll bring it back on-premise when I need to. That's really complicated.
That's why we've made a couple decisions, not just the infrastructure decision, but another decision. I want to make sure it's clear. We've decided to put in our platform a whole set of open source tools. The same question that you asked, why on earth would you put Python in your cloud when you have Java? Why would you put JavaScript in your cloud when you have Java? Why would you put Ruby in your cloud when you have Java? Why would you put MySQL in your cloud when you have Oracle? The answer is because our customers want to be able to do all of what they want to do without leaving that one cloud. I think our customers want fewer clouds, not more clouds. They want less complexity, not more. It's the same reason that we did as much work in platform as we did SaaS.
By the way, you could make an argument, John, to your first question. Why would we ever do PaaS when you've just done SaaS? Win the apps and you get everything that goes underneath the app. Well, our view was that our customers are going to want to extend the apps. Not customize them but extend them, and they needed to have those in the same platform. They then were going to want to run that platform on the same infrastructure, and they want that integrated into the platform. They want the platform integrated into the applications.
Over the last decade, that's how we've evolved into this strategy and the reason it's so robust is because that's what the customer wants. The customer wants one-stop shopping as much as they can. I don't think customers are going to have one cloud, but I don't think most big customers are going to have 10. I don't think they'll have five. I think they're going to look for a couple, three clouds and get as much out of those couple, three clouds as you can.
EK: Mark, you want to be the primary cloud for these customers is one way of looking at it.
MH: We want to be a primary cloud. If I was divining an IT environment and I was a customer, I'd be saying to the CIO: Let's get as few of these guys in here as possible. I don't want a lot of complexity. I want big guys that can plow a lot of R&D into things to give me a lot of extension of my capabilities. I want to be secure. I want to be simple. Get me a damn good price. Get me a little bit of leverage, so I have a little bit of choice here and there.
What's happened for years, I think, is that CIOs started to chase nickels and dimes, and the nickels and dimes cost them hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Next thing you know you have a Dell server, an HP server, an IBM server, an Oracle server, whatever. Then I chase Red Hat operating systems, AIX, HP. I've chased all these different data and what I have now is this kludgy environment.
I tell our customers when they say to me: Can you assure me that your security is the same as ours on-premise? And I would say I could never make it that bad. I could never do it. We have one configuration, one; one piece of hardware, same OS, same database. You have infinite combinations of technologies, and the ability to secure that is really hard. Who's doing it? You're doing it on your nickel. It's a very expensive, complex strategy.
JG: What should we expect at the OpenWorld conference next week?
MH: We'll have a pretty strong set of releases in every category. There will be a suite of SaaS announcements across industries. There will be a suite of SaaS announcements across various product categories. We'll have some new HCM [human capital management] announcements, new ERP announcements. We'll have a set of infrastructure announcements, probably 10 to 11 pure infrastructure offerings. Along the way we'll talk about Database 12.2 that we'll bring to the market.
JG: What are you going to cover in your keynote?
MH: I'm going to talk a little bit about the pressures on CEOs and CIOs. I think we have a lot of people that still wonder whether cloud is a fad, and clearly we have a lot of competitors that hope so. They really pitch private clouds and all of these things. I'll try very hard to explain why this is going to go.
I'll do some predictions about what's going to happen by 2015. I did some last year; I'll do some more this year. There are some startling numbers. Last year I predicted all of dev/test would move by 2025. I think almost 40 percent of it has moved already. That's 30 percent of all of IT. I'll do some predictions. I have a set of customers with me that will talk about what they're doing in terms of application strategy, dev/test strategy, etc.
JG: So much is written about Oracle's transition to the cloud. It gets a tremendous amount of coverage. What are the errors or misperceptions about that transition that you would correct?
MH: Forget what anybody thinks or anybody's perception is, it's just numbers. When you see numbers like we had in Q3, you see what we did in Q4, and you see what we did in Q1, somebody is deciding to buy a lot of stuff. It's a lot of business.
Look at what's happening in ERP and look at what's happening in HCM. Our growth was over 40 percent quarter on quarter in ERP. Our growth in HCM was 131 percent. Our PaaS growth again, quarter on quarter. This is an amazing opportunity for us because most of what we have in our cloud is new customers. The bulk of our base is just now moving.
I gave the stat last night that this quarter more than 50 percent of our apps that we sold had never been an Oracle applications customer before. Every quarter we've been as high as 70 percent. That's not a current number. That's been three or four quarters back. Seventy percent of our customers in the quarter that we had closed them had never been an Oracle customer before. The bulk of our ERP customers, the bulk of our HR customers still have not moved. They're moving. Don't get me wrong. And, by the way, look at our renewal rates in support. It isn't changing. Our on-prem customers are stable. Some are moving, and we're getting a whole bunch of new customers, and I'm not sure that this isn't the most exciting cloud story out there.


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Quilt tester: Laura Boehnke
3—9x21" pieces (fat eighths) assorted butterfly prints (blocks)
6—9x21" pieces (fat eighths) assorted prints in blue, brown, green, red, and cream (blocks)
5⁄8 yard mottled blue (blocks, binding)
2—9x21" pieces (fat eighths) assorted cream prints (blocks)
1⁄8 yard pink floral (blocks)
1⁄4 yard green print (inner border)
7⁄8 yard brown floral (border)
2-1⁄2 yards backing fabric
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Like fans at a rock concert, a friend and I recently stood elbow-to-elbow with throngs of fellow art lovers at the Rijksmuseum, trying to catch glimpses of masterpieces by those 17th-century superstars, Rembrandt and Vermeer. Extensive renovations, slated for completion in 2010, have greatly limited gallery space but not attendance, which hit 1.2 million last year. We took refuge under a shady oak tree in nearby Vondelpark, maps spread out, searching for a more relaxed way to experience the city's art. Happily, we discovered a collection of smaller venues whose ambience inspires rather than overwhelms. Here are our favorites:
De Nieuwe Kerk
After a fire gutted De Nieuwe Kerk (Dutch for "New Church") in 1645, it was restored to its former grandeur with a towering carved wood pulpit, striking stained-glass windows, and a cherub-adorned pipe organ, the largest in the Netherlands. William I chose De Nieuwe Kerk for his investiture in 1815, and his successors have all done the same, establishing De Nieuwe Kerk as the country's Westminster Abbey.
Its ceremonial importance and splendid interior create a memorable gallery for art exhibits. In late July, "Seven Centuries Black" will explores the multitude of black characters in Flemish and Dutch paintings, from angels and ordinary people to kings and queens. Among the noteworthy paintings in this exhibit will be Rembrandt's "The Baptism of the Eunuch" and Jan Mostaert's "Portrait of an African Man" (www.nieuwekerk.nl).
The Jewish Historical Museum
Before World War II, Amsterdam's small but thriving Jewish community worshipped at a complex of 17th- and 18th-century synagogues. During World War II, three-quarters of Dutch Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. It wasn't until the 1980s that the four looted synagogues were restored, connected, and reopened. Today the Great Synagogue, dating from 1671, provides a moving setting for galleries highlighting the culture, religion, and history of Dutch Jewry from 1600 to 1900.
The adjacent New Synagogue, built in 1752, is home to a permanent exhibit of Dutch Jewry from 1900 to the present. Among the museum's gems are its beautifully preserved 13th-century prayer book and gold- and silver-embroidered velvet torah mantles commissioned by the city's Portuguese Jews, who were involved in the textile trade (www.jhm.nl).
Rembrandt House Museum
In 1639, the same year Rembrandt received a prestigious commission for his iconic Night Watch, the artist splurged on a two-story gabled house with a fashionable Amsterdam address. Until his lavish lifestyle led him to declare bankruptcy 20 years later, Rembrandt lived and worked here.
Today, the Rembrandt House Museum has been restored and decorated with art and furniture from its famous owner's day. Rembrandt's presence can be felt throughout the house, especially in his upstairs studio, where light streams through a north-facing window onto a large easel.
Rembrandt was one of the world's greatest etchers, creating prints from copper plates on a wooden press. In a new wing, the museum rotates its nearly complete collection of Rembrandt's 290 etchings (www.rembrandthuis.nl).
Grand Amsterdam
Privacy-seeking celebrities stay at the cloistered Grand Amsterdam. That tradition dates back 500 years when A-listers like William of Orange and Maria de'Medici were guests at the convent turned royal palace.
The Council Chamber where Queen Beatrix held her civil wedding ceremony in 1966 features painted and carved wood panels and a massive table carved with animals representing the four points of a compass. Weddings are still performed in the exquisite marriage chamber, commissioned by city officials in 1925.
Artist Chris Lebeau depicted a couple's courtship and wedding in Jugendstil murals and luminous red-, purple-, and lime stained-glass windows.
At the entrance to the hotel's cafe hangs the postwar mural "Asking Children," by Karel Appel. The 1949 work, depicting children begging for food, caused such a controversy when it was hung in front of the then town hall's canteen that the city hid it for a decade (www.thegrand.nl).
Foam Photography Museum and Huis Marseille
Old and new contrast dramatically at a pair of 17th-century canal houses along Keizersgracht canal. Behind the elegant facades of the Foam Photography Museum and Huis Marseille are the striking contemporary photographs of established artists and emerging talent.
This spring, Foam showcases American photographer Jessica Dimmock. For three years, Dimmock charted the lives of a group of heroin addicts living in a Manhattan apartment (www.foam.nl).
A short stroll down Keizersgracht, Huis Marseille hosts a retrospective by well-known Dutch photographer Edwin Zwakman (through May 25). With images of suburbs and Dutch panoramas, Zwakman appears to be working in the tradition of conventional documentary photography. In fact, his photographs are actually of scale models reconstructed in his studio. In photos of cities including Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Tehran, Iran; German photographer Hans Scholten aims his camera at new mushrooming neighborhoods devoid of urban planning (www.huismarseille.nl).
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery
In 1640, Johan Maurits, governor general of the Dutch colony in Brazil, hired the architecture team of Pieter Post and Jacob van Campen to design a mansion in the poshest neighborhood of The Hague. Today the handsome Dutch classicist residence houses the Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, with a small but unsurpassed collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings by Vermeer (including the "Girl with a Pearl Earring"), Rembrandt, Jan Steen, and Frans Hals. This intimate gallery makes you feel as if you've entered a private collection. That's exactly how the oldest part of the collection came to be – a result of passionate collecting by Willem V, Prince of Orange-Nassau. When Prince Willem fled to England during the French invasion of 1795, Napoleon took the paintings back to Paris, where they were hung in the Louvre.
Two decades later, the collection was returned to The Hague and donated by Willem V's son, King William I, to the Dutch state. In 1820, the government bought the Mauritshuis to display what became known as the Royal Cabinet of Paintings.
In addition to its splendid collection, the Mauritshuis presents exhibits like "Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age," which showcases the new genre of cityscapes created by powerful burghers who commissioned paintings to celebrate their towns. Highlights will include Vermeer's meticulously detailed "View of Delft" and Jacob van Ruisdael's "View of Haarlem" (www.mauritshuis.nl).
The Royal Palace, The Hague
In 1536, Emperor Charles V ordered linden trees planted along Lange Voorhout, a stately L-shaped avenue lined with the residences of court nobility and government officials. Today, many of the avenue's elegant 18th-century buildings house embassies. One of the buildings is home to a permanent museum dedicated to the work of Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher. "Escher in the Palace" includes a good sampling of M.C. Escher's lithographs, woodcuts, engravings, drawings, and sketches. Visitors step into Escher's fantastic world in a virtual reality exhibit on the palace's top floor. Through September there's also a special exhibit on optical illusions (www.escherinhetpaleis.nl).
• For information about travel to Amsterdam, see www.us.holland.com.


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Gotta give Final Fantasy studio Square Enix this: man, they can sure make dazzling cutscenes. Here is the new prologue for the revamped Final Fantasy XIV.
Square Enix is massively overhauling its massive online FF game. Previously, Square Enix showed off a dungeon in the new Final Fantasy XIV. If you missed that, watch that right here.
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My husband was able to get a ride home from church after his meeting on Sunday so that we were able to ride together to church instead of taking 2 vehicles, saving us money on gas.
This week I made a meal with lentils for the first time. Unfortunately, it wasn't a big hit at my house. I will be looking for more lentil recipes to try since I now have 8 cups of cooked lentils in my freezer!
I cooked a whole chicken in the crockpot and made overnight crock pot chicken broth. I used the leftover chicken and chicken broth to make Chicken and Rice Soup and we also had chicken quesadillas and chicken sandwiches with the leftover chicken.
I found Nivea Lip Butter on sale at Walmart for $1.74 each and used the $3.00 Nivea lip care coupon from Sunday's paper. I paid $.24 each! I was also really excited to find bags of slightly browned bananas on sale for $.89/bag. The bag I brought home had 12 bananas in it! I made chocolate chip banana muffins and will freeze the bananas that I'm not able to use up quickly.
Our children made their dad Valentine's Day cards and I wrote him a Soap Love Note for Valentine's Day. Instead of eating out, I made a Valentine's Day meal at home and made one of his favorite desserts, Hot Fudge Cake.
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India Steps Up Climate Change Efforts
As international climate negotiations progress this week in Bangkok, Thailand, India has shown signs of more proactive engagement on climate change issues both internationally and at home.
While the Indian government continues to emphasize poverty alleviation and economic development as the country's highest priorities, recent stances on domestic emission reductions indicate that India is taking considerable steps to encourage more constructive global climate talks.
India joins a growing contingent of developing countries that "are making very significant efforts to show what they are doing to address climate change and indicate what more they are willing to do," according to U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer.
Until recently, India had repeatedly rejected calls to quantify its targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions on the grounds that this would jeopardize national poverty alleviation goals.
"India cannot and will not take emission reduction targets because poverty eradication and social and economic development are first and over-riding priorities," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in June.
But two weeks ago, in a surprising reversal, India agreed to quantify its efforts to mitigate climate change. Ramesh said India would reduce emissions by "a broadly indicative number," although the reductions would still not be bound by international law.
At the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Italy in July, India joined 16 other countries in declaring that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels should not exceed 2 degrees Celsius. This goal remains somewhat controversial, however, as there is still no clear agreement on how countries will share the burden for reducing global emissions.
At the subsequent Major Economies Forum in Washington, D.C., this September, India proposed that it could submit more detailed and regular information to the international community on its domestic climate change efforts as a step toward greater transparency.
All countries that are party to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to submit periodic "national communications" that report on their carbon emissions and climate mitigation activities. But India, like other developing countries, has not had to submit these reports as regularly or in as much detail as industrialized countries, especially for those actions that are not internationally funded.
"We are prepared to...incorporate [self-funded actions on climate change] in our national communication [and]...to consider making the national communication more detailed and more regular," said Shyam Saran, India's Special Envoy on Climate Change, speaking to Worldwatch. But, he said, all parties to the UNFCCC would need to agree to such changes.
These recent overtures from India's government are a sign of the country's growing investment in the success of the Copenhagen climate negotiations in December, Ramesh said.
"The single most important message we need to give the world is that we are proactive, constructive, [and] we want a fair and equitable agreement in Copenhagen," he told the Indian Express.
Strengthening efforts at home
India's investment in climate change appears to be ramping up domestically as well.
Last month, the Ministry of Environment and Forests released a report listing 20 initiatives that the country is undertaking to address climate change at home. These steps come as part of India's larger National Action Plan on Climate Change.
The report mentions reforestation as a priority on India's environmental agenda. A major drive is under way nationwide to add 0.8 million hectares of forest per year, coupled with efforts to improve forest management, conservation, and regeneration and to boost local capacity and job creation for some of India's poorest communities.
These initiatives will help offset 11 percent of India's annual emissions, according to the Ministry report.
The report also touts the government's recent approval of two of the eight "missions" that comprise the National Action Plan on Climate Change: the Solar Mission and the Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency.
The Solar Mission sets a target to install 20 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity by 2020 and 200 GW by 2050. It is the most ambitious solar plan that any country has put forward so far.
The Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency contains initiatives designed to improve the efficiency of energy use across sectors. The government has said the program will include a series of mandated efficiency standards for vehicles, buildings, and appliances; a market-based mechanism to trade energy-efficiency certificates; and other mechanisms to finance efficiency efforts, such as tax exemptions and insurance funds.
The Ministry has also floated a proposal to create a National Environmental Protection Authority that would monitor and evaluate the implementation of environmental efforts in India. The proposal comes as part of a new drive from the Ministry to improve its "accountability and transparency," as outlined in a recent video that asks viewers to provide feedback on Ministry activities.
India firm on equity concerns
Despite its increasingly proactive engagement on climate issues, India has not waivered from its position that equity concerns must underlie the international climate negotiations. The government insists that, despite a common goal of global climate stabilization, each country has a different responsibility to address the problem.
"The major responsibility for bringing about [climate change] is that of the developed countries, and...they should carry out credible action in order to control emissions," said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a press conference following the recent G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsyslvania.
Topping India's agenda have been appeals for more ambitious emissions cuts from industrialized countries as well as larger commitments to provide financial and technical support to the developing world.
"Nearly 200 million [Indians] live on less than $1 a day and nearly 500 million do not have access to modern sources of energy," said External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna at a U.N. roundtable event in New York in September.
At the meeting, Krishna called on industrialized countries to cut their carbon emissions "at least 40 percent by 2020" from 1990 levels and asked them to consider changes in lifestyle patterns to achieve this shift.
"We cannot get away from the fundamental fact that unsustainable lifestyles and patterns of production and consumption in the developed world have caused climate change. This cannot continue," he said.
Krishna emphasized the importance of focusing on climate change adaptation as well as mitigation. "Developing countries must be supported financially, technologically, and with capacity-building resources so that they can cope with the immense challenges of adaptation," he said in a statement to the U.N. General Assembly.
Anna da Costa is a Worldwatch Institute fellow based in New Delhi.
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From a bored princess and an abandoned kitten to a mischievous little dragon and twelve dogs a-leaping, there are books to delight every child as the countdown to Christmas gets under way.
Age 3 plus:
The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Alison Ritchie and Marisa Morea
Look out… there's twelve dogs a-leaping!
Your little ones will be well and truly collared when they dive into this riotous, rhyming picture book countdown to Christmas which has adorable pooches peeping out from every page.
The big day has almost arrived and one little puppy is very excited about his first ever Christmas. But with three drooling Dalmatians, six sausage-snaffling Scotties and every dog in town helping out, the festive season is a shambles! Will everything be ready in time for Christmas Day?
Author Alison Ritchie's sparkling rhyming story and Spanish illustrator Marisa Morea's gallery of charismatic canines capture all the madness and mayhem of a pack of mischievous dogs, and the excitement of the run-up to Christmas. And youngsters will love picking their favourite dogs and spotting the puppy in the busy, beautifully detailed scenes.
A wonderfully imaginative way to introduce children to those favourite Christmas traditions…
(Simon & Schuster, paperback, £6.99)
Age 9 plus:
Can Doctor Proctor Save Christmas? by Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø, one of the most successful Norwegian authors of all time, is back with another explosive story in his laugh-out-loud Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder series for children.
So hold on to your sides and join Doctor Proctor, Nilly and Lisa as they try to stop Christmas going down the pan.
When the king of Norway sells the rights to Christmas to greedy Mr Thrane, it looks like the holidays aren't going to be very merry. Mr Thrane says that the only people who can celebrate are those who buy 10,000 crowns worth of presents from his department store. For anyone who doesn't – or can't – spend that much, it's no tree, no presents, no carols, and no Christmas pudding.
Fortunately, Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa aren't going to take this sitting down. They' are going to find Santa and save Christmas. All they need is a sleigh, flying reindeer, some time travel soap and, of course, some fart powder!
Expect super silly fun, plenty of fart-tastic escapades and lots of Christmas jokes in this fast-paced, off-beat flight of Norwegian comic fancy.
(Simon & Schuster, paperback, £6.99)
Age 9 plus:
The Atlas of Monsters by Sandra Lawrence and Stuart Hill
History, mythology, intrigue and discovery… turn the pages of this amazing Atlas of Monsters and take an unforgettable trip around the world!
Step inside this wondrous atlas and you will find trolls and dragons, centaurs and krakens, chimera and werewolves, goblins and giants ... and an intriguing puzzle to solve on every page.
Written by an Elizabethan adventurer in the form of a long-lost 'atlas' of all the beasts and monsters of the earth, and with a mysterious code at its heart, the atlas invites readers to join the quest to find the truth of his discoveries.
One day a collection of very old maps is unearthed in a dusty library at Hardacre Manor in Berkshire. They show where in the world monsters from mythology and folklore can be found. According to the notes left with them, they were made by Cornelius Walters, an intrepid explorer from the 16th century. But who was Walters and did he really make these elaborate maps, or is it all a hoax? The librarian who discovered them is not certain ... and what are the strange messages in a cryptic code that Walters records in his ship's log?
There is so much more than meets the eye in this spectacular Atlas of Monsters with every page carrying a hidden code to crack the monsters' cryptic messages.
Stuart Hill's spectacular illustrations evoke the beauty of a medieval map, but with an appealing contemporary twist, while the fascinating story, written with humour and a light-hearted narrative, make this book an exciting journey of discovery for fans of myths and monsters.
Fun and learning in one big, exciting book.
(Big Picture Press, hardback, £14.99)
Age 5 plus:
The Elephant in the Room by James Thorp and Angus Mackinnon
Big is beautiful in this extraordinary picture book which takes storytelling and illustration to a stunning new level.
Billed as Edward Lear meets Yellow Submarine, The Elephant in the Room is a unique collaboration between exciting new author James Thorp and talented illustrator Angus Mackinnon. This dynamic partnership has produced an intriguing, madcap, rhyming mystery that is a masterclass in fabulous storytelling and brilliant illustration, and guaranteed to keep readers guessing until the very end.
It started with an oops! … and a look out! … and a crash! Someone has smashed Father Giant's favourite china elephant and he's not happy. In fact, when he finds out who did it, he will make them find each tiny piece and glue it back together then leave the house forever. It wasn't Olive and her brother Grub. Nor was it the naughty newt, the laughing lady or the yucky yak. So just who IS the culprit?
Thorp's flawless rhyming text is a joy to read aloud and the bold, stylised illustrations, highlighted with an eye-catching neon orange, add a surreal twist to this remarkable storytelling extravaganza.
(Templar, hardback, £11.99)
Age 5 plus:
A Kitten Called Holly by Helen Peters and Ellie Snowdon
Snuggle up and enjoy a gorgeous new adventure in the hearwarming Jasmine Green Series.
A Kitten Called Holly is the fourth book in author Helen Peters and illustrator Ellie Snowdon's much-loved series of animal stories which follow the adventures of Jasmine Green and her trusty sheepdog Sky.
Jasmine's dad is a farmer and her mum is a large-animal vet so Jasmine spends a lot of time caring for animals and keeping them out of trouble. When Jasmine and her friend Tom rescue an abandoned kitten, Jasmine is desperate to keep her. But her parents decide to sell Holly the kitten, and Jasmine is not happy with her new owner. Can Jasmine and Tom give Holly the best ever Christmas present… a good home?
Peters is a brilliant storyteller, writing gentle tales of adventure that teach children the importance of kindness, care and understanding, and all brought to life by Snowdon's enchanting black and white illustrations.
A Christmas treat for all animal lovers…
(Nosy Crow, paperback, £5.99)
Age 5 plus:
There's a Dragon in my Stocking! by Tom Nicoll and Sarah Horne
All I want for Christmas is… a Mini-Dragon!
If your little ones haven't yet met Pan, the tiny pet dragon who always leaves chaos in his wake, then introduce them to the latest Christmas cracker in this madcap adventure series and they will be laughing their socks off in the season of jollity.
Small dragon Pan means big trouble for his long-suffering owner Eric but on Christmas Eve they are thrilled to hear something coming down the chimney. However, their festive visitors aren't quite who they were expecting… it's Pan's parents and they are in town for the holidays. With a full house – including, to Eric's dismay, the dreaded Bloom family – Eric has a tough time keeping Pan's parents away from his own family. Then disaster strikes, leaving them all without Christmas dinner. Can the Mini-Dragons step in to save the day?
Tom Nicoll's fun, action-packed story is filled with comedy capers and one liners, all brought to vivid life by Sarah Horne's equally anarchic black and white illustrations.
A fiery feast for dragon fans!
(Stripes, paperback, £5.99)
Age 5 plus:
The Real Boat by Marina Aromshtam and Victoria Semykina
Sail away on a magical voyage of discovery in this quirky picture book packed with wonder, adventure and excitement.
The Real Boat is the work of Russian author and illustrator duo Marina Aromshtam and Victoria Semykina and follows the fortunes of a paper boat as it sets out on a journey to become a real boat on the big ocean.
When the humble paper boat learns that there is such a place as the ocean, a vast stretch of water that joins the sky, he is determined to go there so he can be a real boat. On his journey he meets all sorts of friends, from the strong little tug boat to the glittering ocean liner. But he also learns that the real ocean is huge and deep… and full of dangers.
Aromshtam's lyrical text and Semykina's stylish illustrations combine in a glorious cascade of words and pictures to create an enchanting modern fable that will delight children and parents alike.
(Templar, hardback, £14.99)
Age 4 plus:
Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Jingle Bells! by Tracey Corderoy and Steve Lenton
Get your skates on… Christmas will have to be put on ice unless someone can find who has stolen Santa's presents!
Welcome back to another slice of baking adventures with Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam, two bungling robbers who gave up a life of crime to become the best – and bravest – bakers in town.
Much-loved author Tracey Corderoy and star illustrator Steve Lenton cook up a storm as their two delightfully dogged detectives set out to solve another series of wild and wacky mysteries.
And Shifty and Sam certainly have a lot on their plates in these three hilarious read-aloud stories following the adventures of everyone's favourite baker boys. Someone has stolen all of Santa's presents, a sea monster is spoiling fairground fun day and a weird cat has cursed Sam. You'd better pass the buns because it's going to be a rollercoaster ride.
These brilliant stories are told with wit and charm by Corderoy and brought to life by Lenton's busy, bold and fun-filled illustrations in a two-colour format, ideal for children growing in confidence as readers and beginning to read alone.
Two wickedly funny reformed crooks who are sure to steal your heart!
(Nosy Crow, paperback, £5.99)
Age 3 plus:
The Princess and the Christmas Rescue by Caryl Hart and Sarah Warburton
We all love having friends… but poor little Princess Eliza doesn't have any!
Take flight to the top of the world for a gorgeous rhyming picture book story packed with the magic of Christmas and a marvellously inventive princess.
Author Caryl Hart and illustrator Sarah Warburton are back to steal our hearts again with their fourth festive book in the popular Princess series which encourages girls to celebrate their skills, no matter how un-princessy they might be.
Princess Eliza is brilliant at making toys and gadgets but her mum, the queen, wants her to start making friends instead. In Santa's workshop, the elves are worried… Santa is ill and they don't know how they will get everything ready for Christmas. Luckily, Eliza arrives with her amazing gadget inventing skills to save the day and makes some unexpected friends along the way. And her reward will take her round the world and back!
The Princess and the Christmas Rescue is positively bursting with Christmas fun and fabulous eye-catching illustrations, and also comes with a free Stories Aloud smartphone audio book. Just scan in the code inside the front cover.
(Nosy Crow, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
One Noisy Night by M Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton
Everyone's favourite hedgehog is back for a brand new adventure.
This is the tenth festive outing for M Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton's cute little hedgehog whose crowning glory is his velvety, touch-and-feel red woollen hat… a truly amazing hat that always seems to save the day.
In their latest adventure, Little Hedgehog and his friends have a puzzle to solve. Strange creaking sounds are coming from the woods. And Fox is sure he saw Little Hedgehog down by the river in the middle of the night. Will the friends solve the mystery of the very noisy night?
Butler and Macnaughton capture the spirit of bravery and the reassurance of shared friendships in this beautifully illustrated winter time adventure. And little ones will love getting their hands on that fun and fuzzy red hat!
Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without a Little Hedgehog adventure…
(Little Tiger, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
The Perfect Present by Stella J Jones and Caroline Pedler
There's a special lesson on the joys of friendship in this heart-melting Christmas feelgood story from Stella J Jones and Caroline Pedler.
Billy and Bella the little bears are the very best of friends. There is nothing they like better than whizzing out together on their bike and scooter, and nothing they wouldn't do to make each other happy, particularly at Christmas time. But what if getting each other a special present meant giving up something they really love?
The Perfect Present is a wonderful Christmas tale which encapsulates beautifully the Christmas message about giving, receiving and friendship. With enchanting festive illustrations and a story that tugs at the heartstrings, little ones will love snuggling up with this cosy winter-warmer.
(Little Tiger, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
Santa to the Rescue! by Barry Timms and Ag Jatkowska
The excitement of Christmas comes alive in this captivating picture book from top author and illustrator team Barry Timms and Ag Jatkowska.
It's Christmas Eve and the bears of Mistletoe Mountain are snowed in. The animals of Holly Tree Forest must make their way to Santa's grotto and work together to help him save the day. But can they get all the presents, sorted, wrapped and delivered in time?
Santa to the Rescue! is brimming with festive fun and fantastically detailed illustrations, perfect for sharing with your little ones and guaranteed to get the Christmas countdown well and truly under way!
(Little Tiger, paperback, £6.99)
Age 2 plus:
Oliver Elephant by Lou Peacock and Helen Stephens
Get ready to oooh and aaah as you journey through a beautiful picture book with toddler Noah and his favourite toy elephant Oliver.
Author Lou Peacock and illustrator Helen Stephens work their special brand of magic on this delightful rhyming story featuring a little boy on a Christmas shopping trip.
When Noah goes Christmas shopping with his mum and baby sister, he has a brilliant time with his toy elephant Oliver, playing peekaboo, hiding in a doll's house and dancing on a table. But disaster strikes when Oliver the elephant goes missing just as they are all about to leave for home. And oh dear, the department store is very big. Will Noah ever find his favourite toy again?
Every child and every mother will empathise with this cosy, warm-hearted story – cleverly imagined and beautifully illustrated – which follows Noah's escapades in the shops.
There is also a free Stories Aloud smartphone audio book. Simply scan in the code inside the front cover.
(Nosy Crow, paperback, £6.99)


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London, UK – 29th November 2007
As part of it's commitment to enhancing community relations, Avon and Somerset constabulary has announced that it will be introducing Polish language translation services from SYSTRAN to the information kiosks throughout its area of policing. The kiosks, which are currently situated in police stations and supermarkets, offer the local community and visitors to the area, a facility to find out information about the police force, its activities and its overall performance statistics. The system currently supports 14 languages and there are still plans to further add to this.
Included as services on the kiosks are; news about the area, local crime statistics, traffic updates and notices, information about jobs, an overview of local facilities, contact and employment information and important documents relevant to the community. The roll out of the kiosks was described as pioneering and the force has many plans to extend the service.
Peter Bridger, senior web site programmer, explains, "The project went live in December of 2006 but due to its success it has since been extended to include 14 more kiosks this year." Whilst the constabulary was already offering some facilities through kiosks, the plan was to update and re-launch them. To do this, Avon & Somerset turned to Omega First and SYSTRAN; a leading player in the translation software market.
"As part of our due diligence, we conducted an investigation into potential partners and completed some background research on machine based translations. We approached Omega First, who introduced us to SYSTRAN. We developed our relationship with Omega First and went forwards from there."
The force invested in the SYSTRANLinks solution, an online service that is hosted by SYSTRAN which offers real time translation in a customisable, multilingual hub. When visitors accessed the kiosks they would be able to select the language of their choosing and see the site translated within a few seconds.
"Most products are software driven, but we needed something more complex so that each kiosk could operate quickly and effectively," added Bridger. "SYSTRANLinks fires information back to SYSTRAN's website and returns it when the translation is complete. It literally takes seconds."
The system has already created many benefits for Somerset and Avon's police forces with good feedback coming in regarding its community policing approach. Citizens can now engage with the police on their own terms, and this ensures a good relationship.
Other forces, impressed with the results of the system, have now hinted that they would be interested in rolling out similar services, potentially paving the way for a nationwide release of kiosks – an initiative that would drive national benefits.
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Our Five With: Iekeliene Stange and Victor De Bie
Model Iekeliene Stange and artist Victor De Bie, both of Dutch heritage, chose a German word to title their latest exhibition: Umfeld. "The closest translation is probably 'surroundings'" says De Bie. Appropriately, their well edited selection of paintings and Polaroids shown at London's Horse Hospital this month paid tribute to everything from boyfriends to new babies to ageing park graffiti.
De Bie, a former modelling agency scout turned pro painter, provides a great match for Stange, the face of ad campaigns like Sonia Rykiel and an aspiring photojournalist who's just as legit behind the camera as in front of it. Look for more of their exhibitions later, but for now, let them tell you how it all came together.
How did this partnership come about?
Victor De Bie: I guess you could say she's my muse. That's how we met. After graduation I worked for a modelling agency in Paris and in Brussels, and I was a talent scout. One day I was shopping at a market and I saw Iekeliene. I had to talk to her…Now, a lot of the characters have her features.
How do you get the ideas for your work?
VDB: I think that maybe no one will remember a story, so I have to make a painting out of it. I switch something off. I'm not there anymore. I painted my nephew, but I'm not going to think, "I'm going to paint my nephew." I knew he was born, and I was so happy. I had never seen him before the painting, and then it looks exactly like him. My brother was like, "That's him, that's him." All the pictures you'll see [from my paintings and Iekeliene's photos] are friends and family, all in different situations. It's a story of our surroundings, our lives, our homes, Holland.
How did you choose the Horse Hospital as your venue?
Iekeliene Stange: We wanted to be quite cosy. This is different from the usual gallery. It has a lot more character. It was a lot of work putting everything together. I was modeling last month and back in January. We went location scouting when Victor was here…and we just looked at the images over email. Skype helped a lot.
Iekeliene, you've already had a well-received photo exhibition, I like ponies, in Berlin. Do you think you'll ever compile a book of your images?
IS: That's something I would consider. I'm hoping to have more time in the future. At the moment, modelling is a sure thing. I don't have anything to complain about…I just want to show people these different cultures. I think it's really interesting. I love that every country that you go to, even in Europe, every country is so diverse and has so much history and culture and so many traditions.
Any plans for another London exhibition?
VDB: I'm addicted to London now. I thought maybe I could do something in October, or otherwise next April. I'm just discovering London, and now Iekeliene's bringing me to all these cool places. I'll come back more, definitely.
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The farmers markets tables are awash in reds, greens, purples, oranges- shiny bells and crinkly horns, tiny slivers of heat and crispy sweet bites of summer. It is pepper season! When I was a kid my favorite recipe to prepare was Chile Rellenos. Assisted by an adult, of course, I would heat up that oil and dip the jack cheese filled (canned) pepper into a fluffy egg batter then throw my dripping masterpiece into the oil spitting pan and watch that baby brown. Once a sufficient amount sat on a paper towel covered plate, we would sit down to watch the evening news while drowning our dinners in salsa and sour cream, strands of gooey cheese streaming from plate to mouth-bound fork.
I don't cook (much) by submersing my produce and dairy in vats of oil these days, but I still love the combination of peppers, egg, and cheese. Here's my updated version of my childhood fave:
Stuffed peppers with roasted salsa and a fried egg:
8 peppers (the bigger the better- try poblano or pasilla but lots of other peppers will work), 1 cup cherry or small heirloom tomatoes, 1 onion cut into eighths, 2T olive oil, 1 cup shredded or crumbled cheese, 2 eggs, a bunch of cilantro
Preheat your oven to 400'. Toss peppers, tomatoes, and onions with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place on a baking pan and roast for about 30 minutes or until the peppers are soft and slightly browned.
Once the veggies are ready, let cool slightly, and place half the peppers on a broiler safe baking sheet. Peel off papery skin if desired, carefully slit them on one side and remove seeds. Then stuff them with your choice of cheese: My favorite is Monterey Jack, but goat cheese or queso fresco can work too! Place under broiler until cheese is melted.
Meanwhile, place tomatoes, onions, and remaining peppers into blender and blend just until large chunks are incorporated. Season with salt and pepper if needed. Add a dash of hot sauce if you like, preferably made from African bird chili peppers like the ones in the photo above!
Heat a frying pan to medium and fry two eggs to your liking. (I prefer over easy with good farm fresh eggs)
Place one or two chile rellenos on each plate. Top with fried egg. Pour warm salsa over top and sprinkle with chopped cilantro.
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The Green Bay Packers want to know why they struggled to get their fans to attend a playoff game at Lambeau Field.
ESPN.com's Darren Rovell reported Tuesday the Packers sent surveys to season-ticket holders and individuals on the team's waiting list asking why they stayed away from the team's wild-card matchup against the San Francisco 49ers on Jan. 5.
The Packers had 40,000 available tickets six days before the game. They received an extension from the NFL, and finally achieved a sellout two days before kickoff to avoid a local television blackout. Packers sponsors and three Fox TV stations bought a large number of tickets.
The survey asked fans why they didn't purchase playoff tickets and where they watched the game instead. According to Rovell, the surveys differed slightly based on the individual's financial commitment to the organization.
The Packers weren't the only NFL franchise that struggled to move tickets this month -- the Colts and Bengals also narrowly avoided blackouts. Still, there's a big difference between attendance woes in Indianapolis and Cincinnati and in Green Bay, a place where the Packers represent the identity of an entire region.
Our guess? A large segment of Packers fans didn't want to watch their mediocre team get beat by a superior team on a day in which the temperature hovered around 5 degrees. Survey sayyyyyys ...
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Following is a guest post by Jude Huntz, Director of the Human Rights Office for the Diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph:
Today is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr. Maria was born in 1890 to a pious family in northern Italy. At age 12 she was killed on July 6th by Alexander Serenelli, son of one of her father's work partners. Alexander had lived in the same house as the Goretti's and had attempted to seduce Maria. In his rage at Maria's resistance, Alexander stabbed her to death. Pope Pius XII canonized Maria in 1950.
While many today reflect on the sanctity and heroic virtue of Maria, let us today reflect upon her killer, Alexander. Alexander would have faced the death sentence in our state today for his crime, and yet he was spared that fate in Italy. Alexander would have a vision of Maria on the anniversary of her death that caused a complete transformation of his life. He went on to live a very holy life and was present at Maria's canonization in 1950.
Proponents of capital punishment point to the issue of justice in calling for the continuation of the practice. We as Catholics need to highlight the stories of Alexander Serenelli and others who have had a profound transformation in their lives after a long practice of sin and vice. The Christian tradition is filled with such examples: St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Ignatius Loyola, and many others.
Justice alone is not sufficient to operate any society. The world also needs mercy and love, for it is only these two things that lead to conversion and transformation. We have the ability to protect society from dangerous criminals while also providing them the opportunity to reform their lives. We have an obligation to provide those opportunities. Let us ask for the intercession of St. Maria Goretti for the grace we need to end the practice of the death penalty and for the conversion of criminal offenders.
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PGCE with QTS full time
- Accredited body
- South Birmingham SCITT
- Financial support
- Bursary or student finance if you're eligible
- Qualification
PGCE with QTS
A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) allows you to teach in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It's also recognised internationally.
Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master's degree.
- Course length
- 1 year
- Date you can apply from
- 9 October 2018
- Date course starts
- September 2019
- Vacancies
- No
About the course
About this course
Please visit our website at www.southbirminghamscitt.org.uk for further information and a map of our whole partnership
- Full time; September to July
- 1 day in Professional Studies training (Solihull Campus - Our training suite is located at The Sixth Form College Solihull – 5 minutes from the centre of Solihull and 20 minutes from Birmingham City Centre
- 4 days in placement
- Placement schools allocated primarily upon the location of trainee
- Professional Studies includes subject pedagogy (occasionally these are held at the CPTSA and BCU Campus), research and reflective practice, routines & behaviour, teaching & learning strategies, meeting all children's needs, the importance of assessment, understanding of the wider educational context
- Trainees become reflective practitioners with specific targets to move their practice forwards
- Weekly reflection of teaching practice collates evidence against the Teachers Standards to be awarded Qualified Teachers Status (QTS)
- 4 research assignments (3000 words each - Nov, Feb, May and Oct submission)
- 80 L7 Credits towards a Masters in Teaching and Learning (this is more than a PGCertEd)
- Ongoing early career development … including the opportunity to complete the PGDipEd at the end of the NQT year and the full Masters in subsequent year(s)
- Expert support via School Based Trainers, Professional Tutors, Subject Tutors, Ex-Trainees and BCU Tutors – and cohort peers!
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- 5 minute presentation about yourself
Your interview will take place in one of our Partnership Schools (but not necessarily the one you will be placed in!). You will have the opportunity to meet School Direct Leads, the SCITT Course Manager / Director and colleagues from the partnership.
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Here we go again...
The alleged suicide - on August 1, 2016 - of the "Victor Thorn" entity (aka Scott Makufka) adds another pathetic note to the string of "suspicious / violent deaths of 9/11 truthers & whistleblowers". This continuous /relentless / predictable / and very, very boring saga scripted by the 'intelligence' agencies seems to be working well (for them). No one dares question the premature, violent death of a "fellow truthseeker", right?
Of course, we 'conspiracy theorists' (read: true / independent & honest freethinkers) are all meant to shit our pants at the (silly) idea that we might also be 'killed off' / or 'suicided' (in one way or another) some ugly day.
I remember this Victor Thorn character from the early days of my September Clues research (around 2007/2008) - what with his "WING TV" website which, for a while, timidly questioned the very existence of the "hijacked planes" of 9/11. At the time (and knowing no better) I tried to contact him ... to no avail. He just wouldn't respond to my mails. "How strange" - I thought to myself, "why would someone invested in this specific line of research (of the non-existing 9/11 flights) NOT respond to my e-mails - and just ignore them altogether?"
Here's why: "Victor Thorn" was - all along - nothing but yet another "intelligence agency" asset. To be sure, the 'breaking news' of his alleged suicidal demise originated from the "AMERICAN FREE PRESS" ("America's last real newspaper"), a crass / blatant CIA operation (posing as a "grassroot truther group") - if there ever was one :
https://americanfreepress.net/audio-int ... er-speaks/
Now, dear readers, do you think that I'm jumping the gun - or making gratuitous / callous assumptions - and thus "offending Victor's memory"? All I can say is: judge for yourselves- by listening to "Victor Thorn's" supposed brother, Bill Makufka, interviewed here by AMERICAN FREE PRESS about "Victor's tragic suicide". Make sure you don't miss Bill's excruciatingly phony, 30-sec weeping act - starting at about 3:10 into the below video:
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UjADlL4i0Y
Quoting Bill:
-"I basically haven't turned on the news in two days..."
- "Devastated..."
For more examples of similar cases of "Killed-off (read: DECOMMISSIONED) 9/11 truthers/whistleblowers", read this old post of mine:


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Myles wrote to me to say that he attended RootsTech this year
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Myles went on to say that he
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Myles wants to hear from genealogists from all over the world. I took the survey and found it quite interesting.


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Edition: Anniversary collector's edition
Description: 1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language: English
Originally produced as motion picture in 1975
Based on the novel by Peter Benchley
"This special 25th anniversary collector's edition contains exclusive footage, interviews and behind-the-scenes material."
Special features: spotlight on location, deleted scenes and outtakes, Get out of the water! trivia game, shark world, production photos and storyboards, original theatrical trailers, screen saver
Supplemental materials written, produced and directed by Laurent Bouzereau
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it
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