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+ 2011 a banner year for two sea turtle species
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and its partners have documented a record high annual nest count for green turtles in Florida, along with high numbers of leatherback turtle nests.
The leatherback nest count fell just shy of the previous high mark in 2009, according to the FWC.
For the green turtles, the count was 10,701; for the leatherbacks, it was 601. The figures reflect what the FWC calls "core index beaches," which are surveyed each year to determine nesting trends.
No increase was recorded, however, for loggerheads, the species that nests most commonly in Florida. The nest count for this federally threatened sea turtle was close to average for the previous five years: 41,939. Since 1998, the number of those nests has been in a general decline.
"We're pleased with the green turtle and leatherback nesting totals in 2011," said Dr. Blair Witherington, an FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute scientist. "Nesting by both species has been rising dramatically and can be attributed at least in part to major conservation efforts over the past few decades. However, our loggerhead nesting totals have declined, or are at best stable, which suggests that this species has a different, and perhaps more difficult, set of conservation challenges."
For more information about sea-turtle nest counts, visit MyFWC.com/Research, click on "Wildlife," then click on "Nesting" under the "Sea Turtle" heading.
Sick or injured sea turtles can be reported by contacting the FWC Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-FWCC (3922).
+ Landfill closure, beach park work contracts OK'd
The Sarasota County Commission Tuesday awarded construction contracts totaling $11.9 million for the first phase of the Central County Solid Waste Disposal Complex landfill closure and gas collection system, as well as improvements to Manasota Beach Park, 8570 Manasota Key Road, Manasota Key.
Magnum Builders of Sarasota Inc., one of two local bidders, won the $1.56 million contract for the Manasota Beach Park project, which includes demolition of the existing restrooms and construction of a new restroom pavilion, a refuse enclosure and dune walkover.
Construction is expected to begin in November and to be completed in July. Funding will be provided through revenue bonds that will be repaid with the penny infrastructure surtax.
Thalle Construction Company Inc. of Hillsborough, N.C., won a $10.3 million contract for the landfill work at 4000 Knights Trail Road, Nokomis. There were no local bidders.
The landfill's 60-acre Phase I area, which opened in 1998, is at capacity. Solid waste operations continue in the recently constructed 56-acre Phase II expansion.
Construction is expected to begin in this month, with completion set for August. Funding is provided through the solid waste capital improvements program.
+ Correction
The address of Cat Depot was incorrectly listed in the Oct. 6 issue. Cat Depot is located at 2542 17th St. Its hours of operation are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Call 366-2404.
Meetings & agendas
• School Board — Oct. 18: 10 a.m. workshop, 1980/1960 Landings Blvd., Sarasota; 2 p.m. regular meeting, 1980 Landings Blvd., Sarasota.
• Planning Commission — 6:30 p.m. Oct. 20, R.L. Anderson Administration Center, 4000 Tamiami Trail, Venice.
• Development Review Committee — 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 20, Conference Room Two, 1001 Sarasota Center Blvd., Sarasota.

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Did some shopping today with the fiance and went to Olive Garden for the endless pasta bowl, by the way.. I only had one bowl. Fail. Even worse? I had left overs that are currently in my fridge. Major fail. lol I also have a little bit of a haul from TJMaxx.
I also brought out my Juicy Couture candy corn charm. :)
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The Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) is the unrotated, first principal component of six observables measured over the tropical Pacific (see NOAA ESRL MEI, Wolter & Timlin, 1993,1998). To compare the global mean sea level to the MEI time series, we removed the mean, linear trend, and seasonal signals from the 60-day smoothed global mean sea level estimates and normalized each time series by its standard deviation. The normalized values plotted above show a strong correlation between the global mean sea level and the MEI, with the global mean sea level often lagging changes in the MEI.


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P.O.W.: Prisoners of War (Arcade) review
" I refuse to mince words. P.O.W. Prisoners of War is a game so fucking awful even the genres staunchest supporter cannot point to a redeeming snippet. Double Dragon 3 had some kitsch. Mug Smashers had some unintended humor. Even Street Smart unsurprisingly, another SNK disaster wasnt this much of a miserable abomination; it at least had the courtesy to not drag out for this long."
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Line LossesBy Reuters - Print
Verizon profit looks up on strong wireless business.
In contrast to the strong wireless results, residential access line subscriptions fell 10.9 percent from a year earlier. Wireline operating revenues fell 1.4 percent from a year earlier to $12.3 billion.
That was similar to AT&T, which announced last week that it added 1.3 million net wireless subscribers in the first quarter but suffered a heavy fall in residential phone users.
Like AT&T, Verizon said it was able to buffer the fall in traditional phone subscriptions with growth in high-speed Internet subscribers.
The company said it had a total of 8.5 million broadband customers at the end of the quarter, up 14.9 percent.
That included users of both DSL and FiOS, an advanced service based on an all-fiber network that can also deliver high-definition video.
Verizon said it added 263,000 FiOS TV customers, bringing the total to 1.2 million.
"Our plan to roll out FiOS Internet and video is beginning to pay off for us," Strigl said. "We knew that our historic dependence on voice needed to shift to broadband and data. And we're able to offset that erosion we're seeing in voice through data and FiOS."
Verizon shares rose to $37.75 from their previous close of $37.04 on the New York Stock Exchange. (Additional reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Chanel new Ombres Contraste Duo
Each duo contains a light shimmery shade and a darker matte one. I bought Taupe Delicat (£29), which contains a shimmery champagne and matte neutral brown. I have similar shades but what I like about this is the champagne does not apply warm on me. The compact comes with a tiny brush and sponge brush.
The texture is quite smooth, the colours blend well and it's easy to build them up. As long as I use a primer the shades last well. However, whilst the texture is noticeably better than the Irreelle ones, I do not think this excels other my other favourite brands.
All the colours of the duos are good basics rather than unique shades. Ultimately I think you will likely have similar colours to the majority of the duos, however I do like having a duo of a shimmery and matte shade in the same compact and they are good no brainer shades to throw on should you be in a rush in the morning, so I do think these are worth a look.
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You naughty naughty girl, another taupe!!!!!! Regardless, love the EOTD, I really like the way you do your eyes, it's always simple but effective and perfectly applied, I'm sure it's going to sound weird, but your eyelids really "take" make up well!! Haven't seen these yet, might be because I haven't really looked, my boy's better but I haven't really been out shopping....aaaaahhhhh! xxReplyDelete
PS: no probs with antibiotics, but I did have to get the generic one which tastes of lemon/orange/apricot instead of the one suggested by the pediatrician which tastes of strawberry...he hates strawberry flavour at the moment...weird!!
I think the combination looks absolutely lovely on you! I've had my eye on this duo for quite some time now (ever since a post on Cafe Makeup actually -another blog that is contributing to my ruination- lol)...not very summery, but I just can't resist a taupe.ReplyDelete
I'm virtually on house arrest until the 2nd of July (preparing for an exam, mature student that I am) but after that the beast shall be unleashed!!!
Nina x
Must. Resist. The. Taupe! The eye look you've done is so beautiful. I'm having a wobble though deciding whether to get the KW pans or get an Ellis Faas light so I'll to just pretend I haven't seem this ;).ReplyDelete
It does look very appealing though...
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I am so so tempted by this duo.ReplyDelete
Thanks Anna,I always think my eye application looks a bit poor, so glad to hear you like :)ReplyDelete
I do always home in on the same colours don't I!
Glad to hear he is on the mend, funny about the strawberry flavour dislike although my one suddenly goes off certain types of foods/flavour, usually after I've bought a load of it after thinking I have found his new favourite! x
Hello Nina,
Thanks,well you know I'm not good saying no to a taupe either so glad I'm not alone!
Good luck for your exam, you'll be glad to get it out of the way and will need to reward yourself for all the hard work :)x
Hi Jane,
Thank you, well they aren't limited edition so you could try holding off until one of those 10% off things goes on at Debenhams/John Lewis, I always manage to miss them somehow. I'm already contemplating another KW purchase...x
Hello Grace,
I think you would quite like the Misty one too (more mauve/burgundy) x
WOW - the look you did is stunning! Great blending!ReplyDelete
Thank you :) it is a good duo for a simple everyday look.ReplyDelete


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So if you're at all interested in comics, or sleeping with someone who is, you know all about the big DC relaunch that's coming. DC Comics is essentially wiping the slate clean, and rebooting their entire universe. None of the stories that you loved growing up actually happened, and they are rebuilding their entire continuity from the ground up. It's like Greedo shooting first, but on an epic, cosmic scale.
I find myself in a perpetual state of not giving a shit. To me, good comic stories are good comic stories. The minute I stopped caring so much about things like continuity, is the minute I started really enjoying comics. And besides, I'm not reading much superhero stuff these days anyways, so they could put a Superman suit on a gay monkey and I probably wouldn't notice. But because EVERYONE is talking about it, I decided to read the very first issue of the new reboot: Justice League #1. This issue is the first real peak that DC is giving us into their new universe, and as such should be designed to absolutely blow new readers away, and to give old readers a real sense of 'HOLYCRAPICANTBELIEVETHEYDIDTHATTOSUPERMAN'
This issue succeeds on neither front.
Mediocre is a word that gets thrown around a lot, with usually a more negative connotation than it deserves. But sadly, it's the perfect word for this sleepy, sleepy comic book. First of all, if you're going to have a comic book about a team of heroes, I expect to see that team in the book. No? How about half the team? Just barely? Sigh. This issue focuses almost exclusively on Batman and Green Lantern, and one might suspect that writer Geoff Johns thought that his Green Lantern movie was going to be a hit when he wrote this, and thus decided to showcase the two heroes most recognizable to modern audiences. So basically Green Lantern and Batman team up to go after evil aliens, and find themselves on the run from the cops for most of the issue. This gives them plenty of time to snark at each other, and then at the end of the issue a guy shows up that I think is supposed to be Superman but couldn't be because there is NO way that DC would ever allow such a bad costume design to actually get into one of their comic books.
And that's pretty much the issue. Two people team up to take down a bad guy, and then another person shows up at the end. Hardly a world building blockbuster. This book wasn't "bad" in the traditional sense. Jim Lee is considered one of the great living superhero comic book artists for a reason, and he makes pretty much every page pop here. And Geoff Johns put together a decent 'Heroes put aside their differences" story. But this book is essentially the pilot for the biggest comic launch the business has seen since 1986.. Words like "decent" and "average" shouldn't be used for this book. Words like 'Skullripping" and "EyeballExploding" should.
Let me clarify: My negativity isn't a backlash against the continuity changes they're making here. I don't care about any of that. I don't care that it's different, all I care about is that it's good. And this ain't.


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General strategies
Golden rules
No matter the BG, these rules should be adhered to to ensure maximum use of force.
- Never travel alone. The more the merrier.
- Always buff yourself and others if you can.
- Always leave defense at the area you captured.
- Let the team know where the enemy is strong and where it is weak.
- Stay near healers. You help them, they help you.
- Kill opposing healers.
- Remain focused on the overall objective.
- Report AFK players. If you fail to do anything about them, they will continue to earn their meager honor and be OK with wasting everyone's time.
Before you begin
There is a waiting period before each BG for a reason. This period is referred to as the "Buff Phase". If you are a buff class but you don't buff everyone you can, you are not doing everything you can. All buffs cost 0 mana. That warrior you failed to buff might not be able to save you when the time comes. It means you warlocks too! We might not need to breathe under water or to detect invisible mobs that much in a BG, but it will cost their priests more mana to dispel the extra buffs.
Have a plan and stick to the plan. Listen to the BG leader. This may not actually be the player named "Battleground Leader". Usually one person will speak up with advice to help. Give them support, even if you think the idea is not the best, it's better to work together than spend a minute arguing. Plans can change on the fly.
Path to Victory
Some general tips to bring focus to the battleground and quickly give your team the edge.
- Communication is absolutely critical, and often why a pick up group will lose to a premade group, usually a guild. The guild will often be on vent and can quickly and efficiently communicate, while you cannot. But even the barest hint of information can help focus your team's strategy. e.g. If you are a small group of 3 guarding a flag, typing "inc 6 (enemy)" can alert your teammates to rush to your defense or abandon that position to attack somewhere else.
- Leadership: If no one voices a strategy during the buff phase, take initiative and speak up. Even something as simple as "IBGY first, plz" will help bring focus and help accomplish your initial objective.
- Roles: Tell others what "Role" you will play in the battle. Let them know if you will be a Flag Carrier or a Healer, or if you will chase or slow down the opponents FC. It is best to do this at the start of the game (Buff Phase) while you are all together waiting for the game to start.
- Flag Carrier: Also know as a Runner or FC. Person who is responsible for actually grabbing and carrying the flag. It is better to have a Rogue, Druid, or Shaman carry the flag. They can run faster than other classes.
- Healer: Very important role. This person will try and stay out of harms way and heal the others fighting. If an opponent goes after your healer then target them first. Also, attack opponents' healers rather than their fighting classes.
- Tanks: Person who takes the most amount of damage. They try to act as a shield to the other players. In PvP, tanks are not as useful as in regular game play. The reason is because Real Human Players are not affected by aggro. In game play tanks can force the computer to focus on them, but Real Human Players can attack whoever they want.
- MiniMap: You can use the MiniMap to communicate with other players.
- Keep it simple: Long statements are not productive. Often you only need to accomplish one objective at a time in a step by step fashion. By stating one objective at a time, you will help to keep your team together and avoid spreading players too thin. Which leads to the next tip...
- Groups of 1, 2, and 3 are fatal. You want to move as a steamrolling juggernaut of 5 or more people as you go through any battleground, preferably with a healer. Groups of 2 and even 3 are often easily picked off and should only be used for defense. Consult your map and strategy and move to where you are most helpful.
Alterac Valley
Please read this link for an up to date and detailed strategy on Alterac Valley [1]
The goal of AV is to kill the enemy general before your general is killed.
What gives honor in AV?
- Killing enemy General
- Killing enemy Captain
- Destroying enemy Towers
- Capturing Graveyards
- Killing enemy players
- Ending the game with intact friendly towers
- Winning
AV is usually considered a race to the other faction's general. 90% of the players will go on offense, immediately running across half the map. The remaining players are defense that fight a losing battle to delay the enemy from reaching the general. Since AV is a race to the other side, if you fail to "get out of the gate" at the moment the BG begins, you will get stuck behind an advancing wave of enemy players. Your best option is to hunker down with the defense.
If you are on defense, consider rushing ahead with 1 or 2 other defenders. The opposition will certainly kill you, but every precious second they take doing that could be essential for your team.
A good Defense is a Great Offense
Offense Group 1-5
- Take towers
- Make sure Towers, and Relief hut are completely capped and get General
Note: You want to make sure to capture the Relief Hut graveyard BEFORE the Frostwolf graveyard (FWGY) or you will get a nice turtle effect where their defense spawns in a nicly protected area with some free offense all around if you don't have the FWK towers. This will cost you precious minutes inching your way fighting the horde to get to Drek while their offense is killing Vanndar.
Offense Group 6-8
- Kill Lt.
- Take Graveyard
- Book it down to General and hope you get in on it.
- Ensure you have a tank at the enemy base to take on General.
- If the enemy is already fighting the General, it is sometimes required to take on their General to prevent a loss.
There is no defense unless you happen to be an unfortunate soul that died before the cap. At this point it is your job to do anything you can to defend the towers, this means you had better be standing in the towers on the flag with a nice hunter who is smart enough to know that on defense the flare is one of the greatest offensive weapons out there... pesky rogues.
Also, let your offense know when the Horde have started fighting our Genreal. Many Alliance losses are due to people waiting on towers to cap thinking the Horde are going to wait indefinitely to start fighting our General.
- Defend towers.
- Report to the offense when the Horde have started fighting our General.
This will allow for 10-15 minute AV's Getting roughly 400-600 honor depending on how well you personally do. The one thing to note is that you make sure to allow the towers and the relief hut to completely cap before you even touch the General. I have won with this strategy around 80-90% of the time, unless the enemy happen to have a great defense and you do not have the requisite amount of people on offense.
Note: Beware of priests in the general's keep they like to sit right around the corner and fear you into them, Yes its cheap, but it is also VERY effective if you are peeking in before the relief hut is completely capped
Eye of the Storm
EotS is part capture the flag and part king of the hill. There are 4 towers that capture based on proximity and a flag in the middle that can be captured for points. More flag points are earned for each tower the Alliance controls.
The key to EotS is not the flag, it's good tower control. Controlling 3 towers is ideal for an easy win, but it takes work. Many players get so focused on capturing the flag they fail to defend the towers, leading to the 3-4 cap. I cannot stress how important the towers are. Even a lightly defended tower will have 2 players to prevent a sneaky cap.
Once you get 3 towers secured, everyone should be on defense, shifting players to towers that the enemy is assaulting. Grabbing the flag at this point is nice, but should NOT be a focus. One of the most common mistakes I see when there is a 3-cap is every player rushing the middle for the flag thinking the towers are safe. The enemy usually counter attacks and retakes 2 towers leading to a reverse 3-cap.
Arathi Basin
Arathi Basin is a map with 5 flag points that give points based on how many flags each faction controls. Capturing more flags results in faster points for the controlling team. Owning all 5 flags will result in massive points and a usually win for the 5-capping team if they can hold for a minute or two.
The strategy to use in AB is very similar to EotS. You always want to own 3 or more of the 5 flags. While flags are switching sides, they are neutral. This is when they are vulnerable because defenders will not respawn there.
Once captured, all flags need at least 2-3 defenders to thwart any attack.
Because the map is rather large, travelling alone is certain death.
Some resource points are worth more than others. They all give the same number of points, but the ability to move quickly from one to another and to a lesser extent see what's going on nearby is critical.
Warsong Gulch
WSG is a traditional capture the flag, with 2 bases separated by a short battlefield. It is rather wide, but most action takes place in the middle.
It appears that the best tactic is to simply travel across the map in a group of 10, let a few players go in to cap the flag, and have the entire group shield the flag runner as he runs back to the friendly base. If the enemy captures your flag you need to kill him before he returns to the base and hides, as it is hard to get inside. Usually, a well played team will have little trouble killing off enemies as they spawn or attempt to run out of the base with the flag. The game basically comes down to a giant melee in the middle, usually right near the Alliance graveyard, while fast druids and rogues capture the flag.
The key to WSG is to travel in a huge group and focus fire any enemy you can, and keep their numbers in the Graveyard, not on the field. Once a team gets momentum in the middle, it's over.
Strand of the Ancients
It is generally a good strategy to choose one Gate (Green or Blue) to zerg first. It is absolutely crucial that every siege tank is occupied,
and everyone else needs to be peeling the defender's off your siege tanks: rogues spam FoK w/ crippling poision against enemies on tanks, hunters snare and trap, DK/Frost Mage freeze them, Warlocks Fear bomb, etc.
Once the first gate is down, continue the strategy of peeling enemies off tanks,
and it is crucial to have a teammate on foot charge the
first available Graveyard (stealthers are usually the best bet.) Continue your push, and get ready for some more siege from
the newly openened siege shop near the graveyard.
Send 2-3 to grab the new sieges and continue the warfare. ALWAYS GRAB A BOMB, especially when snagging a siege.
Generally, you want to keep pressure on the side of the first gate you've taken down, where you have the momentum.
Continue the siege until yellow (someone should also sneak to
the opposite GY you've taken to cap it, allowing for more siege and another closer spawn point.)
Once your team has reached the yellow gate, DO NOT cap the Southern Graveyard,
this will almost always ensure a fail, for you now spawn damn near a mile from the siege shop.
Try to have your sieges timed to go in relatively close to one another to keep maximum pressure on the defenders. Help your siege's by planting bomb's on the gate, this will also divert some of the opposing team off of your siege,
whilst they try and diffuse your bomb.
Once the yellow gate is down, you're just a few tanks away from winning the round,
try to keep your team inside the Courtyard of the Ancients to allow easier access for your siege to roll in.
Avoid getting on the turrets (at the point in the game, their dps isn't efficient as you burning/slowing the tanks on the beach) ALWAYS call which gate the enemy team is attacking first. In addition, make sure there is an even ratio of player's on each side of the beach.
Your MAIN PRIORITY is to KILL SIEGE, over everything else, you want to always be attacking the siege tank, if you're not, you will probably lose.
Once, or if ;) the enemy has destroyed your first gate,
you always want atleast one person to guard the GY flag nearest that gate. Doing this will make it a lot more painful for the enemy team to keep the pressure on your gates, slowing their momentum.
Once the enemy has downed Red/Purple, turtle OUTSIDE of yellow,
this way you are able to CALL INCS of enemy siege and what side they're coming from, also at this point it's not a bad idea to have a person on yellow's turret, because they can basically do uninterrupted (usually) to incoming siege, AND gives you a nice vantage point. From this point hold them off with everything you have. If they manage to burn down Yellow, turtle inside the yellow gate, and have a few outside the Relic Chamber door to diffuse potential bombs.
Defensively stay INSIDE where yellow gate stood, this way you'll have time to
slow/burn the tanks before they can start shooting at the Chamber.


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Early spring: What's wrong with this picture?
A typical April in Central Virginia: Tulips are abloom. So are redbuds, cherries, and dogwoods. Grass is a vivid green after the winter's brown, and trees are a paler, spring green as they start to get their leaves. The thing is, that's been happening the past week, and it's still March.
"It's pretty extraordinary," says Peter Hatch, Monticello's director of gardens and grounds. "It's three weeks ahead of schedule, which is unprecedented on my watch. Things are blooming like Scotch broom, tree peonies... things that normally bloom in April."
This area is big on April celebrations of spring. By the time the Dogwood Festival holds its parade April 28, those dogwood blossoms will be long gone. Historic Garden Week runs April 21-28, but the flora that normally blooms in April aren't waiting.
"[W]ith this crazy weather, we're wondering whether there will be any flowers left by the end of April!," says Holly Maillet, who's working on Albemarle's April 21-22 Keswick-centered Garden Week tour.
The Organic Tulip Festival in Madison originally was planned for the first and second weeks of April, but the weather has pushed up the first festival date to March 31, says EcoTulips owner Keriann Koeman. "I think we're about three weeks ahead of schedule from last year. Some varieties really need that cold period. They're going to be shorter."
EcoTulips still has 20,000 late tulips in the ground. "I think we'll really see a decline after Easter," predicts Koeman. That holiday is April 8 this year.
In local orchards, fruit trees are blooming, and at Henley's Orchard, the peaches are setting fruit. They were unscathed by the March 26 temperature drop into the 30s, reports Sarah Henley. "The only thing we're worried about is an extended frost," she says. And the warm weather means the peaches will be coming early.
It turns out the winter of 2011-2012 was merely the fifth warmest on record in 118 years of keeping track in Charlottesville, says Jerry Stenger, director of UVA's Climatology Office. March appears on track to be Charlottesville's second warmest, and the state's third warmest.
Monticello's Hatch finds himself unable to enjoy the mild weather.
"I hate it," he says. "It's a little too warm for this time of year. When it's too warm and the soil is drying out, it bothers the gardener. I prefer cool, misty days."
And what does the warm March portend?
"It might cool off," says Hatch, "or be a long, hot summer."Read more on: early springglobal warmingtulips
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Stuff has been ahead of schedule since February. By mid February our daffodils were already coming up and by the end of February they were in full bloom. That shouldn't have been happening til mid/end of March, minimum. By the end of February many trees had also begun to bloom. The Peeper Toads were out in full peeper song glory down by the water. The birds were coming back. And it was taking place while surrounded by high 60's/low 70's temp days. In the middle of winter. All of it a full *4-6 weeks early.* Meanwhile the people around me were playing things down and acting like everything is okay, no big deal, "we've had warm springs before" so just go back to sleeeeeeep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
So then March arrives and more trees keep blooming, the birds are all back in full force, more flowers pop up - a full month early - and the high temp days continue, only now getting up into the 80s. Soon people began taking it for granted, and complaining when they would see weather forecasts saying things may dip down into - gasp! - the 50s. Meanwhile as I'm like, Uh, that's *normal.* That's what the temps *should* be for this time of year. Not the 80s! As much as 75-80 degree temps feel nice, there's a part of me that doesn't want to see that happening in Virginia, in February and March, because it's not right.
Oh yeah, and forgot to mention that the bumblebees were out........by mid March. And the only reason they were out was because the flowers were in full bloom and the temps were warm enough, because bees can't function in cold weather.
Driving back from Florida to Maryland last Saturday, I was amazed at how far north everything was. In Richmond, the Wisteria are already in full bloom, and the dogwoods and azaleas are even blooming here in MD. In South Carolina, roses were starting to bloom. Even places well up north are quite a bit ahead of schedule, with tulips blooming in Toronto and Michigan already having some trees with green leaves. Just hope you buy more SUMMER plants that bloom for awhile to really have a great show of color all season long. Expect the Kousa Dogwoods (the one that blooms after the leaves are full) for that Dogwood Festival, along with early roses and perhaps even a daylily or two.
I wouldn't blame local weather on global warming. Global warming is real, but it's had minimal effect this far south. Most of the real tangible effects are much farther north, particularly in the Arctic.This spring is not unusual and I have seen things bloom earlier. For example I had Daffodils on the 1st. of February in 1990 out in Free Union. This year the Bradford Pears bloomed on Preston Ave. starting around Mar. 10, maybe 5 days ahead of the usual. We get a lot of warm weather in March here and when it follows a warm February things start growing..
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This is a question being prodded in Poland. Because Tinky Winky of the Teletubbies carries a purse.
Poles, stop asking the BBC. Ask Crabmommy. I know all about gay children's book characters and I am pretty unbiased. I mean, I defended Miss Clavel of Madeline from such insinuations by Google Adsense (although I did point out that Pepito was a bit of a pansy).
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Is Tinky Winky Gay?
This is a question being prodded in Poland. Because Tinky Winky of the Teletubbies carries a purse.
Posted by Crabmommy at 12:18 PM
Labels: Media, Random Silliness
25 comments:
- Helen said...
I think all the teletubbies are gay. And on that thought, what about Elmo.............?
- May 29, 2007 at 3:14 PM
- LizLSB said...
Someone in Poland has too much time on her hands. Some "religious" leader here in America jumped on the same bandwagon a couple years ago, claiming that Tinky Winky was gay. Tinky Winky is a purple male Teletubbie (whatever THAT is)of some sort, and he carries a purse or handbag of some sort. That makes him gay? How stupid.
- May 29, 2007 at 3:20 PM
Everyone knows that Tinky Winky is gay. Sheesh! I let my boys watch everyday. Do you think that I could sue later on if one of them turns out to be gay?? Hmmm.....
- May 29, 2007 at 3:28 PM
- Crabmommy said...
Liz, I think the purse is way gay. But so's that animal-print top hat for Po or whoever. Maybe they're all gay. So much the better. I like my Teletubbies as gay as possible.
:) LET THEM ALL BE GAY, I say.
- May 29, 2007 at 3:33 PM
- skape7 said...
They've just discovered this!? Poland seem to be a decade or so behind the rest of the world. They obviously don't get Seinfeld either or they would know that purse could be a man-bag.
- May 29, 2007 at 5:45 PM
shhh! Don't tell them about Ernie and Bert!!
- May 29, 2007 at 7:18 PM
gay. british. aren't they the same?
- May 30, 2007 at 6:52 AM
As I type this, Teletubbies is on my TV.
I've always thought that maybe Tinky Winky is more of a female anyway. Not like a girly-girl...more of a 'Bea Arthur kind of woman!'
And what those things do behind closed doors...I'm in no place to judge...I'm wearing men's workout shorts right now!
- May 30, 2007 at 9:14 AM
- Crabmommy said...
Good God, leann, you are so right: why can't Tinky Winky be a girl? I mean, says who that he's a queeny boy? I see appendages pointing off Teletubby heads, but nothing at the crotch. I say it's sexist of anyone to call T-W gay b/c that's assuming he's a man. Those Poles need to reassess their gender biases.
- May 30, 2007 at 9:41 AM
teletubbies frighten me so. Gay, straight? Seriously. They are FICTIONAL. Seriously.
Now on to the entertainment portion of our program. Sweet Crabmommy, you once referred to me as a blogangel, any chance I might be worthy of just a tiny favor? I have exactly 7 loyal readers (maybe a tad more on weekdays) and all 7 of them are yours for the taking. Would you honor my blog with a guest author post? I bet you are asked this all the time. I hope I am, at least, not the worst of the lot?? If your schedule allows maybe you could take a browse past my page and consider my most sincere request? I was going to be so cool about this, now look at me. I am going to go weep softly from the shame and embarrassment.
- May 30, 2007 at 8:44 PM
What I am about to share is only to show my own stupidity (I am not racist or gay bashing, I have a gay brother, so please) the little Po doll we have has a few phrases it says. One is "faggot, faggot, faggot, faggot…on my bike" I swear. If you don't believe it, email me and I will call you and play it for you. He could only be talking about Tinky Winky, as he watches him ride off on the damn bike…right?
- May 30, 2007 at 10:32 PM
Hi, I come from Poland and I have only one thing to say about this.
Please don't connect Mrs. Sowinska's stupid, outrageous and extremely irresponsible opinions about Tinky Winky's bag with ordinary polish people. We are really embarrased about what that bitch is saying in public.
Mrs. Sowinska's idiocy and stupidity is well known here. Too bad that her anti-gay private opinions have spread all over the world. I don't know how she can be still the Children's Rights Council. That's the tragedy for normal, smart people here, and of course - the kids. Many kids in Poland are abused and beaten and that stupid woman looses her power over Tinky Winky's bag, while children in Poland need help.
The next election is in two years. Please don't be surprised by stupid, idiotic and moronic ideas from our current government until then.
I think that in the sequel of the movie BORAT, the main character will change his nationality from kazakhstanian to polish, for better laugh. I bet that Sasha Baron Cohen is working on the story right now ;)
- May 30, 2007 at 11:40 PM
- LizLSB said...
My son was a "tubbie" watcher when he was younger, and I definitely recall the narrator referring to TW as "he." Evidently, TW and Dipsy (the one with the hat) are the males, while LaLa and Po are the females. I really love makumba's comment about Sowinska, and how she should be directing her energies into something that matters.
- May 31, 2007 at 1:32 AM
- Amanda said...
makumba 2000: don't worry, Poland is far from unusual in its citizenry. Most are like you, good-looking and gay-tolerant. And int he US we have plenty of people afraif of the power TW wields with that handbag. As for my native country, South Africa, well ahem on tolerance there. I should add though, that SA is the first country to have gay marriage in its constitution. So put that in your handbag, people!
Modern Mommy, I am flattered by your request. Sorry to have to say no but my blog duties at Cookie (6 times a month) make it hard for me to keep up on here let alone with my other work/home stuff, so I can't do guest posts at the moment. But thank you for asking me and I am sure if you start giving away free Croakies, as I did, that the readership will soar!
- May 31, 2007 at 6:38 AM
- Susanne said...
I thought Falwell was crazy until I actually watched the Teletubbies. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that a purple character with a male giggly voice, carrying a purse, with a purple triangle on his head, and named "Tinky Winky," no less, is gay. Now I just think Falwell was crazy for making such a big deal out of it. :)
- June 8, 2007 at 4:44 AM
I think Caillou is much gayer than Tinky-Winky and much more annoying.
- June 12, 2007 at 6:08 AM
- teletubie defendur said...
When I was younger I watched the teletubies and absolutley loved them, I mean they were fun and exciting for me at that age. So what if Tinky Winky is gay I bet half of you are too!!!!! The kids love them and don't think he's gay and they watch them the most! So some of you people need to get a life and grow up! Go judge George Bush or Hilary Clinton or someting!!!
- June 21, 2007 at 10:05 AM
TDefendur: Ooh! You're so peppery! Things hotting up at Crabmommy blog! But don't get all peppery! We too love the Tubs! And as you have pointed out, most of us are gay too. Yay gay! Yay Tubbies! Up with tubs and down with conservative Poles who got this convo started in the first place. But up with good Poles like the one who commented above. We spread the tubbie love so don't be too mad. Also, if you watched the tubs as a kid then you must be, like, still a kid. If so, don't be too mad with us grownups. You don't want to be too mad when you're a kid. Especially online. Because God knows what that means for you when you are old and peppery and blogging about your ticked-offness like some kind of crabby geezer. Or crabmommy. :)
- June 21, 2007 at 11:17 AM
tinkly winky is a girl duhh you reres think shes purple the rest are guys
- December 30, 2007 at 4:52 AM
OMG TINKY WINKYS GAY =| Thanks ruin MY childhood..='(
- February 18, 2008 at 5:32 PM
JuJu; Your a fucking tit =| How can LaLa & Po be GUYS..You fecking moron ... =S & TinkyWinky is not a GIRL..HE is a guy =)
OhYeah. DIPSY IS THE SEX ♥ =D
Teletubbies Biggest Fan.
- February 18, 2008 at 5:35 PM
- Anna said...
Yea, Tinky Winky is gay. But who cares? Let gays be gays. And if u guys are worried about ur children "turning" gay, kids dont "turn" gay! They're born gay! there are more important issues to be caring about, rather than a purple baby with a magic bag.
- May 2, 2008 at 5:25 PM
How do people explain this?
- August 22, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I do remember Tinky Winky and Dipsy as the boys and Dipsy and Po as the girls. I remember in the past the Po doll was sorta screwed up. We do love the Teletubbies but something might be wrong with TW. Maybe they meant his purse to be a suitcase or something?
- January 14, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Yes, tinky winky IS GAY!! Go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/276677.stm for the insiders!!
- February 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM


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Playing with cousins!
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Oh me oh my, where do I begin? It's been forever since I've been motivated to update this blog! I noticed on my front page of the blog that I've posted something 192 times! I've been blogging since Hayden was born in 2005 and I feel like I've been having a bit of a brain fart! With an almost 4 year old and one nearing 2, you'd think I'd have tons to blog about! So where do I begin? I'll start in April/May with Matt being involved in his 5th MS 150. He wanted to raise a lot of money this year and set his goals high! $5,000 was his goal. With the help of Facebook and a casino party fundraiser, he raised around $5500! We didn't even send out fundraising letters this year! Matt wanted to think of a unique fundraiser this year and with the help of my dear friend Kimberly, we hired a casino company, dressed in our fanciest get ups and raised a lot of money! After the MS 150, we started looking forward to our annual Galveston trip with friends. This year was a blast! Yes, even with 10 adults and 9 kids under 5, we survived! In June, Matt and I celebrated 10 years of marriage at the Gaylord while the kids were at Mimi and Pawpaw camp with the cousins. Then the rest of the summer has been spent trying to stay cool, going to the pool and all that jazz. I start teacher inservice on Wednesday and Thursday, have meet the teacher on Thursday night and school starts on the 1st. Carson is in a class this year instead of the teacher's infant room and he's so excited about having a back pack, lunch box, and nap mat! Hayden will be in the big 4 year old class and he's excited that his bud Noah will be in his class. I'm teaching the oldest 13 kids in the school and I've been getting stuff together for that. Hayden also turns 4 on Friday so we are having the big Chuck E Cheese party that they all have to have! So, there's the past 4 months in a small nut shell. On to a ton of pictures.......
Monday, August 24, 2009
Summer '09
Playing with cousins!
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- Bunch of Oranges said...
Mega Post! Didn't even realize you had updated! You go gal! I will be expecting a new one next week! :) Love!
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I've got a majority of this assignment finished, except I'm having an terrible time figuring out how to implement prim's algorithm. I understand it on paper fine and can work it out by hand, coding it is proving difficult though. I've spent quite a few days on this and this is a last ditch effort by posting here.
I'm taking an adjacency matrix from file and creating a minimal spanning tree from it.
lets just say
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2 0 4 6 -1
4 4 0 6 4
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for our purposes here
the -1's represent infinity, because the nodes arent connected in that case.
User gets to pick the starting vertex, so I know that will be the first node in my tree. lets say that vertex happened to be 3. since it's stored as a 2d array, we go down that third row because vertex is 3 and find the smallest distance, which it should find 5 is the smallest right. now from there, you have the third, or the fifth column to find the next smallest item from, because we're now connected to the 5th row. Am I explaining it too unclear?
I can't seem to figure out how to get it to properly comb through all of those
YouTube - Prim's algorithm displays it wonderfully visually, that's kind of what i'm trying to recreate.
Guidance in the right direction would be fantastic if someone could help.Code:for (j=0; j<=n; j++) { int smallestWeight = 100; for (i=1; i<=n; i++) { if (tree[i]) { if((weight[vertex][i] < smallestWeight) && (weight[vertex][i]>0)) { smallestWeight=weight[vertex][i]; tree[i]=1; } } } mst[vertex][i]=smallestWeight; mst[i][vertex]=smallestWeight; }


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The controversial Florida pastor, Terry Jones – well-known for his threats to burn copies of the Islamic holy book, the Quran – is at it again.
The Rev. Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, has said he will torch the book by 5 pm on Saturday unless Youcef Nadarkhani, an imprisoned Iranian cleric, is set free. He has threatened to burn a copy of the Quran and multiple images of the Prophet Muhammed.
The act is likely to stir anger among Muslims worldwide, who view the burning as a great act of sacrilege. Last April, when Mr. Jones threatened to burn the Quran, riots broke out in the Afghan cities of Kandahar and Mazar-e Sharif, in which dozens were killed. In 2011, the Pakistani extremist group Jamaat-ud Dawa put a $2.2 million dollar bounty on Jones' head. This year, as the Afghan fighting season begins, the protests could even be worse.
But here in Africa, the question that many African Christians ask is whether the Florida pastor – who should ideally be a peacemaker – is taking the right path.
American evangelical preachers – such as Jones – can be highly influential in Africa, where evangelical Christianity is growing fast. Here, African Evangelicals take their cues from American brethren on issues such as homosexuality or the ordination of women as pastors, but when it comes to an extreme action such as burning the holy book of another faith, not one single pastor is known to have followed in Jones' footsteps.
At the moment, Evangelical and Charismatic Christians now form 10 percent of Africa's populations. They are starting to find space in political arenas as well as well as in the development sectors. While preaching "fiery" messages that stress strong devotion to God and the much loved "gospel" of self- improvement, Evangelicals are also building schools, hospitals, providing relief, and taking care of the less fortunate. Destruction of places of worship or burning of sacred books do not appear to be among their priorities.
Across the continent, Evangelical Christians join up with the many interfaith networks to fight common enemies. When disasters such as droughts, floods, or even conflicts or wars strike, you will see pastors, bishops, imams, and sheikhs in towns and villages uniting their people to toil against the challenges. Working together against common challenges has brought about respect, understanding, and tolerance.
Even when extremist members of one faith attack the members of another faith, inter-religious dialogue has been norm, and this trend is strengthening. Where American ideologues might view Islam to be a threat, African pastors and imams view each other's faith as holding invaluable instruments of reconciliation and peace, including forgiveness, mercy, and love.
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In northern Nigeria, where an Islamist group called Boko Haram started burning Christian churches, some Muslims volunteered to act as guards for Christians as they prayed. Christians returned the good gesture and protected the Muslims during their prayers.
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Whether Jones proceeds with this plan or abandons it, it is clear his approach is not finding much following in the continent. For many African Christians, this is a needless, reckless, and ungodly stunt.
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You know I've been doing the hermit thing this last year, in so far as media is concerned, and I'm not changing that now, but I am making an exception. I'm doing this for a good reason: I am so pleased and amazed and thrilled with what Chris Weitz has done with New Moon that I want to talk about it, and to show my support for him. And since I'm only doing one interview, better make it big. Really big. So….I will be on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, November 13th. Check the local listings on Oprah's website to find out what time it will be on where you live.
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These days we have much to worry about. Climate change, the economy and whether or not aliens will be accepted into heaven (the ones from outer space, not the ones from south of our border) are a few troubles on our lists that are sure to produce anxiety.
In the Golden Triangle we wear our Christianity like a cloak -- a very shiny cloak -- a cloak wired with blinky lights and flashes of lightning. Yes, we are enormously proud of our tenets. What would Jesus do? Well, no one really knows what he would do today.
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This has been a flag-waving week. We celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Independence over 300 years ago, and the 50th anniversary of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Both are very good reasons to eat hot dogs and drink beer.
Mississippi has a long history of independent thinking. Our individualism dates back 200 years or more. We resent being told how to run our lives -- especially by the Federal Government.
Summer is a magical time for children. They get a vacation from school that seems almost endless. There is nothing to do except have fun. What a luxury it must be to find infinite ways of amusing themselves.
This week, Chris and I attended a party celebrating the marriage of our dear friends, Meagan and Clare. They had a romantic destination wedding, saying their vows under a vine-covered gazebo in New York's Central Park.
The Internet is blazing with videos of a group of gun enthusiasts flaunting some high-powered firearms at a Texas Jack In The Box.
Marriages, and relationships of any sort, find ways to co-exist.
This is an exciting time of year for the hundreds of grads in the Golden Triangl
Most of us only get one human mother. We also call the Earth "our mother."
It seems that the winter from Hades is finally over. We will probably not have another freeze for many months, the tornadoes have moved on (cross your fingers), and the monsoons have dissipated -- for now.
My week started with happy announcements and plans for celebrations.
It seems that spring has finally come to the Golden Triangle -- and not a moment too soon.
Last week Chris and I immersed ourselves in a journey of literacy. Although we only traveled to nearby Starkville and Caledonia, our short excursions spanned generations, and introduced us to many smart people with a passion for reading.
My two favorite cities, Columbus and New Orleans, have much in common.
We baby boomers have had reasons to be slightly arrogant. For a long time it seemed that the world was spinning beneath our feet. We were like the ballerina in a music box, twirling in front of a mirror that reflected only us.
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1. Columbus native and lifelong sailor documented his three-week trip to one of the world's most inhospitable places COMMUNITY
2. Former SPD officer convicted of child exploitation counts STARKVILLE & OKTIBBEHA COUNTY
3. Heritage Academy softball opens season with loss to Kemper Academy; fans observe minimal social distancing HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
4. Retesting delays employees from returning to work STARKVILLE & OKTIBBEHA COUNTY
5. Partial to Home: Alan Smith's quiet good works LOCAL COLUMNS


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Trek Bicycle is part of a movement to bury the finger-pinching, pants-munching, rust-prone sprocket and chain, and usher in an era of belt-driven bikes that might have the inventors of the self-propelled transportation Schwinning in their graves.I'm a big fan of belt drive bicycles -- no mess, and little fuss. What are your thoughts? Better than chains? Do they work well for fast riding, or should they be limited to slower, urban and utility riding or even for folding bikes like this Abio?
Wisconsin-based Trek is introducing two models this holiday season that are chainless, instead using technology most often found in things like motorcycles and snowmobiles. While some smaller custom bike makers have used them before, Trek is the first to use the technology for mass-produced bicycles.
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Oh my GOODNESS what a day it's been. Fabric fans who have been following my little blog will know of my lust for a Brother Innovis-350 sewing machine, and that today was the day that through the help and support of my nearest and dearest, I was finally to get my mitts on one.
So this morning, after a broken nights sleep from excitement (it's pathetic I know), I set off on the train to Taunton to go to my beloved Stitch Academy who had ordered the machine in for me to come and collect. When I got there, I got the most lovely surprise. I'd been given an upgrade!
The wonderful ladies at the Stitch Academy helm had ordered me in the Innovis-400 at no extra charge. I couldn't believe their kindness and am completely over the moon with my new machine who shall hence-forth be known as Queenie. Lets take a few moments to admire her womanly curves shall we?
She and I have spent the afternoon together, learning each others quirks and foibles. So far we are getting along just great and I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Now the challenge really begins. I'm pleased as punch that I can start monstering again as there has been a huge creative void in my life since I've been without a mechanical friend. BUT…I also need to start improving my dressmaking skills in order that I can tackle The Dress in time for my wedding in October. Fear not, I have a plan. I'm going to be having some one-on-one dressmaking tuition at The Stitch Academy alongside plenty of practice at home. I should have a whole new wardrobe in no time!
I have myself a little challenge to kick the learning process off and to test what I can remember having not really done much dressmaking since my teens. I've bought myself a really simple pattern to make an apron, and tomorrow, when I get up, I will be straight into the craft room to give it a bash. I shall consider it my second date with Queenie. I should have something to show you this time tomorrow so stay tuned…


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Creative, editorial-driven and entrepreneurial are words used to describe APEX Public Relations (www.apexpr.com) by both clients and its staff. A high-performance, high-energy communications agency fueled by innovation, strategic collaboration and senior-level involvement, APEX has won dozens of category leading national and international awards including Mid-Size Agency of the Year by IABC/Toronto and PROFIT Magazine's list of Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs for the past twelve years.
An independent, partner-managed agency, APEX has cultivated a deep understanding of a variety of audiences with a specific focus on moms, boomers, households, small business and mobile millennials.
Actively involved in the community, APEX founded On Your Bike (www.onyourbike.com) over 10 years ago, a foundation that distributes bikes to underprivileged children. Additionally, APEX's CEO Pat McNamara launched Ignite Capital (www.ignitecapital.ca) to provide aspiring start-ups, who have limited access to funding, the opportunity to compete for a start-up grant of $20,000 and participation in a one year mentorship program.
As an agency with impeccable editorial chops across all channels APEX launched ruckus in 2013, a content division focused on owned and paid channels. Building on APEX's DNA, ruckus offers clients a full 360' strategic editorial offering of traditional media outreach, events management, experiential, digital and social innovation programming and intertwines those efforts with paid solutions, inbound marketing and community building.
Argyle helps major brands and respected organizations build and strengthen their relationships with the stakeholders who drive their reputations, brands and business success – across Canada and beyond.
For almost 40 years, Argyle has been chosen by some of the world's biggest brands, put big ideas onto the public agenda, and become one of Canada's largest independent communications firms. The firm's specialty practices include corporate communications and reputation management, public affairs and public engagement, health communications, consumer marketing, digital communications, branding and design.
Argyle was named Mid-Sized Agency of the Year in both 2017 and 2018 by the International Society of Business Communicators.
Website: www.argylepr.com
CASACOMWebsite: http://www.casacom.ca/
Founded in Montréal in 2001 and with offices in Toronto and affiliates across the country, is an independent public relations consulting firm that helps clients accelerate business success through communications. Its Québec heritage inspires a deep understanding of cultural and language differences resulting in unique and highly effective communications strategies.
With its professional development centre, CASACADEMY™, its exclusive and systematic approach STRUCTURAL PR™ and its manifesto that elevates the value of public relations, CASACOM goes further. Its team helps business leaders and managers leverage the full potential of public relations to put their organizations on the path to strong, structured, sustainable growth.
Founded in 2001 in Montreal, CASACOM covers all of Canada with its Toronto office and collaborators across the country. The firm has carved out a leading industry role with its stellar reputation, numerous awards and ambitious campaigns in business communications, public affairs, and marketing communications. Built on values of integrity and humanity, CASACOM is home to talented, ambitious, dedicated staff focused on results. Its team takes particular pride in making a difference each and every day for their clients. CASACOM enjoys the support and assistance of over 140 partners worldwide through the Worldcom PR Group, the biggest international network of independent public relations firms in the world.
Cohn & WolfeWebsite: http://www.cohnwolfe.ca/
Cohn & Wolfe builds brands and corporate reputations by captivating, engaging and motivating stakeholders to act. We do so through an uncompromising commitment to creativity.
By providing seasoned perspective, counsel and services, and a strategic approach based on fresh, relevant insights, we strive to be seen as an integral part of our clients' teams and a valuable contributor to their successes.
Backed by the experience, insights and support of a global network, Cohn & Wolfe has provided expert communication services in Canada for over 20 years. With strategically located offices across Canada, Cohn & Wolfe has a proud Canadian history and employs dozens of the country's most creative thinkers.
Creativity, passion and strategic persuasive communications – these are just a few descriptors that describe DDB Public Relations (DDB PR). With an unwavering dedication to excellence, the team at DDB PR, under the leadership of managing director, Martine Lévy has created ground-breaking PR programs for both internationally-recognized clients and entrepreneurial ventures.
A boutique-sized agency armed with the resources of DDB's worldwide network, DDB PR offers clients the best of both worlds with seamless integration and best-in-class services. Named Strategy's Top Creative Agency in 2011, DDB Canada is the most creatively acclaimed, internationally recognized marketing communications agency in Canada. DDB Canada's integrated divisions include: youth marketing, public relations, online and interactive, packaging and design, customer relationship marketing, social media marketing, corporate social responsibility, recruitment marketing and shopper marketing. With offices in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver, DDB PR's successes have led it to become one of Canada's most creatively-awarded PR shops.
EdelmanWebsite: http://www.edelman.ca/
Edelman is the world's largest independent public relations firm, with wholly owned offices in 60 cities and 4,000 employees worldwide. In Canada, we have offices in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary, and 170 employees. Edelman was named Advertising Age's top-ranked PR firm of the decade and one of its "2010 A-List Agencies" and "2010 Best Places to Work;" PRWeek's "2011 Large PR Agency of the Year" and "2011 Large UK Consultancy of the Year;" European Excellence Awards' "2010 Agency of the Year;" Holmes Report's "Agency of the Decade" and "2009 Asia Pacific Consultancy of the Year;" and among Glassdoor's top five "2011 Best Places to Work." Edelman owns specialty firms Blue (advertising), StrategyOne (research), Ruth (integrated marketing), DJE Science (medical education/publishing and science communications), and MATTER (sports, sponsorship, and entertainment).
energi PRWebsite: http://www.energipr.com/
Founded nearly 25 years ago, energi PR is a mid-size independently-owned and managed PR agency. From our loft in Old Montreal and our flagship office in Toronto, we bring you powerful strategic services that build, strengthen and sustain relationships and ultimately brands. THAT is public relations.
We could tell you about our awards, our honourable mention in the 2013 Holmes Report as a top Canadian PR firm, about the Canadian and multi-national clients we work with or our values of corporate social responsibility. We think, though, you might be more interested in us listening and then talking about you and your success. We help companies focus on the goal while we focus on the best channel to tell your story creatively, ethically, effectively and powerfully. That's energi PR.
We know we are best in CSR,consumer/corporate, healthcare, technology, beauty/fashion and travel/tourism.
Our work on recognized consumer brands including P&G, Hotels.com, Choice Hotels, Square, Atkins, Ford, Hilton, Orlando CVB continues to fuel our team's creativity, resourcefulness and passion so that we deliver results and meet high performance objectives time after time. This is matched by our benchstrength in consumer and professional healthcare. Working in diverse therapeutic areas with companies like Astellas, Valeant, ViiV, Merz Aesthetics, Paladin and others, energi PR creates compelling campaigns to educate, advocate, empower and engage. Our proprietary V.O.I.C.E. program offers a new systematic approach to patient advocacy.
Globally, energi PR is the Canadian affiliate of the Public Relations Global Network (PRGN), the fourth largest network of independently-owned PR firms in the world. We can deliver on-the- ground strategy and tactics through our 50 partner agencies in 80 markets across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) was founded more than 80 years ago and established in Canada in 1980. Today, we are a network of nine offices from Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Victoria and Vancouver. We provide services in both of Canada's official languages, English and French. We are a multi-specialist agency, offering in-depth expertise in a variety of areas and industry sectors including corporate communications and reputation management, issues management and crisis communications, digital communications, public affairs, marketing communications, public engagement, campaign strategy, financial communications and more.
At H+K, we know that the opportunities and challenges clients face come from different sources – the market, specific stakeholders, the media, the online world and government. Our strength – and our value to you – lies in our comprehensive grasp of the challenges and opportunities you face each business day. We use that knowledge to distill the precise message you most need to communicate, and to deliver that message to the audiences you need to reach – on time and on budget.
Beyond Canada, we have 87 offices in 49 countries across the globe.
Media Profile is one of Canada's largest employee-owned public relations firm. We're proudly independent by choice – a choice that has allowed us to assemble the best and brightest practitioners in this country. As an independent firm, we are accountable only to ourselves and to our clients. This means you get a team of professionals that is entrepreneurial, strategic, creative, and absolutely tenacious about building brands.
A full service agency, with offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, we treat all client relationships as genuine partnerships. The fact that many of our clients have worked with us for upwards of a decade is testament to the success of this approach.
Founded over 25 years ago, Media Profile today is a remarkable balance of cross-sector experience, earned through planning and managing some of the most successful media relations programs in Canada. We employ a multi-layered, inter-connected approach to ensure our deep expertise in traditional public relations is seamlessly blended with focused social media programs, creating extraordinary client campaigns that deliver against solid, tangible business objectives.
NATIONAL's bold thinkers not only provide our clients with great ideas—but also critical insights, innovative programs and business strategies that address challenges and opportunities with laser-like focus. Where others see challenges, we find opportunities. Where some see barriers, we find compelling stories. Where few see any solutions, we find bold ones. How? By having industry experts on staff, adding dedicated researchers and experienced professionals and being accountable for our results.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a communications services firm that doesn't tell you that they can do everything. For this, we offer you one piece of advice: ask them to show you. We can. Not only have we succeeded in most sectors, we pride ourselves with having industry experts on staff. Our knowledge is current. Our experience relevant and our expertise is documented. Talk to the experts. We're ready to help.


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D-backs select eight players in second day of 2013 First-Year Player Draft
The Arizona Diamondbacks selected eight additional players in rounds 3-10 of Major League Baseball's First-Year Player Draft today, according to D-backs' Director, Scouting Ray Montgomery. Of the D-backs' first 11 picks over the first two days, they have selected one catcher, two infielders, three outfielders, four right-handed pitchers and one left-handed pitcher. Yesterday, the D-backs selected University of Nevada right-handed pitcher Braden Shipley in the First Round (15th overall), Marshall University right-handed pitcher Aaron Blair in the Competitive Balance Round-A (36th overall) and Terrebonne High School (Houma, La.) outfielder Justin Williams in the Second Round.
"Today we continued to target position-specific, athletic players and I think we definitely accomplished that," said Montgomery. "We worked to bring in good-character guys and players we know will take their work seriously. We were able to select a mix of high school players who are ready to start their careers and college players who are ready for the next level."
Today's selections of note include:
- Infielder Daniel Palka (Third Round, 88th overall) garnered 2013 All-Atlantic Coastal Conference First-Team honors after batting .342 (81-for-237) with 13 doubles, 17 home runs and 66 RBI. The Collegiate Baseball Third-Team All-American was rated by Baseball America as the ninth-best college outfielder in the draft.
- Outfielder Matt McPhearson (Fourth Round, 120th overall), a University of Miami, Fla. recruit, was named a 2013 Rawlings Second-Team All-American. The 2012 Under Armour All-American, is rated by ESPN as the No. 62 overall prospect and by Baseball America as the 13th-best centerfielder in the draft.
- Infielder Jamie Westbrook (Fifth Round, 150th overall), a Chandler, Ariz. high school standout, batted .434 with 6 home runs, 13 RBI and 17 runs scored. The D-backs Elite Scout Team participant has committed to play at Pepperdine University.
- Outfielder Colin Bray (Sixth Round, 180th overall) is rated by PerfectGame.Org as the No. 1 junior college prospect in the draft. He batted .444 with 8 doubles, 4 triples, 3 home runs, 32 RBI, 60 runs scored and 23 stolen bases this season.
- Left-handed pitcher Daniel Gibson (Seventh Round, 210th overall) appeared in 32 games for the Gators, going 2-1 with a 4.42 ERA (19 ER in 38.2 IP) and 31 strikeouts. He is ranked by Baseball America as the eighth-best prospect in the state of Florida.
- Right-handed pitcher Brad Keller (Eighth Round, 240th overall) was named to the Georgia Region-8 5A All-Region First-Team and garnered Second-Team pitcher of the Year honors. He is committed to play at Presbyterian College.
- Catcher Grant Nelson (Ninth Round, 270th overall) batted .338 (77-for-228) with 8 doubles 3 triples, 5 home runs and 32 RBI for the Bilikens and was added to the 2013 Johnny Bench Award Watch List during the year.
- Right-handed pitcher Jimmie Sherfy (10th round, 300th overall) went 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA (10 ER in 40.0 IP) with 21 saves for the Ducks and is a finalist for the 2013 NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award for the second consecutive year.
The draft concludes tomorrow/June 8, with rounds 11-40.


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WELCOME TO BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA Lutherans believe in the Triune God. God created and loves all of creation -- the earth and the seas and all of the world's inhabitants. We believe that God's Son, Jesus Christ, transforms lives through his death on the cross and his new life, and we trust that God's Spirit is active in the world. We are part of God's unfolding plan. When we gather for worship, we connect with believers everywhere. When we study the Bible or hear God's word in worship, we are drawn more deeply into God's own saving story.
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Depth Cameras
Extracts 3D information from a scene.
Tracking Camera
Find your place in the world.
Intel® RealSense™ technologies are fundamentally re-shaping the future by equipping devices with the ability to see, understand, interact with, and learn from their environment.1 With years of experience in building every kind of computer vision and depth solution, Intel® RealSense™ technologies are the perfect choice no matter what your depth sensing needs are.
Introducing Intel® RealSense™ LiDAR Camera L515
Redefining computer vision with unparalleled depth & accuracy.
The Intel® RealSense™ LiDAR Camera L515 is the world's smallest and most power efficient hi-res LiDAR, capturing millions of depth points per second. The L515 features a lightweight form factor that delivers consistent high depth accuracy throughout the entire supported range of the camera, which starts at 25 centimeters and goes up to 9 meters.
Enrich Your Prototype with Computer Vision
Intel® RealSense™ D400 Series Depth Cameras are ready-to-use right out of the box and can be easily added into your project. Bring innovative vision awareness to your solution with our best-in-class depth resolution, quality RGB, and high frame rate. Both the Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D415 and the Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D435 provide highly accurate depth data in a wide variety of indoor and outdoor environments and can be used in unlimited multiple camera configurations.
Develop Applications with Ease
Intel® RealSense™ technology supports a wide range of operating systems and programming languages. The Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0 enables you to extract depth data from the camera and interpret it in the platform of your choice — Windows, Linux*, macOS*, and more. The SDK also offers open-source sample code and wrappers for various languages including Python, Node.js, C#/.NET, and C/C++. We also offer integration with 3rd party technologies like ROS, Unity, OpenCV, PCL, and Matlab as well as additional Intel® RealSense™ software to fast-forward your project.
Build Depth Perception Into Your Product
The Intel® RealSense™ D400 Series depth modules provide a turnkey solution for rapid product development and integration for VR/AR, Robotics, Drones, and more. Choose the module that has the best combination of power consumption, field of view, and shutter type to add depth vision into your product.
Make Smart Devices Even Smarter
The Intel® RealSense™ D4 vision processor does the heavy lifting for you. It uses advanced algorithms to process raw image streams from the depth cameras and computes high resolution 3D depth maps without the need for dedicated GPU or host processor. Adding this vision processor to your system enables rapid custom design, which frees up more bandwidth for your system's host processor.
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Blog Revamping
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Review: Restoran Sang Kee (Yes, Again!)
I can't help it but post this up quickly even though I have other impending posts cos I'm having a sudden craving for Sang Kee's Goe Low Yuk (Sweet and Sour Pork). As I've mentioned before Sang Kee's version is how goe low yuk should taste like where the pork pieces are not fatty and remained crispy even after cooking in the sweet and sour sauce.
We're having rice this round instead of sang har meen, so we ordered a Steamed Tofu with Fish Paste upon recommendation. Apparently, this dish was mentioned in Taste of Jason, sounds like a must order item. When it arrived, I was like thinking aloud "Aisay, my mom always cook this dish hahaha". In fact, I've cooked them as well, easy peasy, simple and nice.
We decided on Stir-fried Sweet Potato Leaves with Belachan after the captain rattling off the short list of vege available. Enough wok hei but not sambal belachan no ommpphh PLUS the stems are sooo fibrous indicating the vegetable is very matured! Took us so long to chew them up!
Actually these 3 dishes would be just nice for us but Capt'n Hook saw the waitress sending a plate of Foo Yoong Darn (omelette) to the next table and immediately beckoned for one as well!!! *roll eyes* Someone just ate with his eyes which is bad cos 2 of us definitely can't finish all these up! Sang Kee's version contained quite a number of prawns, char siu (I think), onions and lots of spring onion which gave it a very fragrant flavour. What I liked is the omelette is fluffy and crispy on the sides, not soaking in oil.
Since we were there on a weekday, service was quite good even though the dishes came a tad slower. I can't imagine what it is like on a weekend which I saw people commenting in Jason's site about bad and slow service. I guess have to avoid this place on weekends.
We've paid RM48.70 for the 4 dishes, one bowl of normal sized rice and one small bowl of rice plus a pot of Chinese tea.
Restoran Sang Kee
Off Jalan Hang Jebat
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 603 20785092
Opening hours: 11:00am-3:00pm; 5:00pm - 11:00pm
Coordinates: 3°8'36"N 101°41'57"E
10 comments:
- J said...
Poor you having to chew and chew and chew on the stalks of that vege! ... anyway, the ku loh yuk looks so goooood! *drool*
- 5 May 2010 at 08:54:00 GMT+8
- thule a.k.a leo said...
Yeah... since all the cooks are quite old, the speed is rather slow. Just try not to go there during peak hours, coz the quality will be compromised :)
- 5 May 2010 at 11:29:00 GMT+8
- Kenny Mah said...
"Enough wok hei but not sambal belachan no ommpphh..."
Man, I don't even see the traditional red-brown tinge to indicate the sambal belacan. Better luck next time! :D
- 5 May 2010 at 18:40:00 GMT+8
- minchow said...
Ooh ku lou yuk done the way it should be... this I MUST try!
- 5 May 2010 at 18:49:00 GMT+8
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Look very much like home cook dishes. I do miss the Goe Low Yuk.
- 6 May 2010 at 00:30:00 GMT+8
- Unknown said...
Hey, good shots here! Dishes look super yummy! Gou Lou Yuk, one of my favourites if I can't get Pai Guat Wong (love it! love it! love it!)
- 6 May 2010 at 12:32:00 GMT+8
- J2Kfm said...
Oh geez. Now YOU made me crave for Gu Lou Yuk. Agreed, not many outlets can make really, really good Gu Lou Yuk. There are two in Ipoh that I like most.
- 6 May 2010 at 16:06:00 GMT+8
- Lyrical Lemongrass said...
I like the food here. Simple and wholesome. Parking sucks though, doesn't it? (unless you know of a secret parking place which I am not aware of? Hmm?) :-)
- 6 May 2010 at 17:24:00 GMT+8
- Babe_KL said...
J, the tough veggy is totally not cool!
Leo, which was why i only go on weekday :p
Kenny, not going to order anything wid sambal belachan anymore!
minchow, enjoy ya
LCOM, yeah Goe Low Yuk is certainly a crowd favourite
ahhh Lisa, yes yes and Phai Kuat Wong but hard to find a place that make this these days
J2kfm, hehehe poor thing. tonight going for some?
LL, we drove right inside towards the restaurant entrance and park right there which actually belong to Traditional Chinese Medical Institute Malaysia. limited space though
- 6 May 2010 at 17:31:00 GMT+8
- Unknown said...
have the kulouyok at section 17 PJ's Lucky. it's similar. also their belachan veg more kao (and u need to order their salted veg soup). the holy trinity of malaysian taichow dishes.
- 7 May 2010 at 09:57:00 GMT+8


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The most random (read : brilliantly destined) things seem to be the topics of this blog over the past few post.
Today my immediate boss sent an email titled 'I know you can' (as in, i know you can do it). And in the email there was no text, just an attachment labelled 'Attributes of a supervisor'.
Thank you, mr. J. I appreciate the encouragement *grin*.
The attributes are :
Attribute of supervisor
· Achievement oriented
· Strong sense of commitment
· Perseverance
· Good communication skills (oral and written)
· Good analytical skills
· Good understanding of applicable laws, rules and regulations
· Proactive
· Good knowledge in insurance operations and practices
· Well informed on latest developments in Insurance
· General knowledge in IT and ability to use basic IT applications
· Matured and able to make constructive and appropriate judgement
· Focused mindset
· Objective and transparent
· Strong sense of accountability
· Value-add to auditees
· Ability to adapt to changing environment
· Concern for order
· Problem solving skills
· Decision making skills
· Diligence
· Courteous, tactful but firm
· Not arrogant nor too demanding
· Maintain secrecy at all times
· Avoid situations of conflict of interest
· Maintain good working relationships
· Teamwork and cooperation
Behaviour of supervisor
· Observe code of conduct:
– Dignity
– Personal honour
– Honesty
– Integrity
– Punctual
· Approachable
· Focused and cool
· Avoids arguments
· Always offer suggestions for improvement
· Value add to auditee - give reasons why and ways to improve
If every supervisor had these attributes, then i think that all women would want to marry supervisors. Just think about it. 'Avoids arguments', 'maintain secrecy at all times', 'not arrogant nor too demanding'.
See what i mean?
Anyways, the first thought that went through my mind while reading this was
'Well, if you're a good da'ie (caller) you'll be a good supervisor".
No, that's not quite precise.
'If you're a good da'ie you'll be a good EVERYTHING'. =DDDDDDD
Good communication skills. This is an obvious trait that you'll build, if you spend half your time trying to 'fish' people out of their mudholes out into the light.
Honesty. In the 'house of brothers' (crude translation of Rumah Ikhwah) that i stayed in previously, there were bottles and bottles full of coins. Why? Because there were lots of spare coins lying around the house, but no one dared to pick them up for personal use.
See what i mean?
When you're a good da'ie with a solid foundation of iman and rigorous education that perfects your character, you'll be even better than superman (because du'at wear modest clothing, definitely no undergarments on the outside).
When asked about the most important thing going into the 'working phase', a senior of mine didn't tell us to get good qualifications, or satisfy bosses, or save lots of money. He said
"Take care of your da'wah and tarbiyah. Then other things will fall into place. If you chase after other things hoping to become 'stable' before you start D&T, you will never be stable".
How true, how true.