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Through a business arrangement, I met a man whom I think will become a friend. He loves the outdoors, and is a dynamic Christian, speaking to groups across the country. When he learned that I was from Alabama, he mentioned that he had a good friend in Sylacauga, David Pursell. David is an Auburn graduate who owns FarmLinks, a golf resort and grass research facility on Lay Lake. I had never heard of David or FarmLinks.
It is a small world after all (to quote a famous mouse.) Not two weeks after having the conversation about David Pursell, my son-in-law asked me if I have ever heard of FarmLinks? It turns out that David Pursell is going to speak at the ACIPCO Leadership Association meeting in November (where my son-in-law is employed). In addition, on my next trip to Auburn to see the Tigers beat Ole Miss, I see the huge billboard for FarmLinks, that I am sure I have passed many times without every noticing. Then, when I get to the game, I see that FarmLinks advertises on the big screen in the stadium! It is amazing how much of the world just passes me by without ever being realized until there is something that causes me to take notice.
I am afraid that is how so many people are with Jesus. They hear about Him all of their lives, but he becomes just another billboard on the cluttered side of the highway of life. He is often passed by until a "bump in the road" jars them out of their complacence. Little do they know that if they will stay close to Him, He will make the whole journey smoother. Trusting Jesus will not improve your gas mileage, nor will he appear to fix your flat. But He will make your life better.
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Nitic Banjerdtavorn - Cello Lessons
Born in Bangkok in 1990, Nitic Banjerdtavorn is an energetic and outgoing individual.
He developed great passion, understanding and appreciation for music from a young age. As a young boy, he learnt and grew fond of the cello at his Christian church.
From age 15, he studied under the tutelage of the prize winning Mr. Marcin Tomasz Szawelski at the College of Music, Mahidol University and from 2014 to present, studied with Mr.Martin Grund.
In 2009, in his final year at the college, he was honored to receive a scholarship for his grades. Then in 2010 he received a further scholarship to begin studying Music Education at Mahidol University.
In 2014 graduate from Mahidol University in Music Education, he has been tour and competition outside Thailand for example 1st place summa cum laude international in catagory of symphony , and been to tour in Europe and American ,Now he is an active member of Siam Sinofornieta ,Siam Philharmonic Orchestra ,Thailand's Sanctuary Orchestra.


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[November 7th] -- it was a double whammy for Ryan Zimmerman on Tuesday. He broke a bone in his wrist while taking batting practice (it's not going to effect him next year thank goodness) and then he found out he didn't win his first Gold Glove.
That he didn't win isn't a surprise. He committed 23 errors and seemed to take a step back defensively (though to be fair it was due to a lack of concentration rather than a mechanical problem). What surprised me was that his childhood friend, David Wright, beat him out (Zimmerman came in third behind Wright and perennial winner Scott Rolen). Marty Noble at mlb.com said it this way: "In voting by the coaches and managers in the National League, Wright was elected over the Cardinals' Scott Rolen, who had won the National League Gold Glove for third basemen in seven of the previous nine years, including last season, and Ryan Zimmerman of the Nationals, Wright's long-time friend who generally is regarded as a superior defender. "
We all got the chance to see Wright play often this year, and there was nothing there that indicated he was a Gold-Glove candidate. He makes most of the routine plays but spectacular, Zimmerman-like plays are few and far between. So why Wright?
Lets take a look at Wright and Zimmerman's stats side-by-side.
Wright: Putouts:107 -- Assists:304 -- Errors:21 -- Double Plays:24 -- Fielding %:.954
Zimmerman: Putouts:140 -- Assists:348 -- Errors:23 -- Double Plays:39 -- Fielding %:.955
In roughly the same number of innings, Zimmerman has 33 more putouts, 44 more assists, 15 more double plays and a better fielding percent, not to mention a whole slew of Web Gems.
And yet Wright wins the award.
Fear not. Once Zimmerman wins his first, he'll likely rip off a string of 10 or 12 in a row before he's finally done. I watched Brooks Robinson play as a kid. He's considered the best of all time. Without exaggerating, I think that Ryan is better on the spectacular plays and almost as good on the routine. He just might end up being known as the "best ever."
Could happen.
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Thursday, December 14, 2017
A♥ Bexley/Crayford/Erith
The modern borough of Bexley is a four-way amalgam - the Municipal Borough of Bexley, the Municipal borough of Erith, Crayford Urban District and as much of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District as lay north of the A20. All were previously in Kent, which has inspired 50 years of tedious nominative argument we'll not delve into here. But there's no doubt Bexley still feels somewhat disconnected, even unexplored, so I thought it would be a great place to go for a random walk.
Dérive - Bexley
Psychogeographers love a good dérive. A dérive is "an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there". It comes from the French word for 'drift', the same language that gave us flâneur, meaning 'one who wanders aimlessly'. But it's quite tricky to drop one's expectations and freewheel, so what's often needed is a strategy to aid unbiased exploration. You could flip a coin at each junction, you could draw a straight line on a map and try to follow it, or choose to only walk downhill. As a reader of this blog, I'd hope you've flâneured at least once.
To aid me in my drift around Bexley I used an app called Dérive, which deals a pack of virtual 'task cards' to direct users around an urban landscape. Every time you need a new challenge you press for another card, read the instruction and off you go. The app even takes note of time and distance, and generates a map so you can see where you've been. The app's small, and free, and has been updated to a new improved version only this week. If you ever have an hour to spare in an unfamiliar location, or even half an hour closer to home, you too could give Dérive a try.
I selected a base deck of general urban tasks and combined these with a specific set for London, let the app do the shuffling, and set out. For my starting point I picked the point where the three boroughs of Bexley, Crayford and Erith originally met, which it turned out is on the edge of Northumberland Heath. Annoyingly the precise spot is at the bottom of the garden of number 20 Courtleet Drive, a residential cul-de-sac off the Erith Road, and therefore inaccessible. So I stood outside the front garden, attempting not to look in any way suspicious, fired up the app and began.
Find a dustbin. Well that's easy. Even better, my first success is the bin outside 20 Courtleet Drive.
Stroll. Greet a passing stranger. Take a photo of their shoes. Apologise and continue. Ah. Some of these cards require actual interaction with your environment, and this instruction demands more interaction than most. I head up to the main road and soon pass a middle-aged gentleman, somewhat grumpy-looking, and fail to carry out the full sequence of three. I do grunt "morning", and he ignores me. I do snap an awkwardly surreptitious shot of his sensible black trainers, but I decide against following up with an apology because that would only make things worse.
Look for some trash on the street. If it's moving, follow it. I meet a fox sitting brazenly on the pavement at the top of Doris Avenue, but I guess that's not the kind of trash intended. A squashed Coke can suffices instead.
Find silence. Oh now that's a good challenge. Even though this is Bexley on a weekday, the backstreets are never entirely quiet. A slammed car door. The postman on his rounds. A beer barrel thumped off a lorry outside The Brewers Arms. Jetwash. A Mercedes being pushed onto the back of a breakdown truck. Aeroplanes overhead. Numerous birds. Eventually I work out that Burstead Wood offers the best opportunity for peace, so head there. It is an absolutely glorious winter's day in the park, and absolutely nobody is here but me. The sound of scrunchy leaves fades away as I stop walking. Perfect silence.
Identify a group of people. Walk towards them and loiter around for a bit. This must be dead easy in the centre of the city, but it proves much harder in the Bexley suburbs. Most people drive. Only singletons are out walking. The bus shelters are recently emptied. I walk towards the shopping parade in Barnehurst, but even this retail hub can't generate a 'group' of any description. I blame the large billboard beside the computer repair shop which urges locals to go to Bluewater instead. In the end I resort to visiting the station, where a group of glum hooded figures with hands in pockets await the Victoria train. I loiter until they depart.
Find a cat. The best place to spot a cat must surely be a residential street, so I head to the adjacent warren of commuterbelt avenues. Up the fourth avenue I think I spot a cat crossing the top of the hill, so hike up, and there's a black and white tabby perched on a wall behind the hollybush at number 15. Tick.
Turn around. I was hoping to continue up the hill, but I'm not in charge here, the app is, so I turn around.
Walk towards the heart of the city. If there's no heart, conjure one up. That'll be west, then. And Grasmere Road has plenty of heart, in the form of wreaths on doors, a jolly snowman on one front step and an illuminated polar bear on another.
Find graffiti or tagging. In most inner London locations this would be easy, but this is Bexley and surfaces are generally pristine. I even find a row of ten garages behind some flats, and am amazed to see that their doors are clear - pure white, pure brown - until finally the tenth has a splash of faded tagging above the handle. Memo, whoever you are, much respect.
Follow a green vehicle. I soon confirm that green cars are vastly outnumbered by their duller-coloured counterparts. I stand at the fiveway junction in Northumberland Heath, breathing in the sweet smell of baked goods, for at least five minutes before anything appropriately emerald goes by. And that's why I exit via Brook Street, one of the only roads across the original heath, long built-over.
Alternate between lefts and rights until you find something that's framed. Left, past one of Bexley's rare tower blocks. Right, towards Londis at the back of the Pheasant Garage. Left, past the recently boarded-up Pheasant pub. Hey presto, I've arrived at the source of that gorgeous smell, Erith's Hovis bakery, a huge industrial affair running down to the back of Courtleet Drive. And ahh, framed on the wall outside is a child rolling a hoop with a huge loaf of wholemeal on his shoulder. "Hovis ensures a healthy race." My random walk is finally delivering the goods.
Look for someone wearing red shoes. Take notes and directly afterwards, take the 1st left. I'm hopeful, because red trainers are definitely in vogue at present. But not during schooltime, not in winter, and today everyone's in white or black. I ply the entirety of Northumberland Heath's shopping parade, an extensive beast, and the best I can come up with is a pair of purple boots. The Big Issue seller is in brown flats. The Santa Claus in the window of the charity shop is barefoot. Eventually I spot a bloke outside the Utopia Nail Spa with red soles, and he'll have to do.
Zigzag from street to street until you find a patch of grass. Horsa Road... Ethelbert Road... Hengist Road... Penda Road... Collindale Avenue... a triangular traffic island with a tree on it. I like how all the streetname signs in Bexley include the logo of a defecating dog rather than the borough's coat of arms.
Meander in the direction of a green car. My quest is suddenly starting to feel a bit repetitive. Green cars continue to be distressingly rare. I meander more in hope than expectation, finally spotting one on Brook Road.
Meander in the direction of a green car. What? Again? But this time I spot one almost straight away, parked up behind iron gates, windscreen frozen over. My dérive has delivered me to Erith Cemetery!
Pick a flower. Oh that's cruel. Obviously whoever put these cards together had no idea that this one might pop up in a graveyard, but even though it's the one place you're sure to find flowers in winter, there's surely no worse place to pick one. Nobody else is here, other than a stonemason hiding in his van, but seriously, no way. I pass several vases of artificial blooms before reaching the final resting place of Valerie Iris Thomas, died 10th January 1942, aged 4 years. The pot of real pink flowers on her grave has blown over in a recent gale, and looks bereft, so I pick it up and set it right. The app has inspired a good turn after all.
Look down for the next 15 steps. Pine needles, pine cones, large brown oak leaf.
Find yourself a quiet spot. Contemplate your surroundings and take the busiest exit. In a cemetery, finding a quiet spot isn't difficult. The land falls away sharply beyond the railings, opening up a vista towards rooftops, a pile of spoil in a former quarry topped with cranes, and a heaped-up landfill site on the other side of the Thames. It's strangely pretty.
Find a parked sports (or just fancy) car. Walk in the direction its front wheel is pointing. A posh car in Lessness Heath? I'm unconvinced. The app's allowing me freedom of direction so I cross the valley and climb the hill and pass the flats and nothing's looking even vaguely souped up. Thank heavens I reach the soft top Mini Cooper outside Court Lodge seconds before its owner emerges and drives off.
Follow a phone user. Here on the main road I'm spoilt for choice - everyone's tapping away. I follow the nearest woman, and only later do I discover I've been stalking a young mother on her way to nursery. I doubt that "blaming the app" would stand up in court.
Find an object that's out of place. Continue in the direction the object appears to be facing. Everything on Erith Road (another Erith Road) looks normal, especially the houses, even the fire station. But a steep hill sign still shown as a ratio (1 in 9) is definitely unusual, indeed it's very Bexley.
Follow something black. That's too easy. I follow a car from Elaine's Driving School, Erith-ward.
Walk north and find something you can draw hope from. Ah, no longer Erith-ward, but heading towards the Thames. I'm expecting to reach St John the Baptist church, one of the oldest buildings in Bexley, but instead halt before the dual carriageway at the lowly pebbledash Erith Working Men's Club. Its back door is open and a working man's knees are sticking out, fag in hand. Another working man drives up in a van and parks outside. There is hope.
Turn left in 10 steps. Done. Blimey, this is almost shantytown Bexley up here, with less than sturdy homes crammed in on unadopted roads.
Head towards a nearby square of some kind. At the top of the hill is Franks Park, a splendid hump of woodland separating the two residential flanks. It has a former bandstand and a former air raid shelter, and a central panorama of the Thames, but nothing obviously square. I choose to walk down into Belvedere in the hope that its shops are in a square, but Asda and B&Q are too sprawled and the rest too linear. Outside the clothes shop a police officer is giving a full body search to a mouthy man in overalls. Her colleague is checking his van, which has a hockey mask hanging prominently over the front seat. The man is proclaiming his innocence, and giving them a full rundown of recent surgery on his tendons. I'll never top this, I reckon, and decide to end my dérive here. To reveal the true nature of a place, sometimes it's best to have no plans at all.
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Migos took the stage during the BET Hip-Hop Awards, which aired tonight after being taped at the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 6. The Atlanta rap trio performed "Too Hotty," the leading track off their label Quality Control Music's forthcoming compilation album Control the Streets Volume One. Watch them take the stage below. DJ Khaled, T-Pain, Rick Ross, and more opened the show with a performance of "I'm So Hood." Migos were nominated for three BET Hip-Hop awards, including Best Album of the Year (for Culture), Best Collaboration, Duo or Group, and Best Hip-Hop Style.
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Everyman continues bargaining with Death. "Can I get a deferment for twelve years? My ledger will be then nicely balanced." "No way. You can ask your friends for help, though." "Can I come back from this pilgrimage?" "No, you fool, reincarnation is unheard of in Christianity." "Can I bring any friends with me?" "Surely, if anyone agrees. Did you really think your life and possessions were your own? They were just a loan and somebody else is going to take your inheritance soon." "Can I get a deferment for at least one day?" "No way, the whole point of this morality play is that Death comes suddenly.". Death then exits, leaving Everyman to make his preparations. Everyman laments his fate, but then notices Fellowship approaching. Fellowship asks "Why so down? Did anybody hurt you? I will revenge you on him, even if I should die in the process!" But as we are going to learn, words and deeds are two different things.
As you can see, there is a lot of financial vocabulary in this play. OK, they say "biding" rather than "deferment", but that's the medieval Business English. The audience are clearly middle-class, merchants and financiers, who are familiar with the balance sheet and financial terminology.


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Today's post concerns an early assignment as a free-lancer after arriving in the Bay Area, and making contact with the local music newsletter/magazine, BAM Magazine. As "alternative" performers came through town in the mid-80s, I would get first crack at covering them, since most photographers on staff were only interested in the big names that would appear at the larger venues. I was especially keen on seeing new, and less-known performers in clubs, where the sound was much more likely to be mixed well, and so I would often get to cover groups, such as The Church, as they would pass through.
On this occasion, the editor asked if I wanted to see the band and bring back some snapshots, and while their earlier catalog didn't do much for me, their most recent release, "Heyday", was getting a lot of attention on college radio stations, so I was curious to check them out.
Marty Wilson-Piper, on the left, and Peter Koppes on the right.
I took my usual position, at the lip of the stage, nearly in the center, and tried to get by without using a flash. For the most part, it was a successful set of images, although a bit dark, for some of them.
The set, itself, was enjoyable enough, but somehow I was expecting a bit more energy in the performance. Instead, the musicians just concentrated on their instruments, and weren't seemingly very interested in a "show", as it were.
Marty Wilson-Piper appears in both stills, along with Steve Kilbey on bass.
Marty Wilson-Piper, at different points during the show.
While I wasn't particularly impressed with this performance, I am a huge fan of the lp they released next, "Starfish", a beautifully composed and produced release, which sounds as great today, as it did on its first issue.
Links related to The Church:
Set list for this particular show [not guaranteed to be accurate]
For all things Marty Wilson-Piper, begin here:
Hope you enjoy the few images that I captured on this occasion. Constructive criticism is always welcome, and should you wish to contact me, you can do so at:
While many of you who arrive here, to look at these photographs may get turned off to my use of watermarks [thinking they ruin the image], let me explain why I choose to do this.
No one paid for my camera equipment but me. No one paid for the film I used to take these photographs. On occasion, when I free-lanced for a free monthly newsletter, and they published a photo of mine, the payment for each photograph barely paid for the fuel to get my vehicle to the show [when I *did* have a vehicle], and the film I used on that night.
Not too many of my photos were published, at the time, because the artists I chose to capture images of, were not hugely popular then. Hence, the old dictum, "Supply and Demand"; I had the supply, but the demand [pre-Internet], was not there. You can argue the relative merits of the quality of my work, and that is precisely what a blog offers: a venue for discussion.
Back to the watermarks: no one is subsidizing my time to scan and then clean up the images I am presenting here. Start to finish, each negative will take approximately an hour-and-a-half to reach "proof" quality – which is what you will see here. This is my labor of love, and until there is some measurable return on my efforts, what you see is what you get.


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If you're working through some hands on science activities with your kids, building structures is a great way for kids to experiment with planning and constructing. It's a super opportunity to explore new materials and tools too. Now, I know that some people get the heebie-jeebies just thinking about touching styrofoam, but my daycare kids don't mind it at all.
It's amazing to see what kids can do with a few basic tools and free reign to build and create whatever their hearts desire. Even more amazing is how long kids will work on a project like this. The hooligans were busy for the better part of a morning building these structures, and they came back to the activity after their afternoon naps.
You may also like our homemade cardboard construction activity.
Cutting the styrofoam and poking craft sticks and golf tees into it provided their little fingers and hands with a real work out. Fine motor and co-ordination skills were tested, and critical thinking came into play as they planned and constructed their structures!
What a fun and inexpensive activity to keep toddlers and preschoolers entertained, thinking and learning!
Isn't it great when a spur-of-the-moment, open-ended activity that ended up being WAY bigger and better than I'd imagined it would be! Don't you love it when that happens?
Recently Jamie from hands on: as we grow wrote about the fun that her boys had with their styrofoam destruction activity, and I immediately went to the garage and rescued a couple of large pieces of styrofoam that I'd added to our growing "dump run" pile.
For our "constructing with styrofoam" activity we used:
For this activity, I set out the styrofoam along with some golf tees, craft sticks, chopped up drinking straws, some rocks (hammers) and a few "saws" (a play dough knife, a cake decorating tool and a plastic knife).
Now, maybe it was because I just happened to have two construction-lovin' boys here today, but this may have been one of our most popular activities yet.
I didn't give them any instruction other than to tell them how the "tools" could be used to secure the styrofoam blocks together. They wasted no time getting right to work and straight into full concentration mode:
and hammering some more. (that was their favourite part)
They deconstructed and reconstructed,
with determined looks on their faces.
They worked away for over an hour, in a flurry of busy activity, until they felt that their projects were complete, and even then they returned to the table through-out morning and afternoon to tweak a piece here or there and to hammer in another golf tee or to cut another piece of foam.
They were so proud of their finished projects.
The builder of this next piece announced that his was an "ice house".
What a hit! Simple materials, no cost and loads of creative fun!
If you're looking for another activity similar to this one, have a look at our DIY cardboard construction set, our toilet roll structures and mosaic structures. The Hooligans had a great time making those too.
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80% of Indian ATMs operate on Windows XP and uses a firmware that limits the machine's activities to basics such as dispensing cash and checking the balance. Other activities are blacklisted, which prevent a ransomware from attacking an ATM
Bank ATMs across India might escape the WannaCry worm global attack that locks computers and demands a ransom, cyber security experts said on Monday.
At least 80% of Indian ATMs operate on Windows XP and uses a firmware that limits the machine's activities to bare basics such as dispensing cash on request and checking the account balance.
Other activities are blacklisted, preventing a ransomware from attacking an ATM.
Speculation swirled in India over the safety of ATMs after WannaCry crippled more than 200,000 computer systems across 150 countries since Friday.
India's cyber security agency alerted Internet users against the worm that locks down files of an infected computer and asks the user to pay a ransom of $300 in Bitcoin virtual currency to unlock the system.
The worm takes advantage of a Windows vulnerability that Microsoft released a security patch for in March and computers that hadn't updated were still at risk.
WannaCry has struck banks, hospitals, government agencies across the globe.
Experts cautioned that this is high time for banks to update the software used in ATMs.
"Most ATMs in India use white-listing services to eliminate threats from malwares and worms within their internal networks. WannaCry doesn't look like something that will affect the ATMs, unlike personal or corporate endpoints," said Saket Modi, the CEO and co-founder of Lucideus.
Lucideus is an IT risk assessment and digital security services provider.
The fear of losing money and crucial banking data is palpable as hackers last October attacked a server linked to Indian ATMs and corrupted more than 3 million cards issued by 19 banks.
The attack was on one of the companies that provide the ATM switch — a payment transfer engine that allows the cash dispensing machine's software to connect to interbank networks.
Most switches are in remote locations, not at the ATM. A bank branch that has an ATM is likely to manage its own switch, but the rest may be maintained by agencies such as Hitachi.
To ensure safety against any breach, the IT ministry has reached out to key stakeholders such as the RBI, National Payments Corporation of India, NIC and Aadhaar-provider UIDAI to protect the digital payment systems against WannaCry.
"The RBI has directed banks to update the Microsoft patch on Friday after news of the ransomware. This helped India's banking system to insulate against potential threats," said Sivarama Krishnan, the partner and leader of cyber security at PwC India.


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On 10/15/2011 3:36 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Shane Curcuru<email@example.com> wrote: >> And I'm on El Reg! >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/14/apache_openoffice_alive_well/ >> >> Hope I did OK in the interview. At least I got a good closing quote, even >> if it was a little tweaked in the story. > > Perhaps in > > "The ASF ... said that there was no need for additional donations" > > we should have been more compassionate. If you have the magic spell that causes reporters to always quote you accurately and completely, please do let me (and especially Sally) know! I was not given a chance to review the story text before posting. > > AIUI the business model used by TDF and TeamOOo requires donations. > Statements like this damage our relationship with potential downstream > consumers, and risk reducing ecological diversity. > > A key goal should be to encourage the development of a rich and deep > office office ecosystem. I'm not sure I'd say "Key goal", but yes, that's a good thing overall. > I would feel much more comfortable adopting > the position that "Apache does not need or use cash donations to fund > development but encourages exciting and innovative downstream efforts > of all kinds and understands that some not-for-profit players need > donations right away to get keep hacking". Personally, I'd prefer to focus on what we need to do, and that we're happy to work with any other willing communities. The point is that the ASF does not have an urgent need of more funding to help the Apache OpenOffice podling continue operations, nor will more funding directly help them create a release sooner/with more features/whatever. And - separately - I'm still wondering why Team OpenOffice e.V. chose the specific wording in their fundraising release, and wondering why they haven't officially communicated with Apache lists about it. I have to admit that lack of communication is... quite disappointing. > > But maybe some good could come out of this. Why not get together to > release a statement clarifying who needs donations right now, why and > what cool stuff they are going to fund with the cash? (Something > positive with as many potential players as possible...) > > (Personally, I would love to see the FSF enter the ring with a > downstream GPL GNUberOffice integrating emacs, R, GIMP etc) We need to focus on working on our mission and telling our stories. I'm confident other organizations will find their own ways forward. (On the official level, at least; if you want to go blog about new ideas for collaboration please do!) - Shane > > Robert
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Not only is it capable of reading and managing PDF files, but it can also do so with XML, RIS and BIB, even though it would be even better if it included more support for eBooks.
The program allows you to create a bibliographical database with all the documents that we are using or want to use for our project.
All we'll have to do is add them or indicate their location on the hard drive so that it automatically stores all the new documents that we store there.
The database can be exported and shared with other workmates over the Internet. We will also be able to upload it to a web server and synchronize it with different computers by means of a free account.
We will be able to underline the documents, export their texts or images and share them with our colleagues. Mendeley Desktop also allows us to perform searches, with the possibility to filter them by author, publication, keywords and even tags, as well as performing batch editing.
We'll be able to generate automatic bibliographies, following the most used citation styles, that can later be used in Word or OpenOffice.
It also allows, by adding the Mendeley Bookmarklet Firefox plug-in as a bookmark, to add all kinds of documents, from sites like Amazon, APS, Google BookSearch, Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, NASA ADS, PubMed, ScienceDirect, World Cat, Zetoc and, of course, Wikipedia.
Keeping track of the bibliography necessary for a project was never as simple as using Mendeley Desktop.


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|DAY 1: Cairo, Siwa
Leaving Cairo behind to Siwa, we drive on road till reaching Alamein. There we visit the WWII Museum and the war memorial. (lunch en route) Moving on, we pass by Marsa Matruh. Upon reaching Siwa, check in our hotel - Dinner & Overnight in our hotel Siwa Shali Resort or similar. ( L, D )
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Filming of MacGyver has moved back to Los Angeles.
MacGyver is at the Bar Mitzvah of his friend's son when the boy's grandfather, Abe, gets MacGyver tangled in a web of international intrigue involving an eccentric Caribbean dictator and a high-tech helicopter.
MacGyver moves into a Bohemian section of town after losing his houseboat to fire. MacGyver springs into action when a young woman in his new neighborhood stumbles into trouble with hit men.
MacGyver's recurring nightmares of Murdoc have him sleepless and edgy as he provides security at a deposed dictator's criminal trial.
MacGyver's efforts to help smoke out a psychopathic arsonist turn personal.
The Colton family aids an Amerasian girl fleeing from the Chinese Mafia. She's the lone witness to a Chinatown murder. MacGyver only appears briefly at the beginning and end of this episode. It was intended as the pilot for a spinoff series, which never happened, based around the Colton family.
MacGyver's in deep trouble when a group of Haitian extortionists kidnap a friend's activist daughter turning her into a zombie.
Part 1 A hard bump on the head sends MacGyver back in time to King Arthur's Court. His futuristic ways threaten Merlin's magic, but they also may prove that Merlin was not behind the assassination attempt on the King.
Part 2 Attempting to clear his family's name, MacGyver accompanies Merlin on a quest to free Galahad's beloved Cecilia as well as foil Morgana's wicked plan. Morgana has discovered gunpowder. MacGyver's first name was revealed in this episode.
MacGyver helps an old silent-movie comedian whose only remaining prints of his work are stolen.
Earl Dent, MacGyver's boxer buddy, fights to retain custody of his daughter. However some bad bookies want him to dive in his comeback bout.
A Challenger Club youth takes the blame for shooting a gang member. The gang member was actually murdered by a weapons dealer who exploiting street violence.
MacGyver helps a young graffiti-artist and his grandmother, who've been evicted by a slum-lord to make way for a development project.
MacGyver's last regular-series adventure. MacGyver takes on a Chinese dissident's dangerous cause and gets help from an unexpected source - his son.
Jack Dalton convinces MacGyver to join him on a search for the fountain of youth in Kabulstan. After discovering a land that appears to be a real Shangri-La the two find themselves battling nuclear terrorists.
MacGyver, his archaeology professor, and an old friend search for the legendary treasure of Atlantis. An enterprising Englishman and his partner want the treasure for other reasons.
While celebrating the birthday of his good friend Paul in England, a shooting occurs. Paul and his daughter Elisa are killed. Mac investigates with the help of Natalia, he soon discovers a secret nuclear weapons facility.
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I was at a pay phone on Ventura Blvd. dialing information. I had no clue I was feeling that alone. Why should I? I was coming from one of Tommy's parties loaded with flora and fauna and I had just met this lovely gazelle, Dawn. We talked for a good half hour and I could feel something was going on between us, so I figured all bets were covered for the night. But the more we talked, the more I knew this wasn't business as usual here. I started to become uncomfortable with the thought that this was the kind of girl I could maybe like too much. Maybe even marry someday. So I took off as mousey as I could, not even saying goodnight to Tommy.
I drove about a mile before I was able to convince myself that I was being a jerk. I mean, what could possibly happen that I didn't want to happen, right? No gun to my head. I drove back to the party and got to the door, but I couldn't go in. I heard voices coming closer -- maybe someone was leaving. Just what I needed, to be caught in the middle of an argument with myself. I took off again.
So there I was at a pay phone booth on Ventura Blvd. dialing my cousin Stanley's number...
Hello, Aunt Fay? Is Stanley home? This is Scott.
Your nephew.
Your favorite nephew. Your only nephew.
Right. Scott.
Yes, I know it's been a long time.
No, nothing's wrong, Aunt Fay, I just wanted to talk to Stanley.
I'm sorry, Aunt Fay, but I just didn't send out Christmas cards last year.
Yeah, I guess it is a few years I haven't. But why are Christmas cards so important to you, considering you're Jewish and all?
Out of respect for my mother? Remember, she divorced my extremely unreligious Catholic father who never sent a Christmas card in his life.
No, no, I think I understand. Yes, "Respect has only respect to answer to." I agree.
Listen, Aunt Fay, when will Stanley be back?
No, it's not important like I'm in trouble or something, but I do want to talk to him. Tell me, what's Stanley doing now, Aunt Fay?
No, I don't mean right at this moment. I mean for work. His job. Last time I saw him, I think it was at Uncle Harold's funeral, he was working at some garage but he didn't think
he'd be staying there much longer.
Oh, still. I guess he's happy there. I know, Stanley could always fix things, radios, televisions, cars, anything.
Yeah, I'm still doing the same thing, too.
Well, tennis is a job, Aunt Fay, really. It may look like I'm not working, but what I do really isn't that easy.
Yes, it's a living.
No, that was just a commercial.
She's not my girlfriend, just an actress.
The one with dark hair? I don't know if she was married.
No, she didn't really cook anything. They were all actresses, Aunt Fay. Stanley wouldn't like any of them. And even if he did, you wouldn't like them.
Exactly, pretty face, no brains. Listen, Aunt Fay, please tell Stanley to call me when he gets home.
Whenever. It's three hours earlier out here. I'm in California.
Well, my job makes me travel a lot. I have to go to where the tournaments are.
Yes, he can call me collect.
No, it's not important. I just want to talk to him.
Yes, he has my number. I called him a few months ago and gave it to him. I guess he didn't tell you.
No, it's not a hotel. It's my own place. Yes, I have one there, too.
I know. It's a good job, Aunt Fay, I told you. And Merry Christmas.
Well, we get Christmas earlier out here also.
The phone rang and startled me out of a deep sleep. I was having a crazy dream about Humphrey Bogart trying to strangle me in a church. The Bogart part was obvious. I had been watching "The Maltese Falcon" when I conked out. The strangled in church part was probably the guilt trip Aunt Fay dropped on me.
Stanley? What time is it?
No, out here. I'm in L. A. I already did this number with your mother. Listen, Stanley, how much do you make?
C'mon, Stanley, this is me, not the fucking IRS. I just want to know, that's all. Listen, don't apologize for it, just tell me the figure. Trust me.
That's all?
I'm just surprised. You're worth more than that. I'm telling you straight. I'll double it. With all expenses paid. No, working for me.
Why? I need you.
C'mon, Stanley, I'm telling you, I need you. It's either you or a fucking stranger, and I'd rather have you.
Because I trust you and I like you. That's it. That's the whole story.
C'mon, Stanley, we were kids. We were supposed to fight. It's expected of cousins. Listen, did we fight at Uncle Harold's funeral last year? Or even before that?
See? Not since we both grew up.
What's to think about? It's a simple choice. If you don't want the job, forget it.
Lots of things, take care of travel plans, tournament schedules... I don't know exactly, but we'll fit the job around you.
Because it would be great just having you with me. On the road, especially.
C'mon, Stanley. You know me better than that. I wouldn't do that. I get my own coffee. I'm not looking for a lackey; I'm looking for a cousin who can be a best friend.
Of course it's crazy. It's me, Scott. Would I suggest anything that wasn't crazy?
I know you don't know shit about tennis. That's a major plus, believe me.
Okay, take your time, think it over. Only one problem -- your time's up. So what do you say? You're on the payroll the minute I hang up the phone.
Terrific! I love you! Listen, I'll be here until Monday, then I go to Phoenix. Would you rather meet me there? Let me warn you, that can be one dead town, but I know a pro with a tennis camp resort and you'll meet flora and fauna galore.
No, that's not their names. Forget it, just tell me, here or Phoenix?
Okay, put it all together and let me know the flight and time and I'll pick you up at the airport.
No, you handle it and I'll square with you when you get here. You can do that, right?
See? You're fitting in already 'cause that's one thing I know you'll be doing for me. For us. We travel a lot. It'll be fun. The French Open. Italian open. Australian Open. Wimbledon.
No, that's not a country, that's a tournament.
No, I'm glad you didn't know. That's what I mean, see? I need you because you don't know.
Are you kidding? Your mother will make her friends drop dead from your postcards alone. Monte Carlo will give them coronaries!
No, no, you're going to earn every penny of it, believe me. My insanity isn't easy to live with seven days a week. Even I have trouble with it. But I'm also appreciative. And I do need someone I can trust. And Stanley, right now I trust you more than anyone on the planet.
Great! See you soon.
I got off the phone, but now I was too wide awake to go back to sleep. Then a troublesome thought hit me -- when I get back to L.A. will I phone Tommy and ask him to give me Dawn's number?
Nick Meglin is a writer living in North Carolina.


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While I support the aspirational policy to make New Zealand predator free by 2050, I also quite admire the various little predators we're trying to banish. The other week our cat Leo cornered a rat in our kitchen. It proved to be such a feisty and personable little creature that I couldn't bring myself to bash its brains in with the fire shovel, as I should have. I caught it and released it outside instead. This was probably a bit soft, since we currently have tui and other birds nesting in or near our garden. It's probably planning to raid their nests as I write, if it hasn't already done so. But I couldn't help admiring the little chap.
So, springboarding from that experience, I plan to establish the New Zealand Predator Protection League. The idea is to protect an area of land with a rodent-proof fence, to keep the rodents, mustelids and feral cats within rather than without. Post 2050, visitors to this reserve will be able to get a sense of how their land was before the rodents were eradicated.
Initially I'll be starting small, seeking funding to erect said fence around our 800 square-metre suburban property. This will allow existing predators, such as the rats that seem to be established in our bush and garden compost bin, to live their lives unthreatened by traps and free of busybodies. They will, of course, be expected to watch out for each other, as we yet have no way of preventing inter-species predation among the predators.
Prior to the establishment of the NZPPL Charitable Trust, I would like to attract some seed funding to get this worthy project under way. If you're interested please contact me and I'll give you my private bank account number in expectation of your generous donation. A significant proportion of this seed fund will be aimed toward securing a large Lotto win, with the hope that developments can begin sooner rather than later. The remainder will be used for 'operational expenses'.
Once we have a board of trustees and the trust fund reaches a certain level, the aim is to acquire a significant block of undeveloped land, fence it and create a Predator Reserve. This should prove a popular tourist attraction as well as provide an educational and research facility, admission to which will be an income stream. One idea is to look at purchasing the Gilberd Bush Reserve - an otherwise-useless, bushy gully in Newlands, kindly gifted to the city by my father's uncle Ted. Failing that, a block of private or public land in the triangle of Ngauranga-Raroa-northern Khandallah would suffice, as there is already a healthy population of stoats, rats and God knows what else roaming around in there.
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Do Your Listings Have Personality?
Whether you sell on eBay, Amazon or some other website, there's a pretty good chance that someone is selling similar or even the same items that you are. When this is the case, it's not always best to compete on price as you'll just end up eating into profits. Instead, a better strategy is to make shoppers want to choose your item over your competitors. One way to do this is by making sure that your item listings have personality.
What exactly does "personality" mean? When it comes to item listings, it's about making sure they have unique content and creative product descriptions. In other words, your description content is fresh and not generic.
Here are some ideas that can help you add the personality and uniqueness that will set you apart from competitors:
First, keep in mind that Google likes content that is new and original – Google's search typically avoids duplicate content completely. This means that if you're using the "default" catalog information on eBay, or if you're following the rest of the herd with the same product description on Amazon, Google's search algorithm will pass you by, along with your potential customers. Most people like to research an item before they finally make an online purchase. If you have fresh, original content instead of the boring content everyone else has, not only will Google love you but shoppers will too.
Second, tell shoppers about the features of a product and how buying it can benefit them. You may not have thought about it before, but every time you write a product description for an item, you are actually working as a copywriter. Think about the product descriptions in some of the catalogs you have browsed through. They don't typically just give you the color and size of an item. They describe it in a way that you can almost see yourself holding or using the item. Suggest ways they can use your item or what they can do with it.
Next, take a good look at your photos. The item images are what ultimately make it sell. Capture the item from different angles so the customer can get a good idea of what they are buying. Requirements vary marketplace to marketplace, but generally you should keep the background clean and simple. Make your photos unique, but avoid making them look "busy". Stick to a single color background and let the item be the star in your photos.
Finally, consider the buyer. If your item appeals to a younger person, then you can be less formal and more casual with your product description. If your item would appeal to a suit-and-tie professional, you would want a more authoritative voice. If its best suited for a stay-at-home mom, show her how much easier her life could be with your item. If you're not sure who would best benefit from your item, choose one group and "speak" to them. This will not only keep your description from being too generic, but can keep your content from becoming stale and boring as well.
This guest post was contributed by Kat Simpson. Kat is a trusted eCommerce author, speaker, educator, and entrepreneur. Kat Simpson has been a successful eCommerce merchant for over 10 years; is an eBay Education Specialist and Gold Level PowerSeller, as well as a successful Amazon merchant. Currently Kat is the hosts the popular weekly eCommerce Podcast That Kat Radio and an active Facebook Group ThatKat.