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Battlefield 4 hasn't been limited by modern day setting, says DICE over Battlefield 2142 demands
Battlefield 2142 seems to have a lot of love out there, so it's natural gamers want a sequel. However, DICE's Lars Gustavsson has stressed that while the reality attached to modern day settings may prove limiting, it only serves to push the studio's creative mind-set further. So that's a 'no' to Battlefield 2143 just now, basically.
Speaking with OXM, Gustavsson stressed, "It's definitely a fact that sticking to any era from true life makes you have to look harder for more possibilities to bring in for cool gameplay, but I think for Battlefield 4 this definitely hasn't been a limiting factor or a limitation. I think we've found a lot of new ideas and new ways of keeping customising and adding new toys to the battlefield.
"And to be honest, if we – and I'm not saying that we will, but for the future – if we did continue to go down the contemporary warfare route then yeah, I would seriously look into what we can do that seriously impacts your experience of Battlefield. Since, as you say – every era, as long as it's [true to life], inhabits limitations."
When it was suggested that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 developer Treyarch would have had much more freedom to go bananas in the creativity stakes due to its future setting, Gustavsson continued, "Yeah, it gives them a lot of creative freedom. And I think that's what people loved when we did Battlefield 2142 – when they got to unleash their creativity. 'This seems cool: let's do it!'
"At the same time I think that we've been really happy working with a contemporary setting, in being able to have a great foundation to build on and then just add a plethora of extra goodies to it. The contemporary [setting] with all the hi-tech stuff that's already out there, to just keep on evolving it. I'd rather see it as a positive for the customer, that we can bring so much more to that setting, than a negative."
What do you think fans? Should they do a Battlefield 2142 sequel? Let us know below.
Meanwhile, you can pre-load Battlefield 4 on PC now. Huzzah!


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Under the artistic direction of David Mandelbaum, New Yiddish Rep produces modern theatre for diverse audiences, tapping into the enduring potency of Yiddish as a language and cultural mindset. The company also combines languages with Yiddish such as English and Russian when such combinations can serve the work and add to its impact.
New Yiddish Rep produced the internationally acclaimed and groundbreaking production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" in Yiddish two seasons ago. That production was said to illuminate a classic of the modern theatre in new and unexpected ways.
In the fall of 2015, audiences of all backgrounds began to experience "Death of a Salesman," the classic of the American theater, in the language that some are convinced reveals its deepest ethical, ethnic and social meanings.
The Off-Broadway premiere, produced in association with the multi-cultural Castillo Theatre, ran from October 8 through November 22. The production coincided with Arthur Miller's centennial is October 17.

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Pair of Continental Winter Street Scenes by Vitaly Petrovsky
Signed, oils on canvas.
Dimensions: 19" x 22" (overall).
Biography: Vitaly Petrovsky was born in 1975 in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Graduated from industrial Art School in 1996.
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(This was a draft saved in my inbox. I don't know why I never posted it but
I should have! And these photos were taken by my talented friend, Megan Mulvey.
Thank you so much for these, Megs!)
Early on in my pregnancy when we found out we were expecting another one, I felt this anxiety of Noah not being my little baby anymore. He has always been such a mama's boy and attached to my hip! I didn't want him to feel replaced and I didn't want our close relationship, this strong bond we had together fade.
I was nervous, even though we were wanting another baby and had planned this pregnancy, in the back of my head I had this bitter feeling of letting go of just Noah and I.
I had scheduled an early ultrasound to see if I was expecting twins since they run in my family
and after feeling like I wasn't having twins my husband thought we should just wait a little longer for the first ultrasound but I for some reason felt like I needed to go.. I didn't know why I had this feeling which made me so nervous! Once we got there and were ready to go I remember Chan standing next to the bed holding my hand with Noah in his arms and as soon as that little baby popped up on the scream Noah said so sweetly, "Look! Thats my baby! Thats my baby sister!". And I felt a tear roll down my cheek. He then got down and stood on a stool and held my hand with his dad. For me that was a perfect moment, a moment that I needed and I felt that fear of two babies, of guilt sharing my mama heart with another one, and saying goodbye to having just Noah leave my body.
And he was so sure his baby was a girl and he was right from the very beginning.
When we brought Penelope home, Chan left to go pick Noah up from his Nana and Papa's house.
I sat in my bedroom waiting for him to get here, trying to prepare myself for this moment. Will he like her? Will he be jealous? Will he cry?
I heard the door open and Noah walked in my room and as soon as he saw me with this tiny baby he got the biggest smile on his face and was breathing with so much excitement. He climbed up onto the bed and kissed her on the head and kept saying "Hi Penelope!".
He then bent down and whispered, "it's okay Penny, I'm going to protect you." and then my mommy heart just melted all over the place.
I feel like life with two littles hasn't been what I had expected. I expected the worst but we got pretty lucky. Noah loves her so much! It's like he understood and had a bond with her before she was born. I love watching their little relationship grow. Noah insists on taking naps by her and they actually nap better that way. He loves to kiss the top of her head and asks all the time to hold her. If she's upset he runs to me and tells me she's crying and he helps bring me her diapers and wipes. Sometimes she will take a bath with me and I love when he comes in and asks me, "Mommy! How's she doing in there?".
I try to be careful with my time though. Making sure I give Noah the attention he needs and balancing out the two during the day. If Noah asks to be held I try to hand Penny to someone else or lay her down and let him be held. If she's crying I try to make him feel okay before rushing off.
It's been 9 weeks with having two littles and I can promise you it's a beautiful experience. Don't get me wrong, there are moments where I feel like I'm about to collapse with exhaustion and most nights I don't get that much sleep. Getting out the door on time is quit a challenge and having enough time to shave my legs is a joke. Oh and having perfectly painted nails? Yeah… no. And by the end of the day I might be covered from head to toe in spit up and baby poop but its worth it. All of it is worth it.
The other day I had an overwhelming feeling that this is where I am suppose to be
and that is so comforting because I know 100% that this really is where I am suppose to be.
And my heart is full of so much love.
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I wonder how they did "warped text" effects in the days before Photoshop & Illustrator?I remember when Space Mountain was new, I was SO excited to ride it.
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W3C RDFCore Working Group
Previous: 2001-07-06 (archive)
Present: Brian McBride (Chair), Dave Beckett, Bill dehOra, Jos De Roo, Graham Klyne, Ora Lassila, Frank Manola, Stephen Petschulat, Aaron Swartz (Scribe), Mike Dean, Pat Hayes, Sergey Melnik
Regrets: Dan Brickley, Eric Miller, Art Barstow, Dan Connolly, Jan Grant, Martyn Horner, Yoshiyuki Kitahara, Satoshi Nakamura
Absent: Frank Boumphrey, Ron Daniel, Rael Dornfest, Michael Kopchenov, Pierre G. Richard, R. V. Guha
See also: Meeting Transcript
Minutes, as written by Jan Grant, are approved.
Frank has an item about the DAML Joint Committee's submission to the working group which we agreed to address early in the meeting.
The Working Group acknowledged receipt of the DAML coordination document (@@link) and agreed to send a response to DAML. Frank Manola was assigned an action to draft an assesment of the document and describe how it fits in with the issues we're discussing. Brian McBride was assigned an action to inform the DAML Committee of our receipt of their message and let them know that we hope to have a more detailed response by the end of the month.
The Working Group agreed that <http://purl.org/net/dajobe/2001/06/ntriples/> would become the official definition of N-Triples. Brian thought it would be likely that it would be a key part of the spec. The intention is to keep the format and document updated as we continue to define the abstract syntax. Dave Beckett and Art Barstow will meet to decide who will maintain the document. The document will be moved into W3C webspace with the proper copyright notice, etc.
It was agreed that we would link <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Jul/0039.html> from the issues list. Next week we will decide whether to accept it as an issue resolution.
Sergey Melnik sent <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Jul/0033.html> with a proposed ordering of topics for the Working Group to focus on, which people mostly agreed upon. However, there is also the issue of scope which we weren't all clear where to place in our priorities. All of the items are expensive topics but this first-cut summary should help us.
Brian sent <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Jul/0072.html> proposing the summarization and dividing the open issues into two groups. The top half are ones we should focus on, since they affect the abstract syntax. Everyone should speak up if they have other issues which they feel are important. Sergey raised the issue of namespaces which he volunteered to own.
It was also agreed that a model theory would help us answer questions. Pat Hayes volunteered to provide an incomplete strawman to give us a focus for discussion. Sergey pointed out that issues of terminology were also important, and might hamper progress on a model theory. Pat Hayes felt that both could proceed in parallel and help progress with the other. There was general agreement on this point.
Graham Klyne reminded the Working Group of <http://public.research.mimesweeper.com/RDF/RDFTerminologyConcepts.html> which he began to put together back on RDF Interest.
Aaron pointed out that the model theory should not try and take the place of answering the questions raised by the issues. Pat hayes agreed, saying that the model theory is a mathematical sandbox to focus the questions and try out the answers.
Brian explained that he wanted to begin reviewing issues with high priority to see if we could come to some sort of resolution. Graham Klyne summarized that he though there was some progress based on his recent exchange with Frank Manola, but he was especially curious if Dan Connolly had any comments. He felt that he had narrowed the issue down by dismissing query as out of scope that left only the question of what were the semantics of an anonymous resource. Pat thought that dismissing query may not be well accepted by many. Graham said he would wait until someone raised the issue. Frank Manola suggested query might need to go into the M&S while Pat Hayes suggested the document might have explicit warnings against common misunderstandings, something the DAML group plans to do. Frank suggested two major approaches: 1) recognize that people might use RDF in a query context but leave others to specify the semantics for that situation or 2) do the extension ourselves. Graham said he felt that the current spec uses anonymous resources to say 'there exists something with these properties'. In response to a question from Jos de Roo, he clarified that there could be more than one thing and referred to <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Jul/0124.html> (?) for more precise wording. He felt that it really came down to two choices: 1) a form of skolemization -- generating IDs for anonymous resources or 2) introducing a more explicit scoped variable. He felt there were problems each way: with (1) the question was how to generate the ID, with (2) it was how to scope something in the abstract syntax. Brian pointed out that the rdfms-graph issue might provide a URI for an RDF graph, and thus might help in this area. Brian asked whether the IDs generated by skolemization would be distinguishable from normal URIs. Graham felt they would not necessarily be distinguishable, but that he wasn't sure about it. He said he didn't have a strong view on the issue but was leaning towards scoped variables. Jos de Roo commented that the scope for these variables could be the document itself, which he felt N-Triples made quire clear with its _:anonnode syntax. Graham felt that problems could arise when documents were combined and though you really need a way of capturing boundaries within the abstract syntax. Frank Manola wondered if this was a syntactic exercise or a more substantial function of merging graphs, bringing up the example of logical statements. Pat Hayes said that in logic you had to rename variables when you merged documents but said he thought that's what URIs were supposed to do.
Brian sent a summary of use cases late last night. He felt that M&S was quite clear on how a literal should be represented. He presented his summary saying that Jan Grant implemented it the way M&S described and preferred that. Martyn Horner found that they modeled language using anonymous resources and didn't use the M&S way. Eric Miller provided a similar use case, but we could not determine whether the M&S met his needs. He also raised some questions: Do we understand what M&S says about xml:lang? The answer seemed to be yes. Is what M&S describes broken - is there some fatal flaw that must be fixed? Pat Hayes felt that clearly not, since some have implemented it. Aaron Swartz raised that Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly felt it was broken and thought we shouldn't go on without their feedback. Graham suggested three possible ways to do things: 1) Define literals as complex entities with a language property; 2) model it in the graph; 3) adopt both - let the market decide or let a thousand flowers bloom. Pat Hayes thought that this would lead to contradictions and inconsistencies. Brian volunteered to do a writeup of the pros and cons of the alternatives.
Pat Hayes raised that next week was the DAML PI meeting and DAML folks might not be able to attend. Brian said he would keep that in mind when writing the agenda.


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Chance Spratlin poured in 25 points as the Bethlehem Christian Academy Knights defeated visiting John Hancock 63-46 Tuesday.
The win was the seventh in the last nine games for BCA, who also improved to 3-3 in GISA Region 1-A. The Knights are now 11-9 overall.
The first game between the schools this season went to double overtime, but Spratlin's performance helped BCA take care of business in just four quarters in the rematch.
"This win will give us a No. 3 seed at least for the region tournament," coach Mark Barth said. "There is a chance we could finish as the No. 2 seed. We'll need to win Friday against Thomas Jefferson to have a chance."
Knights defeat John Hancock in region play
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Chloe Delzell became a Goodwill Ambassador of Toyama on July 8, 2015
Chloe Delzell, originally from Ashland, Oregon spent four years serving as an Assistant Language Teacher in Toyama Daiichi High School and finished her term this past July. Chloe was one of several teachers to be recognized for their contributions and named as honorary ambassadors of Toyama. Members of the Toyama Honorary Envoy will be expected to maintain and promote ties between Toyama and their home nations and regions. I caught up with Chloe after the ceremony to ask her about what brought her here, and hear her thoughts on the Toyama-Oregon relationship.
Toyama bound!
After studying abroad in Kanagawa and deciding that I would major in Japanese at my university, I figured that after graduating I would probably
want to come to Japan and work. That's when I first heard about the JET Program. I couldn't decide for the longest time whether I should apply but luckily my mom encouraged me to just go for it! So basically, long story short, my placement turned out to be Toyama. I knew nothing about Toyama at first, not even where it was in Japan – I turned to my Japanese friends and the internet for information. I began to feel better after learning that it is a prefecture full of nature, with mountains and the sea, and also that it is located relatively close to Tokyo and Osaka. My Japanese friends responded to all of my questions by telling me, "Mmm, kind of inaka (rural), but it looks like a nice place!" It was around that time that I also discovered about the sister-state relationship between Toyama and Oregon; suddenly it made a lot of sense that I was placed in Toyama.
Impressions of Toyama
I will never forget flying into Toyama Airport four years ago. I was feeling super nervous about meeting my supervisor and finally getting to the place where I would be living for the next year. I saw the river sparkling brightly through the window, and the greenery along the river bed was so vivid it just made me feel a lot calmer. When we walked off the plane, it was so hot I couldn't believe it!
Now that four years has passed, I would definitely say that my impression of Toyama has changed. At first, I didn't really know how much of a city Toyama had. Driving down the main street near my apartment I remember thinking how old and rustic (and rusty, haha) many of the shops were. But afterwards, I realized that Toyama's downtown area really is a proper city with good transportation and most everything a person could want in their everyday life. Also, I always thought that I would move to Tokyo after leaving JET. But I've come to realize that I prefer the un-crowded lifestyle of the inaka; there is nature close by and you don't have to live in a city that never sleeps to have fun.
About the sister state relationship
Thanks to the sister state relationship of Oregon and Toyama, I was able to discover such a nice place that manages to be reminiscent of home, while still being totally different. As a Goodwill Ambassador I definitely plan on continuing to try and wheedle friends and family to come and visit me. My Japanese friends who have come to Toyama are always surprised and say, "I didn't realize Toyama was such a nice place!" I don't know where I will be working and living next but to be honest I'd like to stay in Toyama or the Hokuriku area a little bit longer.


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I've long known that clothing can kill you. In fact I devote a whole chapter to the subject in my book Nice Girls Can Be Nudists Too.
I've also been banging on for years about the close connection between wearing bras and breast cancer as pointed out by Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer in their 1995 book, Dressed to Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras.
Quick summary of their findings in case you've not come across this yet:
According to the authors, wearing a bra can cause all manner of unpleasantness. It seems that ladies who wear bras for more than twelve hours each day except for bed are twenty-one times more likely to get breast cancer than those who wear bras less than twelve hours per day. Those who wear bras even in bed are one hundred and twenty-five times more likely to get breast cancer than those who don't wear bras at all!
These findings have been disputed but never invalidated, and more recent studies, such as a 2009 Chinese study that found that not sleeping in a bra dropped a woman's risk of breast cancer by 60%, have reinforced the initial findings (1). Continue reading


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I don't buy the Djokovic silent ban either. He's been crap for the last 12 months, and an elbow injury is pretty consistent with how his game has developed over the last year
When would the positive for a silent ban have gotten out? half a year after he destroyed everything and started playing ****?


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The default time zone we've selected for you isn't right? No problem. We can send you back to the future … or past. We just need to find our Delorean.
While we look, we can tell you how to update the time zone on your account.
When you log in, click the circle with your initials or picture and select "Settings." Choose the tab labeled "Other," and from there you can select the proper time zone for your account. Remember to select "Update Settings" to save your changes.
If you only want to change the time zone for a specific sign up that you created, locate the sign up on your account Sign Ups page. Click the pencil icon to the right of the sign up and go to "Step 3: Dates and Times." Click the orange underlined link to the right of the "Start Time" to choose the correct time zone.
Take that, Doc Brown. We don't need a cool car to time travel.


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From CleanBiz.Asia, Published 02 December 2013
The Philippines Department of Justice (DOJ) has approved the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) addition of green-building regulations in the National Building Code of the Philippines (NBCP).
In a nine-page legal opinion, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said the power of the DPWH to issue implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for the effective implementation of the provisions of the NBCP under Presidential Decree 1096 includes the power to amend or revise the same under the doctrine of necessary implications, according to a report in the Business Monitor .
However, de Lima reminded the DPWH that any amendment or revision of the IRR of the NBCP, including the green-building regulations, must not go beyond and contradict the purposes and standards prescribed by the law.
Besides amending the NBCP's IRR and existing referral codes, the DOJ said the DPWH may also craft a separate referral code, to be known as Green Building Code, in order to expedite the adoption of the green-building regulation.
On the issue of whether compliance to the green-building regulation should be made mandatory or directory, the DOJ noted that Section 102 of the NBCP mandates the government to "safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare, consistent with the principle of sound environmental management and controls."
The county's Green Building Code follows the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification standard.
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Nightingale 6200HD Big & Tall Executive Chair
Designed to handle users up to 450 lbs. on a 24-7 basis, this chair adapts well to even the toughest work environs. Optional headrest feature even includes a hook to hang your coat! What haven't they thought of?
Chair is built with an ENERSORB seat, headrest and lumbar pad. This is a much sought after memory foam designed specifically for sitting applications. Thoracic lumbar support has a 4 way adjustment function. The ABLEX patterned weave mesh back provides a generous support of your lumbar while allowing dynamic movement.
Extra heavy duty reinforced steel arm plates coupled with a more robust pneumatic gas lift and heavy duty base with 3" casters, the 6200HD picks up where the 6200 leaves off! Other integral chair components also enhanced for increased weight capacities.
Synchronous knee tilt mechanism with a slow seat and back release come standard. Tilt feature includes a multi-position lock. Seat height is naturally pneumatic and of course has the seat slider for adjustable seat depth.
Arms have a patented spring-loaded ball bearing ratcheting system. Arms raise and lower and move in and out. Arm caps slide forward and back and will lock into place.
Base is aluminum with optional oversized soft casters for hard floor surfaces. Frame components are graphite. Back mesh is black. Mystic seat textiles include 9 soft and vibrant colors with matching headrest colors.
Headrest can be removed and or field installed. Headrest is adjustable up and down and even includes a hook for your coat.
Great control room or dispatch chair. Amply proportioned with serious memory foam in the seat for all shift comfort. Breathable mesh back helps with air circulation in even the hottest climes.
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- Energy Absorbing Dual Density ENERSORB seat foam for improved blood circulation.
- 450 pound max user capacity.
- Geared for 24-7 applications.
- 4D fully functional arm rests.
- Vertical and horizontal lumbar adjustment.
- Optional headrest.
- Standard oversized 3" carpet casters.
- Optional oversized soft casters for hard floor surfaces.
- Synchronous knee-tilt swivel mechanism with Infinite Tilt Lock.
- Seat slider.
- Side mount tilt tension adjustment.
- Adjustable ratchet headrest.
- Contoured waterfall front seat.
- 4 Way breathable Mystic stretch fabric on the seat in a choice of 9 colors.
- Extra heavy duty 5 prong metal tubular base.
- Finish is Graphite.
- Mesh back is black.
- Passes CAL 117 fire code and is ANSI-BIFMA tested and approved.
- Weight capacity is 450 pounds.
- Limited Lifetime Warranty. 5 years on textiles and foam even for 24-7 and 365 day facilities.
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THE GOOD BOY BRIGADE - Nobody's Perfect
Let's Say Some Nice Things....
*A note to readers: If you have abused family members or have addiction issues, this article is not for you.
Well we all know that we all have our own wounds from our own life experiences. We have all had our share of disappointments and it seems to get a bit more "complicated" as we get older. Not one of us is alike and this I feel is what makes the world go round! I mean who wants to hang out with someone just like them? NOT ME! "Hello ME, let's talk about ME!" ha
One of my favorite sayings is "Pobody's Nerfect" and although it is very simple and I have seen it on merchandise, it really makes sense doesn't it? Hmmm? I mean how many times have we found "faults" in others that we love or "loved?" I can answer THAT one for you! MORE then you probably remember! Let's think back to how many arguments you had with a partner or "ex" where you insulted him or her in the middle of the "heated moment" and started pushing buttons that you know you should not push. Well my hand is up! Is yours?!
Well, we all grow up EVENTUALLY but sometimes it takes us a little longer to see what kind of mess we got ourselves into. Some people learn from their mistakes and some people don't. Some people love and crave drama and some people run away from the situation altogether. Looking back, I'm not quite sure what scenario would have been better? Maybe running away is better then staying and hurting someone for the sake of causing pain or not dealing with your own. Who knows? I guess that is the "trial and error part!"
So today I thought I would say some good things about men that I know or have been involved with that were not "perfect" but had or have BIG HEARTS. Today we will give them a "pat on the back" for atleast sticking it out and trying their best, even if they failed miserably. ha ha
The Good Bits...
Let's hear it for the boys (or men) that stuck it out or are still in their marriages or relationships for 10 to 20 years or more. We all know that life is not easy and not everyone can have "everything" in one person, but we need to appreciate the fact that some people "stick it out nomatter what" or as long as they can depending on the circumstances in the relationship.
Lately I have been around a lot of these sort of "boys." Quite a few of them stayed in long relationships or marriages and they tried hard to make it work. Eventually in most of the cases, the woman left but the point is that even when there were problems or issues, the men "stayed." In a world full of uncertainty I take that as a "good trait" and if you are someone I describe here, this is for you. "Your heart was in the right place" and atleast you had the balls to commit! BRAVO! Welcome to the GOOD BOY BRIGADE!! Now, here is your REWARD!!!! CHOCOLATE CREAM PIE! You like? I hope so!!! I put a lot of LOVE into this dessert! AND I am only giving you one piece so you don't feel like you ate too much! Capiche? ha
So, whatever happened to you or nomatter how bad it got, remember the good times and the fact that not everything works out the way you want it too. Try to rid yourself of anger cause we all know that it really doesn't help things. All it does is create more drama or chaos.
So with that I would like to talk about what makes a man or "boy" attractive. KINDNESS, RESPECT, DEVOTION, LOYALTY AND LOVE. And even if your marriage or relationship ended on a sour note, atleast you tried!!! And that makes you a primary member of the GOOD BOY BRIGADE!! WELCOME!!!
I hope you stay awhile.....
GeePage:Equality means the right to stay or leave depending on the quality of the relationship experienced. The right to love and be loved is everyones possibility, add equality and it gets you on a staying agenda, as it would be madness to leave. Freedom to do everything is one of the keys that unlocks a permanent foundation, there are lots of others if you look for them. Now offering a bribe takes the cake??? Some stay and some go, its the way of the world, accepting that is reward enough. May the cake be with you if he's cooking!!!
Gpage perhaps it's appropriate that a man makes the first comment. "Pobody's Nerfect" is a sweet way of saying no one bats a thousand. Thank you G. A lot of guys are going to appreciate this homage, this expression of respect, for most of us aren't bad guys and do try our best. I've said it before and will say it again. You have the ability to go straight to the heart of a matter and call it what it is. Very admirable. The only regret in this article is that we can't have a real slice of that delicious looking Chocolate Cream Pie. I'd savor it slowly. Like it deserves. Bless ya Ms.G


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Archive for July, 2011
Things I'm working on this summer
Posted by Mark Charmer in Uncategorized on July 12, 2011
I don't often explain what I'm actually working on. Maybe I should do that a bit more often. So here goes – this is what I'm up to between now and September:
Akvo strategy
I'm working with Jeroen, Peter and Thomas at Akvo to set some communications priorities for the next twelve months. We've just closed another round of funding for Akvo so there's a bank of green lights all on and waiting to be pressed. For the first time I'll also be getting involved in Akvo planning with its board of directors, at a meeting in mid August in Sweden. I'm working too with Jo Pratt here in London to create new online and print materials that help people use the Akvo Really Simple Reporting system. I think we should also submit Akvo for some awards – I know it's probably obvious to everyone else, but I've only just realised that the people who win awards tend to be the ones who enter them.
Akvo is moving into a new shared space in, wait for it, the historic Dutch West Indian Company former headquarters in Amsterdam. It's a really interesting arrangement – we're sharing with startups all focused on international development and poverty reduction, with a landlord who's excited to have us around. I'm going to help organise our new space and work with the other tenants to build a brand around our combined presence. Eventually I'd like us to be running entrepreneurship and mentoring competitions, too, if I can gather enough support. You can follow some of my thinking about how this space could work starting with this piece here.
Stockholm World WaterCube
I'm leading the fourth iteration of WaterCube.tv, an event-based video concept in late August at Stockholm World Water Week. This is an international event for people working to tackle the water and sanitation issues facing the world's poorest people. WaterCube is all about really simple video interviews, edited very quickly and brought online right away. I'm hoping that during this event we'll cross the 500+ video interview mark – we have 300 already online. I've got stuff to coordinate beforehand with SIWI, the event organisers, IRC and my own gang at Akvo. And I'll be working full time for 3 days on the Cube in late August as a reporter, too. This is our second Cube this year – after a really wonderful event in Cape Town we did in March, backed by UN Habitat.
Civic Futures – Wolverhampton
I'm working with the office of the chief executive at Wolverhampton City Council to develop a fundable proposal that will explore the future of Wolverhampton, a city in the English Midlands. The goal is to get under the skin of the city's heritage and issues, organise a local event that attracts global and local creative talent and kick start a bunch of projects focused on mobility, smarter use of space, energy systems and better local services.
World Bank Water Hackathon
I'm advising the team at the World Bank who are organising the global Water Hackathon event series this October. I'm hoping to help them work out how to reach computer geeks who want to get involved in solving problems related to water and sanitation infrastructure and funding problems (or "challenges" as the Americans would say), especially in poorer parts of the world. This is also going to involve some other very exciting people who make me look shy and reserved.
I'm helping to launch a radical new water filtration enterprise in Bangladesh, now entering a test phase in the field. Led by Dutch social entrepreneur Frederik Claasen and backed by a consortium including Unilever Ventures, it uses photo-voltaic technology called Cap-DI to remove arsenic from the groundwater, which in Bangladesh is almost all dangerously contaminated. In May we settled on the name Sujol and this summer I'm helping get the test projects online (here), the project messaging straight and help the partners start using Akvo RSR to do project updates.
Future Perfect
I'm going to a 3 day event in Karlstad in Sweden at the end of July, to listen to ideas about the future of life, the universe and everything. The event is called Future Perfect, "The Scandinavian Festival of New Sustainable Living". Who knows, eh?
If you want to find out more or get involved with any of these projects, ping me me via Twitter.
Five kinds of space
Posted by Mark Charmer in Five kinds of space on July 12, 2011
A key reason why workspaces need to be designed completely differently today is that they now represent public workspace. In an era where successful organisations embrace Discoverable Communications (more on that one elsewhere), the modern workspace needs to make it easy for people to watch from outside, or come inside.
Doing this without intrusive technology isn't as hard as we think. The first good principle is to establish a culture where meetings are held in the main workspace itself, rather than in ante-rooms. This allows everyone to listen in and be stimulated, and introduced where relevant.
You might argue that this is distracting, but computers and the web themselves are a far greater distraction. The only way to avoid people being distracted at work by Facebook, Twitter and a zillion websites about holidays or celeb gossip is to distract them with interesting workey things. Facebook and Twitter then become the mechanism by which staff document and propagate the impact of those events and ideas, creating a self-documenting activity process. Remember the company intranet? Well forget it – it's over. Facebook and Twitter have replaced it.
Anyone who thinks hot-desking is the future has got it all wrong. They are confusing flexible work space with homelessness. Almost everyone needs a home for their work – somewhere they can switch into a productive or creative channel – in some cases, somewhere where the technology just works (many people struggle to make things like computers and networks work, and that's ok). For many it's really a place to nest, so that's what I'll call it – the Nest. But people should only have one nest – and they should be honest about this both to themselves and others. This is important and something I'll come back to.
For many people in our modern world, the favoured work nest is at home in a private study – somehow I think this is connected to the experiences many have had with college education where they spent hours studying alone – usually at weird times of day and night. Most people aspire to recreate that environment at home, so if that's the case it makes no sense to duplicate it. On that assumption, the best solution for a shared workspace is to create a Library room, where people can mimic more public but solitary university or college study.
Something more complex is the need for people to interact over video and audio, potentially where the conversation is published online afterwards, or even streamed at the time. In my view, this is best done from the shared workspace, although it should be easy, too, to move to a quieter audio-visual space, which we'll call for now the Cube.
The fifth element is a much more public space. Part exhibition area, part public lobby, part town hall, it's a constantly changing, reconfigurable space that can be used for anything related to the people involved. For example, exhibitions are cool, but it must be possible to use 60% of the space for anything else while they're on. People have to book their exhibitions and they can only last, say, two weeks.
Ideally the space should be open and welcoming to the wider public – in this sense I refer to collaborators and followers, as well as customers, who should feel able to come and visit, rather as people can visit a vineyard or a Venetian glassblower. This public space is, perhaps, best described as the Showroom.
Going to work
Posted by Mark Charmer in Going to work, Uncategorized on July 9, 2011
For those of us working in "knowledge" industries, the most important attribute of any workspace is that it's more interesting and appealing than staying at home. It should also provide reliable, easy access to better technology than if you stayed behind your own front door.
Anyone who wants their workspace to be quiet needs to realise that they are usually responsible for killing organisations stone dead. It's like trying to find a restaurant with a group of eight other people – nothing too spicy, not too noisy, not too quirky, needs to have empty tables. Anything more expensive is rejected, too. So the group dines to the lowest standards, experiences and expectations of the group, rather than to those of its finest individuals. It pulls the whole gig down.
Designing and running a great workspace in 2011 needs bolder solutions than it did even five years ago. Akvo's about to move into a new "space" in Amsterdam (which I haven't seen yet) so I thought I'd write now about what I think is important.
Unfortunately most people have only worked in places that were designed around assumptions that are at least ten, and often decades, old. Groups of desks are structured around "teams", yet the individuals in those teams are working with lots of other people elsewhere. Many people are present only 20 per cent of the time, because they're out at meetings or on site, or travelling or on holiday or at home. Yet they command a desk – and an empty space – that is both costly and leaves a workplace feeling empty. Yet they'll come back and if someone's taken over their space it's like Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Hiring consultants to design you a space is fine, but really it needs to come from within. I think the best way to create great workspace is to find out what the best are that others you'll share with have inhabited to date, and ask those with the best to replicate those as a mix – and see what happens.
I'm going to write about this in a bunch of chapters, and see how things go. I hope you enjoy it and do chip in. This has been written based on the opportunities that come along when you run an open source foundation, so if you've always worked in places full of secret talk, it may seem a bit different (hopefully refreshing).
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[SHOCKING] Protect Your Stuff Against Static Discharge
In the past, I have warned readers to beware of static electricity – electrostatic discharge or ESD, in geek speak. Today, I'm going to explain in some detail what ESD is, what it can do to electronic devices, and how protect against this common hazard. Read on...!
What is Electrostatic Discharge?
I must confess that one of my favorite childhood pranks was shuffling around on a shag rug, and then touching my finger to a friend's earlobe. That's the low-tech definition of ESD. And maybe that's why I had to eventually make friends with computers. But I digress...
ESD is a high voltage, low amperage electrical current that flows suddenly and briefly between two objects when the make contact or come very close to each other. Voltage is the difference in electrical charge between two points. Amperage is the rate of flow of an electrical current. So an ESD involves a transfer of electrical charge from an object that has a lot of it to one that has much less, but at a relatively slow rate and for a very brief period.
The upshot of an ESD is that its high voltage is literally shocking, but its brevity and low amperage transfer too little electrical energy to seriously harm a human being. But it can produce hilarious YouTube videos like this one.
However, electronic components are much smaller and more sensitive to ESD than humans. Tiny transistors, resistors, capacitors, etc., are designed for very precise voltages and amperages. Zap them with an ESD that is wildly outside of their operating parameters and visible holes will be burned in them. Lightning is a very large ESD, and a lightning bolt can start a forest fire.
ESD starts with a buildup of electrons on an object, creating a large voltage (difference in charges) between it and other objects. Typically, rubbing two different materials together will transfer some electrons to one of them. Some materials acquire electrons more easily than others. (Sneakers on a shag rug, for example.)
Are You High Voltage?
Studies have found that a typically clothed human body can build up charges (called "electrostatic potential") of between 500 and 2,500 volts during a workday - far more than the mere 25 volts it takes to damage electronic components, yet below humans' perception level. Many plastics, especially Styrofoam, have even higher electrostatic potential. Keep disposable coffee cups and other plastic items at least four inches away from electronic devices.
Even rubbing air molecules together rapidly builds up electrostatic potential, which is why blowing or vacuuming dirt out of a keyboard or computer can be hazardous. If you use "canned air," use a brand made of "anti-static" gases that do not acquire electrons easily.
There is no way to prevent buildups of electrostatic potentials in all the objects, especially people, that come into contact with electronic devices. But we can make the ESD take a path that avoids the sensitive components inside.
People can ground themselves to avoid zapping their electronic devices. Electronics assembly, testing, and repair workers often wear wristbands that keep them constantly grounded via a wire attached to a nearby electron sink. Anti-static floor mats beneath one's chair come with grounding wires that are attached to electron sinks; they're a good idea, too.
Touching an electron sink before touching an electronic device will discharge your electrostatic potential; it's a good thing to do each time you sit down at the computer. In practical terms, tapping an object that has a metal chassis and is plugged into a properly grounded outlet should do the trick.
Don't Try THIS at Home
Do not attach a wire to your computer's chassis and then attach the other end to the grounding wire of an electrical outlet, a solution that seems obvious but is actually quite dangerous. AC current flowing through the nearby "hot" wires in the wall can induce an AC current in your grounding wire through electromagnetic induction. That current can flow through your computer to fry you as well as the machine!
Mobile devices that people carry on their persons will gradually acquire the same electrostatic potential that their owners have. An ESD happens only when there is a difference in potentials between objects, as our hapless friend in the video above demonstrates. So you need not worry about the phone in your pocket or the laptop in your shoulder bag.
As mentioned above, the electrostatic potential of the human body is normally imperceptible, even when it discharges. Just because you don't feel "static shocks" or see little blue sparks is no assurance that you aren't jolting your computer with enough ESD to damage it. So take precautions even if you don't see or feel any ESD.
Your thoughts on this topic are welcome. Post your comment or question below...
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I have seen the micro photographs of the damage ESD can do to IC chips. It is amazing to see the metal and even glass passivation cratered due to a discharge. The metal and passivation melted and beaded around the defect. And the stuff that we were testing was huge compared to technology features of today. I purchased a wrist strap and use it when installing memory or cards in my computer's at home.
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You wrote: "Do not attach a wire to your computer's chassis and then attach the other end to the grounding wire of an electrical outlet, a solution that seems obvious but is actually quite dangerous. AC current flowing through the nearby "hot" wires in the wall can induce an AC current in your grounding wire through electromagnetic induction. That current can flow through your computer to fry you as well as the machine!"
What!?!? Utter hogwash! Every appliance in your home that has a metal chassis -- your fridge, stove, microwave oven, washer, dryer, etc. -- has the ground prong of its plug tied directly to the metal chassis. Why? To *prevent* shocks. If the hot wire becomes frayed or disconnected inside the appliance and shorts to the chassis, the fault current is returned via the ground wire, blowing the circuit breaker. Without this ground connection, the chassis would be live at mains voltage, waiting for you to touch it and be electrocuted.
Connecting a wire from your computer to the ground of an outlet is a silly thing to do, simply because the computer's power supply is already grounded through its power cord, not because doing so creates a shock hazard.
Incidentally, any appliance with a two-prong plug must be double-insulated so that there's no way the hot wire could come in contact with an exposed, conductive part of the device.
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Joe, the magnetic fields around the hot and return conductors can induce volts in the ground wire. Ordinarily, the voltage is too low to care about, but there can be brief spikes that can affect tiny components in solid-state electronics.
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Joe: the possibility of an induced voltage is real but it is not at a current level that is hazardous to people.
The other reason for not using a direct wire to it is that you want some resistance do lower the rate of current flow through the device if there is a discharge. It is good practice to always touch the chassis of anything you have open to equalize the charges before touching any component in it.
Devices that are not opened up are generally ESD safe unless you touch a conductor on the device. Most outside connected conductors now have protection so that isn't likely to kill things.
I remember a video game in a bar in the '70s that was sensitive to ESD. If you shuffled your feet on the carpet and touched the metal plate on the console, it would reset itself to the beginning of the game. When you were getting close to the end of your lives, a short shuffling walk and you were back playing again.
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An interesting story about those anti-static bags: I know someone that mailed an EZPass device back WITHOUT one of those bags (which the device comes in). The device being mailed back picked up some of the tolls on the way back because it wasn't in a bag.
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Don't the Jetson's have an electron sink for Rosie?
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Good Afternoon Bob,
In reference to your "YES... spelling, punctuation etc.etc.are important, please note that you made a boo-boo in the third paragraph of your [Shocking] Static Discharge article. The line "when the make contact" should read as "when they make contact".
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Y'all might be interested researching or asking for advice on two technical forums concerned with aspects of power quality, lightning and surge protection, lightning safety, and electrical shock medicine:
These are not chat sites but are peer reviewed science sites.
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I went through 4 hard drives. Tech support was at a loss for over 18 months as to why my hard drives were failing. A customer in line suggested an anti-static desk mat and said while it is controversial as to whether it works, I might want to try it. Low and behold! I haven't had to change a hard drive since. Apparently some people are just more magnetically charged than others. It worked for me. If you having computer issues, you may want to give it a shot.
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Fact is it doesn't matter how much voltage is in the component, or you for that matter. All that matters is the potential difference between you and the component. Open the anti-static bag only when you are ready to install the component dropping the potential difference to 0 volts. Then touch a metal part of the case with the component in hand, unplugged since the MB is hot if the power supply has voltage, There will be no ESD.
This is how linemen can get out of a helicopter on a platform hanging from the 180kV line without getting electrocuted. They hook the line with a grounding rod from the helicopter to get everything to 180kV so there is no potential difference.
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Good article about ESD. But Bob, I've appreciated your good advice for many years and was "shocked" to read your erroneous comment stating that connecting a wire from chassis to ground is dangerous. It's totally unnecessary, but not dangerous. As others already pointed out, the ground prong on the computer power cord already makes exactly that connection for safety reasons to prevent you from potentially being shocked. Keep up the good work - we'll overlook this one.
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Interesting reminder here, Bob.
The employees at my former workplace would kill their fax machines. Being the IT support guy, and being a small company I did telecom as well, so I was called in to see what was happening because there was a ticket regarding a fax machine that kept resetting its self.
After I checked the usual stuff like the power cord and connections, I had one of the users retrieve an order off the machine as I watched to see if there was something wrong with the process or the equipment.
Then sure enough. She got up, walked over to the machine, and the biggest static bolt traveled from her finger to the dial-pad on the poor fax machine! This sent the display into a garbled mess, which cleared when the machine reset. The reset, however, this time didn't help and the machine was now dead with broken circuits.
I explained what the issue was to the boss and the employees and I was laughed at. After ruining another fax machine, the boss purchased some anti-static spray and handed it out to his employees.
Now the issue is not just with people. Please, oh please watch your cats around computers. It's lovely that they sleep on top of the machines and watch bird videos, but if the house is dry a static discharge from their bodies on to the machine can cause damage. I witnessed that with a poor HP laptop a friend wanted me to repair. Her cat used to sleep on the machine when the lid was closed. One day the machine was dead as a doornail, well brick in this case! Nothing, wouldn't boot, etc. The motherboard was fried by Ms. Fluffy as she got up from her nap.
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Please pardon me for being pedantic, but I'd like to add to the comments regarding induced currents in ground lines. Yes, ground loops are real, but you'd probably have to run the wire to a ground connection at your neighbor's house down the street to get any significant ground-loop induction (unless you live next door to a machine shop with lots of big motors). The most likely effect of a short local ground loop might be a little hum in your computer's audio circuits. Local ground loops are frequently present through the ground wires in cables between computer, printers, monitors, & other peripherals without any ill effects.
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I used to work for Daicel Safety Systems of America (DSSA) in Kentucky. They made the canisters of gas that inflated the airbags in your car or pickup truck in the event of a crash. We had to wear what we called "Static Straps" around our ankles so that we would stay grounded due to the sensitive electronics involved in the manufacturing process. The gas itself is inert (Helium) but the electronics were very sensitive and one errant charge could cause the canister to deploy its gas which could potentially be lethal (flying parts) if one was holding a canister at that time.
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Interesting topic for me as I am very susceptible to this static issue, which I have solved with low tech.
I have shocked my computer, heat & A/C thermostat, microwave etc. multiple times, causing the screen to blank. My low tech answer to that is to always touch the outside edge of corners in rooms as I walk around. There is a metal edge under the plaster that keeps me "grounded".
I have a metal / rubber gizmo that I buy from Europe to hang down from my car to the ground. Yes, it works. Before learning of this (which is officially sold to prevent car sickness), I would get a huge shock when I first touched the car.
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"Electron Sink" = Where dirty electrons get washed-up!
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Years ago I walked across the living room rug in my socks to adjust the TV volume. When i got near the knob with my hand a bright spark flew out to the knob and blew out the volume on the TV! Hurt slightly too
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Having worked many yrs as a construction electrician, I am quite familiar with shocks from induction. Any wire in close proximity to a live wire carrying current can be charged through induction. I have gotten some really bad jolts from bare wires that have been charged through induction. I have a metal pole lamp within arms reach near my computer. Before touching the computer I touch the metal on the lamp. Often getting an audible snap and a tiny shock when I discharge. Often my wife walks past me and touches me while I am working with my computer. We both jump when the static releases from her to me. So having a static strip/bracelet on while working with/on a computer would be a good idea.
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Joe, in regards to most appliances having three prong/wire of which one is a ground wire, there are still installations/houses which don't have the third ground wire. I have encountered older rewired/upgraded electrical outlets which have a new grounded outlet installed but the ground wire has not been installed or connected. Either due to cost cutting or a lazy electrician. Other times it is a home owner installation not up to code or safety.
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Up Close: HAF Stacker 935 assembled
Having reviewed each of the individual components that make up the stacker system in their own rights it's time to start bringing things together. What we have below is he HAF Stacker 935, which comprises of the main case and the 915R we looked at on pages two and three. The 935 is sold as a single unit and arrives in one box but as separated cases.
The two sections are attached to each other using the very simple Picatinny inspired system we described earlier. Linking the two cases together is simple in the extreme and although it might not look secure let us assure you that there's no danger of them coming apart what-so-ever.
We often bemoan some of the tinted acrylic covered letterbox apertures that some case manufactures think pass as windows (we're looking at you NZXT) so it's nice to have a large full width window in a case. The side panel is also available with a fan mount and mesh cut into the window, but we have a sneaking suspicion that this won't be quite as popular, mainly because it's fugly as hell. What doesn't sit quite so well is the miss match that the vented side panels of the 915R above create. Still it's clear that with the HAF series Style must sometime take a back seat to substance.
If you think the 935 looks imposing, just wait until you see the 945 we're going to build.
Popping the side panels off affords us our fist look inside the assembled 935. Don't forget that there is open access internally between the two cases allowing both cables and tubing to move freely from one case to the other.
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.. but as someone who considers looks pretty far down on the scale of case requirements - looking mostly for adaptation, options, practicality, ease of build/'monkeying around inside' - this is one heck of a range.
(even tho I'm not a case-looks person, I know when something isn't going to appeal to others)
There's some corporate uses this stack could come in useful for, and I'm keeping that in mind for suggestions. Sometimes you see something reviewed and it has features that stick in your mind when people talk to you about if and how they can have things created for them.
Good stuff. (didn't consider the pricing at all tbh)Quote
HDD's or WC in the bottom AIO in the roof, then add the extra bit on the roof if you want even more water space? I still think there should be a roof panel for the main section and AIO support basically.
I think by trying to make it appeal to everyone they have actually made it a bit half arsed.Quote
Is it just me that thinks not being able to use a 240mm AIO in the top of the main section is nuts?
Its to encourage you to buy more bits . Also, its probably because they want to make it for custom loopers, not people who use AIOs. Every other HAF case supports a 240 AIO in the roof/front(in the case of the X I think.


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Warren Buffett is credited by some (Answers.com included) for coming up with the term 'skin in the game' which basically means investing your own money in your company. By doing so you are proving that you believe in your company and it's eventual (if not present time) success.
Investors, including banks and angel investors like to see that you have some skin in the game as well. It makes sense, if you've put $20,o00 of your own cold hard cash (or credit) into your company, it acts as a show of good faith. You believe it will work and have a vested personal interest in the companies success.
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Tryst Theatre
Two New Plays At Alloa's Alman
In February
OVERCOATS and laundry are at the
heart of two short comedies being presented at Alloa's
Alman Theatre in early February.
Laundry and Bourbon by the American
writer James McLure is set on a hot summer afternoon
in the front porch of Roy and Elizabeth's home in Maynard,
Texas, a tiny town in the middle of nowhere.
Elizabeth and her friend Hattie are whiling away the
time folding laundry, watching TV, sipping bourbon and
Coke, and gossiping about the many open secrets which
are part of small-town life. They are joined by the
self-righteous Amy Lee who, among other titbits, can't
resist blurting out that Roy has been seen around town
with another woman. The ensuing conversation is edged
with bitter humour and wonderful one-liners.
The cast is Rhona Law, Jennifer Marjoribanks and Clare
Its companion piece is The Bespoke Overcoat.
Written by Wolf Mankowitz, it's a witty ghost
story adapted from a tale by the Russian Nikolai Gogol.
Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing
manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to
have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold-hearted
Ranting, he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him
one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery
of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in
death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal
him the overcoat he so coveted in life.
The cast is Jim Allan, Calum Nicol, Brian Paterson
and Brian Tripney.
The plays will be performed by Falkirk's Tryst
Theatre who have been guests of The Alman in recent
years. Both are directed by Jim Allan, who said: "Tryst
continue to be thrilled by performing in the Coachhouse
and we can promise a hugely enjoyable evening at the
And the Alman's Gerry Docherty added: "We're
delighted once again to welcome our friends and colleagues
from Tryst Theatre to the Alman in what is guaranteed
to be a fantastic night's entertainment."
The two plays are on at the Alman from February 1-3,
with curtain-up at 7.30pm. Tickets, £10 (£8
concessions), are available from the Tryst Box Office
on 01324 715886.
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We take you by minivan to the tiny fjord-village Undredal famous for its goat cheese, architecture and breathtaking scenery! On this half day excursion you will learn some secrets behind the making of traditional goat cheese, discover Scandinavia's smallest stave church and explore Undredal as we give you a tour of the tiny village. Enjoy magical fjord views from the local restaurant situated at the dock. Taste the famous goat cheese and enjoy a lunch made of local produce.
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We start the day with a Basic FjordSafari and go ashore at Skjerdal wharf, where we start the 1,5 h hike towards Skjerdal Stølsysteri mountain goat farm. During the hike, you will be surrounded by breathtaking scenery, fjord view and waterfalls. Learn some secrets behind the making of traditional goat cheese, enjoy goat cheese tasting and a delicious lunch made of local produce. We hike back down to Skjerdal main farm and return to Flåm by minivan.


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Students – Reminder, no food or drinks are to be brought into the gym in the mornings. Please finish all food and drinks before entering the building. Also, the cafeteria has put signs up on the walls for students to see what which line serves. For a reminder the first meal is free, however if a student wants something from the one of the other lines they will have to pay for that meal.
Students/teachers – All students must have a hall pass. Especially when coming to the office. If they do not have a pass we will send them back to class to get one. (Teachers-Only exception is our diabetic students)
Teachers- We will be releasing walkers and parent pick up 3 minutes early from class. ONLY WALKERS AND PARENT PICK-UP. The bus riders will be released from the bell.
Attention students: It's time to order your JMS Eagle T-shirt! Shirts are only $10 and come in 4 different colors. Order forms were handed out in 7th period on Friday. If you did not get one, see your 7th period teacher or visit the library or the office. Orders need to be turned in by Friday August 24th. After that, some shirts will still be available, but if you want your choice of size and color, fill out your form and bring $10 to the office or the library. Questions? See Mrs. Gastelum in the library or visit the front office.
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Hi everyone, here are five more Easter cards. This time I used two kinds of Designer paper and stamped - as on my cards in the post below - a rabbit and some different background images with StazOn. I had to masked the rabitt for stamping the background.
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Rob Katie, Ruth and me are doing the Event in a couple of weeks, and we would love lift(s) to the site if at all possible.
Katie Rob and Ruth are have already booked tickets to Crewe and need to be picked up from there. As for myself, as a last minute addition while it would be ideal to ride up with them I can catch an earlier or later train and/or carry on to a station nearer the site as it might be too much of a squash in one car...
Happy to make a petrol contribution of course
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Saturday, March 02, 2013
What is Biblical Criticism?
Biblical criticism does not mean that people are criticizing the Bible though in our day and age there is certainly no shortage of people doing exactly that. Biblical criticism is a broad term for the scholarly study of the Bible and its textual content that uses various literary historical-critical techniques. Put another way, biblical criticism is a way of studying the Bible critically and assessing it as literature in an attempt to better understand it.
The most recent form of biblical criticism is a postmodern form known as reader-response criticism and is focused on the reader and his or her response to a given text rather than the actual meaning.[1] Reader-response criticism emerged in the 1960's and like other forms of higher criticism (form criticism and redaction criticism) often focuses on the natural rather than the supernatural. I must admit that this is my first exposure to this form of biblical criticism and am quite surprised by the premise that it is more important how a reader responds to the text than the meaning of that text.
The more radical reader-response critics, such as Stanley Fish, believe that the text has no meaning at all. Fish states his position clearly; "The reader's response is not to the meaning; it is the meaning."[2] Fortunately (in my opinion), most in the business of biblical criticism have do not hold to Prof. Fish's extreme, rigid views. Many evangelicals reject these critical methods as being branches of a poisoned tree being antithetical to the doctrine of Scripture.[3] While, as a first-year seminarian, I remain very skeptical of these methods, I do believe there is value in their use if done so in a conservative manner.
The rise of reader-response criticism recently, as well as other higher criticisms in previous generations has had a decidedly negative impact on theology over the past century.[4] Though a lengthy diatribe could certainly be written about this topic, I will limit myself to two aspects. First, the focus on the reader and how the reader responds is flawed. I am left with the impression that how the reader responds, whatever that response may be, is inherently correct simply because that reflects the reader's very subjective understanding of what they just read. I do not expect a non-believer to arrive at the same understanding of a passage of Scripture as someone who has placed their faith in our risen Savior.
Secondly and closely related to my first point, these forms of criticism treat the Bible as simply another piece of literature. Higher critics virtually eliminate the divine aspect of Biblical authorship. It is now commonplace to speak of hypothetical sources of biblical material with no evidence of such based solely on the work of redaction critics (e.g. the existence of "Q" in the Gospels, Second Isaiah, etc.).[5] Without the supernatural as a possibility, these critics seemly close the door to the Good News of Jesus Christ though I am certain many (or even most) would deny that charge.
With newer approaches to biblical criticism coming to dominate contemporary scholarship, I think it is safe to say we will see more of this type of criticism rather than less. Conservative reader-response criticism as a form of biblical criticism may a have place. Consider this: the many denominations we see today are a result of one reader's response to the biblical text (e.g. Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, etc.).
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In Which We Walked Through Fire To Save Our Lives
What a Country!
by ALEX CARNEVALE
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
dir. Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
163 minutes
Imagine making the most rah-rah pro-British film in the history of mankind and the British government preventing your distributors from releasing it outside England for a predetermined period of time. Churchill hated Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, although I have no idea why. Were England not such a bizarre and astonishing place that thrives on such contradictions, this would seem sort of Kafkaesque. Maybe the reason it made him so cross is that the film suggests it is a lot easier to admire England from afar - unless you find that over time you have become English.
There are a lot of jokes about this idea in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Here are some witticisms regarding England that are made in the miniseries-length project, almost all of which I disavow or would insist apply equally to the people of Toronto:
The English can't cook worth a shit.
The English bring England everywhere they go.
The English, when rich, are insufferable.
The English subscribe to their own rules.
The English have poor teeth and limited or awful facial hair.
The English have fantastic women.
The English sometimes patronize or dismiss their fantastic women.
Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) is one hell of a guy with basically zero flaws. He fought in the Boer War, which a soldier in the Great War later dismisses as a skirmish. Upon his return to London, he immediately heads to Berlin to defend England's role in the war. There he meets a woman named Edith Hunter (Deborah Kerr). He finds her the utter essence of femininity, and when he observes her body in a striped blue top, he is nearly overwhelmed with a sexuality he expresses by growing a mustache. When she attempts to make Clive Candy jealous by flirting with a German man, Theo (Anton Walbrook), he pretends to be happy for her. She is deeply upset, but because she is English, instead of giving up the game, she marries Theo and bears his two sons. Both boys become Nazis.
In an American film, this would be a serious tragedy that would drive the protagonist to drink or worse. In a Russian film it would be a prologue. In a French film it would be a prelude to a three-way. In an English film, things are likely to get much better – after all, the people involved live in the greatest country on earth!
In the film's second act, Clive Candy is still obsessed with this brainy redhead type. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp flashes forward twenty years to the tail end of the Great War, when Candy sees a nurse named Barbara Wynne (Deborah Kerr again) who looks just like Edith Hunter. He marries her, even though he is 40 and she is 20. They have two adorable cocker spaniels, and live in an apartment in London with eighteen rooms. This was Deborah Kerr's first big role after catching the eye of director Michael Powell, who used her as a walk-on in a previous film, and she is spectacular in it. When she initially appears as Edith, you're just so-so on her, because she has these really awful-looking bangs. As Barbara she only lasts about twenty minutes of screen time, but those are twenty of the most special minutes of my entire life.
This is, of course, a metaphorical ideation of England's glee after the war. Meanwhile, Clive Candy's German friend Theo is utterly devastated by his country's defeat, so he becomes a chemist. His wife wants to come back to England, but he gives her a hot "Nah" and they stay in Berlin. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is mostly savage to the German people, pointing out their salacious methods of war, and ultimately framing the triumph of Nazism as the dominance of one way of thinking over a moral but weak Germanity. All I know is that the only Jew in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is the one who wrote the script.
Emeric Pressburger assimilated himself into one hell of an Englishman. Where he is buried, in Suffolk, his is the only Star of David on any grave. (Then again, Jews most often have their own cemeteries.) Pressburger was of a generation with my grandfather Abe, who left Poland when he was a teenager. (He loathed the anti-Semitic Poland that he fled.) Pressburger's private school education was a side effect of his father's wealth, but after his father died, he was forced to make it on his own.
Abe Bernstein never had even a high school education, although he was widely read and laboriously self-taught. He possessed very strong feelings about Europe in general, and especially Germany. (New Jersey was his new mother country.) No one could have been less English than he was, but he admired the English because he could not conceive of one tiny island creating all that culture. (Some of this benign, naive admiration no doubt passed along to his grandson.) There was also a certain cynicism to his respect, however, since I think he was convinced that Nazism never would have been possible without the English. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp suggests much the same thing.
Although the considerable amount of hair on his body testified to his Jewishness, I don't think my grandfather believed in God, and he had good reason to think God had abandoned his people. There is something of that in this film, too, of how those who are not believers see events differently from those who do. Among the many millions that perish over the fifty years this nearly perfect film accommodates, no one ever says a prayer for living, let alone the dead. Like my grandfather, Pressburger put his faith in an historical-economic view of the world. "We'll need to trade with your country," opines Candy to his dispirited German friend, who had spent the better part of the six months following the end of war in the nicest POW camp on record.
As I mentioned last Monday, the Museum of Modern Art is screening Deborah Kerr's best films through August 31. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a very long movie, and at some point in the film's third hour, a woman cried out, "And it's still going!" Most of the audience was very fucking annoyed with her outburst, since talking is intensely frowned upon at MoMA screenings. I once saw a older woman who spoke actually pushed by another theatergoer, and everyone around was like, "She had to push her, there was no choice." It's a real tough environment.
Kerr pops up again in the third act, where she portrays Candy's driver, Angela Cannon. For some reason, army fatigues really suit her – probably related to the fact that all redheads look good in green. Candy has lost his wife to cancer by then, and he picks Angela as his driver so he can check her out and be reminded of his only love. In the film's key scene, he states that he never got over losing out on Edith, which is quite the admission considering he never contacted her after she tried to troll him by getting engaged to that German fellow.
Anyway, Pressburger gives Angela a few scenes to establish she is really nothing like the ghost of the woman that Candy admired all those years earlier. Her boyfriend is a really intelligent fellow who is clueless as to how good he has it. This angel was fresh and proud, beautiful and free, and English. God damn was she English.
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Out and out...
I've not tried this more than once so far due to the excessive amount of check in/out times - see my post here. I'll obviously do some more tests on that when I upgrade the SAN and software this week.
I did need to take a project home one weekend so I checked it out with assets to my USB stick.
I didn't want to have the stick in my laptop all weekend so I then copied the stuff on to my laptop internal drive, and put it all back on the stick at the end of the weekend. When I checked it all back in to FCSvr and opened it up in FCP, everything was unlinked... I assume because I broke some link somewhere to where the assets were stored when I moved them from the USB stick.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
2011 Video : Honda CR-Z is approved in crash test by Euro NCAP
Euro NCAP, an organization that evaluates the safety of the cars sold in Europe, released the first video and pictures crash test conducted with the latest hybrid vehicle from Honda, called CR-Z.
Weighing 1225 kg and with body that showed adequate deformation, the model was adopted with a maximum score of five stars in frontal impact test, providing 93% protection for adult occupants and 80% for children passengers. In case of trampling, the hybrid has offered 71% protection for pedestrians.
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Protest against Child Labor Trafficking & Demanding for independent investigation regarding the News about the Earthquake victim child being sold in India, UK and other countries published in British Tabloid news paper The Sun
INS UK members with acting Ambessdor of Nepal to UK, Mr Sharad Raj Aran
Submitting a memorandum to government of Nepal for the speedy support of Earthquake victims and many issue to be addressed by government.
Celebrating Buddha Jayanti- Birthday of the the preacher of Peace and non violence in the world- The Buddha who was born in Nepal.
Friendly Cricket match among Nepal and MCC -UK @ Lords
One Day Charity Yoga Program by Yogi Vikashananda @ Felthem to support the flood victims of Nepal.
Participating in Liglige Race – The traditional race for the leadership in Nepal.
Supporting Gurkha Cup in UK