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Build a Projection Screen for under $100
In my quest for the biggest and best home theater I could get for my money, I have learned about various technical terms such as the Lumens Rating and what this means for me. I have also been fortunate enough to have a friend let me borrow a Panasonic PT-AE1000U to let me get that home theater experience. The torture and agony I felt as I had to return his Panasonic projector, it was almost like family already. Of course this only fueled my hunger for the big screen experience. Now in my past article I talked about how I had a used screen which I used in conjunction with my friends projector. Unfortunately, while this screen looked absolutely fantastic, it was just way too big for my little apartment. This of course means I need a new screen to go with the new projector I plan on buying.
The dilemma here is that I would rather put more money into the actual projector than a screen. My thinking (until I did some research) was that a good projector would work well even if I displayed the movie on a wall. After all, my walls are white, right? Wrong.
From what I have found the projector as good as it may be is only as good as the screen surface it is being projected onto. Think of it like an artist painting, but with no canvas to paint on. My screen surface needed to match the quality of my intended projector. Even more, I found that a good screen can actually make an average projected image even better. Think of it as steroids for the projected image. The color and reflective quality of a projector screen or projected surface greatly affects what you see.
But with a limited budget, the real question is how do I get the most bang for my buck with purchasing a projector; or dare I say, make a projector screen. Make a projector screen you say, that's silly, in today's fast food world of everything made to order, why would I want to get dirty? Simple answer, it can be cheaper of course. In fact, with projector screens running an average $500 to $1500, I suddenly saw my projector budget running lower than I anticipated. Meanwhile a do it yourself projector screen can run a meager couple hundred dollars. I even found one article on the web claiming you can build a projector screen for under $100! Hmm, this needed some investigation. With these kinds of savings I could easily put more money towards my projector purchase.
The biggest question however, is how good would such a cheap screen be? After all, if the projected screen surface is horrible then my in home movie experience will be terrible as well.
I reviewed the less than $100 do it yourself projector screen article to find it did not sell me very well. Even worse, that may have actually been their point. Stupid sales gimmick, got to love them though. Now this is just a hunch, but maybe, just maybe this article, was really written just to get me to come into their site; so they could sell me something else.
By the end of the article I found that you really get what you pay for. The cheap screen was made with wood, Elmer's glue and Super-white seamless paper. Uh, white paper, really, is this a first grade science project? No, I am trying to build my home theater on a budget, not trying to play patty cake. The good thing about the article is it actually showed screen shots with the DIY projector screen in comparison to a Stewart Grayhawk projector screen. Both were using screen shots projected using an Optoma HD7100 projector.
As expected, the Elmer's glue projector screen performed below average next to the Grayhawk projector screen. The images were dulled out and the contrast was horrible. Seriously, I can't have my friends over to watch a game on a second grade art project called a projector screen. Paper products are best left to other uses, such as toilet paper. There has to be a better alternative.
A little more research and I ran across a product called Screen Goo. Made by Goo Systems, Screen Goo comes with everything needed to build a simple do it yourself projector screen. Again, the question comes up, is this really the solution. The price was about what I wanted to pay as it runs $200 to $300 depending on where you buy it, and thankfully does not come with Elmer's glue. It does however; contain all the various base paint, top paint, paint tray, rollers and even a self-adhesive border tape called flock. I checked out the company's website and found that they had some pretty impressive screen shots o f this product in use.
The product looks like a good buy, but it is made to be painted onto a surface such as a wall. This is an awesome product for someone who owns their own home. However, this would not work for me since I live in an apartment, but I could paint Screen Goo on some other surface such as wood, plexi-glass or anything else to help make it portable. After all, I don't want to leave my really cool DIY projector screen for the next person who moves into my apartment. But this got me to thinking; if I need to go to my local Home Depot or Lowe's to get materials for this make it yourself screen, why not get the paint and brushes there too?
Well, with a little more research I found that there is a difference in the technical aspects (chemical ratios and such) of these paints. So it is probably best to buy special paints specifically formulated for the purpose of being used as a material for a projector screen. Also, I found a competitor to Screen Goo as well. Competition is always good to help in finding lower prices.
DIY Theater sells a product similar to Screen Goo, but you have to pay attention to what is included. Both companies' sell a two coat product which gives superior quality over the less expensive one coat product by DIY. The Screen Goo two coat products are just a little cheaper than DIY's two coat pushing me towards Screens Systems. Also, you have to look at shipping cost on the product; some companies actually offer free shipping, so do your homework.
Of course, now that I am looking at spending a little over two hundred, I am beginning to wonder if I should just wait a little longer and fork over the dough for a real screen. Looks like the next topic to cover will have to be a comparison of screens within my budget.
In the long run, and with just about anything, there is an old saying that is so very true, you get what you pay for. Could you build a projector screen for under $100? Sure. Do you really want to? I would venture to guess, probably not. However, there are definitely some great products out there for the do-it-yourself kind of person who wants to build a DIY projector screen.
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Great screen but iif I could add one comment. When building a screen you will want to buy a real screen material (no blackout cloth or paint). Real screen material is made of either PVC or fiberglass coated with PVC. We have found ProScreens to be the best supplier out there. You can find them at www.BuildYourOwnProjectionScreen.com Overall, great screen and great article.
Hi InfusionFX,
I'm a big fan. Do you have any photos of what it it looks like to build a screen out of wood and glue or how that screen goo looks when you're putting it up? I like the idea of building a projector screen, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm getting myself into.


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As it's Victoria Day (a national holiday for Queen Vic's birthday) in Canada, I slept in. Add to this, our other great moderator, Adam Simpson, is ill. End result, no early chat and an unattended later chat today.
Despite this, I started off giving some suggestions on the topic of "What tech is good tech for EAP contexts?" to myself. 😉 Eventually, it became evident I was alone and best save this juicy topic for next time.
So, on June 3, we'll return to talk about online technology that you use with your students so that everyone can benefit from a whole bunch more tools in their toolbelt (excuse this overused expression–it's late and I've been writing a paper all day long). 🙂
What would be great is if you could compile an informal list of web tools or apps you love using with your EAP students, like Leo Selivan has done here, so the sharing can quickly begin at 9AM & 3PM EST on June 3!
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Tax Breaks Will Save Print News in Sweden
August 30, 2017 Taxation in Sweeden
STOCKHOLM – Sweden is setting out to combat fake news, by easing taxation on printed newspapers.
On August 29th the Minister of Finance if Sweden Magdalena Andersson announced that the government intends to introduce a new tax break for newspapers.
Currently, newspapers and periodical publications in Sweden are required to pay a tax of 2.5 percent on all advertising revenues exceeding SEK 75 million.
However, the government is now looking to drop the tax entirely.
The government hopes that by dropping the tax, it will help grow the industry and for a greater number of journalists to be trained and employed.
The ultimate goal of the move is to help increase the relevance of real news and journalism, instead of internet-led fake news.
Summarizing the move, a representative of the Ministry o...Read More
Sweden Eyes Air-Travel Tax
March 16, 2017 Taxation in Sweeden
STOCKHOLM – Travelling is about to become a more expensive activity for Swedes, as the government looks set to implement a new tax on each and every air ticket sold.
On March 15th, the Financial Markets Minister of Sweden Per Bolund said that the national government plans to implement a new tax on the sale of airline tickets.
The new tax is expected to be levied at a rate of between SEK 80 and SEK 430, with the exact rate to be based on the distance of travel purchased.
The tax, which is yet to be approved, is intended to compensate the government for tax losses arising from a lack of VAT on international flights, and the relatively low taxes paid by airlines on their greenhouse gas emissions.
The Minister also explained that the tax is a form of green-tax reform.
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Sweden Taxes Terrorist Financiers
December 16, 2016 Taxation in Sweeden
STOCKHOLM – Sweden has retrieved unpaid taxes from 120 individuals suspected of financing terrorist activities.
A new collaborative project between Swedish tax authorities and security police is paying off dividends by raising tax revenues while also strangling the flows of terrorist financing.
The project, which was initially launched a year ago, revolves around ongoing investigations by the security Service, Säpo, to try and identify individuals suspected of enabling terrorist financing or actively participating in the funnelling of money to terrorist organisations.
The names and details of all suspected individuals are passed to tax authorities who conduct investigations into the tax affairs of the people, including comparisons of their declared incomes against their lifestyles.
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Sweden Drops Solar Tax
November 23, 2016 Taxation in Sweeden
STOCKHOLM – Sweden has slashed taxes on large-scale solar power generation, in an effort to see boost the uptake of renewable energy sources in the country.
In a press statement issued earlier this week the government of Sweden announced that it would be slashing the rate of tax applied on the large-scale production of solar electricity.
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The government is aiming to eventually drop the tax entirely, however, legislative hurdles prohibit them from simply striking the tax.
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Sweden currently sees approximately 0...Read More
Tax on Online Gambling Should be Less Than 20% in Sweden
November 4, 2016 Taxation in Sweeden
STOCKHOLM – Sweden's tax on online gambling should be set to no more than 20 percent in order to ensure that it results in high tax revenues without pushing operators away from legitimate licensing.
A recent report by the think-tank Copenhagen Economics has sought to assess the effect of tax rates on the tax revenues derived from online gambling licensing in Sweden.
The think-tank was tasked with determining the rate of tax on gross gambling revenues which would simultaneously maximize the revenue gathered by the government while ensuring that the highest proportion of gambling operators are licensed.
It was determined that the optimal rate of tax on gambling revenues is between 15 percent and 20 percent.
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Cray lands $70m super deals
Beats IBM in next-gen petaflop push
Cray has won two big supercomputer deals with a combined value of $70m just as it reported decent sales and a profit in its second quarter and raised its guidance for 2009.
The first deal is with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, upgrading its Jaguar XT5 massively parallel Opteron-Linux super to the latest six-core Istanbul Opteron processors from AMD. Oak Ridge is one of the many supercomputing research labs run by the US Department of Energy (DoE).
The Jaguar super is Cray's current flagship installation. It went into Oak Ridge in the summer of 2008 and debuted on the Top 500 supers list using Cray's XT4 interconnect and AMD's quad-core Shanghai Opteron processors. The initial Jaguar installation used the quad-core Budapest Opteron processors running at 2.1GHz, which plugged into single-socket server boards.
This machine had a total of 31,328 compute cores and delivered a peak performance on the Linpack Fortran benchmark test of 260.2 teraflops and a sustained performance of 205 teraflops. This used the SeaStar2 interconnect that was an upgraded version of the SeaStar interconnect deployed in the Red Storm super at Sandia National Laboratory. This initial machine had 62TB of main memory across its nodes and 600TB of disk.
By the end of 2008, when a new XT5 machine was plunked down next to the XT4, Jaguar got quad-core Barcelona Opterons running at 2.3GHz, with 149,504 compute cores, giving the machine a sustained performance of 1.06 petaflops. This portion of the Jaguar machine uses the SeaStar2+ interconnect - better, stronger, faster - and has 300TB of memory and 6PB of disk. It is important to note that with the XT5, Cray shifted to two-socket motherboards, after getting totally screwed over by AMD thanks to the lateness of the Budapest quad-core Opterons used in the XT4.
When you add it all up, the Jaguar boxes - which can be clustered to share workloads - are basically neck-and-neck with IBM's Roadrunner hybrid Opteron-Cell Linux cluster over at Los Alamos National Laboratory, yet another DoE lab. Both machines have broken through the petaflops barrier and both vendors are now pushing up to 10 petaflops and beyond.
Under the deal Cray has inked with Oak Ridge, the XT5 machine will be upgraded to the new six-core Istanbul chips, boosting the core count to over 224,256 on the compute nodes. The upgrade is expected to be completed on the XT5 partition on Jaguar by the end of the year and boost its peak performance to more than two petaflops. Neither Cray nor Oak Ridge said which Istanbul chips would be put into the XT5 partition of Jaguar, but it will probably be one of the standard Opteron parts announced in June, not one of the low-power or high-clock speed variants announced in mid-July.
The price difference between the 2.6GHz Opteron 2435 and the 2.4GHz Opteron 2431 is pretty high - $989 a pop versus $698 when buying in 1,000-unit quantities, or a 41.7 per cent price premium for an 8.3 per cent bump in performance - so you would guess Oak Ridge would go with the 2.4 GHz Istanbul chip. If it does, that would give the XT5 part of Jaguar a peak performance of 2.07 petaflops; boosting to the 2.6GHz Istanbul chip pushes the performance up to the 2.24 petaflops level. This upgrade is apparently worth just under $20m.
IBM beater
That was apparently the easier of the two announced deals for Cray to chase and win. The other, with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's DoE-funded HPC center, called the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) center, had pitted Cray against IBM for its next generation petaflops-scale supercomputer.
Cray won the deal with a multiyear contract that will see NERSC put in an XT5 and then upgrade it to a future Cray parallel super, presumably also based on Opteron processors. This deal is worth more than $50m, according to Cray, and the full machine will go into production by the end of 2010. NERSC currently has an XT4 box rated at 355 peak teraflops, nicknamed Franklin, which has 38,642 Budapest Opteron cores linked with the SeaStar2 interconnect.


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Monday, December 20, 2010
Perfidious Musharraf and his Recent TV Interview - Part I
Any lay audience would have easily found out the perfidy he paraded and the evasiveness he displayed. Mr. Arnab Goswami, in my opinion, had done his home work. He led Gen. (r) Musharraf step-by-step like a lamb being led to the slaughterhouse and Mr. Musharraf fell for it. Of course, as they say, once you lie you have to lie a thousand times more to cover up that original lie. Having built-up his recent career, at least from the time of his coup in circa 1999, entirely on lies and duplicity, Gen (r) Musharraf has but no option other than to keep lying even as the façade gets blown off rather quickly. I felt therefore that Mr. Goswami stopped short of embarrassing Gen (r) Musharraf completely though he could have done so easily. However, the interview left no one in doubt about the the liar that Gen (r) Musharraf is.
I thought therefore that I would dwell on some aspects of the interview that caught Gen (r) Musharraf like an emperor with no clothes.
The interview started off with the denial of visa recently by the Government of India (GoI) to Gen (r) Musharraf. On this trip, he wanted to visit several Indian cities and address meetings, like he has been doing recently in the US. The GoI was quite correctly wary of such a proposal coming from a General who as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Pakistani Army (PA) refused to show the simple courtesy of saluting the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Vajpayee when he visited that country, who plotted secretively the Kargil war even as the Indian Prime Minister was engaged in ground-breaking peace dialogue, who thundered in Muzzafarabad after usurping power from Mr. Nawaz Sharif that jihad had shifted decisively to Kashmir from Afghanistan, who on his very first Indian visit berated India in an editors' meeting in New Delhi just before the Agra talks etc. etc.
In the aftermath of visa denial, Gen (r) Musharraf who felt slighted, had vowed never to visit India thereafter. When queried on this visa denial issue, a chastened (that was how I felt since he spoke in a conciliatory tone) Gen (r) Musharraf claimed that he had visited India thrice and he could not therefore understand what the fuss was all about. While it is true that he visited India thrice after his Kargil misadventure and the subsequent assumption of power in the coup, two of them were undertaken in his official capacity as the President of Pakistan (Indo-Pak Summit in July 2001 and April 2005) and the third was a private visit for attending a specific international conference organized by India Today. His current visit was meant to bolster his image back in Pakistan since he is now head of a political party, All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), a proposition GoI would not like. Let us remember that it was India's invitation to the then CEO of Pakistan, Gen. Musharraf, that legitimized him among the world community. He hurriedly relieved the then President Rafique Ahmed Tarar and assumed Presidency so that he could fly into India as the President of Pakistan. India did not want to allow its soil to be used for his rehabilitation once again. No amount of doing seminar circuits in the US would bring him the kind of publicity among the Pakistani masses that a single meeting in India can do
A digression at this point. President Tarar's easing out from the Presidency itself was a hilarious drama. As soon as India foolishly called for the Agra Peace Summit, CEO Gen. Musharraf appointed himself as President through an Amendment to the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO), called "President's Succession Order, 2001". It reads, inter alia: "Upon the office of the President becoming vacant for any reason whatsoever, the Chief Executive of Islamic Republic of Pakistan shall be the President... and shall perform all functions assigned to the President... The Chief Executive shall hold office as President until his successor enters upon his office." It was later clarified that the Presidential Office will be held by Gen. Musharraf for a period of 5 years. But, Gen. Musharraf had to find a reason for throwing out the Nawaz Sharif nominee Justice Rafique Ahmed Tarar and here is where the Pakistani ingenuity came out in flying colours. A strange reason was adduced to the "easing out" of Pres. Tarar namely that since the National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies had been dissolved, the President elected by such bodies ceased to exist !! Thus Gen. Musharraf who called himself a 'reluctant coup leader' began to assume all powers, President, CEO and COAS, all rolled into one. Later he even justified this 'multiple hats' as 'unity of command', another innovative phrase just like 'enlightened moderation'. So, how did he justify this 'unity of command' ? When urgent repairs had to be done in the Tarbela dam, he asked the Pakistani Army engineers to carry them out and boasted that he could take such a decision because of 'unity of command' !
So, it becomes quite clear that it is generally difficult to engage with Gen (r) Musharraf, as it is with most Pakistanis for that matter, in a meaningful dialogue or a debate because he is far too righteous to be questioned by ordinary mortals, especially a kaffir. He will easily make a fool of the other party by himself talking foolishly. So, when Gen (r) Musharraf wondered why India should be harking back on events that happened more than ten years back, one cannot make him understand why. Anyway, he agreed that he was hasty in declaring his intentions of never visiting India because he was emotional at that point. One can understand that because he has never been denied a visa before. Is this probably a harbinger of things to come for Gen (r) Musharraf who has much to answer not only to the citizens of his own country but also several other countries ?
Anyway, the interview then moved on to more substantive issues from the minor visa issue. But, the visa issue set the stage for the next few questions because Mr. Goswami had suggested that it was perhaps because of his 'misrepresentation of facts regarding Kargil' that the GoI probably denied him a visa, an accusation that made Gen (r) Musharraf bristle. He emphatically denied that the PA was at all involved in the Kargil misadventure. He said that the Kargil operation was carried out by 'the mujahideen and second-line forces'. Though this was interesting, he was not more closely questioned on this either because Mr. Goswami overlooked this formulation of Gen (r) Musharraf or he had to complete his prepared set of questions within the allotted time. Had he been questioned as to how thousands of these mujahideen and second-line forces came to posses heavy weapons that normally only the Armies of a nation could and how they could have reached those commanding heights without the PA ever knowing about them since the preparations must have gone on a large scale and for months together, or why the PA did not apprehend these 'mujahideen and second-line forces' upon their retreat after the pasting they received from the Indian Army, his standard reply would have been that the borders were porous and not every inch could be guarded which was why even the Indian Army with its 700,000 soldiers could not stop the infiltrators. What about the conversation between COAS Gen. Musharraf and Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Mohammed Aziz that was taped by India's Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) that revealed the Kargil intrusion as entirely planned by the PA ? Oh, that would be dismissed as concocted, as such things can be easily done. See, it is difficult to argue with him reasonably.
But, Gen (r) Musharraf was squarely and truly cornered when Mr. Goswami quoted from Musharraf's own book, 'In the Line of Fire' wherein he had stated that Kargil was indeed a turning point in PA's history. Of course, the PA itself has recently released the list of PA officers and soldiers killed (453 in all) in the Kargil operation in the 'Shuhada Corner' (Martyr's Corner) of their website along with such information as their rank, location, how they were killed etc. Why, the PA's Shuhada Corner even glorified a Pakistan Army suicide attacker, a certain Naik (Corporal) Zulfiqar Ahmed, who died in a New Delhi hospital due to severe 'nephrotic syndrome' and when this was picked up in India, the PA website was taken down hurriedly, poor Zulfiqar's name was quietly removed and a weak explanation offered of it being a data entry error in the first place. It puzzles one, then, as to why his operation was classified as 'Suicide Attack'. Similarly, when cornered by a quote from his own book, Gen (r) Musharraf gave a completely elliptical and asinine answer when he said whatever he had to say at that time he had said and they were realities in which he believed !!
Anyhow, the reference to the 'second-line forces' was interesting and confirmed what everybody knew for a very long time. In circa 1971, Pakistan used Al-Shams and Al-Badr to massacre the East Pakistanis, especially the Hindus there. Let us understand what these outfits are and why they worked in close alliance with the PA.
These second-line forces are whom Pakistan euphemistically refers nowadays as 'good Taliban' because they identify themselves completely with the PA and by extension 'Nazriya-e-Pakistan' which has two basic principles. The first is to implement Nizam-e-Mustafa (Order of the Prophet or Government according to Shariah) and the second is to destroy India. Nowadays, there is a third addition as well which is to establish the new Grand Caliphate in Pakistan. Among the second-line forces that are helping PA enforce this 'Nazriya-e-Pakistan' are the Lashkar-e-Tayba (LeT) followed by Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM). We have discussed these outfits in other places. However, the Islamist political party founded by Maulana Abu ala al Mawdudi spawned two terrorist organizations Al-Shams and Al-Badr. Now, Al-Badr is named after the historic Battle of Badr (near Mecca) fought and won by Prophet Mohammed. Immediately after the 9/11 incidents, India shared with the US the locations of 120 terror training camps along with video footage in many instances. Many of those camps seemed to be run by Al Badr based on the insignias, slogans etc seen there. Now, Al Badr was the creation of ISI and very close to it too. The Al Badr cadres along with the PA took part in the genocide in the then East Pakistan. Al-Shams was the comrade-in-arms in that massacre. They were disbanded after that but Al-Badr was resurrected in 1979 and fought in Afghanistan under Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami, another notorious ISI protegé. Later, they were let loose on India in J&K.
Since the PA has confirmed its involvement in Kargil and since we have no reason to disbelieve Gen (r) Musharraf either, who as the COAS was the chief architect of Kargil, we can easily come to conclusions. It was therefore awesome to hear the former President of Pakistan casually accept that these terrorist outfits are indeed part of the PA and make a passing reference as though such behaviour is totally acceptable.
Such are the vicissitudes of life and Pakistan.
(To be continued. . . )
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A well analysed article, as usualReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2013 at 11:40 PM
you're not as mentally retarded as your blog suggests....ReplyDelete
Stop uttering bullshit anyway....
India is more criminal than anything in the universe, but that doesn't find its way into your fucked up blogReplies
Dear Anonymous,Delete
OK. Tell me which part is bullshit.
Let us see who is mentally retarded now (with due apologies to those who are challenged that way). This blog is 'Pakistan Watch" and it says right at the top of every post, the following: "Pakistan is a terrifyingly fascinating country. Today it is undoubtedly the 'Most Dangerous' Country in the world, a distinction it has earned not for nothing. Each passing day leads to a new crisis in Pakistan that sends tremors not only to India and Afghanistan but the region and even far beyond. This blog is an attempt to understand Pakistan's behaviour and to keep a close eye on developments within that country that affect India in particular and the rest of the world in general."
So, I assume that, apart from complete lack of mental faculties, you are also visually challenged (again with due apologies to such people).
Rather than indulging in attributing criminality to India, start a blog and post it there. Let me know and I will meet you there.
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2013 at 9:19 PM
Here's a bit to add to the criminality of Endia (that's how i prefer yo call it, it's gonna end soon)ReplyDelete
here's the humam rights watch report,
download a copy and try to read it (supposing that you're not visually challenged)
if you can't download one, gimme your mail, I'll send you one...
Guess this is enough for now to shut your big mouth, unless you're another sick, stubborn Endian too reluctant to accept facts....Replies
First of all, you called this post "Perfidious Musharraf and his Recent TV Interview - Part I " as bullshit. I asked you to explain where exactly it was so. You have not cared to answer that yet.Delete
Now, you are talking about India's criminality, which obviously means that you accept Mussharraf's crminality because you have not refuted that with facts and figures.
As I said before, if you want to dicuss about India, open a blog and let me know. We can debate.
You are refusing to understand the simple fact that this is 'Pakistan Watch' which looks at that terrifying country and how it exports terrorism to its neighbours, region and beyond.
By the way, the two references you gave, the first one has such a poor reputation that even my browser refuses to open it and the second is a report from 23 years back which you must also read.
Is that all you can do ?
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2013 at 3:36 PM
Endia just simply cannot accept or digest good things about Pakistan`(in many ways rather most of the ways better than Endia). Jealousy and Denial is Endian's philosophy. As far as the interview is concerned, I think Arnab will remember that for the rest of his life. He just does not know how to conduct the interviews rather sits with his pre-set Endian mentality and philosophy as explained earlier.ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree that Arnab Goswami did not counter Gen (Retd.) Musharraf effectively in the latest interview though it was clear the Commando was simply lying through his teeth, as he always does. One is reminded of Musharraf's illustrious predecessor, Gen. Zia's comments about how Muslim Pakistanis are allowed to lie for a good cause. 'Terror' is the only good cause for Pakistan, as the whole world now recognizes. Arnab's earlier encounters with the Retired General must have been used to pin him down effectively. But, again, read the seventh paragraph in this post above to understand the approach of the terrorists of Pakistan and their supporters there.Delete
Jealousy & denial, eh ? Yeah, right.
Anyway, this particular post is about an earlier interview and was written over two years back.
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, who traces his ancestry to the Ansars, said, referring to the Generalissimmo that "he was hunting with the hounds and running with the hares".
By the way, learn to post specific and relevant rebuttals or counter arguments.


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How to do great customer interviews
Proven tactics to get the information you really need
Customers often can't accurately tell us what they really want. But you can learn the tried-and-true interview tactics that reveal how prospective customers are behaving today and what drives them to choose - or not choose - your product.
What you'll learn-and how you can apply it
You'll learn how to focus on solving customer problems before jumping into solutions, how to identify your biggest product risks, and how to ask questions that provoke honest, unbiased insights from your prospective customers. Even better, you'll be able to use what you've learned from your customers to avoid building things people don't want.
This training course is for you because...
- You're a product manager, entrepreneur, engineer, or designer who can't afford the time or expense to build products that customers won't buy or use.
- You're launching a new product or addressing a new market segment and don't yet understand what your customers need or how they behave
- You're working to reduce customer churn, increase usage and retention, or gain advantage over a competitive product
No user research, psychology, or HCI experience is required. Participants should be comfortable writing and speaking with customers.
Pre-Course Work
During this course, you'll participate in several hands-on writing and discussion activities. Read the following articles in advance and you'll be better prepared to jump into the activities.
- Figuring out who your target customer should be (hint: it's not 'everyone'; it's also not an age/gender label): http://cindyalvarez.com/who-should-your-early-customer-be/
- Writing a clear, effective "can I interview you?" message: http://cindyalvarez.com/the-busy-sidewalk-test/
- Why you shouldn't ask customers 'would you like ____?' questions: http://cindyalvarez.com/you-need-to-make-wanting-no-longer-free/
These documents are read-only. Click the link, then do "File > Make a Copy…" from the Google Docs menu to create your own copy that you can edit and save.
- Writing Your Problem Hypothesis - http://bit.ly/problem-hypothesis
- Writing Your Interview Questions - http://bit.ly/customer-interview-questions
Writing Your Problem Hypothesis (should take 5-10 minutes to complete)
Who are your customers, and what problem do you think you're solving for them? - in advance of the course. There's a good chance you aren't sure who your customers are. Take your best guess!
Your product may have more than one primary customer - for example, a multi-sided market, i.e.
- eBay - needs to attract buyers and sellers
- Yelp- needed to attract people to generate review content and businesses to buy ads)
- Any scenario where the buyer and user of the product are different audiences (think healthcare, education, or parents buying products targeted at children).
- If your business has multiple primary customers, write a problem hypothesis for each.
Writing Your Interview Questions (should take 2-5 minutes to complete) - You'll be starting with the templated questions, so all you need to do is fill in a high-level description of the problem you're trying to solve.
About your instructor
Cindy Alvarez is the author of Lean Customer Development: Build Products Your Customers Will Buy. Her background spans psychology, interaction design, product management, research, and enterprise change management. After many years designing and building products in startups, Cindy now helps internal Microsoft teams level up their product development, customer discovery, and devops practices and build a more responsive, inclusive culture.
The timeframes are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing
Lecture: What is customer development; what should I be learning from customers; and why are they willing to talk to me? (10 minutes)
Group discussion: Share the hypotheses you wrote before the course - what are your goals? What are your assumptions? (10 minutes)
Lecture: Where are my customers? How can I get them to talk with me? (10 minutes)
Exercise: Write and send at least one request for an interview (10 minutes)
Lecture: What you should be learning—and how to construct questions that lead to honest, unbiased answers (30 minutes)
Lecture: How to run an excellent interview, end-to-end (10 minutes)
Exercise: Interview (15 minutes)
Group discussion: Debrief - what did we learn? How would we improve for next time? (5 minutes)
Lecture: Summarizing and sharing what you've learned (10 minutes)
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I'm finally in a place where "the bullshit will NOT exist!"
The past year and even more over the past few months, I've ex-communicated from many people.
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I am NOT mad at anyone.
I am DONE with many people.
I DO NOT OWE any of you "an explanation, acknowledgement, humility, and damn sure NOT loyalty" as I haven't, if I've ever, received it from many of you.
You've given me your ass to kiss, while putting your nose in the air.
You've wished bad on me.
You've purposely ignored me, in an attempt to outdo me or you simply enjoyed watching me struggle.
You smite me when you're doing or feeling as though you're doing better than me.
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You ONLY "pretend" to love, respect, and appreciate me "when you need me to do something for your sole benefit!"
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I am an exceptional person, that ONLY A FEW will ever get to know thoroughly.
I am NOT mad, I AM DONE!
I have a right and I deserve to be understood, loved, accepted, supported, promoted and celebrated!
I DO NOT DESERVE to be looked down upon, left out of the mix, discussed in your huddles, sit downs and judgement filled conversations, without the slightest attempt at "speaking with me" in regards to your concerns; because we've had "words in the past" or "because I'm too much for you" or my favorite hidden one "because I have a Bipolar and PTSD diagnosis and my son has an Autism diagnosis!"
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Make way for more zombies. From the seriously grim monstrosities of The Walking Dead, to the lovable brain eaters in Plants vs. Zombies, audiences have made it clear they love the undead. 6Waves is feeding more of that zombie hunger with a new Facebook sim entitled Zombie Island. It might be short on limbs, but it's still a joyful romp that should make for a fun holiday companion.
Zombie Island is comprised of many elements Facebook gamers will find familiar, but it's an app that also has its own unique flavor: brains, to be precise. Rather than dole out energy every few minutes, work on Zombie Island is dependent upon brains. You'll need to chop wood and gather stone in order to build structures and such, and each member of your undead workforce requires a brain in order to get the job done.
But let's back up a bit. Zombie Island is something of a city management game, though its pacing feels more like a virtual garden – something along the lines of Viva Piñata. Though your real estate is fairly limited, there's a surprising amount of satisfaction to be found with these walking corpses.
Zombie Island incorporates both coins and "zombucks" (which can either be purchased with Facebook credits or earned from leveling up), and simple quests offer an impetus to return each day. It's not the type of game you come back to constantly, but as part of a daily gaming routine, Zombie Island is an enjoyable, laid back experience.
Your main zombie acts as overseer of the island, tilling land, collecting resources, as well as hunting for treasure. The grunt work, however, is doled out to helper zombies. You'll need to purchase specific graves for the various jobs, and burying friends grants you additional brains for your workforce. It's a delightful premise with charm to spare.
Unfortunately, many quest items can only be acquired through friends. With only one exchange a day per friend, the process of collecting certain items can be quite tedious. If you're playing completely solo, you'll need to rely upon zombucks to purchase rare quest items.
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Pecan Pie
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Black Forest Cake
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Sticky Date Pudding
A Nostalgic Favourite, served with Butterscotch sauce and Chantilly cream
Tirami Su
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Apple Pie
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Apple & Rhubarb Crumble
Apples & Rhubarb in a sweet pastry shell with a buttered & cinnamon crumble
Fresh Fruit Salad
Diced Seasonal Fresh Fruit, served with Cream
Plum Puddings
Individual Plum Puddings, served Warm with Brandy Custard
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Cold set cheesecake topped with delicious flavours.
Citrus Burst Cheesecake
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Cappuccino Cheesecake
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Bread and Butter Pudding
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Walnut & Carrot Cake
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Banana & Caramel Cake
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Mousse and Mud Cake
A chocoholics delight of mud cake and rich chocolate mousse covered in dark chocolate.
Raspberry & White Chocolate Cheesecake
Baked White Chocolate & Raspberry Cheesecake decorated with white chocolate icing & curls
Red Velvet Cake
Layered with White Chocolate Cream
Hummingbird Cake
Banana & Pineapple Cake layered with cream cheese frosting and covered with toasted coconut
Flourless Orange & Almond Cake (GF)
Gluten Free and simply topped with Chocolate Ganache
Chocolate Mud Cake
A majestic rich and moist mud cake, covered and finished with a generous pouring of chocolate ganache
Lemon and Lime Baked Cheesecake (GF)
Creamy Cheesecake with a burst of Citrus
Cookies and Cream Cheesecake
Cookie Loaded Cheesecake with White Chocolate Ganache and Crumbled Cookies
Caramel Swirl Cheesecake
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Jaffa Torte (GF)
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11 September, 2012
The lows and highs of crochet
I've decided to make my first crochet project a cushion cover and not a big blanket so I can get on to trying out other things. My initial plan was to crochet the squares together using this tutorial, but I really didn't like the look of it when I was finished. The squares looked all wonky and the white toned the whole thing down and the lovely (some might say rather insane) brightness was totally gone. Crochet Fail.
I'm pretty sure the wonkiness was something I'd done wrong (I think there's an extra treble in the intersections now that I look at it) and if I'd liked the effect of the white I would have gone back and tried to fix it - but I didn't so all the white was pulled out this morning and I've gone another way - more on that later!
Crochet came to the rescue yesterday though, when Hazel was given a birthday party invitation that had gone astray and the party was this afternoon after school! In the end she couldn't go because of prior commitments, but I thought a little present was in order anyways. I'd seen something a few days ago about crochet headbands with flowers and since I had several flowers hanging around after my experiments with putting them in squares I thought it would be an idea solution. Talk about a fast present! I googled for a pattern, came up with this great video, and half an hour later I had a headband. I stupidly didn't keep watching after I'd finished the band because she had this really neat way of attaching the flower, but mine was fine just stitched on. Hazel modelled it for me late in the afternoon. She was a bit put out about having to do it because she's not keen on headbands, but got into the spirit fairly quickly! And no, I don't know why she was in her pyjamas before dinner!
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She's gorgeous !!!ReplyDelete
Btw when you've joined your blocks go around the outside of them all - it helps
don't worry about the wonky parts - if you block it after you've finished that will disappear. Blocking will save it!ReplyDelete
- Rachael WilsonSeptember 12, 2012 at 12:04 AM
I love the colours!ReplyDelete
I think the wonkyness is completely caused by the white zig zag affect. It's twisting each square because you have to work in the spaces round each square. The white has joined a space on one block to a triple on the next block when it should be joining space to space or triple to triple. Unfortunately joining the spaces to spaces etc doesn't look as nice as you end up with big gaps.
To fix this you could finish each square off with a solid coloured border then join them. That way you would have stitches to work with to keep it all straight.
Hope this makes sense. I love the squares and I would definitely think about pulling it back and fixing the wonkyness - as I am a bit of a neat freak (only with crafy things - not in my general life!) and the squares are so lovely.
Hope all that makes sense.
The headband is gorgeous! I love crochet as it's manageable and you can pick up and put down projects without ruining them as there's only one active stitch. I usually pull a large loop and thread some contrasting wool through so I can use the hook for another project.
By the way I came across your site a year or so ago and made a few of Hazel's bunnies. I love the pattern and my son loves his blue and white fleece rabbit! Thanks xxxx
Okay - I think she's getting cuter by the day! What great posing. Pyjamas before dinner you say; Mishi did that the other day with some that we decided Ari could hand down to her. First of all she tucked them neatly under her pillow for later on, then she changed her mind and wore them all afternoon.ReplyDelete
Loving your crochet work. Can't wait to see it finished. I've not done any seam sewing with granny squares yet - maybe I'll finish a project one day.
- FaerySarahSeptember 12, 2012 at 8:25 AM
yip i'd do a border of one or two rounds of one colour (as said) and then stitch together with THIS tutorial, it looks good front and back, is SUPER easy and REALLY fast AND you can fudge stitches if you get muddled and they don't show up! WIN!ReplyDelete
it is the best ever, infact I don't go anywhere else to learn stuff i need to know for crochet, lucy is AMAZE!
also this for edging.. http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/granny-b.html
if it was me i'd undo it and start again, you have lost that magic and its not so bad undoing...
Thanks for the links! By the time I'd put up this post I'd already ripped out all the white (it IS quite satisfying!) and sewn them up again. I used a whipstitch but I like that other method - next time! The finished effect is pretty much identical to mine, I'll have to see which is faster!ReplyDelete
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Yes I will, I need to actually, to get it up to size for the cushion! I'm thinking about doing a pretty edging as well (have a look at the edging link Sarah posted in the comments above) and then attaching it to the cushion so there is a sort of a frill around the edges.ReplyDelete
Yes, I think that would be the ideal solution to the problem - I'm a neat freak too and I just couldn't handle that wonkiness! In retrospect putting the white where I did in the squares wasn't ideal, but now I know for next time. I'm amazed how well the loops stay in the crochet even when the hook isn't there - I just assumed it would be like knitting and unravel given the least opportunity!ReplyDelete
That's so lovely to hear you made the bunny - Hazel has been asking for more of them but I just haven't gotten myself organised. I think I'd better though, because she plays with the original ones and they're really not standing up to it!
She's put on the pyjamas early a few times in the last week, she says it's to save time during bedtime routine but I think she just likes the novelty feeling of it!ReplyDelete
I used whipstitch on the backs of the squares, but Sarah posted a link to a good tutorial above that has the same effect with crochet. It's just nice and simple.
Once you have the cushion sorted, its going to look sooo pretty! love the flowers and the colours together.... must get my hook out and add one to my girls bed! And the flowers definately come in handy... I also used one for a quick pressie... hairclips :)ReplyDelete
I thought that too, but I tried pulling it in to shape and it just wasn't going to happen - I think I'd gone past the point of blockable wonkiness!ReplyDelete
Hairclips would have been good although that flower was a bit big! I should do up a few and stash them for emergencies :)ReplyDelete


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Vancouver sweethearts Said the Whale are back, now as a trio, and their song "Step Into the Darkness" debuts at #26 on our chart this week. It's the first single from their upcoming album As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide, which will be released on March 31 via Hidden Pony. The band is now made up of frontmen Tyler Bancroft and Ben Worcester and keyboardist Jaycelyn Brown. Here's your first taste of their new back-to-the-basics sound:
Toronto orch-pop band Del Bel has joined forces with Clairmont the Second for the single "Do What The Bass Says," and it's the highest debut on our chart this week. Listen to their kinetic, cinematic collaboration below.
Other new songs this week include "Swimming In Strange Waters" from the Wooden Sky and "The Road" from Lydia Ainsworth.
The Courtneys, who are also the featured interview on our January podcast, have quickly made their way up the chart, hitting the #1 spot after only four weeks on the chart with their fanastic new song "Silver Velvet."
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30. The Wooden Sky, "Swimming In Strange Waters"
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Federal prosecutors have dropped a theft complaint against three men arrested in December on charges of ripping off electrical wire from the FBI's new field office in Miramar then fencing it for thousands of dollars.
But the men, who worked for an electrical subcontractor on the project, are not in the clear yet. They are likely to be charged again, only this time by state prosecutors in Broward County.
"We believe the federal prosecutors carefully looked at all the facts and circumstances surrounding the three arrests," said Miami criminal defense attorney, Brian Bieber, who is representing one of the three men, Robert Gesek.
"Our understanding is the matter is not closed, but will likely be pursued by the Broward state attorney's office in January," Bieber said Thursday. "Mr. Gesek has been fully cooperative and intends to remain that way."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Strider Dickson dismissed the theft complaint against the three workers, Gesek, William Hamilton and Michael McGuire, just before Christmas, after they had already been granted bonds of $150,000 each. The order was signed by Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer in Fort Lauderdale federal court. Their arraignments were not held.
On Thursday, the U.S. attorney's office declined to comment on its dismissal of the complaint.
Procedurally, federal authorities would have to turn over the case evidence to local police, which would then ask the Broward state attorney's office to file new charges.
In early December, federal agents busted the trio of workers on charges of trying to skim off an electrical construction contract with the nation's top crime-fighting agency, according to an FBI affidavit filed with the federal complaint.
Here's how the FBI says it went down: The three men, who worked for the FBI project's electrical subcontractor, M.C. Dean, "fluffed" the amount of wiring needed for the job, according to the affidavit. They got caught Dec. 4 after selling some of the stolen property for $23,660 in cash.
The FBI's anti-corruption squad learned about the alleged caper from a confidential source, the affidavit said. The sale happened outside a Miramar warehouse, where the electrical wire had been hauled on multiple trips from the FBI project.
Afterward, the two buyers told FBI agents that they paid about $23,000 in cash but did not know the wiring was stolen, the affidavit said. The agents stopped two of the sellers, Hamilton and Gesek, in their car and found two envelopes stuffed with the cash in the front seat.
The FBI's new field office — a pair of wavy-shaped glass buildings off Interstate 75 — is scheduled to be ready in the fall. For years, the regional office has operated out of a concrete, bunkerlike structure in North Miami Beach.


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The British clothier Boden, has released its new Spring collection. Packed full of floral designs and beautiful bright colours, this collection is a delightfully warm breeze in this wintery climate. Boden's signature style is defined by classic cuts and simplicity of form, with the use of a myriad of colour options and vintage inspired prints to create variety. Feminine but not too girly, which is right up my street. Have a look at some of their new pieces for Spring...
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