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TV Diary | Mad Men – "A Little Kiss"
TV Diary | Mad Men – Episode 5.01/5.02 – "A Little Kiss" – Original Airdate: 3/26/12
Episode Grade: B+
It's been a strange two-year gap since Mad Men last aired an original episode and, as such, this is the first time I've written about the show on the blog so – much like with Community – it comes with a small amount of trepidation. It's often such a dense show that it can be difficult to unpack so I hope that I'm up to the challenge. Let's start by resetting things to see where we actually are. I actually had to go back and watch the season four finale, "Tomorrowland," before diving into "A Little Kiss" simply because it's been so long and I needed a quick refresher course on Mad Men's universe. Obviously, the Don and Megan union/engagement/thingy was the big occurance that happened in that finale and, picking up nine months or so after the events of "Tomorrowland," "A Little Kiss" drops us into Memorial Day Weekend 1966. Don and Megan are indeed married [1] and are still working together at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. This seems to be a point of contention for the other copywriters – particularly Peggy – as Megan is viewed as someone who finds herself in the position she's in simply because she's sleeping with – and married to – the boss. It's also a source of awkwardness for Megan who, despite her best intentions, doesn't seem to be taken as seriously as she wants to be. To that end, throwing a lavish surprise 40th birthday party for Don and inviting the whole office – and then performing an alternately sexy and embarrassing rendition of "Zou Bisou Bisou" in front of everyone at the party while Don sits stupefied and mortified on a chair watching it unfold provides "A Little Kiss" the major conflict that Matthew Weiner essentially bases the entire episode around. Don essentially dresses Megan down after everyone has left, pointing out that he'd forbidden Betty [2] from doing anything similar to celebrate his birthdays in the past, while Megan is taken aback by the fact that her husband would not only show such callous disregard for what she perceived as a gesture of love, but that he'd speak to her as almost an underling in their own home. Meanwhile, Joan has had her baby and is adjusting to motherhood at home with aid from her own domineering mother, while wondering if perhaps her absence at SCDP has rendered her obsolete. After visiting the office to assess the situation, she's relieved to find that they seem to miss her and her skills more than even she missed the office and – call me crazy – but it seems like the groundwork may be in the process of being laid for a potential hookup between Don and Joan down the road. Hell… it could even be as early as this season. Joan makes mention of Don's looks [3] and Megan seems less than thrilled to see Joan back around in the way that one lion eyes up another when there's a gazelle around to feed on. I could be wrong, but I'm not sure that I am. If a potential Don/Joan pairing is in the offing and is one of the first narrative threads unspooled in this fifth season, clearly another is the growing pissing match between Pete and Roger. Pete, at this juncture of the show, seems to be the only one taking business at SCDP seriously. Roger is hitting on secretaries as per usual, Don is completely preoccupied with Megan [4]. Lane is getting soused at business meetings, and Bert Cooper is Bert Cooper – so inconsequential at this point that no one bothers to include him in meetings. Pete is the only one actually doing his job, and throws this fact in Roger's face by trying to stage a coup of Roger's actual office. In a great scene, Roger manages to convince Harry to give his own office up to Pete for the greater good [5], a gesture that Pete confirms was not his aim. He wanted Roger's office as a means of metaphorically kicking Roger in the teeth. That Mad Men could take the better part of two years off and come back with an episode(s) as strong as "A Little Kiss" is a testament to Weiner's talent and how in tune he is with his characters. While some have complained that the show can be obtuse at times [6], "A Little Kiss" does a fine job of reestablishing the new status quo while also setting the tracks for the road that this fifth season is to travel. Expecting that the show will at the same time re-entrench itself as one of television's best is almost a given.
[1] Albeit, the show does pull a nice little fakeout as the first Draper we see is Sally wandering down an unfamiliar hallway before the door to Don's bedroom opens and he's there getting dressed for work while a woman – whose face is obscured in the shot – lays half-naked on the bed. It's not long before we find out that it is Megan after all.
[2] Who mercifully is entirely off-screen for what amounts to these first two episodes of the season. I'd forgotten how white-hot my hatred of that character was until I re-watched "Tomorrowland." She really is a horrible, contemptible person.
[3] She says to Lane while asking about the birthday party she was unable to attend, "I can't even imagine how handsome that man must be blushing."
[4] Both early on in a newlywed way and later, following their conflict, by bolting from the office when Peggy informs him that Megan left early complaining of feeling sick. In both instances, his mind is clearly not on his work.
[5] And for $1,000 in cash.
[6] O.K… a lot of the time.
*Some of the fun of Mad Men season premieres comes from the fact that they always seem to be disorienting (in a good way) as you – as a viewer – attempt to figure out when and where we are. There's never any hand-holding and I respect the hell out of that.
*Don's new "happy" – for Don anyway – personality seems to be giving Peggy pause. After her pitch of a "bean ballet" to Heinz goes over like a fart in church, Peggy is disgusted when Don sides with the client and doesn't fight harder for her. The Peggy/Don relationship has always been at the heart of the show so it should prove interesting to see how Megan's presence and influence changes that dynamic this season.
*Note: Happy Don Draper is weird. And off-putting.
*That Peggy wants nothing to do with Joan's baby when she visits the office is a nice nod to continuity. Pete's subsequent appearance makes things all the more awkward.
*Hey, Bean Guy at Heinz… good luck making baked beans seem cool. Speaking from close to 50 years in the future? It ain't gonna happen.
*People in the 1960s who didn't take the civil rights movement seriously were assholes, as evidenced by the illustration of the jackasses at SCDP rival Young & Rubicam. I also detected a bit of a note – particularly in the way that the Y&R workers described the protestors – of the feelings of the opposition to the Occupy movement as well.
*Pete does not seem entirely thrilled with his home situation, which in a lot of ways mirrors his circumstances at work. Clearly, the man's going to need some kind of outlet and the question becomes: What's that outlet going to be?
*I'm not going to say much about "Zou Bisou Bisou" other than that it happened. So there's that.
*Harry making an ass out of himself in front of Megan was a completely Harry Crane thing to do.
*For everyone who says fart humor is low-brow – MAD MEN DID A FART JOKE.
*Jessica Pare in her underwear. I approve.
*Roger Sterling Line Of The Episode Part 1: "Why don't you buy yourself a fancy hat or a mask or something?"
*Roger Sterling Line Of The Episode Part 2: "Is it just me, or is the lobby full of Negroes?"
*Bonus Roger Sterling Moment: Answering the phone for Lane's assistant and using a falsetto voice is HILARIOUS.
*One Final Roger Sterling Note: This may have been one of my favorite exchanges in series history – Roger: "I have to go to Staten Island." Jane: "What time is it?" Roger: "Shut up."
*As you can tell, this was a strong episode for Roger.
*"When you're forty, how old will I be?" "Dead."
*"There was a time when she wouldn't leave the house in a robe."
*"A $10? Are you buying his formula or yours?"
*"Joan, he's not going to allow you to work." "Allow me?"
*"You ever seen beans up close? They're slimy and they look like organs."
*"I don't recognize that man. He's calm… and patient."
*"I've got tickets to the bean ballet. And the curtain's about to go up."
*"It's the Steinway of walking sticks." "You could stick it up your ass and have a concert."
*"Roger, I didn't know you were invited. Or did you hear I was coming and just show up?"
*"Why don't you sing like that?" "Why don't you look like him?"
*"They're all great girls, at least until they want something."
*"I went home and Jennifer didn't know what was coming…" "I don't want to hear that."
*"Pete's office is a shithole with a support beam."
*"OK… but you're gonna owe me." "No, I'm not. I just gave you a lot of money."
*"The two of them together couldn't operate a parking meter. They're imbeciles."
*"I should not be allowed to drink at work functions. Or at all, really."
*I've missed this show


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Katy pastor steps down from preaching, turns to publishing
First Baptist forming committee to begin search for a new minister
Updated 5:01 pm, Friday, September 18, 2015
After 12 years of leading First Baptist Church – Katy as senior pastor, Randy White is exchanging the pulpit of a large congregation for a publishing company of his own.
"As a pastor whose focus is on teaching the Scriptures, I have had a growing desire to spend a larger portion of my time studying and communicating Bible knowledge," said White. "The demands of pastoring a healthy congregation don't allow me to spend the time I would like to spend in writing."
The 50-year-old announced his resignation to the more than 1,000 people of his congregation last month and preached his final sermon at the church on Aug. 30. White said he decided to step down from pastoral ministry to focus his time on Christian writing, publishing and teaching.
"This fall, I will begin a ministry of writing and publishing Christian resources," said White, who has been in ministry for 25 years. "I am also establishing a publishing company that will be publishing resources for Christian teaching and for churches."
White said he and his wife, Shelley, plan to stay in Katy until they sell their home and will move to Taos, New Mexico, where he will serve at a smaller congregation, Taos First Baptist Church.
"Being a pastor is the greatest honor anyone could ever hold," said White. "We will miss the day-to-day interaction with our loved ones at First Baptist - Katy, which is the aspect of this transition that is most painful."
As White moves into a new phase of ministry, leaders at First Baptist – Katy are gearing up to search for his replacement.
Gary Penick, chairman of the church's deacons, said a pastor search committee will be formed by the end of September and the search process will begin in October.
The congregation submitted names of potential church members to be part of the search committee and the church's deacons will screen nominees to select ones for the committee, Penick said.
"We're aiming for about seven people on the committee that are a good representation of the whole church," Penick said. "The committee will make sure they know what the church wants in a pastor and it's often something fairly similar to who we've had."
The church has also set up an interim pastor committee to select preachers to fill the pulpit as the committee searches for a new pastor. Earlier in September, a visiting pastor from Romania preached to the congregation.
In the meantime, the church's deacons will take on the authority of the senior pastor role including administrative duties, financial transactions and daily preparations, minus the preaching, Penick said. The congregation will miss White, he said, adding that he was surprised by his resignation.
"Are we sad to see him go? Of course, but we're excited for him that he's going off and doing what the Lord is calling him to," said Penick, who has been a member of First Baptist for 12 years.
Over the 12 years that White served as senior pastor of First Baptist Church – Katy, the congregation has grown and the campus expanded. In 2003, First Baptist opened its 32,000-square-foot Family Ministry Center to accommodate an increase in its preschool and youth ministry attendance.
During his time there, White also established six-hour Bible studies that he hosted once or twice a year in the evening at First Baptist, he said. The studies, starting around 6 p.m. and ending by midnight, would cover a specific topic or book of the Bible through in-depth study.
"These are serious times of study," White said. "People love it and I'm sure I'll be doing more in the future."
Katy-area resident Heather Lee has participated in those studies and said she will miss White's teaching. Lee and her family have been members of First Baptist – Katy for eight years.
"He is willing to follow where the scripture leads, even if it be beyond accepted Southern Baptist dogma," Lee said. "Doctrine matters, substance matters."
In addition to his plans for increased writing and publishing, White said he will also invest more time toward his nonprofit, Randy White Ministries, which he began four years ago to broadcast sermons via radio.
White said his ministry began with one radio station broadcasting daily and grew to more than 400 stations broadcasting weekly. Now, sermons are primarily offered online at www.RandyWhiteMinistries.org.

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My last year of living in Toronto before heading abroad was in a house near Kensington Market and Chinatown. Kensington is one of my favourite areas in all of Toronto; anyone who knows the city will be familiar with it's eclectic craziness and perhaps pedestrian Sundays, when the streets are closed off and the market is at it's best. I loved it for all of that including the fact that it was always teeming with vegan and gluten free options. Nearly all of the cafes in Kensington offer vegan coffee options and at least something on the menu that's vegan and gluten free.
It also is home to one of two Bunner's locations which means if it wasn't already one of my favourite areas in the city it most definitely is now! Bunner's is a bakery that's %100 dedicated to vegan and gluten free baking. I can eat everything they make and it is all amazing. Believe me I've gotten through the majority of it! On my most recent trip to Toronto I made sure to stop in, and actually went twice even though I was only in the city for a few days.
Bunners got their start selling at markets around the city, which ultimately led to taking orders and eventually to opening up their own shop. They have a loyal customer base and I understand why. They're most famous for their cupcakes (they always have a few flavours on rotation including flavour of the month) but they also make cookies, cinnamon buns, mini pies, whoopee pies, bread, savoury pockets, energy bites and more. Check out this selection!
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Boat Harbour dairy farmer and researcher and Nuffield scholar Thomas Snare has found a solution that improves farm profitability and addresses concern about treatment of dairy bull calves.
Mr Snare, who is also the farm manager at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture dairy research facility, researched expanding the dairy industry by rearing dairy bull calves for beef consumption as part of his 2015 Nuffield Scholarship.
This research is set to drive farm improvement and productivity to ensure best practice and welfare standards across industry, Mr Snare said.
"Dairy bull calves are currently an underutilised co-product of dairy farming," Mr Snare said.
"There is a real opportunity to value-add here in Australia, like in the UK and the US, where dairy origin beef makes up a significant proportion of total beef production.
"There are a number of factors that will drive greater success, including the need for farmers to produce quality bull calves and utilise beef genetics to increase carcass quality," he said.
Mr Snare's Nuffield Scholarship, which was supported by Dairy Australia, included visits to New Zealand, Japan, Western and Northern Europe and the Mid-West USA to learn from dairy leaders.
"It showed that there is a quality issue with the Jersey and Jersey cross bull calves currently produced in Australia, which in part can be corrected by better use of beef genetics, post artificial-insemination," Mr Snare said.
"It's also important to know that the seasonal nature of dairy production in Australia means lower asset utilisation in comparison to year-round calving systems in other countries.
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Mr Snare toured Toyota in Japan to learn about lean management, which drives productivity improvements.
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Servicing the Heating Element
The heating element is used to help dry the dishes. In most dishwashers, the heating element fits around the screen in the bottom of the tub housing; it looks like an electric oven element. The heating element doesn't malfunction often, but it can burn out. If you suspect a faulty element:
Appliances Repair in MD
Step 1: Test it with a VOM set to the RX1 scale. Remove the dishwasher's bottom access panel and disconnect one of the power leads to the element. Clip one probe of the VOM to each element terminal. If the meter reads between 15 and 30 ohms, the element is working. If the reading is higher than 30 ohms, the element is faulty and should be replaced.
Appliances Repair in MD
Step 2: As needed, replace the heating element with a new one made for the dishwasher. Disconnect the electrical leads to the element's terminal screws and remove the nuts or other fasteners that hold the element to the terminals. From inside the tub, lift the element out. It may be held by clips and ceramic blocks in the tub, but you can easily thread it past these spacers. Set the new heating element in position, reconnect the power leads, and replace the fasteners that hold the element in place.
Appliances Repair in MD
Servicing the Detergent Dispenser
Accumulated detergent from prior washings can cause problems with the soap dispenser. Buildup can get into the soap dispenser and interfere with the spring that triggers the flip-out tray, or it can slow down the pivot action of the tray. If the dispenser is not opening, first make sure you aren't loading the machine so dishes or pots and pans are touching the dispenser, and that dish racks aren't blocking the dispenser. Also check to make sure the dispenser tray isn't cracked. If leftover detergent in the tray is almost liquid, rather than just damp, the tray may be damaged.
Appliances Repair in MD
If you can't solve the problem easily, replace the entire dispenser unit. This is usually easier than trying to disassemble it and replace separate parts. Use a new dispenser made for the dishwasher. The screws holding the dispenser in place may be on the front of the unit, or you may have to remove the front door panel to get to the screws and make the replacement. Remove the old dispenser and secure the new one, connecting it in the same way the old unit was attached.Troubleshooting Dish Racks
Problems with the dish racks usually occur because the racks have been jammed back into the tub housing after they're fully loaded.
Careless handling can exert enough force to crack or break the roller wheels or throw the racks off the tracks. The solution is easy: Stop jamming the racks.
The repair is easy, too. Remove the racks by pulling out the tiny metal pins that hold them in the tracks. Or simply lift up on the racks and pull them out of the tracks. Then reinstall the racks on the tracks so that they roll smoothly.
If the rollers are cracked or broken, replace them with new ones of the same type. The rollers may be friction-fit to their hubs. Pull them off for replacement. Or, if they are held by tiny spring clips, pull the clips out with pliers, or pry them out with the tip of a screwdriver. If you can't pull the rollers off for replacement, remove and replace the entire rack.
A noisy wash cycle or water that won't drain are problems that, for the most part, can be handled yourself. We'll discuss how you can pinpoint these water-related problems in the next section.
Appliances Repair in MD


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hi all,
please can someone help me out here, I don't feel like I'm losing anything. I've just started the NHS weight loss scheme on Tuesday so it's still early days but I feel hopeless already!! How do you guys do it?!
I really need someone to help me out, i don't know if there's anyway of privately messaging me but I just need someone to help me plan my diet and exercise because i seem to be struggling. I follow a south Asian diet so we would have to work around that as well and then my oddly structured uni timetable and extra studies. stupid time management is something i always struggle with.
I worked out using the NHS tool that i should be consuming 1511-1944 kcal but obviously i need to stick to the lower end of that scale. Also, what is the recommended exercise time each day? And that should be a combo of cardio and strength, right?
I desperately need to lose a pound a week. so in a week I'd have to lose 3500?
Sorry for the moaning, I don't get why I'm complicating it but if someone could message me or even on here provide me with tips for diet and exercise.


text:
Mountain View High School graduate Lincoln Sweeten recently returned from a voluntary two-year mission assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Sweeten, the son of Ronda Wilberg of Loveland and Ken Sweeten, Cleveland, N.Y., served in the Idaho Pocatello Mission.
Sweeten will report on his mission during worship services held at 9 a.m. Sunday in the Lakeside Ward, 1445 W. 28th St.
The meeting is open to the public.
Sweeten, who graduated from Mountain View High School in 2006, was active in scouting and achieved the Life rank. During high school, he graduated from the church's early-morning seminary program.
Sweeten has attended Aims Community College and has been accepted at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg.


text:
My InsanitySo. Where do I start.
I'm an introvert who is good with his hands. I love music, books, video games, art, baking, cooking, and working with my hands. I love using a computer and I would swear that I already downloaded half of my brain to my laptop. It's my go to tool of choice for just about everything my wrench won't fix on its own.
I like to think my way out around things, taking the time to think them through and fully understand them. I'm great with mechanical and logic puzzles of all kinds as long as I can actually play around with them.
I'm a Who fan, like Anime and Manga, and spend most of my time learning, job hunting, and playing games.
I have dyslexia so I can be a bit slow when typing or reading, but I'd like to believe I've overcome that hurdle well as one can. Because of this little fact though, I suck at coding and such things that require long streams of text and no spell check even though I enjoy writing and read code fairly well.


text:
Soli, I write too hiong already, 5 posts in one day. But bo pian. I am very 辛苦. And I can be very aggressive in doing things. Too bad if people don't have time or patience to read. Dun care liao.
Anyway, I've developed the habit of going for long swims. I especially like it when I'm the only person in the pool. Gives me time to reflect, work out my anger, or just pass time which would otherwise be unbearable.
Yesterday while swimming, it occured to me that God was smiling down on me. I laughed in the pool and nearly gulped down a mouthful of chlorine water.
Walau!! I decided it's too dangerous to swim anymore. =)
Actually there's another reason. I'm going to have a new roommate dammit. >_< So I have no more space to do extra laundry in the room.
And my hair is badly damaged.
Sighs. I will miss all my privileges at Hwa Chong. Running track with stairs for me to do stair exercises…gym…pool…free breakfast and dinner…laundry service…Next time want to swim in Alor Star have to go to the dirty and crowded ASRC pool, and have to pay somemore. AND have to drive there.
Whatever. 20 days more. I already 准备好回家. Bought ticket liao.


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I've come upon your artwork by mistake. I was searching on the net for weary cotton. This was a phrase I heard somewhere, on the bus I think or anywhere with old black people wearing colorful headwear. I was reading a horror paperback & heard them, so entranced was I with those words I had no choice but to log on at the library and search for it on Google. Believe it or not (probably will, no surprise), your site was #1. You draw newspaper comics? Called "Weary Cotton", funny name. Maybe I'll ask what it means next time :) Anyways, this comic is funny and weird. Ugly people building 31289 ft. skyscrapers only to break them down with another skyscraper of 28956 ft. Ducks giving birth to onions that shoot acid. It's funny!
But I think one of them hits a little too close to home for me, too close. March 18, that's the one, 2006. In that comic you have a famous white gloved talking mouse giving anal pleasure to a little black rabbit with one eye (it's yellow) and stumped feet. When the famous mouse is done, he yells "Nice goin, son!" In the cut-out, edited-out part which I had to lie to access and use the code I see the librarians use, you draw the little black bunny slurping the famous mouse's white penis. Then the last square is the famous mouse, his penis broken off & still in the little black bunny's slobering mouth; the famous mouse says "Tee hee" and you can see it has a fat slit between its legs also slobbering.
I am a little black bunny and my mother is a famous famous mouse impersonator with her fake penis that shoots out salt syrup. I go through this every day at precisely 8:23 am and 3:28 pm, the 2 times I found out people are most likely to log on. And my birthday was March 18, I turned 28 then.
Thank you for your work and keep it up.
WeeRee Katon


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Sunday, November 30, 2008
A program is as a car, can I think first to what car could be according to program features ? (FR, NFR)
Is it possible, this is my question, to use the inverse procedure, so starting from the model of thinking a software architecture to proceed then starting to think to design ? Choosing a model prototype more suitable to the features the design will have to have, first then starting the design itself can actually help the design phase ?
Can be:
NON functional requirements --> real world physical structure satisfying the requirements (like prototype) --> design ?
This could be applied I suppose just to very high level non functional requirements that state HOW the system should behave and at the same time, they are responsible for deciding actually the architecture design.
Design first, design archetype first ?
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Cooperative intelligence, cooperative knowledge and social abstractions of swarm patterns
Correct.: intelligence and knowledge, what is the relationship between these two "pivots" ? What's the interaction among swarm model, knowledge, intelligence ?
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Introducing parameters' factory and registry support
public class Test extends Observable implements Observer{
public void
long hearBeatYeldPause = 1000;
long heartBeatsNumber =
String parameterName = "fuel";
dynamicParameterDecresingImpl = null;
dynamicParameterDecresingImpl =
for(int i =0; i < 102;
* @param
public static void main(String[] args) {
Test test = new
public void update(Observable
observable, Object arg1) {
System.out.println("UPDATE RECEIVED by " +
observable.toString() + "");
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Associating objects in the virtualization lab, with effects on the simulation vehicle
Boxes (square boxes, but by now these are the only present) are OBSTACLES
Capsules are FUEL REFILLS
Spheres... hmmm... could be "unknown effect", to impact to check ? Dunno yet. Let's wait they are needed.
Monday, August 11, 2008
How fuel changes
Fuel tank collisions, refuelling sample:
Fuel is blinking RED sample:
Why dynamic parameters ?
A thread running an algorithm to change a value can be whatever in the context of a mechanical (only ?) system simulation. It is feasible to imagine fuel, decreasing, in a "threaded" autonomous way, while time passes, with a define model of variation. With the code done, and the interface foreseeing the capability to receive a "set" of the parameter name (that's the parameter nature of course, eg: fuel), it can be reused. The observer/observable double mutual pattern, collision with fuel tanks can be notified to the parameter thread, and fuel increased. Thus establishing a relation between the value, changing by itself, and what happens in the virtual environment. Every new parameter, with its own meaning add more virtual devices and multiplicity to the simulation scenario, increasing the number of data types.
A virtual parameter with a thread in its soul, to simulate a new range of virtual sensors, based on the changing of a value, like fuel
Parameters threshold for colors:
DynamicParameter factory (actually only the DEcreasing impl is available):
Paradigm interface for this entity:
The decreasing (and the only written up to now) impl:
To try just use these lines of test class:
import java.util.Observable;
import java.util.Observer;
import it.free.i.virtual.machine.hal.devicealias.laboratory.simulator.dynamicparameter.*;
public class Prova extends Observable implements Observer{
public Prova(){
private void init(){
long hearBeatYeldPause = 1000;
DynamicParameter dynamicParameterDecresingImpl = new DynamicParameterDecreasingImpl(this);
dynamicParameterDecresingImpl.setHeartBeat(100, hearBeatYeldPause);
Thread daemonThread = new Thread(dynamicParameterDecresingImpl);
try {
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
for(int i =0; i < 102; i++){
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
* @param args
public static void main(String[] args) {
Prova prova = new Prova();
public void update(Observable observable, Object arg1) {
System.out.println("UPDATE RECEIVED by " + observable.toString() + "");
Monday, July 07, 2008
Composable information unit 3D shape definition goes through single dimension abstraction definition
Last built hardware testing platform
It is possible to see details about the board and the java runtime at http://www.rtjcom.com/6811/gpc114.html. The motherboard is instead visible, here: http://taiwan.advantech.com.tw/support/sr_detail.asp?SR_ID=1%2BGE%2B1057. The problem is always the same, buy hardware after you know exactly the software requirements. Also when hardware is very interesting and an excuse is needed to have it, just because it has on board a 16MB disk on chip storage (DOC2000). A note on the "vision" system: the CCD was mounted inside a thermal insulation provided box with a Peltier cell just behind the bottom of the camera box. This because the intent was to keep cold the CCD and perceive infra red frequecies in few enlightened environments, making a bigger difference between the internal camera box temperature and the external world temperature. Simple pattern recognition was performed using PNG image files captured by a digital parallel port converter, connected to the analogue camera output.
This prototype name was "virgola", "comma" in English
(Every trademark is of its own properietary)
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Title for the previous post
Intelligence extraction and internal to external driven mutation, in a vitualized swarm equipped system.
About the importance of social relationship between virtual swarm entities, in the economy of the intelligence extraction from whole swarm behaviour
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Collision detection
I changed the vehicle demo adding a callback for the collision. For sure collisions detected by the jbullet API layer, will have to cause an unsolicited message post from the virtual sensor port to the decision maker layer, inside the system. Position is instead read on demand with solicited port read commands, from the system decision maker to the virtual sensor port.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
I'm using jbullet from http://jbullet.advel.cz/
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Components provided by device, device alias implementations
Monday, May 05, 2008
Details: from HAL to inof units device independent data representation
Sunday, May 04, 2008
A question about intelligence models
intelligence is the way of solving propblems using the best patterns, is intelligence itself a pattern to analyze and solve problems ? This doesn't want to appear as a pun, but, if this is true, so intelligence could be "taught" like every other "mechanism", design the mechanism and intelligence will not be anymore something special. Yes, we are still in the artificial intelligence toys context, and this is still a game, but this is maybe what is happening when trying to design an intelligent system: the draftsman copy its algorithm, or the algorithm he thinks to be intelligence, inside the system object of the design phase he is facing with. Does this mean that the only possible "intelligence model" is the human one ? So success in producing a non linear (that for me it means somehow intelligent) algorithm is "just" producing the most possible human-like one. What a pity, it could be so interesting to face with a model of intelligence, that is completely unknown.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Simple class from jbullet modified just for a quick and dirty feasibility test.
// Decompiled by Jad v1.5.8g. Copyright 2001 Pavel Kouznetsov.
// Jad home page: http://www.kpdus.com/jad.html
// Decompiler options: packimports(3)
// Source File Name: Basic2Demo.java
package javabullet.demos.basic;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javabullet.collision.broadphase.BroadphaseInterface;
import javabullet.collision.broadphase.SimpleBroadphase;
import javabullet.collision.dispatch.CollisionDispatcher;
import javabullet.collision.dispatch.DefaultCollisionConfiguration;
import javabullet.collision.shapes.*;
import javabullet.demos.opengl.*;
import javabullet.dynamics.*;
import javabullet.dynamics.constraintsolver.ConstraintSolver;
import javabullet.dynamics.constraintsolver.SequentialImpulseConstraintSolver;
import javabullet.linearmath.*;
import javax.vecmath.Vector3f;
import org.lwjgl.LWJGLException;
public class Basic2Demo extends DemoApplication
RigidBody body2 = null;
private static final int MAX_SHAPE_SIZE = 1;
public Basic2Demo(IGL gl)
collisionShapes = new ArrayList();
public void clientMoveAndDisplay()
if(body2 != null){
System.out.println("# box: x=" + body2.getCenterOfMassPosition().x + " y=" + body2.getCenterOfMassPosition().y + " z=" + body2.getCenterOfMassPosition().z + " linear velocity=" + body2.getLinearVelocity());
float ms = clock.getTimeMicroseconds();
if(dynamicsWorld != null)
dynamicsWorld.stepSimulation(ms / 1000000F);
public void displayCallback()
if(dynamicsWorld != null)
public void initPhysics()
collisionConfiguration = new DefaultCollisionConfiguration();
dispatcher = new CollisionDispatcher(collisionConfiguration);
//Vector3f worldAabbMin = new Vector3f(-10000F, -10000F, -10000F);
//Vector3f worldAabbMax = new Vector3f(10000F, 10000F, 10000F);
overlappingPairCache = new SimpleBroadphase(1149);
SequentialImpulseConstraintSolver sol = new SequentialImpulseConstraintSolver();
solver = sol;
dynamicsWorld = new DiscreteDynamicsWorld(dispatcher, overlappingPairCache, solver, collisionConfiguration);
dynamicsWorld.setGravity(new Vector3f(0.0F, -10F, 0.0F));
CollisionShape groundShape = new StaticPlaneShape(new Vector3f(0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F), 50F);
Transform groundTransform = new Transform();
groundTransform.origin.set(0.0F, -56F, 0.0F);
float mass = 0.0F;
boolean isDynamic = mass != 0.0F;
Vector3f localInertia = new Vector3f(0.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);
groundShape.calculateLocalInertia(mass, localInertia);
DefaultMotionState myMotionState = new DefaultMotionState(groundTransform);
RigidBodyConstructionInfo rbInfo = new RigidBodyConstructionInfo(mass, myMotionState, groundShape, localInertia);
RigidBody body = new RigidBody(rbInfo);
CollisionShape colShape = new BoxShape(new Vector3f(1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F));
//CollisionShape colShape = new SphereShape(30F);
//CollisionShape colShape = new CylinderShape(new Vector3f(1.0F, 1.0F, 1.0F));
Transform startTransform = new Transform();
float mass2 = 1.0F;
boolean isDynamic2 = mass2 != 0.0F;
Vector3f localInertia2 = new Vector3f(0.0F, 0.0F, 0.0F);
colShape.calculateLocalInertia(mass2, localInertia2);
float start_x = -7F;
float start_y = -5F;
float start_z = -5F;
for(int k = 0; k <>
for(int i = 0; i <>
for(int j = 0; j <>
startTransform.origin.set(2.0F * (float)i + start_x, 2.0F * (float)k + start_y, 2.0F * (float)j + start_z);
DefaultMotionState myMotionState2 = new DefaultMotionState(startTransform);
RigidBodyConstructionInfo rbInf2 = new RigidBodyConstructionInfo(mass2, myMotionState2, colShape, localInertia2);
body2 = new RigidBody(rbInf2);
public static void main(String args[])
throws LWJGLException
Basic2Demo ccdDemo = new Basic2Demo(LWJGL.getGL());
ccdDemo.getDynamicsWorld().setDebugDrawer(new GLDebugDrawer(LWJGL.getGL()));
LWJGL.main(args, 800, 600, "Bullet Physics Demo. http://bullet.sf.net", ccdDemo);
private static final int ARRAY_SIZE_X = 5;
private static final int ARRAY_SIZE_Y = 5;
private static final int ARRAY_SIZE_Z = 5;
private static final int MAX_PROXIES = 1149;
private static final int START_POS_X = -5;
private static final int START_POS_Y = -5;
private static final int START_POS_Z = -3;
private List collisionShapes;
private BroadphaseInterface overlappingPairCache;
private CollisionDispatcher dispatcher;
private ConstraintSolver solver;
private DefaultCollisionConfiguration collisionConfiguration;
OK HORRIBLE NIGHTLY BUILT FIX but doing so, Doc Mud has his numbers in the meanwhile:
numbers are like these:
# box: x=-5.2613173 y=-5.000006 z=-5.6992044 linear velocity=(7.113341, 2.5081635E-4, -1.8705462)
# box: x=-5.1365914 y=-5.0000033 z=-5.7320027 linear velocity=(7.483558, 1.6021729E-4, -1.9678993)
# box: x=-5.0183263 y=-5.0000024 z=-5.7619495 linear velocity=(7.095896, 6.771088E-5, -1.7968078)
# box: x=-4.905269 y=-5.0000014 z=-5.78896 linear velocity=(6.783436, 6.9618225E-5, -1.6206144)
# box: x=-4.726717 y=-5.211472 z=-5.7739735 linear velocity=(10.713142, -12.6882305, 0.8991995)
# box: x=-4.6235833 y=-5.126884 z=-5.765317 linear velocity=(6.1880307, 5.0752907, 0.5193877)
# box: x=-4.511769 y=-5.0761304 z=-5.755932 linear velocity=(6.7088833, 3.04521, 0.5631053)
# box: x=-4.3964 y=-5.045679 z=-5.7462482 linear velocity=(6.9221334, 1.8270884, 0.5810045)
# box: x=-4.3964 y=-5.045679 z=-5.7462482 linear velocity=(6.9221334, 1.8270884, 0.5810045)This is an easy, funny fast way to produce numbers to infer with a new intelligent prototype for the swarm-i hig level logic.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Graphical generation of test data for the system
to gnerate test numbers to let you play with high level (this.)system intelligence design, can we use povray ? No, he suggested blender3d and jbullet. This to allow us to use a physic simulation library, to go through a software design of the sample. The sample will run producing the numbers for the tests. Result should be: we will design the cube and add its physic features, for example a cube falling down, then capture the numbers we need. Ah ? :)
I dunno yet if it is feasibile (too night to test it now and tomorrow it is another bloody monday), but doing so, while you move your cube here running in the same jvm of the "system", postion of the cube is sent to the dummy devices (in real) time, these will post back to the virtual world values read, and transform what you do here on the guy, into composable information units !! Then it will be possible to apply different algorithm to collate composable information unit and have some experiment scenarios. Good lab to play.
PS: on http://jbullet.advel.cz/ try to run the demos. They are very interesting.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Data samples to infer high level abstraction logic ?
Example: with the virtual space simulation it should be possible to define a cube, or a face of a cube, and ask for some coordinates that fit the rule to belong from the cube surface, or from one cube surface, or... or...
This could complete the lab environment.
Doc Mud, your opinion please :)
Monday, March 24, 2008
Boxing infos and what will be "swarm-ed"
what about if the unit of the swarm is a behaviour of the system at a "t" instant ? What is a system behaviour ? A system behaviour is the collections of all the input and output performed by the system at that "t" time. Swarming should help in deciding what behaviours can be associated togheter to bring system to success. What is system success ? System success is bigger when the system is closer to the fullfillment of its needs. How could we define needs ? They are just simple master-rules or "perfect pre built" behavioural "trends" for the system itself. Now for the code is time to go versus data boxing, to bring to the upper logic subsystem the information to compute in a non linear way.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Info unit flattening eterogeneity and incapsulated specificity ?
a camera sensor could produce numbers, as pixels, or the whole image could be an info unit. In this case the info unit could be for example the context, the meaning of the whole image, and pixels as info units (1 pxel as 1 inof unit) could be useless. This is what I mean when I use the term of "incapsulated complexity".
New implementation diagrams
Friday, March 14, 2008
Recap and status update
First: define the distance between reality and the intelligence that have to understand reality
Second: provide abstraction for the level of complexity the system will digest
Third: design the "gnoseologia", whose translation in English I don't know, I'm sorry
Fourth: define subsystems, the low level layers abstracting the world or delivering infos to the intelligence upper-subsystem is essential and must be suitable for the target of the project in terms of functionalities and non functional features.
Note: system design try normalize data received by hardware abstracted, acting also like a normalized message router. This because common units can be manipulated when they are all flatted down to the same type of object (for the code, it will be the same interface).
Status of coding: as suggested by doc mud, the two observer/observable patterns have been replaced by a jmx implementation. Parts missing are:
From the virtual device alias ports, data must be rendered as generalized abstracted information units.
The intelligent agent, that will act like the class provided for this pourpose in order to have a sample: it.free.i.virtual.machine.hal.devicealias.laboratory.DocMudImpersonatorWorker
Sunday, March 02, 2008
LDAP as a jndi provider: this allow an easy view and management of configuration , in a centralized way. Easy to view, easy to understand
I'm going to post now two views of the jndi repository tree, keeping the software identities being part of the system hardware abstraction layer. Code on the google site is now mature up to this.
UML diagram of the hardware abstraction layer, up to now and nightly built
Friday, February 29, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
New hypothesis
this peripatetic way to approach a discussion about a theory, is easy and allow to fix ideas before they go away. Listen to this approach.
Let's assume we have shots of the systems at time t0, t1, t2, tn. All the information units captured at time t0, t1, t2, tn are chained by a common factor, the capture time. So we would have:
chain of units capured at t0, let's call it Ct0
chain of units capured at t1, let's call it Ct1
chain of units capured at t2, let's call it Ct2
chain of units capured at tn, let's call it Ctn
every chain is a entity. Now, except for lots of experiences collected by every individual, what makes an actual "behaviour" for an entity is a "trend" in acting. Let's assume that a system collect pieces of experiences as our theory says: scanning the system at time t0, t1, t2, tn, but until there is not correlation between these small experiences, there is no bahaviour. Now: what happens if the system tries to link together Ct0, Ct1, Ct2, Ctn in several empiric way, where only succesfull chains of chains are succesfull ? Assume that a chain is not only made by values read from virtualized sensors but also by value written on virtualized actuators (why a shot should be only made up of read value ?). Let's assume that the system core has a population of relations between t-chains. If this problem is migrated in a competitive genetic context, only links that are succesfull will survive.
Note: an info unit is an abstraction of an INPUT or OUTPUT agnostic piece of information, part of ONE experience the system had a t time. The knowledge shape (as we imagine a knowledge base as a multi dimensional space) is made up of relations. Relations constitute the population of a genetic compuational model. The fitness function is empiric, at is just a calculation of the success of Ct0,1,2,n linke in different way. Direct feedback from the system will help in correcting the links between micro chains (Ct0, Ct1, Ct2, Ctn). This will add information composition, that is relevant in terms of system response quality. There is a way to experiment this approach and create a perfect model to train and measure (take this as a reference model) the system. It could also be built by code. I'm going to describe my idea of perfect model success, where T-chains linking has been completed successfully:
take a ball, a virtual ball. Put it inside a box, a square box. The ball is the system covered on its surface with sensors, virtualized abstracted sensors. Move the ball-system applying a small force. The ball will bounce on a surface inside of the box where it is contained at time t0. After the bounce at t0, the ball will move in the box and bounce somewhere else in the box, at time t1. This again and and again at t2, tn. The ball can read bumpers and regulate, measure also its velocity and direction. Well, if the ball-system will be able to correlate this info units-chains captured via shots at t0, t1, t2, tn, at a certain point the ball, will stop itself far from every box wall, maybe at the centre of the box volume. Crazy idea, but, what happens if the system if applied to this experiment and the difference (in a mteric system, on every coordinate axis) between the perfect centre of the virtual volume and the position of the ball driven by the real system, is the measure of the quality of the response ?
An idea...
Welcome doc Mud.
Godzilla :]
Info linking architecture design slowing down
In the meanwhile, the low level tiers of the code are going on, new classes are going to be added and development will stop after that the code will be at the point of being able able to provide the simulation labs. This because the abstraction is decoupled from any other component.
Remember, code is growing at:
code on google svn
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Logical system architecture nightly build. Please, read me again tomorrow morning.
Informations producer is always the virtual swarm made up of info units priduced by virtual devices.
The information consumer is the logic using the swarm of inormation unit to compose the system knowledge base shape (called shape as we like to think to this code object as a 3D space reshaping every time it is enriched with experience).
Delegating to a proxy between the info producer and the info consumer, the logic used to manipulate available info units to enrich a knowledge base can be changed without redrawing the info producer. Less system parts to rewrite in case of error, more time earned. Hmm more than a computing model can be applied to the swarm in order to make comparison and change the system computing model. It will be necessaru ti ad some more drawing.
Recap on the fly:
Physical devices are abstracted by the virtual world, via an HAL impl.
Every real device is forwarded inside the reality of the virtual world via a virtual device alias, to decouple, generalize, allow testing and data mutation/inijection
Every device alias has n channels, one for each port it has on the physical device it is mapping. Every device alias is registered in a suitable logic repository.
Every channel is registered in a repository, almost the same it happens for virtual devices.
At a t time, the system read all the channels that are INPUT capable, as all the channels "observe" the same observer-notifier.
This, via the channel repository, will cause all the virtual device channels to wake up, read (if they can) and communicate a generalized and channel and device independent DTO, keeping the value found and the read metadata.
All these infos-DTO will be a shot of the system
Every inofmation unit generated and part of a shot will be activated becoming a bee of a virtual swarm in a virtual beehive.
When an information unit DTO is activated (let's say because it implements a Runnable paradigm as well), it becomes a bee too.
Polymorphism on info unit makes it possible that an info unit is also a thread worker and when activated is it a bee.
This is the information producer subsystem
A proxy for the bee swarm computing logic act with bee creating info units/bees and hiding the algorithm build a polymer of informations/bees that cause the system knowledge base to reshape. System knowledge base is enriched by an hidden login working with the virtalized swarm.
Good night.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Analysis via context migration, this to define the way composable information units build structured information space
Information units are bees of a virtual swarm: [info unit] -> [DTO for data linking and association] -> [runnable DTO ?] -> [bee]
All the information units created in a shot makes a chain and this is a generation.
The fact that in a shot all the information units (-> bees) have been created at the same shot time "t" is extremely relevant. This says that the approach of considering timed shots capturing is coherent with the rest of te theory.
Let's go to see your post doc mud, but the fusion of genetic programming on a virtualized swarm computing model needs more care.
DTO domains separation
Change problem context, moving it (the problem) in a more comfortable one (context)
Composable info unit composition, message from doctor Mud needs a response
As I hate cold numbers, let's proceed with a pure qualitative approach, and let's extract the number at the end, from the running prototype, just to evaluate the prototype success and quality.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Code is here, growing slowly with theory
- The system will be made up of a virtual system able to generalize and reduce the order of magnitude of informations coming from the environment where the system has been put. The virtual system is important because the target of this blog and game, is to obtain (also if simple) a system running for a proof of concept. This could be also an evolutionary prototype in a reiterative incremental developement model, if the system will be interesting.
- Actuators will be abstracted in the same way, via virtual devices, speaking from a virtualized simplified reality versus the external real world. The intent of the virtual world is to generalize and simplify, abstracting and decoupling system tiers.
- An hadrware abstraction layer able to generalize a generic device interface and the I/O calls to the underlaying hardware layer. An inventory object will implment a visitor pattern and load all the interfaces/device abstractors.
- Every virtualized sensor/actuator will produce an abstracted basic simple unit of information. This will be a sort of DTO able to carry the value received/transmitted, the type of operation (I or O), the name of the virtualized device that generated or processed data. Every device has one or more communication channel. This because every virtual device (or device mapper, or device alias) can have more then one only access to hardware resources. Every device has one or more channel.
- The system try to use swarm computing, but the swarm will be made up of software bee, in a virtual beehive. Every bee of this virtual swarm computing will be the previosly described basic unit of information. This DTO will be an anomalous DTO pattern implementation, cause it will be also a worker for a dedicated thread. The DTO of the piece of information built by a virtual device, will run autonomously to link with other information unit, building chains of information units. Chains can be linked toghether, to obtain longer chains. This will be the virtual swarm computing model for this system theory.
- With a given frequency the virtual system state of all the virtual devices mapped on the virtual world, will be captured in a sort of virtual devices shot.
- This will be a collection of unit of informations running everyone as a stand alone thread and build link-correlation with other information unit and with other chains of information units.
- Let's call the group of information units captured in a cycle of reading virtual devices status, simply a "shot".
The system has three states and three different names:
1 Shot of the system. At a certain time all the virtual devices status are captured and some information units are created. This is the system shot. This is the question the system must provide an answer with, before becoming part of the system experience.
2 System shot is digested and the "n" DTOs composing this shots (DTOs are composable information units) are animated as threads. These threads are all bee of the virtual swarm that live in the virtual beehive.
3 Shot has been digested and more and more links are built in terms of association with other information units and chains of information units. This will cause longer information units' chains to be built.
Code is growing (slowly) here:
Non functional requirement notes
1 Time requested to produce an output, after that the system has succesfully received, validated , accepted the input data.
2 Assumed an IDEAL perfect answer for the input given at point 1, it is possible to define the difference between the perfect IDEAL answer and the REAL answer produced by the real system. The difference can be evaluated for simple systems whose values can be obtained in any metric reference system.
Let's assume that there is a functional dependency between the time taken to produce the answer and the answer quality:
As the target of this experiment is to obtain a sort of answer, let's slow down the system.
As the parameters to define the system response are two, it could be interesting to choose parameter 1 as quality parameter to reduce. Let's state: it is possible to have a system that takes a some time to produce a response.
Because the system works with some information correlation technology (building a virtual swarm of info elements that need correlation) let's reduce the response time and give time to the info correlation phase to build deeper links. Let's analize now for a while, what happens limiting the time used to performe information correlation. With less time to scan composable information unit chains, links that will be build will be mainly "surface" immediate links. Let's say simpler links. Giving more time to information unit/information chains correlation, the links produced will be "deeper", more in numer, more complex. This is interesting as it is possible to have a view of the meaning of the generally valid function:
if we state that:
3 Number of guaranted and quality fixed responses per time unit
This because according to the needs of the system produced data consumer, it could be better to have a constant number of response per time unit, OR a constant response quality, no matter the response time. This, of course, is a matter of usage of the systemn designed. If the relation assumed is corrected, it should not be difficult for a system provide with a quality feedback agent, to auto-regulate the time spent to link information units, and the depth of links built. This in order to handle the oscillations of the two main parameters. Let's assume, so, another function (if hardware capacity is a fixed constant):
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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My favourite anime are:
1) Saiyuki
2) Chrono Crusade
3) Witch Hunter Robin
4) Yami no Matsuei ( Descendents of Darkness)
5) Gravitation
6) XXXHolic
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8) Vampire Knight
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10) Hatenko Yugi (Dazzle)
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2) After School Nightmare
3) Saiyuki
4) Legal Drug
5) Vampire Knight
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7) XXXHolic
8) Ghost Hunt
9) Tactics
10) Hatenko Yugi (Dazzle)
A note to all my dutiful readers
I am very busy person and am unlikely to be consistent with the times I put my chapters also my writing muses do decide to give me a case of writers block every now and then as well ( must be cause I don't appreciate them enough)
However I do try and work on a story every night so I should hopefully be able to put chapters up at least twice a month which should please you (I hope)
The woman with green eyes chapter 3 –lesson
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Had 2 Simoncinis to date, (July 2017) the first being this Super Record with lugged Columbus Max tubing.
First Italian bike also. Good start?
Lovely machine.
It came to me (from a skip. Thanks Peter; ) damaged but repairable. Was always too small for me, but it turned into a most beautiful machine in the end.
Columbus Max will always be sculpture in steel, if you ask me.
Second Simoncini is this alloy & carbon frame bought for 'a song' off of ebay. From around 2003 it is an excellent example of the transition from steel to carbon. Columbus Altec triple butted alloy main-frame, with carbon Columbus Carve ends. It's a lot lighter than it looks with the big section tubing. Currently away for a refinish at Madgetts in Norfolk. (who also refinished the other one: )
Got it back today (17th November 2014) & built it up to see what it looks like… I love the crimson against the cream Ultremos. Needs details sorting for me, but a cream bar wrap & saddle might just be the next step, or two. More pics when I get my camera doing what I want it to do: )
Great result from Madgetts. Thanks Mick: )
Will get appropriate decals shortly & will then look better. It rides beautifully for me & I love it: )
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First casino crime case
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THE first man to be investigated by the Casino Crime Investigation Branch for casino-related crimes was brought to court on Wednesday.
Loo Siew Nan, 53, is accused of five offences of attempted cheating, cheating by personation, theft and giving false information to the police.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
At least the first to try cheating at the table is a Singaporean!
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Gautier Paulin on spot, MX Valence 2012
"It was a good day for us, even if the results are not very important in a pre season race. There was no pressure, we came there to prepare the season and do several tests. The riders got their bike this week, and a race is always the best place to made adjustments. We were pleased to meet this weekend some of our partners, such as representatives from Dunlop or Celtibero Racing Components, a company which provide us engine supports made of Olimunllum®, a structural carbon composite. Next week we'll go to Hawkstone Park, it will be a first test on a sandy track."
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Thursday, May 25, 2006
i just felt the need to tell you that "turn the page" by metallica is the best cover version ever, it's better than the original song
the top 5 are
1- "turn the page" Metallica covering Bob Seger
2- "word up" Gun covering Cameo
3- "knocking on heaven's door" Adam Sandler Parodying/mocking Axl Rose ( i know not a real cover but funny as hell)
4- "romeo and Juiliet" Indido Girls covering Dire Straits ( actually both versions were sweet, and indigo girls also covered "i don't wanna talk about it" by everything but the girl better than the original)
and last but certainly not least
5- My best friend (MF)'s egyptian version of Afroman's "because i got high"
cuz i got high, becuz i got high, becoz i got hiiiiigh (wenta sakraan, wenta kharbaan, wenta sakraaaaan)
p.s the movie "rent" has a very nice soundtrack but u need to watch the movie first, rosario dawson, hmmm... i think i'm in love
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- Sand-E Sez said...
I liked Rent... It's too bad i didn't make it intime to the theatre to see it performed live but that opening song is one of those where the tune sticks to your head but the words escape you.It sort of makes singing it a bit tricky.
- May 25, 2006 9:01 PM
- Alluring said...
I just wanted to say welcome back ya koko ;)
- May 26, 2006 12:20 AM
- Mando said...
u ever heard "i smoke two joints" by bob marley??
ur friend might like it too if he likes "beause i got high"
anyway rent is awesome, i saw the musical play in the Shaftesbury Theatre in london a couple of years ago.
didnt really get the chance to see the movie, but might give it a go once i have more time on my hands.
- May 26, 2006 3:26 AM
- KareemFromEgypt said...
524,600 minutes (seasons of love)
i am listening to it right now, the cast has amazing voices
thanks ya lolo
i heard of it, used to have it before my computer crashed. i had the cover version by sublime too
saw the play huh? niceeeee
if you attend plays in london u might want to check out mamma mia. i'm not an ABBA fan but i still enjoyed it tremendously
see the movie it's cool and rosario dawson kicks serious, major league ass
- May 26, 2006 8:56 AM
- johny bravo said...
i understand perfectly nothing from what you wrote here,,all are unfamiliar to me since I dont listen to that music & didnt watch that movie:) but I caoncluded that you're probably drunk while writing this:)
- May 26, 2006 10:21 PM
- Cup of Malice said...
Raghood, Don't mind the K man, he has a deep seeded (or is that seated) desire to be esoteric and archaic.
I believe that it stems from his near philia of the 'huh?' sound. He also thinks that citing bands with a fan base consistent of themselves makes him smarter and therefore more physically desireable.
K, it still doesn't work!!!
- May 27, 2006 7:32 AM
- KareemFromEgypt said...
Raghood: me? drunk? well...
that wasn't the reason for writing this bas i was indeed highly dandy
COP: it's a deep seated belief as in "el fekra" sat in ur brain and doesn't wanna budge :)
a fan base consistent of themselves LOL
i missed u too Cup Of Malice
- May 27, 2006 3:46 PM
- N said...
Thank you for number 4. I thank you truly. Almost no one i know will even think of listening to anyone sing Romeo and Juliet other than dire straits no matter how much i swear that it is way more powerful.
Thank you!
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Business studies project:
A simple research on marketing service "rent a car"
Project work submitted by:
Faiza yousaf
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For class XII course (2012-2013)
Supervised by: Ms.Komathi.J
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This project is designed so as to be used by Car Rental Company specializing in renting cars to customers. It is a system through which customers can book cars for rent according to their likings and preferences Introduction
A car rental or car hire agency is a company that rents automobiles for short periods of time (generally ranging from a few hours to a few weeks) for a fee. It is often organized with numerous local branches (which allow a user to return a vehicle to a different location), and primarily located near airports or busy city areas and often complemented by a website allowing online reservations. Car rental agencies primarily serve people who have a car that is temporarily out of reach or out of service, for example travelers who are out of town or owners of damaged or destroyed vehicles who are awaiting repair or insurance compensation. Because of the variety of sizes of their vehicles, car rental agencies may also serve the self-moving industry needs, by renting vans or trucks, and in certain markets other types of vehicles such as motorcycles or scooters may also be offered. Alongside the basic rental of a vehicle, car rental agencies typically also offer extra products such as insurance, global positioning system (GPS) navigation systems, entertainment systems, and even such things as mobile phones.
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