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Another WAwineman classic, 1st posted on July 28, 2010:
Damn Orygun, they keep lowering the standard… Oregon State Police have issued a missing cat alert after the feline crawled between the brake and accelerator of its owner's moving SUV, causing the vehicle to roll and hit a tree, then ran away into a nearby forest. A Florida great-granny got her purse stolen at a gas station but bit the assailant then hung on to the getaway car until police caught up with the thieves. Think I'll invest in some Polident next time I fill 'er up. And, we made it to 100 days. One hon-nurd days of that lame oil spill out there in the Gulf of south Los Angeles. Think I'll fire up the old 8-cylinder Ford Bronco to celebrate.
Well, this was an accidental milestone achieved by yours meekly. While a more focused loser could have done this in about 3 months (on the wineman's clock), this took me exactly 2 and ½ years to accomplish. What is it? It's the world's first buy-'bibe-and blog dude's completion of the Washington Wines Alpha List. Yakima River, (Y), is the final letter to complete the alphabet, A to Z. From Abeja to Zero One Vintners, this bucko has completed the Washington Winery Alphabet. The more difficult letters were: I (Isenhower Cellars), Q (Quilceda Creek), U (Upland Estates), and X (XSV). If I was a betting man (and I yam), I would have put my money on the letter U since: (1) there's only one winery occupying that space, and (2) up until this year, Upland Estates was only available in eastern WA. A special thanks goes out to Todd Newhouse, the father of the Snipes Mountain AVA, for giving his bottles to distributors so that Albertson's supermarkets could fulfill my request.
Yakima River Winery is the oldest winery you have not ever heard about. The label was bonded in 1977, and is currently the fourth oldest WA winery in eastern WA, after National Wine Company aka Nawico aka Stimson Lane Vineyards and Estates (Chateau Ste. Michelle) est. 1934, Hinzerling Winery of Prosser (est. 1976), and Leonetti Cellar (est. 1977). YRW's first wines debuted in 1978.
John and Louise Rauner have run the operation since its inception. John is "self-taught," although he did take classes at Columbia Basin College and UC-Davis. Of controversy, John spent six years under the tutelage of Germany's Helmut Becker, known by some as the "Father of the Washington Wine Industry." John's production of several thousand cases belies the technology used at the winery. An efficient layout, along with controlled fermentation tanks, computerized crusher and filtration equipment, keeps the fixed costs at a minimum so that his wines can reach more consumers.
John uses strictly Yakima Valley grapes under total management contracts. The vineyards are all above 1000 feet elevation and spread between Benton City and Grandview. He focuses on small berry development to provide the concentrated fruit characteristics his wines are known for. The winery's only "estate" vineyard is a small experimental plot of petit verdot.
Along with strict fruit management, John also adheres to a rigid cooperage program, introducing 50-70% new barrels and the remainder being 2 year-old barrels. His wines typically see 3 years in barrel and 1 year in bottle. He uses Redoux as his French and Hungarian cooper along with Vogues, while preferring Minnesota and Wisconsin oak for the "coconut richness and brown spices." He believes these specific oaks complement his wines to enhance the fruit by lengthening its flavors and contributing to its firm structure. His best customers have assisted with comments from their annual July 4th tasting at the winery. All the barrels are built from staves air-dried for 3 years and receive a medium toast.
Yakima River Winery's current lineup offers a dolcetto rose, two ports, shiraz, malbec, cab-mer, petit verdot, and the flagship merlot. Yeah…shiraz, not syrah.
Sadly, Yakima River Winery's wines have been disappearing from store shelves not due to demand, but from a lack of demand. Fred Meyer recently closed-out YRW's merlots for a bargain-basement price of under $15 and this cabernet is the next to go. Why? Why are savvy wine consumers not supporting this winery? No vibe? Not paying-to-play? Too old? A good wine is a good wine, regardless of the name or the celebrity-factor, and why no one else is writing about the wines from this elder member of the WA winery community is a sobering reminder of how far we have yet to explore Washington's wine history.
Tonight's food pairing was a dandy from Pasta Nova in Woodinville. My dish was filled with Tim Blue's (Adams Bench Winery) chicken cacciatore along with a red-sauced pasta, prefaced with the standard-but-done-oh-so-well salad and breadsticks. As expected, this 2004 cabernet was very tame but loaded with fruit and a touch of oak. A good pairing but the food probably would have been better served with Adams Bench 'Ursula' sangiovese.
Deeply extracted black purple colors (from spending 14 days on the lees) lead the senses to whiffs of mellow oak and black fruit aromas. Full-bodied with grippy flavors of nuanced oak, blackberries, black cherry, black plum, plush tannins, cloves and a hint of brown herbs. John states the terroir creates flavors of nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Tasted at 55-69 degrees on the IR temp gun over 2 and ½ hours.
Alcohol: 12.5% (amazing!). At harvest: 25.0 Brix, pH 3.4, TA 0.76. Aged 3 years in 50% French, 50% USA. At bottling: TA 0.70. Bottled June, 2007. RS 0%. First two digits of UPC code is 08 (USA/Canada). Strange dark residue in bottle. WWQA wine. Rated: 90. Value: $19. Paid: $16. Music pairing: "Love Is Strange" by Mickey and Sylvia. This is WAwineman…uncorked, uneducated but not uncouth.


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Part of me is hesitant to start this post--the superstitious baseball part, that is. Since I started the first line, the Mets have scored two runs with nobody out. Maybe I can relax.
The Mets got off to a slow start, but have now won six in a row, nine of their last 10 games, and pulled within a half game of the Nationals.
As I paused in writing this post to watch the game, the Mets have scored the most runs in an inning in their 54 year history with 12.
Mets are up 12-0 at the end of the third. The highlight: a grand slam from Yoenis Cespedes--he drove in six runs that inning.
This team is for real.


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These 'about me' sections, or even sections that inform you about blogs, have never been my forte. Much to my chagrin, I was never taught the unwritten rules of what you are supposed to say. The links at the side of the blog – Twitter and Goodreads, for example – are liable to tell you more than I could ever say in words.
Mostly, this will be a book blog. I read a lot, and I love to share my views on my most recent reads. I try to read a little bit of everything, but if you look closely you'll notice I will occasionally become obsessed with one specific genre for a short period of time. Old books, new books, yet to be released books – I read them all. If you're an author looking for advance readers or just wish for more reviews of a book you've already released, please feel free to contact me. There is a contact form at the side of my blog – if you scroll down below the Twitter and Goodreads sidebar you will find it – so drop me a message and I'll be sure to get back to you in double time. After all, finding new authors is what makes the book world go around.
Thanks for taking your time to read this. With a little bit of luck, you will find my blog much more interesting than this mundane introductory section.
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Review: Church
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I'm going to be upfront by saying this isn't a full four star rating from me. I opted to round up because I was truly addicted to this one, but in all honesty I wasn't as crazy about it as I had hoped to be. I cannot deny that I enjoyed it; I simply found it wasn't quite all I had hoped it would be.
Church has as similar premise to quite a few book in this genre. We have the influential businessman with a dark past, intense sexual desires, and a personality nobody would ever want to love; we also have the virgin female lead who manages to fall into his trap. I'll admit that the coming together of these characters was an interesting change to the norm, but I wasn't quite convinced by the reactions the characters had to the events that transpired. It was a nice change to what I'm accustomed to, yet I felt as though the way people responded wasn't quite all it should have been. I expected there to be something more in terms of denial or fighting, instead it seemed as though people rolled with this highly unlikely event with ease.
I know it's fiction, so these things always will never be what you expect to see in everyday life; nonetheless, I would have liked for it to have a bit more in terms of complex decision making to make it feel more real to me. This, in part, is largely due to my reading preferences within the genre. I always favour such reads when I truly connect with the characters and the choices they made, with this one I found some of the actions a little bit hard to get behind.
Nevertheless, I was addicted to the story as it played out. I was intrigued to see how events would come together, and how all the details of the story would reach fruition. I never quite fell in love with our main characters in the way I had hoped to, yet that failed to lessen my enjoyment of their story. I appreciated what they had, even if I was not shipping it in the way other fans will. Not to mention, when the story became steamy, I was more than happy to overlook my misgivings regarding the characters.
Overall, I was thoroughly addicted to this one. It was another of those one sit reads, one I managed to finish in the space of a couple of hours through my need to see how things played out. Without a doubt, I'll be looking to read more of the author's work.
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p.s. I decided to *try* to do Lion's KAL of the Inishturk sweater. (see the image on my sidebar) i had actually already downloaded that pattern and planned to make a couple of them this year anyway, so I'm hoping the knit-along will help me get a good pace going. I know the pattern isn't too difficult so I know I can knit the sweater successfully, I just hope that the pace is not more than I can do. Worth a shot, I think. MrsSoldierSon and I are going out for a bit today and I hope to get some yarn for this while we're out.


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My application has a bad performance while running on the 64bit computer as 64bit application. And I found the reason is that the WCF serialization of contract took most of the time. The serialization and de-serialization's performance is
worse than running as 32bit application on the 64bit computer.
I wrote a demo to record the consuming time of serialization and de-serialization of contract. The application running as 64Bit took about twice time than running as 32Bit application. I don't know why the performance of WCF serialization of
contract is so much different between 32Bit application and 64bit application. Has anyone encountered this issue?
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We have an old software application that was primarily developed for 32 bit OS but based on the market requirement we have also ported it for 64bit OS. The application uses MS-Access as a database and the 64bit version of the software used the 64bit MS Access.
The problem we are facing is with the installation of this application on Windows 7/Vista OS which has MS Office 32 bit intalled on it. The problem is as follows:
"When the applicaiton is installed on the above environment the installer says that the user needs to uninstall the 32bit version of MS-Office while as a user I expect that the application should not bother about the version of MS Office already installed
on the system?.
"As a work around to this I have found that if we uninstall the 32 bit MS office, then install my application and finally re-install the 32bit MS office then there is no problem".
What component do I need to include in my installer package or what changes do I need to make in my code so that the problem does not exists and the user can install my 64bit application without uninstalling his 32bit MS Office. Any help on this would be
highly appreciated.
We are using Ace Database Engine for 64 bit support in our application and to me it appears that it is the Ace Database Engine that ask to uninstall 32 bit MS Office. Is there any workaroun
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I have an windows application.. it's developed in the .net framework 2.0 and back end with SQL Express 2005 , and I am attaching my database file while I install application on the machine.
My appliction works okay in all the operating system with 32 bit platform but when I tried to install it on the Win 7 , 64 bit it was giving me error with ReadOnly database and can't execute query.
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WRITING has helped a Shoreham man to overcome many obstacles in his life.
Now, he hopes his experiences will help to inspire others and show that anything is possible.
Patrick Souiljaert, of Emerald Quay, Shoreham Beach, has written the book Stairs For Breakfast and is now working towards getting it published.
The 40-year-old has cerebral palsy, so he typed it all with his left index finger.
"I thought about it for two-and-a-half years, then I started and I did it every day for 15 months," he said.
"I feel I have got a gift, I inspire people and my story is full of humour. I have overcome so many obstacles that people don't realise."
These include a tough time at boarding school, as well as dealing with his condition.
"By writing the book, it helped me to overcome these obstacles and it is only by writing the book that I have found peace with myself. It will help so many people.
"The thing I want to do most of all is to become a public speaker because it will enable me to help and inspire people to overcome and achieve what they want in life and my book will provide me with a platform to become a public speaker. I would like to inspire the world."
Mr Souiljaert had his first experience of public speaking at Shoreham and Southwick Rotary Club earlier this month.
"I did extremely well and it was a good first step into public speaking," he said.
Born in Bromley, Kent, Mr Souiljaert moved to Belgium when he was two but returned to England in 1984 and Shoreham is now home.
He was a BT software engineer for some years but moved into property investment four years ago.
"At BT I was getting frustrated," he explained. "I knew I wanted to do something a bit special. When I went to my first property investment meeting, I understood it and thought this was it."
Having bought two flats in Worthing, he then started to think about writing a book about his life.
The title came from a comment he made to an estate agent in 2011. He was waiting to view a second-floor flat and when told there was no lift, he said 'don't worry, I eat stairs for breakfast'.
Mr Souiljaert learned to walk with a frame at the age of 10 but he could go down stairs at eight years old, by going sideways and holding the bannister.
"When I was little I could crawl up and down the stairs at home," he added.
Writing the book has taught him a lot, he said.
"I have learned a lot about success and how to be successful. When you do something you love, you will do well."
The book starts at the beginning of his life. His mum had to be induced due to extremely high blood pressure and he was born nearly two weeks early.
The umbilical cord was twisted and wrapped around his neck, so he could not breathe for the first four minutes. Although his parents were warned he might have difficulties, it was not until he was nine months old that he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
"You might see me as being very disabled but in my mind I'm a regular independent guy because there's nothing I cannot do," he said.
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So I seem to have a bit of a "thing" for candy shades at the moment. I was over at the In my House blog yesterday evening and found this rather gorgeous 10930′ s Californian beach house – oh how I love all of the kaleidoscopic shades…
Don't these shades just make you smile? I love the yellow rug; the coloured bed frame and the outdoor chairs {they remind me of Emu's Re-Trouve range – which I love!}
And on another smiley note, only one day until the weekend! x


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A small band settled on the steps of the Williamsburg bank and began to blare as men and woman of all ages, races and religions danced under fluttering Brooklyn banners and broken cotton-filled bodies painted with pinstripes. A bus driver, unable to move through the deadlocked traffic, abandoned his bus, walked out into the street and began to boogie.
The date was Oct. 4, 1955, and the Brooklyn Dodgers had just won the World Series for the first and last time. Two years later, Brooklyn fans would flock to the streets again, but this time the effigies swaying above their heads would be of the Dodgers' owner, Walter O'Malley, who had announced he was moving the team to Los Angeles.
My father, 9 years old, heard the news. He had thought he was a valued part of something greater than a sport or a city. Now he knew he did not matter at all.
I had heard the story many times before; how he had never been to a baseball game since — until taking me to a Yankees game when I turned 6; how his heart had been broken; how sports died that day for him, forever.
But he still took me to games — always the Yankees because he didn't know how to get to Shea Stadium. And when I begged, he took me again. And again. And then he persuaded my mother to let me cut school every year for the next decade so that we could go to opening day, with all the other people slipping out of work and school, sitting under snow drifts or shedding clothes in the heat and thinking that life was fine because no matter the weather another baseball season had begun.Continue reading the main story
Old Reliable
At first I viewed baseball as a vaguely cool and unusual pursuit for a girl. It allowed me to cross gender lines dug deeply as war trenches in third and fourth grade.
When we were 8, a boy in my class challenged me to prove myself. He tried to think hard.
"Which team plays in Milwaukee?" he asked, finally.
"The Brewers."
He stalked away. This was too easy.
But the experience of walking into a ballpark and the beauty of the game quickly transcended all other considerations. The cramped, dirty corridors, the sloped blue-and-white walls, smells of hot dogs, holding my father's hand and hurrying along with the mass of people, swelling forward until the flash of green and sky, the sight of white balls sprinkled along the grass, the bright diamond bases, slender yellow foul poles stark against the deep blue of the stands.
And then, in fifth grade, many of my closest friends moved away, and baseball was the thing that was left to depend upon. My father thought baseball was reliable, too. He lived in a series of foster homes in New York, except for the days when his uncle would come and bring him to Ebbets Field and he had a family again. That is, until they knocked it down for a housing project.
Dodgers Leaving
In neat boxes labeled Brooklyn Sports Authority among the Robert Wagner papers in the New York Municipal Archives lie hundreds of aging postcards and letters. Wagner was the mayor who let the Dodgers leave Brooklyn, and the pleas were all addressed to him.
In the fall of my senior year in college I sat at a desk in the small, brown room and read through them all.
"We Brooklynites are a proud people and the Dodgers are part of our lives. If we ever lose them it will be the same as taking a heart out of a person."
"What is the matter with people. The only good thing we have in Brooklyn is the Dodgers."
"Have you and your fellow members been paid off?"
"You can kiss your political career goodbye."
"Dear sir, I have always voted for the Democratic ticket. If the Dodgers leave Brooklyn, I will continue to vote for the Democratic ticket with the exception of Robert F. Wagner Jr. P.P.S.: I have 23 voting members in my family."
"I plead with you to save this great American pastime for a great American City."
"Even though you are a New Yorker and follow the New York Yankees or the New York Giants, I'm positive you can understand what the leaving of the Dodgers would do to Brooklyn's civic pride," wrote Allan Fischer, Lawrence Fischer, Herman Fischer, Sadie Fischer, Martin Fischer and Lucky the parakeet.
One could have been written by my dad.
"Dear Mr. Mayor," a little boy wrote. "Like my daddy I am too a Dodger fan. I am 9 years old and I have been a Dodger fan all that time like many kids like myself I would be lost without the Dodgers, please make sure the Dodgers stay in Brooklyn, Thank you very much."
As I read the letters, I began to cry.
All for Me?
"I don't really like baseball," my dad said to me every time we drove to a game. "I'm only doing this for you."
When I was in second grade, I smuggled books and flashlights into my bed at night. Now I stashed radios and headsets under the pillows. I prayed for rain delays, extra innings, anything that would extend the game for a few minutes or hours. When we were listening to a game in the car, I demanded a portable radio for the walk from the garage to our apartment. In desperate situations, my mother and I would open the car doors, poised like runners crouching at the starting line. Our gunshot was the opening crackle of a commercial and we would sprint madly across the street to the gate of our building, fumbling with keys and pounding up the stairs, no time to wait for elevators, flinging open the door so that I could throw myself at the nearest radio and flick it on before the game started again.
By seventh grade, little had changed. I had perfected the technique of feigning illness to listen to day games in the nurse's office, or snaking radios under my shirt, hidden by hanks of hair, so I could listen during class. Sometimes I would even read passages out loud, raise my hand to answer questions, all while trying to follow whether Bernie's hamstring was still day to day.
My friends were kind. They humored me, carefully timing their calls during Yankee commercials. Though my dad grumbled, my family supported and encouraged such passion. When I decided I wanted to become a professional baseball player, my uncle obligingly took me out to the park. When I got back from the park with the clear understanding that I needed to find a new direction for my life, everyone encouraged my new dream of sportswriting. One night I copied this quotation into my diary, from W. P. Kinsella: "Growing up is a ritual more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seemed to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time. But baseball can soothe even those pains, for it is stable and permanent, steady as grandfather dozing in a wicker chair on a verandah."
Or not. "They don't care about you," dad told me one day, the baseball game flickering on the television screen, Mike and John's voices filtering out of the radio. "All the owners care about is money. That's all that matters. I learned that with the Dodgers."
"Then why are you watching?"
He flung his hands up in disgust.
"I'm not really watching. I'm only watching because of you."
But he sure cursed at the screen a lot.
A Game's Limitations
We all look to sports for a simpler world, and eventually we will all be disappointed. Sports have always been businesses, the most transcendent athletes human.
But baseball is a constant. It is always there — until it isn't. Forget strikes. From the very beginning, noted former Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, the game was "designed to break your heart." It "begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone."
In baseball you always win in the end, but you always lose, too. No team has batted forever, no squad has ultimately failed to defend the field. The best teams lose 60 times in a single season. It is the only major sport where a player is stopped only by his own limitations. The contradictions are built in; a capitalist game oriented around individual achievement that turns on the occasional philanthropic impulse, the rare personal sacrifice for a greater good. It can become your best friend because for seven months you will spend most of your time by its side. But this gift is also its greatest drawback, for with baseball at your back it becomes nearly impossible to make new friends outside the game.
My father's experience was shared by thousands who looked to the Dodgers for comfort and civic pride. Ebbets Field became a sanctuary where Brooklyn's mounting racial and ethnic tensions were forced to wait outside the turnstiles.
I wanted to understand what his experience had been, since he claims not to remember anything beyond the still bitter memory of betrayal.
And so I sat in the archives for hours and hours, reading through other people's emotions, more clearly defined and detailed. Alternately angry, desperate, ingratiating and afraid, men and women and children, grandparents, families and parakeets wrote to their mayor in a vain attempt to restore the order of the universe and preserve the kind of baseball in New York that will never be known again. I had caught them all in an arrested moment, when things looked bleak but everything remained possible and they still believed. And my eyesight began to blur because they cared so much and all of their dreams were about to be crushed. They cared so much, and I no longer did.
Sacred Ground
At a certain point I started studying bylines more carefully than lineup cards and recognizing journalism as something powerful in its own right — rather than a substitute for something more satisfying. So it was a surprise when I learned that baseball still had the power to break my heart.
When I heard that Yankee Stadium was being knocked down — not only discarded but destroyed — I wept. As a speechwriter in City Hall, I took grim pleasure in discovering, and publicly noting, that the groundbreaking date was the anniversary of Babe Ruth's death. They may have unearthed the rogue Red Sox jersey, but baseball gods are wilier than that.
I had worked at Yankee Stadium the first summer I became eligible for a work permit, at 14. I had secured a second summer until George Steinbrenner fired my future boss, surely a Yankees rite of passage. I grew up in its corridors, threading confidently through its secret passages and hidden elevators on game days, feeling at home in a way that nowhere outside my childhood bedroom has ever been able to match.
I know the arguments. The stadium was a clunker, an ungainly relic. I'm no architecture critic, but it was always spectacularly grand to me, never failing to inspire a gasp of pleasure as I emerged from the dank corridors into the open light and sweep of imposing blue stands.
The renovations had already destroyed the history, people said, but as a history major I can assure you this is ridiculous. Yankee Stadium was sacred ground, and when it comes to history, physical space matters. No one proposes moving the site of Gettysburg a few blocks over because it's more convenient.
It was a site of national history far greater than mine — though these generations of smaller stories matter, too.
But what do arguments matter now? It's gone.
A Compromise
My dad listens to games now all the time, even when I am not there to remind him. Though I have sworn never to buy a ticket for the new stadium, I feel the familiar ache of spring, for so many years synonymous with baseball season.
This summer my father and I will watch some games together, I'm sure, now with a shared mix of resentment and an inability to resist. For once, my dad and I have met in the middle. The game of extremes has taught me that.Continue reading the main story


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Coconut Pecan Frosting
Recipe taken from: cooks.com
I asked my mom what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday and she told me German chocolate. Never made or heard of German chocolate cake before then. I was planning on making the whole thing from scratch...but got a little lazy and decided to use a box. I did make the icing from scratch, though, and it turned out really good. The coconut shreds and pecans add an interesting texture and it's a fun alternative to plain vanilla or chocolate frosting.
You will need:
1 c. evaporated milk
1 c. sugar
3 egg yolks
1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. flaked coconut
1 c. chopped pecans
Combine milk, sugar, yolks, butter and vanilla in pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Remove from heat. Add coconut and pecans. Beat until cool and thick.
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Qualcomm's coming Snapdragon S4 tablet , which is designed to function as a mobile development platform, already has the latest version of Google's Android operating system up and running. The "soon-to-be-released" development platform will provide tablet content developers and manufacturers with the ability to build apps for the next generation of Snapdragon-powered mobile devices.
Earlier this month at its headquarters in San Diego, Qualcomm showed off a prototype running Google's Android 2.3 operating system to about 50 attendees at the company's industry analyst summit.
Since then, however, Qualcomm's engineers have been working to ensure that Android 4, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, will be able to take maximum advantage of all the capabilities offered by the company's current and next-generation mobile technologies.
"Not only are we working to get the source code fully optimized for Snapdragon S4 tablets, but we're rigorously working on the code so it also supports the rest of our Snapdragon processors," noted Qualcomm blogger P.J. Jacobowitz.
Smartphone Advancements
Last week, Qualcomm previewed two new Snapdragon S4 chipsets for smartphone applications that will feature dual-core CPUs running at 1 GHz. The new offerings, which are slated for delivery in the first half of 2012, will enable smartphone makers currently using the Snapdragon S1 to upgrade their designs to Qualcomm's latest technologies.
The chip maker also rolled out a third-generation of its Qualcomm reference design (QRD) ecosystem program. The goal is to enable third-party device manufacturers to develop differentiated high-volume smartphones with lower development costs and faster time to market, the company said.
"Smartphones present a large business opportunity for many of our customers, which is why we have created the QRD ecosystem program to assist them with developing compelling product designs with competitive differentiation," said Qualcomm Senior Vice President Cristiano Amon.
At the same time, however, Qualcomm is looking beyond the smartphone market and is prepping even more powerful Snapdragon S4 chips for media tablets and laptops. During the company's recent summit with industry analysts, Qualcomm executives said they expect a combined 600 million laptops and media tablets to be sold in 2015, based on the average forecasts of five analyst firms. (continued...)
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Minimum wage: MTUC targets 10,000 signatures
The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) Sabah says it is targeting 10,000 signatures from throughout the State in support of the MTUC declaration calling for, among others, a RM900 minimum monthly wage. Its Chairman, Simon Yuyun Lamades, said after attending a briefing here yesterday that it would not be difficult to get the public to support the declaration at a time of rising prices. Asked to elaborate on the minimum wage demand, he said, "The majority of employed people are insufficiently paid. We have received complaints that among hotels, for example, there is no standard pay for their staff. "Certain hotels pay their staff unreasonable salaries, and some employers are even now threatening to reduce staff salaries, which is too bad." Simon said the Government needs to intervene to protect the employees and help thenI cope with the rising prices of fuel, rice and other essential items. MTUC, he said, will open counters in locations such as Gaya Street here for the signature campaign.


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Sorry it took me so long to make this post, I'm not very blog savvy.
But right, tomorrow's meeting topic!
The Real World!
People's perception of reality. The 9-5 job, the world society created (especially in the US), the school system, the goals we're "supposed" to aim for (money, fame, the rat race, etc), the world on tv vs real life vs natural life. Pro's and con's of the system! The pro's n con's of the alternatives (survival, or hiding in the woods).
I know it's a random abstract issue and I'm not writing a lot on it to prep for the meeting, but its been on my mind a lot lately (as I write this blog instead of doing my homework), and I think it'd be fun to discuss.
Over 'n out
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Weekly Meeting for 2/21
Labels: education, Weekly Meeting, workforce
2 comments:
- Bandbabe said...
I had no idea what to expect when I graduated from college. But I've come to find that the 'real world' is not so bad. Actually, its pretty damn awesome once you get a handle on finances. But its certainly built up to be this huge complicated place (which it is) but many myths and misgivings still exist. Should be a very interesting subject to discuss.
- February 21, 2008 at 2:44 PM
- Alienation said...
The cons about this system is everything.
The pro is that it will eventually come to an end. :-)
I'll be there, looking forward to it.
- February 21, 2008 at 3:27 PM
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Very exciting news! Simone and David gave birth to a lovely baby girl on Friday. I saw some pictures from Henry and she looks just adorable. Can't wait to meet her.
And more exciting news! Josephine was awarded a one year grant to paint/study in Paris. She's graduating from Columbia next month and now has this really exciting opportunity to look forward to. Can't wait to visit her there too!
Double Congratulations!
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I'm not sure how it happened, but last weekend I fell in love with my husband again. I have always loved him, but after 6 years of marriage, 2 kids, and jobs, the newlywed wonder of him had worn off.
I suppose it's cyclical, the "in Love" feelings you have for your spouse. You have them while courting, you have them when you're first married, then life happens and you start to see the brushstrokes on your Mona Lisa or the chisel marks on your David.
But there we were, on the couch, reading. I put down the newspaper, scrunched up to him, put my head on his chest, listened to his beating heart and then looked up at his face and remembered. This is the handsomest man in the world. That chin! That nose! He's so strong. He keeps me and our children so safe. Such powerful arms! Then he kissed me.
Ah, yes, he is a work of art given to me by God. He is beautiful.


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Friday 15th September
Today's been a learning day…
First we learnt that on line banking doesn't always work! Not when it includes international transactions anyway. It took nearly two hours and a couple of telephone calls back to the UK before we actually managed to pay for the car we bought yesterday…well, we set the wheels in motion. The payment won't actually be made 'til Monday and won't be cleared until maybe Wednesday or Thursday. Still it was good practice for when we make the really big purchase.
By the way, forgot to tell you yesterday about the "road tax" system…here you register a car according to the owners birthday, not the age of the car! We bought the car yesterday, when we register it, that registration lasts until Malc's birthday and is then renewed annually. How crazy is that? The licence plate you are issued with registration is yours and stays with you, when you sell the car the plate stays with you. For a little extra you can choose any 7 letters/numbers for your plate providing nobody else already has them. Hence Doug has RVING on his motor home and RVING2 on his tow car. Now that's "cool"
Suggestions for our plate on a postcard … (an email will do)
Next Malc learnt some more about RV's. (mainly that it's not all beautiful sunsets and deserted beaches, but cleaning and tank emptying etc)
He went with Doug to pick up his RV that had just had two new tyres fitted and then they went to weigh it!! Not sure why, but they did, then they weighed the car it usually tows probably for the same unknown reason. Malc then got to drive it with the car in tow and made his first RV stop at a Wal-Mart. (they called in to buy cleaning materials)
After that they brought it back here and washed it, no mean feat I can tell you. Not something you want to do too often. But it did look good when it was finished.
Then they took it across to the camp site over the road so we could practice parking it and setting it up. I bet not many first timers get the expert tuition we have had.
We have set up a new album today too, food rated not with * or ** but with m, or mm, or even mmm. So follow the tastes with us…


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I've decided that the word "ingenuous" is… strange. It's one of those few words that camouflages its meaning instead of advertising its essence with its timbre; a study of contradiction played out in syllables.
Take, for example, the first syllable: "in." A harsh, stringent Latin sound. Negating. Inverting. Maybe even extirpating.
Contrast this, now, to the second: "gen." A warm, inviting lilt. As sticky as honey and as mellifluous as a songbird.
We add the requisite "-uous" to fit this amalgamation into the vagaries and intricacies of the English language's hallowed Rules for Adjectives, and admire our result: "ingenuous." The portmanteau grates against itself with a sense of mutual anathema and resignation, and with labor pangs a neologism is birthed.
So then what do we do with this Frankenstein creation, this word neither sweet nor sour, soft nor hard? What do we do with this enigma of a word that would seem to elude all exegesis by virtue of its contrasting halves? What do we do?
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You seen it, you've heard it!! Then think about it Poor Fans, Boxing is a Big Business and Entertainment Pacman Vs. Bradley. Now it made you think that you can never always overcome the word called power. Because where-ever you go cheaters and greed are everywhere. So play safe don't be angry just enjoy while it last.
Pacman - Accept defeat and judges decision as gentlemen a test of faith. You got nothing to prove, you almost got everything. If Bradley take away the belt from you. You can still be the ironman, billionaire, genius, talented,
Bradley - Lucky guy who benefited from cheating. Silent please! Even Miami win they deserve it, but not you. but its not your fault anyway you do your best. More luck to you, but in fairness to you I would bet on you rather than Mayweather.
Arum - Always business first, I made excitement get benefit from free ads. Also endorsement from Hollywood stars for free. Bad publicity is still a publicity. If your curious watch it again in pay per view so you will made me more richer. The Hollywood and world citizen are going out of crazy thinking about you. Great plan!
Fans - My advice is its happens even in f1 theirs a 100 million scandal, in sumo wrestling, football even in basketball look what happen to Micheal Jordan's father? As Bill Gates always said "Life is unfair get used to it"!
Even though Bradley won fans know he was not. Even a no brainier preschool would say. Watching this on the the Arena Big Screen in SM MOA. Is not worth it of my time. Because I didn't get much satisfaction and think about the benefit of the doubt.
How much more for those people that spends hundreds or even thousand of dollars to see it live in MGM Las Vegas, Nevada. Invest in time on traveling watching a bogus fight. Like what happen to Mayweather-Ortiz scripted fight last couple of months. What a trash! If last Marquez-Pacman last match a draw or lost I can respect the judges.
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Tag: home
"Definitions of Home: Part 2, Decorations"
I am finally home.
So what if words can't capture
My candle dancing,
The flutter of eyelids,
The bear paw of perfectly warm tea.
Even in the moment of fading friendships,
Of shattered world views,
Of being lost and often insecure,
This room feels like hope.
More than four walls of white paint,
It is the mere possession of it
That indicates a life so far well spent.
The little touches of art,
The colors, the plants,
The notes that I have saved,
They are the makers of a "me."
And although I deny
The existence of a static personality,
Or well defined traits,
There is something extremely comforting
In looking at something
And being able to point to it and say –
That's me!
And perhaps even if this is not all of me,
It is alright because
just like words are not full feelings,
So are these objects and this room,
Puzzle pieces of a life in progress
Of a creature whose uniqueness is written in these fine details.
Home is the place where you can read about yourself.
I'm made these walls mine,
Now they're here to remind me of who I am,
And when in doubt, to find myself again.
"Definitions of Home: Part 1"
There's a frightening coldness to a new city,
Even under shelter and comfort,
You feel closer to the homeless
Than to the ones rushing happily home.
After all, money is the only separation
And material things can be taken away.
These well-built white walls won't hug you
If it all gets taken away.
Perhaps that's the source of the coldness
Whether here or gone
Your presence is of no importance
Your disappearance is hidden
With a simple bird's song.
These bright city lights keep shining
The lives of people keep on winding,
And no one notices you going along.
They say home is where someone notices you're gone.
I've tried to define home as a place in myself
And now I've noticed I'm gone.
I'm a bundle of fears,
Of changes and tears
Of burned bridges,
Of stressful falling of hair on the floor,
Of hasty decisions on lovers,
Of books which lose sense when they enter my head.
Where have I gone?
Though was I ever really home?
I am reaching out for something to hold on to
As the map in the corner,
The once prized symbol of hope,
Makes drops in my eyes.
I am once again alone,
Walking away with seemingly nothing,
Hoping the rest of the world,
Those people I don't know,
Won't crush me and send me running home,
Where I'm not meant to be.
But how I want a home so badly.
Anything to end the pain of always going on and never stopping.
But I know I wasn't meant to have such comfort.
Being ordinary never was my own.


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FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY, ETC., PLAINTIFF,v.ALLY FINANCIAL INC., ET AL.,DEFENDANTS.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Denise Cote, District Judge:
This is one of sixteen actions currently before this Court in which the Federal Housing Finance Agency ("FHFA" or "the Agency"), as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (together, the "Government Sponsored Enterprises" or "GSEs"), alleges misconduct on the part of the nation's largest financial institutions in connection with the offer and sale of certain mortgage-backed securities purchased by the GSEs in the period between 2005 and 2007.*fn1 As amended, the complaints in each of the FHFA actions assert that the Offering Documents used to market and sell Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities ("RMBS") to one or both of the GSEs during the relevant period contained material misstatements or omissions with respect to the owner-occupancy status, loan-to-value ("LTV") ratio, and underwriting standards that characterized the underlying mortgages. On the basis of these allegations, the complaints assert claims under Sections 11, 12(a)(2), and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C. §§ 77k, l(a)(2), o; the Virginia Securities Act, VA Code Ann. § 13.1-522(A)(ii), (C); and the District of Columbia Securities Act, D.C. Code § 31-5606.05(a)(1)(B), (c). In six of the cases, including this one, the Agency has also asserted common law claims of fraud and aiding and abetting fraud against certain entity defendants (the "Fraud Claim Cases"). As pleaded, these fraud claims attach to each of the three categories of misstatements upon which the plaintiff's securities law claims are based.*fn2
The Court has already issued several Opinions addressing motions to dismiss in other cases brought by the FHFA.*fn3
Familiarity with those Opinions is assumed; all capitalized terms have the meanings previously assigned to them.
Following this Court's decision of the motion to dismiss in FHFA v. UBS, discovery began in all of the coordinated cases. Briefing of defendants' motions to dismiss in the remaining fifteen cases has occurred in two phases, with the motions in this case and the other Fraud Claim Cases becoming fully submitted on October 11, 2012. The motions in the remaining nine cases were fully submitted November 9, 2012. Depositions are to begin in all cases in January 2013, and all fact discovery in this matter, 11 Civ. 7010 (DLC), must be concluded by December 6, 2013. Trial in this matter is scheduled to begin in January 2015 as part of the fourth tranche of trials in these coordinated actions.
This case concerns RMBS Certificates allegedly purchased by Freddie Mac between September 2005 and May 2007. Each of the GSE Certificates pertains to one of 21 securitizations offered for sale pursuant to one of six shelf-registration statements. Each of the 21 securitizations was sponsored by non-party Residential Funding Company, LLC, formerly known as Residential Funding Corporation ("RFC" or the "ResCap Sponsor"). As alleged in the complaint, RFC is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of defendant GMAC Mortgage Group, Inc. ("GMACM"), which is, in turn, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ally Financial Inc. ("AFI"), the lead defendant in this case. The following non-parties, all of which are wholly owned, indirect subsidiaries of GMACM and AFI, acted as depositors for the 21 securitizations: Residential Asset Mortgage Products, Inc. ("RAMP"), Residential Asset Securities Corporation ("RASC"), Residential Accredit Loans, Inc. ("RALI") (collectively, the "ResCap Depositors"). RFC, RAMP, RASC, and RALI were originally named as defendants in this action, but were released as defendants after they filed for bankruptcy protection along with their indirect parent company Residential Capital LLC ("ResCap"). In addition to the ways already discussed, AFI affiliates are alleged to have been involved in the securitization process through defendant Ally Securities, LLC ("Ally Securities"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of AFI that served as the co-lead underwriter for five of the securitizations and was an underwriter for an additional eight of them.
The Amended Complaint asserts securities law claims against AFI and GMACM as well as the following banks, which served as underwriter or co-lead underwriter for one or more of the 21 securitizations but are not otherwise affiliated with AFI: Barclays Capital Inc. ("Barclays"), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. ("Citi"), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC ("Credit Suisse"), Goldman, Sachs & Co. ("Goldman"), JPMorgan Securities, LLC -- in its own right and as successor-in-interest to Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. ("BSC") -- ("JPMS"), RBS Securities Inc. ("RBS"), and UBS Securities LLC ("UBS"). The plaintiff's fraud-related claims are asserted only against AFI, JPMS (in its own right and as successor-in-interest to BSC), Goldman, and GMACM (collectively, "the fraud defendants").
The following five groups of defendants have each filed separate motions to dismiss the Amended Complaint: 1) AFI and GMACM; 2) Ally Securities; 3)RBS; 4) Goldman; and 5) a group consisting of the remaining underwriter defendants. The motions press a number of arguments that are also pressed by other defendants in these coordinated actions, the majority of which have been addressed by this Court's previous Opinions. The Court hereby adopts by reference the reasoning and, to the extent they are relevant here, the rulings of those prior Opinions.*fn4
I. Adequacy of Fraud Allegations Against Underwriter Defendants As in other cases filed by this plaintiff, several of the motions to dismiss devote particular attention to the adequacy of the FHFA's scienter allegations. To be sure, each of these coordinated actions must be considered on its own bottom. The roles of these defendants in the RMBS securitization process and their familiarity with it differ from each other and from those of defendants in other cases in material respects. The plaintiff's allegations in support of its fraud claims differ accordingly. Nonetheless, an independent review of the plaintiff's allegations in this case compels an outcome similar to those this Court has reached in previous Opinions in this litigation.
With respect to JPMS and Goldman in particular, the Amended Complaint in this case largely repeats allegations that the Court has already found sufficient to plead fraud-based claims against these defendants and their corporate affiliates in other cases brought by the plaintiff. See Chase, 2012 WL 5395646, *11-14; Goldman, 2012 WL 5494923, *2. As the brief for JPMS notes, certain of these allegations pertain to activities by those affiliates of the banks that sponsored or served as depositors for securitizations other than those at issue here. Those allegations have limited relevance here, where the securitizations at issue were almost exclusively packaged by AFI affiliates. Other allegations, however, provide a strong basis for inferring that the banks acted knowingly or recklessly in continuing to underwrite RMBS offerings backed by mortgages that failed to conform to stated guidelines. In particular, the Amended Complaint cites the waiver rates in the Clayton Report and defendants' own statements regarding the due diligence they performed on the supporting loans pools for these very securitizations to assert that, to the extent JPMS, BSC, and Goldman were ignorant of the fact that a substantial number of the supporting loans were not originated according to stated guidelines, it was only because they consciously disregarded that risk.
As to Ally Securities, it is likewise true that, given the firm's representations that it reviewed portions of the loan pool for compliance with guidelines, the high defect rate alleged in the Amended Complaint is strongly suggestive that the firm knew the loans were underwritten to standards lower than those reported in the Offering Documents. This allegation is further buttressed by FHFA's allegations that Ally Securities was strongly motivated to disregard loan defects in order to benefit itself and its corporate affiliates and had particular insight into the quality of the supporting loans given the role its corporate affiliates played in originating, purchasing, and securitizing those loans.
As in Chase, these allegations are more than adequate to plead fraud with respect to the Offering Documents' representations regarding mortgage-underwriting standards. Chase, 2012 WL 5395646, at *11-14. But because these allegations do not bear on defendants' knowledge that their statements regarding LTV and owner-occupancy fraud in particular were false, see Merrill, 2012 WL 5451188, at *2, the plaintiff's claims based on those two categories of statements must be dismissed.
AFI's motion to dismiss also raises several arguments that are not fully addressed by prior Opinions in this litigation. Those ...
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The bodies but creep (Fig. 2) ....
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Poste this link http://zbs-zombies.blogspot.com/
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"After participating as a lead state in writing the Next Generation Science Standards, Washington adopted the NGSS in the fall of 2013. This is the first academic year schools are supposed to have fully implemented the standards in classrooms, and the state plans to pilot new test questions aligned to them this spring. By next year, the transition will be nearly complete. Washington's efforts put it at the head of the pack nationwide. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards and all are at varying stages of readiness when it comes to assessing students based on them."(more)


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This is one of those embarrassing moments, that I hope to never have to go through again! So please, don't tell anyone, okay? This happened many years ago. I was up late one night, trying to get a few things done, before going to bed. I had cleaned up the kitchen, and was doing a load of laundry, since my daughter needed her gym clothes for the next day. My husband and daughter had already gone to bed, and I was the only one up. All of a sudden, I heard a crash in the bathroom. So I ran in there to see what had happened.
My daughter had left an empty glass on the sink vanity. Rookie, our sweet little gray cat, had jumped up on the vanity, knocking the glass into the toilet. Luckily, the glass hadn't broken....but to my horror, something else had. When I went to pick the glass out of the toilet, I found a huge chunk of the side of the toilet had broken! Now, my husband doesn't like cats too much, so I knew he would be furious if he found out. So I decided to try to repair it, before he saw it.
The chunk that had fallen out, was a little bit larger than my hand. When you flushed the toilet, it ran out from under the rim...onto the floor! I tried to think of a way to fix it. Then it came to me......SUPER GLUE! I looked in the closet, found the glue. I carefully put the glue all around the edges of the chunk, laid down on the floor by the toilet, set the chunk in the hole, and held it until it stuck. Which by the way, takes awhile for toilets! Finally, it had set, so I started to let go of the chunk....and realized that my hand was also glued, to the chunk!
Here I am, laying on the floor, with my hand stuck to the toilet! No matter what I tried, I couldn't pull my hand off! So I decided to try to pull the chunk out of the toilet. After about 10 minutes or so, I was able to bang the chunk back out of the toilet. So here I sat, with the chunk still stuck to my hand, but at least I was free! I tried many different solutions, to get it off my hand...but none of them worked.
I looked out the window, and saw my neighbors light still on. She and her husband were night owls like me. Their triplets and my daughter were friends. So I decided to go over there, to see if they knew how to "unstick" super glue. I knocked on their door with one hand...and the other hand behind my back. When they came to the door, I told them I needed help. Then went on to ask them if they knew how to unstick super glue. They said they didn't, and asked me why I asked. So I pulled my hand from behind my back. After explaining what had happened, it took them about 10 minutes to stop laughing! Neither one could talk, because they had tears running down their faces! I didn't think it was that funny!
Finally they stopped laughing, and tried to think of ways to get it off. Kim said perhaps she could call the hospital. So she did. She explained to them what had happened....and they also couldn't talk for about 10 minutes, because of all the laughter! The nurse called the doctor, and explained the situation to him, and he too laughed! After he composed himself, he gave us the number of poison control, because he had no idea!
We called poison control, and Kim explained the situation to them. Which of course, we had to wait for them to stop laughing before they could help us too! Finally they gave us some possible solutions. Kim would tell us what to try, while staying on the phone with them. Dave would run and get the toxic household chemicals, to pour on my hand. I forget now what all we tried, it was numerous! Finally after many concoctions...we were able to pry the chunk off my hand! I thanked Kim and Dave profusely....you see, they were cat lovers too:)
I went home, and successfully super glued the piece into the toilet. This time without gluing myself. No one was the wiser, about the toilet!


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I am currently in the process of rebuilding and my current credit cards are Capital One ($500, opened in 2007), Orchard Bank ($300, opened in 2009) and Best Buy store card ($1300, opened in 2007).
Now that Capital One owns all 3... once I bring my scores up a bit, do you think it'd be reasonable to ask for a CLI to match at least Best Buys?? I know it's just a store card, but I've had it for almost 6 years and no lates whatsoever. I have one 30 day late on the Capital One and a few lates on Orchard Bank. I had one CLI on the Best Buy card, I can't remember the amount though.
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Philip Morris, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, has shown a persistent dividend income over a period of time compared to Imperial Tobacco that has been persistently cutting its dividends to hold cash to increase its descendent trending operations.
The tobacco company has shown a great increase in its income due to growth in snus and fine-cut tobacco and besides this it achieved revenue growth in several important regions.
Diversified operations on growing emerging and Asian markets helped British American Tobacco to receive the highest in the pure profit metric. British American Tobacco has a 65 percent cash ratio supported with a healthy free cash flow, which places it in a better position to provide the stated amount of dividend income.
Cigarettes price increase in the USA and a recession in the European creates an disadvantageous conditions for tobacco business.
Imperial Tobacco is much more exposed to the developed markets because on these markets tobacco use is commonly denounced. Lower demand on these markets leaves the tobacco company more vulnerable to obstacles for making business. Philip Morris and British American Tobacco are well positioned in the growing emerging markets and may easily control the demand declines.
The tobacco use declining is explained by increase in use of tobacco alternatives. For example, British American Tobacco is the first tobacco company to produce tobacco alternatives such e-cigarettes. The company invests big money in tobacco products of latest generation in order to add sustainability to its operations.
Besides this, Imperial Tobacco and Philip Morris also study the opportunities in the tobacco-alternative industry. However, British American Tobacco here has a larger market share and in comparison with its major competitors is better poised for long-term growth.


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Today we headed out at 9:30am to play at the ranch and have a picnic at Sacajawea Park.
The water on the Yellowstone is still way-high, after a month, and there's still lots of snow to melt. Remember our beach & camp site from this post, or this one (scroll down)?
They're under water!
There were deer near the garden when we drove up the road
Over by the houses, the kids played in the tree and rode the swings...here Addie and Heidi climb the I-beam that will one day support the Pirate Tree House.
"We made it!"
Abby and Heidi in the tree
Abby and Marshall climbing down from the tree
Addie and the sun
look at that high water!On the way home from the ranch, the valley looked so beautiful...
look at those black angus!
I love those mountains!
Later we went to picnic at Sacajawea Park...James was excited about the cows!
Adie & Abby as Lewis & Clark
James as Pompey
After quiet time, we all enjoyed some popsicles!
And that's our day so far! Right now we are getting ready to have tacos for dinner and plan our Independence Day camp out for FHE...good times, yo!
PS: You can watch/listen to the song here.


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Saturday, July 30, 2016
natural disasters and thank you
17 comments:
- Louise said...
- July 30, 2016 at 4:29 PM
- Velma Bolyard said...
hi louise, thank you. does zanth grow in n.z.? trace willans has been urging me to use it more and more, painting it (ok, soaking up the spill with it) over waxed flax case paper has been really cool. a terrific surface!
- July 30, 2016 at 6:07 PM
- Trace Willans said...
Oh Velma, the Universe works in mysterious ways to make you use the Xanth. You should just be able to top it up again and leave it to become rich again. But maybe get a better fitting lid. Other solvents that work are alcohol, tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil, so possibly there are some more indigenous to you that might work. It does look lovely. The other week I added a layer of Xanth to my case paper. x te
- July 30, 2016 at 6:53 PM
- Liz Ackert said...
Those last few pictures are remarkable ... what a happy ending (though I don't envy you the "aroma therapy")
- July 30, 2016 at 9:28 PM
- Velma Bolyard said...
trace, i had no idea about the other solvents, so a huge thank you. there's a tradition here of making cedar oil, i wonder about that. (lots of aobor vitae, white cedar, growing in the north country). and as i have put the same poorly fitting lid back on (ducking head in embarassment) i will see to making that change, too.
liz, yeah, it did work out, strangely enough. fortunately i live in a breezy location, so at least the stink didn;t stay around too long.
- July 31, 2016 at 5:41 AM
- neki desu said...
ode to joy!
i am experimenting with alcohol and acrylics. it would seem to go well w. other stuff as well.
- July 31, 2016 at 8:37 AM
- Velma Bolyard said...
neki, yep, it's worked a treat. haven't sewn signatures yet, but i will.
- July 31, 2016 at 4:37 PM
- ronnie said...
ha! fabulous (both the tale and the outcome!) ---- I wonder/worry about the use of Xanthorrhoea -- some years ago they were popular to use in some woodworking projects as well as in gardens --- this encouraged folk to go into national parks to dig out the very slow growing grass trees.... I'm still recovering from folk rushing into the park behind my place and digging out every. single. plant. .... bastards.
- August 1, 2016 at 4:23 AM
- Velma Bolyard said...
ronnie, EXCELLENT concern, indeed. this came from trace who sourced it on her own land and harvests sustainably. it's like any usable plant, it must be used with restrain and understanding and most importantly, permission. permission from the land owner AND fromt the plant.
- August 1, 2016 at 8:22 AM
- Mo Crow said...
love how the materials make the moves & you dance with them so gracefully!
- August 1, 2016 at 11:07 AM
- Velma Bolyard said...
mo, that's a kind thing to say. this time i didn't give up, though sometimes i do or i go to far...
- August 1, 2016 at 12:12 PM
- over the rainbow said...
Velma! I have just read your last two posts and all I can say is "YUM YUMMY YUM"! This is my kind of fun…spillage and all.
I love that you chronicled it all. It has me itching to get back to work.
OX Marianne (Marianna too, long story, sorry I haven't explained, you have it all right, all the time)
- August 3, 2016 at 5:41 PM
- Velma Bolyard said...
mariannne...oh these names! yes, this summer is all experimenting
- August 3, 2016 at 7:42 PM
that cover is a beauty...so rich.
- August 5, 2016 at 12:32 PM
- Velma Bolyard said...
thanks, glennis, and now to stitch the thing together and be done!
- August 5, 2016 at 1:48 PM
- Fiona Dempster said...
Whoops! And then serendipity steps in to make magic. What a disturbing then delightful adventure for you V!
- August 5, 2016 at 10:06 PM
- Velma Bolyard said...
fiona, you said it! this summer has been like that.
- August 6, 2016 at 8:21 AM


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Four months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, then-President George W. Bush delivered a State of the Union address in which he defined an "Axis of Evil" made up of those nations bent on obtaining weapons of mass destruction: North Korea, Iraq and Iran.
Three years later, Iranian politician Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rose to power in Iran, where he then served as president until 2013.
During his tenure in office, this polarizing man gained a reputation for "repeatedly questioning the scale of the Holocaust, predicting Israel's demise and expanding Iran's contested nuclear program," according to Breitbart.
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He was then and still remains a hard-liner Islamic fundamentalist — one who, it turns out, still pined for power.
As reported by The Washington Post, on Wednesday Ahmadinejad unexpectedly filed to run in the country's May presidential election, bucking a recommendation/order by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that he stay out of it.
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This is a big deal for a couple of reasons. Had Ahmadinejad not registered to run, incumbent president Hassan Rouhani would very likely have no serious challenge to keeping his seat. While Rouhani has his own history of troubling statements and actions, he is still widely considered less radical than his predecessor.
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For instance, Rouhani "believes Iranians should have freedom to worship" and once "tweeted a photo of a female award-winning mathematician without her headscarf," according to the Post.
Plus, he was the Iranian figurehead who negotiated a nuclear deal with former President Barack Obama two years ago. While there was plenty wrong with the deal, it did at least force the rogue regime "to curb its uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions," as noted by Breitbart.
Does Ahmadinejad even stand a chance to win, though? NBC News reported that, first of all, his "candidacy must be approved by the Guardian Council, a clerical body, before he can stand in the May 19 election." The fact that half of the council's members were chosen by the nation's supreme leader does not bode well for him.
And second, he wasn't even that popular — or at least not popular enough to defeat Rouhani, judging by poll numbers from two years ago.
But the fact that he wants to be in the running to return to power could make things very complicated for American foreign policy — and President Donald Trump.
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Today is Monday and the first day of my week, so I'm back at it.
Back to the good eats.
Back at the exercise.
Back at the ouchies!
I'm not sure what's going on at our house, but yikes, everyone around me in aching these days.
I stretched, pulled, and otherwise manipulated myself into hurtful territory on Friday when I dismissed pain upon exercising and decided to power through. "Maybe this will limber me up," thought I. "Maybe this is pain that leads to reduced inflammation in my hip joint," I imagined.
"Maybe this will feel better after I'm done." Fat chance!
To my credit, that last statement was not as weird a hypothesis/conclusion as one might think. Doing five minutes of exercise in the morning has been really good for me, and I HAVE felt better, more limber, and more loose in my joints because of it.
The old thinking says if a little is good, than more will be better, right? Not where pain is involved!I should have listened.
I should have stopped.
I should have gone on to the next move, and left that hip thing alone.
I should have, but I didn't. I kept moving in that weird way until I hurt myself.
You've heard misery loves company, right?
It's been proved true at my house lately. What I mean by that is that I'm not suffering alone these days.
Hubs was helping a friend with a "few" cinder blocks and wrenched his neck.
The cat that was dropped off at our house a year and a half ago is getting skinnier by the day and the vet doesn't know why.
Our pupper is itching all over with no sign of fleas and while wearing a new flea collar. We are trying him on a new dog food and hoping that brings some relief. In the meantime, he is driving me crazy!!!
Even more important, my sister is back in the hospital this afternoon with her own mystery pain. Yikes, we are keeping this one in prayer.
What is going on?
I was not able to exercise for 8 minutes over the weekend. At some points during Saturday and Sunday I was not able to get outta the Barcalounger unaided. So stiff. So sore. So slow moving was I, that hubs had to lend a hand. And him, with the wrenched neck. We were a sight, but I am nothing if not determined…
I got up this morning, did my 8 minutes (albeit slowly and with deliberation), and then set off for work. I also took my baked oatmeal to the office with me, after having paid particular attention to portion sizes.
I hear it works, if you work it. I'm trying.
What's working for you these days? What never works, so you have abandoned it completely?


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Children have been asking, "When do I get my FBC sweatshirt?" in the hallway for days and I've been anxiously awaiting to know the answer to that question. When I walked into the front office and saw six giant boxes stacked up I actually started doing a little jumpy dance I was so pumped.
Megan, Hannah and Chloe stayed after school to help me with the sweatshirts--it's quite the process. We have to fold and roll all 223 sweatshirts. Then 26 of them got stuffed into envelopes to be mailed. 115 of them were sorted between my Young Life, CILT and other friends. The rest were put back in boxes, hid behind the stage in the audeteria so they can be distributed to students at lunch tomorrow. SO many sweatshirts. We love them and are excited about how the FBC army will be matching on Friday.
Mom and Katie sent me these pictures of baby Lincoln and Lil Red today. How cute are these guys? Katie said Linc was walking around saying, "Pretty necklace!" I'm excited to get to play with all of them over Christmas break up in MI.
Tonight Sydney and her family hosted a Christmas party for our 7th grade bible study. We always meet at 6:30 in the morning but it was fun to hang out with these girls when they were wide awake and bursting with energy tonight. I'm so thankful that I got plugged in with this group right away and that I've already gotten to know them so well. As a Young Life leader I get excited about the potential of knowing these girls for the next five years and seeing them grow in so many different ways.
Sydney and her mom got us holiday cups to decorate with paint pens and we all got creative. The final projects were all different and really cool.
We ate so much pizza, played funny games, laughed a ton, talked over each other and then found seats in the movie theatre downstairs to watch Santa Clause 3. These girls are so fun and sweet, I really do love spending time with them.
The best part of the holiday season is that it's full of celebrations and parties and reunions like this. All of these times where we intentionally gather with friends and family are what make Christmas so special. Tonight I'm thankful for these crazy, beautiful, awesome kids.


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I replaced my Suzuki Jimny SJ410 starter sometime ago and it is quite easy because plenty of space in SJ410 engine bay. However, the Atos compact engine bay is really challenging for starter removal. Actually, a hard start had happened to Atos since few months and recently getting worse. Service centre diagnosed as starter problem. The battery is new but very hard to start especially after turned off the engine and need to wait for few minutes then the Atos can be started with two or three key turn. It is very annoying when turning off the engine while filling fuel at petrol station.
Wifey asked at service centre the new starter, guess how much.. RM1K++.. matai.. crazy expensive. Alternatively, have to go for third party starter and looking around Inanam, most of the car parts shops do not have Atos starter. Besides, I don't really know which shops have this starter. Finally, I asked the regular shop at Tamparuli and need to order (no stock already) with price is about RM200++.
First of all, jack the front car and put stands underneath for safety
The starter from underneath of the engine near gearbox, there are two bolts to be removed and wires to the solenoid
The second bolt need to use an angle socket wrench
Now, the starter is removed from the gearbox
but, the starter cannot be taken out fully because the space is too tight, and I have to remove the solenoid first (the one that has L sticker)
The starter with solenoid
and it is MADE IN INDIA for a Korean car! I thought it was made in Korea.
I wonder who made the third party starter for Atos. I'm still waiting for the new starter to arrive and will post the photos for the new third party starter.


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