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I am a Year 8 student at Pt England School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 21 and my teacher is Mrs Lagitupu.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Helen Clark or John Key? Vote Now!
I was really interested in the debate because they both argued and argued and Mark the TV host was having to say 'Ok, ok, next question'. The You Tube questions were really good. The Party leaders really knew their topics really well because you never heard them say 'Ummm' for a few seconds then speak.
Did you see on TV how you could vote you could text or ring and it would cost you $1.00 – $0.99 just to vote!! That's kind of unfair so I thought that you might want to vote for free right here on my blog.
Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have a poll for you to vote on. For now please let me know who you would vote for after that debate by commenting on my blog.
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Helen Clark is cool
From Leoden
- October 15, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Go Helen!
- October 15, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Most teachers don't agree with me but I will say it anyway...
Go John.
I think it is time for a change and the 'secret budget' that HC is talking about for December scares me ALOT.
- October 15, 2008 at 1:41 PM
- Moturoa said...
I thought that it was interesting that the teacher wanted to be anonymous! I think people should own up to how the feel about stuff.
To put a poll right here on your blog the easiest thing to do is to go to your dashboard, then to layout, add a gadget, then scroll down to add a poll and type in your questions and say how long you want your voting poll to go on for.
What about you make it go until electikon night and then you can see if your readers get it the same as on national voting day.
I like your blog by the way- well done.
Here are a couple of other boys blogs that you might like to visit from my class.
Kyle's Blog
Kieran's Blog
Nathan's Blog
Oscar's Blog
Allanah K
- October 15, 2008 at 2:29 PM
- Flexie said...
It's really cool to see that the young people today are interested in politics. I remember when I was in standard 4 (that's year 6 to you!!) we had a big change with PM's (David Lange, Geoffery Palmer) and I got really excited about it, but no one else did. Even now that I'm a little bit older (well a lot older) there are not many people who really care about politics, so keep interested, it's important to be informed about these things so that you and I can make decisions about our leaders - who knows, maybe you'll be one of those leaders in the future.
Robyn W
- October 15, 2008 at 3:16 PM
- Nga Kaituhi o PES said...
Now that would be telling!! But you're right it was an interesting debate and quite tricky for Mark to keep a handle on things. I'll be watching your poll with interest.
Mrs Nua
- October 15, 2008 at 4:59 PM
I agree with you that both leaders are very accomplished speakers. I'm not telling you who I'm going to vote for at the election, but I will tell you that if I was judging the debate like I would at school, I would give it to John Key for his use of facts and figures and for keeping his cool. I really think, Tanielu that you are the winner because of your excellent journalism and because you got into it. Well done!
- October 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Hi Tanielu,
Great to see you getting underway again with your blog this term. You have posted some excellent pieces of writing already. Have you checked out some of the blogs of some kids in Nelson who have been commenting on yours. I think you should be able to have access to them now. I have also put links to them from our class blog.
Ms Squires
- October 15, 2008 at 7:04 PM
One of the things that I have always liked about your blog Tanielu is a really good choice of relevant topics that people find interesting. I didn't see the debate myself as I was otherwise engaged but I am finding it interesting to read everyone's opinions about it.
Mr Webb
Tamaki Intermediate School
- October 15, 2008 at 9:06 PM
- Linda said...
Wow, what an interesting topic to be blogging about at the moment Tanielu. I didn't see the debate live but I have been following the comments since. I will keep visiting your blog and take part in your poll. Have you heard about the coffee bean poll at Muffin Break?http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0810/S00038.htm
From Linda Flavell
- October 16, 2008 at 12:59 PM
- Mrs Jarman said...
Well Done Tanielu,
I'm not sure who I support yet. Luckily there are a few weeks to go. I'll keep reading your Blog to help me make up my mind.
From Mrs Jarman
- October 16, 2008 at 4:20 PM


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Staff Sgt. Ronald C. Blystone, 34, of Springfield, Mo., died April 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds suffered when he encountered small arms fire during a dismounted patrol. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
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Last year, when Alex was raped by another student, her board school turned a blind eye. Alex had to turn to the Mockingbirds, a secret society of students who police the student body because the staff refuses to. Now Alex is the had of the Mockingbirds, and it's her turn to take charge and right wrongs. The problem is that this year's case is different from what the tribunal is used to. How do you prove guilt when there isn't a clear-cut victim? How far do you take something, even if it means jeopardizing relationships with those closest to you?
Although readers don't technically have to read Whitney's debut in order to follow the characters and plots present in this sequel, it certainly helps. Having a sense of who Alex was last year, during her own rape trial, and who stood behind her and what it all meant will help add meaning to this convoluted mystery. (This reader will admit to wishing for a little more review of what had happened in the previous book.) That being said, the story moves along quickly enough that new readers should enjoy the twisty story.
Readers familiar with the Mockingbirds at Themis Academy will be surprised to find many changes afoot in this follow up. While The Mockingbirds illustrated the group's policies and procedures as a streamlined set of guidelines full of checks and balances, Alex really fumbles in this one. Whitney provides a lot of ethical questions, and thankfully doesn't attempt to answer all of them.
Also well done is the way that Alex's rape stigma follows her around throughout this novel as well. It is believable and authentic. The reactions of characters around Alex help to add a realness to the novel that might otherwise be lacking.
That brings me to the biggest sticking point and the piece I find hardest to swallow: despite its entertaining qualities, the book's main premise smacks of unreality. The fact that the school's administration turns such a blind eye to all student infractions never feels authentic. Are we to believe that they really aren't afraid of legal ramifications? Really?
Despite all this, this is a fast-paced read that fans of twisting mysteries should gobble up. This one doesn't have staying power, though. It fades from memory pretty quickly.
The Rivals by Daisy Whitney. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers: 2012. Library copy. Read for 2012 Cybils Round 1 Panel.


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To Eddard, Baron Brocas of Torh, from Trocero, Captain-Seneschal of the Keep in the Wallow, greetings.
My Lord, I write in haste, returned from a skirmish. Mistday last, a runner arrived from the fisherfolk who warned us of "dire heathen monsters" approaching from the north. I took a patol of men out on the next day, being Foxday and as it was all too possible that this was a ruse to have us engage a snark, took a number of longbowmen, in the heavy savoyard armour recently arrived. We reached the Old North Bastion just to find a band of skeletons some yards from marching out onto the sward. I sent half the men to line the rubble, while taking the rest along the right hand wall to arrive on the flank of the undead. The armour slowed us down but the men held their line until we, having had to fight a goodly number on the flank, fell upon them and broke their line. The undead were either hacked down or crumbled as if some dweomer had been shattered. No sign was found of a leader of any form. None of our men were hurt, though some had been cornered by two or more skeletons. My compliments to the Armourer. We scouted around and found some 30 gold quadroons of dubious vintage which are added to the warchest, as ever, taxation of the fisherfolk seems nigh pointless and cruel. We then crossed some snark tracks but returned to the Keep much to the cheer of the villagers as we past through their hovels. Stopping to rest in an unusually cheery glade, I found a curious stone, possibly a charmstone, I believe.
The weather here remains dank and cold, with a heavy frost and some ice in the channels. Were we not so far from their fastnesses, I'd look to see frost giants or winter kobolds lurking hereabouts in the coming weeks as winter settles in. I will shortly sent a patrol of horse to ensure the road is open to the Rampant Griffin and to enquire of rumours from mine host Billings.
As to supplies we are well found, though as ever more arrows and men of veteran service are much needed; further, if undead are to be an occurence here, a man of priestly order (a Brother Militant mayhap) would be invaluable.
This is being sent by fast rider this day,
Trocero, Capt
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
A missive to the Baron
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In another tribute to the Leonard program and its ability to shift my thinking, as well as the thinking of others, legacy is something that has been on my mind lately. As I walked up the stairs heading to North Campus yesterday, a subtle feeling of nostalgia crept over me as I began to think seriously about the fact that I have under four months left as an undergraduate at this University that I call home. The sights of north campus instantly became more striking and the entire atmosphere of campus became something that I no longer took for granted – even if only for several minutes.
Part of my thought process included what I will have accomplished here at UGA – what I will leave behind me when I finally walk under the arch. And also what the world has in store for me (I'll address that in my next post). For now, I want to talk about legacy.
Dictionary.com defines legacy in a couple ways:
1) a gift of property, esp. personal property, as money, by will; a bequest
2) anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor
I think it is important to consider what your gift will be to those that follow in your steps in any given situation. This doesn't mean that you have to have held a million leadership roles – or any for that matter. It means thinking about what you are giving back to the people around you.
In my case, I've made a ton of mistakes in my 4.5 years here. Some of them big, some small. Ultimately, I hope none of them have been so impactful as to define me in the minds of those that I leave behind. I hope that my legacy will be leaving organizations better than I found them (if only in very small details), investing time in those around me, never hesitating to give a helping hand to those that ask, and having a genuine spirit of service that reflects my desire to give back to my friends, family, and to the university that has given me so much.
Honestly, I have no idea what people will remember me for. I have no idea if my weaknesses out-weigh my strengths in the minds of others. But at the end of the day, I've tried my best to embody the points I made above.
My challenge to you today is to think about how you plan to make an impact on those around you. How will your younger friends think of you when you graduate? How will the organization be left when you are no longer an officer? How will your company remember you when you move on to a new job?
Leadership is an intentional action. Making an impact is a by-product. Legacy comes from both. What will yours be?


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Dr. Harold Wayne MatthewsJune 3, 1928 ~ April 4, 2017 (age 88)
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Dr. Harold W. Matthews, 88, of Hillsboro, IL passed away on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 7:10 a.m. at St. John's Hospital, Springfield, IL. Cremation rites were accorded. A Memorial Service will be held at a later date. Bass Patton Dean Funeral Home, Hillsboro, IL is assisting the family.
Dr. Matthews was born on June 3, 1928, in Grayville, IL, to the late Samuel and Bertha (Ulrich) Matthews. He was a graduate of Brownstown High School, Brownstown, IL; received his Bachelor's Degree from Taylor University in Indiana and a Doctorate Degree from Saint Louis University in Missouri. Dr. Matthews married Marietta Carlene Mitchell on August 10, 1951, and she preceded him in death on March 6, 2014. He was an educator having taught in the Alton School District, Alton, IL; was Principal of Alton Senior High School, Alton, IL; Assistant Superintendent for the Alton School District, Alton, IL; was a College Professor at Bryan College in Tennessee and a Professor at Spring Arbor University in Michigan. Among the places he lived during his lifetime were Alton, IL; Jackson, MI and Hillsboro, IL. Dr. Matthews was a member of the United Methodist Church, Alton, IL; Free Methodist Church, Spring Arbor, MI and attended the United Methodist Church, Hillsboro, IL. He served in the Army Air Corp during World War II.
Dr. Matthews is survived by two sons, Gregory (wife Kim) Matthews, Hillsboro, IL and Douglas (wife Carol) Matthews, Lexington, KY; two granddaughters, Meagan (husband Adam) Beeler, Hillsboro, IL and Rachel (husband Jeff) Olson, Springfield, IL and three great grandchildren, Emersyn Beeler, Matthew Beeler and Eloise Olson.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be given to Asbury Seminary, Lexington, KY or the Disabled American Veteran's Association.


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So Mexico was incredible this summer. It was hard that Audge and Deci were not with me. I miss them a lot and I begin to see Deci in all the little kids in the canal. The highlights are as follows. We built a house in two days for a family that were new Christians. They were incredibly happy and thankful for everything we were doing. Francisco (the father of the family) helped us every step of the way and is continuing to help other people receive houses as well. We played soccer after the tournament that a couple of people in our group put on. Believe it are not us gringos actually won the game. We cooked up 80 pounds of chicken for everyone in the village and they really enjoyed that.
I guess the favorite part of the trip this time was going back to Sister Elma's orphanage. It had been a couple of trips since I had gone to the orphanage and to be honest was not over excited about going back. When we got there all the kids lined up and started singing us songs. It was really sweet. I noticed that there was a girl who was sitting in the back and not singing. It really looked like she just didn't want to sing. To be honest, she just looked sad. I got busy talking to Sister Elma and when I came back into the courtyard everyone in our group was playing with the kids from the orphanage. I noticed that the same girl whom I had noticed was sitting at a table by herself. I went and sat down across from her and began just to talk. Soon a translator joined me and I came to learn that she had just arrived at the orphanage a few days earlier. She went on to say that some bad things had happened at her home and she really just wanted her mom back. I found out her name was Norma. She wants to be a rockstar when she gets older and play the bass(ironically the instrument of my choosing). She likes to write. She wants to be with her family for Christmas. She's never known her dad. She loves music and got to listen to it through my ipod. She brought very few things with her. As me and Norma sat there and talked I told her I was going to bring a bass guitar with me this Christmas for her. I was flipping through my poetry journal when I found a sticker I had stuck in there. I gave it to Norma and told her to hold onto it and she could put it on her bass when she got it. The sticker said "Innerlight". That is what Norma had. She was so hopeful and so open. She was full of trust and compassion, even without knowing what the future held. It was most inspiring. As she was hanging me back my ipod she took out some stickers she had and placed a large heart on the back of the ipod. That sticker is one of the greatest gifts I have ever been given. That night I when we got back to our camp I wrote a Mexico inspired poem. It had been a while. I hope you enjoy it.
I've been looking for a journey to
travel most my life.
Something with sustenance. Like a sandwich
with so much mustard that when you bite
down it squeezes out the side. Runs down your
chin. Leaves a taste in your mouth.
Too often I feel like I'm chewin on
stale bread. With crumbs fallin south
all over me. Leavin traces of a journey
but one that didn't really taste that good.
I ate it because eatin is what you do.
I walked the journey cause I should,
not because my heart bled out for it.
Not because my soul screamed for it.
I don't want to walk just to walk anymore.
Life's journey is not a school track.
It's an adventure. It's dirt roads in Mexico.
It's a poor man's smile. It's not turning back.
It's pizza with a single mom and her daughter.
It's a widow's orphanage.
It's Africa and India and Ireland and Alder Springs.
It's giving thanks for a bowl of grits.
It's walking in the way and finding the narrow path.
It's going where our strength would fail
and leaning on His. It's about finally grasping
life and following a man down a shepherd's trail.


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(This blog was supposed to be published on April 6th, 2013 and never did.)
Dear Jace,
Seeing as your dad and I finally told your grandparents about you, I can use this blog for what I originally set it up for. Letters to you, my son.
A few days ago, April 3rd to be exact, we found out that we were expecting a bouncing baby boy (and "bouncing" doesn't even come close to what you do in there).
You became "he" instead of "it" and let me tell you, it was the best feeling in the world. I couldn't get over how amazing it felt to be able to call you by name. Of course, we had your name picked out long before you were conceived. I kept repeating your name over and over in my head. Jace Dylan...what a perfect name for a perfect boy.
I'm ashamed to say that your father and I are no where near where we wanted to be in life before we had children. Oh well, right? I promise you this, Jace, you will never know hunger or cold, boredom or fear. I will be sure that you are always as well cared for as you are right now, no matter what I have to sacrifice.
This is all for now. Let's see what these next few months bring us!


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Frothing at the mouth misandry.
Before you go any father, Bob has assumed that you, my reader, is familiar with Internet porn. It is difficult to be on-line very long without getting spam mail inviting you to porn sites. Virtually everyone who has spent any appreciable time on-line over the past decade has surfed over to a porn site just to check it out, perhaps after a promise of "free" downloads. Then there are the Usenet, IRC, chat groups, and other free sites which exist for sharing porn pictures and video clips. Many young people today have their own video cams where they produce and share live action videos of themselves, many of which are pornographic. If you, my reader, can honestly say that you have never viewed, checked out, visited, or seen pornographic images on the Internet please add a comment letting us know that you exist and telling us how you have avoided any exposure to sexually explicit images.
Morton R. Berger had collected numerous pornographic images over several years. According to the Arizona persecutors, 20 of his images featured young women or girls, younger than 15 years old. Many young women of that age are the ones who are demanding sex from their boyfriends and making babies without husbands. See Of Course they want sex. While many fathers and mothers don't approve of girls and young women acting sexual it is a fact of life. Shit happens. Shit is dirty, but everybody does it. Sex is dirty, but everybody does it and it doesn't hurt anyone. Shit and sex are part of life. Sometimes, often, taking a nice shit feels good. Sex almost always feels good. That's why people do sex, and why people of all ages do it. In their tormented psychotic minds the hate mongering misandrists have seized on the chant of "protecting the children" to justify the massive destruction of MEN. Does it hurt a child if a middle age man surfing the Internet downloads an image of a young woman engaged in sex? Not by any sane stretch of imagination. Only in the psychotic hate of the most evil misandrists can the chant of "protecting the children" have any relevance.
Was Morton R. Berger hurting children. NO! Not even the misandrist psychos have alleged that any child was hurt. Was Morton R. Berger a pedophile pervert who focused on children. NO! Not even the misandrist psychos have alleged that he was a pedophile or a pervert. On the contrary, all the evidence clearly shows that Morton R. Berger was a NORMAL MAN who worked hard every day taking care of his family. Like the majority of NORMAL MEN AND WOMEN he occasionally looked at pornographic photos and had a NORMAL sex life with his wife. Yet he was singled out and destroyed by the evil Arizona agents of Satan in blue goon suits and black robes. Read Story Morton R. Berger's family has been destroyed. He has been sentenced to 200 years in Auchwitz or some other evil hell hole. His case is blatantly sexist, they never prosecute females for similar so-called crimes. The case is not about protecting children. The case is not about enforcing "the law." The case of Morton R. Berger is about destroying MEN, as many MEN as possible. It is the result of evil tormented psychotic minds of hate, feminists who hate men, and their government lackeys who hate men with a hate so strong they froth at their mouths and can not see the abject evil they do.
To the decent people of Arizona, the people who feel good when they have a nice shit, the people who love the desert, the people who work every day to take care of their familes, and to the good people who enjoy normal natural sex, its time you spoke out to your elected officials. Its time to demand that they stop the hate, stop the hatred of men, stop sending men to hell. Its time for an angry mob of decent MEN to pick up our pitchforks and axes, and storm the castles of evil hate mongering government officials.
Its time for an angry mob of decent MEN to round up the daemons of hate and impale them in front of their nests. Send them back to the hell from whence they came.


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Brieftons QuickSlice Spiralizer
This slicer is very easy to use. The suction cups did not really hold on but I think it is because of the type of surface I used at my mother's house. I really like how easy it was to switch between the different types of cuts. I like using it for potatoes to make hash browns. The options though are limitless. It's a fantastic way to make a boring salad more fun. #Brieftons


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Artist: Nick van Woert
Exhibition title: Organ Donor
Venue: GRIMM, New York, US
Date: June 2 – July 16, 2017
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Artists: Hadassah Emmerich, Sulaïman Majali, Nick van Woert, Ada van Hoorebeke, Samuel Levack & Jennifer Lewandowski, Thomas van Linge Exhibition title: Now Age Curated by: Yasmijn Jarram Venue: Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Date: May 22 – July 12, 2015 Photography: Thijs de Lange, images courtesy of the artists and Garage Rotterdam Dressed totem poles, cat litter box filling and an industrial pyramid: the international group exhibition Now Age combines nature, mysticism and spirituality with the everyday here and now. Now Age applies a contemporary filter to timeless fascinations in a subtle and, at times, humorous way. The visual artists taking part in this group exhibition – some of whom have […]
Artists: Alma Allen, Darren Bader, Frank Benson, Chris Bradley, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joanne Greenbaum, George Herms, Alice Hutchins, Ma Johnson, Shio Kusaka, Jason Meadows, Miki Mochizuka, William J. O'Brien, Anthony Pearson, Puppies Puppies, Amanda Ross-Ho, Hayley Tompkins, Nick van Woert, Lisa Williamson Exhibition title: Small Sculpture Venue: Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, US Date: February 14 – March 14, 2015 Photography: Images courtesy of the artists and Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago Jason Meadows, Pendant Lamp, 2015 Lisa Williamson, Untitled, 2015 George Herms, Lymphatic Vessel, 2008 Joanne Greenbaum, Untitled, 2015 William J. O'Brien, Untitled, 2015 Shio Kusaka, group 13, 2014 George Herms, Tissue Rose, 2002 Hayley Tompkins, Shadow Clock III, 2009 Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Freestanding Sculpture), 2015 Frank Benson, Untitled (Aztec), 2011 Lisa Williamson, Untitled, 2015 Matt Johnson, […]


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I love C.S. Lewis. Hey, he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia!! Amazing, amazing books to fuel the imagination, and spur the heart, and touch the soul. And this is a great quote. I love the idea of never saying enough with dreaming or goal setting. Someone once said regarding 'retiring' that no where in the Bible did anyone retire. That God never intended man to 'retire'. That kind of goes along with this quote. I don't think God would ever want us to stop dreaming or stop setting goals. I mean we can never be finished becoming like Christ until we stand face to face with him so we are never done growing and if we're never done growing than there is always more. Just more. So dream more, set goals more, and grow more.
Imagine if you set a goal to read the bible every day for 1 week. And you checked off each day for 1 week. Then you set another goal to read the bible every day for 1 week and you accomplished that goal. Are you seeing where I'm going. You don't ever stop setting goals and you don't stop growing. God's word tells us that His word will not return void so those two short term goals you set and accomplished will produce much fruit in your life. Ah, love it.
This is wonderful; after my 47 before I'm 48 goal list; and our 100 days of summer list to realize that I haven't stopped dreaming and haven't stopped goal-setting. What hit me when I saw this quote though was my mom hasn't either. Although it's been just over a year since my dad passed away Mom is still dreaming and still goal setting too. Love it.


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This website provides a brief overview of WaterSecure. It is not being updated.
Trading as WaterSecure, Australian WaterSecure Innovations Limited was established in June 2016 following national engagement by the former Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence and operated until February 2018. It worked closely with Australia's two peak water industry associations – AWA and WSAA – as well as with Water Research Australia, all state and territory governments, regulators, and the water industry more broadly; both private industry and public utilities. It also had a formal association and working arrangement with the Water, Environment and Research Foundation, one of the peak national water associations in the USA.
WaterSecure had carriage of two flagship programs; WaterVal and Water360. It further developed these in close collaboration with the Australian water industry to ensure their practical implementation and use in Australia and internationally, particularly in the US. Details of current management arrangements (from February 2018) for each of these programs is found below.
WaterVal provides a process and new suite of research-based, national guidelines designed to streamline the process of validating water treatment technology. Under WaterSecure's stewardship, WaterVal was developed to the point where it has been accepted for use nationally, in all Australian states and territories. Commencing February 2018, WaterVal is being managed by Water Research Australia.
Water360 offers a suite of high quality information and education products and tools on the water cycle that are particularly useful for water utilities and local governments. From its previous focus on potable reuse, in close association with the water industry, WaterSecure developed the Water360 products and program to encompass the broader water cycle, water infrastructure investment and community engagement on supply options more generally.
From February 2018, Water360 is being managed by the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA), Australia's peak association for water service providers.
WaterSecure's Board comprises a cross section of highly qualified and experienced water industry professionals:
Lucia Cade (Chair) (private and public sector water industry expertise and former President AWA), Adam Lovell (Executive Director WSAA), Mark Pascoe (CEO, International Water Centre) and Greg Oliver (WaterSecure CEO and Executive Director).
Lucia has extensive experience in the utility, infrastructure and construction industries as an executive and an advisor, specialising in business strategy, organizational change, strategic stakeholder engagement, incentivised procurement models and major projects.
Lucia is Chair of South East Water Ltd and an independent non-executive director of Engineers Australia and the Cooperative Research Centre for Energy Pipelines. She is a member of the Value Assessment Panel at the Melbourne University School of Engineering and a Global Advisor to the UN Global Compact - Cities Programme, based at RMIT. Lucia is a former National President of the Australian Water Association.
Lucia holds Bachelor degrees in civil engineering and economics from Monash University, a Masters of Engineering Science from Monash University and an MBA from the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of Engineers Australia.
Adam is the Executive Director of WSAA, a position he commenced in 2011. Adam provides national leadership in policy positions for the Australian urban water sector on issues including industry reform, liveable cities, water quality, climate change, customer engagement and asset management. Adam also holds a number of non-executive Board roles including: the Australian National Centre of Excellence for Desalination, the Global Water Research Coalition and the WateReuse Research Foundation (USA).
Mark is the CEO of the International WaterCentre where his role is to lead the development of the joint venture in providing capacity building services to water managers and their organisations and particularly to help develop our future water leaders. He has worked for his more than 40-year career in the water industry – commencing with Brisbane City Council before taking up the position of Deputy Director, International Water Association in London, which he held for three years before returning to Brisbane. Mark has held positions of President, Australian Water Association; Board Member, Water Services Association of Australia; Board Member, Co-operative Research Centre, Water Quality and Treatment; Board Member, Global Water Research Coalition. More recently he served as a Board Member of the Western Corridor Water Recycled Water Company and the Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence. Mark currently chairs the Queensland Government's Water Expert Panel.
Greg was WaterSecure's CEO and Executive Director. He has a long history in the water industry, including local and state government, research and consultancy during which time he has led and managed development and implementation of policy, plans and regulations for sustainable water and natural resource management. Greg previously spent four years at the Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence AWRCoE as the General Manager, Strategy and Impact where was instrumental in developing the two flagship programs subsequently managed by WaterSecure. In this position he also led the impact and adoption strategies for research generated outcomes as well as international partner and commercialisation agreements.
Greg has also served in the Queensland Government as General Manager, Urban Water Policy, a position in which he worked closely with water service providers and the cooperative development of new performance based regulations. During the Millennium Drought, Greg worked in Seqwater and the Qld Water Commission where he led the internationally acclaimed South East Queensland demand management program.
Don is science communicator with a background in journalism, community education, science-industry partnerships and corporate communication. He former positions include executive officer of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme in Victoria and communication manager for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in Queensland. He has established and directed communication, education and industry training programs for several Australian Cooperative Research Centres, and worked as a private consultant, particularly in the Australian research and water industries. He has extensive skills, knowledge and experience in developing science-industry partnerships, collaborative R&D projects, communication strategies, marketing campaigns, training courses, science communication, and stakeholder engagement programs.
Dr. Cedric Robillot is Managing Director for HeadStart Development Pty Ltd, providing strategic advisory and program management services in a range of sectors. In his role as Program Manager for the Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence, he has led the Priority Research Program for the development of the National Validation Framework for Water Treatment Technology.
He was until 2012 Executive Manager for Seqwater (Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority) in charge of the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme and Gold Coast Desalination Plant ($3.5 billion asset portfolio) and of the R&D portfolio.
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This was penciled by my buddy, a awesome character designer Jason Lowe (check my friends list) He sent me this sketch awhile ago and I stumbled on it one day going through my hard drive. I thought it was so cool and stylized I had to ink Logan up, so here's the result. Hopefully I didn't choke out the strength of J's cool drawing style.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Some inks over my boys pencils
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- Emerson Fialho said...
Traço fantástico, parabéns, Brocasso!
Abração e sucesso!
- February 24, 2011 at 5:04:00 PM PST
- Geoff Thorne said...
hey! tasty!
- February 24, 2011 at 9:35:00 PM PST
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- David Reyes said...
nice pencil sketch!!
- February 26, 2011 at 1:04:00 PM PST
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Dig it!
- February 28, 2011 at 3:41:00 PM PST
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wolverine done right. Awesome job!
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Introduction For those who are not familiar with the snakes and ladders game. Here is a link for introduction. So the fastest reach in snakes and ladders, is a modified version of the game. So, you are playing the game called snakes and ladders and you have an enchanted dice. You are the master of the dice and you can command it to get any number between 1 and 6 both inclusive. This means that when you throw the dice, the number on the upper face is totally controlled by you. If you ask for a 5, you get a 5 and so on. Problem Statement - Fastest Reach in Snakes and Ladders The problem in ha...Read More
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Graph Theory Applications – The Instant Insanity Puzzle
[nextpage title="Applications of Graph Theory"] Graph Theory is used in modelling and solving a lot of real world problems, games and puzzles. Here we discuss a very famous puzzle " The Instant Insanity " problem. The goal of this post is to demonstrate that such complicated problem statements can be so easily modeled and solved using Graph Theory. Also I would like to build some more interest into Graph Theory. If you want to feel more comfortable with the basics of Graph Theory, here is a list of primers you might like to read once. Problem Definition - The Instant Insanity Puzzle The...Read More


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One year after founding Thankyou Water, 20-year-old Daniel Flynn hit a wall. His bottling factory had not supplied product for five weeks, which meant he'd lost 300 of his 350 customers and about $20,000 from the cash reserves. "From a personal perspective, I felt like I'd failed everyone," says Flynn, now 26. "When you're the guy saying 'It's going to take off soon!' and it all comes crashing down, it can be so hard to deal with."
What got Flynn through were two things. Firstly, he reminded himself why he and co-founders Justine Flynn and Jarryd Burns had started Thankyou in the first place: to help people in need. Already, profits from their bottled Aussie H2O were beginning to fund sustainable water projects in developing nations.
He couldn't stop, because if he succeeded, lives would be changed and maybe saved. Secondly, there was his team. They'd got the business off the ground from their parents' garages – holding meetings in lounge rooms while juggling uni and work schedules. They'd come this far, and if Flynn had learned anything, it was that together they could make great things happen.
The idea for Thankyou Water first hit Flynn in 2008, when he was studying project management at Melbourne's RMIT University. "The research I was involved in was all about water," he explains. "For me, it was this mind-blowing thing: we were living in a world of 900 million people who didn't have access to clean water. There were 4,500 kids dying every day from waterborne diseases."
As an Aussie with water safely on tap, Flynn couldn't have been further from the problem. He certainly wasn't about to die from thirst, or disease. He even bought bottled water from shops at times. "To us, that was a starting point," Flynn remembers.
"It felt like such an easy concept. Water for water; turn a stupid product into something of significance. Why not? The market already existed."
As a nation, Australians spend around $600 million a year on bottled water. Flynn connected the dots, and his mates Justine and Jarryd rallied behind him. With a net worth of about $1000, they began visiting bottling factories. "We had no start-up capital and no prospective investors," Flynn remembers. "So we decided to go down a different path: to obtain support from businesses by proving our idea had momentum."
The first step was to get a water factory on board. After some persuasive conversations about the Thankyou vision, Flynn and the team managed to secure a deal with no up-front costs. They then locked in bottle donation from an established packaging company, and a major distributor signed up. Finally, they received a one-off $20,000 gift from a business mentor to cover basic start-up costs, and Thankyou was born.
Six years on, despite factory closures and distributors going under, Thankyou has "helped over 90,000 people access safe water", Flynn reports. Every 600ml bottle sold provides at least one month's worth of water to someone in need, which means Aussie water now funds water wells, tanks, bio-sand filters and gravity-fed water solutions in the developing world. "We've donated over $1.4 million so far to water, food, health and hygiene programs across 11 different countries," Flynn says. "And to be honest that does feel good."
Flynn is also honest about the gall of getting Thankyou to this point. "In the early days we met with huge manufacturers and most of the time we had no idea what they were saying," he admits."We learned the fine art of smiling and nodding, while writing down every acronym to research later."
What Flynn does know is his organisation's mission. "I live and breathe our vision," he says. "I've also learned it's OK not to know everything. I've even found it a benefit sometimes to be upfront if I don't know what someone is talking about, because it gives them an opportunity to feel like they have something to offer us."
Thankyou has now diversified into 24 products that span water, food and hygiene, each directly linked to different programs: a food range that funds food, and a body care range that funds hygiene. Thankyou make muesli, oats and bars for the pantry, and hand wash and sanitiser for the bathroom." Importantly, we make products we'd actually buy and like," Flynn explains. "We say the product has to be better than competitors', and by buying it you're changing the world."
But are you also harming the planet? For all the good impact Thankyou has, its bottles come at a cost to the environment. It can take three litres of water to produce a one-litre bottle. Transportation of bottled water requires fossil fuels and many bottles end up in landfill. On this point, Flynn has something interesting to say: "If you don't buy bottled water, don't buy Thankyou Water," he states. "There's a market already. People in our country spend $600 million on it. While the industry exists in Australia, we will try to get as much money as we can to people who really need water."


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University offering theology course featuring lyrics of Bruce Springsteen | Fox News
It may seem like the Christian world and entertainers of our popular culture are always at odds with each other. As this article from Fox News points out that is not always the case.
University offering theology course featuring lyrics of Bruce Springsteen | Fox News.
I am reminded of Romans 8:28 which tells us. "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose."
We see here an example of how our secular work and our role as Christians are not as separate as you might think. As I wrote in my article The Three Vital Ministries of the Average Christian years ago every bible believing Christian is called to some form of ministry, not just those of us who pursue ministry in a vocational sense. God grants us gifts of certain talents to enable us to fulfill the ministry he has called us to. For some people these talents fall within the sphere of what we call entertainment.
What this course at Rutgers proves is that neither Springsteen or any other performer has to hide their faith in order to be successful as a secular entertainer. Roma Downey (Touched By An Angel, The Bible Miniseries) is another example. Now granted, we may not completely agree with how they portray their message, but i could just as easily say that about vocational ministers. The point is they are using their God given talents to showcase and spread God's point of view. I take two things away from this, 1) we should all look at our secular life and see how we can use every part of it for our personal ministry. 2) We need more people in public life entertainers, public officials etc. who are willing to resist "putting their faith in a drawer." when they clock in to work. Granted displaying, and conducting our faith in the world at large is done differently than when we are amongst each other,still like Sringsteen and Downey we must still make the effort.
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"The authors argue, "As markets for human organs, tissues and reproductive body parts experience unprecedented growth, the limits of what can or should be bought and sold continue to be pushed. As such, bodies have emerged as sale-worthy economic capital. Commercial flows of reproductive material create and deploy the division of the body into parts over which ownership is claimed, in the process following 'modern routes of capital' and raising issues of structural inequality.""
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From our south-of-the-border neighbors to the Far East, this weekend's festivals are all about celebrating culture with dancing, music, food and more! Check it all out here, in our Weekend Festival Guide:
Mexican Fiesta (Henry Maier Festival Park, Milwaukee)
Spice up your life with authentic Mexican food, rousing mariachi bands, the foot-stomping rhythms and colorful swirl of traditional dancers, and the handmade treasures of the marketplace. You can do more than just be a spectator at the fiesta by participating in the handful of contests taking place, including dancing competitions, cultural costume contests and even a jalapeno-eating contests, truly not for the faint of heart.
Stop by the Cultural Village, which showcases beautiful Mexican arts, crafts and textiles. Here, you'll also find the Tequila Expo, where you'll be able to see and learn about beautiful bottled tequilas and celebrate Mexico's most famous liquor.
And of course, what would a Mexican Fiesta be without delicious food? Local restaurants El Campesino, Tres Hermanos and more offer their delectable cuisine throughout the entire festival.
The Festival runs Friday 11am-11:30pm, and Saturday & Sunday from noon-11:30pm. To learn more, click here.
Silver City's Asian Festival (National Avenue, Milwaukee)
Milwaukee's only Asian Festival celebrates the many diverse cultures of the world's largest continent. Enjoy Asian culture, food, dance, family fun, live music, martial arts shows, a host of performers, games and more! And don't miss out on the first annual dance competition sponsored by Medical College of Wisconsin, with prizes up to $500.
This year's festival also features the Milwaukee's Best Egg Roll Competition! The winning entry receives the title of Milwaukee's Best Egg Roll, as well as a $250 prize. The Silver City Asian Festival runs from 10am to 6pm Saturday. Admission is free.


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Whatever shock I might have felt to learn that my former middle school classmate Paul DePodesta would be portrayed in a major motion picture by Jonah Hill was far exceeded on the day after Thanksgiving, when my high school classmate, Rey Deceraga, accidentally elbowed President Barack Obama in the upper lip during a basketball game, causing an injury that required twelve stitches to close.
As I understand it, things went something like this: Rey zigged, the President zagged, zig met zag, and all hell broke loose. And we were left with the conclusion that they play some smashmouth basketball in the Federal government. (At least I think that it is smashmouth basketball. Smashmouth is a word that sports journalists seem to like to use. Of course, Smashmouth was also a catchy/annoying band from the Nineties. Anyway, I am discussing the actual smashing of a mouth, so I am probably right in my usage.)
By this point the story has crested and subsided, but it was briefly big-time news. I cannot hope to recap all the serious coverage; if one wants that, I would recommend a Google search. Instead, I will note a few of the odder references to Rey in the media/entertainment universe.
Over the weekend following the incident, Rey inspired the Drudge Report headline Elbower doesn't say sorry.
On Monday, November 29, Jimmy Kimmel in his monologue referred to Rey as "Roy Deceraga" and identified him as Mexican, although in reality Rey originally hails from Panama.
On Tuesday, November 30, Jay Leno showed footage from a news report concerning the incident, and at the point where Rey's name was mentioned, the real video was replaced with a scene of a man being thrown out of an airborne helicopter. (The helicopter scene was presumably meant to show the retribution exacted against on Rey.)
As a final comment, let me say that no one who knew Rey would have expected him to become involved in a brouhaha, or even worse, a brouhahaha, with a sitting President. In our senior class, Rey was voted both Most Popular and Most Mature, and he is widely known for his natural diplomatic skills.


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Thursday, 26 November 2009
Angry clouds
This is the first and last photos I took on a walk yesterday. See how quickly the weather changes here? That grey cloud in the second photo rained all over me on my way home :-(
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Labels: autumn, bristol, canon eos 40d, clouds, photography, weather
Early morning light
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Bullion LP cover design
I was just rooting around on some old folders on my computer and I found this, which I don't think I ever posted. Its an LP cover design I did last year which unfortunately was rejected by the client. I like it though! The text is some vintage typography I found on a really old jazz record, which I then messed around with on Photoshop.
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Labels: heartache, illustration, pencil
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Tuesday drawing
Here's what I drew today. I think it looks like the cover for a scifi novel that hasn't been written yet. Maybe about a girl that has wifi installed in her brain or something. Anyway, the model I used is Stam.
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Labels: hot lips, illustration, models, pencil
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Louboutins drawing
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Labels: heels, illustration, pencil
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Ripley illo
This is an image I made for a new project thought up by Paul Paper.
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Labels: alien, illustration, jumpsuit, pencil
Monday, 2 November 2009
Walk along the river
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Labels: animals, boats, cambridge, canon eos 40d, leaves, photography
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Jesus College in the rain
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Morning in Cambridge
I went to visit my sister over the weekend. This is what I saw when I peered out of her window early on Saturday morning.
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Happy Halloween
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Tea in the park
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Labels: bristol, canon eos 40d, eat/drink, photography, summer, tea
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What to do with jicama? If you are familiar with water chestnuts, this has similar texture – crunchy and a bit sweet. I some time will substitute this for bean sprouts in recipes such as eggrolls. Here I've used beef as the meat but chicken, pork or ground turkey would be good options. Alternatively, a great vegetarian dish if you skip the meat and even scramble in an egg.
Preparing the jicama for cooking is much like potatoes for french fries. You can often peel the jicama with a potato peeler. If the skin is too thick, just simply take a peel it by hand with a paring knife.
Serve with heaping steamed white rice!
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Full Disclosure: Received a copy of an ARC from Harper Collins
I picked out this book from Harper's ARC list for Patrick, my fiance, because I knew that he enjoyed poetry. He kindly agreed to write a little review for this blog as well. Enjoy!
I have always liked poetry. In my mind it has usually been a term reserved for lines with perfect rhythm and rhyme, but I can appreciate free verse in the hands of a master. Yet on those occasions when I've picked up an avant-garde anthology with hopes of being swept into the future of poetry, I've always reacted with the feeling that I must not have what it takes.
New York Times poetry reviewer David Orr, in the introduction to Beautiful & Pointless, gives me the comfort of knowing that my reaction is all too common: "It's easy to feel that your response to the art is somehow wrong, that you're either insufficiently smart or insufficiently soulful," Orr writes. He suggests that modern poetry is a bit like a foreign country. To paraphrase: Expect confusion. Indeed, Orr's introduction gave me high hopes that he would give me the sort of Fodor's Guide to Modern Poetry, that I was the ideal reader for this travelogue, and that at long last my heart and mind might be moved by those one-word, arrhythmic, non-rhyming, non-punctuated lines.
Orr's book is really a collection of essays on topics that he considers in reviewing a modern poem. He resists overall thumbs-up or thumbs-down judgments (de gustibus and all that) but can at least tell a potential reader whether a poem is interesting. He approaches this question from a few different angles, each of which receives an essay within Beautiful & Pointless: How is the poem personal to either the poet or the reader? Is there a political message? In what ways does the poem adhere to (or reject) established poetic forms? Is the poem "ambitious"? And (in a chapter called "The Fishbowl"), what does the poem tell us about the modern state of the poetry world?
As for "ambition", Orr argues that a poet's pursuit of capital-g Greatness may be counterproductive, primarily using a comparison of contemporaries Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. Lowell's comparatively bombastic work was praised as it rolled off the presses, but Bishop's more modest words and themes appear to have earned greater posthumous appreciation. I enjoyed the discussion and Orr's insight, but wondered if Lowell/Bishop might be a selective example.
I had a few frustrations with the essays in the middle of the book. One was that I did not come away with a clear picture of how Orr defines "modern" poetry, as opposed to its opposite (classical?). Aside from the section on form, it wasn't clear where "classic" poetry ended and "modern" poetry began. At times, Orr seems to count W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Frost among "modern" poets because of the time period when they worked. However, I tend to think of "modern" poetry as the inaccessible type, and those three poets are rather accessible to me, perhaps because I studied them in school.
Another frustration was that Orr told so much about the landscape of his foreign country without telling us what he thought was good or bad. For example, in wrapping up the "Ambition" section, he responds to his own question about what ambition means in modern poetry: "The answer, as I hope you've seen, is that we just don't know. There is no 'true' way to be ambitious, just as there's no 'proper' way to write poetry; instead, we exist in a flurry of possibilities that will bring to mind either snowflakes or bullets, depending on your disposition." Similarly, pointing out that many modern poets use traditional forms earnestly, many use them playfully, many use them partially, and many do not use them at all, Orr concludes: "We have either a gorgeous mosaic or a big mess, depending on whom you ask." Such statements give deference to the reader, but more deference than the target audience of casual poetry readers would like. We would tend to ask the professional reviewer: Well, is it snowflakes, or bullets? A mosaic, or mess?
My third recurring frustration was that, for someone who cares about modern poetry, Orr doesn't seem to like modern poets. If you imagine a room where a poetry reading is occurring, Orr is constantly walking us in and out of the room: In, to let us listen to the poets, then out, to tell us how crazy they are. They are entitled: "One of the poetry world's favorite activities has been bemoaning its lost audience, then bemoaning the bemoaning, then bemoaning that bemoaning, until finally everyone shrugs and applies for a grant." They are self-important: "Possibly you doubt that it really matters, politics-wise, whether somebody gets a poem published in a magazine with a circulation in the low hundreds…. This is why you are not a poet, or at least not a particular kind of poet." They are intolerantly and ineffectually liberal: "There are maybe five conservative American poets, not one of whom can safely show his face at a writing conference for fear of being angrily doused with herbal tea." And on and on. They are ivory-tower intellectuals, they are false martyrs, they are petty, they are jealous, they make mountains of molehills. The putdowns are funny, but they undermine Orr's larger task. Whether the characterization of poets has a general ring of truth, I do not know. But it does not make me want to spend time reading modern poetry.
And that – the question of whether or why I should spend any time with modern poetry – is the topic of the book's final, redemptive essay: "Why Bother?" After struggling to internalize most of the book, I found this final chapter to be wonderfully convincing and personal. Orr will not argue for reading poetry over spending discretionary time on any other given activity, but he tells us what it has meant in his own life. He recounts the magical experience of having a line (from Philip Larkin's "Water") resonate with him for the first time. And in the final few pages, he describes what poetry could, and could not, accomplish as his father fought cancer. There are no illusions of grandeur here. There is only a gifted prose writer who is grateful for the role of poetry in his life.


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Hey Ted, the Vicious1 (so far, you really don't strike me as being vicious at all… 😉
Here is my solution, at least for now.
I do use Zero Limit Switches, and I'll explain how shortly.
But, what i did is printed 2 'Bumpers' – mounted them to the corner posts opposite where i have the zero limit switches. When I send the X or Y to home, i have the bumpers just where if the pipe is straight it will just bump the bumper as it hits the Zero sw. After the axis hits the Limit Sw I check the other end and as long as the center roller is just touching my bumper all is good. Now I am getting very good repeatable results.
To test it I Homes it with the Bumpers, then moved the gantry so the bit just barely touches the edge of my work piece. and aligned the piece to the bit just brushes it along it's edge, from 0 to 1219mm
then i turned off the steppers and manually moved the gantry around, cocking the pipes a little, and hit Home – making sure the bumpers touched – and ran the cutter back to the edge, and it tracked it perfectly from 0 to 1219mm…
I repeated the process several times, and each time it was perfect – enough for what i need. Not sure if it is .2mm, but, actually, it was less that a sheet of paper from touching the work originally, less than a hair. By line of site I could just see a thin space between the bit and the work, and it repeats now, every time. Just what i needed. – Using a Zero Sw on one end and a 'bumper' on the other to make the pipe align up the same each time i home it.
Obviously, the stepper that hits the bumper skips a few times when it hits the bumper, but, only the one time to align it. Once it is aligned and i don't manually move it, when i home it again after that it just touches it without skipping. All i have to do is make sure it does touch it (if it is cocked too far away, it will hit the zero limit before it hits the bumper and there will be a space between the roller and bumper. If that happens then i have to manually uncock the pipe (or slightly cock it the other way) and home it again, and it resets itself.
Now it is working the way i want it to
Here's how I am using the Zero Switches.
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;Machining time about 12:07:57 AM hours
G90 ; use absolute coordinates
M03 S24000 ; start spindle motor 24000 means to use speed set for Tool
g28 Z ; home to limit sw < Z first, to move Bit up out of the way
g28 Y ; home to limit sw
g28 X ; home to limit sw
; Move spindle to desired Origin – Start Pos (Zero for this File, NOT the Zero Limit Sw Home)
g00 z83.4 f1800 ; NOTE I am using the 8mm Lead Screw with x16 stepping, and can get a much faster Z speed
G92 X0.0000 Y0.0000 Z0.0000 ; reset ZERO all axis
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Colonial Brothers: Robert and Helenus Scott of Glendon
With Dr Mark Dunn
Robert and Helenus Scott arrived in NSW in 1821 and took up a large estate in the newly opened Hunter Valley. They were part of a wave of free, wealthy emigrants and their family legacy lives on through the books and papers of David Scott Mitchell, their nephew, which formed the basis of the Mitchell Library. As prodigious letter writers and keepers of journals, the Scott brothers created a rich archive. This talk will examine their impact on colonial NSW and question whether their legacy is as civilised as they hoped.
Dr Mark Dunn is an independent scholar and professional historian. He was the CH Currey Fellow for 2016.


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BNCA to open Drop-in-Centre in WangduePema Seldon Tshering & Tshering Dendup, Thimphu
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Bhutan Narcotics Control Authority (BNCA) will open a Drop-in-Centre in Wangdue Phodrang end of this month in a move aimed at tackling the emerging needs of drug and alcohol dependents in the town.
Last year, the BNCA received 11 referrals for compulsory treatment in a rehabilitation centre from police in Wangdue. But in 2015, the figure hit 52.
The BNCA attributes the trend to the rapid developmental activities the dzongkhag has been seeing in the recent years.
"The upcoming of Bajo town as well as the start of the two mega hydro projects, Punatsangchhu 1 and 2, have led to an increase in the population resulting in the rise of social vices such as crimes and substance abuse," said Karma Tenzin who is a programme officer with BNCA.
Drop-in-Centres, according to the Authority, cater to the drug and alcohol dependent population for early detection. Such centres also facilitate and encourage the users to seek rehabilitation services. It is managed by certified peer counsellors.
"People struggle to get information on substance abuse. They are also not aware from where to get treatment and other rehabilitation services," add Karma Tenzin. But with the establishment of Drop-in-Centre, they will have somewhere to turn to seek help.
Today, there are seven Drop-in-Centres across the country out of which four are under Bhutan Narcotics Control Authority.


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Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Genre Survey
I decided to go around school and ask a few people personally what their favorite film genre was and why. I didn't want to just rely on the survey i did on survey monkey because people could easily just click anything which could lead to less reliable information By me going around and asking personally i felt more confident with my research as i felt i was getting honest opinions.
Focus Pulling
Focus Pulling
A focus puller is a member of the film crew's camera department whose primary responsibility is to maintain image sharpness on whatever subject or action is being filmed. "Pulling focus" refers to the act of changing the lens's focus distance setting in correspondence to a moving subject's physical distance from the focal plane.
But I don't think we will need to use this effect.
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Monday, 9 December 2013
Camera Angles
Camera angles and movements combine to create a sequence of images, just as words, word order and punctuation combine to make the meaning of a sentence. You need a straightforward set of key terms to describe them.
Describing Shots
When describing camera angles, or creating them yourself, you have to think about three important factors
— The FRAMING or the LENGTH of shot
— The ANGLE of the shot
— If there is any MOVEMENT involved
1 . Extreme long shot
This can be taken from as much as a quarter of a mile away, and is generally used as a scene-setting, establishing shot. It normally shows an EXTERIOR, eg the outside of a building, or a landscape, and is often used to show scenes of thrilling action eg in a war film or disaster movie. There will be very little detail visible in the shot, it's meant to give a general impression rather than specific information.
The extreme long shot on the left is taken from a distance, but denotes a precise location - it might even connote all of the entertainment industry if used as the opening shot in a news story.
2. Long Shot
This is the most difficult to categorise precisely, but is generally one which shows the image as approximately "life" size ie corresponding to the real distance between the audience and the screen in a cinema (the figure of a man would appear as six feet tall). This category includes the FULL SHOT showing the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom. While the focus is on characters, plenty of background detail still emerges: we can tell the coffins on the right are in a Western-style setting, for instance.
3. Medium Shot
Contains a figure from the knees/waist up and is normally used for dialogue scenes, or to show some detail of action. Variations on this include the TWO SHOT (containing two figures from the waist up) and the THREE SHOT (contains 3 figures...). NB. Any more than three figures and the shot tends to become a long shot. Background detail is minimal, probably because location has been established earlier in the scene - the audience already know where they are and now want to focus on dialogue and character interation. Another variation in this category is the OVER-THE-SHOULDER-SHOT, which positions the camera behind one figure, revealing the other figure, and part of the first figure's back, head and shoulder.
4. Close-Up
This shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a specific detail of mise en scène. Everything else is just a blur in the background. This shot magnifies the object (think of how big it looks on a cinema screen) and shows the importance of things, be it words written on paper, or the expression on someone's face. The close-up takes us into the mind of a character. In reality, we only let people that we really trust get THAT close to our face - mothers, children and lovers, usually - so a close up of a face is a very intimate shot. A film-maker may use this to make us feel extra comfortable or extremely uncomfortable about a character, and usually uses a zoom lens in order to get the required framing.
5. Extreme Close-Up
As its name suggests, an extreme version of the close up, generally magnifying beyond what the human eye would experience in reality. An extreme close-up of a face, for instance, would show only the mouth or eyes, with no background detail whatsoever. This is a very artificial shot, and can be used for dramatic effect. The tight focus required means that extra care must be taken when setting up and lighting the shot - the slightest camera shake or error in focal length is very noticeable.
Friday, 6 December 2013
The Wolverine Analysis & Review
The Wolverine Analysis & Review
The film begins with a wide shot of a landscape, then the camera slowly pans to the right and we are given more of an idea of where this scene is located. Whilst the camera pans we hear planes drowning (Diegetic audio) followed by the sound of sirens. The Camera pans and halts at an establishing shot where the audience can identify that scene is located at military base, furthermore we hear shouting in Japanese which tells us that the base were looking is in Japan. Next we see a point of view shot, and the camera is looking at the camp site through a thin gap. We are then presented with another establishing shot and we can see place of where the person was looking through the gap. The camera slowly zooms in on the place whilst people run in and out of the shot. We then see an Over the shoulder shot of the person looking through the whole again, but this time we can see some of the persons face, at this point the audience can identify the character as Wolverine, however there hasn't yet been an establishing shot to validate it.
Before watching the film I had heard that the film wasn't that good, however when I watched the film for myself I found out this was not the case. The Wolverine was action packed and formed a nice bridge between the previous X men movie (X- Men Last Stand) and the follow up (X-Men: Days of Future Past). This is the second solo wolverine movie; however I did not find myself disappointed with it like I was with the first one. The only slight critiques I have for the film was the use of swear words. Whenever they were used they sounded out of place and did not suit the character and you kind of felt like it were forced. Hugh Jackman 100% delivers again as wolverine in this movie, we a switch between wolverine being strong and powerful to weak and vulnerable and back to being strong again. This created a roller coaster effect throughout the movie and kept you thinking what could happen next. The film is mainly based in Japan, which gave the film a fresh new story line and a new feel to the Sixth instalment of the X-Men films.
Monday, 2 December 2013
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Fortnight Movie Watch #1
Inception Opening Review and Analysis
Inceptions title sequence was not at the start of the film, however the opening sequence is still analyzable regardless because it contains key information which helps to build up the films story plot. The introduction music is non diegetic music and is used while the production company logo's are displayed. Instantly the scene is set as we see crashing waves and a beach. Diegetic sound comes the waves crashing against on the rocks on the beach. We are instantly introduced to the main character of the film and lead actor of the film (Leonardo DiCaprio). We are also presented with two children that are playing on the beach. At this moment in time we are unclear of the relation and connection between the man laying on the beach and the children playing on the beach. This causes viewers to wonder what is going on and engages the the audience as they wish to know what this scene means.A Gun is pressed on the back of the mans back and shortly after the person with the gun is revealed to the audience. This adds more confusion to the scene because we have just gone from seeing kids playing on a beach to a man being threatened with a gun. The two scenes are juxtaposed by us seeing the man being pressed with gun whilst we still hear the sound of the kids playing. We are then presented with an establishing shot where can now see in more detail where the scene is set. We already knew that the location was at beach however the establishing scene verifies this and allows the audience to see where the characters are currently located.
The film was really good kept me engaged and entertained even though the film was very long. It had a very smart story line that worked well.
Film Rating
Film Techniques
1. Over-the-shoulder shots
Over-the-shoulder shots are just what the name says: a shot with an actor's shoulder in the foreground, out of focus. A good over-the-shoulder shots are some of the most time-consuming to shoot correctly, because you need to make sure that there is neither too much nor too little shoulder in the frame. However, in my opinion no serious filmmaker can afford not to learn this technique because it is narratively essential in many cases. Some directors openly say that they never shoot over-the-shoulder shots precisely because it takes ages to get the look they want and frequently can't do it at all, but in my opinion they are missing out.
From a narrative point of view, over-the-shoulder shots draw the viewer in by creating a sense of intimacy, depending on how much of the screen area the shoulder in the foreground occupies. As I wrote above, the key to making the shot work is to get exactly the right amount of shoulder in the shot. The way to do this is to work with the actor over whose shoulder you are shooting to make sure that he/she is leaning into the shot by exactly the right amount. It takes practice, and is one of those uncelebrated but essential film techniques that even the most experienced directors don't always have. I always take my time to frame the perfect over-the-shoulder shot in my work and it is worth the effort, and the actors appreciate the final results. Read my detailed guide on how to frame over-the-shoulder shots.
2. Tilt shots
Tilting up or down is one of the simplest camera techniques there are. Due to its simplicity it tends to be overused and/or poorly executed. The truth is that well-executed tilting, combined with some interesting action and with perfect coordination between the camera operator and the action, can be incredibly elegant in their simplicity. If you want to see further examples of tilt shots and the circumstances that make them appropriate, check out pretty much any film by Steven Spielberg, especially "Schindler's list."
Recommended best practices for the execution of good tilt shots:
- Set up the shot in such a way that you can tilt straight up or down, without mixing it with panning. If you can set up the shot in this way, you can lock off the panning axis of your fluid head so that it can only tilt and not pan. This will make the tilt shot very pure and elegant. Obviously there are certain circumstances in which tilting combined with panning — a diagonal movement — is the best option. What I'm saying here is that you should not mix tilting with panning just because you failed to set up the shot properly. If you are tilting up or down to move from one subject to another along the vertical axis, set up the shot in such a way that you can execute it with the panning axis completely locked off.
- Tilt shots (and panning shots) should be executed smoothly and confidently, without overshooting the final frame and then backtracking clumsily to re-establish framing, unless of course you actually want that look. It is perfectly possible to do a whip-tilt — a very fast tilt from one framing to another — with an instant lock-off and very precise framing, but you will need a highly competent and experienced camera operator. For ambitious film work, experienced camera operators are worth every penny and essential to realizing the director's vision.
3. Panning shots
Panning the shot is the horizontal equivalent of tilt shots. Like tilt shots, panning shots are conceptually simple and therefore usually overused and/or poorly executed. Exactly the same best-practice considerations made for the tilt shots apply to panning shots: try and design them in such a way that you can lock off the tilt axis in order to keep the panning pure, and hire a competent camera operator, especially if your shots require precise timing and framing accuracy. Once again I will refer you to any of Steven Spielberg's films as an excellent source of well-executed panning shots, that are so well-motivated and well-executed as to be almost unnoticeable (because they draw you into the story as opposed to distracting you from it).
Friday, 15 November 2013
Music In Opening Sequence
Because we are not allowed to use copy righted music I will be creating my own music for my opening title sequence. Here is an example of music I have created myself.
Musical Inspirations for the opening title sequence:
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Movie Company Logos
The 20th century Fox intro
Warner Bros. Intro
Universal Intro
Paramount Pictures
About Paramount Pictures 100th Anniversary:
The only major studio still located in Hollywood, Paramount Pictures celebrates its 100th year in show business in 2012. Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille are credited as Paramount's principle founders, with Queen Elizabeth being the studio's first feature film in 1912. Through a century of excellence, Paramount has set the standard in cinema and continues to deliver the highest caliber of entertainment to audiences worldwide.
Friday, 8 November 2013
I have chosen and listed the best opening sequences across various genres
Full analysis of Step Up opening sequence
Step up
0:06 to 0:12 - we are presented with a dance studio filled with ballet dancers stretching and warming up. we view this from a still mid shot. shortly after credits being to show up on the screen 'summit entertainment, which is the film studio/company that created the film. We see a fade transition and the screen goes blank
0:12 to 0:20 - We are now presented with street dancers preparing to dance outside and shortly after credits pop up on the screen. We see this for 3 seconds then we see a fade transition back to the previous shot with the ballet dancers. Throughout the following seconds the shots flicker back and forth from the streets dancers to the ballet dancer. At 0:17 we are finally presented with the film title, the text flickers and each letter spins around and then music begins to play.
0:20 to 0:32 - The shots continue to flicker from the two environments. Both groups dance and move in similar ways whilst the shots jump. At 0:27 the name of the main actor pops up on the screen followed by the lean actress in the film. The titles appear on the right hand side of the screen however the film title appeared in the center.
0:32 to 1:57 - For this time period we continue to see the mix of street dancer and ballet dancers dancing. The types of angles and shot co ordinate with each other, for example when there is a low angle shot of the streets dancers where we can see only there legs, we see the exact same shot with the ballet dancer and we can only see their legs as well. The titles go from the most important actors in the film to the directors and covers all the conventions of a opening title sequence.
- The titles are way to small and are barely visible
- There so much going on that you don't have time to pay attention to the credits
- The credits are not on the screen long enough
- The transitions are smooth
- everything coordinates well and goes with the music
- An entertaining opening
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Skyfall Title Sequence Analysis
- Creative and unique
- Very entertaining – keeps the audience looking at the screen
- Smooth flow and everything transitions well
- Text is too small
- Possible to get distracted and not pay attention to the titles
Friday, 25 October 2013
Man Of Steel Title Sequence analylsis
Man of Steel
- Engages the viewer with what's going on
- Enough time to look at and read the titles
- Smooth transitions
- Background audio coordinates with the images being displayed
- Clear to understand what is going on
- Simple and effective
- Text is too small
- Possible to get distracted and not pay attention to the titles
- Main actors where not highlighted or made significant
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
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I've been in Paris!!!!
(With the desirable colleague, hurray)
We were there on work which meant stress and worry a lot of the time, but we did end up having a free day to romp about the streets of Paris (with the desirable colleague, hurray). Here are fabulous, lovely, gorgeous photos of a city that far outdoes any in the world.
Les Deux Maggots, a pretty little cafe on the left bank where the likes of Satre hung out back in the day!
La Tour Eiffel! Comme c'est belle!
Pretty Parisien streets along the left bank. (bad dreary weather though)
Le Louvre! (And no, it isn't just famous because of a certain book)
It was a total hoot running around with four other Chinese people, eating until food came out of our ears. I dug up what French I remembered from A levels – enough apparently to impress the diners at the next table so that they kept staring at me, a strange looking Chinese girl ordering lunch for four. Hurray, all those French lessons avec Mme Mazeyrac in school were well worth it.
Funny though, how so much of the city runs like you're in Malaysia. Time is very elastic there (as it is here), and road signs are a nightmare. You know how it is when you're following a sign here, and then when you get to a crucial fork in the road, the bloody sign disappears? Just the same in Paris. The only advantage they have is that the streets are so very pretty you don't mind getting lost.
Even Carrefour is exciting there. Our crappy version here isn't a patch on the wonder that is Carrefour in France (well it better be good, considering it's from there). You don't think a supermarket could be that exciting until you go to Carrefour in France. Their chocolate aisle is like you'd died, gone to heaven, and booked yourself the most fabulous place next to the most fabulous angels with the most fabulous access to God (and I'm not even Christian). I think I must have spent about half an hour just staring at the chocolates. It was the biggest quandary I've ever been in – WHICH BARS OF CHOCOLATE TO BUY? I ended up with about 20 bars so half my luggage weight was from bars of cocoa and milk.
And because Paris is the way it is, even the desirable colleague loosened up and stopped talking about work for about two seconds. How very exciting for a dizzy romantic like me.
Then, as if through some weird psychic connection with Trisha's last post, he started up some conversation about how he likes girls that are soft spoken and gentle. Independent, but not too independent so that, "they know when to be obedient." I was like WHAT? And then, eeeeeeeewwwwwww! Obviously a far cry from loud-mouthed, gobby girls like me who never really know when to behave. Really, now, do men actually still use words like "obedient" to describe their partner of choice? Geez Louise. No matter how far exposed they are, how educated they are, how forward thinking they think they are, it seems men really do still prefer their girls to resemble pretty mantelpieces (i.e. to look at and which don't say much). Bah.
I gave the colleague a great deal of shit for that the rest of the evening which probably just reiterated the point that I'm not ever going to be soft, gentle and ladylike. But I like it that way!
In any case, I was in France, and things were happy. Simple pleasures can, for a moment quell even the angst of my agitated feminist ragings!


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I heard a radio commercial for life insurance on the way to work this morning. A woman was saying how she had been so worried about what would happen to her and her kids if her husband died. Well she called and got a quote and can get a $250,000 policy on him for $17/month. Now's she's happy because she'll be OK financially if he dies.
I wonder how much insurance the husband referred to above is carrying on her? Or if she works, how much does she carry on herself to help him out if she dies. He'd need to pay for a funeral and then going forward would have increased child-care costs and maybe need to pay for some extra help around the house (cleaning,laundry, etc). It was pointed out to me how typically women won't take out insurance on themselves. For a time, my wife and I worked for the same company, and while we worked in different departments we had equivalent positions and salaries, so we contrubuted equally to household income. The company offered a default 1 year's salary life insurance policy at no-cost to the employee as a benefit. You were also able to purchase (pre-tax) the equivalent of 4x annual salary policy, so that functionally you had a 5x annual salary benefit. As a father a 2 children, I ofcourse opted to get as much coverage as possible so I did just that. Meanwhile, my wife did not opt to get any additional coverage, and just had the default 1x coverage.
I found out about this when she resigned to stay home after the birth of our third child and I was saying how maybe I should get a policy on her through work or possibly through our home insurance agent and was wondering about how much would be appropriate. I didn't immediately react to her telling me that she hadn't thought that protecting my financial future (and the kids) was worth $20/month, but it has been something that's been niggling around in the back of my mind, and it what it says about how she views our relationship doesn't make me happy.


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Relaxing Reads
Sneak in a good book or two now that the kids are back in school! Author Teri Harman dishes on her favorite relaxing reads every woman will love! Join Teri for her launch party of her latest book, Black Moon! September 20, 7 pm /br> Millcreek Community Library 2266 E. Evergreen Ave. E. Millcreek, Utah 84109 Learn more about Teri HERE


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2nd person charged after raid on Maine home uncovers evidence of meth lab
SMYRNA, Maine (AP) � A second person has been arrested after a raid on a Maine woman's home uncovered evidence of a methamphetamine lab.
Maine State Police say 30-year-old Brian Sanford of Smyrna is charged with drug trafficking.
He's accused of helping 32-year-old Felisha Suitter make methamphetamine in her Smyrna mobile home.
Suitter was arrested last week after agents raided her home.
It's unclear if Suitter or Sanford had a lawyer.


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(06-23-2015, 01:03 PM)BigLesha Wrote: Dear Sirs! July 20, when you update over the air software with version 1.0.2 new version 1.0.4 happened update error device hung at 52% complete the upgrade. After rebooting the device does not allow to recover the old or install new system software.

Symptoms: No video signal on the HDMI output, you cannot enter the device in recovery mode ( not enabled firmware via USB). When the device is not lit blue light, although the voltage is applied, the internal HDD is started, the voltage on the USB stick supplied.

I tried to restore the software via USB

I perform all steps according to the instructions for the firmware software via USB, but unfortunately, the device is not included in the firmware recovery mode, there is no video signal, the indicator on the USB drive does not start to blink.

However, it should be noted that the power supply of the player is turned on and off like a button, and a remote control.

The blue indicator on the front panel at power-up does not light up. Red indicator light when it is turned off lights up

What to do?
Here is how to fix that, Take unit outside, Douse with gasoline, Light unit on fire, Wait for fire to burn out, Go back inside get online and purchase a new player from another company, That actually has some form of support and firmware writers that aren't still in diapers.


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Total winner this one - dead easy and really quick. Tonight I put it together with some basmati rice but there's no reason why it couldn't feature with yummy noodles. Oh, and of course, it wouldn't hurt to hurl some tofu in if you were so inclined. Can never go wrong hurling a bit of tofu into the mix. The thing I like about this garlic sauce is that it tastes really authentic... almost as good as the one they serve up at our favourite restaurant, the Laughing Buddha in Didsbury.
3 cloves garlic, minced or crushed
Tbsp cornstarch
Tbsp soya sauce
Tbsp light brown sugar
Tsp sesame oil
100 ml vegetable stock
Three florets broccoli
One head of pak choi
Tbsp vegetable oil
Mix the garlic, cornstarch, soya sauce, sugar and sesame oil in a bowl well, and then add the vegetable stock. Put this to one side as you'll need it in a mo. Wash and chop the broccoli and pak choi. Heat up the vegetable oil in a wok and add the broccoli, and stir fry for five minute or so. Add the pak choi and continue to cook for a further five or ten minutes until the pak choi has wilted. Then add the garlic sauce and stir continuously until the cornstarch has thickened up, should take five minutes at the most. Then you're done.
To serve:
This is great on basmati rice and if you're looking to impress, sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.


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XXL's Sneak Preview of Wale's 'The Gifted'
On Monday (June 3), Wale hosted an intimate listening session at the movie theater level of Bryant Park Hotel, located in Midtown Manhattan. Three weeks away from The Gifted's June 25 release date, the D.C. native invited journalists and hip-hop's influential figures to preview the album. D'USSE was served in red MMG-labeled cups, and comfort food ranging from chicken fingers to turkey burger sliders added to the event's casual ambiance.
Wale was ecstatic to show off his latest body of work, which he referred to as his version of Jay-Z's Blueprint. Sway, Angie Martinez, DJ Khaled and Giants' wide receiver Victor Cruz were just a few of those who came to show their support, in addition to his MMG cohorts Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Stalley and Rockie Fresh.
Before opening up to The Gifted's intro, Rozay described Wale's tireless work ethic to the audience, explaining "He went into the bat cave. Didn't speak to my homie for a few months." Then, Wale took center stage and thoroughly talked about his direction of the genre he deems "new black soul" for The Gifted. Focusing on live instrumentation and unique sounds, the MMG rapper seemed set to prove his evolution as an artist. "I'm challenging the listener to get into it," he says.


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Period 3: Guest speaker, Natasha Guest, senior analyst from City of Santa Monica Human Services Division - focus on homelessness issues within the city
Pust's notes from Ms. Guest's presentation/Q&A
Blank guest speaker notes form for taking notes (the notes you take will be collected next week for credit!)
Periods 2 & 5:
Watch RSA Animate of Sir Ken Robinson's "Changing Education Paradigms" and note 3-4 key ideas. Discuss with partner
Share PPT presentation to launch Local Issues Project
HW (Period 2 & 5 only): Generate a research question for your topic with built-in tension (see PPT) and craft/design a creative piece to respond initially to your topic (refer to PPT for ideas)
Ideas for responding creatively:
- Write an original poem
- Make a Wordle
- Create a drawing or image collage
- Write a short story from the point of view of another "character" involved in the issue
- Craft a descriptive sketch, using words to "paint the scene"


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Irisviel snooping around the school checking on her daughters and their girlfriend was absolutely adorable to me.
But Bazett and Rider Miyu with her MYSTIC EYES fucking stole the show.
Sooooo looking forward to rewatching these episodes after I finish Herz and 3rei episode 1.
This should be a quick and easy one to discuss as it looks like this arc is a 3-parter with the conclusion coming next week.
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