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What the government does not want Malaysians to realise
On September 17, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi who was then the Finance Minister switched portfolios with Defence Minister, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. There were mixed reactions to the sudden exchange of offices but it was a matter of better-late-than-never as the future of the country's ailing economy seemed bleak.
Being a graduate from University of Nottingham with a Bachelor's degree (Hons.) in Economics, many saw Najib as a more suitable candidate to lead the Ministry of Finance. His predecessor, Badawi on the other hand graduated with only a Bachelor of Art in Islamic Studies.
And it took Badawi this long to realise Islamic Studies had nothing to do with economics.
In just than a week in office, the new Finance Minister announced that Malaysia is heading for an economic growth rate of 5.5% or 5.7%; provided the US economy remains stable.
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 25 - Malaysia is on track to achieve the targeted 5.5 per cent or 5.7 per cent GDP growth if there are no more disastrous news from the United States, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today. [The Malaysian Insider, 25/9/08]
So, does it mean that the Malaysian economy is getting any better?
The optimism and confidence in the country's economy shown by Najib may just be nothing more than a smoke screen to dilute the magnitude of the current economic situation. However, it is not to imply that the announcement of encouraging GDP growth is a total lie by the government as there could be understated issues affecting the economy which has gone unnoticed by the majority of Malaysians.
Malaysia's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) remains at 5.1 this year, showing no major improvement since 2001, said Transparency International Malaysia president Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam. [The Malaysian Insider, 23/9/08]
On September 23, Malaysia's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) remained unchanged to last year's; at 5.1. The CPI works a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 10 (highly clean). Transparency International Malaysia president Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam told reporters that Malaysia's CPI have lingered within 4.9 to 5.1 since 2001. The absence of any signs of improvement can only be explained by Badawi's empty promises of reforms to curb corruption when he assumed office in 2003. Nonetheless, the country's CPI may have been stable but Malaysia's ranking have slipped from 43rd to 47th among 180 countries this time around.
Our closest neighbour, Singapore scored 9.2.
The inflation rate has jumped to a 27-year high of 8.5 percent in August, driven by the escalating cost of food and fuel. [Malaysiakini, 24/9/08]
On September 24, the day before Najib announced a positive growth for Malaysia, it was reported that the inflation rate for the month of August have skyrocketed to 8.5% - the highest ever in 27 years. The hike was driven by the reduction of fuel subsidies in June which witnessed the price of fuel reached an unprecedented peak of RM2.70 for petrol and RM2.58 for diesel. Hence, the prices of products ranging from rice to transportation increased as well. The price of fuel have since been reduced to RM2.45 for petrol and RM2.40 for diesel.
However, the government would be naive to believe the current reduction of fuel prices would bring the prices of goods and service down too. Most products off the shelf of supermarkets and grocery stores remained high despite lower fuel costs.
Can the projected 5.5% GDP growth be able to increase household incomes and help the middle-class cope with rising costs?
Foreign direct investment (FDI) outflow in Malaysia has exceeded inflow for the first time ever, underscoring fears that investors might be losing confidence in the government and its economic policies. [Malaysiakini, 25/9/08]
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (Unctad) World Investment Report 2008, FDI outflow in 2007 surged 82% to RM38 million from 2006. The net outflow was also reported to be almost RM9 billion.
Many economists perceived that the increase in FDI outflow reflected the maturity of many local sectors as more companies were accelerating cross-border acquisitions to expand regionally. Nonetheless, Malaysia's Inward FDI Perfomance Index ranking fell to 71st position from 67th in 2006. Ratings Agency Malaysia chief economist Yeah Kim Leng told the Business Times Singapore that larger reverse investments are acceptable, but there would be a concern if domestic investments and FDI inflow declined sharply in future.
Malaysians certainly do hope that a graduate in Economics could do a better job in turning the economy around this time. However, the predicament is not solved until the link between Islamic Studies and the military has been figured out.
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In our culture today the sanctity of human life is highly underrated; abortion is considered a right. Guest speaker Mike Warren's message equips and encourages us to shine the light of the Word into the lives of whoever is touched by this darkness. It is our privledge to do so in His name.
Sorry, we have no sermon notes for Michael Warren, our guest speaker at both services on Sunday, February 9 2014. His message gives us an understanding of the true depth and breathe of abortion in our world today, and gave us vital insight as to how we, as believers and followers of the Word, can speak of Jesus' healing love to anyone touched by this trauma. Mike co-pastors Rescue Rochester in the Pro-Life mission fields. find out more about their mission on their website: www.rescuerochester.com.

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FootUndeez: Capezio Makes Luxurious Lingerie For Your Feet!
The term 'thong' refers to more than one fashion item; the kind that can be worn on your bum or the kind that can be worn on your feet. More often than not it's thought of as lingerie, though, so one footwear company has taken that idea and gone with the logical next step. FootUndeez!
Bet you never thought you'd see lingerie for your feet, but Capezio decided to play upon the idea of thongs and the connection to lingerie to create sexy footwear designed to support while providing some interesting appeal. This foot lingerie is sure to appeal to those men that have a foot fetish, although it was really designed to be quirky and also provide added comfort with padding for the balls of your feet.
With these fashion items now in your mind; what will you think of next time you hear the word 'thong'?You can see the wide variety of FootUndeez available here. Some of them are ridiculously cute.
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Personally, I don't find these the least bit attractive and I have a foot fetish. The first set of pictures makes the wearer look like she has a foot problem...not very sexy.
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This shoe is a dance shoe, for modern ballet or lyrical dance. Not foot underwear...capezio makes dance shoes (!). It's so that you can turn on the ball of your foot- decades ago modern dancers would build callous on their feet in order to turn better, this alleviates that and is far more hygienic......... Foot fetish, what poor journalist found this and thought it was an interesting find, I nearly fell off my seat laughing when I saw what it was.


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New Zealand society has changed dramatically in recent decades. Until the 1960s the country was culturally isolated from the rest of the world, except Britain. Most homes did not have television, import controls limited access to some consumer goods, and overseas travel and tourism were small in scale. Most women did not participate in the paid workforce. Retail stores and other businesses were closed on Sundays, and pubs (taverns) closed at the dinner hour. All of this changed by the 1990s, however, and today New Zealand is just as modern and consumer-oriented as any other Westernized nation. Social issues facing New Zealand include increasing rates of unemployment and crime, especially since the 1980s.
New Zealanders enjoy a high standard of living. Many live in single-family houses with a plot of land, even in the larger cities. The rate of home ownership is high, although apartment dwelling has increased in the cities. High-rise residential development is a recent phenomenon confined mainly to Auckland and Wellington. Although most people live in the cities, scenic rural areas are just a short distance away. Popular leisure activities include beach swimming, fishing, skiing, and hiking. Most New Zealanders take pride in their healthy, active way of life. In recent years New Zealanders have become more conscious of the need to moderate their sun exposure and high-fat diets. Restaurants now offer more varied and health-conscious cuisine, although traditional dishes such as fish and chips and lamb roast remain popular.
New Zealanders are keen sport participants and fans. Rugby Union football is traditionally the favorite national sport. Rugby League football, soccer, hockey, cricket, softball, netball (a form of basketball), water sports, and track and field are also popular. Women participate actively in all these sports except professional rugby. New Zealanders take part in a variety of international sporting events, such as rugby, soccer, cricket, tennis, and sailing competitions.
In recent years Maori culture and perspectives have experienced a sort of renaissance in the predominantly white society. Maori views on the colonial past have gained some mainstream acceptance, especially in regard to land grievances in the courts, and Maori arts are shown prominently in the Te Papa national museum in Wellington. Maori themselves have made sustained and vigorous efforts to stem the loss of their traditional ways of life, or Maoritanga. Social inequities remain a problem, however, as Maori remain underrepresented in higher levels of education and in the professions/
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Today (again) we launch the new Sheltie Nation design! Please take a few minutes to check out the new format & let me know what you think.
There will be a few tweaks & adjustments here & there, but all the big changes are complete. I owe the E. Webscapes team a big round of applause in their help in making this a reality.
I started this project earlier this year & before Trevor passed away. Afterward, I wasn't so sure I would continue with the site let alone finish the redesign. But one of the best things about Trevor was that he took great pleasure in making people happy. If you were happy, he was happy. I hope this site brings you much happiness!
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Food trucks are a great way to get a meal, but eating at them can be an experience. Between long lines, inclement weather and dodgy employees, it's no small wonder that eating at a truck leaves diners yearning for the quality service and sanitary offerings of a hot dog cart.
We love food trucks — we really do. What can be better than a gourmet restaurant that packs up and comes to you? Still, it's not always sunny in food truck land. Between the thrill of finding a food truck and the thrill of eating your meal, a lot can happen, and it ain't all good. Of course, no one will tell you that your food truck meal comes with a side of waiting, raining and whining, but we've got the pictures to prove it.
Stage 1: Hunger
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Like so many meals, the rumbling in your tummy gets your butt out of your chair and looking for food. Sure, you could hit the vending machine or call out for sandwiches, but today you've decided you're going out to eat.
Stage 2: Excitement
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You're on your way to the same old place when you see it. A food truck. Something new. Something different. Something close! No walking! No driving! What could be better?
Stage 3: Pride
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Of course you feel a sense of pride! Food trucks are where the cool kids eat. Celebrity chefs open them, celebrity diners eat at them, and now it's your turn to be seen at one.
Stage 4: Realization
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And that's when you see it: the line. That's the problem with being trendy — everyone else is doing it. Still, you're committed, and you get your number. That's right, you're number 7,431.
Now serving: 4.
And that's when things really start to go downhill.
Stage 5: Worry
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See, there's the problem with food trucks. That rhythmic drumming you heard walking up to the truck wasn't some haute new techno band. Nope, that's the diesel generator that powers the whole operation. Even better, it's now spewing hot smog straight into your lungs.
Now serving: 8.
Stage 6: Mother Nature attacks
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Your ability to breathe isn't the only thing affected by all that smog. Somehow the food truck's gasses have created a Clooney-esque perfect storm directly over you, that is dumping ice-cold water on your head and blowing gale-force winds into your face.
On the plus side, numbers 100 to 6,786 get blown away by the storm, meaning you're going to get your food a lot faster.
Now serving: 6,912.
Stage 7: Daydreaming
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At this point, you've been waiting in line over a day, and the dangerous drop in your blood sugar has got you wishing violence on the people in front of you, the food truck chefs and anyone who's ever looked at you funny.
Now serving: 7,346
Stage 8: Envy
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Near where you stand in line, dreaming of karate-chopping your mother-in-law, who once said eating at a food truck was "a good idea," sits a teen eating a dry turkey sandwich on two stale slices of bread.
And you decide he's the luckiest man in the world.
Now serving: 7,431.
Stage 9: Ordering
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All's right with the world, because they finally call your number. You're about to eat, right?
No, of course not, because this lady is taking your order, and she's getting really annoyed that they don't service "rice" every time you try to order a burger and "fries."
Stage 10: Empty wallet syndrome
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Finally you just order the chicken salad because you're hungry and you just don't care anymore. Then they hand you a bill roughly equal to the amount Donald Trump spends on toupees. You really start to question why you were put on this Earth if all you're going to do is suffer.
Stage 11: More waiting!
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Well, sure, they still have to cook the food, but surely you won't need to wait more than a minute or two, right?
Wrong. You hear the words that spell your doom: "Number 4. I got an order for number 4."
Stage 12: What are they building in there?
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They have your money. All you can do is wait and wonder what kind of exotic ingredients they're putting into your chicken salad…
Stage 13: The moment
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On the third anniversary of starting your food truck adventure, after you've chewed every piece of gum in your purse and begged for the crumbs from that kid and his turkey sandwich, you hear it.
"I have a steak wrap for number 7,431."
Your first thought is that you didn't order a steak wrap, but that thought is immediately beaten up by your all-consuming need to EAT. FOOD. NOW.
Stage 14: It's amazing
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And that's the worst part. You wanted a burger and fries. You ordered a chicken salad. You got a beef wrap (with rice, no less), and it may just be the best beef wrap you've ever eaten. You can't get enough. There's sauce dripping on your fingers, steak stuck in your hair, pita smeared on your face, and you don't care. This food is amazing!
Stage 15: You can't move
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You eat twice as much as you thought you could because you didn't realize the beef wrap was bigger than your head, and it was so good you didn't want to stop eating.
Stage 16: We're doing it again tomorrow!
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And that's when it hits you. Smog, pouring rain, angry wacked-out-Nicki-Minaj-looking order taker, weird kid and his nasty turkey sandwich — it was totally worth it! Sure, you've been declared legally dead by your loved ones, and the clothes you're wearing went out of style and came back into fashion while you were in line, but the food was amazing.
And that's the crazy part. You're actually thinking about doing it again. Even though tomorrow you're going to have to find this truck and probably drive across town…
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Urban Creation develops luxury student accommodation in Bristol and Southampton. With backing from Downing, Urban Creation has built and delivered 5 projects which have been sold or successfully refinanced with conventional debt once operational.
In 2015, we successfully exited from two developments undertaken by Urban Creation. The Colston House project, a high-quality refurbishment of former offices into a 77-bed city-centre student property was refinanced in early 2015, while the 75-bed William & Matthew House site was sold to a quoted student property operator before construction had even commenced.


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Daniel and I went out to feed and water the chickens this morning and also move the three adolescents who were living in the shed into an integration pen in the Pen for Big Chickens. We thought we'd closed their crate after grabbing their waterer but apparently not, because while we were out at the Pen for Big Chickens getting their new home ready, Melchior the Little Blue Vulture got out and got tackled by dogs.
Luckily we were close enough to intervene and Melchior has one small slash where left wing meets the body. She is now in the house recovering in the same dog crate that held Zombirella after she got the back of her head pecked off.
I'm not angry at the dogs, who were just doing what large predators do when a small prey animal goes flapping by, but I'm pretty mightily irritated with myself for not making sure the crate was firmly closed and latched. Here's hoping that Melchior has a swift and uneventful recovery!


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That Queen: what a cut up!/
The photograph above, to be used as the official royal Christmas card, is described by the palace as "a touching moment between mother and son" as Queen Elizabeth "struggles to hold back a laugh" upon being told a funny joke by Prince Charles.
It doesn't look like much of a battle: "We are not amused" seems more like it, but Royal wit has always been elusive. Har har har.


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Under the Sea! Under the Sea! Darlin' it's better, down where it's wetter. Take it from me! Up on the shore they work all day. Out in the sun, they slave away. While we devotin', full time to floatin', under the sea! Today I have mermaid charms to share with you! These were inspired by… Continue reading Under the Sea!!!
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Well it's been longer than I had hoped since my last post, but I got pretty busy this month. We went on vacation, then getting ready for a new school year and birthdays! Now that things have calmed down I'm ready to show you the few things I made! For this first update post, I… Continue reading Ocean Potion!
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The first thing I wanted to do when I got my pasta machine a couple weeks ago was to make a feather cane like these canes by Artmakers Worlds. I went on the hunt and found a great tutorial by Donna Kato. The first problem occurred when making my first ever teardrop blend of yellow to… Continue reading Summer Swirls
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I haven't touched my blog in over a year, so why not repurpose it right? There has been a ton of things happen since I stopped blogging about my life. One of those things, ok the only thing really, but it's huge! I delivered a beautiful baby girl on Easter! Seeing as how staying home… Continue reading Reform, Declare, Create!


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Last weekend was Coworker C's wedding, as I had mentioned before. They had the ceremony at a resort in Kawaguchiko, a place that's about an hour and a half bus ride outside of Tokyo, right near the base of Mount Fuji.
Last Saturday the weather was brilliantly warm- so warm in fact that I went out in short sleeves without a jacket! Caught a train to Shinjuku around 1pm, then from Shinjuku Station I took the highway bus to Kawaguchiko. Was picked up at the station by the hotel's shuttle service. The driver was very nice, at first talking to me in English until I let slip a word in Japanese. He asked, "Oh, you speak Japanese?" and looked very relieved when I confirmed, so he switched to Japanese after that, haha.
|View of Fuji from my hotel room
Got to the hotel and checked in and was greeted by the bride's mother. She's a very sweet lady, and was very happy that I could come. Apart from Coworker C's family who was able to fly in from Columbia (only his mother, little brother, and a good friend), I was the only other person there from his side.
There was time to change and freshen up in my room (got a room all to myself, woohoo!) before the ceremony and everything began.
It was amazing. A lot of people wore silly costumes and I regretted not bringing mine! There was a box of silly costume accessories there to choose from so I did end up putting on some bunny ears. Everyone headed outside after the "Welcome Party", where everyone just had some refreshments and chatted for a bit. We all lined up along the sides of the red carpet that was rolled out and lined with little tea candles. Each guest also held a candle, and the first person on each side had their candle lit by the bride's father, and then each person passed the flame along to the next person, all down each row, and the bride and her father proceeded down the aisle as each candle was lit.
Words were said, they said their vows and exchanged their rings, and then there was a surprise fireworks display over the lake. Not even Coworker C or his wife knew about it! A very exciting touch.
It was pretty chilly around that time so we were all glad to head back inside for the reception and food. I ended up seated across from a couple university guys who were studying English, so we chatted quite a bit throughout the dinner. There were quite a few speeches, musical performances, slideshows, and dancing throughout dinner too. Partway through, Coworker C and his wife left to go change from their Western wedding clothes (tux/wedding gown) into some traditional Japanese clothes.
|They are so cute together!
Then there was the after-party, and they changed again into some traditional(?) Columbian clothes. There was more eating and drinking and singing and dancing. And of course in true Japanese style there was a karaoke machine, so me, Coworker C, and a couple of the bride's English friends got up and did the YMCA. Later CC and I also got up and did Backstreet Boys' "Larger Than Life", including the dance that the older boys at the preschool did for the Christmas performance (don't ask me why we did BSB at a Christmas performance..). Lots of people loved it and asked us if we had practiced the dance specifically for the wedding, lol.
The after-party went on until midnight or 1am, I don't remember, and I headed back to my room and crashed. Got up at 7am to shower and get dressed in time to make it to the breakfast buffet. Had some time afterwards to relax a bit in my room before the shuttle bus was scheduled to take us to the station. Got back to Tokyo just in time to be greeted by the huge dust storm that blew in that day. Had to battle my way home against the wind, and by the time I got back a bunch of dust had collected in my tear ducts. Gross!
A very fun weekend though, and I was very happy CC had invited me. Will be sad once work ends and we won't get to "hang out" every day anymore.
Oh, yesterday was the kids' graduation ceremony. A couple weeks ago I had a dream about the graduation and it was terrible, but in reality it actually went fairly well! Though Cruella (as I've come to call the evil boss lady who is the reason everything at that company is shit) was not happy and was running around yelling at everybody, as she does..
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|The cottage by the sea below Knocknarea
|View from the dune at the cottage
In the morning, after a soaked-through beachcomb, we had a Father's Day brunch in Shells Café in Strandhill (one of my favourite cafés in Ireland) and went to a market in the hangar at the airport.
|Morning view from the kitchen
|Beachcombing with Junior
|Shells, Strandhill - a fab shop and café
|Dippy eggs for brunch at Shells
|'Quiet people have the loudest minds' plaque bought from Sarah J Jewellery at the airport market
|A festive mini Jesus - I bought him for my dashboard.
|Mass underway in the apparition chapel
|Knock excels at classy souvenirs
|Juno - aged 6 - did not know what rock was. Score! (Or is she deprived...?)


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This week I'm participating in Ali Edward's Week in the Life. You can read about my plan for this year and how I've tackled this project in the past here. For Monday-Thursday, I focused on one of us per day, but yesterday was back to the big picture. Friday was all Halloween.
Jonas and I slept in a bit, then I spent the morning furiously making the kids' costumes. Yep, that's the level of procrastination we're talking about. Things ended up a little wonky, but I think I did pretty well, considering.
Poppy came to pick up Jonas in the afternoon so that I could go to Eliza's class party (I'm a Room Parent). They went to my nephew's daycare party. I borrowed his car (mine died).
The party was a lot of fun! There were costumes, snacks, scary books, dancing, and (my favorite) a mummy wrapping contest with toilet paper. Those kids are crazy sauce and I love them.
I ran out of time and didn't eat lunch before the party, so I was starving after. Eliza and I stopped at Five Guys.
We went out to Poppy's to pick up Jonas. The kids got to test out the newly built treehouse he made for them. Jonas's favorite part is the climbing wall (not surprising).
We decided to spend the evening at Jake's dad's, because the kids and I were at Poppy's close by and Jake works near their house. Rita (Jake's step-mom, aka Abba to the kids) and I talked and got pictures of the kids outside.
They are pretty darn cute. Jonas is Pikachu and Eliza is Blossom (though she lost her tail in transit and was not thrilled that her glasses were the wrong shape).
There were some wardrobe malfunctions while we were out taking pictures, so I made a few quick fixes.
After Jake got there, we went out trick-or-treating. There weren't very many houses with lights on (we went to a total of 7), but it was super cold and we were ready to go back inside after walking around the block, so that's okay. Jake's aunt and uncle live right behind his dad's, so we got to visit with them a bit too.
Eliza and Jonas really loved handing out candy at the door. Someone even came in on stilts in a ghost costume!
Rita is awesome and made us dinner, and we visited until after 10:00.
The kids fell asleep in the car on the way home. We stopped for gas before going in and calling it a night.
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"Our ability to ensure the highest level of safety and responsibility in the world depends in large part on the ability of the industry to internalize the need for a robust safety culture," noted U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director, James A. Watson, in his April 30 address to the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held in Houston, TX. "[It also depends on the ability] to understand that safety does not simply mean doing things right when the BSEE inspector is on board. It means operating safely at all levels, at all times. It is the responsibility of everyone in this room to help instill that culture into their organizations."
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Watson comes close to this with his reference to an "internalized" safety culture that must be "instilled" by the members of his audience, but then misses the opportunity to explain how that's accomplished outside of mere compliance.
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Here is the recently announced Samsung's Captivate Galaxy S Smartphone which is designed for the US market. Samsung Captivate Galaxy S Smartphone runs the latest Android 2.1 mobile OS with the innovative TouchWiz User Interface. The Galaxy S smartphone sports a larger 4-inch capacitive Super AMOLED touchscreen display. The smartphone will be distributed in US via AT&T.
AT&T Samsung Captivate Galaxy S Smartphone comes powered with the 1GHz Hummingbird processor and comes equipped with a 5 Megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, 16GB internal storage, 3D graphics engine and six-axis motion sensor. Other features of the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone includes Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi 802.11n connectivity and quad-band GSM, tri-band HSPA 7.2Mbps network. The phone is also preloaded with AT&T Navigator, which offers voice-guided and visual turn-by-turn GPS driving directions and Samsung's Social Hub and Media Hub features.
AT&T will release the Samsung Captivate Galaxy S Android Smartphone by July 2010. No pricing details of the smartphone is available yet.
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25-year-old Fredrick Young of Detroit and 23-year-old Ferlando Hunter of Jackson have recently been charged in the 2012 execution-style deaths of two teens whose bodies were found in a Detroit field, according to news reports at Mlive.com.
The victims, 18-year-old Jacob Kudla and 17-year-old Jourdan Bobbish, were believed to have been robbed and tortured prior to their deaths which family members believe occurred because of a drug deal gone awry. Young and Hunter were scheduled to be arraigned on April 30 on charges of torture, armed robbery, unlawful imprisonment, felony firearm, first-degree premeditated murder, and first-degree felony murder.
The two defendants were also previously charged in the death of a 62-year-old Vietnam War veteran; Young's trial in that case is scheduled for June 16. Hunter was found guilty of armed robbery, first-degree home invasion, felony murder, and other charges in that case, and is serving life in prison.
Jourdan Bobbish's father said after the teens' bodies were found in the field and identified that he believed his son and Jacob Kudla were "easy targets." Mike Bobbish said that the two teens were riding around in a car that had a "souped up" sound system and wearing new sneakers. Following the murders, the vehicle was found abandoned with the sound system missing according to authorities.
While the loss of the lives of two teenage boys in such a senseless manner is certainly a tragedy, two men in the prime of their lives will now likely spend the remainder of their years behind bars. However, even individuals charged with the most serious or violent crimes may have other options which can mitigate the damage to their lives. A highly skilled Michigan criminal defense attorney will examine the details of a defendant's case to determine whether it is preferable to go to trial, or to try to work a plea deal with prosecutors. In many cases pleading guilty or no contest will leave the defendant facing less serious criminal penalties.
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So far so good with the 2017 Petaluma CA Real Estate market. More homes have closed this year than the same time period last year!
The Brighter Trend Continues in Petaluma
The 2017 inventory predictions from the national and state associations were relatively flat. However, the Petaluma CA real estate market must have a mind of it's own!
Looking at the current vs. same 1st quarter last year, closings for the quarter were only off by 1 sale. Increasing a healthy 22.6% were closings, new listings increased 10.3% and pending properties by 10%.
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There are 14 more closed sales than we saw in the first 7 weeks of the year. This is an upward trend for the 2nd week in a row that we didn't see at all last year! Currently there are 56 active listings consisting of 5 condos, 5 farms and the remainder are single-family homes. An impressive 78 homes are currently is escrow between the Penngrove and Petaluma CA real estate markets!
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been a while since the big scandal that revealed a huge and systematic fraud
with emission tests on Volkswagen´s diesel cars. A lot have happend since then
and the developement by VAG (Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda & Seat) to get
everything straight is still ongoing and that is why they are releasing a lot of
software updates at the moment. However, to get this right and keep the driving
experience as it was through software changes has turned out to be close to
impossible and a lot of VW´s customers are very disappointed. The perception is
that the new softwares has a negative impact on the performance and driving
experience. This is why we recommend car owners that are affected to wait with
any updates until VAG releases a software which doesn´t have a negative impact
on the cars driving experience.
If you want more information we recommend you to stay updated via trusted online forums and other communication chanels where consumers evaluate released software updates. Swedish magazine Teknikens Värld has investigated and written a lot about this:
BSR´s software are always based on the software version that the car had when it was tuned and are not downgraded to older versions.
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As many are now becoming intensely aware, moombahton's success at inception has been heavily reliant upon familiar samples being nestled in the comforting arms of cumbia, dembow, house, soul and reggaeton rhythms. The rare exception to the rule is the velvet smooth voice of 25 year old London, England crooner Alex Clare.
In November 2010, the single "Up All Night," a yarn about a betrothed man involved in a tawdry bender overwhelmed the blogosphere with its fresh take on Carribean melodies and riddims. The auteurs responsible for the sound, producers Diplo and Switch, Mad Decent Records' madcap reggae soundclashers, Major Lazer. Clare's debut album, The Lateness of the Hour is scheduled for European release on July 11th, and features tracks crafted as Clare took a journey to legendary homes of earnest soul, jazz capital New Orleans and reggae's most inspirational homeland, Jamaica.
Too Close (Nadastrom Remix) by Alex Clare
Moombahton becomes involved in this tale as Moombahton's inventor Dave Nada, and Nadastrom production partner Matt Nordstom were called in by their Dubsided label chief Switch, and close friend Diplo to remix tracks "Up All Night" and "Too Close" in the moombahton style. The Washington, DC natives took two intensely strong performances that recall the power of Delta soul and classic R & B dredged in modern production, making them massively anthemic summer tracks, perfect for warm, idyllic and amber sunset tinged romantic memories.
I had the opportunity to interview this most exciting new soulful voice on the nature of creating this album, as well as moombahton. Enjoy!
When were you first introduced to soul music, and who were some of your key inspirations to become a singer/songwriter? Who have you added to that list that you're now a signed artist in a perpetual creative mode?
I think the first soul music I heard was probably Get Up, by James Brown, but to be honest, I've always had a Stevie Wonder fetish, its like its always just been there. Singer/songwriter wise he's up there, but there are alot of musicians I'd class as influences/heros from Donny Hathaway, Desmond Dekker, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan to Count Basie, Cole Porter and Tony Joe White.
You had the ability to write so much of your album in such traditionally soulful locales as New Orleans and Jamaica. Was that a label move to aid your process, or was that something that you did of your own free will? Did the journey influence any songs, or were you just looking for a great location to put down ideas you already had?
I think it just worked out like that coz Diplo and Switch didn't want to be in LA, and I didnt want to be in London to start things off, so New Orleans and Jamaica where the best half(ish) way points, as we could find good studios and good musicians at our finger tips. Yeah, the location definitely influenced a few of the tunes. "Humming Bird" would never been written if it wasnt for seeing them in Jamaica, and "Up All Night" was written in New Orleans, with the prospect of a mental night ahead.


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Brentford make it nine points in a week with win over Ipswich Town
Two more goals for the increasingly prolific Lasse Vibe and Sam Saunders' second of the season meant Brentford picked up a third three-goal win in a week. On a chilly Suffolk afternoon, Ipswich Town were sent the same way Nottingham Forest and Bolton Wanderers have been in the past seven days as The Bees picked up another win they fully deserved. The Bees had to deal with a sickening early injury to Alan Judge but they grew in to the game and Saunders put them ahead just before the half hour. Luke Hyam escaped a red card for the tackle on Judge but was sent off late in the half and Vibe scored two after the break to seal the win.
There were a few hairy moments for Brentford and they gifted a late goal to Liam Feeney but 3-1 was a fair reflection on the match. When it was 11v11 Brentford dominated possession, they won their share of aerial challenges and most of the second balls and looked the more likely to score. And when they had a man advantage in the second half, they used it to good effect. It was probably only tired legs and the effect of three games in a week that prevented Brentford making more use of the extra man and recording a more convincing win.
The game will, unfortunately, be remembered for the incident around 140 seconds in. Judge was waiting for a high ball to drop and after bringing it under his spell was felled by sickening challenge from Hyam. The Ipswich man paid no heed to the safety of his opposite number, flying in off the floor and wrapping his legs around Brentford's Irish midfield man. When Judge eventually left the pitch eight minutes later he was on a motorised stretcher with both legs strapped looking like he will be out of the game for some time. For reasons known only to himself, referee Philip Gibbs decided the challenge was only worthy of a yellow card and Hyam was allowed to continue.
Konstantin Kerschbaumer was brought on to replace Judge and the game effectively started again. There was, however, a bit of a cloud hanging over it. Hyam was a peripheral figure, visibly pulling out of challenges and bypassed by his team mates while Brentford's new central midfield trio of Saunders, Ryan Woods and Alan McCormack snapped at his ankles and let him know in no uncertain terms what they thought of his early act. It was no surprise when he was eventually sent off in the middle of the stoppage time at the end of the first half caused by his foul. Woods was rightly cautioned for a foul on Hyam but the Ipswich man got up and shoved the Brentford midfielder away leaving Mr Gibbs with no choice but to show him a second yellow card and end his afternoon.
Ipswich had the first sight of goal when Freddie Sears got away in the inside right channel but his attempt to find a man in the middle was thwarted by Harlee Dean. But it was Brentford who reacted to the long stoppage best and they took control of the game early on. Sergi Canós was a useful outlet on the right and the pace of the wide man and Vibe had the home defence worried. It also enabled Saunders to find pockets of space and look to get Brentford moving forward.
Kerschbaumer had an early sight of goal after Vibe had escaped the attentions of Luke Chambers but his shot was deflected and saved with Saunders in space 15 yards out. Kerschbaumer then cut inside and curled an effort over before a Saunders cross just eluded Vibe after fine work from the rampaging Maxime Colin, who was providing support from the back. Vibe flicked a header wide and Canós had a shot blocked after Colin had again contributed to the attack.
At the other end, Button saved a deflected Sears shot but Brentford were on top and got the goal they deserved just before the half hour mark. Kerschbaumer was the architect, robbing Cole Skuse in midfield and setting off towards goal, he then waited for support and when the pass came, Saunders curled it unerringly in to the net. Ipswich tried to respond but Brentford's defence was well-drilled and the dangerous Sears often tried his luck against Colin and came out second best more often than not. The Bees almost grabbed a second when Canós led a break from a corner, he got away from Chambers and past two more defenders before shooting inches wide.
Button had to be alert when Sears set up a chance for Ainsley Maitland-Niles but the low shot was well held and five minutes in to the nine of stoppage time, Woods and Hyam came together with the Ipswich man heading for an early bath. That seemed to galvanise Ipswich and Chambers had a header blocked from a corner before Button pushed out a vicious shot from Jonas Knudsen that dipped and swerved late, his defence then completed the job by whacking the ball away.
Ipswich made changes at the break, sacrificing their two wide players for an extra striker – David McGoldrick- and an extra central midfield player – Jonathan Douglas. Brentford started the second half as they had played most of the first, dominating possession and looking to create spaces in the gaps left by a rigid Ipswich system. But Ipswich had renewed vigour and sought an equaliser. McGoldrick missed the target with an acrobatic effort and Sears fired across the face of goal moments later. But the game was still bubbling and Luke Varney may have seen red for a late tackle from behind on Woods that had an air of retribution about it. He escaped with a yellow then and Mr Gibbs deemed it appropriate to then ignore when he dived trying to win a penalty soon after when in the vicinity of Yoann Barbet.
Colin made a fine clearance to prevent McGoldrick converting at the far post when Sears got away but it was almost two when Canós let fly with an effort that took a deflection, beat Bartosz Bialkowski and hit the crossbar, Vibe was first to the loose ball but it wouldn't come down and he looped a header over. The second goal did, however, come soon after. It was masterfully executed with Brentford using the extra man to overload on the right, Colin delivered a cross and Vibe stooped to conquer, flicking a header in to the far corner for his fourth goal of the week.
And the fifth came soon after. This one was all Vibe's work. The Danish striker pounced as Christophe Berra dithered and robbed the central defender, that left him with only Bialkowski to beat and he steered a shot with the outside of his right foot in to the far corner. Bialkowski prevented Vibe making it a six-goal week moments later when he reacted quickly after failing to gather a Saunders shot to save at the feet of the Dane.
Ipswich were still pressing, looking for a goal that would give them a chance of getting something from the game. Barbet made a fine clearance when Sears looked like he would turn in a Knudsen cross and a McGoldrick effort was deflected wide. A Sears shot was blocked and Chambers nodded across the face of goal before McGoldrick blasted over.
Brentford were playing on the counter-attack, happy to break at speed when the chance arose. McCormack, with a nutmeg of Skuse, and Vibe set up Kerschbaumer but Bialkowski made a superb low save. And moments later Andy Gogia and Kerschbaumer set up Vibe for a curling shot that whistle just wide. Sears should have reduced the deficit at the other end when Knudsen put him through with only Button to beat but he blasted wide and McGoldrick and Feeney missed the target soon after.
The goal Ipswich had been threatening came two minutes from the end. McCormack was robbed by Skuse when trying to turn out of trouble in midfield and Skuse and McGoldrick combined to give Feeney the chance to drill low past Button. There were a few nervous moments as Ipswich sensed a second goal could set up an entertaining finish but there were no chances for the hosts. And at the other end Vibe had a shot blocked before Jake Bidwell shot over as Brentford sought a fourth. That extra goal would have put a gloss on the score line but Brentford had a nine-goal and nine-point week to show for their effort, albeit on a day tinged with sadness with Judge in hospital.
Ipswich Town: Bialkowski; Foley, Chambers, Berra, Knudsen; Maitland-Niles (sub Douglas h/t), Skuse, Hyam, Pringle (sub McGoldrick h/t); Sears, Varney (sub Feeney 74 mins)
Subs (not used): Gerken, Smith, Bru, Pitman
Bookings: Varney (57 mins)
Sent Off: Hyam (45 mins) (second bookable offence)
Brentford: Button; Colin, Dean, Barbet, Bidwell; Woods, McCormack; Canós (sub Gogia 74 mins), Judge (sub Kerschbaumer 7 mins), Saunders (sub Hogan 82 mins); Vibe
Subs (not used): Bonham, Clarke, O'Connell, Ferry
Bookings: Woods (45 mins) (seventh of season)
Attendance: 18,845 (559 Bees fans)


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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:13:33 +0000 (GMT)
--- Srini <email@example.com> wrote:
> I am looking for split population Cox proportional hazard models for
> continuous time data (the date of an event is exactly known). Both
> STRSMIX (and its variation STRSNMIX) and LNCURE estimate parametric
> models while SPSURV seems to estimate discrete time Cox Model. Is
> there any other do file that I am missing?
This is just my gut feeling here, but are you sure a cure model is
defined in a Cox proportional hazard model? A cure model is all about a
moddeling the shape of the baseline survivor function, while in Cox
regression the whole point is that the baseline hazard function
completely drops out of the likelihood.
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Particle physicists study the fundamental particles of the universe and the forces that govern them. They research things like dark matter and anti-matter. They work with mathematical equations and massive machines called particle accelerators.
It all sounds like the stuff of science fiction movies.
The Large Hadron Collider has recently restarted. We want you to imagine…. what will it discover this time?
Check out the Quantum Diaries blog for some thoughts from particle physicists, and a great post by ATLAS physicist Pauline Gagnon on what we hope to achieve at 13TeV
or… we could go back a step. Let's talk about the theory of everything.
and of course, there is the Higgs boson. Explained here with cherries.
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This is the summary of the BOF that took place on 4th July 2012 during Akademy 2012. The title of the BOF was "Constructive Criticism: Prioritizing Nepomuk development". Some of the notably attendees were -
( Please add your self to the list, if I have missed your name )
There is more user oriented summary and pictures of what was discussed over here - http://vhanda.in/blog/2012/06/the-nepomuk-bof/
The feeders regularly cause the entire system to consume massive amount of CPU.
Suggested improvements -
For better detection of 'low cpu consumption' and when exactly the feeders should be run, it was discussed that solid should provide some simple signals which inform clients who are interested in running cpu intensive tasks. This should probably be combined with `KIdleTime`
Another thing that was discussed was the feeling of control. The indexing is not controllable and happens in the background. There should be way for users to pause/resume the indexing. Maybe even ask for re-indexing?
Dolphin is arguably the most user visible application that uses Nepomuk. It has decent Nepomuk integration, but needs a lot of polishing up -
There were also long discussions on krunner integration and how (maybe?) krunner should be improved. However, this was not the appropriate place for that discussion, so we moved on to another topic. Maybe this should be taken up during some Plasma meeting?
vHanda: It wouldn't be more than a days work for me to clean up Crystal and get it working efficiently. Not sure about the port to QML.
Most of the technical documentation is extremely outdated. It's no surprise that developers are scared of Nepomuk.
Additionally, not everyone understand the ontologies and we cannot expect application developers to understand how to write their own ontologies. Example - The Solid developers would love to be able to associate BlueTooth accounts with people and the files received. Same is the case with Telepathy File Transfer.
There is a lot of invalid and old data lying in Nepomuk. They should be some special application to remove and port that invalid data. It should typically be done in another application cause that way the user can decide when to run it, and they'll understand if it is consuming a lot of system resources.
Something along the lines of - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293323
Should be shipped. Gives the user a better sense of security. This could even be extended by using file system attributes.
There was GSOC 2011 project called Metadata Writeback, but most of it is still lying in a branch in kde-runtime. It needs to be moved to nepomuk-core, and ported to Nepomuk2.
From what I remember, it only supported ID3 tags and Akonadi writeback.
Nepomuk isn't a client side application. The users do not need to know about its existence. We have gone quite far accomplishing this, but there is a lot more places where this could be improved.
Example: One prime application is called "Nepomuk Controller"
The query language is for power users and is not publicly documented. Additionally, the code is also fairly messy and difficult to modify. There was a gsoc idea for fixing this, but we never got decent students.
Neither the C++ query API or using directly SPARQL are optimal to be used from a QML/javascript side. What's the best approach here?
Applications want the ability to fetch extra metadata about their resources. Instead of each application doing this themselves, we should provide some convenient API for applications to use. Probably a plugin based system along with it.
Prime use case: Plasma Media Center
There was a GSOC 2010 Project - Web-Extractor. But the gsoc resulted in this huge mess of over-engineered code. It would be a lot simpler to just start from scratch. The API is the only part that needs some discussion, the rest should be pretty straightforward.
There seems to be some new python based plugin work going on in a scratch repository - http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=nepomuk-metadata-extractor.git&a=summary
Needs to be written from scratch. The current situation is that it runs a special Nepomuk Digikam service, and continuously monitors the Nepomuk repository for changes.
The main roadblock in implementing this is the absence of proper documentation outline the exact ontology that would be used for pictures, albums and face tagging.
If I've missed some important detail, please add it. We can review this in about a month, and see what progress has been made.


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Heath Collective is a group of visual artists living and working in Thornton Heath,
'Heath Collective' has emerged organically from the very first Thornton Heath Arts Week (THAW) which took place in the Summer of 2014. We were each unaware of one another's existence in our local area until THAW brought us all together. We are surprised and delighted to have discovered each other and such a wealth of talent and enthusiasm right on our doorsteps. This has led to our first joint exhibition as 'Heath Collective'.
Amongst us are painters, photographers, sculptors, filmmakers, textile and environmental artists.
On display here at Matthews Yard is a selection of work from the following artists:
Karen Barnett
Julie Beresford
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For more than six decades Fidel Castro has been running an anti-Capitalist experiment. The results should be clear to all except Michael Moore and his ideological think-a-likes. Michael Totten gives us the grim details:
I walked toward the center of town from the somewhat remote Habana Libre Hotel and found myself the only foreigner in a miles-wide swath of destruction.
I've seen cities in the Middle East pulverized by war. I've seen cities elsewhere in Latin America stricken with unspeakable squalor and poverty. But nowhere else have I seen such a formerly grandiose city brought as low as Havana. The restored part of town—artifice though it may be—shows all too vividly what the whole thing once looked like.
It was a wealthy European city when it was built. Poor nations do not build capitals that look like Havana. They can't. Poor nations build Guatemala City and Cairo.
"Havana" Theodore Dalrymple wrote in City Journal, "is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction." Actually, it's worse even than that. Beirut pulses with energy. Parts of it are justifiably even a little bit snobbish like Paris. Even its poorest neighborhoods, the ones controlled by Hezbollah, aren't as gruesome as most of Havana.
Yet the bones of Cuba's capital are unmatched in our hemisphere. "The Cubans of successive centuries created a harmonious architectural whole almost without equal in the world," Dalrymple wrote. "There is hardly a building that is wrong, a detail that is superfluous or tasteless. The tiled multicoloration of the Bacardi building, for example, which might be garish elsewhere, is perfectly adapted—natural, one might say—to the Cuban light, climate, and temper. Cuban architects understood the need for air and shade in a climate such as Cuba's, and they proportioned buildings and rooms accordingly. They created an urban environment that, with its arcades, columns, verandas, and balconies, was elegant, sophisticated, convenient, and joyful."
Go here to read the rest. Of all the pernicious superstitions that plague our time, the idea that government can be a substitute for free markets is the one with the least substance.


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23-Nov-2016 :
Monaco: Harry Kane scored his first Champions League goal but could not prevent Tottenham Hotspur from crashing out of the competition with a 2-1 defeat in Monaco on Tuesday.
Spurs needed at least a point to keep their hopes of reaching the last 16 alive and Kane brought them level with a penalty shortly after Djibril Sidibe had put Monaco in front at the Stade Louis II.
However, Thomas Lemar ended a whirlwind spell by restoring Monaco's lead in the 53rd minute and the hosts - for whom Radamel Falcao had an early penalty saved - held on to claim the win that secures their place in the knockout stages.
Monaco are also guaranteed to progress as Group E winners, while Bayer Leverkusen are through too after drawing 1-1 away to CSKA Moscow in Russia earlier in the day.
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Thick As A Brick
Thick As A Brick presents a selection of more than 100 catalogues, books, art editions and zines published by Mousse and shown within three brick structures conceived by Kuehn Malvezzi and produced by the Danish company Petersen Tegl. On view until April 14, Giò Marconi, Milan.
At the end of the last century, it was thought the new millennium would be represented in design and architecture by incorporeal values such as lightness, transparency, and evanescence, inspired by the fluidity of communication as well as the intangible nature of finance. The world seemed intent on becoming liquid. Instead, in the last few years everything has changed.
The economic crisis has profoundly modified our society and hence transformed the approach to architecture and culture at large: the world is seeking a new firmness, a solidity that both architecture and design (as well as art, fashion, and cuisine – some of the most interesting expressions of human culture) are making the center of their practice. Human beings are looking for reliable new touchstones, getting back to basics, to find that stability in which it seems necessary to root (or maybe better to re-root) our society. Traditions and history serve as a point of departure to grow and develop, better than before, and concreteness is the new manifesto for contemporary cultures in Western and even in the Eastern world.
Thick As A Brick goes back to simple, manual practices and ancestral materials – such as the brick used here as a narrative device – and to ancient, basic ideas in order to rediscover their potential: projected into the future, such renewed values serve as a groundwork to literally build a new encyclopedia of balance, strength, and positivity. In this project, these basic materials are replaced by books, iconic tools for spreading knowledge down through the centuries…


text: NetworkFab, a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilent Technologies Inc., has been awarded a $45 million Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase III Contract. The five-year deal is with the US Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center's Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate at Fort Monmouth, NJ. The contract is for Wideband Sensor Systems with hyperfast Direction Finding (DF) and integrated Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) search, identification and collection of tactical targets. "Agilent is very proud to be supporting the US Army and the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate at Fort Monmouth," said Ron Nersesian, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Wireless Business Unit. "We are confident that this contract will make new technology available to augment the Army's existing systems and provide the next generation in tactical SIGINT and high-speed wideband DF capability." According to Agilent, NetworkFab's modular hardware design and software-defined architecture offer scalability to deploy new capabilities to the field without having to redesign the entire system; easy adaptability to new threats, missions and signals of interest; a Universal Signal Detection that allows previously undefined signals to be easily and quickly characterized by the user in the field without system modification; and a Wideband Sensor System that can operate in a Blue-Force jamming environment, which allows SIGINT DF mission to be executed with active Electronic Warfare (EW) force-protection. NetworkFab earned this contract after successfully executing the SBIR Phase I/II efforts. These included the development and demonstration of technologies for an integrated SIGINT system with real-time DF capability. SBIR Phase III contracts are awarded to companies that have successfully commercialized the technologies developed and demonstrated in the SBIR program. This SBIR Phase III contract is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity procurement vehicle available to the US Army and other US government agencies to meet their mission requirements. Contract deliverables will include integrated sensor systems, sub-systems, remote sensors and engineering services for custom solutions. Work under this contract will be performed at Agilent's SND facilities in Santa Rosa and Santa Clara, Calif.; Everett, Wash.; and Columbia, Md. Agilent acquired NetworkFab in August 2007. (See: Agilent to Buy NetworkFab) For more information, visit: www.agilent.com


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Whilst working on SocialClient (one of my numerous projects), I decided that I wanted to provide users with the ability to import Skype contact usernames from the clipboard (or via drag-and-drop), whilst using the Contact Builder dialogue:
After briefly spending time searching the Web, I stumbled across an old post on the Skype fora (which happens to be the sole Google search result for "SkypeIdentityList", at the moment), where someone requested information regarding the content of clipboard data generated by the Skype client – and provided some useful pointers for my own exploration.
With that knowledge in mind, I then obtained a copy of the Microsoft ClipBook Viewer (which doesn't ship with Windows 7), and had a look at its "View" menu, after copying a random contact from the client's contact list:
Saving the file, and then opening it with a hex editor (I used PSPad's "Open in Hex Editor" feature – but any will suffice) revealed that the clipboard data was UTF-16-encoded text:
I initially planned to utilise QString's fromUtf16() method. However, further investigation lead me to believe that it was worse than useless in this case – since all that I had was the aforementioned opaque blob of data, which consisted of a header denoting the size of the following text payload, and I couldn't find a way to convert it into the necessary format (a pointer to an unsigned, short integer; and a standard integer).
After much deliberation, and testing various potential solutions (some of which involved extracting the length data, and using it whilst iterating over the rest of the payload) that often resulted in dismal failure – involving either receiving C++ runtime assertions after attempting to access non-existent data within an array, or simply obtaining too little data to be useful, I settled upon a variant of the following solution:
QString Skype::FetchUsernameFromClipboard() { QClipboard *clipboard = QApplication::clipboard(); if (clipboard->mimeData(QClipboard::Clipboard) ->data("SkypeIdentityList").length() != 0) { QByteArray mimeData = clipboard->mimeData(QClipboard::Clipboard) ->data("SkypeIdentityList"); return Skype::ParseClipboardData(mimeData); } else { return ""; } } QString Skype::ParseClipboardData(QByteArray aRawData) { QByteArray workingData = aRawData; int stringSize = aRawData.at(0); int pos = 0; QString round1Data, round2Data; char tempChar; QMap charMap; qDebug() << "Got data:" << aRawData.toHex() << "of internal length" << QString::number(stringSize); qDebug() << "Size of array after filling is" << aRawData.size(); for (pos = 0; pos < aRawData.length() - 5; pos++) { tempChar = workingData.at(pos + 2 + 2); qDebug() << pos << tempChar; round1Data = round1Data + tempChar; } qDebug() << "Processed data is " << round1Data.size(); for (pos = 0; pos < round1Data.size() ; pos++) { int notNull; if (!round1Data.at(pos).isNull()) { notNull = pos; qDebug() << "NOT A NULL: " << round1Data.at(pos) << "AT: " << pos; charMap.insert(notNull, round1Data.at(pos)); } } foreach (QChar value, charMap) round2Data = round2Data + value; return round2Data.simplified(); }
The aforementioned implementation produces the following output, when used in conjunction with the demo method:
Got data: "070000006500630068006f00310032003300" of internal length "7" Size of array after filling is 18 0 e 1 2 c 3 4 h 5 6 o 7 8 1 9 10 2 11 12 3 Processed data is 13 NOT A NULL: 'e' AT: 0 NOT A NULL: 'c' AT: 2 NOT A NULL: 'h' AT: 4 NOT A NULL: 'o' AT: 6 NOT A NULL: '1' AT: 8 NOT A NULL: '2' AT: 10 NOT A NULL: '3' AT: 12 "echo123"
Of course, code that triggers FetchUsernameFromClipboard() (or ParseClipboardData() itself) is also necessary – and the FetchUsernameFromClipboard() demo function doesn't even exist within the SocialClient codebase; but that should give a good idea as to how I implemented this.
It probably isn't the most efficient technique ever, either…
Still, as always, please feel free to comment and make alternative suggestions.


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Galashiels is to be home to the new £5million Scottish Centre of Textiles, after a meeting involving the project team and educational professionals.
After the meeting in Galashiels on Friday, it was announced the School of Textiles & Design at Heriot-Watt University and the Scottish Centre of Textiles (SCOT) project team had agreed to proceed with the first phase of the initiative, which will see the creation of a National Textiles Archive for Scotland in Galashiels, and with direct contact with the university's campus at Netherdale.
Professor Fiona Waldron, head of the School of Textiles & Design, told us: "With the education sector and the textile industry working together, the value of such an archive would be immense, further enhancing the reputation and innovative contribution of Scottish textiles on the global stage and adding to the tourist and professional footfall through the Scottish Borders and beyond, with all the added financial benefits that this would accrue."
Chairman of SCOT, Hamish Carruthers from Gattonside, added: "The project has taken more than three years to bring to fruition and the trustees of SCOT welcome the unanimous support we received at a meeting, jointly chaired by Michael Moore MP and Lord Purvis of Tweed, at Borders College a few days ago, with representatives of senior management in Scotland's textile and textile-related industries, including James Sugden, formerly of Johnston's of Elgin and a SCOT Trustee."
Also present at Friday's meeting were professionals from the local museum and curatorial sector, as well as representatives from the Old Gala Club and Scottish Tartans Authority, plus local archive owners.
Mr Moore said that choosing where to locate the project in the Borders had proved a difficult process – Selkirk had been the project team's original choice as home for the centre, but this was ditched after consultants said footfall numbers would be too low to make it viable.
The reopening of the railway and other nearby attractions such as Abbotsford, also helped swing things in Galashiels' favour and it emerged the eventual winner.
"This will bring together historic and contemporary textile collections produced in Scotland, for the public and global researchers to enjoy," said Mr Moore.


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Yesterday was eventful. After doing a little work, I headed to Jupiter Donut Factory to meet Dianna from The Kitchen Prep. I found Dianna a few weeks ago and realized she lives in Jupiter too. I'm not going to lie, I was a little to excited to find a local food blogger. We talked back and forth through email for the last few weeks, and planned to meet for Donuts around 11:15. Little did we know, that was late in the Donuts world. When we arrived all they had left were Apple Fritters.
The Apple Fritter was huge, flaky, and messy!! The picture does not do it justice. I also enjoyed a cup of coffee.
We talked about Blogging… Why we blog, what we want from our blogs, where we want our blogs to be ect. No one I personally know has a blog. My family and friends tell me they enjoy my blog but they do not understand the struggles and disappointments that come with it. "Oh you just write a poorly written quick article and take a few pictures, right. How is it that hard?"
One, writing is not easy for me. I write a blog post and think, no one cares or wants to read this. I read so many well written blogs and dream of a blog like theirs. I feel my writing is very elementary.
When I started this blog, I told Huck, I just want to write recipes (which isn't as easy as you think). Since my writing skills suck, I did not want to write about what we did or talk about restaurants.
I like the Life part of my blog, though. It is a way for me to share my life with my friends and family that I do not get to see often, and it is nice to look back on our lives over the last 9 months.
Another VERY time consuming aspect of the blog is the behind the scenes website design and setup. Do you know now long it took me to make all those little drop down menus?? Please tell me you have used them!!
Networking to increase readership, thinking about blog post, setting up and planning for photos of food, and reading and learning how to take better pictures of my food, take lots time.
So why do I do it? Why do I spend all this time on something that I don't even make enough money to cover my hosting fees? Because I LOVE IT! I love my little piece of the internet world. I love knowing people read my blog (I can see how many people view it each day).
I love feeding people. I live for the "OMG this is amazing" reaction you get when someone likes your food. Since I can not cook for my family every day, I can still share my recipes with them.
I do not plan to quit blogging anytime soon. My pictures are starting to look better… It can only go up from here
It was nice talking to someone that understands and is going through the same struggles. I can't wait for our next Donut Day. Dianna likes to bake, too. If you are looking for a really good dessert, head over to her site and check it out. I'm not a baker. It is to exact for me. I'm more of the throw it together and see if it work kind of person.
After our Donut date, I came home and stamped all my invitations for the wedding. I can't believe we are really getting married in a few months!
We mailed out over 60 invites for our "small" wedding!
Back to WIAT.
Lunch was leftover dinner from the night before. Beer Cheddar and Garlic Biscuits with Beefless Beef, Veggie, and Barley Stew. I accidently bought Beef Stew Bones instead of Beef Stew Meat. I was excepting the worst, but it turned out to be pretty good. Even without meat, Huck still liked it, too.
The Beer Cheddar and Garlic Biscuits were the best part, though.
Beer Cheddar and Garlic Biscuits
Makes 6 Biscuits
- 1 Cup Bisquick Mix- Homemade Recipe to Follow
- 1/2 Cup Shredded Cheese
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 Tbsp Butter
- 1/3 Cup Light Beer or Milk
- 1 tsp Oregano
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Mix together Bisquick, cheese, and garlic powder.
- Add butter and incorporate into dry ingredients using a fork to cut butter into flour. (Click the link to learn how)
- Mix in milk or beer and combined.
- Using two spoons, scoop batter into spoon and drop onto a grease baking sheet.
- Sprinkle with oregano.
- Bake 10-13 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve immediately.
Homemade Bisquick Recipe
Makes 1 Cups
- 1 Cup All Purpose Flour- Sifted
- 1/2 Tbsp Baking Powder
- Dash Salt
- 1 Tbsp Butter
- Mix together dry ingredients
- Cut butter into dry ingredients.
- Recipe can be doubled and stored in airtight container in refrigerator for up to 4 months.
Beefless Beef, Veggie, and Barley Stew
- 1 lb Beef Bones or Beef Stew Meat
- 1 Tbsp Oil
- 2 Tbsp Flour
- Salt and Pepper
- 1 Cup Beef Stock
- 1 Cup Water
- 1 Package Frozen Mix Vegetables
- 2 Carrots- Diced
- 1 Onion- Diced
- 3-4 Cloves Garlic- Chopped
- 6 oz Mushrooms- Sliced
- 1 Can White Kidney Beans- Drain and Rinsed
- Salt and Pepper to Taste
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 1 Cup Quick Barley
- Heat oil in a pan over medium high heat.
- Combined flour and salt and pepper
- Dust Beef in flour and add to pan to sear the outside on all sides.
- Combined Stock, Water, Onions, Garlic, Veggies, Mushrooms, Beans, and bay leaves in a crockpot.
- Add meat and cover with lid.
- Cook for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low.
- Add barley in last 30 minutes if cooking on high and last hour if cooking on low, or cook separately and serve veggies over barley.
- Season with salt and pepper as needed.
- Serve and ENJOY!
Last night, we went to another class at Bx Beer Depot. I will write a post about that later. This post is getting a little long
For dinner, I made my Mediterranean Fish Packets.I did not cook the fish in the parchment paper and did not have wine. I really missed the wine and put way to much crushed red pepper in it. It was OK. We ate dinner and watched more Workaholics! I love that show!!
Well that was WIAT. Not much summer favorites other than the Fish Packets. They are prefect when it is hot outside!
Make sure you follow me on Twitter and Facebook! Anyone else notice the improvement in the pictures! They look a million times better than pictures like this…


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I've combined some of my favorite things on this tag like Creative Embellishments fairies and one of my favorite circle frames. Then, toss in some Graphic 45 Secret Garden papers and Petaloo blooms, doesn't get much better!
The circle frame is heat embossed with Stampendous aged ivory embossing enamel. Then I added some glue here and there and sprinkled some blue grit over the glue just for some fun accents.
I finished it off with beautiful flowers from Petaloo's Penny Lane collection.
Creative Embellishments Chipboard Used:
Graphic 45 Secret Garden Collection
Petaloo Penny Lane flowers
Thank you for popping by!! Be sure to enter the Creative Embellishments monthly challenge, you might win a $50 gift certificate! Details here.
The Frillie and Funkie challenge blog is having a Welcome Spring challenge and I thought this would be a fun tag to enter. Check out the The Funkie Junkie Boutique, they've got some great "stuff" to buy at great prices! Read all about the challenge here.


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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The Interviews Start Pouring In! PART 1
Gordon and the Whale Video Interview!
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- Barak Epstein said...
this interview makes we want to buy a GRAID
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Wow what a interview i am really very impressed with your post.
Thanks for post..
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