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Monday, December 12, 2011
Freezing Lemur Found On London's Tooting Common
The primate, who has been named King Julien after the character in the animated film Madagascar, was found on Tooting Common on Tuesday night.
The animal has been treated for shock and hypothermia at an animal hospital and is making a good recovery.
It is not known how it came to be on the common.
The lemur was also suffering from severe dehydration when it was taken to the Blue Cross animal hospital in Victoria, central London.
It was put on a drip and put in the hospital's isolation unit for close monitoring.
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Delicious Thai Finger Food
Delicious Thai finger food is now extremely popular in the Uk for large-scale events and special occasion catering, it is the tremendous flexibility that Thai finger food and Thai canope`s can offer that really appeal to the British public. I mean in the UK we spend most of our time hoping the weather will be fine for our planned event so that guests can roam the garden freely or alternatively building an arc (erecting a marque) adding greater expense to the event. Unfortunately the weather is never far from our minds when planning a special occasion in the UK and that is just in the summer. On the other hand and fortunately enough with Thai finger food you can be inside or outside without the need of a plate or cutlery and the charming Thai waitresses will still find you.
So What are the other benefits of using Thai finger food at parties
- Great for large-scale events with many attenders and little or no sit down facilities.
- Guests can walk and talk while enjoying tasty food with glass in hand.
- All food freshly cooked and served on site including absolutely delicious dips.
- Economical as the menu can be suited to budget available.
- Guests are delighted with delightful tasting hot Thai finger food than the normal cold sandwiches, sausage rolls and crisps.
- No hired crockery to collect up, count and return.
- No tables and no chairs required.
The Thai Gourmet Walk And Talk Thai Finger Food Menu
- Chicken Satay (ไก่สะเต๊ะ) (Grilled marinated chicken with a peanut sauce dip)
- Spring Rolls (บอเปียทอด) (mixed Thai vegetables wrapped in fried thin pastry with a sweet chilli dip)
- Kanompang na gai/moo (ขนมปังหน้าหมู/ไก่ ) (Fried pork or chicken on sliced bread with garlic, coriander, spring onions and a cucumber dip)
- Pla rad prik (ปลาราดพริก) (Delicious salmon in a rich chilli sauce)
- Tod man khao phot (ทอดมันข้าวโพด) ( Fried corn cakes with pepper, garlic and coriander)
- Gung Sarong (กุ้งโสร่ง) (Fried prawns in thin pastry with sweet chilli dip)
So there you have it, all you need to produce your own absolutely delicious Thai finger food party and impress the life out of your guests, but if you think it might be a bit of a struggle or sounds too much like hard work then make a call or drop an email to Thai Gourmet and let Khun Lek and her team do it for you.
For the link to see full Thai Gourmet walk and talk dishes http://www.engagingthailand.com/thaigourmetpopularwalkandtalkfingermenu.html
For full Thai food website see www.thaigourmetfoodcaterers.co.uk


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The year 2012 now has 11 months left. The first one is gone and hopefully many of us have something to celebrate. I lost 7 pounds in January. It is less than I had hoped to lose, and I did not always focus on my goals as I should, yet I am proud of my accomplishment.
When I wrote my last blog, I promised myself to take slow but deliberate steps to achieve my goal, and I did just that. I decided to enjoy every day regardless of any challenges that I might encounter. I treated myself gently, and I looked for at least one accomplishment, regardless of how small, to thank God for at the end of the day. Some days were easier than others, but I was determined to find something in my life that was worth celebrating.
My biggest accomplishment was to wean myself off fast food. I remember arriving at the Burger King drive-thru on New Years Day. I felt like such a traitor to myself as I sat in my car wondering why I was there. I was not hungry, but it had become my regular stop on my way home after visiting my grandchildren. In the past I might have decided to buy something since I was already on the premises, but not this time. I drove away without placing an order, embarrassed that I was even there. At the same time, I thanked God for the strength to not succumb to temptation. That was my last fast food stop, and I have abstained since then.
I don't take much credit for this. I believe that the hand of God is guiding me through this journey, but first, I had to learn to take comfort in His presence and not in junk food. I had to realize that with His help I could overcome temptation. I had to make the decision that my past actions would not mar the beautiful possibilities that awaited me once I decided to walk in faith towards my goal.
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Everyday God gives us a new palette on which to paint beauty into our lives. January is gone. Some of us did well; some of us could have done better; some of us did not do what we had set out to do. But it's not too late. As long as we have faith that things can be better from here onward, we have opportunity to find success.
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You might set up a new, fall writing schedule. Don't forget to include attending fall literature festivals and readings in your schedule. You might join a writer's room (like this one in D.C.)
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The formal name for Obamacare is the Affordable Health Care for America Act, but observers were nonetheless surprised when California decided not to include "quality" ratings along with affordable "prices" on the state's healthcare exchange website that implements the law.
Covered California had planned to post ratings of insurance company offerings alongside prices that will be charged when the exchange opens on October 1 for an expected 5 million healthcare shoppers. But the Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the state won't be doing that.
The Covered California Executive Director's Report (pdf) in March laid out the elaborate "Quality Rating System" that was to be introduced in fall of this year. It would "show that quality-cost relationships vary," and provide historical data that "is available for almost all plans in California at commercial HMO, PPO and Medi-Cal MMC levels."
"Exploding" charts would go from general ratings to specific analysis using "industry-standard performance measures" using "mainstays of federal exchange info."
And then the state changed its mind.
Covered California claimed that the data it was going to use is too old (2011) and doesn't accurately reflect the health plans that will be offered in the exchange. It is unclear why no attempt was made to rate the new plans as they were submitted.
Executive Director Peter Lee said it was hoped that enough information could be pulled together by next year to give people some idea what they were spending their money on. In the meantime, he suggested that there were other sources consumers could hunt down for information. For instance, the state's Office of the Patient Advocate publishes a report card of HMO and PPO plans.
Insurance agent and blogger Kevin Knauss points out that several of the health plans being offered through the exchange "have never been heard of beyond the ethnic community or region they serve." It is also hard to assess individual plans because, "Much of the information about the different health plans and companies is spread out over several different agencies, reports and websites."
Health plan ratings aren't the only information Covered California is keeping under wraps. An Associated Press review of 17 states with marketplace exchanges found that the California's has been granted the most leeway in keeping information secret from the public.
All contracts between Covered California and its vendors—estimated at $458 million by 2014 for expenses like legal services and public relations—can be kept secret for a year and the cost of the contracts can be secret forever. Shortly after that became known, Senate Bill 332 was introduced in the Legislature to restore some of the exchange's transparency.
The bill would make contracts and rates of payment of the exchange open to public inspection under the California Public Records Act. It passed the Senate on July 8 and is awaiting action in the Assembly.
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L-3 Marine Systems International (L-3 MSI) announced today the promotion of Armin Groth and Maik Stoevhase to managing directors of its L-3 SAM Electronics business. As managing directors, Groth and Stoevhase report to Ulrich Weinreuter, president of L-3 MSI.
Having worked in the maritime industry for more than 24 years, Groth joined L-3 SAM Electronics in 2006 as managing director of its STN Schiffselektrik subsidiary before he took over SAM's Integrated Systems business in 2009. In addition to his new role as a managing director of L-3 SAM Electronics, Groth will maintain his responsibilities at the sector level as senior vice president of integrated systems for L-3 MSI.
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WHILE uncertainty is manifest over the impact of Brexit on the Borders economy, there are "key issues" which businesses in the region should be considering now.
That is the view of former local Lib Dem MP Michael Moore who will address an upcoming lunch event organised by the Scottish Borders Chamber of Commerce.
It will take place in the Bay Waverley Castle Hotel in Melrose on Friday, December 9.
A qualified chartered accountant before entering politics, Mr Moore is now a senior adviser on Brexit and devolution with leading business consultancy firm PwC.
As a prelude to his talk Mr Moore says, "In the months since the EU referendum, there have been many questions posed about the significance of Brexit and how it will affect businesses across the country and, separately, whether it will lead to another Scottish independence referendum.
In Melrose, I will set out the major themes which ministers and both the UK and Scottish parliaments will be considering as the UK prepares for the Brexit process to formally begin with the triggering of 'Article 50'.
I will also outline some of the key issues which businesses in the Borders need to be considering right now."
The Chamber is "delighted" to have enlisted Mr Moore for the Melrose event.
In his new role and having been an MP in the Borders for 18 years, he brings a business as well as a political perspective to issues which are of great concern to companies of all sizes and sectors across the Borders.
The Brexit process may appear to be in limbo, but businesses know they cannot afford to stand still, wait for things to happen and do nothing. They want to be optimistic and identify positive outcomes.
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These and many other issues will be discussed at this lunch meeting and a good turnout is hoped for, particularly from those businesses and exporters who are likely to be most affected by Brexit.
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I'd now like to take this further and do a series of "SQL Developer 1.1: How Do I ....", first using the evaluation drops as they become available and continue that into the production release.
In showing how to go about discovering new things and working with 1.1 in general, I could take 2 quite different approaches. The one approach would be to be quite organized and plan a whole schedule of entries and the other is to write random ad hoc entries that just jump in and out of the tool all over the place. I'm opting for the latter approach, because right now I am inspired to do a quite write up, just covering a basic chart in SQL Developer 1.1
Building a Chart using SQL Developer 1.1At this stage I should point out, that the only 1.1 software you have access to is SQL Developer 1.1 Evaluation Release 184.108.40.206.41. That's what I am going to use. If you do not yet have that release, then go to OTN and follow the links to download it.
The query I will use in my example is for the user SCOTT/TIGER and requires that you have access to SCOTT's EMP and DEPT tables and a Connection to SCOTT.
Starting with the Reports Tab, select User Defined Reports and, using the context menu, select Add Report. If you're diligent, you could add a folder first, so that all your reports are saved into carefully planned categories.
Once you have invoked the new report dialog, there are three areas you should take special note of:
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select emp.deptno, emp.ename, sal
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When creating a chart, the rule of thumb is select group, series, data from table
Before you test the chart, select the Chart Details and change the chart type to BAR_VERT_STACK. For the rest of the options, you can make your own choices. For bigger reports, the Legend can take up quite a bit of real estate, so I tend to set that to False. You can see what suits you. Once you have set the Chart Details, you can return to the Details tab and Test the chart or just select Apply.
Once back in the Navigator, select your report and select the connection you have for SCOTT.
The stripy pajama report reflects the 4 departments in the table , with each employee and salary. The mouseover for each node indicates Employee name and Salary. The power of the chart is that a glance you can see that, based on my data, Department 20 has the greatest salary bill, while Department 10 appears to have the highest paid employee.
This is a trivial example, but you'll note that the results returned are quite rich. Why not try this against some of your System data?


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Enter Mer. The Mer project aims at bringing Maemo more in-line with mainstream Linux distributions (in this case, Ubuntu), bringing as many of the Maemo 5 features back to pre- Maemo 5 devices, and expanding the device-base of Maemo to include things like the OMAP 3 based Beagleboard, Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX Pocket PCs, Neo Freerunner (of OpenMoko fame) and soon, the Zaurus. In addition, Mer will be as open as possible, both in terms of openness with its community, and with respect to its software source.
The project's two leaders, Carsten Munk (Stskeeps) and John Bloom (JohnX), agreed to the following Q&A session which I hope will be of interest to you all.
1. Having used Mer since version 0.7, I can see that is has come a long way. Obviously Mer development is time consuming. How much time do you devote to Mer in a day?
Carsten: I devote most of my idle time outside of work, classes and masters thesis work to Mer - being a facilitator for the activities there's some times where I concentrate on the work and sometimes where it's enough to just be nearby my tablet once in a while to discuss matters.
John: In my case it's a lot more varied. Some days I sit down and work on Mer stuff for most of the day. And sometimes I go a couple weeks without touching Mer stuff at all. Recently I completed a trans-continental move, so now hopefully I'll be able to devote a lot more time to Mer.
2. The Mer Team is about 30 people. How do you coordinate activities amongst yourselves? How do you set priorities for what issue you will tackle?
Carsten: We have taken a hint from maemo.org, to use SCRUM (or a variant of it), where people chip in with what activities they want to take on (from a backlog, see http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/
Sprints/0.13) or the mentors in each area can delegate to people in the team if they ask for something to do.
There's also the issue of keeping people in the team informed. Originally we used Jaiku (microblogging) where it was the idea that when achievements were made you microblogged about it. The Mer team members are spread over several time zones so it's difficult to keep track.
This has now evolved into the mer-chatter mailing list, which is basically microblogging through e-mail - send many, short messages, most information in subject and maybe elaborating a little in the body of the e-mail.
We also post to the mailing list through an IRC bot - and people can receive the messages through a digest too, or look up in the archive (https://garage.maemo.org/
John: From the point of view of someone who wants to get involved in the Mer project, they can take a look at the Sprints page (that Carsten mentioned above), and see what needs to be done. If they find something they're interested in working on, it's easy for them to jump right in, asking questions as they go.
3. Can you detail the support that you are getting from Nokia? In addition to the open source bits that you are including in Mer, what closed bits have you received, or are expected to receive from them? Have any new components from the Maemo 5 SDK's made their way into Mer yet?
Carsten: Current status can be described as following:
* Nokia has sponsored travel+accomodation for five community members dealing with Mer (cladius, me, johnx, lbt, rm_you) to get together as part of the Mozilla Maemo Danish weekend - alone the monetary value of that is a huge and much appreciated support :)
* Nokia has put out several code drops (pre-alpha, pre-alpha2, alpha, beta1, soon to be beta2) of the open source code and we have included these code drops in Mer as they have come in (beta1 still in progress)
* Nokia has essentially said that they don't see a problem in distributing Nokia software to Nokia tablet users - which is an impressive statement by them (see http://lists.maemo.org/
pipermail/maemo-community/) 2009-January/002946.html
* Nokia is sponsoring maemo.org and the employees running it, which we use as our infrastructure technically as well as organizational - who are very helpful to the project.
(there's probably more but this is what I can remember at 10am :)
4. Can you provide us with a definitive word on the status of the graphics acceleration drivers for the OMAP 2? Is it true that Nokia is assisting in getting those closed bits to the Mer team?
Carsten: Well, it's actually an item out of my hands - do note that Nokia is assisting in getting those bits to the Maemo community, not exclusively to Mer. Quim said on IRC he will go to talk to TI during May. What we have done from Mer point of view is suggest ways to deal with this, see http://internettablettalk.com/
forums/showpost.php?p=283003& postcount=8
5. My own opinion is that Mer in its current state (version 0.12) it is not ready for prime-time yet. What issues do you feel need to be resolved before it is ready? What show-stoppers, if any, need to be overcome?
Carsten: Show-stoppers are pretty simple: we need some people with GTK knowledge to work with us for a while to get some things rolling - as we have some tiny bugs in Hildon Desktop that are annoying. Rest is powerlaunch scripting (behaviour) and control panels. There's a longer discussion in the http://internettablettalk.com/
forums/showthread.php?t=28586(Mer 0.12 release thread) including a discussion of the showstoppers.
6. When I interviewed Andre Klapper back in late 2008, he indicated that the Mer team was welcome to use Maemo's bugzilla to enter and track bugs. Are you currently doing this?
Carsten: Yes, we're under "Extras" in the maemo.org bugzilla and Andre and co has been excellent in helping us out with getting things working. We even get delegated some WONTFIX'es ;)
7. Mer comes pre-installed with a few applications. Are the Mer repositories building up, or is more focus on Mer itself for the moment.
John: Right now the focus is on Mer itself. We want a solid base that won't change too much before we start putting a lot of applications on top. We're also looking at how to integrate with maemo.org Extras in terms of making it possible for developers to write one source package that compiles for Maemo and Mer. Hopefully this situation will improve with time. We want to be using our favorite apps on Mer just as much as
everyone else.
8. Speaking of repositories. From what I gather, Mer is based upon Ubuntu Jaunty. Can the Ubuntu repositories be used as-is for things like resource-efficient command-line applications? I imagine that anything with a GUI would have to be Hildonized first?
John: We have the Ubuntu repositories enabled by default and command line applications and tools are no problem at all in almost all cases. As for GUI tools, do they need to be Hildonized before they can be used? Not necessarily. Hildonizing certainly helps applications to be more touchscreen friendly and fit in with the look and feel of the desktop better, but apps that already look OK in an 800x440 window should run and be usable to some degree without any extra work.
9. OK I have a personal pet peeve with Mer's Midori web browser on my N800! I still cannot enter any text within webpage fields. I suspect that this is not an issue for the N810? When will this get resolved?!
John: We'll be switching to Bundyo's Tear web browser after a couple things get resolved. That should fix the issue nicely as well as adding a whole bunch of tablet specific features, such as drag-to-scroll, a touch friendly UI and good usage of screen real estate.
10. Where do you see the Mer project going after stable distributions are commonplace.
Carsten: My personal hope is that the Mer project will help put the Maemo platform everywhere - and to group together efforts in the various device communities. If we can put Hildon on a lot of different devices easily, and bring along all the applications with ease, it can only be a good thing :) Maybe you'll see a Hildon application made for the Zaurus running on your N810. Or Maemo Mapper on a X86 MID. Imagine the possibilities.
Also, consider that Mer is not "just" a Fremantle backport project. The original idea was to revolutionize and reconstruct the Maemo platform - in order to make it more tolerable for developers, community, users, etc. Maybe Mer might actually the future of the Maemo platform? Who knows? Nevertheless, we are only packagers of the
excellent work the Hildon and Maemo teams at Maemo SW (and contractors) are putting out, but we try to do this in a new way and develop ways to make it easier to work with for developers, community, users, etc.
11. Anything you both want to say to the Mer and Maemo communities?
Carsten: We wouldn't have gotten this far without all the small and big contributions made by you to the Mer project and I hope you'll help us to get to the finish line (a fully day to day usable OS on your tablets) - we still need a lot of hands.
John: I think Carsten said it better than I could. Thanks for all the help, testing, positive reinforcement and constructive criticism, everyone. We're getting closer everyday.
'Post'-Mortem by EIPI
Thanks Carsten and John for taking the time to participate in the interview.
The development of Mer excites me. It is an amazing display of a community coming together to shape its own future. It is obvious that the Mer team is working extremely hard to get a polished working product in our hands.
Mer as an operating system excites me. Mer looks quite polished, and I have no doubt that it will be a polished and usable operating system once some of the hurdles are overcome. Some of the highlights that stand out to me:
- Hardware graphics acceleration on the OMAP 2!
- Ubuntu's beefy repositories!
- Mer in other everyday devices - Think about Mer-based set-top boxes, SOHO servers, media players, and beyond!
For those of us that will not be continuing along with Maemo's progression past Diablo, I encourage you to install Mer, update it with each release, file bugs, suggest enhancements, port applications, and quite simply - help out in whatever way you can. The Mer team is looking for someone with GTK experience to help out ... if you are that person, or you know of someone who is, let the project leaders, Carsten and John know.


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The King's Cobbler
Adapted by StarChefs.com
December 2011
Yield: 1 Cocktail
1 small strawberry (or ½ large strawberry)
2 ounces Zucca Rabarbaro (rhubarb amaro)
¾ ounce 1:1 simple syrup
¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
1 strawberry fan
1 fresh mint leaf
Softly muddle the strawberry in a frosted tin glass. Add the Zucca Rabarbaro, simple syrup, lemon juice, and ice and shake 15 times. Single-strain over cracked ice in a double Old Fashioned glass. Garnish with a strawberry fan, a slapped mint leaf, and 2 small straws.
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Thursday, 7 July 2011
Oh Christmas Tree...Oh Christmas Tree
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You are so right Emma, the weeks are flying by. Another lovely Christmas card, very elegant. Love the Christmas tree. Tracy xReplyDelete
Can't believe how fast this year is disappearing either. Gorgeous card, like you say the stamp and dies do the talking and they speak pure elegance. Stunning. Zo xReplyDelete
The year is just disappearing isn't it. The Summer hols start in two weeks and then my little baby girl will be in her last year at Primary school, where did the last 6 go!!ReplyDelete
What an elegant, classy card, Emma. You've certainly let the dies do the talking and they are showing this lovely stamp off to it's best.
Don't work too hard.
Hugs Lisax
- Anonymous7 July 2011 at 20:08
Wow Emma! This is such an elegant Christmas card. The design is so detailed and beautiful and looks perfect in these colours. Fabulous! xxxReplyDelete
I think there's a Time Thief at work - I really don't don't where it is disappearing to either.ReplyDelete
Another fabulous card Emma.
Love Lynda xxx
Of the stamps shown on the day, this one had to be one of my faves! Rather clever variation on the traditional tree...ReplyDelete
and I like how you resisted the temptation to do the card in a traditional colour scheme..I like the monotone look and the distressing you did on the card...the 2 large snowflakes are an especially wonderful touch!
Lovely and can't wait to see more! :D
Wow Emma, you said you wanted 'elegant' and you certainly have achieved it with this card!ReplyDelete
Avril x
Thank you for all your comments and messages, they are all appreciated and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon...
Emma ~xx


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This was about as pregnant
as I got last time!
So here I am: I've got a 17-month-old toddler, I'm 19 weeks pregnant, and I'm 42. This isn't quite how I expected my life to go, but I've got to admit, it's interesting -- and a lot of fun.
My daughter Penelope is at an amazing age, full of pep, sprouting new words, and literally toddling around like a tiny little old lady. And the little girl inside me? Also full of pep, though probably not saying much (if she is, I can't hear her) and certainly not walking.
This isn't quite a normal pregnancy, though. Although with my first pregnancy, my doctor assured me that "advanced maternal age" doesn't automatically mean high-risk status, I was in terrible shape to start with, working an extremely high-stress job, and dealing with a difficult family situation. All of this together meant that Penelope was born 10 weeks early, a story I told here on CafeMom right after it happened.
When I got pregnant again, I was determined things would go my way. Actually, I had a miscarriage last September, and after a frustrating back-and-forth with the midwifery practice that, I felt, had ignored my symptoms when I was (unknowingly) in labor and nervous about my second pregnancy, I got aggressive about my care. When the stick showed two lines a third time, I looked up the doctor who had delivered Penelope -- a woman I had never met before that day, and never managed to thank afterwards, but whose piercing blue eyes I remember above her surgical mask, encouraging me to push even though I was terrified.
The good news: She specialized in high-risk pregnancies. The bad news: He had moved to Oregon, like scads of other Northern Californians. Lame! But I asked the front-desk nurse if anyone else in the practice was awesome in the same way, and she listed two doctors she was sure I'd like.
She was right. My current OB is bossy, cautious, and doesn't let me get away with anything. When I complained that my husband was dictatorial about my food intake, she gave me a sympathetic smile, but added, "You had gestational diabetes the first time. You do have to be careful about your carbs." When I asked her if I was likely to carry this baby to term, she didn't sugar-coat it. "I'm optimistic," she said. "But we're taking this trimester by trimester. Let's focus on the next set of tests."
The precautions I have to take are sometimes intense. I take supplements -- prenatal vitamins, of course, but also omega-3 fatty acids and calcium. I get biweekly ultrasounds to check my cervical length -- a short cervix means a pushy baby! I'm careful to keep my gums in order (more on that in a future post) and I'm very careful to drink lots of fluids and keep my bladder UTI-free.
But the biggest precaution -- and I do mean that literally -- are the weekly progesterone shots that have been proven to reduce preterm labor in high-risk patients. These shots are big. Very big. And I have to do them at home. I did weeny little pen-sized shots when I was doing follicle stimulation to get pregnant with Penelope, but these are the size of tablespoons. And they have to go into my fattest bits. The ones I can't reach. Which means it's up to my husband to stab me right in the Kardashian.
We did the first one in the doctor's office last week, under the watchful eye of Nurse Jenny. But now? Now it's date night, and not the kind featuring the hot beef injection I was hoping for. We're going to get all Sid and Nancy, only with hormones instead of heroin. And if last week is any indication, I'll follow that up with floods of tears, possibly some rage, and a very sore hiney. So yes, I've been procrastinating and making sure this blog post is letter-perfect while he waits anxiously in the living room. I'll give you the full update in the next post, coming Thursday.
But you know, anything I've gotta do is okay. If I think it's hard now, I just have to remember it's a lot easier than visiting Penelope in "preemie camp," otherwise known as the NICU. Just keep swimming, little one.


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Pastor Casey serves both the Spirit of Life Church in South Corinth and the First United Methodist Church of Lake Luzerne. He typically holds office hours Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from noon until 4pm at the church office at 23 Main in Lake Luzerne. He can be reached at 696-2554.


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Title: Healing
Verse: X-Men movieverse
Timeline: post X-Men: The Last Stand
Pairing: Eventual Rogue/Magneto
Rating: M – sexual situations (gratuitous), violence, swearing, the works…
Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men. But I own this story, Healing, and aren't you jealous? It rocks!
Summary: The Cure is only temporary. While healing Rogue and Magneto find each other and realize they have more in common than they originally thought.
I recommend the song "Coming Undone" by Korn.
78 reviews! I feel so loved! From what I can tell about fanfiction dot net there are a lot of young people on this site who are probably too young to read any of this story. I filed it under M, but somehow I feel like that rating doesn't do it justice. Oh well, I guess its good the kids learn sometime. Be safe. And remember these are fictional characters I'm playing around with; don't try this stuff at home.
Chapter Nineteen: Tropical Punch Kool-Aid
Magneto and Rogue:
All good things must come to an end. Rogue didn't understand this. She was young despite the memories in her head and she was foolhardy. She should have known the blissful post-connubial euphoria would wear off sometime and she would have to face the bleak dissatisfaction of reality. But she postponed this event as long as possible. Rogue was a greedy girl. She wanted to take whatever joy she could whenever she was able. Rogue should have seen her fall coming; especially the morning after she slept with Magneto for the first time.
It was a good thing Magneto had a large king size bed because Rogue was not the type of girl to cuddle with. For one thing, Rogue had always been a loner, far too independent to want the mushy trappings of a relationship. Secondly, Rogue had a deadly skin mutation and Magneto could not keep up his protective shield while he slept. At one point in the night she had rolled over onto him and her mutation had woken her up. She was able to stop it quickly before it did Erik much harm, but the memory of the accident haunted her. She could never truly escape what she was.
Rogue woke up the next morning wondering how different things would seem in the light of day. She did not regret sleeping with Erik, not for one second. She had grown to respect him as a leader of the Brotherhood, even if his methods were often questionable. Also, it was hard to regret such a magnificent experience as last night had been. But she was worried the effect their sexual relationship would have. What if Pyro found out? Or worse Mystique? Rogue knew from her memories Magneto and Mystique had been lovers. Rogue remembered when Logan had found out about her and Bobby sleeping together.
God, what if Logan found out?
He would not be handing her a beer and sympathizing over this. No, Logan would kill her if he knew. But luckily, Logan was back at the school and there was no way he would ever learn. The thought comforted Rogue, but still her heart yearned for her friend. She had not spoken to him in months.
When Erik stirred awake he pointed to the bed stand next to her. There sitting on it was a morning-after pill and a pack of birth control. Next to those sat a glass of water. Rogue took the pill, wondering how she could have been so absent minded the previous night not to use protection. Rogue was not the type of girl to take such risks. She was the quiet, nervous type. The type that worried. What was happening to her?
"Where did you get these so quick?"
"I would rather not say." Rogue was half asleep and let the issue drop.
It was early when Rogue made the long walk of shame back to her room on the other side of the fortress. With each step she prayed that she wouldn't meet anyone in the corridors. She was disheveled; her white Versace dress badly wrinkled, hanging off her sloppily, her hair a rat's nest, and her make up from the previous evening was smeared where Erik had kissed her fervently. She looked like the Bride of Frankenstein.
Rogue was half-way to her room when she bumped right into a taller naked blue woman. Mystique had been carrying her morning coffee (she always took it black, Rogue knew) and in the collision it spilled, destroying Rogue's white satin dress in one fluid movement. In Mystique's defense, her spilling the coffee had been unintentional. But she had heard about Magneto's trip to New York City with Rogue and taking in her appearance, that early in the morning, it was not hard to draw the correct conclusions.
Rogue swore as her dress was destroyed, the hot coffee dripping from her an almost pleasant sensation in the cold hall. But Mystique fixed her with her unyielding yellow gaze.
"Watch your step." She let her eyes wander over Rogue's awful state and her mouth formed a queer little smile, half sneer, half wicked grin. "Never fool yourself into believing he cares for you. The cause is his life. You're just a good time to him. Remember that." And she moved past Rogue returning to the kitchen to make more coffee. Rogue stood there dripping and smelling the Colombian for several minutes.
Erik was happy. Far too happy, about the events of the previous evening and he realized it the minute he woke up. He had risen before Rogue, dimly conscious of the near-disastrous event in the night when Rogue's skin had accidentally come into contact with his. Although they both knew measures to prevent it, its deadly ability had not gone away and Erik realized what an act of hubris it was to sleep with the girl. There were many and myriad reasons why he had slept with her, not the least of which was his desperate attraction to her. But the reasons why he should have abandoned the idea were far larger and more imperative. She was much too young for him; she had deadly skin; and she did not share his vision of mutant supremacy. For God's sake she had been his enemy only a few short months ago. He had nearly killed her himself once. For all he knew she could be plotting his demise in her dreams.
What a dumb love-blind fool he had been. The cold harsh light of morning (and it was especially cold in a fortress in Maine) was just what Magneto needed to see the error of his ways and he took immediate action to correct them. First he had obtained the birth control from Catalyst, who had given him none-too-kind a talking to about what he was doing with Rogue. He had politely reminded her who did the funding for her research and she had responded by threatening him.
"How would you like to suddenly look
and feel
like you're 90?" He had shut up then, apologized, and grabbed the pills like a guilty teenager in a drugstore buying condoms. The feeling was humiliating; he was too old for that sort of thing, it made him feel ridiculous. And that was only the tip of the iceberg when he thought of the negative consequences of his association with Rogue.
Looking back he could not understand the stupid compulsion that had drove him to take her to see that opera. He would admit he enjoyed making Rogue happy and introducing her to culture, but he had spouted the most asinine bull malarkey about wanting to know she cared for him before he took her to bed. It had been cleverly disguised by the plot summary of the opera, but it was there all the same. Had he lost his mind? Had he suddenly forgotten all the most vital aspects of his life? His devotion to the cause of Mutant supremacy and his want to achieve it by any means necessary were his true goals. One of those means was avoiding relationships that prompted weakness and distracted him from his work.
He had missed a meeting with Catalyst to review her ability to control and specifically direct the explosion of the atomic bomb to go with Marie to the opera.
Marie! Dear god he was calling the girl Marie now!
He must have lost his mind the last few weeks to lust. For God's sake he had even let her play her country music! Had he gone insane finally? Perhaps someone had been manipulating his mind. Some telepath he was unaware of?
He had to get a grip on himself and nip this thing in the bud as quickly as he could. It was impossible to avoid seeing Rogue entirely. By necessity, they would meet at meals and to work on her mutation. But he could put an end to their bedroom activities. Love is a cancer that feeds on the brain and renders it incapable of logical thinking. The quicker it was destroyed the better. If his relationship with Rogue affected the Brotherhood's ability to wage war against humanity, he would never forgive himself.
One look at Rogue's face during dinner had destroyed his resolve instantly. She had been eating some Italian pasta dish Catalyst whipped up and she had licked her spoon enjoying the sweet basil mushroom flavor of the sauce. Magneto had lost his control immediately. His erection had grown swift and rigid and he had excused himself from the table, feigning fatigue. Rogue had caught his glance on the way out and she had gotten up to follow him.
They never made it to a bed. He took her on the sofa in his office. They never even took the time to close the door. The next day he steeled his resolve again, only to see her swivel her hips as she sat down at lunch. By 1PM they had christened the floor of his bedroom. On the fourth day Magneto had caught her staring longingly at him during their morning drills to control her mutation. He had introduced her to the joys of spooning then. Realizing there was no point trying to begin his abstinence that day he had had a quickie with her that night.
By the fifth day he gave up. His lust for her was growing into an infatuation. In four days they had done it five times. His desperate want to resist her only seemed to fuel his need more. He was at a loss what to do. So he made a compromise with himself and said he would allow himself to have Rogue in his bed but not in his heart. He would never say anything to her to indicate the change. Instead, he would gradually withdraw the emotional component of their relationship. And most of all he would not allow himself to grow attached to her. Bad things happened to the people he came to care for: his parents, his falling out with Charles, and then Mystique's capture. No, it was for the best this way. It was much simpler. It was strictly sex, nothing more.
Within a weeks' time, all he had to do was enter a room and look at Rogue and she felt herself grow wet from desire. She loved his eyes most. The cerulean orbs were capable of so many expressions, each one unique and intricate. She could always tell when a glance was meant just for her. He could be giving a speech to the Brotherhood and he would make the slightest turn of his head and look in her direction. She would see the way his eyes took on a different gleam for a second and his right eyebrow arched in silent query. Her answer was always yes.
Whenever his eyes got that look it was between ten and twenty minutes before she would feel him gently pull her aside and usher her down the corridors of his metal fortress to his bedroom. Marie loved the way his need for her was so sudden and urgent. He could be on the phone discussing important business and if she stood up and deliberately held in her stomach and flexed the muscles in her butt he would pause in the middle of a sentence then he would excuse himself, hang up the phone and rush to kiss her fiercely.
She began to revel in this strange power. It was so easy to manipulate him. And the results were so enjoyable. With every passing day Rogue began to feel more and more like an attractive woman; something her mutation had stolen from her before she ever had a chance to enjoy it. Now with her power under her control and a man in her bed, Rogue felt like she had regained some of what had been taken from her. She was more than her skin; she was a force to be reckoned with.
In between her newfound ability to control her mutation and her newfound ability to control Magneto, Rogue took to learning more about the Brotherhood. Too long had she roamed the metal fortress a spectator to the war they were waging. Feigning polite interest, she began to gather information about the Brotherhood's current projects, hoping to find an area where she could be useful. She was determined, here at least, never to be a liability.
Spending time with Catalyst proved to be the most enlightening branch of her quest. The blonde woman who appeared to be a teenager but was far older had one of the most important roles in the Brotherhood of Mutants. Her scientific inquiries spanned into several key projects that were at the heart of the Brotherhood's current pursuits. Catalyst was naturally chatty after being cooped up in her lab all day and it was no hard task for a charming Southern belle like Rogue to coax her out of the data she desired.
"Now that looks like a Kool-aid packet? What are ya doing with a Kool-aid packet?" Rogue pointed at the blue and red tropical punch packets lining the lab bench in front of Catalyst. In excitement over explaining her research, Catalyst forgot any restriction she might have had about dispelling the nature of her work for the Brotherhood.
"It is a Kool-aid packet. First I was trying to get the vaccine to be water soluble for whole sale dissemination and I decided to study the ingredients in Kool-aid that allow it to dissolve in temperatures below 1.7 degrees centigrade. I was able to finally get the vaccine to dissolve a few weeks ago, but the kool-aid gave me this great idea. To ship and transport the vaccine without it being recognized, why not disguise it as Kool-aid? After all, Kool-aid comes in every color under the sun, so since the vaccine for the Cure is a really unattractive shade of red, I thought no one would notice it, if it looked like Kool-aid."
"So this vaccine for the cure…why does Magneto want it to dissolve easy?" Rogue tried her best to look nonchalant, playing with her hair and letting her eyes wander the strange and odd shaped glassware set ups in Catalyst's lab.
"It has to dissolve well to be put into the water supplies for major cities. Magneto's had me working round the clock to get rid of the red color. It's caused by an inorganic iron-based complex impurity. I've been removing it with several different filtration methods, but only column chromatography has shown any promising results. It's a very slow process. But Magneto has assured me that by the time I have a large batch ready the pressure column he ordered will have arrived to speed up the clean up. We should be able to get the vaccine out to mutants around the world in a month." Between the science, Rogue understood enough to be shocked.
"He's just gonna put the vaccine for the Cure into the water? What about mutants who don't want to take the vaccine? Mutants who might want to use the Cure for one reason or another."
"Doesn't matter much anyway. The government has restricted its production so I don't see how any mutant who would want to take it could get it. If you ask me the government's stocking up on what's left of the Cure in case there is a war. They want to be able to control us. But Magneto's smarter; he won't let that happen."
"Thank you Catalyst for telling me all about this. Chemistry is so fascinating. Why just look at all the stuff they can do today. I'll see ya later at dinner." Rogue practically ran from the lab to Magneto's office.
"You!" She screamed after he opened the door with his magnetism. He looked stunned and he arched his eyebrows.
"Me what?"
"You're gonna force all the mutants to take that vaccine." He had wondered how long it would be till she found out and how she would react when she did. "Don't you see how wrong that is? You're taking away their free choice."
"Am I? The government has taken away their choice to take the Cure willing so by giving them the vaccine am I really affecting them all that much? They have no ability to take the Cure. The vaccine prevents the government from using it as a weapon against us."
"But why not offer the mutants the vaccine, not force it upon them?"
"How long until humans force the Cure upon us?" He was livid now, rising from behind his desk, with voice growing loud in the same tone he used to give speeches to the Brotherhood. "How long until it is too late for mutants to get the vaccine? There are more mutants than you know about, Rouge. Nearly one-eighth of the planet are mutants. The easiest way to get the vaccine out is to make it accessible through the water supply. Can't you see how critical this is?"
In that moment the Erik she knew disappeared and Rogue found herself staring at the ruthless leader Magneto in all his brutal glory. His charisma and his allure were formidable. They came partially from his logical truth and partially from the sheer power that he exuded. She felt a wave of fear fill her. To stand toe-to-toe with a man such as him in an argument could not end well.
Rogue hated him then. For being so dominant and for being so one-sided. Couldn't he see the pain he was causing mutants such as herself, who needed the Cure just to live in society? Didn't he care about her at all? Didn't he realize how something like this might affect her? He should have known she would be upset over the vaccine. Why was he disrespecting her so? It made her feel unimportant. It made her feel like she didn't matter. Like she was a
. Like she was weak. And Rogue hated to feel weak.
"I hate you Magneto. You're not the man I thought you were. Not the man your memories say you are." She was fuming. She gestured wildly with her hands impassioned and incensed. Her long softly waved hair flowing down her back. Her eyes wide and deep brown bore into him as her curved body moved with each word. Magneto felt himself shudder with need at the sight.
"I hate you as well Rogue." He walked slowly towards her, his black military boots making loud steps across the floor. When he reached her he loomed over her. He was both taller and larger than her fragile body and she shivered involuntarily. He grasped her hand in his long-fingered one and held it by the wrist tightly. "I hate what you do to me." He moved her hand to his hips where she felt his throbbing erection through the cloth of his pants. "This is what you do to me." His voice was haggard and throaty.
He pressed her violently against him and let out a fearsome low growl as he looked down into her frightened face. She squirmed against him, trying to back away; alarmed at the way their argument had turned into a completely different type of struggle. Her resistance, her very rejection of him, turned him on. He was sick, he told himself. But he was far beyond the time when he could stop.
"You will be my undoing." He said and with a firm push on her shoulders, he caused Rouge to slam forcefully into the bookshelves behind her. Books shaken from their places fell around them as Magneto's mouth assaulted Rogue, shoving his tongue into her without warning. She yielded. She was so startled that she was incapable of doing anything to refuse him. His hands ran through her soft thick hair only to clutch it between his fingers and pull her head back painfully, giving him easier access to her flushed red lips.
Letting go of her hair, his hands felt her breasts through her t-shirt. He ground his penis against her crotch, seeing the way the pleasant stimulation made her move with him despite herself. Her small but surprisingly strong hands grasped his shoulders and tried to push him off her. He longed to feel the heated skin of her breasts but two layers prevented him. With his powerful hands, it took only a second to rip her shirt clear off.
"Erik, don't!" She screamed in his ear but it was already too late. The fabric made a horrific tearing sound and snapped against her neck. The shirt gave way to reveal a dark red lace bra that drove him wild with longing. The shirt hung from her shoulders as he thrust the delicate bra up to clutch a breast in each hand. Grasping the swollen, malleable flesh of her bosom, he juggled them enjoying the way they shook and fell back into position from each of his movements. She cried out angry and outraged, shifting against him, trying to dislodge him and all control slipped away from him.
She wanted him, yes, but not like this. She hated feeling so powerless. She wanted to be the one in control. She hated the way he dominated her, doing to her whatever he wanted. Yet, she felt herself grow aroused in spite of her fury. No, not in spite of. Because of it. Her mind seemed to pull itself out of the scene around her and she felt herself fall to the dark violence of lust.
Her stomach was exposed to him and he loved its soft white flesh, his hands moved aggressively over it to hold her waist. He caught the dark desire in her eye and saw the raging fire that burned deep within her. In one move he had her skirt up past her belly to reveal the matching red g-string thong she had on underneath. No doubt meant for his enjoyment as the thing looked painfully uncomfortable. He took two of its cords awkwardly in his hands reaching below her and pulled with all his might. The thong snapped with a reverberating sound that echoed in the cavernous study. The pain of the strings biting into her when he had yanked on it caused tears to well in her eyes. Her grand purchase for him was destroyed and fell off her on to the floor.
He unzipped his pants and he entered her in one brutal thrust. She was already somewhat wet from desire, but she wasn't ready for him. It hurt them both. Not being properly lubricated his organ was abrasive. Not being fully turned on she wasn't entirely opened up and he felt huge inside her. The difference between this and his tender love-making of the previous week was something Rogue found herself bizarrely attracted to.
She felt so tight to him. So tight it hurt slightly to be in her. He began slow deep long strokes in and out of her. He loved how snug she was and how wrong this seemed. Every part of it seemed wrong but he kept going and the fantasy rewarded him. He plunged into her three or four times as she clenched with all her might against him willing herself to come. She did and the burning friction began to dissipate as she grew wetter and wetter for him. He leaned down to kiss her mouth only to take her bottom lip between his teeth and bite down. The bite bled and red drops pleasantly sprang up on her mouth.
She shrieked at the abrupt agonizing pain. His penis pulsed with craving as she pushed her inner muscles with all her might and forced him out of her. The pressure was intense and Erik marveled at how strong she was. Rogue didn't like the angle against the wall and she looked at the soft leather of the study's couch. But Magneto would have none of that. Peeved by her ability to resist him, he was quick in reasserting his dominance.
He grabbed her by her thighs and hefted her over his shoulder as though she hardly weighed an ounce. Marie wondered if he was using his magnetism but couldn't be sure. He walked her over to his steel desk and with a sweep of his left hand and his magnetic field he cleared it with a thunderous bang as his books and lamp crashed into the far wall. He threw her onto the desk and then flipped her over onto her stomach. Rogue's nipples grew hard as they lay on the freezing metal of his desk. The cold sensation against her bare skin was a heady and glorious feeling. With her legs hanging down off the desk, he took her from behind. It was much easier for him in this position and he pounded into her with vicious speed.
He was able to push deep inside her from this angle and Rogue enjoyed the feeling of his balls hitting her clitoris. His strokes were fast and brutal and he showed no sign of stopping. He reached so deep he struck her cervix and she cried out half from pain and half from pleasure as he conquered her. She came from the brutal thrusts as their speed made magnificent friction in all the right places.
With a finger he plunged into her anus, delving quickly and sliding out slowly. The action was so unexpected that Rogue tensed herself in shock and came with a loud cry. He continued the pain fast in, slow out, and fingered her as his hips shook back and forth plunging into her. She found the feeling of his finger horribly uneasy going in, but oddly enough she enjoyed the sensation of it sliding leisurely out of her. She came again clenching his erection tightly and called out his name with a yelp. But she didn't say Erik, she said Magneto, and he enjoyed the difference.
Rogue was in awe of all the different sensations from the throbbing of her bitten lip to his finger in her. It was both painful and pleasurable.
So this is what he meant when he said pain could be good.
Rogue smiled and rubbed herself as Magneto thrust into her.
"What's going on in here?" Magneto stopped moving and looked toward the open door to see Pyro standing in it. He had heard the commotion and came to check out what was going on, curious if the fortress was under attack from all the loud crashing and screaming. Rogue's head shot up from the desk and she moved her hands to cover her bared breasts.
"Oh, God…um." Pyro backed against away from the door and turned and ran from the room. It didn't take a genius to understand the sight of Magneto giving it to Rogue until she screamed.
Rogue's face turned beat red and she pressed it against the cool metal of the desk. Erik finished quickly feeling both embarrassed and bizarrely turned on by the whole incident.
I love my fans! If you review and leave suggestions you might see them show up in the story and if you leave a real nice review, you might see a chapter dedicated to you. (Gosh I am such a review whore, oh well).
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I just realized there are a lot of
spilled beverages
in my story. First Rogue's drink gets spilled on her in the club, then Logan spills the coffee when he catches Magneto and Rogue making out. Then Rogue spills wine well Magneto is speaking to her. Not we have Mystique spilling more coffee. What an odd little theme I have developed?
If you like this story at all… you should thank KumaDaPuma.
She has been my springboard for much of this and a major help urging me to continue writing. Through her lovely reviews I have made a dear friend and inspired a fellow author. Go check her out, she's written two lovely Magneto/Mystique pieces. I guarantee that if you like my writing, you'll like hers. So go check 'em out.
Also what do you guys think about starting a C2 community for Magneto fic?
Mystique gets jealous. She fights with Rogue. Rogue begins to work with the Brotherhood. Magneto makes an eventful phone call.
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Jewish World Review March 28 , 2012/ 5 Nissan, 5772
Mitt Romney's big lead --- and big problem
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Whatever bumps and gaffes are still to come, and they will, the Romney organization grinds on in its methodical way, collecting more delegates, campaign contributions and endorsements. (
What's he missing? It's what the great communicators, the Ronald Reagans and FDRs, had: a storyline. A gift for narration. A mastery of the media they had to work with at the time. Nobody's going to be elected president of
Mr. Romney has the skill set of a corporate executive, but the American people aren't likely to be touched, moved and inspired by a profit-and-loss statement. We yearn for something more -- an aura. An aura of greatness, a presidential aura, the aura a great story casts. We live and believe by stories. No wonder the Bible is full of them.
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The story is indeed a riveting one: The head of
Coordinated with
That story is far more compelling than Mr. Romney's 59-point economic program or the disconnected series of soundbites he employs in the place of thought on the campaign trail. No amount of PowerPoint presentations will ever be able to compete with one good story when it comes to letting voters actually know a presidential candidate. The way FDR's fireside chats gave a whole nation the feeling he was talking to each one of us. The way
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Case Studies
Discover Companies Like Yours Where Niyuj Brought Innovation
The Challenge
- Customer
Customer has a quite popular and interactive financial research based platform, which act as a bridge between the taxpayers tax consultants and regulators to provide real time, up-to-date news and case law analysis.
- Business Requirement
Noted group of finance researchers wanted to implement their idea technically to drive content and then Niyuj brought the idea to inception to build website & interactive platform to provide up-to-date news & analysis on regular basis.
The Solution
- In absence of technical team, we technically brought the idea of financial researchers from early conceptualization to implementation.
- Designed and rolled out a collaborative platform to offer captivating news to engage the global tax law and accounting professionals.
- Created 20 sub sites where Site maintenance is much less onerous, accurate as content updates are made centrally. Approach also lowers the total cost of ownership and resources.
- Platform and product designed as a cohesive entity and thus now offers 40,000+ users a differentiated but consistent experience, and intuitive access to unique insights on taxation and laws.
The Challenge
- Leading organization that produces software for security, storage, backup and availability – and offers professional services to support its software.
- Being pioneer in Security, deliver products faster with quality for the global audience is always crucial and to remain competitive, they constantly need efficient & quick support for the entire STLC & QA of for products.
- Also needs to efficiently firm up queries of customers & accordingly resolve them promptly within SLA.
The Solution
Niyuj's Value Creation
- Manifold increase in code coverage.
- Reduction in test and regression cycles.
- Quality levels of products improved by preventing high-severity defects.
- Reduce post production defects by optimizing quality assurance process.
- Developed 50+ legacy test scripts in four weeks with help of 6 QA Engineers.
- We have been associated since 5 years with 3 diverse teams.
The Challenge
- Leading eye wear online shopping portal with collaborative features.
- Buzzing as leading brand in India around E-commerce.
- Improve revenue and drastically increase customer engagement is always been concern for E-commerce brands from competitive landscape.
- Upselling and cross selling using recommendation engine became necessity for the E-commerce vendor.
The Solution
Niyuj's Value Creation
- Built predictive analytics model with a confluence of traditional analytics and next-generation analytics capabilities.
- Customer able to analyze trends, patterns and relationships in structured and unstructured data and applied insights to predict future events to achieve desired outcomes.
- Portfolio of products combines statistical analysis, predictive modeling, decision optimization and data collection.
- Increase in revenue and customer engagement by 8%..
- It took 8 weeks for customer to get recommendation engine up and running on their site.
- Associated since 4 years
The Challenge
- Leading brand of security; they provide managed services platforms for the delivery of IP-based voice, video and data services.
- Protecting critical assets with best practices is always major concern of enterprise; also network infrastructure protection is always crucial to stay away from malicious traffic, vulnerabilities & attack signatures & that's where we are helping Edgewater.
- Customer wanted a reliable offshore partner with deep engineering expertise in networking for rapidly rolling out new products and economically sustaining the existing ones.
The Solution
Niyuj's Value Creation
- Quickly built a infrastructure set-up and management with team of talented Engineers from reputed Engineering colleges.
- Contributed on platform, signalling, UI, analytics, test and build automation.
- Customer is able to roll out new features every 6-8 weeks.
- Associated since 5 years with talented team of security experts, architects & developers.
The Challenge
- Multi-designer online fashion store and well known in Indian fashion space with absence of full time technical partner
Requirement Team of top most popular fashion designers wanted to build a two sided web based marketplace which was complex for few reasons:
- Facilitating transactions between buyer & user.
- Buyer will not come until site is populated with huge data.
- Building better review system.
- Easeful and constant new featuring to drive daily users.
The Solution
Niyuj's Value Creation
- Solved chicken and the egg problem for client to build secure, scalable, responsive and user friendly web based marketplace.
- Complete technical ownership from inception, implementation and customer support.
- Customer centric site to fulfil users utility and usability.
- Only two resources require to manage entire product.
The Challenge
- Leading brand helps its partners to establish public and private multi-vendor marketplaces.
- Their patent pending platform, enable organization can create a marketplace from its very own website at a reasonable price
Requirement Building a two sided marketplace is complex for few reasons:
- Facilitating transactions between buyer & user.
- Buyer will not come until site is populated with huge data.
- Building better review system.
- Easeful constant new featuring to drive daily users.
The Solution
Niyuj's Value Creation
- Online auction site to effectively drive daily active users by considering competitive landscape.
- Solved chicken and the egg problem for client to build secure, scalable, responsive and user friendly SaaS marketplace with 25 factors.
- Associated since 3.5 years.
The Challenge
- Leading global supplier of complete ERP solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Global player for ISV, ERP & SaaS.
- ERP implementation always carries risk to identify, monitor and remediate issue throughout.
- Exact ERP always requires upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance at higher scale.
- Critical issues affecting ERP implementation are reengineering of the existing processes, integration of the ERP.
The Solution
Niyuj's Value Creation
- As a trusted technology partner we have extended Macola ERP integrating 3rd party applications for Tax calculations, Reporting and Contextual Analytics, Barcode scanning, Kofax document scanning, and various extensions in Synergy CRM.
- Resolved complex problems promptly and efficiently by providing complete solutions at highest levels of quality with SLAs.
- We have been associated since 3 years.


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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Around the School #5- May!
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What a great idea...it is neat to see all of the different grades!ReplyDelete
Two Friends In First
I would love Teacher Tips Tuesday! I am always looking for ways to work smarter, not harder!ReplyDelete
Teaching in the Valley
Two ideas I loved:ReplyDelete
Symmetry Bugs - I'm going to write that idea down for next year.
Wordle - I've used it before, but I really liked the way the teacher displayed the finished products.
Thanks for sharing.
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Oh - Teacher Tip Tuesday would be great. I love hearing the ideas that other teachers use in their classrooms.Delete
I've learned so much from you this year, and would be honored to write a guest post for Teacher Tip Tuesday! Thanks for your never-ending enthusiasm and inspiration.
I adore your 'around the school' posts! I'm always looking forward to them!ReplyDelete
Very cute ideas! Thanks for sharing! Teaching Little MiraclesReplyDelete
I LOVE all the cute ideas from other classrooms, too! Thanks so much for sharing. I LOVE the idea of Teacher Tips Tuesday. Not sure if you're still looking for people for it, but I'd be glad to participate :)ReplyDelete


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World Bulletin/News Desk
The U.S. government on Thursday blacklisted four Syrian government ministers, an airline and a television station it said helped the Assad government in its two-year crackdown on opposition forces.
The same day, the State Department labeled as a terrorist Mohammad al-Golani, for being the leader of the al-Nusra Front. The group is one of the most effective forces fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The dual designations underline the quandary facing the United States, which favors Assad's overthrow but fears increasingly radical elements within the opposition.
Washington has imposed sanctions on Syria since the beginning of the increasingly violent two-year civil war in the country that has killed an estimated 80,000 people.
The U.S. Treasury Department said the government-owned airline, Syrian Arab Airlines, helped Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards ship illegal cargo - including rockets, anti-aircraft guns and ammunition - to aid the Syrian government.
The United States also accused the privately held Al-Dunya Television of assisting Assad's propaganda by airing forced confessions. Al-Dunya also helped the government disseminate fake weapons busts and arrest people it had interviewed, according to Treasury.
Treasury also blacklisted, or designated, four Syrian officials: the ministers of defense, health, industry, and justice, as part of its broader steps to stymie the government's activities. The defense minister, Fahed Jaseem al-Freij, has been in charge of Syria's armed forces during air strikes and executions of civilians, according to the U.S. government.
"Treasury will continue to use all of the tools at our disposal to expose and disrupt the financial networks of those responsible for the Syrian government's egregious campaign to suppress its people," Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen said in a statement.
The new Treasury sanctions forbid U.S. citizens from any financial dealing with the officials and companies, and also freeze their assets within the United States. Although the officials are unlikely to hold money in U.S. banks, many foreign banks are also reluctant to deal with companies and people that have been blacklisted by the United States.
In 2011, the United States froze all Syrian assets in the United States and barred U.S. citizens from making new investments or exporting services to Syria. It has also imposed sanctions on Syria's government, central bank, oil companies and more than 100 other individuals.
The State Department labeled Nusra a terrorist organization back in December.
"By opting for the use of force against its own people, the Assad regime has created the circumstances that attract the violent extremists, who seek to exploit civil strife for their own purposes," the State Department said in a statement. "The sooner the political transition to a post-Assad Syria begins, the better it will be for the Syrian people and the region."
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Kayak Fleet
The UBC Sailing Club has a fleet of 4 single fibreglass kayaks, 1 double fibreglass kayak, and 12 plastic kayaks. They are all stored just a few steps from the beach for an easy access.
The UBC Sailing Club has both single and double-kayaks. Go solo around Jericho, as a group, or take a friend along for the ride. Join an organized overnight trip or organize your own.
We have all the equipment required for sea kayaking (skirts, pumps, spare paddles, life jacket etc…). You will only need to have your own wetsuit / booties / gloves so you are not feeling cold on the water.
The UBC Sailing Club also has a bunch of kayaking books that can be borrowed, as well as maps of various areas. You will need to leave a deposit of $20 for each book or map. We also have a couple of VHF radios that we use for trips, and these are free to take for trip organizers. A kayak dolly is also available to move them around and easily access the water. A few sets of foamies are available to carry the kayaks on the roof of a car.


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At 196 square feet, there is no way that this tiny house, named Zoe, has two bedrooms. That just can't be done – no way and no how. And yet it does. Zoe, which means life, is a study in adorable housing. It is situated at the Mt. Hood tiny house village near Portland, Ore., which means this adorable abode is surrounded by majestic mountains on the east and a massive ocean on the west.
But Zoe is also a study in efficiency. Painted white and baby blue, it features an upstairs bedroom loft, a full bathroom with a shower, a complete kitchen and a downstairs bedroom. It sleeps three. The downstairs bedroom, you will see, is extremely tight – so tight that tucking in one more quilt might be impossible, given the mattress is squeezed into place like a cork. But tiny houses are famously cheap and easy to keep warm with or without an extra blanket. And, with less than 200 square feet of space, a heating lamp might be more than enough to keep you comfortable.
Let's take a look.
The downstairs has everything you need. The kitchen is roomy and the dining room table is really a counter on hinges, so it can be lowered to fit against the wall. In the background is the front door on the left and a seating nook on the right.
Zoe has one of the cutest seating areas around. The tongue-and-groove walls and ceiling give it a down-home look. What you don't see in the photo below (but you can see above) is the wall-mounted television that is swung into place for viewing.
Here's the downstairs bedroom -- tight and cozy. However, with two windows, you can enjoy some cross ventilation. (And windows are the perfect antidote for claustrophobia.)
This bathroom might look small to someone with a big house, but if you were living in a tiny home and visited here, the bathroom might be the reason you left feeling completely green with jealousy.
In this view (above the roll of toilet paper), you can see about half of the tiny bathroom sink.
Here's the reverse angled look at the downstairs area, which gives you a good view of the layout. To the left in the distance is the downstairs bedroom and to the right, behind the ladder, is the bathroom. You can get a glimpse of the blue shower curtain in this shot.
If you climbed that ladder, this is where you would be.
The modern-looking kitchen is pared down to its most essential components.
With this second shot at the front of this tiny house, take a look at the complicated roof. To the rear is a dormer with a window, while in the front is a small triangular dormer with no window. Building such a roof so it doesn't leak requires more than average roofing skills.
You can learn more about the Zoe and the Mt. Hood Tiny House Village on their website or their Facebook page.
You can also see that this adorable tiny house looks at home in this adorable setting with its random walkways and a picnic table.


text: Not everyone has the time to keep their house or office space spotless. And those who do often don't have time for activities that they would rather be engaging in. It boils down to priorities, but if cleaning just doesn't make it to the top of your list, what is to be done? It has been said that clutter can be an indication of creativity, but you likely don't want your guests to see just how creative you can be! One solution is to seek out local maid services for trusted house cleaning. House cleaning services can solve everyone's problems: freeing up time to unleash your creativity or for other fun activities, providing a job for those working in maid services, and resulting in a clean and welcoRead more >>


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Posted by Sarah Barry
Despite its deceptive acronym, the Friends of Anxiety Disorders (FAD), has secured a place on campus as an SGA chartered club. The club endeavors to raise awareness of a broad spectrum of disorders and problems related to mental health.
FAD became an officially chartered club through the Student Government Association on March 27. The club has only been officially in existence since the beginning of this semester, so it is still working to draw in members, but has received positive feedback from students thus far.
"When I've mentioned the club to people, many express interest in joining. Also SGA was very positive throughout the chartering process" said Priscilla Montalto '15, member and Secretary of FAD.
"Our club wants to educate and inform people here, and help students who may experience these conditions and situations feel that they have friends and understanding - a community" Wyatt Erchack '12 co-president and founder said. The club focuses on anxiety, but welcomes anyone with a mental disorder as well as students who have friends or acquaintances suffering from a disorder. In addition, students seeking more information or a discussion on these issues are also welcome.
During the fall semester, FAD began to organize the club in an effort to supplement other support groups existing on campus. "We started this club because we perceived a void on campus with regard to things people consider to be 'issues;' specifically, people with mental disorders, such as anxiety and depression, have no community in which to connect with other students who may go through similar situations" said Willa Mayo '12, co-president of FAD.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, in any given year one quarter of all adults are diagnosable for one or more mental disorders. FAD hopes to provide a community of supporters for students struggling with these issues, one that is free of judgment. They also hope to educate the campus about the prevalence of mental disorders.
"I first discovered FAD at a club fair at the start of the semester. It was such a relief to see that there was a community of students facing similar problems to my own. I used to worry I was alone on campus in terms of my disorders, but FAD quickly dispelled those worries" Montalto said.
For students who are concerned about confidentiality, FAD's charter includes a clause that designates all meetings as confidential. "While our club certainly may deal with personal issues, we are simply aiming for an understanding that, should someone share something personal, we will not share any information without that person's permission" Mayo said. Students are also not obligated to share any personal information during meetings.
FAD meetings consist of a 50-50 split between open discussion and a more structured brain-storming and agenda driven conversation. The group is working to change the campus' bias policy to include mental disorders, and FAD also hopes to produce a flyer series similar to the "Racy Reader" which will offer informative information on mental illness.
Be on the lookout for other upcoming opportunities to be involved as the club aims to host a student discussion on mental disorders. FAD is also working to implement an ally training program, which will instruct students in ways to aid friends and peers in times of need.
FAD meets every Tuesday in Bolton 101 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., or for students interested in joining the mailing list email email@example.com.


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Framed by the Australian history curriculum for Years 7 - 10, but suited to global focuses of history teaching
he short stories in HiSTORY 1 and HiSTORY 2 were written to cover pre-history all the way through to the present; they have been crafted to fit with the new Australian curriculum in History for Years 7 through 10 but this has a strong world history focus so the stories cover many parts of the world.
TOPICS covered
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· Prehistory:
Carrying Fire
· Ancient Egypt:
Little Hatshepsut
· Ancient Greece:
The other runner
· Ancient Rome:
Barca vs Scipio
· Ancient India:
A stone memorial
· Ancient China:
The road to Noeing
A miserable time to live in
· The Ottoman Empire:
Taking coffee
· Renaissance Italy :
Galileo the heretic
· The Vikings:
If there were dragons
· Medieval Europe:
Set it free
· Angkor/Khmer Empire:
Nothing beside remains
· Japan under the Shoguns:
The maker of Uguisu-bari
· The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific:
Growing wings
· Mongol Expansion:
The end of a series
· The Black Death in Asia, Europe and Africa (14th century plague):
What's behind the wall?
· The Spanish Conquest of the Americas (c.1492 – c.1572):
Gods riding beasts
· The Making of the Modern World:
Once upon a time
· The Making of the Modern World:
A lost paradise
· The Industrial Revolution:
The long days continue
· Progressive Ideas and Movements:
Charts not charted
· Movement of Peoples:
Buffalo song
· Asia and the World:
Cawnpore dogs
· Making a nation:
Black soil
· Making a nation:
A federation story
· World War I:
Black roses
· Overview ~the interwar years:
Backyard cricket
· World War II:
The gunners story
· Overview of the modern world:
Feynman and the bridge
· Rights and Freedoms:
Nothing Like Chocolate
· Popular Culture:
Capital Opera
· Migration Experiences:
The immigrant's love song
· The Environment Movement:
Another Road
The role of research in crafting stories


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Playlist: Occupy Wall Street takes over, ABC and Yahoo team up
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Posted by Chau Tu
For Marketplace, Monday, October 3, 2011
Protests against Wall Street and financial institutions, collectively known under the name of Occupy Wall Street, are spreading across the country. We heard about why the protests are starting to surge now. Yahoo News and ABC News will begin to share content. American Airlines could be close to bankruptcy. Commentator Angela Glover Blackwell discussed her ideas for getting minorities back to work. We heard about the old-school way of fixing broken gadgets in Mozambique. And Kai spoke with Tony D'Souza about his new book, "Mule," a novel about helping transport drugs as a way to get by. And here are the songs we played: