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How to connect iPhone to TV
When you are watching a movie or your favorite series even the 10 inches screen seems too small. With the introduction of the HDTV, you can connect your iPhone to the technological device and enjoy everything on bigger screen. Here we have a simple guide to help you connect your smartphone to your TV.
Connect iPhone-TV with cable
Apple's Digital AV adapter is the simplest way to connect an iPhone with TV. You can plug a cable into your iPhone and the HDMI port of the TV. You will also need the HDMI cable. So ensure that you invest in the least expensive one.
It is important that you select the right model of AV adapter. There are two options available:
- One of for the lightning devices
- 30-pin ports adapter for the older phones
Once your device is connected to the TV, your TV will become the duplicate of the device it has been connected with. You can easily get the 1080p HD display. Now you can play anything you like.
Use the Apple TV
You might not be comfortable with the wire between your TV and iPhone. If you want the devices to be connected wirelessly, the best option is Apple TV, which is Apple's own media extender.
- Set up the Apple TV in your home or call Apple Australia for help
- Ensure it is connected to the same WiFi network you use on your iPhone
- You will find the Air Play option when you swipe up from the bottom of your iPhone's screen
- Tap on the option and select Apple TV
- Within seconds your Apple TV will start the streaming process
- You will easily enjoy what is available on your iPhone screen
Keep in mind if the place is crowded then Apple TV will often stop working. You will need a cable in this situation.
Use Android TV stick
It is one of the secret ways that you can use to connect your iPhone with TV. All you need is the Android power stick and plug it into the back of your TV set. Now you can install any type of media server application on your iPhone.
The stick will help you to play all the unprotected videos and movies that are available in the built-in apps of your iPhone using the AirPlay button. However, protected video streaming and mirroring will not be supported. If you have been an android user and recently bought the iPhone it is the best option that you can use.
So now the choice is all yours, you can select any method you like and enjoy the streaming. The best option would be using the Apple TV. Keep in mind that the Android stick will be slow and buggy. If you do not have the budget to buy extra devices then you must stick to the cable because it is the most cost-effective option to have the best media experience by connecting TV and iPhone.


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How will you be psychologically free?
There is no method.
It happens when you will abide
No further infringement from any portion of the illusion,
When you are at last sovereign enough to journey alone, whatever the course.
* * * *
No word touches it, no language explains it, no mythos contains it.
You are it, you have always been it, you will ever be it.
Polish that mirror until all you see is you.
* * * *
Too big to see how small it is,
Too small to see how big it is,
You are, nonetheless, all of it.
* * * *
There is really no religion, no Way,
Just keen observing of a passing mystery
Beyond comprehension or conclusion.
* * * *
The senses tease and taunt you.
They are lies of the delusional mind.
You must ascertain the witness within,
Discriminate the freedom that they cannot,
And know with every particle of your beingness,
That only in the timelessness of awareness are you real.
* * * *
To discover your true Self, you must explore your self.
To see the many others, yet see no other, that is the razor's edge,
Upon which all seers timelessly traverse this reverie both real and unreal.
* * * *
To identify with thoughts is akin to the ocean believing it is the sound of waves crashing.
* * * *
Symbols, mantras, postures, diets, attire, practices of any sort,
Are nothing more than tantalizing, captivating distractions,
Until you sharpen your attentiveness and discernment,
And fully grasp it can only be puzzled out very much alone.
* * * *
Any given mythos is essentially an unspoken agreement, a set of rules,
With language, rituals, and symbols to impose its continuity in the unborn.
When you see the collusion of tradition for what it really is, all become relative.

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Giant Killers
Attendance: 47,000
Scorer: Eddie Bailey
Ranked at the time: 305
{See Tottenham vs Sunderland below}
Attendance: 18,990
Scorers: Frank Scrine, Frank Burns, Ivor Allchurch
Ranked at the time: 237
The fifties dawned as a decade of promise for Swansea. They were back in the Second Division, having won promotion the previous season. And although there was no major talk of kicking on to try and get into the First Division, the club did have big plans off the pitch to turn the Vetch into a sixty thousand capacity stadium. League results were mixed, yet good enough to keep the club reasonably clear of any relegation worries. The buzz at Swansea was all about a bright new prospect that broke into the first team in December. Ivor Allchurch wasn't a household name yet but a great many Swansea fans and other players felt sure he soon would be. Birmingham by contrast were having a wretched season, which saw them rock bottom of the table for the last five months. Relegation seemed already to be something of a foregone conclusion and cup hopes were little better as they went to Swansea having failed to win away from St Andrews on all twelve road trips in League so far. Hardly surprising then that few expressed any form of surprise to hear that Frank Scrine, Frank Burns and the exciting Allchurch had all managed to find the net in a comfortable victory for the Second Division side. The Marble Halls of Highbury awaited in the Fourth round where the Swans were two goals down before staging a surging fight back that fell just short of forcing a replay. It earned praise from Arsenal manager Tom Whitaker telling his opposite number "You ran us mighty close" but it was still Arsenal who progressed to win the cup. Swansea finished the season in a respectable eighth place while Roy Paul would go on to one day lift the cup as captain of Manchester City.
Attendance: 37,358
Scorer: George Edwards
Ranked at the time: 178
{See Cardiff vs Charlton below}
Albion: 1:Jim Sanders, 2:Jim Pemberton, 3:Len Millard, 4:Joe Kennedy, 5:Jack Vernon, 6:Reg Ryan, 7:Denis Gordon, 8:Cyril Williams, 9:Dave Walsh, 10:Ray Barlow, 11:Gordon Inwood
Attendance: 27,500
Scorers: {Chesterfield} Matt Costello {16}, Gordon Dale, Chris Marrow: {Middlesbrough}: Geoff Walker {14}, Johnny Spuhler
Ranked at the time: 245
They had to close the gates early at Saltergate for the visit of Middlesbrough, though it's likely many of those who turned up were disappointed when they were told 'Boro's star man, Wilf Mannion would not be in the visiting line up. No such disappointment would have been felt in a talented home dressing room. Chesterfield had shown the look of a side capable of making it into the First Division just after the war and even their bullish chairman declared that "The only way we will leave Division Two is upwards." They remained a club that struggled at the turnstiles though, even in these boom times for the game and by 1950 they were finding it increasingly difficult to satisfy the desires of a group of players, many of whom felt were good enough to step up a grade. This then was their last hurrah but the day started badly when Peter McKennan laid on the chance for Geoff Walker to strike a stunning opener. The Spirites were level within two minutes later through Matt Costello but a whirlwind first half continued Johnny Spuhler restored the visitor's lead. Star man on the day was Gordon Dale and he restored parity before the break and came agonisingly close to giving Chesterfield the lead. A second half Reg Halton free kick settled the tie when it fell to Hugh McJarrow to head into the path of Chris Marrow to score the winner. 'Boro lacked Chesterfield's powers of recovery and the Spirites were into the fifth round. And another visit from a First Division side, Chelsea. Another good performance from the home side this time earned a replay where the Londoners proved too strong.
Attendance: 66,246
Scorers: {Hotspur} Sonny Walters {17, 69 }, Les Bennett {31, 89}, Les Medley {76}: {Sunderland}: Dickie Davis {11}
Ranked at the time: 173
It would be slightly cruel to overly criticise Stoke and Sunderland too much for falling foul of Arthur Rowe's great push and run Tottenham team in 1950. They were marching imperiously towards the Second Division title and promotion but nobody would have guessed how brilliantly they would then blow away the top flight the following season to bring the League title to White Hart Lane for the first time. These were the two warning shots they laid down for the top flight to expect a few months later. The first game was an attritional one at a boggy Victoria Ground, which made Spur's newly devised and impressive give and go game difficult. It was finally settled by Eddie Bailey's header deep into the second half. The visit of Sunderland in round four however gave a truer measure of what Spurs were capable of. While Stoke were a struggling side, Sunderland were a decent outfit, lying seventh in a keenly contested title race and just five points off the pace. However, senior Sunderland fans warned that fifty-one years ago a very good Sunderland team took on the then Non-League Spurs and came off second best. Sunderland's only abject performance of the season had come in a drubbing at Highbury a few weeks earlier so perhaps it was the London air but more likely the brilliance and speed of Tottenham's play that destroyed them here. Spurs quickly equalised after going behind in the eleventh minute and from that moment to the final whistle Sunderland were on the back foot. If 5-1 was suggested as an unfair reflection of the game it was only in the fact that Spurs should have had more against a side whose players never got to grips with the new style of their opponents and found themselves regularly being passed out of the game. A modest Everton side ended Tottenham's cup ambitions in round five but the marker was set. Spurs coasted to the Second tier crown, affording themselves the enjoyment of failing to win any of their last five games when the crown was secured. And with only minor tinkering, Rowe took his team to the best in the land. Stoke were this time hammered, Everton avenged and Tottenham became one of the most exciting champions for years, albeit Sunderland got some consolation in holding the new champions to drawn games home and away.
Attendance: 37,000
Scorers: Elfed Evans {2}
Ranked at the time: 223
Cardiff had already set themselves up as a lower division club to fear when beating Aston Villa in the 1949 competition. This time they faced Villa's midlands rivals, mid table West Bromwich Albion. It was felt that the Bluebird would have to make home advantage count as their away form, just one win on the road all season, was poor. So when Albion left Wales with a 2-2 draw and a replay that looked to be that. George Edwards ensured Cardiff's collection of second city scalps continued with the only goal at the Hawthornes. It was probably a goal of particular enjoyment for Edwards as a former Birmingham player who would later use his University education to become a long standing director of Cardiff and a justice of the peace. City were again paired with top flight opposition in round four in a chance to repeat their 1939 cup upset of Charlton. The Addicks were on a very poor run of nine defeats in ten games and showed little sign of gaining revenge as Elfed Evans scored both goals in a relatively comfortable victory. He would later sign for West Brom where he watched from the side-lines as their great 1954 team narrowly missed a League and cup double. After all this good work from Cardiff, they lost in round five at fellow giant killers, Leeds.
Attendance: 29,440
Scorers: {Wanderers} Harry McShane {53}, Nat Lofthouse {70}: {United} Frank Dudley {2, 95}, Len Browning {48} {After Extra Time}
Ranked at the time: 263
Few teams went into the New Year in better form than Leeds. The Second Division club had recovered from what would ultimately prove a very costly start of just one win in their first eleven games to then lose just twice in their next nineteen.
{image above: Harold Searson under pressure from Nat Lofthouse {Yorkshire Post} Having easily negotiated their third round tie they were drawn at home to a Bolton side struggling in the First Division and not relishing a trip to a team on a run of five straight wins. A buoyant Leeds should have had the belief to win the tie but it was Bolton who left a frozen Elland Road feeling disappointed not to have won the tie at the first attempt. The replay was a classic, played out in bottomless mud at Burnden Park that left the players exhausted at the end. It also gave the Bolton fans a chance to see a rematch of a clash between two players that had been a talking point of the first game. Bolton's young centre forward, Nat Lofthouse was just starting to emerge as a great player but he would be well marshalled here by the teenager, John Charles. Leeds got off to a flyer when Frank Dudley headed home within two minutes and it looked good for the visitors when they started the second half in equally blistering fashion. This time there were barely three minutes gone when Len Browning headed in from barely a yard out. Bolton were in need of a quick response and they got it through Harry McShane before Nat Lofthouse levelled the game with twenty minutes remaining. As in the first tie, Bolton pressed hard for a winner but were unable to find one as Leeds clung on for extra time. Bolton hadn't learned and were yet again caught cold at the start of the extra period when Dudley met Len Browning's header to fire in off the bar to regain the lead. This time Bolton couldn't find a way back and Leeds were able to celebrate a home tie against fellow giant killers, Cardiff in round five. Frank Buckley was gushing in his praise of his team. "I've seen some wonderful displays of Cup fighting on bad pitches in my long connection with football, including many epic struggles when I was Manager of Wolves, but United's display was the best I have ever seen. Every man more than pulled his weight." The Cardiff tie was another cracker on another gluepot with Leeds racing into a quick-fire two goal lead but being made to work hard to eventually win 3-1. That earned them a place in the quarter finals of the cup for the first time in history and a trip to Arsenal where Leeds gave a great account of themselves before they went down to a solitary goal. Leeds ended the season just five points off promotion and bitterly regretting that poor start to the season.


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West Ham manager Avram Grant hopes to add more players to his squad before the start of the season.
Grant has signed Thomas Hitzlsperger, Frederic Piquionne and Pablo Barrera since being appointed as Hammers boss on June 3. Co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan are keen to add more depth to the squad after the team only just managed to escape relegation under previous manager Gianfranco Zola last term.
"The squad is not complete yet, we told the players we want to make the squad as strong as we can," Grant told the club's official website. "Even if the club are limited with money, because we are in debt, we know what we are doing and we know we want to do."
Moves for defender Tal Ben Haim, who Grant used to manage at Portsmouth, and France international striker Loic Remy have failed to materialise so far while the club's audacious attempt to sign Joe Cole on a free transfer ended in failure when he opted to sign for Liverpool.
Grant held his first training session with the whole of the first-team squad at the club's training ground this morning, with Matthew Upson, Robert Green, Jonathan Spector and Valon Behrami all returning from World Cup duty.
The Israeli has been pleased with how the team have performed in pre-season but is still determined to add more players to the ranks before the club's season-opener against Aston Villa on August 14.
He added: "The owners are trying to give their best for the team so we will buy or loan a few more players. Even if I don't like loans so much - most players here will be players for the long term."
West Ham have reportedly made a £12million bid for highly-rated Remy, who is said to be on the radar of some of Europe's top clubs.
Nice chairman Gilbert Stellardo confirmed that West Ham have been in touch with the French club about a potential transfer, and that the 23-year-old is interested in a move to Upton Park.
"West Ham? Remy is definitely interested," he is quoted as saying on lequipe.fr. "Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal? I have heard about their interest but I have had no contact. The only clubs I have talked to are West Ham and Fenerbahce."
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Councilman Joe Shaw is hoping to make a difference in the lives of those who get bullied at school because of their sexual orientation.
The stories of young people who lost hope and took their own lives due to bullying dominated headlines this year, and they came from various places around the country.
"There's a lot of talk about it," Shaw said. "There's a lot more awareness about it now, and it's just an issue that needs to be brought to light."
Shaw said it's time to eradicate this type of behavior, give young people the support they need to overcome bullying, and teach adults that not reacting to homophobic slurs only makes things worse.
"Teach Your Children Well," a film about homophobia, bullying and violence in schools, is scheduled to be screened at 7 p.m. Friday at the Huntington Beach Central Library. Admission is $5.
The 40-minute film, narrated by Emmy-winning actress and comedienne Lily Tomlin, shows the stories of those whose lives have been affected because they're either gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
"I saw this movie … and thought we should show this in Huntington Beach," Shaw said. "It's a timely topic and something that needs more awareness."
The movie's director Gary Takesian said for the most part, when kids are bullied because of their race or religion, they can easily find support either at school or home.
But it's not the same for kids who are homosexual.
"If you're gay or lesbian and your family is homophobic, there's no support for that," he said.
The event is expected to attract students from Huntington Beach High School and various community members and stakeholders, and it will benefit the Huntington Beach Human Relations Task Force's school diversity program. Shaw serves as a council liaison for the task force committee. The event is also sponsored by Huntington Beach Union High School District Trustee Bonnie Castrey.
Karen Jackle, a task force committee member, said with schools busy concentrating on basic education because of budget cuts, the rest of the community should lend support with event such as this.
She is hoping for schools to screen the film for students and staff.
"I think that would be the next step," Jackle said.
Twitter: @MonaShadia


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text: "Suppose the Earth to be in her Summer solstice, which takes place on the 21st of June. At this period she will be at a, having her north pole, n, so inclined towards the Sun, that the whole arctic circle will be illuminated, and consequently the Sun's rays will extend 23.25 degrees, the breadth of the polar circle, beyond the north pole." —Comstock, 1850


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God says, "Your harvest season has arrived!! Everything that you've been anticipating is here. Everything that you have sown in the supernatural will come to pass in the natural this season. The season of change and the atmospheric shift has arrived to elevate you to a level that you have never imagined seeing. Keep pursuing after my presence and calling on my firstborn son Jesus. When his name is proclaimed, divine glory and protection surrounds you. The season is here! Be prepared to reap all of the wonderful harvest that you've sown in my kingdom!"
God says, "Your harvest season has arrived!!"


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When people start asking about the possibility of a married priesthood usually detail escapes them. The fact is, the Catholic Church has had a priesthood for millennia. However, in the Latin Church the priesthood has been celibate for the most part since the 11th century (or thereabouts) and Eastern Christianity has retained to a unity of marriage/family and the ministerial priesthood. Only since the late 1980s has the Latin Church started to admit married men to the priesthood in small numbers and now with the Anglican Ordinariates more married men have been ordained. Bishops are never married according to the discipline of the Church.
Among many things, the Eastern Christians in the USA have had to suffer without a married priesthood, something that is very connected to their traditions. In part, the plight of Eastern Christians in the USA has a lot to do with inadequate episcopal leadership which had dire consequences for all sorts of issues ranging from the Liturgy to canonical matters and identity.
One of the problems surrounded the time of Archbishop John Ireland (r. 1888-1918) of Minneapolis, who specifically in 1891, questioned the Catholicity of the Byzantines in Minneapolis. Acrimony ensured. And open hostility became common among various of the Latin Church's bishops. As consequence of the argument Ireland told the Byzantine Catholic priests to become more Latin and that they were banned from being married in the USA. Ireland obtuseness ultimately gave rise to a 1929 Vatican decree called Cum Data Fuerit, which imposed a requirement of celibacy on Eastern Catholic clergy in the West.
Archbishop Ireland is credited, hence, with the creation, in 1892, of the Reuthenian (Russian) Orthodox Church in America which gave rise to the Orthodox Church in America with Father (now saint) Alexis Toth and others breaking from the Catholic Church by uniting with Orthodoxy.
If you fast-forward a bit, we have to recognize that certain Eastern Catholic bishops in the USA have ordained married men since the 1990s, namely in the Byzantine tradition, and there have been a few married priests in the Maronite Church in the West but usually this is kept quiet. That is, until the Maronite Bishop Robert Shaheen requested of Pope Benedict –prior to the famed resignation– for permission to ordain a married deacon a priest. A new Pope, a new openness to an old question. Not long ago Bishop Shaheen retired and his successor received word that Deacon Akiki could be priested. What we've seen with the ordination of Father Wissam Akiki there is finally a living of an ancient tradition held by Catholic theology and supported by canon law.
Jennifer Brinker wrote a great article that's paired with Lisa Johnston's photos for the St Louis Review, "A Vocation to Family." I highly recommend the article AND viewing the images.
Best wishes and abundant blessings for Father Wissam Akiki and his beautiful family.


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Jan 27, 2006
UFO's, PMS, and S.E.X.
UFO's, PMS, and S.E.X. -- I bet that caught your attention, didn't it? For those in the know, it's no big deal. LOL, and it's not what you think! Cross stitchers are a breed all their own and even have their own language! You may even think we talk 'funny'... Here's a bit of what I'm talkin' about:
UFO's aren't the flying saucers you were told about as a child. Oh, noooo... a UFO in Stitchers Speak is actually an UnFinished Object. Oh yes... all those projects we started and got frustrated with, sick of looking at, or just plain didn't like it that much after all... the ones we have hidden in boxes, drawers and closets... yes, those are UFO's!
PMS isn't that 'monthly thing' men blame our attitudes on. No sirree! When I get the attitude, it's because I'm just Protecting My Stash or Protecting My Stitching. Don't mess with a stitcher's stash or projects -- unless you have a desire to feel the wrath!
And oh that naughty word S.E.X. It brings so much joy to a stitcher! She (or sometimes he... Yes, there are many talented male stitchers) gets so excited over the Stash Enhancement eXperience that she can't wait to share it with her fellow stitchers. She gushes on and on about how it happened, where it happened, and what she got! She can barely contain her excitement. It doesn't matter if she's in a SABLE (Stash Beyond Life Expectancy) situation, or not. When the S.E.X. is good, it's great!
If the S.E.X. is really good, we'd better have an XSTH otherwise we could be in some big trouble! Those who are blessed with a Cross Stitch Tolerant Husband are lucky indeed. He takes pride in our talents and encourages our artistic creativity.
He just smiles when we thumb through our charts... our magazines... our freebies and decide what project to do next. Then we check our stash. Fabric -- check. Beads -- check. Charms -- check. Floss -- chh.. Wait a minute, missing DMC 3721, 721, 210! Off to the LNS (See ya later, honey. I'll be back soon! Kiss. Kiss.) As we pull into the parking lot of the Local Needlework Shop, our intention is to run in and get the floss we need. BUT! The S.E.X. happens all over again. Just have to have that chart... and oh! That evenweave is so pretty! Floss is on sale?! No kidding. Load me up!
When we get home again, we are faced with the WIPs. No, I don't mean the contraption used to beat animals into submission. We all have them. We're all proud to show them off. Some of us have so many Works In Progress you would wonder "How is she ever going to get those done?"
She gets them done by working on them in rotation. "This one on Monday, This one on Tuesday, This one on Wednesday" so on and so forth. She also gets them done by avoiding the Frog. We all despise the sound it makes "Rip-It, Rip-It, Rip-It" then he gives a little laugh taking pleasure in the fact that we made a mistake and had to rip it out. Bad Frog!
What do we say when we've finally finished a project? We proudly say "I have a finish!" and we rush off to take a picture of it so we can show it off to our internet cross stitching friends... because we know of no one in our immediate vicinity who cross stitches or would appreciate it as much as our 'net friends!
16 comments:
- Mare said...
Very Entertaining Meari!
- January 27, 2006 at 8:35:00 PM CST
- Azzie Atkinson said...
So funny! Laughed my head off. Craig's wondering what on earth is so funny - he's not very x-stitch tolerant at the mo. lol!!! Azzie xx
- January 27, 2006 at 9:25:00 PM CST
- Old Yankee Stitcher said...
LOL Meari, my DD and I cracked up reading this together while she is helping me to cover up the sparkly blending filiment look from my hair. There should be an abbreviation for that.
- January 27, 2006 at 11:24:00 PM CST
- Anonymous said...
Love it Meari - sounds like my life! Viv in the UK xxx
- January 28, 2006 at 4:17:00 AM CST
- valda said...
This is soooo funny.......and so true!!! LOLOLOL
- January 28, 2006 at 4:33:00 AM CST
- Anonymous said...
Great, Meari! So true!
Judith in Ohio
- January 28, 2006 at 6:40:00 AM CST
- purplestitcher said...
That is oh so true. I really believe there is a connection. I have buying out the wazoo and eating like crazy and being b****y. Not many men understand the need to feed our habit.
- January 28, 2006 at 7:35:00 AM CST
- Anonymous said...
Great!!! I loved it.
- January 28, 2006 at 8:17:00 AM CST
- Bren said...
That was great! Really, really great! I have been having a terrible morning. The kids have been screaming for no reason and everything seemed to be going wrong. So I load up the kids and take off to Walmart to buy a new magnet board and any thing that catches my eye. I come home still feeling crummy cuz I didn't find anything that just spoke to me. I check my mail and there is just the lift I needed. Now I feel all is righted and my day will be so much better all because of reading your blog!
- January 28, 2006 at 11:06:00 AM CST
- Anonymous said...
love it! Beginning to sound a lot like me I have WIP's all over my livingroom sofa my hubby just shakes his head and takes me out for more stash. Trecie
- May 17, 2006 at 10:25:00 AM CDT
- Ruth M. said...
Too funny!
Excellent writing BTW =)
- January 26, 2008 at 10:15:00 AM CST
- Anonymous said...
Fabulous... It feels like de javu... my husband too just nods his head and ignores my WIPs. he is only interested in the completed projects ;-)
- February 25, 2008 at 3:12:00 PM CST
- MarchAnn58 said...
I LOVE IT. Thank you this is just great. I live alone now but I can remember the looks when I brought home a LNS bag.
- June 28, 2008 at 9:08:00 AM CDT
- Anonymous said...
this is so funny and right on. I am lucky enough to have a husband that loves everything I make. Be it knitting, crochet, cross stitch. And if I need something to make it with he tells me to get what I need. And evern after 42 years of marriage he is still me biggest fan.
- July 23, 2008 at 8:26:00 AM CDT
- Cait said...
Thank you so much for putting it in prose rather than just a listing of definitions.
It was very entertaining to read.
- May 18, 2011 at 7:49:00 PM CDT
- Jim and Julie Foster said...
What is "couching"?
- October 2, 2014 at 11:25:00 PM CDT


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Chicken Vindaloo €11.00
Diced chicken in spiced masala – garlic, cloves, dried chillies, cinnamon & vinegar with touch of tomato.
New!! Mysore Chicken Curry €10.50
Butternut squash flavoured chicken curry with potato, carrots, onion & a touch of cream
(some of the chicken is on the bone for added flavour)
It's different with Indian spices!
Baruchi Lamb €11.50
From the House of Marathas – Lamb cooked with grated coconut, spicy cherry red pepper,tamarind & fresh coriander.
Lamb Rogan Josh €11.50
Kashmiri Speciality- Lamb braised in onion, tomato masala & finished with fennel, saffron & almonds.
(nut free option available)
New!! Lamb DO Piaza €11.50
Diced lamb with caramelised onion, onion tomato masala.
Delight for Vegetarians on its own or half portion to compliment any meal!
Full (10.95) or Half (6.50) portion
Rasoi Speciality: Paneer Lababdar
Old Delhi Style- Cottage cheese simmered in onion & tomato masala, finished with cream and musky fenugreek.
Chana Masala
Chickpeas with cumin, fennel & cherry tomatoes.
Subz Korma
Seasonal Vegetables in mustard flavoured cashew nut & onion sauce finished with coconut milk & raisins.
Adraki Aloo Gobi
Potato & cauliflower florets tossed in ginger & tomatoes.
Bhindi Masala
Okra with coriander, red onions & dry mango powder
Jeera Aloo
Diced potatos flavoured with cumin, coriander, tomato & turmeric.
Tarka Dal
Yellow lentil tempered with whole red chilli & wine tomatoes.
Saag Aloo
Potatoes with garlic, wilted baby spinach & pomegranate.
New!! Soya Mutter Ki Subzi
Protein rich soya chunks with green peas in a tangy onion & tomato sauce.
Biryanis are a Hyderabadi Speciality- Perfumed Basmati Rice dish with coriander,
mint, caramelised onion & saffron with touch of cream. Selections below:
Rasoi Speciality: Navratan Vegatable Biryani €10.95
Vegetables, nuts & fruits served with sauce.
Seafood Biryani €13.95
With Prawns & Tilapia fish served with sauce.
Chicken Biryani €12.95
Served with mint, cucumber raita & sauce.
Lamb Biryani €13.95
Served with mint, cucumber raita & sauce.
A balanced and Light Meal served with brown rice, mint & cucumber raita & side portion of Tarka Dal (yellow lentils tempered with whole red chilli, garlic & tomato).
Served with Either Fish Tikka or Tandoori Chicken
Tilapia Fish Tikka
Mustard & yogurt marinated tilapia fillet from the clay tandoor.
Tandoori Chicken
All time favourite chicken breast marinated overnight in Kashmiri chilli & greek yoghurt.
New!! Starter Portion €10.00
Prawns or chicken or Lamb with baby spinach, greens, pickled pear, sunflower seeds & basil dressing.
Saffron €33.40
Stater; Stirfried prawns, Chicken 65, Lamb Kebab & Samosa.
Mains: Choice of any two mains from the menu served with two Pulao Rice, one Plain Naan, Poppadom, Chutneys & Pickle
Supplement of €1.00 for Prawns & Tandoori Chicken & €2.00 for Nalli Gosht.
Cinnamon €28.15
Starter; Punjabi Samosa or Onion Bhajji
Mains; Chicken Tikka Masala & Lamb Rogan Josh served with two Pulao Rice & one Plain Naan Bread
Our chefs will be happy to make substitutions-we can make any sauce with prawn, chicken or lamb.
We have daily "off menu specials" created by our head chef-see our facebook/ twitter/ webpage.
(all breads not coeliac friendly)
Pulao Rice (flavoured with caramelised onions& cumin) €2.60
Basmati Boiled Rice €2.10
Brown Rice €2.60
Plain Naan €2.00
Coriander, garlic and onion Naan €3.10
Peshawari Naan (with raisins, almonds, coconut & saffron) €3.75
Cheese & Chilli Naan €3.10
Keema Naan (spiced lamb mince filling) €3.75
Tandoori Roti (whole wheat flour) €1.75
Chips €3.75
Poppadoms with 3 dips €3.00
Raita (mint& cucumber) €3.00
Extra Dips (each) €1.00
Choice of Mint, Taramind, Tomato, Mango & Pickle
Tikka Masala scuce on its own €3.00
Can only be purchased when ordering a full price main course
New!! Chicken 65 €6.75
Crispy chicken surpreme flavoured with curry leaf, fennel, cumin & chilly, served with mint chutney
Chicken Korma or Chicken tikka Masala with rice & plain naan. €7.95
Batter Fried Prawns with rice, plain naan & sweet n sour tomato sauce. €8.95 (not coelic friendly)
Mango Lassi €2.95
San Pellegrino Water Still & Sparkling €2.50
Coke, Diet coke, 7UP, 7UP Free, Club Orange 500ml €1.50
Mild Medium Hot
For delivery orders must exceed 10 euro's
Deliver charge for local area from €2.50
All our food with the exception of Punjabi Samosa (starter), Battered Fried Prawns (kids meal) & all our breads are coeliac friendly.
Our food contains nuts & nut derivatives. Out team will try to accommodate our patrons with allergy or food intolerance.
All our meat & chicken are Halal & sourced from local Irish suppliers.


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Integration Active Directory and CommuniGate Pro
Download the module for the integration of Active Directory and CommuniGate Pro here >>.
ADSync-CGP is a solution that integrates Active Directory with CommuniGate Pro. The application runs as Windows service and notifies CGPro about changes in Active Directory. ADSync-CGP supports entry creation, modification and deletion procedures. The application connects to CGPro using the PWD protocol.
In order to install and configure the service please perform the following actions:
1. Unpack the archive.
2. Install the application using the ADSync-CGPSetup.msi file.
3. Proceed to the application directory (by default it is C:\Program Files\CommuniGate Systems\ADSync-CGP) and open the .config file in a text editor. Specify the following parameters in the XML:
ADBaseDN - base DN for change notification entries, you can specify the needed DNs separated by the sign "|" (pipe);
ADAccountNameAttribute - name of the attribute which value will be used as CGPro account name;
ADCGAccountStatus - the attribute name which value indicates the account status in CGPro;
ADCGAccountStatusCheck - if the parameter value is "match" then ADCGAccountStatus attribute value is checked to match the allowed account status as substring, otherwise account status attribute value should be equal to one of the allowed statuses ("enabled"/"disabled"/"deleted");
ADObjectClass - the object class name to filter the changed entities, if an entity is changed in AD and it does not correspond to the specified object class then the notification is ignored;
CGPro* - CGPro connection parameters;
LogDir - directory to keep the utility logs;
LogLevel - log level of the utility (1-5);
LogSizeLimit - size limit of a log file in MB;
LogRotationPeriod - log files older then the parameter value (in days) will be rotated;
CacheSize - internal utility settings cache size, the cache can reduce the load on the CGPro server, it allows to ignore the notification events which do not require any CGPro synchronization actions;
4. In the configuration file specify the AD attribute to CGPro setting mapping for synchronization using the following format:
<add key="ADAttribute" value="CGProSetting" />
For example:
<add key="givenName" value="RealName" />
5. Proceed to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services and start the service ADSync-CGP.
The service system events can be found at Control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer.
Please note, that when the application is upgraded you need to start the service manually. The configuration file is not rewritten during the upgrade process.
To get more info about the ActiveDirectory integration write to email@example.com


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Art, nature and travel have always played a large part in my life. My art expresses my love of nature and my traveling inspires me to create. I love working in stone, oils and pencils.
When I was in college a professor encouraged me to study stone carving in Italy. There I learned the art of working a hammer and chisel as they did for hundreds of years. Then I learned about pneumatic tools for today's artist. I look for stones that are hard to find and high in quality to enhance the design of what I am trying to carve.
When I paint and draw, I compose landscapes and seascapes to express color, mood and light. Light and shadows can create dramatic scenes and color changes can take it to another level.
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M.D./M.S, University of Nebraska, Immunology, 1986.
Research Interests
Major projects include: (1) development of tumor antigen specific vaccines for the prevention of solid tumor relapse, (2) generation and characterization of cytotoxic CD8+ and CD4+ helper T cells specific for tumor antigens for eventual use in adoptive immunotherapy to treat advanced stage disease, (3) evaluation of antibody responses to various cancer causing proteins for use as a potential cancer diagnostic, (4) development of biologically relevant animal models for solid tumors to assess the effect of the generation of an immune response to immunogenic cancer proteins and to evaluate different vaccine and adoptive immunotherapy strategies, (5) phase I/II clinical trials of peptide and DNA vaccines targeting specific cancer antigens, (6) phase I/II clinical trials of infusion of antigen competent T cells in patients with advanced stage solid tumors, (7) antigen discovery in solid tumors using molecular immunology and protein based techniques, and (8) development of in vivo imaging techniques for tracking tumor specific T cells and assessing the response to tumor specific immunotherapy.
Studies from our laboratory have demonstrated that some patients with breast cancer have existent immunity to the HER-2/neu (H2N) protein which is the product of the amplified HER-2/neu oncogene. Therefore, the H2N protein is a tumor antigen. Developing immunotherapy targeting the H2N oncogenic protein via therapeutic vaccination and infusion of H2N specific T cells is a major goal of our work. We have identified breast cancer patients with both specific antibody and specific T cell responses to the protein. In addition, we have been able to generate cytotoxic T cells (CD8+) with an ability to specifically kill breast cancer cells via recognition of H2N protein. The detection of immunity to an oncogenic protein intimately involved in the growth and malignant potential of breast cancer has several profound ramifications. Methods to augment the existent immunity such as T cell therapy or vaccination might have a therapeutic effect. Our laboratory is currently evaluating the potential use ofH2N immunity inthe treatment of breast cancer, and is identifying potential target epitopes for T cell and vaccine therapy.
In addition to human studies, we have developed an animal model to study the effect of generating immunity to the H2N protein. One important feature of the H2N oncoprotein is that it is a non-mutated , overexpressed normal protein. The rat is an ideal model. Rat neu is 89% homologous to human H2N and the distribution of normal neu is similar, being found at low levels inskin and digestive tract epithelium. The major issues we are addressing in the rat model are how best to circumvent tolerance to H2N and whether levels of immunity necessary for tumor eradication cause any autoimmune toxicity. These studies should bedirectly applicable to humans as the structure, function, expression, and distribution of H2N is homologous in rats and humans. Results from these investigations will be directly applicable to the
treatment of breast cancer patients.
Extrapolatingfrom animal models of T cell therapy, treatment of human breast cancer should be possible provided that enough immune T cells can be generated and provided that the T cells are immune to the appropriate antigen. Theoretically, H2N is an appropriatetarget antigen. It is our hope that T cellvaccines an T cell therapy will be of benefit in cancer therapy, and, in addition, give the patient the ability to
protect against future relapse by the augmentation of her own immune defenses.
Cancer Vaccines
Tumor Immunology
T-Cell Therapy
HER - 2/neu
Antigen Discovery
Additional Experience
Breast Cancer
Ovarian Cancer
Alpha Omega Alpha
American Association for Cancer Research
American Association of Immunologists
American Society for Clinical Oncology
American Society of Hematology
Society of Biologic Therapy
Southwest Oncology Group
Women in Cancer Research
Honors and Awards
2007, Scholarship, American Association of Medical Schools Women's Facutly Seminar
2006-2008, Deputy Editor, Translational Oncology, Journal Clinical Oncology
2006, Science Forum Lecturer, University of Washington, College of Arts & Sciences
2006, Elected, Board of Directors, International Society of Biologic Therapy
2006, Award for Scientific Excellence, Cancer Treatment Research Foundation
2004, Elected, American Society of Clinical Investigation
2004-2006, Chair, Clinical Oncology Study Section (CONC), NIH/NCI
2003, Center of Women's Health Award for Outstanding Mentorship, University of Washington School of Medicine
2003, Celebrating Hope Award of Scientific Achievement, Olympic Medical Center Foundation
2001, Science in Medicine Lectureship, University of Washington College of Medicine
2000-2001, Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient Oriented Research, National Cancer Institute
1995-2000, Clinical Investigator Award, National Cancer Institute
1995-2000, FIRST Award, National Cancer Institute
1995-2000, Clinical Investigator Award, Nathional Cancer Institute
1995, Science in Medicine, New Investigator Lectureship, University of Washington College of Medicine
1994-1996, ACS Physician Research Training Award,
1993-1995, Berlex Oncology Foundation Clinical Research Fellow,
1991, Upjohn Outstanding Oncology Fellow Award, University of Washington
1990-1991, Clinical Oncology Fellowship, American Cancer Society
1989, Alpha Omega Alpha,
Previous Positions
2001-2006, Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Clinical Division
1999-2006, Associate Professor, University of Washington, Division of Oncology
1998-2004, Director, University of Washington, Tumor Vaccine Group
1994-1999, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Division of Oncology
1993-1994, Acting Instructor, University of Washington, Division of Oncology
1989-1990, Instructor, University of Illinois, Department of Medicine
Surface Receptor Antigen Vaccines, Patent Number: Application #60/109106, , , .
T cell therapy directed against the HER-2/neu protein, Patent Number: 5876712, , , .
Methods for eliciting or enhancing reactivity to HER-2/neu protein, Patent Number: 5869445, , , .
Methods and compositions to generate immunity in humans against self-tumor antigens by immunization with homologous foreign proteins, Patent Number: 5846538, , , .
Immune reactivity to HER-2/neu protein for diagnosis, Patent Number: 5726023, , , .
Theraputic Delivery Using Compounds Self-Assembled into High Axial Ratio Microstructures, Patent Number: 6180114, , , .
Compounds for eliciting or enhancing immune reactivity to the HER-2/neu protein for prevention or treatment of malignancies in which the HER-2/neu oncogene is associated, Patent Number: 6075122, , , .
Immune reactivity to HER-2/neu protein for diagnosis and treatment of malignancies in which the Her-2/neu oncogene is associated, Patent Number: 5801005, , , .
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Thursday 25 April 2019
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Wednesday 24th April 9am to 8pm
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Bygones & Architectural Salvage
A black and white painted timber dovecote of hexagonal form on a single column, h. 315 cm approximately
Sold for £120
2 vintage public toilet door locks together with an Art Nouveau letter box, decorative brass door knocker and various other door furniture
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Because nothing makes you feel good quite like hearing it big band style, complete with choreography…
Because nothing makes you feel good quite like hearing it big band style, complete with choreography…
Addy has never had her colors done, but I think red is by far her best color. And what better adornment than a lipstick kiss smack (pun intended!) dab in the middle of her forehead? It is a classic symbol of a well-loved pupcicle (not to mention a momma's love of red lipstick!).
Estée Lauder has never had such a cute lipstick model!
Today I went to a NaNo WriMo event. 1pm on a Wednesday. Does that happen in other cities? Maybe. But if so, I think it's with more concerted effort than what seemed to be organized for today. Not to say that our group leader didn't put in an effort or that it was random, I just think that IF it would have happened in my hometown it would have been more of a production and much more formal.
But not this. Not today. Not in NYC. In total there were about 11 people that showed up. Some stayed for an hour, some came late but everyone contributed. We helped name a pirate ship, decide the final showdown scene, and pondered what you would call a scowl that wasn't really a scowl, but kinda–all while writing our own ideas and thoughts to the sounds of jazz and a milk steamer.
It gave me such motivation–I wrote 4 (yep, FOUR) blog posts and had a eureka moment with my book. I wasn't the only one: nearly everyone seemed to report success in some fashion or another, even if it was making a new friend and leaving the house.
I know that clubs exist in every tiny town and every big city, but it nice knowing that every time I go to an event, I will more than likely meet a new person and slowly, but ever-so-surely get to meet my 8.4 million neighbors…
Granted great coffee can be found everywhere, but I especially love any place where amazing coffee clearly loves you back. Thanks Intelligentsia Coffee, Harold Square.
I completely love the randomness of New York City. You start out your day running some errands, just enjoying the absolute gorgeous spring day. Suddenly you turn the corner to head to the grocery store–and you walk smack dab in the middle of a street fair. Since it's about lunchtime, you do the only sensible thing there was and head to the nearest food stall, which happened to be selling brats and order one–with sauerkraut, of course!
The juiciness of the brat in combination with the tang of the kraut and the crunch of a fresh roll–it was magic. You stroll along, eating your brat, looking at jewelry and clothing and flowers and just when you think the day couldn't get any better…BAM! A Creperie.
Not wanting to feel toooooooo gluttonous, you just order a lemon & sugar crepe–even though the Nutella is looking very tempting! The silky texture of the crepe served as the perfect base for the lemon and sugar. It was just the right about of deliciousness to carry you to the end of the fair and on with your errands.
I've recently inherited a cat. He, being Toulouse, spent the first year or so of his life with us–so he is not unknown to The Princess. He is, in fact, her kitty.When Toulouse first moved in, he was small enough to fit in your hand–and naturally thought he could easily take on this 90lb dog he found himself following around the house. He was always waiting for the perfect moment to strike. His favorite spot was behind a pile of books at the top of the stairs: a well thought-out ambush spot for the Princess as she came up the stairs. The problem, of course, being that she tended to be slightly oblivious of this ball of fur and could easily knock him down the stairs with her big ol' labrador tail. I'm quite sure she did a time or two.
A couple of years have passed and now Toulouse is back! Addy, of course, still thinks of him as her kitty. Toulouse–for some reason unbeknownst to me–will even allow her to bathe him (although he always looks mortified while she's licking him). I'm quite sure that he tips over his dinner bowl, allowing Addy to clean it out for him. I keep telling both of them that cat food is bad for dogs, but all I get are blank "she must hate us" stares.
In the last couple of weeks since Toulouse has moved in, I've seen lots of pouty Princess faces, however, she always has my back when I'm fussing at Toulouse to stop clawing the furniture or to get off the countertop. Addy is more than happy to chase after him, barking reminders at him Get off the counter! Stop clawing! Don't make Momma yell! Come back you need a bath!
I think this is helping him learn quickly what he can/cannot do because not only am I fussing, but reenforcing this is Addy, barking and chasing him around the house. Double whammy! Poor Toulouse. Meanwhile, Addy smiles at me I got this Momma, I got this.


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I awakened this morning exhausted but renewed in purpose and resolve. I returned home very late last night, in fact early this morning – after plane delays. I participated in an exhilarating and encouraging trip to Texas where I was engaged in a series of historic meetings between Christians deeply concerned over the course of our Nation.
We only receive the local paper, the Virginian-Pilot, on Wednesday and Sunday. The subscription was a gift from one of our grown children. I am entrenched in the news given my commitment to public policy and cultural activism, but, like most Americans, I receive it online. However, when I read the newspaper headline underneath the fold, "Attorneys, Judges Spar over Virginia Gay Marriage Ban" in my local paper, the Virginian-Pilot, I was reminded of the importance of the meetings of these last two days.
I was well aware of the event which precipitated the article, the hearing before an en banc panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in the matter styled Bostic vs. Schaefer. The case was argued in the Federal District Court in Norfolk, Virginia earlier this year. I was present at the hearing. In February, Federal Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen took her place alongside of a growing number of Judges, State and Federal, who have decided they will no longer fulfill their entrusted role of applying and interpreting the law.
The Virginia Constitution was amended by the voters in 2006 to clarify what was always accepted as revealed by the Natural Moral Law, that marriage is what it is, a union between one man and one woman, open to children, and formative of family, the first vital cell of society. Judge Wright Allen decided she was the source of the law and accepted the arguments against defending marriage as what it is – ontologically – a union between one man and one woman, intended for life, open to children, and formative of family.
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She chose even to jettison the expressed will of the people of Virginia as reflected in their constitution. She adopted to fully accept the Orwellian language – and the arguments based upon it – that homosexual and lesbian partnerships are the moral equivalent of marriage and must now be accepted as the legal equivalent of marriage. Her opinion reads like several others issued by Judges who have similarly rejected the truth and failed their office when considering this matter. It is full of high sounding rhetoric while it simply rejects both the truth and the law. The implications of the opinion will unfold in the upcoming months and the defenders of marriage must be ready.
Most Court observers, of which I am numbered as both a human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, expect this case, which is one of several others winding their way through the channels, to be accepted by the US Supreme Court and bring this matter to the nine unelected Justices to consider. There is a great division in the opinions as the same observers attempt to perform the legal equivalent of reading the tea leaves and predict the outcome. I know that the rejection of the truth about marriage will not change the truth about marriage – even if it is done from the bench.
It will simply adjust what those of us who care about the future of our Nation will do in response. The anti-marriage movement advocates a new social order which can never serve the real common good. We will not- we cannot – retreat from defending what is true and noble and good. We are in this for the long haul. Our cause is true and just. So, rather than attend another Court hearing on this matter, I decided that my attendance at the meetings in Texas were a better use of my time.
I gathered together with classical Christians from various confessions and traditions to pray, discuss, discern and prepare a joint response by standing together in solidarity together for life, marriage, family and freedom. The meeting was historic on many levels. Those in attendance came from very divergent theological streams. This was not the time for theological discussions. We know that we hold divergent positions on numerous important distinctive of doctrine and practice. However, we also know we are Christians together – living at this hour not by accident but by a providential plan of a loving and merciful God.
We prayed together – and we were bonded and banded together by the Lord. We pledged to stand in solidarity together. It was an extraordinary experience. But extraordinary times, like the ones in which we now live, calls for such response. As a Constitutional lawyer and human rights policy activist I know fully what is at stake. I know the strategy which has been undertaken by the opponents of marriage through verbal, social and legal engineering. As a Christian, steeped in theological study and Church history, I know we have faced this struggle before in the two thousand plus year history of the Christian Church.
Sadly, if one examines many main stream media reports, you would think that this ongoing story is about self identifying homosexuals and lesbians being subjected to discrimination. It is not. It is about defending marriage against a very small subset of self identifying homosexuals and lesbians who seek to change what cannot be changed, the structure of reality. They are very adeptly using the instruments of a civil government which has lost its foundation in the natural moral law to restructure the culture.
Many in what is becoming a propaganda press use Orwellian newspeak to fuel caricatures against those who defend marriage. They do not report the news – they promote this nascent Cultural Revolution which opposes marriage while purporting to expand its definition. Like propagandists of the past, they attempt to frame public perception. For example, they refer to those who actually defend marriage as being anti-marriage. They say we oppose something called 'marriage equality', which is a catchphrase for accepting homosexual and lesbian partnerships as the moral and legal equivalent of marriage. They reported on the Appellate hearing in Richmond on Tuesday as having been an effort to oppose this oxymoron called called "Gay marriage".
Homosexual and lesbian partnerships are incapable of being marriages. Such partnerships can never achieve the ends of marriage. It is those who now advocate giving a moral and legal equivalency to homosexual and lesbian relationships who are actually opposing marriage. They are anti-marriage activists. The intention of the small activist group fomenting this anti-marriage movement is to reorder civil society. They invented the phrases gay marriage and marriage equality in an Orwellian act of verbal engineering. They have persuaded many in the media to use the words and phrases out of their new lexicon.
What is unfolding in the Courts is an effort which may soon result in the use of the police power of the State to compel those who defend marriage to accept the new order the anti-marriage activists are promoting or face the boot of the State in fines and penalties. The Anti-marriage activists (those who seek to make what can never be a marriage – a homosexual or lesbian partnership – to be a marriage, by pronouncement of a Court or a legislature) accuse those who defend authentic marriage of being against what they now call gay marriage in an Orwellian barrage of newspeak.
The truth is – we will not, we cannot, redefine the word marriage to include homosexual or lesbian partnerships- just as we will never call the taking of innocent human life, even life in the womb or the hospice, a right. It is always and everywhere wrong. Marriage is what it is and human life at every age and stage has dignity which must be respected and protected because there is a natural moral law which is knowable by all and must guide our common life together if we seek to build a just society and humane culture together.
To limit marriage to heterosexual couples is not discriminatory. Homosexual couples cannot bring into existence what marriage intends by its very definition. To confer by governmental fiat the benefits that have been conferred in the past only to stable married couples and families to homosexual and lesbian paramours is bad public policy. To state this is not to be 'anti-gay'; it is simply to defend marriage and the common good of society. This is a noble cause. Those who promote it are not bigots; they are sincere men and women deeply concerned about the future of our culture.
The struggle we are facing concerns a clash of worldviews, personal and corporate, and competing definitions of human freedom, human dignity, and human flourishing. We are involved in a contest over the very foundation of what constitutes a truly humane and just social order. We insist that marriage between one man and one woman, intended for life, and the family founded upon it, has been inscribed by the Divine Architect into the order of the universe. That is because they have. Truth does not change, people and cultures do; sometimes for good and sometimes for evil.
We also know that Marriage is the first society into which children are meant to be born, learn to be fully human, grow in virtue, flourish and take their role in families and communities. We must not be afraid to make the claim that children have a right to a mother and a father. They really do. Having affirmed that does not mean we are unaware of the brokenness of our culture and devoid of compassion. Quite to the contrary. Of course we care about the single parent family and the many broken homes which characterize this age. However, their existence does not change the norm necessary for a stable and healthy society.
Intact marriages and families are the glue of a healthy and happy social order. We know that we need to be a visible, palpable reflection of this truth about marriage and family in our own lives. To live a faithful marriage is now counter-cultural. However, our convictions and claims concerning marriage are not outdated notions of a past era but provide the path to the future. Nor is our position defending marriage as between one man and one woman simply a religious position.
We insist upon the existence of a Natural Moral Law which can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason because we are well aware of human history and care about all men and women. This Natural Moral Law is the ground upon which every great civilization has been built. It is the source for every great and authentic human and civil rights movement. The Natural Law gives us the moral norms we need to build societies and govern ourselves. It must inform our positive law or we will become lawless and devolve into anarchy.
I write as a Catholic Christian. The position of the Catholic Church on the nature of marriage is crystal clear. Any professing Catholic who espouses a contrary position is in direct dissent. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Church explained in 2003:
The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose.
No ideology can erase from the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman, who by mutual personal gift, proper and exclusive to themselves, tend toward the communion of their persons. In this way, they mutually perfect each other, in order to cooperate with God in the procreation and upbringing of new human lives.
However, I am joining with Christians from across the confessional spectrum to defend marriage and the family and society founded upon it because our cause serves the common good of society.We have common roots and a common task in this urgent hour. We are emerging as a new freedom movement. It is truth which sets men, women and Nations free. A truly free society must be committed to core moral principles or it loses its freedom, even if it still mouths the word. It actually forges its own shackles while purporting to be breaking them. History books are filled with the sad stories of Nations and civilizations who no longer exist as a result of this error.
Not only did I face the newspaper headline this morning, I opened my mail to receive a complimentary copy of a promising new book from Ignatius Press entitled Non-Negotiable-Essential Principles of a Just Society and Humane Culture by Sheila Liaugminas. This is one of a growing body of such books which will help us to frame our vital work going forward. It uses the language of the Natural Moral Law which has grounded, inspired and equipped so many other great human rights causes. I will read this book thoroughly – and review it for my readers very soon.
However, what POPPED off the pages from a quick skim this morning was the brilliant use of the word dignitarian to describe those of us who are engaged in this noble and just cause, this new freedom movement. I love it. Thus, I used it in the title of this piece. We are Freedom Loving Dignitarians. Our defense of life, like our defense of marriage, is rooted in our conviction concerning human dignity and true freedom. It flows from our conviction concerning the necessity of connecting freedom and objective moral truth.
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Ruminations of an Israeli-American Venture Capitalist Looking for the Best and Brightest Entrepreneurs
Monday, December 27, 2010
Series B Psychology
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
A Wize Move for IBM
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Soap and Oil in Paid Acquisition Strategies
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Amazing, Smart or Crazy?
Friday, June 4, 2010
Axis Pulls an Ace in First LTE Exit
Last month my portfolio company, UK-based Axis Network Technology, was sold to Korea-based Ace Technologies for $35M. It was a great outcome for all involved as BVP was the only institutional investor (£3M), following several years of bootstrapping by the entrepreneurs, Simon Mellor and Steve Cooper. Unlike most of my investments over the past 2 years, Axis was not an Internet company, but rather an RF subsystem company focused on being a key enabler for 4G wireless base stations.
At the time of the investment in the summer of 2007, this was a very contrarian decision. But something struck me about the entrepreneurs and the proven market for remote radio heads they were addressing(in 3G). The strength of their entrepreneurial spirit was manifest in their decision to bootstrap their venture by first finding customers and then developing products based on this intimate understanding of the customers' needs. Furthermore, I was excited by the fact that Axis was following two familiar and successful paths in the telecom subsystem segment.
The first was exploiting a shift within telecom OEMs from in-house development to third party merchant suppliers like Axis. This has been played out successfully multiple times by other start-ups over the last decade, including a former portfolio company of mine, Dune Networks (sold to Broadcom), in the switch fabric segment. The second was paving the path for software/IP to replace low margin hardware, or rather exploiting the commoditization of existing hardware rather than developing yet more complex hardware. As a result, no OEM or competitor could match Axis's price/performance, which made them the de facto standard in the LTE and WiMAX radio market. I love these themes and will continue to invest in them should new ventures come my way.
For my readers, the take away here is that contrarian investment in out-of-favor sectors can still be made wisely and profitably. However, the entrepreneurs and investors need to practice the same capital efficiency and scrappiness that we have come to expect in Internet start-ups. Leverage the innovation of others, engage with customers immediately, focus on the customer's business pain, start with a minimal viable product (MVP), and pursue a business model that can be profitable even without massive volumes.
Axis is the first LTE focused start-up to be acquired, and likely one of only a handful of WiMAX start-ups to ever deliver venture returns to its investors. Congratulations and thanks to the Axis team!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Israel Deserves a Real High Tech Policy
A new High-Tech Committee headed by Ministry of Finance Director General, Haim Shani, presented several recommendations yesterday to revive and buttress the local high tech industry. Here they are with my commentary and star rating:
1) Safety Net for Institutional Investors (**) – The idea is to encourage local pension funds to invest in Israeli high tech and Israeli VCs by backstopping their losses through a "Safety Net". While I agree that the lack of a local financial backbone is a problem for Israeli VCs, and even an anomaly compared with our US and European counterparts, I think this recommendation is flawed. You need a safety net when something is indeed very dangerous or when it is at least perceived to be dangerous. So assuming Israeli VCs are only perceived to have bad performance and are actually quite attractive investment vehicles, then the government doesn't have much to lose and the industry should gain as a whole with anchor Israeli institutional investors. If, however, Israeli VC performance is not that appealing relative to other asset classes, one must ask what perverse incentive this may create, and what business the government has using tax payers' money to prop up a failing industry? Such a move may bring needed local LP dollars, but would create a certain moral hazard with investment managers and their LPs using this tax payer stop loss mechanism to invest in overly risky ventures. My recommendation is to leave the risk there, but make the potential reward sweeter by offering tax incentives for gains from investments in local high tech. This creates a natural incentive to invest in venture capital in Israel, without the moral hazard or riskless investing.
2) Encouraging the founders of start-ups not to sell "early" (*) – This popular maxim says that Israel would be creating many more IPO candidates were investors and their founders not so eager to sell at the first opportunity. I have heard this many times, but does this really make any sense or is this just a convenient excuse? Does anyone really think that that founders and their shareholders wouldn't hold on to their shares two or three more years if they though their share value would easily double or treble? If this is what's going on, VCs are not doing their job, and founders are surprisingly no longer motivated by money or fame. How could it be that we Israelis are quick to forgo future profits when it's so obvious to everyone else that we are just hopelessly impatient? I know the names of too many now defunct start-ups who had the gall to reject various offers due to shear hubris. But can anyone point out at least three companies that sold too early and what disaster fell upon it and Israel post acquisition? There is no where near enough liquidity in the local start-up scene so someone in the Ministry is out of touch. If this recommendation goes into effect, it will affect the way investors structure their deals, because it will put founders at odds with both management and shareholders.
3) Prioritization of Chief Scientist Office (CSO) funds (****) – The idea is that the CSO should have some focus with its budget favoring sectors such as biotech, cleantech or semiconductor (my suggestion) which have a greater need for financial support due to capital intensiveness and long gestation periods. Finally someone has woken up to the fact that the CSO is a first come, first serve piggy bank for hungry start-ups. But let me add two other problems. The CSO has neither a mandate nor the ability to assess the viability of a given project, and a lot of the CSO grants are simply wasted on doomed R&D projects or companies. There must be a connection between recent private funding(which presumably is indication of the potential economic gain) and receipt of CSO money to help guide it.
Additionally, stop linking all CSO funds to R&D! How myopic and highbrowed can we be? High tech is not only about engineering and certainly not volumes of patents. Most of the most successful start-ups over the past 5 years have very little to do with engineering or patents (Facebook, Salesforce.com, YouTube, Skype, Zappos, would all be ineligible for CSO funds). In fact, I would argue that Israeli companies spend a disproportionately large share of their budgets on R&D compared with their US counterparts. Stop perpetuating this myth that that the success of Israeli high tech is dependent upon more engineering dollars. It's quite the opposite.
4) Encourage corporate R&D through tax incentives (*****). Wonderful, by all means and have it apply to foreign R&D centers as well.
5) Provide incentives to employers of Arab-Israeli and Ultra-Orthodox engineers(***). This is commendable, and I like it, but believe it won't solve much. Those minority populations are at a disadvantage in Israel for so many other reasons, such as their ineligibility to serve in the IDF(where critical experience is gained and vital connections are formed), and living too far from the center of high tech activity. The country's inability to integrate them into the workforce is not unique to high tech, which suggests more is needed to make this truly effective.
I have several of my own recommendations for the High Tech Committee headed by Mr. Shani:
1) Encourage the creation of new micro VCs of no more than $50M along the lines of the original Yozma plan. These VCs would raise capital from private LPs, but would get generous matching dollars from the government. The $50M number ensures a focus on profits from carry (not management fees) and a focus on early stage investing.
2) Encourage angel investing through tax incentives. Angels have become a vital part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, but much of what they do is ignored by the government. Give them additional incentives to keep investing. It would amount to a subsidy to the wealthy, but their role in germinating start-ups is akin to oxygen for our industry.
3) Create a Marketing & Sales fund to mirror CSO dollars on the R&D side. These dollars would go towards hiring marketing, business development and sales heads in Israel and outside; and include advertising dollars. This may not create as many local jobs, but successful sales and marketing supports our beloved engineers. It's like teaching a man to fish, rather than just giving him a fish.
4) Invest more in education, English language skills, fundamental scientific research, and don't cut the CSO budget. Also, bring more foreign companies and skilled foreign workers to Israel.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Soluto Impresses at TechCrunch Disrupt
I invested in Soluto foremost because of the strong entrepreneurs, who exhibit that rare combination technology depth and aptitude for consumer products. However, beyond the team and market potential, Soluto had a particular resonance with me because of their vision and approach. It fit squarely with my own investment roadmap around companies that leverage technology and their user base to create innovative web-based services for consumers.
My favorite motif within this "technology-enabled, crowd source-enhanced web service" investment roadmap of mine is that of Big Data-based services. Big Data simply refers to incredibly large data sets that are too cumbersome to accumulate let alone work with and make sense of. I am not so much interested in the companies developing infrastructure solutions to manage data, but rather companies that are developing new products services based on their ability to capture big data, synthesize and analyze it, and package it into a simple, yet valuable consumer products and services.
Initially, the appeal lies with the fact that very often the data already exists, but is buried or otherwise inaccessible. Secondly, I am attracted by the idea that the product will strengthen with more use and over time creating a naturally widening lead over any aspiring competition(large or small). I am increasingly of the opinion that to be successful, in particularly out of Israel, web start-ups must either leverage strong technology and/or the power of the crowd to maintain a competitive advantage in the face of so much competition for customers and investment dollars.
All of this is far from trivial, but Soluto aims to do just this. They start with a powerful, yet very intuitive download, which serves a dual purpose of providing a free boot utility to consumers, while capturing important data anonymously, not unlike anti-virus software. This "passive" crowd sourcing is valuable because Soluto has already built the backend of their service which knows how to make sense of the data for the creation of the second order product, which is the anti-frustration service. There is also "active" crowd sourcing through the techie users who can easily contribute their knowledge and solutions to the product.
With a more than a billion PCs in use, most of them frustrated, the business opportunity is enormous. The intense demand explains the relative success of snake oil solutions like registry cleaners or extreme methods like repetitive reimaging. And as anti-virus increasingly becomes a commodity or outright free, anti-frustration software pioneered by Soluto, may be its natural successor.
Even though it is still early days at Soluto, I continue to look for more companies that pursue similar strategies. In fact, I hope to announce my next "technology-enabled, crowd source-enhanced" web service investment soon. In the meantime, download and install Soluto!
Friday, April 16, 2010
The App Developer's Children Have No iPads
Israel is lauded for its impressive high tech achievements, but this is primarily for the development of technology, not its application or deployment. Actually, outside of the defense/security realm, Israel is often a laggard when it comes to the adoption of new technologies(I am excluding the Internet). Instead of the Israeli domestic market serving asa a laboratory for its start-ups and entrepreneurs, it has become a clear hindrance to their success. Nowhere is this situation more poignant than in the telecom and clean tech sectors, where Israeli companies are renowned for their innovation and trailblazing development, but where one must travel thousands of kilometers from Israel to witness their actual application. In fact, I believe there is a widening gap between what pioneering Israeli companies are developing for export today, and the point far in the future when Israel will adopt those home grown technologies.
While it is the role of private corporations and entrepreneurs to adopt and deploy new technologies, I place much of the blame with those government and regulatory bodies tasked with ensuring a competitive and progressive market. It's not enough to belatedly deregulate and open markets to competition, as Israel has done in telecom. Israel must take the lead and guide its local companies so that they are partners in the development and deployment of technology, and not orphaned to export. This is most critical considering that Israeli technology companies are increasingly competing with companies in Korea, Japan and China, where government support and sponsorship borders on protectionism.
Everyone knows that Orckit sold DSL equipment long before Israeli consumers could enjoy broadband. Or that Israel is the home of the only publicly traded WiMAX company in the world, but has no intention of ever licensing spectrum for WiMAX services. It has been the same situation for Israeli companies pioneering fiber-to-the-home, WiFi, home networking, IPTV, High Definition broadcast(finally!), and mobile TV. And for every successful start-up that overcomes the apathetic or hamstrung local market, there are many more Israeli start-ups that were simply outdone by foreign competitors with inferior products, but who had benefactors in the form of domestic customers. Sweden, Korea, India and China come to mind when I think of countries where domestic start-ups work closely with domestic customers to build the product and start deployment. I am not calling for protectionist policies that favor local companies(although some modest patronage at the early stages wouldn't hurt), but rather for a local market that can embrace advanced technology early on in tandem with start-ups to ensure that Israel as a country is at the forefront of technology.
I am hopeful that Israel will eventually adopt most of the technology it produces and allow its citizens to enjoys the fruits of its engineering feats, but at the same time I am fearful how foot dragging and bureaucracy can harm our industry. The recent headline about Israeli Ministry of Communications banning iPads is a sign of how myopic and obtuse the government can be. It's easy to forget that WiFi and Bluetooth were banned outright in Israel until late 2003, despite the fact that Intel Israel was already shipping the Centrino processors or that Israeli start-ups Envara and Butterfly were pioneering these standards three years prior to their legalization.
Clean tech is actually a lot worse, for reasons that have no logical explanation. The country is still wholly dependent upon polluting fossil fuels, all of which are imported. Israel sells solar panel products, and now even solar panel companies, but cannot manage to get around to actually using the technology on a massive scale despite the abundance of sunlight. Despite claims to the contrary, Israel will never be a true clean tech power if it cannot rely on its domestic market for trials and deployment. Better Place may prove the exception, but if they succeed in Israel it will not be solely because of its unique approach or technology, but also because of its political and economic clout.
We often take the strong Israeli high tech sector for granted, but it does not excel in a vacuum. Just like we need a strong education system to produce the next generation of entrepreneurs, we need more competition and more government leadership to make Israel a true laboratory for innovation. In short, I want an Israeli government that is as visionary and ambitious in the usage of technology as the Israeli entrepreneurs that develop it.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Deserving of a Response
I am at once both proud and embarrassed to be one of a handful of people who responded within the same day to set up a meeting as a next step. Actually, I happened to have responded within 8 minutes of receiving the email, but they didn't measure that level of granularity. Although, I wouldn't be proud of it even if they did, because no professional investor, could be expected to get back to every email within the same day unless an automated email response would be sufficient. I happened to be online at the time, listening in on video conference, so a rapid response was almost a reflex. But I also found it odd that an infrastructure start-up would emerge from stealth to approach VCs for the first time two years after founding. In fact, it was downright extraordinary, and I was convinced I must have been hiding in a cave to have missed a venture in my area of interest created more than 2 years ago.
As clever as it was, TheMarker's experiment is misleading for entrepreneurs. It creates the wrong expectations for entrepreneurs and sets the wrong bar for measuring a VC's professionalism. I am not aware of any venture capitalist that would dare promise a same-day response, like Amazon offers next day shipping. In the rare situation, one receives a same day or next day response, one can consider himself lucky(well timed) or at least special(something jumped out). Venture capitalists may pride themselves on being able to listen and provide feedback, but even then, no single VC could ever possibly give attention to every entrepreneur who sends an email out of the blue, let alone on the same day. Most venture capitalists I know travel almost a week a month, have specific areas of interest and are inundated daily with emails from prospective, companies, partners, candidates and service providers. This all might sound shocking to some, but new ventures are not new clients looking to spend their money on our services, quite the contrary! Perhaps if this were the case, we could be tested on our response times, but then again TheMarker didn't conduct a similar experiment on local accountants or lawyers.
I am not sure who created the impression in the Israeli high tech market that venture capitalists should respond to cold emails, but the TheMarker test now perpetuates this expectation. Everyone knows that the easiest way to get a VC's attention is to get referred by a mutual acquaintance, be it a fellow entrepreneur or executive, advisor, lawyer, accountant, etc. I am not saying anything new here, and the reasoning is simple. Foremost, it's a automatic filtering method based on the source and strength of the recommendation. Secondly, if an entrepreneur is to be successful in his venture, he must be extremely resourceful and innovative, and this is the same way he will eventually reach customers, partners and employees (i.e. hopefully not with cold emails). With the large networks each of us has in Israel, the inability for an entrepreneur to find someone in his extended network who has some prior relationship with us is telling. Incidentally, when someone does approach me with an interesting project, but without a third party intro, I generally look them up on LinkedIn to get my bearings and triangulate.
There is however, a more realistic and acceptable expectation which entrepreneurs should have of their venture capitalist, but this is far more difficult to measure with an email ruse. This is the expectation that venture capitalists respond quickly to their own portfolio companies' requests and needs. In my play book, portfolio always takes precedence over new deals, and this should be reassuring to entrepreneurs considering taking VC money. However, if we are expected to be responsive to our portfolio companies, this will invariably come at the expense of new deals, especially those arriving in the form of a cold email with neither an executive summary nor an email signature with contact details.
We do our job best when we are able to filter quickly and assign a priority to everything, even if it means missing great opportunities (although this is seldom the case with cold emails). I prefer to be judged by those deals I have invested in, and how responsive I am to those entrepreneurs I have truly made a commitment to.


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Les Assemblées annuelles 2019 du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement se tiendront du 11 au 14 juin 2019 à Malabo, en République de Guinée équatoriale. En savoir plus
Les Assemblées annuelles 2019 du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement se tiendront du 11 au 14 juin 2019 à Malabo, en République de Guinée équatoriale. En savoir plus
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Overcoming "energy poverty" is one of Africa's great challenges. Over 591 million Africans do not have access to energy. This deficit affects all segments of society. Small businesses suffer as a result of lack of power. Children cannot easily study in the evenings. Rather than go to school, girls spend hours collecting firewood for fuel and lives are at risk in hospitals because of lack of electricity. Improving Africa's energy situation is therefore central to the fight against extreme poverty.
The African Development Bank's new President, Akinwumi Adesina, has promoted energy as one of the Bank's top priorities. Under the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Initiative, the World Bank Group and the United Nations have also committed to achieving universal access to electricity by 2030 with a particular focus on Africa.
Success hinges on the extent to which development actors are willing to learn from experience to shape future projects, programs, strategies and policies. Specifically, the event will identify priority actions that will contribute to lighting up and powering Africa by 2025, and new ways in which both organizations can improve their partnership to achieve common objectives in the energy sector.
Using two energy evaluations from both the AfDB and the World Bank, participants will explore what factors lead to successful energy projects, why, and under what circumstances. From these findings, participants will draw lessons to improve the effectiveness and success of future interventions.
About Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) at the AfDB
IDEV, the Independent Development Evaluation, is an independent and autonomous unit tasked with enhancing the development effectiveness of the African Development Bank's operations. By conducting independent evaluations and proactively sharing best practices, IDEV ensures that the Bank and its stakeholders learn from past experience and plan and deliver development activities to the highest possible standards. IDEV carries out independent evaluations of Bank operations, policies and strategies, working across projects, sectors, themes, regions, and countries. In addition, IDEV oversees the self-evaluation of projects conducted by operations departments.
About Independent Evaluation (IEG) at the World Bank
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is charged with evaluating the activities of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (the World Bank), the work of International Finance Corporation (IFC) in private sector development, and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency's (MIGA) guarantee projects and services. The Director-General of IEG reports directly to the World Bank Group's Board of Directors. The goals of evaluation are to provide an objective assessment of the results of the Bank Group's work and to identify and disseminate lessons learned from experience.


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Let's get this out of the way right off the bat: I don't care that The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is about the relatively shitty conditions under which all of our consumer electronics are made. The fact that the vast majority of every single product that could be seen as a target of your disposable income isn't what's being marketed on the marquee and it's not the vehicle the one man show is using to hammer home your Western, consumerist guilt. It's a singling out of Apple Inc. and Steve Jobs that gets people in the door.
The show focuses on one man's trip to Shenzhen and the conditions he observed in some of the factories where Apple makes its products, taking tours that apparently aren't even in the "Not for Tourists" guides. He meets with factory managers, workers and reps for underground organized labor movements at these companies. I have no intention of going, but from what I've gleaned from reviews, it seems appropriately awful and eye-opening. It's also more than a little disingenuous.
First off, this is not a problem for which Apple is exclusively responsible, despite what all of the marketing for the performance would have you believe. A partial list of companies not named Apple that also have their devices manufactured in Shenzhen include Acer Inc., Amazon.com, Intel, Cisco, HP, Dell, Nintendo, Nokia, Microsoft, MSI, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Vizio. Did I mention this list is from one factory? Chances are, anything you buy that has an electronic component will come from a factory in Shenzhen. That's why its one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.
Conspicuous consumption is one of those things the West is made to feel horribly about. It harkens back to every parental chiding about finishing your dinner because of the millions of starving Ethopians. I'm not going to argue that consumption and waste aren't a global problem, but making money off of the name of one party to it and its now-deceased co-founder and CEO has a very familiar stink to it.
Of course, I could have this all wrong. If it so happens that all the proceeds from the production (net expenses) go to the Shenzhen labor movement or some other worthy cause related to the issue, that'd be a pretty good indication that the person is more interested in helping solve the problem as opposed to cashing in off a big name and bitching about it, which is my suspicion. What can I say – I'm a pessimist. If I'm wrong, I'll be happy to remove my post forthwith, apologize and buy a ticket to the show.
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I have read about show maybe year ago looking for his Tesla and Edison show, so it is not new thing at all. This time some media outlets have found something about Jobs and Apple and they thought it is something new, and decide to run with it. Sorry, but media is here to blame. There is also interwiev with author where he explain that he choose Apple becouse of their brend recognition, but he admit that all manufacturers are to blame.