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Trees are networkers. Far from the solitary splendour of the ancient old stager, it turns out that trees communicate with one another through their roots. Underground fungi — mycorrhizae associated with the root network — form a sort of subterranean internet that connects trees, passing messages and even nourishment between neighbours. Nor do trees passively tolerate the onslaught of insects on their tasty young leaves. Chemical signals carried on the breeze from infested trees cause forest fellows to crank up their own chemical armouries. It's not a case of every tree for itself: the forest can behave as a single entity when it yields a great crop of acorns or beechnuts, or lies fallow for a year. Trees share a common response to weather and nourishment.
Dendrology: The community of trees
Richard Fortey
Nature 537, 306 (15 September 2016) doi:10.1038/537306a
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Aloha Spirit.....that's what Maui Wowi is about. And that Aloha Spirit shows in this video that went viral last week. As of today it has almost 8 million views!!!
At Maui Wowi DC there are 3 things that we're passionate about: family, small business, and our country. We hope you agree. And we hope you'll spread the Aloha Spirit by doing something nice for someone today. Gosh, wouldn't the world be a much nicer place if everyone did?

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Week 14, and off we are!!!
Here you can find last weeks card...
Broes walks barefoot from his kitchen to his computer, with a big mug of tea in his hand.
He's getting ready for two weeks of nothing and is so ready for it!
He opens the mail and sees one from his buddy Andrew, if he wants to help out being a caddy at a golf tournament. He can do that! It will be fun to hang out with Andrew!
He calls and catches Andrew at dinner.
How's this possible???
Soon all is explained, Andrew is in ....
And that's where the tournament is too!
So, there he goes again, up the stairs to pack his bags and run off to the airport
for a week of fun in a luxurious Country Club.
How unpredictable and wonderful can life be?
This is a drawing of the Orchid Country Club in Singapore where the golf tournament is held this weekend for the third time in a row.
I used my Lyra Aquacolors for this drawing.
The back reads:
I'm at the ISPS Handa Singapore Classic 2012 Golf Tournament this week as a caddy.
Thought it would be fun and give me time to think some while walking around but it's so freaking hot... 30C and thunder!
Thankfully my room at the Orchid Country Club has A/C!
If you're really serious about getting your own place I might know of a couple great spots.
Just let me know if you're looking to buy or rent, okay?
I have some connections (that's how I ended up here too!) and I love to help you out.
I'm not really charmed to meet dads in the middle of the night either. ;)
Thanks for stopping by, I love reading all your wonderful comments on my cards and story!
Don't forget to leave your love with all the other world-travellers!!!


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Tunisian General Labour Union
|Full name
|Tunisian General Labour Union
|Native name
|Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail
|January 20, 1946
|ITUC; Arab Trade Union Confederation (ATUC)
|Key people
|Hassine Abassi, secretary general
|Office location
|Tunis, Tunisia
The Tunisian General Labour Union (French: Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail, UGTT) is a national trade union center in Tunisia. It has a membership of 517,000[1] and was founded January 20, 1946.
The UGTT is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation and the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions.
The UGTT worked together with the Tunisian Human Rights League, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers – collectively labelled the National Dialogue Quartet – to address the national discord following the Jasmine Revolution of 2011. The National Dialogue Quartet was announced as the laureate of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia".[2]
Tunisian intellectual and Professor of Arabic Literature at Oxford University, Dr. Mohamed-Salah Omri, recently discussed the role of the UGTT throughout the Jasmine Revolution and transition period in a recent journal publication titled, "No Ordinary Union: The Role of the UGTT in the Tunisian path to revolution and transition" (Workers of the World, Volume I, Number 7, November 2015).[3]
Chairman (secretaries-general)
- 1946–1952: Farhat Hached
- 1952–1952: Nouri Boudali
- 1952–1954: Mohamed Kraïem
- 1954–1956: Ahmed Ben Salah
- 1956–1963: Ahmed Tlili
- 1963–1965: Habib Achour
- 1965–1970: Béchir Bellagha
- 1970–1978: Habib Achour
- 1978–1981: Tijani Abid
- 1981–1984: Taieb Baccouche
- 1984–1989: Habib Achour
- 1989–2000: Ismaïl Sahbani
- 2000–2011: Abdessalem Jerad
- from 2011: Houcine Abassi
- ↑ International Trade Union Confederation, "List of Affiliated Organisations" PDF (6th General Council, 21 June 2010, Vancouver) : http://www.ituc-csi.org/+-about-us-+.html, Retrieved 21-01-2011.
- ↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2015". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
- ↑ "No Ordinary Union: The role of UGTT in the Tunisian path to revolution and transition". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
- ICTUR et al.,, ed. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.
External links
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School is almost out and we're getting ready for our Summer Theatre Workshops. Workshops are available for students in grades 1-12.
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Mary Fons is a writer, quilter, and designer living in Chicago.
And this page will be updated soon. But…
In 2010, Mary created Quilty, a weekly online how-to program for beginner quilters (F+W Media) and served four years as editor and creative director of Quilty magazine. Mary is a bi-monthly columnist for Quilts, Inc. (The Quilt Scout) at Quilts.com. She is co-host of Love of Quilting alongside her mother, Marianne Fons. Mary's first book, Make+Love Quilts: Scrap Quilts for the 21st Century, was released in June of 2014 (C&T/StashBooks) and Dear Quilty, a retrospective and pattern book from the pages of Quilty magazine, was released in 2015 (F+W Media). Mary lectures and teaches widely and is an enthusiastic spokesperson for BabyLock sewing and quilting machines.
Small Wonders, Mary's debut fabric line in partnership with Springs Creative, launched at International Fall Quilt Market along with a Small Wonders pattern line in association with McCall's, exclusively for independent quilt retailers. Mary is an amateur quilt historian and enjoys learning about the history of the American quilt as much as she likes designing and making them. She currently serves on the board of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.


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High, thin cloud type 7 little words
Are you having trouble with the answer to "High, thin cloud type" clue of "7 little words" game? Don't worry. We have found the answers all 7 clues of today's puzzles.
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High, thin cloud type
Answer: Cirrus
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A Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen's government against Iran-backed rebels declared a 48-hour ceasefire to begin in Yemen Saturday, it said in a statement on the kingdom's SPA news agency website. "It has been decided to begin a 48-hour ceasefire from 12:00 noon in Yemen's timing (0900 GMT) today," the coalition statement said, adding that the truce could be renewed if the Huthi rebels and their allies abide by the deal and allow aid deliveries to besieged cities.
The coalition announcement followed a request for a ceasefire by Yemen's President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi –himself based in Riyadh — to Saudi King Salman, the statement said. "Coalition forces will abide by the ceasefire", it said, but warned that should the rebels or troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh make any military moves in the area the coalition would respond.
The naval and air "blockade" will also remain in place and surveillance jets will continue to fly over Yemen, it added. The coalition has been militarily supporting forces loyal to Hadi's government since March 2015. There was no word yet from the rebels on whether they would abide by the new truce.
US Secretary of State John Kerry had announced a ceasefire that was to have taken effect on Thursday, but there was intense fighting yesterday, eliminating hopes of warring parties abiding by the truce.
The US chief diplomat had said after meeting with Huthi negotiators in Oman that they were ready to observe the ceasefire plan, but Hadi's government said it was not aware of any new peace initiative. Since Thursday, more than 50 people have been killed in clashes between the rebels and loyalists on the outskirts of the third biggest city Taez, medical and military sources said.
The United Nations says more than 7,000 people have been killed and nearly 37,000 wounded in Yemen since the Arab coalition began its military campaign last year.


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Automotive Mechanic resume examples
The sample below is for a Automotive Manufacturing Resume. This resume was written by a ResumeMyCareer professional resume writer, and demonstrates how a resume for a Automotive Manufacturing Candidate should be properly created. Our Certified Professional Resume Writers can assist you in creating a professional document for the job or industry of your choice.
The Automotive resume is associated with all aspects of the automobile related functions covering under it the designing, analyzing and manufacturing of auto vehicles, ranging from two-wheeler light vehicles such as motorbikes and cars to the multi-wheeler heavier ones like trucks and buses. The responsibilities covered under this field include invention of new high speed, better mileage (fuel efficient), powerful auto-vehicles. Expediting the innovative technology and incorporating the mechanical, electrical and electronic dispensations, besides installing safety systems, the attractive-countenanced vehicles are introduced in the market by the competent persons which every company in the world for impatiently looks.
And all these functions are the responsibilities automobile amongst its team-workers. These skills are needed to be duly highlighted in the automobile resume.
Automotive Mechanic resume examples
We are giving you the tips as to how to write your automotive resume and presenting here a sample automotive resume as well for your help.
We are going to give you here the tips as to how to prepare your resume on the automotive services for getting the best job of your own choice in big organization.
First take a plain ivory paper and start from the top of it by writing your name, address, contact number and the E mail address with the bold fonts. Just after writing all these informations on the paper you have to move in to another subheading, that is the Objective, to reveal your desire to hold post and all the responsibilities shouldered, retrospecting your previous or current efficiency in the field of automotive.
Just after completing the subheading Objective there comes another subheading, that is Personal Summary, which revolves around the physical abilities present in your bod y. Under this section you are needed to highlight your expertise to substantiate your candidature for the services in automotive. You will have to throw light on the services you must have done earlier very successfully for any company.
Professional Expertise
Under this subheading you are required to reveal all the experiences you currently are equipped with, as far as the job related with automotive is concerned. You should not forget to mention any recognition, award or reward too, if any one of them has been bestowed upon you for your outstanding contribution in the trespective services.
Professional Experience
Under this category you are needed to mention your all of the previous job experiences detailing the responsibilities you shouldered which must have helped you earn the excellence in the respective field. You should try to reveal your all the expertise using the maximum related key-words as well.
Under this subheading you will have got to write your general education like Post Graduation, Graduation and the High School, not forgetting to mention the name of the institutes as well as the year of completing respective education there from.
Professional Education
This is meant for that course which you must have done to excel in the purchasing related job from any one of the recognized institutes.
Software Skills
Under it you will have to reveal the extensive knowledge in the software technology. Analyze it categorically with each section you've done a specialization in.
Additional Skills
It is very important for those who are going to herald their career in this service as a fresher one. Under this subheading all those expertises are needed to be highlighted whose role may not be underestimated in automotive field.


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Central African Republic coup leaders 'must remain calm'
France has urged restraint on coup leaders in the Central African Republic, who have stormed the capital and overthrown the president.
French President Francois Hollande, who has sent hundreds of troops to Bangui, said the rebel fighters must respect the people.
Mr Hollande confirmed that President Francois Bozize had fled CAR. He is believed to be in DR Congo.
The rebels had demanded he step down, saying he broke several agreements.
They launched an initial rebellion in December, saying that the government had not honoured a 2007 peace deal whereby fighters who surrendered would be paid.
After weeks of fighting in which tens of thousands were displaced, the rebels agreed to join a power-sharing government.
But earlier this week the rebellion flared up again over their demands that political prisoners be freed.
They seized the capital quickly, and Mr Bozize fled early on Sunday.
Widespread looting
Nelson Ndjadder, a spokesman for one of the factions that make up the Seleka coalition, said CAR could now move into a transition towards a democratic election.
"With the taking of Bangui and the departure of Bozize, the main objective of our struggle has been realised," he said.
"Central Africans must meet around a table to decide the path for their common future."
Mr Hollande said all parties should "remain calm and hold talks on a national unity government".
He urged the armed groups to "respect the population".
France, the former colonial power, said it was sending more troops to Bangui to bolster its force of 250 already there, saying they would protect French citizens.
Health workers in the capital say the city is in chaos, with their work being hampered by frequent power cuts.
The Red Cross said hospitals were struggling to cope with the flow of people injured in the fighting.
Amy Martin of the UN's humanitarian agency OCHA told the BBC that looting was widespread.
"The situation in town is chaotic... even a paediatric hospital we understand has been looted," she said.
South African peacekeepers, in CAR to support government troops, suffered casualties but failed to stop the rebel advance.
Ms Martin said the peacekeepers were now planning to leave the country.
Mr Bozize is believed to have fled across the border to the Congolese town of Zongo.
He came to power in a coup in 2003, but won subsequent elections in 2005 and 2011.
CAR, which has a population of about 4.5 million, has been hit by a series of rebellions since independence from France in 1960.
It is one of the poorest countries in Africa, despite its considerable mineral resources.


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Dr. Kevin Passero and his special guest Marjorie MacArthur Veiga will be discussing managing the medical mayhem of Lyme disease.
Marjorie MacArthur Veiga is a Lyme patient in remission, wife, and a mother of two daughters – one a teen recovering from chronic Lyme. She has led support groups for Lyme families in Virginia's Loudoun and Fairfax counties and has served on the board of the National Capital Lyme Disease Association as a fundraiser, and for Governor McDonnell's Lyme Disease Task Force as a media relations volunteer. Out of her experiences and desire to help others, she co-authored My Lyme Guide – Tips & Tools to Manage Lyme and Associated Illness. She is currently an independent consultant, assisting Lyme-afflicted patients with tasks related to their healthcare.
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I want to write a new program to flash Atmega avr microcontrollers. Start planning for the possibility of firmware only atmega8/16/32. The project will be open source. On the internet i only found the source avrdude. I read the datasheet atmega 8/16/32.
But this is not enough for me, not all clear. What books, source codes, articles you advise me. I have experience firmware atmega8/16.I worked with uart/usart, pwm, interrupts.Thank you.
Maybe Atmel's Application Note AVR910: In-System Programming will get you closer to what you want to do.
It also has a section about 'A Simple Low-cost In-System Programmer'.
Note that you will probably not be able to have a PC's UART output SPI. Using the parallel port (LPT) is the common solution.


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This meme was created for YA Midnight Reads to showcase upcoming posts and hauls from over the past week
Latest Happenings
I recently decided to rewatch Catching Fire and I still cannot stop gushing about it to anyone I see. Basically, I am in love with that movie. Speaking of movies, IF I STAY CAME OUT! SQUEEEEEEEEE. I want to go see it so badly, as well as The Giver which I think has been out for a little longer.
Not much else is happening in the Melanie world. At school, assignments are starting to pile up because we are nearing the end of this term. I've got to prepare for this assessment task on the Triangular Slave Trade, much joy. *sarcasm*
Over at Finding Bliss in Books, I am giving away a copy of Don't Touch by Rachel. M. Wilson so don't miss out on that!
Hey everyone! This week has been very sad because school started again. I'm in my last year now, which has me amazed and excited and hyperventilating. But it's really good to see my friends again, and we're having loads of fun in between the lessons. Otherwise not much has happened, except I got a cold and therefore I am now miserable and perpetually surounded by tissues.
In terms of books, it's been a good week. I'm very happy Random House decided to send me a couple of books because I participated in a YA chat, which means I now own the actually quite pretty movie tie-in version of If I Stay. Has anyone seen it yet? I've heard it's very good and had loads of people crying!
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The lovely Bec from Reader's Wonderland was trying to give this DVD away on Twitter and I managed to snag it! 😀 Thanks so much, girl <33
The Walls Around Us: I absolutely adored 17 & Gone so I had to pick this one up!
The Iron Trial: Let's just say I picked up this one out of curiousity…
Red Rising: Everyone one couldn't stop raving on about how fabulous this one is so I when I saw that it was up for download on NG, I quickly snagged it
If I Stay: Like I mentioned, I got this from the lovely people at Random House. I've already read this, but am excited to add this edition to my bookshelf 😀
The Eye of Minds: The other book Random House sent me! I actually hadn't heard of this one, so has any of you read it? Is it good?
The Walls Around Us: Yaayyy! I actually haven't read any of Nova Ren Suma's other books (I know! I'll be starting Imaginary Girls soon, though), but they have gotten so much praise that I'm excited for this one nonetheless.
The Last Time We Say Goodbye: I've already read this one, and it's quality Cynthia Hand once again. Beautiful story about living with a family member's death.
Red Queen: Excited for this one! Apparently it's full of suspense and twists, so color me intruiged. Plus, that cover is SO BEAUTIFUL.
Liars, inc.: ANOTHER PAULA STOKES BOOK. That is all.
Little Peach: I read this short book already, and while the style wasn't really my thing, the subject is very important. Very curious what others will think of this one!
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Students are being harked back for another school year, and the AYES program has all new and returning automotive students training in orientation and safety.
Safety training consists of OSHA regulations, MSDS safety materials, and Hazmat and EPA environmental training. Many of our AYES schools also provide update training on mechanical systems such as metrics, American standard, thread pitch and diameter, mechanical reasoning, and mathematics for technicians, (volts, ohms, amps, bolt circle diameter, pressure and temperature relationships, etc.).
At many schools, we see the returning senior students assist in training the younger students in safety issues and industry orientation.
We placed 11 students in your dealerships over the summer. These students now are seniors and will continue working with you on a part-time basis for the school year. Our AYES schools work hard to instill in their students the values and work ethics your service departments require.
The AYES students are handpicked by their instructors to work within the AYES model. Those students who qualify are held to an extremely strict set of requirements for the remainder of their junior year in high school.
Some of these requirements include an unblemished driving record, "A" grades in automotive and "B" grades in general studies, excellent attendance, initiative, cooperation, dependability, job-shadowing activities at area dealerships, parental support for an automotive career for their child, proper work attitude and ethic, no dean/discipline referrals at school, etc.
Your local AYES schools include Hammond (Ind.) Area Career Center; Joliet Township High School-Central Campus; Lake County High Schools Technology Campus, Grayslake; Parkland College, Champaign; Streamwood High School; and Technology Center of DuPage, Addison
Should you have any questions or need to employ a student intern, please call me at 630-424-6020.


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Friday, 8 February 2008
No other chocolate does it to you
I didn't get much memorable entertainment out of TV as an infant (Catweazle, The magic Roundabout, Aunty Jack, and The Goodies honourably excepted) but one TV thing I do remember with chilling, decades-annihilating clarity is the ad for Flake bars which has carved itself a dedicated and permanent fascicle among my neural pathways.
I'm sure you know the ad I mean. According to the person who uploaded it to Youtube, it hung around on telly for years and years, which sounds right. Nevertheless my memory of it dates very precisely from the era when the kitchen benchtop was at eye level and I was an adept at handling the Happy Hopper.
I believe that it was this ad taught me to experience the emotion of disgust. God, it made me feel horrible!
The ad goes like this: a woman dressed in white polyester flounces and carrying a white basket walks along the pillared and cluttered verandah of an inauthentically 'gracious' house and steps down onto the facistic-imperialistically green lawn. The whole thing is larded with Vaseline and aureoles, and on the sound track an invisible chinless wonder is awfully singing a song about having things done to you with flaky chocolate. Swinging her basket, which has a Flake in it (tastefully concealed under a peach polyester napkin), she walks to the shrubbery and seats herself in the seclusion of shady long grass under a tree. Meanwhile back at the house, a man also dressed mostly in white is sucking on a glass of Coolibah when he sees (or possibly smells) the woman walking away and a 'tally-ho' expression comes over his silly face. He puts a flaccid white hat on his head, which emphasises the unpleasant way his hair lies like a recently killed kitten on the back of his neck, and follows her down to the bushes.
She's sitting there poking suspiciously symmetrical fragments of Flake into her lipsticked mouth and he sneaks up behind her and pushes his head between the branches, triumphantly fingering his hat. She looks up at him from under her own hat and smiles while steadily continuing to mumble manicured rectangles of Flake. Yuk! I don;t know what's worse. She sneaked off to guzzle chocolate on her own and then he followed her in order to scab some. Have they no shame?
17 comments:
- David said...
And that very final image is a warning to us all about reckless Flake-related shenanigans.
- 10:55 pm, February 08, 2008
- Cozalcoatl said...
We are the same age and I totally remember that ad, not that I have thought of it in yonks. Though the only real affect it had on me was that I wanted a Flake. I'm sure the chocolate isn't as good as I wanted it to be.
Though it was a sign to me of growing up when I could afford to buy my own Flakes, Mint Slices and Vienna Chocolates.
For the TV I have to add 'Dr Who'
"Worzel Gummidge' and "To The Manor Born'....
Now you have made me watch 'Catweazle' on YouTube. Rob who never saw it (being a Yank and all) is bemused
- 5:27 am, February 09, 2008
- lucy tartan said...
I watched those shows too. Worzel Gummidge and Doctor Who belong together. To The Manor Born reminds me to name Fawlty Towers too, even though it should really go without saying.
- 11:00 am, February 09, 2008
- Meredith said...
Do people still make pavlovas decorated with flaked up flakes?
- 7:56 pm, February 09, 2008
- Drewzel said...
I am a chocolate fiend, but have never liked Flake. Too dry and lacking in structure. But I remember that ad too. Oh and the "Cherry Ripe" ads. And that "mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm" soldier Picnic ad (that was a bit later I think?) And I can still sing for you the "Care for kids", "Have a go" or "Milk it instead" jingles. And Hector the Safety Cat.
PS. TV, don't forget The Banana Splits and (embarrassingly?) Simon Townsend's Wonder World.
PPS. Laura, as you might have got regional tv too, remember the yawn that was Sunday? 'Variety Italian Style' and 'Sounds of Sunday'.
PPPS. A bit later, remember circa 1985 sitting up late with bleary eyes, waiting through Rock Arena for the Young Ones to come on?
- 11:34 am, February 10, 2008
- cristy said...
I have strong memories of that ad too - and must admit that it never failed to make me want to eat a Flake. It retrospect I am unsure why that was...
My favourite ad was the one for Frosty Fruit. I still get it stuck in my head from time to time.
- 12:25 pm, February 10, 2008
- lucy tartan said...
How did the Cherry Ripe ad go?
- 3:35 pm, February 10, 2008
- Mel said...
Although your post was written very humorously, I felt sad as I was never disgusted by that ad. If it taught me anything, it taught me "classiness". My friends and I thought that sticking tiny flakes of chocolate lasciviously in our mouths was the height of sophistication and now you've - well, you've made me realise why I'm single. Just in time for Valentine's Day too.
As for the Cherry Ripe ad, the one I liked had a jaunty song with the refrain "You're everything (Cherry Ripe!) that I want (Cherry Ripe!), you're everything I want and a little bit more!" It featured a man and a woman walking along a street and they come to a fruit cart filled with cherries. The woman picks some up and you can see her mouthing CHERRIES! like it's the best thing ever, but she's wrong! and the guy shakes his head wryly and pulls a Cherry Ripe bar out of his pocket. He peels off the wrapper, being careful not to ruin or obscure the logo, and she bites off the corner while he is holding the bar, because obviously someone retarded enough to prefer real cherries to a Cherry Ripe is incapable of holding their own bar.
- 9:45 am, February 11, 2008
- Ben.H said...
Dear god, I don't even have to look at that YouTube thingo because that bloody Flake ad is fresh in my mind like it happened yesterday. If you asked me to sing "Nobody Does It Better" I'd end up singing that Flake jingle instead.
It's the one with that annoying bit of politely wailing guitar at the end, right? I'll never forget that. Even as a pre-teen it embodied all that was naff about music. As for the ad itself, it, combined with love scenes from daytime soap operas, was sufficiently unpleasant to defer my adolescent interest in sex for, oh, several weeks.
Are you sure this is late 70s and not early 80s? I ask because (a) the 70s hung around for longer than we care to remember, but on the other hand (b) I've been surprising myself lately by discovering some of my memories are several years older than I thought. That second point is a sure sign that I am no longer young.
- 11:14 am, February 11, 2008
- Ben.H said...
Oh, and happy anniversary to you and your blog.
- 11:14 am, February 11, 2008
I have memories of that Flake advert as well...mostly worrying about how she would get the grass stains out of all that white. I used to love Cherry Ripes, when they were made by MacRobertson's and came in an orange wrapper; but then they suddenly were made by that other company, and repackaged in that horrible foil-y wrapper and CRs never tasted the same, ever.
- 12:06 am, February 12, 2008
- tigtog said...
Sweet, melt in your mouth nostalgia, eh?
I have to throw in a mention for Yes, Prime Minister, although that may have been more early 80s.
P.S. For the first time ever, I got not even one pic of Baz in Baz-lotto.
- 3:23 pm, February 12, 2008
- lucy tartan said...
- 1:53 pm, February 13, 2008
- Kathleen said...
The Flake ad has to be early 80s, I think. I have no cogent memories of the 70s, having been born in '77, but I remember this ad so well that, like Ben, I don't have to watch the link. Perhaps it was so successful they kept running it through the 80s?
Far from teaching me disgust, I am ashamed to admit that I thought this ad taught me class...Sorry. White polyester. Ooh yeah.
The other ad that is burned on my brain is the VB ad. As kids, we were only allowed to watch 1 hour of TV a day, and yet my Year 2 teacher still told my mum that I watched too much TV because I was always singing "As a matter of fact, I've got it now." That didn't go down too well at my church school.
- 12:52 pm, February 14, 2008
At least there's a dark chocolate Flake now! Much nicer.
- 11:45 pm, February 28, 2008
- dysthymiac said...
35 years ago when Sesame Street was first screened on ABCTV, the Greek Chorus all wailed that Our Aussie children's minds would be destroyed by the Septic Culture conveyed straight into tiny minds, so I have to ask "Do you say zee for zed, pavement for footpath, cookie for biscuit, biscuit for scone ... ? "
- 5:07 pm, March 07, 2008
- lucy tartan said...
Heaven forbid. I do talk about chocolate chip cookies, but they still fall under the larger heading of 'biscuits.'
- 7:26 pm, March 07, 2008


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Documentaries are about achieving an artful balance of persuasion via engaging testimonials, revelatory visuals and the undeniable pleasure of enlightenment. On one end of the spectrum, documentaries which sensationalise events, told with skewed perception and rely on shocking, bizarre imagery - are bias to a fault, sceptisism inevitably invading the audience. But failure to dramatise events for the sake of entertainment results in a stale retellings, the attention of the audience wanes. However documentaries which strike this balance behold beautiful and terrifying powers. They have audiences believing in conspiracies, illuminated by horrible histories, inspired into activism. They can persuade viewers to change their lifestyle, their awareness, their diet. These films are infectious in their conviction and pure in their vision. It is director, environmentalist and photographer Louie Pshioyos who clearly appreciates this - his fascination with the storytelling utility of cinema and its use as a "weapon of mass construction" is clear. His 2012 docu-drama, The Cove, illuminated our screens with the iconic image of a blood-filled cove, revolutionising the modern documentary genre and went on to become one of the most widely-viewed and awarded documentaries in the history of cinema. Racing Extinction, built on the same potent ambition and avant-garde technical niche, is a sobering tale of a human reality and the ugly future with awaits those selfish and ignorant to its severity.
Racing Extinction throws light on all of the environmental truths most people try to ignore. Director Louie Pshioyos addresses human impact on a faltering environmental by illustrating the grand plan to salvage our dying planet including the small but wonderful ways individual activists have sought change by using their own talents and then highlights the various operations which undermine its entire cause. In many ways, Racing Extinction is a look at Psihoyos own environmental awakening- how he became conscious, then angry in his conviction and now driven in his pursuit for a future. He champions awareness and action, identifying our current environmental state as a war zone, the apathetic and greedy are the enemies and for once the impending apocalypse upon our loss has some realism attached to it.
What The Cove brought audiences was a beautifully dirty little secret. The object of its filmmakers was so blatantly clear, simple, clever in its execution, a vicarious bond formed between audience and activist as they pursue their desire for a common truth. But widening the scope of content in Racing Extinction seems to have come at a cost. Racing Extinction is too ambitious; it flits from subject to the next, without investing enough time or depth into each subject enough to have us care deeply for each of them. But in a strange way, the film actually addresses and compensates for this: its concluding scenes pay homage to the enormous scope of environmental ruin and the incredible task ahead. In doing so, its aggregate effect is profound and unforgettable.
Similarly to The Cove, the cinematic content is iconically self-referential. Psihoyos sought truth and exposure in The Cove by spending years constructing hidden cameras to tactically place at the scene of the crime. Reminiscent of the structure of his first film, Psihoyos packs Racing Extinction with plenty of heart-quickening covert missions followed by projects of exposition once the incriminating evidence is compiled. The final act of Racing Extinction is an elaborate city light show. Louie recruits the ingenuity of engineer Elon Musk to create a Bond-esque vehicle for moving projections. It is an exhilarating call to truth and action and an exhilarating rush to awareness - appealing to the humanity in humanity and utilising the best qualities of cinema for an ultimate crowd-pleasing outcome which feels thrillingly relevant.
We watch as our crusaders infiltrate the horrific black markets selling contraband which has been shipped from the tiny, economically dependent villages where endangered species are slaughtered in their masses. The film identifies China as the primary culprit - such species as manta rays, turtles, rhinoceroses, culled solely for traditional medicinal purposes. But this is finger-pointing in an almost congenial manner, hot fact laced into ugly realities and softly pushed in way of the audience.
They are undeniably successful in convincing audiences that this cause is not simply a noble or honourable one but wholly necessary and desperately urgent. No concessions are made for its genre constraints - this is a film akin to a traditional espionage tale complete with even a getaway driver, stakes as high as any and persuasion from our hero, as impassioned and enticing as they come.


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New Arduino form factor
A couple of new versions of Arduino boards can be found on Arduino blog: the Arduino Pro and the Arduino Pro Mini (depicted here). Both work at 3.3V and I think that makes them ideal for battery-powered applications.
In my case I'm going to create a small circuit to interface the Mini to an XBee wireless module to create a smallish wireless sensor. Hopefully I'll get much longer operation times than those Rob Faludi measured with Diecimila and XBee shield.


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Philippines Typhoon Relief
Location: Tacloban, PH
Budget: $35000.00
Still Needed: $0.00
Goal: Provide relief to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan by sending our head of clean water to the affected area with as Sawyer water filters.
How You Can Help:
Super Typhoon Haiyan may have come with the highest velocity winds ever recorded. Its effects have been devastating. As the death toll continues to rise, the area around Tacloban is facing immense challenges–both immediate, and ongoing.
David Pearson, the head of our clean water program, will be going to the Philippines on November 22nd to work in the affected area distributing water filtration systems, providing sanitation training and healing the sick. Clean water is going to be one of the primary issues going forward. Cholera and other water borne disease threaten to claim more lives than the disasters themselves. With $65, we can provide clean water for 35 people every day for the rest of their lives. Help us save lives by donating today.
Project Updates
David & Cynthia Pearson in the news
(David & Cynthia are the directors of Impact Nations' I Thirst Water Program)
- Elmira Heights Newspaper Article
- Elmira Heights NBC News Station:
For those who want to invest themselves, Impact Nations will lead a Journey of Compassion into the area surrounding Tacloban City in eastern Philippines in May. We will be focusing on recovery: feeding the hungry, installing water filters, doing construction, providing medical care, and the supernatural ministry of healing and evangelism. The dates will be announced soon.
Impact Nations is asking you to help the people of Tacloban by making a donation. Funds will be used to purchase water filters, medicine and construction materials. This will allow us to go into the Philippines fully prepared to bring tangible assistance.
Please keep the people of Leyte province in your prayers.


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17-year-old dead after Akron shooting
AKRON, Ohio – A 17-year-old teenager was shot and killed in Akron Wednesday afternoon.
Police tell Fox 8 that they received calls about a shooting in the area of W. Thornton and Laurel shortly after 3:30 p.m. They found two shooting victims: the 17-year-old male and a 19-year-old male.
The 17-year-old was shot multiple times and died from his wounds. The 19-year-old was taken to Akron General Hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his leg.
Police tell us that they are not releasing the names of the victims and that no motive has been discovered yet.
The shooting caused Miller South Middle School to be put on lockdown for about 30 minutes as a precautionary measure as police looked into the shooting.


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Michael B. Myers is an illustrator who has a strong love for comic book superheroes. His latest work is a series called Comic Book Pixel Posters, which was inspired by upcoming comic book-themed movies set to hit theaters.
The series by Michael B. Myers is a refreshing twist on traditional movie poster creations and will definitely be loved by any comic book geek. Michael B. Myers takes on The Dark Knight Rises, Thor and The Green Lantern. All the posters have a very minimalist approach and are finished in a retro pixelated design.
I'm not sure if Myers has any other comic book movie posters in mind, but it would be nice to see some more added to this awesome collection.
8-Bit Comic Posters
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Chatty Film Prints
Super Simplistic Posters
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Michael B Myers Creates Some Pixelated Comic Book Superheroes
- By: Peter VallasApr 25, 2011
References: behance.net & technabob
References: behance.net & technabob


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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Drunk Blondies
One of my favourite bloggers is Adam Roberts of The Amateur Gourmet, primarily because he makes me laugh and has a unique food voice. If he stuffs up, he isn't afraid to say so - and I love that. I am also secretly envious of the cool places that he has lived (New York City and now L.A.), and love reading about his life there. However, I have been rather remiss in reading his blog lately due to the behind-the-scenes craziness of my existence, so it had been ages since I visited until the other day, just by chance, I thought of his blog and took a look.
Kaboom! Up front and centre was a post on some Drunk Blondies that Adam had made from The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. And I just knew that I had to make them. And make them I did, subbing walnuts for pecans and Glenfiddich for Bourbon. The results of my labours are pictured at the top of this post. Gorgeous, huh? And super easy - no mixmaster required. I couldn't really taste the whiskey, but that didn't matter a jot (even though the word "drunk" was what caught my eye in the first place).
I would love to buy this cookbook too, but I have to stop buying baking books - I think I have hundreds of them now, even though I try to limit myself to something a little different from the norm.
Thanks to Adam for posting this great recipe and for bringing this cookbook to my attention. Now perhaps I should go and make some of Adam's bourbon caramel sauce ....
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7 comments:
- cakewhiz said...
i love the name of these blondies ;)
they would surely make a nice companion for my mid-afternoon cappucino ...lol
- September 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM
- Anonymous said...
Drunk? Blondies? These look great!
- September 29, 2012 at 9:54 AM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
Hehe I made blondies too but not this recipe. I think it is Blondie season! :P
- September 29, 2012 at 3:28 PM
- Guru Uru said...
Haha I love the name and these look delish :D
- September 30, 2012 at 5:43 AM
- The Caked Crusader said...
I do like a bit of booze in my bakes - these look great!
- October 1, 2012 at 2:13 AM
- Jill said...
These look really yummy (and the name is fun!). I borrowed the Back in the Day Bakery cookbook from my library, and it's a nice book. But, like you, I'm trying to resist buying more cookbooks!
- October 1, 2012 at 12:41 PM
- Johanna GGG said...
I think I want to make these just for the amusing name - sounds like a night on the town doesn't it! I am sure I would love them too - esp if the whisky wasn't too prominent
- October 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM
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Month: April 2016
NaPoWriMo 2016 Day 9
So much to love with vintage gothic romance covers… I can't get enough. Hey, Babe, where're you going? Where're you going in those baby dolls, Baby Doll? It's not safe beyond these walls. What awaits you on the moors is worse than what walks these halls. The heath bites, but the night calls. At least take your robe. …
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A little birthday haiku for a sci-fi lover: Born into this world as though cast through a stargate just a blink ago. and a little something else since yesterday lapsed without a poem: Gauzy and high, her cry is the ghost of a ghost. It rides the wind and haunts the cliffs. Neither can rest,…
NaPoWriMo 2016 Day 6
Words hang languid and purple, ripe with who did what to whom. The tink tink tink of a teaspoon against a tumbler of sweet tea. The rocker's complaints against the grain of the wood. It was all too much. I let the screen door snap behind me.
NaPoWriMo 2016 Day 5
Way to go Wisconsin!!! In this great nation politics is personal- revolution's here
NaPoWriMo 2016 Day 4
It's late. Whistle to keep steady. You know how it is on Patch Road. Black limbs rollick high in the cottonwood and the wind clamors through Mrs. MacGruder's chimes. It's the place to bring your date to listen for something making its way among wrist-thin birches whispering of wild rose.
NaPoWriMo 2016 Day 3
Slide behind the wheel of a summer Saturday, take it for a spin. Crank the music, some 80s new wave or mix tape from a long-ago friend that reminds you of a time when life stretched long and winding. You couldn't see and you didn't care what was around the bend.
NaPoWriMo 2016 Day 2
I wanted to work with a poetic form called the lune, which has a 5-3-5 syllable structure. Here, I strung three lunes together to compliment my obsession with vintage gothic romance covers. Plus it made me laugh. Barefoot through the bog white silk tears on naked branches. Without doubt, he knows her return's inevitable She seems not to…
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April is poetry month. Welcome to 30 new daily poems by yours truly. Today is a free verse written in 21-syllable stanzas. (Maybe there's even a name for that…) Where have you gone? I peer behind the curly-edged, shiny finish of old photographs. * You're there, face to the sun, one hand in salute shields your tender brown eyes from the orange glare. *…


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Restockers revive EYCI
05 December 2017
Key points:
- The Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) recovered from a two-year low in late September and has stabilised during November.
- Price premiums paid by restockers have shifted between states, with Queensland the driving force while Victorian restocker demand eases.
- Feeder buyers have taken up the slack in the system, purchasing more than 50% of EYCI eligible cattle week-to-week.
Buoyed restocker demand, the forecast of rain and a widespread seasonal break at the end of September saw cattle availability tighten and the market recover, with the EYCI gaining 65.25¢ throughout October and stabilising in November.
In fact, the EYCI fluctuated within an unprecedented narrow range of 5¢/kg cwt during November, closing the month at 579.75¢/kg cwt, illustrated in the below graph.
A shift in price premiums between the states
Restockers have played a prominent role in the historically high levels the EYCI has maintained during 2016 and 2017, typically paying a price premium. However, demand factors – arising from herd recovery and weather conditions – have seen a shift in price premiums that restockers typically pay between the northern and southern states.
Largely driving the recovery of the EYCI are Queensland producers. In November, Queensland restockers purchased 52% of EYCI eligible young cattle in saleyards across the state at a 54¢ premium to feeders. Given the patchy rainfall across Queensland and the level of drought induced turn-off that occurred across the state in recent years, it could be some time before on farm stocking rates return to average levels.
In contrast, Victorian restockers secured 14% of the market and premiums to that of feeder buyers narrowed from 20¢ earlier in the year to 7¢/kg cwt. Meanwhile, processor activity purchases accounted for 57% of EYCI eligible cattle in Victoria and paid a 26¢/kg discount on average to restockers.
Restocker requirements for cattle has lessened somewhat in Victoria as herd size is forecast to return to average levels this year, aided by higher (on average) branding rates and the higher base from which herd numbers had to recover from.
NSW restockers purchased 25% of the state's EYCI eligible yarding in November, at a 38¢ premium to feeder prices following widespread rain – quite a contrast to the 9¢ premium they were paying in August.
Feeder buyers picking up the slack
While restocker cattle have maintained a price premium across the eastern states, easing producer demand led to feeder buyers accounting for the majority of EYCI eligible cattle purchases since the end of August, with the exception of one week in October.
Despite an increase in grain prices, the percentage of EYCI eligible cattle purchased by feeders equated to 52% in November across the eastern states – driven predominantly by purchases in NSW and Queensland (61% and 40%, respectively). This represents the highest monthly proportion of lot feeder purchases since January and week-to-week purchases have persisted above 50% in recent weeks, despite increased restocker presence.
More than one million head of cattle were on feed for the third consecutive quarter this year, which has seen the grainfed proportion of Australian beef production rise and record high quarterly grainfed beef exports as a result.
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Discussion in 'Off Topic [BG]' started by Peter Squire, May 13, 2005.
Mine is slaughtering the plastic packaging on cds
Well it's one of the things I don't like doing...
Get the new CD
Be and want to listen to it already on the way home
Then comes ripping off that stupid packaging...
15 minutes of hassle, and bus/tram change later, I can finally hear it
Or you meant "favourite things that tick you a bit off?"
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens...
beating the sh!t out of some bubble-wrap.
New DR Hi Beams and aggresive love making....
Headbanging at a good concert. Although I have to agree with the "aggressive love making", as long as it's with a female.
Waking up and getting out of bed when the sun is setting.
Sniping people in Battlefield 1942...when they're runnig, with grenades, to a tank on my team. With a pistol.
Non-video games? Jeez. I've been on a total game hype as of recently. I'm sure there's one or two related to music .
Delicately removing the G-string from a fretless...
Don't start me on this.


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So the human teacher . . . became elevated quickly into a Christ and then into a God. . . . How did a God come to replace a thoroughly human, Jewish Jesus?Wilson attributes Christian anti-Semitism to "guilt at having killed off the historical Jewish Jesus in favor of a Gentile God-human." Jews were witnesses to this "crime," the only ones who "could 'blow the cover' off" the crime, and this explains "the sustained attack on Judaism throughout Christian history," according to Wilson.
I don't think guilt explains anti-Semitism; I think it's the simple human tendency to oppose the other. Christianity persecuted other religious rivals— "witches," heretics, and Muslim infidels—just as brutally.
I would correct more of Wilson's assertions. He assumes, for instance, that Jesus was preaching a political "Kingdom," that he proposed "sweeping away Roman rule." It's true that Jewish messiahs were political, but I join the consensus of Christian scholars that Jesus did not follow that line. He awakened awareness of the inner realm of Spirit inside each person; it's one reason I insist on the word "Reign" instead of "Kingdom."
Instead of passing on the teaching of Jesus, Christianity taught the myth of Christ broadcast by Paul. This realization I discuss in my chapter, "The Only-Through-Jesus Stance." Barrie Wilson adds a credible analysis of Acts, providing detail for the scholarly conclusion that the Book of Acts is largely, maybe mostly, fiction.
Acts would have us believe that 2 rival religions—the Jesus Movement and Paul's Christ Movement—formed a harmonious whole. Wilson and Christian scholars agree it was not so. This is abundantly clear in Paul's Letter to Galatians and the Letter of James (not in all Bibles) but even clearer in early Christian writings that did not become part of the New Testament.
Wilson accurately underlines the non-historical direction taken by Christianity—away from teaching Jesus' message to teaching beliefs about Jesus. Despite my differences with some of his assumptions, I appreciate his very-Jewish perspective.


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24. Supergrowth and Shareholder Performance: An Analysis of the Inc. 100 Fastest Growing Public Companies in America; Benoit Leleux, Julian Lange and Veronique M. Matthys
25. Loan Guarantee Programs for Small Firms: Recent Canadian Experience on Risk, Economic Impacts, and Incrementality; Allan L. Riding and George H. Haines, Jr.
26. Entrepreneurship and Public Policy: Beyond Solving the Credit Crunch; Richard P. Taub and Connie Marie Gaglio
Entrepreneurs and Entertainment: The Studio System as Venture Capitalist; Jon P. Goodman and Steven S. Gal
Creating Economic Value: The Entrepreneurial Imperative; J. William Petty, Alan D. Bell and Jonathan N. O'Sullivan
Financing the High Technology Start-ups in Belgium; Sophie Manigart and Carol Struyf
27. Performance Feedback, Decision Making Processes, and Venture Capitalists Support of New Ventures; Harry J. Sapienza and M. Audrey Korsgaard
28. The Venture Capitalist Decision: Understanding Process Versus Outcome; Andrew L. Zacharakis and G. Dale Meyer
29. Developing the Informal Venture Capital Market in the UK: Is There Still a Role for Public Sector Business Angel Networks? Colin M. Mason and Richard T. Harrison
Venture Capitalists Target Rates of Return and Investment Appraisal; Mike Wright and Ken Robbie
Characteristics of High Performance Entrepreneurial Leaders, Management Teams and Their Corresponding Company Cultures; John H. Eggers, Kim T. Leahy and Neil C. Churchill
Entrepreneurial Teams, Venture Development and Venture Performance; Claire Leitch
The Role of Top Management Team Characteristics and Scientific Capabilities In Determining the Market Value of New Biotechnology Firms; David L. Deeds, Richard Klavans and Joseph E. Coombs
High Performance Entrepreneurial Teams: The Heart of the Entrepreneurial Corporation; Daniel F. Muzyka and Neil C. Churchill
30. Size of Investment, Growth Opportunity and Human Resource Management Typologies in Entrepreneurial Firms: Some Observations; Sanjay Prasad Thakur
31. Patterns of Formalization in Emerging Business Ventures; Steven H. Hanks and Gaylen N. Chandler
32. The Internationalization of New High Potential Ventures: Antecedents and Outcomes; James M. Bloodgood, Harry J. Sapienza and James G. Almeida
33. The Relation of Traits, Competencies, Motivation, Strategy and Structure to Venture Growth; J. Robert Baum
34. Strategies for New Venture Growth and Harvest: A Five-Year Follow-Up of 176 Young Growing Firms in Denmark, Ireland and Scotland; Jonathan Levie
35. New Ventures and Total Competitiveness: A Conceptual Model, Empirical Results, and Case Study Examples; Dennis P. Slevin and Jeffrey G. Covin
Human Resource Practices, TQM Implementation and Venture Performance: A Multiple Constituency Approach; Gaylen N. Chandler
Organizational Transformations of Small Innovative Firms; Mario Raffa, Giuseppe Zollo and Renata Caponi
Entrepreneurs and Change: A Socio Cognitive Perspective; Staffan H Segerstad and Leif Melin
Using Options Theory to Provide Sensible Problem Solving Strategies for Venture Growth; Dale W. Jasinski and Anne S. Huff
Stimulating the Growth and Development of Small Technology-Based Firms: An Entrepreneurship Model That Works; Magnus Klofsten
36. Cooperative Strategies: Extent of Use and An Articulation of Content Dimensions in Non-High Tech New Ventures; Candida G. Brush and Radha Chaganti
37. Shopping Centers as New Firm Incubators and Angels: On the Mall of America Entrepreneur Partnership Program; Karl Egge and Jerry Gustafson
What Explains Franchisor Performance Over Time? Scott Shane
Managing Small and Large Interfirm Relations: Strategic Outsourcing Practices; Michael Merenda, Allen Kaufman, William Naumes and Craig Wood
An Empirically Supported Model of Tolerance in a Franchise Inter-Organizational Form; Steve Spinelli, Jr. and Sue Birley
Consensus in Cooperative Arrangements Among Entrepreneurs: An Analysis of Franchise Organizations; David A Baucus, Melissa S. Baucus and Sherrie E. Human
Entrepreneurs, Their Advisors and Counsellors - A Divergent/Convergent Paradox in Respective Thinking Patterns and the Impact Upon Entrepreneurial Performance; John Day and Paul L. Reynolds
Failure of the Owner Managed Firm: The Perspective of the Advisers; Sue Birley and Niki Niktari
Technical Consultancy as a Vehicle of Forced Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Poland; David A. Kirby and Stefan Kwiatkowski
38. Entrepreneurial Transformation: A Descriptive Theory; Daniel F. Muzyka, Alice J. de Koning and Neil C. Churchill
39. Entrepreneurship in Organisations - The Aviall Studies: A Model for Corporate Growth; Richard Y. Weaver and Stephen Henderson
40. Technological Renewal in Small Firms: The Nature and Role of Linkages Between Large and Small Firms; Catherine Belotti
Innovation Strategies Related to Forms of Strategic Alliance: The Case of 3M and Ferro; Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Melanie Trevino and Frank S. Hoy
From Sow's Ears to Silk Purse Makers: A Review and Analysis of Public Policy Initiatives That Train Unemployed Workers to Become Entrepreneurs Steven R. Kursh
Patterns and Profiles of the Brazilian Entrepreneurs: Data From Entrepreneurship Development Programs Sponsored by the EMPRETEC Programme (United Nations and SEBRAE) Brazilian Agency for Micro and Small Business Assistance Programme; Alvaro A. A. Mello
Local Government Policies and the Private Firm: Five Benchmark Cases of Policy Initiatives for High Growth Firms in California; Alan L. Carsrud and Elizabeth D. Rogers
The Impact of Public Policy (Instruments) on Entrepreneurship Within the Context of a Developing Country; Samuel Kwasi Buame
Public Intervention in Entrepreneurial Innovation and Opportunism: Short Cuts or Detours to the Information Superhighway? Ted Fuller and Anne Jenkins
Influencing Entrepreneurship in the Technopolis: Can CONNECT of San Diego be Replicated Elsewhere? Robert Ronstadt and William Paulin
Entrepreneurship in Slovenia: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy; Lawrence R. Godtfredsen
Assessment of a Demonstration Project to Develop the Small Business Sector of Poland; Przemyslaw Kulawczuk, Daniel Fogel, Monika Harrison, Frank Hoy and James Wingrove
Public Sector Entrepreneurs: Their Implications for Public Sector and Economic Regeneration Policies; Inger Boyett and Donald Finlay
Small Business Strategies for Managing Elder Food Service Programs; Linda Jane Coleman, Elizabeth Haran and Jane Militello
41. The Impact of Entrepreneurial Training Programs on Transitioning Workers: The Public Policy Implications; Stuart R. Monroe, Kathleen R. Allen and Courtney Price
The Effectiveness of Participative ('Hands On') Training Programmes in Entrepreneurship in European Second Level Schools; Michael Crowley, Robert D. Hisrich, Cormac Lankford and Barra O'Cinneide
Small Business Training: Towards an Evaluative Framework for Program Assessment; Barbara Orser and Sandra Hogarth-Scott
Overall Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Training Programs; Jean-Pierre B Bourdeau
Entrepreneurship Scholarship in Intent & Use: Part 3, Practitioner Input; Victor Rosenberg, Raymond Kinnunen and Richard James
Have We Made a Difference? An Examination of Career Activity of Entrepreneurship Majors Since 1981; Nancy B. Upton, Donald L. Sexton and Carlos Moore
Designing Training Programmes for Social Economy Groups Across Cultures; Thomas M. Cooney and Brendan O'Rourke
Entrepreneurship at the Core: Toward Advocating Entrepreneurship as a Requirement; Sandra Honig- Haftel
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NBA Playoffs: Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, Who Should Lead OKC Thunder?April 27, 2011
Oklahoma City Thunder superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook got into a heated verbal exchange in the first half of Game 4 versus the Denver Nuggets. While players yell at each other all the time in the heat of battle, there may be a cause for concern.
Westbrook scored 30 points in Game 4, but it took him 30 shot attempts to reach that mark. Meanwhile, Durant scored 31 points on just 18 shot attempts.
I'm not going to pretend and declare that the argument was over who should shoot the ball the most, so I'll discuss the issue.
Westbrook has had an amazing 2011 season and was a legitimate candidate for Most Improved Player of the Year, an award given to Kevin Love of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Westbrook is a great scorer, and he improved his shooting range this season. He is also a great rebounding guard and puts up solid assist numbers.
However, his shot selection is often poor, and he is nowhere near the quality of a shooter as Durant.
Durant won his second consecutive scoring title this season, even though Westbrook took more shots and scored more points than he did in 2010.
Durant is a much better outside shooter and can shoot threes far better than Westbrook. He is also better at getting to the free-throw line and has a softer touch at the basket.
The two of them are great players and have shown their games are capable of complimenting each other quite well, but in crunch time—Durant needs the ball.
With a young and inexperienced team tasting new playoff success, one often worries about players trying too hard or letting their egos take over.
In Game 4, Westbrook was taking bad shots left and right and looked like he was trying to model former NBA MVP Allen Iverson.
He's not the scorer Iverson was. When Westbrook is taking 30 shots, he is taking opportunities away from his teammates.
James Harden and Serge Ibaka need to get their shots, and with Westbrook taking 30 of them, there isn't enough offense to go around.
Durant is a more efficient scorer than Westbrook and has better offensive skills. Durant takes better shots and creates matchup problems for many teams because of his length and quickness.
Westbrook is a fabulous player who has had a great year, but he isn't the No. 1 offensive threat on the Thunder.
Kevin Durant is the face of the Thunder and their best player. No one else should take offensive priority over him—not even Westbrook.
Nicholas Goss is an Oklahoma City Thunder Featured Columnist, follow him on Twitter for Thunder news and analysis.


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Gummadikaya (Winter melon) – 1 piece.
Chana dal – 1/2 cup
Moong dal – a fistful
Cumin seeds (Jeera, Jeelakarra)
Mustard seeds
Green chilies
Red chilies
Red chili powder
Salt to taste
lemon juice or citric acid
Step-01:Scrape off the chilka/pottu of gummadikaya (winter melon) and chop it into big pieces.
Step-02:Prepare the gravy by grinding the dals(chana dal, moong dal) along with Jeera (cumin seeds, jeelakarra), asafoetida. Grind them coarsely and not too soft or powder type. You can also soak a fistful of chana dal in water for sometime (like 15-20 minutes) to add to curry.
Step-03:Now add red chili powder, salt required for the curry to the above powder and mix them. Add sufficient Oil to it so that it looks like the following photo: The mixture should resemble like a paste.
Step-04:Now take a kadai and add oil to it. Add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Now add asafoetida, jeera and green chilies to it.
Step -05:Add the winter melon chopped pieces and also the soaked chana dal. Add turmeric to it and cover and cook for two minutes.
Step-06:Now add the dals mixture we prepared. Add 2-3 cups of water (add more until the dals are totally soaked). Cover and cook for 5 -10 minutes, by stirring in between. If the gravy is becoming very thick, then add some water again. keep it on stove till the dals mixture is cooked properly. Oil will float on top once the dals and melon are cooked. Adjust the salt (or citric acid) and chilli powders if required. Switch off the stove and take it in a serving bowl. Add tadka on top of the curry with Oil, mustard seeds and red chilies.


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Apple iPad Enables Tap-to-Send
Apple iPad Enables Tap-to-Send
The Drchrono EHR platform uses the touch-screen capabilities of the iPad to enable "tap-to-send" functionality. Doctors can tap to send videos and articles to patients.
Curating Educational Content
An algorithm in Drchrono's platform helps doctors curate educational content after patients check in on the OnPatient personal health record (PHR) iPad app and enter their demographic data and medications, Nusimow said.
Demonstrating Procedures and Evaluating Surgery Options on Video
Videos from Mayo Clinic allow a doctor to demonstrate how to put on a rotator cuff immobilizer sling or provide an initial evaluation of whether a patient is a candidate for bariatric surgery.
Videos Become Part of a Patient's EHR
Doctors can curate a video library relevant to an individual patient and store it within the person's EHR.
Managing Video Inventory
When viewing a video at right, doctors can keep track at left of which videos or documents they've sent to patients.
Digital Medical Diagrams in Colorful Detail
Within the Drchrono app, doctors can share with patients detailed diagrams of symptoms they may be experiencing, such as heart ailments like an atrial flutter. Materials could also include info on complications from conditions such as diabetes, Nusimow said.
Moving Away from Print
The Drchrono EHR application allows doctors to educate patients about their lab tests or about a specific drug and share the information on the iPad, rather than relying on printed materials, Nusimow said.


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This course surveys the speech clause and (if time allows) the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Specific speech clause topics include libel, campaign finance, regulation obscenity, hate speech, commercial speech, subversive speech, speech on public property, freedom of association and religious speech. Religion clause issues include school prayer, public displays of religious symbols, and aid to parochial schools.
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The African mobile network operator Vodacom has opened a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) laboratory at its Vodaworld campus in Johannesburg, to help incubate and commercialise machine-to-machine (M2M) and internet of things (IoT) system through narrowband networking
The announcement of the NB-IoT network build was made in November 2016, with the launch of the site planned in major metropolitan areas across South Africa by the end of 2017.
In partnership with Huawei, Vodacom's launch of Africa's first live NB-IoT site aims to provide a network testing environment for the software developers and devices including the module and chip manufacturer.
As a part of Vodacom's continued investment in the expansion of IoT offerings, the launch of NB-IoT is aimed to add to the key strategic growth opportunities for the businesses.
NB-IoT is a low power wide area (LPWA) network technology which enables new use cases for IoT solutions.
Vodacom described that the LPWA networks are designed to communicate with devices where radio penetration were not possible before. In addition, the devices are also power-efficient, resulting in devices being deployed in-field with multi-year batteries.
"Vodacom's NB-IoT lab provides a controlled test environment and framework for customers and developers to develop hardware and applications as well as test their end point devices on the NB-IoT network," said Deon Liebenberg, managing executive for Vodacom IoT.
Through this live site, Vodacom hopes to configure a smart campus which will monitor and meter utilities on the network, aiming to help in reducing the risks of water losses, mitigating both environmental sustainability and cost risks.
The NB-IoT network is expected to reform the existing network infrastructure system of the company, focusing on continuous network connectivity issues.
Liebenberg further commented, "Vodacom is investing heavily in South Africa's NB-IoT ecosystem and we look forward to collaborating with developers and customers to realise its potential."
"Our ultimate goal is to nurture an ecosystem of developers, engineers and entrepreneurs for NB-IoT applications on the continent," he added.


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Jet Boat Ride
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Our mini‐coach driver will pick you up from your resort and transfer you to our base in Sigatoka town. From there you enjoy a 17 km scenic cruise into the Sigatoka valley, discovering the fertile area known as the "salad bowl" of Fiji. You arrive at our departure point surrounded by Fijian natural beauty, here you are provided with your life jackets and safety briefing by your jet boat captain and then it's time to board.
As you begin your journey up the awe inspiring river you will hear about the history of the region, including its cannibal past! Children from the many villages that line the river wave as we cruise past and the water is so clear you will be able to see fish and rocks lining the river bottom.
When you reach your village destination, you are given a warm welcome by the villagers. Sigatoka River Safari is careful to visit a different village every day, to minimise the impact of tourism on the village lifestyle in this remote part of the world.
You will then visit the village Chief's bure (house) or community hall and take part in a kava ceremony, before a tour of the village and a traditional Fijian lunch, including wonderful fresh tropical fruit. Your village visit ends with traditional Fijian singing and dancing and it's time to board your jet boat again for the return trip.More info


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This is not to be confused with Blood : The Last Vampire. Thanks to Zahir over at Undead Whispers and Taliesin for pointing this out, a film that it seems very few people have seen or heard of.
Blood is a japanese film, full details an be found here.
Gabrielle Faust has an update on tickets for the upcoming Vampire Ball in New Orleans here.
The LA Times has a piece today on Cirque du freak.
Vampchix blog has some good old fashioned vampire lore to discuss.
Bloody Disgusting has its review of "Daybreakers" here. Shocktilyoudrop has a pic from the film here.
Thefastertimes.com has a piece on the vampire playboy edition here.
The marketing world likes vampires at the moment, we all know that. Heres someone else joining the fray - Nike, with their Dracula trainer.
This is another bit of true blood video marketing... very well done as well!
Taliesin today reviews "Vampitheatre" a 1999 film by Christopher Forbes.
Sunday, 13 September 2009
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Have you seen "Bleeder". It's a pretty good Vampire webisode. One of the actors from "The Wire" is in it. www.BleederSeries.comReplyDelete
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Creating a Community of Caring
Call Us: 401.846.4600
Throughout the year the Maher Center hosts various fundraising events including our annual Cocktail Celebration and our annual Golf Tournament.
Click her for details on upcoming events.
Today, more than ever we rely upon the generous support of the businesses, organizations, and loyal friends in the communities we serve. The past few years have been extremely challenging as we continue to experience substantial cuts in state funding. Your support can make a difference!
There are a variety of ways in which you can support our events:
Thank you in advance for helping to celebrate the past, present and future of the James L. Maher Center. With your continued support, and that of many others in our community, we can continue to enhance and enrich the lives of the people that we support.
Please send all donations to:
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The 'Tropical Trophy Lodge Photo Competition', or 'Tropical Podge Competition' for short.
This is your chance to get either a Trophy Shot or Scenic shot permanently hung on the wall in the new Tropical Trophy lodge.
What are the details?
- Everyone can submit a max of two images.
- Entries can be any combination of Trophy shots or Scenic in game shots, for example I might enter two Trophy shots, someone might enter one Trophy shot and one Scenic shot etc.
- Trophy and Scenic shots do not have to be Piccabeen Bay themed
- Winning photos will be selected by our in game artists.
- If your image is selected it will be hung on the wall in the new Tropical Trophy Lodge.
- No Photoshop or image tampering what so ever, any in game filter from the trophy shots are fine.
- Posting Screen shots are fine, doesn't have to be with game camera
- Three winners will be selected.
- Only images posted in this thread will be considered.
- Competition Runs until 10:00am CET, Thursday the 22nd of March.
All winners will receive any buyable 'Premium Weapon' of their choice and 1000em$ each.
Winners Announced Here
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Punk Pays Tribute to Guerrero at Weekend Live Event
According to several readers, CM Punk paid tribute to the late Eddie Guerrero during this past weekend's live event in Las Cruces, NM. Punk took a fan's sign that said "Eddie Guerrero Country" and held it up in the ring before his match.
Sting to Face Former WWE Star in Puerto Rico
World Wrestling Council has announced that TNA star Sting will be appearing on the 40th anniversary show on September 21st at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Sting will headline the event in a match against former WWE star Carlito.
Also confirmed for the card is a tag-team match featuring Carlos Colon & Stacy Colon vs. Invader I and La Tigresa. The event marks Sting's pro wrestling debut in Puerto Rico.


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Album Review: DD/MM/YYYY - Black Square (Invada)
Volt-filled banshee yells aplenty on this mind-altering adventure
[b]'Lismer'[/b] – that's where it happens: the point where after seven tracks of wrestling with [a]DD/MM/YYYY[/a]'s blitzkrieg of bipolar time signature experiments your mind emerges, albeit swollen and bruised, pulped by blows thrown from angles barely within comprehension. Here's where the Canadians truly take over, electronic shrieks offering the sharpest switch in aural assault yet. But, dear listener, it isn't their aim to bludgeon you towards a gooey end; this is a conversion mission and judging by the sense of clarification that greets each ensuing guitar spiral and percussive metamorphosis, new acolytes seem certain. Insanity has rarely felt more natural.
[b]Simon Jay Catling[/b]
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Certainly steamers are not to be confused with Goths, the subculture that dresses in long black coats with buckles and chains, heavy spiked boots, black-dyed hair, and makeup of white foundation, heavy eyeliner, black fingernail polish, and unusual piercings. Perhaps misunderstood for their ghoulish appearance, goths scare the daylights out of non-goths. Goths are fascinated with horror, dark romance, the morbid, and the macabre.
Not so with the steamers who are interested in science and innovation, adventure and imagination—the future as envisioned from Victorian times. "Steamers," or sometimes "steampunkers," dream about and sometimes build their fantastical machines. If they don't actually build them, artists draw and paint them. Hundreds of nonfiction titles exist about steampunk, and many more hundreds of novels and short story collections have been written to that theme, with at least five steampunk alphabet books for the kiddies. How would one explain the apple below to one's four-year old?
Greyshade, a librarian by profession, goes on to say that today's steampunk is not just Victorian although it's generally Victorian "flavored." Nor is it always about gadgets and goggles. According to him, these may only be clichés that writers use to produce bad books.
"Steampunk is definitely it's own aesthetic," he says, "with its own distinctive standards of beauty and value. It is the marriage of Victorian-era focus on manners, beauty and form with technology, given a fantastical twist of functionality and craftsmanship, with a firm grounding in community and environmental consciousness. It seeks to reconcile a modern industrial sensibility with optimism, beauty, imagination, sustainability, and even whimsy and humor, things often notably lacking from post-modern design." (http://www.province-of-the-mind.com/steampunkphilosophy.html);" hence, the attraction to DIYers and makers.
At the FANS Conference in Dallas TX in July 2014 held in conjunction with AKON Anime Convention, a fan had this to say: "The "Punk" aspect of Steampunk infuses a healthy dose of anti-authoritarianism, rejection of patriarchy, eschewing rigid definitions and limitations imposed by culture. Defiantly individualistic, Punk gave rise to several expressions, ranging from music and fashion to technology, with the rise of the Cyberpunks, who took great delight in hacking and re-arranging computers and electronics. True to its Punk roots, Steampunk gleefully dissects the past, salvaging the useful and the beautiful, pushing metaphor into multiple dimensions and opening up new horizons of meaning, all-the-while thumbing their noses at mainstream suburban values."
The fan continues, "The influence of each of these social and artistic movements is plainly evident in the far-flung manifestations of Steampunk – it's all there: the love of handcrafted, well-designed art integrated into daily life, the respect for self-expression, beauty and workmanship, the love of technology and disregard for the rules and authority figures. Steampunk pushes on to include elements of ecology and permaculture, diversity and community-building."
A fan of neither sci fi nor fantasy, I find I am not drawn to some of the steampunk literature after reading two steampunk short story anthologies. While the written words and plots are unique, thrilling, and mysterious, it is the visual representation that fully captivates my attention, in other words, the aesthetic—the films and the fashion. To that end, I embarked upon a movie marathon, loading my Netflix queue with films noted by aficionados to actually be steampunk or whose elements are heavily steampunk-influenced. What a ride of discovery! Below are the movies I watched and loosely ranked in order of my understanding of steampunk plus my enjoyment of the films.
- The City of Lost Children, 1995
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954
- Wild, Wild West, 1999
- Howl's Moving Castle, 2004
- The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box, 2014
- Castle in the Sky, 1986
- Sherlock Holmes, 2009
- The Time Machine, 1960
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003
- Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1962
- Hellboy, 2004
- The Extraordinary Voyages of Jules Verne, 2008
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1989
These movies all contain steampunk elements of one kind or another: mad scientist or evil genius; zeppelins, armored submarines or street-worthy tanks; goggles or eyewear of some sort; mechanical tarantulas, birds, or other monsters; steam-powered wheelchairs, bicycles, trains, flying machines, or giant drills; floating castles, cities, or islands; underwater worlds; water wheels, enormous cogs and gears; fancy dress of the upper class Victorians or bare feet and rags of the lost or orphaned lower class children. Now, knowing a bit about steampunk, I found the films fascinating as I identified these special elements. However, I believe the movies would be quite entertaining and enjoyable without knowing a shred about steampunk— which I conjecture that describes 90% of the movie-going audiences.
Do you know more about steampunk than you ever did? Or, more than you ever wanted to know? Now it's your turn to think about the genre. Write a 2500 word short story! Win a contest!


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5:52 AMDoes anyone else think that FUT 16 has become Pay to Win
I have been playing FUT since Nov 2014, and have 3 average teams (Seria A, Bundesliga, BPL) with 120,000...ish saved, but the next tier of player's that would improve my team are ridiculously expensive (Di Maria,Robben,Ribery,etc.) It seems that to improve my teams, i will have to spend REAL money on either Coins or points, and in my mind that just doesn't seem right?
I see what you mean - ive played people who I know I can beat - put it into seasons and matched squads and yes probably win top fifa coins. Give them a few OP players in UT and they're scoring long shots that you might only get 1/10 with your cheap squad. I just find that you have to put the extra effort in to nutralise those OP players
You could say that about any player regardless of price. Take Doumbia for example, he is a relatively cheap player but there have been games where my opponent has scored multiple goals with him and got the win. It isn't "pay to win" because in the end you still have to play the game and be better than your opponent. I played a guy last night that had Ronaldo and Messi up top with sol Campbell, Hierro, and van der sar in the back. He quit before half time when I was winning 2-0. I also futscoped him (dramaonyoutube) and he was terrible. I find this to be the case more often than not. The dudes with teams worth tens of millions of coins are easy wins. It's when I play a team of silvers that I get nervous
Honestly, it has happened way too many times that I play some guy with a super expensive team, and I lose fifa ultimate coins. The match facts will be something like 15 shots for me, while he has 2. Possession 60% vs 40%. One goal from an impossible angle with Messi or Ronaldo and I'm already fucked because they have top tier defenders that make impossible clearances... There is definitely a big element of pay to win here. Not saying it is decisive, but it's there.
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