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Milford, Massachusetts
|Milford, Massachusetts
Town Hall
Location in Worcester County in Massachusetts
|United States
|• Type
|Representative town meeting
|• Total
|14.9 sq mi (38.5 km2)
|• Land
|14.6 sq mi (37.8 km2)
|• Water
|0.3 sq mi (0.7 km2)
|307 ft (94 m)
|Population (2010)
|• Total
|• Density
|1,900/sq mi (730/km2)
|Time zone
|Eastern (UTC-5)
|• Summer (DST)
|Eastern (UTC-4)
|ZIP code
|Area code(s)
|508 / 774
|FIPS code
|GNIS feature ID
Milford is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It had a population of 27,999 at the 2010 census.
For geographic and demographic information on the census-designated place Milford, constituting the center of the town, please see the article Milford (CDP), Massachusetts.
- History 1
Geography 2
- Adjacent towns 2.1
- Demographics 3
- Economy 4
- Government 5
- Library 6
- Education 7
- Annual events 8
- Sites of interest 9
- Media 10
- Notable people 11
- See also 12
- References 13
- External links 14
Milford was first settled in 1662 and was officially incorporated in 1780. It was originally the eastern part of Mendon, called "Mill River".
Milford is renowned for its pink Milford granite, discovered in 1870. Some of this granite has been used for buildings in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Paris, along with a number of war memorials and other monuments, including the Battle Monument at West Point.
Today, it is recognized, in part, for its health care facility—the Milford Regional Medical Center. In January 2008, the Center opened a cancer treatment facility with the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. The Center is affiliated with UMass Medical Center as a teaching hospital.
Milford is also the home of the "My One Wish" foundation, started in 1984.
B. & A. Station c. 1913
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 14.9 square miles (39 km2), of which 14.6 square miles (38 km2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2), or 1.82%, is water. Milford is drained by the Charles River.
The town is crossed by Interstate 495, as well as state routes 16, 85, 109, and 140.
Adjacent towns
Milford is located in Eastern Massachusetts, bordered by:
- Hopkinton on the north
- Holliston on the northeast
- Medway on the east
- Bellingham on the south
- Hopedale on the southwest
- Upton on the west
As of the census[11] of 2000, there were 26,799 people, 10,420 households, and 7,200 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,835.6 people per square mile (708.7/km²). There were 10,713 housing units at an average density of 733.8 per square mile (283.3/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 92.95% White, 1.35% Black or African American, 0.11% Native American, 1.76% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 1.99% from other races, and 1.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.36% of the population.
There were 10,420 households out of which 33.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.9% were non-families. 25.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.08.
In the town the population was spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 94.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.6 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $50,856, and the median income for a family was $61,029. Males had a median income of $42,173 versus $30,989 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,742. About 5.8% of families and 7.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.9% of those under age 18 and 10.4% of those age 65 or over.
Milford has been growing at a fast rate since the introduction of Interstate 495, which opened in the area with dual exits at Route 85 and Route 109 in 1969. Since then, major retailers have opened in town, including Kmart, Kohl's, Target, Lowe's, and Sports Authority. Other retailers which recently opened stores in Milford include Friendly's, T.G.I. Friday's, Bed Bath & Beyond, Staples, Petco, and Best Buy. Milford was fictitiously featured in a 2008 episode of the Fox television series Fringe.[12]
|County-level state agency heads
|Clerk of Courts:
|Dennis P. McManus (D)
|District Attorney:
|Joseph D. Early, Jr. (D)
|Register of Deeds:
|Anthony J. Vigliotti (D)
|Register of Probate:
|Stephanie K. Fattman (R)
|County Sheriff:
|Lew Evangelidis (R)
|State government
|State Representative(s):
|John V. Fernandes (D)
|State Senator(s):
|Ryan Fattman (R)
|Governor's Councilor(s):
|Jen Caissie (R)
|Federal government
|U.S. Representative(s):
|Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-4th District),
|U.S. Senators:
|Elizabeth Warren (D), Ed Markey (D)
The core of Milford's governing system is the representative town meeting, where elected citizens can voice their opinions, but more importantly, directly effect changes in the community. Along with a Board of Selectmen, Town Administrator, Planning Board, Finance Committee, etc., the citizens of Milford have input into how the town is run.
The Massachusetts Department of Correction is headquartered in Milford.[13]
The Milford Public Library was established in 1858.[14][15] In fiscal year 2008, the town of Milford spent 1.5% ($966,758) of its budget on its public library—some $35 per person.[16]
Milford Public Schools operates seven public schools [2] and the town also has one catholic school.
- Public schools
- Pre-K: Shining Star Early Childhood Center
- K–2: Brookside Elementary School
- K–2: Memorial Elementary School
- 3–4: Woodland Elementary School
- 5–7: Stacy Middle School (SMS)
- 8: Middle School East (MSE)
- 9–12: Milford High School (MHS)
- Catholic schools
- K–6: Milford Catholic Elementary School (MCES)
- Vocational schools
- 9–12: Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School (eligible town) (located in Upton)
Annual events
- Independence Day fireworks, held on Plains Park within a day of July 4
- Portuguese Picnic: A two-night festival held at the Portuguese Club
Sites of interest
- Memorial Hall, home and museum of the Milford Historical Commission
- Ted's Diner, placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, was the oldest diner built by the Tierney Diner Company. Ted's was left abandoned by the town and vandalized, eventually moved to make way for a new fire station.
- St. Mary's Cemetery holds the only Irish round tower in the United States, built from local granite.
- Fino Field, owned by the local Post of American Legion, has been home to the Milford Legion baseball team for over half a century.
- Ye Olde Farm, established 1709, owned and run by the Ferrucci family.
- The Milford Daily News is a daily newspaper covering Milford and several nearby towns in Norfolk and Worcester counties.
- WMRC 1490AM is a radio station licensed to serve Milford.
- Two non-profit Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV stations serving Milford-area subscribers on Channels 8 and 11. Channel 8 is the Milford town Public-access television station that produces and runs a variety of local shows, and Channel 11 is the Milford Educational-access television station and runs School Committee meetings as well as projects made by students in the high school's video production classes.
Notable people
- Adin Ballou, author, religious leader and prominent 19th century proponent of pacifism, socialism and abolitionism. He authored The History of Milford, Massachusetts, published 1882.
- Nathan Barnatt, actor and comedian
- Michael Bavaro, producer of Rex Trailer's Boomtown
- Albert Fitch Bellows, artist
- Al Cass, musician and inventor
- Horace Brigham Claflin, merchant
- William Claflin, industrialist, philanthropist and governor
- Chris Colabello, Major League baseball player
- Vincent Connare, designer of the Comic Sans and Trebuchet fonts
- Ezekiel Cornell, member of Continental Congress 1780-1782
- Paul Coyne, Emmy-nominated producer of numerous television series
- John Davoren, politician
- Greg Dickerson, sports broadcaster
- William F. Draper, U.S. Representative, U.S. Ambassador to Italy
- Brian Fair, lead singer of the metal band Shadows Fall
- Annie R. Godfrey, wife of Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.
- Rich Gotham, president of the Boston Celtics
- George F. Johnson, businessman
- Art Kenney, pitcher for the Boston Bees {later renamed the Boston Braves} in 1938
- Charles Laquidara, radio disc jockey
- Howie Long, NFL Hall of Famer, TV broadcaster and actor
- Ralph Lumenti, Major League baseball player
- Virginia Martinez, Republican National Committeewoman from Louisiana from 1977 to 1992; landed the Republican convention in 1988 in her adopted city of New Orleans
- Leonard Chapin Mead, college president
- Richard T. Moore, politician
- Joseph E. Murray, pioneer in the area of organ transplants, 1990 recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine
- John Ritto Penniman, decorative painter, portraitist and decorator; his works are currently displayed in several notable museums, such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago
- Gerard Phelan, football player who caught the famous 63 yard game winning touchdown pass (thrown by Doug Flutie) for the Boston College Eagles in an NCAA game against the Miami Hurricanes.
- Ruth Pointer, singer and member of The Pointer Sisters
- George Pyne III, American football player
- George Pyne, American businessman
- Jim Pyne, former NFL player
- Jorge Rivera, mixed martial artist, UFC middleweight contender
- Brian Skerry, underwater photo-journalist
- Erik Per Sullivan, actor from Malcolm in the Middle, The Cider House Rules, and Christmas with the Kranks
- Michael Videira, midfielder for the New England Revolution (Major League Soccer)
See also
- ^ "TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Census Summary File 1". American FactFinder, All County Subdivisions within Massachusetts. United States Census Bureau. 2010.
- ^ "Massachusetts by Place and County Subdivision - GCT-T1. Population Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "1990 Census of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF). US Census Bureau. December 1990. Table 76: General Characteristics of Persons, Households, and Families: 1990. 1990 CP-1-23. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "1980 Census of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF). US Census Bureau. December 1981. Table 4. Populations of County Subdivisions: 1960 to 1980. PC80-1-A23. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "1950 Census of Population" (PDF). 1: Number of Inhabitants. Bureau of the Census. 1952. Section 6, Pages 21-10 and 21-11, Massachusetts Table 6. Population of Counties by Minor Civil Divisions: 1930 to 1950. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "1920 Census of Population" (PDF). Bureau of the Census. Number of Inhabitants, by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions. Pages 21-5 through 21-7. Massachusetts Table 2. Population of Counties by Minor Civil Divisions: 1920, 1910, and 1920. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "1890 Census of the Population" (PDF). Department of the Interior, Census Office. Pages 179 through 182. Massachusetts Table 5. Population of States and Territories by Minor Civil Divisions: 1880 and 1890. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "1870 Census of the Population" (PDF). Department of the Interior, Census Office. 1872. Pages 217 through 220. Table IX. Population of Minor Civil Divisions, &c. Massachusetts. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "1860 Census" (PDF). Department of the Interior, Census Office. 1864. Pages 220 through 226. State of Massachusetts Table No. 3. Populations of Cities, Towns, &c. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "1850 Census" (PDF). Department of the Interior, Census Office. 1854. Pages 338 through 393. Populations of Cities, Towns, &c. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ^ "American FactFinder".
- ^ Plot Synopsis for FOX's Fringe (Season 1, Episode 6: "The Cure", Original Air Date: 21 October 2008).
- ^ "Massachusetts Department of Correction." Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. Retrieved on December 7, 2009.
- ^ C.B. Tillinghast. The free public libraries of Massachusetts. 1st Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1891. Google books
- ^ Milford Town Library. Retrieved 2010-11-10
- ^ July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008; cf. The FY2008 Municipal Pie: What's Your Share? Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Board of Library Commissioners. Boston: 2009. Available: Municipal Pie Reports. Retrieved 2010-08-04
External links
- Town of Milford
- Milford Town Library
- Milford Historical Commission
- Milford Performing Arts Center
- Upper Charles Trail
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- Towns in Worcester County, Massachusetts
- Milford, Massachusetts
- Towns in Massachusetts


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Hello! Today I have another book review to share with you. This time it's a children's book about the Biblical account of Paul's conversion. The book is easy enough for a quick read by my 2nd grader but engaging enough to keep the interest of my 4th grader. The illustrations are colorful and fun and one of our favorite pages is when Paul is proudly wearing his name tag displaying his name change.
I like that the book keeps to the accuracy of the Biblical account and doesn't change or embellish things. We read the book and then read the account straight out of the Bible and having some fun visual context has helped my kids remember the story much better.
The book begins with a verse out of Romans which is a nice prelude into the story. At the end of the book there is a page that summarizes who Paul/Saul was, another scripture and a little, "Did you know" fact about that time in history and encouragement for how we can pray like Paul did.
I think this is a great little book to add to your kids library and I know my kids will now remember the wonderful story of Paul.
I received a free copy of this book through the BookLook Bloggers program in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

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Universal Energy has announced the commencement of crude oil production in Nigeria from its Stubb Creek Field in Akwa Ibom State
According to the company, Universal Energy has joined the league of marginal oilfield producing companies in Nigeria having successfully completed the construction of an early production facility and building a 23 km pipeline from the Stubb Creek Field to ExxonMobil's Qua Iboe Terminal, that came online February this year, to enable evacuation and delivery.
Commercial oil production from the field is at an initial gross rate of 2,000 bpd with plans to increase the processing capacity to 8,000 bpd.
Universal Energy managing director Bassey Umoh said his company had achieved a major milestone in the long-term development plan for the Stubb Creek Field.
"The marginal field round was executed with the aim of enabling domestic companies to bring smaller marginal fields on-stream and we are proud to have achieved this. As a team, Universal Energy wishes to express sincere appreciation and thank everyone who provided support and significantly contributed to the successful completion of the Stubb Creek Early Production Facility Project in Unyenge," he added.
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About Us
In June 2014, brothers Ian and David Macintosh joined forces to open their first restaurant in Crouch End. They named it Heirloom, a nod to their shared heritage and passion for prized British ingredients.
Since then, Heirloom has fulfilled their ambitions to become one of Crouch End's most acclaimed restaurants, earning good reviews from top publications and, more importantly, the approval of locals.
Seasons change, dishes come and go, and our kitchen team constantly strive for innovation. But Heirloom's founding ethos remains untouched: Modern British cuisine in a warm, welcoming setting.
We take time to source the best ingredients from across Britain and Europe; some come from closer to home. Our garden supplies the kitchen team with fresh herbs, vegetables and edible flowers. Ask us nicely and in the warmer months we might even give you a little tour.
Ian Macintosh, Chef Patron
The older of the two brothers, Ian has been a chef for over fifteen years and brings a wealth of experience, plus ingredient and supplier knowledge, to bear on menus at Heirloom. Prior to opening Heirloom, his cheffing travels took him to rural New Zealand, where he caught fish for menus, and San Francisco, working with his brother David on an award-winning food truck.
David Macintosh, Produce Director
David takes responsibility for sourcing and cultivating top-quality ingredients for the Heirloom kitchen and also oversees new dish creations. Along with a degree in Economics, he is able to call upon ten years' cooking experience, having worked in kitchens with strong farm-to-table principles across the world, including Canada and the US.


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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - French actor Louis Jourdan, who played a suave bon vivant in the Oscar-winning film Gigi and had a long reign as Hollywood's top choice to play elegant international gentlemen, died on Saturday at the age of 93, his biographer said.
Jourdan, who also worked frequently on stage and television, died at home, Olivier Minne, his friend and biographer, told Reuters by telephone from Paris.
Jourdan starred in Gigi, one of the most successful movies of the 1950s, as the dashing Gaston, who realises he is falling for the title character, played by Leslie Caron, as she evolves from tomboy to courtesan-in-training. Gigi dominated the 1959 Academy Awards with nine Oscars, a record at the time, including best picture and best director for Vincente Minnelli.
Jourdan sang the movie's title tune and it won the Oscar for best song, even though Maurice Chevalier's Thank Heaven For Little Girls in the film was perhaps more memorable.
Jourdan grew up as Louis Gendre in Cannes, where his father was a hotelier, and went to the prestigious Ecole Dramatique in Paris to study acting. He took his mother's last name for his movie career, which had just begun when it was interrupted by World War Two. The occupying Nazis ordered Jourdan to make propaganda films but instead he fled back to the south of France, where he joined his brothers in printing and distributing pamphlets for the French Resistance.
His acting career resumed after the war and he soon came to the attention of American producer David O. Selznick, who brought him to Hollywood for a crucial role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1947 film The Paradine Case, starring Gregory Peck.
The next year Jourdan stood out in Letter From An Unknown Woman as a concert pianist haunted by his ambivalence for a woman, played by Joan Fontaine, who had loved him for decades.
Jourdan was so handsome and debonair that typecasting was inevitable and for a while he resisted the romantic leads, which often led to him being suspended by Selznick under Hollywood's autocratic studio system.
"My basic disagreement with producers was that I didn't want to be perpetually cooing in a lady's ear," Jourdan said in a 1960 interview with Coronet magazine. "There is not much aesthetic satisfaction in it." He later said he reconciled with his Hollywood image as "the French cliche".
In addition to Gigi, his notable films included Three Coins In The Fountain (1954), The Swan (1955) with Grace Kelly, The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful (1956) with Brigitte Bardot and Can-Can (1960) with Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine.
In Julie (1955) he had a chance to break from the stereotype by playing Doris Day's psychotic husband and television and stage work also provided more varied roles, including playing a homosexual attracted to a man played by James Dean in The Immortalist on Broadway. "It was quite revolutionary for him to accept playing a homosexual on stage," said Minne, his biographer. "His legacy in the industry was that he brought some kind of French elegance. That was his nature, in his way of speaking and behaving, his gestures," said Minne. Jourdan was a passionate lover of classical music and was friends with artists and intellectuals, Minne said.
Later in his career directors discovered that Jourdan also could play villains - albeit handsome, urbane villains - such the Afghan prince Kamal Khan, James Bond's nemesis in the 1983 film Octopussy. In Wes Craven's 1982 horror film Swamp Thing he was the evil immortality-obsessed Dr Anton Arcane, a role he reprised in 1989's The Return Of The Swamp Thing.
Jourdan's charm was lost on Elizabeth Taylor, however. In the 1963 movie The V.I.P.s, he was an aging playboy having an affair with Taylor but the actress, then in the midst of her stormy first relationship with Richard Burton, was upset by a story that Jourdan's wife, Quique, had written about her for Paris Match magazine. Taylor reportedly insisted that Jourdan apologise in front of the cast and crew but he refused.
In 1985 Jourdan went on a touring stage version of Gigi, playing the dapper Honore, the role filled by Chevalier in the movie. He retired from acting in 1992 and in 2010 France presented him the Legion of Honour award.
Jourdan and Quique, who met during his time in the French underground, married in 1946. He was once asked about the contrast between his long-running marriage and the playboy roles he so often filled on screen and said: "When one has been married more than 30 years it would be absurd not to admit there had been some sort of difficulties at some times...but the important thing is that we have weathered them." The Jourdans' only child, Louis Henry Jourdan, died of a drug overdose in 1981.


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Moo Moo enjoying his water fountain
In 2008 both of my Siamese cats who were brothers passed away. Yodi passed away one month before he turned 15 years old. His brother Max died 6 months later. I felt like he missed his brother too much. Max made it to the ripe old age of 15 1/2 . He was a chunky cat for many years but it never slowed him down,
Yodi was slimmer and was pretty feisty himself, but Max was the most energetic and both of them were crazy characters.
One month after Max passed away my daughter April found a little sickly yellow cat out in the rain in the parking lot where she lived. The little kitten hid up under a Hummer and my daughter tried everything for hours and finally succeeded in rescuing him. She brought him to me the next morning.
This was the first kitten I had in fifteen years so it was really hard putting up with such an active and destructive little cat. I was used to older more calmer cats like Max and Yodi. He has been spoiled so much since then. It's all my fault too, I admit it. His name is Austin and he is now 2 years and 4 months old and huge. Probably I would say about 17 - 18 lbs.
Every morning he hollers really really loud - so loud that I'm afraid that the guy in the apartment above me will think he's being hurt or something. So I jump up to stop his noise. It's so irritating. He loves his Hill's dry food but every morning he wants his Fancy Feast can food. Sometimes if the flaked fish that Austin craves is not available I can put a can of Chicken feast with gravy down, but not often. He is so picky and I am an idiot for catering to this cat's every whim.
On Austin's 1st birthday he was sick from a urinary tract infection and I took him to the vet. I wanted a brother for Austin so I told them at the Vet's clinic I wanted to adopt a young cat if they knew of anyone that had young cats and preferably I wanted a gray striped cat if I could find one.. Gray stripes were always my favorite cats when I was a kid. They said they had some cats in the back. I went back to look and I saw a noisy little gray striped cat right away in a pen with two other cats and they called him Moondoggie. It was love at first sight. (O.K. I shortened that to Moo Moo.) Funny cat names. Anyway Moo Moo went home with me that very afternoon. I found out later on that he was actually two years old and not one year like they had originally told me. I never knew there were cats to be adopted in the back of this vet's office because there were no signs and no one ever mentioned it. At times there were a few cats that would be walking around in the waiting room when I would wait during my visits there. I just always assumed the 3 or 4 cats just resided there because one of the cats bless her heart had a really bad deformed foot and the two or three other female cats I saw were really overweight cats and seemed older. Later I saw the tiny little pens some of these animals stay in by themselves. They are nothing more than cubby holes. When Moo Moo first came home with me he had a real long belly hanging down even though he was real thin. He also has trouble drinking out of a bowl. They left a couple of faucets on for all those cats to drink out of at the clinic and they let them roam a lot in the back .Moo Moo hollers and cries and I have to turn a faucet on in the bathroom so he can get in the tub and drink water out of the faucet. If he drinks out of a bowl - he drinks sideways and licks the bowl around the edges. After drinking out of a faucet for two years, he just can't seem to completely adapt to drinking out of only bowls. I have four bowls of water in this small apartment for them to drink from but Moo Moo still has to have some faucet water or he cries and cries. My two cats love to complain.
It didn't take long after we adopted Moo Moo, for Austin and him to start playing. They are brothers for sure now and they fight like brothers too. It feels so good to give a cat a home. It hurts that you can't help more, but I have taken in and adopted tons and tons of cats during my lifetime. I just have to raise rescued pets on a smaller scale than I used to.
Now people are really into fighting pet obesity problems! I don't know if I would go that far yet. My pets always seem to get fairly chunky but they play a lot, they drink bottled water and they eat the best of foods. They are groomed and brushed every day but they are too fat according to what Vets are now promoting. A Vet told my daughter one of her pets was too large and her cat isn't nearly as fat as Austin. My Vet hasn't seen Austin in a year so I am not sure what she would say.
I do try and play with them more now since I heard so many people getting on the Slim Down Your Pet kick all over the place. Moo Moo loves to bring me bits of paper that he wants me to roll into paper balls and throw for him to fetch. We play this a lot. He has dozens of toy balls and toy animals and yet he picks a piece of trashy paper to play with. He can jump up in the air and catch the paper ball with his front paws too just as if he were playing baseball. I'm going to try to video that real soon.
And my spoiled Austin can open anything and get into anything. He is huge but he jumps on the counters and on top of the refrigerator. He opens the cabinets with the dishes in them and if he wants to knock something out on the floor he does. He also loves to sit up and bat this toy glove I have with strings hanging down for cats to grab. When I see him and Moo Moo so active I don't feel any guilt that they have gotten so big and maybe I am wrong, I do want the best for them.
I am home all the time so I am looking into making my cats some healthy foods just to try it out. It seems a lot of people are willing to look into making their own pet food. I will keep you posted.
For now I am not going to feel guilty they are bigger and just continue to give them the best care. If I saw that they were having problems I would most certainly correct anything I could for them. I love my boys. My life would be so lonely without them.


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FIVE major utility companies have been reported to Scotland's roadworks tsar and could face huge fines over their poor record on reinstating the Capital's roads after digging them up.
The move to report the firms to the Scottish Road Works Commissioner, who has the power to impose fines of up to £50,000, comes after an increase in the number of botched repairs by utility firms across the city.
Latest figures show a total of 1024 outstanding repairs in the first quarter of this year – from April to June – up from 950 in the previous quarter. Scottish Water was responsible for the biggest number, 332; Virgin Media 230; CityFibre 161; Scottish Power 133; OpenReach 108; and SGN 60.
Transport and environment convener Lesley Hinds said today: "We are extremely disappointed with the performance of the utility companies.
"I met every single chief executive or head of the utility companies and they all said 'Yes, we're going to improve, we'll look at how we can work with you, etcetra, etcetera, and yet we have a poorer performance.
"It's very frustrating – and if you're only paying £120 as a fine it's probably nothing to them. We reported the utility companies to the Scottish Road Works Commissioner on August 31 and we're waiting for a response."
The only fines the city council can impose on the utility giants are £120 fixed penalty notices for failing to meet requirements.
A total of 150 fixed penalty notices were handed out between April and June, with Scottish Water, Scottish Power, SGN (Scottish Gas Networks), Virgin Media and BT Openreach – dubbed the "Infamous Five" – now facing tougher penalties from the Commissioner.
None of the utility companies met the target 90 per cent pass rate in inspections. CityFibre achieved a pass rate of just 18 per cent.
Scottish Water said it had halved the number of defective ironworks on Edinburgh's streets since 2011-12 and the quality of roadwork reinstatements had also improved.
"Being a unique utility with two remits – providing both water and waste water services – means we have more assets and infrastructure to manage – a vast network of 2500 miles of underground pipes in Edinburgh."
Scottish Power said it was working hard to improve its performance and recognised there was room for improvement. Virgin Media said it tried to minimise disruption to local communities. "We are committed to reinstating roads and work areas to the highest standard."
BT Openreach said it took the council's concerns extremely seriously and had recently appointed a new contractor. "We'll continue to strive to address the issues raised."
A spokeswoman for SGN said: "We are doing our utmost to improve our reinstatement performance."


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I thought we could do this together as we go along and see how things turn out. It is 3pm on Monday December 23 2014, and I have just turned on the oven to 380 F.
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What you will need:
1 cup quinoa flour
1 cup brown rice flour
2 table spoons virgin coconut oil
2 table spoons olive oil
2 table spoons blackstrap molasses
2 teaspoon ground ginger or more if you like it spicey
1 min I am going to put the cookies in the freezer for five minutes…
2 teaspoon of cinnamon
2 teaspoons of cardamon
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 egg
1/3 cup Demerara sugar
Mix oils, egg and spices together till smooth.
Next add baking soda and eggs and mix till eggs are blended
Now add molasses and mix
Add flours and mix will into a soft dough
Roll dough into a ball and press down till 1/2 inch thick.
Cut shapes with cutter and place on metal try, no baking sheets!
Place in freezer fro 5 minutes.
While that is happening, place oven on 380 F
Remove raw cookies from oven and place in oven.
Leave for 20 minutes on top shelf, 25 max. Any longer and it might start to burn. Enjoy!


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Drunk Driver Kills Recent College Grad
On the night of July 5, 2010, Elizabeth Long killed 22-year-old Mary Warren. It wasn't premeditated, and Long didn't use a gun or a knife, but she did use a weapon — her car. Long was driving drunk. So drunk, in fact, that she drove her car the wrong way down Interstate 25 for a distance of five miles, colliding with several vehicles before hitting the car Mary was riding in, killing her almost instantly. Long was arrested charges of vehicular homicide, two counts of vehicular assault, careless driving, driving on the wrong side of a divided highway, failure to remain at the scene, and driving under the influence (DUI).
Despite numerous witnesses who saw Long driving the wrong way and called 911, her own admission that she was drinking wine at a party before she got into her car, and the fact that Mary Warren is dead, Elizabeth Long is currently free on just $10,000 bond. This is the standard bond amount in Adams County, which has one of the highest DUI fatality rates in the state of Colorado. In fact, the county saw 20 DUI arrests over the 2010 Fourth of July weekend alone.
The Adams County District Attorney now has until July 20 to formally charge Long for her role in the accidents she caused, and in Mary Warren's death. On that day, Long is scheduled to appear before a judge where she will hear the formal charges being made against her, and will have the opportunity to enter a plea.
Mary Warren no longer has any opportunities, but she is not just another drunk driving victim. Mary graduated this past May from Colorado State University. She double majored in political science, and journalism with a focus in public relations. She was holding down two jobs over the summer to save money. Her plan was to join the Peace Corps in August, and spend two years of her life helping the people of Kazakhstan.
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In this interesting video, President of Maximum Leverage Solutions Navarrow Wright compares innovation and growth, and shares his belief for why innovation is the more important factor of the two concepts.
He first explains how the two ideas are linked, and then reveals that growth is more of a byproduct of innovation, and why companies should focus on innovation before focusing on growth. He tells the viewers of this video that by concentrating on innovation, which engages and attracts consumers to your product, this will then foster growth. But, if you focus on growth from the onset, you can miss the opportunity to develop what is creative and unique about your product or service, which Navarrow Wright demonstrates can ultimately cause you more harm in the long run.
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Talk Like a Pirate and Free Loot to Boot through the 22nd!
Posted on September 19, 2010 by Flames
Shiver me timbers, is that time o' year again? Today, the world honors the worst sort o' scoundrel known to sail on the high seas. Why, I'm talkin' 'bout pirates o' course! It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
If yer not talkin' like a pirate today, ye should be countin' yer gold. There's a dark rumor afoot that the biggest digital game retailer has set anchor. DriveThruRPG asks ye to row yer boats over to their site to shop their pirate sale and plunder DriveThruRPG.com for treasure. Arr, their beggin' ye to hunt for free e-books by opening treasure chests throughout their site. Thar be twenty titles in all and ye don't need to spend any gold to loot their booty. Not only that, but this fine merchant is offerin' this deal until the 22nd of September.


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My friends and I often discuss how lazy we are….that we never go and see the historic or tourist locations in our own home town. I am absolutely the worst about this……as much as I love to travel you would think that I would be better about that….especially since I have lived in some pretty cool places! I grew up in Annapolis and never really did the "tourist" thing there…..there are a lot of places in Annapolis that I would like to go back and check out. Last year I spent 10 months in Alexandria, VA which is on the outskirts of DC……I did nothing! I was so busy with my "life". Now that I am in Omaha I am realizing how many things that I missed when I lived here back in 2003.
Since I am low on funds I have made up a list of FREE things to do in Omaha that I will be exploring FIRST. Then I will move on to the CHEAP things to do 🙂
The other day I went and visited The Boys Town Museum and the Boys Town Chapel. Living in Omaha you hear about Boys Town all the time….but for me it was just a matter of seeing the signs all over the place for advertising….I never really knew the significance of the place. I wasn't around when the movie came out in 1938. The museum was a lot nicer than I really expected it to be and the Chapel was gorgeous. You can easily do the museum in 30 to 45 minutes (depending on how detailed you are on reading every single word). This would be a great place to bring slightly older children (I had a 7 year old with me and she was mildly interested but bored quickly)….small children will not be real interested. There is a bus that you can climb into and explore which was really fun for the 7 year old but the rest of it was only mildly interesting to her.
If you have small children there are several splashparks around. This is a great alternative to crowded public pools. My friend and I found one in Millard on Seldin Drive and spent a few hours there with his daughter. I wish these had been around when my children were small. The smallest child could play without too much danger….certainly no drowning. There was plenty of grass and open spaces for families to spread out blankets and have picnics and that is just what we did. There is also a regular playground and porta potties!
Today I am going to go explore the Mormon Trail Center…..yet another thing I never explored when I lived here…..and it's FREE!! Saturday I am going to go to the Joslyn Art Museum to see the Egyptian Exhibition. Saturday mornings from 10 to noon the Joslyn is open to the general public for FREE.
Below I have listed some other free things to do in Omaha…..I will be exploring them over the next few weeks.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Visitor Center
Gerald R. Ford Birth Site & Gardens
Jazz on the Green
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Beyonce's Wardrobe Malfunction At 2014 Grammys — See The Pic
Whoops! When Queen Bey opened the Grammys on Jan. 26, she looked sexier than ever wearing a super revealing sheer bodysuit. However, before her hubby joined her on stage, she revealed a little more than she wanted to!
Beyonce looked hotter than ever during her performance with Jay Z of "Drunk In Love" — showing her butt and all. But now that we've rolled back the footage of the opening performance, we saw that she actually had a wardrobe malfunction — revealing that tiny bit of undergarments she had on!
Beyonce's Grammys Nip Slip
That's more of Bey than we're used to seeing! While she was busy gyrating on stage at L.A.'s Staples Center, she didn't realize that her super sexy sheer black suit slid around a little, and revealed that not only did she have no bra on — but we actually saw her pasties!
Obviously, we're just glad she had them on. What else would she have worn under that — it was all sheer!
However, people on Twitter were freaking out, saying that her nipple was actually exposed. But we did some investigating and saw that that wasn't the case.
Beyonce's Risk-Taking Gown
Not only did Bey rock a sexy look on stage, but when she took her seat, she kept the sheer-trend going! She sat down in the front row in a Michael Costello full length, backless floral gown.
The gown was completely sheer with strategically-placed white floral pattern. It wasn't over the top but instead was a perfect combination of sexy and classy all in one.
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If you're ever offered an inquest 2 weeks before Christmas Day – say no.
As we walked from the train to the coroner's court through the beautiful Christmas streets decked out with lights and with jolly Christmas songs and carols playing in every shop and on every corner, it only served to make us feel more desolate and isolated from the world around us.
I would like to apologise with all sincerity for not writing anything in the last two weeks. So many people have sent me wonderful messages of support and genuine concern in the days leading up to Nico's inquest and I've hardly answered a single one of them or even acknowledged that I'm still here following the inquest.
Heart-warming tweets and some lovely blogs have been written in solidarity with us and I've not acknowledged a single one. This makes me feel terribly guilty. So I want to use this blog to express my absolute and total gratitude to everyone for their messages in the days before the inquest, during the two days and for all the days after. Your caring support means the world to me.
One of the loveliest people I've met on Twitter wrote to me two days before the inquest and asked me if I had a "strategy in place for how I was going to deal with my emotions after". At the time I presumed she meant a coping strategy for how I would deal with a disappointing decision from the coroner, which after two years of fighting for an inquest would have been devastating. We had already been to London for a meeting with our legal team who talked to us about "managing our expectations", which apparently is legal speak for "we don't think we're going to get a good result and you need to start preparing yourself for that eventuality now".
The one thing no-one had talked to me about was how to prepare myself to deal with a "good" verdict. The verdict we had hoped and prayed for.
When is a victory not a victory? When it involves you listening to the awful, miniscule medical details of exactly how your son died and at which various points he could have been saved. When it involves listening to people you trusted lie – and lie quite badly, anything to pass the blame onto someone else. Desperate lies, guilty lies, but ultimately very horribly sad lies which probably have cost them dear as they now have to live with the memory of our hot, devastated eyes upon them while they lied.
Southern Health had come up with a most interesting line of attack, in which all their witnesses had been carefully coached. According to them, their barrister and all their witnesses, Nico made himself sick as a form of attention seeking. Or he did it to get out of doing things he didn't want to do, so it was his fault really.
The one thing that Nico, my loving little Nico who was so fearless in the face of pain, dreaded and feared with all his heart, was begin sick and choking. Drowning in his own vomit. It simply terrified him to be sick, particularly if no-one was with him and it was early in the still, dark morning. We made sure that he was never alone when he was sick, that he never had to be terrified of dying alone, screaming for help that never came. We killed that fear for him, spat in its face and trampled on it. He knew that we would be there for him every minute through the night and in the early morning when he would be sick – we would be there to save him.
The coroner ruled that Nico could have been saved if the care staff had adhered to their own care guidelines of checking him every 20 minutes. He ruled that it was difficult to say exactly how long Nico was left that morning between checks as the evidence of the night staff was contradictory (each blamed the other and each said claimed the other had carried out certain key acts that morning) but he estimated it to have been at least 45 minutes and probably an hour or longer. He ruled that had they checked Nico when they should have he probably would be alive.
The coroner granted our inquest Article 2 status, which is usual when "The death occurred in circumstances the continuance or possible recurrence of which is prejudicial to the health or safety of the public or any section of the public."
For several days after the inquest I felt I couldn't move or breathe. Now we are moving around in a reasonably pretense of normal life. My halls are decked and there are carefully wrapped presents under my highly decorated tree. Tomorrow I host Christmas Day for my extended family. Tomorrow we will sing the songs, play the games and eat the food in time honoured tradition. But it will be a struggle and I will be so glad when the day is over.
Nico will be with us of course. His glass fronted cupboard in has been decorated with all his favorite Christmas sparkles and he has a small candle too. The candle will burn all day tomorrow and into the night too. He will not be alone in the dark.
Merry Christmas everybody………………………………
P.S. In some future blog I'll place a link to some of the television coverage of our inquest, but for now I'd like to share with you the rather wonderful Phil Gayle (BBC Oxford) radio show as perhaps this says all there is to say at the moment. Here's the link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02cjflw
So that you don't have to listen to the whole show, here's a guide to the bits we're in (obviously we're also featured on each hourly news section).
- 1.05 hours into the programme for edited version of interview with myself and husband and also interview with Beverley Dawkins
- 2.07 hours into the programme Phil Gayle interviews Phil Aubrey Harris from Southern Health on the coroner's verdict and how they have treated us.


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Snap Snap
old memories~ new experiences~ what I see~ what I feel~
January 13, 2014
January 2, 2014
Active Egg Yolk
Active egg yolks moving here and there~
spread out!!
stay close~~
closer closer...
... too close??
move again~~
just nice~ I think.
These are active egg yolks!!
They end up in...
not so active after that...
much more stable then!
Happy New Year!
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November 5, 2013
Grey Grey
What do you think it is?
a moon?
a sun?
a light bub?
an egg yolk?
red/pink paint?
a drop of blood?
The answer: Sun, covered by thick haze.
(taken on 24 June 2013)
November 3, 2013
June 2, 2013
29 May 2013
Can anyone tell me what happen on 29 May?
Why seems like "everyone" sound so tired?
Or maybe it's just... coincident?
Have you ever seen same status written by different people in the same day?
It's funny though.
May 9, 2013
This is... Plants
May 6, 2013
Agree / not agree?
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February 6, 2013
Ang Ang Ang~
This was done last year, September 2012.
It was baked for my sibling's birthday.
Ang Ang Ang~~!
All packed.
Ready for delivery.
It looks almost perfect~~
But there's always a 'but'.
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Doraemon got burned up...
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January 28, 2013
Sleeping Goose
Sleeping goose.
Fells asleep just like my blog.
But my blog falls asleep for months!
It's time for my blog to wake up, right?
Hello everyone!
let's post some more photos in coming post~
tata for now!
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September 24, 2012
Sun, Cloud, Beach
Yeah, just as the title.
Sun, cloud, beach~
I feel like going for vacation now...
I feel like leaving my job/work...
Just fly away~ to a relaxing place like this where there is
sun~ cloud~ beach~ island~
... Ahhh ...
I want holiday!
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Beldray Fan Heater from Wilko
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I have one halogen heater and while it could be moved around it's a pain to keep plugging and unplugging, so that sits in my office, so I needed something very portable. I took a walk around my local town and could not find anything suitable so while I was waiting for my bus home I popped into the local Wilko store as much to keep warm and out of the rain as anything and there at the end of an isle was this little Beldray Fan Heater.
It could not be more portable and it even has a carry handle so it does duty both in the kitchen and lounge.
Best of all apart from two heat settings it also has a no heat fan setting for those hot summer days to come.
I said best of all in the last sentence but possibly the price is even better but you will have to wait to the end for that.
It is 26x21x12.5cm and weights only 936grams including the 1.25metre long hard wired cord that emerges from just above the base. That perhaps is the only minus as a longer cord could have been useful.
It is amazingly stable and even if it was knocked over it automatically cuts out as on the base is a 2.5cm circular disk that stops power to it if not compressed. There are also two 1cm round rubber feet at the front corners to avoid scratching - should you stand it on anything - rather than have it on the floor.
There are two twist knobs with a small red LED between them.
The first knob is an adjustable thermostat and the second has four positions, off, fan, heat 1 and heat 2.
The two settings for heat are 1000w and 2000w; there is also a thermal cut out device. I can report that my feet were quite happy with heat setting one when this was within around four feet of me.
There is an A5 instruction manual as with all such items it is top heavy with safety instructions. Pages five and six should tell you all you want to know.
While this would never be enough on its own for a whole property in winter, a few extra layers of clothing and some extra brisk walks in springtime meant it was sufficient to provide extra basic heating for me.
Some fan heaters are noisy this one is not.
Now the bit you have been waiting for the price it is only £10. There is a £4 delivery charge if you buy online but I see if you have a local store and they are out of stock you can get delivery to your store free of charge.
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It's nice to see a bit of environmental history get reviewed prominently (as opposed to being confined to subscription/academic only publications): Neal Ascherson on The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany by David Blackbourn in the London Review of Books.
Particularly striking is this description of Frederick II of Prussia's campaign to colonize the Oderbruch. It is a reminder that even into the 18th century European states were not engaged in border/territorial disputes only with other states: they were still in some cases trying to expand, integrate, and settle their own domains.
The imagery was warlike from the start. James Dunbar, from Scotland, wrote in 1780: 'Let us learn to wage war with the elements, not with our own kind.' Frederick II, looking out over drained marshes, announced: 'Here I have conquered a province with peaceful means.' It was in 1743 that he launched his grand offensive into the Oderbruch, but although he did not resort to the use of cannon, his 'peaceful means' involved widespread coercion, the militarisation of the labour force and the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people living in the marshes.
In Frederick's time, marshlands were regarded as sinister, useless places, breeding malarial vapours and sheltering not only dangerous wild beasts but primitive human beings beyond the reach of law. Today, we would treasure the lost Oderbruch as one of the marvels of Europe. On its way to the Baltic, the river frayed into countless shallow channels and lagoons, into swamps, shoals and muddy islands. Twice a year, it flooded up to ten or twelve feet deep, nourishing a dense cover of waterlogged bushes. Here lived 'an almost unimaginable range of insect, fish, bird and animal life', including wolves and lynxes. Blackbourn has the sense to rely heavily on the travel writings of Theodor Fontane, the most lovable and observant of German writers, who explored the drained Oderbruch in the 1850s and collected memories of pre-reclamation times. Fontane was told of the enormous shoals of countless species of fish, of pike hordes so dense that they could be scooped up in buckets, of crayfish which escaped the hot summer shallows to swarm in trees from which they could be shaken down like plums. And he wrote also about the old inhabitants. They were not Germans but Wends, Slavs who had survived in the marshes since the Germans colonised the fertile land almost a thousand years before. The Wends lived on mounds hidden in the swamp, their huts encircled by ramparts of cow-dung which kept out the floods and served as pumpkin beds.
Frederick put an end to all that. The marshes were drained, a new straight bed was dug for the Oder, its labyrinth of side-channels was blocked off, and miles of dykes were reared to keep the river in its place and protect the farms now being laid out with geometric precision across the Oderbruch. Thousands of German farmer-colonists were brought in and planted in little red-roofed farmhouses. The shy Wends melted away as the waters dried up. Fontane thought he could recognise Slavic headscarves in a few villages on the fringes of the Bruch. But the old life had gone.
The current condition of the Oderbruch, Ascherson notes, illustrates another of Blackbourn's points: that places that are presented as pristine and natural are, in fact, often subject to numerous outside and human-caused pressures.*
Blackbourn ends his book where he began: in the Oderbruch. Since German reunification in 1990, a certain amount of 'greening' has gone on, and the Oderbruch is now often referred to as a place 'where nature is still intact . . . a natural paradise'. But it is not. The quiet river is the old drainage-cut dug by Frederick II's men, and the yellow carpets of helleboraster are a recent invasive species. Even the disastrous Oder flood of 1997, which inundated the cities of western Poland and almost overwhelmed the Oderbruch, had immediate causes which were human rather than natural: fresh deforestation and wetland destruction in the Czech and Polish catchment areas.
In his final chapter, Blackbourn reflects on the illusions attending human efforts to shape the environment. The Oderbruch, as it exists, is
hard to justify rationally, a small, thinly populated area that lies well below the normal water level of a river that is a permanent threat to its existence. After more than 250 years, however, this new land has acquired the patina of age . . . I would not wish it returned to the 'wilderness of water and marsh' that existed before the reclamation, even if such a thing were possible.
And it is not possible. A few pages earlier, he writes: 'What is at stake here is not "untouched" or "intact" nature, but the question of "renaturing" the Oderbruch – what this might mean and how far it might go.' The way towards wisdom, he implies, is to recognise that we cannot 'restore' nature, or stop it changing. Instead, we can for a limited time alter a landscape to suit our needs or our pleasure. After that, the landscape will take back the job of its own unpredictable alteration. The 'conquest of nature' can never amount to more than an armistice.
*This is a point that William Cronon made quite forcefully in the American context in his essay, "The Trouble with Wilderness," in the mid-1990s.


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I'll write a few blog posts to share some experience about working on larger projects or coordinating with teams. I want to start out easy so here's a little aside about avoiding code tangles. Even projects that start off simple can quickly become quite complicated to follow as they grow, and as more people work on parts of them.
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I'm on holidays since yesterday! I have a bit of time get back to side projects (and lifting weights). What better to celebrate this auspicious occasion than to bundle my OpenGL learning resources together in a sale.
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I have always been interested in languages. I have been adding multilingual text rendering support to my kick-around hobby game project over the last year or so. The project is written in C99 and OpenGL. Here's an overview of rendering text and how I support various other languages.
Because I was asked, here is an overview of how I code quickly in C without getting log-jammed in structural mess. A lot
of this should work for other languages too. Key concepts - keep it quick to get stuff on screen, keep it fun, let structure
emerge on it's own, write code that's low cost to throw out if it doesn't work out, don't make refactoring work for yourself.
Basically don't follow any of the rules™!
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This post is for those about to graduate a degree in CS, engineering, etc, and about to venture off, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
into the tech world, and wondering how to get a job. Maybe you've done a couple of interviews already and got an uncomfortable
reality check that your 4-5 year degree wasn't enough to convince people to hire you. Maybe mum and dad were utterly and
completely wrong about how qualified a degree made you. I'm going to give you some hard facts, some good news, and finally
some suggestions for things to prepare (and how to prepare) before doing interviews.
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I made a simple dissolve effect in WebGL. The idea was to replicate something like the dematerialisation shader effect you see in video games as a way of removing 3D models of dead monsters.
This year I made a career change from academia to industry. I did quite a lot of interviews and applications over the first
few months of 2017, and here are some notes from an applicant's point of view. I'm living in Dublin, which has its own
miniature Silicon Valley tech hub, where a lot international corporates, and smaller start-ups have an office and do software
and engineering development. I quite like living in Dublin, so I mostly looked here, but I did a few investigations overseas
too. I ended up in a pretty cool job in Dublin working in Augmented Reality R&D but the months leading up to that application
were a challenge.
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I am collecting optimisation guides, tools, and resources for 3D graphics programming, with particular focus on OpenGL. I'll put these on my OpenGL page in a little article when I have collected a few resources. I'll update this post as I get more things. Send me a message if you have a suggestion!
Nicholas Guillemot's "Programmable Pulling" (
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A did a short talk about rendering the WAD files from DOOM (1993) in OpenGL. The previous blog post discusses extracting the contents of the WAD files with some hexedit hackery. The slides should be embedded here:
A hobby project that has been on my list since about 1994 was to figure out Doom's (Id Software, 1993) data file format -
the vaunted
DOOM.WAD file. My brother and I used to enjoy making maps with 3rd-party editing tools around 1994/5, which was
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West Ham United: loud, proud and wrong
Monday, 9th April 2012
by Terry Land
''An ex-colleague for whom I have the highest regard is a strongly active member of the Labour Party and I read her Tweets with great interest. Not so much for details of her personal life as amusing as they often are but for the clinical precision with which she will dissect the latest idiocy coming from either Parliamentary or grassroots members. ..''
West Ham Utd v Birmingham City
Monday, 9th April 2012
by Preview Percy
''It's Preview Percy's birthday this weekend. In honour of the event, Matron at the Avram Grant Rest Home For The Bewildered took all the residents to the pub. Except Percy of course. They successfully managed to sneak out while he wasn't looking. So while he had the place to himself he wrote the following. Unfortunately. John Northcutt, as ever, supplies the historical stuff.....''
Surprise, surprise, here comes Two Phones!
Monday, 9th April 2012
by Paul Walker
''What surprises me as our seasons heads to its conclusion is that I am surprised that Sam Allardyce seems so surprised by his treatment by fans and the media...''
Barnsley v West Ham United
Friday, 6th April 2012
by Preview Percy
''Usually we call around Preview Percy's relatives this time of year to find out whose turn it is to have the old fool over for Easter. However, when we called this time, three of his relatives said they were going abroad, two just hung up and the lawyers acting for the remaining branch of the family simply sent over another copy of the High Court injunction banning him from within 100 miles of their home. So, while he's still stuck at the Avram Grant Rest Home For The Bewildered, we thought we'd keep him busy anyway. We sent someone else over to pick up the manuscript obviously. John Northcutt and his stats follow... ..''
West Ham United v Reading
Friday, 30th March 2012
by Preview Percy
''Preview Percy has spent his time in the sunshine this week queuing for petrol. He doesnt actually own a car - he just wants to lend a hand should riots start up in Croydon again. Hes also panic buying beer in case brewery deliveries are affected by the tanker drivers strike. Before he went to the pub he left us this. Or was it after? As usual John Northcutt supplies the history......''
Peterborough United v West Ham United
Monday, 26th March 2012
by Preview Percy
''Recent events have given us an idea. In the wake of the "Cash For Access" scandal we thought we'd try a similar idea with Preview Percy. So, for a fiver we'll introduce you to him. For a tenner, we won't. Here's his updated look at this week's visit to London Road. Historical data as ever from John Northcutt....''
Gotta make it
Monday, 26th March 2012
by Willis Jamieson
''KUMB.com is delighted to welcome Willis Jamieson - who at just 11 years of age is without doubt the youngest member to join our contributory team - to the KUMB family. For Willis' first article, he set off to Little Heath in order to interview one of Tony Carr's rising stars.....''
Burnley v West Ham United
Saturday, 24th March 2012
by Preview Percy
''When we went to see Preview Percy this week he was moaning like crazy about the changes in tax allowances for pensioners. The funny thing is that when we asked him if hed have to pay extra tax he coughed and spluttered a bit and changed the subject. And his room does have some suspiciously recent souvenirs of a recent trip to Monaco. Heres his look at our visit to Burnley. John Northcutt provides a spot of statistical context ..''
Just who are you insulting?
Thursday, 22nd March 2012
by Paul Walker
''So Tony Mowbray thinks we believe we are insulted by having to play in the Championship. Ive got news for him, we only feel insulted by the people who have got us here in the first place...''
Five points from a League Championship!
Tuesday, 20th March 2012
by Jon Peach
''When judging the success of a football manager, I think its very difficult to attempt midway through any sort of season or even tenure. ..''
My faith restored
Tuesday, 20th March 2012
by Paul Walker
''Sometimes watching at the Boleyn this season, I have been left wondering whether we are all in this together, and fully understand the financial implications of failure to win promotion...''
West Ham United v Middlesbrough
Tuesday, 20th March 2012
by Preview Percy
''Old people. Some age gracefully, moving on in their twilight years with as much dignity as they can muster, trying as hard as they can not to be a burden on the younger generation. They can be a font of knowledge with a wealth of experience gained from a life well-lived over the years...''
So what do you really want?
Monday, 19th March 2012
by Paul Walker
''Ok, so lets get things straight once and for all as we face the final ten games of this relentlessly demanding season...''
Leeds United v West Ham United
Friday, 16th March 2012
by Preview Percy
''Preview Percy has been a bit worried this week. After the latest report that suggested red meat was, like, really, really bad for you, steak suddenly appeared on the menu at the Avram Grant Rest Home for the Bewildered for the first time in ages. Strangely, they didn't offer any to any of the other residents though. While we wait for his demise here's his look at Leeds United, in which you'll find the scandalous secret about their ownership that even the BBC weren't able to uncover. John Northcutt brings us back to reality with his stat round-up.....''
Tuesday, 13th March 2012
by Matthew Webb
''Saturdays game versus Doncaster Rovers stretched our disappointing run of home form to four games without a win. Securing just four points from those four games could be the run of form that costs us an automatic promotion spot. ..''
West Ham United v Doncaster Rovers
Friday, 9th March 2012
by Preview Percy
''In 1997 Britpoppers Pulp released the single Help the Aged. If they'd ever met Preview Percy they probably wouldn't have bothered. Pulp are from Sheffield which is quite near Doncaster who are this weekend's opponents. Which is handy. John Northcutt is the man with the stats.....''
West Ham Utd v Watford
Wednesday, 7th March 2012
by Preview Percy
''Preview Percy is in the doghouse with the staff of the Avram Grant Rest Home For The Bewildered. You see when he offered to run this months coach trip and announced that it would be to Wales, they were hoping for a little more than a four hour stop at Cardiff West Services whilst he and the coach driver disappeared to watch Sundays match. Still not all the residents were unhappy the soggy pasties meant that for once not all the food had to be put through a liquidiser. Meanwhile the old sod has recovered from the twin shocks of winning abroad and the cost of Werthers Originals at Motorway Service Areas in time to string a few words together re the forthcoming visit of Watford. John Northcutt is, as ever, our stat man... ..''
Cardiff City v West Ham Utd
Saturday, 3rd March 2012
by Preview Percy
''After he managed to upset all 350,000 inhabitants of a certain London borough last week we weren't totally sure about letting Preview Percy loose on a whole country. However, since we couldn't find anyone as cheap at short notice to do a Cardiff preview we thought "what the hell, it's only Wales". John Northcutt restores some much-needed sanity with his stat round-up.....''
Allardyce in... Dubai
Wednesday, 29th February 2012
by Lee Kelly
''Sam Allardyce is currently in Dubai along with his first team squad for a few days' warm-weather training ahead of a busy March schedule...''
Awful but effective?
Wednesday, 29th February 2012
by Haim Baram
''I feel a bit ashamed to grumble about Big Sam and his truly ugly football. ..''
Boo sucks!
Monday, 27th February 2012
by Paul Walker
''Amazing, isnt it, how things come back to bite you on the bum when you are least expecting it...''
West Ham United v Crystal Palace
Friday, 24th February 2012
by Preview Percy
''The population of Croydon is 330,587 or thereabouts. In his even more than usually warped look at this weekend's visit of Crystal Palace to the Boleyn, Preview Percy does his best to upset each and every one of them. Please direct all complaints direct to Percy c/o the Avram Grant Rest Home For The Bewildered. Sensible stuff on the stat front as ever from John Northcutt ..''
Miracles do happen... In triplicate
Thursday, 23rd February 2012
by Paul Walker
''Never have I been a pint half full sort, it comes from following West Ham all my life. So Im always the one urging folk not to get carried away...''
Blackpool v West Ham United
Tuesday, 21st February 2012
by Preview Percy
''Preview Percy hasn't been to Blackpool in years. He sort of went off the place after the incident with the guest house landlady, the "kiss me quick" hat and a plate of whelks, one of which was off. Despite this he's found the time to pen a few words about this week's match. Unfortunately. Stats as ever from John Northcutt.......''
Questions, questions, questions
Friday, 17th February 2012
by Paul Walker
''The more this protracted, tiresome Olympic stadium debate continues, the more worrying questions it throws up...''
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5 History Facts About Christmas
Six towns and villages called Bethlehem
In the world there are six towns and villages called Bethlehem. The word Bethlehem means "house of bread". Bethlehem ("real one", south of Jerusalem) is known for being the birthplace of Jesus Christ (according to the New Testament).
There lives one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, due to emigration today has a small number of members. According to the belief there is born and King David, who was also a crowned king of Israel.
The first Christmas crib
The first Christmas crib were made by St. Francis of Assisi in a cave in the Italian town of Greccio. They were "live Christmas Crib" as Francis put a newborn between the ox and the donkey. Christmas Crib are representation of the birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
Christmas Crib are placed in homes on Christmas Eve and stay until the feast of Epiphany, and in the churches until the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. The first Christmas crib with figures, were placed in the convent of Fussen in Bavaria, 1252. Christmas Crib as we know them date back to the 16th century and flourished after the First World War.
December 25
In 330 was set December 25 as the date for celebrating Jesus' birthday. At that time of the day in Rome to celebrate the feast of the Invincible Sun – Natalis Solis Invicta, in Greece Dionysus, and ancient Egyptians were celebrating the birth of Horus.
Santa Claus vs St. Nicholas
Austrian and German authorities were at one time banned the figure of Santa Claus, claiming that he is a product of Coca-Cola and it distracts people from the real meaning of the holidays. The initiative for this campaign started from Vienna where traditionally St. Nicholas delivers the gifts.
Red Coca Cola advertising character called Santa Claus will spread rapidly throughout the world. Although an American product, even in the communist Soviet Union after the war recognized a good opportunity for the suppression of religious Saint Nicholas, who is also replaced by the name and the image of Santa Claus, where Coca-Cola advertising Grandpa had one big advantage: it was red!
American Santa Claus name is actually a distortion of the Dutch Sinterklaas, or St. Nicholas, which was probably first spread from New York (former Dutch colony called Neeuw Amsterdam).
Silent Night
The song "Silent Night", originally "Stille Nacht," wrote pastor of the Austrian town of Oberndorf, Joseph Mohr, and Franz Gruber composed this song in 1818 after spoiled organ of the parish church.
The story says that the mice actually to blame for the fact that this song at all occurred. The mice were "hungry" and damaged the church organ so that they are simply numb.
Christmas Eve is approaching. The organ was out of order. Josef Mohr at all costs wanted to midnight mass has a new song in the church. He called for urgent Franz Gruber and then notes of "Silent Night" were prepared with a guitar. "Silent Night" has so far been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects.