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Sunday, 28 June 2009
A Sponsored Walk & The Coconut Shy
8 comments:
- Mrs Moog said...
What a great way of raising funds Jane!
We had our school fair on Saturday too and I got thoroughly baked on my stall!!
- 29 June 2009 at 14:09
- The Blonde Duck said...
That sounds really neat! I love coconuts...
- 29 June 2009 at 22:16
- Willow said...
Congrats for raising so much money for Kenya's schools!
- 30 June 2009 at 05:13
- Leigh said...
I have been getting caught up with you through your blog, and I have missed it and you very much!
Love the idea to raise money, congrats!
- 8 July 2009 at 02:43
- Louise said...
My Mum is no longer around, but we used to visit fetes together, mainly to get a look-in at the bric-a-brac stalls! As a child I loved the coconut shy, Aunt Sally and swingboats. I remember going on a sponsored walk when at school and coming home with very sore feet! Well done on all the fundraising you have been taking part in. It is of such importance to provide less privileged countries with the essentials we take for granted. x
- 8 July 2009 at 16:24
- Ally Jay said...
The walk must have been pretty awesome, what a great thing for the school to do.
- 8 July 2009 at 22:24
- The Blonde Duck said...
Poor Jane. Don't stitch yourself into a frenzy!
- 10 July 2009 at 17:59
- Lazylol said...
Well done on your fundraising efforts.
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I have a project with a few workflows. I created a custom activity and I've added it to the same project.
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In addition to the kindness of strangers, you can always rely on the recipes that have won four-star reviews from the readers of Epicurious. This one, for Seared Duck Breast with Cherries and Cognac Sauce, maintained that high standard.
Despite my well-documented obsession with Duck Confit, I'd never actually cooked any kind of duck dish before this. It's not the same as cooking chicken or turkey. Duck is a much more fatty bird, and one of the first things to do when cooking it is to score the skin in a diamond pattern, which helps in rendering some of the fat. After doing that, I cooked the duck in a stove top skillet with a little butter.
The sauce made the dish memorable. After draining most of the skillet drippings, I sautéed a chopped shallot, then added chicken broth, honey, butter, pitted cherry halves—which gave me a chance to use my nifty little cherry-pitting device for the first time—and cognac.* I cooked it down to a glaze, plated it with fanned slices of the duck breasts, and served.
I liked the way it looked, with a red, pink, and brown colour combination. Tasted good, too.
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|Dark Technique
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|Dark Technique
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|Gourmet 188
|Episode 108
|[v · t · e]
Dark Techniques (暗技 (あんぎ) Angi) refer to kitchen techniques prohibited by the IGO in fear of upsetting the circulation of food, even though they have mostly been used to revitalize humans and beasts for healing purposes.[1]
In order to use these techniques, a Revitalizing Kitchen Knife is required and a near superhuman ability to pass the knife in the gaps between cells without damaging them; someone could use it freely on an ingredient and eat it almost infinitely by restoring it little by little. The techniques can help the regeneration of an ingredient or a creature but can't revitalize dead people or beasts.[2]
- Revitalization Cut (Unnamed): An individual's damaged tissue is regenerated and healed. Ootake first uses it on Komatsu.[1]
- Freshness UP Revitalizing Cut (鮮度UP蘇生切り Sendo Appu Sosei Giri): The knife is thrust into the ground and creates a shock wave of slashes that spreads around its surroundings and heals and awakens any fallen creature in the vicinity from the brink of death. It also enhances their physical abilities, and Joie seems to add his Taste Change technique on this one since the Nitro he revitalizes turn into his minions.[3]
- God Cooking (神の料理術 (ゴッドクッキング) Goddo Kukkingu): It allows the user to perform cooking and other powerful techniques regardless his condition, due to the power of Gourmet Cells. It makes the facial appearance change substantially too.[4]
- After being severely injured by Zaus, Chiyo intends to use a technique beginning with the word "Angi" which hints it could have been a Dark Technique.[5]
- After being severely injured by Toriko's demon outside the Cooking Stadium, Starjun hints that he is able to use a "Dark Technique".[6]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gourmet 188, Pages 8-10
- ↑ Gourmet 192, Pages 6-7
- ↑ Gourmet 242, Pages 14-17
- ↑ Gourmet 253, Page 9
- ↑ Gourmet 232, Page 10
- ↑ Gourmet 240, Page 10
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Build A Bat Detector. Bertrik's bat detector page. These pages describe my efforts in building a so-called bat detector, a device that is capable of converting the ultrasonic sounds emitted by bats to sounds that humans can hear.
This web page contains mostly technical information; for general information on bats please take a look at my bat links. Updates: 12/16/2006: Updated links 7/28/2005: Merged 'buying a bat detector page' into this page. Removed some old out-of-date pages. 6/12/2005: Added link to Yasushi Sugimoto's page 5/01/2005: Updated links to frequency division circuits 6/22/2004: Updated links This is a list of all pages on my bat detector web site. Some of the links point to external websites. General. Tjerk Schuringa's heterodyne bat detector. A heterodyne bat detector circuit designed by Tjerk Schuringa.
The circuit consists of two parts: a pre-amplifier and the detector itself (Click the images to see them in full size). Pre-amplifier The pre-amplifier consists of two transistor stages. The transistor on the left runs at very low current and provides most of the gain. The other transistor provides some gain and buffers the signal, giving an output impedance of about 10k. Detector The detection principle in this circuit is direct conversion by means of a switching mixer. Going from the left to the right, we first see an amplifying and buffering opamp stage.
Popular Electronics Detector Schematic. The Bat Scanner. The BatLogger II - an Ultrasound Bat Activity Logger. The BatLogger II A bat activity logger for the Onset HOBO data logger NOTE: The deployment phase of the Bat Logger II project has come to a close.
The project's goal was to field up to 50 BatLoggers in a 5 year window to determine the usefullness of this type of device for monitoring mines, caves, and hibernal roosts, over protracted periods of time. Détection de chauve souris - Forums de Abcelectronique. Rappel l'émissions d'ultrasons des chauves-souris se situent dans la plage de 16khz à 40khz sous nos latidudes voici le principe: à l'aide d'un capteur us de type standard très bon marché de 40khz, le signal est amplifié par 2 transistors puis envoyé vers un mélangeur, là arrive aussi un signal de fréquence réglables explication: le son émis par la chauves-souris n'est pas audible pour l'oreille humaine, donc simplement l'amplifié ne nous avance pas.
La solution le mélanger à un signal de fréquence proche mais qui n'est pas pour autant en synchro, donc le résutat du mélange est soit une addition si en phase et c'est inaudible si f>>20khz, soit un soustraction si déphasé et donne un signal audible Ne pas se laisser influencer, le capteur à ultrasons est aussi un émetteur,c'est un cristal piézoélectrique réversible, on vend des émetteurs et des récepteurs, c'est une vaste blague, heureusement c'est encore le même prix.
The ArduBat. I've built a number of projects that have interfaced the output of the Simple Bat Detector with a microprocessor.
The most recent was the BatLogger II. But I hadn't come up with an easy way for others to experiment with this idea ... until now. My friend, Frank, in Germany, had wanted to make a relatively inexpensive bat activity logger ... and he had come on the idea to do it using a Simple Bat Detector connected to an Arduino board. He added a data logging shield that provided a real time clock and an interface for an SD data card. The ArduBat was born. Once I had seen what the Arduino based hardware had enabled, I felt I needed to see if I couldn't make this an even easier to accomplish task. Build a Simple Bat Detector. .Build a Simple Bat Detector.Tony Messina - Las Vegas, NV Ever since my grade school years I've been fascinated with the way a bat uses ultrasound to "see" in the dark.
The bat's echolocation skills let it avoid small obstacles, and even catch insects, while in flight. I learned that bats are, ultrasonically speaking, very loud --- so loud, that some of them have special ear flaps that close when they generate an ultrasound pulse so they won't make themselves deaf. I thought something this loud should be easy to detect ! On retirement, I decided to undertake the design of an ultra-portable, personal bat detector. Electronics: Bat detector. Recently I was on a field trip with some friends where I shot my photo of the year - just free-hand and into the dark.
Even before I have been amazed by bats since I saw the first one on a summer vacation in Sweden with my parents in the 1980's. So now I searched the web for schematics for a bat detector which converts the bats' ultrasonic sonar signals into audible sounds - a concept which reminds me of my past listening to military radar signals in the navy, 20 years ago... Daubenton's Bat over lake Trehörningen, Fjällnora, Uppsala, Sweden. 1.
Introduction2. 1. Bats use ultrasonic signals for echolocation in order to find their way and their prey in the dark. According to different sources the ultrasonic signals of bats range from about 10 kHz to about 200 kHz (see e.g. The Bat Scanner. NE612 heterodyne detector. This is a schematic for a straightforward direct-conversion heterodyne detector, having a tuning range of about 10 kHz to 120 kHz.
It has been optimised for the use of an electret microphone. The current consumption is very low at only 8 mA, which allows it to operate for about 100 hours with a set of rechargeable batteries. When the frequency is set to about 35 kHz, it is even possible to hear the 32,768 Hz vibrating crystal inside an electronic wrist watch held close to the microphone! Circuit is still experimental ! Introduction The signal from the MCE-2500 electret microphone is amplified by the pre-amp, then it is mixed with a square wave from the variable oscillator and finally low-pass filtered and amplified for headphones.


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My Life As A Teenage Robot Porn Story: Reality Bytes Chapter 1
Obvious Disclaimer The characters in this story are from
the cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot, and spring from the brain of Rob
Renzetti.P I am a no-good schnook whos
just taking his characters and writing my own little stories with them.P If anybody at Nickelodeon is reading this,
please do not sic the lawyer-bots on me.P
My sole creation is the character of Drew, a human high school student
who was turned into an android by Cluster nanotechnology.P Its explained in the stories Android Scam
and Some Like It Bot by CoyoteLoon.P
Although hes really a minor character in this one this is mainly a
Jenny/Brad story, with sort of a Christmas theme.P In the spirit of the season, the weatherman would like to warn
you that theres a 70% chance of fluff.P
Well see what happens.
A My Life as a
Teenage Robot Fanfic
Chapter One Video
Games Will Rot Your Brain
Brad leaned out the front door of the house, waving to his
Mom and Dad as the car pulled out of the driveway.P With only a few days left until Christmas, they still had plenty
of shopping to do, and they would be out for most of the afternoon.P Which was absolutely perfect, thought
Brad.P The car started heading down the
road towards town, and Brad watched it until it was finally out of sight.
All right, Tuck, theyre gone!P Commence search operations!P
Go!P Go!P Go!
Ive got the bedrooms! yelled Tuck.P He sprinted upstairs.P Brad headed for the hall closet.
Even though their parents were out for more shopping, the
brothers knew that some of the presents had already been bought, including some
big ones.P Secrets didnt keep very long
when Tuck was around and presents were involved.P Tuck went through his parents bedroom first.P Nothing under the bed.P Nothing in the closets.P But those would be the first places theyd
expect him to look.P Mom and Dad
truly are a crafty pair, he thought.P
There could be something in the towel closet.P No, nothing there.P Maybe
they had it stashed up in the attic.
I found some stuff in the pantry, Brad yelled from
downstairs, but nothing that looks big enough!P You having any luck up there?
No, Tuck said, a bit annoyed.P And I know I saw Dad sneak it in.P Ive looked everywhere except our bedrooms,
and it sure wouldnt be there …P Tuck
snapped his fingers.P Thats just
what theyd want us to think!P He
ran into his bedroom and
Eureka! screamed Tuck!P
Wrapped in a blanket and hidden under my very own bed!P Oh, you really have to give it to Dad.P All this time, I was sleeping right on top
of it!
Brad ran in and dropped next to his little brother.P They unwrapped the blanket to reveal a black
and silver box.P The boys just stared
with pure joy for a few moments.
The GameStation 3000X, whispered Brad, in reverent
awe.P The ultimate video game
experience.P State of the art 3-D
graphics.P High-speed Internet
connection.P Stereo surround sound.P They say it has more raw processing power
than five monkey brains.
Tuck caressed the boxs cover, like a favorite pet.P Theres a warning label for people with
heart conditions.P O-o-o-oooh, Brad
Lets get this puppy hooked up! Brad shouted.
Brad and Tuck raced down to the living room and carefully
opened the box, saving all the parts so they could re-package it later, before
their parents got home.P It only took
them a few minutes to get everything hooked up to the television in the living
room, and they were ready for power-on.P
The GameStation corporate logo blasted onto the screen in a blizzard of
3D effects and rumbling stereo.P Brad
could feel his ribcage vibrate from the subwoofer.P Tuck stared at the visual effects in a hypnotic gaze.P They turned and shared an unspoken thought
coolest present ever!!!
Tuck wiped a tear from his eye.P Its more beautiful than I dared dream.
Brad popped in a game disc, and a few screens later, he and
Tuck were blasting away enemy space commandos in video game paradise.P It just doesnt get any better than this,
little bro! he shouted.
Mrs. Wakeman was elated.P
She hadnt expected this level of success with her latest
experiment.P And it was all rather
invigorating, as well.P In fact, she had
to fight back mild feelings of vertigo.
She was floating in deep space, surrounded on all sides by
softly glowing green doors.P There had
to be millions of them.P There was no
air, but she had no trouble breathing.P
It was cool and dark, but the glowing doors filled the universe with a
soft, green ambient light.P If she
concentrated, she could see green circuitry stretching off to infinity in every
direction.P It was a striking visual
image in its boldness and simplicity, but not particularly useful as a research
tool.P All right, time to see how
well the interface works.
Very well then search engine, she called out.P This environment is completely disorganized.P Sigh, but then again, that hardly comes a
surprise.P Chaos and teenagers do seem
to come as a packaged set.
A floating window popped into existence, just off to her
right, and a synthesized voice spoke from it.P
Good day, and welcome to Android OS 2000.P Please state your query.
Oh, remarkable!P
Lets see now fetch me the engineering schematics for the Cluster
Working, said the search window.P Less than one second later, Mrs. Wakeman watched one of the small
green doors rocket towards her at impossible speed, then stop two feet from her
face.P Unfazed, she reached forward and
tapped the door, and it disappeared into nothing.P Then she walked through.
On the other side of the door was another universe,
wallpapered with mathematical equations floating in mid-air.P Directly in front of Mrs. Wakeman hovered a
giant ball-and-pipe structure, glowing various colors, with floating labels
pointing to various locations.P Other
schematics and images floated off into the distance, showing the same structure
from different distances and angles.
Heavens to Einstein!P
This is extraordinary! shouted Mrs. Wakeman.P The complete engineering blueprints for the most advanced
nanotechnology in the Cluster arsenal!P
Oh my stars and garters, I must figure out a way to bring a notepad and
a pencil in here.
Suddenly the entire universe twitched, just a
bit.P It was a bit disorienting, but
nothing to seriously worry about.P
Still, this was the first time that shed tried this experiment, and
things had already gone better than she would have predicted.P So even though shed only been in here for
ten minutes, Mrs. Wakeman decided it was time to leave and analyze the results
of this test run.
She left the room and walked back out into the empty
infinity of hovering green doors.P The
floating window was waiting for her.P
Thats quite enough for today.P
Show me the exit port, please, she asked.P A different green pinprick rushed towards her from the edge of
the universe and stopped three feet from her nose.P Mrs. Wakeman tapped on the door, and walked through, into a
brilliant white light.
Mrs. Wakeman sure did come up with some pretty strange ideas
now and then, but this one was right up there.P They were both sitting in Mrs. Wakemans laboratory.P Drew waved his arm in front of her face,
trying to get her attention.P She was
slumped back in her chair, and seemed to be unresponsive.P Doc?P
Doc!P Can you hear me, Doc?P Are you okay?
Mrs. Wakeman was wearing a bizarre-looking helmet on her
head, with a visor that dropped down over her eyes.P It was covered with strange electronics and glowing tubes.P In the back of the helmet, a thick black
cable came out and ran down to the floor.P
At the other end, ten feet away, the connector was plugged into Drews
gray, metal chest.
Suddenly she flung a pair of triumphant fists into the
air.P Fantastic!P Simply fantastic!P Oh, I must record my findings while they are still fresh in my
mind!P She took off the helmet, and
started rummaging in her desk for a pencil.
Phew, gasped Drew, you gave me a little bit of a scare
there, Doc.
Mrs. Wakeman was still a bit euphoric, and a little
dizzy.P She started jotting down
notes.P Complete and total sensory
immersion!P Full interaction with the
virtual environment!P Seamless interface
with the host operating system!P Could
have used a thermostat though, it was a bit chilly in there
Dr. Wakeman! Drew finally got her attention.P Could you please tell me what just
I have been working on this virtual reality helmet for
three years now, and have never gotten it to operate satisfactorily, she
explained.P But the unique nature of
your synthetic body afforded me an opportunity to test it on a completely
different kind of information network.P
And it works, by Jove!P It
Drew blinked a few times.P
Okay, remember, high school freshman, here.
Augh, what are they teaching teenagers in science class
these days? she huffed.P Andrew, your
android body is made up of trillions of nanobots.P It takes a quite a bit to control that many little machines, and
scattered throughout your body are tiny molecular supercomputers.P Hundreds of millions of them.P Thats why you do not have a brain.P Your brain is spread throughout your entire
Wow, thats freaky, Drew managed to mutter.P Sort of like millions of tiny chocolate
chips in a big bowl of cookie dough.
Not exactly the analogy I might have used, but yes,
she said, rolling her eyes.P Those
computers are programmed to be highly adaptive and responsive.P So when I plugged the helmet into your
chest, your body created an interface.P
And the helmet worked perfectly!P
I could visualize your databanks, move about, talk to the OS it was as
if I was literally inside of your bodys computer network.
So you you were zipping around inside my mind?P No offense, Doc, but Im not sure if I like
the sound of that.
Oh please, relax.P I
wasnt looking for anything embarrassing.P
She folded her arms.P Im a
scientist.P There may be large amounts
of Cluster information in your brain that could prove useful in forestalling
any aggressive actions on their part in the future.P Something to think about in a future session, but for now, I
think well take a little break.P I want
to go over the data from the helmet, and grab a snippet of lunch.P And perhaps a scone with blackberry
marmalade!P I do feel like celebrating a
bit.P The virtual reality helmet is a
smashing success!!!P That will be all,
Mrs. Wakeman grabbed a stack of paper readouts and headed
for the kitchen.P Drew hadnt known the
doctor for long, but he could tell when she wanted company and when she
didnt.P I think she sees me as more
of a petri dish than a house guest, anyway.P
Eh scientists.P Whaddaya gonna
do?P Drew let himself out of the
Wakeman house, wondering how to kill the rest of the afternoon.P Jenny was off on some emergency call
downtown.P Maybe Brad and Tuck were up
to something.
Drew couldnt turn his head from the amazing picture that
the GameStation 3000X was putting on the television.P It looked just like an authentic fortress!P The backgrounds were almost
photo-realistic!P The trees looked real!P When the space commandos ran, the motion was
so fluid.P And the explosions
you could almost feel the blast when one of the characters was flung into the
Watch this! shouted Brad.P
His character was standing on top of burning truck.P Brad mashed a series of buttons on his game
controller, and his commando somersaulted into the air, firing a rocket gun
at a group of enemy fighters.P They blew
up in a really cool way.P
Pictures hanging on the wall of the living room vibrated as the
explosions rumbled from the speakers.
Hey, whined Tuck, I was gonna do that!P I was luring them into a false sense of
Too slow, Marine!P The
legend of the Brad-inator grows.P High
Tuck turned his controller over in his hands.P I think some of the buttons are sticking on
Now, now, Tuck, its a poor musician who blames his
instrument.P Drew, check out the water
effects on this river over here.P If you
jump in, the waves are totally realistic.P
And watch the branches on this tree when I blow it up.P They swing back and forth like the real
thing.P And check out how the laser gun
glows when you fire it.P Its the most
realistic game machine ever made.
Drew stared lustfully at the GameStation.P Oo-o-o-oh Its like if God played video
games, this is what he would have in his living room.P Dude, I call next!
No way, laughed Brad, we just got this thing open!P I need to teach my little brother a lesson
in sibling seniority.P Now, see how Tuck
believes hes hidden in that factory over there.P Apparently under cover and well
protected.P That might be true, were it
not for the Omega Bomb!P Mwa, ha, ha,
Tuck jumped in his seat.P
What?!?P Theres not an Omega
Bomb on this world!
There is if you turned them on at the start of the game,
mlad.P Voila!P Brads space commando pulled a huge bazooka
cannon from behind his back, and fired a missile into the air.P It circled for a few seconds, then came down
right on top of Tuck, with a wall-shaking explosion.
AIIGHHH!!! screamed Tuck.P
You blew me up!P Your own
Suddenly the front door of the house flew off its hinges
with a blam.
The boys nearly fell to the floor as Jenny roared into the
living room, with a blast of icy wind behind her.P She landed, poised for action.
Guys, I heard explosions!P
Is everyone okay?!?
Drew got up to his knees.P
Well, I was before that heart attack.
Tuck frowned.P
Jenny, there is a doorbell.
Brad leaned back in the sofa.P I am much more than okay, which is more than I can say for my
little soldier of misfortune here, next to me.P
Dear Mom and Dad, the Space Marines regret to inform you that your son,
Tuck, done got himself blowed up real good!
Only because your older, dopier son is a big cheater!
added Tuck.
Jenny glanced around the living room.P There were no scorch marks, no debris, no
damage nothing except a bag of potato chips spilled onto the floor.P It didnt make any sense until she looked
at the lasers and plasma rays blasting away on the television.
She smacked her forehead.P
Are you telling me that I rushed over here because of a stupid video
game?!?P I dont believe you
guys!P I could hear the explosions from
five hundred feet in the air!
Wow!P Five hundred
feet?P Drew and Brad bumped fists.P Swee-e-eet!
A beautiful winter afternoon, and you boys are all sitting
around a television set playing make believe war games, Jenny huffed.P Well, Im finally done with the latest
crisis downtown.P Theres fresh snow
falling outside.P I thought it might be
fun to go sledding on the big hill by the pond.P I saw a whole bunch of kids over there, while I was flying home.
Brad was staring at the TV.P
Eh we went sledding last week.P
Ive got a record score going here, and I dont want to lose it.
But its snowing right now, Jenny said, a little surprised
at Brads answer.P Brad, last week you
said that fresh snow was the best snow for sledding.P I bet we can break our speed record today!
Itll snow again sometime.P Zap!P Blam!P Kaboom!
I dont believe this!P
You can play that stupid video game anytime!
Tuck gasped.P She
speaks ill of the game!P Blasphemy!
Well forgive her this time, chuckled Brad.P Now prepare for another taste of defeat,
short stuff.
Can you at least look at me when youre talking to
me? said Jenny.P She was getting a
little angry.P I realize Im not as
interesting as your big laser battle game, but maybe you could tear your attention
away for five seconds?!?
Brad finally hit the pause button, and turned around.P Jenny, whats the big problem?P Tuck and I wanted to try out our new
GameStation.P When our parents get back,
we wont be able to play it again until after Christmas.P You can play with us if you want to.P Well go sledding some other time.P Theres three more months of winter,
Jenny balled her fists, and stomped her feet.P Fine!P
Play your stupid Lame-Station!P I
couldnt care less!P And with that, she
clanked heavily out the front door.
Brad, Tuck, and Drew looked at each other silently for a few
I didnt realize that she liked sledding that much,
said Drew.
Its not that, groaned Brad.P Shes been acting kind of moody like that for the past week or
so. PI cant figure out why.P I asked her if there was anything wrong, or
if she was fighting with her mom well, more than usual and she says theres
nothing wrong, and then gets all mad.P
Go figure.P He rolled his
eyes.P I think I have an easier time understanding
the robot part than I do the girl part.
Yeah, yeah, enough with the soap opera, interrupted
Tuck.P Are we gonna play or what?
Youre on, laughed Brad, un-pausing the game.P
The mayhem continued, as once more the living room was
filled with the zaps, booms, and rumbles of plasma fire and shock
grenades.P Check it out, said
Brad.P If you use up all your weapons,
you can fight in hand-to-hand combat.P
Of course, its a little hard to control with this game pad.P Brad experimented with his space commando,
who clumsily swung in the wrong direction and got knocked on his back by an
enemy fighter.
Ha, ha!P Your
commando fights like a girl, laughed Tuck.P
Didnt I hear somebody say something once about its a poor musician
who blames his instrument?
Well the controls totally dont make any sense for
using your fists.P Where are the
You know, I saw these things on a GameStation TV commercial
called Senso-Gloves, said Tuck.P You
wear them like normal gloves, and they plug right into the GameStation.P And you control your character with your own
hands!P Maybe Mom and Dad bought them
A flash of inspiration struck Drew.P He grinned at Brad and Tuck.
Gentlemen, I believe I can do better than that.
What do you mean? asked Brad.
Ill see your Senso-Gloves and raise you one Virtual
Reality Helmet.
Brads eyes nearly popped out of his head, and he grinned
like a hyena.P Tell me more.
Jenny stood in her front yard, alone, staring across the
street.P Big, fat snowflakes were
drifting lazily through the air.P A few
flakes stuck to her cheek, and after a few seconds, a thin layer of slush
started to form on her face, shoulders, and pigtails.P She didnt bother wiping it off.
She was watching a family, out hanging Christmas decorations
on their front porch.P The father looked
like he had spent the day stringing lights all over the house, and the children
had built a family of snowmen on the front yard.P The mother was hanging a large wreath on the front door.
Mmmm I just love the smell of fresh pine branches, said
the mother.P Jenny was a bit ashamed to
be eavesdropping, but it was easy to do with super robot hearing.
I love the smell of that pumpkin pie! laughed the little
girl.P Can I have a piece before
Come on, everyone, said the father.P Get inside and Ill get a fire going.P Nothing feels better than a crackling fire
on a cold winter night.
The little girl and her brother ran inside with a squeal,
and the father wrapped his arms around his wifes waist.P He laughed, and pointed to the top of the
door, where hed just hung a sprig of mistletoe.P They gave each other a quick, playful kiss, and disappeared into
their happy home, unaware that Jenny was even watching them.
Jenny sighed, and a small tear froze in the corner of her
eye.P Then she heard a voice from behind
Uh Jen?P
Hlo?P Drew had walked out of
Brads house, and was waving to get her attention.
Oh.P Hey,
Drew.P How long was he standing
Im just heading over to your moms lab for a second and
P Drew looked a bit concerned.P Are you just going to stand out here in
the cold?P We figured you were heading
over to the sledding hill.
No, I thought Id just stand here and let the snow cover
me, she said sarcastically.P How to
make a snow robot, the easy way.
Uh all right, then.P
Sorry to bother you.P Drew slunk
Wait a minute, Jenny groaned, and slumped her
shoulders.P Im sorry.P I might as well go inside too, everybody
else is.P She slowly trudged a few steps,
then stopped.P Drew, can I ask you a
silly question?
You might get a silly answer.P Fire away.
Does it feel cold out to you?
That did seem like a silly question.P Well I guess so.P I mean, its Id call it twenty-six and a half degrees.P Id say thats cold.
Its twenty-six point four degrees.P Your sensors need to be tuned up, she
chuckled softly.P But do you feel
Drew wasnt sure where this was going.P Well, no, I dont.P I suppose I really dont ever feel
hot or cold anymore, ever since my overhaul, he joked, referring to his
transformation into an android.
Do you miss it?
He shrugged.P Its
not really something Ive given a lot of thought, to be honest.P Its actually kind of nice not to have to
worry about getting cold.
You dont miss the feeling of a cool breeze on your
cheek?P Or a snowflake melting on your
Like I said, never really thought about it.
That stupid Brad, she grumbled.P He can come out here and enjoy the taste of the snow, and the
feel of the wind, anytime he wants.P He
doesnt know how lucky he is.P And he
doesnt even care!P He and his dumb
brother would rather rot their brains playing video games.
Drew arched an eyebrow, a little mystified.P Jenny, is something wrong?
Im fine, Jenny harrumphed, and then changed the
subject.P Lets just get inside.P Why are you heading over to my moms lab,
Wha?P Oh, Im going
to borrow a little something we were testing together this afternoon.P Your mom invented a cool virtual reality
helmet.P I think I can get it hooked up
to Brads new GameStation.
Arghhhh, groaned Jenny, as she and Drew walked in the
Wakeman house.P I dont know which I
hate worse, that silly video game or that stupid helmet.P Is my mom trying to get that thing working again?
You know about the helmet? asked Drew.
Know about it?P
At one time, she wanted to install a receiver for that stupid helmet
inside of me, Jenny explained.P
She never got it to work, so she put in the video screen that unfolds
from my chest.P You think its a drag to
have your mother pop out of your chest and embarrass you in front of
everybody?P Imagine having her pop into
your brain.
Well, I figured we might give this baby a little field
test.P Drew lifted the helmet and
tucked it under his arm.
Knock yourselves out, said Jenny.P Get back to your fellow space commandos, or
All righty, then.P
See you later.P Drew left the
house and sprinted excitedly back to Brads place, eager to hook that stupid
helmet up to that stupid game.P Boys
and their toys.
Well, good riddance to them.P She was in a mood to be alone right now,
anyway.P Jenny clunked her way upstairs
towards her bedroom.P I suppose Ill
just listen to some music for the afternoon.P
As long as it doesnt have anything to do with Christmas.
Why did she feel that way?P
Why did she feel worse and worse the closer it got to Christmas?P She stopped at the top of the steps and
looked out a window, back at the house across the street.P Everybody always seemed so busy and happy this
time of year.P Everybody went to parties
and gave each other presents.P
Everything was decorated with bright colors and blinking lights.P It all seemed so wonderful.P Everybody seemed to feel wonderful.P I suppose it really does feel
wonderful.P I wouldnt know.
Smoke started to drift out of the chimney.P Apparently, the father had gotten that
crackling fire started in the fireplace.P
I wonder if it feels warm.
I wonder what warm feels like.
She lost track of time, and finally realized that shed been
staring out the window for fifteen minutes.P
Jenny sighed, and dragged her feet towards her room.
Then she heard a soft moan coming from down the hall.P It was coming from her mothers
bedroom.P Hmmm, Moms usually in the
lab this time of day.
Jenny peeked into her mothers bedroom.P Mrs. Wakeman was lying on the bed, with an
icepack covering her forehead.P She
moaned again, and started rubbing her temples.
Mom?P Are you all
right? asked Jenny, suddenly a little concerned.
Mrs. Wakeman was a bit startled, but waved her in.P Oh, hello there, XJ-9 I assume everything
went well with the eggnog tanker spill on the bridge downtown?P Ill be all right in a few minutes.P I just have a rather nasty headache, thats
all.P Nothing a little ibuprofen wont
clear up.P Ohhhhhh.P She shifted the icepack on her head,
covering her eyes.
You need to learn how to mellow out, Mom.P Youre probably just working too hard.
One of us has to, young lady, grumbled Mrs. Wakeman.P I just need to take a break from my virtual
reality helmet experiment.
Oh, said Jenny, playing dumb.P Youre working on that thing again.P Did you get it to work?
Work?P I should say
so.P In fact, the confounded contraption
works too well.
Something about that didnt sound good.P How can it work too well?
Mrs. Wakeman took off the icepack so she could look at Jenny
while she spoke.P I was testing it on
your friend Andrew, and the helmet made a perfect connection to his internal
network.P So perfect, in fact, that all
of my brains sensory input was redirected from my own body to the helmets
connection.P It was all very
enthralling, to say the least.P Ohhhhhh.P But I suppose Im paying for it now with
this headache.P It just came over me a
few minutes after I ended the session.
Wow.P How long did
you have it on?
Oh, perhaps ten minutes.
Ten minutes?!?P
What would happen if you wore it for an hour or two?
Mrs. Wakeman actually laughed, then winced in pain.P Oh, for heavens sake.P If I had left that helmet on for two hours,
my brain would have become permanently connected to the virtual reality
signal, and permanently disconnected from my own nervous system!P Ohhhhhh.P That helmet could turn somebody into a drooling, mindless
vegetable if they werent careful.P You
would spend the rest of your life feeding me mashed apricots through a
funnel!P And I dont think either of us
would enjoy that.
She patted Jennys hand, and plopped the icepack back on her
face.P But, fortunately, the experiment
was concluded successfully, and the virtual reality helmet is sitting
downstairs in the laboratory, safe and sound.
Jenny gulped hard, very glad that her mom couldnt see the
look on her face.P Yeah heh-heh
safe and sound.P Oh, no, what have
the boys gotten themselves into?
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Ahead of the Golden State Warriors' NBA game against Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night, Steve Kerr was asked by ESPN's Chris Haynes about the south Florida school shooting which left 17 people dead earlier in the day.
The Warriors head coach delivered a poignant and powerful message about gun control in the US.
Well, nothing has been done. It doesn't seem to matter our government that children are being shot to death day after day in schools. It doesn't matter that people are being shot at a concert, at a movie theatre. It's not enough, apparently, to move our leadership, our government, the people running our country, to actually do anything and that's demoralising.
But we can do something about it. We can vote people in who actually have the courage to protect people's lives, and not just bow down to the NRA because they have financed their campaign for them.
So hopefully we'll find enough people, first of all to vote good people in, but hopefully we can find enough people with courage to actually help our citizens remain safe and focus on the real safety issues; not building some stupid wall for billions of dollars that has nothing to do with our safety, but actually protecting us from what truly is dangerous, which is maniacs with semi-automatic weapons just slaughtering our children. It's disgusting.
Kerr has been vocally critical of Donald Trump and his presidency on numerous occasions previously. He said last year that Trump is "ill-suited" to the office.
The 52-year-old has been personally affected by gun violence. In 1984, his father, Malcolm H. Kerr, was shot dead while serving as the President of the American University of Beirut.
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For Profit Development: Good Business, Good For All
05 Apr 2004|Added Value
A new kind of business is emerging that bridges the gap between the conventional realms of commerce and government. These new businesses are profitable and gaining a strategic advantage in the critically important markets of the future. At the same time, they are engaged in effective and caring development activity, the sort normally reserved for development banks, NGOs, and government programs.
A great example of a for profit business that is engaging in developing customers is CEMEX's Patrimonio Hoy. To differentiate itself from its competitors, CEMEX designed and launched its Patrimonio Hoy program, which sells cement (and other building materials) to low-income, do-it-yourself homebuilders. This is no normal program of selling cement by the bag. The Patrimonio Hoy program sells a system like the Weight Watchers' system, only for building homes one room at a time instead of losing weight. Patrimonio Hoy is good for people who can build on their own, but it is great for those who do not have the discipline to see a building project through. With Patrimonio Hoy's system, a do-it-yourselfer completes, a room, the basic unit of patrimony in 70 weeks, almost three times faster than the normal build, thus,"patrimony today." Patrimonio Hoy customers join into groups of three who take joint responsibility for making weekly payments. They payments entitle them to a room's worth of quality building materials, which are delivered in general a little before the middle of the payment program. Customers also become members of the local Patrimonio Hoy club, which gives them technical advice on designing their rooms, warehousing privileges, rights to delivery, and other preferred customer rights with the local retailer. With these advatanges, Patrimonio Hoy do-it-yourselfers not only build faster but also at two-thirds the traditional cost. Do-it-yourselfers come back to build rooms again and again. They also develop a range of capacities beyond saving and building.
The value of the CEMEX program is illustrative. There are still many questions about how business can incorporate this sort of socially responsible activity into their organizations considering the kinds of short term focus of many publicly traded corporations today. The important lesson is that unlike some much-criticized purveyors of globalization—and development as a form of globalization—for-profit development businesses cannot make offerings to lower-income people that require them simply to adopt modern, market-oriented, transactional values. Such programs fail as businesses. To sell development products to lower-income people, these products have to appeal to their way of life and the values they currently have, both traditional and modern. Development agencies that offer subsidies do have the luxury of paying lower-income people to ignore certain social values they care about in order receive needed goods. But paying people to ignore certain values does not make those values go away. Indeed, it often promotes suspicion. For-profit development integrates peoples historical values with brining them into a new future. These businesses increase their customers' freedom to act effectively in modern economies in three ways.
They do all this while significantly increasing their and their customers' wealth.
To increase global economic stability and wealth, senior corporate managers and policy makers should know why this emerging activity is good for traditional commerce, why it is good for government development efforts, and what can be done to enhance it.
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Lets assume he is not schtupping the turtle. There is a famous turtle legend in Hanoi about the lake in the middle of the city and a magic sword. We keep looking for the turtle.
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On 1 July 2018, a new regime of GST withholding obligations comes into effect and is set to create considerable change to property transactions which property lawyers should be aware of.
Where a supplier (the vendor) makes a taxable supply of new residential premises or a subdivision of potential residential land by way of sale or long term lease, the recipient of the supply (the purchaser) is required to withhold an amount from the contract price and remit it to the Australian Taxation Office on or before settlement.
As a result, new vendor disclosure obligations apply to all Contracts for Sale of Land. This means property lawyers will need to revise the Contract for Sale to ensure vendors are not in breach of legislation. Failure to provide disclosure will result in penalties.
The amended legislation includes a transitional arrangement that excludes sale contracts entered into before 1 July 2018 as long as the property transaction settles before 1 July 2020. This will provide certainty for sale contracts that have already been signed.
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If you are like me, you have been watching your Giant collection over the past 20 years. Now, some of these are not available anymore and some you have to fire up the old VCR to watch them. Yet if you can get your hands on them, by all means watch them.
- Giants Among Men – The 1986 hightlight film is the grandaddy of them all. The hour long tape takes you back to the '86 season with highlights of all the games and a look back at the '30s and '50s. Plus the classic NFL Films music makes this a must watch
- True Blue – The 1990 highlight film gives you an insight into that magical season – also my favorite Giants team.
- The History of the NY Giants – This two disk DVD is readily available and should be watched if you want to know about the days of Steve Owen, Mel Hein, Frank Gifford and Charlie Connerly. Also it gives you a look into the past few decades, something that hasn't really been documented. The film ends right before Tom Coughlin took power.
- America's Greatest Games: Super Bowl XXI: This is a must watch, just because Bill Parcells, Phil Simms and LT are extremely funny. It only costs 2 bucks to download on Amazon and iTunes, so you can start your Giant collection right now. To me it's a must just to hear Simms talk about how Parcells cursed at him on the sidelines and LT talking about the "ass-whoopings" he gave some teams.
- America's Greatest Games: Super Bowl XXV: Also good, but not as funny as O.J. Anderson, Carl Banks, Jeff Hostetler are interviewed. But interesting to hear Banks say that the plan in the Super Bowl was to allow the Bills to run the ball and take away the pass. It's also available on Amazon and iTunes. Â
So there you have them. Maybe a win on Sunday will give us more films on the Giants.


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Introduction to Qatar Airways
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
Think like a thief: safeguard your most personal device from loss or theft
Smartphone loss affects millions every year.
Theft specifically leaves the device owner in a lurch, rushing to protect themselves from things like identity fraud, recover their device, or work with insurance companies to get a new one.
Maybe you're the victim of pickpocketing, or you're like
45% of phone theft victims
who had a phone swiped after leaving it behind somewhere. For any of us, these scenarios feel all too similar.
By 2020,
predicts that
6.1 billion people globally
will be walking around with upwards of $350 - $800 devices in their pockets. Our smartphones go where we go, making them easily accessible. This means our purses and pockets become an even bigger target for thieves.
What do thieves do with stolen smartphones?
Sell the phone
The physical device alone has a high resale value. A quick search on popular resale websites shows that used phones — depending on the model, storage space, and condition of the phone — sell between $150 - $650. While the large majority of these transactions are legitimate, criminals can likely make similar money on the black market.
What happens to the phone? Some stolen phones end up part of large-scale overseas trafficking schemes, like the one that led to a crazy connection between a Chinese man dubbed "Brother Orange" and a writer for Buzzfeed. In cases like that, your phone could yield up to $2,000 in countries like China, Peru, or Mexico.
Don't assume you're not a target just because your phone is a slightly older model or physically damaged. While these phones may have less allure, they can still turn a profit for parts.
Make use of the phone's personal data
If you don't have any preventative security measures set before your phone gets stolen, you wind up leaving the doors to your data open if it is. Actions like setting up a pin or passcode, or downloading a security app can go a long way.
The value of a smartphone can far exceed the physical cost of the device. These mini computers attached at our hips have transcended the idea of a traditional phone. Yes, you can still make a call or send an SMS, but they now also serve as our password vaults, personal planners, and a main connection to our working lives.
A recent Lookout study revealed that you value the contents of your phone -- emails, account credentials, contact information -- at a whopping $14,000.
Use the phone
In some instances, a smartphone thief may decide to steal your phone for personal use.
If your phone is unlocked or left without protection, a new SIM card is often all that's required to make it a fully-functioning phone.
A more tech-savvy thief, may go the distance and unlock a stolen phone that's tethered to a mobile carrier. This is a more difficult task and requires some personal information from the account holder, like their full name, social security number, and the device's IMEI, but it's achievable. If this information lives on your phone, you can imagine how easy it would be for an intruder to obtain it.
Unlocked or not, the phone is still a computer and can connect to Wi-Fi, allowing some use of the phone if it's unprotected.
Safeguarding your phone against loss and theft
Believe it or not, all the above scenarios can be avoided with the implementation of a few simple security measures.
Set a pin/passcode
You've heard it hundreds of times, yet
40% of people fail to do so
. If your phone falls into the wrong hands, a passcode is the only thing standing between your data and an intruder. Avoid simple passcodes like "1234" or your birthday and instead opt for a strong passcode that uses more numbers than the preset character length.
Know your IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)
Think of this as your device's unique ID number. You may notice the 14-16 digit number on the box when you first purchase the device, but
if you're like 40% of people
, it's probably gone unnoticed. Jot this number down for safe keeping. You can use it to notify your service provider and file a police report if your phone is lost or stolen.
Make sure you
activate a mobile security app
, like Lookout
Installing software designed to deter theft puts the power back into your hands. Most mobile security apps have functionality that allows you to remotely locate, lock, or wipe the device if it goes missing.
Lookout's latest
app for the Apple Watch
also alerts you immediately when your smartphone goes out of range, preventing loss and potentially stopping thieves in their tracks.
Be aware of your surroundings
It seems like common sense, but
1 in 10 phone theft victims
report their phones being stolen out of their hands, pockets, or personal bags. We understand that your smartphone allows you to be both entertained and productive, but a distracted person could be a prime target for thieves. Remember, your phone and its contents are valuable so be cautious of when and where you're using your it.
If your phone is stolen
Take advantage of that security software!
We can't stress this enough. If the worst happens, you can still take action to protect your phone and personal information by using that security software. First, attempt to locate and lock the phone. If you're unsuccessful, resort to wiping the phone so your private data stays that way.
If you have Lookout Premium, make sure to check your inbox for a Theft Alerts email.
Theft Alerts
goes one step further, intelligently recognizing common actions thieves take immediately after a phone is stolen. If an action is triggered, Lookout snaps a front-facing photo and sends you an email with the phone's location, your IMEI, and your wireless service provider's customer support phone number.
If your phone is missing, login to your Lookout account by visiting
your phone: Find My Device > Locate
To make your phone '
': Find My Device > Scream
(premium feature) your phone: Find My Device > Enter 4-digit lock code > Lock
(premium feature) your phone: Find My Device > Wipe
Notify appropriate parties
File a police report with the local police department immediately. Have your IMEI handy and any other information you can provide. Next,
contact your mobile provider and disable service or file an insurance claim
Change your passwords
Think about all of the amazing apps you use on your smartphone: Facebook, Gmail, iCloud, the list goes on. Do you remember logging into these apps each time you launch them? Probably not. Our smartphones store data, like login credentials, providing us convenience and a seamless user experience. If a thief bypasses your lock screen, the downside is that they now have access to your accounts. Resetting your passwords, however, means a thief will only be met with a login screen when they attempt to open your apps.
If you understand how thieves operate and profit from stolen phones, you have the power to outsmart them and cut them off. Follow these steps today and get protected.


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The City Council will enable as free parking the site of the old Las Terrazas building
Benidorm City Council will open the lot of the old Las Terrazas building as free parking, located at the confluence of the Mediterráneo and Europa avenues and Paseo de Levante. The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Perez, reported that "today an agreement has been signed with the owners of the site, which includes the temporary and free transfer in favor of the City Council, which will be responsible for adapting this plot as a parking , as well as its cleaning and maintenance. "
The mayor has indicated that "after reaching this agreement with the property, we put at the disposal of the residents of Benidorm a space of more than 3,700 square meters to park, thus addressing the claim that we had also transferred different business associations."
Pérez stressed that "we speak of a nerve center" for the commerce and tourism of Benidorm, and has stressed that "the adequacy of this site as a parking allows us to expand our park-and-ride parking spaces, but also improve the image and decoration of this point of the first line of Levante beach ".
After the signing of the agreement, it will imminently begin to adapt the plot, which will be operational as parking at the end of the week. The access and exit of vehicles from this zone of public and free parking will be done by Mediterráneo avenue, although a pedestrian access will also be enabled from Paseo de Levante.
For this adaptation of the site is going to reuse the pavement that is being removed from Europa avenue and that is being replaced by another type of asphalt that absorbs noise.
The mayor thanked "the generosity of the community of owners of the building 'Las Terrazas' that gives this plot at zero cost to the City Council", culminating "the work of many months of dialogue" between both parties.


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Oil on paper laid on board
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I can't believe it's November 1st!
Man-o-man does time fly!
Where does it all go.
I don't know about you, but I am beginning to appreciate life more each day. It used to be I would rush through my day, had to get things done, had to rush from one place to another, always looking at my watch.
Not anymore – I don't take life for granted anymore. I enjoy the moment.
I also try not to let little things bother me. I try and take a step back and analyze things a bit better.
Hope everyone had a great Halloween! Do you recall trick-or-treating as a youngster?
Getting dressed up, that was fun. I recall for like two or three straight years I dressed up as a 'bum'. I just threw on some old duds, ripped the shirt and pants, painted some black stuff on my face, etc.
What about tossing eggs? Filling a sock with chalk? Dunking for apples? I used to love the candy apples!
Do kids still do those things?
I believe it was the Irish who began the Halloween tradition – I think I heard that once, something about them scaring evil spirits away. Actually, with the internet at your finger-tips, I did a bit of reaserch and came up with this from Wikipedia.com
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain).[1] The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic[2] regarded as the "Celtic New Year."[3] Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.[4][5] culture, and is sometimes
Container Diaries has been going strong for a full year now – thanks to all the people who have stopped by to take a moment to read and to the folks who have posted comments and of course the ones who have sent e-mails, I enjoy the feed back and contribution. (Without you, there wouldn't be a blog!) Please keep in mind, a blog entry written by yours truly is from my point of view, maybe you saw something different or had a different opinion on the subject – that is fine. I have extended an invite in the past to anyone who would like to write up an entry and have it posted on the front page. So if you feel like composing, just shoot me an e-mail. But we will have to use your real name!
The blog has put me in contact with many people whom I haven't talked to in over 25 years! It's been a fun adventure, going back into the day.
Good news, Forte Bellino informed me they are shooting for another Holy Name-Bishop Ford reunion in April of 2010. I will be in the house for sure this time around. I heard the last reunion was a huge hit!
On a different note, my daughter Taylor, who is in the 4th grade has a book report due Dec. 5th. This morning as I was discussing it with her I thought back to a book report assigned to us in the seventh grade by Miss Monzillo.
I didn't have a clue as to what to do. But the one good thing was that you were able to do it on any topic. Usually I chose a sports book, that's all I picked up when I 'had' to read.
Taylor checked out a book from the library, a big book at that. "It has 300 pages daddy." She explained to me.
I was like, "WHOA – T, that may be a bit too long to be writing about, no?"
She kinda agreed/and so did her teacher.
As for my book report, I cheated. While at the library on 9th street and 6th avenue I checked out the book, 'Towering Inferno', only because I had seen the film a few days before with my guys Steve McQueen and Paul Newman; plus the cover of the book looked real cool.
I began to read but within a couple of pages, I lost interest. Guess I had what they call today, A.D.D
Were we diagnosed with that as children? I just wasn't into reading. Isn't crazy that I now read at least one book per week?
So I did the next best thing (in my eyes). I thought back to the movie and wrote about that. With Miss Monzillo being astute, she realized I had written about the movie, not the book.
Miss Monzillo confronted me on this and I was pegged with my first encounter of a failed report.
We all know that the movie is never like the book.
Rest asure, Taylor will read a book and do her report – she reads more books in a month than I did in a year when I was her age.


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Tadka: Film shoot delayed again due to Taapsee Pannu, Ali Fazal's clashing schedules
Prakash Raj's Hindi directorial debut Tadka, starring Taapsee Pannu, Ali Fazal, Nana Patekar and Shriya Saran has been delayed once again, this time due to the unavailability of dates from Taapsee Pannu and Ali Fazal.
Pannu and Fazal are having scheduling conflicts as both the actors have gotten busy with the shooting and promotions of their upcoming movies Judwaa 2 and Victoria and Abdul, respectively, according to a Mumbai Mirror report.
A schedule of the movie was shot in Goa last May, and the shooting was to resume in June however due to unforseen circumstances the schedule had to be left midway and was incomplete. After that Ali Fazal got busy with his upcoming movie titled Victoria and Abdul (based on a true story).
Taapsee Pannu also moved on to her recently released Naam Shabana after that and has currently jetted off to Mauritius for her upcoming Judwaa 2, and now it seems that both the actors are having trouble coinciding their dates so that they can shoot their leftover scenes together.
There is reportedly one song and a couple of scenes with the actors' love story being championed that are yet to be shot, and their unavailability of dates is what has caused the latest delay as these scenes cannot be shot separately.
Pannu and Fazal's spokesperson's said, "We are trying to work out her dates but they are blocked," according to the same Mumbai Mirror report.
Pannu's upcoming Judwaa 2 starring Varun Dhawan and Jacqueline Fernandez alongside the actor is all set to release on 29 September, whereas Ali Fazal's Victoria and Abdul is slated for a 22 September release.
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What started out as a website meant to provide a one-stop shop for information on all things needed for a Muslim wedding, took physical form this weekend with the Perfect Muslim Wedding Bridal Expo.
The Sunday event at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Newark saw almost 300 attendees visit 32 vendors, watch three fashion shows and dance performances, and follow demonstrations that included "how to contour" and "how to make a boutonniere."
Attendees ranged from brides looking for vendors to use at their wedding to community members keen on seeing different wedding clothes worn by Muslims of various cultures.
Amina Ansari, a Newark resident, was glad she came to what she saw as a one-stop shop for prospective brides with clothing, food and even henna vendors.
"I wish I had something like this when I got married," Ansari said.
She added when she got married prospective brides and grooms would have to find vendors by word of mouth recommendations. Many hotels then were not tailored to the cultural or culinary needs of Muslims.
Sarra Hilali, a Santa Clara resident and bride-to-be, is planning her wedding and had been overwhelmed with the options.
"Especially in terms of my wedding dress. I didn't know where to find a white wedding dress to fit my standards of modesty as a practicing Muslim," Hilali said.
She added the vendors were helpful because they had worked with Muslim brides before, which made it easier for them to understand cultural and religious preferences.
Zareena Anwar, program director of the expo, said she joined the Perfect Muslim Wedding team after the idea for the expo had already been hatched by the organization's founder, Javed Mohammed.
She also volunteered at the Halal Food Festival in Newark in August, and said nothing like this expo had been held before.
She added one of the main challenges was finding big sponsors to help fund the inaugural event as well as trying to address the great diversity of cultures that exist within the Muslim community.
After the event, the expo was getting a lot of social media buzz, Anwar said.
The outfits exhibited in the three fashion shows in particular, organized by Fashion Director Farah Ghatala, elicited "oohs" and "aahs" from the attendees of the show and questions of "Where can I get that oufit?" on social media.
"I see this as an outlet for resources and a positive Muslim wedding experience in an area where no one else really focuses," Anwar said. "One of my friends, a cousin-in-law, is getting married and she's looking for a bridal dress and she can't find a modest one and this venue and expo provides you with information and an avenue to check out designers."
She said they will conduct a community survey to see if there is enough interest to hold another bridal expo next year.
"I hope people came away with a feeling of community and that we are all the same, but different and the feeling that there is beauty in every country and they are able to experience some of that," Anwar said.
For more pictures from the expo, visit facebook.com/perfectmuslimwedding.
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The chief inspector of digital policing at West Yorkshire Police, Ian Williams, has insisted that the new biometric technology that will help police officers to scan citizens' fingerprints will not put people's privacy at risk, nor will it breach their human rights.
Earlier this month, the police force announced that it would go live with technology from Motorola Solutions to 250 frontline officers, in a project jointly developed with the Home Office. The tech runs on Pronto, a mobile information e-notebook that is used by many police forces across the UK. The technology allows officers to check fingerprints against national fingerprint database records via handheld scanners that attach to an officer's phone.
In an interview with NS Tech, Williams responded to claims from human rights group Liberty, that the use of fingerprint scanning without any public or parliamentary debate could potentially affect human rights.
Emma Norton, head of legal casework at Liberty wrote in a blog post that the technology was "breathtakingly invasive" and that there had been no discussion of consent or of the importance of legal advice before people should be asked to hand over this kind of information about themselves. She argued that people needed to know what would happen if someone declines a request.
But Williams responded by stating that the claims from Liberty were based on "misinformation".
"This is new technology that is delivering what is already enabled within the legislation. The law was changed 10 to 12 years ago (the law was actually changed in 1984 under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act) to enable us to take prints from people who we suspected of offences and whose identity we doubted – we're not just going out there and fingerprinting people on the street," he said, emphasising that the force would not be implementing the technology in a "stop and search" style manner that had been suggested by various media outlets.
Williams gave an example of the police force recently stopping a vehicle for an offence, and then being given false information about their identity.
"Ordinarily we would have arrested him because we couldn't ascertain who he was, but using this device and this technology we were able to identify if he was a disqualified driver and he was subsequently summoned to court and his vehicle was seized. This meant officers could go back out on the road rather than having to arrest him and spend two hours in custody – it's saved a lot of time," he stated.
Williams claimed that the technology is enabling the force to therefore arrest fewer, rather than more, people.
"Once we identify who they are we can give them a caution or a community order or a ticket or a summons to court – we don't have to bring them into custody," he said.
In response to Norton's suggestion that there should have been parliamentary scrutiny about the technology, Williams said that this had already taken place when the Police and Criminal Evidence Act was introduced. He said that police forces were able to use this kind of technology, but it had taken West Yorkshire Police up until now to actually be able to implement it.
Williams said that the police force would scan a fingerprint on the device for the sole purpose of searching a database that already exists. As soon as the police force has completed that search and collated it, the fingerprint is deleted from the device.
"We're not adding to the database, we're not collecting from the database and we're not saving anyone's impressions; we're simply scanning them for identification and then we're discarding them – we're not keeping any data," he states.
Other use cases
One of Liberty's key concerns was that the police would use the new technology to target immigrants – but Williams said that this would not be the case.
"We are not using the immigration database as a means to target immigrants – illegal or otherwise. It is just another database that we can utilise to confirm identity when dealing with offences. If by doing so, we establish that a person is known to immigration, we will simply take their lead on what action they want us to take – whether that is to establish the address, make an arrest or do nothing," he said.
"A positive hit on this database will simply confirm they are known to immigration. We will simply contact them for direction as we do now when we know they are known to them. Target is not a word that comes into this process at all because we are identifying suspects for offences," he added.
The fingerprint scanning technology can also be used if a police officer comes across someone seriously injured or unconscious. The force can pass on the details to the medical practitioner so that the patient can get the right medical attention according to their records – meaning that the doctor would be aware of any allergies that could be a danger to their lives. In addition, the police could identify the person's next of kin and contact them to ensure they can get to the hospital as well.
"The Mental Capacity Act allows us to use the fingerprints in this situation – when someone doesn't have the capacity to protect themselves," Williams explained.
He suggested that the Department of Health should create a voluntary database for people suffering from certain ailments, so that they can volunteer their fingerprints. These could then be used by ambulances to know if the person is suffering from an allergy and could die as a result of treatment.


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The Division: Easiest Way to Find Division Tech Location Guide
Division Tech is a part of the Crafting Material, but one of the important one as they are used to craft High-end weapons. You must reach Level 25 and above to use these weapons. The Division Tech can be found in the Dark zone and here is the best farming route to collect all of the Division Tech.
If you want to know more about how to Craft High-end weapons then do visit our other guide and to know more about the game check out our The Division Wiki Page. The Division Tech can be found only in the Dark Zone and you must Loot the Enemies and chests to grab them. So without any further ado, let's begin with the Farming.
Where to Find The Division Tech
In order to properly farm this Division Tech, you must follow the Route from Dark Zone 01 to 06, but you must be high level and rank in order to track this route as you will be encountering high-level enemies from Dark Zone 04. If you follow this Route then it will be super easy to obtain them all. All you need to do is simply follow and route and loot the Dark Zone chests. Here is the exact route you need to Follow.


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Restart your computer and logon as the Administrator. Right click your "Program Files" folder (usually in C: drive) and un-check the 'read-only' attribute.
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Aldon Smith reportedly charged with DUI, hit and run, vandalism
Aldon Smith was a Raider for all of a few hours (if that) before he was charged with three misdemeanors related to his August arrest.
The Santa Clara Country district attorney filed the charges — DUI, hit and run with property damage and vandalism — against Smith on Friday, ABC7 News was first to report, soon after Oakland signed the former San Francisco pass rusher to a reported one-year deal.
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The misdemeanor charges: 1. DUI with a prior conviction and a refusal to submit to a chemical test ...
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... 2. Hit-and-run with property damage. 3. Vandalism under $400. #49ers #Raiders
— Eric Branch (@Eric_Branch) September 11, 2015
If convicted on all 3 charges, and if judge handed out consecutive sentences, Aldon Smith could serve maximum of 2 years, 6 months in jail.
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Smith was arrested in early August and booked in Santa Clara County, Calif., in a alcohol-related driving case, and the 49ers cut him on the same day.
Smith's arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 6, according to reports. NFL discipline is expected in addition to the courts.
After Smith was arrested for the fifth time in five years, 49ers coach Jim Tomsula gave a passionate speech to those who are battling personal demons.


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Dating Lessons from Mr Darcy
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Someone on Buzzfeed posted 18 top dating lessons from Mr Darcy. Yes, that Mr Darcy. There are lots of gifs of Colin Firth and Matthew Mafadyen, in period costume, scowling. It's very cute and very positive... and completely wrong. Here are the real dating lessons that we can take from a book written nearly 200 years before dating was a thing.
1. If you like someone, boss him or her around.
2. If you don't like someone, insult that person. And also everyone that person cares about.
3. If you're attracted to someone, double down on the insults and bossiness. This may seem counter-intuitive, but you've got an end-game in mind.
4. Are you really rich? It helps if you're really rich. People are very forgiving of the rich.
5. But do remember that people are occasionally very unforgiving of the rich. Practise acting a little self-conscious about all your money; this will make you appear humble.
6. Are you really good looking? Dating is much easier if you're really good looking.
7. If you should happen to develop an attraction to someone, glower a lot and then, finally, communicate your feelings during the course of a single conversation while by being as bossy and as insulting as possible. Include references to your immense personal fortune. Definitely propose while you're at it.
8. Nurture a painful family secret. This will give your character the illusion of depth, and provide an excuse to fall back on when you're called out for being bossy and insulting.
9. Hold grudges. Like, seriously, hold them for decades. If for no other reason than that you'll have something to talk about with the object of your affection besides your bossiness and snobishness.
10. Stand a little too close when the object of your affection is reading or playing the piano. This will force him or her to talk to you.
11. If you can't stand a little too close, just stare at your would-be sweetheart. For maximum impact, try going for several minutes without blinking. Practise in front of a mirror.
12. Buy yourself a really big house. Consider this an invenstment in your romantic future. The object of your affection will think twice about you once he or she sees your massive spread!
13. Cultivate a truly loathesome relative, preferably one who's richer, bossier and more insulting than you yourself. Make sure to introduce the object of your affection to your loathesome relative. Imagine how great you'll look in comparison!
14. Remember the part where you're really rich? Discover or engineer a tragedy in the family of the object of your affection and then secretly spend your money to help out. Spend lavishly.
15. But be sure to tell your most talkative mutual acquaintance about your secret spending. We wouldn't want all that effort to go to waste!
16. Trot out that humility thing you've been cultivating when the object of your affection seeks you out for confirmation of the lavish spending.
17. When you inevitably have the opportunity to propose a second time, keep the insults and the bossiness to a minimum. The object of your affection will think that this constitutes 'change' - even though we all know people don't really change! End-game achieved.
BONUS 18. Apparently people really like it when you take some of your clothes off and hop into a scummy pond. Choreograph an opportunity whereby you may do so, with the appearance of unknowing spontaneity, in the presence of the object of your affection.


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Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and the pedestrian charity Living Streets, supported the University's walking group, Lunchtime Strollers, on Thursday 11 February with two 45 minute walks and stalls with information and incentives, situated inside University Place. The walks are a great way to take a break from work, feel healthier and meet new people. The walkers were lucky enough to soak up some sunshine as well as some local historical knowledge. Staff who would like to sign up to participate in lunchtime walks or find out more, can do so by visiting the Lunchtime Strollers website.
Here are just a few ways walking can improve your health:
For more information about the health benefits of walking please visit the Walking for Health website.


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Spirulina is an extremely nutrient dense superfood that can easily be incorportated into one's daily diet. Often referred to as "nature's multi-vitamin", this blue/green algae is not only high in vitamins, minerals and omega's 6 and 9, it contains "phycocyanin". It is this phytonutrient that gives Spirulina its blue/green hue and studies have shown it has an exceptionally high antioxidant activity and is powerfully anti-inflammatory. The protein in Spirulina is extremely easy to digest because its cell walls are a very thin complex of natural sugars which practically dissolve upon contact with moisture and digestive enzymes.This means it is absorbed by the body very quickly, without the loss of time and energy incurred in the digestion of ordinary foods.
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Firstly it is a complete protein meaning it contains all of the 9 essential amino acids, it has more than 70% protein in easily digestible form – proteins are used to make muscles, tendons, organs and skin and are the building blocks of all life – a very important source of complete protein for vegans!
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