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On a fine Tuesday afternoon of the previous week, I decided to send a text message to my father to express how I had been feeling the whole day. My stomach, although full, had been rumbling non-stop since that morning. It was as if the little people residing inside my tummy were revolting, banging my stomach wall as if they were hitting a base drum. It wasn't much of a big deal if I hadn't visited the bathroom four times already before attending my three o'clock class and the paranoia of a possible diarrhea as well as dehydration sooner or later. [Hence, an emergency message to my father.]
As usual father responded in no time, asking me couple of questions such as how I was feeling and the things I ate since I got out of bed. I received another message telling me what to do and the medicine I had to take. At the end of his text was the usual, "Take care. I love you," which always accompanies his messages– ALWAYS. Then a phone call from him followed, which actually was a vocal version of the message he sent me.
It is a common thing to hear my father as well as my mother verbalizes the words "I love you". It is in fact the catchphrase in our house, thrown here there every single day as if it is bread that sustains the body. In fact, the sun won't set without it being uttered.
The frequency of my family's use of it makes me question the weight we put into these words. It is not that I doubt the genuineness of my parents' love for I know in my heart that the reality of that love is truly unconditional. It is the constant use of the phrase "I love you" that somehow made me rethink of its value.
Do we really need to say it out loud each day? Why do my parents always say I love you?
Believe it or not, we don't miss out on expressing I love you, most especially before my brother and I left for college. Before going to school we bid our goodbyes to our parents with a hug and with, "I love you" which they return in the same manner. Even before going to bed, we exchange our "I love you" as if it will give us a better sleep. Now that my brother and I are living far from our parents, "I love you" reaches us through text messages, Facebook e-mails, and phone calls.
Maybe it is a habit that my parents formed that it has become more of a routine than a real vocal expression of their love for us. Sometimes I wonder if the regularity of the expression makes it lose its value like machines that gets worn out due to excessive usage.
At one point I decided to stop saying "I love you" out loud in the fear that it will lose its shimmer sooner or later. But my parents never ceased in expressing their "I love you" for me despite everything. And as they continue to articulate "I love you" I felt the words became more substantial. The frequency of the phrase's utterance is like carbon atoms that bonded together and solidified into diamond which doesn't lose its luster even in incessant use.
That was the moment I thought that maybe it isn't just a practice that they have gotten used to; that it is in fact their way of explicitly asserting their love for my brother and I.
It may have become cliché, but atleast my parents never get tired of affirming their love not just through action but also through words. Words and actions go hand in hand; I am glad that my parents let me know that they value me.
The world never runs out of love, so why be afraid of sharing it and giving it out?

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It's happened.
Remember last summer when politicians in Congress waged a relentless campaign to "Defund" Planned Parenthood? Remember how their efforts crashed and burned? Now, the same people who brought us those national attacks are going state by state. And they've landed in Minnesota.
Plain and simple, they're trying to deny thousands of Minnesota women access to Planned Parenthood by cutting off state funding and Title X funding - the federal family planning program that many women rely on in order to get basic reproductive health care like birth control, clinical breast exams and cervical cancer screenings.
This funding is never used for abortion. But that's not stopping the right-wing from bringing this fight to Minnesota. We have to stand up to them.
Yesterday, Planned Parenthood President and CEO, Sarah Stoesz, is bravely testified before a committee of hostile legislators to stand up for the people who rely on Planned Parenthood. HF3373/4 passed on a strict party line vote (12-9) and will be forwarded to the HHS finance committee. We are disappointed that the House Republican Majority is pressing their anti-Planned Parenthood agenda at the expense of real women's health care needs. Thanks to committee members Reps. Masin, Liebling, Loeffler, Fischer, Moran, Schultz, and Mullery for their strong defense of Planned Parenthood and the women of Minnesota.
The Minnesota I know doesn't turn its back on women. The Minnesota I know doesn't allow bullies to reign. We have to hold these lawmakers accountable. Donate today so we can elect leaders that will stand for the Minnesota that you and I know; one where everyone has the right and the opportunity to prosper and build their future.
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Opscode, a provider of cloud infrastructure automation, on Monday announced that Ancestry.com, Decide.com, EDO Interactive, LAN Airlines, Marshall University and SolutionSet are among a rapidly growing base of companies using Opscode's Hosted Chef and Private Chef to enable rapid deployment of new infrastructure and applications, while significantly reducing IT costs and complexity.
These customers, which range from Fortune 500 enterprises to small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB's) spanning a broad range of industries, are turning to Opscode to automate their IT infrastructure amidst rapid adoption of scale-out IT, including virtualization and cloud computing.
"As we enter the era of cloud computing, it is critical that we solve for the skills and tools gap created by the rapid and unabated proliferation of IT complexity," said Mitch Hill, CEO, Opscode. "Opscode Chef bridges that gap by enabling IT with the tools and skills necessary to effectively build and manage next-generation IT infrastructure. Today, we're already seeing significant enterprise traction for our commercial Chef products, with some of the world's leading companies using Chef to gain business agility and competitive advantage."
"Private Chef makes life much easier for our developers and operations staff as they work to build, test and implement new features and applications," said John Esser, director of software process and agile development, Ancestry.com. "Private Chef enables our IT teams to easily deploy new offerings and rapidly scale applications so our subscribers can trace their family roots by accessing the billions of genealogical records and millions of family trees from around the globe."
"Opscode is among a select group of providers that enable enterprises to automate infrastructure in the era of cloud computing," said Jay Lyman, senior analyst, 451 Research. "The ability of its Private Chef software to manage and automate complex, large-scale infrastructure can help transform the way enterprises run their IT operations and overall business with added efficiency and effectiveness."
Accelerating Momentum Amid IT Transformation
With hundreds of customers across a broad range of industries, Opscode's commercial Chef-based solutions continue to achieve significant traction among leading-edge businesses. The complexity created by widespread adoption of scale-out technologies is a problem faced by organizations both large and small, causing businesses of all types – from multinational airlines to boutique digital marketing firms – to turn to Hosted Chef and Private Chef to automate away IT complexity. In addition, the open source Chef community has also experienced dramatic growth in the past 12 months:
- Market adoption of Opscode's open source Chef product has grown 10X since September 2010, and currently stands at more than 800,000 known downloads worldwide.
- Opscode's community site grew to over 13,000 registered users in 2011, more than doubling since 2010, and producing nearly 400 community cookbooks for everything from Apache to Zabbix.
- Over 500 individuals and 100 organizations are actively contributing to open source Chef on a regularly basis, also more than doubling from 2010, and providing a rich ecosystem of content for Chef users.
As scale-out technologies continue to transform enterprise IT, this shift is creating significant complexity well beyond the capabilities of current IT skills. To address this problem and foster new skill sets and deliver advanced tools for solving IT complexity, Opscode will be hosting #ChefConf, its inaugural user conference, May 15-17, in San Francisco. Targeted at best practices in infrastructure automation and DevOps, #ChefConf 2012 will deliver three days of technical sessions, workshops, training and keynotes designed to help businesses maximize the value of their IT investment and accelerate the speed of business. For more information, or to register, please go here.
Through a combination of configuration management and service-oriented architectures, Chef®, Hosted Chef® and Private Chef® make it easy to create an elegant, fully automated infrastructure while simplifying systems management.
- Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing
- Ulitzer Names the World's 30 Most Influential Cloud Computing Bloggers
- Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Now Open
- Cloud Expo Europe 2009 in Prague: Themes & Topics
- 4th International Cloud Expo: Photo Album
- Cloud Expo New York to Attract More Than 8,000 Delegates
- Merrill Lynch Estimates "Cloud Computing" To Be $100 Billion Market
- Cloud Expo Europe to Take Place May 18-19 2009 in Prague
- Industry Experts Discuss the State of Cloud Computing
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We were a hen party group, from the moment we arrived, were told to shush. This is a family hotel, so why are they taking single sex group bookings. Yes some of the girls in the group were loud, but we were there to party,...More
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| Jaceee chapter 1 . 10/29/2008
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the paragraphing is a little clumped together. Maybe try spacing it out a little more in the future so it doesn't look so 'brick-wall-ish'?
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Although not fast enough for us to miss the fact that it's all rather thin and pointless.As always, Statham is a former black-ops agent whose jaded, frazzled exterior obscures his fighting-fit action moves.After extracting a bloody revenge on the thug, Wild finds his simple little existence challenged by an entire crime family that seem hell-bent on sending him to a shallow grave in the desert.
Not willing to put up with the actions of the guards, soon the submissive prisoners decide to rebel and take matters into their own hands.
As the volunteers fall deeper into their new lives, Zimbardo becomes fascinated by the results and how quickly the situation escalates.
His gimmick this time is an ability to turn everyday objects into lethal weapons, including a seriously nasty moment with a pair of hedge clippers.
It also helps that the film is packed with colourful scene-stealers who add plenty of badly needed spark, including a ripped Ventimiglia and the reliably wonderful Tucci, plus lively cameos from the likes of Sofia Vergara and Anne Heche.
In Northern California in 1971, a group of 24 university students respond to a newspaper advert asking for participants in a psychological experiment.
On the toss of a coin, organiser Dr Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) divides the young men into guards and inmates, and places them in a makeshift prison where they can be observed.
Meanwhile, Nick's ex-girlfriend Holly (Dominik Garcia-Lorido) asks him to help her get revenge against the swaggering gangster Donny (Milo Vengimiglia), who kidnapped and viciously terrorised her.
Nick knows that getting even with Donny will put him on a collision course with mob kingpin Baby (Stanley Tucci), but he can't resist a challenge.
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At an event such as yesterday's Race for the Cure in Jackson, you get reminded right quick about the importance of perspective. The Race has an early start time of 8:00 a.m., which on a seasonable weather day in the State of Concrete Gardens in early October means that when folks start arriving at Great Adventure at 6:30 to 7:00 for it, the mercury is doing something. Rising is not it. In the wee small hours of yesterday morning it was a bit chilly standing in the parking lot area near the Registration tent where Sue's Crew met to assemble. Getting to Jackson, which is one exit beyond the middle of nowhere, from anywhere other than - well Jackson apparently - takes a bit of time. I am an early riser every day (What can I say? I love the taste of worms) but even I recoiled a bit at the sound of my alarm clock yesterday morning at 3:38 a.m. beckoning me to begin my journey south.
Everyone was cold upon arrival yesterday. Everyone was trapped in traffic trying to get into the park. Everyone was caught in the long lines of people walking from the parking areas to the lot where the Race begins and ends. I know not if everyone was as disappointed as my bride to find out that the distance between where we parked and where we ran did not count towards her 3.1 mile run.
But once you either thawed out a bit or your body simply adjusted to its cold habitat, and once your eyes opened fully and once you had made your way through the crowd to meet up with (at least some of) the other members of your team, you were able to take a look around and get the full measure of your surroundings. And you saw the teams, much like ours, in their matching t-shirts. And you saw the names of the people for whom other people ran yesterday. Some of them survivors, like Mom. A lot of them not, like Suzy B. You saw the people who are themselves survivors of this horrible disease and who braved the early morning cold yesterday to perhaps run, or to walk or to simply cheer on loved ones who were doing one or the other. And you saw people who are in the throes of the fight for their life as we speak who may or may not have been able themselves to run or to walk yesterday but were present to support both those they knew and those they do not knew.
And once you begin to soak in what is happening all around you, the memory of why you came elbows its way to the forefront of your mind. It knocked the crap out of all of those other "concerns". You remembered that that you would eventually warm up. And you would indeed wake up as well. Neither is actually a problem but rather a transitory condition.
Yesterday there were countless individuals there who have firsthand experience with the former and sadly have little difficulty discerning it from the latter. But when you looked at their faces and in their eyes yesterday morning it was not fear staring back at you. It was not resignation either. It was life.
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The PS Vita has gotten a useful software update today, version 3.10, that will be adding some useful features.
Continue reading PS Vita Software Update 3.10
The PS Vita has gotten a useful software update today, version 3.10, that will be adding some useful features.
Continue reading PS Vita Software Update 3.10
So the predictions were correct, the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita will be getting a bundle. Continue reading As Predicted PS4 PS Vita Bundle To Drop
With the Playstation 4 release fast approaching, the future of the Playstation Vita could not look better. Continue reading PS Vita: Future Bright In PS4 Synthesis
Metal Gear Solid VR Missions has been spotted on ESRB's website, a rating for PS3, PS Vita, and PSP. It looks like we will be getting a new PS One classic game of worth after a lull. Continue reading MGS VR Missions For Vita
Turtle Sandbox has replied to my inquiry regarding additional platforms for the release of Cannon Brawl outside of PC and Xbox. Continue reading Cannon Brawl Platform Update
Gamestop has more PS4 systems available for pre-order starting today Sat, July 27, 2013. Quantities are limited, so if you are interested inquire at your local Gamestop or online. Are you getting the PS4, or have you already pre-ordered the Xbox One, or are you good with a Wii U? Let me know in the comments.
Gamescom 2013 is less than a month away. Held at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany, beginning on August 21st to 25th, 2013. PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U will be at the show, with many third parties in attendance. Sony looks to be making some PS Vita announcements, hopefully some new games. What news are you looking forward to? Or are you hoping to get more glimpses at already announced games? Let me know in the comments below.


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Guide to the Eduard von Bauernfeld papers MS 176
Biographical / Historical
Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802-1890) was an Austrian dramatist who authored comedies and farces that addressed the social and political issues of the times. He ranked high among the German playwrights of the century, and he also wrote several essays. Prior to his career as an author, he worked for the Austrian government in a legal capacity; however, during this time he wrote several pieces harshly criticizing the government.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a letter written by von Bauernfeld to an unknown correspondent and a handwritten poem. Both items are written in German.
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This material is open for research.
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Permission to publish material from the Eduard von Bauernfeld Papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
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Eduard von Bauernfeld Papers, 1877, MS 176 Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
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This collection was purchased on March 14, 1966.
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Hollywood Ink: Anyone Wanna Buy a Sean Penn/Naomi Watts Drama?
· That annual Hollywood rite of spring known as "Pleeeease Don't Make Me Go to Cannes Without a Distributor" is unfolding for Fair Game, director Doug Liman's take on the Valerie Plame scandal starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. A buyer screening was held Wednesday in L.A., where most of the indies and mini-majors on hand reportedly admired the film but aren't sure how to sell it to audiences. Factor in the publicity costs of both Cannes and an imminent Oscar campaign, and... well, you know. Better sleep on it. [LAT]
Bryan Singer reteams with an old, Oscar-winning friend, Julia Roberts joins an expedition to Mount Everest, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· I thought this was old news, but it just turns out Jack the Giant Killer has been in development for so long that Christopher McQuarrie's new rewrite-duty recruitment just seems like a foregone conclusion on a Bryan Singer project. Anyway, The Usual Suspects scribe is contributing the latest draft; shooting reportedly begins this summer. [THR]
· Julia Roberts is one of the producers of the George Mallory biopic currently in development, which Elizabeth helmer Shekhar Kapur is on board to direct. Mallory and his partner disappeared 800 feet from the summit of Mt. Everest on an expedition in 1924. Asked why she wanted to be involved with making the film, Roberts is said to have replied, "Because it's there." [Variety]
· Leslie Mann and Kate Bosworth have joined Elgin James's drama Goodnight Moon as the mother and aunt (respectively) of previously cast Juno Temple's runaway. [THR]
· Shocker: Disney's Oz prequel The Great Powerful will be in 3-D. [LAT]
· While you're still no closer to seeing Emma Roberts in the greatest lesbian diamond heist movie ever, she is set to star with Freddie Highmore in the teen comedy Homework. Take what you can get, I suppose. [Variety]


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The Dallas Cowboys have had a tumultuous offseason, which isn't something altogether out of the ordinary for the organization. But, as we start to look at the NFL landscape and try to identify whose stocks will rise and fall this season, the Cowboys, whose Vegas over/under is 9.5 (3.5 games less than they won last year), feel due for a regression.
Ezekiel Elliott, already under a microscope with the NFL's extra-judicial investigative arm, pulled down a woman's top at a St. Patrick's Day parade and allegedly broke an adversary's nose in a bar fight. (The details of this latter incident are very murky and may never be adjudicated, which may or may not have to do with the fixer the Cowboys have on retainer.)
Despite Jerry Jones' public protestations, Roger Goodell's wheel of punishment is expected to come up with a suspension for the talented young running back. Whether it is one, two, three, or four games is anyone's guess.
Nobody actually believes that, like, Cowboys-Rams on October 1st will be impacted one iota by Dez Bryant's tardiness for mandatory workouts. However, Dez is 28 years old now. This is his eighth season in the NFL. Will there ever come a point where he will understand that it's easier in aggregate to just abide by administrative responsibilities than incur the bad-optic firestorm?
The Cowboys' defense has had off-field issues. Cornerback Nolan Carroll got a DUI. Linebacker Damien Wilson has been charged with aggravated assault of a deadly weapon. Defensive end David Irving will start the season with a four-game PED suspension.
There will be a year of tape on Dak Prescott. How will he adjust to the league's adjustments? If he's called on to make more plays, especially in the presumed absence of Elliott, will he do it?
Last year, the Cowboys caught everybody by surprise. They rebounded from 4-12 in 2015 to 13-3, and a miraculous Aaron Rodgers completion to Jared Cook away from the NFC Championship Game. This year, they'll come into the season with a bullseye on their backs.


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SAN FRANCISCO - With formal ratification now complete, PMA President James McKenna issued the following statement on the historic three-year contract extension that covers workers at all 29 West Coast ports through July 1, 2022:
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
We've Got Deadlines to Keep -- But Since You're Big Oil, We'll Let You Slide
Washington's been quietly letting oil refineries all across the US to miss court-mandated deadlines to reduce air emissions. That means hundreds of thousands of Americans are getting extra exposure to dangerous pollutants. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram found the EPA has been extremely flexible with the industry it's supposed to regulate. The Fort Worth reporters also found that deals to clean up four Chevron/Texaco refineries have been held up for more than a year. (IRE & Fort Worth Star Telegram)
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Two days out of this past week, I had the distinct pleasure of hangin' out with The Strobist, David Hobby. "How did this come about," you ask? Pretty simple actually. My ship is in Baltimore for her Commissioning and he happened to be available.
Photo above by David Hobby.
So we set out to come up with a really cool photo and thought we had a plan for what would be something really special. You know that whole "best laid plans" thing? Yeah, it reared it's ugly head and our plan was out the window. (I could tell you why, but then I would have to kill you and nobody wants that.)
Not to be defeated, we decided to see what we could do with what we had available. So we headed outside determined to overpower the sun with a few of SB-800s. David had no problem at all doing just that. He quickly went to work getting the exposure he needed for the background and then built up the light around me, his subject. We were in a situation where there was no available shade for me to be in and so the only real option was to bring down the background and then bring the light up so that I was correctly exposed.
To do this, you can use your shutter speed to control the exposure of your background and use your aperture to control the exposure of your subject. Once your off-camera flash is set up and giving you enough light, then all you have to do is move shutter speed and aperture up and down to get the photo you're after.
As far as The Strobist goes, DH was a great guy and photographer to work around and I had my mind in "sponge" mode the entire time, picking up everything he was throwin' down. If you ever get the chance to attend one of his lighting seminars, I would HIGHLY encourage it.
In exchange, I gave him the 50 cent tour of the Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. From stem to stern, keel to mast, I showed him just about everything I know about this amazing ship that I serve on. David, if you're reading this, I hope you had just as much fun as I did.
There will be more to come on this subject soon and I'll be sure to keep you posted! Have a great week!


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two curious kittens sit bewildered, looking at the koi fish wallpaper.
Winner of the BBC's Little Painting Challenge, Timothy Adam Matthews.
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Curious Kittens (2012)
Oil painting by Timothy Adam Matthews
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- Size: 19.69 x 27.56 x 1.97 in / 19.69 x 27.56 in (actual image size)
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- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Animals and birds
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We spend three hours a day on our phones, on average, with almost one in five of us admitting we check our phone at least once every 15 minutes.
These are some of the early findings from Australia's Biggest Smartphone Survey, which is looking at how we use our smartphones and how we feel about them.
More than 10,000 people have taken part in the survey so far, but there's still plenty of time to participate with the survey running until Friday, August 25.
In particular, researchers want to hear from more young people, especially those aged between 12 and 25.
Psychology PhD student Bep Uink from Murdoch University, says: "Young Australians are digital natives so it's possible they have more sophisticated relationships with their smartphones than their parents' generation."
"It's really important for researchers to hear from young people about the benefits they get from their smartphones, and conversely the downsides of having such a ubiquitous device in their lives, that we might not otherwise be aware of," she says.
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Now I have joined HRI as (Spim- 2016 – Harish-Chandra Research Institute) Summer student. As I have attended the lecture classes, I feel that It's really a nice place for pursuing Research. Thank's HRI to give me opportunity to participate here.
Category Archives: My Journey
Joined IIT(BHU) for summer training program
Currently, I have enrolled myself for Short Term Course at The Department of Mathematical Sciences at IIT(BHU). Here I have focused on C programming and learning techniques to solve numerical problems that how we generate data using C program and analyze them, how it works, how we think to design a program to solve a problem…etc. You may visit the link for more details about the institute IIT (BHU) or (Banaras Hindu University )
I have got First position in cultural event of Central University of Rajasthan Oct, 2015
I and my friends(under my supervision) have got First position in a cultural event(Best of Waste) at 'Central University of Rajasthan' in Oct 2015.
(From L-to-R : Munesh, Muktikant, Kalika and Deependra) hold the trophy which was given to our School(School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science) as a winner of this event.
In this picture I and my friend(Munesh) with our trophy and Certificates.
My Final Year Summer Internship
I have completed my 3rd year Summer Internship At Ambedkar University Delhi in July of 2015. Here I especially focused on paper THE CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATHEMATICS OF ENIGMA(1995), Cryptologia published by A. Ray Miller.
About Author
I'm an alumni of Delhi University(UG) and Central University of Rajasthan(PG). I love innovations, apart from my study I keep busy my self in Innovations, creativity. I like traveling in the sense of visiting.
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I have visited the following places.
- Patna University (As Visitor), 2010
- Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (As visitor), 2011
- IISER Kolkata (As Visitor, 2009) & IISER Bhopal (As Visitor, 2015)
- IISc (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), (As Visitor ), 2012
- Himachal Pradesh University (As Visitor), 2012
- University of Delhi (@ Student) 2012 – 2015
- Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Center (@ Summer Student), 2013 & 2014
- Kumaun University Nainital, Uttarakhand (As visitor), 2015
- Ambedkar University, Delhi (@ Summer Student), 2015
- CURAJ (Central University of Rajasthan) (@ Student), 2015
- LNMIIT, Jaipur (@workshop), 2015 & 2017
- Sardar Patel University, Gujarat (@Participant of 31st West Zone Youth Fest), 2016
- IIT (BHU), Varanasi (@Summer Student), 2016
- Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad (@SPIM Student), 2016
- Ganpat University, Gujarat (@Participant of 32nd West Zone Youth Fest), 2017
- Shivaji University, Kolhapur (@Participant of 32nd National Youth Fest), 2017
- VNIT Nagpur, MH, (@workshop), 2017


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To All Club Contacts
The Spring meeting of Tennis Ayrshire will take place on Wednesday, 23rd March at 7.30pm on the premises of Troon Lawn Tennis Club, 5 Victoria Drive, Troon KA10 6EN.
Agenda | Proposal for Changes to Masters
Its hoped that delegates from all our clubs will attend. Clubs may send more than one delegate but when voting only one vote per club can be allowed.
Non-affiliated clubs can attend but have no voting rights.
Tea and coffee will be available to attendees at the meeting.
John Frame, President


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nourishing – After a long winter, we are finally enjoying the arrival of Spring and the re-opening of many local farmers' markets. I am excited to be picking up the haul from our latest local co-op order later today, including fresh organic asparagus. We love simply roasting it. I've also recently been blessed by the purchase of a Ninja Ultima system and have dabbled in making my own nut milks, smoothies, spreads, and the sorts.
reading – I've read a lot lately, actually. With my husband's current work schedule, I have time after I tuck the tots into bed for the night to read a bit. I've navigated away from the many non-fictions I'd been working my way through for a while now and have picked up a few fictions instead. I just finished "Tell the Wolves I'm Home," "The Glass Castle," and "Bodies of Water." I thoroughly enjoyed them all – passing my copy of "Tell the Wolves I'm Home" along to a neighbor; appreciating the powerful memoir of "The Glass Castle" and swapping it for another read with a friend from California; and being shocked by "Bodies of Water." It was a recent impulse buy from Wal-Mart and not at all what I was expecting based on the summary, but captivating nonetheless.
creating – Two nights this past week, I got out my watercolors and just messed around a bit. We also recently found a wooden castle block set at a local discount store that the littles have played with nearly every night since we brought it home.
nurturing – Lots of boo-boos. We have spent so much time outside playing that there has been no shortage of bumps, bruises, and scrapes to attend to.
watching – The way that the leaves turn on the trees before these spring storms roll in and the rain puddles that quickly form thereafter.


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H.E.Thomas Drew, British High Commissioner Pakistan, accompanied by Ms Elin Burns, BDHC and Director Trade and Investment, visited the OICCI on March 21, 2018 to meet members and to get an overview of OICCI business perspective on current political and economic situation, including any perceived impact due to the upcoming general elections in the country, as well as members views on the reforms on ease of doing business. MC Members Shazad Dada. Past President, Shahab Rizvi and SG M. Abdul Aleem welcomed the guests along with CEOS of 8 member companies.
The OICCI Presentation included a brief profile of the Chamber, results of the OICCI sponsored Business Confidence Index survey, wave 15, released in November 2017, which shows that the business community confidence has gone up by a good margin as compared to the last survey, – the High Commissioner was informed by the SG that the survey respondents included some OICCI members, selected randomly, and these leading foreign investors continue to remain relatively more positive as compared to the overall business community perception. The SG also emphasized that the survey was not one-dimensional as 44% respondents were positive and 23% expressed negative views on the business environment expressing growing concerns on ad-hocism and improper policy implementation. He also shared a few slides from the OICCI members Perception and Investment Survey 2017, which he informed were released during a meeting of the MC members with the Prime Minister of Pakistan on January 10, 2018. Other slides and comments shared by the participants included OICCI members perception on why the country is not able to attract large FDI and suggestions for improvement of the Business environment.
The British High Commissioner appreciated the presentation and the input given by the participants and shared that the High Commissioner's mandate included, amongst other matters, increasing the Trade and Investment between UK and Pakistan, working with the concerned authorities to ensure the business climate is made more receptive to business needs and that he will make use of the feedback received today to play his due role.


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If ten years ago you had asked me what a live action Snow White would look like, my answer most certainly would not have been "Chris Hemsworth". And yet, here we are. It's 2016, an all-female Ghost Busters is around the corner, and Snow White's star has bulging triceps and a scraggly beard. The pure, white, dark haired maiden as we remember her has been banished from her own sequel. It's harsh… but fair.
You made it through Snow White and the Huntsman with nary a care for proper names. Now that we're diving deeper into the story's prequel/sequel, however, common nouns like Huntsman, Queen, Brother, and Guard on Duty are just a touch too impersonal. From the get go we learn that Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) has a sister, Freya (Emily Blunt), who lingers on the sidelines while the dark queen murders scores of nameless kings. Freya, a surprisingly gentle and optimistic relative of Ravenna's, is happy to follow her sister around – until life hands her the short stick and the love of her life kills her newborn child. Overwhelmed by a broken heart, Freya blows a gasket, pulls a Queen Elsa, and runs north to build her own kingdom. She then whittles away the following decades by kidnapping children, grooming them into warriors, and expanding her borders with an orphan army. Among these warriors are The Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) – known as Eric – and Sara (Jessica Chastain), a disturbingly attractive couple who waste no time falling in love. Who could blame them? In Queen Freya's kingdom, however, love is against the law, and as Supreme Leader Snow, Freya uses her authority to order Sara's death and dump Eric's unconscious body in an icy river… where he floats downstream to her sister's kingdom and Snow White's rebellious phase.
Fast forward seven years and The Huntsman: Winter's War lands in a peaceful kingdom ruled by the beautiful, the noble, and the suspiciously absent Snow White. White's subjects, however, fear that the recently stolen magic mirror could find its way back in the hands of a new evil conqueror. She orders her Huntsman – sorry… Eric – to find it and steal it back. Meanwhile Freya, the Frost Queen of the North, waits for the mirror — the same one that drove her sister mad, poisoned her kingdom, and caused her horrible death — to come to her. The Huntsman – Eric, dammit – sets off with two nameless dwarfs (played by Nick Frost and Rob Brydon) to find the mirror and destroy it before it can turn Freya into another Ravenna.
With such a strong, two-part title like The Huntsman: Winter's War, you'd think this story stands on a pretty solid, battle-hardened foundation. In reality, it's more like a wispy cross between Frozen and The Lord of the Rings. Freya, the ice queen, desperately avoids emotion by escaping to a loveless life in a northern ice castle, while Eric prances around Middle Earth with two dwarves who "Grew up in the mines". I half expected Sara, a poised and lean archer who never misses, to whip back her decoratively braided hair and show us all her elf ears.
Lack of original material aside, if you're going to see The Huntsman: Winter's War because of the stunningly attractive ensemble then you're in luck. Hemsworth and Chastain have meltingly beautiful chemistry in this romance disguised as a fantasy action. Their predictable story of love, loss, hate, and passion is a colourful contrast to Freya's stone cold loneliness. Even so, Emily Blunt gives purpose to her character's frigidity, throwing a hint of sadness behind her frosty paleness and a deeply suppressed hate into the glare of her masquerade collection Google glasses.
While snakes made of flowers, owls made of snow, and contacts made of memories lend a tone of magic to The Huntsman: Winter's War, it all feels superimposed. It's as if the real story – the one about infanticide, immortal dictators, and child soldiers – was gagged and thrown in the closet in order for the film to be eligible for a PG rating. The Huntsman: Winter's War also tries to throw humour in where it doesn't belong. Bringing a pack of dwarves along to lighten the mood feels a little cliché, especially when those dwarves keep multiplying. The Huntsman: Winter's War may show up on weekend movie channels in the future, but I don't expect it to be a memorable classic. Some of the fighting (while flashy and blurry) is neat, and the magic effects of evil Elsa and zombie Anna are super cool, but all in all it's about a 5/10.
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Mae's life had always been relatively easy. Her parents had money, so she never wanted for much. She was a strong woman and she was already ready to handle a fight or two. At school, she'd always been near the top of her class, with a reputation for kindness, one that led to several elections to Homecoming and Spring Fling courts. She easily could have skated through college, married the man who her mother always wanted to set her up with, had a nice little family of her own, and been taken care of until the day she died. She could have completely ignored The Cause that her roommate started to fight for, and no one would have been able to blame her for that. Mae was in no way raised to be a spy or a warrior for just causes.
But in truth, she wasn't that kind of person. She couldn't understand a problem and ignore it. If she could help, she would. And Mae knew she could help The Cause. So, as soon as Irma started to pack her back to leave, Mae packed too. She had to help
And when Mae died, that's what people would remember. This was a sweet and kind woman who had a very easy life planned for her, and she threw it all away to help, because she could. So, they buried her with honor, because she deserved it.


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Taking salt out of seawater, or desalination, costs a minimum of $2,100 per acre foot. This is the cost as of Oct. 2016 for a very large plant producing water in bulk at the best price. Today, 151,000 acre feet of fresh water became salt water. The cost to turn around and now remove the salt from today's outflow is $317,100,000 (three hundred seventeen million, one hundred thousand). Only in California would high quality drinking water be allowed to flow to the sea, and then expensive desal be proposed to remove the salt. An acre foot is enough water for about six people for a year.
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Its a favourite past-time of mine, browsing the web sites of estate agents and looking at all of the really expensive houses for sale, imagining that I'd won the lottery and could stroll into the likes of Fine & Country and with a casual abandon, waft a bank statement onto the desk and muse over whether or not they have anything expensive enough for me, "I positively won't look at anything below two million, oh dear absolutely not, oh dear no…"
And the really great thing about browsing such sites, apart from the fact that some millionaire who has hit upon hard times now thinks that lots of people are keen to buy his over-priced breeze block mansion just by the number of hits he gets every evening, "Darling look, another thousand people clicked on our property last night, we'll surely sell the old girl any time soon" is that an awful lot of people who are loaded, have such terrible taste.
You don't have to look very hard on that linked site to find a house (lets say its in a place called Horsforth, hey you never know, it might be) thats on sale for over a million, and its got its own bar – inside the house.
When I say its got a bar I don't mean its got one of those small semi-circular padded vinyl front pretend bar's from Argos where people in council houses store their cheap Polish knock-off vodka, oh no, this is a proper bar, a large room at the end of the house with a proper full sized pub bar, proper beer pumps, a wine chiller, a full sized pool table, dartboard, everything, a proper bar-room inside your millionaires house.
And you look at it and think, oh wow thats so cool, I'd love a bar inside my house, apart from me of course because me and alcohol don't mix too well and I'm the one who always end up suffering, so a bar in my house would be as welcome as gout, or pubic lice, or Ricky Gervais coming around for his tea, but anyone else apart from me would look and think "Oh wow, a bar in your millionaires house, how cool".
And then you think a bit harder about it and you see yourself sat in your own bar every night, on your own, because all of your mates are down the proper pub playing pool and darts in a proper pub while you sit on a stool in your own bar and you don't even have anyone to serve you behind your millionaires bar, you have to get off your stool and go around the bar to serve yourself and remember to chuck yourself out at closing time before you get really wasted, again.
You might also wander amongst the pages of Alwoodley on that web site (for instance, it could be) and if you did then you'd find a myriad of examples of money not necessarily being a comfortable bed companion with taste, or indeed practicality – I mean, who would really buy a six bedroom "family" mansion and fit it out totally in white, white walls, white carpets, white kitchen cabinets, white shiny tiles – anyone with enough kids to fill six bedrooms is going to take one look at all that white and recoil in horror, that or buy the house and put in a standing order with the Vanish! company for a truckload of their mark and stain remover to be delivered, daily.
Swimming pools in the garden are another totally frivolous use of money that you didn't really want in the first place, swimming pools in England are going to be used by passing ducks and geese for 364 days of the year until that one day in summer when the sun shines sufficient for you to go put your trunks on and spend half the morning cleaning the duck and goose shit off the tiles in the bottom so that you can have a dip in your garden swimming pool.
Hot Tubs – who the hell has bought into the lunacy that putting your bath outside in the garden and inviting all of your friends around to sit in it while pretending that they too think its wonderful to sit in your garden, have a bath in other peoples dirty water and drink beer ?
If you rang your friends up tonight and said to them "Hey, I've just had a bath in my internal bathroom bath and the water is still warm, do you want to come around and use it or shall I pull the plug ?" you just know what the answer would be don't you, but tell them, "Hey guess what, I've moved the bathtub outside into the garden where all the neighbours can see it, how about you and the rest of the football team come and have a bath with me tonight and we'll drink beer too" and apparently, according to the sorts of estate agents that sell rich peoples houses that have bathtubs in the garden, they can't get around to your house fast enough.
Search hard enough on that web site (above) and you'll find a house "with stabling for 21 horses" and they are promoting that as some sort of desirable asset, now shout me down and call me misguided but a stable for 21 horses is not your pony-club-loving daughter keeping Dobbin in the back garden, a stable for 21 horses is a commercial enterprise but rather than flog it as a riding school business (who knows, maybe they aren't registered anywhere as a business, its a thought…) they are smiling in that way that Eric Idle used to do when playing a salesman in Monty Python sketches, waving the back of their hand across the panorama that is the 21 horse stable and gleefully proclaiming, "Its got adequate stabling for your daughters pony -and all of her friends ponies", not to speak of 21 horses worth of shit to dispose of every day.
You know what I want ?
One of these, filling up my back garden, easel, coffee machine, cake tin and sound system, I'm easily pleased.


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AP's Ben Feller described the crackling debate as an almost desperate competition of ideas and claims between two men who badly want the job.
The line by Romney inspired its own Twitter account, (at) Romneys_Binder, which had more than 12,000 followers before the debate ended.
If they win, the rebels' blend of poverty, religious fundamentalism and anger could define the future of Aleppo, and perhaps the rest of the country.
The next meeting of the Los Alamos Geological Society will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Christian Church, 92 East Road. The featured speaker will be Dan Aiken. The October field trip will be to San Pedro Mines. For this trip, they will meet at 7 a.m. Oct. 20 at Sullivan Field. For more information, contact Paul Bradley at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Rebecca Oertel, a Forest and Range Plant ecologist will present the effects of the Las Conchas Fire on the VCNP and surrounding Jemez Mountains. She will discuss the ecological consequences of this fire as well as the recovery that is underway. From 7-8 p.m. Free. No registration required.
GeekOut Family Night will be from 5:30-8:30 p.m. upstairs, at Mesa Public Library. Bring your own games, or play theirs.
This month's Juvenile Justice Advisory Board meeting will be at 6:15 p.m. in Building #1, Camino Entrada, Pajarito Cliffs Site. The public is welcome to attend. For more information, call 661-4097.
The Los Alamos Farmers Market will be from 7 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Mesa Public Library parking lot. There are two Thursdays left for the outdoor market season.
Today we focus on improving school climate and I will spend the day with the Aspen Tiger sixth graders, presenting the Change of Heart program.
I believe that one of the most important things we need to do is to make every school a safe place to learn.
We present this program at every elementary school and at Los Alamos Middle School for all new students to the district.
Often, the stories shared by students who come from other schools, is astonishing.
Just yesterday at Cookies and Conversation, one young man spoke of life at school before coming to the Los Alamos Public Schools District.
The fact that the classrooms are calm, the teachers are engaged and students don't rule should be a standard, but I'm confused why the whole country doesn't have the same standard.
As families, we should teach our kids to be nice, tolerate others, do unto others — or just ignore someone they don't get along with at school.
I assume the hard part is that not everyone comes from the same home, doesn't have parents that support differences, doesn't think you should love your neighbor as you love yourself, or maybe even to love yourself in the first place.
We expect the schools to be able to accomplish the goals we don't set forth in our own homes.
The annual Los Alamos County Science Fair will take place Jan. 26, 2013 in the Los Alamos High School Commons Areas. The public is invited to view the projects between 1-3 p.m.
LAPS and home school students in grades four through 12 will display projects in fourth and fifth grade individual elementary, K-sixth grade elementary class, six through eighth grade junior division and nine through 12th grade senior division.
The elementary projects are divided into three categories.
The students in junior and senior divisions will compete for first, second and third place and honorable mention in 17 categories. This will give them an opportunity to participate in the Northeastern New Mexico Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Las Vegas, N.M. March 3, 2013.
Every student will receive feedback from the judges, which will assess the student's scientific approach, skills, creativity, clarity and thoroughness. Therefore, the participation in the County Science Fair is experience for student learning.
Participation at the science fair helps the students to achieve State Standard I for every student in every grade level. This standard requires students to understand the processes of scientific investigations and use inquiry and scientific ways of observing, experimenting, predicting and validating to think critically.
The Los Alamos Elks Lodge #2083 recently presented $8,000 in checks from proceeds raised at their annual Elks Golf Tournament for Charity held in June. "All of the monies given go to children in Northern New Mexico," Elks Exalted Ruler Lisa Harris said. The Elks presented checks to four organizations $3,500 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, $2,000 to the UNM Children's Hospital, $1,500 to the Los Alamos Junior Golf Program and $1,000 to the Special Olympics of Northern New Mexico. From left, Los Alamos Elks Secretary Eppie Trujillo and Exalted Ruler Lisa Harris present a $3,500 check to Bob Biggers of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Police Beat items are compiled from public information contained in Los Alamos Police Department Records. Charges or citations listed in Police Beat do not imply innocence or guilt. The Los Alamos Police Department uses the term "arrest" to define anyone who has been physically arrested, served a court summons, or issued a citation.
Oct. 4
2:28 p.m. — A 13-year-old girl reported to police she was the victim of extortion or impugning in the 300 block of El Conejo.
2:37 p.m. — Peggy Myers, 59, of Los Alamos was arrested for driving with a suspended or revoked license at the intersection of 15th Street and Central Avenue.
Oct. 5
2:30 p.m. — A 70-year-old Los Alamos woman told police she was the victim of a fraud that cost her between $100 and $250.
Oct. 8
4:15 p.m. — Juan Gonzales, 25, of Los Alamos was arrested and charged with assault in the intersection of Alamo and San Ildefonso Road.
Oct. 9
3:15 p.m. — A 43-year-old man reported he was the victim of someone trying to access his computer with an intent to defraud him. The crime occurred in the 2400 block of Canyon Glen.
Council forum
The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce and the Los Alamos Monitor will host a county council candidate forum at 6 p.m. Thursday at UNM-LA Building 5 Lecture Hall. The forum will focus on business and economic development issues facing LA. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Letter deadline
The deadline to receive letters of interest from applicants interested in being appointed to the new Creative District advisory committee will have until 5 p.m. today. The criterion has been expanded to include those who "live or work in Los Alamos County."
CRC Committee
Members of Charter Review Committee will be available at the Farmer's Market to answer questions. Join them between
9:30-11:30 a.m. Committee members plan to meet with voters at the Farmer's Market every Thursday between now and the day of the election.
County Council
The Los Alamos County Council will meet at 7 p.m. today for a work session at the White Rock Fire Station No. 3.
BPU meeting
The Board of Public Utilities will hold its regular monthly meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the DPU Conference Room at 170 Central Park Square.
SANTA FE (AP) — Republican Heather Wilson and Democrat Martin Heinrich each entered the final stretch of New Mexico's Senate race with about $1 million in campaign cash, and a new poll shows Heinrich leading the contest.
According to the latest finance reports, Wilson has raised about $6.2 million since starting her campaign and Heinrich has collected nearly $5.9 million in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman.
The Democratic and Republican candidates reported cash-on-hand of slightly more than $1 million at the end of last month. Independent American Party candidate Jon Barrie had a balance of about $1,100 in his campaign account, debts of about $13,600 and has raised about $9,500 so far.
Heinrich is serving his second term representing the Albuquerque-area 1st Congressional District. Wilson held the congressional seat for five terms before running unsuccessfully in 2008 for the GOP Senate nomination.
A poll published Monday by the Albuquerque Journal found 48 percent of likely voters backing Heinrich and 39 percent supporting Wilson. Nine percent of voters were undecided and 4 percent favored Barrie. Bob Anderson of Albuquerque is a write-in candidate.
Probably the highlight of the kindergartners' field trip to the Los Alamos Medical Center was watching hospital staffers Juanita Boyer, Claudette Medina, Julie Richey and Dr. Lorie Whitley whip up a batch of instant ice cream using liquid nitrogen and milk.
Or, it could have been hearing their own pulse beats through an ultrasound scanner gently applied to their wrists by hospital nurse James Chrobocinksi. Or perhaps maybe it was when Nose Ear and Throat Dr. Jesse Knight squirted a mucous-like hand sanitizer onto the children's hands through the "nostrils" of a rubber container shaped like a nose.
Whatever happened at the LAMC's first ever "Teddy Bear Clinic," all seemed to have a learning experience seeing how a hospital works, which was one of the main points of the event.
According to LAMC CEO Feliciano Jiron, about 350 kindergartners from throughout the Los Alamos School District dropped by the hospital Friday to tour the facility.
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Looking for information on eating disorders in boys? Worried that your son has an eating disorder? How can you tell if a boy has an eating disorder? The fact is that the number of boys with eating disorders is on the rise. In 2009 my 15-year old son developed anorexia. Now, aged 23 and having just completed a Master's Degree, he is thankfully recovered. This blog tells the story of my son's recovery from a serious eating disorder as well as raising awareness of eating disorders in boys.
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Oh come off it NEXT, that model is positively emaciated
Yes we know that mass media and glamorisation of an overly-thin ideal do not cause eating disorders, but they can certainly lead a vulnerable individual down the path to developing one and serve as a constant source of triggers for people with eating disorders.
I mean, NEXT... If my daughter looked like the one in that photo I'd have her down the local GPs' surgery in a shot.
It is no longer ethical for a company like NEXT to portray 'the ideal' as skinny and emaciated. It never was ethical, but with all the recent publicity to portray 'real women' (whatever a 'real' woman is...) you would think they'd know better.
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I totally agree. I was absolutely horrified to see the NEXT mini-catalogue - flabbergasted in fact. I actually (strange for me) immediately tweeted my feelings. Shame on you NEXT.ReplyDeleteReplies
I eventually got a very brief emailed reply from NEXT stating that their models all fit into clothes within their ranges, mainly size 10, and do not have eating disorders. They completely missed the point...Delete
I have never commented on anything on the internet. But I received the next catalogue in the post this week and am absolutely horrified at the models in the catalogue. One of them is so skinny she looks ill. I don't mind skinny woman in magazines but this is just wrong!ReplyDelete


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I woke up at the crack of dawn to get some homework done before school.
all that homework made the time go by superfast and before I knew it, it was time to leave for school and I was still in my pj's.
my hair still unkempt.
so I decided not to go and to just get all caught up on my schoolwork.
and stay in my pj's.
and blog.
And it's raining/chilly outside. Today is the best day ever.
but now I'm feeling like I need to get dolled up. I am not sick, I have no reason to look like it!
|although I truly wish my hair looked like this when I wake up... This was the result of an experiment in sleeping in sponge curlers.


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My dog is sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at herself in the mirror on the opposite wall.
Only she doesn't know she's looking at herself.
Fanny, formerly the "love me, please love me" dog who tries to cross the street when she sees someone who might possibly pet her, has suddenly turned tough.
Her brow is furrowed, her ears are raised, and she occasionally punctuates the self-induced tension with a gutteral growl to her reflection.
Such a little goofball…


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Swish Summer Alert: Seattle
NYC, LA, Teaxs, NJ, DMV, Florida, and Seattle.
A hotbed of current and future NBA stars. Seattle has molded this reputation over the past 10 years through the likes of Brandon Roy, Jamal Crawford, Jason Terry, Nate Robinson, Terence Williams, Marvin Williams, fake Isiah Thomas, and Peyton Siva waiting in the wings @ Louisville.
And after watching this video of Jamal Crawford's Summer League up in the Emerald City, its safe to say they got another one.
Tony Wroten Jr. (incoming freshman): Obviously born after the year of 1991 due to the presence of a high top fade hovering above his head. Nonetheless this kid definitely has an NBA ready game right now.
I don't think he'll stay in college (University of Washington) for more than a year, he just look like a disrespectful college athlete, type dude to burn it down in the lobby of his own dorm.
Judge for yourself though…
Am I the only one who sees how Big Daddy Kane son is abusing John Wall though?


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I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Dashew, the founder of the Dashew Center, today as well which was quite exciting. He has done some amazing work and it was great getting to actually meet him.
|I love it, ninty-six and still sporting the Pumas.
My second fave coffee was from Cuba. The drink was served in a cup the size of an individual creamer cup. It was sweet and strong, just like I like 'em. Too too good.
I finished the day off with Encounter group... great day!


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Birthday morning run
7 miles
Probably the closest thing I'll ever have to a bow tie. I thought about trying it on to my chest hair but I'll leave that imagery up to your imagination.
(lucky you)
Nice design,
Pretty have gauge soap dish. Does this mean I have to start using that sudsy stuff?
Another fallen comrade soon to be an amputee
So sad
Birthday run evening
2 miles
How did the beach Know.
I can't remember the last time I found a B-day Balloon and today I found 2. Although I appreciated the kind gesture they both went in the trash
10 miles
Finally someone I can beat at arm wrestling. I won 2 out of 3 matches
But I had to cheat. (SHHH!!)
I accidentally dropped it around 5th st in Hermosa
In case you didn't know I'm a bad ass who lives life dangerously.
I often run with a toothpick in my mouth!
What the hell kind of tracks are those? It looks like someone hasn't cut their big toenail since the 60's, either that or there is some kind of narwhal footed monster roaming my sand.
I followed them for about a mile or two almost hoping that they would end going up a storm drain where this presumed mutant lived but unfortunately my attention span waned when I saw a pretty girl and I lost the trail.
If I ever have to repeat the 3rd grade I'm gonna use this ball as Mercury in my model of the solar system.
My run wouldn't be complete without one.
Tell me why would a kid want toy of a crossing guard cop?
Another sunken vessel
30th st Manhattan
Is that the ball I lost yesterday at 5th st in Hermosa?
They changed up the Tsunami signs. I think that wave is gonna catch that dude before he makes it up the hill. Poor little guy.
I guess it's a pretty good letter to find. Your always gonna need vowels. Plus in a pinch I could use it as a "W" or a "M" and in desperate times I could break off the center and use it as a "C" orbreak off the top and the middle to make a "L"
(The possibilities are endless)
There's only so many stupid things I can say about a shovel.
5th st Hermosa
It turns out I now have a set of blue balls.
I'm golfing with my buddy later this week. His favorite ball is the Titleiest Pro V. He's gonna be stoked when give this to him.
The was Narwhal was back again! I can't wait to find this elusive beast
"Hey dude, you got ripped off your never gonna find any plastic shovels with thing."
He did tell me he found a diamond earring earlier in the week.
This shovel came full of dead sand crabs and seashells. I decided to let it be.
I have to look at this crap everyday
Maybe I'll start scattering some pennies around in the sand to make there time seem more productive.
Heel striking Vibram wearer. I was way to late to capture a good shot.
What's up with this stride?
I don't understand. It looks like it's going the opposite direction but then the little dingle berry print would have to me made by the small toe?
Totally Bizarre
Maybe my beach is getting invaded by monsters?
That would explain this shoe, and all the children that have gone missing of late?


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Censor news, and for a change it's good.
Posted by Angry Exile
Despite my occasional pessimism that everyone in Australia is going to be treated as a retard incapable of having any contact with a computer or the internet without government nannying things are looking up. First, good news for Australian gamers – Michael Atkinson, the principle barrier to getting an R18+ classification for games, has resigned. I've blogged before on Australia's nannyish attitude to computer games and how even games aimed at adults have had to be altered to suit the squeamish attitudes of the Puritan fuckwits here (see here and here). Finally those gamers who are perhaps more than 20 years older than the current maximum age classification have a realistic chance of being able to buy an unedited, not specially ruined for Australia, copy of Demon Zombie Smash Hack Blam 3 or whatever.
R18+ video games are a step closer to being allowed in Australia following the resignation of South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson.
Mr Atkinson's decision to leave the front bench means he will no longer be in a position to vote on changes to the country's classification system, including the introduction of an R18+ rating for games.
As a quick refresher to save anyone picking through my other posts on this, the relevance of one resignation at the state level is that to create a new R18+ classification for games all states must agree, and this decision is up to the Attorneys-General. Fuck knows why but the practical upshot was that Michael Atkinson was opposed to it and that meant that in theory everyone in the whole country could have personally written to Kevin Rudd demanding it and he'd have been able to do precisely fuck all, his hands being legally tied by one politician in a state government. Now in some ways this need for unanimity is not a bad thing – if used to prevent loss of liberty I'd be heaving a sigh of relief. In this instance it's been the other way around. of course, South Australia may replace Atkinson with someone else who feels the same way but hopefully they've sussed the mood. Part of it is that the Australian Labor Party (please donate any spare lower case 'u's here) got a bit of a shoeing in the state elections in South Australia and Tasmania.
The decision came after voters gave the Rann Government a kicking in last weekend's state election. Mr Atkinson won his seat of Croydon comfortably but still suffered a 14.3 per cent swing against him, according to ABC reports.
Heh. It's a safe seat, won by Atkinson in 2006 with a 6.8 swing in his favour. To lose all that and then more than the same again has to be significant. Not that a politician would ever admit that.
Mr Atkinson said he was stepping down so there could be "renewal" in the Government's leadership and so he could spend more time with his family, including his son Johnno.
"He was supposed to play his first (soccer) game last night at 7pm and like so many times in my time in Parliament I wasn't there," Mr Atkinson said yesterday.
"I am pretty disappointed about that.
"So I resolved that every time Johnno walks on the pitch this year his dad is going to be there even if it embarrasses the hell out of him."
Depends on whether the other kids start chasing you around the pitch with Nintendos and pointing behind you and yelling "AAAAAARGH SPACE INVADERS".
That's not all. With Atkinson gone hopefully we won't have to hear any more of this sort of thing.
Dick Puddlecote will be a happy bunny, because the other way of looking at that is that fags are less harmful than videogames. Jesus Christ, what cock socket was behind this? Oh, sorry Michael, was that you too?
A GROUP that says video games and violence are like smoking and lung cancer has received tens of thousands of dollars in funding from politician and outspoken R18+ game critic Michael Atkinson.
An expert from the Australian Council on Children and the Media this week told a TV news program the link between violent games and youth violence was stronger than tobacco and cancer.
Fuck, so that's this year's footy and Rugby League seasons called off, is it? Or is it okay because it's real people?
"It's much greater than the effect of smoking on lung cancer," psychologist Dr Wayne Warburton said.
It's the strongest claim yet in the war of words over video game ratings which has heated up after a call for public input on the issue that drew 55,000 submissions.
A spokesman for Mr Atkinson told news.com.au his department provided an annual grant to the council under its trading name Young Media Australia.
The grant is to support a project called "Know Before You Go" that offers parents information about which films are suitable for children.
Mr Atkinson's spokesman could not say how much the grant was for and declined to provide an estimate, however fellow Labor MP Gay Thompson previously put the figure at up to $33,000.
"The South Australian Attorney-General recently provided $33,000 for the project 'Know Before You Go'," she told parliament in 2006.
I'm almost certain that it would be more accurate to say that this group has received funds from South Australian taxpayers courtesy of Michael Atkinson, though if it turns out he gave them $33 grand of his own cash I'll happily correct this. In the meantime this should delight Dick Puddlecote, Leg-iron and other smoky people. Great news guys, smoking is less harmful than playing videogames.
The final icing on this cake, and probably the most important of all*, is that apparently Michael Atkinson also had a hand in this frankly rather scary law.
SOUTH Australian laws censoring anonymous political comment on the internet have sparked national and international outrage, with readers comparing the "draconian laws" to those in Nazi Germany and China.
Well over 1000 people had posted comments on the AdelaideNow website up to midnight last night – most vehemently against the Rann Government's legislation which will force internet bloggers and anyone publishing a comment on next month's state election to supply their real name and postcode.
A poll reveals more than 90 percent of readers are against the laws, which carry a maximum fine of $5,000 for media organisations who do not hand over such information to the Electoral Commissioner.
In an extraordinary response to the story, readers have compared the law to those used in Nazi Germany, China, George Orwell's 1984 and North Korea, including Mark Burns Springer from the United States.
What the cunting fuck were they thinking over there? They sure as fuck can't blame it on smoking weed because I imagine the Puritan State will be the last one in Australia to accept legalising a bit of puff. Atkinson, to my not especially great surprise, was all for it.
Attorney-General Michael Atkinson said the law would not impinge on free speech and claimed that he expected The Advertiser and AdelaideNow to "publish false stories about me, invent things about me to punish me".
Mr Atkinson described AdelaideNow as "not just a sewer of criminal defamation" but also "a sewer of identity theft and fraud".
In a press conference today, Mr Atkinson said the law was "all about honesty".
The state Liberal Party – which supported the law – also drew fire from readers.
Maybe I'm wrong about the puff. Anyway, it didn't last long.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Michael Atkinson will move immediately to repeal controversial laws which sparked an outcry over censorship of the internet.
After backing down late last night to say the laws would not be put into effect, Mr Atkinson told reporters he would follow the advice of Opposition legal affairs spokeswoman Vickie Chapman and use a section of the Electoral Act to immediately repeal the section.
Earlier, Mr Atkinson said it would be repealed but could not do it until after the election and had promised that no action would be taken against internet users during the election campaign.
Not completely mad after all then. And in fairness I have to give him credit for this (my emphasis):
"I will immediately after the election move to repeal the law retrospectively."
Mr Atkinson said the law would not be enforced for comments posted on AdelaideNow during the upcoming election campaign, even though it was technically applicable.
"It may be humiliating for me, but that's politics in a democracy and I'll take my lumps," he continued in the statement.
"This way, no one need fear now that they are being censored on the net or in blogs, whether they blog under their own name or anonymously. The law will be repealed retrospectively.
I think he's a paternalist and patronising tool, but he's got more guts than some (probably most in Westminster).
Of course none of this changes Australia's other big censorship project, the Great Firewall of Australia. This proposed ISP level, government controlled filter is Senator Stephen Conroy's pet project (blogged at length more than once – see this tag), and in turn is one of the main reasons why I believe Senators (or 'Senatopeers' as I called them since I was talking about the UK), who should be part of the brake on the power of the government, should not be allowed to serve in the government unless they want to give up their seat and contest one in the Lower House. Conroy is determined that he knows what's best for everyone in Australia and is appearing on The 7pm Project
tomorrow night tonight to try to sell it to us all. It's not mentioned on their site but I caught a trailer and it looks like I wasn't the only one. Conroy is as determined as Atkinson was over the R18+ certificate, and being a Senator he's not easy to get rid of. I'm hoping to be home in time to watch and I do hope The 7pm Project hosts grill the bastard properly. The fact that Google has both given up co-operating with Chinese censorship and, with Yahoo!, attacked the Australian filter plans should give them some decent ammo.
Both Google and Yahoo say the government's plans to introduce a mandatory internet filter threaten to restrict legitimate access to information.
"Our primary concern is that the scope of content to be filtered is too wide," Google said.
Google said that while protecting the free exchange of ideas and information could not be without some limits, people should retain the right to freedom of expression.
This is something else I'm planning a post on but I can do a quick summary for Google right here and now. Whenever anyone says they're all for free speech and then adds the words 'but', 'however' or 'as long as' at the end what they're actually saying is that they support free speech as long as it's speech they find agreeable. Freedom of speech is an absolute, a black and white issue in an all too often grey world. If you have no restrictions on speech then it's free, simple as. If there are restrictions then by definition it is not free. You might say it's mostly free, and that's true in a literal sense, but it's just as true to use a term like 'only moderately restricted'. This is 'slightly pregnant' stuff, fellas. 'Free exchange of ideas and information' can, and should, and fucking well must be without limits, because otherwise it's not actually free, d'you see? Like being able to buy land and do what you like with it I regard this as a litmus test of my libertarianism – if I can stand to see something I loathe and vehemently disagree with in print, on TV or on the web, even though I might wish it hadn't been said and that the speaker contracts some virulent genital pox, then I guess I'm still supporting free speech. The day I think 'they shouldn't be allowed to say that' I'll be too ashamed to call myself libertarian.
Google, stop knocking cocks with the politicians and tell 'em the facts. You're supposed to be the 'do no evil' people, remember? Fucking live up to it.
"Some limits, like child pornography, are obvious. No Australian wants that to be available – and we agree."
Want? It's not a matter of what we want – it's there. We don't want car crashes either but the solution isn't to dig up the roads or put a speed bump every 50m on the freeway. Child porn is revolting and evil and, sadly, a fact of life. By all means go after the sick bastards who produce it by raping kids, and if – if – they violently resist arrest (oh please) then I wouldn't shed a tear if the result was a couple of well aimed 9mm rounds in the cunt's chest. But it's almost certain, as Conroy himself has admitted, that the filter will not achieve this. Oh sure, it might catch some less net savvy perverts but they'd be what you might call low hanging fruit and most or all will have been caught by now. As I wrote just over a year ago,
…the technically savvy can and will find ways to defeat the filtering, and that there are some very tech savvy nonces out there in cyberspace. In fact I'd go further and suggest that the majority of web using pervs and other genuine internet menaces have had to get reasonably savvy. There will have been a kind of Darwinian selection going on among them in that those who have failed to get savvy and learn to cover their tracks have got arrested, jailed and locked in solitary to prevent the rest of the prison kicking the shit out of them too much. Those that are left, I think it's safe to assume, are those who've learned how not to get caught.
Yep, the ones to worry about are the ones using proxies, TORs and other means to avoid the firewall, which will be giving them the added bonus of lulling a lot of people into a false sense of security. Hey, we've got the firewall now so let little Johnny chat away on IM to this other (4)9 year old that he met online. Well done everybody, fucking well done.
Unfortunately Google apparently didn't mention any of these points and just said they were already taking steps and that it'd bugger things up for the millions of innocent net users.
The company said it already had a global, all-product ban against child sexual abuse material which it filtered out from search results and removed from its products.
"But moving to a mandatory ISP level filtering regime with a scope that goes well beyond such material is heavy-handed and can raise genuine questions about restrictions on access to information."
The company also said the introduction of a mandatory filtering regime could negatively impact on user access speeds.
Joined in quick order by Yahoo!
"We are concerned that the scope of content to be filtered is too wide," the company's submission said.
Senator Conroy has said the filtering plan was about blocking access to material on the Refused Classification or banned content list, such as child sexual abuse imagery, sexual violence and detailed instruction in crime.
Yahoo said it was entirely supportive of any efforts to make the internet a safer place for children.
But the company said mandatory filtering of all banned material could block content with a strong social, political and/or educational value.
It could block access to safe injecting and other harm minimisation websites, euthanasia discussion forums, anti-abortion websites, as well as legitimate discussions of the geo-political causes of terrorism.
"Clearly some of this content is controversial and, depending on one's political beliefs, rather offensive. However, we maintain that there is enormous value in this content being available to encourage debate and inform opinion," the company said.
Good, though I still think someone from Google or Yahoo! could have pointed out that even if this government doesn't abuse the power – and I'm not holding my breath – with these mechanisms in place there's nothing to stop a future government from doing so. The question to Kevin Rudd (because I don't see much value in dealing with Conroy) should be: would you trust the Liberals and Nationals with this? Would you trust a far right party? If the answer is anything other than an enthusiastic yes then it should be obvious that the fucking thing needs to go, as does the swivel eyed window licker who wants to inflict it on us all.
* And yes, I was busy when the news came out and forgot to blog about it. Bad Exile. Bad.
Posted on March 24, 2010, in Uncategorized and tagged Australia, Big Brother, Censorship, Censortor Conroy, Contemptible Tools, Don't Be So Fucking Silly, I'm not holding my breath, Nannying, Personal Freedom, Self Righteous Pricks, Trust the Government?. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.


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TRADE ME; On an early Trade Me listing Sharma says "experience is the difference" when promoting his services.
One of the landlords affected says he lost $20,000.
Nearly 25 landlords may have been robbed of thousands of dollars by an Auckland property manager, according to allegations lodged to the Real Estate Authority (REA).
A spokeswoman for Ray White confirmed that former property manager David Sharma had "potentially been misappropriating funds" from up to 25 landlords.
Sharma is also under investigation by the REA.
His company Property Management Out West traded under the Ray White banner.
Neil Pinto, one of the landlords whose properties were managed by Sharma, claims his company had "skimmed" money from rent payments since November 2016.
Pinto estimated he had lost $20,000 in total and says he's had to borrow money from the bank to cover mortgage payments.
"Real estate is not the best right now," Sharma said.
Sharma admitted he was under investigation by the REA and Ray White but said he could not comment about the issues under investigation.
A spokeswoman for REA confirmed that Sharma was under investigation for actions that brought the industry into disrepute.
Pinto said the matter had put his young family under extreme financial hardship.
"We are feeling quite defeated at the moment."
Landlord insurance didn't cover instances of fraud, Pinto said.
"For landlords like us there is no recourse."
– Stuff
Published February, 20 2018 by DILEEPA FONSEKA


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|Progressive Decrease of Left Superior Temporal Gyrus Gray Matter Volume in Patients With First-Episode Schizophrenia
Kasai, Kiyoto; Shenton, Martha Elizabeth
; Salisbury, Dean F.; Hirayasu, Yoshio; Lee, Chang-Uk; Ciszewski, Aleksandra A.; Yurgelun-Todd, Deborah; Kikinis, Ron; Jolesz, Ferenc A.; McCarley, Robert William
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|Kasai, Kiyoto, Martha E. Shenton, Dean F. Salisbury, Yoshio Hirayasu, Chang-Uk Lee, Aleksandra A. Ciszewski, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Ron Kikinis, Ferenc A. Jolesz, and Robert W. McCarley. 2003. "Progressive Decrease of Left Superior Temporal Gyrus Gray Matter Volume in Patients With First-Episode Schizophrenia." AJP 160 (1) (January): 156–164. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.160.1.156.
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|Objective: Smaller temporal lobe cortical gray matter volumes, including the left superior temporal gyrus, have been reported in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of patients with chronic schizophrenia and, more recently, in patients with first-episode schizophrenia. However, it remains unknown whether there are progressive decreases in temporal lobe cortical gray matter volumes in patients with first-episode schizophrenia and whether similarly progressive volume decreases are present in patients with affective psychosis. Method: High-spatial-resolution MRI scans at initial hospitalization and 1.5 years later were obtained from 13 patients with first-episode schizophrenia, 15 patients with first-episode affective psychosis (mainly manic), and 14 healthy comparison subjects. MRI volumes were calculated for gray matter of superior temporal gyrus and for the amygdala-hippocampal complex. Results: Patients with first-episode schizophrenia showed significant decreases in gray matter volume over time in the left superior temporal gyrus compared with patients with first-episode affective psychosis or healthy comparison subjects. This progressive decrease was more pronounced in the posterior portion of the left superior temporal gyrus (mean=9.6%) than in the anterior portions (mean=8.4%). No group differences in the rate of change over time were present in other regions. Conclusions: These findings demonstrate a progressive volume reduction of the left posterior superior temporal gyrus gray matter in patients with first-episode schizophrenia but not in patients with first-epiode affective psychosis.
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Two main ways to create hair:
Maya's own internal system.
Sometimes doesn't work with other Maya systems as it's a plug-in.
Select the faces and extract them then planar map it, go to the VFX menu and create nHair. Edit in the attributes. Use Xgen menu to sculpt and brush.
Some tests:
You can also make stylised hair by creating mesh tubes. Delete the tips so it's hollow. Generate NURBS curves in the tubes by going to XGen> create new description> surface curves. Select> Modify> convert> surfaces to curbs curves.


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The New England Patriots have built a dynasty on second chances. Miss an opportunity to bury the Super Bowl champions and they will find a way to find a way, usually behind a mix of Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski, and defensive playmaking at just the right time.
It's a lesson the Pittsburgh Steelers have learned through the years, one they were determined to finally learn from this time around. Instead, more of the same.
Ben Roethlisberger was intercepted in the end zone with 5 seconds remaining, securing New England's 27-24 comeback victory Sunday built on more Brady and Gronkowski magic.
Another AFC East title, a record ninth in a row.
Another shot at...