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This is one of my favorite documentary behind the scenes films. This film was commissioned by The Royal Ontario Museum which shows the craftsmanship and artistry of the men and women who create the amazing clothing that's almost a lost art.
On this blog you will notice that I will often refer to the details. It's my passion. People say the devil is in the details, I say the details are heavenly.


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South Bay Real Estate and Info
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A Tribute
I'll tell y'all the truth, do some confessin', like: I came to New York City to make it. I did. To make it as something, but something at least, maybe a writer, a piano player, an editor, a lover of as many of these hippest of the hip women here in Manhattan as I could love--and I was married when I came to NYC and I didn't love my wife but I admired her and respected her and now I'm beginning to sound like a ninny but I'm not--I never hide in sheep's clothing--though I will wear their hides as clothing. Hell, I was tough enough in those days to make it in New York City. Born a Texas-Oklahoma prairie child, always in lands strange to me, like coming into my senses in Enid, Oklahoma, and then discovering my individuality in Big D, little "a" double el A S, going to college in that same area, escaping it finally as an adult manchild with an 18-year-old coal-dark Choctaw-Mexican-Welsh beauty wife down to the Land of Dreams, Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street--except me and my child bride lived first on Chartres and then, our best years, on Dumaine, smack-dab in the middle of the Vieux Carre.
New Orleans was very good to me. It was my kind of city in those days--sinking, yes; all New Orleanians knew we were below sea level and sinking, I mean, we could see the Mississippi River up above us, especially where I lived in the French Quarter. I could sit on my second-floor balcony and look over towards the Levee and the Mighty Mississippi and suddenly I would see appearing as though a phantom giant sneaking up on me a huge freighter slipping down the Mississippi shipping channel just beyond the Levee on top of which ran railroad tracks and all of this was up above me and I could watch the trains switching cars up on the Levee and the trains were up above me, Those ships floated in the sky above my balcony as the high-in-the-sky trains worked like ants horizontally framing the giant ships.
Watching for these gigantic image became a sport with me and I would sit for hours just waiting for the bridge of one of those huge tankers or freighters or tugs to appear and then maybe it would give a blast on its horn--oh the joy of that, and that tremendous blat splatted right into my face to continue on down the alleyway behind my apartment over toward Chartres, echoing across the Vieux Carre.
So, yes, we knew New Orleans was sinking when I lived there. We didn't worry about it. I lived through a hurricane there; it turned out to be one of the stillest days I ever spent in New Orleans, as the hurricane, Betsy she was named, bounced over New Orleans thus sparing it the highest winds. I think Betsy veered off and hit Grand Isle that day and hit it pretty damn bad. Grand Isle the setting for Kate Chopin's great novel, isn't it? And one of Lafcadio Hearne's stories centers around Grand Isle and a hurricane hitting it--Chita is the title of that book--I'm going by memory--too lazy to search for the correct titles.
Except in those days when a hurricane came in from south of New Orleans over the river delta it first hit the broad and thickly grassed salt marshes and then a series inneractive water systems that kind'a buffeted New Orleans from the brunt of hurricane-force storms by not only absorbing the high waves caused by the storms but also actually absorbing some of the wind, you the grassland marshes acting like brakes on the lower winds, taking some of the force out of the storms, slowing them down, or causing them to veer off right or left and miss New Orleans. [Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? I do. I'm tryin' to get down there now but I'm being thwarted by a lot of things, madness being one of them; I don't wanna go down there and you know go apeshit mad and attack throats and shit.... But there is a little mystery that an old friend and I have together that I'd like to meet him in New Orleans and pry into this mystery we share and maybe find our friend disheveled and playing his guitar in spite of the storms raging both outside and inside of him. A live ghost story; and what better a place for a live ghost story than New Orleans after Katrina.
Bastard FEMA. I saw a FEMA guy standing outside that devastated Kansas city talking about how fast FEMA reacted to this tragedy. Then the Democratic governor of Kansas, a woman, told the truth--that FEMA hadn't done a damn thing really and that the equipment they normally would have depended on in such a catastrophe--you know, heavy equipment to clear the debris and water tankers and field kitchens and hospitals and temporary housing (tents and blankets)--that equipment was in Iraq with the Kansas National Guard. Now the Repugnicans are ridiculing the Kansas governor and of course saying Georgie Porgie W. Bush, our phony "president," was right on the money with disaster aid and his private jet and hell he was sending a team of Walter Reed doctors--hell, he was even sending old Pappy G. Herbert W. Bush and his new asshole buddy Slick Willie "Hillbilly" Billy Jeff Clinton out to Kansas--the state that still does not accept theories of evolution and are sticking to insane creationist theories, like the earth is only 6,000 years old and tornadoes are Acts of God. Kansas also has a native son who's wildly rightwing insane running for president, Senator Sam Brownback, a true Yahoo.
I can't get mad at Kansas. It once awed me as a little boy. There ain't nothin' flatter than Kansas. Dogs go mad looking for places to piss in Kansas. The state tree is the sunflower. I can't believe I'm making Kansas jokes.
But that's why I came to New York City. It called a guy like me to its bosom; it challenged me to survive here. It was easy. I come from White Pioneer stock; we're hearty folks full of poetry and a love of good cooking and good drinks, the best jazz, the best classical music--and, hell, I went to Carnegie Hall regularly in those days--Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony--Leopold Stokowski conducting his American Symphony Orchestra--and I was there the day they Ives's Holidays Symphony and I was there when Bruno Maderno conducted Saint-Saens Organ Symphony and Stokowski in the balcony box across from mine put his fingers in his ears right at the moment the organ entered the orchestral picture with a punctuation heard 'round the world.
Stravinsky was still alive and living up on Central Park in the Essex House. And the Russian Kerensky was still alive and living up the street from me when I lived on Sutton Place. Brando was here, too. Kurt Vonnegut used to walk the streets of my first neighborhood in NYC, First Avenue and E. 56th. I used to chat with the old actress but still looking gorgeous Gloria De Haven and then Alice from the Honeymooners, Audrey Meadows, would come along and get Gloria and off they'd go to look at something antique-ish Audrey had found back up toward Beekman Place; and then one evening I found myself at the Whitney Museum sitting on pillows thrown about on a concrete floor listening to Sonny Rollins playing all by himself one conglomeration song of his familiar hits for over 1 hour, over 1 and 1/2 hour in fact; and another evening my wife and I attended a lecture by Babbling Buckminster Fuller, Bucky himself talking geodesiacally domish about how he figured the earth was just a spaceship and he compared it to a cottonwood tree seed pod--all its seeds are stuck to furry like feathery stems that when you blow on them the seeds flare off into the space around them, fly off, each seed a little spaceship carrying with it into unknown spaces and future distances its many seeds--looking for an orbit, a harmony, a synchronization in which it can plant its seeds and let them steadily evolve--against itself? I suddenly felt like asking myself. The earth planting its seeds to grow against itself--like burning it up by opening up a hole in the earth's ozone layer, its protective shield--its Ray-Ban sunglasses.
So I came to New York City to make it. As what, I didn't know, nor did I care. New York City then was a place you could live like a Bohemian for long whiles and then when your money ran out you could easily run out and get a job, as a proofreader, as a copyeditor, as a synopsis writer, as a proposal writer, an adwriter, or you could put up sheetrock and spackle and learn plumbing or you could pump gas, be a bartender, play music in the street--whatever, you could get a job real easy when your money ran out back in those early days I came to make it in NYC.
Tennessee Williams was still alive and hanging out in a bar called the Monkey Bar in the old once-glamorous-now-fading hotel he loved to live in when he was in NYC-- and he had plays running Off-Broadway. Truman Capote was still alive and partying and lisping his nonsense and babbling and living within the depths of himself. And Liza Minella was tripping around town with her boy toys and picking up Halston and tripping and doing handfuls of uppers--wow, it was a wild old time in the Apple. There were jazz clubs all over town, uptown, Mikell's up on Columbus, downtown, Slugs in the East Village, the Village Gate, the Vanguard, the Knickerbocker down near Washington Square had jazz--there was Sweet Basil over on Seventh Avenue South and up the street Seventh Avenue South the club owned by the Brecker Brothers, and on down on Hudson and Spring was the Half Note--even the Metropole was still a jazz club when I first walked through Times Square--my wife and I had a hot dogs at Nathan's on Times Square the very first day we were in NYC, piled high with onions and relish and hot mustard and catsup and a cup or two of fried clams...
It's long-gone now, folks. This old city ain't what it used to be. Times Square is now a Disney-style wonderland signfest--I mean there are so many high-tech and max-tacks signs in Times Square now you can't tell what's a building and what's a sign. There ain't no peep shows no more; no flea circuses; no Jack Dempsey's Bar, no Astor Hotel, no Latin Quarter, no Taft Hotel, no Palace Theater, no Lindy's, no Whelan's Drugstore, no Hurley's Bar, no Robert Hall Clothiers....
I came to New York City to make it and I have really. I've been extremely lucky in NYC. Extremely successful really. I had one hell of a good time in the late 60s and 70s and into the early 80s until the AIDS epidemic put an end to our free-love and mafficking fun. I worked for Time & Life--that's what it was called in those days--then I worked for CBS Television, then Viacom International, then the Emmy Awards, and I got to be a lead singer with a cult band, and I got to sing and play the blues in all the blues clubs in NYC, and I got published as a writer, one book very successful, for me, making nearly a hundred grand on it when I was still quite young, frisky, and in love with every beautiful woman I could lure into my glorious life, come on, jump in, float along with me. Life was good. The music was good. The books being written were good. Even the damn movies being made were interesting--I watched them film the movie Carnal Knowledge with Jack Nicholson, Ann Margret, and even old dullass Art Garfunkle acting in that movie, too--they filmed several scenes from that movie at a tennis club whose courts my dining room window overlooked and whose entrance I gained permission into every day since I was a tenant in the exclusive apartment building in which the tennis club was housed. Don't get uppity--my wife was wealthy--she paid the rent. Then later I worked in the advertising game for a decade or so--that's where I made my most money--I made gobs of money in advertising, but then, advertising left me with a sorry feeling and the stress was unbelievable. I was writing and editing and making lies sort-of truthful. All advertising is LIES. I guarantee you that, folks.
I just felt like confessin' those few pages of life events that made my days past and I hope days future.
I love NYC, but, like I fell out of love with several really truly magnificent and mightily beautiful women--did them dirty--I'm beginning to have such feelings for the NYC that is taking the place of the New York City I came to to make it in.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
The House On The Hill - Poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
They are all gone away,
The house is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say.
Through broken walls and gray
The winds blow bleak and shrill:
They are all gone away.
Nor is there one today
To speak them good or ill:
There is nothing more to say.
Why is it then we stray
Around the sunken sill?
They are all gone away.
And our poor fancy-play
For them is wasted skill:
There is nothing more to say.
There is ruin and decay
In the House on the Hill
They are all gone away,
There is nothing more to say.
Form: Villanelle
Comments about The House On The Hill by Edwin Arlington Robinson
* Sunprincess * (7/30/2015 12:16:00 AM)
......very creative and imaginative...great write ★ (Report) Reply
Curtis Johnson (7/29/2015 4:24:00 PM)
I like this poem. It reminds me of my birth place. My birth house and all the neighboring houses are all gone away. A few years ago, I wrote a similar poem. (Report) Reply
Rajnish Manga (7/29/2015 11:01:00 AM)
This is a poem essaying the decay and isolation of the deserted house on a hill. It seems as if the tattered spirit of the house is standing there for everybody to see. A painful account by all means. (Report) Reply
Ramesh T A (7/29/2015 10:48:00 AM)
The tragic situation of a house on the hill is beautifully lamented in this poem! (Report) Reply
Dick Bigalow (7/29/2015 3:18:00 AM)
Jasbir Chatterjee (7/29/2015 1:01:00 AM)
I feel rather sorry about that House on the Hill. (Report) Reply
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- Calories 176
- Caloriesfromfat 21%
- Fat 4.1g
- Satfat 1g
- Monofat 0.0g
- Polyfat 0.0g
- Protein 26.1g
- Carbohydrate 6.3g
- Fiber 0.0g
- Cholesterol 70mg
- Iron 0.0mg
- Sodium 324mg
- Calcium 0.0mg
Jerk Chicken
How to Make It
Step 1
Position knife blade in food processor bowl; add first 9 ingredients. Pulse 12 times, scraping sides of processor bowl once. Place 1/3 cup onion mixture in a heavy-duty, zip-top plastic bag; reserve remaining onion mixture. Add chicken to bag; seal bag, and marinate chicken in refrigerator 1 hour, turning bag occasionally.
Step 2
Remove chicken from marinade, discarding marinade. Coat grill rack with cooking spray; place rack on grill over medium-hot coals (350° to 400°). Place chicken and thyme sprigs, if desired, on rack; grill, covered, 4 minutes on each side or until chicken is done. Discard thyme sprigs. Serve chicken with reserved onion mixture.
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Taste of Hollywood comes to the north
Northern Echo
Date : May 21, 2008
Taste of Hollywood comes to the north
By Mark Foster
THE razzmatazz of Hollywood has arrived in the region with the filming of
a new multi-million pound TV spectacular.
Film-makers are lavishing almost £18m on a swashbuckling new version of
Daniel Defoe's classic tale Robinson Crusoe.
And the cameras have now started rolling on the star-studded production, with
the North Yorkshire locations including York and Whitby.
Visitors to the former have been startled to see big names like Sean Bean and
Sam Neill striding the streets and rowing on the river in full period costume.
Shooting is taking place over the next few days by the Ouse, in the Guildhall,
on Shambles, in College Street by the Minster and in Fairfax House.
In Whitby the crew are descending on the harbour where filming is taking place
against the backdrop of the Grand Turk, the replica of an 18th-century man o'war.
The desert island scenes will be filmed in the rather more exotic locations of the
Seychelles and South Africa.
American actor Philip Winchester, of Thunderbirds and Flyboys fame, is taking
on the title role with Lord of the Rings and Goldeneye veteran Sean Bean
playing his father. Sam Neill, who famously dodged dinosaurs in Jurassic Park,
is a friend of the family.
In the original book Crusoe came from York and the film-makers are using the
city for a series of flashback sequences explaining his background.
The 13-part epic is being produced by British production company Power for
NBC and will also be broadcast on one of the main British channels.
9:25pm Wednesday 21st May 2008
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Some time has passed since I started learning Vim. I didn't wanted to use it at work because I don't think I'm as productive as I'm with the editor I usually use… till this morning.
An SQL insert statement
Today I was asked to execute about 3000 SQL inserts in a database. The inserts were provided to me in a text file
insert_statements.sql generated from a database at which I have no access. The insert statements looked like the following once:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Customers table had been already populated with other important data, therefore I would have inserted the new data after the existing once.
It was not a SQL problem, because it was sufficient replacing all the
id values (1, 2, …, 3000) with a
CustomersSeq.nextval: a sequence which would have generated the right id values. Instead it was an editing problem! How to replace an always different number for 3000 times?
As a developer you are likely thinking to a program which parses the
insert_statements.sql input file generating a
modified_insert_statements.sql output file. Instead I opened
insert_statements.sql in Vim and I typed:
and that's all!!! The 3000 statements looked like as I needed:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
It took me about 30 seconds in total, not bad :-)
Vim magic explained
qrjjf(lcwCustomerSeq.nextval<ESC>j0q2999@r is not a wizardry chant, let me explain it.
Opening Vim the cursor is over the
I of the first
INSERT statement. Then I typed:
qrstarts recording a macro (a repeatable set of commands) called
r, which in my mind stands for «replace»;
jjmoves the cursor two lines down, because
jin Vim is like the down arrow key;
f(finds the first
(and move the cursor over it (the cursor is over the
(after the
lmoves the cursor one character right, because
lin Vim is like the right arrow key (the cursor is over the first digit of the id value);
cw(change word) deletes the characters from the cursor position to the end of the word (therefore it deletes the id value) and put the editor in «insert» mode;
CustomerSeq.nextvalinserts the text
<ESC>makes the editor exiting from «insert» mode reputing it in «normal» mode;
jmoves the cursor one line down (on the next insert statement);
0moves the cursor to the begin of the line (over the
Iof the
qstops recording the macro. Now we are in a similar situation like we were just after opening Vim: the cursor is over the
Iof the second
2999@rrepeats 2999 times the «replace» macro.
Vim rocks!
If you don't know Vim you might asking why the heck someone should ever learn such strange character sequences. Yes, they seem strange but they are not. In fact, the first learning steps a new Vim user is recommended to do is vimtutor, a basic 30 minutes tutorial, in which you learn much more than the commands described above at points 2..9. Indeed the only commands I used, not cover by
vimtutor, are the once at points 1, 10 and 11, all related to Vim macros.


text: We search for annihilation decay modes of neutral b mesons into pairs of charmless charged hadrons with the upgraded Collider Detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Using a data sample corresponding to 6fb -1 of integrated luminosity, we obtain the first evidence for the Bs0→π +π - decay, with a significance of 3.7σ, and a measured branching ratio B(Bs0→π +π -)=(0.57±0.15(stat) ±0.10(syst))×10 -6. A search for the B0→K +K - mode in the same sample yields a significance of 2.0σ, and a central value estimate B(B0→K +K -)=(0.23±0.10(stat)±0.10(syst))×10 -6. © 2012 American Physical Society.


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Last week four non-profit movie theatres in Sweden (yes, Sweden again) released a ratings system named after the Bechdel Test. For those uninitiated, to pass the Bechdel Test, a film has to have two named female characters talk to each other about something other than a man. Since the Bechdel Test was launched in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985 by Alison Bechdel (who says that actually it was her friend Liz Wallace's Idea) this test has been something of a oasis in the world of male cinema that we all live in. The term has taken on a life of its own. There is a wikipedia page and there is a great video from Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency where she goes through a laundry list of popular and award winning films that would not pass the Bechdel Test.
When the "A" rating was released last week there was a big burst of energy from the Europeans, the feminists, and women media writers but there was decidedly very little response from the mainstream film blogosphere and also from mainstream media here in the US. When I did an interview last week with the UK press about the topic, I was asked what I thought the reaction the people in Hollywood would be, and I responded that I thought that the story would barely make a blip in the consciousness of the folks running Hollywood.
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Erm, okay. It's been 5 months since I last place an entry here. Does anyone still read my blog? I don't know.
"Life is like eating ice-cream, you don't know what you get"
Erm, okay. It's been 5 months since I last place an entry here. Does anyone still read my blog? I don't know.
"Life is like eating ice-cream, you don't know what you get"
"Why did you switch to Social Work?"
This is a common question posed to me when I attend job interviews, or generally being asked upon learning of my occupation. The question itself ain't offensive, I guess it evokes a sense of curiousness (if you know of my previous jobs).
Tags: life, personal, social work, Social Worker, thoughts
Haven't wrote in here since… July 2013? Hahaha.
As usual, procrastinating and being lazy to write. Then again, many life changing events have been happening as well… if you are my friend on Facebook that is…
Like… being proposed on my birthday, to my mum's shocking diagnosis with cancer… then selecting a new home in Jan 2014, and now attending weddings of my friends! Oh, did I also mention that I finally graduated from my studies and in the middle of a job transition?
I am in love with a silly calico cat named Angel, and she surprises me in more ways than I could think of… Looking back, I can only say I am very blessed!
Ok, I shall end here for now. Will continue to write
If I thought 2013 would bring about a quiet and peaceful start, I am proven wrong pretty quickly. Before January would end, quite a number of things has been happening, and yes, I am thankful, but at the same time, trying not to be too overwhelmed by it.
Trying to take stock of what is happening kinda works… albeit blowing my brains off by the sheer amount of information. In the end, I decided to just "go with the flow", and ride this wave, while it lasts.
Elaborating it here would be as good as writing a duper lengthy blog post… which I am not very sure if anyone would want to read it. Perhaps a better way is for the pictures to do the talking in due time.
So pardon me if I tend to be a little more quiet on the Internet, for I treasure for more "me-time" moments, which I need to re-charge, as well as ensuring my own well-being is taken care of. Because studying + working at the same time takes a huge toil on me – health wise – physically and mentally. It is a challenge, and yet, through the ups and downs in due course, it taught me to appreciate, and not take it for granted.
I'm fortunate to have opportunities to switch my career, and I do hope the third time will be the last time I am doing this. (Not very fun to keep switching from time to time).
Also, I am blessed to have an understanding, caring, loving and supportive family and boyfriend, friends who are supportive, encouraging (you know who you are), to help me through in difficult times.
Praise be to God.
PS: As of now, I have started my Graduate Diploma program proper, having gone through the bridging modules last year. I can't wait till the program ends by the end of 2013. So near yet seems so far!
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While most people are partying or feasting the last night of 2012 away, I went to bed early instead. I know, like no life right? Rather, I made the choice to get a good night's rest instead, and wake up to a brand new year…
I've no new year resolutions to make, for I know I will break them as soon as its been made.
I'm looking forward to what this year may bring, and hoping for the best possible year yet.
May your 2013 be awesome, and God bless!
2012 is almost over.
To say that this year is filled with roller-coaster moments, is an understatement.
No amount of writing here now can possibly relate to you what I went through.
Let's just say that its full of ups and downs, and I am very glad and thankful for all that has happened.
God Bless, stay safe, and have a pleasant 2013 ahead. May 2013 usher in more happiness.
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"I see the light at the end of the tunnel"
The arrival of December heralds the last month of year 2012. It is also the month of joy and festivities, as Christmas is around the corner, besides, it also signals the arrival of year 2013, in a matter of 30 days. Double joy? Perhaps so, depending on one's view and perspectives.
Personally, December is a month for me to wind down, and reflect of what took place in my life for the current year. Somehow, this month feels different, as there are still much to do. One of it, with no prizes awarded for the correct guess would be school. Exam date falls on 29th December. Geez, nothing much I could do about it, except bemoaning the fact that its 4 days after Christmas. Then again, I would much prefer to get it over and done with, and end the year on a good note.
Sometimes, I wonder what is it like… if I had not joined the Social Service sector…
There is a sense of satisfaction upon completion of each module, and not to mention, anticipating the over all grade consisting of marks from 2 assignments and an examination.
For those who still have no clue to as what I am doing these days… I'm pursuing a Grad. Dip (Social Work) on a part-time basis with UniSIM, as well as working in the Social Service sector in a local Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWO).
I remembered the days where I contemplated joining social service when I chanced upon the MCYS series of advertisements, as well as reading up on the WDA website, that offers a chance for professionals looking for a career switch. Thus I decided to take the plunge and here I am!
It has been 7 months and counting since I first entered this industry in April 2012. To me, the time passed has been extremely fruitful and eye-opening, not just to the know-hows in the sector, but it has also significantly impacted personal outlook towards life as well as a shift in paradigms and perspectives in handling issues.
I'm looking forward to what's coming ahead, and I hope to be able to overcome each challenge and do my best.
Am thankful to be surrounded by supportive family, boyfriend, and friends as I continue to press on with social work. It definitely is not an easy area to be in, due to the sheer complexities that could possibly arise when handling issues that these clients may be facing.
Alrighty, I shall have to return to indulge in activities that I yearn to do, as well as spending quality time with the people that matters.
Till the next update.
God Bless.
Dusting the cob webs!
And by now, as friends would know, I am almost at the end of the 2nd bridging module. End of module date would be 10th November, where it's also know as… examination. I remembered just a few days back, where I was on the verge of frustration over my second and final assignment. Yet, I am thankful to have friends who guided me alongside the assignment and the encouragement to carry on.
Each time I feel like giving up, I'm reminded why I choose this path, be it through my work or otherwise, and I thank God that I am led into this for a reason and purpose. I may not understand it now, but I trust that it will all turn out to be for the best.
And thus, with renewed energy, I shall continue in my quest to start revision for the paper ahead.
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I'm halfway into my second module of my bridging course on route to my graduate diploma in Social Work for Jan 2013. Needless to say, my first module left me gasping for breadth like a fish out of water, for things were happening too fast too furious. Okay, blame it on the lack of improper time management. That really jolt me up as I didn't wish to pack any of my modules.
Looking at it, it's also my first attempt juggling both work and studies at the same time. It's actually quite draining, as classes, although held on the weekends, it still is a struggle having to drag your feet to the classroom. I'm too used to sleeping in on the weekends! (That's something I will have to adjust)
I kinda look forward to studying after work each day (as often as I like), though I still am striving to strike a delicate balance between studying and socializing. I do miss my friends, and all the fun times I used to have.
I've been in the Social Service Industry for 6 months and counting. Each day never fail to teach me to be even more self aware of myself, and that it has also helped me to deal with past issues that I ran away from. I'm only human, and everyone of us have issues to work with. Don't worry, I am in a better shape now, and my walk with God is on-going.
Have a blessed day!
Till the next post.
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NO, I cannot describe for you the commanding message behind the music of "Les Misérables;" based on a French historical novel by Victor Hugo first published in 1862. However, I can express that the message within the music is as crystal clear today as then.
Example: I dreamed a dream in time gone by when hope was high and life worth living.
Example: One day more; another day, another destiny.
Have we humankind forgotten that the miserable among us are one day them and one day us? That destiny is an irresolute moment in time? That moment-by-moment redemption is within reach requiring each of us to recognize IT.


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Federal officials Wednesday conducted a search of the New Jersey offices and manufacturing facilities of Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories. A company spokesman said in published reports that the action came as a surprise. "We're not aware of any wrongdoing," Ranbaxy spokesman Charles Caprariello said in a published report. "We're cooperating and providing them with (material) even today." Caprariello said officials from the FDA searched two Ranbaxy sites in New Jersey – a manufacturing plant in New Brunswick and administrative offices in Princeton. He declined to comment on whether the officials removed anything from the sites. "We're working with the authorities to address the issues and hopefully resolve everything so we can get back to business as normal," he said. Caprariello told The Wall Street Journal that the management team remains intact and employees are being informed about what has happened. Inquires to the FDA from news agencies about the searches were referred to the Justice Department. A Justice Department spokeswoman told the Associated Press, "We don't comment on ongoing investigations." Ranbaxy is based in Gurgaon, India and is that nation's largest drug company. Last month, the company received approval to make a generic version of Pfizer's blockbuster antidepressant Zoloft. Other generic drugmakers already had approval for generic versions.


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I'm 28, and I'm still terrified that no one will come to my birthday parties.
Embarrassing, right? "No one came to my party" is often seen as a little kid's fear, like being afraid of the dark. However, xoJane has taught me that I'm far from the first person to have this issue, so I don't feel quite so alone anymore!
I might even have a little insight into why this fear is so pervasive. Birthday parties are supposed to be the ultimate in frivolity -- it's literally a day all about you! -- but that's also what makes them emotional landmines. When no one comes to a party celebrating the fact that you were born, it can feel an awful lot like people don't care whether or not you exist.
At some point in my teens, however, I got tired of just having dinner with my mom and decided to plan my own birthday parties. This has resulted in a lot of hilariously bad birthday stories, like the time my invites referenced swing dancing ("Let's all go swing!") and someone thought it meant hanging. There have also been some surprising successes (my 28th birthday was attended by no fewer than 20 people.)
Through all this, the most freeing thing I've discovered is that creating a successful party is a skill that can be learned, rather than something that only people with 1,000 Facebook friends can do. Personally, it helps me to remember that birthday parties carry way more emotional weight than say, a sushi outing, but they're still subject to the same planning "rules" of all get-togethers.
With that in mind, here are my tips for a better birthday party:
Do not be ashamed to plan your own damn party.
Remember, party planning is a SKILL. Most people don't know how to do it, so even if they love you, they probably don't know how. (Ironically, this is the reason why 99% of surprise parties only exist in movies. The other 1% are super awkward and not what the birthday person wanted anyway.)
Your party doesn't have to be huge or impressive to be awesome.
I once realized I could have a party in a cabin on a lake near my college. What I didn't realize (in my rush to do something "cool"), was that even if everyone on my list had attended, there still wouldn't have been nearly enough of us to fill the space. The eight of us rattled around like peas in a pod as we smoked hookah in the very corner of a huge room.
If you're new to party planning, think small. VERY small. You and three other people eating take-out Chinese while playing Cards Against Humanity can be just as much a party as an elaborately catered shindig.
Send out feelers a week or two beforehand.
Around a week and a half before the party itself (or two weeks, if you're hoping to invite more than five people), start talking about it. Mention potential dates to your friends, which can be as simple as saying "I'd like to hold a tea party for everyone on Valentine's Day. Would you be interested?"
The point of this exercise is twofold. First, this will give you a rough idea of how many people are likely to come and you can figure out how big a space you'll need, how much food to get, etc. Second, it helps you find out if there are any major schedule conflicts BEFORE you make firm plans and send out official invites. This is when you, an atheist, realize your first choice of party dates fall on Ash Wednesday, but you will still have time to figure out a better date before creating the Facebook invite!
It's also good to Google around a bit in order to make sure that your party isn't conflicting with a major event that will make parking impossible (football games, parades, and concerts are all culprits).
Do not be afraid to "move" your birthday so that the maximum number of people can come.
For years my birthday fell on "Parents Day" at college, when everyone's parents came to visit and take their children to dinner. Having a party on that day would have forced my friends to choose between their parents (who had travelled for hours to see them!) and me, so I started to schedule my birthday parties for the weekend after. Since then, I think I've only once had my birthday party on the actual date of my birth.
Once you've set the actual date of the party, don't change it.
Seriously, don't. Party attendance drops to nothing if you change the date after you send out invites.
Invite at least twice as many people as you hope will come.
The general rule of thumb is that less than half the people you invite will show up. Again, this isn't because they don't love you. It's because people get sick, have to work late, or just have shitty memories.
Ideally, rather than sending everyone a Facebook invite and then never mentioning it again, you need to invite people THREE TIMES:
1st invite: sent out at least one week beforehand. Should mention the date, time, and place of the party.
2nd invite: halfway to the actual date of the party, mention it again (this is a great time to update the Facebook party invite with something like "Bring your squirt gun!").
3rd invite: Day-before texts to people who tend to easily forget dates, promised to bring food or other supplies, etc.
Also, don't be afraid to invite people face-to-face! This is hard for me, as I am shy, but a lot of people will be flattered that you took time out of your day to invite them personally (and therefore will be more likely to come!)
Keep the food simple, and only decorate if you have to.
Unless you are someone who regularly cooks elaborate meals or makes a dozen tiny place settings for the joy of it, don't do it for a party. You will be needlessly stressing yourself out on top of doing the really necessary things, like vacuuming and making sure you have enough chairs.
Also: never spend more than you can afford for a party, even if it's a special occasion. Ask friends to bring food or BYOB. No one expects you to have steak tartare, and if they do, they're well off enough that they can hire a planner to plan your parties FOR you.
Plan for both the worst and best case scenarios.
Outdoor parties can get rained out. Everyone might be down with a case of the flu. Or people can just be assholes. The latter hasn't happened to me (yet) but if it does, I have a special book and cup of tea ready for self-care purposes.
I also have a backup plan for when EVERYONE shows up: the best pizza delivery is on speed dial.


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Chrissy Teigen keeps it flashy while attending the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at Sunset Tower on Sunday (February 24) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 27-year-old supermodel was accompanied by her handsome fiance John Legend.
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"It's funny to see how all celebrities HAVE to nod at each other in adding, despite never meeting," Chrissy tweeted at the party.
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Women Doctors Flock to Surprising Specialty
People often assume women gravitate to certain professional fields because they have an innate liking for the work. Women become pediatricians because they love babies, for example, or they become veterinarians because they love animals.
So why are women flocking to colon and rectal surgery as an occupation of choice?
The answer lies in measuring what Harvard University economics professor Claudia Goldin calls "the career cost of family." In an address to a Washington, D.C., conference Tuesday on workplace flexibility, Goldin said that high-paying careers that offer more help in balancing work and family are the ones that end up luring the largest numbers of women. Surprisingly, colon and rectal surgery is one of these, because of rapid growth in routine colonoscopies that can be scheduled in advance, giving doctors control over their time. Goldin says 31% of colon and rectal surgeons under 35 years of age were female in 2007, compared with only 3% of those ages 55 to 64, and 12% of those ages 45 to 54, reflecting the fact that younger women are flocking to the field.
Goldin cited other elements of the career cost of family: Are people in the field being hit with big and lasting pay penalties for taking time off for family, or for working part-time? Or is the relationship between work performed and pay fairly "linear"–that is, people are paid commensurate with the number of hours worked or patients or clients served? Working parents pay a high career cost in career fields where pay criteria tend to be more vague and subjective, such as status within an organization.
Other high-paid professions with a low career cost of family include yes, pediatrics; dermatology and veterinary medicine, Goldin told about 200 researchers, government officials and employers at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation conference. She sees working parents becoming increasingly savvy about this issue, with more women entering high-paying professions that penalize women less for child-bearing. Among professions with the fastest-growing proportions of women are veterinary medicine. Because of growth in veterinary hospitals and emergency clinics, vets increasingly have been able to eliminate on-call, night and weekend hours, and to work part-time, Goldin says. The proportion of female grads in vet medicine has soared to almost 80%, from 10% in 1970. In other examples, pharmacy grads are now 60% female, up from 30% in the mid-1970s, Goldin says. And optometry is about 60% female.
Her study also helps explain why business schools have a hard time attracting as many women as men: Business and finance are among the fields with the highest career cost for employees with families. The earnings penalty for taking a career break for family is largest for MBAs, and lowest for doctors.
The research suggests parents are more hard-headed than many people think in choosing careers. Skilled, educated women have gravitated to teaching for decades because it is actually possible to have a professional job that harmonizes with kids' schedule. Now working women, as well as working men who want to be active dads, are using similar criteria in choosing among the higher-paying professional career paths open today.
Readers, did you think about how you would manage work and family balance when you chose a career? Or do you wish you had? If you did, what factors did you weigh? And how has your decision turned out? If not, do you feel you paid a high "career cost of family?"


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Matt Helders - Iggy Pop performing live in concert during his Post Pop Depression Tour at Fillmore Miami Beach at Fillmore Miami Beach - Miami Beach, Florida, United States - Tuesday 19th April 2016
Recorded in secret at the end of 2015, 'Post Pop Depression' will be out on March 18th, with a short tour planned for the same time.
Punk veteran Iggy Pop and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme have revealed that they've recorded an album together, and are planning to release it in the next few months.
Recorded in secrecy in both of Homme's studios – one in Joshua Tree and the other in Pink Duck, Los Angeles – with the help of Arctic Monkeys' drummer Matt Helders and Homme's QOTSA bandmate Dean Fertita on guitars, Post Pop Depression is set for release on March 18th.
Speaking to the New York Times, Iggy said that the record's themes were informed by his own advancing age and the idea of usefulness in modern society. "What happens after your years of service? And where is the honour?"
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Nick O'Malley, Jamie Cook, Alex Turner, Matt Helders and Arctic Monkeys - A variety of stars from the music industry all turned out in style to attend the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, United States - Sunday 8th February 2015
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Last year, Alex Turner dropped hints that Arctic Monkeys would release another record in quick succession. Now though, it looks like fans will be in for a long wait.
Arctic Monkeys continue to ascend toward superstardom. Their status as bona fide rockstars capable of disseminating universally lauded records means their prestige can only continue to expand. 2013's AM saw the band make a total departure from any semblance of their younger selves. Where once they specialised in jagged riffs and quirky tales of misadventures on northern English estates, leading them to a hierarchical position in the mid-noughties indie band explosion, they are now slicker, beefier and with a fan base that extends well beyond the confines of their home nation.
Despite teasing fans last year, a follow-up to AM will not be appearing anytime soon.
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Shane Meadows is making a documentary about his friend Nicholas (Considine), who has renamed himself Le Donk as he tries to get his life back in control.
His main goal is to help his friend, the young rapper Scor-zay-see (Palinczuk), become a star, and he thinks he's found the venue in a massive stadium concert in Manchester opening for the Arctic Monkeys. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend (Coleman) is expecting their child, but her new boyfriend (Graham) seems to be taking over as the prospective dad.
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Grammy-winner Debby Boone, who starred in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" on Broadway in 1982, will star in the June revival of "The Human Comedy" at Barrington Stage in Massachusetts' Berkshires.
The tuner, which played on Broadway in a production that originated at the Public Theater in 1984, features music by Galt MacDermot ("Hair"), with book and lyrics by William Dumaresq.
The Berkshire revival, staged by theater artistic director Julianne Boyd, will play June 24-July 16 at the Boland Theater at the Koussevitzky Arts Center at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Mass. Choreography will be by Lara Teeter.
The sung-through show is based on the William Saroyan story that was made into a 1943 film starring Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan and Fay Bainter.
Boone will also take the stage July 3 for "Reflections of Rosemary," a musical tribute to her late mother-in-law, Rosemary Clooney, at Berkshire Community College.


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RE: database authentication by windows credentials
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:59:20 -0600
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I don't see anything in that document that specifies how to use AD user accounts to authenticate to an Oracle database. The section titled "Integration with Windows Login Credentials" lists the following two benefits:
Integration with Windows Login Credentials
Oracle database and configuration tools can use the login credentials of the Windows user currently logged on to connect to Active Directory without having to re-enter the login credentials. This feature has two benefits:
- Oracle clients and databases can securely connect to Active Directory and retrieve the net service name.
- Oracle configuration tools can connect automatically to Active Directory and configure Oracle Database and net service name objects. The enabled tools include Oracle Net Configuration Assistant and Database Configuration Assistant.
Neither one of those allows me to use AD for user authentication.
There is mention of interaction between Enterprise Users and Active Directory but after looking at the Enterprise User Administrator's Guide, it appears that OID and Kerberos (which implies Advanced Security Option) is necessary.
C Integrating Enterprise User Security with Microsoft Active Directory
Enterprise users make use of Oracle Internet Directory, which is a part of the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure. If your organization uses a third party directory like Active Directory to store and manage user entries, then you can integrate it with Oracle Internet Directory to manage Enterprise User Security.
Kerberos authentication for enterprise users can make use of tickets issued by a kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) running on a Microsoft Windows domain controller.
From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com]
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Stephens, Chris <chris_stephens_at_admworld.com> wrote:
I was under the impression that the only way to integrate windows accounts with Oracle database authentication was to purchase the Advanced Security options and make use of the Kerberos stuff. The documentation seems to be misleading in this area. There is mention of being able to use WNA and that WNA functionality comes with the Oracle client though it seems that it only works with Windows NT and Windows 2000.
I have yet to find a clear explanation of what my options are for this integration.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
This may help:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/win.102/b14304/active_dir.h tm#BGBEIIDH
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Toronto, Ontario (June 2, 2011) â€" Goldbard Capital Corporation (TSX Venture: GDB) ("Goldbard ), a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange ), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an arm's length binding Business Combination Agreement (the "Agreement ) dated May 31, 2011 with Eco Oil & Gas Ltd. ("Eco ), a non-reporting issuer incorporated under the laws of British Virgin Islands, pursuant to which Eco will, subject to a number of conditions, become a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldbard (the "Resulting Issuer ). The business combination will constitute a reverse take-over (the "RTO ) of Goldbard under the policies of the Exchange.
Pursuant to the Agreement, Goldbard formed a new corporation ("Goldbard Resources Inc. ) for the purpose of amalgamating with Eco. Goldbard Resources Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goldbard and is created under laws of British Virgin Islands. As a condition of the transaction, Goldbard will hold a meeting of the shareholders of Goldbard to approve the RTO pursuant to the rules and policies of the Exchange. The shareholders will also be asked to approve a consolidation (the "Share Consolidation ) of the common shares of Goldbard on the basis of 2.5 old shares ("Pre-Consolidated Shares ) for one (1) new share (a "Consolidated Share ). If approved, the Share Consolidation shall become effective prior to completion of the RTO. Shareholders of Goldbard will also be asked to approve a continuance of Goldbard to British Columbia, and a change of the Resulting Issuer's name to "Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd.
Upon the combination of Eco and Goldbard Resources Inc., holders of ordinary shares in the capital of Eco (the "Eco Shares ) will be entitled to receive 1.25303867 Consolidated Shares for each one (1) Eco Share. The foregoing Consolidated Shares will be issued at a deemed issuance price of $0.50 per Consolidated Share. Assuming no concurrent financing, upon closing of the RTO Goldbard will issue 45,360,000 Consolidated Shares to the holders of Eco Shares and replacement warrants to holders of Eco Warrants (as defined below) entitling them to acquire 3,759,116 Consolidated Shares.
The Assets of Eco Oil & Gas Ltd.
Eco's wholly owned subsidiary, Eco Oil & Gas (Namibia) (Proprietary) Limited ("Eco Namibia ), holds five Government of the Republic of Namibia issued petroleum licenses. Offshore, Eco holds three license blocks covering more than 25,000 square kilometers (6,177,000 acres) and onshore, Eco holds two license blocks covering 30,000 square kilometers (7,413,000 acres). The terms and conditions of these licenses are regulated by agreements signed by Eco with the Government of the Republic of Namibia
Officers and Directors of the Resulting Issuer and the Eco Namibia
The following are biographies for the proposed officers and directors of the Resulting Issuer and Eco Namibia:
Moshe Peterburg (Chairman of the Resulting Issuer and director of Eco Namibia): Mr. Peterburg is a leading private investor with over 25 years of experience in Africa and Eastern Europe. Mr. Peterburg's investments cross many sectors including infrastructural and resource sectors, mining and exploration and he is founder of GP Minerals Limited, a resource investment and development company.
Gil Holzman (President & Chief Executive Officer of the Resulting Issuer and director of Eco Namibia): Mr. Holzman has many years of significant experience in the mining and energy resource sectors throughout Africa. Mr. Holzman has managed a portfolio of publicly listed mining and exploration companies (copper, cobalt, gold, iron ore and oil and gas) and is a founder of GP Minerals Limited. Currently, Mr. Holzman is the president and Chief Executive Officer of Eco.
Carmelo Marrelli (Chief Financial Officer of the Resulting Issuer): Mr. Marrelli holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto and is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Certified General Accountant. Mr. Marrelli is currently President of Marrelli Support Services, a bookkeeping firm based in Toronto, Ontario.
Naeman Amalwa (Eco Namibia Director and Country Manager): Mr. Amalwa is a Namibian businessman with 30 years experience in mining and related industries; Mr. Amalwa enjoys business relationships with many major national corporations within Namibia and the South African development community. Mr. Amalwa is a director of Namibian based JKD Diamonds (Pty) Ltd. and Dynamo Diamonds (Pty) Ltd. and founder of Salina Geological Services, a multi commodity resource development, marketing and exploration company established in 2007. The company is composed of professional geologists, Information Technologists, Geophysicists, and GIS specialists.
Phillipine Angula (Eco Namibia Director): Ms. Angula is a local Namibian businesswoman with 10 years experience in various industries such as diamonds, mining, infrastructure, and real estate in Namibia. Ms. Angula is a member and director of Dinamo Diamonds (Pty) Ltd., a fully owned Namibian company, a partner to Julius Klein Diamond Group, headquartered in New York. She is also a member and a director of Namex Consulting and Trading Ltd., a business and consulting company to sectors such construction and mining, as well as advises on local labour issues.
Gil Reichman (Eco Namibia Director): Mr. Reichman is the Chief Executive Officer of the Southern African and Namibian operations of one of the world's leading rough diamond manufacturer and traders, Julius Klein Diamonds. This company is considered one of Namibia's biggest employers at its state of the art cutting and polishing Windhoek plant. Mr. Reichman brings 10 years of experience and professional relationships with the Namibian mining, exploration, and business sector.
Arm's Length Transaction
The RTO is not a Non-Arm's Length transaction for the purposes of the polices of the Exchange.
Capital Structure of Goldbard
Goldbard has 12,600,000 Pre-Consolidated Shares issued and outstanding and, after taking into account the option grants being announced today, 1,200,000 incentive stock options issued and outstanding. It does not have any other convertible securities currently issued or outstanding.
Capital Structure of Eco
Eco has 36,200,000 Eco Shares and 3,000,000 share purchase warrants ("Eco Warrants ) currently issued and outstanding. Each Eco Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) Eco Share (subject to adjustment) at a price of $1.00 for a period of one (1) year following a liquidity event (which is defined to include the completion of a RTO).
GP Minerals Limited, a diversified minerals and oil and gas exploration company, incorporated under the laws of Cyprus, currently holds approximately 38.7% of Eco. GP Minerals was founded and is controlled by Mr. Holzman and Mr. Peterburg, both residents of Israel. Prior to completion of the RTO, these parties will not hold a controlling interest in the Resulting Issuer.
Resulting Issuer Capital Structure
Upon completion of the Share Consolidation and the RTO, but without giving effect to any contemplated financing that may take place in connection with the RTO and any option grants to incoming officers and directors, the Resulting Issuer will have approximately 50,400,000 Consolidated Shares, share purchase warrants entitling their holders to acquire 3,759,116 Consolidated Shares, and 480,000 stock options (each entitling their holder to acquire one Consolidated Share) issued and outstanding.
As part of the RTO, the Resulting Issuer will grant additional incentive stock options ("Additional Stock Options ) to incoming directors and officers, at an exercise price to be determined in accordance with the policies of the Exchange. The terms and conditions of the Additional Stock Options will be determined by the board of directors of the Resulting Issuer, but will, together with all issued and outstanding options, not exceed 10% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Resulting Issuer, upon completion of the RTO.
Closing Conditions
The closing of the RTO is subject to a number of conditions, including, but not limited to the following:
Goldbard Incentive Stock Option Grants
Goldbard is also pleased to announce today that it is granting 600,000 options (the "Options ) to its directors and officers pursuant to its incentive stock option plan (the "Plan ). The Options will be exercisable at $0.20 for a five year period following their date of being granted, subject to earlier termination in accordance with the Plan.
About Eco Oil & Gas Ltd.
Incorporated in January 2011, Eco Oil & Gas Ltd. is an integrated oil and gas exploration company focused on the new and bourgeoning energy play in Namibia. Eco's wholly owned subsidiary, Eco Oil & Gas (Namibia) (Proprietary) Limited, founded in 2008, enjoys a strong local presence having a longstanding relationship with the energy and oil and gas sector in Namibia and the region.
Offshore, Eco holds three license blocks covering more than 25,000 square kilometers (6,177,000 acres) and onshore, Eco holds two license blocks covering 30,000 square kilometers (7,413,000 acres).
As of March 31, 2011, Eco had assets of over $4.8 million, current liabilities of $188,000 and deferred liabilities of $1.3 million. These numbers are unaudited.
About Goldbard Capital Corp.
Goldbard Capital Corp. is a publicly traded company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange which is focused on pursuing exploration and development opportunities within the resource sectors.
Sponsorship of a Reverse Takeover is required by the Exchange unless exempt in accordance with Exchange policies. Goldbard intends to apply for an exemption from Sponsorship requirements, however, there is no assurance that Goldbard will obtain this exemption. In addition, the stock will likely remain halted pending completion of the RTO.
A management information circular in respect of the proposed RTO will be prepared and filed in accordance the policies of the Exchange on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. A press release will be issued once the management information circular has been filed as required pursuant to Exchange policies.
For further information about Goldbard, please contact Yaron Conforti, Chief Executive Officer, at (416) 361-2211, or by email at email@example.com
For further information about Eco, please contact Gil Holzman, Chief Executive Officer, at (972) 508884529, or by email at email@example.com
This press release contains "forward looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward looking information includes, but is not limited to, statements with respect to the terms of the financing, the planned use of proceeds, and receipt of all regulatory approvals. Generally, forward looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Goldbard to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, geopolitical and social uncertainties; the actual results of exploration activities; regulatory risks; risks inherent in foreign operations; and other risks of resource industries. Although management has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward looking information. Goldbard does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Completion of the Reverse Take-Over is subject to a number of conditions including, but not limited to, Exchange acceptance and if applicable pursuant to Exchange Requirements, majority of the minority shareholder approval. Where applicable, the Reverse Take-Over cannot close until the required shareholder approval is obtained. There can be no assurance that the Reverse Take-Over will be completed as proposed, or at all.
Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the Management Information Circular to be prepared in connection with the transaction, any information released or received with respect to the transaction may not be accurate or complete and should not be relied upon. Trading in the securities of Goldbard should be considered highly speculative.
The TSX Venture Exchange Inc. has in no way passed upon the merits of the proposed transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange Inc. nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange Inc.) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.


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Whales are curious creatures, animals that nearly defy classification. They spend most of their lives beneath the ocean's surface, feeding on aquatic life and propelling themselves through the water by means of a fluked tail and fins.
There's nothing a whale resembles more than a fish—except that whales are mammals. Certainly they have piscine traits (ask Captain Ahab), but a few hundred years ago, a Swedish zoologist named Carl Linnaeus, a.k.a., the "father of modern taxonomy," determined that whales are mammals. Not fish. Even if they sure do look and behave a lot like fish.
Scholarship football players are also curious creatures. They are full-time students who must maintain a certain grade-point average and adhere to the rules of campus life. They are also indispensable components of an athletic program, working the grind pretty much year-round for a team that annually rakes in anywhere from a few million dollars to tens of millions. Their compensation is a full scholarship, room and board. Are they student-athletes or employees? Mammals or fish?
That debate is currently being waged in Evanston, Ill., on the campus of one of the nation's most prestigious institutions, Northwestern University. On Friday, April 25, members of the Wildcat football team were afforded the opportunity to vote on whether or not to form a union, a ballot that came about after a former teammate, senior quarterback Kain Colter, petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to recognize scholarship football players as employees.
"Right now the NCAA is like a dictatorship," Colter said at the time. "No one represents us in negotiations. The only way things are going to change is if players have a union."
And the only way players can have a union is if the NLRB recognizes them as employees. In March, after listening to testimony from both Colter and Northwestern, NLRB regional director Peter Sung Ohr, playing the role of Carl Linnaeus, acceded to Colter's point of view. In a 24-page decision, Ohr ruled that scholarship football players are employees and thus have the right to unionize. "Players receiving scholarships to perform football-related services for the Employer under a contract for hire in return for compensation," wrote Ohr in a 24-page decision, "are subject to the Employer's control and are therefore employees."
Northwestern appealed the decision, formally known as a request for review, with the NLRB headquarters in Washington, D.C. That appeal is pending. Colter has aligned himself with the College Athletes Players' Association (CAPA), whose president, Ramogi Huma, is a former linebacker at UCLA.
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CAPA's argument is that since playing football has zero relationship to earning a degree, the scholarship is thus payment for playing football. Hence, players are employees. "The players receive no academic credit for participation in the football program," CAPA wrote, "and that participation has nothing to do with earning their degrees."
Northwestern's rebuttal is simple: Ninety-seven percent of Wildcat football players do earn degrees, so how can football players argue that they are not students?
Of all the schools that a proposed players' union might have chosen to attack on this front, Northwestern may have been the poorest choice. No institution among the 120 FBS institutions has a higher graduation rate. And Northwestern, unlike most of its peers, actually grants guaranteed four-year scholarships (a value of approximately $240,000) to incoming freshmen, as opposed to four renewable one-year scholarships.
While CAPA insists that the goal of unionization is not that scholarship athletes be paid ("College athletes are already paid," says Huma, referring to their scholarships, room and board, etc.), a pro-union vote would clearly be a step in that direction.
By the way, it should be noted that walk-on players, i.e., those not on scholarship, are not included in Ohr's union and would not be part of any proposed union. Get ready for Rudy II: Picket-Line Boogaloo.
Is college football heading toward an apocalypse or an age of enlightenment? What's really at stake here? And, in a sport in which the gain and loss of green turf determines victory, isn't all of this simply a turf war over the most valuable green of all: money?
"I want to thank you for pushing for this union thing, because now, when football goes away forever, I can blame unions instead of concussions." —Stephen Colbert to Ramogi Huma, The Colbert Report
College football has been under attack since its inception. During the very first contest, waged between Princeton and Rutgers in November 1869, a professor who observed the carnage warned, "You men will come to no Christian end."
For nearly a sesquicentennial, college football has enacted a double standard when faced with amateurism (and with violence, but that's another tale). In the era of Knute Rockne and Jim Thorpe, 100 years ago, elite college players were known to sneak away on Sundays to play in semi-pro games under assumed names. A West Point linebacker played semi-pro baseball under the pseudonym "Wilson" (real name: Dwight D. Eisenhower).
Last year, Heisman Trophy–winning quarterback Johnny Manziel nearly forfeited his eligibility after allegedly accepting payment for autographing footballs and other memorabilia, a reported sum of around $10,000... yet the coach at Alabama, Nick Saban (whose Crimson Tide lost to Manziel's Texas A&M Aggies), earns $7 million per year. In fact, in 40 of 50 states, the highest-compensated public employee is a college football coach.
"[Players] are helping bring in money, and they don't get any of it, and they are the ones out there putting in hard work all the time," Auburn running back Corey Grant recently told CBSSports.com. "I think they should get some type of reward or something from that."
Television contracts for college football run into the billions of dollars. The Southeastern Conference, which is home to both Alabama and Auburn, has a deal with ESPN that runs through 2034 and is worth at least $165 million per year—and that's not including the SEC's television contract with CBS.
The University of Texas has a $170 million athletic budget, its own television network (operated in conjunction with ESPN) and an athletic director who is actively seeking to play football games in the Midwest and the Middle East. (Texas may be the only athletic department that needs a foreign policy adviser.) "A lot of our alums spend time in the Middle East," Longhorn athletic director Steve Patterson recently said, "and Dubai is a place that wants to use sports to help put itself on the map. So we'll have some conversations and we'll see where they lead."
The Longhorn football program sounds a lot less like an extracurricular activity than it does a global brand. Hook 'em.
The seminal issue is this: Should a majority of the nation's most prestigious and/or largest universities serve as a de facto minor league for the National Football League, an organization that, by the way, not only enjoys tax-exempt status but can also afford to pay its commissioner, Roger Goodell, an annual salary of $43 million?
College football predates the NFL by more than 50 years—in 1923 Red Grange was playing in front of 100,000-plus fans at the University of Illinois while the Green Bay Packers were hosting the Duluth Kelleys in front of 4,000 at a minor league baseball park. The college version was immensely popular and, for schools, lucrative, long before NFL careers were a viable option. Jay Berwanger, who won the inaugural Heisman Trophy in 1935, spurned an NFL career and briefly turned to sports writing (!) before taking a job in manufacturing.
While that dynamic no longer exists, the branding of institutions through their college football prowess ("Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame") remains both a seductive and lucrative prospect for schools. Meanwhile, there is little inducement for the NFL to launch a minor league when colleges are doing such a fine job for them.
Which leads us to the players, or student-athletes or employees—whichever you prefer. While approximately three percent of FBS players will ever play a down in the NFL, a much larger percentage matriculate hoping that they will play on Sundays. Because the NFL refuses to draft a player until he is three years removed from high school—and even won a Supreme Court case upholding its right to do so (!)—there exists no alternate route, no service lane, for NFL hopefuls who have no interest, or business, in pretending to be college students. To draw upon a metaphor, they are only at Starbucks for the free WiFi.
Whether or not a college football player thinks himself as more of a fish than a mammal or vice versa, the reality is that he is uniquely both. The true whales, to employ a slang version of the term, are the NCAA, conferences and athletic departments who earn hundreds of millions each year through college football. And they are doing their best to elude capture.
"If a court decided that players...must be paid," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told SI.com last year, "I don't think we'd participate in that. I think we'd choose another option." Delany earns approximately $2 million per year. How much would he earn if Big Ten football resembled the Ivy League?
Opponents of unionization, be it NCAA president Mark Emmert, who earns $1.5 million per year, or the thousands of college alumni six figures deep in college debt, are only too happy to point out that a free college education is a reward. Proponents of unionization will continue to argue that a full scholarship is only the beginning. Whales may be mammals, they'd say, but if you want to save them, you'd better treat 'em like fish.


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French tennis player Kristina Mladenovic has no sympathy for Maria Sharapova, and says the rest of the locker room doesn't either.
The 22-year-old didn't hold back when letting her feelings known on the Russian's recent drug scandal.
"All the other players are saying she's a cheater," Mladenovic told French newspaper Le Parisien.
"You sure doubt and think that she didn't deserve all she won until now. That's dreadful, but it's good that it's finally out.
"As far as I am concerned if I take an aspirin I worry 10 times about what I do. She's been taking this drug for 10 years and it's a serious drug. She has played with the rules and thought, if it's not banned, then I can take it.
"For me that's very disappointing. I don't like the mentality to be the best by playing with the rules."
Sharapova tested positive to meldonium (a drug she knew by the alternative name of mildronate) during the Australian Open in January. It's the result of taking medication over the past 10 years that she claims was used to combat flu-like symptoms and reduce the risk of diabetes - something which runs in her family.
The substance was placed on WADA's banned list at the start of 2016, but Sharapova said she didn't read the updated list before the year's first major and so was unaware what she was taking was prohibited.
She also denied she was warned five times about meldonium being banned - one of the mitigating factors her lawyer John J. Haggerty believes can see her escape punishment.
But such excuses don't wash with Mladenovic, who continued to unleash on the 28-year-old.
"She can play with words and find a good lawyer but on the principles of the situation, she's wrong," Mladenovic said.
"She has no excuse that can defend what she's done. For me there's no doubt.
"She wasn't really liked. I respected her for her career but she wasn't really nice nor polite, let's be honest.
"At least the good news to come out of all of this is that the anti-doping program is working and that even if you're among the best players you're going to get caught and it's going to get out."
It's a far different stance than the likes that have been aired by Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams, who wished Sharapova the best in her ordeal.
On Saturday she took to Facebook to defend herself against claims she had adequate warning about the implications of taking meldonium.
"In order to be aware of this 'warning' you had to open an email with a subject line having nothing to do with anti-doping, click on a web page, enter a password, enter a username, hunt, click, hunt, click, hunt, click, scroll and read," she wrote.
"I guess some in the media can call that a warning. I think most people would call it too hard to find.
"There was also a "wallet card" distributed at various tournaments at the beginning of 2016, after the ban went into effect. This document had thousands of words on it, many of them technical, in small print. Should I have studied it? Yes. But if you saw this document (attached), you would know what I mean."
Sharapova faces a possible four-year ban from tennis, which could end her career.


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There are people who have lived extraordinary lives, who have incredible stories to share. People who turned their professions into an out-and-out lifestyle. Edo Bertoglio is one of those photographers who captured a historical and social period, the period that changed the art world in New York in the seventies and eighties.
Edo Bertoglio has always been "addicted to faces", a person who "falls in love every five minutes": with a gaze, the arch of an eyebrow, a group of facial features or an expression. His entire career is constellated with portraits, from the moment in which he takes off between the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties with his arrival in New York and his entrance into the artistic community which revolved around Andy Warhol's Factory and the renowned magazine, Interview.
Portraits that immortalised the people who made up his days and his work in that period. Friends and fellow-artists who would be known to everyone else as the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat or singer Debbie Harry of Blondie. The desire, or the necessity, to capture a face or to freeze in time the things it can evoke or epitomize, accompanies Edo Bertoglio from the universe of 80's club scene to the timeless beauty of nowadays.