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Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Terrorist is Dead
" Justice has finally Prevailed ! "
That's what I said to my friends when we heard that the Police's Special Unit Densus88 has successfuly killed the Malaysian Terrorist Noordin M. Top after nine hours of shoot out at a house rented by a group of terroists in Solo, Central Java, earlier today.
The good news was announced by the Chief of National Police Bambang Danuri, who gave reporters a brief explanation about the incident and show photos of the terrorist's finger prints.
The Malaysian Terrorist was responsible for a series of bombings that have killed hundreds of people, mostly Muslims, in Bali and Jakarta, since 2002,
The Police action has been praised & supported by President Susilo Bambang Yudoyono and the largest Muslim organization in Indonesia i.e. Nahdathul Ulama (NU).
However, Abu Jibril i.e. father of Muhammad Jibril the suspected financial arranger of terrorist suicide bombing last July, has condemned the Police raid on the terrorists. He called the raid as 'brutal' because in the raided house there was a wife of one of the terrorists suspect who's pregnant.
For details on the above, please click here, here, here, here and here.
I hope that the death of the Malaysian Terrorist would not soften the Police's efforts to hunt down other terrorists.
Photo: Courtesy of The Jakarta Globe
Posted by Harry Nizam at 11:00 PM
Labels: Malaysia, Police, Terrorists
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- Rob Baiton said...
Depends on your definition of justice, I suppose.
- September 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- H. Nizam said...
The definition used is that used by common people i.e. upholding of rights and punnishment of wrongs.
Thus, not the legal one which should be based on applicable law.
This definition is appropriate for terrorists who killed hundreds of innocent people yet untouchable or cannot be corrected by by the law for many years. Especially the other terrorists that died with the Noordin have been sentenced by the Court for their involvement in previous bombings.
- September 21, 2009 at 2:47 PM
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My Facebook friend, Susan Frances Crain, is shown here with her recent harvest. My congrats to Susan on a fine buck in our great wild outdoors! Way to go girlfriend!
A Dixie Lady Deer Hunter
Article by Fred Messina, editor of "On Target Outdoors" from The Vicksburg Evening Post on Friday, January 19, 1990. Photo by Bob Phillips.
Bob Phillips came up the other day with a photo of his wife Marian and a deer she got on Brown's Point New Years Eve. The deer was an 8-point with 16 inches of inside spread that weighed in at 190 pounds. A nice trophy in anyone's book. However, the tale Bob told is that this was Marian's fourth deer this year and he claimed that he would have done better than he did if he had not spent so much time hauling Marian's deer out of the woods. Come off it, Bob. We all know who the hunter was.
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Dr M wants BN to learn from LDP lessonTinggalkan komen
September 11, 2009 oleh HermanSamsudeen
By Leslie Lau
Consultant Editor
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 The Malaysian Insider — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was the man who asked Malaysia to look east, and he now believes the sun could be setting on the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
In a posting on his blog today, Malaysia's longest serving prime minister warned that it was not entirely impossible that the next election could see the same phenomenon in Japan happen to BN.
"The only thing that could save the BN is the lacklustre performance of the opposition. The alternative is not a real alternative.
"But if the performance of the BN government and parties fail to gain confidence, the frustrated voters might just do what the Japanese voters did — dump the party they had supported for more than half a century."
Japan's LDP recently lost the elections, ending more than half a century of nearly uninterrupted rule, and observers here have begun to draw parallels with political developments affecting BN.
BN lost its traditional two-thirds majority in last year's general elections and has been struggling with attempts to reform.
Dr Mahathir, who was a trenchant critic of Tun Abdullah Badawi's administration, has warmed to Datuk Seri Najib Razak's government.
But he continues to be critical of the corruption and lack of direction that has beset Umno and other BN parties.
He wrote in his blog today that based on his assessment of the current situation, it was likely BN and Umno could share the same fate of parties like Japan's LDP.
The Malaysian Insider reported today that according to a new poll of voters in Peninsular Malaysia, power still hangs in the balance with BN having a slight edge.
A significant number of voters still appear undecided, and their backing remains up for grabs between BN and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) parties.
"In just three years time the new elections will be held. Time is obviously running short.
"Unless some drastic change is shown in the way the country is run and the people are served, BN will join the other grand old party in the rubbish heap of history," said Dr Mahathir.
He said there was no doubt the rot had set in and that corruption was now rampant in Umno and other component parties.
Without naming anyone, Dr Mahathir said that power had emasculated many BN leaders, and pointed out that many of them were clinging on to power even though they had outlived their usefulness.
The former PM did, however, criticise his old friend and ally, Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu, a day earlier in an interview with a Tamil newspaper, and called for the MIC president to make way for younger leaders in the party.
"Malaysia's voters, especially the Malays, have always been strongly loyal. Yet there is evidence that in 2008 many of these loyalists had voted for the opposition.


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Current RNC Chairman Michael Steele is running for reelection. He is being challenged by five others:
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Wisconsin GOP
Saul Anuzis, former Republican chairman of Michigan
Ann Wagner, chairman of the Missouri Republican Party
Maria Cino, manager of the 2008 Republican National Convention
Gentry Collins, the RNC's political director
There will be many votes and many strategic maneuvers before a chairman is elected, and it will be an interesting ride.
Washington Eagle Forum will be watching the vote live and you can follow all the action via Twitter @waeagles
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In a March 21st letter, "Clean air, dirty politics" (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin), Ellen Taylor (President of the Claremont League of Women Voters) proves two things. Those are, much of Claremont must remain just as unreasonably Liberal as we have come to expect, and the League of Women Voters has been corrupted; it no longer presents unbiased, fact-based information for rational voting decisions.
The Clean Air Act, passed before the era of Progressive Socialist dominance of the Democratic Party, did help in improving our air. I recall the weekly smog-alerts and invisible San Gabriel Mountains when I was younger. The cost (borne mostly by industry) was actually staggering, but worth it in the long run. But now the bloated EPA is legislating by "regulation", in violation of our elected-representative form of government. They are an agency of political appointees and bureaucrats, taking orders from only one man, but are supposed to be subject to the controls of Congress. What they are doing is expanding governmental control over lots of quasi-environmental and non-environmental areas in the name of Global Leftist ideology.
Ellen's "regulations…to control toxic air pollutants…causing global climate change" [emphasis mine] are simply the muscle of Obama's Global Warming fraud. In the 1970's the furthest Left Liberals shouted about man-caused "Global Cooling" bringing on an ice age. In the 1990's they had to shift to screaming warnings of "Global Warming", because the cycle continued and it was warmer. They invented the now-famous "hockey stick" trick to fabricate more dramatic lies – er, statistics. Now the absolutely normal, perennial and unaffected-by-humans cycle has rolled on and we are in a cooling period again. Oops. Better make it "Climate Change", because people are starting to remember all those old "warming" and "cooling" headlines. By the way, the general trend for Earth (and the entire universe) is a jagged but descending line: it is cooling off.
EPA is already involved in setting up "greenhouse gas" exchanges. Profitable (western) factories would be required to "buy carbon credits" from small, third world companies. No gas is actually exchanged and no pollution is actually reduced; money is just handed over to less productive societies. "Sharing the wealth". "Climate Justice". Oh, and poor, little China and India and others (quickly overtaking American industry, and permitting far more pollution) are payees, not payers.
Obama took five (5) jumbo jets to the Copenhagen Climate Fraud Conference (which adjourned once it was clear that America refused to pay up). He did it again within weeks for the Olympics-for-Chicago-cronies failure and for the Nobel Prize farce. Al Gore uses the dirtiest jet in the air (Gulfstream II) to criss-cross the planet with his manufactured and discredited "evidence", collecting over $100,000,000 in speakers' fees. Now the entire climate crisis industry has been repeatedly exposed as a global Leftist cabal with extracting money from capitalist countries as its only purpose.
The formerly well-intentioned EPA is now just a tool for sidestepping congressional oversight. They try to justify wholesale closure of overwhelmingly safe American oil rigs in favor of far more expensive and undependable foreign oil, pushed through oceans of water in inefficient, leaky, oil-burning tankers that are vulnerable to terrorist attack. They over-regulate coal, oil and gas to raise costs to industry and consumers. Making and approving industry regulations is what Congress is charged with in the Constitution, but Ellen says, "Bypassing this process and letting [emphasis mine] Congress second-guess specific regulations…is simply bad government".
Really? America grew into a power in just 20 years with NONE of these side agencies. We were a major power before 1917, a super power by 1941 and the superpower by 1990. And we repeatedly saved the rest of the world (with aid or with troops) along the way. But it was bad government. Most of the "poor" have color TV and cellphones here. Millions of immigrants get visas and millions of illegal aliens sneak in here. Those needing the best medical care come here. But it was "bad government". Having an elected, multi-party assembly question experts, debate and then vote openly, rather than one man (whose White House is rife with lobbyists) issuing executive orders "substitutes raw politics for scientific expertise." The air is cleaner than it has ever been and the climate is normal, but the League of Women Voters sees 'good government' as "new regulations" because "toxic air pollution and global climate change must be addressed."
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Today I got my third star for losing weight. That means I'm down 15.8 pounds. When I got home I took my measurements and have lost 11 inches (that's bust, waist, hips, thigh and arm) and feel pretty good about it! My clothes are fitting better and this morning I thought I felt a trickle of energy that wasn't there before. I'm still giving semi-regular reports on my WordPress blog, so you can follow me there or just check back here once in awhile.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Update on weight loss
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Labels: diet, health, weight loss, weight watchers
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Upcycled Envelope Mini Albums
Here's a sneak peak of what I've been working on the past couple of weeks. They are all made out of junk mail envelopes and decorative paper from my stash. No two are alike and they were a blast to make. There are more than what you see in the picture, but I'm having brain freeze about getting the flash to stay on while taking closeups. The one closeup is of a double-embossed cover that's made to look like leather. First it's embossed on the Cuttlebug, then with extra thick embossing enamel powder. What do you think? I saw a tutorial somewhere using this technique to make wallets and thought it would work equally well as an album cover.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Steampunk Mini Album
I've been very busy for the past few weeks trying to get inventory ready for the craft show in Lawrence next month. Emily and I are so excited about finally being in a venue that really appreciates the concept upcycled crafts and jewelry. I keep hearing about this thing called Steampunk (or is it Steam Punk?) and figured it was high time I got on the bandwagon and try my hand at creating something along that line. I went to my favorite site for finding free vintage graphics, The Graphics Fairy and grabbed a bunch of steampunk and vintage graphics for this project. I used cereal boxes for the covers and embellishments, upcycled junk mail envelopes, keys and metal washers from the garage (actually I think the keys came from my father's old collection), my new favorite purchased embellishments from K & Company and paper/cardstock from my stash. Here's a look at the finished product. I'd love to hear what you think of it!
Well that's all for now. I am currently working on mini albums made out of #10 junk mail envelopes and will post pics of those later. Like I said, I'd LOVE some input. What would you expect to pay for something like this?
The grunge flower on the front is done using a technique I learned while at an awesome Stampin Up retreat held by my favorite demonstrator Shelly May. I happened to pick up some 2 inch wide rolls of floral ribbon on clearance at Hallmark and was able to cut a strip 15" x 1" for this project. Then I cut slits all most all the way through at about 1/2" intervals, wound it around in a circle on to some sticky tape and zapped it with the heat gun. The finished product was just perfect for this album, don't you think? Oh and that button in the center is one of those spares that came with a jacket that has long since gone bye-bye. I tucked a bit of lace around one half of the flower to stay with the vintage feel.
I love this little graphic of the fireman running with a ladder. I colored him in with red pencils just to make him pop, then found some red ribbon studded with clear bling (the stuff is great to mimic dog collars in the pet albums!). The tag is held in place by some clear acetate.
One of my favorite keys from the collection is this one from Sears. Paired it with a Graphics Fairy pocket watch and an old rusted metal washer.
Yes that really is a picture of a young girl peering through some paint on the junk mail envelope page. She was just far too cute to paint over completely and makes me smile every time I look at her!
The envelopes are sewed together in groups of three (called signatures I think?), then attached with black cardstock which is held together with a binding made out of some leather-look cardstock/paper (thin adhesive cardstock from Sizzix).
Don't you just love the eye peeking through the window envelope on this page? It is enhanced with a metal washer over the eye and another very large washer serves as the tab for the tag.
I used platinum UTEE on the edge of the tag below, then embossed it quickly with a border stamp.
Here's some of that K & Co I told you about. The clock is a Graphics Fairy, the rest is K & Co exept the picture of the book cover for Lady in the Attic (more junk mail, although the book does sound interesting!)
I just had to show you the page below which I so fondly call my lemonade page. You see that upside down bicyclist? Well that was totally unintentional, but when the tape ended up in the wrong place (gee, can't imagine how that happened!) I decided that it was perfectly ok, no beyond okay, it was awesome!
Well that's all for now. I am currently working on mini albums made out of #10 junk mail envelopes and will post pics of those later. Like I said, I'd LOVE some input. What would you expect to pay for something like this?
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After being unceremoniously dumped by the NFL's Houston Oilers, head coach Bum Phillips said, "There's two kinds of coaches. Them that's fired, and them that's gonna be fired." Today the Denver Broncos taught Coach Mike Shanahan the truth of Bum's words. The coach who has spent 14 years with the Broncos and led them to two Super Bowl victories was given his walking papers. In my opinion, it was high time.
The Broncos have barely broken .500 in three seasons. They had a three-game lead in there division this year, and only had to win one of three games to make the playoffs. They botched every chance. Fresh blood will do the team good.
After the Dallas Cowboys abysmal loss over the weekend, could Bum's son, Wade (a former Broncos coach himself) be tossed aside in Big "D" to give Tom Landry's old chair to Shanahan? I imagine we'll find out soon.


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LONDON (Reuters) - A European crackdown on pollution from ships will require billions of dollars worth of investment by shipping firms on filter technology and by refineries on upgrades to produce cleaner fuels - burdens they can ill afford.
The shipping industry is already struggling due to poor global demand and overcapacity, which have pushed freight rates to unprofitable levels for many operators. European refineries are under pressure from high crude costs, cheap refined product imports and weak demand.


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I'm continuing with the New Notebook Blog Series to help make you make your interactive notebooks as great as possible! This post is about the water cycle and weather and climate.
Output Note: My examples don't include Output because at this point in the year students are choosing their own output while I walk around and meet with students.
Diagram from All in One Notebook and Cloze from Earth and Space Printables
The activity on the left has students review and identify the processes in the water cycle. The activity on the right is a Cloze activity that requires students to use the new vocabulary.
Fold-up from All in One Notebook
The activity on the left is really fun! Students go through a simulation through the water cycle with different cubes around the room (pictured below and free here). They record where they go and what caused that process. This sparks a great discussion of cause and effect for the water cycle processes. Some great conversations come from this. Then, students write a story about their trip through the water cycle. The fold-up on the right goes over basic weather tools, the next activity.
Oceans and Sun Fold-up from Oceans Unit
Added in: The activity above is a great reflection or output for the water cycle simulation. Lots of students will find that they stay at the ocean cube for several terms. You can talk about how much water is in the ocean and the interaction between the sun and ocean in the water cycle (TEKS 5.8B for you Texans!).
Venn Diagram Fold-up from All in One Notebook
On the left students continue learning about weather forecasting by looking up the weather in another place and recording important information about precipitation, wind speed, humidity, storms, air pressure, and temperature. On the right, students learn the differences and similarities between weather and climate.
Weather vs. Climate from Earth and Space Printables and Climate Zones from Winter Unit
Students can practice describing statements as referring to weather and climate using the printable on the left. The climate zones map for the United States is a lot of fun, but it does take some time. Students color the climate zones found in the United States and describe their various climates.
I hope this post was super helpful. I'm enjoy sharing my science notebook photos with you and hope you like them too! My next New Notebook Series post will be for space… that's a big post so be on the look-out!
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Original article and pictures take http://thesciencepenguin.com/2015/01/water-cycle-weather.html site


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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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A good place to start your search is Craigs List. They often have a lot of work from home job opportunities available and most of them are legitimate. Get a notepad and pen and jot down the information. Some places have a phone number where you can call them to appy for data entry work and some you can apply directly from their website. Another good place to search is the Recycler if you live in the LA area or the Inland Empire. This can narrow things down a bit when it is directly in your location.
Another good way to go about finding work is to simply run a search on Google for online data entry or data entry jobs. This will bring up several websites, but there is also things you can do to narrow the list down a bit. First you need to figure out what type of time you have available to work, what kind of income you are looking to make. Ask yourself if you want to be paid by the hour or paid by the project. There are several different kinds of work from home data entry jobs so you need to write all these things down and see which sites offer exactly what it is you are looking for, because many of them are different from each other and have different pay schedules, some are business opportunities and some are direct employment. Doing this should greatly reduce the number of candidates you have to go through and this will make it much easier for you to choose which job is best for you.
A popular data entry from home would be your non traditional work from home online. This type of work is great for stay at home moms because there is no time schedule, you work at your own pace and you really can work as much or as little as you want. This is commission based, however, with time and effort one can make $200 a day and up. This is actually one of the preferred work from home jobs for moms. Plus there is no specific skills necessary and training is provided. For more information on this type of data entry jobs from home take a look at Typist Jobs. They have an excellent training program and support staff and have been verified for their legitimacy.
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It's so easy to get a private money lender it's crazy that anyone should ever get a traditional bank loan. Not that they can. Right now, it's next to impossible to get a bank loan. Purse strings are tight and there's a lot of paperwork to sift through before you get an answer- and that answer might be no!
If you need cash right now for your real estate property, then you might want to talk to your Arizona mortgage broker about getting a private money lender loan because you can get this loan super fast and you can stop worrying immediately.
Why are these private money lender loans great? Well, for one, if you have some bad credit, you can stop worrying because with hard money lenders it really doesn't matter what your credit score says. You can get an offer anyway that's fast and probably closer to the amount you need to escape the looming foreclosure on your property.
Moreover, because you don't have to deal with a lot of paperwork, you can get this private money lender loan really fast. You don't have to worry about the possibility of a hard money lender saying no because there's no reason they would want to. A private money lender wants to get some returns on their investment and you want it fast. In that fair trade deal, everybody gets what they want.
Don't hesitate to look into getting a private money lender today. It could just be the best thing you've ever done and more than likely, going to ensure that the property you have is saved. All the private money lender wants to know is if you have enough income to pay back the loan. It's that easy! Speak to your Arizona mortgage broker and look into private money lender loans today.
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Well friends, I have really enjoyed playing around on Bonnie Hunter's site, http://www.quiltville.com/.
I love her instructions for making Maverick Stars. It's like Gwen Marston's liberated stars (so I've heard), and requires no templates and absolutely no worrying about star points! I challenge all of you to go to her site, find the directions to "Maverick Stars" on the right-hand menu of free patterns, and start playing!
Bonnie's directions have you starting with 2 1/2 inch squares, then sewing on chucks of colorful scraps in a flip and sew sort of fashion. I'm itching to try both larger and smaller 'jumping off' squares to make both larger and smaller stars.
Since I have a disease of not being able to throw away ANY LITTLE CRUMB OF FABRIC SCRAP, I am always looking for new ways to give life to these little cast-offs. It's very satisfying to use them up, and the variety of fabrics makes a scrappy project never dull. Sometimes I am afraid to allow myself to try really original and crazy stuff while sewing because I'm afraid of failing and 'wasting' good fabric. Heck, the scraps are already "waste," so I'm trying to let go of the needless worry.
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Many thanks for the revision class last week. I just have a few more specific questions I wondered if you would be able to help me with.
1) You often refer to 'Theorem 107' in solutions however this doesn't seem to correlate with the notes I have, is there any chance you could clarify what this theorem says and how it is applied?
2) In 'An example of an integral basis' you select , is there a reason for this rather than ?
Many thanks for your help.
I'm sorry. When I revised the notes, I forgot to update the references on the supplementary material. Most of the time, I do think it's a good exercise to locate the correct reference somewhere near the incorrect one. (This is not just an excuse for me to be lazy!) In the case of the old theorem 107, this is theorem 111 in the current notes. It allows us to rule out primes from the possible denominators of algebraic integers expressed in terms of a basis when the minimal polynomial for the algebraic integer is Eisenstein for the prime .
Regarding the second question, I used because I tried it out and it worked. It's a good exercise to try the argument with instead and see if it's just as good. It shouldn't be immediately obvious until you've followed the pattern of the given proof a good deal of the way. Let me know how it goes.


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Hello everyone,
Did you survive the Halloween kiddies? I would guess we had around 130 trick or treaters. My daughter and son n law put on a baby, but creepy, mask when they answered the door! We carved a pumpkin (yeah that night...time just slipped away) and my daughter made pumpkin seeds and a pumpkin cheesecake! All was delicious! She's a great cook/baker!
Today as I'm going through my blog following list I see Karen's new Post for her 2013 calendar she is making. I have to say, I'm bookmarking post so I can refer to them when I attempt this. Karen is such a crafty inspirational figure in my followings. I just can't wait to see what she comes up with next!!!
So scrolling down her blog I come across this Post. Karen is always so generous with her give away's. Good luck to everyone...but I hope I win! :) Thanks Karen for the inspiration and the chance for some blog candy.
I suggest y'all go check out Karen's blog and all her wonderful talents.
I'm working on my Christmas cards and hope to have a few to post today. My daughter is wanting me to make her cards this year (75) so I'd better get going on that! In exchange she is going to make me a toasty warm hat for my Arctic winter!
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Well it seems WordPress 2.8 is coming out with a lot new features which cannot be explained in 1 lines or a codex page. Many bloggers have started posting new feature details and tips and tricks which would make blogging easier with the upcoming WordPress 2.8. So here I am making is a detail WordPress 2.8 Tricks and Tips Page where I will list some cool tips and tricks which others have posted about. The following list will also contains reviews of WordPress 2.8 from different perspectives.
- Create Custom Taxonomies in WordPress 2.8 with minimal code
- Tag Descriptions in WordPress 2.8
- Build a WordPress 2.8 Compatible Widget
- WordPress 2.8 Body Class
- Bye Bye My-hacks.php
- Change Admin Pagination on Posts, Pages and Comments
- WordPress 2.8 Feature Password
- 2.8 Small Insights
- Jcrop in 2.8
- WordPress Plugin Path
- WordPress Proxy Support
- Drag and Drop Widgets
- Exciting WordPress 2.8
- Using Body Class to Detect Internet Browsers
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Toasting the New Year
>> Saturday, January 3, 2009
People. There are no words. That up there? That's my new toaster. A 1940 Toastmaster. Seriously. It weighs enough to kill a man if thrown with sufficient force AND makes a kick-ass slice of toast. Win-win, right? Of course the heat coming off the top is enough to melt the underside of my upper cabinets but that's what it takes to get toast that's toasty on the outside and soft in the middle. Trust me, any so-called "fire risk" is totally worth it.
In case you were wondering I did run a complicated little algorithm to determine exactly what the mathematical chances were of me and my new love ever actually meeting. The variables included; Me, Him, holiday weekend, two bucks and Mormon thrift store. Statistically I am more likely to be Elvis' than to own that particular toaster. Obviously Jesus wanted me to have it.
My second Resolution?
Buy more crap at thrift stores.


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Ellen Brown, September 7th, 2009
A year after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, questions still swirl around its collapse. Lawrence MacDonald, whose book A Colossal Failure of Common Sense came out in July 2009, maintains that the bank was not in substantially worse shape than other major Wall Street banks. He says Lehman was just "put to sleep. They put the pillow over the face of Lehman Brothers and they put her to sleep." The question is, why?
The Lehman bankruptcy is widely considered to be the watershed event that changed the rules of the game for those Wall Street banks considered "too big to fail." The bankruptcy option was ruled out once and for all. The taxpayers would have to keep throwing money at the banks, no matter how corrupt, ill-managed or undeserving. As Dean Baker noted in April 2009:
"Geithner has supposedly ruled out the bankruptcy option because when he, along with Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke, tried letting Lehman Brothers go under last fall, it didn't turn out very well. Of course, it is not necessary to go the route of an uncontrolled bankruptcy that Geithner and Co. pursued with Lehman. . . . [But] the Geithner crew insists that there are no alternatives to his plan; we have to just keep giving hundreds of billions of dollars to the banks . . . , further enriching the bankers who wrecked the economy."
Although Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on Monday, September 15, 2008, it was actually "bombed" on September 11, when the biggest one-day drop in its stock and highest trading volume occurred before bankruptcy. Lehman CEO Richard Fuld maintained that the 158 year old bank was brought down by unsubstantiated rumors and illegal naked short selling. Although short selling (selling shares you don't own) is legal, the short seller is required to have shares lined up to borrow and replace to cover the sale. Failure to buy the shares back in the next three trading days is called a "fail to deliver." Christopher Cox, who was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2008, said in a July 2009 article that naked short selling "can allow manipulators to force prices down far lower than would be possible in legitimate short-selling conditions." By September 11, 2008, according to the SEC, as many as 32.8 million Lehman shares had been sold and not delivered – a 57-fold increase over the peak of the prior year. For a very large company like Lehman, with plenty of "float" (available shares for trading), this unprecedented number was highly suspicious and warranted serious investigation. But the SEC, which was criticized for failing to follow up even on tips that Bernie Madoff's business was a ponzi scheme, has yet to announce the results of any investigation.
More Questions
Other questions about the Lehman collapse are raised in David Wessel's July 2009 book In Fed We Trust. Why was Bear Stearns saved from bankruptcy but Lehman Brothers was not? How could the decision makers not realize the dire consequences of letting Lehman go down?
One possible explanation is that they actually thought the bank would be bought out at the last minute, just as Bear Stearns was. In both cases, the parties worked feverishly over the weekend after the stock's collapse to try to negotiate a deal. For Bear Stearns, the negotiations succeeded, with the help of the New York Federal Reserve, which provided the loan used by JPMorgan Chase to complete the deal. With Lehman, however, the interested buyer was British, and the help that was needed was from the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling. The weekend after the September 11 stock collapse, intense negotiations were pursued with Barclays Bank, which was prepared to underwrite Lehman's debts; but it needed a waiver from British regulators of a rule requiring shareholder approval. Negotiations continued until the market was getting ready to open in Japan on Sunday, but UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling would not give the necessary waiver. He said something to the effect that he did not want to infect Britain with America's cancer. The sentiment was understandable, but the question was, why did he wait until it was too late for the Treasury or the Federal Reserve to move in with other arrangements?
The issue takes on more significance in light of the fact that Chancellor Darling played a similar role in another 9-11 collapse the previous year. On September 11, 2007, frantic customers were lining up outside Northern Rock, the UK's fifth largest mortgage lender, in the first British bank run in 141 years. The bank's shares plunged 31% in a single day. Like the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the U.S., the bankruptcy of Northern Rock changed the rules of the game. Britain's major banks too would now be saved at any cost, in order to avoid the loss of customer confidence, panic and bank runs that could precipitate a 1929-style market crash.
With Northern Rock, as with Lehman Brothers, Alistair Darling could have saved the day but backed down. Northern Rock had a willing buyer, Lloyds TSB; but the buyer needed a loan from the Bank of England, which the Bank's Governor, Mervyn King, had denied. Darling was advised by his staff to overrule the Governor and grant the loan, but this would have cost political capital for UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who had been widely lauded for giving the Bank of England its independence in 1997.
Brown is criticized domestically for precipitating the financial crisis with errors made as Chancellor of the Exchequer before he became Prime Minister. Critics maintain the British Treasury has abdicated its responsibility as the financial overseer of the British economy to the Bank of England, which in many ways controls the government, because its advice is always followed regarding the British budget. The whole scenario suggests that the much-vaunted virtues of an independent central bank are overblown. Some economists, including Milton Friedman and Ben Bernanke, blame poor policymaking by an independent Federal Reserve for bringing on the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Shock Therapy?
According to Representative Paul Kanjorski, speaking on C-SPAN in January 2009, the collapse of Lehman Brothers precipitated a $550 billion run on the money market funds on Thursday, September 18. This was the dire news that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson presented to Congress behind closed doors, prompting Congressional approval of Paulson's $700 billion bank bailout despite deep misgivings. It was the sort of "shock therapy" discussed by Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine, in which a major crisis prompts hasty emergency action involving the relinquishment of rights or funds that would otherwise be difficult to pry loose from the citizenry.
Like the "bombing" of Lehman stock on September 11, the $550 billion money market run was suspicious. The stock market had plunged when Lehman filed for bankruptcy on September 15, but it actually went up on September 16. Why did the money market wait until September 18 to collapse? A report by the Joint Economic Committee pointed to the fact that the $62 billion Reserve Primary Fund had "broken the buck" (fallen below a stable $1 per share) due to its Lehman investments; but that had occurred on September 15, and the fund had suspended redemptions for the following week. What dire reversal happened on September 17? According to the SEC, it was another record day for illegal naked short selling. Failed trades climbed to 49.7 million – 23% of Lehman trades.
The Larger Question Is Why?
All of this suggests that Lehman Brothers did not just fall over the brink but was pushed. Judge James Peck, who presided in the bankruptcy proceedings, said "Lehman Brothers became a victim, in effect the only true icon to fall in a tsunami that has befallen the credit markets."
If Lehman was indeed sacrificed, who pushed it and to what end? Some critics point to Henry Paulson and his cronies at Goldman Sachs, Lehman's arch rival. Goldman certainly came out on top after Lehman's demise, but there are other possibilities as well, involving more global players. The month after Lehman collapsed, Gordon Brown and the EU leaders called for using the financial crisis as an opportunity to radically enhance the regulatory power of global institutions. Brown spoke of "a new global financial order," echoing the "new world order" referred to by globalist banker David Rockefeller when he said in 1994:
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the new world order."
Richard Haas, President of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in 2006:
"Globalisation . . . implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker."
Sovereignty is one of these cherished rights that nations will give up only with "the right major crisis." Gordon Brown put it like this:
"Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. . . . We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age."
In April 2009, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling hosted the G20 summit in London, which focused on the financial crisis. A global currency issue was approved, and an international Financial Stability Board was agreed to as global regulator, to be based in the controversial Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. The international bankers who caused the financial crisis are indeed capitalizing on it, consolidating their power in "a new global financial order" that gives them top-down global control. Just some food for thought as September 11 rolls around again.
Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her earlier books focused on the pharmaceutical cartel that gets its power from "the money trust." Her eleven books include Forbidden Medicine, Nature's Pharmacy (co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker), and The Key to Ultimate Health (co-authored with Dr. Richard Hansen). Her websites are www.webofdebt.com and www.ellenbrown.com.
Ellen Brown, July 3rd, 2007
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It has been called "the most astounding piece of sleight of hand ever invented." The creation of money has been privatized, usurped from Congress by a private banking cartel. Most people think money is issued by fiat by the government, but that is not the case. Except for coins, which compose only about one one-thousandth of the total U.S. money supply, all of our money is now created by banks. Federal Reserve Notes (dollar bills) are issued by the Federal Reserve, a private banking corporation, and lent to the government.1 Moreover, Federal Reserve Notes and coins together compose less than 3 percent of the money supply. The other 97 percent is created by commercial banks as loans.2
Don't believe banks create the money they lend? Neither did the jury in a landmark Minnesota case, until they heard the evidence. First National Bank of Montgomery vs. Daly (1969) was a courtroom drama worthy of a movie script.3 Defendant Jerome Daly opposed the bank's foreclosure on his $14,000 home mortgage loan on the ground that there was no consideration for the loan. "Consideration" ("the thing exchanged") is an essential element of a contract. Daly, an attorney representing himself, argued that the bank had put up no real money for his loan. The courtroom proceedings were recorded by Associate Justice Bill Drexler, whose chief role, he said, was to keep order in a highly charged courtroom where the attorneys were threatening a fist fight. Drexler hadn't given much credence to the theory of the defense, until Mr. Morgan, the bank's president, took the stand. To everyone's surprise, Morgan admitted that the bank routinely created money "out of thin air" for its loans, and that this was standard banking practice. "It sounds like fraud to me," intoned Presiding Justice Martin Mahoney amid nods from the jurors. In his court memorandum, Justice Mahoney stated:
Plaintiff admitted that it, in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, . . . did create the entire $14,000.00 in money and credit upon its own books by bookkeeping entry. That this was the consideration used to support the Note dated May 8, 1964 and the Mortgage of the same date. The money and credit first came into existence when they created it. Mr. Morgan admitted that no United States Law or Statute existed which gave him the right to do this. A lawful consideration must exist and be tendered to support the Note.
The court rejected the bank's claim for foreclosure, and the defendant kept his house. To Daly, the implications were enormous. If bankers were indeed extending credit without consideration – without backing their loans with money they actually had in their vaults and were entitled to lend – a decision declaring their loans void could topple the power base of the world. He wrote in a local news article:
This decision, which is legally sound, has the effect of declaring all private mortgages on real and personal property, and all U.S. and State bonds held by the Federal Reserve, National and State banks to be null and void. This amounts to an emancipation of this Nation from personal, national and state debt purportedly owed to this banking system. Every American owes it to himself . . . to study this decision very carefully . . . for upon it hangs the question of freedom or slavery.
Needless to say, however, the decision failed to change prevailing practice, although it was never overruled. It was heard in a Justice of the Peace Court, an autonomous court system dating back to those frontier days when defendants had trouble traveling to big cities to respond to summonses. In that system (which has now been phased out), judges and courts were pretty much on their own. Justice Mahoney, who was not dependent on campaign financing or hamstrung by precedent, went so far as to threaten to prosecute and expose the bank. He died less than six months after the trial, in a mysterious accident that appeared to involve poisoning.4 Since that time, a number of defendants have attempted to avoid loan defaults using the defense Daly raised; but they have met with only limited success. As one judge said off the record:
If I let you do that – you and everyone else – it would bring the whole system down. . . . I cannot let you go behind the bar of the bank. . . . We are not going behind that curtain!5
From time to time, however, the curtain has been lifted long enough for us to see behind it. A number of reputable authorities have attested to what is going on, including Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Bank of England and the second richest man in Britain in the 1920s. He declared in an address at the University of Texas in 1927:
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin . . . . Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. . . . Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. . . . But, if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
Robert H. Hemphill, Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in the Great Depression, wrote in 1934:
We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon.6
Graham Towers, Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1935 to 1955, acknowledged:
Banks create money. That is what they are for. . . . The manufacturing process to make money consists of making an entry in a book. That is all. . . . Each and every time a Bank makes a loan . . . new Bank credit is created -- brand new money.7
Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury under Eisenhower, said in an interview reported in the August 31, 1959 issue of U.S. News and World Report:
[W]hen a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account in the bank by the amount of the loan. The money is not taken from anyone else's deposit; it was not previously paid in to the bank by anyone. It's new money, created by the bank for the use of the borrower.
How did this scheme originate, and how has it been concealed for so many years? To answer those questions, we need to go back to the seventeenth century.
The Shell Game of the Goldsmiths
In seventeenth century Europe, trade was conducted primarily in gold and silver coins. Coins were durable and had value in themselves, but they were hard to transport in bulk and could be stolen if not kept under lock and key. Many people therefore deposited their coins with the goldsmiths, who had the strongest safes in town. The goldsmiths issued convenient paper receipts that could be traded in place of the bulkier coins they represented. These receipts were also used when people who needed coins came to the goldsmiths for loans.
The mischief began when the goldsmiths noticed that only about 10 to 20 percent of their receipts came back to be redeemed in gold at any one time. They could safely "lend" the gold in their strongboxes at interest several times over, as long as they kept 10 to 20 percent of the value of their outstanding loans in gold to meet the demand. They thus created "paper money" (receipts for loans of gold) worth several times the gold they actually held. They typically issued notes and made loans in amounts that were four to five times their actual supply of gold. At an interest rate of 20 percent, the same gold lent five times over produced a 100 percent return every year, on gold the goldsmiths did not actually own and could not legally lend at all. If they were careful not to overextend this "credit," the goldsmiths could thus become quite wealthy without producing anything of value themselves. Since only the principal was lent into the money supply, more money was eventually owed back in principal and interest than the townspeople as a whole possessed. They had to continually take out loans of new paper money to cover the shortfall, causing the wealth of the town and eventually of the country to be siphoned into the vaults of the goldsmiths-turned-bankers, while the people fell progressively into their debt.8
Following this model, in nineteenth century America, private banks issued their own banknotes in sums up to ten times their actual reserves in gold. This was called "fractional reserve" banking, meaning that only a fraction of the total deposits managed by a bank were kept in "reserve" to meet the demands of depositors. But periodic runs on the banks when the customers all got suspicious and demanded their gold at the same time caused banks to go bankrupt and made the system unstable. In 1913, the private banknote system was therefore consolidated into a national banknote system under the Federal Reserve (or "Fed"), a privately-owned corporation given the right to issue Federal Reserve Notes and lend them to the U.S. government. These notes, which were issued by the Fed basically for the cost of printing them, came to form the basis of the national money supply.
Twenty years later, the country faced massive depression. The money supply shrank, as banks closed their doors and gold fled to Europe. Dollars at that time had to be 40 percent backed by gold, so for every dollar's worth of gold that left the country, 2.5 dollars in credit money also disappeared. To prevent this alarming deflationary spiral from collapsing the money supply completely, in 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt took the dollar off the gold standard. Today the Federal Reserve still operates on the "fractional reserve" system, but its "reserves" consist of nothing but government bonds (I.O.U.s or debts). The government issues bonds, the Federal Reserve issues Federal Reserve Notes, and they basically swap stacks, leaving the government in debt to a private banking corporation for money the government could have issued itself, debt-free.
Theft by Inflation
M3, the broadest measure of the U.S. money supply, shot up from $3.7 trillion in February 1988 to $10.3 trillion 14 years later, when the Fed quit reporting it. Why the Fed quit reporting it in March 2006 is suggested by John Williams in a website called "Shadow Government Statistics" (shadowstats.com), which shows that by the spring of 2007, M3 was growing at the astounding rate of 11.8 percent per year. Best not to publicize such figures too widely! The question posed here, however, is this: where did all this new money come from? The government did not step up its output of coins, and no gold was added to the national money supply, since the government went off the gold standard in 1933. This new money could only have been created privately as "bank credit" advanced as loans.
The problem with inflating the money supply in this way, of course, is that it inflates prices. More money competing for the same goods drives prices up. The dollar buys less, robbing people of the value of their money. This rampant inflation is usually blamed on the government, which is accused of running the dollar printing presses in order to spend and spend without resorting to the politically unpopular expedient of raising taxes. But as noted earlier, the only money the U.S. government actually issues are coins. In countries in which the central bank has been nationalized, paper money may be issued by the government along with coins, but paper money still composes only a very small percentage of the money supply. In England, where the Bank of England was nationalized after World War II, private banks continue to create 97 percent of the money supply as loans.9
Price inflation is only one problem with this system of private money creation. Another is that banks create only the principal but not the interest necessary to pay back their loans. Since virtually the entire money supply is created by banks themselves, new money must continually be borrowed into existence just to pay the interest owed to the bankers. A dollar lent at 5 percent interest becomes 2 dollars in 14 years. That means the money supply has to double every 14 years just to cover the interest owed on the money existing at the beginning of this 14 year cycle. The Federal Reserve's own figures confirm that M3 has doubled or more every 14 years since 1959, when the Fed began reporting it. 10 That means that every 14 years, banks siphon off as much money in interest as there was in the entire economy 14 years earlier. This tribute is paid for lending something the banks never actually had to lend, making it perhaps the greatest scam ever perpetrated, since it now affects the entire global economy. The privatization of money is the underlying cause of poverty, economic slavery, underfunded government, and an oligarchical ruling class that thwarts every attempt to shake it loose from the reins of power.
This problem can only be set right by reversing the process that created it. Congress needs to take back the Constitutional power to issue the nation's money. "Fractional reserve" banking needs to be eliminated, limiting banks to lending only pre-existing funds. If the power to create money were returned to the government, the federal debt could be paid off, taxes could be slashed, and needed government programs could be expanded. Contrary to popular belief, paying off the federal debt with new U.S. Notes would not be dangerously inflationary, because government securities are already included in the widest measure of the money supply. The dollars would just replace the bonds, leaving the total unchanged. If the U.S. federal debt had been paid off in fiscal year 2006, the savings to the government from no longer having to pay interest would have been $406 billion, enough to eliminate the $390 billion budget deficit that year with money to spare. The budget could have been met with taxes, without creating money out of nothing either on a government print press or as accounting entry bank loans. However, some money created on a government printing press could actually be good for the economy. It would be good if it were used for the productive purpose of creating new goods and services, rather than for the non-productive purpose of paying interest on loans. When supply (goods and services) goes up along with demand (money), they remain in balance and prices remain stable. New money could be added without creating price inflation up to the point of full employment. In this way Congress could fund much-needed programs, such as the development of alternative energy sources and the expansion of health coverage, while actually reducing taxes.
___________________ 1 Wright Patman, A Primer on Money (Government Printing Office, prepared for the Sub-committee on Domestic Finance, House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Currency, 88th Congress, 2nd session, 1964).
2 See Federal Reserve Statistical Release H6, "Money Stock Measures," www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H6/20060223 (February 23, 2006); "United States Mint 2004 Annual Report," www.usmint.gov; Ellen Brown, Web of Debt, www.webofdebt.com (2007), chapter 2.
3 "A Landmark Decision," The Daily Eagle (Montgomery, Minnesota: February 7, 1969), reprinted in part in P. Cook, "What Banks Don't Want You to Know," www9.pair.com/xpoez/money/cook (June 3, 1993).
4 See Bill Drexler, "The Mahoney Credit River Decision," www.worldnewsstand.net/money/mahoney-introduction.html.
5 G. Edward Griffin, "Debt-cancellation Programs," www.freedomforceinternational.org (December 18, 2003).
6 In the Foreword to Irving Fisher, 100% Money (1935), reprinted by Pickering and Chatto Ltd. (1996).
7 Quoted in "Someone Has to Print the Nation's Money . . . So Why Not Our Government?", Monetary Reform Online, reprinted from Victoria Times Colonist (October 16, 1996).
8 Chicago Federal Reserve, "Modern Money Mechanics" (1963), originally produced and distributed free by the Public Information Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, now available on the Internet at http://landru.i-link-2.net/monques/mmm2.html; Patrick Carmack, Bill Still, The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America (video, 1998), text at http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/money-masters.html.
9 James Robertson, John Bunzl, Monetary Reform: Making It Happen (2003), www.jamesrobertson.com, page 26.
10 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, "M3 Money Stock (discontinued series)," http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/M3SL.txt.
Ellen Brown, J.D., developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her latest book, she turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Brown's eleven books include the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy, co-authored with Dr. Lynne Walker, which has sold 285,000 copies.


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As always the 2 teams - Pinks and Purples - are playing together, but they have own themes. The Pinkies are venturing "Outside Your Confort Zone" and the Purplies are playing in the rain with "April Showers / Spring".
For my DT project this, I am venturing into a card style that causes me much discomfort. Suffice to say, it scares the heck out of me. The only way to confront and, hopefully someday, conquer it is to keep making it.
So, here's my card. A simple affair featuring a flower stamp and sentiment from Clearly Besotted's Forever Friends set. Just one stalk, coloured with Graph'It Markers. I inked the edges with TH Weathered Wood Distress Ink and finished the card with 3 Pretty Pink Posh Lemon Merengue sequins.
I also applied several coats of Wink of Stella Clear for some subtle shimmer. It's barely visible in the photos. The most difficult part about this card was walking away with it looking so bare, so naked. SO much white space begging to be filled. I have to go lie down... in a dark room.
CAS-ology #140: Spring
Less Is More 217: Combine 3 Past Challenges - Wk11 Sewing + Wk103 Friends + Wk161 Yellow & Green
Just Us Girls #286: Photo Inspiration
AAA Cards #36: Easter Colours
Now it's your turn to create and link up your labour of love over at the Eclectic Ellapu Challenge Blog. Remember, we have 2 concurrent challenges: "Outside Your Comfort Zone" for the Pink Team and "April Showers / Spring" for the Purple Team. You can enter one or both challenges as many times as you wish, but make sure you link up your projects by 11:59pm UK on 30th April 2015.
Thank you for stopping by today. And good luck if you're planning on pulling a few April Fool's pranks on your friends. We could all do with a laugh. Here's to a fun-filled month, friends!


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Globalization of software development has resulted in a rapid shift away from the traditional collocated, on-site development model, to the offshoring model. Emerging trends indicate an increasing interest in offshoring even in early phases like requirements analysis. Additionally, the flexibility offered by the agile development approach makes it attractive for adaptation in globally distributed software work. A question of significance then is what impacts the success of offshoring earlier phases, like requirements analysis, in a flexible and globally distributed environment? This article incorporates the stance of control theory to posit a research model that examines antecedent factors such as requirements change, facilitation by vendor and client site-coordinators, control, and computer-mediated communication. The impact of these factors on success of requirements analysis projects in a "flexible" global setting is tested using two quasi-experiments involving students from Management Development Institute, India and Marquette University, USA. Results indicate that formal modes of control significantly influence project success during requirements analysis. Further, facilitation by both client and vendor site coordinators positively impacts requirements analysis success.
Published version. Journal of Global Information Management, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2009): 1-31. DOI. © 2009 IGI Global. Used with permission.


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Thanks again, @amrb521, for the great sighting and pics. I really appreciate it!
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Spotted: Walgreens Revo Valentine's Day 2016 Limited Edition #Love Lip Balm Collection
Thanks again, @amrb521, for the great sighting and pics. I really appreciate it!
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I spotted all of these at one of the better Walgreens near me. I was hesitant to buy any because I'd like to check the ingredient list next to the original EOS before buying. If they differ, I'll be buying all of them! I'm not much of a balm person as I've found the more I use one, the more I have to continue to use them because my lips rebound into a dessert otherwise LOL But, with my newfound love of matte lipstick they're a necessary evil :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
I can confirm that for you.Delete
he ingredients are quite different between the two brands. You can check out my review of the minis (same formula) here:
If you're new to Revo, they make their balms under their own house brand (Chap Ice) as well as for Walgreens (Be Well), CVS (Beauty 360),etc. But the ingredients are all generally the same for each retailer (and very different from eos).
I wonder if sales of these will suffer because people will confuse them with EOS.ReplyDeleteReplies
Funny that you mention that, because EOS and Revo just ended a lengthy court battle about that very thing (packaging design, patents, etc). I didn't really keep up with it all, but I THINK that Revo isn't allowed to make the sphere shape anymore--only the beach ball shape you see above. I think this had to do with the beach ball design being different enough for consumers NOT to get it confused with EOS.Delete
But don't quote me on any of this--trying reading recaps on a few of those law websites made my head spin and I really don't know the details. Lol!!
I get it. I'm an attorney and it makes my head spin too.Delete
Do these have flavor too? Are they as good as ppl nake them out to be? I see posts of ppl going crazy when they get marked down.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh yes, they definitely have a flavor in addition to the fragrance. All of the ones I own are quite yummy. :)Delete
I picked up the butterscotch at Christmas and it is to die for! I like the formula of it way better than the 4 or 5 EOS versions I have tried.ReplyDeleteReplies
Agreed. I threw away 7 EOS last night, including three I got for Christmas, because they'd already begun to smell funky. REVO never do.Delete
Why could I totally smell these as I was reading the names? Lol.ReplyDelete
Phew. Glad I stocked up on chocolate strawberry last year since it isn't included this year.ReplyDelete
It looks like raspberry chocolate truffle will be my jam in this collection.
The raspberry chocolate and passion fruit ones sound amazing!ReplyDelete
Does anyone know if the Raspberry Chocolate is a good smelling chocolate? The scent of my Chocolate Melted Lipstick smells so yucky to me. I wonder if they are similar. I do like that the shape has changed a bit. Might keep them from rolling all over.ReplyDelete
I think these are so much better than EOS, just creamier and smoother and more hydrating. For me anyway. Gonna be on the lookout for these.ReplyDelete
I just got all four at my local Walgreens. The only one I won't open is the passion fruit one because I own the eos passion fruit. The other three are great. Soft scents and accurate, in my opinon. $2.99 each and I was able to apply a coupon from the monthly coupon book.ReplyDelete
Can anyone please compare the cherry cordial with the cherry cola from the summer collection? I missed the xolay one. :-(
I love these sm! i got them all because i have a beauty acc on instagram called @beautywithaleida(shameless self promo lol) anyways, they all smells different from last years expect Pink frosted cupcake 2015 smells similar to Strawberry striped cheesecake 2016 but overall they r vv moisturizing and have amazing scents! y'all should totally check them out!ReplyDelete
The cherry cordial is very similar to the Halloween black cat cherry. I think it's even better!ReplyDelete
I love these revos! I got them today and I'm in #LOVE!ReplyDeleteReplies
Mena, were they on clearance yet?Delete
I just bought my flavors today at a Walgreens in Vienna, VA. I had already stocked up on all the amazingly delicious wintry flavor (my favorite is French Vanilla)...and of the new flavors, Strawberry Striped Cheesecake is out of this world. My hubby can't stop kissing me! ;) I literally have them everywhere in my house..my office, nightstand, purses, bathroom. I love not only how they taste and smell, but how that if I put a coating on before bed, I wake up with a light coating still in the morning, which makes me even more kissable. :) Yay! Best stuff for lips ever, esp. considering they only cost $2.99! :)ReplyDelete
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Well, there I was sitting at work wondering what to do. We were in the lull between the end of AVP III and the start of working on the AVP III downloadable content project when Jason, the big boss, comes up and says
"Yes, English Civil War"
"Could you help Pye here with a book cover?"
And so it began...
Well, Pye had already worked out that he wanted a crossed sword and mace and that there would be the kings battle helmet infront. The author liked the idea but thought the helmet was too medieval. A 17th Century helmet was thought more approriate. You can read more about it on Pye Parr's blog.
Since I portray a Royalist musketeer, I don't have such Parliamentarian chattles as a "lobsterpot" helmet sullying my home, so I trawled the internet for a while and came across some lovely artwork by a chap called Chris Collingwood, so I thought I would link to him here.
A lovely image I think you will agree, but a black iron helmet is not exactly "regal", so the search continued...
finally hit on the website of a chap that makes armour for a living called Nigel Carren. He has done a lovely recreation of a Prussian Curassiers helmet. If you want to visit his site it is nigelcarren.co.uk and here is a view of his helmet.
And so I started the 3D modelling process in 3DS Max. To be honest any of the current crop of 3D software would do the job. I especially like Lightwave for its polygon and subdivision surface modeling tools. Its UV editor is easier then Max's too, but Max is what we have at work so that is what I used. Next post I'll start telling you about the nitty gritty of the making the helmet. :)


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Halloween really kicks off next month on The Retroist blog, but if you're like me, you're finding it hard to wait, especially when you see great Halloween stuff already appearing in the stores. Here's a few of the things I found while shopping today:
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So I interviewed Larry Wilmore a week ago (maybe two now?), as he has a book out called "I'd Rather We Got Casinos and Other Black Thoughts" (here's his website). I love Larry's character on The Daily Show and he lived up to billing: very funny, razor sharp, and sort of intimidatingly fast with the jokes and humorous angle when hanging out with him in person.
I had a whole big interview with him on all sorts of stuff, and I previewed it with a clip of Larry and I talking Obama shop and The Daily Beast went and liked the preview so much they decided to run it as is. So here it is. With any luck we'll get to run some of the rest of it as outtakes or DVD-Blog extras or something.
At TDB they have an excerpt from the book as well.
In Search of Black Jesus [The Daily Beast]
I'd Rather We Got Casinos ...


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My Master Ch. 3bySkyler Marie©
I lay in the silence for what seemed to be forever, I then realized I heard water running. My anger took control of my body "You fucker, you have to untie me!" I listened intently.
The water had stopped.
I heard him chuckle.
This only enraged me more. I bucked up and down, pulling hard on my straps. I was pissed and had every intention of getting free from here. The straps cut deeply into my wrists and ankles. My flesh under them burned, I could tell I was rubbing them raw. I didn't care I needed to get away. I needed to be in control of my own body. God I had to pee.
I froze when I heard him walking toward the room again. I knew he could tell I was fighting his wishes, by the sigh he left out.
"Trust me, I will take care of you" His voice sounded so sincere, so loving. He was nothing he appeared to be. I couldn't say a word but I wanted to scream at him for making me do these things, for making me enjoy those awful things he was doing. I felt my sexual urges build as he slowly ran his hands along my trembling body.
"You shouldn't have fought me my sweet, now you have to be punished." He undid my blindfold, It took quite some time for my eyes to readjust to the light that filed the room. I spat at him. He smacked my mouth hard. He slowly untied the straps that bond my wrists. I winced in pain as the cool air hit my open wounds. He leaned and kissed me tenderly on the lips.
"You wouldn't have that pain if you would've listened to your master." My throat burned and I had a hard time catching my breath. What the hell was this power he had over me... He undid the straps around my ankles. Again I winced in pain as the cool air hit my flesh burns. I started crying uncontrollably. I tried to stop but the more I tried, the more tears fell. I felt like such a child as he towered over me.
He slowly eased his hands under my weak body, Picking me up and carrying me to the bathroom. He slowly eased me into the tempid water. My flesh burning as the water hit my open wounds.
"Ouch, Fuck that hurts.." Again I sobbed, the pain was unreal and I hoped that I would wake from this terrible nightmare soon. He kissed me on the forehead then again on the lips. He was being so sweet and caring. He gently washed my aching body, tender and gentle like a mother washes a newborn infant. My body started to ease down farther in the water, the tensions seemed to drain from my body. My wrists and ankles were still burning as he finished bathing me. I almost went into shock when he turned the shower spray onto me. The water was warmer that what I was sitting in but it still made my heart race. He stood me up, bracing me so I would not fall.
"Get your footing my lover, I want to finish washing you and I can't wash you and hold onto you at the same time" I don't know if it was fear or instinct that brought reality to me but I did as he said. I stood with my legs slightly apart. He stripped and climbed into the shower behind me. His tall slender body rubbed against me, I was putty in his hands once again. WHACK!!! He smacked my wet bare ass.
"That was for fighting back while restrained" I stood there and bit my lip fighting back tears and harsh words. I knew I couldn't take any more abuse and I didn't want our relationship to be this way.
He washed my back, and my hair, then rinsed me clean. I stood and watched as he washed his own body. I tried to wash it for him but my hand was smacked away as soon as I started. My mind raced endlessly as I watched in silence. Why was I here, What did I want, Why was he like this?? I still had no answers when he leaned down and shut the water off. He seemed to be thankful I was obeying him. I stepped from the shower only to have my wet bare ass smacked again. The sting seemed to linger forever. He sat me down hard on the toilet, drying every inch of my body. Opening the cabinet above the sink he grabbed a tube and some bandages. He tenderly dressed my wounds. Kissing me in between each one. God I had never known he could be so different. It was like he had two totally different people inside him. I wanted the gentle, loving one. But I still had another part yearning for the mean, controlling one also. It was new to me and it made my pussy quiver at the thought of him being my master. He finished dressing my wrists and ankles, then stood me up, covered me with his robe and lead me to the kitchen.
"You must be starved beautiful, I know I am." I simply nodded my head. I was hungry but my aching body and burning sensations remained a constant reminder that I should leave. I just couldn't... I watched as my master cooked for me, taking special time to prepare everything right. It was almost an hour later when we actually sat down to eat. I picked a little at the meal in front of me. I was starving but the smell and previous events made my belly do flip flops.
"What is wrong my sweet lover, is it not good?" He asked with a smile on his face
"No Master, It is fine I guess I am just not very hungry." I had said it so meekly I was unsure if he had even heard me at all until he spoke
"My sweet dear Lisa, I love you and you may call me Mark for the remainder of our meal."
I nodded, all the while thinking I met yet another asshole. Yet this one was still somehow different. I needed him for some reason. I was drawn to him. What the hell was wrong with me.
When we finished eating and I asked Mark if he could take me home. He told me no that he had more planned for me this evening. I whimpered at his statement, I didn't know if I could handle anymore of what he had to give. He smiled and chuckled, almost as if he had read my mind. "Not to worry my sweetest, I will not hurt you anymore tonight, I merely did that to show you who the master of this house is."
"But Mark, I don't live here."
"You do now, We will go pick up your things tomorrow, your uncle will not think anything out of the ordinary, after all people around here move in together after the first date.." He said laughing a deep hearty laugh. I just sat at the table and watched him clear it and put the dishes in the dishwasher. God I loved how he moved, his body seemed to sway as he walked. I really like him but I don't like this shit he does. I am not going to be a slave for his sexual whims. Damn it I was a strong woman; I deserved better than that.
He finished his task at hand and walked to my side. Taking me by the hand he lead me into the living room, and onto a huge rug laid out in front of his gas fireplace. It was a beautiful setting, like the most romantic movie set. I started thinking maybe he was right maybe he was just doing it to show his authority here. Maybe he was not like that at all. After all he seemed so gentle and kind, he couldn't possibly be that hard, mean and cruel to someone he was suppose to love. Could he?
I lay gazing at the fire, when Mark walked up behind me and offered me a glass of wine. I glady accepted it. I thought if nothing else it would help me to forget about the day's events. I was dead wrong. I gulped down my first glass and asked Mark to get me another. He told me to slow down but I didn't want to listen. I didn't feel the effects of the second drink till I got up to go pee. I wobbled and stumbled into the bathroom. It took all that I had in me to keep from throwing up. I realized that not eating might not have been the best idea and I decided to raid Mark's fridge.
I rummaged through the fridge hoping something would appeal to me. Nothing even sounded good at this point. I bent over into the crisper drawer and pulled out some lunchmeat. Just as I was about to stand WHACK!!! Mark's hand connected with my round ass, sending chills through me.
"I'm sorry Mark, I was a little hungry and ........"
"Honey don't worry about it this is your house now too, besides I just enjoy getting you going that way." He was chuckling as he poured himself another drink and walked back into the living room.
What did he mean getting me going that way, and what the hell was so funny.... I didn't find anything funny about this situation. It was strange and perverted but yet I was drawn to it like a magnet.
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i loved the foundation and i usually do not wear liquid foundation but this was different. It is a full coverage foundation with a matte finish but it does not feel heavy and that is what i am always worried about if and when i wear liquid foundation. And it blends in perfectly, like it did not leave streaks. I also loved that you did not need to put a powder over the foundation as it does not need one (i have normal to dry and sensitive skin, so maybe with oily skin an oil-absorbing powder would be appropriate over this foundation).
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Friday Monkey Blogging: Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech
As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I have started a regularly recurring blog entry meme every Friday afternoon, inspired by Bruce Schneier's regular series of "Friday Squid Blogging" posts, and my very own maddening Monkey Theory.
Here is this week's installment.
Via Science Daily.
Throughout history, human beings have used the whistle for everything from hailing a cab to carrying a tune. Now, an orangutan's spontaneous whistling is providing scientists at Great Ape Trust of Iowa new insights into the evolution of speech and learning.More here.
In a paper published in December in Primates, an international journal of primatology that provides a forum on all aspects of primates in relation to humans and other animals, Great Ape Trust scientist Dr. Serge Wich and his colleagues provide the first-ever documentation of a primate mimicking a sound from another species without being specifically trained to do so. Bonnie, a 30-year-old female orangutan living at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., began whistling – a sound that is in a human's, but not an orangutan's, repertoire – after hearing an animal caretaker make the sound.
"This is important because it provides a mechanism to explain documented between-population variation in sounds for wild orangutans," Wich said. "In addition, it counters a long-held assumption that non-human primates have fairly fixed sound repertoires that are not under voluntary control. Being able to learn new sounds and use these voluntarily are also two important aspects of human speech and these findings open up new avenues to study certain aspects of human speech evolution in our closest relatives."
Image source: ScienceDaily.com / Smithsonian National Zoological Park


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The Westin Playa Bonita Panama is a beachfront oasis, with golden sands and the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean just steps away.
The natural splendor of the area is not to be missed. Take a drive, cycle, or jog down the scenic Amador Causeway, a one-lane road that connects three islands. Outdoor enthusiasts can explore Punta Bruja Nature Reserve, fish off the islands of Las Perlas, or watch whales out in the Pacific.
Guests can visit famous sites like the Panama Canal's Miraflores Locks. There they can visit the museum, dine out at the restaurant, take in a movie, or step out onto a large terrace to watch ships cross the canal.
The sights, sounds, and flavors of Panama City are just a 20-minute drive from the resort. Discover the country's rich heritage in Casco Antiguo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where you'll find historic cathedrals, plazas, the Palacio de las Garzas, National Theater of Culture, and much more. The city center offers countless options for shopping dining, and entertainment, including casinos with live shows.
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Hi everyone :)
Yep I'm a bit late tonight! I sat down around 3pm to read a 'couple of chapters' of my book and somehow I lost 4 hours!!! It's a good book though… Your's Faithfully by Sheila O'Flanagan
Anyway on with Project Life. Here's a look at this week:
It was raining again on Monday so Mr Toby (aka The Big Marshmallow) came to school with me again. Just after morning tea they announced that the hall carpark was flooding but there was nothing I could do about it because I was teaching my class. By lunchtime though it was getting pretty deep! Toby was probably getting a bit worried about the water but he was quite safe (and dry) in the car.
On Monday and Tuesday afternoon this week we started the preparations for our Selwyn School Olympics which will be held this coming Wednesday. I've got two groups of kids ranging from new entrants right through to Year 6 which was a mission on it's own… I'm definitely not cut out to be a new entrant teacher!
The kids have all been put into 'countries' for our school event and my two groups are representing Wales and Australia so we got busy making our flags and banners.
Our class won the Tidy Kiwi award this week too! It was awarded for our great classroom wall displays which made all of us feel pretty pleased with ourselves :)
I also had five kids involved in the first major kapahaka performance for the year. They went down to the Rotorua Library as part of Maori Language week and they looked awesome all dressed up in their finery. I didn't manage to get a photo of that… but I did manage to get one of their faces all painted up!
On Thursday I was on a course for work and I wore my boots I usually wear to school. They've been getting a bit worn out and I couldn't wear them on rainy days anymore but on Thursday one of the heels pretty much gave up on me so some urgent shoe shopping was in order!
Along with everything else going on this week it was time for another rates bill… and my first one with NO OVERDUE FINES on it! Long story but I've finally made it!
While I was out shoe shopping I also did a little phone shopping and now have a lovely new phone that works much better than the old one :)
On Friday, Loreen came over to stay for the night and we got lots of things done… packaged ATC's, tidied up the dining and coffee tables and then set about organising all the accommodation and duties for the October retreat!
Then on Saturday we spent almost the whole day sorting out the 'bombsite' I lovingly call my craft room. We sorted, organised and de-cluttered for several hours before we went out for lunch (top right photo) and then we came back and finished it off.
Here's another 'before' and 'after' shot… don't look Mum cause you'll be horrified at the before photo!
Thank you so much Loreen for helping me get myself organised… I really couldn't have managed it without you!
And here's my little bit of creativity… or in this case it's more of a memento:
My little boy is growing up and he's just gotten his new registration tag so I'm including his old tag in this weeks pages.
So that's my week… busy with lots of little things and some time spent with a good friend.
I hope you've all enjoyed your weekend… I'm off now to see the 'kiwis' have a go on My Kitchen Rules!


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Bobby's Pimento Cheese
Recipe courtesy of Paula Deen
I have had several requests for this recipe. Once you taste it, you will know why.
Using an electric mixer, beat room temperature cream cheese.
Until smooth and fluffy.
The recipe calls for 2 to 3 tablespoons smashed pimentos. I dice up as small as I can dice, a whole small jar of sliced pimentos. Now add this to your cream cheese mixture.
Cut off the ends of your onion and peel the skin. I used a yellow onion. It's what I had. I keep them on hand always because they are so versatile. You can use them in any dish, whoever says you can't, tell them I said so. I am sure they WON'T care.
Grate 1 teaspoon of onion and add it to your cream cheese mixture.
Add 1 cup of grated sharp cheddar cheese. I usually like to grate all of my own cheese for this recipe. It makes the pimento cheese much creamier, even more delicious but this time I used what I had on hand. Add 1 cup of grated Monterey Jack cheese.
Add 1/2 teaspoon of House seasoning. Recipe follows
House Seasoning: 1 cup of salt, 1/4 cup black pepper, 1/4 garlic powder. Mix ingredients and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months. It will not last that long. I use it as a dry rub on chicken fajitas, my son uses it on his popcorn (which is so good.) It is really good.
Now that you have all of your ingredients in the bowl, beat until well blended.
It can be used as a dip for crackers, celery or as a sandwich filling, which is my favorite!
I haven't met a bread I didn't like, but I do have my favorites.
My favorite bread for this sandwich filling is a french loaf cut into sandwich size portions and toasted. I spread the pimento cheese on one side of the sandwich and put the tomatoes on the other and toast it in the oven for about 3-5 minutes. It also tastes good on a crescent roll. Enjoy!
I read "Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin", about a month ago. It is such an easy read. Paula Deen has a true American Dream storey. I could not put the book down. I laughed, cried and cheered her on to success! The bonus about this book is that it has fabulous recipes in it! I love this book! I love Paula!


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That friends, if you haven't heard the report posted online, is just one comment coming from a Saudi Arabian male who finds the idea of women driving to be outlandish.
It gets much worse of course. Did you catch the cleric who claims driving will somehow mess with the internal lady parts?
Yesterday Saudi women showed what they are made of and what is at stake for their equality.
Some took a stance and got behind the wheel and drove, even with the fear of retaliation looming.
Small steps indeed.


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A new peer reviewed paper published in Nature: Climate Change
See also Late 20th Century Warming Not Unusual.
- Nature Climate Change (2012) doi:10.1038/nclimate1589
- Received 27 March 2012 Accepted 15 May 2012 Published online
- Jan Esper, David C. Frank, Mauri Timonen, Eduardo Zorita, Rob J. S. Wilson, Jürg Luterbacher, Steffen Holzkämper, Nils Fischer, Sebastian Wagner, Daniel Nievergelt, Anne Verstege & Ulf Büntgen
Orbital forcing of tree-ring data
As reported by The Register:
Climate was HOTTER in Roman, medieval times than now: Study
IPCC has got it all wrong, say boffins
A new study measuring temperatures over the past two millennia has concluded that in fact the temperatures seen in the last decade are far from being the hottest in history.
A large team of scientists making a comprehensive study of data from tree rings say that in fact global temperatures have been on a falling trend for the past 2,000 years and they have often been noticeably higher than they are today - despite the absence of any significant amounts of human-released carbon dioxide in the atmosphere back then.
"We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low," says Professor-Doktor Jan Esper of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, one of the scientists leading the study. "Such findings are also significant with regard to climate policy."
See also Late 20th Century Warming Not Unusual.


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In particular the disc includes a work by Thomas Linley the Younger, a contemporary of Mozart, who tragically drowned at a young age. Writing in the magazine, Patrick Wood considers how "the young Thomassino" was a match for the great Mozart.
Also in the March/April issue - which is devoted to music of Jane Austen's time - you can read of Haydn's visit to Bath in 1794 in his own words; how much Jane Austen knew about music; the significance of the harp as an instrument of social status in Jane's time; and learn about the Knyvett family of musicians.
The My Jane Austen feature is by Professor Richard Jenkyns, a descendant of Jane's brother, James, who recently appeared on a BBC radio programme called Jane Austen's iPod. The presenter of that programme, David Owen Norris, has written about recent musical discoveries in Jane's family archives.
In this issue:
- Franz Joseph Haydn the composer describes his visit to Bath in 1794
- Jane Austen, music lover? Maggie Lane explores the author's knowledge of music
- What was on Jane's iPod? David Owen Norris examines some new discoveries
- Thomas Linley: Mozart's boyhood rival The composer who was considered as talented as Mozart
- Tidings of my harp Instruments and social status
- A golden time Kelly M McDonald chronicles the work of the Knyvett family
- Matters of Taste Sense & Sensibility examined
- ...plus news from JAS and JASNA; My Jane Austen; quiz; competition; and CD reviews
Because of the inclusion of a CD, only a limited number of additional copies of this issue of Jane Austen's Regency World - which is published on February 26 - will be available for late subscriptions.
To order your copy subscribe now at www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk


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RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Felician College senior Jimmy Schmitt (Elmwood Park, NJ/Elmwood Park) has been voted to the Capital One Academic All-District Men's Basketball First Team for District I in NCAA Division II, as coordinated and selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Schmitt, as a First Team selection, will move on to represent Felician on the Division II Academic All-America ballot. He is the third member of the Golden Falcon men's basketball program to be named CoSIDA Academic All-District, joining Devon Young (twice) and Ethan Kennedy (2009-10). Schmitt is also the school-record fourth Academic All-District honoree for Felician in 2011-12.
This season, Schmitt has played in all 19 games, starting 14, for Felician (6-13 overall, 3-8 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference). He is averaging 4.0 points, 2.0 rebounds and a team-high 2.3 assists. Schmitt leads the CACC in assist/turnover ratio at 2.9 (44 assists, 15 turnovers).
A 2008 graduate of Elmwood Park Memorial, Schmitt transferred to Felician after two seasons at Bergen Community College, where he was a starter for the 2009-10 team that went 34-1 and won a regional championship. In three semesters at Felician, he owns a 3.97 grade-point average majoring in mathematics education. Schmitt is also the vice president of the Golden Falcons' Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
CoSIDA's District I for NCAA Division II is comprised of all members of the CACC, East Coast Conference, and Northeast-10 Conference. The entire set of 2011-12 Men's Basketball Capital One Academic All District awardees can be viewed at http://cosida.com/media/documents/2012/2/Acad_All_District_M_Basketball_2011_12.pdf.


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Brut's slapping brothers
So, let me get this straight Brut. Old Spice comes outta nowhere (nowhere meaning it's been building brand momentum for years now) and kicks in the door with a clever campaign. In the process inadvertently waking up your sleepy brand (sleepy meaning both yourself and the consumers forgot you existed). Now you wanna wake up & do a campaign slapping random brothers as an opening salvo on what exactly? Brut is really smelling itself these days. And the whiff is spring fresh cocky. Good luck with that one fellas.
Here's the rub; there is a wonderful opportunity out there now. Like it or not Old Spice has opened the door for this brand to go ANYWHERE. (By anywhere I mean somewhere relevant for your brand) As opposed to picking up whatever brand crumbs Old Spice left on the table. Hint: There are none left. O.S. wiped that *ss clean and moved on. Brut, go forth boldly no need to chase a campaign that now lives in todays short memory version of legend. Because that Clipper has sailed. The beauty is in that wide open horizon out there. Scents like yours are now free to roam about the brandesphere. And not just waft in on my uncle's thread barren trench coat riding shot-gun with the smell of Hennessy. Now he deserves a slap - you can go all Rick James on Charlie Murphy.
Scratch & Whiff here.
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Last night on the Real Housewives of Miami somebody threw a big ol' temper tantrum and acted like a drunk sorority girl on too many jello shots. I'm looking at you, Joanna Krupa!
Things got crazy last night, yes they did. Somebody likes her drinky a little too much – and doesn't like her fiancé enough. So – before all that blown out of proportion melt-down that I thought was going to be like uber crazy, but wasn't really, happened – everyone talked about how much the like their maids, how much they don't like each other, and about how Lea Black's friend is blaming Marysol Patton for ruining her life.
Things begin with Joanna and fiancé Romain 'just waking up' and Joanna is sporting a full face of make-up, plus false eyelashes and some revealing lingerie. Yeah, I totally look like that when I wake up too. Sadly, Romain is more interested in his blackberry than sexytimes in front of the cameras. What no sex tape aspirations?
Feeling defeated, Joanna heads into the bathroom to yell at her sister Marta who reveals she's moving in with Fembot Fakenstein for a while because Romain hates her and she hates him too. I just can't get that worked up about anything before coffee, but clearly I don't have the Krupa temper – or penchant for over-reacting!


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From The New Yorker:-
Malcolm Gladwell talks about success in the film industry and engineering hits. From the 2006 New Yorker Festival.LINK HERE:-
Gladwell covers Dear Frankie, the Death of Diana, The Interpreter, and nobody knowing what constitutes the sublime.
And a great summary here from The Krieger Group:-
Several years ago, Malcolm Gladwell gave an interesting talk for The New Yorker Festival in which he reported on a group of researchers who had developed algorithms to predict whether a script could be developed into a hit movie. The researchers used a technique called neural networks to predict, based upon elements of the script, if the movie would be a box office smash. In fact, the researchers were able to predict the profitability of a movie accurately 6 out of 9 times, even before the director or cast was chosen. In several cases they were within several million dollars. Now 6 out of 9 may not seem great, but Hollywood's record is poor; successfully predicting gross revenues on only 1/3 of their movies (after all, if they did not think it was going to be profitable they would make the film, unless its Woody Allen).MORE HERE:-
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