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Cambodia Rejects Statement of Indonesian Foreign Ministry's Spokesperson
Phnom Penh, March 25, 2011 AKP – Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has issued a statement, rejecting a statement made by the spokesperson of Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the deployment of Indonesian observers.
The following is the full statement of the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia dated Mar. 24:
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation wishes to clarify on the news report concerning a statement made by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia on 24 March 2011 as follows:
1. The statement of the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, as reported by the AFP on 24 March 2011, that Cambodia and Thailand have not yet agreed to accept the deployment of the Indonesian observers is completely contrary to the reality.
2. Cambodia has immediately given its acceptance of the Indonesian observers to the Cambodian side and has already indicated the coverage area for their deployment.
3. On the contrary, it is the Thai side that has rejected acceptance of the observers on Thai soil.
4. I wish to firmly reject this unfortunate statement made by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia." –AKP
PM Meets Sultan Haji Admad Shah of Malaysia's Pahang State
Phnom Penh, March 25, 2011 AKP – Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen met here today at the Peace Palace visiting Sultan Haji Admad Shah of the Pahang State of Malaysia.
In the meeting, Samdech Techo Hun Sen warmly welcomed the visit of the sultan to Cambodia, through which he said the ties of friendship and cooperation between both countries will be further strengthened and expanded, Delegate Minister Attached to the Prime Minister H.E. Sry Thamrong told reporters after the meeting.
For his part, Sultan Haji Admad Shah thanked the Cambodian premier for taking his busy schedule to receive his delegation. He invited Samdech Techo Hun Sen to pay a visit to Pahang State.
The Cambodian prime minister accepted the invitation and recalled his visit to Pahang in 1996, stressing that he learned a lot from Pahang's development.
Cambodia is situated nearer Pahang than Kuala Lumpur, he said, adding that it is easy for the trade exchange between the two states.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen invited Sultan Haji Admad Shah to pay another visit to Cambodia to visit the well-known Angkor temples in Siem Reap province.
Sultan Haji Admad Shah, who is also president of the Football Association of Malaysia, and his crown prince arrived in Cambodia on Mar. 24 for a private visit.
Following on the same day, Sultan Haji Admad Shah was received in a royal audience by His Majesty Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia. –AKP
Article in Khmer by CHEY Phum Pul
Article in English by SOKMOM Nimul
PM: Cambodian and Thai Bilateral Trade Must Be Balanced
Phnom Penh, March 25, 2011 AKP – Cambodia-Thailand bilateral trade must be balanced, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen told Thai diplomat here yesterday.
Cambodia will not let Thai products to be imported through Cambodia's Pailin province for seven months if Thai customs officers attempt to block Cambodian products again, Premier Techo Hun Sen warned outgoing Thai Ambassador H.E. Prasas Prasavinitchai during a farewell meeting here yesterday, according to the premier's assistant H.E. Ieng Sophalet.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen further expressed his satisfaction with the past joint art performances as well as the trade fair events between the two countries and also welcomed Thai traders and rice millers to Cambodia in the future.
On the same day, the outgoing Thai ambassador also bid farewell to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers H.E. Sok An. –AKP
Article in Khmer by CHIM Nary
Article in English by KHAN Sophirom
Cambodia Marks World TB Day 2011
Phnom Penh, March 25, 2011 AKP – Cambodia marked here yesterday the World TB Day 2011 under the presidency of Health Minister H.E. Mam Bun Heng.
On the occasion, Dr. Kosuke Okada, a JICA officer at the National TB Program, said TB is a public health issue in Cambodia with some 65,000 infected people per year or 180 per day.
He added that we are now working very hard to fight TB in Cambodia. He is convinced that the country will achieve TB elimination and management in the near future.
For his part, Dr. Mao Tan Eang, Director of National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control, said Cambodia is moving to succeed its MDG on TB elimination as the country has maintained the recovery rate at over 85 percent through the use of DOTS service. –AKP
By LIM Nary
Korean Medical Doctors Provides Free Diabetes Treatment at Preah Kossamak Hospital
Phnom Penh, March 25, 2011 AKP – A group of medical doctors from the Diabetes Association of the Republic of Korea has been providing free diabetes treatment to 1,000 Cambodian patients at Preah Kossamak Hospital, Phnom Penh.
Twelve medical doctors, three nurses as well as supporters and volunteers of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) join this three-day humanitarian mission which began on Mar. 25, according to a KOICA press release.
The Korean Diabetes Association has planned to provide medical equipment to the hospital, it said.
The mission is also aimed to mark the first anniversary of the cooperation between the association and the hospital. Both sides signed a MoU on diabetes treatment in 2010. –AKP
By Théng
PM Gives Recommendations to Ministry of Education
Phnom Penh, March 25, 2011 AKP – Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen has recommended the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to continue to ensure fair access to education by expanding education program for young children.
Addressing the closing ceremony of the ministry's annual meeting held here yesterday at the National Institute for Education, the Cambodian premier also called on the ministry to continue to construct more school building in response to the increasing number of students and to strengthen the informal education in parallel with the formal education.
Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen further stressed on the importance of education quality and effectiveness improvement, the institutional capacity building and development, and the efficient use of cooperation financing.
According to the ministry's report, over 3.5 million students are currently attending 4,114 kindergartens, 6,767 primary schools, 1,596 lower secondary schools, 407 higher secondary schools and 91 higher education institutions throughout the country.
This figure shows that out of four Cambodians, one is in school, said Minister of Education, Youth and Sports H.E. Im Sethy at the opening ceremony of the annual meeting. –AKP
Article in Khmer by CHEY Phum Pul
Article in English by SOKMOM Nimul
Draft of Public Procurement Law Discussed
Phnom Penh, March 25, 2011 AKP – The Ministry of Economy and Finance organized here on Mar. 24 a public consultation workshop to discuss the Draft of Public Procurement Law.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance H.E. Keat Chhon said the one-day workshop was aimed to improve the Draft of Public Procurement Law so that it becomes more perfect and comes together with other laws.
The draft law was drawn up with the technical assistance from development partners under the public financial management reform program.
According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Public Procurement Law was first implemented in Cambodia in 1996 and it was amended ten years later. –AKP
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam Youths Boost Cooperation
Phnom Penh, March 25, 2011 AKP – Young people from regional countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam joined in a friendship meeting in Hanoi on Mar. 23.
The event, held by the Hanoi's Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, aims to create a forum for youths from the three countries to meet and exchange experiences in educating the young generation to treasure solidarity, promote traditional friendship as well as maintain peace and boost cooperation in the future, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
The exchange, taking place on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Vietnam Youth Year 2011, is a chance for Vietnamese youths to promote the country's image as well as introduce their Cambodian and Lao counterparts achievements that Vietnamese young people have contributed to the country's construction and defense, said VNA.
In the framework of the event, participants will take part in a talk themed "Vietnam- Laos-Cambodia youths promote traditional solidarity and friendship for mutual peace, cooperation and development" to update each other on mobilising youth and promote youth's roles in cooperation for socio-economic development of the three countries.
During the event, which will last till Mar. 30, Cambodian and Lao youths will meet with Vietnamese students and visit the country's historical sites and landscapes. –AKP


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Kenya's prison system and criminal judicial system is currently in shambles following a concerted strike effort by all the prison warders in the Country.This follows a failure by the Government to improve their terms of service as promised in 2003.The warders live in inhumane and squalid conditions almost similar to those of the prisoners for whom they stand guard and it seems they have now vowed enough is enough.
This portends great danger to the overall security of the Country as the warders have threatened to release all the convicts if their demands for a salary increment are not met .
Unfortunately the commissioner of prison has met their response with grand standing and threatening that the warders actions are tantamount to treason.He is so far off from the law.He should ask any lawyer as to the essential elements that constitute a treasonable offense or go back for a refresher cause on the law.Being an executor of the law he cannot feign ignorance and there is no excuse to his ridiculous comments.As at now one can only sympathize with the plight of the prison warders who have been neglected over time, have worn out uniforms, share cubicles with their families leading to gross immorality within the camps and barely earn a salary that can sustain any Kenyan in the basic minimum descent conditions.
While the Prison warders arduously fulfill their dangerous and risky vocation at meagre wages, the political elites,M.P's , senior civil servants and Government officials continue to increase their salaries and benefits without any regards to the very departments charged with their safety and security.This is very dangerous .It must have taken a lot of perseverance and forbearance for this members of the disciplined forces to resort to downing their tools.Hence the Government ought to consider their plight as a matter of urgency!

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I don't eat eggs so will leave that one for someone else to try! Lovely posts and great colours for this happy day.ReplyDelete
Chrissy from Manchester: a photo a day at Mancunian Wave
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 6:59 AM
no I haven't, but only way to the fridge now!ReplyDelete
The equilox. That's a new one for me..ReplyDelete
I've never heard that about the equal day night OR the egg!ReplyDelete
I have not, but I will.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 7:35 AM
I haven't tried it. How do you do it? Big end or little?ReplyDelete
I won't be able to stand up an egg any day of the year, but today it's my mothers's birthday!ReplyDelete
I forgot all about the egg thing...I'm going to try it right now! xoReplyDelete
Never tried that with an egg. I love spring. It's such an amazing season to see everything budding and greening up.ReplyDelete
Oh! I never knew this!!ReplyDelete
Very nice read this, and the pics are so beautiful as always.
Wish you have a lovely week ahead Michelle:)
nope, can't say that i have. lovely shots of spring!ReplyDelete
I'm headed in right now to grab an egg...ReplyDelete
more daylight from here on out! Although I love winter and fall...I do love the daylight into the evenings as spring and summer are here!ReplyDelete
These are beautiful! I love the texture work on this series and the Spirng equinox. Truth be told I look forward to all the seasons and how the light affects them. Never heard of the egg thing before, curious though off to google it. Have a great day!ReplyDelete
Boy, you sure started something.. I can see broken eggs all over the world.. :-) Are those trees in bloom near you? Our apple trees are not in bloom yet.. we also have a few pear trees. We're having a spate of cold rainy days.. ugh. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)ReplyDelete
Today I saw a butterfly flying across the melting snow and I felt that spring was here.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 7:13 PM
Wonderful pictures indeed ! no, as I don't eat eggs. Please have you all a good Wednesday.ReplyDelete
I have never tried to stand an egg up! Happy Spring to you and thanks for the interesting information!ReplyDelete
Informative post today, Michelle. Your inner teacher is coming out. I heard that egg thing years ago but never tried it. Doesn't it have to be a fresh egg, not one that has been in your frig for weeks?ReplyDelete
P.S., as I have said before, you still have an amazingly good playlist. I think I like every song I have ever heard on this blog.ReplyDelete
Hello Michelle,Happy Spring,love the pictures once again,beautiful,Have not tried to stand on a egg. Blessings,Francine.ReplyDelete
Beautiful shot and I love the new banner. I never knew about the egg tale.ReplyDelete
I like those picture. It brings peace for me.ReplyDelete
I really did not know about Equinox until today ...ReplyDelete
I always forget about that... is it too late now? :)ReplyDelete
We used to do this as kids and when I remember, we do it now. The kids are always amazed and have fun trying.ReplyDelete
Nice spring header. Great views of your KY spring -- barbaraReplyDelete
I love (and NEED) the additional light! LOVE IT! I had a little lesson in this post. Thanks!ReplyDelete
And, no I have never tried to stand up an egg!
oh that top photo is the bomb! interesting post...i actually learned something!ReplyDelete
I have always wanted to try that with an egg...but by the time I think about it...the days over!! Beautiful pictures!!ReplyDelete
I love every pics you took!ReplyDelete
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A very essence-of-Spring post. I've never heard of the egg thing here in Scotland!ReplyDelete
I had forgotten about that...will have to try the egg in September...ReplyDelete
Really like that first shot with the rolling hills and green grass. I've never heard of that old wives' tale. Have you tried it?ReplyDelete
I have always wondered if that was a myth but I've never remembered to try at the right time! It's getting cool over here.ReplyDelete
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Spring must be in the air because it's sunny one minute and snowing the next. Ya just gotta love our weather!
The Olympics have been really fun to watch while we sew don't cha think? Oh my gosh, when one of them falls......Scrud you could poke your self with a pin or something. I am the worst for holding my needle with my lips while I get my thread ready. NOT during the Olympics though. You could gasp and suck that thing right down your throat! I can read the headlines now.......Olympic fall kills Woman ! 10 thousand miles away (I really have no idea how far away Sochi is) It was her last gasp that did her in! "I just might possibly see too much television!" Any way for safety's sake....
|Use a needle nanny.
These pins are very sharp and fine. Sometimes when we pin, we can't tell but we are actually shifting the fabric a bit therefore we don't line up where we want to. But these pins really do the job.
|Plus the ends are kinda clear and sparkly and yellow and blue! They scream CUTE!
|This is all you get! Now you can figure out who the awesome employee is!
|This line is so precious and sweet and the pastel Stonehenge is perfect with it.
|St Patrick's Day is coming and this Stonehenge line is perfect.
|Mustache fabric is so hot right now.
|How cute is this?
|Don't you just love this color combination?
|Downton Abby
One last thing, my daughter brought this over to share when her family came to dinner and all I can till you is that it was yummy....... Thought I would share and remind you that Open Sew is this Friday February 21,2014. You can come any time, but those of us that work the store don't go down until after 6:00 pm. I will bring this salad to share and we will have chilli and cornbread as well as sewing and laughter and heaps and gobs of fun!
3 cups water
1 small pkg orange jello
1 small pkg cook and serve vanilla pudding
1 small pkg cook and serve Tapioca Pudding
1 8oz. tub Cool Whip
2 cans mandarin oranges, drained
- In a saucepan, bring water to a boil
- Add all three packages, jello, pudding, tapioca pudding
- Boil for 2-3 minutes
- Cool completely
- To cooled mixture, add Cool Whip and mix well
- Fold in drained oranges carefully
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Last week when I posted about Bronson's 1st Birthday I told you that I'd post a tutorial on how to make the Marshmallow Pops... so here you go!
I made marshmallow chocolate sprinkle pops as well as marshmallow sugar pops.
They seriously took no time at all to make and look great!
Chocolate Sprinkle Pops
What you'll need:
Lollipop Sticks
Sprinkles (optional)
Tin foil
Styrofoam square
- Cover your styrofoam square with tin foil.
- Melt the Merckens Moulding Wafers according to these directions.
- Push a lollipop stick into the marshmallow and dip it into the chocolate.
- After dipping keep the marshmallow over the bowl and gently shake/twirl the marshmallow to get rid of excess chocolate. (this will prevent the chocolate from dripping)
- Immediately dip the marshmallow into sprinkles. If you wait too long the chocolate will harden and the sprinkles won't stick.
- Push the marshmallow pop into the styrofoam to allow the chocolate to harden.
- Repeat as many times and you want!
Marshmallow Sugar Pops
What you'll need:
Lollipop Sticks
Coloured Sugar (can get this from Michaels, bulk food store, or most grocery stores in the baking section)
Glass of cool water
Empty Bowl
- Cover the styrofoam with tinfoil.
- Pour a medium amount of coloured sugar into the empty bowl.
- Push a lollipop stick into a marshmallow.
- Quickly dip the marshmallow into the cool water. If you keep it in the water too long the marshmallow will turn gooey.
- Shake the excess water off of the marshmallow.
- With the marshmallow still wet roll it in the bowl of coloured sugar.
- Continue rolling (or you can pour the sugar over it) the marshmallow until it's completely covered with sugar.
- Push the marshmallow pop into the styrofoam.
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I was confused. We are going on eight months in this house and I had never before observed the sun rise from my bed.
Our room has four large windows in it. Dave and I, being city folk, were a little wary of these windows.
Windows in the city, mean people looking in. One time, it meant someone actually stopping and talking to us from the sidewalk as we sat on our couch. So we meticulously closed the blinds on the windows every night since we've moved in, thinking that in doing so we were securing our privacy.
Windows in the country, mean people looking out. Several days ago we had the epiphany that we have no neighbors that could possibly look into our bedroom windows, not even with binoculars. All we were doing, in our fear and self-consciousness, was limiting our view.
All these thoughts floated through my mind as I watched the sun rise this morning and I had to admit several disturbing things. Our preconceptions had made us miss many glorious sunrises. The sunrises that I did see, I had to go out of my way to find, when they were actually just beyond my own bedroom window.
God reminded me again, through different symbols, what He has taught me so many times.
Live with your windows open.
Fear will not stop the sun rise, it will only hinder your enjoyment of it.
Preconceived ideas only limit our perception of what's good, be open to change when His Spirit
Securing our privacy often means missing out.
Stay in bed as late as possible.
I wish I could think of more lessons because I have more pictures. But I can't. If you can, let me know. I'll post the pictures anyway.


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Thank you, Edith! Edith's websites are www.tacebaker.com and www.edithmaxwell.com
Speaking of Murder by Tace Baker. Barking Rain Press. 2012. ISBN 9781935460473 (paperback), 178p.
Thanks for giving me more insight into Edith Maxwell's background. My debut novel, RIVER BOTTOM BLUES, came to life through years of listening to, writing about, and playing blues music. Just needed to add a few murders for my blues playing antagonists to solve.
Cool, Ricky!
I find it interesting to see authors' experiences coming to life. Thanks to Edith & Ricky for sharing that information.
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Nursing Book Club
The Medical Detectives: Essays on the Strange and Unusual
Essays on the strange and unusual
By Berton Roueché
Reviewed By Christine Contillo, RN, BSN
Long before the current crop of physicians was writing about their patients with unusual diseases and making all of us nervous about symptoms we imagined we felt, Berton Roueche was writing essays about unusual medical conditions. In fact, "Eleven Blue Men" was required for an epidemiology course I took at Cornell University years ago and became the defining moment that years later propelled me into a career in public health nursing. There my favorite professional responsibility was always investigating the reportable diseases and trying to find an index case.
The Medical Detectives is a selection of Mr. Roueche's best writing, first released in 1991 and still being reprinted. This book is available in both hard and soft cover through Amazon and at Barnes & Noble. One common thread running through each story is the attention to detail that ultimately enables the practitioner to best the bacterial invader. In many cases the germ is hiding in plain site, waiting for the investigator to put his thinking cap on and to review all the details one more time. Just this week I heard my own doctor say, "What are we missing here?" and I wished that Mr. Roueche could have been in the room with us.
"Eleven Blue Men," the very first selection, is the tale of 11 very sick men, their color sky-blue, who show up in New York City hospitals in 1944. Think about how fast that information would now be shared among ERs and health departments thanks to current technology, and how slow the process must have been then.
Today Google shows flu trends weeks before the government releases them merely by hits on webpages of people searching for flu symptoms. Even pharmacies can gauge the local flu morbidity by how fast cold remedies are flying off the shelves. In 1944, this would have been a slow, methodical process with the potential of many more sky-blue men before the puzzle was solved. The fact that the illness was limited to 11 shows the devotion of those in the field.
While some of the essays may have been written over a quarter of a century ago, the topics are still current. I frequently advise travel patients to refrain from swimming in fresh water in Africa. Maybe I'd be better off handing them a copy of one selection — "A Swim in the Nile" — and letting them decide for themselves whether risking schistosomiasis is worth a little cooling off.
"All I Could Do Was Stand in the Woods" is about idiopathic hypogeusia. Before finding that explanation, Rudy Coniglio's doctor thought he was just plain crazy. I knew Mr. Coniglio as one of my public health patients years later, and he often told me he'd been studied by the NIH. I not only thought he was crazy, I was convinced he was making up the story, until I saw it in print.
The doctors and lab technicians who solve these medical mysteries become heroes. Even those cases that only occur once in a lifetime are still enormously interesting to read about. If you're a fan of any of the current medical writers, you'll enjoy this.
Christine Contillo, RN, BSN, has worked as a nurse since 1979 and has written for various nursing publications, as well as The New York Times.
This article is from workingnurse.com.


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EL SEGUNDO, USA: Despite mounting competitive challenges from global and regional rivals, Google Inc. in 2010 expanded its leadership in the worldwide search advertising market, according to new IHS Screen Digest research.
Google is to release its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings on January 20. Based on results for the first three quarters of the year, it is estimated that Google's full-year search advertising revenue in 2010 amounted to $25.4 billion, up 20.2 percent from $21.1 billion in 2009. This gave the company a market share of 83 percent in 2010, up from 81 percent in 2009.
Google's revenue growth was even stronger in display and mobile advertising. As a result, Google's total revenues are expected to reach $28.9 billion in 2010, up 22.5 percent from 2009.
"With the arrival of Microsoft's Bing and rising competitive obstacles in fast-growing regions including China, Russia and South Korea, 2010 seemed like it might be the year that Google would surrender some of its dominance in the global search advertising market," said Vincent Létang, senior analyst and head of advertising research for IHS.
"However, even amid these challenges, Google managed to outgrow the overall market. What makes Google's outperformance even more impressive is that it came during a year when the overall market revenue rose at an impressive double-digit percentage following a slowdown in 2009."
The global search advertising market amounted to $30.4 billion in 2010, up 17 percent from $26.1 billion in 2009. This represents a strong acceleration after the slowdown of 2009, caused by the global advertising recession, when search growth declined by 11 percent in Europe and by 1.5 percent in the more mature US market.
Google's three pillars of growth
Google's market-beating revenue growth stands on three sturdy pillars: search, video/display and mobile, Létang observed. The search pillar represents Google's cash cow, fueling current revenues. In comparison, the video and display pillar generate short-term revenue growth, while the nascent mobile pillar provides long-term growth insurance.
Display revenue increased by an estimated 61 percent during 2010, playing a major role in Google's market share performance. This area was boosted by the success of Google's subsidiaries YouTube and DoubleClick.
On the mobile ad side, Google benefitted from revenue generated by the increasing popularity of the Android operating system and the company's acquisition of AdMob.
Google's rivals
Google's assets allowed it to brush off several challenges in 2010.
One major challenge was the launch of Microsoft Corp.'s heavily promoted Bing and the search engine's alliance with Yahoo. However, Google so far has lost little or no ground, as Bing is mostly growing at the expense of Yahoo Search.
But, while Google remains the undisputed leader in most major markets, there are some notable exceptions. These include South Korea, Russia and, most importantly, China. In these markets, the dominant search engines belong to local operators, i.e., NHN, Yandex and Baidu. Owing to its dispute with the Chinese government in the first half of the year, Google has lost significant market share to Baidu in 2010, but finally decided to stay in the local search market that is already worth $1.6 billion and growing at an impressive 60 percent in 2010.
The 'social' threat
The only real challenge for Google actually may lurk in the rising tide of social media, rather than in competitive search engines.
"Microsoft and Facebook recently have deepened their own alliance in search, with Bing now providing sponsored links on Facebook searches and Bing to integrate social results powered by Facebook," Létang said.
"The association of Microsoft with Facebook and its 500 million-plus users is, in our view, a much bigger threat to Google's dominance of the Internet than the Yahoo-Microsoft deal or the company's legal issues. Social networking is the only major Internet trend where Google has failed to make its mark by either acquiring or developing strong products, despite semi-failed short-lived attempts."
Létang noted that Facebook's global advertising revenues were estimated at between $1.2 billion for the first nine months of 2010, and the company has now firmly established itself as a cost-effective marketing destination for many major brands. The main concern, from a Google perspective, is that by providing similar scalability and accountability along with more focused targeting, social marketing may become a viable alternative to both search engine marketing and display.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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Over the past seven years since 2000, McCormick, the spice people, have been releasing their "Flavor Forecasts" each January on what they think will be the new, hot, and trendy flavors over the next 12 months. This year the list is a lot more interesting than in the past, and shows multi-cultural leanings and blends of salt and sweet. The list was made up by their food researchers, trend experts, chefs, home economists, food technologists, and sensory analysts; as well as outside Universities, chefs, cookbook authors and food celebrities.
Many of the pairs do sound pretty good and some are ones I have been using for awhile like maple/wasabi which I use in a shrimp cocktail sauce and cumin/apricot which I use in a pork glaze. I also went back to research some of their previous lists and they were pretty interesting as well, so I included the ones back to 2004.
McCormick's Flavor Forecast 2007 top ten flavor pairings are:
- Clove and Green Apple
- Thyme and Tangerine
- Tellicherry Black Pepper and Berry
- Sea Salt and Smoked Tea
- Lavender and Honey
- Crystallized Ginger and Salted Pistachio
- Cumin and Apricot
- Toasted Mustard and Fennel Seeds
- Wasabi and Maple
- Caramelized Garlic and Riesling Vinegar
- Anise
- Caraway
- Chai (usually a blend of spices including cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and white pepper)
- Marjoram
- Paprika
- Saffron
- Sesame
- Pomegranate
- Allspice
- Annatto
- Cardamom
- Cinnamon
- Curry
- Ginger
- Mint
- Pickling Spice
- Sage
- Vanilla
McCormick's Flavor Forecast for 2004
- Bay leaf
- Chile peppers
- Cinnamon
- Coriander/cilantro
- Lemon grass
- Mustard
- Pepper
- Sea salt
- Sesame
- Turmeric
- Vanilla
- Wasabi
McCormick's Flavor Forecast for flavor combinations 2004
- Lime, cilantro, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, and sesame oil
- Black pepper, cinnamon, clove, and dried red chile peppers
- Sugar cane syrup and chile peppers
- Plum, ginger, mango and habanero peppers
- Fish sauce, lime juice, Serrano chile peppers and honey


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Yes, I'm so pleased I can finally incorporate vintage fashion into my History degree!
'How was the change in gender roles in the post war years, reflected in the fashion of women at the time' is the question I'll be answering in one of my final pieces of university work towards my degree, for a module I'm currently doing called Conflict and change in the Age of Extremes which is based on the 20th Century.
In this module we've covered Youth and Affluence in the 50s, which showed the change in life for youth in comparison to generations before them, and how they used and enjoyed this new found affluence. For part of this we watched the 1960 film starring a young, handsome Albert Finney in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, which was highly controversial at the time as in contained plot lines including adultery and abortion.
We then went on to look at the new generation of women in the post World War II world, and the change in gender roles as well as changes in marriage and the family.
As seen post WWI, the impact of war and the change of women's status reflected highly on women's fashion and their attitude in the 1920s; I believe this is also true of the post WWII years. This change, as well as huge political and economical struggles, I feel impacted on the way women felt they could use fashion to express themselves through clothing, shoes and hairstyles.
Typical 1950s dress
The 1960s introduces the mini skirt
I can't wait to get started on this one, and I'll be sure to let you know my progress. Please share with me any views you have on the topic.
*Edit: View my full post on this here
*Edit: View my full post on this here


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It looks like in addition to bringing the dual-screen Kyocera Echo up to date from Android 2.2 to Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, Sprint and Kyocera may have other secret goodies to enable on the handset, including WiFi calling and NFC features.
There are other more subtle, but useful, features as well that come with the update, including predictive text, a Swype 3.0 virtual keyboard, and an improved Downloads application that will allow users quick access to any file downloaded from an email, browser, or any other app.
Moreover, the update will bring a more ubiquitous pinch-to-zoom experience. Now, users can pinch to zoom within the browser, the Gallery app, Google Maps, and also Sprint Navigation.
According to the update memo, Kyocera says that 'a Near Field Communications (NFC) Reader to interact with posters, advertisements, products, etc.' will also be part of the update. If that's true, it means that the Echo was released with hidden NFC hardware that the Gingerbread update would unlock. It also means that the Echo will be the second NFC-equipped handset in Sprint's smartphone lineup, following the Google-branded Samsung Nexus S 4G.
Via: Engadget


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Once upon a time, it is said, the great Brahmā and Vishnu were engaged in a bitter quarrel. Each insisted that He was the original Being, the Father, and the other the son. And so, the argument proceeded for hundreds of celestial years, but neither emerged as a victor. Suddenly, out of nowhere, appeared in front of them an immense column of blazing light, one that seemingly had no beginning or no end. Surprised and dumbfounded, they each decided to investigate the column of light. Brahmā took the form of a swan (hamsa) and flew upwards, while Vishnu took the form of a boar (varaha) and burrowed downwards. For a thousand celestial years, each continued in his respective direction, but found no end to the column of blazing light. Both decided to return back to the original location and found there in front of them an image of Shiva appearing from the light of the column. Each bowed to the Great Lord (Maheshvara). Maheshvara blessed them and related to them how Brahmā and Vishnu are one with Him. That image of Maheshvara Shiva, that form as a blazing column of light, is better known as the Jyotirlingam.
The above is a well-known story from the Puranas. It is found in chapters 5-9 of the Vidyeshvara Samhita (Book I) and chapter 7 of the Rudra Samhita (Book II) of the Shiva Purana, as well as in the Linga Purana. There are various versions of the above legend, and numerous nuances we need not go into. What is important to take away from this legend is the identification of the Jyotirlingam as an infinite column of light, and the identification of Shiva with that infinite Light.
The Jyotirlingam legend overtly relates the concept of infinity in one dimension only. But as we extrapolate from a philosophical perspective, we realize that infinity cannot be a uni-dimensional characteristic, and should be true in all dimensions. Otherwise, that which we call infinite will have boundaries, and cannot be considered infinite! There is, however, significance to the legend relating that Brahmā traveled upward, and Vishnu traveled downward. Previously, we saw in the post on the Ashtamurtis, how Shiva is considered both the unitary center and, in His eight forms, the eight cardinal directions (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW). Now, we find in the above legend, how Shiva, as Brahmā and Vishnu, is also the two polar directions - up and down.
Bringing these legends together, we come to realize that Shiva is truly the Infinite One. He is Anadi (beginningless) and Ananta (endless). He is infinite in all three dimensions of space. And, as Mahakala, Great Time, we realize that Shiva is also the fourth dimension. He is past, present and future. That Shiva is space-time, the very fabric on which all this is supported. He is both the supreme Support, as well as that which is supported by the supreme Support!
Aum Namah Shivaya.
© Agnideva, 2007. All rights reserved.
Related posts: Jyotirlinga Stotram Video and Jyotirlingam Shrines.


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President Donald Trump's revised travel ban has been struck down a second time by a federal appeals court , reports The New York Times. Monday's decision, from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, is just the latest among several court rulings that reject the Trump administration's efforts to limit travel by several countries that are predominantly Muslim.
Appeals Court goes there again
The administration is already seeking a Supreme Court review of a similar ruling that was issued in May by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.
Both courts used different reasoning for the rulings to arrive at what's basically the same opinion. The Fourth Circuit contended that the revised executive order violated the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from establishing religion.
Trump "exceeded the scope of authority delegated to him by Congress" in regards to overseeing immigration," ruled the Ninth Circuit panel of three judges, Politico reports.
"Immigration, even for the President, is not a one-person show," the judges wrote in their dissenting opinion.
Critics have attacked Trump's two travel ban orders — the one he initially issued in January one week after taking office — and the revised one signed on March 6. Opponents say the orders are thinly veiled attempts to carry out Trump's ballyhooed "Muslim ban."
Attorneys for the Justice Department claim that the travel ban orders have little to do with Trump's campaign promises, but in these instances, Trump has shot himself in the foot by complaining about political correctness in the courts.
"We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people," he tweeted on June 4, following a terror attack in London.
The Fourth Circuit jumped right into the issue, concluding that Trump's orders were unconstitutional discrimination against Muslims, but the recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit, largely avoids that issue.
The Ninth Circuit judges were each appointed by former President Bill Clinton and didn't comment on whether the orders violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. Instead, they traveled a narrower route: maintaining that the facts as presented by Trump in his orders were too flimsy to meet standard federal immigration statutes that are required to implement a halt to issuing visas to nationals from certain countries, Politico notes.
"The Order does not offer a sufficient justification to suspend the entry of more than 180 million people on the basis of nationality," judges Michael Hawkins, Ronald Gould and Richard Paez wrote in a "per curiam" decision not authored by any specific judge.
Related: TRUMP TEARS A PAGE FROM FASCIST PLAYBOOK—THREATENS TO BREAK UP COURT FOR RULING AGAINST HIM
The judges also determined that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to suspend the admission of refugees from around the world.
And the Ninth Circuit ruling was spurred by a lawsuit brought by the state of Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh, a local imam. Both obtained a broad injunction from a Honolulu federal judge in March, before Trump's revised was scheduled to be enacted.
Judge Watson wrote that the statements made by Trump and his advisers were clearly making an attempt to disfavor Muslims in his executive order, The New York Times reports.
"A reasonable, objective observer — enlightened by the specific historical context, contemporaneous public statements and specific sequence of events leading to its issuance — would conclude that the executive order was issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion," Justice Watson wrote.
Trump and a number of his advisers have made their hate of Muslims clear, by fear-mongering and promoting a racist agenda. I'm glad there are justices out there who see through this and aren't afraid to put this man and his cronies in their place.
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the story of the day in new york is the mega millions jackpot which grew from 330+ million to a whopping 355 million all within a matter of minutes this morning.
while i do not believe in the lottery, i have to indulge my curiosity and purchase a ticket for $1. if it is meant to be i will win but if not no worries, just wasted 1 dollar. i have no doubt the jackpot will continue to rise into the early evening.
to all the people who played the mega millions today, good luck to you!
what could someone do with all that money? i think i will take a extended vacation touring the world.
random thought of the day: what would my blog be about if i were not a virgin?
would i even have a blog? ;]


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What if it's our focus on it, our sheer fascination with it, our obsession with it, that gives it its very power to even exist...?
(radical thought, no? what if it's true?)
Once again, I see how our fear, individually and collectively, has created something -- which is really a nothing, a no-thing. Unless, of course, we believe it is a thing, unless we give it legitimacy, by the power of our own thoughts.
Let me share a story about a man ... a man who had AIDS. He'd been told he was dying, and he believed it. All the evidence was there to back up that thought. And so, he prepared to die ... and he visited a spiritual practitioner whose focus was to increase the awareness of his own spirituality and his connection with God. This man did not focus on healing .. he wanted only one thing -- to know God -- not the images of God he'd formed through his former religion, not the pat answers that he'd already received (and which had failed him in his need), but he just really wanted to know God - as God IS.
The practitioner was astonished -- most folks came to him wanting symptom relief, healing. Something from God. This man wanted God Himself, and nothing less, nothing more. Over the course of a couple of years, they discovered that God was willing and eager to reveal Himself -- He fully responded to the prayer to know His true nature, to bring understanding of Himself. The two men experienced much joy and excitement in this compelling journey -- each discovery of God's nature was a delight ... old and tired concepts of God (lies of human constructs) were replaced, one after another, with God's revelation of Himself, and of man's relationship to God. Because they desired nothing less than God's truth, the mind and heart of God were accessible to them, and transformation became a way of life.
While they were focused and consumed with pursuing the Kingdom of God (God's reign in our minds and hearts - for the Kingdom is within), an amazing thing began to happen ... the man's HIV symptoms began to cease, and even to reverse. Upon checking with his doctor, he discovered that he had become HIV negative. He had not pursued this, hadn't even considered that it was remotely possible! He had done nothing to earn it, hadn't qualified for it, hadn't thought himself "worthy" of it ... but in coming face to face with God's true nature, his wholeness and health was the only possible result ...!
So, what happened here? What can we learn from this? Can we discern a principle, a truth, that we can understand and apply, so that we, so that others, can also experience such a healing?
The only requirement seems to be that we approach God with a desire to want truth far more than we want to be "right". We need to let go of our own preconceived notions, opinions, beliefs and thoughts (and our "right" to have them!), to let go of all we think we already know, all that we insist that we're correct about, and to let God, and God alone, teach us about who He is, what His nature is like. We need to wipe the slate clean, and have a do-over, from God.
Here's the reality: we experience life according to our own perception of God.
When our perception of God is corrected by God, when we are aligned with His thoughts, when our minds have been renewed, when lies have been replaced with truth, when our perception is God's perception -- our experience is also corrected.
With no striving, with no human effort, with no intervention of any sort.
Want some scriptural backing for that...?
Matthew 5:8 ~
Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.
Titus 1:15
To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.
2 Samuel 22:26-27 ~
With the good man thou wilt show thyself good. With the upright man though wilt show thyself upright. With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt show thyself perverse.
However our minds perceive of God -- that is how God appears to us.
God created us in His own image, and we've been "returning the favor" ever since.
Is it time to fire the god in your own carnal/egoic mind, and let the real God, who is in you and fills you, emerge from behind the shadow of that which is false...?
As Jesus asked -- do you want to be whole..?
(& do you want to know that you already are...?)
Shalom, Dena


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I stopped at the (in)convenience store on the way shopping this morning and quickly found myself surrounded by about 15 Fred Bear wannabe's. (Thought I didn't know who he was, didn't cha?! HA!)
Why didn't anybody tell me winter was hunting season in Pennsylvania? I've never heard of such a thing! Thank God I
wasn't wearing my brown coat, brown pants and party antlers....I would have been bagged and tagged right in front of the doughnut case!
course the guys were all in their camouflage pants and coats and it
occurred to me that if they all stood together in a big group.................I think you know where I'm going with this.
I almost lost it
though when the one guy kept excitedly saying to the others, "I forgot my phone! I
forgot my phone!" as if "accidentally" leaving his phone at home had
NEVER occurred to him before. One guy said, "Good, that way you won't
get bitched at," and another one said, "Yeah, last time we went hunting
you brought your phone and had to leave cuz someone got sick."
Wah wah waaaaaaah. I half expected them to start hitting each other up for tampons.
Some times ya never realize how whiney guys are until you're in a pack of 'em.
it always amazes me about how guys are not the least bit bashful about
staring. Me, I glance, glance away. Then if they're smokin', I think
"HOLY SHIT!" and will glance again on my way out, all the while acting as if I could give a rat's ass. Guys. Just. Stare. It's
like they're deaf to that inner voice that says "Look away, asshole, it's RUDE to stare!"


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Goldcorp Inc. (NYSE: GG), Silver Standard Resources Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRI), Thompson Creek Metals Co Inc (NYSE: TC), Jetblue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) and KB Home (NYSE: KBH) were downgraded by analysts.
Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) downgraded Goldcorp Inc. (GG) from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating.
Deutsche Bank downgraded Silver Standard Resources Inc. (SSRI) from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating.
Deutsche Bank downgraded Thompson Creek Metals (TC) from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) downgraded Jetblue Airways Corporation (JBLU) to an "underweight" rating.
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods downgraded KB Home (KBH) from a "market perform" rating to an "underperform" rating. They have a price target of $9.00 on the company, down from $13.00.
Goldcorp closed Tuesday at $49.32, gaining $1.88, or 3.96 percent. Silver Standard Resources closed at $27.02, jumping $0.75, or 2.85 percent. Thompson Creek Metals closed at $10.10, falling $0.03, or 0.30 percent. Jetblue Airways ended the day at $5.96, losing $0.29, or 4.64 percent. KB Home closed at $9.92, down $0.25, or 2.46 percent.


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Tatum turned six last Sunday. Aunt Krista and I took her to see the Nutcracker ballet. It was her second visit. I think it was a little more exciting this time since she has her own ballet experience now. I had to rush off to work when I got home so I couldn't make a point to have her fully clothed when she blew out her candles. Yes, those are tights she is wearing. Daddy made the cake while we were gone and did capture the photos so I guess I won't complain too much about her half dressed state.
Tess is 4.5 months old. And still mesmerized by the camera.
Tatum had another observation day at ballet. She is the third from the teacher.
She is the one who is actually plieing here.
And again, third from the teacher.
She got a gift from her teacher for her birthday.
I was actually off for Christmas Eve so that was the night of the annual penguin pj pic. Aunt Krista started the tradition for Christmas 4 years ago. Eventually, it's going to get difficult to find penuguin jammies for a teen boy.
After watching Polar Express with their aunt and checking out the Santa radar online, the kiddos were off to bed. Looks like the big guy finished off most of the cookies they left.
And left a pile of gifts for the smiling children on Christmas morning.
After breaking in the new toys, it was off to Aunt Krista's house for more presents.
Tess was content to watch, after her turn, of course. I was holding her and the camera at the time though so no pics of her. Take my word for it, she hasn't mastered the art of ripping paper.
The gifts were opened in birth order, so Braeden went next.
Teagan got a little help from Daddy.
Then it was Tate's turn. She is fascinated by this reading system and can play with it for hours. Thank goodness for headphones.
Travis did notice that he only got one gift from Aunt Krista. But hello, it has 552 pieces!
Tanner has entered the GI Joe phase of boyhood.
Kristy is a big Buckeyes fan and scored a new sweatshirt and a purse.
Big Travis was happy with his monetary gift.
A gift card for Bobby. He's been wanting some new pots and pans. Yeah, I'll let you guess who does the cooking at our house.
Krista got an Ipod car adapter, and I got a new flash drive. No pictures though, cuz I was holding the camera, remember?
Mom got a couple butterfly suncatchers from the kids, some pics of the grandkids and some cool reusable, eco friendly bags.


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It's Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge Blog time and this week our sponsor is Digi My World. This week our theme is Not In Kansas Anymore and I've used the Big Eye Oz collection with Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion! Yep, you read that right, all four characters! I used the same scenario for each which kept it very simple and tied them all together rather nicely!
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Copic® Markers
Spectrum Noir™ Markers
Green Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Blue Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
May Arts Ribbon®
Christmas Red Stickles™
Scrapbook Adhesives® 3D Foam Mounting Squares by 3L®
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives
Here's what I did to create these ATCs:
Print all four characters, color and fussy cut each one
Trim four pieces of blue cardstock to ATC size
Trim two pieces of green cardstock and die cut trees
Cut die cut trees in half and then trim to ATC width
Adhere cut trees to blue ATC, color tree trunks and branches gray
Using Stickles™, add "apples" to trees
Adhere yellow ribbon to bottom of each ATC, go over ribbon with yellow marker
Using foam squares, attach each character to their ATC
Add Stickles™ to Dorothy's shoes, set aside to dry
The ribbon that I used wasn't quite yellow enough, it was originally more of a butter color. My solution was to pull out a Spectrum Noir™ marker and brighten it! I love how easy it is to fix those aggravating little problems with these markers! I know I didn't have to do all four characters but I just couldn't decide which one to do since they're all so darn cute. These were quick and easy!
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January 15, 2011
Well. We said kwaheri to Kenya and then set off for our forty hours in Addis Ababa. It was familiar, busy, a rush, stressful, nostalgic, home but now removed. It's hard going to back to a home where there is no longer the connection of family binding you there, but at the same time it is lovely to be recognized and known by so many people who know and share that life.
Anyway, seventeen hours worth of last night were spent on one plane -- we left Addis at 12am and arrived at Dulles at 9:30am...but about eight extra hours of time change was somehow shoved in there. Then a two hour drive through cold scenery and broad, dappled winter skies, and here I am, back at school. And I had told myself I would stay up til 10, and I have succeeded...barely. So I must say good night for now, but I promise I'll show you more of Addis tomorrow!
p.s. some winter songs to help me readjust to the cold... :]
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Good Morning! It's a new week at Tuesday Morning Sketches and my mom has a new sketch for us to play with. I saw the image that my Mom was going to give me but then I saw the cutest little mouse ever who was hiding behind a strawberry. This mouse is very cute, the hard part was cutting out it's tail. It's much harder than you think.
I found this patterned paper in my drawers and I have no idea how it got there. I like the pattern and the colors so I said "what the heck - let's put it in my card." I hope you like it and I hope you play along with the challenge. See you next week.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Tuesday Morning Sketches #61
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5 comments:
- Jacki Randolph
Oh your little cocoa is so sweet! I like how you used her with the star Great job! Beautiful papers!!
- September 28, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- Theresa
Cute cute cute job little one! Wonderful coloring :)
- September 28, 2010 at 8:27 AM
- Jessica G.
Adorable image, beautifully colored, and your CAS background really lets this little mouse shine!
- September 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- Melissa Craig
You made this Cocoa look like a berry cute rockstar! Great job on your card kiddo.
- September 29, 2010 at 7:22 AM
- Lisa
Super cute card! Love the colours, and that lil mouse is so sweet!!
- September 30, 2010 at 4:51 PM
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Proverbs 26:10
Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passer-by.
Uhhmmm . . . so I should have read this verse a long time ago. Actually I'm sure I've read it a million times, but it never hit home like it did today!
Today I started going through the receipts and invoices for my current flip and the fact that I've wasted hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on hiring foolish people really hurt my feelings. My plumber, though very nice at first, ended up being a total butt when his workers flooded one of the lower units of the building. Once he began to act just too over the top and foolish, I dismissed him without recalling that he had referred the electrician! So, as if they were a package deal, the electrician started acting like a retard too! With tenants ready to move in on the 1st, I was forced to pay another electrician about $1800 more than what was budgeted! Urgh!
Not only did that hurt my feelings and pockets, but as I not so enthusiastically scraped paint off of windows with a razor blade today, I realized that we wasted even more money on a few passer-byers throughout this project, as well. You know the kind that live somewhere in the neighborhood and harass you ever day about helping out? The ones that swear they've done everything under the sun twice and make you an offer you can't resist? Well, ours were supposed to help out with small stuff, but ended up being more of a hindrance than any real help. I spent the day doing this tedious stuff because none of those random guys we hired to help some weeks back, were competent enough to do things like scrape paint off windows! The were both sloppy and unprofessional. But, then again, what did I expect? They were also cheap. The saying, 'You get what you pay for.' is really true and how unwise of me to think anything different!
Please learn from my mistakes, as I should have learned from the many flippers who came before me! Don't waste time with unprofessional help. Just because someone has a license, it doesn't make them a professional either. Both the plumber and electrician were licensed, but still foolish. Ask questions, get copies of errors & omission insurance upfront and don't hire random folks off the street no matter what they claim they can do!
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Yes this is a cheap ploy for you all to buy a T-shirt I designed:-) Every year Southeastern Greyhound Club hosts a "Greyfest" and this year it falls on October 31 so I got to design a logo with a Halloween theme. Greyfest is a day of fun for greyhounds and their owners-games, contests, shopping and more!
I'm very happy with how it came out:-) The design can be purchased on anything Cafepress offers- shirts, cards, bags etc and of course the proceeds benefits greyhounds! I need to have mine printed up with just the words Spooky on it for my late greyhound...
I thought this pic was funny, good ol Limo. I've stayed true to Lester's retirement he's just a pasture/barn ornament now. He's getting his fuzzy fall coat in so he's been an itchy boy. He LOVES to be groomed and will stand all day for a curry comb. I'm glad he enjoys it and isn't a typical thin skinned TB that doesn't like it.
Is it wrong of me to be sorta glad when Less is moving funny? I still think he's comfortable enough, but there is just something def' off about him. It's just much easier to stay off of him when I see that things aren't right. He still runs and plays and of course looks pretty fine, but so does my friend's dog that has a spinal injury- you can't tell anything is wrong with her until you see her walk.


text: McCain to Obama: Veto Stimulus Bill Rush isn't GOP's leader: Gingrich; Stem-cell reversals a 'distraction:' Cantor By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff Posted Mar 8, 2009 12:16 PM CDT 16 comments Comments McCain to Obama: Veto Stimulus Bill Newt Gingrich talks to NBC's "Meet the Press" about the presidency and Rush Limbaugh. (msnbc) Bob Schieffer spoke with Budget Chief Peter Orszag about President Obama's stimulus package and its effect on the stock market. Congressman John Boehner offered a Republican viewpoint. (Watch CBS Videos Online) 1 of 2 (Newser) – Now that the battle over the stimulus bill is over, John McCain has one request for President Obama: Veto it. "We fought a good fight," the Arizona senator conceded on Fox News Sunday, saying the $410 billion bill would likely pass the Senate despite those efforts. McCain also called the Rush Limbaugh fracas "a distraction." Other Republicans on the Sunday dial joined in decrying the obsession with Limbaugh: On CBS's Face the Nation, John Boehner accused the White House of creating the Rush flap to "divert people's attention from the spending binge they've been on the last six weeks." And Newt Gingrich dismissed Limbaugh as just "an interesting radio personality" on NBC's Meet the Press. "He's not the leader of the Republican party," the former House speaker said. Eric Cantor told CNN that President Obama's imminent undoing of stem cell research restrictions was intended to distract attention from the economy. Richard Shelby and McCain aren't bothered by the potential collapse of major US banks. Shelby pointed to Citigroup, which has "always been a problem child," the Republican senator said on ABC's This Week. View 5 images


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How would you go about convinceing the owner of the site it wasn't you?
I just trted to check out spudshot.com to see if this is being talked about over there. The page is down error message is what I got. Schmanman is a mod over there.
Hmm, I always thought PCGUY actually paid a bit to keep the site up. I never expected that he made money off of it, I mean how could one expect to make money off a site promoting such a little-known and very specific hobby? As for schmanman, I never really had much contact with him, though I'm not terribly active here, especially as of late.
As for the whole IP thing, an IP address is basically like the computers address/name. Spudfiles.com is not actually the address of the site. A DNS server basically "sees" the request for spudfiles.com, and redirects it to the IP address of the computer that actually hosts the site, whatever that address may be.
Now in the case of the school network, I'm not sure if PCGUY got the actual internal IP of the computer, or the IP of the network gateway. IP's would run out fast if every computer had a unique one, so n networks like a school, the router, or server, or whatever is connected directly to the internet, has it's own unique IP. As for the computers within the network, they're assigned an IP by the router/whatever that is used internally.
So PCGUY, did you get the gateway's IP, or the internal IP of the computer?
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Their gateway IP, so any computer in the school district can not access SpudFiles. There is no way for anyone (aside from people inside the network) to see their internal IP address. It would be useless anyways, there are specific IP addresses used ONLY for internal IP's. If you have a router at home, it may say your ip is 192.168.x.x but in reality only your computer and your router knows that, nothing else. In fact MANY people use 192.168.x.x addresses as their internal IP address. It's just how the Internet and DHCP work, you can Google about it if your still curious.
Regardless, I am not anti-Schmanman. But since his account was used to reply to crap made by jig-a-whatever just moments after it was posted, then I am forced to ban the account until more proof/convincing happens.
Yes, I am the guy that owns & operates SpudFiles (along with our extremely helpful moderators).
Yea, I didn't think there was a way to get the internal, but I wasn't completely sure. 192.168.100.x is my home's internal scheme. I work in IT, but I don't know everything. Yet...
Just trying to give a bit of information that I do know about Ip's and such because someone asked.
"Who ever said the pen was mightier than the sword, obviously, never encountered automatic weapons."
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The internet sure can be a complicated place to administer justice to those who deserve it.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9 - What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Indeed it can. That's why so many criminals are turning to crimes on the internet, phishing and the like. Because the internet isn't policed well, and it's harder to find them.
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I don't know shcmanman personally, but that just didn't sound like him. Seeing his other posts and the SWAT. My input may not matter, but he always seemed like a good member to me.
What it looks like to me is that schmanman got mad at PCGUY and then he made another account to rant etc... after that to try and cover up his blowing off a (*backspaces little*)... lot of steam he asked his friend to cover for him. I've looked at dippy whatevers posts, and in the past I saw that he and schmanman got in a dispute with some other members. I'm not trying to say anything, but it looks like they're good buddies who could be stirring up trouble. Maybe it's just me but thats what this situation amounts to in my eyes.
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just fyi, spudshot is a dead forum. i'm a member there and like the last real post was from like last year.
so ur gonna place the blame on one guy when one ip adress is used by like 4000 people. another thing, schmanman never posted any bad stuff, it was all whats her face. i'm sure that people go on spudfiles all the time in the district.me and him try to get people interested in spud guns all the time. i can say from experiance that schmanman didn't do this. i'm in all of his classes that he would or could use a computer in and he did not do this. no one has come forward and given any hard evidence. he was probably was one at the same time that "emo" was on. unless you are all watching us from satallites, i don't think that you have a GOOD argument.This is just my oppinion though. i'm not the one makin the decisions.
no one thinks ur a sell out PC.
People that bash noobs can suck me!!!
The evidence, for the time being, points to schmanman, he has some connection with what happened.
If he or you, are pissed off at us, take it out on your friend. This is not our problem, but yours.
When things begin to unfold and settle down, more decisions will be made, and chances are shcmanman will be unbanned soon enough.
He's a good guy, welcomed me when I first started out, but for now he just needs to sit this one out and wait for it all to blow over.
Hey dippydodo03, does Schmanman let you ride his dirt bike? You guys are nabiors after all??
I also want to point out one more thing, look how jigabo0 spelled his name, now look how dippydodo03 spells his name, you all see the simularity?
^^haha thats stretching things just a bit.
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Coincidence I don't think so. How is that stretching things? I didn't give him his names, he picked them when he joined, you can't change your name unless pcguy does it as far as I know.
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My Review
Just Imagine is a wonderful book that has the most amazing illustrations, probably some of the best I have seen in kids picture books. They are big, bright, bold, randomly placed and each page is crammed full of illustrations, each individual one tells a little story all of it's own. This is a very conversational book as it gives you some great ideas for you and your little one to build upon, kids will just love using their own imaginations to tell you their stories relating to the book. There is tons of fun and humour in this that will keep you smiling throughout. Although Just Imagine doesn't have many words, the talking points are great to get your little one to open up and get the little cogs in their minds turning overdrive. We would highly recommend this brilliant book to people who's imaginations need a little opening!
4/5 Stars
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No quick links this week. I've been pretty busy and haven't had much time to even read! I soon will have time for more blogging though and also a big announcement!
But, a few weeks ago, I asked if anyone could name Carl Linnaeus's favorite plant. I figured I should follow-up on that (even though no one tried to answer).
The answer is Twinflower (Linnaea borealis)! From the photo above, you can probably tell how the plant received its common name. As for the scientific name, you may think that Linnaeus named the plant after himself, being the father of modern taxonomy and all. However, it was his teacher and friend Jan Frederik Gronovius that named the plant in his honor. On the naming, Linnaeus wrote:
"Linnaea was named by the celebrated Gronovius and is a plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant and disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it."
Twinflower grows around the world at northern latitudes. I've come across it often here in Minnesota. It really is an adorable plant, especially when flowering, and I can see why it was Linnaeus's favorite.


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The Inspired Weekend
What will you check off on your "bucketlist" this summer? Travel to new state or country, catch up with an old friend, move to a new home, or capture more of the beauty this world has to offer?
Find more weekend inspiration at: Color Me Weekly / Your Sunday Best / the simple things / Sunday Snapshot / Feathered Nest Friday / Show and Tell Friday / Click it Up a Notch / Fabulous Friday / Photo Story Friday / Photo Friday / Favorite Photo Friday
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So serene!ReplyDelete
Beautiful Kristy. A "calm" always come over me when I look at your photo's. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Have a Wonderful Weekend:)
God Bless,
Very peaceful! Love all the greens!ReplyDelete
The green is so serene and so full of life....I'm looking forward to a summer of growth and productivity and some fun in the sun!ReplyDelete
I always love the shades of green I see whenever I visit. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Green is my favorite color, I'm glad you enjoy it too!Delete
Is that a peach tree, Kristy (in your header?) If it's from this year, it's way ahead of ours.ReplyDelete
Beautiful spring/summer images. We're planning on doing some boating this summer, if my hubby can get the boat in good shape. :)Replies
That's an apple tree from the orchard I visited last fall. Are peaches aren't quite ready yet either. We do have strawberries!Delete
Capture more of the beauty this world has to offer... yes, please! I just have to figure out how to do that with my camera ;)ReplyDelete
Beautiful and calm...love the colours your were able to find.ReplyDelete
Loving the soft colors of these images! My bucket list this summer will be to move and have a baby :O) That should keep me good and busy :O)ReplyDeleteReplies
Courtney, I want to move this summer too and get started on that baby business. I bet you are so excited!!Delete
Lovely photos and I love the way you've displayed them - the colours are so tranquil and delicate.ReplyDelete
I just love Kristy how you've done this - beautiful palette aswell as such a lovely image.ReplyDelete


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It's not just because of my recent Gossip Girl birthday although school girl/boy is on the brain, but I've noticed that the in terms of ties the striped schoolboy skinny is pretty hot right now! Weather it be subtle prep school-esque stripes at Lanvin to wide and bold at Moschino the look has been all over the Men's Spring 2010 runways. My personal fave is the clean very graphic and sporty look of the stripes at Jean Paul Gaultier. I think ties are def the easiest way to wake up a dull suit, so pattern is good! Which look do you like best?
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Parklane Gallery in Kirkland WA
19th International Miniature Show in Kirkland WA-
Had a great trip up there!! Great time to judge the 363 Miniatures in the Gallery!!
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
"The First Snow"
I went into the opening of the International Miniature Show in Kirkland Washington this last Saturday. They had asked me to be the Judge of the miniatures. There were about 360 plus miniatures. A challenge but a joy!! At the opening they asked me to make a few comments about the 13 winners. That was a great trip and a great opening!! If interested swing into the Show. There or go in to the web. www.parklanegallery.com Lots of great art there folks!!
Good news for me! I sold one piece Saturday!!
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Now take your ticking fabric and tie into a fairly large bow and stick it on at the bottom of the wreath.
And now for the prize: I'm offering one of my own handmade prairie stump dolls ready for Christmas
I really hope you like and that you'll join in - the more the merrier! Thanks so much!


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The inhabitant of Odessa region illegally transported in the car the whole Arsenal of weapons. It is reported, the police Kiev region. Among the seized items 13 AKS74 rifles, a Makarov pistol, 16 bullets items for quick loading weapons.
Police officers on the route Borispol-Dnepr stopped "camouflage" Ford Transit without state license plates. Behind the wheel of the car was 35-year-old man. According to documents, he lives in a military unit of the Kominternovsky region of Odessa region.
When inspecting the vehicle the police found the weapon without any documents. At the scene arrived investigative team Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Department of police to document the offences.
Also from the car seized 13 items for quick loading weapons, 13 containers with residues of oil, 13 supplies for weapon cleaning.
Now the police establish the origin of this Arsenal of weapons and ammunition.
In fact opened criminal proceedings under part 1 St. 263 (illegal weapon handling, fighting supplies or explosives) the Criminal code of Ukraine. The sanction of article provides imprisonment from three to seven years. The pretrial investigation proceeds.
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Programming smart molecules for chemical-based AI
Machine-learning algorithms could make chemical reactions intelligent, tuned to your personal chemistry to diagnose or treat a range of pathologies using "smart drugs"
December 19, 2013
In a new paper (open access) presented at the recent Neural Information Processing Systems conference, Ryan P. Adams and Nils Napp showed that an important class of artificial intelligence algorithms could be implemented using chemical reactions.
These algorithms, which use a technique called "message passing inference on factor graphs," are a mathematical coupling of ideas from graph theory and probability. They represent the state of the art in machine learning and are already critical components of everyday tools ranging from search engines and fraud detection to error correction in mobile phones.
'Smart drugs'
Adams' and Napp's work demonstrates that some aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) could be implemented at microscopic scales using molecules. In the long term, the researchers say, such theoretical developments could open the door for "smart drugs" that can automatically detect, diagnose, and treat a variety of diseases using a cocktail of chemicals that can perform AI-type reasoning.
"We understand a lot about building AI systems that can learn and adapt at macroscopic scales; these algorithms live behind the scenes in many of the devices we interact with every day," says Adams, an assistant professor of computer science at SEAS, whose Intelligent Probabilistic Systems group focuses on machine learning and computational statistics.
"This work shows that it is possible to also build intelligent machines at tiny scales, without needing anything that looks like a regular computer. This kind of chemical-based AI will be necessary for constructing therapies that sense and adapt to their environment. The hope is to eventually have drugs that can specialize themselves to your personal chemistry and can diagnose or treat a range of pathologies."
Adams and Napp designed a tool that can take probabilistic representations of unknowns in the world (probabilistic graphical models, in the language of machine learning) and compile them into a set of chemical reactions that estimate quantities that cannot be observed directly. The key insight is that the dynamics of chemical reactions map directly onto the two types of computational steps that computer scientists would normally perform in silico to achieve the same end.
Statistical inference by biological reaction pathways and regulatory networks
This insight opens up interesting new questions for computer scientists working on statistical machine learning, such as how to develop novel algorithms and models that are specifically tailored to tackling the uncertainty molecular engineers typically face. In addition to the long-term possibilities for smart therapeutics, it could also open the door for analyzing natural biological reaction pathways and regulatory networks as mechanisms that are performing statistical inference.
Just like robots, biological cells must estimate external environmental states and act on them; designing artificial systems that perform these tasks could give scientists a better understanding of how such problems might be solved on a molecular level inside living systems.
"There is much ongoing research to develop chemical computational devices," says Napp, a postdoctoral fellow at the Wyss Institute, working on the Bioinspired Robotics platform, and a member of the Self-organizing Systems Research group at SEAS. Both groups are led by Radhika Nagpal, the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at SEAS and a Wyss core faculty member. At the Wyss Institute, a portion of Napp's research involves developing new types of robotic devices that move and adapt like living creatures.
"What makes this project different is that, instead of aiming for general computation, we focused on efficiently translating particular algorithms that have been successful at solving difficult problems in areas like robotics into molecular descriptions," Napp explains. "For example, these algorithms allow today's robots to make complex decisions and reliably use noisy sensors. It is really exciting to think about what these tools might be able to do for building better molecular machines."
Indeed, the field of machine learning is revolutionizing many areas of science and engineering. The ability to extract useful insights from vast amounts of weak and incomplete information is not only fueling the current interest in "big data," but has also enabled rapid progress in more traditional disciplines such as computer vision, estimation, and robotics, where data are available but difficult to interpret. Bioengineers often face similar challenges, as many molecular pathways are still poorly characterized and available data are corrupted by random noise.
Using machine learning, these challenges can now be overcome by modeling the dependencies between random variables and using them to extract and accumulate the small amounts of information each random event provides.
"Probabilistic graphical models are particularly efficient tools for computing estimates of unobserved phenomena," says Adams. "It's very exciting to find that these tools map so well to the world of cell biology."
Abstract of Neural Information Processing Systems paper
Recent work on molecular programming has explored new possibilities for computational abstractions with biomolecules, including logic gates, neural networks, and linear systems. In the future such abstractions might enable nanoscale devices that can sense and control the world at a molecular scale. Just as in macroscale robotics, it is critical that such devices can learn about their environment and reason under uncertainty. At this small scale, systems are typically modeled as chemical reaction networks. In this work, we develop a procedure that can take arbitrary probabilistic graphical models, represented as factor graphs over discrete random variables, and compile them into chemical reaction networks that implement inference. In particular, we show that marginalization based on sum-product message passing can be implemented in terms of reactions between chemical species whose concentrations represent probabilities. We show algebraically that the steady state concentration of these species correspond to the marginal distributions of the random variables in the graph and validate the results in simulations. As with standard sum-product inference, this procedure yields exact results for tree-structured graphs, and approximate solutions for loopy graphs.
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