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Vaithilingam, R.D. and Noor, N.M.M. and Mustafa, R. and Taiyeb-Ali, T.B. (2012) Practices and beliefs among Malaysian dentists and periodontists towards smoking cessation intervention. Sains Malaysiana, 41 (7). pp. 931-937. ISSN 0126-6039
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This study compared the attitudes, practices and perceived barriers among Malaysian dentists and periodontists towards smoking cessation interventions (SCI) for patients. A self-administered questionnaire, which covered respondents beliefs, practices as well as barriers and limitations towards SCI, were posted to 289 dentists from four Malaysian states and 35 Malaysian periodontists. In all, 236 (82) dentists and 26 (80) periodontists responded. More periodontists than dentists routinely record patient's smoking status at first visit (89.3 vs 19.1) (pp<0.001), recommend nicotine replacement aids (37 vs 16.3) (p=0.031), refer to smoking cessation clinics (40.7 vs 14) (p=0.001), followed-up smoking cessation with patients (70.4 vs 11.3) (pp<0.001) and described themselves as being committed to patients' SCI (81.5 vs 53.4) (p=0.013). Limitations faced by dentists as compared to periodontists in SCI were due to insufficient time (pp<0.001) and fear it will affect dentist-patient relationship (p=0.034). The findings in this study emphasize the importance of SCI and the need for further training in SCI among Malaysian periodontists and government dentists. Copyright Reserved © 2007 Sains Malaysiana.
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|Export Date: 26 August 2012 Source: Scopus Language of Original Document: English Correspondence Address: Vaithilingam, R.D.; Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; email: firstname.lastname@example.com References: Binnie, V.I., Addressing the topic of smoking cessation in a dental setting (2008) Periodontology 2000, 48, pp. 170-178; Brothwell, D.J., Should the of smoking cessation products be promoted by dental offices? An evidence based report (2001) Journal of Canadian Dental Association, 67, pp. 149-155; Chestnutt, I.G., Binnie, V.I., Smoking cessation counseling - A role for the dental profession? 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Bloomington, IN (SportsNetwork.com) - Tuesday night's Big Ten clash between Indiana and No. 15 Iowa scheduled at Assembly Hall has been postponed.
According to the university, a piece of metal fell from the ceiling of the venue and landed in the lower bowl seats.
Both Indiana and Iowa have 72 hours, per Big Ten Conference policy, to reschedule the contest.
Wednesday's women's basketball game between Indiana and Michigan will go on as scheduled.
"Safety is our No.1 priority," Indiana Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass said. "Our University engineers have advised us to postpone events in Assembly Hall until it can be determined what caused the facing to fall and ensure the safety of everyone attending an event in the facility."
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How to make a ruffle flower
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I am wondering if you'd be able to do a blog post about how you do one of your amazing cakes? From making the actual cake, to the little figures, the fondant on top of the cake, icing, the small details etc.
I feel a bit lost sometimes when making a cake, and hard to know where to start. I assume you do a drawing of what you want first and decide on what flavor you want on the cake. Then making the little figures?
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Leadership, Dr. King and, The Drum Major Instinct
And what will you do when you get there?
I was honored to be a part of the Martin Luther King Legacy Awards breakfast with my colleagues from Powers Agency this morning. By "a part," of course I mean that I sat there and drank their coffee and ate their turkey sausage.
And applauded. A lot. And almost cried a couple of times, but enough about me.
At the end of the program, one of the honorees, Mr. Barron Witherspoon, presented an excerpt from one of the last sermons Martin Luther King delivered: The Drum Major Instinct.
In short, it's about our (very human) need to be important and draw attention to ourselves. I swear, it's not an indictment of actual drum majors.
Ambition is a good thing. There's great common good in the incentive people have to improve themselves, their lives.
But on its own … without another objective …
Many people aspire to leadership positions for status.
Others for prestige.
Even more to satisfy the expectations they have for themselves or those of their families.
There is no shortage of people who want to be in charge … who want to sit in the big chair and make the tough decisions. But before they aspire to that position, they (and those who might put them there) need to ask, "Why?"
What would you actually DO if you were in charge tomorrow?
Leadership requires vision. It's not enough to be able to read a compass or find your position on a map.
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Here is a great "pose to pose" scene from a Bob McKimson cartoon.
You can tell these are drawn by Mckimson himself. They are really solid.
Each pose contrasts from the previous pose and the next one.
This is really good cartoon acting. The poses are over the top, and totally readable. You know exactly what the character is feeling and portraying.
The character himself is acting. He isn't sincere. He is pretending, which adds a level to the cartoon acting. Very funny!
Someone commented that he thought I was suggesting pose to pose being better than straight ahead animation. Not at all. They are just different approaches that you can use and even combine for different purposes.
Pose to pose eventually became limited animation. But in most limited animation, the poses are not really poses. They are just characters standing straight up and down, and there is no excuse for that. Poses should be "posed". It doesn't cost more money to draw a pose, than to draw a non-pose.
Classic cartoon acting tends to put more emphasis on the body than the face.
Drawing specific expressions is hard. It depends on tiny subtle details that all have to be depicted in line, and then turned in volumetric perspective as the character moves his head around. That's why to this day, most cartoon expressions are not even expressions, they are just animation cliches.
Because real expressions are so hard to draw, animators evolved a style that is more stagy than live action, where you can read the characters' emotions through their body language. Their poses.
This applies to all the classic studios: Warner's, Disney, MGM, Fleischer and the rest. Sometimes in closeups, the odd animator would experiment with more subtle, detailed and specific expressions-Rod Scribner, Willard Bowsky, Grim Natwick to name a few.
By the way, McKimson is one of my favorite cartoon directors and one that is extremely important to cartoon history. After Clampett left Warner's in 1946, McKimson's cartoon unit became the backbone of the Warner Bros. team of units.
Jones was the arsty experimenter who would sometimes deliver pure cartoon humor (esp. in 1948). Freleng basically just followed what everyone else was doing-whatever the current trend was, he would conservatively mimic it.
McKimson wasn't as artsy as Jones or as well-rounded and inspired as Clampett, but he knew his audience maybe better than anybody. He aimed at regular folks and you can tell he felt it was his duty as a cartoonist to entertain the masses-especially the masses of Dads.
His cartoons are hilarious and brilliantly timed and animated. He carried on Warner's tradition of full animation longer than any of the other directors. By 1950 Jones and even Freleng were animating more stylized, more limited and less cartoony stuff. Against the pressures of tightening budgets and UPA's influence, McKimson kept making lively fully animated characters for a few more years.
Without McKimson's cartoons, Jones' tendency to make "art" and sweetness might have run wild and the WB studio might not have kept up the reputation that Avery and Clampett bought it. Looney Tunes are remembered today and still beloved for being mass appeal, honest-entertainment cartoons, the antidote to Disney.
I love Jones and am glad he was so arsty and experimental, but the audience needs a balance of down to earth human entertainment and that's what McKimson delivered. Vincent Waller was my McKimson. His down to earth funny world view balanced all my weird ideas.
McKimson cartoons appeal to the same base entertainment needs that The 3 Stooges provide.
I have lots more observations about McKimson. He had a really funny world view, especially how he perceived the behavior of men. His characters behave as though they have a set of Commandments that guides them to be the best assholes they can be.
I'll tell you the commandments in another post.
BTW, these drawings are really well constructed so if you are trying to improve your own construction, copy these.


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Right-wing talkmeister Rush Limbaugh will give voice to his own cartoon character on Sunday's episode of "Family Guy," and although the show usually tacks left, he says he comes off "like a champ."
The plot calls for Limbaugh to appear at the Quahog Mall for a book-signing. Liberal Brian decides to go to the event to tell off the talker, but when Rush unexpectedly comes to Brian's rescue, Brian has a political change of heart. Of course, this doesn't happen until after Limbaugh calls Brian "a maggot-infested member of the blame-America-first crowd."
Limbaugh said he's bringing his "usual bravado and bombast" to the performance, which was recorded a year ago.
"I come out looking like a champ on this thing," he said.
Limbaugh said he likes the show's left-wing creator, Seth MacFarlane, and said the show "crosses the line every night that it's on."
"He's a Hollywood liberal, but we get along," Limbaugh said.
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Weapons are tools used for protection, survival, and defense. There are all sorts of different types of weapons out there but the most common is firearms. But the thing with guns is that they are useless without one main component, ammo. This tutorial will be based on ""how to draw a bullet", step by step. Drawing bullets, is as you may know, a very easy concept to tackle. They are essentially cylinder shaped pieces of metal filled with gunpowder and capped with a lead tip. Inside of a bullet there are four parts, the bullet itself which is the tip of the ammo, the casing which is the shell that the everything sits in, the gunpowder which forces the bullet from the casing, and then you have the primer, which is what ignites the gunpowder to set it all off. Each bullet is made in callipers. A calliper is the exact diameter of a bullet which is made and measured in inches or millimetres. Did you know that a .22 bullet can be used in a handgun and a riffle? It's true, the same .22 calliper bullet can be used in a .22 handgun, and in a .22 riffle. The difference between the two is speed, distance, and of course size. Handguns are worn on the hip, and the riffles are carried over the shoulder using a sling. Commonly, riffle ammo has a pointy shaped bullet tip, and handguns have round tipped bullets. Based on your preference, you can draw bullets that are to your liking, but there are fifteen common style callipers to choose from; 7.65x17, 9x17, 9x18, 9x19, .32, .45, .32 magnum, 7.62x25, .38 special, 7.62x38r, .357, 7.62x39 M39 aka AK-47, 5.56x45 M193, 7.62x54R, and finally the 12ga ¾ 00 Buckshot for the shotgun. I think this is going to be a very simple, and fun lesson that will teach you "how to draw a bullet", in the easiest way possible. My return will bring other cool lessons for you all so stay tuned in to see what they are. Peace peeps, and happy hunting!
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Category Archives: Otakou
The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round
The announcement of the review of the Dunedin City Council Book Bus service is a pertinent reminder to all Otago Peninsula residents of the importance of local services. The review should be treated as an opportunity by the community to consider modernising the services that the Book Bus can supply. These should include WiFi, online services and wider Council customer services. Submissions close on the 27th May 2017 and can be done online or on hard-copy from clicking the link here.
Review of the Year
Its been a busy year for myself and the Peninsula Community Board with a variety of issues and projects. I never find being on the Board a chore because there's always something interesting to be done or a new people to meet. I've always been a problem-solver so being on the Board is actually an enjoyable challenge. I'm looking forward to 2016 because I feel I have more to offer and do for the community. Some of those issues include;
- The 2GP and how the final issues around hazard management and rural are resolved for regions like the Peninsula.
- Tomahawk School and the ongoing need to ensure the community have a say in the way these Council assets are managed.
- Tomahawk Lagoon and the way the ORC manage the water quality and levels for the welfare of the community.
- Roading projects around the Peninsula including the re-opening of Highcliff Road.
- Sand dune management in places like Tomahawk and Okia.
- Supporting the Te Rauone community to complete their beach management project.
- Reviewing how effective the new freedom camping bylaw has been.
- Continuing to advocate for better broadband and rural internet access.
Community Groups & Representation
I've been actively involved with community groups for nearly 25 years. I've worked with them professionally in a range of roles and issues as well as stepping up in my own community and actively taking part in many of them. They're an interesting dynamic, some are enthusiastic, positive and embrace new challenges. Others, have very set goals and objectives and seldom deviate from that path. Perhaps the biggest challenge is a community's ability to develop effective co-ordination and communication between various agencies and local government. Often it is one of the most frustrating things for community groups who can see local government as an impediment to decision-making in the community. How many times do you see in the media, frustrations vented by community groups over what appear to be officious and unnecessary rules? It raises the question, how well does local government actually listen and engage with its community?
One of the strengths of Community Boards has been the direct line of communication that they provide between governance and the community. Most importantly they have been able to filter out the differences between vested interests and regional needs through their own understanding of the dynamics of the community. It's not a perfect system by any means, but its a model that has worked very successfully. In my previous post "Democracy Divided" I was critical of the City Council's decision to gradually break Community Board's down and move away from local representation. I made the comment in that post that it "appears that the long-term plan will be to disestablish boards from all communities, and have community groups act as conduits with the City Council. In essence this is a type of community privatisation, where private groups will represent the needs of their community and compete for the small amount of funding in that sector." There are some fundamental issues with this model, notwithstanding that community groups may not actually represent the views or interests of the community they fain to represent.
The Otago Daily Times has confirmed my view recently with the announcement by the Dunedin City Council that it intends "encouraging the creation of more geographically-related community groups across Dunedin, and giving those groups the skills and knowledge to get the most out of the council system." The article goes further that the City Council wishes to "establish a system to make it easier for community groups to get results" and that "access to advice would be particularly useful for projects such as roading and infrastructure, projects community groups had traditionally found to be difficult." What such a statement reveals is that the City Council is clearly failing in its own obligations to communicate projects, plans and policies to the wider community. This is significant given that the Council's annual budget for Economic Development and City Promotion is $15 million. Clearly the question here is, what is this budget being used for and why is the communication that comes out of it failing if people are unaware of Council activities?
Its become clear that the City Council are reinventing the wheel for community engagement with the abolition of Community Boards and passing on that role to specific groups. Yet, it's also clear that the City Council are not looking at why their engagement to date has failed outside of areas that have Community Boards. Which raises another important question, would it not be more useful and probably more successful to develop urban Community Boards to improve the Council's representation? A final question is, in a city of 120,000 people and 14 City Councillors just how well are those Councillors providing information to their constituents, and is this a case where the so-called "super ward" doesn't actually provide the level of representation required?
As I raised earlier community groups are an interesting dynamic that have a variety of causes, motivations and membership. With this in mind one of my biggest concerns over the City Councils plans is the question of community and representational equity. The limited and competitive funding base for community groups has shrunk over recent years and this trend does not seem to be easing. Which raises further questions about what funding model the City Council would use to implement this plan? From the newspaper article its clear that the City Council may well have to fund additional staffing to ensure the proposal works, but that doesn't include the annual operating costs that community groups will undoubtedly have. With often stringent criteria for external funding it seems unlikely national and local funding groups are likely to want to fund community groups purely on the basis that they are privatised conduits for Council information services and representation. Importantly too, it seems doubtful that community's will want a group whose sole focus is the dissemination of Council information and not developing individual projects that meet the community's needs.
One of the biggest issues with this proposal is transparency. Community Boards are generally not agenda driven, but driven by service to the community through an electoral process and the confines of the City's Long Term Plan. That means that Board members are accountable to the constituents of their district in their decision-making. Community groups are not accountable in the same way. In fact they are only accountable to their membership, which may not be an inclusive representation of the district that they come from. This can be seriously divisive in the community, where people can feel disenfranchised and distanced from those who hold the information, funding and ultimately the power. Other concerns over such a model must be the relationship that the City Council has with a community group. A group who has the "ear of the Council" will be able to forward their agenda or philosophy as the "dominant" view of the community, when often the views within a community are far more complex. There's also a real danger that groups who hold with a prevailing philosophy popular with Council, may be more likely to be successful with funding and support. That could lead to an inequitable distribution of resources that is politically driven, rather than being based on community need.
Finally, there is the question of social equity and the ability to ensure that each community within a district can manage and sustain community aspirations through their local groups. It's clear to me that poorer community's and ones without leadership are often the ones who miss out on funding and resources where its most needed. Socio-economic pressures and education within some districts will limit the ability of people in those areas to organise and rally their community. Well educated and well organised community's are far more likely to be able to be proactive in the promotion of their needs. Coupled with this concern is also how the community and Council will deal with recruitment, group failures, generational change and even an unwillingness of some communities to engage with the process. From my perspective and with my experience, there are significant failings in this scheme by the City Council. Perhaps most worrying is that the City Council seem to want to "manufacture" community groups and leadership to cope with their own failings in consultation and engagement. It simply doesn't work that way, groups form around central issues that are affecting a community or neighbourhood. They are largely issues-based organisations that evolve into wider entities or disappear once the issue is resolved. By all means we should support and nurture groups within the community, but it must be in a transparent and equitable way.
Making Plans and Planning
The District Plan is an extremely important document for Dunedin. It outlines the future direction of the city in regards to development, business, housing and the environment. The Resource Management Act 1991 requires a district plan to have;
- Objectives for the district
- Policies to implement the objectives
- Rules to implement the policies.
It's a crucial document to the city, but it's also one that people need to take notice of and understand how its rules, policies and objectives might affect them. It may change what you can do on your property or the activities that you can undertake. With this in mind its imperative that everyone takes notice of the district plan and participates in the submission process. if there is something that you don't like about the plan and you don't submit on that issue, that section could become operative and its much harder to change.
I urge everyone to look at the proposed 2GP and at the least look at the maps to ascertain any changes to your property or community. The community only has until Tuesday, November 24 2015 to finalise their submissions.
You can view the plan and look at your submission options here.
Some Roading History
Roading issues occupy a significant part of your time when living on the Otago Peninsula. The slip at Turnbull's Bay has been a long period of inconvenience that the community have been very patient with as the repairs near their end. This photograph from the Peninsula Museum illustrates just how much has changed over 100 years since it was taken.
Environment Strategy Submission
Our first experiences of the environment and biodiversity usually come from our early explorations as children in our backyard and local community. It's the beginning of our awareness of the natural world and an important step into our understanding of the world around us. The Dunedin City Council has recently presented Te Ao Turoa – The Natural World as a draft environmental strategy for the City. The proposed strategy lo sets out themes, objectives and priorities for the management of the Dunedin Environment.
I was asked to write a submission on the proposed strategy on behalf of the Otago Peninsula Community Board. Strategy documents like this one are highly aspirational, they aspire to high level objectives and priorities. There's nothing wrong with this as it's designed to give some direction in a very complicated issue, but the real test of these kinds of documents lies in how they are going to be implemented and funded. The other part of that test is whether the organisation that develops the strategy can ensure that it becomes part of the broader corporate culture of that organisation at all levels. This is a particularly critical aspect for its success.
My submission on behalf of the Community Board dealt specifically with the effects of the strategy on the Otago Peninsula. Implementation, communication and the ability of the strategy to be assimilated into the contractual, legal and policy landscape were major themes of that submission. The other aspect of the submission was the acknowledgement of community, business and human resources in the management and conservation of the environment needs deeper consideration. This is directly relevant to the Peninsula as our landscape and environment is so highly reliant on people who act as guardians and stewards of this unique place. It's always difficult to synthesize such a daunting topic as the environment in a few succinct pages of a submission. The scale of the topic and its complexities means that you always feel as though there's something you've missed out. I imagine that the strategy process will be an evolutionary one as submissions come in from a wide range of people around the city with widely different views.


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The stocks report was very bearish. Grains and oilseeds closed sharply lower with May corn closing lock-limit down.
The short story is that the USDA released their March 1st stocks report and there were 400 million more corn bushels in the count than what the market had been expecting. To make matters worse for the bulls, there were an extra 41 million bushels of soybeans and an extra 60 million bushels of wheat from the market expectations as well. These are substantial increases from expected levels which have created a lot of controversy over the count. The fact is whatever people may say about the numbers, they are still what the market has to trade off of. May corn was synthetically trading 60 cents lower at the close which means Sunday night we may see corn open 20 cents lower near $6.75. Don't forget, trading limits increase to 60 cents a bushel.
May Corn Synthetics
Acres were in line with expectations for corn at 97.28 million. Soybean acres were less than expected at 77.12 million and wheat acres were slightly higher than expected at 56.44 million. These numbers were a little bit lower than we would have guessed and think there is room for an increase before the July report. Take Illinois for example, their total corn and soybean acreage was down 250,000 acres from 2012, a little low by our estimates.
The next obstacle to overcome is the low volume Easter Sunday night session. Markets will be closed for Good Friday and reopen Sunday night with expanded corn limits. That type of a low liquidity environment may be a recipe for extra large price swings. We will have more to report on Monday morning I am sure. For now we still like our current levels for hedge recommendations, please feel free to sign up to receive our letter full time using the signup link below, including hedge recommendations. Have a great Easter holiday!
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WE KNOW, WE KNOW: We. Know. Summer has juuuust begun and yet we're about to type the name of its nearest neighbor, the one that comes later in the year: autumn. We don't mean to pit the two seasons, as they're both pretty exceptional in their own ways, but once one season has commenced, as summer has, we always keep a little eye on signs of the next. One of our main fall foretellings? The California Beer Festival, that traveling gathering devoted to the craftiest, toniest, and complexiest of the Golden States sudseries. Yep, it starts in summer, but the final dates roll just when the air is starting to dip into autumn-like tones (perfect craft-brew sippin' weather, in our opinion). There will be four dates, and four cities in all for this round of the brewery tour (and by "tour" we don't mean brewery tour but a mega tour of breweries -- okay, just to be clear). The cities will include a couple SoCalers/Central Coasters in September -- hi, San Dimas and Ventura -- but the party starts around the Bay Area, with a late June date with Novato and an early August visit to Santa Cruz.
WHAT TO EXPECT: Well, beer. And a guy in a bear suit, since "California" is in the name. (Nope, bears do not drink beer, but guys in bear suits can and should show up at festivals supporting local brews.) Some 70 beers will be on tap in Novato, and the labels are completely a who's who, or who's brewin', rather: Mendocino Brewing Company, Marin Brewing Co., and 101 North Brewing Company will be three of the labels on the taps. Plus Burts Honey Wheat Beer will be served, too (Burt being the festival's symbolic bear). Tickets go -- they're $40 -- so jump on the Novato date, which is Saturday, June 29. If you miss it look to Santa Cruz, which will welcome the kegs, and the guy in the bear suit, on Saturday, Aug. 10.


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Congrats to NBC Miami. They see a world beyond their local beat.
The station ran a story today about how Brazil is now the No. 1 trading partner with Florida. (Brazilian Businesses Booming in South Florida) (And that doesn't count all the Brazilian tourists that are flooding into Florida creating jobs in Florida.)
Here is another example of how a local news organization uses local information to build on an international story.
FYI: According to the U.S. International Trade Administration, while Brazil is the #1 international trader with Florida, Florida is the #2 exporter of U.S. goods and services to Brazil. (Texas is the #1 exporter.)
It is a pity that so few local news organizations have taken the time to use the occasion of Pres. Obama's trip to South and Central America to look at how the politics and economies of that area directly affects their own local areas.
BTW, Besides being the #2 exporter from the United States to Brazil (value $7.2 billion), Florida is also the #2 U.S. exporter to Chile (value $2.8 billion) and ranks as #1 to El Salvador (value $2.4 billion). And it took me less than five minutes to get that information. Now think about how much those export sales add to the income of the state and how much the state budget would be hurt if those exports were cut or ended.


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Sewing is one of my escapes.
I lock myself in my little room, turn on the machine, and wait for the machine foot to lurch to the side, indicating that it's ready to go.
I start a lot of projects, and anyone who knows me will tell you that I finish about 1/10th of them. I don't know. I guess they're just better when they stay in my mind and the needle hasn't pierced them poorly yet.
So they pile up and stare at me, taunting me with my own inadequacy.
Scraps lie all around the floor-some from an old baby dress I got halfway through and others from a quilt I have determined to finish before Christmas. They blend together in a hazy stack of discarded odds and ends, and I realize it's been far too long since I cleaned the floor.
Ellie walks in and sees my hands grabbing anxiously at the colors and she looks concerned.
You aren't throwing those away, are you? She asks.
Yeah, babe. They're just the leftovers. She winces at my response.
Well, can I just keep them then? She asks. I nod, feeling a familiar sense of guilt run through my body.
It's just been one of those days where my failures are shouting louder than my successes, and I'm convinced I've let them down. I don't pray over them every night the way I should. I get distracted when I should be focused on conversation. I anger easily and form my own opinions before letting them speak their minds. I am quick to hush them and slow to spill grace.
I am the mom who leaves scraps instead of what should have been, and it's eating me alive.
I see her scrambling and tears come to my eyes. I don't even know how to verbalize it to her, because it is so profound a realization that all I can do is watch, my arms clinging to my elbows as I blink away my sadness.
What have I done?
That's from a dress I started for you, Ellie. I manage.
She looks up at me and sees that I'm red-faced and broken hearted, and she comes to me with the fabric in her hand.
Mommy, I don't need to take them… She starts. But I shake my head side-to-side. No, I assure her. They are yours. But you should be wearing it and not scraping from the carpet, I mumble. I explain that I'm just thinking and it satisfies her enough to go back to the gathering.
We do this, you know. We have great plans, grand ideas of mothering and care-taking and preparing a child for life, and at the end of many days we just feel like we've left it in pieces. What's here for them to take is not near enough, we say. And we cry because we wish we had done it better.
We wish our fingers always zipped and buttoned the completed gown instead of staring at the remainders of our dreams for them.
It stays with me, this image. And in the middle of the night, for many nights to come, I will awake with her in my thoughts. She is kneeling, desperate, hungry for more than my gift to her. And I cry more than I remember crying in years.
It will be better, I tell her.
But she doesn't know what I mean by that. She nods so I will wipe my eyes and make her feel like I'm okay, but she doesn't understand my brokenness or my choppy words as I try to make right what she doesn't realize is wrong.
I'm gone this weekend, I tell her. But I will be home.
I will always come home to you, Ellie.
It's just that I have to do my job and it's what the Lord has for me, and I want to be obedient and good and…does she hear me?
She is nodding and smiling and happy and I don't know why because it's all a mess, but I have no choice but to leave it be for now. I pack, I pray, and I drive away from the house and family I love so much, and I leave them the pieces again.
I feel the Lord's peace as I go, though. And it doesn't make sense to me but in a way I know He is saying, "Leave it to Me, love." And so I do.
Two days pass and I come home to a clean house and a candle burning and I realize all the gaps that have been filled in my absence. The kids are joyful, eager to see me but not destroyed by the distance.
I give hugs and little airport gifts and we laugh and tickle and hope together for a few minutes and then I go to take a hot shower and wash the fear away again.
I stop cold in front of my sewing room.
The door is cracked and the light is on, so I push it open and I see a child-sized chair piled high with scraps.
They've been organized by color and size, and I realize there is more than I knew there was.
It's enough to make something, I think.
And the tears come again, because I realize that in all the things I thought were failures, my love gave them something to take with them even if I never got it exactly right.
She tells me her plans for them, and I know it will be a more spectacular piece than anything I could have hemmed and ironed.
I'm giving her the pieces she needs-exactly the pieces she needs-to make her life an offering to the Lord.
She didn't need the dress.
She needed the mother who gave her enough to sew something beautiful of her own.
What I thought was trash-what I thought was the remnant of my own mistakes-has become the fiber of her creation, and I stand in awe already of the way she has begun to join them together.
And so my prayer has changed.
I don't spend more time worrying about what I don't give them than I do praising Him for what He allows me to give them.
I am not their God, I am their mother.
And they don't need homemade clothes as much as they need to know how to sew life.
We give them more than we realize we do, and every time we step in obedience, we hand them more and more to string together in His name. They know I'm afraid of flying, afraid of speaking in public, and afraid of failing those around me. But they see the doorknob turn and they know that I'm stitching as well.
It's more than we realize, this obedience.
It's more than we realize, these slivers of linen and grace.
And God-willing, they will grow to love the needle as I do, and they will smile one day as their own children gather what's left at their feet.
It is exquisite, this pieced-together faith.
And thanks be to the God of grace, I am finding it is more than enough.


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Florida hacker, Joseph Bernard Campbell, 24, broke into the email accounts of 19 women, stole nude and semi-nude photos of them, and posted them as their Facebook profile photo.
According to reports, Campbell knew many of the women he targeted and simply wanted to "harass the victims and cause them emotional distress."
Campbell got what he wanted. The women "were devastated," according to Lt. Bill Sohl of the Belleair Police Department. "All of a sudden they were getting phone calls from their friends, saying, 'Do you know what's on your Facebook page?'"
In addition to posting the photos to the women's Facebook profiles, Campbell also posted them on a Web site called "Pinellas County Sluts," a site called "Dumpster Sluts," and a forum called "Revenge." These sites have now been taken down.
So in addition to posting partially or fully nude photos of women he knew, he also made sure to slut shame them for having such photos on their personal computers. Quite the charmer.
Campbell will plead guilty to federal charges of cyberstalking and unauthorized access to a computer. These charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine, although sources are saying it is likely that Campbell "would receive a lesser sentence."
Hacker steals women's nude photos, turns them into Facebook profile pictures [WashingtonPost]


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There is a new way to list your relationship status on Facebook. The act, which is performed by the click of a mouse, is known as becoming "Facebook official."
Thursday the Palo Alto-based company added domestic partnerships and civil unions in its drop-down menu. Those options are in addition to single, engaged, married, widowed, etc.
Members of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) couldn't be happier. They said they pushed Facebook to make the change.
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"Today, Facebook sent a clear message in support of gay and lesbian couples to users across the globe," said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios. "By acknowledging the relationships of countless loving and committed same-sex couples in the U.S. and abroad, Facebook has set a new standard of inclusion for social media."
It's worth noting that Facebook wasn't stopping anyone from listing "married" as a status no matter the sex of their partner.
Also of note: the new choices are only available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia.


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A quick deviation from our scheduled posting to wish Calvin a happy birthday.
Not something I would normally do, however he has shared a joyful moment with me, thinking (correctly) that it is something that would appeal to me.
This is arguably the 2nd sexiest Gnome you have ever seen… I am still the most sexy Gnome you will ever see, but this is a close 2nd.
Makes you want to me in my gang doesn't it?
Happy Birthday Calvin.
May all the Gnomes in your life bring you as much pleasure as this one!
Gnomer and Out!
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Microsoft has been a long-time partner of City Year, enhancing its IT infrastructure through in-kind technology support since 2000, sponsoring teams in multiple cities, and providing critical capacity building funds to help City Year develop its math curriculum and computer science after-school offerings.
After Microsoft invested in City Year's math program in 2012, City Year was able to expand its math tutoring and programmatic support to reach nearly 8,500 students. City Year's math program designers were able to prepare online content, field-test activities, package site-specific best practices for national distribution, and develop a framework for the resource library.
Through Microsoft YouthSpark, a global initiative to increase access for all youth to learn computer science, Microsoft sponsors City Year teams in New York City, Chicago, Seattle, San Jose, and Washington D.C., and is focused on advancing STEM and computer science concepts with the students we serve.


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There are nine statewide initiatives on the November ballot in California. You may like some. But you might think twice before voting yes on any of them.
Here's why: California's constitution and its dysfunctional budget system have become so complicated that even good additions may turn out bad. Or, in other words, building new initiatives on the toxic sand of California government may not be such a good idea.
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CAIRO — Retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's long-awaited decision to run for president sparked an unusual response Thursday in a country that for the last three years has been consumed by politics, elections and protests: calm.
CAIRO — Retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's long-awaited decision to run for president sparked an unusual response Thursday in a country that for the last three years has been consumed by politics, elections and protests: calm.
In a nation where major political announcements become the subject of ubiquitous talk around the country, Thursday felt unusually ordinary. Co-workers did not spend the day discussing el-Sissi's decision. There was little chatter about it among subway passengers. Shop owners said they did not spend the day refereeing debates between customers about the future president. And a street that in recent years has been defined by protests and demonstrations of support was largely silent.
Many Egyptians suggested that the near certainty of el-Sissi's election — he would be the country's fourth president in three years — was in part to blame for decidedly mixed feelings about his candidacy. On one hand, many called el-Sissi, who's been the nation's de facto leader for the past eight months, Egypt's last hope for stability and security. On the other, they said they were fearful of what giving the presidency to an already powerful man could portend.
Some conceded that an el-Sissi presidency was more likely to return Egypt to the autocratic practices of the past than it was to usher in the kind of democratic reforms Egyptians once called for in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square. Many said they were willing to pay that price for stability after three years of unprecedented turmoil, a polarized public and an economy in free fall. But the reaction nationwide suggested such a swap also muted enthusiasm for el-Sissi's presidency.
Hours after el-Sissi gave an impassioned nationwide address, the Cabinet reshuffle began as the government stacked key positions with el-Sissi allies and longtime pols and military officers who rose to prominence during the three-decade rule of former President Hosni Mubarak. El-Sissi's deputy, Gen. Sedki Sobhi, took el-Sissi's place as defense minister. The new chief of staff, Mahmoud Hegazy, has a family connection to el-Sissi; Hegazy's daughter is married to one of el-Sissi's sons.
El-Sissi will be the first presidential candidate in the post-2011 uprising period to confront a muted opposition. With the leaders of the anti-Mubarak movement in prison and the Muslim Brotherhood broken by a nationwide crackdown that has killed hundreds, the sectors that once led Egypt's protest movements have been neutralized.
And that is precisely what has many here quietly nervous about el-Sissi's presidency.
"Everyone wants el-Sissi, but they are afraid that if he turned out badly, they won't be able to remove him," explained Amr Ashraf, 24, a shoe salesman in the impoverished Cairo neighborhood of Dar Salaam.
His co-worker, who identified himself only as Haitham, 28 chimed in: "I fear he will turn into another Mubarak." Haitham predicted, however, that his reception is likely to be more accepting than that of Mohammed Morsi, the democratically elected leader whose ouster el-Sissi engineered. "People will be more patient with el-Sissi than Morsi. They trust him more."
Public participation in national elections no longer feels as necessary as it once did. The 2012 elections, which Morsi won, were largely seen as both fair and suspenseful. No one knew who would end up winning, and Morsi won by a 52-48 percent margin, a remarkably close result after three decades of landslide Mubarak victories.
This year, however, everyone feels they know the ending — el-Sissi wins. That outcome won't change, whether the balloting is fair or there are other candidates.


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Last year, HTC launched its first 3D smartphone, the HTC EVO 3D. This handset allows you to record 2D videos in full HD (1080p) and 3D videos in HD (720p), thanks to its 5 megapixel dual cameras. HTC EVO 3D was shipped with the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System. Back in March, HTC has promised to roll out the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update for 16 smartphones, including the HTC EVO 3D.
HTC has already rolled out the Android 4.0 update in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. However, the EVO 3D owners in India were still waiting to get their hands on the Android 4.0 OS. Now, we have good news for the folks in India. HTC India recently tweeted that the company has started rolling out the much-awaited Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update for this unique smartphone in India.
The latest update brings the Sense 3.6 UI, system bar enhancements, lock screen actions including pull down notifications and adjust volume while device is locked, re-sizeable widgets, data usage controls, advanced voice and text input, improved menu structure, face unlock, home screen folders, improved battery life, improved text input and spell checking and much more.
The size of the update is 300 MB and it bumps the HTC EVO 3D to 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS. This update will be available via OTA (Over-The-Air). You will be automatically notified when the update is available for your device. If you have not received the update, then just go to Home > Applications > Settings > About Device > System updates and check for the update. If you have already received this update, then let us know in the comments section below.


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Who Will Fill the Gap Left by Don Fisher?
Don Fisher, co-founder of the The Gap chain, passed away on Sunday. Not only was Fisher a partner in the construction of a vast retail empire that would make any entrepreneur proud, he was also a partner in funding the expansion of the KIPP chain of charter schools -- something that would make any philanthropist proud.
Thanks to the $60 million that he and his wife Doris committed to KIPP's growth, it now serves 20,000 students in 82 schools across America. In k-12 education, public or private, that level of growth is unusual.
But how can it be sustained? How can those who share Mr. Fisher's commitment to bringing excellent educational options within reach of all children ensure that his efforts are not simply maintained but expanded? And how can we ensure that not just KIPP but any similarly excellent school can scale up to serve a mass audience? These are questions that the education policy community desperately needs to answer.


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I have a waterfall in my pond, is that enough aeration?
Robert – Racine, WI
Waterfalls are one of nature's greatest creations. In addition to providing breathtaking beauty and places for daredevils to kayak and – for some inexplicable reason – ride over in padded barrels, they serve as massive aeration systems, introducing fresh oxygen into the ecosystem that fish and plants need to thrive. In backyard ponds, waterfalls serve many of the same functions – but their scale is often inadequate to provide sufficient aeration. They also fall a bit short as places for kayakers and barrel riders to strut their stuff.
So, while your backyard waterfall definitely helps to keep water oxygenated, additional aeration is always helpful – especially when algae begins to grow, and fish are faced with warming water and reduced oxygen levels. To provide the aeration any backyard pond needs, we strongly recommend our KoiAir™ and PondAir™ Aeration Systems. With a wide variety of options available for ponds of every size and depth, these systems help to increase circulation and reduce stratification to provide the healthiest possible environment for fish and decorative plants.
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In Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, the story begins as the menacing ghosts escape from the creepy Netherworld to invade PacWorld. These frightening ghosts, ghouls, and goblins wreak havoc on the population and cause nothing but trouble wherever they go. Pac and his 2 best friends, Spiral and Cylindria, rise to the challenge of protecting their home, in a big, bustling, bonkers world of action, adventure, and just plain wackiness. All the while fighting for: Friendship, Freedom and the Future.
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Many 3D platformers have been produced for the handheld consoles but there has been a definite lack of these, especially for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, or at least good ones. In the past, the PlayStation systems have had banner franchises like Jak and Daxter or Ratchet and Clank, but those franchises have fallen by the wayside, meaning that anyone who does not own a Nintendo system is often hard pressed to find a 3D platformer to play.
Microsoft in particular has tried to fill this gap in their lineup multiple times, failing more spectacularly every single time. Back in the PS2/Xbox era there was one platformer that came out both places and was actually pretty decent, Pac-Man World. These games were okay, but never really stood out that much.
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures carries this torch under a different name. Everything about Ghostly Adventures has the makings of a perfectly serviceable 3D platformer, but when you start trying to piece all of the parts together they never quite click together in the way that you would expect them to.
For starters, the developers of Ghostly Adventures decided that they needed to create a story to try and explain why Pac-Man is in a 3D platformer. As might be expected, the story it absolutely terrible, it takes place on a planet named Pac-World and the main villain is named Betrayus. Pac-Man is voiced to sound like a 10 year old child and everyone else surrounding him sounds like they are at about the same age. The voice acting is awful, the story is awful, the character design is awful, everything about the game's aesthetics is just about as bad as it can get.
Even the environments that the levels take place in are about as generic as you could possibly get. Every different type of level feels like it was pulled directly from a 3D platformer checklist. There is a city world, an ice world and a jungle world among others, each with almost the exact same platforming gameplay design in a different set of window dressing.
Sure, aesthetics might make up the vast majority of what makes a 3D platformer stand out from the other ones on the market, but sometimes gameplay can help one of these titles distinguish itself as well. Sadly, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures is not one of those titles. The game is extremely generic in the way it plays, but it does not bear much resemblance to modern 3D platformers.
Instead, Ghostly Adventures seems to deliberately choose to imitate 3D platformers of yore - perhaps the ones that originated the genre. The camera is clunky and unwieldy in a way that I have not seen since the original Spyro games, and the platforming itself does not fare much better.
Sure, Pac-Man Ghostly Adventures is a completely passable game in just about every single way, but that does not excuse it from criticism. Pac-Man was once a franchise that was always making excellent titles, and it seemed like games such as Pac-Man CE DX were going to be a return to those times.
Ghostly Adventures shows that Namco still expects to be able to wring money from a franchise that is losing more and more cache over the years by simply making a bad version of a modern Sonic platformer and slapping Pac-Man in it. This game does nothing to improve the 3D platformer on non-Nintendo platforms, and I honestly can't see a future in which any Pac-Man game does that. If you have kids that are really into Pac-Man, this isn't terrible, but everyone else should stay away.
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IMF Survey Vol.32, No.17 October 2003
- IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings: Ministers vow to stoke global recovery
- Japan's financial system assessment: Removing bad loans will be a crucial first step in restoring health to banking sector
- Selected IMF rates
- Opening speeches: Köhler, Wolfensohn call attention to imbalances in world economy and between rich and poor
- Closing press conference: IMF, Bank laud renewed spirit of multilateral cooperation
- IMFC communiqué: Ministers say speedy resumption of Doha Round vital for growth
- IMFC press conference: Brown urges world not to submit to protectionists or defeatists
- Development Committee communiqué: Ministers argue for more and better-aligned assistance, progress on trade negotiations
- Group of Seven communiqué: Top priority of major industrial countries is to raise productivity and employment
- Group of 10 communiqué: Ministers call for fiscal rectitude
- Group of 24 communiqué: Rich countries should live up to commitments
- MENA Seminar: Spotlight on the Middle East
- IMF Economic Forum: How can the Middle East return to a high growth path?
- Available on the web
- African finance ministers' press conference: Leaders deeply disappointed over failed trade negotiations, call for level playing field in trade
- IMF approves three-year loan for Argentina
- Recent publications
- World Economic Outlook: Return to normal growth predicted
IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings: Ministers vow to stoke global recovery
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
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- October 2003
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Because being one of the most popular people on Facebook and Twitter was not already enough, Lady Gaga has launched her own social network.
The singer's online home to share "passion and creativity in a community full of art, acceptance, monsters and Gaga" finally went live Tuesday after months in beta.
Littlemonsters.com is open to anyone with an email address, a Facebook account or a Twitter log in.
While the site is meant to connect Lady Gaga fans together, knowing the chorus to "Poker Face" -- or even knowing that is a Lady Gaga song -- is not a requirement to join the social network.
Little Monsters is set up similar to a Facebook fan page with some features resembling online bulletin board site Pinterest.
The site is also a project for Lagy Gaga's own Bay Area-based startup Backplane, which raised about $5 million in a series A round last winter.
The startup is focused on building micro social networks for celebrities.
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Mediterranean Chicken Recipe with Balsamic Vinegar Roasted Peppers
This an easy and attractive dish to make for company. No one has to know how simple it was to pull together. Serve with hot cooked rice, quinoa or penne pasta. The secret to great flavor is to buy bone-in chicken breasts- organic and free-range.
1 large sweet onion, sliced thin
3-4 large, ripe bell peppers, cored and sliced
1/2 cup organic balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup gluten-free chicken broth
4 fresh cloves of garlic, chopped
1 tablespoon dried basil
1-2 teaspoons Italian Herb Seasoning
4 fresh organic free-range breasts of chicken, bone in
Sea salt and ground pepper, to taste
Preheat oven to 375ºF.
Toss the onion and pepper slices in a large bowl. In a large measuring cup, fork-stir your sauce using: balsamic vinegar, olive oil, broth, chopped garlic, and herbs. Pour the sauce over the sliced peppers and onions and toss well to coat.
Place the chicken breasts in the bottom of a baking pan sprayed with olive oil. Season with sea salt and pepper, to taste. Pour the balsamic onion and pepper mixture over the chicken and arrange them evenly. Use every last drop of sauce.
Loosely cover the pan with a piece of foil and place in the center of a pre-heated oven. Bake for 30-40 minutes or so, depending upon the size of the chicken breasts. You want the chicken to be cooked through (no longer pink inside) and the peppers to be limp and soft. I checked the chicken after 30 minutes and spooned the sauce all over the onion, peppers and chicken breasts (to keep it moist) and continued to bake it until everything was melt-in-your-mouth tender.
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By Dean Kleckner: Des Moines, Iowa
President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney disagree over budgets, health care, and what to do about unrest in the Middle East. When they meet for their first presidential debate on October 3 in Denver, they'll have a brand-new opportunity to highlight their many differences.
Wouldn't it be nice if they spent at least a few moments finding common ground? Voters are tired of gridlock in Washington and it would hearten them to see these ideological rivals describe areas of agreement.
I would suggest they start with international trade, which both men claim they want to expand. Specifically, the candidates should say that no matter who takes the oath of office in January, the next president must have Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
The United States simply can't forge new free-trade agreements without it.
The idea behind TPA is simple: It lets the president's team negotiate with other countries, find progressive consensus and make a deal, and then submit the proposed pacts to Congress for up-or-down votes.
TPA is a practical tool that allows our trade diplomats to pry open new markets for American-made goods and services, helping everyone from farmers and manufacturers to insurance agents and Hollywood moviemakers. The up-or-down vote is essential because it respects the authority of Congress to weigh in on pending agreements but also prevents individual legislators from trying to reopen trade talks after they've been completed. (They'll say to "make improvements".)
In other words, it gives the president and his administration the genuine authority to negotiate.
Think of it this way: When you want to purchase a car, you visit an auto dealership and search for a sales representative. (Actually, the sales reps always seem to find you. That's just how those guys are.)
Would you bother to negotiate with a sales rep that lacks the authority to sell vehicles? Or one who wants to continue bargaining even after you've come to terms and shaken hands? Of course not. It would waste your time.
That's how other countries view TPA. If our president doesn't have it, they won't walk through the equivalent of America's dealership door.
Last year, President Obama finally sent and Congress approved trade accords with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. We're just starting to see the economic benefits. Yet these agreements were negotiated when George W. Bush was president, back when TPA was still in force. It expired in 2007, which means that President Obama hasn't had this important tool for his entire term in office. Right now, he is the only president not to have enjoyed TPA for at least a portion of his presidency since Lyndon Baines Johnson--and LBJ didn't have it because TPA had not yet been invented.
So it's no coincidence that the current administration has yet to negotiate a single tariff-reducing trade pact.
President Obama means well--and he likes to talk up the tremendous potential of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an accord that would improve trade ties between the United States and several economic partners along the Pacific Rim. Without TPA, however, it won't ever leave the drawing board. Here's a motto to consider: No TPA, no TPP.
This alphabet-soup sloganeering may point to part of the problem. TPA just isn't a great name for this device, though it's arguably an improvement over "fast track negotiating authority," which was what everyone called it through the 1990s. Perhaps it needs rebranding once again. How about Free Trade Fair Vote?
Whatever the semantics, the next president should have TPA. Romney has called for it plainly. Obama hasn't spoken as openly, though his administration has signaled that if the president is re-elected, he would like to have TPA in 2013.
So imagine the power of the moment, at the October 3 debate, if both candidates were to agree on the urgent need for TPA. Each man could promise that if defeated in November, he will try to sway the members of his party to support TPA for the victor.
The candidates will still disagree over many other details about how to create jobs and revive the economy--but in this gesture of magnanimity, they will have done the United States a great bipartisan service.
Dean Kleckner volunteers as Chairman Emeritus for Truth About Trade & Technology. www.truthabouttrade.org


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A mouse that is also a telephone may sound like something from a sci-fi movie, but this device is a novel idea. It works in conjunction with Skype, so you'll need to download the software and set up an account.
On the telephone side, it comes with its own sound chip built-in, so you can set the volume independent of your laptop. We've been using it for a while and while it's great for making calls, initially it does feel rather odd speaking into a tethered mouse.
The mouse has an 800dpi optical sensor and is incredibly accurate for its size, making it an impressive addition to your mobile kit in its own right. Our only reservation about the device is that it's slightly too small in the hand.


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Oriental Residence Bangkok, Bangkok
- Free WiFi and free parking
- Collect nights
Oriental Residence Bangkok, Bangkokfrom $146
- Suite, 1 Bedroom, City View
- Suite, 1 Bedroom, Corner
- Suite, 2 Bedrooms (King & Twin)
- Suite, 2 Bedrooms (King & Queen)
- Suite, 1 Bedroom, Park View
- Executive suite with privileges
- Junior Suite, 1 King Bed
- Junior Suite, 2 Twin Beds
More great choices
What's around Oriental Residence Bangkok, Bangkok
- In Sukhumvit
- Lumphini Park - 6 min walk
- Erawan Shrine - 16 min walk
- CentralWorld Shopping Complex - 18 min walk
- Siam Paragon Mall - 24 min walk
- Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World - 24 min walk
- Pratunam Market - 24 min walk
- Platinum Fashion Mall - 25 min walk
Getting around
- Bangkok (BKK-Suvarnabhumi Intl.) - 37 min drive
- Bangkok (DMK-Don Mueang Intl.) - 31 min drive
- Bangkok Makkasan Station - 27 min walk
- Asok Railway Station - 10 min drive
- Bangkok Khlong Tan Station - 13 min drive
- Ploenchit BTS Station - 9 min walk
- Chit Lom BTS Station - 13 min walk
- Lumphini Station - 16 min walk
- Free area shuttle
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 145 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 21 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Up to 2 children stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Airport shuttle *
- Free valet parking
- Free area shuttle
Payment types at the property
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Continental breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 2 bars/lounges
- Restaurant
- Coffee shop/café
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Barbecue grills
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Business center
- Meeting rooms
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built - 2011
- Elevator
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Terrace
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- Chinese
- English
- Thai
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Pillow menu
- Turndown service
- Separate sitting area
- Private bathroom
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Rainfall showerhead
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 42-inch LED TV
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Microwave
- Kitchenette
- Stovetop
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
Also popular with travelers from the USA
Special features
DiningCafe Claire - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Savelberg Thailand - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 1-star Michelin rating. Open daily.
The Play Deck - This poolside cocktail bar serves light fare only. Open daily.
Oriental Bar - This bar serves light fare only. Happy hour is offered. Open daily.
Oriental Residence Bangkok, Bangkok's small print
Also known as
- Bangkok Oriental Residence
- Oriental Residence Bangkok Hotel
- Oriental Residence Bangkok Bangkok
- Oriental Residence Bangkok Hotel Bangkok
- Oriental Bangkok Residence
- Oriental Residence
- Oriental Residence Bangkok
- Oriental Residence Hotel
- Oriental Residence Hotel Bangkok
- Residence Oriental Bangkok
- Oriental Residence Bangkok Hotel
- Oriental Bangkok Bangkok
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Optional extras
Breakfast costs between THB 765 and THB 765 for adults, and THB 383 and THB 383 for children (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
Recent reviews
Superb 9.2 From 666 reviews
Very friendly and helpful staff.
This place is awesome ! without a doubt a 5 star hotel. It is located right next to the US embassy and just a short walk to the elevated train and the shopping malls. Use Grub, which is the Uber version in Asia to get around (it's very cheap). The building itself is gorgeous with a very nice pool and restaurants. The rooms were basically studios with a kitchen, huuugeee bathroom, comfy bed and a killer view. The staff working at the restaurants were awesome ! I will be back for sure.
This time we had a little bad service during check-in; however, the front desk manager, Ms. Nadeen Aldez had mediated the situatation. I still wish to see that the hotel has some kind if renovation to update its looks in the near future. The dining room staff i.e Khing, Joy, and Beach; the concierge, Korn and Kay; the valet, bell people, chauffer, and security staff are always super nice, polite, and sweet. This is still the best place to stay in Bangkok.
Great staff and very nice rooms. Only potential criticism is its location to local options. There weren't many sightseeing activities closeby, but Lumpini Park was within walking distance (0.5 miles). Fortunately, we had a lot of local street flair since there was a regular pop up market with plenty of food options with meals typically costing 40-50 TBH ($1.33-$1.66). All the food we tried were good, but they were only open for lunch on the weekday as they seem to cater to the local business folk. The hotel is a couple blocks away from the U.S. Embassy as well as many other embassies as they all seem to be located within a few blocks of each other. There were also many working professionals in dress attire as there were many companies on the same block. Overall, we'd go back as we had a very pleasant stay.
The hotel needs a renovation!!! New wallpaper, bathroom fixtures, cabinets. Breakfast needs improvements. Hot food is not in good quality i.e pork congee had only specs of pork or too many tofu dishes. The cost of breakfast collected is not cheap, I think they should provide better quality and tastier food.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
7H4 - Remembrance of the Daleks 4
Part Four of this story features one of the most memorable cameos ever in the form of the Special Weapons Dalek. Appearing in only a couple short scenes, this new entry into Dalek lore is part Dalek, part anti-tank cannon, and all powerful. It's also an easy out for the Imperial Daleks (and the writers) as it wipes out an entire squadron of Renegade Daleks with one cannon blast, and then obliterates a door leading to a large Dalek-on-Dalek battle that has been teased throughout all four episodes. The SWD is almost too powerful, and while it is way cool to watch here, it's so dominant that drama and story would surely be casualties in the carnage of any potential future appearances. (Though a dormant Special Weapons Dalek appears as one of the derelict pepperpots in Asylum of the Daleks. It is somewhat gratifying that such mass destruction weighs on the mind of even the most murderous of Daleks.)
Remembrance of the Daleks is surely one of the best Dalek stories ever made, and is certainly the best Dalek story made in the 1980s. It's also rightly seen as a defining moment in the Sylvester McCoy era, and is often called a shining beacon of late-80s Doctor Who. However, I've always had a problem with the fact that The Doctor not only knows too much in this story, he knows everything. Nothing surprises The Doctor in this story. The greatest surprise he encounters is when he discovers Harry is off shift when he visits the cafe in Part Two, but then he remembers that his wife is in labor with twins. Even when the Dalek shuttle landing catches him off guard, he only relents that he "might have miscalculated". Even Davros's "surprise" appearance towards the end of Part Four fails to impress him. The Dalek creator's appearance was, like most of the other events in this story, expected.
Every event that happens in this story occurs because The Doctor has engineered it. As we learn more and more about The Doctor's plan, it becomes less of a question of whether The Doctor can defeat the Daleks (both factions), and more of how stupid the Daleks will look when they play right into The Doctor's hands. After elevating (literally) the Daleks once again to their lofty heights not seen since the 1960s, the actions of the Seventh Doctor bring them, and their creator, Davros, right back down again. Davros was a brilliant, scheming scientist in his debut appearance in Genesis of the Daleks, then descended into a ranting megalomaniac in his subsequent stories before reverting back to a nefarious manipulator in Revelation of the Daleks. In Remembrance, though, Davros appears at the end only to rant again, and The Doctor quite easily tricks Davros into destroying Skaro by using Davros's stereotypical temper against him. And while one Dalek had a squadron of soldiers effectively pinned down in a junkyard in Part One, The Doctor merely walks up to the Supreme Dalek at the end of Part Four and talks it into committing suicide. In making the Daleks so demonstrably inferior to The Doctor, the Daleks are now more more easily thwarted than any staircase has ever managed to do.
The era of the Dark Doctor has begun, and with no great subtlety, either. However, this approach does give the series a focus that it hasn't had in several years, and the team of the Seventh Doctor and Ace starts strong as Ace is given lots to do, and even has a romance (with a traitorous, xenophobic, racist who dies horribly in the end) in her first proper story. Remembrance of the Daleks is also a story that most fans wouldn't feel embarrassed for, and, after the occasional pantomime antics of the past season, that is perhaps the best thing to say about it.
Posted by Steven at 1:50 PM
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