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Brand New From Kelela! "LMK"
To say Kelela is on fire would be an understatement to say the least. "LMK" is one of countless incredibly exciting new songs from one of our absolute favorite artists doing it.
Check out this video, get the album!
From the debut album 'Take Me Apart', out now. Buy/Stream 'Take Me Apart': http://kelela.link/TakeMeApart Follow Kelela Mailing List: http://found.ee/kelela-signup Spotify: http://found.ee/Kelela_Spotify Instagram: http://found.ee/Kelela_IG Twitter: http://found.ee/Kelela_TW Facebook: http://found.ee/Kelela_FB Behind The Scenes: https://kelela.fanlink.to/lmk-bts


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Simple situation. I reference a dll in the web.config of a site. I clicked "Add reference" and browsed to the directory where the dll was and added it with no problems. When it came to checking into source control and building, I got "Could not find type ..." which was muchos confusing.
It turns out that because the library I was referencing was the same version as one that I had installed in the GAC, it told the project to look in the GAC for the library rather than the location I had referenced. All very clever and very confusing.
In my case I could remove the library from the GAC and reference it again. This time I got a refresh file (which tells the project where to start looking for the library) which I checked in for safe keeping and all was good in the world. Nice!

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Radio Verulam's drivetime show blog. Danny Smith presents the show weekdays from 4pm - 7pm on 92.6FM or online at www.radioverulam.com
Monday, 11 October 2010
Monthly Feature with Elizabeth Crampton of St Albans Citizens Advice Bureau
Elizabeth from the Citizens Advice Bureau in
St Albans (CAB) started this months advice feature by talking about redunduncies.
With cuts in government budgets looming,
we could potentially see lots of redunduncies
in the public sector. Redunduncies are a form
of dismissal and something that employees
can't do much about.
However, you need to take advice if you are made reduntant and your former employer then fills your position with someone else. This isn't redunduncy but a form of getting rid of you when you may have done nothing wrong.
Employers are also required to provide a statuary minimum of redunduncy pay which varies according to years and service and through completing at least 2 years service with your employer.
Next, Elizabeth advised on what can be done if you're struggling with mortgage repayments, particulary having been made redundant. If you have missed mortgage payments, you may be able to claim benfits to cover your mortgage interest payments. Make sure aswell you claim all other benfits you are entitled to which can help take away some of the financial pressures which can be felt through redunduncy. The CAB can advise on what you might be entitled to.
And check the terms of your mortgage. You may find that you have 'Mortage Protection Insurance' which can pay your mortgage in circumstances where you loose your job through redunduncy or illness.
The next topic was about new scams. These include being contacted by phone or email by people claiming to be from HMRC and wanting to process tax refunds. People have then been asked to supply bank details. The advice was never to give out any personal or bank related details to anyone claiming to be from HMRC. If HMRC do offer you a tax refund it will always be processed by letter through the post.
Other current scams include:
- if you're selling your car, you could be contacted by someone claiming to have found a buyer for you and wanting you to send them a 'matching up' fee. Chances you'll never hear from that person or see your money ever again.
- some overseas companies are offering bargain priced shares with great returns. Often these shares are only worth a fraction of what's paid for them and returns are not guarenteed, often very low or non existent.
- and a scam mainly targetted at students and young people concerns deposits given to private landlords to secure accomodation. It's been reported that some people posing as landlords have taken money as deposits and are then refusing tenancies due to 'poor references' with deposit money not being returned.
For more information on St Albans CAB, check out the website at www.stalbans-cab.org or call them on 01727 855269.
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Illustrating the reality of refugee families
How four artists are raising awareness and money for refugee families and their children
You wouldn't want your own children out in the cold without a roof over their heads, but that's the reality that thousands of refugee parents are facing this Christmas.
Telling the heartfelt stories of vulnerable refugee children who have been forced to flee their homes and undertake dangerous journeys, an exhibition launches tomorrow in support of Save the Children's Child Refugee Crisis appeal.
Illustrations will be displayed in The North Atrium of Westfield Stratford in London, beside the ice rink, to raise money and awareness for the appeal between Tuesday 22 December and Sunday 3 January.
Artists George Butler, David Foldvari, Toby Morison and Linda Kitson all travelled to Europe to witness the conditions young children and their families are living in, and the work Save the Children is doing to support them.
To support the appeal visit www.savethechildren.org.uk
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Welcome to Galleri Duerr – Thursday, Aug 22, and join us as we present the artist Altansukh Demberel with his latest exhibition "Tiny Pieces" – a life story.
Galleri Duerr has the pleasure of presenting the latest work of the multimedia artist Altansukh Demberel. Exhibition "Tiny Pieces" – photography, painting and video.
Galleri Duerr har glädjan att presentera konstnären Altansukh Demberel med sin senaste utställningen "Tiny Pieces" – Fotografi, måleri och video.
Torsdag, 22 augusti
kl 17.00 – 20.00
Utställningen pågår 22 augusti – 29 september.
Mer information på https://www.facebook.com/events/146617698879673/
My childhood memories are my inspiration. I was just ten years old living in Mongolia doing all kind of jobs just to survive and to help my mother (transporting, digging in garbage, selling things, cleaning shoes, begging and more…). Unfortunately I did not have the chance to study in school but I was very active creatively. As an artist struggling to survive I painted traditional miniatures for the tourists and wrote tragic poetry about the Mongolian society.
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On Mar 14, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> Andrus,
> While I'm certainly in favor of going back to an ant-based build
> system, another solution to this problem might be hardcoding specific
> plugin versions in maven as stated by Dain.
Yeah ... it is just that something happens once a week at least.
Really tired of broken builds, Eclipse Maven plugin breaking command-
line Maven and vice versa, developer complaints and an unknown number
of people who are discouraged to contribute to Cayenne because they
can't build it. Some time back I posted a list of reasons why we
would want to stay on Maven, but my patience with this technology is
running thin. The voice of reason tells me that we have to stick with
the crap build system we've got (and maybe I'll listen this time),
but sometimes I just can't hold it :-/
Whatever we do, it has to be done on a branch first of course, and
there will be a maven component to it (at least for cayenne cgen+
maven plugin). So this promises to be fun already.
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We will share some of the wedding dresses, because the image of Pakistani, Nida Yasir great that we have a lot of fun even if you are crazy.One of the most important Nida Yasir and television industry has been known as a part of this. Actress is not only performance, but also hosting the same in the manufacturing sector and spread its magic. Nida Yasir ARY Digital TV morning shows that more than Pakistan flee. Now we are talking about the appearance of the Pakistan Nida Yasir marriage in the film.
Wedding dresses actress Pakistan Nida Yasir in this announcement, we share some of the images is a challenge. Pakistani wedding dress that she was wearing a splendid looking through all the images of herself wearing a traditional symbol. Beautiful face and his eye is just beginning. He joined lehengas wedding, as well as a large part of the Jewelry marriage to long peakav., She is stunningly beautiful and lovely.After seeing pictures of the actress Nida Yasir your favorite wedding dress that you love even more strongly in Pakistan.


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Y and R are my cousins, we grew up together like sisters - like our mothers did.
So I made this necklace for Y, she is currently battling cancer, and she will soon be a cancer survivor :)) She saw my art jewellery and asked for a piece that has a drawing of the 3 of us, and so I eventually made it.
R is the beautiful soul - she may be petite but she is the force behind our strengths. She was the one holding my hands in prayer over my mother's grave, and she was the caregiver in the Emergency room waiting for news on Y.
So I sketched out a portrait of the 3 of us based on a photo, and then shrunk it to size to fit the locket. I coloured it in and poured sealant over it. Hung it on pure Rhodium chains with semi-precious gemstones strung through, I also included a couple of metal leaves on it. I also made the rose out of clay and attached it to the necklace. I think it's a sweet romantic piece, and I hope when Y wears it she remembers us, her sisters and how much we love her :)


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Lesbian Rights Activist Del Martin Dead
Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said Martin died at a San Francisco hospital Wednesday morning, two weeks after a broken arm exacerbated her existing health problems.
Her wife, Phyllis Lyon, was by her side, Kendell said.
"I am so lucky to have known her, loved her and been her partner in all things. I am devastated, but I take some solace in knowing we were able to enjoy the ultimate rite of love and commitment before she passed," Lyon said.
Along with six other women, they founded a San Francisco social club for lesbians in 1955 called the Daughters of Bilitis. Under their leadership, the group evolved into the nation's first lesbian advocacy organization.
The couple were married at San Francisco City Hall on June 16. Mayor Gavin Newsom, who officiated the wedding, singled them out to be the first gay couple to legally exchange vows in the city, in recognition of their activism.
The two were among the two dozen couples who served as plaintiffs in the lawsuits that led the state Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage in May.
The Daughters of Bilitis was named after book of lesbian erotic poetry first published in Paris in 1894.
Martin and Lyon also became active in the National Organization for Women in 1967, and Martin became the first openly gay woman elected to the group's board in 1971, reports CBS affiliate KPIX-TV in San Francisco.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Donna Hitchens, a founder of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said, "Del lived her life with great compassion, wit, tenacity, generosity and valor. She inspired thousands of us to be more courageous and energetic than we thought possible."
Martin was born in San Francisco in 1921 as Dorothy L. Taliaferro and attended George Washington High School, the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State College. She married James Martin at age 19 and had a daughter, Kendra, two years later.
The marriage ended in divorce after four years and she met Lyon in Seattle in 1950 when both were working for the same magazine. The two began sharing a household together in San Francisco on Valentine's Day in 1953.
In 1995, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, named Martin and Lyon as delegates for the White House Conference on Aging.


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Say that I were to build a product, and I do a nice job to make it internationalizable. The product is a success, and it is localized into various languages. Next, a customer in a far-away place sends an email complaining about the server failing to start up. For my convenience, he attached the log file to it. Since I did a good job writing decent error and logging messages, I expect it to be no problem to diagnose what's going wrong. But oops, since I did such a nice job internationalizing the product, the log is in some far-away language, say Japanese! Now what?
Let me give exemplify the example. Let's say that the log contains this entry:
(F1231) Bestand bestelling-554 in lijst bestellingen kon niet geopend worden: (F2110) Een verbinding metLooks foreign to you? (It doesn't to me, but I would have great problems if this example were in Japanese).
server 35 kon niet tot stand gebracht worden.
Fortunately, through the error codes, we could make an attempt to figure out what it says by looking up the error codes. However, if there are many log entries, this becomes a laborious affair. Would it be possible to obtain an English log file without tedious lookups and guess work?
I think there are a few different approaches to this problem:
- always create two log files: an English one and a localized one.
- store the log in a language-neutral form, and use log viewers that render the log in a localized form
- try to automatically "translate" the localized log file into English
try {The exception message is already localized when it is thrown. E.g. in the catch-block, there is already no language neutral message anymore. It would have been nice if there were a close cousin to the Object.toString() method: one that takes the locale: toString(Locale) and if the Exception class would take an Object instead of limiting itself to a String.
throw new Exception(msgcat.get("F2110: Could not establish connection with server {0}", serverid));
} catch (Exception e) {
String msg = msgcat.get("F1231: Could not open file {1} in directory {0}: {2}", dir, file, ex);
throw new IOException(msg, ex);
In a previous product where I had more control over the complete codebase, I approaches this problem by introducing a specialized text class that supported the toString(Locale) method, and Exception classes that could return this text class. This solution was also ideal for storing text in locale-neutral form in a database, so that different customers could view the data in different locales.
There is a kludgy work-around: we could change the msg.get() method so that it returns a String that is locale neutral rather than localized. A separate method would convert the locale neutral String into a localized String, e.g. msg.convert(String, Locale). This method would have to be called any time a String would be prepared for viewing, e.g. in the logging for a localized log.
In the products that I am currently working on, these approaches to support locale-neutral strings are not feasible because they would require widespread. So let's take a look at option 3.
Given the resource bundle
F1231 = Bestand {1} in lijst {0} kon niet geopend worden: {2}and
F2110 = Een verbinding met de server {0} kon niet tot stand gebracht worden.
F1231 = Could not open file {1} in directory {0}: {2}let's see if there is a way to automatically translate the message
F2110 = Could not establish connection with server {0}
(F1231) Bestand bestelling-554 in lijst bestellingen kon niet geopend worden: (F2110) Een verbinding metinto
server 35 kon niet tot stand gebracht worden.
(F1231) Could not open file bestelling-554 in directory bestellingen: (F2110) Could not establish aI think it is possible to build a tool that can do that. The tool would read in all known resource bundles (possibly by pointing it to the installation image, after which the tool would scan all jars to exttact all resource bundles), and translate them into regular expressions. It would have to be able to recognize error codes (e.g. \\([A..Z]dddd\\) ) and use these to successively expand the error message into its full locale neutral form. In the example, the neutral form is:
connection with server 35.
[F1231, {0}=bestellingen, {1}=bestelling-554, {2}=[F2110, {0}=35]]The neutral form then can be easily converted into the localized English form.


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In keeping with its criticisms of everything progressive, the Catholic Church in Mexico continues to astound. Today, the spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico City condemned Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard and his left-wing, pro-gay marriage and abortion government, saying that "he and his government have created laws that are destructive to the family, that do more damage than drug trafficking."
A little perspective, folks, that's all I ask for.


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Western Red Cedar in its natural unfinished state has a richly textured tactile grain combined with a glowing palette of warm, mellow tones ranging from light amber to deep honey brown. No man-made material can duplicate the depth of cedar's natural luster. Western Red Cedar remains subtly aromatic, and the characteristic fragrance of Red Cedar just adds another dimension to its universal appeal.
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Kheer is the most common sweet dish in India. No festival or celebration is complete without Kheer. It is a creamy mixture of rice and milk with nuts to add crunch to the recipe. My twist is adding grated coconut to this rice pudding- it brings right amount of freshness and aroma is the dessert. This is very easy to prepare!
- 1/4th cup basmati rice (washed and drained)
- 5 cups milk
- 2-3 cardamom (Ilaychi) crushed
- 2 tbsp almonds (badam) chopped
- A pinch of saffron threads (kesar)
- 1 tbsp skinned pistachio (Pista) chopped
- 1 tbsp raisins (kismis)
- 1 tbsp coconut (grated)
- 2-3 tbsp sugar or as per taste
- Put the rice, milk and cardamom in a pan, bring to boil and simmer gently until the rice is soft and the grains are starting to break up.
- Take 2 spoon of warm milk and add saffron thread in it, till it yellowish colour appears.
- Add almonds, pistachio, coconut and raisins and simmer for 3-4 minutes.
- If rice is soft then mix the sugar and stir until completely dissolved.
Serve either hot or chilled.


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Monday, October 15, 2012
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I just cut my hair short too, but I prefer mine short. Hopefully, in a few weeks you'll love the cut.ReplyDelete
Hi, Heather.ReplyDelete
You may remember my post on getting a haircut a little over a month ago. While my new cut is clean and simple and I've gotten a ton of compliments on it, I feel bereft. That's the only way I can describe it.
Reading your words made my heart just swim out to you. The one thing I can tell you is that when it's cut really short, it grows out fast. Even a month later I can see a lot more fullness to it than when I first got it cut. You also get to a point where you finally figure out how to comb it in the mornings to fall just how you're comfortable with it. It's an adjustment period, and in the meantime, there is a strange amount of soul searching.
I just want you to feel my empathy and support.
I usually let my hair grow to the point of "mad scientist" hair and lop most of it off. It's a monthly ritual since it grows so fast. :)ReplyDelete
It think it's a reflection both ways.ReplyDelete
I like consistency and get mine cut every three to four weeks.
Now that I am forty something, I keep my hair short, mostly in a bob cut. Since keeping it short I can't stand my hair in my face.ReplyDelete
I think hair plays a massive role in how we feel about ourselves. My hair is very fine and doesn't grow long (sadly) so I tend to keep it shorter. Have just made an appointment today for some hairlights so that will be a change. Do you know when I was younger I used to fear going to the hairdresser more than the dentist! Hope you grow to love the new you soon :)ReplyDelete
Cutting one's hair has such an impact on how we feel about ourselves. My hair is down to my butt and I can't imagine the shock if I cut it.ReplyDelete
That sounds so much like me. After most haircuts, I run into the house not wanting to be seen by anybody. I quickly go into the bathroom and take my hair dryer and pull at my hair hoping to stretch it out. Finally though, I accept it and go on with life.ReplyDelete
I could write a book about hair, but I won't. Still I know the feeling. It is part of our identity. Although, I would love the courage to cut it short -- I'll bet it looks great, just the first shock to the change.ReplyDelete
I think you'll soon get used to it, and your new personality will adapt to the old one. Or the old one to the new. No need to hide. I think it's about how you see yourself, not how people see you.ReplyDelete
Oh, well, I don't know!
Hair is so important to us, but tell a hairdresser to cut just a little off and it seems to be a challenge to see how we squeal when we see our scalp shining through. Ha, I jest. But I'm sure you'll get used to your transformation and love it.ReplyDelete
It's amazing what a haircut can do! And I hope you get to the point where you love it before long.ReplyDelete
And I think it can affect the way you act-- just like being dressed in formalwear makes you act differently than wearing grungy sweats, or a swim suit, or workout clothes.
Ha! I never feel like myself if somebody else cuts my hair. I have curly hair but it's unevenly curly, so it gets weird easily and they ALWAYS go too short. What we look like shouldn't happen, but I've had a few episodes of feeling like a badass because of a costume, so I think looks DO affect self-concept.ReplyDelete
Hi Heather,ReplyDelete
It seems to me that the lady who cut your hair did some unexpected 'editing'. And from that, your hair, like the inspiration within your words, shall grow.
Gary :)
I have found that one of the easiest ways to change a character's personality is to change the hair (the length, style, color) and give a new wardrobe. I think what a person is on the outside reflects inner personality. (Not just aesthetic beauty)ReplyDelete
My sister is always primping and changing her hair and make-up. This attention to detail on "appearance" is also reflected in the cleanliness of her house, her cars, her choice of dogs, and boyfriends. She doesn't just need everything to look good; she needs everyone to notice how much effort she puts into everything. The problem I see, of course, is that she changes so often, and the slightest disinterest is enough to make her completely re-evaluate everything about herself. For a while anyways.
I think the same can be said of our characters. They are not just looking "good" they are displaying inner passions. People are either born pretty, beautiful, average; but perception of self is learned.
I'm sure your hair looks great Heather. You just have to get used to the new you. I flux between long and short hair too. I feel freer without all the hair, but I also feel more grounded with the long hair. I like how guys think I'm more of a girl with the long hair, and how they think I'm spunky with short. It really does affect attitude.
For me anyway.
I'd love to see you with short hair. I bet you are cute cute cute! People at my work got used to my long hair and forgot I started out with VERY short hair six years ago. But cuz I always pull it back, when I cut it, it took a while for people to notice :)


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I thought it might be helpful for those who have recently found out they are coeliac or gluten intolerant to talk about my experience. I was miserable when I got my first blood test results, friends and family tried to be supportive by saying focus on what you can eat, how lucky you are to know what was causing issues etc. In the beginning I couldn't be 100% positive about it, I was grieving all those foods I could never eat again like crumpets, amazing sourdough bread, and so much more. I'm happy to report that was a phase and I didn't stay being grumpy about it. It's so much easier now that I have a routine at home, recipes all sorted, friends who make amazing gluten free dishes and know half a dozen restaurants where I frequent. However, I do on rare occasions get cravings and miss the convenience of take away sandwiches but being gluten free just means being a bit more organised about meals.
I've strict about the gluten free diet. I've been glutened a couple of times this year with sometimes small amounts of gluten and its not pretty, my stomach bloats so much that I look pregnant, I have horrible sharp pain on one side (generally left) and other bowel related issues that I'm sure you don't want to hear about on a food blog. It generally takes me about 24-48 hours of feeling horrible and up to a week til I feel back to normal. The longer I'm gluten free the worse the symptoms seem to get. Thankfully it has only happened a few times. I know some people cheat because they don't have many symptoms but its so not worth the possible long term health issues such as bowel cancer. I also find it easier, because I start to forget how amazing gluteny crumpets, pastry, bread etc can be. So don't do it guys!
I'm definitely felt healthier this year, not just stomach and bowel related but also with less colds and other viruses and my body seems to be able to fight viruses and infections better. I've also had more energy. My body is finally been able to absorb vitamins and minerals properly but with that have also come a small amount of weight gain. Although that might be a coincidence or my age as many people report weight loss after going gluten free.
I found the process of going gluten free so much easier thanks to a couple of coeliac friends who talked me through it, talked to me about good brands, answered so many questions about ingredients and just agreed that it can be bit shit sometimes. So I'm more than happy to answer any gluten free/coeliac questions, not from a nutrition standpoint of course but in terms of the above. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email.
Here is some advice which I found useful in the beginning and which people often get confused about:
- There is wheat in regular soy sauce.
- Spelt products are NOT gluten free.
- Most buckwheat noodles contain regular wheat.
- Most fresh rice noodles contain wheat, but dried varieties are generally fine.
- Barley is part of the gluten family, everyone forgets about this one.
- There is barley in some brands of soy milk and some miso paste.
- Products can contain wheat and still be labelled gluten free as it depends on the way the wheat is processed. So the gluten free label overrides everything else.
- In Australia, caramel and glucose syrup derived from wheat are gluten free as no gluten remains after processing it. Does this apply in other countries too?
- Basically the only alcohol you need to avoid is beer, ale, lager, stout and Guinness. Although spirits may be derived from wheat, rye or barley they are distilled in such a way that there is generally no gluten remaining in the final products.
- If any ingredient in a product is derived from wheat, rye, barley or oats, then this must be declared on the label in Australia.
- Watch out for for wheat in some corn starch and icing sugar varities.
- Check out Coeliac Australia website for more details: http://www.coeliac.org.au/coeliac-disease/index.html


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GAZA CITY -- Hopes rose Tuesday for a halt to hostilities after seven days of devastating fighting between Israel and Hamas, with officials from the militant group predicting a cease-fire would take effect at midnight.
But as the evening wore on, Israeli and Egyptian officials began downplaying expectations, warning that no deal had been signed.
According to one senior Hamas official, the parties reached a "major breakthrough" Tuesday when Israel agreed to halt attacks against the Gaza Strip, stop targeted killings of Hamas leaders and ease border restrictions.
TIMELINE: Israel-Gaza conflict
Israel is seeking an end to the rocket fire into its territory by Gaza militants and assurances – backed up by Egypt and the international community – that Hamas won't be allowed to rebuild the weapons caches that Israel has destroyed.
Israeli officials have not commented on the talks, which are being conducted in Cairo through Turkish and Egyptian intermediaries since Israel and Hamas don't formally recognize one another.


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Rhinestone Chandelier Earrings
$6.80 at Forever21 To Buy
Let me state the obvious. They are not small (3.5 inches) and they are not subtle. But the combination of art deco rhinestones + rhinestone fringe + bullet trim is one I cannot resist. The perfect naughty and nice mix. Although they scream "costume jewelry!" with my hair down, they were less overt.
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Most important, they were not heavy and I was able to wear them all night.
I am looking forward to wearing these more throughout the holidays. They are an easy way to glamorize my basics and dress-up an outfit when I don't have a ton of time or energy.
And you can't beat the price.


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We know the holidays can be difficult for many binational couples – forced to live in exile away from family members, separated from one another for months at a time, uncertainty about the future.
2011 will be remembered as a rollercoaster year for same-sex couples in binational relationships. With President Obama's declaration and decision back in February that federal courts stop defending DOMA, tens of thousands of same-sex binational couples believed relief was finally in sight after many years of discriminatory immigration laws. Additionally, a number of recent court decisions have stayed or dropped deportation proceedings of gay and lesbian immigrants legally married to Americans.
We were further encouraged when the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency issued a statement in June granting agents guidelines for prioritizing deportations. The Morton Memo, as the statement was called, made partners in binational relationships a low priority.
However, additional ICE guidelines issued in November fail to specifically mention gay and lesbian binational couples, and while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an impassioned plea to the international community this month to recognize the full human rights of LGBT people worldwide, same-sex binational couples are still separated, unable to sponsor their partners and forced to make choices between their families and their country.
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We are an all-volunteer, grassroots organization – and we rely on your kind donations throughout the year to help us stand with our allies GetEQUAL and Stop the Deportations at rallies for couples like for couples like Henry & Josh and Alex & Doug. We march in parades, attend conferences and speak at community events. Every time we make contact with someone, we share our printed materials like our stickers and fact sheets to let people know who we are, the challenges we are facing and what needs to change so that all loving and committed couples have the same rights and opportunities to live their lives together.
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The U.N. envoy to the former Yugoslavia warned today that if negotiators fail to reach a solution that will keep Kosovo within Serbia, Bosnia might well break up into three ethnic parts. Jiri Dienstbier said that allowing Kosovo to secede from Serbia would thwart efforts made by the international community to recreate a multi-ethnic Bosnia after its war for independence from Yugoslavia.
This came just after Kosovo was finally able to bury 40 ethnic Albanians killed in a Serbian police attack last month. Serb authorities had refused to allow the burials to take place during the Kosovo negotiations that took place this week, but handed over the bodies after facing increased international pressure.
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Arya Vong Kim (L) works on a customer's hairdo. Photograph: Alexander Crook/7Days
Arya Vong Kim, a hair stylist, lived in France before opening her first salon in Cambodia with her husband in April 2009.
Currently the owner and house stylist of a beauty salon in her own name, and the only distributor of L'Oréal products in Cambodia, she is committed not only to bringing quality and style to hairdressing, but also to bring meaning to the phrase "to see and be seen". Stephanie Ip caught up with her on the latest trends, on being fashionable, and on finding the perfect look for a great night out.
What kind of people usually go to your salon? Women, men, locals, foreigners?
Everyone, both men and women. We have a lot of expats. A lot of people from the embassies come here. Also people from the ministries, and local upper-middle class people. Teenagers sometimes come here for a haircut as well. Local Khmer teenagers come here too. They have bad haircuts outside, and they come here to fix their hairstyles.
Are people influenced by western pop culture or Asian pop culture?
Expat customers, they like [the trends] in Europe. Khmer, they prefer a Korean style. It's normal because of the TV culture.
Korean style and western style is different. Korean technique has more "slide", they put more layers into the hair, and they also do a half perm, starting from the middle of the head. They like wavy, but not real curls.
For women this season, a popular cut is a short, shoulder length perm, with heavy curls on the bottom. Very Marilyn Monroe-like. It is a retro style, we take inspiration from the past and modernise it. It goes very well with heavy eyeliner and red lips. Classic, but modern. Also people like long and heavy styles now, instead of choppy hair with many layers. People also like bangs. But in Cambodia, with the hot weather, nice bangs are very hard to keep. But fashion changes every season. Before, people liked ombre hair. They liked having dark hair on top, and then become lighter and lighter. It looked very natural when your hair grows.
In Singapore, all the ladies had the ombre look.
How do people – especially local Khmer people – want to look?
People want to look natural. It's a different idea from the past. People don't come in and say, "I want short hair", or "I want this and that". It's all about being natural. If you look back in history, back in the 80s there were a lot of perms. In the 90s, a lot of straight hairstyles. But now it is okay, if you like straight, we do straight, if you like perms, we do perms. Sometimes they come in with an idea of what they want, but some also come in and say it's up to you, you are the professional.
Has their style changed from the last five years?
The local styles have changed because they travel more often now. They see more of the world. Now they want good products, good hairdressers, good service. It's not that they didn't care about their hair before; there was just no market for quality products. No one was there to tell them how to take care of their hair. No one was there to tell them that after colouring, you needed treatment. People just cut and go.
So would you say local people are becoming more fashionable?
Yes. In Cambodia, a lot of people are young. Old people just like to colour their hair. But teenagers, like European teenagers, like to change their hair every month. They like to have different style, different colour. A lot of girls visit this salon, more than boys. Two girls for one boy. They want to be beautiful. Girls have a lot of competition to see who has the best style. A lot of Khmer people will also come in to improve their hairstyles. Some of them first come in with very bad haircuts – and we cannot change it in one go – but we change their style little by little.
Do people come to fix their hair before going for a night out?
Yes. People like to fix their hair before a big event. Sometimes they like to have a bun, depending on the event. We style hair for weddings, openings, birthdays and so on. People also like to get their hair done before going out for the night. It used to only be expats, but now both local and expats come to have their hair styled.
You also do their makeup. What kind of makeup styles do people like?
People like natural. They want their skin tone to look natural. If you're darker, they stay darker. If you're whiter, then we keep your skin tone white. They just want perfect skin.
For gala events, I like to give my clients a smoky eye look. The most popular eye makeup look is the thick eyeliner look.
What makeup I put on my clients really depends on the face of my client. Each client is unique.
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CHICKEN (Scheme implementation)
|Original author(s)
|Felix Winkelmann
|The CHICKEN Team
|Initial release
|July 20, 2000[1]
|Stable release
5.0.0 / November 7, 2018
|Written in
|Scheme and C
|Operating system
|R5RS (mostly), R7RS (not in core)
|Programming language
|BSD License
CHICKEN is a compiler and interpreter for the Scheme programming language that compiles Scheme code to standard C. It is mostly R5RS compliant and offers many extensions to the standard. The newer R7RS standard is supported through an extension library. CHICKEN is free software available under the BSD license. It is implemented mostly in Scheme, with some parts in C for performance or to make embedding into C programs easier.
CHICKEN's focus is immediately clear from its tagline: "A practical and portable Scheme system".
CHICKEN's main focus is the practical application of Scheme for writing "real-world" software. Scheme is well known for its use in computer science curricula and programming language experimentation, but it has not seen much use in business and industry.[2] CHICKEN's community has produced a large set of libraries for performing a variety of tasks. The CHICKEN wiki (the software running it is also a CHICKEN program) also contains a list of software that people have written in CHICKEN.
CHICKEN's other goal is to be portable. By compiling to portable C (like Gambit and Bigloo), programs written in CHICKEN can be compiled for common popular platforms like Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-like systems as well as Windows, Haiku and the mobile platforms iOS and Android.[3] It also has built-in support for cross-compilation of programs and extensions,[4] which allows it to be used on various embedded platforms.
Like many Scheme compilers, CHICKEN uses standard C as an intermediate language. A Scheme program is translated into C by the CHICKEN compiler, and then a C compiler translates the C program into machine code for the target architecture, producing an executable program. The universal availability of C makes it ideal for this purpose.
CHICKEN's design was inspired by a 1994 paper[5] by Henry Baker that outlined an innovative strategy for Scheme compilation into C. A Scheme program is compiled into C functions. These C functions never reach the return statement; instead, they call a new continuation when complete. These continuations are C functions themselves and are passed on as extra arguments to other C functions. They are calculated by the compiler.
So far, this is the essence of continuation-passing style. Baker's novel idea is to use the C stack for the Scheme heap. Hence, normal C stack operations such as automatic variable creation, variable-sized array allocation, and so on can be used. When the stack fills up (that is, the stack pointer reaches the top of the stack), a garbage collection can be initiated. The design used is a copying garbage collector originally devised by C. J. Cheney, which copies all live continuations and other live objects to the heap.[6] Despite this, the C code does not copy C stack frames, only Scheme objects, so it does not require knowledge of the C implementation.
In full, the Scheme heap consists of the C stack as the nursery together with the two heaps required by the generational garbage collector. This approach gives the speed of the C stack for many operations, and it allows the use of continuations as simple calls to C functions. Further, Baker's solution guarantees asymptotic tail recursive behavior, as required by the Scheme language standard. The implementation in the CHICKEN Scheme compiler is even asymptotically safe for space.
Limitations and deviations from the standard[edit]
CHICKEN Scheme is mostly R5RS-compliant, with a few notable limitations and deviations.[7] R7RS compatibility is supplied as an extension library.
The core system has basic support for UTF-8 characters, however the string indexing and manipulation procedures are not UTF-8 aware. Here again there is an extension library which adds support for full UTF-8 awareness.
Add-on software[edit]
CHICKEN has a large repository of additional libraries and programs called "eggs". This eggs system is quite similar to RubyGems.[original research?]
Initially, these eggs were developed in one central svn repository,[8] in which creating a tag would automatically cause a new version of the extension to become available for download. Currently, eggs can be developed anywhere and under any version control system, while still maintaining "semi-automatic" release management when using most of the popular code hosting sites.[9] This release method is VCS-agnostic in the sense that the user does not need to have these VCSes installed. The developer is free to host anywhere he or she likes, and could even choose to avoid public version control altogether and distribute only plain tarballs.
For all released eggs, the latest version is tested automatically as part of a continuous integration process. Anyone can volunteer to supply additional testing capacity (on different hardware, or different operating systems or on different core releases), but there's also a canonical test server where the core system and all eggs will be tested daily against the most recent development version (to catch regressive bugs) as well as the most recent stable version (to ensure that everything works for users of the stable system).
CHICKEN supports most of R5RS standard Scheme, but it also adds a few nonstandard features which are not available in all Scheme implementations.
Foreign function interface[edit]
The fact that CHICKEN compiles to C makes it possible to "inject" custom C code into the compiled result, which eases integration with C libraries. Its foreign function interface supports converting back and forth between most built-in C types and corresponding Scheme objects.
There are also extension libraries for interfacing to Python, Lua, and Java via JNI or through a bridge.
It is relatively easy to cross-compile Scheme code to another platform (for example for embedded use on a device).
In order to make cross-compilation possible for Scheme code, CHICKEN imposes a model of separate compilation: A compiled module consists of two shared libraries. One library contains the actual code which will be used at runtime (compiled for the target platform), and the other is an "import module", which will be used to load the code which runs at compile-time (on the host platform), such as procedural macro code.
The CHICKEN compiler itself can also be easily cross-compiled; after translation to C has been achieved, one can simply use a C compiler which is set up to build for another platform.
Modules and macros[edit]
Since version 4, CHICKEN has a built-in module system and support for low-level hygienic macros through explicit renaming (prior to CHICKEN 4 this was available through an add-on library). Standard syntax-rules macros are also supported, as well as implicit renaming macros, which is basically a "reversed" version of explicit renaming.
This mechanism trades in performance for convenience. Each identifier not explicitly "injected" as unhygienic will be automatically renamed to avoid name capture. The performance cost lies in the fact that this "implicit" renaming requires the macro-expander to traverse the expressions an additional two times. This cost is paid at expansion time, so a macro author must consider whether longer compilation times are acceptable.
Remote debugger[edit]
Since version 4.11, CHICKEN comes shipped with a debugger called "Feathers". When Scheme code is compiled with the necessary debugging option, "debugging events" are injected at specific points in the code. These are implemented as calls to a C function, which is relatively low-overhead when not actually debugging the code. When debugging, it will try to make a TCP connection to a Feathers server process, possibly on a different machine. The process is halted, the user may set breakpoints and start the program. Then, when the breakpoint is hit, the client (process being debugged) enters a command loop, which allows interrogation of the client, to read out variables, or mutate them.
Limited static type analysis[edit]
CHICKEN also has support for local flow analysis. This allows the compiler to catch variable type errors at compile-time, and perform type specialisation. This specialisation makes it possible to remove several safety checks for type detection at runtime when the type can be deduced at compile-time. This results in improved run-time performance.
This "scrutinizer" does not allow cross-module flow analysis, so it can only be used to optimize code that's part of one compilation unit (or module).
See also[edit]
- Tail recursion
- Cheney's algorithm
- "M.T.A.", a song reference in Baker's 1994 paper
- Gambit
- Stalin
- ^ Winkelmann, Felix "Announcing the CHICKEN Scheme-to-C compiler"., comp.lang.scheme
- ^ "Scheme FAQ"., section "what is Scheme used for?"
- ^ "Portability". page on the CHICKEN wiki
- ^ "Cross development". - a section from the CHICKEN manual
- ^ Baker, Henry "CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments, Part II: Cheney on the M.T.A.".
- ^ Cheney, C.J. "A Nonrecursive List Compacting Algorithm". CACM 13,11 (Nov. 1970), 677-678.
- ^ The CHICKEN Team, "Deviations from the standard"., the CHICKEN manual
- ^ Bex, Peter "VCS-independent distribution of language extensions"., blogpost on More magic
- ^ The CHICKEN wiki, "Instructions for popular code hosting methods and VCSes".


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Month: September 2011
Why I drive without a license
It is a well known fact. The RTOs are cess pits of corruption.
There are several ways to fight this legally and I am optimistic that we will eradicate this in a couple of decades or when we outsource this to foreigners, which ever happens first. It is a pity that neither Anna Hazare nor 'yours truly' will be around then.
But the war that cannot be won is not the corruption of money but the corruption of integrity.
Every half baked driver these ba*%@$ds let loose on our streets is a license to kill.
I have been driving since I was 15 years and that was 3 decades ago. I have driven and ridden all over the country, all terrains, most cars and bikes. Yet, I have never had a major accident, never broken a bone. A nudge and a scratch here & there are my only proof to infamy.
My first license was obtained without even seeing an RTO office. This was confiscated within the first 2 months and I have never owned a license since then.
I have been fined a few times and I have willingly paid a fine but never applied for another license because
1. The entire exercise of the cops checking you for a license is to levy a fine and hence a commercial venture. So I too contribute to the cause.
Will you agree to a commerce graduate correcting your engineering answer paper? Why would any sane person willingly submit to the humiliation of a nincompoop in uniform asking you inane questions and subjecting you to a pointless test, when you eventually have to pay to pass.
It is an insult to my ability as an intelligent, sane, blemish free, thinking, caring, conscientious driver to own a driving license in India.
What killed Azhar's son Ayaz?
My heartfelt condolences to their family notwithstanding, the above statement is true. I really hope this post will save many more wannabe street racers.
Ayazuddin was riding a 1000 cc Suzuki. Even though I have not been able to get the exact model of the bike, the following holds true to all bikes.
There have been some halfhearted attempts to explain the cause of the accident and most of them are non-technical. The usual theory is that high speed, in excess of 200 kmph, is what killed them. True. But these bikes are built for such speeds. What really killed them is the bike's STEERING GEOMETRY and a lack of understanding of this very important feature.
There are two important factors called Rake angle and Trail. The figure below illustrates what these are.
The basic understanding is that a longer trial offers more stability (lesser steering control) and a shorter trail offers more steering control (lesser stability). Any bike, built for a certain specific purpose, has a rake angle / trial to suit just this purpose.
A bike built for cruising long straight highways have greater rake angle, longer trail (like a chopper). This offers more straight line stability and reduces hand fatigue.
A racing bike needs more steering control as against a street legal bike and hence have lower rake angle and lesser trail. These bikes are very unstable at low speeds and need space and experience to make turns.
A racing bike like the one Ayaz was riding is essentially steered by leaning into the turn. It is important to understand that these bikes are raced on tracks specifically built to accommodate this factor. That is why race tracks have wide, long, winding turns unlike streets which have sharp turns.
Ever noticed how a race driver moves to the very extreme opposite edge of the track, leans into a curve and makes a long turn. This manoeuvre offers the extended radius essential to turn these bikes at high speeds.
Regular bikes are capable of much sharper turns owing to their steering geometry and lower speeds.
Ayaz was doing just the reverse. Riding the wrong bike on the wrong road.
Easy as it seems to a casual spectator, race drivers put in years of practice. They are also masters of the tech specs of the bikes they ride.
Ayazuddin paid with his life for not knowing this important fact.
You can find more technical info at
1. http://bikearama.com/theory/motorcycle-rake-trail-explained/
2. http://wotid.com/tls/content/view/24/53/
3. http://www.msgroup.org/forums/mtt/topic.asp?topic_id=76
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometry
The lack of perfection in anything we do is the reason for the chaos all around us. Nothing fits anything, nothing lasts. Total anarchy.
The Indian concept of a good design is very superficial. We care more about the paint than the foundation.
This sweeping statement is bound the raise the hackles of our 'designers'. But let me explain.
We design on computers. Even the most inexpensive CAD program is capable of a high degree of precision. The question I am oft asked – Where then is the lack of perfection in our designs?
Aha. Gotcha.
During one of my lectures, I had asked the audience of "interior designers" several basic questions on the methods of carpentry. The answers were, to say the least, totally inadequate. They were of the opinion that their responsibility ended with the paper they handed over to the carpenter.
I then presented them with a very simple drawing, simple on a computer, that is. Their challenge was to get their carpenters to fabricate it.
It is a very simple six sided flower pot. For this exercise we discarded the bottom. I also saved them the embarrassment of assembling the six pieces. All they had to do was produce the individual pieces.
The results were 100% FAIL.
I then asked our future interior designers to explain the IDEAL process on paper.
The results were 100% FAIL.
The problem? "Elementary, my dear
Watson Indian"
We don't have a tool to measure 120 degrees. This is the shameful fact. As I have mentioned in my earlier posts, we are a skill based society. We don't believe in carrying a large tool kit. It insults our ability. He who walks in unencumbered by tools is a true skilled worker.
I will again excuse the worker, for he is illiterate and knows no better. But what about our "Designers"? What does such ignorance, about their own profession say of their abilities. A serious flip side to this ignorance is that our designers are street smart and in perfect sync with their work force. They take great pains to ensure that they never design anything their worker cannot produce.
In the end it is the consumer who suffers.
Cop stupid, Criminal stupider?
Its been a week since the blasts in the Delhi high court and, Yipee, and we have something to debate about other than corruption. The hot topic now is why and how the Indian cops / security / intelligence (oxymoron) agencies, in spite of their awe inspiring acronyms have not been able to prevent or solve even a single terrorist attack for 10 years. The reference to the US and its post 9/11 success with curbing terrorism was expected. But what was unexpected was the Indian government seeking their help – yet again.
There are many theories being bandied about on TV talk shows on why our cops fail. And it is all the usual tripe. So I won't waste your time repeating it. But what is heartening is the consistency our cops show. They are just as bad and inefficient in solving almost any other case too. A look at their success rate will prove this point.
But there is one major reason why they can take credit for solving or preventing some cases at least.
This is because our criminals are stupider than our cops. This should come as no surprise as, apart from them being on opposites of a very fuzzy line, there are a lot of similarities in their logic, complacency, thought process, lack of initiative, under exposure to modernity and progress in their respective fields etc. This list will be incomplete if I don't mention they are both Indian.
I have so much to say that I am worried this post will get out of hand, so I will lay the ground by initially writing about the stupidity of our criminals and security guards. I will follow up later with many others.
In the dock this time are the private security guards, their agencies, their employers and the criminals. The traits they collectively exhibit are no different from the real cops, NSA, NIA, CBI etc etc.
PSG's, a minority about 10 years ago are prolific today. Apart from the non-critical areas of their employment, mostly like gate keepers, they have migrated to a more critical area of service. Those of guarding our banks and the money vans utilized for ATM refills or inter branch money transfers. Needless to say the agencies are contracted by the banks which makes them eligible to be mentioned here for condoning stupidity. I will absolve the actual guards as they are generally poor, rural, illiterate people.
Aping the mindset of the real police, instead of any real training or equipment, they too rely on jazzy uniforms (cross belts, berets, epaulettes et al), pot bellies, facial hair, ex-military tag etc in a poor bid to portray efficiency. Unfortunately, it seems to work too. Else any criminal worth his pound of chakki would have taken advantage of this charade.
The grist of this post is another prop utilized by these security guards – the gun they mandatorily carry. It is impressive enough to deter any criminal. Indian criminal that is. But why am I being so harsh?
If you know anything at all about guns, and I really mean anything, you will agree with me, close your bank account and bury all your money in your backyard.
There are essentially two categories of guns based on their ammunition. One uses a bullet (L) and the other uses a cartridge (R).
The Bullet firing rifle is exclusively used by the police etc (non-civilian) and the cartridge firing gun is used by the security guards. Since it is near impossible for a civilian to obtain a bullet firing rifle license in India, they are forced to use the latter.
But the interesting fact is that these guns are useless, yes, utterly and completely useless in the hands of the security guards for the purpose it is intended. This is because of a major lacunae, unknown to most Indians.
Let us begin by understanding the projectiles. The bullet fires a single, solid projectile. The cartridge fires several shots (or pellets) which are very similar to ball bearings (Hence the name Shotgun).
A shotgun is predominantly used for hunting small game like birds or rabbits. That is the reason a civilian is able to obtain a license for such guns. Let us imagine we are trying to bring down a bird, either flying solo or in a flock. Given the small size of the target and the fact that it is moving, it is impossible to take perfect aim and hit it with a single bullet. You are bound to miss, scare the prey and go hungry unless you are a marksman. The cartridge, firing not one, but several bullets offers a better chance. One of them is bound to hit the target. Add to this the fact that these pellets diverge after exiting from the barrel as in the picture below.
That is, they spread out increasing the chances of at least one pellet hitting the target. So, the farther they travel, the more they disperse. This pattern image shows how wide and randomly they disperse at a distance of 30 yards (approx 100 feet).
This is perfect for hunting. But what about our use?
A security guard has to use it on a human. The problem is not that the velocity of a cartridge pellet cannot kill or injure a human. It is where and how it will be used.
Imagine a bank robbery or a money van heist in India. During the robbery or once the deed over, the criminal is bound to be surrounded by a crowd of innocent bank employees or civilians
How can the security guard fire a shotgun expecting to hit only the criminal and not the innocent bystanders? It is impossible. Have you ever seen the cops teargas an individual in a crowd?
The big question now is:
Does the guard know this fact about his gun? If yes, then the public are safe, even though the gun becomes a mere prop and the day our stupid criminals realize this fact, they will have a free run of our money.
But what if even one guard does not know this fact? If in a real situation, he does fire into a crowd, what are the consequences? Who is to blame? The government for their antiquated license laws? The Police and the rest of us for not putting an end to this widespread threat? The illiterate guard? Or the gullible Indian?
Gun licenses are issued by the cops. Aren't they supposed to be experts on fire arms? Don't they know how a shotgun works? The very reason a civilian can apply and obtain a license is because these are not to be used for anything other than hunting. The application also requires you to state intent of use. Any other type of fire arm is classified as capable of being used on humans and hence the irresponsible Indian is ineligible to own one. If so, why are they allowing PSG's to carry them, with the intent to use, in public areas?
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
Don't improve on perfection – Coins
There are several instances where we Indians meddle in affairs that don't concern us. And I am not talking world affairs.
We are not a practical race and we don't have a history of technology. We also don't realize that every step in the evolution of a product has been well thought of and has a very practical aspect to it. Since we have never been a part of this process, we don't value it. So when we act as interlopers, and meddle, the result is disastrous.
Look at our currency coins. These were time honored designs, manufactured using imported technology, on imported machines. All was well as long as were just minting new figures with new fonts, changing layout etc. We even got away with changing the composition of the metal. But then some whiz kid with a sheaf of design degrees, not satisfied with the cosmetic changes, must have thought of re-designing the whole coin.
What resulted was a faux pas of monumental proportions.
Lets do a small test. Take a new 1 or 2 Rupee coin, place it on any glass surface like a table top (imitating a cash counter). Now pick it up – in one go. It is near impossible. After a few futile attempts you will end up sliding them off the table. This would never have happened with the earlier coins. Have you experienced this? Do you know why this happens?
We, in our infinite wisdom and childish 'lets-show-the-west-what-we-Indians-are-capable-of' attitude did away with the very important grooved serrations on the edge of the coin which helped us grip the coin with our finger tips, nails or no nails.
Why did this happen? This is because we give more importance to aesthetics than to utility. We have been bred on eons of art and never on practical science. Our concept of design is appearance and very cosmetic.
But what is astounding is the fact that this has escaped the notice of a Billion+ Indians for more than 10 years. I doubt if there really is any Indian who hasn't handled a coin. Rich or poor, we all have. Then is it that we don't care? Are we so up in the clouds with IT, BT & whatnot, that we feel such thoughts are beneath us?
I spoke to a couple of lay men, after I subjected them to the same test. The feedback is very insightful.
1. We are a very egotistical race. I can criticize my country as much as I want. But if it comes from another, Indian or foreigner, we will go tongs and hammer to defend our country's honor, right to the point of being absurd and inane. Some even blamed the country which is supplying us with the coins, maybe even Pakistan, and were most reticent to accepting that we design and mint them locally.
2. Several numismatists refused to comment. While numismatists are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also includes the broader study of money. May be they were insulted by a rank outsider questioning their competence.
3. Every one felt that it could not be an oversight. Oh no. Not by us Indians. And racked their brains to justify the error in the hope of salvaging some national pride. A few 'Technical' people argued that it was omitted to save on the cost of manufacturing. When asked how it was manufactured, they went mute. I was almost expecting them to take refuge under the 'Official Secrets Act'.
Water, Water everywhere. Where ????
Bored with city life, I once decided to move to my farm on the outskirts of Bangalore. Before any activity began, the first priority was to make arrangements for water. This meant tapping for ground water, always a risky and costly endeavor.
I did the necessary research and spoke to experts in the geological department on scientific water divining. They were of the opinion that there was no guarantee irrespective of scientific or conventional water divining and success was left to chance. One person was more forthcoming and assured me that in spite of the scientific method being more accurate, success depended on the drilling company. He did not mention any specific cause for failure.
Owing to the lack of clarity and based on several recommendations we decided on a conventional water diviner. Watching a diviner in action, running all over the farm with a coconut in his hands was like mumbo jumbo and not in the least assuring. But this spectacle, as usual, attracted attention and soon there was a healthy crowd of neighboring farmers. Their initial whispering and murmuring was ignored as a natural reaction to the antics of the diviner.
Then one old guy came over to me and said that the whole exercise was a waste as he had a farm, not far away, which looked as if it had been invaded by rabbits. It was his way of telling me that he had tried 14 times to find water and all he got was the holes in the ground.
But I had to sink a well as I was hell bent on moving away from the city. The diviner finally placed the coconut over a spot and announced with a flourish that we would hit Ganga Jal at a depth of 400 – 600 feet.
The big day arrived and the impressive rig moved into position. It was 6 AM on a misty farmish morning. It took a bit of maneuvering to get the big Ingersoll Rand rig to position exactly over the spot identified. Given my love to machines and the fact that I was once a supplier to Ingersoll Rand (I had seen these majestic beasts being built) I was tingling all over.
Once the drill head was over the exact spot, the dirty, mud caked machine extended its hydraulic stabilizers. The wheels rose off the ground. The drill mast lazily extended to its full vertical height. Hissing, the drill head rose to the top, a shaft with a drill bit was attached. And with a roar of its diesel engines revving at max, the rotating drill neared the earth. But something was wrong.
Give my apprehensions about the spot picked by non-scientific methods and the reputation that area had with dry wells, I was hell bent on trying to turn the odds in my favor. I wanted to ensure that no human error (except the diviners) would scuttle the project. Frankly, another attempt would cripple me financially and jeopardize the entire project. Bye bye chirping birds and fresh milk and lazy days.
Thank You – Fiskars
Tailoring. Would you call tailoring, skill or technology? It is a subtle combination of both. If we are talking of custom made clothing, you still need a human to skilfully take measurements, mark and cut. Then technology takes over and helps sew it all together. But before sewing was mechanized, there were seamstresses who possessed the skill of sewing and knotting.
But not so long ago in India, tailors had to have another skill. A skill which would take several years to master. This was the skill of cutting cloth. Not the measuring or the marking, but the very simple act of using a scissor on a piece of cloth. But how did this become a skill? We all do a pretty good job of it today on the very first try.
We Indians never thought of scissors as a machine deserving a high degree of precision. For us it was just 2 pieces of some metal, sharpened at some angle and connected with some bolt or rivet. There were only 2 sizes available for the 2 well known uses. A bi-metal giant, 10-12 inch long, for tailoring and a narrow one for cutting hair.
The bolt or rivet would always loosen after the first few uses and this was when you needed skill. Lots and lots of it. It really was an art, needing all the dexterity possible by human hands – and then some more.


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How do you define ugliness?What about beauty?My personal opinion is : "You just have to be yourself" ...It doesn't always have to be a trend..What makes you feel good,looks good!
As Coco Chanel said:
"Fashion has two purposes:Comfort & Love.Beauty comes when fashion succeeds"
XOXO, Nene Ev.
P.S. To see the whole post click "Read more" on your left.
(an H&M oversized sweater,jeans & denim shirt from Zara,UGG boots & vintage sunnies from London)


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e-Bay became my New Best Friend, and before too long I had "accidentally" bid, and then two weeks later ...
The threading is a little different, but you can wind your bobbin while you sew, which is nice ...
What a fabulous looking machine...I've always wondered what it would be like to sew on a beast like that! I hope you will share your progress with it and give us a full review ;o)
As for a name...how about Baldric or something as noble and powerful?
He looks like a Bruno to me.
He looks like a billy! i love the coronation street comment, so he could have william as a more formal "show" name after the longest serving actor in it!
Greased Lightening...that;s what I would call him! Wow! Looks like a powerhouse!
Great machine! Have lots of fun with it.
Didn't even have to think about a name. This whole morning, the song "The Worker" from Fischer-Z is playing in my head. It could be an appropriate name, but there are nicer names surely.
What could be more testosterone filled than Rambo!
Boris, he's luverly! x
oh YAY!!!! we had industrial machines at college, LITERALLY like getting used to clutch control and not all of them feel the same. im so happy for you that you have one :) superfast sewing FOR THE WIN
no ideas for what his name should be though...
How about 'brother' in japanese? There are actually four options for brother in japanese:
1) older brother (your family): ani
2) older brother (a different family): oniisan
3) younger brother (your family): otouto
4) younger brother (another family): otoutosan
Your powerful machine seems like it'd be an older brother. And it's definitely part of your family! But I think my favorite is oniisan, even though that'd be a different family...
I've sewn with these before ... be careful because they can sew your fingers together at speed until you get used to them. It should be the 'Grande Prix' because of the speed it can drill dainty holes through my finger nail. ... think about it!!!!
Woooow! That's impressive... Got to be Godzilla!
Awesome! My husband suggests Maisie the Monster Sewing Machine. :)
The Duke?
How about Butch? x
Flash Gordon?
Do be careful, it's my biggest sewing fear that the machine will sew my fingers up with the garment!
I like Kitten's suggestion of a Japanese name to reflect the machines "heritage" what about Kenta?
It means healthy/strong and big/stout. You could shorten it to Ken, and then it has a bit of a Ken and Barbie connotation. And we all know Ken and Barbie are a sheer perfection, both in their genetic construction (good karma for perfect sewing construction) plus their appearance (her waist is made for corsetry) match made in heaven me thinks?
Penfold! I think is the correct name for such a machine after all his best friend was a super hero (in a mouse kind of way). I have a little machine ( a photo will appear on my blog later) that you will just love. very little and very old.
Hello! Isn't he handsome. Could be my Brian's twin! so I would have to name him Bernard. That name always makes me laugh when I think of Nursie from Blackadder.
Bernie would work too or Bertie!!
PS I've FB your book review. Hope thats OK
Wow! Gorgeous - I love it. I'm thinking Hugo. Or possibly Alexander (after Alexander the Great - such a proper man - I fall in love with his maleness every time I read about him). x


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May 9, 2011
Decorating a Bookshelf
We have a built-in bookcase next to the fireplace in our living room... here's what the bookshelf and fireplace area looked like when we purchased the house...
These built-ins are great... so much character, a perfect storage area, plus the open shelving really allows for a showcase of our personal style and interests. With that said, it was time to load up the shelf with all those books and a few odds and ends.
I say progress because I still have a few things left to finish on the bookshelf (more info coming soon) and the fireplace is by no means finished.... work is needed (I should say wanted).
While I was decorating the shelf, there was a lot of moving things around, adding new objects, removing pieces, tweaking here, adjusting there, and finally... after hopping on and off the shelf (about a gazillion times), asking the husband (who always says "it looks fine"), I finally said... "it's done!!!!".
Here's a few more detailed photos...
If you look closely at our shelf, it's a mix between the husband and myself. There are a lot of memories interspersed between all those books and magazines pertaining to our interests... decorating, crafts, family, finance, investing, Jesus, houses, health, beaches, chess, history, etc. That shelf is us, in a nutshell.
And here's one more before and after view of the living room bookshelf....
If you're interested in the paint job that was done before the bookshelf arrangement, you can read about it here and here.
Linking up to the Decor Chick, Funky Junk Interiors and House of Hepworths.
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looks great, love all those layers. is the inside of the bookshelf a different color? that's the route i've seen people go, for a pop of color. i'd love to have some built ins like your and try that. looks great!ReplyDelete
Thanks!!! Me too... I love what I've seen with color inside a bookshelf! I'm thinking that will be one of the next steps.... maybe cutting foam board to fit along the back of each shelf and covering it with wallpaper, decorative paper or even wrapping paper.ReplyDelete
Wow... wonderful! Your built ins are awesome and I love the way you have styled them! The pops of blue and your green and aqua glass really stand out! I love how you've layered your accessories. I find bookshelves really hard to do... you have done such an amazing job!ReplyDelete
awww, thanks! I usually start with the big stuff and slowly add little things in empty spaces or frames to lean on books..... I think the small, personal items on a shelf help to make it look home-y.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 7, 2011 at 8:46 AM
you did great job on this project! looks awesome!ReplyDelete


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Rovio has soft launched a clone of the popular 'Flappy Bird' game called 'Retry' in Canada, Finland and Poland. Retry is available for iOS from the country specific Apple app store. No information is available about whether the game will be launched for Android or if it will also be launched globally.
Retry is similar to the addictive game 'Flappy Bird', it has a high level of difficulty and keeps urging the user to 'Retry'. The game features side-scrolling navigation of a flying object through a series of vertical obstacles as Flappy Bird, in an 8-bit design style. The new game comes from Rovio's new LVL11 division.
"From the guys sitting in the room next to the guys who made Angry Birds, comes Retry – a game so hard, so addictive, so old school that you'll think you've stepped into an 8-bit time machine and gone back to 1986. Totally rad!" the game's description reads.
The game requires players to tap on the screen to control the plane's altitude. However, users can also control how fast the plane flies, make it move backwards and forwards to collect coins, land it at bases, and can unlock checkpoints at bases with the coins.
It is yet to be seen if Rovio also integrates the global leader board that contributed to Flappy Bird's success. Flappy Bird was taken down by its developer for being too addictive after a few days of its launch. After that numerous Flappy Bird clones popped up on Google Play Store as well as the Apple app store. Do you think Flappy Bird's formula plus Rovio's own tweaks are sufficient enough to make the game a bestseller? Let us know your views in the comments section below.
Source: App Store


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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Simple Yellow and Grey Outfit of the Day
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the colors look so pretty on you!ReplyDelete
I LOVE your new blog design! I haven't read any blogs for a while so I'm a little behind and I just saw it! Cute!ReplyDelete
Hi. I am Ada. Stopping by from Shanna's link-up. You lookso adorable in these easy pieces. Love those Mellow Yellow Skinny Pants and of course you can't go wrong with a Gray Tee or Denim Jacket.ReplyDelete
I'd love for you to check out my blog and style. I am doing a 30 for 30 remix challenge of this month of April. Would love your thoughts on it. Thanks and enjoy your Wednesday, Ada. =)
Love the color of the pants!! Great easy outfit!!ReplyDelete
LOVE those yellow jeans and those shoes! You look too cute!!ReplyDelete
<3 Shannon
Simple outfits are the best base to work off from. Perfect for throwing on a cute jean jacket!ReplyDelete
Lookin' fabulous! Lovin' those shoes!ReplyDelete
Looks great! Love, love the jeans!ReplyDelete
Great outfit. That tee looks so comfy!ReplyDelete
Love this outfit! And those shoes?! I need them.ReplyDelete
So comfy looking! On casual days I like to wear dresses or denim cutoffs with lots of jewelry.ReplyDelete
I LOVE those pants! I just bought a purse that color and I am obsessed! Too cute!ReplyDelete
you are so lovely <3 :)ReplyDelete
Ha I would have never noticed his shoe :) LOVE this outfit on you--the sunshine pants are perfect and the jean jacket really completes the look!ReplyDelete
Love it, simple outfits tend to be my fave. I am kind of obsessing over those shoes right now...ReplyDelete
Love casual days! The outfit looks great, and most important comfortable!ReplyDelete
I love your casual look.ReplyDelete
This casual look is great! Really love those yellow jeans!ReplyDelete
love this cute, simple outfit!!! xxReplyDelete
You are so cute! I love it all- especially those sunshine jeans!! hehe!ReplyDelete
Jeans and a tee... you can dress it up OR down!ReplyDelete
You look so cute! I am so excited we finally figured out why I could not get to your blog, haha! I tried to come everytime after you commented and it always told me the site was under construction but then I saw on your Instagram you were posting and WAS so confused, haha!ReplyDelete
this outfit looks really cute love it with the jean jacket=)ReplyDelete
Simply Sutter
I love gray and yellow!ReplyDelete
This has always been a favorite combo of mine, along with gray and mint. Super cute outfit!ReplyDelete
Loving your hand bag!!! And I def need more colored pants!ReplyDelete
hahaha I was just about to ask if that was your husband's shoe too :) Love colored skinnys for spring & summer!ReplyDelete
i am all about simple outfits too kiss it simple stupid (KISS) did you grow up hearing that because i certainly didReplyDelete
So cute that your husband wanted to be in the blog post! :) And I have been dying for some yellow jeans! I lvoe colored pants now a days!! :) I love the color combo of grey and yellow!ReplyDelete
Love Always,
I agree with you, they are the best and sometimes they happen unexpectedly. Love the color on your pants, they look great with the denim jacket and green bag.ReplyDelete
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Love this cute casual look! The pastel yellow jeans are adorable!ReplyDelete
Love the pastel color combo...& the denim jacket nails it all together!ReplyDelete
cute! i have a pair of yellow pants that I got from Lizard Thicket! super cute storeReplyDelete
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