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Your dress is really pretty, and love your hair! I don't watch Scandal, but my facebook feed is going to be going crazy for the next few months, haha!ReplyDelete
Pretty dress. The mix of prints really works well. Scandal is a really good series. I am glad it is also shown on BET. That have me an opportunity to catch up on episodes I missed.
That dress is gorgeous but I love those shoes more!!! I have to say that I did try to watch Scandal one time and just couldn't get into it, I'm not sure why though...ReplyDelete
You look fierce with that hair, girl!ReplyDelete
Great Post, I do not watch Scandal, I want to - but have not had the time. Your dress looks amazing!ReplyDelete
1. How in the world do you walk in those heels? My god, I would be on my butt the entire time I had them on!!! 2. As usual - you look FAB :)ReplyDelete
Great dress! Those pink pumps really pop the pink in your dress!ReplyDelete
The dress is really pretty and looks fabulous on you! I, honestly, could not wear those shoes, but they do look nice with the dress. :-)ReplyDelete
My wife talks about it all the time the mixing of stripes and solids.. She really liked the look..ReplyDelete
This is a perfect outfit for the warm weather that we will be getting in the spring. I love the colors.ReplyDelete
You picked the perfect clutch and shoes to go with that dress! They really compliment the entire outfit!ReplyDelete
looking great lady...your body is banging!!
Feisty and beautiful as always, my dear yummy mummy. The hair is on another level!! :-)
*Y'all have a blessed day and good weekend!*
Love all the bright colors on those clothes! You rock them!ReplyDelete
Cute Heels!! I love the dress on you. Also, I am obsessed with Scandal! Last night was CRAZY!!ReplyDelete
That dress is beautiful & perfect for spring! You make me think it'll be here soon now!ReplyDelete
Wow, what a popping outfit! I love those pink pumps too!ReplyDelete
What a pretty dress! It's nice to see floral come back for another season!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, you look just like a fresh spring day. It is hard to think spring when today our tempature is 0 degrees. Suppose to get snow and lots of it Sunday.ReplyDelete
pink is my favorite color so to me this outfit is perfect! i love it...
I love that dress!!! And YES, huge Scandal fan here - so glad it's back!ReplyDelete
I LOVE the pink heels. I wear shoes like that when I'm pole dancing, but I don't think I could walk in them! They look amazing!ReplyDelete
I admire your ability to remain in an upright position while wearing those shoes! I'd fall flat on my face, lol!ReplyDelete
You look amazing in this. I can't decide which is my favorite part, though. Maybe the dress.ReplyDelete
What a perfect ensemble for spring. I'm loving it!ReplyDelete
What a great outfit! I love those shoes. I can't wait to be able to wear outfits like this again when the weather gets warmer.ReplyDelete
I love when I start seeing spring colors in clothing, that means it is getting close. That dress looks great on you, I love all the colors in it.ReplyDelete
I am totally loving your pink pumps! love it, sexy!ReplyDelete
What a lovely dress. It fits you so well, and definitely lets you flaunt your fab figure!ReplyDelete
Pretty colors on the dress! I could never pull off pink, nor the shoes. You look great!ReplyDelete
You look great! I can't believe you can walk in those shoes though!ReplyDelete
I love that dress it is absolutely gorgeous. I am a big pink fan.ReplyDelete
Great outfit! I am a Scandal fan as well.ReplyDelete
love everything, the hair, dress, shoes. Killing it girl.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love that dress! It is so cute and it looks great on you!ReplyDelete
I love, i love everything, first your gown looks great and your shoes are to die for and your hair is wow... you go girl and keep doing fashion at its peak
love everything about this look.
you look great.
Pretty dress and pattern. You rocked it with the pink shoes... very spring!ReplyDelete
Oh yes, I've been hooked on Scandal since the first episode, I love that show! I'm so happy it's back, it seemed like such a long break. I love your dress and the clutch! That is definitely something I would wear in a heartbeat. You look fabulous girl!ReplyDelete
I have Scandal queued up in my Netflix but haven't watched a single episode yet. I tell you what though, I sure was excited for Grey's Anatomy to return!ReplyDelete
Love you look, very elegant!
If you want, we can follow each other. Kisses
Your outfit is so lovely! :)
Amazing dress! Love the print! And it fits perfectly!
xo, Kenya
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When you have an upstart OCP Director of Planning willing to OVERTURN and IGNORE city council decisive stay in prohibiting gaming facilities in all neighbourhoods! Proves just how underhanded our mayor and city planning department have all become. Undermining our community neighbourhoods calling them callously "site specific". #thejigisup
We have 3 city councillors: "neighbourhood site specific" Buchanan, Back, Keating and the mayor tied to a financially strapped double dipping donor Darwin Properties project that will ultimately destroy and up-heave a neighbourhood with EIGHT YEARS of construction! And we have 3 city councillors: Bookham, Bell and Clark proposing to spend over $160 million on a MegaRecDome with insufficient monies in their HJ coffers!
There isn't one financial institution in the world that would finance either one of these projects – otherwise they would have. This squandering of taxpayers money has to stop, but how I have no idea unless there is a mass peoples revolt which I am in no way thwarting, yet. A triple whammy right smack dab in the face of every city taxpayer! Perhaps the only way to stop this crafted density madness is by NOT RE-ELECTING any of these city councillors in October. #OustAllCityCouncillors
And then with a new hopefully untainted city council in place (and new city planning director) perhaps roadblocks can be set up making these projects nonviable or at least abbreviated as they will both be in very early financially unsecured stages of development.
First and foremost after the new city council has been elected, it should consider putting these projects in escrow, suspending our OCP – and maybe doing a little city planning house cleaning… The sale of cannabis is inevitable but the city's tax revenue share will not be enough to finance one never mind both projects financial shortcomings.
And this is where the mayor's largest gaming donor, Tom Nellis comes out from behind the greased curtain and embraces the mayor and his three despicable indebted team slate councillors and count me in: Councillors Bookham, Clark and Bell. "I knew I could count on you all to do whatever it would take in order to build my casino. …moo-waah" #KissOfDeath

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Our Daily Bleed...
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
by Edna St. Vincent Millay from Collected Poems
American surrealist poet, radical historian,
anarchist activist, publisher.
England: OLD MAN'S DAY: A 16th Century man's lucky escape from premature internment is still celebrated in Braughing, Herts. It's good to be alive.
Spain: FEAST OF GUARDIAN ANGELS, Bonfire on steps of church, sword dancing, & mock duel with constant interruptions from "Devil Fool" & "Boy Angel." Devil's tail explodes at finale. The girls' skirts are pinned up to reveal panties. Much music & feasting.
"Villon is the very archetype, the poet laureate of 500 years of the counterculture. So clearly does he speak for a way of life that his name has become a common noun & adjective in European languages."
Kenneth Rexroth, Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs
Daily Bleed Patron Saint
2003-4 forever
American revolutionist, beer brewer.
More truly radical than the current
history textbooks dare allow.
A major leader & activist in the American Revolution, led protest against the Stamp Act, founder of the Sons of Liberty, principal organizer of the Boston Tea Party, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1871 -- Mormon leader Brigham Young arrested for polygamy.
1879 -- Poet Wallace Stevens lives, Reading, Pennsylvania. US poet. Not until late in his life was he read widely or recognized as a major poet. Stevens, drunk at a dinner for the Harvard junior class, recites his class ode & passes out. Didna return for his senior year.
1883 -- Louis Laurent (1883-1972) lives, Paris. Libertarian militant & revolutionary trade unionist, member of the Revolutionary Anarchist Union & the Anarchist Federation of Languedoc in the 30s. Helped publish various libertarian journals, worked with league of conscientious objectors & the CGT-SR (revolutionary trade union). Helped found Libertarian in 1968.
1890 -- Great Marxist?: Groucho Marx, great film comedian, lives.
"I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
1898 -- US: Otis J. Rene lives, New Orleans, LA. With his younger brother Leon, he establishes Exclusive & Excelsior Records in L.A. in the 1930's. By the mid-1940's, the brothers are leading independent record producers whose artists include Nat King Cole, Herb Jeffries, & Johnny Otis.
1901 -- Roy Campbell lives. Poet whose vigorous extrovert verse contrasted with the uneasy self-searching of the more prominent socially conscious English poets of the 1930s.
His novels treat life's moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings. Wrote Our Man in Havana, Third Man, Brighton Rock, & one of the best novels of the Vietnam War, The Quiet American.
One of the most widely read novelists of the 20th-century, a superb storyteller. Many of his books have been filmed. A Nobel Prize candidate several times, but never received the award
See: Graham Greene: The Man Within by Michael Shelden (1994).
http://web.archive.org/ ... /members.tripod.com/~greeneland/
1910 -- Italy: First two-aircraft collision, Milan.
1920 -- US: Baseballs' only tripleheader of the century (Reds win 2, Pirates win 1).
1921 -- Edmund Crispin lives. British mystery writer, a blend of John Dickson Carr, Michael Innes & Marx Brothers.
1926 -- Author Jan Morris (originally James Morris) author of Conundrum lives, Wales.
1928 -- Spanky McFarland, actor ("Little Rascals"), lives.
1934 -- US: American Federation of Labor (AFL) takes official stand in support of the six hour day, five day work week.
1934 -- Canada: Emma Goldman delivers a series of eight lectures at Forester's Hall, Toronto, on literary & political topics, including George Bernard Shaw, munitions manufacturers, Russian literature since the revolution, & German literature & the Nazi book-burnings.
e have always lived in slums & holes in the wall. . . We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, we can also build. It is we the workers who built these palaces & cities, here in Spain & in America & everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. & better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast & ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
e carry a new world here, in our hearts, & that world is growing in this minute.
Buenaventura Durruti http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DurrutiColumnEarly.htm
1936 -- US: Drinks On the House?: First alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas.
1936 -- Spain: The CAMC (Central Anti-Fascist Militias Committee, founded July 21, 1936 in Catalonia) is wound up.
1936 -- Italy: During this month, Il comitato centrale del Partito comunista dichiara di fare proprio "il programma fascista del 1919." Il ceppo comune (socialismo burocratico parolaio) finisce per dare gli stessi frutti (fascismo e comunismo) e gli stessi programmi.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]
1937 -- Historian David W. McCullough lives, Canonsberg, Pennsylvania. Wrote Brooklyn & How It Got That Way.
1937 -- US: Two showings this evening of the Louis Frank film, "Fury over Spain," in Detroit, Michigan.
http://books.google.com/books ... =film%20%22fury%20over%20spain
1937 -- US: Police raid Denver hotel, arrest Sam Caldwell for possession of two joints.
1939 -- Birdbaths installed in Union Square, San Francisco.
1942 -- Queen Mary slices cruiser Curacao in half, killing 338.
1942 -- Chain Mail?: First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago. The nuclear chain reaction is still going... & going... & ...going.
1943 -- Machine Gun Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009) loaded this a.m., armed & dangerous.
Author, poet, editor, primary figure of the Surrealist movement in the US, publisher of Black Swan Press, director of the Chicago publishing house, Charles H. Kerr & Co. Companion of artist Penelope Rosemont.
Joseph Jablonski Remembers,
1944 -- Poland: The 63-day Warsaw revolt against Nazi occupation is finally crushed by German forces, at the cost of 250,000 Polish lives.
1947 -- US: Ward Churchill lives, radical Native American author & activist.
1956 -- US: Power Lunch? First atomic power clock exhibited, New York City.
"Don't you hear the H-bomb's thunder / Echo like the crack of doom?" John Brunner, Scifi author, CND marching song
1963 -- US: Dupont Company holds a press conference to introduce Corfam to the public. Yummie!
1966 -- England: Eight arrested for heckling British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in church regarding Vietnam War, Brighton.
1967 -- US: Thurgood Marshall is first African American appointed to Supreme Court.
1967 -- US: All six members of the Grateful Dead are busted by California narcotics agents for possession of marijuana. It happens at the groups' 710-Ashbury Street House, across the street from where the mother of Nummer One Son, & other Daily Bleed recipients once lived, in Frisco.
After six hours, they are released on bail. Neighbors complain of uniformed riff-raff hanging around, looking suspicious.
http://web.archive.org/ ... sixties.com/html/710_ashbury.html
1968 -- Mexico City: Tlatelolco Massacre, student demonstration is drowned in blood.
At the Plaza of Three Cultures, some 15,000 students attempt to protest against the armys occupation of the University.
1970 -- Coach Fare?: An illegally operated charter plane carrying part of the Wichita State University football team crashes in the Rockies, killing 29, including 13 players & the coach.
1970 -- US: Environmental Protection Agency established.
1970 -- US: Black Panthers come out in public support of the General Motors wildcat strike.
Source: [Calendar Riots]
1971 -- Martha?: Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race.
1973 -- The best of the Bay area's rock talent stage a benefit for a "friend" named Badger. Promoter Bill Graham is ticked because Badger turns out to be a member of the Hell's Angels who needs legal aid. Graham is well-known to be no fan of the outlaw motorcycle gang.
1976 -- John Belushi comes out during the second verse of Joe Cocker's rendition of "Feeling Alright" on TV's "Saturday Night Live." Belushi performs his exaggeratedly spastic imitation of Cocker. The crowd goes nuts & Cocker, familiar with Belushi's "tribute" to him, claims that so long as his band likes it,
"I'm as happy as a pig in shit."
1977 -- After a month of numerous attempts to steal the body of Elvis Presley from Forest Hill Cemetery, both Presley's & his grandmother's bodies are moved to Graceland.
1985 -- US: National Center of Health reports the suicide rate on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming is almost 20 times higher than the national average.
1985 -- "The Rock" dies of AIDS. Shirley (wife of Pat) rushes into his home, grabs his legs & speaks in tongues for a half hour in a futile effort to resurrect him.
1986 -- US: Congress overrides Reagan's veto & passes South African sanctions. This is a culmination of efforts by Trans-Africa's Randall Robinson, Rep. Mickey Leland & others, begun almost two years earlier with Robinson's arrest in front of the South African Embassy in Washington, DC.
1986 -- "Jump Start" premiers in 40 newspapers in the US. The comic strip creation of 26-year-old Robb Armstrong, the youngest African-American to have a syndicated comic strip. He follows in the footsteps of Morrie Turner, the creator of "Wee Pals," the first African-American syndicated comic strip.
1987 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Bush continues his loose-lipped trek across Europe, telling a Brussels audience Soviet tanks are so well built that the mechanics should be sent to Detroit "because we could use that kind of ability."
1990 -- Germany: Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by the Doors.
1990 -- US: 30 protesters delay old-growth tree cutting on sacred Mount Graham, Arizona; seven arrested.
1990 -- US: Radical psychoanalytic critic & philosopher Norman O. Brown dies, Santa Cruz, California.
1991 -- Henry Le Fèvre dies. French vegetarian, pacifist, anarchist, & publisher of Le Néo Naturien, «revue des idées philosophiques etnaturiennes». See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
1992 -- US: Bloomington, Indiana, Midwest anarchist gathering.
1998 -- México: 200,000 commemorate the victims of the 1968 México City massacre, when students, workers & supporters were slaughtered wholesale in October, in La Noche de Tlatelolco.
1999 -- US: The controversial art show "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" opens at the Brooklyn Museum of Art & causes a big stink. The show includes Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary" fashioned with some elephant dung.
Beloved & Respected Comrade Mayor "Is This A Photo Op?" Rudy Giuliani withholds the museum's monthly city subsidy & starts eviction proceedings.
On November 1, 1999, US District Judge Nina Gershon rules that Hizzoner Photo Op has no right to cut off subsidies to the Brooklyn Museum of Art for displaying art that he opposes.
2001 -- "When the Layabouts play, people dance!"
US: The Layabouts play, Rock Against Profiling!
The Layabouts (Detroit): B-Movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPUPWkOO1Ok
2004 -- Italy: Enzo Santarelli dies. Lhistorien marxiste de lanarchisme italien.
2004 -- US: Books Against Borders: St. Louis Independent Bookfair. Free, all-day celebration & exhibition.
2007 -- US: IWW Starbucks Workers Union baristas at the Wealthy St.(!) Starbucks in East Grand Rapids, Michigan win their grievances against the world's largest coffee chain. Starbucks, notorious for poor treatment of workers, chooses to settle after the NLRB nails them for anti-labor violations.
2010 -- France: Millions demonstrate on the streets for a third day in more than 200 protests against Beloved & Respected Comrade President Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.
3000 --
"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."
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skies over Safety Beach...
a beach
haunted with shadow
light in limbo
Linking to:
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NOTE - My Memes
Scenic Weekends
Monday Mellow Yellows
Wednesday Waters
I measure out my life with haiku. My camera films my soul. ~ Gemma Wiseman
Lovely skies for the day, Gemma! Great capture of the beach and skies!! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
I just love this. Light in limbo ... a beautiful image in words and picture.
Such a panoramic shot! Gorgeous!
Happy Weekend to you,
artmusedog and carol
very pretty scene
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I believe almost everyone who has been involved in the metal scene at least for a couple of years knows who Otep Shamaya and her band Otep is. The news and controversy sometimes spoke for themselves! But is she really what the press makes out of her? With the newest release 'Hydra', it was stated that this will be the last record the band will make. Needless to say, as curious as I am and because I did not want to miss the opportunity to know her better, here is an interview with the great artist and brain behind the band Otep:
Alexandra: Hi Otep, and thank you for accepting this interview request! 'Hydra' is your latest brainchild and what you mentioned to be your last album. Why do you wish to retire? Do you think you have expressed everything you ever had to say with this last record?
Otep Shamaya: Well, for me this is just a beginning. 'HYDRA' was just written four months ago. It didn't exist five months ago. It was only released one month ago. We just filmed the video a few weeks ago and was just released a few days ago. Now we get to take these amazing songs and messages and give them life on stage. It's just a beginning for me.
The cover of 'Hydra' is quite awesome! What was the concept behind it and who came up with the idea?
'HYDRA' has a habit of marking her rituals with the handprint of her victims. In the bloody mark she carves her name, HYDRA. I worked with the amazing artist Joey James to create this incredible symbol.
Your newest video is for the song 'Apex Predator'. While browsing through the lyrics one can notice that the main character is a she. Is this song talking about your inner demons or maybe a sort of alter ego?
It's true most of my work is somewhat autobiographical. I suppose HYDRA is the worst part of me and maybe the best part of me as well. The best in the same way your loyal dog would bite your friend or family member because it was protecting you, the worst in the way she sees the vast emptiness of the world and is always looking to fill her god-hole.
You created quite some controversy throughout the years. What was the most unfair thing stated about you or the worst assumption people made without actually talking to you?
I laugh because where do I begin? Well, I suppose there are several things people assume. One is that I'm fairly unhappy which is untrue. Art has saved me and made me a stronger more confident person. It has taught me to love life, to seek life, to explore and grow. The other is that I hate men which always seems laughable to me. My band is male, my manager is male, my lawyer is male, my father and brothers are male, my best pal is male. Just because I am a woman with a strong opinion, with strong talents and a loudmouth, yes, just because I am a woman who defies stereotypes and believes in gender equality doesn't mean I hate the other side, it just means I'm proud of who I am and what I am.
How is the everyday Otep Shamaya compared to the one on stage or the one in the studio recording new tracks?
Depends on where I am or what I am doing. It's rather quiet in my home. I'm usually studying or creating. Perhaps the MSNBC will be on in one room and Ravi Shankar in another. I'm kind of an introvert. I want to learn, I want to nourish my mind and spirit. If I am at the gym, I'm all business. Do the job, do your best, go home. If I'm out on the town, again depending on the event, I'm either a maniac or a noble savage. When it comes to the ladies, I'm Sappho and Casanova. Before I found art as means of emotional communication, I was a wreck. But through this kind of art therapy, rage therapy some have called it, I have been able to focus and compress the fire into a much more devastating and effective weapon.
Do you have any ritual you go through before writing lyrics?
I read a lot. Then I usually transcribe lyrics from book to book so I can remember the melody of the language.
You have evolved quite a lot since your first record 'Sevas Tra'. Looking back, is there something you would change?
My diet. I have struggled with my weight forever and touring is very hard on the body and mind. A healthy diet is healthy fuel for the machine.
Who or what inspires you?
My family. They are working class folks who are always seeking to do better. They work hard, they love hard. But also my fans, they are the most intelligent, passionate, and accepting people I've ever known.
Since 2002, when you released 'Sevas Tra' the music environment changed a lot, even when it comes to metal. Do you think there has been an evolution or involution?
It depends on what you mean. Musically? It seems like everyone wants to remake Pantera and Testament albums without giving Pantera and Testament the inspirational credit. It's nice to be inspired, we all have our inspirations, but give the originators their due respect! I think extreme music is in a transitional period and once the right band comes together with the right sound and the right hype it will explode again. Illegal pirating has taken a huge deadly bite out of working class bands like mine but that seems to be changing for the better. I hope so. Music is a timeless work of art that should be revered with the same respect as a Picasso or Van Gogh. Except, when life happens to you, people don't normally run to a painting, they run to their music and whatever is happening, a bad day or a good day or tough day, music gets you through it. It gives u wings, it's a warm hug, it's a lover in the night, its a warrior in the fight! Respect the art, support the artists. Music matters.
Thank you so much for your time! Any last words you would like to address to our readers?
Respect those who you disagree with. You might just learn something. Thank you.


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Renaka - About - Comments A personal website for archiving original content and showcasing reviewed works, compiling cultural phrases and StarCraft maps. 2018-10-22T05:38:53-07:00 urn:md5:18326 Dotclear About - Sato urn:md5:c8193741843d6e2bdd1aa8c8d4021138 2014-03-17T04:00:04-07:00 Sato
Still in 2014, this site is helping StarCraft gamers like me who lose their epic UMS collection. As one of the last remaining community members and UMS mappers, thank you for the service you've provided.

BTW - if you made Labyrinthos RPG - awesome job man, I just wish it wasnt so unnecessarily long - but it's an epic map, maybe the most epic on BW I think. :)
 About - seven urn:md5:dcbb38587462d0c6f0819cd57f07d625 2011-09-22T16:33:51-07:00 seven
sir, you are an immortal monument to the perpertually dying ums sc:bw community
 About - shaLL urn:md5:3d861a694871c53cefddf50a14e4d9e7 2011-04-29T16:13:37-07:00 shaLL
Good website.
 There is another bound site:

http://bounding.webs.com

It's a new website made because angelfarto.com is down. I heard that Farto may be trying to get it back up, but we'll see.
 About - Dillon urn:md5:2bb674c72b2e3b0cbe01196a53e406a4 2011-03-21T20:32:37-07:00 Dillon
You're amazing. Thank you so, so much. Do you know what happened to angelfarto's site? There's no good community for bound players anymore. I feel so alone. :(
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Signal Restaurant, Cape Grace Hotel
In Cape Town, South Africa there lies a wonderful hotel, the Cape Grace. We were blessed enough to stay there on our trip and it was an exceptional experience. Wonderful service, luxurious rooms, great waterfront location.... and, be it by fate or coincidence or just pure luck, it turns out the hotel restaurant, Signal, has a fantastic vegan tasting menu (left). I did not know that when I booked our stay and it was easily one of the best meals we had on our entire trip. Vegans, if you ever find yourself in Cape Town, save up a few pennies ($73 a person with wine) and go there. You'll be very happy you did. Here's what was on the menu:
First came this amuse bouche of avocado salad on a potato crisp. Think of it as gourmet chips and guacamole. It was like that only fresher and more flavorful. A lovely start.
This beet carpaccio and arugula salad was up next. The tahini dressing was light and refreshing and, well, I love beets, so I was sold. The root veggie chips added some crunch and made this just a delight to eat.
Our 3rd course was a 'patjuk' soup. I had no idea what patjuk was before this, but it is a Korean red bean soup, much like a very rich, dark miso. Extreme umami going on here, especially with the mushrooms, but it all came together very nicely with the spring onion to balance it out.
Next up was actually a green apple sorbet to cleanse the palate, but I must have eaten it too fast because there's no picture of it. I do know that it was the prefect thing to eat in between the soup and the rich risotto you see above. This had such a cheesy flavor that I am still unsure how they achieved. I've actually written the restaurant to try to get the recipe, but haven't heard back. If I get it, I'll let you know the secret, but for now, I can just say that it was the highlight of meal. Supremely satisfying.
Our last course before dessert was this beautiful concoction of butternut squash and greens between amoretti wafers with a playful rosemary and agave vinaigrette. Just so tasty. I love the combination of orange and green (sweet potato and kale being a favorite) so this dish was right up my alley and I thought it was the perfect ending to the savory courses.
For dessert, this gorgeous plate was perfection. An unbelievably rich chocolate caramel tart, cranberry compote, and cranberry ginger sorbet inside a sugar globe! All the flavors were top notch and hit the palate in all the right places. In addition, the smooth, warm chocolate tart was complimented nicely by the crunch of the sugar globe and the cold, bright, sorbet hidden within. We both could have eaten another one of these desserts easily. So good.
Each course also came with a South African wine pairing, all of which impressed us and made us wish we had factored in enough time for a trip to wine country. Next time! And if there is a next time, we'll definitely be back to Signal as well. Such an unexpected treat on our African adventure.
Up next, eating vegan in the bush or "Just because the guy next to you is eating impala doesn't mean you're screwed". Stay tuned!
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Who would have thought if such wonderful fare so far around the globe. Looks like it was deightful and I am glad you were so pleasantly surprised.
- July 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM
- Alex said...
These dishes are specialty of this hotel and i think people love it to eat.
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- July 9, 2010 at 7:14 AM
- Liziana Romney said...
Hotel cape grace is one of the most famous hotels in south Africa. It is one of the best luxury hotels in the world which offers great living facilities. It has its own restaurant and bars. It's also provide great and delicious food.
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The download count of Analog Book Reader a while ago was extraordinary.
Total count is about 40,000 now but the count in this term was 1600. After that, it became back to normal. I can't found any information in Google and Twitter search. A friend of mine guesses that some organization adopts the app and all the member has installed. It is strange anyway.
By the way, Weather Typing download count is about 40,000+ that I don't know the count of early days, though. Analog Book Reader download count is getting closer to that. The world is big. Weather Typing can be used in global after I developed current project so it will became global, I hope.


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I know with the S4 Active the camera had an underwater mode to take pictures underwater such as in a pool. I haven't read whether or not the S5 has an underwater camera mode. It makes wonder if it is okay to use phone underwater often the way people could with their S4 Active's. I'm thinking since an underwater camera mode has not been mentioned specifically, maybe the S5 isn't for real underwater use the way the S4 Active was.
Another theory is that Samsung is not going to give an underwater camera mode to the S5 because they could be planning to realize an S5 Active although it seems unnecessary if the S5 is "Dust Resistant".
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Roald Dahl's The BFG is a firm favourite in schools. In case you don't know the story the BFG is a big, friendly giant who befriends a little girl called Sophie. They have some interesting, hilarious and slightly scary adventures together. Children respond well to Dahl's darker vision of childhood and his understanding of the more frightening aspects of growing up. His child heroes and heroines are always resourceful and independent and usually far more competent than the adults around them.
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I want my wine gift baskets to tell a story about the great food choices that we all enjoy living in and around San Francisco.
From Napa Valley's Oxbow Public Market, some the oldest farmer's markets in the country in Berkeley, to commercial kitchens in San Francisco and warehouses in Sonoma, there's an abundant of interesting and unique food choices. These are the types of small scale artisan producers that have helped make Northern California a foodie hot spot, but even our local gift basket companies all too often feature the same tried and true products in their gift baskets.
Personally, I didn't want to create a range of gift baskets, if they included the same products that I could find at my local drug store.
Instead, I wanted to craft gift baskets that tell the story of food where I live, the type of food that tourists search out, rave about and that unfortunately, are only be made in such small quantities that they aren't readily available outside of the Bay Area.
From locally produced chocolate that has helped my oldest son believe that being a chocolatier is a valid professional choice, to jams and mustard grown in Napa Valley, separated by little more than a driveway from Cabernet Sauvignon vines making world class wine, there is a vibrant food culture that abounds.
You'll notice that I feature a smaller number of gift baskets than my larger competitors. That's largely because I want my gift baskets to tell a story about what's happening in the food story in San Francisco and wine country beyond. As much as I like Peet's and other brands that have grown up in and around San Francisco, I don't think I'm providing much of a service by featuring them in my gift baskets. In the coming months I'll be adding a handful of new gift basket choices. They'll feature more products from San Francisco, Oakland and the rest of the east bay, as well as Napa Valley, Sonoma and other wine regions that I regularly visit such as Walla Walla and the Willamette Valley. Uncorked Ventures is also a member of 1% For the Planet and we have a range of environmentally friendly wine gift baskets, sourced entirely from other 1% FTP members coming in the next few months.


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Thatgamecompany, developers of such awesome games like Flower, Journey and Flow, have hinted that a new game may be coming later this year. When a fan on Twitter asked what was next for the studio, Jenova Chen, co-founder & creative director of thatgamecompany, replied saying "Hopefully you will hear about it this year,".
Thatgamecompany had signed a deal with Sony to release three games exclusively on the PlayStation 3. With the release of Journey, Thatgamecompany has fulfilled their promise and are now free to create games for anyone they choose. Since parting ways with Sony, the studio has said that they would like to release their next project "on as many platforms as possible".


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We report sequencing-based whole-genome association analyses to evaluate the impact of rare and founder variants on stature in 6,307 individuals on the island of Sardinia. We identify two variants with large effects. One variant, which introduces a stop codon in the GHR gene, is relatively frequent in Sardinia (0.87% versus <0.01% elsewhere) and in the homozygous state causes Laron syndrome involving short stature. We find that this variant reduces height in heterozygotes by an average of 4.2 cm (−0.64 s.d.). The other variant, in the imprinted KCNQ1 gene (minor allele frequency (MAF) = 7.7% in Sardinia versus <1% elsewhere) reduces height by an average of 1.83 cm (−0.31 s.d.) when maternally inherited. Additionally, polygenic scores indicate that known height-decreasing alleles are at systematically higher frequencies in Sardinians than would be expected by genetic drift. The findings are consistent with selection for shorter stature in Sardinia and a suggestive human example of the proposed 'island effect' reducing the size of large mammals.
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We report ~17.6 million genetic variants from whole-genome sequencing of 2,120 Sardinians; 22% are absent from previous sequencing-based compilations and are enriched for predicted functional consequences. Furthermore, ~76,000 variants common in our sample (frequency >5%) are rare elsewhere (<0.5% in the 1000 Genomes Project). We assessed the impact of these variants on circulating lipid levels and five inflammatory biomarkers. We observe 14 signals, including 2 major new loci, for lipid levels and 19 signals, including 2 new loci, for inflammatory markers. The new associations would have been missed in analyses based on 1000 Genomes Project data, underlining the advantages of large-scale sequencing in this founder population.
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Takao Baigo is a popular Ume, Japanese plum, spot located in Hachioji, Tokyo. There is 4 plum forests 10,000 plum trees. Plumes are planted on the side of Kosyu Road. Around the middle of March, white and red beautiful flowers bloom with nice smell. Many people visit here in the season to enjoy arrival of Spring. The entire sites are about 4.5km long, so it offers great hiking for all generation.
In this garden, you can enjoy white and red plum trees. There is strolling pass and place for lunch. Pet is allowed but no party.


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Sunday, January 15, 2006
Pinkeye Redux?
The other part of this story is that I got some looks from my brother-in-law when I went to visit my father-in-law in the hospital. When John (said BIL) asked how church was that morning, I said I didn't go because I thought/think I had/have pinkeye. So he looked at me with "How-dare-you-come-into-the-hospital-and-infect-my-father-you-dumb-bitch" face. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it. Anyway, my response was, "Well, I really don't think it was pinkeye anyway, and besides, I'm not touching him." Except that I had just opened his silverware for his dinner, and unpeeled the paper from his straw, and helped rearrange the blankets on his bed. Well, as I said before, I REALLY DON'T THINK I HAVE/HAD PINKEYE!!! So then I should have gone to church.
Ugh, you see how this gets ugly. Let's change the subject.
So, I went to Tiffany last night with dear, dear husband and got the aformentioned earrings (see below) but not the ring. I have giant, humungoid lumpy fingers, you see, so the leaf ring looked like it should be on the fingers of a troll when I put it on, it had to be so big. Instead, DH and I decided on this lovely, delicate band:
We also had awesome dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. All in all, a great trip to KOP!
Well, if you'll excuse, I think I'm going to go try to actually knit. I've noticed that lately I've been reading about knitting, blogging about knitting, updating and customizing my blog about knitting, etc. etc. etc., yet I've not done any actualy knitting. So, tonight, I forge ahead!!!
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- Jacquie said...
No guilt! You spent a morning at home recuperating and protecting the world really from a dreaded disease(ok, slight exagerration)- but honestly- don't beat yourself up about making a judgement call at the time. It really is ok, and no one else will spend nearly the amount of time worrying about it that you will. Just spend some time thinking that your fil is probably already on some antibiotic type stuff anyway...
All this is just a long comment from someone who adores you and wants you to stress less! loveya Sarah!
- Jacquie said...
One more note- I can't wait to see the jewelry! Looks good in the pics! Lucky girl...
- AngeliasKnitting said...
Love the jewelry (love - jewelry - does that even need to be said??). Don't beat yourself up about the pink eye thing. Probably was an allergy thing (unless your eye's still pink) - alot of that going around this year. If it was pink eye, as long as you don't touch your eye and then touch someone else, you don't have a problem. :-)
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Their research has shown that even relatively poor countries like Bolivia and Ghana have reduced the numbers of children dying. They've done this by focusing resources on helping the poorest and most disadvantaged people.
Countries making slow or no progress on reducing the number of children dying tend to have greater disparities between the richest and poorest people living there. This shows that the approach a government takes – not its resources – is most important in reducing child mortality.
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Few regions on the planet can claim to be as diverse as America's glorious West. Here is a place that is vastly well known, thanks in part to the famous California cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Then there is the region's splendid coastline – sun-kissed and iconic in California, more wild and forested as it runs north into Oregon and Washington.
But head inland, and the West also turns to dust. Las Vegas sparkles in its desert setting as the biggest city in Nevada. Utah throws forth epic rock formations – not least amid the high monoliths of Monument Valley and the scarred earth of Canyonlands National Park.
There are also mountain states: Colorado, where the Rockies rear up magnificently; Idaho and Montana, where the combination of wide blue skies and frosted peaks is incredibly photogenic; Wyoming, where the geysers of Yellowstone National Park spurt their fury.
Then there is the outsider – Alaska, the far north-western corner of the USA, a vast realm of colossal summits and ancient glaciers that stands as the Great Outdoors at its greatest.
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1. Soda Can Key Chain at Diary of a Crafty Lady. I love key chains! I have a whole box just full of key chains that I've collected since I was way little. This little project is just so unique . I have a a coca cola key chain, but nothing like this. I love the fact that you can design it yourself. Can you imagine the possibilities with this? You could even make soda can earrings!


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Now that I've caught up with my sleep and the in-tray for the day job I feel ready for another post, and predictably it is a new batch of statporn, though I promise you haven't seen this before - not from me anyway.
I have strong but mixed feelings about Debt Clocks - here's one of ours, courtesy of the awkwardly transliterated Xrimanews.gr. In countries where government debt is not the number one issue on the agenda, a good deal of the population tends not to know just how much debt the state has picked up in their name. This is not too dissimilar to what individuals in too much debt do (a more academic treatment here and here) and the behavioural results are similar too. Such tools can give the people a sense of proportion. But while being able to visualise debt in this way tends to make people think, in practice it is not very actionable. By the time a country has a Debt clock built for itself, it is usually in too much debt already.
I was wondering, on the other hand, what kinds of clocks we could build for Greece that would mean something to the Greek people. If we're counting down to anything these days, it is surely D-Day, the day we get to default. And this is not a matter of time but of fiscal dynamics. Converting these into time variables is not straightforward.
As it happens, there are three sets of figures we can use that do sort of suggest timings.
The first is the primary deficit, which counts down the distance left to run until we can secure an orderly default. I should point out that, unlike the Greek ministry of finance and some defaultniks, I'm counting public investment against the primary deficit. The reason is simple: public investment is the most productive part of government spending, as we've discussed here, here and in Greek here. In the event of default, it should be among the last budget items to go.
So how is that primary deficit coming along? Below is a graph of our monthly primary deficits, collated by yours truly from the monthly budget execution bulletins available here. Please note this is the Central Government budget as opposed to the General Government budget, where the data take much longer to produce and are much less reliable. Even with these caveats, I can only go as far back as Jan 2009 and can only follow the data up to May 2011 - but I will update as more data come in.
@ggementzis for spotting this. The hollow datapoints are my own naive forecasts, read on for details on how these were calculated.]
The bottom line here is that the 2011 budget isn't really working out. While 2010 was an improvement over 2009 in nearly every month, 2011 hasn't been an outright improvement on 2010 so far - only two out of five months have returned a smaller deficit or larger surplus. If the above graph doesn't really speak to you, maybe this one does: it would suggest austerity as currently pursued depends hugely on political timing and is producing diminishing returns.
Actually, this graph is a little scarier than that, because it's actually very easy to describe the trend involved. It's essentially a negative sine with a linear trend thrown in, or at least that's what it behaves like. Crucially, the trend points upwards.
[UPDATE] My longtime reader Chris Voltaire has pointed out over Twitter that running a regression with 15 observations is risky. He is too kind, of course. It is stupid and pointless. However, my purpose is not really to derive a forecast (even though I do). I only want to show what the trend has been so far and because of the seasonal variation involved I can only do this by deriving a forecast of sorts. Apologies.
If you run these figures forward, the forecast is for a primary deficit of EUR5.893bn, against EUR6.231bn last year. So we're only really on track to shave EUR338m off the primary deficit this year and at this rate it will take us 17 years to be able to default. Not good. It is probably this realisation that underlies our latest batch of austerity measures, which I've seen fellow libertarians criticise quite strongly. I will return with more commentary there. For now I should point out that there's more than one way of delivering a primary surplus, and I'm on the record as saying that taxation isn't a very effective one, for reasons to do with administration and equality.
Chris also points out that the Greek state is looking forward to some extraordinary income from property tax arrears in 2011, which readers would do well to take note of. Now in my days of trying to scrape by on £5 a day in London so I could afford my rent and the occasional drink, I used to have a rule: there is no truly extraordinary income and no extraordinary expenses. Better to assume that every month £100 will get spent that you can't plan for, and £20 will come in that you don't expect. It's a similar case here. The Greek state had extraordinary revenue in 2010 from the 2009 business levy, then more extraordinary revenue with the tax amnesty, and probably more that I can't keep track of. My point is that these 'extraordinary' income drives are driven by cyclical revenue figures rather than vice versa, so in one sense it doesn't really matter what income we're looking forward to.
But this is dodging Chris' argument. The real answer is that I can only keep monitoring the data - when that money comes in, I'll check again to see whether it's shifted the trend. That's all anyone can do really. For instance, just today (11 July) the preliminary figures for June came in - indicating a primary deficit of EUR1.356bn for the month. This in turn is consistent with a EUR7.1bn primary deficit for the year, taking us way off course.
Incidentally, the first graph I've presented here also reveals one more useful thing: that the most fiscally positive months for Greece are January, July and October in that order. This will be important to anyone trying to time a Greek default while we're still still running a primary deficit.
The second way of timing a default is to look at the exposure of European (in particular French and German) banks to Greece, particularly the Greek sovereign and Greek banks. The only reason we are in this state of suspended animation, from a foreigner's point of view, is in order to prevent massive losses to European banks and the associated contagion. If they could magically remove their exposure to Greece overnight, we would be forced to default at once, whether we liked it or not. This begs the question of how far along they are in dumping Greek assets.
I should note at this point that the markets for most Greek assets are currently very illiquid, so banks are very worried about dumping them as they are unlikely to get a good price. Moreover, when they sell banks have to record losses, whereas a rapidly depreciating bond can be held to maturity without showing a loss. All of this makes it difficult for foreign banks to dump Greek bonds.
You can review the latest data on exposures to Greece with commentary from yours truly here. But what is the trend? Well here we have a problem because the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the source of all such statistics, has only started providing data with a sector x country breakdown in Q4 2010. Further back, we can only look at aggregates, which are much less useful. But let's see what we can find. The graph below outlines the exposure of banks in Europe, France and Germany to Greece (that's total exposure, including the Greek sovereign, Greek banks and the Greek non-bank private sector:
These data suggest that since the Greek crisis began in late 2009, French and German bank exposure is falling at a rate of 2% every month, or about EUR2bn per month. At this rate, it will take 44 months, or until August 2014, for them to reduce their exposure to zero.
Realistically, French and German banks will never manage this, and even if they could or wanted to, they don't need to wait that long, as they only need to cut their exposure enough so that they can remain capitalised when we default. Also recall that this is total exposure to the country, and although it makes sense to dump Greek banks alongside Greek bonds, it probably doesn't make sense to dump all Greek assets altogether.
But this is the general direction of travel.The query in question can be replicated by trying this link.
More to come, as I've still got data to crunch. For now the verdict is that we're more likely to be pushed than to jump unless we can come up with a real show-stopper. Somehow I doubt we will.
There is of course a third clock ticking away. Every quarter I watch the labour market statistics for clues of rising stress. My favourite index is of course the share of the unemployed that turned down job offers in the last quarter; the rationale is that once the fat has gone out of the land and people are forced to take whatever crappy job comes along or drop out of the labour force altogether the result is very angry people in the workplace or on the streets. Regular readers should not need any reminder but the graph as of Q1 2011 is as follows:


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Burbank Councilman Gary Bric's restaurant will be closed for up to six weeks after a stolen car rammed into the building late Monday night, causing an estimated $150,000 in damages, the councilman said.
Prior to the crash, police saw the car driving at high speed on the southbound Golden State (5) Freeway, according to Los Angeles Police Sgt. David Delgado.
As police pursued, the motorist exited onto Hollywood Way, ran a stop sign and clipped another vehicle before crashing into the business, called Gary Bric's Ramp, located 7730 N. Hollywood Way in Sun Valley, Delgado said.


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A Word About the Author
This blog, now active since 2011, is mainly the result of my efforts to bring to public domain the information from presentations, posters and discussions taking place at the Neutrino Telescopes conferences. I thus thought I would put here some information on myself here.
My name is Tommaso Dorigo. I am not a neutrino physicist – in fact I have spent all my research time at particle colliders, collaborating with CDF (1992-2012) and CMS (2001-present). Since 2005 I have a blog where I do outreach in particle physics and related topics. My current web site is at http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor – the name "Quantum Diaries Survivor" comes from the 2005 "Quantum Diaries" endeavour, to which I was asked to participate as an activity for the "international year of physics". I found out I got a kick from blogging, and I have not stopped since. The web contains over 2000 articles I wrote in the course of the last 13 years. About 200 of them are in this site, which I only attend to during the week of the conference.
I am employed by INFN at the University of Padova. Since 2015 I am the scientific coordinator of the European project AMVA4NewPhysics, a ITN network of 18 nodes which trains early-stage researchers in physics and machine learning. I am also an editor of the Elsevier journal Reviews in Physics. In 2016 I published the book "Anomaly! Collider physics and the quest for new phenomena at Fermilab" (see cover on the right; you can purchase a copy of the book here).
Speaking of the book, which describes the sociology of a large particle physics experiment (CDF) confronting with different views on how to handle anomalous signals unearthed in thedata, below I paste a few reviews and links.
"From the mid-1980s, an international collaboration of 600 physicists embarked on the investigation of subnuclear physics at the high-energy frontier. As well as discovering the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle ever observed, the physicists analyzed their data to seek signals of new physics which could revolutionize our understanding of nature.
Anomaly! tells the story of that quest, and focuses specifically on the finding of several unexplained effects which were unearthed in the process. These anomalies proved highly controversial within the large team: to some collaborators they called for immediate publication, while to others their divulgation threatened to jeopardize the reputation of the experiment.
Written in a confidential, narrative style, this book looks at the sociology of a large scientific collaboration, providing insight in the relationships between top physicists at the turn of the millennium. The stories offer an insider's view of the life cycle of the "failed" discoveries that unavoidably accompany even the greatest endeavors in modern particle physics."
"In this book, Tommaso Dorigo gives the reader a fascinating look at experimental elementary particle physics from the inside, showing the warts as well as the triumphs. Unusually for such a book, he focuses not just on the discoveries and the milestone measurements, but also on the would-be discoveries that did not pan out — the apparent departures from the Standard Model of particle physics that turned out to result from statistical fluctuations or imprecise modeling. The reader will come away with a new appreciation for the challenges of doing high energy experimental physics and getting it right." – Edward Witten, 1990 Fields Medallist, Princeton University
"Dorigo has written a charming and irreverent description of how a successful, large, particle physics collider detector group functioned to make important discoveries — and to avoid mistakes. The approach is continuous anecdotes, and along the way the reader learns enough physics to grasp the outcomes. He also makes clear how physicists know well who should get credit for major contributions even in a large detector group." – Gordon Kane, Author of "Supersymmetry and Beyond", 2013
" Tommaso Dorigo's Anomaly! is itself an anomaly amidst popular science books, giving an unusually lively and clear-eyed inside look at how physics is done at the large particle collider collaborations. The physics results from the Tevatron collider have now entered the textbooks, but the very human story of the suspenseful twists and turns behind them has never before been told. If you're even slightly interested in how particle physics is really done, this is your chance to find out. Dorigo is a talented and irreverent scientist, but at the same time a compelling and entertaining writer, and Anomaly! brings the recent history of high energy physics to life." – Peter Woit, Author of "Not Even Wrong", 2006
"Elementary particles don't have ambitions or emotions, but the people who study them surely do. In Anomaly!, Tommaso Dorigo takes you on an expert-guided journey into both the massive machines that discover the building blocks of nature, and the egos and ids of the scientists behind them. An entertaining and provocative view into what life is really like on the cutting edge of physics." – Sean Carroll, author of "The Particle at the End of the Universe", 2012
"A captivating narrative that makes you feel the excitement of an experiment on the verge of a fundamental physics discovery." – Gianfrancesco Giudice, author of A Zeptospace Odyssey, 2009
"What makes Anomaly! unique is the sense of what research is like within a collaboration determined to make history. There have been other accounts of discovery in particle physics experiments … But none has captured the boom-and-bust cycle of collaborative frontier science quite so well and quite so entertainingly as Dorigo. His lively tour of the false discoveries and crushed ambitions, the outrageous hope, hard work and intense focus is a guilty pleasure in the very best sense." – Times Higher Education
– by Peter Woit at "Not Even Wrong"
– by Tara Shears at "Times Higher Education"
– by Tristan du Pree at "The Reference Frame"
– by Andrea Giammanco for the "Italian Physics Society"


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1. Licensing
2. Ownership Requirements
3. Arrangement of Local Sponsors
4. Legal Structures for Business
Company formation in Dubai
The basic requirement for all business activity in Dubai is one of the following three categories of licenses:
These licenses are all issued by the Dubai Economic Department. However, licenses for some categories of business require approval from certain ministries and other authorities: for example, banks and financial institutions from the Central Bank of the UAE; insurance companies and related agencies from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce; manufacturing from the Ministry of Finance and Industry; and pharmaceutical and medical products from the Ministry of Health.
More detailed procedures apply to businesses engaged in oil or gas production and related industries.
Practicing some trade activities (e.g. jewellery and insurance) requires the submission of a financial guarantee issued by a bank operating in Dubai.
In general, all commercial and industrial businesses in Dubai should be registered with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Ownership Requirements
Fifty-one per cent participation by UAE nationals is the general requirement for all UAE established companies except:
In respect of foreign companies registering branches or a representative office in Dubai; In professional or artisan companies where 100% foreign ownership is permitted.
A Limited Liability Company (L.L.C) can be formed with 49% shareholding of expatriates and 51% shareholding in favour of local U.A.E. national. Nominee arrangement is normally made with U.A.E. national to hold the mandatory shares in favour of expatriate partner. This provides effective total control to manage the company and enjoy all profit. The minimum capital required to form an L.L.C. in Dubai is US$ 81,800 which has to be deposited in bank and shall be blocked for approximately 2 weeks time.
The L.L.C should have specific activities as per classification made by the Department of Economic Development, Dubai. Only one category of activities is given to one company except in General Trading where minimum capital requirement is US$ 818,000.L.L.C. is perhaps the only type of entity available for trading and manufacturing concerns.
Arrangement of Local Sponsors
In United Arab Emirates mainland, all types of business entities require local partner/sponsor. Often enterprises, without any intermediary support, meet with inappropriate local partner/sponsor. Kayzed has empanelled disciplined U.A.E nationals with varied background and expertise to choose from. All these U.A.E. nationals are well educated with fluency in English.
A Foreign company can form a branch of such company with 100% shareholding in the name of Head Office with the appointment of U.A.E., national as an agent. Such entity except in the cases of banks or insurance companies , would not be permitted to involve in actual trading which would only be permitted through awarding agency to U.A.E. operating company.
Such office can be established in the Emirate of Dubai by any International Company or enterprise to represent in the UAE in order to promote its products and services, expand its activities or facilitate the conclusion of commercial contractual agreements between the company represented by the office and its client. Such an office neither carry out any trading activity nor enter into any commercial deals of whatsoever nature
Procedures & Cost: A company in any free zone can be established either as a free zone establishment (FZE) or a branch of the foreign company. Such company can be owned 100% by foreign investor with no involvement of local partner or sponsor.
Currently there are more then 20 Free Zones in U.A.E., which offer the following incentives to the investors:
In general, most of the free zones issue the following types of licenses:
Currently there are more then 20 Free Zones in U.A.E., which offer the following incentives to the investors. Some of the salient features are:
Dubai Airport Freezone
Dubai Cars & Automotive Free zone
Dubai Internet City
Dubai Metal & commodities free zone
Dubai Media Free zone
Dubai Gold and Diamond Park
Jebel Ali Free Zone
Knowledge Village
Dubai Health care city
Hamriya freezone
Sharjah Airport Freezone
Ajman Free zone
Ras Al Khaima Free zone
Fujairah Freezone
ABR Free zone
Dubiotech –Advancing the Business of sceince
Dubai flower centre freezone
Dubai international financial centre
Dubai logistics city (DLC)
Dubai Maritime City
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre(DMCC)
The world's first free zone
Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority(DSOA)
Dubai Studio city(DSC)
Dubai International Media Production zone (IMPZ)
OFFSHORE COMPANY FORMATION (RAK ,Jabel Ali , BVI, Mauritius)
"In a global economy, the use of offshore centres plays a vital role in supporting a variety of corporate cross-border transactions, as well as facilitating the wealth preservation strategies of high net worth individuals".
Offshore company formation Advantage: Asset protection, Privacy ,Tax saving
Offshore business is about using the possibilities offered by countries whose legislation allows for certain advantages (tax, confidentiality, company structure, etc.) to be used by non-residents. The offshore world is the perfect environment for protecting hard-earned assets as well as doing business, banking and investing in a completely confidential manner
Tax saving
Asset protection
Limiting of liability in business transaction
Unrestricted flow of capital
Foreign property holding through a company in a third country
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The holidays are certainly one time of the year to bring out the bling. Anything that glitters, glimmers, shines or shimmers is fair game. But, a little goes a long way. Use gold for a POP of sparkle, it will be more outstanding that way. Here are a few of my picks.
Ukala wool boots / Kate Spade glitter pumps / Diane von Furstenberg strappy heels / Jimmy Choo glitter pumps / TOMS black flat, $64 / Flat shoes / Kate Spade
Lulu Guinness glitter handbag / Shimmer eyeshadow / Shimmer eyeshadow / Yves Saint Laurent lip stick / rms beauty / Burberry beauty product / NARS Cosmetics gold nail polish, $40 / Topshop metallic nail polish / Metallic gold nail polish / RMS Beauty Cream Eye Shadow Lunar / Smashbox lip gloss


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This is how things are now in Congress as partisans propose mousetrap amendments aimed more at campaign smears than doing good. The pornography stunt was the window dressing on language that would cut the bill's spending on the National Science Foundation and other agencies.As Kent Brockman reminds us, Democracy just doesn't work.
Kent: With our utter annihilation imminent, our federal government has snapped into action. We go live now via satellite to the floor of the United States congress.Of course the simpsons was trying to be funny; I don't think our congress critters are shooting for that.
Speaker: Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of --
Congressman: Wait a minute, I want to tack on a rider to that bill: $30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.
Speaker: All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-pervert bill?
[everyone boos]
Speaker: Bill defeated. [bangs gavel]
Kent: I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.


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south bay shawlette (1st: the blue)
This shawl holds a lot of "firsts" and that is why I love it very much:
- it is the first big garment I made (other than scarves and beanies),
- the first time I used the magnificent Katia darling yarn,
- my first attempt to read a charted crochet pattern,
- the first (of the three) south bay sawlettes that I made,
- the first delicate garment that I did put in the washing machine (and came out almost better that before!)
In raverly here.
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SimCraft Took me for a ride at CES
We already discussed the Emperor super-power chair from NovelQuest, but in the booth next to it at CES was SimCraft's racing simulator. That's real Indy 500 race car driver Sarah Fisher in the photo, by the way.
I got a chance to try it, and I tell you, it felt like I was really auto racing. The frame was made of the same materials found in actual race cars, and it moved when I turned the wheel. I quickly learned that first lesson of racing: an inch is a mile.
In other words, you barely need to turn the wheel when you are going at 150 miles an hour on the track. You also have to stay on the outside of ring of the track, because once you go inside, your suspension gets all messed up and you go into the wall. Could a console game have taught me that? Not even with a steering wheel control.
Also, when you crash, you can feel it. Not as bad as a real race car, and that is the point. One of the SimCraft representatives has genuine experience race car driving, and he says the experience is pretty close, with some exceptions. For example, the user of the SimCraft cannot feel the same tremors on the steering wheel that a real race car driver will feel, and even though the triple-screen view on the SimCraft is good, it doesn't compare to the view a real race car driver would have.
I can't seem to find a price on the SimCraft site, but it can't be cheap. I have learned that the company is planning a version that can fold down and fit under the bed. I have another suggestion for a future product: make it like the Speed Racer movie. Of course, you will have to put some sort of hydraulic lifting mechanism for the impossible jumps done in that film.
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It's interesting to note that this contraptoin actually can hle psave lives "In November of 2007, the U.S. Congress passed legislation funding the SAVE Program, Synthetic Automotive Virtual Environments." … "The program includes partners of Ford Motor Company, the US Army, SimCraft" … "SAVE came to existence because motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of accidental death within the military.[18] This cost in lives lost, injury, and damage cuts across all aspects of the military machine and is a limiting factor in mission delivery. The solution proposed by SAVE is the development of three technologies: effective synthetic expert driver skills training, leap-ahead adaptive active safety systems, and autonomous vehicles. "


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Nathalia levee to stay in place for now
Residents of Nathalia, in northern Victoria, who evacuated their properties last week, are being allowed to return home.
Two thirds of the Moira Shire was covered in floodwater over the past two weeks.
The evacuation warning was lifted a week after being imposed after rising floodwaters threatened the town.
Most of the 1,400 residents ignored the order, relying on a temporary aluminium levee to protect the town.
Mark Keily of the State Emergency Service (SES) says the levee will stay in place until the water has moved away from the barrier.
"I think it's important to get across that the levee has still got water on it," he said.
"There are risks associated with that and we ask people to remain at 15 metres away from the levee within that exclusion zone.
"The levee system will remain up until all the water is off it and it's deemed safe to remove it."
Moira Shire mayor Alex Monk says the $2 million temporary levee saved the town.
"That saved 176 houses and a lot of people can now relax and breathe a sigh of relief," he said.
"A lot of people are saying water has moved into areas that they'd never seen moved into before and this has been an event right across our shire," he said.
But he will not say whether temporary levees should be used in other towns.
"Whether or not the aluminium flood barriers would be appropriate for a levee system in Numurkah, I think that's for people with far more technical knowledge than me to comment on," Mr Monk said.
Numurkah was one of the worst hit towns in the shire.
It was isolated for several days and now there are concerns over damages to local infrastructure including the local cemetery.
The chairman of the Numurkah-Wunghnu Cemetery Trust Lindsay Mitchell says there is a risk of damage to graves and headstones.
"We did build protection [around the cemetery] after the 1974 flood but unfortunately it wasn't high enough in this recent flood," he said.
"It's not an easy thing to straighten or prop up a headstone."
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Sometimes you go to the store and see a product, and you wonder, "Is this any good?" You might notice that I love sharing products to you, the readers, when I find something I love. Sometimes I will read about them or decide to try it myself. Below are some of my favorite products I use. They are amazing and well worth trying.
1. Tree Hut Brazilian Nut Sugar Scrub - This body scrub is amazing. I typically use it about once a week, since I daily wash with a loofah. There are several fragrances available. It contains a lot of natural ingredients, and it's cruelty-free. I got mine at Wal-Mart.
2. Aveda Chamomile Shampoo - I love Aveda products. Their shampoos and conditioners are the only ones I'll use. I love pampering my hair. This shampoo smells amazing, and it's designed to enhance your natural color. I have brown hair with natural golden highlights, and this shampoo and conditioner have worked well to bring out the color. They have one for each color.
3. Victoria's Secret Pro Airbrush FX Perfecting Primer - Long name, but excellent product. This is the best primer I've ever owned. I also use it on my lids, and my eyeshadow never goops. It also has an SPF in it: bonus!
4. Too Faced Kabuki Brush - Every lady needs a kabuki brush. I use mine for face powder and for bronzer. It's soft and applies the right amount.
5. Neutrogena Body Oil - I had my doubts about this. I thought it would be slick and unappealing. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it absorbs into the skin very quickly and without a slickness to it. My skin feels so soft, and the oil smells so good. It's better than lotion.
6. Bliss Fabulips Sugar Lip Scrub - We all need to exfoliate our lips, and Fabulips is a great choice. It goes on easily and washes off easily. Plus, it smells and tastes good.


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Passive Solar
A major component of the homes that Braden Homes Ltd. creates is that of passive solar gain.
What this entails is orienting the house to the south to allow the sun to assist in warming it during the winter months. In the interior layout of the house, the daytime living areas (kitchen, eating areas, nursery and/or family room) are positioned on the south side and are provided with larger windows.
Utility rooms, bathrooms and storage areas are concentrated on the north side with smaller windows as there is less light and potential heat gain in this orientation.
To prevent heat buildup in the summer months, roof overhangs are larger than normal (typically 2'6") in order to shade window surfaces when the summer sun is higher. During the winter months when the sun is substantially lower, sunlight can stream into the windows to assist with warming the home.
Details such as porches or garages are located on the west end of our homes in order to protect the structure from prevailing winds and the hot setting summer sun. Active solar and photovoltaic systems can also be incorporated at the customer's request.
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I've always loved MAC Paintpots, but with the nearest store so far away from where I live, my collection just couldn't grow. Until recently when MAC finally opened their online shop in Poland. I immediately purchased a number of these, particularly the new matte ones and would like to show them to you. My intention is not only to review them, but also to show some dupes that I found in my stash say which ones I prefer. I find all my Paintpots easy to apply and wear. They all go on very smoothly, offer opaque colour and last all day.
|MAC Paintpot in Camel Coat
CAMEL COAT is a light brown shade with cool, somewhat purple-gray undertones and matte finish. Nice and quiet on its own, but it also makes an excellent base for all kinds of nude eyeshadows. Couldn't find a dupe in my stash.
|MAC Paintpot in Constructivist
CONSTRUCTIVIST is my absolute favourite in this bunch. It's such a lovely shimmery, but not frosty proper brown colour, which doesn't lean too red or orange or gold or gray. It's just brown.
|l to r: Sigma Pose, MAC Constructivist, MUFE #14
As you can see in the picture above I found two other similar eyeshadows in my stash, none of which is an exact dupe, but I must admit that Sigma Pose is a very close dupe. It's a bit redder than MAC and the texture is slightly harder. It's also not meant to be worn on its own, the manufacturer trades these as eyeshadow bases, so probalby the wear time is shorter.
Make Up For Ever #14 looks warmer than the other two, more reddish bronze.
|MAC Paintpot in Stormy Pink
STORMY PINK looks like a grayish, pinky purple to me. More purple than pink, with matte finish. A very unique colour. I love wearing it under my taupe eyeshadows to bring out the purple undertones in them.
|MAC Stormy Pink v Origins Perky
Origins Perkle is not an exact dupe, but it is pretty similar. They're both unique and both come from the dusty, grayish purple family, but while Stormy Pink is more on the pinky side, the Perkle is closer to lilac undertone. They both go on very smoothly, but Origins seems much sheerer and doesn't offer as much colour payoff as I expected.
|MAC Paintpot in Tailor Grey
TAILOR GREY is a taupe eyeshadow with strong gray undertones and matte finish. Being a fan of everything that seems taupe to my eyes, I reach for it to use under my powder eyeshadows to enhance their colour and performance.
|MAC Tailor Grey v Maybelline Permanent Taupe
Tailor Gray is quite similar to Maybelline Permanent Taupe, which is grayer than MAC. The formula of MAC Paintpot is incomparably better. The texture of Permanent Taupe is drier, harder and way more difficult to apply and blend. Even though the Maybelline eyeshadow is way more affordable, I'd still go for its MAC counterpart for the sake of quality and ease of application.
And here go all my MAC Paintpots swatched side by side for comparison:
|top row: Painterly, Camel Coat, Tailor Gray
bottom row: Stormy Pink, Constructivist
Disclaimer: I bought the product myself for my personal use and I am not affiliated with any company. I am not paid to do this review and everything I said here is my genuine opinion.