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Email from Mark Mackay to Zak
Just a quick email to confirm that i'd like to take you over to Ireland to compete in the Mayo Youth Tour July 30 – August 1 this year.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mayo-Yout ... 3757585313
We'll be going as part of a much larger contingent of Scots across Youth A & B categories totalling 19 riders and 6 adult support with parents and myself.
You'll be part of this group but you will be funded for this trip by Scottish Cycling's Youth Racing development programme under my direction. You will need to be available for travel out on Friday July 29th (the day following the Skinny Tyres Bellahouston Crit, which I would expect you to ride) and will return very late on the night of Monday August 1st.
There will be further detailed info to follow but for now could you please confirm back to me that you would like to come on this racing trip.
An offer well too good to be refused! Zak, Karl and I are honoured that he's been asked by Mark to attend this Tour. Its all happening for him/us now. That's our holiday plans changing every minute! I'm sure we'll get that camper van finished and to France this summer even if its only for 2 weeks instead of three.


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Should 2 Underperforming Buffalo Schools Become Charters? [POLL]
There is a big debate going on right now in Buffalo about closing two of the lowest performing schools in the state and turning them into charter schools. The schools are East High & Waterfront Elementary.
There is a lot of finger pointing going on that state Education Department was working with the charter supporters without the School Board's knowledge.
The most important thing is how the schools can be improved by those in the power of authority to take care of the educational needs of the students, whether it remains as is, or changed to a charter school.
What are your predictions and comments, I'd love to hear them?

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I don't think I ever read 1984, I imagine because of my Orwellian traumatization. I have it in my head that I started it at some point in high school, made a face, and went back to Tolkien.
Jump to 2017, and I've at last read, and been thoroughly horrified and depressed by 1984. It's my own damn fault I have to read it too. I wasn't ever planning on reading it, but it's for my book club. My book club book this month was supposed to be Connie Willis's Crosstalk (my choice) but I suggested we read 1984 because since the election of our current authoritarian-in-chief and the decline of our government, 1984 has been one of Amazon.com's bestsellers (it's current at 31). And everyone agreed, and now here I am, depressed.
Jesus, this book is depressing. Orwell gives us no fucking hope whatsoever. The world is going to de-evolve into a nightmarishly totalitarian place, and there doesn't seem to be a damn thing we can do about. Fuck you Orwell. Fuck you.
I completely ken why people are reading the book (again). I would be arguing that he-who-must-not-be-named seems to have taken some of his raison d'etre right from the pages of 1984 except it's becoming more and more obvious that he-who-must-not-be-named is (insert word meaning "knows how to read but is too stupid to actually read anything other than a tweet about himself"). But the minions of he-who-must-not-be-named have clearly read this book; it's almost a like a playbook (along with Mein Kampf). His and their mastery of Orwell's doublethink and doublespeak; his and their scary ability to manipulate the past to control the present (but hopefully and wishfully and prayerfully NOT the future); his and their use of the a modern medium ("let's all sing like the birdies sing... tweet, tweet tweet, tweet tweet...") to keep half the masses frothing and ranting and raving and on their side. Additionally, there is Orwell's idea of a society based the retention of power rather than class that resonated as well. I also keep thinking about "it was only a hopeless fancy," the essentially meaningless "prole" song of the moment created by Big Brother and Co. as part of an unending series of "bread and circuses" meant to dupe the ignorant public (Kardashian, anyone?). And never ending wars the public gets all riled up and patriotic about periodically, but most of the time ignore (this isn't just a Trumpian thing though). And a police state. And everything being political (on both the left and the right). And how what used to be orthodoxy has become the golden mean...
There is too much of a mirror here; too goddamned much.
The world is not 1984. Yet. I don't think we are being spied on through our t.v. screens. Just our internet.
As a book, it's really pedantic. I thought Orwell had A Point To Make, which was made at the expense of most of what makes up a story. That said, some of the book was quite gripping. I didn't particularly like anyone in the book, but they all had tough lives and had been molded into unpleasant people, so I can forgive them that.
1984 by George Orwell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Let's start with the fact that in seventh or eighth grade, I read Animal Farm thinking it was going to be like Narnia for grownups, because it had talking animals in it, and it wasn't like those books AT ALL. I mean, if instead of Edmund Lucy had betrayed Tumnus to the White Witch and Lucy herself made Tumnus into glue, then Animal Farm would have been like Narnia. Just because animals talk doesn't mean a book is going to be enjoyable (sort of how I felt about The Magicians). Because of my Orwellian traumatization, I've avoided 1984 until now, and now only because my book club is reading this (at my suggestion too, what a fool I was, what an addlepated fool). By the last page, I was morose as f&&& (thanks again Orwell). Lord, this book is depressing. Orwell gives us no f&&&ing hope whatsoever. The world is going to de-evolve into a nightmarishly totalitarian hell hole, and there doesn't seem to be a damn thing we can do about (side note: the polar bears are all going to die too). F&&& you Orwell. F&&& you. However, I completely understand why so many people (of a certain political bent) are reading this right now (again for most, I imagine) though; 1984 seems to be the playbook for our current national government. All that doublespeak and doublethink tweet tweet tweeting forth from he-who-must-be-named must have Orwell staring down (or up?) with bemused horror.
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Important Dates in Astronomy: A Timeline (November)
Nov 1
1585 - Jan Brozek, Polish astronomer, was born
1953 - Jan Davis, American astronaut, was born
1963 - The Arecibo Observatory (in Puerto Rico), with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, was officially launched
Nov 2
1885 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer, was born
2000 - The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft
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1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer, died this day
1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer, died this day
1930 - Bill Dana, American astronaut, was born
1930 - Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer, was born
1957 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with the first animal, a dog named Laika, on board to orbit the Earth.
1973 - NASA launches Mariner 10 to Mercury. It became the first space probe to reach Mercury.
Nov 5
1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer, was born
1961 - Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut, was born
2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon
2013 - India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe
Nov 6
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French astronomer, died this day
1771 - John Bevis, English astronomer, died this day
Nov 7
1492 - The Ensisheim meteorite strikes Earth outside the village of Ensisheim near Alsace in France. It's the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact
1915 - Philip Morrison, American astrophysicist, was born
Nov 8
1656 - Edmond Halley, English astronomer, was born
1947 - Margaret Rhea Seddon, American astronaut, was born
1948 - Dale Gardner, American astronaut, was born
2009 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate, died this day
2011 - The asteroid, 2005 YU55, passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth, the closest known approach by an asteroid since 1976.
Nov 9
1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist and cosmologist was born
1967 - NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket
2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched
Nov 10
1565 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer, was born
1695 - John Bevis, English astronomer, was born
1933 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut, was born
1935 - Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astronomer and cosmologist, was born
1970 - Soviet lunar probe Lunokhod 1 was launched
Nov 11
1914 - James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, was born
Nov 12
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer and the 1st mayor of Paris, died this day
1916 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer, died this day
1937 - Richard H. Truly, american astronaut, was born
1981 - This was the first time a manned spacecraft, Space Shuttle Columbia, was launched into space for the second time.
2013 - Konrad Rudnicki, Polish astronomer, died this day
2013 - Aleksandr Serebrov, Russian astronaut, died this day
2014 - The Philae Lander lands on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Nov 13
2010 - Allan Sandage, American astronomer, died this day
Nov 14
1930 - Edward Higgins White, American astronaut, was born
1933 - Fred Haise, American astronaut, was born
1969 - Apollo 12, the second manned spacecraft to moon, was launched from Kennedy Space Center
2003 - 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object, was discovered
Nov 15
1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, died this day
1738 - William Herschel, German-English astronomer, was born
1967 - Michael J. Adams, American astronaut, died this day
1988 - The unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight
1990 - Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its 7th flight
Nov 16
1852 - Asteroid 22 Kalliope was discovered by John Russell Hind.
1965 - The Soviet Union launches Venera 3 space probe to Venus, which would have become the first spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet.
1973 - NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of 3 astronauts from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Nov 17
1776 - James Ferguson, English astronomer, died this day
1790 - August Ferdinand Mobius, German astronomer, was born
1970 - The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on the moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.
Nov 18
1923 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut, was born
2010 - Brian G. Marsden, English astronomer, died this day
2013 - NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars
Nov 19
1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian astronomer, was born
1881 - A meteorite lands near the village Grossliebenthal in Ukraine
1956 - Eileen Collins, American astronaut, was born
1969 - Apollo 12 landed on moon. This was the second manned spacecraft to land on moon.
Nov 20
1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist, was born
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch astronomer, died this day
1998 - The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched
Nov 21
1652 - Jan Brozek, Polish astronomer, died this day
1933 - Henry Hartsfield, American astronaut, was born
Nov 22
1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer, was born
1942 - Guion Bluford, American astronaut, was born
Nov 23
1715 - Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer, was born
1924 - Edwin Hubble shows that Andromeda is actually a galaxy and not a nebula in the galaxy. He also shows that Milky Way Galaxy is one of many such galaxies in the universe. This was published in a newspaper.
Nov 24
1969 - Apollo 12 had a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on moon
Nov 25
1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer, died this day
1703 - Jean-Francois Seguier, French astronomer, was born
1940 - Reinhard Furrer, Austrian astronaut, was born
Nov 26
1678 - Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French astronomer, was born
1937 - Boris Yegorov, Russian astronaut, was born
Nov 27
1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, was born
1875 - Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer, died this day
1952 - Jim Wetherbee, American astronaut, was born
1971 - The Soviet's space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module but it malfunctions and carshes. However, it became the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
Nov 28
1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer, was born
1872 - Mary Somerville, Scottish-Italian astronomer, died this day
1950 - Russell Alan Hulse, American astronomer, was born
1951 - Barbara Morgan, American astronaut, was born
1964 - NASA launches Mariner 4 probe towards Mars.
Nov 29
1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer, died this day
1961 - A chimpanzee was launched into space in Enos spacecraft. It orbited the Earth twice before splashing down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
1965 - The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2
Nov 30
3340 BC - First record of a Solar eclipse
1761 - John Dollond, English astronomer, died this day
If you guys feel that I have missed something then please comment below or send me a mail using the Contact button above.
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|The Jr. East Coast Street Ball league.
We are looking for teams to join our league. We have boys and girls divisions. Calling out the street ball capital state of the world ny, nj , pa, or del. Different rules are in this street ball league. if you think you have the team to compete in this league contact us. email@example.com or contact us at. We are a non - profit corporation. Our divisions are 8-9, 10-11, 12-14, 15-16, 17-18 must be in high school. Or check out our information website www.eteamz.com/ecsbl
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Mobile providers 'are worst debt collectors' in private sector
No-one has a nice time dealing with debt-collection agencies, but the worst of the lot according to Citizen's Advice - in the private sector at least - are those from mobile phone providers.
The CA's 'Falling Behind' report stated that companies "sometimes play a significant role in people getting into mobile phone debt" after looking at 26,600 cases from 2015. The charity said that people should be allowed to take their own steps to limit usage, so they can avoid bills they can't afford.
They say that, sometimes, mobile providers don't do assessments that are thorough enough, concerning customers and what they can afford. It was also found that people are being given multiple contracts when they're already in debt.
Citizen's Advice want to see mobile companies helping customers out more, by allowing them to cap their bills, as seen with credit card accounts.
All this isn't helped by the charity's view that mobile phone companies are the worst private sector debt collectors, when it comes to resolving disputes, customer service, and putting affordable repayment plans in place.
Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy said: "Our evidence shows companies too often don't set affordable debt repayment plans, escalate debts too quickly and fail to co-operate with debt advisers. In some extreme cases companies set customers up to fail by offering them contracts they can't afford to repay."
"Other sectors that deal with essential services have improved how they handle debts in recent years so mobile phone firms have no excuse for dragging their heels."
"Giving customers the chance to set a cap on their bills will give consumers more power and help ensure they don't build up unaffordable charges. The Government can also help by ensuring people can access free and independent money advice to avoid getting into debt in the first place."


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12th February 2018, 17:37 | Hull
New skipper Danny Houghton and vice-captain Scott Taylor are both facing spells on the sidelines following the Black and Whites' 24-10 loss to Wigan in Wollongong.
Hull say Houghton, who left the field after 28 minutes with a torn calf, is expected to be out of action for two months, while Taylor is in hospital after undergoing appendix surgery.
Well it's been a crazy last few days and still recovering in hospital after surgery. Thanks everyone for the messages and big thanks to all the staff at Wollongong hospital who have been brilliant and continue to look after me. Last mention for all you black and whites who travelled and showed once again your the best in business! Gutted about result and my situation but can't wait to be back out there. 👍🏻⚫⚪
"Scott's situation was obviously left field, but everything has gone to plan and we'll get him back into camp as soon as possible," Hull coach Lee Radford said.
"Everyone is sending him our best wishes."
Prop Liam Watts (hamstring) and second rower Mark Minichiello (ankle) also left the field during Saturday's match and are doubtful for the game with St George Illawarra Dragons at the ANZ Stadium this Saturday.
The boys have stopped at Cronulla Beach en route to Manly 🏖 pic.twitter.com/hUelJZ5NvR— Hull FC (@hullfcofficial) February 12, 2018
However, the club are hopeful winger Bureta Faraimo and centres Jake Connor and Josh Griffin will be fit to face the Dragons and Carlos Tuimavave and Chris Green are set to play their first game of the season.
Radford said: "Injuries are part and parcel of the game and they give an opportunity for some of our young blokes to come into the side and stake a claim.
"We've brought these boys over to play so they'll get their chance and we're looking forward to getting the other lads back as soon as possible."


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Soignon Fresh Goat Cheese 120 g
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Abortion counselling story dangerously misleading says pro-life group SPUC London, 28 August 2011: A leading pro-life group has warned about a newspaper story published today which claims that: "Abortion rules are set to be tightened by the Government in the biggest shake-up in a generation ... Pro-life campaigners suggest the change could result in up to 60,000 fewer abortions each year in Britain." (Robert Mendick, Sunday Telegraph, 28 Aug. )
The Department of Health says it is drafting proposals which are expected to say who can be a pregnancy counsellor and what expectant mothers must be told.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) www.spuc.org.uk the world's first pro-life lobbying and educational organisation (est.1967), described the story as "dangerously misleading".
Paul Tully, SPUC's general secretary, commented: "Handing the drafting of proposals relating to abortion to the Department of Health is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken-coop. The Department of Health commissions the vast majority of abortions in Britain, and says doctors should provide abortion on demand. Successive governments have regarded abortion as an answer to unmarried teenagers and other vulnerable women who get pregnant. "Since 2004, most NHS abortions have been transferred to private clinics, and the health department now funds more than 9 out of 10 abortions at these clinics. If the Department now want counsellors to help pregnant women avoid abortions, it would represent a major change of heart. We remain very wary of the proposals and the Department's involvement. "Pro-life counselling can save many lives but independent counselling is not the same thing. It all depends on the approach of the counsellor and the information provided", Mr Tully concluded.
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The History of AKM's D/A Converters
Since 1989,
AKM released a delta-sigma D/A converter (DAC) in 1989. An advanced multi-bit DAC based on bi-directional DWA, (Data Weighted Average), technology was developed as the first generation premium audio DAC. In 1998 the 2nd generation premium DAC, and the first 32-bit DAC was released in 2007.
A new generation architecture, the VELVET SOUND brand was launched in 2014. The 3rd generation premium DAC, VERITA AK4490 was released which achieved an industry best voltage output performance of -112dB THD+N and 120dB S/N characteristic using enhanced low-distortion technology. Four multi-channel products have now been added to the premium DAC AK445X series. In addition, with best sound quality and characteristics, the new flagship AK4497 was released in 2016. Seven 32-bit products in total are available in the premium DAC lineup.
The AK4497 supports next generation high-resolution sources up to the 22.4MHz DSD format realizing 128dB SN and -116dB THD+N with AKM's original LSI manufacturing process for high quality sound.
AKM products have been widely adopted by well-established companies from high-end to consumer uses around the world because of advanced solutions we provide with many years' experience.
Sound Philosophy
Real Live Sound
The sensitivity of the human ear can discern fine sound that exceeds the measurement limit by general audio instruments. Focusing on this point, AKM has developed a high-resolution 32-bit product group and has been providing audio device to achieve a higher resolution. This new generation of device has reconstructed the architecture to express beyond the human ear "sounds feel", and striving to be more to the "true sound". To "represent all without exhaustively" is VELVET SOUND philosophy. Powerful space that can not be felt only in live but sound that touches the instrument; we are pursuing this "amount of information and strength" in order to get a feel without leaving the original content.
In pursuit of the music to the device
AKM sound boards
In AKM, engineers offer a high-quality sound board to allow assessment of the reproduced sound in the finished state, close to the component level. In particular, the evaluation board of D/A converter (DAC), digital input and power supply are supplied from the outside, allowing the user to simulate their system. In order to incorporate the ultimate theme of AKM "music" and "rich sensibility", AKM has paid great attention to materials and construction of the board along with carefully selecting supporting components and board layout. These boards are the results of several versions that were reworked over and over to optimize the sonic performance.
Dedicated listening room for sound validation
Evaluation Environment
At AKM, there is a listening room setup with industry leading components so we can truly evaluate our latest audio devices sonic qualities. This allows AKM to fully evaluate our audio devices beyond the traditional audio test equipment used on the bench. AKMs audio Meister is repeating sound quality evaluation of the test chips and feeding the results directly back to the circuit designers. This direct relationship and feedback is constantly advancing AKMs audio technology always pursuing better sound quality. This listening room is also utilized to evaluate various digital formats to allow AKM to optimize our devices for every digital audio standard in the industry.
Design concepts to pursue and achieve
the, "intensity", and the, "amount of information".
the architecture of new generation audio devices.
Velvet Sound's philosophy is a combination of
measured performance and human listening tests,
because ears will always exceed any test measurement.
"Large Amount of Information and Sound Strength"
Design Concepts to Achieve
As the basic concept to represent all of the elements of sound, such as components of the fundamental wave and harmonics, sound pressure, changes in the time domain, the presence of small signal components, the difference between treble and bass of attenuation, etc., AKM has built a new VELVET SOUND architecture.
Amount of information:
Delicate Sound Reproduction thorough Noise Optimization
VELVET SOUND architecture has enabled the expression of elusive sounds by enabling a highly noise-tolerant design. Verifying and identifying the noise mixing paths from every angle is particularly critical to reducing noise sources required for operation of digital and switching circuits. Furthermore, not only the signal path line itself, but the internal reference signal and clock that determines the time information are separated through layout isolation to thoroughly eliminate influence by noise. System noise beyond the audible range also reduces more than 40dB compared with the conventional products simplifying the external circuit design.
Pursuing the, "feeling of sound"
Sound beyond the audible range
Human's audible frequency range is believed from 20Hz to 20kHz, but AKM's next generation products cover up to a 200kHz signal range, enabling the expression of, "feeling sound", beyond the audible range.
Powerfulness: "Signal Stream as the first priority"
Luxury design with sufficient margin
Special designs technics for sound quality are applied to each blocks for achieving balanced, smooth and powerful signal flow. In addition to L/R perfectly symmetrical layout, more than 5x trace width is used for signal line compared existing products, supplying rich current to analog signal output blocks. To achieve low impedance, two analog power supply pins and two signal reference pins are assigned for each channel, allowing the system to utilize thick PCB trace pattern giving low impedance sources.
Core Technology
Technologies representing the, "sound feeling",
exceeds the numbers.
the core technology of AKM's new generation audio devices.
This technology features low-distortion technology,
OSRD technology, and, IRD filter,
which translates, sounds into emotions.
Technologies representing the "sound feeling"
exceeds the numbers
In addition to our 25 years of accumulation of experience and know-how of audio device development, an "evolved ΔΣ modulator", "evolved switched capacitor filter" and this development of new VELVET SOUND technology have achieved the "sound feeling" beyond the audible range.
Ultra-low distortion
Low distortion technology (patent pending)
New high-end DAC VERITA AK4490 has adopted a newly developed low-distortion technology, improving the distortion level for conventional products more than 6dB achieving ultra-low distortion levels of S/(N+D) = 112dB, industry best for a DAC of 120dB class.
Ultra low out-of-band noise
OSRD technology (patent pending)
OSRD (Over Sampling Ratio Doubler) is a new technology that doubles the effective OSR without speeding up the internal operation. In general, although it is possible to achieve high performance and low out-of band noise by increasing the OSR, there is a disadvantage that the power consumption increases due to high speed operation. OSRD is the technology breaks through the trade-off of the OSR and the power consumption allowing to double the OSR without an increase in power consumption. New generation DACs have adopted this technology achieving ultra low out-of-band noise.
Sound Colors
IRD filter
IRDF (Impulse Response Designed Filter) is a technology to control the transient response of the signal. The 32-bit product group is equipped with a high-resolution internal calculation circuit that has been extended to 36-bit, reproducing a more natural and more attentive signal waveform.
Key Features
Fully compatible with, "Hi-Res", sound sources
up to 768k PCM and 11.2M DSD.
a key feature of AKM's new generation audio devices
which are equipped with specs and performance
for the, Hi-Res, digital audio era.
"Ultimate analog, natural sound"
Fully supporting of high-resolution audio source
AKM's next generation D/A converter adopts 32-bit resolution and supports digital playback up to 768kHz PCM and 11.2MHz DSD to realize an, "ultimate analog, natural sound". AKM leads the field by fully supporting high-resolution audio sources.
Controls the transient response of the signal
Sound Color Digital Filter (SCDF)
Focusing on the waveform in the time domain, the built-in 32-bit 8x digital filter controls the transient response of the signal. In PCM mode, 5 types of digital filters, (6 types with the AK4497EQ), allow music playback in a variety of sound settings by switching the filter type.
Product Portfolio
* Bubble Size = "Sound Quality"
AKM's 3rd generation stereo DAC, the new flagship, "VERITA", AK4497EQ achieves 128dB S/N in summer 2016 as a higher performing solution of the VERITA AK4490. The AK4490 was adopted by many audio products since it was launched in 2014.
Four multi-channel products have been added to the premium DAC AK445X series. In total, seven products are available in the next-generation 32-bit premium DAC lineup.
An extensive lineup will cover a wide range of applications, from high-end to mid-range audio systems.


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Some interesting background information on lake turnover in an active crater lake in Cameroon:
*Article copied from the University of Arizona Geosciences Page: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo5xx/geos577/projects/kayzar/html/lake_nyos_disaster.html
The Lake Nyos Disaster
August 1986-Lake Kills 1,700
Lake Nyos is an active crater lake that formed by an eruption about 5 centuries ago. Nyos and Lake Monoun, located 95km to the southeast of Nyos, are the only two volcanic lakes in the world other than Lake Kivu that contain large amounts of CO2 dissolved at depth (Holloway, 2000). Nyos and Monoun both released their gases in the month of August only two years apart from one another.
After many years of study the science community has come to an agreement that the origin of CO2 within Lake Nyos is due to CO2 that rises from volcanic activity. This CO2 is then dissolved into groundwaters and transferred to the lake resulting in the slow saturation of the hypolimnion (Kanari, 1989; Holloway, 2000; Kling, 1989). In most crater lakes, turnover of the stratified waters occurs periodically and harmless amounts of dissolved gases are released; however, the problem with Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun is that these two particular lakes do not periodically turn over (Holloway, 2000). Thus, dissolved gases are allowed to reach much higher concentrations. The setting of Lake Kivu is analogous to Lake Nyos.
The exact cause of the gas release at Lake Nyos is still unresolved. One theory is that a small confined area of the lake released gas allowing for the stratification in Lake Nyos to remain (Kanari, 1989). Another theory describes a slow influx of heat into the system causing instability (Kling, 1989). A landslide within the lake is another possible explanation for the displacement of the bottom CO2 saturated layers in Lake Nyos. Evidence of water surges on the southern shore of the lake suggest a possible seiche motion of the lake waters (Kanari, 1989). In all situations, the possibility of a volcanic injection is ruled out. High concentrations of reduced iron were found in Lake Nyos, the presence of which cannot be explained by the possibility of a volcanic injection into the lake (Kling, 1989). In general, a gradual heating from below the lake is widely accepted as the cause for rollover and or gas release.
The gas killed all living things within a 15-mile (25km) radius of the lake.
A similar emission at Lake Kivu could be possible. Lake Kivu is heated from below by thermal springs from the Virunga volcanic field. It is important to note, however, that because of Lake Kivu's great depth, the lake is generally thought to be more stable than Lake Nyos or Lake Monoun (Kling, 1989). A more stable lake would require a much larger influx of heat to disturb the stratification and potentially cause rollover.
Degassing Lake Nyos – Hazard Prevention
The studies of Lake Nyos revealed that there was more CO2 forming at depth in the lake that could overturn once again, so an attempt was made in 2001 to degass the lake using an electronic pump that would simulate an eruption.


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A recent academic paper out of Europe, "Selling Off Privacy at Auction", is an absolutely fascinating and extraordinarily detailed treatment of what happens to data in a real-time bidding (RTB) ad environment. This is not one of those high-level analyst reports based more on buzzwords than data. The authors — Lukasz Olejnik, Minh-Dung Tran, and Claude Castelluccia from France's digital research institute INRIA — took apart the client-side JavaScript to show exactly what's happening behind the scenes.
Just like making sausage, it both will surprise you and make you rethink the end product. Different stakeholders will have different takeaways:
- Publishers may be astonished at the prevalence of "cookie licking" that goes on. This is a term for ad bidders who have no intention of placing a winning bid simply participating in the process to gain free intelligence about a publisher's audience for purposes of retargeting. The value of audiences in leaky environments is an order of magnitude lower than what publishers could get through direct channels. And they also will see how outmatched they are in terms of controlling data leakage.
- Most consumers will not understand the underlying technology, but the conclusions are pretty clear: many third parties go through extraordinarily lengths to track users as they travel the Internet for purposes of targeting them.
This paper reinforces the need for outside "honest brokers" to become more involved in multiparty data transactions and bring greater trust and transparency to collection and tracking, particularly with regard to first-party data ownership and consumer privacy. The current marketplace presents mostly binary options: participate or opt-out, with the latter choice resulting in significant revenue loss (for publishers) or degraded user experience (for consumers). We believe that there should be a many levels of gray between black and white to permit participants to dial in to their level of comfort.


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Google Oct. 18 said it has added Google Docs, Google Sites and people profiles as new sources its Google Search Appliance is now surfacing for enterprises.
Google Search Appliance is a computer server that Google sells to provide enterprises with private, secure search capabilities for their business information. The appliance starts at $15,000 per year. Software upgrades cost nothing for existing customers.
GSA, as Google calls the appliance, began indexing basic business information eight years ago, but has grown to reveal content from additional sources, such as enterprise content management systems and SAP and Salesforce.com enterprise applications.
With the rise of Web-based or cloud applications, Google is turning those capabilities loose on its own software programs, Rajat Mukherjee, group product manager for Google Enterprise Search, told eWEEK.
Further reading
With a new feature called Cloud Connect in GSA 6.8, the company is now letting business users search cloud content in addition to on-premise content.
Starting today, Cloud Connect displays personalized results from Google Docs and Google Sites on the right side of the user's computer screen, with results from more traditional repositories, such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and content management systems retaining their usual position on the left.
This means users will be able to access many of their Google applications, including documents, spreadsheets, presentations and Websites.
GSA's expansion to help businesses index Docs and Sites content could be especially attractive to the larger of the 3 million businesses using the cloud-based Google Apps.
These companies are already leveraging Google's cloud to enable their workers to collaborate on knowledge management and other projects, so it makes perfect sense to offer a way to let businesses find the content they create in Docs and Sites.
"If you can improve the search solution, then you can dramatically reduce the inefficiency of these systems," Mukherjee said.
Cloud Connect also lets users search Twitter and blogs and industry Websites via Google Site Search.
Finding the correct contacts across departments in business is also a major requirement of enterprise search products.
The new People Search in GSA 6.8 helps users find industry experts and contact co-workers right from the right-hand side of the search results page.
Some other features Mukherjee called attention to include a new dynamic navigation feature that lets users modify queries, and Active-Active Mirroring, which shuttles search traffic across multiple boxes.
Google competes with several vendors in enterprise search, including Vivisimo, Endeca, and Microsoft's Fast Search, as well as the open source Lucene enterprise search software.


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William's 9th anniversary mixtape for Cristy.
Download or listen to the two-hour summation of the ninth year of love, scholarship, and the blossoming of silly language in toddler Ba.
William's 9th anniversary mixtape for Cristy.
Download or listen to the two-hour summation of the ninth year of love, scholarship, and the blossoming of silly language in toddler Ba.
For our final scheduled show, Cristy and William explore the discontinuous topic of great closing tracks on great albums. Except for "Hang Loose," which we forgot, which Cristy is still mad about, even though she wouldn't even let William consider including any They Might Be Giants songs. So we're burying the hatchet right between your ears.
Download Closing Tracks or listen below
Babysitting Fanfare for the Speeding Bullet, Austin and William deliver two hours of unplanned or intentional technical and musical problems, with an emphasis on implausible cover songs, featuring an entire hour of a beloved Julie Andrews song being brutally stripped of all innocence, and most of its melody.
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No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
No doubt. By way of illustration, I call the court's attention to the songs of Cole Porter.
Download here or listen below:
Richard Posner, writing for Slate:
Related to the preceding point, the chief justice's dissent is heartless. There is of course a long history of persecution of gay people, a history punctuated by such names as Oscar Wilde, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Alan Turing. Until quite recently, many American gays and lesbians took great pains to conceal their homosexuality in order to avoid discrimination. They value marriage just as straight people do. They want their adopted children to have the psychological and financial advantages of legitimacy. They are hurt by the discrimination that the dissenting justices condone. Prohibiting gay marriage is discrimination.
Here's part two of the 8th Anniversary mixtape from William to Cristy. An intimate moment that lasts exactly an hour.
Download or listen here:
William's newest mix tape, composed for Cristy for their eighth anniversary, features thematic elements such as Heather, the Wizard of Oz, and the commercials of the Who.
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William's 45th birthday party. Also Kurt Bielema's 43rd. And Jessy's (do the math). Straight from the Mackie mixer, a mix of old 45s, bad and worse, from an ad-hoc, Mad-Maxy, duct-taped-together assemblage of iffy turntables. Scratches, pops, warts and inexplicable variations in speed and all. All followed by a not-judiciously-enough edited collage of karaoke attempts.
Join the party, edited down to three exhausting hours, here.
We're no longer hosting Rock Geek F.M. Saturdays on WEFT. Once again, we're looking for a new time slot, or venue, but will continue to produce Rock Geek material as long as we can still find the energy to fight about whether Revolver or Sgt. Pepper is the better album. Which is how we met. I won't tell you who's on which side, but until we get this resolved, were destined to remain together.
Here are two fliers for our suspended show to remember us by, expressing both our enthusiasm and our alienation:
A show dedicated to movie soundtrack music that never appeared in movies.
We celebrate the fact that soundtrack music, especially Italian horror and western soundtracks, has become a musical genre detached from film.
A dense, lush, funky, orchestral, and creepy mix.
For this show, Ethan Madarieta and William Gillespie took turns spinning songs chosen in response to the song the other one just played, creating a spontaneous lattice of segues, transitions, connections, arguments, and intermusical references.
Listen, download, tune in, and UNDERSTAND. Here's the playlist.


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Dana Gioia's D.C. Tryst: A Photo Essay
In January of 2003, Dana Gioia was made chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts...
He took what many regarded as an unorthodox attitude toward his job...
"Fuck this literature shit, got me?"
Everything was going fine, but then the rumour got out that Dana liked older women... much older women.
So Lynn "Dick Did Not" Cheney invited him to D.C. for some fun and games. Gioia was surprised when Lynn fondled him right behind her nearly comatose Uncle Larry. The aroused Gioia responded with an impish grin.
But their affair didn't last. The wives of vice-presidents can't very well leave their husbands while in office, can they? A heartbroken Gioia later mailed Lynn this sketch done by a street artist on their first tryst in Paris. She keeps it stashed beneath her undies in a bedroom drawer to this day.


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This Parisian catering company is helping refugees build a new life by hiring them as cooks. The Migrant Cooks (or Les Cuistots Migrateurs) employs refugee chefs to make food from their native lands in an effort to expand empathy and improve understanding of French citizens towards refugees. The catering company has hired chefs from Chechnya, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Sri Lanka and Syria so far.
The caterers have done events including lunches, dinners, buffets, food festivals and street food stalls. French people are encouraged to recommend recent immigrants and refugees to contact the company for an audition.
This is just one example of how people and companies can help refugees and newcomers integrate into their new homes.
Refugee Catering Services
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Community-Empowering Food Systems
Refugee-Integrating Accelerators
Waste-Eliminating Catering
Entrepreneurial Refugee Campaigns
Kind Community Catering
This Catering Company Hires Refugee Chefs to Cook Cultural Dishes
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19 March 2019
Do you suffer with dry eye syndrome, with symptoms including gritty sensation, itching, redness, pain or blurred vision?…
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Some of the principal treatments carried out by Mr Geraint Williams at Spire include:
• Cornea and External Disease
Mr Williams runs the cornea and external disease service in Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. He specialises in corneal and external disease including ocular surface inflammation, infection and scarring, corneal dystrophies such as Fuchs' Endothelial Corneal Dystrophies, Keratoconus and dry eye disorders. This includes surgical management through lamellar corneal transplantation and cataract and refractive surgery in complex cornea and external diseases.
Mr Williams trained in South Wales, the Oxford and West Midlands Deaneries. He was awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust clinical research fellowship in 2008, completing his PhD in 2012 and achieving international prizes for his work in to scarring diseases of the ocular surface. He was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology at the University of Birmingham from 2012 to 2014. He subsequently combined his research work at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) with his clinical fellowship in the cornea and external eye disease department of the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), working with international leaders in their field.
Mr Williams is passionate about teaching and is an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include methods to detect inflammation and progressive scarring on the ocular surface, how the immune system responds to infection and how improved measurement such as imaging systems can help detect these responses. His further interests include the role of lasers in improving outcomes in cataract and corneal surgery. He speaks widely to audiences in the UK and abroad and is a reviewer for numerous ophthalmic and scientific journals.
Research interests: Ocular Surface Immune Regulation in Health and Disease, Improved Measurement of Clinical Disease Activity and Damage.
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I began the morning in a skirt, before realizing that it's actually pretty cool out (and not so sunny) and remembering that I'm meeting a friend from Russia for a touristy romp after work. Hence the dark skinny jeans. Also the picture is blurry, but it's the best in the series – I'll do try harder next time, just for you.
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So the first day went great and I can already tell that my style sensibility and preferences are going to fit in really well with this office! Here's day two, still biz-cazh, with some fun elements. And guess who finally got her favorite pair of black pumps repaired? Yep, and they're better than new. A girl couldn't be happier.
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OOTD: Volume 2!
Another first day and altogether important OOTD. Here begins my post-grad internship, wish me luck! I don't think you can ever go wrong with a structured jacket over a less-structured dress. It works every time. And to make it better, the strong geometric print and bright coral colors are signatures of this summer season. I also love that the necklines aren't perfectly the same, it adds an element of interest. And I wouldn't be me if I didn't DIY a mani last night. Hello, pretty lilac!
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Today is so bittersweet! I've had an incredible time interning at Teen Vogue and would stay in a heartbeat if the combined issues of college credit/no openings didn't make that impossible. And as if Hollywood had something to do with it, it's raining and should be all day. Isn't that just how it would be in a movie? I thought so too. I was going to wear the same shoes from Monday, but since they're suede and haven't been Scotchgard-ed yet I probably shouldn't. But they would look so much better with the new khakis (that have become my favorite spring-y wardrobe piece). I may stow them in my bag… we'll see about that.
The significance of this outfit is pretty tremendous, because it's in the last outfit of my internship I have meetings with a pretty major editor. I think that's pretty fitting.
I'm not sure how long I'll continue outfit of the day blogs, I hope it's something that doesn't die out, but we'll see. I know so many of you have followed all of these sartorial choices closely and without you I wouldn't have kept this up for the duration of my internship.
Outfit of the Day
As a good patient to my eye doctor, I'm giving my eyes a rest by alternating days when I wear my contacts vs. my glasses. Being on a computer all day at my internship (proof that it's not all coffee and errand running!) really takes a toll on my eyes.
I've found the teen vogue offices to be very warm, so dressing in layers is a must. I would type out where I got the pieces for my outfit, but at this point it's beyond safe to assume that it's all Ann Taylor and LOFT.
These boots were made for.. interning!
Yesterday was the first day of my internship, and I love it! Unfortunately , or rather in the best interest of me getting a job, I won't post about my internship. But I will post what I wear to the very fashionable offices.
Day 1
dress: Ann Taylor; necklace: LOFT; tights: LOFT; boots: Dillards
Day 2 (today!)
graphic tee: LOFT; blazer: H&M; necklace: LOFT;
skinny jeans: LOFT; boots: Dillards; glasses: Coach
Depending on what sort of damage the estimated 12 inches of snow NYC may get tomorrow, I may not have an outfit to post (sad). But maybe I'll be able to make snow angels in central park or do something like that. This Texan cannot fathom how much snow that actually is. Deep down though, I can't wait to see real snow!!
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The cost of internships
Want to work as an intern for Donatella Versace? Sure, it's a great name to put on a resume, and you even get a t-shirt and bottle of perfume. Sounds like a deal right? It can be yours for $20,000. You pay her. It is for an entire semester, and you would get to go to a fashion show and a meet-and-greet with Donatella. For $20,000. Yeah, my jaw is still on the ground too.
But she's not alone.
Anna Wintour similarly auctioned off a one-week internship at the Vogue offices. Earlier this week the bidding was at $13,000. It closed at $42,500. Blasphemy, right?! You would think that after seeing The Devil Wears Prada no one would pay for a one-week stint. That's no where near an entire year! And probably costs more than Andy Sachs got paid. Yeah, ponder that for a moment. And let your mind explode.
On my soapbox:
After one unpaid internship summer in NY my parents are extremely reluctant to let me apply for internships in magazine mecca unless they are paid (and stipends, like the one you'd get at Conde Nast, will not cut it). Since paid internships in this biz are so hard to come by, they get significantly more applicants and become harder to attain. I have some great experience on my resume, but sometimes it's just not enough. Plus summer is the season when internships are in the highest demand. So why do Donatella and Anna think that their internships are worth any money at all.
And I haven't even touched the ethical issues here!
Paying for a position completely cheapens it. It cheapens the experience you're getting and it cheapens the internship on your resume because you didn't earn the internship, you paid for it. Who is going to look at that on your resume and think you're more than just a rich kid who can throw money around to get what they want?
And this brings me to 'The City' from the other night. My first time watching and I have mixed feelings. In this same vein, I really wonder why Olivia is still at Elle if all she does is act self-righteous and produce mediocre work for the website (yes, I'm referring to the elle.com interview with Anna Sui). Le sigh. I'm now very thankful for the Media Law and Ethics course I'm finishing up this semester because I can recognize situations like these that are more than a little fishy. Oh and while I was watching Tuesday's episode of 'The City' I was flipping through my most recent Elles and could not find Olivia's name on the masthead for either the print or online versions of the mag. Interesante indeed.
So maybe all internships cost us in the end is our dignity. Until they turn into a full-time gig. Thankfully after both of my internships, my dignity and integrity are both still very much intact and I'm grateful for the (unpaid) experiences I've landed. And I'll keep you posted for where I end up this summer, it's still somewhat up in the air.
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This... is
not your dad's American Idol.
Quick review
of events. After Lee DeWyze was crowned the season 9 champion, the
cornerstone of the series Simon Cowell decided to step off of the panel to
launch "The X Factor" in the US. Two of his cohorts Kara DioGuardi and Ellen
DeGeneres were unceremoniously let go after what many believed was the
series' jump-the-shark season. But really, who cares about those two. After months of speculation, weeks of
preparation, and literally MINUTES of last-second haranguing, we arrive at
your American Idol 2010 ensemble. Ryan Seacrest will guide us through the
next five months of the best talent in America (or at least the best that
they could find), Nigel Lythgoe is back at EP, Randy Jackson is joined by
superstar triple threat Jennifer Lopez & Aerosmith frontman/showman Steven
Tyler, and instead of many guest mentors, we'll only have one resident
mentor in the form of Interscope exec Jimmy Iovine, who will sign the winner
of the series. And I, as I type this, realize it would be infinitely funnier
if it was done Zero Punctuation style. Sorry, Yahtzee.
Congratulations, you just read the first 15 minutes of the show.
Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, the other 105 minutes were lost
to the four winds. So, courtesy of both AmericanIdol.com and our friends at
Reality News Online, and
with apologies to the NYC delegation of Game Show Mafia, here's the New
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Zevita: 22, New York City, "Hallelujah"
Hawley: 25, NYC, "I Love You So"
Palmer: 15, West Middlesex, PA
Rios: 21; Morris Plains, NJ, original song
Rosen: 16, Merrick, NY, "Yesterday"
Sullivan: 25, Springfield, MA, "Gimme Gimme Gimme"
Huggins: 16; Lumberton, NC; "Midnight Train to Georgia"
Ademi: 16; Yonkers, NY; "If I Ain't Got You"
Devyn Rush:
20;New Hope, PA; "God Bless the Child"
Brielle von
Hugel; 16; Staten Island, NY' "Endless Love"
Orlando; 16; Bronx, NY; "Eleanor Rigby".
In total, 51
people from the Tri-State auditions strike gold. Next stop... New Orleans
for some of that hot creole action... or you know, just some people we want
to throw beignets at. See you soon!
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Saturday, November 14, 2015
Tokyo Holiday - Day 4
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Oh Big Buddha temple, I like, looking forward to your next postReplyDelete
Me should be going Batam in December, was a bit worried when I read the news of bombings in Bali and Batam during Christmas eve many years agoReplyDelete
Glad u enjoyed the visit to this place despite frozen cold condition there. Like that 3 wheeler car.ReplyDelete
Wonder will you be having jumping pose in your coming post...ReplyDelete
so nice of Anay's friend to bring him a coat to keep him warm.. but Thambee wonders why Anay did not go and buy a new coat in Japan but have to wait till his mate to bring him one??ReplyDelete
maybe because Anay was so "kwai lan" not to get himself a new coat but to flex his muscle under the thin clothes in the cold weather, his Adidas shoes tore open and greet every visitor of Disney Sea with a huge smile!!!Replies
Disney Sea!! Thambee has only been to Disneyland HK and that probably is one of the worst in the world?? haha.. so it was fun huh?? Anay is really young at heart, did you scream like a hysterical grandma when you went on those rides in the park?? hehehehe.. hopefully Letchumy managed to shot videos of Anay screaming on the rides :DDelete
Anay always doesn't make his itinerary common and like many people do.. he is going to Kamakura!! let's see if Anay could jump as high as the Buddha?? :pDelete
I didn't get to see the Disney Sea. It must be interesting too. Have fun exploring Tokyo!ReplyDelete
Anay sure is enjoying himself lahReplyDelete
Wow likey the cute Toyota carReplyDeleteReplies
Disney Sea the only one in the world, that's interesting.Delete
You are really having a great time in Japan! Quite memorable too, with your shoes hee..hee...ReplyDelete
That Toyota looks very identical to the Peel P50. I like such cars. But I don't think they will be safe to drive in Malaysia, with all those stupid potholes...ReplyDelete
Wow..you now own a pair of Japanese Nike to tour around Japan, that's the way it should be..your Japanese friend is very thoughtful to lend you his jacket.ReplyDelete
Your friend is so kind to lend you his jacket. How many rides did you get on in Disney Sea?ReplyDelete
I always have this fate of tearing my shoes when I was outside =.="ReplyDelete
So nice that you have got a new pair of Nike there. I know there are plenty of Nike, Adidas and Asics sports shoes in Japan. The price is cheaper than KL?ReplyDelete
I like to go to any motor showroom, must be lots of interesting cars to see, especially the newest model.ReplyDelete
is that a smart car... it looks really cool.. i wonder if it is only a concept or prototype or already in mass production.. i looks cool but I will appreciate it more if it's red hahaReplyDelete
You have mentioned your former housemate before. He seems to be a very thoughtful guy. Lucky he brings along jacket for you. else habis la your frozen balls. Letchumi also have gua I assume.ReplyDelete
Hmmm....could it be due to the cold weather that you shoes suddenly peel off like that. You know la ...it dah biasa with the weather here Then suddenly tempreture these so low
Wah..Letchumi is Doreamon;s Sister ah? Cellotape also go inside her bag LOL
That car so tiny...your feet cannot go in kot? you are so tallReplyDelete
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March 4, 2010
Ume after the Rain
I took these photos last Sunday at Kameido Tenjin that is a shinto shrine in kameido, koto ward.
On that day, It was rain in the morning.
But the weather turned to fine dramatically in the afternoon.
I could see those ume blossoms and buds in quiet mood.
These photos were taken on February 28, 2010.
11 comments:
- lewi14 said...
Wonderful cherry blossoms. Well photographed.
- March 4, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- you-wee because said...
After the short springtime intermezzo last weekend, the temperatures in Germany are winterly again. For the upcoming weekend the weathermen predict snow or sleet - not for the first time this winter.
Until the spring weather really will be established in our latitudes, it's our (only?) pleasure to watch your ume blossom pictures, Nobu-san... ;-)
Chill, but sunny regards, Uwe.
- March 4, 2010 at 9:59 PM
- We love Luna said...
It's so beautiful!I loved these pictures.Cherry blossoms are fabulous and delicate!
Léia :)
- March 4, 2010 at 11:52 PM
- Malyss said...
The rain has added some pearls to those flower-jewels..
- March 5, 2010 at 12:40 AM
- you-wee because said...
You see, Nobu-san, Ume trees (Japanese apricot, or Chinese plum) and ume blossoms are not very well known and established outside Japan or China.
For all those of you not familiar with this type of tree, have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ume
Ume, no --> Uwe!
- March 5, 2010 at 3:45 AM
- Jacob said...
Absolutely gorgeous!
- March 5, 2010 at 6:38 AM
- amatamari© said...
Beautiful and evocative images
- March 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM
- sleepygirl said...
Beautiful! Once again, you've perfectly captured the essence of a single moment.
- March 5, 2010 at 6:17 PM
- Anne Vis said...
Beautiful shots!
- March 6, 2010 at 8:49 PM
Nice photography of a sight I will long remember.
Abraham Lincoln
- March 6, 2010 at 9:15 PM
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Dudes! I have an awesome book about Vikings coming out NEXT WEEK, and I encourage all of you to go out and buy it. Here's the original draft of the chapter on Norwegian King Harald Fairhair, who is awesome.
Harald Fairhair was the first true King of Norway, the national hero of his country, and a man known not only for a mighty propensity for cleaving through his enemies like a psychotic escaped mental patient carving a Thanksgiving turkey but also for rocking a head of epically glorious glam metal hair so righteous it's the primary way violence-loving Viking skalds chose to remember his name.
Seeing as how this guy never really bothered to write anything down because he was a little busy launching campaign after campaign to unify his country under the iron fist of one mighty axe-swinging ruler, many of the details of Harald's reign are cloaked in mythology, folklore, and awesome, hopefully-true anecdotes about his incredible 80's Camaro Axl Rose style golden feathered mullet. We know for sure that he was a real guy, that he was the father of his country, that he subjugated all the jarls of Norway under his rule, and that he founded a dynasty that would rule the northern Viking lands off and on throughout the entire Viking Age. Which is enough on its own, I suppose. But his story is too good not to tell in a little more detail. So for that we go to the sagas, one of which was written by a guy named Hornklove, which is awesome.
As I've mentioned previously, Norway wasn't actually a country or a kingdom back in the 800s AD. Known simply as the "North Way", this part of the Scandinavian Peninsula was really just a mish-mash of minor little Viking kingdoms, each ruled by a different guy. There was no national identity, no overarching king, and no Norwegian Olympic downhill skiing team – it was all just a loosely-associated group of crown-wearing bearded dudes ruling little towns and villages and generally just pretending they were a heck of a lot more important than they actually were.
Young Harald Fairhair came from a long line of these minor kings, most of whom had met gruesome, untimely, and historically-unlikely ends. One great-great-great grandpa passed out and drowned in a vat of mead. Another was captured by the Swedish and offered to the gods as a human sacrifice. One was burned alive. Another was allegedly attacked in his bed and suffocated by demons, although this seems unlikely. Most met their ends the old-fashioned Viking way, either dying in combat or being murdered by their brothers, cousins, neighbors, or wives.
The most recent fatality in the unlucky history of Harald Fairhair's geneology was his pops, Halfdan the Black, who drowned when the Santa Claus-style sleigh he was driving crashed through the thin ice of a partially-thawed lake and dumped him into freezing-cold water. Harald was 10 years old when this happened. Now he was the ruler of the small kingdom of Vestfold.
Now, as you can probably imagine, your typical big, strapping, hardcore Viking warrior wasn't exactly thrilled about the idea of having to take orders from a 10-year-old kid who hadn't even grown a decent beard yet, so a lot of Vestfold's jarls rose up and tried to gank power away from Harald. Luckily for the young king, he had a secret weapon – his father's chief military advisor and Captain of the Vestfold Royal Guard, a mega-tough human killing machine known as Duke Guthorm. Together with Guthorm, Harald (who was, it turned out, a whole lot tougher than his enemies expected) responded to the Jarls' insubordination by mobilizing his troops and preparing for war.
His first opponent was King Gandalf – yes you read that correctly – who tried to act quick and seize power right away before Harald could organize. But Harald wasn't the sort of man who hesitated, ever. He and Guthorm got the drop on Gandalf's army, ambushed him, cut off their escape, and killed both Gandalf and his son in a single battle. Then, when he heard some other guy was trying to overthrow Harald, the young king sent Viking warriors to sneak into that dude's city and set fire to his castle in the middle of the night. When the wannabe future king and his men ran outside to escape the blaze, they ran right into the spears of Harald Fairhair's warriors.
A few years later, after cementing his power, Harald Fairhair decided he wanted to get married, so he sent his men to talk to the princess of a neighboring kingdom called Hordaland. The princess, whose name was Gyda, wasn't impressed by Harald or his hair. She was like, yeah, I don't think so. She told Harald's men that she was worthy of a mighty kingdom, like how Gorm the Old had united all of Denmark under a king and how Erik Weatherhat (yes, Weatherhat) had united Sweden a few years back, and if his Harald dude was so marriage-worthy how come all he had was some puny little nothing kingdom?
can you even dance, bro?
When Harald's men came back and relayed her message to their king, they politely asked if they should just burn down her castle and carry her away, but the king said no. He liked her spirit. He would be the man she deserved. He would rule Norway as one kingdom.
That day, King Harald of Vestfold swore he would not cut or comb his hair until he had accomplished his epic mission – the conquest of every minor kingdom in Norway.
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Very little is known of the bloody, ten-year-long campaign that ensued, except that no man could stand against the furious might of Harald's ridiculous, never-ending hair. His long, flowing locks blowing in the breeze behind him, the king charged across the coastal districts and fjords of Norway, into the Uplands, across dales and tundras, winning battle after battle, conquering obscure kingdom after obscure kingdom, destroying all who would dare oppose him on the field of battle. Outside Trondheim he defeated eight kings in eight battles to seize the city. Another time he killed three enemy kings in a single battle when they tried to team up against him. Before long, enemy kings were running the white flag up their castle walls as soon as they saw Harald's banners fluttering on the horizon.
Unstoppable, strong-willed, and energetic, King Harald was also fair. He respected and upheld the laws passed at the Things, the parliaments held by the people. He let people do their own thing, and left the Jarls alone to run their territory untouched. He only asked for two things – he placed a Land Tax on the freemen, demanding them pay him for the priviledge of being theier king. The Jarls collected the money, kept one-third of it (which made them happy), and gave the rest to Harald. From the Jarls, Harald demanded 60 warriors for the national army, plus an additional 20 men from each of the Jarl's hersirs (lesser nobles that served under the jarl). This wasn't too tough – men from all over Norway, hearing the great tales of Harald's dominating victories, came from every corner of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden to seek glory, treasure, and excitement fighting for the hero-king and his dreadlocked uncombed mega-hair and matching floor-length beard. Before long, Harald became much-feared for personally charging into combat at the head of a super-scary force of over 60 hardcore shield-biting Viking Berserkers frothing at the mouth with uncontrollable rage and tearing their enemies' armor apart with their bare hands.
Eventually, all of Norway was divided into two factions – the Kingdom of Harald Fairhair and a huge alliance of Norwegian rulers who would rather have been kings of tiny kingdoms than subordinates of Harald. At the Battle of Hafrsfjord around 880 AD, Harald Fairhair sailed his fleet into a fjord and crashed his ships into an enemy armada commanded by rulers with names like Solvi Bandy-Legs, Kjotvi the Rich, Tore Hagalang, and Hadd the Hard. Harald's ships lashed themselves to their foes and unloaded shiploads of berserkers, men battling hard across the ships and they burned and sank and broke apart, filling the harbor with shredded masts, broken shields, and terrified enemy warriors swimming for their lives. The battle was hard-fought, lasted all day, and left lots and lots of men at the bottom of the fjord.
At the end of the day, Harald Fairhair stood atop the prow of his dragon-headed longship, surveying the ultimate destruction of the enemy fleet. After ten years of war, he had finally conquered.
Harald, who at this point was named Harald Tanglehair thanks to his rat's nest of a head, finally cut his hair. The result was so incredible that he became known as Harald Fairhair, or, alternately, Harald Greathair. He married Princess Gyda and had five kids with her, but thanks to his awesome new hair women from all over the place were falling in love with him the second they saw him, and Gyda was one of like ten women who bore him somewhere between 16 and 20 kids during his lifetime. His favorite of these wives was Ragnhild the Mighty, a Princess of Denmark who captured Harald's heart so intensely that he divorced nine women before he married her.
As King of Norway, Harald Fairhair went to work defending his borders and his kingdom against enemies from across the North Sea. Most of his foes, seeking to flee his wrath, had moved to Iceland, the Shetland Islands, the Orkneys, and the Hebrides in a desperate mass exodus, but now they were using their old Viking tricks to launch longship raids on Harald's territory in the summers.
This wouldn't fly. Harald responded by sending fleets to all of these places and laying waste to anyone who would dare authorize a Viking raid on Norway. Before long, people chilled out.
Harald Fairhair ruled Norway as a fair, just, and powerful king for over 50 years, passing away around 933 AD at the age of 83, and today is revered as the father of his people, the greatest king in Norwegian history, and a central figure of the Viking Era. He was buried on the grounds of his favorite palace, and today his epic victory at Hafrsfjord is marked by one of the most hardcore monuments ever – a set of three gigantic Viking-style swords, each measuring over 30 feet tall, embedded side-by-side in the rocky cliff overlooking the fjord where the battle was fought.


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pacman christmas tree
This Christmas tree can be seen in Madrid, Spain. It features a fully-animated LED version of Pacman. I wish I had one. I wonder how difficult it would be to make a scaled-down version?
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I Photographed Gorgeous Lorises To Raise Awareness About Loris Pet Trade
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My name is Nick and I'm working for a primate rescue center. And today I want to present you a wild primate who needs your attention before it becomes extinct: loris.
It may have crossed your mind that getting a loris and keep it at home as a pet would be such a cool thing to do. Because what harm does it make on either you and the animal, right? As a matter of fact, I have SEVEN reasons to convince you that loris is the least suitable pet in the world!
The easiest way for you to help save the endangered loris from extinction is to share this to your network and raise awareness of the people around you about this wild animal. Like our Facebook page would mean so much to me. Thank you!
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Lorises are nocturnal primates. What fun does a pet bring when they spend all their day sleeping huh?
Keeping, buying or selling loris is illegal in Vietnam, as well as in many countries in the world. In Vietnam, penalty for participating in loris trade ranges from $250USD to 7 years of imprisonment
They bite. You disturb them, touch them without their consent, tickle them or wake them up during their sleep, they will bite you. Not only extremely painful the bite will be, but also poisonous. They are the only primates in the world equipped with toxicity. (see that we need protective gloves when handling this one?)
Loris is smelly. They really are. Unless you want to turn your room into a toilet, don't keep a loris because they mark their territory with urine
Lorises are wild animals who travel long distances at night to forage. If you confine them in a small cage, you are imposing cruelty on them
Loris' complex diet includes from insects, fruits to tree sap and bark. A failure to provide them with their dietary needs will result in malnutrition, diabetes, obesity and eventually death
Last but most importantly, loris is facing serious risks of extinction. Having a loris pet meaning you are encouraging poachers to take them out of the forest, pushing them further to the verge of extinction. Do you really want to be the bad guy here?
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Sterling Griffin of Gig Harbor, Washington, has had a long career in real estate. Currently the Chief Operating Officer of Hudson Homes in Lakewood, Washington, Mr. Griffin is an expert in land acquisition, residential construction activities, marketing, and sales. Sterling Griffin began his career in the family real estate firm James S. Griffin, Co., where he developed a national marketing plan for the company. As Vice President of Marketing, he focused on the syndication of apartment properties and retirement homes in the Puget Sound region of Washington. After leaving the family business, Mr. Griffin spent 20 years as a self-employed real estate investor and developer. Next, he returned to an executive role in real estate development when he joined Hudson Homes, LLC, a Washington residential builder specializing in quality homes near Bainbridge Island and Gig Harbor. Mr. Griffin's career has branched out from the real estate development and syndication business in many ways. He is cofounder of Interactive Imagination, an entertainment production and development company that produced the Saturday morning cartoon Magi-Nation in collaboration with Cookie Jar Entertainment, Inc. Prepared Response, Inc., an innovator in crisis management and emergency preparedness solutions for first responders, also was co-founded by him. Since 2001, Prepared Response programs have saved lives and protected property in schools, hospitals, malls, and other public and private critical infrastructure. In addition to these entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Griffin founded Builder Spec Loans, LLC. Builder Spec Loans provided residential builders with construction financing through Bismark Mortgage Company, Inc. Outside of his work, Sterling Griffin has a number of interests. He enjoys fishing and college football, having played as a four-year starter on the Colorado College football team.


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