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I wanted to share some of the projects I have been occupying myself with while here in Albuquerque. Since I am planning on staying home with this baby, I am trying to save money in as many ways as possible, plus, I love fabric and paper crafting!
This is a cover for the Boppy Nursing Pillow, retail $25-$30, my cost: $8
The other side
I challenged myself and made them with zippers like the commercial ones instead of velcro like most homemade ones!
Cover 2
Other side cover 2
Cover 3
Other side cover 3
Cover 4
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I used Gerber cloth diapers to make some customized burp cloths!
These match the nursery fabrics
18 total burp cloths!
Added a letter personalization
Made a coordinating Crib skirt, cost about $10, displayed over the crib mattress for now :D
A detail in the middle
Mobile for over the crib using CTMH papers, cost about $5
Close up of the papers
Ribbons for the ribbon mobile
Ribbon Mobile for over the changing pad, cost about $20
From baby's point of view!
I've been having fun!!
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Critical Concept: Do What Moves You
Exercise is a supplement. Our modern mechanized world has removed most of the obligate activities of our everyday. This has left us largely movement-deficient. Our cells expect and require relatively high levels of regular energy expenditure, including occasional bouts of real exertion. For thousands of generations, we would walk an average of 10 to 20 miles per day – every day!
This lack of constant activity must be supplemented if we expect extraordinary health – which, by the way, is normal. We should expect optimal cell function and health. It is the natural consequence of living in alignment with your design. Unfortunately, it is not the norm.
We are (literally) being crushed under the weight of the health issues created by a sedentary culture. You were designed to move – and you sit. The result of this is we are now faced with an over-weight, under-muscled population – the twin engines of chronic illness.
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Twitter and the death of music journalism.
From the lovely Hypebot - got this pretty interesting (and mostly right imo) video.
bookmarked for later viewing
the statement on its own I think is a basis for a strong argument
Very amusing and also very true
I used to run a music reviews site and one thing i always did was actually talk about the songs and why the music was interesting/boring. Seems alot of people are typing up the press release and adding that it sucks/its good after. Not DiS btw.
twitter has nothing to do with the death of music journalism.
the internet definitely does.
the only time i really agreed with him was when he said that nowadays the review comes a month after anyone who's interested hears it, so it'll only ever be agreeing with existing opinions.
i think it's a good thing anyway. maybe not good for DiS, obviously not good for Plan B, but hella good for the consumer.
I think...
Sites like DiS are actually more important than ever now because they help to cut through the sea of two-bob critics and the deluge of records. Nobody's got time to listen to everything, so a bit of guidance and recommendations from people you trust can only be a good thing, right?
And does anybody really want one line album reviews?!
^^ 100%
but we're in the minority, I guess. My friend--and apparently many people--believe in the 140 character review bullshit. My buddy thinks just telling the world xyz record is 7.4 is well and good and that folks will read his blog because they understand what great taste he has. Fuck me.
But then again, this music forum is pretty much just that. And I can't pull myself away from it. So there ya go....
Thing is...
...you could do a one line album review after listening to less than one song. I don't think it'd encourage pithy more laziness.
He touched on points that've been brought up here many times
But there are plenty of us that do still care about "why"--good reviews are much more than "good but not great" pronouncements.
It won't ever die though.
Maybe in a professional capacity, yes, but people aren't going to stop writing about music any more than they're going to stop writing about politics, economics or football.
playing devils advocate slightly
a critics role in the past would be to guide people to purchase good music and telling them to avoid the rubbish thus saving them money. If everyone just downloads the album for free on streams it on Spotify then that Money Saving Expert role as it were will become reduntant. That's nothing to do with Twitter though. A social networking site that's had 6 months popularity isn't going to kill something as established as music journalism.
* I quite like the Twitter reviews, it makes it more like an art form
or haikus etc. It's way harder to write a short review than a long one imo.
having now watched the video
I like him, it's people who are passionate, inquisitve and informed that will survive and 'Death of...'affairs. I wish he didn't bang on about making no money though, scary! (but true)
a lot of puff and bluster to get to the simple truth that most of us usually bang on about
the importance of music reviews.....or, where they should shine.....is objectivity.......it's easy not to like somthing because you trod in a puddle as you hit play on your i-pod...much harder to try and get through your subjective response to then actually consider what the music is worth, what it is saying, how it is doing it....all that stuff.
he is right in that twitter and blogs provoke more personal responses. it's 'your' tweets...'your' blogs. you aren't writing on behalf on anyone else or as part of a wider community of people and so i guess that will always diminsh objectivity
i dunno.
my two things for music journalism just boil down to
a) push for objectivity
b) make it your goal for the reader to come away with a new perspective on the record that they have already listened to
and point b is where i disagree with him....he moans about reviews not being on the pulse...but music papers should capitalise on this and get proustian and slow everything the fuck down. make it your point to tell people something new about the record they have already heard...not something banal about the record they are yet to hear....becuase that not knowing will always give the reviewer the whip hand to say the most boring unanalytical tripe becuase for the reader..it is all unknown....there is no two way thing going on...the reader cannot counter or compare opinion.........the whole cycle of criticism is backwards......the reader should experience the thing in question and then go to the review for illumination and engagement....not read the review and then decide on whether they will buy into the experience.....it's all wrong.............and in that case......it makes it sound like i'm for leaks and blogs and downloads......but im not sure i am....i dunno. tricky stuff.
music journalism died
the day Stylus closed its doors. I think that's the exact moment when i stopped caring about new music
good shout /\
only the first half though, not the second. no site or magazine comes close to Stylus.
If music journalism is dead
then DiS would have to close down and we'd have nowhere to congregate. It's a vicious circle.
Writing on Twitter isn't music journalism as any proper music journalist would understand it. It's no different to someone on here going "hey everyone, listen to Generic ATP-Style Band X!" - it gets something across with the minimum of fuss but you wouldn't call it outright convincing.
Christ, when Spotify launches in America it'll be like columnist Armageddon.
DiS will need to focus on making the community better.
If we didn't have such a loyal and active community I think we may have gone the way of Stylus. And if less of them had on ad-blockers, we'd probably be able to afford a second tech person to speed up the developments and pay some of our contributors too... I'm just sayin'
Have to say
I only found out about this thru Twitter. It really is extraordinary technology when it comes to breaking news. Hell, if it's good enough for Blur, Obama and Slash, it's alright by me. As for reviewing, like someone once said on here: a lot of people look at the score, go to MySpace / Spotify and then make their decision. Do we always need a preamble ripped from the PR to bump up the word count?
preamble ripped from the PR, no ?
good, well written reviews, definitely yes !!!
Personnally, reading this band is ace 9/10 isn't enough to make me go listen...
I remember about six years ago I came across the first review of a piece of music I'd ever seen.
I thought 'Haha WTF how can music be reviewed?'
parts & labor?
wasn't he the really good drummer in Parts & Labor??
Pretty much agree with him
and the point about lack of desire to be exposed to stuff, people only searching out stuff that applies to them being a problem is very true.
I think it creates conditions where it's very difficult for things are genuinely different and innovative to break through - if people are only searching for stuff that sounds a bit like their favourite bands all they're gonna hear is stuff that sounds a bit like like their favourite bands and the bands that are gonna get heard are the bands that sound like other bands.


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serving up a daily dose of free human-quality K9s Only Natural Nugget gourmet doggy treat samples and single-serving doggy ice cream made by Three Dog Bakery, at dog parks, events and beaches throughout the Southland.
only in los angeles… saw this on rachael ray… yum-o for dogs…
Food trucks have become very popular nowadays but this is the first food truck for dogs. It's called Phydough… they offer organic dog cookies and soy and yogurt based ice cream treats. Dog owners can buy frozen cookie dough as well as baked…
Patrick Guilifoyle, the genius behind Phydough, has five dogs, no doubt the inspiration for this four paws up idea. If he ever needs another dog taste tester, am sure that Cici would not mind volunteering.
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Take the middle lane of your hair a tail and make a kind of bun. Secure with a rubber band. Then the other two pick two beautiful braiding and twist it around the bun. Secure with pins and you're done! This bun is also suitable for ladies with shorter hair.
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Krakow, Malopolska
Luke Karcz was born in Krakow in Poland on 23 th of July 1981. Oil painting studio
of the master Wlodzimierz Karcz at years 2003 - 2008. Studies on the Art Department
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2010 - I st degree scholarship.
2010 - Collective exhibition, ZADRA Gallery Warsaw Poland.
2010 - Collective exhibition, Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland.
2011 - 2013 International Art Open Air "Artsesja" Krakow Poland. Instalation.
2011 - Rector's scholarship for best student.
2012 - International Art Open Air " Barwy Wschowy" Wschowa, Poland. Colective Exhibition.
2012 - Individual Exhibition, Cafe Vis a vis Krakow, Poland.
2013 - Parallax Art Fair London 2013.
2013 - Krakow Art Expo 2013.
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The Importance of Time
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The Philosophy of Time Society grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy of Time offered by George Schlesinger in 1991. The members of that seminar wanted to promote interest in the philosophy of time and Jon N. Turgerson offered to become the first Director of the society with the initial costs underwritten by the Drake University Center for the Humanities. Thus, the Philosophy of Time Society (PTS) was formed in 1993. Its goal is to promote the study of the philosophy of time from a broad analytic perspective, and to provide a forum as an affiliated group with the American Philosophical Association, to discuss the issues in and related to the philosophy of time. The society held its first meeting during the Eastern Division of the AP A in Atlanta, George, in December 1993. In 1997 I began my tenure as Executive Director of PTS and with my term ending in 2000, I decided to put together a volume of selected papers read at PTS meetings over the years. The result is the present volume. It contains some of the latest developments in the field, including discussions of recent books by Michael Tooley, Time, Tense, and Causation, and D. H. Mellor, Real Time II, and much more. The main issue in the philosophy of time is and remains the status of temporal becoming and the passage of time.
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Hi Everyone,
You might be wondering how I arrived at my books: HOME AWAY FROM HOME --- AIR OF VENGEANCE --- COME BACK TO ME --- and THE BENEFITS OF NEUTRAL THINKING.
With "Home," it was because I'm often asked about where I was born and where I grew up. When I tell people I was born in Vietnam and grew up in Kansas, they typically register a reaction of surprise and ask me how that happened and what it was like? After repeatedly recounting my experiences to people, I decided to put those experiences down in a book.
For "Air Of Vengeance," after working many years as a flight attendant, I couldn't help but come up with an idea for a book. To make it interesting, I decided to make it suspenseful and ghostly while peppering it with a few on-the-job observations of my own.
For "Come Back," I just wanted to memorialize the town where I grew up - Coffeyville, Kansas - and thought it would make a good setting for a book about Past Life Regression.
The most recent book came to me when I noticed how our modern society can sometimes go to the extremes and disregard a benefit that's somewhere in the middle, somewhere in the neutral territory, prompting me to arrive at "The Benefits Of Neutral Thinking."
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The spokesmodels on financial TV were thrusting their pom-poms this morning over the Facebook acquisition of 'WhatsApp' for $19 billion dollars. This reminds me of techbubble-nomics. Facebook is paying with an inflated currency for a big chunk of it, eg. their stock.
And the Markit PMI came in high side, and so stocks were moving higher.
Did the analysts you were watching even mention the horrendous miss on the Philly Fed in the afternoon? Must have been a snow day. Unemployment claims remain stubbornly high.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - From phone sex operator, to comedian, to large size campaigner, to teen author with a voice for girls struggling to come to terms with their weight.
Mo'Nique Imes Jackson, 40, who is known by her stage name Mo'Nique, has enjoyed a varied career, starring in various TV shows, hosting the BET awards, and penning two books "Skinny Women Are Evil" and the cookbook "Skinny Cooks Can't Be Trusted."
Now twice-married Mo'Nique, who recently launched an online clothing range called Fat Gurl, has branched out into teen fiction with a coming-of-age novel "Beacon Hills High" which she co-wrote with Sherri McGee McCovey.
The novel is about a 13-year-old F.A.T. (Fabulous and Thick) girl who happens to share her last name — Eboni Michelle Imes.
Mo'Nique, who has four children from her two marriages, spoke to Reuters about her latest venture — and why fat-ism is wrong:
Q: Why did you decide to go into teen fiction?
A: "I think there are so many issues in college that were not as threatening when we were young and it's helpful to have a coming-of-age book that is real and helps kids understand what is going on."
Q: What type of issues do you mean?
A: "I think race is a huge issue, sexuality, and character and integrity. You normally find those things are handled in cartoons like Elmo and Blue's Clues but there is nothing that is really informative or geared for 13-year-olds."
Q: The lead character of "Beacon Hills High" has your name. Is she you?
A: "Yes. It is based on my years in college and she is learning to be comfortable in her own her skin. But when we were teenagers in school there wasn't so much focus on material things and how much things cost and names. We got excitement over the simple things so Ebony is changed for the times."
Q: Does it deal with weight issues?
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Q: You've always been vocal about size. What is your view?
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Why tea is perfect for anxiety.
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/CNW/ - Parkland Fuel Corporation ("Parkland" or the "Corporation") (TSX: PKI), Canada's largest independent distributor and marketer of petroleum products, today announced that, having received all necessary approvals, it has completed its previously announced transaction to acquire the assets of Elbow River Marketing Limited Partnership ("Elbow River") from AvenEx Energy Corporation (TSX: AVF) (the "Acquisition"). The assets were acquired by Elbow River Marketing Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Parkland Fuel Corporation. All financial figures are stated in Canadian dollars.
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"The closing of this acquisition further demonstrates Parkland's ability to rapidly respond and execute quickly on emerging opportunities in the Canadian marketplace," said
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, President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland. "I want to welcome Elbow River's highly respected team to the Parkland family. We look forward to working with Elbow River to expand and enhance Parkland's supply relationships and options."
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You knew this was coming. Lance Armstrong is being sued over his repeated, vehement denials in two books that he did not use performance-enhancing drugs or blood doping to win his seven Tour de France titles.
Rob Stutzman, an aide to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and several others who purchased Armstrong's memoirs "It's Not About The Bike" and "Every Second Counts" have filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the fallen hero of committing fraud and other wrongdoing for repeated claims that he was clean.
Armstrong admitted last week in a two-part televised interview with Oprah Winfrey that he did use performance-enhancing drugs and blood doping throughout his storied career.
The lawsuit says that Stutzman had the opportunity to meet and talk with Armstrong during a visit to Sacramento.
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Montreal fashion week was this week. Unfortunally I missed it but fashion shows are everywhere and one of the best that you can view live and free is of course in the streets!
Being in Montreal for a quick weekend I am going to try my best to snap some good shots for the street fashion because this city has so much to offer in terms of fashion. And through my pictures, you will definitely know what I am talking about!


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A_L_C_H/Instagram (LONDON) — One London-based fashion designer is taking items like McDonald's bags, IKEA bags and recycled Apple products to create fashionable, wearable items.
Alexandra Hackett and her brand ALCH have created these one-of-a-kind items.
"My practice focuses on appropriating the function of preexisting textiles — often materials that are not traditionally associated with the fashion industry — into apparel and accessory design," Hackett, 24, told ABC News. "My work explores the concept of the body as a product and clothing as a form of product packaging."
Hackett said although she's used many items, often considered as waste, there's one textile that she's dying to get her hands on: NASA space foil.
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FREMONT, Calif., March 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Identive Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:INVE) today announced that it has granted 3,000,000 stock options and 500,000 restricted stock units (RSUs) to Jason D. Hart, the company's chief executive officer.
The grants were approved by the company's board of directors on March 13, 2014 as an inducement material to Mr. Hart's acceptance of employment with the company and were made outside of the company's approved stock incentive compensation plan in reliance on NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The stock options granted to Mr. Hart have an exercise price per share of $0.88, the closing price of the company's common stock on the date of grant and vest over a four-year period that includes 25 percent vesting after one year with monthly vesting over the subsequent three years. The restricted stock units will vest over a four-year period that includes 25 percent vesting after one year with quarterly vesting over the subsequent three years, subject to Mr. Hart's continued service with the company. Both the stock options and the restricted stock units are subject to accelerated vesting in the event of a change of control of the company. Mr. Hart's full compensation information is detailed in his employment agreement, which is included as an exhibit to a current report on form 8-K, filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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For a relaxing experience, delve into This Will Destroy You's ambient aroma. In their self-titled album, they feature no words; only peaceful, delay-driven guitars and simple, yet intricate drum patterns. For a powerful system of harmonies that fuses into a fast-paced, space-filled jam, check out the song called A Three-Legged Workhorse. Other songs that deserve a listen are Threads, Villa Del Refugio and Leather Wings. If you don't appreciate music without words, avoid this band and this genre of music. However, for those who do, this is a must-have album.


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Gatwick Airport is investing heavily to become the airport of choice for airlines and passengers across the world. Mark Hansford meets the driving forces behind its £1.2bn investment programme.
Gatwick Airport used to be known pretty much for one thing - chartered flights sending happy-go-lucky Brits off to their lager-fuelled holidays on the Costas. The airport, and particularly its charter flight-centric South Terminal, was a noisy, cramped, unpleasant place to travel from. But since BAA was forced to sell to a collection of new owners led by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) in December 2009 that image has been changing rapidly. These new owners are determined to make Gatwick London's airport of choice - toppling even Heathrow in terms of service and choice of destinations served.
It's a bold vision, but there is plenty of evidence that the strategy is working; while Heathrow creaks at the seams, Gatwick, with yearly passengers totalling 34M, still has capacity for more and new airlines signed up in the last 12 months, including Korean Air, Air Vietnam and Air China, prove that.
Growth ambition
Gatwick's construction director Derek Hendry is clear: "The message is we've got ambitions to grow and we've got the capacity." And for the foreseeable future that is with just one runway - the airport's owners ended speculation over plans for a second runway in July with the publication of its development masterplan to 2020. It rules out the need for additional runway capacity until 2030, when it expects to reach full capacity with around 45M passengers a year choosing to fly from the airport. It believes that it will be handling 40M passengers a year by the early 2020s.
"The reality is that, certainly in the middle of the day, we have got adequate spare capacity. We have had some good wins and certainly the Far East sector is an opportunity for growth," he says.
"Now we are independent and we don't have a head office, we are more nimble; more able to try things out"
Derek Hendry, Gatwick's construction director
The key to these new wins has been the demonstrable improvement in customer experience at the airport, fuelled by the investment programme.
Of course, investment in airports is regulated by the Civil Aviation Authority, and Gatwick's current spend was largely put in place by BAA back in 2008, way before GIP was on the scene. But that's not to say that GIP has not been able to manipulate this agreed spend to its - and its customers' - advantage. Some work was replanned and rephased, and some new schemes were added. Bottom line is the CAA approved a one-year extension to BAA's original £1bn capital investment programme, lifting it to a £1.172bn spend between 2008 and 2014.
"For us the key is making sure passenger expectations are met, for example, by cutting queues," says Hendry. "We have worked very hard; we knew there were often big queues at check-in and security before we took over. Now, it is a much slicker process," he says.
Asset data is key
Data on its assets is key to a client like Gatwick, and one of the first things the Bechtel/Gatwick team did was develop a standard form for all works information with a BIM model at its heart. This was back in 2010, some nine months before the government placed BIM models at the heart of its Construction Strategy.
BIM at the heart
"We feel like we're leading the way on BIM," says Phillpot. Driving its development at Gatwick has been engineering manager Eli Walter. "In the past people were doing BIM but in a haphazard manner. Probably nine months before the government's announcement, we had decided the same thing; that BIM was going to be key."
And data is the key. "BIM for us is not for all the pretty pictures, but because it is a smarter way of working; for us it is a data set to be used by everyone - technicians, asset managers and the engineering team," he says. This ethos is best summed up by a recent IT upgrade that has seen new desktop PCs rolled out across the company. "Everyone has got a new computer and we fought long and hard that every one of them has a BIM reader so the model can be used."
Of course, as of today, there is limited detail in the model, but that will change over time. "We currently have a huge archive, but it is a dumb archive. The prospect BIM holds is that we can get all that information in a model, so that 25 years down the line we will be able to peer in and see our archive.
"The vision we have is of a technician with an iPad out on site calling up the drawings he needs from the BIM model," explains Hulse. "That's something BAA would struggle to do."
Gatwick's BIM model is built primarily around Autodesk and Revit, but other platforms could use it if required - for example Civil 3D for highways work.
Phillpot is also confident that contractors see the benefit of BIM. "Contractors can get a huge advantage if they use the BIM model. Modelling in 4D can absolutely help with project planning. Using BIM means you can say absolutely what the asset physically looks like on any given day."
And pretty pictures do play a part, particularly in winning over airlines when planning works. "You can provide assurance to airlines whose chief concern is their daily operation," says Phillpot.
"If you can walk them through the look of the airport during works, even it is to show them the space between desks, it helps," says Hulse. "These are aviation people not engineers and a flat drawing is of no use to them."
Most of the bigger capital projects in the programme specifically targeted this, with many focused on the horrendous South Terminal, including a £31M new forecourt that was completed in March, a £21M upgrade of its landside concourse that is well underway and completes in December, a significant £45M extension of its security search area that completed in October 2011, a £34M extension of the departure lounge that completed in December 2009, a £8M refurbishment of the immigration hall that completed in October 2011 and a £40M facelift of Pier 2 - one of three piers that South Terminal planes dock at - that completed in October 2011.
The already business-focused North Terminal has seen its fair share of improvement too, with a spectacular £75M extension of the check-in and arrivals halls that completed in December 2011; a new £25M forecourt that completed in July 2010; a £12.8M extension of the security area that completes this summer; and a £39M new baggage handling system that completed in April. Work is also about to get going on a £6.5M adaption of the newest pier, Pier 6, to allow it to handle Airbus's super-jumbo A380.
"We spent the next 12 months developing how we were going to do business - particularly looking at procurement"
Mark Phillpot, Gatwick's project manager
Linking the two terminals is still the inter-terminal transit, and this too has seen a £47M upgrade, with all the cars replaced and the Guideway refurbished. And work on the mainstay of any airport - its runways and taxiways - is also part of the plan, with £71M being spent on resurfacing in the next 12 months.
Yet strangely, with all this work going on, a £17M new multi-storey car park actually best sums up the difference in strategies between BAA and GIP. And it also neatly brings in its integrated project delivery team of Gatwick Airport bigwigs and programme management experts from Bechtel.
It was delivered in record time by using off-site manufacture and significantly lower than the original BAA-approved £28M budget.
Post BAA change
Hendry thinks this sums up the change post-BAA. "Now we are independent and we don't have a head office, we are more nimble; more able to try things out," he says. Bringing in Bechtel in from day one was key to this.
It, in the form of project manager Mark Phillpot, was actually involved pre-takeover, carrying out due diligence for GIP. This role evolved into Bechtel and Gatwick forming an integrated delivery team, and it was Phillpot who was at the heart of the new strategy. "The strategy was review, develop and implement. The first stage was review; we took three months to ask what does check-in need to look like? What does pier service need to look like?" explains Phillpot. It was this review that immediately identified tackling the queues for security at the neglected South Terminal as key. But the fact that the work could be done - for £45M as early as last year - was only possible because savings were found elsewhere.
"It is all based on the airlines and what they want. We have looked at all the options - extending east, west and south"
Ben Green, Gatwick's head of piers
"Revisions across the board meant that we could do it," says Phillpot. That was the heart of the second and third phases - develop and implement - which the car park neatly sums up. "We spent the next 12 months developing how we were going to do business - particularly looking at our procurement approach," he says. The bottom line is that Gatwick has gone back to prime contracting."
And it is unapologetic about the move; it knows what it wants, and simply wants the best price to deliver it. Or, as Bechtel man and capital procurement and contracts manager Stephen Brunell puts it: "There are a lot of intelligent contractors out there; we were looking for more competition."
Switch to frameworks
So it tore up existing contracts and went back to market with a series of frameworks; one for detailed design, which has nine consultants on board; one for professional services such as project management, which has eight consultants and cost consultants on board; one for major construction works worth £5M or more, which has 10 contractors on board; and one for more minor works but which can have a value up to £15M, which has 23 contractors on board.
The division of the construction frameworks by scale of works is seen as important, as it gets Gatwick as client a direct relationship with smaller suppliers and trades. "This gets us down to the right level," explains Brunell, "and so gets the right risk transfer."
It is getting this correct allocation of risk that is the prime driver behind the switch to prime contracting. "It is about getting the right risk ownership, it is not about low cost," stresses Brunell. "For every project we have a concept; everyone on the relevant framework then bids. But for any project the assessment could be 60/40 quality/cost or 40/60. It depends on the risks. When it comes to working on say the runway, that's our main asset, so the technical, quality side is more important."
The way suppliers are paid also varies depending on the contract. "On each project we look at the risks, ask what impact the project could have on the operation and maintenance of the airport and then ask, are we going lump sum, target cost, cost reimbursable?" explains Phillpot. "It depends, and it could be a mix. We could even go for a design and build lump sum. In some cases, why not do that?" he asks. And that's where the car park comes in - it was just that: design and build, lump sum, and built on time and on budget, with Gatwick saving a tidy sum in the process.
Totally different solution
"We just said to the contractor that we wanted a car park with a certain number of spaces, and the solution offered was totally different to that we expected," says Gatwick head of development engineering Rod Hulse, referencing the contractor's decision to opt for off-site prefabrication. Hulse and Phillpot work side by side, although Phillpot was handing over his duties to Brunell as NCE visited.
Design and build and off-site prefabricaton also features in the £82.5M reconfiguration of North Terminal's Pier 5, which is now underway. It is a complex project with the intention of speeding turnaround times for planes by having departing and incoming passengers accommodated on different levels of the Pier by building a second level. This demands both cantilevering out from the existing building and building upwards.
Contractor Carillion will deliver the work as a design and build project, but it was awarded the job only after 30% of the design was already done; this allowed Gatwick to devise and agree a new construction approach with airlines to make savings.
"What we are looking for is a very quick, efficient delivery with offsite prefabrication. If we had taken the design to too detailed a level we would never have got value for money," explains contracts. "So we took design to 30% complete, then awarded."
"The approach will vary, as appropriate to that project," he says. "It is never one size fits all," adds Hulse.
"It's a balance," says Phillpot. "A car park, if well specified, then yes, lump sum feels appropriate. It's about being smart."
But making these smart contractual calls demands an intelligent client; and making Gatwick one needed upfront effort.
World class client
"We are also looking at working with world-class contractors; and we have got world-class airlines as our customers; so we needed to be a world-class client," says Phillpot.
Initially, this has meant flooding the place with Bechtelian creatives.
"In February 2009 some BAA people were offered the chance of joining Gatwick. There weren't many of us, which is why we needed the Bechtel partnership," explains Hulse. "We just didn't have the bandwidth to deliver what needed to be done."
"Gatwick had to become a standalone company, which it wasn't before," says Phillpot. Naturally, Bechtel has stepped up to the plate. "There are 30 people in the Bechtel team," explains Phillpot. "We started with eight in the review phase, plus four external experts from our San Francisco masterplanning team. That increased rapidly to the 30 we are at now and they work in functional roles and delivery team."
Hulse adds that Bechtel man and engineering manager Eli Walter's role was particularly important. "Walter brought in design management processes that didn't exist in BAA. He set processes up to ensure contractors deliver to them." This includes putting a BIM model of the airport at the heart of everything (see box).
Getting clarity over roles was key," explains Phillpot. "The best way to describe what we have done is to say we have simplified. In a lot of places we had contractors overlapping with the client organisation and it had become very messy and very tangled, in my opinion. We needed clarity in ownership and in risk.
Happy contractors
"The feedback is that contractors are very happy with knowing the risks and responsibilities they manage. They manage risks that relate to a construction business. We do operational risks," says Phillpot.
Also pleasing the industry is the recognition that the NEC contract was written as is for a reason. "We also recognised that the NEC is the right form of contract," explains Brunell. "We recognised it as industry standard.
The problem we find today is you get too many z clauses. So we went back to the vanilla version. We reduced it dramatically back to what it was. You don't need to change all aspects of it. It's there; it works."
It is not just contractors that are now under scrutiny on costs; internal scrutiny is also high, with every project going through a seven-stage process that features a cost and time check at each stage.
"It means we keep the pace up; we know when decisions have to be taken and means we can manage the capital spend profile," explains Phillpot. "We can ask ourselves are we ready to take certain risk decisions and if not we can develop projects to a certain stage and then pause until we are."
South Terminal revamp
The £174M revamp of the South Terminal's baggage handling system in conjunction with construction of a new Pier 1 sums this up. It will be the largest single contract the airport will let, and is high risk with the potential for it to disrupt operations.
By planning the timing, and therefore procuring two projects as one, Gatwick believes it will save £40M. It's also another example of a project that Gatwick felt design risk was best kept in-house.
"The project integrates with other things and influences everything," explains Brunell. "So we have developed the design and a BIM modelled design has been issued as part of the tender."
To the layman it is hard to see how a pier and a baggage handling system are connected. But they are. The Pier is being rebuilt as a hub for short-haul operators who place rapid turnarounds as key. The new pier will feature less stands but will allow planes in and out much quicker. Coupled with this, a new baggage handling system will store bags to any destination at any time, dramatically smoothing operations at check-in. As a project, it's long overdue.
"The Queen opened the new Gatwick Airport with its integral railway station on 9 June 1953," says Gatwick head of piers and infrastructure projects Ben Green, explaining that Pier 1 was it then, and that it is life expired. "The new Pier 1 will be much more flexible and allow fast turns; so it is very much designed around the short hauls."
The Pier 1 project is the largest in Green's £350M project portfolio and will easily roll over into the next regulatory period, and attention is switching to that. "Right now we're in year five of a six-year period and have a £750M spend behind us and £450M to go. But we've kicked off engaging with our customers on 2014-2020 and we think a similar level of investment is on the table," says Hendry.
One of the chief targets could be for the airport to provide 95% of planes using the North Terminal with a pier service. But as the airport gets busier, that gets tougher.
Projects on the table include a further extension of Pier 6 - the airport's newest Pier. "All the time we are trying to optimise capacity," explains Green. "Once we knock down and replace Pier 1 we will lose stands. So one of the things we are looking at is how we would provide the same level of service. One option is to extend Pier 6 to provide more stands and extra A380 capacity."
What airlines want
What that project will look like depends on the airlines. "It is all based on the airlines and what they want. We have looked at all the options - extending east, west and south, or even connecting to a new pier. What we build will be the most economically efficient option," he says.
Other projects will be determined by airline demands. "Some airlines want a premium service, others are looking for rapid turns - so what they want is a very different type and speed of service," explains Green.
What is clear is that as discussions with the CAA over Gatwick's next regulated spend start in earnest next year, they will be enlightened by whatever the government comes up with in its long awaited review of aviation capacity in the South-east this summer.
Funnily enough, Hendry thinks that Gatwick should not be overlooked. "We've got plans to continue to invest and get the most out of the capacity we have got. I do think there should be an onus on the UK's existing airports to maximise their existing capacity before we as a nation commit to building more runways," he says. "But above all else, clarity around UK aviation policy is what is required."
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Common Name(s): Raspberry Jam
Scientific Name: Acacia acuminata
Distribution: Southern Australia
Tree Size: 10-23 ft (3-7 m) tall, 1 ft (.3 m) trunk diameter
Average Dried Weight: 65 lbs/ft3 (1,040 kg/m3)
Specific Gravity (Basic, 12% MC): .88, 1.04
Janka Hardness: 3,100 lbf (13,810 N)*
*Estimated hardness based on specific gravity
Modulus of Rupture: 18,850 lbf/in2 (130.0 MPa)**
Elastic Modulus: 2,683,000 lbf/in2 (18.50 GPa)**
Crushing Strength: 10,150 lbf/in2 (70.0 MPa)**
**Conservative values based on strength group/bracket
Shrinkage: Radial: 2.1%, Tangential: 3.2%, Volumetric: 5.4%, T/R Ratio: 1.5
Color/Appearance: Heartwood is a dark reddish brown. Lighter yellowish sapwood is clearly demarcated from heartwood.
Grain/Texture: Fine, uniform texture with good natural luster.
Endgrain: Diffuse-porous; solitary and radial multiples; large pores in no specific arrangement, few; parenchyma vasicentric; narrow rays, spacing normal.
Rot Resistance: Rated as very durable; good insect resistance.
Workability: No data available.
Odor: As the name suggests, this wood has an odor similar to raspberry jam when cut.
Allergies/Toxicity: Besides the standard health risks associated with any type of wood dust, no further health reactions have been associated with Raspberry Jam. See the articles Wood Allergies and Toxicity and Wood Dust Safety for more information.
Pricing/Availability: Very limited availability due to harvesting restrictions in place within Australia. Seldom exported.
Sustainability: This wood species is not listed in the CITES Appendices or on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Common Uses: Fence posts, turned objects, and other small specialty wood objects.
Comments: So named for its distinctive odor when being worked, which is reminiscent of raspberry jam. The tree is not closely related to the plants responsible for producing edible raspberries, which are members of the Rubus genus, not Acacia.
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Column originally published by Center Maryland on May 30, 2014
By Donald C. Fry
With the primary elections less than four weeks away, and with a barrage of professionally crafted message points and carefully-selected campaign sound bites being directed to television viewers and audiences at candidate forums, what more do voters need to hear from candidates for governor?
Substance. Candidates need to offer voters more details to support their message points.
Democratic and Republican candidates for governor in the June 24 primary elections are passionately communicating their commitments to improving Maryland's business climate, creating jobs and strengthening our state's competitiveness for economic growth.
All vow to make job creation a high priority. All have something to say about taxes.
Contrasting promises range from vows by two Republican candidates – Harford County Executive David Craig and Charles County business executive Charles Lollar – to eliminate state income taxes entirely to Democratic candidate Delegate Heather Mizeur's pledge to increase taxes on large corporations and high earners and to dedicate the new revenue to tax relief for middle-income families and small business employers.
In between, pledges from Democrats include a vow from Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown to create a commission to study tax reform and a proposal from Attorney General Doug Gansler to gradually reduce the corporate income tax rate through annual quarter-percent reductions.
Other proposals from Republican gubernatorial candidates include a call from business owner and Anne Arundel Delegate Ron George for a 10 percent across-the-board personal income tax reduction and a promise to "get the government off our backs" from Larry Hogan, an Anne Arundel County business owner and a former member of Gov. Robert Ehrlich's cabinet. All Republican candidates vow to repeal the rain tax.
While many of the proposals promising to eliminate or reduce taxes sound promising on their face, they fail to address the very important issue of what to do about the lost revenue.
The state's income tax is the single largest source of revenue for the general fund, estimated to generate more than $8 billion in FY2015. These revenues are used to support services that almost all Marylanders rely on, such as K-12 education, public safety, and health care. How the candidates intend to eliminate major revenue sources without proposing a solid plan for continuing to fund critical services should be the question posed at debates and candidate forums in the last 30 days before the primary elections.
Some candidates suggest that enough economic growth will result from the elimination or reduction of taxes to cover the lost revenue. Others propose that the budget can be balanced simply by eliminating waste in state government.
A candidate's suggestion that the elimination or reduction of taxes will simply result in economic growth that will generate equivalent new revenue to government or that a reduction of government "waste" should suffice is too simplistic.
Candidates owe it to voters to be more specific in their answers. Voters and moderators at candidate forums have to demand that specificity.
For example, there is no question that Maryland's high taxes are burdensome to business, but a proper solution should include both rate reduction scenarios and more specifics, ideally supported by credible expert analysis, on how to address the lost revenue.
We all understand that message points are an important element to any campaign. They enable a candidate to communicate what they stand for in a succinct and appealing way.
I also understand that candidates offer details on their web sites amplifying their campaign promises. But even if voters take the time to read through all of the campaign web sites, they will find that specifics are, for the most part, lacking.
At this pivotal moment in time when thoughtful, effective public policy is sorely needed to position Maryland for strong economic growth and job creation, I'm simply suggesting that candidates for governor afford voters a better glimpse of the substance behind their message points.
Donald C. Fry is president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee. He is a regular contributor to Center Maryland.


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This past Sunday saw the start of Aamir Khan's socially relevant show Satyamev Jayate Season 2 with the topic of fighting rape and how to most effectively provide support to the victims of such a crime (read our review of Satyamev Jayate Season 1 here). As women of all ages and stories expressed their concern or told their stories on national television, the audience reacted and applauded their bravery, solidity and activism.
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Vidya will celebrate womanhood with her audience by presenting the stories of women who have brought about change in their community and have overcome several issues and struggles through their will force and their empowerment. She has confessed to have felt very inspired by all the guests who have participated in the show. The show will inform women abut their rights and help services available to them in difficult times and will also include the performances of Sayantani Ghosh, Bharti Singh, Lauren Gotleib, Shakti Mohan as well as other TV actresses.
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HRH Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah of Selangor mingle with the recipients of University Award in the 35th UPM Convocation Ceremony
His Royal Highness the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah consent to attend the 35th UPM Convocation Ceremony. This year, 813 graduates receiving their certificates in PhD, Master degree and Bachelor Degree. Also present at the ceremony were the Vice-Chancellor of UPM, Datuk Ir. Dr. Radin Umar bin Radin Sohadi and the university three Pro-Chancellors, Tan Sri Dr. Nayan Ariffin, Tan Sri Lim Ah Lek and Tan Sri Rozali Ismail.
In the ceremony, the Sultan also consent to deliver the Chancellor Gold Medal Award to Ng Kit Lin and Royal Education Award (Bumiputera) to Elmy Talip and Royal Education Award (non-bumiputera) to Ong Ban Shui.
The Sultan also consent to deliver the following awards :-
- Alumni Gold Medal Award - Megat Marwan bin Megat Nizar
- Gold Medal Award of Pak Rashid Foundation - Khairul Na'im bin Ya'akub
- Gold Medal Award of Prof Ameritus Tan Sri Dr Rashdan Baba - Wong Yee May
- Hadiah Putra Agribio - Low Wei Han
- Hadiah Syed Kechik - Nurdiyana Binti Mohamad Tahir


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At my Seattle event, a fellow craft-nik shared with me some of the pieces from her exquisite button collection, including the above photo of a button bracelet - where she linked them together with a crème cotton crocheted stitch. She is a button collector, following in her grandmother's footsteps, and among the charming pieces kept in felt-lined compartmentalized boxes, my favorite was a hand embroidered covered button that her grandmother had made, with a 3" wide diameter, ... wouldn't it be lovely as the closure on a velvet clutch...!
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On Piracy Tax and The Regular Legal Channels
The Computer Corner
By Charles Miller
It happens every so often that I will read news reporting of something that is happening half way around the world and wonder if the same thing could be happening where I live. A story I recently read reported from Europe piqued my interest, but try though I did I was unable to learn if what was happening over there is also the case in any of the countries on the North American continent.
The story I read had to do with the fact that several member countries of the European Union collect a levy on sales of blank storage media and use the money raised to compensate rights holders for copyright infringement. This practice is known colloquially as the "piracy tax." The theory behind this tax is that anyone who buys a blank CD or DVD media is probably buying the blanks to make illegal copies of music or movie disks. Since that is what they are probably using the blanks for that is depriving the copyright holders of the royalties they should receive from legal sales, so everyone who buys blank disks should pay a tax to compensate the artists.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the practice was "flawed," so it was expected that this system of taxation would begin to be dismantled across the EU. It seems the opposite is the case though.
In spite of the fact the ECJ seemed to have given a pretty clear signal on the subject of the "piracy tax," it does not seem to be going away and is a hot topic in the Netherlands, Germany, and some other EU countries. In Poland the organization ZAiKS that lobbies for the rights of artists, authors, and performers has been pushing to broaden the "piracy tax" system in that country. Currently, the Polish government taxes blank CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives, hard drives, and copying equipment such as CD burners. ZAiKS is pushing hard to have the list of chargeable media expanded to include smartphones and tablets. Magnanimously they are offering that videocassette recorder tapes that are now taxed could be removed from the list.
According to proposed legislation, devices such as digital cameras, laptop computers, and smartphones would be charged up a 3 percent tax because they could potentially be used to pirate copyrighted works. All this smells much like that old story of the courtroom drama that had the female prosecutor trying to convince a jury that a defendant should be found guilty of committing a burglary on the strength of the fact that he had been arrested in possession of burglar's tools. The defense council retorted that using that same logic the prosecutor could be arrested for prostitution because she had the necessary equipment.
The existence of a "piracy tax" does not appear to have been directed toward preventing theft of intellectual property, in fact the opposite. It seems to have encouraged the practice. Some people now take the position that since they paid a piracy tax on their blank CDs, which legitimizes using pirated content. There are also some questioning whether or not any of the monies collected through the piracy tax ever make it to the artists who are supposed to benefit.
A story told to me by a good friend was of his experience during an in-person encounter with a musical performer. He handed the drummer a hundred-peso note explaining that he had downloaded a pirated music disk that was simply unavailable for sale in Mexico, and now that he had the opportunity to do so he wanted to pay the artist his royalty. The drummer was first put off to be face-to-face with the pirate who had stolen his work, but quickly smiled when he realized that the 100 pesos in his hand was more than he would have ever seen for one disk if the royalties had gone through the regular legal channels.
Charles Miller is a freelance computer consultant, a frequent visitor to San Miguel since 1981 and now practically a full-time resident. He may be contacted at 044-415-101-8528 or email FAQ8 (at) SMAguru.com.


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Current version: 3.0.
Upgradable: yes.
Overview: Otographic Music is a Japanese EDM label run by Kenji Sekiguchi. It was started in 2009 and has a focus on high-quality progressive house and trance music. The label is probably the most major trance/house label in Japan and is also known outside of Japan. Artists: Nhato, aran, Hiroyuki ODA, KaNa, Kazusa, KIWAMU, Kyohei Akagawa, Masanori Yasuda, OCOT, Ryunosuke Kudo, Shingo Nakamura, Tin5ha.
official site, Otographic releases can be bought in digital format from beatport, Amazon etc.
Links: lossless (mirror), lossy (mirror)
Changes: new releases
Discography:[OTO-001] Nhato – Tokyo Blue Pipe
[OTO-002] Kyohei Akagawa – Aurobind/Kindheit
[OTO-003] KIWAMU – Elegance/Birth
[OTO-004] KaNa – Flower Of Snow
[OTO-005] Kyohei Akagawa – Airo/Parker
[OTO-006] Hiroyuki ODA – Thirty Remixes
[OTO-007] Hiroyuki ODA – Ignite/Implusion
[OTO-008] KIWAMU – Rest
[OTO-009] Tin5ha – Clear Blue Sky
[OTO-010] Nhato – Far East Garden
[OTO-011] Hiroyuki ODA – Transmigration
[OTO-012] KaNa – Uluru
[OTO-013] Trio EP
[OTO-014] Tin5ha – Remember the Sunset/NE.JI.MA.KI
[OTO-015] Masanori Yasuda – What A Wonderful Summer
[OTO-016] Hiroyuki ODA – Revive EP
[OTO-017] Shingo Nakamura – Behind The Sunset/Scroll
[OTO-018] Nhato – Tokyo Blue Pipe (Remixes)
[OTO-019] Nhato – Etude Remixed EP
[OTO-020] Masanori Yasuda – Kalos Eidos (Remixes)
[OTO-021] KIWAMU – Galaxy Kiss
[OTO-022] Kyohei Akagawa – As No World Idealized
[OTO-023] Nhato – Another Morning (KaNa Remix)
[OTO-024] Nhato – Eureka/Past And Then
[OTO-025] OCOT – Exit To Heaven
[OTO-026] Kyohei Akagawa – Abendrot/Anbruch
[OTO-027] Masanori Yasuda – Ajisai
[OTO-028] aran – Golden Yellow
[OTO-029] Hiroyuki ODA – Meridian/Parallel
[OTO-030] Shingo Nakamura – Days (Remixed)
[OTO-031] Hiroyuki ODA – Ascension
[OTO-032] Kenji Sekiguchi – Into The Dawn
[OTO-033] Nhato – Kaede
[OTO-034] Taishi – Boundary Layer
[OTO-035] KIWAMU – Life Style
[OTO-036] Kyohei Akagawa – Kaikisen
[OTO-037] Kenji Sekiguchi – Fading Dusk
[OTO-038] Shingo Nakamura – Mauve/Rubans
[OTO-039] Nhato – Ibuki
[OTO-040] Taishi – Chronicle/Glint In The Dark
[OTOC-001] Hiroyuki ODA – Thirty
[OTOC-003] Nhato – Etude
[OTOC-004] Shingo Nakamura – Days
Christmas 2013
01. KaNa – Uluru (Musicbox Version)
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This is awesome <3! Thanks for uploading these.
Thx for this collection
I'm having an eargasm right now…
Omg, Thank you <3
Where is OTOC-005?
Lossy Torrent is dead :/
Any plans in unforeseeable future for Hiroyuki ODA Vocaloid work? (Retro Ossan Disco, WORKS 11-14, Unfragment remixes etc.)
OMG an update <3
After some research, it seems nyaa.se went down, so your links no longer go anywhere :(
nyaa.se has been mirrored to multiple sites, one being nyaa.si. So you can grab it here.
The only problem is the lack of seeders on the new tracker, but that should be solved over time as people replace the old tracker, and DHT should be good enough to get peers anyways. Heck, TLMC works 100% off of DHT afaik.


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Uganda: U.S. accuses country of rights violations after presidential vote
The comments are the latest sign of deteriorating relations between Western powers and Uganda, an ally in the fight against Islamists in the region.
U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement on Friday that Uganda's repeated detention of opposition figures and harassment of their supporters, and the government's interference in a challenge of the poll results are "unacceptable activities in a free and democratic society".
"The United States and Uganda have a long standing and strong partnership that has contributed to the stability and prosperity of the region," the statement said. "We are concerned that the Ugandan government's recent actions could endanger the economic and political progress that has enabled our relationship to grow."
Uganda's electoral commission declared Museveni, 71 and in power since 1986, the winner of the Feb. 18 election with 60 percent of the vote.
Kizza Besigye, who came in second with 35 percent and has rejected the results as fraudulent, has been under virtual house arrest for weeks. A second challenger, former prime minister Amama Mbabazi, has filed an official challenge to the results.
Mbabazi said his lawyers' offices were raided soon after filing the challenge. The government has denied any involvement.
Museveni has endeared himself to the West by contributing thousands of troops to a peacekeeping mission in Somalia. He has also been credited with bringing relative peace and economic growth to Uganda, a prospective oil producer.
But critics say Museveni has not done enough to raise more Ugandans out of poverty or address widespread corruption.
Monitors from the European Union (EU) have criticized Uganda for creating an "intimidating atmosphere" around the vote and have said the electoral body lacked transparency and independence.


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My bro eventually reminded me that I've yet to check out the new branch of Mr Teh Tarik at Changi Village (they went one time, on a weekday evening). My bro then sound pretty enthused when he start recalling the Halal gelato shop next door.
So Mr Teh Tarik at Changi Village, it is.
Upon reaching there, I took a walk around to check out what's there. Indian food stall, Malay food stall, Western Food stall, Noodle stall, Zhi Char stall, Beef noodle stall, rojak stall up front (they also serve century eggs!) and others etc.
Wait... BEEF NOODLE?!
Aargh! It's like a dream come true! Well, apparently my male colleague had eagerly brought us to this coffee shop at Blk 3004 Ubi Ave 3, where there's this Chinese stall selling Beef Kway Teow. It was popular and rightly so, as affirmed by my colleague. Flavourful, beefy and thick broth with kway teow and generous amounts beef parts.
I can only watch and drool and my mind wandered to the very last time I had this kind of beef noodles. Indonesian 'Soto Sapi', Thaksin's Thai beef noodles and Vietnamese 'Pho Bo' don't count, mind you. I want this Chinese variant, with its thick, dark, gooey sauce (dry version) and thick bee hoon (also known as 'Laksa' noodles).
No points for guessing which stall I gleefully rushed to…
Looking up at the menu board, I analysed what they have to offer. Soup or 'dry' version. Choice of noodles. Beefballs, beef slices, mixed beef.. Aha!
As I ordered my, "Mixed beef, dry version with thick bee hoon." My mum came by to see what I ordered. I happily remarked, "Look, Ma… Tendons!" Immediately, she asked that I order for her too, just that she wants the soup version.
Both of us really love beef tendons. I remember one time, I saw a plate of opaque white strips in the kitchen and I was like, "Euww... what's that?" Later on, my mum asked me to come over and try these translucent, jelly-like stuff, which she cooked with some sweet & spicy sauce. I had a bit and was blown away. Chewy, slightly bland yet it absorbed the flavours of the sauce really well. Awesome stuff!
My mum told me that those were the 'yucky' white stuff I saw earlier. They turn translucent when cooked. They are called 'tendons'. Or 'muscle'. The Malays refer to them as 'urat'.
I scanned the condiment containers and saw cut-up 'chili padi' (bird's eye chillies) and soy sauce, vinegared chilli sauce, white pepper and what looks like 'cincalok' (fermented shrimp sauce). I took a whiff (pungent!). Sure enough, it is. There's even calamansi lime halves.
I remember when I had beef noodles at Banquet Parkway Parade (closed down already) and some place else (can't remember where), they serve the noodles with a small dish of 'sambal belacan' (chilli with shrimp paste) instead. I guess the idea here is to include fermented shrimp, huh?
Mixed beef - dry version
I was excited to see what's in my bowl. The varieties of meat made me delirious! Brisket (the dark brown chunks), beef balls, tendons (the whitish ones), tripe and fresh, thinly sliced lean meat that's blanched in the soup prior to serving.
The thick and dark sauce carried a slightly herbal taste with peppery accents. Really something to yearn for on a cold, rainy day. All this for $6? Quite worth it, I guess.
Also served with a bowl of soup.
My mum's bowl of mixed beef in soup
Here in my mum's bowl, you can see the tripe (the whitish, long strip at the bottom) and cabbage in the soup.
The soup tasted delightful. Peppery and savoury.
We dipped our beef bits in the vinegared chilli sauce mixed with the 'cincalok' with a squeeze of the lime to offset any 'gamey' aftertaste.
After we came back to the table, it was my dad's turn. He took a walk around and we eventually saw him at the Beef Noodles stall. I excitedly tell my mum, "He don't eat the tendons, right? We can help ourselves to his!!"
Turns out, my dad was smart enough to tell the stallhand to omit the tendons and replace with other parts instead. Hmmph!
Our only gripe was that the brisket was slightly tough. Otherwise, it's a thumbs up!
Chicken Cutlet platter
My bro decide to order from the Western food stall. Apparently, their specialty is really fried chicken so fried chicken lovers, rejoice!
I guess their batter makes all the difference. Appeared very KFC-esque at first look. Crispy (even crunchy) to the bite and the taste of the seasoning used was delish! Spicy, salty and slightly sweet (I think?). Chicken meat inside was juicy, too.
Saw another table having the chicken wings and they looked really awesome!! Gonna get myself some of those next time I'm here.
Cheese fries
This was pretty much ho-hum. Me thinks that they could do with more sauce. Agree…?
So that's a quick look at Mr Teh Tarik's latest branch. With their opening, there's a total of 3 eating places at that block 5 alone: 89.7 Supper Club (all Halal food), an eating house with the Halal Botak's Favourites and now this. Even with the closure of the market & hawker centre due to renovations, Changi Village is still buzzing with lotsa' activity (especially at night) with a great deal of family crowd hunting for good eats.
Gonna head there again soon. To think I live some 10-15 mins bus ride away! :)))
Mr Teh Tarik Eating House
Blk 5
Changi Village Road (close to the junction)


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Here's a quick and easy way of making some pretty felted Easter eggs. I wrapped a layer of wool roving around a styrofoam egg. The egg will give you a nice uniform shape and you'll use less roving than if you felted the whole thing out of wool.
Materials needed:
wool roving in spring colors
styrofoam eggs
soap (I used dish soap)
old clean towel
access to hot and cold water ( I actually worked at my kitchen sink)
Start by fluffing out the roving and pulling out wisps of roving. Lay the wisp of roving on your work surface to make a mat of wool.
Lay the roving both horizontal and vertical to make an even mat, wider than the egg and about three times longer than the width of the egg.
Carefully roll the wool around the egg and fold in the side pieces, keeping the wool taut.
The wool fibers will be loose.
Next fill your bowl or sink basin with hot water and add a couple of drops of soap.
Gently dribble the hot water over the egg until all of the wool is wet. Move the wet egg back and forth from hand to hand, like playing catch. Handle the egg gently until the fibers start to pull together. Resist actually squeezing the wool around the egg at this point so that you don't get any wrinkles in the wool.
Add a drop of soap to your hands and continue to handle the egg until the wool starts to hold together more firmly. Now you can add a little more pressure to get the fibers to bind firmly around the egg. Once the egg is firmly felted, rinse under very cold water to set the fibers.
Lay the wet eggs on an old clean towel to dry. (Use an old towel in case some dye rubs off of the roving.)
You can make a whole batch of colorful eggs without using very much roving.
(note: if you can't find egg shaped Styrofoam at your craft store, I found these on Amazon.com.)
Happy felting!


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WSJ Picks: The Best Photos of October
Sauce-throwing college action, walking on a beached whale and the christening of Prince George of Cambridge are all part of WSJ's picks for best photos taken in October. WSJ's Sonia Talati reports. (Photo: Reuters)
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About the Restaurant
FüD (pronounced "food") originated in 2007 out of a need for clean, consciously grown, and organically produced food in the greater Kansas City area. FüD first made a pop-up appearance in the Bad Seed Farmer's market in the Crossroads. It was well received and became a word-of-mouth hit. FüD Designer Heidi VanPelt-Belle taught raw-living foods classes until opening the official restaurant in 2010.
With a conscious concept in mind, FüD has continued to grow, offering signature sandwiches and fast Superfüd in local coffee shops and health food stores in the greater Kansas City area. Progress is being made to locally manufacture and distribute the signature Cashew Goji Cheeses, Cashew Ice Creams, Cashew Cheesecakes and new SuperFüds.
About the Chef
Designer Chef Heidi VanPelt-Belle began her journey as a food entrepreneur when she created the first Raw Cashew Cheddar Cheese in Los Angeles and introduced it to actor Woody Harrelson. Heidi's Cashew Cheese and raw-living creations inspired Harrelson to help create O2–an all living-foods oxygen and tonic bar concept in Los Angeles–and pitched by Heidi to Harrelson in her living room. Heidi continued to develop more concept recipes until her cashew cheese made its nationwide debut as Playfood out of her hometown, Kansas City, Missouri in 2006.
Our Philosophy
Our concept is L.I.F.E.: Low Impact Food for the Environment. We use only vegetables, fruits, grains and beans, creating every dish from scratch. The lowest carbon footprint. Our water for cooking and drinking is filtered and fluoride-free. We compost in several local gardens, recycle everything that can be recycled and use all bio-degradable take-out packaging. Our produce is always organic and, when in season, it is all locally harvested from organic farmers.
We are in the business of education, to keep our customers informed of daily sustainable living practices. Due to the world-wide demand of palm oil, rapid deforestation is endangering the dwindling population of Orangutans. In our products we use 100% coconut oil for deep frying and 100% Kalamata olive oil for cooking. The only palm oil we use is found in Earth Balance, a buyer of 100% RSPO (fully sustainable and not sourced in Orangutan habitat) palm oil. All MAJOR FOOD BRANDS use NON-SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL in their products. Please read labels before purchasing any products that might contain palm oil. Talk to your favorite restaurants about the frying/cooking/salad oil, chocolate syrup, savory or sweet sauces, candies, cereals and demand they use NO PALM OIL as there are always alternatives. You have the POWER TO EDUCATE ♥♥♥ Thank Yü ♥♥♥
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Goals of the Master
This master has been designed to join the research expertise of four Barcelona universities to offer the students an updated program of methods and foundations of an emerging technology as it is computer vision, whose impact is increasing in a wide range of intelligent systems.
This master degree program attempts to tackle the need for qualified personnel in this field, since computer vision is becoming a fundamental component in multiple systems, such as assisting medical diagnosis and surgery, car driving, quality control and surveillance applications, or improving interfaces for multimedia data access.
The master as a whole is coordinated by UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and program has been designed jointly with UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Researchers from all 4 universities are participating in this program.