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Digital vision are professional, local digital aerial and satellite experts based in Bradford, West Yorkshire. We offer domestic and commercial installations and repairs for both Digital Aerials and Satellite TV. All our work is carried out to the highest standard and offered at an affordable price which is agreed before the job commences.
All work is guaranteed for at least 12 months.
Our personnel are all highly trained, skilled and qualified to provide you with a professional and personalised service designed to meet your individual needs. Call Digital Vision on 01274 653 426 or use call-back request below and we will call you back when it is convenient for you.
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BT TV (BT Vision)BT TV boasts big entertainment for tiny prices. With blockbuster movies, huge sporting moments and amazing entertainment there's always something exciting to watch with BT TV. With BT TV you have access to the BT Store, Sky Movies, BT Sport, Sky Sports 1 & 2 and Netflix. There are also 20 extra chanels such as Animal Platen, Discovery Channel, Syfy, Nat GEO, MTV, History, British Euro Sport, FOx and Gold. Digital Vision are able to install BT TV into your home and give you a demonstration of how to get the most from your BT TV. More Info on BT TV
YouViewWith a YouView Box you can turn your TV into a smart TV (available as part of a BT TV package, with Talk Talk TV packages or simply purchase a box out right). Catch Up with the UK's most popular shows, get access to On Demand TV services, pause, record and rewind live TV shows and get access to 70 TV channels including; all your favourite UK channels, Netflix, NowTV, Sky Movies, the Sky Store, Discovery Channel, Fox, BT Sport and GOLD. Digital Vision are able to install YouView into your home and give you a demonstration of how to get the most from your YouView Box. More Info on YouView
TalkTalk TVWith TalkTalk TV you have access to everything available from YouView but instead of purchasing a box directly; TalkTalk offer access to YouView paid monthly via your TalkTalk Phone and Broadband package. For more information about YouView see the details above, or follow the link below to the TalkTalk website.. More Info on TalkTalk TV
Internet TV Boxes (Android TV Boxes)Android TV boxes turn any TV into a fully working smart TV, with access to almost any android app, games, movies, music and books via the Google Play Store. Most boxes come with a remote control so you can sit back and relax while browsing the internet, watching catch up TV or playing an interactive game with the family. Simply buy a box, plug it in, connect your box to your homes internet either via wifi or via an ethernet cable and you're ready to go. Digital Vision are able to source and install Android TV boxes into your home in literally just a few minutes. Android TV is soon to be introduced to some of the worlds biggest manufacturers televisions. However the expectation is that these televisions will be high-end and costly machines. You can receive all the same fun and excitement buy simply purchasing an Android TV box and plugging it into your existing HD TV. We'll give you a demonstration and then you're all set. Contact us today via telephone or send an email at the bottom of this page and we'll call you back. More Info on Android TV
Freeview HD & Freeview +http://www.freeview.co.uk/ Freeview from Digital Vision is the easiest way to enjoy digital TV for free. With up to 50 digital TV channels to choose from on FREEVIEW there's something to keep everyone entertained. Not to mention 24 digital radio stations, better picture and sound quality and many interactive features when you press the red button on your remote control. There is no contract or subscription with freeview, simply buy a digital box, digital TV recorder or digital TV, plug it in and away you go. Where you live and the age and condition of your aerial will determine whether you may require a new roof top or loft aerial to receive digital terrestrial TV (DTT). More Info on Freeview
Freesat HD & Freeview +Freesat was set up to ensure that everyone can access the best of free digital TV, no matter where they live in the UK. freesat is a not-for-profit company owned by the nation's two most popular broadcasters, the BBC and ITV. Freesat brings you over 140 great digital TV and radio channels. Favourites like BBC Three, BBC Four, ITV2, ITV3, More 4 and Film Four are all yours, with no contract and no monthly bills. Plus freesat offers up to 70 hours a week of HDTV from the BBC and ITV at no extra cost. More Info on Freesat
Sky HD & Sky +HDOver 9 million UK households have now chosen Sky as their digital TV provider. With a range of viewing options Sky TV offers you choice and control over how and when you watch your favourite TV programmes. Award-winning Sky Broadband and Sky Talk services, reaching over 2 million homes. Get even more from your Sky TV: Maximise your viewing pleasure. Upgrade your Sky TV package to include Sports and Movies. Change the way you watch TV with Sky+ or Sky+HD. Get the Sky TV you love in more than one room with Sky Multiroom. (Ask a member of staff for more details) More Info on Sky TV
Aerial InstallationThere is no such thing as a digital aerial. Some properties may require a new tv aerial since the digital switchover if their existing aerial is damaged or in poor condition. Digital Vision provide a call-out service to determine if you require a new aerial. Our engineers can test your signal to determine which aerial you will require before any work is carried out, so you know exactly how much you will be charged before any work commences. If you do require a new aerial, prices depend on which type of aerial you require. All the television aerials we install are high quality, high gain aerials.
Satellite Dish InstallationDigital Vision have been installing satellite dishes to homes and businesses for many years. Our expert engineers install only high quality dishes and secure them both safely and tidily. If you're existing satellite dish isn't working as it should, or needs replacing, or maybe you're looking to have a dish installed, Digital Vision have all the equipment, expertise and knowledge to fulfil your requirements.
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Luna Vine Wine Bar (CLOSED)
Between the top-notch vino and engaging staff, Marché (formerly Luna Vine Wine Bar) is just the boîte to awaken your palate. The staff has put together a score of excellent varietals—from a Santa Barbara calm, cool and collected 2010 White Hawk Cordon Syrah ($13) to Coto de Hayas' brazenly bold 2011 "Garnacha Centenaria." Guests would be remiss not to sip these alongside small plates off Executive Chef Wes Pumphrey's carefully curated American-Mediterranean menu: try the lamb meatballs ($12), the charcuterie and cheese boards ($17-$30), and the pistachio biscotti with a side of spiced chocolate for dessert ($7). Inside the nondescript former art space on Magnolia Boulevard, a gregarious neighborhood crowd lingers over their food and drink while low-key servers refill empty glasses and help those bemused navigate the 40-strong wine list. The atmosphere is pure merriment, without even an ounce of pretension.
Good for: Tasting a world of wine you would rarely come across in one place. Order by the half glass to fully appreciate the amazing selection. The bar staff is friendly and eager, and no question is too silly. This is also a solid locals hang. Sure, you will find a few couples holding hands, whispering sweet nothings as they feed each other cheese. Mainly, though, Marché is just a lively, cozy spot for friends to compare what is in their glasses.
The scene: From the looks of the place—a narrow, industrial chic bodega illuminated by Edison lightbulbs—you would expect yet another haughty urban wine room. But a closer look at the clientele reveals a casually dressed bunch, just your average neighborhood folk looking for some good wine and a palatable bite in Burbank. Ladies on their "night out" chit-chat around larger tables while amorous couples opt for the intimate high-tops crafted from repurposed wood. Winos head straight to the bar, naturally.
The playlist: Not your typical wine bar mix. Beastie Boys, Cyndi Lauper, and Aerosmith make for a lively atmosphere fit for wooing a date or catching up with comrades.
The bartender says: The wine program focuses on new and old world boutique styles, with a "Think Globally and Drink Locally" motto. Same goes for the fare: all dishes are prepared with organic ingredients sourced from local farms and farmers markets.
Drink this: If you have never tasted wine from vines aged 100 years old, then treat yourself to 2011 Coto de Hayas "Garnacha Centenaria" ($5.50/half glass), a poignant and spicy wine made with a pronounced nose of blackberries, blueberries and cassis. Also try the 2011 Pueblo Del Sol Malbec ($4.50/half glass), a smooth, well-balanced variety from Uruguay, deep red with a delicate aroma of vanilla and cherries. If wine isn't your thing, there is a good selection of beer on tap, like Kinetic Brewing Company's Belgian Strong Pale Ale ($8), a gold ale that's light on the spice bitterness, and Iceland-brewed Borg Brugghus' Imperial Stout "Garun" ($10).
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Valley dwellers have plenty of great spots to drink wine now, with Luna Vine among them. The staff is super friendly, helping guide your way towards a glass that works for you, and the environment is welcoming and devoid of any stuffiness. I love the cheese plate here, too—though I always love a cheese plate.


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At the Comdex conference in Las Vegas next week Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will launch a promotion for a tablet PC, the marketing seeds of which were planted at least a year ago.
Microsoft officials confirmed on Tuesday that Gates will display and talk about the work being done to create a tablet PC that will incorporate pen-based and voice-based computing with handwriting recognition.
The prototype was first discussed by Microsoft at its Forum 2000 event in Redmond, Washington, last June and at succeeding Microsoft-sponsored events thereafter.
Microsoft officials at that time stated that the unit was at least two years away. The unit will integrate wireless capability and incorporate instant messaging, paging functionality, and Web browsing, and is meant to be used as a fully functioning PC.
"We don't believe users want another companion device. They want the same functionality as they get from a notebook computer," says a source at Microsoft who asked not to be identified.
Last June, a developer working with Microsoft on the project said the device will offer data, video, and voice conferencing. If that is the case, it may explain why the product, according to a Microsoft representative, is at least a year or more away.
In order to accommodate video and voice conferencing with nationwide wireless coverage, the system will need to wait for next generation of wireless services.
There has been speculation that Microsoft's tablet device may use Transmeta's low-powered Crusoe processor. Transmeta officials recently whispered that such a deal was in the works. But Microsoft has not appeared committed to the processor.
"Microsoft has not selected a processor. We are still in the early, early, early stages of development, and I emphasise that what will be shown at Comdex is a prototype," says the Microsoft source.


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Flexcords have a variety of tensions based on a coloured scale. This means that you're in complete control of your workout! Choose the best tension suited for your exercise routine or change up the resistance depending on the exercise being performed. You'll find that different ranges of resistance for different exercises makes workouts like circuit training easy to perform and then master.
Difficulty with each tension will vary depending on the individual. But that's a good thing! Changing cords and progressing to the next colour means it's easy to track your progress and improvement. The higher the tension the better you're getting!
Using free weights and dumbells means spending time changing weights during your exercise, this can detract from your routine and mess with your rhythm. Using Flexcords will give you a smooth seamless workout. You're heart rate will stay elevated and you'll be burning calories constantly.
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Boiled potatoes are flavored with lots of pudina (mint) leaves and lemon juice. Serve with Kuttu ki Poori and Makhaney ki Kheer.
- 2 large potatoes boiled, peeled and chopped roughly
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp ginger paste
- 1 tsp green chili paste
- Rock Salt to taste
- ½ tsp black pepper powder
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 cup chopped pudina (mint) leaves
- Heat the vegetable oil in a pan and add the cumin seeds to it. When the seeds stop spluttering, add ginger, green chili paste and fry for a minute.
- Add chopped potatoes, black pepper, rock salt and chopped pudina (mint) leaves.
- Stir fry for 2-3 minutes so that potatoes are mixed properly with the spices.
- Add 2 tbsp of water and continue stir frying till all water is absorbed by potatoes.
- Mix in lemon juice. Take out in a dish. Garnish with chopped cilantro.
- Serve hot with Kuttu Ki Poori , Kadhai Paneer , Ghiya Ka Raita and Makhanay ki Kheer.
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On the first day of Navratri, first form of Goddess Durga, named Shailputri, is worshipped.
She is considered the daughter of the Himalayas. She is a form of Shakti, the consort of Lord Shiva.


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Bataan Death March. Japanese massacre 350 Filipino POWs (91st Division) as they march North around Mount Samat towards the transfer station at Balanga. All afternoon, men are beheaded or bayoneted (Pantingan River Massacre). As POWs pour into Balanga, promised food, water and medical treatment fail to materialize. Dysentery and other diseases start to spread due to overcrowding.
New Guinea. US Douglas A-20 Havocs attack Japanese shipping in the Gulf of Huon off the town of Lae, badly damaging the cargo vessel Taijun Maru (later scuttled).
US submarine USS Trout damages Japanese tanker Nisshin Maru 5 miles off the South coast of Japan.
Mediterranean. Northwest of Corfu, HMS Torbay surfaces and attacks 2 tiny Italian schooners with gunfire, sinking schooners Gesu Crocifisso with 50 rounds from the deck gun while schooner Natalina runs aground and is wrecked. British destroyer HMS Kingston, at dry dock in La Valletta harbour, Malta, is hit by bombers and destroyed.
Italian submarine Calvi sinks Norwegian vessel Balkis off the coast of Brazil.
60 miles Southeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, British anti-submarine trawler HMT St. Cathan sinks after a collision with Dutch freighter Hebe. At 4.22 AM 5 miles off Jacksonville, Florida, U-123 torpedoes US tanker SS Gulfamerica, on her maiden voyage, carrying 101,500 barrels of furnace oil which explodes (19 killed, 29 survivors rescued by Coast Guard vessels). The burning wreck of SS Gulfamerica sinks 5 days later. At 1.20 PM 7 miles South of Cape Fear, North Carolina, U-203 torpedoes US tanker SS Harry F. Sinclair, Jr. carrying 66,000 barrels of gasoline which burst into flame (all 36 crew abandon ship in 3 lifeboats and a raft but 10 die when their lifeboat is engulfed in burning gasoline, 26 survivors picked up by British anti-submarine trawler HMS Hertfordshire). The burned out wreck will be towed to Baltimore, repaired and returned to service in 1943 as SS Annibal. At 10.31 PM 45 miles East of Cape Fear, U-160 sinks British passenger steamer SS Ulysses (all 190 crew, 5 gunners and 95 passengers picked up by US destroyer USS Manley). At 6.55 PM 580 miles Northeast of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, U-130 sinks Norwegian MV Grenanger (all 36 crew abandon ship in a motor launch & a lifeboat and arrive at St. Thomas 8 days later).
Burma. British tanks and infantry have withdrawn up the Irrawaddy River valley and formed a defensive line from Minhia on the Irrawaddy River, East to Taungdwingyi and Pyinmana (to protect the oilfields at Yenangyaung 35 miles further North). Overnight, "on a pitch-dark night lit by violent thunderstorms", Japanese begin the assault on this line with an attack 48th Indian Brigade at Kokkogwa.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Day 954 April 11, 1942
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My blog today is about the other end of the Bataan death march: the rescue at Cabanatuan. www.wwiidoctor.blogspot.comReplyDelete
Can't wait until you reach 1st October 1942 simply because that's the date I was called up into the army :)ReplyDelete
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AJ Machado Moving To KYXY San Diego
AJ Machado is sliding from CBS Radio CHR "Energy 103.7" KEGY San Diego to sister AC 96.5 KYXY starting Monday, August 7.
Machado will be joined by former 100.7 KFMB-FM midday host Sara Perry, who had been at that station for 17 years through three formats prior to departing last month. This is the fourth station in San Diego that Machado will have hosted mornings at. He spent ten years at iHeartMedia CHR "Channel 93.3" KHTS before moving to sister Hot AC "Star 94.1" KMYI in 2009. He joined "Energy 103.7" in 2012 soon after its flip to CHR.
Machado and Perry will be joined by producer Hula Ramos who returns to AJ's show after being laid off earlier this year in a budget cut. Ramos had been hosting weekends at Entercom Country 97.3 KSON.
Just as he did at KMYI, Machado replaces Jeff and the Showgram at KYXY. The former Jeff & Jer show was let go from KYXY in late June.
San Diego's heritage Adult Contemporary radio station, KyXy 96.5 welcomes AJ Machado and Sara Perry as co-hosts of the new AJ Mornings morning show on KyXy 96.5 launching on Monday, August 7. The show will run weekdays from 6:00 to 10:00 AM.
"We're super excited about this new morning show and have been looking forward to making this announcement," says Chris Patyk, KyXy 96.5 Program Director. "AJ's been waking up San Diego for 17 years and counting. The addition of Sara – who has logged nearly the same amount of time on the air – will make the new KyXy morning show an exciting and fresh way for our listeners to start their day."
Machado commented, "KyXy has been playing great music for San Diego listeners for decades and I've been waking up San Diegans for years. It was only a matter of time before we ended up together! I'm looking forward to building something fresh, fun and relatable that the audience can wake up to for years to come!"
AJ Machado previously hosted The AJ Show for the past five years on ENERGY 103.7 – sister station to KyXy 96.5. In 2012, Machado was recognized as "San Diego's Celebrity Philanthropist of the Year" by the SD Philanthropy Society for his work to support Rady Children's Hospital via AJ's Kids Fund. For sixteen years, he has headed efforts to provide toys and other essential items to the hospital's young patients through the AJ's Kids Crane event each November. KyXy 96.5 looks forward to continuing AJ's community outreach efforts this holiday season.
Sara Perry adds, "For me this is the ultimate radio dream job trifecta: Mornings with AJ on KyXy! We can't wait to wake up with San Diego and hopefully make the drive to work or busy mornings dropping the kids off at school a little brighter!"
Perry was previously Midday personality on San Diego's KFM-BFM where she began her radio career as an intern with the station 17 years ago.


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Controversial centre back Gavin Gunning has been released from his contract at Dundee United three days after a bizarre incident in which the Irishman picked up the ball during play.
With United 2-0 down to Inverness, Gunning received a short pass by bending down, picking up the ball and then walking from the field of play.
As he made his way down to the tunnel following his substitution he was loudly booed by his own support.
His contract was originally due to expire in the summer, though United have now decided to terminate it two months early.
They would not comment on whether the decision had anything to do with Gunning's antics this past Saturday.
A statement read: "Gavin Gunning has left Dundee United by mutual consent. This is a private matter and the club will not make any further comment."
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It's been awhile since I've posted on my blog, and although I do want to return to regularly scheduled programming soon, I felt the need to address my absence. Not because I think anyone cares or noticed, but because it would have felt weird for me to continue on as though everything was normal, as though everything was the same as before.
Normal is an odd concept.
Society thinks that it's common sense, that's it's fact. That it's always been and will be always be. But the truth is it changes constantly. It's relative. It depends on the year, the location, the country, the culture, the family. Everything changes. Society changes. Normal changes. In the personal sphere, normal is what's known, what's comfortable. What we do everyday. Normal life. But normal changes. Sometimes it's expected, it's slow, it's predictable. But sometimes it's none of those things. Sometimes things change so quickly it causes whiplash. Suddenly you're plunged into the unknown, the new. Abnormal life.
But that's the funny thing, it may seem abnormal at first. It may seem so foreign and strange. But soon it simply stops. It stops being foreign and strange. Soon it becomes everyday life. And it'll surprise you how fast that happens, how quickly it all becomes normal: going in and out of hospitals to visit, talking about insurance, joking with the guy in the opposite bed about cancer after finding out that he had the same type several years ago. It's now the new normal. Things have changed, and not the slow gradual change that most of us experience throughout our entire lives. This had been sudden. A sudden new normal.
That is not necessarily a bad thing. You learn things; you learn about yourself, about life, about the people around you. You figure out what this new normal looks like; what you look like in this new normal. And thankfully in this situation, things may eventually go back to being, for the most part, like they were before. We may need to make a few adjusts, but at the end of the day we'll have the same laughs, watch the same quiz shows together, argue the same petty things. No matter what happens, it'll become normal. It always does.
I'm sorry this post has been vague, but it's not my story to tell. I just wanted to get this off my chest before starting to post again. As I said, regularly scheduled programming will resume soon.
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USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Oscilloscopes with 512 MS Memory
30 January 2015 - Pico Technology introduces the PicoScope 3000D Series oscilloscopes. With up to 200 MHz bandwidth, 2 or 4 analog channels plus 16 digital channels on the mixed-signal (MSO) models, and deep memories from 64 to 512 MS the PicoScope 3000D Series are ideal for debugging the latest digital and mixed signal designs. The scopes offer a maximum real-time sampling rate of 1 GS/s and feature a USB 3.0 interface and a built-in arbitrary waveform generator (AWG). The slim case design makes the scopes convenient for both benchtop and portable use.
"The deep memory on the new PicoScope 3000D scopes means that you can use long timebases with the fastest sampling rates," explained Managing Director Alan Tong. "For example, even at 1 GS/s sampling rate you can capture a 500 ms waveform—that's half a billion samples—while hardware acceleration keeps the display updating smoothly."
The 512 MS buffer memory can be segmented, enabling acquisition of up to 10 000 individual waveform segments of 50 000 samples, with less than 1 µs re-arm time between each segment. Memory segmentation is beneficial when analyzing waveform bursts or serial data packets that include long gaps. PicoScope can be set to trigger on each packet and skip the gaps that are of no interest. This function allows users to acquire, for instance, CAN data packets over several minutes and then analyze the packet content at a later point in time.
PicoScope oscilloscopes are multi-function, and include a spectrum analyzer and arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), and many advanced functions as standard, such as serial bus decoding, mask limit testing, maths channels and filtering. Advanced triggers include pulse width, interval, window, window pulse width, level dropout, window dropout, runt pulse, variable hysteresis, and logic. All triggering is digital, ensuring low jitter, high accuracy and single-LSB voltage resolution. MSO models combine these triggers with edge and pattern triggering on the digital inputs.
PicoScope utilizes the host PC to control the instrument and display waveforms, so screen size and resolution are unrestricted. A large PC display shows the acquired waveforms with exceptional clarity, with easy zooming and panning under keyboard or mouse control. Other built-in features include color persistence display modes, automatic measurements with statistics, programmable alarms, and decoding of I2C, UART/RS232, SPI, CAN bus, LIN, FlexRay and I2S signals.
The new scopes benefit from the latest updates to the PicoScope software. A new fast persistence mode gives updates of around 100 000 waveforms per second, while the math channels have been expanded to include configurable filters.
A free Software Development Kit (SDK) allows control of the scopes from industry standard applications and programming languages. The SDK includes example programs in C#, C++, Excel, LabVIEW and MATLAB, and can be used with any language that supports C calling conventions. The PicoScope software and SDK are compatible with Microsoft Windows XP through to Windows 8, with beta versions for Linux and Mac OS X. Beta drivers are also available for the ARM-based Beaglebone Black and Raspberry Pi.
The PicoScope 3000D Series oscilloscopes are available now. Prices range from $576 for the 2-channel 50 MHz PicoScope 3203D to just $2385 for the 4-channel 200 MHz PicoScope 3406D MSO, including a set of probes and a 5-year warranty.
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SPRINGFIELD - Illinois parents may not be aware, but since 2013, Illinois Department of Public Health rules have allowed school nurses and clinicians to give their 12 year old daughters the HPV vaccine without parental knowledge or consent.
All it takes for the child to be shot with Gardasil is for her to say she has been exposed to a sexually-transmitted infection - which, according to common criminal law, should immediately initiate a statutory rape investigation. In Illinois, such a concern simply grants permission for her to get the Gardasil vaccine.
Now the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) says that Merck and Co's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil may be showing a correlation to premature ovarian failure.
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1.Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping Paper is more fun to open
2. Real tree or artificial?
I love the smell of real trees but once upon a time I had a terrible experiance and ruined any future desire to have a live tree in the house. Its a long story but lets just say...millions of baby spiders and a broken vacuum.
3. When do you put up the tree?
Black Friday, I stay indoors and keep away from all the crazy wacko's in the shopping centers.
4. When do you take the tree down?
After the new year
5. Do you like eggnog?
If you make it 1/4 eggnog, 3/4 milk
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Definately my popples
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
Yes, I made it myself
8. Hardest person to buy for?
My husband
9. Easiest person to buy for?
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Granny sented perfume.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Mail (if I get around to mailing them)
12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
Oh my goodness I have so many;
Elf, The Santa Clause, Muppets Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Its a Wonderful Life, The Bishops Wife, Christmas with the Kranks, A Christmas Story (the little boy on there looks just like my brother when he was little), the list could seriously go on and on...
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
Oh man...I really don't know, but its never finished until Christmas Eve.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Chocolates and Candy, yes
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
17. Favorite Christmas song?
Silent Night or the Christmas Song
18. Travel for Christmas or stay at home?
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donnor, Blitzen
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all????
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
Christmas morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
The bitter cold and no snow
23. What I love most about Christmas?
The celebration of Christ's birth
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Christmas Survey
1.Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Posted by The Larsen's at 12:53 PM
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- Anonymous said...
Mandie! I am so excited for you to go to Hawaii! My mind has been buzzing with all the fun things there is to do on Oahu.
Here is a list of my must visit places:
the alii luau is my favorite with the must see show afterwords.
of course the temple...
if you want to see a lot of turtles.. here is your place.
http://www.matsumotoshaveice.com/ yummiest snow cones I have ever had in my life come from this place.
the gardens at the pineapple plantation are breathtaking. take your camera.
we kayaked out to private islands with our very own beach. it was a workout for randy as i pretended to paddle but it was so much fun.
This was our favorite beach. there is a fresh water river running into this bay. it is so pretty.
right behind it is waimea falls. pretty and short walk to see a beautiful waterfall. http://www.hawaiiweb.com/html/waimea_valley_adventure_park.html
we snorkeled here for an easy beginners place. quite a lot of fish too.
if you like shopping and like good deals hit up the swap meet. they are only open for part of the week. http://oahu.aloha-hawaii.com/dining/oahu+swap+meets/
the pearl harbor memorial is a must see. it is amazing to see that ship still underwater and still leaking the original oil from the day of the attack.
high end shopping in waikiki
and of course you can catch a bite to eat at the place we got married.
we loved sunset beach. we watched the sunset at sunset beach.
if you have troubles finding a place to get to the ocean look closely for signs that say "ocean or beach access". Usuallly there is a small trail behind someones home that will take you to the beach! I am just so excited to hear about your adventures on Oahu.
Wohoo! If you want to check out my pics from there you are more than welcome.
I don't know much about Kauai but this looked like a lot of fun to check out!
- December 6, 2007 at 4:48 PM
- The Mac's said...
You are going to Hawaii? I want to come! Thanks for dropping by the other night it was fun to see you sorry I am so flaky....love ya
- December 15, 2007 at 10:12 PM
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CRICKET POETRY AWARD – value $2000
Entries will be accepted in 2012 from any poet, writer or author who completes their poem in the 12 months leading up to the closing date
– 31st August 2012.
The organisers invite poets to write and submit a poem that depicts life in and around the game and sport of cricket, in settings of backyard, street, beach, park, village green or social-cricket. The genre may be narrative, epic, dramatic, satirical, lyrical, elegy or verse fable.
The Cricket Poetry Award will be run in conjunction with the Cricket Art Prize, and the winner will be announced at the Cricket Art Prize opening event – Members Pavilion - Sydney Cricket Ground,
4th Oct 2012.
Please check the particulars supplied on the entry form and ensure that your entry is in accordance with the conditions below.
(1) Each competitor may enter ONE work only. The entry must be the original work of the competitor;
(2) Entries should be posted and e-mailed together with a completed entry form and a non-refundable $20.00 (including GST) handling fee to the Publishers' Cup Inc by 2012.
Any work not accompanied by payment of $20.00 will not be eligible for the competition. Payment may be made by cheque, money order, postal note to the Publishers' Cup Inc or Electronic Funds Transfer details: ANZ Bank BSB 012235 A/C 1105 99931 or can be paid using PayPal to the email address: derekz [at] cricketartprize [dot] org
(3) The statutory declaration on the entry form must be completed by the competitor;
(4) The size of the poem must NOT EXCEED 150 words;
(5) Entries must be clearly marked with the artist's name and address and the title of the work;
(6) Entries will not be accepted unless free of charges. No payment will be made by the organisers for couriers, bank transfer fees or other charges incurred in the delivery of any entry;
(7) Competitors hereby consent to their work being reproduced by the Exhibition Venues and the media in all advertising and publicity inclusive of all electronic / digital or print media for the future promotion of the Cricket Poetry Award;
(8) Sponsors and charities associated with the Publishers' Cup Inc reserve the right to reproduce the winning entry and all finalists in all Publishers' Cup Inc publications and publicity inclusive of all electronic/digital or print media;
(9) The Judges' decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into.
A $20.00 (incl. GST) fee is payable for the poem entered.
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To contact us:
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(PEN American Center/IFEX) - New York City, March 30, 2011 - PEN American Center today praised the U.N. Human Rights Council for ending efforts to restrict speech considered offensive to religions, calling the Council's recent unanimous vote on a religious tolerance resolution "a vital affirmation of the inextricably-linked rights of freedom of expression and religion."
"We are delighted that the OIC has come to share our view that in the necessary work of building mutual respect between the world's religious traditions, the criminalization of speech about a religion, however offensive to its adherents, would have been an unhelpful step," PEN President Kwame Anthony Appiah said today in New York. "This is especially so because incitement to violence on any basis, including religion, is already exempt from the wide protections for freedom of expression in international law."
Beginning in 1997, a coalition of countries led by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) put forward a series on resolutions on "combating religious defamation" that contained language demanding that states ban blasphemy and other religious denigration. PEN and a number of other human rights organizations have lobbied against the proposals, warning that they would significantly erode crucial international and national protections for freedom of expression. In submissions to the Human Rights Council and in a presentation for U.N. delegates in Geneva this past September, PEN cited numerous cases where governments have used religious defamation laws to jail writers and suppress unpopular opinions, and it has insisted that blasphemy laws do little to achieve the stated goal of curbing religious bigotry.
Instead of reintroducing the religious defamation resolution at the current Human Rights Council session, the OIC presented a new resolution that focuses on ending religious discrimination. The resolution, which passed unanimously last Thursday, removes all references to protecting religions and shifts the emphasis to protecting individual believers, something PEN has long argued is the correct approach both in principle and in the law.
"Rights inhere in individuals, not in institutions," the writers organization wrote in a 2008 submission to the Council. "Religions are systems of ideas, embodied in institutions and sometimes states, and as such, they cannot lie outside the bounds of questioning, criticism and description," it concluded. In live testimony and in videotaped statements presented at the PEN-sponsored session in Geneva last September, several of the world's leading writers pointed to what Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka called "the conflicting claims of religion."
"Since you have so many religions in the world, and there is only one humanity, that one humanity and the fundamental claims of humanity have to take precedence." Soyinka told the audience.
"We couldn't be more pleased and relieved that the nations of the world have agreed on a framework that keeps intact the full range of free expression protections," said Larry Siems, director of Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center. "We are grateful to the truly international chorus of writers that spoke out against imposing restrictions on religious defamation, and to our PEN colleagues in London and in Norway particular for their leadership on this critical issue."
Writers hail UN accord ending push to ban blasphemy
(PEN American Center/IFEX) - New York City, March 30, 2011 - PEN American Center today praised the U.N. Human Rights Council for ending efforts to restrict speech considered offensive to religions, calling the Council's recent unanimous vote on a religious tolerance resolution "a vital affirmation of the inextricably-linked rights of freedom of expression and religion."


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Board Ponders District Merger in Chattanooga
The school board in Hamilton County, Tenn., is sure of one thing: Come 1997, its schools will consolidate with the Chattanooga city schools. But just how that will happen is far from clear.
Board members are now mulling over an ambitious plan to create a whole new school system instead of simply combining the two old ones. Whether the board will adopt the plan as a blueprint for change, pick and choose among its recommendations, or pass up the chance to rethink the system remains up in the air.
Chattanooga-area business and higher education leaders have rallied behind the blueprint, signing a compact promising to give priority for jobs and college admissions if students can demonstrate increased knowledge and skills.
Educators and some board members in Hamilton County are far less enthusiastic, however. County principals have denounced the plan, which calls for site-based management, as an infringement of their authority.
And some taxpayers and board members are balking at its $22 million price tag, a 7 percent increase over what county taxpayers now spend for education. The two systems have a combined budget of about $200 million and educate 47,000 students.
"What people generally say is, 'We like the plan, but,"' said Edna Varner, the principal of Chattanooga Phoenix Middle School and a member of the 36-member committee that wrote the framework. "I think it's going to be pending for a long time."
The ferment over education in the region started in November 1994. Chattanooga residents voted to give up their school system, which was losing students and draining tax money, and become part of the surrounding Hamilton County district in 1997. Similar mergers have taken place in Knoxville and Nashville.
But rather than just merge the two systems, members of the board of education asked the Chattanooga-based Public Education Foundation to help lay the groundwork for a new system. (See Education Week, Aug. 2, 1995.)
Change in the Making
A committee of educators, business people, civic leaders, and parents from both systems spent eight months drafting the document. The 53-page framework contains familiar elements of "systemic" reform, including an emphasis on early-childhood education, high standards and challenging assessments, accountability, and school-based management. It also calls for all students to meet the tougher standards.
In January, the committee formally presented its plan to the nine-member Hamilton County school board. Last month, board members met weekly with the subcommittees that wrote the document to resolve questions.
"The time has come for the school board to start making decisions," said Debbie Colburn, a board member who favors adopting parts of the framework.
Ms. Colburn said some residents have questioned the assertion that all children can meet the standards. "Maybe it should be reworded to give all children the equal opportunity to achieve this education," she said.
Where the Buck Stops
But the biggest sticking points are the recommendations for governance and accountability. The framework calls for each school to have a decisionmaking council that would determine the makeup of school staffs and their assignments; decide how to use extra funds provided for low-income students; and make decisions about spending money allocated for books, supplies, equipment, food service, and maintenance.
The councils would be made up of a majority of teachers and school staff members, but parents and community members would serve as well. Principals would be able to overrule the council decisions "when absolutely necessary." Councils would have a hand in hiring teachers by making recommendations to principals, and in hiring principals by advising the superintendent.
Currently, Hamilton County schools use a form of shared decisionmaking. Schools have two councils, one made up of educators who make decisions about curriculum and instruction and one of parents who advise on dress codes and other school policies.
The document makes clear that principals would have final responsibility for the operation of their schools and says that schools will be held accountable for meeting high standards.
Steven H. Prigohzy, the president of the Public Education Foundation, remarked that "everyone wants authority. They're delighted to have it. It's accountability that seems to be at issue."
Increasing the role of parents in school governance would be a major change for many schools, Ms. Varner noted. "Everyone I talked to does not want parents in a governing role," she said.
Fred R. Skillern, a 20-year board veteran, said he would not vote for a plan that allowed a council to assign teachers but held principals responsible for student achievement.
"Some of these ideas are wonderful and work real good in private education," he said. "But when it's public education, we have to take everybody. We can't test anyone before they enter our schools."
Bill Bowman, the president of the Hamilton County Education Association, expressed doubt that the board will put any of the recommendations into action.
"My personal opinion is the board didn't realize what would happen," Mr. Bowman said. "I think the Public Education Foundation went beyond what was expected of it, although they did it for very commendable reasons."
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SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Canadian authorities said Thursday they talked with the woman believed to have helped reality TV star-turned-fugitive Ryan Jenkins check into the motel where he later took his own life.
Ryan Jenkins, a suspect in Jasmine Fiore's murder, was found hanged in a motel room in Canada.
Jenkins slipped across the U.S.-Canada border while being pursued by police for the slaying of his wife, model Jasmine Fiore, authorities said. He was found hanged in his motel room Sunday in Hope, British Columbia, authorities said.
CNN has not independently confirmed reports that the marriage was annulled.
Cpl. Norm Massie, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, declined to name the woman, but said she could face charges for helping Jenkins enter Canada illegally.
"We know who that person is," Massie said. "They are cooperating with the investigation."
Canadian media interviewed eyewitnesses at the motel, who described a blond woman driving a silver PT Cruiser with Alberta license plates who helped Jenkins check into the motel. Watch why police want to question woman »
Massie said authorities located the PT Cruiser in the case but declined to say where the car was and who owned the vehicle.
Fiore's body was found stuffed in a suitcase on August 15 in a Dumpster in West Hollywood, California. Her teeth and fingers had been removed, police said.
Jenkins, an actor who starred on the VH1 reality show "Meghan Wants a Millionaire," was charged in connection with Fiore's slaying.
The discovery of Fiore's missing white Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday may help authorities piece together the circumstances of her murder.
According to Buena Park, California, police Sgt. William Kohaneck, a tipster noticed the car abandoned in a West Hollywood parking lot and called police.
The car was found about a mile from where the couple lived, Kohaneck said. Forensic testing on the car should be completed by Friday.
"We are hoping to find out whether this car was used to transport the deceased or was the scene of this gruesome murder," he said. Fiore's fingers and teeth have not been recovered, he said.
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Whoa! That's pretty slick! If you can't see the video, let me describe it -- a fellow from the Chinese forum ePrice is using a paired Bluetooth headset as a remote camera button on his HTC One X. Not all headsets will work (and unfortunately my Motorola headset falls into that not-working category), and the button combination needed seems to vary a little bit, but this seems to be an undocumented feature with the One series phones. Give it a shot, and holler in the comments if your headset works -- 'cause I need a new one now.
Source: ePrice (Chinese). Thanks, anon!


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Set to debut at the New York International Auto Show this month, BMW Santa Barbara is asking interested customers to contact them for this limited production model.
Santa Barbara, CA April 2014 – April has finally come, which means the wait for the 2015 BMW ALPINA B6 Gran Coupe is almost over. Set to debut at the New York International Auto Show, which lasts from April 16-27, the ALPINA B6 Gran Coupe will be available for sale immediately thereafter with pricing set at $118,225 including a $925 destination and handling charge.
The ALPINA design features blend stylishly and seamlessly into the elegant lines of the B6 Gran Coupe, making it appear even more dynamic and powerful. Classic 20″ ALPINA 21-spoke wheels complement the long and smooth contours of this luxury vehicle. The beautiful lines of the ALPINA design are actually aerodynamic elements. The front apron has integrated and slightly protruding splitter elements to direct airflow over and around the body, instead of underneath the vehicle, which provides increased stability at higher speeds.
The individualization possibilities are endless for ALPINA customers to create a truly unique vehicle highlighting their personal preferences. LAVALINA leather is hand stitched to cover the steering wheel, while door trims feature an illuminated ALPINA logo and exclusive trim finishes of ALPINA Mrytle wood or Piano black are available. Exclusive ALPINA colors are available including ALPINA Blue and ALPINA Green.
Speed is not a problem for the 2015 BME ALPINA B6 Gran Coupe, which delivers 0 to 60 mph acceleration in a mere 3.7 seconds. The top speed of 198 MPH is impressive not only through its effortless and super-high performance, but the finely balanced handling and smooth refinement. The 540-horsepower and 540 lb-ft output of the 4.4-liter ALPINA Bi-Turbo V8 is channeled through an 8 speed Sport Automatic Transmission with ALPINA Switch-Tronic and BMW's xDrive intelligent all-wheel drive system. The carefully tuned stainless steel ALPINA exhaust system features twin elliptical tailpipes and resonates with an unobtrusive, yet deep exhaust note.
The BMW ALPINA B6 Gran Coupe is only available as a special order vehicle with capacity-limited production. Contact BMW Santa Barbara today to begin developing your individualized vehicle.
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Santa Barbara Auto Group is conveniently located off the 101 and Hope Ave and proudly serves Santa Barbara and the greater Southern California area. Santa Barbara Auto Group is an authorized BMW dealer and features a wide array of new and pre-owned BMW vehicles. The sales department at Santa Barbara Auto Group has one purpose – to exceed customers' expectations from test drive to delivery. The professional sales team is committed to a no-pressure, high integrity approach to every ownership experience. Santa Barbara Auto Group also features a dedicated professional service department and a state-of-the-art facility offering the most current diagnostic and repair equipment available and highly skilled factory-trained technicians to deliver efficient quality vehicle care.
Santa Barbara Auto Group is dedicated to providing the best sales and service experience in Southern California. To learn more about any of the popular BMW models including the BMW 3-Series, 5-Series, or Z4 Roadster, feel free to call, email, or stop by for friendly personal service.
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Discover SIM GE
- Overview
- Partner Universities & SIM GE
- New Academic Programmes
- Professional Body
- Awards & Accreditations
- The Global Edge
- SIM Achievers
- SIM Heritage
- Modern Learning Spaces
Sameeksha's Global Experience Among Congenial Study Companions With Diverse Cultures
Trekking the Lake District beloved of English Romantic poets: Sameeksha (left) and her pals during their semester at Birmingham in the north of England
Going overseas to chase that coveted degree can be costly. A Student Ambassador from India tells how she gets the same overseas experience nearer home
Sameeksha Asher from Chennai, India, wanted an overseas university education where she could acquire business skills and knowledge. Her destination must be a place safe, inexpensive, rich in diverse cultures, and with lots of yummy, interesting food. Singapore triumphs over other locations for her.
Taking the first steps
Besides studies, Sameeksha loves go-kart racing and the accompanying adrenalin rush. She was a champion go-karter in India in 2010. After completing her Indian School Certificate exam, she had to decide whether to become a professional go-kart racer or to become an entrepreneur. She chose the latter, which required her to enroll in business studies, hence her search for a tertiary institution.
On the Web, she found the SIM Global Education Web site (what you're reading now) which provided her with detailed information on undergraduate study in Singapore. The staff at SIM GE also helped her prepare her application which required much documentation before she could travel to Singapore.
On arrival, Sameeksha enrolled in a 15-month SIM Diploma in Management Studies in July 2012. This programme provides the necessary qualification for many students whose secondary school education is inadequate to enter university. With the DMS, Sameeksha went directly into the 2nd year of the BSc (Hons) Business Management at the University of Birmingham, taught at SIM GE campus. She is graduating this year (2014).
All the Birmingham Bachelor's programmes at SIM GE are taught by lecturers from Birmingham, England. The course structure comprises assignments, projects and exams.
"The course has a good mix of quantitative and qualitative course modules that have provided me with an overall understanding of business academia" says Sameeksha. She feels it has given her a practical and holistic education. She also attended one semester in 2013 at the Birmingham home campus.
Life as a student representative
Life at SIM GE isn't just lectures and study. Sameeksha takes an active part in the social events on campus. She's a Student Representative who helps to conduct orientation tours for new students and guide them in paperwork and other administration matters.
Sameeksha is also a student writer for SIM GE publications as well as Student Ambassador during Open House days twice a year.
The most interesting aspect of CCA activities for her is the opportunity to make friends with students from many different Asian countries, learn their cultures and customs, and enjoy their company. "I now have friends from Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar," she says.
"Studying in Singapore among congenial companions from different cultures has really broaden my perspective and provided me with a 'global' experience."
Looking into the future when she graduates and returns home, Asher says she will remember fondly every minute she has spent as a student in Singapore, even those stressful periods before exams. "My study and experience have altered the way I face life's many different situations. I now have the confidence to know that I can handle most challenges that life throws in my way."
– Interviewed, posted online, Jan 21, 2014
Text by Nay Chi (left, interviewing Sameeksha); posted online January 21, 2014. Nay Chi, 23, is a final-year student with the University of London's Bachelor in Accounting and Finance


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What Are Normal RF Quantitative Blood Test Results?
High levels of auto-antibodies called rheumatoid factors (RF) indicate the presence of autoimmune disease. Rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome and occasionally other autoimmune diseases cause a high RF count.
Target RF quantitative levels are measured in titers or units: 1:20 to 1:80 titers, and 14 to 60 u/ML represent normal RF levels. Lower RF levels rule out the possibility of rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren's syndrome.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
According to Quest Diagnostic website, the primary cause of a high RF result is rheumatoid arthritis. The doctor will order follow-up blood work to confirm or rule out the diagnosis.
Sjogren's Syndrome
Extremely high RF results indicate Sjogren's syndrome. Symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome include dry eyes and reduced saliva production. Sjogren's syndrome is a symptom of more serious diseases such as lupus.
Autoimmune Disease
Autoimmune diseases can cause a high RF lab result. These diseases include hepatitis C, AIDS and mononucleosis.
Your doctor will requests blood tests to diagnose or exclude rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren's syndrome. A test for anti-nuclear antibodies, along with a complete blood count (CBC), can confirm rheumatoid arthritis. Sjogren's syndrome diagnosis is confirmed with a CBC, X-ray of the salivary glands, and ocular examination.
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APO/FPO Military Address
To ship to a United States Military Address:
AA (Armed Forces of the Americas)
The Americas, excluding Canada
(Zip codes beginning with 340)
AE (Armed Forces Europe)
Europe, Middle East, Africa, Canada
(Zip codes beginning with 090 through 998)
AP (Armed Forces Pacific)
(Zip codes beginning with 962 through 966)
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A mapfile can also be used to define a COMMON, or tentative, symbol. Unlike other types of symbol definition, tentative symbols do not occupy storage within a file, but define storage that must be allocated at runtime. Therefore, symbol definitions of this kind can contribute to the storage allocation of the output file being generated.
A feature of tentative symbols that differs from other symbol types is that their value attribute indicates their alignment requirement. A mapfile definition can therefore be used to realign tentative definitions that are obtained from the input files of a link-edit.
The following example shows the definition of two tentative symbols. The symbol foo defines a new storage region whereas the symbol bar is actually used to change the alignment of the same tentative definition within the file main.c.
$ cat main.c extern int foo; int bar[0x10]; void main() { (void) printf("&foo = %x\n", &foo); (void) printf("&bar = %x\n", &bar); } $ cat mapfile { global: foo = COMMON V0x4 S0x200; bar = COMMON V0x100 S0x40; }; $ cc -o prog -M mapfile main.c ld: warning: symbol `bar' has differing alignments: (file mapfile value=0x100; file main.o value=0x4); largest value applied $ prog &foo = 20940 &bar = 20900 $ nm -x prog | egrep "foo$|bar$" [37] |0x00020900|0x00000040|OBJT |GLOB |0x0 |16 |bar [42] |0x00020940|0x00000200|OBJT |GLOB |0x0 |16 |foo
This symbol resolution diagnostic can be suppressed by using the link-editor's -t option.


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"For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared." Ephesians 6:15 (New Living Translation)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
I'm missing all my friends in Blog-Land!
I will write more now that I have more regular access to the laptop. Hopefully I will SOON have my computer back up. 3 out of the 4 kids beds are up. We still have a fish tank in our bedroom, but it is no longer blocking my dresser (I've been rewashing the same 2 or 3 outfits).
I just wanted to let you all know I haven't forgotten about you and I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. I miss you guys! I'm anxious to get back into the Biblical Submission Bible Study. For now it feels like a major accomplishment just to post this much!
<3 Jenny
2 comments:
- John Linko said...
Sounds like you've been busy. I have plans for my house as well. It would be nice to take down the Christmas tree first, though.
I miss dispatch sometimes, but not enough to manifest itself in true regret. I enjoyed the mental exercise of juggling resources and moving them from place to place. Regardless of the complexity of certain things, as long as I felt it meant something I was committed to whatever it took to make improvements.
Like President Obama, I am 'firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task'.
As I recall you were never mean or overly emotional, at least to me. I still have the very nice homemade card you sent me almost a year after you left. My most vivid memory of you was your graveyard wardrobe, and one t-shirt in particular.
Best of luck with the home improvement, and keep in touch!
- January 20, 2009 at 11:13 PM
- The little old mom who lived in a shoe said...
Christmas tree would be a great place to start! :) I miss the juggling of resources, too! It could be quite exciting and fulfilling. Too true about giving your all to a difficult task. "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men..." Colossians 3:23. I need to reexamine my mom-attitude and make sure I look at it as an opportunity to glorify God and to do the best job that I can do in raising these kiddos. Which t-shirt? I'm wracking my brain and can't think of any that stand out.
- January 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM


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Case Study The North-South Railway-Link Project: Financial Viability
This case analyzes the financial and economic viability of a major Brazilian transportation investment, the North-South Railway Link. Singled out for a public-private partnership you are asked to study the cash flows, forecasting methodology, financial design, and risk factors inclusing their incidence on various decision criteria. In particular, you try to understand how the various risks interact with the project's capital-structure design, its ownership structure, and the contractual arrangements for the concession itself. The ultimate objective is to decide whether a PPP structure is necessary and, if so, why. To what degree should the railway be funded by private investors (debt or equity) or with public funds? How would you decide on the allocation of various risks and returns among the various stakeholders through the capital and ownership structure?
In addition to Hauswald (2005), "The North-South Railway-Link Project," KSB-AU (Fin-05-003) you might want to carefully read Sharp, Richard (2005), "Results of Railway Privatization in Latin America," Transport Papers 6 (September 2005), which assesses the success of PPPs in the Latin-American railroad sector, in preparation for the case discussion.For your analysis you should rely on the XLS files Railway Industry Selected Financials.xls and Hauswald (2008), NS Rail-Link Projections.xls. Carefully analyze the projections and assumptions, and familiarize yourselves with the structure of the cost, revenue and DCF spreadsheets.
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Sari and Andy got married. Good times for all.
Day 313
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Andy and Sari getting ready for their wedding. Here they are--practicing kneeling in front of the altar. They are doing a very nice job.
Day 312
Thursday, October 16, 2008
duck and cover
This overhang/roof thing is crooked. I suggest not sleeping under it.
Day 311
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Slow construction zone
There must be 5 different construction zones between me and work. This is the construction closest to work. There were 8 guys on the job, and 2 guys actually working.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
palm rows
Many exciting things happened today, but none of them are related to this photo. This was my favorite shot of the day, but there isn't an exciting story... I was driving, hit a red light, and liked the way these palm trees looked with the sun behind them.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
So you want to be in a movie?
The AMC Glendora movie theater opens this week. Isabelle works in the shopping center, so we got to see Hancock at their soft opening. If you haven't had the chance, go there now... and use the hand dryer. Or if you can't go to the actual theater, watch the video here. It's awesome.
Oh yeah, the photo title. The sign is for condiments. I thought the sign was for people who wanted to be extras in the movies. I'd like to stand in the background of a movie.
Day 308
Sunday, October 12, 2008
goodbye old friend
Soon, I will have a new MacBook Pro. This is the side of my older PowerBook. I wanted to remember what it looked like. (Teardrop.) Goodbye old friend. We had a good run. But it's time I move on to a laptop that's better.
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The MSJC women's volleyball team beat Antelope Valley in 5 games Wednesday night to avenge a loss earlier in the season.
The Lady Eagles got a complete effort from their entire team as they gave the Marauders just their second loss in Foothill Conference action this season. Tawnee Roth collected 30 kills and 29 digs while teammate Sarah Teegarden picked up 29 assists and 23 digs. The stellar defensive performance also included 29 digs from Audrey Fooks, 15 from Virginia Pena and 11 from Erin Elam. Kellie Diekiewiet chipped in with 11 assists and 18 digs.
The victory improved the Lady Eagles to 4-3 in Foothill Conference play and 15-14 overall. MSJC returns to action on Friday when they host San Bernardino Valley. The match is scheduled to start at 4:30.
Audrey Fooks collected 29 digs in helping the MSJC volleyball team defeat Antelope Valley on Wednesday night.


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|Alone in The Lighthouse - photos: Erik Jacobs
Which isn't to say that Boston Lyric Opera's current production of Peter Maxwell Davies' celebrated The Lighthouse (today is the last performance, so hurry) doesn't offer some fabulous singing; it does (although nobody in the show is yet a star). No, what instead distinguishes this version is its conception, its physical production, its landscape, if you will - for as part of its new "Annex" program, BLO has set up digs in a conference room at the JFK Library, out on the rocks of Columbia Point, before a giant window with a sweeping view of the harbor.
So yes, BLO has literally put us in a lighthouse for The Lighthouse.
I suppose on paper that sounds crushingly literal, but in performance the effects this inspired setting allows the BLO production team are nothing short of astounding. Before this vast view, director/designer Tim Albery and set designer Camellia Koo have built the skeleton of the title sentinel - which appropriately enough recalls a scaffold, and which is "haunted" by the reflections the players cast in the glass behind it. What's more, they've built up their own evocation of the rock on which the light is planted, as well as the mizzenmasts of the ships that visit the forlorn outpost of Davies' scenario. There's even a searchlight rotating outside the hall, which conjures a moment of musical (and dramatic) "time travel" that's pure genius. To be blunt, this isn't a "set," it's a geography as well as a state of mind.
But then if you know something of that previously mentioned scenario, you may already have some idea of just what a conceptual bull's-eye all this represents. Davies based his best-known opera on a famous incident recorded in 1900, in which a ship discovered the lighthouse on Eilean Mor in the Outer Hebrides (below) had been abandoned, and seemingly in a hurry - beds were still unmade, and there were dishes on the table. But where its three keepers had gone - indeed, how they had gotten off their remote island - has remained a mystery ever since.
|The lighthouse on Eilean Mor endures, as does its mystery.
Now this is agreeably spooky stuff, but Davies is after far more in The Lighthouse than some operatic Twilight Zone episode. He both imagines a plausible explanation for the disappearance of the keepers, and at the same time conjures a powerful statement about the entwined nature of paranoia and hostility - and how we humans try to stave off, through art and artifice, "the beast" that lurks within us.
For in his frame story - the questioning of the three sailors who discovered the empty light - Davies has settled on a dissonant chromaticism somewhat in the mode of late Britten, only without the dreamy, glittering eroticism; the score is not actually "atonal" (as many in the audience I saw the show with seemed to think; why do people always imagine challenging music is atonal??), but it's unsettling and unstable; its tonal center moves around - something frightening always seems to be looming out of it, before disintegrating. In short, it's paranoia in musical terms.
This metaphor is clever enough, but director Albery embeds it in another brilliant stoke of staging: his three sailors - tenor John Bellemer, baritone Christopher Burchett, and bass-baritone David Cushing - are "interrogated" by a mournfully officious horn at the back of the house; under its cross-examination, they re-live their terrible discovery, entering via three separate sailing rigs before creeping up a dark "path" toward the lighthouse itself. Once their tale has been related, however, it's barely probed; the investigation abruptly closes down with a verdict of "death by misadventure" for the lighthouse's vanished occupants.
But then Davies turns back the clock - as the lighthouse's "robot lantern" silently rotates, its ghosts all "shut tight inside" its tower; his three rescuers are transformed into the doomed trio themselves; and we discover exactly what happened on the fateful night of their disappearance. Here Davies turns to another wily compositional technique - as the men of the lighthouse battle off madness, they sing one form of sentimental (completely tonal) music after another; but their songs all disguise sinister undertones, and the piano accompanying them is (intentionally) out of tune; Davies is parodying their taste, as well as pitying it. He knows that the dissonance of "the Beast," as one of the men puts it, can't be denied in the stifling isolation of their prison.
|The Beast attacks its keepers.
Ironically enough, this dreadful climax was the only memorable moment from the 1983 Peter Sellars production, which I caught years ago at the Boston Shakespeare Company (which Sellars was then in the process of wrecking). Sellars relied on a rather cheap trick to help along the transition - as his characters sang of "the Beast," one of them revealed that his hands had been transformed to claws; talk about The Twilight Zone! Still, like a lot of cheap effects, the trick was pretty damn effective.
In every other way, however, this is by far the superior production, and I'd be lying if I didn't admit it often gave me chills - and that in its conception and design it seemed to almost perfectly channel Davies' intents. Be warned, of course, that the conference room setting has a few acoustical issues; some things seem to carry extremely well - too well, perhaps - others not so much. Conductor David Angus has ameliorated much of this through subtle "voicing" of the orchestra (the players all turn in highly committed performances, by the way), but I admit there are still a few gaps. But then again, if you're going to take opera out of the concert hall, do you really have a right to be surprised if you have - well, taken opera out of the concert hall? I don't think so. In its "Annex" productions, Boston Lyric Opera has been rolling the dice on big gambles - and the previous two, The Turn of the Screw and The Emperor of Atlantis, have both been triumphs. We can add The Lighthouse to that distinguished list, I think; it sets a standard for opera in found spaces that I believe few other local productions will ever match. To give you some idea of the intellectual depth of its design - when I looked more closely at the "path" leading up to the lighthouse/scaffold, I realized it was made of heaps and heaps of sailor's coats. This story, the designers were telling us, had happened before; indeed, it had happened over and over again; the "island" itself was built of the remains of similar deaths.
And it was then that I thought to myself - you know, in the old days, BLO was the big, soft-headed suburban opera company; but all that has completely changed. Honestly, these Annex productions are the smartest opera that Boston has ever seen . . .


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The Tacki Mac Tour Pro has been one of the most popular grips in the industry over the last few years. If you prefer wrap grips over velvet, the Tour Pro is unmatched for tackiness and longevity. Some players have used the Tour Pros for 3 seasons or more without the need to regrip, they stay that playable. The new Tour Pro Plus is even better - a new rubber compound similar to the Itomic series makes these grips an awesome blend of thermoforming materials. Feel and looks, what a combo!
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The National Park of Paklenica is at the heart of Croatian rock climbing and is known as one of the top European rock climbing areas. Paklenica is a place of outstanding natural beauty, situated close to the sea near Starigrad-Paklenica.
The rock climbing is very varied from single pitch sport routes to big wall rock climbing routes up to 350m long, catering for the absolute beginners to the most experienced rock climber. In total there are 590 routes here on good quality limestone rock, of which the majority of the routes are bolted.
There are over 300 single pitch sport routes mainly located at the entrance to the park, only a few minutes' walk from the car park. The rest of the routes at Paklenica are multi-pitch with a mixture of pure bolted routes to trad routes requiring the placement of nuts and cams. The classic Anica kuk face has some big wall multi-pitch climbing up to 350m long, of which a photograph is shown below. Further information about the rock climbing routes in Paklenica is available here.
|The Different Style of Routes to be found at Paklenica
|Style of Climbing
|Total No. of Routes
|Up to 4c
|5a to 5c
|6a to 6c
|7a to 7c
|8a to 8c
|Over 8c
|Single-pitch sport routes
|Multi-pitch sport routes
|Multi-pitch trad routes
Paklenica is reached from the small coastal town of Starigrad-Paklenica, which is approximately 46Km from the tourist town of Zadar. The National Park is well sign posted off the coastal road. Further information about getting to Paklenica is available here.
Climbers are required to purchase a climbing pass, available at the park reception. It should be noted this pass only allows climbing within the designated climbing area. Further information about the different types of routes at Paklenica, from single pitch sport routes in Klanci to the many multi-pitch classics on Anica kuk, is available here. There are nearly 600 routes to choose from.
Paklenica is also a great place to go walking that combines craggy limestone gorges, caves, dense pine forest and meadow-carpeted alpine uplands. Find out more...
The classic north face of Anica kuk, where the routes are up to 350m long.
The best time of the year to visit Paklenica for rock climbing is from April through to late October. The winter can be very windy and wet, and while in the high summer it can get very hot, though there is always shade to be found in the sports climbing area of Klanci to the north face of Anica kuk.
Every year there is an International Speed Climbing Competition held at the end of April and beginning of May. Further information about this speed climbing competition is available here.
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Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, with its varied landscape of hills and mountains, rugged coastlines and sandy beaches, the lush rice terraces and barren volcanic hillsides all providing a picturesque backdrop to its colorful, deeply spiritual and unique culture , stakes a claim to be serious a paradise on earth. With world-class surfing and diving, a large number of cultural attractions, historical and archaeological sites, and a huge range of accommodations, this is one of the most popular island destinations and one which consistently wins travel awards. Bali has something to offer a very broad market of visitors from young backpackers right through the super-rich.
Bali is one of more than 17,000 islands in the Indonesian archipelago and is located just over 2 kilometers (about 1.5 miles) from the eastern tip of the island of Java and west of the island of Lombok. The island, home to about 4 million people, about 144 kilometers (90 miles). From east to west and 80 kilometers (50 mi.) From north to south.
The word "paradise" is used a lot in Bali and not without reason. The combination of friendly and hospitable people, a magnificently visual culture infused with spirituality and (not least) spectacular beaches, surfing and diving have made Bali Indonesia unrivaled number one tourist attraction. Eighty percent of international visitors to Indonesia visit Bali and Bali alone.
The popularity is not without its flip sides like many places in the south of the island paradise once Kuta has degenerated into a congested maze of concrete, touts and scammers extracting life of overcharging tourists. Visibility of the island has also drawn unwanted attention of terrorists in 2002 and 2005, but Bali has managed to retain its magic. Bali is a perfect destination for everyone, and even with heavy traffic, it is still easy to find some peace and quiet, if desired. Avoid the south of the island, if you want a more traditional Balinese and genuine.
One consideration is the tourist season and Bali can be very busy in August and September and over Christmas and New Year. Australians also visit during school holidays in early April, late June and late September, while domestic tourists from elsewhere in Indonesia visit during national holidays. Outside these peak seasons, Bali can be surprisingly quiet and good discounts on accommodation are often available.


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Well, the color gods have chosen their almighty color for 2014, and it is Radiant Orchid. Pastel goths rejoice, for your time has come. From the press release:
"An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm."
Styling tips:
- Pair it with grays and whites for a washed-out/pastel goth look
- Pair it with red and black for a dramatic look (see my second polyvore set)
- Looks great with gradients/ombre
- If you want real stone jewelry, look for a midgrade amethyst...this is the lighter purple
- The color looks great against the skin of light-skinned/pale folks, so sunglasses, jewelry, shirts, lace are good options
- Great for lowlights or ombre hair styles
Radiant Orchid by ahp259 featuring rubber boots
Radiant Orchid by ahp259 featuring a motorcycle jacket
Are you a fan of the color? Do you own anything in this color (lol I don't). Would you wear it? Style tips? Share in the comments!