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Sri Lankan cricket team manager Asanka Gurusinha said that opener Sadeera Samarawickrama, who was hit on the temple of his forehead today, will be kept under medical observation for 24 hours before taking a call whether he will be sent into bat.
Samarawickrama was hit off the last delivery of the 30th over bowled by Dilruwan Perera, when Murali Vijay tried to pull a short delivery on the first day of the third and final Test. It hit him flush on the crest of his helmet. He was immediately taken off the field and sent to the hospital for precautionary scans.
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How I run my Sublime Text
August 8th, 2013
I've been a long time Sublime Text user and I have spent a bit of time customizing it to my needs. Today I helped out a coworker who recently started using Sublime Text 3 get up and running with some cool things I use.
Use the package manager
Even if you don't follow the other items, this is one thing I highly recommend. Will Bond has updated his package manager to support Sublime Text 3. Go here to install.
Soda Theme 3 + Tomorrow Night (80s)
This will vary from person to person. I prefer a darkish code theme since it won't hurt my eye balls if I have a late coding session. Tomorrow Night 80s with Soda Theme 3 is a perfect combination of simplicity with soothing colors.
You can install both Soda theme & Tomorrow night via Package Manager.
Git Gutter is an awesome little package that'll show the git diff in the gutter.
Go Minimal
Similar to theming, this is all about taste. I've hidden the minimap and file browser and have been sticking with Command+T to open up files within a project.
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Loudon writes and sings with a self-depracating poignant iron-fisted irony. There is also cruelty in some of his songs. There is a sense that honesty is being used as a weapon and he is merciless when sings about duplicity, religiosity, drunkenness and other human traits he deplores. There is little that is symphathetic to human weakness, as he sees it. I sometimes wonder if empathy is his strong suit. Anyway, I'm not sure he'd applaud my penchant for not being able to leave an open bottle of wine undrunk. However, he sings fondly of dogs and children. I've read about "lacerating wit". The term might have been coined with Loudon Wainwright III in mind. I feel he has had quite a bit on influence on my writing style. Something to do with a directness of utterence that I hear in his and which I have much admired.
His erstwhile LP, T-Shirt, has recently been reissued on CD and I was given it as a present a couple of weeks ago. What a joy the hear Prince Hal's Dirge again! This LP was slated by the critics at the time of release and it's interesting that Wainwright himself comments on this in the booklet notes. I commend this much underrated record to you all!


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But here is a photo of Miss Hallie with a touch of texture and a few others from the week.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Texture Tuesday Jan 28th
Not sure if Kim will be up and running yet as she's just moved back home. So happy for her…. Texture Tuesday
But here is a photo of Miss Hallie with a touch of texture and a few others from the week.
But here is a photo of Miss Hallie with a touch of texture and a few others from the week.
The original taken with my 50mm.
I actually managed to get a couple with the Lens Baby last week.
Unfortunately her lashes were a bit blurry in this one.
I haven't decided if I like that Lens Baby or not. You have to manually focus and I hate doing that! (My eye-sight just isn't that great apparently. I end up bracketing 4 shots hoping one turns out. Of course that doesn't work on a moving target. When the evening light is good most of my dead garden plants aren't in it. At least not the cool ones. I have a few I like that I'll post later. They are not all sharp but I like the artsy-ness of them.
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Such adorable photos! That fourth one is so cute!ReplyDelete
She is so lovely a great little model.ReplyDelete
I love how pink tones of the texture make those baby-blues just pop off the image.ReplyDelete
Love the top one of Hallie...you are so good with textures. Hang in there with Lensbaby. I like to play with mine. Make sure you have your diopter set right for your eyesight (so that you are seeing clearly in your viewfinder. I had to adjust mine 'cause my up-close eyesight is just awful - after almost 50 years of tack sharp 20/20 vision :(ReplyDelete
I am glad I am not the only one with the manual focus problem.ReplyDelete
How precious! I love the top photo, the texture is wonderful!ReplyDelete
What a sweetheart Roxi! It is so nice you get to photograph her in such sweet ways. Love them all!ReplyDelete
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
One cool dude
The digi image is from Hambo, with the sentiment from Purple Onions. The image is colored with pencils and cut out with nesties. The sketch is from My Favorite Things. The yellow round metallic thingie is from my stash. The package says it's a brad, and since it attaches with prongs, I guess that's an accurate word, it's just not what I thinkof as a "brad."
I'm entering this cool dude in the following challenges
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And you will find yours truly midway through the video with a dragon and a frog - how cool is that?
Thank you, Neil, for including me. I have to admit I watched the part of the little boy playing tether ball a few times and still chuckle.
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Did anyone ever actually do this and if so why, how and What happened next?
I'd never threaten something I won't follow through with. I couldn't do Santa because a) I prefer a consequence to be immediate or at least not hanging over them for months and b) I want to see excited, happy reactions on Xmas day, not ruin everyone's day.
Apologies for not replying sooner.
I asked out of curiosity mainly and had only ever heard of one person getting nothing from Santa, but i remember hearing it and thinking it was nuts,
if i was going to follow through it would be to reduce to less than usual number but think they would have to bring the guards to the door for that as am a huge believer in the magic of christmas
Never used the Santa threat. The week before Christmas I suggest that Santa would love to see their toys all neat and tidy so he knows they are looking after them but that's it! If I give an ultimatum I always follow through, I make sure that I can - no tv/iPad/playing outside.....punishment needs to be on the spot, done and dusted, not an ongoing empty threat that will be thrown in your face come January.
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And you get to decide on the 8th of December do you Fossum?
No, its incentivising good behaviour.
Its like your pay review in work, you work hard and put in the long hours and the weekends to get a good raise come the pay review. If you do the standard, you may get one or two percent, but not much more.
But Lordi isn't saying "be good and see the lovely surprises on Christmas morning" the same as saying if you're not good you won't??
The Op asked about following through on the threat of Santa not bringing anything. The follow through is the child not getting anything for Christmas which is despicable.
I think Fossum is saying that it is a bit early to using Santa as a threat. Yes, the shops are full of Christmas, and they are practising all their carols in school, but here, a least, there is nothing Christmassy, decorations do not go up until a week before Christmas.
That being said, why has Santa to be used as a threat anyway? Santa is a reward for being good all year. Why is it not be good and see the lovely surprises on Christmas morning? Why are parents so dumb, really? Discipline works better when you reward good behaviour,
I see that the OP has not come back, hopefully she has thought better of it.
Pretty much since midterm they're talking about Christmas in school so I don't think you can exclusively blame the parents there fossum. I do love your judgy pants though and wonder where I might find a pair seeing as I'm perfect too and would love an opportunity to run people down.
Its impossible to avoid the excitement of santa in November since its plastered all over tv and shop's. My kids have been excited for santy since a week before Halloween when I was in pennys and they spotted Christmas stuff. I've my tree up 2 weeks now was a dark cloud over our household in November and it cheered my kids up. Don't know why anyone would have an issue with people putting up decorations earlier than themselves I mean there are no official rules about it!
It's pretty hard not to mention Christmas until the 8th when many people have decorations up (I don't). Also, the Christmas season started two weekends ago when they lit the first of the candles on the advent wreath at mass. My kids haven't been near a shop and haven't a clue about what has or hasn't been bought but it still doesn't stop their excitement....
Ease up your judgy britches there Fossum. A bit of excitement and high spirits is to be expected at Christmas. Doesn't mean we are all poisoning the kids with commercialism ad refined carbohydrates.
I don't think its the saying of it that is the problem, its the possibility that a child will wake up on Christmas morning and not find presents downstairs. Sure we all know that Santa does not exist, but if you decide to punish your child by not giving him presents like his sibllings, cousins, friends, then you might as well tell him Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy etc do not exist.
My mother was born in 1932 and although they were poor they has lovely Christmasses with a doll one year and a pram another year or roller skates etc. She used to tell is lovely stories about her childhood including Christmas. The presents were fewer and cheaper but more cherished and remembered all life long. I remember one Christmas when we had just moved house and money was short for several months but we still got small presents and decorated our sparsely furnished new house. Its about being loved and belonging
Yeah, I'm not doubting they do remember but I'm just surprised it would have as big an impact then as it would now. That's very sad. Couldn't imagine anyone doing it ...
I said this to my ds this morning. He is 7, and can be a brat.I said Santa won't bring you anything if you're bold. His reply was 'don't you mean you and dad won't bring anything! !!!
We were always told Santa would bring us coal if we didn't cop on. Not emotionally scarred from it. Of course it would never have been followed through.
I tell my kid that Santa's Robin is watching them when they need to be reminded to behave. Telling a child to behave if they want Santa to come to them is hardly akin to slapping them as stated earlier. The premise of Santa has always been that he comes to good girls and boys. At this hour of the year, they re all high as kites and sometimes when they need a little reigning in it can be useful to remind them of this. No one would ever follow through on that though.
My Nan used to get a delivery of oil or turf for my Mum for Christmas every year so we still slag her that she must have been very naughty.
I was threatened with this as a child I never felt upset as an adult about it lol I was probably being a little shit! Actually me and me brothers laugh about it now.I also do it to my two they definitely quit the bickering when I do, I get peace they'll have their toys Christmas day. Also I've heared and seen it being done by countless people and I dont know of anyone who actually followed through.
I often say to mine "Santa is watching and you'd better be careful or he might not come". I never realised it was so frowned upon Obviously, it will never be followed through. I don't usually make threats that I wouldn't follow through on but this is one that I never gave much thought to.
wicklowgl - I'm surprised to hear that someone in their seventies remembers being upset about presents - my mum is in her seventies and they practically got nothing for Christmas - it just wasn't the thing then to get presents like we did.
The person I knew had a mother with mental health issues. I can't imagine a well adjusted parent doing this. We were threatened with the bag of coal but we knew if we just behaved for a few minutes the threat would be lifted. We knew we'd get our toys.There was a post on here about six or seven years ago with a mother at her wits end saying she was cancelling Santa for her child due to behaviour. I am normally just quite clear thinking and gentle but I cried my eyes out over it. A few of us begged her to reconsider but we never found out what she did in the end.
Wow ... I never believed anyone would actually carry this through but going by some of the posts obviously some parents did do this to their child. We were always threatened with it as kids but it never actually happened. Would be an awfully cruel threat to carry out.
I think we would all love if you would tell us why you are asking the question,kikl08.
Whatever about saying it,I'm convinced no one would follow through because that would be so cruel and vicious against a small child and they would rightly hate you for it when they were older & realised what you had done. I'm sure we've all heard stories about the little boy that got a bag of coal but just stories used in trying to get children to be good.
Some of the things that parents do to their kids never leave. Being emotionally cut off, favouring one child over the other, ignoring or demeaning a childs achievements; it wrecks a childs self esteem. You can feed them, dress them, keep a roof over their head, but its not enough.
I hope to the high heavens this is only a question or research, if not, this poster does not deserve kids.
Disciplining a child is the same every month of the year and the tiniest of consequences strategically and repeatedly applied can be part of bringing about positive change regardless of the season. Perhaps the OP is doing research rather than asking for advice.I spoke to an adult who had this experience and she cried telling me about it. It still hurt decades later.
Seriously, you are not thinking about having your kid wake up on Christmas morning to no presents? And then have to tell all his friends? Are you on medication or something?
Take a Triple P parenting class, there are ways to discipline children without actually emotionally abusing them.
Any parent that actually follows that threat through is evil and heartless
I can't imagine what a child could do which would warrant such a nuclear approach to disciplining. I'd imagine it would have a devastating effect on the child.
No as it would be an awful punishment for a child and that would be the christmas they remember rather than the good ones! I can't imagine why anyone would want to do that to a child on Christmas day!
i've never been a 'perfect' parent but i've never used that threat. it's horrible and completely pointless as how could anyone actually go through with it. so the point of the correction is lost.
In this house we do the whole talking to the chimney when bad behaviour occurs, so if DS is being naughty I'd say "Santa are you hearing this? Are you taking something out of DS stocking and then when behaviour is good DS will drag me to the chimney to tell Santa all about it and to ask him to put something in his stocking . It's working well , December so far has been a good month for behaviour !
That threat should never be made and if made never carried out. There are other consequences that are effective and constructive ways to teach good behaviour.To deprive a child or young person of the experience of receiving gifts along side everyone else is an act of rejection and exclusion that could be very painful or even traumatic. Christmas, birthdays and the good night story and hug are off bounds when it comes to consequences.
Horrible horrible threat. This happened to my mother as a "joke" when she was a child and she said that every Christmas after was extremely stressful for her wondering if Santa was coming. Santa is a happy person who loves all children - not some conditional grudge bearing bully. Reminds me a bit of how people talked about God when I was small.
I would agree with Betty if you are not going to follow through don't make the threat . Years ago my cousin got a bag of coal and a letter with a warning but the real presents were still left behind the sofa.
I hate hearing the words " Santa won't come" when correcting Children as its not something that will happen so it pointless
Never make 'threats' you wont carry out. Once the punishment is uncertain, like with a gambler, they will try their luck and even if they only get away with a few, it will be like an addiction and you will find them playing the game more and more.
With this in mind, NEVER give a child the option to call your bluff. You need to preface ever punishment with a get out clause for yourself, Expressions like, 'I'm sure Santa wont be impressed by your behavior and it is getting so close to Christmas too.' These vague statements allow you to say face if they kick up, but you can 'reduce' Santa's normal generosity to prove his disappointment, like a missing sock of little toys that normally appears on their bed. Enough to make a point, but not ruin Christmas.... maybe it will appear later somewhere else when they feel a little sorry for themselves ;)
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Last week I blogged about saying the Lord's Prayer each Sunday in church as a kid and my apprehension for doing so. I cited my reason as the phrase "vain repetitions" (KJV) found in Jesus's warning about how not to pray. The NIV is more colorful in its rendering: "babbling like pagans."
Though I didn't get it as a kid, I now know that not all repetition need be in vain. I suppose that just as we can have vain repetition, we can likewise have worthwhile repetition. So is repeating the Lord's Prayer vain or worthwhile? I suppose that depends on the person doing the reciting. For some the repetition may be in vain and for others it may be worthwhile.
What I do know is that just a couple verses after Jesus warns against vain repetition and babbling like the pagans when we pray, he teaches us the Lord's Prayer. This gives me pause, for it seems like he tells us not to do something and then teaches us how to do what we're not supposed to do. Is this another of the Bible's paradoxes?
However, I don't think Jesus intends us to recite his prayer. I suspect he gives it to us as a model to guide us, not a passage to memorize. That's what I use the Lord's Prayer for, not a form to follow verbatim, but an example to steer my words when I communicate with God.
So, yes, I do use the Lord's Prayer when I pray. I follow it as an outline to inform my prayers, not a refrain to repeat. For if I recite it verbatim, it would indeed become vain repetition – at least for me.Is repeating the Lord's Prayer vain repetition or worthwhile repetition? Click To Tweet
How do you use the Lord's Prayer? What steps to you take to avoid falling into vain repetition?
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- Children can be dropped off between 10:30-11:00. Parents can sign waivers at this time.
- The arts, crafts, and dance class are for registered children only.
- Parents and siblings are welcome to return at 1:30 to watch the Gala Performance.
- $68. Buy your tickets here.
Includes an interactive Sugar Plum Inspired Arts and Crafts session with take-home pieces, photo booth, story time with the Sugar Plum Fairy, ballet class with Clara and her fairy friends and a beautiful professional dance costume that your little performer gets to keep and enjoy. The afternoon ends with all registered participants in a Nutcracker performance specially created for children. So, parents and guests (either siblings, grandparents or friends) can watch the show, the package also includes 4 family tickets (valued at $10 each) to the Gala Performance at 1:30, and a beautiful keepsake program with your child's name.
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March by Geraldine Brooks
From Publishers Weekly
Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a teacher on a cotton plantation that employs freed slaves, or "contraband." His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: the cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave whom he met years earlier as a Connecticut peddler to the plantations. In between, we learn of March's earlier life: his whirlwind courtship of quick-tempered Marmee, his friendship with Emerson and Thoreau and the surprising cause of his family's genteel poverty. When a Confederate attack on the contraband farm lands March in a Washington hospital, sick with fever and guilt, the first-person narrative switches to Marmee, who describes a different version of the years past and an agonized reaction to the truth she uncovers about her husband's life. Brooks, who based the character of March on Alcott's transcendentalist father, Bronson, relies heavily on primary sources for both the Concord and wartime scenes; her characters speak with a convincing 19th-century formality, yet the narrative is always accessible. Through the shattered dreamer March, the passion and rage of Marmee and a host of achingly human minor characters, Brooks's affecting, beautifully written novel drives home the intimate horrors and ironies of the Civil War and the difficulty of living honestly with the knowledge of human suffering.
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James Mc.Pherson
From Publishers Weekly
Contributing significantly to Oxford's new academic series Pivotal Moments in American History and to the literature on the Civil War, McPherson convincingly establishes the Battle of Antietam as the conflict's pivotal moment militarily, politically and morally. His depiction of the spring 1862 Confederacy shows it reeling under blockade while the North was learning how to practice "hard war." Yet McPherson tracks Robert E. Lee in the Seven Days' Battles and the Second Manassas campaign, placing him, by September, in Maryland and threatening Washington. Foreign nations were poised to recognize the Confederacy, and Lincoln had postponed his plans to liberate its slaves. With an election coming in November, demoralized Northern voters were in position to give control of Congress to a Democratic party with a vocal peace wing. The Union general George B. McClellan never took a risk he could avoid; on September 17, at Antietam, he failed to commit his full force, yet managed to get a defeated, demoralized army to the field at the end of the single bloodiest day in American history: over 6,000 men from both sides dead. Before the battle, McPherson carefully demonstrates (with the aid of 30 duotones and seven maps), the Civil War's outcome had been disputable. In Antietam's aftermath, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. France and Britain discreetly backed away from recognition. The Republicans kept control of Congress and of most state governments. The war was now the Union's to lose.
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America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries, Edited by Edward L. Ayers
Edited by Edward L. Ayers, America's War is an anthology of Civil War writing originally published between 1852 and 2008. Co-published by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, America's War was created in support of a national reading and discussion program for libraries called "Let's Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War."
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Copies at UML:
UMass Lowell has a number of free copies available of all three books for participants. To get a copy of the books you must register for the program. You will only be able to pick up the next book we are reading. When you come to the next program you will be given a copy of the next book.
Public Libraries:
Many of the public libraries in the towns surrounding UMass Lowell have been given multiple copies of the books for participants to check out. Please check your local library catalog to see if there is a copy available to you. If not, ask the librarian about getting you a copy.
Listen to Edward L. Ayers discuss how readings were selected to this program. This keynote was part of a training the ALA ran for libraries participating in this program.


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ANDOVER, MA—Chinmaya Mission Boston hosted a sold-out Diwali gala dinner on Saturday in Andover, MA. Packed with music, entertainment and attended by area's philanthropists and entrepreneurs and the organization's supporters and volunteers, the event was also filled with fun, food and professional fireworks.
Dr. Shashikala Dwarkanath, MD, a physician at Lowell General Hospital and a trustee and Bala Vihar (Children's Program) coordinator at Chinmaya Mission Boston, welcomed the audience. Desh Deshpande, a philanthropist and chairman and founder of Deshpande Foundation and a trustee of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, addressed the audience and talked about brining harmony in life.
Chinmaya Mission's annual Diwali gala was held at Wyndham Hotel in Andover. Bala Swaranjali, coached and choreographed by Laxmi Ramesh, provided invocation and devotional songs, and Aparna Balaji and team entertained the audience with live light music. A group dance by Chinmaya Kids was choreographed by Archana Gorur. Chinmaya songs were sung by Metrowest Kids and were coached by Padmini Nagarajan. A magical entertainment was provided by Phil Smith, a professional master magician who was funny and witty.
Dr. Gopala Dwarakanath, MD, a trustee of Lowell General Hospital and founder Chinmaya Mission Boston, led a fundraising campaign. Chitra and Kumar Subramanyam served as emcees of the event. The food was provided by Soul of India.
"The sold out 2015 CMB Diwali Banquet turned out to be a fantastic evening of Fun, Food and Fireworks. We had 360 people attend the event, melodious light music from Aparna Balaji and ensemble, uplifting dance and music by chinmaya kids and adults, magical entertainment from Phil Smith, delicious food catered by Soul of India of Sudbury and professional fireworks to top the evening," said Chitra and Kumar Subramanyam. "We thank all our guests for their participation and support. Diwali is about counting your blessings and looking to the next year with hope and aspirations. At Chinmaya Mission Boston, our community of members, donors, teachers, volunteers, patrons, supporters and well-wishers are our blessings and we look forward to their continued association and support to keep the mission financially strong and vibrant for the communities we serve."


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Chat room log for this episode.
Our guests are
Nic Soave who is a Research and Policy Intern at University Students' Council at The University of Western Ontario . He also does a sports radio show on CHRW
Matt Ross is a Youth Advisory Council Facilitator
We started with the discussion on the noise bylaw for outdoor festivals and concerts. Just like at the public meeting there were some disagreements in studio.
Moving on we talked about the latest Rethink London event that occurred this weekend. Great turn but there is still some concerns by some on Twitter that some on council will ignore these suggestion and go forward with their own agendas.
There is an item coming to council this week in which the owners of the John Labitt Centre (JLC) are looking to rebrand it to "Budweiser Gardens" this has created quite a reaction on Twitter with many people saying they will continue to call it the JLC.
Council chooses to ignore city planners and the community in overturning a community plan that took years to develop in favor of a developer in Hyde Park. This is not the first time this has happened and it's proving to be very frustrating to those on Twitter.
On a similiar topic, a consultants report on growth projections for the city was presented at planning comittee. The Mayor and some on council did not accept the numbers well.
We also covered off the Fringe Festival and Nuit Blanc which finished up last weekend. Congrats to the organizers and volunteers for both events.


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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) � Sarah Palin, the telegenic Republican who exasperates and delights voters about equally, is dropping ever more hints of a presidential bid, including a visit today to the key state of Iowa.
The official purpose of her trip to suburban Des Moines is to promote her new book, �America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag.� But Democratic and Republican insiders will search for every possible hint of whether she will seek the nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012.
Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee, has fed such speculation in recent days. She told ABC�s Barbara Walters she thinks she could beat Obama, adding, �I�m looking at the lay of the land now.�
In a separate interview, Obama told Walters, �I don�t think about Sarah Palin.� He added that Palin has �a strong base of support in the Republican Party, and I respect those skills.�
Palin will attend a second book-signing event next week in Iowa, which holds the nation�s first presidential caucuses in 13 months.
Some political pros suspect it�s a tease � a way for Palin to keep drawing big crowds to her lucrative TV show and books while avoiding the nitty-gritty work of organizing a national campaign, wooing hard-to-impress caucus voters and raising millions of dollars.
Others warn against underestimating her ambition or her ability to snatch the GOP nomination from a dozen men who covet it.
�She may run away with it, and that�s something everybody has to be prepared for,� said Mike Huckabee, who won the 2008 Iowa Republican caucus. He is weighing another presidential run, and some think he wants to set high expectations for a possible rival.
Although Palin�s fans are loyal and legion, the prospect of her running for president alarms some Republicans. They think Palin is too polarizing and too inexperienced to defeat Obama, even if Republicans in general can maintain the momentum of their powerful performance in this month�s midterm elections.
Her foreign policy gaffe Wednesday kept the question alive. She declared on Glenn Beck�s syndicated radio show that the United States has to stand with �our North Korean allies� in connection with tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Her mistake was quickly corrected by her host. But it drew immediate fire from liberal bloggers who cited it as an example of her lack of foreign policy expertise. Newspapers in Asia and Europe echoed the criticism. The Times of India says Palin �did it again,� while London�s Daily Mail says she �may want to brush up on her geography.�
At home, polls show voters deeply divided over Palin. A recent AP-GfK poll found that 46 percent of Americans view her favorably while 49 percent hold an unfavorable view. The portion holding a �very unfavorable� view heavily outweighs those with a �very favorable� view.
In the poll, 79 percent of self-described Republicans said they like Palin. That suggests she might do well in GOP primaries, although she has some work to do in Iowa.
In exit polls of Iowa Republicans who voted this month, 21 percent said they�d like to see Huckabee win the 2012 caucus. Another 21 percent named Mitt Romney, and 18 percent picked Palin.
Palin�s speeches and book-signing parties typically are carefully controlled affairs, with reporters kept at a distance.
But if she is to compete in early voting states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, she will have to mingle with inquisitive voters in scores of living rooms and small gatherings, experienced strategists say.
�At some point in time, if she�s a serious candidate, she has to do what other candidates do, and that�s engage people one on one,� said veteran Iowa GOP activist Steve Scheffler. �You may be a rock star, but if you don�t have the mechanics, it�s difficult.�
Huckabee, an ordained minister who ran an intense grass-roots campaign in Iowa before falling to eventual GOP nominee John McCain, agreed.
�People in Iowa and New Hampshire are not star-struck because somebody is running for president,� he said. �They will ask the hard questions, and they will put people through the wringer.�
It�s possible, however, that Palin�s high visibility � boosted by frequent appearances on Fox News and her new TV show on the TLC network, �Sarah Palin�s Alaska� � will let her play by different rules. No other potential GOP candidate can touch off a media frenzy with a brief comment on Facebook or Twitter, as she can.
Palin�s record certainly has its dents. Some Republicans partly blame her for painful Senate losses in Nevada and Delaware, where she endorsed tea party upstarts who won the GOP nomination but lost to vulnerable Democrats. Closer to home, she was embarrassed when her Alaska GOP rival, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, won re-election with a write-in campaign after a Palin-backed challenger had won the party nomination.
Many are still bewildered by Palin�s abrupt decision in July 2009 to step down as Alaska�s governor. If she didn�t want to finish one term as governor of a sparsely populated state, they ask, how badly can she want to be president, and how well could she serve?
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine recently told the Kennebec Journal: �I think she likes being a celebrity commentator for Fox, and a speaker, and being able to provide for her family. It�s a lot easier to charge people up than to actually govern.�
Former first lady Barbara Bush said Palin seems happy in Alaska and �I hope she�ll stay there.�
In Iowa, some doubt that Palin can skate by on her fame while Romney, Huckabee and others go door to door, day after day.
Bob Vander Plaats, who heads The Family Leader, an Iowa umbrella group of evangelical Christian organizations, said Palin appeals to many but must do some ground work.
�There�s a big difference between coming to Iowa and signing a book and coming to Iowa and saying you want to be commander in chief and leader of the free world,� he said. He said the last celebrity candidate in Iowa was former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who fizzled badly.
�It didn�t play well when he came with his rope lines and his motorcades,� Vander Plaats said. �People wanted to sit at the kitchen table with him.�


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Elsevier journals - contract renewed for one year
Newsletter on open access negotiations
After the negotations between the VSNU and Elsevier about subscription rates for journals came to a deadlock in November, the publisher has made the VSNU negotiation team a new offer.
The current contract has been renewed for one year, so UvA staff and students will have access to the journals during the negotiations.
VSNU Open Access Newsletter
Open access is an important, if not crucial, part of the current negotiations on subscription rates between the VSNU and some large publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Oxford University Press and Sage). To keep researchers and executives informed about the progress of these negotiations, VSNU has initiated an OA newsletter. You can subscribe via email.


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Terms and conditions
a) NimTree Wildlife Photo Tours (which is a trading name of Rathod Limited)
b) Customers must have adequate travel insurance in place before their trip begins.
c) Whilst we will do everything possible to make your tour comfortable and pleasant, we will not be responsible for any damages , loss of items, theft for your personal items or any losses arising due to the acts mentioned earlier. We urge all the clients to exercise caution and be careful and look after their belongings.
d) Before the tour begins, you must also inform us of any allergies and health conditions that may cause concern to you during the trips.
e) It is the clients(i.e. your) responsibility to obtain necessary visa and ensure that their passports are valid for at least the minimum duration specified by the government of destination country. (please see www.gov.uk for more details)
f) If the Foreign and commonwealth office of the British government advice against travel to a pre-booked tour, the tour WILL NOT go ahead as it will invalidate your travel insurance and we do not want to take our clients to parts of the world, which are deemed unsafe.
g) Paying for Travel insurance, flights to the destination country and visa is the responsibility of the client. We will neither pay these cost nor advise on obtaining visa. Please consult authorised and trained agents / solicitors, should you require help in visa matters.
h) We strongly advise our clients against overstaying their visa. It will be the clients responsibility to ensure travel arrangements and getting back to home country before their visa expires. Overstaying visa of any country is a serious crime and there may be financial penalties or even imprisonment, depending on the approach of the immigration department of the destination country.
i) In case of any medical emergency, we will try and arrange medical assistance as quickly as possible, however due the remote locations of national parks, it may take some time to get a qualified medical practitioner to you. We will follow the advice given by your insurance company in those circumstances. You are strongly advised to make a visit to your GP/ Doctor before the beginning of the tour to ensure your fitness to travel long haul as well as check for general fitness.
j) You are advised to follow the instructions given by the national park guides and your group leader. Please do not try and take unnecessary risks. (eg. Trying to take selfies at dangerous location or going very close to wild animals etc). We cannot be held responsible for any action taken by you.
k) Our travel partners are only responsible for handling payments and providing financial protection for you (when booked flights with them). Any other question, eg photography related should be sent to us.
l) We request your personal details like Date of birth and passport numbers etc to book the necessary national park permits, we will make every effort to protect your personal information. This information is eventually passed to the national park authorities of the destination country. We have no control over how the destination country protects your personal information. In the event of data loss by such agencies, we cannot be held responsible.
m) We will attempt to adhere to this itinerary as much as possible. However, certain conditions (climatic, environmental, cultural, or wildlife) may necessitate changes in the itinerary. We reserve the right to alter any itinerary at any time, if necessary. We will attempt to notify participants of changes as far in advance as possible. Costs incurred by such changes will be the responsibility of the participant.
n) We hold your data with the help of some third party companies (eg MailChimp for newsletters). We are not responsible in case the third party company fails to manage/secure to the data.
Nimtree Safaris i.e. (We) reserve the right to amend, extend, shorten the duration or places of tours without prior notice to customers (you). Any dispute, if it may arise, will be subjected to the English Law in England.


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I've got a bunch of random things to post today, so stay tuned.
First up, an update to my Sonia Optical Trigger Review.
After plenty of time in the garage studio, I'm realizing my Sonia trigger doesn't seem to be syncing like I think it should. It works with direct, hard flash or large, very bright sources (like bounced from a pure white background), but it has trouble with diffused or small sources over distances of 4+ feet. This is quite a surprise to me since no one else has reported these problems, and I wonder if my peanut slave is faulty.
The problems were highlighted when I was trying to sync from my on-camera DIY ring flash (Sunpak 383) to a Chinese optical trigger (with eBay radio trigger on top) to a radio-triggered shoot-through umbrella to the Sonia trigger on an SB-20 as a background light. I know this sounds a little Rube Goldbergian but in theory it should work well. In practice, the ring flash triggers the radio trigger and the umbrella well, but the Sonia slave doesn't trigger. It DOES trigger if I manually fire the umbrella or if my ring flash is closer to the receiver (3 feet instead of 5 or 6). It is almost like multiple sources are causing the Sonia to not trigger.
Either way, I'm spending too much time messing with optical sync and not enough time shooting, so I'm definitely going to do something to address it. I'll post more when I learn more.
Update: After a little more experimentation, the problem is definitely from the multi-level triggering scheme I was using. I switched the the radio transmitter on the camera (instead of relaying it through the other optical trigger) and suddenly I was getting perfect triggering. So, somehow relaying the signal made things fail. I've got an idea of why (I suspect the slight delay from the optical trigger caused the Sonia trigger to lose edge detection) but for now I just need to avoid that situation and use the radio triggers to trip the flashes that feed the optical triggers. In other words, maybe my Sonia trigger isn't defective after all...
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Sonia Optical Trigger Problems
I've got a bunch of random things to post today, so stay tuned.
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I have had very intermittent success with the Sonias while shooting concert photos. At some events, they've worked fine but at others they only go off about 10% of the time. I was shooting a concert for New Year's Eve and it worked great while I was testing before the performance, then started failing after the house lights went dark. (However, it kept firing when a pro's flash went off.)
I have a Canon A650IS which lacks a hotshoe, so I'm trying to use the camera's flash to trigger a Canon 199A, a Vivitar 265, or a Nikon SB30.
If you're still at Stanford, I'm in Silicon Valley and maybe we could talk shop.
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kum'-pa-ni: The fertility of the original languages in synonyms and varied shades of meaning is seen by the fact that 20 Hebrew and 12 Greek words are represented by this single term. An analysis of these words shows that "company" is both an indefinite and limitless term, signifying few or many, and all kinds of assemblages of people, e.g.:
(1) Caravan,
(a) migratory (Isa 21:13 the King James Version);
(b) commercial (Ge 37:25 the King James Version); Job 6:19, "The companies of Sheba waited (in vain) for them."
(2) Military, gedhudh, "troop," hamon, 2Ch 20:12; ro'sh, "head," "detachment"; Jud 7:16,20: "three companies"; Jud 9:34,37,43: "four companies."
(3) Band (chebher) or "gang," as rendered by Keil and Delitzsch; a gang of murderous priests (Ho 6:9).
(4) Camp or encampment (Ge 32:8,21; 50:9).
(5) Religious body, "company of prophets" (1Sa 19:20).
(6) Assembly, congregation, "company of nations" (Ge 35:11; Eze 38:4,7,13,15).
(7) A tumultuous crowd (2Ki 9:17).
(8) Associate, companion, often with reference to moral affinity (Job 34:8; Pr 29:3; Ac 10:28), kollaomai, "to glue or cement together," indicative of the binding power of moral affinity (the Revised Version (British and American) "to join himself"); as a verb, to "company with" or "keep company" (Ac 1:21; 1Co 5:9,11; 2Th 3:14). In Apocrypha in the sense of "to cohabit" (Susanna 1:54,57,58).
(9) A host. "Great was the company," etc. (Ps 68:11 the Revised Version (British and American) "The women.... are a great host"). In the East it is the women who celebrate victories with song and dance (see 1Sa 18:6,7).
(10) A chorus, dance (mecholah). "The company of two armies" (So 6:13 the King James Version; the Revised Version (British and American) "the dance of Mahanaim").
(11) Meal party, klisia, "a reclining company at meals." "Make them sit down (Greek "recline") in companies" (Lu 9:14). Compare "companion," from Latin com, "together," and panis, "bread."
(12) A myriad, a ten-thousand, an indefinite number (murias; Heb 12:22 (the Revised Version (British and American) "hosts")).
(13) Companions on a journey, sunodia, "a journeying together" (Lu 2:44).
(14) Signifying kinship of spirit, idios, "one's own." "They came to their own company" (Ac 4:23).
(15) A mob (Ac 17:5 (the Revised Version (British and American) "a crowd")).
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|Hanuman Pandaram - Sketch by the author.
My relative T.K. Hari still remembers a lean middle-aged man wearing a black coat, with two large cloth bags on his both shoulders walking through the streets of Pettah. He used to wear a large copper plate around his neck, which he used to make sound by striking with a stick. The very sound of the copper plate was enough to scare the wits out of small children; they will be hiding behind their mother's back at that time.
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