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Raising and educating children has never been easy. With the freedom of movement among EU nations, enabling its citizens to live and work in any of its 27 member states, people are now able to compare and contrast their own education system with the one their children are attending, but are not always able to make sense of it or see the benefits. I recently came across a Crete-UK forum discussion which highlighted this issue; the inspiration for the post came from my son's school homework.
"Dear Agony Aunt," writes GoldenSyrup from the UK, "Is the certificate/diploma that students receive at the end of (Greek) school recognised in other countries? As the mother of a 7-year-old who has long school days and at least 2 hours of homework most nights, I am concerned that all this work will not result in anything other than a piece of paper that is only recognised in Greece. I have found out that if both parents are foreign (ie not Greek) then the child is considered to be 'foreign' even if he has been born and grew up here. This it seems has implications for university entrance..."
The seven-year-old is probably in 2nd-grade. The parents are probably both non-Greeks, living and/or working in Greece. They may not be able to read Greek fluently, and therefore cannot help their child with their homework. It isn't clear what the mother's concern is: is she worried that her child is learning something useless (non-transferable Greek-language skills), or is she worried that her child is being over-worked without any guarantee that this 'hard work' will be useful in the future?
Firstly, she has overlooked the fact that since both Greece and the UK are in the EU (well, so far, anyway, if you get my gist), then it is highly unlikely that there is no provision made for equating school qualifications between the countries. Oxford University, for example, states clearly what is accepted by them from Greek students*. Secondly, there is no such thing as a free lunch; her child is being occupied more productively in Greece than what would be the case for a child of this age in the UK.. Too much study and not enough play makes Jack a dull boy, you say. In a country like Greece (and especially in Crete), there's plenty of sunshine and free time for a seven-year-old to revel in - for a start, summer holidays last 12 whole weeks, not to mention all the other religious/national (and strike) holidays in between. In any case, if there were too much play and not enough study, then Jack would have all the leisure time he needs to collect plenty of ASBO's. Take your pick.
It's not just foreign mothers living in Greece who complain about the amount of homework their children have to do at school; it's also Greek parents. When the old-fashioned parrot-style rote learning system changed in Greece, which the parents of our youngsters' generation were used to themselves (and we all know how comfortable we feel with the status quo), everyone suddenly felt overwhelmed by the new syllabus. For a start the set books changed; instead of learning to count up to 20 in Grade 1 (!?!) children were expected to learn to count up to 100 (something which most kids were probably able to do in their kindergarten years anyway), and children are expected to be able to understand visual symbols very early on in their schooling, such as those employed by well known public companies like, for example: ΔΕΗ, ΟΤΕ, ΔΕ.ΔΙ.ΣΑ, all acronyms of state-owned enterprises, and therefore children see the bills coming into the house with their logos (Greece hasn't really begun a transition yet from a 'bills' culture to an online-payments one).
Here's an example of a how a Greek mother reacted to her child's homework. An Athenian radio announcer was disgusted that her child had to write the full names of the above-mentioned SOE's (I know the exercise she is talking about - it appears in the set books for Grade 2), complaining that her child could not differentiate between the different ways to spell the 'ee' sound in Greek (which is nothing compared to the number of ways to spell the 'ee' sound in English - wait till it starts learning that one!). She needn't have bothered to do that in the first place: she should have given her child a bill from one of those companies, and got them to copy the name of the SOE, or searched for it online, or better still, got her child to search for it online. This doesn't mean that the mother wasn't being a good teacher to her child - she is after all the mother, and not the teacher; maybe the teacher should have taken the time to explain to her class of children how to go about this exercise independently, without making mummy go crazy...
As a mother with children in primary school, I can understand the UK mother's (albeit misinformed) concern. She probably came from a more liberal educational background (like me), where children were not required to do a lot (or any) homework when they were as young as seven, where the theoretical importance of a playful youth (despite the higher incidence of social curses such as teenage pregnancy and binge-drinking) took priority over the three R's. But things are slowly changing from the parrot-learning days of the Greek education system, and even though it may sometimes seem that children are doing very repetitive exercises with little substance, the fact is that there is room for great creativity in the classroom within a structured programme. The main difference between the Greek education system and the Western one is that parents have a greater influence in their children's schooling in the former. Greek parents often act as guidance counsellors; these professionals are often missing from Greek schools due to mismanagement, lack of funds and other problems of Greek infrastructure. Greek parents, therefore, often take a great interest in their children's learning paths - they always want the best for their child, no matter how educated or rich they may be**.
One of the problems in the Greek education system is that it is very competitive. Children are encouraged to get straight A's from the day they enrol at primary school. It may sound like an impossible task to get very young pupils to learn to sit on a chair and hold a pencil in their hand for what seems like hours, conjugating verbs and declining nouns...,
... writing word families...,
... and doing sums...,
... among other activities, but this is what I have seen my kids doing for the last three years, since they started primary schools. Depending on their teacher, a child may have half an hour to two hours of homework on most nights. You must be thinking that this is too much, but you will probably not realise that a typical school day for a seven-year-old starts at 8.10am and finishes at 12.25pm, with two short breaks in the day. The homework they are doing is what they would have been doing in class, were the Greek school day longer.*** Children whose parents work and cannot pick them up at midday stay on at school at the all-day program, where they have an opportunity to complete their homework with the help of another (different) teacher, and they often go home with most of their homework assignments finished.
Some children are slower writers, others are slower thinkers; some children pick up the rules more quickly of being in a formal educational environment, while others need more time to acclimatise from the transition of kindergarten (no books or notebooks, not even a pencil case) to primary school (up to ten set books and half a dozen notebooks in the first three grades). But eventually, they realise what is expected of them. Some children show great skill at memorising facts and figures, while others don't. This is normal in most school environments all around the world. Where Greece differs from the Western system on this point is that Greek schools award academic achievement and very little else.
It's true that most of the homework exercises are based on rote learning, but my only real quibble is that most of the time, most teachers will only work with material in the set textbooks (Language, Mathematics, My Environment, each one issued with a coursebook and exercise book), and 'blindly' hand out photocopied material of the exercises covered in the day's lesson from the set books to be done as homework; these photocopies sometimes contain typos, which shows that the teacher is not reading them herself to check if they are do-able, before she hands them out to the pupils. Therefore, if you have learnt the material in the book and the photocopies, then you are considered an 'excellent' student. A student whose knowledge is beyond the book is classified as a genius, even though their knowledge may actually be bookish rather than showing any powers of reasoning or creativity. That's why a lot of Greek kids get classified as geniuses these days - it's easier to know (or find out about) things now than it was in the past. Greek parents rather than the state are usually responsible for that extra mile in their children's education.
When my son was 4 years old, his teacher showed the kindergarten class a small map of the world, and asked them where Crete was. My son was the only child in the class that peered deeply into the A4 size map, and found the pin-prick that represented his homeland. Five years later, my children's teachers are still amazed with their keen awareness of their global position. It is not the cost of the maps that prohibits these children from access to them in their own home: not many Greek children have the luxury of access to wall maps in their own house because Greeks generally don't like 'dirtying' their walls with sticky tape...
Young children learn mainly to 'write' what they 'say' (ie going from the spoken to the written form of Greek - which is relatively easy if Greek is spoken in the home), they become fluent readers at an early age (mainly because of the consistency between the Greek sounds and their written expression) and the set homework is generally not mentally demanding (it falls within the patterns of rote learning and repetition). This gives the creative parent a chance to extend their children's knowledge beyond the prescribed textbooks (the whole country is learning the same stuff at the same age) in any way they want. But it means that the parent has to take charge of their children's extra-curricular activities, something which most people in the US, UK, Australia and NZ do not have to do, because in those countries, it is taken for granted that the state organises and provides education. In Greece, once the school day is over, a parent directs their child's learning, and hence their child's future. It may sound unusual to parents who have been raised in the Western system of education, and it will be difficult for them to acclimatise to a new way of viewing the Greek education system.
GoldenSyrup's problem may derive from the idea that parents in the Western world have been indoctrinated to believe in being solely parents and not teachers of their children. In Greece, parents are expected by the school system itself to help their children in whatever way they can: personal help, private tuition (one-to-one lessons or in a group with other children), extra-curricular lessons (sports and the arts are barely covered within the Greek school system, given the tight timeframe - see above), audiovisual material, computers, etc. Some people have the knowledge, the money, the time to help their children in this way, while others don't. But these days, most parents have the confidence to demand these educational services from the state, which is a sure sign of progress from the days when people seemed to accept the status quo and felt comfortable in its staleness. Greece may not have reached the same educational standards as the west, but no one can accuse Greek parents of not trying. Evidence for this is the high number of enrolments in foreign universities (when a Greek school student doesn't make the grade in his own country, he will go abroad), even if it means coming back home as an unemployable over-qualified graduate.
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My 3rd-grader recently asked me to help him with some of his homework. The topic covered in this case was, of all things, haiku. From this, it can be concluded that the topics covered by the set books in the Greek education system are reasonably global, up-to-date and interesting, so a knowledgeable parent can easily find an activity to supplement the child's knowledge using the set books as a base. The textbook had a chapter on haiku-writing (in Greek, of course!). It gave examples of haiku poetry and explained what a haiku was. According to my child, the haiku idea was discussed in class, and the pupils were then asked to write a haiku themselves as a homework exercise.
My son was having trouble finding a starting point for his haiku, so I told him to look at the sky. (One easy way to get young children to write creatively is to show them a photo/picture.) I told him that I would tell him something about it in 17 syllables, the typical length of a haiku:
Σκοτεινιάζει τώρα, τα άσπρα σύννεφα γίνονται πιο μαύρα
(It is getting darker, the ice-white clouds, are now becoming blacker)
"Can I write that?" he asked me.
"Of course not," I said. "That was my haiku." And a very uninteresting one at that, but that was something my son couldn't judge at the time. "You have to write one on your own," I told him. In fact, I would have liked him to copy my haiku, so that his homework would be over and done with as quickly as possible; I wondered how many of his parents' classmates had done this anyway. Most parents in our village school had probably not heard of the concept of haiku in the first place, but they would have been able to follow the instructions given in the book and 'helped' their child to write one. (I found out later that quite a few did in fact do this!)
As a starting point, I showed him some family photos on the computer, and let him choose one on which to base his own haiku. He liked this photo.
He came up with the following 17-syllable 3-line verse:
Πίτα στογγυλή, ζαμπόν και τυρί, με πιπεριά στο ψωμί
A big round pizza, pink ham and bright cheese, with some pepper on the bread
I left it to the teacher to judge the haiku; my job was to get my son to do his homework ,and I can say that I succeeded in that direction. He had incorporated the idea of rhyming verse in his haiku, which is a form of poetry he is more familiar with in his own language. The main thing is that he had done his homework on his own, and that it was finished as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Every parent can provide some kind of brain food for their children. We all do what we can to prepare our kids for the big wide world - just think that these angelic faces will be doing their military service or studying in the army in a decade's time. Because my children are being raised in a bilingual environment (like GoldenSyrup's), they are more observant of the multi-cultural world around them; they are better able to fit the pieces of the global puzzle together, so that they can assimilate circumstances more quickly. Having learnt things from two different perspectives, they will be better able to cope with the big wide world around them. There are no skills that are learnt in vain.
*Oxford is one of the most competitive universities in the UK, which is why it also expects UK A-levels together the Greek high school leaving certificate, but this is not the general case.
**I am not talking about parents who are drug addicts, alcoholics or suffer from mental illness; in any case, such people need professional help to manage their condition - once they do this, they may be even better parents than those who do not suffer from such social problems.
*** Greek teachers often complain about their low pay, but it must also be said that they work far fewer hours than their British counterparts, with less accountability. The present government recently announced plans for many changes in the Greek education system, but they'll have to re-train the teachers first to stop thinking in rote-book style...
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You're reading this while I am on an educational family trip abroad. You may wonder about the correctness of my action in taking the children out of school during term time. I was a bit worried about it too. At the beginning of the week, I approached one of the teachers and told her that we would be away for a few days on holiday. Her reaction was not what I expected (Oh, how lovely! or maybe I'm sure you'll have a great time! or even Hmm, Isn't it cold there now?) - no, she asked me whether I would like the next two week's learning program (my daughter is in grade 2, just for the record) so that when my daughter comes back from holidaying in big cities, where her senses will be mesmerised by novelties, she won't have any gaps in her knowledge; I rest my case...


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Don, you seem to be the one confused. Steve's facts pretty much correspond with mine. Gresham is holding 750 copies of the first 5,000-copy run on Kill, so naturally it hasn't sold out. Some of the rest of what Steve posts is a bit hazy, but could match, if more precisely worded. The movie rights to Kill were bought by Parmount when Doubleday leaked that it was buying The Firm and publishing it as a best-seller package. The republication of Kill as a best-seller came after that.
Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner, About the Author (Harcourt, 2000).

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This is a harrowing, gripping and incredibly exciting nearly-3-hour adventure based on the novel by John J. Nance, beautifully and quite extravagantly (for a TV movie) brought to the small screen from a teleplay by David Israel. It tracks the story of Quantum Airlines flight 66 on its journey from Frankfurt to New York. Onboard the plane is a research scientist from a secret government lab who becomes quite ill and shortly thereafter dies. In turns out, as we learn from scientists on the ground,that he was exposed to a man-made virus created in the lab which kills within 48 hours and for which there is no antidote. Unfortunately it's also highly contagious and there are 247 passengers aboard the aircraft as well as flight crew, including veteran pilot Captain James Holland (Richard Dean Anderson, in a typically stoic performance), and in the passenger cabin U.S. Ambassador to Germany Lee Lancaster (Robert Guillaume) accompanied by his Administrative aide Rachel Sherwood (Jane Leeves best remembered for her recurring role as the physical therapist on the sitcom "Frasier"), as well as televangelist Rev. Garson Wilson (Jerry Hardin). The only way to determine if it was in fact the virus that killed this passenger is via blood work, and various Government and air traffic control operations are attempting to make that happen with the help of Dr. Roni Sanders (Daphne Zuniga), who is working with CIA Agent Steve Ellis (Tim Grimm) to arrange a safe landing. Unfortunately, everyone including all European Government agencies is assuming that it IS the virus which killed the passenger and that everyone on the plane has been exposed. As one country after another refuses to allow the potentially contaminated plane to land, with or without quarantine, the aircraft is running precariously low on fuel and options. Of course the unnamed U.S. President (Edward Herrmann) must be brought in and presumably kept abreast of proceedings by the evil and rogue CIA Director Jonathan Roth (Robert Loggia) who's already decided the aircraft must be nuked somewhere over open waters to prevent contamination of any country. To add to the "fun", a worm of a ham radio operator (Scott Bryce) has been tracking radio communications about this fiasco and is trying to sell what he knows to the highest media bidder.
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Red is a ruthless killer, a master at hiding what she is thinking and feeling.
Sasha is a shy, timid like created that is hated by her entire pack.
What do this two very different people have in common?
They are the very same person, read to find out how a shy and timid girl like Sasha became Red the deadliest and most skilled assassin know to the world of the shifters
ains246 Apr 25, 2017
That's kinda ironic because the bad guy was the wolf in little RED riding
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Awesome!!! When her pack finds out, imma be laughing hella hard
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I have been searching for a book like this AND I HAVE FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!
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I think I would have like it more if she was a warrior instead of a killer, it suits her better and she doesn't seem the kind to just enjoy ruthless killing.
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My future calling to life would probably be food or sleep. Jk but if this was serious, I would probably be good at fighting if I could learn. That or any form of art.
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yeah if I was gay I would totally fall in love with her P.S: no offense if I said something wrong or hurtful and I apologize.


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Baseball Biography: Bob Dernier was a fleet-footed mostly centerfielder who played for the Phillies (1980-1983, 1988-1989) and Cubs (1984-1987). He had two 40+ SB seasons and 218 SB in his career. He was mostly a backup outfielder except for 1984-1985 with the Cubs. He won a Gold Glove in 1984 and finished 17th in NL MVP voting. He had a career best year that year, hitting .278/.356/.362 (97 OPS+).
I remember him on the 1989 Phillies, leading off most days until Len Dykstra came along. If my memory is correct, his only home run that year was an inside-the-park home run against the Giants....
and YouTube confirmed it in this video.
Role on the 1983 Phillies: He was a 4th outfielder/pinch runner/pinch hitter, appearing in 122 games, but with only 221 AB. He hit .231/.288/.290 (62 OPS+) and had 35 SB in 42 attempts.
Card Facts: This is a 2005 Topps Retired Signature Edition card. This set was distributed in 5 card packs with 5 packs per box (SRP: $150) with one slabbed auto card per pack.


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The first thing that struck me on opening this 511-page book was that I attended the same primary school – Sacred Heart School, Odoakpu, Onitsha – as the former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili.
Incidentally, Dr. Odili was admitted into the next-door secondary school, the famous Christ the King College, (CKC) Onitsha, where I lived all my early life in the staff quarters with my uncle JO Aginam who was a CKC teacher. So all the names Dr. Odili mentions in the book about his college life, like the legendary CKC principal, Rev. Fr NC Tagbo, and the teacher Nwishienyi who gave the youthful Odili a slap that nearly led to a school riot, were personages who "brought me up by hand" as Charles Dickens put it in Great Expectations. On that familiar platform, Dr. Odili's story happens to be my story too.
Dr. Odili would go on in the course of time to live a very public life in Nigeria as Rivers State Deputy Governor, then Governor and nearly capped it all up with becoming the Nigerian President but for some bewildering gang-up and plot that stopped him short at the eleventh hour. In the run-up to the 2007 presidential contest, Odili was without question the front-runner amongst the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirants. The bystander that would eventually gain the PDP candidacy, to wit, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, was not even in the contest, and the man who was shooed in into the vice-presidential slot, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, was equally not interested in throwing his hat into the ring.
Odili's campaign drive, led by the irrepressible Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, was in full rev towards the end of 2006 until, as Dr. Odili writes in Conscience and History, "12th December, a spurious and anonymous petition was posted in the internet from a questionable 'source' alleging corrupt practices against the Rivers State Government under me. These allegations were converted into a petition by the EFCC under Nuhu Ribadu's hand, to the President same day. On the 13th of December, 2006 Mr President directed EFCC to investigate. On the 14th day of December, 2006, EFCC submitted a so-called 'interim' report to the then President who promptly minuted (sic) for my response on the same 14th December, 2006, but forwarded to me on 15/12/06, a day to convention vide ref. PRES/44. I assembled what was left of my cabinet team, a few having been arrested and kept at the EFCC office in Lagos within these few days of urgent dramatic action. We submitted our response on the 15th day of December, 2006 by which time it had become clear what the whole exercise was about – 'Get Odili out of the race for the Presidency, at all cost.' … This became lucidly clear with the instant release of my staff who were being detained in Lagos by the EFCC as soon as I voluntarily and wisely withdrew from the contest. There was jubilation at the EFCC office immediately the news of my withdrawal broke and all my staff were asked by EFCC to go home immediately."
After withdrawal from the PDP presidential primaries Odili was then summoned to Aso Villa on the morning of December 16, the day of the PDP Convention, by then President Olusegun Obasanjo. The promise Odili got after the morning prayers at the Villa with Obasanjo was that he would be made the running mate of Umaru Yar'Adua. It happened that when Odili went to meet Yar'Adua he ominously discovered that conversation amongst the gathered party wigs such as Chief James Ibori, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and Nassir El-Rufai immediately seized. Yar'Adua took Odili upstairs to introduce him to his wife Turai "and assured me of his happiness at the prospect of our working together". Then Yar'Adua and Odili went together to the Eagle Square, the venue of the Convention, and walked round the square. Odili was even privileged to see the typed copy of Yar'Adua's prepared acceptance speech where "it was clearly stated that he had nominated Dr. Peter Odili as his running-mate for the Presidential race." It was in the ungodly hour of around 3.30am that Odili was informed that some fresh information just received from the selfsame Nuhu Ribadu would lead to his dropping as the running-mate.
In the end Yar'Adua read a handwritten acceptance speech that excluded Odili's name, only adding that further consultations were being made on the vexed matter of his running-mate. It was later in the evening of December 17, 2007 that Dr. Jonathan's name manifested as the running-mate of Yar'Adua.
Odili's book Conscience and History is indeed momentous given the countrywide angst about governance in the country and the news flying fast and free that Obasanjo had fallen out with President Jonathan. The offering of Odili in Conscience and History is indeed an object lesson in political brinkmanship.
Even so, Odili's autobiography transcends politics to encompass love in its natural flora and fauna. Born on August 15, 1948 in Ndoni of the now Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni LGA of present-day Rivers State, Odili showed leadership qualities from very early in life. He was the Senior Prefect and College Captain of the esteemed CKC Onitsha, where he had his secondary school education. According to Odili, "From cradle, through primary school, and admission into one of the best secondary schools of our time, I can say without any shred of doubt that the foundational impact of secondary school education is the fulcrum of anyone's life later. That's what CKC did for me. I won't be who I am if I did not pass through the walls of CKC."
He suffered as a refugee during the civil war and had to submit to being recruited as a soldier. He took top position in the army course and was deployed as an instructor in the school of infantry instead of being sent to the warfront. After the war he began schoolwork as an indigent medical student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. A driven lad, he embarked on the holiday trade of travelling abroad to earn some money which immediately turned him into a campus big boy.
It was fateful afternoon, about 1.30pm, in 1972 that Odili espied the beautiful Mary who became the love and anchor of his life. Three girls had entered a lecture in the bid to "colonize" some seats when the young Peter saw the dashing damsel. When the girls left Peter opened one of the books of the girl of his adoration and saw her name: Mary Nzenwa. He had to wait all of three years before an old CKC friend Papp Alumona fortuitously brought Mary into the young Peter's world through a birthday party. Peter and Mary got married on August 26, 1977 at Oredo Local Government Council Registry, Benin, whist he was a house officer and Mary was in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. Odili's father-in-law, the great HRH Eze (Barr) BSC Nzenwa, who played pivotal roles in the founding of Rangers Football Club of Enugu and Spartans of Owerri, generously waived the expensive Mbaise marriage for a later date which the couple undertook in grand style in 1982. Blessed with four children and five grandchildren, Dr Peter and Justice Mary Odili are the one example of a marriage made in heaven.
Odili founded PAMO Clinics and Hospitals in Port Harcourt in 1982, growing it in leaps and bounds as the very best in Rivers State despite the sabotage of a trusted associate named Idigo. A Catholic to the core, Odili is a Knight of St. John International and Knight Commander of St. Gregory the Great (Supreme Papal Knighthood).
Odili's exploits in politics, notably as Deputy Governor of the old Rivers State in 1992/93; leader of the Rivers State Delegates to the Constitutional Conference 1994/95; Rivers State Governor from 1999 to 2007 etc. stood in him good stead to stand for the coveted Presidency of the country in 2007 which was thwarted through underhand means. He then headed to the courts to clear his name. He won justice against the EFCC through a thorough court trial as documented in Conscience and History as opposed to the "perpetual injunction" against his trial as peddled by his traducers.
In an uncanny twist of fate, Odili became estranged from his protégé Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, who emerged as Rivers State Governor through a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Governor Amaechi set up the Kayode Eso Rivers State Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which Odili saw as "clearly conceived, designed and programmed to permanently indict and incarcerate Dr Odili." Once again, Dr Odili went to court and got deserved justice.


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Recently I've had some strangeness on my Windows 7 home premium system. I have problems with various office products..all of which complain of
Outlook could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable.
Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable.
Could not install the custom actions. The form cache file 'C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\FORMS\FRMCACHE.DAT' is not valid. Contact your administrator.
Additionally at boot this pops up...
Catalyst Control Centre: Host application has stopped working multiuser
I've tried setting the temp variable via ie temporary internet file changes. I set it to C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows and after reboot I open a command window and try this
.... > C:\Users\tom>cd %TEMP%
.... > C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Temp>
I can cd to %TEMP% or %TEMP%\Temporary Internet Files and create and remove directories.
I've tried both of these, fix1 and fix2.
I've run a full scan with malware bytes and KIS 220.127.116.114.
So looking for pointers to a solution. Thanks!


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Sister City relations of Olongapo City and National City proclaimed
By Doris Enriquez-Malabad
NATIONAL CITY, California - It is now official - Philippines' Olongapo City and California's National City have just been proclaimed Sister Cities.
The proclamation rites, held on October 25 at the Martin Luther King Community Center, were spearheaded by the Olongapo City Association of San Diego with the cooperation of the City of National City. Olongapoenos and Zambalenos filled the Center, along with the delegation from the Philippines, National City officials and Filipino-American community leaders.
National City Mayor Nick Inszunza once again endeared himself to the Fil-American community by speaking in their native language, Tagalog, where he said lahat tayo ay magkakapatid, we are new relatives - refering to the new sister city relationship between the two cities.
Mayor Nick Inzunza awknowledged the importance of the City of Olongapo and Zambales.
Asked on what he feels now that he is already a "part" of Olongapo, he quipped, "It feels great! For many years, I have always been an Olongapo "wannabe," and now it is already official. It really feels great."
Olongapo City Mayor Bong Gordon for his part, thanked Mayor Nick; Vice Mayor Ron Morrison, council members Louie Natividad, Rosalie Zarate and Frank Parra; City officials led by City Manager Chris Zapata, Asst. City Manager Lin Wurbs and Public Information Officer Maria Arcega-Dunn, for being instrumental in the considetation and passage of the sisterhood proposal.
Mayor Bong stated, "With this formal Sister City ties that we now have, I look forward to enhanced relations and exchange of culture, services and projects that will benefit both cities and their residents, and possibly exchange of visits in the future."
"it is inspiring to know that there is a sizeable number of Filipinos in National City. It is even heartwarming to see that Filipino values and culture are retained by the Filipinos who came here which make them good citizens of National City and the U.S. Indeed, we are the right sister cities, " he continued.
Olongapo City Association President Connie Leyva led this sister-cities project two years ago. It was not easy, she averred, but she continued the liaison works and maintained the communication lines open between the two cities. The rest is history, so to speak. On September 20, Ms. Leyva was informed that the proposal was at the Council's agenda. And so she went, and on behalf of the association and Olongapo City, she supported and defended the proposal. On that day, the Council unanimously voted for the passage of teh sister-city relations resolution between National City and Olongapo City.
Eric erikson also assisted in the this endeavor.
Mayor Bong gordon awarded Mayor Nick with an "Ulo Ng Apo" trophy and gave tokens of appreciation to each Council Member - a replica of Filipino Jeepney.
The twin city relations of Olongapo, Philippines and National City, California was forged on October 25 during its formal proclamation held at the Martin Luther King Cummunity Center. Photo shows NC Mayor Nick Inzunza and Olongapo Mayor Bong gordon (4th & 5th from left), with their officials and Fil-Am community leaders. (Photo by D. Malabad)


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The first venue of the 2012 Olympics has been completed, it's a velodrome with a track made from Siberian Pine.
Scott Bain's Micromachina examines what makes the insect world tick, and considers our attempts to control nature and the consequences.
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Infographic: Gun Slingers, Arm Sales Around the Globe. A collaboration between Good and Column Five.
Pendant lamp Protea is like a 'thermo tropic' plant. When off, the shade hugs the cold bulb closely; when on, the petals move away from the hot bulb. Designed by Karl Zahn of Boiler Design Office.
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Willem Dafoe stars in a new 90 second spot for Jim Beam, directed by Dante Ariola. The commercial, from agency Strawberry Frog, is meant to imply that the choices you make, make you.
Amazing prints for Lego Star Wars created by young art director at the Sao Paolo Advertising School Escola Cuca.
The last installment of BMW Documentaries 'Wherever You Want To Go' series looks at how far off 'the future' really is (hint - it's pretty darn close).
Beautiful letterpress printed labels for natural balms and lotions made from beeswax and a few other selected ingredients. Made in small batches in Minneapolis by Angel Bomb Design.
Carbon fiber knife by John Kubasek that folds up to the size of a credit card and can fit in a wallet.
Corinne Vionnet's Photo Opportunties are formed from hundreds of snapshots of tourist locations found on the Internet.
Amazing stuffed hamburger press from Williams-Sonoma puts a spin on the classic cheeseburger. Yum!
Lorem Wine bottles designed by Alex Mascoda.
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DALLAS/FORT WORTH: Just in time for its second anniversary, KERA's Art&Seek is launching a redesign of its popular Web site at www.artandseek.org. The new layout offers a better display, easier navigation and new resources. A cleaner presentation makes it easier for visitors to move between feature stories, blog posts and daily event recommendations, and an upgraded search function allows for simultaneous event and story research.
The Web site includes a direct interface with the KERA-FM and KXT 91.7 FM Web sites to allow easy access to public radio, television and music programming information. The new design also features a Fort Worth Arts micro-site, featuring radio and television coverage of Fort Worth arts and entertainment events, exhibits and cultural activities. Art&Seek is also launching a YouTube channel with Web-exclusive videos and Art&Seek segments from the KERA-TV program Think.
Since the initiative launched in May 2008, the Art&Seek team has produced more than 3,000 radio, television and online reports about arts and entertainment events and activities in North Texas. The Art&Seek calendar lists cultural events from some 2,500 arts groups and venues in 33 North Texas counties. Arts segments featured on the television program Think are rebroadcast as interstitials on KERA-TV throughout the week.
Through collaborations with many organizations, including the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Fort Worth Opera and Art Conspiracy, KERA's arts unit is bringing community attention to a wide range of the arts in North Texas. Art&Seek has also featured special coverage of the North by 35 and South by Southwest music events. The Art&Seek calendar powers the listings on the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs Web site and the KXT 91.7 concert calendar. Art&Seek calendar feeds can be customized for use on any non-profit arts organization's Web site by contacting Art&Seek Director Anne Bothwell. Event submission details and information about supporting the arts initiative can also be found at www.artandseek.org.
Art&Seek is a multimedia arts, music and culture information service from KERA/KXT for North Texas. It includes radio reports on KERA-FM and KXT 91.7 FM, television features on KERA-TV and an award-winning Web site at www.artandseek.Org. There you will find feature stories about the arts in North Texas, a blog with daily arts news, podcasts and the Art&Seek calendar. All arts organizations in North Texas are invited to create a profile page on the Art&Seek calendar and post events free of charge. To create a profile page, please visit www.artandseek.org/addus/.
KERA is a not-for-profit public media organization that serves the people of North Texas. The station broadcasts to the fourth-largest population area in the United States. KERA produces original multimedia content, carries the best in national and international public television and radio programs, and provides online resources at www.kera.org. The station's extensive coverage of the arts can be found at www.artandseek.org. KERA-TV broadcasts on Channel 13.1. KERA WORLD broadcasts on 13.2. KERA-FM broadcasts on 90.1 in Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton, 88.3 in Wichita Falls, 100.1 in Tyler and 99.3 in Sherman. KERA's new music station KXT 91.7 FM is also streamed online at www.kxt.org


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Whether you are a homeowner wanting to install your own PV system or a professional installer, one challenge will be choosing, among hundreds of options, which module will be the best fit.
Selecting modules requires an understanding of module attributes and specifications. Once you are familiar with those, the job becomes ranking modules based on your criteria. You will find that the most important module characteristics depend on the site and your system goals.
This article discusses the top module considerations: module efficiency, price, aesthetics, reliability, manufacturing location, and integrated features. Then, we consider some common scenarios and how module attributes fit them.
Module efficiency is a function of power output per square foot (W/ft.2). The higher this value, the more energy a specific footprint can produce. Module outputs range from about 11 to 19 watts per square foot. For example, let's say the usable shade-free area on your rooftop measures 240 square feet (20 by 12 feet). Using modules that produce 15 W per square foot yields a 3.6 kW array.
Module dimensions also come into play when determining actual array wattage. Common 60-cell modules are about 65 by 39 inches wide. For our example, we could fit two rows of six modules in a portrait configuration. If the module wattage is 265 watts (with an efficiency of about 15 W/ft.2), our array will be 3.18 kW.
Module price is a factor for most folks. The good news is that module prices have dropped dramatically over the last few years. In 2008, modules were approximately $4 per watt; it is now common to find them for less than $1 per watt. Total system costs followed the same trend—in 2008, they hovered around $8 per watt; now, the average cost is less than $4 per watt (before incentives; assuming professional installation).
Once you factor in any local incentives and the 30% uncapped residential federal tax credit (currently set to expire at the end of 2016), it is no wonder we are seeing so much growth in the PV industry. In fact, in the first quarter of 2014, 74% of new electrical generation in the United States came from solar. Residential PV installations exceeded commercial installations for the first time since 2002, and more than one-third of the residential PV systems came online without any state incentives.


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On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 06:46 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:55:11AM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > [snip] > >> Next, you will want to configure your FreeBSD machine as a NAT gateway. > >> In your /etc/rc.conf you will want something like gateway_enable="YES" > >> and some form of firewall initialization[1]. The gateway_enable is what > >> allows the forwarding of packets between your rl0 and your rl1, but the > >> activation of NAT functionality is usually a function contained within a > >> firewall. So conceptually, the firewall will be "in between" rl0 and rl1. > >> > >> There are three different firewalls you can choose from. Configuring the > >> firewall is usually where the inexperienced get stuck. This subject > >> material is beyond the scope of this missive, and you would do well to > >> start reading in the Handbook. But essentially, when you configure NAT in > >> the firewall your rl0 (connected to the ISP) will be assigned a "Public" > >> IP address and the NAT function will translate between "Public" and > >> "Private". > > With respect to "NAT", the caveat here is the assumption that your DSL/Cable > modem is *not* already performing NAT. The situation you do not want to get > into is having *two* NATs. The content herein is assuming that the external > (rl0) interface is getting assigned a "Public" IP from the ISP. >
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Good cash management requires the managing of cash flows, bank accounts and ensuring sufficient funds (in the right locations and currencies) to meet the financial obligations of the company.
Cash management comprises of three main parts:
In this module you will be guided through the best practice of cash and liquidity management.
Control over opening bank accounts - control over signatories - monitor bank fees
Expected payments - expected collections
Cash concentration requirements - Tax and regulatory constraints
Intercompany flows, loans and tax effectiveness
Netting costs, time savings and restraints
Introduction to Cash & Liquidity Management
Treasury Management International showcases topical, pragmatic solutions and strategic insights on treasury, cash management, foreign exchange and other issues affecting treasury and financial professionals, together with treasury and finance news, education and opinion. With real-life treasury management experiences and case studies at its core, TMI provides valuable material for all practitioners - from experienced treasurers and CFOs to those new to the profession.
While all reasonable care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the publication, the publishers cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions. All rights reserved. No paragraph or other part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, including photocopying and recording, without the written permission of P4 Publishing Ltd or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Such written permission must also be obtained before any paragraph or other part of this publication is stored in a retrieval system of any kind.


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Logs are not working in application even jar is present in application is the very common problem faced by mostly every java developer .Steps to tackle and solve this problem is what i am going to share today.
Mostly problems come as :
1. Logs were working with previous version of server but not working after upgrade.
2. Log4j logs are not working.
3. Logback logs are not working. etc.
Steps to tackle these problems.
Step 1 : First check if respected jars are present in your application.
Jars for log4j : log4j-api.jar,log4j-core.jar
Jars for logback : logback-core.jar,logback-classic.jar,sl4j.jar
Step 2 : Now if logs are not still working then there is possibilty that your server have these jars with some other implementation.
For eg : Weblogic server have sl4j.jar with jcl logging. So inspite of having jar in your application logback logs will not work.
To solve this problem you can easily find out on google that how to reference application jar in weblogic or how to reference application jar in websphere etc.
If the problem still persist then you need to go to step-3;
Step 3 : Now the problem could be that jar are getting picked up from application but some other jar is also having the same package or server is still picking jars from it's own directory. To find out that which jar server is picking up use below code in one class and try to call that method somehow to execute below code.
System.out.println("printing class paths–>"+Logger.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI().toString());
System.out.println("printing class paths–>"+LoggerFactory.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI().toString());
System.out.println("printing class paths–>"+StaticLoggerBinder.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI().toString());
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("Error in printing class paths");
Above code is for logback logs and the classes used in this code are classes used for logback logging so you can change according to your logging. What this code is doing that it is printing location of a particular class that from which jar and from which location this class is getting picked up at runtime.
After this you will get your answer that which jar you need to concentrate oor remove from your application to make your logging work.
Please add comments and share if you find it useful or point out mistakes if you find any.
Some other useful post are :
Set datasource spring bean properties dynamically if server is not available
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Synonyms: Blue Marble Maniacs, Rapunzel, Madoka to Mei no Himitsu no Koubo, Madoka and Mei's Secret Workshop
Japanese: ComicリリィPLUS
Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 17
Status: Finished
Published: Apr 30, 2010 to Jun 30, 2010
Authors: Uchimura, Kaname (Story & Art), Hiiragi, Kei (Story & Art), Sakaki, Nagako (Story & Art), Komoda (Story & Art), Gouda, Nagi (Story & Art), Izumiya, Misono (Story & Art), Kusumi, Ranma (Story & Art), Rakuji, Tarahi (Story & Art), GUNP (Story & Art), Tsune (Story & Art), Okosama Lunch (Story & Art)
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text: Dr. Otis Bowen auctioned off some memorabilia July 29 at the Missionary Church in Bremen. Bowen, the former two-time governor of Indiana and a U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, said he expected many of his Amish friends and former patients to come to the sale, and they did. Always the good neighbor, he expressed concern about what the auction folks were going to do about "the road apples" that would undoubtedly be left behind by the buggy's horses in the church's parking lot. The 88-year-old country doctor didn't want members of the Missionary Church "stepping in anything" on Sunday. That's a different kind of sweeping reform Not only that, the Bowens stayed throughout the entire eight hours of the auction. When it was over, both Dr. Bowen and his wife, Carol, wielded brooms. While the auctioneers struck the set, the former governor and his wife swept out the gym of the church. A chicken in every pot, a Hummer in every driveway? Maybe Hummers aren't as popular as they once were. Some people in Naperville, Ill., are giving one away. The catch? You have to buy their house first. Tom and Sandi Gollinger really, really want to sell their Naperville home, according to a recent Chicago Tribune story. They point out to prospective buyers that the century-old house has its original stained glass, a wine cellar and a two-story addition in the back. And the Hummer in the driveway. It's a shiny red 2006 Hummer H3 -- 65 miles on the odometer, list price $29,700. The vehicle comes with the purchase of the home, which has an asking price of about $1.475 million. "We have to be creative in these times," Sandi Gollinger told the newspaper. "I said, what are we going to do to get people into the house?" No word on whether the sellers will agree to finance any of the future gasoline fillups for the next owner. Will loyal Field's fans fall for Macy's stars? Loyal Marshall Field's shoppers are receiving by mail Macy's Red Star credit cards from the department store chain that is taking over Field's and L.S. Ayres. How many people will sign the cards and start using them is another matter. Both the Field's and Ayres' names will disappear in early September, when all stores in both chains are converted to Macy's. Meanwhile, an online effort to keep the historic Marshall Field's name in use in Chicago has ended. For a year, www.keepitfields.org maintained an online petition of individuals asking that the Field's name remain. Loyalists on the site also blogged their fond memories of Marshall Field's, especially of the flagship store on State Street in downtown Chicago. By July, when the Web site shut down, 59,172 people had signed the petition, and more than 2,000 shared personal stories. Another Field's memory blog remains: www.fieldsfanschicago.org Neighbors cut down stump speech Rule No. 1 for public speakers: Know your audience. Gregory Kauffman, Republican nominee for St. Joseph County (Ind.) prosecutor, used a neighborhood forum about crime to make a pitch for his election, and many in his audience did not appreciate it. Kauffman attended a meeting Tuesday night at Holy Family Catholic Church. The purpose of the meeting was to address neighbors' concerns about violence, litter, vandalism and other problems they said they experience every June during the church's festival. When Kauffman was introduced, he stepped to the lectern and said he agrees with neighbors who said the festival should not be canceled. Then he said repeatedly what he would do if he was elected to be the prosecutor. It became a Republican stump speech in a mostly Democratic area of town. Finally Pat Makowski stood up and said she didn't appreciate his attempt to turn their meeting into a such a blatant pitch for support. Others in the group applauded her remark. Kauffman denied he was trying to campaign, apologized to anyone bothered by his remarks, then continued in the same vein. Finally Det. Sgt. John Pavlekovich, a county police officer who was another speaker, cut him off and got the meeting back on track. The next day, Kauffman issued a press release about his speech. He began and ended it with reminders that he is a candidate for prosecutor. Rule No. 1 for press releases: If you're going to send out a release, spell all the names correctly. The pastor at Holy Family is the Rev. Bernard Galic, not Gaelic. By Tribune Correspondent Ida Chipman and Tribune Staff Writers Margaret Fosmoe and Nancy J. Sulok


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Revisiting the notion of race, stereotypes
Baritone Arthur Prysock's mellow voice murmurs across Zoya Tommy Contemporary from a video on the back wall, telling a story that's seductively urgent.
It's "You Did Not Come," a track from "This Is My Beloved," an album of Walter Benton poems Prysock recorded, and it strikes a perfect chord as the narrative for Lauren Kelley's stop-action video, "True Falsetto." Your heart aches for this man as he describes a feast he has prepared with favorite foods for a lover who's stood him up. Kelley has created the scene as a still life of sweet and sour fare on a loaded picnic table where flies are gathering.
Her exhibit, "Puce Parade," also includes more minimal moving images on six tiny wall-mounted monitors and small light-jet prints from the collaged storyboards she builds in Photoshop from images found on eBay.
Some were for the earlier videos "Foufrou Conclusions" and "Big Gurl," which star Barbie dolls in various dark shades. Kelley is partial to those with frowns, and she enlarges features like lips and noses with clay or confectioners sugar.
The new video isn't as overtly about race and gender but it evolved through her work with animation, Kelley said last week. "It's all about a sense of dissatisfaction," she said. "Race aside, there's a binge of never having enough."
She's been commuting since September to Brooklyn, N.Y., where she has a prestigious yearlong residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation's studios. Her latest video will screen soon at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, and she's preparing for a March exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
With all that going on, Kelley said she hadn't read "Americanah," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's recent novel. Its protagonist - a brilliant, bluntly honest Nigerian woman named Ifemulu - learns about racism after immigrating to the U.S.
Her first years here are hard, but Ifemulu absorbs American culture and seems to easily attract rich boyfriends. She succeeds professionally by writing a provocative, popular blog called "Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black." But she doesn't feel whole, and when she decides to go home, she circles back to her high school lover and soulmate, Obinze.
Of course, even if you can go home, you can't go to the home you once knew. Obinze, after immigration troubles of his own in England, has become rich but he's also married, with a child (who was born at "Woodlands Hospital" in Houston, by the way).
I won't spoil it by telling you how their story ends, but it's easy to envision Ifemulu and Obinze as characters in Kelley's videos. Prysock's voice, with its palatable sense of desire, could belong to either of them.
Kelley's visual art and Adichie's novel both handle stereotypes and pop culture in eye-opening ways, but they also resonate because they mine universal truths about the nature of human yearning.
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Sialon ceramics can be applied gradually to refractory parts such as break rings of horizontal continuous casts from a blast furnace because of their favorable corrosion resistance and thermal shock resistance. In the present study, various mechanical and thermal properties of beta'-Sialon ceramics, Si_<6-z> Al_z O_z N_<8-Z>, prepared from aqueous slurries by a slip casting method were investigated as a function of z values from 0 to 4 and the results were obtained as follows : (1) The strength reached a maximum of 660 Mpa (average 600 Mpa) at z=0.5. (2) Fracture toughness (K_<1c>) exhibited a maximum, 5.7 MPam^<1/2> (average 4.3 MPam^<1/2>), atz=0.5. (3) The thermal expansion coefficient had the lowest value, 3.4x10 ^6T^1, at z=0.5. (4) Sintered beta'-Sialon were densified in the range of z=0.5-1. These results indicate that beta'-Sialon exhibits the most suitable properties in the range of smaller z values rather than at z=1, and that each value is comparable with the published values for reaction-sintered beta'-Sialon. In view of the present results, beta'-Sialon ceramics, Si_<6-z> Al_z O_z N_<8-z>, (z=0.5-1), prepared by a slip casting method using aqueous slurries could be adopted, with no problem, for refractory parts.
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Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola yesterday said his administration will not tolerate building of structures without proper planning at the Oko Baba Plank Market, which was razed by fire on Tuesday.
Fashola, who came to commiserate with the traders, said the government would re-design the area in compliance with modern trend and put in place measures to prevent such occurrence in future.
He said: "First, I am going to send the Ministry of the Environment to come here and clear all the drainage, clean the place up and nobody should build here without town planning approval. We won't let you do it.
"We need to sit down and talk on how we want this place to be. We need separate saw mill business from residential area. Do we want to do everything here or get a place where we can saw our logs and bring the planks here to sell?
"We are preparing a place with machines that can saw your logs. We are also constructing 3,000 housing units there for you to live. There will be water and power supply among other things.
"Government has done its bit; it is now left for you to decide whether you want to live in this dirty place or move to where you have everything to enhance your work."
The governor advised residents to insure their property against disasters such as fire to cushion the effect of losses.
"No matter how small, any property can be insured. If you have television that cost N200, 000; it is only the one per cent of that amount that you need to insure it. If anybody had done that here, you would have been at your insurance agent's office to make your claims," he said.


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2013 Le Mans 24 Hours
Live! And it looks like it's raining.
Who actually watches this then?
I've never seen it live
Always been interested in it though. Just put it on to see them run in the dark; it's pretty cool. Those LMP1 Audi's run past the GT cars like they were parked up - pretty incredible.
Watching the Toyota's early on was great.
They were driving with no fear they were passing the Pro and LMP's 3 abreast on the track on the mud. Trying to stick with the Audi's due to their slower strategy focused on efficiency.
This could be the end of the Audi stanglehold.
Remaining time : 16 : 01 :41
Safety Car in the darkness.
The Audi 1,2,3 procession seems to be over as their #1 and #3 car have trouble with the lights. Toyota now in 2nd and 3rd.
Noticed a few ex F1 Drivers in this year's race
Nick Heidfeld, Kajuki Nakajima (currently in 2nd overall), Bruno Senna
and sebastian buemi
last 20mins getting interesting in LMP1
yeah think so, so madmen tried to do it all themselves for 24hr back in the old days.
Don't think that was too succesful.
Lapierre crashes the #7 Toyota in the rain, just over an hour short of finishing.
Now just one Toyota in top 4.
It's pouring and causing chaos.


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Olaaaaaaaa peeps!
I'm so..so..so busy this 2 months. Juggling with my work, my study, my family and my social life! Happen to be this my exam in this sittings is all about business model and lucky for me there only thousands of theory and model that I have to staple in my tiny-miny little brain!Huh!
But I went through it..Alhamdulillah, now I just can wait for my result.
Hmmm.....nevermind lets forget about it for a while ya...
So what happen to me?
Beside working and studying?
Not to worry..let me summarize all my activity here (as I can remember!)
(1) Hurun Ain Weddings
I managed to see all my girls back from Matriks Perak..we called it matriksGopenghagen!
So good to see, eat, laugh and gossip together!Miss u girls..hope we can meet up again after this.
Me & Hana..She is my little doremon back than!
(2) Birthday Celebration!!
Even our schedule is so hectic but we managed to get a little time off to celebrate our trainee birthday!
Happy belated birthday Kery & Abby..nama mat salleh..tapi ade IC..hahahaha!!
(3) Outstation at Alor Gajah, Melaka
The only place where I can eat Cucur Udang & Sate Melaka everday during lunch!
Love it here!!
We managed to get a little time off to relex ourself
Abg Wan is sooo not in mood in the boat..
(kan dh cakap boring naik bot! hu~)
My workstation at Alor Gajah..so messy!
Syiero version Ayat2 Cinta?No...Its tooo damn cool here!
(4) Visiting to Petrosains,KLCC
Being nanny is not an easy job!
I bring my little nephews to an educational visits to Petrosains and by the way the entrance fee is cheap!
(5) Watching Prince of Persia
Have to take care of my little cousins and the easy way........watching a movie!
(6) Father's Day Eating Out
Last week I bring my parents for dinner at Seoul Garden..have fun there watching my father eat all the crab they served in buffet table!He is the king of buffet!hahaha...have fun eating and chating!love u ayah!!
(7) Abg Um's Wedding
After exam meditation is meeting up with friends...and the perfect place is at the weddings!
Sorry..no picture of bride & groom.
(7) Farewell Auni & Rabiatul Weds!
Last lunch with Auni..Good Luck with your study girl!
And Selamat Pengantin Baru to Rabiatul!Seeing all people getting married make me also want to get married..but..haish..not yet!hu~
Many more post to come..but I need to do what I need to do first!


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The Runga of Chad
What are their lives like?
Today, the Runga are primarily farmers, using hoe cultivation and irrigation techniques. Millet and wheat are the main crops grown, but onions, garlic, and melons are also cultivated. Stock breeding is another important activity for the Runga. Horses, cattle, goats, sheep, and chickens are raised for milk, butter, wool, eggs, meat, sacrifice, and trade. Both men and women participate in the field work, but men alone do the clearing of the land and other heavy work. Men also tend to the animals, trade at local markets, and make family decisions. The women milk the animals, brew a millet beer, and prepare a daily millet-based porridge. They are also responsible for domestic duties, such as caring for the children.
Although some Runga live in large towns in clustered huts, many live in compact rural villages. The huts in the villages are grouped in compounds surrounded by grass mat fences. The houses are usually round, with cone-shaped, thatched roofs.
Runga marriages occur when the men are in their twenties and the women are in their late teens. Polygamy (having more than one wife) prevails but is restricted to the Muslim limit of four wives. When a couple marries, they live with the bride's family for two years then move into their own newly built house. Subsequent wives live in their own huts, but the first wife is "chief" over them.
What are their beliefs?
According to Islam, Allah is viewed as the sole creator and restorer of the world. Muslims teach that man's purpose is to submit to the will of Allah as revealed through the Koran, their holy book. They believe that Allah revealed the messages of the Koran to the prophet Mohammed.
Mysticism plays a large role in Muslim life. Through Sufism, Muslims seek the truth of divine life and knowledge through a personal experience with Allah. This is achieved by repentance, meditation, spiritual changes, and ritual prayers.
Muslims are expected to follow certain moral standards. For example, marriages are strongly encouraged; children are to treat their mothers with tenderness; and chastity in women is of prime importance.
What are their needs?
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I watched the first episode of the remake of Gladiators, and the thing that struck me was how the female gladiators looked and acted. I've broken it down into three categories, appearance, attitude and names. This is the Australian version I'm critiquing, but I would love to hear how other versions compare. (And I recommend you check the site out, it's hard to describe just how homogenous this group of women is.)
Every one of the seven women was tall and slim (none shorter that 165cms or heavier than 80 kgs). They were muscular, but not obviously physically imposing. Four had long blond hair; another had long brunette hair. They were all predominantly white (three of the Nordic blond variety) and feminine-looking.
By comparison, the men ranged from 167cms to 195cms and 76-137 kgs. The ranged from the short and compact to the towering hulks and were black, white, Asian, and more. There was a colour and size that every guy could relate to. I wonder how much of an uproar there would be if all the men were tall, slim white blonds?
What stood out for me in the first episode was two of the women, Destiny and Olympia, being very gracious and supportive towards the contestants. It was all 'it's such a hard journey and they're winners just for completing it' kind of stuff. Meanwhile, the male gladiators were anywhere between civil and absolute strops. It seemed like the typical 'women must be nice' trope we see so often in the media.
What kind of name for a gladiator is 'Angel'? Or Destiny and Olympia for that matter? The men got names that connoted strength and combat, but 'Angel'? Yeah, they had Viper and Amazon too, but if you were facing down a warrior based solely on their name, who would strike the most fear in your heart – Outlaw, Hunter… or Angel? I guess it's just not sexy for women to have names that connotated strength and power… even when you are talking about gladiators.
The overall impression I got from the first episode of the show was this: if you're a man, it's OK to be all ranges of shape, size, colour and temperament, but if you're a woman, you have to be tall, slim, white (preferably blond) and nice.
We get a lot on this site about media targeted for children and families, that we should leave it be because it's meant for children, not meant to be taken seriously. I would argue that it's important to critique media meant for children and families because it's meant for children and families. Joss Whedon can write strong roles for women to his heart's content, but how much of an impact is he making when girls and boys are being introduced to the 'tall slim blond' stereotype ten years earlier? How much more of an impact would be made if little girls and boys saw from an early age that women come in all shapes, sizes and colours, just like men?


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So by now, you should have the 2 essential elements in place,
choux pastry/ pâte à choux/ profiteroles
- the filling for the pastry - crème patisserie
Completing the pastry and the filling:
* Fit a plain pastry tip in the piping bag and fill it with the pastry cream.
* Pierce the bottom of every choux with the pastry tip, and fill the choux with the pastry cream. Place on a silicon mat or baking paper.
* If there is too much of humidity around you, keep the filled choux pastry in the fridge till you make the glaze.
Some tips:To begin with:
* Line your working area with used parchment paper, place your base for the piece montée in the middle, preferably use something you can turn easily, like a turnaround cake plate.
* If you are right handed - keep all your utensils and tools to the right, and similarly left, if you are left handed.
* Most IMPORTANT: the caramel burns like hell even if a drop touches your skin! I am testament to 4 such fingers :) Keep your kitchen sink full of cold water, or keep a bowl of ice cold water near you. A good home remedy to heal burns, rub a slice of raw potato over the burn.
* If you have anything in shape of a cone to model your croquembouche, great! If not, take a round baking pan/ cheesecake mould. This helps in getting a ground round shape.
* If you have enough time, make a sample mock up of the final piece montee, which simply means, make a layout of the end result.
* It would be smart to separate the large choux pastry from the small ones. Try and fill the smaller ones with lesser filling so as to make them lighter which then means they can go on the top!
* It would also be wise to finish dipping the choux into the caramel first and then make another batch of caramel once you have finished dipping all the choux. This will help in having a uniform colour for all the choux pastries.
* The second batch of caramel will be used in gluing all the pieces together and the cooled off version can be used in making sugar decorations.
For the Caramel Glaze: (From Cat's recipe)- has to be made into 2 batches.
1 cup (225 g.) sugar
½ teaspoon lemon juice
Combine sugar and lemon juice in a saucepan with a metal kitchen spoon stirring until the sugar resembles wet sand. Place on medium heat; heat without stirring until sugar starts to melt around the sides of the pan and the center begins to smoke. Begin to stir sugar. Continue heating, stirring occasionally until the sugar is a clear, amber color. Remove from heat immediately; place bottom of pan in ice water to stop the cooking. Use immediately.
The final GO* At this stage, everything SHOULD have been done: you should have enough already filled choux pastries and the caramel should be hot. You cannot wait for even 5 minutes once you make the caramel, so, time it right.
* Dip the top of each choux pastry into the hot caramel (be careful). Set aside.
* Once you have finished with all the choux pastry, start the assembly process.
* Place the choux next to each other and glue them with the help of the caramel, which means that you will have to dip two opposite sides of the choux to be able to from a circle.
* Continue this till you have completed a round, then start the mounting. When you start assembling on top of each other, you will have to dip the choux on two different sides, one on the downside to glue to the bottom and one opposite side to glue on their neigbours.
* Keep going till you arrive to the conical shape! Et voilà, you have now climbed the highest mountain!!
Unfortunately, since I was alone, I do not have a step by step picture for you. Hopefully I shal have it the next time.
As you will notice in the pictures, I stuck on some Eiffel Tower shaped Moroccan Spice Cookies on the base and the top (like a Christmas tree huh?).


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Some very wonderful and exciting news!
Mali, our 'Pink elephant' has been placed into it's (I like to conisder it) rightful home, the Queen Victoria market where it will reside till the end of September, after which all the elephants will be brought back to the zoo, to be auctioned off to raise funds for zoo conservation.
Mali in the city, is a melbourne zoo and melbourne city initiative, supported by sponsors and friend's of the Melbourne zoo, which involved the painting of 50 elephants by 50 differnet artists. Each fibre glass elephant is the same size as Baby Mali, the first elephant to be born in captivity in the Melbourne zoo, amd will be placed around the city in key locations in order to celebrate the zoo's 150th birthday!
Vess and I were lucky enough and so blessed to have been chosen by Queen Vic Market as the design for their elephant! It was a real joy and pleasure painting it, and even greater joy seeing so many visitors admire and appreciate it!
As you can see below!
It was so great to see so many Melbournians/people, admire and interact with the elephant, to see something unusual, or unique in the typical landscape, seemed to brighten up people's day.
Thinking back on it now, it's such a strange concept that there are probably hundredsd of people out there with pictures of our pink elephant on their phones, cameras, holiday albums, etc. ( And I wouldn't even know it!)
Check out below, even Vess' "the artist" took some family shots for people.
There's so much I want to share, but I think you guys appreciate photos more,
so more photos coming soon!
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A 4.6 says it all
Here's the bottom line on what the NFL scouting combine has become:
The league's New York office is sending six -- SIX!! -- public relations people to it because what used to be a chance for general managers and coaches and personnel people to study draft-eligible players has now become little but a media event.
I confess.
I love the draft and how it unfolds. I love to check back on drafts three years later and farther back to see how right and wrong teams were. I love to go back and look at which teams are consistently good and which are consistently bad. (The other way is to check the standings for the last decade or so, but that's too easy.)
But I loathe the combine because it overemphasizes little things at the expense of the most basic way to appraise an aspiring NFL player -- how well he plays. And we've reached the point where agents now run training camps to prepare their players for the combine, not the NFL. The combine. Because the better they do, the higher they're drafted and the higher they're drafted, the more money the agent makes.
Let me simplify it.
The basic problem with the combine is 4.6 seconds.
It's what Jerry Rice ran and it dropped him down to 16th in the first round in 1985, the third receiver taken. It's what Emmitt Smith ran and it dropped him to 19th in 1990. It took about 4.6 seconds for each them to get elected to the Hall of Fame this month (I know because I'm a voter and I was in the room.)
For the smarter teams, there's some value, most notably the psychological evaluations and the interviews. It allows teams to at least guess at the hardest part of scouting: how a player will behave after he is on a pro team. The smartest talent scouts I've known in 26 years of writing about the NFL always say the same thing: "If I could tell what's inside a guy, I'd be a genius.''
We all know of guys who were great at the combine, moved up, and bombed and we all know of guys who bombed at the combine and became stars, like Shonn Greene of the Jets, who ran the dreaded 4.6 (actually 4.64) last year and dropped from late in the first round to the third. The syndrome is named after Mike Mamula, a third-rounder going into the combine, the ninth overall pick going out after Philadelphia moved way up to get him. To be fair to Mike, he didn't bomb. He was hurt a lot and when he played, he played like a third-rounder, which is what he should have been.
There are some good things at the combine, but you won't see them.
They include interviews and, sometimes, physicals, although those can be trouble too -- Thurman Thomas was a second-round pick in 1988 because he flunked a bunch of teams' physicals. He ended up gaining more yards on his own than the six running backs taken ahead of him and never got hurt.
Hey, if you're a draftnik, enjoy it.
I'm kind of a draftnik.
I won't be watching.
Dave Goldberg
February 25, 2010; 12:05 AM ET
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Kris Hitchcock is a native boy of Grass Lake, Michigan, and splits his time between his home in Grand Rapids with his dog Fender, and Nashville where he performs, writes, and records with his band Small Town Son. His pop take on country and folk are sure to get this guy some serious attention beyond these Michigan borders.
Don't miss your chance to see him live! Check here for tour dates and upcoming projects!


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It isn't something unusual if your Windows 7 freezes up at randomly and causes your computing truly annoying and sluggish. This kind of freezing can occur not only within the Windows 7 but also within the other operating systems. However, repairing Windows 7 freezes up issue isn't that difficult. It needs somewhat well-guided effort to clear PC and fix windows 7 problems via a registry fixing program.
In advance of attempting to find out how can we prevent Windows 7 freezes up, it's better to realize the inner structure of the Registry and also the operating system setup files. You'll be astonished to understand that lots of PC errors aren't caused by the virus and spy ware based infection within the system. Instead the corruption within Registry is the real reason.
The main cause of this Windows corruption is the fact that registry is often accessed by Windows and the existence of sick and unnecessary registry keys generate lots of junk within the Windows engine. To maintain the Windows 7 registry in a healthy body and prevent Windows 7 freezes up, you must regularly clean up PC registry via an advanced registry cleaning software program.
If Windows 7 freezes at random, then the problem is related to the registry. When the Windows registry is filled with errors it can't stop your system from properly communicating information. The registry contains the information your computer uses to communicate between the OS, software, and hardware devices. When the registry becomes congested with errors, the communication process breaks down.
The only solution for this type of Windows 7 freezing is to clean the registry of corrupt files and various errors. Not only will this prevent computer crashing, it will also speed up your system considerably. Simply scan your computer with a top flight registry repair program. Also find here what to do when windows 7 hang up?
It's as well essential to eliminate the suspicious programs and applications within the PC to prevent Windows 7 freezes up. Occasionally there might be double infection inside your PC. With this kind of infection not only your Windows 7 registry becomes damaged and requires significant fix but also there's virus based penetration within the Windows set up. In this situation it is suggested to carry out a virus check too.
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