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5 New Attractions in Dubai That Are Budget-Friendly Too
Whether you've got visitors in town, or you just want to be a tourist in your own city, there are loads of cool Dubai landmarks to check out. From the Dubai Safari Park to the Dubai Frame, here are 5 new attractions in Dubai that will cost you AED 60 or less!
1. Dubai Safari Park
Home to over 2,500 animals from around the world, Dubai Safari Park is definitely a must-visit attraction in Dubai. Visitors can explore the Arabian, African and Asian villages, embark on an open-air safari, chill by the valley or enjoy a picnic by the waterfall. There are even live shows and a theatre at the safari zoo!
Price: AED 20 for kids, AED 50 for adults. Combo packages available
Where: Dubai Safari Park, Al Warqa
2. Dubai Fountain Boardwalk
As if the Dubai Fountain wasn't cool enough already, there's now a new 272-metre floating platform that lets you get even closer to the action. In fact, it's so close you may even get a bit wet! The Dubai Fountain Boardwalk can be accessed from Burj Park and the Dubai Fountain promenade.
Price: AED 20 per person. No entry for kids under 4
Where: Dubai Fountain, The Dubai Mall
3. Louvre Abu Dhabi
Ok, this one's a little out of Dubai but it's definitely worth a mention! The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the latest addition to the UAE's art scene and has some really cool exhibitions to check out. Did you know that they've recently purchased the World's most expensive painting – Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (otherwise known as the 'male Mona Lisa')?
Price: Free for kids under 13; AED 30 for ages 13 to 22; AED 60 for ages 22+
Where: The Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Cultural District
4. Ferris Wheel
Have you taken a ride on the new ferris wheel at Dubai Festival City Mall yet? Part of the outdoor extension Festival Bay, the 40m high ferris wheel lets you enjoy the stunning skyline views over the Dubai Creek. Head there in the evening to catch the daily IMAGINE light show from up top.
Price: AED 25 for kids, AED 40 for adults. AED 100 for a family (2 adults, 2 kids)
Where: Dubai Festival City Mall, Festival City
5. Dubai Frame
The Dubai Frame opened to the public over a month ago, yet our Instagram feed is still flooded with pictures of the iconic structure. So much more than just a frame, this Dubai landmark lets visitors get a glimpse of Dubai's past, present and future, including an immersive museum, a 360 degree sky deck, a glass floor and more!
Price: Free for kids under 3; AED 20 for kids aged 3 to 12; AED 50 for adults
Where: The Dubai Frame, Zabeel Park
Looking for more fun things to do in the UAE? Here are 5 awesome road trips from Dubai to try, or if you fancy something more kid-friendly, check out these 7 insanely fun real-life games to play in Dubai!


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Best music apps and services to download in 2012
Music apps for Android and iPhone to pump up the jam...
Music apps for Android and iPhone to pump up the jam...
Discovr Music trawls through 15 million songs to find new fave bands. You can read bios, reviews and tweets by and about them, and share it with friends. oh, and you can actually "buy" their music, too, if that's still your "bag", granddad.
Price: £1.49 | Platform: iPhone and iPad | Best for: Exploring the latest music I Download Discovr iPhone app
Aweditorium ties together everything about an artist – lyrics, videos, photography, covers, music, favourite narcotics, former wives – and parades it in a beautiful, multi-touch display for your ipad. It's the apex of fine art and rock 'n' roll.
Price: Free | Platform: iPad | Best for: Collectors I Download Aweditorium iPad app
Figure handheld genius from electronic production maestros propeller-heads, Figure makes it easy to create beats and riffs, using a Korg Kaoss pad-style touch interface. literally idiot-proof, with some great sounds.
Price: £0.69 | Platform: iPhone | Best for: Making tunes on the fly I Download Figure iPhone app
Last.FM as well as a pandora-style personalised radio service this lets you search for gigs based on your listening choices. But, most importantly of all, it logs every tune you play so you can see what you listen to the most.
Price: Free | Platform: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows | Best for: Obsessives
Moodagent an app that lets you define your mood and then chooses tracks to suit it. We always lie and tell it we're sad or angry, because that kind of music is cooler, yeah?
Price: Free | Platform: iPhone, Spotify | Best for: Monday mornings I Download Moodagent iPhone app
Pocket Hipster this fun app features animations of hip young people who live in an ironic state. they scan your tunes, recommend what you should be listening to and "give advice" or, to put it more plainly, take the piss out of your music. nice.
Price: Free | Platform: iOS | Best for: Hipsters I Download Pocket Hipster iPhone app
ShareMyPlaylists.com is a simple little service for Spotify users that lets you create and share playlists. Simple. Any style, niche or artist goes, and it's a friendly community with a delightful lack of chuntering arseholes.
Price: Free | Platform: Spotify | Best for: Sharing
This lets you listen to any of over 3,000 radio stations, schedule recordings of favourite shows and, er, record the music, get artwork and export it to itunes. Worried that last bit may be illegal? turn to p69 and get really worried…
Price: $33 | Platform: OS X | Best for: Radio lovers
TuneWiki users can use social media to convey their sentiments with song lyrics, like a modern take on dedicating a song on the radio. there's three million of the buggers to choose from, too.
Price: Free | Platform: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows | Best for: Romantic old fools
uberHype recommends music based around what people are blogging about, meaning you'll always be one step ahead of the type of losers who think 'Death Ravioli' and the "{" are the hottest new artists.
Price: Free | Platform: Android | Best for: Staying ahead of the game I Download uberHype Android app
Miss the days when MTV used to play music videos? Us too. Luckily there's Vevo, which gives you access to 45,000 music videos and live performances, by 11,000 artists, with sharing via Facebook.
Price: Free | Platform: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows | Best for: Music videos
A revamp that was definitely needed, the new Spotify app is now much less cluttered and sports a new user interface which compliments the new surroundings. On top of the visual makeover, the app has been enhanced to run faster with high resolution album artwork that look at home on 720p screens.
Price: Free (£9.99 on iOS) | Platform: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows | Best for: Sampling a bit of everything


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Baseball, Dodger Dogs and Apple Pie
Is there anything more symbolic of our great country than baseball, Dodger dogs, and apple pie? Each one is a small part of the colorful tapestry that makes up this country. At no time is our patriotism more on display than the Fourth of July. We celebrate our Independence Day with family, friends, BBQ's, baseball […] More


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A recent trip to the Oregon coast brought me to the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area. Similar to other areas along the Oregon coast, this was remarkably easy to find. Just a few minutes off of Highway 101, you quickly find yourself parked in front of the Interpretive Center where you can explore 140 years of lighthouse history and thousands of years of natural and cultural history. Just $7 gets you a three day pass to the entire area! Pretty sweet. A short walk from the Interpretive Center brings you to the lighthouse and a walkway to the beach. The lighthouse was unfortunately under renovation, so there would be no visiting and climbing it while I was there. The walkway to the beach, however, was definitely open. The walkway takes you to Cobble Beach, which is compiled of millions of round basalt rocks that produce an applause-like sound as the waves roll in. Walking on these rocks was a unique experience. They crunched together as you walked, making an odd sound with every step (not the "applause sound of the waves rolling over them, this was something else). I never felt unsteady on them though, which was good.
This entire area is filled with wildlife. There were pelicans hanging out on all the various rocks, seagulls, and even a sea lion. The sea lion was pretty much out of range for my lens (I only had a 200mm) so I did some serious cropping on that one. Unfortunately my time visiting was fairly short as I had other places to go (and it started to rain) but I'm happy with the few photos I ended up with. I'd love to go back when the lighthouse is open!
All photos shot using a Sony A7R and the Fotodiox Pro EF-NEX Auto Adapter with a Tamron Zoom 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Lens (for Canon). The adapter didn't allow me to use auto focus, so these shots were all taken using manual focus (focus peaking helped!).
All photos processed using Lightroom 5.
More information about Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Are can be found here.
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Vatican Archives Show a Just & Good InquisitionTwenty years ago, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, decided to open up to scholars the secret Vatican archives on the Inquisition, including records of the Index of Forbidden Books. It was the last Vatican secret archive never opened, supposedly because it was filled with many "bogeymans" the Church was hiding.
Vatican secret archives on the Inquisition were opened to scholars in 1998
The decision to open the 4,500 volumes of documents dating from 1542-1903 was also made as one way to repair the Vatican's supposed suspect image of secrecy . "We know all the sins of the Church,'' Card. Ratzinger dryly said at the time. ''And I hope more will not be added to them."
The clear insinuation was that, to the known "sins of the Inquisition," others would be added, no doubt shaming the Church but also showing the Church's willingness to undertake the general "examination of conscience" that John Paul II had demanded. Another step in a "purifying the Church" and bringing her up to date with the modern world. When the news was released that the archives would be opened, there was little doubt in the mind of most churchmen and scholars that the investigation would produce a dismal fallout for the Vatican.
Melodramatic pictures of torture chambers were spread everywhere by Protestants
The recently opened archives of the Inquisition concerned primarily the Holy Office of the Roman Inquisition founded in 1542 by Pope Paul III to be a central organ of the Holy See to battle the Protestant Revolution. Since it was pontifical, it had universal jurisdiction, although it allowed the Spanish Inquisition to exercise its own powers. For the Conciliar Church the very name Inquisition was so reprehensible that the name Holy Office was replaced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Now finally, after 20 years of meticulous study, the results of 40 scholars delving into the archives of the real, not imaginary, Inquisition were released in an 800-page tome. The startling news published in a discreet article in L'Osservatore Romano (May 19, 2018, p. 5) was that the Inquisition was in fact a good and fair tribunal, not the dark horror chamber invented by the Black Legend.
After 20 years, a praiseful verdict
Twenty years of studies on the central archives of the Holy Office have shown that in fact the Church has nothing to apologize for.
Opening panel of the Inquisition conference at the Vatican
Following its progressivist orientation, the article in the Vatican organ reporting on the Congress tried to sidestep these stupendous results. It emphasized instead the historic method the scholars employed to analyze the data. But it is clear that this group was unable to report cases of injustices, abuses, arbitrary actions and tortures. If they could have found such incidents of prejudice and cruelty, I have no doubt the report of their conclusions would have been on the front page of the Vatican newspaper to confirm the constant remorse the progressivist Popes have shown for the Inquisition.
What the scholars found, however, was that the Roman Inquisition was rightly considered the fairest and most balanced court of its day, prefiguring in many ways the modern court system. It was born not from a cruel and unjust intolerance, but from the need to provide fair trials for persons accused of heresy using laws of evidence and presided over by highly qualified judges. For example, any defendant could have an attorney, a right not yet introduced in secular courts at the time.
This favorable view had already being presented by many modern scholars like John Tedeschi, whose research had led him to the conclusion that the Roman Inquisition was "actually a very advanced tribunal and dispensed a very high level of law in 16th century terms."
JPII's accused the Inqusition of cruelty.
Will there be an apology for this injustice?
The images of witch-hunting are caricatures and lies. Now, whoever goes to the archives, instead of relying on Black Legend fabrications, will find an unexpected truth: The real Inquisition was a praiseworthy judicial institution. By the way, serious historians did not need to wait for the archives to be opened: Even the BBC (as you can read here) has had the honesty to present a new notion of the Inquisition based on already available evidence.
One would expect that these unexpected good results of 20 years of meticulous research on the Inquisition would be a hot topic in the Catholic press. The truth is that the thee-day Symposium held in Rome was summarized in a short article on page 5 in the L'Osservatore Romano; nothing more. No exultant titles in the Catholic organs "Inquisition vindicated!"
Also, I doubt we should expect Bergoglio to nullify the past ecclesial apologies for sins the Church did not commit. If he were a just man, he would do so. But I am betting he will ignore the findings and say nothing. Let us wait and see.
I hope, however, that these new conclusions will encourage honest scholars to deepen their research on the topic so that the myth of a cruel and unjust Inquisition will be put to rest once and for all . Let the real Inquisition emerge into the light to show a balanced and enlightened tribunal, a model even for a future more glorious era in the Church and History.


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Casual writings on music, language, science, technology, and human race, in the form of roughly one-paragraph synthesis.
Freakonomics-Cheating, Incentive-based world, correlations and more
We have to applaud for those in the academia who always think out of the box. Steve Levitt is one of such examples. He uses his economics eye to look at various things in the world, and come up with fascinating studies such as "what do high school teachers in the Chicago area have in common with the world of Sumo wrestlers in Japan?", or "what does the decreasing crime rate in the US in the 1990s have to do with the dictator's policy in Romania two decades ago?" And the answer may astonish you. One best thing that I take away from this is that, how we can never be too careful about drawing correlations and causation chains based on simply what we observe from the surface of things--a point that I stressed in a previous blog entry about the water pipe and the switch in my apartment. Finally, also speak of two other things I read and watched lately, Donald Trump's 2008 book, Think Big, Kick Ass, and the documentary movie Inside Job (how Wall Street companies and investment banks have led to the economic crisis one step after another), I have to say that, the world of business (as many other fields) is indeed very complicated and sometimes people get stuck in an awkward position, where they have to do what they have done, although they might know this was not correct. No matter cheating or incentive-based business models, people are trapped in a system that they themselves built and benefit from (and also knowing the problems of the system). It's a communal thing, that everybody knows exactly what's going on, and they had to pretend that everything is going to be alright, because once they challenge the system, or quit, they themselves are the only one who is going to suffer, while others gain on your pain. But it turned out that eventually things are not alright, just like the financial crisis. Thus, to sum up, human beings are selfish animals, just like any other animals without superior intelligence. The only thing they care about is their own survival, not how the world is going to be 20 years later. Donald Trump is right: "Lions in the jungle kill only for food, but humans kill for the fun".
sound based search engine
I have long had the thought of a search engine based on not text, but sound. Imagine you heard a song, didn't know any information about the singer, or lyrics, or album, or record label, and just decided to look it up on the internet. How can you search if you don't have any key words? Well, a sound-based engine will just get you where you want to go. You can search by singing a fraction of what you remembered from the melody, and the likely results of the songs will pop up. The same with speech. Luckily, now there are actually people who are working on this (not singing but speech). Listen to the BBC podcast introducing the speech search technology by a groups of linguists at Oxford University in UK.
I wasn't completely aware how crazy I am about artificial intelligence-robots in this case, until I saw LEGO robot mindstorms in the store. It costs less than $300 and it is programmable from low to high levels. You can also record your own voice and your own image to display on its screen. Wonderful.
Not Exactly....in praise of vagueness
Recently heard this presentation at a banquet at SELLC by Dr. Kees Van Deemter. Rather interesting presentation for attracting our attention from the food at table in Guangzhou. Nonetheless, it is indeed very interesting:
"How warm is a 'warm day'? Where should we draw the 'poverty line'? Are you the same person as you were yesterday? None of these questions can be given a clear-cut answer. We operate in a world full of continuous variation, relying on concepts that are not precisely defined but vague around the edges. This book, which cuts across logic, linguistics, and artificial intelligence, considers the challenges posed by vagueness, showing how vagueness is often difficult to avoid, and frequently (though not always!) useful too. It defends a perspective on vagueness that hinges on probabilities instead of crisp dichotomies or degrees of truth. Last but not least, the book shows how Natural Language Generation programs are beginning to come to terms with vagueness, allowing computers to use vague language judicially in their interaction with human users."
music & language--not quite there yet
SELLC is indeed a good place. People here are all about logic and computation. But I also had a chance to familiarize myself with the fact that just how many people have absolutely no idea about the connections between music and language at all, even though they study the logic of language. A lot of questions can't be answered in a simple sentence, and I often find myself being look at strangely and being asked, "what exactly is it that you research about?" and I find myself in an awkward position to give a simple and straight forward answer with a few words.Something interesting happened too, when this American logician Mitch and I talked about singing and speaking: (1) people who speaks with an obvious foreign accent does not necessarily do so in singing (or rather many good singers make you think they're native speakers while they are not; (2) people who stutter in speaking does not in singing; (3) music therapy recovering language function in brain damage patients; (4) speech to song illusion.
music, mind, and machine
There is a MIT Media Lab project with the same title. Now, from the Stanford Laptop Orchestra to the MIT Future Opera, from the Toyota violin-playing robot to the high-quality-classical-music-generation software at UCSB, it seems that music and technology are indeed being connected closely. It seems to me that there is speech synthesis and speech recognition, and there is also singing synthesis (KTH), but music recognition by machine should be available in the future. imagine a machine (or robot) that can identify the music you play just by listening. It will also create a shift in the paradigms of music search engine. Ideally, he can also generate some music to play along with human musicians. Better yet, a improvising robot. Not that different than the classical music writing machine at UCSB, isn't it? Of course, music recognition can be as challenging as speech and face recognition, and the robustness of human perception system is just not as perfectly achieved by machine.
how unaware?
Linguists say language is a skill, rather than a knowledge. Just like a good musician does not need to know music theory (or even musical notation for that matter), a native speaker of certain language doesn't need to be aware of the structure of its language, although s/he has grown to be an expert of using it correctly since childhood. Recently I realized just how unaware one can get. As I was sitting in the classroom listening to lectures about how to teach foreigners Chinese, the first thing is the four tones, and how to pronounce them, etc. Then I came to Guangzhou, a land where Cantonese is the native tongue of millions. I hear Cantonese all the time; I couldn't figure out its tone system, but I knew that it's something like 6+3 tones. So finally I asked a local (who is a grad student in logical semantics), "tell me about the tone systems of Cantonese." "Sorry", he answered, "I have no idea how many tones there are in Cantonese. Absolutely no clue." "How often do you speak?" "I speak everyday since I started talking as a kid."
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same soul,many bodies
I read this book very accidentally in Singapore in 2008 while I was visiting my dad. He was interested in supernatural things and had a lot of books in this respect. It was in Chinese and published in Taiwan. Just couple of days ago, a colleague at CASS mentioned that he was reading this book recently and had me thinking again. A serious doctor, graduate of Yale and Columbia, M.D, trained in hard science, Dr. Brian L. Weiss was propelled to believe in the theory of same soul, many bodies by the evidence from his psychotherapy. If we do have a soul that recycle itself into many lives, the hypothesis is that the memory of the past life is very very weak and vague and hazy, and deep deep down in your brain. However, I also want to relate this to another mysterious thing, our dreams. I am sitting in my office, and I was typing white letters on the screen of black backdrop. "wow, this is too bright", I thought to myself, and I was trying to change the white text into gray. My colleague just got up and left, and I was looking at the screen--gray, white, black, and orange--and boom!!! Suddenly I felt a strong consciousness that this moment has happened in the past. Striking. This particular moment. With the text, color, colleague, office--this exact moment. Was it in my dream? Usually I should think so. Or maybe it was in my past life. But it wouldn't make sense because I'm wide conscious and there should be no computers in my past life. Logically speaking, there can be a world where there are a more or less finite number of souls (at least much less than our population) with our increasing population today-it almost seems that the addition of a human being is more initiated by the human themselves than a deity or some supernatural force. But I do subscribe to the thought that the ability of our human being to understand this world is very limited. Just I can't understand does not mean it doesn't exist. Here, read it on New York TImes, which suggested that now 25% of Americans believe in reincarnation. (side note: this is also related to children's ability to learn any language in the world. Inborn. UG?)
tech innovation is no easy task
Recently I was reading about Steve Jobs and how he and other guys started the Apple computers and how that turned into what we have today-a digital era where everyone can have a computer on his/her desk and does some form of computing. Although it seems plain today, I was a bit shocked, honestly, to learn that up until the 1980s, even Bill Gates and other Microsoft (and other companies) thought that the computers are just for specialized business, and it's not for personal use. Only when Steve jobs' vision of the Mac computer became available that people began to really see how it can have a market as a layperson thing. I grew up in the 1980s so forgive me for not knowing about the history, because computers seemed always to be part of what's there in the world for us--and even more so for those born in the 1990s. In any case, even today, I cannot imagine that back then how can some one, or some company, have the vision and confidence to be sure about the market of personal computers. Or any innovation for that matter. No matter back then, or today, again, it's still no easy task. Yeah. No one can say for sure. Maybe that's why things can become exciting.
world of goo
Don't know since when these smart games are beginning to spread their popularity. This one is just like the Plant vs. Zombies, giving you a taste of elegantly built and smartly designed gaming experience that is utterly different from those like Street Fighter or World of Crafts or any of my previous gaming experience (thank you to Zuo Xiaoxuan). In this game you get to learn just how challenging the work is of an architect--building something that is structurally sturdy and also being creative at the same time is not easy. Especially if there are great distances horizontally (like bridges) or vertically (like a high tower). Of course in real world those materials is not the same with the little units in the World of Goo. The soundtrack in this game is also great. Listen or download the music by Kyle Gabler.
tomorrow of speech synthesis
Here is what the speech scientists are working on:(University of York,UK)
Physical modelling voice source for voice synthesis Prof David Howard, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Today's electronic voice synthesis is highly intelligible but rarely if ever mistaken for the voice of a human speaker (it is highly non-natural). The next key step in improving the naturalness of electronic voice synthesis (speech and singing) involves creating a virtual model of the oral (mouth) and nasal (nose) tracts that can be varied in shape dynamically according to human articulation. Steps are in progress to achieve this, but in order for it to function in a human-like manner, it requires a voice source that is as human-like as possible, and this is the focus of this PhD. The vocal folds of the human larynx will be modelled in such a way that they will vibrate when a virtual lung airstream is applied, according to the settings of appropriately placed virtual muscles to control pitch and voice quality. The output from the model will be compared to signals that monitor the life outputs from human informants, with the purpose of creating as natural a voice source as possible. This source will be linked to the physical model to establish how natural the resulting voice output is.
human and machine...
"Logic is the only thing that both human and computers understand", remarked Dr. Van Deemter at the banquet of SELLC. It appears that one fundamental question means a lot to some logicians and philosophers, which is, ultimately, can human mind be broken completely into 1s and 0s and we can, like Sheldon Cooper of Big Bang Theory would one day hope, live forever as a machine? One thing was particularly interesting to me: When I talked with H.Peng, a Ph.D of Computer Science at Apple Inc., he talked about his past project of "face recognition", and how good and effortless human is at it and how hard it is for computers to do. I noticed recently that Google Picasa has the face recognition function in its latest versions, where the software can pull out hundreds of photos of your face among thousands of pictures stored on your hard drive. Its performance is indeed quite impressive, although there are occasions that I was mistaken for my high school female classmates. But more strikingly, it does not recognize me in the photos from my childhood; it did a bad job when I make a funny face, or angry face, with my facial structure altered significantly. Meanwhile, we all know how easy it is for human to do it, no matter you're young, sick, wearing different facial accessories, or only showing the left part of your face...So would computers be able to do it like that? I think at least we're all trying to make it do that. The brain is a funny thing. It is an incredible machine, and it is constantly being modified by the very things it created (like music or language). No matter what the implications AI might have for the ego of human intelligence, it is certainly exciting for us to see a personal robot speaking to you, recognizing you, and playing violin with you (like Honda ASIMO).
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I recently attended a funeral, which makes me thinking, like Sheldon said, "personal robot cannot get here sooner". One of the top profound sadness of human kind is, for me, the loss of the spouse by the elderly. They are fragile mentally and physically, and just lost their love who they spent most of their lives with. So what if a robot is pre-made, who can speak in the same voice and fashion as the deceased one, and act like him/her in terms of personality? Kind of like a simpler version of "downloading your thoughts from your brain into a machine and live forever as a computer". This could seriously help people get over their difficult times, and it could be a rented option if purchasing is too expensive. After all they may move on one day and no longer need a robot company when a human company can replace it.


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This nontraditional spin-off of an old-fashioned favorite makes a fun dinner-party appetizer plate or main course for more intimate gatherings.
- Yield
- Makes 12 corn dogs
- Sauce:
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup whole grain Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoons dry mustard
- 2 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
- 2 dashes of hot pepper sauce
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- 1/2 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- 1 large egg
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- 1 pound cooked lobster meat, cut into 1/4- to 1/3-inch cubes (about 4 cups)
- 1/2 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions (about 4)
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- Divide mixture into 12 equal portions (scant 1/3 cup each). Using moistened hands, form each into 3x11/2-inch log and place on baking sheet, spacing apart. Insert ice-pop stick into 1 end of each log, pushing through almost to other end. Cover and chill at least 4 hours and up to 6 hours.
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- Available in the spice section of most supermarkets.
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- Calories343
- Carbohydrates14 g(5%)
- Fat28 g(44%)
- Protein8 g(15%)
- Saturated Fat5 g(25%)
- Sodium318 mg(13%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat12 g
- Fiber1 g(3%)
- Monounsaturated Fat11 g
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After reading In the Shadow of the Banyan, I craved more information about the history of Cambodia and wanted to try to understand why Cambodia appears to be still struggling especially as compared with its neighbors – Thailand and Vietnam. Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Prime Minister, visited Cambodia in 1960's and was very impressed, declaring that he had ambitions to make Singapore like Cambodia. Yet, here it is 2015, and Cambodia still feels like it is recovering from its civil war. So I read Hun Sen's Cambodia and would recommend this book to get a different perspective.
Cambodia is a country still haunted by its complex past. Hun Sen, the Prime Minister, has been in power for about 30 years since about 1985. He was a member of the Khmer Rouge, the organization behind the genocide. This is one of the many things we struggled to understand when we were in Cambodia. Members of the Khmer Rouge have been re-integrated back into regular life and only a few are still awaiting trial some 30 plus years after the fall of their reign. However, Hun Sen and the UN can be credited with restoring peace in the country and injecting large amounts of capital for building and growth. but the country still lacks some basic infrastructure- schools, roads, health care. Public land and building, such as schools, have been allegedly sold off to foreign interests. The drive from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh took our guide over 8 hours because it is a "bumpy road". It is a mere 196 miles and should only take about 3 hours or less but lacks a proper highway (note: this is the connection between the countries's capital and their largest tourist destination). Despite investment from China, Vietnam, the US, etc., the money remains in the hands of the few.
The next election is to be held in 2018. There are few real sources opposition. However, things may be changing. We had a chance to talk with some young Cambodian's. Today, Cambodia's population is growing. It is now about 15 million as compared with roughly 8 million during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Kids were constantly running up to us, no matter where we were in the Phnom Penh or in the countryside out in Pailin, saying hello. Sixty-five percent of the population is below 30 years of age. The younger generation may not be haunted by the past and may be willing to demand some change. Facebook is pervasive among the young and they feel empowered by it. We will be watching the next election in 2018 very closely.
At the end of the reading Hun Sen's Cambodia, I am still wanting more information on the rich history and culture of Cambodia; however, the book provided an interesting perspective and some additional facts. That said, I will need to put a hold on some additional reads related to Cambodia. We are moving on to Vietnam, and my reading is moving on as well. Next up on the book list is a Perfect Spy.


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Use this checklist to help you evaluate an online college or university
Online universities vary so be sure what you are looking for is what you get. There are certain things you should look for in any online institution (other than the previous already-mentioned items). These include the following:
|*Computer Requirements
Be sure you have the required computer requirements before you enroll into any online class. This includes Internet access and a computer. You will have nightly assignments and weekend work, so you should not assume you can borrow someone else's computer for your schoolwork. This is a huge mistake that new online students make. They assume it will be ok to use a work computer, a friend's computer and then when they need it to attend class and can't, frustration builds because you will quickly fall behind. Then because the instructor failed to give you additional time to get your homework in, you then blame the instructor for something that was totally your fault to begin with but should never have happened in the first place. This will leave you with a sour note about online classes, if you have not already withdrawn from the online university.
Be sure you have the proper software (online platform software) from the institution available to you (if possible, get it on a disk or CD).
|*Tech Support
Be sure you have a tech support number and available help 24-hours a day, 7-days per week. Make sure it works. One online university that I was associated with had a tech support number available, but there was no one at the other end of the line manning it. Caution - please be careful here!
|*Student Tutorial
Be sure you have a student tutorial to show you around the online platform (platforms vary greatly). Reputable online universities will have one available.
Be sure to start out slowly. Take one class at a time until you have adjusted to the new online learning environment. Adjusting does take time. Do not just leap into several classes before you get your feet wet!
|*Online Library
Be sure you have an online library accessible to you 24-hours a day, 7-days per week.
|*Virtual Bookstore
Be sure you have access to a virtual bookstore to obtain all of your textbooks and/or required class materials (if the texts are not online texts).
Be sure you fully understand how online exams work (suggest you do this before you enroll); otherwise, you could be in for quite a surprise.
Be sure you have other tutorials available to you that are necessary in an online format; for instance, a plagiarism tutorial.
|*Online Writing Center
Be sure you have an online writing center. Again, reputable online universities will have one available to you, at no extra cost.
|*Online Conduct
Be sure you fully understand the online student code of conduct prior to enrollment. Most students fail to read this.
Be sure you know the difference in the online delivery mode for the institution chosen (in other words, is it fully asynchronous, synchronous, or hybrid). Asynchronous learning is where the student and instructor are not online at the same time, and there is no face-to-face (f2f) connection. Synchronous learning is where the student and instructor are online at the same time (similar to chat sessions). A hybrid-learning environment is a mixture of both. This is why it is critical to check which environment you are getting into.
|*Ask Questions
Be sure to ask how many students are in each class in your full program of study (you do not want to be in any program that has so many students in the class that you are only a number and then you end up without any help when you need it. Be careful of some institutions that state they will provide tutors or teaching assistants because of 100 or so students in the course. You will then be just another number for an institution more interested in collecting profits rather than taking an interest in the learning outcomes for you and the other students. I would be very wary of this type of institution since I learned this first-hand. Suggestion, find another online program (university) as you truly do not want to be in any online program that has more than 25-30 students per course.
Be sure to ask about the qualifications of the online instructors/professors.
Be sure that you can understand the instructor/professors (written language). You want to be sure you get fully reputable faculty with high-quality grammar and communications skills, even in the online environment.
|*Your Environment
Be sure to ask how the online class is run, for instance, are you required to be in a chat session at any particular time in the course, even if it is a fully asynchronous environment. This could become a hardship if you are on the East coast and others in the class are on the West coast and/or other time zone(s).
|*Other Requirements
Be sure and ask what the requirements are specific to your online class (in other words, how many times per week do you need to be online in that week); are there specific requirements you must meet in regards to participation or discussion rooms? If so, what are they?
Be sure to ask how long each class session runs; how much time off (if any) in between each online class, and if there are any breaks for any holidays.
Ask what the policy is for taking a break during the length of your program of study. In other words, can I take a month off without it affecting my financial aid or my program of study? Sometimes students get burned out and will need this break. Find out ahead of time.
|*Online Policies
Be aware of the online policies, for instance, what is expected in terms of payment; how do you register for your next course; whom can you contact in case issues arise; etc.
What to Expect in an Online Class
Online learners learn how to prepare themselves to succeed
While online classes vary quite a bit from face-to-face classes, the intent is still the same: learning. Priest (2000) posited,
Many people think that online education is an easy way out. I let those people know that if a person is planning to attend an online class, he or she must be self-directed. Online is a tool to assist those who are unable to enter the traditional college classroom but are motivated to meet their educational goals. As working adult learners, online students bring their goals, experiences, and desires to the classroom. They are motivated to bring something new to each and every class. They are prepared to succeed (p. 41 as cited in White & Weight).
Classroom Communicating
Communication is critical to any online class. Your professor will set up guidelines in your respective classroom for communicating.
Online education allows you to be yourself and let go of the barriers such as intimidation. Using the written text, you can communicate openly in your classroom sharing your professional experiences and adding to the knowledge of the classroom. Once you adjust to this new way of going to class, you will feel less intimidated. Communication in an online class "takes the form of written text through responses, feedback on assignments, and the classroom discussion process. Lectures and faculty perspectives are no longer spoken, but rather written. Student interaction is through e-mail, chat rooms, or actual classrooms (newsgroups) set up for the virtual learning process that takes place in Outlook Express (OE)" (Mertz, 2003, p. 37), Blackboard, WebCT, eCollege or some other proprietary software. Enjoy it!
Intimidation can scare any new online student from enjoying an exhilarating new experience-i.e., being a new online student. Being aware of this will help you to overcome it. A typical online classroom will include either conferences, folders, or newsgroups or something along this line that contain all of the online class materials and information you will need during your time in the course. These items will vary depending upon the university and its set-up. You should not have to go to various locations while in the classroom area. However, be prepared to work, and work hard.
Time Management
Be sure to set aside a significant amount of time for your online class and this includes time to study. Time management is critical and I cannot stress this enough.
In any online class, you will have to work harder than in an on ground class because everything in the online environment is written, not spoken. This requires more time than most students expect. Thus, there is a more significant time commitment involved with online courses. It is important that you set aside study time away from family members and distractions.
Online courses require more support from family and friends to keep one's motivation high since the online student is responsible for his/her learning outcomes. The online classroom will include lectures and like items needed for the class, but it is the sole responsibility of the student learner to read those materials, not the professors to be sure the student is spoon-fed in any way. Therefore, having family and friends support is critical. Many students fail to recognize this and in turn, blame the professor when something goes wrong or does not seem to fit their perceptions. It happens a great deal in online classrooms. Burnout occurs all too often.
Meeting Deadlines and Timeframes
Online classes require a lot of discipline from the student learner and motivation to get the work done. You must take full responsibility as a student in the online environment that learning is your sole responsibility. Meeting deadlines and timeframes is your full responsibility, not the instructor's. Priest (2000) posited, "it [online learning] does require commitment and particular characteristics of the learner. Although online learners do not have to be computer experts or have a complete understanding of the software, they do need a willingness to learn" (p. 40-41 as cited in White & Weight). You will become frustrated when/if you fall behind and then, as many students do, you could end up blaming your instructor or others for things that are not even his/her fault, but yours. It is imperative that you, the student, take ownership for your learning outcomes. Recognize this. Do not blame someone else for your inabilities.
Be prepared to work
Just because online education is flexible to meet the growing demands of adult students does not mean it is for students who do not wish to put forth any effort.
If you fit the slacker-type student, you will quickly find online education frustrating and place blame where blame should not be placed. I have seen it many times in several online universities, and also, during my days of being an online student, had other classmates who fit this profile. Some students realize this way too late into an online course and then drop out. In addition, isolation (not having the ability to see one's classmates or the professor) can lead to attrition. If you are not prepared to work hard and swift in your online classes, you will become frustrated quickly as the accelerated pace can sometimes overwhelm students.
Your Support System
As noted earlier, be sure you have a strong support system with family and friends in place. Having your employer support you will also be a great attribute especially when there are some competing responsibilities that bid for your time. Online learning does not sit still and patience does not last long. Deadlines are critical and excuses only go so far. Time management could not be more significant than in an online class.
Technical Considerations
Lastly, be sure you have a good working computer that is not on its last legs. Be sure your Internet connection is fast and that you have the ability to search online for needed items for your class without getting dropped all the time. If you must be in chat sessions in your online class, be sure your online platform is not dropping you off chats either. Having technical issues is expected (within reason) but when something is due is not the time to have technical issues. You will quickly find yourself overwhelmed, frustrated, ready to give up on online classes, and place blame on anyone you can find. Anticipate technical issues, work ahead and never wait until the day, or last minute anything is due to begin work on it. It is your sole responsibility, not the professors if you wait. Be prepared for the consequences.


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Apple SVP of Worldwide marketing Phil Schiller gave an interesting interview to Chinese newspaper Shanghai Evening News yesterday. In the interview, he directly addresses the rumors surrounding a potential cheaper iPhone, saying that this will 'never be the future of Apple products'.
We have verified with Apple that this was an official interview.
Interviewer Huang Yinlong spoke to Schiller about Apple's products in China who said that "every product that Apple creates, we consider using only the best technology available. This includes the production pipeline, the Retina display, the unibody design, to provide the best product to the market."
"At first, non-smartphones were popular in the Chinese market, now cheap smartphones are more popular and non-smartphones are out," Schiller added later. "Despite the popularity of cheap smartphones, this will never be the future of Apple's products. In fact, although Apple's market share of smartphones is just about 20%, we own the 75% of the profit."
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Orphanage teachers and schoolmates attend a mourning church service during the funeral for car accident victims in Moscow, on Sept. 26. Five orphans along with their teacher and her husband had been killed by a drunken driver, who crashed at a bus stop. Three other people were seriously injured. All five teenagers were pupils of a special orphanage for disabled children.
Five orphans, along with their teacher and her husband, were laid to rest on Wednesday after they were killed by a drunk driver in Moscow. The five teenagers were at a special orphanage for disabled children, according to the European Press Agency.
Associated Press reports-- Five orphaned teens were waiting for a bus with their guardians in Moscow on Saturday when a car careened into them, killing all seven. Grief turned to outrage when it emerged that the driver was heavily drunk and had a string of traffic violations on his record — including a DUI arrest two years ago.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and lawmakers have reacted with proposals to stiffen penalties on drunken drivers, and parliament debated the measures on Tuesday. But with bribery so commonplace and road laws rarely enforced, many wonder whether even the toughest response can change a deep-set culture of reckless driving.
After the crash, police video shows, Alexander Maximov stumbled out of his Toyota sedan, which he had been driving at 200 kilometers (125 miles per hour), bloodied and barely able to stand. He appeared in court Monday with his head wounds dressed, but still wearing the blood-speckled sweatshirt from the day of the accident. Read the full story
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Orphanage teachers and schoolmates attend a mourning church service for car accident victims in Moscow on Sept. 26.
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So I'm sat in Heathrow departure lounge, eating a ham and cheese baguette ready to jet off on an overnight flight to Johannesburg. The time has come. Shit. It's real now. Ha, no going back.
I'm all on my own. I've spent the day with the parentals in London and said bye to them a while ago. That goodbye was ok; mainly because I didn't look at them, gave them a quick hug, promised to keep myself safe and ran out the door. Literally.
I'm a bit weary now; I've had such a busy week doing all the last minute stuff, being in millions of different places and getting a leetle bit drunk. I'm ready to get on that plane and sleep. Sweet sleep.
I've had so many messages today, it's been a bit overwhelming. Thank you to everyone who's been in touch, I will miss you all lots and lots. I promise to take care, blog loads and take lots of photos.
My mum said on the way down she's most worried about me being stalked by pygmys with poision darts in the jungle. I'm not quite sure where she thinks I'm going or what I'll be up to. I told her I'll watch out for them.
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24 comments:
Ivar, thanks so much for making me one of your favorite blogs. I must say I am flattered, with the fantastic photos you post and the beautiful area you came from mine seems kind of dull to me. Thanks again Brad.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2008 at 1:45 PM
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Beautiful clear water drops details!ReplyDelete
Perfectly named!ReplyDelete
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Been seeing all your other photos and I really enjoyed the landscape ones and macros.
And your sense of humour also.
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the water droplets make the pictures great.ReplyDelete
Vakkert som alltid!ReplyDelete
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Ivar: Your dewdrop photos are really special.ReplyDelete
While you were photographing these, I was photographing the same in spring green.ReplyDelete
The raindropscame out like crystal balls.
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Perfect use of colour.ReplyDelete
Perfect use of colour.ReplyDelete
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Really cool leaf pictures!ReplyDelete
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Beautiful - the water drops is marvelous.ReplyDelete
I think this is the last post on which I'm commenting for my catch-up. These are wonderful, and you picked the perfect title. What beauty.ReplyDelete
Feel free to express your honest opinion, good or "bad". I am eager to learn more about photography ;-)
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University of Michigan Symposium, June 8-10, 2010
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