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Broker's take: OCBC downgrades Venture to 'hold', keeps 'hold' call on Hyflux
OCBC Investment Research has placed "hold" calls on Venture Corp and Hyflux.
It said the fair value of Venture remains unchanged at S$8.41 but downgraded it to "hold" on valuation grounds.
"The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) reported that the world semiconductor market grew 9.9 per cent to US$336 billion in 2014, mainly driven by 18.2 per cent growth in memory product category as annual sales increased across all geographical regions.
"WSTS goes on to forecast steady but moderate growth of 4.9 per cent to US$352 billion and 3.1 per cent to US$363 billion in 2015 and 2016, respectively, for all product categories and regions."
In the longer term, IDC forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 3.1 per cent from 2014 to 2019, reaching US$389 billion in 2019, said the research house.
It added that based on these data, the industry outlook remains positive over the next few years on moderate growth projections.
Separately, the research house said it maintains a "hold" call on shares of Hyflux Ltd with an unchanged fair value of S$0.96, after Hyflux was formally awarded the Qurayyat Independent Water Project by Oman Power and Water Procurement Company.
The project, with an estimated value of US$250 million, will next move into the construction phase (worth US$210 million), which will be carried out by wholly-owned subsidiary Hydrochem (S) Pte Ltd.
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The Indian Springs chapter of the Rho Kappa Social Studies Honor Society at Jackson High School hosted and participated in their first regional history bowl and history bee competitions on Saturday, January 14th. JHS fielded two history bowl teams, consisting of four members each. Our competitors were (from left to right in the attached photograph): Tyler Morris (11), Joba Duke (12), Madison Cosby (12), Audrey Harkness (11), Madison Turner (11), Adrianna Basterash (12), Connor LaChappelle (9) and Christian Cline (11, not pictured). Several students also entered the history bee, which is an individual competition held on the same day. Senior Madison Cosby made it to the semi-final round, qualifying her for the National History Bee in Washington D.C. in April.
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The Science of the Hit Single
The LA Times has an interesting article and interview a team of European scientists who have used computer analysis to quantify what it is about hit songs that make them hits. Maybe the days of computers writing hit songs instead of people are closer than we thought.
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text: Happy campers: 5 lessons learned from content camps From sandbox to camp -- find out how to get your clients up and running on their brand new CMS, while giving them a great customer experience. By Stephen Belyea, Front End Developer September 08, 2016 Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Picture this: Your several-month project is winding down. QA has had a full sprint to dig around and come up with bugs. Your client has had demos and walkthroughs all along, but they're understandably eager to get cracking on content entry. You could easily hand over the product at this point and technically be finished with the build. Maybe you toss in a content entry manual of copy-and-pasted snippets from other manuals over the years and links to online documentation. Maybe you have a couple of quick phone sessions for troubleshooting basic settings and configuration. Sure, you could do that. Or... You could actually help your clients make use of the full potential available in the product you've both pored over for months. That sounds like a much better experience for everyone involved! This is why we love content camps: a 1-3 day series of back-to-back full day sessions where we simultaneously train and support the content entry team. Content is entered, settings are configured, lunch is delivered, and trouble spots are identified prior to release. After years of testing every method for releasing a project, we've really come to love this approach. A pretty typical ecentricarts content camp in progress. Actual experience may vary. Here are five helpful lessons we've picked up from our campers: 1. You're in a long-term relationship No matter the size of the project, you have formed a bond between your team and the client's. Weeks, months, or even years of phone calls, emails, Basecamp threads, and any manner of back and forth has garnered a (hopefully fruitful) relationship. Together, you've built a short-hand language of features and functionality that no other team or project will share. You have formed a well-oiled machine, ready to unleash a beautiful product on the unsuspecting world. With all that having passed, why would the relationship need to come to an abrupt end just because of a delivery timeline? You and the client have spent all this time learning to work with one another. After all the tough decisions and straight talk, it feels like time off when the whole team spends a few days together to run through the project. Enjoy yourself. Have some fun while breathing life into the product. Why flee from a rough sketch when you can triumphantly hand off a fully fledged masterpiece? 2. Is it really a product if no one can use it? You have built a fully functional, dynamic, masterful project from the scattered thoughts of a concept. This is no small feat. Congratulations. The high fives and champagne toasts die down after a day, and your team starts planning on the next project. Out of nowhere, days later, you get an email... The client needs to update a banner or post a press release with some vital information for their organization. You know your system can handle it, so you question why they need your help. The process is just so simple: adjust this page type, clone an existing template, edit that custom field set, extend this nested taxonomy layer. Except that you never got around to passing on this simple process. That's where the key difference lives between an off-the-shelf product and a fully fleshed-out custom solution. Presumably, your masterwork didn't come directly from an online retailer, plugin library, or open source design pattern. How would the client know how to work with it if you haven't provided custom guidance? Over the course of a project, both your team and the client's will be able to look at user stories, acceptance criteria, feature documentation, and release notes to see what's included -- but this is no substitute for teaching them how to work with your work. Every party involved will have a different idea of how the product should work, and it is your duty to communicate how it does. 3.You know what they say about assumptions? Every stage of a project will build a series of assumptions. The longer the project, the more those assumptions will build and build. Effective planning is all about reducing those assumptions (by establishing them as requirements or core definitions), but even the most detailed plans will still lug around a few. These can bubble up from differing thoughts about a feature's functionality, a template's flexibility, the content tree structure -- anything, really. The trouble comes when your (build) assumptions collide with the client's (usage) assumptions. For instance, the development side could easily assume that a standard file upload control would cover all basic usage on a site's custom forms (that is, after all, the semantically correct default HTML field). Meanwhile, the content entry and business requirements side could have a perfectly valid case for needing multiple files loaded into a form, using a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface (that is, after all, the way it works on just about every larger site with file uploads - Google Drive, DropBox, WordPress admin, etc.). In the scope of planning a great, big project, it's pretty easy for something like this to fall through the cracks -- but if your deployment plan consists of casually whistling while you stroll away with your hands in your pockets, this will become an issue. Google Drive's bells-and-whistles uploader interface is a monumental leap above the standard file upload control -- and considerably more complex to put together. This is where content camps come in. You guide the client team through your assumptions, and they jump in, testing against their own set. The goal is to have little variance between the two, but a robust training session will let both sides fully test and adjust their assumptions. 4. Your product will get "broken" You've built something beautiful. QA has been through, testing every user story, and your masterful creation stands triumphant. Your team feels great and the client team is ready to rock and roll. "Does that look right to you?" "Is it supposed to do that?" "Why isn't that showing up?" The questions start rolling in, and you need to think on your feet. Many notes can be solved with an improvised workaround or a better demonstration, but there will be genuine issues. Don't get upset. Remember that it is not humanly possible for the client to have communicated every possible intention their team would have with every single component. Just as it's not possible, as much as you try, to predict every possible iteration of content they would want or need to enter. Watching anyone interact with a product you built is a humbling and inspiring experience. Use it to strengthen your understanding of user interaction and modify your future work with that in mind. Look for the trouble spots, any minor point of confusion or conflict, and take it upon yourself to trim that away. Your work will be cleaner and your client happier when you figure out how to transform issues into a superior product. There's also a bit of pride to be had in finding a bug. Trust that your client is learning the environment when they have the confidence to tell you what you've done wrong. If you've built a confusing or unusable product, no one will know a bug from a feature. 5. Even experts start as novices When you spend your working hours nose-deep in the administrator interface for one particular CMS, it's pretty tough to remember a time when you didn't know how to find everything. It is entirely possible, however, that your client has never used that particular CMS. Or any CMS. That is completely fine. Expected, even. We all start somewhere. This can become an issue when you hand over a product, expecting the client to fully absorb every custom feature and magnificent complexity by skimming your rapidly-drafted 10-page manual. After all, could your team realistically be expected to understand your client's entire business structure, product offerings, and accounting process in a quick 30-minute meet-and-greet? Hint: If your answer is "yes," you probably aren't doing your job. An effective content camp will help your client become experts in using the product your team has built. They will not only learn the system, but grow to own features and components. One person will take a shining to widgets and specialty CTAs, another member will play around with image resizing, while someone else will start to push the capabilities of the navigation structure. This is expertise in the making. Have fun with it and encourage everyone to keep learning by leveraging whatever element draws them in. Packing up The single biggest value of content camp is to reduce the pressure for everyone involved. Your team is there to help out. The client team is there to focus on breathing life into the product. Anyone can bring up questions, offer workarounds, or raise concerns. Learning comes naturally and painlessly while you're all working together to launch. Learning isn't exclusive to the client team, either. Take a step back to collect what your team has learned from the cooperative experience. Your next project will be that much better as a result.


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By Peter Duru, Makurdi
Bothered by the recurrent herdsmen killings in Benue state, the Northern Governors' and the Progressive Governors' Forum have pledged to assist the Benue state government to stop the killings in parts of state and also ensure the enthronement of lasting peace in the state.
Chairman of the Northern States Governors' Forum and Governor of Borno state, Ibrahim Shettima made the promise yesterday, when he led a delegation of five Governors and the Deputy Governor of Osun state on a condolence visit to the government and people of Benue state over the recent herdsmen killings in the state.
The Governors who sympathized with the people of the state said the people of the North and Governors elected on the platform of the APC shared in the grieve of the people of the state.
Shettima commended Governor Samuel Ortom for his show of courage and strength of character stressing that "challenges do not change leaders but reveal true leaders. "Addressing such challenges were part of the reasons we were elected.
"We believe that if the North East can surmount the Boko Haram insurgency, this challenge will be a thing of the past soon."
The Borno state Governor recalled that "Nigeria is always facing challenges midway into an administration right from the time of former President Obasanjo and midway into the present administration we are also witnessing same security challenges. As leaders we need to investigate why this is always reoccurring.
"We want to reaffirm our solidarity with the people of Benue state because we are one people tied to a common destiny.
"We shall do what it takes to help the government enthrone lasting peace in Benue state."
Responding Benue state Governor, Samuel Ortom disclosed that relative calm had returned to the state "compared to what we witnessed in the first week of January.
"There are still pockets of challenges, we believe we shall surmount them. There is still fear in the state of the threats going on. It is also important to let you know that Benue people are living in fear of herdsmen and their militia because they keep issuing threats, so the truth is that we are under siege.


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When it comes to women in science and engineering, there is a shortage. Little girls are just as curious about the world around them as little boys, but somewhere between examining snails on the sidewalk and taking AP Calculus, they don't seem to show up in representative numbers. Educators and researchers continue to try to pinpoint the source.
Many of you may have already seen the video link below that went viral several years ago. In the ad, three girls are bored watching princesses in pink on TV. So they grab a tool kit, goggles and hard hats and set to work building a machine that sends pink teacups and baby dolls flying through the house, using umbrellas, ladders and, of course, GoldieBlox toys. I often tell my engineer husband that more young women would go into engineering if the hard hats were another color than white and that everyone didn't have to drive a truck and more importantly that their teachers were challenging them with engineering problems that appeal more to their interests.
Preparation for engineering professions is more than the single message many girls hear – take more math and science classes.Women want to be creative and collaborative. They want to design systems that make people healthier and safer and preserve the environment and make the world a better place. What they don't hear is that scientists and engineers do all of these things. Engineers design everything – absolutely everything – in our built environment. Engineers are much more than a single story. So encourage a girl to be curious today and every day. Boys too.


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We've all been told to 'chill out' or 'mellow out.' But have you ever heard of an apple mellowing out? Apparently it's part of the apple's ripening process. And you thought an apple a day was only 80 calories and kept the doctor away!
I visited with Bill Patterson of Patterson Fruit Farm a year ago and got an A+ on his lesson about apples, their storage, and the ripening process.
"Once you pick an apple you need the apple to 'mellow out,'" said Patterson. "That is the starches breaking down to sugar for the ripening period."
The storing of apples is important as well and can contribute to this process. Patterson explainedabout the farm's controlled atmosphere storage and the effects it has on the apples.
"A lot of the apples that we get here starting in mid-September through mid-October, that we pick, we put into a controlled atmosphere storage," said Patterson.
Patterson Farm's obtains the controlled atmosphere storage by pushing nitrogen and carbon dioxide into the storage, which pushes out the oxygen and ethylene.
"It's [the] oxygen and ethylene that allow for the aging process," said Patterson. "It's sort of a natural way of stopping the ripening process without any chemicals. Apples produce ethylene in its ripening process, which further ripens the fruit."
When an apple is growing, the apple creates starches during this period.
"Once an apple gets to its ripening period (this is) where it starts breaking down the starches into sugars," said Patterson. "That's what the additional oxygen and ethylene breaks down – the starches into sugar."
"A Fuji, Goldrush, and a Braeburn probably peak in flavor in January and February," said Patterson. "Once you pick off the tree that would go along the lines of mellowing. You're going to eat a Fuji on November 1 and you're going to think that's a pretty good apple."
Giant Eagle has Gala, Granny Smithand Fujiapples on sale –10 lbs. for $10.00. Now that's a bargain… and what a healthy snack for the kids! Hey moms: with spring breaks happening all around Cleveland, what a great afternoon snack
The Galaapple is mellow and very versatile. It's a great variety for eating and baking. I usually eat it or cut it up for fruit salads. Not tart or too sweet, the Gala is that perfect apple with a perfect balanced flavor.
Granny Smithapples are very tart and crisp. They're one of the best apples in a medley apple pie – which is an apple pie made with at least four or more different types of tart apples (Braeburn, Melrose, Jonathan and McIntosh).
One of my favorite apples to dip into my yogurt is the Fuji apple. It wasn't a surprised to learn that the apples I purchase each week at Giant Eagle are from last year's harvest. Remember, I'm not getting bad apples.
By educating their customers, Patterson Fruit Farm teaches the customer either how to 'mellow out' their own picked apples or how to purchase them at your local grocery store.
Monday was the first day of spring! I'm excited about the anticipation of sunshine! Local stores are showing signs of spring with lots of bright flowers and fruit at great prices. In fact, there are apples everywhere!
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I think I have been neglecting my health here for the past few weeks. I don't know. Sometimes I don't feel like talking about things because I don't want to talk about them so I can pretend they aren't happening or because I don't want anyone asking me about it. And its my blog and I can blog about whatever I want.
Yesterday I went to my ankle doctor to find out the results of my ankle MRI. It turns out that yes my ankle has healed up nicely but it has left two pockets of fluid in my ankle which is why it is still stiff, sore and swollen. The answer for this is to try to stick a nice big needle full of cortisone in one of them to see if it helps reduce the swelling. (I hate big needles and don't like the fact that doctors always want to stick me with them.) I go back in six weeks to see how it is doing. Maybe she'll stick a needle in the other pocket of fluid. In the mean time, the outer side of my left ankle is a bit sore from the needle. Oh joy. All of this caused by a nanosecond of stupidity where I tried to look over my shoulder while walking at the end of July 2009.
Next week is my big avoidance. I am invoking my inner three year old who is screaming 'no, no, no' with her eyes closed. Next week I am having an ultrasound of my thyroid. Last year I was supposed to have a baseline ultrasound but it found a 'thingy' called recurrence, thyroid tissue, or lymph node. Nothing was supposed to be there. I had a follow up one in July to see if there was any change. It was the same size. It was called a recurrence or tissue. But since it had not changed, it was called more likely tissue and another six month follow up was called for. Which is next week. The problem is it is big enough to see but too small to biopsy. The fact that it was stable and hadn't changed is good meaning that it is probably just tissue.
Now left over thyroid tissue or regrown thyroid tissue isn't necessarily a good thing. I had radioactive iodine treatment to destroy all tissue and have been told that it is very unlikely or even unheard of to have left over tissue. Regrown tissue is bad because it is unsure if it is good (clean) or bad (malignant) tissue. And it can't be biopsied because it is too small. The only other test is a full body radioactive scan that requires dietary changes and other prep and requires isolation afterward.
Another reason I haven't talked much about this is that this would be a recurrence nearly thirty years after the fact. This is difficult because I don't like talking about recurrences and this is an example of why you can never say you are free from cancer after diagnosis. They just can't find anything. But then they did.
So we are just pretending next week isn't happening.
My tennis elbow is sort of healing. I was supposed to have more acupuncture today but its basically a blizzard outside so everything is canceled. PT seems to be helping and I have progressed to little bitty weights.
In the meantime, my back is having its ups and downs. Today I woke up achy and sore and I'm not sure why. But its snowing out and I can't shovel so I'm just going to work from home with my feet up on the coffee table and get caught up on a lot of work.
Otherwise, life goes on. I actually declined some volunteer work this week because I simply don't have time and was starting to be overstressed.
Oh, and I cant shovel snow so I guess my health has one good side effect. I just get to supervise.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
More ups and downs
1 comment:
- Cynthia said...
I will be sending you positive thoughts. Embrace your inner 3 year old - that's what I say. :-)
- January 12, 2011 at 5:19 PM
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Frustrated Part III
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Frustrated Part II
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Back to class and other stuff
Over the weekend we were visited by our younger daughter, Sara, and her Treeing Walker Coon Hound Lucy. Beautiful Lucy crawled into Greg's lap when he was out hunting. She was starving and had been shot in the leg. Greg brought her home, took her to the vet, they fed her, had her heart worms treated and had the shot removed from her leg and now she is theirs. Lucy is a strikingly good looking dog if you like hounds and I do. Of course she fell for Dean (and he for her) and watched each time he left the house. We only heard her "bay" once and that was at a cat that my dogs were barking their heads off to scare away. (the cat ignored the whole cacophony)
Yes, that is Dean driving and Lucy watching his every move.
This is the way the guys leave the worksite when they leave for the day or the weekend. I don't
always leave my own worksite that neat. Today we found out that Dustin's wife, who broke her ankle, is not healing well; he had to leave to take her to the doctor. She will probably have surgery tomorrow, so Dustin won't be here. I am not worried about the work being slowed down, but I hope and pray that her ankle begins healing properly.
I have chosen the flooring, the countertop material, the cabinet paint and the wall paint for the kitchen. They are all soft and warm colors - reds and warm greys. I will try to photograph them so that you can see them after I get back from art class tomorrow. Vicki and I are starting a new series of classes and will be going for 6 weeks. Major paintings are destined to be produced!!
I saw the plastic surgeon today and am scheduled to have the basal cell carcinoma removed from my nose next Monday. I will probably have a scar like an upside-down question mark, he says, but we really won't know until the lesion is removed and he sees how the skin will go back together. The skin on the nose is not too stretchy and he might have to make a flap from skin elsewhere on my nose. I guess it is fortunate that I have a generous nose and not a little tiny thing so he can find flap material.
We had the TV reconnected to the cable. When we had it disconnected they suddenly found that we were on the "old" plan and that there is a "new" plan whereby we can have telephone, Internet and cableTV for what we were paying for just the Internet and the telephone. So we said yes. It is nice to have TV whether or not it is turned on.
All is well and all is well and all sorts of things will most certainly be well.


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Learn Surfing and Reflect on the Waves of Life| Pinay.com
I have started surfing this year. Every weekend, if my schedule permits, I rush out of town to join a surfing camp in Barangay Dahican, a surfing village in Mati City, in the province of Davao Oriental. To get there, I travel for five hours to catch the waves, smell the salty air and sleep in a tent under the starry night.
My weekends surfing have been quite interesting. Since then, I have met new friends who taught me that there is more to the sport. This is all about the lessons I learned.
From Iyay, one of the surfing instructors in the camp who I consider my little sister, comes this reflection: "One important thing in surfing is surviving. Waves may try to tumble you out into the water but you should strive your very best to get hold of the board and cling to it, stand up and surf again."
Jan Catedrilla, a frequent visitor of the camp, says, "Surfing is not to be fantasized because getting there is hard work." When surfing, Catedrilla says lock your feet on the board for balance. She relates it to life. When living your life she says,, lock your feet on the ground to prepare yourself for anything.
Jennifer Misaen, who I met in the camp in July, illustrates surfing as the best example of patience. "When you are surfing, you wait for the perfect wave, for the perfect timing to collide." In life, she says, "Most of us have no patience to wait. We always want to have results instantly, immediately. But surfing teaches me to stay calm, and the sooner we learn to stay calm the sooner we learn to assess if we move on and move up."
I met 25-year old surfing enthusiast Princess Moreno one weekend and she is quick to say that the sea is never predictable and life, too, is always surprising. "When surfing, you act together, react together with the waves." Moreno described the waves as storms of life and surfing as the process to hone your abilities to cope with the waves of time.
Moreno's officemate Kristen de Pedro's words made me ponder: "Man cannot escape his faith. A surfer cannot escape the rumbling wave of the ocean."
Surfing has indeed enriched my view of life. Like surfing life is a collaboration of the natural rhythm of trust and a magnet of possibilities. The flow of fear stops us to push our limits of moving up and moving on. When I surf I make sure I not only bring the board. I am ready for life's surprises, with courage and faith.
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The area of virtualization saw quite a few enhancements with version 12.2. There's one particular virtualization enhancement that can make a big difference for a lot of people: support for brownfield Oracle VM Servers for SPARC.
Brownfield refers to Oracle VM Servers for SPARC that were created outside of Ops Center. In older versions of Ops Center, you couldn't really do anything with them - Ops Center could only manage OVM Servers that it created. If you had OVM Servers outside of Ops Center, you'd have to recreate them if you wanted to manage them.
In 12.2, though, this problem is cleared up. You can discover and manage OVM Servers for SPARC that you created outside of Ops Center, so long as the LDom Manager is running. When you discover the control domain,
all of the logical domains are automatically discovered and
managed and appear under the control domain in the Asset tree.
If you want to use server pools and migrate the logical domains to
a different Oracle VM Server for SPARC system, you'll need to move
the metadata to a shared library and use shared Fibre Channel or
iSCSI LUNs for the guest domain storage and add the server to a
server pool.
See the Oracle VM Server for SPARC chapter for more information.
What is the "LDom Manager" that you note? Is this something within OC, or a service on the global?
LDom Manager is a service in the Control Domain.


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Eddie Howe has revealed his confidence that new signing Glenn Murray can inspire Bournemouth to Premier League safety.
The £4million Bournemouth striker was recruited from Crystal Palace towards the end of the transfer window after a summer-long pursuit.
Alongside the promising Callum Wilson, presently the highest English goalscorer in the division, Murray is considered capable of scoring the goals that Bournemouth have deserved in previous Premier League fixtures but that have so far eluded them, and Howe believes that the striker will prove exactly what they have required.
"Glenn has a proven track record of scoring goals in the Premier League, is an experienced striker and has been there and done it," Howe said.
"He also gives us a slightly different dimension to our play. He is a predator but also scores goals from crosses which is something we have been missing.
"Every striker's brought in to try and chip in with goals. It's not the be-all-and-end-all, as long as they're contributing to the team, but it is a big part of what their job is.
"If you look at his track record, it's very impressive. His goalscoring return to games [played], he's managed to step up with every challenge that's been placed upon him, and reacted positively to that, and I think he'll fit in well to what we do here.
"Any striker, you're hoping can have a real impact on our season. I believe we've got really good attacking options. When you look at the strikers, they're all slightly different, they've all got their strengths and the areas they can help us; most of them are fully integrated into how we work.
"Obviously we're going to get Glenn used to our way of working and used to our way of playing, but I'm excited to see them all play together.
"It's [a transfer] we've chased for the majority of the summer so to finally get it over the line was very pleasing."
Murray was a significant figure as Palace last season secured a mid-table finish, following Alan Pardew's appointment as manager, when they had been at risk of relegation.
The summer arrivals of Connor Wickham and Patrick Bamford had increased competition for places at Selhurst Park, but Murray insisted his desire to join Bournemouth owed to their attacking style of football and not because he felt that his place was under threat.
"Before I signed, I watched Bournemouth a few times, and that was attractive [football]," he said. "If it was more of a defensive team, and one man up front was left on his own, it might have been a different decision [to join] but that isn't the case. [The transfer] suited all parties involved.
"You don't know for yourself until you walk through the doors [that the squad is tight-knit] but that definitely is the case. These guys have been through a lot together and I'm hopefully adding to that in trying to stay in the Premier League."
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Federal Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced by Rep. Ron Paul
April 17, 2008 – Washington, DC, USA
Washington, DC: Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced H.R. 5842, the "Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act," earlier today. This bill would make federal authorities respect states' current laws on medicinal cannabis and end DEA raids on facilities distributing medical marijuana legally under state law.
Representative Paul, whose presidential campaign prominently featured the ending of the drug war as a platform plank, was joined by Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) in sponsoring this bill.
"I think marijuana is a helpful medical treatment for the people who have intractable nausea," Paul said in a 2004 House debate regarding a similar measure. "I would like to point out this is not something strange that we are suggesting here. For the first 163 years of our history in this country, the federal government had total hands off, they never interfered with what the states were doing."
Twelve states have approved the use of medical marijuana, beginning with California in 1996 with the passage of Proposition 215. The DEA continues to raid and harass medicinal cannabis dispensaries operating within these states' laws. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both indicated they would end such raids should they be elected.
Michigan will vote on an initiative to adopt medical cannabis legislation this November. Minnesota and Rhode Island's respective legislatures are also considering pro-reform legislation this year.
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Run From The Cure: Rick Simpson discovers a natural cure for cancer
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A Film By Christian Laurette
After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson sought relief from his medical condition through the use of medicinal hemp oil. When Rick discovered that the oil (with its high concentration of THC) cured cancers and other illnesses, he tried to share it with as many people as he could free of charge – curing and controlling literally hundreds of people's illnesses.
But when the story went public, the long arm of the law snatched the medicine – leaving potentially thousands of people without their cancer treatments – and leaving Rick with unconstitutional charges of possessing and trafficking marijuana!
Note: In this movie they call the medicine "hemp oil". According to most definitions, hemp is actually a non-medicinal form of cannabis. The medicine they're using is derived from marijuana flower buds, and is essentially hash oil. The probable reason why they don't use these terms is to try to avoid discrimination.
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Stockport confirms team for £120m interchange
Willmott Dixon has been appointed to develop first-stage proposals for the interchange in the town centre, alongside a joint venture between Cityheart and Rise Homes to bring forward 196 apartments.
Willmott Dixon has been appointed to develop first-stage proposals for the interchange in the town centre, alongside a joint venture between Cityheart and Rise Homes to bring forward 196 apartments.
The developer-contractor is in talks to take over development of the stalled 1,000-bedroom student accommodation scheme on the edge of Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter from Elliot Group.
Oak View Group, the US-based company developing what would be the UK's largest indoor arena, in Eastlands, said that demand exists for Manchester to support two 20,000-capacity venues.
Developer LTE Group has secured finance on behalf of The Manchester College and UCEN Manchester for the redevelopment of the college's Great Ducie Street campus on the former Boddington's site, and the Openshaw Campus regeneration.
A request from English Cities Fund, a joint venture between Muse, Legal & General and Homes England, for a £4.7m viability payment to support the construction of its 23-storey Stanley Street residential project has been approved by the council.
Peel L&P's £55m The Green Rooms, billed as MediaCityUK's first built-to-rent development, has opened its doors to residents after two years of construction.
The company is understood to be the frontrunner to win a £150m construction contract on the £300m scheme, which is being brought forward by American entertainment developer Oak View Group.
The housebuilder said construction will start in the coming months for 195 homes on the site of the former Hartshead High School in Ashton-under-Lyne, after gaining approval at Tameside planning committee.
Morgan Sindall Group posted a 3% increase in turnover, to £3.1bn, and 10% rise in pre-tax profits, to £88.6m, in the 12 months to the end of December 2019, driven by strong returns from its fit-out and construction arms.
Construction of Elliot Group's 34-storey The Residence in Salford has halted, while the developer writes to investors asking them to bring forward payments and waits for institutional funds to "re-engage", pending the result of an ongoing fraud investigation.


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It's Still Crop Top Weather | OOTD
Summer is still going strong here in Portugal and I'm making the most of it. I haven't worn this top yet this summer and I thought that yesterday was the perfect time to do so. This crop top is incredibly comfortable and it's so cute that you'll feel nothing but great in it. It's an absolute favourite in my wardrobe and I feel really bad for not wearing it as often as I wanted to.
Sunglasses: Ray Ban
Top: Bershka
Jeans: Zara
Sandals: Greenyred
Bag: Parfois
I hope you're having a great day,
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Televangelist and gospel recording artist Juanita Bynum says she's been with women but she also says she's "been with men and done drugs" in the same sentence, so I don't think it was a positive statement.
The New York Post says Jillian Michaels wants to come back to The Biggest Loser and I approve.
The Guardian's World Pride Power List includes many of our favorite women, including Sue Perkins, Dee Rees and Heather Peace. And in the Top 10? Jane Lynch at number one, Martina Navratilova (#8), Ellen DeGeneres (#9) and Clare Balding (#10).
Speaking of Ms. Lynch, she was on CBS This Morning yesterday to talk about student loan debt, among other things.
How I love that Best in Show clip.
If you're in NYC in August, check out Right on Target at the New York International Fringe Festival. There's a lesbian relationship involved in the play described as "a bipartisan, biracial romantic comedy between an African-American conservative and his liberal Jewish wife."
Tomorrow night, Project Runway's new season debuts on Lifetime and out fashion designer/stylist Patricia Field will be a judge. Plus, don't forget there's a lesbian contestant this time around! I can't wait.
Remy Ma cleared up rumors that she and Nicki Minaj were lovers. (They weren't.) She also says there isn't any lesbian action in her prison and being with another female is "not her cup of coffee or whatever beverage." So there you go.
Today in Lesbianish TV: *The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Around the World in 80 Plates marathon (Bravo 7 a.m.), Talking Liberally with Stephanie Miller (Current 9 a.m.), Black Swan (OMAX 10:20 a.m.), Fried Green Tomatoes (WMAX 10:30 a.m.), Training Rules (Logo 11:30 a.m.), Glee Live in Concert (HBO Family 12 p.m.), The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS 1:30 p.m.), The Talk (CBS 2 p.m.), Secrets of a Restaurant Chef (Food Network 2 p.m.), *Empire Girls: Julissa & Adrienne (Style 5 p.m.), *Malcolm in the Middle (IFC 6 p.m.), Big Brother (CBS 8 p.m.), The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC 9 p.m.) , *South of Nowhere (TeenNick 9), Degrassi (TeenNick 10 p.m.), Around the World in 80 Plates (Bravo 10 p.m.), *Law & Order: SVU (NBC 10 p.m.), *Boardwalk Empire (HBO Signature 10 p.m.), *Funny or Die Presents (HBO Comedy 10:30 p.m.), Mayor Annise Parker on Colbert Report (Comedy Central 11:30 p.m.), Big Brother After Dark (Showtime2 midnight) and Lost Girl (Syfy 1 a.m.) (Thanks Roni!)
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Here&Now is Myntra's self-promoted lifestyle brand targeted as a highly specific customer group on Myntra.com (India's most loved online fashion portal).
What's interesting about Here&Now was, not just the brief, but the origin. With copious amounts of data that Myntra.com has on buying patterns and consumer behaviour, their teams were able to carve out a highly niche gap that wasn't being addressed by any of the brand available then. This gap subsequently led to the birth of Here&Now which now is one of the highest selling brands on the entire platform surpassing several globally acclaimed brands.
Our brief was to design an identity for a brand that could be made quickly relatable to the concept of absolute fast-fashion given that the brand undertook that as it's underlying operating philosophy. Once designed we also had to make sure the logo was scalable on multiple surfaces and mediums not limiting to graphics and digital design but even on-apparel presence (labels, rivets, tags).


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Raj and Ashley Brar's love story is an ordinary tale, at least in Metro Vancouver.
He's a high school teacher, she's a student nurse. They met through friends, drawn together by their love of history and a common Christian faith. They dated for two years, got married in August, and honeymooned in Hawaii.
For the most part, their different skin colours — he's brown, she's white — haven't mattered. Certainly not to them, their friends, or their families, not anymore anyway.
Interracial couples like the Brars are a fast-growing demographic in Canada. Statistics Canada says mixed-race unions grew a dramatic 33 per cent between 2001 and 2006 — more than five times the growth of all couples, due, in part, to the growing number of visible minorities in Canada.
And when it comes to love, Vancouver is the most colour-blind city of all.
In Metro Vancouver 8.5 per cent of couples are in mixed unions — more than double the national figure of 3.9 per cent. Couples like Ashley and Raj have become so common hardly anyone bats an eye when they walk down the street hand in hand.
But it wasn't all smooth sailing.
Raj's dad, who immigrated to Canada from India 25 years ago, had always expected his eldest child and only son to marry an Indo-Canadian girl. When Raj told his parents he was dating a white girl, he was greeted with an ominous silence.
"It was a couple days of a really tense household," recalls Raj. "They didn't want to acknowledge it."
Raj's mom wasn't as against the relationship, but "she was torn between two worlds," says Raj. "She wanted to defend her husband, but also support her son."
The disapproval stemmed largely from fear. They were worried Ashley, a fourth-generation Canadian with Irish and Scottish roots who did not speak Punjabi, was going to take Raj away from them. Decades ago, Raj's aunt had married a Caucasian man, and was disowned. Raj's parents did not want the same issue to tear their family apart.
Raj and Ashley's story, luckily, has a happier ending. When Raj's parents realized their son wasn't going to budge, they made the first tentative steps to get to know Ashley. Within months, they gave the couple their blessing.
"Everyone loves her," says Raj, 28, holding hands with Ashley at a Surrey coffee shop a few days after their honeymoon.
"And I love them," says Ashley, 30. "It wasn't a problem at all."
Raj and Ashley were married in August in a dual ceremony: A traditional Indian wedding at a Sikh gurdwara to appease Raj's parents and a Christian ceremony at a White Rock church, where their two worlds came together.
The bride wore a white dress, the groom a black sherwani; the bridesmaids all wore saris. The menu included butter chicken and pakoras. Their traditional tiered cake was decorated in an intricate mehndi pattern.
Their emcees entertained their 400 guests — "massive for a western wedding, small for an Indian wedding" — in both English and Punjabi.
University of B.C. sociologist Wendy Roth says the growing number of mixed-race unions indicates a steady erosion of social and racial barriers between different groups. After all, what blurs racial lines more than sex and marriage?
"Marriage is a function of who you meet," say Roth. "Intermarriages are generally seen as an indication of social distance between groups. The more intermarriages there are, the less social distance between groups."
Interracial relationships can present challenges that couples from the same backgrounds do not face. Things can get messy when you throw different cultures, values, and religions into the mix.
Francois Vanasse organizes a meet-up group for mixed-race couples in Vancouver. He's heard about a variety of issues that range from the lighthearted, such as what's for dinner, to more serious matters, such as living with the in-laws.
"Family can be an issue," says Vanasse, who met his wife Li Cheng in Shanghai in the mid-'90s. "Canadians tend to have smaller families, while a Chinese family is much more extended."
Currently, his mother-in-law is living with them, he notes. "That's not something that would happen in a Canadian family."
Vanasse says he wasn't looking for an interracial relationship; he was simply looking for someone to connect with, "whether she comes from Mars it doesn't matter."
Being half of a mixed couple gives him new perspectives and richer insights.
"It's a connection to another way of thinking and feeling things. It gives you a different angle on life and the world," he says.
Despite the rapid increase of mixed unions in Canada, intermarriages are still more likely to occur among certain segments of the population.
"It is only certain people — young, highly-educated and in urban centres — that tend to intermarry," says Roth. "It does not mean there are no racial issues in the world anymore, only that among certain parts of our society, relations are getting better."
Ken Sim, 42, marvels at how times have changed.
He and his wife Teena Gupta live in a 1921 Kerrisdale home with a land title that stipulated the property cannot be transferrred to "Negroes or Orientals."
The couple got looks when they started dating in 1994. But as Vancouver became more multicultural, the stares stopped. Today the couple and their four boys blend right in.
Sim also saw attitudes change in his own family. Sim says his dad would have preferred his kids marry another Chinese, but ended up with two Caucasian sons-in-law, a Thai daughter-in-law, and Gupta, who is Indo-Canadian.
"He shouldn't have come to Canada," laughs Sim.
Sim recalls when he was in Grade 8, he had a good friend named Harmeet. His dad told him he shouldn't play with brown people.
Fast forward decades later, Sim married Gupta, and "my dad would go over to my in-laws and wouldn't even tell us. They'd just hang out all the time.
"He danced bhangra at our wedding," he adds.
Sim says there used to be a lot less diversity in Vancouver, which allowed stereotypes and preconceived notions to fester.
"As time goes on and the world gets really small, I see it as people not talking so much about race and nation states but more about groups," says Sim, co-founder of Nurse Next Door.
He says he has more in common with someone who is an entrepreneur and a dad rather than a random person who lives next door to him and happens to be Chinese.
With their four kids, who they affectionately call "Chindus," short for Chinese and Hindus, "it's really cool," says Sim. "They don't see colour at all because we don't talk about it."