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AGENT 77 Members are Chad Skulskyj – Guitar and vocals Randall Law – Drums and vocals Glenn Berrill – Bass and vocals Agent 77 are an energetic 3 piece covers band from the Gold Coast with a diverse repertoire of songs and an emphasis on vocal harmonies able to cater to the needs of any venue or clientele. Over the past 5 years, we have worked hard on refining our song selection and stage performance to maximize crowd response, quickly rising through the ranks to become one of the premiere live acts on the Gold Coast. We are consistently professional, reliable and flexible.
Put simply, it's about connecting with the audience and having fun. From 50's and 60's rock to contemporary classics, reggae and country and everything in between, Agent 77 cover every style of music from every decade. Combine this with powerful vocals, warming harmonies, the dynamic tones and rock solid rhythms of the band and it's easy to see why we're a favourite of the local entertainment scene . We strive for professionalism and have the experience and the applied knowledge to perform to suit any crowd of any age. From quiet acoustic sets, to piano ballads, to a full blown rock show and any combination of the three, Agent 77 can entertain the most discerning crowd, that's just what we do and we love what we do. Agent 77 have held residencies at some of the Gold Coast's premium venues including Jupiters Casino, Melbas on the Park, Mermaid Beach Tavern, Fiddlers Green Irish Bar, Coolangatta Hotel, The Avenue Bar and Restaurant, Hard Rock Café, Fisherman's Wharf and also at Brisbane's Treasury Casino to name a few. Some highlights include 2007 Indy Trackside 4 days at Focus Hotel, 2008 Centenary of Scouts, Southbank playing to 11,000 people, 2008 Fisho's Easter long weekend to name a few and countless weddings and corporate events. We are constantly striving to improve and innovate and look forward to playing at your establishment.

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New outcry as Turkish PM tells female reporter to 'know your place'
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan faced a new outcry on Friday over his attitude to the media and women after he branded a prominent female journalist a "shameless woman" and told her "to know your place".
Just ahead of Sunday's presidential election which he is clear favourite to win, Mr Erdogan savaged Ms Amberin Zaman, who writes for the Economist and the Turkish daily Taraf, over comments she made in a television debate.
She had asked the main opposition leader Mr Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the debate whether any Muslim society was capable of challenging its authorities.
Mr Erdogan lashed out at Ms Zaman, without mentioning her directly by name, at an election rally in the eastern city of Malatya on Thursday, calling her a "shameless woman".
"A militant in the guise of a journalist, a shameless woman... Know your place!" he declared.
"They gave you a pen and you are writing a column in a newspaper... and you insult a society that is 99 per cent Muslim," he said, drawing loud boos from the crowd.
The government's attitude towards women is also under heavy scrutiny, after Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc caused a furore by suggesting women should not laugh loudly in public.
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When food arrived it was pleasantly early.Deliverer kneeled down to floor level to hand me the bag (I have knee problems) and I passed him his money. Then, I saw there was no wasabi or ginger. I called, reported error,-- in less than 10 minutes.he returned with the items. .Class act. Only minus: it is the white ginger, Will return, tho', as they deliver until 11:30pm, even on a Sunday! Plus, what arrived was such good quality nigiri and at amazing prices. Upped to 5 from 4 stars after eating it - was REALLY fresh, thick slabs of salmon-and tuna.. The unagi was perfect. I'll just go get my own pink ginger.in Japantown!.
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Love this place. The bento combos (recommend the chicken teriyaki bento dinner combo) have enormous portions. They come with the chicken teriyaki skewers, rice, salad, miso soup, and california rolls. So good and cheap considering the amount of food you're getting. They also deliver on-time or faster.
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Ordered amaebi sashimi, uni nigiri, and the sushi combo. The amaebi was awesome. They include a fried head and tail along w/ the sashimi, whoop! The hand rolls were yummy. And the uni was creamy. From order to delivery was less than 30 minutes. <3
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Great, fast, cheap! It's more 'american style' sushi. It is not traditional japanese fanc-aay sushi, it's delivery! And boy do they :D P.S. They brought philly rolls straight to my door in like 30 mins. . .
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ISLAMABAD JULY 7/08 – Last night there was news of a suicide bombing at a police station near the Lal Mosque in Islamabad. The Lal Mosque, last year, was the site of a takeover by Muslim students, who had been doing vigilante actions and some kidnappings, and who were eventually overrun by force, with the authorities killing many of them. There was a rally to commemorate that event, and a bombing nearby. 19 people were killed in the bombing. Among them, 15 were police who had been deployed to the rally.
The editorial pages are full of opinion and analysis on how to deal with the insurgency. A column in yesterday's Dawn by Anwar Syed had an interesting argument: "The view is shared by many that America's war with the Taliban is not our war, and that by joining it our government has been killing our own people… the problem is that the Taliban do not and will not, even if our American connection is broken, treat the generality of Pakistanis as their people. They think of us as nominal Muslims, hypocrites, worse than infidels. They have no interest in our survival and well-being as individuals or as a state." Syed goes on to advocate the use of force against them, something I am not so confident will produce the desired result. But he makes an interesting point.
The point is also made by Ahmed Rashid, whose book, "Descent into Chaos", I saw at about a dozen bookstores in the Saddar bazaar in Rawalpindi, where I went yesterday. One bookseller told me it was his bestselling book. Rashid argues (pg. 401) that "the Taliban belong to neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan, but are a lumpen population, the product of refugee camps, militarized madrasses, and the lack of opportunities in the borderland of Pakistan and Afghanistan. They have neither been true citizens of either country nor experienced Pashtun tribal society. The longer the war goes on, the more deeply rooted and widespread the Taliban and their transnational milieu will become."
Rashid also talks about the Lal Mosque incident in his conclusion (pg.382), arguing that the government tolerated the students actions for a long time to send the message of its own indispensability to the international community – if Islamic militancy could reach the capital, who could keep it down except the military government? By using the students this way, the military helped create a movement that it would then violently suppress.
Rashid's prescription for Pakistan cites a paper by the Pakistan ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, who calls for (pg. 403) "national reconciliation that brings an end to the demonization of politicians by the army; a new military culture that is taught to respect civilians, institutions, and neighbors; and reformed intelligence agencies that cease to interfere politically."
In other words, Rashid is arguing that phrase you hear a lot here – that the 'writ of the state' needs to be extended, but that it has to be a different kind of state. An interesting question that arises is, is it better for the current state, with its too-strong military and interfering intelligence agencies, to try to extend its writ into places where the insurgency is strong, or would that only make things worse, until the state is transformed?
In the meantime, what the state is doing is a complicated mix of negotiating peace pacts with some groups, threatening operations against others, and doing operations in some areas where the insurgent groups have advance warning to leave the area. The recent operations in Bara in the NWFP against the Lashkar e Islam of Mangal Bagh concluded this way, with the leader Mangal Bagh agreeing to negotiate and the operation being suspended as a result. As Rashid's book shows, this rhythym of negotiation and advance-warned operation has been part of a pattern in the past few years. Other repeated acts are US missile attacks, some bloody operations by the military, and assassinations, killings, and kidnappings by the militants.
One of the most perceptive commentaries I've seen was by Rafia Zakaria from a couple of days ago in the Daily Times. A lawyer and doctoral student based in the US, she compared the narrative of the Taliban, which says it is fighting the Americans who are occupying Afghanistan and their proxies in the Pakistan military and government, with the narrative of the government, which has not been able to come up with so clear a narrative. In these political-military conflicts, words are as important as weapons, and the story of a government trying to fight extremism is not compelling when the government clearly uses extremism when it's convenient.
Perhaps a narrative of being committed to day-to-day issues could work? But not for a government committed to privatization. The government actually finally deregulated gas prices, which gives sellers the option of raising prices further. There are multifaceted water problems, too, with recent flooding in Rawalpindi causing 2 people to drown, sewage coming up into hospitals, and outbreaks of diseases caused by sewage in the water. On the flip side, tube wells tapping into the water table could lower it to dangerous levels, according to Pakistan's Environmental Protection Agency (quoted by Atif Khan in Saturday's Daily Times-Islamabad). An organization wanting to deal with day-to-day issues will quickly find itself contending with non-governmental organizations – the subject of a future column.


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WoWindows Review
Are you looking to an alternative to those tiny window clings you put on mostly for holidays but they are hard to see from the street and you are the one who really knows what that image is supposed to be? I found a great company called WoWindows which makes window size clings. I got the Christmas Reindeer one which is called Dashing Reindeer. It is so large and fits in your window perfectly and large enough to see from the road see my images below.
Besides Christmas they have Halloween, Hanukkah, Patriotic and more. I like how if there is light on in the room where you put the WoWindow it illuminates the picture. Visit http://www.wowindows.com/ and see all they have to offer. These are so easy to use and can be used over and over again. The only thing that i did not like about this is it was too long for my windows in my place as it is a mobile home i live in.
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Hello everyone! Ive been learning quite a bit about swing gui programming lately, and decided to try and use that knowledge to throw together a quick applet. Its a mock username and password login box that writes the username and password from the text fields to a file. I insert this code for an action listener for a button named okButton
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okButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { try { FileWriter outFile = new FileWriter("test.txt", true); BufferedWriter outBuff = new BufferedWriter(outFile); String getpw = pwTxt.getText(); String getuname = unameTxt.getText(); outBuff.write("\nUsername:" + getuname + "\n"); outBuff.close(); } catch (IOException exio) { System.err.println("I/O Error"); } } });
its erroring out with an AWT queue error permission denied.
Me and another programmed a sip alg detector applet for our job, and that was in an applet. I remember to get over windnows permission problems we had to sign that applet is that what i need to do here? I wasnt the one who did that part so i never learned how to do it otherwise id just try and see :)
Applets run in a sandboxed environment and aren't allowed to access the local file system unless trusted. As your goal is to practice GUIs and writing to a file, rewrite the GUI as an application instead of an Applet and you're good to go.
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Thank you so much for the response DB! I appreciate it. I actually already have quite a few programs written as applications which successfully manage files on my local filesystem. This project was essentially "I wonder if i can make my program here into an applet"
Hehe but since the time of this post, i actually have learned the method for signing an applet and am going to do that now. Ill mark this as solved if it works :)
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Shareholders in O2 may well be excused for wondering what to do next.
After Monday's 200p a share bid by Telefónica, which values the company at £17.7bn ($31.3bn), the question is whether another bidder is likely to emerge to enrich them even further.
Since the day O2 was floated in 2001, when it was demerged from BT at 78p per share equivalent to a market capitalisation of £6.8bn, the company was always seen as a likely takeover target.
But the first sniff of serious interest came in February 2004 when management rejected an offer from KPN, the Dutch incumbent, that valued the company at roughly 110p a share.
At the time, other likely suitors thought to be interested included NTT DoCoMo from Japan, Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa, which has its 3 mobile business, Telefónica, and Telecom Italia Mobile. Then, just as now, even former parent BT was rumoured to be another bidder.
Fast forward to November 2005 and the two obvious missing names from any list of potential bidders are Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. The latter is thought unlikely to step forward after spending €10bn ($12bn) on Spain's Amena recently. The former made its intentions quite clear over the summer when it approached KPN, its Dutch rival, about a possible joint bid for O2, rumoured to be in the region of £14bn.
The German incumbent was eyeing O2's main UK operation and its smaller Irish unit but it wanted its Dutch rival to buy O2's German business because of competition issues.
These talks collapsed because the Dutch could not agree with the Germans on a valuation for O2's German business but almost everyone thought Deutsche
Telekom would return.
However, people close to Deutsche Telekom on Monday said the group would have to take a serious look at making a counter-offer, in spite of the competition concerns. Also, they warned the group would require board approval to make a cash offer for O2, which could take a while.
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Jonah Goldberg. [Source: MSNBC / MediaBistro (.com)]Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, writing for the National Review, compares former ambassador Joseph Wilson (see February 21, 2002-March 4, 2002 and July 6, 2003) to self-proclaimed child murderer John Mark Karr, who falsely confessed to raping and killing six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. After writing that "Wilson is no more a would-be pedophile than Karr is a former diplomat," Goldberg calls both men "attention-seeking liars who deliberately helped launch criminal investigations that should never have gone as far as they did" and the beneficiaries of "media feeding frenzies that wasted everybody's time." In some ways, Goldberg writes, Wilson is worse than Karr: at least when Karr lied to the press, he attempted to fix the blame for his supposed actions for himself. Wilson, on the other hand, was "a one-man sprinkler system of false accusations" against Bush administration officials such as the "falsely accused" Lewis Libby. Goldberg repeats false claims by Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that Wilson's discoveries in Niger actually bolstered administration claims of Iraqi attempts to buy Nigerien uranium (see July 9, 2004), and repeats discredited claims that Wilson's wife, exposed CIA official Valerie Plame Wilson, sent him to Niger (see February 19, 2002, July 22, 2003, October 17, 2003, and July 20, 2005). Goldberg calls Wilson "self-lionizing" and "vengeful," and goes one step further than most of his fellow conservatives (see September 5, 2006), saying, "Indeed, there's good reason to believe Wilson himself leaked the information that Plame was an undercover agent." Goldberg advances no information to back this particular claim. Instead of doing its "rightful" job in challenging Wilson's allegations from the outset, Goldberg writes, the "mob" of "liberal pundits" at the New York Times and other press outlets went "hog wild" in chasing the possibility of wrongdoing performed by Bush officials such as Libby and Karl Rove. [National Review, 9/5/2006]
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Social skills are important. We discuss how and when to begin teaching these skills to our young ones.
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Apple Making Waves AgainFebruary 25th, 2011
After loads of speculation about what Apple might or might not be up to, it was a busy week, and I'm not just referring to the annual shareholder's meeting, or those tabloid stories about the state of Steve Jobs' health as he prepared to celebrate his 56th birthday.
There were also troubling rumors that the next iPad would be delayed by two months, and that the iPhone 5 would suffer a corresponding hold up. Mind you, these two rumors were never officially confirmed by anyone in the know; they were just stories that some sites took just a little too seriously. Evidently investors did too. It wasn't just the crisis in Libya that was hurting Apple's price, but concerns that, in addition to having a very ill CEO, two of Apple's most important gadgets might not ship on time.
Now I suppose the arrival of the next iPhone remains an open question, but Apple answered concerns about the iPad simply by inviting the media to a special event in San Francisco set for March 2nd. The invitation made it quite clear that it was about the iPad, simply by rolling up a calendar window to an iPad desktop. Certainly Apple wouldn't gut sales of the current model by announcing a revision prematurely. That's the province of other tech companies. Instead, it seems sensible to expect the next iPad to ship within days of the official announcement. I won't expand on the new features, but they will probably include a front-facing camera to support FaceTime, more powerful electronics and, no doubt, a somewhat thinner and lighter case. The possibility of a higher resolution display seem less certain, since there appears to be little to confirm the existence of 9.7-inch flat panel displays with four times as many pixels at a reasonable cost.
Then again, Apple is notorious for doing the unexpected.
Another development had also been anticipated. As the MacBook Pro lineup got long in the tooth, despite great sales, a new lineup arrived Thursday, incorporating dual-core and quad-core chips from Intel's new Sandy Bridge processor family. It means much faster integrated graphics, and that, along with new discrete chips from AMD, delivers up to three times the graphics performance. That is, if you believe Apple's claims.
A new peripheral port, Thunderbolt, originally developed by Intel under the name Light Peak, arrived. It is many times faster than FireWire 800 and USB 2.0, and you can daisy chain up to six devices on as single port, including an external display. It will probably take time for peripheral makers to build audio/video interfaces and high-performance drives to take advantage of the new technology.
Unfortunately, some tech pundits aren't too impressed. Despite better performance, and the promise of Thunderbolt, it wasn't enough. You see, there were other rumors about the 2011 MacBook Pros that failed to pan out. One had it that the hard drives would be hybrid devices, offering a mixture of 8-16GB of solid state storage, along with the standard mechanical assemblies. This would, the theory goes, provide much better startup performance, and perhaps better speeds from apps that depend on system resources.
But there is no hybrid drive in evidence. Instead, you get the usual run of regular hard drives, plus three pricey SSDs. In addition, the case is the same as the previous version, despite expectations that it would be slimmer to mirror the looks of the MacBook Air. Battery life remains in the 7 hour range, which is still quite good.
Apple did surprise us, however, with the release of the first Developer Preview of Mac OS X Lion. In fact, I had written a piece containing my hopes and dreams for Lion, not realizing that it would have a very short shelf life, although I did revise it some to recognize the updated information.
Lion is being fleshed out considerably. You can find the latest and greatest at Apple's Lion site, and, even though they sign confidentiality agreements, you can expect some developers will leak some juicy tidbits about Lion in the days to come. Already there are stories about Finder revisions and other fancy stuff that may, in the end, truly justify a full $129 upgrade price. Mind you, Apple hasn't revealed a price yet, only that delivery is planned for this summer.
One intriguing feature is Version. As you work on a document, the state is saved every hour. So if you need to revert your book manuscript, desktop publishing or video editing projects to a previous version, you'll be able to bring up a Time Machine-style interface to choose the version you want.
Apple also greatly expanded the description of Resume, and it has become quite a compelling feature. At first, it appeared to just be something that would let you quickly relaunch an application. But it's more than that. Imagine a typical situation, where you have loads of documents open in several apps. For one reason or another, you need to restart your Mac, perhaps after installing a system update. With Resume, once you restart, all of your previously opened apps will relaunch, along with the documents. Basically your work environment will be as it was prior to the restart. This is similar in concept to some old Mac OS utilities, by the way.
However, it appears that Resume, Version and Auto Save — the latter saving your documents periodically in case you forget to do so — are, according to Apple, "*Available with apps that have been developed to work with Lion." This means that you may have the confusing situation of some apps supporting these features, and others not. Thus Resume would be less successful in restoring your working environment until all or most of your apps are updated.
On the other hand, Lion is still several months from release, and things will probably change — for the better in these three respects, I hope.
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Cloud storage data risks and encryption
On March 8th, 2012 I submitted a blog titled "Cloud storage data risks and encryption" at Naked Security pointing out the risks associated with using cloud storage providers such as Dropbox. To be clear, I'm not suggesting to move away from such services, but to augment them with a layer of encryption which you can control. That is exactly how I use them.
For example using SafeGuard PrivateCrypto for standalone free file based encryption use or SafeGuard Encryption for Cloud Storage if you are looking for enterprise class software such as SafeGuard Enterprise.
I'm excited for mid-2012 when the smartphone encrypted file readers will be available. Definitely a sweet integration point there.
I hope you enjoy the blog article and please comment either here at DSPN or Naked Security. If you make a reasonable comment which invokes the need for me to reply, I will make every attempt to engage you in a conversation.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Yes, and...?
I didn't even open it because I was sure there wouldn't be a way to reply "TOO LATE!"
(..and, having just typed this, I realize that it is fraught with double entendres.)
9 comments:
- Themadlemming said...
Well, today, I had an actual member of the local Socialist Party come by and tried to get me to vote their way on Tuesday. It was all I could do to just say "No, thanks for your time".
- 5:23 PM, October 30, 2010
- Brad K. said...
The Socialist Party? Did they mention if they will draft B. Hussein Obama in a couple of years, for their candidate, maybe with Hillary C. as running mate?
Did they support or oppose ObamaCare, the Food Safety Administration bill coming up (S.510) that threatens to drive farmers and others from farming and gardening, and driving food prices up?
- 9:14 PM, October 30, 2010
- Themadlemming said...
Actually, the conversation didn't make it that far. I politely explained that I'm an independant with Libertarian leanings and that her party and I were on opposite sides of the political spectrum. I thanked her for her time and then returned to watching Pale Rider on DVD.
- 1:38 AM, October 31, 2010
- Laughingdog said...
Apparently I'm more naive than I thought, because I don't see any double entendres there.
- 2:35 AM, October 31, 2010
- Tam said...
"Too late" in that I already voted, "too late" for me to uncritically accept the NRA's voting suggestions, and "too late" to vote our way out of this mess.
- 7:13 AM, October 31, 2010
Too late for the soap box.
Too late for the ballot box.
Does that mean also too late for the jury box and only leaves the cartridge box? Or do you see it another way?
- 9:38 AM, October 31, 2010
- Brad K. said...
roy in nipomo
That has always been the threat that leaders present when they stray outside legal limits and requirements. Placing Supreme Court justices that have little regard for the Constitution, in favor of their personal prejudices, raises that deadly spectre.
What *did* Obama do to get Justice Souter to retire?
Straying from the Rule of Law is a slippery slope, inviting vigilantes and revolutionaries - and motivating patriots and folk trying to survive.
- 11:16 AM, October 31, 2010
- Paul said...
I'm afraid the the early paper votes will be the ones converted. It has always amazed how one voting station will find "boxes" of uncounted early votes that are all for the Democrat.
We will see clearly after next tuesday the future that approached darkly. Enjoy the NFL while you can.
- 7:56 PM, October 31, 2010
- Tam said...
"Enjoy the NFL while you can."
The hell is that supposed to mean?
- 8:08 PM, October 31, 2010


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Sure, it can be beautiful, but it's a miserable beauty. The cold makes my bones ache and my head throb. So, it looks as though we're stuck in the house for awhile until the snow lets up.
I have been enjoying the patterns that the branches make, heavy with snow in a pencil-line tracery of gray against white.


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Monday, December 10, 2012
Day 6 of Holiday inspiration - Crafting with kids
Welcome to Day 6 of my holiday projects!
One reason *excuse* I have not been creating or blogging is because I am volunteering as a girl guide leader this year. My troop loves to craft/create/scrapbook/crochet. They cannot get enough of these types of projects. I have been busy this fall planning their crafty activities with the other guide leader.
Last Monday, we made some Christmas ornaments and holiday picture frames. The girls cut up scrapbook paper and mod podged it to an unfinished wooden frame. (bought for 97 cents at Walmart)
We put out holiday paper, buttons, twine, stickers and chipboard. With my Cricut, I cut out some festive words like "holidays", "Christmas" and "2012". I also suggest covering the table with newspaper as the guides used alot of mod podge.
I think these frames will be a lovely gift for the girls to give out this December!
Hope to see you tomorrow for Day 7!
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2017 Indian Roadmaster Classic Long Term Magazine Project
There is a lot of talk these days about the new Indian motorcycles, so we at American Iron Magazine thought it would be a good idea to arrange for a long-term review/project bike and report what we find – good and bad – about the 2017 Indian Roadmaster Classic we have in our review fleet.
We haven't had many opportunities to ride it as much as we'd like to due to the unusual heat and heavy rain here in Connecticut. A few initial observations include:
PLUS: It handles better than expected for a bike this size.
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Ambition - Most people succeed in small things if they were not, troubled by Great ambitions.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Belief - To believe with certainity, we must begin by doubting.
- King Stanislas 1 of Poland
Contentment- He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the Wealth of nature.
Contentment - Contentment is the name of death.
- Swami Vivekananda the Cyclonic Hindu
Contentment - Be content but not contained. That's the union of spiritual and material energy. Any way the larger part of spiritual energy manifests in material energy. Both are same cosmic energies of the universe interacting. That is why you can create any thing out of nothingness because GOD did it. You my children are created in the image of GOD with the same energy of the cosmic universe.
- Her Holiness Maha Maya
Dignity - Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
- Aristotle
Existence - We have come from Somewhere and are going Somewhere The Great Architect of the universe never built a stairway that leads to nowhere.
- Robert. A. Millikan
Genius - Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
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Happiness - For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Idea - Money never starts an idea, It is the idea that starts the money.
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Idea - Money does not make a man, It is the Man who makes money History and the God are witness to this Truth since eternity.
- Her Holiness Maha Maya
Knowledge - The end of learning is to know God and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate him.
- John Milton
Life - If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life - The real life is to live in the present moment and that is now. Don not wait for tomorrow as there is no past and future it only present moment and it is now. The moment you think it instantly becomes past and you don not know the future. So be aware of the present moment and celebrate it with full life force energy. Your Maha Nirvana is surely guaranteed. The moment you become aware of yourself you become GOD yourself beyond any Sins or Guilts. Try my children this is only moment. Create a new age new world with awareness that GOD is omnipresent and omnipotent within you and not outside. Love thy self to love God. He is always waiting.
- Her Holiness Maha Maya
Vedanta - Veda is the knowledge and anta is the end, Vedanta is the end of Knowledge. There is nothing beyond Vedanta.
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It's no secret that Treasury rates are rising. And all of the rates that use the Treasury curve as a benchmark (e.g. mortgages, auto loans, credit cards) are also rising.
But does that mean the markets for homes, cars, and everything else will get crushed?
Not necessarily.
Even the most bearish economists have argued that rising mortgage rates won't stop the housing market as long as a growing economy fuels demand.
The same argument can be made about the market for cars.
Goldman Sachs analyst Patrick Archambault explains:
We want to be clear that we are not suggesting that higher rates will significantly curtail volume. Exhibit 10 below shows a graphical depiction of what happens in a tightening cycle that is concurrent with an economic recovery. As the economy recovers and disposable income improves there is a macro driven outward shift of the demand curve (engendering more volume at a given price). If as a response to the healthier macro the Fed lets rates rise, then there is a partially offsetting increase in price (i.e., a higher monthly payment) which reduces "quantity demanded" pulling us back a bit along the new demand curve, but we still wind up with higher overall volumes. This is born out anecdotally in Exhibit 2 which shows that the SAAR increased during 2 out of the last 3 tightening cycles.
Like with housing, the key is an improving economy fueling demand. Below is Archambault's chart
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FM Broadcast Transmitter System to include the following items - 1 – Harris HT 3.5 FM transmitter tuned to 89.3 MHz. 208 VAC, single phase, 60 Hz. (with manual) 1 – Harris THE-1 FM exciter tuned to 89.3 MHz. (with manual) 3 – 4CX3500A tubes Both of the above were new and placed into fulltime service in 1993, changed to standby service in 2008, and removed from operational service in 2011. Transmitter TPO operation was @ 2.1 kW. Transmitter elapsed time hours meter reading at time of service removal: 56,547.2. Transmitter serial number: MPS105958-00002. KSU inventory # 7002067.
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I tried CleanMyMac on my MacBook and I was really impressed. It got me over 5 GB back and made my machine faster. So, I was wondering if there was something the same for my aging old Windows machine? Thanks!
I tried CleanMyMac on my MacBook and I was really impressed. It got me over 5 GB back and made my machine faster. So, I was wondering if there was something the same for my aging old Windows machine? Thanks!
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I would run CCleaner ( http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner ) and Then Auslogics Disk Defrag ( http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/ ).
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On this link you can read a brief description of all the functions this program accomplishes. It can clean history, cache, cookies, temporary files, etc, for Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer. It also includes secure file deletion with different algorithms. I used this software for a long time and I can recommended because it never gave problems.
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I do recommend to look through all option before you hit "Run Cleaner".
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Education for entrepreneurship
We constantly lament how millions of our compatriots have had to go abroad to seek gainful employment, lacking opportunities for decent work here at home. While overseas employment has brought billions of dollars into the country (now amounting to about $28 billion a year), this has come at great cost borne by millions of Filipinos suffering the ill effects of fragmented if not altogether broken families. This is not to mention the physical and emotional hardship, and occasional abuse, that overseas Filipino workers must put up with where they work.
A foreign writer once described us as "one nation, overseas"—noting our seemingly peculiar situation of having a much more substantial portion of our population than usual working in foreign lands. One finds many explanations for this phenomenon, including our traditionally poor economic performance with the consequent lack of employment opportunities here at home, and a natural wanderlust among our people that has led Filipinos to establish a presence in virtually every corner of the globe. There is also our proficiency in the English language, coupled with our cultural adaptability owing to our colonial history, which makes it so easy for Filipinos to fit in anywhere in the world—more, it would seem, than most other Asians do. And so on.
My own favorite theory is that our educational system has traditionally failed to foster enough entrepreneurship among our citizens. That is, our schools have been training our people too much to become employees, rather than employers. Surveys have shown that most of our young people aspire, once they finish schooling, to work for others rather than work for themselves and create work for others. I have always argued that if only more Filipinos were of the latter kind, then jobs wouldn't be as scarce as they have been in our country over the years.
What is entrepreneurship-oriented education like?
First, it drives students to be creators, not mere replicators. One gets the sense that too many of our teachers think of education simply as a process of transferring information, which is good for turning out trivia quiz contest champions, but will not produce problem-solvers. Others see it a level higher—i.e., as imparting knowledge, which is of a higher order than information. Information pertains to facts, while knowledge pertains to concepts. But this is not enough. True education imparts not merely knowledge but wisdom, or the ability to organize and make good use of knowledge toward improving people's lives.
I believe that the emphasis on teaching science and mathematics in our schools can be carried too far, particularly if it's at the expense of teaching the liberal arts, humanities and social studies including history. It is these latter disciplines that impart deeper wisdom to students, and must not be neglected in the pursuit of competitiveness in science and mathematics. As we pursue the K to 12 curriculum, our education planners would do well to keep this in mind.
One may even argue that in this age of information and communication technology, teachers should be less concerned about providing information, which students can readily access by themselves from books and electronic media including the Internet. But effective education stimulates in students the hunger for information and knowledge, and provokes them to seek these on their own. More importantly, it trains them to make good use of information and knowledge toward solving everyday problems and meeting society's challenges.
Second, entrepreneurship-oriented education trains students for effective social interaction, which is key to successful entrepreneurship. This will not be achieved in a teacher-centered classroom where communication proceeds largely one-way from the teacher to some 40-60 students preoccupied with taking notes. More advanced educational systems promote student-centered classrooms where they are encouraged to interact and work as teams. The effectiveness of the educational system hinges not only on the content but, equally important, on the manner and process by which education takes place, whether in or out of the classroom.
Teacher training, then, involves far more than equipping them with technical competence (i.e., more information and knowledge). More importantly, it should also train them to be effective facilitators of gaining wisdom.
Third, entrepreneurship-oriented education encourages students to discover, experiment and take risks. Risk-taking is second nature to good entrepreneurs. A nation of seguristas cannot be a progressive nation. Many of us like to lament how too many Filipino businessmen seem content with imitating and copying others' successful businesses, rather than creating and pursuing new business ideas. Our history of an import-substituting industrial policy derives from this attitude, and has led us to a tradition of protectionism whose continuing vestiges still slow us down today in the face of the impending Asean Economic Community. Risk-taking and innovation are not something one learns from books, but are fostered through the approach and manner by which education is delivered by our schools and teachers.
Most of us now recognize that our educational system is the first place we should look in seeking the key to inclusive economic development. As we constantly strive to improve the way we educate our children, it is well worth remembering that our objective is to create a new generation of Filipinos who will not merely be earners of incomes, but creators of wealth.
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Princess Cruises has defended its decision to allow cameras on board one of its liners after travel agents claimed tourists have been put off by its documentary The Cruise Ship.
Paul Ludlow, Princess Cruises' managing director in the UK and Europe, stated that the company is currently 50 per cent ahead of its sales target and he claimed the series "really picked up momentum" over the course of its run, reports Travel Mole.
He said: "Our weekend web traffic has doubled and enquiries have spiked, particularly from those new to brand. We hope this effect is being felt across the industry and we've received a number of comments from agents that the series led to a sharp increase in new-to-cruise customers.
"Of course we welcome comments from both travel agents and guests, and are in the process of reviewing all the feedback we have received. This will help us determine the success of the show and potential for a second series."
But travel counsellor Helen Wheatley claims tourists have been put off booking a cruise as a result of the four-part documentary, with one would-be cruiser describing it as their "worst nightmare" after seeing the show.
She said: "Why do cruise lines such as Princess allow cameras on board, when they should know that editing will paint them in a light to entertain viewers, not always to their advantage?"
Personal travel advisor Jane Haughey added that she believes it was a "daft move" on the part of Princess Cruises, due to the fact the liner depicted in the programme came across as a "party ship", which may be off-putting for some people considering booking a cruise trip.
She noted: "I did have to persuade a client that it very much depends on where the ship is located and a cruise that is going to the Caribbean will have a large amount of US passengers on it."
In order to make the ITV series, cameras were on board Royal Princess for a five-week period last year, with the voiceover provided by comedian, actor huge cruise fan John Thomson.


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Pedestrian safety task force brainstorms ideas
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COLUMBIA - A task force in Columbia had its first official meeting Tuesday to raise pedestrian safety. The Pedestrian Safety Task Force hosted Columbia Police Traffic Supervisor Sergeant Curtis Perkins give a presentation of crash data from the past several years in the Columbia area. Perkins said the main reason behind a pedestrian-related accident is distractions.
"One of the things we noticed, looking at the crash data is that some of the crashes are caused by pedestrians crossing where they shouldn't in front of cars," Perkins said. "And some were caused by drivers not yielding right of way to pedestrians."
Perkins said there has been a slight spike in the past year with pedestrian accidents. Perkins said from 2004 to October 2014, Columbia had seven fatalities total. But since October of last year, Columbia has had three pedestrian-related fatalities. While Perkins said this might not seem like a lot, it's more than what Columbia has had in the past years.
Councilman Ian Thomas said this slight rise in pedestrian accidents didn't surprise him. Thomas said it is part of the reason why he and councilman Clyde Ruffin started the task force. Thomas said one suggestion from the meeting that interested him is the idea of ongoing process tracking. Thomas explained that if there was a pedestrian accident or fatality, a report would automatically get sent to the the Public Works or the city's Traffic Engineering department. Thomas said that might help point out key locations where pedestrian accidents tend to happen.
The next meeting will be held July 21.