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In the spring, when I decided it really was time to figure out domain names, I thought that because my last name is just a little odd to spell I should probably get something to go with it. After much research and debate, I settled on renaissanceninja.com. That domain, this one, the ultimate front runner from a bunch of options and possibilities I worked out, was actually my second choice. I really liked it and I still do, but there was a domain higher on the list that I couldn't have: writingdad.com.
Writing Dad has been my twitter handle for four years and I've attached it to a bunch of other things as well. More importantly, it's how I think of myself: a dad who writes. But writingdad.com wasn't available and it didn't occur to me to check to see when/if it might be coming available soon, at least not until a few days before Fan Expo when I heard an interview with Nathan Lowell during which he told the story of how he finally got nathanlowell.com after someone had been sitting on it for a long time.
So I checked and there it was, available and unattended, waiting for me to snap it up, which I did and which gave me a new dilemma: now that I had it, what would I do with it?
Since I started this process, I've kind of been using renaissanceninja.com as the primary url, not because renaissance is any easier to spell but because no one ever remembers the 'c' in my last name. My plan was always to have lanceschonberg.com be the umbrella I'd gather everything else under, I just haven't gotten there yet. That's still the plan, but I've been thinking about all of the things I want to do creatively, and even more so since the John Rhys-Davies session at Fan Expo (see this post).
I think I've got it worked out now. My vision actually requires four domain names, three of which I already have and one more I need to make a final decision on. The basic structure:
lanceschonberg.com -> the master site where you can always find me and get to everything I happen to be doing.
writingdad.com -> the room in the house for all of the fiction and related news, audio, and posted stories, and whatever else seems to fit.
{stilldebating}.com -> for a podcast I'm prepping that will share geek experiences, audio captured from conventions, and potentially interviews. Still debating the actual domain because I'm still trying to figure out just exactly what goes into it.
renaissanceninja.com -> life and fun, rounding me out as a person. Pretty much anything can go here, and will.
So podcasting, both fiction and non, plus life, all under my name. The concept looks sound and familiar: diversification but all under one major brand. Seems almost natural.
Of course, I might be even crazier than my wife thinks I am, but we'll see how it goes. At least I have a plan, and sometimes that's a large portion of the battle. Deciding on web hosting almost as we speak.


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Creating LIVE CD out of existing Linux installation
Jun 1st
If you have been working with Linux for long enough time, you must have came across this question… "I have setup my Linux exactly the way I need it, now how do I replicate same setup in someone else's computer?" or even better, "It would be great if somehow I can make LIVE CD out of my current setup". This is more or less like what you would do using Sysprep but on steroids for Linux. I ran into this situation recently at work where I have to make bootable ISO (read live CD) out of existing Linux machine.
After initial struggling with my web searching skills (or may be it was my refusal to use Google for search… I am using DuckDuckGo), I found that there are in fact more than few tools available that do just that! I decided to give try a tool that made sense to me (which can be totally different for anyone else) is called Pinguy Builder. This tool is only for *buntu family. It is simple to use tool with decent GUI and ability to use shell interface…. win win for me. Following is what I did to create copy of my Linux installation in Live CD form so I can distribute it for my purpose. Depending on your *buntu version you need to download required version. Download page has more details about what version is needed for what version of OS, so I am not repeating that here.
Install DEB package as you would normally install any DEB package. Once it is installed you can start program by looking up for "Pinguy Builder" shortcut (or via shell). For first run you should see screen like this…
Amazing world of dependencies !!
Mar 24th
It has been while since I posted anything. Mainly not because I was not learning anything new, but it is because I am not getting enough time nowadays (or in other words, I just got a life now :D). But then I realized that time and time, I like to read my old post to fix some really odd issue and if I don't keep record of troubles I had in past, I might forget them again. So I decided to find time to write often… it's my new mid year resolution :D… lets see if I stick to this or not.
Recently I was playing with Windows 2016 Server in our test environment as part of testing it's viability for our application suite. And so if you have ever worked with .NET Framework project you know that sometimes it can be royal pain to work if there is a version difference between Framework you have installed and Framework project is expecting.
Something like that happened with me in this case too. I need to have Framework 4.0 and Win 2016 has 4.6 installed by default. So against my better judgment, I decided to uninstalled .Net Framework 4.6 from system. It did let me uninstall it just fine but when I rebooted system, it failed to start Server Manager because guess what !! It was depending on .NET Framework 4. So I thought OK, I can download installed from Web and install it using that. But nooooo, since it's part of OS now you can't run installer and install framework from there. So I had catch 22 case. I can't install .NET Framework from installer because it's part of OS (and you have to use server manager) And you can't start server manager for installation because you need .NET Framework 4 !!
Unable to allocate XXX MB of RAM error in Hyper-V
May 1st
So… after trying Windows 10, I ran into first annoying issue which seem to have no solution at this point.
Main reason I wanted to upgrade to Win 10 (not sure if I had choice since MSFT is literally forcing everyone to upgrade to Win 10) was to try Hyper-V. I am running at any given time @ 3 VMs together and my laptop has 8GB of ram so it has no issue running all of them together.
But today I was getting odd error when I tried to start VMs for something. Exact error was like below,
Upgrading to Windows 10 Pro
Feb 6th
Finally I gave up and upgraded my Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro. I resisted upgrade to 8 and 8.1 mostly because when I tried them in my new laptop I was not impressed at all. Worse, I lost my faith in MSFT. It was mostly because user experience for me was just terrible. I am more in favor of OS with less clutter and less GUI heavy… and Windows 8 was opposite of it.
What I like: After playing with Windows 10 preview, I was genuinely impressed. I liked that MSFT has replaced metro desktop with good ol' start menu, even if it is not same as old one but to me it is still more functionally useful than metro. More control over update and more option for privacy settings. Most good feature for me was inclusion of Hyper-V server in Professional edition. This relives me from using 3rd part hypervisors (read Virtual Box Smile). And another useful feature for me was PS 5 with WMF 5.
Antivirus for XP
Jun 5th
So it has been ages since MSFT has ceased support for once great operating system Windows XP. But some lucky few still have no choice to use it because of some legacy app they just can't get rid of Or people like me who are still using Windows 7 and use XP in …err… XP Mode. In my case, I use it purely for support purpose. Being software engineering sometimes we get to work in level 2 – 3 support requests and I really hate to install 3rd party vpn or remoting applications in my workstation. In this situation, this XP Mode is life saver 😀 …
Recently I had to connect to some customer over vpn and one of the requirement for that network is that client needs to have antivirus installed in it. This being my VM for support, I never thought that I would want to install AV in it. So I was Googleing for AV software that can be installed on XP and natually I thought that I would want to use MSFT Security Essentials because it's very light weight (how good it is at protecting things is totally different story). But to my surprise, I found that XP is not supported by MSFT, instead it suggested that I upgrade to newer OS !!
TNS Protocol Adapter Error in Oracle
Mar 21st
I like to spend time with Oracle DB just as much time I spend with SQL Server, but we exclusively use SQL Server at our work so I am not getting enough time with Oracle anymore. And another reason is it with Oracle there are way too many variable to consider when you are troubleshooting something. So when couple of days back when I boot up my VM of Oracle, I ran into this strange error and I was genuinely surprised to find how minute the cause could be.
So, this how the story goes …. after booting my VM, I started SQL PLUS utility (it is kind of SQLCMD equivalent of SQL Server, it is CLI to access Oracle DB to be exact). When I was asked to provide login credentials, when I provided 'em I was greeted with following error message,
ORA-12560: TNS: protocol adapter error
Odd installation of SSDT BI on x64 bit system
Jan 2nd
Visual Studio 2008 full installation had always included Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) with it. But for whatever reasons MSFT decided to skip that part in VS 2010(may be because there was no major release SQL Server during that time) and it was missing for very long time till release of next major SQL Server release aka.. SQL Server 2012. Even at that point there was no BIDS or similar tool set available in VS 2010/12 till MSFT released SQL Server Data Tools BI Studio for VS 2012.
So after I got VS 2013 edition installed on my system I was trying to install SSDT BI for VS 2013 so I can play with it on my new VS. But to my surprise, when I started installation it failed on a step where it check for pre-requisites with error about having different architecture which is understandable since I am using x64 bit system. So I looked for 64bit installation for SSDT BI and found that there is no such installation !!

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I have two Godaddy accounts and am migrating my databases from one account to another.
When I try to import the .sql file of a database through phpMyAdmin, I get error #1044.
I researched the problem and saw some people solved it by giving CREATE privileges to their database user through their cPanel, but this happens for the Linux hosting accounts.
How can I give CREATE, ALTER, etc. privileges to my user when using the Plesk cPanel? When I open the user, all I can do is change the password.
Any help is very appreciated. Thanks!
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Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts
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Directed by Robert McCourt. For the first time ever, six young fashion fanatics swap shopping for the backstreets of India to live and work with the people who make the clothes they wear. On this journey of discovery they start at a multi-million pound factory, that makes clothes for some of our biggest brands on the UK high street, earning for a ten hour day, just £2.
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I'm about to go on vacation with my wife and daughter for the school holidays. We're off to the Gold Coast to spend some time on the beach, do some surfing and hit the theme parks – we plan to do at least two of Dreamworld, WB Movie World, Sea World and Wet 'n' Wild.
On the couple of days I have left over at the end before I return to work, I plan on a redesign of this site. Unfortunately, I'm no designer or artist. Is there anyone out there who'd like to contribute a design? I'd be only too happy to give you publicity on the site – and that's worth thousands as you all well know ;)
So, if there are any starving designers out there who can give me a web standards-compliant design with:
- XHTML 1.1 code
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- useful rendering in a text-only browser such as Lynx
- a sweet design with some funky functionality
I'd be only too happy to plug your skills.
The new design need bear no resemblance to the current one, all I need it to do is retain the name Acid and the tagline Burning discussion of Coldfusion web application design, development and web standards compliance with a little social commentary tossed in for good measure…
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Urinary tract infections or UTIs are a common issue, causing nearly 10 million doctors visits every year. UTIs affect more women than men, and it's estimated that one in every five women will have one or more UTIs in her lifetime.
While a prevalent problem, there are also many misconceptions surrounding UTIs.
- Cranberry Juice Every Day Keeps the UTIs Away
- While the active ingredient in cranberries – A-type proanthocyanidins (PACS) – can prevent bacteria from sticking to the bladder wall, most urologists agree that there is not enough PACS in juice and supplements to make a difference.
- Bad Hygiene Causes UTIs
- Poor hygiene habits do not cause UTIs. However it is important for women to remember to wipe front to back after using the bathroom to help prevent bacteria from entering the urethra.
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The word 'uniform' means literally 'having the same form'. So a school uniform means that every kid in the school wears the same clothes (though girls often have a different uniform to boys).
I can almost hear some of you say, "Why don't the teachers have to wear school uniform then?" Well let's think of some answers.
Do you barrack for a sports team? Your team wears a special uniform to identify them. When you go to watch them you may wear part or all of that uniform too. It identifies you as a supporter.
Having a school uniform gives you an identity too. It means that you belong in that particular school. You are part of a special group of people and you are seen to belong in that group.
Having a school uniform is also good because:
Some schools don't have uniforms and kids can wear what they like. Sometimes this is OK but it can be a nightmare for yourself and the people who look after you. Trying to keep up with the clothes that you need for 5 days every week plus weekends, sports and club activities can be expensive and hard to organise.
Some kids may have lots of clothes and others very few, so some kids could be mean to other kids.
Your 'good' clothes could get really messed up with paint or torn on climbing equipment, or be too tight or too short for you to want to do sport or gymnastics, drama or just sitting on the ground chatting with friends, so you may not want to join in these activities which make life so much fun.
"School uniform's cool. I wear it every dayAll my friends do tooI change when I get homeAnd throw it in the wash.School uniform's cool"
"It's good when you go on an excursion because you can see where everybody is."
"It's good to feel part of the group."
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To be a happy healthy kid you need to get out and exercise every day. Often school uniforms are like sports clothes and that means you can move around easily. Pulling on a jumper or taking it off can keep you comfortable indoors or out. Don't forget to wear a hat during the summer and winter terms. All schools have a 'no hat, no play' policy and the school hat will have been chosen to protect you from the problems caused by the sun.
If your school has had the same uniform for years then maybe it's time for a change. If your school has a Student Council then you might ask your class rep to bring up the subject of changing your school uniform at the next meeting. Schools encourage kids to think, so have some ideas ready for your class rep to take with her.
We've provided this information to help you to understand important things about staying healthy and happy. However, if you feel sick or unhappy, it is important to tell your mum or dad, a teacher or another grown-up.
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Ques 26. Where can I get a copy of Struts?
Ans. The best place to download Struts is at struts.apache.org. The nightly builds are very stable, and recommended as the best place to start today.
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Ques 27. How do I install Struts?Ans. To develop applications with Struts, you can usually just add the Struts JAR file to your Java development environment. You can then start using the Struts classes as part of your own application. A blank Struts application (in the webapps directory, open struts-blank.war) is provided, which you can just copy to get a quick-start on your own brainchild.
Since the full source code for Struts is available, we also provide complete instructions for compiling your own Struts JAR from scratch. (This is actually easier than it looks!)
Your Struts application can usually be deployed using a standard WAR file. In most cases, you simply deposit the WAR file on your application server, and it is installed automatically. If not, step-by-step installation instructions for various servlet containers are available.
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When you are compiling an application that uses the Struts classes, you must have the "struts.jar" on the classpath your compiler sees -- it does not have to be on your CLASSPATH environment variable.
Why is that an important distinction? Because if you are using a servlet container on your development machine to test your application, the "struts.jar" must not be on your CLASSPATH environment variable when running the container. (This is because each Web application must also have their own copy of the Struts classes, and the container will become confused if it is on the environment path as well.)
There are several general approaches to this issue:
* Use ANT for building your projects -- it can easily assemble classpaths for the compiler. (This is how Struts itself is built, along with Tomcat and most other Java-based projects).
* Use an IDE where you can configure the "class path" used for compilation independent of the CLASSPATH environment variable.
* Use a shell script that temporarily adds struts.jar to the classpath just for compilation, for example javac -classpath /path/to/struts.jar:$CLASSPATH $@
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Ques 29. Does Struts include its own unit tests?Ans. Struts currently has two testing environments, to reflect the fact that some things can be tested statically, and some really need to be done in the environment of a running servlet container.
For static unit tests, we use the JUnit framework. The sources for these tests are in the "src/test" hierarchy in the source repository, and are executed via the "test.junit" target in the top-level build.xml file. Such tests are focused on the low-level functionality of individual methods, are particularly suitable for the static methods in the org.apache.struts.util utility classes. In the test hierarchy, there are also some "mock object" classes (in the org.apache.struts.mock package) so that you can package up things that look like servlet API and Struts API objects to pass in as arguments to such tests.
Another valuable tool is Struts TestCase which provides a useful harness for Action classes that can be used with JUnit or Cactus.
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Ques 30. If the framework doesn't do what I want, can I request that a feature be added?Ans. First, it's important to remember that Struts is an all-volunteer project. We don't charge anyone anything to use Struts. Committers and other developers work on Struts because they need to use it with their own applications. If others can use it too, that's "icing on the cake". If you submit a patch for a feature that a Committer finds useful, then that Committer may choose to volunteer his or her time to apply the patch. If you just submit an idea without a patch, it is much less likely to be added (since first someone else has to volunteer their time to write the patch).
We are grateful for any patches, and we welcome new ideas, but the best way to see that something gets added to the framework is to do as much of the work as you can, rather than rely on the "kindness of strangers". Worst case, you can apply the patch to your copy of Struts and still use the feature in your own application. (Which is what open source is ~really~ all about.)
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I'm thinking of asking my girlfriend the big question; "will you move in with me?" Problem is, I fear my apartment will undergo a dramatic gender transformation as a result. What should I be prepared for is she says yes?
Colin, via email
Relationships are about relating. Put yourself in her situation; if you moved in with your girlfriend, would you want everything to remain the same? Probably not.
The key is finding a balance. That could mean taking down your sports memorabilia in place of her Japanese art collection, or find a better hiding spot for your porn stash, but as they say, relationships are about compromise. It's important for her to feel that it's not just your home, but her home, too.
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This dispersed camping is free, huge bonus in my book. While searching for our perfect spot we did come across a few large parties, making us apprehensive that we would experience our ideal peaceful experience, but we were wrong to be. There were dozens of open sites that we had our pick of. A handful of cars drove by throughout the evening and night, but not an outrageous amount. Pretty dang good for very accessible NF camping spots. There are a good deal of trailheads near by, meaning you're never too far from a pit toilet or a bulletin board with information.
We visited in early September and found the weather to be very pleasant. Our view of Mt. St Helen's was obscured by the tall trees that offered our site seclusion and privacy, but we relished the view of the active volcano while driving to and from our site.
I was so excited to find a camping spot that was close enough to bike to. The hiker/biker sites are first come first serve, which was a little nerve wrecking.. We went late April though, to better our chances of finding a spot. We did and there was only one other person there. Though the way the site is set up… there's only one table and one firepit. So you have to be willing to talk to people. Unfortunately, we did not enjoy having to converse with a random man all night…..
One of my favorite things to do when the weather warms up is to float. I enjoy the Clackamas River. We sometimes start at Barton Park after lunch. It's lovely all around! Clean and lots of space.
We stay every year in May when when do our annual St. Helens climb. Nice bathrooms with wonderful shower, which we love after the climb. Close to a great restaurant, a bar, a gas station, trails, Yale lake, etc. The new owners are super friends and have done a lot of work on the property to add more sites. I always enjoy my stay there.
The paid camping is small and close to the road. But if you drive a little ways passed the paid camp site there is a surplus of free dispersed camping spots that are much more private and beautiful!
This campground is a very nice one to check out when adventuring in the lower portion of Washington. Much like its single site counterpart the options offered at this campsite are well thought and well placed. I noticed that the campground itself was very well maintained and offered many features including water spigots in common areas, clear walking paths to facilities and ample parking for the campers.
Each site was equipped with standard features including fire rings and picnic tables. But the real advantage to this location in particular is its proximity to some of the more lengthy trails in the park.
Initially I was a bit confused as to where the camp was, my cell signal was weak and I could not seem to find the campground until I finally gave up and just decided to go on a hike first. In doing so I was able to navigate to higher ground closer to the Beacon Rock and from there I pulled up a map to locate. My suggestion is with AT&T to have an offline map loaded when traveling to this area. While some areas do feature great signal others are more spotty like this one.
The campground was filled with campers and I spoke to a ranger when visiting who mentioned that group sites typically book in advance on weekends but can be more easily picked up on the fly during weekdays from Monday to Thursday with Tuesdays and Wednesdays being the optimum day for last minute travelers to the area.
Sites here can be a bit costly depending on the group size, but the additional offering the camp provides is the ability to rent all sites for those needing a large group. This must be done well in advance but can offer many benefits for larger groups. Much like other state facilities in Washington you will need to display your Discover Pass on each vehicle parked on property. One pass does not cover multiple cars upon a single use.
No frills RV-only park near Troutdale. Many RV pads are cracked and uneven. Location is right next door to a saloon and also has frequent police visits.
Weekly and monthly rates available. Daily rate not too expensive. Many if not most of the residents are long-timers.
Bathrooms, laundry facilities on-site. Not overly impressed, but in need of a spot at the mouth of the Gorge, you could do worse.
Ainsworth State Park is a gorgeous state park in the heart of the Gorge with great hikes and views of the Columbia river, all not far from Portland. The campsites, however, are located right next to the History Columbia River Highway, making for loud camping experience, though you are near all the great park activities. And when I say close, I mean you can see the highway from your tent.
Its location near Portland makes it very popular, and it is often full. Restrooms and showers available.
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A visit to Beacon Rock State Park is one for the memory book. Not only is the campground itself a woodland wonderland with winding paths through tall old growth forest areas, but the surrounding area of the park itself is impressive with exciting things to do around every corner.
Located along the Columbia River, the park has the asset of water activities while also the beauty of waterfall paths, public spaces ideal for family gatherings and of course the iconic Beacon Rock itself which towers above the surrounding area as one of the more unique look outs you will find.
I visited this park on a warm and blustery day. I started out hiking the Beacon Rock itself where I was impressed by the views and challenged by the ongoing ascent of the switchbacks. Following my challenge of the morning, I moved over the campground itself. Mid afternoon on a busy day, I expected to be turned away as the park was pretty crowded but instead I was impressed to find that the campground still had a few sites available and was able to settle into one for a few hours of R&R.
The sites were large enough to comfortably park my small car and have plenty of room to spread out. While I don't see this camp being great for excessively large rigs, I did see a few smaller and mid sized units on the loop.
Sites were basically fitted with tables and fire rings while common spigots were located in several locations around camp for those needing water. Both trash and recycling receptacles were placed near the kiosk of camp, something which you will not find unless you travel all the way around the loop.
I enjoyed this site because of the access it had to the trail system beyond the Beacon Rock trail(which is located across the street from the camp). Several trails spur off the back side of the camp near an overflow parking area for those who need more than one car for their adventures.
Even as the camp filled up there was enough spacing that it didn't seem to be loud and short of a few dogs barking here and there it was pretty quiet into the evening.
A centralized restroom and bath house was such a perk and justified the higher pricing of the site which I did feel was pretty high overall but somewhat fitting for the area. The showers were coin operated with every 3 minutes costing$0.50 a great investment after being on the road and staying at another campground previously which was having water issues which prevented me from being able to take a shower the night before. The showers were hot, the pressure was good and the overall impact of this was game changing!!!
- Bear Warning- This area is a bear zone however you will not find bear boxes like you will at other campsites in the area. For this reason you need to come prepared and make sure you are able to secure your items in a safe way.
- Other Campsites- There are several campsites beyond the mainly advertised loop. You can find these a bit further down the road and they offer RV hook ups and also equestrian camping. No Supplies No Problem- At this campsite you are only a short distance from town so if you do happen to forget something and need it the drive to a store or station is very short.
- Cell Service- This is one of the few locations in the area I did have cell signal with AT&T!!


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Daily Thandhi Tamil Newspaper; leading newspapers of Tamilnadu; Daily Thandhi Supplements; Daily Thandhi Circulation and many more information on the Tamil Newspaper Daily Thandhi.
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Daily Thandhi is one of the leading newspapers of Tamilnadu. Daily Thandhi is a very popular Tamil newspaper as well! Daily Thandhi is published from and circulated in almost all over Tamilnadu, including the major cities like Chennai, Tieunelveli, Madurai, Coimbatore, Erode, Dindigul, Madurai, Trichy, Cuddalore, Nagercoil, Velore and Thanjavur. Daily Thandhi was a Britain trained lawyer called S. P. Adinathar, and the first edition of Daily Thandhi came out in 1942 from Madurai. Soon, Daily Thandhi loomed large all over Tamilnadu and became one of the leading newspapers of Tamilnadu. Within 1955, Daily Thandhi was not only one of the leading newspapers of Tamilnadu but began to be published from and circulated in adjacent states and cities like Bangalore, Puducchery, and Mumbai.
Daily Thandhi Circulation
Daily Thandhi came to be one of the largest Tamil dailies within a few years in terms of circulation. Daily Thandhi has been one of the leading newspapers of Tamilnadu since the 1960s. Nowadays Daily Thandhi has 15 editions. The latest edition of Daily Thandhi is the Mumbai Edition. Daily Thandhi is the most circulated Tamil newspaper in Puducchery in Bangalore as well. The circulation of Daily Thandhi in the second semester of 2009 was close to 1200000 copies. Another success of Daily Thandhi is that nearly 750000 copies of Daily Thandhi are circulated among the Tamil Diaspora.
Daily Thandhi is also very much popular among the students of Tamilnadu. Daily Thandhi assists Tamil students to do well in the examinations. Daily Thandhi issues a book called Vina Vidai Book, on every Wednesday from July to December every year. This book of Daily Thandhi provides the solved questions of the Board Exams of 10th and 12th standard of the previous years. Also, once in a year, Daily Thandhi comes up with a programme called Vetri Nichayam. Daily Thandhi issues this during the summer vacations. This programme by Daily Thandhi provides the Tamil students with useful career guidances.
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Disappointing is the only way we can describe our feelings towards this seasons trade deadline. Not solely based on what the Bruins did or didn't do, but just for the league in general. We are the type of fans that really look forward to the trade deadline, the draft, and free agency. The moments where the team is born, built, and grown. It's almost as exciting and entertaining as the actual games themselves.
However, today was a dud for the NHL. The players we all thought would be moved stayed with their respective teams and there were not any surprise trades that came out of nowhere. There are a couple distinct reasons for this:
One, NHL general managers are getting smarter. They will not trade draft picks or overpay for rentals like they used to. All the way from team owners on down there has been a progressive change in spending throughout league for any player outside "superstar" status. Everyone is cutting costs. With the potential of the salary cap not increasing, or maybe going down for next year, GM's are not going to move important draft picks because their value is much greater in the cap era NHL. Teams today need serviceable homegrown players on cheap rookie deals to fill out rosters now more than ever.
And secondly, the salary cap itself has made trades more difficult than ever. GM's now have to make the money work almost more than the personnel. It's one reason why you're seeing more and more "deadline" deals done in the three weeks leading up to the actual deadline rather than the old wild west gambler showdown in the final hours. It's not that you can't wait until the last minute as we saw today, but if you don't have a "capologist" on your payroll to figure out some of the nuances of how specifically the money works the deal can't get done. Or a bad deal could bury you for years. Just look at the deal that former Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli gave to Jarome Iginla a couple season ago. Overages owed to Jarome from bonuses and poor contract structure really damaged the Bruins cap the following season. It kept Iginla from returning and kept the Bruins from retaining a player like Johnny Boychuk.
So looking at today, not moving Loui Eriksson was the disappointment. It's not very often you're the franchise on deadline day holding the biggest prize for other teams to buy. And to not take advantage of that stings because he's the guy that is due one of those potentially dangerous and expensive deals this summer. He's also the chip that could have dramatically improved the defense.
As much as we love Loui it's going to be real hard for the Bruins to afford his contract demands this summer. Come July 1st he will be free to sign anywhere and the B's can certainly be outbid. It doesn't seem to be the right move to bring back a 31-year-old with a concussion history when they need to resign Torey Krug and Brad Marchand. Marchand still has a year left on his contract but the Bruins could work out an extension as early as this off-season. There are also other restricted free agents the Bruins will still need to sign too.
One solution to this dilemma is that the Bruins have decided internally that Jimmy Hayes and Brett Connolly are likely one-and-done players. Sweeney will then trade them this coming summer for similar 3rd, 4th, and 5th round picks they just gave up at the deadline. That's free up more cap space and the likes of Frank Vatrano, Noel Acciari, Austin Czarnik, and Seth Griffith will then step into the NHL full-time on their cheap rookie deals.
In a way we also can agree with general manager Don Sweeney in keeping Loui Eriksson. Similar players in Eriksson's situation league wide also did not move either. The Lightning did not trade Steven Stamkos and there is a massive risk in doing so. The Islanders did not move Kyle Okposo. Even Jonathan Drouin stayed put and he would have commanded a great return. The Maple Leafs could not find a home for P.A. Parenteau and they were trading everyone. Also, the Vancouver Canucks could not make a deal for their unrestricted free agents in Radim Vrbata and Dan Hamhuis either. It just seemed like there were not deals to be made. But the latest hot management trend that's being talked about a lot by NHL experts in the media may actually be taking hold. Due to so much parity and tightness in the standings teams are becoming more comfortable just trying to win with what they have. For better or worse they view a player, like Loui for example, walking away in the off-season as a $6 million per year cap gain. That doesn't happen very often in the cap era NHL.
So instead a secondary course took place at the deadline when the Bruins traded for John-Micheal Liles and Lee Stempniak. We're not going to get into if they over paid for these players because the cost was draft picks and an AHL lifer and you never know what those picks are going to turn into. Vatrano and crew that we listed above were undrafted free agents right out of college, like Torey Krug and Kevan Miller. Good players can still be found and signed. Either way, there is real value in the Stempniak trade. Don Sweeney discussed on Sunday that he wanted to get more depth and that is exactly what this move does. It may be only 41 points on the season but they did get a teams leading scorer in Stempniak. He can slot in on the right wing on any of the top 3 lines. Then you are slotting Jimmy Hayes and Brett Connolly on the 3rd or 4th lines and that's an upgrade to what their fourth line has provided lately. However, Stempniak should have been the band-aid to replace Loui who who have brought the Bruins the defense they needed.
The John-Micheal Liles trade is the one that does not make sense. He might be an upgrade to what the Bruins already had but by how much is debatable. If this was maybe 2010 or 2011 it would be worth getting excited for. Clearly his better days are behind him. Trading for Liles is also going to take quality playing time away from Joe Morrow who looked to be turning the corning in his development. To be honest, I am not sure how much of an upgrade Liles is going to be over Morrow at this point. Liles is going to need to learn Claude's system on the fly so we will see how it looks as early as tonight's game.
I think if everyone knew ahead of time that these were the trades the Bruins were going to make at the deadline most would have rather they just stood pat and not do anything. They would have at least held onto their draft picks. It's just hard to see these additions right now as helping them get them further in the playoffs than with the players they already have. And if they were going to move that many picks for two average players it's probably more disappointing that they couldn't find a combo of those picks packaged with a piece or two in Providence to really get a defenseman that is a known upgrade. We've all waited sixty games to see that blue line finally receive legit top-4 help, today was the day, and it didn't happen. Either Sweeney and crew view the Eastern Conference as still wide open (outside of Washington) or ownership is hell bent on making money from the playoffs again and standing pat like last year was not an option per the Jacobs family.
In the end, we don't know if today will end up being a huge disappointment. In the present, it is. Eventually it all hinges on the Bruins ability to resign Loui at a fair price and term. If that can happen and not compromise the re-signing of Marchand, Krug, or the ability to acquire a top-4 defenseman then the Bruins will have actually made out well today. They will have won the deadline by landing the best free agent available, the one they already had, in Loui Eriksson. If Loui walks… well, we're not even going to go there.


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I am writing in response to the statement of the CC of the CGPI dated March 17, 2017 and carried in the March 15-3, 2017 issue of MEL ``Elections have been used to manufacture a "mandate" for the big bourgeoisie's agenda".
This statement comes on the heels of the election results, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP has claimed to have had a landslide victory with a huge majority in the Assembly, as well as in Uttarakhand and a victory in Goa. The statement points out that alarmingly this will also mean an increase in its share in Rajya Sabha, while it already has a huge majority in the Lok Sabha. Stated differently, it becomes essentially a one party dictatorship. Such a overwhelming parliamentary domination by a single party has not been seen for decades.
What lies behind this seemingly popular mandate for the BJP, which has coasted to this kind of power, especially with the backing of big money, and with a vicious political climate? What are the objectives of those who are behind this victory? It may also be noted that such a victory has been made possible only by splintering the popular vote between other parties, which have been divided presumably at the behest of the same powers that have unified and backed the BJP. What will be seen is the passage of many bills especially in the land reform sector, various financial reforms that big business and international interests have been clamouring for. This also comes at a time when men and women of conscience have been energized across the country to fight against the tyranny of so-called nationalists, including students' and women's organizations, as well as of working classes who have been fighting against the intensification of their exploitation as well as peasantry which has been facing atrocious conditions, as well as those protesting against oppression of minorities and nationalities that constitute India. The big bourgeoisie which considers all the land of the country, and all the people in it as its chattel is happy with the outcome of the election, and clearly they are behind it. They plan to take India to the big table of imperial powers and vie for status of a big power, riding on the backs of the people of India, using the labour of its people, and plundering the natural resources for their own enrichment. This is clear from the statements emanating from all the big business houses and their champions.
The present political system which ensures that the people have no power, and that the results of elections are anything but the mandate of the people, now calls for its overthrow to be replaced by one that is led by the working people of India. The task is to work towards such a state of affairs. I second the call of the CC to `...build and strengthen our fighting unity and foil the divisive plots of the ruling class.'
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One of the brokers working with OnTheMarket says the portal will not be profitable until 2021, but predicts that its target share price is 35 per cent above its current rate.
Yesterday we reported that OTM's figures for the six months to the end of July revealed a falling ARPA - average revenue per agent - from £194 a year ago to £153 now, and an operating loss of £5.7m, twice that of a year before.
However, the portal has signed up an additional 5,600 branches since going public and has spent substantial sums on new sales and IT staff, as well as advertising.
Now Stockdale Securities, one of OTM's brokers, has issued a report forecasting that the portal will not become profitable until 2021 "but should see rapid profit growth towards the end of our forecast period, full year 2022."
It says performance may then be constrained thereafter "reflecting a degree of attrition among high street agents." Stockdale also says that in terms of market comparators, there is only one - Rightmove.
In its detailed eight page analysis, sent to investors, Stockdale says "a key strategy for converting introductory trials to paying membership is boosting web traffic to the site from house hunters, offering valuable leads to branches" and suggests this is why yesterday's trading statement from OTM says increasing emphasis will be put on the 'new and exclusive' feature to draw in consumers.
In a section titled 'Key issues on which investors must take a view' the broker says: "A key issue is the speed of … revenue growth, which depends on the success of its marketing drive and attracting agents to subscribe. Some of these agents will be incentivised by further new shares. Importantly, in our view, OTM has dropped its requirement for new member agents, or those entering new contracts, to use only OTM and no more than one other portal. We believe the strength of the housing market, which we expect to hold steady in terms of volumes, will have only a modest impact. More important, in our view, is the relative financial strength of agents."
Later in the document, in the 'Risks' section, it says: "Agents' spending power is an issue, since fees have been cut in much of the industry due to competition, however we believe this could support OTM's lower-priced approach."
Stockdale says key performance indicators such as branch numbers, sales team size, advertising and IT infrastructure appear on course, and the portal should begin to be profitable in 2020.
OTM's share price has dipped over the past month - and fell five per cent yesterday morning on the release of the portal company's trading statement - but Stockdale says it "conservatively" values shares at 186p – "a 35 per cent upside".


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In fifth grade, kids develop serious art skills and personalities shine through. Sometimes, I can identify artwork based on the style of its owner. I'm always searching for fifth grade lessons that cover a wide range of techniques. This is the grade I want to expose the kids to as many different materials as possible, because next year, projects get longer and more involved.
Here are my top five art lessons to begin fifth grade with....
Fifth Grade
To learn student names and jump right into creative nirvana, begin the year with Matisse Inspired Name Panels. I love the process of this project. It's not easy to free-form cut initials out of paper, but that's what I expect. I demonstrate a few tips and most kids will grasp the concept quickly. Some won't but they'll come up with other solutions that are quite clever. However they manage, these name panels are a fun, colorful project to kick off the year. They look really cool on the walls, too.
Time: 2 50-minute classes (try not to extend this lesson...encourage them to finish it up. It's hard to store all the itty bitty pieces.)
Supplies: 10" x 16" white paper (yes, it's narrow. You'll need to cut these from a full sheet of 12" x 18" paper), colored paper scraps (the more variety the better), glue sticks and scissors, colored paper sheets for mounting.
I love, love, love this project. It's adapted form an Arts Attack Video lesson. The Rouault Inspired Royalty Painting is a fantastic lesson in drawing without a pencil. Students create the whole painting using just a paint brush. Some kids understandably freak out once they learn this, but after a quick demo, they are eager to start. The results are beautiful and surprisingly enough, it's a fast project. I tell you, eliminate a pencil and it doesn't take long for the artist within to emerge!
Time: 2 50-minute sessions (not everyone will finish, but most will)
Supplies: 12" x 18" white paper, photocopy the face cards from a deck of cards (enlarge them), tempera paint (red, blue, yellow, green, white and orange), watered down black tempera paint, small paintbrush and medium paintbrush.
In keeping with the theme of colorful projects, the next lesson I would do is Chalk Lizards. I don't use much chalk in the lower grades, but I really bring it out for the upper grades. They seem more able to cope with the mess. Show the kids how to draw a simple lizard or chameleon, use only a black oil pastel and fill in with chalk. How easy is that? This project has that WOW factor, so get ready for the compliments.
Time: 2 50-minute sessions
Supplies: 12" x 18" black drawing paper, colored chalk, black oil pastel
Slow things down a bit and bring out the markers. This Drawing inspired by Keith Haring is a popular project with fifth graders. This lesson originated from an article in Arts and Activities magazine, but I don't remember which one. I tried it long after I had clipped the article and was amazed at how much the kids embraced the energy of this project. Its a great lesson because kids relate to it and because it has an easy prep. Basically just paper and markers!
Time: 2 50-minute sessions (this is another great project to begin the year with as students can pull it from their portfolio anytime throughout the year to finish it.)
Supplies: 12" x 15" white drawing paper (trimmed from a 12" x 18" sheet), markers in broad and fine tip.
I have to stop doing this one..but the Picasso Inspired Oil Pastel Portrait is just too good. Absolutely every student is successful with this lesson. It's easy, colorful, expressive and relatively quick. Again, the lesson originated from an article in Arts and Activities Magazine a few years back and it's been a favorite of mine ever since.
Time: 2 or 3, 50-minute sessions
Supplies: 12" x 15" white drawing paper, oil pastels including black.
There you have it. My top five. Of course I love all of my lessons posted, but if I could chose just five, these are the ones I would start with. Good Luck!
Next up...sixth grade!
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This is a dedicated person who tirelessly work hard to see that the vision of helping out the orphans is fulfilled. He uses the expertise and experience he received while working with Children for a long time. It is with this compassion that he commits himself to the cause, a need to reach out to more orphans. The more orphans and guardians' issues well addressed and fully handled, the better for development of society.
Therefore, it is within this scope that he affirms to solve societal concerns.
Welfare Officers
These two hard working staff a female and male have a love for the Ministry of working for the children, they are obsessed with children. So, we applaud their willingness to work tirelessly for the children and widows So from 2001, CWF is a fully fledged independent organization with headquarters in Kamuil a town in near eastern Uganda, about two hours away from Kampala the capital of Uganda.
cwf now works in the:
• Provision of formal education for orphans and vulnerable children,
• Empowering widows financially and psychosocially,
• Sensitizing communities about HIV/AIDS,
• Providing mobile palliative care for people living with AIDS (PLWA),
• Fighting poverty through pursuing income generating activities,
• And spreading the word of a caring God
"To ensure the well being of orphaned children
and widows facing welfare problems."
CWF is a pro-life giving ministry whose mission and mandate is to uphold the sanctity of human life by endeavouring to meet the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of orphaned children and widows.


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A guy hears video game sound FX coming from the living room. He goes to investigate and sees his roommate playing a FPS video game. His roommate is doing impressively well killing every enemy with headshots. "Damn Dude, you're pretty good at this game, what is it?", he asks.
Without looking up his roommate replies, "It's Call of Duty 21 on the new Playstation EZ1."
"Oh really?, the first guy says, " it looks pretty cool. Mind if I try it out?"
"Sure thing, dude, have at it", the roommate agrees, and hands over the controller.
"Dude, what the hell is this? This looks like an old joystick from the Atari 2600 or something only it's wireless?! The first guy inquires with surprise.
"That's exactly what it is dude, the roommate confirms, "it's the same design revamped for modern gaming."
"You're shitting me, really? How the hell can you play a game with a single analog stick and a single button? The old controllers had like 14 buttons and 2 analog thumbsticks... this seems like a technological regression instead of a progression. Games started out with like 4 bit graphics on a shitty controller like this and then evolved into the Nintendo controller with a D-pad, and 2 buttons and eventually evolved in to the 14 button controllers on the 6th and 7th gen consoles... now were back to a single analog stick and a single button? What gives?" The first guy rambles.
"Well dude it's like this", the roommate explains, "The gaming industry got choked by casual gamers that thirsted for games that were easier to play. You see, the video game industry wanted to expand to reach a wider audience and garner more profits which they did but the new gamers don't have the attention span of a toddler in a toy store and a 14 button controller may as well be a cockpit in a rocket ship. And the games themselves became progressively easier to play. Shorter single player campaigns, regenerating health, unlimited ammo, and auto-aiming. So it's come down to this", -The roommate points at the 60 inch LCD HD 3D monitor behind him and continues, "This game does just about everything for you. All you gotta do is move and shoot which is why all you need is the stick and the button. The game aims for you... just picks one target after another automatically and all you have to do is follow the path and fire your weapon. In fact it targets each enemy with an instant head shot so gamers can feel like a real bad ass with lots of skills."
"Skills!? What fucking skills!? The game does everything for you! I'm surprised that you even have to move and shoot on your own!" The first guy exclaims, "What's the fucking point in even playing it? Fuck this shit."
The first guy hands the wireless joystick back to his roommate. "I have no interest in playing that shit. If that's what passes as a video game today I may as well just watch a fucking movie." And he leaves the room as video game sound FX continue.


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The once-quiet law practice library has actually changed over the last few years into a hothouse for business development research. But that also means companies' library employee are billing less of their per hour work to customers and dealing with diminishing staff spending plans. All those patterns appeared in the reactions gotten in The American Lawyer's yearly Survey of Law Firm Knowledge Management, Library and Research Professionals, which we have actually performed each of the previous 9 years.
This year's study outcomes show that for company curators the focus is changing from practice of law research to business development research– often described as competitive intelligence. Particularly, 75 percent of participants anticipate to see ask for business of law research boost in the future, instead of 52 percent anticipating the exact same for practice of law research. Asked if business of law has actually surpassed the practice of law as their scientists' concept focus, 31 percent of participants stated it had. More substantially, 84 percent of participants stated they think their departments ought to be the main service provider of business of law research for their companies. " In the old days, we used to support the practice of law. Now, we are researching for business development and we have an excellent relationship with our marketing people. We also deal with individual legal representatives," states Charles Frey, the director of the library at Munger, Tolles & Olson.
Have Frey or other library directors gotten more staff for the new tasks?
" It has actually been among the difficulties," Frey states. "We have actually kept the exact same staff, but reallocated their time." Also, study participants reported that their departments' staff spending plans diminished a little from 2017, when they balanced $842,742, to this year, when they balanced $837,697. Their departments' budget plans for print and electronic resources have actually decreased from $8.2 million in 2017 to $3.2 million this year, a high 60 percent drop. A few of those lowerings show multiyear memberships ending for print items that were not restored, according to the library leaders who promoted this short article. There was also an outlier in the data for 2017 that drove in 2015's figure so high. Eliminating that outlier brings the 2017 data to $3.75 million, which would make 2018's figures just 14 percent lower than 2017.
Study outcomes are affected by the number and structure of participants, which change from year to year. The data originates from lots of companies in the Am Law 200 and beyond. In the study, 55 percent of participants reported that their department's head count was less than required. None reported that their department's budget plan was more than required, but 73 percent reported their budget plan was "about best" and another 27 percent reported their budget plan was less than required. The library leaders who promoted this report decreased to talk in information about their own companies' minimized budget plans. This year, study participants reported that they anticipated their library departments to create $328,207 usually in gross profits from hours billed for services, compared to $938,812 in the previous year, a 65 percent drop. But it ought to be kept in mind that the $938,812 figure reported in 2017 was a little bit of an outlier, driven mainly by a lower action rate to that question than in previous years or this year. The billable hour profits expectations for 2018 are more in line with what we have actually seen recently, with the exception of 2017, and are a little up from what was reported in 2016.
Regardless of possibly less hours billed to customers and the spending plan cuts, library employee have actually needed to up their game to meet the growing business development needs of their companies. Frey's staff "needs to have more understanding of financial kind of information" than formerly needed, he states. For Jill Strand, the senior supervisor of library and understanding information systems at Fish & Richardson, the concentrate on business development research is absolutely nothing new.
" I do not see it as a change. It's always belonged to our required," Strand, who has actually operated at 2 other companies' libraries, states. " I've always made an effort to partner with the marketing department. They know what they wish to get. We understand where to get it," Strand states. "We can help focus and develop the concepts.". A current joint task in between the 2 departments at Fish & Richardson resulted in attorneys getting individual aggregated news feeds, mostly consisting of information about customers' market sectors.
Although concentrating on business development research is not new for Strand, it has actually grown more extreme just recently, she states. " There has actually been more competition," she states. "Things are moving far more quickly. It takes a lot more work to maintain.". But her staff has actually not grown. It's the very same size as in 2015, she states. At Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, research services and business intelligence departments knit their resources together to make them more reliable and stretch even more, according to Eva-Marie Nye, director of research services, and Lynne Kilgore, supervisor of business intelligence.
The 2 explain a close and collective relationship. " A great deal of our demands come through the marketing and development group, who are handling lawyers and C-suites. Those get funneled through Lynne," Nye states. "She has a small staff and I have big staff, so she pertains to me, although I do not have actually people exclusively committed to this.". What about an increased spending plan for the increased duties? Not occurring, the 2 say. " We will be doing more with the very same," Nye states. Will expert system help law office curators extend their budget plans even more? " We've been looking thoroughly at the AI and analytics items. They come close, but we wish to be truly cautious about our financial investments," Nye states. "There are some tools that you can check some filters and get a pie chart, but it's not precisely the best pie chart so that we are truly specific of the outcome. Or it's not precisely the ideal data.". The speed at which companies present new AI research tools to the marketplace also increases curators' work. " We are investing more time assessing new tools," Nye states. "There is a lot more coming out.".
Likewise, the training on the best ways to use the tools takes some time. " Part of our job has actually always been making certain that our lawyers can use the tools," Nye states. Nowadays, all the software application upgrades and new item releases make those jobs a continuously obligation, she states. At Munger Tolles, Frey senses a growing work, paradoxically in part because AI and software application tools help make research more effective. " One of the important things that the library is being hired to be a specialist on are the new items and prospective items," Frey states. With each new item, he needs to address: "Is this a genuine thing that can be helpful to us? Or is it just some type of flash in the pan? Is the data genuine? What are the restrictions?".


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2.5 million years of historical learning in the comfort of your school
The magnificent
Pupils will learn ..
•About the features of the Bronze Age period
•The impact of the discovery of metal on human progress
Lesson notes:
The Bronze Age period is characterised by the arrival of bronze metal (90% copper and 10% tin) and was particularly important for Britain as the landscape contains a lot of both these metals, from the copper mines of Wales to the tin mines of Cornwall. This created a rise in trading, with the invention of the earliest boats, as well as more complex and sharper weapons and tools.
Introduction: Bronze Age recap
Remind pupils that the Bronze Age had the following features:
•2,000 to 800 BC in Britain (varies in other parts of the world)
•Harder and sharper metal weapons (as opposed to stone)
•More organised religion with burial mounds and the rise of 'henges'
•Simple local trade networks
As per previous lessons, briefly cover the impact of these events, explaining how bronze as a commodity drove progress, resulting in stronger weapons, better farming and increased trade, including the invention of simple boats. Religion also continued to develop, with many ritual burials and monuments to ancient Gods.
Possible activity 1: (Literacy) newspaper article – bronze is here!
Ask pupils to plan and write a newspaper article announcing the arrival of bronze into the community. Stress how big a story it would be – maybe pupils could list the changes in the article that would come about in weapons and farming tools and perhaps pose for a picture of it 'arriving' in the village.
Possible activity 2: (Literacy) write a 'recipe' (ie an instructions text) for making a bronze sword
Ask pupils to write down the steps to making a bronze sword – starting with melting 9 pieces of copper and 1 of tin together, then moulding it, then hammering it, sharpening it, putting leather handle on etc.
Possible activity 3: (drama) linked to above
Plan a news segment in pairs with a BBC interviewer interviewing the first person to see and use bronze and perform to the class.
Possible activity 4: (Art) Making a bronze age sword, shield or helmet
Use stiff card to make a bronze aged sword, shield or helmet. Cover it with tinfoil then rub black or brown boot polish over it to give a bronzed effect (test first as different brands of polish have different effects – also works with poster paints but again test first).
Construct a class statement on the board beginning with "When bronze arrived my life changed because .." from the perspective of a man, woman a boy and a girl.


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By Wasswa Deo
The Minister for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Amelia Kyambadde has condemned the manner in which KCCA enforcement officers handle street vendors especially women, saying excessive force is uncalled for.
This follows the death of a one Olivia Basemera on Friday August 5th as she tried to escape from KCCA enforcement officers.
38 year old Basemera who was vending handkerchiefs reportedly jumped into the Nakivubo channel in a desperate attempt to escape and ended up losing her life.
In a statement released by Kyambadde, she regrets the death of Basemera saying such mistreatment and brutal arrests of street vendors by KCCA enforcement officers should come to a stop.
"Though the street vendors operate illegally, as human beings and fellow Ugandans, they deserve fair treatment especially the women majority of whom are single mothers fending for their children in this era of high unemployment in Uganda", exclaimed Kyambadde.


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Or so Lizzie Dearden discovered while researching techno-human relationships for the Independent. It appears the film Her really wasn't that far fetched when the idea of a man falling in love with his super intelligent computer became a reality.
Futurist, Ray Kurzweil claims that within a few years (by 2029) not only will technology surpass our intelligence but they will be able to interact at human level (predominantly emotionally) by creating algorithms which match that of the human brain. Kurzweil stressed that attributes which partners are expected to have will be attributed to our computers; whether it be humour, romance, or being "sexy" super intelligence will be able to do it.
For many, this idea sounds ludicrous but the further I explored the ideas Kurzweil has put out into the public eye about the advancement of technology the more his ideals seem to become practical. We are in a day and age where utilizing technology matters more than face to face interaction, humans are far more accessible through text and social media platforms than they are in a coffee shop. Some people lust over the release of the latest gadgets more than seeing their own partners after weeks to months of being a part. The age of technophilia (a desire and heightened interest to constantly have access to the latest and most advanced technologies) has been on the rise for over a decade and 15 years from now doesn't seem like all that long of a time frame for some to feel a mutual to their gadgets.
Kurzweil believes that we will sync to what he calls "singularity" where the lines of distinguishing man and technology will cease to exist.


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On his Random Thoughts blog, security researcher Nicholas Weaver speculates about how ISPs, particularly AT&T, could aid the fight against copyright infringement. His proposal to map torrent participants to IP addresses and verify that those addresses are uploading copyrighted material will be controversial, even if it is workable.
Weaver's first observation is that "AT&T probably has a huge incentive to block pirated traffic" because, apparently, 5 percent of its users use 50 percent of the bandwidth. Weaver continues to observe that it's extremely easy to get a hold of pirated content on the Internet. Legal campaigns against BitTorrent search sites have resulted in some small successes, but sites like The Pirate Bay continue to taunt the copyright industry with the likes of a Valentine-inspired sharing is caring slogan.
Weaver's solution?
All that is necessary is that the MPAA or their contractor automatically spiders for torrents. When it finds torrents, it connects to each torrent with manipulated clients. The client would first transfer enough content to verify copyright, and then attempt to map the participants in the Torrent.
The MPAA can then use an automated mechanism to inform the ISPs in question, which can then block the IP address of the BitTorrent user for a short time. This would work much better than wide-scale deep packet inspection. As noted before, routers have a hard enough time just routing the packets.
So what about this torrent mapping approach? Can it work, and would it be an attractive move for the MPAA to make?
Basic operation shouldn't be a problem. The idea behind BitTorrent is that a large file, such as a Divx-encoded movie, is partitioned in 256KB to 2MB parts. People download the parts they don't have yet, and at the same time upload the parts that they do have to others. Because everyone is both downloading and uploading at the same time, the total bandwidth of a BitTorrent "swarm" is huge, and the software is fairly good at making sure the uploading and downloading is tit for tat.
Traditionally, BitTorrent uses a "tracker," a central server that keeps track of everyone downloading a certain file. However, newer BitTorrent clients also use Dynamic Hash Tables, a mechanism that makes it possible to publish and find information (such as torrent participants) without a central server. In both cases a client application needs to find other machines to connect to, so it would be trivially easy for an organization like the MPAA to hook into that and siphon off the list of IP addresses of people participating in a torrent.
It's unclear whether having your IP address listed in a BitTorrent swarm would be sufficient evidence of copyright violation. To show a clear-cut case of copyright infringement, it would likely be necessary for the MPAA to connect to those IP addresses to see if they actually upload pirated content. That would make the process much more difficult, because large swarms can have thousands of participants and getting any specific one to upload to a given client doesn't always work or can take a while. Also, it's uncertain whether a handful of 256KB chunks of a 1.2GB movie uploaded by a single member of a swarm would be sufficient to prove in court that copyright infringement occurred.
The MPAA would itself also have to upload in this scenario in order to avoid being flagged as a "leecher" and therefore ignored. However, once the MPAA is satisfied that a certain address is distributing certain content, the RIAA's legal campaign demonstrates that it's possible (at least in the US) determine which ISP that address belongs to by filing a Doe lawsuit and subpoenaing the ISP.
Filtering these addresses in that ISP's network, or even in the ISP's network can be done by injecting routing information into the network that directs packets to (from is a bit harder) the address in question toward a black hole or a filter. It's not even necessary to go into routers to configure access lists to block packets.
So all of this could certainly work, although it may not work fast enough to make much of a dent in BitTorrent traffic: if it takes the MPAA and ISPs fifty minutes to find a pirate and they then block her for ten minutes, that's still fifty minutes of prime downloading time per hour. So it's feasible, but is it a good idea?
If the MPAA decides that it's game for a legal campaign that will cost it tens of millions of dollars and turn into a PR nightmare, it could certainly happen in the US. A EU commissioner recently called IP addresses "private information," and a European Court of Justice ruling that ISP subscriber data can only be divulged in criminal cases make a legal campaign a much more dicey proposition in the EU. So far, the motion picture industry has contented itself with moving against the P2P sites as opposed to individual users, and there's no sign that will change anytime soon. But if the MPAA decides to open the Pandora's box of litigation, this could be a useful tool


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Still love being worn by momma.
After your bath, you love to be wrapped up in a towel like a baby, and Daddy always shows you off to Momma (or vice versa).
This summer, we spent a week in the mountains with your Aunt Meaghann, Uncle Paul, and cousin Alice. We dressed you two girls up as Woodland Fairies, and let you play in the woods.
You take my breath away.
You love to paint!
This is all you, baby. Almost nakey, wearing momma's socks.
Wearing some new kicks and noshing on a "nana."
Momma made you sidewalk chalk paint, and you loved it!
This makes my heart melt!
You were mighty happy to have free canteloupe samples! And this is your "cheeeeeese" face!
Picking you up from daycare after work. Getting you from the building to the car is quite a feat.
Reading bedtime stories with Daddy.


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No. 20 Mountaineers climb over Jayhawks, 48-21
West Virginia might have been singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads," but so were the Jayhawks following their 48-21 loss to the Mountaineers. Kansas, now 1-8, was sent packing in a game that elapsed almost four hours.
Kansas' miscues started on the opening kick. Concluding a Kansas touchback, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the Jayhawks set West Virginia up at their 40-yard line. On the second play of the game, QB Skyler Howard found Shelton Gibson for a 40-yard completion. KU stalled the Mountaineers and forced them to a 35-yard field goal. Kansas' first drive started with two first downs, but it was grounded on a Montell Cozart interception. The Jayhawks responded to the turnover with an impressive defensive stand. All three of the Mountaineers' plays ended with negative yardage, forcing them to punt.
Last week, the Jayhawk offense couldn't find the end zone in a 56-3 drubbing from Oklahoma. The same result played out in the first quarter for the Jayhawks. After two KU three-and-outs, West Virginia found the end zone on a quarterback keeper for a 10-0 lead.
The Jayhawks finally showed a glimpse of improvement to start the second quarter. After West Virginia drove 94 yards down the field, they were stopped on fourth and goal at the 2. Much of the Kansas football frustration has been centered through the offense all season, as they have squandered many of the Jayhawks defensive stands. That same problem resinated on the Jayhawks' next drive. Following yet another three-and-out, West Virginia added seven points to the scoreboard on a 32-yard Skyler Howard touchdown run.
David Beaty toned down his conservativeness for at least one drive, as he opted for the Jayhawks to go on fourth down in Mountaineer territory. Unfortunately, the play ended in a turnover, and West Virginia quickly turned their ensuing drive into points, to take a 24-0 lead. By halftime, the Mountaineers led 31-0.
If you went to Vegas and bet that the Jayhawks would go three-and-out over 20 times, you might have made bank.
Morgantown is definitely not Las Vegas, but there definitely was a handful of unfinished possessions. Cozart and the Jayhawk offense definitely looked atrocious in the first half, but it alleviated its struggle on a Ke'aun Kinner two yard scamper for a touchdown. But, much like Kansas football in general, the excitement was short-lived. West Virginia effortlessly out-played the mediocre Jayhawk defense for yet another score. It was that time in the weekend when Jayhawk fans would rather flip the remote and watch Alabama, or even election coverage, although it seems everyone is trying to avoid it at this point (like Kansas football).
Right when you thought that it couldn't get any worse, Jayhawk lineman Daniel Wise was issued an ejection for "slugging a Mountaineer in the throat." The only other time that I'd ever heard of such a thing was on one of those wilderness survival shows when a bear attacked the cameraman. That show, sadly, was more entertaining than any Kansas football game in recent memory.
Did you think there could be any better news following the ejection? I hope not. After a (productive) Jayhawk drive, a field goal attempt was muffed on the snap, leaving the score at 38-7. West Virginia would add another touchdown to the scoreboard, but so would the Jayhawks. Carter Stanley, who entered the game at quarterback and played quite well in garbage time, found Taylor Martin for a 50+ yard touchdown.
Stanley was the guy the Jayhawks needed. Following a botched WVU field goal, the Jayhawks marched all the way down the field and scored off a pass to Steven Sims. Only a West Virginia field goal occured in the game's final 10 minutes.
Hey, basketball season starts this week.
Up next for KU football: vs. Iowa State next Saturday at 11:00 am. The Cyclones, like KU, are 1-8. It's the best chance for a Jayhawk football victory until 2017.
M. Cozart: 11/14, 124 yds, 1 INT
C. Stanley: 9/11 , 127 yds, 2 TD, 1 INT
S. Sims: 9 rec, 124 yds, 1 TD


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